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Oh no, I accidentally broke up the Wiggles
So, do you think Sam Moran is in the Outback somewhere, in a dressing room of a traveling production of South Pacific, laughing like this: "Mwah-ha-ha-ha. Ha." That's right, the Wiggles broke up.
According to Australia's Daily Telegraph, just a few short months after announcing Sam's sh*tcanning and Greg Page's triumphant return to the band, Murray, Jeff, and Greg are leaving the Wiggles. For good. The word down under is that the negative reaction to the last yellow-skivvy transfer was too much for them to bear, and they felt it was time to retire. An "insider" said, according to the Daily Telegraph: "Murray and Jeff are getting older and they've been thinking about this (retirement) for ages. And Greg is still a very sick man. The ill feeling towards them after Sam left really pushed them to do it. They felt 'What's the point in going on after all this?', they're all millionaires anyway so why would they? They don't exactly need to."
After 30 Rock sent up the Wiggles a few weeks ago, I wrote a post about the group and their machinations of late. I compared them to Oasis. And well, look now.
That "ill feeling"? That's me! I don't mean to take credit for the downfall of a international kiddie phenomenon, but literally dozens of readers in Australia (thank you Word Press blog stats page) read my post, and look at the result! Didn't think I had that much of an impact on Australian preschool band affairs. Wow. I even tweeted my post to @sammoran and he never responded. Which I take, considering my little joke about not buying his album, to mean "F*ck you," or the Australian equivalent. Fair dinkum? Fair dinkum, indeed.
And fair dinkum to the Wiggles. Greg and Jeff have some illnesses that they clearly need to recover from. And they are all going to "spend some time with their families," which I know is true, of course, but it's also what you say when you're a politician and you don't want to say why you are really quitting your post. I wonder if we'll ever know just how it all went down, beneath the hood of the Big Red Car.
And may I further say DID I NOT CALL IT when I said the Wiggles were all about Anthony Field? Because guess who's the last man standing? I told you he was running the show! He's going to continue on in the band, the undisputed leader, at the helm of three newbies in his grasp, with a back-up chorus probably made up entirely of his nieces, nephews, dentist's roommate's cousin, etc. And the others are going to remain at Wiggles HQ. Translation: stopping in to collect royalty checks. Maybe an occasional, impromptu jam session of "Move Your Arms Like Henry," if the ill-will level is low. Who knows.
It is nice to see, though, that they chose a woman to wear yellow. For one, it helps disassociate the yellow skivvy from the nastiness of the recent hand-off, and for two, how refreshing to see a woman take center stage with the Wiggles while not being trapped inside a giant dinosaur suit. Though she doesn't need that crazy hair bow they've given her; we know she's a lady. Can I also add another of my own opinions, while wholesale changes are being made, Wiggles Pty Ltd.? In your future television programming, can you drop all the green-screen and CGI and go back to filming your videos in random locations all around Sydney? Like some weird little beach or the side of the road? I kind of liked that. Fair dinkum.
But OH NO this isn't actually what I wanted! No! This isn't how I intended to use my great blogging power! To be the Yoko Ono of the Wiggles? No no no! No more Fruit Salad! No more Wags the Dog! What about Sprout's Wiggly Waffle (though they were pretty much phoning it in there)? Murray's guitar? Who's going to wake up Jeff if he falls asleep behind the wheel of a car again? I'm sorry, children! I'm sorry, Australia! I'm sorry, children of Australia!
And what about the collateral damage? Has anyone thought of Captain Feathersword? Is he going to be OK? What's going to happen to him? I'm sorry, Captain Feathersword! And somebody keep an eye on that overexcited Wiggly dancer from so many of the videos! Those who know, know of whom I speak. A lot of big dance moves, and (even for the Wiggles) a lot of mugging for the camera. I commend his enthusiasm, but he appeared like he was angling pretty hard for the top job when Greg left. And now that the new Wiggles have been announced, and he's not one of them? Well, you've been warned, A. Field.
As for Sam, the Daily Telegraph says, "Moran hasn't spoken to any of his former bandmates since he was axed. He is negotiating a deal to do his own kids TV show and is expected to announce his plans any day." Go get 'em, Sam! Stick it to those rainbow-colored Gallagher brothers.
So good-bye, Wiggles. I don't know if we'll be on board for their next incarnation – the family member currently in their demographic has got it pretty bad for the Bubble Guppies (blast them!) and that's about it. But still, I have to thank them. My older son really loved them, and I was fond of them, too. The Wiggles gave my older son a nice introduction to music, and me a few peaceful moments, when he was younger. And they'll live forever in our DVD player; C cannot ride in a car to New York without watching Wiggle Bay at some point. I don't know why that DVD in particular. With the barbie on the beach and the lady in the mermaid suit.
I'll leave you with my top three Wiggles songs to remember the good ol' days. One of them will now be stuck in your head all day. Mwah. Ha. Ha.
"Can You (Point Your Fingers and Do the Twist?)"
"Rock-a-Bye Your Bear"
"Bow Wow Wow"


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|Dr. John Henning
In Part 2, we'll take a look at what's happening down in Corvallis at the USDA-ARS hop breeding and genetics program, which is run by Dr. John Henning. Dr. Henning has been managing the hop program since 1998 (CHECK THIS!).1996.
I called up Dr. Henning who was kind enough to give me a snapshot of what's cooking. First, and this is cool, Dr. Henning reported that despite a shrinking budget he has about 50 crosses and 40,000 seedlings for this years breeding nursery. Within that "gene pool" he has a "seedless" Perle derivative, as yet unnamed, that has shown promise. Because of a downey powdery mildew invasion in the USDA greenhouses in Corvalliswhere his material was being evaluated a few years ago, most of his genetic material has been moved to WSU greenhouses in Pullman,located in Washington.
Dr. Henning is very excited about the "in kind" support the USDA has been receiving from farmers. The partnership has allowed him to "ramp up" the intensity of his benchwork research on crossing, propagating and selecting promising hop lines, without having to manage greenhouse and field trial operations. Unlike the Indie Hops-OSU breeding program, Dr. Henning's focus is on both aroma and super alpha development, no small order.
