text: Last updated: 09 MAY 2014 #1.0. Samsung have released the latest Galaxy S4 stock firmwares, including Android 4.2.2, MGG onwards, see #1.8, for the International, and all future firmwares such as Android 4.3 and KitKat with locked bootloaders and Knox security flag which are a prerequisite for installing the optional, full, Knox Security app. The actual Knox app is downloaded from the Play Store via an icon on the phone, if required. It is being rolled out across the board to all the latest devices, branded and unbranded, with the exception of the GT-i9505G, Google Play Edition with stock Android firmware. It also comes installed on the latest Galaxy Note 3 and is being rolled out in new firmware updates for the Galaxy S3 and Note 2 as well as some tablets. Their reasoning behind this is to prevent devices with sensitive data (corporate, defence, government, etc: ) from having their data compromised, hence the Knox security. This is to comply with the ever growing security demands from these organisations IT departments for secure BYOD's, (Bring Your Own Device), and is not dissimilar from the Blackberry and Apple security protocols. This means that the latest Samsung devices are now deemed acceptable for use where security is important and increases Samsung's market potential. Samsung have further announced the Knox 2.0 mobile security platform that will come pre-loaded on the Galaxy S5 and will be introduced to older devices running KitKat... Samsung rolls out Knox 2.0 enterprise security suite to Galaxy S5 handsets #1.1. This obviously has implications for rooting and flashing custom ROM's if your workplace demands a secure Knox device. Unfortunately, once the bootloader is locked, reverting to an earlier firmware or nandroid backup is not possible and will not unlock it or remove or reset the Knox flag and can render it unusable with loss of Wi-Fi and/or sound and may require a repair to get it working again in some cases. #1.2. Flashing the latest Samsung stock Android firmwares will overwrite your system files and kernel as well as locking the bootloader, if not already locked. If you are flashing this to an already rooted phone, it will un-root you and, currently, there is no way to re-root and flash a custom recovery or ROM without tripping the Knox flag and rendering it unusable as a BYOD for organisations that require an untouched Knox flag for security. It also means that if you have apps that rely on root, such as SuperSU, you will not be able to uninstall them. Therefore, if you are going to install a stock Samsung, Knox enabled firmware to a rooted phone, you should first fully un-root and uninstall any root associated apps prior to updating. #1.3. In short... if you are on Knox Firmware then you are currently screwed for custom ROM's and recoveries as the Knox flag will be tripped and your device will no longer be Knox secure as a BYOD if your workplace requires it. Also, there is no possibility of going back to a pre Knox/unlocked bootloader firmware or nandroid backup as this will trip the Knox flag also. #1.4. If you are on Knox enabled firmware and wish to view your Knox counter status, go into Download Mode and the Knox flag is shown in the list at the top left of the screen. If, "KNOX WARRANTY VOID:", is showing as 0x0 then you have not tripped the Knox flag. If it is showing as 0x1, your Knox flag is permanently blown and your phone is no longer suitable for Knox security purposes. #1.5 There is a ray of hope for those who wish to update to Android 4.3 and are rooted in that dev's for the International phones have released custom firmwares for Android 4.3 & 4.4.2 that do not already have the locked bootloader and Knox Security. However, these are only available to those that do not already have Knox firmware installed and will not comply with the Knox security protocols if your place of work requires them. #1.6. CF-Auto-Root by chainfire and Root de la Vega claims that they can root Knox enabled devices but do not mention custom recovery or custom ROM flashing. Use at your own risk. There are also reorts that Voodoo's, OTA RootKeeper, has kept root on phones that are rooted and have updated OTA. Although it is not supporting 4.3 officially and may not work on the new 4.4, KitKat, release. Potentially leaving you with a rooted phone that you, "may", not be able to update without blowing the Knox flag. #1.7. The following article by Galen Gruman in Info World, lifts the lid on the new Knox security feature and goes into a lot more detail regarding its future use, (oh yes, there's more to come), on phones and tablets and why some carriers may not even implement it fully... The truth about Samsung Knox for Android security The higher-level security technology for select Android devices isn't really available yet, despite the hype #1.8. Samsung releases are categorised as follows:- M = year = 2013 (13th letter of alphabet) E = Month of year (May in this case, 5th letter of the alphabet) A = Release of that month (10th for, "A", as they start 1-9 first, before letters) Therefore, MEA is pre MGG, (2013, July, 16th release), and is before Knox. Only stock Samsung firmwares MGG onwards, (with the exception of MH1), have Knox. To locate your firmware version... type *#1234# into the dial pad and look at the last 3 letters/numbers of AP: #1.9. Here are some useful links to explain Knox... What is Samsung Knox? (Comes with a short, simple, self explanatory video) Samsung Knox User Manual/Guide #1.10. There appears to be some confusion as to whether tripping the Knox flag to 0x1 does in fact void your warranty as there are conflicting reports and statements regarding this, as discussed in this xda forum thread... Let's find out if KNOX flag 0:1 does void the phone's warranty or not It would seem that some posters in various locations have received warranty repairs even though their Knox flags were 0x1. #1.11. Finally, Samsung have issued the following statement that seems to indicate that Knox will not be used when considering warranty repairs and that they are maintaining the old status quo of, "Don't ask... don't tell", when it comes to rooting whereby a device on stock firmware and a reset Samsung, hidden, flash counter, (separate from the Knox flag), are OK, a warranty repair is considered. About rooting Samsung KNOX-enabled devices and the KNOX warranty void bit #1.12. There is a bounty being offered for any developer who can successfully reset a tripped Knox flag to 0x0, see #1.4. See thread, here. This currently stands at... US$3,173.


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Who is Walt Dineen?
J. "Walt" Dineen (1937-1990) was, for close to three decades, a highly respected biologist/ecologist in South Florida. He was Everglades Project Leader for the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, and Director of Environmental Sciences at the South Florida Water Management District. Walt was one of the first to develop a broad regional perspective for the Everglades ecosystem, and to use that understanding to influence and improve management practices. Perhaps his most valuable contribution to the Everglades was his strong, personal demonstration of the importance of having well-informed scientists participate in the management and policy debates. For his early role in this process, we honor his name.
The Walt Dineen Society is an informal, non-affiliated forum, dedicated to the task of substantially improving the communication of technical information on the ecosystems of South Florida, among the natural, physical, and social scientists and the management and policy leaders who work in this region. The Society considers that frequent exchanges of research results, and multi-disciplinary discussions designed to integrate new information with the old, are essential steps leading to improved understandings of the natural components and ecological processes of the South Florida systems. It is these intellectual processes that will assure that our understanding of both the natural and managed systems continue to mature (i.e., "the whole [of our understanding] is greater than the sum of its parts"). By supporting a communications process that is organized from the perspective of systems, in contrast to an issues or project-driven perspective, we believe that science will be in the strongest position to make substantial contributions to the important management and policy questions raised by the restoration programs.
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To achieve these goals, the Society sponsors conferences pertaining to the ecosystems of South Florida. The main priority of these conference is to encourage everyone who is conducting studies in the natural and physical sciences in South Florida to report on their on-going and completed work. These conferences differ from other technical conferences in the region in that:
For more information about upcoming or current conferences, please refer to the FIU Conference Page.
