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ISS Astronauts Wrap Up Second Spacewalk
The second STS-115 spacewalk is now in the history books. STS-115 Mission Specialists Dan Burbank and Steve MacLean concluded the spacewalk at 12:16 p.m. EDT after continued efforts to prepare the International Space Station's P3/P4 truss for operation.
The 17.5-ton, 45-foot truss, which contains a set of solar arrays, was attached to the station Tuesday. The P3/P4 will provide power, data and communication services for the station. The arrays will be unfurled to a full length of 240 feet Thursday and will eventually double the station's power capabilities.
Burbank and MacLean began their excursion at 5:05 a.m. and proceeded to move through the scheduled activities, which included the removal of launch locks and launch restraints on the Solar Alpha Rotary Joint (SARJ). Once activated, the rotary joint will allow the arrays to track the sun.
About 7:10 a.m. EDT, MacLean reported that one of the four bolts on the cover of the SARJ launch lock 8 was missing. The bolt had been there when he removed the cover to access the lock. MacLean reported he did not see the bolt in the SARJ mechanism. The cover is secure with three of the four bolts in place.
Later, the socket being used by MacLean to loosen a stubborn bolt on launch restraint 6B broke. MacLean retrieved a cheater bar from the tool box on the Z1 Truss. He broke the torque, but ultimately it took both he and Burbank to remove the bolt and launch restraint.
During the remainder of the spacewalk, the astronauts were instructed to perform get-ahead tasks. They prepared the P3 truss for use by the Mobile Transporter – a platform that allows the station's robotic arm, Canadarm2, to move along the Integrated Truss Structure.
Mission Specialist Joe Tanner served as spacewalk coordinator. Mission Specialist Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper assisted Tanner and operated Canadarm2. Tanner and Piper conducted the first spacewalk and will perform the third Friday.
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Hey boys, whether or not you "wear the pants", you really need to keep 'em on.
In case you missed it the first time around, below is the post we wrote back in December when Dockers first unveiled its misogynistic "Wear the Pants" campaign. We titled it "Turning the Other Cheek." Whew. Little did we know what we were in for…
Welcome to the opening salvos of the great pants war. To wit, while we were MIA, Dockers apparently took it upon itself to reconstruct society's trek toward gender equality with its new ad campaign for men's slim-fit, "soft" khakis. Such the bad plan. Dubbed "Wear the Pants", the campaign comes with its own Man-ifesto (I don't make this stuff up. That's what they call it. And watch for the high-rent ads on Super-Bowl Sunday.) You can see the ad on your left. They also have a Facebook page, where folks can post their ruminations on the true definition of a man. Anyhow, the copy reads as follows:
Once upon a time, men wore the pants, and wore them well. Women rarely had to open doors and little old ladies never crossed the street alone. Men took charge because that's what they did. But somewhere along the way, the world decided it no longer needed men. Disco by disco, latte by foamy non-fat latte, men were stripped of their khakis and left stranded on the road between boyhood and androgyny. But today, there are questions our genderless society has no answers for. The world sits idly by as cities crumble, children misbehave and those little old ladies remain on one side of the street. For the first time since bad guys, we need heroes. We need grown-ups. We need men to put down the plastic fork, step away from the salad bar and untie the world from the tracks of complacency. It's time to get your hands dirty. It's time to answer the call of manhood. It's time to wear the pants.
Clearly, some copywriters were jonesing for a Mad Men fix and thought they could dabble in a little mid-century irony to sell some pants. Not exactly, writes the SF Chronicle's stylewriter, Aaron Britt:
Arch? Stirring? Silly? And more importantly, did you balk when you registered that this throw-down has come not from some edgy line of denim or gauche leather emporium, but from none other than the world's most peaked, pathetic pants: chinos. And it's not just any chinos calling you a sissy. It's Dockers.
But really, I'm a little bit flummoxed. Offended, even. Deconstruct the Man-ifesto and you find that the whole campaign is just not funny. In fact, it smells more than a little bit sexist in its sub-rosa rant against the women's movement and the way in which some of those not-really-witty one-liners play into the worst fears of paranoid neanderthals: Does gender parity mean gender-less? If women succeed in stepping up, does that turn guys into girly-men (Arnold Schwarzenegger's phrase, not mine)? With no men to wear the pants, do small children run wild and old ladies get run over?
Left unsaid, of course, is who is wearing the pants. Those emasculating women? And what, for the love of god, have they have done to the workplace?
Now, for years, ads directed toward women have preyed upon their need to be more, well, feminine: Wear this! Wax that! Paint those! And so you can argue that it's no more than turnabout to sell pants by preying on men's need to be more traditionally masculine. But see, here's the difference: Does masculinity have to equate to keeping women in the kitchen? It's clear where the women are in the scary Dockers scenario: Wearing their menfolks' khakis, of course, which is why everything else has gone to hell. As Jami Bernard wrote on Walletpop:
Just because the Docker ads are tongue in cheek does not mean they're not sexist. It's one thing to encourage men to man up, another to tell them to "wear the pants" — an expression that taps directly into the old question: "Who wears the pants in this family?" There are only two possible answers: the man of the house, or the woman who has been stealing his thunder. "Wear the pants" is a call to arms, even when used jokingly, that says the only way to be a man is to put women in their place…
The real joke, of course, is that the pants in question, writes Broadsheet's Mary Elizabeth Williams, is "the brand that made everybody's asses look fat in the '90s.." Whether or not we girls (or, for that matter, our guys) are wearing the pants — I doubt they're gonna be Dockers.

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Screen Actors Guild Announces Nominees
Wednesday morning Starz Denver Film Festival honoree Judy Greer and "Southland" actress Regina King announced the nominees for the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, with casts from "The Artist" and "The Help" garnering the most nominations.
The nominees for film include something of a surprise with R-rated comedy "Bridesmaids" among the ensembles competing for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Unlike the often times idiosyncratic critics kudos, the SAG Awards begin to offer Oscar handicappers a truer sense of the competition for the Academy Awards (Feb. 26)
Here are the nominees for the five film categories.
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture:
"The Artist"
"The Descendants"
"The Help"
"Midnight in Paris"
Best Actress:
Glenn Close, "Albert Nobbs"
Viola Davis, "The Help"
Meryl Streep, "The Iron Lady"
Tilda Swinton, "We Need to Talk About Kevin"
Michelle Williams, "My Week With Marilyn"
Best Actor
Demian Bichir, A Better Life
George Clooney, "The Descendants"
Leonardo DiCaprio, "J. Edgar"
Jean DuJardin, "The Artist"
Brad Pitt, "Moneyball"
Best Supporting Actress:
Bernice Bejo, "The Artist"
Jessica Chastain, "The Help"
Melissa McCarthy, "Bridesmaids"
Janet McTeer, Albert Nobbs
Octavia Spencer, "The Help"
Best Supporting Actor
Kenneth Branagh, "My Week With Marilyn"
Armie Hammer, "J. Edgar"
Jonah Hill, "Moneyball"
Nick Nolte, "Warrior"
Christopher Plummer, "Beginners"
Greer, who appears "The Descendants" — a SAG-nominated ensemble — was in town in November to receive the Denver fest's John Cassavetes Award, only the third woman and the first actress to earn the honor. Greer and King announced nominations in five film and eight television categories. The 18th Screen Actors Guild Awards show will be simulcast live on TNT and TBS, Sunday, Jan. 29, at 6 p.m. (MT).
