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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
An entomological tale
Old Richard was famous for his yarns. Some were sad, some happy. Some plausible and some really tall. But each one was interesting. The children loved him.
"Very well, my deal children", said old Richard, as he filled his pipe with shag tobacco.Let me tell you about Cousin Sammy, the ant who had made it in the modeling world.
"Children", said he, "you must have seen my cousin Sammy in many magazines and papers, he being a movie star and all, but you probably don't know he was an ordinary Alaskan Carpenter ant from right here in Nome. A fine representative of the Alaskan Carpenter Ant clan and the eldest son of my late mother's sister Bess."
"As ginormous a queen ant as ever built a hill." he added with a twinkle in his eye.
"Sammy was as lazy as he was handsome, though he made up for it by being smart." continued Grandpa Richard
"I'll rule the world one day, just you see" he would brag as we toiled in the tundra, stocking up for the winter.
"Bessie is spoiling him rotten!" my mother would hiss, but neither Sammy nor his family ever seemed worried about the future. "Oh, my sammy will be a great ant one day" aunt Bessie would say smugly.
And sure enough, the agents came scouring the countryside one day, looking for the handsomest and the best built Alaskan Carpenter Ant in the country and zeroed in on a few candidates.
Sammy was the best among them. After a little huddle, the agents made their offer. A very nice sum of money, half in advance, for a year's modeling contract.
It turned out that the sponsor was "Tide" detergent and they had arranged for their future model, Sammy in this case, to be on the cover of Time magazine!
We were overjoyed! It was an honor! And everyone was excited when the team of photographers from Time, the sales director of "Tide" and a bunch of important looking people landed up.
And Sammy? He was nowhere to be seen. We searched high and low but no Sammy. The Tide people were throwing tantrums. The Time photographer threatened to return to New Yorkl. We begged him to stay a day more and I went off into the woods, with an idea in mind.
I knew that Sammy had the hots for a young fire ant named Hilda and I kind of figured they might have shacked up for the weekend. But where would they be? I remembered that old rotten log we used to hide in and smoke weed. Sammy would be there if anywhere, I figured, and sure he was.
I barged in without knocking and caught them in a very compromising position. Sammy was furious but when he learned about my mission, his pallor changed from fiery red to ashen.
"Good Lord!" he cried. "I completely forgot! Dick, do something. We have to hurry."
I smiled at him. For suddenly, I had realized everything.
"Sammy, my brother", I told him calmly, "don't worry. Go back in and finish whatever Hilda and you had started. I'll wait here. And don't even think about the suits going away. They ain't going no place."
Sammy looked gratefully at me and vanished inside. He was back in no time, I noted smugly, and we set back for home.
When we reached, the colony was wearing a look of gloom. Aunt Bessies eyes were red from crying. My mom was consoling her. No one seemed to be glad to see Sammy.
"He's back, Ma!" I said. "I've found Sammy!"
"What's the use, Dick", said aunt Bessie. "Surely they must have gone back. Their deadline passed more than 2 days ago"
"They have not, I can assure you!" I said, in my most confident voice. "They'll do what they came to do!"
"How can you be so sure, Richard," mother asked
"You know the old saying, don't you?"
"What old saying?", asked Aunt Bessie, puzzled
"Time and Tide wait for Nome ants", I beamed!
And sure they did. Sammy still remembers and nary a week goes by without him calling me and asking about my health. Now wasnt that a nioce story?
But the children had long fallen asleep
17 comments:
- Idling in Top Gear said...
Guessed what was coming when I read "Time" magazine, sirjee. :)
- January 13, 2010 at 6:47 PM
a little predicatble once you had tide and time in it together. vastly enjoyable nonetheless.
- January 13, 2010 at 7:30 PM
- Giribala said...
When the children woke up, they wanted to hear the story again. Grandpa said, "Go and read it on AOAOM..." :-)
- January 13, 2010 at 7:54 PM
- Scattered Thoughts... said...
OMG.. so you are back.. and I thought Mrs. Shenoy is back so we can breath easy now :)
- January 13, 2010 at 8:48 PM
- Doli said...
hahahahhaha good one!
- January 13, 2010 at 9:42 PM
- buddy said...
technically speaking this one was a little off the mark, still good one but we have come to expect very high standards from you
- January 13, 2010 at 10:41 PM
Old Richard is certainly young at heart! Doesn't mind telling his interesting discovery about Sammy and Hilda to his grandchildren! :D
- January 13, 2010 at 10:43 PM
Good one...but you have set very high expectations based on past ones! :D :D
I still enjoyed it! :)
- January 13, 2010 at 11:28 PM
- Kavitha said...
You have too much time on your hands!
We demand one of the missus' awesome posts. Even another headbanging video would do. Anything anything...
- January 14, 2010 at 12:46 AM
- mentalie said...
i'm with kavita. death metal! that's the ticket...and the only way to survive this!!!
- January 14, 2010 at 3:43 PM
- Spaz Kumari said...
not as good as preceding ones, shenoy saar. *shakes head mournfully*
do you remember the cartesian coordinates one? now THAT was stupendous. truly stupendous.
- January 14, 2010 at 9:53 PM
- narendra shenoy said...
Yes guys, I agree I'm slipping up a bit. I read it over. It IS pathetic. Apologies
@idling - Yeah, dead give-away
@mridul - I know you're only being nice! Thanks for the kind words.
@Bala - :)
@scattered: Yes the missus is back. She's a little pissed at me because of several things, including the fact that I've been very lax with the boys
@Doli - Thanks!Very kind of you
@buddy - Yes, I know. time for introspection
@anon - Terrible, I know.
@Kavitha - The missus is back. She ain't talking to me, but I'm relying on my native cunning and abject surrender to win her heart.
@mentalie :D
@spaz - I know. That Polar coordinates thing was once in a lifetime, though. I can't remember how I got that but it still makes me laugh. It's a bit like Ashish Nehra hitting a six or Uday Chopra turning in an Oscar performance - real rare.
- January 14, 2010 at 10:37 PM
- Preeti said...
Yea the Time and Tide in between definitely was a give away...But i really think ur good at this! And so, contrary to popular requests, i think you should continue!It isn't always one gets to have their style given a name :) (a shenoy)
- January 15, 2010 at 9:46 AM
- Siddharth said...
I think the Arthurian tale was the best. Especially, "Hast thou kept milk bottles outside castle?" Now how could you think of lines like that!
- Sid
- January 15, 2010 at 10:33 PM
- Nav said...
agree with siddharth.. that line was true genius
- January 16, 2010 at 7:17 PM
- Sowmya Srikrishnan said...
Hmm, but why?????
Will wait for a good (!!!) groaner.
- January 19, 2010 at 11:25 AM
- Stupidosaur said...
Predictable as soon as time and tide both appeared once.
Arggh! You are worse than even me! Now I know why you called them groaners in the post above!
- January 29, 2010 at 12:30 AM


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Not to get too geeky today (but then, by saying that, you knew I would) I wanted to follow up on an interesting visit this week down in Greenville S.C. to observe some of the testing SmartTruck Systems engages in to determine whether the aerodynamic products they design work in the real world as expected … or not.
[To get a glimpse of some of the "behind-the-scenes" engineering work that goes into SmartTruck's products, you can check out some photos by clicking here.]
Now, aerodynamic device makers of all sorts put their products through a myriad of tests to get at the critical piece of information everyone wants to know: do such devices deliver fuel efficiency improvements to tractor trailers in the real world? They do, though the percentages among the many types and styles of trailer aerodynamic devices out there.
[To view some of test track work SmartTruck conducts out at Michelin's Laurens Proving Grounds, for example, click here.]
The interesting part in all of this (for me at least) centers on the types of calculations, sensor devices, and test protocols all these companies use to determine whether their designs are delivering the expected gains in fuel economy.
SmartTruck's Mike Henderson and John Anastos delve describe much of that way better than I can in the video below:
And just to clarify: when Henderson mentions "Kennedy" in the above video clip, he's referring to the use of an 18,000 foot runway at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida tapped by a very wide variety of companies – even NASCAR racing teams – to conduct aerodynamic vehicle testing.
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Staples survives test from St. Joseph
WESTPORT -- It took a little bit longer than head coach Marce Petroccio would have liked for Staples' offense to round into its usual high-powered form.
But when that time finally came--a little over 90 minutes after the 7 p.m. kickoff on Friday--the offense made its presence felt in an explosive way.
