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Ending what little suspense existed, former U.S. Ambassador to Germany and former Goldman Sachs executive Philip Murphy announced he's a candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for governor in 2017, promising he'll be "A governor who'll have your back."
Originality is not the campaign's strong suit.
Sloganeering aside, Murphy — much like his potential primary opponents state Senate President Steve Sweeney (D-Gloucester) and Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop — spent time caressing the erogenous zones of the left wing of the body politic.
He expressed his support for the constitutional amendment to require the state to establish a level and a timetable for contributing to the public pension and benefits system, and he opposes the freeze on cost-of-living adjustments (COLA) for retirees.
He wants the minimum wage increased to $15 an hour and the gasoline tax raised to replenish the Transportation Trust Fund. He supports greater state assistance to higher education and reinstatement of the tax surcharge on incomes above $1 million.
He's opposed to the cap on local property taxes and — in a break with Sweeney — wants the state to abandon efforts to seize control of the functions of the Atlantic City government.
Again, much like his potential challengers, Murphy suggests the additional cost to state government to support his platform can be met by "growing the economy" — a rather vague and badly overused phrase that can be uttered without the need to offer definitive proposals.
While both Sweeney and Fulop can rely on political power bases — a united South Jersey for the Senate president and a healthy Hudson County organization for the mayor — Murphy is counting on his early start (the primary is a year off) and his personal wealth and possible self-financing to offset the advantages of the others.
Sen. Raymond Lesniak (D-Union) and Assemblyman John Wisniewski (D-Middlesex) continue to be a part — albeit almost an afterthought — of the discussions about the gubernatorial primary, but neither is considered a strong contender at this point.
Occasionally, Essex County Executive Joe DiVincenzo is mentioned as a possible candidate, but aside from his immediate family and the patronage jobholders in the county administration building, it's hard to find Democrats who would seriously consider giving the nomination to someone who endorsed Gov. Chris Christie for governor in 2013.
Murphy can position himself as an outsider (he's never held elective office), but the early rap on him involves his career at Goldman Sachs, a reminder that the last multimillionaire from that firm to become governor — Jon Corzine — enjoyed a less than spectacular one term before becoming only the second incumbent to lose a reelection bid. (Jim Florio was the first in 1993.)
Murphy left the firm a decade ago and, in all probability, his employment there won't be a particularly serious drag on his candidacy. Sweeney, in reacting to Murphy's announcement, alluded to Corzine, but any effort to use it as an issue is likely to fail.
At this relatively early stage, there appears little separating the three principal contenders. All will claim the mantle of progressivism, of harnessing government power — particularly fiscal power — to strengthen the middle class and pull low-income families out of poverty.
In all likelihood, Democratic primary voters will be reminded of Sweeney's frequent alliances with Christie, most notably the Senate president's pivotal role in the 2011 pension-fund revisions that increased employee contributions toward their benefits and froze the COLA.
Nearly five years later, the bitterness of public employee unions toward Sweeney has diminished somewhat but remains just below the surface. He's succeeded in restoring his relationship with organized labor by leading the efforts to enshrine pension rights in the constitution and to increase the minimum wage.
His association with Christie will certainly be an issue. Fulop, for instance, has already referred to it in the controversy over the state takeover of Atlantic City — and there's every reason to believe Murphy will attempt to tie Sweeney to a Republican governor whose job-approval standing has fallen to unprecedented lows.
Even his slogan — unimaginative though it may be — sends a not-so-subtle message that he'll be "a governor who'll have your back" because the Senate President has demonstrated that he hasn't and won't.
Sweeney, though, is not without resources. As the third most powerful individual in state government, he can command media attention to spread his message and can reap credit — properly so — for the enactment of legislation to advance his and the Democratic majority agenda.
He will position himself at the forefront of efforts to confront and resolve the state's most pressing problems and enhance the quality of life for New Jerseyans. He'll be able to point to accomplishments, rather than to mere promises.
He'll benefit from his South Jersey organizational support while, at the same time, making a strong pitch to party leaders in the more populous northern part of the state that he's the candidate best suited to not only return the chief executive's office to Democratic control, but to retain legislative majorities as well.
With the Republican Party in disarray — not to mention financial difficulties — the early morning-betting line is that winning the Democratic primary is tantamount to a victory in November. The longer no Republican steps forward as a credible candidate, the stronger the belief in the inevitability of a Democratic governor.
All three — Sweeney, Murphy and Fulop — can lay claim to impeccable Democratic credentials and fealty to party principles. It may, in the end, all come down to which one voters are convinced will have their back.


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The 2004 Princeton Lectures on
Youth, Church, and Culture
Longing for God:
Youth and the Quest for a Passionate Church
The Princeton Lectures on Youth, Church, and Culture are designed to foster original scholarship pertaining to youth and the contemporary church. The lectures are delivered as a series at the Princeton Forums on Youth Ministry and are published annually. Lecturers include scholars who are not directly involved in the practice or study of youth ministry but who can bring the fruits of their respective disciplines to bear on ministry with the young.
The theme for the 2004 lectures is "Longing for God: Youth and the Quest for a Passionate Church." Young people long for God and for a church that embodies the passion of God who was willing to die for them. In their search, young people too often come to the church, find it wanting, and move on. Many believe this youthful quest suggests that the time is ripe for renewal in the whole church, not just in youth ministry. Can we foster revival that is grounded in the passion of Christ rather than in the perceived needs and preferences of each generation?
The 2004 Princeton Lectures on Youth, Church, and Culture provide a theologically grounded and forward-thinking conversation about what it means to be the church with and for young people today. Rather than proposing a cookie-cutter model for what the church should be, they provoke significant theological reflection on the nature of ministry and the church.
May these lectures feed your mind and renew your passion for ministry.
Director of Leadership Development
Princeton Theological Seminary Institute for Youth Ministry
2004 Lectures
- The Problem with Passion: Or, Why the Church of Mel Gibson Is Doing Just Fine
- Somebody Save Me: Passion, Salvation, and the Smallville Effect
- Engaging the Quest: Encountering Youth and God in Their Longing
- Life and Faith Walking: Joining Youth and God in What Matters
- Who in the World Am I?
- Turning the World Upside Down: The Holy Spirit, Rage, and Righteousness
- A Holy Passion and a Holy Temper: Spiritual Renewal Movements as Empowerment for Today's Youth
- Sanctified Eccentricity: Spiritual Renewal Movements as a Challenge for Today's Church
Engaging the Quest: Encountering Youth and God in Their Longing
One of the most challenging issues facing the church today is the question that John Westerhoff asked, "Will our children have faith?" Dean Hoage studied young Presbyterians thirty years ago and gave greater traction to Westerhoff's question. He interviewed these young men and women at age twenty-five—all of them had been confirmed at age fifteen. And he discovered that while most of them remained believers, they had little or nothing to do with a local community of faith. Three-fourths of them were not worshiping, and most of them saw little value in church as a way to express a continuing, but latent and ill-formed, faith.
Drift among the baptized is a conundrum, a mystery. And as a new generation unfolds in front of us, they bring to us both great promise and ever new challenges. What I want to do here is to explore the possibilities of youth ministry at a new level of power, engagement, and traction. I believe we are alive at a time in this movement when we are taking on hard questions—theologically and strategically. And as we take them on I believe we will help ourselves—those of us who believe in this work and the churches with whom we serve God in the world—to be more able at ministry not only with the first third of life but with the next two-thirds of life as well.
