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Mysterious 'baby' planet
Posted: November 11, 2004
In June, researchers from the University of Rochester announced they had located a potential planet around another star so young that it defied theorists' explanations. Now a new team of Rochester planet-formation specialists are backing up the original conclusions, saying they've confirmed that the hole formed in the star's dusty disk could very well have been formed by a new planet. The findings have implications for gaining insight into how our own solar system came to be, as well as finding other possibly habitable planetary systems throughout our galaxy.
"The data suggests there's a young planet out there, but until now none of our theories made sense with the data for a planet so young," says Adam Frank, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester. "On the one hand, it's frustrating; but on the other, it's very cool because Mother Nature has just handed us the planet and we've got to figure out how it must have been created."
Intriguingly, working from the original team's data, Frank, Alice Quillen, Eric Blackman, and Peggy Varniere revealed that the planet was likely smaller than most extra-solar planets discovered thus far-about the size of Neptune. The data also suggested that this planet is about the same distance from its parent star as our own Neptune is from the Sun. Most extra-solar planets discovered to date are much larger and orbit extremely close to their parent star.
The original Rochester team, led by Dan Watson, professor of physics and astronomy, used NASA's new Spitzer Space Telescope to detect a gap in the dust surrounding a fledgling star. The critical infrared "eyes" of the infrared telescope were designed in part by physics and astronomy professors Judith Pipher, William Forrest, and Watson, a team that has been among the world leaders in opening the infrared window to the universe. It was Forrest and Pipher who were the first U.S. astronomers to turn an infrared array toward the skies: In 1983, they mounted a prototype infrared detector onto the University telescope in the small observatory on top of the Wilmot Building on campus, taking the first-ever telescopic pictures of the moon in the infrared, a wavelength range of light that is invisible to the naked eye as well as to most telescopes.
The discovered gap strongly signaled the presence of a planet. The dust in the disk is hotter in the center near the star and so radiates most of its light at shorter wavelengths than the cooler outer reaches of the disk. The research team found that there was an abrupt dearth of light radiating at all short infrared wavelengths, strongly suggesting that the central part of the disk was absent. Scientists know of only one phenomenon that can tunnel such a distinct "hole" in the disk during the short lifetime of the star-a planet at least 100,000 years old.
This possibility of a planet on the order of only 100,000 to half a million years old was met with skepticism by many astronomers because neither of the leading planetary formation models seemed to allow for a planet of this age. Two models represent the leading theories of planetary formation: core accretion and gravitational instability. Core accretion suggests that the dust from which the star and system form begins to clump together into granules, and those granules clump into rocks, asteroids, and planetoids until whole planets are formed. But the theory says it should take about 10 million years for a planet to evolve this way-far too long to account for the half-million-year-old planet found by Watson.
Conversely, the other leading theory of planetary formation, gravitational instability, suggests that whole planets could form essentially in one swoop as the original cloud of gas is pulled together by its own gravity and becomes a planet. But while this model suggests that planetary formation could happen much faster-on the order of centuries-the density of the dust disk surrounding the star seems to be too sparse to support this model either.
"Even though it doesn't fit either model, we've crunched the numbers and shown that yes, in fact, that hole in that dust disk could have been formed by a planet," says Frank. "Now we have to look at our models and figure out how that planet got there. At the end of it all, we hope we have a new model, and a new understanding of how planets come to be."
This research was funded by the National Science Foundation.


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On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of survivors, this timeless, powerful and compassionate document has become a classic "that stirs the conscience of humanity" (The New York Times).
Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book, John Hersey went back to Hiroshima in search of the people whose stories he had told. His account of what he discovered about them is now the eloquent and moving final chapter of Hiroshima.

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An analysis of 20 years' worth of real-life observations supports recent U.N. computer predictions that by 2050, summer sea ice off Alaska's north coast will probably shrink to nearly half the area it covered in the 1980s, federal scientists say.
Such a loss could have profound effects on mammals dependent on the sea ice, such as polar bears, now being considered for threatened species status because of changes in habitat due to global warming. It could also threaten the catch of fishermen.
In the 1980s, sea ice receded 30 to 50 miles each summer off the north coast, said James Overland, a Seattle-based oceanographer for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
"Now we're talking about 300 to 500 miles north of Alaska," he said of projections for 2050.
That's far past the edge of the highly productive waters over the relatively shallow continental shelf, considered important habitat for polar bears and their main prey, ringed seals, as well as other ice-dependent mammals, such as walrus.
The NOAA researchers reviewed 20 computer scenarios of the effects of warming on sea ice, used by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its assessment report released this year.
The researchers compared those models with observations from 1979 through 1999, Overland said, and concluded that the summer ice in the Beaufort Sea likely will have diminished by 40 percent, compared with its 1980s area.
The same is likely for the East Siberian-Chukchi Sea region off northwest Alaska and Russia. In contrast, Canada's Baffin Bay and Labrador showed little predicted change.
There was less confidence for winter ice, but the models also predict a sea ice loss of more than 40 percent for the Bering Sea off Alaska's west coast, the Sea of Okhotsk east of Siberia and the Barents Sea north of Norway.
The research paper by Overland and Muyin Wang, a NOAA meteorologist, will be published Saturday in Geophysical Research Letters, a publication of the American Geophysical Union.
Polar bears 'going to resort to cannibalism'
The situation is dire for polar bears, said Kassie Siegel of the Center for Biological Diversity, who wrote the petition seeking federal protection for the animals.
"They're going to drown, they're going to starve, they're going to resort to cannibalism, they're going to become extinct," she said.
As ice recedes, many bears will get stuck on land in summer, where they have virtually no sustainable food source, Siegel said. Some will try and fail to swim to sea ice, she said.
Bears that stay on sea ice will find water beyond the continental shelf to be less productive, she said, and females trying to den on land in the fall will face a long swim.
"It's absolutely horrifying from the polar bear perspective," she said.
Less sea ice also will mean a changing ecosystem for commercial fishermen and marine mammals in the Bering Sea, Overland said.
With sea ice present, many of the nutrients produced in the ocean feed simple plankton that bloom and sink to the ocean floor, providing rich habitat for crabs, clams and the mammals that feed on them, including gray whales and walrus.
"If you don't have the ice around, the productivity stays up closer to the surface of the ocean," Overland said. "You actually have a change in the whole ecosystem from one that depends on the animals that live on the bottom to one that depends on the animals that live in the water column. So you have winners and losers."
Futile effort?
That could mean short-term gains for salmon and pollock, he said. But it also could mean that fishermen will have to travel farther north to fish in Alaska's productive waters, and warm-water predators might move north.
The contribution to warming by greenhouse gas emissions likely is set, he said. Emissions stay in the atmosphere for 40 to 50 years before the ocean absorbs them. The amount emitted in the past 20 years and the carbon dioxide put out in the next 20 will linger, Overland said.
"I'm afraid to say, a lot of the images we are going to see in the next 30 to 40 years are pretty much already established," he said.


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Note: If a device is not supported by coreboot v2, try checking coreboot v1 for support. Do not attempt to use coreboot v3 — this is an early development version which is not ready for production use, yet.
See also Supported Motherboards.
Devices supported in coreboot v3
Super I/Os
1 MCP55 and CK804 are supported, but no open documents are available from NVIDIA.
Devices supported in coreboot v2
Super I/Os
1 Serial output should work for all ITE Super I/Os (but is only tested on the IT8671F and IT8712F). The rest could work, but is completely untested.
