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Isandlwana (it was a large irregular-shaped height) lay about ten miles out from Rorke's Drift. Lord Chelmsford camped there because heavy rains required that the road they were following be repaired. The area around Isandlwana offered a plentiful supply of drinking water and driftwood for fires, and appeared to offer the field of fire that Chelmsford felt was necessary. He did not, however, order the men to entrench, since he believed that superior British weapons afforded him an insuperable advantage over the Zulus.
The position was not as impregnable as Lord Chelmsford imagined, however. The large area of open ground was in fact pitted with numerous gullies that were obscured by brush and through which fairly large groups of Zulus could pass undetected by British sentries. He also elected not to circle (laager) his wagons, even though it would have made his position more secure, because doing so was a complicated business, and some of the wagons were to be sent back shortly to Rorke's Drift to resupply. He did set out pickets and a mounted vidette, although these early warning systems were posted much closer to camp than officers in Chelmsford's Native Contingent advised. Chelmsford also sent a mounted patrol out towards the east, which reported no sign of Zulus, although reports were filtering in of Zulu activity to the south (the direction from which it would be least expected).
On the morning of 22 January 1879, Lord Chelmsford himself set off with 2,500 men to do a reconnoiter of the area where Zulus had supposedly been sighted in force. He also took four guns with his column. This left a force of around 2,000 men to defend the camp at Isandlwana. Of these, 1,168 were Natal volunteer force troops or Natal Native Contingent.
Shortly before noon on 22 January 1879, a British patrol crested a rise and found themselves in the midst of a Zulu army. This army was composed of at least 20,000 Zulu warriors. The British fired one volley and quickly withdrew, sending messengers in the meantime to warn other patrols, Chelmsford, and the camp at Isandlwana.
As the main Zulu column approached the camp (around 12:30), artillery fire greeted them. Apparently, this fire began while the Zulu were still well out of range, so the fire did little damage to the Zulu. When they got closer, the Zulu closest to the guns threw themselves down when they saw the gunners step away from their guns (an indication the gun was about to be fired).
The Zulu advanced in 20 or so well-disciplined rows, the chest and left horn appearing to observers to be maintaining somewhat better order than the right horn. The British regulars at this point, however, were well-ordered, and their continuous and very accurate fire kept the Zulu attack at bay at a range of around 400 yards (the Martini-Henry's optimum firing distance). Some Zulus were armed with the same weapon, but their fire did much less damage (reports said that they generally fired high and did little damage to the British).
The British maintained discipline and a steady, controlled fire for approximately one hour, at which time their line disintegrated and all hell broke loose. It has been suggested that the British had trouble getting ammunition boxes open and in transporting ammunition to the firing line, but the ammunition boxes were secured with one screw that could be dislodged if necessary with a gun butt. Testimony of several survivors suggests that bandsmen and wagon drivers were set to work carrying ammunition to the line.
Two other problems that may have contributed to the British collapse have been suggested. The first suggests that continuous firing of the Martini-Henry often caused problems with the weapon's lever action, and a cartridge in the chamber would have to be removed by hand before the weapon could be fired again. Testimony mentioning this difficulty, however, concerns the Natal volunteers and the Natal Native Contingent, not British regulars.
The second problem suggested is smoke. Continuous firing of artillery and black powder firearms raising a choking, sight-obscuring cloud of black smoke that makes it hard to breathe and hard to see your targets. In the time shortly before the British collapse, the regulars were mostly firing blind, hoping to hit a Zulu in the smoke and confusion.
Once a withdrawal from camp was apparently ordered by the senior officer, the British firing line disintegrated and the Zulu rushed forward to follow the retreating men. Testimony from Zulu attackers and British survivors suggests that the men in the firing line were stretched too thin, and that there were perceptible gaps between units in the firing line.
An often overlooked reason for the British collapse, of course, was the bravery and determination of the attacking Zulus. As George Pickett said when asked why the advance named for him had failed, "I think the Union Army had something to do with it." British firepower initially stalled the Zulu attack-- they had never before faced such weapons. But attackers were reformed and the attack pressed forward, in spite of terrible losses in the front ranks of the attackers. There is no definitive count of Zulu casualties at Isandlwana, but best estimates place Zulu dead on the field at 1,000 or slightly higher. Many other Zulu warriors were wounded, many badly so-- and with medical care available to battle casualties rudimentary at best, it seems highly likely that many additional warriors died later due to wounds received at Isandlwana.
The majority of British casualties were caused by the Ikwa-- the Zulu stabbing spear, with a much lesser number caused by the throwing spear. Some British casualties were caused by small arms fire, partly from older weapons Zulu had acquired prior to the war, the rest from Martini-Henry rifles picked up from soldiers killed earlier that day. Since the Zulu were not trained in the use of those weapons, however, they were not as deadly as they were in the hands of British regulars. Soldiers who were not killed outright in the Zulu attack were killed by being disemboweled-- the Zulu believed that doing so was necessary to release the spirit of a warrior (friend or foe) into the afterlife. No wounded soldiers survived-- all were killed by the Zulu. There was also some mutilation of British corpses beyond the ritual disemboweling-- some soldiers were also beheaded, along with other, even more unsettling desecrations. A press report after the battle noted that two drummer boys had been mutilated while still alive, although experts disagree on whether the boys were dead or alive when the mutilations took place (the report did bring to an end the practice of taking drummer boys in the field with their regiments). Looting of corpses also occurred, in part because Zulu religious beliefs demanded that a warrior take an article of clothing from a man he had killed.
A majority of Zulu casualties were caused by small arms fire, specifically fire from the Martini-Henry rifle. Accounts of the battle in later years by Zulu survivors mention, however, that when ammunition for rifles ran out, soldiers used pistols, bayonets, and the butts of their rifles as clubs. Some soldiers were killed while attempting to flee towards the Buffalo River, but a majority were killed in groups in and around the camp at Isandlwana.

