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island in north-west Europe, politically divided into the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
Ireland is an island in the North Atlantic separated from the west coast of Great Britain by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. It is the second-largest island of the British Isles after Great Britain, the third-largest in Europe and the twentieth-largest on Earth. Politically, since 1921, Ireland is divided between the Republic of Ireland, which covers five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom, which covers the remaining area and is located in the north-east of the island. The population of Ireland is about 6.4 million. Just under 4.6 million live in the Republic of Ireland and just over 1.8 million live in Northern Ireland.
- What captivity has been to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish. For us, the romance of our native land begins only after we have left home; it is really only with other people that we become Irishmen.
- Peter Ackroyd The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1983) p. 7.
- Stony seaboard, far and foreign,
Stony hills poured over space,
Stony outcrop of the Burren,
Stones in every fertile place,
Little fields with boulders dotted,
Grey-stone shoulders saffron-spotted,
Stone-walled cabins thatched with reeds,
Where a Stone Age people breeds
The last of Europe's stone age race.
- John Betjeman, "Ireland with Emily", in New Bats in Old Belfries (1945).
- There is one thing that the people of Ireland know how to do and that is to survive.
- Pierce Brosnan, RTE interview (March 2011).
- Ireland would not turn into a Marxist country, for all their wishes. The list of such nations was very thin now, though across the world academics still clung to the words and ideas of Marx and Engles and even Lenin. Fools.
- Thomas Leo Clancy, as quoted in Rainbow Six (1998), by T.L. Clancy, p. 515.
- It is a nation of contradictions, sir. Consider this: Ireland is an island nation that has never developed a navy; a music-loving people who have produced only those harmless lilting ditties as their musical legacy; a bellicose people who have never known the sweet savor of victory in a single war; a Catholic country that has never produced a single doctor of the Church; a magnificently beautiful country, a country to inspire artists, but a country not yet immortalized in art; a philosophic people yet to produce a single philosopher of note; a sensual people who have never mastered the art of preparing food.
- Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline (1980), p. 274. Said by the character Colonel Edward T. Reynolds.
- For the great Gaels of Ireland
Are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry,
And all their songs are sad.
- G. K. Chesterton, The Ballad of the White Horse (1911), Book 2, line 220.
- The truth is, the people here know nothing of the republican Negro hate prevalent in our glorious land. They measure and esteem men according to their moral and intellectual worth, and not according to the color of their skin. Whatever may be said of the aristocracies here, there is none based on the color of a man's skin.
- Frederick Douglass, letter to William Lloyd Garrison (1 January 1846).
- Charge of inferiority is an old dodge. It has been made available for oppression on many occasions...When England wants to set the heel of her power more firmly in the quivering heart of old Ireland, the Celts are an 'inferior race'... If he knows as much when he is sober as an Irishman knows when drunk, he knows enough to vote.
- Frederick Douglass, "What the Black Man Wants", speech in Boston, Massachusetts (1865).
- Thus you have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.
- Benjamin Disraeli, speech in the House of Commons February 16, 1844; cited from Robert Blake Disraeli (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1966) p. 179.
- There have been many definitions of hell, but for the English the best definition is that it is the place where the Germans are the police, the Swedish are the comedians, the Italians are the defense force, Frenchmen dig the roads, the Belgians are the pop singers, the Spanish run the railways, the Turks cook the food, the Irish are the waiters, the Greeks run the government, and the common language is Dutch.
- David Frost and Anthony Jay
- We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than a foe.
- W. E. Gladstone in conversation with Margot Asquith, quoted in her More Memories (London: Cassell, 1933), p. 213.
- I never touch a drop when I'm happy. But it's a well-known fact that Irishmen are never happy.
- Richard Harris, quoted in Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, and Oliver Reed (New York: Macmillan, 2011) p. 58
- The Irish are not in a conspiracy to cheat the world by false representations of the merits of their countrymen. No, sir, the Irish are a fair people—they never speak well of one another.
- Samuel Johnson, as quoted by James Boswell's Life of Johnson.
- Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
- James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Chapter 5.
- In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs.
- Sir John Pentland Mahaffy, as quoted in W. B. Stanford and R. B. McDowell Mahaffy (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971) p. 79.
- We're not here to take part, we're here to take over!
- Conor McGregor, "Fight Night: Dublin" (July 2014), UFC.
- We are good people. We just like to have a good time. No trouble, we just want to have a good time.
- Conor McGregor, UFC 194: Post-Fight Press Conference (December 2015).
- [T]he hospitable and generous Irishman has almost no friendship for any race but his own. As laborer and politician he detests the Italian. Between him and the German American citizen there is great gulf fixed…but the most naturalized thing for the Americanized Irishman is to drive out all other foreigners, whatever may be their religious tenets.
- The New York Times (1880)
- I met with Napper Tandy, and he took me by the hand,
And he said, "How's poor ould Ireland, and how does she stand?"
"She's the most distressful country that ever yet was seen,
For they're hanging men and women for the Wearin' o' the Green.
- "The Wearin' o' the Green" (an anonymous Irish street ballad, c. 1798), line 5; cited from Stephen Regan (ed.) Irish Writing (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) p. 176.
- Gladstone…spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the question.
- W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman 1066 and All That (1930), Chapter 57.
- German Bismarck said that the solution of the Irish question lay in having the Irish to swap countries with the Dutch. He added that the Dutch would make Ireland the most beautiful island in the world while the Irish would neglect to mend the dykes left to them by the Dutch and therefore would be drowned.
- John Green Sims Whither, World? (Privately published, 1938) p. 78.
- The attribution to Bismarck has not been confirmed./definitely not Bismark, it was an English Lord, now trying to find.
- We're not British, we're not Saxon we're not English. We're Irish and proud we are to be. So fuck your Union Jack; we want our country back. We want to see old Ireland free once more.
- The moment the very name of Ireland is mentioned, the English seem to bid adieu to common feeling, common prudence, and to common sense, and to act with the barbarity of tyrants, and the fatuity of idiots.
- Sydney Smith, Two Letters on the Subject of the Catholics (London: J. Budd, 1807), Letter 2, p. 23
- Dehumanizing the Irish by drawing them as beasts or primates was a convenient technique for any conqueror and it made perfect sense.
- Michele Walfred, "Irish Stereotype" (July 2014), Thomas Nast Cartoons
- The Irish were afraid of labor competition. Struggling to get established in America the Irish organized in their new home and resolved that they would not suffer the oppression they experienced in their homeland of Ireland. As Timothy Meagher has noted, the Irish had no history of prejudice or exhibited any racist behavior in Ireland. They possessed, Meagher suggests, all of the sensitivities necessary to be empathetic to others who were oppressed. But in nineteenth century Ireland, the Irish had learned that organization and activism produced results, albeit limited.
- Michele Walfred, "The Chinese Question" (13 February 2016), Thomas Nast Cartoons
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical QuotationsEdit
- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 400-01.
- There came to the beach a poor exile of Erin,
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But the day star attracted his eyes' sad devotion,
For it rose o'er his own native isle of the ocean,
Where once in the fire of his youthful emotion
He sang the bold anthem of Erin-go-bragh.
- Thomas Campbell, The Exile of Erin.
- There's a dear little plant that grows in our isle,
'Twas St. Patrick himself sure that set it;
And the sun on his labor with pleasure did smile,
And with dew from his eye often wet it.
It thrives through the bog, through the brake, and the mireland;
And he called it the dear little shamrock of Ireland—
The sweet little shamrock, the dear little shamrock,
The sweet little, green little, shamrock of Ireland!
- Andrew Cherry, Green little Shamrock of Ireland.
- Dear Erin, how sweetly thy green bosom rises!
An emerald set in the ring of the sea.
Each blade of thy meadows my faithful heart prizes,
Thou queen of the west, the world's cushla ma chree.
- John Philpot Curran, Cushla ma Chree.
- When Erin first rose from the dark-swelling flood,
God blessed the green island, he saw it was good.
