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his week Franz Ferdinand released their new album, Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, and it is now available for listening on Spotify.
Along with the release we have two great prizes to hand out to Spotify Premium members in Sweden. We'll be giving out 2 sets of concert tickets to the Franz Ferdinand concert in Stockholm on March 21st at Cirkus.
If you'd like one of the prizes you're going to have to do a little something for it. We're looking for the two diehard Franz Ferdinand fans to give these tickets to and what we'd like to hear is your favorite Franz Ferdinand memory or moment. Did you meet the band or see them in concert, has a song of theirs somehow played a role in your life? If you have a special memory of Franz let us know, the most interesting and creative answers will win the tickets so post a YouTube clip, record a song or write a little poem and we'll pick the winners.
The best entry will get three tickets to the concert, the second best entry will get two tickets and all the tickets come with an exclusive Franz Ferdinand box set that includes the latest CD along with a few other small goodies. Post your entries or links to them here on the blog and we'll pick the winners in two weeks on the 13th of February.
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- Senate Ag Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow hosted a hearing on the economic benefits of advanced biofuels on Tuesday and said advanced, non-food based biofuels are critical to growing the U.S. economy, creating jobs and lowering prices at the pump for American consumers.
Stabenow says American companies are creating jobs and growing rural economies while producing advanced biofuels which ultimately helps the U.S. become more energy independent and lower gas prices. In 2010, the U.S. consumed nearly 138-billion gallons of gasoline. With biofuels. She says a family of four could have saved $794 in 2010.

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COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. – The York College women's track & field squad put together a quality showing Thursday evening at the Ursinus College Open indoor meet. The Spartans took third out of the six squads, tallying 106 points, while tying or breaking five school records.
Freshman jumper Laura Rowlands posted a spectacular day as she snagged a pair of first place finishes, broke two school indoor records, and just missed qualifying for nationals in the high jump. In the high jump event, Rowlands leapt a program-best 5' 3.75" as she was just inches short of the height needed to provisionally qualify for the national championships. In the triple jump, the rookie phenom blew away the field with a distance of 35' 9.5", another new Spartan record, and bested her nearest competitor by nearly four feet. Rowlands also finished third overall in the long jump with a bound of 14' 9.25".
Senior standout Mandy Parshall added another broken record to the Spartans' list. She clocked a 2:27.81 in the 800 meters to set a new program standard. Overall, the Green and White performed well in the 800 as Anna Spaniol (4th – 2:33.71) and Megan Phillips (5th – 2:34.02) each took top-five spots.
Fellow senior Allyson Montello garnered a school record time of her own in the 400 meters, setting a new mark of 1:05.48 to finish fifth in the event.
Rookie Kenyatta Redman also put together a strong showing. She tied a program best 7.85 time in the 55-meter dash. That time gave Redman a third place finish while she also snagged sixth in the 200 (28.48).
The 4x800 relay crew posted a first-place finish for the Green and White. Phillips, Parshall, Rachel Berninger, and Chelsea McCracken ran to a winning 10:39.19.
Montello, Spaniol, Phillips, and Parshall combined in the 4x400 relay as they clocked a 4:23.09 to secured second-place points.
Kate Paczynski finished fifth in the high jump (4' 11.75"), Chitom Henry took fifth in the long jump (14' 7.25"), and Amber Douglas snagged sixth in the 55-meter dash (7.99).
The Green and White return to action on Sunday, February 20, when they travel to the Mason Dixon Conference Indoor Championships. Meet time from Christopher Newport University is slated for a 10:00 am start.
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Well, with all the metaphysical talk happening in the episode 3 disscussion thread and the little bit in the Suzumiya Haruhi thread itself, I suggest a Metaphysics of Suzumiya Haruhi thread so these suprisingly interesting discussions have a home.
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Maids! x3 had the better title I feel... The Ontology of Suzumiya Haruhi.
It gives you a wider breath of topics to discuss, rather than limiting yourself simply to the Metaphysics. In theory, not only could it contain the metaphysical discussions that have been bandied about in the ep3 thread, but it could also contain the description of the formulae from the OP... as well as potential future disussions as we learn more about the backgrounds/workings of the other characters in the show.
I mostly add this here because quite a lot of the ep3 discussion will fall into the shadows once the ep4 discussion opens. Technically the difference between Metaphysics and Ontology is some people won't have to hit the dictionary to get a definition of the former ^^
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It seems to me that my earlier request for a "metaphysical/philosophical" thread (that later got morphed into the "speculation" section of the Future Episode Synopses/Series Predictions/General Speculation thread) has come up again in a different form. As such I feel duty bound to add my voice to the others above requesting for an Ontology of Suzumiya Haruhi thread.
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The discussion was drifting from philosophy to physics, and we all know where that leads: mathematics. I thought, "these people are going start solving equations." It's an appropriate topic for the subforum, I think. It was a little off-topic for the Episode Three thread. Without their own thread, the same thing will happen with Episode Four. Or is it Seven?
See? We had an Episode One that may in fact be Episode Zero, and now, apparently, we are about to get an Episode Four that might be Episode Seven. Sooner or later, someone is going to detect a pattern! And patterns inevitably lead to places. Places like Copenhagen. If Copenhagen comes up again in the Episode Four (which might be Episode Seven) thread, I'll have to start drinking very heavily. Which also leads to places. Uncertain places. And uncertainty will only lead us to Heisenberg, whom I believe was a student of Neils Bohr, and Bohr just brings us back to Copenhagen. And more heavy drinking.
It's a viscious cycle. So please give the physicists and philosophers their own thread.