2 Work in progress.
3 Serial output on serial port 1 is tested and works, the rest probably not yet (tested on FDC37M602).
4 The W83977EF works fine with the W83977TF code (the pre-RAM serial part at least).
5 Pre-RAM serial output works fine, but nothing else, yet.
6 IDE support is available and tested. SMBus support may work, but is untested. USB support is on our TODO list.
7 Pre-RAM serial output works fine, everything else is untested.
8 Works fine mostly, but support for more obscure features (floppy, game port, MIDI, IR) might need more work.
9 Works mostly, but currently there are some limitations as to which RAM DIMMs can be used.
10 These southbridges should all be supported by the (experimental) new code in src/southbridge/intel/i82801xx/ now. Please test this code and use this code for all new ICH* based boards. There's still some old code for the southbridges, but that should not be used anymore.
11 Sort of works, but the settings are hardcoded for the Tyan S1846. This will be fixed soonish.
12 All these Super I/O chips should be supported by the "smscsuperio" driver. Only the ASUS A8000 is tested, though. The floppy disk controller, the parallel port, the serial ports (COM1 + COM2), and the keyboard should work for all chips. More advanced stuff may need more work, though.
13 The ASUS A8000 Super I/O seems to be a rebranded SMSC DME1737.
14 Working, but not widely tested, yet. Works with single DIMM DDR2.
15 The Intel 3100/EP80579 UARTs and watchdog timer are integrated as a Super I/O-like device; only the UARTs have been tested so far.
16 Barcelona B0-B3 supported.
17 MCP55 and CK804 are supported, but no open documents are available from NVIDIA.
Devices supported in coreboot v1
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Super I/Os
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WASHINGTON — Former Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr., a moderate Republican known as the politician who inquired what President Richard Nixon knew during the 1973 Senate Watergate hearings, has died. He was 88.
Baker, who served as U.S. ambassador to Japan from 2001 until early 2005, died Thursday at his home, according to an email distributed at the law firm where Baker was senior counsel. He died as a result of complications from a stroke suffered Saturday, the email said.
The scion of a political family, Baker served 18 years in the Senate, winning widespread respect from Republicans and Democrats alike and rising to the post of majority leader.
"Senator Baker truly earned his nickname: the Great Conciliator. I know he will be remembered with fondness by members of both political parties," Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky on the Senate floor Thursday, announcing Baker's death to the chamber.
Baker was mentioned over the years as a possible vice presidential candidate, Supreme Court justice or CIA director. He rejected them all.
He ran once for president, in 1980, and thought about it several other times. And he served as White House chief of staff in the waning days of the Reagan administration.
But it was his instantly famous question — "What did the president know and when did he know it?" — that made him an enduring household name. It instantly focused the nation's attention on the cover-up that perhaps more than the Watergate break-in itself eventually brought down Nixon's presidency.
It came as he was serving as vice chairman, and thus leading Republican, on the Senate committee probing the June 1972 break-in at the Democratic headquarters and the cover-up by the Nixon administration.
Watergate, though it brought Baker national recognition, marked "the greatest disillusionment" of his political career, Baker said in a 1992 interview with The Associated Press.
"I believed that it was a political ploy of the Democrats, that it would come to nothing," said Baker, who had seconded Richard Nixon's nomination at the 1968 Republican convention. "But a few weeks into that, it began to dawn on me that there was more to it than I thought, and more to it than I liked."
Baker, who served in a time when bipartisanship was more common in Washington, was Senate minority leader when he helped Democratic President Jimmy Carter win passage of the Panama Canal Treaty in 1978. Carter said at a 2011 symposium that Baker's support for the divisive measure, which led to Panama regaining control of the passage, may have cost Baker the Republican nomination for president in 1980.
At the same symposium, Baker said he was still receiving letters every week from voters saying they would never forgive him for supporting the treaty.
"But that's OK," Baker said with a smile, "because I haven't forgiven them either."
He said he always considered his time as Senate majority leader, 1981 to 1985, the high point of his political career. He called it "the second-best job in town, only second to the presidency."
He had been minority leader when the Republicans were swept into control of the chamber in the 1980 Reagan landslide and became the first Republican majority leader in decades.
Putting aside his own reservations about Reagan's economic proposals, Baker played a key role in passage of legislation synonymous with the "Reagan Revolution" — major tax and spending cuts combined with a military buildup.
"Sometimes I've been angry and sometimes I've been happy and some days I've been frustrated," Baker said in 1983 when he announced he would not seek another term in 1984. "But I can't remember a single day when I've been bored."
He left the Senate with an eye to another presidential bid in 1988, but instead returned to Washington in 1987 at Ronald Reagan's request.
Reagan wanted Baker to replace ousted chief of staff Donald Regan amid the Iran-Contra scandal of arms-trading for hostages in Iran and diversion of profits to Nicaraguan rebels.
Baker recalled marshaling all his reasons for refusing the offer, but couldn't turn down Reagan in the end. "I guess I am a pushover for presidents," he said.
He and the Reagan White House weathered Iran-Contra. But Baker lost his last chance at the presidency.
"I have seen it up close and personal and I am convinced that I could do that job," he said. "But that boat never came to dock."
He left the White House in mid-1988 but remained involved both politically and diplomatically — traveling to Moscow in 1991 to meet with then-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev before a summit meeting with President George H.W. Bush.
During much of the 1980s and '90s, Baker had to grapple with the illness of his wife, Joy. She died in 1993 after an 11-year battle with cancer.
In 1996, Baker remarried, taking as his bride Kansas Sen. Nancy Landon Kassebaum, who was about to retire from the Senate after serving three terms. It was the first time two people who had served in the Senate had gotten married.
"Nancy and I have known each other for a long time. We share a lot of the same interests," Baker said at the time. "And besides that, you know, love conquers a lot of things."
During President George W. Bush's first term, from 2001 to early 2005, Baker served as ambassador to Japan. His selection was in keeping with a tradition of selecting senior statesmen to represent the United States in Tokyo. His predecessors included Former House Speaker Tom Foley, Vice President Walter Mondale and Mike Mansfield, another former Senate majority leader.
More recently, Baker served as co-chair of a blue-ribbon commission on the national parks that in 2009 urged that Congress increase spending by at least $100 million per year to help improve and preserve the parks.
Baker was born in 1925 to a deeply political and staunchly Republican family in tiny Huntsville, Tenn. His neighbors called him "Howard Henry" or "Henry" to distinguish him from his father.
His father, Howard H. Baker Sr., served in the U.S. House from 1951 until he died in 1964. His stepmother, Irene Bailey Baker, won a special election and served the balance of his term. His grandmother Lillie Ladd Mauser once served as sheriff of Roane County, Tenn.
In 1951, Baker married Joy Dirksen, whose father, Everett Dirksen, was a U.S. senator from Illinois and Senate GOP leader for 10 years. Baker's second wife also had a famous father: Alf Landon, onetime Kansas governor and 1936 GOP presidential nominee.
Baker received a law degree from the University of Tennessee in 1949 and was a partner in a firm with offices in Knoxville and Washington. He also served on several corporate boards.
In 2008, the University of Tennessee opened its Howard Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, which includes a museum and study center focusing on how the government grapples with issues amid the rough and tumble of party politics. It houses the papers and archives of dozens of political leaders, including Baker.
Baker and his first wife had two children: Darek, born in 1953, and Cynthia, known as "Cissy," born in 1956.
Baker, an accomplished amateur photographer, was known to carry a camera with him wherever he went. But he didn't take any photos during the Watergate hearings.
"I felt that it was beneath the dignity of the event," he said years later. "It turned out the event had no dignity and I should have taken pictures."
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In real-world journalism, a reporter impartially offers up the news, as well as balanced commentary from individuals involved, whether they be the subject of a story, witness, or interested party. All efforts are taken to introduce the reader to the source of the information. On the Web, a story on Apple's iPod would link to the Apple Web site or directly to the iPod page. But if you look at Engadget, a hyperlink you would expect to take you to Apple would instead either take you to a previous story about Apple, or to search results within Engadget on the term Apple.
