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The High Line has been open for a bit now and it is the object of everyone's desire. It has created buzz in the design professions for its innovation and execution and the real estate business which hopes to capitalize there. But it also has a gravitational pull, attracting anyone who comes into physical or professional proximity.
It is also important as the first significant built work of Field Operations, a startling fact given how heavily James Corner and his cronies have influenced and expanded the field of Landscape Architecture in recent decades with their brilliant writings and investigations. And there are some amazing things about it- the expensive details of weathered steel and glass rails and ipe decking and furniture are well-executed. The plantings by Piet Oudulf are complex and beautiful, artfully composed scenes that fade and flower throughout the seasons. And for my money, the precast concrete paver details that wells up from the ground plane and in then dives into the gravel planting beds is brilliant- suggestive without being metaphorical, expressive without ostentation. That said, the High Line is also a tremendously cynical take on the practice of landscape design and a guileful ruse by James Corner given his previous pedantry regarding authenticity and ecology.
The most brilliant move in the entire park is the mere premise of a public space there. Someone many years ago had the temerity to recognize the character of the place, producing an eventual groundswell of support to create a park there that found a voice when Robert Hammond and Joshua David put their heads together and started the Friends of the High Line. Joel Sternfeld helped this cause immesurably with his photo series highlighting the stark beauty of the High Line and the unique perspective of the city found there. However, the most prominent experience that the High Line now offers is now some beautiful and expensive paving and planting details and views of prominent and expensive buildings, restaurants, and bars. The High Line is open for business- Come On In! (unless you have a dog, a bike, want to jog, plant something, cut a flower, sell something, ask for money, smoke, etc.- only approved and prescribed uses will be permitted. Thank you.) So it's not a democratic and open space, but then, this is New York City, where all parks are walled off and playgrounds are surrounded by 16′ chain link fencing. No, the real sinister significance of the High Line is the fact that it is the newest and most prominent example of two decades of projects throughout the city where the social and industrial capital built up in the city over the centuries is being cashed in.
Field Operations tells us that the design is: "Inspired by the melancholoic, found beauty of the High Line where nature has reclaimed a once-vital piece of urban infrastructure, the design team aims to re-fit this industrial conveyance into a post-industrial instrument of leisure." Now, despite the apparent attempts to confuse us by hyphenating refit, it is evident that in actuality the design team took a photo of the High Line, photoshopped it to make it more palatable to a larger and richer constituency, and then sold it. It is less the Brooklyn Bridge Promenade and more Battery Park City. This is landscape as economic generator- selling the image of something in order to create economic investment from hotels, restaurants, and high-end real estate. Mayor Bloomberg has proudly proclaimed as as much. To wit, the last experience on the High Line is an eye level view of a billboard and the chance to ponder buying Armani's new style based on the dimpled-ness and abdominal definition of their current model.
And this is not necessarily a bad thing; pragmatically it is a good way to get a bigger design fee and draw attention, get rich constituents on your sid, and bag a new commission. The design stops the processes that were taking place by intervening, ossifying those processes, killing them to make a beautiful image, then selling it. And the place is left devoid of authenticity. One could debate the merits of this approach (though it is not debatable that this is the most common and acceptable approach for commoditizing our post-industrial landscapes) but the real problem here is that Field Operations' concept is disingenuous because they claim authenticity: "the singular linear experience of the new High Line landscape is marked by slowness, distraction, and an otherworldliness that preserves the strange wild character of the High Line…" In fact, they undermine that very character, capture an image of it, and sell it. Left behind is not a wild place that allows people access but a novelty park that is a boon to local real estate and restaurant owners with a huge maintenance budget and local alliances all pledged to maintain the "wild" look and keep unwanted users away.
And so the bell tolls for Field Operations with the realization of this cynical and disingenuous public space, and another unique space in New York City is polished up and postcard-ready. The details are lovely, and the very fact of its existence is novel and appreciable, but the concept is recycled from 1980's landscape design and the bombastic claims of its designer are a facade. The supposedly unique character of the High Line has been stultified and the current cultural meme, the photoshopping of the landscape, continues.


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sabine beckert needed a new stationery design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 8 designs submitted by 3 freelance designers.
Fun, colourful design, that reflects the fun and positiv stories I am covering for the german TV network ProSieben. Could reflect a "Sex in the City" lifestyle - fashionable and hip.
Sabine Beckert Productions
Businesscard and stationary to give out to customers and to possible characters for filming, to catch their attention and interest.
- Item 1...I like to have the coulour purple, with maybe one other coulour. Dots could be good or round shapes. Possibly a cartoon character of a long legged girl with a TV camera in hand. (Just as idea)
- Item 1...something too conservativ and stiff looking.

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Interested in learning Smalltalk? A new web TV site can walk you through it. Smalltalk Television teaches basic Smalltalk by having people use the language to create a website.
According to Smalltalk Television's Toronto-based host Chris Cunnington, "Smalltalk has a different enough paradigm for people to be stumped when they look at the dated and hard-to-find books on the language. Smalltalk Television is meant to be more of a multimedia and immersive experience -- with the user downloading the free software, watching the movies, reading the descriptions, trying the code examples, and asking questions on the Google Group. Smalltalk is different enough from functional programming that a person needs to be hemmed in by a few discoveries before they can have a pop moment, and feel the language is theirs."
