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But before we get bogged down by tons of free learning repositories, here are few good starting points to find and know more about OER and OCW:
- EdX
- EdX is a not-for-profit enterprise of its founding partners Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that features learning designed specifically for interactive study via the web. EdX's goals combine the desire to reach out to students of all ages, means, and nations, and to deliver these teachings from a faculty who reflect the diversity of its audience.
- Courserasocial entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. We envision a future where the top universities are educating not only thousands of students, but millions. Our technology enables the best professors to teach tens or hundreds of thousands of students.
- Udemy
Empowers anyone to build and share their course(s) online for free or even commercially.
- Khan Academy
The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Currently, you can find 2000+ short video tutorials on (mostly maths, but also history, finance, etc.), online exercises and visual tracking and progress reports to support your learning.
- Udacity
Udacity was founded by three roboticists who believed much of the educational value of their university classes could be offered online. A few weeks later, over 160,000 students in more than 190 countries enrolled in our first class, "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence."
- Extreme Learning
Extreme learning blends physical and digital environments, concentrating on activities that enlist technology in uncommon or unique ways. Extreme learning also includes more sedate and passive forms of learning including watching an online video in TED, LinkTV, CurrentTV, or YouTube. Through extreme learning Web resources, those stuck behind prison walls, injured and in a hospital bed, or unemployed and unable to pay for college tuition can learn to be more productive members of society.
- Einztein
Find free online courses. Connect your favorite courses to relevant learning resources. Exchange knowledge and information with other members whose academic interests match yours. Join peers and professors in exploring the newest academic frontier: free online courses.
- Virtual Professors
Delivers interesting Free College Online Courses to you each day. They are handpicked from some of the most interesting free online college courses from the best universities and seminars held from around the world. In addition, you'll find a handy directory to universities which have free college online courses.
- Academic Earth
An educational video website with the goal of enhancing the usability and expanding the awareness of OER, focusing first on video lectures.
- YouTube EDU
YouTube has aggregated all of the videos from its college and university partners - including luminaries like Stanford, Harvard, and Dartmouth - in one place.
- OCW/OER Search
This Google customed search engine enables you to search the sites that are linked from this post (with a few filters, too). Click here to view Tony Hirst's (Credit to him for the super idea!) OER/OCW search version, which also searches sites linked on this post. Click here to view Scott Leslie's upgraded version, which brings it to a Do-It-Together level by using a Wiki enabling anyone to add OER/OCW links (URLs).
- Makes it easy for open education resource providers to provide links to related resources. A good starting point to search and find relevant OER resources.
- FolksemanticBrowse and search over 110,000 Open Education Resources (OERs). "This is an open educational resource recommender. There's also a website widget and a Firefox extension. The system basically provides access to NSDL resources, but also Johns Hopkins, MERLOT and MIT-OCW resources. OER Recommender now has real-time analysis of OER resources related to other web pages (eg. Amazon). It's all free and open source, and the code is available" - Stephen Downes
- OER Commons
A global teaching and learning network of free-to-use resources – from K-12 lesson plans to college courseware – for you to use, tag, rate, and review.
- Open Courseware Directory You will find 7 groups of subject-specific open courseware, including specialized resources for each subject. It is an annotated listing of publicly available courseware (lecture notes, handouts, slides, tutorial material, exam questions, quizzes, videos, demonstrations, etc) from the world's universities, colleges and other educational institutions
- OpenCourseWare Consortium
The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 200 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model.
- Free Online Courses
It includes thousands of links to courses in subjects ranging from architecture to chemistry to women's studies and these courses are prepared by top institutions such as MIT, Yale University and University of California.
- WikiEducator
An evolving community intended for the collaborative planning of education projects linked with the development of OER. development of free content on Wikieducator for e-learning; work on building open education resources (OERs) on how to create OERs.
- Wikiversity
Wikibooks, Collection of open-content textbooks. Wikiversity is intended for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities.
- UNESCO OER Community
This site was originally created by the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) as a place where members of the UNESCO OER Community can work together on questions, issues and documents. There are some wonderful resources here providing you with relevant information needed to understand what OER is about, how to use/contribute/collaborate, and how to move forward (e.g. OER: the Way Forward , OER stories, OER presentations and UNESCO OER Toolkit)
- OER Blogs
An initiative from MIT's OpenCourseWare project to aggregate and stimulate discussion about open educational resources. It is a great resource to keep yourself updated about the latest trends and developments in OCW and OER.
- Open Education News
A number of individuals from the US, South Africa, and eventually other locations daily monitor the internet for news related to open education. It is essentially a group blog.
- Open Education - Free Education For All
This site led by Thomas J. Hanson is dedicated to tracking the changes occurring in education today.
Why start bookmarking free learning content out there from scratch, when there are great people out there that have already assembled amazing OCW collections for us to explore (for free!). Here are a few amazing OCW collections shared by special people out there:
- 1,000+ Open Textbooks and Learning Resources for All Subjects
- The 100 Best Open Education Resources on the Web
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- MIT OCW - Audio/Video Courses
- MIT OCW - YouTube
- MIT World
- MIT TechTV
- Harvard University
- Harvard Business Online (Podcasts)
- Harvard - Homeric Odyssey..Justice (Podcasts)
- Harvard - Kennedy School of Gov (Podcasts)
- Harvard Law School (Podcasts)
- Classics Podcasts (Harvard)
- BerkmanCenter's Channel (Harvard Law School) (YouTube)
- BokTube - BokCenter's YouTube Channel (Harvard) (YouTube)
- University of California
- UC Irvine (OCW)
- University of California, Berkeley (Podcasts)
- Berkeley on iTunes (Podcasts)
- University of California (Berkeley) (YouTube)
- University of California Television (UCTV) (YouTube)
- Berkeley YouTube Lectures
- U California eScholarship Repository
- CalTech Today (Podcasts)
- Berkeley Multimedia Research Center (Podcasts)
- Berkeley Resources (Podcasts)
- Princeton
- UChannel (Princeton) (YouTube)
- Princeton U's Event SM (Podcasts)
- Princeton U's New Media Center (Podcasts)
- Princeton University Channel (Podcasts)
- Princeton University WebMedia (Podcasts)
- Stanford University
- Stanford on iTunes (Podcasts)
- Stanford University's Entrepreneurship Corner
- Stanford University (Edu. Corner) (Podcasts)
- Stanford University Audio/Video (Podcasts)
- Stanford on YouTube
- Stanford Center for Professional Development Free Engineering Seminars
- Yale University
- Open Yale Courses (OCW)
- Yale University (Podcasts)
- Johns Hopkins University- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (OCW)
- Johns Hopkins U (Podcasts)
- Rice University
- Connexions (OCW)
- Rice University (Podcasts)
- Carnegie Mellon University- Open Learning Initiative (OCW)
- Carnegie Mellon (YouTube)
- University of Michigan
- Open.Michigan (OER)
- Open.Michigan (YouTube)
- Knowledge Wharton
- University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- Alleghany College
- American University (Law)
- Arizona State University
- Boston College (Front Row)
- Buffalo State College
- Butte College
- Carleton University Television
- Case School of Law
- Center for Int. Studies (Chicago)
- College of DuPage
- Dartmouth Chance
- Drexel University
- Duke University Multimedia
- Georgetown University Forum
- Georgetown University Webcasts
- Georgia College & State U
- Kansas State University (Landon)
- Lewis & Clark Law School
- Mathematical Sc. Res. Inst.