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How the hunt for Edward Snowden, and bad information, stranded Bolivian president
The diplomatic row between the United States and Bolivia began before Friday, when Bolivian President Evo Morales started talking about kicking the U.S. Embassy out of his country.
It began before Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese airspace was closed to Morales' presidential jet, forcing him to land and spend 13 unplanned hours in Vienna during a trip home from Moscow.
It even began before U.S. officials apparently asked their allies to close their airspace and airports to Morales' jet.
According to Russian news reports, quoting those they described as sources within the Russian Security Services, it began when an American official failed to notice that the target of their hunt – fugitive former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden – was at one airport and the Bolivian presidential jet was taking off from another, about 35 miles of horrible Moscow traffic away.
From official statements and news reports, it's possible to cobble together the flight of Morales' official Bolivian air force Dassault Falcon 900EX from Moscow to La Paz and how it became an unprecedented diplomatic incident when it was denied rights late Tuesday to cross through the airspace of four European countries for a needed refueling stop, for fear that the Bolivian president was carrying Snowden to asylum.
Bolivia has referred the matter to the United Nations, South American governments are expressing outrage and the United States is trying hard to distance itself from the affair.
By the time Morales' jet took off from Moscow's Vnukovo International Airport, Snowden had been holed up for nine days in the international transit area of Sheremetyevo International Airport, across town from Vnukovo.
Worries that Morales, who was in Moscow for a conference of natural gas-producing nations, might try to spirit Snowden away from international limbo and American justice – Snowden is facing espionage charges for leaking classified documents he accessed through NSA computers – stemmed from remarks the Bolivian president made to Russian television in which he noted his country's willingness to "shield the denounced."
"If there were a request made, of course we would be willing to debate and consider the idea," he said of Snowden's search for a haven.
But sneaking Snowden onto the Bolivian plane wouldn't have been a simple matter. As the Russian news service RIA Novosti reported, quoting an unnamed source in the Russian Security Services: "Snowden could not have gotten into the president's plane. A transfer from Sheremetyevo to Vnukovo is possible only by crossing into the territory of Russia, for which Snowden would have required a transit visa. However, he is not in the possession of such a visa, and we have no information of him crossing into the territory of Russia."
The flight home to La Paz was 7,770 miles. The presidential Falcon has a range of about 5,000 miles, so the plan was to refuel in Spain's Canary Islands before flying across the Atlantic.
The jet lifted off just after 8:30 p.m. in Moscow on Tuesday. About two and half hours later, it entered Austrian airspace, having crossed Russia, Belarus, Poland and the Czech Republic without incident.
After the plane had flown over most of Austria, its pilot was told that it couldn't pass into Italian, French, Portuguese or Spanish airspace, according to the Bolivian government. The pilot was forced to make a hairpin turn only a short time before the plane would have left the skies above Austria. In a recording of the pilot talking to the Vienna control tower sometime around 9:30 p.m., he said, "We need to land. . . . We can't get a correct fuel indication."
That led Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca to note that the refusals of Portugal and France "put at risk the life of the president."
Through the night, photos of Morales wandering the Austrian airport were posted online. He's shown giving a news conference and watching one taking place in Bolivia. His crew is shown sleeping in chairs.
He reportedly met with Austrian President Heinz Fischer. Austrian Interior Ministry spokesman Karl Heinz Grundboeck said an airport security officer was allowed to walk through the jet to look for Snowden. He said he couldn't confirm reports that the U.S. Embassy in Austria had asked for help in capturing Snowden.
Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said during an interview on Spanish national television that "We were told that Snowden was inside. I can work with the data they give me. . . . They said they were clear he was inside."
According to news reports, Morales' plane was refueled and left Vienna at 11:52 a.m. Wednesday, meaning a stay of nearly 13 hours at the airport, which Bolivian officials likened to "imperialist kidnapping."
Garcia-Margallo wouldn't say who "they" were, though when he was asked why European nations had acted the way they did he said, "The reactions of European countries were because the information they gave us was that (Snowden) was inside. We measured the risk. But once I had written assurance that Mr. Snowden was not on the plane . . . I believe in the word of a friendly nation, and Bolivia is a friendly nation."
By this time, either because the initial refusals had been a mistake, as France claimed, were for technical reasons – Portugal said its airport didn't have a stairway capable of serving the presidential jet – or were due to international pressure, Morales' jet was allowed to continue over Europe to the Canary Islands, where it refueled before heading home.
Morales' jet touched down in La Paz late Wednesday. With time differences, the flight lasted more than a day and half. Morales' anger clearly hadn't diminished by Friday, however, when, with the backing of several other South American leaders, he laid the blame on the United States.
"Being united will defeat American imperialism," he said. "If necessary, we will close the embassy of the United States. We do not need the embassy of the United States."
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story had the wrong length of time that Bolivian President Evo Morales was in Vienna and the wrong time that his plane left there. This version also has been revised to make clear that the aircraft was registered to the Bolivian government.


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£27....and the prices in cycling just keep going up and up! I use some sellotape sticky dots which do exactly the same thing and are about £1.99!
The Shelter Frame Protection Tape Kit is light years ahead of those awful clear/carbon effect sticker sets that lifted on the first wash. Shelling out £27 for eight pre-cut sections seems exorbitant though.
Then again, set against the cost of refinishing a frameset, this bundle of assorted bike plasters seem very reasonable. Methodical, unhurried preparation and sterile surfaces are essential if they're to last in the long run.
Ideally applied to bare frames fresh from the shop window, prep the target areas using a lint-free cloth dipped in industrial alcohol and leave a few minutes to evaporate. Prise one of the supple cut outs from its backing and smooth to the tube using a consistent massaging motion. This proved pivotal when persuading the top tube strip to sit flush against the Univega's 'guitar string' cable guides. Start to finish, the process took the best part of an hour.
Several weeks in and I'm not convinced the default thickness is ideal. Perfect cushioning from chain-slap and stones and similarly sharp projectiles, it seems excessive for cable buffers-even against those abrasive outers beloved of sealed systems - ours has already started to lift, infected with dust and dirt. I'm willing to accept it might be a rogue sample that slipped through the net, given some of the glowing testimonials I've heard but in my opinion, a more tailored approach to density would improve its staying prowess without compromising protection.
Offers excellent protection from abraision and impact damage but rather pricey.
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Make and model: Shelter Frame protection tape kit
Size tested: n/a
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
"-Shelter tape is a multi-layer acrylic protection tape which dissipates any impact energy on two axis.
-Each layer spreads loads vertically and horizontally, the impact energy decreases at each layer, protecting the bike frame.
-Perfect for carbon frames where the surface epoxy resin can be brittle and sensitive to impacts.
-The tape is clear, does not hide graphics and can be applied easily". Broadly agree but on the strength of our test sample feel a more tailored approach to density would assist adhesion.
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
Multi layer clear acrylic designed to spread loads vertically and horizontally, the impact energy decreases at each layer, protecting the bike frame.
1x Down Tube (340mm long 50mm wide) 1x Chain Stay (275mm long 35mm wide) 1x Top Tube/ Head Tube (80mm Tall 45mm Deep) 4x Cable/ Hose (35mm ø)
Some of ours have begun to show evidence of lifting.
55g by my scales.