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On this idea of an Ontology of Suzumiya Haruhi thread...can you tell me where the discussion starts in the Episode 3 thread? Which post was the genesis of the discussion? I'd like the read up on what you guys are talking about without having to sift through 15 pages. Thanks.
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The discussion seems to have picked up here
Back a few posts for speculation of time travelling.
This is when they were starting to get more serious into the discussions
Rough guesstimates on my part, but should prove to be good bedtime material
Edit: ah this might prove useful... Psieye's and panzerfan's find in the OP
That should be all...I think...
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This new thread should be a good test to see if off topic chat in the Episode threads has legs beyond the Episode thread and is worthy of a separate discussion of its own. Props to melange for originally proposing the idea awhile ago.
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What about a "Why is this show so popular?" thread.
I forget which blog had a good discussion going about this, with answers like: Haruhi, Mikuru, mass hysteria, good animation, Kyon's voiceover, self-reflexiveness, leaving gaps that suck people in, etc. We haven't really started talking about it here, I don't think, but I certainly don't know why the show has become so viral.
I posted something about Marshall Mcluhan's media theories (this being a "cool" show in that it leaves a lot out and requires the audience to participate by filling in the blanks) and it was suggested that further discussion along those lines belongs in the Ontology thread, but I think it belongs more in a thread like the one I suggest.
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But it certainly would be fun to analyse what makes the show reminiscent of an epidemic
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You're probably taking about あいとゆうきのおとぎばなし's "What's the deal with the melancholy of haruhi suzumiya's popularity?" article. The comments there are becoming interesting. You could also include the final paragraphs on in Anime on My Mind's "Thin Slicing the New Season, Spring 2006 Edition" in which he compares the viral nature of Haruhi to the heyday of Evangelion. (Strangely enough, does the flashback of the 'blue giant' in Ep4 not remind you of the flashback of Adam in Eva? There are other parallels but those are for later)
PS: In the event it is decided where discussion of this sort should go whether in a new thread or the Ontology thread, please move this post to the appropriate thread. Thank you!
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I agree with the "Why is this show a meme?" thread... perhaps "The Popularity of Suzumiya Haruhi"? : P
Really I find it fascinating people seem to be going "ZOMG T3H ULTIMATE OMEGA FUNNY" then they get all hissy when it gets into not-comedy and such...
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A jacket—a.k.a. the "third piece" in stylist-speak—can offer the perfect amount of warmth and style to any look. So in a sea of options, we have fished out the five must-have jackets everyone should own.
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Agriculture photos could win you money, prizes and exhibit space
If you dig all things agriculture – the fields, the threshers, the cows and farmers markets and state fair pies and windmills – and you wield a camera, this could be a contest for you. The Colorado Department of Agriculture now is accepting photos for its 15th annual agriculture photography contest, called "Colorado … It's AgriCultural."
The deets: Entries must be sent with an entry form by Dec. 31; photos must be taken in 2012 and have something to do with ag; prizes are awarded in agritourism, crops, livestock, people and open professional; amateurs can enter every category, but professional photographers are limited to the "open professional" category.
Grand winner gets $150, and category winners receive a "Colorado … It's AgriCultural" prize pack. All winning photographs get displayed in the Beede-Hamil Agriculture Building at Northeastern Junior College in Sterling.
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Amazon, Macmillan Fight Over Ebook Prices; After Amazon Removes Macmillan Titles, It Caves To Higher Prices
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I had been under the impression that when manufacturers tell retailers what the end user price is, it's a form of price fixing, but apparently not...
Of course, what may seem odd about this is that it appears Macmillan will make less per ebook under this model. That's because with its old wholesale pricing, Amazon was actually losing money on every ebook sold. As the NY Times notes:
In the model that Amazon prefers, publishers typically collect $12.50 to $17.50 for new e-books. Under the new agency model, publishers will typically make $9 to $10.50 on new digital editions.So why are publishers specifically trying to limit their own profits from ebooks? Because they're afraid of ebooks cannibalizing hardcover book sales, which is why they're also looking to delay ebook releases. In fact, in this case, Amazon was given the choice of either increasing the retail price for consumers on Macmillan ebooks, or getting them many months later. All in all, this looks like publishers hurting themselves, yet again, by going against what consumers want in a misguided effort to preserve the way things used to be. Yet, in an age when users are punishing authors and publishers who don't treat them right, this could backfire in a big way.


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FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) - Gov. Rick Perry and U.S. Sen Ted Cruz say they've visited with military personnel wounded in Wednesday's shooting at Fort Hood that left four dead and 16 wounded.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Behind a season-high 17 service aces, the nationally-ranked No. 14 MIT men's volleyball team went on to record a 30-18, 30-10, 30-10 victory over Southern Vermont College in a North East Collegiate Volleyball Association (NECVA) New England Division match on Thursday. With the win, the Engineers improved to 16-8 on the year and 8-2 in conference play while the Mountaineers' ledger lowered to 0-15 overall and 0-10 in NECVA New England action.
In the opening game, Southern Vermont inched out to a 4-1 lead as it capitalized on MIT miscues. The Engineers responded with five straight points but the Mountaineers quickly knotted the contest at six. MIT countered with five unanswered points however Southern Vermont closed the gap to two (11-9) courtesy of three consecutive hitting errors. Each side traded points until a tip by Pete Winchester coupled with another hitting miscue by the Engineers brought the visitors within one (15-14). This was as close as it would get as MIT tallied the next nine points to get control of the frame. The Mountaineers continued to attack but they could not overcome the deficit as the Engineers held on for the win.