- Montclair State University
- Perdue Boilercast
- Rockefeller University
- Southwest Tech's CourseCasts
- St. Edward's University
- Swarthmore College U Lectures
- UCLA Bruincast
- UCLA Webcasts
- University of Arizona College of Law
- University of British Columbia
- University of California TV
- University of Connecticut
- University of New South Wales
- University of Oregon
- University of Southern California
- University of Texas
- University of Virginia
- University of Warwick
- University of Washington TV
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Vanderbilt University
- Weber University
- Western Kentucky University
- York College Lectures
- The Open University
- University College Falmouth (UCF)
- Cambridge University (Podcasts)
- London School of Economics (Podcasts)
- University of Nottingham (Podcasts)
- Oxford Internet University (Podcasts)
- University of Bath (Podcasts)
- Times-Online MBA Broadcasts (Podcasts)
- Oxford University Saïd Business School (YouTube)
- ParisTech "Graduate School" (11 universities - French)
- Grenoble Ecole de Management (French)
- UniversitySurf (French)
- Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) (English)
- Open Universiteit Nederland (Dutch)
- OpenCourseWare Universia (10 universities - Spanish, Catalan, Galician)
- European Graduate School (EGS) (YouTube)
- National Chiao Tung University (Chinese)
- Tecnológico de Monterrey (Spanish)
- Universidad de Monterrey (Spanish)
- OER Africa
OER Africa is an innovative initiative established by the South African Institute for Distance Education (Saide) to play a leading role in driving the development and use of Open Educational Resources (OER) across all education sectors on the African continent.
- China Open Resources for Education (Simplified Chinese)
- Chulalongkorn University (Thai)
- Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System (Traditional Chinese)
- Universia (Portuguese)
- Universia (Spanish)
- Novell OpenCourseWare
Novell OpenCourseWare is a collection of educational materials developed by Novell Training Services for authorized courses and other customer training purposes.
Below is a list of OER/FREE learning repositories that are not directly linked with any particular university, but are still wonderful repositories or collections of free content that we can in some way or the other use for our courses:
- Wikipedia
Wikipedia is an amazing encyclopedia (of anything you can think of!) written collaboratively by many of its readers.
Find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials.
- Wikinews
Free-content online news source where any site visitor can add or edit stories.
- Answers.com
Answers.com offers free access to millions of topics from the world's leading publishers.
- Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
- Fathom Archive
Offers access to the complete range of free content developed for Fathom by its member institutions including lectures, articles, interviews, exhibits and free seminars.
The Global Learning Objects Brokered Exchange (GLOBE) is an international consortium that strives to make shared online learning resources available to educators and students around the world.
- dgCommunities
dgCommunities (Provided by Development Gateway Foundation) is a collaborative space for professionals working to reduce poverty and promote sustainable development worldwide (Members in more than 200 countries).
- HowStuffWorks
HowStuffWorks explains hundreds of subjects, from car engines to lock-picking to ESP, using clear language and tons of illustrations.
- A useful collection and starting point to discover open courses online.
- OpenDOAR
Is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Each OpenDOAR repository has been visited by project staff to check the information that is recorded here.
- AT&T Knowledge Network Explorer - Blue Web'n Homepage
Blue Web'n is a huge online library categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects). The content categories available are: arts, business, education, English, foreign languages, health, history and social studies, maths, science, technology among others.
- Monterey Institute for Technology and Education National Repository of Online Courses (NROC)
A growing library of high-quality online courses for students and faculty in higher education, high school and Advanced Placement. Courses in the NROC library are contributed by developers from leading online-learning programs across the US.
- Apple Learning Interchange
Is a social network for educators, where you can find content ranging from simple lesson ideas to in-depth curriculum units for K-12 and Higher Education.
The core of the ARIADNE infrastructure is a distributed network of learning repositories.
The Campus Alberta Repository of Educational Objects (CAREO) project aims to create both an online repository of educational objects for post-secondary educators and a community that both creates and supports those objects.
- Intute
A free online service providing you with access to Web resources for education and research. Areas: Science and Technology, Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Health and Life, and Sciences.
- Ideas
An initiative by the University of Wisconsin to identify, evaluate, catalog, and align to the Wisconsin education standards resources that are already on the Internet, such as lesson plans and reference materials.
Jorum is a free online repository service for teaching and support staff in UK Further and Higher Education Institutions, helping to build a community for the sharing, reuse and repurposing of learning and teaching materials.
- LeMill - Learning Mill
Web community for finding, authoring and sharing learning resources.
- Curriki (K-12)
Internet site for Open Source Curriculum (OSC), which will provide universal access to free curricula and instructional materials for grades K-12.
- DAREnet
DAREnet is a search service which gives free access to academic research output in the Netherlands. DAREnet consists of more than 146.000 digital objects.
- EdNA Online (Aus)
Education Network Australia (edna) is Australia's leading online resource collection and collaborative network for the education and training community.
- EducaNext
EducaNext is a service supporting the creation and sharing of knowledge for Higher Education.
- Eureka
A collective catalog of teaching and learning resources gathered by various organizations involved in the production of ITC educational resources.
- ALISON (Workplace Skills)
Including Touch Typing Skills, European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL), British Computer Society (BCS) Unit E, Financial Literacy and e-Citizen.
- HippoCampus (High School)
Multimedia and course materials that can help students with their homework and studies.
- Maricopa Learning eXchange
Is an electronic warehouse of ideas, examples, and resources (represented as "packages") that support student learning at the Maricopa Community Colleges.
Professional Educational Organization International (PEOI) was created, and is run by volunteers who believe that it is time for open post secondary education be made available to all free of charge.
- WannaLearn.com
Here you can find over 350 categories of free, first-rate, family-safe online tutorials, guides and instructionally oriented Websites.
- LoLa Exchange
LoLa is an exchange for facilitating the sharing of high-quality learning objects. It contains materials for use across the curriculum, with a particular focus on modules for Information Literacy.
- TeacherTube
Online community for sharing instructional videos.
- T4 Tips Podcasts
Audio and video educational technology podcasts providing you tips, guidance and ideas on how to use different learning tools to facilitate effective learning.
- GEM (Gateway to 21st Century Skills)
Thousands of free lesson plans and other teaching and learning resources.
- SuTree (Educational Videos)
SuTree is a knowledge community and an aggregator of instructional & educational videos.
- EdTechTalk
A community of educators interested in discussing and learning about the uses of educational technology. They webcast several live shows each week.
- VideoLectures.Net
Free access to high-quality scientific video lectures.
- The nanoHUB
Is a rich, web-based resource for research, education and collaboration in nanotechnology. The nanoHUB hosts over 1600 resources which will help you learn about nanotechnology, including Online Presentations, Courses, Learning Modules, Podcasts, Animations, Teaching Materials, and more. Most importantly, the nanoHUB offers simulation tools which you can access from your web browser, so you can not only learn about but also simulate nanotechnology devices.
- Computer Science Teaching Center
A digital archive of peer reviewed resources for teaching computer science. Submission restricted to registered users.
Computing and IT Interactive Digital Educational Library Repository (CITIDEL) is a great resource to discover computer Science education and research materials.
- e-LEE (Electrical Engineering)
e-Learning tools for Electrical Engineering.
- Exploratories
A project of Brown University's Computer Graphics Research Group to create a set of exemplary Web-based learning objects (Java applets) that teach concepts in introductory computer graphics at the college and graduate level. Users can download complete Java applets, or build their own from the components collection.
