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Keith Miskimins, Ph.D.
- Senior Scientist/Director, Cancer Biology Research Center
- Professor, Basic Biomedical Sciences, USDSSM
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University
- Ph.D., Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Arizona
- M.S., Genetics, University of Arizona
- B.S., Zoology, University of Wyoming
Current Research: Dr. Keith Miskimins is interested in mechanisms that regulate growth of both normal and cancer cells. His research is currently focused on proteins that regulate cell cycle progression. A major goal is to understand how the cyclin dependent kinase inhibitor p27 is regulated and how this regulation is altered in breast cancer cells.


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What's new in Windows 8 VDI licensing: Free ride for Windows RT
The updated licensing rules for Microsoft VDI environments won't change much for PCs, but Windows 8 on ARM tablets won't need an extra license to access a VDI session.
After taking a lot of heat for virtual desktop licensing that's costly and restrictive, Microsoft is showing signs of loosening up with Windows 8 VDI licensing.
All we have to go on at this point is blog entries -- not the official guidelines -- but the information published so far shows that Microsoft won't change the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) rules for regular PCs. Microsoft VDI licensing for a Windows 8 PC appears to be the same as those for a Windows 7 PC.
But the company is changing the game when it comes to other devices, which could help limit the damage that Apple's iPad is doing to its PC business. (Microsoft released news about its Surface tablet to compete in that market as well.) Here's how Microsoft VDI licensing works and how it will look different in Windows 8.
Part two of this series:
Does Microsoft CDL provide the same VDI access as Windows RT devices?
Getting to VDI with Windows 7
First, let's review the existing Microsoft VDI licensing rules.
To use VDI today, a PC needs a Windows operating system license to which Software Assurance (SA), Microsoft's maintenance and upgrade rights program, has been added. Having Windows-plus-SA not only licenses remote access to virtual desktops, but it licenses the OS running in the remote virtual machine you're accessing.
What about non-Windows devices such as iPads? Any device with an embedded OS (even an embedded Windows OS) used to access VDI needs a substitute called a Virtual Desktop Access (VDA) subscription, which costs $88 to $100 a year -- about twice what it costs to add SA to Windows. The vast majority of today's tablets have embedded OSes, as do all smartphones.
What's new in Windows 8?
For Windows 8 VDI licensing, Microsoft says it will give a free ride on VDI to devices with one particular embedded OS: Windows 8 RT (formerly called Windows 8 on ARM), which will run on tablets with ARM processors. Anyone who is the primary user of a PC with Windows-plus-SA can use a "companion" device running RT to access VDI without needing a VDA subscription.
More on Windows 8 licensing:
It's not too soon to start thinking about Windows 8 licensing
That cracks the door open a bit for people who would otherwise have to purchase VDA. Naysayers will point out that it will cost more to purchase a Windows RT device to get "free" VDI access than to pay a VDA subscription on your current tablet for six or seven years, but for those who go the Windows RT route for other reasons, such as potentially better Office compatibility, it's definitely a bonus.
This is speculation, but Microsoft could sweeten the bonus by giving Windows RT devices a free ride on remote access to Office Professional Plus (OPP) instances, too. For example, licensing OPP-plus-SA on your work PC could give your RT device free remote access to OPP in a VDI environment. (Today, remote access to OPP requires assigning a full OPP license to the device you're using, even if it's a tablet that can't run OPP, which most can't.)
Non-Windows 8 companion devices
If your BTF (best tablet friend) isn't of the Windows family, can it sneak through the crack that Microsoft has opened for Windows RT? No.
Microsoft blogs get hazy here, but in some respects, the company is tightening the screws on devices such as iPads. If you are the primary user of a Windows-plus-SA device (which will technically be licensed for Windows 8 via the SA upgrade rights, even if it's actually running Windows 7), you'll have to buy a Companion Device License (CDL) for a non-Windows device. The CDL gives you access to a remote desktop, and one CDL licenses four personally owned devices.
Keep reading part two of this series on Windows 8 VDI licensing to see how Microsoft complicates VDI access for non-Windows companion devices.
Paul DeGroot is Principal Consultant at Pica Communications, an independent firm focused on optimizing Microsoft customers' license spending and agreements.

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Posted: Jan 17, 2012
- Nikita Green named to Honor Roll -
New York, N.Y. - The Skyline Conference released the eighth Women's Basketball report for the 2011-12 season this afternoon, including Player of the Week, Rookie of the Week, Honor Roll and Conference statistics.
Junior guard Nikita Green (Roosevelt, N.Y.) was named to the Skyline Conference Player of the Week Honor Roll for women's basketball. Green led the Rams to a pair of league wins as she scored 12.3 points per game and added 3.3 rebounds and 2.7 assists. She also had a team-high 15 points against #1 Amherst.
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Colorado companies will get $38.2 million in Department of Energy Recovery Act grants as part of a $3.4 billion national push toward an improved energy grid.
Energy transmission improvements are particularly important for development of wind and solar energy, so the grants are good news for Colorado.
The Colorado grants includes money for 121,000 smart meters in Fort Collins and Pueblo, which could allow for significant innovation in pricing structures and energy conservation. Here is a full list of the grants awarded nationwide.
President Obama traveled to a solar plant in Arcadia, Florida to announce the grants. Here are his remarks.
Even better in these difficult financial times is that the money will more than matched by private industry.
Read below for Gov. Ritter's news release on the Colorado awards: Read more…


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There are two ways to do it, one is with tput command. We will see that some other time, today we will consider the escape sequence way.
First we need to understand the colors as understood by bash. Some time back a fried of mine gave me this little script to find the colors. You can download it Script bash colors. Here is the script
T=\'amit agarwal\' # The test text
echo -e \"\\n 40m 41m 42m 43m\\
44m 45m 46m 47m\";
for FGs in \' m\' \' 1m\' \' 30m\' \'1;30m\' \' 31m\' \'1;31m\' \' 32m\' \\
\'1;32m\' \' 33m\' \'1;33m\' \' 34m\' \'1;34m\' \' 35m\' \'1;35m\' \\
\' 36m\' \'1;36m\' \' 37m\' \'1;37m\';
do FG=${FGs// /}
echo -en \" $FGs \\033[$FG $T \"
for BG in 40m 41m 42m 43m 44m 45m 46m 47m;
do echo -en \"$EINS \\033[$FG\\033[$BG $T \\033[0m\";
Now you will get output something like below:
Now\'s the time to get our hand dirty. First lets note down some facts
\\[ and \\] respectively marks the begining and end of non-printing character. These characters also mark the start and end of non-countable characters for line wrapping.
\\e is the ASCII escape character also marked by \\033
PS1 holds the string for the command prompt
PS2 holds the string for the command prompt at second level.
So we will use the above two in combination with the color codes that we saw earlier to create our own colored prompt.
Let try with simple one first. Let try something like \"aka>\" in green color. So we will try in the terminal first:
PS1 –> we want to change the command prompt and not the second prompt
\\[ –> Begin non printing character
\\e[ –> Escape character
1;32m –> Color green with no background as per the chart of the output from bash_color script
\\] –> End non printing character
aka> –> Actual prompt
\\[ –> Begin non printing character
\\e[ –> Escape Character
0m –> Restore original color to black
\\] –> End non printing character
Ok, no now all the cryptic code above looks simple, isn\'t it. Let\'s see what all we can put in the command prompt:
Sequence Description
\\a an ASCII bell character (07)
\\d the date in \"Weekday Month Date\" format (e.g., \"Tue May 26\")
the format is passed to strftime(3) and the result is inserted into the prompt string; an empty format results in a locale-
specific time representation. The braces are required
\\e an ASCII escape character (033)
\\h the hostname up to the first '.'