A few years ago, Cunnington helmed the Toronto Smalltalk Users Group, "with the aim of getting people to teach me Smalltalk. I had some books, but was having no luck. I fell under the spell of the Seaside web framework for the Squeak, open-source, version of Smalltalk. I decided at that time to create a web host for Seaside Smalltalk images." The idea for Smalltalk Television evolved from there.
There are lots of excellent Smalltalk programmers in the world, and I'm not in that rank," Cunnington says, "Smalltalk Television is not for people who want to spend a lot of time talking about patterns. The idea is to introduce something different by getting people to build something they are familiar with already -- web sites. There are almost no good beginners' resources for Smalltalk, so I thought I'd try and create a start up around that idea. If people want enterprise level online hosting, then they can graduate from my site and go to Cincom's recently opened Web Velocity."


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This is the main page for Community testing meeting minutes held in 2008-2009. We usually hold meetings on IRC, in irc.freenode.net on the #olpc-meeting channel at Thursdays at 2300UTC. Meetings were hosted by Mchua and last for an hour.
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Our challenge – Eradicate child poverty
June 12, 2011 7 Comments
"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."
Nelson Mandela, (1918 – ) First South African President and Inspirational Leader
There are times when you watch something on television so profound that it just pulls at your inner being. On 7th June, something very similar happened. I usually record my television programmes and watch them as I get time but on this particular occasion, I was browsing and came across BBC's programme, Poor Kids.
For readers outside the UK, who cannot view the programme on BBC iplayer, please visit Jezza Neuman's blog, titled Poor Kids: A child's view of growing up in poverty
Journalists often get slated for all sorts of reasons but here was proof of true journalism and its power to present facts in an innovative way through poor children's eyes and the effects of poverty on children, as they view them. The programme's innovative approach of presenting key facts all through the programme and the children's viewpoint was not only moving but heart wrenching. How could we as a society, let this happen?
I usually blog on a variety of topics within business/IT management and technology, while occasionally covering topics that I feel I should cover, such as Nurturing future IT Professionals and leaders and a ComputerWeekly reader's response, Boring' label shows industry is ignorant about GCSE ICT.
This time it was different, compared to the ones above. Having witnessed the power of individual's in the Middle East, I want to do something about it and play my part, in eradicating child poverty, from the UK and indeed globally. Over many years, since I was a kid, I have heard from successive governments and organisations such as Unicef that they have these wonderful five, ten, twenty year plans to eradicate child poverty, yet having grown up listening to these promises, the fact is that child poverty still exists. I cannot eradicate child poverty on my own but if enough people raise their voice against it, even as individuals, it will happen. It is unacceptable to me as a Brit to have child poverty within the UK, in 2011. What should we do to eradicate child poverty? I present my answer below followed by facts that support my hypothesis. My hope is that other bloggers, social media groups and charities can join me in 'Action' rather than compiling mere documents, strategies and Acts that have no effect on child poverty. The floor is yours, as they say….
The simple plan to eradicate child poverty (within the UK):
- International aid: One of my readers, found it quite ironic that, "We spend millions of public money on the olympic games when we cannot pay for families wo are on the bread line (or below) to live in decent housing stock". Anyway, we have to reduce International aid, to countries such as Pakistan (£600 million in 2010/11). This cannot be justified when 3.5 million UK children suffer from child poverty. I recognise and accept the UK's role to support other nations that need our support (My parents were from Pakistan). I cannot justify that aid when I am not shown any accountability as a UK citizen on where and how that money is spent (the UK government is knowledgeable about the rampant corruption among government officials). Especially, when their PM orders a custom built Range Rover and Rolls Royce Phantom (£800k) & pays no tax on any income for that year and one of their richest citizens (who is also an ex PM and current minister), pays only Rs 5000 (£50) in taxes annually (Source ARY News Channel report, Off the record programme on YouTube, titled – Kashif Abbasi, Off the Record, No Tax from Pakistan leaders – IN URDU UNFORTUNATELY). This is while child poverty within Pakistan is probably in figures that would eclipse UK figures!
- School Uniform: As highlighted by the programme, the child was wearing his sister's shirt as his family could not afford the school uniform. This opened the floodgates for ridicule by fellow pupils. School uniform in schools is quite expensive and ranges from approx £15 – £70). Poor families cannot afford these costs and are sometimes reluctant to admit that they cannot afford them. Let's help these families to keep their 'self-respect' by abolishing individual School uniforms across the UK, replaced by a national standardised school uniform available at a standard cost across the country.
- Child Vouchers: In addition to the school uniform suggestion above, redistribute a proportionate amount of the International aid (or all of it) in child care vouchers for school uniforms (if the suggestion above is not acceptable) and/or clothes. These vouchers can only be used for clothes.
- School curriculum: The national school curriculum, although standardised is taught with a great deal of variety and subject availability, across the UK. Some schools are better than others and are graded every 5 years approximately. Leadership, inspirational and aspirational aspects are alluded to by some schools, while in others there is a severe lack of these aspects. In order for these schools to produce the future of our country, these three elements need to be incorporated within the curriculum. Curriculum and subject availability standards need to be taught and raised to those expected from private schools. Teachers salaries need to be raised as currently the best pupils end up in the private and public sector and the teaching profession is only chosen by either very special individuals who have aspired to become teachers or who cannot get many other jobs.
