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Security Joan
Well I guess I needed a miracle
If I was gonna make my flight
I had to get to gate C13
And it was still way out of sight
Something in my carry on bag
Tipped off the x-ray machine
'Cause then an angel straight from heaven
Asked me to 'step behind that screen'
And when I felt the wand sweep over me
You know I never felt so clean
Well you won't find my name on your list
Honey you know I ain't no terrorist
Confiscate my shoes, my cellphone
You know I love you,
Security Joan
I hung out at the Starbucks
'til just around boarding time
Then I strolled on back to the checkpoint
Just one thing on my mind
She flashed that crooked smile and said
'Well I believe you missed your flight'.
I said 'There's been a minor change of plan,
And I'll be stayin' for one more night'.
I could tell from the way she looked at me
Everything was gonna be all right
Search me now!
Autor(es): Donald Fagen


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Hack a cymbal-banging toy into a Monkey Couch Guardian, and shoo away furry intruders before they shed all over your furniture. This project will introduce some new components to our Weekend Projects parts arsenal, namely the PIR sensor and SPDT relay. This project could be dissected into three parts: the circuitry inside the enclosure box, the Arduino and the software running on it, and the toy monkey itself. When a signature interrupts the passive infrared (PIR) sensor, the relay is triggered, which in turn drives the motor inside the monkey. The software sketch running on the Arduino controls the monkey's start and reset times, and weighs in at less than 1 kilobyte! All you need to do with the toy is jump its power contacts and secure it to the enclosure box, and your monkey will be protecting your couch, or wherever you place it, before the weekend is over!
See all of the Weekend Projects posts

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Skype 4.0 beta 2 (download) has done a lot of growing since the first beta for Windows rolled out this past June. While that release showed some success reorganizing Skype's services, we predicted that folks would protest the gawky layout. We were right.
The ability to switch into the classic compact view is one concession to user demand that shows up in Skype 4.0 beta 2. Now you can toggle between the expanded default view that fuses the contact list and active conversation, and the traditional view, which breaks them into separate windows. This change definitely improves the way users will experience this version of the VoIP calling application, though we think it's something Skype should have implemented from the start.
Skype's goals with 4.0 beta
Skype envisions a less cluttered version 4.0 that's easier for novices to pick up without any prior experience. Skype also wants the redesign to unearth functions other than VoIP calling to get more people placing video calls, using Skype's IM, and buying credit for its premium PC-to-landline calling and texting plan, Skype Out.
According to Skype's product manager for Windows, Michael Bartlett, the changes have been mostly successful, though people aren't glomming on to IM like Skype had hoped, and the application still doesn't have everything users have been asking for.
Changes in 4.0 beta 2
Still, Skype 4.0 beta 2 answers requests to instate an optional compact view, notifications for missed calls and incoming messages, and the ability to group contacts together. Besides switching views, you'll be able to resize most elements within the program window by dragging them, your profile photo or the size of the video screen on a video call included. Both are welcome additions that grant you more control over Skype's display.
Since users complained of missing too many messages in 4.0 beta 1, the second beta now displays an orange notification icon in your system tray whenever you receive a new message. A panel will also light up in the app's conversation window.
In other changes, the ability to simply drag and drop files into the conversation window has returned. So has the feature to organize contacts into groups, though the treatment differs in Skype 4.0 beta 2. Skype will honor any groups you've previously established (like coworkers), but also includes categories based on status, such as who is currently online, who you've recently contacted, and who you're trying to add as a friend. We don't personally find all these categories relevant, but you can easily delete any you don't want and create your own in the contacts tab. We give Skype kudos for letting us populate categories by dragging and dropping in names from the master list.
Still to come: Skype 4.0 beta 3
Skype 4.0 beta has really shaped up in this release, adding many features that usefully let the caller customize the display. Yet the work isn't done. Skype plans to release one more beta before Skype 4.0 is deemed ready for prime time, and it will include call history, birthday reminders, and public chats, plus other changes that beta users will demand in chorus.
It's interesting that Skype choses to release three betas to users' scrutiny before unveiling the final version. The tactic is one we've just seen with well-established communications appYahoo Messenger, which just released version 9.0 after two public beta cycles, and with Windows Live Messenger beta, which advertises the competing messenger's new look. It could be risky laying out a rough draft of your software that's inevitably flawed, but in terms of starting a discussion with users and gaining valuable market research for free, it seems to be working just fine.


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"Best Of" and "Favorites" lists have been coming out all month long (we published our own yesterday), but what about the worst books of the year? For a cheat sheet on which books to avoid, check out our least favorites of 2010.
– Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
A good attempt at a fresh Holocaust story, but the book's hefty devotion to an inner-story play turns it into a train wreck. Martel should have done like his character and written an essay on revitalising Holocaust representation instead of attempting to depict it.
– C by Tom McCarthy
McCarthy needs to get out of the Victorian era if he wants the new generation to read his books.
In addition, John's "on the fence" about David Bergen's The Matter with Morris : A relevant and needed look at the lives of war parents. Although not as drab as Martel's 2010 offering, there are times when Morris whines about his life in excess. If you don't want to read about male menopause, don't read Morris.
Sweetman's 2010 Hit List – because some books are just so much fun to hate!
– The Entire Twilight Series by Stephanie Meyer
Dreadful with dull teeth. I never thought I'd get tired of seeing the word sparkling. I reviewed them on my blog but don't feel you have to read the ranting – just believe me, I loathed it to the point that Stephanie Meyers really, really, really, really hates me – oh, sorry, I start to write like her when I think about the books!
– The Help by Katherine Stockett
A young white woman in the 1960's in Mississippi is the only person on the planet who strives for racial equality in really annoying Suthun' patois. Took the book clubs by storm and took every ounce of Sweetman's will to not throw it against the wall because she was reading a friend's copy.
– The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman
Cursed with Jane Austen praise, Ms. Goodman fell far short of any Austen comparison. A long, overwrought, drivel about…well there were a few cookbooks in there somewhere.
– Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
I was disappointed in this quick read due to the lack of depth. It read like a condensed version of a more substantial novel.
– House Rules by Jodi Picoult
I can't honestly comment on this because I didn't finish it. Ms. Picoult appears to have a burning desire to write about the wrenching societal dilemma of the moment with as much engaging flair as the list of ingredients on a cereal box.
– The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
I was confused, disappointed and felt stupid because I just could not get into this book! Was it the translation? The violence? The irrelevant details? The boringness? What did I miss? See the movie.
– The Talented Miss Highsmith by Joan Schenkar
Boy did I struggle with this biography of writer Patricia Highsmith! Call me rigid and inflexible but I find it easier to read a biography in chronological order and found myself wanting to call up Ms. Schenkar to ask her if that would have been so difficult given the maniacally rigid order that Miss Highsmith reportedly kept of her life and writing.
– Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Ugh Ugh Ugh.
One of the biggest waste of trees that I've ever read was This Book Is Overdue: How Librarians and Cybrians Can Save Us All by Marilyn Johnson.
Want to know why? Read Ursula's review, forthcoming in our blog.
– The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
All the hipsters and Brooklynites will hate me for this one but I found Auster way overrrated, especially after I considered the superb meta-fiction of Mark Z. Danielewski and read David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas about a month after I finished The New York Trilogy.
– Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis
A sort-of sequel to Ellis's first novel, Less Than Zero, which so perfectly captured the zeitgeist of the '80s, Imperial Bedrooms attempts a Raymond Chandler-esque noir and fails to hit anywhere near the mark. While the prose keeps very much to Ellis's typical style, he can't seem to successfully merge the type of provocative writing from which he's largely built his fame and the type of genre writing perfected by others.
