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Unlike a playmaker, who enables scoring in linemates, Malhotra enables the scoring of those on other lines.
The addition of Malhotra has had a trickle up effect, as he takes on the checking role previously held by Kesler, freeing Kesler up to greater offensive opportunities, which he has capitalized on with aplomb. Meanwhile, despite Kesler's increased offensivity, Henrik Sedin and his line have been able to continue in their primarily offensive role thanks to Malhotra's presence in the lineup.
I'm going to take a look at how this plays out using two different statistics from Behind The Net: Corsi Relative Quality of Competition (Corsi Rel QoC) and Offensive Zone Start Percentage (Ozone%) and how Malhotra compares to the two centres above him, Kesler and Sedin. I will then be following it up with a brief discussion of faceoffs. I will be limiting each to players who have played at least 20 games.
As I pointed out in a footnote in a recent post, Manny Malhotra has the lowest Ozone% on the Canucks. He starts in the offensive zone a miniscule 27.7% of the time. He is trusted to take the vast majority of the Canucks' defensive zone faceoffs, and for good reason: he's currently second in the NHL in faceoff percentage, right behind Washington's David Steckel, who has taken 370 fewer faceoffs. In fact, Malhotra has won the most faceoffs in the NHL, with 591 victories. NHL.com doesn't distinguish between defensive and offensive zone faceoffs, which is unfortunate, but from observation I can tell you that the majority of those wins were in the defensive zone.
To illustrate the significance of this, note that Malhotra has the second lowest Ozone% in the entire NHL. Malhotra is on pace to take 1495 faceoffs this season. Of those, 1081 will be in the defensive zone. That averages out to around 13 defensive zone faceoffs per game, compared to 5 offensive zone faceoffs. What's especially interesting is that this is a massive drop in offensive zone starts for Malhotra. In San Jose last season, he started in the offensive zone 45.3% of the time. In Columbus the year before, it was 43.4%.
The biggest impact of this stat has been on Henrik Sedin. In 2008-09, Sedin started in the offensive zone 49.9% of the time. This saw a modest bump to 57.7% in 2009-10. This season, with the addition of Malhotra, Sedin is starting in the offensive zone a whopping 70.1%, good for third in the NHL behind Cam Janssen and--surprise!--Daniel Sedin. In the article on Alex Edler, I referred to this kind of discrepancy in zone starts as sheltering Edler, but it might be more accurate to refer to it as putting your best offensive players in the best position to score. Kesler has also seen a modest bump in Ozone%, but it's about as modest as Bristol Palin's outfits and, like Bristol Palin, not really worth mentioning.
When it comes to Corsi Rel QoC, however, the addition of Malhotra has made a massive difference for Kesler. First, a quick definition of terms: Corsi is a measurement of total shots attempted both for and against. Essentially, add up all the goals, shots, blocked shots, and missed shots that your team has taken while you are on the ice and subtract all the goals, shots, blocked shots, and missed shots that the opposition has taken while you are on the ice. It's a measure of puck possession that strongly correlates to scoring chances and, therefore, goals. Relative Corsi is a method of normalizing a Corsi rating by comparing a player's Corsi rating with the team's Corsi rating when he is off the ice. It's considered to more accurately measures an individual players contribution to puck possession. Finally, Corsi Rel QoC is a measurement of the quality of competition a player faces based on the Relative Corsi of his opponents. It's more accurate than the base Quality of Competition stat, which uses +/-. Does that make sense? Good. Moving on.
In 2008-09, Kesler led the team in Corsi Rel QoC, with a rating of 1.265, just ahead of Willie Mitchell. This was good for 13th in the NHL; night in and night out, Kesler faced the best players the opposition had to offer and earned his first Selke nomination. Last season, Kesler was second on the Canucks, just behind Willie Mitchell. Kesler continued to face tough competition, increased his offensive production, and was once again nominated for the Selke. This year, however, Malhotra is taking the heat off Kesler, as Malhotra is third in Corsi Rel QoC on the Canucks, first among forwards. Meanwhile, Kesler is facing the 8th toughest competition, freeing him from his checking duties. The result: Kesler has embraced the offensive side of his game: he has already bested his career high in goals, is on pace for 47 goals and 32 assists, and is receiving hype not for the Selke, but the Hart. With Malhotra bearing the brunt of the opposition's offensive pressure, Kesler has gone from first amongst Canucks forwards in Corsi Rel QoC to sixth.
Intriguingly, the total number of faceoffs taken has been fairly evenly split between Malhotra, Kesler, and Sedin. The three centres are on pace for 1495, 1471, and 1437 faceoffs respectively. The total difference from top to bottom is less than one faceoff per game. Last season, Henrik took 1527 faceoffs to Kesler's 1401. Next closest was Kyle Wellwood with 725. The difference was more pronounced in 2008-09 as Henrik took 1364 faceoffs to Kesler's 976, with Wellwood lagging behind at 621. To be fair, Kesler played on Mats Sundin's wing for the latter part of that year. Oddly enough, despite being one of the best faceoff men in the league last season at 62.5%, Malhotra took only 664 draws for the Sharks. It could be argued that the Sharks underutilized him, though to be fair, Scott Nichol is not too shabby at faceoffs.
In any case, the number of faceoffs that Malhotra takes for the Canucks dwarfs Kyle Wellwood's contributions the last couple of seasons. As good as Wellwood was on the draws, Malhotra is even better and is clearly more trusted by the coaching staff. This balance in faceoffs taken spreads the responsibility around, with Malhotra taking the majority of defensive zone faceoffs, Henrik taking the majority of offensive zone faceoffs, and Kesler splitting between the two fairly evenly. And with Malhotra taking over the role of checking line center, facing the toughest competition the other team has to offer, Kesler has been free to focus on his goalscoring.
It's also noteworthy that even with his 16-game drought, Malhotra is still on pace for 27 points this year, right on par with his post-lockout career totals. He has been carrying the puck to the net with some authority recently and has come achingly close on numerous scoring chances to end his slump. But the Canucks are not dependent on him doing so: he just needs to continue lightening the load of his teammates on the top-two lines, enabling them to continue their potentially award-winning seasons.


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Great question. Patients, particularly with early stage (stage I-II) estrogen receptor positive breast cancer, have benefited immensely from the testing you describe. Gene expression profiling evaluates the risk of cancer returning after surgery on a molecular level. In my practice, this type of testing has allowed me to safely avoid chemotherapy in many patients who would likely have otherwise received chemotherapy prior to validation of these tests.
Prior to "gene score" tests, decisions regarding whether to recommend chemotherapy were informed by a few pathologic features of the tumor (how the tumor looked under the microscope) and whether the patient was felt to be fit enough to tolerate chemotherapy.
For the majority of early stage breast cancer patients, uncertainty would persist regarding the added benefit for chemotherapy based on microscopic review alone. As a result, in order to ensure that patients would not receive inadequate treatment, many patients were treated with chemotherapy who ultimately would have had an excellent prognosis with hormone therapy alone.
With genomic expression profiles, we can get a more thorough evaluation of a tumor's activity, including how much it relies on estrogen to grow and how fast it is growing (among other features). These tests classify patients into risk categories, which differ slightly based on the test, and can be used to estimate a patient's probability of recurrence. Clinical trials involving thousands of patients have validated several of these tests and have specifically evaluated the benefit of chemotherapy based on the calculated risk of the patient's tumor. These studies enable your doctor to feel confident in his/her decision and truly provide personalized care.
It is important to note that these tests have largely been studied in estrogen receptor positive breast cancer and, despite the strong level of evidence supporting their use, there are still clinical scenarios where these tests may not be appropriate. Additionally, which test is performed should be based on the clinical scenario of the individual patients being treated.
It is very important that you feel comfortable discussing your concerns with your oncologist and he/she should always be willing to discuss how they arrived at their decision.
To schedule an appointment, or to learn more about the NYU Winthrop Breast Health Program, visit www.nyuwinthrop.org or call 1-866-WINTHROP.
Douglas Marks, MD
Dr. Douglas Marks is an Attending Physician in the Division of Oncology/Hematology at NYU Winthrop Hospital, having joined the Hospital following a fellowship program in Oncology/Hematology at Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Marks also serves as a Clinical Instructor with a primary clinical focus on breast cancer. Dr. Marks was awarded an American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Scholar in Training Award in 2017 and is currently involved in several research endeavors focused on better understanding the interaction between an individual patient's immune system and breast cancer.

