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[Scott Barry Kaufman is now at the University of Pennsylvania.]
I'm interested in the nature, measurement, and development of intelligence, creativity, imagination and personality. I like to apply a variety of perspectives to come to a richer understanding and appreciation of all kinds of minds and way of achieving greatness. Recently, I proposed The Theory of Personal Intelligence, where I (a) try to integrate research on psychometric intelligence with experimental work on spontaneous cognition, and (b) take into account an individual's personal goals, developmental trajectory, and unique constellation of personal characteristics.
Research interests include intelligence testing, conceptions of giftedness, prodigies, prodigious savants, people with schizotypy and autism spectrum disorder, late bloomers, individual differences in humor production, mating intelligence, the evolution of creativity, and the philosophy of creativity. From 2009-2010, I was was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Studies, Free University of Brussels.
I am co-founder of The Creativity Post, and I write the blog Beautiful Minds for Scientific American Mind. I am also on the editorial board of two open-access scientific journals: BioMed Central (BMC) Psychology (section editor) and Journal of Intelligence. I am the recipient of the 2011 Daniel E. Berlyne Award from Division 10 of the American Psychological Association for outstanding research on the arts, aesthetics, and creativity by a junior scholar.
To learn more, go to http://www.scottbarrykaufman.com.
Courses Taught: Cognitive Psychology, Human Intelligence
Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined
The Complexity of Greatness: Beyond Talent or Practice (Editor)
Mating Intelligence Unleashed: The Role of the Mind in Sex, Dating, and Love (with Glenn Geher)
The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence (Editor, with Robert J. Sternberg)
The Psychology of Creative Writing (Editor, with James C. Kaufman)
The Philosophy of Creativity (in preparation with Elliot Samuel Paul)
Kaufman, S.B., Reynolds, M.R., Liu, X., Kaufman, A.S., & McGrew, K.S. (2012). Are cognitive
Kaufman, S.B., DeYoung, C.G., Reis, D.L., & Gray, J.R. (2011). General intelligence predicts reasoning
Kaufman, S.B. (2011). Intelligence and the cognitive unconscious. In R.J. Sternberg &
Geher, G., & Kaufman, S.B. (2011). Mating intelligence. To appear in R.J.
Kaufman, S.B., DeYoung, C.G., Gray, J.R., & Jimenéz, L., Brown, J.B., & Mackintosh, N.
Brown, J.B., Aczel, B., Jimenéz, L., Kaufman, S.B., Mackintosh, N., & Plaisted, K.
Geher, G., O'Brien, D.T., Gallup, A.C., Kaufman, S.B., & Garcia, J.R. (2010).
Kaufman, S.B. (2009). Beyond general intelligence: The dual-process theory of human
Kaufman, S.B., DeYoung, C.G., Gray, J.R., Brown, J., & Mackintosh, N. (2009). Associative
Kaufman, S.B. (2007). Sex differences in mental rotation and spatial visualization ability:
Kaufman, S.B., & Singer, J.L. (2004). Applying the theory of successful intelligence to
Kaufman, S.B. (in press). Opening up Openness to Experience: A four-factor model and
Kaugman, J.C., Kaufman, S.B., & Lichtenberger, E.O. (2011). Finding creative potential on
Gabora, L., & Kaufman, S.B. (2011). Evolutionary approaches to creativity.
Kaufman, S.B. (2009). Faith in intuition is associated with decreased latent inhibition in a
Kaufman, S.B., & Kozbelt, A. (2009). The tears of a clown: Understanding comedy writers.
Kaufman, S.B., & Sternberg, R.J. (2008). Conceptions of giftedness. In S. Pfeiffer (Ed.),
Kaufman, S.B., Kozbelt, A., Bromley, M.L., & Miller, G.F. (2008). The role of creativity
Kaufman, S.B., Christopher, E.M. & Kaufman, J.C. (2008). The genius portfolio: How do poets
Kaufman, S.B., Christopher, E.M, & Kaufman, J.C. (2007). Ten years to expertise, ten more to greatness:
Kaufman, S.B. (2007). Genius. In C.R. Reynolds & Fletcher-Janzen, E. (Eds). Encyclopedia of
Kaufman, S.B., & Sternberg, R.J. (2007). Giftedness in the Euro-American culture. In S.N.


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Santa Barbara, Calif- Three former Gauchos will take the track next week at Sacramento State's Hornet Stadium, taking part in the 2014 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Barbara Nwaba, class of 2012, will compete in the women's heptathlon. Ryan Martin, class of 2012, will compete in the men's 800m. Derek Masterson, class of 2013, will compete in the men's decathlon. The trio of former Gauchos combined to win 11 Big West individual championships while in their collegiate blues. Martin and Masterson made history in 2012 when they combined to lead the Gauchos to the first men's Big West team championship.
The USA Track and Field Championships will start Wednesday, June 25th with a shot put competition held in front of the California State Capitol. The remainder of events will start Thursday, June 26th and run until Sunday, June 29th.
The Barbara Nwaba File
Barbara Nwaba had a stellar career as a Gaucho. She was the 2012 NCAA Runner-Up in the heptathlon. In total, she earned a combined 4 All-American Awards. She is the Big West All-Time record holder in the heptathlon (5,986). Throughout her career, Nwaba won 6 Individual Big West Championships for the Gauchos in 5 different events (High Jump, 100m hurdles, 400m hurdles, 4 x 400m relays & Heptathlon x 2).
Nwaba placed fifth at the 2012 Olympic Trials in the heptathlon with a score of 5,986. She went on that summer to take fourth in the USA vs. Germany Dual Meet Heptathlon known as the Thorpe Cup.
Her personal best of 6,043 came this spring at the Mt. Sac Relays and puts her at 19th on the current world list. She scored a personal best 4,406 indoor in the pentathlon to take third at the USA Indoor Championships back in March.
Multi-Event athletes will need to place in the top 10 this year to earn a birth onto an international team- either the Thorpe Cup in Germany or the Pan Am Games in Ottawa, Canada.
Nwaba will represent the newly formed Santa Barbara Track Club. She is coached by former UCSB Coach, Josh Priester. Priester's post-collegiate group will send three athletes to the USA Track and Field Championships. They train at Westmont College in Santa Barbara.
Nwaba By the Numbers (PR's)
Heptathlon 6,043
100m Hurdles 13.59
High Jump 6'1.5
Shot Put 46'5
200m 23.91
Long Jump 19'4
Javelin 152'9
800m 2:11.42
Nwaba will start her two day competition on Friday, June 27th at 12:15pm.
The Ryan Martin File
Ryan Martin graduated from UCSB as the 9th fastest 800m runner in NCAA history. He made the cover of Track and Field News in June of 2011, battling UCI's Charles Jock in perhaps the best 800m conference dual in collegiate history. That was until 2012 rolled around.
As the afternoon sun faded over UC Irvine's Anteater Stadium, Martin and Jock took the Big West line for the last time as collegiate seniors. Jock set a blazing pace through the first quarter, Martin was about 5m back at the bell. Both men unleashed world class kicks through the final straight and battled all the way to the tape. Jock got the lean in 1:44.75 to Martin's 1:44.77. A near capacity crowd was left in awe as both men embraced each other near the timing clock. It will go down as one of the best collegiate 800m duals in history.