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
Shelter frame protection is extremely effective, defending frames from cable rub, stone chips and similar damage. However, meticulous surface preparation is key to its success.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
Provides excellent defence against abrasion.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
Cost and adhesives weren't as powerful as I was expecting given the asking price.
Did you enjoy using the product? No.
Would you consider buying the product? No.
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Possibly.
About the tester
Age: 38 Height: 1m 81 Weight: 70 kilos
I usually ride: Rough Stuff Tourer Based around 4130 Univega mtb Frameset My best bike is: 1955 Holdsworth Road Path and several others including cross & traditional road
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: Most days I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: cyclo cross, commuting, touring, fixed/singlespeed, mtb,
Shaun Audane is a freelance writer/product tester with over twenty-eight years riding experience, the last twelve (120,000 miles) spent putting bikes and kit through their paces for a variety of publications. Previous generations of his family worked at manufacturing's sharp end, thus Shaun can weld, has a sound understanding of frame building practice and a preference for steel or titanium framesets.
Citing Richard Ballantine and an Au pair as his earliest cycling influences, he is presently writing a cycling book with particular focus upon women, families and disabled audiences (Having been a registered care manager and coached children at Herne Hill Velodrome in earlier careers)


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Paper to correct story on Arizona's London Bridge
LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. (AP) — A British tabloid will issue a correction Monday for a story stating Arizona's own London Bridge could be bulldozed to make way for drug tourism, Lake Havasu City officials said.
Philippa Kennedy, ombudsman for The Sun, said in a letter sent to city officials that the correction will be printed on page two of the newspaper, the Today's News-Herald (http://bit.ly/1n4ioUx) reported.
Lake Havasu City Convention and Visitors Bureau CEO Doug Traub, who received the letter, said The Sun also plans to send a reporter to the city for a follow-up piece.
The Sun had reported the bridge was cracking, and Lake Havasu City planned to demolish it and turn the area into a haven for marijuana users called Hemped in Havasu. Marijuana is illegal in Arizona, except for the treatment of certain medical conditions.
Lake Havasu City officials heard about the story in The Sun after a local resident from a London suburb showed them a copy of the tabloid. They say it was a slap in the face, particularly when more than $600,000 in bridge improvements is planned for this summer.
"It's one of the most preposterous and inflammatory articles ever written about our city, and we will respond in kind," Traub said at the time before demanding a retraction and an apology from the newspaper.
The online edition of the article has since been retracted.
The bridge, which spans a channel between the shoreline and an island in Lake Havasu City, was sold by the British government in 1968 to Robert P. McCullouch, the city's founder. The bridge was dismantled in London, transported to Lake Havasu and reassembled during a three-year period.
It is the only bridge leading to the island where boats launch on Lake Havasu and one of the state's major tourist attractions. Some 12,000 vehicles cross it daily.
The improvements planned this summer — to drain water from one of the support piers and to create an entryway into the bridge to ensure workers' safety — would extend the life of the bridge by at least another 40 years, city officials said.
Information from: Today's News-Herald, http://www.havasunews.com
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"Gravity does not affect time: it affects clocks."
Great point.
Rather than leave this sitting on my hard drive, I thought I'd post this updated version on TOL in case anyone wants another shot at it. -Bob Enyart
A Layman Questions Gravitational Time Dilation
* Einsteins theory of General Relativity indicates that gravity influences time, in that time flows relatively more slowly in a stronger gravitational field as compared to time in a weaker field.
* Actual experiments and observations provide evidence for GR time dilation. For example, clocks at different Earth altitudes run at different rates, thus the mile high atomic clock in Colorado runs a few ticks faster per year than the one close to sea level in Greenwich, England.
* Most physicists and cosmologists accept GR time dilation, and thus, that time is relative to a particular frame of reference.
And in that context, when Googling Gravitational Time Dilation I get: Google 7 from AbsoluteAstronomy.com: Gravitational time dilation is the slowing down of the passage of time anywhere in the gravitational field. Google 11: The short and sloppy versions say: " Time runs slower as you descend into the potential well of a uniform pseudo-force field. From Google 9: The idea of relativity is to throw out the concept of us traveling through time inescapably, and accept time as just another dimension.
Consider this exaggerated scenario to illustrate my opposition to time dilation, and then Ill suggest a practical experiment that could test my conclusion.
Two atomic clocks have been running on Earth for billions of years, one at the base of Cheyenne Mountain, and the other at the summit, sitting inside of a well-maintained Chinook cargo helicopter. The clock on the peak has been running faster by a few nanoseconds per year, but over the eons, it has advanced to twenty-four hours ahead of the clock far below, and its readout, in year, month, day, hour, minute, second, and nanosecond, is just now turning over to indicate exactly twenty-four hours ahead of the other clock, on a Friday at exactly high noon. This illustrates Einsteins prediction that time would run relatively slower at a stronger gravitational field, as exists at the bottom of the mountain (we can ignore gravitational anomalies in mountains). Thus, the clock at the mountaintop is now one-day ahead of the clock below. The clocks were installed to sit in virtual perfect longitudinal alignment (at 104-50-01.9000W), so that as the earth orbits the Sun, both clocks cross an imaginary vector from the Sun in unison. The operator of the clock below, who was hired because of his PhD in physics, has just begun reading todays newspaper. The operator can read todays paper, because they both exist at the same time. He is alive, and wanting and able to read, and todays paper has been printed, and just delivered to his facility, and since they are both there, the operator and the paper, at the same time, he can read that paper. However, if he wanted to read tomorrows paper, he could not do it immediately, because tomorrows paper is twenty-four hours behind him in time. (Behind him is the correct direction. He is ahead of tomorrow paper. Like a NASCAR driver who finishes 24 seconds before another, our operator is here now, a full 24 hours before tomorrows paper hits the newsstands. Remember after all, the river of time flows backward, not forward -- from the future through the present into the past. Imagine something floating in that current, like next Christmas, which is in the future, drifting toward the present, but eventually will be remembered only in fading prints in family photo albums. But I digress ) Assuming that the newspapers production schedule remains constant with past performance, the operator will have to wait for twenty-four hours to pass before he can actually come into contact with tomorrows paper, or for that matter, with anything that is twenty-four hours into the future. Now, back to the clock on the peak. The operator has kept an eye on that clock from its installation until today (hes now near retirement age), and with a telescope, hes been able to watch the nanoseconds ticking more quickly than those of his clock. (Of course he realizes that with the limitation of the speed of light, hes seeing the Summit hands move picoseconds after they actually do, and that does not confuse his understanding.) Being an educated man, he believes that time has been flowing faster for the clock above, and that is why the Summit Clock is twenty-four hours ahead of him and his clock.
Now, it seems to me that the operator is confused, and that physicists must actually be referring to some other effect when they say or imply that gravity actually affects time as compared to other frames of reference. The seventh site found by a web search on the topic, (Google 7), states: Gravitational time dilation is the slowing down of the passage of time. Seemingly implying that time flows at different rates for the two clocks. If that were literally true, then it seems the two clocks would exist in two different time frames, now separated by twenty-four hours, and the operator at the base shouldnt even be able to see the clock at the summit, since it is 24 hours ahead of him in time. After all (Feynman and QED notwithstanding), this guy just cant see that far into the future.