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2011-2013 Mustang GT Cold Air Induction Buyer's Guide - Chilled Coyote
We take a look at the top cold air kits for the new 5.0L Mustang and try them all on for size
Many of us "seasoned" Mustang owners probably remember taking our air cleaner lids and flipping them over to get more air into the carburetor, or possibly making up some sort of duct using dryer vent hose or something similar to the carburetor from the grille area (akin to the famous Ford Thunderbolts). Those lucky enough to afford serious muscle, like a Mach 1, CJ, or Boss car, had true ram air via Ford's Shaker setup. So it's no surprise that 40-plus years later Mustang owners are still trying to get the coolest, densest air charge into their engines to make power. And like 40 years ago, Ford still offers some Mustangs with factory ram/cold air induction.
When the '10 Mustang came out, Ford designed an ingenious cold-air induction setup using a sealed air box that incorporated an induction sound tube. This tube channels the "rushing air" sound of the engine's incoming air under throttle to the driver's kick panel area for an aural "treat" for the driver. The OE designed cold air system was touted by Ford engineers as working so well that no aftermarket bolt-on cold air system would be an improvement. I'm sure many of the companies in our guide here today will argue that fact, but none the less, many Mustang owners simply like bolting on a cold air system for the looks and the sound.
For this buyer's guide we rounded up a sample of every manufacturer's kit and literally bolted them all on to the '13 Mustang GT of Brian Kirk, one after the other. Brian has only had the car for a short time with the only mods being a set of Flowmaster mufflers. With Brian's help we set out to test fit each kit on his car, take photos of each kit installed (better than a product shot on a table we think), and write up some notes on how each installation went and what you get for your hard earned cash. Each one of these kits have dyno proven hp and torque improvements, but we did not dyno test the kits. Instead we'll rely simply on the power figures provided by the manufacturers in their literature. Lastly, while several of these cold air kits are touted as "no tune required" by the manufacturer, a handheld tuner and a shop with late-model Mustang experience can really "wake up" your Coyote 5.0L with a little electronic wizardry (see our sidebar for more details on that). Note that all pricing was taken from www.summitracing.com during the month of June 2012.
AEM Cold-Air Intake System
PN 21-8122 $290.95 HP/TQ Gain: 8/10 Tuning Required: None 800/992-3000
The AEM cold air kit is available in a polished aluminum or upscale looking gloss gray powder coat (powder coat version installed here). The aluminum induction tube mates to the throttle body via a silicone coupler and clamps and is routed to a fully sealed air box that seals to the stock Mustang cold air snorkel fed from the grille area. The AEM Dryflow oval air filter is made of non-woven synthetic materials. The filter is cleanable and does not use oil in the filter media. The kit reuses all OE hoses but does not come with any hardware to delete the sound tube, which is common with many people upgrading their '11-'13 Mustangs.
The kit includes an air filter maintenance gauge that fits into the air box and connects to the filter via a length of included vacuum hose. As the filter is restricted by dirt, the pressure change causes the gauge to move, easily alerting you to when the filter needs servicing.
Airaid MXP Intake Systems
PN 451-264 $344.90 HP/TQ Gain: 11/11 Tuning Required: None 888/876-8984
The Airaid cold air system features a roto-molded black plastic induction tube that uses machined aluminum fittings to connect the stock emissions and sound tube to. If you opt to delete the sound tube, Airaid includes a plug for the firewall and for the induction tube. The filter is shielded from hot under hood air and the shield seals to the hood as well. The shield/air box is made from plastic and allows the use of the stock cold air induction snorkel to the grille. The shield even has an opening to reuse the sound tube retaining clamp from the stock air box lid. The filter is a high-flow synthetic material and does not require any oiling (PN 450-264 uses a filter that has to be oiled) and is attached to a bolt-in velocity stack adapter. Due to the upward angle of the induction tube you do need to be careful about hose clamp positioning at the throttle body, as we found the intake cover would not fully seat until we moved the clamp's head from 12 o'clock to about 9 o'clock.
BBK Performance Cold-Air Kit
PN 1768 $329.99 HP/TQ Gain: 12/12 Tuning Required: None 951/296-1771
BBK's cold air kit for the '11-'13 Mustang GT features a chrome plated steel induction tube, the only one in our roundup to use steel (others are aluminum or plastic). The chrome finish was top notch on our sample, but if the bling is too much for you BBK does offer a "black-out" version of this kit. The air filter shield is made of steel plate that is bent and cut to form a seal to the hood and surrounding areas. The BBK kit was also the only one that required removing the radiator cover and unbolting a radiator mount to attach the filter shield to. The filter shield is just that, a shield, and does not utilize the OE cold air snorkel (it's actually removed in the BBK instructions). BBK's huge air filter is a high-flow cotton element that requires oiling service intervals. The BBK induction tube utilizes the stock hose connections and relocates the sound tube below the air filter shield for a cleaner look, however there's no hardware included to eliminate the hose if you wish.
C&L Performance Air Intake System
PN 10699-11-P $359 HP/TQ Gain: 12-16/11-15 Tuning Required: Yes, or purchase optional "no-tune" insert kit 256/882-6813
The folks at C&L take their airflow improvements seriously and their kit shows in the details. Starting with the induction tube, C&L uses an injection molding process for a consistent inside diameter throughout the tube's length. Secondly, a larger CNC machined mass air sensor housing ensures the system makes the most power possible (C&L does offer a no-tune required insert for the mass air meter housing). The plastic filter shield seals to the hood while the filter media is a high-flow material that requires normal cleaning/oiling intervals. The C&L kit comes out of the box with hose couplers and clamps already in place for an easy installation and if we had to take an issue with anything it would be the well-detailed written instructions would have been even better if they had some supporting photos to help the installer.
Injen Technologies Tuned Short Ram Intake System
PN PF9023P $285.95 HP/TQ Gain: 10/11 Tuning Required: None 909/839-0706
The Injen kit is the only one in our roundup that has the filter exposed to under hood air. All of the other kits we installed either used a shield that sealed to the hood or a completely enclosed air box. The Injen intake kit does come with a shield, but it does not seal to the hood. The shield can be positioned to your liking, as the shield brackets are secured by the filter hose clamp, allowing the shield to rotate around the filter. Speaking of the filter, it is a high-flow unit using blue synthetic fiber and does not use/require oil of any kind. The Injen induction tube is made of aluminum and is highly polished (a black wrinkle finish is also available) and is the only one reviewed that uses a factory mounting point on the electric fan shroud to support the tube, making for a very solid installation. The tube's integral mass air sensor mount is designed to allow the intake kit to work with the stock computer tune.
JLT Performance Cold-Air Intake
PN CAI-FMG-11 $299 HP/TQ Gain: 25-30/30-35 Tuning Required: Yes 757/335-1940
The first thing we noticed when we pulled the JLT hardware out of the box was the positively huge inlet. The induction tube is 107mm at the mass air sensor opening (integral to the tube) and follows the OE induction tube's curvature to the throttle body where it is attached with a nice JLT branded silicone coupler and stainless clamps. The filter shield is made from ABS plastic to help insulate under hood heat and it seals to the hood while using the stock cold air snorkel fed from the grille. While many of the cold air kits in our guide use private labeled filters, JLT went right to the source and uses high-flow cotton gauze S&B air filters in their kits. The S&B filter does require oiling when being cleaned. The induction tube comes out of the box ready to reuse your emissions and sound tubes for a clean installation. Lastly, while we installed the standard black plastic roto-molded induction tube version here, JLT is the only kit in our round up that offers their induction tubes painted in factory Mustang colors for a cool matching look ($50 up charge). JLT even offers their induction tube in real carbon fiber too ($429) and as a package deal with a SCT tuner included.
Like some kits, the JLT induction kit offers the owner a choice of using the factory sound tube or not. However, JLT goes the extra step and provides not only a cap for their induction tube, but a plastic plug for the firewall so you can completely remove the sound tube from the engine bay for a clean look.
K&N Engineering AirCharger Intake Kit
PN 63-2578 $349.95 HP/TQ Gain: 20/26 (tested with air box lid off) Tuning Required: None 800/858-3333
K&N is the grand-daddy of performance air filters and they've been making high-flow filters, induction tubes, EFI filter kits, and more since 1969! Many late-model Mustang owners remember the days of dropping a replacement K&N panel filter into their Fox Mustang while removing the intake silencer and bumping the timing for a nice power boost. Today K&N still offers direct replacement high-flow cleanable filters for just about every Ford ever built, but now offer their 63 Series AirCharger induction kits. The AirCharger features a roto-molded induction tube in black textured plastic that is routed to a sealed air box like the AEM unit shown earlier. The K&N air box features a very slick carbon fiber lid attached with stainless button head fasteners, however there's no way to check the filter's condition unless you remove the lid. K&N also ditches the sound tube so there's no fitting to attach it to the K&N kit, a bummer if you really like the sound tube feeding your passenger compartment its aural delight. Naturally the filter used in the kit is a K&N cotton gauze oiled filter. Lastly, a silicone hose replaces the stock emissions hose for connecting to the induction tube.
