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Yes. Thanks.
For fellow fans of Dr. Turin's "Duftnotes":
If you ever only read the 2005-6 articles (the defunct pdf, or on Scribd.com), or
If you enjoyed the 2009-10 articles that were linked to in previous threads by Narcus,
And, like me, never bothered digging through the NZZ Folio website for more,
Then rejoice, for...
A complete archive from 2003-2010 can be read online on this blog.
Whoever created the blog, where ever you are: thank you, thank you, thank you! It's a real treat.
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Wonderful find-- thanks!
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Thank you for the link!
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Whose voice is as beautiful as Urdu.
She who hides in the flowers
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Excellent! Thanks!
This is truly delightful! This will occupy hours of my work-time.
This is wonderful! Thanks for posting the link. I had a link to another website but it was super slow.
Oh that is just wonderful ! Thank you sooo much . I loved Luca Turin's blog.
Mr. Turin- if you read this - I am a great fan !
Petty small minded people have no place in my life.
Thanks for the link. I've read them all before but I always like reading them again.
Aristotle said the greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. Luca Turin has mastered metaphor as well as any writer ever has.
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Cool! Wouldn't mind a sticky.
Whoa, thank you so much! I've been looking for the full archive!
How does sunshine smell like?
Then, on September 7th, we were extremely pleased to hear directly from the author:
NZZ Folio / Luca Turin 2010 – Duftnote / Notes from the Nose
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Thanks for finding and posting, a real resource.
This is wonderful, thank you so much. It's getting so late here but I think I have to stay up later than I wanted because I HAVE to start reading the archive!
Here's a link for the text of the 7 month period ( June 2005- Jan 2006 ) of Duffnotes mentioned in the OP. Unlike the link above, this one includes all the reader comments and Turin's responses. The inclusion of which makes the thing "only" 548 pages long ! One can understand why the full run of posts shown above leaves out the comments.
For those who are gluttons for punishment, or simply Turin fans, this link also includes a search function in a toolbar at the bottom of the page.
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I know this is an old thread, but thank you for posting it. I have never visited any of the afementioned blogs, but love Luca Turin and his wit as well as his knowledge. I'll check this out.
Thank you from me too!
Thank you from me three!
Thanks to Bon Vivant and the ones who actually linked us with Mrs. Turin's jolly and sharp thoughts, always accurate and straight to the point, original like nobody else. Is also amazing to read his own post here, what can I say? Thanks to all!
My sarcasm is so evolved it sounds like sincerity.
Thrilled you shared this! Thank you.
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This is an amazing resource. Thank you!
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Last Post Before Vegas
This will be my last post before Vegas. Where I will be defending my championship from last year. You know, just in case you didn't know.
I've been playing a lot of poker here at all the different Casinos in Az. Even the one where Granpa Drizz lives near. I'm not sure if he is the old man who checked raised me in the Omaha game.
In any case, got a feel for live play again and not missing the bet here and there. All in all poker can be a bit depressing when you see people playing every hand and they continue to take money out of their pocket. I got to chatting with a man who said he played with his pension check. I saw him go through 400 bucks in about an hour after playing EVERY SINGLE HAND for a while. He must have been about 80 years old it was sad...and yes, I checked raised him on the river.
I've had a fantastic time here in Arizona. But truth be told...I'm a bit bored here. Not in a bad way...just use to the pace of NYC. It is quiet here and cars drive by only once every hour. There are no one legged hookers standing on the corner and old ex-hypes asking me for a dollar at the corner bodega.
People are playing a lot of different tournaments over in Vegas.
Someone came up with the idea of me getting post-its and assigning people A,B,C,D lister blogger status. I will save some the pain from getting that bad report.
In closing, I'm excited to see all of you in a couple of days I can't lie. In some sick way you degenerates have become a constant reminder of what is odd in the world. For the first time attendees...I don't do autographs...sorry.


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Monday, February 13, 2012
In praise of modesty
Consider, for example, the charmingly named 'slutwalk'. This began in Toronto, in response to a police officer's comment that, in order to be safer, "women should avoid dressing like sluts". The officer's comment was rude but realistic. Men are simple creatures. We have a biological system that is hard-wired to respond to signals of sexual availability – like exposed flesh – and whenever presented with such signals there is an instant limbic response which pushes testosterone into the body in order to prepare for a mating opportunity. This is our biological inheritance – what St Paul often called 'the flesh' – and the challenge for a civilised man is to ensure that these triggers do not overwhelm our wider values. When successful this is called character, the product of being trained in the virtues of self-restraint.
The problem with the slutwalk approach is that it believes that all men should have achieved that character before being allowed out in public. In other words, it rejects what I described in my last column as our fallen world. It does not recognise that the world is imperfect, and unlikely to be made perfect any time soon. To offer an analogy – if you are dealing with a recovering alcoholic then it is generally considered a good idea to make sure that access to alcohol is restricted, for the simple reason that the habit of self-restraint has not been properly fostered. The slutwalk attitude seems to imply that waving a bottle of vodka beneath an alcoholic's nose has absolutely nothing to do with their subsequent falling off the wagon. Very powerful passions are provoked – and the slutwalk is simply an abuse of power, an exercise in bullying.
This might seem to be 'blaming the victim' but that is not what I am trying to describe. A man who is unable to exercise a brake upon his passions is morally culpable for whatever they then do – I don't subscribe to our modern fad for medicalising our moral failures – but this is the world that we actually live in. It is simply imprudent to act so recklessly, with such brazen disregard for the consequences of our actions – and to then present that as a higher virtue simply reveals the moral depravity into which our culture has now sunk.
What we as a society need to do is work on our virtues more, recognising that many of the other benefits of social living that we take for granted depend upon a prior framework of accepted values in order to function. For example, business, politics and scientific research would all be impossible without the virtue of trust, which allows colleagues in the field to take what is said at face value. It is our virtues that make us free.
The slutwalk is not an exercise in freedom, but rather a parade of slaves to social and biological desires. In order to overcome such slavery, and gain a genuine freedom, virtues need to be cultivated, and the crucial virtue in this context is the virtue of modesty. I like the way that the Christian writer Kahlil Gibran described it: "modesty is for a shield against the eyes of the unclean". In other words, modesty is about not provoking a sexual response in the course of carrying out the normal business of life because to do so would be a distraction, and a potentially dangerous one at that. Even worse, by dissipating the power of the erotic through wall-to-wall exposure of flesh, the genuinely holy and creative power of the erotic in its proper place is vitiated. This is one aspect of the evil of the tabloid newspaper industry, and its prurient lack of propriety. Modesty, after all, has as its corollary the capacity to blush – blush at our own indiscretions but also at the revelation of someone else's. Honi soit qui mal y pense.
So am I arguing for a complete covering up? Do I believe that we should adopt the chador as customary women's clothing in our society? No, but I believe that there is a value in the Muslim approach which should not be dismissed. There is surely a happy and creative middle point between the slutwalk and the chador, one where our daughters can grow up to be respected as whole individuals and not simply evaluated as pieces of meat. I believe modesty is an essential component of that fuller life, a fuller life that includes a proper appreciation of the erotic. Modesty does not mean unsexy, after all – it simply leaves more room for the imagination to work, and that is the most important sexual organ of all.
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Agreed Sam, another example of balanced middle-ground being virtuous common sense.ReplyDelete
PS: talking of sexy modesty, did I ever mention my secret image collection of moslem veiled eyes ...
Only pint of disagreement is the extreme rhetoric in a line like "Men are simple creatures."ReplyDelete
My equivalent line is "We humans are just complicated enough."
Actually my understanding of the "slutwalk" thing is that most women who have been raped by a stranger weren't actually dressed immodestly at all. I saw a picture of one woman at a slutwalk dressed in very modest and unassuming clothes carrying a sign which said "This is what I was wearing when I was raped".ReplyDelete
From the Slutwalk Explained tumblr run by a Slutwalk organiser:ReplyDelete
It may interest you to know that rape and dress sense aren't linked at all.
When most people are raped by someone they knew (85.7%, sometimes found to be higher, depending on study) then dressing differently or more conservatively isn't a preventative measure at all. You're speaking of the much much smaller number of stranger-rape cases, and in those cases, if you look at this study, you'll realise that not only are clothing and your chances of getting raped not linked statistically what-so-ever (women, men, children and people of all gender identities are raped regardless of clothing) but "While people perceive dress to have an impact on who is assaulted, studies of rapists suggest that victim attire is not a significant factor. Instead, rapists look for signs of passiveness and submissiveness, which, studies suggest, are more likely to coincide with more body-concealing clothing."