The Wreckers erupted for 42 points in the second half, turning what was a close game into a 49-28 rout over St. Joseph in the first-ever night game at Staples Stadium.
"It was a tale of two halves, but honestly, we are built to play four quarters. That's what we do," Petroccio said.
A chunk of that offense came from senior James Frusciante, whose 70-yard punt return touchdown gave Staples a 14-7 lead with 8:42 left in the third quarter. Frusciante also struck in the passing game, hauling in touchdown passes of 14 and 62 yards from quarterback Jack Massie 20 seconds apart near the end of the quarter.
Frusciante caught four passes for 96 yards in the second half after recording just two receptions over the first two quarters.
"As usual, James lit the match and we caught on fire," Petroccio said.
St. Joseph got four touchdowns from senior Jake Pelletier--catches from 26, 10 and 17 yards out from quarterback Jordan Vazzano, and a 5-yard run--and went into halftime tied 14-14 with the defending FCIAC champions.
St. Joseph, however, also let several other scoring opportunities slip away in the first half as it had three drives stall inside Staples' 25 (two on turnover on downs and one on a blocked field goal).
"We left an awful lot of points on the board early," St. Joseph head coach Joe Della Vecchia said.
Pelletier's 10-yard touchdown catch made it 14-14 with 3:48 left in the third quarter, but the Wreckers struck quickly--and in bunches. After the Wreckers went back ahead 21-14 with 48 seconds left in the quarter, the Cadets fumbled the ensuing kickoff, giving the Wreckers the ball 38 yards from the end zone. The next play, Massie fired a 62-yard strike down the right sideline to Frusciante to double the lead.
The fumble, coupled with the punt return for a touchdown, made St. Joseph's night tougher than it already was.
"I'm not sure if it did us in, but two special teams breakdowns on back-to-back plays against a team like that, you can't do it," Della Vecchia said.
Playing without senior Nick Kelly, who led the team with 17 touchdowns a year ago, Staples paved its way on the ground throughout the night with seniors Joey Zelkowitz and Zach Speranza, and junior Patrick Lesch. Zelkowitz had a 3-yard touchdown run to open the scoring in the first quarter and Lesch had scoring runs of 39 and 30 yards. Backup quarterback Teddy Coogan added a 41-yard touchdown run in the fourth.
All of that offense came after an inauspicious start.
The Wreckers failed to score in the opener quarter as Zelkowitz lost a fumble on the first play from scrimmage, and the offense turned the ball over on downs at St. Joseph's 35 on the next series.
"I just felt like we had a lot to overcome and we did, and to light up the score like that in the second half, that's pretty amazing for us. I'm proud of the job that those guys did," said Petroccio, who gave a lot of the credit to the offensive line.
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S--Joey Zelkowitz 3 run (Liam Gilmore kick)
SJ--Jake Pelletier 26 pass from Jordan Vazzano (Pelletier kick)
S--James Frusciante 70 punt return (Gilmore kick)
SJ--Pelletier 10 pass from Vazzano (Pelletier kick)
S--Frusciante 14 pass from Jack Massie (Gilmore kick)
S--Frusciante 62 pass from Massie (Gilmore kick)
S--Patrick Lesch 39 run (Gilmore kick)
SJ--Pelletier 5 run (Pelletier kick)
S--Lesch 30 run (Gilmore kick)
S--Teddy Coogan 41 run (Gilmore kick)
SJ--Pelletier 17 pass from Vazzano (Pelletier kick)
Records: St. Joseph 0-1, 0-1; Staples 1-0, 1-0.


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[UPDATE] Film Theory and Aesthetics/Albuquerque, NM, USA February 8-11, 2012
Call for Papers: Film Theory and Aesthetics
2012 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association
33d Annual Conference February 8-11, 2012
Hyatt Regency Downtown/ Albuquerque, NM
Proposals are now being sought for review in the Film Theory and Aesthetics Area. Review begins immediately and continues until December 1, 2011. Listed below are some suggestions for possible presentations; other topics in the area are also welcome:
• Precinema and its influence on film theory
• Theories of Early and Silent cinema aesthetics
• Qu'est-ce que le cinema? Classical Film Theory and its Discontents
• Nontheatrical and educational film aesthetics
• Montage and Editing: Practice as Theory
• Walter Benjamin/Mechanical Reproduction
• Apparatus Theory/Cinematography
• Visual Effects from Silent to CGI
• Spectatorship and Scopophilia
• Auteur Theory
• Semiotics, Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Beyond
• Evolution of Genre Film/Genre Theory
• Definitions of periodicity: aesthetic, chronologic, theoretical
• Theories of Third Cinema
• Emerging theories of film and/or aesthetics in the digital age
• Intersections of Film Theory and cultural or literary theory
Please upload an abstract of 250 words and a current curriculum vitae to http://conference2012.swtxpca.org for review no later than December 1, 2011. Inquiries in advance of submissions are welcome, and may be sent to Jennifer L. Jenkins at email@example.com. All confirmed participants should be registered by December 31, 2011.
Further details regarding the conference (listing of all panel areas, hotel, registration, tours, etc.) can be found at http://www.swtxpca.org A number of graduate student awards are given each year, and graduate student travel grants are also available. I look forward to hearing from you!
Film Theory and Aesthetics Area Chair
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American Literature and Film
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I think it has been some time since I last reposted this. This originally appeared Jun 11, 2008.
Time: February, June or October
Setting: The Washington Triangle National Hotel, Washington DC
- Dramatis Personæ:
- Assistant Professor Yun Gun (ad hoc)
- Associate Professor Rap I.D. Squirrel (standing member)
- Professor H. Ed Badger (standing member, second term)
- Dr. Cat Herder (Scientific Review Officer)
- The Chorus (assorted members of the Panel)
- Lurkers (various Program Officers, off in the shadows)
6:00 am
YG: ...up and at 'em! shower, press clothes, I gotta get something to eat.....
RS: "...snore..."
HB: "...snooooooooooorrrrreeee...."
8:20 am
YG: (Sitting at table, computer booted up, logged into eRA Commons) ...where IS everyone? the SRO said 8:30 and there's only like half of the room full yet..OMG, I feel like such an idiot. This panel triaged my first four submissions...they must all think I'm such a moron. Do they know my 15th percentile A2 got picked up by Program? hey, there's Professor Grey Fox, she's like my total science idol. Maybe I can chat her up for lunch?
RS: (checking email in room, throwing down first cup of nasty in-room coffee, hurriedly dressing with one eye on the email, one on CNN) dammit, dammit, dammit. I told that postdoc to email me the results while I was on the plane yesterday...
HB: ...snort, huh? hmm, did the SRO say we were starting at 8:30 or 9? crap I guess I can shower and throw on some clothes in 10. good thing Grey Fox broke us up after three bottles of wine last night..[uuuurrrp].. oooh, those mussels, shoulda skipped those.
9:00 am
Cat Herder: "...and so we must maintain the confidentiality of the review process..."
YG: Wow, this is all so serious...
RS: (Checking email from table, throwing down third cup of nasty coffee, checks text messages surreptitiously)...lazy fucking postdoc, where's my data??...hey! so that's Dr. Gun....geeez about time she got her damn grant the way those idiots were jerking her around on those last two submissions
HB: (Wandering in during SRO preamble about confidentiality, scoring, blah, blah, blah; nods at buddies)shit, guess it was 8:30 after all...where's the coffee? oh man, no more cheese Danish?
9:18-10:10 am
YG: (Dutifully attending to each review, taking notes, opens pdf of each discussed application on computer)
RS: (Sending email from table, two more cups of coffee) "'Wait...what? Why are your post-discussion scores so bad if all three of you like that one?"
HB: (Rattles off two Primary reviews with panache)
10:15 am
YG: ...oh geez, my first review is coming up in about three applications....I'm so nervous....
RS: ...oh man, how many cups of this weak ass hotel coffee did I drink already....
HB: ...damn prostate....
All: I gotta go...!
11:05 am
YG: ...here I go... "This grant has a large number of experiments under each of five Aims. To really explain my preliminary score, I'll detail a few experiments and then discuss the missing controls in experiments 6-8, 14-18 and discuss the logic of the first.."
RS:(Looks up briefly from data set the postdoc finally sent) ...Ha! aren't the n00bs cute?
