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The Age of Innocence is probably the best of Drury's many fine studies of children, such as Griselda and Saint Agnes. The marble version was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1897, and according to M. H. Spielmann, author of British Sculpture and Sculptors of Today (Studio Special Number 1901) 'still further heightened the public appreciation of Mr. Drury's talent. So widely was it appreciated that when the bust was "published" in a small size a very considerable number were bought up at once.' This refers to the smaller of the two editions; the present is one of the larger size versions, which are considerably rarer. Only a few can have been made; one version is in the Tate Gallery, London. [Shepherd Gallery catalogue].


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Cisco Cut as Data-center Business Shifts
Software-defined-networking threat leads to J.P. Morgan downgrade
Cisco Systems could feel the impact of a new trend that expands the role of software in data center networks — and it could come much sooner than expected, an analyst said.
J.P. Morgan downgraded Cisco to underweight, or sell, from neutral based on what analyst Rod Hall described as a more rapid adoption of software-defined-networking.
The move came following a strong run-up on Cisco's shares, which have surged 25% since its last earnings report in mid-November. Cisco was trading down a fraction at $20.92 by mid-day Thursday.
Known simply as SDN, the new technology allows businesses to rely less heavily on networking hardware, using software systems used to run data centers. There's been a debate on the potential impact of the trend, which some analysts say could hurt Cisco's core hardware business in the long-term by turning data center switches into commodities.
In his note, Hall said he had earlier assumed that the impact of software-defined networking "would be gradual and would, therefore, not lead to a rapid decline in the unit price of an ethernet switch." He now sees the impact from the shift to SDN coming earlier.
"Since then, we have become more convinced that SDN impacts are likely to come sooner and that those impacts will occur more rapidly when they begin," he wrote.
In fact, Hall now projects that the "data center-oriented switching market could be reduced by as much as 33% by 2015 by technology shifts that are in motion."
In his same note, Hall upgraded Cisco rival Juniper Networks. He noted that the company recently outlined its own SDN strategy at a recent conference, but said investors "should continue to discount Juniper's data center opportunity until the company has results to show for their plans." He based his upgrade on optimism around the company's optical and router business.
The analysis of SDNs echoes the view of IDC, which put out its own report in December predicting that the worldwide market for software-defined networking would grow from $360 million in 2013 to $3.7 billion by 2016.
To be sure, Cisco is responding to the trend, and Hall noted the tech giant's recent acquisitions of SDN-focused firms that he says "show that management is spending significant time on the area."
In fact, the market doesn't appear to be too worried just yet. Cisco shares have gained roughly 7% this year, and have risen 25% over the last two months, partly on expectations that it will benefit from an expected wave of corporate IT spending.
Still, Hall said Cisco "has the most at stake" with the software-defined networking trend, and "is the most exposed to the downside if SDN triggers networking commoditization."
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From 8-13, September hundreds of astronomers from all over the world will arrive in the capital, bringing with them a huge variety of different public events to get Londoners involved in astronomy.
Events will include organised stargazing in Regent's Park, a space-themed variety performance, a science fiction film night, exhibitions, art installations and public talks.
Astronomers and space explorers will be on hand to meet the public, and some of them will even be doing some space-busking!
Festival of the Planets runs alongside the European Planetary Science Congress
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The Festival of the Planets has been organised in collaboration with partners including the British Interplanetary Society, the Baker Street Irregular Astronomers, the Natural History Museum and the Royal Society.
And now several of London's foreign embassies are getting involved, sending their scientific attachés to meet delegates to EPSC 2013, or organising events at their own premises.
The Day the Earth Caught Fire - science fiction film night
Join science and science-fiction experts to discover the fact and fiction behind the classic film The Day the Earth Caught Fire.
Simultaneous atomic bomb tests by the USA and the Soviet Union knock the Earth from its orbit and send it spiralling toward the Sun. The Day the Earth Caught Fire is a British science fiction disaster film starring Edward Judd, Leo McKern and Janet Munro. It was directed by Val Guest and released in 1961. Film rating: Certificate 15
The film night includes a
panel discussion with:
- Dr Marek Kukula (Royal Observatory Greenwich)
- Dr Louisa Preston (Open University)
- Martin Archer (Imperial College London)
- Paul Cornell (Doctor Who writer)
Location: Bloomsbury Theatre, 15 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0AH
Date: Tue 10th September 7.45 (doors 7pm)
Tickets: £5 (booking fee £2.50 per
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Space Showoff
Space Showoff is an anarchic space-themed cabaret night. Join delegates from the European Planetary Science Congress, comedians and performers for a night that'll be funny, educational and stuffed to the brim with space-y goodness.
Confirmed acts include space comedian Helen Keen, satellite builder Maggie Aderin-Pocock, and planetary geologist Peter Grindrod, all MCed by UCL's Steve Cross.
All ticket money will be donated to the Lightyear Foundation, who take science to schoolchildren across the world who might otherwise not get a chance to take part. http://www.lightyearfoundation.org/
Location: Bloomsbury Theatre, 15 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AH
Date: Thursday 12 September 7.30pm
Tickets: £10 or £7 concessions. Book here
European Planetary Science Congress Exhibition
See models of the latest missions, try hands-on robotics activities, find out how comets are made, experience our science-buskers and get to meet some of Europe's leading space explorers.
Location: Exhibition Marquee, UCL Quad, University College London, Gower Street London WC1E 6BT
Date: Tuesday 10 September, 10am-6pm, and Thursday 12 September, 10am-6pm
Tickets: Free
Another way of seeing: Contemporary Art responds to planetary science
This exhibition will show work from seven contemporary artists whose work has been inspired by planetary science. The exhibition is on during September and has been scheduled to overlap with the EPSC2013 event at UCL.
The artists are: Paul Magee, Andy Charalambous, Rose Pickles with Laura Franklin working together, Nathan Cohen and Simson&Volley. The exhibition is being curated by Andy Charalambous, who is an artist in residence at UCL.
Location: UCL
Date: 8-30 September
Tickets: Free
10 miles of Mars - exhibition
This exhibition will showcase a beautiful planetary image at an unprecedented scale. Measuring approximately 3 x 40 m, the exhibition will be a very recent image of the surface of Mars, which reflects the cross-disciplinary research in planetary science conducted at the Centre for Planetary Sciences at UCL/Birkbeck. Up close, the image will challenge with an array of bizarre textures and colours; from further afield, the image will show an ethereal visage of an alien, yet also strangely familiar, world.
Location: North Cloisters, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
Date: 8 September-13 December 2013
Tickets: Free
Observing night in Regent's Park
Public observing in Regent's Park, hosted by the British Astronomical Association and the Baker Street Irregular Astronomers. View the Moon, the planet Neptune, and deep-space objects through a variety of telescopes under the guidance of expert astronomers. Advice on astronomical equipment also available.
Location: The Hub, Regent's Park, London NW1 4RU.
Date: Wednesday 11 September (or Tuesday 10 September or Thursday 12 September, if the weather forecast for Wednesday is poor), 6:30pm-10pm.
Tickets: Free. Final decision on the date will be made on Monday 10 September according to the weather forecast, and will be announced on this website.
Talk: Curiosity - one year on
On 6 August 2012, Curiosity, the newest Mars rover, landed on the red planet. Armed with an on-board laboratory of 10 instruments, including a rock drill and laser, Curiosity's mission is to uncover any evidence of ancient life. Many of the past missions to Mars have brought back tantalising discoveries about the history of our neighbouring planet but never before has a rover attempted to perform experiments live on the surface. Join us as we find out more about this incredible challenge and uncover what Curiosity has discovered so far. Speaker: Natasha Stephen
Location: Attenborough Studio, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD
Date: Saturday 8 September, 12:30pm-1pm and 2:30pm-3pm
Details here
Public Lecture: JUpiter ICy Moon Explorer (JUICE) - the first ESA Cosmic Vision Mission
Athena Coustenis gives an overview of the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission selected by ESA as the first large mission within the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 plan, is being developed to address questions regarding the Jupiter system and its satellites, with a focus on the largest moon, Ganymede.