\\H the hostname
\\j the number of jobs currently managed by the shell
\\l the basename of the shell's terminal device name
\\n newline
\\r carriage return
\\s the name of the shell, the basename of $0 (the portion following the final slash)
\\t the current time in 24-hour HH:MM:SS format
\\T the current time in 12-hour HH:MM:SS format
\\@ the current time in 12-hour am/pm format
\\A the current time in 24-hour HH:MM format
\\u the username of the current user
\\v the version of bash (e.g., 2.00)
\\V the release of bash, version + patch level (e.g., 2.00.0)
\\w the current working directory, with $HOME abbreviated with a tilde
\\W the basename of the current working directory, with $HOME abbreviated with a tilde
\\! the history number of this command
\\# the command number of this command
\\$ if the effective UID is 0, a #, otherwise a $
\\nnn the character corresponding to the octal number nnn
\\ a backslash
\\[ begin a sequence of non-printing characters, which could be used to embed a terminal control sequence into the prompt
\\] end a sequence of non-printing characters
So, with the above information in hand, we are ready to create complex command prompts for our shell. If all this does not look like you can handle and need some help on this, there is always help available in the form of bashish and lot of other bash tools to help here.
If you like the artile please digg it or share on your favourite bookmarks site.
Some examples from various sources:
export PS1=\"\\e[0;31m[\\u@\\h \\W]\\$ \\e[m\"
if [ `hostname|cut -c -11` == lonlnddebtp ]; then
PS1='\\[\\e[1;31m\\][\\u@\\h:\\w]\\$\\[\\e[0m\\] ' # PROD, red color
elif [ `hostname|cut -c -11,13-` == lonlnddebtd-z1 ]; then
PS1='\\[\\e[2;32m\\][\\u@\\h:\\w]\\$\\[\\e[0m\\] ' # UAT, green color
PS1='[\\u@\\h:\\w]\\$ '
set PS1 = "%B%{33[31m%}%m %{33[37m%}%B%// \\n"
\\[\\033[34m\\])\\[\\033[31m\\]-\\[\\033[34m\\](\\[\\033[31m\\]\\$(date +%I:%M%P)\\
\\[\\033[34m\\]-:-\\[\\033[31m\\]\\$(date +%m)\\[\\033[34m\\033[31m\\]/\\$(date +%d)\\
export PS1=\"\\[\\e[32;1m\\]\\w> \\[\\e[0m\\]\"
export PS1=\"\\[\\e[36;1m\\]\\u@\\[\\e[32;1m\\]\\H> \\[\\e[0m\\]\"
and so on….
Leave me a comment if you need some specific format for the prompt.


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Sunday, February 6, 2011
Various Updates
In other news, I got Tyrande's Plushie, and I looooove it. It was the 123 total NE artifact I created... that's a lot of surveying, but oh so worth it.
I haven't surveyed since then.
In terms of spec stuff, I have been following my combat log parses for a month or so now, and determined that efflorescence really makes me cry. The amount of healing it does, especially in a 10-man where we still have to spread out fairly often, is too weak compared to other talents I could spend points in.
So I dumped it back to 1/3 points and stuck the other two points in Genesis. Mmmm Genesis.
Some PuGs have made me whimper, others have made me laugh until my sides were splitting. It is comments like that that get me to join the dungeon finder each day when my guildies aren't always available.
Of course, there are still interesting things I start to notice after running an instance for the ten zillionth time.
Like this.
My husband pointed this one out to me during a half-pug daily heroic. It has resulted in me spending a lot of time staring at the instances now rather than at the party's health bars, in search of more interesting faces in the walls and floor... no one has died from it. Yet. :D
7 comments:
- Ohken said...
Genesis is tasty indeed. I went to a talent calculator based on your idea of trading efflorescence for genesis, though, and I see a problem. You can only have 10 points outside of restoration, and taking genesis means giving up either moonglow or furor.
The tradeoff between these three talents is close. I believe moonglow and furor will both give more total healing over the course of a fight. They are different in how they help you, however. Genesis makes each rejuvenate do more, whereas the other two will allow you to cast more rejuvenates without going out of mana.
- February 6, 2011 at 1:34 PM
- Kae said...
I haven't found a need for both furor and moonglow. Furor is 15% increase to your mana pool (which also impacts how much you get back with innervates) while moonglow is just a 9% cost reduction, so I think it's a better choice between the two mana talents (unless I am missing something). It comes down to the trade off between: is your raid dieing faster than you can get heals off, or are you going OoM and is that the cause of your wipes?
Gear level can ultimately play into both, of course.
- February 6, 2011 at 2:56 PM
- Sephrenia said...
To avoid Chef's hat mishaps you could try using the add-on IronChef. When you open your cooking window it automatically equips your hat, changes your title to 'Chef' and then when you close the window it changes your hat back and puts your old title back on. I love it :)
PS Please can we have some tactics for guilds making slow progress in new places? I love your stick pics :)
PPS Where s the obligatory puppy picture?
- February 6, 2011 at 6:48 PM
- Theladas said...
I blame lack of puppy pictures for all our interrupting woes on Nefarian. Should be addressed ASAP.
And yeah, Efflorescence looks so pretty, but half the time I have to move out of it for some boss mechanic or other (damn lightning-infused Onyxia). Even when I'm in it for the full time, +30% of the swiftmend over 7s seems kind of meh. Buffing every hot in your arsenal seems far better, as it impacts all of your healing (LBs for more are tasty on tanks, and rejuvs & WGs for the raid).
Also, can't hurt to have 4s more on Moonfire and IS, can it?
- February 6, 2011 at 9:14 PM
- Kae said...
What? I NEVER--......
Yeah, okay, I moonfire stuff. PEWPEWLAZERS BWAHAHA!
I tried making use of the green puddle on the ranged group, but most of the time I get only about 3 people in it, and the healing it does isn't worth the talent points over Genesis. LB, rejuv, and wild growth ultimately do the bulk of my healing, and Efflorescence was only doing 4% of my total healing over a raid night if it was lucky. I'd give it more consideration if we were a 25-man raid, but... I kinda gotta put my eggs into the tank-healing basket :)
- February 7, 2011 at 8:39 AM
I can't verify the maths here...but Cuddelkin posted an analysis on the mana efficiency of Moonglow vs. Furor, which includes a spreadsheet where you can input your own values.
After putting in my numbers and squinting at it some, I always came to the same conclusion as Cuddlekin, 3/3 Moonglow beats 3/3 Furor.
I dropped my Furor points in favor of Genesis and Moonglow. I will admit to missing the larger base health pool, but I really do like the cheaper spells.
- February 7, 2011 at 6:33 PM
- Sakaki said...
Grats on the doll! And I do the chef hat thing all the time, but normally the boss is dead by then, so no harm done... right? XD Only did it once in cata so far, due to the lack of anything to cook yet.
I've been lazy and waiting for the patch before I change my spec up a little.
- February 7, 2011 at 9:14 PM


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Matthew Morris moves his salon to the South Broadway shopping area
More proof that South Broadway's Baker district is thriving: Matthew Morris has moved his salon into the heart of it. While he was only a few blocks north, the salon at 13 S. Broadway now is in the middle of the shopping and entertainment area that includes such hotspots as Fancy Tiger, Buffalo Exchange, Decade and Sewn.
We're guessing that his clientele isn't shopping much at the business immediately to the south, Goodwill, but you never know. This is the era of high-low, and people shop and dine all over the place.
What Morris — and partner Marvin Gutierrez — have in their new space is a luxurious 25 parking places for their patrons. So clients can make the salon a destination or scout the neighborhood after getting color and a cut.
The salon owners were attracted not only by the location and hip neighborhood, but by what they could do with the 6,000-square-foot space — the former Theatre on Broadway (and before that, a grocery store). They have big windows, 26 styling stations, skin treatment rooms, a conference room and a call center in the back where the constant jangle of phones doesn't disturb clients.
"This is my dream salon," Morris said while guiding me on a tour. The stylist, who is a regular at Fashion Week in New York and a finalist on Bravo's "Shear Genius," has been developing his business for a number of years. This is the first building he's bought and he's clearly excited about it. "We were able to build it from the ground up. All the electrical is in the floor. We have a big garage door on Ellsworth. We have twice as many shampoo bowls."
Morris collaborated with such local talents as Fin Art on the design, creating styling stations made from old railroad warehouse carts. Counter tops are crafted of repurposed airplane wing metal and beetle kill pine is used as an accent on walls. Still to come is custom fixturing from Kerastase for displays of hair products. And the salon owners are going to turn a portion of the space into a men's-specific area.
