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Which is smarter: a swarm of brainless mini-robots with clockwork guts, or a colony of ravenous, half-blind Argentine ants?
If you answered mindless robots, you're right — but just barely.
Researchers studying the problem-solving abilities of foraging ants enlisted the aid of 10 sugar-cube-sized robots to determine whether the real-life insects had to put any thought into deciding which direction they should go when they came to a fork in the road or an obstacle in their path. The answer to that question is important for the understanding of how large communities of organisms interact and coordinate their behavior.
The Argentine ant was selected for the study because it's among the world's most successful invasive species. When it gains a foothold in new lands, such as California, Florida, southern Europe, Australia and Southeast Asia, it out-competes local ants and can sever links in the larger food chain.
"These guys are a real problem; they've caused a lot of trouble," said Simon Garnier, who studies animal behavior at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and was lead author of the study published Thursday in PLOS Computational Biology. The ants, which measure about an eighth of an inch long and have very poor vision, are native to South America.


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Foxwood Stables in Full Operation
DERBY - The name has changed slightly but the facility is back in business. Foxwood Horse Stables in Derby, now known as Trinity Equine at Foxwood, is providing winter options for horse lovers in Orleans County.The operation has re-emerged as a cooperative run by three local horse enthusiasts: Julie Jacobs, Dawn Brainard and Lisa Spates.The Foxwood facility has plenty of room to spare. It features a lighted indoor arena that measures 200 feet by 100 feet. Spacious stalls, even a heated viewing room bring area riders all the comforts of warmer weather even in the dead of winter. Co-manager Julie Jacobs explains, "We have enough room to get five or six horses having lessons at once if need be. There's ample room for instructors to work with the riders and their animals."Foxwood went through a dormant stage but has been back in business for over a year."The place was shut down for awhile and our goal was for people to be able to be indoors and ride all winter when you can't anywhere else," Jacobs said. "We do educational programs for kids and we keep everything affordable for them. Originally Dawn Brainard, Lisa Spates and myself got in here with our own horses. We all ride and our kids ride as well. To help offset the cost, we have taken in borders and we give lessons. We've got several other instructors that can work out here as long as they are fully insured."If you have a horse and want to ride or need information, you can reach one of the three by simply calling up and asking."You can call me and we accept so many borders per year," Jacobs said. Clients can board their horses at the stable, lease a horse from the owners, or sign up for lessons. "We want to keep it affordable for parents and kids who want to get involved with horses. We have a lot of adults who are just starting up and riding for the first time."Foxwoods is a large facility with 26 spacious stalls available at the site. "We have a lot of different turnouts for the horses and if someone wants to board here we include hay, grain, daily turnout and blanketing; we do all that," Jacobs said.When they say they are a co-op, Jacobs explains, "When someone may not be able to afford a cash price, we are able to offer an exchange of services. For instance, Lisa and her husband Lee keep the place plowed. I do the basic chores. Jeremy Leblanc works here and he has a stall and storage for his horses. He works here to pay for the stall. If we are able and someone offers us a service, we will work with them in most cases. We'll either give them a deal on their board or trailering or whatever."The trio have been at Foxwoods since Nov. 1, 2010. Jacobs said, "We've been here a little over a year now and we have 18 horses right now. In the springtime, some go back to their homes because they've got the pasture and stuff like that, but we have seven full-time borders now. The rest are either our own horses or lesson horses or horses that we offer to lease."The hours are very convenient for most people, Jacobs said. "We like to keep it open 6 AM to 8 PM seven days a week. There's somebody here every morning and every night. We don't have people here at 11 PM at night or anything but it's pretty accessible hours. We have some really talented instructors here and we offer and welcome any discipline whether its hunter jumper, dressage, western pleasure or gaming. We do some driving here. We try to keep our options open. We really focus on quality horse care. That's kind of our motto and our goal, quality horse care."Trinity Equine at Foxwood Stables can help you with lessons, boarding, even birthday parties. Call 802-323-7820 for more details.

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
And the winner is....
Comment number 64!!!! And that person is "Denise"! I can't click on your name to see exactly who you are, but this was your comment:
"ohh , so many things I would like to make, I would like to frame them to make some small medium wall art for my studio,with this tutorial
Or cover various wood boxes to keep sewing notions, I'll also like to cover-decorate some IKEA KNUFF magazine files, A nice little bag to carry my camera would be nice also... I can keep going !
So many ideas!! ^_^ for your precious fabric"
Sounds like a very worthy winner to me! Please contact me at lara[!at] laracameron.com and let me know your address :)
Sorry to those who missed out. There were some really lovely comments left (116 comments, crazy!!) and I wish I could send you all a little something. I do have at least three more giveaways planned though :)
Aaaaaalso, I just picked up the next batch of fabric from the printers. So stay tuned for a shop update sometime in the next week :)
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- Heather Moore said...
Duh, I missed it! Lucky Denise to get some of your beautiful fabrics!
- 6:12 pm
Lucky me ^_^, I will be able to decorate my studio with it!
email you right Away, THANKS A BUNCH
- 6:58 pm
- Hyena In Petticoats said...
New fabric?
- 7:13 pm
- Gene said...
Lucky girl! Congratulations!
- 8:11 pm
- Natalie said...
Congrats Denise!
I'm so excited about new fabric! :D:D
- 9:59 pm
- Penny Eager said...
Congrats also! And new fabric... yay!
- 10:56 am
- Becky O. said...
How exciting for Denise! Yeah her!
New fabric... I will be camped out on your blogstep (?)
Any way I could convince you to reprint the birch pattern? Love, love, love the brown and mustard design that I bought far to little of.