"This conclusion is inconsistent with the common belief that how a woman dresses has an impact on whether she will be sexually harassed or sexually assaulted. Why then, do many people, including psychiatrists, assume that dress plays some part in who is a victim of sexual assaults? In particular, why do women believe this? Social scientists believe this is the result of the "just world hypothesis."
The just world hypothesis and attribution error basically explains the reason this rape myth has been around for so long is because, as human beings, we like to believe we're rational and that the world is logical, therefore we try to attribute certain characteristics to certain victims to believe that not only could we never be a victim of sexual assault ourselves, but that there was some logical reasoning behind what happened. This is really a defence mechanism. No one deserves rape, no one brought it upon themselves - rape only happens because there is a rapist in the room.
The basis of SlutWalk is against victim blaming and slut shaming – it's about shifting the focus from the victim to the perpetrator. Rape is a crime, cleavage is not.
Telling women how to dress is really a flimsy band-aid over the problem, and one that doesn't actually statistically or logically make sense. As a society we need to reject this band-aid and focus on real threat management.
(Looking at structural violence and sexism, the objectification rather than celebration of sexuality within society, education systems which don't have healthy and open dialogue on issues of consent, relationships and abuse are good places to start so we can start to pave our way to a consent culture.)
"When you shame women who dress "too slutty", guess what you're doing? You're perpetuating a culture that blames victims of sexual assault and rape. You're basically saying that if that woman were to be raped, well, she was kinda asking for it. YOU are the reason why rapists target those women: because you make it easier for them to get away with a horrible fucking crime. Rape is a fucking crime; cleavage isn't."
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ENNIS, Texas - Notes from round 2 qualifying in Pro Extreme at the American Drag Racing League, ADRL World Finals VIII presented by CarSafe listing lane, driver name, elapsed time/top speed this round, position in order following run, best prior elapsed time/speed, and position in order prior to run:
Left Lane: Bubba Stanton No Time, Now #2; Best prior run: 3.605/210.37, Was #2
Right Lane: Danny Lowry Runs 3.892/198.00, Now #14; Best prior run: 5.345/101.46, Was #22
5:18 p.m. Both cars made burnouts, then Stanton shut his car off and was pushed away.
Lowry launched hard, but the car was moving around a lot and he lifted.
Left Lane: Duane Rister Runs 3.725/199.40, Now #9; Best prior run: 3.759/201.91, Was #9
Right Lane: Terry Leggett Runs 4.282/144.03, Now #18; Best prior run: 4.380/117.28, Was #18
Good pass by Rister, but he stays ninth. Leggett's car was rocking back and forth until he lifted briefly to settle it down.
Left Lane: Neal Wantye Runs 3.748/208.14, Now #10; Best prior run: 4.560/114.07, Was #19
Right Lane: Alex Hossler Runs 3.686/206.29, Now #3; Best prior run: 3.640/208.01, Was #3
Wantye's car took the long route to the stripe, getting way over near the centerline in the middle of the run. He did run a career-best speed.
Left Lane: Brandon Snider Runs 3.824/202.36, Now #12; Best prior run: 5.172/107.40, Was #22
Right Lane: Randell Reid Runs 4.554/114.00, Now #21; No Prior Run
Snider bumped his way into the field on a good run. Reid did manage to get to the finish line, but his car was huffing and puffing halfway there.
Now Danny Lowry is on the bump spot at 3.892.
Left Lane: Jason Scruggs Runs 3.613/210.18, Now #3; Best prior run: 3.654/208.81, Was #4
Right Lane: Clint Thompson Runs 3.767/204.20, Now #11; Best prior run: 4.273/131.37, Was #19
Once again Scruggs delivered an "in your face" performance in his battle with Mick Snyder for the championship. Thompson bumped his way into the field.
Now Jon Stouffer is on the bump spot at 3.873.
Left Lane: Jay Diedrich Runs 3.814/203.58, Now #12; Best prior run: 3.848/202.24, Was #14
Right Lane: John Stanley Runs 3.801/163.43, Now #6; Best prior run: 3.702/207.24, Was #6
Stanley fell off his first-session pace by about a tenth, but Diedrich picked up three hundredths and a couple of positions on the ladder.
Left Lane: Todd Martin Runs 3.685/205.91, Now #6; Best prior run: 3.870/189.79, Was #15
Right Lane: Mick Snyder Runs 3.627/210.18, Now #4; Best prior run: 4.905/99.66, Was #23
Snyder just moved back into the points lead with this run - now he's tucked in right behind Scruggs on the ladder.
Meanwhile, while everyone was watching Snyder, Martin ran a career-best ET to move up to sixth.
Now Brandon Snider is on the bump spot at 3.824.
Left Lane: Frankie Taylor Runs 3.622/210.54, Now #4; Best prior run: 4.632/110.73, Was #23
Right Lane: Jon Stouffer No Time, Now #18; Best prior run: 3.873/197.80, Was #17
Stouffer was just bumped from the field and his car went silent on the burnout.
Taylor jumped in between Snyder and Scruggs with this run, bumping Snider.
That puts Taylor's teammate Tim Tindle on the bump spot at 3.815.
Left Lane: Quain Stott Runs 3.729/200.29, Now #13; Best prior run: 4.245/143.12, Was #21
Right Lane: Tommy D'Aprile Runs 3.634/208.62, Now #6; Best prior run: 3.700/205.04, Was #8
Stott made a run good enough to bump into the field, but his car was trailing a light mist from the front of the car as he neared the stripe and he stopped way before the end of the track. D'Aprile made a very nice run, a career-best ET in fact.
Now Jay Diedrich is on the bump spot at 3.814.
Left Lane: Gaylen Smith Runs 3.892/187.60, Now #21; No Prior Run
Right Lane: Tim Tindle Runs 3.696/207.43, Now #9; Best prior run: 3.815/177.91, Was #17
Smith did not make a run in the first session and Tindle had problems on his first run.
Both made good runs to half track, Smith about a tenth behind Tindle, but Tindle maintained the pace, Smith slowed.
Now Clint Thompson is on the bump spot at 3.767.
Left Lane: Todd Moyer Runs 4.185/191.19, Now #22; Best prior run: 4.050/198.47, Was #22
Moyer launched, pedaled to get out of tire spin and went into a big wheelstand, had to backpedal a second time to get the front end down.
Now Clint Thompson is on the bump spot at 3.767.


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Newcastle United are preparing to hijack Danny Graham's proposed move to Sunderland, Goal.com understands.
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Descalso, Wainwright leads Cards over Padres
San Diego, CA – Daniel Descalso went 3-for-3 and broke the contest open with an eighth-inning grand slam as the St. Louis Cardinals took a 10-2 victory over the San Diego Padres in the middle test of a three-game set at Petco Park.
Descalso knocked in five runs in all and scored three times to help back a solid performance from Adam Wainwright (6-3), who allowed just one run over 7 1/3 frames. He walked one and struck out six.
"I think for the most part, I accomplished what I set out to do," said Wainwright. "Directionally, my last start out was very bad, I got back on track tonight."
Carlos Beltran drove in a pair of runs while Matt Carpenter and Allen Craig each added two hits and an RBI for St. Louis, which has alternated victories and losses in its last seven contests.
Edinson Volquez (3-5) was knocked around over six innings for San Diego, tagged for five runs on eight hits and a walk with five strikeouts.
Jedd Gyorko scored once and had three of the Padres' seven hits, with their only runs coming on an Alexi Amarista double-play ball and a fielding error in the ninth by Descalso.
The Cardinals put forth a pair of four-run innings in the fifth and eighth to provide all the support Wainwright needed and snap San Diego's three-game winning streak.
St. Louis registered six hits in the fifth, with Descalso's double scoring Jon Jay from first and breaking a 1-1 tie. After a single from Pete Kozma and a sac bunt from Wainwright, the Cardinals had two in scoring position and Beltran plated them both with a single to center for a 4-1 St. Louis lead.
"They strung some hits together in the fourth," said Padres manager Bud Black. "Beltran got a hold of his fast ball, he ran a little too much over the plate."
Matt Holliday followed with a single and Craig capped the frame by bouncing a ground rule double over the wall in right to create a four-run cushion.
After allowing a double to Gyorko and a single to Denorfia in the second, Wainwright settled in. He forfeited a run on Amarista's double play but went on to retire 16 of last 18 batters he faced, allowing just a pair of singles over that stretch.
Anthony Bass began his second inning of work in the eighth and gave up singles to Holliday and Craig to begin the frame. After intentionally walking Jay, Descalso sent a breaking pitch over the wall in right center to bust open a 9-1 lead.