The Emerald of Europe, it sparkled and shone
In the ring of this world, the most precious stone.
- William Drennan, Erin. Supposed to be origin of term "Emerald Isle." Phrase taken from an old song, "Erin to her own Tune" (1795).
- Arm of Erin, prove strong, but be gentle as brave,
And, uplifted to strike, still be ready to save;
Nor one feeling of vengeance presume to defile
The cause or the men of the Emerald Isle.
- William Drennan, Erin.
- Every Irishman has a potatoe in his head.
- J. C. and A. W. Hare, Guesses at Truth.
- The dust of some is Irish earth,
Among their own they rest.
- John Kells Ingram, Who dares to speak of ninety-eight.
- Old Dublin City there is no doubtin'
Bates every city upon the say.
'Tis there you'd hear O'Connell spoutin'
And Lady Morgan making tay.
For 'tis the capital of the finest nation,
With charmin' pisintry upon a fruitful sod,
Fightin' like devils for conciliation,
And hatin' each other for the Love of God.
- Charles J. Lever. Attributed to him in article in Notes and Queries (Jan. 2, 1897), p. 14. Claimed to be an old Irish song by Lady Morgan in her Diary, Oct. 10, 1826.
- Th' an'am an Dhia, but there it is—
The dawn on the hills of Ireland.
God's angels lifting the night's black veil
From the fair sweet face of my sireland!
O Ireland, isn't it grand, you look
Like a bride in her rich adornin',
And with all the pent up love of my heart
I bid you the top of the morning.
- John Locke, The Exile's Return.
- The groves of Blarney
They look so charming
Down by the purling
Of sweet, silent brooks.
- Richard Alfred Milliken, Groves of Blarney.
- There is a stone there,
That whoever kisses,
Oh! he never misses
To grow eloquent.
'Tis he may clamber
To a lady's chamber
Or become a member
Of Parliament.
- Father Prout's addition to Groves of Blarney. In Reliques of Father Prout.
- When law can stop the blades of grass from growing as they grow;
And when the leaves in Summer-time their colour dare not show;
Then will I change the colour too, I wear in my caubeen;
But till that day, plaze God, I'll stick to wearin' o' the Green.
- Wearin' o' the Green. (Shan-Van-Voght.) Old Irish Song found in W. Steuart Trench's Realities of Irish Life. Dion Boucicault used the first four lines, and added the rest himself, in Arrah-na-Pogue. See article in The Citizen, Dublin (1841), Volume III, p. 65.
- For dear is the Emerald Isle of the ocean,
Whose daughters are fair as the foam of the wave,
Whose sons unaccustom'd to rebel commotion,
Tho' joyous, are sober—tho' peaceful, are brave.
- Horace and James Smith, Rejected Addresses, Imitation of Moore.
- O, love is the soul of a true Irishman;
He loves all that's lovely, loves all that he can,
With his sprig of shillelagh and shamrock so green.
- Sprig of Shillelagh. Claimed for Lysaght.
- Whether on the scaffold high
Or on the battle-field we die,
Oh, what matter, when for Erin dear we fall.
- T. D. Sullivan, God Save Ireland.
The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904)Edit
- Quotes reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 107.
- A very old author discoursing upon Irishmen, says, " Where Irishmen are good, it is impossible to find better, where they are bad, it is impossible to find worse." I am afraid we have got to this alternative. Treachery was never the character of Irishmen. Courage and intrepidity were their characteristics. Every creature is taught to fight, but boldly and fairly.
- Earl of Clonwell, L.C.J. (Ir.), Case of Glennan and others (1796), 26 How. St. Tr. 462.
- God and nature have joined England and Ireland together. It is impossible to separate them.
- Earl of Clonwell, L.C.J. (Ir.), Case of Glennan and others (1796), 26 How. St. Tr. 460.
- The common law of England is the common law of Ireland, where the latter is not altered by statute.
- Perrin, J., Queen v. O'Connell (1843), 5 St. Tr. (N. S.) 63.
- Decisions of the Irish Courts, though entitled to the highest respect. are not binding on English Judges.
- Kay, J., In re Parsons, Stockley v. Parsons (1890), L. R. 45 C. D. 62. See also earlier decision of Lord Esher in The Queen v. Commissioners of Income Tax (1888), L. R. 22 Q. B. D. 306; 58 L. J. Q. B. 199.
External linksEdit
- Encyclopedic article on Ireland at Wikipedia
- The dictionary definition of ireland at Wiktionary
- Works related to Portal:Ireland at Wikisource
- Wikijunior:Europe/Ireland at Wikibooks
- Media related to Ireland at Wikimedia Commons
- Ireland travel guide from Wikivoyage


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A ménage a trois went wrong for prison buddies Ashley Hunter, 33, and Orlando DeWitt, 37, in Fargo, North Dakota last week. According to court records obtained by The Smoking Gun, Hunter pulled a butcher knife from his couch and stabbed DeWitt in the arm after DeWitt refused to switch positions and let Hunter have sex with the female participant.
DeWitt and Hunter were were partying with several female acquaintances Friday night at a bar in Fargo, when they went to Hunter's home to continue the party with a woman named Leticia. Once there, DeWitt had sex with the woman while she performed oral sex on Hunter.
According to court documents obtained by The Smoking Gun, DeWitt was having sex with a woman named Leticia while she was performing oral sex on Hunter. "Hunter then asked to switch places with Orlando," the Fargo Police Department report stated. "Orlando told him no and Hunter became upset."
An argument followed, with DeWitt allegedly calling Hunter a "f----- retard." DeWitt said Hunter threatened to kill him and said Hunter reached for a 12-inch butcher knife. DeWitt and Leticia fled to a bathroom naked while Hunter ran after them while holding the knife.
"Orlando said he decided to run for the front door," the police report continues. DeWitt tried to escape and was able to get through the first door, but when he "went to open the exterior door he felt the knife cutting the back of his left arm."
DeWitt was not seriously injured in the stabbing, and he used Leticia's phone to call 911. Hunter is scheduled to appear in court March 13 to answer charges related to the stabbing.

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- Black headband
- Black dress shirt with collar to cut up
- Pink embroidery floss
- Black thread
- Scissors
- 1 needle for embroidery, 1 for thread
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FedEx said fiscal first quarter earnings grew 22% year-over-year to $1.46 per share, which compares to analysts' estimate of $1.45 per share.
"The U.S. and global economy grew at a slower rate than we anticipated during the quarter," said CFO Alan Graf.
According to FedEx's earnings release, "[I]mproved FedEx Ground and FedEx Freight results offset the effect of slowing global economic growth."
FedEx is a classic bellwether of the economy.
For the full fiscal year, management cut guidance to $6.25 to $6.75 per share, from previous guidance of $6.35 to $6.85 per share. According to FedEx, this "assumes the current market outlook for fuel prices and moderate growth in the global economy." The midpoint of $6.50 per share is higher than analysts' expectation of $6.40 per share.*
Shares are down 1% in premarket trading.
*UPDATE: Earlier, we said the midpoint was in line with guidance.


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Leave the Driving to It
By Brian Hayes
How would lives and landscapes change if every car had a computer in the driver's seat?
How would lives and landscapes change if every car had a computer in the driver's seat?
Jane has a meeting this morning, so the car comes to pick her up at 8:15. En route, she finishes her breakfast, reviews her PowerPoint slides, updates her Facebook status, and does her daily KenKen. After the car delivers her to the office, it drives to a parking garage on the outskirts of the city, where it slips into a low, narrow slot. Later it will take young Judy and Elroy to their music lessons, then stop for a load of groceries before bringing Jane home. The car also has an errand of its own on today's agenda: the quarterly inspection and recertification required of all licensed autonomous vehicles.
Cars that drive themselves were already a cliché of futurist fantasies 50 years ago, and their long association with cartoonish fiction and dioramas at the World's Fair makes it hard to take the idea seriously. Nevertheless, sober thinkers believe it may be only a decade or two before the family car has a computer in the driver's seat. It's not too soon to ponder the social, economic and cultural consequences of such a development.