MIT registered the first two points of the second stanza before Southern Vermont captured the next four. A pair of strong serving runs from Eric Reuland and Steve Ray helped put the Engineers ahead, 24-5. The Mountaineers picked up back-to-back points but it could not sustain the rally as MIT scored six of the final nine points of the game.
The Cardinal and Gray tallied 10 straight points to start the final frame and eventually increased its margin to 27-7. Following its own timeout, Southern Vermont won the ensuing point and began an exchange of points until a strike by Malcolm Bean sealed the match for the Engineers.
Troy Tamas paced MIT's attack with 13 kills and a .400 hitting percentage to go along with four digs and an ace. Randolph Li notched 10 kills, three aces and three assists as Ray posted six aces, three kills, and two blocks. Reuland recorded 11 digs, four kills, and four aces while Michael Demyttenaere contributed five kills, five digs, and two blocks. Bean totaled six digs, five kills, and three aces as Tim Lee finished with 31 assists and six digs.
Brandon Dean led the Mountaineers with seven kills as Dan Sturrock collected seven digs. Keith Upham registered a match-high five blocks while Ryan Heron racked up five digs.
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Why would a federal agency trash itslibraries?
It takes a special talent to make the topic of library management controversial, but the Environmental Protection Agency seems to have a real knack for self-inflicted wounds. EPA gave itself a black eye and enraged librarians throughout the country last year, when, without public notice or congressional consultation, it began the process of dismantling its network of 26 technical libraries.
The original rationale EPA offered for slashing libraries was fiscal, but it estimated only $1.5 million in savings from a more-than-$8 billion budget. It seemed a most curious economy.
The closures started during the last few months of the Republican-controlled Congress when budgetary oversight was not high on the agenda. Aside from its claim of fiscal austerity, EPA said the closures were part of an effort to "modernize" its information systems by digitizing thousands of documents, page-by-page. In the meantime, whole collections are now inaccessible to both agency and outside researchers.
Last October, for example, EPA abruptly closed its Washington, D.C., headquarters library and, shortly thereafter, shuttered its world-renowned specialized library on the effects and properties of chemicals. This latter action came with no notice to the scientists who rely on those holdings to analyze new pesticides and toxic chemicals. The sudden shutdown of the chemical library galvanized public attention because it so clearly hampered needed research without achieving any economic benefit. Then, after it had already begun closing libraries, EPA discovered that copyright limitations prevented it from digitizing materials not written by EPA staff. As a result, hundreds of reports from the agency's contractors, as well as academic and corporate researchers, will remain in hard copy, but housed in one of three "repositories."
At times, EPA's actions have taken on an Orwellian cast, as thousands of documents and whole collections were hastily dispersed to anyone willing to accept them. The three repositories of documents have grown into giant information dumps whose contents will remain un-cataloged for years to come, and in Chicago, the largest regional library, furnishings — shelves, desks and cabinets worth some $40,000 — were sold for $327.
Under pressure from a rising chorus from within Congress following the 2006 elections, EPA temporarily halted further closures, but much of the damage had already been done. More than a third of its libraries have already downsized through what EPA calls "de-accessioning," which is defined as "the removal of library materials from the physical collection."
Significantly, the effects are also being felt outside the scientific community. A briefing paper for the agency enforcement director concludes that the loss of library access will substantially impede investigations and prosecutions of polluters. Citizen groups seeking information about local Superfund sites are now finding reports unavailable — that is if the citizens even knew of the existence of a report to ask for it.
Even the fiscal rationale for library closures came completely unraveled after internal studies showed that full-library access saves between $3-$7 in professional staff time for every dollar invested. In other words, librarians locating documents for agency specialists saved EPA far more than the total agency library budget. Now, every EPA staff member will have to serve as his or her own librarian. Moreover, the agency's plan to digitize documents page-by-page will certainly be far more expensive — EPA says it has no cost estimate — than the paltry savings from the closures of library collections.
The emerging motive cited by critics of the EPA's anti-library drive is disquieting. A petition, signed by the presidents of 16 local unions representing at least 10,000 EPA scientists, engineers, environmental protection specialists and support staff, charged that the intent behind the library closures was simply "to suppress information on environmental and public-health related topics." But the effort to hamstring the EPA goes beyond libraries and includes diverting money away from research, offering early retirement to senior scientists and ultimately closing down research laboratories. As its in-house scientific staff shrinks, EPA is relying more and more heavily on corporate research in making health and safety decisions. This self-lobotomy at EPA will leave a public agency that is far less capable and independent, and as we enter the final months of the Bush administration, EPA managers seem determined to accelerate the self-destruction.
Jeff Ruch is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News in Paonia, Colorado (hcn.og). He is executive director of PEER, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, in Washington, D.C.
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Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1974.
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Our research interests are focused broadly on the molecular pathways governing cellular growth control and their disruption during the initiation and progression of human cancers.
Key words: cancer, apoptosis, autophagy, p53, hsp70, stress-response
Description of Research
Currently, one focus of investigation centers on the role of the p53 tumor suppressor gene in mediating programmed cell death (apoptosis). This gene governs a major pathway protecting human cells from malignant transformation, and it represents the most frequently mutated gene in human cancer. It is generally accepted that disruption of p53's apoptosis function directly contributes to tumor progression. Thus, understanding the mechanisms by which p53 acts in the execution of cell death pathways is of considerable importance in cancer biology. Clearly established is p53's role as a nuclear transcription factor with the ability to activate, or repress, the expression of many genes. Accumulating data, however, now reveal that p53 has a direct cytoplasmic role at mitochondria in activating the apoptotic machinery. We have obtained several key pieces of evidence supporting this conclusion. Ongoing efforts are aimed at defining the overall contribution of this non-canonical role of p53 to apoptosis induction, and identifying other cellular factors that help to regulate this pathway. As part of these efforts, we are identifying mitochondrial p53-interacting proteins. Utilizing affinity chromatography and mass spectrometry, for example, we uncovered an interaction between p53 and the mitochondrial protein BAK. BAK is a critical "gatekeeper" of mitochondrial integrity and regulator of cellular cell death pathways. When p53 binds to BAK, it triggers a conformational change in BAK, leading to BAK oligomerization. This, in turn, activates the mitochondrial apoptosis pathway. These data support the importance of BAK as a mediator of p53's mitochondrial function. Ongoing studies are aimed at identifying and characterizing other critical cellular factors that act to inhibit or promote p53-mediated apoptosis, including its role at mitochondria.