What Morris is also excited about? He wants to rent the space for private events. Since everything is on wheels, furnishings can be moved to accommodate big parties and events.
Clients come from all over town as well as the neighborhood. "We even get tons from Boulder and indie kids with mustaches."
He's clearly where he wants to be. "There are so many cool businesses right by us – Happy Coffee and Sputnik and Hi Dive. It's all independents, no chains," he said. "This is the best block on Broadway."
Matthew Morris Salon and Skincare, 13 S. Broadway, 303-715-4673.


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Anyone had any long-range punts yet? Liking the look of Uruguay against France on the opening night at 11/4. I'm pretty sure the only reason no one realises how **** France are is because they're called "France".
Also punted 70p on Nani for player of the tournament at 150/1. Long shot obvz, but **** it, he was playing like a god towards the end of the season.


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AirCasting is a platform for recording, mapping, and sharing health and environmental data using your smartphone. Each AirCasting session lets you capture real-world measurements, annotate the data to tell your story, and share it via the CrowdMap.
Using the AirCasting Android app, AirCasters can record, map, and share:
- Sound levels recorded by their phone microphone;
- Temperature, humidity, and fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentrations recorded by the Arduino-powered AirBeam2;
- Temperature, humidity, carbon monoxide (CO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) gas concentrations recorded by the Arduino-powered AirCasting Air Monitor;
- Heart rate, heart rate variability, R to R, breathing rate, activity level, peak acceleration and core temperature measurements recorded by the Zephyr BioHarness 3; and
- Heart rate measurements recorded by the Zephyr HxM.
Using AirCasting Luminescence, these sensor streams can also be represented using LED lights.
To start recording, mapping, and sharing sound level data for your neighborhood, simply download the AirCasting app to your Android device and press record. Want to record Air Quality data? Buy an AirBeam2, download the AirCasting Air Monitor DIY guide, or build your own monitor and connect it to the AirCasting platform.
Who Uses AirCasting?
There are thousands of active changemakers currently using the AirCasting platform, including community-based organizations, schools, research institutions, and citizen scientists interested in health and environmental monitoring, electrical and mechanical engineering, design, rapid prototyping, and open source code. We are actively recruiting additional AirCasters to join our movement. We are seeking . . .
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Open Source
AirCasting is an open source project. The AirCasting app and website code is on GitHub as is the AirBeam2 Firmware and the electronic schematics for the AirBeam2. The STL files for 3D printing the AirBeam2 & LiteBeam enclosures can be downloaded from Shapeways.
How to Use the AirCasting Maps
The health and environmental data collected by AirCasters can be viewed via the AirCasting website's "Maps" page. Along the upper right hand corner of the Maps page there are three tabs: "Fixed", "Mobile", and "CrowdMap". Each of these tabs provides a unique way of viewing and exploring the AirCasting data.
The Fixed and Mobile tabs display data from individual AirCasting instruments that are either stationary (Fixed) or moving (Mobile). The data collected by AirCasters is organized into sessions, with each session representing a batch of measurements that we're either collected in the same location (if it's a Fixed session) or during a set period of time (if it's a Mobile session). Measurements from Fixed sessions are available in real-time and updated every minute, whereas measurements from mobile sessions are available at the conclusion of a recording session.
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Monday, May 31, 2010
She's a 21st-century snark, yeah!
This artist's recent entry in Will Schofeld's Rousselian contest (accompanying text is here) will have to make do for today's Snarkian musings. And yet … what on earth does such an image have to do with Messers Dodgson and Carroll's Snarkian Multiverse?
Plenty, it turns out. In fact, if one was so inclined, one might even discover 6 degrees of separation from not only Kevin Bacon, but far more exciting for my more virulent Slavic readers, Sir Francis Bacon (tho' a mere speck for our German readers).
What ho for this truly Novum Organum of the Hunting of the Locus Solus!
Friday, May 28, 2010
Martin Gardner
The news of Martin Gardner's death on May 22nd, 2010 marks the end to a spectacular era in not only Snarkian but Carrollian studies, perhaps even a Golden Age of sorts. Which is not to say that there are no new discoveries or insights to be made nor adequately perceptive scholars to make them, rather that it is unlikely that we'll see a similar renaissance again.
Gardner's Annotated Snark was my first reading of the poem. I was a young lad and I will confess that Gardner's approach fascinated me as much as Carroll's epic masterpiece, perhaps even more in a certain way. Gardner's genius (in this and in the Alice books) lay in his talent of explaining the Carrollian Multiverse in plain-spoken terms which encouraged the curious reader — and not just the specialists or scholars — to proceed further upon the obscure quest of Culture, Art and Knowledge at all costs.
And all while making sure that nothing got in the way of the Ripping Yarn itself, which is far too often the chief fault of certain academics. My own Snark owes much to Gardner and I hope that I've done some sort of justice to the man and his philosophy of Enlightened Rationalism.
Above is an example of my rendering of the infamous Snarkhunters' refrain, the galdor, as I've called it before. Here is what the magisterial Gardner had to say about this stanza …
" The fact that essentially the same stanza occurs altogether six times in the poem has led some to suspect that it may conceal a private, cryptic message. If so, the message has never been decoded.
My theory — the reader may be able to formulate a better one — is that thimbles, forks, a railway share, smiles and soap are connected with the Snark's five unmistakeable marks mentioned in Fit 2. The forks are for eating crisp Snark meat. The railway share appeals to the Snark's ambition to become wealthy and so can be used for baiting a death trap. Smiles are to let the Snark know when a pun has been perpetrated. The soap is, of course, for the bathing machines that the Snark carries about, and the thimble is used for thumping the side of the creature's head to wake him in time for five-o'clock tea."
And there you have it — exegesis from the master!
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
The roar of the greasepaint, the smell of the snarks!
The above drawing from Fit the Sixth, the Barrister's Dream, is suffused with the gentle melody of protracted litigation, the dream of every musically-inclined barrister. Traditionally, this Fit of The Hunting of the Snark is read aloud to defendants and their small children by a suitably avuncular semi-sodden bailiff, accompanied by the jolly airs of Gilbert & Sullivan's Trial By Jury as performed by the Minnesota Underwater Orchestra.
But we have a special treat for our readers today, all this talk of musical barristers is but a segue to a far more important and useful fact: the just-announced Chicago performances of Boojum!: nonsense, truth and Lewis Carroll, a musical by Martin Wesley-Smith and Peter Wesley-Smith. The Caffeine Theatre and Chicago Opera Vanguard will be doing it Nov 18, 2010 to Dec 19, 2010, further details are available here.
We've reviewed Peter's other Snarkian work earlier (and he still has copies available if you write him nicely) and I can assure all North American Snarkologists that this delightful piece is of the same high caliber and well worth the trip to Chicago. The musical's post-colonic epithet of Nonsense, Truth and Lewis Carroll is a pretty fair summation of things, an intermingling of Snarkian and Alician themes with semi-comic relief provided by those two indefatigable fixtures of High Nonsense, Messers Dodgson and Carroll. Unlike Mike Batt's Snark (a rather turgid affair redolent of Lewis Carroll in his brief arena-rock phase), the Wesley-Smith Bros. possess the good sense to keep things light, yet never mawkish. Both lyrics and scoring are subtle enough to let Carroll's theatrical mojo work on its own, for both the Snark and the Alice books are deeply imbued with the ritual and structure of the theater and the musical builds upon that very well. And frankly, the lyrics are quite funny and the music is genuinely fun to listen to, all of it done without insulting your intelligence or even arousing the wrath of the genuinely devoted Carrollian.
CDs of the musical are available here and we have a sample track, Will We Return?, a rather melancholy setting of Carroll's explanation of the Snark's genesis. This should whet your appetite for more, so you can hear the creature quite plain, as our legal advisor has so judiciously put it.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Nonsense ex Machina
The Machines rule, their word is law and their rendition of The Hunting of the Snark is nonsense of the highest order — nonsense without a soul!