To inspect the filter condition in the K&N induction kit you'll need to remove six button head fasteners and the carbon fiber lid to see what your filter looks like. It's a small price to pay to have a completely sealed air tract from the factory snorkel to the throttle body.
Roush Performance Cold Air Intake
PN 420131 $215.99 HP/TQ Gain: 8-11/7-11 Tuning Required: None 800/59-ROUSH
The name Roush is synonymous with latemodel Mustang performance and every Roush Mustang sold includes one of their cold air intake kits designed to work with the stock engine controls or the Roush programming on supercharged Roush Mustangs. The Roush kit gets the nod for the fewest parts as all you'll find in the box is the injection molded heat shield, the injection molded mass air sensor tube, the Roush air filter, and a pair of speed nuts with mounting bolts. The reason being, Roush reuses the stock Ford induction tube, including the emissions and sound tubes as well for a really simple installation. All you have to remove is the factory air box lid and base, bolt in the Roush shield (which seals to the factory cold air snorkel to the grille), bolt in the mass air sensor tube, and slip the air filter on. The shield seals to the hood to insulate the incoming air charge from under hood heat while the mass air sensor tube is designed to match the stock mass air meter signal so that no aftermarket tuning is required.
Steeda Autosports ProFlow Cold-Air Intake
PN 555-3155 $389.95 HP/TQ Gain: 38/36 Tuning Required: Yes 800/950-0774
Steeda's ProFlow cold air kit starts off with a large diameter molded induction tube in black with a fine grain finish. The mass air flow sensor housing is a high quality CNC machined billet aluminum part with a built in velocity stack where the filter attaches for a smooth airflow transition. The billet housing increases the mass air sensor tube inside diameter to 95mm. The Steeda high-flow filter uses synthetic filter media that is cleanable and requires oiling. Shielding the Steeda filter is a powder coated metal heat shield that uses a plastic bolt-on base to seal the assembly to the stock cold air snorkel while a rubber seal takes care of sealing the shield to the hood. Black hose couplers with high quality clamps finish out the package. The Steeda kit retains all factory hose connections and you can delete the sound tube, however Steeda only supplies the plug for the induction tube itself. Steeda is another manufacturer that offers a package deal with their cold air kit and a SCT hand-held tuner.
Don't get ahead of yourself in the installation like we did and install the stock mass air sensor into the CNC tube before the tube is passed through the filter shield. The CNC tube will not clear with the sensor installed.
While Steeda makes their heat shield out of metal, this nifty "scoop" bolts to the bottom of the shield to allow the sealed off filter area to get the coolest air possible by reusing the cold air snorkel. Matter of fact, the Steeda part doesn't just butt up to it, but slips inside the snorkel's rubber seal.
Pushing Electrons
As you've read through our guide, you've seen some entries that state tuning is mandatory and their instruction manuals even state to not drive the car without the proper tune, as a lean condition can result. You've probably noticed that the cold air kits that require a supporting custom tune also show higher horsepower and torque ratings. That's due to the performance improvements further enhanced by the tuner itself with timing and fuel changes. Even the no tune needed kits will benefit with the adoption of an aftermarket performance tune, it's just that they don't have to have one to be installed. Generally you'll see a 10-15 hp improvement with a cold air kit, while the remainder comes from the aftermarket tuning.
One of the most popular tuning products is the SCT hand-held tuner, shown here. The majority of the cold air manufacturers have worked with SCT to devise custom tunes so that you can actually buy your cold air kit and SCT tuner as a package deal (even Ford Racing does this on their '05-'09 cold air kits). You can also order a SCT X3, which has no pre-loaded tunes, and then have a custom shop dyno your car and create a custom tune based on your Mustang's modifications. If you'd like to know more, be sure to check out www.sctflash.com for more info and your nearest dealer.


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Unfortunately, average Chileans don't know how to cook well, not seafood, not meat, not vegetables. Very strange when you consider that in one of the neighboring countries, Peru, you find the most exquisite and diverse Latin American cuisine.
Years ago I ordered an appetizer of clams in Pucon, a charming town in the picturesque South of Chile. Guess what they served me - canned clams!! Canned clams in the country that rightfully boasts to have the best seafood in the world!!
I raised hell - poor 15 year-old Felix felt so embarrased about his complaining dad that he would have contemptuously denied to be my son at that moment - but it didn't help as the owner of the restaurant probably thought: "What's the matter with this scandalously behaving foreigner? Fresh clams, canned clams - what's the difference, anyway?"
Most restaurants in Chile, even in the capital city, Santiago, serve sub-standard food, cooked without any grace and love, let alone imagination. So, eating out in Chile can be a complete turn-off.
What a frustration knowing that the culinary 'raw material' the Chileans have, the fish and the "fruits of the sea" are absolutely superb: King crabs, all kinds of mussels and clams, sea urchins (a delicacy in Chile, and to my knowledge not in danger of depletion), abalones, stone crabs, sea snails, and fish, of course, many sorts, of which the "congrio" (= conger eel) is the most popular.
During our recent stay in Iquique, Karin and I preferred to go to super markets to buy yoghurts, fruit, cheese, crackers, nuts, and cookies. Couldn't go wrong with that. It's a good thing that we can both have frugal meals, and still enjoy life.
On our last day, Karin felt like having something special: a delicious MacDonald chicken burger which I passed, out of principle - dry bread yes, anytime; junk food, even tasty one, no way.
Instead, I went to have my last dinner in a seafood restaurant right in the fishery harbor.
Look what I ordered:
Yummy, right? Wrong!
You see me smiling because Karin took the photograph right before I was having my first bite. After 'savoring' it, I felt I was done - the soup at the bottom of the bowl looked and tasted like salty dishwater, the mussels were huge and tough, the fish had an extremely fishy, almost oily taste, so much so that Karin told me that only a pervert like me could order such a smelly "Geschlonze" *) - she almost had to vomit.
Nice to have such delicate table companions, huh? :-)
Felix, on the other hand, would have been quite proud of his old man had he been around.
I promised some people I care for to be more civilized and courageously control my anger when I feel my 'rocky mountain oysters' moving up all the way to my throat, as we Latins poetically describe that almost incontrollable urge to spit it all out in a fit of rage. :-)
Thus, I courteously asked the waiter for the bill, and even forced myself to say the soup was "buenisima" but that much to my chagrin the numerous rolls of bread I ate with it had filled up my tummy before I could finish the "Geschlonze" *).
*) Karin made up the word "Geschlonze". It means - well, just as it sounds, quite yukky, as "Geschlonze" simply HAS to be... :-)
PS: I just realized that I never published this blog, written five years ago. For some reason I kept as a draft - I am posting it now, unedited, as my opinions expressed therein have not changed. I am currently traveling in Northern Chile, and eating out in a regular restaurant (Chilean restaurants seem to be all 'regular') is still the same old mierda (pardon my Spanish) as it was back in December 2007... :-)
I almost forgot to wish all the readers of our blog a VERY good 2013 with most of their wishes fulfilled!!!!
Wolfgang and Felix


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Just a quick one here. This is a useful post for anyone interested in science literacy. By Jennifer Raff: How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists
Wednesday, February 08, 2017
These are actual living microbiologists #actuallivingscientist
Crossposting this - which I already posted at microBEnet I have been tracking #actuallivingscientist postings on Twitter compiled those by people doing microbiology. Actual living microbiologists.
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Monday, February 06, 2017
The #falcons may have lost, but the birders won Twitter with #Superb_Owls vs. #Superbowl
Was fun yesterday watching all the punny posts about #Superb_Owls. I really love owls. I posted some too and also made a Storify of some of the posts of the day. Here are mine:
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Stevens Alumna Evaluates Common Health and Beauty Products for "Good Housekeeping"
If life hands you a bowl of lemons, ask Stevens alumna Dr. Birnur Aral how to test the fruit, observe the data and then make lemonade.
As director of the Health, Beauty and Environmental Sciences Laboratory at the Good Housekeeping Research Institute, Dr. Aral heads the chemistry department, responsible for a team of scientists who evaluate products designed to meet the health, beauty and fitness needs for Good Housekeeping magazine and GoodHousekeeping.com. The GHRI evaluates products to ensure readers get the best value for their dollar. Some of the products tested include self-tanning lotions, eye makeup removers, moisturizing creams and long-lasting nail polishes.