HB: Fucking n00bs always think they have to impress us old farts...damn this is tedious. They're almost as bad as that goddamn Horace! Hmm, I wonder when Cat is going to circulate the menu from the restaurant we're going to tonight?
12:35 am: Breaking for Lunch
YG: ...hey, there's my PO...I'd better say hi... (Hesitantly) "Hello Program Officer Whatsit, we've never met but I'm Dr. Yun Gun from ..."
RS:(Cornering another PO, gesticulating wildly) "...and so you see, with this recent result we are poised, absolutely poised for a big finding in ...."
HB: (Doesn't speak to POs unless they at least direct a division or handle his Center!)
3:30 pm
YG: (Eyes starting to fix into a glazed expression, head pounding from constant concentration on the grants and reviewer comments) ...this is grueling! how can they sit there so calmly?
RS:(Surfing internet with window modestly reduced and half hidden behind Commons window for concealment) hmm...anything new pop up on my PubMed saved searches...shit, forgot to confirm my flight in two days to that European conference....oh man, DrugMonkey's getting a bit ridiculous today...
HB: (Surfing internet, full size window) "Ha!..er, cough, cough.." (looks around) ...that PhysioProf is fucking hilarious!
3:45 pm
YG: (Perking up slightly) wow! finally Professor Horace Grizzler is up for a review..He's such a great scientist!
Horace Grizzler: (Reading his written review, line by line) "Ahem. The Significance of this proposal is represented by the focus on the functions of the Physio-whimple nucleus in the context of...."
RS:(Heading for the coffee urn) Oh shit, it's Horace....maybe I can fake a cell phone emergency call...yeah that'll work
HB: (Heading for the restroom )Oh shit, it's Horace, well damn, everyone knows my prostate is shot..I can probably make this look good.
5:49 pm: Wrapping up for the day
YG: (Wearied) oooo, I'm beat. I hope I have enough energy to go to the dinner with these folks. Everyone says I have to schmooze....maybe I can go grab a quick shower to recover before 7:30...I'm so tired after this first day...
RS: " Hey, Badger, Fox, Grizzler, drinks in the bar before we go to dinner? Yeah? Meet you in 15, gotta email a postdoc first..."


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On Oct. 1,2013, Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia on behalf of three same-sex couples seeking the freedom to marry, and the child of one of the couples.
Good for them. I hope they succeed. Why shouldn't two people who love each other have their relationship recognized by the state?
"Well, marriage is for raising children." Yet heterosexual couples who aren't planning to have or who are unable to have children aren't prohibited from getting married. And like it or not, same sex parents are adopting children all the time. I have a friend who married his partner in Washington, D.C. They've since adopted twins. You should see the pictures. Adorable. Surrounded by loving friends and grandparents. And two happy and very loving parents.
"My faith tells me same sex marriage is wrong." A few years back, one of my oldest friends, an architect, married his partner of 18 years. The ceremony was held in Massachusetts in a church on Tufts University campus where his betrothed teaches. The congregation wasn't forced to open its doors to a same sex couple. It wanted to. And if your religious group doesn't want to marry Jack and Joe, or Jill and Mary, then don't. But the legal part of marriage must be available to everyone.
"But same sex marriage will harm the institution of marriage." I haven't noticed that any of my friends who are married to opposite sex partners have experienced any marital discord because Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. recognize gay marriage. And it certainly hasn't weakened or in any way harmed my relationship with my wife. We'll be celebrating our 25th anniversary at Berkeley Springs over Columbus Day weekend.
Some people are afraid that if same sex couples can get married, what's to prevent men from marrying a cow, or a goat or a sheep? Or women setting up barn with a donkey, or talking a Clydesdale into leaving Budweiser? I understand why this would be a concern. If men were free to engage in bovine love, think what a shortage of cows would do to the price of meat!
Just one problem with this supposition. It isn't happening. In states that sanction same sex marriage, there's been no stampede of human beings leaving their spouses, or girlfriends or boyfriends for barnyard animals. I've never had a female friend, even when drunk, tell me that she pines for Mr. ED and would leave her husband and kids in a heart beet if only it wasn't illegal to do so. No sodden buddy crying over Amalthea because she doesn't exist and even if she did, it would be to the jail house for him if he couldn't keep his lust under control.
The bottom line is: a human can't marry an animal because an animal can't give informed consent. And even if one could, I doubt that Lambda Legal or even the ACLU would oppose a law that prohibited inter-species marriage.
So live and let live. Life is too short to create problems where none should exist.
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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2012 News Releases > August 2012 > Wayland alum provides medical clinic ministry as part of Kenyan mission team
Wayland alum provides medical clinic ministry as part of Kenyan mission team
August 2, 2012
LIMURU, KENYA — Laurie Hall spent two days recently throwing starfish back in the ocean.
Faced with the challenge of providing medical help to the residents of the slums around Limuru, Kenya as part of the annual July mission team, sponsored by the Wayland Baptist University Mission Center, Hall said one of the biggest challenges of the two-day clinic was the overwhelming need.
"The thing that comes to my mind is the story of the guy throwing the starfish back into the ocean. Are you ever going to get it done? No. But it makes a difference to that one starfish," she explained.
While the month of July is summer in Plainview where the 1985 graduate of Wayland Baptist University works as a registered nurse, it is winter in the mountains of central Kenya. That meant it was cold and foggy almost all day, every day.
Hall earned a degree in theology and philosophy at Wayland with a desire to serve in some type of full-time ministry, but after she got married that desire was pushed to the side to raise her two children, Alexis and Lucas. It wasn't forgotten, though. Once her children graduated from high school, Hall began to rekindle her desire to do ministry work.
"I spent 20 years doing custom framing and although I think it's incredibly important to be good Christian business owners, I still always had a passion for wanting to do something that was more ministry related and whether or not you have a nicely-framed picture on your wall didn't seem to be high on the list," she said with a grin.
Over the years, she and her husband, Wayland Baptist University Executive Vice President and Provost Dr. Bobby Hall, talked about how much they would like to get involved in disaster relief.
"Bobby, with all his talents, you know, could easily go into any situation and probably be an asset and I didn't feel like, again, custom picture framing was something in a disaster relief zone that would be high on the list of needs," she said.
However, she then was faced with the question of what would be high on that list.
The answer? Nursing.
"Through the years of having to take care of sick parents and family members, it always kind of seemed to be my role that I assumed with his parents as well as mine, you know, spending time in hospitals and taking care of people. My interest in nursing grew dramatically. When my kids got older and nearly out of high school I just told Bobby one day I wanted to go and be a nurse so I could go and do medical missions. He said, 'OK,' " she said.
She started classes at West Texas A&M University in Canyon and graduated in 2010 with a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing.
When Dr. Hall was asked to join the July mission team for university-related business reasons, the nurse seized her opportunity.
The two-day clinic in Limuru was run out of the cramped quarters of the Living Proof Baptist Church, pastored by Linus Kirimi, the husband of Liz Kirimi, the program manager of the Wayland Baptist University Program in Kenya. The goal was to help the residents of the three slums surrounding the city — Farmers, Misiri and Karanjee. Misiri is the Swahili word for Egypt and area residents acknowledge that the slum's name comes from the fact that its residents are seen as being enslaved by poverty. Wayland sophomore Tabetha Karp joined Hall in the endeavor, and the two worked with a local Kenyan doctor who volunteered her time.
Other members of the Wayland mission team split into groups to do door-to-door evangelism in the slums and tell residents about the medical clinic.
Hall got her first glimpse of what was ahead when she arrived at the church the first morning to see a long line already forming. She explained that while the residents of the slums benefit, to a degree, from a form of socialized medicine that allows them to visit with a doctor, that does them little good because they have no money to buy the medicine the doctor prescribes. Through this clinic, Hall would use money raised in the United States to purchase the drugs the patients could not afford to buy for themselves.
Local residents came to the church, where Karp — working through an interpreter — began the process by taking blood pressure and temperature readings, and getting a general explanation of the individual's medical needs. She then would send them to Hall who would do a more thorough examination before sending the patient to the doctor for the final assessment and prescription. The patient would then go to another building where a volunteer pharmacist would fill the prescription.
The clinic was designed to operate from about 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. but Hall said both days there were 70-80 people lined up waiting when she arrived.
"I think both days we stopped letting people take a number by 1 or 2 o'clock just so that we would be able to finish seeing the people (who already had numbers)," Hall said, adding that over the two-day period the team treated approximately 270 people.