Best Ensemble
The Artist
The Descendants
The Help
Midnight in Paris


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Chewy Energy Bars
Total TimePrep: 20 min. + cooling
Makes1-1/2 dozen
- 2-1/2 cups crisp rice cereal
- 2 cups old-fashioned oats
- 1/4 cup toasted wheat germ
- 1 cup corn syrup
- 1 cup peanut butter
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- In a large bowl, combine the cereal, oats and wheat germ. In a small saucepan, combine the corn syrup, peanut butter and brown sugar. Cook over medium heat until peanut butter is melted, stirring occasionally. Remove from the heat. Stir in vanilla. Pour over cereal mixture; mix well.
- Transfer to a greased 9-in. square pan. Gently press cereal mixture evenly into pan. Cool completely. Cut into bars.
Nutrition Facts1 each: 212 calories, 8g fat (2g saturated fat), 0 cholesterol, 115mg sodium, 33g carbohydrate (12g sugars, 2g fiber), 6g protein.
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After my husband passed I had to start working full-time so I needed to find a quick breakfast that the kids could eat in the car on the way to preschool/daycare. It's taken a year of experimenting but we've settled into a groove with the following spin-off recipe: Like other readers I have substituted most of the corn syrup out; currently use 1/2C Honey 7Tb Corn syrup 1Tb Molasses, a scant 1/4 C brown sugar and 1 C peanut butter (not homemade or "natural" PB though, I found the additional oils or perhaps the lack of emulsifiers in those caused the bars to not set-up properly), 1 C Brown Rice Cereal, 1C rolled oats, 1/2 C wheat germ, 1/2 C Wheat Bran, 2Tb Millet. I routinely forget to add the vanilla, I don't find that it really makes a difference... Anyway, I'm giving 4 stars because even without my substitutions they are delicious and it was a great jumping off point for our weekday breakfasts!
Jun 24, 2014
Everyone in our family absolutely loves these bars. And they're pretty easy to make even for older kids.
Aug 19, 2012
As is the recipe is so unhealthy. I used organic brown crisp rice cereal, 1/2 cup maple syrup instead of the unhealthy corn syrop, natural nut butter, and some carob chips. We need to stop using corn syrup!
Aug 18, 2012
This recipe cut into 32 bars is more usable by diabetics and children and non-athletictype people. Cutting into 16 bars, can't see how anyone would get 18 bars out of a 9x9 panful, is just too many carbs and calories. Cut into 32 bars and adding a4 oz serving of yogurt or small fresh fruit is showing healthy wisdom in your choices.
Aug 18, 2012
I make this one often - they are easy to make and good to eat - the whole family loves them!
Jul 26, 2012
Good! The only things I did different was reduce the brown sugar (1/4 cup) & used agave nectar instead of corn syrup. Next time I might try honey instead of the nectar just to switch it up. Also used an all natural no sugar added peanut butter.
Jul 25, 2012
Good! The only things I did different was reduce the brown sugar (1/4 cup) & used agave nectar instead of corn syrup. Next time I might try honey instead of the nectar just to switch it up. Also used an all natural no sugar added peanut butter.
Jun 26, 2012
I was looking for a more healthy snack for my kids when I found this. Not only is it simple & fast to prepare but is YUMMY! Huge hit with my kiddos. We put ours in the fridge for a "cold' treat and they can't get enough! We will be making this again very soon!
Nov 23, 2011
Have made it twice now, & they went very fast!
Sep 28, 2011
My kids love thiss recipe! I add minature chocolate chips. I have to make this recipe at least weekly because they love it so much


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The final weekend of this year's Tempo festival included Colours of India (Bollywood, Bharatnatyam, Kathak and Odissi), duets in many styles, integrated dance from Touch Compass and Tasmania's Second Echo, youth dance, up to the minute hip hop in Out of the Box and richly musical Tongan dance.
Each show had its standout moments, stunning performances, and crowd-pleasers - far too many to cover here.
Pukepuke'o Tonga was a world premiere in the truest sense, a suite of 10 historic Tongan dances dating from 1200 AD, recovered and arranged by choreographer Sesilia Pusiaki Tatuila to ensure they will not be lost. Each dance has its own songs and rhythms, beautifully delivered by the dancers, together comprising an intimate ceremonial event arrayed for a village setting, with the performers seated on the floor and the audience looking on.
Throughout the sequence the dancers change formation with men and women, girls and boys in alternating groups. Behind them sits their leader, playing log drum and wooden flute, introducing each song and marshalling the rhythms.
The 32 performers range from around 5 years old to 20-something, other than their leader and a group of eight elders who sit behind watching. The dancers are beautifully clothed in black lava lavas and shirts for the men, or black tube dresses for the women, with waist wraps of tapa cloth or woven fibres decorated by leaves, more leaves at wrist and ankle, necklaces resembling chilli peppers worn by the men, and red triangular-petalled woven collars worn by the women. The performance was impeccable, delivered with pride in reviving this ancient culture, joy, grace, charm and delight, and the very youngest performers were outstanding and alert to every nuance.
The hip hop dancers also showed considerable pride, charm and impeccable timing in a show of eight very polished free-form hip hop works, each around 5 or 6 minutes long. The standout was 16-year-old Riley Bourne's Back to Bach.
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*Pukepuke'o Tonga, Q Loft, Saturday October 20, 6pm
*Out of the Box hip hop showcase, Friday October 19, 6pm, Sunday October 21, 8pm Q Rangatira


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I like to write down patterns, just for fun, now and then, but this time it was different. To get to the point, I felt so unhappy about the whole thing, that during the last two days I was restless, uncomfortable; I looked at my current project on my needles, and almost felt disgust, wanted to throw it across the room (but didn't, it's too lovely). Loosing my love for knitting? Of course at first I didn't know what hit me, and while tossing and turning I suddenly knew, I could not do it for money! Once I realized that I was fine. I think that's weird. Don't you?
Now comes another weird part.
This morning, Biko woke me up at 4:15 to go potty. I stayed up, and while waiting for the water to boil I checked my e-mails. I found a nice surprise in one of them. Marianne has sent me her Have a Heart sock, just because. I've been lusting after that pattern, which she is selling on her blog and you can find it on ravelry as well. Now that's sweet! I'm so ready to knit another pair of socks, I think I'll find some appropriate yarn for it and cast on this weekend.
Can you tell that I'm happy again? I've got lots to show you, but that will have to wait until next week.
And here's a shot of BOTH dogs sleeping, while I'm knitting, and see, I'm NOT the one on the floor taking the picture. Those are my legs up on the coffee table. This big paw belongs to Biko, Sam is snoozing in the background.
I feel a load was lifted off my chest. I'll be finishing up the February Baby Sweater (on my needles now), knit with my hand spun yarn! Pics soon. Have a wonderful weekend!