- EEVL (Engineering, Maths & Comp.)
A guide to engineering, mathematics and computing information on the internet.
- iLumina
iLumina is a digital library of sharable undergraduate teaching materials for chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, and computer science.
- SMETE Digital Library
Here you can access a wealth of teaching and learning materials as well as join this expanding community of science, math, engineering and technology explorers of all ages.
- arXiv.org e-Print archive
arXiv, set up by Cornell University, is an e-Print archive specializing in Physics, Mathematics, Nonlinear Sciences, Computer Science and Quantitative Biology.
- HEAL (Health Education Assets Library)
HEAL's mission is to provide free digital resources of the highest quality that meet the needs of today's health sciences educators.
- College of Health Professions (COHP) Online Learning Resources
Including Dental Hygiene, Health Science, Communicative Sciences & Disorders Medical Technology, Nursing Radiologic Sciences, Respiratory Therapy and Physical Therapy.
- The Digital Scriptorium
Is an image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research.
- John Locker - Free Documentaries
Educate yourself with free documentaries online on History, Science, Music, War, Religions, Politics, Conspiracies, and more!
- The Math Forum (Drexel University)
The Math Forum Is a the leading online resource for improving math learning, teaching, and communication since 1992, created by teachers, mathematicians, researchers, students, and parents. It offers a wealth of problems and puzzles, online mentoring, research, team problem solving, collaborations and professional development.
- Math World
A mathematical specific repository, created by Wolfram Research. Contains web based (HTML) resources about algebra, applied mathematics, calculus and analysis, discrete mathematics, geometry, history, number theory, probability, statistics and topology, etc.
- Eduforge
Eduforge is an open access environment designed for the sharing of ideas, research outcomes, open content and open source software for education.
- W3Schools
At W3Schools you will find all the Web-building tutorials you need, from basic HTML and XHTML to advanced XML, SQL, Database, Multimedia and WAP.
- Edumax
Edumax is an online learning website that provides free lessons on topics from personal development to computer programming.
- Google Book Search
In addition to searching, viewing and downloading books, you also receive links to reviews, references, and even a world map showing every location mentioned in the book.
- Gutenberg Project
Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks.
- Scribd
Research, ebooks, poetry, presentations, schoolwork, and more are all available on this site.
- LearnOutLoud.com
Browse over 15,000 educational audio books, MP3 downloads, podcasts, and videos.
- Librivox
LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Their goal is to make all public domain (under U.S. right) books available as free audio books. It is a volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project.
- Global Text Project
The project will create open content electronic textbooks that will be freely available from a Web site.
- Textbook Revolution
All of the books are offered for free by their respective copyright holders for online viewing. The categories of the textbooks are: Biology, Business & Management, Chemistry, Computers-Tech, Earth Sciences, Economics, Engineering, Health Sciences & Medical, History, Math and Physics.
- The Oxford Text Archive
It collects, catalogues, preserves and distributes high-quality digital resources for research and teaching. They are currently holding thousands of texts in more than 25 different languages, and are actively working to extend their catalogue of holdings.
- freetechbooks.com
This site offers free books, text books, and lecture notes for computer science, engineering, and computer programming students and professionals.
- Free Online Programming Books
A list of 300+ free programming books available on the Internet.
- Great Books Index
Browse by author or title to find text for several books from the Encyclopaedia Britannica's Great Books of the Western World.
- CIA World Factbook
Current, in-depth data on every country in the world.
- World Digital Library
Will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials.
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text.
OAIster is a union catalog for a wide range of digital resources. They provide access to these digital resources by "harvesting" their descriptive metadata (records) using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting).
- Columbia University Libraries Digital Collections
Find more than 10 different digital collections that range from medieval and early Renaissance manuscripts to architectural drawings or visit the online exhibitions for even more.
- Library of Congress Digital Collections (US)
It is considered the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections.
- Universal Digital Library
Their goal is to preserve every printed book digitally in this resource. The library currently holds one million books in its collection.
- NEEDS Digital Library
A digital library with links to online learning materials in engineering and related areas of science and math.
NSDL - The National Science Digital Library (US)
The Nation's (US) online library for education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics.
- eGranary Digital Library
Provides millions of digital educational resources to institutions lacking adequate Internet access.
- TED Talks
Inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers.
- Big Think
A new and growing website, currently in its beta version, with a simple mission: to move the discussion away from talking heads and talking points, and give it back to you.
- FORA.tv
FORA.tv delivers discourse, discussions and debates on the world's most interesting political, social and cultural issues, and enables viewers to join the conversation.
- WGBH (Free Public Lectures)
Free live and on-demand lectures given by some of the world's foremost scholars, authors, artists, scientists, policy makers and community leaders.
- Annenberg Media Resources
Annenberg Media's multimedia resources help teachers increase their expertise in their fields and assist them in improving their teaching methods.
- Flickr
Flickr is photo distributed classification system. It is useful for managing and sharing photos over the Internet. If users want to use a photo of another photographer, if they have created an account they can contact each other through the Flickr intranet. Copyright issues are solved with Creative Commons Licences. You can find millions of free images here, which we can use to spice up our learning content.
- Education Podcast Network
The Education Podcast Network is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century.
- Creative Commons
Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."
- GoogleTalks
Google events featuring everyone from newsmakers to bestselling authors (Joseph Stieglitz, Obama, Richard Florida, etc.).
- Google Tech Talks
There are a large number of technical talks at Google. Many of these are videotaped, and some are made available for external viewing right here.
- The Nobel Prize
It brings you fascinating insights into the minds of current and past Nobel Laureates.
- TED Talks
This is the YouTube version of TED Talks, which is a collection of inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers.
- FORA.tv
The YouTube version of FORA.tv, which delivers discourse, discussions and debates on the world's most interesting political, social and cultural issues, and enables viewers to join the conversation.
- Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
It's mission is to promote in-depth coverage of international affairs, focusing on topics that have been under-reported, mis-reported - or not reported at all. The videos you see in this YouTube collection are one part of larger reporting projects from around the world.
- BBC Worldwide
The Best of British TV. Top Gear, Mighty Boosh, Doctor Who, Attenborough, Parkinson, Catherine Tate & the rest from BBC Worldwide!
- National Geographic
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If you wanted to use macros in Google Spreadsheets, there's a good news: Google Apps Script is now available for all Google Docs users. That means you can write scripts for performing repetitive actions, creating custom functions or even adding advanced features to Google Spreadsheets.
You can try one of the featured scripts by opening a spreadsheet, clicking on the "Insert" menu and selecting "Script". Unfortunately, Google's sample scripts aren't very useful: you can play Hangman, draw a fractal, convert a named range to a CSV file or translate the text from a cell into 10 other languages.
After installing a script, you need to reload the spreadsheet to be able to use it. Then you have to find the UI element that triggers the script: usually it's a new menu. Clicking on the menu entry doesn't run the script: you first need to authorize the script and then you have to click on the menu entry one more time. It's not user friendly.
To write your own scripts, read these tutorials. You'll have to type some JavaScript code, so you should be familiar with this scripting language.