During that time, she continued, they basically saw routine medical needs. It was cold and damp so there were a lot of respiratory problems and because of the living conditions in the slums once people got sick they passed the illness onto others and then were re-infected themselves. At the same time, Hall said, because of worms and microbes in the water supply, people needed treatment to help clean up related intestinal issues. Finally, and perhaps the most frustrating, was the need for basic over-the-counter medications that Hall pointed out are taken for granted in West Texas for treating chronic pain and discomfort issues such as ulcers and arthritis.
"You know we take for granted being able to run down and take Tylenol Arthritis, or whatever, and they don't have access to even simple painkillers," she said.
While most of the needs the team treated were routine, there were two that stood out to Karp and she choked back tears as she talked about them.
The first was a small boy who had come in with his mother.
"There was a little kid and his mom brought him in and she wasn't sick but he was and he was the only one today that was running a high fever and his fever was about 105.2. My heart just broke because I love kids. To know I couldn't do anything else besides just, 'This is what's wrong? This is how long it's been going? OK. Go onto the next person.' I just really wanted to hug him."
The second was a woman who came in carrying an envelope containing X-rays. When Karp saw the X-rays she was floored.
"Her leg had been broke. She broke it in her shin and it was a compound fracture. She said she went to the doctor in Limuru and he put a cast on it but her leg, obviously, was still having problems. She brought her X-rays and showed me and the doctor had not reset her leg so for the rest of her life she's going to be crippled. Trying to explain to her that the doctor said she would get better but her leg was obviously healed and the only way she's going to get better is to cause more pain and to re-break her leg and have it reset, was hard . . . . I don't know. I just took it hard.
"I really struggle with why God allows so much suffering and I've been blessed with so much," she said, struggling to contain her emotions.
Ultimately, for Hall, there were a couple of questions that needed answers: "Was it worth it? Was anything really accomplished?"
Her answer was straight forward and it came from the starfish story.
"We don't know how God might grow the seeds that were planted from this little bit of time that we were able to do something like that. It's not really our position to decide whether something is worth something or not. If God gives us an opportunity to be a part of something then that's what we need to do and we'll let Him worry about that," she said.
The key, she continued, was that the medical clinic was run as a ministry project of the local church.
"I don't know that you could really say that it's terribly beneficial if it wasn't through a ministry of a church," Hall said. "In a month, when that medicine is out, if it was something for a chronic illness, they're still not going to have it. But during that time, you've made a difference in their life. I think the people in that area are going to be able to remember, you know, those people cared about us."
From a practical standpoint, Hall said she didn't really know what to expect going in because it was her first time to participate in a medical clinic mission project. She made it clear, however, that it won't be her last and she will use what she learned in the mountains of Kenya to apply to other situations.
"God expects us to take care of those that are less fortunate than ourselves; to take care of the widows and the orphans. I don't see how we can do anything except put ourselves in positions to be able to do that.
"Now, can we be smarter in the ways that we utilize funds to help do ministry? Absolutely and if I have the opportunity to come back I'll rethink how we did that so it can be better or more effective. I wish that, in hindsight, that we had had time to do some education with some of the parents and stuff from a health standpoint while we had them in a captive audience. But you have to kind of experience some stuff and then say, okay, how can we improve on this, and how can we do things better, and what were the things that really weren't so good. You know, you have to take any experience and try to make things better and pray that God will show that to you."
Other members of the team were Wayland students Katelynn Murga, Samer Khamisi and Phil Avants; incoming freshman Ashley Price; and Plainview High School Junior Monique Lucio.


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Hi, I've got a problem while trying system update on my t40p:
that's first time I use it so any help would be great.
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12-27-2007 05:18 PM - last edited on 12-27-2007 06:02 PM by JHEM
I rely on dotnet 2.0+ for my daily use and I run the tool with an administrator account
Here is the output of ia.exe:
Lenovo Inventory Agent (c) Copyright 2006 Lenovo Version 1.00.0000.0 Install Driver ......................... OK Create XML Output File ................. OK SYSTEM SUMMARY ......................... OK GATHERER INFORMATION ................... OK ENVIRONMENT ............................ OK Firmware Information ................... OK NETWORK SETTINGS ....................... OK TIME ZONE .............................. OK SCSI Devices ........................... OK IDE DEVICE INFORMATION ................. OK SMBIOS INFORMATION ..................... OK LOGICAL DISK INFORMATION ............... OK DISPLAY INFORMATION .................... OK WINDOWS STARTUP INFORMATION ............ OK DEVICE DRIVERS AND SERVICES ............ OK REGIONAL SETTINGS ...................... OK LIST OF RUNNING PROCESSES .............. OK MEMORY INFORMATION ..................... OK PCI DEVICES ............................ OK PCI ADAPTER INFORMATION ................ OK Security Software ...................... OK WORKSTATION SECURITY ................... OK DEVICE MANAGER SETTINGS ................ OK Installed Software ..................... OK NETWORK ................................ OK ASSETID ................................ Not found LOTUS NOTES ............................ OK PRINTERS ............................... OK SYSTEM EVENTS LOG ...................... Not found IBM ThinkVantage Technologies .......... OK DEMOGRAPHICS ........................... Not found Gathering plug-in output files ......... Directory not found Close XML Output File .................. (wrap)
C:\Program Files\Lenovo\System Update\egather\IBM_2373EG3_99MKZVM_20071227_07553640.xml Remove Driver .......................... OK Run complete, rc = 0
Thanks for your help
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That does the trick thanks!
I am nubie on this discussion board and have had this problem (System Update error) for over a year. Spent lots of time to no avial with the lenovo "experts live" support group in Boulder before they were downsized. While they bailed me out of a real disaster quickly & very competently & i love 'em, this problem had them completely flumaxed for months. I don't even want to think about how many times reinstalled .net & TV System Update to try to fix update error with no luck.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (April 30, 2007) - The Mountain States Health Alliance Buccaneer Sports Network is giving fans the opportunity to watch the ETSU men's tennis team as they wait to hear its name announced for the 2007 NCAA Men's Tennis Championship through a live web broadcast Tuesday afternoon beginning at 2 p.m., inside The Humphreys Center, by clicking on the link provided at the top of the page.
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Fans can watch all the action live as �Voice of the Bucs" Jay Sandos and head ETSU women's tennis coach Steve Brooks provide analysis, interviews and commentary on the afternoon festivities. Those expected to make a special appearances include head ETSU men's tennis coach Yaser Zaatini, A-Sun Tournament MVP Enrique Olivares (Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela), all-conference selection Felix Insaurralde (Asuncion, Paraguay) and 2007 ETSU wins leader Sebastian Serrano (Cartagena, Colombia).
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Dulce de Leche Cheesecake Squares
It's no secret that I have a deep, passionate love for cheesecake. It's by far one of my favorite desserts and I will try any and every variation that I can find. So when Annie asked if I'd be interested in doing a virtual bake-along with her and suggested these cheesecake squares, it took me about 2.2 seconds to eagerly agree. Not only did they involve cheesecake, but also dulce de leche and a chocolate glaze. Bonus! For those that aren't familiar with dulce de leche, it hails from Argentina and is very similar to caramel, made by slowly heating sweetened milk. Dulce de leche is typically sold by the jar and can sometimes be hard to find in the store. I have seen it in Italian groceries near the Nutella, and in regular grocery stores in the International aisle by the Mexican or Hispanic foods. If you are unable to find it, you can substitute caramel or make your own (I have included the method with the recipe below).
I significantly altered the original recipe, using it as inspiration to create dulce de leche cheesecake bars. The first thing I did was make the dulce de leche an actual layer instead of being mixed into the cheesecake filling. I wanted it to stand out on its own, so it now sits atop the crust. The second alteration was the cheesecake layer. The original recipe calls for a gelatin mixture to be used so that the cheesecake layer sets up and is easier to pick up and eat with your fingers. Unfortunately, I'm a cheesecake purist. And while I typically claim that there's always room for Jello, there is no vacancy for it in my cheesecake. Cheesecake is cheesecake and if it becomes a little more difficult to pick up in bar form, well, I'll just lick my fingers :)
Oh, and I should note that the original recipe calls for cutting these into 64 squares. No way was that happening. I cut them into 36 and even those are way, way too small for my liking. I guess that's good even if you just want to grab one for a snack or are taking them to a gathering and want them to be able to feed a bunch. If you want to serve these for dessert I would cut them even bigger. But like I said, I'm insane when it comes to cheesecake!