- After school classes: These should be available on a 'needs' basis, regardless of whether one student requires assistance or whether many do. Poorer students are usually the ones that need additional support but additional support for these children, is currently unavailable.
- University fees: Many students from poorer or middle class backgrounds will not go to university if they have to pay fees. We need to support our country by producing the people required to manage our country in the future. We will experience extensive brain drain, as we lose our students to foreign universities, after all, if university fees have to be paid, students may choose to go abroad and never return! According to the BBC, "History professor Robert Gildea (Oxford university) said the changes to university funding were "reckless, incoherent and incompetent".Professor Gildea warned the changes would turn the university system into a "red carpet for the rich" which would take Oxford "back to Brideshead".
- Employment opportunities: Poorer children's parents need to be supported by the wider community and that cannot be done by government alone. A quota system should be created for every organisation (over a certain size), where priority MUST be given to 'poorer families/unemployed' including the chance to cross train.
We, as a society, have become experts at compiling documents on child poverty, that run into hundreds of pages that are either discussed until no more discussion can happen and then both the document and the will of the people and organisations to orchestrate and meet the objective of eradicating child poverty, just dies. When I was researching this article, I have come across child poverty acts and strategies (View links at the end of the post) written by the public sector (UK Govt) and charities, yet I remain convinced that none of these will make an aorta of difference. The reason, I am convinced is backed by facts and the fact that once government is involved, they are experts at writing reports and lack the will for action, due to their bureaucracy.
Tom Peters, sums up very well the problem of inertia. "The magnitude of potential simplification is ….staggering.
Jim Champy, co-author along with Michael Hammer of the bible on reengineering (titled Reengineering the corporation), keeps executive audiences enthralled as he recounts tale after tale after horrid tale of critical business processes gone to flab. Consider a process for verifying an insurance claim. It takes 23 working days. Yet when Champy looks inside with an electron microscope, he discovers that, literally, 17 minutes of actual work are performed. The rest is all about scraps of paper flying (crawling is more like it) from here to there. Sitting on Desks. Unnecessary complications to forms to be filled out. And initialled. And initialled again. And so on.
Yes, it is that bad.
23 days.
17 minutes". Excerpt from Re-Imagine, Tom Peters, page 156
Facts courtesy of BBC programme, Poor Kids
- 3.5 million children live in poverty within the UK.
- Out of 12 Rich countries studied, kids in the UK have the lowest chance of escaping poverty.
- In November 2010, the UK came 18th out of 22 European countries ranked by Unicef for Child Poverty. Only Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and Italy were lower.
- Child poverty under current policies is set to rise 11% in the next 3 years.
- Poor children are 2½ times more likely to suffer chronic illness.
- 85% of children living in damp flats suffer breathing problems.
- 47% of children with asthma are from the poorest 10% of families.
- Poor kids are 5 times less likely to have access to a safe outdoor play space than rich kids.
- Credit Interest and higher fuel charges cost poor families an extra £1,280 per year.
- Poor Kids director Jezza Neumann on the lack of hope for the children he spoke to: "I believe so many of the children we met while making the film could go on to great things in life, if given the right chances."
- Save the Children, who worked with the makers of Poor Kids, warns the number of children living in poverty is expected to rise over the next couple of years.
- Recent research by the OECD revealed that children growing up in poverty in the UK are the least likely to be able to escape deprivation compared to children in other rich countries.
Facts, courtesy of Time Magazine, 16/5/11 and how they relate to child poverty and Education:
- By the age of 3, a poorer child tends to lag his wealthier equivalent in terms of personal development by 12 months.
- At 18, the rich kid, who, like a mere 7% of Briton's, has enjoyed the benefits of a private education, is 6 times as likely to go to university and 55 times as likely to get into Oxford or Cambridge.
- More than 60% of the 29 Ministers around the Cabinet table were privately educated, and as many as 7 in 10 Ministers are alumni of Oxford or Cambridge.
I have included below, a comment that highlights the reality of child poverty by covering a real situation where government guidelines fail children. Similar situations can happen for many reasons including the fact that parents maybe on the threshold of poverty but may not actually declare that to the authorities, as they may for example, be in denial as a result of for example, a recent redundancy or job loss.
A comment from Jezza Neumann's blog: At 18:47 7th Jun 2011, Boilerbill wrote:
"When I was a teacher in a large school in South Bristol, there was one 11 year old girl in my tutor group who was always late. One day, on her return to school after one of her rare weeks off (on reflection I should have noticed that she was off for a week, never for the odd day, but there was always a letter), she said to me, "My Dad loves me really." By chance a social worker was talking to the Head of Year. I told her about this rather strange comment. She said that she would see what she could find out.
The result. As I knew already, this girl walk across a mile of derelict ground to get to school. But every morning she took her 3 younger siblings to their Primary School – they were always on time in clean clothing. But it turned out that at home the girl would be given money every day to cook for and feed the family. If the meal wasn't ready when her parents wanted feeding she got beaten (explains the absences). The children all ended up in care.
But my point is that this problem had remained hidden. The primary school (which had a good record at identifying children at risk) didn't notice any particular problem. When the girl was in my school she was hard working in lessons, showing none of the indicators we had been asked to look out for. She was skilled at covering up what was happening in her life.
How do you find these children? They are all around us".