Martin capped off his senior year with a fourth place NCAA finish. He kept his hot streak going right into the 2012 Olympic Trials. Martin showed poise through the qualifying rounds and earned a spot in the final. On a cloudy day in Eugene, under the Hayward Field lights, Martin would go on to record a fourth place finish in 1:44.90, narrowly missing a trip to the London Olympic Games. Martin has been ranked as high as 35th in the world throughout his career. He has broken 1:47, 16 times throughout his career.
Martin will represent Asics. He is coached by UCSB Head Track and Field Coach, Pete Dolan.
Martin By the Numbers (PR)
800m 1:44.77
Martin will take to the track on Thursday, June 26th at 4:40pm for the first round of 800m races. The semi's will be Friday, June 27th at 8:26pm and the 800m final will be Sunday, June 29th at 1:40pm.
The Derek Masterson File
Derek Masterson will be making his USA Track and Field Championship debut. Masterson collected three Big West Championships as a Gaucho and was a vital piece to the 2012 Big West team title run. He qualified for the 2012 NCAA Championships in the decathlon with a score of 7,558. He is the UCSB school record holder in the decathlon on the new scoring tables with a mark of 7,631. Tom Harris amassed a higher score (7,660) but with the old scoring tables, so both records will be recognized.
Masterson won his first Big West title in the decathlon in 2012. He repeated in the event in 2013 and also added a Big West Championship in the javelin, winning by nearly 20 feet (218'4). Twice he qualified for the NCAA Preliminary Round Competition in the javelin.
Masterson's field event talents helped the Gauchos come out on top in several close dual meets. He helped with the UCSB multi-eventers in 2013 as a volunteer assistant coach.
Masterson By the Numbers (PR's)
Decathlon 7,631
100m 11.27
Long Jump 23'7.25
Shot Put 48'6
High Jump 6'6.75
400m 49.93
110m Hurdles 15.05
Discus 155'2
Pole Vault 16'2.75
Javelin 218'4
1,500m 4:40.53
Masterson will compete unattached. He is coached by UCSB Associate Head Coach, Cody Fleming.
Masterson will take the blocks in the 100m to start the men's decathlon on Thursday, June 26th at 10:30am.


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ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y., — The Senior Art Exhibition at St. Bonaventure University, showcasing the work of Robert Prince, a visual arts major from Olean, opened with a reception and gallery talk on Friday, March 22, at the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts.
The event also marked the opening of the university's Spring Art Show at The Quick Center, featuring pieces by beginning and advanced student-artists.
Later pieces show the introduction of color in Prince's work and the emergence of his own style as he shifts from interpretation to making his own statements through his art. The pieces demonstrate Prince's varied use of media including acrylic, watercolor and ink.
The Spring Art Show is being exhibited in The Quick Center's Atrium Gallery. Following the opening, the Spring Art Show exhibition moved to the third-floor Loft area.
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Phil Emery had been moving along pretty well in changing a Chicago Bears teams that missed the playoffs five of the last six years.
Then came last week.
Emery went from the mousy handling of Brian Urlacher to replacing him with a problem that might cost the Bears defense big.
Emery's first choice to replace Urlacher at middle linebacker can do a lot of things on the field, but there is a big risk that D.J. Williams might not be on the field. He wasn't out there much for Denver last season.
Williams was suspended for three games after being convicted of driving while impaired. He was suspended for six more games after failing an NFL test for performance-enhancing drugs.
Those nine games are more than twice as many as Urlacher missed in the last three seasons combined. Bad enough that Williams' idiocy cost him more than half of a season and forced his team into a bad spot, but Williams' past portends worse for the Bears.
What hasn't been reported much is that he failed a second drug test. Williams admitted to the failure in court papers as he tried to challenge the NFL's testing and handling procedures.
Williams contended the NFL uses shoddy and irresponsible procedures. The court didn't agree. Williams' suspension was upheld.
Williams, it turned out, continually tried to sneak in "non-human" samples while being tested for steroids. Two tests, two "non-human" samples, too stupid.
But wait. There's more. The story goes that as he was to be tested again at the Broncos facility, a bottle of something fell from his waist area and Williams kicked it near his locker. NFL testers are not allowed in the locker room, so he asked the Denver trainer to retrieve the bottle. The tester claims the trainer gave him a different bottle, and the NFL hearing officer concluded that Williams was now involved in his third drug-testing incident.
I think we see a pattern. I don't think it's a good pattern. But that's just me.
Oh, and Williams' conviction for driving while impaired in 2010? Not his first. In 2005, Williams pleaded guilty to impaired driving.
Williams is out of lifelines. He can't phone a friend. He can't ask the studio audience for help. And here's where that can hurt the Bears in a big way:
Let's say Williams makes another suspendable mistake in May. The Bears will have gotten through the draft and perhaps spent a high pick on another position because they believed they had the middle covered for now.
But the Bears still could recover from that this season because we're not even talking training camp.
Where Emery will get torched is if Williams turns stupid during the season. It's not the money in a tight salary-cap situation, it's losing a starter in the middle of the season and the residual problems created.
Specifically, Williams will have taken vital practice reps and game snaps from a young player who now must step in and act like he knows what he's doing. How'd you like to see that in October when the Bears are 3-3 and trail Green Bay and maybe Minnesota?
Unless you've heard differently, this is a season the Bears expect to compete for the Super Bowl. Their aggressive free-agent moves and the age of the players in their second tier of signees suggests that the goal hasn't changed, even if the coaching staff and so much else has.
That's the goal voiced by Emery, don't forget. And here he is, rolling dice with his first move after his deceitful handling of the former team captain. If the Bears had been straight with Urlacher from the start, perhaps they would've had less risky choices for the spot charged with calling the defense.
Emery called this signing "a great opportunity for D.J. to restart his career after coming off suspension for part of the 2012 season."
The Bears are hoping that Williams can restart his career. Gambling that he can. Gambling a big part of the Bears' season potentially. Emery won his bet with troubled Brandon Marshall last year. Now Emery is doubling down with Marc Trestman's chips.
But hey, at least we don't have to listen to the Bears yammer on about how much character matters.


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Professor P. James E. Peebles of Princeton University will deliver the Third Misel Lecture, "Finding the Big Bang" at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, September 23rd in Physics 150.
Our Universe is not forever: it is expanding and cooling. Several thousands of millions of years ago the Universe was exceedingly hot and dense, it was very close to smooth, and it was rapidly expanding. Now the Universe is clumpy, with the mass concentrated in and around galaxies of stars, it is cool, except near stars, and it is slowly expanding, though the rate of expansion is speeding up again. I will describe the origins of this concept of cosmic evolution, the discovery of key pieces of evidence that show us that this is what actually happened, and some of the research problems, such as the natures of dark matter and dark energy, which we have left for the next generation.
Peebles will also deliver the School Colloquium, "The Cosmological Tests" on Wednesday, September 24th at 3:35 p.m. in 131 Physics.
The William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute at the University of Minnesota is proud to host the Irving and Edythe Misel Lecture Series. Mr. Fine's bold vision and generous gift to the University, inspired by his genuine interest in physics, were instrumental in the establishment of the Institute and its successful development over the past two decades.
The Misel Lecture Series is endowed by a generous gift from Irving and Edythe Misel. The Series honors the life-long friendship between Irving and Edythe Misel, their family, and William and Bianca Fine.