Want more cheesecake? Who doesn't?! Check out these recipes:
Coffee-and-Espresso Layered Cheesecake
Brownie Mosaic Cheesecake
Brown Sugar-Apple Cheesecake
Hidden Berry Cream Cheese Torte
Chocolate Rum Cheesecake
Oreo Cheesecake
Dulce de Leche Cheesecake Squares
For the Crust:
3½ ounces graham crackers, crushed (1 cup of crumbs)
2 tablespoons sugar
3 tablespoons butter, melted
For the Filling:
12 ounces dulce de leche or 1 cup (or caramel, if you can't find it and don't want to make it)
16 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
½ cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
For the Glaze:
3 ounces bittersweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
½ stick (4 tablespoons) unsalted butter, cut into pieces
2 teaspoons light corn syrup
To make Dulce de Leche: Pour one 14-ounce can of sweetened condensed milk into the top of a double boiler pan and cover. Place over boiling water. Cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, for 40 to 50 minutes, or until thick and light caramel-colored. Remove from heat and whisk until smooth.
1. To make the Crust. Position an oven rack in the middle position and preheat oven to 325F. Line the bottom and sides of an 8-inch square pan with parchment paper, leaving a 2-inch overhang on all sides. Spray parchment paper with non-stick spray.
2. Finally grind the graham crackers with the sugar in a food processor. With the motor running, add the butter, blending until combined. Press mixture evenly onto bottom of baking pan. Bake 10 minutes, then place on a cooling rack to cool for 5 minutes.
3. Make the Filling. Spread the dulce de leche evenly over the graham crust, then place pan in refrigerator while you prepare the cream cheese layer.
4. Beat the cream cheese on medium-high speed unti light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the sugar and continue to beat on medium-high for another 2 minutes. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well between each addition and scraping down the sides of the bowl if necessary. Beat in the vanilla extract.
5. Pour the cream cheese mixture over the dulce de leche layer evenly, and bake for 45-55 minutes, or until the center only slightly jiggles. Remove from the oven and cool completely before refrigerating for at least 3 hours.
6. Glaze the cake. Heat the chocolate, butter and light corn syrup in a double boiler or in a microwave at 30-second intervals, stirring until smooth. Pour the glaze over the cheesecake, tilting the pan to ensure the top is coated evenly. Chill for at least 30 minutes before serving.
7. Lift the cheesecake from the pan using the parchment handles and slice into squares using a sharp knife, wiping it clean after each cut.
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(Adapted from Smitten Kitchen and Tyler Florence)
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The best way to avoid a problem is to avoid the source of the problem. If you already have a problem with alcohol, Alcoholics Anonymous may be just right for you.
We live in a world fraught with addiction—to food, to shopping, to smart phone use, to gaming, to the Internet, to drugs, to alcohol … heck, even to bicycling or whatever your favorite pastime might be.
For the majority of these potential addictions, the consequences are not generally fatal, although indirectly the outcome might be (i.e. texting while driving and ending up in an automobile accident).
Still, we have to eat, shop for basic needs, communicate with others over the telephone and Internet, and, hopefully, engage in some form of positive activity for our physical and mental health.
Drugs and alcohol, however, are completely optional. In fact, simply by choosing to use, you may be taking the first step on the road to addiction. This blog will focus on alcohol use, since use and abuse of this substance is socially acceptable and, often, the user may not realize that he or she has stepped over the thin line between use and abuse.
So, before you take that first drink—or even the second, third, or fourth one--please consider the heartache, sadness, and despair that may be the outcome of your so-called "freedom" to drink.
To begin, are you predisposed to alcoholism? Do you have relatives, living or deceased, who have struggled with this disease? If you opt to take that first drink, you're essentially pulling the trigger in a game of Russian roulette that may result in a) your death; b) your enslavement to the substance. My stepdaughter, Stephanie, chose to take that first drink many years ago, despite her mother's repeated warnings and admonitions about drinking alcohol. Both Stephanie's father and grandfather are alcoholics. Stephanie is dead now. Her alcoholism indirectly caused her death.
But, you say, I don't have a family history of alcoholism. I simply drink socially to fit in with others. There's nothing wrong with that. I can handle my alcohol. I compare alcohol use to driving a car. Even though the warning signs (i.e. Stop) may be right in front of you, do you put on the brakes or do you just keep plowing through, hoping that no one T-bones you on a cross street?
I have known a few "social drinkers" over the years. Innocently, they began with a drink or two until their drinking evolved into full-blown alcoholism. The only way to avoid a problem is to not invite it into your life in the first place.
So, you say, why shouldn't I drink? Everybody else does. What would tailgate parties be without a few beers? Holidays wouldn't be the same without wine and mixed drinks. Just because a group of people are headed in the wrong direction, does that mean that everyone else should follow? Alcohol use results in impaired judgment. Impaired judgment leads to poor decisions. Poor decisions usually end up in a story on the front page of the newspaper or on the evening news (or Facebook, these days). Is that really what you want?
Okay, okay, you say, so my alcohol use gets a little out of control sometimes. It's really no big deal. What can I do about it anyway?
One simple, inexpensive solution is to attend an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. If you really want to get well, you don't keep hanging out with people who choose to remain sick. Alcoholics Anonymous (aka AA) is comprised of likeminded people who want to overcome their problem with alcohol (admittedly, some must attend due to being court-ordered).
AA proved to be my deceased brother Jason's salvation. He had a problem with alcohol that joining the US Army and being stationed in Germany only exacerbated. He found a way out through AA. He began working the 12 steps and faithfully attended meetings. He did service work and stayed sober. Even though he passed away young, at 27, he had no alcohol in his system when he died. I'm grateful for that.
If you think you might have a problem with alcohol—or other people or law enforcement has informed you that you do—now is the time to connect with AA. Just because you haven't experienced delirium tremens yet (more on that in a future blog), doesn't mean that you won't one day.
If you find yourself craving a beer, mixed drink, or glass of wine, you may very well be on the road to addiction. Get yourself to a meeting, and you'll find a better friend there than an aluminum, glass, or plastic one.
Local AA meetings are printed in the Pratt Tribune daily. One local AA group even has a contact number, 620-546-5417. Another good resource for finding a meeting in this area is through the Central Office in Wichita, which offers a 24 hour helpline. That number is 316-684-3661, or simply visit www.aawichita.org.


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The celebrated theater director and playwright George C. Wolfe has spearheaded some dazzlingly cinematic works for the stage, including the musicals "Jelly's Last Jam" and "Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk"Â?fluid, provocative, terrific shows. Now in his feature film directorial debut, Wolfe has brought in 'da hunk of cheese known as "Nights in Rodanthe." And the comparative savvy that Wolfe showed in HBO's stage-to-TV transfer of "Lackawanna Blues" has gone missing.
To be fair, the material's something that got spritzed out of a can all over the paperback best-seller lists. The feather-light romance by novelist Nicholas Sparks ("Message in a Bottle," "The Notebook"), adapted by Ann Peacock and John Romano, is designed to attract good-looking film actors of a certain age. All the better if they can act! Or even interact. Diane Lane can, and does. Richard GereÂ?sometimes. As skillful and charismatic as Gere is, I never get the sense he's really in there, conversing with his fellow actor. He seems most at home when he can revert to non-verbal, emotionally wounded reaction shots: hurt look, followed by glance away, followed by lip quiver, or defensive, squinty smile.
Lane, like Gere and every other actor on the planet, has her own habits to guard against. She does a lotÂ?too much, sometimesÂ?from the neck up. But in recent years, especially since "Unfaithful," which co-starred Gere, she has grown into a formidable presence, sensual, complicated but not vampy. Way back in "The Cotton Club," she and Gere were stuck playing arch jazz babies, and they couldn't seem to fill out their roles in an easy way. In "Nights in Rodanthe," at least, they do.
The plot? Recently separated Adrienne (Lane) leaves her kids with her ex and heads to the scenic coastal burg of Rodanthe, N.C., where her pal (Viola Davis) owns the most picturesque inn with the most beautiful blue shutters you can imagine. Adrienne's there alone, to think and prepare the inn for an incoming nor'easter. But the sole scheduled visitor arrives: Dr. Paul Flanner (Gere), who recently lost a patient during a routine operation and has come to Rodanthe to make amends with the dead woman's grieving widower ( Scott Glenn).