Already, some cars come equipped with "driver assistive technologies." There's adaptive cruise control, which keeps an eye on the car ahead and maintains a steady separation. Another system warns the driver if the car begins to stray outside its proper lane. And a few models even offer hands-free parallel parking.
More ambitious levels of automation are at the research-and-testing stage. In 1997 eight cars paraded down a San Diego freeway with the drivers waving both hands out the window, like kids showing off on a roller coaster. That demonstration was performed on a lane studded with magnetic markers to guide the vehicles, but more recent trials have not required such aids. In contests sponsored by the U.S. military, autonomous vehicles have successfully traversed rough terrain and dodged city traffic. Google has built a fleet of seven computer-controlled cars, which have driven 140,000 miles on public roads (with a human driver present but seldom intervening). And last summer four mostly driverless electric-powered minivans completed a 15,000-kilometer trip from Italy to China.
Even with these milestones behind us, huge challenges remain. Later in this column I'll return to those scientific and engineering obstacles, but first I want to play the what-if game. If we could put a cybercar in every garage, how would that change the rhythms and routines of daily life?
The automobile itself has already worked quite a radical transformation on the human environment. In the 19th century, cities were full of horses. New York had more than 100,000 horses stabled on the island of Manhattan, and vast meadows in the outer boroughs were mown to supply the animals with hay. Caring for horses, hauling their food and manure, driving horse-drawn wagons and carriages—these were occupations that formed a major segment of the urban economy. All this equine infrastructure was swept away by the advent of mechanized transport—first the electric street car, then the automobile, finally the truck.
Of course cars and trucks gave rise to a new and larger infrastructure of their own, encompassing everything from parking meters and traffic signals to the entire worldwide petroleum industry. New York lost its 100,000 horse stalls and got millions of automobile parking places. Cities everywhere have grown fairy rings of suburbs and exurbs. A lacework of highways knits together distant communities, while sometimes dividing nearby ones. In most parts of North America, the automobile is how people get to work, how they get away on vacation and how they get home for the holidays. And a car is not just a means of transport; for many of us it's also a medium of self-expression—both what you drive and how you drive make a public statement. For adolescents, getting a driver's license is an important rite of passage and a step toward emancipation.
A hundred years ago, when sales of the Ford Model T were approaching 100,000 a year, an astute observer might have been able to foresee some of these developments—if not the specifics of Levittown, McDonalds, Walmart, Holiday Inn, NASCAR and Jiffy Lube, then at least the general trend toward a culture shaped by and dependent upon automobiles. If society eventually shifts to computer-driven vehicles, many elements of that culture will have to readjust. The details are inscrutable, just as they were a century ago. What effect will driverless cars have on pizza-delivery services or on the speed-trap revenues of small towns in the Midwest? As yet there are no quantitative answers to such questions. Still, the future is not completely opaque.
There's one prediction about driverless cars that I can make with confidence: If millions of them ever roam the public highways, they will be far safer than cars driven by people. My confidence in this assertion does not derive from mere faith in technology. It's just that if robotic drivers were as dangerous as human ones, then computer-controlled cars would never be allowed on the roads. We hold our machines to a higher standard than ourselves.
Over the past decade, the number of auto accidents in the United States—counting only those serious enough to be reported to the police—has been running at about six million a year. Those accidents kill about 40,000 people and injure well over two million more. Estimates of the economic impact are in the neighborhood of $200 billion. Much of that cost is shared among car owners through premiums for auto insurance.
This safety record certainly leaves ample room for improvement. An appropriate goal for automated vehicles might be to reduce highway carnage to the same order of magnitude experienced in other modes of transport, such as railroads and commercial aviation. That would mean bringing road fatalities down to roughly 1 percent of their current level—from 40,000 deaths per year to 400. (In terms of deaths per passenger mile, cars would then be the safest of all vehicles.)
Could automation achieve such a hundredfold improvement? Taking the controls out of human hands would eliminate several major causes of crashes: drivers who are asleep, inebriated, impatient, inattentive, overconfident, inexperienced. Unfortunately, computer drivers have foibles of their own; at the moment, they cannot even equal human performance, much less surpass it. I believe these failings can be overcome (and I'll explain how below). But for now let's just make the assumption that car travel can indeed be made safe, and examine the consequences.
Among young people in the United States, auto accidents are the leading cause of death; between ages 15 and 24, a third of all deaths happen on the road. For this age group, then, safer cars would have a noticeable demographic impact. The financial impact would also be significant—saving $200 billion a year in accident losses, shutting down a $200 billion industry that repairs smashed cars and bodies.
If accidents become rare enough, one would expect to see changes in attitudes and behavior, and perhaps in the design of vehicles. Current custom insists that we always buckle our shoulder harness and strap down the children in the back seat, as if every trip to the grocery store might end with a wreck—as indeed it might. No such precautions are taken on trains, subways, trolleys and buses. As accident rates fall, perhaps we would relax our vigilance in the car as well. And if the driver gradually becomes just another passenger, the interior of the automobile could look less like a padded cell or an airplane cockpit and more like an office, a theater, a café or even a bedroom.
A 99-percent improvement in safety will still leave tens of thousands of auto accidents every year, which may require new legal and financial mechanisms for compensating victims. Most collisions today are attributed to driver error rather than a defect or malfunction in the vehicle. When the vehicle is the driver, this distinction is no longer meaningful. Car manufacturers might be held liable for a larger share of the accidents—a responsibility they are certain to resist. (A legal analysis by Nidhi Kalra and her colleagues at the RAND Corporation suggests this problem is not insuperable.)
The kinds of accidents caused by car-driving computers might be quite different from common human goofs. Of special concern is the possibility of a design flaw in hardware or software that could affect many cars the same way. It's easy to imagine a scenario in which one car after another follows exactly the same trajectory off a cliff.
Another essential point is that safety has to be balanced against reliability and robustness. Accidents can be reduced to near zero by adopting sufficiently conservative rules of operation. But nobody wants a car that pulls off the road and shuts down when the first snowflake falls.
Almost 90 percent of American workers commute by car, most of them alone, with a median trip duration of just under half an hour each way. Although some people report that they enjoy this daily respite between work and home, many others find it tedious, and on the whole it seems a waste of human potential to spend so much time merely supervising the operation of a machine. If we didn't have to keep our hands on the wheel and our eyes on the road, the time might be put to better use.
Other resources besides human attention might also be used more efficiently in a world of automated driving. Roadway real estate is one of them. Steven A. Shladover of the University of California, Berkeley, points out that only about 5 percent of the roadway surface is occupied by cars on a freeway running at peak throughput conditions (about 2,200 vehicles per lane per hour). Computer control, he suggests, could double or triple the density while keeping speeds constant. By squeezing more cars onto the same roads, we relieve pressure to widen highways or build new ones. Cars could be packed tighter both by narrowing the lanes and by reducing the headway between successive vehicles traveling in the same lane. Closer spacing is made possible in part because computers can maintain more precise control, both laterally and longitudinally. Equally important, automated vehicles can coordinate their motions through car-to-car data links, communicating not only their present position and velocity but also their intentions, such as changing lanes.
Communication is the key to many of the most attractive features of automated driving. (Indeed, Shladover suggests that the term "autonomous vehicle" is misleading in this respect; cooperation is more important than autonomy.) Consider the stop sign and the traffic signal: By forcing drivers to take turns at an intersection, these devices ensure that everyone gets access to a shared resource. But the stop-and-start regime of city traffic also causes congestion, wastes fuel and frays nerves. If cars could communicate with one another and with the roadway infrastructure, they could negotiate priority as they approached each intersection, adjusting their speeds to avoid conflict. Ideally, no car would ever have to make a full stop; traffic management would become a kind of precision choreography.