In the beginning, the God of Abraham and Sarah, of Noah and Moses and Miriam and Esther was lonely. And so you know in Scripture, the narrative, the story of how this God created a universe, a world, and humankind full of God's Spirit, and God looked at what had been done in overcoming God's page 33 loneliness and said, "It's good. It's done." And then like a huge knife drawn across glass, like a huge crack at the heart of that universe, heaven and earth are broken. What God had created, God busted. And so God fussed with it. As the acts and thoughts of alienation unfolded, Adam and Eve were out of the garden. And now life itself became excruciatingly difficult. It got so messed up that God destroyed most of it; God thought to keep some of the best around—Noah and the clan—to start over. But it didn't work. So then God called Abraham and Sarah and a people who would be a beacon, a light, a means of grace to it all. And God worked with this people. God loved them. God agonized with them; God went with them into exile, slavery, busted them out, freed them through the Exodus, and made them a nation. God sent them prophets and women of wisdom, but this didn't work. We come upon this poignant moment in the life of God in Jeremiah 31:31-34:
The days are surely coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the LORD. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other, "Know the LORD," for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the LORD; for I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more.
And then for over four hundred years, not much happened. In the fullness of time, in a baby, God entered deeply into the human pathos. And in all of the vulnerability that comes with childbirth in unsanitary conditions, God takes up life in the heart of a human. We have the story of this God, living at the heart of the human. We see what it's like to see God thinking, acting, carrying on, as God full of initiative, full of power, with direction and purpose at the very core of life itself. It's interesting. Jesus starts his ministry out in the wilderness, taking on the powers of evil in power, fame, and money. Then, he goes out of the wilderness into the places where fisher people and tax collectors work. He claims these people, and they take up this mission. Also the page 34 people who are possessed—those taken over by the systems of evil, so that their lives are no longer viable—recognize what God's up to. In Mark's Gospel, one of the first acts of God at the heart of a human is to encounter evil. And evil knows God in Jesus, and they do business, and the one who is possessed gets life back. This is God loose in the heart of the human. Jeremiah 31 comes to pass.
In this lecture I want to wonder about these questions: What does youth and family ministry look like when God and those in the first third of life get joined at the heart? What does it look like when this God—who created the universe, because this God was lonely, and then watched it get busted up because God gave humans incredible freedom, possibilities—partners with humans? I want to wonder about what that mission, that continuing work of God, that God loose in the world, looks like when God continues to take up life at the heart of young women and men. In this lecture, I want to pay particular attention to those between the ages of tweens, middle adolescence, and later adolescence. I believe that when we pay attention to these young people we will discover not only their longings but God as well. This is because God has gone there, and God is already there. How does this happen? How is it that we who have been called into the life and mission of God, can go with God into the hearts of young people?
For forty-one years I've done research, but in all the years that I have been out there doing that research, I have always had an uneasy sense that when I finished the project, interpreted the data—whether quantitative or qualitative—I have not been alongside the pulsating heart of Sarah or Fred or Jose or Carl or Sally.
What I want to do here is to wonder about how we tend this great mystery, of who these young women and men are. The person who has helped me the most in this enterprise in the last five years is Patricia Hersch. You know her probably through the book that was six years in the gestation and the birthing, A Tribe Apart. She has now conceived of another project and is gestating it. It will probably be delivered in the next year or two. This new one is about the passions of young people. What I have learned from Patricia, in terms of deeply entering the heart of the human in the first third of life, goes something like this: In her three years at Reston, Virginia, and their schools, these five dynamics emerge: participating, listening, writing, interpreting, and page 35getting the story out. They are easy to say but much more complex and difficult to actually do.
To begin, go and be with young people in their world. This sounds like youth ministry 101. It is vital to take up this complex mystery, going into their cultures, their subcultures, their places, their experience of media, their consciousness, their schedules. I am convinced it is absolutely necessary if we are going to be following God into the heart of the young person—to go on this risky journey. Once there, it is important to value and respect the young people in their journey, rather than to objectify it. It is important to wonder with them about the great and awesome mystery of the journey that is unfolding. Once one enters that world it is important to be there, compassionately and consistently, long enough to be claimed by them, so that their destiny has a stake on your future. It is important to accompany them so much so that you can't walk away from it without grieving the loss of something. As one enters into that world, I have learned from Patricia that very often, even in that trusted, deep hallowed ground, young men and women will have depth and breadth of experience for which they have no language.
A great part of the journey is to find words together. Not to give them words. But to find pictures and to find metaphors. I learned this from Robert Coles—from his work and the research that he and his wife did. He has over 250,000 pictures drawn, colored by two and three-year-olds. His work with these children is amazing. He received a Pulitzer Prize for doing this work with children. From these children there begins to emerge a voice and a language, which now flows not just in little bytes but into story, narrative. And in hearing the story together, it becomes something more than just a piece in their heads. And then as that story takes on its life, the story gets spoken. If Jeremiah 31 is going to occur with young men and women in the twenty-first century, I believe it is going to involve an exceedingly costly, risky journey with God into the heart of the human at the first-third of life.
On this journey, one remains there in their world, valuing and respecting them, picking up on their journey, developing bonds across years, not weeks, sharing in their destiny, hearing them in voice and story, and then together with them interpreting the story. The first thirty years of my research I sat around with women and men with PhDs who were all over forty, and we interpreted the story. We never took this to the young men and women in different regions of the country, to different genders, or to different orientations.page 36
We skipped over the whole process of getting into their world when we interpreted the story. Let's see what some people who are going there are picking out as we work our way into the heart of these young men and women. Here is what we are hearing: They are a unique generation with common traits. They are engaged; they are up to changing the world; they are hopeful. Those are some of their unique characteristics, but there are more: possessing high self-worth and self-confidence; struggling for normalcy against great diverse expectations; facing a lot of competition; having to cope with a stressful multidimensional world very early. They are still looking for acceptance. They live in a world of great diversity. Even some of the most remote places where young men and women live are filled with elements of the different or the other these days. There is still an incredible search for freedom, individuality, and uniqueness. Authenticity is highly valued. There is an incredible interest in and search for their potential. They are entering into their powers.
Entering one's powers. I have watched young people these days do as much talent scouting with one another as cutting each other off at the knees. You know it used to be that what happened in the gauntlet at the lockers is that they relentlessly cut each other down. I watch them now also become each other's talent scouts. Something interesting is going on with this generation of young men and women. Underlying all of this, however, there is anxiety and fear, which takes on many different forms. One of them is this: Will anyone be there for me? Can I trust this relationship? Can I trust you? Will this go on across time?
I believe one of the great challenges we have in youth and family ministry is the rapidity with which we leave ministries. This summer I am working with a group. We are going to write a book on youth ministries that have lasted fifteen years or longer. I have had a chance to study a half a dozen of these. There is something very different taking place in those ministries. These ministries are addressing the question "Will you be there for me?" As a preacher, when I have these young people in the congregation, I know I can't put one over on them. They want to know, Is this lively? Is it about that which matters? When I was a pastor in Fargo, North Dakota, I had a young person meet me at the door and say, "Today you handed out all these empty pop cans." I responded, "What do you mean?" She said, "You talked about that which didn't matter in a language no one could understand from a point of view that didn't make a difference." She was fourteen. She became one of my preaching partners. I invited her and her friends to sit in the fourth row, in front of the page 37 pulpit. On Sunday morning, there they were, and I was scared to death. I'd meet with them for breakfast on Monday mornings. After several Monday mornings, she said to me, "Since when is G-o-d a three-syllable word?" After a few more Mondays she said, "I don't do Mondays, so, well, let's do Saturday at noon. We'll help you with your sermon before you mess it up." About three months into this, a woman who could have been her grandmother, but wasn't, looked at me at the door and said, "Reverend Martinson, your preaching is different." I thought, now the elders are coming after me. She said, "It is so much better. What's been going on with you?" I said, "Your grandchildren have been after me." And so I introduced these two women to each other. It was the beginning of an incredible team that helped renew our parish. I suspect there is more power in this than we know.