: )
- 1:37 am
- Corrie said...
oh how did I miss out on that great offer! glad your new fabric has arrived as I'm all sold out of the last lot (ps if this duplicates its because the last comment I just left rejected on me and I'm not a psycho commenter)
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Gramma Anne's Thanksgiving Stuffing
Servings:for a 20-23 pound turkey
Prep time: 1:00
Categories: Side Dish
Source: JudeTheFoodie.com
• 1 lb Golden Raisins
• 1 lb Bacon (cut into little pieces)
• 1 lb Sage Breakfast Sausage
• 1-2 Small Onions, finely chopped
• 6-7 Stalks Celery, finely chopped
• 1 Stick Butter
• 2 Bags Stuffing Croutons (I use Arnold Stuffing)
• 2 Eggs
• Optional:
• Cook the pieces with the turkey like the neck, etc. remove from turkey and bag. Put in medium sauce pan with a quartered onion and peppercorns. Bring to a boil and simmer for an hour. Strain the liquid and use instead of water in the stuffing.
Put the raisins in a microwave safe bowl, cover with water and microwave for 10 minutes.
In a large skillet, on medium heat cook bacon, sausage, onion and celery until the onions are soft, about 10 minutes.
Remove from heat. Add butter and let melt.
In large bowl, add bacon and sausage mixture and drained raisins. Add stuffing mix to the bowl and add at least a cup of water (or the stock from the turkey parts). Beat two eggs and lightly stir until the mixture is wet.
Chop the turkey parts and remove the meat from the neck and add to stuffing, if desired.
If you are not stuffing your bird or have more than will fit inside, you can butter a table ready casserole, fill with remaining stuffing, add one cup of stock or dry white wine and dot with butter. Bake for about 45 minutes at 350 degrees (or up to 400 degrees depending on what else is in your oven) covered until the last ten minutes. Remove the cover and let get crisp on top. If there is not enough room in your oven, when you remove your turkey to rest for 30 minutes then carve, put the casserole in. It will be perfectly cooked in time for dinner.
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by Tom Utescher
Mount St. Joseph cross country runners are heading into the 2012 campaign looking to improve over third-place finishes at the Catholic Academies championships in 2010 and 2011, and the Magic may well have the personnel to achieve that goal.
The senior co-captains for the Mount this fall are seniors Meredith Reiche and Kathryn Hoffman. Reiche was first for the Mount and fifth overall at last year's AACA meet, but a pulled hamstring put Hoffman out of action for the championship race.
Patricia Hoffman, Kathryn's twin sister, was one of the MSJ scorers at the league meet, coming in 30th overall.
As a freshman last season, Haasiyna Taylor won every dual meet she ran for the Mount and also finished first in her division at the expansive Paul Short Invitational at Lehigh University, but she was hampered by asthma at the Catholic Academies championships, finishing in eighth place.
Of the seven official entries at the 2011 championships, the Magic has lost only one to graduation. Then senior Danielle Leporace was the third MSJ runner across the line, placing 14th overall. Taylor's ninth-grade classmate, Georgia Kelly, came in 25th overall, and the other members of the Mount contingent in the varsity race were current senior Adrienne Cellucci and junior Alyssa Kist.
In addition to those mentioned, the strong group of seniors for 2012 includes Marianne Lipovsky, Brittany Robbins, Lucia Sanchez, Angela Sanders, and Lauren Seminack. Fellow upperclassman Meg Geatens is primarily a basketball player who runs to stay in shape for the hoops season, and Jessica Malone is a senior who used to play on the Mount's golf team. Senior Rachel Heller (a Norwood Fontbonne Academy grad) is a rower who has had to take some time off from that sport due to a medical ailment, but she'll be back on the water in the spring.
Mount St. Joe is also looking to get a boost from a number of emerging talents such as junior Annie McCabe, who was an easy winner in the JV race at the AACA meet last season.
Second-year MSJ head coach Kitty McClernand has her eye on a group of six freshmen, including Julianna Kardish, the younger sister of former Mount cross country and track runner McKenna Kardish ('11).
Along with assistant coach and former MSJ runner Megan Badolato, McClernand has the Magic opening the season on August 31 at Archbishop Wood's annual John Sharp Viking Invitational. From there the Magic will move on to the Briarwood Invitational on Belmont Plateau, and will return to the Paul Short event, as well. The team to beat in Catholic Academies competition will once again be defending champ St. Basil, who has last year's AACA meet winner, Megan McGarrity, coming back for her senior season.


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wes needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 112 designs submitted by 38 freelance designers.
I need a great clean, scalable vector logo that will represent the soul of our Financial Aid information. As a lot of financial information can seem thick and dense, our simple, aesthetically pleasing image is crucial to our success.
We are a new online financial aid service company in need of a fresh, clean vector logo. Logo needs to look very web 2.0, but also professional. Simplicity is a must. Nothing over the top.
I would like to see a logo that looks just as good as a simplified form (maybe just the A and something else) as it does in it's whole form with the name AidGate.
Most likely it would look better with capital A and G as above or all lowercase (aidgate). The 'Gate' part of it may or may not be helpful in creating the logo. If so, I don't want a huge, pearly obtrusive gate.
Here is an idea of the color scheme that the site will be based around: <<http://kuler.adobe.com/#themeID/47479>>You can possibly throw in a contrasting color that will make it stand out a little, but nothing over-the-top flashy.
Company tagline will be something like 'the gateway to all your financial aid knowledge'.. something along those lines. But do not include this with the logo-- I'm just looking for the logo.
The content on the site will be directed toward Financial Advisors as well as students and families.