The following stanza of the Snark has been submitted to the Machine-Translation Tractor Beam:
This was charming, no doubt; but they shortly found out
That the Captain they trusted so well
Had only one notion for crossing the ocean,
And that was to tingle his bell.
After several passes through the force fields of the Machine-Human Semiotic Interface, we are left with this bit of faux-Zen, quasi-Brownian prosodic motion:
They are not the period of diffidenza;
But they have, the end to make the material
so that the controls of the very direct concept
of this good one for the sea in the past
deciding to that they happen and
this ku acoustic of signaler is the turbulent flow.
The human once known as Théodore Géricault, along with the semiotic residue of his Raft of the Medusa is now fed into the Machine …
Then once more, the Machine Force Field is lowered upon this hapless relic of French Romanticism … leaving us with this ugly artifact of pure visual nonsense …
So beautiful … so dangerous … The Hunting of the Snark in the Age of the Machine!
The following stanza of the Snark has been submitted to the Machine-Translation Tractor Beam:
This was charming, no doubt; but they shortly found out
That the Captain they trusted so well
Had only one notion for crossing the ocean,
And that was to tingle his bell.
After several passes through the force fields of the Machine-Human Semiotic Interface, we are left with this bit of faux-Zen, quasi-Brownian prosodic motion:
They are not the period of diffidenza;
But they have, the end to make the material
so that the controls of the very direct concept
of this good one for the sea in the past
deciding to that they happen and
this ku acoustic of signaler is the turbulent flow.
The human once known as Théodore Géricault, along with the semiotic residue of his Raft of the Medusa is now fed into the Machine …
Then once more, the Machine Force Field is lowered upon this hapless relic of French Romanticism … leaving us with this ugly artifact of pure visual nonsense …
So beautiful … so dangerous … The Hunting of the Snark in the Age of the Machine!
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
The Big Sleep
They say that the sleep of reason produces monsters but what does the sleep of monsters produce? The denizens of Alice's Wonderland and the Looking Glass World must fit, perforce, the latter description and we shall wonder aloud: of what does Nonsense dream?
The dream-world of Alice is the world of the Snark, for although the Snarkian Multiverse is a dependency of Nonsense, it is clearly a distortion of the quotidian Victorian reality of Alice's waking world, and as such, it is the nightmare of monsters, even such small-beer monsters as the Walrus and the Carpenter.
This is the secret allure of hunting the Snark, this is why the majority of Carrollians prefer the purity of Alician Nonsense … we Snark Hunters have gone over to the Dark Side where Nonsense is always tainted by an alien Reality — the Victorian reality of Bakers and Billiards and Butchers and ultimately, the Boojum of death!
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Love, Actually
We already had a rousing go at Dante Alighieri a while back, using good ol' Witold Gombrowicz in his customary role as the curmudgeonly cudgel of Modernism:
"Dante was reciting his epoch, but the epoch was also reciting, and the poem is, so to speak, a double platitude, the poet simply recited what was already being recited. Something like those Sunday discussions of soccer by people gathered in bars and coffee houses. Do they really care about soccer? Not in the least. … Humanity glides along the worn ruts of articulation. An empty poem, which exists in defiance of reality and almost as if to spite it!"
Although Carroll loathed sports, both Dante and he did share a similar modus operandi; constructing vastly complex and ultimately nonsensical multiverses with Trinitarian proclivities …
The Inferno goes along nicely with The Hunting of the Snark, the Purgatorio makes a handy accessory to Through the Looking Glass and the Paradiso looks so much better with Alice in Wonderland rakishly topping it off.
A mighty prosodic fortress indeed, and all of it, Dantean and Carrollian alike, firmly centered upon the secret axis mundi and prosodic omphalos of all great poetry, love.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Day of the Locus
Certain readers have characterized my recent posts as being "the same old rubbish … regurgitated over and over like a hamster in a wheel" and even worse (or better?) as being "recycled nonsense".
And so, in an attempt to liven things up, I will explicate my soon-to-be-published comix version of The Hunting of the Snark — and all other things Snark — in a new and easier-to-digest shorter format and I'll also try to post more often, hopefully every three days.
It is a curious and important fact that the entire Hunting of the Snark could be easily consummated at any moment by the simple expedient of the Bellman simply uttering these words, three times: "hey look, guys, there's a Snark!"
The infamous Clochetic Rule of Three would make this a snap to do yet our Bellman avoids all that in favor of telling us only that this is "just the place for a Snark", times three. In short, he thinks it far more important to begin the entire epic by providing the Snark with a locus rather than a corpus.
In this, as in so many other matters, Mister Carroll (seen above with his notorious multivalent portmanteau) will have his little theological jokes, once again reminding us of the first verses of Genesis wherein God creates the locus for Evil (his own personal Snark-cum-Boojum) but never a corpus.
To those who demur at all this, insisting instead that Mankind, not Evil, is God's Snark I will merely say: pshaw and prubbish! That is the crux of the jest! The Snark of Evil existed a priori and needed no corpus, just a warm place to bunk and three squares a day. Isn't that what recycled Nonsense is all about, anyway?
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Share and enjoy, share and enjoy, journey through life with a plastic snark by your side
After spending ten weeks focusing upon each of the Snark Hunters in their turn, it is time to turn our attention to She Who Must Be Obeyed* … yes, the Snark itself!
The Encylopedia Snarkiana defines Snarkus Snarkensis as a colorless, odorless, tasteless, soundless and bodyless entity designed to fluster illustrators with its annoying penchant for self-contradiction and nonexistence.
The Hunting of the Snark defines a Snark in its usual evasive manner, employing an impressive array of half-truths, demi-truths, pseudo-truths and mini-truths. We shall examine these laughable attempts at Factualism at greater length over the coming weeks, but for now we present you with the above inky approximation of a Snark as a sort of semiotic apertif designed to whet your appetite for something or the other.
This drawing of a sketch of a xerox of a fax of a Snark is the very drawing with which my version of the Snark commences, the notorious frontispiece to Fit the First, of which the author, Lewis Carroll, once complained that this was not at all the sort of landing he had in mind.
Very well, we will have our little jokes at the expense of the Admirable Carroll but when one is commencing a hunt, it is customary to inform one's fellow hunters of what it is exactly that they should feel free to aim at — we must eschew the unorthodox tactics (effective though they are) of the Dick Cheneys of the sporting set!
Indeed, there was much chewing of pencils and tugging at fetlocks on this artist's part as he contemplated this particular dilemma, he endured sleepless nights of carefully feigned slumber as he concealed from his wife the mental turmoil which so agitated his overheated mind.
In the end, bereft of inspiration, the above drawing was hastily tossed off in the hopes that no one would notice its lack of meaning. The management apologizes in advance for any dashed hopes on the reader's part, no doubt so many of you had eagerly seized upon this image, excited at the hopes of discovering the Snark's true identity at last, after 134 years the Holy Grail of Snarkology would be in your sweaty grasp at last — and then you gasped aloud, oh, the horror! the horror! — you cried out in your despair! — the Snark … it is Eye!
*Without belaboring the point, I think it's clear to any happily married man that the Snark is a she, a revelation of sorts which came to me as I was attempting to move our entire domicile six inches to the left to improve the television's imperfect reception at the behest of a certain someone.
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On Capitol Hill, in African-American churches and at historically black colleges and universities, people are talking about a documentary film that challenges negative reports and statistics regarding blacks, especially black men.
"Hoodwinked," produced by former Laurel resident Janks Morton, debuted in fall 2012 during the Congressional Black Caucus' annual legislative weekend, and is now being shown at special screenings around the country. Earlier this month, Janks moved from Laurel to Atlanta with his family.
The 87-minute documentary explores recent data released by numerous federal agencies that emphasize African-American achievements. In addition, "Hoodwinked" includes interviews with noted African-American scholars, researchers, authors and activists, who support Morton's contention that the results of many studies that focus on various aspects of black life are inaccurate.
"People think less of African Americans due to images and reports in the media, and I have taken on this topic to show that the data doesn't match up to what's real," Morton said.