I am sixty-one years-old. I should have been out of this work a long time ago. I discover, though, that they love me. I was at a New Year's Eve party a few days ago. Emily and Rebecca—one of them is a ninth grader, the other is a senior in high school—came over and found me because I preached in their church not long ago. I said to them after the service, "I want to know what your crap detectors are telling you about my preaching." I took them out to lunch after the service to hear what they had to say. Then they came and found me on New Year's Eve at this party. For forty-five minutes, we surfed the spirit of God. These young women are incredible. They wanted to talk to an elder about what really matters. And so we took it on. We wondered about how Rebecca, who has been suffering from depression for a year and a half, survived a traumatic experience two years ago. She told me a story of an exodus. This woman is ready to lead. She is seventeen. It's incredible. And I fussed in on her. This old man was helping her get a language to it, delighting in it, wondering who else needed to know. She looked at me afterward and said, "So, when can we talk next?" Inside of me, I thought, "I can't die yet!"
I want you to think a little. Think about an experience you have had where you have gotten to the heart, to that place where a young woman, a young man is living her or his life. Go to work, pick up your own stories. Here's my thesis: Young men and women will encounter that passionate church when we engage their quest. If the church's passion is at least in a large part, if not first of all, about them, they'll get it. And that passion is to be unrelentingly in the presence of the mystery of God in their life, as they make this journey. If we engage that quest, if we encounter young people, we will get to know their page 38 longings and we will get to know God in their longings. God is there. And so my thesis is that they will know the passion of the church as the church passionately and respectfully pursues them. And I believe that is what God was up to in the decision God made in Jeremiah's announcement. I will write my law in their hearts. You cannot do any writing about it until you go there, until you touch the paper. And so much of our writing, speaking, and acting is miles away from that core, that center where they live and move, and have their being. I believe we can go back to and participate in our ministries, and we can put wheels onto this.
And as we go there, we can do these things: go there; be there; dwell there; listen to voice, language, and story; work life and faith together around shared challenges and gifts. The stuff of the ministry will come from the stuff of their hearts. Bring an honest but a positive interpretive lens. I would invite you to set aside most of the spin of about seventy years of developmental study, which tends to look at young men and women in a negative, half-full, what's the problem attitude, rather than discovering the genius, the unique, the "what's now." We don't need to set it all aside; it is important work. But our interpretive lens needs to be positive. Young people are entering into their powers. And as we go there, I believe it's absolutely critical that they, together with us, do the interpreting of what we are giving language to. What is it that we see here? As we engage in this journey with youth, listening to them and being in awe of the presence of God in their lives, we will together satisfy our quest for a passionate church.

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The public Windows 7 beta is build number 7000 (nicely timed, Microsoft).
Honestly, the easiest way to get the beta (as of the time of this writing) is to use an MSDN account. MS really gives away their software like candy to anybody with an account on MSDN. You can generate activation keys on the spot, and download whatever software you want.
Especially in light of jokes (such as the one found here) and overly harsh criticisms, I thought I'd help defend Windows 7. (Notice that I didn't say that I was defending Microsoft.)
I run the Windows 7 beta as my primary operating system, currently, so I'm speaking from 100% pure experience. And your Linux/Unix lovers will need to come to terms with the fact that Windows is getting better and better, not worse and worse. If you think it runs too slow, then your computer is outdated for personal desktop use on a modern operating system for professional software. I would like to take this opportunity to shout out to a nameless person whom I met one evening, to let him know that if only Windows had a built-in SSH server and a distribution of gcc or something, it would give Linux a run for its money, in terms of the tech world. The base kernel has been shrinking in size with each release, and in all reality, it's getting faster. If it appears to be slowing down, then it's because your GPU sucks, and you need a video card. Instead of running the visuals in Windows on your raw CPU, Vista and Win7 tap into the Graphics Processing Unit to more intelligently dish out the visual work load. That way, your actual computing doesn't need to bump shoulders with graphics stuff.
Some of the greatest things about Windows 7 are simply the UI improvements. People take stabbing gashes at Win7 for simply being Vista in a new skin. Partly true. But are you completely daft? Giving Vista a UI overhaul is great! Win7 is the way that Vista was meant to be from the very beginning. MS had some troubles back in the late days of XP, and couldn't focus on Vista enough. Therefore, Vista came out kind of gimpy-like; it was XP in a new skin, with only a few improvements. In fact, a lot of the various menus were just lame rips of the old XP menus. For instance, if you right click your Vista desktop and choose "Personalize", just about any of the links you can click from there are just single-tab settings dialogs.
Windows 7 fixes that. It improves upon so many of the various menus, that you'll grumble to yourself the next time you have to use XP's menus.
Aside from that, the taskbar got a makeover. The Quicklaunch toolbar has been sacrificed in favor of the new taskbar. Those familiar with XP's "Pin to start menu" option will quickly catch on, since you now have a "Pin to taskbar" option to accompany it. Basically, your icons get pinned to the taskbar so that they act like the old Quicklaunch toolbar. However, when you click on the icon, it will become "active", and the 'quicklaunch'-ish icon then becomes the active window on the taskbar.
You can do drag-and-drop reordering on the taskbar.
The taskbar items are kinda slick now, as they glow according to the most outlying color in the icon. Don't think that this is too much of a waste of system graphics time– MS had been going the route of 'vector' graphics, which are calculated in real time, rather than trying to apply bloated bitmaps to everything. It seems to me that it tries to pick a color on the lighter half of the color spectrum, so that it does in fact "glow" and not "emit dark shades". It might seem trivial, but it's really nice for us visual folks. It's great to be able to quickly associate a color with your open programs.
On a similar note, any tasks which take a progress bar will actually display the progress underneath the text of the taskbar item. Kind of hard to visualize without a graphic:
I threw open a few extra windows for you to see. Notice that Photoshop is in the middle of the other icons because it is normally "pinned" to the taskbar, but I have it running, so it's expanded. Also, it knows that my instance of Chrome and Gmail are both running from the same executable, so it links them together, and lets the glowly highlight spill into the Gmail item. The glow changes to red on the Gmail item because the icon's color is different than the normal Chrome item. My mouse was sitting at about 2/3 of the length of my Chrome item.
Hidden system tray items pop *up* into a little tray window, so that they don't have to worry about animating into some goofy sliding motion that crunches your taskbar items.
My wireless signal is represented by an actual signal icon in the system tray, instead of a useless "you have a connection, but i won't tell you how good it is" icon.
FINALLY (holy heavens) the clock in the system tray tells you what the date is, as well.
That little vertical rectangle at the far right side of the taskbar is a magical "show me the desktop" button. if you click it, your windows will minimize. If you just hover over it though, all your windows will go transparent, leaving only outlines, so that you can see down to the desktop if you want, without actually minimizing everything. This is nice if you have desktop widgets running down there. (The Sidebar is gone, as it is now just a bunch of free-floating widgets.) This eliminates the need to make your widgets "always on top" if you don't really want them to be. As soon as your mouse moves away from the hovering-enforced hot-spot, your windows come back into full opacity.
