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Titanic at 100: Be Among the Last to Dive to Wreck Site?
With increased access, ship's survival is in jeopardy, advocates warn.
ON TV: Save the Titanic with Bob Ballard premieres at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Monday, April 9, on the National Geographic Channel.
An anniversary deep-sea diving expedition will offer tourists a chance to visit the R.M.S. Titanic, a hundred years after the legendary ship sank to the bottom of the frigid North Atlantic.
As part of a $60,000, two-week cruise, a pair of tourists can get shoehorned with a pilot into a tiny Russian MIR submersible that's less than 7 feet (2.1 meters) wide. The trip to Titanic's resting place takes about 2.5 hours, and a round-trip dive lasts about 8 to 10 hours.
"I think one thing that captures people is a direct link to this almost mythological maritime character, the Titanic," said Rob McCallum of Deep Ocean Expeditions, which holds exclusive charter for Titanic dives.
"Being able to go and actually see it and pay homage to it, if you like, is an incredible aspect of his expedition."
(See pictures of Titanic then and now in National Geographic magazine.)
But summer 2012 is the first season since 2005 that Deep Ocean Expeditions has taken people to the Titanic—and it could be the last.
"For a variety of reasons, these are the last dives that the Deep Ocean Expeditions is going to do on Titanic," said McCallum, whose company began diving to the Titanic in 1998. The outfitter also takes tourists to the Bismarck shipwreck, the North Pole, deep-sea hydrothermal vents, and other extreme sites.
"Our support ship is going into retirement soon, and the submersibles are going to go back into government work."
At the same time, some historians and other advocates are arguing against tourist dives to the wreck, saying the underwater site is being endangered by looting, littering, and poorly controlled access.
For instance, Edward Kamuda, president of the Titanic Historical Society, said he would rather not see expeditions like this summer's take place at all.
"To us it's a grave site—why disturb it any further?" he said. "One couple went down and got married at the site. There will be cruise ships going out there for the anniversary and drinking champagne and that sort of thing."
"Is that an appropriate way to commemorate the sinking of this ship and the loss of all those lives?"
Discoverer Wants Titanic Protected
More than 1,500 passengers and crew died after the supposedly unsinkable Titanic struck an iceberg in the wee hours of April 14, 1912, and sank at 2:20 a.m. on April 15. (See a Titanic crash-scene interactive.)
The ship's whereabouts remained a mystery until the wreck was found on September 1, 1985, about 380 miles (611 kilometers) southeast of Newfoundland (map).
Since then, people have debated about how to best protect the Titanic, and what type of access to the site should be allowed.
For instance, though Deep Ocean Expeditions won't return to Titanic, other tourists and treasure seekers likely will—legally or not.
That scenario troubles deep-sea explorer Bob Ballard, who discovered the wreck 25 years ago. (Related: "Titanic Was Found During Secret Cold War Navy Mission.")
Ballard, also a National Geographic Society explorer-in-residence, believes the ship's very survival is threatened by its growing accessibility. (National Geographic News is owned by the National Geographic Society.)
"I have no problem with people going to the Titanic—I have a problem with people destroying the Titanic," he said.
According to Ballard, "we have smoking gun evidence of all kinds of damage. We have a photo mosaic of the ship before any submarines showed up, and [today] we can show you where they've landed on the ship. We can show you where they knocked the crow's nest off." (Explore a 2004 photomosaic of the Titanic wreck.)
Ballard also stressed that many photos show the site littered with trash, including objects thrown overboard by surface support vessels and ballast dropped by submersibles.
"I don't mind the dives, but they should descend off site and drop their weights well away from the debris field," he said.
"Then they could drive over the wreck to visit it and don't touch it, and don't take anything, before driving away."
Titanic-philes Drawn to Deep-Sea Dive
But Deep Ocean Expeditions's McCallum said that his expeditions are cut of a different cloth.
"Most of the people going out there with us have an absolute reverence for Titanic," McCallum said.
(Watch an animation of Titanic's iceberg collision, breakup, and sinking.)
Danish investment banker and adventurer Per Wimmer is one of the people already signed up for the 2012 Titanic anniversary dive. In 2008 he participated in the first tandem skydive over Mount Everest, and he is currently training for a space voyage in 2013 that would make him the first Dane in orbit.
"Pushing boundaries is the kind of stuff that gets me out of bed," Wimmer said. Titanic also holds a special appeal, he added.
"This is probably the most recognizable object to dive to in the world, and this is the perfect time to do it," he said. Wimmer also believes the trip will honor those who didn't survive, rather than disrespect the dead.
"It's a very respectful visit that we'll do with dignity, and I think that's going to make it quite an emotional voyage."
Expedition organizer McCallum added that, other than Wimmer, very few of his other clients fit the profile of wealthy adventurers.
Instead they tend to be what he dubs "Titanic-philes," most of whom are "people of rather moderate means who've worked hard and saved hard to do this trip," he said.
"Some of them are relatives of survivors or people who died in the wreck. Others have just been captured by the Titanic story since they were kids, as many people are."
Titanic Dive to Leave No "Footprints"
The Deep Ocean Expeditions dive this summer will leave Titanic in the same condition—taking nothing away and causing no damage to the ship McCallum added.
"Occasionally you'll read about subs bumping into the wreck," he said, though he suggests the reports may be exaggerated.
"These are 50-million-dollar vehicles—you don't just bang them into things, and especially not at depth, where pilots do everything they can to avoid bumping into anything because their number one fear is entanglement."
Instead, McCallum places most of the blame for Titanic's increasingly frail condition squarely on Mother Nature.
"You're telling me that six seasons of infrequent visits by a small submarine that's neutrally buoyant at depth and virtually weightless have contributed a lot to [the Titanic's] decline? I don't believe that's the case," he said.
"The ship is deteriorating rapidly because it's a metal ship in the salty sea, and it's been there for almost a hundred years."
(Read "Titanic Is Falling Apart.")
Picking Jewels Off Titanic
Meanwhile, Titanic discoverer Bob Ballard said he and other experts have proof that some groups have intentionally salvaged artifacts at the site.
"We can show you where they took the light off" a part of the wreck, he said.
Salvage operators "have denied taking anything off the Titanic proper. How can they say they didn't take it off the ship when we have photos of it on the ship, and now it's in an exhibit?"
It's becoming far easier to perform illegal salvage on the site now that remotely operated vehicle (ROV) technology has proliferated so widely, Ballard added.
"Pandora's box has been opened," he said. "ROVs are owned by a lot of private individuals. So it's as if there is a museum down there with no lock on it. Do you go through the doors to appreciate it—or to plunder it?"
Ballard said Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts has recently introduced a bill that would add more teeth to the R.M.S. Titanic Maritime Memorial Act of 1986, which is meant to protect the site.
"The submersibles these companies lease are government owned by Russia and France, and the pilots are civil servants," he said.
Getting those countries to agree to additional anti-salvage protections could go a long way toward allowing the ship to rest in peace, he said.
(See pictures of Titanic's rediscovery.)
Can Titanic Be Saved?
Ballard also agreed that time and natural elements have taken an enormous toll on the ship, and there's no telling how long Titanic might last.
But the explorer has an ambitious plan to combat nature as well—he's applied for a permit to clean the ship's hull and use robots to coat it with anti-fouling paint.
"When I first came to the ship in 1985, I saw original anti-fouling paint on the bottom and no corrosion there. It works, but obviously they didn't think they'd need to paint the whole ship with anti-fouling paint."
Today's supertankers use robots to clean and paint their hulls underwater, Ballard explained, making his plan technically feasible.
It's also well worth doing, he said, "so the hull doesn't splay open and expose the highly preserved interior with its precious contents."
For instance, James Cameron's recent Titanic footage "shows the Turkish baths looking like they're about to be turned on."
If Ballard has his way, someday adventurous divers with deep pockets won't be the only ones to visit Titanic.
"We can use remote imaging technology to turn the Titanic into an underwater electronic museum," he said. "That way it would be accessible to everyone."


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Название mp3: Big City Life
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Добавлен: 2015-07-13
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Big City Life,
Me try fi get by,
Pressure nah ease up no matter how hard me try.
Big City Life,
Here my heart have no base,
And right now Babylon de pon me case.
People in a show,
All lined in a row.
We just push on by,
It's funny,
How hard we try.
Take a moment to relax.
Before you do anything rash.
Don't you wanna know me?
Be a friend of mine.
I'll share some wisdom with you.
Don't you ever get lonely,
From time to time
Don't let the system get you down
Soon our work is done,
All of us one by one.
Still we live our lives,
As if all this stuff survives.
I take a moment to relax,
Before I do anything rash.
