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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Pass The Crab Legs And Irresponsibility, Please
that's what she said.
I suck at being an adult. Anything involving bills, paperwork, taxes or medical issues gets handed directly to my husband. I'm all "Here." and he's all "What is it?" and I'm all "I don't know, something from the insurance company." and he's all "What does it say?" and I'm all "Something about a deductable and limits and percentages." and he's all "This is dated three weeks ago." and I'm all *blank stare* and he's all "You're just now opening it?" and I'm all "Well, I thought you would open it so I left it there for you." and he's all "You left it under a bag of Skittles?" and I'm all "What? You love Skittles." and he's all "Why didn't you just open it right away?" and I'm all "Why doesn't your mom just open it right away?". Because I'm awesome at grown-up conversations.
I can't stand thinking about adult stuff. Or talking about it. Or being anywhere near it. I just want to know how much money is in my free checking account every month so I know if I can afford to buy new boots or not. Yes, my checking account is one of the free ones that doesn't earn any interest, mom. I shouldn't be given control of any important financial decisions, is what I'm saying here. Not because I'll do stupid things. Because I won't do anything at all. I'll set the matter aside because ohmygodscary and then promptly forget about it until it's almost too late.
I'm pretty sure I have a 401k left over from my last job somewhere. I can't remember the name of the place where it's at. I don't know how much is in it. The Captain keeps asking me about it and my response every time is "Oh yeah, we need to figure out what to do with that…maybe, ummm, roll it over?". I have no idea what "roll it over" means. I think I heard my sister say it once when she was talking about my IRA that I haven't looked at in 7 years.
I refuse to go into my bank and talk to a real person because they always ask me why I haven't switched to an interest earning checking account and I get tired of explaining how I tried to do it online but I got super confused by the options and my husband is a big meany so he won't help me because "you need to learn how to do these things for yourself, Marcy".
The only time I've looked at our mortgage paperwork was when we went in to sign everything and they were all "sign here" 50 billion times. The Captain, who is totally awesome at this kind of shit (thank God), took care of everything. I probably set back women's rights about 80 years when I told him "whatever you think is best, I don't understand it". All I know is that I have to click on the little "pay now" button on the bank website every month when the mortgage payment is due.
I'm barely qualified to program our DVR, people. No way should I be in charge of anything as important as my financial future. You should have seen me on the night my husband decided to sit me down and work on a 5 year financial plan. He was all "Let's make a list of goals" and I was all "Great idea. I think we should have sex on a beach some day, don't you?" and he was all "I mean financial goals." and I was all "Oh, right. Hey, who wants a soda? I know I do! Boy am I thirsty!" and he was all "Okay, so I was thinking for next year we should…" and I'm all "OMG you know what would be soooo good right now? Crab legs!" and he's all "Come on, focus." and I'm all "I could totally run a train on some crab legs." and he was all "So basically if we transpond these numbers from your paycheck into the logistical payroll calculationer …" and I'm all *eyes rolling back into head* "I'm dead…I'm dying…it's too boring…I'm dead from boredom."
The thing is, I was better at all this when I was single. Granted, my life was much less complicated and I had absolutely no assets so that's probably why. But still. I managed to have both a checking and a savings account, along with a good understanding of my medical and life insurance benefits. Then I got married and inherited two children. Things got complicated and harder. How much life insurance is enough for teenagers? Should we max out our dental insurance this year? Maybe we need to re-evaluate where our 401k investments are going? Should we enroll in the flex account? What the fuck is a flex account???
Jesus, just writing about all that makes my armpits sweaty. I hate this shit. I just want someone else to do it for me so I can go play with my new kittens.
Did I mention that my old lady cat is probably dying, which is totally not fair because I just put my other old cat to sleep in July, but the Captain got me two kittens to make me feel better? I didn't? Oh...well he totally did and they are cute and adorable and fluffy and boom! I just totally distracted you from all that adult shit up there.
I'm a genius at being irresponsible.
p.s. the kitten story is true. I'll have more on that later….
p.p.s. Do I know how to keep people coming back for more or what? I'm like the Walt Disney of blogging.
22 comments:
- Rita/Fighting Off Frumpy said...
I am SO the same way about all the icky "adult" stuff! Except for, you know, the ADULT adult stuff. As in XXX. Now THAT I can handle. :)
PS - Craaaaaab leeeeegs ..... *drool*
- November 8, 2011 at 3:13 PM
- Jen O. said...
I just had to throw up in my office trash can because grown up stuff makes me feel icky.
- November 8, 2011 at 3:22 PM
- The Jules said...
I like to combine the two aspects of fiscal responsibility and stuff that I actually like to do.
How much is it to have sex on the beach?
- November 8, 2011 at 3:26 PM
- Eva Gallant said...
I'm the grown up about money in our household. Although, hubby does do a lot of the things like insurance. But I totally am in charge of my 401k. And he admits we would have no savings if he were in charge.
- November 8, 2011 at 3:27 PM
- Nina Patricia @ The Adventures of Nina Patricia said...
I'm right there with you sister. If I can just be home bake and clean and NEVER have to see a bill, insurance, 401k, etc paperwork I'll be a happy woman. I have no interest in financial things and I rather go to the dentist for a root canal than go to a bank.
Totally digging crab legs
- November 8, 2011 at 4:02 PM
*fistbump* We can grow old and ignore the adult mail together.
And sorry about your old cat. That sucks.
- November 8, 2011 at 4:19 PM
- Eva said...
If they wouldn't make everything so damned complicated these days with all the fine print, it would be a bit easier.
You'll have to post pictures of the new kitties! Maybe you can train them to do paperwork and such. They kind of almost have opposable thumbs.
- November 8, 2011 at 5:49 PM
- Marty said...
omfg, I have HAD those conversations with my mother.
"why don't you set up auto bill pay?"
"because it freaks me out to have my checking account doing stuff. oh, and I never have any money in there anyways because, despite going to college, all I've managed to aspire to is half a hair above minimum wage. hope you don't mind me living in your basement forever!"
I'm so awesome, I suck at being an adult on EVERY level. maybe I should go get a new kitten.....
- November 8, 2011 at 8:47 PM
- A Kitchen Witch said...
sometimes I want to crawl into a hidey-hole. I hate it, too, and it just keeps coming at you. And all the crooked companies and internet hackers don't make things any easier. I like to put these things on the back burner, but then I witnessed my best friend become a widow, unexpectedly, and I went into crazy mode like "call every policy we own and do we have enough coverage and who will keep the kids and ohmagahd I hate being a grown up."