Another major focus of our research centers on the multifunctional, stress-inducible, molecular chaperone called HSP70. This protein has a key cytoprotective role in a broad range of activities that promote protein homeostasis, including the targeting of potentially toxic proteins for proteolysis. Cancer cells experience high levels of protein-modifying- and metabolic-stresses and seem to be particularly dependent on the various actions of HSP70 for survival. This phenomenon, referred to as "non-oncogene addiction", suggests that it may be possible to target such critical survival proteins for the development of therapies aimed at the selective killing of neoplastic cells. We have recently identified a small molecule that interacts selectively with HSP70, and leads to a disruption of the association between HSP70 and several of its co-chaperones and substrate proteins, including p53. Treatment of cultured tumor cells with this drug promotes cell death that is associated with protein aggregation, impaired autophagy, and inhibition of lysosomal function. Moreover, this small molecule is able to suppress tumor development and enhance survival in a mouse model of lymphomagenesis. Thus the discovery of this new reagent represents a valuable tool to advance basic investigations on the varied activities of the HSP70 protein, and also should have application in the development of effective therapies aimed at simultaneously disabling multiple cancer-critical biological processes. Together with other lines of investigation, these studies promise to provide new insight concerning critical determinants of growth control in normal and transformed cells and have implications for cancer treatment.
Selected PublicationsLeu, J.I., Pimkina, J., Frank, A., Murphy, M.E., and George, D.L.: A small molecule inhibitor of inducible heat shock protein 70. Mol. Cell 36: 15-27, 2009.
Leu, J.I. and George, D.L. : Hepatic IGFBP1 is a prosurvival factor that binds to BAK, protects the liver from apoptosis, and antagonizes the proapoptotic actions of p53 at mitochondria. Genes Dev. 21: 3095-3109, 2007 Notes: Highlighted in a "Perspective" report: Guicciardi, M.E. and Gores, G.J., Science Signaling, 1:pe9, 2008 (PMID: 18285608).
Pietsch, E. C., Leu, J.I., Frank, A., Dumont, P., George, D.L. and Murphy, M.E: The tetramerization domain of p53 is required for efficient BAK oligomerization. Cancer Biol. Therapy 6(10): 1576-1583 2007.
Leu, J.I., Dumont, P., Hafey, M., Murphy, M.E. & George, D.L. : Mitochondrial p53 activates BAK and causes disruption of a BAK/MCL-1 complex. Nature Cell Biol. 6: 443-450, 2004 Notes: Highlighed in a "News and Views" report: Perfettini, J-L, Kroemer, R.T. and Kroemer, G., Nature Cell Biol., 6:386-388, 2004 (PMID: 15122264).
Murphy, M.E., Leu, J.I-Ju and George, D. L. : p53 Moves to Mitochondria: A turn on the path to apoptosis. Cell Cycle 3: 836-839, 2004.
Dumont, P., Leu, J., Della Pietra III, A.C., George, D.L. and Murphy, M. : The codon 72 polymorphic variants of p53 demonstrate significant differences in apoptotic potential. Nature Genet. 33: 357-365, 2003 Notes: Highlighted in two "Preview" reports: Manfredi, J.J., Mol. Cell, 11:552-554, 2003 (PMID: 12667439); Baptise, N. and Prives, C., Cell, 116: 487-489, 2004 (PMID:14980216).
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The Geneva Time Exhibition allows smaller and less well-known brands to reveal their new luxury watches. WSJ's Michael Clerizo says smaller does not mean the watches are any less luxurious as he visits three brands to take a closer look at their new timepieces. Photo: Getty Images
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the wealth of information recorded on the 1926 census.
Since Tuesday 6 March 2012, when Deputy Jimmy Deenihan, Irish Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, uttered his intention to present legislation in June or July for the release of the 1926 Irish Census, the internet has been lit up with claims about the census and access to it. However, some of what has been reported is not accurate.
Many of you, especially those who have been with me over the long haul, know that misinformation makes me like a rabid dog foaming at the mouth, absolutely stark raving mad. So, here on Madness Monday, by going right to the horse's mouth, I would like to clear up some misinformation that is floating around about the release of the 1926 Census.
In Ireland the horse's mouth belongs to Mr. Jimmy Deenihan TD. He's the man who has to make sure all the legal, fiscal, technological, and other resource 'ducks' are in a row when it comes to releasing the census. Okay, between the dog, the horse and the ducks, I realize I have a lot of barnyard imagery going on here, but please bear with me.
Here is what Mr. Jimmy Deenihan said, along with when he said it:
Thursday, 24 November 2011:
"The 1926 Census was the first undertaken by an Irish Government and it is my intention to have the census returns digitised and made available on-line as a 1916 centenary project, subject to resources and the resolution of legal and other issues."
