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[This entry focuses on the use of the Bible in sacred and secular Western music. For music in biblical times, see Music and Musical Instruments].
The Bible has been used in Western music for several purposes: (1) At worship Christians and Jews frequently sing biblical passages in psalms or hymns. (2) Biblical material in liturgy is also accompanied and, in effect, interpreted by music. (3) The Bible is present in music intended not for worship but for the opera house or concert hall.
Both Judaism and Christianity have used biblical texts for liturgical purposes. The Psalms were composed for ritual singing, as some of the superscriptions show: "To the Choirmaster" (NRSV: "To the leader"; Pss. 18–22 etc.) probably designates a collection of songs and also suggests organized liturgical music. Exodus 15.1–18 is a psalm concluding the narrative of the Passover celebration. Early Christians sang "psalms and hymns and spiritual songs" (Eph. 5.19), doubtless psalms in translation and Christian hymnody, such as the Magnificat and Benedictus (Luke 1.46–55, 68–79) or musical outbursts like Revelation 11.17–18; 19.1–2, 5, 6–8.
Though Judaism and Christianity generated other texts for liturgical singing, biblical language had great importance. Not all of the canon of the Mass is derived from the Bible (e.g., Kyrie eleison and Credo), but the opening lines of the Gloria are from Luke 2.14, and the Agnus Dei augments John the Baptist's remark in John 1.29.
We know very little about the music of late antiquity. Ambrose (Bishop of Milan, 374–397 CE) introduced antiphonal singing of psalms and hymns, and the Ambrosian liturgy strongly influenced liturgical practice in France and Spain. The great figure of medieval liturgical music was Pope Gregory I (590–604 CE), who had chants collected and assigned to liturgical occasions, bringing liturgical music into a systematic whole (hence "Gregorian" chant). Music was understood as the servant of faith; it was not intended to interpret the text. Thus, melismatic embellishments on certain syllables in the chant, far from calling attention to important religious concepts in the text, fell mostly on unstressed syllables. Music, expected to dispose the mind to truth and open the heart to pious feelings, was subordinate to words. Thus, though the psalms refer to instruments, and secular music freely used them, Christian liturgy was purely vocal until the thirteenth‐century revival of the organ to accompany singing. The organ, known from Hellenistic times, had been used earlier for ecclesiastical processions, and organs were known in some European churches well before the thirteenth century.
When polyphony (Greek, "many voices") replaced the older monophony ("single voice") with more complex musical textures, around 1000 CE, greater freedom to interpret the text words became possible. Sounding several musical lines simultaneously, polyphony enlarged the expressive potential of the music and became the distinctive mark of European music. It was performed in monasteries, where the monks were trained to sing, or by choirs in churches. Congregations were not expected to sing polyphony, and its introduction made the congregation in most cases the silent partner in worship.
Early polyphony consisted of one to three voices weaving faster‐moving melodic lines above a slower voice holding (Lat. tenere, hence "tenor") a Gregorian chant melody. In the thirteenth‐century polyphony of the Notre Dame school, the quick rhythms of upper voices above the long notes of the chant produce emotional depth in the psalm text. The effect is not interpretation of the words but a more emotional aspect to the experience. Polyphonic music became even less accessible to ordinary people, and the Reformation aimed to revive congregational hymn‐singing. Lutheran chorales and Reformed hymns and psalms continued to be polyphonic, in that voices sang different notes at the same time, but the melody was sung by one voice (originally the tenor), with other voices in chordal accompaniment. Interpretive scope was limited.
Since the Reformation, the liturgical settings of biblical words have been mainly hymns and anthems, the former sung by congregations, the latter by choirs. Hymn melodies are conventionally sung by the soprano, not the tenor, with the other voices accompanying in chords. Many hymns have been metrical paraphrases of psalms (some Protestant, especially Calvinist, groups would sing nothing but psalms). Metrical psalms were often stilted in wording, with the meter taking precedence over clarity of sense. They usually used standardized metrical patterns in order to fit more than one tune. Some perennially favorite hymns are psalm paraphrases. For example, "Our God, our help in ages past" derives from Psalm 90, and "A mighty fortress is our God," for which Martin Luther wrote both words and melody, is a paraphrase of Psalm 46. Tunes might be written for the words, but frequently secular melodies were employed. When a melody has become traditionally associated with certain words, the melody itself is enough to recall the words to those trained in the tradition. The hymn tune "St. Anne" brings immediately to Protestant minds "Our God, our help in ages past," and the association arouses emotional resonance in the hearers.
Since the eighteenth century, congregational singing has usually been accompanied by organs, sometimes by other instruments, though a few sects refuse instruments altogether. Pianos may appear in less formal settings. In the latter twentieth century, many churches have introduced even into major liturgical occasions unison hymns accompanied by a guitar instead of an organ. Increasingly, such hymns are contemporary religious verse and not paraphrases of the Bible.
Musical Interpretation.
With polyphony came more complex interpretation in the musical settings of the Bible. Voices accompanying the chant melody (cantus firmus, "fixed song") of the polyphonic motet might sing different, even secular, words. In a thirteenth‐century motet on Haec dies quam fecit Dominus (This is the day that the Lord has made, Ps. 118.24), from a gradual for Easter Sunday, the middle voice sings of the Virgin Mary as bringer of grace, the upper one a plaintive love song about "fair Marion." Easter suggested Christ's grace mediated by the Virgin, and springtime justified a declaration of love for "fair Marion," whose name echoes Mary. Simultaneous different texts might seem confused cacophony, but they lent a symbolic and interpretive depth to the "day that the Lord has made."
Understanding such a work depended on conventional frames of reference. Those who knew the Easter reference of Haec dies would grasp the other symbolism. Music refined its conventions of reference, making interpretive gestures familiar to congregations. Every system of musical style has such conventions. In European‐derived music of the last several centuries, a reed instrument playing slowly in a 6/8, 9/8, or 12/8 rhythm conveys the pastoral, a shepherd's song or a meadow scene. Music featuring horns and drums in a heavily accented duple meter is recognized as a march, and so on. The music by itself cannot show whether the shepherd be Greek, Palestinian, or Scandinavian, or whether the marchers are Egyptian soldiers, English constables, or an American marching band.
Complex polyphony has been sung by choirs, which can be trained to sing expressively interpretive music, rather than by congregations. In addition to "anthems" (a word corrupted from the medieval and Renaissance "antiphon") set to biblical words—some of which are no harder than hymns, though others are extremely difficult (e.g., Charles Ives's Psalm 90 [1923])—Christian churches developed more elaborate musical forms to present biblical texts. The term "motet" came to refer to almost any liturgical choral composition, and especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to an unaccompanied choral work on a biblical text. Johann Sebastian Bach's Jesu, meine Freude (1723?) has no biblical text, but Johannes Brahms wrote beautiful motets (e.g., Psalm 51 [1860]). In the late Renaissance, cantata meant merely something "sung" (Ital. cantare), whereas in northern Europe, the term came to mean a multimovement religious choral work, accompanied by organ or orchestra, often with solos. In J. S. Bach's busy hands (he wrote hundreds), the cantatas meditated musically on a theme in the lectionary reading for a given Sunday, or focused on an apt chorale (e.g., Cantata no. 140, Wachet auf [1731], alluding to Isa. 40.9). The text often refers to the prescribed biblical reading, and the recitatives and arias expand upon its religious meaning to the pious soul. This kind of cantata, especially characteristic of pietistic Lutheranism, was extended in the Passions by Lutheran composers. Bach probably wrote five Passion settings, though only those on St. Matthew (1727) and St. John (1724) are complete, one on St. Mark is reconstructed, and two are lost. They intersperse narration with chorales (possibly sung by congregation and choir), interpretive recitatives, arias, and duets set to devotional words. Solo voices sing words of the characters in recitative, and words of Jesus are always accompanied by the special timbre of the orchestral strings. The chorus sings the words of groups—disciples, priests, or the crowd—to orchestral accompaniment.