Holliday added a sac fly in the ninth and Yonder Alonso scored on Descalso's error in the bottom half after reaching with a one-out single earlier in the frame.
Game Notes
The Cardinals were 6-for-10 with runners in scoring position ... Kozma ended with two hits and a run scored ... Carlos Martinez threw the last 1 2/3 innings for the Cardinals and allowed one run on three hits.


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Richard Littlemore | November 11, 2009
By Richard Littlemore • Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 14:15
In the realm of silly petitions, manufactured by a small, agenda-driven group and leveraged to extend the fiction of a legitimate scientific controversy, no document has ever been studied to this degree.
Thanks to John Mashey, a technology consultant, entrepreneur, member of the American Physical Society and tireless researcher, this document lies completely exposed as another phony front group play for attention.
Mashey's own explanation begins like this:
"The American Physical Society (APS) was petitioned by 206 people, about 0.45% of the 47,000 members, to discard its climate change position and declare decades of climate research non-existent. The Petition was "overwhelmingly" rejected, but this anti-science campaign offers a useful case study. The Petition signers" demographics are compared to those of APS in general.
Then, the social network behind the petition is analyzed in detail, person by person for the first 121 signers. This might seem a grassroots groundswell of informed expert argument with the existing position, but it is not.
Rather, it seems to have originated within a small network of people, not field experts, but with a long history of manufacturing such things, plausibly at the Heartland Institute's NYC climate conference March 8-10, 2009. APS physicists can, do, and will contribute strongly to solving the 21st century"s conjoined climate+energy problem, but this petition was a silly distraction, and rightly rejected. However, its existence was widely touted to the public."
The whole, exhaustive document is attached. Fred Singer should be embarrassed.
For another take on this story, check out Adam Seigel's article: APS says "In your face deniers!"
Ben Lawson replied on Permalink
Sweet work!
Nice to see someone lift the rock and describe the bugs so carefully…
climate criminal replied on Permalink
Nothing embarrasses Fred Singer – he's been caught so often
Nothing would embarrass Fred Singer. He's inured to being caught-out red-handed with his lies.
If he were to be caught with his hands in a cash register, he would simply maintain that he was putting the money back!
To most scientists, the most important thing is to determine the truth!
To Singer, from what he has published and said, it seems that all that matters is the money!
RalphNader replied on Permalink
I would call this groundbreaking evidence that global warming is taking it in the chops. With all the polically correct BS and barriers to employment, 200+ brave men and women chose to stand with science and sign a petition calling for the truth to be exposed.
It makes you wonder just how small the global warming believers are. When the great global warming swindle aired in britain, 37 scientists signed a petition and sent it to BBC to complain and ask that the show never be aired again. 37 scientists is all the global warmers could muster. Looks like a small powerful elite is getting its ass kicked by defenders of justice like Fred Singer. Someone should give that guy a nobel prize for standing up for the scientific process.
Dennis W. replied on Permalink
Better Use of Their Time
"200+ brave men and women chose to stand with science and sign a petition calling for the truth to be exposed."
If they want to expose the truth, rather than signing a petition, why don't they conduct research and publish their results?
They DO conduct research and publish!
Just not in climate science…
As John shows in a table, ONE has been a regular contributor to climatological science and is fairly uncontroversial. The vast majority of the others have not even come close to being involved in ANY form of climate research, or in a field that has a link to climate research.
It's like a group of ornithologists telling virologists their research on HIV is all wrong and should be reconsidered…
Hank Roberts replied on Permalink
noticed a typo in Mashey piece
in Science Bypass v3.0 11/11/09
"The reader should be undaunted by the 18-page length of this paper. Most people need only read about
30 pages (Sections 1-5, first few pages of 6, then 7-8).?
"18" should read "128"
That one just jumped off the page at me screaming when I paged through it; I haven't actually read the article yet. I'm just one of those afflicted with this proofreading problem …..
John Mashey replied on Permalink
Got it Hank, thanks
I will accumulate errata.
ike solem replied on Permalink
Not-so-surprisingly enough, Soon & Baliunas have signed on...
Willie Soon & Sallie Baliunas got maximal exposure in the late 1990s, claiming that climate models were all wrong for about three major reasons:
1) The mid-upper tropical troposphere did not appear to be warming as climate models predicted.
2) There was no noticeable Arctic amplification of warming, and the sea ice wasn't really thinning, but was rather going back to normal - under the influence of the solar cycle.
3) The Little Ice Age was a global cooling event, and we are just on a rebound from that, so there's nothing unusual.
All of their objections have been overturned, by satellite data analysis showing the tropospheric warming, by observed collapses in Arctic sea ice unrelated to any changes in solar forcing, and by comprehensive evidence showing that the "Little Ice Age" was a regional climate fluctuation, not a global one. However, they won't acknowledge their errors - like Richard Lindzen, they just keep trotting out discredited concepts in front of gullible audiences.
If you are a scientist, you have to acknowledge when your objections have been met, or you simply expose yourself as a public relations flak - though I didn't know that Baliunas and Soon were also affiliated with GMI.
There are some striking historical similarities here… consider the attacks on Einstein by a collection of German scientists over his ideologically suspect theory of general relativity. The issues were different, but the approach was remarkably similar - take it from Einstein, who responded thus:
- "A motley group has joined together to form a company under the prestigious name "Syndicate of German Scientists" currently with the single purpose of denigrating the theory of relativity and me as its author in the eyes of non-physicists."
That was followed by the publication of "One Hundred Authors Against Einstein," leading to the response, "Why 100 authors? If I were wrong, then one would have been enough!"
Nowhere in observations, experiment or theory can you find any flaw in the notion that putting long-lived greenhouse gases into the atmosphere will significantly warm the planet's surface and alter the climate. If someone could find such a flaw, they wouldn't need a hundreds of signatures on a petition - that's just for propaganda purposes.
John Mashey replied on Permalink
Baliunas & Soon
Jsut to be clear: Baliunas & Soon were *not* signers (I don't think they or Lindzen are APS members), I called them *supporters* because they seemed tightly intertwined and links on several chains.
One area I didn't have the time to discuss as thoroughly was *seniority (or cohort colleague) chains* (although that was part of the reason for finding birth years). With more time I might have figured out a graphic way of showing these other relationships without making the spaghetti even worse, but a few of the obvious ones were:
GMI/H-SCfA chain (all "supporters") plus USC aerospace Chain
1925 Jastrow (GMI founder)
………1943 Kunc [Soon's PhD advisor] 1945 Gruntman 1934 Rapp 1924 Mirels
1954 Baliunas
1966 Soon
It is quite plausible, but totally unproven that some subset of the USC group knew Jastrow and got this from him, or if it flowed back there via
Jastrow=>Baliunas=>Soon=>{Kunc, etc}
or if it's just all random coincidence.
Recall that the 1990 GMI book referenced a 1985 Baliunas paper and thanked her;
she and Jastrow did a 1990 paper together, and some later in the 1990s. He was Director of Mt Wilson 1992-2003 (and lived in Westwood, not far from Caltech and USC) and she was deputy Director at least part of that time. [If anyone knows the exact interval, I'd love to know.] Anyway, I think there was at least a 10-15-year working relationship.
Jastrow *was* a towering figure in astro, so many would have known him.
The U of Rochester Physics chain is murkier, but probably goes
1920 Sproull (GMI)
1931 Knox 1935 Gold
1943 Douglass [and maybe 1943 West and ???? Battaglia]
1947 Bodek
and that leads to U of N Texas / Duke
1943 West
1956 Scafetta
Then there's Princeton:
1939 Happer
1946 Austin (NAS member, so more seniority)
1943 Suckewer 1954 Torquato
1946 Austin
1961 Ryan
I'm sure there are many more, but they are much harder to find in industry an big US National Labs although a few seem obvious like:
1921 Agnew (LANL Director)
(Many LANL people)
Although I looked hard in the first 121 people, if I couldn't find co-authorship, or company pictures that showed people in same small group, it was hard to be sure of some connections that seemed plausible. I'm sure I missed plenty. I didn't look too hard at the last 85, as those searches can get very time-consuming, and when I found the (N+1st_ person in New Mexico, it didn't seem worth trying to figure out which of the N earlier people they might know.
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Troposperic Warming
Ike, tell me more about the "satellite data analysis showing the tropospheric warming"?
The much proclaimed "fingerprint" of CO2-induced warming is totally and embarrassingly absent. (Hadley Cente for Forecasting 2006)& INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY
Int. J. Climatol. (2007)(www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI: 10.1002/joc.1651 A comparison of tropical temperature trends with model
Likewise 2. Current (Greenland) coastal temperatures are about 1°C below their 1940 values." Furthermore, "at the summit of the Greenland ice sheet the summer average temperature has decreased at the rate of 2.2°C per decade since the beginning of the measurements in 1987.