I was curious about the process for "checking out" public and experimental hop varieties from the USDA germplasm repository in Corvallis. The repository contains clones of about 200 public varieties and 100 experimental lines. To be sure, unlike a public library, you can't just walk in ask for rhizomes for your backyard garden. The purpose of the repository is to collect, preserve and distribute hop material to foster research.
Here's a few questions I posed to Dr. Henning about the "in kind" support paradigm, the inside scoop on his Perle brainchild, and the stuff that keeps him motivated and up at night.
RGW: I just want to make sure I have this down right. The USDA does not supply germplasm to farmers for testing; rather, you provide rhizomes, or plantlets to select farmers who then propagate and grow them out? Does anyone outside of the parties who sign the MTA [Material Transfer Agreement] have knowledge of what's being tested or where?
JH: The USDA-ARS breeding program provides rhizomes of experimental lines directly to a grower or growers who are under contract (Material Transfer Agreement) to grow out said experimental lines for "On-Farm trials." These growers are chosen by the respective State Hop Commissions (OHC and WHC) and Hop Research Council (HRC) to perform this function. Funding is typically provided the grower(s) to recompense them for their costs—in most cases this is around $6000 per acre. In all cases, State Commissions and members of Hop Research Council (HRC )(FOOTNOTE1) are fully aware of what experimental lines are put into those trials.
HRC members and State Commissions have made specific requests regarding which experimental lines they would like to see sponsored in "On-Farm" trials. USDA-ARS can also suggest experimental lines if not included on the list of lines HRC or State Commissions select for advanced testing. Finally, The USDA-National Clonal Germplasm Repository does not provide any experimental lines to growers, merchants, brewers or other researchers unless specifically requested by myself. Typically, this is done in cases where researchers from different countries and breeding programs have agreed to germplasm exchanges of important material. It is in this fashion that USDA-ARS was able to obtain true dwarf hop germplasm for genetic and breeding research—by agreeing to provide pollen from USDA-ARS hop male lines that were not released as well as a few publically released hop varieties such as Teamaker and Newport.
RGW: So you don't hand pick the farmers for testing experimental lines?
JH: Correct. I don't pick the growers. I use both WA and OR growers and these growers are selected by their respected State Hop Commissions and the HRC.
RGW: Can you tell us more about the Triploid Perle you're working on? Has anyone pilot brewed with it?
JH: The information on Triploid Perle is contained within the HRC yellow book reports. The triploid Perle line is a true seedless hop, which is highly desirable as Perle is normally a prolific seed producer. It has somewhat of a higher alpha at 11-12 % with beta acids around 4- 5 %. Yields for this line are tremendous—potentially on par with some of the "supers" that are out there. In addition, it's high in essential oils that give floral and citrus notes. Finally, it has oil content exceeding 1.5 ml per 100g of dried cone. OSU's Fermentation Science program is the only "micro brewery" to pilot brew with it. I'm sure others would love to experiment with it but I only have had hops from a single plant at the moment. After tasting the single hop brew that Tom Shellhammer (OSU) made, several breweries have expressed an interest in it. Unfortunately, I went from a single hill to multi-hill plots in 2011 and plants were in their baby year last year. There should be sufficient hop this upcoming harvest for multiple pilot brews by HRC members. It's being grown on 40 hill plots in both Oregon and Washington. These plots are being sponsored (financially) by HRC.
RGW: You read about the number of Oregon hop farmers declining over the past few decades. What are your ideas for keeping the Oregon hop industry vibrant?
JH: My mandate from Congress is to for keep theing USA hop industry vibrant, not just Oregon. With that in mind, my best contribution would be to continue developing superior germplasm and cultivars that allow US growers to outperform other nations and make a finished beer that tastes better than beer made from hops from other regions of the world. With this said, Oregon growers have been particularly hurt by the surplus of 'Willamette' that was grown in the past and which was stored. This surplus has resulted in a significant drop in acreage (6000 to 3000) that has not been replaced by another line yet.
As you know, Willamette is susceptible to fungal pathogens and a replacement is needed for growers and brewers. The USDA-ARS and WSU are working closely with HRC brewery members to develop and release a disease resistant, higher yielding aroma hop as a replacement for Willamette. It is highly likely that a new public hop variety (Such as Mt. Rainier or the Triploid Perle) will be chosen to replace Willamette when inventory of Willamette is used up. If this occurs, we would most likely see a dramatic improvement and vibrancy of the Oregon Hop industry, as well as in Washington and Idaho (both of which groew Willamette).
RGW: What research topics most invigorate you? What are you most passionate about? What's your "dream legacy?"
JH: That's a tough question!! I'm multi-faceted in what invigorates me and gets me passionate. I would love to have the legacy that Dr. Haunold obtained by developing superior hop varieties that are grown to a great extent throughout USA. At the same time, I'm striving towards developing molecular marker systems that would enable breeders to be more precise in selection as well as speed up the selection process. Finally, I'm striving towards working with other renowned hop scientists to completely sequence the hop genome. To achieve all three of these goals would be my "dream legacy."
RGW: What's the story on Mt. Raineer, which you released in 2006?in 2008? Who's growing it? What was your target or objective in developing the cross? What was the production in Oregon on Raineer last year, if you know?
JH: Mt. Rainier is a fine hop that hasn't taken off yet. I see it as a victim of outside circumstances—mainly issues of supply and demand in nature. Just prior to the release of Mt. Rainier, there were two years of crop failures. This was followed by a dramatic increase in planting new hops (including Willamette here in USA and Halletauer Mittelfrue in Germany). The result of this dramatic increase in hop plantings resulted in a significant oversupply of hops and hop products. Mt. Rainier was released right after this huge oversupply of hops occurred and there was very little demand for hops--new or old. The production and distribution of Mt. Rainier was also hampered by the appearance of hop stunt viroid in 2008. To make a long story short, it was entered into the Clean Plant Network as soon as possible and if I'm not mistaken, will become available this year for limited distribution of cuttings. While it was in on-farm trials at John Annen's [FOOTNOTE 2] farm (5 AC), it was distributed to several craft brewers.