One aspect of car culture that would have been hard to foresee in 1911 is the extraordinary importance of parking. Although estimates vary, it seems there are two or three parking spaces for every car in the United States; think of it as one space at home, one at work, and a share of one at the mall. At just two spaces per car, this works out to 500 million spaces in all, covering a total area of at least 3,000 square miles. A suburban shopping mall dedicates more land area to parking than to retail space. In dense central cities, parking spaces become a crucial limiting resource; they are the throttle valve that determines how many cars can come downtown. A study by Donald Shoup and his colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles, shows that 30 percent of the drivers in some business districts are driving in circles, searching for a parking place.
The solution suggested by the cybercar fantasy is automated valet parking: The car drops you off at the front door, then drives away to find a parking place on its own. When you're ready to leave, you call for the car and it comes to fetch you. In this scheme, the parking facility need not be within walking distance of your destination, so it can be moved out of the central business district. Likewise the suburban mall no longer has to be an island in a vast sea of asphalt. Another advantage of having cars park themselves is that they can squeeze together more tightly. (For one thing, there's no need to leave room for opening doors.)
All these strategies for making car trips more convenient and less tedious have to be seen as an inducement to ever-greater reliance on private vehicles. People will tolerate longer commutes if they can read or nap while in transit. They'll take the car to the city if they don't have to worry about where to park it. Thus a likely result of automotive automation is further diffusion of population over the landscape.
Another seemingly inevitable effect of more private vehicles is less public transit. However, all the advantages of computer-driven vehicles are also available to transit operators. Indeed, it's even possible that the distinction between public and private vehicles would blur a little. In a world where cars drive themselves and come to you when beckoned, there's not a lot of difference between calling for your own car and calling for a shared vehicle. For that matter, in a world where cars drive themselves and know their way around, there's not a lot of difference between a taxi and a rental car. Short-term rental programs such as Zipcar might thrive in this environment.
The effects that driverless technology would have on energy consumption and carbon-dioxide emissions are hard to gauge. Given the same basic engine and vehicle, replacing a human driver with a computer ought to improve fuel economy. Platoons of closely spaced cars traveling together also save fuel through aerodynamic efficiency, although the effect may be small except at NASCAR speed. More important is the ability of cooperative scheduling and traffic management to avoid needless braking and acceleration. All of these factors are encouraging, but if the technology leads to more trips and longer trips, gains could turn to losses. And then there's the issue of all those empty ghost cars shuttling back and forth to remote parking lots or running errands on behalf of their owners. The average occupancy of vehicles on the road could fall below one person.
One group who will not be keen on driverless vehicles are those who drive for a living. Roughly four million people in the United States work as drivers of cars, buses and trucks—about 2½ percent of the workforce. If autonomous vehicles become commonplace, all of those jobs are in jeopardy. That's a major economic disruption.
Cost incentives might well lead long-haul trucking companies to become early adopters of driverless technology. Even if computer control were to double or triple the initial cost of the vehicle, this capital expenditure would still be far less than total payments to drivers. And a driverless truck does not have to stop for meals or sleep, or for anything other than fuel. Whereas a coast-to-coast trip with a solo human driver takes four days (obeying speed limits and regulations on hours of work), an automated truck could cover the same route in two days.
Taxi service presents similar issues. Eliminating the driver would dramatically lower costs for both the operator and the customer. (Presumably, the computer would not even expect a tip.)
Apart from professional drivers, other constituencies might also resist and resent autonomous vehicles. Car enthusiasts are an example: What's the point of owning a Ferrari if only the computer gets to drive it? Pedestrians and bicyclists would also be displaced if some roads were open only to automated vehicles.
Meanwhile, driverless technology would surely be welcomed by another large group: people who cannot drive because of age or disability. An interesting subcategory is children, who are often dependent on their parents for transportation. Suppose we had a safe and reliable car that could be programmed to drive to any destination. Would we feel comfortable loading the kids into the back seat and sending them off to grandpop's house unaccompanied? I put this question to the parents of my own grandchildren (ages 5 to 12). The answer was no—and the children concurred. So it appears the self-driving car will not bring the liberation of the soccer mom.
The automobile has long been an emblem of personal liberty, particularly in American culture. With a car you can go where you want, whenever you want. Paradoxically, though, owning and operating a car is the most heavily regulated aspect of modern life. The car has to be registered and inspected; the driver has to be licensed; both of them have to be insured. You're welcome to put the top down and go for a spin, but you had better obey the speed limit and the stoplights.
The layers of regulation would surely get thicker with computer-driven cars. When platoons of automated vehicles are driving in tight formation, weaving through cross-traffic on a millisecond schedule, every car has to trust all the rest to behave predictably. Before being allowed to join the traffic stream, each car would have to provide some assurance that its hardware and software are functioning correctly and have not been tampered with; this might be done through a cryptographic authentication protocol. A side effect is that tinkering with your car, except for the most superficial changes, would likely be forbidden.
Road transport might become more like the airline system. Major airports enforce a scheme in which flights are not allowed to depart until they have secured a landing "slot" at their destination—a place in the sequence of anticipated arrivals. An analogous rule could regulate access to congested highways or bridges; you couldn't leave home until the road had room for you. The reward for submitting to this regimen of regulation would be faster and more predictable travel.
The operation of such a traffic-control system raises fascinating questions of social choice. Consider the case of cities connected by two parallel roads. Travelers free to choose their own route will presumably always take the road that minimizes their own travel time. But this exercise of free choice can contribute to congestion that delays everyone. An algorithm may be able to assign cars to roads in a way that outperforms the sum of everyone's selfish choices. Would travelers accept such interference with their liberties? And how do we agree on the optimal outcome? What if a plan speeds up 99 percent of the cars, but the remaining 1 percent suffer a two-hour delay?
This incident offers a fascinating glimpse into the mind of an alien intelligence, trying to make sense of a world where cars can pop in and out of existence without warning. The story also suggests we are still a long way from creating a computational agent with the kind of common sense needed to pass the road test for a driver's license. I believe this assessment of the situation is correct, but it gives the wrong impression about the prospects for building driverless automobiles.
The car that will take Jane to the city and then go park itself will not be a 2012 model. The car that can reduce highway fatalities by 99 percent will not be a 2012 model either. Measured against those goals, the current state of the art for robotic vehicles looks pretty wimpy—but not hopeless.
Here's a story that gives a hint of what computer-controlled driving is like today. A vehicle named Talos, built by a team at MIT, was being prepared for the DARPA Urban Challenge, a competition staged in 2007 by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. In preliminary testing, Talos was nearing an intersection when it noticed another vehicle approaching on the cross street. The other car had the right of way, and so Talos stopped to wait. But then, because of "sensor noise," Talos momentarily lost track of the car. When the sensors reacquired the signal, the planning and guidance logic concluded it was seeing a new vehicle, which had just arrived at the intersection. This meant that Talos had priority, and so it started forward. So did the other car. They didn't collide, but it was a near thing.
Much of the recent work on autonomous vehicles treats driving as a problem in artificial intelligence and computer vision. The challenge is to extract meaning from sensory signals and form an accurate conceptual model of the roadway situation. With great effort, this approach may eventually succeed, though perhaps only in creating a computer driver as fallible as a human one.
There's another way to go about it. Instead of trying to replicate the driver's sensory faculties and mental model of the world, we can reengineer the world itself so that sophisticated perception and cognition are no longer needed. Consider again two cars at an intersection, trying to decide who goes first. Human drivers rely on subtle forms of communication, including eye contact and occasional hand-waving, to resolve this situation. Perhaps a computer could learn to do the same thing, but an easier course is to provide a data channel over which the cars can communicate and negotiate directly.
Aviation offers a useful point of reference. Commercial aircraft routinely fly under computer control (except at takeoff and landing). But the aircraft autopilot does not look out the window and try to interpret visual cues. Instead, the flight-management system relies on ground-based beacons, satellite signals and inertial navigation, as well as plane-to-plane data links for collision avoidance. Meanwhile a central facility (air-traffic control) coordinates the movements of aircraft and resolves conflicts.