Similarly, if you hover your mouse over a window preview on the taskbar, all other windows will fade into the same Aero-esque outlines, while the window whose preview you're hovering over will stay at full opacity. Nice for a developer like me, when I've got several windows open from the same program. I quickly lose track of which window is which, so visual feedback like that is wonderful.
And check out this "removable device" popup when you click on the icon in the taskbar:
I've got one of those 12-in-1 memory card drives, so it was pretty useless in Vista or XP when I clickedon that icon, because it would only tell you random drive letters and the like. Now, it tries to split it up by the physical hardware. I intentionally put in my camera and iPod, so that you can see what kind of effect they were shooting for this time around. That main "F:\" section on the bottom is my 12-in-1 card reader, which has 5 slots in it. Only one currently has a card in it, so it naturally shows the card's name.
On a related note, Windows Explorer now hides (by default, changeable via options) your empty drives, so that if there's nothing in it, you won't be overwhelmed by an onslaught of drive letters, where you have to guess-and-check to discover which one your card is in. I think your CD/DVD drive stays there at all times though… not sure. Actually, I checked last night, and it does hide CD/DVD drives, though if you simply click on "My computer", it'll show you all your drives, whether they have media in them or not.
The other major thing that "matters" is this new thing called your Libraries. A Library is basically a folder that aggregates files from other 'source' folders. For instance, I have a backup external harddrive, and so my Pictures Library aggregates from "My Pictures" (from my User folder), "Public Pictures", and then my backup drive's "Picture" folder. Pretty sweet. They're trying to have the Libraries replace your User folder's "Documents", "Pictures", etc… You still have access to your personal folder, but by using the Libraries, you don't have to worry about digging around to see Public documents, images, or videos… they're just right there in one spot, even though they exist in separate spots.
I won't bore you with the other little details, but let it be known that Win7 is a big step forward. It seems to take up 150-250mb less RAM when turned on and sitting idle in it's "ready" state after startup. Even while I was running a remote desktop session last night, along with Hamachi, the basic iPod services, and a few other nickknacks, the OS was running at 632mb of RAM usage. Compare that to my work machine with Vista Business on it, which instantly takes up about 865-900 after startup.
And finally, a FANTABULOUS selling point is that it's written on the same Vista code-base, so programs are generally compatible with Windows 7 right out of the box. Photoshop warned me that it couldn't verify that I was running Vista SP1, but allowed me to install anyway. My motherboard driver refused to install because it was coded by a bunch of lame idiot programmers who detected my OS's name, rather than my OS's actual capabilities. Let that be a note for programmers everywhere: code with your platform's/object's abilities in mind, not it's actual type.
And that's that. I may post more in the future.


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magazine." Kind of weird to hear someone from Canada called that, especially if you're reading him from Texas, but OK.
I cook a lot but am not what you'd call a gourmet chef. On the other hand, you shouldn't have to be a master chef to figure out what's going on in most cookbooks – unless they have the phrase "Advanced Chefs Only!" all over them.
The book looked really good – wonderful full color photographs, and many of the recipes sounded great (not grandpa's hot dog salad though).
Over the course of a month I tried out several of Reader's recipes. I didn't try out others because I wasn't sure what he was talking about (how do you grill at a 45-degree angle? What is Nutella anyway?). The ones I did undertake made for a considerable amount of mad scientist fun – it takes 13 ingredients to make Bonedust Seasoning Rub and the recipe makes 2-1/2 cups. All so I could use 1 teaspoon in the real thing I was trying to make which was Brown Sugar and Bourbon Sirloin Steaks (marinate 6-8 hours, then grill. This was the fastest recipe we did and it did turn out to be pretty tasty.)
Anyhow, there wasn't much spur of the moment to any of the recipes my daughter Abby and I tried – besides the number of ingredients we had to assemble, we were either marinating for 6 to 48 hours or cooking something for an entire day, with hourly applications of apple juice in a spray bottle. Some of it was like running a marathon, proud that you made it to the finish line but not so sure it wouldn't be a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Next we tackled Beer-Lime Marinated Skirt Steak (which we would call fajitas). The recipe calls for marinating the meat 24-48 hours before flinging it on a hot grill for no more than two minutes a side. And yes, Reader likes cooking a lot of things with alcohol. He also advocates drinking alcoholic beverages while standing over your grill or smoker which he believes should never be left unattended. This was probably the best recipe we tried, the meat was tender and flavorful. And we used up 4 tablespoons of Bonedust Seasoning Rub.
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The crescendo ending was to have been the Slow-Smoked Pulled Pork. I lived in Mississppi for a while and that's where I fell in love with pig barbecue. This was the one disappointing recipe we did; the meat came out soft and tender but Reader just throws way too many hot spices into it for my taste and I don't think we should have mixed the barbecue sauce into the pork at the end as he prescribed. Pulled pork reaches its highest state of existence in pulled pork sandwiches, a true comfort food and this wasn't it for me. It did drive me to the Internet to check out other versions of pulled pork and I'll probably be undertaking one of those on some upcoming holiday when I have a lot of time.
And we're also getting ready to tackle the Beef Tenderloin Injected with Cognac Butter and Gimme S'More Quesadillas.
Abby noted that Reader has 75 different grills and smokers in his backyard. We ended up with two smokers in ours when the first pooped out four hours into the pulled pork and an emergency run had to be made to Home Depot for a new one. -- Margaret Downing
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The Moralists
August 27, 2014
Dalrock has a post that in the last few days has been gaining traction to becoming quite epic. The original post discussed a young Christian woman who retained her virginity until marriage and then afterwards discovered she has some serious sexual dysfunctions. It is obvious reading her story that she has some serious emotional issues as well. From reading her story it is plain that she was taught that sex was shameful and dirty before she even reached puberty and understood what sex even was. This is a common teaching that young people receive in almost every church to one degree or another. These attitudes are not easily changed once a woman finally marries and sex becomes ok literally overnight. The church's repression of healthy attitudes about human sexuality and our natural sexual desires is just as ominous as the promotion of female promiscuity which the church also accepts and legitimizes.
It is not difficult to see that the origins of this young woman's harmful attitudes about sex originated from with her church's indoctrination and its foundational belief system. Although she is a stout feminist, her attitudes about sex were likely fully ingrained into her belief system before she accepted the feminist ideology wholeheartedly. It is important to point out that mixing modern church doctrine with feminist beliefs will almost always cause sexual dysfunction and unhealthy repression in not only women but men as well.
I submitted several questions and gave some hypothetical's of issues pertaining to the main topic that I hoped would be discussed in a rational manner. I also made a few statements to help guide things along. These were legitimate concerns that many men do have when reevaluating their personal beliefs after taking the red pill.
What resulted was some men decided to mischaracterize what I said and then decided to engage in thinly guised character attacks. I did not enter into these discussions really caring about what these other men and women think about me personally, nor do I currently care. What is important is that the message gets through. The level of debate, emotion, and rationalization from the church men this discussion caused tells me I struck some very raw nerves, which I will explain below. That is good. That was the point. However many of the men who held themselves out as morally superior (moralists) avoided and ignored the most important points and questions I asked. They engaged in a type of anti-intellectualism that for some of us well read individuals greatly annoys us. However, not everyone did this, and not everyone held themselves out as a moralists. These individuals greatly added value to the discussion. This is pretty long but the problem is big and the solutions must be hashed out.