- November 8, 2011 at 9:20 PM
- SherilinR said...
i'm on that very same page. i broke out in hives just reading your post. making decisions about such shit is enough to make me wish for a nice, irresponsible mental institution for a vacation. that might convince anyone who's concerned that i'm not the woman for the job.
- November 8, 2011 at 10:20 PM
- You're Lucky I Don't Have a Gun... said...
I'm like this too.
It wasn't really very handy when I was filing for divorce. Turns out- that's kinda the last place you want to rely on your spouse for paperwork advice.
- November 8, 2011 at 10:49 PM
- Mrs BC said...
When I was single, I had a sock full of cash. Now...ignorance is bliss.
I like crab legs!
- November 9, 2011 at 8:17 AM
- nova said...
Three things:
1. I can't read an entire letter from the bank/credit card company/student loan agency. I JUST CAN NOT GET THROUGH IT. It's physically impossible.
2. I want to hear more about the kittens.
3. I knew this would be a good blog post when it showed up in my reader because of the title. And then it was on your blog so I was right! I wish money stuff was as easy as blogging predictions.
- November 9, 2011 at 3:04 PM
- Karen said...
You are me! (Well, a younger, cuter and funnier version, anyway.)
Please tell us about the baby kittehs and pictures, pretty please! :)
- November 10, 2011 at 12:16 PM
- The Vegetable Assassin said...
Dude, for real. When I first moved to the US that was how I was all the time. It was like people were suddenly talking Swahili to me. WHAT THE HELL IS A COPAY? What's a 401K? I HAVE TO DO MY OWN TAXES, are you SURE? What sort of backwoods hicksville IS THIS?
See I come from a country of free health care where you never have to deal with insurance and our employers always did our taxes for us, you don't have to file your OWN taxes, that's ludicrous. All I knew is that come tax time you'd find a rebate check in the mail or you don't. You never OWE tax. You're either dead on or they owe you.
The first time I did my own taxes in the States it took me FOUR EFFING DAYS and I cried and drank gin. Every form lead to another form then to another. And I didn't understand the FIRST one. Jesus. It's no wonder people drink. And don't get me started on my old boss when he expected me to take care of all his medical insurance paperwork. He might as well have greased up an ostrich, tied my hands behind my back and told me to catch the fucker.
So I totally sympathize. :)
- November 10, 2011 at 2:01 PM
- Jaclyn said...
The mistake most people make when trying to get their 401k to roll over is that they don't use positive reinforcement. Like, you can't smack it on the nose with a newspaper just because it didn't roll over the first time you asked. It isn't like it shit on the floor or something. Try treats and praise. Worked with my 401k.
- November 11, 2011 at 9:17 AM
- Logical Libby said...
I would be better at bills and stuff if I got a reward. I mean, other than a house and running water and stuff. I mean like a pony.
- November 14, 2011 at 4:01 PM
- Ed said...
For months now, you have reminded me of Clara from the web series The Guild.
This post seals the deal. You two are basically one in the same.
- November 16, 2011 at 7:39 AM
- Joanna Jenkins said...
And that is exactly why I married an accountant. He takes care of all that crap. Thank god. All I have to do is remember where I put the key to the safety deposit box.... which, at the moment, is a problem. I gotta go look for that damn key.
So sad about your Old Lady Cat :-(
xoxoxo jj
- November 18, 2011 at 10:50 PM
- Gia said...
Yeah, I totally get what you mean about the adult thing. I tried to get Boyfriend to read my 3 page lease to tell me whether or not I could break it. He was not so amused.
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Christos Papadimitriou, the C. Lester Hogan Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley, is this year's recipient of the Katyanagi Prize for Research Excellence. Carnegie Mellon University has cited Dr. Papadimitriou as "an internationally recognized expert on the theory of algorithms and complexity, and its applications to databases, optimization, artificial intelligence, networks and game theory."
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DDJ: Congratulations on the Katyanagi Award.
CP: I didn't know I had been nominated. When the chairman of the committee e-mailed me about the prize, I skimmed the e-mail quickly. She mentioned the previous winner, so I thought someone else won the prize and that I was invited to speak at the ceremony. I replied, "Yeah, okay, let me think about it, give me a week..." She wrote back in astonishment, thinking I was not accepting the prize!
DDJ: You certainly cover wide territory in your papers. One that interests me in particular is "On the Complexity of Protein Folding." I was just discussing the same subject with your co-Katyanagi honoree, Erik Demaine, recently. Have you two worked together?
CP: No, we talked briefly after I heard him mention his work in his talk at Carnegie Mellon University.
It's a fascinating problem. It's something people have called "Leventhal's Paradox." How come these stupid amino acids know how to fold in a millisecond and we can't with the most powerful computers figure it out in ages? Erik and his colleagues have a very nice explanation for this: The proteins get a lot of geometric help from the ribosomes and the chaperones.
I had a different idea: It's a very hard problem for proteins to fold. Nobody can solve it, not even proteins themselves. Except that evolution has selected the proteins that know how to solve it. In simpler organisms, not much precision is needed. For more complex organisms, a great deal of precision. Sometimes proteins require very exact shapes because they are engaged in certain exercises. They stick together, they can grab to hold other molecules.
DDJ: So when you're talking about "simpler forms of life": You don't mean the difference between microbe and macrobe, you mean perhaps the difference between a microbe and a virus?
CP: This is not precisely my field, but I think there is question whether a virus is "alive" or not. A virus doesn't figure in the tree of life as currently described.
DDJ: I guess it depends on how you define "life." Does a virus have a soul?
CP: It can kill me, but can it recite poetry? [Laughs] Perhaps such categorization is anthropocentric.
DDJ: Diverging from the philosophical to the mundane, your work on protein folding touches on an interesting economic phenomenon. Dr. Dobb's Journal is a magazine that addresses working programmers. As we pursue our careers, are we going to be sucked into biotech in large numbers?
CP: I would say that, quite generally, computer scientists are going to find themselves interacting more with other fields. I encourage my students to go completely wild in their curriculum, to go out and learn not only that which they think they should learn in order to be good computer scientistsusually mathematics and programming and engineering and so onbut learn about everything else, about psychology, economics, about business, about biology, about the humanities.
I think the future belongs to programmers who are well-rounded people who have diverse interests, who are flexible, who understand deeply other fields and are ready to transform them. Biotech is definitely part of the picture, but it's not unique.
DDJ: I looked at your paper "Inferring Tree Models for Oncogenesis from Comparative Genome Hybridization Data".
CP: You're fishing up papers I'm very proud of and nobody else knows about! Thank you. That paper was undertaken due to the excellent work at the National Institutes of Health [NIH] of my former Stanford student Alejandro Schdffer.