Chylek, P., Box, J.E. and Lesins, G. 2004. Global warming and the Greenland ice sheet. Climatic Change 63: 201-221.
and 3 The Little Ice-Age was just that-cold. Even Mann's ludicrous "Hockey Stick" reconstruction shows it was the coldest period in 1000 years. Mann, M.E., Bradley, R.S. and Hughes, M.K. 1998. Nature 392: 779-787.
Please try and get your facts right.
Scott Mandia replied on Permalink
The Facts
1) This hotspot is not a signature of the greenhouse effect – it is a signature of warming from any source, and the hotspot is not missing. According to B.D. Santer et al. (2008): "Using state-of-the-art observational datasets and results from a large archive of computer model simulations, a consortium of scientists from 12 different institutions has resolved a long-standing conundrum in climate science – the apparent discrepancy between simulated and observed temperature trends in the tropics. Research published by this group indicates that there is no fundamental discrepancy between modeled and observed tropical temperature trends when one accounts for: 1) the (currently large) uncertainties in observations; 2) the statistical uncertainties in estimating trends from observations. These results refute a recent claim that model and observed tropical temperature trends "disagree to a statistically significant extent". This claim was based on the application of a flawed statistical test and the use of older observational datasets."
Two other good resources on the so-called missing hot spot can be found at Chris Colose's: Skeptics/Denialists Part 2: Hotspots and Repetition and Tim Lambert's: David Evans doesn't even know what the hot spot is.
Santer, B.D. et al. (2008). Fact sheet for "consistency of modelled and observed temperature trends in the tropical troposphere". http://www.realclimate.org/docs/santer_etal_IJoC_08_fact_sheet.pdf
2) Arctic amplification is well underway. Sea ice extent and thickness are thinning. One cannot choose Greenland to represent the entire Arctic.
(Tamino, 2009) clearly shows that surface temperatures north of latitude 60o are warming at an accelerated rate in the past few decades. Tamino retrieved 113 station records at latitude 60oN or higher with at least 30 years of data.
The analyses show:
i) The Arctic has experienced a sudden, recent warming.
ii) In the last decade extreme northern temperature has risen to unprecedented heights.
iii) Over the last 3 decades, every individual station north of 70o indicates warming, 13 of 17 are significant at 95% confidence, all estimated trend rates are faster than the global average, some are more than five times as fast.
iv) Oft-repeated claims that "it was warmer in the 1930s" or "it was warmer in the 1940s" are wrong.
v) The idea that present arctic temperatures are about equal to their 1958 values is wrong.
3) The LIA was a globally cool period but much cooler in Europe than globally. At any rate, "coming out of the LIA" is not a forcing mechanism for warming and this misleading phrase is frequently used by folks such as Fred Singer and Ian Plimer who are being paid to confuse people. "Coming out of the LIA" is right up there with "sound science" and "junk science" meaning that if one hears these phrases one must immediately be skeptical of the person using them.
Jones, P. D., and M. E. Mann (2004), "Climate Over Past Millennia", Rev. Geophys., 42, RG2002, doi:10.1029/2003RG000143.
Mann, Michael E., 2002, "Little Ice Age", Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change, 1:504–509
Scott A. Mandia http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/global_warming/
John Mashey replied on Permalink
Thanks to a few folks who have sent me errata, and of course, anyone (like S. Fred) who thinks the study has serious flaws is welcome to post them here, according to Richard L. I'll keep an eye on this thread and respond as appropriate.


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Tennis great Pete Sampras and his wife, actress Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, have listed their newly built compound in Lake Sherwood for $25 million.
Hot Property: The March 6 Hot Property column, which reported that music industry executive Phil Quartararo had listed his Brentwood home for sale, incorrectly stated the size of the home as 6,300 square feet. It is 7,200 square feet, excluding the guesthouse. —
The gated contemporary sits on 20 hilltop acres with 360-degree views, a north-south tennis court and a swimming pool. The more than 13,000-square-foot main house has a theater and a game room. Including the 1,200-square-foot guesthouse and the 2,000-square-foot detached gym, the property has seven bedrooms and 11 1/2 bathrooms.
Sampras, 38, won 14 Grand Slam men's singles titles and held the No. 1 ranking for 286 weeks. Since he officially retired from the sport in 2003, he has beaten Roger Federer in an exhibition match and John McEnroe in the Outback Champions Series.
The couple offered no reason for selling, but Sampras does have an impressive real estate record, having sold a Beverly Hills mansion in 2008 for $23 million as well as other homes in Benedict Canyon and Beverly Hills since 2003, according to Times reports.
Wilson-Sampras, 36, starred in "The Wedding Planner" (2001), "House on Haunted Hill" (1999), "I Know What You Did Last Summer" (1997) and "Billy Madison" (1995).
Jordan Cohen of Re/Max Olsen & Associates, Westlake Village, has the listing.
They'll stay tuned for a sale
Producer-director Bud Yorkin and his wife, actress Cynthia Sikes, have put their Holmby Hills estate on the market for $49.5 million.
The gated traditional home, built in 1938, has five bedrooms and 7 1/2 bathrooms in about 11,900 square feet. The house has an oversized living room with a sunken bar, a wood-paneled study and a projection room. The master bedroom suite has his and hers bathrooms and walk-in closets, a sun room and vaulted ceilings. Nearly 2.75 acres of park-like grounds include a swimming pool, a tennis court, a gym and rose gardens.
The Emmy Award-winning Yorkin co-founded Tandem Productions with Norman Lear in the early '60s. The company produced such hit shows as "All in the Family" (1971-79) and "Sanford and Son" (1972-77), for which Yorkin was executive producer and a director.
Sikes has appeared on "The Young and the Restless" (2008) and "JAG" (2000-01), among other shows and films, and had a starring role on "St. Elsewhere" (1982-1985). She was Miss Kansas in the 1972 Miss America Pageant.
The house, which epitomizes 1930s Hollywood, was built by gangster Bugsy Siegel, but he never lived there. Cosmetics mogul Max Factor was among later owners.
Yorkin and Sikes are selling because they would like a view property. Perhaps they'd like to check out the Sampras estate.
Linda May of Coldwell Banker's Beverly Hills North office and Jade Mills of Coldwell Banker's Beverly Hills South office have the listing.
He'll say adios to his hacienda
Music industry executive Phil Quartararo has his walled and gated Brentwood home listed for $13.25 million.
The hacienda-style residence was built in 1936 and designed by John Byers, known for the Spanish Colonial Revival style. It was expanded during Quartararo's ownership in keeping with its Mexican and Spanish architectural roots.
One-of-a-kind features include the extensive trompe l'oeil, elaborate wrought iron and hand-painted tiles. The six-bedroom, 7 1/2-bathroom house has about 6,300 square feet of living space and sits on nearly a 1 1/2 acres.
In the main house are formal living and dining rooms, a library, a den, offices, a children's playroom, media rooms and a master bedroom suite with a living room. There is a three-bedroom guesthouse, a swimming pool and spa.
Quartararo, 54, has served as president of EMI Music Marketing, Virgin Records and Warner Bros. Records.
The listing agents are Zizi Pak and Philip Seymour of the Seymour Group, Elite Properties Realty, Beverly Hills.
Hockey player scores a Bel-Air home
Two-time Stanley Cup winner Oleg Tverdovsky has bought a Mediterranean home in Bel-Air for $5.4 million.
Built in 2008, the five-bedroom, seven-bathroom, 7,000-square-foot home sits on nearly 2 acres with ocean, mountain, city and canyon views, according to Multiple Listing Service details. It includes a massive two-sided fireplace in the great room, a gym, an office, an outdoor kitchen and dining area, and a swimming pool and spa.
The Ukrainian-born Tverdovsky, 33, helped win the Stanley Cup in 2003 playing with the New Jersey Devils and in 2006 with the Carolina Hurricanes.
The defenseman also played with the Los Angeles Kings and the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim during his National Hockey League career. He left the NHL to play in Russia's Kontinental Hockey League starting in the 2007-2008 season.
Santiago Arana and Rodrigo Iglesias of Sotheby's International Realty, Brentwood, were the listing agents, and Galina Blackman of Coldwell Banker, Beverly Hills, represented the buyer, the MLS shows.
Former Groucho Marx home is sold
Update: A Beverly Hills house designed by architect Wallace Neff in 1956 for comedic actor Groucho Marx has sold for $8.8 million.