Location: British Interplanetary Society, 27-29 South Lambeth Road, Vauxhall, London SW8 1SZ
Date: Thursday 12 September, 7pm-8:30pm
Tickets: Free for members of the British Interplanetary Society. £10 non members. Book here
Café Scientifique: How are the giant planets protecting us?
Jupiter is more than 600 million kilometres away from us - how has it helped our planet to evolve safely? What are the space environments surrounding the giant planets like? Why are these planets important in the history of our solar system? Discover the surprising nature of the space surrounding giant planets and how this helps protect both them and planet Earth.
Dr Christopher Arridge is a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory.
Location: The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG
Date: 23 September 6:30pm-8pm
Tickets: Free
Origin of the moon
Despite widespread acceptance of the giant impact hypothesis for lunar origin, our understanding continues to be challenged by remarkable new geochemical data, improved simulations and theory and spacecraft exploration. This will be a timely consideration of our current understanding, how this relates to our Earth and planetary systems and an opportunity to identify the directions of future research.
This event is intended for researchers in relevant fields, but is
also open to the wider public. It is free to attend. There are a
limited number of places and registration is essential.
Location: The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG
Date: 9am
Monday 23 September-5pm
Tuesday 24 September
Register here
Embassy events
The Italian scientific attaché, Professor
Roberto Amendolia will chair the Farinella Prize lecture by Dr. Patrick Michel.
The lecture is open to the public.
Location: Bloomsbury Theatre, 15 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AH
Date: Monday 9 September, 12:45-1:25pm
The French scientific attaché, M. Cyrille van Effenterre will meet French delegates during the Poster Reception
Location: UCL Housman Room, North Cloisters, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
Date: Tuesday 10 September, 6-7pm
The Spanish Embassy and the Society of Spanish Researchers in the UK (CERU) will host a round-table discussion and reception on "Planetary Science and its communication to society".
Location: Spanish Embassy, 39 Chesham Place, London SW1X 8SB
Date: Thursday 12 September, 6.30-9.00 pm
European Planetary Science Congress - Festival of the Planets


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They wanted to see the backup quarterback in a 49-19 blowout loss to New England on Thursday night. Turns out, there was little chance Tebow would see a snap.
Tebow, who didn't play at all, revealed after the game that he broke two ribs in the Jets' loss at Seattle two weeks ago.
"They need a little time to get better," Tebow said, adding that his breathing has been affected by the injury.
He was listed as questionable for the game with a rib ailment, but fully practiced Wednesday. Coach Rex Ryan had reservations about making Tebow active, deciding to use him only "if we absolutely had to have him," and leaving third-stringer Greg McElroy inactive.
"I appreciate his concern," Tebow said. "I had to do a little bit of talking just to dress, but I just want to be there for my teammates in case they needed me in an emergency situation."
Tebow has had a limited role in the Jets' offense this season after being acquired from the Denver Broncos in March. He was expected to add a dynamic element to the offense, particularly in the wildcat package, but he is averaging only about seven plays on offense.
He is playing regularly as the personal punt protector on special teams, but thinks the injury occurred on an offensive play against the Seahawks.
"I didn't really know," he said. "I just kept playing and started to feel it later on."
He played in the Jets' win at St. Louis on Sunday, but had an MRI exam Monday that revealed the extent of the injury.
Tebow has been practicing, but isn't certain how long he will be hindered by the injury. He hopes to be healthy enough to play in the Jets' next game against Arizona on Dec. 2.
"I was ready to go if they needed me," he said. "Obviously, it wasn't ideal. I just wanted to be there for my teammates and do whatever I can to help."
Ryan said the injury appeared to get "progressively worse" as the week went on and noticed his breathing sounded different.
"I was standing there and I was like, 'I'm not going to play this kid,'" Ryan said. "I wouldn't play my son in that kind of situation. To Tim's credit, he wanted to be there for his team."
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Both chambers of the majority Democratic Colorado legislature approved a package of four gun-control measures on Wednesday, capping months of debate in a state that has experienced two of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history.
The most controversial of the bills that are now headed to the desk of Democratic Governor John Hickenlooper is a ban on ammunition magazines with more than 15 rounds, which the governor said he will sign into law.
The passage of the bills could push Colorado to the forefront of a national gun control debate reignited by several mass shootings last year, including the December massacre of 20 children and six adults at a school in Newtown, Connecticut.
The sponsor of the Colorado magazine-limit bill, state House Representative Rhonda Fields, told fellow lawmakers in a floor debate on Wednesday the proposal was about "saving lives."
"These are weapons that should be used in a theater of war and not in our local theaters," said Fields, a Democrat whose district includes the suburban Denver movie theater where a gunman killed 12 people in a shooting rampage last July.
Colorado was also the site of the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School, where two teenagers shot dead a teacher and 12 other students before committing suicide.
Other bills included in the package of gun control laws approved by Colorado lawmakers included a measure to make firearm buyers pay for their own background checks and a ban on online certification for concealed-carry permits, both of which Hickenlooper has said he supports.
Another measure would bar gun purchases by people convicted of domestic violence crimes. Hickenlooper had previously said he was undecided about that until he could see the final version.
One remaining gun control measure to require background checks for all firearms transfers was sent to a conference committee on Wednesday, so that both chambers could hash out differences between the Senate and House versions.
The proposals that won final approval on Wednesday had received little Republican support.
Republican House minority leader Mark Waller issued a statement after the bills' passage, calling Democrats "out of touch" with their constituents.
"More than 200,000 Coloradans are out of work, but Democrats are more concerned with passing legislation that will send hundreds of jobs out of our state without any increase in public safety to show for it," Waller said in a statement.
Waller was referring to Magpul, a Colorado-based manufacturer of ammunition magazines that has vowed to leave the state and take away its hundreds of jobs if the magazine-limit bill becomes law.
The Colorado legislature's action follows the passage in New York state in January of a sweeping gun control law that bans assault weapons and magazines that hold more than seven rounds of ammunition, requires gun owners to register most guns with the state and requires universal background checks.
President Barack Obama has put forward a number of federal gun control proposals in the wake of the Newtown killings.
On Tuesday, a divided U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee advanced to the full Senate a measure endorsed by Obama that would require criminal background checks for all gun buyers.
Editing by Alex Dobuzinskis and Eric Walsh.