I would like to end this post with a poem by Khalil Gibran, titled – Your Children are not your children:
Your Children are not Your Children
They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
Further Info
UK Department for Work and Pensions – Child poverty policy
UK Department for Education – Child Poverty Strategy
UK Department for Education – A new approach to child poverty – Tackling the causes of disadvantage and transforming families lives
UK Legislation.gov.uk – Child poverty Act 2010
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
Joseph Rowntree Foundation – Education and poverty in the spending review
BBC News – Main site for Education and family
BBC News – Education and family – Q&A University funding
BBC News – Education and family – Oxford dons vote against Willets
BBC News – Education and family – Oxford dons declare 'No confidence' in Willets
BBC News – Education and family – MPs warn over tuition fees funding gap
National Children's Bureau (NCB) – Ending child poverty – Making it happen
End Child Poverty.org – Poverty in a land of plenty – Five years on
Action for Children – Child poverty
The Guardian – Severe poverty affects 1.6 million children, charity claims
Gazzette Live – Charity calls for action on child poverty within the UK
Joseph Rowntree Foundation – Can current policy end child poverty in Britain by 2020?
Child Poverty Action Group – Ending Child Poverty – A manifesto for success
Related articles
- Welsh Liberal Democrats commit to eradicating child poverty (rhystaylor.wordpress.com)
- Child poverty plan to be unveiled (bbc.co.uk)
- Ministers ignoring Child Poverty Act, warn family campaigners (guardian.co.uk)
- Our aid policy must focus on link between poverty and disease | Charles Ebikeme (guardian.co.uk)
- What children think and feel about growing up poor (alisonsgypt.wordpress.com)
- Child poverty figures fell in UK (bbc.co.uk)
- Welfare change to help child poor (bbc.co.uk)


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Twelve years ago, I was a relatively well-known writer, having dedicated the past thirty years of my life to the world of literature. One of my books would bring about a big change in my life, a novel for young people entitled Cucho , which won a prestigious literary prize.
But back in 2001 my life was moving along on an even keel. I was writing for various magazines, giving conferences and looking after my family (I have nine children, twenty-one grandchildren and one great grandchild). Then one day I received a letter from Rasami Krisanamis, a professor of Spanish at the University of Chulalonghorn, in Bangkok. She asked me for permission to translated Cucho into Thailandese, but said she couldn't pay me any author's rights since she planned to use the money raised from the book for various non-profit educational projects.
About a year later, Rasami made a trip to Spain to brush up on her Spanish. When we met, she suggested I make a trip to Thailand to give a conference for Spanish teachers there. I tried to refuse but it was useless, since Rasami is an true force of nature. A Buddhist, she belong to a very strict sect, the Santi Asoke, and is determined to do as much good in the world as possible. Having won my consent, she organized the trip to Thailand for me and my wife Marisa. There I met the person who would have such an enormous influence on my future and that of my whole family, Fr. Alfonso de Juan, with whom Rasami works closely because, as she says, to do good you don't have to belong to the same faith.
Fr. Alfonso, a Jesuit missionary, has spent more than forty years in Thailand. For much of that time he provided assistance to refugee camps with 400,000 Cambodians and boat people from Vietnam. But when I met him, he was now dedicating his energies to fighting the plague of child prostitution.
The young girls caught up in this "sex industry" are usually orphans or come from broken families. Often the mother has died of AIDS and the girl is living with the grandmother, who lets herself be fooled by the agents seeking young girls. Fr. Alonso realized that the solution lay in providing scholarships for the girls to get a basic education that would enable them to find a job and learn the Thailandese language, since many of them come from the poorest areas of the country near the Cambodian border. He relies on a network of teachers, doctors and nurses to identify young girls in the greatest danger of being drawn into this nefarious industry, and provides them with a scholarship of a hundred euros. In Thailand, this amount covers an entire year of schooling, along with clothes, food and everything needed so as not to be forced to lose one's dignity as a human being.
On that first trip to Thailand, I had a chance to speak with a fourteen year old girl. Her name was Ama. She had tried to burn down the brothel in which she was being held. When the police came and asked her why she did it, she said: "I would be happy to die in a fire." The woman who brought Ama to the city told her that she would find a good job for her there. When Ama refused to cooperate they beat her until she couldn't walk. That's when she tried to burn the whole building down.
A key moment during that first visit was when Fr. Alfonso told me how happy he was that Iberia has just agreed to give a scholarship for one girl. I reacted a bit skeptically, saying that this seemed a drop in the bucket compared to such a widespread problem. But he told me vigorously: "At least, one." That phrase would eventually become our family's motto.
Back in Spain, during a conference in Bilbao I had the opportunity to speak about the scourge of child prostitution in Thailand and Fr. Alfonso's work. Although it was not at all my intention, at the end of the event people came up to me and gave me 3,000 euros for Fr. Alfonso. Encouraged by this response, I wrote an article for a woman's magazine about scholarships for young girls in Thailand at risk, and donations started pouring in.
It was at that point that we decided to set up the foundation Somos Uno . All of my children are involved in running this not-for-profit NGO. They view the project as their own, and help out in a variety of ways, from organizing fund-raising events to looking after the web page and sending out newsletters to donors.
Up to now we have raised over a million euros. This has enabled Fr. Alfonso to grant scholarship to more than a thousand girls, of whom over a hundred are now studying at the University.