March 10, 2010
Macros for Google Spreadsheets
Posted by Alex Chitu at 3/10/2010 03:55:00 PM
Labels: Google Docs
5 comments:
- AnonymousMarch 11, 2010 at 5:50 AM
mm.. any tutorials how to do macros? anyway thanks! wanted to re-tweet but no button :(ReplyDelete
Yes, any documentation? What language is used? Are there Help files? Is there a robust interpreter, like with VB for Excel?ReplyDelete
Going to try this out now. Tired of Macros not working between MS Office and Open Office machine in our office. Everyone is moving to Google Spreadsheets (if it works!!!)ReplyDelete
What time to release,wait so longReplyDelete
...and if i dont speak javascript iam lost???ReplyDelete
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Observation • May 29th, 2008 • ssc2008-09a1
This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope highlights dramatic changes in phenomena referred to as light echoes (colored areas) around the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant (center). Cassiopeia A is the remnant of a once massive star that died in a violent supernova explosion. It consists of a dead star, called a neutron star, and a surrounding shell of material that was blasted off as the star died.
A light echo is created when a star explodes or erupts, flashing light into surrounding clumps of dust. As the light zips through the dust clumps, it heats them up, causing them to glow successively in infrared, like a chain of Christmas bulbs lighting up one by one. The result is an optical illusion, in which the dust appears to be flying outward at the speed of light. This apparent motion can be seen here by the shift in colored dust clumps.
The main underlying image is a composite from Spitzer showing Cassiopeia A and surrounding interstellar clouds of dust. It consists of six images taken over a time span of three years, each represented in a different color, as noted by the key at the bottom of the image.
Dust features that have not changed over time appear gray, while those that have changed are colored blue or orange. Bluer colors represent an earlier time and redder ones, a later time. Certain areas of the light echo are displayed in more detail to show the turbulent patterns formed as the light echo illuminates different areas of gas and dust over time.
The supernova remnant is located 11,000 light-years away in the northern constellation Cassiopeia. The light echo is the largest ever seen, stretching more than 300 light-years away from Cassiopeia A. If viewed from Earth, the entire frame would take up the same amount of space as seven full moons.
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My parents divorced when I was 10 years old. My Mother was put in a position where she had to take action. She put myself and my 2 sisters in the car and drove across the country to St. Louis where she had grown up and where her family lived. We had made the trip before for summer vacations but this time it was for good. I can only imagine how terrifying this must have been for her. Imagine a 10 year old car, kids 10, 12 and 13, some clothes and nothing else, nothing. I expect many people couldn't do it.
We got to St. Louis where there was lots of family support. My Mother had 2 brothers and a sister all in St. Louis along with her parents. Her sister Brenda took us into her house. She had a great place in a great neighborhood in the suburbs. Brenda was a single Mom with 3 kids of her own but her home was ours. I was young enough that I would not have been involved in financial discussions but I am sure this was a hardship for her take on 4 more people. My Mother had been a housewife and I think she left our home in Virginia with no money. If she had any money, I don't think it could have been very much. 3 kids, no money, no career.
During those first few months when we lived at Aunt Brenda's house, it really was a pretty good time for me. I spent time with my cousins. We had a great place to live. We did a lot of fun things on the weekends. It was tough working out the deal with my Dad no longer being with us but the day to day was good and the reason it was good is that Brenda took us in and made sure we had everything we needed. My grandparents, Uncles and Aunt were all there to provide support in lots of ways but it was Aunt Brenda's house we lived in and she bore a lot of the burden. I doubt she ever gave it a thought.
Aside from my Mother, it may be that Brenda is most responsible for our survival during that time, that of myself my Mother and my sisters. When I think about the time immediately following my parents' divorce, I think about the time I spent living in her house. We weren't living in a crappy motel or worse. Because of her we lived in a fantastic place and had everything we needed.
Today, Brenda's battle with cancer has come to a crushing end. I am crushed. I am crushed as I think about my cousins, her kids who are without her. I am crushed as I think about my Mother who just 2 months ago lost her Mother and now her sister.
Brenda was a tiny woman but a feisty take charge kind of woman. She didn't take any shit from anyone and if I worded it any other way, she might have taken offense.
I thank Brenda for everything she did for us. If I was a poet I would write a tribute to her. If I could paint I would paint a tribute to her. As it is, I will be thinking about her and the rest of the family and will do my best to be inspired by what she did for me and my family.
Today's Loss Thursday, August 18, 2011
I have all but abandoned this blog. I think it has been over a year since I posted anything here. At this point, writing here reminds me of Forest Whitaker's character in the movie Phenomenon telling his story over a radio that he knows no one is listening to. That is fine.
Posted by Jeff Brown at 9:33 PM 11 comments
Switching Versions Of Grails (and other tools) Friday, April 23, 2010
I have a little trick that I have used for many years to switch back and forth between versions of development tools. For example, because of the work that I do day to day I often need to switch back and forth between different versions of Grails. Occasionally I will execute this trick while sitting with another developer or during a live coding presentation at a conference without even thinking about it. Often someone will notice and and stop me to ask "what was that?".
I have a directory below my HOME directory called Tools. This Tools directory is where I install development tools like Groovy, Grails, Gradle, Ant etc. For some of those tools, I may want to have numerous versions of the tool available. For example, I have the following subdirectories below Tools...
One thing I might do when I need to use a specific version of Grails is something like this...
export GRAILS_HOME=~/Tools/grails-1.2.2
export PATH=$GRAILS_HOME/bin:$PATH
One limitation of that approach is it is a lot of tedious typing. Another is that the change would only apply to the shell where that was executed. Normally if I am working with a particular version of Grails, I want that version to be in play in all open shells.
Instead of pointing GRAILS_HOME at a particular version of Grails, I create a symlink at ~/Tools/grails and that link points to one of the specific Grails version directories. GRAILS_HOME points to that symlink. If I am currently using Grails 1.2.2 and I want to switch to 1.3.0.RC2, I just move the symlink and leave GRAILS_HOME and PATH alone.
Moving the symlink is easy enough but I simplify it further by defining aliases in my ~/.profile. Those look something like this...
alias gr105='rm ~/Tools/grails && ln -s ~/Tools/grails-1.0.5 ~/Tools/grails'
alias gr111='rm ~/Tools/grails && ln -s ~/Tools/grails-1.1.1 ~/Tools/grails'
alias gr112='rm ~/Tools/grails && ln -s ~/Tools/grails-1.1.2 ~/Tools/grails'
alias gr12='rm ~/Tools/grails && ln -s ~/Tools/grails-1.2.0 ~/Tools/grails'
alias gr121='rm ~/Tools/grails && ln -s ~/Tools/grails-1.2.1 ~/Tools/grails'
alias gr122='rm ~/Tools/grails && ln -s ~/Tools/grails-1.2.2 ~/Tools/grails'
alias gr130rc1='rm ~/Tools/grails && ln -s ~/Tools/grails-1.3.0.RC1 ~/Tools/grails'
alias gr130rc2='rm ~/Tools/grails && ln -s ~/Tools/grails-1.3.0.RC2 ~/Tools/grails'
# use my local development copy of Grails
alias grdev='rm ~/Tools/grails && ln -s /Users/jeff/Projects/grails/core ~/Tools/grails'
Now if I want to use Grails 1.2.2 I just open a shell and type "gr122".
I use the exact same approach for other tools that I may want to easily move from version to version.
I do all of this on OS X. The same trick should work on Linux. I don't know enough about cygwin to know if this can work on Windows or not. I expect that it probably would.
That is all I have. It isn't any big deal but is one of those little things that over the years numerous folks have asked me about and then expressed that they liked it well enough that they were going to do the same.