– So Much For That by Lionel Shriver
Shriver's novel, shaped by the issue of health care in the U.S., was released shortly before the eventual passage of actual health care reform (or Obamacare, depending on your politics). In a novel so carefully wrought, so precisely personal, it's too bad So Much For That's stiff prose and exhausting machinations of plot lacks the muckraking ululations for change.
– In the Land of Believers by Gina Welch
Welch's undercover foray (as a writer, not a journalist) into the world of Evangelism at the Thomas Road Baptist Church (founded by Jerry Falwell) offers strong writing but lacks new insights into the life and beliefs of Evangelical Christians and certainly doesn't add much to the conversation between Evangelicals and non-believers. Walking a fine line of respect for her subjects, Welch eventually comes clean to her friends at Thomas Road that she's an atheist who doesn't need Jesus to save her soul, but only after her book contract is wrapped up and her editor gives the green light.
– The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
So little action occurs in the first two-thirds of Kostova's novel that even the overarching sweep of a mysterious woman inching the narrative forward is too minuscule to make me care about what is, ostensibly, the real story that happens in the last hundred or so pages. Even when the mystery is resolved, there is no satisfaction in the predictable ending, nothing that makes the long wait through six hundred pages pay off. Without any real definition to her characters, a lackluster plot, and an ending the fizzles rather than bangs, Kostova delivers a wholly forgettable book.
– Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen
Ugh, this was awful. I mean, seriously, terrible. It reads fast and still I couldn't get through it. Yet, it seems to be popular among book clubs, which is why I don't belong to any book clubs.


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Hello and welcome once again,
Each year the Catholic University of America (CUA) sponsors what is called the American Cardinals Dinner. On April 25, the 19th annual dinner took place at the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel in Boston with Cardinals Daniel DiNardo, Francis George, William Keeler, Roger Mahony and Adam Maida in attendance.
The purpose of the dinner is to showcase the ministries of CUA and to raise money for scholarships. This year $1.5 million was raised. One of the reasons that the banquet was so successful was because of the local support of volunteers like Craig and Nancy Gibson and the committee that worked with them.
Craig and Nancy Gibson
The 2008 dinner was a bicentenary event for Boston. We wanted to sponsor the dinner as well as host the cardinals and CUA supporters from all over the country during the 200th anniversary celebration for the archdiocese. Over the years, this banquet has been held three times in Boston — 1993, 1999 and 2008. It travels around the country, held in Las Vegas last year, and next year it will be held in Houston. The new cardinal, Cardinal DiNardo, will be hosting it there.
A very, very beautiful Mass preceded at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. It was also well attended, and the music was spectacular.
There were 750 people at the dinner, including several of CUA's graduating seniors who had the opportunity to speak about their time at CUA. It really was inspiring to hear the students speak about their faith and how much studying at CUA has meant to them.
The undergraduate enrollment has increased dramatically in these last 10 years and is now larger than even the graduate school, which is quite a change.
Father David O'Connell, the president of the Catholic University for the past 10 years, has done an outstanding job in every way.
CUA's president, Father David O'Connell delivered the homily at the Mass
Certainly, the way that he has deepened the Catholic identity of the school is admirable. In the past, Catholic University was not without its problems, but in the past decade, he has instituted a wonderful campus ministry and has strengthened the Catholic identity across the board. This focus on the Catholic faith has led to many vocations with young men discerning a call to the priesthood and young women entering religious life. With its renewed Catholic identity, the school models for other Catholic colleges what can be done and shows that one good president makes a huge difference.
The last couple of years CUA has hosted the Renew program, like we are currently doing in the Archdiocese of Boston. Hundreds of students have been involved in the faith-formation groups. There have also been so many wonderful service projects that the young people are involved in.
Apostolic Nunicio Archbishop Pietro Sambi spoke at the dinner
on the importance of Catholic education
As the bishop's university, CUA has trained so many of the Catholic leaders in the United States and continues to do so. It is, therefore, of great importance to our nation. Many students from the archdiocese and New England go to CUA. It is one of the schools of choice for young Catholics in this part of the country and a huge percentage of the bishops graduated from there, as I did.
Also at the CUA dinner, the American Cardinal's Encouragement Award was given to Grandparents as Parents, a program of our local Catholic Charities. The organization assists Massachusetts grandparents who are the primary caregivers of their grandchildren. The award came with a $10,000 grant for the non-profit organization, which will greatly help them in their mission.
Applauding the work of Grandparents as Parents
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The previous Thursday, I attended the celebration of several classes of permanent deacons. We had a beautiful vespers ceremony at St. Julia Parish in Weston, and I presented the jubilarians with the deacon's pin that had the number 25 on it. After, there was a dinner for the deacons and their wives.
At the service of Evening Prayer
The class of 1980
The classes of 1982 and 1983
The jubilee pins
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On Saturday, I confirmed many college students at the cathedral. The confirmation was organized by campus ministry, and a number of the chaplains and campus ministers were present. Each year, I look forward to this wonderful event.
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That evening, I went to celebrate Easter with the Greek Orthodox Church in Boston. Just as we always invite Metropolitan Methodios to our Chrism Mass and give him the opportunity to bring a greeting from the Greek Orthodox community, they invite me to their Easter vigil celebration at which I always read the Gospel in English and bring a greeting to the Orthodox community. I was very happy to be a part of the celebration.
As you may know, the Orthodox and the Eastern Rite Catholics follow a different calendar from ours. Their Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox that is after the Jewish Passover.
We, on the other hand, celebrate Easter on the first Sunday after the first full moon of the spring equinox. Their celebration has a tie to the Jewish calendar in a way that ours does not.
Last year, our celebrations coincided. This year our Easter was very, very early — almost as early as it can be.
It is my hope that we might, through dialogue, come up with a common date for Easter. I think that would be an excellent sign of Christian unity. In the past, there was so much animosity over this and other customs which are very long-standing. Today, people realize that the date itself is rather arbitrary, and that the important thing is the mystery we are celebrating. It is the most important article of our faith — that Jesus has conquered sin and death. He lives and touches our lives through the sacraments. He is there in the Church, teaching us in the living Word.
As I said in another recent blog posting, the Eastern Churches in general have always put a great emphasis on an "Easter spirituality." In the Latin rite, we have tended to stress Good Friday as our day and then, after Lent was over, everything sort of ended. Whereas for the Greeks and Eastern Rite Catholics, the 50 days of Easter and the time to Pentecost are very important. They have the beautiful custom during the Easter season of using the greeting "Christos anesti! Alithos anesti!" or "Christ is risen! He is truly risen!" And after the Easter vigil, many people leave the church with their lit candles, take the Easter flame to their home and light an oil lamp in front of an icon. They keep the flame burning all year, which is a very beautiful symbol.
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From there, I came back to my own cathedral where our Ethiopian and Eritrean Catholics who belong to an Eastern Rite of the Church called the Ge'ez Rite and who also follow the same calendar as the Orthodox. I was able to come back and bring Easter greetings to them.
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On Monday, I participated at a Cursillo Mass. For a long time I have wanted to have a Mass with the cursillistas, and I thought that it would be good to do it during the bicentennial year. Then, when Eduardo Bonnín Aguiló, who led the first Cursillo in 1944, died on Ash Wednesday this year, I asked the leadership of the cusillistas to organize this Mass.
We decided to have it at Immaculate Conception Parish in Malden, a large church which held the 800 people who participated. There were English, Spanish, Portuguese and Vietnamese speakers there. Bishop John Elya, concelebrated with me as well as a number of priests, including Father Martin Hyatt, who is very active at the Salvatorian Center in Methuen.
Marianne McLaughlin and Neil Finnegan were very much involved in organizing the Mass
The Mass was both a memorial for Eduardo Bonnín and a way for us to bring cursillistas together during the archdiocese's 200th anniversary year. Since 1944, over 40 million people have made their Cursillo throughout the world. It is now in 1,500 diocese, and I believe it is one of the most effective formation programs that we have had for leaders in the Church.