I end with a recent email from my Buddhist friend Rasami. "With the money raised from selling some of your books, I have been able to give scholarships to three impoverished girls. They get up each morning at 4.30 to work for an hour before school helping to draw sap from rubber trees. One of them had beautiful black hair down to her waist that she cut off and sold for a hundred euros to get money for her school uniform and books. When I told her she now had a scholarship that would enable her to finish high school she couldn't believe it and cried for joy. She is a beautiful young girl whose parents are dead and who lives with her grandmother."
José Luis Olaizola and his wife Marisa speak about their family's efforts to help young girls in Thailand (5 minute video in Spanish).


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Aureus Medical Group (web: aureuslocumtenens.com), a national leader in healthcare staffing, including Physician jobs, has announced that it will participate as an exhibitor at the CareerMD Career Fair to be held Wednesday, August 19, 2015 in Kansas City, MO.
CareerMD Career Fairs provide employers with an opportunity to meet job-seeking residents and fellows in a comfortable, relaxed setting.
Representatives from Aureus Medical's physician division will be available to speak with attendees about its full range of staffing services, including job opportunities and medical careers in the locum tenens physician field. Individuals interested in becoming a locum tenens physician are encouraged to visit Aureus Medical's booth. Attendees are invited to register for a raffle prize.
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Parts of ancient Mars may have been wet for a billion years longer than scientists previously thought, a new study of images of the red planet's surface suggests.
Along with Earth and the other inner planets of our solar system, Mars formed about 4.5 billion years ago. Scientists have long known that flowing water formed many of the features seen on Mars today, but previous studies suggested that water runoff from precipitation had ceased after the first billion years of Mars' history, called the Noachian Epoch.
But one team of scientists thinks these rains and floods persisted into more recent — geologically speaking — periods in Mars' history.
Catherine Weitz, a senior scientist with Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz., and her colleagues examined close-up images of the plains surrounding the huge Valles Marineris canyon system taken by the HiRISE instrument aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (currently still circling the planet). HiRISE can resolve features as small as 3 feet (1 meter) in diameter.
Weitz and her team noticed that light-toned layered deposits in the plains around Valles Marineris had different features from those inside the canyon; these features suggested that water continued to flow on a large scale in these plans after the Noachian, into the Hesperian epoch of Mars, until about 3.7 billion to 3 billion years ago. Phenomena associated with flowing water are called fluvial processes.
"This was a big surprise because no one thought we'd be seeing these extensive fluvial systems in the plains all around Valles Marineris that were formed during the Hesperian Era," Weitz said. "Everyone thought that by then the climate had pretty much dried out."
Another recent study suggested that periods of rain and flooding on Mars were longer in duration, not just short bursts, as had previously been thought.
The deposits that Weitz and her team observed outside the canyon showed "a lot of variations in brightness, color and erosional properties that we don't see for light-toned deposits inside Valles Marineris," Weitz said. "This suggests that the processes that created the deposits outside Valles Marineris were different from those operating inside."
Two locations near the canyon had inverted channels, which, on Earth, form when sediment deposits in a streambed over time. After the stream dries up, the softer terrain surrounding the streambed erodes away, leaving the harder, cemented stream sediments forming a ridge above the surrounding terrain.
Other explanations for the deposits, such as explosive volcanism and wind deposition, can't be ruled out, Weitz said, but the distinctiveness of the features suggests a fluvial origin, she added.
"What we're seeing tells us that this light-toned layering on the plains was associated with fluvial activity that wasn't occurring just in little pockets over very brief episodes, but rather on a much larger scale for sustained time periods," she added. "For some reason, there was precipitation around Valles Marineris that allowed these systems to form out on the plains."
The details of the study are posted online in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
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The trailer gives away pretty much the whole bulk of the story — maybe they're assuming that it's one we're already familiar with — and you can see plenty of homages to both the Stephen King novel and the 1976 film version. 2013's Carrie (Chloë Grace Moretz) wears a very similar prom dress to her seventies counterpart and, thank god, we get to hear Julianne Moore mutter the hysterical and terrifying "They're going to laugh at you. They're all going to laugh at you."
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Harley-Davidson has instructed its dealers not to talk about how sales have been throughout the recession, but the news that 36 dealerships have closed in the past year, and more closures are expected in 2011, speaks for itself on how sales have been. On a conference call with analysts CFO John Olin said, "This contraction was expected and in-line with our desire to modestly consolidate our U.S. dealer network in response to lower overall volume since the economic downturn took hold," which is a very glossed over way of saying that American brand has become too bloated over the past years, and needs to go on a diet.
Harley-Davidson expects to ship between 221,000 & 228,000 motorcycles worldwide in 2011, which is up 8% over last year's figure, but still pales in comparison to the numbers the Milwaukee brand was posting before the economic collapse (303,479 in 2008). Since 2006, sales at Harley-Davdison have continued to slide, but the most dramatic affect was in 2010, where sales were down 30% compared to before the recession (over 36% in the domestic market).


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Newbie ? Part II - now i'm REALLY confused
I tried to go at it again tonight using the temperature info y'all gave me last night. I was making some Challa bread, and it didn't even rise at all! It's like there was no yeast in there at all!! This is the second night in a row like this.....
I was so frustrated, so I proofed the Instant Yeast and a packet of Active Dry Yeast that was in the cabinet to see how it would compare. I proofed them in warm water, 1 teaspoon of sugar, and 2 teaspoons of yeast. Suprisingly, they both rose just fine!!
