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Known as the Red City or the Pearl of the South because of the ochre-coloured streets and buildings, Marrakech has been given several nicknames. The narrow streets are a labyrinth to get lost in as there are secret corners, markets, restaurants, bars, and shops to visit, and the smells and sounds of the Moroccan markets, mosques and energy of its people will transport to another time. Marrakech has so many places to discover, see and visit, which is why you can do so many excursions in the surrounding area to learn about and discover the true history of the city. We recommend a visit to Djemaa el Fna square, the medina quarter, the Moroccan market, the Saadíes graves, the walls, the Jewish quarter and other magical attractions.
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And so onto some happy things!
I haven't kept up very well, but I don't think that matters. Sometimes it takes a while to find the things around me that feel 'happy'.
The things that lift my spirits in these winter months have a lot to do with colour and creativity, which in my book just rocks!
1. Of course more crochet. One of my January aims was to finish of as many w.i.p.s as possible and list them on Etsy. I haven't shared those aims yet, but may begin that in February.
2. My new spot in the kitchen. I've put a small table in front of the window. It's a sunny and light place to gather my thoughts and drink tea away from all the screens and media. And yes that's little dog snuggling under the blanket. She likes it too!
3. A recent 'little' splurge. New postcards from wood & wool stool. It's no secret, this lady is one of my crochet heroes. I'm hoping a little bit of her magic will rub off! My favourite is the multi-coloured heart. Altogether a very inspiring lady.
4. Two owls and a pussy cat. Inspired by Jane on Ada's post. I know the cat eyes look a little strange, it was an experiment! A further pair of these owls have been sent off as a present. I loved making these, perhaps with a tag they would make nice key rings. Anyway for now they are a very happy decoration.
I can't believe we're almost at the end of January, spring can't be far now. The snow here has gone and all that's left on the common now looks just like patches of lemon meringue. Really!
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Nintendo's announced this morning it'll launch a hardware bundle of Mario and Sonic at the 2012 London Olympics with the "newly configured" Wii hardware revision that was announced at gamescom. The bundle will feature the console in a blue colour with a copy of the game. It'll launch on the game's release in the UK […]
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That laughing, smiling, and enjoying each others' company during the Olympics? Just a farce. A contractual obligation. Once all the medal winning and probable steroid usage has died down, Mario and Sonic go their separate ways. That's just the way things are, and according to Sega's Takashi Iizuka, they're not likely to change.
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In a post-election conference call on Thursday, two members of Charles Schwab & Co.'s braintrust shared their insights, suggestions and projections for the markets, the economy, taxes, legislation and regulation—including implementation of Dodd-Frank in the 113th Congress that was elected on Tuesday.
The conversation confirmed that the biggest issue with the election now decided is the fiscal cliff: how Congress and the Obama administration deal with that package of tax, debt and sequestration issues will have a major impact on where the markets and the economy go, and how American investors feel about their own prospects.
To begin, Schwab chief investment strategist Liz Ann Sonders (left) suggested that the election yielded a status quo in the Washington political power equation, which "provides no clarity on the fiscal cliff." Dealing with the cliff needs to be done, she said, "before we can open the valve to pent-up demand" and grow the economy. There is a chance for a recession in 2013, Sonders suggested, whose "magnitude" will be based on how we deal with the fiscal cliff. "Recessions tend to come when there have been big excesses" in an economy, but since, she said, "you can't fall out of a basement," any such recession would not be severe.
(Sonders will be kicking off the annual Schwab Impact 2012 conference in Chicago with a preconference presentation on directions for the economy and markets on Tuesday, Nov. 13; see the Impact agenda here, including times for keynote speakers Chuck Schwab, Erskine and Bowles, and Alan Alda; and view AdvisorOne's onsite coverage on our special Schwab Impact 2012 landing page.)
She mentioned that "some pundits think falling off the cliff could be positive," since it would force government to deal with its long-term secular issues. "It's not my base case or hope," she said in referring to going over the cliff, "but it's one way to see a silver lining" should that worse-case scenario occur. Noting that even the term "cliff" suggests going over it would be "steep and immediate," in fact the effects "would be spread out," especially on sequestration and more specifically on defense cutbacks.
While she warned that it's "generally difficult in dealing with politicians to have specific" predictions of how they will behave, she expects any cliff-avoiding move will be "very 11th hour in nature" and whether or not Congress and thep president merely give the issue "a kick ahead or go over the cliff," a deal will likely include "fundamental tax reform coupled with regulatory reform and entitlement reform," an outcome she said "would be incredibly positive."
When asked what could boost U.S. consumers' confidence, she first suggested that confidence is in fact fairly high, helped by the recovery in the housing market. "It's too soon to tell whether the election will boost confidence," she said, but "if we see our politicians can get into the sandbox and play nicely,: there is cause for hope. She warned that "we're not finished with difficult times for the stock market…in the near term there's not much of a catalyst" for stock growth, and that "we may have more pain."
Returning to the fiscal cliff scenario, the markets, she said, "don't want piecemeal" attempts at reform, but rather to "tackle this in a secular, fundamental way," that would improve American's confidence in Congress; and would deliver "ultimate benefits to the economy that would be tremendous."
That could come from the "coiled spring" she still sees poised in the economy, signified by the "hoarding of cash by companies not seen since World War II" and by rebuilding efforts after Hurricane Sandy, and that recent "positive offsets, not least being housing and, energy, and the trade numbers released today" could yield an increase in third quarter growth of GDP to "closer to 3%"
The sectors that could face pressure under a second Obama presidency? "The obvious ones are defense and financials," due to Dodd-Frank and sequestration, but she said investors should be "careful about applying that long term."
Election Results, Dodd-Frank and Regulation
Mike Townsend (right), VP of legislative and regulatory affairs for Schwab, addressed the election results and what they will mean for investors and advisors. In Washington, expect to see the "same polarized dynamic that has tied Washington in knots," He expressed surprise at the number of Senate seats picked up by Democrats on Nov. 6—"a year ago, I would have thought that to be implausible"—and that while Speaker of the House John Boehner "struck a more conciliatory tone" in his post-election comments on the fiscal cliff, Townsend saw "no change in strategy" from the Republican leadership.