Now THE PLOT thickens! The helicopter (which has been maintained all these years at great taxpayer expense) suddenly transported the Summit Clock to the Base Clock, and the two clocks were set next to each other so that they actually touched! And the contact between the two clocks happened exactly ten minutes after noon on Friday according to the Summit Clock (rounding to the nearest whole second).
So, here is my question. What time would the Base Clock show at the moment that they made contact?
Calvinists, most physicists and evolutionary cosmologists would all answer that at the moment of contact, the Base Clock would read Thursday at 12:10 p.m. Well, even a broken clock is right twice a day. And for what I know of Relativity (not much) they all happen to be correct! Consider how this thought experiment refutes time dilation. Whenever physicists claim that GR proves that gravitational gradients affect time, they are wrong. They dont. Gravity does not affect time: it affects clocks. And that is not the same thing. If gravity affects only clocks, and not actual time, then like tomorrows paper, the Summit Clock would not be one day into the actual future, as compared to the Base Clock; and if it were quickly transported down the mountain (where it would begin ticking off time at the same rate as the other clock), then the Summit Clock would continue to give readouts offset exactly twenty-four hours ahead of the Base Clock. (The brief trip down the mountain had a relatively negligible impact on its timekeeping.) However, if different gravitational gradients truly affected time, and the Summit Clock were truly one day ahead in time of the other, then the helicopter should not be able to bring them into contact after a mere ten minute trip! The duration of the flight was measured at 10 minutes by both clocks within less than a billionth of a second. (Having worked at McDonnell Douglas on the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter, I know a bit of about these machines, enough to state authoritatively that helicopters are not time machines.) If the Summit Clock truly experienced time faster than the Base Clock, then once the helicopter brought the clock to the base of the mountain, at that point, then another twenty-four hours would have to pass by before the operator at the base could even see the Summit Clock sitting there (after returning from lunch, behold, the clock cometh!). So the operator would have waited until Friday, at ten minutes after noon, before he could see the clock suddenly appear on the ground next to his Base Clock. But, that is not what would happen, is it? What actually would have happened is, having packed a sack lunch that day, he saw the clock at the same moment that it was being delivered. The Summit Clock and the Base Clock had been ticking at different rates for billions of years. Yet both had traveled around the Sun the exact same number of times. Both clocks saw the exact same number of sunrises and sunsets! However the Summit Clocks readout suggested that it had seen one additional sunrise and sunset than had the Base Clock, which of course it had not. The Summit Clock and the Base Clock both revolve around the earths axis in the same solar day at the exact same longitude, so to interpret their readouts as measuring different length days is to be confused. Genesis says that God gave us the Sun (and other astronomic bodies) for seasons, and for days and years. It turns out that God gave mankind great timekeepers (and less misleading ones than our atomic clocks as interpreted by theorists)! The movements within our solar system give us a more correct understanding of the absolute nature of time than do the ticks of atomic clocks. So, whatever cosmologists are actually trying to say when they speak of time dilation, here is the truth. Gravity does not affect time. Gravity affects clocks.
In this scenario, as with the real world atomic clocks in Greenwich and Boulder (one across the Atlantic, and the other a few miles up Highway 93 from Denver Bible Church and our KGOV.com studio), both clocks exist in the exact same ultimate time reference, and always will, as long as they both shall tick. The false theory of epicycles did a better job of predicting the positions of the planets in the sky as compared to early Copernican calculations, yet epicycles were incorrect. Relativitys time dilation does a great job of predicting the read out of an atomic clock at various altitudes and accelerations (experimentally, what, to within less than 1% of theoretical performance?) But that does not prove that time is relative. Rather, it proves that gravity affects clocks. Imagine if ancient Eskimos used a seal bladder to keep time, filling it up with water, and counting sixty drips for each minute. (Why sixty? Well, since the earth originally orbited the Sun in exactly 360 days, the ancients divided circles into 360 degrees, and a hexagonal system of time developed, with the day and night divided anciently into 12 hour segments, and measurements of time divided into convenient hexagonal units.) Anyway, occasionally a drunkard would wander by and squeeze the bladder, bringing a native physicist to suggest his theory of alcoholic time dilation! So, both the Eskimo clock and the atomic clock prove the same thing. When exposed to different gravitational gradients (and drunken tantrums), it is the various measuring instruments of time, like atomic clocks, seal bladders, GPS satellites, metabolism, etc., that are affected. A simple experiment is worth a thousand theories, albeit like Schrodinger's Cat, this one is a thought experiment. The Summit Clock and the Base Clock both go around the world in the same day with the exact same duration, so they cannot disagree on the length of a day or of an eon. If this Summit Clock experiment is valid, then we find out that the amateurs are wrong, and also, that the amateurs include a lot of professionals. And Calvinists too. For my interest in all this is theological. Biblically, I have been convinced that time is an eternal attribute of reality, and thus, of Gods existence, seen most easily in that He is relational. And many Calvinists and others teach that God is outside of time existing in an eternal now, and that He created time. So Calvinists commonly quote popular understandings of General Relativitys time dilation as evidence for their claim that time is not absolute, and thus, God can exist outside of time. So, I have a vested interested in refuting that. Thus I argue that when folks say that time speeds up or slows down in different frames of reference, what they really mean is that stuff affects clocks.
My theological bias does not change the fact the Earth does not orbit the Sun at two different rates simultaneously. In this clock scenario, at exactly high noon on the Friday in question, the two clocks crossed an imaginary vector from the sun in exact unison, as theyve done every day of the experiment, so they cannot show an actual difference between them in the duration of a day, since they themselves exactly mark the rotation and orbit of the earth, marking the passage of each day. They have been simultaneously crossing such vectors that mark out a single day, and theyve simultaneously crosses such vectors seven times marking a week, and 365 times (or so) marking a year, and so on, marking out the centuries, millennia, and eons, in exact synchronicity, such that these clocks physically demonstrate zero difference in the length of a day or an eon for the two clocks. Thus, because adding zero plus zero billions of times will never accumulate to a 24-hour difference in time, the variant readouts of the clocks is only superficial, and does not indicate that time ran faster or slower in a different frame of reference, but rather, that gravity affects clocks.
And here is my suggested experiment: lets hike to the top of 14,110-foot Pikes Peak and enter the snack bar at the summit, grab the old round wall clock, the one thats been up there so long that when removed it will leave a clean white circle on the wall. And then well ride the train down to the base of the mountain in Manitou Springs, and rush the old ticking clock a few miles to the Clock Tower at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs. And when we get there, we will touch the two together, and see if the space-time continuum ruptures, or anything like that.
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"Gravity does not affect time: it affects clocks."
Great point.
The only way you can arrive at the conclusion that one clock should be 24 hours into the future is if you assume that time is static for all observers -- i.e. one 24 hour period for the observer at the peak is exactly another 24 hour period for the other observer at the base. Stated another way, you are exchanging their hours 1 for 1, i.e. a 24 hour period for the peak observer is 24 hours for the summit observer. Following this line of thought, one could rationally conclude that the peak observer should be 24 hours in time ahead of the base observer. And you did just that. But this is a fatal misunderstanding of what relativity teaches, and so naturally you arrive at the wrong conclusion.Originally Posted by Bob Enyart
Relative time means that in the same number of sunrises and sunsets, each observer actually experiences a different interval of time as measured by whatever clock you chose (dripping water, heart rate, atomic clocks, mechanical clocks, etc.) You seem to be confused on this point -- it doesn't matter whether its an atomic clock or not. It can be any process which changes as a function of time (that includes your existence and all of the interactions with the environment you have). What relativity means is that the length of the day (i.e. sunrise to sunrise) is actually slightly different for each observer.