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Willem de Sitter
Born: 6 May 1872 in Sneek, Netherlands
Died: 20 November 1934 in Leiden, Netherlands
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Willem de Sitter's parents were Lamoraal Ulbo de Sitter and Catharine Theodore Wilhelmine Bertling. Lamoraal Ulbo de Sitter was a judge and firmly in the de Sitter family tradition of becoming lawyers. His son Willem was expected to follow the family tradition, but he took a different career path with his love of mathematics and science. Willem attended secondary school in Arnhem, studying at the Arnhem Gymnasium. After graduating from the school, he entered the University of Groningen with the intention of taking a mathematics degree. In addition to his love for mathematics, his enjoyment of physics and carrying out physical experiments grew during his undergraduate years. He obtained permission to assist with experiments being carried out by Hermanus Haga, the professor of physics at the University of Groningen, and as a consequence began to work in the Astronomical Laboratory at Groningen. In the Laboratory Jacobus Kapteyn, the Professor of Astronomy and Theoretical Mechanics, was measuring photographic plates which had been taken by the astronomer David Gill as part of a photographic survey of the southern sky taken at the Cape Town Observatory. Although Kapteyn was the Groningen Professor of Astronomy, he had volunteered to assist in the Astronomical Laboratory since he had no observatory in which to conduct his own observations.
The turning point in de Sitter's life came in 1896 when David Gill visited Kapteyn to discuss progress on the southern sky survey. Entering the Laboratory, Gill saw de Sitter at a measuring machine and the two talked briefly [15]. On :-
... the following morning de Sitter, while having breakfast in his rooms, received a message that Gill wished to speak with him in the laboratory. De Sitter did not possess at that time the fluent command of the English language which he afterwards acquired; Kapteyn was lecturing at the time and Mrs Kapteyn acted as interpreter at the interview. Gill invited de Sitter to come to the Cape as a computer and, as de Sitter afterwards stated in a letter to Gill, "thereby complete my astronomical education - or rather begin it, for up to that time I had never made a speciality of astronomy and intended to become a mathematician."De Sitter consulted his parents, and decided to take their advice and complete his examinations at Groningen before taking up Gill's offer. He received a Bachelor's Degree in 1897 and left for Cape Town in the summer of that year arriving in August. He worked at the Cape Observatory in South Africa for two years taking part in photometric and heliometer programmes. It was at Gill's suggestion that de Sitter also worked towards his doctorate studying heliometer observations of Jupiter's moons which had been made by Gill in 1891. After de Sitter returned to Groningen in 1899 he was appointed as an assistant in the Astronomical Laboratory and also continued to work towards his doctorate, advised by Kapteyn. He submitted his thesis Discussion of Heliometer Observations of Jupiter's Satellites to the University of Groningen in 1901. Jan Hendrik Oort writes in [13]:-
With the discussion of Gill's heliometer observations of Jupiter's satellites, de Sitter had entered upon the field which seemed so completely to suit his versatile mind: the talent, on one hand, for seeing clearly through the most intricate mathematical problems and dealing practically with them; on the other hand, the critical insight into the value and limitations of observations - an insight which sprang from a very active interest in observations as well as instruments.On 6 December 1898 de Sitter had married Eleonora Suermondt in Cape Town, South Africa. Eleonora was born in Surabaya, the second largest city in the Dutch East Indies, and she had met de Sitter in the Cape where she was working as a school teacher. Their first child Lamoraal Ulbo was born in Cape Town in September 1899 but sadly died on 10 January 1901 after the family had returned to Groningen. Their other children were: Theodora born on 28 September 1900 in Groningen; Lamoraal Ulbo born on 6 March 1902 in 's-Gravenhage; Aernout born on 5 April 1905 in Groningen; and Agnes born 14 May 1908 in Groningen. Let us record a few details of the lives of two of these children at this point. Lamoraal Ulbo de Sitter became well-known as a structural geologist and died in Nistelrode in 1980. Aernout de Sitter served as director of the Bosscha Observatory in Lembang, Dutch East Indies. After the Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies he was arrested and put into a detention camp where he died on 5 September 1944.
Hendricus Gerardus van de Sande Bakhuyzen had been Professor of Astronomy and Director of the University Observatory at the University of Leiden from his appointment in 1872. He retired in 1908 and his duties were split into two, with the chair of astronomy being separated from the directorship of the Observatory. De Sitter was appointed to the chair of astronomy while Ernest-Frederich van de Sande Bakhuyzen, H G van de Sande Bakhuyzen's brother, was appointed as Director of the Observatory. On taking up the chair, de Sitter gave his inaugural lecture on The New Methods in Celestial Mechanics. E F van de Sande Bakhuyzen died in 1918 and in the following year de Sitter was appointed Director of the Leiden Observatory in addition to his professorship. He undertook a complete reorganisation of astronomy at Leiden dividing it into three divisions: Fundamental Astronomy of position or astrometry; Astrophysics; and Celestial Mechanics or theoretical astronomy. Under his leadership it was one of the leading astronomical centres in the world. Oort writes [13]:-
Throughout the years at Groningen, as well as later, de Sitter showed an almost unbelievable activity. In looking through a number of his more important publications, one is struck with the rapidity with which discussions on different topics follow each other and by the amount of thorough critical thinking of which each of these brings evidence. Neither a serious illness from which he suffered during some years, nor the directorship of an observatory which he undertook to reorganise almost entirely, nor his constant activities in many matters connected with the University could slow up the flow of his scientific investigations.In 1913 de Sitter produced an argument based on observations of double star systems which proved that the velocity of light was independent of the velocity of the source. It put to rest attempts which had been made up until this time to find emission theories of light which depended on the velocity of the source but were not in conflict with experimental evidence.
De Sitter corresponded with Paul Ehrenfest in 1916, and he proposed that a four-dimensional space-time would fit in with cosmological models based on general relativity. He published a series of papers (1916-17) on the astronomical consequences of Einstein's general theory of relativity. He found solutions to Einstein's field equations in the absence of matter. This was significant since Mach had stated a principle that local inertial frames of reference were determined by the large-scale distribution of mass in the universe. De Sitter asked:-
If no matter exists other than the test body, does it have inertia.De Sitter's work led directly to Arthur Eddington's 1919 expedition to measure the gravitational deflection of light rays passing near the Sun, results which, at that time, could only be obtained during an eclipse. De Sitter, unlike Einstein, maintained that relativity actually implied that the universe was expanding, theoretical results which were later verified observationally and only then accepted by Einstein.
In fact Einstein had introduced the cosmological constant in 1917 to solve a significant problem concerning the universe, which had also troubled Newton before him, namely why does the universe not collapse under gravitational attraction. This rather arbitrary constant of integration which Einstein introduced, admitting it was not justified by our actual knowledge of gravitation, was later said by him to be "the greatest blunder of my life." However de Sitter wrote in 1919 that the term:-
... detracts from the symmetry and elegance of Einstein's original theory, one of whose chief attractions was that it explained so much without introducing any new hypothesis or empirical constant.In the 1990s observational evidence suggested that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. One way to incorporate this into the relativistic model is to reintroduce the cosmological constant. This remains an extremely active area of research.