For example, he said, "Because of some reports, most people think 50 percent of African-American men drop out of high school, when it's only 12.1 percent. According to the (U.S.) Department of Education, the (overall) dropout rate for African-American men in 2010 was 9.5 percent."
In the film, Morton and others point out that U.S. Census figures show that nearly 84 percent of African-American men over 18 years old have high school diplomas or GEDs. They said much lower numbers are reported sometimes by various organizations and researchers due to how the numbers are calculated.
"The graduation rate for African American men is usually reported for those who graduate within a four-year period. Many African-American males repeat grades and graduate a year (or more) later, but that's not factored into the graduation rates," he said.
The film highlights several studies Morton and other researchers challenge, such as a well-publicized 2002 Justice Policy Institute report, "Cellblocks or Classrooms?," which concluded that more black men were in jail (791,600) than in college (603,032). Morton refutes the report in "Hoodwinked." He said one flaw is that JPI used only college enrollment figures for African-American men for one semester instead of the whole year.
"The U.S. Census and other federal agencies said that more than 1.2 million African (American) men were in college then and (more than) 700,000 were in jail," Morton said at the premiere of the film during the CBC conference. "Today, more than 1.4 million are in college and about 830,000 are incarcerated."
JPI officials issued a press release when the film debuted this fall, standing by their report. However, the release did state that only partial enrollment figures for African Americans were used in the report and one-day statistics for incarcerations.
Negative effect
In addition to being a filmmaker and founder of the iYAGO Entertainment Group, Morton is an author and teaches film at the Richard Wright Public Charter School in Washington. He started the national, non-profit organization Men to Boys in 2009, which reconnects fathers with sons, and mentors and mentees. He also lectures, is a motivational speaker and frequently gives keynote addresses at colleges, prisons and conferences worldwide.
Morton said African Americans needed a film like "Hoodwinked," a sequel to his 2007 documentary film, "What Black Men Think," because he believes there are too many negative reports produced on a regular basis that are adversely affecting African Americans, especially the younger generation.
"You are what you eat. In (newspaper) headlines they're saying in 32 years, a third of you will go to jail," Morton said in "Hoodwinked. "The focus needs to be on the positive because this constant bombardment of negative information is reflected in African American's sense of self," he said later in the interview."
That assertion is reflected in "Hoodwinked" when Morton asked black students at Bowie State and Howard University to name a positive stereotype about African Americans. Some of the students looked into the camera blankly for several seconds while trying to think of a response while others gave answers that proved Janks' point.
"There aren't any positive stereotypes about black people," one student said in the film. "I have to think about it and that's pretty sad," another said. "Blacks are athletic, yeah, we can jump high, run fast," two male students added after mulling over the question for a couple of minutes.
When "Hoodwinked" was shown at Baltimore City Community College, many African-American students said they were embarrassed by the responses of students in the film. Business administration major Jamil Shabazz agreed with Janks' premise that negative reports and portrayals of Africans Americans in the media are having a detrimental effect on some blacks.
"I believe if you are shown something all the time, unconsciously, you will pick up on it," Shabazz said. "If you're told you're not intelligent, you won't achieve anything, if you are weak-minded, you'll eventually believe that if you don't have positive reinforcement."
Challenging inaccurate statistics
Janks, 49, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, but he's lived in Prince George's County most of his life. His family moved to Palmer Park when he was 6 years old, and he graduated from Eleanor Roosevelt High in Greenbelt. When his family moved to Arizona, he attended college for three years at Arizona State, but when the family moved back to Prince George's County, he came back with them and graduated from Bowie State.
"I moved to Laurel after I got married because it was central to everything with a lower cost of living," Morton said.
Morton moved to Atlanta in January after his wife got a new job there. He's continuing to work on film projects and hopes to find a position in the new film department at Morehouse in Atlanta, once his tour of "Hoodwinked" ends.
"I'll have viewings of the film in Wichita, Philadelphia, Chicago, at the Silver Spring film festival, Bowie State, Sioux City, Iowa and lots of other places," Morton said. "I'll be on tour with "Hoodwinked" for 21 days in February before ending the tour the first week of April."
Morton said he hopes "Hoodwinked" will alert people that some studies that reveal negative information about African Americans are inaccurate and should be challenged.
"The overall message of "Hoodwinked" is to say things are not as bad as you would believe. There are millions of African Americans who are hard-working and pursuing excellence, especially men in the 18 to 25 age range, who are making phenomenal strides," Morton said. "Too often we start from black inadequacies and inferiority and expand that to denigrate the entire group of black people. So the next time you hear data, check it out closely for yourself."


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A closed oriented Riemannian manifold with negative sectional curvatures has the property that all its geodesics have Morse index zero.
Is there a known counterexample to the "converse": if (M,g) is a closed oriented Riemannian manifold (Edit: assumed to be nondegenerate) all of whose geodesics have Morse index zero then M admits a (possibly different) metric g' with negative sectional curvatures?
Edit: Motivation for asking this (admittedly naive) question is that Viterbo/Eliashberg have proved that a manifold with a negatively curved metric cannot be embedded as a Lagrangian submanifold of a uniruled symplectic manifold. Actually their proof only seems to use the existence of a nondegenerate metric all of whose geodesics have Morse index zero. I wondered if that was known to be strictly weaker.


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Welcome Garrett Hedlund as the new star of Disney's Tron 2.0, sequel to the 1982 light-cycle flick. While I can't say much for his acting chops, he's certainly giving Tron Guy some much-needed competition.
I don't know much about Garrett Hedlund, other than he played a poorly pieced-together young virgin in Georgia Rule, and the exceedingly annoying emo warrior Murtagh in Eragon. But I can say this: the boy will look good in a unitard.
This should be a make-or-break role for Hedlund, seeing as he'll have to go face to face with alumni light cyclers Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner.
Hedlund plays a young man trapped in a computer yet again. He's forced to retrace the steps of the original Kevin Flynn (Bridges) who will be returning as the CEO of a software corporation.
Welcome to the games. But if you want to compete with Bridges, I suggest you grow a beard. (No, I'm never going to stop talking about the beard, ever).


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Otto Walker was a leading racer of the 1910s and early 1920s and was one of Harley-Davidson's first factory riders. He won the first major race for the company, an FAM 300-mile road race in Venice, California, in April of 1915. Walker set numerous speed records during his eight-year professional racing career. He earned the distinction of being the first rider to win a motorcycle race at an average race speed of over 100 mph in 1921.
Walker was born in Lathrop, California, in 1890. He began racing as an amateur in 1911. The first time he won a race, the prize was a live turkey. By 1913, he was the top amateur on the West Coast, winning the Western Federation of Motorcyclists championships. During his amateur days, Dudley Perkins and Erle Armstrong were often his travel partners as the trio went up and down the coast, racing in fairgrounds dirt tracks and on board circuits all over California.
By 1914, Harley-Davidson was just getting into competition and sponsored Walker. By the end of that season he turned pro. Walker's pro career had no so sooner started when he was injured in a crash and was forced to sit out the rest of 1914.
Even with his success as an amateur, Walker was little known beyond the West Coast. That all changed on April 4, 1915. On that day, Walker gave Harley-Davidson its first national victory when he won the 300-mile road race national held on the streets of Venice, California. That race was one of the biggest of the year and was contested by most of the major factory teams. Walker's victory in the race over the established racing stars of the day was considered an upset even though he was riding a factory Harley-Davidson.
Walker followed up the Venice win with an even more impressive victory in July of that year when he won the prestigious Dodge City 300, the biggest motorcycling racing event in America during that era. After overcoming an early race tire blowout and a broken lens in his goggles, Walker worked his way through the field and, with a lap and a half remaining in the race, passed Indian's Morty Graves, whose machine had run out of gas on the back straight with less than three miles to go.
Over 15,000 spectators and 29 factory entries from six different factories attended the race. The Dodge City victory firmly established Walker as the best racer of that year and it marked a dramatic entry into racing for Harley-Davidson. The company's sales surged, at least partly due to its racing its success. Walker's prize money for winning the Dodge City race was $600, considered a princely sum for motorcycle racing during a time when the average American made about $20 a week.