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Sep 11, 2012 | ISBN 9780375871580 | Middle Grade (10 and up)
Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews, September 1, 2011:
"A fascinating and memorable account of a life and times difficult to imagine today."
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Leaving her poor, remote village in 1978, 11-year-old Zhongmei Li traveled an arduous three-day journey to audition for the Beijing Dance Academy. At the end of the highly competitive seven-stage competition, despite her rural background and lack of connections, she was one of the few girls selected. At the academy, a rigid dormitory supervisor and hostile teacher make life miserable for the young student, but the resolute Zhongmei survives the eight-year training and becomes a successful dancer. Written by her U.S. husband, this biography follows the steely, determined dancer through many adversities up to her academy graduation. Although the narrative is occasionally overly descriptive, it is packed with cultural information. It explains, for example, how a list of names is organized for posting, as there is no alphabetical order in Chinese. Inspiring for would-be dancers, Zhongmei Li's gritty success story is also a revealing window into post-Mao China. — Linda Perkins


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What I'm looking at right now. You should see the other side of the living room!
Am completely knackered, so not going to bore with all the details just yet, but let me update you in numbers and pictures...
Number of days without a kitchen: 8
Number of sandwiches eaten: 42
Number of arms incredibly sore from sanding and painting three times in one day: 2 (they would be mine)
Number of hiccups so far: 6
Most number of trips to the hardware store in one day: 6
Number of cabinets in place: 5
Number of cabinets to still be put into place: 10
Number of taps working: 0
Number of appliances working: 0
Number of holes in the wrong place the electician cut into the wall that was already sanded and painted? 2
Number of flies killed because the doors were open all day every day: 723. Wait. 724
Number of times we've fallen onto our butts because the floor is so damn slippery from all the swept up sawdust? Me: 2; Steve: 1; Z: 4
Number of days before my dad can come back and finish putting the kitchen in: 12 :(
Number of hours before we can get water and power on in the kitchen: oh god please let it be no more than 15!
Day 1: Looking better already!
The mouse's house (left) and grass growing inside the wall!!
Several floorboards had to be replaced. We nearly had this gaping hole overnight, but luckily the new floor was put in on time.
Day 2: Electrical and plumbing work
Day 5: new walls in and plastered and lights installed
Day 6: dad and his little helper putting together the cabinets. Funnily enough, that plastic hammer worked: teh nails actually went in!
Day 7: Pantry done. The other cabinets on that wall are not flush with the wall yet. Dad needs to come back and put the benchtop on. Am hoping the electrician can connect the oven and cooktop tomorrow. I'm tired of sandwiches and takeaway!
My temporary benchtop!! These are the offcuts from the other side's bench and the cut out from the sink hole!
And just because I don't have enough things in my life to keep me busy (!) I signed up to Twitter last week and actually spent longer than two minutes on it tonight working it out. I think I've got it. Here is where I'll be sending all those little quirks, annoyances or snippets of news too minor or time-consuming to blog about. And much excitement is the fact I can SMS the updates and they'll appear magically on my Twitter profile. How genius. Not sure how long I'll follow this fad (am really good at losing interest in things - Facebook? I only get on to look at friends photos now!), but for now, you can follow me at twitter.com/belindagraham


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The 12th of July, 2002, fell on a Friday. Day 193 of 2002. Decade: 2000s.
17 years, 7 months and 5 days have passed since the 12th of July, 2002.
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Alchemy Basics[edit]
is the science of taking a bunch of stuff, mixing them together, and drinking the resulting concoction for fun and profit! In Supernatural, Alchemy is its own job skill with ten levels and is tracked through the skills panel. Alchemy comes with its own challenges, and you can see all the potions your Sim has learned on the skill screen. Potions can only be created with the Alchemy Work Bench, which is available in Buy Mode in the Entertainment sort and Hobbies & Skills subsort. Note that you can gain the Alchemy skill from 0 to 10 without creating a single potion.
Alchemy is required for some levels of the new Fortune Teller career track, but no others. Alternatively, you can register with city hall to be a self-employed Alchemist. You can visit the consignment store (or place one in the neighborhood if there isn't one already) to "consign" your potions. You'll sell them, but it can usually take a day or two to do so. You stand a chance of selling your potions well above market value, especially if you have the Born Salesman trait.
Generally speaking, ingredients are limited to food,
Getting Started with Alchemy[edit]
You can get started with Alchemy in two ways: by reading about the skill, or just researching on your own. To read up on the topic, head to the bookstore, and you can buy Alchemy Vol. 1 for skill levels 1 through 3, Alchemy Vol. 2 for skill levels 4 through 6, and Alchemy Vol. 3 for skill levels 7 through 10.
Reading about alchemy will raise your skill level, and is all that is necessary for the Fortune Teller career track. However, to learn new potions and actually make money directly from the skill, you'll need an Alchemy Work Station. As mentioned above, you can buy one through Buy Mode in the Entertainment sort and Hobbies & Skills subsort for $850.
Once you have your alchemy table set up, you can interact with it to either mix a potion (if you know at least one recipe) or "Research Alchemy." Choosing that command makes your Sim read the giant book on the table for about half of a Sim hour (30 seconds real time on normal speed). If he studies uninterrupted, then when he's done reading, he is guaranteed to learn a new potion recipe if there are any unlearned ones given his level.
Potion Recipes vary by level, and the Sim cannot learn a potion above his personal level. For example, if your alchemist is at Alchemy skill level 4, he can learn all potions at level 4 or below, but no level 5 potions or higher. The way the game is paced however, you can usually just repeatedly select the "Research Alchemy" command and learn a recipe every time it finishes.
If a Sim doesn't learn a recipe, you can double-check that he's learned everything by selecting the "Mix Elixir" command.
Mixing Potions[edit]
The "Mix Elixir" command on the alchemy table isn't just for checking your recipe book; it's self-explanatory. This will bring up a table of all the recipes, and you can check a box in the top-left corner to view all recipes whether you've learned them or not.