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Late last year, Gwynne Pugh, FAIA, ASCE, LEED AP, turned a new page in his impressive career. He left the award-winning firm he'd co-founded in 1991, Pugh + Scarpa Architects (now Brooks + Scarpa Architects) to start his own firm, Gwynne Pugh Urban Studio. residential architect recently spoke with Santa Monica, Calif.-based Pugh to see what he's been up to—quite a bit, as it turns out. Visit his new website at www.gwynnepugh-us.com.
ra: What kinds of projects are you working on?
gp: I'm very interested in urban design, in how public architecture and developer architecture interact in the built environment. I'm working with various cities in California on a consulting basis: San Diego's Centre City Development Corp., and the cities of Long Beach, Carson, and Santa Monica. Also, a project for Santa Monica College has been delayed and will be resuming in a few months. I'm continuing to work on affordable housing, collaborating with Michael Folonis [FAIA] on a project.
ra: At Gwynne Pugh Urban Studio, what are you hoping to focus on?
gp: I'm looking to expand more to interacting with cities. What's really interesting is this place in between planning and architecture. I'm trying to see how cities can maximize what they've got, how they can contribute to the life of the city. Before things are cast in stone, there can be a real discussion about how they can set about that and become more of an interactive place.
ra: How does that discussion relate to sustainable design?
gp: A lot of people complain about the quality of their urban environment. There's been a greater recognition that it's not just about what's built on the site—it's about how it comes together. As we improve the quality of life and work toward a more urbanistic experience, it ties into the issue of sustainability as well. You're not getting into a car. In a large building with a lot of other units, you're not having as much heat loss and gain.
ra: As a member of the Santa Monica Planning Commission, can you tell us about the commission's recent endeavors?
gp: The commission just finished six years of working on land use and circulation policies. We tried to coordinate them. We've been awarded by the state for that plan. One of the nuggets of it is, no new net increase in traffic in the afternoon rush hour—any development created needs to redirect its own traffic. And the city needs to work to reduce its own traffic as well. Finally we're getting a light rail system coming in—that will help. And we have quite a good bus service. We're also looking at bicycle service and of course pedestrianism. We're looking at having activity nodes within a ¼-mile radius. That's all part of the traffic aspect. Historically, a lot of cities have tried to encourage any kind of development. But that doesn't necessarily make for a very functional city. We're trying to change those attitudes and think about it in a holistic way.


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The Healthy Weight Program for bulimia nervosa consists of six sessions designed to help the patient engage in weight control strategies that do not pose the same physiological and psychological liabilities as the inappropriate compensatory behaviors inherent to the disorder (e.g., purging, fasting, excessive exercise). These healthier strategies include altering food consumption (e.g., cutting out high-fat foods) and increasing exercise to achieve a negative energy balance and a slim, healthy figure. Unlike CBT for bulimia nervosa, the pursuit of a thin ideal body is not challenged, binge eating and purging are not directly targeted, and dieting is encouraged (albeit in a healthier manner than individuals with bulimia nervosa typically employ) rather than discouraged. Nutritional education is provided as part of the treatment to inform the patient's food choices. Treatment is conducted in a small group format.
Key References (in reverse chronological order)
- Stice, E., Martinez, E. E., Presnell, K. & Groesz, L.M. (2006). Relation of successful dietary restriction to change in bulimic symptoms: A prospective study of adolescent girls.Health Psychology, 25(3), 274-281.
- Burton, E. & Stice, E. (2006). Evaluation of a healthy-weight treatment program for bulimia nervosa: A preliminary randomized trial. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 44(12), 1727-1738.
- Stice, E., Presnell, K., Groesz, L. & Shaw, H. (2005). Effects of a weight maintenance diet on bulimic symptoms in adolescent girls: An experimental test of the dietary restraint theory. Health Psychology, 24(4), 402-412.
- Presnell, K. & Stice, E. (2003). An experimental test of the effect of weight-loss dieting on bulimic pathology: Tipping the scales in a different direction. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 112(1), 166-170.
Clinical Resources
- Stice, E., & Presnell, K. (2007). The Body Project: Promoting Body Acceptance and Preventing Eating Disorders, Facilitators Guide. New York: Oxford University Press.
- http://www.ori.org/Research/scientists/sticeE.html
Training Opportunities
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Hawaii Department of Agriculture's (HDOA) Plant Quarantine Branch regulates the export of nursery products (propagative plants) to the mainland U.S. and certain foreign countries by certifying that the shipment meets the requirements of the state or country of destination.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) regulates the export of cut-flowers, foliage and fruits from Hawaii to the mainland U.S. and propagative plants to foreign countries. Anyone who has traveled to the mainland is familiar with the mandatory USDA baggage inspection at the airports for agricultural materials. For more information, link to the USDA-Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) website by clicking here.
HDOA Plant Quarantine inspectors, in cooperation with USDA inspectors, are able to inspect and certify plant materials intended for shipment to the mainland U.S. See Chapter 4-73, Plant Export Rules in PDF format, for more information.
Exporters of plant materials and produce should contact their nearest USDA or HDOA Plant Quarantine Office for the inspection requirements of their products. By complying with the regulations, the inspection process can be expedited resulting in a fresher quality product reaching its destination.
Application for Phytosanitary Certificate (PQ-47A):
Foreign countries and some U.S. mainland states sometimes require that an official government document be issued describing shipments of plant materials exported from Hawaii. The document that the Plant Quarantine Branch issues is called a PHYTOSANITARY CERTIFICATE.
Exporters can download the Application for Phytosanitary Certificate form to request that the Plant Quarantine Branch issue a phytosanitary certificate. Mail or fax to nearest Plant Quarantine Office (see "Contacts" below). Foreign countries should be contacted to see if an Import Permit is also required for importation of plant materials. Specific requirements and declarations that need to be included on the phytosanitary certificate would be stated on the Import Permit of the respective country.
Nursery Certification Programs:
HDOA's Plant Quarantine Branch has programs for qualified nurseries to self-certify their potted plants under a Burrowing Nematode Certification Program and an Orchid Nursery Certification Program.
California-Hawaii Origin Inspection Program:
This program allows cut-flowers and foliage to be shipped to the State of California through self-certification by certified growers/shippers under a 3-party agreement.
For a phone listing of contact numbers, select "Contacts."


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God's Venture Capitalist: The strange quest of Sir John Templeton.
By David Plotz
Andrew Carnegie's libraries embodied the democratic confidence of the Gilded Age. John D. Rockefeller's universities enshrined the scientific meliorism of the Progressive Era. But the defining philanthropist of our time is not a university builder or an art collector or a chair endower. It is Sir John Marks Templeton, religious philanthropist, investment wizard, amateur philosopher, and full-bore crank.
A do-gooder for the end of the millennium, Templeton pays professors to promote conservative values, universities to build character, and researchers to investigate the connections between faith and science. He believes he can reconcile the irreconcilable contradictions of contemporary society: Christian conservatism and New Age loopiness, capitalist greed and sweet charity, old-time religion and modern technology.
Before he started giving away his fortune, Templeton was one of the world's greatest moneymakers. A Yale graduate and Rhodes scholar, he began investing in the early '40s and soon proved a natural. He established the Templeton mutual fund in 1954. He was the first great global investor, buying international equities long before other American stock pickers noticed them. The Templeton Fund grew an astonishing 15 percent a year between 1954 and Templeton's 1992 retirement--a $10,000 stake in 1954 would have grown to more than $3 million by 1992. Templeton developed a cult following: Fund shareholders thronged to the annual meetings in Toronto and obeyed his every pronouncement. Even today, five years after retiring, Templeton can move the market. When he hinted earlier this year that the U.S. stock market was overvalued, the Dow dropped briefly. In 1992, he sold his company, pocketed more than $400 million, and turned full time to good works. Last year, he gave away $15 million through his Pennsylvania-based John Templeton Foundation.
The octogenarian Templeton has always been a devout Christian. (His own faith marries the strict Presbyterianism of his childhood with a sunny Norman Vincent Peale-y optimism.) But his genius as a philanthropist is secular: He brings capitalist hucksterism to religious charity. Templeton has transformed philanthropy into marketing, his own name into a brand. His earliest venture set the tone. In 1972, he inaugurated the annual Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion to remedy the Nobel Foundation's omission of religion. His brilliant stroke was to brag that his prize would be worth more than the Nobel, thus ensuring lavish press coverage. The first award went to Mother Teresa (six years before her Nobel Peace Prize. He has raised the prize's profile by awarding it to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Billy Graham, and Watergate-burglar-turned-minister Charles Colson. (The Templeton Prize helped its founder win a knighthood in 1987. In the '60s, Templeton had moved to the Bahamas--a tax haven--abandoned his U.S. citizenship, and become a British subject.)