He expects the Congress nevertheless to focus on two big fiscal issues in the "next few weeks…fixing the AMT and postponing the auto cuts" under sequestration. "Some 25-30 million taxpayers will be paying higher rates for 2012" if the alternative minimum tax isn't addressed this year, even if those taxpayers "won't feel the hit until they file their taxes in 2013."
He said there was "growing agreement" in Washington that the draconian sequestration spending cuts "will get postponed in some way because it would be too harsh in the current economy," especially on defense spending, and he expects that there will be "some framework, a deadline, a process for tax reform" that won't be decided upon until mid-December. One other trend he's noticed in Washington: "Extending the payroll tax cut may be back in play—there are a number of Democrats talking about that over the last few weeks," even if it isn't a full extension.
One "clear outcome" from the election is that "Obamacare is here to stay," meaning the new taxes on investment income of 3.8% will kick in in January."
Another outcome: "Dodd-Frank overhaul is not going anywhere; there is a reluctance to open it up for revision" but suggested that instead there will be a focus on reducing the Dodd-Frank rule-writing backlog, especially on the Volcker rule, the regulation of derivatives and dealing with systemic risk.
When pressed for more insights into Dodd-Frank implementation, Townsend pointed out that "we're gong to see a changeover in the House," with Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, taking over as chair from Spencer Bachus of Alabama, and with Maxine Waters, D-Calif., as the ranking Democrat on the Committee. On Sections 913 and 914, he suggested "there's no consensus [in Congress], so things won't change too much." Post-election, "we'll have a continued Democratic majority at the SEC and probably a new chair," and that there may well be a "renewed effort" on regulating Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. However, "Clearly, Dodd-Frank is here to stay."


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A Deeper Look at IBM SONAS Gateway Models
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With all the announcements we had in June, it is easy for some of the more subtle enhancements to get overlooked. While I was at Orlando for the IBM Edge conference, I was able to blog about some of the key featured announcements. Then, later, when I got back from Orlando to Tucson, I was able to then blog about [More IBM Storage Announcements]. For IBM's Scale-Out Network Attach Storage (SONAS), I had simply:
"SONAS v1.3.2 adds support for management by the newly announced IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center v5.1 release. Also, IBM now officially supports Gateway configurations that have the storage nodes connected to XIV or Storwize V7000 disk systems. These gateway configurations offer new flexible choices and options for our ever-expanding set of clients."
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Here is a diagram showing the three configurations of SONAS.
I have covered the SONAS Appliance model in depth in previous blogs, with options for fast and slow disk speeds, choice of RAID protection levels, a collection of enterprise-class software features provided at no additional charge, and interfaces to support a variety of third party backup and anti-virus checking software.
The basics haven't changed. The SONAS appliance consists of 2 to 32 interface nodes, 2 to 60 storage nodes, and up to 7,200 disk drives. The maximum configuration takes up 17 frames and holds 21.6PB of raw disk capacity, which is about 17PB usable space when RAID6 is configured. An interface nodes has one or two hex-core processors with up to 144GB of RAM to offer up to 3.5GB/sec performance each. This makes IBM SONAS the fastest performing and most scalable disk system in IBM's System Storage product line.
I thought I would go a bit deeper on the gateway models. These models support up to ten storage nodes, organized in pairs. The key difference is that instead of internal disk controllers, the storage nodes connect to external disk systems. There is enough space in the base SONAS rack to hold up to six interface nodes, or you can add a second rack if you need more interface nodes for increased performance.
All three SONAS configurations support Active Cloud Engine. This is a collection of features that differentiate SONAS from the other scale-out NAS wannabees in the marketplace:
If you want to learn more, see the [IBM SONAS landing page]. Next week, I will be across the Pacific Ocean in [Taipei], to teach IBM Top Gun class to sales reps and IBM Business Partners. "Selling SONAS" will be one of the topics I will be covering!
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text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - Lost Names - my book report Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Lost Names - my book report Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Literature View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message tofuJoined: 07 Feb 2004Posts: 3 Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 11:40 pm Post subject: Lost Names - my book report just check for sentence structure and grammar please....its due on tuesday 4:00PMEST thanks!!! if u want the WORD file..leave your email so i can send it to u Lost Names, by Richard .E. Kim was an interesting book to read because it shows the loving memory of a family and a lively portrayal of life in a time of anguish. Richard Kim was born in 1932 in North Korea. In 1970, he started to write Lost Names to introduce the way Koreas lived. However, as time passed, the book evolved to a new level. He had many small details and by rearranging and interpreting a series of events, he was able to create a masterpiece that engages the reader to have a sense of what it felt like living in turmoil. Kim disregards the fact that the book is an autobiography or a fiction. According to Kim, All the characters and events described in this book are real, but everything else is fiction. However, even though the author claims the contents of this book is fictional, it generally reflects upon the narrator early years of life. Lost Names consists of seven vivid chapters that desribe the life of a Korean family struggling to live a life under colonial rule. Each chapter is chronological series of events that span from 1932 to 1945. The first chapter, Crossing tells the story of the family crossing the Tumen River to Manchuria due to the new job the father found after he was released from prison. . The narrators father prison term is often mentioned in the book and its evident during the later parts of the book that his presence has deep impact on Koreans but as well as the Japanese. This leads to a start of a hard journey that the family must endure for the next 13 years. As we progress further in the book, we notice the family has moved back to Korea. This is also the time where the boy starts to go to school. During his years at school, he endured being discriminated against the Japanese as well as humiliation from the students and teachers His name was also erased by the Japanese when he and his father went to the police station to retrieve a new name. This was a painful time for the family especially for the boy, I am going to lose my name; I am going to lose my name; we are all going to lose our names The last chapter, In the making of history --- together tells us the story of liberation and how a new beginning has been paved for the next generation. The title, Lost Names refers to the Japanese Pacific War policy of forcing Koreans to replace their own names with Japanese ones However, I feel that it has a deeper meaning to it, especially the word Lost. Many Koreans that lived under the Japanese policy had no choice but to change their name or adapt to their lifestyle. Students had to speak Japanese at school, and had to worship the Japanese Emperor. The Japanese had an objective and