From the limited responses I received back, it was viewed as an excellent hop on par with, and similar to, true Halletauer Mittelfrue grown in Germany. Unfortunately, there was a huge oversupply of Halletauer Mittelfrue that was being sold for ~$1.50 lb and brewers saw no reason to pay $3.50/lb for Mt. Rainier when they could buy Halletauer for $1.50/lb. When Mt Rainier was growing in the 5 AC plot at John Annen, he regularly obtained 12 bales per ac. He barely had to spray for downy mildew and never had to spray for powdery mildew. My target in developing this hop variety was one of developing an aroma line that was somewhat higher in alpha acids and was disease resistant with excellent yields and good pickability.
RGW: What is your worst fear about the future of Oregon hop f harm farming -- in terms of disease or pest invasion? What are you doing to anticipate and prevent major catastrophes? (Now that's a tall order!)
JH: In some sense, it's already occurred. The hop stunt viroid has the potential for making hop farming extremely difficult both here in OR as well as WA and ID.
Furthermore, the potential advent of hop powdery mildew races that are "male AND female" as opposed to "either male OR female" and capable of mixing up genes from several races in the Pacific Northwest may make breeding hop lines resistant to powdery mildew extremely challenging. What this means is that new races of powdery mildew can arise quickly and overcome current plant resistance in hops found in such lines as Nugget or Newport.
Currently, I'm working on identifying molecular markers that will aid in selection for experimental lines that are resistant to both powdery and downy mildews. Once identified, these markers will help speed up the selection process as well as increase the accuracy of selection. I work closely with Dr. David Gent (USDA-ARS Plant Pathologist) in screening new breeding material for experimental lines that are resistant or highly tolerant to both pathogens. This is time-consuming, labor intensive and expensive doing things the old fashioned way—inoculate with the disease and visually chose resistant lines. We've had some success in developing new experimental lines that appear to have better "resistance packages" than currently grown varieties. These lines are working their way through the "breeding cycle" which can take upwards of 10 years before public release.
RGW – Thanks John. You've got a full plate. Naturally, I'm worried that hop research is being underfunded. I'll take a look at the public funding of table and wine grapes, as an analogue to hops. My cursory research shows that the USDA-ARS budget for grapes has actually been increasing over the past few years, and is now up to over $15 million, with $2 millon dedicated to grape breeding and genetics alone. As we discussed in the last blog, the total USDA-ARS budget for hops is around $750,000, with only a fraction of that available for actual programmatic research.
I think it's time to apply political pressure. A hearty collection of diseases could wipe out entire crops, and we haven't even talked about pests. To keep up with an ever-changing battery of pests and diseases, we need a strong federal hops research program. And the last thing this industry needs is a concentration of breeding, growing, and processing muscle in one place. Wine grapes, for example, are grown in dozens of states and the USDA allocates funding to research facilities in 7 states.
More to come.
May 18, 2012
FOOTNOTE 1. Hop Research Council members include two craft brewers, Boston Beer and Sierra Nevada, and "industrials" such as Anheuser-Busch-Inbev, Heineken and Miller Coors. The HRC hop dealers include: Hopunion, Haas, Steiner, and Yakima Chief.
FOOTNOTE 2. John Annen is the Chair of the Oregon Hop Commission, which was created in 1964 to protect, serve and enhance the Oregon hop industry, as well as a hop grower and owner of Annen Farms.

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Several years ago, Bill developed a preparedness plan, which included having a SPOT device. He even developed a messaging system for friends and family on his contact list: (1) Check In message in the morning and evening to family and friends, (2) Check In messages back to back to let them know he got an elk, and (3) Check In messages back to back to let everyone know that he was headed out of the backcountry.
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Several friends headed out for a quick lap of kayaking in California's Cherry Bomb gorge. Gear packed and ready for the water, Ben, who had bought a SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger™ a few days before, tossed the device in his backpack as an afterthought. "The camp was only 10 minutes away and it was just a quick trip," recalled Ben. "I didn't think we would need SPOT, but I figured I've got it, I might as well take it."
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Read Macbeth's "The raven himself is hoarse" soliloquy below with modern English translation & analysis.
Spoken by Lady Macbeth, Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5
The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements. Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood;
Stop up the access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,
Wherever in your sightless substances
You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,
Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,
To cry 'Hold, hold!'
"The Raven Himself Is Hoarse" Soliloquy Translation:
'Even the raven – the bird of death – that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements is hoarse,' she said aloud. She closed her eyes and raised her arms to the sky. 'Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts. Take all my femininity away and fill me from the crown to the toe top full of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood, stop me from feeling pity so that no natural feelings can get in the way.'
She put her hands on her breasts. 'Come to my woman's breasts, you spirits of evil, and suck gall from me where there should be milk. Come thick night and shroud me in the dunnest smoke of hell, so that my sharp knife won't see the wound it makes, nor that the light of heaven peep through the blanket of the dark to cry, 'stop! stop!'
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iLounge has the scoop on several recently-released iTunes Store audiobooks, including the latest book by Apple board member Al Gore, that will not play on iPods. Several reviews of the Gore book mention that while the title plays perfectly in iTunes, they have no luck listening on an iPod. A customer support e-mail from Apple confirmed the problem, and advises that customers "refrain from purchasing any audiobook for at least a week while our engineering team works to implement a correction for this situation."
It's noteworthy that despite Apple's recommendations, there is nothing in the iTunes itself to indicate which files might be affected or in fact anything to denote a problem of any kind. That being said, Apple is refunding the purchase price for anyone who is affected by this problem. So if you've had trouble with an audiobook on your iPod recently, you should contact Apple's iTunes Store Support.


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The fighting, by a variety of insurgent groups, happened as France urged moderate rebels to wrest territory back from radical Islamists whose role in the fight to topple Assad poses a dilemma for Western countries concerned that arms shipments could fall into the hands of people it considers terrorists.
The 11 Western and Arab countries known as the "Friends of Syria" agreed on Saturday to give urgent military support to the rebels, channeled through the Western-backed Supreme Military Council in a bid to prevent arms getting to Islamist radicals.
But radical forces showed they remained formidable on Sunday when the Islamist Ahrar al-Sham brigade detonated a car bomb at a roadblock at an entrance to Aleppo killing at least 12 loyalist soldiers, according to the opposition Aleppo News Network and other activists in the city.