The Linguist across the seas and the oceans,
A permanent Itinerant is what I've chosen.
I find myself in Big City prison, arisen from the vision of mankind.
Designed, to keep me discreetly neatly in the corner,
you'll find me with the flora and the fauna and the hardship.
Back yard is where my heart is
Still I find it hard to depart this Big City Life.


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The Netherlands speedskating team celebrates gold in the men's team pursuit. Carolina Kostner of Italy casts a shadow on the rink as she begins her figure skating routine. And a hockey puck bounces off the wall during a warm up session before the USA vs. Finland bronze medal game. Here's a look at Saturday's highlights from the Sochi Olympics.
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These days, we tend to think of New York's bridges as traffic obstacles. But at the turn of the last century, the bridges that sprang up in thickets around Manhattan's shores were objects of wonder and civic pride—near magical pieces of infrastructure that took many years (and lives) to build.
A New York Times article about the New Tappan Zee Bridge this week included a wonderful log of construction photos from the original crossing, which got under way in 1952. That was relatively late, compared to most of the city's great bridges, and it made me wonder what other photos were floating around out there—not only of the Tappan Zee, but of the great boom in bridge building that began in the 1870s and lasted until the 1920s.
These were the years when the Brooklyn Bridge, the Manhattan Bridge, the Williamsburg Bridge, and the Queensboro Bridge were all built. The years when 27 workers (including the lead engineer) died building the Brooklyn Bridge, and when 30 died to build the "New East River Bridge," aka the Williamsburg Bridge. When getting home from work could mean swinging from a single line of rope.
In short, it was a very different—and very dangerous—undertaking, and the picture below prove it.
The Brooklyn Bridge, 1870
Construction shots from around 1877. [Brooklyn Visual Heritage; Ross Wolfe]
The construction of Brooklyn Bridge, shot by George Bradford Brainerd from around 1872-1887. [Brooklyn Museum]
An 1883 magazine cover shows workers lashing the stays of the Brooklyn Bridge. [LOC]
Plates from a March 10, 1877 issue of Scientific American show workers making and lashing the wire stays for the Brooklyn Bridge. [Marcel Douwe Dekker]
On May 24, 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge finally opened, after 14 years of work. [Racontrs]
The Williamsburg Bridge, 1896
The "New East River Bridge," aka the Williamsburg Bridge, is shown partially completed in this 1906 plate from Detroit Publishing Co. [LOC]
A shot of first decks being laid. [pds209]
Fireworks in February 1907, at the opening of the new bridge, published in Harper's Magazine.
The Manhattan Bridge, 1901
Manhattan Bridge, under-construction, seen from Dumbo. [Eugene de Salignac/Courtesy NYC Municipal Archives]
The Manhattan Bridge from Brooklyn, 1909. [LOC]
Footpaths on Manhattan Bridge let workers access their jobs from the city, taken between 1907 and 1915. [LOC]
An image of the decks being laid on the bridge. [Recuerdos de Pandora]
The Queensboro Bridge, 1901
Queensboro Bridge under construction, on August 8, 1907. [Eugene de Salignac/Courtesy NYC Municipal Archives]
Hell Gate Bridge, 1912
The final pieces of the Hell Gate Bridge being put into place. [LOC]
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For those of you that don't know, Roseanne Barr is a well known actress, comedian, writer, television producer and director. She has won several awards which include Emmy awards, Golden Globe awards, People's Choice awards and more.
She has been in the industry for over twenty years and has gained much respect from many of her Hollywood colleagues who she is now speaking on behalf of.
I just want to make it clear how long she has been inside the industry, and the connections she has to others within it.
Industry insiders are feeling the need to share inspirational words and food for thought to the millions of people that pay attention to them as of late.
We saw this recently with Ashton Kutcher. Celebrities have a voice that can reach a large sum of people, they can be a threat to corporate interests and the controlling elite and as Roseanne states, many celebrities bite their tongue and live in a culture of fear.
Not long ago, Roseanne made some shocking statements, alluding that Hollywood and the entertainment industry is dominated by MK Ultra. MK Ultra was the name for a previously classified research program through the CIA's scientific intelligence division.
It was the CIA's program of research in behavioral modification and perception manipulation of human beings (1).
It was previously known as Operation Paperclip (2). Roseanne is suggesting that Hollywood is a tool used in the manipulation of human consciousness, used as a tool for behavior modification and perception control in human beings.
"Hollywood is the one that keeps all of this power structure. They perpetuate the culture of racism, sexism, classism, genderism and keep it all in place.
"They continue to feed it, and they make a lot of money doing it. They do it at the behest of their masters, who run everything.
"I speak on behalf of Hollywood. I go to parties, Oscar parties and things like that and big stars pull me aside, take my arm and whisper: "I just want to thank you for the things you say." And it blows my mind, but that's the culture, it's a culture of fear.
"It's a big culture of mind control, MK Ultra rules in Hollywood."
The CIA and Hollywood
It's funny that ancient Druid 'wizards' and 'magicians' used to make their wands specific for casting spells from the Holly Wood tree.
Maybe "Hollywood" is used to cast spells on the masses, because at the very least it can sure seem that way. Everything we do is so systematic, so robotic in nature.
We go to school, get a job, have a family and chase materialistic gains only to find out that it is not what our soul truly desires. We are told what to wear, what's popular, what to buy, what truth is and how life is through television.
It keeps us occupied, ignorant and blind to what is really happening on our planet.
Everything is Fake: Top 40 Pieces of Fakery in Our World
Roseanne's public remark that the CIA's MK Ultra program rules in Hollywood is an educated statement, and not just an opinion.
It comes from her own experiences within the industry as well as an awareness of known facts about the CIA and their involvement in Hollywood -all of which also happen to be available to the public.
It's not hard to see how television and mass advertising can be used as mind control, basically shaping the perception of the individual, as well as displaying what each individual should "be" like, what type of life to chase and what it means to be successful.
Given Roseanne's statement, as well as the information we already have in the public domain, it's safe to say that something fishy is going on in Hollywood. Ask yourself, are your wants really yours? Or have they been programmed into you since birth?
Not many people know this, but the CIA has an entire department dedicated to the entertainment industry. It's run through the CIA's Entertainment Industry Liaison Office (3), which collaborates in a strictly advisory capacity with filmmakers.
The CIA doesn't just offer guidance to filmmakers, it even offers money. In 1950, the agency bought the rights to George Orwell's Animal Farm, and then funded the 1954 British animated version of the film.
Its involvement had long been rumored, but only in the past decade have those rumors been substantiated.
The link between Hollywood and the CIA isn't something new, and Roseanne isn't just blurting out information that has no backing behind it.
The CIA also had a project called Mockingbird, in which the CIA infiltrated mass media outlets in order to sway public opinion.
After leaving The Washington Post in 1977, Carl Bernstein spent six months looking at the relationship of the CIA and the press during the Cold War years.
His 25,000 word cover story that was published in Rolling Stone in the late 70's can be read here.
With this article I wanted to present a small amount of information to give you, the readers, some background on these programs within the department of defense.
Making the connection between these programs and Hollywood isn't hard. Using Hollywood as a mind control hub can easily be labelled as a conspiracy to many, but I believe that labeling can only come about when one fails to actually look into it.
Hopefully this tidbit of information provides some backing for Roseanne's claims, along with her experience within the industry. If you want to look more into the CIA's influence in Hollywood, MK Ultra and Project Mockingbird are a good place to start.
Brave souls like Roseanne speaking out is simply helping the masses shed light on these long-existent programs. Individuals within the entertainment industry are simply used as tools for mind control.
We are programmed to worship them, praise them and be like them. These "stars" are used as puppets to serve a greater agenda.
Let's not forget that Hollywood (entertainment industry) is owned (shareholders) by the same corporations and financial institutions that own the energy, health and food industry.
Institutions like Fidelity Investments, the Vanguard group and the State Street Corporation. They own Disney and the major corporations that govern Hollywood, they also own Big Oil, Big Food and Big Pharma! (4), (5), (6).
The connections are endless, and if you do the research, it's not hard to see. Nothing is really hidden, it's not a conspiracy theory.
It's good to see the world waking up everyday. We are recognizing that peace between all is what really makes the most sense.
Peace and love is the necessary core to re-creating our reality, awakening to the truth about our planet and who we give our power away to on a daily basis is a step for some people to arrive at a greater conclusion.
The truth is, we are required to sustain the current system, therefore we can choose to change it at anytime.