Again, the summit clock's readout would suggest that there was an additional sunrise if and only if you assume the summit clock experiences the sun rise at the same precise interval the base clock does: once every 24 hours. Relativity makes no such assertion. In fact, it says quite the opposite: each observer will experience a different amount of time between each sunrise. So when calculating out how many sunrises should have been seen by a Summit Clock, simply take the time between sunrises and divide it by the time experienced by the observer. When this calculation is done, both observers will agree on the exact number of sunrises regardless of the time they experienced. What they won't agree on is how much time elapsed between each sunrise and how much total time was experienced. This is what it means to say that time is relative.Yet both had traveled around the Sun the exact same number of times. Both clocks saw the exact same number of sunrises and sunsets! However the Summit Clocks readout suggested that it had seen one additional sunrise and sunset than had the Base Clock, which of course it had not.
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I hate to say it, but I have to agree with Johnny on this one. An atomic clock is more like a stopwatch than a wristwatch.Originally Posted by Johnny
That's my understanding of it.Again, the summit clock's readout would suggest that there was an additional sunrise if and only if you assume the summit clock experiences the sun rise at the same precise interval the base clock does: once every 24 hours. Relativity makes no such assertion. In fact, it says quite the opposite: each observer will experience a different amount of time between each sunrise. So when calculating out how many sunrises should have been seen by a Summit Clock, simply take the time between sunrises and divide it by the time experienced by the observer. When this calculation is done, both observers will agree on the exact number of sunrises regardless of the time they experienced. What they won't agree on is how much time elapsed between each sunrise and how much total time was experienced. This is what it means to say that time is relative.
I'm looking forward to BE's response.
"The truly wise talk little about religion, and are not given to taking sides on doctrinal issues...
They have no time, they say, for that kind of thing.
They have enough to do in trying to faithfully practice what is beyond dispute."
-- George MacDonald
I think this is also important to discuss,
This is more of a philosophical issue but I think it is paramount to the issue at hand and really needs to be discussed. What does it mean to say that clocks and things that measure intervals are effected but the interval itself is not effected? It is just as valid to say that the interval itself has changed as it is to say that all our measurements of any given interval have changed. Indeed both statements are functionally equivalent -- in either case any given interval experienced has changed. This is not a "broken clock" issue, it's far far deeper than that. Every periodic event can be used as a clock -- be it our respirations, our heart rate, how long it takes me to tie my shoe (assuming I do it exactly the same each time I do it), how many words per minute I read, how many times a minute I blink, etc. etc. If all of these things change as a result of relativity, what does it mean to say that time hasn't changed, only the things that measure it? It is meaningless.Originally Posted by Bob Enyart
There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear. - Daniel Dennett
All physical objects are in some way clocks. And the rate at which they interact with each other slows from the point of view of an outside observer is inversely proportional to their velocity with respect to that observer. Removing measureing devices from the phenomena they measure cuts right at the heart of empiricism itself.
"People ask me if I've ever been called a Nazi. I answer that no one has ever had dreams of being tied down and sexually ravished by someone dressed as a liberal." - P.J. O'Rourke
That's special relativity. We're talking mostly about general relativity, which has to do with gravity rather than velocity.Originally Posted by Supremum
God said that he gave us the stars, planets etc. for the measurement of time.Originally Posted by Johnny
Are these methods better than ours?
Random changes are destructive to any carefully crafted piece of work, such as a computer program, a novel or the genome of a lifeform.
Matt 23:24Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
I'm curious how you would answer your own question, bob, in conjunction with the following question. Do you use the stars and planets etc., or watches and clocks etc.?Originally Posted by bob b
I use different methods depending on the purpose, e.g. my sun dial is too heavy to carry around.Originally Posted by aharvey
Random changes are destructive to any carefully crafted piece of work, such as a computer program, a novel or the genome of a lifeform.
Matt 23:24Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
I think that pretty much sums it up.Originally Posted by johnny
Non sequiturOriginally Posted by Enyart
This is true. You do have a vested interest. But ... you're still wrong on both accounts.Originally Posted by Enyart
Oops, you only answered half of my query (and flippantly at that); imagine! The other part was to answer your own question:Originally Posted by bob b
"God said that he gave us the stars, planets etc. for the measurement of time.
Are these methods better than ours?"
Or are you acknowledging the pointlessness of your own question?
I disagree. If, as Johnny says:Originally Posted by Johnny
- every periodic event can be used as a clock, and
- (from his first post) "Relative time means that in the same number of sunrises and sunsets, each observer actually experiences a different interval of time as measured by whatever clock you chose",
then we should be able to prove relativity not through the use of more accurate clocks, but by the use of different methods of timekeeping. Thus we should see human hearts beating faster in higher gravity, at a rate clearly predicted by general relativity. We should see hair growing at different rates under different gravitational situations. All these means of measuring time should be influenced by general relativity.
Where is the evidence for a global flood?
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A 3-year-old girl was killed Saturday after a suspect fleeing in a car got into a shootout with police in Prince George's County, Md., outside of Washington, D.C.
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The Top 10 Restaurants of 2006
In October, when I contemplated writing about the 10 best restaurants I reviewed in 2006, my first thought was that it was a pretty dismal year. However, when I actually looked at the list of what had opened and what was coming up, I changed my mind.
In January, I reviewed three restaurants that opened at the end of 2005, all of which were excellent and have made it onto this year's list. After a lull, I hit the jackpot again in June and July, but then there was a dry spell until November.
In the last couple of months, though, so many high-profile places have opened that I didn't have enough time to review them all this year. They include Salt House, Perbacco and Pescheria, all in San Francisco; and Sam's Chowder House in Half Moon Bay. Look for reviews of these restaurants early next year.
As it turns out, I could easily have picked 20 places for today's list. It was a particularly good year for Indian food. While only Dosa made the top 10, two Indian restaurants in Palo Alto -- Junnoon and Mantra -- also stood out. It seems that creative, upscale Indian food is finally finding its way into the mainstream.
Looking at the newest restaurants, some other trends also emerged. Small plates, represented by Terzo, are still big draws. Mexican has finally come to the forefront at Tres Agaves and Mamacita, and Asian is well represented by Bushi Tei, 415, Bong Su and Straits. Hime serves some of the best sushi in San Francisco.
While the restaurant business seemed to pick up with each passing month, it's still tough. I reviewed Scott Howard twice this year because shortly after opening, the restaurant changed its concept slightly and lowered prices. The result was that the focus and the food actually improved.
Here are my top 10 restaurants, listed in order of when they were reviewed.
Tres Agaves
Good, moderately priced Mexican food has largely been missing from the Bay Area, and Tres Agaves (along with Mamacita) go a long way in correcting that.