Admittedly, navigation and traffic management are easier in the wide-open spaces of the sky than on crowded, quasi-one-dimensional roadways, but the same principles could be applied. With appropriate infrastructure, each car could have accurate and timely information about the state of the roadway and nearby cars—their positions, velocities and intentions. Even with such complete information, computing optimal paths for all the cars remains formidably difficult, but it is a problem of algorithms and control theory, not cognitive science.
The key first step in making this approach feasible is building a communication network linking nearby vehicles and roadside relay stations. Standards for such networks are already in preparation. Some version of the network is likely to be implemented soon for less-grandiose purposes, such as traffic reporting and entertainment.
Building new infrastructure is slow and expensive, so even if all the technological problems were solved, it would be years before large numbers of cars on large numbers of roads were routinely taking charge of their own movements. Thus there's time for planning and choosing what kind of transportation system we'd like to have. It's a good moment to be asking not just "Can we get there from here?" but also "Do we want to go?"
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(My From Above post inspired me to write the following post.)
I'm a New York City girl. I was born & raised there, it's part of my identity, and it reverberates through my heart & soul. No matter where I go, it'll always be my first home.
So when I began receiving e-mails some years ago from different agencies & organisations, recruiting Americans to work overseas, I refused many of them. Why, you ask? Among other reasons, I just couldn't see myself living that far away from a city centre. It was only when I was ready, and only when I received e-mails from bigger places, that I decided it was time to make my move.
So here I am, solo, almost 3 years later. Although I know people here, they either don't like doing the things I do and/or they're flakes. Also, although there are lots of couples here (which is a feat in itself, in my opinion), dating in this country is different from dating back home. Since moving here, no one likes me, no one approaches me, and despite my many efforts at being open to dating/relationships here, nothing ever happened. As a result, I do things solo 98% of the time.
This is where being a city girl comes in handy. There are so many things to do here, I can get on solo with no problems. For example, in the From Above post, I went to the food festival on my own. I asked a couple of people if they wanted to go, and they either never responded or they flaked out on me at the last minute… which is why I often don't bother inviting people with me anywhere. Since my friends are back home and they're the only ones who like at least some of the things I like, I just do things on my own over here. What better place to do that than in a big city? (And as I've said countless times, thank goodness for Meetup.) I know I wouldn't do well solo if I was far outside of a big city. I probably would've moved back home by now, honestly, if I lived that far away.
So for me, living in or very close to a big city suits me best. I need access to many different venues & activities, and a big city usually has these things easily accessible to its inhabitants & visitors. Don't get me wrong – I appreciate suburban & rural areas for escaping from the negative aspects of city life, including
stupid self-entitled neighbours with loud, crying, whining ass children noise & rude people. But even in a big city, I can find (and have found) a quiet place to call home.
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Poecilia reticulata
38 Litres (10 US G.)
5.1-6.4cm (2-2.5 ")
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6-15 °d
2-4 years
This animal is available captive bred
Additional names
- Guppy, Fancy Guppy, Millions Fish, JAW Fish, Rainbow Fish
Additional scientific names
- Acanthophacelus guppii, Acanthophacelus reticulatus, Girardinus guppii, Girardinus reticulatus, Haridichthys reticulatus, Heterandria guppyi, Lebistes poecilioides, Lebistes poeciloides, Lebistes reticulatus, Poecilia reticulate, Poecilia reticulatus, Poecilioides reticulatus
Origin[edit | edit source]
- Native to Venezuela, Barbados, Trinidad, northern Brazil and the Guyanas but introduced into many other countries.
Sexing[edit | edit source]
- Male guppies have longer, wider flowing tails and dorsal fins. The bodies of males are typically more colourful than their female counterparts. Females are considerably larger than males, have a white or clear body and may display a colourful tail, although shorter and not as flowing.
- Aside from colouration, sex can also be determined by the presence of the gonopodium organ. Mature females also have a dark gravid spot near their vent. If she is pregnant, the gravid spot will be a large, dark brown, or more commonly, black spot. If she is not pregnant however, the gravid spot will be a small dot ranging in colour from brown to yellow-orangish, depending on the individual fish. In some specimens, as pregnancy advances to the last few days before birth, you will be able to see the eyes of the unborn fry in place of the gravid spot.
Breeding[edit | edit source]
- To have a group of guppies of male and females that breed, a minimum of a 57 Litres (15 US G.) aquarium is required. If you are not separating fry from the adults, the fry will need to be moved to a breeding device, such as a net breeder, it's a good idea to add a portion of Java Moss to the aquarium, as it will provide shelter and food for small fry.
- Pregnant females should not be put into a net breeder or trap prior to giving birth as this will cause them undue stress and possibly cause them to abort the fry.
- The ease in which this species breeds and the wide variety of colour and fin shapes has caused the development of a show culture in the aquarium hobby. Many breeders have developed particular types of guppies that they sell at high prices and for prizes.
- Generally guppies are considered very easy to breed. If the breeder is not concerned about genetic heritage or the breeding for color or a specific attribute, simply putting male and female guppies in the same tank will yield offspring within a month. Females have a gestation period of around 21-28 days. The variations in gestation period are influenced by the number of hours of daylight each day, by temperature and by genetics.
Tank compatibility[edit | edit source]
- Guppies cohabit with many different kinds of fish because of their docile nature. Sometimes, although rarely, males will attack other fish of the same body shape and tail appearance. This happens mainly to other livebearers such as Swordtails and other male Guppies, and is harmless showing-off for the females. Usually no real harm is done.
- Some good tank mates are, but are not limited to:
- Corydoras catfish
- Otocinclus catfish
- Dwarf Gourami (Dwarf Gouramis will eat fry that it can see and catch, but harmless to adults.)
- Snails
- These are a very tiny handful of tank-mates, and there are a large amount of others.
- Do not keep these fish with Tiger Barbs or other known fin-nippers such as Serpae Tetras, as Guppies can sometimes be nipped especially the males with elongated finnage. Large predatory fish should also be avoided such as larger Cichlids including Angelfish. Nor should they be kept with Betta splendens, specifically the male Bettas with male Guppies, as these are territorial fish known for mistaking male Guppies as other Bettas and killing them.
Diet[edit | edit source]
- Guppies are omnivores and will eat algae-based flake food, freeze-dried bloodworms, tubifex, brine shrimp, and flakes. Also will eat small parts of fresh earthworms and whole parts of bloodworms. They also like to eat some blanched vegetables like courgette, cucumber or lettuce. Algae wafers are also good to provide variety in the diet.
Feeding regime[edit | edit source]
- Feed once or twice a day sparingly.
Environment specifics[edit | edit source]
- Good water quality, lightly planted. No rough edges on ornaments to damage fins. There should be plenty of open swimming space. Due to overbreeding, many Guppies can be quite fragile so water quality should be kept optimum.
Behaviour[edit | edit source]
- Docile, active and sociable. Breeding requires virtually no effort. Because of this they are sometimes called J.A.W. fish for Just Add Water fish.
Identification[edit | edit source]
- Small with brightly-coloured, usually triangular tails, with typically greyish-silver bodies, a pointed nose and upturned mouth. Many different colour and tail type variations have been selectively bred. Wild types have much shorter tails, whereas captive bred fancy males have very elaborate tails and tail types.