Posted by Jeff Brown at 11:20 AM 22 comments
Grails, SpringSource And Clojure Thursday, July 30, 2009
I recently developed a Grails plugin which provides support for easily accessing Clojure code in a Grails app. The details of how the plugin works are covered at http://grails.org/plugin/clojure. That page includes a link to a brief video demonstration which is available at http://s3.amazonaws.com/jeffscreencasts/grails_clojure_demo.mov. Check it out.
Shortly after publishing the plugin I posted something about it on Twitter. Not too long after that a couple of other SpringSource folks tweeted about Clojure (here and here). I got a couple of questions (in jest I am sure) about SpringSource and Clojure. "Is SpringSource Moving To Clojure?". Of course not. SpringSource is not moving to Clojure. SpringSource is all about helping folks build serious applications for the JVM and most of that is done in Java. This is not news. I work on Groovy and Grails. Much of what I do is in Groovy. This too is not news. Making it easy for folks to use languages like Scala and Clojure while taking advantage of all the great stuff that Grails has to offer, that is appealing to me and that is why I developed the Clojure plugin.
Clojure is a really interesting language. There are others. The fact that 3 folks from SpringSource have expressed some kind of interest in Clojure shouldn't be all that surprising. There are probably even more folks at SpringSource who have some kind of interest in Clojure but for entertainment, lets focus on the 3 mentioned...
I am honestly not sure how many technologists work for SpringSource but for the sake of having a number to work with, lets say there are 50. Lets also say that Clojure is interesting enough that 15% of JVM developers are interested in learning more about it. I can't back that number up with any research, lets just go with it. If 15% of JVM developers are interested in the language and you take a random group of 50 JVM developers (the 50 in question are certainly not 50 random developers, these are the edge cutters which probably makes them more likely to be interested in keeping an eye on what is new, but work with the idea that they are random)... Do the math. No, really... Do the math. Do the math to figure out the likelihood that 3 of the 50 would be interested in Clojure. I challenge you to do the math in Clojure and post your solution in a comment here. Do it in Scala, Do it in Groovy. Pick a JVM language and do the math.
The simplest solution is probably not very interesting. Prefer a solution that shows off something interesting in your language of choice.
Hmmm... are you more likely to need to refer to the Clojure book, or the high school math book? ;)
Now, you have one more reason to tinker with a new language.
Posted by Jeff Brown at 4:26 PM 25 comments
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Grails 1.1 beta3 Is Out! Thursday, January 29, 2009
We are closing in on the much anticipated release of Grails 1.1. Today beta 3 was released. See the release notes.
A new feature that has not been documented yet involves new validation capabilities. Up to this point, domain classes and command objects within a Grails app have supported really powerful validation capabilities. See section 7 in The User Guide for info on how that works. What is new is now you can apply those same validation capabilities to any class within a Grails app, not just domain classes and command objects. Making a class validateable involves defining a static property called "constraints" and assigning a closure, just like you would in a domain class or a command object.
Second, you have to tell Grails about your validateable class. You have 2 options for doing that. One option is to mark you class with the org.codehaus.groovy.grails.validation.Validateable annotation. Another option is to define your validateable classes in grails-app/conf/Config.groovy by assigning a value to the grails.validateable.classes property. That would look something like this...
grails.validateable.classes = [ com.mycompany.dto.SomeClass, com.mycompany.SomeOtherClass]
An annotated class might look something like this...
// src/groovy/com/companyname/SomeClass.groovy
package com.companyname
import org.codehaus.groovy.grails.validation.Validateable
class SomeClass {
Integer age
String name
static constraints = {
age range: 16..66
name blank: false, size: 5..35
Note that if you are using the annotation based approach, Grails will search all classes in the app to find all of the @Validateables. While that isn't really a performance problem, you can tune that a bit by specifying some specific packages that Grails should search. To do that, assign a value to grails.validateable.packages in grails-app/conf/Config.groovy like this...
grails.validateable.packages = ['com.companyname.dto', 'com.companyname.someotherpackage']
If the grails.validateable.packages property has a value then Grails will only look in those packages (and packages below those packages) for classes marked with @Validateable.
While this is still beta software, I think the feature will end up being delivered in the final release pretty much like it is described above. If you have any input on that or any other features in Grails. We would love to hear from you. Bring it to the mailing list or file a JIRA issue.
Posted by Jeff Brown at 7:26 PM 14 comments
Getting Groovy With "with" Thursday, November 13, 2008
UPDATE 12/15/2008: I committed a change yesterday that changes the behavior of the .with method to use DELEGATE_FIRST as the resolveStrategy instead of OWNER_FIRST. If you are not sure what that means, you should by the end of this post.
Strange enough title.
Let's start with a hypothetical conversation between a geeky developer and his much less geeky wife:
Jeff: Betsy, how are you?
Betsy: I am fine thanks. How are you?
Jeff: Betsy, I am fine thank you.
Betsy: Great.
Jeff: Betsy, you know my birthday is the day after tomorrow right?
Betsy: Yes, I haven't forgotten. You mention it about 9 times a day you know.
Jeff: Betsy, yes I know. Are we going to have an ice cream cake?
Betsy: Yes, I think that would be good.
Jeff: Betsy, are you going to buy me the new Opeth DVD?
Betsy: I will get it for you but that music sucks big time.
Jeff: Betsy, that is awesome. Thank you.
Betsy: Why do you keep saying "Betsy" at the beginning of every sentence?
Jeff: Betsy, I guess I am used to inflexible languages which aren't very expressive.
Um, what does any of that have to do with Groovy? Well, lets talk about the problem with this conversation (aside from the lady's lack of appreciation for Swedish heavy metal). What is wrong is Jeff begins each sentence with "Betsy". Why might he do that? One reason is so Betsy knows that he is talking to her. Clearly this isn't necessary. It isn't necessary because she already knows he is talking to her. A context has been established which makes the addressing unnecessary. Jeff began the conversation by addressing Betsy, they probably made eye contact and were in close proximity. Once the conversation started, there isn't much question about who each sentence is being directed to.
Again, what does any of that have to do with Groovy? Lets press on...
Consider the following Java code which prints out a specific date.
// PrintIndependenceDay.java
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
public class PrintIndependenceDay {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.set(Calendar.MONTH, Calendar.JULY);
calendar.set(Calendar.DATE, 4);
calendar.set(Calendar.YEAR, 1776);
Date time = calendar.getTime();
Groovy developers can look at that and find quite a bit of noise that doesn't really have anything to do with what the code is trying to do but I want to focus on one specific thing. That one thing is all of the interaction with the calendar variable. Notice that we call clear() on the calendar, then call set() several times and later call getTime() on that same variable. All of those calls are prefixed with "calendar." so the compiler knows what we want to do. If we called "clear()" instead of "calendar.clear()", what would that mean? Are we calling the clear() method in this class? If that was our intent, it would not work because there is no clear() method. We have to prefix the call with an object reference so the compiler knows where to send the request. That seems to make sense. However, if we are going to do a bunch of things "with" the same object, wouldn't it be kind of nice if we could somehow do all of those things without all the repetition. Specifically, it might be nice if we could get rid of all of those "calendar." prefixes.
On to Groovy...
The following Groovy code does the same thing that the Java code above does.
// PrintIndependenceDay.groovy
def calendar = Calendar.instance
calendar.with {
set MONTH, JULY
set DATE, 4
set YEAR, 1776
println time
Wow. That is a good bit cleaner than what we started with. Part of the reason for that is we were able to get rid of all of those "calendar." prefixes. What allowed us to do that is calling the "with" method on the calendar object and passing a closure as an argument. What we have done there is establish a context that says "do all of this stuff with this calendar object". When the closure executes, the calendar is given an opportunity to respond to method calls like clear() and set() and the implicit call to getTime() when referring to the "time" property which is being passed to println. Likewise, the references to MONTH, JULY, DATE and YEAR properties are also being handled by the calendar object.