That means the instant yeast was working just fine, so how the hell did it not work in the CHalla bread I was making?
Ingredients used for the Challa:
Water - 3/4 cup + a little added until the consistancy was right
Yeast - 3/4 teaspoon
Sugar - 1/4 cup
Oil - 1/4 cup
Salt - 1/2 Tablespoon
Eggs - 2 large
Flour - 4 1/4 cups
Steps used:
1. Combined all ingredients except eggs and flour.
2. Stir together
3. Add eggs and whisk
4. Slowly add flour
5. Knead
6. Put dough ball in greased bowl and cover. Let rise until puffy (almost doubled).
7. Punch down, cover, and let rise for 1/2 hour.
8. Cut into thirds, braid, egg wash, and let rise for 30 minutes.
9. Bake 375 for 30-40 minutes.
Obviously, I never got past Step 6 because the dang thing never rose! I used the Rule of 240 as taught last night for the water and dough temperatures.
I am so confused. How could this possibly be so unpredictable and difficult?
I don't want to quit this early in the game, but I have no way to narrow down any of the variables because I don't know which ones are correct and which are incorrect.
Any help would be appreciated........sigh.


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Announced December 4, 2008
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Billings Symphony Orchestra and Chorale, $10,000
To support a concert and related outreach activities featuring violinist Chee-Yun Kim. Kim will perform Beethoven's Violin Concerto at the historic Alberta Bair Theater, as well as participate in lecture demonstrations for Billings-area middle and high school students.
Catskill Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
To support a concert and accompanying outreach programs featuring pianist Andrew Russo. Project activities also will include a subsidized ticketing program that will benefit school children and older adults.
Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Port Charlotte, FL, $10,000
To support a performance featuring flutist Lady Jeanne Galway. Galway will join the symphony for its Women's History Month performance, Celebrating Women, which will also feature female composers.
Fort Smith Symphony, $10,000
To support EARQUAKE!, a series of concerts targeting elementary school students. The concerts will incorporate a full orchestra, performances by the Western Arkansas Ballet, video projection, and audience participation. Cellist Stephanie Lemoine will be the featured musician.
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Lit with bright overheard fluorescents and littered with massive wooden crates the size of backyard sheds, GM's R&D garage feels less like a hangout for grease monkeys and more like a Hollywood sound stage. The sleek, pod-shaped vehicles dotting the floor could be movie props. – or perhaps leftovers from Blade Runner or Total Recall, maybe. Until they sit up, almost silently, and begin moving. On two wheels no less.
The EN-V concept vehicle, which originally debuted in Shangai all the way back in 2010, represents GM's vision of what the car may morph into by 2030. But don't let the far-flung date fool you; all the technology exists to build the EN-V today, exactly as it looks. Quite unlike many other concepts that have done their time under the scorching lights at trade shows, the EN-V is far from dead or forgotten nearly two years later. It's a vehicle waiting for its city.
Meet the all-knowing car
Though the EN-V's balanced two-wheel operation no doubt draws crowds, it may be the least radical aspect of a design far deeper than its carbon fiber skin. The car, designer Chris Borroni-Bird is quick to point out, could just as well have three or four wheels. The magic lies in the parts you can't see — it's a computer on wheels.
EN-V stands for Electric Networked Vehicle. Rather than working toward a vehicle that could run longer, faster or be built cheaper, GM focused on making the EN-V smarter through connectivity, and the rest fell into place.
The shape of a traditional car — electric or gasoline-powered — ends up being dictated largely by what needs to happen when it crashes. A motor and wheels seem to leave plenty of room for what goes around them, but throw in crash zones, bumpers, and all the other trimmings of safety in the modern world, and what seemed like a blank slate ends up looking pretty much like, well, every other car on the road.
GM threw those conditions out for the EN-V, not because it will never see the light of real city streets, but because the streets it will someday roam will be crash free. In theory, at least.
Through a sophisticated array of sensors and car-to-car communication, the EN-V should essentially be uncrashable. Besides always knowing where it is in a city, the car should more importantly know where every other nearby car is, with backup sensors for other obstructions — like pedestrians and bicyclists. Using short-range radios that can communicate with vehicles blocks away, the EN-V can keep tabs on all the networked cars around it, braking before a T-bone at the next light, speeding up to avoid a rear-end collision, or changing lanes to make room for another car entering the flow of traffic.
Stop worrying about accidents, and suddenly you can stop building a car around the worst-case scenario. And if you stop building a car around the worst case scenario, it gets smaller and lighter. Make a car smaller and lighter, and the batteries will carry it further. The benefits of a networked vehicle in a networked city trickle down into every aspect of its design.
Why not public transportation?
While many futurists envision future metropolises full of maglev trains, subways and other public transportation, GM (perhaps not surprisingly) still sees a place for cars in future cities. After all, despite the overwhelming cost and hassle of keeping one in urban areas, city dwellers still go out of their ways to keep four wheels around.
"You have to ask the question: Why does everyone want to be in a car when everyone is complaining about parking and congestion, gridlock and so forth?" Borroni-Bird points out. "What does the car provide that alternatives like the bus or the train or walking or cycling don't provide?"
GM's answer: The freedom to choose where you go, when you go, with who you go. The ability to carry stuff. To feel protected from the weather. To feel safe and secure. "Those are attributes of a car that we wanted to preserve," Borroni-Bird says. "But we wanted to reduce some of the side effects of the car in an urban environment."