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Videos[edit | edit source]
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Racial Agitator & Communist-Fronter By Francis X. Gannon 1969
See also: Ruby Dee Not In Our NameOssie Davis was a prominent African American actor and political activist. During a film career that spanned nearly six decades (1950-2005), Davis played roles in 49 films, including The Joe Louis Story (1953), Do the Right Thing (1989), Gladiator (1992), Malcolm X (1992), Grumpy Old Men (1993), and Get on The Bus (Spike Lee's 1996 celebration of Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March). Davis also appeared in numerous television productions and stage presentations. For his work as an actor, he was named to the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame in 1989.Davis was born in Cogdell, Georgia in December 1917. His given name was Raiford Chatman Davis. He acquired the name Ossie when his mother's pronunciation of his initials, "R.C.," was misunderstood by the county clerk employee who recorded the boy's birth.Davis briefly attended Howard University and later Columbia University's School of General Studies in the late 1930s. In 1948 he married Ruby Dee, a fellow leftwing activist who would later describe her husband and herself as "foot soldiers, ready, willing and able to do [our] part in the struggle." Among the causes to which Davis and Dee most passionately devoted their energies were antiwar activism during the Vietnam War, and again in the post-9/11 era.In 1998, Davis and Dee penned their autobiography, With Ossie and Ruby, in which they discussed at length their political activism as well their decision to have an "open marriage." The pair also collaborated on a number of other publications, including: Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales From the Gulf States (2001); We Shall Overcome: The History of the Civil Rights Movement As It Happened (2004); and Life Lit by Some Large Vision: Selected Speeches and Writings (2006).In the late 1950s and early 60s, Davis became involved with Hollywood SANE, a local chapter of the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. In the early 1980s, SANE merged with its sister organization, the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign (FREEZE), and eventually became known as the Peace Action Network.Davis' celebrity as an actor during the 1960s provided him with a platform from which he could disseminate his political views to a wide audience.He was a personal friend of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, and he delivered eulogies at both of their funerals. At the 1965 funeral of Malcolm X, Davis characterized Malcolm as "a prince -- our own black shining prince! -- who didn't hesitate to die, because he loved us so."Davis also served as the Chairman of a memorial tribute to W.E.B. 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Thus fifty years ago when the good news came out of Russia that men there had decided to abandon capitalism and attempt to construct, here, 'on earth,' a system in which no man would be the hereditary victim of other men because of the color of his skin … it was only natural that black men should associate their own hopes and their own expectations with the promises of socialism."In June 1968, Davis was a keynote speaker at the two-day founding convention of the Peace and Freedom Party of New York State, a regional offshoot of the California-based organization whose goal is to build "a mass based socialist party throughout the country."Francis X. 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Senior captain Nguyen won two matches in the 'A' flight and
teamed up with freshman Mahlagu to win two doubles matches at the
USTA Men's College Invitational in Flushing, N.Y. (Gil Talbot)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard men's tennis team participated in the 2012 USTA Men's College Invitational in Flushing, N.Y., and the Audi Napa Valley Classic in Napa Valley, Calif., to kick off the fall portion of the 2012-13 schedule.
Freshman Kelvin Lam won all of his matches to take the 'C' flight, including an upset over the top-seed, St. John senior Mike Lampa, 7-5, 6-7 (5), 6-2, to pace Harvard in singles competition. Freshman Nicky Hu earned victories his first two matches in the 'C' draw, before falling to Lampa in the semi-finals.
Senior captain Andy Nguyen suffered an opening-match loss to Yale senior John Huang, who ultimately won the 'A' flight. Nguyen won his final two, including a victory over Dartmouth junior Cameron Ghorbani, 4-6, 7-5, 10-8. Freshman Nicholas Mahlangu also prevailed over Ghorbani in a close match, 4-6, 7-5, 10-8. Sophomore Henry Steer rebounded from two early losses and dominated Sacred Heart freshman James Barnhart, 6-0, 6-1, in the second placement draw of the 'E' flight.
In doubles, Nguyen and Mahlangu defeated Fordham juniors Mischa Koran and Emilio Moran, 8-1, while Hu and Lam secured an 8-3 victory over Sacred Heart senior Mike Provenzano and sophomore Justin Pagan.
Playing in his home state, sophomore Shaun Chaudhuri won his first set, 6-3, to jump out to early advantage against junior USTA player Robbie Bellamy on day one of the Napa Valley Classic. Bellamy responded with a 7-5 victory in the second set to set up the third frame, which he won, 6-4.
Junior captain Casey MacMaster also pushed his match to three sets, rallying to a 6-3 victory in the second frame after dropping the first, 6-4, to Illinois freshman Brian Page. Page earned match point on a tiebreaker to take the third set, 7-6, and the match.
Nguyen, Chaudhuri and sophomore Alex Steinroeder went the distance on day three, but were unable to secure victories. Steinroeder and Chaudhuri lost their first and second sets, respectively, on tiebreak points.
Chaudhuri and sophomore Steinroeder teamed up in doubles. The duo fell to junior players Joseph DiGuillo and Jack Murray, 9-7, in a close match Friday and Page and Stanford junior Daniel Ho, 8-4, Saturday.
Georgia sophomore Nathan Pasha defeated Texas sophomore Soren Hess Olsen in the PlayBrave Shootout Final, 16-14, to win the tournament.
Harvard next competes in the ITA Northeast Regionals in New Haven, Conn., Oct. 19-23.
USTA College Invitational Results:
A- Men's Open Singles
(4) John Huang d. Nicholas Mahlangu, 6-1, 6-4
Nicholas Mahlangu d. Cameron Ghorbani, 4-6, 7-5, 10-8
Zack McCourt d. Nicholas Mahlangu, 6-2, 6-0
(4) John Huang d. Andy Nguyen, 6-2, 6-3
Andy Nguyen d. Arturs Kasijevs, 0-6, 6-4, 10-7
Andy Nguyen d. Cameron Ghorbani, 6-1, 6-1
B- Men's Open Singles
Augie Bloom d. (1) Henry Steer, 4-6, 7-5, 10-1
Kyle Dawson d. (1) Henry Steer, 6-3, 6-4
(1) Henry Steer d. James Barnhart, 6-0, 6-1
C- Men's Open Singles
(3) Kelvin Lam d. (1) Mike Lampa, 7-5, 6-7(5), 6-2
(3) Kelvin Lam d. (2) Danielle Richardson, 6-3, 6-1
(3) Kelvin Lam d. Erik Nordahl, 7-6(1), 6-3
(3) Kelvin Lam d. Andres Rosa, 6-0, 6-2
(1) Mike Lampa d. Nicky Hu, 6-2, 7-6(2)
Nicky Hu d. (4) Bert Vancura, 6-3, 6-1
Nicky Hu d. Justin Pagan, 6-0, 6-1
E- Men's Open Singles
Benjamin Quazzo d. (4) Brendan Seaver, 6-1, 3-6, 10-8
Marko Knezevic d. (4) Brendan Seaver, 6-4, 6-3
(4) Brendan Seaver d. Juan Pardo, walkover (inj.)
1- Men's Open Doubles
Amyot/Tesmond d. (3) Mahlangu/Nguyen, 8-2
(3) Mahlangu/Nguyen d. Nagelstad/Reznek, 8-5
(3) Mahlangu/Nguyen d. Koran/Mora, 8-1
2- Men's Open Doubles
Faierman/Hoffman d. (3) Hu/Lam, 8-6
Solomon/Zlobinsky d. (3) Hu/Lam, 8-2
(3) Hu/Lam d. Pagan/Provenzano, 8-3
3- Men's Open Doubles
Bishop/Klassen d. (3) Seaver/Steer, 8-5
(3) Seaver/Steer d. Coutinho/Valdiviezo, 8-2
(3) Seaver/Steer d. Shutov/Sienko, withdraw (inj.)