that was to eradicate consciousness of Korean national identity, roots and all, and thus to obliterate the very existence of the Korean people from the face of the earth Even though they were living in Korea, they were being controlled by the Japanese. One scene that I mentioned above was when the boy and the father went to retrieve their new names. All of the Koreans that had to get their name changed lost everything that includes: their name, their pride, and their culture. They are lost because they feel they do not belong to this world anymore. Many Koreans ended their own life because they were ashamed of their culture. February 11, 1940, was the day that they lost their names. It was a consequence for not correcting the mistake for the past generation, however, it created a new beginning for the current generation. When the father hugged the boy and told him Someday, your generation will have to forgive us, it meant that he hoped the current generation would not perform the same mistake the past generation did. The boy didnt know what was going on but when they visited the grave of his ancestors, he realized everyone was hopeless. Everyone was whining, wailing, chanting, bowing to the graves. The father hoped that in the current generation, his boy will not have to say I am ashamed to look in your eyes. He hopes that his boy can face his ancestors with pride and dignity. This leads to the final chapter where the boy has matured significantly from the time his name was changed. His conversation on liberation with his mom and father revealed the mistake that the past generation did. The boy was ashamed because liberation was given to them; it was a gift according to his father. The boy felt that the Koreans didnt put enough effort to achieve liberation. Liberation happened because of Japans capitulation to the United States. The narrators father mentioned it was because his grandfathers generation was much disorganized and did many stupid things that could have been avoided. They could have guided the country to its right path but instead left all the problems to the father generation. The only thing that they could have done was to survive. This was the mistake that the past generation did because they focused all of their energy to survive. Their whole life was based on survival. It was nearly impossible to start a movement because the Japanese had established their power. However, instead of being filled with revenge, the narrators father asked himself, What can I do to change the situation around. By surviving, they could lead the next generation so they dont repeat the same mistake as the previous generation did. That is why the narrators father wishes his son to be the pillar for the next generation. He doesnt want his son to see survival as his only goal because life is more than just surviving. The meaning of life can be interpreted in many ways but one meaning is to live life the fullest without regrets and to experience different things where you can treasure so you can pass it on to the next generation. One of the positive aspects in the book would be the writing style Kim uses to bring the book to life. The story is full of descriptive details that allow the reader to feel the pain and frustration the character is going through. The bamboo sword smashes my bottom, jolting me with a numbling blow that instantly shoots thousands of sharp needles of pain through my body .My body is shaking, and my knees trembling, and I cant control my body. In addition, the way the author shifts from past to present to describe an incident is used effectively as it can give the reader the ability to foreshadow events in the future. However, this may also be the negative aspect of the book as sometimes it maybe too confusing for the reader to know what is going on because the storytelling goes back and forth. Another negative point would be whether the details were accurate or not. The first event took place occurred in 1933, that was when Kim was only one year old. Its hard to believe that Kim can actually remember what happened since he was still in his mother arms. Futhermore, Kim was thirty-eight years old when he wrote this book. Many of the incidents occurred when he was fairly young. During the span on 1945-1970, many things changed such as Kim serving the war for South Korea. Did Kim write these events based on a eight thirteen year old mindset or on a thirty year old matured, war-oriented mindset. One of the reasons why Kim wrote Lost Names was because he wanted to to teach Koreans to accept responsibility for their lives, to stop blaming others, the Japanese, the Chinese. He wanted to express his feelings and hardships by putting his experiences in a book. . He wishes that the reader will understand that hatred will only cause more suffering and that one must learn from its mistake so they can retrieve what is lost again. A similar example would be the U.S and Iraq issue. Things have not improved ever since U.S waged war on Iraq. Civilians are randomly slaughtered and the U.S has caused more chaos from before. The hatred towards the Iraqis has created a even bigger problem from before. I was in awe after I finished reading Lost Names. The real life situations that the author depicted made me realize how much suffering and agony my friends grandfather faced when he was also suppressed by the Japanese. It gave me a better understand of what might have happened to my friends grandfather. In addition, it was interesting to read a book in a Korean point of view. Ive learned that the life we have is very different to the narrator of the story. When I was his age, I was playing Super Nintendo and enjoying my life while the narrator was building airfields and fighting for freedom. However, the freedom we have now is due to the perseverance of the people that suffered in the past. It is because of them that we can enjoy the meaning of life. In the end, I definitely recommend Lost Names to all ages as its an excellent novel that shows hardships of one family and how they overcome it to accomplish their goals. Back to top daavidfischerJoined: 17 Oct 2012Posts: 25 Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 2:43 am Post subject: I think I will try this book. I have not heard of this book. But at this moment I have found some interest in reading old and unknown books. I think it will feel a bit different. 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Bullying on rise in lower grades
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The girl came home from school upset. A classmate had called her names. Told her everyone hated her. Said she couldn't sit with the others at lunch. The other girls all went along with it.
Such "mean girl'' behavior is not new. Girl-on-girl cruelty has long been the subject of books, TV shows, and movies about tween and teen girls.
But this girl was 7 years old.
"I have to tell you: I am floored that it starts this early,'' says the girl's mother, who asked for anonymity to protect her daughter. "Usually it's middle school, when boys come into the picture and there's jealousy and competition.''
Bullying, at least among girls, starts at a young age; whether this is new is a subject of debate among behavioral specialists.
Some believe that the popularity of shows such as "Gossip Girl'' and the talk radio shout-fests that kids listen to from the back seat of the car have fanned the flames, which are spread face-to-face and through cyberspace.
"I think what's different is how uninhibited it [bullying] has become. There's just a real lack of empathy,'' said Deborah Weaver, executive director of a self-defense and safety program for Boston girls, who has worked with more than 6,000 girls between 8 and 18.
A spotlight has been focused on bullying among girls since 14-year-old Phoebe Prince in South Hadley killed herself in January after incessant taunting by female classmates. The death follows a number of suicides nationwide that have been linked to bullying, and has educators and parents scrambling once again for answers.