Dr. Aral is part of a team with two other researchers, and each product, on average, takes six months to investigate from start to finish.
It's a job Dr. Aral, M.Eng. '90, Ph.D. '96, loves.
"I'm a scientist at heart,'' she said. "There is scientific thinking in everything.''
She believes that a positive attitude brings you far in life and she gives off a calming presence when speaking. Her comforting voice is often interspersed with laughter. And since she has lived in New Jersey for almost 25 years, her words come out with rapid-fire speed, but quickly put a listener at ease.
Born in Turkey, Dr. Aral came to Stevens in 1987 as a newlywed when both she and her husband had goals of graduating from Stevens with master's degrees. Her husband, Mehmet Nehrozoglu, instead received his M.B.A. from New York University, but Aral stayed at Stevens, earning a master's degree in 1990 and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Stevens six years later.
She's worked at four companies since her Stevens days, but with her "make lemonade'' attitude on things, Aral is quick to point out that every job has contributed to the scientist she is today.
"Every job has added to me. It's just been a different kind of thinking at each place,'' she said.
During her time at Unilever, the personal care company, Dr. Aral worked with soap bars, body wash and cosmetics. When the company relocated to Connecticut, she commuted from her New Jersey home for a short time. But she realized the long commute wasn't for her and she knew she was ready for a more managerial role.
"I was a small fish in a big tank there,'' she said.
While working for Takasago, a fragrance company, she got the chance to lead a team, but soon after starting there, she was let go in 2007 due to the economy. Fortunately, her ever-optimistic attitude allows her to look at the short break in her career as a positive.
"I was laid off from Takasago in mid-June and I started with GHRI in mid-September, so I had the summer off'' to be with her daughters, then ages 10 and 5, she said.
When the GHRI position was offered to her, she was hesitant at first.
"I wasn't sure what the job specifically was or that I would be good at it,'' she said. "Publishing and science – could I do that? But it has been wonderful these past four years and I really love it.''
At GHRI, Dr. Aral gets to use her chemistry background by testing the products and then she reports on those findings for the magazine and online site. She said her days are never dull and she loves being an investigator on "real situation products'' because, as she points out, we are all consumers, so the products she tests are things that are widely used by everyone.
As the mother of two daughters, does she hope they follow her footsteps into the sciences?
"I think it backfired,'' she said, as she laughs heartily. "They are both more into the arts, but who knows? They do well in science and my husband and I don't pressure them, and as long as they do well in school, they're OK. I tell them you have to make a living and you have to be happy while you're doing it.''
And she speaks from experience, as she says she is satisfied with her work and life.
"You have to go with the flow of things. It's hard nowadays to think ahead because things in life change so quickly. But doctors and engineers are still around, so I guess people still need them.''
For full coverage of the celebration of the 40th anniversary of Stevens becoming fully coeducational, visit Women at Stevens.


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Pakistan Cricket – 2008 highlights
As the year 2008 is ending, I have made an attempt to summarize the major happenings of the year in Pakistan cricket
- Pakistan suffered a test-less season this year. However they managed to play 21 one-day internationals but mostly against minnows like Bangladesh and Zimbabwe.
- Punjab Stallions won the RBS Pentangular One Day Cup. In the final they defeated the Federal Areas Leopards by eight wickets.
- India refused to tour Pakistan for its scheduled tour of January 2009 citing political reasons.
- Lahore Badshahs won the ICL 20-20 Indian Championship in November 2008 beating Hyderabad Heroes in the finals. They lost to the same side in the finals earlier this year in April 2008.
- NWFP won the RBS Pentangular Cup by beating Baluchistan in the final by 28 runs.
- Pakistan comprehensively defeated West Indies registering a clean sweap in a three match one day series in Abu Dhabi.
- Muhammad Yousuf signed up for the unauthorised Indian Cricket League (ICL).
- Geoff Lawson was sacked from his position of the coach of Pakistan.
- Pakistan took part in a four nation T20 tournament in Canada where they lost to Sri Lanka in the finals. Zimbabwe and Canada were the other two teams featuring in the tournament.
- Sialkot Stallions, captained by Shoaib Malik, won the RBS Twenty20 Cup by beating Karachi Dolphins by 7 wickets. In the process, they managed to earn a place in the Champions Twenty20 League.
- Ijaz Butt, the former Test opener, was appointed the new chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board.
- Champions Trophy scheduled to be held in Pakistan in September 2008 was postponed due to security fears raised by most of the teams.
- Nasim Ashraf, the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board resigned from his post soon after the resignation of Pervez Musharraf.
- Mohammad Asif tested positive for a drug test that was taken while he was playing in Indian Premier League (IPL). Earlier this year he was detained in Dubai for almost 19 days as he was found possessing some illegal substance.
- Pakistan was host to the 9th Asia Cup and first to be held in Pakistan. But they failed to take advantage of the home conditions and couldn't even qualify for the final.
- Pakistan participated and won the Kitply Cup 2008 – a short triangular series featuring Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
- Sohail Tanvir was the IPL's most successful bowler and helped guide his Royal Rajhistan team to the cup. He took 22 wickets in 11 games at an average of 12.09 and economy rate of 6.46.
- Shoaib Akhtar and PCB were in a constant strangle for most part of the year with Shoaib being handed over a 5 year ban which was then temporarily suspended for IPL which was then reduced and finally as always the ban was revoked and Shoaib was allowed to play in all forms of cricket.
- Bangladesh toured Pakistan in April for a series involving 5 one day internationals and a T20. Pakistan was victorious in all the matches.
- Australia pulled out of their cricket tour of Pakistan due to security fears.
- Defending champions Pakistan lost in the semifinals of the Under 19 Cricket World Cup.
- Pakistan started the year with a 5 one-day international home series against Zimbabwe. The series proved to be an easy ride for the host and they clinched the series 5-0.


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I made the hideous mistake of unabashedly disliking Haruki Muarakami's novel 1Q84 in front of someone who had just started reading it and I may never forgive myself for it. So, allow me this moment to redeem myself and explain my position on subject.
You see, I LOVED The Wind Up Bird Chronicles so much. That book did so much for me. It reminded me that there was still a lot that a novel could do. It was the first unapologetic piece of surrealist literary fiction that I had read in a modern context. I needed that book to exist if I was ever going to hope to write the kind of fiction that I like to write.
I could hardly wait to read 1Q84 and as soon as it became available on KOBO, I was on it. I started reading right away, expecting to be otherwise unavailable for the entire 1031 page duration.
Very quickly, I felt obviously manipulated by the author. I could sense that this book was written to be a "great work". I didn't believe in the characters or their motivations and I could barely slog through the clunking, repetitive prose. There was nothing of the subtle, brave Murakami who wrote The Wind Up Bird Chronicles. This was in your face, heavy-handed, bludgeoning the reader to death with over sentimentalized symbolism.
I thought to myself that, surely, this is a translation issue. Or, 1Q84 had suffered the same fate that most serialized novels do with its redundancy, over explanation, and over exposure. And I might have been able to excuse him from it if it hadn't been so consistently boring as a result. Continue reading


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The business of garbage collection
Tony Soprano was the King of trash collection in northern New Jersey, and it seems Mafia always get involved in hauling garbage, but there's still room for a high tech business not related to crime.
A few months ago the new G1 Garbage Collector was released for the sake of Java developers. G1 is a low-latency, low-pause garbage collection system that improves performance for Java applications. The new G1 also offers a feature that was available for .NET developers since 1.1: the ability to compact memory: move the used blocks together to avoid fragmentation.
The new G1 can only be used in production by developers who have signed (and paid) the Sun's support contract, which means Sun (probably under the new Oracle's vision) is opening a business in garbage collection.
Why garbage collection is important
Modern platforms like Java and .NET share a number of features that locates them a few steps ahead from previous environments like their C/C++ ancestor. To mention a few:
- An extensive class library: almost everything you need for development is already covered by the standard library in Java or .NET. No need to code your own collections, thread management, queues, string handling and so on. Classes to deal with the most common (and not so common) situations are already there. In .NET, network communication was simplified since version 1 by Remoting, and the same was true in Java with RMI (Remoting was later replaced by WCF, but that's a different story).
- A simple and yet powerful language: C# and Java are the main language for the .NET and Java platforms, despite both allow many other languages to play together.
- An improved ability to deal with libraries: both Java and .NET make dynamic package loading (assemblies in .NET terms) a snap, together with strong versioning and so on, something a little bit harder on previous platforms.
And the first and foremost: they both release developers from freeing memory, the single most important source of errors with C/C++! While it is a good idea or not to shield developers from knowing "what's going on with memory" it's an entire topic itself, but it seems it is much easier to train someone to develop software when memory release concerns are not present.