This grand, warehouse-size restaurant is a partnership between Joseph Manzare of Globe, Zuppa and the newly opened Pescheria; Sammy Hagar, the rocker who heads up Cabo Wabo Enterprises; and Julio Bermejo, the owner of Tommy's Mexican Restaurant and one of the country's Tequila authorities.
With this combination, it's little wonder that the food is excellent, the interior is as noisy as a rock concert and scores of Tequilas are used for what are truly the best margaritas in the city.
Among the food offerings, there are great carnitas, gorditas and chile rellenos stuffed with cheese and huitlacoche, a corn fungus that is to Mexico what the truffle is to France. All main courses come with four side dishes: cabbage salad, refried beans, black beans in epazote and green poblano rice.
Hiro Sone and Lissa Doumani followed up their popular -- and exceptional -- Terra in St. Helena with an equally stellar restaurant in the St. Regis Hotel. Sone built a stylish and serene platform to freely mix cultures.
The restaurant has a very sensual, cross-cultural ambience, with a sushi bar, open kitchen and large windows draped in gauzy silk fabric that gives a soft-focus view of the urban landscape outside.
The appetizer menu includes eight sashimi offerings, creamy burrata with roasted cauliflower, the silken Japanese custard chawan mushi, and a warming mussel saffron soup with red kuri squash and caramelized onions.
It may read like a random mix, but in the hands of Sone and chef Greg Dunmore (a 2006 Chronicle Rising Star), it makes perfect sense.
My favorite dish is Lissa's Staff Meal -- long, chewy strips of cuttlefish mounded in a bowl with julienne of daikon, burdock root, coins of okra, orange salmon eggs and sea urchin. Diners mix it up tableside with a quail egg and a dab of wasabi.
Main courses include the signature broiled sake-marinated black cod with shrimp dumplings in shiso broth, grilled Wagyu strip steak with roasted Japanese mountain potatoes, and grilled quail on a polenta cake.
Richard Reddington, formerly of Auberge du Soleil, is doing some of the best food in Napa Valley. With the recent announcement of Nicole Plue taking over pastry duties, we can expect even better things in 2007.
Reddington has a modern sensibility, combining ingredients in an imaginative way. The results are always bright, whether it's a glazed pork belly with apple puree, burdock and soy caramel; or pumpkin soup topped with squash tempura and five-spice powder.
For main courses, he has served roast chicken with salsify and artichoke ragout on soft polenta with a thyme jus, and wild striped bass with honey-glazed root vegetables and a green peppercorn sauce.
The interior, like the food, has a certain purity, with large windows overlooking the 25-seat patio. The white walls and clean lines contrast with the cabreuva vermelha wood floors from South America and the curved Gubi Danish chairs. Overall, it's a flawless 51-seat jewel box designed for the high-roller wine crowds and Reddington's pristine food.
This is the year that Indian food finally made it into the trendy mainstream, with Dosa in San Francisco, and Junnoon and Mantra, both in Palo Alto. It was tough to decide which should be in the top 10, but I finally went with Dosa because of its modern decor and South Indian focus. With a well-executed wine list, cocktails made with soju, and a menu well-representative of the cuisine, it's contemporary while respecting tradition.
Dosas, those large crepe-like specialties, are the centerpiece and worth ordering, particularly the rava masala, which has a potato filling with onions and fresh herbs pressed into the batter. Curries are also distinctive, especially channa bhatura, a chickpea stew.
In addition to the a la carte menu, Dosa has added a four-course fixed-price menu ($32) encompassing a starter, mini dosa, a South Indian curry and dessert, with choices in each category.
Even before my review visits were complete, Terzo was finishing out a back room for private parties and overflow dining. The place has become so popular that it could probably fill double the space.
And with good reason: The interior, created by Cass Calder Smith, sets an upscale tone for Mark Gordon's small-plates menu. Gordon, who also heads up the Rose's Cafe kitchen, offers about 20 dishes, which allows him the freedom to change the menu daily.
Roasted beef, sliced over grilled scallions and potatoes and topped with a dollop of chimichurri, has become a staple, as has the chicken spiedini skewered with bread and onions.
On a visit earlier this month, he offered roasted cauliflower with tahini and preserved lemon, slices of albacore tuna with fleshy beans and artichokes, and a fried egg bruschetta with braised greens and pancetta. It's the type of food you want to eat every night.
It's little wonder that Terzo has become my favorite purveyor of small plates.
I can't think of another restaurant, other than Zuni Cafe, that has such an egalitarian mix of patrons. You'll find socialites, politicos, artists and plain folks from the neighborhood who come together under the impressive beamed, trussed roof. The place has already become a classic.
Nopa was opened in April by Laurence Jossel and Jeff Hanak, who met at Chow, and Jossel's fiancee, Allyson Woodman. The large space, at one time a bank, features polished concrete floors and a large bar with a communal table, open kitchen and mezzanine.
The place is always abuzz, even late at night, when many workers from other restaurants stop by for a bite on their way home. Jossel offers the type of food that keep people coming back: roasted London broil with cauliflower gratin, juicy grass-fed hamburger, fish stew and flatbread topped with bacon and caramelized onions.
The kitchen is outfitted with a fryer, wood-burning oven and wood grill, so the staff can do just about anything. The rotisserie produces a stellar chicken, the grill a great pork chop, and the wood-burning oven an earthy casserole of giant white beans with tomato, feta and oregano. From the fryer comes some of the best fries around and crunchy little fried fish served with paper-thin slices of fennel and a romesco sauce.
Just up the street from the flashiest strip in the city, Daniel Patterson has opened a serene oasis on Broadway, a few doors down from Centerfolds. It makes for an interesting juxtaposition of sensual pleasures.
In the compact space, the chef offers two types of dining -- a sensational four-course fixed-price menu ($75) and an 11-course tasting menu ($105) in the serene bunker-like 28-seat main dining room, and a more casual a la carte menu in the lounge, which is just big enough to seat 20 along one wall.
Patterson, one of the most intellectual chefs in the Bay Area, has created a personal menu using unusual ingredients and modern techniques such as foams and essential oils. His pink grapefruit mousse caps supremes of citrus macerated with Cognac and tarragon, which comes with a generous drop of scented oil, infused with ginger, black pepper, grapefruit and tarragon, that echoes the flavors in the appetizers. The waiter instructs diners to rub a little on their skin, so the aromas reinforce the taste of the appetizer.
Pea soup features a scoop of ricotta sorbet, and Patterson's sweetbreads ravioli are topped with a frothy layer of truffle foam. He fries a disk of bone marrow and crowns it with a dollop of caviar and a tiny quenelle of beet gelee.
The lounge menu offers simpler combinations including pork rillettes, wonderful udon noodles with mushrooms, a pork chop with broccoli rabe and Yukon Gold potatoes, and bourbon and Coke float. The most expensive main course is $19, a great value for the surroundings and quality.
Poleng Lounge
To realize his dream of opening Poleng Lounge, chef Timothy Luym not only cooked at the restaurant, he also did a part-time gig at a nearby fraternity. He shouldn't have to moonlight (or should I say daylight) much longer -- he and his partners have created one of the freshest and most interesting restaurants in the Bay Area.