The rebuilt and updated Trousdale Estates home, which maintains its Neff footprint, is approached through a motor court with a central fountain. The one-story contemporary has walls of wood and glass and floors of terrazzo and walnut. There are five bedrooms, six bathrooms, a library and a maid's suite in slightly more than 6,000 square feet.
A pool, a spa and a waterfall complement an alfresco dining area, patios and a fire pit that extend the living space outdoors. The gated three-quarter acre lot has downtown L.A. and canyon views.
Marx, the cigar-smoking brother who sported wire rims, fake eyebrows and a mustache, made films with his siblings (including "Duck Soup" in 1933 and "A Night in Casablanca" in 1946) and without. He played opposite Carmen Miranda in "Copacabana" (1947). Marx hosted the radio quiz show "You Bet Your Life," which later was picked up by television and ran from 1950 to 1961.
The actor shared the home with his third wife, actress Eden Hartford, until his death in 1977 at the age of 86.
The house came on the market in August at $12.9 million. It previously sold in 2007 for $4,675,000, according to public records.
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On this day in 1863 the tide of the Civil War turned decisively in favor of the Union, with victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. While the victory at Vicksburg was a long time coming, the victory at Gettysburg was set on Day 2 of the battle, July 2, 1863. Among the heroes who saved the Union on July 2 were the 282 men of the First Minnesota Volunteers. Their story cannot be told often enough, and Mackubin Thomas Owens made it the centerpiece of his terrific 2003 "Reflections on Memorial Day."
As John has previously observed here:
The pivot of American history turns on the second day at Gettysburg, and, while thousands of men fought gallantly on both sides that day, there were two points where the fate of the world, really, hung in the balance. The first was at Little Round Top, where Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain's 20th Maine held off Confederate attacks throughout the day. The second came late in the afternoon, when the Confederates attacked the center of the Union line, which had been stripped almost bare as Union generals sent more and more troops to defend the southern part of the line. It was in the center that the First Minnesota made its famous suicide charge, attacking onrushing Confederates who outnumbered the Minnesotans fifteen to one in a desperate effort to gain time to reinforce the Union line. The regiment suffered a casualty rate exceeding 80 percent, but succeeded beyond General Hancock's expectations, as they not only purchased with their lives the critical minutes needed to reinforce the Union line, but stopped the Confederate advance in its tracks. No unit of the United States Army has ever exceeded the First Minnesota for gallantry and courage.
As John noted, Chamberlain's moment also came at Gettysburg on July 2. John summarized Chamberlain's heroics and those of the Maine volunteers under his command:
An excellent scholar, Chamberlain was a professor at Bowdoin when the war broke out. Considered a little old for military service, he took a "sabbatical" from Bowdoin and enlisted. His most famous moment came, of course, at Gettysburg, where he and his Maine volunteers held Little Round Top against heavy odds. At the height of the battle, with Chamberlain wounded and his men running out of ammunition, Chamberlain–who had been ordered to hold the position, which anchored the Union line, at all costs–responded not by withdrawing but by ordering a bayonet charge that broke the Confederate attack. By the end of the war he was a Major General (brevet). Chamberlain was widely regarded as the toughest man in the Union Army. He was wounded six times, and left for dead on the battlefield at least once. Grant chose him to lead the Army of the Potomac in the Grand Review of the Union Armies in Washington at the close of the war. After the war, Chamberlain was elected Governor of Maine four times. His Civil War wounds finally killed him, but not until 1914.
As word reached Washington that Vicksburg as well as Gettysburg had ended with a Union victory, many sensed that the Union efforts had reached a turning point. Lincoln spoke to the crowd that gathered outside the White House on the evening of July 7. (See the text of Lincoln's July 7 remarks here; see Professor Donald Miller's comments here). He warmed to a theme he would not develop fully until the following November. "How long ago is it?" he asked. "Eighty odd years, since on the Fourth of July for the first time in the history of the world a nation by its representatives, assembled and declared as a self-evident truth that 'all men are created equal.'"
The war, he noted, was a "gigantic rebellion…precisely at the bottom of which [was] an effort to subvert that principle." Now the rebels had suffered two staggering defeats on the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. "Gentlemen," he added, "this is a glorious theme, and a glorious occasion for a speech, but I am not prepared to make one worthy of the theme and worthy of the occasion." Lincoln concluded:
Recent events bring up certain names, gallantly prominent, but I do not want to particularly name them at the expense of others, who are as justly entitled to our gratitude as they. I therefore do not upon this occasion name a single man. And now I have said about as much as I ought to say in this impromptu manner, and if you please, I'll take the music.


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This Week Sunday 8 June 2014
A look at events making the news in the past week with Colm Ó Mongain and Richard Crowley.
The Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, speaks to us about the Government's preliminary inquiry into the former Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Co. Galway, and the Church's approach to any investigation.
In 1997, former RTE journalist Mike Milotte investigated how thousands of children from the homes were adopted by American couples. He discusses how he discovered that some of the basic safeguards were simply ignored.
A discussion with historian Cliona Rattigan who has carried out research into how hundreds of single women, who became pregnant and felt that they could not keep their child and decided to kill their babies, were charged and convicted with infanticide between 1925 and the late 1950's. Some listeners may find this section disturbing.
Two years ago, EU leaders committed to breaking the "vicious circle between banks and sovereigns", and specific reference was made to the Irish financial sector. To date there has been no form of financial assistance made here. UCD economist Karl Whelan discusses the options.
Sinead Morris reports on calls for changes in the law to assist employees of failed businesses.
Journalist Diarmaid Fleming discusses the consequences of pyrite contamination as the Department of the Environment confirms an investigation is ongoing into reports that a number of building sites in Leinster have received delivery of concrete blocks which may have been contaminated with pyrite.
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Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s and 2000s. In this instance, the word "alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from mainstream rock music. The term's original meaning was broader, referring to a generation of musicians unified by their collective debt to either the musical style or simply the independent, D.I.Y. ethos of punk rock, which in the late 1970s laid the groundwork for alternative music. At times, "alternative" has been used as a catch-all description for music from underground rock artists that receives mainstream recognition, or for any music, whether rock or not, that is seen to be descended from punk rock (including some examples of punk itself, as well as new wave, and post-punk).
By 1984, a majority of groups signed to independent record labels mined from a variety of rock and particularly 1960s rock influences. This represented a sharp break from the futuristic, hyper-rational post-punk years.
Throughout the 1980s, alternative rock remained mainly an underground phenomenon. While on occasion a song would become a commercial hit or albums would receive critical praise in mainstream publications like Rolling Stone, alternative rock in the 1980s was primarily featured on independent record labels, fanzines, and college radio stations. Alternative bands built underground followings by touring constantly and by regularly releasing low-budget albums. In the case of the United States, new bands would form in the wake of previous bands, which created an extensive underground circuit in America, filled with different scenes in various parts of the country. Although American alternative artists of the 1980s never generated spectacular album sales, they exerted a considerable influence on later alternative musicians and laid the groundwork for their success. By 1989 the genre had become popular enough that a package tour featuring New Order, Public Image Limited and The Sugarcubes toured the United States arena circuit.
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The Children of Asa & Sarah (Morrill) Foster
Asa and Sarah (Morrill) Foster had 12 children, all born in Canterbury, New Hampshire. This picture is of ten of them! (See my post on Sarah's efforts to receive Asa's pension after he died here).
Seated (l-r): Asa Foster b. September 2, 1795
Lucy Foster b. January 30, 1797
Adams Foster b. February 22, 1800
Mehitable Foster b. October 21, 1803
Standing (l-r): Caroline Foster b. January 13, 1816
Newel Foster b. February 7, 1814
David Foster b. October 11, 1811
Stephen Foster b. November 17, 1809
Galen Foster b. October 10, 1807
Sarah Foster b. December 7, 1805
I am not sure exactly where or when the photo was taken, but I think it is wonderful that they all came together to have this picture taken!!
This amazing photo came to me via a cousin of my husband.


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A recent study of American management practices by the Census Bureau and researchers from Stanford, MIT, and the London School of Economics, found that better techniques have a large positive impact on manufacturing performance, increasing the number of patents per employee, profits and growth.
Surprisingly, they found real regional differences in the use of the best practices. The South and the Midwest outclassed the Northeast and the West by a significant margin. Kansas comes in first, followed by Tennessee, South Carolina, and Iowa.
The entire top 10 was made up of Southern and Midwestern states. That expertise, combined with the fact that those regions have lower costs and wages that attract companies, could center manufacturing growth in these states.
Here's the study's map with the state by state breakdown. A higher score (and darker color) indicates higher adoption of successful management techniques.
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Here is a report based on servey conducted by a Pakistani Website.