And now it seems Mashable, one leading Web log which follows the hot tech news of the day, is taking the same approach, much to the detriment of readers - many of whom likely find themselves clicking first, and asking questions later.
For example, from tonight's story: "Obama On LinkedIn"
The reporter writes:
"Sen. Barack Obama now has a LinkedIn account. We all knew that Obama is making the most of Internet culture, launching his own social network, gaining a larger-than-life presence on MySpace, YouTube, and even Twitter. He's at the top of his game, according to a recent Nielsen study. The only surprise about Obama's LinkedIn account is how seemingly late it is."
Being a typical reader, I would expect the three links in this paragraph, to LinkedIn, Twitter and Nielsen, to take me to those services' respective sites, as my links do. But they don't. Instead, the links go to related prior stories from Mashable, in an effort to keep the reader locked into the site as long as possible, either to increase ad revenue, or to possibly make the reader think the site more valuable due its deep archives and previous history.
In June of this year, Yuvi Panda analyzed Engadget and found that more than 40% of all links from Engadget were back to itself, "about 25 times the number of links of it's closest competitor (which incidentally happens to be EngadgetMobile, an offshoot of Engadget)." Engadget, an unquestioned leader in gadget and tech news, should feel confident enough to send readers off site and expect them to come back.
When I link internally, I introduce the link as a previous post, and when I link to Engadget, you'll know the link goes to Engadget, not a previous story I wrote on Engadget. I believe the practice of hotlinking keywords instead to internal stories is sneaky and doesn't serve readers who are looking for the true sources of information. I hope we see the practice's growth stop cold.
Update: Robert Scoble calls the practice "double linking", while Joe of SurfLizard proposes a new term for this practice: "masterblinking".


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IYA2009 Updates
Spanish Galilean Nights activity ready for action
20 October 2009
A series of IYA2009-themed activities in the Spanish Extremadura region are about to reach their pinnacle with Galilean Nights. A presentation by The Department of Youths and Sport will be given, along with an official opening by Robert Hill, from Northern Ireland's Armagh Planetarium. There will also be practical workshops and the use of robotic telescopes.
For more information, please visit: http://www.convivenciayocio.es/
A Year In Space: enjoy the Universe a day at a time for IYA2009
20 October 2009
Starry Messenger Press have three enjoyable ways to help mark IYA2009: a free online calendar, free weekly e-mail, and a desk calendar. Published since 1994 by enthusiast Steve Cariddi, this one-man business is helping to bring beautiful astronomy images and fascinating facts to a very wide audience.
Items are published in cooperation with The Planetary Society. Please see http://www.yearinspace.com/ for more information.
Web competition: Cosmic Collections
20 October 2009
On 24 October 2009 the Science Museum, London, launches a competition to release hundreds of stories from our Cosmos & Culture exhibition on to the web. Join other astronomy enthusiasts, designers and web developers in an amazing mashup of creativity and ideas by creating your own websites with our objects.
Whether you're interested in websites or astronomy, or a little bit of both, you can join up with people who have the skills you need to put together a winning web interface.
The winning sites will be hosted on a Science Museum website - and did we mention there are two prizes of £1000 up for grabs? You can find out more about the judges, criteria and timelines here.
European Southern Observatory opens its doors to the public
19 October 2009
This October 24, falling within Galilean Nights, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) will be holding its Open Doors Day. This popular event allows members of the public to explore ESO's headquarters in Munich and talk with the astronomers working there.
Events this year include films, talks, telescope observations, and "ask an astronomer" sessions. The Cosmic Diary Liveblogger will also be in attendance, reporting from a Galilean Nights perspective.
Short version of the programme, in German: http://www.eso.org/public/events/special-evt/openhouse09/index.html
Presentation of all institutes taking part of this year's Open House Day event: http://www.forschung-garching.de/
Galilean Nights LiveBlog: http://cosmicdiary.org/galilean_nights/
IYA2009 News Round-up
17 October 2009
All hail the news round-up, for it is good.
Let's get some news at the source, via pr.com. Celestron, global sponsors of IYA2009, have given the big ol' thumbs up to President Barack Obama for his support of astronomy and science education. This is a result of the recent and very successful White House Star Party. No wonder Celestron are happy, Obama used one of their telescopes and, what's more, was photographed doing it. Goal!
BBC News must have been reading astronomy2009.org, for they are running the story about the Vatican hosting a Galileo exhibit. The BBC have taken the angle of the Catholic Church having once labelled Galileo a heretic, although the exhibit actually avoids that aspect. Still, good to see the event getting some coverage.
Next we visit projo.com, and Rhode Island News. Brown Library with the Brown Department of Physics, and the Ladd Observatory have joined together to make an exhibit displaying texts and images hundreds of years old, celebrating astronomy and things. The exhibit will be on display in the Main Gallery and lobby of the John Hay Library at 20 Prospect St. but only until 31 October, so you'd better get your skates on. The article has been penned by Journal Staff Writer Thomas J. Morgan. That middle initial certainly gives him more weight.
The catchily-named iol.co.za reports the happy story of undergraduate student Michelle Knights, of Joburg, winning the European Space Agency's "Be an INTEGRAL astronomer" competition, run as part of IYA2009. Says the article, "She doesn't have a particular recollection of her very first sighting through a telescope..." Don't you just *hate* it when the interviewee doesn't give you the answer you want? The wider story was written up on astronomy2009.org and it's good to see local sources taking up this success story. So well done iol.ca.za.
Oooh, here's a good one from The Daily Courier. They're the trusted news leader for Prescott, Arizona communities since 1882, don'tcha know? The Prescott Astronomy Club have invited the local community to help participate in the Great Worldwide Star Count. The article plugs IYA2009 and Dark Skies Awareness a lot, and for this they get our thanks, the greatest reward we can offer.
Time for a short but sweet one, courtesy of HeartlandConnection.com. Several schools in the Ottumwa School District had a visit from a local astronomer, as part of IYA2009 celebrations. Apparently the event didn't warrant a photographer so instead a stock image has been used-of some chemistry equipment? For shaaaaame, HeartlandConnection.com.
IYA2009 Updates
16 October 2009
Galilean Nights at Cosmic Diary
With the Cornerstone project Galilean Nights fast approaching, two Cosmic Diary blogs are brining you the news.
The LiveBlog, by IYA2009 Staff Writer extraordinaire Lee Pullen, is here: http://cosmicdiary.org/galilean_nights/
The project organisers' blog is here: http://cosmicdiary.org/blogs/galilean_night/
Call for Submissions to the IYA2009/Mani Bhaumik Prize for Excellence in Astronomy Education and Public Outreach
The International Year of Astronomy 2009 is soliciting nominations and submissions for the IYA2009/Mani Bhaumik Prize for Excellence in Astronomy Education and Public Outreach. Read the press release: http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/pressreleases/detail/iya0917/
Vienna holds world premiere of "Space and Time"
To celebrate World Space Week, the United Nations Office on Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) Vienna organised the world premiere of a live music / video performance entitled "Space and Time" in the Vienna International Centre on 5 October 2009. The performance which was also co-sponsored by the Austrian Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Vienna was created and performed by Cidadania, an experimental troupe from Darmstadt in Germany. Follow the link for more information: http://www.unis.unvienna.org/unis/en/events/2009/space-and-time.html
The Great World Wide Star Count
A centrepiece of the IYA2009 Dark Skies Awareness (DSA) Cornerstone project has been the citizen science programmes inviting children and the general public to find out how many stars are lost due to light pollution in their night sky. The DSA Task Group requests your help in spreading the word about one of the DSA citizen science campaigns that is happening now over the next two weeks, namely the Great World Wide Star Count. The following is an ad you could use to advertise by listserve. Or you can download the PDF file at the following link: www.starcount.org. We would appreciate in advertising your help very much.