That is pretty slick. Lets dig just a little deeper to get a little better understanding of what is really going on.
Groovy closures have a delegate associated with them. The delegate is given an opportunity to respond to method calls which happen inside of the closure. Here is a simple example:
// define a closure
def myClosure = {
// call a method that does not exist
append 'Jeff'
append ' was here.'
// assign a delegate to the closure
def sb = new StringBuffer()
myClosure.delegate = sb
// execute the closure
assert 'Jeff was here.' == sb.toString()
When the closure is executed, those calls to append() in the closure end up being sent to the delegate, the StringBuffer in this case.
Something similar is happening in the Groovy calendar code above. A closure is being passed to the with() method. That closure is calling methods like set() and getTime() which don't really exist in that context. The reason those calls don't fail is the with() method is assigning a delegate to the closure before it is executed. The delegate being assigned is the object that the with() method was invoked on. In the calendar example, the delegate is the calendar object. Something like this is happening...
def closure = {
set MONTH, JULY
set DATE, 4
set YEAR, 1776
println time
def calendar = Calendar.instance
closure.delegate = calendar
This code does the same thing as the first Groovy example. Obviously the first one is cleaner.
I sort of lied a bit, or at least left out a detail that may be significant. The closure that is being passed to the with() method is really being cloned and it is the clone that is assigned the delegate and executed. This is a safer approach than monkeying with the original closure. If the reasons for that aren't clear, the explanation is another story.
Another bit of info that is missing here is the strategy that a closure uses to decide when to send method calls to the delegate. Each Groovy closure has a resolveStrategy associated with it. This property determines how/if the delegate comes in to play. The 4 possible values for the resolveStrategy are OWNER_FIRST, DELEGATE_FIRST, OWNER_ONLY and DELEGATE_ONLY (all constants defined in groovy.lang.Closure). The default is OWNER_FIRST. Consider the owner to be the "this" wherever the closure is defined. Here is a simple example...
class ResolutionTest {
def append(arg) {
println "you called the append method and passed ${arg}"
def doIt() {
def closure = {
append 'Jeff was here.'
def buffer = new StringBuffer()
closure.delegate = buffer
// the append method in this ResolutionTest
// will be called because resolveStrategy is
// OWNER_FIRST (the default)
// give the delegate first crack at method
// calls made inside the closure
closure.resolveStrategy = Closure.DELEGATE_FIRST
// the append method on buffer will
// be called because the delegate gets
// first crack at the call to append()
static void main(String[] a) {
new ResolutionTest().doIt()
So you see how the with() method helps establish a context where a bunch of things may happen "with" a specific object without having to refer to that object over and over. This can help clean up code like the Java code we started with. This approach can also be really useful when building a domain specific language in Groovy, a topic for another time.
Enjoy! :)
Posted by Jeff Brown at 9:39 PM 117 comments
Grails Training In Chicago Monday, August 04, 2008
We are really excited to have a 3 day Groovy/Grails training event coming up in Chicago later this month. The training dates are August 26-28. The training will be held at the Hotel Indigo in Palatine.
This is 3 days of lecture and reinforcing lab work. Attendees should expect to write a lot of Groovy and Grails code with your training expert. There is no better way to quickly get your team up to speed on the technology, well beyond the basics.
As with all G2One training events, students will receive a free 12 month license to use IntelliJ IDEA. The IntelliJ guys have done a fantastic job of building first class Groovy and Grails support for the IDE.
For a full course outline and more information, please visit http://g2one.com/training/. Any questions may be directed to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Posted by Jeff Brown at 11:39 AM 11 comments
G2One QuickCast Site Launched! Wednesday, July 30, 2008
G2One have launched the G2One QuickCast site. A G2One QuickCast is fast and furious little movie demonstrating something interesting about the Groovy language and/or the Grails framework.
The first movie available there demonstrates how powerful tools like Grails and Git can work together to support a really really agile development process. Watch this movie and try to do something like this with your web framework and your VCS. If you can't, your tools are not flexible enough. :)
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Five young Broadway veterans treated children from Brooklyn communities profoundly impacted by Hurricane Sandy to a special performance for the holidays on Sunday, December 16, 2012. The event, UJA-Federation of New York's Hugs for Chanukah, brought together 180 kids with their parents and grandparents for an afternoon of song, face painting, carnival games, crafts, and snacks at the Shorefront YM-YWHA of Brighton-Manhattan Beach, a UJA-Federation beneficiary agency.
More than 40 UJA-Federation volunteers and staff from Westchester manned the games and crafts, as well as set up and broke down the party that brought holiday cheer to this hard-hit community. Kids in attendance received stuffed lions and gifts cards.
Young guests also were treated to a special performance by five young Broadway veterans ranging in age from 11 to 14, including Rachel Resheff (The People in the Picture, Mary Poppins, Billy Elliot); Kara Oates (Mary Poppins, Billy Elliot); David Gabriel Lerner (Mary Poppins, Oliver); Tyler Merna (Mary Poppins - Broadway and first national tour); and Lilla Crawford (Annie).
UJA-Federation has been at the forefront of relief since Hurricane Sandy hit. To date, more than $13 million has been allocated to provide help to those most devastated by the storm. UJA-Federation - together with its network of agencies and local synagogues - quickly stepped forward and mobilized thousands of professionals and volunteers to care for the people and communities who bore the brunt of the storm.
"Being able to throw an incredible Chanukah party for this community that has experienced such devastation is a great joy and a privilege for us," says UJA-Federation's Westchester Regional Chair Pam Wexler.
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Pictured: Broadway kids Lilla Crawford (Annie); Rachel Resheff (The People in the Picture, Mary Poppins, Billy Elliot); Kara Oates (Mary Poppins, Billy Elliot); David Lerner (Mary Poppins, Oliver); and Tyler Merna (Mary Poppins) at the Shorefront Y. Photo Credit: Dr. Mark Lerner.
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Spokane Wine Time May 7-9
This weekend in Spokane is all about First Friday AND Spring Barrel Tasting. Enjoy the dozens of locations in downtown on Friday and the 16 wineries all weekend long. Scroll down for some of the upcoming 'on the radar' events.
Having an event and don't see it on the list? Email me email@example.com
All Weekend
Spring Barrel Tasting in Spokane – One of Spokane's premier wine events. The Spokane Winery Association showcase 16 wineries current, new and future releases. Wineries are open 11am – 5pm Friday – Sunday. Some charge a tasting fee. Click the link for some suggestions, a game-plan for visiting ALL 16 wineries and a downloadable map.
- Plan your trip
- Hydrate and eat
- Be patient and courteous
- Have your ID – every winery is required to see it regardless of how young you look
- Some charge fees, some do not
- Spit – it's okay to use the spit bucket, you will not offend
- Print this map
Enjoy great local wine at The Davenport, Left Bank Wine Bar, Niko's Wine Bar
Friday, May 7
First Friday Art Walk: The weather is warmer and the music, art and wine scene is heating up in Spokane. Dozens of venues are open from 5-8pm.
