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|Availability of work has provided new opportunities for people in Honiara.
We were shooting a film in the main street of Honiara about the Rapid Employment Project when a guy, curious about what we were doing, introduced himself. "What do you do", we ask? I'm a 'Master Liu' he says. That got some of us not familiar with the term thinking. But 'masta liu' is a popular term in Solomon Islands' pijin, referring to someone who is a loiterer, who wanders aimlessly about the streets. 'Masta liu' is synonymous with unemployment.
This is common to the capital Honiara and other urban centers in Solomon Islands, and is directly related to the challenges of urbanization. Many people who find themselves in a 'masta liu' situation will not openly admit it. It can be a disparaging term, and 'masta lius' are a common subject of jokes or ridicule in popular culture and songs.
Unemployment is an issue for many Solomon Islanders, especially young people. In Honiara alone, 80 percent of youth lack jobs. Women and youth are among the most vulnerable, which can lead to social problems like increased crime, prostitution and anti-social behavior. In Honiara, unemployed women sit for long hours both during the day and night selling food, cigarettes and whatever they can get their hands on to earn an income.
People are flocking to Honiara from rural areas in search of jobs and opportunities but, for recent migrants, life in the city can be disappointing. Generally there are too few jobs to go around - a situation that was exacerbated by the global economic slowdown in 2009. Even university graduates have found themselves in the position of a 'masta liu' and almost one third of Honiara's population is living in poverty. High unemployment is seen to be a potential trigger for conflict, in a country that is recovering from the impact of the "tensions" in 1998-2003 , and the subsequent riots of 2006.
The government, with the support of the World Bank, the governments of Australia and New Zealand through the Pacific Region Infrastructure Facility, and the State and Peace building Fund, recently created the Rapid Employment Project (REP to give people in vulnerable communities training and short term public works employment in order to improve their job prospects, while giving them a cash income.
Starting June 2010, the REP has offered training and work placement opportunities to over 4,500 people – almost 60 percent of whom are women and over 50 percent are youth. An estimated US$1 million has been paid out in wage, and is making an impact on the lives of those who were given a chance to work for the REP.
Agro Economic Zones to reduce Unemployment
Thanks Dr but Solomon Islands
Thanks Dr but Solomon Islands have better crops that provides more benefits than those that you mention. Coconut are wastefully lying around and cocoa trees not harvested. Its all about changing the mindset of the youths to understand that farming is business and brings better benefits than formal employment. Formal employment is truly scarce in the Solomons
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The Seattle Weavers' Guild began with a small group of Seattle weavers meeting informally in homes. The group grew over time, meeting other weavers through local yarn shops. In 1937 the Seattle Weavers' Guild was founded with twenty-three members. Though the membership has grown, the goal of the founding members remains: to further interest and knowledge of handweaving in our membership and the public. The Seattle Weavers' Guild is among the five largest guilds in the country, consisting of well over 300 members. It recently celebrated its 80th Anniversary!
The Seattle Weavers' Guild is an enthusiastic and active group of weavers. We get together to share our love of weaving, inspire each other, and learn new techniques. We have members at every level, from complete beginners to world-renowned professionals.
In addition to monthly programs (September to May), the guild hosts many workshops throughout the year, as well as ongoing study groups, and performs community outreach through gallery shows, public demonstrations of weaving and spinning, and volunteer teaching at schools and hospitals. The Seattle Weavers' Guild has also joined with the Southeast Seattle Senior Center to create a wonderful weaving studio, offering classes for all ages!
Each October, the guild hosts a sale of members' works, transforming our meeting hall into a showplace of textile delights. Whether you're looking for household goods like tea towels and rugs, cozy blankets, unique pet gear, gossamer scarves, or one-of-a-kind art garments, there's something here for you. Proceeds from the sale enable us to bring talented weavers from all over the country to Seattle to educate our members and the public.
The Seattle Weavers' Guild is affiliated with The Association of Northwest Weavers' Guilds and The Handweavers Guild of America. Seattle Weavers' Guild members have served in leadership positions in both of these organizations.


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Holiday Celebration Sings Out With Shure Wireless CYPRESS, TX, November 6, 2008 — The number one selling artists on Billboard's Christian/Gospel charts at the end of last year as well as winners of GRAMMY®, Dove, and American Music Awards, the band Casting Crowns has secured a fan base spanning continents. Slated to return from Europe later this month just in time for the launch of the holiday season in the U.S., the contemporary Christian rockers will begin their Christmas Celebration Tour in Southeast Texas at the Berry Center on November 28. Coinciding with the release of the Crowns' Christmas album Peace on Earth, the 14-city Christmas Celebration will travel with a 20-piece orchestra throughout the latter half of November and first half of December. Guest artists on the bill will include Natalie Grant, Denver & the Mile High Orchestra, Avalon, Michael English, and pureNRG. Shure microphone products will occupy a prime place in the show as well, having been chosen by Casting Crowns FOH engineer Carter Hassebroek to fulfill wide duties onstage ranging from capturing soaring vocals to the pure tones of electric guitar cabinets. With UHF-R® wireless systems getting the call for vocals, lead singer Mark Hall relies on a handheld transmitter sporting a Beta 87C capsule, while keyboardist/backing vocalist Megan Garrett and violinist/backing vocalist Melodee DeVevo are outfitted with KSM9 capsules. "I am a believer in proper mic choice and placement," Hassebroek said shortly before leaving with the band for Europe at the end of last month. "When touring, I'm not satisfied with a 'go-to' mic or capsule. We spend a good deal of time in rehearsals finding the appropriate mics for new instruments or voices. After which, we are very particular about making sure the placement stays the same every day." Hassebroek has found Shure UHF-R's onboard frequency scanning capabilities a boon while out on the road as well as its high power output option. "They're a big help when coordinating a bunch of frequencies everyday," he adds. "Honestly, we don't face many wireless issues now that we are using UHF-R." Described by its creators as an "event album," Peace on Earth is the perfect companion for a national tour the likes of Christmas Celebration. The record includes classics like "Silent Night," "Joy to the World," "O Come All Ye faithful," and "Away in a Manger." Lead singer Mark Hall notes on the Casting Crowns website that part of the intention of making the album was to enable people to rediscover the message Christmas songs contain. "A lot of times when we sing carols, we sort of shift into Christmas carol mode," he believes. "We sing these songs we've been singing for so long that we might not be hearing what they're really saying." Those who agree with Hunt and want to rediscover the timeless message of these Christmas classics can catch the show anywhere from Cypress, Texas to Reading, Pennsylvania on December 13, at The Sovereign Center, where the tour will come to a close.
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It is the second time RWE has made changes to the project, which was originally envisaged as totalling 417 turbines. In May last year, it was forced to cut 139 turbines from the project following environmental studies. However, RWE insisted it would still hit the 1.5GW capacity by using larger machines.
Now, the maximum number of turbines has been cut further from 278 to 240, and the project's maximum capacity has been reduced to 1.2GW The area for the wind farm, which is planned for a site off the Devon and south Wales coasts, has been further reduced, from 238 square kilometres to 200 square kilometres.