The Cursillo, that very intense weekend, presents the Church's faith — the sacraments, the life of grace, the apostolate, the Church and Christology — so that people see all at once and how everything fits together. For many people, it sparks a very deep conversion. If you go to any diocese in the country, many of the permanent deacons today began their journey with the Cursillo. When you go to visit the prisons throughout the archdiocese and see all these people working in prison ministry, they are almost invariably cursillistas. In many parts of the country the Hispanic cursillistas have been the backbone of the Hispanic apostolate. And with the scarcity of priests, they have given valuable leadership that has helped to keep people Catholic.
When I made the Cursillo in 1967, I was a capuchin brother, a seminarian in Washington, D.C. I was very active in the Spanish and Portuguese Cursillo movements for years.
These are two of the early Cursillos I participated in. My beard was a bit more red in those days!
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On Tuesday we held or graduation for the Spanish-language lay formation program of the archdiocese, the Instituto de Formacion de Laicos which is headed by Pilar Latorre.
It was wonderful to see there were a number of husbands and wives in the program (and I believe there was even one mother-daughter set of graduates). Many of the priests from the different parishes where the graduates came from were present for the celebration and reception, which we had in the chapel at Bishop Peterson Hall in Brighton.
It is very important that we have this lay ministry training, and actually I am just establishing a committee to look at all of our programs to see how training lay people for the different tasks, ministries and apostolates in the archdiocese.
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On Wednesday, I had a meeting with the New England vocations directors for lunch and shared with them some of my thoughts on vocations. Some very interesting ideas came up about ways to energize our youth and help them heed God's call to the priesthood and religious life. Hopefully, we ll share with you more details in he near future.
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In the evening, I went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a wonderful talk by Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete.
At MIT, they have an interreligious program and the Buddhist monk who organizes the program invited Msgr. Albacete to speak on "Faith, Reason and the Pursuit of Happiness." Msgr. Albacete reflected on many of the themes that the Holy Father spoke about at the United Nations and in his interfaith meeting in Washington. He stressed that our dialogue is not just to reach friendship and promote tolerance but also to try to discover through reason, reflection and our experience what the common values are. Those values are important for the human family. The talk was very interesting and very well received.
Until next week, blessings to you all,
Cardinal Seán


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If the Great War, whose centenary is commemorated this year, is often deemed as the birth of modern warfare, it is also the antechamber of modern war representation, laying the foundations of representational strategies that would become recurring in the visualisation of subsequent conflicts. Indeed, modern war is a product of both imaginary and material forces. As George Roeder has contended, war is a "way of seeing" (Roeder, 2006) couched in templates and prescriptions that organise the visual experience of war while at the same time containing the impact of its conduct. The visual mediation of war reflects ideological conceptions, manages anxiety and vents social fantasies. In fact, the recent visual history of war seems to mirror a growing demand for visibility, from Baudrillard's claim that "the Gulf war did not take place" (Baudrillard, 1991) due to its contained imagery, to the pluralisation and dissemination of multiple images, from surveillance footage to soldier's private videos, as the case of Abu Ghraib has shown not so long ago. At the same time, this demand for visibility is often hampered by dynamics of opacity that regulate and obstruct the visualisation of war in spite of the proliferation of warfare images. In addition, as many authors have begun to argue, images themselves have become a central instrument not only for understanding war but also to actually waging war, replacing techno-war as the dominant war fighting model (Mitchell, 2011; Roger, 2013).
With new logics of creation, consumption and reproduction emerging within a convergence culture, the conditions of seeing and showing war are nevertheless haunted by past conflicts and by visual reconceptualisations of them. This issue aims at reflecting upon the manifold ways war has been brought to the screen in various genres and at different historical moments. Themes to be addressed by contributors may include but are not restricted to the following:
Audiovisual representation of war past and present - Artistic renditions of war - Terror and spectacle - Cyber war, surveillance, inside views of war - Convergence, post-convergence and participatory culture - Representations of captivity - Visibility and opacity of war - Violent images and images of violence - Reporting war and the ethics of seeing - Agency, resistance and citizenship - War iconography across the ages - War and (post-)memory - War and gender - Homefronts and homecomings - Aftermath, conciliation and peacemaking.
We look forward to receiving articles of no more than 20 A4 pages (not including bibliography) and a short bio of about 150 words by May 15, 2014 at the following address: [email protected]. DIFFRACTIONS accepts submissions in Portuguese, English and Spanish. DIFFRACTIONS also accepts book reviews that may not be related to the issue's topic. If you wish to write a book review, please contact us at [email protected]. Please submit your contributions according to the journal's guidelines. Find us online at www.diffractions.net and www.facebook.com/diffractionsjournal.


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Nearly two-thirds (64.3 percent) of our adult degree graduates report they earn more money than they did prior to enrollment.*
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More than 70 percent of our adult degree program graduates believe the program helped them get a new job or a promotion.*
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Nearly one-third (31 percent) of our graduates went on to graduate school after completing our ADP program.*
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"I believe the program was good in helping me to develop confidence in what I could do. I would have never thought about a graduate degree program without it. More possibilities became available to me."
"(The) hands-on experience - working on a real life project for a nonprofit in the community - helped me land my job, as well as my (professor's) assistance and recommendations to my employer."
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Where are they now? Positions of some of our alumni
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- Technical support analyst
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- Environmental compliance specialist
- Executive director, Expansion International
- Assistant living administrator
- Operations manager
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Death-penalty measure's support jumps
Voters favor Prop. 34 by 7 points, Field Poll finds
A ballot measure to repeal California's death penalty and replace it with life in prison without parole has gained support in the last week and leads by 45 to 38 percent among likely voters in the final Field Poll before Tuesday's election.
The poll, conducted Oct. 25-30, was the first to show a lead for Proposition 34, which had trailed 42 to 45 percent in the last survey in mid-September. Polling also found that a majority agreed with one of Prop. 34's major premises - that the death penalty is more expensive than life without parole - and a plurality said innocent people are executed "too often."
Some other recent statewide polls have reported Prop. 34 trailing by as much as seven percentage points. But Field Poll director Mark DiCamillo said his organization's new survey was more up-to-date and found that the measure's margin of support had widened by six percentage points in a single week.
The poll also coincided with the first ads aired by the Yes on 34 campaign, which has raised $7 million, nearly 20 times as much as the law enforcement-backed opposition.
Impact of ads cited
Yes on 34 campaign director Natasha Minsker said the poll results indicate voters are getting the message.
"When they hear our message and they hear the facts, they are much more likely to support the initiative," she said. "I think it really shows that the voters are learning the death penalty is all cost and no benefit."
Peter DeMarco, spokesman for the No on 34 campaign, noted that the measure's support remains below the critical 50 percent threshold, and predicted that most of the still-undecided 17 percent would vote against it.
"Given people's opinions about the death penalty, a million dollars in TV ads is not going to make the difference," he said. "It still trails, and it's going to lose."
The Field Poll also reported that labor unions appear to be winning their fight against Prop. 32, which would prohibit them from using payroll-deducted dues - their sole source of income - for political campaigns.
The business-sponsored initiative trails 50 to 34 percent, with the remaining 16 percent undecided, the poll reported. The mid-September survey had shown a smaller gap, 38 percent in favor and 44 percent opposed.
Previous ballot measures to restrict spending of union dues on political causes were defeated in 1998 and 2005. The Prop. 32 campaign will probably be the most expensive on Tuesday's ballot, with more than $60 million spent by each side.
First vote in 34 years
Prop. 34 is Californians' first vote on the death penalty since 1978, when a 71 percent majority approved expansion of a capital punishment law passed by state legislators the previous year.