A more dramatic form, often with biblical contents, was the oratorio. Originally a musical morality play performed in an oratory, a room devoted to prayer to a saint, the form developed in the seventeenth century into something like a sacred opera. Giacomo Carissimi's Jephtha (1650), based on Judges 11, has recitatives, arias, duets, choruses, and a narrator. Whether oratorios were staged remains uncertain. From the seventeenth century to the present many have been biblical stories or extended comment on biblical themes. The text of George F. Handel's Messiah (1742), the most familiar of the latter kind, is a catena of biblical verses, and the music combines vast choruses, arias, duets, and orchestral pieces. His Saul (1739) and Judas Maccabaeus (1747) dramatically interpret the biblical stories. Hundreds if not thousands of oratorios have biblical content. Franz Joseph Haydn's The Creation (1798), Felix Mendelssohn's Elijah (1846), Hector Berlioz's L'Enfance du Christ (1854), César Franck's Béatitudes (1869–1879), John Knowles Paine's St. Peter (1873), and Charles Gounod's Redemption (1882) are examples from a list that could be extended for pages. Brahms's A German Requiem (1868) is an oratorio like the Messiah, that is, an interpretation of biblical texts about death. Many oratorios, including Handel's, were written for performance not in church but in music halls or concert rooms.
In the nineteenth century, it was sometimes argued that religious music ought to be stylistically distinct from secular music. Some composers were criticized for liturgical works indistinguishable from their operas. Gioacchino Rossini's Stabat mater (second version, 1841) and Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem (1874) are perhaps the textbook examples. The argument rested both on liturgical conservatism perceptible in a Christianity that felt beleaguered by secularity's growing self‐confidence and on the theological principle, always present in Christianity, that the life of faith is distinct from the life of the world.
Secular Biblical Music.
Early sacred cantatas were like small operas, and oratorios like larger ones. Opera was originally drama continuously accompanied by music, the work of Florentines around 1600 intending to revive Greek drama. As the form moved beyond Florence, we find opera on religious subjects in Rome as early as Stefano Landi's Sant'Alessio (1632). We might have expected North German Protestants to pioneer biblical operas, but there were only sporadic compositions. Hamburg saw such works as Johann Theile's Der erschaffene, gefallene, und wieder aufgerichtete Mensch (Created, Fallen, and Restored Humanity, 1678). Paris had Marc‐Antoine Charpentier's David et Jonathan (1688). Energy that might have gone into biblical opera in the eighteenth century was apparently put mostly into the oratorio (Jephté by Michel Montéclair [1732] is a rare operatic exception). Perhaps the line between "sacred" and "secular" handling of biblical matters was becoming fainter.
Biblical operas proliferated in the nineteenth century, and a long list might begin with Etienne Méhul's Joseph (1807) and continue through such works as Rossini's Moses in Egypt (1818), Verdi's Nabucco (Nebuchadnezzar, 1842), Gounod's The Queen of Sheba (1861), Camille Saint‐Saëns's Samson and Delilah (1877), Jules Massenet's Hérodiade (1881), Richard Strauss's Salome (1905, based on Oscar Wilde's one‐act play on the New Testament story), Artur Honegger's King David (1921), to Arnold Schoenberg's incomplete masterpiece, Moses und Aron (1931–1932). Carlisle Floyd's Tennessee‐mountain setting of the story of Susanna and the elders in Susannah (1955) is perhaps the most successful American biblical opera.
"Secular" biblical music includes such orchestral works as Ralph Vaughan Williams's Job, A Mask for Dancing (1931), Ernest Bloch's Schelomo (Solomon) for cello and orchestra (1916), and Leonard Bernstein's Jeremiah Symphony (1942), in which a mezzo‐soprano sings part of Lamentations in Hebrew. Some vocal works intended for the concert hall are Zoltán Kodály's Psalmus hungaricus (Ps. 55, an old Hungarian translation [1923]), Igor Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms (1930, rev. 1948), using Vulgate texts, Aaron Copland's "In the Beginning" (1947, Gen. 1.1–2.7), Luigi Dallapiccola's remarkable Job (1950), and Mario Davidovsky's Scenes from Shir Hashirim (1975–1976, Song of Solomon). Dvořák's Biblical Songs (1894) and Brahms's Four Serious Songs (1896), for voice and piano, set biblical passages in a style not different from their other songs.
Johann Kuhnau wrote six sonatas for harpsichord (1700), dramatically narrating biblical episodes: "Saul's Madness Cured by Music," "David and Goliath," and others. Instrumental music conveying biblical atmospheres must use referential conventions or composers' programmatic titles. There are few such works. Jaromír Weinberger published Bible Poems (1939) for organ, and the Black American composer R. Nathaniel Dett wrote Eight Bible Vignettes (1941–43) for solo piano, an attractive set in a Late Romantic style.
Such a survey can only drop a few names and make a few generalities. Western music has used the Bible mostly to enrich the liturgies of Christianity and Judaism. In the past century or two, the Bible has provided composers more comfortably than before with material for music other than "religious." Twentieth‐century music shows the Bible's secure place as an artifact of the culture rather than as the exclusive possession of religious associations.
Edwin M. Good


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Download the Apple TV Remote app from the App Store on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to access more features while you control your Apple TV.
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When you use the Apple TV Remote app to log in to an app on your Apple TV, it might remember passwords that you have saved in Safari. Apps are available on Apple TV 4K or Apple TV HD.
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- Devices: Tap Devices to connect the Apple TV Remote app to a different Apple TV.
- Touch surface: In the blank space above Menu, you can swipe to navigate and tap to select.
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>There is no evidence that living at depth, at least at such a small water-equivalent depth, has any deleterious effects. The barometric pressure at the surface of the Dead Sea is about 800mmHg (normal atmospheric pressure is 760mmHg). Prolonged subsea living, such as experienced by those divers exposed to saturation dives in underwater habitats (e.g., Tektite II at 50 feet/15 meters, or 1,150 mmHg), may have numerous side effects, ranging from decompression illness to dysbaric osteonecrosis (the death of portions of the long bones in the body in a proportion of those exposed to increased pressure). The dangers of Dead Sea living come more from exposure to the sun and the extreme salinity of the water.
>The young man should consider himself to be diving at altitude in the Red Sea in Aqaba (when coming from his subsea home); this is a theoretical answer to the question as there is no data to support the following proposition. Standard tables were designed for sea-level dives only. The Theoretical Ocean Depth (TOD) concept was suggested by NOAA (National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration) to cope with diving at altitude. NOAA looked at the difference in barometric pressures at various altitudes and recalculated the dive tables based upon the new equivalent water depth, both for fresh water and sea water. This calculation converted for the Dead Sea would add about three feet (one meter) to any given dive. This in turn means he should count each dive as being one stop deeper. The U.S. Navy tables recommend, in fact, that no alteration be made for dives at altitudes lower than 2,300 feet / 701 meters. A few dive computers use the Buhlmann correction for altitude, using the same principle as the TOD. Unfortunately, as they assume a sea-level starting point they would make an incorrect assumption for this diver.
>DAN's preliminary research findings indicate that waiting to fly or go to elevation after diving requires at least a 12-hour wait after a single no-stop dive and a wait for an extended surface interval beyond 12 hours after multiple dives in a single day before flying. If the diver developed symptoms of decompression illness and required a medical evacuation, there should be no problem if the plane could pressurize the cabin to 800mmHg. In a dire situation in which the diver requires transportation over a mountain pass or other elevation to reach a medevac aircraft, then he should breathe 100 percent oxygen during the trip to prevent or lessen any effect that altitude may have on symptoms of decompression illness.


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LA QUINTA, Calif. -- Another perfect day in the Coachella Valley. Another 9-under 63 for Patrick Reed in the Humana Challenge.
Reed broke the PGA Tour record for relation to par for the first 54 holes, finishing at 27 under Saturday to take a seven-stroke lead into the final round.
Reed birdied his final hole on PGA West's Jack Nicklaus Private Course, hitting a wedge to 2 feet on the par-4 ninth. He also had an eagle, eight birdies and a bogey.
"Any time you set a record on the PGA Tour it means you're doing something right," Reed said. "Well, a lot of things right. But at the same time it doesn't matter if you have the 54-hole lead. All that matters at the end is at the end of Sunday."
The 23-year-old Reed broke the mark of 25 under set by Gay Brewer in the 1967 Pensacola Open and matched by Ernie Els in the 2003 Tournament of Champions, Steve Stricker in the 2010 John Deere Classic and Pat Perez in the 2009 La Quinta event. Reed was one off Stricker's stroke record of 188 set on a par-71 course.