Aleppo, 35 km (20 miles) south of Turkey, has been contested since July last year, when rebel brigades entered the city and captured about half of it. In recent weeks, Assad has focused his military campaign on recapturing rebel-held areas.
He has also been expanding control of the central province of Homs after capturing a strategic town on the border with Lebanon, and has used heavy bombardment and siege warfare to contain rebels dug in around the capital, according to opposition sources and diplomats monitoring the conflict.
Firas Fuleifel, with the moderate Islamist al-Farouq Brigade, said six rebel fighters were killed in fighting in Aleppo in the last day.
French President Francois Hollande, whose country has been at the forefront of Western efforts to re-organize and back the opposition, said moderate rebels must take territory held by radical Islamists whose involvement in the conflict, he said, gives Bashar al-Assad a pretext for more violence.
"The opposition needs to win back control of these areas ... they have fallen into the hands of extremists," Hollande told a news conference in the Doha a day after the Friends of Syria met in the Qatari capital.
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In Damascus, the Ahrar al-Sham and the Islamist Tawhid al-Asima brigades detonated a car bomb in an area known as Mezze 86, inhabited by members of Assad's Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam that has controlled Syria since the 1960s. Two people were killed, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.
Rebels also attacked two security compounds in Damascus, killing at least five people, sources in the capital said.
In regional repercussions of the increasingly sectarian Syrian conflict, four Lebanese soldiers were killed in clashes with followers of a Sunni Islamist cleric who is a critic of the role of Hezbollah - the Shi'ite Lebanese group - in giving military support to Assad.
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Thanks for posting those, Scott. Roger West was the driver of the Joie Chitwood Camaro. The Z-28 with the front plate was driven by Corwin/Lyndand the #48 in the last photo was driven by Dick Hoffman, a GM Proving Ground engineer. He was not in a Mustang.Also, Donna Mae Mims' Corvair was pink, not white. There is some glare in that picture which threw you off.
SMKZ28,as for question #2 for jon, I have in my hot little hand the program for the '68 trans-am a tremblant. I went through it twice, but didn't see any mention of the official car or any G.M ad surprisingly ! I may have missed something, always a possibility. mike in canada


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The problem with this is they cannot figure out how to do (require pushing a button) and still watch the movie, so every time they try that, they tell the techies who create the media to take it out because the disk is broken.
The best part of that idea Yogi... pretty soon they will be unable to find anyone to fix their PC, DVD player, etc., and the problem goes away.
Sadly, this is so true. I used to work for the CS department at CMU, and have ties to several departments at Ohio State, and almost all the departments with which I am familiar are quite specific about things such as which publications, how big of a publication, etc. And this is true just to stay employed... more and more, tenure is this mythical thing you hear about and almost never see.
The saddest part... many publications such as the ApJ or those of the IEEE... you submit your article using something such as TeX/LaTeX, which you have created and formatted using wrappers the publisher provides... it goes through review/editing (editing generally done by the author), and once ready for publication, they just take the files for your article, put them in a subdirectory under the issue directory, add links to it from the index, and with almost no work on assembly, turn out potentially 2000+ pages a month, every month of every year (submissions permitting). Then, when you figure out what they charge for online access, it becomes almost criminal
Yes, when you are given a ticket, be it for parking, an accident or some moving violation (e.g. speeding), you **always** have the right to take it to court. However, if you decide to do so, and are found guilty, you often end up paying more (not including the fees for your lawyer, if you decided to hire one). Indeed, when you pay a ticket without fighting it, you are not pleading "Not Guilty" or "No contest", but you are in fact pleading "Guilty", which could be used against you in a civil case. While IANAL, I have this on very good authority from a friend of mine, who has 30 years as a criminal lawyer, and like 10+ as a prosecutor.
You seem to forget... what is often done here is minor quotes and links, not a wholesale lifting of an article. And what is worse, Monica's site has a copyright notice posted on it.
Now... in all honesty, I must admit, I personally know Monica. But given where all they are finding articles lifted from (major household names like Martha Stewart, Food Network, etc.), I would be very surprised if either the magazine or the career of the editor will survive what could have easily been avoided.
In Celsius??
Frankly, it strikes me as if Williams does not realize that a debate is a forum to express his views... how stupid can he truly be? (He keeps surprising me as a limbo champ).
Of course, maybe he is suggesting the hiring of enough people to review all the video, comments, etc. Talk about a job stimulus plan...kinda like launching a satellite in orbit by hiring people to stand on one another's shoulders and place it there by hand.
AC, I don't think your assumed conclusions necessarily follow the facts. I myself have 2000+ songs, all from CDs which I have legally purchased and still possess. And I would have much more, if not for the fact that I have a teenage daughter and an ex, both of whom put most of the music I would want to purchase (like a $100 boxed set of Beethoven) out of reach, and the fact that other music is still not available on CD or other digital format. But one reason I have all that music is that I have differing musical moods, where at times I cannot get enough of say Liz Phair, the B52s or some other artist, and at other times I am in more of a mood for Blackmore's Night or Gregorian chant.
Now, with that said, I will agree that with some, it is like a kleptomaniac, or like the script kiddies and crackers who want to brag about how many systems they have access to, except the downloader thinks in terms of songs and movies. But with others, I think there is a certain amount of paradigm shift in the way folks think about music distribution (my wife would rather download individual songs from Tom Smith than to go out to purchase a CD with 10 songs, only one or two of which she wants).
One must also remember in this whole deal that with groups like the MPAA, RIAA and other backsides, they really don't want you to be able to do things like make backup copies, rip to your PC, etc. They would rather be able to charge you for a new CD when your old one has worn out, and would rather sell you the digital file to play on your MP3 player, and then sell you another one to play on some other device.
When you think about it, given how deep the pockets of the **AA are, and how empty those of the accused are, it is pretty much a given that they couldn't win. Yes, it may be how the legal system works, but it does not make it justice. And giving in to the threats of the **AA does not make one guilty, though they would like to tout that that is the case.


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As kids head back to school, the Oregon Health Authority has released a report on how many teens are getting inoculated against meningococcal disease, the human papilloma virus and the flu.
The study found that only about 65 percent of 13 to 17-year-olds were vaccinated against meningococcal disease last year.