Post retirement, Templeton demonstrated a knack for tapping into popular culture. He has, for example, cast himself as a guardian of Christian morals and a bulwark against political correctness. The "Templeton Honor Roll," announced with much fanfare last month, celebrated 126 universities, departments, professors, and even textbooks that uphold traditional (i.e., conservative) educational values. Professional moralist Gertrude Himmelfarb and conservative economist Milton Friedman won $25,000 lifetime-achievement awards. Conservative scholars Walter Williams, Julian Simon, and Mary Lefkowitz also made the roll. The "Templeton Honor Roll for Character Building Colleges" rewards more than 100 schools that "promote character development." The "Templeton Honor Rolls for Education in a Free Society" boosts colleges that promote market economics. The "Templeton Laws of Life Essay Contest" awards $2,000 to adolescents who write essays about spirituality. The "Templeton Prize for Inspiring Movies and TV" (now renamed the "Epiphany Prize") gives $25,000 to movies and TV shows that acclaim faith. (Favorite nominee: CBS's Touched by an Angel.) He's Bill Bennett with a bankroll.
But Templeton is more than just a conservative sugar daddy. His moralism is a sidelight to his much more ambitious goal: the reunification of science and religion. Other philanthropists endow chairs and build hospitals: Templeton is trying to refashion the world's intellectual fabric. He is, if this is not an oxymoron, a religious technocrat. Since the Renaissance, science has outstripped faith, and Templeton views this as a great tragedy. He believes that theologians must match science's advance with spiritual research, and attempt to rejoin the soul and the brain. Religion should harness the tools of science to make "progress." "Progress" is his favorite word, though no one, not even Templeton himself, seems to know what "progress" in religion would mean.
Templeton has, almost single-handedly, revived the field of religious science. He gives 100 colleges $10,000 a year to teach courses in science and religion. He offers the same amount to medical schools for classes on "healing and spirituality." The Templeton Lectures send scholars to campuses to opine on faith and science. Templeton may appeal to New Age softheadedness, but he's much more rigorous than the crystal-and-shaman crowd. He believes in hard science. Favorite projects include a Duke University study on the relationship between prayer and longevity, and research at Johns Hopkins into how meditation alters brain activity. Last year he awarded the Templeton Prize to a respected Australian cosmologist who argues that the structure of the universe reflects intelligent design. Even so, the entire enterprise reflects a mad obsessiveness: What to make, for example, of the "Templeton Prizes for Exemplary Papers in Humility Theology"?
Templeton's magnificent crankhood reaches its apotheosis in his own writings. His new book (published by, naturally, the Templeton Foundation--a true vanity press) is Worldwide Laws of Life. As ambitious as its title, it lists 200 "eternal" spiritual/ethical laws that purportedly apply to all people, in all times, in all places. No kidding. This is Templeton unvarnished, didactic, optimistic, scientific, grandiose beyond imagination: "Behind this book is my belief that the basic principles for leading a 'sublime life' can be examined and tested just as science examines and tests natural laws of the universe." Worldwide Laws of Life is an incredible volume--a weird combination of Thomist canon law, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, and Successories. Some of the laws are biblical aphorisms: "As you give, so shall you receive." Most are platitudes of high banality: "Every ending is a new beginning." "What the mind can conceive, it may achieve." (Of 200 laws, seven come from the Bible, four from Ralph Waldo Emerson, two from Henry Ford, and 65 from Templeton himself.)
And yet, even at his most peculiar, Templeton stays true to his scientific and capitalistic principles: If you send him a new law and he adds it to the next edition of Worldwide Laws, he'll pay you $1,000. If you teach a course about Worldwide Laws, he'll pay you $10,000. And if you want to scientifically "prove" or "disprove" one of the worldwide laws, he'll fund the experiment.
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North America and its great Interstate system. Even the people who designed the Great Wall of China and the Pyramids would have to agree it's impressive, even if some of America's massive transportation system has failed due to misuse, neglect, or poor design. Here's the worst of the worst.
10.) Interstate 35 (through Texas)
Chairman Kaga puts it very simple:
I'd rather be given a weasel enema than drive that road. Impossibly dense traffic. Semi trucks. Unlicensed and uninsured drivers. College kids. Caravans of Impalas in-tow on the way to Mexico. Worn out road surfaces. Cross winds. Debris. Hell.
There's more according to OneFastPuertoRican:
You forgot outlet shopping moms.
And it will get worse before it gets better according to MauritiusMauritia:
Next year it will be even worse as the widening construction project commences.
Suggested By: Chairman Kaga, Photo Credit: me and the sysop
9.) Kennedy Expressway (Interstate 90, Chicago)
Interstate 90 is not big enough, says primalzer:
I'd say, just because I'm biased and from the NW suburbs of Chicago, but I-90 (Kennedy) going into the city. 3 lanes MAX, with no possibility of expansion without DRASTIC, and I mean DRASTIC earth moving and construction. The road is garbage because there is never a lull to fix it, except in the 3 months of consistent decent weather we have. Right now it has at least 1 lane blocked, with two lanes blocked once it mergers with another expressway (I-94 Edens). Travels times of multiple hours is not uncommon living
Suggested By: primalzer, Photo Credit: Ken Lund
8.) Interstate 405 (California)
IHATE405 really hates the 405:
4 0 5. No other three numbers have given commuters in southern California nightmares. There's no place, no interchange, no hour of the day that there's not an accident, traffic, or construction underway. When they shut down this POS last year and the year before that, they called that carmageddon, that, and any given weekday the southbound lane from the 101 to LAX is the biggest parking lot in the world should put this thing at number one.
7.) Interstate 4 (Florida)
JimSlade agrees with Wikipedia about the "dead zone" part:
This stretch of road is a joke. It runs from Tampa to Daytona and while it connects two towns (that you would not want to visit for long periods of time) it also cuts through Orlando...and this is where the issues start. With the theme parks, outlet malls, and everything else that draw guests to the sweat box that is central FL, you can never travel it in a timely manner. Now let's add in road works, which are on going, and rain, that takes place for about an hour every day in the summer, and you have a slippery, congested, hellish artery that sees numerous accidents each day.
Further, the naming is east and west, but a good portion of the road actually travels north and south...so you go west to go south and east to go north. Of course...this is a route in FL...so that explains the fouled up directions.
Finally...i leave you with this from our friends at Wikipedia...
"A section of I-4 between Daytona Beach and Orlando called the 'dead zone' is rumored to be haunted...In other words, while you are not more likely to be in accident in this section of I-4, if an accident occurs the chance of that accident containing a fatality is greatly increased."
Suggested By: JimSlade, Photo Credit: Dougtone
6.) Gardiner Expressway (Toronto, because Canada is in North America too!)
Basically, it's falling apart, damaging cars in the process. KamikazePigeon adds more:
THIS!!! I vaguely remember reading an article saying it will be unusable within 5-10 years. Also, I remember another article saying that if a large truck drove over the "perfect" spot, it could actually punch through the road surface. For those of you who do not know, this Expressway runs across the Downtown Core in Toronto. We also don't have a replacement for it. Not in the works, not even planned. Construction should have started a decade ago to replace this. What a colossal fustercluck. Issues like this make me hate Politics with a passion.
Here they are:
Blame Canada.