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Company of the Year #1 Amgen
Last year, Genentech and Amgen tied for first place. This year, Amgen pulled ahead based on strong performances in several key metrics. Amgen had outstanding performances in Profit Margin (29.6 percent) and Revenue per Employee (a remarkable $756,098), and placed second in ratios of Enterprise Value to Total Sales, Earnings per Share, and the audit's main measure of innovation—Revenue from Intellectual Assets. One surprise: Though Amgen has almost twice Genentech's sales, Genentech has an Enterprise Value to Sales ratio almost double Amgen's, which may mean investors believe Amgen's portfolio will provide slower growth than Genentech's.
P HARM EXEC 'S FIFTH ANNUAL strategic industry audit analyzes the 2005 financial performance of 16 companies that are publicly traded on stock exchanges and file 10-K reports with the Securities & Exchange Commission (or 20-F reports, in the case of foreign companies). As in past years, the audit goes beyond standard accounting and financial statements, drawing on newer and oftentimes more meaningful metrics, such as sales per employee and percentage of income driven by intellectual capital. Data were gathered primarily from 10-Ks and 20-Fs. In addition, we consulted databases such as , and secondary sources such as Fortune, Forbes, BusinessWeek, In Vivo, and The Wall Street Journal. Non-annual data were collected the first week of April 2006.
Aiming to compare companies' performance, this report omits a few companies that are or appear to be publicly traded, but are not comparable with the rest of the group: extremely diversified firms (such as Procter & Gamble), narrow-focus companies (such as Novo Nordisk), companies that manufacture primarily generics (such as Teva), firms with unconventional ownership structures (like Roche), and companies whose financial reporting doesn't mesh with US standards (like Japanese drug firms).
Companies were assigned scores based on their rankings in 13 key metrics: The company that ranked first in a given metric received 16 points, the second-place company 15, and so on.


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Valencia County Genealogical information
Valencia County Archives Project.
New Mexico Death Index
Valencia County Obits
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Valencia County Queries
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David McDonald
What makes a service "public?"
Privatization is the practice of selling off public services to for-profit organizations. A broad definition also includes the widespread practice of forming public-private partnerships. Its proponents say privatization cuts government costs while improving efficiency in the delivery of essential services for citizens.
Dr. David McDonald, professor and head of Global Development Studies at Queens, has been challenging privatization through his co-leadership of the Municipal Services Project (MSP). The ambitious undertaking, originally launched in 2000 and funded in Canada by the International Development Research Centre of Canada (IDRC), includes researchers from universities, activist and labor groups and nongovernmental organizations around the world.
The project's first two phases examined electricity, water, health care, and waste management privatization in South Africa. MSP researchers discovered that while privatized utilities reaped profits and wealthy citizens enjoyed a reliable supply of high quality services, millions of low-income south Africans had their services cut off because they couldn't pay their bills. This widespread hardship among the most vulnerable populations was a direct result of the application of market-oriented management principles that are part and parcel of the ideology of privatization, says McDonald.
"Privatization erodes the public service ethos," he says. "All of a sudden it's acceptable to cut people off for not paying their bills because it improves the bottom line, even if the service is owned and operated by the state. The goal of cost recovery becomes more important than trying to figure out how to help poor people by cross-subsidizing those services."
The MSP published dozens of papers and six books on the topic, and also produced radio documentaries that reached millions of people. It also attracted much attention from government policymakers, unions and the public. Nevertheless, powerful free-market interests continue to spread the privatization gospel around the world, with much the same results.
"Critics of privatization are shouting about the problems of privatization, but those in favour just aren't listening," says McDonald. "The research, some of it from very mainstream people, has overwhelmingly shown that privatization does not work. The challenge, then, is to ask ourselves 'what does work?'."
Answering this question has spawned an entirely new field of research, whose objective is to define what a "public" service is. Little academically-rigorous work has been done on the topic, but McDonald and his MSP colleagues knew that a working definition had to account for the fact that public services around the world are delivered in many different ways: through public-public partnerships, labor co-ops, community organizations, and other configurations.
The researchers wrestled with how to classify commercialized or corporatized public services – that is, enterprises that are entirely state-owned but operate according to free-market principles – but eventually included them in the definition. The only group excluded from the "public" definition was private, for-profit organizations.
The second task involved establishing a set of normative criteria that would allow researchers to gauge the success or failure of a public service. The eleven criteria included such measures as equity, participation, efficiency, quality of service and accountability.
That done, the MSP research teams conducted a "mapping exercise" of public services in the health care, water and electricity sectors in more than 40 countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Their goal was to find noteworthy examples of "successful" public services based on the criteria. The fruits of the research are contained in the recently published book, Alternatives to Privatization: Public Options for Essential Services in the Global South.
"The book is an attempt to say, 'Here's what we mean by public, here's what we mean by successful, and here are a series of examples of these services in different sectors,'" says McDonald.
The MSP's next step is to expand on major themes identified in this work. One of the early by-products is a second book called Remunicipalization: Putting Water Back into Public Hands, a slimmer volume that contains case studies of cities that experienced failure with water privatization and have since made water public again. Canada's City of Hamilton is one of the examples, along with Paris, Buenos Aires, Dar Es Salaam and a series of municipalities in Malaysia.
Profile by Alec Ross
(e)Affect Issue 1, Spring 2012
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The QuiXilica Charon-V5 VXS is a 6U ANSI/VITA 41 (VXS) compliant high-speed waveform generator board combining high density FPGA processing with eight 14-bit D/A output channels at 1.2 GSPS.
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By employing three Xilinx Virtex®-5 FPGAs, the Charon-V5 offers unmatched FPGA processing density per channel making it ideal for high channel count signal processing in applications such as RADAR, signals and electronic intelligence (SIGINT / ELINT), and Electronic Warfare (EW).
Charon-V5 Reduces System Size by 30%
Many advanced signal processing applications are based on antenna array processing and require large numbers of channels and distributed signal processing. The architecture of the Charon-V5 combines eight analog output channels with three Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs, providing up to 2,336 DSP slices and 1.285 TeraMAC/s of signal processing, equivalent to 61% of a Xilinx Virtex-5 SX95T device per input channel. For high channel count requirements such as beamforming, direction finding, jamming or anti-jam / interference cancellation, common in Radar, SIGINT, communications, and EW applications, Charon-V5 provides both the highest processing density per channel and per 6U slot, reducing total size, weight and power for many systems.
For example, in a phased array processor system with 20 I/Q inputs, where one FPGA is assigned to process data for each I/Q input channel, a traditional PMC or XMC based architecture would require 10 or even 20 slots depending on SBC selection and FPGA requirements. The same system can be implemented in 7 slots using the Charon-V5 VXS, using less space and power but still providing the same number of channels and 40% more FPGA processing capability than a 10 slot XMC-based system with 20 XMC modules using SX95T FPGAs.
The Charon-V5 features high bandwidth, low latency interconnect paths between its FPGAs which have been carefully specified to ensure that data from any analog channel can be broadcast to all FPGAs to support processing that relies on simultaneous access to data from all channels. This offers significant throughput advantages for a range of advanced multi-channel processing algorithms found in applications such as Direction Finding, STAP (Space Time Adaptive Processing) Radar and Synthetic Aperature Radar (SAR) Image Formation.
The Charon-V5 is available for a wide range of operating environments, including commercial grade, rugged air and conduction cooled to support deployed applications such as unmanned airborne, naval and ground vehicles. For more information see the Rugged Data Sheet.
Tekmicro offers a broad range of Xilinx Virtex-5 based streaming I/O and FPGA processing solutions for both analog and digital I/O in a range of form factors.