Since executions resumed in 1992, 13 prisoners have been put to death, while 726 condemned inmates remain housed in the nation's largest Death Row. Executions were halted in 2006 by a federal court order, still in effect, requiring the state to make numerous improvements in its procedures for administering lethal injections.
Statewide opinion polls continue to show support for the death penalty, but when the same voters are asked which punishment they consider appropriate for murder, slight majorities have preferred life without parole over death.
Sponsors of Prop. 34 have stressed the severity of a life sentence with no hope of release and made the cost of the death penalty their leading issue - $130 million a year more than a life-without-parole system, according to the Legislature's fiscal analyst, a figure that opponents dispute.
The new Field Poll found, for the first time, that a strong majority - 53 to 31 percent - agreed that the death penalty was more expensive than life without parole, a question that produced an even split a year ago.
Breakdown of numbers
The poll found that men were evenly divided on Prop. 34 while women favored it by 43 to 35 percent. The survey also found divisions along religious lines - Protestants were strongly opposed to the measure, while other faiths and nonreligious adherents supported it. There were differences along racial lines as well, with white non-Hispanics and Asian Americans about equally split and Latinos and African Americans overwhelmingly in support.
Bay Area voters were more inclined to back Prop. 34 than those in any other region, favoring it by 53 to 30 percent.
Field Research Corp. said the telephone survey of 751 randomly selected likely voters had a margin of error of 3.6 percentage points.
Bob Egelko is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: email@example.com


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Update: A few hours after news broke that Steven Soderbergh would be directing an adaptation of the 1960s spy series "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.," The Playlist learned that George Clooney is in talks to play one of the leads, presumably Napoleon Solo, the part made famous by Robert Vaughn. Brad Pitt sure would make a mighty fine Ilya Kuryakin--just sayin'...
It would appear that Steven Soderbergh has burned through all of his "Ocean's 13" money, as the heroically eclectic director has signed on to direct a new film with big franchise potential.
Soderbergh has signed on to direct "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.," based on the classic international spy show of the same name that starred Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, reported Heat Vision. He'll be working with a script by Scott Z. Burns, who co-wrote "The Bourne Ultimatum," as well as Soderbergh's next two features.
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The show was co-created by Ian Fleming of James Bond fame and featured Vaughn and McCallum as Naploleo Solo as Ilya Kuryakin, a pair of super spies working for U.N.C.L.E. (United Network Command for Law and Enforcement) to thwart the evildoings of T.H.R.U.S.H. (Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity).
Throughout his career, Soderbergh has masterfully balanced following his artistic whims with paying his bills, but doing so without compromising himself. As he's became steadily more established, the time between commercial ventures had grown. So now, three years since "Oceans' 13," with four features released, a documentary in the can, two films in post-production and another film shooting, he's ready to make some more money. We're all for it.
Soderbergh's next film will be "Haywire," starring MMA fighter Gina Carano as a black-ops specialist out for revenge after she's been betrayed by her superiors. The film also stars Channing Tatum, Michael Fassbender, Michael Douglas, Ewan McGregor and Antonio Banderas. It should be out in early 2011.
"Haywire" will be followed by "Contagion," starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Damon, Marion Cotillard, Kate Winslet, Jude Law and Laurence Fishburne, in the story of a viral outbreak that threatens the future of mankind. It's due Oct. 21, 2011.


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PSA: Age of Empires Online launches today
Just a quick reminder, in case the date got lost on you due to all the gamescom hoopla, Robot Entertainment's Age of Empires Online launches today. If you've yet to lay down the funds for it, you can get an idea of the various pricing schemes through here. Thanks, Revolting.
Orcs Must Die to hit PC and XBLA care of Microsoft
Microsoft will publish Robot Entertainment's Orcs Must Die, the developer has announced.
Age of Empires Online pricing revealed
Microsoft and Robot Entertainment detailed the pricing plan for Age of Empires Online, which it first announced back in January.
Age of Empires Online to see digital and disc release in the fall
Age of Empires Online will be launched in the fall, according to Microsoft.
Taylor: Age of Empires Online transition "a true pleasure"
Gas Powered Games' Chris Taylor has commented on his studio's take over of Age of Empires Online development, reiterating the message that the transition was amicable.
Gas Powered Games shoulders Age of Empires Online development
Gas Powered Games has taken over development on Age of Empires Online, in place of Robot Entertainment.
Robot Entertainment announces Orcs Must Die with screens, video
Robot Entertainment has announced Orcs Must Die, the first original game from the folks who brought you Age of Empires and Halo Wars.
Age of Empires Online video spotlights the Egyptian faction
Microsoft has released a trailer for Age of Empires Online, showing off the Egyptian faction in the game.
Age of Empires Online isn't a "nickel and dimey microtransaction thing"
Stop! Don't lay a finger and/or hammer on that piggy bank! Age of Empires Online, you see, has no need for your nickels and dimes.
Rumor: Robot Entertainment may show "Spartan" title at gamescom
Robot Entertainment is heading to gamescom, meaning it may just show off Project S (Spartan) during Microsoft's press conference.
Report - Microsoft testing Project S strategy game [UPDATE]
Update: Looks like it's something to do with actual Spartans and not a Halo related game, according to this piece of art and further confirmation from Examiner.Original: A survey sent out by Microsoft has the firm enlisting alpha testers for what it describes as a "groundbreaking," "giant, revolutionary step for PC strategy games".
Halo Wars leaderboards erased due to technical glitch
Due to a technical glitch on Xbox Live, the leaderboards for Halo Wars has been wiped clean.All stats are now back to launch day status, and this includes all singleplayer, multiplayer and Trueskill leaderboards, as well as all matchmaking data. According to a post on the official Halo Wars website, it's unknown if the data […]
New add-on coming for Halo Wars July 21
A Halo Wars add-on called Historic Battles has been announced for July 21.It will run you 800 MS Points ($10.00) and contains four new maps and four new Achievements.Here's the breakdown: Barrens (1v1 Map): Difficult terrain channels units into killing zones. The side that controls the Forerunner artifacts will have the advantage. Blood River (1v1 […]
Halo Wars: Details released for Title Update 3
Robot Entertainment has released a list of fixes included in Title Update 3 for Halo Wars.It is expected to arrive in just a few weeks, and here's what you can expect: Balance Changes UNSC Warthogs Gauss cannon damage against tanks and other heavily armored vehicles reduced by 25% UNSC Warthogs build time increased by 3 […]
Halo Wars to get patched soon, multiplayer bugs to be fixed
A Halo Wars title update's on the way, according to the game's official site. A release window wasn't provided, but the post said players can expect fixes to some matchmaking bugs, and a few other minor bits.Two things of note though: the Prophet of Regret's speed on land will be reduced to match the other […]
All studios formed by ex-Ensemble staff, in case you're confused
Rock Paper Shotgun has listed the new studios formed by now-defunct Ensemble Studios on one pretty page.It's a good thing, because we know most people are prone to ADHD, and lists help keep your brain cells organized.Without further ado, here's the breakdown:Robot Entertainment: Started by Ensemble co-founder Tony Goodman in Texas with 45 other Ensemble […]
Robot Entertainment developing extra content for Halo Wars
Robot Entertainment is developing extra content for Halo Wars, as well as providing community support for Age of Empires.The news was confirmed via press release this morning after word broke over the weekend that ex-Ensemble co-founder Tony Goodman had formed the new company."The video game industry is in a state of upheaval," explained Goodman. "Not […]
Ensemble co-founder Tony Goodman forms Robot Entertainment
Ensemble co-founder Tony Goodman and some of his team members have formed a new development studio, Robot Entertainment.Ensemble worked mainly with the RTS genre, most notably Age of Empires. Microsoft purchased the firm in 2001 and then shut it down once Halo Wars was completed.What's Robot working on? Undisclosed.Thanks, Gamasutra
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Sick sea lions present a mystery
WILDLIFE Lack of prey, too many pups, nascent El Niño all considered possible culprits
Fluctuating ocean conditions may be depleting the food supply of young sea lions that are turning up skinny and ill on California beaches, mirroring the fate of Brandt's cormorants earlier this spring.