- Wine Tasting by Nodland Cellars at Gallery of THUM: 159 South Lincoln, Suite 151 (Steam Plant) 5:00-9:30pm, $5 each, "Nodland Cellars Roadshow, Art, Wine and Jazz" Featured Artist Tracy Nodland's wine-oriented artworks, 6pm live music & artists Cecile G. Charles, Michal Romberger, Dawn Reed and Theresa Antosyn. "What Happens in Vegas" < DrinkNectar will be here!
Arbor Crest River Park Square: Live music with Maxie Ray Mills from 6pm – 9:30
Vino Wine Shop: Goose Ridge Vineyards Tasting, Walla Walla 3:00-5:30pm
Davenport Hotel: Live music from 8pm – midnight
Left Bank Wine Bar: Live music every Friday starting at 8pm, no cover
Rocket Market: Spring picks! The weather has shifted and it's time to get hip to some lighter fresher wines to sip on. Red, white and bubbles.Check out our latest picks to drink with salads, grilled fish and veggies. Reservations requested, $15 343-2253
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Get out to a winery! – Celebrate Mothers day by going out to Spring Barrel Tasting. 16 wineries are open!
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- May 22 – Music starts at the Rocket Market! One of the greatest experiences in town is listening to the traffic rumble by as you enjoy some tasty treats, good wine (or micro-brews) and live music at the Rocket Market on 43rd and Grand. Music will be Tuesday and Saturday at 7pm.
- June 3 – #WAWine Taste and Tweet event. Over 100 Washington Wineries will be hosting in house events and thousands of people will be participating online through Twitter and Facebook. Follow the link for details and how to register!
- June 6 – Taste Washington at the Davenport. The year's signature wine event with 100 wineries and local food. Tickets are $75; visit www.tastewashington.org for details. On sale starting May 1 at Vino, Arbor Crest (RP Square), Williams Seafood, and Latah Creek Winery
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The doubt essential to faith
When Lesley Hazleton was writing a biography of Muhammad, she was struck by something: The night he received the revelation of the Koran, according to early accounts, his first reaction was doubt, awe, even fear. And yet this experience became the bedrock of his belief. Hazleton calls for a new appreciation of doubt and questioning as the foundation of faith --
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Why the only future worth building includes everyone
A single individual is enough for hope to exist, and that individual can be you, says His Holiness Pope Francis in this searing TED Talk delivered directly from Vatican City. In a hopeful message to people of all faiths, to those who have power as well as those who don't, the spiritual leader provides illuminating commentary on the world as we currently find it and
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Unlock the intelligence, passion, greatness of girls
Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee has two powerful stories to tell -- of her own life's transformation, and of the untapped potential of girls around the world. Can we transform the world by unlocking the greatness of girls?
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One day of peace
Here's a crazy idea: Persuade the world to try living in peace for just one day, every September 21. In this energetic, honest talk, Jeremy Gilley tells the story of how this crazy idea became real -- real enough to help millions of kids in war-torn regions.
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Superheroes inspired by Islam
In "THE 99," Naif Al-Mutawa's new generation of comic book heroes fight more than crime -- they smash stereotypes and battle extremism. Named after the 99 attributes of Allah, his characters reinforce positive messages of Islam and cross cultures to create a new moral framework for confronting evil, even teaming up with the Justice League of America.
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Rethinking America's military strategy
In this bracingly honest talk, international security strategist Thomas Barnett outlines a post-Cold War solution for the foundering U.S. military that is both sensible and breathtaking in its simplicity: Break it in two.
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We can be Buddhas
In our hyperlinked world, we can know anything, anytime. And this mass enlightenment, says Buddhist scholar Bob Thurman, is our first step toward Buddha nature.
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Why I believe the mistreatment of women is the number one human rights abuse
With his signature resolve, former US President Jimmy Carter dives into three unexpected reasons why the mistreatment of women and girls continues in so many manifestations in so many parts of the world, both developed and developing. The final reason he gives? "In general, men don't give a damn."
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A realistic vision for world peace
Nobel Peace laureate Jody Williams brings tough love to the dream of world peace, with her razor-sharp take on what "peace" really means, and a set of profound stories that zero in on the creative struggle -- and sacrifice -- of those who work for it.
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I was held hostage for 317 days. Here's what I thought about…
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The link between unemployment and terrorism
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Dean Kamen previews a new prosthetic arm
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How we cut youth violence in Boston by 79 percent
An architect of the "Boston miracle," Rev. Jeffrey Brown started out as a bewildered young pastor watching his Boston neighborhood fall apart around him, as drugs and gang violence took hold of the kids on the streets. The first step to recovery: Listen to those kids, don't just preach to them, and help them reduce violence in their own neighborhoods. It's a powerful
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A civil response to violence
In this passionate talk from TEDxSanMigueldeAllende that's already caused a sensation in Mexico, Emiliano Salinas, son of former president Carlos Salinas de Gortari, confronts the current climate of violence in Mexico -- or rather, how Mexican society responds to it. He calls on ordinary citizens to move from denial and fear to peaceful, community-based action. This
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Time to end the war in Afghanistan
British MP Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan after 9/11, talking with citizens and warlords alike. Now, a decade later, he asks: Why are Western and coalition forces still fighting there? He shares lessons from past military interventions that worked -- Bosnia, for instance -- and shows that humility and local expertise are the keys to success.
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Pay attention to nonviolence
In 2003, the Palestinian village of Budrus mounted a 10-month-long nonviolent protest to stop a barrier being built across their olive groves. Did you hear about it? Didn't think so. Brazilian filmmaker Julia Bacha asks why we only pay attention to violence in the Israel-Palestine conflict -- and not to the nonviolent leaders who may one day bring peace.
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A Navy Admiral's thoughts on global security
Imagine global security driven by collaboration -- among agencies, government, the private sector and the public. That's not just the distant hope of open-source fans, it's the vision of James Stavridis, a highly accomplished Navy Admiral. Stavridis shares vivid moments from recent military history to explain why security of the future should be built with bridges
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The exhilarating peace of freediving
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A project of peace, painted across 50 buildings
eL Seed fuses Arabic calligraphy with graffiti to paint colorful, swirling messages of hope and peace on buildings from Tunisia to Paris. The artist and TED Fellow shares the story of his most ambitious project yet: a mural painted across 50 buildings in Manshiyat Naser, a district of Cairo, Egypt, that can only be fully seen from a nearby mountain.
Inge Missmahl brings peace to the minds of Afghanistan
When Jungian analyst Inge Missmahl visited Afghanistan, she saw the inner wounds of war -- widespread despair, trauma and depression. And yet, in this county of 30 million people, there were only two dozen psychiatrists. Missmahl talks about her work helping to build the country's system of psychosocial counseling, promoting both individual and, perhaps, national
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The network giveth and the network taketh away.
Even though the Chase series performed poorly right from the start, NBC gave the TV show a full season order of 22 episodes. Now, the peacock network has trimmed back that order to just 18 installments.
On the positive side, NBC is moving Chase out of the Mondays at 10pm timeslot. It'll no longer have to battle against Castle and the new Hawaii Five-0. Unfortunately, beginning January 12th, it'll be airing in a far more competitive timeslot. Chase is moving to Wednesdays at 9pm where it'll do battle with American Idol.
The most recent episode of Chase garnered a 1.6 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 6.03 million total viewers. That's the second significant increase in two weeks but the series is still doing terribly and is consistently in a distant third place for the timeslot.
Chase has averaged a 1.6 rating for the season, just slightly better than now-cancelled Undercovers. Unless there's a significant turnaround, it's pretty clear that Chase will be cancelled at the end of the season.