Eight 12-bit DAC Outputs at 1.2 GSPS Each
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Two SFP+ sites and one QSFP site are provided on the front panel which utilize standard fiber optic or 1000BaseT modules providing physical layer support for standard protocols such as Gigabit Ethernet, Serial FPDP (ANSI VITA 17.1 & 17.2), and Fibre Channel.
Virtex-5 FPGAs
Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs are the heart of the Charon-V5. The FPGAs interface with the DACs, memory and I/O resources providing the user with a platform for implementing high performance real time processing. The Charon-V5 is typically configured with two SX95T FPGAs and an LX110T. Developers can alternatively select an LX220T, SX240T, or FX100T FPGA to match resources to the application. All FPGAs are interconnected by wide parallel LVDS busses or high speed serial lanes using FPGA embedded MGTs.
VXS Backplane High Speed Serial IO
The Charon-V5 can be used as a VITA 41.0 payload card. Up to eight high speed serial links of up to 3.125 Gb/s full duplex data rates are supported via the VITA 41.0 MultiGig RT2 P0 connector. Custom or standard communication protocols can be run over these links by providing appropriate firmware in the FPGA.
QuiXstart FPGA Configuration
A number of options are available for configuring the FPGA on the Charon-V5. A JTAG connection is available to allow users to configure the FPGA via standard Xilinx development tools. On board flash is available and can configure the FPGA on power up. Tekmicro's QuiXstart tool supports flexible configuration of the FPGA through a Gigabit Ethernet link from a remote server after a power up or reset event.
Eight channels of up to 1.2 GSPS, 14-bit resolution digital to analog conversion is provided using the Analog Devices AD9736. The outputs are single-ended, AC coupled. Maximum full scale output is 4.5 dBm (1.1 V p-p) into 50 ohms. The layout has been carefully designed to ensure phase matching of the clock across all channels. A separate single 16 bit wide bus connects the SXT95T/LX110T FPGA directly to each DAC. The layout has been designed to ensure phase matching of the clock across all output channels. Trigger input connections are provided on the front panel to allow the hardware to be employed in a variety of Radar and EW scenarios.
The Charon-V5 has two independent banks of onboard double data rate (DDR3) SDRAM for each FPGA, providing a capacity of 512 MB in each bank, and 1 GB total per FPGA. The on board memory can be clocked at rates up to 400 MHz, 800 MHz double data rate.
The Charon-V5 board includes facilities to monitor current and temperature at various points on the board. Current monitoring of all main power rails is available. Die temperature monitoring of the three FPGAs and temperature monitoring of three locations on the PCB is also available. This allows a first level of protection to be implemented when the Charon-V5 is operating in a variety of different environmental scenarios. The output from the sensors will also be available to users through the "COMMS FPGA" firmware. The condition monitoring peripherals share an I2C bus along with the I2C bus from the COMMS FPGA to the QSFP module.
Quantity: 8 DACs with SSMC Connectors
Sampling Rate: 1.2 GSPS
Resolution: 14-bits
Type: Analog Devices AD9736
Type: Single ended
DAC Full Scale Output: 4.5 dBm
Bandwidth: 1st Nyquist
2x SFP+ Ports: Providing (2) digital high-speed serial
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Quantity: 1 or 2 via (2 or 4) SSMC Connectors
Standalone: Optional Independent Trigger inputs for each group of four DACs.
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Single ended 50Ω terminated
Input Power Range: 6 dBm (min) to 8 dBm (max)
Operating Modes: Clock Standalone / Master/Slave. Standalone: Use independent clock inputs for each group of four DACs
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DDR3 SDRAM (2 banks per FPGA)
Size: (STD): 512 MB per bank, 1 GB total per FPGA
Bus: Width: 64 bits
Speed: 400 MHz, 800 MHz double data rate
Access to Virtex-5 FPGAs is available via custom JTAG cable assembly that interfaces with the JTAG programming cable.
Size: Standard 6U VMEbus board, single slot; PCB:160mm (6.3") x 233.5mm (9.2") Option: VXS P0 connector for backplane I/O
Power: +5V, +3.3V, +12V from VME64 backplane. Power consumption is dependent on customer application. Power estimating tools are available on request.
Tekmicro products operate effectively in laboratory, rugged air-cooled, and rugged conduction-cooled environments to meet the needs of R&D and deployed applications.
Commercial products are intended for use in application development and benign operating environments. Rugged Level 2, convection cooled, products are intended for harsh environments with more demanding temperature, humidity, shock, and vibration requirements. Rugged Level 3, conduction cooled, products provide wider operating temperatures and increased capabilities for shock, vibration, and humidity for extreme operating conditions.
For complete specifications refer to the Rugged Data Sheet.
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Red Hat's Billion-Dollar Coup
Apr 5, 2012 5:00 AM PT
We've all known for some time now that Red Hat would soon be FOSS's first arrival to the billion-dollar club, but somehow that advance knowledge didn't make the official news any less exciting.
No indeed!
So when the word broke late last week that that much-anticipated milestone had finally been achieved, cheers and fanfare could be heard throughout the land.
A $100,000 Donation
There was joy, there were jabs at the naysayers, there were countless congratulations from fans and bloggers around the globe -- including the Linux Foundation's own Jim Zemlin.
When Red Hat followed up on the news by announcing its US$100,000 donation toward "the future of open source," the din on the streets of the Linux blogosphere soon drowned out everything else.
Linux Girl took refuge down at the Punchy Penguin Cafe, where patrons were enjoying a celebration of a quieter kind.
'Good for Them'
"This is good news for open source generally," enthused Chris Travers, a Slashdot blogger who works on the LedgerSMB project, over a fresh Tequila Tux. "I am excited for Red Hat, and hope other open source distributors follow."
Indeed, "good for them," agreed Google+ blogger Kevin O'Brien. "I have always liked the formulation that you don't make money with Open Source so much as you make money because of Open Source."
Of course, "even that may need rethinking with this," O'Brien added.
"I pair this with the news that the company behind Blackboard just bought two companies that provide service for Moodle, an Open Source competitor," he explained. "So it looks like providing business services is a good place to be, and you can do that while offering your clients an open platform that they can feel confident using without having vendor lock-in problems."
'M$'s Most Locked-In Users'
Red Hat made its revenue "mostly in subscriptions for support of GNU/Linux on servers, but they also are rolling out GNU/Linux desktops and thin clients for businesses," noted blogger Robert Pogson.
"Their customers are some of M$'s most locked-in users," he added.
IBM has been "in the same boat providing GNU/Linux goods and services globally" for years, Pogson noted. "IBM invested $1billion in GNU/Linux in 2001 and had that much revenue the first year. They have been growing their business ever since."
So, "the fact that business is moving rapidly to web applications instead of software running on thick clients and that business sees value in using GNU/Linux on clients and servers means an end to monopoly everywhere in IT," Pogson predicted.
'A New Kind of Capitalism'
"I hope this means we can finally stop hearing all of that FUD about it not being possible to make money on open source," mused consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack.
In fact, "Red Hat represents a new kind of capitalism," suggested Google+ blogger Alessandro Ebersol.
Specifically, it's an example of "the company that really helps society and gives back to society, not like the others (M$ and Apple), which only take advantage of society and give nothing back," Ebersol explained.
"I wish more companies were like Red Hat," he added.
'Thanks, Red Hat'
For Hyperlogos blogger Martin Espinoza, the real news was Red Hat's $100,000 donation to open source.