10. Saba Qamar
Sabar Qamar is a model and an actress born on December 25, 1981 in Gujranwala. She has worked in different TV drama serials and also on commercials for various brands. She is currently the host of a popular political satire show on GEO TV, Hum Sub Umeed Se Hain. She won the 16th annual PTV award for best TV actress in the categories of public choice as well as the jury. She has worked in such TV serials as Dastaan and Pani Jaisa Piyar amongst others. She is a dedicated professional and should enter into Pakistani films too.
9. Annie Khalid
Annie Khalid is a singer and a model, who is known as the Pakistani Princess of Pop. She has been signed as an ambassador for a new Emirati airline. She is very popular amongst the youth of the country, who admire her fashion style and her music. She is also internationally known through her concerts which she has performed in many different places around the world. Thus, she has fans both in Pakistan and outside.
8. Humaima Malik
Humaima Malick is an actress and a supermodel born on November 18, 1987 in Quetta. She started her career in modeling at an early age of 14. She has worked in many drama serials and entered in films through Shoaib Mansoor's Bol in 2011. She was once married to the actor Shamoon Abbasi, but got separated in April 2010. She has been offered to work in Bollywood too and she has accepted the offer reportedly. She has also recently won London Film Festival award for best actress. She wants to represent Pakistan internationally showcasing the country's entertainment talent.
7. Mahira Khan
Mahira Khan is a VJ, who has worked on TV channels like MTV Pakistan and Aag TV. She is also an actress who recently gained much attention due to her role in the drama serial Humsafar. She has also worked on the film Bol. She was born in Karachi on December 21, 1982. She got married in 2007 to a TV producer. She also has a son. She also works in TV commercials and does modeling too. She had always wanted to be famous as a young girl and tried all forms of entertainment in Pakistan.
6. Syra Khan
Syra Khan is an actress and a VJ who lives in Karachi. She was born at 20th April 1988 in Karachi. Syra yousuf started her career as VJ at MTV and got success with her very first show. "Bheja Fry". Syra yousuf also appeared in TV commercials of leading brands of Pakistan like "Mobilink", "Fair & Lovely", and "Peki".
5. Iman Ali
Iman Ali is an actress and a model born on December 19, 1980 in Lahore. Her father is also a renowned Pakistani television and film actor Abid Ali. Her two sisters are also actresses. She entered into Pakistani entertainment industry by working on a short music video directed by Shoaib Mansoor. She made her film debut with the same director through Khuda Kay Liye, for which she won Lux Style Award for Best Actress in 2008. She has also reportedly been signed for a film in Bollywood. She is interested in doing international projects too.
4. Mona Lisa
Mona Lizza is an actress who was born on December 11, 1979 in Kuwait. She was named Mona by her father before her birth and other family members added the name Lizza. She is interested in not just acting but other arts like poetry, painting, and writing. She likes touring around the world too. Her first drama serial was Rabia Zinda Rahegi in 2003. She has also worked in theatre in Karachi and Delhi. She formally announced leaving the Pakistani television industry to work on films only which are made nationally and internationally. She entered in Bollywood through the film Kajraare in 2008.
3. Aisha Linnea Akhtar
Aisha Linnea Akhtar is actress who recently got married to Shahbaz Hamid Shigri on March 12, 2012. She is best known for her performance in the film Slackistan (2010), which is a Pakistani English film. The film was banned by the Central Board of Film Censors (CBFC) due to abusive language and behavior of some of the characters in the film. However, it was played in many film festivals around the world. Aisha is still to make her name in the Pakistani entertainment industry. But just as she is pretty, she is also pretty talented too.
2. Mehwish Hayyat
Mehwish Hayat is a model and an actress who was voted as the 9th sexiest Asian woman by Eastern Eye, a UK magazine's annual list for the year 2008 and 2009. So far, she has been the only Pakistani woman to have been featured on the list. She is considered Pakistan's first young international female film star. She has played many different roles on TV dramas. She has also worked in TV commercials and billboard campaigns for the country's leading brands. She supports the cause of "Yeh Hum Nahee", which is an anti-terrorism campaign from the Pakistani youth.
1. Mahnoor Baloch
Mahnoor Baloch began her career in modeling at an age of 20 and then later she also became an actress debuting on TV in 1993 with the drama serial Marvi. Born on July 4, 1970, she was married by the age of 15. She has played major roles in many drama serials and also worked on many TV commercials. She is known for her acting skills and is much appreciated by audiences. She stepped into direction in 2000 and also produced many drama serials. Her first direction was for "Lamhay". She is reportedly also working on a Hollywood film "Two Mothers".
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This section describes the following tasks:
Another STS example application can be found at the following URL: https://wsit.dev.java.net/source/browse/wsit/wsit/samples/ws-trust/.
The following example application starts with the example provided in Chapter 3, WSIT Example Using a Web Container and NetBeans IDE and demonstrates adding security to both the web service and to the web service client.
For this example, the security mechanism of STS Issued Token is used to secure the application. The steps are similar to the ones described in Example: Username Authentication with Symmetric Keys (UA), with the addition of creating and securing an STS.
To add security to the service part of the example, follow these steps.
Create a user on GlassFish if you haven't already done so. (see Adding Users to GlassFish).
Create the CalculatorApplication example by following the steps described in the following sections of Chapter 3, WSIT Example Using a Web Container and NetBeans IDE.
Skip the section on adding Reliable Messaging.
Deploying and Testing a Web Service (first two steps only, do not run the project yet).
Expand CalculatorApplication->Web Services, then right-click the node for the web service, CalculatorWS, and select Edit Web Service Attributes.
Deselect the Reliable Messaging option if it is selected.
Select Secure Service.
From the drop-down list for Security Mechanism, select STS Issued Token.
Select the Configure button. For Algorithm Suite, select Basic128 bit. For Key Size, select 128. Select OK to close the configuration dialog (the algorithm suite value of the service must match the algorithm suite value of the STS.)
If you have configured Unlimited Strength Encryption as described in To Create a Third-Party STS, you can leave the key size at 256. Otherwise, you must set it to 128.
Click OK to exit the WSIT Configuration editor.
A new file is added to the project. To view the WSIT configuration file, expand Web Pages->WEB-INF, then double-click the file wsit-org.me.calculator.CalculatorWS.xml.
Right-click the CalculatorApplication node and select Run Project. This step compiles the application and deploys it onto GlassFish. A browser will open and display the WSDL file for the application.
Follow the steps for creating and securing the Security Token Service as described in To Create and Secure the STS (STS).
To create and secure a Security Token Service for this example, follow these steps.
Create a new project for the STS by selecting File->New Project.
Select Web, then Web Application, then Next.
Type MySTSProject for the Project Name, then click Finish.
Right-click the MySTSProject node, select New, then click File/Folder at the top.
Select Web Services from the Categories list.
Select Secure Token Service (STS) from the File Type(s) list, then click Next.
Type the name MySTS for the Web Service Class Name.
Select org.me.my.sts from the Package list, then click Finish.
The IDE takes a while to create the STS. When created, it appears under the project's Web Services node as MySTSService, and MySTS.java appears in the right pane.
The STS wizard creates an empty implementation of the provider class. Implement the provider implementation class by copying the following code into the MySTS.java file.
Add these import statements to the list of imports:
import com.sun.xml.ws.security.trust.sts.BaseSTSImpl; import javax.annotation.Resource; import javax.xml.ws.Provider; import javax.xml.ws.Service; import javax.xml.ws.ServiceMode; import javax.xml.ws.WebServiceContext; import javax.xml.ws.WebServiceProvider; import javax.xml.transform.Source; import javax.xml.ws.handler.MessageContext;
Add the following Resource annotation after the line public class MySTS implements javax.xml.ws.Provider<Source> {:
@Resource protected WebServiceContext context;
Change the following line of code:
public class MySTS implements javax.xml.ws.Provider<Source>
public class MySTS extends BaseSTSImpl implements javax.xml.ws.Provider<Source>
For the invoke method, replace the return null line with the following return statement:
return super.invoke(source);
Add the following method after the invoke method:
protected MessageContext getMessageContext() { MessageContext msgCtx = context.getMessageContext(); return msgCtx; }
Back in the Projects window, expand the MySTSProject node, then expand the Web Services node. Right-click the MySTSService[IMySTSService_Port] node and select Edit Web Service Attributes to configure the STS.
Select Secure Service if it's not already selected.
Verify that the Security Mechanism of Username Authentication with Symmetric Keys is selected.
Select the Configure button. For Algorithm Suite, verify that Basic128 bit is selected (so that it matches the value selected for the service.) For the Key Size, verify that 128 is selected. Select OK to close the configuration dialog.