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We are equally interested in potential applications of our research. We would like to explore the potential of graphene and other two-dimensional materials towards applications in electronics; design nanoelectromechanical mass and force sensors capable of weighing individual atoms; create graphene biosensors for biomedical applications. A big part of our research is nanoscale fabrication. We use the facilities at Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering and Oak Ridge National Laboratory to make, contact, cut, fold, and stack with atomic precision various two-dimensional materials from graphene to boron nitride.
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The Secret Beyond Matter
Allah wants people to order every moment of their lives according to the Qur'an's edicts, commands and prohibitions. The Qur'an is a guide that lets human beings distinguish between right and wrong, appropriate and inappropriate behavior, and those acts that please Allah and those that don't. For these reasons, Allah commands people in Surat al-An'am, to follow this holy book:
And this is a Book We have sent down and blessed, so follow it and fear Allah so that hopefully you will gain mercy. (Surat al-An'am, 155)
But the majority does not organize its lives according to the edicts of the Qur'an or its moral precepts. They do not even consider that they should follow a book containing Allah's commandments. They do not understand how important religious morality and the Qur'an are, for their entire lives. They think that religion can offer occasional guidance in some limited areas of life. Apart from times of worry and distress, moments of great danger, serious pain, discomfort and insurmountable fear-and at the hour of death-they see no need to turn to Allah. They fail to grasp that everyone must live a life according to the dictates of religious morality. For this reason, they prefer to lead their whole lives as far away from religion as possible, not even discussing it among themselves. They even avoid mentioning the name of Allah.
For a person to live his life, however, he definitely needs the commands of Allah and the moral qualities revealed in the Qur'an. It is good and easy for us to live according to the moral teachings in the book of our Lord and Creator. Without this morality, a healthy society is unthinkable; because laws decreed with no regard for human nature (that is, the character that human beings were created with), will have a detrimental effect on both individuals and on society and bring about social degradation. Relations between humans will deteriorate, and society will be plunged into chaos. As a result, war, confusion and oppression will be unavoidable throughout the world. Individuals divorced from religion, trying to follow the dictates of their own ignorant systems, will be overwhelmed by spiritual and physical distress.
Today, despite all this rampant negativity, some individuals-not including sincere believers-continue to insist that along with religion, there are also the "facts of life." This philosophy is based on rejecting the absolute necessity of religious morality in human life. According to such distorted thinking, to follow the rules of religious morality is practically impossible. These people fear that were religion allowed into daily life, they would be deprived of all kinds of worldly blessings and lead a life of monotony. They think that living a life of religious morality will prevent them from enjoying life. Of course, this idea has nothing to do with reality. Religious morality creates the most comfortable social life in which the individual human spirit will be the most content and the most productive. Those who adopt this high morality and escape the "facts of life" deception possess the soundest mood in their society. They will take pleasure in the beauties of life and play a major role in bringing about a society of peace, tolerance, and self-sacrifice.
But those divorced from religious morality think of practicing virtue as a sign of weakness and naiveté. For example, they believe that, no matter how much a person sacrifices himself for another, he will always get selfishness and unfairness in return-and therefore, it would be silly to act in such a way. They regard any self-sacrificial act as well-intentioned but ignorant-a person doing a good deed for someone else free of charge and getting no acknowledgement for what he has done. In real life, as far as they are concerned, one should return selfishness for selfishness, grudge for grudge, hostility for hostility and enmity for enmity.
Ignorant society regards it as silly to be kind and make amends with anyone who constantly does you wrong, and to forgive that person for the bad things he has done. In response to such moral virtue, people in that society would belittle the good person, asking, "How gullible can you be? If that were me, he'd soon get what's coming to him!" According to the "facts of life" espoused by those who ignore the moral teachings of the Qur'an, it is right to exchange evil for evil. This way of thinking is commended in ignorant religions, which assert that no enemy can ever be a friend; no matter how much good one person does for another, underlying enmity still remains. The only one who loses is whoever does the favor. Society holds the well-intentioned to be a weak person who doesn't realize when he is being abused.
People with this distorted way of thinking believe that they have to embrace "the facts of life" even more tightly to keep themselves from falling into traps. They fear that they have to pay close attention to what people are thinking and to how they react. These individuals lay great importance on what others say; assuming that the more they get others to like them, the better will be their place in society. They think that once society likes them, they should absolutely resort to every sort of unseemly behavior on the way to attaining their worldly ambitions.
In the Qur'an, however, Allah says that He wants human beings to be sincere in seeking His pleasure only and not to consider what other people might say. Our Lord commands His servants' moral character to be the opposite to that of the ignorant people we have been describing. In the sight of Allah, a good person is one who returns good for a wrong committed against him. Moreover, this kind of behavior is an important step on the way to creating friendship out of enmity. In the Qur'an, Allah tells us of this happy result:
A good action and a bad action are not the same. Repel the bad with something better and, if there is enmity between you and someone else, he will be like a bosom friend. (Surah Fussilat, 34)
Practicing the Qur'an's moral teachings is the only way to salvation; this is true in forgiving others for the wrongs they have committed and in everything else we do. The real purpose of life is to be a servant who wins Allah's favor; who does good without hope for reward, sacrifices himself for others and gives of himself freely. He is just, patient, determined to urge goodness and dissuade from evil, and totally and unconditionally given to winning the favor of Allah. But ignorant people who do not espouse the Qur'an's moral teachings spend their whole lives in conflict, strife and unhappiness, and they think that such are the facts of life. They cannot imagine living a quiet life of moral virtue, free from falsehood, opportunism, insincerity and hypocrisy. They believe that the world is a place where only the strong survive. They ignore the reality of the eternal world to come; they live their lives only in relation to the short life in this world. They reject religious morality, saying, "Whatever I do in this world is for profit." Caught in this false world of man-made rules, they actually regard some human beings as deities and feel enslaved to them. As a result, they are bound to suffer for not obeying Allah's commands; they will live a life of degradation in this world, and their pains will be much more severe in
the world to come. The Qur'an tells us about their state:
When those who associated others with Allah see those they associated, they will say, "Our Lord, these are our partner gods, the ones we called upon apart from You." But they will fling their words back in their faces: "You are truly liars!" On that Day they will offer their submission to Allah and the things they invented will abandon them. As for those who disbelieved and barred access to the way of Allah, We will heap punishment on top of their punishment because of the corruption they brought about. (Surat an-Nahl, 86-88)
Then they will be asked, "Where are those besides Allah you associated with Him?" and they will reply, "They have forsaken us. Or rather we were not calling to anything at all before." That is how Allah misguides the disbelievers. "That is because you exulted on the Earth, without any right to do so; and strutted about. Enter the gates of Hell, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. How evil is the abode of the arrogant!" (Surah Ghafir, 73-76)


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A new guy, Ben, is staying at Heartland and wreaks havoc on Amy and Ty's relationship.
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Coming HomeEpisode 101
In their attempt to rescue a horse, Amy and her mother experience an accident, forcing Amy and the rest of the Bartlett family to pick up the pieces.
After The StormEpisode 102
As things begin to settle at Heartland, Val Stanton spreads rumors and Ty misses a visit from his probation officer.
Breaking FreeEpisode 103
An "Open House" at Heartland allows Amy to demonstrate her ability, despite accusations from Val, and helps to bring in business.
Taking ChancesEpisode 104
A new guy, Ben, is staying at Heartland and wreaks havoc on Amy and Ty's relationship.
The Best Laid PlanEpisode 105
Lou drives friends and family to distraction as she arranges to have a video made to promote Heartland.
One Trick PonyEpisode 106
Lou's New York boyfriend Carl comes to visit, but his big city ways clash with the ranch's more laid-back style.
Come What MayEpisode 107
A pregnant mare, riding lessons, a horse show, and a cattle roundup prove challenging for all.
Out of the DarknessEpisode 108
Amy tries to help a champion stallion and his trainer, who were injured by a stable fire. Mallory dispenses relationship advice.
Ghost From the PastEpisode 109
Amy and Lou take in an elderly neighbor's pony and Ty's old girlfriend from the juvenile group home shows up looking for him.
Born to RunEpisode 110
Prize-winning rider Nick Harwell stops by Heartland. Mallory discovers a crooked ranch-hand who plans to sell a herd of wild mustangs to a slaughterhouse.
Thicker Than WaterEpisode 111
Amy and Lou invite their dad for lunch while Jack and Lisa take a fishing trip. Ty practices his cattle-roping skills.
Rising From the AshesEpisode 112
A barn fire brings life at Heartland to a halt, including Lou's plan to move back to New York.
Coming TogetherEpisode 113
Amy competes with Ashley Stanton at a horse show and Spartan's abusive owner attempts to take him back.