Love blooms for Adrienne and Paul, while the hurricane brews, and the story eventually settles into a series of passionate letters to and from our grateful lovers. Few writers alive are more devoted to epistolary pornÂ?emotional porn, that is; nothing too sexual on this stretch of beachÂ?than Sparks. And this sort of thing can work: "The Notebook" certainly found its audience on-screen. And look at "The Bridges of Madison County." Worst book ever written; the film basically ignored it altogether, and it turned out amazingly well.
Wolfe has brought some of his best theatrical colleagues to this project, including Davis and composer Jeanine Tesori (who wrote the music for "Caroline, or Change," which Wolfe directed in New York). But after a while all the voice-overs tend to sound like "Was it the storm? The wine? The way you looked at me?" And the editing by Brian A. Kates is exceedingly jumpy, as if determined to get through each exchange as quickly as possible.


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|Nov 06, 2012
Imec Reports Customized Lenslet Array for KLA-Tencor's Advanced E-beam Tool
|(Nanowerk News) Imec announces that it has designed and fabricated an electrostatic micro-lens (lenslet) array for KLA-Tencors anticipated Reflective Electron Beam Lithography (REBL) tool. The REBL technology potentially enables a high throughput e-beam writing process for maskless lithography. The lenslet array is a key component for the parallelization of the e-beam writing process. Functionality of the lenslet chip was demonstrated in KLA-Tencors REBL e-beam column.
|The lenslet consists of a densely packed array of 4µm deep cylindrical holes with a 1.4 µm diameter and top spacing of only 200nm. The electron beam entering the lenslet holes is focused through a set of 4 ring electrodes. The ring electrodes can be tuned to focus the electron beams by applying static voltages up to 50V on the ring electrodes. The bottom of each hole consists of a small metal plate that can be switched by a CMOS circuitry below, either reflecting or absorbing the incoming electrons. In this way, the incoming electron beam is split into 1 million smaller beamlets, a strategy designed to enable higher throughput for the e-beam writing process through parallelization.
|Via its CMORE service, imec offers companies all the services need to develop packaged customized specialty microsystem products. Imecs services range from feasibility studies, design and technology development, testing and reliability studies, to prototyping and low-volume manufacturing. And through its alliances, imec can also offer a path to transfer the technology to a foundry for volume production. The CMORE toolbox contains a wide variety of device technologies on 200mm such as CMOS, Si-photonics, MEMS, specialty image sensors and packaging.
|Many companies can benefit from specialty semiconductor devices to enhance and increase the functionality of their equipment; states Rudi Cartuyvels, Vice President Smart Systems and Energy Technology at imec. We are pleased that our semiconductor and heterogeneous integration expertise, and our design and production service, supported the development of KLA-Tencors REBL tool.
|Source: imec (press release)
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Santorini, Greece
Jessica L. Richard 7/10/2005 10:30:18 AMwonderful image, great stitching! #276483
Sandy Landon 7/10/2005 10:36:43 AMOutstanding image!!! #1577168
Jill Odice 7/10/2005 10:44:09 AMWhat an awesome shot, well done! This looks like a photographers paradise with endless photo ops ! #1577195
Kathy Shogren 7/10/2005 11:04:47 AMWonderful image Scott! Beautiful color and composition. Nice work. #1577251
Susan L. Vasquez 7/10/2005 1:04:39 PMFantastic work Scott, love the stormy looking sky it contrasts well with the white buildings. What a beautiful place. Great job on stitching the images together, looks perfect! #1577494
Gail Vitikacs 7/10/2005 2:42:29 PMIMPRESSIVE! Love the look...it is beatiful! #1577685
Bogdan Grosu 7/10/2005 9:18:16 PMbrilliant... #1578407
Scott Stulberg 7/10/2005 9:30:26 PMthank all of you for the nice comments.....
bob cornelison 7/10/2005 10:39:12 PMSimply great!
Dobrisa SKOK 7/11/2005 3:48:18 AMExcellent composition & cut, emphasized by worm central colors and opposite to blue. Dobrisa #1578956
Terrill Province 8/20/2005 3:25:38 PMWOW, pretty flippin' sweet!!! #1741006
Wendy Stevenson 8/20/2005 3:37:13 PMCongratulations on this stunning finalist Scott! #1741164
Robert Moore 8/20/2005 4:46:38 PMThat is outstanding! You need to sell this as a poster. It would sell. Let me know if you go that route. #1741903
Cathy Barrows 8/20/2005 5:08:53 PMCongrats on your finalist!...gorgeous #1742137
Ken Grooms 8/21/2005 8:18:34 AMHow do you sat "Winner" in Greek?! #1745769
Detrick V. Martin 8/22/2005 5:29:13 AMGreat Image, Congratulations! #1749931
bob cornelison 8/22/2005 11:26:36 AMCongrats! I knew this would be here!
Scott Stulberg 8/22/2005 11:53:49 PMThanx all of you for the super nice comments!!! Stiching images together ain't the easiest thing in the world......but I had to do it to this shot.
scotty #1754138
Lani T. Broadbent 8/23/2005 12:41:49 AMCongratulations on your award, Scott! Awesome capture, fantastic composition, and outstanding stitching! #1754265
Ronald Balthazor 8/23/2005 3:43:05 AMCongratulations, Scott. Your image captures the essence of this volcanic landscape extremely well. #1754736
Swapnali Mathkar 8/23/2005 6:20:15 AMBeautiful shot Scott . Congrats #1755715
Wendy Stevenson 8/23/2005 7:21:39 AMSo great to see this here. Congrats on this fine win Scott!!! #1756061
Joyce ONeil 8/23/2005 7:46:33 AMCongrats! Well deserved! #1756201
Terrill Province 8/23/2005 2:06:09 PMYippee and congratulations on this beautiful winner!!! #1757444
bob cornelison 8/23/2005 11:30:01 PMOnce again congrats! I had a feeling this would win!
Mary N C. Taitt 8/24/2005 12:09:38 PMThis is an incredible image, congratulations! Mary :-) #1761841
Susana Ms Heide 8/24/2005 11:56:27 PMYou've sold me!! Would love to be there!! You've captured this beautiful place so well!! CONGRATS on your win! #1763577
Dean Tsistinas 9/14/2005 3:21:49 AMI'm Greek, so I'm little biased but this is one of the best captures I have seen of this island, great job! If the exchange rate weren't so bad I'd go there in a heartbeat. I assume you used the stitch software included with most Canon cameras... #1834976
Gustavo Márquez 3/26/2006 9:33:10 AMWonderful image Scott! I really like it! #2576806
Ignacio Barón 4/23/2006 9:54:17 AMWonderful Picture, Scott,
I've also been to Santorini, and it's realley a photographer's paradise. It has the best sunlight one can ever imagine, and its sunsets are simply breathtaking.
Congratulations #2676908
Lisa J. Boulden 9/23/2008 2:19:17 AMSpectacular capture! #6496911
Magdalen Pougoura 10/10/2008 6:14:49 AMExcellent work !
[i]I'm Greek and I love Santorini[/i]
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From the Professional PHP site today, there's an interesting new post about a game the author found (via digg) of "Heroes of Might and Magic" online minigame. What makes it even cooler? It's written in PHP and uses Prototype and Scriptaculous for the interface.
The interface is very drag and drop oriented and it uses Ajax to update game status. The graphics are very good. No flash as far as I can tell.
The game is a bit less overloaded now, but still a bit slow. The interface is wonderfully done, and easy to understand. It's great to see the popular pairing of Ajax and PHP starting to show up in commercial applications, too.


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Blogger Sued, In Part, For Linking To Material Claimed To Be Defamatory
from the link-it-up dept
Reader JC points us to a short blogpost about another Canadian, named Richard Warman (interestingly, both Warman and Crookes have ties to the Canadian Green Party, though, I'm going to say that's likely a coincidence), who apparently is suing some bloggers for (in part) linking to material he finds defamatory. Unfortunately, in all the sites talking about this, no one seems to be willing to state the full story of the lawsuit, or show the full filing. Instead, they just show parts of the filing. But, at least in that part, it does appear that one of the complaints is that the blog in question linked to a site that Warman believed to be defamatory. It's unclear what else is involved in the lawsuit (and if anyone has the details, please pass them along in the comments). However, just the snippet provided is troubling enough.