Schools and child development experts are beginning to acknowledge that bullying begins at the earliest ages, and they are taking steps to combat it by promoting kindness and leadership skills.
They worry that the kind of taunting often observed among the youngest children - criticizing each other's clothing, saying things like "I'm not your friend anymore'' - can lead to full-fledged bullying by adolescence.
"I think they're recognizing it, they're tuned in a little bit more,'' says Barbara Coloroso, a nationally known expert who wrote "The Bully, the Bullied and the Bystander'' and other books on parenting and conflict resolution.
But even as the state Legislature considers a bill this month to require antibullying programs in every grade in every school across Massachusetts, some say there is reluctance to accept that children picking on each other amounts to bullying.
"We still have this problem that we only get serious about it when it's physical,'' Coloroso says. "The old 'sticks and stones' adage is a lie, an absolute lie.''
Though research on cruelty among girls is relatively new, it is clear that the use of friendship as a weapon begins as early as preschool, says Rachel Simmons, author of "Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls.''
"By some accounts it happens preverbally in girls,'' she says. "They close their eyes and put their hands over their ears when they're upset with you. That's their version of withdrawing from you.''
Deba Palma, director of admissions and financial aid at Thacher Montessori School in Milton, has seen bullying in preschoolers.
"We see children younger than 5 years old who can have sort of an attitude toward other little girls,'' she says. By spring of kindergarten year, children become more verbal.
"When their brain starts changing and they get a lot more verbal, it festers more,'' Palma says. "You start hearing things like, 'I'm not going to be your best friend,' and 'You can't come to my birthday party.' ''
The family of the 7-year-old girl who was shunned at school had moved last fall from one South Shore town to another. The bullying started soon after: "Only babies wear tights. You're a big baby.'' "We hate you here. Go back to your old town.'' If anyone played with the new girl, the leader would say: "Why are you with her? We hate her.'' The girl wasn't allowed to eat at the girls' table; she ate with the boys.
The parents felt the teacher was unresponsive to their complaints, so they went to the school counselor. As a result, the school will implement a bullying prevention program.
Such programs would be required in every grade across Massachusetts under the antibullying bill in the Legislature.
"This is aimed at those schools that are not doing what they need to do to keep students safe,'' says Representative Marty Walz, a Boston Democrat who is the House chairwoman of the Joint Committee on Education.
Under the bill, every adult in a school must report any bullying incident to the principal, who is then required to investigate and take disciplinary action. In addition, the principal must inform parents of the bully and the bullied and offer a curriculum for parents on bullying.
"Parents are very much a part of the solution,'' Walz says. If the behavior is criminal in nature, law enforcement must be brought in.
But critics say the bill does not go far enough because it doesn't criminalize bullying, nor can schools be held liable if they fail to protect children.
"It's a real toothless tiger,'' says victims' rights lawyer Wendy Murphy, who teaches at New England School of Law.
"The schools must investigate, but they only have to report when and if they determine that it constitutes bullying. It's an honor system in an institutional environment where the primary goal is to cover up all the bad stuff.''
And if the schools fail to provide the bullying education, she adds, there's no sanction.
Experts agree that teacher and parental role modeling and intervention are crucial, especially at early ages.
"When we're talking about 3-, 4-, 5-year-old girls, your ability is stronger as a parent to police your child's behavior than when your girl is 15,'' says Simmons, founder of the Girls Leadership Institute, a nonprofit that teaches assertiveness skills.
Still, many parents don't take the issue seriously at such an early age.
Research shows that mothers will respond forcefully if their young daughters bite or hit someone, Simmons says. But verbal bullying is different.
"Very often, moms say, 'That's just girls being girls.' But if you make light of it and don't intervene, you're giving your daughter permission,'' she says.
Coloroso says it's imperative to acknowledge bullying regardless of age because the behavior often progresses.
She described a case last year in Washington state in which a group of sixth-grade girls made an animated video set to a Hannah Montana tune and put it on YouTube. Titled "Top Six Ways to Kill Piper,'' the video showed two girls shooting their classmate, shoving her off a cliff, poisoning her, and making her kill herself. The perpetrators, 11 and 12 years old, were disciplined by their school, but no criminal charges were filed.
"If we don't handle it in grade school,'' Coloroso says, "it only gets worse.''


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An individual science fair project can be a presentation of an experiment, a demonstration, a research effort, a collection of scientific items, or a display of a scientific apparatus. It represents the efforts of a student's long-term investigation into some area of interest and provides a way for the student to showcase the results of the investigation. A science fair project is a unique way for students to pose questions for which they must seek out answers and to satisfy their own curiosity about the world around them. It is a venture into the world of scientific research that goes beyond lessons in the classroom or chapters in a book. Through the development of science fair projects, students gain a first-hand appreciation of the work of scientists and the value of their discoveries. Projects allow students to experiment, make decisions, form and re-form hypotheses, test and examine ideas, seek solutions, and most important, learn more about themselves and their world. Most children are often enthusiastic and excited about pursuing a science fair project; yet, it is not unusual for that exhilaration to wane as the actual science fair approaches. In the end, parents are frequently "recruited" to complete designated projects. Insufficient planning by students in concert with inadequate attention to details often results in projects quickly assembled one or two nights before the science fair and hastily packed off to the school auditorium or gymnasium. A proliferation of baking soda and vinegar volcanoes and solar system models constructed with Styrofoam® balls attests to the lack of creativity or forethought in many science fairs throughout the country.
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The Harvard men's soccer team travels to Hanover, N.H., to take on Dartmouth in an Ivy League showdown Saturday afternoon. The Crimson (2-8-3, 0-3-1) is still in search of its first league victory while the Big Green (7-6-0, 3-1-0) is just one point out of first place in the conference.
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Harvard and Dartmouth have faced each other 85 times, with the Crimson holding a 42-34-9 advantage in the all-time series. The first game between the two teams was played in October, 1921 with the Big Green posting a 2-0 victory in Cambridge. Dartmouth has represented a tough test for the Crimson in recent years, as Harvard is 2-3-1 in its last six games with Dartmouth. Last season, the teams played to a 1-1 draw in Cambridge.