The animal strandings are so numerous that the newly expanded Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito can't keep up. Only those young sea lions most in need of help are being brought in for treatment - up to 20 a day - leaving others to try to make it on their own, center representatives say.
Scientists agree that the youngsters, born nearly a year ago on the Channel Islands off Southern California, aren't getting enough food. But they're at a loss to determine whether the sea lions' favorite foods - northern anchovies and sardines - are hard to find because they're moving south in response to falling and rising ocean temperatures. That's the suspected scenario for the Brandt's cormorants. More than 500 of the birds, which also eat the anchovies and sardines, were picked up starving or dead in April and May by the Farallones Beach Watch program.
Or scientists wonder whether a U.S. record number of pups born last year on the Channel Islands means there are more around to fail during the sensitive transition from nursing to hunting for food on their own.
Drawing global interest is yet another theory: that the marine mammals and the seabirds are signaling an early warning of an El Niño, the warm-water current from the tropical Pacific.
El Niño brings rain. But it would also suppress the vigorous upwelling of nutrients in the California Current, stretching from Baja California to Vancouver, needed to produce abundant krill, fish and other aquatic life.
The last big El Niño occurred in 1997-98, starving thousands of marine mammals and seabirds from a host of species along the Pacific Coast. Rain doused Northern California, heavy snow fell on the East Coast and hurricanes brewed in the Atlantic. An El Niño is overdue, scientists say.
As of Thursday, the Marine Mammal Center had 136 patients in its new $32 million center, which opened to the public Monday.
Of the patient load, 85 were sea lions receiving nourishment through feeding tubes and treatment for organ failure and other problems. By comparison, there were 53 sea lions under care two weeks ago.
"They're just too weak to try to forage. You can see their bones," said center spokesman Jim Oswald. So many beach reports are coming in that the center has to choose where to respond. There aren't enough trained rescue crews or vehicles to bring in - or even check on - every animal, he said.
Lack of resources
That was the case June 12 when Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff was walking with his spouse, Lynne, on Baker Beach in San Francisco and came upon a sea lion with an injured tail, probably from a boat strike. He called the center but was told that the staff didn't have the resources to come by immediately.
"It's sad because you want to help," Benioff said. "It's a mammal. It's like looking into the eyes of your golden retriever."
So far this June, the center has received more than 1,200 calls - more than twice the number of calls for this period last year.
The center's territory stretches 600 miles along the coast, and it has branches in Morro and Monterey bays.
"We believe it's food supply," said Joe Cordero, a biologist with National Marine Fisheries Service, a department of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
His theory is that the burgeoning California sea lion population of 300,000 is producing so many pups that more of the yearlings are showing up on the beaches after weaning at 6 months to 1 1/2 years.
Mark Lowry, research fishery biologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla (San Diego County), echoed Cordero's assessment.
"There was a record number of pups born last year - 59,000 - which were recently weaned. The fact that some of these weaned pups are struggling is not surprising. Not all survive to adulthood."
Water getting warmer
That could be the case, other scientists agree. But other possibilities are the fluctuating ocean temperatures, some related to global warming. Surface temperatures had remained low for most of the spring. But in recent weeks - about the time that the sea lions started showing up on the beaches - the ocean temperatures rose in the tropical Pacific from about 50 degrees to 65 degrees.
The Climate Prediction Center, run by the National Weather Service, in early June noted that sea surface temperatures were increasing across the equatorial Pacific, and anomalies in heat content typically precede the development of El Niño. Current observations, recent trends and some forecast models indicate that conditions are favorable for a transition to El Niño conditions during June through August. The next forecast is expected July 9.
"The water went from being pretty cold to pretty warm in a couple of weeks. It's been spiking all over the place," said William Sydeman, a biologist and president of the Farallon Institute for Advanced Ecosystem Research in Petaluma.
Even though there isn't a full-blown El Niño, he said, predators - such as marine mammals and seabirds that feed on fish - "oftentimes will send signals. They'll start to respond actually before you see changes in the physical environment. They integrate everything that happens in the food web."
Ocean temperatures
The National Marine Fisheries Service's yearly trawl brought in valuable information on temperature and fish in the Gulf of the Farallones between May 28 and June 14. The water was around 50 degrees, moderately cool in the California Current. The trawls caught good numbers of juvenile rockfish, hake and lingcod as well as krill, all cool-water species. For a second year, anchovies were absent and there were few sardines. The anchovies favored by sea lions and seabirds head to normal spawning grounds in Southern California when the waters are cool. Sea lions in Southern California are also being found malnourished, but in smaller numbers.
"We don't see strong signs yet of a developing El Niño in coastal waters of central California. We see the culmination of a cold and productive seasonal upwelling. But we wouldn't necessarily see those (El Niño) signs this early," said John Field, fisheries biologist at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center in Santa Cruz.
But, surprisingly early for this time of year and a possible sign of a brewing El Niño, a fisherman reported seeing the jumbo squid, a South American species that follows a warm current, up in Washington state.


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Singer Juanes isn't the only one stirring up controversy with his planned concert in Cuba these days.
Chain store Urban Outfitters, which is known for selling hip clothing, shoes, accessories and houseware items, has several Miamians irate over the sale of two of their T-shirts.
The tees: a red shirt with the word Communist across the center and the other with an image of Che Guevara.
The shirts are being sold locally. The Communist tee can be found on store's website, but the Che shirt is only sold on the store's European website.
An Urban Outfitters employee who wanted to remain anonymous revealed that the Che Guevara shirt used to be sold online, but was pulled off because of controversy.
"We got a lot of complaints when we sold it online," said the employee from the Shops of Sunset Place location.
West Dade resident Amarys Souto-Marine, 31, said she compares selling the Che tees to selling a shirt with Hitler's face on it.
"It is a lack of respect to sell these shirts in Miami which has a huge Cuban community. It would be as offensive, for example, to sell Hitler shirts in Miami Beach where there is a huge Hebrew community," said Souto-Marine.
"Che executed people just for simply not agreeing with his political ideologies. The sad part about it is that he wasn't Cuban and went to impose another county with his revolutionary ideas," added Souto-Marine.
Ivan Garcia, 29, walked out of the Shops of Sunset Place store when he saw the Che shirt.
"I was going to buy another shirt that said Dynomite, but they just lost my business," said Garcia. "This country stands for freedom, but Che represented the opposite. My family like thousands of others came here for freedom. I really don't know how Urban Outfitters can be so ignorant."
Others outraged in the community have started calling Urban Outfitters to complain and spreading the word by blogging.
Valentin Prieto, the founding editor of the Babalu blog has a page dedicated to the topic.
"I get letters on a weekly basis from all over the world on this phenomenon," said Prieto. "We have been fighting to get the truth about the real Che out there."