Select Act as Secure Token Service (STS), then click OK to close the Select STS Service Provider dialog.
Click the Keystore button to provide your keystore with the alias identifying the service certificate and private key. To do this, click the Load Aliases button, select wssip, then click OK to close the dialog.
Click OK to close the WSIT Configuration dialog.
A new file is added to the project. To view the WSIT configuration file, expand Web Pages->WEB-INF->wsdl->MySTS, then double-click the file MySTSService.wsdl. This file contains the sc:KeyStore element.
Right-click the MySTSProject tab, select Properties. Select the Run category, and type the following in the Relative URL field: /MySTSService?wsdl.
Run the Project (right-click the project and select Run Project).
The STS WSDL appears in the browser.
Follow the steps to secure the client application as described in To Secure the Example Web Service Client Application (STS).
This section demonstrates adding security to the CalculatorApplication's web service client, which was secured using the security mechanism described in STS Issued Token.
To add security to the client, complete the following steps.
Create the client application by following the steps described in Creating a Client to Consume a WSIT-Enabled Web Service.
Whenever you make changes on the service, refresh the client so that the client will pick up the change. To refresh the client, right-click the node for the Web Service Reference for the client, and select Refresh Client.
Drill down from CalculatorWSServletClient->Web Service References.
Right-click CalculatorWSService and select Edit Web Service Attributes, then select the WSIT Configuration tab.
Provide the client's private key by pointing to an alias in the keystore. To do this, expand the Certificates node, click the Load Aliases button for the keystore, and select xws-security-client from the Alias list.
Provide the service's certificate by pointing to an alias in the client truststore. To do this, from the Certificates node, click the Load Aliases button for the truststore and select xws-security-server from the Alias list.
Expand the Security Token Service node to provide details for the STS to be used. When the Endpoint and the Metadata values are the same, you only need to enter the Endpoint value. For the Endpoint field, type the following value:
Click OK to close this dialog.
The service requires a token to be issued from the STS at http://localhost:8080/MySTSProject/MySTSService, with WSDL file http://localhost:8080/MySTSProject/MySTSService?wsdl. To do this, follow these steps:
Right-click the CalculatorWSServletClient node and select New->Web Service Client.
The New Web Service Client window appears.
Select the WSDL URL option.
Cut and paste the URL of the web service that you want the client to consume into the WSDL URL field. For example, here is the URL for the MySTS web service:
Type org.me.calculator.client.sts in the Package field, then click Finish.
The Projects window displays the new web service client.
Drill down from CalculatorWSServletClient->Web Service References.
Right-click MySTSService and select Edit Web Service Attributes.
Select the WSIT Configuration tab of the MySTSService dialog.
Provide the client's private key by pointing to an alias in the keystore. To do this, expand the Certificates node, click the Load Aliases button for the keystore, and select xws-security-client from the Alias list.
Verify the STS's certificate by pointing to an alias in the client truststore. To do this, from the Certificates node, click the Load Aliases button and select wssip from the Alias list.
Expand the Username Authentication node and verify that the default user name and password as specified in GlassFish.
If you followed the steps in Adding Users to GlassFish, this will be User Name wsitUser and Password changeit.
Click OK to close this dialog.
Compile and run this application by right-clicking the CalculatorWSServletClient project and selecting Run Project.


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Four Sisters
A short stroll off the main Upper Street drag, this high-ceilinged Canonbury bar is bright and airy yet cosy and discreet – perfect for an illicit afternoon sesh. This quartet of siblings take their cocktails very seriously indeed, and it shows; you've probably necked a negroni or two in your time, but have you ever tried a six-week-barrel-aged negroni? It's dark, sweet and intoxicating on many levels. The popular elderflower julep is an altogether lighter proposition, with a subtle hint of apple, and is emblematic of Four Sisters' rigorous approach to ingredients; the gin hails from the nearby East London Liquor Co, and the syrups (lavender, passion fruit, cranberry) are made in-house. This kind of quality doesn't come cheap, so if you're sceptical swing by during happy hour, perch up on a barstool with a partner-in-crime and grab two works of expertly made enliveners for a mere tenner.
Darkly Dickensian and full of cosy corners, The Four Sisters is an intimate cocktail bar just moments from Islington's Upper Street.
With a stylish signature drinks menu, the bar specialises in a range of house-infused spirits, homemade syrups, purées, shrubs, tinctures and barrel-aged cocktails. Our mantra is one of creativity and personalisation where a drink will be tailored to the personality in front of us, with our bartenders aiming to create something unique for each one.
|Venue name:
|Four Sisters
25 Canonbury Lane
|Opening hours:
|Open 4pm-midnight Mon-Thur; 4pm-2am Fri-Sat; Closed Sun
|Tube: Highbury & Islington tube/rail
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Average User Rating
4.6 / 5
Rating Breakdown
- 5 star:13
- 4 star:5
- 3 star:1
- 2 star:0
- 1 star:0
This bar is the only one like it in the area - original cocktails, chilled atmosphere, nice decor. I have been here a few times with my boyfriend and a friend for a catch up - somewhere you can go for a great drink and hear yourself speak! Nice area at the back with skylight and comfy couches for larger groups xx
Four Sisters provides something new for Islington - a cosy cocktail bar with both great drinks and a great, buzzing atmosphere. The menu is innovative and varied and the staff are always friendly and accommodating - the perfect date spot or place to meet friends for a drink or two. Highly recommend - has become my new local!
I've been several times inc London Cocktail Week and never been disappointed! Though it starts quiet/roomy, it gets really busy - quality is a draw!!
Service is great and the drinks fun & tasty.......even better they're willing to go off-piste creating something bespoke or tweaked (Auchentoshan Three Wood old fashioned ;p )!!
Music can be a but loud but mostly it's the noise of the other punters in a small place.
Booked a table for my birthday and had an amazing night! Staff was very friendly and helpful when making the booking and during the night, the cocktails are super delicious and the atmosphere is great. Definitely will be back for more soon!
Great place! Elderflower julep is beaut - candles, good music not too loud, lovely atmosphere. Never too busy! Great shout.
I booked an area for my birthday drinks and we had an amazing time. Great atmosphere and even better cocktails, and no hassle whatsoever with making the booking. I will be back!
Awesome Friday hangout that never grows old!
We hired out the bar for our Christmas party in early December and I've had non stop praise that it was the best one yet. I do not doubt that a lot of that was down to a great venue, excellent cocktails and extremely hard working bartenders who despite being hammered at the bar, were thoroughly charming throughout the evening. The manager, Simon, was so helpful and on hand to answer all my silly questions, so there were no issues on the night. Would definitely recommend for a private party or even a few drinks with mates. We'll be back for sure!
My friend and I recently hired out the whole place for a joint birthday party. There was no cover charge except a not too terrifying minimum bar spend. Anyway, it worked out as an excellent call. The manager was a star at answering all our questions ahead of the night and letting us order in pizza from another place and play our own music. The other staff were super lovely on the night too. The drinks are good and the size is perfect for a private party. Would definitely come here again myself and recommend it to others for party hire.
Went to a colleagues leaving party here after work last week, he had reserved the small room at the back. I enjoy cocktails a lot and am pleased to say that I can add this place to my relatively short list of bars that can mix a good drink and are also a pleasant place to be! 10 meters on foot from upper street but a whole world away from the normal high street dirge - Highly recommended
A really sweet place, I really had a good experience. Cocktails are amazing and the atmosphere is really nice. Really entertaining watching the bartenders making drinks. Highly recommended since when they re opened few months ago.
I walk past The Four Sisters a lot and as they have been closed for the last few weeks for refurbishment i was keen to see what the new owners (according to the sign in the window) had done to the place. In reality the interior of the bar hasn't changed dramatically, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. It looks like they have given it a lick of paint and bought some new furniture but overall i like it. It was clean and warm with lots of candle light and it felt like a nice place to be. In terms of the drinks i was really pleased! I am happy to drink cocktails and they have an amazing lists of around 40 classics, champagne and signature cocktails on big black boards above the bar. I had an Old Fashioned and a Singapore Sling - Not very adventurous on my part i know but they were done very well. My two colleagues however were more than happy to see bottles of ale in the fridge and some decent beer on tap, so all in all everyone was well catered for. Well done The Four Sisters, we shall see you again!