I will admit that some of my points were not as clear as they should have been. My mind works extremely fast and as it happens at times, many of these ideas came to me in one fell swoop while I was writing my comments. I believe this caused some confusion and if so I hope to clarify that here. Also, because of the personal nature of some of the criticisms against what I wrote and the length of this essay I decided to post here on my blog and link back to Dalrock's post instead of posting a simple comment. I am going to break this up into a few different posts so bear with me.
One thing you may notice is that I no longer refer to myself as following any sect or religion. The thing I find most disagreeable is hypocrisy. For me to not be a hypocrite myself, for the many reasons below, I am no longer willing to identify as a Christian or promote the church in any way. I feel by doing so could be harmful to good men by possibly encouraging him to join an organization where he is almost guaranteed to be hoodwinked by the feminine imperative.
I am not going to get into a big what is Alpha and what is Beta discussion. There are enough good resources out there if you want to know more. However, what those two terms, and other like it such as Omega and Gamma, they are merely adjectives that encompass different sets of behavior patterns, attitudes and personality traits. All three of these things can be changed in a man to a greater or lesser degree if necessary to achieve certain goals and objectives. Many men often have a mix of these qualities. The terms therefore are used loosely in my essays when I use these descriptive attributes.
Is sex in a loving committed monogamous relationship just as moral as sex in the current Marriage 2.0 scheme where men are likely to lose?
Is sex between an unmarried man and women in a loving, committed, monogamous relationship inherently sinful?
Is it absurd and unrealistic to expect all unmarried Christian men to remain celibate when there is no other viable and rational option for sexual gratification other than entering into Marriage 2.0?
Church doctrine about human sexuality cases more problems and dysfunctions due to the inherent shame that surrounds most churches beliefs concerning sex in general. This shame manifests itself in men and women even after they marry creating sexual issues in the marriage.
There is no consistency in church doctrine from one denomination to another concerning human sexuality, sex in marriage, marriage and divorce. Most churches do not uniformly enforce its own edicts and local customs, even ones that are vigorously promoted within that church organization. Many denominations refuse to teach the entire counsel of God. The inconsistency on such issues such as divorce have ramification that could affect the salvation of the parties involved. So how does a man know what teaching is truthful and which ones are in error causing him to sin?
Biblical marriage no longer exists because the state has usurped the bibles' authority over family, marriage and sexual matter by legislative fiat. Marriage 2.0 is a government promoted institution to ensure that the state has jurisdiction over a man, his assets and his children for later disbursements to his ex-wife should she choose to divorce him. For biblical marriage to exist there needs to be social controls in order to discipline transgressors of biblical law. Civil law would need to match biblical law.
Because biblical marriage no longer exists, a man may engage in sexual relations with a woman who he has a loving committed and monogamous relationship with without incurring the wrath of God or everlasting damnation. God knows a man's heart and will judge him according to that. God will not judge a man for not following and unjust law or religious edict. Godly suffering comes from God. God would not place an impossible burden on a man and then call it a sinful should the man choose to opt out of trying to meet that impossible burden.
Additional points and questions relevant to the overall theme of this series and the previous points that were discussed will follow in subsequent essay in this series.
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Following up on earlier theoretical predictions, MIT researchers have now demonstrated experimentally the existence of a fundamentally new kind of magnetic behavior, adding to the two previously known states of magnetism.
Ferromagnetism — the simple magnetism of a bar magnet or compass needle — has been known for centuries. In a second type of magnetism, antiferromagnetism, the magnetic fields of the ions within a metal or alloy cancel each other out. In both cases, the materials become magnetic only when cooled below a certain critical temperature. The prediction and discovery of antiferromagnetism — the basis for the read heads in today's computer hard disks — won Nobel Prizes in physics for Louis Neel in 1970 and for MIT professor emeritus Clifford Shull in 1994.
"We're showing that there is a third fundamental state for magnetism," says MIT professor of physics Young Lee. The experimental work showing the existence of this new state, called a quantum spin liquid (QSL), is reported this week in the journal Nature, with Lee as the senior author and Tianheng Han, who earned his PhD in physics at MIT earlier this year, as lead author.
The QSL is a solid crystal, but its magnetic state is described as liquid: Unlike the other two kinds of magnetism, the magnetic orientations of the individual particles within it fluctuate constantly, resembling the constant motion of molecules within a true liquid.
Finding the evidence
There is no static order to the magnetic orientations, known as magnetic moments, within the material, Lee explains. "But there is a strong interaction between them, and due to quantum effects, they don't lock in place," he says.
Although it is extremely difficult to measure, or prove the existence, of this exotic state, Lee says, "this is one of the strongest experimental data sets out there that [does] this. What used to just be in theorists' models is a real physical system."
Philip Anderson, a leading theorist, first proposed the concept in 1987, saying that this state could be relevant to high-temperature superconductors, Lee says. "Ever since then, physicists have wanted to make such a state," he adds. "It's only in the past few years that we've made progress."
The material itself is a crystal of a mineral called herbertsmithite. Lee and his colleagues first succeeded in making a large, pure crystal of this material last year — a process that took 10 months — and have since been studying its properties in detail.
"This was a multidisciplinary collaboration, with physicists and chemists," Lee explains. "You need both … to synthesize the material and study it with advanced physics techniques. Theorists were also crucial to this."
Through its experiments, the team made a significant discovery, Lee says: They found a state with fractionalized excitations, which had been predicted by some theorists but was a highly controversial idea. While most matter has discrete quantum states whose changes are expressed as whole numbers, this QSL material exhibits fractional quantum states. In fact, the researchers found that these excited states, called spinons, form a continuum. This observation, they say in their Nature paper, is "a remarkable first."
Scattering neutrons
To measure this state, the team used a technique called neutron scattering, which is Lee's specialty. To actually carry out the measurements, they used a neutron spectrometer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Md.
The results, Lee says, are "really strong evidence of this fractionalization" of the spin states. "That's a fundamental theoretical prediction for spin liquids that we are seeing in a clear and detailed way for the first time."
It may take a long time to translate this "very fundamental research" into practical applications, Lee says. The work could possibly lead to advances in data storage or communications, he says — perhaps using an exotic quantum phenomenon called long-range entanglement, in which two widely separated particles can instantaneously influence each other's states. The findings could also bear on research into high-temperature superconductors, and could ultimately lead to new developments in that field, he says.
"We have to get a more comprehensive understanding of the big picture," Lee says. "There is no theory that describes everything that we're seeing."
Subir Sachdev, a professor of physics at Harvard University who was not connected with this work, says that these findings, which have been anticipated for decades, "are very significant and open a new chapter in the study of quantum entanglement in many-body systems." The detection of such states, he says, was an "exceptionally difficult task. Young Lee and his group brilliantly overcame these challenges in their beautiful experiment."
In addition to Lee and Han, the work was carried out by J.S. Helton of NIST, research scientist Shaoyan Chu of MIT's Center for Materials Science and Engineering, MIT chemistry professor Daniel Nocera, Jose Rodriguez-Rivera of NIST and the University of Maryland, and Colin Broholm of Johns Hopkins University. The work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.
Juliette Parker
December 21, 2012
This is great. I am not sure I quite understand it exactly though. How exactly does this form of magnetism preform compared to say two magnets repealing each other because of their poles ?
Steve Proffitt
December 26, 2012
Are the properties of this crystal like the diamagnetic properties of water and graphite, or is this an entirely new property?