And "memory magic", one of the cornerstones of Java and .NET (and of course Mono, the open source .NET implementation) is achieved through garbage collectors.
Good garbage collectors will not only free developers from the "freeing burden" (and hence of a good number of memory-leaks, although not all of them) but also will solve the interesting problem of "memory fragmentation" (despite of the overall amount of free memory, there's no contiguous free mem. to allocate a given object), which will most likely only affect "memory intensive" and long running processes, typically server side ones. Only "compacting" collectors (like the .NET's and G1 ones) will be able to solve this situation.
Not being able to explicitly control how memory is freed (you're still in control of how you reserve it by creating objects) has some drawbacks that will most likely show up when you're developing heavy-load server software (although probably remain hidden in other scenarios): your system can consume much more memory than what you designed it to use because it is not being freed at the same pace it would be on a C/C++ application.
So the garbage collector can be seen as a really key piece of the "software engine" making both Java and .NET platforms run. Sometimes the application will need the GC to solve the fragmentation problem, sometimes it will need it to be fast enough so it can run almost at efficiently (memory-wise) as a "native" counterpart, sometimes the "GC strategy" will need to use as much memory as possible to reduce the "collection impact" and improve overall software performance.
GC business opportunities
When you're writing a "hello world" app. the defaults are always ok. But then you move into more "serious" stuff and then you hit against the defaults instead of taking advantage of them.
It's clear that native (C/C++) programming comes at a cost, and nowadays there're still systems that will benefit from non-managed implementations. But many (including myself) think that Java/C# productivity is much better than what you can achieve with ancient language/platform combinations, and one of the issues to solve is make them as memory efficient as possible.
And then is where the GC business enters the scene: I'll be obviously missing some points, but I think long-running, memory-demanding server software will be the one to benefit from specific GCs which can be tuned by the application (or SYSADM) on different scenarios.
G1 introduces some new features not available for the Java framework before and also some tuning. The same is true for .NET: different "profiles" (including a "server" one, which not only stops threads differently but allows the process to eat much more memory hence reducing GCs and improving performance) can be configured to finely tune application performance.
While I'm not sure Microsoft will allow third parties to develop GCs, I see a clear opportunity in the Java world (both IBM and Sun have already released GCs) and more specifically on the Mono framework.
Mono is a very interesting case since it opens up the .NET framework for cross-platform development. While always maturing, it is already mature enough to be used to deploy C# software on Linux, Mac OS X and even Solaris, and I think it will only achieve its full potential when all the available Unix flavors get supported.
That being said, Mono implements a weaker GC than the Java and .NET counterparts. The Mono GC is heavily based on the aging libgc library, first written more than a decade ago. Libgc makes the Mono GC unable to precisely track memory usage under certain circumstances due to design limitations, and also because internal Mono runtime structures are not used for precisely memory tracking by the library.
Hopefully the sgen collector is being developed to replace the older one, featuring interesting abilities like compacting.
Obviously new GC trends will greatly benefit Mono written applications, strongly leveraging the whole platform and positioning together with the .NET and Java counterparts.


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Modular Lighting Instruments. Architectural lighting with attitude.
Positively opinionated. Don't believe in blending in. Always leading the discussion. Modular Lighting Instruments has been making high quality architectural lighting with attitude since 1980.
Architectural lighting is about finding the right balance. Between the aesthetic appeal of a space and the function and quality of the light. In other words, creating architectural beauty but also making sure that it serves our needs.
So that we can function at our best in a specific environment.
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Apart from the architectural space itself, the luminaire choices of the architect or interior designer depend on many other factors. Like the concept or purpose of the space, and the creative mind of the designer. Every designer you ask will come up with a different lighting solution for the same space.
We believe that lighting should be empowering. That's why our light fixtures help designers to create new options and original configurations. The modular lighting idea is that one light fixture isn't just one light fixture. One single product design serves multiple purposes. Breaking set ideas about which lights and where.
What sets Modular Lighting Instruments apart? It's about finding the perfect balance between innovative design, expanding applications, and using the latest technology.
Design in extreme detail.
When we talk about design, we don't just mean the overall product design. We are obsessed by detail. It's the things you might not notice that are most important to us. We never stop thinking about how we can make a product better. Using magnetic plates to hide wires and screws. Anodization for a smoother colour execution on aluminium. Powder finishing for structured colours. It's the small things that make all the difference.
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An architectural pendant light, Tulip is the perfect couple, impossible to miss when walking into a space. Complementary, accessible and playful. Pure and basic shapes. Tulip's long stem gives it an air of elegance and adds grandeur. Its two shapes, Blossom and Bloom, boast a complementary design, and display both cosy mood light and general light.
Our miniature spot is an extremely simple cylinder-shaped light fixture with a lot to show. Endless applications, a variety of rich colours, phenomenal yogic flexibility. A deep-recessed light source for a glare-free light effect. To express a refined and minimalistic look & feel on walls or low ceiling executions, on high ceilings in its suspended variant, or to add on, as a stylish accent on our Pista track system. This little spot will make a big impression.
Shellby for general lighting and Shellby for creating mood. A clash of functions, yet the exceptional coexistence of purpose. Sun or moon? Definitely both. Powerful from above, it indisputably lights and energizes daily activities. Softer and a little to the side, it exudes calm and warmth. Shellby's playful and asymmetrical design, plus a choice of rich colours with new click-in skins, invite you to experiment with aesthetic and light effects to charm the entire room.
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When you look up to see what's giving small, charming light bursts underneath our slim rail, you'll see it: a trail of tiny but powerful LED spots. As they are fully integrated in the profile, nothing sticks out beneath. Available in units of 8x and 16x, in black and white structure, the spots enable designers to create accents using a linear module, and still enjoy Pista's streamlined design. Choose between 2 beam angles, medium or flood, and 1-10V or DALI dimming systems.
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School officials in Baltimore and Baltimore County pledged Thursday to track, for the first time, automated camera citations that are issued to privately owned school buses hired to transport public-school children.
The assurances came after The Baltimore Sun reported that since 2009 cameras have caught hundreds of school buses speeding near the schools they serve, often with children aboard.
Privately owned buses have received at least 800 speed camera tickets in the city, while city-owned buses have amassed more than 50, The Sun found by analyzing citation records. Baltimore County public school buses have gotten more than 100 over the past two years.
While both districts say they monitor the tickets their own employees receive, neither requires private bus companies to report when their drivers get red light or speed camera tickets. That will change as the companies' contracts come up for renewal, officials say.
The city school district pays 16 companies to transport students, including many with special needs or in elementary school, and the district will add the reporting requirement to new agreements scheduled to be signed in the coming months.
"It's very hard to do the quality assurance if you don't have the information," said Michael Sarbanes, executive director of the district's Office of Engagement. Sarbanes noted that the contracts were last drawn up six years ago, before speed cameras were legalized across Maryland.
Baltimore County schools rely mostly on government-employed drivers, and privately owned buses have received only a handful of speed camera tickets in the county, records show. Still, spokesman Charles Herndon said the county will take "a very close look" at modifying its school bus contracts as they're renewed.
"It's a matter of making sure we're made aware when a contract driver receives any kind of violation," he said. "We absolutely would want to know that."
The $40 speed camera tickets are issued only to vehicles recorded driving at least 12 mph over the speed limit, whether in school zones or highway work zones. More than two dozen school buses were clocked 20 mph or more over the limit in the city, including one that hit 74 mph in February on West Cold Spring Lane near the Poly-Western high school campus.
Robert L. Edwards, president of the Maryland School Bus Contractors Association, said he was "dismayed" by The Sun's findings.
The association has no city members but does represent many school bus companies that contract with local school boards around Maryland. And its members are committed to student safety, said Edwards, who lives in Forest Hill and owns JDT Transportation, Inc.
"The drivers we employ are certainly not perfect," he said in a statement. "They are human and, as such, sometimes make mistakes. But we in no way take these mistakes lightly. Our track record of safety is unparalleled and we have careful measures in place to police and improve upon the way we carry out our very important job."
Edwards said new technology will only enhance safety: "We welcome such advancements — ranging from on-board video/audio systems to red light and speed cameras — and the increased oversight and additional supervision they provide," he said.
The volume of tickets in the city has alarmed City Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke, who said she worried that there will be school bus accidents "if these habits are not turned around."
City school officials also explained Thursday the reason they have an incomplete record of speed camera tickets issued to school system employees driving city-owned vehicles.
The issue came to light when the school system said it was aware of just 15 citations issued to a Jeep Liberty registered to the city schools' police program, even though The Sun documented 28 speed camera tickets in the city and Baltimore County.