Today with relatively low-tech techniques you can get a glimpse of what regions of the genome are overactive or underactive in cancer cells compared to healthy cells. You get a bunch of regions in the genome where obviously something fishy happens. Cancer is the result of this. When you get lots of such cells, various stages of cancer development, it's like there were many species of cancer cells.
Our thought was, "Why not use the techniques biologists use in the field of phylogenetics and construct the tree of life?" In phylogenetics, you get the either the genome or the phenotype, the external characteristics of the species you find, and from this you infer what went on. Who was the common ancestor?
So we thought about using the same technique to understand how cancer grows and develops. We conjectured that something goes wrong and that's the root of the tree. Because of that, a bunch of other things go wrong, and so on. Looking at the data, you can infer quite reasonably what happened. A lot of other clever clinicians from NIH gave a paper, which led to this.
We found tree models for the progress of cancer. There are molecular events that predispose the cell. Either a suppressor is busted or a promoter is overactive. The amazing thing was how hard it was to find data in these days of overabundant data. We could only find data for a few kinds of cancers. People have used the technique after us, and I'm sure that there are much more elaborate, sophisticated lab techniques.
DDJ: Have there been concrete research results?
CP: One of our predictions is that ovarian cancer is really three different diseases that have very close clinical symptoms. I believe there is some support for that now. Our tree model had a root, and the next three nodes were way down, suggesting it was not really one tree. If you look at ovarian cancer, the tree that, according to our model, describes the progression of the diseases is really a forest of three trees.
DDJ: What got you started in math?
CP: Back home in Greece, my father was a math teacher. Mathematics always fascinated me, but I don't believe I ever spoke about math with my father. His influence was tacit. We never spoke about it because we were both so passionate about the subject, not until I was in college and just before his death, when it was obvious that I had become a better mathematician than him, so the tension was not there anymore.
DDJ: He must have been a wise man, because one thing a father can do is instill in his child a hatred of a subject. Obviously, you speak at least two languages, probably more.
CP: I mumble many languages. I speak Greek and English and have working knowledge of German, French, Spanish, Italian, some Turkish.
DDJ: Are you a musician?
CP: Yes, how did you guess? I am a failed musician! I'm very interested in music but I'm not very good at it.
DDJ: I've observed that many computer scientists are also linguists, musicians, and play chess.
CP: So you were wrong about the chess part.
DDJ: No chess?
CP: Actually, all my life I've been next to incredible chess players. The two top players in Greece when I was growing up, one was my cousin, the other was my schoolmate.
DDJ: So you narrowly missed becoming a chess player!
CP: More like, I was so discouraged by my encounters with those two. But I think you are close. I'm very passionate about backgammon. I'm a serious backgammon player. Frankly, I think backgammon is a much more interesting game, much harder to learn.
DDJ: Because you have to assess such fine probabilities?
CP: It's something much simpler than that. In chess, when you play like an idiot, you always lose, so you learn. In backgammon, you can play 10 games, not play well, and win. So you think you are great but you have made a great number of mistakes. Tragically, life is closer to backgammon, because you can play a perfect game and lose!
DDJ: So can chess be solved without exhaustive search, by some model?
CP: My most famous book, perhaps, is Computational Complexity. Complexity Theory is a mathematical field that tries to find the intrinsic difficulty of problems. "This problem looks difficult, is it because it is really difficult or because I'm stupid?" That's the question. Computational Complexity is a very difficult field, because it's nearly impossible to prove what everyone knows from experience. You have to be very, very lucky. The P versus NP problem, whether you can telescope exhaustive search, is always the key, because there are instances where we know how to bypass exhaustive search.
Compare chess with Nim. There are many games where, by creative thinking, you can see that they don't have intrinsic difficulty. They can be solved front-to-back. You can look at a position and make a calculation and say it's a win. People have proved that chess is part of the family of games that seem to have intrinsic difficulty, that seem to embody computation, require exhaustive search.
There can be games on a large board that have very suggestive symmetries, but still, they have subtle mathematical properties.
DDJ: What are you working on now?
CP: I'm always looking at lots of problems in various areas. But in the last 10 years, the larger part of my work is on this new area, trying to understand the Internet and the Web, trying to understand the underpinnings. In computer science, we don't have great mysteries. We want to solve problems, but it's not like we have mysterious objects we don't understand. It's not like Physics, which has the Universe, or Economics, which has the Markets, Neuroscience has the Brain, and Biology the Cell. For us, the computer and its software are huge, complex, powerful, and fascinating, but we constructed them. Intrinsically, there's very little mystery.
In many ways, the Internet and the Web, we did not create them. They arrived, appeared, emerged. All these other artifacts, software, processers, and so forth, there was a designer, a team, an entity that intentionally built them. The Web emerged from an interaction of millions of entities on the basis of deliberately simple protocols. Thus the Internet and the Web are our mysterious objects. Computer scientists are looking at them the way other scientists are looking at their mysterious objects. We have to look at them using the scientific method: observations, measurement, experiments, verifiable theories, applied mathematics.
DDJ: Where do you start looking at the Web and the Internet? Link networks? Semantics?
CP: The Web and the Internet are two separate subjects, both fascinating and mysterious. Links are important. Content is important. The way routers and ISPs are linking on the Internet is important. They're very organic.
DDJ: John Gilmore said, "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
CP: Very well said! I think we should be proud. The Internet embodies healthy principles of the programmers who came up with and implemented the protocols. If it's democratic and censorship-resistant and open and end-to-end, all these great things that are under attack these days, it's because of ingenious and strategic programming.
DDJ: I guess you could model how rumors spread on the Internet.
CP: There are a lot of people working on this. How rumors spread and how product preferences spread interests advertisers. Call it "information epidemiology." Say you look at a network and try to decide which are the leader nodes to which you give a free sample of your product and conquer the market as a result.
DDJ: Tell us about your paper "Algorithms, Games, and the Internet."
CP: This is about the interface between algorithm theory, networking and economics. When I say "games" I don't mean "Guitar Hero." I mean the Game Theory of John Nash, economic games. The paper was basically a call to arms to study this interface. I proposed a few problems. It had a result I am proud of.
In 1950, Nash proved this theorem that every game has equilibrium. This had completely eluded the other great game theorists up to that time. Von Neumann suspected it was true but didn't know how to prove it. This brought Nash the Nobel Prize almost 50 years later [1994 Nobel Memorial Prize]. So since Nash's paper, everyone was curious how you find this equilibrium. This sounds like a job for a computer scientist.