In 1932 Einstein and de Sitter published a joint paper in which they proposed the Einstein-de Sitter model of the universe. This is a particularly simple solution of the field equations of general relativity for an expanding universe. They argued in this paper that there might be large amounts of matter which does not emit light and has not been detected. This matter, now called 'dark matter', has since been shown to exist by observing is gravitational effects. However the dark matter postulated by Einstein and de Sitter in 1932 still remains a mystery in that its nature is still unknown but is the subject of major research efforts today.
Although de Sitter is best known for this work on relativity, he made many other contributions of great significance. His doctorate had been on the satellites of Jupiter and he maintained an interest in this topic throughout his life. He used data on eclipses of the satellites dating back to 1668 to produce definitive data on the orbital elements and masses of the four satellites. He published theoretical discussion in three papers of 1918, 1919 and 1925. Finally in 1929 he produced his definitive results, but he was still working on tables of the motions of the satellites when he died in 1934. During his investigations of the timings of the eclipses of Jupiter's moons, he realised that his data was being affected by variations in the speed of rotation of the earth. Immediately de Sitter had another topic for which he had precisely the right skills to make a breakthrough. His study showed that there is varying tidal friction which affects both the earth and the moon and, in addition, sudden changes which occur in the moment of inertia of the earth.
Another study which de Sitter undertook was to refine the data for the fundamental constants of astronomy. Simon Newcomb had published values for these constants in 1895 and in a rather remarkable international agreement in Paris in 1896, it had been decided that the ephemerides of every country in the world should use Newcomb's values for these constants. In 1915 de Sitter published his first paper on improving the values, this one being concerned almost entirely with the figure and composition of the earth. He wrote in the introduction:-
On various occasions I have found myself confronted with the question which would be the best value to adopt for one of the fundamental astronomical constants. We have, of course, the set of constants officially adopted in the national ephemerides ... Some of the adopted constants are inconsistent with each other. This the adopted length of the year and the constant of precession are contradictory, and similarly the mass of the earth and the solar parallax. Newcomb's great work is now more than thirty years old, but it still stands unsurpassed as an example of sound critical discussion. ... I have only been led by the considerations that on the one hand my results may perhaps be useful to others in similar circumstances, and on the other hand that a critical survey like the present may be helpful to guide the efforts of astronomers to those points where they are most needed.His second paper on the fundamental constants was published in 1927 and dealt with the constants associated with precession, nutation, solar parallax, lunar parallax and the mass of the moon. At the time of his death, de Sitter had almost completed a new updating of these constants.
Many honours were given to de Sitter for his outstanding contributions. He received the Watson Gold Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 1929. The Medal was presented to him in Washington, USA, by Armin Otto Leuschner, Professor of Astronomy of the University of California and Chairman of the Trustees of the Watson Fund. Leuschner said:-
The privilege accorded me involves a task of unusual difficulty, for the major part of de Sitter's work is in intricate, speculative, and mathematical fields dealing with the perturbations of the motions of bodies of the solar system according to classical celestial mechanics, and with the theory of relativity from a purely speculative point of view as well as in relation to perturbations observed, but not explained, and relativistic theoretical perturbations not perceived or as yet perceivable by observation. I, therefore, beg your indulgence if I fail in a clear presentation of the significance of some of his contributions to science. His intellectual abilities cover so wide a range and penetrate so deeply and so minutely into practical astronomy and the mathematical theories to explain what is observed, that only an intensive study of his brilliant work could do justice to the greatness of the man.In 1931 de Sitter received the Bruce Medal from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Also in 1931 he received the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society:-
... for his theoretical investigations on the orbits of the satellites of Jupiter, and for his contribution to the Theory of Relativity.He was elected as President of the International Astronomical Union and served in this capacity from 1925 to 1928.
De Sitter suffered from chest complaints for several years but seemed to overcome them. However he died from pneumonia at the young age of sixty-two years. The following is part of a tribute to him which appeared in the New York Times on 25 November 1934; it is also reproduced in [8]:-
In [de Sitter's] work we see the creative mathematician at his best. He is not a cold, dispassionate juggler of Greek letters, a balancer of equations, but rather an artist in whom wild flights of the imagination are restrained by the formalism of a symbolic language and the evidence of observation. Only the musician can fully grasp what it must have meant to de Sitter to see the cosmos shaping itself in new ways in his formulas. Like musical notes, strange symbols, standing for forces and masses that were divined rather than known, arranged themselves into a coherent message. And when the message came to be read a totally new universe was revealed. Here we have something of the direct personal experience of the outer world, of the significance of nature's wonders, that comes only to a Beethoven or a Milton. The expanding universe of de Sitter must be regarded as something more than an inexorable conclusion drawn from the strictest kind of logic with which the human mind is familiar. It is poetry of a new sort - the scientist's way of writing an epic.
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Deep secret Scientists have used sound waves to determine the composition of the Earth's inner mantle, possibly solving the mystery of our planet's missing silicon.
The new study by researchers including Dr Motohiko Murakami from Japan's Tohoku University, found that 93 per cent of the lower mantle is composed of a silicate perovskite mineral.
The work, reported in the journal Nature, answers a riddle which has blighted models of the Earth's composition for years.
These models rely on the composition of chondritic meteorites, which are thought to have formed in the same region as the Earth more than four billion years ago.
However, samples of the upper mantle which have been brought to the surface mostly through tectonic or volcanic activity, show the Earth has much less silicon than the chondritic meteorites.
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To try and solve the problem, Murakami and colleagues performed a series of laboratory measurements by replicating the lower mantle's environment.
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Murakami and colleagues say their new data is consistent with the chondritic Earth model.
Their findings also show that there is little movement of materials between the lower and upper mantle.
They speculate this may have been caused by fractional crystallisation of the magma ocean extending into the lower mantle during Earth's early history.
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In an accompanying commentary in the same issue of Nature, Professor Ian Jackson from the Australian National University, says Murakami and colleagues' work breaks new ground.
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A quiet transformation is taking place in the Republican Party, which has begun to embrace openly gay candidates – and among gay Republicans, who now feel more comfortable speaking out in a party that may have accepted them but didn't always show it.
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Kolbe, who represented the southeast corner of Arizona from 1985 to 2007, was one of only two openly gay Republicans ever to serve in Congress.
There are issues on which many gay Republicans differ with their party, not the least of which is same-sex marriage. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and other party leaders oppose it, and that stance is embedded in the party's platform. While they may have welcomed President Barack Obama's support of same-sex marriage last week, on other issues – such as taxes, regulation and the size of government – gay Republicans are as steadfast as any other party member.
There are only four openly gay members of Congress now, all Democrats. But that could change this year.
"You'll elect at least one gay Republican for Congress this year," Kolbe said.
It might be Richard Tisei, a former Massachusetts state senator, who's campaigning on what he describes as the number one issue for gay voters and everyone else in the state's 6th Congressional District, north of Boston.
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Tisei does support same-sex marriage, and he said party leaders knew that from the beginning of his campaign for Congress.
"I don't agree with the party platform, but that doesn't mean I'm not a good Republican," Tisei said.
The National Republican Congressional Committee has designated Tisei as a "Young Gun," meaning he's on the national party's radar and can expect to get more resources for his campaign. Committee Chairman Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas said Tisei "has met organizational and fundraising benchmarks and has established himself as a strong contender."