The EN-V could potentially afford owners all the freedom of a car in the city, without the hair-pulling frustration of parking, fighting traffic, or even fueling up.
Besides the obvious safety benefits of car-to-car communication, a truly networked car has other perks as well. Using GPS to navigate streets and the sensor network to avoid accidents on them, the EN-V could drive autonomously without thousands of dollars in sensors, like other prototype autonomous cars. The LIDAR equipment on DARPA's Urban Challenge competitors, for instance, is both enormous and expensive. Scaling it back to deal with either of those problems reduces accuracy — not something you want to skimp on when you're relying on it to safely pilot a ton of rolling steel. By contrast, the EN-V uses just an acoustic distance sensor and an inexpensive 2D camera, with car-to-car data and GPS to fill in the gaps. Just hop in, tell it where you want to go, and you're rolling.
Small size has its own perks. With the space saved by eliminating crash zones, you can park three of EN-Vs in the same spot it would take to fit one full-size car, and the two-wheeled design allows it to spin 360 degrees in place to navigate into minuscule spaces even a Mini driver would roll right by. Not that you would need to look for parking: A smart city would include parking space sensors similar to the ones used in modern parking garages to measure capacity, then point the EN-V directly to an open spot near your destination. In densely populated urban areas, GM researchers found that roughly a third of drivers on the roads were simply looking for parking. Cut that out, and congestion dissipates without barring anyone from the streets.


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Editor's Note: The following is Part I of a two part series about renowned attorney Morris Wolff's crusade to rescue his client Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg from a Soviet gulag. Wolff lived on Mermaid Lane in Chestnut Hill from 1975 to 1985. His daughter, Lesley, graduated from Springside School in Chestnut Hill in 1993, where she was class valedictorian, and the University of Pennsylvania. Another daughter, Michelle, attended Springside School and graduated from Harcum Jr. College in Bryn Mawr.
Former Chestnut Hill resident and international human rights attorney Morris Wolff, 74, a '54 graduate of Germantown Friends School and an alumnus of Amherst College and Yale University Law School, returned to Philadelphia in May from his Florida home to address students at Germantown Friends, his former alma mater, exhorting them to become initiators of human rights causes and to participate in changing unjust social conditions.
During his stay, Professor Wolff talked about his ongoing 28-year quest to rescue Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg, who has been credited with saving at least 100,000 Jews headed for the gas chambers at Auschwitz. Recruited by our government in 1944 to save the remaining Hungarian Jews in Budapest, Wallenberg was later abandoned and left to languish in Soviet prisons ever since his capture by the Russians in 1945. (On August 5, 1981, in a Rose Garden ceremony at the White House, President Ronald Reagan made Wallenberg an American citizen.)
Morris Wolff's fearless journey to free Wallenberg began in 1983 with a 4 a.m. phone call from Guy Von Dardel, the brother of Raoul Wallenberg. Von Dardel, who had been referred to Wolff by a law professor associate from Chicago, pleaded with Wolff to rescue his brother Raoul and to sue the Russians for his kidnapping and illegal detention. The moment he agreed to take the case, Wolff became the de facto voice of Wallenberg.
Based on Wallenberg's status as an American citizen, Wolff sent a hand-delivered letter to President Reagan urging him to demand Wallenberg's release by the Soviets, citing the U.S. Hostages Act. It was not until years later that he learned Reagan's initial directive to act was sabotaged by the White House and U.S. State Department and specifically by Reagan's Counsel, Fred Fielding, and his Assistant Counsel John Roberts — now Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Wolff recalls, "It was not until 2005 when I was contacted by E.J. Kessler, investigative reporter for The Jewish Forward during the confirmation hearings for Chief Justice Roberts, that I saw a memo from Roberts to President Reagan urging Reagan to 'dodge the Wallenberg issue.'
"The memo had been buried in the Reagan Library. So with this new information, I asked to be included on the panel for Roberts'confirmation hearings and question him on issues of integrity and character. I wanted him to tell the public what he knew about the Wallenberg matter and why he did not encourage President Reagan to use the law I placed in front of him to rescue Wallenberg, but I was prevented from doing so because the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Arlen Specter, a close friend and a Roberts' supporter, knew I would be a hostile witness."
When he received no support from the Reagan administration, Wolff filed his historic lawsuit, "Wallenberg versus the U.S.S.R.," in Federal District Court in Washington, D.C., on February 3, 1984. He remembers his relief when the judge assigned to his case was Judge Barrington Parker Jr., "He was the grandson of a slave and one of the first African-Americans to enter Yale Law School. He was also a strong supporter of human rights who, despite severe pressure from the White House and the State Department, including a highly improper visit to his judicial chambers by the men in pin- striped suits from State, ordered the Soviets to release Wallenberg and pay damages of $39 million — one million for each year of captivity." Parker, he recalls, called the case "unique and without precedent in the history of actions against foreign sovereigns."
The Wallenberg verdict, handed down on Oct. 15, 1985, was front page news in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Philadelphia Inquirer, and it went national. This historic lawsuit that no one thought he could possibly win paved the way for a new generation of human rights cases.
Then, after a series of postponements filed in secret by an insubordinate attorney who infiltrated Wolff's team of lawyers and worked to sabotage the verdict on behalf of his firm's main client, Chase Manhattan Bank, there was a four-year delay in implementing Parker's decision. Then, something that has never before occurred in the history of the courts was about to happen. The courts ignored Parker's decision and quietly moved the closed case on Judge Parker's docket to the docket of another judge of equal jurisdiction.