We did try to discover how hard it is to find the Nash Equilibrium. Nash's theorem is an existence theorem, that equilibrium exists. If you want to find that equilibrium, to put it to work, you have to look at the proof. And the proof doesn't help you here. The proof relies on another difficult theorem called Brouwer's fixed-point theorem, which was proved 50 years earlier. Is the dependence on Brouwer intrinsic or is there a quick way to prove the existence of equilibria that would lead to an algorithm?
Three years ago, with my students Constantinos Daskalakis and Paul Goldberg, we proved that these two great theorems of the 20th century, Brouwer and Nash, are equivalent, that you need Brouwer to prove Nash, and you can prove Nash from Brouwer. As a result, you can't find Nash equilibrium, it possesses intrinsic difficulty.
What a mathematician always dreams is that he will one day prove a theorem that will teach the world something they don't know, that will point to a new direction. But what a mathematician does every day is prove what everybody knows is true but couldn't prove.
DDJ: You seem to be enunciating theories that do have an effect on the external world.
CP: From my point of view, it's humbling how little and how belated is the effect of anything one does. It's a complex world!
DDJ: Tell us about your novels.
CP: I have written a novel called Turing (A Novel about Computation). It's a modern love story in which the protagonist is an AI program called "Turing." It started about 18 years ago. I discovered this was inside me and had to come out, so I took time to write it. I couldn't resist it. It was one of the most powerful experiences I ever had. I found myself thinking about myself from every perspective. I worked hard, I cried a lot. I saw things in myself that were perhaps there before but I had never seen them. If I had not done it, I would be a less happy man. I shudder at the thought I might have lived my life without writing this novel.
DDJ: Perhaps a way to let out the irrationality after all the rationality of mathematics?
CP: Yes. Now I'm writing a graphic novel called Logicomics. It's on the history of mathematical logic.
DDJ: You encourage your students to read the classics.
CP: The classics of computer science. It's very instructive. It happens that my students sometimes realize there is something seriously broken in their field and they take time and fix it. What is fascinating reading these papers, you can see the author knows that it's important, that they are writing history. Graduate students should see this and be inspired. Euler's paper, written when he was quite young, on the Bridges of Konigsberg is the beginning of Network Theory, whether you can walk over each bridge once, saying that sometimes geometry is not important, the only thing that matters is what is connected to what.
DDJ: Is Bridges of Konigsberg a version of the Traveling Salesman Problem?
CP: Not quite. It's like the Knight's Tour, with the difference that the Knight goes to every island, but in the Bridges you have to cross every bridge; that is, traverse every edge. This turns out to be much easier than the Traveling Salesman. It's one of these problems that look equally hard but has no intrinsic complexity, you can eyeball it.
Euler's classic serves to tell us that not everything that looks intrinsically complex is so.
Another paper I like my students to read is where Feynman proposed quantum computers. I'm interested in the mathematics of quantum computing. It's a beautiful question in mathematics, it's a beautiful question in physics, it's a beautiful question in computer science.
You think quantum computing is about powerful computers, but quantum computing may prove to be about testing quantum physics, to find out why we cannot build these powerful computers. Who knows? Maybe there is something fishy with the theory. One of the reasons quantum computing is so interesting is that it looks at some extremely counterintuitive predictions of quantum theory.
If building quantum computers fails on a practical engineering basis, that will be a disappointment, meaning the idea dies of a thousand cuts, it's too difficult, we can't afford it, we stop trying. But what would be fascinating is if there is a theoretical difficulty! There are physicists who see quantum computing as the ultimate test of quantum theory.
This brings us back to where we started this conversation, the Algorithmic Lens. In some sense, Physics looks at itself and its most prestigious theory through the Algorithmic Lens. That's a great triumph of the algorithmic programming way of thinking.


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September is ending and with it pass the most plentiful waves of fall migrants. What awesome autumn birds have you seen? What super spring species have you spotted (south of the Equator only!) Step right up and share your best bird of the weekend.
While enjoying a packed weekend in the NYC area, I noticed an abundance of Northern Flickers, the Polka Dot Woodpeckers, frolicking with more common species. Corey's best bird was a lovely Lincoln's Sparrow at Kissena Park in Queens…
What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. If you've blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.
Probably the amazing flocks of waders in general….approx 25,000 in Roebuck Bay now! We retrieved 6 of the geolocators on Greater Sand Plovers, which were attached in March prior to migration! Can't wait to find out where they went! Great "by catch" of 49 Broad Billed Sandpipers…..is that a world record!? Hope they are seen in the northern hemisphere next migration. Amazing group of volunteers….some of us were doing 10 hour days for 6 days, so a Queen's Birthday holiday today is welcome!
A Red Kite over Leimen, which goes to show how un-exciting my birding was… 😉
Well, I had 5 fly-over Hawfinches on a grey day (Saturday), but I am officially banned from naming these on a blog where one Corey Finger has some administration rights.
My son and I on a little hike had a wonderful close look at a pileated woodpecker. That was our special bird for septembers last hoorah 🙂
We just moved into our first house (in Ottawa, Canada), so I started a backyard bird list. As usual, it starts with Crow, Starling, etc. On Sunday, I noticed a pair of House Finches on the power line. In the time I got my binos, they were replaced by a Chipping Sparrow, which flew away to reveal a Northern Parula. And THAT was the bird of the weekend (and #5 on my backyard list).
The sunset cruise on Jamaica Bay was largely barren of unusual birds, though it had its interesting moments. (We learned what happened to all of NYC's pre-automobile dead horses. And I can no longer completely badmouth Robert Moses, since without him, the JB refuge would have neither the East Pond nor the West Pond.)
My best bird of the weekend came as the boat was heading back to port. After egrets, gulls, more egrets, more gulls, and a faraway Osprey, I randomly happened to spot, flying alongside us, what turned out to be a Belted Kingfisher in search of some dinner. A lifer for me! And a great way to end a lovely evening.
Seeing the last of the Sandhill Cranes at the Alaska Bird Observatory here in Fairbanks had to be my best weekend birds. Most of the migrants are gone from interior Alaska now, and seeing a small group of four cranes "hidden" in a restless flock of pigeons was a lovely surprise.
Humboldt Penguin! A "life order" for me.
A few days before the weekend there were two black bellied whistling ducks in the pond. The sun was shining on them and what made me take a long look was their bills which were bright orange-red. The chestnut colored backs in the sunlight stood out also. So I got as close as I could and looked them over real well and quickly got home to the bird book to identify.
For the weekend — a whole bunch of sand hill cranes seem to have arrived in the area.
My best bird was a Peregrine Falcon that dove at and caught at least three migrating passarines, and missed a half dozen more. While it would have been cool anywhere, it was made more incredible by the fact that it was at the top of the Empire State Building, at 11 o'clock at night. The smart peregrines have figured out that the spotlights on the top of the building illuminate migrants- an all-you-can-catch buffet for the falcons.