The Great World Wide Star Count
Join thousands of other students, families, and citizen scientists counting stars in 2009 for the Great World Wide Star Count! This international event encourages everyone to go outside, look skywards after dark, count the stars they see in certain constellations, and report what they see online. This Windows to the Universe citizen science campaign is designed to encourage learning in astronomy. The Great World Wide Star Count is being held October 9 - 23, 2009! For more information visit www.windows.ucar.edu/starcount or contact email@example.com.
New Turkish telescopes begin test observations during IYA2009
Three large optical telescopes established in Turkey have begun test observations. The first is the largest optical telescope in the country, boasting 122 cm aperture. It was founded at Çanakkale Astrophysics Research Center by the State Planning Commission. The other telescopes feature apertures in the 100 cm and 60 cm regions, and fit within the National Research Council framework. The official opening ceremony was performed by Minister of Transport Binali Yildirim. These new instruments are very important to Turkish astronomy, and IYA2009 supporters join together in congratulating all those involved. Cosmic Diary blogger Arif Solmaz is covering developments. Read his initial post here: http://cosmicdiary.org/blogs/arif_solmaz/?page_id=575
Vatican Museum embraces Italy's astronomical history
Italy and the Vatican have a rich history of astronomical excellence and now the Vatican and Italian observatories have joined forces to exhibit a collection of books and instruments that document this tradition. Learn more here: http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/533/
Philadelphia residents set for astronomy marathon
In the Philadelphia area, eight institutions with telescopes have banded together to celebrate IYA2009. They have decided to throw an astronomy party for the public called "No Night without a Telescope." There will be an astronomy event every night for over a month, starting 18 October and ending 24 November. For more information about this ambitious project, please visit: http://www.haverford.edu/iya2009
The European Southern Observatory brings IYA2009 to Chile's Science Week
5 - 10 October is annually celebrated as National Science & Technology week in Chile. This year it focussed its attentions on astronomy, in honour of IYA2009. The European Southern Observatory (ESO) played an active role in several projects. Highlights included the launch of the Galileomobile, an interactive exhibition called "Noticias del Universo", video projections, planetarium presentations, and much more. For more information, please visit: http://www.eso.org/public/events/announcements/chile_scitech_week/index.html
Website launched for astronomers to report observations of unexplained aerospace phenomena
A website has been launched that will give amateur and professional astronomers a formal mechanism for reporting any unexplained phenomena they observe when studying the night sky. Within the framework of IYA2009, the Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena (UAP) Observations Reporting Scheme aims to provide a global focus for sightings by astronomers and contribute towards a better understanding of transient phenomena occurring in the atmosphere. Read more here: http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/530/
Live webcast from Cassini Scientist for a Day: Saturn question and answer session with students
Find out more here: http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/529/
U.S. IYA2009 updates - October 2009
Read them here: http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/528/
NASA release new film about the King of Planets
A new astronomy film, LARGEST, examines gas giant Jupiter like a work of art, a destination of celestial wonder. Starting with the basics, the movie examines the gross anatomy of the immense planet. Details are available online: http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/527/
Sri Lankan space education seminar brings astronomy and IYA2009 into classrooms
On 8 September, Sri Lanka's Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies hosted the Asia-Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum Space Education Seminar: Bringing Astronomy, Space Science and Technology and their Applications into the Classroom. Read more of this report: http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/526/
First Galileo Teacher Training Program workshop in the US is a success
"In the Footsteps of Galileo", an initial 2-day workshop to train US teachers on how to convey basic astronomical concepts in a hands-on way, took place near San Francisco on Sept. 12 & 13, 2009, as part of the 121st Annual Meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP). Approximately 30 teachers from around the United States participated, and were joined by five astronomy education specialists (from as far away as Australia and Israel) who want to replicate the workshop locally. For more information, visit: http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/524/
Peace and progress in International Astronautical Congress begins in South Korea
The 60th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) was officially opened on 12 October in Daejeon, South Korea, where 3000 space experts from more than 70 countries are pooling their expertise. IAC 2009 Daejeon was officially opened by Lee Joo-jin, President of the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) and Bernndt Feurenbacher, President of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF), in the presence of Lee Myung-Bak, President of the Republic of Korea. Go to http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/523/ for more.
Spa-goers treated to a dose of astronomy
Throughout IYA2009 astronomy events are being hosted across the world in venues more varied than previously thought possible. Now news is circulating of an observing event in Vienna held at a spa. Visitors were treated to telescopic views of Jupiter and commentaries via a speaker system. An event report with photos is available here: http://www.waa.at/bericht/2009/10/20091004ola.en.html
"The End of Night" book highlights the problems of light pollution for IYA2009
"The End of Night" is the first comprehensive compilation of the severe problems arising from artificial night lighting and its almost exponential increase during the last century. Written in a format intelligible to all readers and exemplified with current case studies, it is an excellent source for those wanting to learn more about light pollution and the issues that surround it. Further information: http://homepage.univie.ac.at/thomas.posch/endedernacht/buch.html
Sri Lankan IYA2009 Star Party exceeds expectations
Commenced in 2004, "Star Party" is an observational astronomy competition where student groups from different parts of Sri Lanka compete. Organised by the astronomical societies of Ananda College, Colombo and Mahamaya Girls' College, Kandy, it is held annually and has gained an excellent reputation over the years. Star Party 2009 was named as the main IYA2009 event in Sri Lanka. It was a huge success, attracting more than 50 groups. The rest of the report is available online: http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/520/
Galileo to join Columbus Day Parade celebrations in New York City, USA
Famous Italian astronomer Galileo, complete with telescope, will be marching as part of the Columbus Day Parade on 12 October. This Galileo-actor will be part of an astronomy-themed float which will also feature an astronaut and various telescopes - including an IYA2009 Galileoscope. http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/519/
Cinematic documentary 400 Years of the Telescope makes its French debut
A sweeping film, celebrating four centuries of astral discoveries, 400 Years of the Telescope; A Journey of Science, Technology and Thought will make its foreign-language debut at the Pariscience Film Festival, in Paris, on Saturday, October 10, 2009. 400 Years of the Telescope takes viewers on a visually stunning journey from Galileo's first telescopic look at the cosmos in 1609, to today's thrilling quests to discover new worlds and to glimpse the formation of the first galaxies and stars after the Big Bang. http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/518/
Apply for free Galileoscopes, courtesy of the EurAstro association - important update!
Free Galileoscopes from EurAstro - applications closed. "It was a nice surprise for us to see such a quick and overwhelming response to our offer. Now, all of our Galileoscopes have been allocated. No further applications will be considered. Thank you for your commitment towards astronomy." Jean-Luc Dighaye for EurAstro.
An evening with Galileo in Iraq
25 September 2009 was an historic day for Iraq. In the middle of one of most popular parks in Erbil city, an astronomy event was held after the holy days of Eid Al-Fitr. This was project between the Amateur Astronomers Association of Kurdistan (AAAK) and one of the most active cultural centres in Kurdistan, known as Future Center for the Youth Issues (FCYI). http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/517/
Vienna holds world premiere of "Space and Time"
16 October 2009
To celebrate World Space Week, the United Nations Office on Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) Vienna organised the world premiere of a live music / video performance entitled "Space and Time" in the Vienna International Centre on 5 October 2009. The performance which was also co-sponsored by the Austrian Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Vienna was created and performed by Cidadania, an experimental troupe from Darmstadt in Germany.