Even if the content in question was totally defamatory, it certainly raises some pretty serious questions about whether merely linking to content itself can or should be seen as defamatory as well. As noted in the Newton/Crookes case, so far, Canadian courts have been rejecting such claims, and hopefully that holds up with the Supreme Court ruling. But in the meantime, it certainly sounds like others are still making similar claims, which certainly feel like efforts to stifle freedom of expression.


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Just one week after they appeared on the social news site Reddit, photos of a strange, bloody animal caught in a New Jersey river have drawn more than one million views. The eel-like creature has a large, round mouth, thick lips, and rows of jagged teeth.
A sea monster? Probably not. For Doug Cutler, a New Jersey fisherman who speared the creature in the Raritan River nearly two years ago, it is nothing he hasn't seen before in New Jersey waters, although that was the first time he'd actually caught one.
"A friend recently posted those pictures because we were having a contest about who had the weirdest catch. It's nothing new to the Raritan," Cutler told the Newark Star-Ledger.
A spokeswoman of New York Department of Environmental Conservation told the paper that the animal was likely a type of sea lamprey, a parasite native to northern Atlantic waters.
Experts say sea lampreys can grow up to 3.9 feet in length, weighing up to 5.5 pounds. Cutler said the one he caught was about 3 feet long and weighed about 4.5 pounds.
Cutler, who works at a state fish hatchery, also denied rumors that he faked the photos.
"It shows just how disconnected people are from nature," he told the Star-Ledger.
The sea lamprey, whose scientific name is Petromyzon marinus, is native to the Mediterranean and North Atlantic. They can be found in the coastal seas off the Northeast USA, Nova Scotia, southern Greenland, the UK, Ireland, and Scandinavia. In the 20th century, the species spread through the Great Lakes, where they drastically reduced populations of native fish.
Lampreys use their suckers to attach to herring, mackerel, salmon, trout, and even some sharks. They use their rough tongue to suck out fluids and tissues for food. As few as one in every seven host fish are thought to survive.


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Thai Massage Training - this autumn - Refresher 3-day course and Postgraduate Training
Andrea Baglioni of the Sunshine Network, will be teaching just 2 courses at the Kailash Centre in St Johns Wood, before returning to Thailand to teach.
With that in mind we've scheduled 2 courses to cater for where you might be with your thai massage practice.
If you have recently qualified or it's been a long time since you practised you might like to join us for the;
3-day Refresher's Course - Sept 9-11th - £225 with early bird discount of £25 booking before 12th August
This is aimed at those who have completed their beginner's course in the UK or abroad and are looking to refresh their skills in Northern Style Thai Massage. The Refresher's course will cover work done in all positions reviewing techniques, posture and execution/application of pressure and stretch exercises. This course is ideal if you are in need of perfecting your practice or renewing your enthusiasm for the power of Thai massage.
Or if you are a regular practitioner;
Postgraduate Q&A (&D) Workshop – Perfecting Your Skills - October 22-23rd - £150 with early bird discount of £25 booking before 1st September
This weekend of training will evolve from the needs of the students that attend. By this, we mean that Questions will be Answered & Demonstrated! So if you have a burning desire to review any of the practices and theory that Andrea has taught over the years, this is your opportunity to revisit and perfect your skills.
There will be plenty of time to practise and ensure that the techniques are mastered, as the postgraduate group will be limited to 12 students. Please let us know which subjects you are keen to cover.
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In my recent column in The Chronicle of Higher Education, on the topic of Mid-Career Mentoring, one of the comments cast aspersions on mentors and mentoring. I wanted to follow up on this point here and probe the opinions of blog-readers.
The specific comment includes this statement:
"Mentoring," I learned, is an intense form of the summer camp buddy-system premised on the bizarre assumption that presumably adult persons who freely choose to go into a profession are under no obligation to find out for themselves how things work."
I must admit that there have been times in my life when I have said the word "mentor" (as a verb or noun) in a somewhat disparaging way. It is one of the words that certain colleagues and I use when we are making fun of some aspects of modern academic jargon, of the type we get in memos from administrators; for example, "We are tasked with mentoring the stake-holders to empower them to create deliverables."
And yet, I think mentoring is overall a good thing. I think certain academic citizens have always been mentored, even if we didn't call it that back in days of yore. In particular, those who were part of the system -- the so-called 'good ol' boys' network -- were mentored, whereas those who were not as plugged into this network were not. In the past, and to some extent even today, the unmentored were typically women and minorities in most of the STEM fields.
Academia can be mysterious, even if you try to find out for yourself how things work, and there's nothing wrong with creating a system that tries to demystify this. It may be fine in the abstract to have a sink-or-swim attitude about tenure-track professors, but, aside from the human issues involved, institutions invest a lot in new faculty, particularly in the STEM fields, and it makes sense for us to help our tenure-track colleagues succeed.
I think even those of us who had to walk 7 miles to school in the snow and cold with only old newspapers for shoes and a raw turnip for lunch can appreciate that there were things about the "good old days" that were unnecessarily harsh. Academic careers are still quite challenging, even with all the mentoring going around.
That said, I can still relate a bit to the sentiment that inspired the anti-mentoring comment, especially if it is rephrased as an anti-whining comment, rather than specifically being against mentoring. I think that mentoring has its limits -- both from the point of view of the mentor, however well meaning and engaged in mentoring they may be, and the mentee, some of whom tend to ignore the wise advise of their mentor -- and I have little patience with those who say "but no one told me that I'd have to spend so much time [insert major time-consuming activity]", whether or not they had an official mentor.
For the sake of discussion, perhaps it would help to give some concrete examples of advice a mentor might give a mentee, and then you can see if this constitutes some form of coddling of presumably adult persons who should figure this stuff out for on their own, or something more constructive. In the comments, you can leave other examples to illustrate the use or disuse of mentoring.
Real example 1: Years ago, a tenure-track colleague asked me if they should submit an NSF CAREER proposal that year or the following year. I gave my opinion, but mostly we discussed the pros and cons of each scenario. Back in the last millennium, no one ever told me when (or if) to submit a CAREER proposal; I just did it. That worked out fine for me, but does that mean my "mentoring" conversation with my younger colleague was a "summer camp buddy-system" kind of thing? I think not.
Real example #2: A common question asked by people putting together their lists of potential letter-writers for the tenure evaluation is whether to include their advisor or other people with whom they have worked closely (explanatory note for those who need it: the candidate typically lists some names, and the chair can pick some of those names, but then also asks for letters from people not on the list; in the end, there may be a few letters from colleagues/advisors, but the majority are from "unrelated" people). This is a good question to ask of a more senior colleague or administrator because the answer may vary considerably from place to place, and even within different units of one institution. In some places, there is always a letter from the former PhD advisor and it would look strange if this were missing; in other places, the former advisor is considered too unobjective and is not asked to write a letter. How do you know which is the case? Does the distinction between being mentored and being a rugged individual lie in whether you know to ask about this or whether you are simply told?
So: it's time to confess your true feelings about mentoring and being mentored -- do the 'm' words indicate weakness and lack of personal responsibility, or do they signify progress in humanizing the academic system?


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December 2011 InBox - Letters To The EditorPosted in Features on December 1, 2011
Raptor Frame Problems?
When you told me how much you enjoyed your raptor I just had to buy one to drive while I rebuild my Jeeps, but I left the country before even getting 1,000 miles on it. When I got back recently I saw something on a Raptor forum and wondered if you were aware of it. It basically says that Raptor frames have been bending under hard use as evidenced on a recent Raptor run. Is this true? Considering I may be a victim of all the frame bending hype I'm wondering what your opinion is.
Maybe I'm thinking too hard. I crawled underneath and looked at the size of the holes on the inside of the framerails above the rear bumpstops. They're oddly oversized. Take a look at how close the bumpstop is to the axle. The 12 inches of "usable" (as advertised) rear travel is hard to buy unless they're talking droop at a 70 percent plus/minus ratio being where the travel is. There is very little uptravel before contact, which should normally be fine barring the gaping holes in the framerails directly above the impact zone. Even including bumpstop compression, there doesn't seem to be much uptravel available before the frame feels the impact. It seems to be hard, if not impossible, to run average dirt roads without the axle slamming into the bumpstops (they're only 3 inches away).