Justin Smith
December 26, 2012
This was an exciting read. Looking forward to hearing more about this.
December 26, 2012
Maybe this is what the Germans were doing with "the bell" rotating an isotope of mercury?
December 26, 2012
If this discovery leads to better understand quantum entanglement, it could also help to envision how dark energy works along with the so called dark matter and the known universe of physical dense phenomena and that time is not a dimension but a need of mankind's mind to cope with the perennial manifestation of life.
isaac mayfield
December 26, 2012
i think that without adding an electrical field (such as in electro-magnets) its magnetic properties would be infinitesimal ...like the signal of sound and video on a television displaying static. the sound is simply a white noise and the video (usually) a nearly perfect balance of black, white and the shades of grey between. so you can imagine magnetic properties inside the crystal in much the same way like a static soup constantly fluctuating without a field to organize them and hold them in that state it would have very weak magnetism(if any at all). :)
michael shavelieva
December 26, 2012
It would depend on the material used and its application.
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December 28, 2012
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October 25, 2014
Finally something proves my vision: pyramidal green crystals placed in a chess like positions closed, vacuumed and electrified will generate artificial gravity that will be built in spaceships such that we don't fly in them but walk.


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Discovery Channel's Gold Rush follows the adventures of the ambitious (literal) gold digger Todd Hoffman and his gang of pals as they try to mine for gold in various locations, ranging from Porcupine Creek, Alaska, to the Klondike region of Yukon, Canada. When the show started out, they were impoverished, unemployed, and dreaming of a better life. As the show progressed, their financial situation didn't seem to improve, though behind the scenes rumors were brewing that all was not as it appeared, and that at least some of the guys were enjoying the benefits that come with being part of a hit reality show.
Todd Hoffman, who is essentially the leader of the bunch, has a strong personality and is willing to do all it takes to strike it rich – even it means giving harsh criticism to his peers on the show. But perhaps this behavior is due to the deep emotional presence that gold mining seems to have in his family – his father, Jack Hoffman, went to Alaska 25 years ago to try and find gold, and was unsuccessful. But now, thanks to the help from his son Todd, Jack seems to be doing a lot better this time around.
The quest to find gold certainly gives the show an adventurous quality, as the thrill seeking cast takes the viewer on a roller coaster of emotional highs and lows, as they dig deep for earth's glimmering treasure. Another part of why we feel like we can connect to it is because, being reality television, the people we're watching on screen are said to be showing an authentic side of themselves. Except… maybe they're not as real as we think they are. Many characters on Gold Rush have come and gone, and they have divulged many secrets about the true nature of what actually goes on, and how the show is really produced. We were certainly surprised to hear some of the things that were revealed, and we have a strong feeling you'll be quite shocked as well. Read on and you'll see why when it comes to finding the motherload and making it big, all that glitters isn't gold.
Mean Mr. Hoffman
Todd Hoffman is one of the more popular characters on the show, and a lot of the reason is because he's always on screen. Most of the time, he seems like a pretty decent fellow – maybe not the best miner on the planet, but overall a nice guy. But according to former miners that were on the show, Hoffman was a lot less nice when the cameras weren't rolling, and that he'd frequently could be found yelling at others.
Todd the basketball buff
On a lighter note, while we mostly know Todd Hoffman as somewhat of the ringleader of the members of Gold Rush, and are used to seeing him digging for gold, apparently he's got other talents as well. In an interview with Discovery channel, he said that he played college basketball when he was younger, joking that it was clearly long ago, gesturing lightheartedly toward his "less than athletic" appearance. Additionally, he said that he also used to be a college sports recruiter.
Real or fake?
The thing about reality shows is that everything that happens on the show seems very natural – but sometimes we can't be too sure that it is. In fact, former cast members of the show weighed in on how the producers shoot the show, saying that they don't keep the camera on at all times. As a result, they tend to miss important things, and when that happens – they restage it, essentially pretending that something is happening live, when in reality, it's not.
More air time, more money
The cast members are also very affected by the questionable nature of the way the show gets filmed. The fact is that the more screen time they get, they more money they earn – and when the cameras aren't always on, they cast members get anxious to acquire some quality airtime. This leads them to be dramatic instigators, and to start fights to get the attention of the crew. While this sometimes works, it makes us wonder how authentic these cast members outbursts really are.
A false villain
Former Gold Rush cast member Jimmy Dorsey claimed after leaving that the television producers made his character out to be a villain. Dorsey, for his part, said the editing process showed him in a bad light: as such, he would constantly be seen complaining about safety hazards, with the camera catching him being chastised by the other workers, who just wanted to get on with the job. It was repeated scenes like this that made Dorsey claim his portrayal on the show didn't reflect who he really is.
Now that's fishy
Apparently the miners on the set of Gold Rush weren't willing to compromise a good quality excavation for the preservation of a salmon habitat. It was reported that the crew of the show drove a 50-ton piece of mining equipment through a lake, right through a wild salmon habitat. The fish didn't have time to swim away from the area and before anyone knew it, an entire ecosystem was destroyed, to the dismay of many conservationists.
Lawsuits left and right
It shouldn't come as a surprise that with all of their shenanigans, not everyone is a big fan of the what the cast of Gold Rush are doing – especially the citizens of the places that they're digging. Indeed, the people of South Park, Colorado, started a campaign called "Save South Park" in effort to stop the show from digging in their town, and even sued them to stop them from moving forward with the digging. And they weren't the only ones who had a problem with it either.
Bear encounter
When you're shooting footage out in the wilderness, you're bound to run into random wildlife here and there, and one time the gold hunters were joined by a full grown bear. When the bear came into the vicinity of the production team, the miners became a bit frightened – and Mike Halstead, pastor and gold miner enthusiast, made the choice to shoot the bear, who was killed as a result. Needless to say, wildlife enthusiasts were not at all pleased to hear this.
Turin's teeth
In an interview with the Discovery channel, Gold Rush cast member Dave Turin was asked if he would divulge something about himself that no one knew. His response was that his entire set of teeth are actually fake – when he was a child he stuck up for a friend, and in a fight got all of his teeth knocked out. Clearly, the cast members of the show are made up of some stronger stuff than we originally thought.
Lack of experience
Show fanatics are well aware that the producers of the series prefer miners that are inexperienced. Perhaps it adds a certain amateur feel to the show, helping Average Joes identify with the characters. But whether or not it does wonders for the ratings of the show, it must be noted that it also makes it extremely dangerous. It's hard enough for experienced gold miners to use complicated machinery, but to subject people who aren't used to it may not be such a good idea.
Tragic event
There have been many characters on the show, and granted, some of them were more popular than others, a fact that was proven true due to the release of certain cast members such as James Harness. The reason for his release was that he wasn't finding enough gold, but after leaving the show it was discovered that Harness was actually going through a rough time with addiction. Sadly, he died a few years after he left the show.
Just fix it already
As you have probably already gathered by this point, the Gold Rush producers seem to harbor an element of partial neglect when it comes to the acts they the cast members engage in. Another case of this is when the equipment breaks down on set. They could have it fixed when the cameras aren't rolling, but they choose to film the show while the equipment is broken so that the show will be more interesting. So much for it being a "reality show."
Mysterious departures
Something about the show that viewers have noticed is that through the seasons, some of the show's most popular characters seem to disappear. It can be hard to watch a show, connect to a certain character, and watch them cease to appear on the show. Show favorites such as wildland firefighter Dustin Hurt, civil engineer Dave Turin (pictured here), all enjoyed a nice period of time on the show – before leaving subsequently, and the producers didn't make it clear to us why.