The latest changes follow analysis of the consultation undertaken last year, as well as the results of environmental and engineering studies. Scaling down the project will reduce its visual and seascape effects, as well as the potential for underwater disturbance during construction. Commercial fisheries, birds, navigation and the ecology of the seabed will also benefit from the refinements.
Craig Harwood, project manager for Atlantic Array, said: "The revisions to the proposed Atlantic Array wind farm are being made following the completion of additional studies and focus on the site boundary closest to Lundy and North Devon. They build on the changes we made in 2012 to minimise environmental effects, which also significantly reduced the visual effects from the south Wales coast."
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The Strength Tarot card represents nature, which, however wild in its primal form, is tamed by our subtler, finer self -- our feminine side, our inner self. The will and passion of our instinctive nature does not need to be broken, but refined and brought to consciousness, so that all levels of creation may come into harmony.
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Weekly S and P Report Comments
By Sean Lusk, PFGBEST
July 7, 2012
E Mini S&P settles 1351.75 down 4.75
For the week ended (7/2-7/6)
Stock futures ended the week lower following yet another dismal jobs report for the month of June. The Dow and S&P posted weekly losses, while the NASDAQ managed to squeeze out a gain for the fifth consecutive week. For the week, the Dow lost 0.84 percent, the S&P lost 0.55 percent, while the NASDAQ posted a gain of just 0.08 percent. The CBOE volatility index, considered the best gauge of fear in the market, ended near 17. Non- farm payrolls rose by only 80K, according to the Labor department, missing expectations of a gain of 90K. The unemployment rate remained steady at 8.2 percent. With yet another month of weak employment growth, the second quarter ranks as the weakest three month period in the last two years. This has fueled speculation that the Fed will step in with additional monetary easing . Recent economic reports have been dismal with the ISM manufacturing index earlier this week indicating a contraction for the first time in nearly three years. The Euro slumped against the Dollar, to trade at a two year low on Friday. This move lower comes a day after the ECB cut its rates by a quarter of a point and slashed deposit rates to zero. Also, the Bank of England moved forward with more quantitative easing, while the Peoples Bank of China moved forward with surprise rate cuts. Still, central bank efforts did little to raise equities. IMF President Christine Lagarde voiced concern over a slowdown in developed and big emerging economies echoing concerns voiced by ECB President Mario Draghi who said the euro zone economy would recover only gradually.
Heading into next week, the second quarter earnings season kicks off with just a few reports, but they will be important early looks at whether the fallout from Europe and the slower global growth is hurting corporate America. Alcoa kicks off earnings season after the bell Monday. After Fridays disappointing U.S. jobs payrolls, jobs related data, such as Thursdays weekly jobless claims, will be closely monitored, as will the minutes of the last Federal Reserve meeting Wednesday. But more important perhaps is a batch of fresh Chinese data, starting off Monday with inflation and export data, and winding down Friday with GDP, retail sales and industrial output. China, the worlds second largest economy surprised markets with a second round of interest rate cuts in the past week, raising speculation that the data will be weak. My swing numbers for next week come in as follows for the mini S&P. Support is down first at 1337.50 and with a close under, 1323.50 the next level down. Resistance is up at 1370.25 and with a close over 1389.00 the next level to the upside.
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You may remember the NY Times article that we mentioned a few days ago that was critical of the company's current status and direction. In response to the NY Times article, Harley-Davidson is running the above ad in an attempt to provide a counter-argument to the criticism that the company is on shaky ground.
It should come with little surprise that Harley-Davidson is again playing on Patriotic themes and rhetoric that shifts the focus from the fact the company has serious issues ahead of it, and to date not clear plan on how they are going to overcome them. In addition to this ad, a message was sent out to all Harley-Davidson employees, read it after the jump.


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sfsfsfgiants wrote:Dammit Pietrus, you dumb ****. You act like a ****ing little child. "I've missed five straight threes and I have the ball. What should I do? Oh! I know! I will shoot the ****ing three!" Get the **** out of the league dumbass.
****ing game. Everybody played like ****, other than Baron. If I was Baron, I would be in every single ****ing person's face telling them just how ****ing terrible they played. Getting beat by the god damn Blazers. Holy ****, how does that even ****ing happen............
I'd read more of the ESPN recaps if they were like this one.
From the boxscore (and what I've read here), seems like Portland didn't play really well. It was more us beating ourselves with an awful game. That happens from time to time... Let's take care of the Fakers and forget about this game.


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Welcome to the website of the Kunsthaus extension, where you can keep track of the project as it progresses.
July 2018
Completion of the shell
The vision of a museum for the 21st century - The New Kunsthaus - is fast becoming a reality: completion of the shell means the full dimensions and proportions of the building can be appreciated for the first time. For many years the extension existed only in the form of plans and models; now the building has reached its full height and is changing the face of Heimplatz. Completion of the shell comes almost three years after construction began on 3 August 2015. Building work is on schedule.
Breakthrough in the passage
The last layer of earth between the passage from the extension and the existing building by Karl Moser has been breached. From 2020 the underground passageway will enable visitors to move between the Chipperfield building and the existing ensemble, regardless of the weather and traffic on Heimplatz above their heads. It will also be a safe route for artworks to move from the stores to the collection and exhibition galleries on the other side of the road. The entrance to the 82-metre passage is marked by a Lawrence Weiner artwork.
Ground floor partially closed due to building work. Museum remains open.
Construction work on the Kunsthaus extension has reached the existing buildings. The museum remains open and in operation while new staircases and lifts are installed; these will lead from the existing entrance hall down into the passage to the Chipperfield building on the other side of Heimplatz. The auditorium opposite the restaurant will serve as a temporary entrance hall. Works by Alberto Giacometti have been moved from the ground floor to floors higher up. Art education activities are not affected by the building work.
Foundation stone laid for the Kunsthaus extension
The Commissioning Body – represented by Walter B. Kielholz (President Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft), Corine Mauch (Mayor of Zurich), Dr. Christoph Becker (Director Kunsthaus Zürich), Dr. Martin Zollinger (President Stiftung Zürcher Kunsthaus) and Dr. André Odermatt (Member of the City Council, Head of the Structural Engineering Department) – laid the foundation stone of the Kunsthaus Zürich extension together with architect Sir David Chipperfield. Urs Fischer, the internationally renowned Zurich artist, supplied a foundation stone for the collection in the enlarged Kunsthaus – a bronze sculpture more than 2 x 2 metres in size.
Excavation works completed
As anticipated, the earthworks have revealed the redoubt wall of the town's fortification dating from the 17th century. No remains or archaeologial finds from the ancient jewish cemetery have been detected.
Construction of the passage under Heimplatz begins in May
Construction work on the underground passage begins in May. From 2020, it will enable both art and visitors to move between the existing Kunsthaus building and the extension. Apart from a few weekend closures Heimplatz will remain open to traffic, which will be routed around the construction site as necessary. Work is scheduled for completion in late 2017 / early 2018. Trees will then be planted to replace two that are being removed in March 2016 to allow construction of the passage to proceed.
Construction of the Kunsthaus Zürich extension begins
Work to prepare the construction site for the extension on Heimplatz begins on 3 August, marking the start of the implementation phase in the project designed by David Chipperfield and his team of architects. If construction proceeds according to schedule, the extension will open in 2020.