Annie Vazquez is a Miami-based journalist and shop-a-holic. Email her with any fashion tips, boutique openings, events, sales and bargains at email@example.com
Che Tee Has Miami Seeing Red
Locals are irate over T-shirts at Urban Outfitters
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Struggles of conscience
"How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin." Job 13:23
Suggested Further Reading: John 8:21-47
"Tell me how I can feel the need of my Saviour." The first advice I give you is this: Particularise your sins. Do not say "I am a sinner;" it means nothing; everybody says that. But say this, "Am I a liar? Am I a thief? Am I a drunkard? Have I had impure thoughts? Have I committed unclean acts? Have I in my soul often rebelled against God? Am I often angry without a cause? Have I a bad temper? Am I covetous? Do I love this world better than the world to come? Do I neglect prayer? Do I neglect the great salvation?" Put these questions and you will soon convict yourself much more readily as being a sinner. I have heard of a hypocritical old monk who used to whine out, while he whipped his back as softly as he could, "Lord, I am a great sinner, as big a sinner as Judas;" and when someone said, "Yes that you are—you are like Judas, a vile old hypocrite," then he would say, "No I am not." Then he would go on again, "I am a great sinner." Some one would say, "You are a great sinner, you broke the first commandment;" and then he would say, "No I have not." Then when he would go on and say, "I am a great sinner," some one would say, "Yes, you have broken the second commandment," and he would say, "No I have not;" and the same with the third and the fourth, and so on right through. So it came to pass he had kept the whole ten according to his own account, and yet he went on crying he was a great sinner. The man was a hypocrite, for if he had not broken the commandments, how could he be a sinner at all? You will find it better not to dwell on your sins as a whole, but to pen them, count them over, and look at them individually, one by one.
For meditation: Christ did not die for a theoretical concept of sin, but for actual sins committed by practising sinners (Matthew 1:21; 26:28; 1 Corinthians 15:3; Galatians1:4; Hebrews 1:3; 9:28; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 2:2; Revelation 1:5).
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Adding oxygenates to diesel fuel has shown the potential for reducing particulate (PM) emissions in the exhaust. The objective of this study was to select the most promising oxygenate compounds as blending components in diesel fuel for advanced engine testing. A fuel matrix was designed to consider the effect of molecular structure and boiling point on the ability of oxygenates to reduce engine-out exhaust emissions from a modern diesel engine. Nine test fuels including a low-sulfur (∼1 ppm), low-aromatic hydrocracked base fuel and 8 oxygenate-base fuel blends were utilized. All oxygenated fuels were formulated to contain 7% wt. of oxygen. A DaimlerChrysler OM611 CIDI engine for light-duty vehicles was controlled with a SwRI Rapid Prototyping Electronic Control System. The base fuel was evaluated in four speed-load modes and oxygenated blends only in one mode. Each operating mode and fuel combination was run in triplicate.


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Katherine Center graduated from Vassar College, where she won the Vassar College Fiction Prize, and received an MA in fiction from the University of Houston. She served as fiction co-editor for the literary magazine Gulf Coast, and her graduate thesis, Peepshow, a collection of stories, was a finalist for the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. A former freelancer and teacher, she lives in Houston with her husband and two young children.


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Hi, my name is Jennifer Auchtung.
I was a grad student/post-doc in Alan Grossman's lab.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Horizontal gene transfer plays an important role in bacterial evolution. Acquisition of foreign DNA can be beneficial to a cell, such as when the DNA encodes proteins that allow the cell to adapt to a new niche. However, acquisition of foreign DNA can also be detrimental, such as when the DNA encodes a toxic product. Therefore, mechanisms that regulate horizontal gene transfer can balance the potential risks of acquiring foreign DNA with the potential rewards. My work has focused on mechanisms that regulate two types of horizontal gene transfer, competence for genetic transformation and transfer of the mobile genetic element ICEBs1, in the Gram-positive soil bacterium Bacillus subtilis.
Regulation of competence development
Competence for genetic transformation is the ability of cells to take up naked DNA from the environment and incorporate this DNA into the chromosome through homologous recombination. Here is a simplified diagram of competence in B. subtilis:
In addition to expressing the proteins required for DNA uptake and processing, B. subtilis competent cells are in a transiently differentiated state - cell division arrests and the cells' metabolism likely changes. Because these changes may be disadvantageous for the cells under certain conditions, competence development is highly regulated.
One mechanism that regulates competence development in B. subtilis is quorum sensing. Quorum sensing is a mechanism by which cells use small, intercellular signaling molecules to monitor the concentration of other related cells. B. subtilis cells become competent when they sense they are surrounded by a threshold concentration of related cells. This regulation is likely beneficial to the cells because it limits competence development to conditions when DNA from closely related cells is more likely to be present. B. subtilis cells evaluate the concentration of related cells present by producing and responding to small signaling peptides. Previous work had shown that two signaling peptides regulate competence development. My work identified two additional signaling peptides that regulate competence. All four signaling peptides interact with different cellular targets and the expression of the signaling peptides as well as their target proteins are regulated by a variety of different transcription factors which respond to different cellular signals. The involvement of multiple signaling peptides allows for the integration of many regulatory signals in the decision to become competent.
Regulation of ICEBs1 transfer
ICEBs1 is an integrative and conjugative element (also known as a conjugative transposon), a type of mobile genetic element that is normally found integrated into the chromosome of a host cell that can excise from the chromosome and transfer to a recipient cell through conjugation. Here is a simplified diagram of the life cycle of an integrative and conjugative element:
Under most conditions, the genes required for ICEBs1 excision and transfer are not expressed. This is likely due to the fact that unrepressed expression of the ICEBs1 excision and conjugation genes is detrimental to the element - it is toxic to the host cell and causes the element to be lost at a high frequency. However, under certain conditions it is beneficial for the element to express its excision and conjugation genes. One condition that induces expression of the ICEBs1 excision and conjugation genes is the global DNA damage response. Similar to many bacteriophage, ICEBs1 uses this regulation to sense host cell genomic stress and initiate its escape from distressed cells.
Intercellular peptide signaling also regulates excision and transfer of ICEBs1. Chromosomally-encoded signaling peptides function along with starvation signals to stimulate expression of the ICEBs1 excision and conjugation genes, thereby promoting excision and mating when the concentration of potential mating partners is high. A second peptide signaling molecule encoded within ICEBs1 inhibits expression of the ICEBs1 excision and conjugation genes. This peptide functions in self-recognition, inhibiting mating when the concentration of cells that already contain ICEBs1 is high. The combined effect of regulation by intercellular signaling peptides is to limit expression of the ICEBs1 excision and conjugation genes to conditions where mating is most likely to be efficient - when there are high concentrations of potential recipient cells that lack ICEBs1.
If you interested in reading more about horizontal gene transfer in bacteria, Nature Reviews Microbiology had several good reviews on the subject in the September 2005 issue.
A more thorough description of competence is available in this review written by Ines Chen and Dave Dubnau:
Chen, I. and Dubnau, D. 2004. "DNA uptake during bacterial transformation." Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 2:241-9.
A more thorough description of integrative and conjugative elements is available in this review written by Vincent Burrus and Matt Waldor:
Burrus, V. and Waldor, M.K. 2004. "Shaping bacterial genomes with integrative and conjugative elements." Res. Microbiol. 155:376-86.
Auchtung, J.M., Lee, C.A., and Grossman, A.D. 2006. "Modulation of the ComA-dependent quorum response in Bacillus subtilis by multiple Rap proteins and Phr peptides." J. Bact. 188: 5273-85.
Auchtung, J.M., Lee, C.A., Monson, R.E., Lehman, A.P. and Grossman, A.D. 2005. "Regulation of a Bacillus subtilis mobile genetic element by intercellular signaling and the global DNA damage response." PNAS 102: 12554-9.
Rokop, M.E., Auchtung, J.M., and Grossman, A.D. 2004. "Control of DNA replication initiation by recruitment of an essential initiation protein to the membrane of Bacillus subtilis." Mol. Microbiol. 52: 1757-1767.
Snyder, L., Blight, S., and Auchtung, J. 2003. "Regulation of translation of the head protein of T4 bacteriophage by specific binding of EF-Tu to a leader sequence." J. Mol. Biol. 334: 349-361.