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Every so often when the Moon is especially ginormous or we can see Venus or Mars from Earth, humans collectively freaks out. So cool three exclamation points, we scream. Look how big with thirty i's, we yell. And it's warranted! Seeing things that don't belong in the sky pop up, well, in the sky is fun. So could you imagine if one day Earth developed rings like Saturn? It would be insane.
Amazing science and space artist Ron Miller imagined what life on Earth would look like if it had rings like Saturn and it's mind blowing. The coolest thing is that different areas of the world would see Earth's rings differently—a streak of light dividing the sky at the Equator, a bending ring that looks brightens the Moon in Guatamela, a permanent rainbow on the east coast of the United States and so forth. I want to live on this make believe planet now. Earth is too ordinary.
[Black Cat Studios via PetaPixel]
In Polynesia, Earth would cast a shadow on the rings creating a warped ring.
Near the equator, the rings would be a streaking light splitting the sky.
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text: Cybercriminals are increasingly launching drone-like attacks on companies, sending malicious emails tailored to specific executives or their underlings to go after high-value digital assets in the corporate network.Proofpoint\u00a0on Thursday\u00a0unveiled a cloud service called Targeted Attack Protection (TAP) that defends against some forms of so-called advanced persistent threats. The service is aimed at intercepting hacker-sent emails that contain links to malicious websites that attempt to download malware or steal the victim's credentials.TAP is a proxy server that sits in the cloud or on a customer's network, intercepting all email traffic before it reaches the mail sever. All emails are analyzed and links in those deemed suspicious are rewritten, so if someone clicks on them, the request first goes through Proofpoint's server.Once email is marked, the link remains altered, even if the recipient forwards the e-mail to someone else. It also doesn't matter whether recipients click on links from their home network or a mobile device.Besides analyzing email, Proofpoint's server also checks the destination website for malware or web forms that would request a visitor's user name and password. Hackers often wait to activate such sites, so Proofpoint monitors them and stands ready to intercept malware.TAP includes a web-based dashboard for configuring alerts and to get more information on threats, such as whether they are targeting a single organization or a specific industry. Other information includes which individuals are being targeted and whether the attack is to download malware or steal credentials.The shift to APTs is reflected in the steep decline in spam volume, which fell last year to the lowest level since 2007, according to Cisco's latest state-of-security report. Rather than send out massive amounts of spam to trap a small percentage of recipients, hackers are targeting specific people in organizations with information that fetches the best price in the black market. Those organizations include defense contractors, government agencies and international research groups.To get the names of executives, hackers search regulatory filings and social media, such as Facebook and LinkedIn, said David Knight, executive vice president of product management and marketing at Proofpoint. Getting passwords to social media, such as in the recent break-in at LinkedIn, are particularly valuable in so-called spear-phishing campaigns."Not only do I have names, but I know who is related to whom, because I can log in as you and I can see all your friends," Knight said. "Once I know who your associates are, I can send a message from an account that appears to be from trusted people in your network."Proofpoint's TAP service is scheduled for release in the third quarter. An annual subscription will start at $18 per user.While Proofpoint is focusing on APT, CloudPassage has introduced an authentication service for companies with applications running on virtual servers in cloud platforms, such as those run by Amazon and Rackspace.GhostPorts SMS is an agent that is installed on a virtual server. When someone logs in with his or her user name and password from a browser, the agent sends a onetime password to the person's mobile phone. The temporary password has to be inputted to gain access to the application.GhostPorts SMS, also released Thursday, is available as part of the NetSec and Professional editions of CloudPassage's Halo cloud security platform, which also includes firewall automation, vulnerability scanning, intrusion detection and multi-factor authentication.A basic version of Halo is available for free. The paid editions start at 3.5 cents per hour during the time a virtual server is active in the cloud.


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Overall it was fun, he says in his outgoing style.
The frustrations, not surprisingly, relate to traffic and parking, most notably in the downtown Palo Alto commercial area and its flanking residential neighborhoods as well as to other areas near commercial centers, such as California Avenue. He said he regrets not having a new parking structure under construction in the downtown area, and that the "overflow parking" impact on neighborhoods still needs critical attention.
And he has changed his view on whether Palo Alto needs a directly elected mayor, an echo of the late Gary Fazzino, who long favored a directly elected mayor. Scharff said he now would favor electing a mayor for a four-year term rather than the informal tradition of a one-year term for a mayor selected by a majority vote of the City Council.
The vote will come up at the first meeting in January, set for 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 6, when current Vice Mayor Nancy Shepherd will likely become the 2014 mayor. For nine council members who can't officially talk privately together as a majority (because of the state's Ralph M. Brown open-meeting law) it's always a puzzle how a new mayor's family manages to show up at the meeting, sometimes from many miles away, to honor the selection.
And serving as mayor of Palo Alto is an honor, Scharff said in a recent interview as his year ran out. It's been both an honor and a great deal of fun, he said -- something not all mayors would echo over the years of sometimes rough-and-tumble politics and challenges.
The honor reflects the city itself, he said, echoing points he made in an extended State of the City speech nearly a year ago, delivered at the Tesla electric-vehicle headquarters.
It's an amazing city, he emphasized, dubbing the year "Lucky 2013." (For full text, see http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/33248 .)
It's "lucky," he said, "because simply put Palo Alto in 2013 is the most desirable place to live, work and raise a family in the United States, if not the world.
"Palo Alto is "the innovation capital of the world. The ideas that change the world start here. In a garage, or in a coffee house, in our homes, or offices, the future continues to be invented here in Palo Alto."
In addition to having "the most educated citizens in the country," it has "fantastic schools," 34 parks, 4,000 acres of open space, an urban forest, a "great sense of community and a shared sense of core values." It's also "walkable, bikable and has wonderful commercial areas." And to top it off 91 percent of citizens surveyed felt Palo Alto offers a high quality of life.
Speaking at the Tesla headquarters was appropriate, he said because Tesla is the future of the American automobile and "embodies Palo Alto's core values of innovation, sustainability and a bright future without limits."
Looking back a year later, Scharff cites good progress most of the objectives he outlined, along lines of the city's three priorities for the year: the future of downtown and California Avenue commercial areas; infrastructure funding and strategy; and technology and a "connected city." The city is moving ahead with a wi-fi wireless-access program citywide, as a first step toward the decades-old goal of "fiber to the premise," or FTTP, Scharff noted.
But downtown Palo Alto remains a dilemma: "We are blessed with probably the most vibrant small city downtown in the world, ? an economic engine that drives technological innovation throughout the world. ?" But the "almost unlimited demand for space" creates "parking intrusion into surrounding neighborhoods that needs to be alleviated," in part by ensuring that all new projects in downtown are either fully parked or pay into the parking fund to create more parking structures.
Pushing alternative transportation is another facet, through Transportation Demand Management (TDM) programs, he said. Next year the city will start requiring employers in downtown, California Avenue and the Stanford Research Park to ensure that 30 percent of their employees carpool or use alternatives to single-occupant vehicles to get to and from work, Scharff said. This will likely require combined efforts for success, he said.
Responding to critics who feel the city has been too soft on developers, Scharff agreed in part but said this council has been pretty hard-nosed, requiring developers to contribute several million dollars into the city's parking fund or to expand their on-site parking substantially. The withdrawal last week of the big Jay Paul project may reflect that firmness.
Scharff said past city planning officials resisted requiring full on-site parking because they felt that "if we build more parking we would draw more traffic." But the correct response is to build more parking and push harder on alternative forms of getting to and from work, he said.
Parking overflow "has not been solved, and I feel bad about that, and I wish we were futher along on TDM." s
Overall, Scharff said, "My perception is we've really been tough on developers."
One subject that will impact a good number of persons is the expansion of no-smoking areas, including a ban on smoking anywhere in the downtown or California Avenue commercial areas -- expanding larger and larger non-smoking areas. Having commercial areas free of second-hand smoke will please health-conscious nonsmokers and irritate smokers, some of whom feel that lighting up is something akin to a constitutional right.
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San Diego To Host USAT Super Sprint Series Finale Saturday
The USA Triathlon Super Sprint Series returns to San Diego, Calif., on Saturday, Oct. 26 for the 2013 season finale.
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The USA Triathlon Super Sprint Series returns to San Diego, Calif., on Saturday, Oct. 26 for the 2013 season finale, held at Mission Bay's Rose Marie Starns South Shores Park.
Read the preview from USA Triathlon below:
The series was launched this year to showcase an exciting new format for the sport in the United States, and the Oct. 26 Fearless Pro Super Sprint Triathlon will be broadcast on Universal Sports Network on Nov. 11 at 8 p.m. ET.