The gymnasia and huts currently on the site of the extension will be freed of contaminants (including asbestos) to ensure that there is no danger to people or the environment during subsequent demolition. At the same time, the trees that will be retained for the art garden will be protected, while the remainder are cleared. As is normal during construction, a hoarding will then be erected to screen the entire site. Excavation will commence once the preparatory work is complete.
Building permit takes legal effect. Construction to begin in autumn 2015, opening in 2020.
A legal dispute has blocked progress on the Kunsthaus extension for two years. The Lucerne-based Archicultura Foundation lodged an objection to the decision of 31 May 2013 granting the building permit. In its judgment of 19 December 2014, the construction appeals court dismissed this objection. The Archicultura Foundation has decided not to appeal against this judgment, and as a result the building permit now takes legal effect.


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Psuedo Kerouac Day 2, Green: Eco to Soylent
My second day in the trek across America really opened my eyes to a few things. Sure I have heard the smog jokes, and even seen a bit of smoky haze associated with daytime "live" shot out of Los Angeles, but today I got a full video shot of what it is like and how it ruins the scenery that is the painted desert between L A and Palm Springs.
If you are joining this journey late, I got a job offer of a lifetime to transport a vehicle across the country from bay-2-bay (San Fran to Tampa) with all expenses paid and I jumped at it like a sugar craved kid towards those intoxicating candy canes at Christmas time. But let's get back to the trek…Alright?
I was streaming down I-15 towards I-10 this past morning and was truly amazed at the nice ebb and flow of traffic coming into the "city of Angels".
I had heard the constant bickering and foul-mouthed comments on the freeway system, but possibly I just hit it on a good day ( a Wednesday). But as soon as I got to the Pasadena exit, a thick and gray haze began to en gulp the entire roadway. I have seen the smog residue in Florida on a breeze less day, but our crossing sea breezes tend to clean the area of this environmental hazard pretty much by lunch time in the Summer.
Maybe it is just my Florida lungs, but I decided I needed the whole enchilada and convinced myself for the art form I had to take in a multitude of deep lung exercises to see just how it would effect me if I decided to job in the gray matter. I had a bit of difficulty taking in deep breathes, and somehow my throat stayed a bit raspy until I popped open another Diet Dr Pepper and coated my tonsils with the elixir.
I guess it is true that sometimes you could physically take a knife and carve out of piece of this gray pea soup. Another of life's urban legends kicks me in the respiratory system.
The next sight to hit my eyes after exiting Los Angeles on the I-10 corridor which would become my constant traveling companion was the sight that reminded me more of a modern Netherlands than Tinsel-town. Rising above the haze and traffic were these towering electric producing wind turbines, basically configured into a wind farm to harvest any wind power from a multitude of directions.
Not just large towering skyscraper windmills, but also small units getting that level of breeze just kissing the surface of the Cali landscape. I really wish somewhere in Florida could invest money and constructive resources to produce such a harvest of our nightly sea breeze crop, and think of the extra power a hurricane would produce on the short term. But it is great to see green technology in a region that also has some environmental woes.
Then I begin the trek into what some called the painted desert portion of my trip. I had previously been warned that the L A to Tucson road trip could be a boring trip of countless hills and valleys with only sagebrush and sand for miles. So maybe I was predestined for the worse, and got the thrill of seeing the sediment rock formations and the compressed materials etching out intricate patterns in the rocks.
Of swirling miniature dust storms picking up trash, sand and even the lone tumbleweed and whirling it round and round within its wind-aided tentacles. But then again, I am an optimist. I actually loved this portion of the trip. Seeing the land that so many fought for day and night, that millions of settlers hoping for a new life, financial rewards or even a change of scenery.
I even tried to catch up with one of those souls seeking a change of Scenery, but Ex-Rays LHP Scott Kazmir had left the Anaheim Angels Phoenix Spring Training site before I got there. Going through Phoenix, I got the feeling why people lived there. But then again, it was Spring time, not the pounding heat of late July or August.
But the real fun hit me in Tuscon. First off, I got to the hotel and got a rare chance to sit by the pool and catch up on a few missed shows on my laptop loving the luxury of the moment. I had made reservations for later that night at the oldest Mexican restaurant in town, El Charro, and was excited by the reviews and accolades given to this authentic established local fare.
To say the food was amazing would under cut the value, the portions and the pure fun of being in this food fiesta. Salsas…homemade, Mole's…homemade, Tortilla's….homemade..You seeing a pattern here.
I got the "Carne Seca Plate" which gave me 1/4 pound of awesome Sonoran Sun dried Angus beef shredded and flash grilled with green chiles, onions and special spices. It was served with guacamole, homemade Pico de Charro salsa, arroz and frijoles refritos or Charoos and a choice of flour or corn tortillas.
I picked both types of tortillas and also asked for a side of green and red chile ( did not want to offend the cook). Washed down all this authentic goodness with an intoxicating in-house sangria that took my socks, shoes and maybe even my little toe away. Oh, did I mention this is the oldest Mexican restaurant operating in the United States?
I was in Tuscon heaven. The bar at the hotel also had Karaoke tonight, and a coupon for 2 free drinks for moi. I went into the lounge and ordered an adult beverage, met some University of Arizona grad students, sang a few cover songs then my stomach began to do back flips on me. I was starting to sweat in the 47 degree temperatures and was told I looked a little flushed.
I could tell from the pain it was not the food I had just joyfully ingested, but something had crept up on me, possibly the bold Florida bravado of not wearing a coat during the 40-odd degree days in San Francisco and Victorville,California. I went into the room and even as it was 55 degrees in there, I was sweating like I had just run a marathon. But this couldn't happen, I am on a schedule, and sickness was not on the agenda.
Believe me, I did not take any pictures of the next 8 hours….It was not good. I found out later that morning that the whole hotel staff and some guests had also fallen to an unknown virus that seemed to hang on for about 2 days, then finally disappear. This was not good, I had to be in Fort Stockton, Texas by nightfall on the next day.
For some reason during a feverish haze I had visions of the movie "Soylent Green" running through my mind…..What was in that green mole' again?
To say this mystery ailment was about to put cramps into my schedule,stomach and wallet were understatements. Guess you'll have to check back later for the latest to see what transpired next……(story cliffhanger moved used by so many of the serial Westerns I watched in black and white as a kid).
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What a bummer that you got sick during your road trip. Hopefully the rest of the story has a happy ending. So you hit the freeway on a good traffic day? I'll bet it wasn't during rush hour! Love the shots of the mountains.
I actually hit LA about 7-ish, but the I-15 and I-10 Gods must have been watching over me.
Part of the thrill of the travel is the tragedy and triumphs that go hand-in-hand.
El Charro was a true food trip, the next 2 days…not so much…But it was the food.
I loved the texture of the rock formations, maybe I was a budding geologist in a past life…..or Gold miner?
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Mole green is peeeo-pleeeeee! Sorry, had to be done. I'm sorry to hear you fell sick in the middle of your fun trip, and that our fair Los Angeles city failed to impress. That drive through the "painted dessert" on the way to Arizona is gorgeous. And it sounds Tucson is a lot of fun. The Surly Wench – I love the name! I'll definitely tune back in for the next exciting episode, same Rays station, same Renegade time.