- scalable
- clean and simple
- blue and grayscale
- obtrusive
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Presidents, Pandas and NASA: #Shutdown Goes Social
Even as the government has shut down, the Twittersphere is lively with social commentary about the gridlock and its impact, Simon Constable reports. Photo: Getty Images.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... the U S government has now been shut down over thirteen hours as Congress continues to work on a budget fight ... even as workers to stay home and national parks are closed ... that would display is to lightly with tweets about the shutdown ... present Obama and White House and took to Twitter to vent their frustration over the style might ... speak of they now also added his critiques signing his tweets with the hashtag ... ten this fall ... as the shutdown to the facts and government agencies like mass up on the Smithsonian announced they wouldn't be updating that Twitter accounts ... one of the most tweeted about victims of the shutdown has been National Zoo's popular Panda cam ... which has promised by tweaks ... has now gone dark ... the shutdown comes with some bad timing ... today's tool who pays tribute to Yosemite National Park which sounds uh hundred and twenty three so tight ... it's coming close ... to me is also masses fifty fifth prospect which it is celebrated ... by taking the day off ... masses would it serve which is studying the boundaries of the solar system and is come the Opel fourteen the light years away from us ... signed off with that with its own big picture perspective ... by wealthy mines ... which it to Twitter to ... sort it out yourselves ... stay with us on the WEF's Jade all calm throughout the shutdown and send us your tweets this is digits I'm Simon Constable


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According to NATO's website, the Chicago conference is expected to "deliver on decisions that were taken at the Lisbon Summit in November 2010, driving forward key Alliance policies and reaffirming the transatlantic link."
Among the many significant achievements announced by the heads of state and government in the 2010 Lisbon Declaration referenced above is their claim that "we have ... invited Russia to deepen its cooperation with us on the areas where we have common interests."
A dramatic move toward closer ties between NATO and Russia has played out over the past several years while, on the surface, at least, relations between Brussels and Moscow have appeared to deteriorate. President-elect Vladimir Putin, who has been noted for bashing the United States and NATO, stepped up the harsh rhetoric during his recent presidential campaign, no doubt gaging much of his forensic attack to appeal to Russian nationalism. How much of this was theatrics for domestic and international consumption is open to debate. However, in his role as prime minister, Putin approved of NATO's use of Russian territory for air supply convoys for the Afghanistan War.
In fact, Putin has referred to NATO approvingly as "a stabilizer in global affairs" and is reportedly considering a NATO proposal for a semi-permanent base in Russia for Afghan operations. According to an April 11 Reuters story:
Moscow is studying a request from NATO for use of facilities at an airport in the Volga River city of Ulyanovsk as a transit point for shipments of non-lethal supplies to and from Afghanistan by air, rail and road.
Russia has allowed Afghan-bound NATO transport through its territory since 2009 as an alternative to convoys through Pakistan, which have been subject to militant attacks, but no permanent facility was involved....
In remarks that suggested Russia does not intend to decrease cooperation in Afghanistan, Putin said "in some cases NATO is playing the role of a stabiliser in global affairs" and included the Afghan mission among such cases.
While policy elites at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and other globalist think tanks praise these developments as great breakthroughs for international cooperation, sober realists see the same developments as confirmation of the dangerous scheme for NATO-Russian convergence.
As The New American has reported (see here and here), Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen are but two of the many high-level leaders of the Western alliance who have been calling for deeper integration and more extensive convergence between Russia, the United States, and Europe.
Photo: NATO flag
Related articles:
New NATO Chief Outlines Priorities
U.S. Defense Department Announces Step Toward the North American Union
Decades of Suicidal Policies Vis-à-vis Russia and China
Concert of Democracies: Same Old Globalism
Clinton Wants Closer NATO-Russia Ties
UN Report: NATO's Libya War Armed al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda and NATO's Islamic Extremists Taking Over Libya
UN, Obama Fighting Alongside Al-Qaeda in Libya
Making the World Safe for Narco-Terrorism
The Karzai Family Fortune, Courtesy of U.S. Taxpayers
Corruption Rampant in Afghanistan
Karzai Offers Invitation to "Our Taliban Brothers"
Karzai: Afghan Regime Would Back Pakistan Against U.S. in War
Troops "Not Leaving" Afghanistan in 2014, U.S. Officials Say
Kissinger Sings Convergence Theme With China's "Red Song" Choir


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October 4, 2010
Wabash freshmen Nate Koelper and Wade Miller recovered from an opening round doubles loss to win their final three matches in the Kalamazoo Collegiate Tournament portion of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Fall Central Region Tournament. The event was held at Kalamazoo College. The duo finished the weekend with a record of 3-1 for the tournament.
Koepler and Miller lost their first doubles match 8-5 to Joe Collins and Pierce Stemler from DePauw. Koepler and Miller moved into the consolation bracket, where the duo scored an 8-4 victory against North Central College's Andrew McKinley and Eric Mutka.
The draw put teammates against each other in quarterfinal round. Koepler and Miller faced Wabash freshman Phil Kubisz and Adrian College player Austin Boyle as a mixed-college doubles team. Koepler and Miller won 8-4 to advance to the semifinals, picking up an 8-6 win over Kevin Bayles and Grant Wick from Augustana. A bye in the final round gave Koelper and Miller the consolation bracket title.
Kubisz advanced to the consolation semifinals of the singles portion of the Kalamazoo tournament. He lost his first match to Westminster's Alec Belden 7-6, 6-3. Kubisz followed with a three-set victory (2-6, 6-4, 10-6) over North Central's Josh Clay. A 6-1, 6-2 win against Tommy Stein from Capital put Kubisz in the consolation quarterfinals, where he defeated Ryan Bourjaily from Albion 6-4, 6-0. North Central's Naveed Heydari ended Kubisz' run with a three-set win (6-3, 2-6, 10-6) over the Wabash freshman.
Peter Gunderman posted a 3-1 record in the Kalamazoo Collegiate Tournament in singles play. He won his first three opening matches before losing in the round of 16 to eventual runner-up Steven Pjevach from DePauw.
Daniel Delgado scored the only victory for the Little Giants in the ITA Open Championship Singles Tournament. He defeated Erik Hane from Knox College 6-2, 6-3 in the opening round of the tournament.


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Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) is one of the nation's largest and most respected health care management companies, operating through its subsidiaries acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities and ambulatory centers nationwide. Founded in 1978, UHS subsidiaries now have more than 65,000 employees. The UHS business strategy is to build or purchase health care properties in rapidly growing markets and create a strong franchise based on exceptional service and effective cost control. Our success comes from a responsive management style and a service philosophy based on integrity, competence and compassionTexas NeuroRehab Center (TNC) provides complex medical and brain injury rehab, chemical dependency treatment for adults and neuropsychiatric treatment for youth. The capabilities of the facility as a whole allow for integrated and specialized care for children, adolescents and adults facing difficult challenges.