"Almost seems like I'm in a putting coma," Reed said. "The hole seems huge. It almost feels like I can't miss. It's interesting because when I do miss a putt, I get really frustrated because I almost feel like I should make it."
The Wyndham Championship winner in August, Reed opened Thursday on PGA West's Arnold Palmer Private Course and played La Quinta Country Club on Friday. He has played the 11 par 5s in 11 under, the 28 par 4s in 12 under and the 13 par 3s in 4 under.
Charley Hoffman and Brendon Todd were tied for second. Hoffman, the 2007 winner, had a 66 on the Palmer course -- the site of the final round. Todd shot 68 at La Quinta.
"I wish I was a little closer than seven," Hoffman said. "The weather's been perfect, greens are perfect. The scores and birdies are out there."
Reed's seven-stroke margin is the largest entering the final round in event history, a stroke more than Rik Massengale took into his 1977 victory. David Duval overcame a seven-stroke deficit to win in 1999, closing with a 59 on the Palmer course. Last year, Brian Gay began the last day six strokes behind and ended up winning in a playoff.
"He's obviously playing really, really well, but if you go out there, I mean, I shot 9 under there yesterday," Todd said. "If you go out there with the same mentality, trying to play as well as you can, you get hot early, put a little pressure on him, there's plenty of opportunities for him to make bogey."
Reed eagled the par-5 16th on his first nine, hitting a 5-iron from 212 yards to 3 feet. Using his 50-degree wedge -- the club he hit close on the final hole -- on the par-4 sixth, he nearly holed a 125-yard approach, with the ball spinning back by the cup.
"It was basically the same shot," he said. "The only difference is I didn't spin it as much on the last hole."
He made a 15-foot birdie putt from the fringe on the par-3 seventh, and then missed a birdie chance on the par-5 eighth when his approach went left into greenside rough.
"Only had a three-quarter 6-iron in my hand," Reed said. "There are shots out there I could have had. But, at the same time, it's another 63."
Reed's wife, Justine, is pregnant with their first child, forcing her to turn over caddie duties to her brother, Kessler Karain. She has walked every hole this year and plans to caddie again after the baby arrives around Memorial Day.
"They're brother and sister and they act in their demeanors so much the same," Reed said. "I'm happy she's outside the ropes right now, because she's carrying my little girl."
After helping Augusta State win NCAA titles in 2010 and '11, Reed drew attention in 2012 when he successfully Monday-qualified for six events and made 12 starts.
"I'm going to treat tomorrow as if it's Monday qualifier," Reed said. "Eighteen-hole shootout, everybody's tied at even par."
The former Baton Rouge, La., high school champion earned his PGA Tour card in December 2012, surviving six rounds of Q-school at PGA West.
"I was like 130-something place after two rounds and shot 18 under the last four rounds to get in," Reed said. "That was probably the most nervous 3-footer I ever had in my life on the last hole for par."
Reed played alongside Tommy Gainey the first three days. Gainey shot 74-74-74 to tie for 150th among the 155 finishers -- 33 strokes behind his playing partner.
"If I'm Patrick Reed, I'm going to buy some lottery tickets," Gainey said. "He's just hitting it too good and making everything he looks at. When you have that combination, nobody's going to beat you."


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Favatar API - SDKs
Favatar is a favicon hosting service. Favicons graphically represent a webpage's hyperlink to users. With Favatar, web developers can retrieve permanent URLs for the favicons associate with their sites. The entire service is an API. Developers register for an API key and send requests including the URL of the website whose favicons they want accessed. Favatar will return an ordered list of all the icons it can find at the specified address. The Favatar API is REST-based and returns JSON and JSONP formatted data.


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Recently I attended the opening of The Atom Smashers, a documentary by Clayton Brown and Monica Long Ross from 137 Films. It was held, appropriately, at the Museum of Science and Industry. Unfortunately, this had the effect of providing us with what is probably the smallest screen in the city of Chicago. That can easily be forgiven because the film itself was exceptional.
In blurb form, The Atom Smashers is about scientists at the Tevatron, a 4 mile diameter machine hosted at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in the suburbs of Chicago and currently the worlds largest particle accelerator. They are racing to find something called The Higgs Boson before the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), an even bigger machine being built in Switzerland, is completed and beats them to the discovery.
In contrast to what you'd expect from that description, very little time is spent explaining what the Higgs is, or why people are looking for it. Much of the sequence introducing the Higgs shows the individual scientists' deer-in-the-headlights reaction to the question "What, really, is the Higgs Boson?" The most unexpected and surreal setting — then director of Fermilab Leon Lederman appearing on Donohue, complete with blackboard and multi-colored chalk — is notable not for the exposition, but for what appears to be his complete failure to communicate to the audience why the Tevatron was worth building. In the few voice-over sequences the animation are uncomplicated, they strive not for the Pixar sheen that seems the goal of most current documentaries, but instead channel the disordered yet simple blackboard of the working scientist.
That resonance with work-day science is also the first hint to the film's strength. This is a documentary, not about the science, but about the scientists; not about the highly structured world of ideas in which they live, but about the emotional life surrounding that world. We see the Fermilab model airplane club and the rock band, complete with band leader Ben Kilminster's dream of being a rock star. We watch the tango lessons hosted by theorist Marcela Carena. We follow the stresses of the life of Robin Erbacher and John Conway — trying to start a family while commuting weekly between teaching in Davis, California and researching in Batavia, Illinois. We are invited, in contrast to the norm in science documentaries, to see the scientists as ordinary people, with ordinary problems, ordinary hobbies, and ordinary families.
The Atom Smashers' stripping away of science exposition does not mean that the science is lost. It shines through beautifully in two ways. One of the main sub-stories concerns how John Conway and his group found a "bump" in the data that hinted that the Higgs might be within reach. (He blogged about this here and here.) The group members share their excitement at the initial finding, the nervousness, apprehension, and flat-out hard work as they extend the analysis in an attempt to confirm the signal, and finally the disappointment when the follow-up shows no effect. This is a treat in a science documentary: a story about an exciting lead that turns out to go nowhere. It's understandable that these would usually be skipped, but ignoring them presents a very skewed picture of life as a scientist. John's story represents the bulk of scientific work; follow a lead until it dies, shrug, then go on to the next thing. The thought of making a breakthrough is what keeps most researchers excited about going on, but the moments of true discovery are far between.
Excitement is the second aspect of science that shines in the film. The main plot-line concerns the race as Fermilab physicists try to find the Higgs before the LHC is turned on. (With the LHC's increased energy and volume of data, a victory over the Tevatron is a fait accompli once the new machine is running.) There is a clear sense that every person working there wants desperately and whole-heartedly to find the damn thing. While it's entirely possible that someone seeing the film will leave with no better idea what the Higgs is than when they entered, no one could watch it without picking up the sense of enthusiasm for the search. This is what completes the picture of scientists as people. Their job is one of passion and drive. We are not shown robots, mechanically pushing buttons on their colossal machines and reading out the secrets of the universe off the ticker-tape output, but instead people who are much more akin to athletes, driven to extraordinary feats by the twin desires of wanting to better themselves and to beat the other team.
It is in their pursuit of this sense of competition that the filmmakers commit their only real error. They choose to portray the Higgs search as a race between the Tevatron in the United States — "us" — and the LHC in Europe — "them". But, almost every physicist working on the Tevatron is also involved with one of the experiments at the LHC. As Erbacher said in the panel discussion after the screening, in this case "them is us". There is, in fact, a tremendous amount of competition, but it is between the different experiments at the same machine. These are CDF and D0 at the Tevatron, which have been competing for years, soon to be replaced by ATLAS and CMS at the LHC. While many would be happy to have one of the Tevatron experiments make the discovery first, no one is going to complain if it's found a few years later, because they'll be part of that as well. Even more importantly, there is a point where the sports analogy fails. In baseball there is a World Series every year and some team will win it, the only question is which one. When hunting for a discovery the question is whether there will even be a "World Series" for someone to win. While everyone wants to be the team that wins, what they want most is for the game to be played. In particle physics it's been 13 years since an important discovery, and 25 since there was a revolutionary one.