Also nice were a few cuckoos from the Empire State Building, and a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher and some Gray-cheeked Thrushes in Central Park the next morning.
My best birds of the weekend were the masses of Green Frogs at one of the preserves on the North Fork of Long Island, many of them still in the middle of tadpole-to-frog transformaton. What? That's not a bird? How about three Buff-breasted Sandpipers in the sod fields, disappearing then re-appearing as they trotted in and out of the grass?
And, Meredith, Moses was also responsible for creating Jones Beach. He had the sand trucked in.
A tie between the Blue Nuthatch, which eluded me for six whole days before getting it on Saturday, or the Malayan Whistling-thrush, which I didn't bother looking for until Sunday and found to be far more engaging than its slulky reputation suggested.
I was birding last weekend in western Estonia; perfect hard core birding trip. In addition to mass migration of raptors, we saw some rarities: Black Kite and two Great Egrets! During one and half day we saw 113 different species, spontaneously, without really trying to find all possible species.
Have started birding over the last year or so – very new to this – moved into a new home very close to a conservation park – and the birds are amazing – and they are amazing at my Mum's place (about 3 miles away) this year. Area: Western North-Shore, Lower Mainland, BC, where the mountains meet the ocean and the river … fascinating.
One day was astounded because of what I observed over an 8 hour period only: saw a Coopers hawk, bald eagle, golden eagle, barn owl, meadow-tit, flicker, red-hooded woodpecker and the ruby hummingbir – and a falcon, blue heron, osprey, wood pigeons and a grouse… in just ONE DAY.. it was awe inspiring… but then this time of year is supposed to be the best for birding here because they converge from all over the North American content to head in all of their various directions. Very cool.
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Recent advances from a variety of laboratories reveal that free radical-induced lipid oxidation products can mediate potent anti-inflammatory and beneficial metabolic reactions. Fatty acids, at first glance, are among the simplest of biological molecules: straight chain hydrocarbons with a single polar terminus and at most a few cis-double bonds in either a methylene-skipped or conjugated diene pattern. In polyunsaturated fatty acids, the low bond dissociation energy of the doubly allylic methylene hydrogens renders them relatively reactive, making radical abstraction a viable reaction manifold. Fatty acid ligation to proteins is typically accomplished by the formation of esters or thioesters by the carboxylic acid, which increases lipophilicity, can modify protein function and alters the anatomic distribution of modified proteins. Fatty acids also are packaged and distributed for structural and energy storage needs, with the lipid compositions, lengths and number of double bonds determining the fluidity of the resulting lipid rafts.
In the context of cell signaling, the stereospecific oxygenation of not only arachidonic acid but also other polyunsaturated fatty acids can be catalyzed by the heme and non-heme iron-containing proteins cyclooxygenase-1 and -2 as well as 5-, 12- and 12/15-lipoxygenases. These products are typically viewed as ligands for specific G-protein-coupled receptors that propagate inflammatory responses. Notably, by virtue of their reactive dienes, fatty acids also are susceptible to more random oxidation by the adventitious oxidants produced during mitochondrial respiration, environmental oxidants, and the inflammatory activation of cellular nitric oxide (NO) synthase and superoxide (O2.-) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)-generating NAD(P)H oxidase activities. These reactive species are not exclusively toxic, because recent advances show they also can serve as salutary signaling mediators by virtue of an ability to confer post-translational protein modifications.
Polyunsaturated fatty acids are easily oxidized to hydroperoxyl and hydroxyl derivatives, with multiple enzymatic mechanisms having evolved to further metabolize these intermediates. In the process of oxidation, double bond rearrangments occur, such as from cis- to trans- and into conjugation with a neighboring double bond. This latter species is potentially reactive via the electron-rich conjugated diene, and may be subject to further modification by electron-deficient or unpaired reactive species. Alternatively, the hydroxyl may be directly oxidized via enzymatic or nonenzymatic pathways to an aldehyde or ketone. The α,β-unsaturated carbonyl, now conjugated to the diene, forms a powerful electron-withdrawing group. This moiety is labile to reaction with available nucleophiles, such as protein thiol or histidine residues. Similarly, NO-derived reactive species can instead nitrate the fatty acid by nitrogen dioxide-mediated free radical addition mechanisms. The resulting nitro-fatty acids are even more electron-deficient and thus are a strongly electrophilic and kinetically reactive species. The resulting oxidized or nitrated fatty acids, whether free or esterified, exhibit distinct structural and biochemical properties and can modulate the activity of multiple cell signaling pathways.
The electrophilic reactivity of both α,β-unsaturated carbonyl- and nitro-fatty acid derivatives is the basis for their signaling capacity. Double bonds conjugated to a strong electron withdrawing group are susceptible to Michael addition. This is the reversible addition of a nucleophile to the electrophile, accompanied by bond-rearrangement and proton transfer, to yield adducted (or alkylated) products. In the decidedly reducing cytosolic milieu, most biological functional groups are electron rich, and some are potentially nucleophilic. This redox balance is maintained by glutathione, which is a prevalent nucleophile as well as antioxidant. The adduction of electrophilic fatty acids to thiol- or amine-containing proteins via Michael addition introduces a post-translational modification of proteins, conferring altered cellular distribution, conformation and catalytic activity.
It is the combination of electrophilic adduction with the reversibility of this reaction that may be the most important aspect of this reactivity of soft electrophiles. An irreversible reaction is essentially toxic, rendering useful molecules useless or deleterious. Electrophile adduction to glutathione and subsequent extracellular transport is a common detoxification mechanism. A reversible modification conversely is a typical event; molecules are modified and remodified in continuous succession throughout the cell as a normal aspect of metabolism.
Detection of these fatty-acid products must consider their small proportion among free fatty acids while also accounting for the bioavailable pools that are already adducted to proteins. The reversible electrophilicity of these molecules has been exploited as an analytical methodology designed to take advantage of their intrinsic properties. To distinguish electron-rich fatty acids from oxidized or nitrated electrophilic species, simple methods for exposing the analyte to competing thiol-containing nucleophiles have been developed. Then trans-alkylation to low molecular weight or immobilized nucleophiles permits capture of electrophilic species that are either free or already adducted via Michael addition to GSH or nucleophilic amino acids of proteins. In this regard, β-mercaptoethanol serves as an effective electrophile trapping agent. After chromatographically separating β-mercaptoethanol-adducted electrophiles, these adducts can be identified and analyzed by loss-of-mass observations as they are cleaved under ionizing mass-spectrometric conditions. Through this methodology, new nitrated and oxidized fatty acid species are being detected in both animal models and clinically (1, 2).