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Coming off a thrilling double-overtime victory over local foe Boston University, the Crimson couldn't make it back-to-back victories as Harvard dropped a narrow, 2-1 decision to Princeton in double overtime last Saturday on the road. The teams were locked in a 0-0 tie for the first 83 minutes of the match, but the hosts crawled out in front at 83:52 with a late tally. The goal served to wake the Crimson up, and the guests answered back two minutes later on a Zack Wolfenzon score. The first overtime went by without incident but just 1:42 into the second extra frame, Alex Wettermann secured the victory with the game-winning goal for the Tigers. Harvard goalie Evan Mendez ended the contest with six saves.
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The Harvard offense is starting to gel in the back half of the season, as the Crimson has scored at least one goal in each of its last five contests. Leading the way for Harvard is senior Zack Wolfenzon, who has seven points on three goals and an assist this year. Rookie forward Oliver White also has three goals on the year, and is one of five Harvard players to have seen action in all 13 games this season. Jake Freeman and Hiroki Kobayashi have a pair of goals each on the season, and sophomore David Barna leads all players with two assists this year, both on set pieces.
Evan Mendez has been the go-to goalie as of late, starting the last three matches for Harvard. The first-year player brings a 1.72 goals-against average and 36 saves into the Dartmouth contest.
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While the Big Green was up and down through its non-conference slate, it has hit its stride in Ivy play, collecting three league wins in four chances. After a 2-1 overtime loss to Princeton in its league opener Sept. 29, Dartmouth went on to down Yale (1-0), Penn (3-1), and Columbia (2-1). The game against the Lions was Dartmouth's most recent contest.
Sophomore forward Alex Adelabu has been a goal-scoring machine for Dartmouth, registering team-high totals of seven tallies and 16 points. Juniors Andoni Georgiou and Patrick Murray have scored three goals each on the year and sophomore Colin Heffron leads the team in assists with four. Junior goalie Noah Cohen has started all but one contest for the Big Green and has made 49 saves on the season to go along with a 1.32 goals-against average and two shutouts.
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Originally a brownish beige with even darker balconies, today whitish, the high-rise remains a handsome building. It helps that the homeowners association enforces a rule that keeps bikes, barbecues, and worse off the balconies and mandates that window coverings be white or off-white and vertical—no Venetian blinds, please.
Both the high-rise and low-rise Eichlers have lost many balconies, as residents have turned them into living space. "It doesn't change the look of the building all that much," says Carol Stack, former president of 66 Cleary Court's board.
Concrete has its advantages. The structure rode the 1989 quake well, with only cosmetic cracking, says Dennis Normandy, a 40-plus-year resident. Thick walls dampen sound between adjoining units, he says, and "fire in one unit is essentially self contained."
But, artist Diane Wiersba says, "The building is like a big, concrete drum," with sound reverberations moving from floor to floor. Residents are discouraged from installing hardwood floors over the original concrete slabs because of noise. "If the upstairs is carpeted," says resident Vince Nevarez, "you don't hear anything."
The concrete slabs contain radiant-heat pipes, which work well—sometimes too well, if you live in the unit below.
"We had neighbors upstairs," Nevarez says. "After they moved in they turned the heat on and never turned it off for four years. The Japanese screen on our wall began curling. It became insufferable in here. It was over 80 degrees constantly."
Over the years, much has changed in the interiors of units in both complexes. The high-rise went condo in 1978, a movement that Normandy helped lead. That started a round of kitchen and bathroom remodeling. "There was ownership involved, you see," Kathie Barr explains, "and that makes a change. People took better care and began decorating."
"It began to have the look of a luxury condo internally as well as externally only after the owners took over," Normandy says.
Units at 66 Cleary Court originally had Philippine mahogany walls but few remain. Don Rogers and Hiroko Kajino share one of the few units that still has original walls, along with an original Eichler kitchen. They credit former longtime owners Fadil and Selma Sabucuoglu for leaving well enough alone.
When units at 66 Cleary are for sale, they are often advertised as Eichlers, but not always. "No one ever mentioned Eichler when we moved in or when we bought," says Diane Wiersbam, who arrived about 15 years ago.
Wiersba, who's recreated her unit's Eichler-style cabinets, says most people in Cleary Court are not sufficiently Eichler-centric. But there are some, including Nevarez, who "respect the original design," as he and his partner Craig Pavlich did when redoing their kitchen.
And the true fans have made their presence known. Several years ago, says longtime resident Connie Knott, 'furor' erupted when the association redid the mailboxes, adding classical dentils. "The Eichler people got really upset when we put this molding up," Carol Stack adds.
Since then, however, more attention is paid to he building's modern aesthetics, says Brad Cheng, the homeowner association's president. Don't expect to see dentils added in the future.
Jung, head of the design committee, has emerged as the tower's architectural conscience. He designed the lobby remodel and is helping redo hallway rugs and colors. "We're taking a hint of the mid-century," he says, "but we're not trying to be retro."
At the Laguna low-rises, Angela Little says, "Quite a few of us like the idea that we're in an Eichler." Some people have restored their units to recapture original flavor—including one owner who restored her original balcony by giving up indoor living space.
Neither the tower nor the low-rise development may throw block parties. But they remain sociable places.
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Pennsylvania and its counties and municipalities may have missed out on as much as $303 million in gas well impact fees in 2012 because state regulators undercounted the number of wells covered by the law, according to an article published this month in the journal Environmental Practice.
The state Department of Environmental Protection was required by the updated drilling law, known as Act 13, to compile a list of all unconventional gas wells that have been "spud" in the state - the first step of drilling. But in a case of "potentially widespread and systemic omissions," the department likely left between 15,300 and 25,100 wells off its list because of errors in its own databases and a failure to include early wells drilled deep into rock formations that fit the law's definition of unconventional wells, researchers at the University of Alberta and McGill University reported in the peer-reviewed paper released late last week.