This one flaw is far from fatal, and The Atom Smashers is the best treatment of the lives of physicists that I have ever seen. I would highly recommend seeing it if given the chance.The Atom Smashers has been accepted at several upcoming film festivals, and it will be aired on PBS's Independent Lens on November 25th. More information can be found at the 137 Films website, and the film's blog.


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Workshop Proceeding
Research Frontiers in Bioinspired Energy: Molecular-Level Learning from Natural Systems: A Workshop (2012)Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology
Could ancient microbes hold the key to making low-cost and efficient devices for future supplies of clean water? Are there patterns in protein structures that provide clues for creating artificial photosynthetic systems more robust than those found in nature? Can sulfur-loving bacteria living at the bottom of the ocean show us new ways to capture and utilize methane? These were just some of the topics explored in a workshop, held in January 2011, where top scientists and engineers shared their research on how living systems capture, store, and use energy.
As current energy sources are dwindling and the demand for energy is expected to more than double by 2050, research on living systems is one of the most promising pathways to new energy sources, for example biological-based fuel cells. However, the ability to understand and create bioinspired energy sources is more than an endeavor in just one scientific discipline; it requires an interface among chemists, biologists, and engineers, as well as those working on technological advances that enable progress in understanding these systems. The workshop brought those groups together.
Resources from the workshop, including speaker presentations and post-workshop interviews of speakers can be found here.


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It's finally happening: Netflix is canceling shows. Following the cancellation of "The Get Down," Netflix has pulled the plug on "Sense8," the sci-fi series from the Wachowskis and J. Michael Straczynski won't return for a third season.
Aml Ameen, Doona Bae, Jamie Clayton, Tina Desai, Tuppence Middleton, Max Riemelt, Miguel ngel Silvestre, Brian J. Smith, Freema Agyeman, Terrence Mann, Anupam Kher, Naveen Andrews, Daryl Hannah and Toby Onwumere starred in the series about eight strangers from around the world who were sensates, emotionally and mentally linked.
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The show's official Twitter account sent out the above tweet and video.
"After 23 episodes, 16 cities and 13 countries, the story of the Sense8 cluster is coming to an end. It is everything we and the fans dreamed it would be: bold, emotional, stunning, kick ass, and outright unforgettable. Never has there been a more truly global show with an equally diverse and international cast and crew, which is only mirrored by the connected community of deeply passionate fans all around the world. We thank Lana, Lilly, Joe and Grant for their vision, and the entire cast and crew for their craftsmanship and commitment," Cindy Holland, vice president of Netflix original content, said in a statement.
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In a conversation with CNBC's Julia Boorstin, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said the streaming platform had too many hits on its hands, when asked about the big budget swings Netflix has taken. While Netflix doesn't release viewership data, Hastings said and that you can tell when the show is a hit with viewers by whether or not it's canceled.
"What really matters is I hope our hit ratio is way too high right now," Hastings said. "So, we've canceled very few shows...I'm always pushing the content team, we have to take more risk. You have to try more crazy things, because we should have a higher cancel rate overall."
CORRECTION (June 2, 2017, 2:20 p.m. ET): An earlier version of this story reported "Sense8" won't return for a second season. This has been corrected to "Sense8" will not return for a third season.


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Next, we need to talk about "haircut tipping". Everyone has their own preferred percentage in restuarant tipping, so we can skip over that. I know friends that think anything above 10% is absurd, and others who think that anything less that 20% is like going out to lunch with Ebeneezer Scrooge. So let's leave all that aside and get to the trickiest tipping of all: Haircuts. What's the verdict on this one?
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The Pleasantville High School varsity football team is heading to Syracuse, seeking its first state championship on Sunday, Nov. 26.
The Panthers face Chenango Forks of Binghamton in the Section B title game, which begins at noon at Syracuse University's Carrier Dome. Snow is already sticking in the Salt City, but green-and-white clad visitors will enjoy the heated climes at Carrier Dome.
Pleasantville Coach Tony Beccera's varsity football squad defeated Glens Falls, 20-7, in Middletown in a semifinal playoff thriller to advance to the state championship game. Panther quarterback Jack Howe, a PHS junior shined in Saturday's game as did Nick Salzarulo on defense, with 13 tackles and one sack.
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Lawyer fees will often run over $15,000 to do everything from determining the patentability of your app, searching to if it all or part is already patented, filing the draft, and actually applying for a patent. However, the patent itself only gives you the right to sue.
The litigation process for infringement on intellectual property is also quite expensive. For any entrepreneur without a massive budget, is this cost really worth it?
The general consensus is that any idea isn't likely to be completely original to begin with. Facebook is just a web page that is easier to update than an HTML page. WhatsApp is just an instant messaging/SMS app. eBay was just auctions brought online. The real value of those sites are the users.
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2013 Outdoor Track
2012-13 Indoor Track
Finished second at the 2013 Southern Conference Championships (Feb. 23-24) in the 5,000-meter race with a time of 17:05.51, finishing just .03 seconds out of the title … Set the UNCG school-record in the 5,000-meter race with a time of 16:50.84 at the Flotrack Husky Classic (Feb. 8) … Turned in her top time of the year in the 3,000-meter race at the Hokie Invitational (Jan. 25-26) with a time of 9:52.54 … Added the Spartans' top mile time of the year with a 5:02.78 showing at the Wake Forest Invitational (Jan. 19) … Part of the distance medley relay team that a facility record at the JDL FastTrack during the Hilton Garden Invitational (Feb. 2) with a time of12:14.22, winning by over 23 seconds.
2012 Cross Country
Won the Elon Invitational (Sept. 15), posting a time of 17:44 in the 5,000-meter race, winning by 34 seconds for her first career individual title … Named the Southern Conference Runner of the Week for her efforts at the Elon Invitational, as well as earning Blue Chip Performer honors… Finished third overall at the SoCon Championships (Oct.27), with a season-best time of 17:27.47 in the 5,000-meter course… Turned in a career-best time of 21:00.91 in the 6,000-meter distance at the NCAA Southeast Regional (Nov. 9) to finish 15th overall, just outside of a bid into the NCAA Championship … Improved 16 spots and cut 10 seconds from her performance the year prior in the regional … Placed fourth overall at the NCAA Pre-Nationals (Oct. 13), posting a time of 21:17.0 … Turned in a 40th place finish at the Greater Louisville Classic (Sept. 29) with a time of 17:31.81… Named SoCon Runner of the Week for her performance at the Greater Louisville Classic.
2012 OutdoorTrack
Posted a personal best time of 4:33.69 in the 1,500m at the Duke Invitational, finishing fourth overall (April 6) …recorded another top-five finish at the Wake Forest Open, running the 3,000 meters in 9:51.84, finishing fourth overall (March 17)… time of 16:36.46 was a personal best in the 5,000m, which she set at the prestigious Raleigh Relays (March 31)…qualified for the NCAA East Preliminary Round in Jacksonville,Fla., where she finished 31st overall in the 5,000m(May 26)… named Academic All-Conference ... SoCon AcademicHonor Roll … recipient of the Commissioner's Medal.
2011-12 Indoor Track
Ran a personal record in the 3,000m at the competitive Meyo Invite on the campus of Notre Dame, crossing the line in 9:46.55 to finish 14th (Feb. 4) … set another personal record the following week in the mile run, finishing in a time 4:58.92 at the Spire Invite (Feb. 11) ... earned All-SoCon honors with her runner-up performance in the 5,000-meters at the Southern Conference Indoor Championships finishing in 16:51.25 (Feb 24) … SoCon Academic All-Conference.
2011 Cross Country
Ran a personal-best time of 17:12.80 at the Southern Conference Championships to finish fifth (Oct 29) … was the second Spartan to cross the finish line, earning first team All-Conference honors … placed 31st in a time of 21:11.30 for the 6,000 meters at the NCAA Southeast Regional held in Louisville,Ky., (Nov 12) … earned SoCon Academic All-Conference honors.