There was nothing like hoisting a frothy pint and singing a clever dirge in the Surly Wench, complete with a Betty Page inspired bartender with red hair a flame from the desert Sun.
L A was great, but I only got to see the outskirts, but I did get to see the Regional Baseball fields, but could not mainifest the camera in time to get a photo of the Baseball Blvd. sign…maybe in the next lifetime.
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Session Five at Windells was the hottest yet, with temps hovering around 80 on the glacier and nearing 100 down at campus. Campers beat the facemelting heat on hill by lapping the tow rope through the jumpline and hanging out on the new Zumiez couch on the Dream Feature. Back on campus, in between concrete jungle skate laps, everyone cooled off on the giant slip and slide in the middle of the courtyard.
The Skeleton Crew was at camp for the session to build their Dream Feature. The collective minds of Jed Anderson, Jarad Hadi, Harrison Gordon, Alex Sherman and Tyler Verigan designed a modified mini-pipe, with hits along both sides. The result: tons of lines for everyone to choose from. Fellow Skeleton Crew members, Nick Dirks and Scott Blum joined up to shred the feature, too. Down at Windells the crew skated a ton and handed out Salomon snowboards to campers that won games of roshambo. Really.
Making sure the snowshredding action was as hot as the weather, SNOWBOARDER Magazine brought twenty of snowboarding's most talented riders to the Windells park for the inaugural America's Next Top Pro Model. Lauri Heiskari, Pat Moore, Eero Ettala, Marc Frank Montoya, Danny Kass, Eddie Wall and more, competed in back to basics fun events like Highest Ollie and Spin to Win, then auctioned off their pro model boards to stoked out campers back on campus (with all the money going to charity).
But, that's not even all! The DC Team made a stop by Windells, too. Chas Guldemond and Jonas Carlson took laps in the park for a few days and then put on the DC Olympics, definitely one of the most memorable events at camp this summer. Round one: the gallon milk challenge. Round two: egg swallowing challenge. Round three: tons of DC snowboards given away to campers.
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For Phoenix food tips, we turned to Andre Ethier, who summers in the right corner of Dodger Stadium and winters at his ranch in Chandler, 30 minutes south of Phoenix. The Arizona native is a devoted foodie — chasing down hole-in-the-wall joints and new, trendy places whenever he gets the chance.
Raised in Phoenix's core, just two miles from where the Diamondbacks play, the 29-year-old Arizona State product has a local's knowledge of the city's food scene. The day he signed a new $11-million contract with the Dodgers, we took in dinner at his newest favorite, Latitude Eight, a little Thai place in Chandler's historic district that he said is on its own hitting streak.
"I really think this is the best Thai food in Phoenix, and it's comparable to the best of L.A.," he said. "My wife, Maggie, and I love it."
For starters, we sampled the spicy lettuce wraps with ground chicken, mint and peppers, but quickly moved on to Ethier's favorite, tom kha, a creamy soup that by itself is almost worth a trip to Phoenix.
"A little coconut milk in here," he said as he sniffed the big bowl, "a little curry .... some lemongrass.
"I crave this stuff," Ethier said with a smile. "When I'm away, I dream of this soup."
He is also hooked on the chicken yellow curry — potatoes, carrots, coconut cream and jasmine rice. And don't miss the Andaman duck, a rich blend of traditional Thai flavors with succulent slices of duck.
Generally, Latitude Eight takes traditional Thai dishes and adds a modern twist, with dinners in the $25 range, not exactly pricey by L.A. standards.
Ethier is a mystery even to many of his longtime fans, but the usually stoic Gold Glover opened up when discussing his second passion: restaurants, particularly those with an ethnic flair.
"It really began when I started playing pro ball," he said. "You'd get tired of fast-food chains.... And all I could afford at the time was ma-and-pa, hole-in-the-wall places. So I fell in love with ethnic food then.
"And then when I land in L.A., I'm living downtown and it really starts to take off. I have Koreatown two miles away and Little Tokyo and a little Peruvian area ... so I start exploring some of these areas. It gave me a chance to take my mind off some of the things on the field, to enjoy something else. It's a neat hobby to have."
Between bites of his beloved curry, he also talked about the upcoming Arizona centennial on Feb. 14 and his wonkish interest in his home state.
"I love facts and figures about it," he said. "All my family members buy me things like '101 Things About Arizona.'"
So who better to discuss the eclectic Phoenix area dining scene?
In Tempe, he recommended the House of Tricks, which has been serving contemporary American cuisine for 25 years. Dinners start at $22 (pumpkin ravioli) and run to $34 (braised lamb shanks).
"It's a little house right near the [Arizona State] campus; they do a really nice job with their dishes," he said.
For new twists on comfort food, he recommended the Tuck Shop, squeezed into a little neighborhood north of downtown Phoenix.
"It's one of those new-style places," Ethier said. "They're trying to re-invent the meatball or re-invent meatloaf. It's a real nice, modern, new age place. Has a great warm feeling; you sit at a communal table."
Phoenix has some of the nation's best Mexican food, and the slugger's favorite is Rito's, a cash-only joint downtown.
"It's in an old, little house, and they basically turned the house into a restaurant front. It has the best green and red chili burritos and the best refried beans I've ever had.... You sit on the picnic tables out front.
"There's a great pizza place downtown called Cibo," he added. "It's probably 10 blocks from the baseball stadium. They have an unbelievable patio; certain nights, they have a guy playing music."
What about Pizzeria Bianco, the famed deep-dish haven that draws crowds, particularly on weekends?
"I don't like that [it doesn't] allow takeout, [it doesn't] allow reservations," he said. "You can tell me it's the best thing in the world, and I wouldn't wait that long."
In a couple of months, Ethier will leave his ranch with his wife and two young sons, ages 1 and 3, to go back on the road. Not surprisingly, San Francisco and Chicago are on his list of favorite food cities. And one of the first things he does each season is look for days off so he can sample new places in New York.
"When the game schedule comes out, I look to see if we have a day off after a game, so that I can eat breakfast, lunch and dinner there."
By the way, my Thai dinner with Andre cost a whopping $84. That included a lot of sampling: two appetizers, three main courses, a large order of that killer soup. The Dodgers' $11-million man may have hit it big, but he remembers where he came from.


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Cisco Systems reported fiscal second-quarter results after the market closed on Wednesday. MarketWatch technology reporter Benjamin Pimentel live blogged the earnings call from San Francisco. (Photo: Bloomberg)
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"2014 will be the inflection point for the Internet of Everything," he says. "The level of excitement we see in the conversations we're having today and with customers about the next wave of the Internet remind me of the mid-1990s. At that time we saw the Internet and e-commerce moving from just a text into something that did impact every industry."
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Listening to $CSCO call. The best you can say is that it is a company in transition…and transition…and transition… and on and on…
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$CSCO reported -8% y/y sales, missed and guided down gross margins #not-winning
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"You combine these into architectures with services and partners that very quickly bring you to solutions and dramatic differentiation. And that is what you're seeing them play very strongly in the US commercial and US enterprise as proof points."