The table is logically sorted and colored. Recipes you don't know will appear "grayed out." Ingredients are listed to the right of each potion, and ingredients you're carrying will be "lit up," while ingredients you don't have will by darkened. You can mouse over any ingredient to get a tool tip of what the ingredient is exactly, though you can consult the Potion Recipes page of the wiki for a full breakdown.
Using or Selling Potions[edit]
Once a potion is mixed, it will appear in your inventory. From there, you can click it to do any action: gift it to an online friend, throw the potion at a Sim, drink it yourself, or mix it in with an actual drink.
Throwing a potion at Sim is an unblockable, indefensible action on the part of the target. You can throw positive or negative potions, but the target (and sometimes any nearby witnesses) will lose some relationship points with you due to your rude behavior. Instead, you can mix the potion into a drink, then serve that drink to your target. That way, no one loses relationship points (except possibly you with the target), and the effect still happens. If you plan on drinking the potion itself, it doesn't matter whether you drink it from a drink or straight from the bottle.
Mixing a potion into a drink doesn't dilute or otherwise lessen its effects. For a full breakdown of potions' effects, check out the Potion Recipes page of the wiki.
If you prefer to sell your potions instead, you'll need to visit the alchemists' consignment store with the potion in your personal inventory. Interact with the cash register (assuming the cashier is behind it), then select "Buy." On the pop-up box, click the "Consign" tab.
All items in your personal inventory that can be sold will appear, including your potions. You'll see an estimated base price, but a lot of the time, your item will sell for more. Simply double-click each item you wish to sell (there is no limit to the number of items in a single transaction), then click the "Consign" button at the bottom.
You'll get mail within the next couple days that will tell you how much you made, and the top-selling items of yours that day. The money is instantly added to your account! If an item didn't sell, it will be returned to you when you check your mail, but that only very rarely happens with potions.
Generally speaking, the higher level potions sell for more, and the potions that require books to learn instead of conventional research sell for even more... but they also tend to require the pickiest ingredients. Either way, if you're a self-employed alchemist, promotions come purely from how much you're making, so just keep selling those potions and promotions will follow.


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How to Make a 4th of July Tree:
-While waiting for the paint to dry, cut out 1.5 inch square pieces of red, blue and white tissue paper. (My children were too young to do this part, but I'm sure an older child would love to participate in this step).
-Wrap a tissue paper around the eraser end of a pencil and glue to the trunk. Add as many tissue pieces as you would like to fill up your tree.
After I completed the project I thought it would have been fun to cut out the tree trunk and place it on a blue construction sheet and add white tissue paper clouds after I was done with the tree. Maybe we will do that next year!


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Visit Vocations Toronto at www.vocationstoronto.ca, a resourceful site in answering these questions.
The first reading, from the Book of Exodus, tells of the Burning Bush that
Moses encountered in the desert. This is a much more comfortable image for
us. God chooses to reveal Himself to Moses and gives a clear message: I
have come to save My people and bring them into the land that I have
promised them.
God wants to save us. God will save us. We are invited to respond.
Salvation is always a gift and we must accept the gift. Lent is the time
to spend some time being aware of the ways in which we refuse God's gift of
salvation to us, a time of our seeking to respond more faithfully to this
The First Letter to the Corinthians tells us that all of those who followed
Moses had good intentions but most of them did not end up being faithful to
the call of God. These kinds of writings can be scary for us. They speak
only the truth. We would like to know that we are saved. We would like to
know that God will have mercy on us. The challenge of Lent is to recognize
that we do not respond, that we can respond and that God is always
Sometimes all that we humans can do is ask God to remove our sinfulness,
our lack of responding. We don't seem to have the capacity to do it
ourselves or consistently choose the way of the Lord. So, with confidence
during Lent, we can ask God to change us, to transform us, to let us see
His presence as Moses saw Him in the burning bush.
No matter how hard we try to be faithful, our human condition is always
with us and we fail. This is the story of our ancestors in the faith and
it is our own story. Lent is a time for humility and self-awareness�yet
without feeling sorry for ourselves. We have to keep on trying and most of
all we have to ask God to burn out all within us that is not of Him. We
ourselves can become the burning bush: totally on fire with God's love and
yet not yet consumed by it.
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Parents: Autism ed a concern
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BENNINGTON -- Concerns raised by parents about the learning environment and the education their autistic children receive in Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union did not appear to subside following a special two and a half hour meeting Monday to address the topic.
The first half of the meeting was designed to inform parents as well as the school board and community of the programs in place at the different grade levels. After an hour and 20 minutes, during which time about half the parents left, those who stuck around grew restless.
'Dog and pony show'
After the meeting, one of those parents, Kelly Kennedy, emailed the board and others who attended the meeting to say he was more than disappointed the meeting felt like a "dog and pony show," in which no short term solutions were discussed.
Other parents said they did not believe the presentation appropriately portrayed the realities of the school situations, or if it did, then many students are falling through the cracks.
"Everything that was just said, if that was true, my son wouldn't be three and a half hours away," said Doug Crossman, whose autistic son is in a residential placement at the New England Center for Children after he regressed in the Bennington school system.
Autism is a developmental disorder affecting the brain in which symptoms vary greatly from individual to individual regarding how it affects language, social skills, sensory systems and behavior. That variance as well as a fast-growing population with autism is making it difficult for schools to address students' needs, according to school officials.
The presentation included information given by leaders of autism programs in early education, elementary, middle school and high school levels and highlighted the autism services and models at each level.
Following the presentation the parents who remained as well as board members and staff broke into small groups to discuss what they believe is working and what needs to be improved.
One common concern that those groups discussed was the need for more continuity between the programs. Although each presenter said they work carefully with staff from a child's previous school during the transition, the approach at each level is not always aligned. Because children with autism often struggle with change, many people said there is a need for better coordination between the grade levels. Groups also said there must be better communication between staff at the various schools but also the other people in a child's individualized education plan (IEP) including the parents.
Parents also asked for there be more training specifically for teachers and paraprofessionals who work with autistic children, but also the rest of the school staff who may interact with them. There are more than 50 children with autism in the supervisory union, less than half of whom are in self-contained programs.