The district got its figure from a public database of parking citations maintained by the city's OpenBaltimore website, according to Sarbanes. But the site does not include citations that are more than a year old or have been paid. Also, OpenBaltimore does not have data on the Jeep's seven tickets from the county.
Asked why the district does not keep current citation files for its own vehicles, Sarbanes said: "We're taking a look at that in terms of how to keep track of it."
Sarbanes emphasized that school buses are a safe way to transport schoolchildren. Buses contracted or owned by the district made more than 800 trips a day last year, logging some 23,000 miles each day.
According to the county school district, its buses log 1,933 trips a day, covering 80,294 miles.


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The Faculty of Arts and Humanities works collaboratively under the leadership of Professor Sarah Barrow, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Arts and Humanities, to develop its academic mission and provide support for staff and students.
With an excellent reputation for creative and innovative research, our Graduate School brings together both students and staff, who have a wide-range of research interests. The Faculty hosts a well-renowned biannual Literary Festival and also organises well attended music events throughout the year.


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I don't know about you. But I think it will be nice to see 2012 pop up in the rear view window.
Few events in the last 12 months will make Savannah's all-time highlight reels.
While there were a few positive moments - October's decision by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to approve Savannah's $652 million harbor deepening project and the election of a new Chatham County district attorney, Meg Heap, in November - the year as a whole was a painful mess.
Disagree? Then let's hit the rewind button, sit back and recall some of the agony.
Rochelle has left the building
When Savannah City Manager Rochelle Small-Toney delivered her resignation to Savannah Mayor Edna Jackson and City Council in early October, it ended an ugly spiral of events that was tearing apart city government and affecting the council's ability to govern. That was the good part.
The bad parts, which consumed most of the year, were many - submitting questionable travel expenses, hiring a crony who lied on his resume, wrecking the city's purchasing department and contributing to a plunge in morale among many of the city's 2,500 employees. Much like a mother schooling a wayward child, the mayor tried to coach and rehabilitate Small-Toney. But the time and energy was largely wasted. Also squandered were many of the 18 months that Small-Toney had this job.
The lowest point occurred when a few rabble-rousers appeared in council chambers in a last-ditch effort to shame Jackson into keeping Small-Toney on the public payroll at $194,000 annually. Fortunately, they failed. Unfortunately, the public had to endure the spectacle of Jackson, who marched for civil rights here in the '60s, being lectured by another black woman about how tough it was to be a black woman.
Small-Toney jumped out of City Hall with a $97,193 golden parachute - the equivalent of six months of pay. Pretty good work if you can get it.
Cry me a river
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources is charged with protecting the state's rivers and streams. Yet in 2012, the DNR opened the floodgates to help a chronic polluter, King America Finishing, continue to dump effluent from its textile plant into the Ogeechee River just upriver from Savannah.
In August, the state issued a pollution permit to the Chicago-based company, despite the fact that the company had been caught violating regulations for five years. The plant also was implicated in the death of more than 33,000 fish around Labor Day weekend 2011, the largest fish kill in Georgia's history. In October, the DNR withdrew the permit it issued only two months earlier, but not because of a change of heart. Instead, it was an administrative move apparently designed to grease the skids later, as the state fends off legal challenges to the permit and to a ridiculously low $1 million penalty, which King no doubt happily agreed to pay the state as a part of a consent agreement reached behind closed doors in Atlanta. Gov. Nathan Deal, meanwhile, has reportedly gone fishing. But not in the Ogeechee.
Bridge to nowhere
How do you build a $22.5 million bridge that can't be used? Simple.
Just contact the Georgia Department of Transportation and its general contractor on the Skidaway Island bridge project, United Contractors, and ask for the blueprints.
Georgia DOT Commissioner Keith Golden, a career employee with the DOT, is locked in a fierce struggle with its hired help when it was discovered some girders that were put into place didn't meet design standards. That was back in August. Work on the bridge, which will serve thousands of vehicles daily, has since ground to a standstill.
Golden is fining the contractor $1,000 per day until the matter is resolved - a pathetically low amount that hasn't forced an agreement. Meanwhile, some motorists feel they will be stuck with a new bridge fixed with the equivalent of duct tape and bailing wire. Where were the inspectors when this project was progressing from the design phase through the construction phase? Perhaps out fishing somewhere with Gov. Deal or Golden.
Lost with LOST
Every 10 years, elected officials who represent Savannah and Chatham County's smaller municipalities meet with county commissioners to carve up a huge revenue pie - the extra 1 percent in Local Option Sales Tax revenue collected here. That's in addition to the local sales tax collected for public schools and for special projects like the new jail. The amount is huge - $600 million over the next decade.
Elected officials began talking, sort of, in the summer. Now, they're headed to court. There, it will be up to a judge to decide who gets what, a decision that will effect future delivery of public services and property taxes.
All the mayors and Commission Chairman-elect Al Scott could still strike a deal at the 11th hour. But those holding their breath are best advised to make funeral arrangements. Taxpayers should hold on to their wallets.
Fallen star
No one is irreplaceable. Even Otis Brock III. Yet there's no question that the untimely death of the 41-year-old operations chief for Savannah-Chatham's public schools in April was a tough blow for the school system. Brock was at the center of the district's building and renovation boom. Superintendent Thomas Lockamy was grooming the well-liked Savannah native as a potential successor. Losing anyone of natural causes at this age is sad. But when you lose a rising star in an area that's as critical as public education, it's a tragedy.
Unhappy landings
The Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport is a gem when it comes to its facilities. But when it comes to low-cost carriers, it's a dog.
For the umpteenth time, Savannah continued to be passed over by Jet Blue and Southwest, forcing travelers seeking cheap seats in this area to drive two hours south on I-95 to the Jacksonville airport. Maybe Delta will be ready - to lower its fares.
Accentuating the negative
In the end, it appeared that only two people, County Engineer Al Bungard and County Manager Russ Abolt, wanted to widen Johnny Mercer Boulevard through the heart of Wilmington Island. County Commission Chairman Pete Liakakis didn't want it. Neither did Commissioner Pat Farrell, whose district includes the island. So why did county officials invest $332,000 in studies and other preliminary work on something most islanders apparently didn't want? Perhaps there's an answer in Mercer's song lyrics to "Fools Rush In."
Crime and punishment
It's the usual tragic body count, made worse this year by the murders of two innocent people, 30-year-old Michael Biancosino and 21-year-old Emily Pickels, on Sept. 1. Biancosino was taking Pickels to her residence when they were killed, possibly in a case of mistaken identity.
Tybee trashed
Georgia's most popular beach became its biggest seaside trash pile in April, thanks to cretins who attended the annual Orange Crush and refused to clean up after themselves. Too bad "Jaws" wasn't about a land shark.
Animal house
Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black flagged the county's new, $2.5 million Animal Control shelter for several violations. Then its veterinarian quit. Complicating matters was politics - Diane Abolt, the wife of the county manager, runs an animal welfare group that uses the shelter. That caused some officials to roll over and play dead.
Check, please
Working people cut back when money gets tight. Not county commissioners. Just days before Christmas, they voted themselves a whopping 44 percent pay raise.
Vaya con Dios, 2012. And don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Tom Barton is the editorial page editor of the Savannah Morning News. firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Last week: 8-5-1. Season totals: 88-68-4, Pct. .563. Best Bets: 15-18, Pct. .455.
Home team in capital letters; point spreads (opening line) in parentheses after underdog team; selections with point spreads in bold.
Houston 34, DETROIT 21 (+3 1/2) - The Texans survived their scare last week, and favorites are 10-1-1 against the spread in Thanksgiving Day afternoon games over the past six years. As for the Lions, their saga this year is a perfect example of what can happen when a team neglects to fill glaring needs during an off-season (in their case, running back and the secondary), choosing instead to focus on the "best players available."
DALLAS 24, Washington 17 (+4) - Pretty hard to go against Tony Romo at home in November when he's 14-0 straight up lifetime therein (even if he is "only" 9-5 against the spread), with an average victory margin of just under 15 points (406-197). But the Redskins have covered four in a row against Dallas, and five straight in Dallas, which does take this game out best bet consideration.
New England 31, N.Y. JETS 20 (+7) - It is rather interesting that every time the Tim Tebow talk gets serious, Mark Sanchez responds with a stellar game, as he did last week in leading the Jets to their first road victory over the Rams in 42 years. But it turns out that Aaron Hernandez will be returning just in time given Rob Gronkowski's controversial injury and the Pats may have underestimated the Jets a bit in the first meeting.