Walker spent much of the 1916 season on the sidelines after injuring his leg in a practice crash in Chicago. He joined the military during World War I and worked as an aviation electrician. After being discharged, Walker received a telegram from Harley-Davidson's racing manager, Bill Ottoway, asking Walker if he could join the team at the 1919 Marion (Indiana) road race. Walker was back on the factory team.
A souvenir from the war became something of a trademark for Walker. He wore a German aviator helmet instead of a motorcycle racing helmet during the races. Walker was also known for his unique riding style. He would arch his back on straightaways to give himself a better aerodynamic profile and his fellow competitors began calling him "Camelback" Walker.
One of the first big races Walker won upon his return to racing was the two-mile board track championship in held on the mile board circuit in Sheepshead Bay, New York. In 1920, Walker won the big 100-mile M&ATA national held at Ascot Park in Los Angeles. He gained a well earned reputation as a rider who could win the big events.
At a non-title race on a mile board track in Fresno, California, on February 2, 1921, Walker became the first rider ever to win a motorcycle race at an average speed above 100 mph.
In January of 1922, Harley-Davidson rented the big board track in Beverley Hills, California, to make an attempt to cover 100 miles in an hour and Walker was selected as the rider for the attempt. While a fouled plug kept the team from meeting its goal (they averaged 98.6 mph in an hour), Walker was still able to break six American speed records during that run for distances ranging from one mile to 50 miles.
Walker retired after the 1922 season (as did fellow competitors Red Parkhurst and Maldwyn Jones). Walker ran a sport-fishing service on the Sacramento River and died in 1963 at the age of 73.


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Whale Watching in Hawaii
Adult males range from 40 to 52 feet and can weigh up to 45 tons. Despite their size, humpback whales are graceful acrobats. Keep your eye on the ocean and you might see one breach, propelling up to 40 percent of its body out of the water and landing on its side with a spectacular splash.
Whales have great cultural significance for Native Hawaiians. They play a large role in Hawaiian legend—including one creation story—and appear in ancient petroglyphs on several islands. The return of the kohola (humpback whale) is considered more of a homecoming than a visit. Humpback whales are born in Hawaiian waters, making them kamaaina (native born). Some Native Hawaiians also believe the whales are aumakua (family guardians), so these gentle giants are treated with great respect.
Cultural Significance of Whales in Hawaii
Although humpback whales can be seen from all of the Hawaiian Islands, the shallow Auau Channel between Maui, Molokai and Lanai is one of the best whale-watching destinations in the world.
What's the Best Way to See Whales?
You may also spot kohola from the southern shores of Oahu, especially at Makapuu Lighthouse and along the seaside overlooks near Leahi (Diamond Head).
Kauai offers a range of whale-viewing opportunities, including Poipu Beach on the South Shore, Kilauea Lighthouse on the North Shore and Kapaa Overlook on the island's Coconut Coast.
On the island of Hawaii, whales are often seen along the shores of the Kohala Coast, as well as Hilo Bay on the east side of the island. The Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site is another great viewing spot, with its sweeping, elevated views near Kawaihae Harbor. In fact, Puukohola literally means "hill of the whale" in Hawaiian.
Boat tours may be your best option for viewing whales up close. Hawaii has dozens of tour operators, including a few that lead kayak excursions—a thrilling way to experience these majestic mammals.
In respect for the kohola and the safety of sightseers, all watercraft must stay a minimum of 100 yards from the whales, but you'll be surprised how close you feel when a 45-ton behemoth lunges out of the sea. If a boat tour is not for you, the whales' impressive acrobatic displays are often visible from miles away. If you're on land, keep a pair of binoculars handy because you never know when you'll see a humpback's spout (which can be 10–20 feet tall).
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The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University has accepted the treatment regimen recommended by the USDA designed to diminish the chances of an infestation of Asian Longhorned Beetle in the Arboretum's world-renowned collection of woody plants.
On Monday, July 5, 2010 officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that the Asian Longhorned Beetle (ALB) had been found in six red maple trees on the grounds of Faulkner Hospital, located adjacent to the Arboretum's western border. The six maples were immediately removed and destroyed. A 1.5-mile quarantine zone was instated around the discovery site to search for further signs of this tree-destroying pest and to control the movement of host plant material within the zone. At this time, no additional infested trees have been found in the quarantine zone.
The USDA has recommended that an insecticide treatment be applied to all ALB-host trees within one-quarter mile of Faulkner Hospital. The active ingredient in the treatment insecticide is imidacloprid, which USDA scientists have demonstrated to be an effective control method in containing the spread of ALB in infested areas.
After receiving the recommendation of the ALB treatment regimen from the USDA, the Arnold Arboretum hosted a meeting with USDA National ALB Program Director Christine Markham and her colleagues to discuss the plan with staff from the Arboretum, the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, Department of Agricultural Resources, and the Boston Parks and Recreation Department. The group reviewed the USDA's experience with ALB infestations in New York, New Jersey, Illinois and Worcester, MA, where approximately 30,000 trees have been removed to date. After thoughtfully considering the latest scientific findings on the application, efficacy, and impacts of imidacloprid treatments, the Arboretum decided to accept the USDA's recommended treatment plan. USDA-funded injections of imidacloprid will be carried out by a contracted pesticide applicator in spring/summer 2011 for host trees in the Arboretum's collection that lie within the one-quarter-mile treatment zone.
Wherever permitted by the product label, soil injection will be the preferred delivery method of imidacloprid for trees in the Arnold Arboretum's collections. In terms of plant health, we believe that soil injection represents the least stressful method of delivery to individual trees. This type of treatment has been successfully used with other major public collections of trees, including New York's Central Park.
The Arnold Arboretum is responsible for the care and preservation of more than 15,000 living plants—one of the largest and best documented woody plant collections in the world. Many of these trees are representatives of rare and endangered species and as such, are essentially irreplaceable. Should any of the Arboretum's trees become infested with ALB, it is required by law that those trees immediately be removed and destroyed. Preventive measures provide a proactive means to curb the spread of this highly destructive and invasive pest and the subsequent loss of trees. As stewards of an extraordinary living collection, the Arboretum has accepted the treatment regimen recommended by the USDA to aid in the eradication of ALB and to help preserve the Arboretum's collection for the enjoyment of the public and to facilitate world-class research, horticulture, and education programs in support of its mission.
Rhonda Santos, Public Information Officer
USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Legislative and Public Affairs
National Asian Longhorned Beetle (ALB) Eradication Program
151 West Boylston Drive, Worcester, MA 01606
Phone: 508.852.8044
Lauren Marshall, Public Information Officer
Harvard University Public Affairs and Communications
1350 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.384.7926
Additional Information:
USDA ALB Cooperative Eradication Program Information for Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk Counties
USDA ALB press releases and information
USDA ALB pest and plant health information


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Proverbs 13:12 says,
"Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life."
My first night's sleep was comfortable and deep in our clean hotel, but cut short. My head sprung up from the bed at what I thought was a man's voice singing at 5:15 am. Actually, I thought it was our worship leader in the room next door, and if so, team unity was about to come to a quick halt. ;) Imagine my surprise when I realized it was a man chanting across the street from our hotel (no offense to our worship leader, I was in a reeeally deep sleep). Apparently, a funeral was going on, and the ceremonies in Cambodia are conducted out in the open. Through a loud speaker. At 5:15 and continuing...
My roommate opened the blinds all the way, and it was the first time I had seen Phnom Penh in the daylight. As I looked out the window, I had mixed feelings. Cars, motos, trucks filled with men, people hanging laundry on their balconies, bustle all around. And the honking. So much honking...with chanting and lamenting in the background. The scene was chaotic and orderly at the same time. Surreal really.
After a jolted start to the morning, it was time for our mission to begin. Though our team was in Cambodia to put on a conference/retreat for the leadership of World Relief, we thought it best to see what the organization is doing there. So we hit the ground running. Riding in a shuttle bus, to be exact.