"Red Hat has always given back to the community, notably in the form of reams of code," Espinoza told Linux Girl.
"When I worked for Tivoli, they made their first billion-dollar year under IBM, and their response was to throw a party featuring Lyle Lovett," he recalled.
Red Hat, on the other hand, "threw a party for Open Source and Free Software," Espinoza added. "Lyle sucked. Thanks, Red Hat."
The CentOS Factor
Does the community treat Red Hat as well as it treats the community? Slashdot blogger hairyfeet wasn't so sure.
"Who donates more code than anyone by far back to the community? That would be Red Hat," hairyfeet pointed out. "What OS is on nearly a third of web servers? That would NOT be Red Hat but a leecher mod called CentOS which was 'created' (I would say ripped off) by a company that USED to pay RH for licenses and then decided they would just take the code."
So, "while I congratulate RH on this milestone, I wonder how much farther along the quality of RH and the code they donate would be if CentOS dried up and blew away tomorrow," he added. "Would the community actually support RH then? Or would they simply switch to another distro rather than part with a penny?
"It's just sad so many in this community would support leeching off a company that has done so much for them," hairyfeet concluded.
'Linux Desktop Month'?
In any case, "Red Hat is obviously doing more than a few things right -- the billion bucks is just the outward sign, but the decisions that led to it were made almost seven years earlier," opined Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site.
To wit: "Red Hat surprised everyone in 2006 by buying JBoss for between $350 and $420 million when Oracle hesitated," Hudson pointed out. "That deal gave Red Hat considerable currency in the business server world."
In fact, "this focus on business servers is why Red Hat probably earns more money than all the other Linux vendors combined," she suggested
"Who knows -- maybe when Red Hat is making twice as much in a few years, people will start noticing that the trickle-down from Red Hat's success has made the latest Fedora into a better desktop than some of the 'desktop-centric' distros," she mused.
"A few more billions and maybe we can finally have, if not a Year of the Linux Desktop, at least an annual Linux Desktop Month?" Hudson concluded.


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Rep. Brandon Creighton of Conroe, who heads the state House Republican Caucus, announced for Texas agriculture commissioner.
He described himself as a rancher, businessman and attorney and cited his legislative service and work for the attorneys general in Texas and Oklahoma. He also took a shot at the federal government.
"Texas farmers and ranchers have always faced challenges navigating government bureaucracy, but they have never before had to deal with the kind of overreaching federal government that we have in Washington today," Creighton said. "Texas farmers and ranchers need someone who is focused on their priorities, someone who will stand up and fight to protect their rights and their way of life."
Current Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples plans to challenger Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst in the 2014 GOP primary. Eric Opiela, associate general counsel for the state Republican Party who also describes himself as a rancher and attorney, also is running in the GOP primary to replace Staples.
Rep. Harvey Hilderbran, R-Kerrville, meanwhile, said he will announce his plans on Aug. 20. He is expected to run for comptroller but didn't announce that, although he did rule out running for ag commissioner.
The Hilderbran campaign tweet: "I'm not running for Ag Comm in 2014. I'll have an important statewide announcement very soon. Texas' future is bright!"


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Taxation: Commission refers the UK to the European Court of Justice over the taxation of assets abroad
Recently, the European Commission decided to refer the United Kingdom to the EU Court of Justice (ECJ) for its regime concerning the taxation of transfers of assets abroad. UK legislation provides for a difference in treatment between domestic and cross-border transactions.
If a UK resident invests capital in a UK company, the company will employ the capital to generate income. In this situation, the company will be taxable on the income generated, but the investor will not be taxed until the company makes a distribution to him/her, for example by way of a dividend.
However, if a UK resident invests capital in a company in another Member State, the company is liable to be taxed in that Member State on the income it generates. In this scenario the investor would be subject to UK income tax on that income, even though the income has not been distributed to him/her.
The Commission is of the opinion that this restriction is disproportionate, in the sense that it goes beyond what is reasonably necessary in order to prevent abuse or tax avoidance.
The referral to the Court of Justice is the last step in the infringement procedure.
The UK legislation (Income Tax Act 2007) concerning taxation of transfers of assets abroad provides for a difference in tax treatment between domestic and cross-border transactions and poses a restriction of the freedom of establishment and the free movement of capital which is contrary to EU rules (Articles 49 and 63 of the TFEU and Articles 31 and 40 of the EEA Agreement). In February 2011 the Commission sent a reasoned opinion formally demanding UK authorities to amend this discriminatory tax regime (see IP/11/158).
The Commission's case reference number is 2009/4130.
For press releases on infringement cases in the taxation or customs field see:
For the latest general information on infringement measures against Member States see:
On the October infringement package decisions: MEMO/12/794
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Krista C, Tennessee
- 12/28/2015
About Me
As an English teacher in her twenty-third year of educating middle school students, I have created a fun classroom atmosphere which pays homage to all things Walt Disney World and Mickey. My classroom is a happy place to be. Church is also an important part of my life. I am Springview Baptist Church's children's director and sing in our church choir. I am an avid reader and enjoy Southern fiction, historical fiction, and suspense/horror books. I love to spend my time helping friends and family plan perfect Walt Disney World vacations. I get nearly as excited helping them as I do planning my own family's trips. I could talk about Walt Disney World twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week!
About My Family
I am so blessed to be married to my childhood sweetheart who is an amazingly talented interior designer and a terrific father and husband. We have an intelligent, beautiful 16-year-old daughter, a smart, funny, 14-year-old son, and one incredibly spoiled King Charles Cavalier named Harrison. With at least one trip a year since the kids were toddlers, we are so fortunate to have accumulated many Walt Disney World traditions. However, we are always on the lookout for new experiences! We've savored innumerable Magical Moments at Walt Disney World.
About My Disney Experience
After our first family trip, I realized that I love Walt Disney World and its Magic as much as my kids do! I strive to find at least two new adventures for each trip so we've tried lots of the "extras" over the years. It is so much more than just four theme parks and two water parks - adventures are waiting at every turn! We've stayed both off-site and on-site; we've traveled in Grand Gathering groups and with a wheelchair guest; we've been in every season and crowd level imaginable, and we've NEVER had a bad trip. Everything is truly pixie-dusted at Walt Disney World.


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What is the structure of the inner Galactic bulge? How did the Milky Way form? Thanks to VISTA, a 4.1 meter telescope, and its superb near-infrared camera VIRCAM, new observations can be done to help astronomers answer these questions.
Even when the Milky Way can be observed by the naked eye from dark places at night, because of our position in the Galaxy, we can actually only see our closest neighborhood. Dust, gas, and stars block the light from other places of our galaxy and thus we are not able to observe far into the bulge, at least in the "visual" part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
VISTA, the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy, is optimized to detect the near-infrared emission of stars, which can travel further through the dust. This fact, along with its privileged site on the Southern Hemisphere, will allow us to map the Bulge with improved detail and perspective.
Previously, all-sky 2 dimensional maps in near-infrared wavelengths have been done with single epoch data. Otherwise, multi-epoch observations have been carried out for specific small field of view targets on the bulge and disk. The VISTA Variables in The Via Lactea (VVV) public survey will perform wide FOV multi-epoch observations of the Galaxy's bulge and part of the disk, providing the astronomical public community with a high resolution 3-D (or 4-D if you include the time dimension) map of the bulge.