Over time I think this will take its toll due to metal fatigue. Because of the size of the holes inside the framerails this area of the frame is inherently weak, and unfortunately it's in crucial impact areas. In the end I think it's likely this will affect most people who run their trucks hard.
It actually scares me now to use the truck the way I think I should be able to. I don't mean to say that I want to run it like I see it run in the commercials. Honestly, I'd only like to be able to use it running dirt roads and sand pits as hard as I run my Jeep and like I have run all my trucks, but my confidence is gone. I'm afraid to bend my frame now. I think that anyone with mechanical ability never would have put a hole of that size in that spot considering the clearances. I think it was an oversight, that it never occurred to Ford that it could be an issue or they wouldn't have weakened the frame in that spot by what is likely over 50 percent due to the holes.
I'm buying a reinforcing kit, as it's actually easier and quicker then fabbing my own, and I'm sure it will address the issue. Screw the warranty—I just don't want a bent frame. Once it's bent I will always be unhappy and never get over it, even if it's perfectly straightened. I'm weird like that.
Scott the Jersey Devil
Pine Barrens, NJ
You are thinking way too hard. Like the engineers at Ford I am well aware of the hole, why the bumpstop is there, and the whole engineering scenario. I also know I have thrashed the Raptor far harder than most owners have with zero issues. Remember that the 12 inches of travel accounts for lots of downtravel. Yes, it has more droop than compression, and it is supposed to.
Remember that while running a trail at speed, if the suspension is already bottomed out on the stop and hits another bump, something has to give, and ideally it isn't your back. Certain bumps on a road will compress a suspension, and then another bump may put it over the edge. The choice an engineer has is to make a weak link or a fuse somewhere, and bending an area near the frame seems better than an axletube, which could cause other handling problems.
Frames have been bent, fixed, straightened, and built forever. It's a myth that once they're bent they won't ever be the same. The allegation that the bent-frames issue is a design flaw doesn't hold water. I don't think it is a problem and neither does Ford. The soft suspension of the Raptor is designed to have only 3-4 inches of uptravel, and the bumpstop continues compressing as part of the suspension design. Yes, weld a piece of steel on the frame so that is will never bend, but do remember that everything will yield at a certain point, and if the frame doesn't yield when this type of force is applied, something else will have to give. Hopefully it won't be your vertebrae.
Missing Commanders
I want to know what happened to the two Jeep Commanders that were built for the 2007 Ultimate Adventure because those were really cool. I also don't understand why everyone dogs on them, because you said that they were great vehicles.
Elias Corey
Via email
Our Commanders served us well and were great vehicles with excellent off-road prowess. They were a bit thirsty for fuel but never let us down. For cost-cutting reasons our corporate hierarchy deemed them unneeded and they were sold down the road before we could spit sideways. Even though the new CEO of Chrysler, Sergio Marchione, had called them "unfit for public consumption" before production ceased, we heartily disagree and still miss them in our ever-dwindling fleet.
Reader Rant
One-Way Trip
In response to Gene Savage's reader rant in the Aug. '11 issue: Gene, you obviously made a mistake by reading 4-Wheel & Off-Road magazine. As we all know, off-road vehicles do not handle as well as typical passenger cars. So, in the interest of safety, you should not be reading this magazine. Since I am a generous person, if you have a subscription, tell me how much is left on it and I will refund your money. I wouldn't want you to get any ideas of engaging in any off- highway antics where you could be hurt. But that's not all. I will also pay for a first-class, one-way trip to an island retreat just 90 miles south of Florida. There you will be safe and the government will take care of all your needs. Enjoy your stay! I know we will!
Phillip Pearce
Covina, CA
That's one way to get rid of whiners!


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The Jayamahal Sarbajanin Durga Puja, Bangalore.
Past, Present & Future Updates from the Best Pujo in town ... !
Monday, September 26, 2011
Sunday, September 25, 2011
What's in store this puja @ Jayamahal!
The Jayamahal Sarbajanin Durga Puja is one of the most prominent, big budget pujas celebrated in Bangalore. The Ganges clay idol (called the protima) is made by the expert artisans brought in from Kumartuli in West Bengal and the idol is made out of clay from the river Ganges. A conscious decision was made to adhere to the environmental theme this year of 'Going Green'. No lead or any toxic chemicals have been used in creating or decorating the idols of Durga and the entire ensemble of gods and goddesses.
Known for its creativity, this year too the Jayamahal Durga Puja will host a unique exhibition comprising of a gallery of rare photographs on Swami Vivekananda's life and works. Books and souvenirs from Swamiji will also be on sale. This exhibition is being supported by The Ramakrishna Math and Mission. Last year this puja had made a first of its kind exhibition comprising of rare letters and other paraphernalia on Rabindranath Tagore from the H K Kejriwal collection. A special Arati ritual is also planned by priests from the Bharat Sevashram Sangha.
A bevy of cultural events are lined up including a performance by the famous rock band 'Cactus' who will be performing on the 3rd of October 2011. Dance Drama "Shyama" by Probal & Group on 4th October 2011 and Musical Extravaganza by Biju Nair and Party on 5th October 2011 followed by the immersion and a grand feast on the last day.
The Jayamahal Puja established way back in 1955 is among the oldest and most heavily visited among the pujas in the diaspora of over 4 lakh Bengalis residing in Bangalore.
Catch Bangla Band CACTUS @ Jayamahal Durga Puja
Catch Bangla Band CACTUS @ Jayamahal Durga Puja on Saptami (3rd Oct 2011): http://www.cactusmusic.com/ - CACTUS
Sabdhane Rasta Periyo by CACTUS
Sabdhane Rasta Periyo by CACTUS from the album Tuccho
Bangla Band CACTUS plays @ Jayamahal Durga Puja on Saptami (3rd Oct 2011) - 8 PM onwards!!
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Monday, September 13, 2010
1st Theme Pujo in Bangalore!
For details please see: http://jayamahalsamiti.org
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Many people have asked me recently about my push to make my classroom more student driven. For some, it is a large step and can be potentially scary to think about relinquishing control of your classroom to students. In an effort to help and also reflect on my journey, I provide the following phases of creating a student driven classroom. This is by no means ground breaking or the definitive answer, but simply one teacher's journey.
Phase One:
As with any journey worth taking, the first step is often the most difficult to take. For me it was realizing that I was no longer the keeper of the knowledge and that I didn't need to be "teaching" as much as I was. I needed to believe that my students could take more ownership and that I could guide more and instruct less. In order for a teacher to push more student driven learning, they first must be able to resign from teaching and trust they don't need to be in front of the class at all times.
Phase Two:
Once I made the decision to resign and begin putting more the learning in my student's hands I started with giving them more choices. This is a really simple and easy step to start, especially for younger kids. For me, I started with giving choices on simple things like projects and daily in class activities. If my goal was to see if students comprehended a concept, why does format matter? Let the students choose what works best for them.
Phase Three:
For me, the next step was no longer dictating the learning steps a student took in order to master a learning standard. Yes, I realize that the very presence of learning standards is counterintuitive to student driven learning, but it is also a reality of my job. I did this in a number of ways. First, I modeled with students how to turn a standard into a learning question. The students then decided how best to answer that question…what resources to use, what method of information gathering, and what format to share or present their learning. I created a series of organizers to help students go through this process and they became quite good at doing it.
Phase Four:
The next phase is to turn all of the work completely over to the students. I did this last spring when I gave my Language Arts students a list of the learning standards for the entire trimester. They choose what learning activities to do, what order to do them in, and how to show evidence of their learning. I had a calendar and students filled in meeting times with me for mini lessons, small group discussions, and any other assistance they needed. They owned every aspect of their learning with the exception of the standards themselves. I shared many of these posts and experiences during my Reform Symposium presentation.
Phase Five:
This is the best and most pure form of student driven learning and I experienced this on one occasion last year. For me, stage five is when students not only choose their activities and evidence, but also the content of their learning. They are not driven towards a predetermined standard but rather choose what to learn based on their passions and learning needs. My example of this was last year during our Innovation Day where students worked towards their own learning goals in whatever method best suited them.
As I move into this new school year, I am planning on continuing to evolve my process and always look for more opportunities to help students take more ownership of their learning. One example that I am looking to pursue is to have more days in phase five where students can create more long term and sustainable learning projects based on individual interest and passion. I am bound by certain learning standards within my class, but I will continue to nurture student driven learning as I firmly believe that is a huge step to creating lifelong learners.