Tisei, who was a Massachusetts legislator for 26 years and a candidate for lieutenant governor, said the fact that he was openly gay had been no barrier to his rise.
"I'm very comfortable with who I am and what I believe in," he said. "When people view me, they view me in the context of what I've accomplished. That's the way it should be."
Donald Haider-Markel, a political science professor at the University of Kansas and the author of "Out and Running: Gay and Lesbian Candidates, Elections and Policy Representation," said there'd been a shift in the Republican Party in the past decade.
"The party overall has been more open to gays and lesbians," he said. "And gay and lesbian candidates have been more supported."
There are awkward moments. Earlier this month, for example, Romney hired Richard Grenell, an openly gay foreign-affairs expert who'd worked for former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton. But the Romney campaign was caught off guard by the backlash from social conservatives, who protested Grenell's outspoken support for same-sex marriage.
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Zach Wyatt, a Republican state representative in Missouri, said gay Republicans needed to have a conversation with members of their own party.
"If you don't say anything, they're going to think they're going the right way all the time," he said.
Surrounded by colleagues from both parties at a news conference earlier this month, Wyatt, a 27-year-old Air Force veteran, denounced Republican-sponsored legislation that would have prohibited public schools from discussing sexual orientation in the classroom, which was known in Missouri and other states as a "don't say gay" bill. But Wyatt wasn't finished. In the same news conference, he came out, making him the only openly gay Republican state legislator in office in the country.
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Obama's announcement last week is a reminder that Democrats historically have come to support gay-rights causes ahead of Republicans, leading a generation of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender voters to identify strongly with the party.
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"I think people need to realize that you'll never have true equality unless you have advocates on both sides of the aisle," Tisei said.
To be sure, Democrats don't always vote in favor of gay rights. When the House of Representatives voted in December 2010 to end the military's ban on openly gay service members, 15 Democrats voted to keep it. Meanwhile, an equal number of Republicans in the House and eight in the Senate voted to end the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
Jerame Davis, the executive director of Stonewall Democrats, a gay rights group, acknowledges that some Republicans are better on gay rights issues than some Democrats are.
"We know there are Democrats who aren't all the way there on LGBT equality," he said.
Four Republicans in the House and three in the Senate are co-sponsors of legislation to protect gays and lesbians from workplace discrimination. One Republican, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida, supports repealing the Defense of Marriage Act, which bars the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages. A law to allow same-sex marriage in New York wouldn't have passed last year if not for four Republican state senators.
However, a federal constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage has 27 co-sponsors in the House, all Republicans.
"Perhaps some elements in the party are changing," Davis said. "I definitely don't envy their position. There's still a lot of work to bring the Republican Party into the 21st century."
Not that long ago, no lawmaker – Republican or Democrat – felt comfortable coming out as gay.
Kolbe wasn't openly gay when he was elected to Congress, and he even voted for the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996 before coming out. Kolbe said he'd vote to repeal the law if he were still in Congress, calling it one of his most "unfortunate" votes.
The law had strong bipartisan support and was signed by then-President Bill Clinton. While Clinton and many of the lawmakers who voted for the act now say it's discriminatory and should be repealed, the Republican Party's platform contains a plank supporting a federal constitutional amendment to define marriage as between one man and one woman.
Republican National Committee spokeswoman Kirsten Kukowski said that wasn't going to change.
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The Daily Beast website called attention last week to a memo by Republican pollster Jan van Lohuizen urging the party to moderate its stance on gay marriage, noting the dramatic change in public opinion on gay rights and a generational shift on the issue.
"I think a lot of Republicans are starting to play catch-up," said R. Clarke Cooper, the executive director of Log Cabin Republicans, a gay rights group.
A CBS/New York Times poll conducted last Friday through Sunday found that 46 percent of Republicans supported legal recognition for same-sex couples. Among all Americans, 62 percent supported either marriage or civil unions for same-sex couples, the poll found, while 33 percent favored neither. Illustrating the generation gap, 70 percent of 18- to 44-year-olds supported either marriage or civil unions, while only 55 percent of respondents 45 and older did.Despite the changes, many in the Republican Party's social conservative base still oppose same-sex marriage and, for those voters, Obama's announcement last week became a rallying cry. In 2004, same-sex marriage was on the ballot in 11 states, and the issue was thought to have cost Democrats votes.Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, said in a statement last week that the president's announcement "almost ensures that marriage will again be a major issue in the presidential election."
Republican leaders were more muted, preferring to keep their focus on what unites the party: fixing the economy and defeating Obama. Romney repeated his opposition to same-sex marriage, and said little else. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, did much the same.
"Even though these issues keep coming up, they're not election issues the way they were in 2004," Haider-Markel said. "The economy dominates people's thinking."


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with Mariel Hemingway
Green Queen of the Eco Scene
Renaissance woman Mariel Hemingway is not only an iconic Academy Award nominated actor from a celebrated family (she is the granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway), she is prolific author, adventurist, eco activist, healthy lifestyle advocate, entrepreneur, much sought after speaker, slake line walker, and a devoted mother. For over 25 years, she has been pursuing her passion for yoga and health and is now seen as a voice of holistic and balanced health and well- being. As part of that role she has leads wellness retreats all over America, sharing her insights about movement, silence, nutrition, and home. Mariel's passion is her love of the outdoors…connecting with nature and becoming younger through food breath exercise and nature. She has partnered with Robert Williams, an eco adventurer whose life has been dedicated to adventure, healing and nature in a new book and lifestyle company called Running With Nature. They are traveling all over the country sharing what! they know about anti-aging, connecting in nature, having fun and feeling great.
Healing the Blocks to Love
with Robert Holden
Mr and Mrs Loveability
Robert Holden, Ph.D., is the Director of The Happiness Project and Success Intelligence. His innovative work has been featured on Oprah, Good Morning America, and media worldwide. Robert coaches leaders in business, education, politics and health care. His clients include Dove and the "Real Beauty Campaign," and also Virgin and The Body Shop. Robert is a student of A Course in Miracles. He is author of the best-selling books: Happiness NOW!, Shift Happens!, Authentic Success (formerly titled Success Intelligence), and Be Happy. Robert also hosts a weekly show on Hay House Radio called Shift Happens!
The Agreements that will set YOU free!
with Don Miguel Ruiz & Eva
Radical Love Masters
Don Miguel has combined old wisdom with modern insights and created a new message for all mankind, based in truth and common sense. He has dedicated his life to sharing this new message through practical concepts that promote transformation. His message is simple and when implemented, even incrementally, changes lives.
Don Miguel is highly respected throughout the world. He has received numerous recognitions, including a US Air Force challenge coin engraved with The Four Agreements, and he is referenced as a National Heirloom of Mexico.
The Four Agreements®, published in 1997; was a New York Times bestseller for more than 7 years and the 36th bestselling book of the decade. Other books have followed; The Mastery of Love, The Voice of Knowledge, Prayers, Beyond Fear and The Fifth Agreement, a collaboration with his son Don Jose. All of his books are international bestsellers.