Dr. Paul Cieslak of the Oregon Health Authority says that's not high for a disease that's essentially fatal without the prompt administration of antibiotics. The disease thrives when young people live together -- like in college dorms.
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On the other hand, he said, it is a pretty rare disease -- there's about one case per 100,000 people a year in Oregon, which may also explain why the vaccination rate is low.
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Stir well and strain into cocktail glass.
What the!? Now how did that happen? Someone cut the Plymouth Sloe Gin in this cocktail with half regular Plymouth Gin. Clearly, that is all wrong, and someone should be punished. Perhaps by drinking this cocktail made with all Sloe Gin.
As written above, this is quite nice, a sort of berry-ish light Negroni. I suppose I should think of a new name.
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The trend also has political implications. American voters who describe themselves as having no religion vote overwhelmingly for Democrats. Pew found Americans with no religion support abortion rights and gay marriage at a much higher-rate than the U.S. public at large. These "nones" are an increasing segment of voters who are registered as Democrats or lean toward the party, growing from 17 percent to 24 percent over the last five years. The religiously unaffiliated are becoming as important a constituency to Democrats as evangelicals are to Republicans, Pew said.
i found this passage telling. while it's nice to hear that demographically the non-religious are important, it's disappointing that we get no real political play. perhaps i'm grousing over nothing. what would i like to hear a politician say about us? for the Evangelical base, they get pandered to ad naseum, but largely ignored once they get into office. some of this has changed in recent years - Republican lawmakers have been busy passing abortion restrictions and trying to get creationism into science classrooms. otoh, not much has really changed there. just how would a political figure pander to "the nones"? we know it's political suicide to deny the Christian deity, so what else would we want from them?
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"I also think many of them ARE us, except, of course, they can never admit that."
i think you're right Melinda. one day we might be acknowledged, but that day isn't today.
Pete Stark, California Democrat, has spoken up as non-theistic. One of 535.
"we know it's political suicide to deny the Christian deity" The perfect example of this is Georgia Republican Representative Paul Broun and he is also medical doctor who made the following remarks while speaking at the 2012 Sportsman's Banquet at Liberty Baptist Church in Hartwell, Georgia.
"All that stuff I was taught about evolution, embryology, the big bang theory; all of that is lies straight from the pit of hell."
Mr Broun is also a member of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology the same committee that the infamous Missouri Republican Representative Todd "legitimate rape" Akin is on.
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"Scholars have long debated whether people who say they no longer belong to a religious group should be considered secular. While the category as defined by Pew researchers includes atheists, it also encompasses majorities of people who say they believe in God, and a notable minority who pray daily or consider themselves "spiritual" but not "religious." Still, Pew found overall that most of the unaffiliated aren't actively seeking another religious home, indicating that their ties with organized religion are permanently broken."
As the quote points out, nones are not the same thing as atheist. It includes a large number of people turned off by organized religion yet still suspicious of outright atheists (my accessment). Many call themselves "spiritual". We atheists are growing but still small percentage. Still, I consider all this a positive for eventually achieving what I think should be the most important goal - Church/state separation.
As long as we can be splintered, the nones will be ignored. If we expect to be catered to we need to do a better job of identifying goals and cooperating to achieve those goals.
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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I personally find the current situation frustrating. I don't find the fact that nones are migrating towards the democratic party to be totally positive. I'm a fiscal conservative who is socially moderate to liberal. I think that might have been a Rockefeller Republican. I don't see a home for me in the current political climate. I think the current term is "Rino". I'll wear that term proudly until the evangelical faction of the republican party has been beaten back. While I'm sure many on A/N will have disagreements with me on issues, I doubt they would be considered strong or vehement disagreements. Compromise used to be possible, and I think we'll see that day again...just as soon as the religious idiots are sent back to the children's table.
i used to consider myself a fiscal conservative. i actually think i still am, but i don't identify in any way with the current fiscal cons in the republican party. the same rigid ideology that drives their orthodoxy in religion has spilled over into their economic worldview. sometimes the fiscally prudent thing to do is to raise taxes. especially if the goal is to pay down our debt, we need an infusion of revenues, and there's so much low hanging fruit in the tax code - trillion of dollars in tax expenditures - that it seems foolish not to take advantage. my two cents, fwiw.
as far as the nones go, i'm more bullish that the trend will continue and that a larger portion of that group are non-believers than they care to admit. i think it's still a stigma thing. but i do know a lot of people that are nones and still consider themselves spiritual in some manner. give it another generation and it should be firmly cemented into our culture as almost normal to disregard religion. disbelief in god comes next.
I agree regarding flexibility on fiscal issues. I see no reason for iron rigidity as long as we can keep ourselves in a position where we can be flexible. We spent like drunken sailors during the good times and we haven't improved since.
You're right about the stigma. I think the longer nones are out of the clutches of organized religion the more they'll move towards atheism or freethought. It's more about the kids than anything else.
agreed. i think it's important to remember that much of this is in it's relative infancy. as the polls point out, just 15 years ago the nones were at 10%. that's a pretty radical change in attitude. and the trendline keeps pointing up. the millenials will play a huge role in this. if they decide it's something to care about, and there's evidence that they will, then non-belief or non-religion will be as common as belief.
Greg and Matthew, I agree with both of you about the stigma of the atheist label. I, too, have met many people who are 'spiritual but not religious.' When all is said and done, they are non-believers but without the atheist title. That one, nasty word keeps them living in the shadows of the free-thought community.
I don't necessarily want to be pandered to by anybody. To have a politician who publicly denies a christian deity would be great......awesome, in fact, but I'd be just as happy being represented by fair-minded religious politicians who respect the separation of church and state and do not have, as a prerequisite, the need to publicly acknowledge a deity while in governmental service.
We had Pete Stark, but who, really, these days has the electability and necessary larger-than-life personality to buck the system and set a new tone on the presidential level? I'm talking about eliminating "so help me god" at an inauguration or "god bless the United States of America" following speeches, etc., etc. That's going to take strong-willed but likable and respected personalities such as Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Andrew Jackson and (across the pond) Winston Churchill.
hey, it happened in Australia!
i don't care about a politician's religious beliefs UNTIL they use them to deny the age of the earth or someone's rights. i'd prefer if all politics was secular. i'd like to propose the Noah's Ark test - if a pol believes it really happened then he/she is disqualified from public office! believe in your religion and God all you want, but if you can't separate fact from fiction you're gone!