Suggested By: Shane Elliott, Photo Credit: detsang
5.) Interstate 95 (Florida)
Apparently, you'll need a Jeep:
I have to agree, went from driving a Jeep to an Abarth, and i just recently took a drive from DC to Phila, and man the road is fucking rough!
If you can't drive an Abarth on a road, what's the point?
Suggested By: GR1M RACER : Wrong Most of the Time, Photo Credit: Bob B. Brown
4.) Pulaski Skyway
It looks nice as long as you're not on it, says Triboroug:
People going way too fast, left entrances with no merges, left exits, thing is falling apart, and no room to manoeuvre.
Not sure if no place for cops to hide is a good or bad thing.
Always great fun to test your car's breaking ability when a NYC Taxi randomly stops and you see there was about two feet between you and the bumper of a Crown Vic.
Great fun in snow and ice.
Loverly merge on the south side where Truck 1-9 comes in and you have people in the left lane realize they have to get over so they aren't trapped in the Express lanes which don't have access to 78, 21, or 22.
Did I mention it is falling apart?
Suggested By: Triboroug, Photo Credit: hydropeek
3.) Long Island Expressway
Spiegel won't let squirrels fart:
Long Island Expressway (LIE). Hey you want to head into the city? That's fi—oh wait a squirrel farted in the middle lane...4 HOUR LOCKDOWN!
Suggested By: Spiegel, African Geisha, Photo Credit: Anthony Quintano
2.) New Jersey Turnpike
Tolls. Lots of them. Exits. Some of them:
Sure it is well maintained but how many goddamn tolls do you need? And good luck turning around if you miss your exit, you gotta go all the way into PA!!! (exaggeration).
Suggested By: Automatch- the Avanthusiast, Photo Credit: MPD01605
1.) Capitol Beltway (Interstate 495)
The answer can't be anything other than the capitol Beltway (especially at the I-95 interchange) and I695 going around Baltimore, says MrCoppage. Scrape agrees:
Baltimore is one of the few places I know of there the roads are actually WORSE after they get done fixing them. Prime example...the concrete redecking on 295. Frankly, the ride was smoother with the old potholes than with the new concrete they put on there. And even when they spent millions redoing Pratt Street for the now dead Grand Prix. They didn't dowel the slabs together properly so they all shifted and made all them nice bumps the race cars crashed from.
And then there are Maryland's bridges with the WORST approach and end joint detail imaginable. And yet, the DOT still uses it.
Watch yourself out there!
Suggested By: MrCoppage, Photo Credit: sebypires
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This performs one of two actions:
Initiates replication for a replication set
Causes a node (subscriber) to start replicating a set of tables either from the origin or from another provider node, which must itself already be be an active, forwarding subscriber.
The application tables contained in the set must already exist and should ideally be empty. The current version of Slony-I will not attempt to copy the schema of the set. The replication daemon will start copying the current content of the set from the given provider and then try to catch up with any update activity that happened during that copy process. After successful subscription, the tables are guarded on the subscriber, using triggers, against accidental updates by the application.
If the tables on the subscriber are not empty, then the COPY SET event (which is part of the subscription process) may wind up doing more work than should be strictly necessary:
It attempts to TRUNCATE the table, which will be efficient.
If that fails (a foreign key relationship might prevent TRUNCATE from working), it uses DELETE to delete all "old" entries in the table
Those old entries clutter up the table until it is next VACUUMed after the subscription process is complete
The indices for the table will contain entries for the old, deleted entries, which will slow the process of inserting new entries into the index.
This operation can take a (potentially distinctly) non-zero period of time. If you have a great deal of data in a particular set of tables, it may take hours or even (if "a great deal" indicates "tens or hundreds gigabytes of data") possibly multiple days for this event to complete.
The SUBSCRIBE SET request will, nonetheless, return fairly much immediately, even though the work, being handled by the COPY SET event, is still in progress. If you need to set up subscriptions for a set of cascading nodes, you will need to wait for each subscriber to complete subscribing before submitting requests for subscriptions that use that node as a provider.
Slony-I: provider 2 is not an active forwarding node for replication set 1
In effect, such subscription requests will be ignored until the provider is ready.
Revising subscription information for already-subscribed nodes.
If you need to revise subscription information for a node, you also submit the new information using this command, and the new configuration will be propagated throughout the replication network. The normal reason to revise this information is that you want a node to subscribe to a different provider node, or for a node to become a "forwarding" subscriber so it may later become the provider for a later subscriber.
- ID = ival
ID of the set to subscribe
- PROVIDER = ival
Node ID of the data provider from which this node draws data.
- RECEIVER = ival
Node ID of the new subscriber
- FORWARD = boolean
Flag whether or not the new subscriber should store the log information during replication to make it possible candidate for the provider role for future nodes. Any node that is intended to be a candidate for FAILOVER must have FORWARD = yes.
- OMIT COPY = boolean
Flag whether or not the subscription process should omit doing the COPY of the existing data in the set. In effect, use this option indicates "Trust me, the data is already in sync!"
This is notably useful for the following sorts of cases:
Major inter-version upgrades (e.g. - as from Slony-I 1.2 to 2.0) may be done quickly.
Cloning a "master node". SLONIK CLONE PREPARE/SLONIK CLONE FINISH
This uses schemadocsubscribeset(integer, integer, integer, boolean, boolean).
Forwarding Behaviour
The FORWARD=boolean flag indicates whether the subscriber will store log information in tables sl_log_1 and sl_log_2. Several implications fall from this...
By storing the data in these tables on the subscriber, there is some additional processing burden. If you are certain that you would never want to SLONIK MOVE SET or SLONIK FAILOVER to a particular subscriber, it is worth considering turning off forwarding on that node.
There is, however, a case where having forwarding turned off opens up a perhaps-unexpected failure condition; a rule of thumb should be that all nodes that connect directly to the origin should have forwarding turned on. Supposing one such "direct subscriber" has forwarding turned off, it is possible for that node to be forcibly lost in a case of failover. The problem comes if that node gets ahead of other nodes.
Let's suppose that the origin, node 1 is at SYNC number 88901, a non-forwarding node, node 2 has processed up to SYNC 88897, and other forwarding nodes, 3, 4, and 5, have only processed data up to SYNC 88895. At that moment, the disk system on the origin node catches fire. Node 2 has the data up to SYNC 88897, but there is no remaining node that contains, in sl_log_1 or sl_log_2, the data for SYNCs 88896 and 88897, so there is no way to bring nodes 3-5 up to that point.
At that point, there are only two choices: To drop node 2, because there is no way to continue managing it, or to drop all nodes but 2, because there is no way to bring them up to SYNC 88897.
That dilemma may be avoided by making sure that all nodes directly subscribing to the origin have forwarding turned on.
Dangerous/Unintuitive Behaviour
The fact that the request returns immediately even though the subscription may take considerable time to complete may be a bit surprising.
Processing of the subscription involves two events; the SUBSCRIBE_SET, initiated on the set origin node, and an ENABLE_SUBSCRIPTION. This means that SLONIK WAIT FOR EVENT must be used following a SUBSCRIBE SET to wait until the last event on the set origin completes.
This command has two purposes; setting up subscriptions (which should be unsurprising) and revising subscriptions, which isn't so obvious to intuition.
New subscriptions are set up by using DELETE or TRUNCATE to empty the table on a subscriber. If you created a new node by copying data from an existing node, it might "seem intuitive" that that data should be kept; that is not the case - the former contents are discarded and the node is populated from scratch.
The OMIT COPY option has the potential to be a large "foot gun" in that it allows the administrator to push replication sets out of sync.
Locking Behaviour
This operation does not require acquiring any locks on the provider node.