Latest News
- August 2010. VVV Conference 2010, First Announcement and Registration
- August 2010. A new Color Tile, now from the mid-plane area d008. Data comes from J, H and Ks bands, and the field is aligned with Galactic Coordinates (north up, east left). Resolution is 0.34 arcsec/pix2
- February 2010. The VISTA Telescope has started the observations for the public surveys, including VVV! The quality is amazing and a good example is shown in this Bulge's image: gas, dust and even a globular cluster (Palomar 6) are clearly visible and approx. ~106 point sources are resolved. This image was made using VVV data from bands J, H and Ks. We made use of some of the Astromatic.net pipeline suite's algorithms[1].


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You may have noticed mention of my new blog, Sweet Life a la Carte, in a few of my previous posts. I started a la carte as a companion blog back in September, but it has quickly grown into a place where I am able to share all my passions – and it felt wrong to not include cooking in the same place as everything else! Please continue to follow my recipes in their new home – I hope you love reading it as much as I love writing it every day.
Ginger Cookies
These are my very favorite holiday cookies! This recipe came in the Food Network's 12 Days of Cookie annual email series in 2008, I believe, and I made them as soon as I got home from college that winter break. I love that they are crackly on the outside and soft on the inside — they were a big hit at our holiday party last weekend.
Butternut Squash Gnocchi
I recently found the cooking blog Alexandra's Kitchen through Pinterest, and instantly became obsessed with the gorgeous images and mostly vegetarian recipes. I was inspired to make this Butternut Squash Gnocchi right away, and had the best afternoon roasting the squash, milling the potatoes, shaping the gnocchi, and waiting for everything to come together.
If you make these, take Alexandra's advice and read the recipe all the way through. I thought I had done this, only to have dinnertime be upon us and realize that the gnocchi needed to be chilled for an hour. Although it is a time-consuming process, it is actually very easy and so worth it to make. The butternut squash, brown butter, and sage are perfect flavors for this time of year, and this recipe is sure to impress your guests!
French Onion Soup
My French Onion Soup (which is one of my favorite wintertime meals) is on the menu at Pairs & Pours for Wine Down Wednesday. Check out my thoughts and grab the recipe here!
Stracciatella with Chard and Stelline
Don't judge me, but I made this soup for a late breakfast on a particularly chilly morning, and it was perfection. I've been really into Swiss Chard since I got it in my first CSA basket, and I've been putting it into everything I can think of (especially pizza, pasta, and soup), and as we all know I am obsessed with both eggs and soup, so this was really a winning combination for me.
A quick vocabulary recap: Stracciatella means "little ribbons" in Italian. That's what the "wisps" of eggs in this dish are (also seen in its cousin, Egg Drop Soup), and it's also what the inside of burrata is called, expect those are mozzarella ribbons. Stelline is one of Barilla's newest pasta shapes – little stars for soup! I love them! If you can't find them, the O's that look like Spaghetti O's, Orzo, or any small Italian soup pasta would be a great substitute.
Eggs Florentine
About one weekend a month, Tim and I (possibly under the influence of a glass of wine or two) spend an evening planning an elaborate brunch. We decide what to make, and in the morning he gets up early, takes the dogs out, and goes to the grocery store to get all the ingredients we need (I'm a pretty lucky girl). Sometimes we have bubbles or Bloody Marys while we cook together, and sometimes we have friends over, but we always end up with a fabulous meal and satisfied tummies on our day of rest.
These Eggs Florentine have been the brunch dish I have been most proud of. It involves a "fancy" French sauce along with my trick of the year – poaching four eggs at once (ta-da!).
P.S. Tim and I got engaged this weekend!!!
Pasta with Eggplant, Caramelized Onion, and Tomato
While in Greece this summer, I learned to love a few "new" foods, including olives, octopus, and eggplant. These are all things that I had tried before and not had much of an opinion of – in fact, a few weeks before we left I silently judged a stranger at the grocery store for loading up on eggplant (I know, I am really friendly).
The game-changer for me was a delicious dish of eggplant, red pepper, and potatoes baked in a tomato sauce. The vegetables were tender and had all absorbed the flavor of the sauce and seasonings – I was smitten.
This pasta is a take on the baked vegetable dish that I enjoyed so much while abroad. Eggplant and tomato sauce, I have discovered, is a winning combination and perfect for this time of year when you want a cozy (yet healthy) meal.


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text: Brexit timing clarified: employment law set to continue intact Share this 14 OCT 2016 The Conservative Party Conference has provided Theresa May, and her Government, with an opportunity to publicise their plans for the timing of Brexit. In her speech to the Conference on 2 October, the Prime Minster announced that - Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty will be invoked by the end of March 2017, triggering the start of the UK's formal withdrawal from the European Union. At that point, the two year period of negotiations between the EU and the UK, to design the exit agreement, will commence. The UK will leave the Union by March 2019 (absent an agreed extension). In the next Queen's Speech, which will be in either April or May 2017, a Great Repeal Bill will be introduced, to come into force on the date on which the UK actually leaves the EU. Despite its rather grand name, the bill is simply a device to enable the Government to manage the process of separating UK law from EU law, where it decides that this is necessary. The bill will repeal the European Community Act 1972, the UK law that currently gives supremacy to EU law, and at the same time, will convert all existing EU law into UK law. This means that, as at the date of Brexit, there will be no immediate end to the applicability in the UK of EU derived laws, including employment laws. Instead, they will remain intact and in place, with the Government/Parliament then able to decide whether to retain or repeal or amend them at their leisure, post Brexit. For more information read our article on the Great Repeal Bill. In terms of what these announcements mean for UK employment law, it remains the case that there is no immediate change. The plan is for EU derived employment laws to remain in place at Brexit and continue until repealed or changed. In fact, it appears that there may be no Brexit-related change for quite some time, if at all, given that Theresa May also used her Conference speech to announce that, "existing workers' legal rights will continue to be guaranteed in law, and they will be guaranteed as long as I am Prime Minister". This has been confirmed by David Davis, the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, who recently announced to Parliament that, "[the Great Repeal Act] will provide for a calm and orderly exit and give as much certainty as possible to employers, investors, consumers and workers. And we have been clear, UK employment law already goes further than EU law in many areas - and this Government will do nothing to undermine those rights in the workplace". Find here a recent House of Commons briefing paper on "Brexit and Employment Law". It seems, therefore, that businesses hoping that Brexit might provide an opportunity for rules on, for example, agency workers, holiday pay or discrimination compensation to be revisited could be disappointed in the short term. This does not mean, however, that Theresa May's Premiership will be a quiet time for employers. Announcements over recent weeks indicate that topics in which the Government is interested include both worker representation on company boards and the interaction between the regulatory framework surrounding employment and modern business models. The suggestion is that new regulation in these areas may be in the offing. For further information on the employment and pension law implications of Brexit, please visit the Brexit section of GENIE.


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We believe in the wisdom of mothers.
That's a powerful statement, but one that we believe wholeheartedly. Mothers know what's best for their families, and we are here to help support them in their determination to provide a better life for their children. One way we support them is through mothers groups.
The idea of mothers groups began in the Hyderabad, India, project. (For more information about mothers groups, watch these videos.) Mothers groups have since spread to our projects in Central and South America, the Caribbean, Mexico and Africa. The women are proving themselves capable, successful and supportive. They are wonderful role models for their young children.
On today, International Mothers Day, we want to highlight the accomplishments of some of the women in the St. Anthony mothers group. Head over to our Facebook page to see photos and read more about their success.