Texas NeuroRehab Center is currently accepting applications for a Rehabilitation Technician (RT). Rehabilitation Technicians assist in the direct care and management of patients across all age ranges with medical and behavioral issues as directed by the treatment team. Rehab Techs provide assistance with unit programming to facilitate the carryover of therapy issues, leisure activities, and activities of daily living within the functional ability of patients and with consideration for the patient's level of growth and development.
The candidate selected will be responsible for the following:
Assures a safe, nurturing, clean, & supportive environment.Accompanies & actively supervises patients in activities of daily living (ADLs), appointments, & recreational activities that occur both on & off the living unit.Actively assists therapists & teachers with patients to provide therapeutic & / or educational activities.Serves as a role model for patients, visitors, & staff. Works as a team member to promote a positive work environment.Documents patient behaviors, condition, & progress on a daily basis by recording data in the prescribed format. Progress notes in the medical record accurately reflect behavioral data as well as activities. Charting is thorough & descriptive.Provides hands-on physical care, supervision, crisis intervention, behavior management, & behavior modification as directed by the individual treatment plan & unit program guidelines.Recognizes & reports pain & safety issues. Takes measures to provide relief / safety.\Takes and documents vital signs, weights, and heights.Orients patients to the unit & facility with emphasis on procedures & standard practices.Maintains professional demeanor in dress, attitude, support of unit milieu, & hospital mission & philosophy.Exhibits regular & required attendance.Accepts other duties as assigned.


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Intel Aims to Bridge GPU Gap
Apr 23, 2012 2:24 PM PT
Intel's highly anticipated Ivy Bridge chips, which offer the promise of significant improvements in speed and power usage along with support for USB 3.0, were officially launched on Monday. The first wave of these new chips, which offer a smaller package compared to Intel's current Sandy Bridge chips, will include 13 quad core processors.
These new chips are the first to use Intel's new 22-nanometer manufacturing process and feature its new tri-gate technology. They will deliver about 20 percent more processing performance while using 20 percent less average power.
"This is Intel's highest-performing processor to date, and it offers better thermal and energy performance," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "This is really Intel's new flagship product."
Jump Forward
Although there had been concerns that a reduction in the size of transistors could result in reliability issues, Intel was able to reduce the size yet still increase performance. This was accomplished by creating a three-dimensional transistor for the first time. This innovation, which only marginally increases the cost to make the chip, resulted in less power being required to carry out the same action.
For the user, it is all about the performance.
"From a technical standpoint, this is really about two significant jumps in chip architecture," Charles King of Pund-IT told TechNewsWorld. "One is the ongoing improvement on Moore's Law in regards to the CPU performance. With Ivy Bridge, Intel is pushing a 15-to-20 percent improvement in the CPU experience, and both business and consumer users will see significant system performance."
Among the other improvements will be one computer users will certainly be able to see on their monitors.
"This is also giving greater performance in regards to graphics," said King. "Ivy Bridge will provide a doubling of graphics performance, and this is significant for low-to-mid-range game performance."
Game Changer
Ivy Bridge could certainly pose a challenge to the standalone GPU card and graphical add-on vendors, as it could challenge the need for a dedicated graphics card, often required in gaming PCs.
"With Ivy Bridge, there will be far less value from standalone GPU cards," added King. "There will still be dedicated gamers that will go with ATI or Nvidia, but for the average user, Intel has really captured the midrange market, and this will push Nvidia into the high-end niche."
This could also push AMD as it looks to develop its APU -- the accelerated processing unit that combines CPU and GPU.
"It is hard to say what this means for AMD as they have their own chips coming in a few weeks," said King, who noted that Ivy Bridge could commoditize computing. "It will break every corner of the market. This could lead to a future where the broad range of computer functionality is commoditized."
With the introduction of high-definition video, as well as video chat, there has been a need for improved graphic capability even on basic systems.
"Graphics have stopped being a value-added proposition, even as Intel has failed to argue the power of its own graphics," said King. "Now they can offer a powerful option that makes it tougher and tougher for the standalone GPU vendors."
Greater Connectivity
Beyond graphics, Ivy Bridge will be a game-changer in other ways. The chips provide built-in support for USB 3.0, which has to date required an AMD-based platform, or third-party USB controller chip. With Ivy Bridge, Intel computers will now be able to take advantage of the faster I/O port speeds.
"USB 3.0 can provide a lot more throughput," said Enderle. "It will offer users greater abilities with their computers, including the ability for power-off charging of devices through the USB port. This will also allow users to take greater advantage of external storage, and allow for faster data going in and out of the port."
This could mean quicker data transfers from external hard drives, digital cameras and other external peripherals. And although it means faster transfers, there has been a delay in the wait for Ivy Bridge.
These new chips have arrived five months later into the year than last year's release of Sandy Bridge. There has been speculation that this has left some vendors, such as HP, Lenovo and Samsung, delaying a refresh of their 2012 computer models.
This should not be an issue, though, according to Enderle.
"Ivy Bridge offers plug-in compatibility with Sandy Bridge, so it should not delay or affect current computer production much if all," he said.
In fact, Intel could be right on target.
"This is really part of the Windows 8 release, which is coming later this year," said Enderle. "They will have plenty of time to meet production needs for Ivy Bridge. There will be plenty of time for Intel to ride that wave."