Napa Valley Classic Results:
Friday's singles results
Sudawa Sitaram (Texas) def. Alex Steinroeder (Harvard), 6-1,
Soren Hess Olesen (Texas) def. Denis Nguyen (Harvard), 6-3, 7-5
Robbie Bellamy (USTA) def. Shaun Chaudhuri (Harvard), 3-6, 7-5, 6-4*
Brian Page (Illinois) def. Casey MacMaster (Harvard), 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(6)
Friday's doubles results
DiGuilio-Murray (USTA) def. Chaudhuri-Steinroeder (Harvard), 9-7*
DAY 2: Saturday's Singles Scores
Tim Kopinski (Illinois) def. Alex Steinroeder (Harvard), 6-1,
Stephen Hoh (Illinois) def. Shaun Chaudhuri (Harvard), 6-1, 6-2
Jack Murray (USTA), def. Casey MacMaster (Harvard), 6-3, 6-0
Ben McLachlan (Cal) def. Denis Nguyen (Harvard), 7-5, 6-3
Saturday's Doubles Scores
Ho-Page (Illinois) def. Chaudhuri-Steinroeder (Harvard), 8-4
Sunday's Singles Scores
Deiton Baughman (USTA) def. Denis Nguyen (Harvard), 6-3, 3-6,
Ben Wagland (Georgia) def. Shaun Chaudhuri (Harvard), 2-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4
Joseph DiGiulio (USTA) def. Alex Steinroeder (Harvard), 7-6 (4), 2-6, 7-5*
Riki McLachlan (Cal) def. Casey MacMaster (Harvard), walkover (inj.)
*Match does not count towards individual record


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Your small business needs expert advice on a technical problem. Your university research project requires state-of-the-art facilities you do not have. Your Fortune 500 corporation needs a new capability or technology to augment your in-house research or products. Whether your challenge involves energy, environmental, computational, national security or health sciences, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory may be able to help you overcome it. There are a variety of ways to partner with us to support your science and technology goals...and your business strategy.
The U.S. Department of Energy provides guidelines for private companies, state and local governments, and universities to gain access. The guidelines are common to all national laboratories. However, Battelle, as the operator of PNNL, also can partner with companies, governments, and universities directly in its private capacity.
PNNL welcomes the opportunity to partner with industry in support of DOE's mission to move science from the national laboratory to commercial use. To understand the various ways to work with PNNL, consult the table below. And make a call. PNNL may be just what you need.
|Type of Agreement
|When to use this mechanism
|Who to Contact
|Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA)
|Cost-shared collaboration with industry for R&D activities of mutual benefit
|Works best when an organization has a research program related to existing government-funded work at PNNL. A CRADA would allow mutually beneficial collaboration to occur.
|Cheryl Cejka, Director
Technology Commercialization
(509) 375-3700
|Direct Contract with Battelle
|Permits industry, government agencies, and nonprofits to directly fund and negotiate contract R&D work through a private contract with Battelle
|Ideal for industry partners who want to leverage core Laboratory science and technology, but looking for application- or solution-specific development. Projects are client-funded; most flexible contract arrangement.
|Bruce Simanton, Manager
Sales Management
(509) 371-7608
|License Agreements
|Granting of rights to practice Battelle intellectual property to enable client's business plan
|Appropriate for companies interested in using Battelle's intellectual property for commercial use.
|Cheryl Cejka, Director
Technology Commercialization
(509) 375-3700
|Technology Assistance Program
|Forty hours of PNNL staff time annually
|Ideal for small technology-based companies who desire access to unique capabilities at PNNL.
|Gary Spanner, Manager
Economic Development Office
(509) 372-4296
|User Facilities Agreement
|Provides access to certain dedicated DOE laboratory facilities
|Provides access for non-PNNL researchers to use specialized equipment at PNNL.
|Bruce Simanton, Manager
Business Development and Analysis
(509) 376-0161
|Work for Others (WFO)
|Enables federal and non-federal agencies to access PNNL's capabilities on cost-recovery basis
|Appropriate for situations where an agency wants direct access to PNNL capabilities under a cost-reimbursement arrangement through DOE operating contract.
|Marlene K. Meeks
WFO Onsite Specialist
(509) 372-6258
A company with interest and capabilities in a specific research or technology area might consider partnering with PNNL using a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement. A CRADA is a contractual agreement in which both parties collaborate, share costs, and pool the results of their research and development program.
Your staff, facilities, equipment, and other resources are leveraged with those of PNNL, and you gain access to PNNL's science and engineering expertise, results of recent research, and technical facilities. A CRADA provides the unique opportunity to use new technologies evolving from federal research programs in a collaborative way.
Direct Contract
PNNL is operated under contract for the U.S. Department of Energy by Battelle. The Laboratory is unique in that Battelle is allowed to build a diversified contract research and technology transfer business serving industry and other government agencies as long as the Laboratory fulfills its primary objective: to fully meet DOE research, development and demonstration needs.
The bottom line is that contracting with PNNL under Battelle's Use Permit (Word, 40K) is not a complex process. Through Battelle, PNNL works for a variety of clients ranging from federal, state and local governments to private companies both nationally and internationally. The company is flexible in its approach to contracting and, depending on the nature of the services, will typically contract on a fixed price, time and material, or cost-reimbursement basis.
User Facility Agreement
Scientists researching energy, environmental, health, or national security issues can arrange access to specialized facilities through PNNL's User Facilities Agreement. User facilities include DOE's William R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory and the Applied Process Engineering Laboratory. Proprietary and nonproprietary agreements are possible, depending on the user's willingness to publish the results of the research.
Learn more about facilities and equipment for business.
Work For Others
An organization pursuing technology goals could arrange access to the national laboratory's resources through the Work for Others (WFO) program. Here, PNNL staff perform work using PNNL facilities and technical expertise. Standard terms of the agreement are established by DOE, but DOE does not fund the work. DOE has a mission to provide technical assistance to other federal agencies, commercial companies, local and state governments, and foreign governments, and any of these may use WFO to access PNNL's specialized research and development capabilities on a full cost-recovery basis (reimbursable agreements). Technologies may be transferred from the laboratory to the marketplace for further development or commercialization.


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Ivymount's Conversation Club curriculum was recently featured in the ASHA Journal, Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools. The article, shared widely across social media channels, presented the Conversation Club curriculum as a promising practice for use by speech and language therapists in schools.
Designed by Ivymount teachers and researchers in response to a clear need within classrooms, the Conversation Club offers a comprehensive curriculum for teaching conversation skills to children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders and other social cognition challenges.
A critical element of instruction for students with higher level language and cognitive skills is successfully combining the teaching of skills with a rationale for why skills are important. Ivymount teacher Christy Beachley, who has been using the curriculum with small student groups for the last two-years, explains that the "why" behind the conversation is vital. "It's important that students don't just memorize elements of conversation," says Beachley.
Despite the fact that conversation is critical to enabling us to build and maintain friendships, the art of conversation can be difficult to master for children with social cognition challenges. These children often spend their lunch and break times in silence or reciting scripts. Conversation Club helps get these children engaged in fun and meaningful conversation with their peers, by using a team of cartoon characters including Friendly Freddy, Listening Larry, Good Memory Marge, and Polly Parrot. The curriculum is illustrated by an Ivymount student.
The curriculum teaches students to select topics and then maintain conversation around that topic, as well as teaching the importance of active listening. The aim is for students to engage in longer and more meaningful conversations.
A seven-student pilot study produced promising results, with all participants demonstrating increases in peer-directed interactions, questions asked, use of particular words to introduce new topics and/or extend conversation on existing topics, and attempts at repairing simple conversation breakdowns.
"Students actively want to ask questions during conversations in order to learn more about what their peers are thinking," enthuses Beachley. "To see students carry the classroom concepts into the lunchroom and other activities is very rewarding and demonstrates the success of the Conversation Club curriculum."
Ivymount's Conversation Club has received praise from teachers and related service providers, as well as a number of renowned researchers from within the field. The curriculum has been described as innovative, compact, focused, easy-to-use, motivating, highly engaging, and a simple way for students to engage in two-way conversations.
According to Dr. Eve Müller, the school's Program Evaluator and Coordinator of Outcomes Research, "the difference between lunchtime at the beginning of the year and lunchtime at the end of the year was like night and day. Students were actually talking with each other about a wide range of topics, including what they did over the weekend or a favorite new video game, and maintaining conversations across multiple turns."
Conversation Club is set to be the first release of the forthcoming Ivymount Instructional Resource Series publishing label. The series of publications will offer a collection of innovative educational resources—including curricula, assessment tools, and apps—designed and tested by Ivymount staff to support the success of students with autism spectrum disorders and other learning challenges. Each resource will be developed by cross-disciplinary teams of Ivymount's expert teachers, related service providers and program evaluators, and thoroughly vetted in Ivymount classrooms.