There are a couple of themes going on here, and surprisingly, they fit together seamlessly. At 10:30 p.m., after dinner service, the space and a large back room become a nightclub. Fortunately, the two are separated by a long hall, so dining in the front dining room feels like an oasis on the beach in Thailand or Bali.
Tea is a specialty and shows up in many alcoholic drinks and in some of the food, including the incredibly delicious Buddha's Treasures -- pan-fried dumplings dusted with green tea powder.
Tea also gives depth to the salt-and-pepper drunken shrimp and the curries. One of the best dishes is the beef tenderloin salpicao, in which the seared pepper-garlic fillet is served with poached marrow bones, coconut breadsticks and a mango salsa.
Luym is of Chinese and Spanish descent, but he grew up in Manila and traveled extensively in Southeast Asia; his small-plates menu reflects all those influences. After five visits, there's not a single dish I wouldn't order again.
Toshio Sakuma and his wife, Keiko, have developed a cult following for their nightly kaiseki menu (order ahead) and their super-fresh sashimi at their Menlo Park restaurant.
The sashimi and sushi are the best I've had in the Bay Area, and the a la carte menu features exceptional tempura and other classic preparations, but the soul of the restaurant lies in the seven-course kaiseki menu. It artfully combines fresh local ingredients and key items imported from Japan such as tiny kidney bean-size potatoes, lily root, wheat gluten and some prized fish such as yellowtail and sea eel.
While the menu changes with the season, dishes such as grilled mackerel wrapped in cedar paper and Kobe beef draped over mushroom-laced rice will forever be embedded in my memory.
More effort has been lavished on the often extraordinary presentations than on the interior, which is done in a neutral palette without any distinguishing characteristics. It's simple and clean, with a six-seat sushi bar in one corner.
Although it opened two years ago, Kaygetsu has now moved to the top ranks in food; it scored a 28 in the latest Zagat Survey, one point below Gary Danko and the French Laundry.
Ad Hoc
Ad Hoc was originally scheduled to live only six months as an interim concept while Thomas Keller worked out the details on his "burgers and bottles" restaurant designed to celebrate America's favorite sandwich and Napa Valley's favorite beverage.
Because of this temporary status Keller made minimal changes to the interior of what was previously the Yountville Diner and the Wine Garden, although the look is clean and appropriately casual for this new occupant.
I, and just about anyone else who has eaten the four-course fixed-price menu ($45), hope the restaurant will become permanent. The combinations are so good that it doesn't matter that there's just one menu a night.
Meals are served family style, starting with soup or salad, followed by a main course, cheese and dessert. Since there are no choices, diners can call a day in advance to get a preview of the menu.
Main courses have a rustic bent: short ribs, fried chicken, confit duck legs and roast sirloin, to name a few. It all sounds simple, but at Ad Hoc I tasted the best short ribs of my life; they're slowly cooked sous vide style for 48 hours, then are seared and roasted to produce the most tender, luscious piece of meat imaginable.
If I had to pick the most memorable dish of the year, this would be it.
The Top 10
Here are my favorites of all the restaurants I reviewed this year, in alphabetical order.
Ad Hoc. 6476 Washington St., Yountville; (707) 944-2487. Dinner Monday and Thursday-Sunday. Fixed-price menu: $45.
Ame. 689 Mission St. (at Third in the St. Regis Hotel), San Francisco; (415) 284-4040. Dinner nightly. Main courses: $24-$37.
Coi. 373 Broadway (near Montgomery), San Francisco; (415) 393-9000. Dinner Tuesday-Saturday. Fixed-price menus: $75-$105; lounge menu: $6-$19.
Dosa. 995 Valencia St. (near 21st Street), San Francisco; (415) 642-3672. Brunch weekends, dinner nightly. Main courses: $10-$16.
Kaygetsu. 325 Sharon Park Drive (at Sand Hill Road), Menlo Park; (650) 234-1084. Lunch Tuesday-Friday; dinner Tuesday-Sunday. Kaiseki menu: $95; a la carte main courses: $13-$22.
Nopa. 560 Divisadero (at Hayes), San Francisco; (415) 864-8643. Dinner nightly. Main courses: $12-$19.50.
Poleng Lounge. 1751 Fulton St. (near Masonic), San Francisco; (415) 441-1751. Dinner Tuesday-Sunday; bar open until 2 a.m. Small plates: $6-$12.50.
Redd. 6480 Washington St. (at Oak Circle), Yountville; (707) 944-2222. Lunch, dinner daily. Dinner main courses: $20-$29.
Terzo. 3011 Steiner St. (at Union), San Francisco; (415) 441-3200. Dinner nightly. Small plates; $7-$14.
Tres Agaves. 130 Townsend St. (near Second Street), San Francisco; (415) 227-0500. Lunch, dinner daily. Main courses at dinner: $12-$22.
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GSW has its five-game winning streak snapped and falls back to .500 at 12-12 overall. The Hurricanes are 8-9 in PBC play and tied with Clayton State for the No. 3 seed out of the west division for the conference tournament in March. Augusta State improves to 12-10 overall and 7-8 in the PBC.
ASU set the pace early by spreading the floor and allowing most of the shot clock to tick down on each possession before moving play towards the basket. The strategy worked. The Hurricanes largest lead of the afternoon came just over two minutes into the game when Jamon Hawkins buried a 3-pointer to put GSW up 5-2. From there the Jaguars jumped ahead and eventually built a seven-point lead, 27-20, in time for the halftime break.
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ASU closed the game on a 9-2 run over the final 5:47.
The Hurricanes finished with their fewest field goals of the season (15) to go with a season-low shooting percentage (37.5). Even though GSW grabbed its fewest rebounds of the 2012-13 campaign, the Hurricanes still held the edge over ASU on Saturday, 26-20.
Matt Shaw led Southwestern with 14 points and a game-high seven rebounds. Davis added 12 points and pair of blocks.
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HAMPTON, Ga. (Oct. 24, 2008) - Ryan Newman, driver of the Penske Racing No.12 Kodak Dodge Charger, didn't get an opportunity to capture the all-time pole record at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Friday as qualifying was rained out for the 10th time this season.
Newman, who has seven poles and is tied with mentor Buddy Baker for the most poles at Atlanta, will instead start 17th in the Pep Boys Auto 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Sunday after inclement weather cancelled most of the day's activities.
Per the NASCAR Rule Book, the field was set by the 2008 owner points. The No. 12 Kodak Dodge team is currently 17th in NASCAR Cup Series owner point standings.
"We got one lap in about seven minutes of practice today, and we were on top of the board," said Newman. "I'm pretty bummed that we didn't get the chance to qualify because I'm confident we would have had a shot at the pole. The car felt good in that one lap, so I am looking forward to how it is in practice tomorrow."
Newman has one top-five and four top-10 finishes in 13 starts at Atlanta. He finished 14th at the 1.54 mile oval track in the March race.
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The six business representatives included Chinese National Federation of Industries chairman Rock Hsu (許勝雄), General Chamber of Commerce chairman Lawrence Chang (張平沼), Chinese National Association of Industry and Commerce chairman Kenneth Lo (駱錦明), Taiwan Federation of Industry chairman Hsu Hsien-rong (許顯榮), Taiwan Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association chairman Gou Tai-chiang (郭台強) and National Association of Small and Medium Enterprises president Lin Hui-ying (林慧瑛).