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On Chekhov, Moscow and dogs in
Moscow Tales
Poet and translator Sasha Dugdale discusses the glamorous and tawdry representation of Moscow in Russian short stories. She describes the use of dogs by many writers in the collection
Moscow Tales
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Live Hangout On Air with Alice Munro in Conversation with Margaret Atwood
In its enormously popular Selected Shorts live series, +Symphony Space together with +Vintage Books & Anchor Books will be honoring 2013 Nobel Prize laureate in Literature Alice Munro on Wednesday, January 22 at 7:30 PM EST
Around 7:45, Alice Munro will make a rare live appearance via Google+ Hangout, for you and the world to see! She will be in conversation with acclaimed novelist Margaret Atwood.
For Your Reading Pleasure: Read the entirety of Munro's short story
How I Met My Husband
, to be referenced tonight by Margaret Atwood, here on Scribd: http://bit.ly/LGqbbN
You'll definitely want to confirm your attendance below!
Alice Munro has published thirteen collections of stories as well as a novel,
Lives of Girls and Women
, and two volumes of
Selected Stories
. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including three of Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards and two of its Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, England's W. H. Smith Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Man Booker International Prize. In 2013 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her stories have appeared in
The New Yorker
The Atlantic Monthly
The Paris Review
, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She lives in Canada.
Margaret Atwood, whose work has been published in thirty-five countries, is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. In addition to
The Handmaid's Tale
, her novels include
Cat's Eye
, short-listed for the Booker Prize;
Alias Grace
, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy;
The Blind Assassin
, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize;
Oryx and Crake
, short-listed for the 2003 Man Booker Prize;
The Year of the Flood
; and her most recent,
. She is the recipient of the
Los Angeles Times
Innovator's Award, and lives in Toronto with the writer Graeme Gibson.
Jorie Graham: Selected Poems | 92Y Readings
Jorie Graham reads work that spans her career.
Alan Rusbridger | LIVE from the NYPL
Recorded on September 25th, 2013 at the New York Public Library
Presented by Morgan Stanley
For the full 90min recording of this event visit: http://goo.gl/nRYvK1
For more information on LIVE from the NYPL visit: www.nypl.org/live
Alan Rusbridger, Editor-in-Chief of the
, will discuss his quest to learn Chopin's Ballade No. 1 during a year bookended by Wikileaks and the
News of the World
phone-hacking scandal. He will also describe the
's recent publication of Edward Snowden's NSA leaks.
As a boy, he was a cathedral chorister, a reasonable orchestral clarinetist and a very mediocre pianist. He failed to be a world-class conductor, abandoned the organ and put his clarinets in the attic. In his mid 40s he restarted piano lessons and tried to make up for more than 30 years of missing technique. Since then, he has moved from 'very mediocre' to 'mediocre'. In the summer of 2010, he was able to make his annual escape to 'piano camp'. Here, inspired by another amateur's rendition, he set himself an almost impossible task: to learn, in the space of a year, Chopin's Ballade No.1, arguably the most challenging one-movement piece ever composed, with passages that demand outstanding feats of dexterity, control, memory and power. Not to mention musicianship.
Play It Again
is Alan Rusbridger's account of an extraordinary challenge and an extraordinary year.
Alan Rusbridger is Editor-in-Chief of the
and a keen amateur musician. After reading English at Cambridge he started on a local newspaper and tried his hand at a range of journalistic jobs — including reporter, columnist, critic, foreign correspondent, magazine editor and features editor. He became editor of the
in 1995 and oversaw the integration of the paper and digital operations. During his time editing the Guardian the paper has won numerous awards and has grown to be the third largest English-speaking newspaper website in the world. He led the paper's coverage of the secret WikiLeaks cables and the
's campaign to get at the truth about phone hacking, which led to numerous resignations, the closure of the
News of the World
and the Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practice and ethics of the British press. The
has recently broken world exclusive stories by publishing NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden. Rusbridger was awarded the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism by Harvard's Joan Shorenstein Centre and received the Burton Benjamin Memorial Award for lifetime achievement in the cause of press freedom from the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Find out more about Alan and the Ballade at www.alanrusbridger.com
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Author Talk: Edwidge Dandicat and Michèle Voltaire Marcelin reads from Haiti Noir 2
Edwidge Danticat is the author of numerous books, including
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Krik? Krak!
, a National Book Award finalist;
The Farming of Bones
, an American Book Award winner; and
The Dew Breaker
, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and winner of the first Story Prize.
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W. S. Merwin, accomplished poet, and his full interview with 92nd Street Y
Watch this exclusive interview of W. S. Merwin only at 92nd Street Y as he discusses his life and inspiration for his poetry.
Interview with Clarice Lispector - São Paulo, 1977 (English subtitles)
This interview of Clarice Lispector from February 1977 is the only footage we have of her.
She had arrived at the studios of TV Cultura in São Paolo to participate in a program about film, when the director of the station took the opportunity to ask her for a personal interview. To the astonishment of all present, she accepted. The result is this haunting film of the great writer at the end of her life, looking back on her novels and offering a glimpse at the inner life that produced such astounding works.
Book Trailer:
One More Thing
by B.J. Novak
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The new Motherisk Guidelines suggest 5 mg/d of folic acid. Why was the dose increased? What is the time frame for taking such a dose?
Recent data from Ontario reveal that 40% of women of reproductive age still do not achieve therapeutic systemic levels of folate needed to prevent neural tube defects. Compliance is less than optimal among women using prenatal vitamins, rendering many women unprotected against neural tube defects. Taking a higher dose of folate will allow achievement of protective folate levels, even with partial compliance. Five mg of folate should be used daily several months before conception until the end of the first trimester.
Les nouvelles lignes directrices de Motherisk suggèrent une dose de 5 mg/j dacide folique. Pourquoi a-t-on augmenté la dose? Pendant combien de temps faut-il prendre une telle dose?
De récentes données en provenance de lOntario révèlent que 40% des femmes en âge de procréer natteignent toujours pas les taux systémiques thérapeutiques dacide folique nécessaires pour prévenir les anomalies du tube neural. Lobservance du traitement est sous-optimale chez les femmes qui utilisent des vitamines prénatales, ce qui laisse beaucoup de femmes sans protection contre les anomalies du tube neural. En prenant une plus forte dose dacide folique, elles peuvent atteindre les taux nécessaires pour la prévention, même si elles ne respectent que partiellement la posologie. Il faut prendre 5 mg dacide folique pendant quelques mois avant la conception et jusquà la fin du premier trimestre.