On the subscriber node, it will have the effect of locking every table in the replication set. In version 1.2 or later, exclusive locks are acquired at the beginning of the process.
Version Information
This command was introduced in Slony-I 1.0
The OMIT COPY option was introduced in Slony-I 2.0.3.
In Slony-I 2.0.5 the SUBSCRIBE SET command gets submitted directly against the set origin. Prior to this change the SUBSCRIBE SET was submitted against the provider


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Trees in California's Sierra Nevada mountains, including giant sequoias, need sunlight, water and just the right kind of granite to grow, a new study finds.
The findings help explain the surprisingly patchy growth patterns in one of the most productive forests in the world. Visitors to the western Sierra's lower elevations may find themselves abruptly stepping from a lush redwood grove onto sun-lashed bedrock.
"Bedrock can be just as strong as climate in controlling where vegetation does and doesn't appear in the Sierra Nevada," said Jesse Hahm, a geologist at the University of Wyoming and lead study author. "These trees have had thousands and thousands of years to colonize this elevation band in the western Sierra, and the fact they have not done so already suggests there's something about the bedrock," influencing the growth patterns, Hahm said.
The findings also revealed that the soil-covered forest groves were eroding more quickly than nearby bare granite. This suggests the soil is speeding up the weathering processes that wear down the rock.
Plugs of rock
The new research may not surprise anyone with a green thumb. Gardeners know plants require the right combination of soil nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, to thrive.
But until now, scientists didn't realize how strongly rock type controlled forest growth patterns in the Sierras. Though the mountains may look like one massive granite blob, sharp boundaries mark chemical variations within the range. It turns out that even California's famed giant sequoias, the largest living trees on Earth, grow only in soil topping rocks with the right chemical composition, according to the study, published today (Feb. 10) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [Nature's Giants: Tallest Trees on Earth]
"Subtle differences in geochemistry that arose more than 100 million years ago are now affecting life on the mountain range," said Hahm.
Long ago, the molten rock that formed the Sierra Nevada granite was the feeder system for a massive volcanic mountain chain similar to the Andes in South America. The granite's chemical boundaries mark different plutons, or plugs of magma that cooled underground. Each pluton has a slightly different chemical composition. The plutons have been brought to the surface by millions of years of erosion, along with uplift from tectonic forces at the boundary between the North American and Pacific plates.
Hahm and his co-authors linked the pluton boundaries to the Sierra's patchy forest cover by comparing satellite forest cover data with geologic maps and collecting hundreds of rock samples. They focused on the western Sierra between about 6,000 and 8,000 feet (1,800 and 2,400 meters) above sea level, where glaciers did not remove soil during the last ice age.
Shifting climate
While temperature and precipitation are still important factors in controlling the elevation at which the western Sierra's trees grow, the scientists showed that the plutons caused the starts and stops in the forest network.
"What was shocking was that within an area of similar climate, the forest varied wildly," Hahm said. "A natural grove of sequoia was right next door to almost nothing at all."
One key ingredient in the forest patterns was phosphorus, which varied widely between plutons. In some cases, the trees revealed fine-scale pluton boundaries overlooked by earlier geologic mappers, Hahm said.
The "Goldilocks" zone inhabited by western Sierra forests is predicted to move to higher elevations in the coming centuries, as climate change shifts California's temperature and precipitation bands. The new study suggests the trees will also march upward according to where they find the best food.
"As the forests move under changing climate, they will also be restricted by rock type," Hahm said.
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TOOT WHISTLE PLUNK & BOOM is one of my favorite Disney shorts of all time. Point blank. And so, I was elated beyond belief when I found out it was FINALLY out on DVD a couple of years back when it was listed as part of the bonus features on the FANTASIA 2000 DVD. (It is now also available on the Walt Disney Teasures: Rarites set.) Originally released in theaters in 1953 as part of an educational series titled, "Adventures in Music," TOOT was directed by the one and only Ward Kimball. Well, he was listed as co-director with Charles Nichols, but it can be said that it was all Ward. It was cool to note that the Academy honored the short for the Award for Best Short Subject Cartoon of that year. Icing on the cake, I guess.
And what great animated icing! The overall color and character design is pretty much top notch. The short film garners a closer look, so I've had this idea of grabbing some screenshots for you all to check out -- something I've always wanted to do ever since I started this blog. But fear not -- I didn't want to skimp on the quality of the images. Oh no! I'm a generous guy, so I've got nice, big. 800 pixel-wide screenshots of the short for everyone to enjoy. To ease the page loads, they're posted here as thumbnails so you can simply click on the thumbs to download the larger images.
Some background first:
You can check out specifics on TOOT WHISTLE PLUNK & BOOM here, but there were some brilliant minds at work here and oftentimes these incredible talented guys get overlooked. The art director was Ken O'Connor (scene layouts and continuity, mostly), with Vic Haboush as assistant art director to Ken. The major stylist on the film was Thomas Oreb, a "lost legend" and true artistic hero of the time. He was the one responsible for all the fantastic character design on the film. Working in tandem with the characters was background artist and designer, Eyvind Earle. He's often mentioned for his gothic/medieval backgrounds in SLEEPING BEAUTY.
After seeing all the thumbnails of TOOT here, it's interesting to note the color scheme of the entire film. There are a good amount of warm reds and purples that stand out to me, offset by cool blues and indigos. When you look closer at the images, take special note of the flatness of the characters, typical of the early- to mid-50's design of the time. You can thank UPA for spawning a great interest in this limited, yet modern style, as they had that look pretty much cornered. But here, Oreb almost out-UPA'd UPA. I love how the musicians have white lines with no color fill for their heads. Brilliant stuff.
DISCLAIMER: The following images are owned and copyrighted by Disney. I am not making any money off of this presentation, just posting these wonderful images merely for the sake of resource and historical purposes. If you have any questions about all this, please feel free to email me. Thank you.
Onto the images:
And now, for the Special Edition part of this post: the following rare story sketches are by Tom Oreb for TOOT, along with their respective scenes from the final film for comparison. Some great fluidity in the pencil lines here. (And please don't ask me where I got these, as I have so many animation drawings, model sheets, sketches, and resources accumulated throughout the years, it's sad that I can't remember. Sorry.)
The story sketch:
And now the final:
The story sketch:
The story changed a bit and so I found two instances where the scene was similar to the story sketch:
Well, there ya go. If this proves successful, I plan on doing more posts like this, where I'll grab more images than humanly needed from other great animated short films. Up next: MELODY, the first of the "Adventures in Music" series, also from 1953, and also directed by Ward Kimball. Enjoy!
UPDATE: I've now posted 46 wonderful images of MELODY. You can check it out HERE. Hope you like!