It was one thing to see the traffic out the hotel window, quite another to be in the mix of it. We were so close to the vehicles next to us that I could look the drivers in the eye and exchange a smile. Not kidding. I will never complain about my husband's driving again. ;0 After quite a drive out of the city, we made it to our first destination. Phew.
HOPE not deferred
It was here I saw "Hope" in the form of community. World Relief's HOPE ministry is anything but "hope deferred." As I watched this ministry in action I witnessed "longings fulfilled" (including some of my own). The Lord wasted no time grabbing my heart's strings and playing a new tune.
A group of teenage girls sat in a circle as their volunteer leader discussed choices with them. They learned of biblical sexuality and marriage fidelity, as well as the many myths, lies and superstitions spread throughout their culture about HIV/AIDS. The leader threw out questions that the girls were encouraged to answer. My impression is that this was a whole lot more than an education group. It's a source of accountability and Christ-centered community.
I was impressed with how intentional the planning was...even the games were integrated into the day's theme. And it only continued from there. A teenage boys' group was held down the road just a bit with the same discussion material, though in typical boys' form, a bit more animated.
As the teen discussion groups were coming to a close, the children's programming was beginning. And wow, Wow, WOW. Kids were rushing to catch the best view as the staff set up its puppet screen. Older kids came with younger brothers and sisters in tow by arm or on a hip. They were EXCiiiiiiTED. The teens came running as well, though most of them stood in the back. Moms were off to the side and in the background, but I sensed they were happy and curious to be there too.
I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't expect the program to be as excellent as it was. The leaders were extremely enthusiastic and animated. The crowd was completely enthralled as they sang songs about Dengue fever and cleanliness set to familiar kids' tunes. As the puppets came out, the kids learned lessons about washing hands and stopping the spread of germs and disease. Not only were the kids entertained, but they were also engaged...I'm guessing more than they are in any classroom.
At the end of the show, World Relief gave each of our team fingernail clippers, and the kids crowded around us to have their nails trimmed. Then they washed their hands in anti-bacterial soap. What a perfect conclusion to an fabulous show. I'll never forget how the kids' faces beamed with excitement as they showed off their germ-free hands. It was a special moment to be a part of...
During the puppet show, a few of the girls from the teenage group came to stand beside me. Before long, we were arm in arm. Their smiles completely captivated me, and I'm so glad one of my team members grabbed this picture of us.
HOPE through Hardship
We loaded back into the bus and drove down a few roads to a different kind of meeting. It was an HIV/AIDS support group that meets regularly, where those with the disease come to find hope and help. Each person in the picture below is infected, (other than the volunteers), including the young boy in the front.
During our brief time there, several members of the circle were eager to share their stories, how Jesus Christ had given them hope to deal with their hardships. Many had lost husbands, daughters, mothers, fathers and children to AIDS. Though most of these ladies had been cheated on and infected by their husbands and/or worse, they still gave testimony of the Lord's faithfulness and love toward them.
As if my heart had not been stirred enough, a woman who had been coming to the group a few times gave her life to Jesus during this group's meeting. I could NOT hold back the tears. It was one of the most moving salvation experiences I've ever witnessed. At the end of the meeting, we all gathered around one another, praying out loud in our own languages. When I look at this photo, I don't see a group of HIV-infected Cambodians, I see my brother and sisters in Christ infecting each other with the love of Jesus Christ.
It's hard to believe that this was only half of my first day in Cambodia, but it was a HOPE-filled one. These are once in a lifetime, special slices of life that I will savor forever, ones that continue to reach down and leave marks of change on my heart as I ponder them.
And I'm only getting started...
"For it is for this we labor and strive,
because we have fixed our hope on the living God..."
1 Timothy 4:10


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Double-Edge V Folding and Rectangular Groove Router Bits for Shaping Composite Panels
Amana Tool, Farmingdale, NY, a manufacturer of industrial-quality carbide-tipped, solid carbide and replacement carbide cutting tools, has developed double-edge folding V and rectangular-groove router bits. The panel-shaping collection features four profiles specially designed to cut aluminum/plastic sandwich materials such as Alucobond and Dibond.
The double-edged folding V and rectangular-groove router bits find use in sign-making applications and to create cladding for office buildings, hospitals, airports and hotels, among other locations. The design enables removing the aluminum cover and part of the polyethylene core to allow folding the material while maintaining its structural integrity. The router bits include 90-, 108- and 135-deg. profiles, as well as a rectangular-profile bit for creating folds in thicker walls. Each bit is manufactured from Amana's exclusive-grade carbide.Amana Tool: www.amanatool.com
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CPSR has written a Filtering FAQ to explain the social and policy implications of rating and blocking services. (A Spanish version is also available.) A paper by German activists details the problems with filtering and rating. An article on free speech explains the importance of this issue for Internet users and why it attracts so many people to the Internet. Another general defense of free speech on the Internet has been published by the Global Internet Liberty Campaign.
After a superbly argued ACLU lawsuit (which CPSR and many other organizations participated in) the Supreme Court declared that the Communications Decency Act is unconstitutional. Transcripts from the lawsuit are available, as well as updates from the ACLU and the EFF. Related materials include pages from the Center for Democracy and Technology and some fine background discussion from the libertarian Cato Foundation.
Undaunted by this sweeping ruling, a new bill targeting obscene material that is "harmful to minors" was passed by the 105th Congress. Officially called the Child Online Protection Act, it is commonly known as CDA 2 because it tries to achieve an effect similar to the CDA in a more narrow manner: it covers only speech on commercial Web sites. This bill was barred from enforcement in an order from a federal judge, but it will continue to be litigated. The Justice Department claims it does not violate the First Amendment because it requires only that some kind of filter be installed--it does not specify what (if anything) should be blocked. This theoretical claim ignores the reality that most filters block completely legal material and that users don't even know what most filters are blocking. A narrower bill affecting the Internet is the Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996, which criminalizes the distribution of erotic materials that appear to involve children. The Supreme Court agreed in April 2001 to hear a case against the bill.
To avoid the head-on confrontation and regulatory difficulties created by bills directly restricting content, Congress has repeatedly tried bills to require filters in schools and libraries that accept federal funds through the universal service (E-rate) program. The measure finally became law in December 2000 by the old strategem of attaching it at the last minute to the annual federal spending bill. The ACLU plans to challenge it as they did other censorship bills, and the American Library Association is similarly planning a suit. (Appropriately enough, this spending bill also contained a section prohibiting low-power radio, which has long been used as a forum by community groups and was recently approved by the FCC.)
An epidemic of teenage violence in 1999 has predictably enflamed the censorship debate. In addition to the usual attacks on Hollywood, video games, and music industry, old calls are being revived to regulate Internet material that shows violence or describes activities that could be used in the pursuit of violence, such as how to make explosives. One proposed amendment to the Consequences for Juvenile Offenders Act, defeated by a wide margin, would prohibit the sale of any material with "explicitly sexual" or "explicitly violent" content to minors.
Other regulations of Internet activities—such as growing calls to ban gambling on the Internet, attempts to restrict sales of controlled substances like alcohol or Viagra, and regulation of unsolicited email—are not always categorized as "speech" but raise the same issues. For instance, if gambling is banned, how does a prosecutor know who is offering or using a gambling site without privacy intrusions? Are ISPs liable for gambling traffic? How can the law be applied to sites outside the country?
The CDA does not stand alone as an attempt to control the Internet. Similar laws and prosecutions are taking place in many states of the U.S. and in other countries, including the United Kingdom, Korea, Ireland, and Australia. Pornography is not always at the center of the debate; neo-Nazi or "Holocaust revisionist" materials (illegal in many countries) and other hate speech often arouse concern, especially in countries historically beset by racism and anti-Semitism such as Germany and Argentina.
A French court recently set a historic precedent by requiring that Yahoo! block French Internet users from bidding on Nazi documents and memorabilia. The court found that blocking French users (based on domain names or Internet addresses) would be feasible and effective. Yahoo! responded simply by removing the offending materials. But the court action shows that a desire to place a barrier around a geographic segment of the Internet is not limited to censoring regimes like China or Saudi Arabia; it could well become commonplace.