Special Education Director Kathy Buck said autism training is offered during staff in-service days, although those opportunities are among a list of professional development opportunities educators have to choose from.
In addition to basic training around autism, special educator Rachel Blumenthal said the district needs more teachers with an expertise in autism. "If you have an expertise you know right where to go, or different ideas to problem solve. These are kids who need solutions or things to be tried the next day, not four months down the road when you get a training," she said. "I'm a special educator, but autism is a whole other skill set."
Space, particularly at the elementary level, was another issue raised.
At the middle school a room called The Harbor is available for students with autism to go when they need space. "It's not a special class, it's a special environment that we created at the middle school. It was designed in collaboration with our occupational therapist, our SLP (speech language pathologist), a special educator and others as we thought what kind of an environment would help children with autism as they navigated their way through middle school," Buck said. The room is equipped with bean bag chairs, a space students can feel alone, and soft lighting that does not make as loud of a humming sound as traditional lights that is often distracting to children with autism.
"It's a place where kids who cannot cope with, let's say, the locker. When the bell rings and there's 60 kids in your hallway and they're all making noise and trying to open (the lockers), that is overwhelming for kids," Buck said.
The high school has a similar room, although elementary schools do not.
"Facilities are a challenge here. All of our elementary schools, every nook and cranny is crowded with people working in spaces that were never designed to be classrooms or therapy areas. The occupational therapist is on the stage. The speech and language pathologist is in a closet. Four special ed teachers are in one room together," Buck said.
The meeting concluded with the formation of a special committee of board members, staff and parents to follow up on the recommendations that came from the meeting. That committee will report back to the SVSU board in February on progress. While the committee is progress, parents who have been pleading for immediate change were left disappointed. "To me that is unacceptable as a 'short term' fix," Kennedy wrote in his e-mail to the board.
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Well, it's mostly quiet in the Gaza region, for the time being. Rocket fire into Israel from Gaza has slowed, and humanitarian aid for civilians is getting into Gaza, albeit at a rate less then optimal.
Rather than hold my breath – and hands – waiting for the parties to make their peace, I'm still looking for a wider community committed to that peace. I'm heartened by recent requests for a pattern for my knitted olive branch. The process is a simple one: knit some olives, start knitting a branch and leaves, and knit the olives onto the branch as you go.
TikkunTree Olive Branch
– worsted weight yarn (I used Araucania Nature Wool Solids, two shades of mottled green), a few yards for each olive, more for the branch and leaves
– one set of US 3 (3.25 mm) double point needles
– one set of US 4 (3.5 mm) double point needles
stitch holder/s
– a small amount of stuffing material (a finely shredded, clean plastic bag will do just as well as polyfill stuffing)
Knit 5-8 olives with stems (large and small, green and/or black) and set aside on stitch holder/s or another needle.
To make an olive:
CO 6 (long-tail), divide onto 3 dpns, join without twisting and mark beginning of the round
Row 1 (and all odd rows): knit
Row 2: *k1, M1 (ladder-lift increase), k1*, repeat ** to end of round (9 sts)
Row 4: *k1, M1, k2*, k1*, repeat ** to end of round (12 sts)
Row 6: *k1, M1, k3*, k1*, repeat ** to end of round (15 sts)
Row 8: *k1, M1, k3*, k1*, repeat ** to end of round (18 sts)
Row 10: *k1, M1, k3*, k1*, repeat ** to end of round (21 sts)
Rows 11-13: knit
Row 14: *k2tog, k4*, k1*, repeat ** to end of round (18 sts)
Row 16: *k2tog, k3*, k1*, repeat ** to end of round (15 sts)
Row 18: *k2tog, k2*, k1*, repeat ** to end of round (12 sts)
Stuff the olive lightly and continue to close the top of the olive:
Row 20: *k2tog* to end of round (6 sts)
Row 21: *k2 tog* to end of round (3)
Row 22: k2tog, k1
Continue to make stem for olive on branch: work remaining 2 sts in I-cord (knit the sts, don't turn; slip the sts back to the beginning of the needle and knit again) for 3-5 rows
Cut a 3" tail for weaving later, and slip these 2 sts to a holder or another needle and Cut a 3" tail for weaving later.
Start the olive branch and leaves:
CO 5 sts in green or brown
Work in I-cord for 2-4".
Begin working leaves on the stem and knit in the olives as you go.
To make olive branch leaves:
Start with one st from the I cord branch (from either end of the dpn), then CO 15-20 sts (backward loops works fine; other techniques are described here here).
BO 5 sts loosely.
K remaining new sts, slip last st knitted back to other (LH) needle, turn.
K to next to last st, turn (1 st is on the RH needle), slip 1 st from LN to RN, and BO 1st st, then
• continue to knit and BO the remaining sts (for slim leaf)
• or repeat above if making a larger leaf (20+ sts) – BO 5, K, k back, then BO remaining sts.
To knit-in an olive on the left side of the branch
• prepare by loading an olive to the left of the branch (place sts on the left side of the LH dpn)
• knit the first 2 sts of the I-cord branch, k2tog, k2tog (last st of the branch and the 1st st of the olive stem), k1 (2nd st of the olive stem) (5 sts)
To knit-in an olive on the right side of the branch
• prepare by loading an olive to the right of the branch (place sts on the right side of the LH dpn)
• k1 (1st st of the olive stem), K2 tog (2nd st of the olive stem and 1st st of the branch), k3
Continue to knit the branch and leaves, adding olives as you go, until you have used up your olives and/or the branch is the desired length.
This pattern is copyright protected. Feel free to use this pattern for non-commercial purposes only. Feel free to contact me if you have questions or concerns about the pattern. I'm indebted to Mary Jane, Midge and Mink for the inspiration of their Olive Tutorial.
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SANTA ANA – Twenty years from now, they might volunteer as the soccer coaches and PTA moms of Orange County.