Tennessee 30, JACKSONVILLE 13 (+3) - No way Chad Henne lights it up two weeks in a row (Blaine Gabbert was placed on injured reserve Wednesday - what kind of message does that send?) and the home team is 0-10 against the spread in Jaguars games this year!
Atlanta 28, TAMPA BAY 24 (P) - Co-league-leading strength-of-schedule drop or not, the Bucs are one of the genuine stories in the NFL this year. But should they be pick 'em at home against the once-beaten Falcons? I think not - and since there are no points involved, Atlanta's current 6-1 straight-up run against Tampa Bay becomes all the more relevant.
MIAMI 20 (+1), Seattle 14 - The Seahawks have beaten only 2-8 Carolina on the road this year and have the worst record in the entire league coming off a bye both straight up (6-17) and against the spread (4-17-2). Ryan Tannehill outduels Russell Wilson for the mild upset.
Pittsburgh 9, CLEVELAND 6 (+1) - This line is available on a very limited basis because of the injuries to the Steelers at both quarterback and wide receiver (the latter prompting them to bring Plaxico Burress back). But it is Cleveland, who Pittsburgh has beaten an astounding 16 of the last 17 - and how are the Browns going to cover if they don't win outright?
CINCINNATI 34, Oakland 10 (+7) - The coaching and front-office changes the Raiders made are really working out, I must say! And Oakland hasn't covered in the City of Satan since 1991 (0-4) and is 4-14 against the line since 2002 as a visitor on the carpet. Looks like a third straight Bengal blowout.
INDIANAPOLIS 21, Buffalo 14 (+3) - One has to wonder if last week's wholesale destruction at the hands of the Patriots may shatter the confidence of a young team like the Colts, but the Bills have lost four in a row at Indy and are 7-13 against the spread indoors dating back to 1999, and this line should be closer to a touchdown than a mere field goal.
CHICAGO 28, Minnesota 7 (+2 1/2) - When a domed-stadium team has to play outdoors, on natural grass, and in cold weather, all in the same game, it is known as a "Triple Witching Hour" - and since relocating indoors in 1982 the Vikings are 11-32 outright and 15-25-3 pointwise in Triple Witching Hour games. The Bears have also won and covered the last five meetings overall, and four in a row over Minnesota at home. Assuming Jay Cutler plays, the Bears are the best bet of the week.
Denver 34, KANSAS CITY 14 (+10) - Double-digit road favorites are always somewhat tricky - but like New England (and not Atlanta or Houston?), the Broncos seem to be peaking at the right time, and we're just not seeing an honest effort out of the Chiefs - and unfortunately for Jamaal Charles, he will not have the final say in whether Romeo Crennel stays or goes.
SAN DIEGO 30 (+1), Baltimore 24 - The Steeler sandwich figures to doom the Ravens here (they host Pittsburgh next week after winning there last Sunday night), while the Steeler injuries give the Chargers real chances of snagging an AFC wild-card berth despite their 4-6 record (especially since a win at Pittsburgh in Week 14 would give them the tie-breaker advantage).
NEW ORLEANS 27 (+2 1/2), San Francisco 23 - Let's see how Colin Kaepernick does in a noisy, hostile dome - and like Tony Romo, Drew Brees is also on a 14-0 run in November, regardless of where played in his case, and is 10-0-1 against the spread in the last 11, the push coming on Thanksgiving two years ago at Dallas (Romo was out with a season-ending broken collarbone as the Saints won by three, giving three), and the 49ers have also dropped their last four at the Superdome.
ARIZONA 17, St. Louis 14 (+1) - Their tie at Candlestick two weeks ago nonetheless left the Rams as one of two NFL teams who have yet to win on the road this year (Cleveland is the other), and the Cardinals could conceivably get Kevin Kolb back here after third-stringer Ryan Lindley just barely missed directing them to what would have been a major upset last week in Atlanta. Finally, St. Louis has not recorded back-to-back wins in the series since winning the second meeting in 2003 and then the first meeting in '04 (having won the first one this season, back in Week 5).
Green Bay 35 (+1), N.Y. GIANTS 31 - Not only a huge revenge game for the Packers, but they can go a long way toward seeing to it that they won't have to face the Giants in the playoffs again this season, as the latter's loss in Philadelphia (where Dallas won) has very real potential tie-breaker implications. Green Bay has won four straight on the road over the Giants, who are 8-15 straight up off the bye, albeit having won their last four.
Carolina 20 (+2 1/2), PHILADELPHIA 7 - Anyone who would actually give points on the Eagles right now has some serious money-management issues - but the Panthers are coming off blowing an 11-point lead with four minutes left at home and have never won a regular-season game in Philly, taking an 0-for-3 collar both ways. And who says that Monday night as well as Sunday night games can't be subject to the NFL's late-season flexible scheduling rules?
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week, at Iconium not more than some months ; and that they removed not far from the main roads, we can hardly allow more than two years for this journey.
Considering all this, it is evident that we must reckon those fourteen years from Paul's conversion, and not from his visit to Jerusalem. If Paul's conversion occurred, as we have proved above, in A. D. 38 or 39, then the Council of Jerusalem is to be placed in A. D. 52 or 53. In this year, therefore, Peter had not gone to Rome. All that is maintained of this journey to Rome, is not above a mere story or fiction, at the bottom of which there lies nothing solid.
$11. Peter at Antioch. After the Council at Jerusalem (A. D. 53), Paul and Bar. nabas went back to Antioch (Acts 15:35, 36) — " Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also. And some days after, Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brethren, in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they do." During this abode of Paul at Antioch, Peter also came there, as is shown Gal. 2: 11. This journey occurred after the council, as is clear from the subsequent context of the second chapter. As
1 This appears to me made out, and I will here briefly give the proof. Paul says (Gal. 2: 1, etc.), that he made this his journey to Jerusalem to the Council with Titus; he had brought him with him from Asia Minor after he had converted him from heathenism. Therefore Paul went to Jerusalem after his first return from Asia Minor. Verse 3rd, etc., he states that Titus was not compelled to be circumcised, but that he had to withstand false heathen who came in to spy out their liberty in Christ. In verse 2nd he had stated, that he came to Jerusalem in order to communicate the Gospel privately to them who were of reputation which he had preached to the Gentiles. With these men of reputation. among whom he names James, Peter, and John, he came to an understanding, and was acknowledged by them as an Apostle to the Gentiles. Verses 10 and 11, * Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do. But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed." We see this coniing of Peter to Antioch took place first after the Council. I cannot, therefore, agree with our excellent Hug, who places it before this Council, indeed, immediately after Peter's imprisonment. At that time, when Paul had not approved himself an Apostle of the Gentiles, he would scarcely have ventured on so bold a resistance against Peter.
now Peter went not directly to Antioch with Paul, but followed him there later, so it appears that his abode there was protracted till A. D. 54.
As after this time Luke no further mentions Peter's abode, either in Palestine or in Jerusalem, although in Acts 21: 17, 18, there was a pressing occasion for it in case Peter had stayed there; so we conclude that he travelled from Antioch to the East, to preach the gospel to the Jews of the dispersion. That, moreover, he did not then go to Rome, we will now prove.
§ 12. Peter, after his journey from Antioch. If we assume, what we have proved, that Peter in A. D. 53 or 54 had not come out of Palestine and Syria, then the opinion that he went to Rome immediately after, at once falls away to nothing. Pagi and Stolberg (Religionsgeschichte-History of Religions, vol. vi.), influenced by the reasons which the Holy Scriptures present, and which we have explained above, regard Peter's departure from Syria and Palestine as following first after the Council, and agreeable to Lactantius, make him come to Rome in the beginning of the reign of Nero, and therefore in A. D. 55, and accordingly assume that he journeyed there directly from Antioch.
But this cannot be absolutely assumed. Peter could not pass by the Jews of the dispersion. And, though we will not here adduce his Epistle written from Babylon, in proof of his abode in Chaldea and Mesopotamia, yet its address " to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia," proves that Peter preached the gospel in these extended countries, and founded and set in order churches there. That for this, labor was required, not a few months merely, but a succession of years, we may conclude from the fact that Paul, on his second tour, which embraced only certain strips of South-western and Middle Asia Minor, and some points of Greece, yet spent five years. Pagi and Stolberg assume that Peter founded
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the churches in such extensive tracts of country while pass. ing along; a supposition which is irrational. It must hence follow, that Peter had not come to Rome in the beginning of the reign of Nero, that is in A. D. 51 and 55. We will now prove that he had not yet come there up to A. D. 63.