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Cisco call: OpCo analyst asks why wireless & datacenter rev growth lagging. <–it's a good time to be a point solutions provider vs $CSCO
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He predicts that the business will pick up, saying, "I'd be very surprised if you don't see the numbers up in the 30% range this next quarter with all the appropriate caveats. That momentum feels good. We are very, very well-positioned. … We have no fear here."
Cisco's data center business recorded revenue of $605 million, up 10% year-over-year. That's below the Street estimate of $623 million.
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@zerohedge Maybe the "NSA INSIDE" stickers on the routers is a negative $CSCO
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A Lackey's T5 Adventure at an Austrian Mega-Event
Editor's note: Groundspeak Lackeys are traveling thousands of miles from H.Q. this year to share smiles, shake hands and make geocaching memories at more than a dozen Mega-Events worldwide. Sean Boots, aka bootron, attended the Mega-Event Pinzgau 2011 (GC2JTB2) in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria. Sean has been a Lackey since 2004 and works as a Senior Developer. This is Sean's account of his trip.
By Sean Boots (bootron)
Michael Krause (krauswaller) pointed to the peak of the two story climbing wall and asked if I was game for grabbing the T5* geocache at the top. The wall was a skyscraper towering over the surrounding booths in the main courtyard of this year's Pinzgau 2011 Mega-Event. Enticing as the idea sounded, I had just finished my liter of Weissbräu, and had already partaken in a full day's worth of geocaching, so I politely declined. He accepted my answer but it soon became clear he wasn't finished with me yet.
Earlier that afternoon, my wife and I had been given a personal geocaching tour around the general area by Christian Laucher (C.H.R.I.S), who along with Rainer Edlinger (edei) is the founder of the now annual Pinzgau Mega-Event. He was gracious enough to spend a couple hours with us in the middle of his busy day. He drove us to various caches he'd found months before and observed our caching technique like a proud father. He helped us find our first letterbox and showed off several of his other favorite spots. Despite being under immense pressure to perform, we put forth a respectable effort and got to see a nice bit of the Austrian countryside along the way.
As we collected our finds, Chris talked about his experience putting together this grand event. He told us of the special Pinzgauer Kids Art Power Trail that was created specifically for the Mega, which consisted of a series of 56 caches designed by six to 14-year-old children residing in Salzburg's Socio-Education Center. He talked of how important it was for the organizers to keep the event free of charge for all participants but he also understood that the choice to bring event sponsors may have also ruffled some feathers. His passion for the sport and desire to make people happy was on display throughout our time together.
"Geocachers" he'd say, pointing his finger at each caching group along the road as we passed by. And they all were. Even miles from the event, the place was teeming with them. "Everyone in Saalbach is a geocacher", he said.
It didn't take long for Krauswaller to come up with a bigger, better plan. He now had convinced a group of friends to take a short "30 minute trip" down the main thoroughfare to find some "easy" T5 caches along the way. He asked me to join and this time wouldn't take "no" for an answer. So with his family and our several new German and Austrian friends, we all met up for a spur-of-the-moment, early-evening, international geocaching adventure.
We arrived at our first cache destination, a quick stop off the road near what appeared to be a four-wheeler park. I was informed that the cache was located at the top of a nearby tree, and that it would take some teamwork to get ahold of it. But Krauswaller and Quaxi had other plans in store for me. In addition to this cache being a T5, they said they were "turning this one into a D5 too" and soon had the three of us equipped with helmets and our own four-wheelers. With a bit more trepidation than I wanted to admit, I mostly made it around the course, suffering only a minor ego bruise when my vehicle veered off the trail and I was forced to dismount. Darn it, but what a time!
As we wrapped up our muddy ride, the rest of the group formed a human ladder and grabbed the cache from the tree. We all signed the logbook, got back into our automobiles and were off to the next stop.
This time we took a side road and ascended up a hill alongside a tiny creek, until we arrived at a giant man-made bridge-like structure designed to stop trees from blocking the main highway if ever the stream was to flood. The cache was yet another T5, located on the upper inside of the structure a little more than halfway up.
As I watched Quaxi lower the rope from the top of the structure, I felt the trepidation creeping back in again. After Groundpeak's Bavarian reviewer Rainer (SaRa) made the first climb, I decided that I wanted to log this cache legitimately, and not just mark my name down in the logbook after someone else did the dirty work. So we each took turns strapping into the climbing gear, grabbing the cache, and then replacing it for the next person. Much thanks to my excellent climbing coach, Krauswaller, who helped me navigate the side of the wall despite my having absolutely no idea what I was doing.
We rewarded ourselves later that night at the closing party with more Weissbräu and spent the final few hours solidifying our new friendships, while listening to Rainer Edlinger (edei) enthusiastically read off one thousand lotto numbers for the event's raffle, which offered a 1:2 prize to ticket-purchased ratio. Excellent odds!
Needless to say, there was no flat screen television or all-expenses-paid return trip to next year's event for us, but we did manage to score a brand new letterbox logbook, a local hockey team cap, and a stuffed Pinzgau clown. Perfect mementos for an amazing trip!
* T5 = cache with a terrain rating of 5 stars, D5 = cache with difficulty rating of 5 stars.