Lovely and quaint place. The staff were lovely and attentive, they knew exactly what they were doing, even when I asked for 'something nice and bitter', the guy just rustle up a lemon and cucumber martini for me. After that I had the best cocktail I have personally ever had, the Four Sisters Breakfast Martini, great if you like grapefruit. It was fresh, you could taste the alcohol (which is why I carried on drinking regardless and became quite pickled. My friends had cassa del passa which itself was a fantastic cocktail. Only critisim is they didn't have bar snack when we went, but other than that. A great find and the cocktails were reasonable. For example you can get an awful cocktail at other bars (I won't name) in islington for the same price as a great cocktail here! A no brainier!!


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The First Spyder MRX YouTube Video
Baldwin Park, CA – 2012 marks Kingman's 20th Anniversary of production in the paintball industry. To celebrate 20 years of commitment from the paintball community, the 2012 Spyder MRX™ will be released as Kingman's 20th Anniversary commemorative special edition scenario marker. Designed to exceed your expectations, The .68 Caliber Spyder MRX™ is the newest addition to Kingman's MR™ Series scenario paintball markers. This tactical powerhouse delivers a realistic military look including an adjustable car stock, carry handle mount with sight, a standard equipped Eko™ Valve which offers the most extreme air efficiency available in the paintball market, plus multiple picatinny rails for endless scenario modifications. Accessory add-ons will be available; allowing each player to configure a scenario marker geared for their style of play.
The Spyder MRX™ comes packed with revolutionary features including an innovative "DLS" Dual Loading System. This unique patent pending system enables you to interchange your loading system with a quick turn of the barrel; the Spyder MRX™ allows the user to switch between a traditional upper load feed system and all-new lower magazine feed system during play.
The Spyder MRX™ will be available Christmas 2011 at $279.99 MSRP. Visit the MRX page to watch the Spyder MRX™ YouTube video showcasing the "DLS" Dual Loading System feature.
Kingman stands by the same philosophy that has brought us success over the past 20 years, "Pursue the ultimate without paying the ultimate price". Look for the all new 2012 .68 Cal. Spyder MRX™ this Christmas 2011. Kingman continues our passion for paintball. For more information stay tuned at www.kingman.com.


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This is Jane's tattoo.
It says "dum spiro spero," Latin for "While I breathe, I hope." This is the South Carolina state motto. When I was in third grade I went on a field trip to the State House, and they read the phrase to us off the State Seal; ever since then I've felt really attached to the idea. It's a representation of where I'm from, which is a place I have mixed feelings on, but it's my roots no matter what. And I really love the philosophy; it's always a reminder to have faith that things will get better. Anyway, I was toying with the idea of this tattoo for a long time, but what really sealed the deal is what I discovered when I was researching the phrase. It was officially made the state motto on March 26, 1776 — I was born on the same date 215 years later.
Why white ink? As I said, I've got mixed feelings on my home state. I plan on moving away from here once I'm done with school. The ink makes this tattoo just for me, not for anyone else. It keeps me mindful of where I come from, so I don't forget some of the values, lessons, and memories I have from this place, but it doesn't scream that at anyone else.


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Ericsson is one of the leading providers of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to service providers, with about 40% of the world's mobile traffic carried through our networks. We enable the full value of connectivity by creating game-changing technology and services that are easy to use, adopt, and scale, making our customers successful in a fully connected world. For more than 140 years, our ideas, technology, and people have changed the world: real turning points that have transformed lives, industries, and society as a whole.
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SOUTH HADLEY and NORTHAMPTON, Mass. – The Brandeis volleyball team improved to 16-11 this season after winning two of three matches at the 2012 Hall of Fame Invitational at Mount Holyoke and Smith Colleges. The Judges swept Bridgewater State, 25-20, 25-19, 25-18, on Friday night in their opener at MHC. After falling to Middlebury, 19-25, 23-25, 16-25, at Mount Holyoke on Saturday morning, the squad rebounded for a five-set win over co-host Smith, 25-19, 22-25, 25-22, 18-25, 15-11, in the final match of the tournament.
In the opener against Bridgewater State, the Judges had a balanced performance with four players turning in double-digit statistical performances. The lone double-double of the match came from junior setter Yael Einhorn (Cherry Hill, N.J./Cherry Hill East), who had 28 assists and a team-high 11 digs. Junior outside hitter Si-Si Hensley (Fullerton, Calif./Troy) just missed a double-double of her own, leading the team with 11 kills and adding nine digs. Sophomore libero Elsie Bernaiche (Plantsville, Conn./Southington) added 10 digs, while classmate OH Liz Hood (Albuquerque, N.M./Albuquerque Acad.) had 10 kills.
Against Middlebury, the eighth-ranked team in New England according to the New England Women's Volleyball Association, no Brandeis player reached double figures in kills, with Hood topping the team with nine and Hensley added seven. Einhorn had 24 assists and Bernaiche 10 digs. After getting seven blocks against BSU, the Judges had just three against the Panthers.
The Judges' final match of the tournament was one of the most exciting. Brandeis improved to 4-1 in five-set matches with their win over the Pioneers. Hood paced the way again with 15 kills, but it was the team's middle blockers who made the difference, combining for 31 kills and 12 errors in 76 attempts for a .250 hitting percentage. Senior Lauren Berens (Boulder, Colo./Clearview) had a season-high 12 kills to lead the trio, along with two block assists. Classmate Becca Fischer (San Antonio, Texas/Clark) had 10 kills and just three errors in 20 attempts for a .350 percentage and one block assist. Rookie Maddie Engeler (Sandusky, Ohio/St. Mary Central Catholic) came up just short of a double-double as she added nine kills and a career-high 10 blocks, including four solo. Four different players had double-digits in digs, led by Bernaiche's 25 and 16 by Hensley. Senior Susan Sun (Acton, Mass./Acton-Boxborough) added 12 and Hood completed her second double-double of the season with 11 digs. With 34 kills for the tournament, Hood claimed All-Tournament honors.


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Aviator design with analog gauges evoking the "steam gauge" style of traditional avionics. Default complications include "power reserve" (aka battery remaining), date and day of week, and seconds or UTC time hour hand depending on device capabilities. Large, decorative 12, "sword" watch hands, and Eurostile typeface complete the design.

3.0 adds seconds as an additional complication available for the left or bottom gauge. Please note that this feature is only available on newer devices that support once-per-second display updates in Connect IQ watch faces.
Lee Thomas
22 November 2018 | Version 3.0-upd7
Roland Pinches
15 November 2018 | Version 3.0-upd7
Alex Kaiser
20 October 2018 | Version 3.0-upd7
Unable to uninstall this. Repeated "uninstall error" message. No response from the developer to request for help
Sem Weert
16 October 2018 | Version 3.0-upd7
Looks great, though I wish I could disable the left and bottom gauges and move the date to the botton
Marcelo Sulkin
12 October 2018 | Version 3.0-upd7
I really like this face but I wish if they will add the seconds needle.
02 October 2018 | Version 3.0-upd7
very good looking on my Fenix 5. Would like to see more designs compatible with my watch.
14 September 2018 | Version 3.0-upd7
Easy to read at a glance. The information you need and nothing more.
Muhaimin Risad
01 September 2018 | Version 3.0-upd7
I really love it but I wish there was a second hand colour to configure. Also a normal second hand would be ideal.
Tim Allen
28 August 2018 | Version 3.0-upd7
Really nice clear app with lots of options. Could benefit from an option to display seconds, either by a hand or an option for one of the dials.
24 August 2018 | Version 3.0-upd7
Es la pantalla más pesada (kbit) que he descargado, puede exponer la más mínima cantidad de datos y encima son los más innecesarios. PENOSO NO DESCARGAR It is the heaviest screen (kbit) that I have downloaded, it can expose the smallest amount of data and it is the most unnecessary. PENALTY DO NOT DOWNLOAD
PRADIER Ludovic
06 August 2018 | Version 3.0-upd7
Very nice watch face. It works fine on my Vivoactive 3. Keep going on !
04 August 2018 | Version 3.0-upd7
Awesome watch face. Clean & crisp with just the right amount of info.
10 July 2018 | Version 3.0-upd7
add bluetooth and sedentary alert.steam gauge increase in diameter.
Mario Linders 🚟🚟🇩🇪
25 June 2018 | Version 3.0-upd7
I like it very much. Is it possible to add german Weekdays???
22 June 2018 | Version 3.0-upd7
Just got my Fenix 3 HR. Tried the Steam and it works really well and looks good with this Titanium edition. However, the sword style arms are too big. The developer might consider making them hollow like aviation watches. Maybe a thinner selection as well. A sweeping second hand would be nice. I understand it would only work with the Auto Gesture on, but would still be nice. There are no 3.0 feature selections. This would be my main face if the above options would be considered.
26 May 2018 | Version 3.0-upd5
Looks really good on the Vivoactive 3 black version. I end up using this watchface the most.
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