2011 Outdoor Track
Earned SoCon Academic All-Conference honors for the outdoor track season … named All-SoCon in the 5,000 meters after earning runner-up honors at the SoCon Championships in a time of 17:52.76 … ran a 10:05.65 in the 3,000 meters at the Duke Invitational to set a new school record by seven seconds …set a new personal-best by over a minute in the 5,000 meters at the Raleigh Relays after finishing in 11th in a time of 17:46.72 … set a new personal-best time in the 1,500 meters by 10 seconds at the UNCW Seahawk Invitational after running a 4:44.08 to finish in sixth … also finished in fifth at the Wake Forest Open inthe 3,000 meters after running a 10:21.68.
2010-11 Indoor Track
Earned SoCon Academic All-Conference honors for the indoor track season … posted a personal-best time by 22 seconds inthe 3,000 meters after running a 10:22.63 at the Tiger Paw Invitational … finished in 13th at the SoCon Championships in the 3,000 meters in a time of 10:45.01 … ran an 18:26.89 in the 5,000 meters to come in 11th place at the SoCon Championships … set a personal-best in the mile with a time of 5:22.38 at the Liberty Open.
2010 Cross Country
2010 Outdoor Track
Ran the third-best time on the team in the 1,500 meters with a time of 4:54.63 at the Carolina Fast Times … clocked a 5:02.00 in the 1,500 meters at the Raleigh Relays … also ran a 5:04.21 at the Wake Forest Open in the 1,500 meters … set a season-best time of 19:11.83 at the Duke Invitational in the 5,000 meters … also ran the 5,000 meters at the SoCon Championships where she ran a 10:30.45.
2009-10 Indoor Track
Finished in seventh place at the Niswonger Invitational in the 3,000 meters with at time of 10:44.08 in her only meet of the season.
2009 CrossCountry
Ran a season-best time of 19:31.34 in 5k to come in 14th place at the USC Upstate Invitational … clocked a 19:36.83 at the Southern Conference Championships … set a personal-best in the 6k at the NCAA Southeast Regional Championships with a time of 23:20.92 …also ran a 20:10.4 at the Charlotte Invitational.
High School
Ran four years of cross country and three years of track & field for coach Jim Faiella at Trinity High School in Washington, Pa. ... finished in seventh at the cross country state championships as a senior and came in 21st as a junior to earn medalist honors both times ... was selected to the all-state team as a senior in cross country ... holds the school-record in the 3,200-meters and the 4x800 relay ... set the cross country course record at Trinity HS ... named the Washington County Observer-Reporter "Athlete of the Week" award during her junior year ... was a member of the National Honor Society.
Chelsea Erin Sumney ... born September 27, 1990 in Washington, Pa. ... daughter of John and Mary Sumney ... has three siblings, Sarah, Daniel and Shaina, who is also on the cross country and track & field team ... majoring in speech pathology at UNCG.
Top Performances
Cross Country
5k: 17:12.80 (Southern Conference Championships -10/29/11)
6k: 21:00.91 (NCAA Southeast Regional - 11/9/12)
Mile: 4:57.61 (Liberty Open, 1/17/14)
3,000m: 9:46.55
5,000m: 16:50.84 (UW Husky Classic, 2/8/13)
1,500m: 4:33.27 (Duke Invitational, April 5-6, 2013 --Unattached)
3,000m: 9:49.65 (Wake Forest Open, 3/15/13 -- Unattached)
5,000m: 16:36.03 (Raleigh Relays, March 29-30, 2013 --Unattached)


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Wall Street expects new iPad to continue dominating tablet market
03/08/2012, 12:03 am
Shortly after Apple unveiled the new iPad, Wall Street analysts weighed in with their opinions of the device. Most are predicting that it will help "cement" Apple's market dominance.
First Apple TV prototypes "in the works" as Apple reportedly shopping part suppliers
01/31/2012, 11:01 pm
Apple has contacted at least one major Asian supplier about purchasing television display components, checks by one analyst have revealed.
Wowed Wall Street watchers raise forecasts after Apple's 'perfect' $46B quarter
01/25/2012, 09:01 am
Analysts on Wall Street were blown away by Apple's blistering holiday 2011 quarter, and promptly revised their estimates even higher following the news.
NPD data suggests 'soft' sales of 4.9M Macs in December quarter
01/17/2012, 08:01 am
The latest U.S. sales data from the NPD Group suggests Apple sold around 4.9 million Macs last quarter, a number that will likely be seen as a mild disappointment on Wall Street.
Strong sales of iPhone 4S a precursor to 'monster' launch of redesigned 'iPhone 5'
01/11/2012, 03:01 pm
With iPhone sales over the holiday quarter expected to exceed 30 million, despite the fact that the iPhone 4S features the same form factor as its predecessor, one analyst believes the launch of a completely redesigned next-generation iPhone later this year will be a "monster."
Apple stock again named the 'top pick' for investors in 2012
01/03/2012, 09:01 am
Apple was the No. 1 stock recommended to investors by Ticonderoga Securities in 2011, and it holds that title once again at the start of 2012.
Redesigned iPhone 5, expanded iPad lineup anticipated from Apple in 2012
12/21/2011, 08:12 am
Apple's growth next year and beyond is expected to be driven by a redesigned iPhone, as well as a potential expansion of the iPad lineup into both lower and higher price points, according to a new analysis.
Quarterly US Mac sales up 13%, expected to grow in December
12/12/2011, 03:12 pm
The latest domestic sales data from the NPD Group shows the Mac lineup demonstrating 13 percent year over year growth in the first two months of the current quarter, a growth number Wall Street watchers expect Apple will handily exceed when the December quarter is concluded.
iTunes Match viewed as break-even but important business for Apple
12/08/2011, 10:12 am
Though Apple's recently launched iTunes Match service isn't expected to be hugely profitable for the company, it is viewed as an important service that will further tie customers into the iTunes ecosystem and Apple's hardware.
Apple products join cash & clothes atop teens' Christmas wishlists
11/28/2011, 10:11 am
More than anything, American teenagers want cash, clothes and Apple products, like the iPhone and iPad, for Christmas, a new survey has found.
75% of Apple stores sold out of iPhone 4S on Black Friday, iPad sales up 68%
11/28/2011, 08:11 am
Apple's Black Friday sales were a resounding success according to two separate accounts, which revealed that most of the company's retail stores sold out of the iPhone 4S on the biggest shopping day of the year.
Apple on pace to sell record 5.3M Macs in holiday quarter
11/14/2011, 02:11 pm
Apple is set to have another blockbuster quarter for the Mac platform, with the latest sales data showing the company headed toward selling as many as 5.3 million over the holidays.
Claims of weakening demand for Apple's iPhone 4S disputed
11/09/2011, 09:11 am
A Taiwanese newspaper made waves on Wednesday by claiming that Apple has reduced orders for the iPhone 4S, but a trio of separate reports specifically dispute the rumor.
Schools expect to have more iPads than computers in next 5 years
10/31/2011, 08:10 am
A new survey of technology directors in U.S. school districts found that all of them are testing or deploying the iPad in schools, and they expect tablets to outnumber computers in the next five years.
Apple building prototype televisions for potential 2012 launch - report
10/24/2011, 08:10 am
As rumors of an Apple television set pick up steam, one new report claims that the company is already building prototype models for a launch potentially as soon as late 2012.
Apple Q4 2011 earnings disappointment attributed to iPhone transition 'hiccup'
10/19/2011, 01:10 am
After Apple's quarterly earnings failed to live up to Wall Street consensus estimates, some analysts have labeled the September quarter a "transitional quarter" for Apple, while remaining reassured that the first quarter of iPhone 4S sales will make up for the so-called "hiccup."
Apple on verge of announcing new iPhone, iPad and Mac sales records
10/17/2011, 01:10 pm
Apple on Tuesday is likely to announce a blowout quarter in which it set a new sales records across three of its four major product lines without the aid of a lucrative holiday shopping season, newly released sales data implies.
73% of iPhone 4S buyers are upgraders, 19% chose 64GB model
10/14/2011, 01:10 pm
A new survey of customers in line at Apple stores on Friday to buy the iPhone 4S found that nearly three-quarters are upgrading from a previous version of the iPhone, while 27 percent are buying their first Apple handset.