The start list for the third and final installment of the series, hosted along with Fearless Races, includes two-time 2013 ITU World Cup Champion Katie Hursey (Hampstead, Md.), 2008 U.S. Olympian Julie Ertel (Irvine, Calif.), 2013 USA Triathlon Collegiate National Champion Ben Kanute (Tucson, Ariz.) and 2013 USA Triathlon Elite Sprint National Champion Eric Lagerstrom (Gresham, Ore.), who earned his title at the second series event last month in Las Vegas. A $20,000 prize purse will be shared equally between the overall male and female fields, with the top-10 finishers being rewarded in each division.
Elite action will begin with the women at 10:45 a.m. PT, followed by the men at noon. Contested in a double super-sprint format, professional athletes will complete two continuous, non-stop circuits of the same course, each comprised of a 300-meter swim, 8-kilometer bike and 2.5-kilometer run. An age-group event will also take place at the same venue, beginning at 7 a.m. PT.
PHOTOS: Fearless Pro Super Sprint-Triathlon – Men's Race
The event is free and open to the public, and spectators will be able to take in the entire race with minimal movement, as the course features a one-lap bay swim, followed by a five-lap bike and a two-lap run. Rose Marie Starns South Shore Park is located at 598 Sea World Drive, across Mission Bay from Fiesta Island, the site of the world's first triathlon in 1974.
A 60-minute broadcast of the Fearless Pro Super Sprint Triathlon will air on Nov. 11 at 8 p.m. ET. Steve Schlanger (play-by-play) and Ertel (analyst), who formed NBC's triathlon broadcast team during the 2012 Olympic Games in London, will provide the commentary. Re-air times for the broadcast include (all times Eastern): Nov. 11 at 11 p.m., Nov. 12 at 5 a.m. and noon, Nov. 14 at 5 p.m. and Nov. 15 at 1:30 a.m.
Universal Sports Network is now available on Time Warner Cable, Cox, satellite providers DIRECTV and DISH and numerous regional cable and IPTV operators in markets across the country. Find Universal Sports Network in your area by visiting Universalsports.com/iwantuniversalsports.html.
The Super Sprint Series features the world's best elite triathletes in a spectator-friendly environment. The venues put fans in the center of the action, with athletes completing two continuous, non-stop circuits of the same course.
The USA Triathlon Super Sprint Series opener was also held in San Diego on April 24, following the 2013 Omegawave World Triathlon San Diego. Sarah Groff (Hanover, N.H.), who earned a fourth-place finish at the 2012 London Olympic Games, bested the women's field with a time of 40 minutes even, while Australian Aaron Royle finished in 37:10 to win the men's race.


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Montrail FluidFeel II (Spring 2014)
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The Dirt: Montrail's second rendition of an old favorite pairs an airy upper (improved from the FluidFeel I) with a supportive foundation—pronators rejoice! Foam nodules lock your heels in on steep climbs.
Many testers, upon first glance, worried that the FluidFeel II seemed bulky—but, after running in it, were wooed by its lightweight feel. It boasts ample cushioning highly praised by one tester who identified himself as "an older runner with knee surgeries."
Best For: The FluidFeel II offers true versatility, lending comfort on every kind of terrain for distances up to 100 miles—"supportive on technical trails and fast on the road!" said one tester.
Traction: The tread performs best on dry surfaces ranging from pavement to technical trails.
Fit: This shoe fits narrow and slightly small. Testers praised the out-of-box comfort and lack of break-in time.
The Downsides: Some testers reported slippage on wet surfaces.
Tester-Monial: "After over a few hundred miles of pounding, tripping and kicking roots, my FluidFeel IIs are still in one piece, with no tears or busted seams—a testament to quality materials and construction!"
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VJET/Importing VJET ANVILs
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Most developers will want to use 3rd party JavaScript libraries with VJET JS IDE. VJET JavaScript publishes ANVIL for a few commonly used JavaScript libraries. VJET ANVILs are published as Eclipse projects, imported into the Eclipse workspace, then referenced using the VJET JS IDE code assist features.
Download VJET ANVIL
Get from here the ANVIL library you want to use:
- Node.js
- jQuery
- Dojo
- Canvas
You can also find the source code for some of the ANVILs in git see the VJET ANVILS page for list of ANVILs.
Import ANVIL Projects into Eclipse
- In Eclipse, select File > Import
- In the Import wizard select General > Existing Projects Into Workspace
- Select Next
- Select Select archive file, then press Browse and select the project you want to import. You can only select one project at a time.
- Select Finish. The imported VJET ANVIL project appears in the Explorer. In order to reference the types, you must update your project's build path.
Update Your Project's Build Path
- Right-Click on your project; select Build Path -> Configure Build Path
- In the Projects tab, press Add and select the type library projects you want to add. (Only VJET Projects are listed in this dialog)
- Select OK *-> Finish*. The type libraries are added to the project's build path.
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Some time ago, AT&T realized it had a bit of an issue on its hands with the Samsung Epix. A "Slog Dump issue" in fact. As exotic as that sounds, it pretty much means the phone would continuously crash with the pop up message "This is forced SLOG DUMP". After months of hounding from users, AT&T finally pushed out an update to the bizarre issue last week and all was right again in the world of QWERTY Windows Mobile phones. Or not. While AT&T did resolve the Slog Dump error with its OTA update, it also brought about a new problem that is just as severe — many are reporting the Epix now freezes on a daily basis when attempting to dial out. Ouch. Are you an Epix owner affected by all this craziness? Let us know how things are going in the comments section and head on over to the AT&T forum to read more about the issues.
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Beenie's Search by J.J. Schousboe
Genre: kidlit
About Beenie's Search:
Join Beenie, the friendly bear, as he searches for his family after hibernating for the long winter. Spring arrives and Beenie discovers that he is all alone. In search of food, friends and his family, Beenie gets side tracked and lost. When he remembers what he was taught by his parents, he overcomes his fears and sets off in the right direction. Beenie's Search teaches young readers the importance of listening and following directions as they join Beenie in his adventure.Source: Info in the About Beenie's Search was from the press kit from the publicity team.
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JJ Schousboe migrated from the lovely island of Trinidad, in the Caribbean. She has been writing poems as a teenager and began writing stories for her children. A preschool teacher since 2007, JJ currently lives in Largo, Florida.
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Korean Fashion Keys: relaxed long TEE, big bag
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Things here have been really busy again! But I took an hour this weekend to do a little sewing. I realized that it's been a few weeks since I've been able to just sit down at the machine and work on a project. And I haven't gotten to sew with Pachyderm Parade (I really do love the new name!) yet. So I poked around and found some super simple projects I could finish in an hour.
Itty Bitty Bag
I will admit it. I have a massive phobia about sewing zippers. Even with a zipper foot on my machine, I always end up having problems sewing a simple zipper. But this was my first attempt in a while so I figured perhaps it wasn't as bad as I remembered. And it wasn't! And the zipper even works! So ha! Take that you zipper phobia. The bag is tiny (6x3x3) and will be perfect for storing little sewing notions. And using this tutorial from Three Bears it was ridiculously easy to make! Cute huh?
I found this link on Anna Maria Horner's blog for a tutorial and they were super simple to make. I *love* the way the button looks but functionaly it is just sort of in the way and it keeps making the bookmark slide out of my book! I guess it's like that gorgeous pair of heels, beauty over function!
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A month earlier, I announced Monthly Mingle for Winter Fruits and Vegetables. I'm kicked with the response – 34 entries from 32 bloggers of 13 countries. Read on for a sumptuous winter treat.
A note of thanks
Since I started food blogging back in April 2008, Meeta had been an inspiration with her posts and photographs quality. So, when she agreed to let me to host her already famous monthly blog event – Monthly Mingle, I got excited. Meeta even designed the logo for the current event. Meeta, can't thank you enough.
Event Theme
Choosing the event theme wasn't easy. I being the 23rd blogger to host this event, you can pretty much assume that almost all types of food and accompaniments have been covered earlier. This being Winter, so thought of a very simple theme – Winter Fruits and Vegetables.
The Round up
I've tried to group the entries into 5 categories – Soups, Bakes, Fruits, Sides and Others. Due to post length, I've split the round up into two posts. Part 1 will talk about Soups and Bakes.
Which one did you like?
A potato and carrot soup from Divya of Dil Se, just perfect for the chilly winter evenings.
Tigerfish of Teczape- An Escape of Food had something else in mind. She thought of a good heart-healthy seasonal soup for winter. Best way to use the seasonal produces in her Kale Winter Vegetable Soup with Salmon and Tofu.
Aoife of The Daily Spud found a little hope to cope with the ice cold winters of Ireland with this wonderful Ukranian soup called Borscht, which she learned from a cookery lesson in Moscow school cafeteria.