What do you think? Does Chase still have a chance to be renewed for season two or is it already doomed to be cancelled?
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Ever wonder why airlines lose, delay and damage bags? We asked an airline baggage handler who, of course, spoke to us anonymously, what it's like in the belly of the beast and on the tarmac. What he told us might help you arrive with your bag and its contents intact.
What goes on behind the curtain?
You might be amazed at how much manpower it takes to put a passenger aircraft in the air. Obviously, the majority of time, you'll only see the pilots, flight attendants and gate agents. That already is a lot of people, but there are more people working outside to get you to your destination. Once you leave your bag at the check-in counter, it goes through a series of conveyer belts, where it may or may not be opened and searched by TSA, until it reaches the pier for your departing flight.
It is then sorted into carts by one ramp agent who brings it planeside for other ramp agents to load on the airplane. And we're doing a lot more than just loading and unloading your bags. Other than bags, there is a lot of other cargo that gets transported by air. We see everything from human remains to mail to fruits and vegetables coming on and off the plane. We're also the guys directing the plane to its parking position at the gate, securing the aircraft and hooking up the ground power and air. Also, since planes don't go in reverse, we are the guys driving the push-back tug, ensuring that aircraft do not come in contact with each other.
How do bags get damaged?
I'm not going to lie, your checked luggage takes a beating. They call it "throwing bags" for a reason. There isn't an easy way around this. Airplanes only make money while in the air, and no airline wants an airplane on the ground too long. Due to the nature of some aircraft, it would be impossible to turn around a 737 or 757 in an hour or less without throwing bags because it's just faster. On these planes, there are only two long and narrow cargo holds where your luggage goes.
One agent puts the bags on the belt loader, which carries it up to an agent inside the cargo hold who throws it 50 feet to the back where another agent stacks all the bags as if it were a game of Tetris. Wheels and handles oftentimes break or crack on impact, and anything fragile inside that is not packed well doesn't stand much of a chance. Don't put red wine or alcohol in your suitcase ever. I would never check any fragile items in a soft sided suitcase, unless it was professionally packaged. Those fragile stickers don't get noticed very often in the rush of loading bags unless it is an obvious shape, such as a musical instrument. I am a musician so I take special care of those, but not everyone is a musician.
Bags can also get damaged by loose ends getting caught in the belt, which can tear off straps, zippers or handles. Handles also break off if the bag is extremely heavy when we try to pick it up by the handle. One good thing about the larger aircraft (747, 767, 777, 787, etc.) is that they are all loaded by machines. Your bags are just put in a can and that can is loaded on the plane by machine so there is no bag throwing. Theoretically there's a better chance of your bag coming out unscathed if you fly on one of those jets.
How do bags get lost?
Sometimes the airport code is read incorrectly and it gets put in the wrong cart and brought to the wrong plane. Someone might mistake VCE for NCE or PDX for PHX. It happens, but not that often. It's always important to ensure you have the correct destination on your bag tag and to keep your receipt. Secure your contact information on the outside and inside of the bag in case the outside tag falls off.
If your bag ends up in a different destination, it won't get re-routed until it reaches wherever it went and is scanned. We try to scan all the bags going on a flight, but the scanners are all wireless now and don't always work due to bad connections or getting locked up. If time is of the essence, your bag may not get scanned. Also, if you have a tight connection, you may be able to make it, but your bag may not. On smaller regional flights, many times bags are not loaded or taken off due to weight and balance limits. This is for safety reasons and ensures a safe take off and landing weight. So ideally, try to avoid those planes.
Finally, there's the old "fell off the truck" scenario. Not in the sense that someone took your bag but that it actually fell off the cart on its way to or from the aircraft. This happens all the time and sometimes will delay your bag if it is not noticed by anyone right away.
What kind of suitcases get damaged least? The most?
Cheap bags that you buy at the discount store break very easily. If your handle is sewn on or is very flimsy, it's probably going to break. If you travel a lot or pack heavy, make sure you buy a quality, durable bag. Hard-sided suitcases will get less damage, but also look for well-designed handles that are attached with rivets and some sort of protection around the wheels. Speaking of wheels, the best bags to get are the "spinners" with four wheels on the bottom. We like these because we don't have to throw them when loading. We just roll them down the belly of the plane so your bag and its contents will suffer much less damage.
Why don't airlines cover certain things?
My best guess as to why airlines don't cover common damages, such as wheels, handles and straps, is because they break so often that they would be paying out all the time.
Have you ever seen theft?
I have not personally seen anyone take anything from a bag and keep it -- but I wouldn't say that it never happens. There are no cameras inside the belly of the plane. When I have to check a bag, I always use the TSA-approved locks to lock the suitcase. I do this not only to prevent someone from easily taking something, but also to keep the bag closed. We see open bags all the time because the zipper just started coming apart, and yes, things do fall out of these open bags. Sometimes, we see it and can put whatever came out back in the bag it came from, but sometimes there are just random items strewn around the belly. If it's a random piece of clothing or a shoe, those won't go down the baggage claim belt too well and just get discarded eventually.
How can passengers prevent their bags from going astray?
The main thing to do is keep your bag tag receipt so you can track your bag. If it didn't get scanned on the flight, it will get scanned eventually when it reaches a station. Also, try to plan sufficient ground time for your bag to make its connection. Thirty or 40 minutes isn't always enough at a big airport like Atlanta.
What's it like to work in that environment?
It's fast paced, loud and potentially dangerous. Hearing protection is a must, but not everyone wears it. (Really not a good idea considering you are working around jet engines.) Speaking of jet engines, they are very dangerous. There is risk of jet blast and suction that wouldn't end pretty if you were careless. This is one of the main points emphasized in training.
In general, training was all about safety. You have to be aware of your surroundings at all times. It's a labor-intensive job that involves working with heavy machinery and in all weather conditions.


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If you are in the market to buy a home of your own, you need to ask yourself one question: WHY?
It seems like a simple enough question yet it is not. Experts are predicting that, in many markets, prices will continue to soften. That has caused many buyers to stay on the fence of indecision hoping to buy at the optimum time. If the reason you are buying is to do a quick 'flip' of the property to make money, waiting most definitely makes sense.
What if the reason you are moving isn't about finances however. Does it still make sense to delay? That depends on why you are buying. What if your purchase is more about improving the quality of life for you and your family? Or moving into a school district where your child's talents will be maximized? Or being closer to friends and family? There is a cost to delaying any of these decisions.
We realize everyone wants to make a sound financial decision no matter the actual reason for moving. Delaying in a hope to 'time' the market might not make sense however. Forbes.com addressed this issue in an article by John E. Girouard last week:
"Trying to time the housing bottom is as much folly as trying to time stocks or any other investment vehicle. In fact, it's greater folly because if housing prices do fall further, it's likely to be because mortgage rates are rising, which would mean that over the long term that slightly lower price you may have paid could end up costing more in carrying costs than you saved."
He went on to say:
"My answer to those who ask whether now's the time to buy a house is that the American Dream is and always was alive and well. It has nothing to do with the direction of housing prices but everything to do with your financial situation, income stability, ability to shoulder the costs, and if the home you have your eye on is your version of the American Dream—a home you love that you hope to live in for an extended period."
Bottom Line
Don't make buying a home solely a financial decision. Is the real reason you want your own home more important than money? Only you know the answer.
Article Written by THE KCM CREW on OCTOBER 19, 2011


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