18.8M iPhone 3GS users expected to upgrade to Apple's iPhone 4S
10/11/2011, 04:10 pm
A new analysis projects that 18.8 million iPhone 3GS users will upgrade to the iPhone 4S in the next year, accounting for 18 percent of Apple's sales.
iPhone 4S preorders suggest 3M sales at launch, 25M this quarter
10/10/2011, 04:10 pm
Apple's record setting pace of a million iPhone 4S preorders in 24 hours puts the company in a position to sell nearly 3 million devices on launch weekend, and 25 million in the current quarter.


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I'm a Christian first, singer/song writer/programmer second. Thus far I've gotten my hands dirty with C++, objC, C#, and Java. I don't know if I could choose a favorite, since each has their advantages and disadvantages- ease of programming is countered by knowing my program is super efficient! I know, I know, efficiency is usually pointless, yet for some reason, I find myself working on things where it actually matters...
Things I've worked on include...
- A GPS tracking, photo/video/audio managing iPhone app called "iGoat" for people who want to purchase and donate livestock to denizens of third world countries. The deliverer takes photos and videos of the delivery and sends them to the original giver! Pretty cool.
- An evolution sim called "Divine Intervention," written in C# with XNA Game Studio. Stuck on hiatus due to efficiency nightmares (the player needs to be able to speed up the game, but collision detection and the like posed problems.)- now that I'm more knowledgeable than myself as a former freshman in college, I'll have to revisit this!
- A dungeon-generator app, the back-end being C++ and the front-end being objC. It's targeted at people who want to play table-top RP games (Pathfinder, D&D, etc) in an improvisational style. Basically the app generates dungeons for them on the fly, the DM filling in as much as he wants, and the rest being provided by the app! The user will be able to purchase tilesets and generation algorithms in-app.
- Hack/Mine, an action RPG hack n' slash mod for Minecraft with over 1 million downloads! With quests, magical loot, randomly generated dungeons, boss creatures, and more.
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From the archive: The masked man
Jacques Plante was an innovator while winning six Stanley Cups (First published Jan. 17, 2009)
You don't win Stanley Cups without exceptional goaltending. Put it this way: Henrik Zetterberg was a good choice for the Conn Smythe Trophy last June as playoff MVP, but the Detroit Red Wings would not have won the Stanley Cup without Chris Osgood bringing his "A" game to the arena throughout the postseason.
The same can be said for Patrick Roy (two Stanley Cups with the Canadiens and two with Colorado) as well as a three-time winner of the Conn Smythe Trophy - in 1986 and 1993 with the Canadiens and with Colorado in 2001. In his eight seasons with the Canadiens, Ken Dryden won the Stanley Cup six times. How many would the Canadiens have won without him? Roy and Dryden richly deserved the recognition they received, but Jacques Plante is the best goalie in Canadiens history.
Jake the Snake. The first modern-day Masked Man. Innovator. Winner of six Stanley Cups. He was the biggest reason why the Canadiens dynasty of the last half of the 1950s won five Cups in a row, a record that never will be matched. Five of his seven Vézinas in a row.
It is possible, likely perhaps, that Plante will be remembered mostly for the night of Nov. 1, 1959, when early into a game against the New York Rangers he stopped a short backhander from Andy Bathgate with his face, left the ice bleeding profusely and returned to it wearing a mask, but there was so much more to him than that.
I was in Madison Square Garden on that November night when Bathgate, only a few feet away, deliberately shot the puck into Plante's face. A cut was opened on the left side of Plante's face, starting from the corner of his mouth and running through his nostril.
A pool of blood already had formed while Plante was falling to the ice. Seconds later, he left a trail of blood across the ice en route to the clinic.
Unlike today, doors were open to the media. The Garden's press box was close to the ice, so it was only a short trip to the clinic, where I found Plante, his nose only inches away from a mirror. He probed at the cut with his fingers.
"Pretty ugly, isn't it," he said quietly.
"I guess you could say that," he was told.
Plante continued to study the wound until the Rangers' doctor interrupted.
"That's enough of that," he snapped. "Get over here on the table. We've got to sew you up." A few minutes later, Plante was on his way to the Canadiens' room. He wasn't a pretty sight. He also wasn't prepared to return to the game unless he was allowed to wear the mask he had been trying out in team practices. Coach Blake wanted no part of it, but with no other goalie, he had no choice but to allow it. The Canadiens won 3-1.
How good was he? Ask any of the surviving 12 Canadiens who played on those Stanley Cup seasons from 1955-56 through 1960, and they'll tell you it wouldn't have happened without Plante.
You can argue he was the goaltender on a team that had Blake behind the bench and sent eight players to the Hockey Hall of Fame. He was the goaltender on a team that overwhelmed the opposition on most nights, making it "easy" for Plante to do his job. The fact is, Plante made winning a lot less difficult for his colleagues.
No goaltender I have known over the years studied the game more closely or knew what was needed to be among the very best. None had more confidence when it came to stopping the puck. He was aware that the fewer shots he faced in a game, the better he had to be - and was.
He was this good: Canadiens GM Frank Selke had seen enough of his best defenceman, Doug Harvey, after the Canadiens fell short of winning a sixth consecutive Cup in 1960-61, so before the start of the 1961-62 season he sent him to the Rangers for tough-guy Lou Fontinato. It was a trade that stunned everyone in hockey, starting with the players. All of them, that is, except Plante, who was flooded with questions about the move during training camp.
"How are you going to do without Doug?" I asked him.
"I don't have to tell you what Doug meant to the team while we were winning all those Stanley Cups." Plante replied. "He was by far the best in the league and still is as far as I'm concerned. Tell you what, though: I'm gonna win the Vézina this season without Harvey." "You really think so?" "I know," Plante said.
He won the Vézina that season. He also won the Hart Trophy as the league's most valuable player.
In 1963, Selke and coach Blake also had seen enough of Plante, trading him to the Rangers, where he endured two difficult seasons before retiring in 1965. His retirement, though, didn't last long. Three years later, when the NHL expanded to 12 teams, the St. Louis Blues reached out for him, and wouldn't you know it: Plante shared a Vézina with Glenn Hall en route to reaching the Stanley Cup final against the Canadiens.
How good was he? On Dec. 15, 1975, a 47-year-old Plante, now out of hockey for a year after 17 NHL seasons, was chosen to play for a Montreal junior team in an exhibition against the Soviet Union's national team.
"I was never so nervous before a game in all my life," Plante would recall years later. "I've never had a feeling like I did before that game. There was a different atmosphere throughout the whole Forum. Everyone was edgy. I was shivering and shaking in the dressing room and didn't think I would make it to the net. I kept telling myself that I had no business being there; that I was out of hockey for a year and I had nothing to gain and everything to lose." It was all about Plante that night. Montreal's juniors scored with 29 seconds remaining in a 2-1 victory over the Soviets' best, with Vladislav Tretiak in their nets.
"The Forum went wild and fans threw everything on the ice," Plante recalled. "After they cleared it all up, the Soviets fired three more good shots at me in the last 29 seconds.
"It was the highlight of my career." rfisher@ thegazette.canwest.com RED'S BEST OF THE BEST General manager: Sam Pollock Coach: Toe Blake Goalie: Jacques Plante Tomorrow: Best defenceman
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Congratulations to EmilyC, whose Crispy Cream-Braised Potatoes and Fennel won last week's contest for Your Best Root Vegetable Side, earning her a spot in the Food52 Holiday iPad Project!
Q&A with EmilyC
Describe an early food experience that has influenced the way you think about food and/or cooking. Starting at the age of 13, I spent a few weeks each summer visiting my cousin Trisha and her family in Sacramento. She introduced me to a whole new world of food each visit, things that I had never tasted nor heard of growing up in small town Illinois. Highlights included trying sushi and Thai food for the first time. And I still remember what a revelation her homemade basil pesto was upon first bite.
What's your least favorite food?These days it's anything with raw garlic.
What is the best thing you've made so far this year? It's a toss-up between Luciana's Porchetta from this site – I made it a few weeks ago and loved every single bite – and Amanda's Raspberry Swamp Pie.
Describe your most spectacular kitchen disaster. There are several to choose from, but I'll go with the time I decided to start a rhubarb-cream pie at 10:30 at night. (I often get the urge to bake when I should be sleeping.) When I went to check the pie after an hour in the oven, I tilted the pan to see if the cream had set. In the process, I lost my grip, and hot pie went crashing to the kitchen floor. The pyrex pan shattered into what seemed to be a million pieces – and worst of all, a good pie was lost in the process!