Auchtung, J.M. and Grossman, A.D. "Cell-cell signaling and the recognition of self in the control of horizontal gene transfer in Bacillus subtilis." In Cell-cell signaling in Bacteria, Second edition, B.L. Bassler and S.C. Winans, eds. (Washington D.C., ASM Press). In Press.
Auchtung, J.M., Lee, C.A., Garrison, K.L., and Grossman, A.D. "Identification and characterization of the immunity repressor (ImmR) that controls the mobile genetic element ICEBs1 of Bacillus subtilis." In Press.
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CO-INSTRUCTOR, MIT FIELD TRIP FOR HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE CLASSES (Annual, 2005 – 2007)
As an outreach to the community, the MIT biology department invites students and teachers from biology classes at local area high schools to spend the day at MIT and experience biological research. In March of 2005, Melanie Berkmen and I designed a short lesson that allowed the students to investigate how the bacterium Bacillus subtilis responds to starvation by forming dormant spores. The students had the chance to use light microscopy to distinguish sporulating cells from non-sporulating cells. They also learned that spore formation in Bacillus subtilis is an interesting process to study because it is an example of bacterial development and because of the similarities to spore formation in pathogenic bacteria, such as the anthrax-causing bacterium, Bacillus anthracis. I enjoyed this first experience so much, that I volunteered to teach the same lesson again in 2006 with Melanie and in 2007 with Kasia Gora, a rotation student in Alan's lab.
TEACHING ASSISTANT, MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, MIT (Spring 2004)
This senior-level undergraduate/graduate course was taught by Tania Baker and Steve Bell. During the course of the semester we covered a wide range of topics, including DNA replication and recombination, transposition, transcription, translation, and gene regulation. My responsibilities for this course involved preparing and leading weekly discussion sections with students, preparing problem sets for students in collaboration with another teaching assistant, and grading students' exams. It was a great opportunity to watch intelligent students learn to engage challenging concepts that I find very interesting.
TEACHING ASSISTANT, EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY LAB, MIT (Fall 2001)
This introductory biology was taught by Angelika Amon, Alex Rich, Mary Lou Pardue, and Andrew Chess. During the course of the semester, the students had the opportunity to try a wide variety of experimental techniques to investigate questions in microbial genetics, protein biochemistry, recombinant DNA methods, and zebrafish development. My responsibilities for this course involved preparing biweekly discussion sections with students during the microbial genetics section of the course, preparing section notes for online publishing, supervising students' lab activities, and grading students' exams and lab reports. This lab course was unlike any I had ever experienced as an undergrad because the students had the opportunity to use so many techniques. It was also interesting to watch some students learning how to do lab work for the first time and to meet others who were already quite experienced due to previous independent research experiences.
When I'm not hard at work, I enjoy reading, running, playing tennis, and spending time with my son, Julian.
My husband, Tommy Auchtung, is also a microbiologist and a graduate student in Colleen Cavanaugh's lab at Harvard University. He's studying Korarchaeota, a division of Archaea that is thought to be deeply rooted on the evolutionary tree. One perk about studying Korarchaeota is the interesting places he goes to collect samples (Yellowstone National Park, Kamchatka, Russia, the bottom of the ocean.) Unfortunately, I don't get to go along.


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Ghajini (2008) lyrics and translation: Behka
Song five of six, Behka, has vocals by Karthik and is the song featured in this latest trailer. It really is one of the better songs in contemporary Bollywood that chronicles why the male character is attracted to the woman he's head over heels in love with. The theme is very familiar, but the lyrics (by Prasoon Joshi) elevate it to more than just a poem in praise of woman; not that an ordinary such song would ever be out of place ;).
The most recent Aamir Khan Productions film, Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na (2008), had a song with elements of jazz (Tu Bole Main Boloon). Behka builds on that platform in a very interesting manner. For one, it involves conventional playback singing in the film, which Tu Bole Main Boloon did not. More importantly, it's a lot more funky and more inconsistent, which works beautifully (the saxophone by Martin is smooth), and should work well with six Aamirs and at least one Asin! Like the allusions to the forces of nature -- wind, water, earth, light -- the theme is repeated through other songs in the album.
Here are the lyrics and my translation (click to enlarge). Have a great start to the week, everyone!
Disclaimer: Copyrights to this song review and translation are owned by the blogger. Any reproduction or reuse without the expressed written consent of theBollywoodFan is strictly prohibited. Violators will be prosecuted to the fullest extent permissible by law. Please feel free to link to this post.
10 comments:
- Unknown said...
Thanks :-) I like the music a lot too so far. More accessible immediately than Rahman sometimes is.
- Monday, November 24, 2008
Hi! Long time reader, first time poster. A friend of mine recommended this blog when I was searching for Jaane Tu... lyrics and translation. Your blog is so much fun to read, and very informative (especially for a Bolly newbie like me).
Thank you so much for posting the Bekha translation, it is indeed beautiful and so funky at the same time. The Ghajini album is a winner for me and I cannot wait to get my hands on them soon.
About the copyright of your translations, I once posted your Guzaarish lyrics on the Bollyspice forum as there were many members (including myself) who do not speak or understand Hindi/Urdu fluently. I did credit you but never asked your permission to post it on that forum. I gravely apologize for that. I was wondering if you could join the forum and post your lyrics? They would be extremely helpful!
- Monday, November 24, 2008
- theBollywoodFan said...
Hi Memsaab: Thank you. Agreed on the accessibility, let's hope it keeps up! My only complaint with the soundtrack is that it is too short!
- Monday, November 24, 2008
- theBollywoodFan said...
Hi Gulabo: Thank you very much for your comment, and I really appreciate your kind words! You're very welcome, and I'm glad you find these of some value. The Ghajini album is a welcome feather in the Aamir-Rahman cap; it's caught me by surprise, I'll admit. And I like to think I know their songs well! :)
Please feel free to share links to the posts with the translations. They're intended to reach an audience that will derive value from it that is not monetary. In fact, thank you! And thanks for asking!
[As long as it's not presented as the work of someone else, or on a site that promotes (or is based around) providing content illegally (which usually means no free music downloads or revenue generation through advertisments if the site uses content copyrighted by the filmmakers), it should be okay.]
- Monday, November 24, 2008
- dunkdaft said...
Hey hey hey...
looks who's here. its TBF. As exclusive as always.
I m gonna buy the CD this evening. Must be rockin'. Rehman did Great this year. First Jodhaa Akbar, then JTYJN, then Yuvvraaj, and now this is Grand Finale.
Only six songs ? Nahiinnnn...... Wish there could be more.
P.S. Nice collage, on title bar.
- Tuesday, November 25, 2008
- theBollywoodFan said...
Hi Darshit: I hope you enjoy the soundtrack! Six songs with one instrumental will have to do. :( Rahman's had a fantastic year. He also had 'Ada - A Way of Life' this year, although we still don't know when that film will release. Glad you like the header :) Cheers!
- Tuesday, November 25, 2008
oh, man, how could i forget Ada? It was simply beautiful. That 'Meherbaan' translation, led me to your blog.
- Wednesday, November 26, 2008
- theBollywoodFan said...
Oh, I guess the post worked :) Ada's filmmaking process has been interesting. I hear it's been in the works for six years! The soundtrack, as you say, is splendid.
- Thursday, November 27, 2008
- Tania said...
Me encanta tu blog!!, me parecen excelentes, tus traducciones Muchas Gracias!!^.~
I love Hindi cinema!!!
- Friday, May 29, 2009
- theBollywoodFan said...
Muchas gracias, Tania. El placer es el mío. Thank you again for your visit and comment. And let's keep enjoying Hindi cinema as much as we do!
- Saturday, May 30, 2009


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Kelly Taylor is heading for a new area code.
Jennie Garth, who played the iconic role on "Beverly Hills, 90210" and the current CW reboot, told AccessHollywood.com's Laura "Dish of Salt" Saltman at Access' "Stuff You Must" Golden Globes gift lounge at the Sofitel Hotel in LA that she was finished with the show.