Tuesday, 31 January 2012:
"The Programme for Government contains a commitment to enabling the publication of the 1926 Census. The project requires two principal components to be addressed. The first is the legal necessity to change the relevant legislation to permit publication of the Census before the expiry of the statutory 100 year period, while respecting certain rights. The second is the technical process whereby the material can be converted from the paper records to a searchable electronic database in a cost-effective fashion. Legal advice has been obtained in relation to the legislative changes and consultation with bodies involved is in progress. Possible technical approaches are also currently being considered, as are their resource implications."
Tuesday, 6 March 2012:
"I previously informed the Deputy that I intended to introduce legislation to enable digitisation of the 1926 census returns. The legislation has been approved by the Cabinet. Following its enactment, I will have to come up with the resources to implement it. I cannot start the process until the enabling legislation has been passed. It is hoped it will be ready in June or July." [emphasis is mine]
1. A caveat: The first thing you have to make note of when reading oral or written replies made by politicians is that the word INTENTION shows up a lot. An intention is not the same as a guarantee.
2. The legislation has not been passed, nor has it even been fully drafted. Although the drafting of this legislation is a major step, it is the FIRST step toward opening up the 1926 census. As Mr. Deenihan said, "it is hoped it will be ready in June or July". Then it will be presented to the Dáil, and presumably passed into law.
3. Digitization DOES NOT mean the 1926 Irish Census will instantly show up online. Clearly the intention is there to make it available to a global audience; however, if and when it is put online, there is currently no indication about the conditions of access. It may be free, just as the 1901 and 1911 census records are currently, or access may be pay-per-view. That decision has not yet been made public.
Also, Mr. Deenihan indicates, as I have emphasized in the passage above, that he has to "come up with the resources" to implement the digitization.
Further, in November of 2011, Mr. Deenihan indicated it is his intention to have the 1926 census made "available as a 1916 centenary project". The target dates of other centenary projects, such as the release of Military Pension Records, is 2016, the year of the centenary. Will the 1926 Census show up before then? Who knows. Whether or not this decision has been made, one thing is clear, it has not been made public.
4. A genealogy newsletter out of Ottawa Canada claims, "Allowing a few months for digitization and the 1926 Irish census should be available to all later in 2012." NOWHERE has such a statement been made by either Mr. Deenihan or members of his department. The digitization and release of this material is a process which will take time, and time parameters have neither been determined nor announced.
The future release of the 1926 Irish Census is something about which I am truly excited, and I look forward to being able to peruse it, and to rejoice in all the data it has to offer. However, I am definitely a "just the facts ma'am" girl, so I think we should follow what has actually been said about the matter, rather than what we hope will be the case.
The statements made by Mr. Deenihan, as well as those made by any other member who has spoken during Dáil debates can be viewed online. The entire text of the Dáil Debates held in the Houses of the Oireachtas can be viewed on their website: http://www.oireachtas.ie/parliament/
Census example image via CIGO http://www.cigo.ie


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Four. Thousand. Miles.
I hit the 4,000 mile mark this year with my panniers loaded full of groceries, riding a mile back home with one hand on the handlebar, the other hand carrying a 10-inch pie dangling in a plastic grocery sack. I had to look like a complete goofball, but that's not terribly uncommon from what I've gathered talking to people.
When I set out to buy a bike back in September 2006, I did it wondering if this childhood pastime of mine was still enjoyable regardless of my massive weight-gain episode in my 10 years of desk work and general lethargy. I didn't even bother counting how many miles I rode until the beginning of 2007, so I'll never really know how many miles I have ridden since I started. By January 1st, I had two bikes and I knew I was hooked. I decided to start counting. I had no idea where bicycling would take me, or what it would come to mean in my life. I certainly had no expectation of achieving 1,000 miles -- much less 4,000! If I keep it up, I may have the opportunity to hit 4,500 by the end of the year, but I'm already more than pleased as punch to have gotten this far in one calendar year.
So far, my miles are broken down like this:
Commuting (to / from work): 2646.3
Errands (meals, bank, travel, etc): 648.7
Recreational (group rides, singletrack, solo fun runs): 705
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Sunday, November 18, 2007
3,999 ... 4,000!
Four. Thousand. Miles.
5 comments:
- Dan said...
That's great. Congrats!
- November 18, 2007 8:34 PM
- Apertome said...
Wow ... very impressive. I was hoping I'd hit the 4,000 mark this year but it doesn't look like that's going to happen. My mileage has dropped off significantly since it got colder and it started getting dark earlier. But I still managed to get in over 95 miles last week which isn't really too bad.
- November 19, 2007 3:00 PM
That's awesome dude!
Reminds me, I'm about to hit 1,000!
Keep it up. Al Gore loves you.
- November 19, 2007 9:33 PM
- Doug said...
That's amazing you've hit that mark after just starting back on bikes in 2006. It took me several years to work up to that.
- November 20, 2007 8:54 PM
Your nerdy graphs at the bottom of your blog make me want to start obsessively tracking my miles so I can make similarly nerdy graphs. :) Of course, that would require me to install the bike computer I've had sitting in the garage for 9 months.
- November 21, 2007 11:24 AM
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Talk:OMAP3530 VPU
At last, received the Gumstix Overo Fire. IRL smaller than I expected even though I knew the size. Weight 6g confirmed.
The power connector on the Summit board is very non-standard, see PJ1-022-SMT. I say it is non standard because I couldn't find a single electronics supplier that has this particular size in their series. Do there really expect people to buy that god damn wall plug? I will just mount two wires directly on the board.
Finally created an alternate power connector for the summit board, see http://twitpic.com/oxe4d
Powered up the Gumstix following the instructions on the website. Ångstrom boots up all right. The first boot took a long time because it had to configure god knows how many GNOME games and other stupid things – it took several minutes. The second boot was much, much faster, less than a minute.