We want chaos
It seems that the producers of Gold Rush don't try to avoid trouble – they run straight towards it with open arms. They believe that anything that may add to the show's publicity, good or bad, is bound to make it more popular. For instance, the show producers made the conscious decision to use water from a river or stream, instead of groundwater, hoping that the damage they could potentially inflict on the ecosystem would get them sued – leading to more show publicity.
Do they really need the gold?
Show business is very strange – you have something authentic to give, you discover that the world likes it, and you capitalize on that – but to what end? For instance, many of the cast members are portrayed to be not wealthy individuals, and while this might have been true when the show started, it couldn't be further from the truth now, due to the fact that they get paid pretty nicely from the Discovery channel. And yet the producers still make the characters out to be desperate for gold, to heighten their drive, and their need to strike gold.
Here is the cold, hard truth that many lovers of Gold Rush need to know – or perhaps they may be better off turning a blind eye, if it suits them better. Many of the lines on the show are scripted. Indeed, former cast member Jimmy Dorsey talked about his time on the show and then that while some things are improvised, for the most part things are very planned out and expected. For all of you fans out there, what do you have to say about this?
Parker's got dough
One of the show's most prominent members is Parker Schnabel, who was always seen as "the young kid." From the beginning, he's been upfront about growing up poor, but these days it's reported the kid's doing quite well for himself. In fact, his time on season five alone earned him an alleged $1 million – and yet he still claims to be in a heap of debt. This is definitely a large chunk of change, but can we really take him seriously when he's pulling in a seven figure income?
Let's talk numbers
But if you're a diehard Gold Rush fan, then perhaps this recent revelation about Parker's wealth may leave you wondering – just how rich is he? It turns out that his total net worth is around $2 million, which is crazy when you consider the fact that he's only 24 years old. It seems that his life as a kid star on the set of Gold Rush may have given him a real career path, or at least a substantial investment if he ever decides to do anything else.
Firefighter history
Long before Dustin Hurt ever became a cast member on Gold Rush, he was gaining a lot of experience in various fields. By the age of 24, Dustin was a wildland firefighter for the California Forest Service, a very brave job to take upon oneself. Some of his tactics that he picked up on the job were the use of axes and chainsaws to help cut fire breaks. He's been working with heavy machinery for over 20 years, which explains his comfort level with it on the show.
Christmas for Chris
Chris Doumitt is a gold miner on the show, but have you ever wondered how he got into the field? It turns out that his involvement in the industry was a complete accident. He had been working as an honest carpenter for the Hoffmans when he got influenced by all of the gold mining work they were doing – and very soon he became a part of their mining crew. When asked about what he loves about it, he said he finds the whole thing thrilling, "Like opening a Christmas present."
Passionate Jack
There's certainly something about Gold Hunt elder Jack Hoffman that seems to draw people in. He has a certain "Dumbledore-ness" to his demeanor, and it's not just because of the long white beard. It has to do with his commitment to his craft, and in his case it's his love for gold mining. He has sacrificed a lot for mining, and he even almost lost everything he had when he went on an Alaskan mining expedition 25 years ago – but he's still going strong, and he'll never give up.


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Chief Justice Roberts made certain that each justice had almost exactly the same number of majority opinions. His record on this score, Professor Lazarus found, is "unmatched by any prior chief justice."
But not every opinion is equally desirable. Deciding which cases are most important involves an element of judgment, though close observers of the court's work will agree on them most of the time. Professor Lazarus relied on charts published each term in The New York Times to identify 85 major cases.
That set of decisions tells a fascinating story about the Roberts court. The chief justice assigned about a third of the big opinions to himself and another third to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy.
The assignments to Justice Kennedy have a distinct purpose, Professor Lazarus wrote: to lock in his vote in close cases.
"One of the easiest ways to reduce the risk of the swing justice swinging the other way is to assign the opinion to that justice, thereby ensuring that the opinion is one he or she will be willing to join, even if the court's holding may be far narrower as a result," Professor Lazarus wrote.
After Justice Kennedy, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. was next in his share of big cases, with 16 percent. Justice Sonia Sotomayor was alone in getting no majority opinions in major cases.
The study's most surprising finding concerned Justice Alito, the junior member of the court's conservative wing, and Justice Antonin Scalia, its senior member.
Justice Scalia joined the court in 1986 and is its longest-serving current member. But he received about the same percentage of assignments in big cases as Justice Alito, who did not arrive until 2006. "Especially given how much seniority plays a systemically important role within the court," Professor Lazarus wrote, "this is a striking result."
Justice Alito is apt to write opinions of the sort Chief Justice Roberts prefers, Professor Lazarus wrote: incremental, without rhetorical flourishes, and able to command five votes.
So who will write the Luis case being argued this morning by Howard Srebnick? More on that later.


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A classic dish of large beef tomatoes stuffed with a tasty Bolognese sauce and baked in the oven, for a delicious meal for all the family to enjoy.
Pre-heat the oven to 200°C, 400°F, Gas Mark 6.
Fry the onion and minced beef, until browned. Drain excess liquid. Meanwhile, slice the tomatoes in half and scoop out the flesh. Add the Perfect Shake Garlic Italian Special Blend and half of the tomato flesh to the minced beef. Simmer for 5 minutes.
Pour the Bolognese mix into the halved tomatoes, top with mozzarella and bake for 25 minutes, or until tender and golden brown.


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So, here are a few Turing stories of my own. The first from Robin Gandy, who supervised by DPhil, and who, in turn, was Turing's PhD student. Robin had a wealth of stories about Turing, many of which made their way into Andrew Hodges' book – Hodges was a postgrad in Oxford with Penrose around the beginning of the 80s. Perhaps most poignant [quoting from Mike Yates' obituary of Robin] was when asked about Turing's motives if he really did commit suicide, Gandy would become quite heated: "Some things are too deep and private and should not be pried into." Sara Turing, Alan's mother, certainly always maintained that his death was an accident.
Her biography of Alan was republished in the centenary year by Cambridge University Press, and that also has only remembered stories of his youth and adulthood. The most striking thing for me was the postscript written by his brother John, on their upbringing, which was not untypical for the English upper middle classes in the early years of the century. Two quotes
- When Alan was two "rightly or wrongly, [my father] decided that he and my mother should return alone to India, leaving both children with foster parents in England" … "it was certainly a shock for me, even at the age of five" but "it was accepted procedure" (and he goes on to compare it with Kipling's horrendous experience, noting that at least they "escaped" that).
- The real bombshell, though, is schooling. John says, without an ounce of irony or indeed anger "I take credit for persuading my parents to send [Alan] to Sherborne instead of Marlborough, which all but crushed me and would certainly have crushed him".
A final anecdote. In our previous house, a near neighbour was a retired canon from Canterbury Cathedral, Donald Eperson, who wrote puzzles for the Mathematical Gazette, and who had been a schoolteacher before being ordained. Not any teacher, though, he's taught Alan at Sherborne, and indeed is mentioned in the Hodges biography. He remembered Alan, and I lent him the book – unfortunately, references to his naiveté rather upset him, and I was sorry for unsettling him.
It's certainly a great thing that Turing has become almost a household name, and that his memory has been rescued for generations to come as one of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century. It's also a great thing that he was pardoned for his conviction for being gay … but surely something that should apply to everyone who was treated so shamefully?