DEP called the article "fundamentally flawed" in its conclusions and argued against it being published.
According to the paper's authors, the missing wells include more than 1,500 recently spud Marcellus Shale wells the researchers found by comparing five DEP databases that report differing information on the number of wells that have been drilled or inspected or produced waste or gas.
The researchers also tallied nearly 9,800 deep wells spud between 1888 and 1991 that pierced the Tully Limestone, a geological formation deeper than shales they said should have triggered the wells' definition as "unconventional" under the law. And they count about 4,000 wells drilled between 1992 and early 2007 into the Medina Group, a formation they said requires hydraulic fracturing to produce commercial amounts of gas.
The authors have identified 15,300 of the wells by name, number and location. Another 9,800 deep wells identified by the state Bureau of Topographic and Geological Survey would also fit the "unconventional" definition, but are considered "missing" from the state's records, they found.
If all of the known and probable wells identified by the researchers had been levied impact fees in 2012, the state would have collected an additional $303 million - more than double the $204 million the state did collect.
In a response to the article, the state disputed the researchers' interpretations of key terms in the law and argued they ignored its legislative intent and the department's work to improve the list.
A DEP spokesman said the department provided an accurate and complete list of unconventional wells to the state Public Utility Commission, which collects and administers the fee, and the wells the researchers identify as omitted were never subject to the fee.
"The authors of this report simply do not understand the criteria for what is and is not eligible for the impact fee, despite having been presented information in the past that clearly explained this to them," DEP spokesman Kevin Sunday said.
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SALT LAKE CITY— Salt Lake City has joined more than a dozen other U.S. cities in urging national leaders to use the Clean Air Act to reduce greenhouse gas pollution and slow global warming. The city council, in passing a resolution Tuesday night, is the latest city to join the Center for Biological Diversity's national Clean Air Cities campaign.
"Salt Lake City has taken an active role in addressing climate change for many years. We know the long-term impacts in the Rocky Mountain region are real, and that even with our best local efforts we must strengthen our partnership with the federal government to address climate change provisions only available through the Clean Air Act," said Soren Simonsen, chair of the Salt Lake City Council. "We join many U.S. cities, as well as many advocates in our own community, in asking the Environmental Protection Agency to accelerate its efforts."
"By passing this resolution, Salt Lake City recognizes the gravity of the global climate crisis and supports one key solution: the Clean Air Act," said Rose Braz, the Center's climate campaign director. "Cities around the country, from Seattle to Pittsburgh, have spoken with an urgent message to our national leaders: If we're going to avert a climate catastrophe, the time to act is now."
In Utah, the Governor's Blue Ribbon Advisory Council on Climate Change examined climate trends in the state. Among the key findings made by the scientist-led panel are that Utah can expect to warm faster than other parts of the world, resulting in fewer frost days, longer growing seasons and more heat waves. If the trend continues, there will be a decline in snowpack and a threat of severe and prolonged droughts. Utah should expect less Colorado River water and, unless precipitation rises, lower lake levels and increased saltiness.
"I'm heartened that the Salt Lake City Council recognizes the danger of climate disruption and is urging the Obama administration to quit dithering and use the tools at hand in the Clean Air Act to curb greenhouse gas emissions," said Bob Brister, membership coordinator for the Utah Environmental Congress. "It's important that local governments urge action by the federal government on this urgent local, national and global concern when the administration is failing to uphold its responsibility."
The Center's Clean Air Cities campaign is working with volunteers around the country to encourage cities to pass resolutions supporting the Clean Air Act and using the Act to reduce carbon in our atmosphere to no more than 350 parts per million, the level scientists say is needed to avoid catastrophic climate change.
Similar resolutions have been approved in Cincinnati and Oberlin, Ohio; Seattle, Wash.; Kansas City, Mo.; Albany, N.Y.; Tucson, Ariz.; Boone, N.C.; Pittsburgh, Penn.; Minneapolis, Minn.; Santa Fe, N.M.; Cambridge, Mass.; Madison and Milwaukee, Wis., and Arcata, Richmond, Berkeley, Oxnard, Santa Cruz and Santa Monica, Calif. Several other cities around the country will be considering resolutions over the next few months.
Learn more about the Center's Clean Air Cities campaign and get the facts about the Clean Air Act.
The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than 350,000 members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places.
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The general liability policy issued to the Boy Scouts of America provides primary liability insurance coverage for all chartered organizations for liability arising out of their sponsorship of a traditional Scouting unit. Automobile and maritime liability coverage is provided on a secondary or excess basis. All vehicles used in Scouting activities must be covered by automobile liability insurance with limits that meet or exceed the requirements of the state in which the vehicle is licensed. A $100,000 combined single limit is recommended. Any vehicle designed to carry 10 or more passengers is required to have limits of $100,000/$500,000/$100,000 or $500,000 combined single limit. All boats/vessels used in Scouting must be insured by the owner for liability exposures. The amount of coverage is determined by the size and usage of the boat. $1,000,000 is recommended.
A copy of the chartered organization endorsement which is a part of the insurance policy is available upon request. This should be attached to the chartered organization agreement at charter renewal. These endorsements are part of the actual insurance policy contract and are binding documents. Chartered organizations do not need a certificate of insurance. The chartered organization endorsement is a part of the insurance policy contract and is enforceable under the policy contract. When you have a request from a chartered organization for a certificate of insurance, offer them the endorsement.
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There's a full preview at the bottom of this post and you can pick it up at Traxsource here.
But that's not the sole purpose for this post. In addition to making tracks and designing presets, I've been working on a different approach to sound itself that I hope you'll dig.
The idea is simple: Recreate real-world soundscapes as accurately as possible using synthesis – in this case, Ableton's Operator softsynth – so that the result is a virtual environment that sounds real, but was created entirely in Live.
In keeping with all of this Halloween spookiness, my first work in this medium is called "The Haunting" and it's a two-minute composition inspired by the classic haunted house meme.
Below is a Soundcloud audio preview. I'm also including the entire Ableton project file so people with Live and Operator (or Suite) can check out each sound and explore how it was created. And yes, you can use it in commercial projects - as long as you please credit me and send a courtesy notification. I'm easy that way.