PJ of Ginger & Garlic has a thick and spicy soup to share with us, the name Parsnip soup with kale and roasted garlic says it all.
Sarah of Maison Cupcake, UK has a healthy and 'immediate' soup to cater in this winter, the Immediate Butternut Squash and Chestnut Soup is good deal to pamper your taste buds.
Though that's not what we mean when we say 'soup', but the Mango Cauliflower Rasam from Ruchika of Ruchika Cooks is a must have for all of us who would like to drink healthy this winter.
With winter, comes Christmas bells and with comes the delicious Christmas cakes. Happy Cook of My Kitchen Treasure has something special to share, it's a Cranberry upside down cake.
Joanne of Eats Well With Others took a new year resolution of not bringing back breads to home, the only breads allowed inside her kitchen are the ones prepared solely by her. Here's her first step. She sends an amazing Fried Eggs on Toast with Cheddar and Avocado.
This French lady, Gaelle of WhatAreYouFeedingYourKidsTheseDays is happy to serve her family with a simple yet delicious dish, the Gratin of Baked Winter Vegetables. It's an adapted version of a very traditional French dish that was perfect for the freezing temperatures of Philadelphia: a Gratin Dauphinois (baked potatoes).
Meeta of What's For Lunch, Honey? sent a lovely looking Kohlrabi Turnip Gratin, never thought turnip would look so tempting.
Saveur from The Taste Space has a wholesome dessert to serve – Apple Cranberry Oat Crumble.
Nandini of Usha Nandini's Recipes dared to add some oranges to her biscuits, and look what she has got – flower shaped Orange Biscuits (note the beautiful orange tinge).
Further Reading: Think Spice -Think Turmeric, Eggs, Festival of Rice Part 1, Part 2, Sweet Tooth, Non Veggie
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At Gizmodo, many of us are fans of the multi-monitor set-up. It's not surprising: it lets us simultaneously keep an eye on breaking news, email, our writing and graphics, too. But is there a limit to how useful multiple monitors can be?
The New York Times reports that use of more than one monitor is spreading. No longer is it the domain of the engineer, the programmer and the online gamer. No, bankers, journalists, and anybody else who multi-tasks at a computer is getting on board, too. I use two at home, with one being used for writing and email, the other for Gimp, Twitter, and news feeds. It works well.
And there's proof it works, too. Kind of. Speaking to the New York Times, Professor James A. Anderson discussed some research he conducted into how productivity increases with number of monitors. Admittedly, the project was funded by NEC, but he claims that didn't influence work. Let's believe him, just this once. The results? Using more monitors cuts down on toggling time among windows on a single screen, uh, as you'd expect. Anderson has calculated that it can save about 10 seconds for every five minutes of work if you have a dual-monitor set-up. Over the course of an eight hour day, that's a saving of, oooh, 15 minutes.
Anderson says he uses three monitors himself. Above that, though, he says it's hard to generalize about whether more monitors are better. But now monitors are cheaper, there's no reason people can't rock a four- or six-display desk. So I guess at that point, seeing as science isn't helping us, it's over to you guys. Is less ever more? [New York Times, Image: Ginnerobot]


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A report surfaced earlier this week contending that BlackBerry OS 10 will include a list of 106 prohibited passwords designed to prevent the clueless from choosing the likes of 123456, blackberry, or the ever-popular "password" as their password.
However, a RIM spokesman told me today that the list actually applies to BlackBerry ID universally, not only the upcoming operating system, and "has been active for some time now."
What he wasn't able to clarify, though, was why the BlackBerry blacklist enforces such a brutally disproportionate prohibition against names found on the character list of "Winnie the Pooh." Fully five of the no-can-do 106 -- tigger, rabbit, eeyore, piglet and poohbear - are plucked from the pages of the children's classic.
Yes, the blacklist is heavy on cartoon and fictional characters, in general: mickey, donald, barney, batman, gandalf, george and snoopy are also not allowed.
But inclusion or exclusion seems to carry little rhyme or reason, nursery or otherwise.
Calvin is banned, but not hobbes.
Dorothy and wizard are forbidden, but not scarecrow or tinman. Monkey is on the list, but not flyingmonkey. (Sure, longer character length matters.)
Want to use snowwhite as your password? Have a party. Same goes for all seven dwarfs.
Care to go more modern? Butthead is out of bounds, but not beavis, heh-heh. Homer is swell; so, too, simpson, simpsons and thesimpsons.
More questions:
Why are Monday uppercase and monday lowercase prohibited, yet either variant of the other six days of the week passes BlackBerry password muster?
The blacklisting by BlackBerry of molson makes some sort of sense, I guess, since both are products of Canada. But if beer names are problematic - and they probably are -- why ban miller and not budweiser, other than perhaps the latter is harder to spell?
(By that standard, then, the least BlackBerry could have done for the now permanently stigmatized Pooh gang would have been to leave poor eeyore be, since I have to look up that spelling every time.)
Baseball, football and even Canada's national religion, hockey, are all banned. But not basketball. The ninth letter was enough to earn a pass? Who knows?
First names appear to appear or not appear nonsensically. Andrew, amanda, brandy, chelsea, jennifer, jonathan, maggie, mathew, michael - and mike - michelle, natasha, pamela, patrick, rachel, steven - but not stephen -- thomas and victoria are among the banned.
Granted, victoria is a city name, too. But natasha is no-no while robert, which would seem to be an automatic no siree, Bob, sails on through. Also OK are charles, david, patricia, richard, susan and william.
Perhaps the oddest entry on the blacklist - oddest until I looked it up - is ncc1701. Now I understand that I will have to endure the mockery of the Star Trek crowd for having had to look it up. Of course, it's not my behavior that has earned a spot on a password blacklist.
The BlackBerry spokesman said he would try to get me more information about the list and its origins.
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Award-winning Book, Award-Winning Cover
9 Nov
I've got a great article from designer Lewis Agrell about what an award winning cover needs already posted on Your Shelf Life. You can read it here. Lewis says that the most successful book covers are the most beautiful. I think so, too.
They're a few other things winning covers need as well. Here are some guidelines for award-winning covers, illustrated with covers of award-winning books.
The text on your cover should be visible from six feet away. Some designers are in love with the notion that "small is beautiful." Maybe, but not on book covers. If the type on your cover is tiny, blurred, or unintelligible, your sales and saleability will be impaired. You won't win anything in contests. Sorry.
- "Achieve page dominance."A concept from telephone book ads. For a quick tutorial on commercial design, let's look at phone book ads. Open the yellow page ads in any phone book. Scan the page quickly. Where do your eyes land? Note the ad. Do it again on another page, and another.In all probability, the ad that draws your attention is simple. Uncluttered. Either black, white, or mostly empty. The ads that grab your eyeballs and hold them have attained page dominance. People hire consultants to create dominant ads for them.Now go to a bookstore sale table and look at the books. Which books grab your eyes? Which do you pick up? Buy? A book contest is like that table. Clear, bold design that dominates the competition will win.Your cover must have an emotional hook. Think archetypes. Primal images. Something that grabs the inner psychology of your reader/judge.To win contests, and much more importantly, to be purchased, your book cover and spine must dominate any table and any bookshelf.
- Your title is really, really important. Your title embodies your book's essence. It is the first text the reader sees. It should be engaging, easy to read, evocative, and compelling––it should set the emotional tone for your book. As should the subtitle or tag line (the one line description below the title). Also, most of the big catalogs of books will list your book by its title only. It better be memorable.
- The words on your cover, flaps, and first few pages of your book, your book's copy, should be unforgettable. These words are your prime real estate and are what will make your book succeed. The book contest judge, book store owner, and your buyer will make a decision about your book based on these words––in seconds. You want emotional hooks, ease of reading, and enchantment.Writing copy is a skill. You can write text like an angel and not be able to pump out a winning tag line. Emmy-nominated screenwriter Laren Bright, the best copy writer I know, wrote an article about "The Most Important Writing in Your Book." It's copy. That's what sells the book.
- Book design, interior & exterior: Your book should look like Random House produced it, no less. Every page and every word should be as well designed as your cover. Go to a book store and look at bestselling books. Get a copy of the Chicago Manual of Style––a gigantic book that lays out everything about books––and make it your best friend.
A very important note: Never have your title page on the left side of the book. Do not do that. (I saw books with this flaw in a book contest I once helped judge. This is such a bad error that if you don't know how bad it is, you're in big trouble.) Know the proper order of pages in a book. Know what a half title page is and where it goes. The contest judge will know about these.
I was going to put a few links to other sites about award-winning covers, but when I looked up the articles, I found I didn't like their covers. A major rule is: If it's your book (or blog) you should like the cover.