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27 comments:
- AnonymousMay 04, 2005 1:54 AM
Those are great! Thanks WardReplyDelete
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing these screenshots with those who really appreciate great design, illustration, and animation.ReplyDelete
Very cool post! I haven't had the chance to read through all of it... but just skimming through it makes me so excited that I can't stand to wait. Thank goodness for long work days! Thanks for another great read! Your posts are always a blast.ReplyDelete
Ward- I'm so glad you posted those screenshots. I'd completely forgotten about that movie. Absolutely gorgeous, of course. What really amazes me is how timeless and powerful the graphic style is. Despite the obvious influences of Klee, Chagall, Picasso, etc... the work was so original! I'll keep coming back to these images for inspiration today!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 04, 2005 6:32 AM
Fantastic!! Even though I'm a diehard full animation fan, I've always loved this short - thanks for posting these shots!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 04, 2005 8:19 AM
Thanks for doing all the hard work so that us slubs can just click and enjoy!
cool post - i especially like the font in "the end" frame. it reminds me of jax - now i'm on the hunt for a jax font. anyone?ReplyDelete
I love watching this one with ava. so fresh and modern-looking (even today... ESPECIALLY today)... I do remember seeing it as a child but now I am really able to appreciate the superb character design, the colors, the humor behind the narration and sound effects. or maybe that's just what being married to an animator has done to me. oh well- that's not too horrible of a side effect, I guess.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 04, 2005 12:39 PM
Oh, wow....you've made the day of a plethora of artists, Ward! I've been thinking about this very short lately, too...the story sketches are fabulous. Thanks a million for doing all the work(no mean feat)!ReplyDelete
thanks for doing the legwork. I don't think I've ever come across anyone who didn't revere this little gem. The Oreb sketches are a great comparison; it's one of the real oddities of TOOT that the finished frames seem pushed much further than the conceptual art, which sure runs counter to most modern productions (Disney's own Hercules and even Beauty and the Beast are loaded with great develpment art that ended up watered down for the final product-Heck, some of the gods in Fantasia's Pastoral Symphony suffered the same fate.)
- AnonymousMay 04, 2005 2:08 PM
Thanks for all the great stills...this is one cartoon I can never get enough of!ReplyDelete
Those interested should also check out "Melody", a similar Kimball film made the same year as"Toot" and also available for viewing on the Fantasia 2000 DVD.
Great job, good writeup, love the cartoon. I've alwase liked this style of animation.ReplyDelete
Fantastic article! I recently discovered this gem, and am still reeling from the sheer creative genius. Thanks for posting the scene comparisons as well. Always great to see rare concept art.ReplyDelete
Definitely looking forward to the next article on Melody.
- AnonymousMay 04, 2005 3:44 PM
magnificent. the stylized look of those egyptians is priceless. and i agree with several of the above comments -- thanks gabillions for taking so much time to present all these cool artifacts as well as you do.ReplyDelete
awesome post Ward. Thanks for taking the time to post that...Good stuff no doubt!ReplyDelete
I really remember this short! It's definitely one of my personal favs (and still the funniest after several years since I first watch it as a child) and I think Ward Kimball has done a brilliant job in bringing such personal works to life. It's kinda sad that shorts like this one are often overlooked because of what they look like. Perhaps they should take a careful look at them, especially the very heart of these shorts.ReplyDelete
Thanks for these wonderful shorts! I'd love to keep them as future referrences!
- AnonymousMay 04, 2005 8:20 PM
I love that short so much! I actually put in the "Fantasia 2000" DVD a lot just to watch the shorts on it! Thank you for the wonderful write-up and all the really great pictures! I would love to see lots more things like this about other shorts!ReplyDelete
Thank you all for your kind words. It was indeed a labor of love, so it's nice to get some welcome feedback.ReplyDelete
And yes, I do plan on posting frame grabs of Ward's other short from '53, MELODY, shortly. It's all a matter of time making all those thumbnails! Sheesh...
I wanted to talk more about how TOOT really influenced me as well as offer some interesting observations, but I felt that the images were far too important to keep you all from seeing them. Maybe I'll do an in-depth critique about both short films sometime later on.
Thanks again, guys!
From one Ward in honor of another!ReplyDelete
(WARDOMATIC,good title in regard to BOTH blogger AND obejct of honor.Cool!)
Thansk for posting those open titles..I've seen this on aDisney owned staiton (KCAL here in Calif) and they NEVER put open credits, just the titles. Thanks!
- AnonymousMay 29, 2005 3:50 PM
I've seen this short and it was good,it had alot of music in it,I also liked the latin dancer.ReplyDelete
The joy of the old Disneyland TV program in the early days (besides Walt's own personal appearances) was the airing of great material like these short subjects. I first saw "Toot, etc." in 54 or 55 on a music-themed episode of Disneyland, along with the latin parrot and probably snippets from "Fantasia" and anything musical that Goofy or the other characters might have done in their cartoons. Odd that a lot of us seem to be thinking about "Toot" again after all this time. I'm also looking to see the Mission to Mars again (remember the Von Braun 3-stage rocket, the solar-powered Mars "umbrella ships," the martian concepts, and the self-contained spacewalk suits for the astronauts?). Great stuff. Thanks, Ward.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 23, 2005 10:55 PM
This a real masterpiece, perhaps the most creative and colorful of all Disney short films.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 29, 2006 10:21 PM
Thanks, Ward. This is great background on a piece of my childhood I never thought I'd find. I grew up with the 45rpm record of TOOT. I loved the abstract style of it although back then I'm sure I didn't know why I liked it so - it was just different than anything else. I think it was an early inspiration for me to study music through my first year of college. Thanks for this touchstone.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 07, 2006 1:07 PM
Isn't the Internet fantastic! For some reason, not obvious even to me,the title 'Toot, Whistle, Plunk & Boom' suddenly came into my mind - I saw the film once, probably about 1954 if released in '53, as a small child. It has obviously stuck in my mind almost forgotten until today. To feed the title into Google to see if anything came up and it led to all this instantly is amazing!ReplyDelete
I certainly did enjoy...
Many thanks.
- AnonymousOctober 23, 2006 7:29 PM
It was very exciting to read about TOOT - I didn't realize that something I had enjoyed so much was so popular with others too. It seems to me I saw this in elementary school in the 1950's, along with the other Disney Ed films which I dearly loved - esp. the Jiminy Cricket safety and health "filmstrips". I wonder what the chances are of them ever coming to DVD.ReplyDelete
I do have a question. When my daughter was a girl during the 1980-90's and the Disney Channel was still playing the original Disney stuff, I recorded a program that included "Toot", "Donald in Mathmagic Land"(where I really learned about Pythagoreus)"Once Upon a Wintertime" and another short about a Boy who is learning about Plants - all I can really think of now is the phrase "pho-to-syn-the-SIS". Why I ever lost/taped over that VHS I will never know, it was marvelous.
The Disney way of using art and animation to inspire learning is amazing. I agree with whoever mentioned the Wonderful World of Disney television programs, there is nothing to compare to the magic.
I guess I am preaching to the choir here. Thank you so much for your Disney/Ward Kimball blog posts.
- AnonymousOctober 22, 2007 3:18 AM
I was hoping to find "Toot" or clips on youtube but a search returns nothing. It would be so cool to watch this again.ReplyDelete
This is more educative than Melody, it not have as many funny scenes as Melody, but is a very good animated short film because shows ina simple and creative way the evoluton of musical instruments. What I really loved of it is that my favorite characters, the Canary Sisters, have more starring than in MelodyReplyDelete


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18 September 2013 | Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau
Business perception in the CRO market over the next five years
The fifth edition of the annual BioSpectrum Asia Pacific clinical research organization (CRO) Survey, which is conducted in association with CyberMedia Research (CMR), yet again identifies the latest trends, issues, perspectives and insights regarding the CRO industry in Asia Pacific (APAC).
While the 2013 survey reveals many hindrances facing the industry, including lack of optimum regulatory efficiency, training of personnel, limited development partnerships between CROs and pharma firms; it also reveals many promising findings, including high willingness to participate in clinical trials among countries like China, India, Australia, Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Philippines and Indonesia. Furthermore, the CRO sector in APAC is witnessing a major boom leveraging on the growth of logistics and supply chain management in the region.
The survey found that despite the current challenging global economic conditions, CROs in the Asia Pacific region are confident about their business growth over the next five years.
According to the fifth BioSpectrum Asia-CMR Asia Pacific Annual Survey of the Clinical and Contract Research Organizations 2013, 23 percent of the respondents are confident about increasing business contracts, 19 percent about an increase in strategic partnerships with BioPharma, while 13 percent of the respondents feel that there would be an increase in the proliferation of niche CROs. As per five percent of the respondents, significant market consolidation will happen over the next five years.