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Keaton Simons' new single entitled "If I Hadn't Forgotten" features American Idol Season 9 finalist Didi Benami. It is now available to the public via iTunes and Amazon as a digital download.
Keaton Simons is a thirty-something, multi-talented singer songwriter, and musician who has albums and EPs attached to his credential along with a degree in Ethnomusicology.
His musicality is always spot on and his voice soulful and bluesy. This was clear on the song "If I Hadn't Forgotten" originally released as a solo single.
The song itself on first listen renders a feeling that you might have heard it before from somewhere. In its simplicity and timelessness, it could very well be placed in a movie soundtrack or perhaps a TV show.
And placed it was! ABC's hit medical drama series "Private Practice" picked it up and put the song front and center on its November 3rd episode (EP506) entitled "If I Hadn't Forgotten." Not only is the episode the same as the track title, the main character Dr. Addison Montgomery (Kate Walsh) sings a few lines of the song!
"If I Hadn't Forgotten" took another turn this week with a special release of a duet version. Lending the other half of this now two-tone harmony is the wistful, pulsing voice of Didi Benami.
Simons and Benami are long time friends and Didi has appeared in a number of Keaton Simons shows in Los Angeles.
While the tune could be carried fine on its own solo, we could see why Benami's voice is the missing piece needed to perfect this song. Says producer and owner of Revolver Recordings (where the song was mixed and recorded), Mikal Blue:
"it was suggested that Didi could come and do a duet on one of (the) songs. I thought it was a great idea but I've no idea how amazing it was gonna sound. As soon as it got Didi's voice into this track, the whole track took on a new vibe; it was beautiful hearing them both."
In a post from Official American Idol site about the song release, Benami affirms:
"I'm very happy and excited about it. It's been a long time in the works for me to get something out there, and I think the wait brought us to just the right song at just the right moment."
Whether there was conscious effort to bring in Didi Benami to 'complete' the track, the result is sublime and universally appealing. The give and take, the push and pull, the symbiosis brought the song into a whole new tier.
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If I hadn't forgotten
What we meant
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I'd know love before I lost it
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The track is Benami's debut release since going on a nationwide American Idol tour in 2010. She was in New York City two months ago at the Rockwood Music Hall for an intimate showcase of what she's been working on as far as her music goes. She is off to the Bahamas for a charity concert and dinner weekend on November 11, and she's chosen to benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (www.stjude.org/musicgives).
We wish both of these artists much success in their respective careers and we surely won't mind another collaboration in the offing.
There is a streaming song preview at Didi Benami's Official website. You can check out Keaton Simons official site here. You could get FREE song download from Didi's fansite. They have a contest giveaway going on at their site as part of supporting the song and Benami.
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Massachusetts 15-year-old unlocks secret of 1759 sermon
Adonijah Bidwell wrote sermons in code
Shelby M. Sebring has gotten a taste of what Robert Langdon must have felt like while cracking the Da Vinci Code.
The 15-year-old from Hancock recently unlocked the secrets of a 1759 sermon, while serving as a Young History Scholar intern at The Bidwell House Museum.
Sebring, who just finished her freshman year at Pittsfield High School, happens to love Colonial history and is an aspiring cryptographer.
As Barbara Palmer, executive director of the museum, explains, each intern is encouraged to do a research project of their choosing during their two-week program. When she found out about Sebring's interests in code, she prompted the intern to take a crack at deciphering some sermons written by the enigmatic Rev. Adonijah Bidwell, the museum's namesake.
"I've always wanted to be a docent. I love history," said Sebring, daughter of Tamala and Barry Sebring.
Raised in a military family, Shelby and her brother, Raynor, who served as a college intern for the museum, have moved a lot and visit historical sites while on the road.
"Some people go to Six Flags for vacation. We go to Williamsburg," Shelby said.
But for two weeks in June, she immersed herself in a paid internship program at The Bidwell House Museum.
There Sebring learned that Bidwell served as the first minister in "Housatonic Township No. 1," — today's Tyringham and Monterey.
In the 18th-century parsonage, Bidwell wrote his sermons in a private code: a mixture of early forms of English, Greek, Latin, symbols and shorthand.
"Not much is known about the reverend. The only writings we have here are sermons, all written in code," Palmer said.
"Most is in plain English, but there is shorthand and symbols like this," said Sebring, pointing to a swirl-like mark on a photocopy of an original page. "See? This looks like a snail."
Palmer said over the decades, many people have taken a look at Bidwell's sermon texts, "but to my knowledge, no one has been able to or taken the time necessary to crack Bidwell's code."
Sebring started her work with a Christmas gift, a book titled, "Codes, Ciphers and Other Cryptic and Clandestine Communication: 400 Ways to Send Secret Messages from Hieroglyphs to the Internet" by Fred B. Wrixon.
She also used an online guide to 18th-century shorthand and penmanship, Biblical references and "common sense" to chart the four-page sermon, titled "Proud." It is labeled with three dates: 1759, 1761 and 1783.
Sebring filled three notebooks, first by writing down all the recognizable English, then mapping the numbers and symbols, and then trying to substitute words for the symbols in a way that made sense.
"There was a lot of guess and check," Sebring said, noting that she has no background in Greek, Latin, middle English or the Bible.
Eventually, she figured that the numbers in the sermon referred to Bible verses. Ultimately, Sebring revealed an eight-page typed sermon about why people should be wary of exhibiting pride.
Palmer said that in Bidwell's time, township residents were required to attend services during which a sermon could last several hours.
"It was hard to read about the admonitions of being proud. It sounds quite negative. At the same time, the text is an affirmation of faith at that time," Palmer said.
Sebring worked day and night, and beyond the scope of her two-week internship, to crack Bidwell's code.
Palmer called the student's effort one of "great passion" and "diligence." She also lauded the contributions of the museum's seven other high school and one other college interns this summer.
"They've all added value here," said Palmer.
Sebring is in the process of moving to Virginia with her family, where she will become a sophomore at Randolph-Macon Academy, a flight school.
"I'm sad to see her go, but I'm eager to share her work with our board and hope it inspires other to continue the work," said Palmer.
As for Sebring, although moving on, she said she'll take a great lesson with her: "This is the start of proving to myself that I can actually do this when no one else could."


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Constitutional Law I surveys the law surrounding the allocation of governmental power between federal, state, and tribal governments and the distribution of governmental authority within the federal government. It is a pervasive subject in the sense that such constitutional questions can emerge in such disparate areas of legal practice as immigration, corporations and securities, family law, criminal law, banking, and insurance. While the course does not cover individual constitutional rights (the subject matter of Constitutional Law II and Criminal Procedure), questions of Congressional power to enforce various constitutional rights are raised as part of the course coverage. Furthermore, the framers of Constitution did not see the bright line that most law school curriculums currently draw between allocation of power and individual rights questions, since many statements in the Constitutional Convention and the ratification documents suggest that the framers thought that the primary protection of individual liberty should be a constitution appropriately distributing and limiting delegated governmental authority, rather than a listing of rights of the type found in the Bill of Rights. This course not only seeks to provide a survey of contemporary federal constitutional law, but also provides basic insights into American constitutional and jurisprudential history. The reason for such attention to history involves demonstrating how constitutional law has changed over time, often with the ebb and flow of national intellectual, political, and economic history surrounding prevailing jurisprudential and economic trends and movements. That focus trains students not only how to understand past constitutional developments but how to anticipate future changes in constitutional doctrine in response to national political and intellectual trends. Consequently, the legal, jurisprudential, economic and political history of the United States will play a prominent role in the course. Please note that the course will be hosted on TWEN, rather than Blackboard.
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