Neural tube defects (NTDs) are malformations of the cranium, spine, and nervous system; types of NTDs include anencephaly, spina bifida, encephalocele, and meningocele. Neural tube defects are a major cause of mortality in newborns and have been estimated to affect 0.5 to 8 per 1000 live births. Health Canada has estimated that 195 Canadian infants are born each year with NTDs. Overall, NTDs affect approximately 300 000 infants worldwide.
Epidemiological studies that associate folate supplementation with a decreased risk of NTDs date back to the 1960s. The most definitive research addressing the benefits of folic acid supplementation in decreasing the risk of NTDs was the multicentre, randomized, double-blind trial by the Medical Research Council in the United Kingdom. 1 The aim of this trial was to evaluate the efficacy of 4-mg doses of folic acid in preventing recurrent NTDs in women who had previously delivered children with NTDs. The trial showed that women randomized to take folic acid supplementation had a 1.0% chance of having children with NTDs (relative risk [RR] 0.28, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.12 to 0.71), but women in the unsupplemented group did not show a decrease in the risk of NTDs (3.49%) (RR 0.8, 95% CI 0.37 to 1.72). 1,2 Overall, supplementation with folic acid reduced the rate of recurrence of NTDs by 72% (6/593 with folate supplements vs 21/602 without). 1
A second key trial evaluating folic acid-fortified multivitamin supplementation during pregnancy was a double-blind, randomized controlled trial, in which women were randomized to take a multivitamin supplement containing 0.8 mg of folic acid or a multivitamin containing trace-element supplementation. 2 Five thousand women were randomized in each group; no NTDs were observed in babies from the folic acid-fortified group, whereas 6 NTDs were found in those from the trace-element group.
A recent meta-analysis observed an odds ratio (OR) of 0.67 (95% CI 0.58 to 0.77) in case-control studies and an OR 0.52 (95% CI 0.39 to 0.69) in cohort and randomized controlled studies. 3 An OR of 0.67 means 0.33 (or 33%) protective effect; an OR of 0.52 means 0.48 (or 48%) protective effect. 3
A study investigating the relationship between serum and red blood folate concentrations and the risk of NTDs found an inverse relationship between maternal red blood cell folate and the risk of NTD. 4 Daly et al showed that women receiving less than 150 µg and more than 400 µg of folic acid had a 6.6/1000 and 0.8/1000 chance of having children with NTDs, respectively. Supplementation at doses of 100 µg, 200 µg, and 400 µg of folic acid resulted in a 22%, 41%, and 47% decreased risk of NTDs, respectively. 5
Optimal dose of folic acid supplementation
For almost 20 years, the recommended daily dose of folate supplementation has been 0.4 mg/d. In fact, prenatal multivitamins invariably contain 0.8 to 1.1 mg of folic acid, and this had led to the assumption that daily supplementation with this dose is sufficient to prevent NTDs. However, in 2001, Wald et al systematically reviewed all reports of the correlation between ingested dose of folate and resultant serum concentrations. 6 Using the data by Daly et al, 5 who correlated maternal serum folate levels with the risk of NTDs, Wald et al concluded that the current recommended daily dose of folate will render only partial protection against NTDs. According to Wald et al's analysis, 5 mg/d of folate would be necessary to render 90% protection within the populations. 6 Their analysis has been recently corroborated by our findings that in 2005 and 2006, 40% of women in Ontario did not achieve the protective 900 nmol/L red blood cell folate, despite flour fortification and the fact that more than half of pregnant women supplemented with prenatal multivitamins. 7
Potential risks
Before recommending prenatal supplementation with higher doses of folic acid, one needs to consider potential health risks of such an increase.
It has been proposed that higher levels of folate can mask pernicious anemia due to B12 deficiency. Similar concerns surrounded the original North American flour folate fortification program in 1998, but were not shown following the fortification. Several recent studies have failed to show such risks. 8 A recent US study suggested an association between high folate levels in older Americans and a risk of cognitive impairment. 9 However, cognitive impairment is not a component of pernicious anemia, and in that study there was no increased risk for neuritis, which is a typical finding of pernicious anemia. One has to remember that the risk for the pernicious anemia is different if the whole population consumes flour with higher levels of folate, as opposed to giving 5 mg/d to pregnant women for a limited time. In fact, direct measurements of B12, or higher supplementation of B12, can further allay these concerns.
If women do not comply with the recommendation to take the currently available folate-cotaining preparations, it is reasonable to question whether or not they would take the preparations containing 5 mg of folate daily. In a recent controlled trial of prenatal vitamin supplements for women who discontinued or had not started using prenatal vitamins, their compliance with 2 different brands of prenatal vitamins averaged 58% and ranged from 0 to 100%, despite the participation of self-selected, motivated women. 10 Pharmacologically, administration of 5 mg of folate daily in women who have a lower compliance with taking medication should provide many more women with protective levels of folate.
Although laboratory studies have suggested that folic acid might increase the risk of certain cancers, population-based studies have repeatedly shown folic acid use to be associated with a 20% to 30% decline in incidence (Table 1 8). Scientists therefore refer to the potential dual effects of folate on cancer risk, with increased risk for individuals with a history of or predisposition to cancer. 11 There is no question that an increased risk of cancer associated with folate use, even if it exists, is a result of long-term exposure to folate over many years, and not to several months of dosing during pregnancy.
Incidentally, a systematic review that assessed the association between folate status and twinning found possible but non-significant evidence of periconceptional folate intake and twinning. 8
Unless prescribing clinicians can ensure that pregnant women will be appropriately compliant in using pre-natal vitamin supplements containing 0.8 to 1.1 mg of folate, they should consider prenatal vitamin supplements containing 5 mg of folate daily. 12 Five mg of folate should be used several months before conception until the end of the first trimester of pregnancy.