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My oven has been acting up lately, so I've been looking for more stovetop recipes. This black sesame cupcake recipe was wonderful, so I thought I'd share. ^^
I can't find commercial black sesame paste, so I used this instead:
My cupcakes came out a light gray color instead of a lovely deep black, but they tasted great.
I've never steamed cupcakes before, so I greased the inside of my silicone cupcake liners like I always do, but the sides of the cupcake pulled away from the liner, so I probably won't bother greasing next time. I did one batch with a makeshift stovetop steamer and one more in the rice cooker's steamer basket (didn't leave them in for the whole cycle). Both batches basically came out the same, but the rice cooker ones seemed to have a nicer shape.
I wonder if this could be made with regular tahini instead of black sesame paste?
I don't know how much you used since I can't see the top recipie. It sounds from your discription like you should add more of the seeds so that the paste is less fluid. I wouldn't worry about the colour, comercial paste probably contains black colouring.
Sorry about that! That blog didn't require a login when I made the post. Looks like I won't be making these cupcakes anymore. T.T
I looked at the recipe when another_amanda started this thread and didn't make the cakes, but that was because the recipe required lots of egg whisking, something I'm going to be unable to do for a while.
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Just wondering what the record is for the most caches found in Maine on one day by a single cacher/cache team? We had a visitor to the Bangor area yesterday that found many caches. Anybody have stats on this?
Just wondering what the record is for the most caches found in Maine on one day by a single cacher/cache team? We had a visitor to the Bangor area yesterday that found many caches. Anybody have stats on this?
I know I don't have the record,I think my most so far has been 8 but I think Brdad and MsTeeLee have gotten like 12 or so but would be interested in the same question. Who does have the most in one day?
My record for a single day was 11 with the Expeditionary Team of myself, The Geopups, The Blazing Trolls, and The G-Team when we went up Rt 201 back in July. Then the next day I got 9 giving me 20 for two consecutive days. That was a workout for sure.
Cameoooooo was referring to "G Force" -- they did 19 in the Bangor area yesterday! Wowzers!
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That was G Force, my brother from England. He had the advantage of me driving him around. We had spent the day before driving around town getting the grids for Battleship and Tic Tac. He spent some time looking for Dslexic too. Yesterday he went for the caches, I didn't help him find them, but knowing where to park and the best driving route to the caches helps. He didn't find the Battleship cache but did find Tic Tac and Dslexic. The good news is he got 51 caches in a 5 day New England tour. The bad news is he passed me in total caches!
Just for the record...I was referring to The G Force.Originally Posted by RanMan22
Corrected my post...
my bad!
Our "personal best" is only 8 on one day, but 6 of them were First Finds. At the rate new caches have been coming up down here it will be a long time before we top that.
Our best is 17 caches over 2 days in Moncton, New Brunswick.
I have found 11 in one day twice, always seem to hit that one that takes longer than expected to find. Drove over 400 miles on one of those days. Have found 26 in a weekend Fri-Sun. As times goes on the cache densities are getting higher in some areas so I am sure some new cachers will top that due to not having to cover as large an area. In some states there are areas you cold find 11 caches in a one mile area. I don't like coming back to an area to find one cache so usually stay til I find the cache then continue on and don't really worry about how many for the day. Just keep on caching they are all fun. You don't melt away even in pouring rain just makes the hunt more memorable.


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Vegan Pumpkin Berry Muffins
Originally published November 2007.Use two cups of your favorite gluten-free flour combo, if you prefer. I just happen to like the combo of buckwheat and corn meal. It gives these little gems a whole grain texture that reheats like a charm.
1/2 cup extra light olive oil or coconut oil
1 cup canned organic pumpkin puree
1/4 cup molasses
3/4 cup organic light brown sugar
2 teaspoons bourbon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon allspice
1/2 cup Bob's Red Mill Gluten-Free Cornmeal
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1/2 teaspoon sea salt
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
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4-5 tablespoons organic apple juice or apple cider, as needed
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The town of Braselton is hosting this community's only large, public celebration of America's independence on the national holiday.
The town's annual 4th of July Festival and Parade event will be from 4-9 p.m. July 4. The festival will be in Braselton Park and feature music, children's activities, food and craft vendors, and information booths by local businesses and organizations. The parade will begin at 6 p.m. parade, travel along Highway 53 and loop through the park. The fireworks show will be at 9:15. Spectator parking is available at Town Hall, at Northeast Georgia Bank, at W.J. Primary School and at the Braselton Library. Check out the Development Authority's special events page at http://www.downtownbraselton.com/special-events.html .


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The discovery of a small jade tool that was dropped into the waters off an island in the Southwest Pacific about 3,300 years ago is stirring up questions about its origin. The reason for puzzlement: the small green artifact has a chemical composition that is unlike any other described jade, and it was found thousands of miles away from the nearest known geological source.
An international team of archaeologists and geologists from the American Museum of Natural History, the University of Otago (New Zealand), and the University of Papua New Guinea investigate this unusual specimen in a special issue of the European Journal of Mineralogy on jadeitite, the rock that defines one type of jade.
Jade is a general term for two extremely tough rocks—jadeite jade (jadeitite) and nephrite jade, each composed almost entirely from a single mineral. Throughout history, these rocks have been made into tools and ornamental gems that were worn, traded, and treasured. Many nephrite jade sources exist, but the prominent locations are China, New Zealand, Russia, and Canada. Far rarer is jadeite jade, which was used by people living in what is now Central America and Mexico over a span of two millennia prior to the arrival of European colonists.
The artifact, thought to have been used as a wood gouge, was recovered from Emirau Island in the Bismark Archipelago of Papua New Guinea. It was likely dropped from a stilt house into the water below and covered by years of beach sand.
The mineral content and chemical composition of the gouge were analyzed by George Harlow, a curator in the Museum's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with x-ray microdiffraction—a technique that bounces a small beam of x-rays off the specimen to elucidate the atomic structure of the material—and electron microscopy. Both techniques found the rock to be substantially different from that of other jadeitite samples.
But the even bigger mystery is where this unusual rock came from. Only one jadeite source has been reported with similar chemical properties—a site in Baja California Sur, Mexico. If this were the gouge's original home, though, it would have had to been transported across the Pacific, a highly improbable scenario for the Neolithic people of the time.
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Throughout the months that I've been on here, I've been privy to some very interesting discussions; many of which have been great fun, and others of which have given me much to think about. As for the latter, I was recalling someone's plea for advice on figuring out how to find the truth when confronted with multiple conflicting sources of information.
As atheists, we pride ourselves on our ability to reason and to be rational, but with so many different views in the world, it can be hard to reach a solid (albeit tentative) conclusion on any issue. I'd like us to discuss our ideas here for the methods that we use to figure out what makes sense, and what doesn't.
My best advice would be this~ Familiarize yourself with logical fallacies; those are ways of reasoning that at first glance make sense (sometimes) but upon further inspection are false. Almost every claim for the efficacy of religious beliefs is based on one or more logical fallacies, but also many other ideas and thoughts found in everyday life can be traced back to those as well. The better you are at spotting them, the easier it will make forming an opinion or idea on a topic.
A great place to learn what the logical fallacies are is the Iron Chariots wiki. If you learn them well, it will open up a lot of doors as far as reasoning and understanding.
What advice do you have for our fellow atheists who have trouble figuring out what makes sense and what only sounds like it does?