On Friday morning, first-graders at Remington Elementary School learned about giving back to their neighborhood, community and school.
They did so through Spirit of Giving, organized by OneOC, which for more than a decade has sent volunteers to schools in low-income communities to inspire a love of reading and an ethic of volunteerism in young students.
Volunteers like Dianna Landucci, executive of guest experience and soft lines at a 17th Street Target near the school took part. Like volunteers at other schools across Orange County, she read to them "Reach Out and Give," by Cheri J. Meiners, which focuses on giving and gratitude. More than 1,000 first-graders at the 10 schools also got a free copy of "The Berenstain Bears Lend a Helping Hand," by Stan and Jan Berenstain.
Other Target volunteers from the same Target included Cynthia Robles, store manager; Ilynne Guarin, executive for logistics; and Alfonso Vides, executive for human relations.
Classrooms that take part come up with an idea for a service project. Landucci got her kids to talk about things they've done for others, and got them thinking about how they could help others.
"I made my mom cookies," said first-grader David Gonzalez.
The kids, in teacher Linda Widmer's class, came up with some ideas within minutes, like making cards for a classmate with a ruptured appendix, and sending letters to service members.
"How is it going to make you feel?" Landucci asked.
"Good!" the kids responded.
Participating elementary schools include Lord Baden-Powell in Anaheim; Arbolita in La Habra; Melrose in Placentia, Davis and Hoover in Santa Ana; Wilson in Costa Mesa; Sun View in Huntington Beach; Esplanade in Orange; and Kinoshita in San Juan Capistrano.
Besides Target, sponsors include Bank of America, Cox Communications, Prudential Realty, Experian, Corinthian Colleges, R.C. Baker Foundation, Charles and Mildred Shnurmacher Foundation and Windes & McClaughry.
And what did the first-graders learn?
"I learned to give people my stuff," said Kiela Lopez.
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The Large Hadron Collider, shown here during its construction phase, is the locale where physicists hope many of their most puzzling cases will be solved. But there are other mysteries to ponder in the cosmos.
They may not be on a par with alien goo or liver-eating mutants, but there's a whole collection of real-life X Files that physicists are puzzling over. Some cases eventually will be solved, like the hunt for the elusive Higgs boson. Some will fizzle out, like the case of the faster-than-light neutrinos. And some will baffle the boffins for years and years, like the mystery of dark energy.
Two sharp-eyed truth-squadders discussed how scientists investigate the X Files of physics — and how you can tell when a scientific case is really, truly closed — on "Virtually Speaking Science," an hourlong talk show hosted by yours truly on Wednesday.
Sean M. Carroll and Matt Strassler aren't FBI agents, although they could probably teach Fox Mulder and Dana Scully of "The X Files" a thing or two about critical thinking. They're theoretical physicists (Sean at Caltech, Matt at Rutgers) as well as accomplished writers and bloggers. Carroll is the author of several books, including "The Particle at the End of the Universe," his account of the Higgs boson search. Strassler performs reality checks on the Higgs quest and other big topics in physics on his blog, "Of Particular Significance."
What kinds of X Files are we talking about? Here a sampler:
- The possibility that dark-matter particles are knocking into each other at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, annihilating themselves and giving rise to strange gamma-ray emissions.
- The suggestion that there's an as-yet-unidentified fourth "flavor" of neutrinos, based on an unexplained excess of oscillations in data from Fermilab's MiniBooNE experiment.
- The speculation that a massive wall of fire exists around the event horizon of every black hole, incinerating anything that falls toward the gravitational singularity.
- The puzzle surrounding the size of the proton, which focuses on the fact that two different methods to measure the size have come up with different answers.
The proton problem is "one of those classic scientific puzzles where what's actually going on is probably some other type of issue in the experiment, or the interpretation of the experiment, that doesn't have anything to do with the radius of the proton," Strassler told me during our pre-show interview. "There's a small chance that it's something fundamental and really deep, but it's more likely to turn out to be some little detail."
That sort of thing goes on all the time in science, he said. In fact, some degree of uncertainty surrounds many of the experimental results produced by the scientific process. Professional scientists understand that's "par for the course," Strassler said. "The only thing that's unusual is the level of media attention."
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Are there any tricks of the trade that regular folks can use to figure out how to judge a scientific claim's solidity? Actually, there are plenty. But Strassler's top tip is to develop a better understanding of how news outlets work, and how scientific announcements work.
"We all know how to read advertisements. We know they're selling us something," he said. "But we don't necessarily know how to read an article on the front page of The New York Times or an article in Newsweek. They have a big, exciting topic, but when you look closely, you realize that it's only one person saying this. Or there's been one experiment that shows this. If there's only one, it may be nothing. It may go away."
Carroll said scientists themselves are getting into the public outreach field — either by blogging, as he does on Preposterous Universe, or by creating videos and other user-friendly materials about their research. "It'd be great if more scientists wanted to become regular contributors, to at least try to explain their most recent work," Carroll said.
"I can play devil's advocate on that one," Strassler said. "I worry about us generating so much information that no one's able to sift through and get to the meat of what we really know and what we don't."
"That's a very interesting topic," Carroll replied. "There's a lot of information out there. In some sense, we could still use more, but it's a matter of finding it. That's the big challenge."
To find the podcast for Wednesday's show, just follow this link. You can also cruise through the "Virtually Speaking Science" podcast archives at BlogTalkRadio or iTunes, or click on the links below.