Why are electrophilic fatty acids relevant in biology? Multiple transcriptional regulation events and nuclear lipid receptors such as PPARγ are potently modulated by these species, resulting in predominantly anti-inflammatory and beneficial gene expression and metabolic responses (3). One can envision that the redox-dependent generation of electrophilic lipid products thus links gene expression to the metabolic and inflammatory status of tissues.
1. Groeger A. L., Cipollina, C., Cole, M. P., Woodcock, S. R., Bonacci, G., Rudolph, T. K., et al. Cyclooxygenase-2 generates anti-inflammatory mediators from omega-3 fatty acids. (2010) Nat. Chem. Biol. 6, 433 – 41. 2. Schopfer, F. J., Batthyany, C., Baker, P. R., Bonacci, G., Cole, M. P., Rudolph, V., et al. Detection and quantification of protein adduction by electrophilic fatty acids: mitochondrial generation of fatty acid nitroalkene derivatives. (2009) Free Radic. Biol. Med. 46, 1250 – 9.3. Rudolph, T. K., Freeman, B. A. Transduction of redox signaling by electrophile-protein reactions. (2009) Science Signaling. 2.
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I was a royal escort at Saturday's Mermaid Parade on Coney Island, where the king and queen were Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson (omg!). Lou didn't get as into the costumed spirit as some of us—I was a BP pirate, complete with oil-slicked bird on my shoulder—but he WAS wearing a Totonno's hat, and that's pretty damn Coney of him.
Attached is a pic of me with Lou and Laurie, doing my best "arrrrrrrrrrrr" (but instead freaking out in a total fangirl moment). And if you look here, in the first shot in this slideshow he graciously doffs his Totonno's cap to the crowd.
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Back to School: Custom Searches & Extensions for Students
It's that time of year; Meeting new fellow students, cracking open the first page of a new notebook, heading to class and getting ready for the school year ahead.
Or maybe I graduated too long ago and forgotten that, in reality, it's more along the lines of grabbing a large coffee to stay awake through class and hoping that the new professor isn't too weird.
Whichever way you plan to start your school year, Alfred can help you get things done better and faster with web searches, custom searches and extensions.
Default web searches
Alfred comes packed with useful default searches to help you be more productive. Start your search with the keyword "wiki" to search Wikipedia – but remember to check your sources!
DuckDuckGo is a super useful tool that lets you search a vast number of search engines with the !bang shortcuts. Start with the keyword "duck" and see just how flexible it is. If you're using the Powerpack, you can set DuckDuckGo as your default fallback search, so that you can use the !bang shortcuts without the "duck" prefix – even better!
Need to translate text? Type "translate" and paste the text or URL of the page you want to translate. Hit return and Google Translate will work its magic.
Custom searches
Custom searches give you the ability to add searches for anything you might need frequent search access to. For example, search your Delicious bookmarks library (replace our username with your own) or search Pinboard for your own bookmarks.
Creating these is very quick yet can save you a lot of time, so have a look at our help page on creating your own custom searches for internal wikis, study resources or almost any site. Check out the fan-run Alfred Tips site for many of the favourite custom searches out there.
If you really want to kick it up a notch, the Powerpack allows you to use extensions, along with many other great useful features like Clipboard History and 1Password integration.
While writing essays, use Dave Ferguson's Word Counter to track your progress.
If you're a fan of Evernote, as we are, you'll find a wide range of Evernote extensions for adding notes in our extensions gallery.
Sweating bullets before your first class presentation? Can't help you there, but you can use Seb Clarke's Caffeine Manager to switch on Caffeine.app with a keyword to make sure your laptop doesn't go to sleep mid-presentation, leaving you to concentrate on keeping your classmates awake!
The school year, of course, isn't all work and no play. Sneak a bit of fun into the classroom with Kailey Lampert's Hangman extension. Start by typing "hangman new", then see how good your vocabulary and guessing skills are! [Kailey and Alfred take no responsibility for time having disappeared when you next look at the clock!]
Need to get something ordered? Use the "amazon" keyword followed by your search term for quick access to your local Amazon online store.
If you're like me and can't study without music, you've got plenty of options. The iTunes Mini Player, part of the Powerpack, gives you keyboard-based access to your iTunes collection. If you prefer Spotify or Rdio, some Alfred users have created some brilliant extensions for each one of them, which you can find in the Music page of the Extensions gallery.
Whatever you may be studying and whether you're starting or finishing this year, may it be a great year! Learn everything you can, meet everyone you can and enjoy yourself. Oh and leave a comment to share your own custom searches, extensions or favourite ways to start the school year 🙂
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children who don't show a hand preference are more likely than their righty or lefty peers to perform poorly in school, a new study in the journal Pediatrics shows.
And these mixed-handed kids also show more signs of psychiatric disturbance and more symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) at 8 and 16 years of age, Dr. Alina Rodriguez of Uppsala University in Sweden and her colleagues found.
Non-right-handedness has long been linked to behavior and learning problems, Rodriguez told Reuters Health. New research increasingly indicates that it's mixed-handedness, not left-handedness, that is responsible for the association, she added.
Rodriguez and her team recently showed that mixed-handed 5-year-olds had more language problems and ADHD symptoms than children who preferred using their right or left hand. In the current study, they looked at data reported by the parents and teachers of 7,871 Finnish children when the children were 7 or 8 years old and again when they were 16 years old.
Just 1 percent of the group were mixed-handed, which is similar to the prevalence seen in studies of adults; 9 percent were left-handed, and the rest were right handed.
At age 8, the mixed-handed children were more than twice as likely to have certain problems with language development, for example stuttering or difficulties with certain sounds. And they were twice as likely to perform poorly at school compared to their classmates.
Mixed-handedness also emerged as a strong predictor of later behavior problems, the researchers found. For example, children who had no reading or writing problems at age 8 were nearly three times as likely to perform poorly in school at 16 if they were mixed-handed.
Kids who had behavior problems as 8-year-olds and were mixed-handed were 14 times as likely to have behavior problems at 16 compared to those who were well-behaved at 8 and were either right- or left-handed. These children were also nearly 17 times as likely to have overall behavioral scores suggesting psychiatric disturbance.
The two sides or hemispheres of the brain are normally quite different from one another in both structure and function, Rodriguez and her team note, while abnormally symmetrical brain hemispheres have been tied to brain and behavior problems.
It's likely that this kind of "atypical lateralization" is related to both mixed-handedness and behavior and learning problems, according to Rodriguez.