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Yes, I agree. I recently had a little verbal tussle with someone that told me I was too judgemental about Christianity and that I should not have any problem with it as long as it is not being "forced" on me. This person does belong to a religion, but not Christianity.
I told her that I understood that many people need Christianity in order to deal with the stresses in their life and that I looked at it as a double edged sword. I told her I tried to be as consciencious and diplomatic as possible when I do make criticizing remarks about Christiantiy.
I told her what I specifically objected to in Christianity is the teachings of eternal burning torment. I told her than in some instances, such teachings being taught to young children bordered on being child abuse and that there are children that do take such teachings seriously and some become emotionally damaged because of this. She was lucky to have not had that experience, unlike me.
No response from her on that.
My way is to read, read, and read some more. This taught me the most about dealing with irrational and emotional arguments from religion.
Here are some of the best ones I've read:
Godless - Barker
The New Atheism - Stenger
Letter to a Christian Nation- Harris
The End of Faith - Harris
Moral Landscape - Harris
Out of God's Closet - Stephen Uhl
The God Delusion - Dawkins
Does God Get Diarrhea -
God is not Great - Hitchens
God - Waugh
Bondage of the Mind - Gold
Each branch of education builds on another so just focusing on logic, without say mathematics will likely be less fruitful. So enhance your education as a whole...
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I think the scientific method provides the highest quality of information. I'm not referring to isolated studies, but info from multiple studies replicating the same results.
The goal of the scientific method is not to prove a pre-existing idea (i.e. ignore all disputing evidence), but to prove OR disprove the idea (i.e. weighing supporting and disputing evidence). So in theory, science really doesn't have a dog in the race.
Also, the conclusions are not static, but ever changing as more data is collected. So, we come closer and closer to the likely truth, even though we can never say that we have found THE truth.
When I think about the best teachers for science, my immediate gut goes to Richard Dawkins & Neil DeGrasse Tyson. They are two VERY different people with very different methods. Tyson describes himself as an agnostic. Semantics, in my opinion. Dawkins allows for error in his own atheism beliefs, so I guess you could argue there's a little agnostic in him as well. But I don't think Dawkins reaches people who are Christians. If anything, I think he angers these people. That's why I look to people like Tyson who takes a different, more universal approach.
First of all, he's fun. He's not in your face. He gives you facts while cracking jokes, so he's very disarming. I think this is an important trait in a teacher. He lets you think for yourself and come to your own conclusions. I think people like David Silverman are just too aggressive in their approach. It turns people away. Tyson invites you in and welcomes you to share in his knowledge. That is important in the teaching process. We can argue our points all day long. But it's when others come to their own conclusions that change begins.
Second of all, he uses humor. Remember those atheist billboards that went up and caused all kinds of controversy? Well, I wasn't a fan of those billboards. I get what they're trying to do. But they lacked creativity. We needed something more clever. More catchy. Like those "God" billboards that say, "I miss how you used to talk to me when you were a kid-God". Funny. Disarming. But also makes you think. Those billboards were genius. It's all in the approach.
I'm not one to aggressively challenge another's belief system, because 9 times out of 10, they're not going listen to me. However, putting that scientific information out there... just laying it out in a non-aggressive, fun sort of way... well, that can make us teachers. The trick is to make a religious person really THINK. Really ask those hard questions. We have to ask ourselves how we can do that successfully.
I don't think it's possible to "make a religious person think" in the way you mean. Religious beliefs are mental disorders, not about misunderstanding of facts. I know when I was a devout Christian, anyone I may have met telling me facts about evolution, the history of religion, etc., would have been met with a stone wall...the "whole armor of God" helping me to "guard my thoughts". I recovered, though not through any actions or decisions I made. Those came AFTER I recovered. The recovery is spontaneous (a result of changes within the brain beyond anyone's intentions or directions) or it doesn't exist.
Park, this is a great topic for a thread. In fact, for me, it's why I'm here. Let's face it, try as we may or may not be trying, if we're honest with ourselves, we're really not making any progress, or if we are, certainly not enough.
In that excellent website that you linked in your post, they made a really good point (and rather than copying and pasting, the link is below). Arguing with theists is rarely successful. Regardless of the argument made, they will virtually never change their belief.
This definitely confirms my experience. I am constantly amazed by how unwavering they are, but they've usually been brainwashed since birth so that sort of bias won't be overcome easily. Having a website like that one, and many others, is a great resource. I look forward to seeing it greatly expanded and I'm sure it will over time.
For me, I recently got into an online discussion with a theist that led to "Intelligent Design". It's a farcical idea to us, but despite the idiocy of the idea to me, I couldn't think of an argument that I felt he would accept. They, generally, don't call it Creation anymore, because that is ridiculously easy to argue against. In almost all cases though with "ID", they will acknowledge the way things are, but claim a "Designer" did it (often they don't even refer to the designer as "God", I think they think it sounds more scientific that way).
I think in scenarios like that having a website that is sort of a central repository of good arguments that have worked before would be very helpful. Ultimately though, arguing one-off debates with theists, while satisfying, is time consuming and usually futile. So what's the point? It doesn't move us forward.
I don't think this approach is scalable. Question is, if individual arguments rarely work, what is a more effective strategy to get the message out on a broader scale? I think going after more rational moderate members of the public and helping them "come out" is more effective than arguing with individual hardened theists. We need to go after the low hanging fruit first.
I like the idea of signs like the one at the Lincoln Tunnel. It was effective in large part because of the media coverage. That had a gigantic multiplying affect that took the message to those who would not have otherwise have seen it. Unfortunately, it's out of the scope of this website or us as individuals, so along those lines though, what else can we as individuals do?
Small as the idea may be, something as simple as commenting on news stories online, not just "voting", every time a ridiculous religious story is in the news, could be a start. But what else can we do, as a group and as a campaign, to make a multiply affect of our efforts. How can we make measurable progress?
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The next iPad mini may be delayed until next year due to issues, according to reports. See also: iPad mini 2 review of reviews - what do the experts say about the iPad mini with Retina Display?
The reason for the delay is Apple's decision to include a Retina display. An Economic Daily News report (translation from Chinese) suggests that there are capacity problems with the Retina display panel production.
The iPad mini's Retina display would offer the same amount of pixels as the bigger model, according to Apple Insider's report. That suggests that Apple needs to pack in 3.1 million pixels into the smaller screen.
Previously reports had claimed that the new iPad Mini with Retina display will have a resolution of 2,048 x 1,536, which is the same as the Retina screen on the iPhone 5 (also 3.1 million pixels).
The new version of the full-sized iPad will still launch in September, according to the rumour mill.
In June, it was reported that Apple could push production of its iPad mini 2 to November. It's expected that Apple will want to get the new iPad mini on the shelves before the Christmas shopping period, in order to maximise sales of the new tablet. The China Daily report suggests that the new date will fit with the Lunar New Year.
Reports earlier this year had claimed that the new iPad mini will feature a new Retina display, but would still use the same processor chip as the current model. Other reports claimed the second-generation iPad mini would feature the A6X processor that Apple created for the iPad 4.
A report in February suggested that introducing a Retina display to the iPad mini could add 30 per cent to the overall cost of the tablet's components, potentially increasing the price for consumers.
The new iPad mini is said to be slightly thicker at 7.5mm (rather than 7.2mm) due to the fact that it will need a larger battery to power the new 2,048 by 1,536 pixel display.
Retina iPad mini will feature new processor chip
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