Gandy obituary
Sara Turing bio of Alan
Memoir of Donald Eperson (look for "Music and Mathematics")
Gandy obituary
Sara Turing bio of Alan
Memoir of Donald Eperson (look for "Music and Mathematics")


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We just got into McDade Lake, which is much more protected from the wind than Shaw Lake, which is just across the Red River main channel from here. The water color is better in here two.
Fletcher Shryock just landed a bass that appeared to weigh a solid 2 pounds. Mike Iaconelli is here too.
This long lake is supposed to be holding several other anglers, but we're just settling in here.


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According to the following study, Kinkoji appears to be a direct hybrid between a Kunenbo and a pomelo-type citrus. Hybrid Origins of Citrus Varieties Inferred from DNA Marker Analysis of Nuclear and Organelle Genomes, Shizuoka, Japan http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0166969&type=printableThe obvious question arises as to why then the Bloomsweet (Kinkoji) is so cold-hardy. Neither Kunenbo nor Japanese pomelo-type citrus is extremely cold tolerant. What is more likely, I think, is that the pomelo-type parent may itself actually have been a pomelo-yuzu hybrid.
Ok, maybe what I should be asking is, is it worth the struggle to find seeds for this apparently rare variety of a sweet grapefruit,


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BLACK BOX: innovation of safety culture
- Artist Steve Schepens
- Company MIVB/STIB
"As an employer, I am sure we only utilize 10% of our employee's talents. In this project I have seen what the other 90% can do."
Bart van der Herten, Corporate Risk&Safety Manager, MIVB.
"I'm astonished to see what my concept Art in Action has brought about for the employees of the MIVB."
Steve Schepens, artist
In this video the safety manager, a number of team members and the artist show you what happened during the realisation of BLACK BOX. French and Dutch spoken with subtitles.
Impact of the project
Safety is our business, the business of all of us. This project strengthened the individual as much as the collective awareness of the participants in their role of guarding the safety of the customer. They also discovered how a bottom- up approach works where intuition and feelings play an important part. The process led to good results as far as talent development, self management, leadership, creativity, teambuilding, job motivation and loyalty to their employer are concerned.
Who and what?
From January 2013 till the beginning of May a team of people working for MIVB/STIB were trying to create works of arts representing safety in transport together with the artist Steve Schepens. The aim was to represent safety in a symbolic way and to increase the awareness of the importance of safety with the staff of the business units of metro and tram. The MIVB/STIB thinks that elements such as behaviour and awareness are to a large extend driven by subconscious motifs. Black Box consists of 14 works made from waste material found in the various workshops of the MIVB/STIB and they refer to the back boxes where data of vehicles are kept.


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CTB1954 (ctb1954 at aol.com) wrote: > >I read with great interest the recent article in Hearing Jounal about > >the Loudness scaling procedure and the SPL audiometery feature of the > >Aurcial. It sounds like the SPL feature would be useful in fitting with the Desired Sensation Level method. In order to use it you have to convert the HL thresholds to SPL and then the target values are computed based on the amount of speech spectrum that it not being heard. > George and Bionet.Audiology: > I have had my Madsen Aurical for three months. My main use of the > Audiometery module has been in HL (headphones) and not SPL (inserts). > However, the minimal use of the loudness scaling has been interesting but > not directly applicable to the instruments I am currently dispensing. I It seems that the loudness scaling module would be useful for most types of compression limiting and wide dynamic range compression circuits (Kamp etc) that are widely availiable. Robert Martin in his nuts and bolts article talked about using sets of real ear curves at 55 dB (that should sound soft), 65-70 dB (that should be comfortable eg NAL) and at 80-85 dB (that should be loud but tolerable eg under UCL) If you used the loudness scaling function in SPL on the Aurical you could translate those values directly to the REAR for real ear verification of nonlinear instruments. Using real ear to coupler differences you could translate the targets to 2cc values to help pick the matrix and compression characteristics for the aid. The IHAFF has a similar protocol that could be implemented. BTW George, I think it was you that said you had info on Fig6. I noticed that Etymotic is "giving away" the software at AAA to help fit Kamps! Is the program any good or what?? -- Thank you for your support, Paul Dybala dybala at utdallas.edu http://wwwpub.utdallas.edu/~dybala/kelly.htm


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TOWSON, Md. --- The Moravian College men's and women's indoor track & field teams have had a total of 28 student-athletes honored by the Landmark Conference for their performances at the 2017 Landmark Outdoor Championships last weekend hosted by the Greyhounds.
The men's squad, which captured its ninth Landmark Conference outdoor title, had 14 student-athletes earn 20 All-Conference honors. Leading the Hounds with individual Landmark All-Conference First Team honors was sophomore John Spirk, who was named the Co-Track Athlete of the Year after winning both the 110-meter high hurdles and the 400-meter hurdles for the second consecutive spring.
"It's becoming routine for John to run like he has been for us," stated Head Coach Jesse Baumann. "By his standards this weekend was run of the mill, but it shows just how far he has come in the last year. We're still hoping NCAAs are a possibility for him and we'll be chasing some last chance meets to try to make that happen next week."
The Hounds had two other multiple First Team honorees with senior Cory Taggert winning the 400-meter dash and part of the first place 4x100-meter relay with junior Eric Morton, who also won the 100-meter dash. Freshman Billy DiLolle and senior Austin Gardener were the other members of the first place 4x100 relay while freshman Greg Jaindl won the 3,000-meter steeplechase.
The men's team also had six First Team selections from the field events with senior Greg Cahill winning the discus, freshman Roland Cash taking the triple jump title, junior Robert Condo capturing the javelin, sophomore Scott Goodwin winning the pole vault, freshman Ryan Harper taking the shot put title and senior Kahron Walker capturing the high jump for the fourth straight championship meet.
Moravian had three student-athletes also earn Second Team honors with runner-up finishes including Cahill in the shot put, DiLolle in the 100-meter dash and Walker in the long jump, and senior Michael Guarino in the javelin and sophomore Devon Harris in the 800-meter run also made the Second Team.
The women's squad won its tenth straight conference outdoor title by 21 points this past Saturday. The Greyhounds had 14 student-athletes garner 19 All-Conference nods.
Junior Melissa Cheong took home three Landmark All-Conference First Team honors for her wins in the 100-meter hurdles for a second straight spring, the high jump and the long jump for a second consecutive year. The quartet of freshman Lilly Cooper, sophomores Amari Schooler and Abigail Strouse and senior Lauren White earned First Team accolades by winning the 4x100 meter relay, Moravian's tenth straight win in the event.
Junior Trista Cunningham won the discus for the second straight year while junior Beth Ann Davies repeated as the pole vault champion. Moravian's other three First Team honorees were senior Kiara Bright in the triple jump, sophomore Anna Osman in the 400-meter hurdles for the second straight year and senior Jackie Finnegan in the hammer throw.
Cooper, Finnegan and Schooler also earned Second Team honors as Cooper was the runner-up in the 200-meter dash, Finnegan took second in the discus and Schooler was second in the 100-meter hurdles. Joining them on the Second Team were freshman Carly Danoski in the 800-meter run, junior Mary Kate Duncan in the javelin, senior Rebecca Flitcroft in the 400-metter hurdles and senior Lauren Suelke in the triple jump.
Moravian is slated to return to action on Monday, May 15 at the Swarthmore College Last Chance Qualifier beginning at 4:00 p.m.