Market opportunities
The survey further reveals that 93 percent of the survey respondents of the fifth BioSpectrum Asia-CMR Asia Pacific Annual Survey of the Clinical and Contract Research Organizations 2013 indicated that the market opportunities would increase for full-service and niche operators. The rest of the respondents opined that market opportunities would remain the same.


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SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
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SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.102 n.10 Pretoria Oct. 2012
The self-destructing private sector is no less a blot on our health system than the crumbling public health system
The South African private healthcare sector is rightly well regarded for its quality of care, including centres of excellence and hotel-style creature comforts. Much is made of the foibles of the public health system, but private care is in no less an efficiency and sustainability crisis.
My daughter recently needed some dental work. Since she has good medical aid coverage through her employer, her dentist suggested that the envisaged extraction of 3 teeth be performed on a short-stay basis under general anaesthesia at the local private hospital. She was admitted and was in the hospital for a total of 3 hours, including 72 minutes in the operating theatre. The total bill amounted to a whopping R16 903.68, of which R9 270.98, not previously disclosed to her, had to come out of her pocket. Ironically, the worst offending tooth - the prime reason for in-hospital treatment - was inadvertently left untouched, and was subsequently extracted in the dentist's practice. The cost breakdown was as follows:
These extraordinarily exorbitant charges for a minor procedure illustrate the conundrum of runaway private healthcare costs that has publicly infuriated Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi, and inspired the recent and unprecedented rebellion by members of Discovery Health Medical Scheme.
Why is private healthcare so outrageously expensive? The medical aid schemes are usually the scapegoat in the public perception, but it is the system that is deeply flawed. Medical aid scheme equivalents operate successfully in appropriately regulated environments in Western Europe. Addressing the US Congress in 2003, Marcia Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine and a fervent campaigner for healthcare reform in the USA, said: 'The underlying problem is that we treat healthcare like a market commodity instead of a social service. Healthcare is targeted not to medical need, but to the ability to pay. Markets are good for many things, but they are not a good way to distribute healthcare.'1 Unlike in the USA, South African medical aid insurance schemes are not investor-owned and are nominally not for profit. However, profit remains a potent driving force behind the high cost of private healthcare on the part of the schemes' administrators, providers and suppliers. Discovery Health Medical Scheme, South Africa's largest medical aid with 2.4 million members, is managed by Discovery Health, a private, investor-owned, for-profit company that derives 90% of its operating profit from its administration fees.
Private hospital facilities are predominantly owned by three major hospital groups, namely Netcare, Medi-Clinic and Life Healthcare, all strongly profit driven and listed on the JSE. Collectively, they own and operate more than three-quarters of all private sector beds and more than 80% of all private sector theatre facilities. Private hospitals primarily serve medical aid beneficiaries and look to the medical schemes to make their profit. Accordingly, their geographical distribution virtually mirrors that of medical aid scheme beneficiaries. The monopolistic configuration of the hospital industry means that many medical schemes are individually not well placed to negotiate competitive rates for hospital services. Schemes are not allowed, in terms of a 2004 ruling by the Competition Commissioner, to negotiate collectively for competitive rates. Competition regulators clearly treat healthcare as a commodity governed by free-market rules. Reference price lists for medical service providers are therefore proscribed, giving them free rein to charge what the market will bear. Private hospital costs accounted for 40.5% of healthcare benefits in the medical scheme risk pool in 2010.
The same applies to the procurement of pharmaceuticals, which accounted for 14.7% of medical aid disbursements in 2010 according to the Council for Medical Schemes, which the state is able to purchase at much lower cost for the public sector. As Discovery Heath CEO Jonathan Broomberg told the Sunday Independent of15 July 2012, 'new drugs and new technology often come onto the market at prices 5 or 10 times higher than the older technologies they are replacing'. Pharmaceutical pricing is complex, and prices can vary greatly between and within countries depending largely on the ability to bargain. Thus the same medicines are much cheaper in Canada than in the USA, whose private sector and competition regulations are similar to ours. The unregulated and unco-ordinated acquisition of sophisticated and highly expensive equipment contributes to inefficient use, and is ultimately paid for by the medical aids. In some cases, South Africa has a higher density of such equipment per population served than OECD countries.
The other major contributor to cost escalation is the fee-for-service reimbursement system for practitioners. With reference to South Africa, Bloomberg and Price have written that 'The "information gap" between doctors and their patients allows doctors to induce demand for their services. This leads to the potential for doctors to increase the supply of services when they stand to gain financially from doing so. There is extensive international evidence, at both national and micro levels, of the link between increased utilisation and the fee-for-service payment system.'2 Fee-for-service permits fraud in the form of over-claiming, false claims, tariff manipulation and over-servicing. These malpractices accounted for 76.2% of fraud committed by service providers in a KPMG Anti-Fraud Survey reported in the Sunday Independent cited above.
No wonder then that medical aid contributions have been increasing far above inflation at the same time as benefits have been progressively trimmed. With National Health Insurance apparently still at least 25 years away from full implementation, there is clearly an urgent need for a game plan to rescue the private sector from its self-destructive path.
Daniel J Ncayiyana
1. Angell M. http://www.pnhp.org/facts/statement_of_dr_marcia_angell_introducing_the_us_national_health_ insurance_act.php (accessed 19 September 2012). [ Links ]
2. Bloomberg J, Price MR. The impact of the fee-for-service reimbursement system on the utilisation of health services. Part I. A review ofthe determinants of doctors' practice patterns. S Afr Med J 1990;78(3):130-132. [ Links ]


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Authorities considered Vito Rizzuto the head of Canada's most powerful criminal organization.
Rizzuto, the reputed head of the Montreal Mafia, died of natural causes early Monday at age 67.
"Rizzuto was born in Sicily into a Sicilian gangster clan," said journalist and author, Adrian Humphreys. "He emigrated to Canada at the age of 8 and together with his father, he built an awesome criminal empire."
Humphreys researched the Rizzuto family for his book "The Sixth Family: The Collapse of the New York Mafia and the Rise of Vito Rizzuto."
"Montreal used to be like a branch plant of the New York mafia, the Bonanno family," Humphreys said. "But (the Rizzuto) family managed to eclipse all the New York mobsters in terms of its geographic stretch, in terms of its dollar value, in terms of its manpower. (Rizzuto) became a global super boss — the biggest name in Canadian crime and one of the biggest mafia bosses on the world stage."
According to Humphreys, the family did a big business in drug trafficking.
"The bones of the family was built on heroin. They were one of the early mafia families to really have a foray into South America," Humphreys said. "They went from heroin to cocaine — drug trafficking was certainly their bread and butter."
In 2007, Rizzuto pleaded guilty to racketeering charges related to three Mafia killings in New York City in 1981. He spent five years in Colorado's Florence Supermax prison before returning to Canada in October 2012. While he was in prison, his once-dominant empire faltered.
"The mafia is a dangerous game," Humphreys said. "He built up so many enemies and created such resentment and people saw so much of an opportunity with him off the street that he was under attack."
Rizzuto's eldest son, Nicolo Jr., was killed in broad daylight in December 2009. In November 2010, Rizzuto's father, Nicolo Sr., was shot and killed as he prepared to sit down to dinner. So the death of Vito Rizzuto this week leaves a power vacuum.
"This is going to be the tricky part," Humphreys said. "His organization was so large. And it takes a tremendous skill set to hold the reigns of that. I don't think any one man can fill his shoes."
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