In essence says Wolff, "The case was taken from a judge of equal jurisdiction and destroyed. This, according to an associate of mine, the Honorable Arlin M. Adams, a dear friend and retired federal appellate judge on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, was 'an extreme example of judicial misbehavior.' In effect, the Executive Branch of our government interfered with the Judicial Branch of our government violating the separation of powers clause in the U.S. Constitution."
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Spammers have set a new benchmark for mockery, hijacking PCs inside drug giant Pfizer to send out adverts for the company's most famous product, Viagra, it has been claimed.
According to US botnet tracking company Support Intelligence, a total of 138 IP addresses inside the company's various networks have had to be blacklisted after being found to be relaying spam. In an interview with Wired, the company reports that it has kept 600 examples of spam emails said to have come from Pfizer-owned computers in the last six months.
Most incredible of all, however, is the fact that some of these emails appear to have been designed to sell the company's own erectile dysfunction product, Viagra, as well as equivalents from rivals such as Eli Lily.
None of the recipients of these emails would have been aware that Pfizer was being used to send the spam, however, as the spoof return address gives the impression that they are from Google Gmail accounts.
Other leading companies, including Toshiba and Bank of America have also been affected by the botnet/zombie phenomenon. Oddly, Support Intelligence had informed Pfizer of the particular issue on its network, but that hadn't stopped the activity, the company said.
The company appears to take some pleasure in pointing out just how many large organisations are affected by the botnet scourge, even, in some cases, as they report on it. In a June blog, the author taunts the BBC for having problems on its own network, but ends up grudgingly commending the organisation for solving the issue in advance of being notified.


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And I was framed as being someone else.
Here is the thread: http://mises.org/community/forums/p/32239/500253.aspx#500253
I believe it may have been either gotlucky, Groucho, or Autokylos. They seem to have it out for me.
Please ban this kid. We don't need trolls around here.
For the record, I've reported you now. I doubt much will happen though. The mods don't seem to enforce the rules consistently.
TronCat/MissMapleLeaf:I believe it may have been either gotlucky, Groucho, or Autokylos. They seem to have it out for me.
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If you think you've been hacked then report it to a mod. Don't create a thread tarnishing members with good repute.
After looking into it it seems clear that MapleLeaf and TronCat are one and the same which is shame somewhat since TronCat did make some interesting posts particularly the one containing Dunbar's thesis.
That said given the above, trolling and having multiple accounts I hereby permaban you.
On another note I'm not on here as often as I'd like so I don't always notice activity in the reporting forum. So if you have a problem with a member please PM me and I'll look into it. It's more likely something will be done about it then.
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So much for Intel's Tri-gate
Subject: General Tech | March 16, 2012 - 12:16 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: tri-gate, FinFET, silicon nanowires
We've just met Intel's Tri-Gate transistor technology, which offers significant improvements in power efficiency as well as reducing waste hear but researchers have already moved onto the next new technology. Referred to as silicon nanowire transistors in this story at The Register, the next generation of transistor may have no gates whatsoever, or be made entirely of gates, depending on how you look at it. The wire will be wrapped in a silicon oxide, high-K metal gate making the transistor cylindrical and not limited in the number of gates possible in the same way that planar or 3D transistors are. The development of this technology is in its infancy but could well help us see chips go below 5nm as it matures.
"The next step in transistor architecture will likely be silicon nanowires – extremely thin silicon wires that will form the transistor's chanel, surrounded on all sides by a wrap-around silicon oxide, high-K metal gate.
"It's the ultimate fully-depleted device," the director of IBM's Semiconductor Research & Development Center, Gary Patton, said during his keynote address at Wednesday's Common Platform Technology Forum 2012 in Santa Clara, California. "You don't have a gate on just two sides, or three sides – it's fully encapsulating the silicon nanowire device."
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- WD releases Thunderbolt drive @ The Register
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Awards as the outstanding senior athletes among Hope College graduates in the class of 2009 were presented to two students during the college's Honors Convocation on Thursday (April 23).
Nora Kuiper of Parchment (Parchment HS) was presented the John Schouten award while Jesse Reimink of Hudsonville (Hudsonville HS) received the Otto van der Velde All-Campus Award.
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Wigan midfielder Shaun Maloney has signed a new two-and-a-half year contract at the DW Stadium, the Barclays Premier League club have announced.
The 29-year-old Scotland international, signed for £1million from Celtic early last season, is now contracted to the Latics until 2015.
Manager Roberto Martinez said: "We're delighted that Shaun has committed his future to the club."
Maloney has become a key figure at Wigan having started all but two of the strugglers' 22 Premier League games this season, scoring twice.
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Martinez has also moved to bolster his squad by signing goalkeeper Joel Robles on loan from Atletico Madrid until the end of the season. The Spanish club had allowed Robles to spend a trial period at the DW Stadium, and Martinez was sufficiently impressed to bring the 22-year-old into his first-team squad.
Atletico confirmed the deal in a statement on their website, which read: "Atletico Madrid and Wigan Athletic have reached an agreement so that Joel Robles, after a trial period with the English club, will play on loan until June 30 with the Premier League team. The goalkeeper will return to the 'rojiblanco' at the end of this loan period."
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