'Please help us to change the world'! Only you can change the world that you create, and by changing your world, the world will change… 'and that is the Truth that will set you free'.
Alison Armstrong
Partnership Pioneer
Author, educator and advocate, Alison explores the differences in the ways women and men think, act and communicate. She offers simple, partnership strategies for men, women, families and co-workers to expand their experience of freedom, love, joy and empowerment. She clarifies human instincts and offers possibilities for the conscious choices of human spirit.
The Keys to Feminine Power
with Claire Zammit
The Feminine Power
Claire Zammit Ph.D.c is the co-creator of the Feminine Power courses for women and co-leads a thriving learning community of hundreds of thousands of women throughout the world. She is a co-founder of Evolving Wisdom, a member of Jack Canfield's Transformational Leadership Council & Deepak Chopra's Evolutionary Leaders Forum. Claire is the co-author of the forthcoming book, Feminine Power: Awakening to the Creative Force of Life.
Love for No Reason
with Marci Shimoff
Queen of Happiness
Marci Shimoff is a celebrated transformational leader and a #1 New York Times bestselling author. In addition to authoring the worldwide bestsellers, Love for No Reason and Happy for No Reason, she is the coauthor of six of the top-selling titles in the Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul series and a featured teacher in the international movie and book sensation The Secret.
Wabi Sabi Love
with Arielle Ford
The Fairly Godmother of Love
Arielle Ford is a gifted writer and the author of eight books including Wabi Sabi Love: The Ancient Art of Finding Perfect Love in Imperfect Relationships and the international bestseller, THE SOULMATE SECRET: Manifest The Love of Your Life With The Law of Attraction. She has been called "The Cupid of Consciousness" and "The Fairy Godmother of Love." She lives in La Jolla, CA with her husband/soulmate, Brian Hilliard and their feline friends.
Why We Need Kundalini Yoga
with Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa
The Yoga Master
Gurmukh is a pioneer in yoga and the mind-body-spirit connection. Based in Los Angeles, Gurmukh teaches Kundalini yoga, meditation, and pre- and postnatal care. She founded the Golden Bridge Yoga Center, where she is the director and senior teacher. She has been featured in many magazines, including Vogue, W, InStyle, and People. Gurmukh teaches all over the world, from India to Europe and from Central America to the United States. Her previous book is The Eight Human Talents (cowritten with Cathryn Michon). Her kind, compassionate wisdom and counsel touch the life of everyone she meets. Gurmukh is also Mastin Kipp and Gabrielle Bernstein's Kundalini Yoga teacher.
5 Secrets To Conscious Loving
with Katie Hendricks
BQ Master of the Relationship Dance
Katie Hendricks, Ph.D., BC-DMT, is an artist of life who creates transformational theater events around the world. Passionate about the power of embodied integrity and emergence, she continuously promotes creative expression in service of a direct experience of life, wholeness and evolutionary collaboration. She has been a pioneer in the field of body-mind integration for over forty years. Katie has an international reputation as a seminar leader, training professionals from many fields in the core skills of conscious living through the lens of body intelligence. She has flown over 1 million miles consulting and teaching in a wide array of corporations and universities. Her explorations about the catalytic, transformational power of the creative arts have been featured in many magazines, journals and books. – See more at: http://www.hendricks.com/about/#sthash.zobtKqja.dpuf
Let's Get Naked
with Sheila Kelley
The Erotic Creature
Global femme leader Sheila Kelley is a passionate voice for the advancement of women in the world. Her personal mission is to elevate feminine culture so that it is more in balance with male-dominated culture. Through her women's fitness company Sheila Kelley S Factor™, Sheila is redefining "striptease" and "pole dancing" into an artistry of female empowerment for women. Through her Redefining Sexy campaign, she is redefining "sexy" by inspiring women to believe in their natural beauty. Sheila Kelley studied ballet, anatomy, and movement physiology at NYU's Tisch School of Arts. Her vast educational background includes 11+ years of women's studies, psychology, female neurology, and hands-on experience working with women of all ages and backgrounds. The world's leading authorities in personal development, including Tony Robbins, often reference the depth and global significance of Sheila's findings. With a strong scientific foundation highlighting the differences between the genders, Sheila hopes to empower all women to express their sexuality in a wholesome way without shame or judgment.
Recovery 2.0: A Holistic Look At Addiction and Recovery
with Tommy Rosen
The Recovery Ninja
Tommy Rosen is a yoga teacher and addiction recovery expert who has spent the last two decades immersed in yoga, recovery and wellness. He holds advanced certifications in both Hatha and Kundalini Yoga and has 20 years of recovery from acute drug addiction. Tommy is one of the pioneers in the burgeoning field of Yoga and Recovery assisting others to holistically transcend addictions of all kinds. He teaches regularly at yoga conferences and festivals, including Wanderlust, Hanuman and Tadasana. He is the host of the Recovery 2.0: Beyond Addiction Online Conference and teaches annually at Esalen, Omega and Kripalu. Tommy's first book, Recovery 2.0, is due out from Hay House in 2014.
Money: A Love Story
with Kate Northup
Money Love Maven
Kate Northrup is a professional freedom seeker and creative entrepreneur. She created financial freedom for herself at the age of 28 through building a team of more than 1,000 wellness entrepreneurs in the network marketing industry. Her philosophy is that if you free yourself financially you can be fully present to your purpose on the planet. She's writing her first book (Hay House, Spring 2013) and she continues to mentor entrepreneurs in creating financial freedom. Find out more and take her free quiz to find out what your relationship with money says about you at http://www.katenorthrup.com.
Your Freedom, In Action
with Vasavi Kumar
Keepin' it Real Guru
Vasavi Kumar describes herself as "your kick-in-the-pants guide en route to your desired destination." With an out-of-the-box, rebellious approach, she inspires people to find freedom from their past to take charge of their future. A certified life coach, Vasavi holds dual master's degrees in social work and special education. She's co-author of the bestselling book Succeeding in Spite of Everything, and appears on TV as the "Keepin' It Real Guru" on Kansas City Live. Learn more at http://VasaviKumar.com.
My experience growing up with spiritual parents
with Serena Dyer
The Dharmanator
After college, before a book, before marriage and children, ALL POTENTIAL.
Unbinding the Heart
with Agapi Stassinopoulos
True Love
Greek born author of Unbinding the Heart, and speaker Agapi Stassinopoulos spreads the message of her book about how to lead with an open heart and how to create a fulfilling life.
Women & Freedom
with Nisha Moodley
Freedom Lover
Nisha Moodley is a former foodaholic, shopaholic and workaholic, turned freedom junkie, who broke free from addiction and is on a mission to champion women's freedom. She is the founder of FIERCE FABULOUS FREE where she cultivates communities of women to create a clear vision for their future, and design their lives and work to align with that vision. Download her free Take Flight Action Guide at http://fiercefabulousfree.com.
Root of Relationship Conflict
with Sean Stephenson & Mindie Kniss
Relationship Rescuers
Mindie Kniss and Sean Stephenson believe that being in a relationship is the best personal development program on the planet. Mindie is a coach, writer, and founder of Rich at Work/Broke at Heart, a global coaching practice that offers "heart intelligence for head-driven entrepreneurs." Sean is an internationally acclaimed speaker, therapist, and author of the book, "Get Off Your But: How to End Self Sabotage and Stand Up for Yourself." Mindie and Sean met in 2009 and got married in 2012.