The fact that many renowned geniuses were mixed-handed — like Albert Einstein and Leonardo da Vinci — suggests that lack of hand preference may offer some advantages in brain development, she added.
"If a child is mixed handed I wouldn't worry if there are no other problems whatsoever," Rodriguez said. But if there are "red flags" like ADHD in the family or behavioral and learning problems, "I think it's worth having extra evaluation for the child."
SOURCE: Pediatrics, February 2010.


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Matt Damon is convinced his actor pal John Krasinksi has the talent to become the next George Clooney after teaming up with "The Office" star for their new movie "Promised Land."
The Oscar winner has grown close to Krasinski since working with his actress wife Emily Blunt on 2011′s "The Adjustment Bureau," and they recently sat down to write the screenplay for the drama "Promised Land" together.
And Damon was so impressed with the 33 year old's work, he insists Krasinski – who is best known for his role on the small screen comedy – has what it takes to follow in the footsteps of TV star-turned-movie icon Clooney, who first found fame on medical series "ER."
Damon tells NBC's "Today," "He's just a really talented guy and people don't even (know it yet). I knew him from 'The Office' and was a fan of his and the show, but the scope and breadth of his talent is so much more vast than that and as I got to know him I really wanted to work with him…
"It's kind of similar to when I met George Clooney years and years ago and everybody knew him from… ER. But Steven Soderbergh did a movie with him ('Ocean's Eleven') and instantly formed a company with him and everybody in Hollywood was going, 'What is Steven Soderbergh doing forming a company with the guy from ER?' What Steven knew is what… George was capable of and I think the same is true for John."


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I am building an ARM based embedded device running embedded linux having a web based interface and I need a webserver running on my device. At maximum it will get 50 requests at a time. I have on board 1 GB RAM. I will also need HTTPS. The webserver should not consume too much memory (of-course as its an embedded device). It should support dynamic contents (so I guess Boa is out). My website should also be able to support HTML5. Following are some of the options I have looked into but open to suggestions.
- lighttpd
- nginx
- Hiawatha
- thttpd
- Boa
Any feedback / input / pointer is welcome


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Routes 240, 241 and School Special 739 (Mary Mount Primary School) – service disruption
Effective: Immediately, Monday 7 February 2011 until further notice
Routes 240, 241 and School Special 739 (Mary Mount Primary School) are currently affected by road closures caused by the ongoing bush fires.
Route 240 services are currently not operating. The only exception is Route 240F that deviates from Kelmscott Station to Kelmscott Senior High School and will continue to shuttle students from Kelmscott Station to Kelmscott Senior High School.
Route 241 services are not operating, including Roleystone Senior High School deviations.
School Special 739 that departs Brookton Hwy and Westbourne Rd at 7.25am to Mary Mount Primary is not operating.
Transperth strongly encourages passengers to regularly check the website regarding service disruptions in the area as the long term affect, particularly for Route 241, is yet to be determined due to damage to Buckingham Bridge .


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Frankly we got much more than expected. [Ilumina GS Digital Print Envelope Press] has brought us even more in terms of versatility and our ability to satisfy our customer's needs.
Cal Poly selected Xante's technology as the best of its kind to educate students on using digital technology in specialty printing processes.
With the Enterprise Feeder, you don't lose any time. You can put a box of 500 envelopes on it and let it run and go about your business.
[Impressia Multi-Media Digital Press] is going to pay for itself because it doesn't cost what it would cost to send it to a press. It's a workhorse. . .it's just an awesome machine.
Go look at what it's going to cost on another piece of equipment as opposed to the Impressia and you'll find that our fuser life, our toner life, etc. is longer than the other machines out there.


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A fish tale
Image: Kamisaka Sekka (1866–1942) Goldfish bowl 1905–15 (detail), hanging scroll: ink and colour on silk, 105.7 × 35.8 cm, Hosomi Museum, Kyoto
Sometimes a chance encounter with a work of art can have unexpected ramifications years later.
Six years ago, I was in Tokyo, working as a part-time lecturer in Japanese art history and freelance translator when I happened to see the advertisement for an exhibition at the Takashimaya department store in Nihonbashi. What attracted my attention was not the name of the artist whose work was the main focus of the show, but the image of a goldfish that seemed to come out directly towards me from the poster.
I had studied Japanese art for over ten years and have done my post-graduate degrees on various aspects of Japanese painting, but had never heard about the artist Kamisaka Sekka or seen anything so unconventional and humorous as his painting of a goldfish bowl. Curious to see the whole painting – the poster shows only a detail of the goldfish – I went to see the exhibition and discovered a whole new aspect of Japanese art. I thought that if I ever worked again as a curator, I would try to conceive an exhibition that included the goldfish, which would also give me the opportunity to see it everyday for an extended period of time!
As things turned out, I was appointed curator of Japanese art at the Art Gallery of NSW a year later. The exhibition Kamisaka Sekka: dawn of modern Japanese design is a much larger project and encompasses not only works by Sekka but also the whole decorative tradition of Rinpa of which he is an important exponent. His Goldfish bowl is not the main work in the show, which includes so many masterworks by artists from the early 17th century up to the present date. But it is the work that started the whole idea, and I am more than pleased to be re-united with it for a month.
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Will Discovery Channel Air More Episodes Of Ted Nugent's Gun Country?
On Wednesday, the Discovery Channel aired "an inside look at American gun culture" starring controversial National Rifle Association board member and Washington Times columnist Ted Nugent. Discovery Channel documented Nugent shooting a scimitar-horned oryx [1], an animal extinct [2] in the wild, and also showed him spending time with a group of heavily armed doomsday "preppers."
Now the question remains: Will the Discovery Channel continue to allow Nugent to use the channel as a "resource" to help him win the "culture war [3]"?
In a September 26 press release [4], Discovery Channel billed Ted Nugent's Gun Country as a "one-hour special." But during an appearance on Armed America Radio, Nugent stated that the Discovery Channel "want[s] to do it as a regular feature." He told listeners to "expect that there will be at least a dozen shows a year."
MARK WALTERS, HOST: Ted, is this going to be a regular series?
NUGENT: Well just the title, Ted Nugent's Gun Country, I mean even if Discovery doesn't air anymore shows it's still alive and well. They want to do it as a regular feature. We expect that there will be at least a dozen shows a year.
WALTERS: Awesome.
NUGENT: Every month. And we are really excited about it. I think it came off great. We trained with a bunch of zombie killers, we did a lot of ammunition testing.
A graphic accompanying an October 1 promotional appearance on NRA News described Ted Nugent's Gun Country as a "series."