No power manager installed.
WiFi and BT seemed alive but of course there was no connection and I don't know how they are configured. I tried to scan for BT devices from my Mac and there was something. I didn't want to connect since I didn't know if it was the Gumstix or maybe something fishy from one of my neighbors. I'll have to find some docs about these. Btw. a quick scan on the website didn't really turn anything up. I hope this doesn't mean that the Gumstix is just another not very well documented thing.
e-CAM32_OMAP_GSTIX - Camera Solution for GumStix's Overo Series:
- http://www.e-consystems.com/omapovero.asp
- http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/ECon-eCAM32-OMAP-Gstix/
With V4L2 drivers. Amazing!
e-con Systems expect to release a 5MPix camera module soon, see blog post. This blog post also suggests that capturing and encoding 720p @ 30fps is possible on the OMAP.
- Had a quick half-day session with my Gumstix Overo.
- Did not find any USB mini-A to mini-B cable in regular computer shop.
- Gumstix Overo is still alive and the boot messages scroll through the tty; however, I did not get any image on the DVI monitor! I tried two different monitors, there is simply no signal. I was wondering if I have damaged the DVI output or something else.
- I decided that I will but a Tobi expansion board, which has Ethernet interface, and also one of these new small breakout boards.
- Ordered a Gumstix Tobi and a Pinto-TH board. Also included a USB mini-A to mini-B cable and an wall plug into the package since I was missing them.
- Package from Gumstix has arrived. They put two USB mini-A to mini-B cables in the package :)
- Decided that we will try to get the Gumstix Overo ready for an amateur rocket flight on 2010.10.03
- Functional scope TBD but it is highly unlikely that we can have live video feed or anything like that.
- Decided that the scope of the rocket flight will be recording video
- Still pending whether we can get the gumstix up and running in time
- Set up the Gumstix Overo + Tobi on a workbench. Thsi will be a permanent setup for now.
- Some issues that need to be resolved ASAP
- Ethernet on Tobi does not work (could be due to old image on NAND)
- Boots from flash but then loads OS from NAND!
Tried with newly flashed image on new µSD card. No luck but noticed an error message right at the beginning of boot:
Texas Instruments X-Loader 1.4.2 (Mar 27 2009 - 08:51:34)
Reading boot sector
Loading u-boot.bin from mmc
U-Boot 2010.06 (Sep 09 2010 - 13:32:51)
OMAP3530-GP ES3.1, CPU-OPP2, L3-165MHz, Max CPU Clock 600 mHz
Gumstix Overo board + LPDDR/NAND
I2C: ready
DRAM: 128 MiB
NAND: 256 MiB
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Board revision: 0
Tranceiver detected on mmc2
Die ID #6b2400040000000004032d460c005010
Net: smc911x-0
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
Unknown command 'mmcinit' - try 'help'
Booting from nand ...
NAND read: device 0 offset 0x280000, size 0x400000
4194304 bytes read: OK
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 82000000 ...
Image Name: Angstrom/2.6.29-rcfinal+r0+git90
Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size: 2723228 Bytes = 2.6 MiB
Load Address: 80008000
Entry Point: 80008000
Verifying Checksum ... OK
Loading Kernel Image ... OK
Starting kernel ...
A Google search lead to this discussion suggesting to "clearing the environment in nand" with:
nand erase 240000 20000
I assumed this had to be done right after stopping the autoboot timer, and indeed it worked. After doing that it booted from µSD card!
Tobi network works fine using the new image.
- Prepared and tested two new microSD cards with desktop and console image from 2010.09.09.
- Console image does not start Tobi Ethernet
- Recorded boot video: TBD
- Had a few kernel panics:
- First while executing opkg update
- Second time while trying to run a Gstreamer pipeline
- After kernel panic neither graphics nor Ethernet worked.
- Disconnecting all power and cables brought back graphics and Ethernet; however, mouse and keyboard were no longer working!
- After this the functionality was random (monitor, keyboard, mouse). Maybe the contents on the SD card got bad during the crashes? Or maybe the image is just unstable?
- Other possibility is that the Overo Fire is running way too hot and things shut down. I have to measure the temperature.
Found out why I was getting the kernel panic and broken, graphics, Ethernet, keyboard and mouse, see photo. I really need to get some of those tiny screws.
- Trying http://www.gumstix.net/Setup-and-Programming/view/Overo-Setup-and-Programming/Installing-additional-sw-packages/111.html
- Errors during opkg update:
- pkg_parse_from_stream_nomalloc: Excessively long line at 1. Corrupt file? (many of these)
- pkg_parse_from_stream_nomalloc: Missing new line character at end of file! (many of these too)
- opkg_download: Failed to download http://www.gumstix.net/feeds/unstable/ipk/glibc/armv7a/debug/Packages.gz, wget returned 1.