'Virtually Speaking Science' podcasts:
- Ig Nobel impresario Marc Abrahams on weird science in 2012
- Paul Doherty on the Curiosity mission and the year in science
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- Sean Carroll on what lies beyond the Higgs boson
- Alan Stern on the Uwingu mystery space venture
- George Djorgovski on the future of immersive virtual reality
- JPL's Dave Beaty previews Curiosity's mission on Mars
- SETI Institute's Seth Shostak about aliens and UFOs
- Paul Doherty on solar eclipses and the transit of Venus
- Veronica Ann Zabala-Aliberto on spaceflight and Yuri's Night
- JPL's Dave Beaty on the search for life on Mars
- Shawn Lawrence Otto on science and politics
- Ig Nobel impresario Marc Abrahams on silly science
- Rocket scientist Robert Zubrin on Mars exploration
- Propulsion expert Marc Millis on interstellar spaceflight
- Sean Carroll on the puzzling frontiers of physics
- Rand Simberg on the private-enterprise vision for spaceflight
- Martin Hoffert on the future of energy policy
- George Djorgovski on science in virtual worlds
- Alan Stern on suborbital research and NASA's mission to Pluto
- Col. 'Coyote' Smith on the outlook for space solar power
- Tim Pickens on rocket ventures and the Google Lunar X Prize
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Jean Alexandre Eugène Dieudonné
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Jean Dieudonné's father was Ernest Dieudonné, who was an industrialist, and his mother was Léontine Labrun. As a young child Jean was irresistibly attracted to dictionaries, encyclopaedias, and universal histories. He studied at the Lycée in Lille where his love of mathematics flourished by age fourteen when he began to study algebra. After completing his school studies he entered the École Normale Supérieure in Paris where he was inspired by Émile Picard, Jacques Hadamard, Élie Cartan, Paul Montel, Arnaud Denjoy and Gaston Julia. Dieudonné received both his bachelor's degree (1927) and his doctorate (1931) from the École Normale. His doctoral studied were supervised by Montel and his thesis was in the area of classical analysis. He worked at the Faculty of Science at Rennes as Maître de Conférences from 1933, and on 22 July 1935 he married Odette Clavel; they had two children Jean-Pierre and Françoise. By the time of his marriage he had already become one of the founding members of Bourbaki. It greatly changed his mathematical outlook. He wrote:-
Left to myself, I would undoubtedly have remained billeted in a narrow sector of analysis my whole life.He worked, also as Maître de Conférences, at the Faculty of Science at Nancy from 1937 to 1946. He was then appointed professor of mathematics at São Paulo in Brazil (1946-47). Returning to Nancy, he was professor there in the Faculty of Science from 1948 to 1952 when he accepted a one year appointment as professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan. After teaching at Northwestern University from 1953 to 1959 Dieudonné returned to France to take up an appointment as professor of mathematics at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques. In 1964, after five years at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, he accepted a chair at the faculty of Science at Nice, a post which he held until 1970.
We note that Dieudonné's love was for research and not for teaching. E Beckenstein, reviewing Dieudonné's Choix d'oeuvres mathématiques Ⓣ, writes:-
He never had the least inclination to teaching. Its only attractive feature was that it provided him with enough time to pursue his own research, an opportunity that fate did not grant to men of the stature of Kummer, Weierstrass, Grassmann, Killing or Montel, who spent most of their careers in the far more time-consuming endeavour of secondary teaching. Even after forty years of teaching, he was still more at ease in front of a sheet of paper than a listener. He always used notes when he lectured "pour éviter les catastrophes". He makes no apologies for being a typical ivory tower type: only by incessant thought can some things be achieved. But ivory tower notwithstanding, he is not an ascetic, never having disdained the pleasures of existence.We mentioned above that Dieudonné was a founder member of Bourbaki. He was one of the main contributors to the Bourbaki series of texts from the time that the group came into existence and in many ways he was the leading influence in a group whose whole object was to avoid anyone taking on this role. Speaking of Bourbaki congresses, which he loved, Dieudonné writes in [5]:-
Certain foreigners, invited as spectators to Bourbaki meetings, always come out with the impression that it is a gathering of madmen. They could not imagine how these people, shouting -- some times three or four at the same time -- could ever come up with something intelligent ...Speaking of his own involvement in Bourbaki and its influence on his own career, Dieudonné writes [5]:-
In my personal experience, I believe that if I had not been submitted to this obligation to draft questions I did not know a thing about, and to manage to pull through, I should never have done a quarter or even a tenth of the mathematics I have done.He began his mathematical career working on the analysis of polynomials. He worked in a wide variety of mathematical areas including general topology, topological vector spaces, algebraic geometry, invariant theory and the classical groups.
His best known books are La Géométrie des groupes classiques Ⓣ (1955), Foundations of Modern Analysis (1960), Algèbre linéaire et géométrie élémentaire Ⓣ (1964) and nine volumes of Éléments d'analyse Ⓣ (1960-1982). C E Rickart, reviewing La Géométrie des groupes classiques Ⓣ writes:-
This volume brings together most of the modern results concerning the so-called elementary theory of the classical groups. Here the term "classical group" is used as in the author's monograph, Sur les groupes classiques (1948) and the "elementary theory" refers roughly to results which involve subgroup and homomorphisms as opposed to results concerned for example with topology, differential geometry, etc. The approach is, of course, algebraic but, as is characteristic of the author's work in this field, is strongly influenced by geometrical notions. Although many mathematicians have contributed to the subject, the bulk of the results presented here are due to the author, the main references being the monograph cited above and his paper, On the automorphisms of the classical group (1951).Dieudonné writes in Foundations of Modern Analysis that it is intended:-
...to provide the necessary elementary background for all branches of modern mathematics involving 'analysis'.J L Kelly writes:-
The most remarkable feature of the text is the consistently geometrical formulation of the results. For example, the differential calculus is developed in terms of linear approximation to functions on an open subset of a Banach space to a Banach space. Yet it would be completely false to assert that the book contained a study of Banach spaces - no non-trivial proposition on such spaces is proved. The subject of study is indeed elementary analysis, and the theorems are theorems of analysis stated in geometrical terms. This geometrization is rather like the geometrization of linear algebra which occurred some years ago, and, as in the linear algebra case, there are enormous conceptual and technical advantages. A good deal is accomplished in the 350 pages of the text. The mathematical organization is superb, the presentation lucid, there are a large number of very good problems, and there are excellent expository introductions to each chapter (couched in the author's customary diffident style). In brief, it is a beautiful text.In writing Algèbre linéaire et géométrie élémentaire Ⓣ Dieudonné aims to provide teachers in the lycées of France with sufficient background in geometry so that they can prepare their pupils properly for entry to university study. He presents the topic in terms of linear (or geometric) algebra of two and three dimensions. Let us not pass judgement on whether the text is too sophisticated to fulfil its intended purpose but we do note that in introducing the real numbers in the first chapter Dieudonné assumes they are an ordered field in which the intermediate value theorem is valid for polynomials of degree 3.