Prior to program's debut, Media Matters noted [5] that Discovery Channel was giving mainstream treatment to a controversial figure who has often used inflammatory language against the Obama administration, women, religious and ethnic minorities and members of the LGBT community.
While promoting his show, Nugent accused President Obama of faking his support for veterans [6] while also charging that the president and his administration were guilty of treason [7] and "criminal complicity to murder."
Earlier this year, Nugent came under scrutiny by the Secret Service after promising attendees [8] of the NRA's annual meeting that he would be "dead or in jail by this time next year" if Barack Obama was reelected president. In July, he created controversy after writing [9] that he was "beginning to wonder if it would have been best had the South won the Civil War" in a Washington Times column.
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Small Pain In My Chest
By Michael Mack
The soldier boy was sitting calmly underneath that tree.
As I approached it, I could see him beckoning to me.
The battle had been long and hard and lasted through the night
And scores of figures on the ground lay still by morning's light.
"I wonder if you'd help me, sir", he smiled as best he could.
"A sip of water on this morn would surely do me good.
We fought all day and fought all night with scarcely any rest -
A sip of water for I have a small pain in my chest."
As I looked at him, I could see the large stain on his shirt
All reddish-brown from his warm blood mixed in with Asian dirt.
"Not much", said he. "I count myself more lucky than the rest.
They're all gone while I just have a small pain in my chest."
"Must be fatigue", he weakly smiled. "I must be getting old.
I see the sun is shining bright and yet I'm feeling cold.
We climbed the hill, two hundred strong, but as we cleared the crest,
The night exploded and I felt this small pain in my chest."
"I looked around to get some aid - the only things I found
Were big, deep craters in the earth - bodies on the ground.
I kept on firing at them, sir. I tried to do my best,
But finally sat down with this small pain in my chest."
"I'm grateful, sir", he whispered, as I handed my canteen
And smiled a smile that was, I think, the brightest that I've seen.
"Seems silly that a man my size so full of vim and zest,
Could find himself defeated by a small pain in his chest."
"What would my wife be thinking of her man so strong and grown,
If she could see me sitting here, too weak to stand alone?
Could my mother have imagined, as she held me to her breast,
That I'd be sitting HERE one day with this pain in my chest?"
"Can it be getting dark so soon?" He winced up at the sun.
"It's growing dim and I thought that the day had just begun.
I think, before I travel on, I'll get a little rest ..........
And, quietly, the boy died from that small pain in his chest.
I don't recall what happened then. I think I must have cried;
I put my arms around him and I pulled him to my side
And, as I held him to me, I could feel our wounds were pressed
The large one in my heart against the small one in his chest.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. John McCain said Thursday he will block Army Gen. Martin Dempsey's nomination for a second term as Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman due to his dissatisfaction with the officer's responses to questions about the potential use of U.S. military power in Syria.
McCain, R-Ariz., pressed Dempsey during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee to provide his personal opinion on which approach in Syria carries greater risk for U.S. national security interests: continued limited action on the part of Washington, or more significant steps such as establishment of a no-fly zone and arming rebel forces with the weapons they need to stem the advance of President Bashar Assad's forces.
Dempsey said he has provided President Barack Obama with options for the use of military force, but he declined to detail those choices. "It would be inappropriate for me to try to influence the decision with me rendering an opinion in public about what kind of force we should use," Dempsey said.
During a testy exchange with McCain, Dempsey said he would "let this committee know what my recommendations are at the appropriate time."
Dempsey's response, McCain said, contradicted his commitment to provide the committee with his personal views, even if those opinions differ from the administration in power.
McCain told reporters after leaving the hearing room that he planned to put a hold on the nomination, essentially blocking any further action until he gets an adequate response from Dempsey.
"I want to see him answer the question," McCain said. "Hello!"
Seeking a compromise, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., the committee chairman, asked Dempsey to provide the panel by early next week with an unclassified list of options and the general's assessment of the pros and cons of each. Levin made clear he is not asking Dempsey to share his personal opinion on whether or not to use force in Syria. Dempsey agreed to provide the list.
Levin said he hoped the assessment from Dempsey would give McCain "greater reassurance."
"I don't know if it will, but that was the way in which I think a legitimate issue needs to be addressed," Levin told reporters.
The situation in Syria, where a civil war has killed almost 93,000 people, figured prominently at Thursday's hearing amid an increasing clamor among Assad's opposition for active U.S. involvement.
Senators including Levin and McCain have pressed Obama to take a more forceful approach to defeat Assad's forces. While the administration has authorized lethal aid to rebel forces, it isn't trying to enforce a no-fly zone in which Syria's combat aircraft would be barred from flying, or otherwise intervene militarily.
"Senator, I am in favor of building a moderate opposition and supporting it," Dempsey told McCain. "The question whether to support it with direct kinetic strikes ... is a decision for our elected officials, not for the senior military leader of the nation."
The use of kinetic strikes, a military term that typically refers to missiles and bombs, "is under deliberation inside of our agencies of government," Dempsey said.
Asked about Dempsey's comments, White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama always asks his military commanders for options "and that is true in an arena like Syria." He said the president is constantly reviewing U.S. options in Syria.
"There are a whole range of options that are out there," Navy Adm. James Winnefeld, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs, said of the planning for military action in Syria. "We are ready to act if we're called on to act."
Dempsey acknowledged in response to a question from Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., that Assad's forces have the upper hand.
"Currently the tide seems to have shifted in his favor," the general said.
Graham said after the hearing that McCain's question deserves an answer. "I'm prepared to vote for Gen. Dempsey, but I think the question Sen. McCain asked needs to be answered," he said. "I think Sen. Levin gave Gen. Dempsey a chance to do it."
The Senate committee is considering Dempsey's and Winnefeld's nominations for second terms in their posts.
Air Force Col. Ed Thomas, Dempsey's spokesman, said the chairman "respects the confirmation process and, if confirmed for another two-year term, will be honored to serve at the pleasure of the president and with the consent of Congress."
To avoid getting drawn deeper into Syria's civil war, administration officials have pointed to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 as an example of what can go wrong when America's military becomes involved in Middle East conflicts.
During his exchange with McCain, Dempsey said "situations can be made worse by the introduction of military force" without first understanding how the country would continue to govern and ensuring that government institutions don't fail.
Dempsey said last month at a Pentagon news conference that establishing a no-fly zone would be difficult because Syria's air defense system is sophisticated. He also cautioned that taking such a step is essentially an act of war.
"I'd like to understand the plan to make peace before we start a war," Dempsey told reporters.
Associated Press writers Robert Burns, Bradley Klapper, Donna Cassata, and Darlene Superville contributed to this report.