- I'm going to do a scrapbook of winning covers below.
[My blog software has decided it doesn't want to work any more on this post. ;-( So I can't label the last image. That's the cover of a new book, Sam & Emily: A Romance from the Underground, Book III of Tales from Earth's End. It hasn't won any contests yet, but I hope it will. It fits the book perfectly.]
I'll sign off here. All the best, Sandy Nathan


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Chubby Checker Goes Disco!
"In a way, 'The Twist' really ruined my life. I was on my way to becoming a big nightclub performer, and 'The Twist' just wiped it out. It got so out of proportion. No one ever believes I have talent." -Chubby Checker
A: The Rub (4:59)
B: Move It (4:42)
During my last used vinyl store run, I nearly killed myself going through every last 12" single they had in the racks. It was worth it, though, as I got some good stuff (like "Woodpeckers from Space" by Video Kids) including this Halloween-colored disco single by none other than Chubby Checker. I was slightly miffed at the $9 price tag... all I could think was, "Damn, this better be good. The E.T. Storybook Album (narrated by Michael Jackson!) only costs $7, and that's supposed to be pretty rare." I quickly realized it was worth the money simply just to hear Chubby's attempt at disco.
Likely one of of his final attempts to break free of the stigma of The Twist (at age 35, no less!) Mr. Checker put out this single during the early days of disco in 1976. Both sides are borderline forgettable tunes, with either one tackling one of the specific halves of the disco genre: the "slow, creepy make-out music" half, and the "mindless dance music" half, respectively. "The Rub", the A-side, is actually the weaker of the two songs, partly because it's musically unremarkable, and partially because I can't stop picturing Chubby singing this song while making grinding motions with his body. "Move It" is also kind of on the generic side, but it's got some nice synth sounds (didn't hear too much of those in 1976) and it gets pretty funky when the sax solos come in.
Unsurprisingly, I can't find any reference to this single on Chubby's site, since he's pretty much given up on trying to be anything but "the guy who made The Twist" and devotes his entire site to the song's notoriety, more or less. Nor can I find an entire Chubby Checker disco album that this single may have been pulled from. Ah well. Goodonya for trying, Chubby.
- Contributed by: The Swill Man
Images: Sleeve, A-Side, B-Side
Media: 45 rpm 12" single
Label: Amherst Records
Catalog: AMH-D-4
Credits: Written by "C. Checker/M. Washington", producer/arranger: Lou Hemsey
Date: 1976


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No bones about it: eating prunes helps prevent fractures and osteoporosis. When it comes to improving bone health in postmenopausal women — and people of all ages, actually — a Florida State University researcher has found a simple, proactive solution to help prevent fractures and osteoporosis: eating dried plums.
"Over my career, I have tested numerous fruits, including figs, dates, strawberries and raisins, and none of them come anywhere close to having the effect on bone density that dried plums, or prunes, have," said Bahram H. Arjmandi, of Florida's chairman of the Department of Nutrition, Food and Exercise Sciences in the College of Human Sciences. "All fruits and vegetables have a positive effect on nutrition, but in terms of bone health, this particular food is exceptional."
Arjmandi and a group of researchers from Florida State and Oklahoma State University tested two groups of postmenopausal women. Over a 12-month period, the first group, consisting of 55 women, was instructed to consume 100 grams of dried plums (about 10 prunes) each day, while the second — a comparative control group of 45 women — was told to consume 100 grams of dried apples. All of the study's participants also received daily doses of calcium (500 milligrams) and vitamin D (400 international units).
The group that consumed dried plums had significantly higher bone mineral density in the ulna (one of two long bones in the forearm) and spine, in comparison with the group that ate dried apples. This, according to Arjmandi, was due in part to the ability of dried plums to suppress the rate of bone resorption, or the breakdown of bone, which tends to exceed the rate of new bone growth as people age.
The group's research, "Comparative Effects of Dried Plum and Dried Apple on Bone in Post Menopausal Women," was published in the British Journal of Nutrition. In the United States, about 8 million women have osteoporosis because of the sudden cessation of ovarian hormone production at the onset of menopause. What's more, about 2 million men also have osteoporosis.
"In the first five to seven postmenopausal years, women are at risk of losing bone at a rate of 3 to 5 percent per year," Arjmandi said. "However, osteoporosis is not exclusive to women and, indeed, around the age of 65, men start losing bone with the same rapidity as women."
Arjmandi encourages people who are interested in maintaining or improving their bone health to take note of the extraordinarily positive effect that dried plums have on bone density.
"Don't wait until you get a fracture or you are diagnosed with osteoporosis and have to have prescribed medicine," Arjmandi said. "Do something meaningful and practical beforehand. People could start eating two to three dried plums per day and increase gradually to perhaps six to 10 per day. Prunes can be eaten in all forms and can be included in a variety of recipes."
Source: Florida State University


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Piero Lissoni is an architect, art director and designer (1956).
Together with Nicoletta Canesi, Piero Lissoni opens the studio Lissoni Associati in 1986. He begins collaborating as designer and Art Director with some of the best Italian and international furniture manufacturers.
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3a. Piaget's Constructivism
Piaget and Cognitive Development
Kakali Bhattacharya, Seungyeon Han
Department of Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology, University of Georgia
Review of Piaget and Cognitive Development
The research of Swiss cognitive psychologist Jean Piaget has contributed immeasurably to our understanding of the development of learning in children. Piaget suggested many comprehensive developmental theories. However, this chapter will discuss four of Piaget's key concepts that are applicable to learning at any age: assimilation, accommodation, equilibration, and schemas.
Two Major Principles
According to Piaget, two major principles guide intellectual growth and biological development: adaptation and organization. For individuals to survive in an environment, they must adapt to physical and mental stimuli. Assimilation and accommodation are both part of the adaptation process. Piaget believed that human beings possess mental structures that assimilate external events, and convert them to fit their mental structures. Moreover, mental structures accommodate themselves to new, unusual, and constantly changing aspects of the external environment.
Piaget's second principle, organization, refers to the nature of these adaptive mental structures. He suggests that the mind is organized in complex and integrated ways. The simplest level is the schema, a mental representation of some physical or mental action that can be performed on an object, event, or phenomenon. We now turn to a discussion of these concepts.
|Click Here to Play Video. Caption: This video depicts Angie's experience described below. The intent is to give you an alternative way of learning about assimilation, accommodation, equilibration and schemas. The video is a Windows Media Player file. By Kay Sauers, Tiffany Davis, and Meghann Hummel (2006).
Angie sees her own snapshot in a photo album for the first time. Her father asks her, "Who is that, Angie?" She points to the little girl in the picture and replies, "It is a baby, Daddy." She cannot identify herself. The father points out that the picture is of her. He tells her, "Yes Angie. That is a baby, and that baby is you." He then explains how pictures are taken to capture moments.
In order for Angie to make sense of what her father just told her about the picture, she would have had to somehow assimilate the information from her father into her existing internal cognitive structures. She might do this by assuming that her dad was teasing her, and that the pictures were of another child; or she could infer that the picture was taken at a different time as explained by her father. In this way, Angie finds a way to fit this external reality with her internal cognitive structures, or schemas. Assimilation occurs when a child perceives new objects or events in terms of existing schemas or operations. Piaget emphasized the functional quality of assimilation, where children and adults tend to apply any mental structure that is available to assimilate a new event, and actively seek to use this newly acquired mental structure.
Accommodation refers to the process of changing internal mental structures to provide consistency with external reality. It occurs when existing schemas or operations must be modified or new schemas are created to account for a new experience. Obviously, accommodation influences assimilation, and vice versa. As reality is assimilated, structures are accommodated.
Consider again the case of Angie. Angie understands that she cannot simultaneously exist in two places. Thus, if her father points out to her that she is the child in the picture, Angie would naturally have to alter her internal mental structures to adjust to the newly discovered external reality. This might mean that Angie would have to believe that photographs represent moments from the past. Therefore, Angie can see herself in the picture and still exist in present time; in this way, Angie can accommodate her internal mental structures to her external reality.
Returning again to the example of Angie: hearing that she is indeed the baby in the picture causes her some internal conflict, or a state of disequilibration. Angie's natural biological drive would immediately guide her to achieve a state of equilibrium between her external world and her internal mental structures. She would first try to assimilate the information received from the external world into her existing internal cognitive structures. Angie would somehow adjust the stimulus of her photo to account for the fact that she can exist in still form in a picture, and at the same time be in motion in real life. To do this, Angie must reinterpret, alter the nature of reality, or change her belief system. This might mean that Angie interprets that her father is teasing her and it is not Angie in the picture, or that it is Angie but that the photo was taken at a different time as her father explained. Either way, Angie must interpret and alter external reality to fit into her internal mental structures until a state of equilibrium is achieved. This internal attempt to make sense of external events according to one's internal events by achieving balance between assimilation and accommodation enables Angie to form new internal mental structures through which she will further evaluate her external world in the future.