This is completely new territory for me as an artist, so I hope it inspires people to delve deeper into sound design. I definitely have more projects like these and I plan to give them away on this blog as a way to teach producers that there's more you can do with synths besides make them beep.
(And if you appreciate what I'm doing here and want to show some love, please buy "A Night At The Opera" on Traxsource.)
You can follow me on Twitter and Facebook too, for more music tech info :)
Download The Haunting [Requires Ableton Live 9.2 and Operator]


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North America looked different in the past and will likely be different in the future. Learn why in the Sky Tour, which includes sweeping visuals from Making North America and Google Earth flyovers to bring you the story of the geological forces that shaped our continent.
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Okay, now we're really getting into swing of the preseason watch lists. The Maxwell Football Club released two preseason watch lists today for the Maxwell Award and the Bednarik Award.
The Maxwell Award, the watch list for which you can view below, is given annually to the player of the year in college football. Last year's winner was Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o. Te'o made history in 2012 when he became the first player to win both the Maxwell and the Bednarik in the same year.
This year's watch list features a whopping 76 players. Semifinalists from last year's Maxwell Award — Clemson QB Tajh Boyd, USC WR Marqise Lee, Texas A&M QB Johnny Manziel, Alabama QB AJ McCarron, Ohio State QB Braxton Miller and Oregon RB De'Anthony Thomas — are featured on this year's watch list.
The winner of the Maxwell will be announced at the Home Depot College Football Awards Show on Dec. 12.
We'll have the Bednarik preseason watch list a little later today, but here's the Maxwell watch list.
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SKF Solution Factory opens in Birmingham, Alabama
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Gothenburg, Sweden, 21 October 2014: SKF announces the opening of its latest SKF Solution Factory. Located in Birmingham, Alabama, the facility is designed to provide customers with a single point of access to SKF's range of industrial and application knowledge. This is the third SKF Solution Factory to open in the United States and the sixth in North America.
"With every SKF Solution Factory that we open, we bring SKF knowledge closer to our customers," said Vartan Vartanian, President, SKF Industrial Market, Regional Sales and Service. "We have many customers in this part of the United States, from a wide range of industries, so it makes a lot of sense for the next step in our global expansion to take place here in Birmingham."
The new facility offers an extensive range of SKF services and solutions, including application and reliability engineering, customized machined sealing solutions, mechanical services, asset diagnostic services and a full spectrum of training courses.
This is the second SKF Solution Factory to open during 2014, taking the Group's total to 29 across the world.
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SKF is a leading global supplier of bearings, seals, mechatronics, lubrication systems, and services which include technical support, maintenance and reliability services, engineering consulting and training. SKF is represented in more than 130 countries and has around 15,000 distributor locations worldwide. Annual sales in 2013 were SEK 63,597 million and the number of employees was 48,401. www.skf.com
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What better way is there to spend a Sunday afternoon than eating lobster or steak (or a hamburger or hot dog) on the waterfront while listening to great blues music? Add to it that the event is a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity of Waldo County and you've hit the jackpot.
On Sunday, Aug. 17, from noon to 3 p.m. at Steamboat Landing (at the foot of Commercial Street in Belfast) volunteers will be cooking and serving lobsters, steak, hamburgers and hot dogs, clams, corn on the cob, chips and homemade pies, and the best Blues Band in Maine, Juke Rockets, will be providing the music.
Members of Juke Rockets Blues Band include Carlene Thornton, Willy Kelly, Steve Mellor and Tim Woitowitz and they know how to play the blues.
Tickets for the event are $25 for the lobster or steak plate and $10 for a hamburger or hot dog plate and can be reserved by calling 338-2344, from any Habitat board member or stopping by the Mailloux and Marden Law Offices on High Street in Belfast.


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On March 12, 2013, twenty-six 4th and 5th grade students from Open Classroom Leadership Magnet in Thousand Oaks, CA visited Pepperdine University. During their tour of the campus, they stopped by Payson Library to look at the exhibit "Becoming America: An Exhibition of Colonial Documents" on display through the end of March. The students were able to connect what they learned in the classroom with the materials on display.
Katie Richardson, Archivist for Special Collections and University Archives had the following to say about the tour: "It was great to show the students the materials and see a few of them get excited about what was on display. We have a document with King George III's signature on it. One student came up to me and asked, 'Is that really his signature?' At which point I responded yes. Her eyes lit up and she said 'Cool!' I'm so happy some of the students were really able to connect with the materials."
The students also had the opportunity to tour the surfboard room. The room includes 30 historic surfboards on loan from local Malibu resident John Mazza.
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Whitman coin supplies made by Whitman Publishing have been defining coin collecting and supporting coin collectors since the 1930s. In addition to numerous innovations in coin albums and coin folders, Whitman is the publisher of the Blue Book and the Red Book, two of the most important pricing guides in numismatics. First published in 1946, the Red Book, or The Official Red Book: A Guide Book of United States Coins, is the de facto bible for coin collectors who are buying coins.
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As with most manufacturers, Whitman coin products have evolved over the years, incorporating innovative techniques for coin management and storage. Whitman coin books represent some of the most important and respected literature in coin collecting. WizardCoinSupply.com offers a large selection of Whitman coin books and other Whitman coin supplies at everyday discount prices. If it is important to coin collectors, Whitman makes it – and we sell it. If you are having difficulty finding the Whitman products you seek, please contact us and a member of our staff will be happy to help you.
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Whitman coin collecting supplies have been inspiring collectors for decades. Richard Yeoman started it all back in the 1930s when he was hired by Western Publishing as a commercial artist. Yeoman was a coin collector himself and took a special interest in some of the coin boards being produced by Whitman, a children's book division at Western. Yeoman developed a large distribution network for his coin boards and was instrumental in bringing coin collecting to mainstream America. Today, Whitman is still one of the most recognized names in numismatics.


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TopicHebrew language lesson plans.