- Errors during "opkg upgrade":
- update-alternatives: Error: cannot register alternative readprofile to /sbin/readprofile since it is already registered to /usr/sbin/readprofile
- Thanks to this I found how I can see which packages are available: http://www.gumstix.net/feeds/unstable/ipk/glibc/armv7a/
I think the upgrade broke system! After next reboot I had these messages at the end of boot screen:
Starting advanced power management daemon: No APM support in kernel (failed.) Starting ntpd: done Starting Samba: smbd nmbd. Starting syslogd/klogd: done * Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: avahi-daemon [ ok ] Starting Bluetooth subsystem: Initialization timed out. Starting Network connection manager daemon: NetworkManager. Starting PVR Usage: insmod filename [args] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready net eth0: SMSC911x/921x identified at 0xd08c8000, IRQ: 336 WARNING: Could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.34/kernel/drivers/gpu/pvr/pvrsrvkm.ko': No such file or directory FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.34/kernel/drivers/gpu/pvr/omaplfb.ko': No such file or directory WARNING: Could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.34/kernel/drivers/gpu/pvr/pvrsrvkm.ko': No such file or directory FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.34/kernel/drivers/gpu/pvr/bufferclass_ti.ko': No such file or directory mknod: missing operand after `0' Try `mknod --help' for more information. chmod: cannot access `/dev/pvrsrvkm': No such file or directory cups: started scheduler. Starting GPE display manager: gpe-dm .-------. | | .-. | | |-----.-----.-----.| | .----..-----.-----. | | | __ | ---'| '--.| .-'| | | | | | | | |--- || --'| | | ' | | | | '---'---'--'--'--. |-----------' '-----'-'-'-' -' | '---' The Angstrom Distribution overo ttyS2 Angstrom 2010.7-test-20100824 overo ttyS2
Also note the version string! I should be Angstrom 2010.7-test-20100909 overo ttyS2
After making a new flash and initializing it I made the mistake selecting a different Enlightenment settings and now it take the desktop long time to come up after the onsole login appears :(
- Connected the Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000. Showed up as /dev/video0 and I could start cheese, but no luck capturing – Cheese said it has captured and LED on camera was ON for a while but image area was blank.
- Can get image up with Gstreamer pipeline.
- Using xvimagesink CPU load is below 50%
- jpegenc blows CPU up (not accelerated?)
- CPU is running a bit hot during capture but it is no more than 5-6 deg above what it was before.
- Since I had to create a new microSD, I decided to give the Gnome R11 image a try. → TBD Boots OK but neither bluetooth nor Tobi Ethernet works.
- Changed display resolution to 1280x1024 → TBD


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Let me clarify: I love jam. I just don't like making it – I always get nervous as to whether it will set. The scene is usually as follows: once I put the jam in the jars I have to keep coming back to it, picking up a jar and inspecting it much like a wine taster looks at a glass of vino, and then tip it gently side to side to see if the elusive "set" has happened yet. Play that scene out about 100 times and that's me making jam.
Here's the jam cauldron bubbling away:
Damson jam is particularly beautiful in both taste and colour and keeps me coming back to try my jam making one more time!
The recipe can be found here in one of my earlier posts.
I did actually get a set (honest!) but was so cheesed off by my preserving insecurities that I forgot to photograph it. The jam looks pretty much the same as it did last year and the CCM and CCD (Caked Crusader's Ma and Da) have taken all nine jars of it!


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I've been wearing a lot of flowery skirts and dresses lately. I just can't help myself. The weather here is absolutely gorgeous. Sunny, warm but not humid, it's just perfect! Yesterday, when I re-wore this outfit (minus the glittery heels, they're entirely too high to wear all day!) to work, one of the engineers next door said that I must have decided to wear my April flowers.
Typically, I like to dress my kids, the Hubs and I all in coordinating outfits for Easter. This year, however, Easter snuck up on us, so the kids wore their duds from my sister's wedding (I'll share pics with you as soon as they're edited!) and I picked this little dress from out of the back of my closet.
Do you typically dress up for Easter?
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I'm linking up with The Pleated Poppy and Transatlantic Blonde!


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Friday, 31 August 2012
No!!! Whoever heard of a short track?
Why would anyone create a high school track that is just a liiiittle too short? Or is the Garmin signal weak because it is surrounded by woods? I don't know. But this is aggravating. And I am a wife and mother of three kids (right now) and I really should just let this go! Haha. But I won't.
In better news, the day after the 5000, I took 2:40 off of my Villa Gallina trail 10k/9.5k race time from two years ago. I ran it in 40:06. This is a very hilly course in Hesede woods. I got 1st woman and 4th overall out of 138 participants. It is amazing what the confidence of the 5000 the day before did for me! I came through 5k in 20:10 and then because it is a short course, it looked like I had a negative split. And it is short, though longer than 9.5k according to my garmin from 2 years ago.
So when does one believe a garmin? When does one believe a track? Of course it's not as important as the fact that I know I'm improving. It's just too bad I'm injured now after another marathon on Tuesday and intervals yesterday (right gluteal strain).
And finally, to end on a really good note: step daughter Natti is running intervals now, too! And she loves it. Not only that, but she can almost beat me at a 25 meter sprint in the pool. I think she has real potential as a junior triathlete. I remember the old days of this blog when I said she was my best friend. Well, I often feel the old days are back.
Currently reading: The Hours by Michael Cunningham. It is giving me nightmares!
Good luck to Amy Sproston and Jill Homer at UTMB! Check out irunfar's live twitter feed here. Ok, I'm at the Glumsø train stop which means I am almost home :).
11 comments:
- Russp17 said...
The tracks are most likely not short. GPS's draw straight lines between the shots taken. Straight lines are shorter than the curve you are actually running. This makes it most likely 400 meters. a GPS will always measure a circle or an oval slightly shorter than what it actually is.
- 31 August 2012 at 22:27
- sea legs girl said...
Hi Russp17
Thanks for the input. I guess I am confused then why one track measured short and one track measured correctly. Any ideas?
- 1 September 2012 at 07:08
- pernille said...
I'll try to comment again.
Last time I failed to prove that I'm not a robot.
I not sure that my self image will ever recover ;-).
GPS is not as accurate as we like to think:
- 1 September 2012 at 08:42
- Arcane said...