South Australia is close to passing one of the most draconian laws concerning Internet content anywhere in the developed world. It would require the Office of Film and Literature Classification to rate Web sites as if they were films, and would levy a large fine on any site where material "inappropriate for children" is found. In its current form the bill is absurd, because it covers such ephemera as newsgroup postings and gives the administrator no chance to remove material before it is condemned and the fine is levied. Around the beginning of 2000, the national government passed a similar law that extends a strict moral code from films and television to the Internet. The law was protested by Electronic Frontiers Australia and others, going so far as street demonstrations that drew hundreds of people.
Protests initiated by CPSR include one to French ministers and to the German government when they arrested Internet Access Providers and tried to make them police newsgroups. A German court convicted a manager of CompuServe of distributing child pornography, just because it appeared on newsgroups that passed through the CompuServe servers, even though German laws have been amended specifically to exempt Internet providers of such liability—and even though the prosecutors themselves changed their mind during his trial and asked for the conviction to be reversed!
A European Parliament resolution "on illegal and harmful content on the internet," was widely criticized. One unusual development is the attempt of a British government agency to suppress one of its own reports, called the JET Report, about the mishandling of accusations regarding Satanic rituals.
Censorship is practiced by other forces besides governments. Blocking or filtering software, which comes in many forms and boasts a standard called PICS, may filter out sites one would not expect. A follow-up standard, PICSRules, facilitates censorship even more through such features as blocking a whole domain.
One zealous filtering product got into a tangle with an anti-censorship organization called Peacefire, but similar dangers lurk in other such software. A summit discussing these products drew right-wing pro-censorship forces as well as groups claiming to be anti-censorship. Many districts are forcing schools or libraries to install filters, although the ACLU reports that court challenges against government filtering are proceeding. An important case in Loudon County, Virginia, came down against filters in public libraries.
Campaigns of disruption and denial-of-service can also shut down sites, as happened in July 1997 to the progressive Institute for Global Communications. A statement against such disruptions was issued by the GILC in English and Spanish.
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Iron Maiden Documents Massive Chilean Concert on 'En Vivo!' DVD
Iron Maiden have announced a March 26 release date for 'En Vivo!,' a DVD capturing their April 11, 2011 concert in front of 50,000 raucous fans at the Estadio Nacional, in Santiago, Chile.
The two-disc set includes the entire Santiago concert from their Final Frontier world tour captured in high definition on one disc, with an 88-minute documentary titled 'Behind the Beast' on the second disc.
The concert was captured digitally using 22 high definition cameras and a flying "octocam" for aerial shots, with sound recorded in both stereo and 5.1 audio and mixed by longtime Maiden producer Kevin "Caveman" Shirley.
The footage includes extensive use of split screens to capture the action of multiple members simultaneously, and the show's set list draws on everything from classics like 'The Number of the Beast' through to selections from the band's most recent studio album, 2010′s 'The Final Frontier.' (Check out the complete 17-song set list below.)
"For The Final Frontier tour it was really important to me that we filmed in South America. We're always so overwhelmed by the fans' reaction when we go to that part of the world, and I wanted to reflect that in the filming," says Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris. "After much consideration we chose the Santiago show as we felt it was one of our best performances of the entire tour, and to play at the prestigious Estadio Nacional was a landmark moment for us."
The 'Behind the Beast' documentary was made by Maiden's in-house production team and is meant as a behind-the-scenes "home movie" look into what goes on into making a Maiden concert a reality. Featuring interviews with the band and live performance clips, it offers a rare look at the massive undertaking involved in staging a stadium tour as it travels around the globe.
Also included is an extended version of the 'Satellite 15 … The Final Frontier' promo video, another video about the making of 'Satellite 15′ and the opening video sequence used to introduce the band at the start of every concert on the Final Frontier world tour.
Iron Maiden 'En Vivo!' Track Listing:
1. 'Satellite 15′
2. 'The Final Frontier'
3. 'El Dorado'
4. '2 Minutes To Midnight'
5. 'The Talisman'
6. 'Coming Home'
7. 'Dance Of Death'
8. 'The Trooper'
9. 'The Wicker Man'
10. 'Blood Brothers'
11. 'When The Wild Wind Blows'
12. 'The Evil That Men Do'
13. 'Fear Of The Dark'
14. 'Iron Maiden'
15. 'The Number Of The Beast'
16. 'Hallowed Be Thy Name'
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And I mean "lunatic" in the most admirable and amazing way possible.
Under the guidance of sculptor Zhu Kefeng, a team of artists in China have cobbled together around 600 giant statues of Transformers (and some other cartoon characters) and put them all on display at a single location, the "Mr. Iron Robert Theme Park".
Iron. Robert.
The park (which really, looks more like a gallery) is located in Jiaxing city. "I hope the park provides the visitors, especially the children, not only happiness, but also the spirits of green development and environment protection", Zhu told Chinese news agency News.cn. Bless him.
Work began on the non-Transformers characters a decade ago, while plans for the current park were formed in 2010. Zhu and his team go through so much steel and iron that he's founded his own recycling facility just to get his hands on enough material.
"I feel very glad when the children visit my park and enjoy the happiness here. I still remember the joy when I play iron toys in my childhood, I'd like to share the joy with children when I'm able to build a theme park. Joy shared with others are more enjoyed."
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10 Must-Know Facts: Eggs
Eggs have been at the center of the American breakfast plate for many years. While we may never know which came first, the chicken or the egg, we can share some key facts about this unique food.
- More than half of the egg-laying hens in the U.S. live in Iowa, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and California.
- Fresh eggs have a natural coating known as "bloom," which helps to protect the shell. When eggs are washed (which is required by the USDA), this coating disappears. A light spray of neutral vegetable oil after the eggs are cleaned helps protect the shell during packaging and shipping.
- Americans consume, on average, more than 200 eggs per person each year. About 6% of the eggs we eat are organic or cage-free.
- One medium egg is a good source of vitamin D, riboflavin and phosphorous. Many Americans don't consume enough vitamin D, which is naturally present (in notable amounts) in only a few foods. The fat present in the egg yolk helps us absorb the vitamin D more effectively.
- Most U.S. eggs reach the grocery store within 1-3 days after being laid. They're shipped in refrigerated trucks after being cleaned and inspected.
- Eggs should be stored in the refrigerator after purchase, since they're refrigerated during processing. Storing eggs at room temperature can cause them to sweat, weakening the shell and increasing the risk of foodborne illness.
- Eggs contain only 70 calories each, but provide 6 grams of high-quality protein. They're one of the most inexpensive protein sources in the entire grocery store!
- Egg dishes are considered fully cooked when they reach an internal temperature of 160° F.
- Concern over the cholesterol content of eggs has caused nutritional controversy over the last several years. Moderate egg consumption is safe for most people, and modern eggs contain less cholesterol than they did in years past due to better diets for hens.
- Improved diets for egg-laying hens have led to some egg varieties now providing heart healthy omega-3 fatty acids such as EPA and DHA.


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California workplace safety officials are investigating how a worker at a Bumble Bee Foods seafood plant wound up being cooked to death in an industrial oven.
The accident happened Thursday morning at the Bumble Bee Foods factory in Santa Fe Springs, Calif., KTLA.com reported.
Police and fire personnel, responding to a 911 call from the business, found a worker dead inside a cooking device called a "steamer machine," according to KTLA.
The victim was identified as Jose Malena, 62, an employee at the factory for more than six years.
An initial investigation indicated that Malena "was fatally injured when he was cooked in an oven," California Division of Occupational Safety and Health spokeswoman Erika Monterroza told the Whittier Daily News.
Cal-OSHA is trying to determine how the man wound up in the oven and whether there were any workplace safety regulatory violations.
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"The entire Bumble Bee Foods family is saddened by the tragic loss of our colleague, and our thoughts and prayers are with the Malena family," Bumble Bee Foods spokesman Pat Menke said in a statement to KTLA.
Operations at the plant were suspended until Monday.
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Over the past 30 years Mr. Serra has spoken to hundreds of professional organizations on various legal issues in multiple forums in 14 different states
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