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(Anchorage) - Attorney General David Márquez announced today that Craig Tillery, Chief Assistant Attorney General and Statewide Section Chief of the Department of Law's Environmental Section, has been appointed as the new Deputy Attorney General overseeing the department's civil division.
"Craig has worked for the Department of Law for 17 years and rose rapidly to the position of section head," said Márquez. "In that time he has proven himself to be a capable leader, an outstanding attorney and an individual with a broadbased understanding of many substantive areas of Alaska law. He is an excellent choice to fill this important position."
Tillery began working for the Department of Law in 1988 in the Oil, Gas and Mining section. He assisted in the Exxon Valdez oil spill litigation and settlement. As section head for the environmental section Tillery has represented the department on the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council, provided advice to state agencies on natural resources and environmental issues, and has assisted in drafting state legislation and regulations.
Tillery graduated from Brown University in 1973 and received his law degree at the University of North Carolina in 1976. He moved to Alaska in 1977 and has worked as a staff attorney for the Alaska Legal Services Corporation, an associate at the Anchorage law firm of Reese, Rice and Volland, P.C. and as an assistant public defender before coming to the department of law.
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It's a curious trait of "ride and drive" events whereby a new truck model gets put through its paces: while ostensibly you're supposed to notice a great many things, such as more cab space, plusher interior materials, and added visibility, often times you – whether as a test driver or passenger – are really NOT supposed to notice such details.
While that might sound contradictory, in many ways it isn't, and for a very simple reason: trucks like Kenworth's new T880 vocational model are tools, and often the most important characteristic of any new tool is how it gets a particular job done without drawing a whole lot of attention to itself.
[To view more photos of the new Kenworth T880, click here for pictures taken during a ride and drive at the 2013 Mid America Trucking Show and here for shots taken at the OEM's booth.]
Let's put it this way: a truck driver should be able to hop in or out his or her assigned vehicle and operate it all day (or night) long yet not feel like they've beaten with a two-by-four at the end of their shift.
For example: Switches and knobs should not only be within easy reach; a driver shouldn't have to spend any time figuring out how to use them. The truck should be easy to operate to the point where the driver simply doesn't notice it: there's power on the hills, the shifting is easy, and it handles turns just like a car. No muss, no fuss: let's get on with the job.
Indeed, riding along as a passenger in not one but two different configurations of Kenworth's T880 a few weeks ago at the 2013 Mid America Trucking Show – one a Northwest 16-ft. end dump truck spec loaded with gravel out to 58,250 lbs., the other a daycab "bulk haul spec" tractor loaded out to 65,000 lbs. hauling giant stone blocks on a flatbed trailer – conversation could take place without raising one's voice, while the seat proved comfortable yet steady enough for plenty of picture-snapping.
[Mike Russell, Kenworth's vocational product planning manager, talks about some of these traits as he pilots the T880 daycab tractor.]
Some key "notice/not notice" features of the new T880 include its panoramic windshield for enhanced visibility, triple-sealed doors to reduce cab noise, plus easy-to-read dashboard cluster layout with nine standard gauges and 12 additional gauges available.
A real big deal is the 2.1-meter wide aluminum cab for the T880 that offers 23 inches of room between the seats. Basically, you can almost stand up right in the driver's seat to take off a jacket, sweat shirt, etc.; providing the driver with significant "elbow room" to make simple tasks far less of a chore.
Like every OEM these days, Kenworth puts its trucks through rigorous pre-production testing to ensure any design changes hold up in the real world. Where Kenworth's vocational products are concerned, that coalesces into what the Brian Lindgren, the manufacturer's manager of research and development, calls the "Canadian logging" test, which he discusses below:
In terms of availability, Lindgren noted that the T880 will go into production later this summer aand will come standard with the 12.9-liter PACCAR MX-13 engine that offers ratings up to 500 hp and 1,850 lb-ft of torque, along with the optional Cummins ISX15 engine with up to 600 hp and 2,050 l-ft of torque.
It should be noted, too, that the T880 isn't a loner in the vocational product mix at Kenworth as it will join a product line that includes the T800, T440, W900S and C500.
The real proof of the pudding, though, will be when fleets and drivers get their hands on the T880 and start reporting what they notice – and don't notice – while operating this new vocational model.


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In the 'Commercial Art and Illustration' volume of the Famous Artists School binders, the art of the inked line is one of the very first lessons. Who could teach this lesson any better?
After all, the 12 founding members of the FAS were among the most skilled, successful and popular illustrators of the 20th century. You could do a lot worse than to be the beneficiary of their collective knowledge!
Some people scoff at the Famous Artists Course because the images are dated and because the course was offered by correspondence -- as if it were just a money-making scam. But for the sincere and ambitious student of illustration you could not ask for better instruction.
As a kid I learned a ton about drawing with pencil, pen, brush and ink from a book called How To Draw Comics the Marvel Way.
Now I realise that the lessons in that book were virtually lifted from the Famous Artists Course and simplified for a younger audience. I wonder how many other illustrators of more recent generations have studied from the teachings of Albert Dorne, Robert Fawcett, Austin Briggs, et al and, like me, didn't even know it?
Green kid or seasoned vet, we could all benefit from reviewing what the Famous Artists taught countless thousands all those years ago.
Take a look at these lessons at full size in my FAS Flickr set.