The visit by the representatives has raised concerns among the groups — most of which strongly oppose the trade agreement —because it coincided with the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits chairman Chen Deming's (陳德銘) eight-day visit to Taiwan that began yesterday, an arrangement the pan-green camp said constituted an "affront" to Taiwanese sovereignty.
Taiwan Labor Front secretary-general Son Yu-lian (孫友聯) said it was apparent that the six associations had joined the Association of Taiwan Investment Enterprises on the Mainland (ATIEM) in its efforts to pressure the legislature into passing the accord.
The ATIEM, a business group affiliated with China's Taiwan Affairs Office, recently placed advertisements in several local newspapers urging the treaty's approval.
"Civic groups like us may be at a disadvantage, but that does not entitle those associations to deprive us of a space where we can freely express opinions," Son said.
Son called on Wang to receive members of the groups in the same manner in which he hosted the associations' representatives, and urged the legislature to listen and respond to public opinions rather than caving in to external pressure.
Democratic Front Against Cross-Strait Trade in Services Agreement convener Lai Chung-chiang (賴中強) said most members of the six associations had business interests in China and enjoyed close ties with Chinese politicians.
Citing examples, Lai said electronics conglomerate Kinpo Group had about 60,000 employees in China and was talking to China's major smartphone maker, Huawei Technologies, about a plan to jointly establish a plant in Brazil.
Capital Securities Corp, the nation's fourth-largest brokerage house by market share, announced days before the agreement's signing in June that it was already searching for potential joint-venture partners in China's Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, Lai said, adding that the Industrial Bank of Taiwan founded the IBT International Leasing Co in Suzhou in 2011.
"It is absolutely unreasonable for President Ma Ying-jeou's (馬英九) administration to demand that the accord be ratified before the current legislative session ends next month, when the Ministry of Economic Affairs has yet to list all the service-related sectors covered by the treaty or complete its impact assessment report on the agreement," Lai said.
Lai urged the legislature to listen to the voice of the people and respect the "right to survival" of Taiwan's 10 million workers and small-and-medium-sized enterprises.


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One of the major sections in my book is the development of a unified process framework. The reader might well ask: with such breadth and depth available in COBIT, CMMI, and ITIL, why spend any time developing a new framework? As Jeff Kaplan notes in his excellent Strategic IT Portfolio Management,
The last thing the IT industry needs is another proprietary framework. The best thing that could happen would be if all the disparate IT associations (ITIL, SEI, COBIT, etc.), as well as academics who study and teach IT management, were to consolidate their frameworks into one definitive, comprehensive, public-domain reference model that would align industry terminology and create a single blueprint for IT managers.
Well stated. However, the primary reason for YAFW (Yet Another Framework) is that, even though all these frameworks are (to varying degrees) seen as process-oriented, none have a true value chain orientation. They do not define what the core value-add process is for the IT organization, and it is very easy in reading them in all their detail to lose perspective as to what is primary and what is supporting in enterprise IT.
This is in part due to the fact that IT has been somewhat weak in understanding and leveraging supporting processes. Enterprise architecture, project management office, capacity planning, data administration, quality assurance, and other such teams are perpetually at risk in many organizations where they are viewed as bureaucratic distractions. The core imperative is …
The COBIT/CMM/ITIL frameworks recognize this mentality as a problem, but overcompensate through exhaustive coverage of supporting processes to the point that the reader starts to wonder, "where's the beef"? For example, in CMMI, Engineering is only one of the four process area categories, and within Engineering, the Technical Solution process area ("design, develop, and implement solutions to requirements") is only one of six process areas.
This de-emphasis of the basic construction activity is deliberate, as much mischief has occurred in software engineering in the name of "build the thing and deploy it." However, there is a reason that the software construction activity is seen as "real" work by many practitioners: it is a primary value chain activity. Without actually doing software construction, activities such as configuration management, verification and validation, and process and product quality assurance have no meaning. The core activity has become de-emphasized to the point where bureaucracy swamps it:
Newcomers to CMMI thus examine the framework and are baffled at how actually writing code seems marginalized, seemingly no more important on a process level than secondary activities such as Risk Management or Decision Analysis and Resolution. The Agile movement is in some senses a response: "Working software is the primary measure of progress."
The same is true of both COBIT and ITIL. Each are comprehensive in their way (if one considers all ITIL volumes), but both mix primary and secondary IT activities into what might be called laundry-list frameworks. Capacity Management is a high profile activity in ITIL, but would probably not be identified by the end IT customer as value-add, while Incident Management probably would be. The entire system design and build activity is seen as one small part of the Release process area, itself a subsidiary of the Change process. COBIT (the most holistic framework) similarly has "Develop and maintain procedures" (clearly a supporting process) as a peer process to "Install and accredit systems" (clearly core value chain).
The solution is not "either-or," but "both-and":
The supporting processes take their rightful place as enablers, but the central priority of delivery remains. The value chain is that sequence of activities which directly add value to the customer's end experience. (The concept of value chain originates with theorist Michael Porter, from his book Competitive Advantage.)
The concept of "ERP for IT" is a driver for this book, and the salient characteristic of ERP systems is that they enable value chains. Without a value chain perspective on IT, we have no basis for using "ERP" as an architectural concept.
Here is one representation of an IT value chain concept.
There are others - see especially John Gibert's IT Physicial Heal Thyself.
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In Crazy Talk: A Not-So-Stuffy Dictionary of Theological Terms, editor Rolf Jacobson and others put plain English (and fun) back into theological terms from absolution to YHWH—the latter defined as, "Th Hbrw nm fr Gd, whch w dn't xctly knw hw t prnnc bcs th vwls wr lft t." Or here's monotheism: "The practice of worshiping one god (not counting the one in the mirror)." Each definition is followed by a brief but beefy explanation of the term. Augsburg Books.
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The film Renewal: Stories from America's Religious-Environmental Movement contains eight compelling stories of faith-based activism around the country—including how evangelicals have mobilized against mountaintop removal in Appalachia, the ways Catholics and Native Americans have joined to protect natural resources, and what a Jewish camp teaches kids about the environment. The 90-minute doc is great for small groups, as the eight segments can stand alone. www.renewalproject.net.
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In Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire, theology professor William Cavanaugh proposes a "theological microeconomics"—but don't let that scare you. In this slim book, he takes on the free market, consumerism, globalization, and scarcity, arguing in clear prose that Christians should foster economic practices that are in line with the gospel, not the market. He also offers concrete ways to link theology with practice. Eerdmans.
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There are nine chapters organized around themes like freedom, forgiveness, and faithfulness. Each chapter presents thoughts about modesty from a young man's viewpoint, thoughts from Rachel, and includes thought questions, memory verses, and prayers. I loved the Christian male viewpoint. That would have been so convincing to me as a teen. I found some of the practical suggestions and ideas about dress to be a bit too prescriptive, but an audience of young girls could perhaps benefit from her approach.
This book gives readers an honest look at the issues and challenges facing Christians in the international modeling industry. Our culture typically glorifies this industry and the female form, so I found Rachel's honest assessment of the problems inherent in the industry refreshing and convicting. Any young Christian girl, but particularly those with dreams of a career in modeling or fashion, could benefit by struggling with this material.
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