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Cashman was born in Rockville Centre, New York and raised in Washingtonville, New York. He was raised in an Irish Catholic family. He moved with his family to Lexington, Kentucky, where his father John managed a farm that raised standardbreds for harness racing. He attended Lexington Catholic High School before moving to the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. He graduated from Georgetown Preparatory School in 1985.
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For each meeting a confirmation is issued every time someone registers and when additional events are added.
There are a number of ways to issue confirmations.
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A report from the European Seafood Exposition in Brussels last week - by Willie Mackenzie, Greenpeace UK oceans campaigner.
In the shadow of the improbably-shaped Atomium, thousands of people gather to buy and sell seafood. Five vast halls in an impossibly imposing building, crammed for three days with every sort of seafood you can imagine, as well as quite a few you hadn't yet dreamt up. The scale of this takes your breath away. This is the world's largest seafood fair, and quite literally it's the place the big-money deals are done to trade away our ocean life.
Greenpeace has been here before, of course, and as a result of our visit in 2008, the last time I was here, there are some notable changes. The word 'sustainable', or a logo implying it, is on many more posters and hoardings for a start, and they are also a little more strict on security. But the big thing I notice is the general lack of bluefin tuna. In 2008 chunks of bluefin were happily on display in freezer cabinets, and a few stalls even had whole bluefin draped across their displays like some sort of hunter's trophy. There are still stomach-churning displays of ocean life, everywhere you look – sea urchins, lobsters, octopus, tuna, eels, caviar, salmon, tuna… and even shark fins. Then there were the ubiquitous monkfish, invariably displayed with something else wedged between their fearsome jaws. But the bluefin has pretty much disappeared from the Exposition, and with it, the stalls of many of the key bluefin traders: No Azzopardi, no Ricardo Fuentes, and no Mitsubishi.
Those of us who've been campaigning on fishy issues can take a little pride in the fact that sustainability is something traders at least know they have to be able to spell, and that flagrantly flaunting endangered species is no longer the done thing. But the overwhelming feeling amidst this orgy of oceanic destruction, is that there is still so much to do.
In the course of a few meetings we've had here it's become apparent that there are concerns from the guys who are trying to change the other end of the tuna industry, the tinned tuna, for the better. In the UK, and subsequently in Italy, and Australia, Greenpeace has taken retailers to task over their tinned tuna. High amongst the concerns are laughable labelling, and fishing methods that kill lots of unwanted species as bycatch. In Europe and in the UK in particular, responsible retailers have been quick to seek to improve their sourcing. Led by Sainsbury's, Marks & Spencer, Waitrose, and Prêt a Manger have switched to 100% pole-and-line caught skipjack tuna. Other supermarkets have also increased the amount they source from this fishing method. So much so that the UK now consumes the majority of the world's pole-and-line caught skipjack from the idyllic waters of the Maldives.
Slap-bang in the middle of the Indian Ocean, the Maldives is next door to the Chagos Archipelago, now the world's largest Marine Reserve. It's also right in the midst of frenetic purse-seining for tuna throughout the Indian Ocean, a large part of which ends up on the European supermarket shelves. The Maldives have successfully excluded other fishing fleets from their waters, but they know that tuna don't respect national boundaries, that purse-seining in adjacent waters is at excessive levels, and there's rampant illegal fishing happening too. For an economy dependent on fishing, and facing the impacts of destructive climate change before everyone else, it's a depressing outlook.
We need to support the Maldivian pole-and-line fishery. We need to develop similar operations elsewhere too. Many of the Pacific Island Countries are in prime position to limit foreign fishing operations and develop locally owned and operated sustainable pole and line fisheries instead. And we need to clean up purse-seining, and support those who are leading the charge on that, too. Illegal fishing needs to be totally stamped out, and bycatch needs to be eliminated. With the UK's evident appetite for guilt-free fish, it's clear that these are things we care about.
But do we care enough? And what exactly has all this got to do with the price of fish?
How much does your tin of tuna cost? And does what you pay for it reflect the value of what's inside, or how it got there?
You need to pay more for your tuna. There, I've said it. It's an unspoken truth in the developed world that we have cheapened food as a commodity, and seem to have no idea how much it should be worth. Fish is a prime example. Unlike millions of people in the developing world, most of us in Europe don't depend on fish as a source of protein. And we also don't pay a fair price for it. 'Half-price' cod fillets at your local supermarket? Buy one get one free on packets of fish fingers? 5 Euros for a ring of king prawns? A tin of tuna for 80 cents?
If we want responsibly-sourced fish we need to pay for it. As it stands, by not properly supporting the guys who are trying to make a difference, we let the others (from the cheaper, who-cares-what-we-do end of the spectrum) out-compete them, and steal their fish too. We distributed a leafelt in the Brussels Seafood Exposition to demonstrate that many well-known tinned tuna brands are providing cheap tuna, at a high environmental and social cost, and taking no action to change this. some of the companies and tinned tuna brands who by the use of intensive and destructive fishing method provide cheap tuna for high environmental and social cost - and are no action to to change this.
If the fish are to survive, and the fishing communities that depend on them, we need to show a bit of respect to the oceans, and expect to pay a fair price for the fish we eat. That probably means eating fish less frequently, but making sure what you eat is responsibly-sourced.
If we don't want that, and just want cheap fish, to hell with the cost… then best get eating it up as quickly as you can. Because stocks won't last.
-- Willie
I dont know much about this at the moment because I just got into this. But is there something other than consuming less tuna that us "common&quo...
I dont know much about this at the moment because I just got into this. But is there something other than consuming less tuna that us "common" people can do? Also, you mention eating from responsible sources. How can you apply that to other things we eat from the ocean. Do we really have to google every brand we buy?
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@moonchild - thanks for asking. Here' a reply from Willie, our oceans campaigner who wrote the blog.
"Making it simpler for people ...
@moonchild - thanks for asking. Here' a reply from Willie, our oceans campaigner who wrote the blog.