You can also find a Lackey at one of these upcoming Mega-Events:
Ohio, USA – Midwest Geobash
Wales, UK – Mega Wales 2011
Wisconsin, USA – West Bend $1000 Cache Ba$h
HQ in Washington State, USA – Groundspeak Block Party
Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany – Geocoinfest Europa
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Why can she never win?? Poor Jennifer Aniston, lonely lady of Los Angeles, scorned bride and future crone. All she wants to do is marry Justin Theroux as planned, but of course then her ex, Brad Pitt, had to go and make plans to marry Angelina Jolie this summer, thus ruining everything. So Aniston is pushing back her wedding plans, it's said, to an unknown time, in the fear that the two events will be associated. So tragic. Jennifer Aniston just cannot get a break. Everything is so terrible for her, as she renovates her $21 million Bel Air mansion with her handsome, fit screenwriter/actor fiance. How will she ever get out of this terrible vortex of misery and despair, the wash cycle she's been in since her man Brad left her all them years ago? I just can't imagine. Now delaying a wedding like a common hobo. Delaying a wedding! Can you imagine anything worse in this world? It's amazing she can even wake up in the morning, the poor thing. The poor, poor thing. [Us Weekly]
Are Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult back together? The young X-Men: First Class costars dated for a while but then supposedly broke up, only now they've been spotted out together, leading some to believe that maybe they're back on the up-and-up. They had dinner at a place called The Little Door in Los Angeles on Monday night, an "eyewitness" telling People, "It looked like a date." Ha, but then that sentence is directly followed by People saying, "though they weren't openly affectionate." Which... Hm. OK. Then how do we know it was a date? Because I've definitely seen people I know at dinner before, like a girl I know out with some guy, and thought it was a date and said something to her later ("I didn't want to interrupt you! He's cute!") only to find out that it was most certainly not a date. One time it was her brother. So, what do we even know about this? Hardly anything. I guess we know that they dated before, that does make things a bit more serious, but other than that? We have no evidence that this was a date. We can't trust this "eyewitness." The eyewitness could be some sad manager trying to get publicity for his restaurant. This is all nonsense. It's almost as if this whole celebrity gossip industry is complete made-up nonsense. Almost. [People]
Oh, dear. Naomi Campbell and her beloved Russian billionaire boyfriend are taking a break. One source tells Page Six that they're actually completely over, while another says "Naomi and Vlad have a complex relationship, and sometimes break up and make up." So who knows! The important thing is that we don't worry about Naomi Campbell. Yes, she has probably spent a lot of her money defending herself in court after hurling various communication devices at various maids, but she's still completely solvent, financially speaking. She has her show The Face, on the Oxygen network, and of course she still models. Which is not to imply that she was dating this shifty Russian oligarch solely for the fact that he's richer than Croesus. I'm sure they were very much in love. But I'm just saying that in case you were worried about what Naomi was going to do, how she's going to keep herself in yachts and lavish Indian birthday parties, then don't worry. She's wealthy on her own. She's going to be fine, no matter what. Even if she doesn't have access to Grand Duchess Anastasia's secret gold, as she once did. Don't worry. Naomi Campbell lands on her feet. [Page Six]
Lindsay Lohan and Tara Reid are not friends. Just making that clear. Or rather, Tara Reid is just making that clear. She was on TMZ on TV yesterday or some nightmare, and she said the following: "We don't really like each other that much. If I get drunk, I'm a happy drunk. When she gets drunk, she's just mean." Well, first... "If," Tara? Come on with "If." Second thing, why is Tara Reid doing this? I know that her career is not exactly where she'd like it to be, but she was in a Robert Altman movie for christ's sake. Sigh. I guess that's just that. She was on the TMZ thing and said the thing about Lindsay Lohan and someone checked their watch to make sure it wasn't 2003 again and it wasn't, it was 2013, and Tara Reid was still saying things about Lindsay Lohan, and I guess nothing ever gets that old. [TMZ]
All right. Let's just be honest here. If you want still images from Teen Mom's sex tape, then here are those images. I'm not encouraging you to go there, I'm just saying that they're here if you, shudder, need them. They are here. Well, not here. There. Past the link at the end of this. I don't know why on earth you'd want to see them, but there they are. Tamed down for a non-pornographic website, but there they are. I don't know. This whole thing is either depressingly interesting or interestingly depressing or both. Is there a difference anymore? There probably isn't. Ugh. Here. It's here. [TMZ]
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Equinox has appointed Chief Financial Officer Steven Rosen as chief operating officer, replacing Christopher Peluso, who left the company. Chief Executive Officer Harvey Spevak will serve as acting chief operating officer until a new chief financial officer is appointed and Rosen can assume the COO role.
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The featured 21.25-acre field was seeded with 42 pounds per acre of headrow seed on March 25. The field will also be featured in the Rice Web log (blog) that can be accessed at: http://lsuagcenterrice.blogspot.com.
The rice blog will also feature a commercial field in Jefferson Davis Parish.
According to the site, the purpose of the blog is twofold. "First, it is intended to help inform rice producers in Louisiana of agricultural practices being used at the LSU AgCenter Rice Research Station. The blog will concentrate on a 21.25-acre seed production field at the station and a 39-acre commercial field near Lake Arthur, showing the different phases of the growing and harvest season.
"Secondly, the blog will be an information source for the general public to explain the complicated process of growing rice. Teachers may also find the blog useful as a tool to help students learn about agriculture."


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One Million IMPACTING Two Hundred Million Collaboration Sydney Kloppers | added on Dec 02, 2011 This project is focusing on the further development of NATURAL SCIENCE & CHEMISTRY in junior and high schools in developing nations around the World over the next 10 years at least, and we have called the project "One Million IMPACTING Two Hundred Million"!!
Honoring Clara Immerwahr: a heroine of chemistry and humanity Collaboration Pierre Waithe | added on Nov 30, 2011 Clara Immerwahr is a German chemist who took a lone but courageous stand against her nation and her infamous husband/rival, famed chemist Fritz Haber in opposition to chemical warfare during World War One.
Science Weekends Suggestion Abhishek kumar Sinha | added on Sep 28, 2011 Every weekends should be dedicated to science. Chemistry in life should be discussed in home, school, locality and also on social networking sites.
3rd Quarter Chemistry Fashion Show Collaboration Squid Bait | added on Aug 28, 2011 What better way to get the general public and kids interested in chemistry than with a chemistry fashion show.
The Guatemalan Dexters Collaboration Xavier Oboy | added on Aug 15, 2011 The idea is to gather enough laboratory materials to create more interactions and a real dynamic between the local schools and our NGO. We wish to bring to our children the opportunity to use and develop their knowledge to help and support the local community.
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Life, living matter and, as such, matter that shows certain attributes that include responsiveness, growth, metabolism, energy transformation, and reproduction. Although a noun, as with other defined entities, the word life might be better cast as a verb to reflect its essential status as a process. Life comprises individuals, living beings, assignable to groups (taxa). Each individual is composed of one or more minimal living units, called cells, and is capable of transformation of carbon-based and other compounds (metabolism), growth, and participation in reproductive acts. Life-forms present on Earth today have evolved from ancient common ancestors through the generation of hereditary variation and natural selection. Although some studies state that life may have begun as early as 4.1 billion years ago, it can be traced to fossils dated to 3.5–3.7 billion years ago, which is still only slightly younger than Earth, which gravitationally accreted into a planet about 4.5 billion years ago. But this is life as a whole. More than 99.9 percent of species that have ever lived are extinct. The several branches of science that reveal the common historical, functional, and chemical basis of the evolution of all life include electron microscopy, genetics, paleobiology (including paleontology), and molecular biology.
The phenomenon of life can be approached in several ways: life as it is known and studied on planet Earth; life imaginable in principle; and life, by hypothesis, that might exist elsewhere in the universe (see extraterrestrial life). As far as is known, life exists only on Earth. Most life-forms reside in a thin sphere that extends about 23 km (14 miles) from 3 km (2 miles) beneath the bottom of the ocean to the top of the troposphere (lower atmosphere); the relative thickness is comparable to a coat of paint on a rubber ball. An estimated 10–30 million distinguishable species currently inhabit this sphere of life, or biosphere.
Definitions of life
Much is known about life from points of view reflected in the various biological, or "life," sciences. These include anatomy (the study of form at the visible level), ultrastructure (the study of form at the microscopic level), physiology (the study of function), molecular biology and biochemistry (the study of form and function at chemical levels), ecology (the study of the relations of organisms with their environments), taxonomy (the naming, identifying, and classifying of organisms), ethology (the study of animal behaviour), and sociobiology (the study of social behaviour). Specific sciences that participate in the study of life focus more narrowly on certain taxa or levels of observation—e.g., botany (the study of plants), lichenology (the study of lichens, leafy or crusty individuals composed of permanent associations between algae or photosynthetic bacteria and fungi), herpetology (the study of amphibians and reptiles), microbiology (the study of bacteria, yeast, and other unicellular fungi, archaea, protists, viruses), zoology (the study of marine and land animals), and cytology (the study of cells). Although the scientists, technicians, and others who participate in studies of life easily distinguish living matter from inert or dead matter, none can give a completely inclusive, concise definition of life itself. Part of the problem is that the core properties of life—growth, change, reproduction, active resistance to external perturbation, and evolution—involve transformation or the capacity for transformation. Living processes are thus antithetical to a desire for tidy classification or final definition. To take one example, the number of chemical elements involved with life has increased with time; an exhaustive list of the material constituents of life would therefore be premature. Nonetheless, most scientists implicitly use one or more of the metabolic, physiological, biochemical, genetic, thermodynamic, and autopoietic definitions given below.