Piaget believed that cognitive development in children is contingent on four factors: biological maturation, experience with the physical environment, experience with the social environment, and equilibration. Equilibration refers to the biological drive to produce an optimal state of equilibrium between people's cognitive structures and their environment (Duncan, 1995). Equilibration is an attempt to bring about a state of equilibrium between the first three factors and the reality associated with one's external environment. This state must be present for cognitive development to take place. Equilibration involves both assimilation and accommodation. During each stage of development, people conduct themselves with certain logical internal mental structures that allow them to adequately make sense of the world. When external reality does not match with the logical internal mental structures (disequilibria), equilibration occurs as an effort to bring balance between assimilation and accommodation as the person adapts more sophisticated internal mental structures. Human beings continually attempt to make sense of the world around them by assimilating new information into pre-existing mental schemes and accommodating thought processes as necessary. This effort to maintain a balance, denoted by equilibration, allows for cognitive development and effective thought processes.
Piaget defined a schema as the mental representation of an associated set of perceptions, ideas, and/or actions. Piaget considered schemata to be the basic building blocks of thinking (Woolfolk, 1987). A schema can be discrete and specific, or sequential and elaborate. For example, a schema may be as specific as recognizing a dog, or as elaborate as categorizing different types of dogs. As cognitive development proceeds, new schemata are developed, and existing schemata are more efficiently organized to better adapt to the environment. Cognitive development becomes evident through changes in behavior as this adaptation takes place. The process of assimilation involves attempts to organize existing schemata for better understanding events in the external world, whereas accommodation involves changing pre-existing schemata to adapt to a new situation.
Stages of Cognitive Development
Review the four major stages of cognitive development: Piaget's Stages
Cognitive development is a complex process comprising three principal concepts affecting the development process: assimilation, accommodation and equilibration. All three are associated with the formation of schemata and their modification in order to attain a balanced sense of understanding of the external world.
Driscoll, M. P. (2000). Psychology of Learning for Instruction (2nd Ed.). Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon
Duncan, R. M. (1995). Piaget and Vygotsky revisited: Dialogue or assimilation? Developmental Review, 15, 458-472
Schunk, D. H. (2000). Learning Theories: An Educational Perspective (3rd Ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall
Woolfolk, A.E. (1987). Educational Psychology (3rd Ed). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall
Suggested Readings for an Introduction to Piaget:
Piaget, J. (1964). Six Psychological Studies. New York: Vintage. [the first 70 pages]
Piaget, J. (1973). The child and reality.
Piaget, J. (1983). "Piaget's Theory". In P. Mussen (Ed.) Handbook of child psychology. Wiley.
Piaget, J., & Inhelder, B. (1969). The psychology of the child. New York: Basic Books. (original work published 1966)
Piaget, J. (1985). Equilibration of cognitive structures. University of Chicago Press.
Piaget, J. (1995). Sociological studies. Routledge.
Main works (in chronological order):
1918, Recherche. Lausanne: La Concorde.
1924, Judgment and reasoning in the child, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1928.
1936, Origins of intelligence in the child, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1953.
1957, Construction of reality in the child, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1954.
1941, Child's conception of number (with Alina Szeminska), London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1952.
1945, Play, dreams and imitation in childhood, London: Heinemann, 1951.
1949, Traité de logique. Paris: Colin.
1950, Introduction à l'épistémologie génétique 3 Vols. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
1954, Intelligence and affectivity, Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews, 1981.
1955, Growth of logical thinking (with Bärbel Inhelder), London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1958.
1962, Commentary on Vygotsky's criticisms. New Ideas in Psychology, 13, 325-40, 1995
1967, Logique et connaissance scientifique. Paris: Gallimard.
1967, Biology and knowledge, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1971.
1970, Piaget's theory. In P. Mussen (ed) Handbook of child psychology, Vol.1. New York: Wiley, 1983.
1970, Main trends in psychology, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1973.
1975, Equilibration of cognitive structures, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
1977, Sociological studies, London: Routledge, 1995
1977, Studies in reflecting abstraction. Hove: Psychology Press, 2000
1977, Essay on necessity. Human Development, 29, 301-14, 1986.
1981, Possibility and necessity, 2 Vols, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987.
1983, Psychogenesis and the history of science (with Rolando Garcia), New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.
1987, Towards a logic of meanings (with Rolando Garcia), Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum Associates, 1991.
1990, Morphisms and categories (with Gil Henriques, Edgar Ascher), Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum Associates, 1992.
Additional Resources
De Lisi, R. (2002, Winter2002). From Marbles to Instant Messenger™: Implications of Piaget's Ideas About Peer Learning. Theory Into Practice, 41(1), 5.
Abstract by Nicole Goddard, April 2009
Piaget's Theory is linked to children's involvement in education. In many classrooms, students learn through working with their peers. This article attempts to examine and evaluate peer learning using Piaget's Theory. Teachers may find this article particularly interesting because it describes real life applications. Current educational practice including why peer learning is used begins this article. Then, two main objectives of peer learning—sharpening academic skills and managing interactions with classmates—are explicitly addressed. Teachers must be mindful of the interactions students have with their peers as this contributes to positive or negative feelings concerning school. Finally, peer learning and technology are discussed at the end of this article.
Flavell, J. (1996, July). Piaget's legacy. Psychological Science, 7(4), 200-203.
Abstract by Victor Colon, April 2009
The author's main objective is to summarize what he believed to be Piaget's contributions to what it is known about cognitive development and how people think about it. Flavell accomplishes this by enumerating Piaget's "greatest" contributions throughout the article and explaining the reasoning behind his decision. He divided Piaget's contribution as:
- The founding of the field of cognitive development
- The assimilation-accommodation model of cognitive growth
- How Piaget helped people accept the idea that children's cognitive behavior is intrinsically rather than extrinsically motivated
- How to characterize human cognitive development adequately
- Piaget's equilibrium model
- Piaget's concept of scheme (or schema)
- Piaget's contribution to the research methods for studying children's intellectual growth
- Piaget's empirical discoveries
- Piaget's descriptions of how children think
- Piaget's influence on fields other than cognitive-developmental psychology
- Piaget's questions and the issues arise by them
Siegler, R., & Ellis, S. (1996, July). Piaget on childhood. Psychological Science, 7(4), 211-215.
Abstract by Sean Boyle, April 2009
The authors' main focus is to summarize the influence of Piaget's ideas regarding children's cognitive development and the ways in which Piaget influenced future directions of research and theory in the field of cognitive development. Siegler and Ellis focus on three aspects of Piaget's legacy: constructivism, essentialism and dynamism. The authors begin with the classic Piagetian illustration of constructivism in the numerical domain. Siegler and Ellis state that recent research has built upon Piaget's basic tenets of constructivism and shown that most children continue to construct new problem solving strategies even with existing, successful strategies in place. Second, Siegler and Ellis analyze Piaget's stages of cognitive development with regard to essentialism. The authors argue that recent research suggests that children of different ages employ either unidimensional and/or multidimensional reasoning therefore identifying the essential components of a child's reasoning at a particular age may not be possible. Finally, the authors examine dynamism and Piaget's proposals of assimilation, accommodation and equilibration. Siegler and Ellis state that Piaget's attempt to recognize essences in children may have prevented the recognition of the role of variability in children's thinking. Recent research has discovered connections between cognitive variability and cognitive change and despite Piaget's proclivity for developmental stage theory he understood the importance of cognitive conflict in change.
Piaget's Developmental Theory: An Overview – Davidson Films Summary: This video highlights some of the things that influenced the work of Piaget. Additionally, a discussion of sensorimotor stage, preoperational stage, concrete operations, and formal operations follows a brief history of his childhood.
Jean Piaget Archives – Web site for the University of Geneva's collection of Piaget's writings as well as secondary literature "inspired by the School of Geneva in the field of developmental psychology." Online materials are bibliographic records (citations) and only available in French.
Jean Piaget Society – Web site for the Jean Piaget Society (JPS); contains information regarding the life, work and impact of Jean Piaget. Also provides information regarding JPS's journal, book and newsletter publications.
APA Citation: Bhattacharya, K.& Han, S. (2001). Piaget and cognitive development. In M. Orey (Ed.), Emerging perspectives on learning, teaching, and technology. Retrieved <insert date>, from http://epltt.coe.uga.edu/


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