Follow the link for more information: http://www.unis.unvienna.org/unis/en/events/2009/space-and-time.html
Vatican Museum embraces Italy's astronomical history
16 October 2009
Italy and Vatican have a rich history of astronomical excellence and now the Vatican and Italian observatories have joined forces to exhibit a collection of books and instruments that document this tradition.
The exhibit is called "Astrum 2009" and will run at the Vatican Museums from 16 October to 16 January 2010. On display will be 130 items, including Galileo Galilei's original handwritten notes detailing his observations of the Moon, and his publication "Starry Messenger" from 1610.
See this story, as reported by the Catholic News Service: http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0904575.htm
See a video describing the exhibition here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy6PFYd0eto
Philadelphia residents set for astronomy marathon
16 October 2009
In the Philadelphia area, eight institutions with telescopes have banded together to celebrate IYA2009. They have decided to throw an astronomy party for the public called "No Night without a Telescope." There will be an astronomy event every night for over a month, starting 18 October and ending 24 November.
When the skies are clear, telescopes will be open for public viewing every night, free of charge. Some of the observations will be exactly those made by Galileo 400 years ago, including the four large moons of Jupiter, which Galileo discovered. Rain or shine, there will be an astronomy-themed talk or demonstration available. Topics range from "scary astronomy," featured on Halloween night, to photographing the Big Bang, to invisible galaxies.
For more information about this ambitious project, please visit: http://www.haverford.edu/iya2009
The European Southern Observatory brings IYA2009 to Chile's Science Week
16 October 2009
5 - 10 October is annually celebrated as National Science & Technology week in Chile. This year it focussed its attentions on astronomy, in honour of IYA2009. The European Southern Observatory (ESO) played an active role in several projects.
Highlights included the launch of the Galileomobile, an interactive exhibition called "Noticias del Universo", video projections, planetarium presentations, and much more.
For more information, please visit: http://www.eso.org/public/events/announcements/chile_scitech_week/index.html
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I'm finding it frustratingly difficult to get outraged over David Letterman's remarks about Sarah Palin and her daughter(s).
Perhaps it's because no one has argued the case against the talk show host - and his writers - in a way that truly resonates with me. Or maybe it's simply because I really like Dave and really dislike Governor Palin; proving, sadly, that my East Coast, liberal prejudices are hard to shake, even in the face of misogynist, questionable verbal assaults against women. Perhaps it's because the protestations of Governor Palin herself seem more a way of scoring political points and press attention than sincere repudiations of misogyny in the media or eruptions of her protective, inner "Mama Grizzly Bear". (I couldn't put my finger on why I wasn't more viscerally offended on behalf of Palin's daughter - Willow or Bristol - but a commenter on the blog Reclusive Leftist summed it up nicely: "What's really annoying about the last two videos is that he's just using Palin's daughter as a prop to make jokes about notable MEN (Spitzer and A-Rod). The effects are that she ends up being portrayed as a prostitute or a rape victim, but those effects are secondary to the punchlines about the men in the jokes." At first glance, this seems to absolve Letterman and his band of merry, mostly male, comedy writers of some responsibility: The jokes were about widely-mocked men! But of course, this also means the Palin daughter(s) become pawns, faceless, nameless vehicles with which to score comedic points. Yes, not cool.)
Speaking of jokes: I suspect my tepid defense of Palin and her brood it has a lot to do with the difference between "comedy" and, well, rhetoric. David Letterman, however unfunny or inappropriate, was making jokes when he went after Palin and her daughter(s) earlier this week. With assertions that cracks like his directly contribute to assaults on young women and an epidemic of low self-esteem, however, Palin, whose relentless verbal assaults and insinuations during the presidential campaign are hard for me to forgive or forget, bypassed reasoned disagreement and went straight into rhetoric-land. Take her appearance this morning on Today (clip above). Host Matt Lauer questioned the Governor on the Letterman flap, pressing her on some of her more provocative statements about situation, asking, "Are you suggesting that David Letterman can't be trusted around a 14 year old girl?" Her response: "Take it how you want to take it." Later, she sarcastically made mention of "the candidate who must be obeyed," i.e. Barack Obama.
There was more where that came from. Last night on Sean Hannity's Fox News hate fest, conservative columnist S.E. Cupp placed the blame for Letterman's remarks squarely on Obama.
"This is the enduring legacy of the Obama campaign. I'm not saying this to be inflammatory, I blame Barack Obama because he allowed his surrogates in the media and Hollywood and everyone else on the left to do this dirty talking for him," she said, adding, "I want Barack Obama or Michelle Obama to come up and say, this kind of rhetoric will not be tolerated."
Leaving Ms. Cupp's strange definition of "rhetoric" aside, it seems to me that coming to a passionate, spirited, coherent defense of a United States Governor and one or more of her daughters regarding a late night comedy show bit is well below President Obama's pay grade at the moment. Sadly, considering my obviously muddled feelings on the subject, it's also below my current cognitive, critical abilities...or sympathies.
Conservative Columnist Blames Obama For Letterman's Palin Joke [HuffPo]
David Letterman, The Voice Of Dude Nation [Reclusive Leftist]
Palin Forces America To Become Aware of Her Once Again [NY Mag]
Did Letterman Get A Free Pass? [Salon]
Palin, Letterman, Still At Odds Over Comedian's Joke [AP]


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Termites: So Rich Their Nests Are Made Of Gold
(ISNS) -- Termites are unearthing gold in Australia, and scientists suggest their nests could reveal where miners might strike it rich.
Mineral resources currently account for roughly one-third of Australia's exports. One promising site for gold down under is the Moolart Well deposit in the Western Australian Goldfields region, but gold remains difficult to find there even after nearly 150 years of mining.
"The problem that we face in mining exploration is that a layer of eroded material is covering the gold, effectively hiding it," said researcher Aaron Stewart, an entomologist at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization.
Now Stewart and his colleagues suggest miners might want to rely on termites as miniature prospectors. The nests of the insects apparently can hold gold dust, revealing hints of treasures hidden deep underground.
"Using termite nests could help exploration companies narrow down the area that they need to drill," Stewart said. "This has the potential to save a lot of money."
Scientists have often relied on insects to guide exploration. For instance, paleontologists often root through ant mounds to look for any miniature fossil bones and teeth the insects might have carried back to their nests.
Stewart and his colleagues analyzed samples from 22 nests of the termite Tumulitermes tumuli, as well as the surrounding soil. These mounds were located in a known gold-rich area.
The researchers found the termite nests contained high concentrations of gold, with levels five to six times higher than concentrations found more than 16 feet away from the mounds. The scientists detailed their findings in the November issue of the journal Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis.
"The amount of gold found in the nests is actually very low," Stewart said. "It gives us the indication of a hidden deposit, but you can't see the gold and you wouldn't be able to extract any meaningful amount from the nest."
"The termites are not specifically selecting gold to bring into their nests," Stewart added. "It is a fortunate consequence of their habit of building nests, in part from material sourced a few meters below the surface."
Their findings suggest the insects can burrow three to 13 feet into the earth to reach gravel laden with traces of gold surrounding the deposit of the precious metal. "It is surprising that such small nests are able to vertically move enough material to reveal the buried resource," Stewart said.
This species of termite is widespread across Australia, but the researchers note that other termite species there may also provide useful information for mining companies, such as subterranean termites that form sheaths of soil over food sources. In fact, "there is a history in Africa of termite use for exploration" for gold and other precious minerals, Stewart said. The novelty of this work is how it provides "hard evidence of just how deep they can effectively reveal traces of gold deposits from." As such, termites could provide a new, cost-effective and environmentally friendly way of exploring for new mineral deposits.
"It's kind of cool that you can use insects for prospecting," said insect physiologist Jeffrey Spring at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, who did not take part in this study. "The researchers now probably have to expand their work to some other areas to see if it's really practical -- it's one thing to go where you know gold is, but is it worth the effort to look at termite mounds in other areas?"