"Making it simpler for people to make these decisions has been a key part of the thinking behind our work with retailers in different countries. Basically, if we can get retailers, producers, or restaurants to ask all the right questions and clean up their sourcing, then you can order your fish with a clear conscience.
In the UK that's already doable - by buying your fish from the right supermarkets. Elsewhere there is much more to do.
As well as eating less fish, we can all eat fish better - and that means asking the awkward questions before you tuck in. By simply raising the issue of responsible sourcing you are making the suppliers aware it's something they need to be on top of.
And of course, spread the word. Ask for pole-and-line caught tuna, or hand-line caught mackerel, or rope-grown mussels. Tell your friends, and your waiters why bluefin, orange roughy, and Patagonian toothfish shouldn't be on the menu."
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Ask that the monkey sign an affidavit with a DMCA takedown notice since he/she/it is the true copyright holder.
Once a monkey can sign that, it might be a more legitimate request.
I'd like them to try and scan the NYC Subway turnstiles. I dare them.
I find this very dangerous. Take Groupon, for example. Critics are coming out everywhere to say their business isn't sustainable. It's ponzi scheme, they claim.
Not having looked into their finaincials myself, I'm led to believe there could be some questions around their business model. But it's funny (and dangerous) that Groupon has spawned so many competitors. And they've each raised a sizable amount of money.
I feel investors are more scared of missing out on an opportunity than understanding the fundamentals. The key that I've always had in my personal life is if I don't understand how they make their money... don't risk yours (mine... whatever).
People then talk of bubbles... the social discount bubble will burst or the social apartment lending will burst (especaillly when cities like NYC make it illegal to sublet like that). But I see it as the free market doing this thing. But the free market isn't always smart and I see this as another risky bet.
When ever someone drags in kids into political arguments, I'm always reminded of The Simpsons character, Helen Lovejoy who cries out when something bad is happening in town - no matter how small or profound.
She's the parody of these types of arguments and, because I always think of those clips, I immediately discount whatever is said "for the children".
Looks like he did settle for the misdemeanor: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/national-security/ex-nsa-manager-has-reportedly-twice-rejecte d-plea-bargains-in-espionage-act-case/2011/06/09/AG89ZHNH_story.html
Well, that ruins my new domain idea.
The mob has been shaking down people for years and it seems to work well for them. Granted, they have other business models like selling contraband or whatever. But extortion works and was a classic product they offered (protection services) for decades.
Google has, and (for the foreseeable future) will be, a rogue site. From it's quick ascension into search and ad dominance, deep crawling, data mining, and software (Gmail, Docs, Books, Music, etc). It will always be considered a site outside the law or some societal norm... to someone.
From news, to music, & software - someone is always going to hate Google and call them rogue no matter what the law really says. Even if someone passed a law that said Google and everything it does is completely legal, someone will want to block or stop it.
Let's hope. From the 'kill switches' to the DNS hijacking the media distribution companies are proposing, let's hope there some we can sue when our Internet is cut off.
Remember, people cry piracy when their business models fail.
And Ballmer isn't a great CEO - which others have noted.
But the real issue is this: when you make a bad product, treat your customers poorly, don't adapt to different markets/consumers/customers in a way that the free market expects, you're bound to suffer.
That's the bottom line.
Make a better product, react to the market faster, & don't disrespect your customer base (and assume they're all criminals) and you might win some business back - even if its in a new form.
An actor and a good comedian, Senetor Franken - who I was a fan of before he turn to politics - helped grandstand and prop up outdated business models. He betrayed and murdered Al.
Franken was seduced by the Dark Side of Politics. He ceased to be Al Franken and "became" Senator Franken. When that happened, the good man who was Al was destroyed.
I know it sucks that employees who want to use their work equipment for personal use might find it no longer possible - by filters or by policy enforcement.
But it's not going to be long when this doesn't matter. Smartphones and 3G connected netbooks and tablets are going to render this moot in a year or so. True, it's an extra expense for the employee. But if it means you can do just about whatever you want on your own equipment and save you the risk of an employer snooping into your affairs, why wouldn't you?
The fact of the matter remains that if you don't like the policies, don't work at a place that has them. It sucks, yes. But do what I do... use my iPhone and iPad to do my email. Hooking up a wireless keyboard to them (like many other phones and tablets can do) makes it almost like your desktop without any employer able to claim misuse of company property or network.
Just only do that sort of thing if you're getting your work done.
I can't help but think this type of reaction is similar to other nations who don't respect freedom of speech or the press. Russia (Stalinist and present day) and China.
If Obama doesn't want to be compared to "communists" why does his administration do this?
I'm an Apple fan so take what I'll say with a grain of salt but...
At least Apple addressed the "controversy" with a statement. Google doesn't say what it tracks and in these pages, we've discussed the weird tracking data they've obtained "by accident" or through questionable ways.
And, for what it's worth... they outlined what they're changing to address the concerns out there. Considering Apple has been more opt in than opt out, I'm siding with them on this.
They aren't evil and they don't have Google's obsession with ads but they would use this data if it served their purpose, I'm sure. And there is spin in the PR that raised a few more questions than it answered. But it's nowhere near as bad as their competitors.
Then you don't want to buy from Microsoft, Google, or anyone else creating a smartphone with location based services because they all do it... or will.
Interesting you called IP a commodity.
I agree it is from a certain point of view. But commodities, in the classic sense, are still scarce goods and bought & sold on the open market.
But if IP is, in fact, property as its proponents suggest, you can come up with a CME, NYBOT, ICE, NYMEX style of exchange around it just like the do coffee, sugar, oil, & nat gas.
If you tried, you'd see how quickly the prices would go to zero.
Perhaps this is one example of copyright promoting art in a reverse (and perverse) sort of way.
I doubt Facebook & Google are doing this for the users. They're doing it so they don't have to spend resources dealing with the authorities - especially when most countries are leaning towards keeping less information and are at odds with France.
That said, I'm sure they see an issue with the lack of security in plain text passwords but what makes you think those two companies aren't tracking that information already in some way? it just means they might have to keep it longer (again, not bad for them) and they have to give it up when asked.
It's not rights they're worried about. It's their burden.