Ivymount has a number of additional projects in the pipeline, including an integrated arts curriculum developed by Maddux School staff that supports social learning through the arts, and a number of resources that will support transition from school to work that have been developed by Post-High School staff, all of which will be published under the Ivymount Instructional Resource Series label.
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WASHINGTON -- Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley's federal PAC, which will become an important fundraising vehicle should he decide to run for president in 2016, is beginning to show signs of life.
In a report filed with the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday that covers the first half of 2013, the O' Say Can You See PAC reported raising $164,000, spending just over $143,000 and making a small number of political donations in the early presidential primary states of New Hampshire and Iowa for the first time.
Aides said O'Malley has also reported raising an additional $315,497 in so-called non-federal money. Those receipts were filed with the Internal Revenue Service on Wednesday but the report is not yet publicly available. That money can be spent on legislative and gubernatorial campaigns around the country -- but not on federal candidates.
That puts the total haul for the PAC at nearly $480,000.
"Governor O'Malley's grateful for the support he's received and will work hard to elect candidates who share his vision of creating jobs and expanding opportunity," spokeswoman Lis Smith said in a statement.
The vast majority of O'Malley's money reported to the FEC is still coming from Maryland, an indication he has not yet established a national fundraising operation -- and that's not a surprise given how uncertain the 2016 Democratic field remains. Details of the IRS-reported contributions are not yet available.
On the other side of the ledger, the PAC reported making a $2,500 contribution to Rep. Bruce Braley, the Iowa Democrat who announced this year he is running for Senate in 2014. The PAC also made a $2,500 contribution to former New Hampshire governor and now Senator Jeanne Shaheen as well as Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, who won a special election this year to replace Secretary of State John Kerry.
O'Malley and Maryland Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski held a fundraiser for Shaheen in May.
If O'Malley continues to keep the door open to a 2016 run, the PAC will likely increase contributions to candidates in New Hampshire, Iowa and other early primary states as O'Malley establishes relationships there.
It was the first time the PAC has reported its activities since January.
The governor also remains heavily involved with raising money for the Democratic Governors Association, where he serves as fiance chair. The DGA raised $15 million over the past six months.
The report shows O'Malley's PAC is paying rent to the DGA.
O'Malley, who is term limited, has plans to travel to Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey, New York, Florida, Massachusetts, Missouri, Kentucky and California to raise money for the DGA and individual candidates over the next several months.


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As the Spike TV show American Diggers goes international, AAA Executive Board Member, Sandra L. Lopez Varela has a special request in today's guest blog post.
The American Anthropological Association is supporting the petition of our fellow Spanish archaeologists to stop the airing of "Un Tesoro Bajo Tus Pies", through Discovery MAX: http://www.change.org/es/peticiones/discovery-max-que-se-retire-el-programa-un-tesoro-bajo-tus-pies
This television series is the translated version into Spanish of "American Diggers", produced by Spike TV, and that the AAA, along with other professional organizations, strongly opposed to, back in March of this year, as it wrongly represents archaeology as a treasure-seeking adventure. Committed to the scientific stewardship of the past, the AAA has sent letters to the corporate and international management of Discovery Enterprises inviting them to follow up the example given by National Geographic Channel and to initiate a similar dialogue with professional associations and archaeologists to promote an educated depiction of archaeology. But above all, the AAA has expressed its deep concerns about the potential looting and subsequent illegal trade that Discovery Communications are promoting around the world by airing "American Diggers" internationally, through their affiliated sister networks. We invite you to support this initiative and increase the voices expressing that the content of "American Diggers" is contrary to the ethics of archaeological practice.
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Is Our Film Culture Designed to Create Corporate Hucksters?/
by Ted Hope
Sometimes it serves us to let our dark paranoia run rampant. I have always had a love affair with conspiracy theories, but it is one of longing more than indulgence. If only governments and people in general cared enough about other people to actually strategize to the extent needed to control things to the level most conspiracy theories fantasize. But maybe instead of politics and community being the focus, the conspiracies exist in the pursuit of profit. Sometimes looking at the result of business structures as their intent instead of their coincidental effect sheds further light on a complicated situation.
We all know that there is a substantial flaw to our film infrastructure: artists and their supporters are not rewarded for the work they generate. I speak of this as a problem. If the industry actually tried to make sure that the people who made the work benefited from the work, we'd have more money in the system, and it would probably be smarter money (that knew enough to let the filmmakers have creative control — or at least more of it) at that. But all evidence points to the fact that the film industry wants to prevent creators from financially benefiting from their work. We can change that (and I am going to try), but that's for another post about why I have chosen to work for a not-for-profit.Let's let our dark side work for us for a moment: if the model is not broken, but actually works, what is it trying to do? Why would the film business not want creators to benefit?Read More


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The other day, I stumbled across a wonderful Video to Flash software: Flash Video MX. Firstly, I was attracted by the succinct and friendly interface. Then downloaded it and found this software quickly converts different video formats into high-quality Flash Video (FLV). Meanwhile, this Flash encoder is also a good Video to SWF Converter. It can convert video to Flash by creating a Flash Video player (SWF file) for the generated FLV file. It also provides various playback skins with different styles for the SWF file, and automatically creates an HTML page to display the SWF file. A powerful tool! Herewith post the guide to share with friends, hope it do you a favor!
Step1: Load the video file
Click the folder on the right end of "Input Video" frame, and select your targeted video file to convert.
Step2: Trim the video
Drag the bar on "Start Time" and on "Finishing Time" to trim away those unwanted video clips. You can also click buttons "MS" and "MF" to trim the video while it is playing in the preview panel.
1) You can refer to 'Movie Properties' to view the original information of the source video and change the video to proper settings.
2) Click the Thumbnail button and you can generate a thumbnail image for the output Flash video. If want to view the thumbnail image the right section of the interface, double-click the image, then pop up a window for you to adjust the settings.
Step 3: Crop the video
Click the 'Crop' button and it pops up the following window for you to crop away the unwanted areas of the video. Alernatively, you can directly drag the dotted frame manually to crop the video.
Step 4, File Settings
When above all well prepared, click 'Next' button to 'select a flash video encoding profile', choose 'Video Settings' and 'Include Audio' as you like.
Step5: Output settings
Then go on clicking 'Next' button. This step is designed mainly to help us convert the source video formats to SWF and FLV for online distribution. If want to create some advanced SWF and FLV files, you can adjust the 'Export Settings', 'Player Settings', and 'Misc'. Then click 'Next' and 'Start' to convert your favouriter video to flash.
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Good job on finding that software (you could have put that in the title though)
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E.M. Magic Swf2Avi is the extremely powerful Flash converter software to convert SWF to AVI and other popular formats. The software is designed to convert swf for your mobile video player as avi, 3gp, mp4, mp3, PSP, PS3, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, XBOX 360, Zune etc and also CD, VCD or DVD player. In particular, E.M. Magic Swf2Avi can help u convert swf to HD (high definition) video formats like HD WMV Video, HD DivX Video, HD Xvid Video, HD H.264 Video, HD Quick Time Video, HD MPEG4 Video, HD FLV Video, HD TS Video, and create Blu-ray folder for PS3 and Blu-ray player.
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PensInAz wrote:Sam's Drunk Dog wrote:http://www.pittsburghpost-gazette.com/pg/06057/661387.stm
Sadly, the first thing I thought of was a joke that was dominant at my high school in Arizona. Goes something like this:
Q: Why do our cheerleaders were green and gold?
A: Because red means "stop".
Sam's Drunk Dog wrote:And green would SO clash with red.
DelPen wrote:Did you also know Boston tried to block the Penguins from switching to black & gold? But Pittsburgh showed that the Pirates NHL team wore B&G so the league allowed the change.
Is Pittsburgh the only city with all their teams wearing the same colors?
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