The importance of loving yourself, finding the joy in life and magnifying your inner radiance from the inside out.
with Allana Pratt
MILF: Maternally Inspiring Luscious Fox
Intimacy Expert Allana Pratt knows that sex is sacred, bodies are temples and true intimacy starts inside. This classy, sexy, Ivy League single mom has been featured on CBS, FOX, TLC and People Magazine, yet her capacity to ooze sensual confidence & awaken it in her clients comes from dissolving the shame and embracing the beauty of her experience as a topless dancer.She's the proud mama of her 10 yr old son and has helped thousands find confidence, sex appeal and thriving relationships through her programs, DVDs and her provocative weekly show, IntimateConversationsLIVE.com
Detoxing 101
with Dr. Frank Lipman
Dr. Feelgood
Dr. Frank Lipman is an internationally recognized expert in the field of integrative medicine. He is the founder and director of the Eleven Eleven Wellness Center in New York City, where for over 20 years his personal brand of healing has helped thousands of people reclaim their vitality and recover their zest for life. Focused on sustainable wellness – instead of quick fixes – he offers patients a customized blend of Western medicine with acupuncture, nutritional counseling, vitamins and herbs, relaxation techniques, physical therapy and bodywork. In 2010 he developed Be Well by Dr. Frank Lipman, a line of leading-edge supplements and health programs. He is the author of Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Start Living Again and Total Renewal: 7 Key Steps to Resilience, Vitality and Long-Term Health.
The Art of Sexual Intimacy
with Michaela Boehm
The Intimacy Maker
Michaela Boehm is among the most gifted counselors and teachers to be found globally today. Born and raised in Austria, Michaela received degrees in Psychology from the University of Vienna and received further extensive training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Hypnosis, NLP, and Yoga. Upon moving to the United States in 1994, Michaela quickly became counselor to the stars in Hollywood, California, working with the world's best-known celebrities, including actors, producers, writers, musicians, and international business founders. Michaela began studying with David Deida in 1997 and in 2007 began co-teaching with him, focusing on women's empowerment in the 21st Century. Michaela is currently the only counselor in the world personally trained and authorized by David Deida.
The Autobiography of Change
with Nancy Levin
the Poet Laureate of Love
Nancy Levin, author of Writing For My Life, received her MFA in Poetics from Naropa University. Since 2002, Nancy has been the Event Director at Hay House, Inc., producing innovative events and experiential conferences focusing on self-empowerment, health and spirituality while weaving in her own story and poems to connect with audiences around the world during keynotes, workshops and seminars. Nancy is a certified LifeForce Coach and co-presenter for the Deborah King Center LifeForce Coaching Program, and she is currently completing her certification in the Breakthrough Shadow Coaching Training Program with The Ford Institute. When she's not on an airplane, Nancy lives in Boulder, Colorado and you can visit her online at www.NancyLevin.com
Own Your GLOW: Embracing the abundant luminous light within to give rise to your wildest dreams!
with Latham Thomas
Mama Glow Maven
Latham Thomas is a maternity lifestyle maven, wellness & birth coach, and yoga teacher on the vanguard of transforming the maternal & women's wellness movement. A graduate of Columbia University & The Institute for Integrative Nutrition, Latham is the founder of Mama Glow a holistic lifestyle hub for women to explore their creative edge through wellbeing. Her practice provides support to pre/postnatal women along their journey to motherhood offering culinary and nutritional services, yoga, and birth coaching services. She is co-founder of the Mama Glow Film Festival- a platform for maternal advocacy through film and philanthropy and the Mama Glow Salon Series- a platform for birthing conversations around cocktails, panels, and discussions. Bridging the gap between optimal wellness, spiritual growth, and radical self-care Latham Thomas is emerging as the go-to-guru for modern holistic lifestyle for women during pregnancy and beyond! Latham is the author of bestse! ller, Mama Glow: A Hip Guide to Your Fabulous Abundant Pregnancy, foreword by Dr. Christiane Northrup.
The Truth is Sexy
with Laurie Gerber
Champion for Truth
As President of Handel Group® Life Coaching and a Senior Coach, Laurie Gerber's personal and professional mission is to better the world by teaching people to tell the truth and pursue their dreams. Her ability to strip away psychological and emotional burdens has been showcased on radio, TV, the blogosphere and in a wide variety of live events. Laurie regularly blogs for: The Daily Love, Huffington Post, Positively Positive, HGLC's weekly newsletter, and she leads events at Kripalu, Esalen, Menla, Equinox and more. Her growing TV career includes MTV's True Life Special: I'm Getting A Second Chance, and an upcoming pilot for A&E.
Breasts, Booty, and Blessings: 3 Surprising Lessons to The Body and Lifestyle You Crave
with Liz Dialto
Enjoyment Rules Enforcer
Fitness and Lifestyle coach, speaker, and sought-after fitness personality, Liz DiAlto is on a mission to help millions of women across the globe get the bodies and lifestyles they crave. At the core of everything Liz creates is a belief that willpower sucks and simplicity, motivation, and enjoyment are the non-negotiable keys to achieving success.
Experience Strength and Hope
with Trinka Terra
The Sage of Self-Honesty
Trinka was born and raised in Los Angeles. From enormous family in far too small a house, it was almost always survival of the fittest. In her thirties, she went back to school to become a counselor, and has had a thriving private practice in the San Fernando Valley ever since. She has two grown daughters and loves to tinker around the house with her husband on the weekends.
Strategy or Empathy? How To Mesh Mind and Heart For Better Business Results
with Nathalie Lussier
Daring Digital Strategist
Nathalie Lussier has been making web sites since she was 12 years old, and graduated with a degree in Software Engineering and a job offer from Wall Street. In a gutsy move, she turned down this job to start her own business right out of college. Now running a six figure consulting company, Nathalie helps thousands of people all over the world get techy with it, and has been featured in Forbes, Inc., Venture Beat, Mashable, and Under 30 CEO. She's been blogging for over 10 years, and really "gets" the online marketing landscape, focusing heavily on improving key business metrics like traffic, subscribers, and sales.
WTF Should I Do w/ My Life?!
with Jacob Sokol
The Sensophist
Jacob Sokol is a life-coach from NYC who helps peeps find their purpose and create extraordinary lives. He is the founder of www.Sensophy.com and the creator of the worldwide event WTF Should I Do w/ My Life. In a past life, he was a hip-hop junkie and spray-painted walls.
Expressing the Writer Within!
with Kelly Notaras
The Literary Artist
After starting her career in New York City–working as an editor for HarperCollins, Penguin USA and Hyperion Books–she relocated several years ago to Boulder, Colorado where she served for four years as the VP and Editorial Director at Sounds True, a multi-media spirituality publishing company. There she oversaw an impressive list of spiritual luminaries including Adyashanti, Reggie Ray, Krishna Das, Sharon Salzberg, Pema Chodron, Caroline Myss, and many more. In 2010 she left Sounds True to ghostwrite her first book, Slow Sex by Nicole Daedone. (And to launch her second career, though she didn't know it at the time.) But her love of editing was never far away. Since starting kn literary arts, she has been honored to edit a wide variety of spiritual books including New York Times Bestseller The Tapping Solution by Nick Ortner, Awakening Shakti by Sally Kempton and The Body Ecology Guide to Growing Younger by Donna Gates. Along with an impressive roster of talented editorial associates, Kelly is dedicated to the kn literary arts mission: bringing important books into the world–and making sure they're good once they're here.