What is your idea of comfort food? I'd say slow-cooked dishes like beef bourguignon and braised short ribs in the fall and winter months. And I've always had a major weakness for cold cereal, no matter what time of day.
Apron or no apron? No apron.
What's your favorite food-related scene in a movie? I smile when the curmudgeonly food critic in Disney's Ratatouille tastes Remy's ratatouille for the first time. It's such a sweet scene.
If you could make a show-stopping dinner for one person, living or dead, who would it be? I wish I could pull out all of the stops and make my late mother-in-law, who passed away this February, an amazing meal. Her genuine love for food and good company made cooking for her a joy, and some of my most memorable meals were shared with her and my husband around our dining room table.
You prefer to cook: a. alone, b. with others, c. it depends on your mood My kitchen is small, so most often I prefer to cook alone.
When it comes to tidying up, you usually: a. clean as you cook, b. do all the dishes once you've finished cooking, c. leave the kitchen a shambles for your spouse/roommate/kids to clean. B, though I'm trying harder and harder to clean as I go – and use fewer dishes and utensils in the process!
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Tax office admits it gave 'unacceptable' response to MTR complaint re sexist tweet
Apologies for the way I was treated and undertakings to improve
It wasn't easy doing this. But now the Australian Public Service Commission and the Australian Tax Office is on the record on oath saying that policy and practice will change for the better.
This is how the ABC reported it:
The head of the Australian Taxation Office has conceded that it did not respond well to a complaint about a staff member's use of Twitter
Author and women's advocate Melinda Tankard Reist wrote a complaint after a tax office employee asked on Twitter if anyone had any naked pictures of her.
He has since been disciplined, although it took about nine months for the tax office to inform Ms Tankard Reist that action had been taken.
The commissioner of taxation, Chris Jordan, has told a Senate hearing that the organisation has apologised to the author.
"It has not been a good example of the way a complainant should be treated and it was an unacceptable delay in response," he said.
"The letter, I believe, was unacceptably brief in what it said. I think she deserved better."
Economics Legislation Committee – 05/06/2013 – Estimates – TREASURY PORTFOLIO – Inspector-General of Taxation. You can read the transcripts here
Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee – 28/5/13 – Budget Estimates read from page 39.


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And if your interests lie in Business, Health, Humanities, or Education, Georgia really should be on your mind—Kennesaw State University in Georgia, to be specific. Not only is its Coles College of Business the second largest business school in the state, its College of Science and Mathematics has the biggest chemistry and biochemistry degree programs. KSU also educated the most nurses in Georgia within its College of Health and Human Services. Finally, the College of Education is one of the most fast growing in the country. Basically, we can assume that Kennesa State University GOES BIG on just about everything.
This is no less true of Kennesaw State's student community. Not only does the university support healthy communication through is International Conflict Management degree, but emphasizes global awareness and integrity with its educational goals—anyone want a hug? If the accepting and friendly atmosphere at Kennesaw State Univesity didn't hook you in, maybe it's price tage will. With a very reasonable in-state tuition, an education at Kennesaw State University doesn't have to break the bank.
Thankfully for you Kennesaw kids, this town offers an array of housing options, from villas to apartment complexes to individual houses. For those of you feelin' Southern Kennesaw, you'll get the advantage of living near Daniell Lake and Murrays Lake. Rep the Westside, West Kennesaw, that is, and you'll get your fill of Swift-Cantrell Park as well as closer campus access. For cutting around Kennesaw, catch Cobb Community Transit.
Who doesn't get excited about the sound of a train whistle? It signals adventure, travel, and, at the very least, some old-timey fun. Check out some dated choo-choos (for those of you over the age of 5, I am referring to trains at the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History). Around mid-April, get crafty at the Big Shanty Festival, complete with food, crafts, vendors, a play area for children, and performances by local community members. If you're looking for a solitary adventure, trying hiking Kennesaw Mountain. For a more low-key way to reflect while in nature, take a stroll around the Smith-Gilbert Gardens, which has 16 houses and over 3,000 types of plants, shrubs, and trees. It also housses 30 pieces of art from internationally known artists.Dive into your night at Diamond Dave's Nightclub. But be ready to take your partying seriously as the venue has a dress code. Lastly, enjoy a little jazz, blues, or even a bit of comedy at Cave Tapas & Lounge Bar.


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Traditional food trucks are grassroots arrangements — a retiree, a pot of chili and a steam tray of hot dogs. Go Burger's parent is a hospitality company known to non-New Yorkers as the BLT Steak chain. But does corporate backing mean a better truck burger is at hand? Let's find out.
The truck was parked here in Manhattan on 51st between Madison and Park Avenues right by a little business plaza. It's a tall, business-oriented block, but it was still pretty nice and out of the way of all the midtown tourists. It was just before two when I got there, but there was still a regular flow of businesspeople at the counter.
Go Burger's five-ounce Black Angus beef burgers comprise a melange of sirloin, short rib, chuck and brisket selected for a rounder, beefy burger flavor than straight chuck might provide. At a buck an ounce for the single patty, they're better enjoyed in twos — a double is $8.00 — as a single, 10-ounce compound slab. Either way, they're not whacha call cheap eats.
Naturally, a combination of grilled, ground butchers' cuts and prime fat requires a pillowy bun for an accompaniment. In its best form, a burger bun absorbs and recasts the patty's (or patties') copious juices as a separate, savory entity, acting as a neutral foil and delivery device for all the glorious beef bits and burger slime. Go Burger's buns fail in this regard, but only because there wasn't much juice to speak of. If a big, seeded, brioche-like bun is your thing, then Go Burger gets the job done, but for such a small patty the bun was just too much.
The burger was just ordinary? I was hoping for gloriousness, but the patty just left me sad. The meat was of great quality, with a good flavor, but it was overcooked and a little dry. The cheeseburger of the lady next to me was also a let down, with nothing but an under-cooked slice of American to justify the extra dollar in price.
Despite the specificity of the name, Go Burger has hot dogs too. Its Kobe beef (the American kind, not the Japanese kind) hot dog comes with spicy German mustard and pickled jalapenos, or crumbled smoked bacon, cheddar cheese and caramelized onions. I got the Kobe dog and it was fantastic. It had a noticeable but not aggressive snap, a quality bun, and a perfect dog-to-bun ratio. The mustard and the jalapenos were a nice touch for the super meaty hot dog.
Truck burgers are often sub-par, snack-bar affairs, mainly due to the limitations of mobile grilling equipment. Go Burgers' wares also miss that home-cooked flavor, but I doubt it was because of any equipment. It didn't taste institutional, it was just overdone. Cooked right it would've been fine, as it was, it was a disappointment. The lawyer-types around me concurred with the burger and hot dog verdicts and added that the shakes were really good. Not Shake Shack good, but good. I would conclude with the judgement that Go Burger came close to brilliance, but didn't quite make it, except that this man, Dainja 730, a professional wrestler from Queens Bridge, works as a cook there as his day job. The man loves to cook, and I like to believe that he made my delicious Kobe dog. All in all, a 7/10 for the food, and a 10/10 for the professional wrestler/cook staff.
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WETA, the special effects and design house behind movies like Lord of the Rings and District 9, has teamed up with Valve for a little cross-promotion, with some of its original designs to be featured in Team Fortress 2.
For a while now WETA has peddled its own intellectual property (created by WETA's Greg Broadmore), that of Dr. Grordbort, seller of old-timey ray guns for combat against old-timey aliens.
That universe, previously restricted to comics and high-priced collectibles, is now part of Team Fortress 2, a variety of items now available including a pair of guns, a pith helmet and a beard/pipe combo.
That explains the rockets! oh, and there's also a new comic, available at the link below.
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With the growing popularity and usefulness of mobile devices, the era of Bring Your Own Device in the workplace is either imminent or already upon us, depending on whom you're talking with.
"BYOD is here, and everyone is working to make sure we can deliver things" through that channel, said John Harrison, group manager at Symantec Security Response. That does not mean that your personal smart phone or tablet automatically will become a trusted part of the enterprise, but it will be increasingly difficult for administrators to keep them out. In many cases, it already is too late to try.
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"Some things you just can't do," said Gary Schluckbier, director of the secure products group at Motorola Solutions. "In some enterprises, banning personal mobile devices is one of them." There always will be a risk trade-off in which usefulness must be balanced against threats, he said. "There are user cases where BYOD makes a lot of sense. In others, it doesn't."
The threats that make mobile devices a risk to the enterprise already are appearing. The amount of new malware being identified by security companies has shot up exponentially this year, and both government and industry are working to develop secure software and hardware for mobile devices. Despite these efforts, however, those in the industry offer little hope that they will be able get out in front of this threat curve. Security is historically reactive, said Anup Ghosh, CEO of the security company Invincea. The same trends that have kept us playing catch-up with desktop and laptop security will continue in the mobile world, he predicted. "We're seeing the same movie run over and over again," Ghosh said.That does not mean the outlook necessarily is gloomy, however. "Security will always follow, but the process can be quick," said Mark Cohn, chief technology officer of Unisys Federal Systems.
Whether it will be quick enough remains to be seen. The pace of change in the computing environment is accelerating. For decades the desktop dominated, and then it was joined by the laptop. But no sooner has the laptop become a full-fledged partner than it is being pushed out by the tablet and smart phone. Cohn predicts that, within a year, the desktop, tablet and smart phone will be the triumvirate of enterprise computing, and within another year the desktop is likely to be eliminated as a dominant platform. Eventually, a smart phone enabled with a Bluetooth keyboard and cloud storage could reign alone.
This shifting and convergence has not gone unnoticed by the bad guys. Malicious code for mobile devices has grabbed headlines in the past year, and McAfee's latest quarterly threat report showed a sharp spike in new mobile malware, from fewer than 500 samples in the last quarter of 2011 to more than 6,000 in the first three months of 2012.Android's double-edged swordThe Android operating system is far and away the largest target for malware, accounting for more than three-quarters of the samples identified. In most cases, the code comes from outside the official Google app store for Android, McAfee researchers said. What makes Android attractive to criminals is the same thing that makes it attractive to developers and consumers."The Android is a platform that other people can use to make a product," said Adam Wosotowsky, messaging data architect and research analyst at McAfee. "It allows for more creativity. For that reason, it's more flexible." Security features can be disabled and third-party applications easily installed.On the other hand, because Android is open it also can be hardened. The National Security Agency has released a hardened version, Security Enhanced Android based on SELinux, an open-source project to identify and close security gaps in Android. Operating system aside, mobile devices in general offer a target-rich environment for hackers, in part because of the compact form factor."The platform is highly integrated, changes all the time and has a lot more attack surface," said Motorola's Schluckbier. Because many functions that might be separated on a larger device are combined on a single chip for a handheld, "we're just starting to scratch the surface on threats."With malware, as with teenagers, a sudden growth spurt does not equate with maturity, researchers said. "It's still in its infancy," Wosotowsky said of mobile malware. "The number of malware samples we see for PCs is explosively higher than we see for smart phones.""So far, the underground economy is still figuring out how to monetize mobile threats in the way they have monetized desktop and laptop threats," said Symantec's Harrison.
In the United States, use of smart phones for financial transactions is not yet widespread, and common money-making scams for PCs — such as downloading fake antivirus programs or video codecs — are not as successful on mobile devices because most users are not yet thinking of putting antivirus software on their handhelds, and nobody wants to pay for new applications for a smart phone anyway.Malicious appsMalicious applications are the most common means of delivering malware to a mobile device, particularly unvetted software offered through third-party Android marketplaces. These Trojanized apps usually are corruptions of legitimate applications rather than built from scratch, Harrison said."We have seen some built from scratch," Harrison said. "But hackers are lazy. Why go to the trouble? Android apps are totally easy to reverse engineer, compromise and upload. People seem to flock to them."The most successful fraudulent money-makers for mobile devices to date — and they don't make a lot of money — probably are click fraud and premium billing for text schemes. But the growth in malware development going on today means that more serious threats are likely to appear as users become more comfortable in a mobile online world and criminals gain experience in the arena, Harrison said. "Once they figure out what's working, we will see wider use.""Your cell phone is a little computer," Wosotowsky said. "It is not immune to the problems associated with big computers. Eventually, there won't be much difference between your PC and your cell phone. At that time, it [the cell phone] will certainly be the top target" for malware writers.How long do we have before this happens? "We are starting to see the inflection point right here," Harrison said. "We're in the early stages." Optimal security for a mobile device would be embedded in hardware, and that is where Motorola, an equipment manufacturer, is focusing it security efforts."Where we start is low in the device," Schluckbier said. It also is hardening the operating systems adding features to Android and Windows Mobile. The company recently announced its Assured Mobile Environment in the AME 1000 Secure Mobile Telephony solution for Windows Mobile, which includes hardware-based cryptography and certificate management for voice.The AME 1000 incorporates a crypto chip and Apriva Voice software and gateway, together with NSA Suite B voice encryption on its ES400 enterprise smart phone, which operates on both CDMA and GSM networks. Motorola plans to expand it to the Android OS as well. One of the biggest physical threats to mobile data is the risk of losing the device. "You're mobile, and the loss of data is only as far away as a thoughtless moment," Schluckbier said.Mobile militaryThe military recognizes the value of mobile devices, not only for use "behind the wire" in headquarters and garrison environments but also "outside the wire" in field deployments where they can provide constant communications with data and situational analysis both to commanders and to front-line troops. Fielding these devices in a combat environment entails considerable risk, especially since it often entails use of non-military carrier networks. The military and intelligence communities are countering this by hardening the Android operating system and developing their own secure apps.Still, "most of the security has to do with loss-of-device scenarios," said Invincea's Ghosh.
Most of these protections fall within device management and range from simple controls, such as requiring password access and encryptiing file systems, to the more complex abilities such as remotely wiping a device that is unrecoverable."Today they use enterprise-issued devices," Ghosh said of military and civilian government use. This traditionally has meant the BlackBerry, but the balance is shifting to the Android. "The range of applications available for BlackBerry is more limited. The federal workforce is very similar to the commercial; they want the latest in technology and they want to be able to use apps."Although hardened devices and operating systems are beginning to appear for government use, the bulk of the devices being used for work are consumer-grade, off-the-shelf phones and tablets that lack these security enhancements. And without secure devices, the current focus on mobile security will have to be on securing the data, security experts say."We are in the early days of the mobile security solution," said Symantec's Harrison, and the immediate goal is to be able to secure data — or at least avoid endangering it — on the devices."We have to have trusted users, trusted services and trusted platforms," to ensure the security of data, said Unisys' Cohn. But so far trusted identities have not been extended to mobile devices. Authentication still is based on website functionality developed for PCs, and there is little strong authentication for the mobile device and the device user that would ensure that information is being shared with the proper people under the proper circumstances.Federal cyber strategyThe Obama administration's National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace envisions an identity ecosystem of commercial tools that could be adopted by government to achieve this goal. The ecosystem could allow the reuse of a limited number of credentials for many purposes, enabling the kind of strong but convenient authentication required for secure, widespread use of mobile computing. This system of shared, federated and widely trusted credentials does not yet exist on a large scale.In the meantime, one method of mitigating the threat of mobile malware is to segregate system elements and functions so that code is less able to cross boundaries. Segregation also allows effective management of a device and the enforcement of policy. The ability to functionally separate enterprise from personal apps on the same device could allow personal devices to be more securely used in the workplace. Encrypted tunnels could be required for trusted enterprise apps, and access to file systems could be restricted to applications that are tagged for enterprise use.Whitelisting — allowing only the installation of trusted applications on a device — also can help ensure that devices are operating securely.Absolute security is impossible, however, and no amount of hardening, segregating or authenticating will completely eliminate the risks of mobile computing, especially in an environment that is developing so rapidly.But don't expect development to slow down to wait for security to catch up."Every major innovation in computing has come through a progress that was not managed coherently but was the result of independent effort from multiple players," Cohn said. It is expensive to develop hardware and software that goes beyond the security that is "good enough for consumers," he said, and demand for security will not direct the investment stream in the future. "Maybe that is the price we pay for the fact that we allow innovation to occur."
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