Stewart and his colleagues also found this species of termite not only carries gold up from below, but carries other metals inside them as well, originally contained within the plant matter they feed on.
"Metals that that are ingested in food like zinc are excreted in poo leading to high concentrations within nests," Stewart said.
Termites have organs called malpighian tubules that roughly correspond to human kidneys. The scientists found these tubules are responsible for the formation of metal-rich "concretions" much like kidney stones in people, findings the researchers detailed in the journal PLoS ONE last month.
"The concretions are one of the ways that insects use to expel excess metals from their bodies," Stewart said. A better understanding of termite biology may be of interest to researchers studying the way specific proteins bind to potentially poisonous metals for detoxification, he added.
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Say, would you mind…?
(Note: This issue came up again in the discussions after yesterday's blog post on taking the work of others without crediting them. It's another side to the ethical issues we deal with, and this post from last year is repeated as The Legal Genealogist's take on it.)
You see it all the time, out here on the internet.
It seems perfectly innocent.
It's just a request for help, and helping is something we do here in the genealogical community.
I don't subscribe to Big-Pay-Website but I understand that Important Document For My Family is available there. Would someone who is a Big-Pay-Website subscriber please get me a copy of Important Document? I'd sure appreciate it.
There's only one honest and ethical answer that can be given to that question:
The simple fact is, it's wrong.
Just plain wrong.
For the person asking for that Important Document, it's freeloading.
It's like asking your neighbor who has high speed cable internet service if you can run your wire to his modem so you can use his service. Or if he'd mind sharing the password to his router so you can use his wireless system.
Pure and simple, it's taking something without paying for it.
And for the person who subscribes to Big-Pay-Website, it's no different from taking a pencil from your employer's stockroom for your friend to use — when you'd never dream of taking a pencil from your employer for yourself.
The fact is, it costs money to provide easy online access to a wide variety of documents. Somebody has to pay for acquiring the documents, scanning them, digitizing them, making the equipment and software available to serve them up online.
Big-Pay-Website can only pay for those things if people pay it — fairly and squarely — for the information it provides. To stay in business, it sets terms and conditions for our use of the website.
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But that's the deal, and we've agreed to it. Big-Pay-Website is keeping its end of the bargain by making the documents available. We need to keep our end by using the access under the limits set in the terms and conditions.
And those terms often say we can only use Big-Pay-Website for our own research. Sometimes that includes research we're hired to do for others, but particularly with some of the online newspaper sites, it's our own personal research only.
Reader Jerry Kocis ran across a variation on this recently in a genealogy group on Yahoo.com. The message there focused on a newspaper article about the death of a member of the inquirer's family in a train accident in 1890, and the newspaper website at issue has terms that limit its use to our own personal research only.
Jerry posted it on Google+ as an ethics question:
Is it right (ethical) to avoid paying for a subscription to a site's content by asking for a subscriber to locate the content for you?
Just asking the question gives the answer. No. It's not right.
Now there is a difference between verifying that the document exists and actually getting a copy of the document. Knowing for sure that the newspaper is available on a particular pay website and that the article is in the paper may be the incentive that pushes me over into subscribing to the site to get that article.
But if I ask you to use your subscription to get me a copy of the article itself?
You know what to tell me. You know I really do have other options. You know I can write to the newspaper. I can go to a library that has the newspaper on microfilm. I can hire someone in that area to track down a physical copy. I can do all the things we as genealogists used to do before there were Big-Pay-Websites, before there was an internet.
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Fantastiq news! Derby to host new fantasy film festival
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"Fantastiq news! Derby to host new fantasy film festival
Summer 2013 slot confirmed at one of the UK's leading indie cinemas
QUAD and Reel Solutions are proud to announce FANTASTIQ, a new three-day film and TV festival focusing on fantasy, sci-fi and horror. Fans of the genre will be thrilled and chilled to learn that this exciting new venture is born of a dynamic partnership between QUAD, one of the best independent cinemas in the country, and Reel Solutions, the respected Yorkshire-based film bureau known for its work on an array of festivals across the UK.
The first edition of FANTASTIQ will take place on the weekend of August 9-11 2013 at Derby QUAD, the vibrant three-screen complex in the centre of Derby that enjoys a reputation for intelligent film programming. FANTASTIQ will form part of an acclaimed annual programme that already includes iDFest, Whooverville, and Edge-Lit making Derby one of the strongest hubs for genre film programming in the country.
As its name suggests FANTASTIQ will be heavily rooted in "films fantastique". Fantasy film fans can look forward to the best of the gory, glory days of Universal, AIP, Hammer and Amicus as well as European shockers, forgotten gems from the vaults and an array of cult figures on the guest list.
Plans for 2013 include a 50th anniversary celebration of Doctor Who and centenary screenings dedicated to the late, great master of fantastic cinema Peter Cushing (1913-1994).
Programming will be led by Reel Solutions' Tony Earnshaw and QUAD's Adam J Marsh
Adam J Marsh, Cinema Programmer at QUAD says: "It is great to be able to bring Fantastiq to Derby. Fantasy, science-fiction and horror play a strong part in the British film industry, in its past, present and future, so it is an honour to be able to represent genre cinema with this wonderful three-day festival."
Tony Earnshaw, Programming & Festivals Director at Reel Solutions says: "We are delighted to be working with QUAD. We wanted to do something different to the standard genre film festival and we were thrilled that our partners at QUAD shared our enthusiasm and vision. We look forward to making Fantastiq a unique and must-attend annual fixture on the festival calendar."
Tony Earnshaw has a reputation as one of the UK's leading genre film programmers having organised the popular Fantastic Films Weekend in Bradford for 10 years. He was previously Head of Film Programming at the National Media Museum in Bradford and artistic director of Bradford International Film Festival for 12 years. He was part of the project team that helped deliver Bradford's designation as the world's first UNESCO City of Film and has programmed for the National Film Theatre in London. He is also a journalist, broadcaster and award-winning author specialising in the cinema.
Adam J Marsh has more than10 years' experience in independent cinema culminating in his current position as QUAD's cinema programmer and Director of iDFest. He has overseen QUAD's growth in commerce and reputation over the past three years. He is also a screenwriter – whose debut feature film Devil's Tower is currently in post production – and a freelance lecturer on Sheffield Hallam's Screenwriting BA course"


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If you are preparing for airport travel over the holidays, consider wearing your baby rather than pushing a stroller. It is much easier to move through a crowd, and your baby will likely be happier up near the faces in the crowd rather than surrounded by a sea of legs.
Very young children might be bothered by the busy-ness and crowds at the airport. Babywearing gives your child a place to tuck into a familiar space and hide against you. Or, for a more adventurous child, babywearing gives your baby a good vantage point to see all of the excitement.
Choose a carrier that is very easy to get on and off. You may need to remove it at security and carry your baby through in your arms. Some parents find that they are allowed to wear an all-cloth carrier (like a mei tai), but you will certainly have to remove a ring sling because of the metal rings. Be prepared just in case.
Choose a carrier that is comfortable. If you have to stand for a long period of time or if you plan to wear the carrier on a long flight, you will be glad you considered comfort. I wore a ring sling on every flight with a baby, and it was very easy to nurse or get up without too much fuss.
Front carry or back carry? You might find back carry easier as you check in or claim bags, but a front carrier will make it easy to just scoot into your seat if you are flying with your baby on your lap. A baby carrier that makes either easy is a good choice for air travel.