Metabolic definitions are popular with biochemists and some biologists. Living systems are objects with definite boundaries, continually exchanging some materials with their surroundings but without altering their general properties, at least over some period of time. However, there are exceptions. There are frozen seeds and spores that remain, so far as is known, perfectly dormant. At low temperatures they lack metabolic activity for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years but revive perfectly well upon being subjected to more clement conditions. A candle flame has a well-defined shape with a fixed boundary and is maintained by "metabolizing" its organic waxes and the surrounding molecular oxygen to produce carbon dioxide and water. Similar reactions, incidentally, occur in animals and plants. Flames also have a well-known capacity for growth. These facts underscore the inadequacy of this metabolic definition, even as they suggest the indispensable role of energy transformation to living systems. (See metabolism.)
Physiological definitions of life are popular. Life is defined as any system capable of performing functions such as eating, metabolizing, excreting, breathing, moving, growing, reproducing, and responding to external stimuli. But many such properties are either present in machines that nobody is willing to call alive or absent from organisms, such as the dormant hard-covered seed of a tree, that everybody is willing to call alive. An automobile, for example, can be said to eat, metabolize, excrete, breathe, move, and be responsive to external stimuli. A visitor from another planet, judging from the enormous number of automobiles on Earth and the way in which cities and landscapes have been designed for the special benefit of motorcars, might well believe that automobiles are not only alive but are the dominant life-form on the planet. (See physiology.)
A biochemical or molecular biological definition sees living organisms as systems that contain reproducible hereditary information coded in nucleic acid molecules and that metabolize by controlling the rate of chemical reactions using the proteinaceous catalysts known as enzymes. In many respects, this is more satisfying than the physiological or metabolic definitions of life. However, even here there are counterexamples. Viruslike agents called prions lack nucleic acids, although the nucleic acids of the animal cells in which they reside may be involved in their reproduction. Ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules may replicate, mutate, and then replicate their mutations in test tubes, although by themselves they are not alive. Furthermore, a definition strictly in chemical terms seems peculiarly vulnerable. It implies that, were a person able to construct a system that had all the functional properties of life, it would still not be alive if it lacked the molecules that earthly biologists are fond of—and made of. (See biochemistry.)
All organisms on Earth, from the tiniest cell to the loftiest trees, display extraordinary powers. They effortlessly perform complex transformations of organic molecules, exhibit elaborate behaviour patterns, and indefinitely construct from raw materials in the environment more or less identical copies of themselves. How could systems of such staggering complexity and such stunning beauty ever arise? A main part of the answer, for which today there is excellent scientific evidence, was carefully chronicled by the English naturalist Charles Darwin in the years before the publication in 1859 of his epoch-making work On the Origin of Species. A modern rephrasing of his theory of natural selection goes something like this: Hereditary information is carried by large molecules known as genes, composed of nucleic acids. Different genes are responsible for the expression of different characteristics of the organism. During the reproduction of the organism, the genes also replicate and thereby pass on the instructions for various characteristics to the next generation. Occasionally, there are imperfections, called mutations, in gene replication. A mutation alters the instructions for one or more particular characteristics. The mutation also breeds true, in the sense that its capability for determining a given characteristic of the organism remains unimpaired for generations until the mutated gene is itself mutated. Some mutations, when expressed, will produce characteristics favourable for the organism; organisms with such favourable genes will reproduce preferentially over those without such genes. Most mutations, however, turn out to be deleterious and often lead to some impairment or to death of the organism. (To illustrate, it is unlikely that one can improve the functioning of a finely crafted watch by dropping it from a tall building. The watch may perform better, but this is highly improbable.) In this way, organisms slowly evolve toward greater complexity. This evolution occurs, however, only at enormous cost: modern humans, complex and reasonably well-adapted, exist only because of billions of deaths of organisms slightly less adapted and somewhat less complex. In short, Darwin's theory of natural selection states that complex organisms evolved through time because of replication, mutation, and replication of mutations. A genetic definition of life therefore would be a system capable of evolution by natural selection. (See Darwinism.)
This definition places great emphasis on the importance of replication. Replication refers to the capacity of molecules such as deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) to precisely copy themselves, whereas reproduction refers to the increase in number of organisms by acts that make a new individual from its parent or parents. In any organism, enormous biological effort is directed toward reproduction, although it confers no obvious benefit on the reproducing organism itself. However, if life is defined as an entity capable of reproduction, then a mule, which is clearly alive yet does not reproduce, would be excluded from the living under this restrictive definition. Indeed, many organisms, such as hybrid mammals and plants that are past their prime, do not reproduce even though the individual cells of which they are composed may.
Life defined as a reproductive system dependent on replicating components does not rule out synthetic reproduction. For example, it should be possible to construct a machine that is capable of producing identical copies of itself from preformed building blocks but that arranges its descendants in a slightly different manner when a random change occurs in its instructions. Such a machine would of course reproduce its instructions as well. But the fact that such a machine would satisfy the genetic definition of life is not an argument against such a definition; in fact, if the building blocks were simple enough, the machine would have the capability of evolving into very complex systems that would probably have all the other properties attributed to living systems. (Some computer programmers have already claimed, on the basis of running generations of replicating and mutating computer instructions, to have created artificial life ["a-life"]; such programs do not, however, show any real freedom or awareness, and their activities are thus far limited to the insides of computers.) The genetic definition has the additional advantage of being expressed purely in functional terms; i.e., it does not depend on any particular choice of constituent molecules. The improbability of contemporary organisms—dealt with more fully below—is so great that these organisms could not possibly have arisen by purely random processes and without historical continuity. Fundamental to the genetic definition of life then seems to be the notion that a certain level of complexity cannot be achieved without natural selection.
Thermodynamics distinguishes between isolated, closed, and open systems. An isolated system is separated from the rest of the environment and exchanges neither light nor heat nor matter with its surroundings. A closed system exchanges energy but not matter. An open system is one in which both material and energetic exchanges occur. The second law of thermodynamics states that, in a closed system, no processes will tend to occur that increase the net organization (or decrease the net entropy) of the system. Thus, the universe taken as a whole is steadily moving toward a state of complete randomness, lacking any order, pattern, or beauty. This fate was popularized in the 19th century as the "heat death" of the universe.
Living organisms are manifestly organized and at first sight seem to represent a contradiction to the second law of thermodynamics. Indeed, living systems might then be defined as localized regions where there is a continuous maintenance or increase in organization. Living systems, however, do not really contradict the second law. They increase their organization in regions of energy flow, and, indeed, their cycling of materials and their tendency to grow can be understood only in the context of a more general definition of the second law that applies to open as well as closed and isolated systems. In nature (except at cosmic scales, where gravity becomes a crucial factor), energy moves from being concentrated to being spread out; spontaneously occurring complex systems do not violate the second law but help energy spread out, thus producing entropy and reducing gradients.