AuthorStephanie Stang
PostedMon, May 27th 2019 20:31 PM
As a general rule, begin working on plans for the next week no later than Thursday. By then you will have an idea of which lessons weren`t completed, the objectives that need to be reinforced, and which upcoming school-wide activities need to be integrated into your plan. If you leave the planning until Friday after school, it may not get done!
Questions to "Think Aloud" as You Prepare Lessons:
~ Students: What are the academic, social, physical, personal, and emotional needs of my students?
~ Strategies: Which teaching strategies will best facilitate my students learning?
~ Grouping: Should I group heterogeneously or homogeneously? What size should my groups be?
~ Timing: When is the best time to do this lesson? Are there prerequisites my students should have mastered?
~ Materials: What materials and human resources do I need for the lesson to be successful?
~ Success: Was the lesson successful? Were my students interested? Did my students learn? What didn`t work? What will I do differently next time?
~ Sequence: What can I do next to build upon this lesson? How can I make it flow?
~ Rationale: What is the reason for doing this? What objectives will be accomplished?


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Researchers are analyzing the molecular pathways that plants use for photosynthesis.
Researchers have been trying for decades to improve upon Mother Nature's favorite solar-power trick — photosynthesis — but now they finally think they see the sunlight at the end of the tunnel.
"We now understand photosynthesis much better than we did 20 years ago," said Richard Cogdell, a botanist at the University of Glasgow who has been doing research on bacterial photosynthesis for more than 30 years. He and three colleagues discussed their efforts to tweak the process that powers the world's plant life today in Vancouver, Canada, during the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The researchers are taking different approaches to the challenge, but what they have in common is their search for ways to get something extra out of the biochemical process that uses sunlight to turn carbon dioxide and water into sugar and oxygen. "You can really view photosynthesis as an assembly line with about 168 steps," said Steve Long, head of the University of Illinois' Photosynthesis and Atmospheric Change Laboratory.
Revving up Rubisco
Howard Griffiths, a plant physiologist at the University of Cambridge, just wants to make improvements in one section of that assembly line. His research focuses on ways to get more power out of the part of the process driven by an enzyme called Rubisco. He said he's trying to do what many auto mechanics have done to make their engines run more efficiently: "You turbocharge it."
Some plants, such as sugar cane and corn, already have a turbocharged Rubisco engine, thanks to a molecular pathway known as C4. Geneticists believe the C4 pathway started playing a significant role in plant physiology in just the past 10 million years or so. Now Griffiths is looking into strategies to add the C4 turbocharger to rice, which ranks among the world's most widely planted staple crops.
The new cellular machinery might be packaged in a micro-compartment that operates within the plant cell. That's the way biochemical turbochargers work in algae and cyanobacteria. Griffiths and his colleagues are looking at ways to create similar micro-compartments for higher plants. The payoff would come in the form of more efficient carbon dioxide conversion, with higher crop productivity as a result. "For a given amount of carbon gain, the plant uses less water," Griffiths said.
Making the grid more efficient
Anne K. Jones, a biochemist at Arizona State University, wants to make use of the power that goes to waste during photosynthesis. On a sunny day, a plant's molecular machinery generates more electrons than the Rubisco carbohydrate-producing engine can handle. "A lot of those electrons get thrown away," she said.
In this sense, photosynthesis is like "a badly connected electrical grid," Jones said. She's studying ways to use biological nanowires to transfer the extra energy from the light-harvesting cell into another cell that's genetically engineered to produce fuel or food. The nanowires would be analogous to electrical transmission lines, distributing power from one part of the grid to another.
Jones said filaments found on the surface of many bacterial species, known as pili, could be adapted for this purpose. Other researchers have already been looking into using those filaments as the basis for bioelectronic circuits.
"Components in future systems need not even be biological, so long as they interface with the wires developed in this project, paving the way for hybrid biological/inorganic photosynthetic systems," Jones explained in an abstract for her presentation.
Creating an artificial leaf
Jones' research meshes with Cogdell's efforts to adapt the chemistry of photosynthesis ujsing synthetic biology. Cogdell's project, backed by Britain's Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, is aimed at developing an artificial leaf that produces a dense, portable fuel you could put in your car.
"We would aim to produce hydrocarbon fuel from carbon dioxide," he said. His favorite candidate is terpene, the main ingredient in the plant resins that are today distilled into turpentine. Under the right conditions, terpene behaves "rather like octane," Cogdell said.
He envisions a process in which carbon dioxide and water are chemically processed to produce a scummy sheen of terpene, which could be skimmed off and turned into fuel. Even though the end product is a hydrocarbon, the process would be carbon-neutral because of the CO2 capture, Cogdell said.
"We can't do it yet, but we have a dream," he told me.
Whether the future belongs to artificial leaves, or nanowired bacteria, or turbocharged rice, all these researchers believe that coming up with a better way to turn sunlight into energy is a crucial challenge for the next generation. They estimated that there was only a 30- to 50-year window for completing the transition from the fossil-fuel era to the age of total renewable energy.
Griffiths said the next generation will need more food as well as more fuel. He referred to the "green revolution" that has transformed global agriculture over the past half-century, and added that "what we now need is a new green revolution for the next 50 years."
Cogdell echoed that view: "This is one of the grand challenges that mankind faces," he said.
Do you agree? Which path will lead us out of the energy crunch, the climate-change conundrum and the fuel-vs.-food debate we're dealing with today? Please feel free to weigh in with your comments below.
More on the future of plants:
- 'Artificial leaf' makes real fuel
- Mimicking plant evolution proves fruitful
- Chinese automaker suggests photosynthesizing car
- Six green-energy ideas so crazy they just might work
More from the AAAS meeting in Vancouver:
- Answers ahead for physics' deepest mysteries
- Scientists revive sounds of Stonehenge and other sacred spaces
- Gas-drilling gaffes aren't unique to fracking, study says
Alan Boyle is science editor at msnbc.com. Connect with the Cosmic Log community by "liking" the log's Facebook page, following @b0yle on Twitter or adding the Cosmic Log Google+ page to your circles. You can also check out "The Case for Pluto," my book about the controversial dwarf planet and the search for new worlds.