Greet the flight attendant. I think I've already told the story of me getting hassled for holding my baby in a sling on my lap on an Air Canada cattle car from Toronto to London. If you are going to have your baby on your lap, my advice is to board early and make sure the flight attendant sees your carrier and knows how you are going to use it. It's better than having them threaten to turn around because you are a breastfeeding, babywearing threat to the flight. (I got to have a chat with the pilot while I defiantly breastfed. They didn't turn around.) I understand that most flight attendants are better informed about breastfeeding on a plane now, especially to relieve ear pressure during take off, but just prepare yourself to calmly explain your carrier to avoid an incident.
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Showtime to Catholics: Here's an Evil, Degenerate Pope. Happy Easter.
Never let it be said that Showtime ignores Christianity. In fact, the network that aired "The Tudors" is getting into the spirit of Lent and gleefully calling to mind some of the Catholic Church's centuries-old sins.
"The Borgias" is Showtime's new 10-part miniseries about the infamous 15th Century Italian family of that name, and about a dark period in the history of the Church. Rodrigo Borgia, who as a cardinal fathered children with several mistresses, bought the papacy, becoming Pope Alexander VI in 1492, and misused his office in a variety of distinctly unholy ways. Rodrigo, his son Cesare and daughter Lucrezia made many powerful enemies and were accused of many crimes, including incest, adultery, rape, theft, bribery and murder. Much of it was slander and hearsay, but Showtime and director Neil Jordan didn't scruple to sort out fact from legend.
In fact, Showtime wants the public to know it managed to work as many sins as it could into the first season. A magazine ad for the series puts actor Jeremy Irons' Rodrigo back-to-back with a half-naked woman as his hand touches the ornate cross around his neck and an architectural element creates a mock halo behind his head. The ad reads, "Sex. Power. Murder. Amen." It also adds the tag line: "The Original Crime Family" - fitting, since author Mario Puzo is said to have modeled"'The Godfather" after the Borgias.
"That he [Rodrigo] was a disgrace to the papacy is not in question; rather, the question is why Showtime decided it was worth spending $45 million to produce it," wrote William Donohue, president of the Catholic League.
The answer is simple: "The Tudors," Showtime's other sexed-up period drama, is about to end. The Borgias' story is ready-made to replace it. (That it's a thumb in the eye to the Church during holy season doesn't hurt.) Jordan told Reuters, "They were really one of the most notorious families to have lived. The entire family were pretty hot and lascivious. I didn't have to manipulate events really to make it dramatically engaging or to make them salacious or interesting as people."
Yet Irons told Reuters the Borgias of legend are based on "salacious gossip" and his and Jordan's portrayal "tried to find the truth behind all this history and gossip." And heaven knows Irons wouldn't want to be involved in anything "salacious."
"I know there are some series where there is a bit of history and a bit of f***ing and a bit of history and a bit of f***ing," Irons charmingly told New York Magazine. "I think [Showtime] would have liked to have made it even more about that, but I wouldn't want to be involved in something that's just as obviously …"
Irons told The New York Times, "I hope the Vatican doesn't go down the obvious path of creating a great controversy over this, though I'm sure Showtime would love that." Contrast that with Bill Donohue's ending thought for his column on the Borgias: "It might be worth asking Showtime whether it plans to run a series on Muhammad during Ramadan that features his marriage to a 9-year-old girl, Aisha. Muhammad at the time was in his fifties."
Irons tried to portray the character of Rodrigo as "a man of many different colors and many different behaviors," as he told The New York Times. "I never judge. That's not my job."
But it seems to be Jordan's job. As the Times' Charles McGrath wrote, "Oddly, the villain of 'The Borgias' is Rodrigo's rival, della Rovere (played by Colm Feore), a model of probity and holiness."
Probity and holiness? Revolting.


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Intuit GoPayment goes live in Canada, more rectangular than Square
Looks like Canada just scored another mobile credit card payment system within its borders. It was back at CES when Intuit revealed its updated GoPayment dongle for our neighbors up north, and now the company's announced that the service has officially launched in the region. Once you're application is approved, you'll get the card reader for free without any contract -- and best of all, GoPayment works on a "pay-as-you-go" basis (3.3 percent if you enter the digits, 2.7 percent with a swipe). It's currently purposed for iDevices with a free downloadable app, accepting Visa and Mastercards, but Intuit notes that Android and BlackBerry compatibility is in the works. With services NetSecure and PayPal also claiming space in the country, we're still left to wonder when Square -- essentially the godfather of this type of thing -- will finally be joining the card-swiping party in the great white north. If you're curious for all the details or wanting to apply for yourself, head on down to the source link below.
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Love it or Hate It, QE3 is Working
The Federal Reserve's aggressive easing of monetary policy is proving surprisingly effective at blunting the blow to the U.S. economy from tighter fiscal policy, according to economists who have been scrambling to raise their growth forecasts.
Economists had feared higher taxes and deep government spending cuts would stunt growth in the first quarter, but a string of strong economic data has so far proven them wrong. And they mostly blame the Fed.
"Monetary policy is beginning to gain some traction here," said Tom Higgins, global macro strategist at Standish Mellon Asset Management in Boston.
According to Higgins, if it were not for the monetary stimulus, the economy would probably be facing growth of a 1% annual rate or less. As it is, he expects growth to come in at a 2.5% pace in the first quarter.
The U.S. central bank has held overnight interest rates near zero since December 2008 and has pumped about $2.5 trillion into the economy by purchasing Treasury debt and mortgage-backed bonds in a bid to foster faster growth and lower unemployment.
On Wednesday, it recommitted to plans to buy $85 billion worth of bonds each month and said it would keep buying assets until it sees a significant improvement in the labor market.
Those actions have helped put the economy in better shape to deal with the end of a 2% payroll tax cut, higher tax rates for wealthy Americans and $85 billion in across-the-board government spending cuts known as the "sequester."
The easy money stance has given a boost to interest rate sensitive sectors of the economy, such as autos and housing.
The commitment to easy policy also appears to be lifting business confidence, which in turn is underpinning job growth and the stock market. Nonfarm payrolls increased 236,000 in February and the jobless rate fell to a four-year low of 7.7%.
"The message from the data is that in the battle between fiscal drag and monetary stimulus, the Fed is winning," said Jim O'Sullivan, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics in Valhalla, New York.
Stunned by a surprisingly strong report on retail sales last week, most economists rushed to raise first-quarter growth estimates. JPMorgan pushed theirs up by an eye-catching eight-tenths of a percentage point to 2.3%, while Goldman Sachs increased theirs by three-tenths of a point to 2.9%.
Economic activity expanded at a meager 0.1% rate in the last three months of last year, the slowest pace since the first quarter of 2011.
Economists also said they had been mistaken to believe that businesses would retrench if it became clear deep government spending cuts were going to take hold.
They said they had simply been drawing on lessons learned during the acrimonious fight in 2011 to raise the government's borrowing limit, a battle that hit confidence hard.
"The chance we decided to take was for a more upfront impact from sequestration; in reality that is not what we are seeing," said Adolfo Laurenti, deputy chief economist, Mesirow Financial in Chicago. "Businesses have taken it at a more leisurely pace."
Indeed, a Deloitte Growth Enterprise Services survey of about 1,000 mid-market executives this month found little evidence the spending cuts were worrying businesses.
About 72 percent of respondents said sequestration would not affect their businesses and 91 percent said they had not put off hiring because of the cuts. That could be an indication of the confidence generated by the Fed's willingness to aid the economy, economists say.
Also helping the economy is the fact that banks are starting to ease lending standards and household balance sheets have improved after being ravaged by the housing market's collapse.
"What we have been seeing for a while is households have worked down their debt loads and they are now starting to expand their borrowing and, across the board, bank lending is increasing," said Steve Cunningham, head of research at the American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
"So monetary policy is becoming effective in that respect."