§ 13. Proof from Paul's Epistle to the Romans. The Epistle to the Romans, according to the agreement of all the learned, was written A. D. 58. As a proof that when Paul wrote this Epistle, Peter was not bishop of Rome, and was not staying there, we first produce the fact that Paul not only gives no salutation to Peter, which must have necessarily been the case, had Peter already been bishop of that city and ruler of the whole church ever since A. D. 42 or 54 ; but also that only those men are mentioned who were not from Peter's school. Mark, Peter's favorite and constant companion, is not once named. In fact, we must assume either that Paul had no knowledge of Peter's abode in Rome and his bishopric there, or that the omission of a salutation to him supposes a gross want of respect, which was unworthy of Paul.
But, say Baronius, Natalis Alexander, Rothensen, and others, the omission of the salutation to Peter, Mark, etc., proves nothing: Paul might have known that Peter, exactly then, was absent from Rome on an apostolical mission. For, in the Epistle to the Ephesians, he does not salute Timothy, nor in the Epistle to the Hebrews, James, though the former was undoubtedly at Ephesus, and the latter in Jerusalem.
Both these resorts are good for nothing. For whence do we know that Paul was aware of Peter's absence ? How can any one have recourse to an hypothesis for which there is not the semblance of a reason to be discovered? As to what relates to the second resort, namely, the salutations to Timothy and James, omitted in the two Epistles named, the case is wholly different. For, in the first place, in his Epistle to the Hebrews Paul salutes no one as he does
in the Epistle to the Romans, but them that have the rule over you and all the saints," in general; the Epistle to the Ephesians absolutely bears no salutation. The Epistle to the Hebrews was not written to the church of Jerusalem where James was, but to all the Jewish Christians in general, and consequently a salutation to James as an individual, would have been very strange. But that Paul, in the Epistle to the Ephesians, did not salute Timothy, lies simply in the fact that Timothy was not at Ephesus, but was with Paul at Rome. This is proved thus : the Epistle to the Ephesians was written by Paul in his imprisonment at Rome (which lasted from a. D. 61 to 63), as is evident from 3: 1. 4: 1. 6: 20; and Natalis Alexander, p. 45, also admits it. At the same time, Paul wrote from Rome his Epistle to the Philippians (Phil. 4: 22) and the Colossians (Col. 4: 10, etc., compare with Acts 27: 2), as is likewise said in both of them clearly enough; and this Natalis admits, in the place cited. But now both of these Epistles begin : Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ at Philippi (and Colosse). Therefore Timothy was, at that time, at Rome with Paul when he wrote this Epistle to the Ephesians. Timothy also, in A. D. 65 or 66, when Paul wrote his second epistle to him from Rome, was not in Ephesus, as is expressly said, 4: 12.
What now shall we say of those men who make such objections, namely Natalis Alexander, who, to judge from what he writes p. 45, well knew that Timothy was not at Ephesus when Paul wrote thither. Here also it is plain that these men, when they are aiming to reach their party objects, rejeet on one side what they have written on the other.
And now, once more. Paul praises the Romans very much on account of their faith, which is spoken of throughout the whole world; he commends the laborers in the Romish vineyard of the Lord ; and would he have forgotten to mention him from whom they had received the treasure of their faith, namely Peter? Would he have named the laborers, but be silent as to him who was their head?
$ 14. Proof from the Acts of the Apostles. In A. D. 58, therefore, Peter was not yet in Rome. Let us now see whether he was there in the following years, up to A. D. 63. It is well known that Paul, when he had appealed to Cæsar, was carried to Rome. This happened, according to the universal opinion, in A. D. 60; and from A. D. 61 to 63 he remained in the capital of the world, two whole years. Luke describes his journey there Acts 27: 28, and in 28: 30 he relates that abode. Now there are in his narration several points of importance, from which it is evident that Peter was not, at this time, in Rome.
1. Though Luke reports at length Paul's arrival at Rome, and mentions his abode there, yet he says not a word of Peter. He relates (Acts 27: 15) how the Roman church went out to meet him at Appii Forum and the Three Taverns ; not a word of Peter.
2. Luke further mentions (Acts 28: 17, etc.), that Paul, three days after his arrival at Rome, caused the chief of the Jews to be called to him. When they came to him, it is evident that they were still unacquainted with Christianity, because that it had not yet been especially preached to them. For they said, verse 22: "But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest ; for as concerning this sect, we know that it is everywhere spoken against." 23. "And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him to his lodging, to whom he expounded and testified of the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses and out of the prophets, from morning till evening. 24. And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not."
We see, that the gospel had not yet been particularly preached to the Jews at Rome. The church at Rome had hitherto not attempted their conversion; we shall see, further on, that it was yet very small in A. D. 58.
If Peter was at this time (and indeed, as 'is maintained, had been for many years) at Rome, how could he to whom was specially committed the gospel to the Jews, have given


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A New Day (And Year) Has Come
Memorial Day
Okay, so these were taken the day before Memorial day, but the sun and wind were cooperating!
Several random and not-so-random things have happened in the new year. Beth and I finally watched the Ken Burns' series The War, which I'd captured and preserved on DVD when it was broadcast on PBS since I knew we'd never be able to watch the entire series when it was on TV.
For a fifteen-hour documentary, it's remarkably well done and definitely worth the time commitment. I'm just glad I could watch it in a seven-day sequence (we did one episode per night for the duration), rather than the way PBS did it over several weeks. Keeps things more fresh. The footage, while obviously repeated at times during the fifteen hours, was quite vivid and the stories were quite intriguing. The one story that sticks in my mind is the story of a fellow from Connecticut. He tells a story of capturing a German soldier. That's not terribly unusual, but this German soldier knew geographic features of his hometown that most people in the US (or even his home state) wouldn't have known. Very creepy.
And who could forget the very notable and historic moments last week Tuesday (20 January), when the 44th President of the United States took the oath of office.
I watched what I could of the action while at work. That is, until the stream started breaking up. It meant that I caught the oath of office and the first few minutes of the speech, but I missed most of the rest. Ah well, the Internet's not perfect.
But there's YouTube to fix that issue. I didn't finally watch the rest of the speech until this weekend, but I made sure that I checked it out. I would hope that regardless of political affiliation, one could look at this change in administration as a Good Thing. A breath of fresh air after the previous eight years of what I will (for lack of more eloquent terms) refer to as a dictatorial style. I don't often write about political things (it's just not my nature), but what bothered me most about the previous administration was the blatant attitude of 'I'm going to do whatever I want...' regardless of the situation at hand. I don't think things could be much worse...
And speaking of the inauguration doings. I was reading some of the text of Obama's speech on a random webpage, when I noticed an ad that states the following:
Would you feel safe with Obama as President? [yes/no]
I think the ad's a little behind the curve...
In more local news, this weekend I finally fixed the bathtub/shower diverter valve/spout. Most of the water now goes up to the shower head rather than right out the spout. Matt is happy for multiple reasons. One being that it's not wasting water, the other being that the damn diverter spout isn't sitting on my desk anymore. :) Especially since I've had the part for six months or better.
I also started working half-time on the UMM website redesign project after the first of the year. It's a temporary gig during the design and implementation process, but cool to be working with a team on a neat project with some significant visibility. So that's been keeping me plenty busy.
Other than that, we survived the bitter cold of a few weeks ago, although it's been pretty cold the last few days again. It's always fun when the high temperature for the day is in the teens below zero (F). Makes all sorts of things do strange things. Bitter cold is just that. Bitter.
But we've also had a fair amount of snow this winter. We've got about eighteen inches sitting over most of the yard this winter. More where it's drifted in (it's all of waist deep in several spots). Somehow, that makes the bitter cold more palatable. At least it does for me.
It's also nice to be able to visibly see that the insulation work I did this fall is working quite well. We've not had near the melting on the roof that we've had in previous years, which means less ice and other crazy things that are horribly rough on rooftops. It also means that at least for a little while longer, the heat is staying inside...where it belongs. :)
But that's been an interesting thing as well. Our last fuel oil delivery was at $1.88/gallon. That's nearly half what I paid (per gallon) for fuel oil last winter. It's been crazy. I'm mixed about it, really. Don't get me wrong -- I like the fact it's not costing me as much as it might otherwise, but I know it's but a temporary thing and the price will eventually climb again. But seeing as how I didn't pay anything less than $2.60 a gallon in all of last season (and I've not paid more than $2.50/gallon this season), I'll take it for what it's worth.
So that's pretty much what I know for now. And seeing as it's getting on to 10PM, it's time for me to call it quits for tonight.
So until next time...
We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year. Our capacity remains undiminished. But our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions — that time has surely passed. Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.
America, in the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.
- President Barack Obama, excerpts from his inaugural address January 20, 2009