We should also examine Dieudonné's contributions as a historian of mathematics. He published texts such as History of functional analysis (1981), History of algebraic geometry (1985), Pour l'honneur de l'esprit humain Ⓣ (1987), A history of algebraic and differential topology 1900-1960 (1989), and L'école mathématique française du XXe siècle Ⓣ (2000).
The History of functional analysis is:-
... a detailed and absorbing account of the history and development of functional analysis, beginning with Lagrange and Daniel Bernoulli, through the work of Fredholm, Hilbert, and Frigyes Riesz at the turn of this century, and ending about 1960.Mac Lane, in a review of A history of algebraic and differential topology, writes:-
... is a well-informed and detailed analysis of the problems and development of algebraic topology, from Poincaré and Brouwer to Serre, Adams, and Thom. The author has examined each significant paper along this route and describes the steps and strategy of its proofs and its relation to other work. Previously, the history of the many technical developments of 20th-century mathematics had seemed to present insuperable obstacles to scholarship. This book demonstrates in the case of topology how these obstacles can be overcome, with enlightening results.In addition to the historical texts, Dieudonné edited the works of Camille Jordan. In the first volume Dieudonné has contributed an article on Jordan's work on finite groups and in the second volume an interesting 116-page introduction to Jordan's work on linear and multilinear algebra and on the theory of numbers. Dieudonné also wrote a preface to the mathematical writings and memoirs of Galois which were published in 1962.
Several descriptions of Dieudonné, particularly of those involved with him in the Bourbaki project, are interesting. Armand Borel writes in [3]:-
For about twenty-five years he would routinely start his day (maybe after an hour of piano playing) by writing a few pages for Bourbaki. In particular, but by far not exclusively, he took care of the final drafts, exercises, and preparation for the printer of all the volumes (about thirty) which appeared while he was a member and even slightly beyond. This no doubt accounts to a large extent for the uniformity of style of the volumes, frustrating any effort to try to individualize one contribution or the other. But this was not really Dieudonné's style, rather the one he had adopted for Bourbaki.Pierre Cartier said in [10]:-
Dieudonné was quite a good piano player, at an amateur level, but quite good, and he had a fantastic memory. He knew hundreds and hundreds of pages of score by heart and could follow every single note. I remember I had a few occasions to go to the concert hall with him. It was fascinating, he would look at the score in his hand and exclaim "OH!" if a note was missing from the orchestra! He devoted the last six months of his life - when he decided that his mathematical life was finished, he had written his last book, and he retreated to his home - to listening to recordings and following the scores and the notes.We can obtain an appreciation of Diedonné's views of mathematics from a number of sources. First we quote Dieudonné's metaphorical ball of yarn from [5]:-
When Dieudonné was the scribe of Bourbaki, for many many years, every printed word came from his pen. Of course there had been many drafts and preliminary versions, but the printed version was always from the pen of Dieudonné. And with his fantastic memory, he knew every single word. I remember, it was a joke, you could say, "Dieudonné, what is this result about so and so?" and he would go to the shelf and take down the book and open it to the right page.
Here is my picture of mathematics now. It is a ball of wool, a tangled hank where all mathematics react upon another in an almost unpredictable way. And then in this ball of wool, there are a certain number of threads coming out in all directions and not connecting with anything else. Well the Bourbaki method is very simple-we cut the threads.In [9] Medvedev quotes these words of Dieudonné written in a 1976 article:-
... the principal factor in the development of mathematics has an internal origin - reflection on the nature of the open problems, independently of their origin.Dieudonné was elected to the Academy of Sciences (Paris) in 1968, received the Gaston Julia prize in 1966, and he was made an Officer of the Légion d'Honneur.
Article by: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson
Click on this link to see a list of the Glossary entries for this page
List of References (13 books/articles)
Some Quotations (5)
Mathematicians born in the same country
Honours awarded to Jean Dieudonné
(Click the link below for those honoured in this way)
|BMC morning speaker
|Speaker at International Congress
|Royaumont seminar
|BMC plenary speaker
|AMS Steele Prize
|LMS Honorary Member
Cross-references in MacTutor
- History Topics: Bourbaki: the pre-war years
- History Topics: Bourbaki: the post-war years
- French Mathematical Society
- Luxembourg Mathematical Society
- Irish Mathematical Society
- 1962 ICM - Moscow
Other Web sites
- Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Mathematical Genealogy Project
- MathSciNet Author profile
- zbMATH entry
- ERAM Jahrbuch entry


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The pogoplug plugs via an RJ45 (local area network connection) (looks like a fat phone wire with bigger that a phone socket plugs on each end) into the ROUTER.
Note: it doesn't plug into ANY computer.
(You can, but you don't HAVE to. The value of this little 45$ linux box is that it is it's own computer / appliance.)
Once you do that, I can give you a directory on the drive that you can:
(a) "mount" the drive on any computer on your home lan (wirelessly or wired) and use as you would the hard disk that's internal to that computer. Including IPADs, ITOUCHs, IPHONES, and most smart phones.
(b) by correctly defining any path to the pogoplug via it's web interface, it will give you a URL that you can "publish", share, or use yourself.
So, for example, Luddite can upload his corny spam megabyte movie files to is and any one who has the link can look at it. ANd, would CLOG everyone's mail systems with HUGE files.
So, for example, MIX2 can put the that big video on the "platform" and only allow certain people to see it. (Even if someone has the link, they can't see it. I think it comes back "404 url not found" or something like that.)
SO, you can think of pogoplug as a "personal / group / public" cloud solution.