I live in NYC. The Times is as New York as the Yankees, Times Square, Wall St., and Central Park. But I can't support a paper that puts such restrictions on its content and, as I've said in other comments, seems to be failing at every step.
The way I consume my news is through RSS - I've created my own aggregation system via Google's Reader & the various iPhone/iPad apps that sync with it. I expect summaries before clicking on a full article or seeing the whole thing without restriction.
The Atlantic Wire is a perfect substitute. And by acting as a human filter, I can focus on news that actually might have more of an impact to me if someone outside of NYC thought it important to mention on their site.
I'm impressed and I'll be looking into their site more. I actually never heard of it until now but I can promise I'll be visiting often to get the summary of my (former) newspaper.
Something else struck out as odd to me in the Yahoo article, this quote from the author which I thought the audience, here, might appreciate (because it's been suggested otherwise):
"They are a company, after all, and simply giving the product away for free for years and years doesn't make for good business."
I think many of us believe there is a way to compete with free. In fact, the author even highlights this as a failure on the NY Times' part:
"If you can't immediately roll out an unbeatable user experience, how can you expect people to thrown down several hundred dollars when there are dozens of other news outlets they can frequent instead for free?"


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Dr. Gail Musen is an Assistant Investigator in the Section on Clinical, Behavioral, and Outcomes Research at Joslin, and an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Musen is a cognitive psychologist investigating the effects of diabetes on the brain. Her research investigates both type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
Dr. Musen's research has focused on changes in brain structure and function as a result of diabetes. She uses a variety of MRI techniques and neuropsychological assessments. She and her colleagues have reported that patients with type 1 diabetes showed subtle changes in brain structure, in particular, gray matter density, that were associated with higher frequency of severe hypoglycemic episodes and poorer glycemic control. These changes are very small and do not imply that patients will show clinically significant cognitive impairment. However, brain regions involved in memory, attention and language processing were among those that showed reduced gray matter density in patients and it is not clear whether these brain changes will have a more profound effect as the patient ages.
Dr. Musen has also used another type of MRI, functional MRI (fMRI) to study brain function both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Specifically, she has used this technique to investigate the brain's response while subjects are exposed to hypoglycemia, are asked to carry out specific cognitive tasks or are simply instructed to lie quietly in the scanner. fMRI measures the brain "in action" and detects the level of deoxyhemoglobin in the brain. Activated regions are those that are working the hardest during that time period
Through the use of fMRI scanning during hypoglycemia, Dr. Musen hopes to better understand which brain regions respond to hypoglycemia and how metabolic abnormalities affect brain regions responsible for glucose sensing and cognition. Diabetic patients experience dips and peaks in blood glucose levels that are much more dramatic than in people without diabetes. As a result, the central nervous system may adapt to this situation and as a result the warning signals that alert patients to treat a low blood sugar are delayed, often until it is too late for them to think clearly. This condition is referred to as hypoglycemia unawareness. Dr. Musen hopes to use this research as a stepping stone to understand the mechanisms responsible for hypoglycemia unawareness.
Dr. Musen's recent research is also focusing on evaluating people with insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes to determine whether they may be at increased risk for Alzheimer's Disease. A number of studies in other groups of people at risk for Alzheimer's Disease have demonstrated that functional brain imaging techniques can identify abnormalities in brain metabolism that may serve as an early biomarker for Alzheimer's disease. Reduced brain activity in a variety of brain regions (e.g., the posterior cingulate and temporoparietal posterior association cortical regions) are evident not only in patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment who may later progress to Alzheimer's Disease, but also in young people who carry the ApoEε4 gene, long before cognitive impairment is evident. Dr. Musen's lab is investigating the question of whether this same brain pattern is evident in people with insulin resistance.
In people who show this pattern of brain activation, the hope is that early detection can help medical professionals identify the problem early and implement treatments that may work best when the disease is still in its prodromal form. Thus, this research could have strong public health implications.
Through the combination of structural and functional brain imaging and cognitive testing, Dr. Musen hopes to identify the relationships between the effects of diabetes on the integrity of the central nervous system.
Dr. Gail Musen graduated Clark University with a B.A. in psychology and received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. She was a postdoctoral fellow in cognitive neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego, where she studied cognition in memory-impaired populations. She was also an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Barnard College, Columbia University. Dr. Musen also worked at Sun Microsystems as a Usability Engineer and did evaluation and assessment of middle and high school science curricula at TERC, Inc. in Cambridge MA. In 2003, she came to Joslin and began developing a program of research that incorporated her cognitive neuroscience background with diabetes. She received the Harvard Medical School Scholars in Medicine Fellowship in Memory of Priscilla White, M.D., the Joslin Diabetes Center Diabetes and Endocrinology Research Center Pilot and Feasibility Grant, and NIH funding to support to study the effects of diabetes on cognition and the brain.
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Elizabeth F. Ellet holds a significant place in American historiography for writing The Women of the American Revolution in 1848-50. No previous author had bothered to study the first generation of American women, even the best known.
Furthermore, Ellet was a good historian, given the standards of the time and the obstacles she faced as a woman. She sought out descendants and documents. She wrote about both the wives of prominent men and women who gained prominence in their own right. Historians continue to rely on her work, though recognizing it as a secondary source shaped by the values of its time.
I hadn't known the darker side of Ellet's career until I came across her name on Rob Velella's Poe-a-Day Calendar. She inserted herself into two nasty feuds and scandals in America's nineteenth-century literary world—which didn't lack for feuds and scandals. While Ellet never let her own reputation for purity droop, her reputation for honesty and beneficence suffered. According to Rob, bitter people blamed her machinations for hastening both Virginia Poe's death in 1847 and Rufus Wilmot Griswold's in 1857.
Wikipedia offers a clearer picture of the scandal involving letters to Edgar A. Poe. Rob offers details of the Griswold's divorce. Griswold has previously shown up on Boston 1775 as the first author to claim that George Washington said, "So help me God," after taking the oath of office, though without citing any credible source.
Next week, at 6:00 in the evening on 29 and 30 October, Rob Velella will lead "Voices of the Night" tours of Longfellow House, which was once Gen. Washington's headquarters in Cambridge. These tours will focus on how the house's décor and stories reflect Victorian ideas about death and mourning. Phone the house to reserve a spot.


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