How to Live More and Weigh Less
with Sarah Jenks
Lover of Living More
Sarah Jenks helps women who've been struggling with weight for years, finally have a life and body they love, even if they've tried everything. The founder of SarahJenks.com and the creator of Live More Weigh Less, she's been featured in ForbesWoman, the Huffington Post, The Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Weddings and the Knot. Sarah believes that every woman deserves to feel beautiful, adore her job and fall madly in love. Let her show you how. You can also friend her at facebook.com/sejenks and follow her on twitter @sarahejenks.
Empowered: Keys to Unlocking Your Unlimited Potential
with Jen Groover
Evangelist to Empower
Jen Groover has been tagged by Success Magazine as a "One-Woman Brand", a "Creativity and Innovation Guru", and a leading "Serial Entrepreneur" by Entrepreneur Magazine.
Styled Inside Out
with Kris Evans
The Style Strategist
Kris is a professional coach, makeup artist and stylist.
Keeping Love Alive
with Will Craig
Hot Monogamist
Will's passion is human development. He enjoys coaching his clients using the principles and teachings of the Handel Method® to catalyze rapid change and enrich the quality of their lives. Before coming on board with The Handel Group®, Will honed his people-skills and capacity to design organizational culture in schools and has extensive experience in the field of Education. Will lives in Upper Manhattan with his wife, Laurie Gerber, and their two elementary-aged daughters.


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H&M Hopes to Score With Tennis Tie-Up
Look out Adidas and Nike – Hennes & Mauritz is roaring in on your turf.
On Tuesday, the world's No. 2 fashion retailer announced its latest athletics tie-up–with Czech-born tennis pro Tomas Berdych. H&M said it was turning "a new chapter in the relationship between sport and fashion."
While such claims sound a bit bombastic, H&M does have a point. Traditional sportswear giants are facing increasing competition from fast-fashion retailers looking to tap into a growing emphasis among men and women on staying fit.
Japanese casual clothing wear designer Uniqlo last year signed a five-year clothing deal with Novak Djokovic, currently ranked the World No. 1 tennis player by the Association of Tennis Professionals, or ATP. Brandishing Uniqlo T-shirts and shorts during his tournaments, Mr. Djokovic has generated a wealth of publicity for his sponsor.
U.K.-based Planet Retail analyst Isabel Cavill says big companies like Puma and Nike, the latter of which is reportedly paying the World No. 2-ranked tennis player Roger Federer a huge sum for promoting its brand, should take notice of these new contenders, offering similar sports gear at a fraction of the price.
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SINGAPORE, Dec. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- As the pace towards Aquarama 2013 steadily quickens, the various pieces of the complex jigsaw are beginning to fall into place. Two key components of what promises to be a fascinating and all-embracing programme are the:
The 2013 Trade Seminars will have as their overall theme: CURRENT AQUATICS - FUTURE PERSPECTIVES, consisting of three separate sessions:
Session 1: Industry-related Conservation - some of the topics currently lined up feature hot issues like the ongoing studies on the plight of the much-in-demand Banggai cardinalfish and the in-situ work being done in Indonesia to conserve the species, the Amazonian ornamental fishery, conservation and management strategies for Indian ornamental fish, and CITES and CBD issues surrounding the dragon fish.
Session 2: Health and Biosecurity in the Ornamental Aquatic Industry - topics include biosecurity issues in Australia (including potential import consequences for ornamental fish), fish health management in commercial premises, barcoding of ornamental fish... and others.
Session 3: Husbandry and Legislation - topics to include governmental perspectives on the ornamental aquatic industry, the live rock trade, wild-caught and captive-bred seahorses, nano aquaria, Brazilian legislation and the next CITES Conference of the Parties.
The line-up of speakers for these presentations is now almost complete and includes, as always, international industry leaders and experts (so far, from Australia, Indonesia, Brazil, the Netherlands, Belgium, Mexico, India, the US, Norway and, of course, Singapore). As in previous editions of Aquarama, the seminars - which are absolutely free to all trade visitors - promise to provide a wealth of topical and essential information regarding the industry, and are certainly not to be missed.
Turning to the International Fish Competition, it will, as ever, include competitive elements other than fish. Prominent among these are the Freshwater Planted Tank Competition, the Marine Tank Competition, the 2011-launched Freshwater Nano Tank Competition and the brand-new Marine Nano Tank Competition. Also new will be the inclusion of several commercial classes and categories in the fish competition section.
These have been included to provide trade visitors with competitive displays of the types and quality of fish that they can order for their customers from Singapore suppliers. Also - and in keeping with Aquarama's commitment to keeping up with the latest trends, its famous and prestigious dragon fish competition will include a class dedicated to the 'new generation' Gold Head Crossbacks which made their first appearance in 2011 within the long-established Crossback Golden class.
The Registration Forms for all the categories and classes are being finalised and will shortly be published. Interested parties are urged to check the Aquarama website regularly for the latest updates.
For further details regarding Aquarama 2013, visit the event's website: www.aquarama.com.sg or contact the Aquarama Team.
Team AQUARAMA
Ms. Iman Tam
Project Executive
+65 65920889
Ms. Doris Woo
Sales Manager
+65 6592 0887
Ms. Jennifer Lee
Project Manager
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Hate crime poses a very real challenge to the EU's core values of democracy, justice, solidarity and equality, the FRA told a meeting at the European Parliament on 22 January.
"By breeding intolerance, [hate crime] puts at risk the inclusive and sustainable growth that is at the heart of Europe's 2020 strategy. A society in which intolerance and hate crime persist does not allow its members to realise their full potential. And the loser is not just the individual, but the entire society."
Ioannis Dimitrakopoulos, head of FRA's Equality and Citizens' Rights Department, spoke at a meeting of the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee of the European Parliament (LIBE) on the issue of hate crime.
He began by pointing out that few EU Member States collect comprehensive data on bias-motivated crime, and explained that FRA's large-scale surveys are one way of filling this gap.
He went on to detail figures from a number of FRA surveys that demonstrate the scale of bias-motivated crime against a number of groups including Roma, Jews and LGBT people, underlining the fact that hate crime does not only affect individual victims but also their family and friends.
FRA emphasises that the persistence of hate crime shows the EU and its Member States need to develop more effective policy and legislative measures to combat the phenomenon. Not only are hate crimes under-recorded, but the vast majority of such offences are not reported to the police or any other organisation. Trust in the law enforcement authorities must therefore be increased in order to counter hate crime and its consequences for those affected.
Following up on FRA's 2013 Fundamental Rights Conference, which focused on the subject of hate crime, the Agency will be co-hosting a seminar on the topic in April 2014, together with the Greek presidency of the Council of the EU.
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