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These were great books, Leif-- perhaps the best distillation of the practicalities of picturemaking in the 20th century. It has been a while since I looked at these pages, but they always reward attention.ReplyDelete
Absolutely, David. In fact, the study of these lessons ought to be manditory for every art student. I only wish my own art education had been so thorough.ReplyDelete
- Bob Cosgrove6:03 PM
Hmmm. Have the Buscema book (though I haven't looked at it in a few years), and much later acquired the Famous Artist volumes. Never occured to me that there was a connection, any more than there was with some of the good books on ink work by Henry Pitz, Howard Guptill, or--if I'm remembering the name right--Fritz Henning. Anybody know if Buscema took the FA course? I would guess not (and it seems safe to assume that Stan Lee didn't), but perhaps he owned volumes. Time for me to go back and look at all this stuff.ReplyDelete
These pages from the Famous Artists Course are pure gold. Unfortunately, the books have become very rare, and no copies are available here in Belgium. Please post more pages from the Famous Artists Course. Best regards.ReplyDelete
Robert Heindel took the Famous artist school course.ReplyDelete
Thanks all for commenting!ReplyDelete
Bob; I might have read somewhere that Buscema cribbed a bunch of lessons from the FAS when he put together the Marvel Way book. Or I might be imagining it - but going through the FAS lessons I was struck by how familiar some of them looked, and how much they reminded me of the Marvel Way lessons of my youth, but I'm not speaking just about the inking aspect, I'm talking about throughout the book, perspective, composition, etc. I checked my copy of marvel way and the bibliography and "recommended reading lists do not include the FAS - but maybe that's because it was no longer available...?
You might want to try ebay or Stuart Ng or Bud Plant - good luck!
Robert; that's pretty neat to hear about Heindel... I know a *little* about comic artists ( a little more than I know about illustrators - which I know very little about ) and I remember reading that Berni Wrightson studied the FA course.
I'm sure many illustrators had the binders even if they didn't actually take the course. Who could possibly think they weren't worth at least owning? ;-)
The jewels of my library are my volumes of FAS and I also have the Famous Artist Cartooning Course binders which are priceless for their inspiration.ReplyDelete
Dom; Right you are! Long before I acquired my FAS binders, I had a complete set of reduced photocopies thanks to a friend whose grand dad took the course.ReplyDelete
I'm very curious about the FACC - maybe you could post a few pages on your blog...?
FAS courses are treasure chests.ReplyDelete
I got lucky and got hold of the commercial art & illustration course, and I am simply drooling over the book page by page.
This lesson that you have painfully scanned and posted speaks volumes about the clarity and pure information of this course.
As commented, this book should be made mandatory for all art courses. If only one can go throught this religiously, how on earth can one not become proficient in the art?.
I am curious about the other two courses.
I do have the contents of teh cartooning course..
Famous Artists Cartoon Course : July 21, 1960
Lesson 1: The Comic Head
Lesson 2: The Comic Figure
Lesson 3: Inking the Head and Figure
Lesson 4: The Head in Detail
Lesson 5: The Figure in Detail
Lesson 6: Anatomy
Lesson 7: Pretty Girls
Lesson 8: Action and the Figure
Lesson 9: Clothes and Folds
Lesson 10: Special Types
Lesson 11: Drawing in the Panel
Lesson 12: Form
Lesson 13: Perspective
Lesson 14: Light and Shade
Lesson 15: Props and Backgrounds
Lesson 16: Animals
Lesson 17: Kids
Lesson 18: Lettering
Lesson 19: Rube Goldberg
Lesson 20: Milton Caniff
Lesson 21: Al Capp
Lesson 22: Harry Haenigsen
Lesson 23: Willard Mullin
Lesson 24: Gurney Williams
Actually, I'm doing the Painting course by FAS... The 10 first lessons are called the "Basic" course. By the end of the#10 you want to choose an area in particular you want to improve in painting: Figure Painting, Landscape, Animal Painting or General...ReplyDelete
I can assure just the reading of the books are a treat to the eyes with all those examples by Dorne, Fawcett etc... Well, I can't say more, I'm a art book's junkie collecting "old school" books...
I always wanted to study seriously Art, specially Illustration, but only now I can do it freely, and knowing college, I wasn't in mood to do it again; started taking the old fashion distance courses as if were 1949...
My first course was the Art Instruction Schools, where I learned the Abc of art ('cause I just was drawing in the wild from childhood!)... And after that, and still insecure of my painting (AIS is more drawing basics), I got into FAS.
VERY interesting, Kalinides;ReplyDelete
Thanks for giving us a first-hand account of the course from the student's perspective!
We organize the creation of beautiful artworks for home owners and businesses. Famous artistsReplyDelete
Very Nice And Interesting Post, thank you for sharing
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HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is a virus without an agenda -- anyone can contract it, and we are all on what medical professionals call the "continuum of risk." Unless you're talking about abstinence or masturbation, almost every sexual act falls somewhere on the risk continuum; and belonging to some social, ethnic and economic groups puts people at higher risk for HIV. At the nexus of many contributing factors (economic disempowerment, homophobia, racism, stigma, inadequate school systems and criminalization) are young gay men of color, a group considered by many in the HIV community to be facing "AIDS 2.0" -- a second epidemic.
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Dr. Perry Halkitis of New York University's Center for Health, Identity, Behavior and Prevention Studies was one of the experts at the community discussion. Dr. Halkitis described a study he had performed through the center that followed a cohort of young gay and bisexual men. In the cohort, the rate at which participants became HIV positive (or the "seroconversion rate") was 6.2 percent overall; however, when broken down by race, the rates wildly differed. While white men seroconverted at a rate of 0.5 percent, Latinos did so at a rate of 7 percent, only slightly above average. Young black men became HIV positive at a rate of 21.3 percent. Said Halkitis, "That is an enormous disparity that tells us something about where this epidemic is lodged and speaks to us that this epidemic is more than just about a biological event."
One social problem young gay men of color may face is homelessness, and not having a home is a risk factor for HIV. Carl Siciliano, executive director of the Ali Forney Center, which provides services to homeless LGBT youth (who comprise a whopping 40 percent of homeless youth nationwide), underscored the importance of housing as prevention. While asserting that housing can help reduce sex work, substance use and other factors associated with a high risk for HIV infection, he noted that "New York City provides 250 youth shelter beds. ... [T]here are more than 10 times as many youth who can't access shelter than there are beds," and that LGBT youth were even more disenfranchised by the shelter system due to stigma and homophobia.
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