I'd like to deploy them at all my favorite people's routers so that I can have off-site storage. (The power is use is about 8$ per year I'm told.)
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Fantastic to see the first part finally completed! I'm looking forward to reading it.
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Non-farm payrolls did not increase as much as expected, rising 173,000 compared to prior expectations of 215,000 but we did see net upward revisions of 40,000 to the last two months' figures. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate dropped to 5.1% whilst average hourly earnings were a tad stronger than expected at 2.2% year-on-year. The former is now at official estimates of equilibrium or the NAIRU (non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment), the rate at which wages begin to accelerate in the economy.
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The Celtics are rolling with two new starters on Friday, as Evan Turner and Jonas Jerebko will replace Marcus Smart and Jared Sullinger.
Brad Stevens is trying to find an answer on the offensive end, and replacing Sullinger with Jerebko makes sense from that perspective. This news is a slight knock on Smart and Sullinger in DFS, but both should still see plenty of minutes in Game 3.
Fantasy News
February 21, 2020, 1:40 amDamion LeeSG, Golden State Warriors
Damion Lee went 4-for-12 from the field and 4-for-4 at the line to finish Thursday's game with 13 points, one 3-pointer, four rebounds, three assists and one steal.
Lee has been one of the hotter pickups since D'Angelo Russell was sent to the Wolves. However, some buyer's remorse might be setting in as Lee's .413 shooting from the field can dip thanks to the variance that comes along with him being a streaky shooter, making more suiting for FG-punting builds.
February 21, 2020, 1:36 amJuan Toscano-AndersonPF, Golden State Warriors
Juan Toscano-Anderson was a beneficiary of lengthy garbage time in Thursday's loss to the Rockets, recording a career-high 10 points on 5-of-9 shooting with seven rebounds, four assists, two steals and one block.
JTA played well, but as mentioned this game was long over even before the fans could form their conga line leading out of the arena. He's worth a watch list spot if you're playing in an 18-teamer or deeper, but expect him to fall off when Stephen Curry eventually returns.
February 21, 2020, 1:33 amAndrew WigginsSF, Golden State Warriors
Andrew Wiggins recorded a team-high 22 points on 10-of-17 shooting with three rebounds, two 3s, one steal and two blocks in a loss to the Rockets on Thursday.
There's not much more to add regarding Wiggins and the Warriors' sad state. On a positive note, Wiggins has managed to keep the peripherals going since joining the Dubs, something he should be able to sustain ROS.
February 21, 2020, 1:30 amDeMarre CarrollSF, Houston Rockets
DeMarre Carroll debuted for the Rockets on Thursday vs. the Warriors but was quiet in his 13 minutes off the bench with just two points (2-of-2 FTs), three rebounds and four assists.
Carroll was added more for playoff depth as a veteran shooter. He's not going to make noise in fantasy, so leave him on the wire.
February 21, 2020, 1:26 amJeff GreenSF, Houston Rockets
Jeff Green made his debut for the Rockets on Thursday and looked surprisingly spry given that he's 33 years young, chiming in with 17 points on 6-of-8 shooting with four 3s, four rebounds and one steal in 24 minutes.
Before you go rushing off to grab Green, note that there was so much garbage time in this one, you could have built a landfill. He was likely seeing extra run to get acclimated with his new team and system. Leave him on the wire for now. Green's extra time on the floor came at the expense of Danuel House, who played just 19 minutes and was able to tally 11 points on 4-of-7 shooting (three 3s) with three rebounds and one assist. House remains a standard-league hold at this time.
February 21, 2020, 1:21 amJames HardenPG, Houston Rockets
Coming out of the All-Star break, a refreshed and rested James Harden was back in tip-top form, leading the Rockets to a 135-105 stomping of the Warriors with 29 points (6-of-16 FGs, 14-of-15 FTs), 10 dimes and a fat stat line.
Harden was in full beast mode (beard mode?) in this one, handily dispatching with the Dubs with three rebounds, three treys, three steals and two blocks, while committing just one turnover. 2019-20 has been rockier than usual for Harden as he saw some unfamiliar territory with ups and downs. He's back and killing it, so clearly the ASB-rest may have been exactly what the doctor ordered.
February 21, 2020, 1:14 amKent BazemoreSG, Sacramento Kings
Kent Bazemore saw some quality run in Thursday's win over the Grizzlies, logging 23 minutes off the bench and dropping 18 points on 6-of-10 shooting with three rebounds, two 3s and one steal.
Bazemore is not an efficient scorer, so his .600 clip from the field tonight should be taken with a hefty grain of salt. He's been widely inconsistent for most of the season but is worth keeping an eye on in case he makes it a habit of playing well.
February 21, 2020, 1:10 amJabari ParkerPF, Sacramento Kings
Jabari Parker (right shoulder impingement) debuted for the Kings on Thursday but was unremarkable in his 15 minutes off the bench, tallying just four points, four rebounds and two assists.
While Parker is not a high-impact player in fantasy, we should expect to see those minutes rise as he gets his legs back. And given that Marvin Bagley III's timetable is in weeks, Parker may be worth a streamer once he's closer to 100 percent.
February 21, 2020, 1:05 amHarrison BarnesSF, Sacramento Kings
Harrison Barnes was unconscious as he went 7-for-11 from deep en route to his game-high 32 points in Thursday's 129-125 win over the Grizzlies.
Barnes was hot as hell, making 11-of-17 shots from the field, but chipped with just a sprinkling of peripherals outside of the 3-pointers, adding one rebound, one assist and one steal to the box. Even when he's on a tear, Barnes still is just a score-first (only) guy, who doesn't really diversify into the other categories. Still, it was a good night overall. Just don't expect him to be THIS good every night moving forward.
February 21, 2020, 1:00 amTyus JonesPG, Memphis Grizzlies
Tyus Jones made his 18 minutes on the floor count on Thursday, chipping in 16 points on 6-of-7 shooting with three rebounds, two 3s and six assists.
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