Fed data this month showed household debt in the fourth quarter grew at its fastest pace since early 2008, while a measure of the burden of carrying debt sank to a record low.
In addition, consumer credit has increased solidly from last year through January of this year and banks in January reported stronger loan demand and easier credit standards.
Still, the economy is not out of the woods by any means.
Part of the expected bounce back in growth this quarter will come from a buildup in business inventories, which means second quarter growth could fall short of the January-March rate.
As a result of the economy's firmer underlying strength, many analysts now estimate government budget cuts could shave off about 0.3 percentage point from GDP this year, half of what was predicted by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
"The drag from sequestration is probably a little bit smaller than we thought a month ago," said Mesirow Financial's Laurenti. "We have a better economy that is in a better position to absorb a negative shock."


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Vegetarian Maqluba (Rice Layered With Tomatoes, Eggplant, and Cauliflower) Recipe
This version of maqluba is a showstopper: a tall, golden savory cake filled to bursting with tender vegetables and crowned with yielding rounds of tomatoes.
Adapted from Jerusalem, by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi
YIELD: Serves 6 to 8
ACTIVE TIME: 30 minutes
TOTAL TIME: 1 hour 10 minutes
1 2/3 cups basmati rice, rinsed until water runs clear
1 teaspoon ground turmeric
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground allspice
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon ground coriander
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
2 medium eggplants, cut into 1/4-inch-thick slices
About 5 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 medium cauliflower, divided into medium florets
1 tablespoon butter, melted
3 medium ripe tomatoes, cut into 1/4-inch-thick slices
4 cups vegetable stock
2 medium cloves garlic, peeled and halved
Plain yogurt, for serving (optional)
Hot sauce such as sambal oelek, for serving (optional)
Chopped fresh cilantro, for serving (optional)
1. Adjust oven racks to middle positions and preheat oven to 400°F. Cover rice with water, stir in 1 teaspoon of salt, and let soak.
2. Stir together turmeric, cinnamon, cumin, coriander, and cloves in a small bowl. In a large bowl, toss eggplant slices with 3 tablespoons oil, 1/3 of the spice mixture, and salt and pepper to taste. Lay eggplant out on two rimmed baking sheets and roast, turning slices once, until eggplant is browned and tender, about 20 minutes.
3. In a large bowl, toss cauliflower with 2 tablespoons oil, 1/3 of the spice mixture, and salt and pepper to taste. Lay cauliflower out on a rimmed baking sheet and roast, stirring once, until cauliflower is browned and tender, about 20 minutes.
4. Assemble the maqluba: line the bottom of a Dutch oven with a circle of parchment paper, then brush paper and sides of pot with melted butter. Assemble tomato slices in a circle, covering bottom of pot and overlapping the slices as you go. Follow with the eggplant. Arrange cauliflower over eggplant. Drain rice thoroughly, then spread over cauliflower. Stir remaining spice mixture and 1 teaspoon salt into vegetable stock, and pour over rice. Scatter garlic pieces over top.
5. Place pot over high heat and bring stock to a boil, then reduce heat to low. Cover pot with a tight-fitting lid and simmer for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, remove pot from heat, remove lid, drape a clean tea towel over top of pot, and quickly replace lid, letting dish set for 10 minutes. Quickly invert rice dish onto a large round platter; do not remove pot for 2-3 minutes. Remove pot and circle of parchment and serve maqluba with plain yogurt, hot sauce and chopped fresh cilantro, if desired.
Special Equipment
Pastry brush
Source: Serious Eats


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Orange Cornmeal Cupcakes with White Wine & Olive Oil
Sunday, January 7, 2007
But how to describe the flavor? Well, when wine and olive oil are combined in baking they produce a sublte, almost etheral, fruity flavor. The orange oil from the zest permeates the entire cake. The sugar crusts on top during baking and maintains it's snowy sprakle. You can't help but imagine eating them with slices of ripe orange and a glass of white wine, which consequently is how I suggest you eat them. You can't help but close your eyes and imagine eating them at a wrought iron table over looking a tuscan vineyard in the afternoon sun. Due to the cornmeal they're very dense too, so one cupcake is the perfect serving (as opposed to five).
Another plus is these take about oh, 5 minutes of prep time. With about 25 minutes for baking time, these are great time savers if you want an impressive dessert for little effort using ingredients you probably have on hand. As for the wine I used, I went with a Geyser Peak 05' Sauvignon Blanc. It was dry, not too fruity, not too grassy. It really accomplished all it needed to in the cupcake, and was the perfect accompaniment with the oranges and cupcakes. I also suggest a high quality olive oil for this if you have it, though everyday will do just fine as well.
This is a definite winner in my book and a total keeper. Easy, tasty, refined, and a real crowd pleaser.
Orange Cornmeal Cupcakes with White Wine & Olive Oil
Makes about 10 cupcakes / 375 Degrees
Adapted From Martha Stewart
What You'll Need...
1/2 cup of olive oil
2 large eggs at room temperature
1 cup of sugar, plus 1/3 cup for topping
1/2 cup of dry white wine
1 1/4 cups of all-purpose flour
1/2 cup of yellow cornmeal
1 teaspoon of salt
2 teaspoons of baking powder
Finely grated zest of one orange
What You'll Do...
1) Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2) In a large bowl, whisk together the oil, eggs, sugar, and wine until smooth. Add the other dry ingredients and the zest; whisk together gently.
3) Line cupcake tin with cupcake papers and spoon into the papers about 4/5 full. Sprinkle on the sugar (topping will be thick). Bake for 22-25 minutes, or until a cake tester comes out. clean.
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hmm..these look and sound delish!ReplyDelete
Just when I was thinking I should use up the really nice stoneground cornmeal I've had in the freezer for a while! Today you're my Mr. Perfect Timing Guy.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 8, 2007 at 2:52 AM
Grate recipe,simple and easy to cook.I just want to ask whether olive oil taste will be felt in the cake? Thank you.ReplyDelete
Wow, now you've crossed into "non-stop cornmeal force--armed with white wine and olive oil" territory. Simply inspirational!ReplyDelete
Catherine - Try them, they're divine!ReplyDelete
Brian W - I'm always Mister Perfect Timing. ;)
Home Cook - Just slightly, like the wine it's a subtle background flavor, and very tasty.
Acme - I just laughed so hard I got queer stares at work.
Cornmeal, wine and olive oil? Sounds like it could be my kinda thing.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 9, 2007 at 12:40 PM
sounds like something you eat with your most sophisticated friends...ReplyDelete
I'll bring them to work and impress my boss.
Oh my gosh, these sound good. And your photography is lovely these days, Garrett. You're doing that new camera proud!ReplyDelete
I don't know why, but for some reason I just had to bake something last night. Being out of butter and low on eggs my options were limited. I came here, knowing you wouldn't let me down. And you did not. These are delicious! So delicate and subtle without being bland. I didn't have orange, so I zested two lemons and added a bit of the juice to the batter. I used a Gewurztraminer (only white wine in the house) instead of something dry. The result was fabulous! These are sweet enough to be dessert, but not too sweet to eat for breakfast. I can't wait to make these again so I can play around with different wines and oils. Thank you so much for this recipe!ReplyDelete
I made a few batches of these this morning. So tasty! They've been my go-to muffin for since I first tried them a few years back. They're sophisticated without being fussy... and they've always impressed!ReplyDelete
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A delftware water bottle with a bulbous body, narrowing to a neck which splays out at the mouth with a slightly everted rim. The body narrows at the base and rests on a short foot. The vase is decorated with dark blue floral decoration on the body, collar and neck. The decoration is similar to the decoration on HCL 051with which it is part of a set. The water bottle particularly resembles tin-glazed stoneware. ?English, London.