I'm not sure of your area but if it's covered by Google Earth, you can get a far more accurate measurement using that. I measured two tracks in my area and they both came to within 1m of what they should. You might be able to do it in Google maps too;you have to activate the beta tools in it to access the measuring tool though.
- 1 September 2012 at 13:57
- sea legs girl said...
Hi Pernille
Totally agree that GPS is not always accurate. I almost never use my garmin anymore.
- 1 September 2012 at 15:06
- sea legs girl said...
What an awesome suggestion! I just downloaded google earth to my computer and measured the two traks. Then one I ran on measures to 373.1 m and the "good" one measures to 399.5 So basically not the information I was hoping for, but now I know I need to set a real PR on the good track. This means I needed to run 0.9 more times around the track to make it real, thus giving me a time really close to my old PR :(.
- 1 September 2012 at 15:09
- SteveQ said...
A short track seems weird, but looking at the one photo of you there, it looks like it was never intended to be a measured track, just an apron around an athletic field. 373.1m doesn't correspond to any track I can imagine - and I've run on some odd ones; the one I use is the last non-metric one in the area.
My Garmin died (for good) this morning.
- 1 September 2012 at 17:20
- SteveQ said...
And you asked "Whoever heard of a short track?" May I suggest Apolo Anton Ohno?
I'm reading "The Blind Assassin" by Maragaret Atwood. Kind of enjoying it.
- 1 September 2012 at 18:15
- SteveQ said...
And have you measured the so-called 25 meter sprint in the pool???
- 1 September 2012 at 18:35
- PiccolaPineCone said...
WHAT????? No!!!!!!!
I was going to suggest you gmap-pedometer it but given you google earth mapped it, it would be redundant and I hate to say it but it does sound pretty conclusively short.
I'm sorry SLG. Total bummer. I have to ask though... how did this come up? 27 meters short per lap is pretty significant. Were you and SR questioning it as you ran there? Have you run there before and wondered? What's the scoop? How did it begin to cross your mind bc I would think runners as experienced as you and SR would question it right from the beginning.
- 3 September 2012 at 23:55
- Alicia said...
Okay, but short track or not, you still pushed yourself at the end of that 5k when you felt like slowing down, right? So it's not like it was a total loss.
Maybe you could get a wheel and get a definitive measurement?
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Helsinn to launch sales organization in the United States
Lugano, Switzerland (ots)
The Swiss Helsinn Group announced today the formation of a sales organization in the US subsidiary, Helsinn Therapeutics (US) Inc. A commercial organization of 20 people has been engaged throughout the United States. The new oncology sales representatives will be working via a co-detailing agreement for Aloxi® (palonosetron HCl injection), licensed by the Helsinn Group to Eisai, Inc. The establishment of this commercial organization in the United States represents the next step in strengthening Helsinn's international presence. "We are excited about entering the largest market in the world with a sales organization. This new phase of Helsinn's growth into a fully integrated oncology company builds on our existing and successful global business to business capabilities. We are grateful to Eisai for their support in this new opportunity. We remain strongly committed to developing and delivering products that support cancer patients," commented Riccardo Braglia, Helsinn Group's Chief Executive Officer.
About FDA-Approved Aloxi® (palonosetron HCl Injection)
Aloxi® (palonosetron HCl) injection 0.25 mg is the first and only IV 5-HT3 receptor antagonist to be indicated for the prevention of acute and delayed nausea and vomiting associated with initial and repeat courses of moderately emetogenic chemotherapy, and for the prevention of acute nausea and vomiting associated with initial and repeat courses of highly emetogenic chemotherapy.
Important Safety Information
Aloxi® is contraindicated in patients known to have hypersensitivity to the drug or any of its components. Hypersensitivity reactions, including anaphylaxis, have been reported with or without known hypersensitivity to other 5-HT3 receptor antagonists. The most commonly reported adverse reactions in Aloxi® chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting trials include headache (9%) and constipation (5%). Please see the Aloxi® package insert, available at www.aloxi.com, for important additional details.
About Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV)
Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting is among the most dreaded side effects following therapy in patients with cancer. Despite prophylaxis, on the day of chemotherapy, up to 30-45 percent of patients experience nausea or vomiting or require rescue therapy following administration of certain types of emetogenic chemotherapy. The 5-HT3 receptor plays a pivotal role in the process of emesis, and agents that antagonize these receptor subtypes are the basis for control of this effect. Following the development of the older 5-HT3 receptor antagonists, such as ondansetron and granisetron, in the late '80s and early '90s, in recent years new compounds have been made available for preventing CINV, including palonosetron.
About the Helsinn Group
Helsinn is a privately owned pharmaceutical group with headquarters in Lugano, Switzerland, and operating subsidiaries in Ireland, the United States and a representative office in China. Helsinn's business model is focused on the licensing of pharmaceuticals, medical devices and nutritional supplement products in therapeutic niche areas. Helsinn is an important player in cancer supportive care. Helsinn Group in-licenses early-to-late stage new chemical entities, completes their development through the performance of pre- clinical /clinical studies and Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Control (CMC) development, and files and attains their market approvals worldwide. Helsinn's products are out-licensed to its network of local marketing and commercial partners, selected for their deep in- market knowledge and know-how whom Helsinn assists and supports by providing a full range of product and scientific management services, including commercial, regulatory, financial, legal, and medical marketing advice. The active pharmaceutical ingredients and the finished products are manufactured according to the highest quality, safety, and environmental standards at Helsinn's GMP facilities in Switzerland and Ireland and supplied worldwide to its customers. Further information on Helsinn Group is available at www.helsinn.com.
Helsinn Group
Paola Bonvicini
Head of Communication & Press Office


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