A general statement of open-system thermodynamics is that nature abhors a gradient, a difference across a distance. Differences and gradients in nature represent improbable, preexisting organizations. Many complex systems in nature spontaneously arise to degrade gradients and persist until the gradients are nullified. A tornado, for example, is an improbable, matter-cycling system that appears in the area of a barometric pressure gradient; when the air pressure gradient is gone, the "improbable" tornado disappears. Life seems to be a similar system, but one that degrades the solar gradient, the electromagnetic difference between the extremely hot (5,800 K [5,500 °C, or 10,000 °F]) Sun and very cold (2.7 K [−270.3 °C, or −454.5 °F]) outer space. (K = kelvin. On the Kelvin temperature scale, in which 0 K [−273 °C, or −460 °F] is absolute zero, 273 K [0 °C, or 32 °F] is the freezing point of water, and 373 K [100 °C, or 212 °F] is the boiling point of water at one atmosphere pressure.) Most life on Earth is dependent on the flow of sunlight, which is utilized by photosynthetic organisms to construct complex molecules from simpler ones. Some deep-sea and cave organisms called chemoautotrophs depend on chemical gradients, such as the natural energy-producing reaction between hydrogen sulfide bubbling up from vents and oxygen dissolved in water. The organization of life on Earth can thus be seen as being driven by a natural second-law-based reduction between the energy of the hot Sun and the cooler space around it. Although life has not fully reduced the solar gradient, incorporation of carbon dioxide into chemoautotrophs and production of clouds by plants help keep Earth's surface cooler than it would otherwise be, thereby helping to degrade the solar energy gradient.
Some scientists argue on grounds of quite general open-system thermodynamics that the organization of a system increases as energy flows through it. Moreover, energy flow leads to the development of cycles. An example of a biological cycle on Earth is the carbon cycle. Carbon from atmospheric carbon dioxide is incorporated by photosynthetic or chemosynthetic organisms and converted into carbohydrates through the process of autotrophy. These carbohydrates are ultimately oxidized by heterotrophic organisms to extract useful energy locked in their chemical bonds. In the oxidation of carbohydrates, carbon dioxide is returned to the atmosphere, thus completing the cycle. It has been shown that similar cycles develop spontaneously and in the absence of life by the flow of energy through chemical systems. Biological cycles may represent natural thermodynamic cycles reinforced by a genetic apparatus. It seems doubtful that open-system thermodynamic processes in the absence of replication lead to the sorts of complexity that characterize biological systems; replication, however, may be interpreted as an especially efficient thermodynamic means of gradient breakdown—a kind of special, slow-burning "fire." In any case, it is clear that much of the complexity of life on Earth has arisen through replication, with thermodynamically favoured pathways being used by energy-transforming organisms.
A newer definition of life revolves around the idea of autopoiesis. This idea was put forth by Chilean biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela and emphasizes the peculiar closure of living systems, which are alive and maintain themselves metabolically whether they succeed in reproduction or not. Unlike machines, whose governing functions are embedded by human designers, organisms are self-governing. The autopoietic definition of life resembles the physiological definition but emphasizes life's maintenance of its own identity, its informational closure, its cybernetic self-relatedness, and its ability to make more of itself. Autopoiesis refers to self-producing, self-maintaining, self-repairing, and self-relational aspects of living systems. Living beings maintain their form by the continuous interchange and flow of chemical components. Cellular autopoietic systems are bounded by a dynamic material made by the system itself. In life on Earth the limiting material is lipid membrane studded with transport proteins fabricated by the incessantly active cell. A source of usable energy flows to all living or autopoietic systems—either light in the visible or near-visible spectrum or specific organic carbon or other chemicals such as hydrogen, hydrogen sulfide, or ammonia. Energy sources that have never been adequate to maintain autopoiesis on Earth include heat, sound waves, and electromagnetic radiation outside the visible or near-visible spectrum.
One of the difficulties in defining life is that the only example is life found on the third planet from the Sun. On Earth all life's autopoietic systems require a supply of water in its liquid state for self-maintenance of their parts. Taken together, all transformations that underlie autopoiesis require six elements: carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur. The chemical components of all living entities are fashioned primarily from these elements.
The smallest autopoietic system on Earth is a living bacterial cell. (Viruses, plasmids, and other replicating molecules cannot, even in principle, behave as an autopoietic system; no matter how much food, liquid water, and serviceable energy they are provided, they still require cells for their continuity and duplication.) Some cells, such as Carsonella ruddii, have fewer than 200 genes and proteins, but they, like organelles and viruses, are not autopoietic, since they must be inside an autopoietic system (living cell) to metabolize and survive. No self-bounded autopoietic system smaller than a cell with at least 450 proteins and the genes that code for these proteins has ever been described. Larger than bacteria are other autopoietic systems of intermediate size such as protists, fungal spores, mules and other individual mammals, and plants such as oak trees or poppies. Autopoietic entities at even larger levels include ecosystems such as coral reefs, prairies, or ponds. The maximal or largest single autopoietic system known is referred to as "Gaia," named by English atmospheric scientist James E. Lovelock for Gaea, the ancient Greek personification of Earth. Gaia is basically a closed thermodynamic system because there is little interchange of matter with the extraterrestrial environment. There is evidence that the global, Gaian system of life shows organism-like properties, such as regulation of atmospheric chemistry, global mean temperature, and oceanic salinity over multimillion-year time spans. Such regulation may be understood as part of life's organization as a complex and cyclical open thermodynamic system.
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metaphysics: The organizing principles of nature…thoughts on the subject of living phenomena. Reflection on the concept of an organism had convinced him that a being of this sort could never be accounted for satisfactorily in mechanical terms; it was futile to hope that someday in the future there would appear a Newton of biology capable…
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death: The meaning of death…"the extinction or cessation of life" or as "ceasing to be." As life itself is notoriously difficult to define—and as everyone tends to think of things in terms of what is known—the problems in defining death are immediately apparent. The most useful definitions of life are those that stress function,…
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Although the U.S. national unemployment rate was 7.8 percent at the end of 2012, some cities are experiencing economic recovery faster than others.
According to a recently released Payscale Index, Houston, Seattle, Boston, Riverside and Dallas showed the biggest wage increases in the past year.
Workers in these cities experienced the strongest wage growth because these metro areas lead in terms of job creation in growing sectors of the economy, such as tech or the energy industry.
Houston hosts a variety of strong industries, including aeronautics and healthcare, but the boom in the oil and gas industry has had the biggest positive impact on wages in the city.
Joel Kotkin and Michael Shires at Forbes wrote that Texas has added around 200,000 "generally high-paying oil and gas jobs over the past decade."
Seattle, Boston, Riverside and Dallas are all known for their strong tech presence.
According to the Payscale Index, the metro cities with the least annual wage growth was Washington D.C. at 1.6 percent,
The chart below shows the wage growth compiled by Payscale: