text: On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, David Mathog wrote: > "Peter St. John" <peter.st.john at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 4. Physicist who builds his own damn Supercomputer agonizes for days over >> the emergency shut off switch wiring, because he can, he teaches >> electricity; but he could just walk one hundred yards down Science > Drive and >> get an EE grad student to do it for him. > > The problem with the Emergency Stop switch is not designing or > building the electrical wiring to implement it, it's interpreting > the electrical code to determine if one is required. Parts of the > code were apparently written by a Zen master so that the answer to > what seems like a straighforward question "do we need an > Emergency Stop switch?" depends on the answer to "is this room full > of machines a machine room"? The latter is apparently an > electrical code koan, as only the enlightened can divine the answer. > And maybe not even then - there seems to be room for considerable debate > on the issue. Indeed, the answer may depend not so much on what > the room holds, but rather on how it was wired, as certain sections > of the code may be "relaxed" in machine room construction. The Zen cluster geek asks, ``What are the parallel computations done by a one-node cluster'' and spends the next twelve years (four three year federal grant cycles) seeking an answer. While doing so he completely forgets to shower or do laundry, let alone worry about kill switches. In year eleven he is Enlightened, unplugs his cluster and goes to live under an overpass on I95 southbound, occasionally using a solar-powered scientic calculator to compute the roots of a Riemann Zeta function to ten significant digits. I personally think it is more voodoo than Zen. If the room has witnessed the sacrifice of at least one chicken per rack and has a voodoo doll of Bill Gates hanging upside down from the network wiring tray, and a Loa has been invoked to protect the server's power supply, then it is a machine room. Otherwise it's just a broom closet with a lot of computers in it. > Suffice it to say that a definitive "required" or "not required" > has not yet been obtained from the folks in charge of the room's > construction. Ah, but we should never forget that the >>definitive<< requirement will only be known >>after<< resolving the lawsuit filed by the survivors of the dead firemen >>or<< after the inspector man (if any) ever declaims "you must have a kill switch" whichever comes first. So the question is: Do you feel lucky? Well, punk, do ya? rgb > > Regards, > > David Mathog > mathog at caltech.edu > Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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Penn State program teaches how to cook like a chef at home
Penn State program teaches how to cook like a chef at home
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Have you ever wanted to learn how to cook delicious dishes just like a professional chef? The College of Health and Human Development and the Department of Nutritional Sciences are pleased to offer Home Chef: The Basics with chef Kristi Branstetter. This hands-on program in Room 7 of the Henderson Building will inspire you to cook like a chef at home. Choose between Saturday, Sept. 28, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. or Friday, Oct. 18, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Participants will learn the basic techniques of searing, roasting and braising, as well as an introduction to creating their own sauces.
"These interactive, hands-on classes are the best way for people to learn professional techniques and what it really means when a recipe says to sauté or braise," said Branstetter.
Participants will work with fresh ingredients to create a multi-course meal using classic French culinary techniques. In the Saturday class, the group will then sit down and enjoy the delicacies while discussing the meal and the cooking experience. Those in the Friday evening class will prepare and taste throughout the evening.
Preregistration is required. The program fee for either course is $65 and includes instruction, a multi-course gourmet dinner prepared by the participants, and a take-home manual with recipes and helpful tips.
For more information, visit http://hhd.psu.edu/Home-Chef or call 814-865-8898.

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The Cowboys said on Sunday that they were "not concerned" about the health of defensive tackle Jay Ratliff after he injured his hamstring as training camp got underway.
They might not have any deep fears, but they sent Ratliff for an MRI anyway. David Moore of the Dallas Morning News reports that the MRI showed a "mild" hamstring strain for Ratliff. Moore adds that there is no timetable for his return at this point.
Even though the Cowboys are installing a new defensive scheme this season, there's no reason for the Cowboys to be anything but patient with Ratliff's recovery. He's been around long enough that they should have confidence about his ability to pick up the mental side of things while he's rehabbing and there's plenty of time for him to get to game speed if he makes a relatively swift recovery.
The bigger issue for the Cowboys might be that Ratliff's starting off this year the way he spent all of 2012. Ratliff missed 10 games last season because of a variety of injuries and he wouldn't be the first veteran defensive lineman — Ratliff turns 32 in August — to see his body betray him at this point in his career. If that's the case, a defensive line already thinned by the Achilles injury suffered by defensive end Tyrone Crawford would be severely stretched.
Last year taught the Cowboys a harsh lesson about how well that turns out, so it would be best for everyone in Dallas if Ratliff gives them no reason to rethink their unconcerned response to his injury.


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
Having vanquished their rivals in Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement, Gaza-based Hamas gunmen are now turning their attention to the area's small Christian communities and other non-Muslim influences.
As Hamas completed its conquest of Gaza last Thursday, a spokesman for the group appeared on Palestinian television and announced the "end of secularism and heresy in the Gaza Strip."
Shortly after, a group of militants stormed the Latin Church and the adjacent Rosary Sisters School in Gaza City, reportedly using rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) to blow through the doors.
After gaining entrance, the rampaging jihadists burned every Bible and destroyed every cross they could get their hands on before setting both buildings alight, according to sources who spoke to Israel Today.
Beyond the local representations of Christianity, the purging Islamic forces are also targeting statues.
In a scene reminiscent of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, a Hamas-affiliated group of militants on Sunday uprooted a cement statue from a public square in Gaza City because they said it violated Islamic laws forbidding the erection of statues, which are worshipped by pagans another non-believers.
Some fear that elements within Hamas may go so far as imposing a dress code on women in Gaza.
Earlier this month, a smaller local Islamic group believed to have ties to Al Qaeda publicly threatened to kill female Palestinian television news anchors for dressing immodestly while on the job.
The same group is said to have been behind some 50 bomb attacks on Gaza Internet cafes, record stores, satellite dish vendors and Christian bookstores over the past year.
With Hamas now fully in control of Gaza, many fear the worst is yet to come.
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Torquay have re-signed striker Elliot Benyon on a one-month loan deal from Southend.
The 25-year-old, who scored 46 goals for the Gulls between 2007 and 2011, joined up with his team-mates on Monday and will be available for the clash with Rotherham at Plainmoor on Tuesday night.
The two clubs have also agreed an option to extend the loan deal for the forward, who left Torquay for Swindon two years ago, until the end of the season.
Benyon found his chances restricted at the County Ground and after a brief spell with Wycombe he made the permanent move to Southend 13 months ago.
But he made just 12 starts for Paul Sturrock's men before a return to Devon.


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Recently, President Barack Obama visited 1776, an incubator for technology startup companies to talk about some of the important strides the U.S. economy has made over the last 52 months. He also stressed the need for more growth and progress and urged Congress to put politics aside and work on fixing the Highway Trust Fund so that it can continue to fund critical infrastructure projects – projects that put many professionals back to work. The President goes on to state, "investing in rebuilding our infrastructure -- that doesn't just put construction workers back to work, that puts engineers back to work, that puts landscape architects back to work, it puts folks who are manufacturing concrete or steel back to work."
ASLA is enthused that President Obama acknowledged landscape architects and their work on transportation infrastructure. Throughout the years, ASLA has worked to educate all policy makers about the critical role landscape architects play in the development and implementation of multimodal transportation projects, including transit-oriented development, walking and bicycle paths and trails, public transit stations, streetscapes, and more. As a result of these efforts, many members of Congress and locally elected officials now view landscape architects as critical leaders in planning and design, and promote policies that benefit the profession.
Currently, ASLA government affairs is working with Congress on passing a reauthorization of our nation's surface transportation law - MAP-21. ASLA is advocating for the measure to continue programs and policies that spur active transportation projects that landscape architects design and plan. Passing and funding a multimodal surface transportation law, will not only benefit landscape architects and other infrastructure professionals, it will also help thousands of communities achieve their transportation and livability goals.
Visit ASLA's Transportation Planning and Design advocacy page, for more information. You can also view the full interview and read the transcript of The President's Remarks on the Economy, 1776, Washington, DC.
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Marc discovered photography at his school photo club. This most probably influenced his perception of images as although he did not head towards the profession of photographer, he studied at the School in Gobelins, Paris. He embellishes, transforms and distorts reality, sometimes creating a new one from it. As if things were not complicated enough, he also diffuses unretouched images which lead us to believe that they are...


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|Oracle® Enterprise Manager Concepts
10g Release 1 (10.1)
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An Oracle Enterprise Manager administrator account can be created for daily administration work.
Optional software used to secure the communication line between the Oracle Management Service and the Oracle Management Repository. When Enterprise Manager is installed "out-of-box," the communications between the Oracle Management Service and Oracle Management Repository are not secure.
See Oracle Management Agent .
An optional network-object server invoked by the network software. The AIJSERVER receives after-image journal records from the master database and forwards them across the network to the LRS process on the standby database.
Indicator signifying a particular metric condition has been encountered. An alert is triggered when one of the following conditions is true:
A metric threshold is reached.
The availability of a monitored service changes. For example, the availability of the host changes from up to down.
A metric-specific condition occurs. For example, an alert is triggered whenever an error message is written to a database alert log file.
The percentage or amount of scheduled time that a computing system provides application service.
Software installed when you install an Oracle Management Agent. The Beacon software can be enabled to monitor the availability and performance of network components (a host computer or an IP traffic controller) from more than one location, or Web pages and Web applications from multiple network locations.
Allow Enterprise Manager administrators to suspend any data collection activity on one or more monitored targets. This allows administrators to perform scheduled maintenance on targets and excluding these special-case situations from the data analysis in order to get a more accurate, long-term picture of a target's performance.
See Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control, Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Application Server Control, and Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Database Control.
Includes these categories of configuration information:
Database and instance properties
Initialization parameters
System Global Area parameters
Tablespaces information
Datafiles information
Control files information
Redo logs information
Rollback segments information
License information
Database options information
A group consisting only of database targets where multiple instances – for example, all production databases – can be collected into a group and efficiently monitored on a single screen. Database groups enable you to quickly identify databases that are down, most bottle necked or have the most severe alert status.
Configuration information stored in the Management Repository for the set of hosts and targets that comprise your enterprise.
Ability to reconfigure a computing system to utilize an alternate active component when a similar component fails.
Ability of a computing system to withstand faults and errors while continuing to provide the required services.
Can include targets of the same type (for example, all your production databases) or include targets of different types (for example, all targets comprising your business's application). A benefit of the Group target type is the Summary Metric, which is only available for this type of group.
See target home page.
Includes these categories of configuration information:
Hardware (including memory, CPU, I/O device, and network interface information) for the host.
Operating system (including installed patches) for the host.
Other installed software registered with the operating system on the host. For example, this could include information about Veritas data storage management software installed on the host.
Installed Oracle software on the host, including (but not limited to) installed products and their components, patch sets, and interim patches applied using OPatch.
A group consisting only of host targets where you can view the general overview of the state of the hosts that make up the group.
A second running computing system that is ready to pick up application processing in the event that the primary computing system fails. That is, the secondary system takes over the processing at the point where the original computing system stopped and the secondary system continues the processing.
An abbreviation for Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition. J2EE is an environment for developing and deploying enterprise applications.
The LCS process is a database server that synchronizes the master and standby databases. The LCS process synchronizes the database by automatically sending any after-image journal records (received since the last checkpoint interval) to the LRS process on the standby database. As soon as the databases are in sync, the ALS process on the master database is converted to a log ship server (LSS) process, and the LCS process terminates.
See Oracle Management Agent .
Unit of measurement used to report the health of the system.
See fault tolerance.
Oracle Enterprise Manager is the Oracle integrated management solution for managing your computing environment.
The Enterprise Manager Web-based application for managing Oracle Application Server 10g (9.0.4). The Application Server Control is installed and available with every Application Server 10g installation.
From the Application Server Control, you can monitor and administer a single Oracle Application Server instance, a farm of Oracle Application Server instances, or Oracle Application Server Clusters.
The Application Server Control relies on various underlying technologies to discover, monitor, and administer the Oracle Application Server environment.
The Application Server Control Framework consists of the Application Server Control and its underlying technologies:
Oracle Dynamic Monitoring Service (DMS)
Oracle Process Management Notification (OPMN)
Distributed Configuration Management (DCM)
A local version of the Oracle Management Agent specifically designed to gather monitoring data for the Application Server Control.
The Enterprise Manager Web-based application for managing Oracle Database 10g Release 1 (10.1). The Database Control is installed and available with every Oracle Database 10g installation.
From the Database Control, you can monitor and administer a single Oracle Database instance or a clustered database.
The Database Control relies on various underlying technologies to discover, monitor, and administer the Oracle Database environment.
The Database Control Framework consists of the Database Control and its underlying technologies:
A local version of the Oracle Management Service designed to work with the local database or clustered database
A local Oracle Management Repository installed in the local database and designed to store management data for the Database Control
A local version of the Oracle Management Agent designed to provide monitoring data to the local Management Service
Enterprise Manager Web-based user interface for centrally managing your entire computing environment. The Grid Control is installed from a separate CD–ROM that is part of the Oracle Database 10g Release 1 (10.1) CD–ROM Pack.
From the Grid Control, you can monitor and administer your entire computing environment from one location on the network. All the services within your enterprise, including hosts, databases, listeners, application servers, HTTP Servers, and Web applications, are easily managed as one cohesive unit.
The Grid Control relies on various underlying technologies to discover, monitor, and administer your computing environment.
The Grid Control Framework consists of the Grid Control and these underlying technologies:
One or more Oracle Management Services
The Oracle Management Repository
Remove Oracle Management Agents, installed on each monitored host.
The Oracle Management Agent is responsible for monitoring all targets on the host, for communicating that information to the middle-tier Management Service, and for managing and maintaining the host and the products installed on the host.
Two tablespaces in an Oracle database that contain information about administrators, targets, and applications that are managed within Enterprise Manager.
The Management Service uploads to the Management Repository the monitoring data it received from the Management Agent. The Management Repository then organizes the data so that the data can be retrieved by the Management Service and displayed on the Grid Control.
A J2EE Web application that renders the user interface for the Grid Control, works with all Management Agents in processing monitoring and job information, and uses the Management Repository as its data store.
An installation of Oracle Enterprise Manager which provides immediate value. The required components are embedded with the installation, a default SYSMAN account is created and configured to receive e-mail notifications, targets are automatically discovered, default monitoring levels and data collections automatically enabled, and for all supported targets, e-mail notifications are set up with default rules defining the targets and conditions for which SYSMAN will receive notifications.
A right to perform management actions within Enterprise Manager such as view any target and add any target in the enterprise or a right to perform operations on a target such as maintaining and cloning the target. Types of privileges are defined by Oracle.
Duplicate or extra computing components that protect a computing system.
Ability of a computing system to operate without failing. Reliability is measured by mean-time-between-failures (MTBF).
See standby database.
Collection of predefined Enterprise Manager target or system privileges created by super administrators as a means of facilitating the granting of multiple privileges or roles to users. Roles limit target access and access to specific management features.
Measure of how well the software or hardware product is able to adapt to future business needs.
Optional software used to secure the communications between the Management Service and the Management Agent. When Enterprise Manager is installed "out-of-box," the communications between the Management Service and Management Agent are not secure. Encrypted communications between the Management Agent and Management Service over HTTPS ensures the privacy of data sent from one computer to another.
Read-only database on the standby node. The standby database, also referred to as the replicated database, is physically identical to the master database. In the event of catastrophic failures, data modification activities "fail over" to the standby database such that it becomes the new master database.
Enterprise Manager administrator account that has the ability to create, modify and delete any Enterprise Manager administrator; create any role in the system; perform any action on any target in the system, and see all areas of the Management System tab.
Defined in a Group to obtain overall performance information for one target type within the Group; though, you can have multiple summary metrics. For example, one for host, one for databases, and so on.
By default during the installation of Oracle Enterprise Manager, one super administrator account is created with the user name of SYSMAN. The SYSMAN account should be used to perform infrequent systemwide, global configuration tasks such as setting up the environment. Other administrator accounts can be created for daily administration work. The SYSMAN account is:
Owner of the Management Repository schema
Default Enterprise Manager super administrator
User name used to login to Enterprise Manager the first time
Allows a user to perform systemwide operations. For example, the VIEW ANY TARGET system privilege allows the administrator to view any target on the system, including Oracle Management Agents and Oracle Management Services.
A single component that you can monitor or configure with Enterprise Manager. Examples of a target include:
Single Oracle 10g database
Group of databases that provide your worldwide customers with product information
Oracle Application Server or an instance of Oracle HTTP Server
Web application that your customers visit to investigate or buy your products
Sun Solaris host computer, including its memory, disks, and CPU
Server load balancer switch that controls the Internet traffic for a set of Web servers
Enterprise Manager can manage all these targets. A complete list of the target types you can manage is included in Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control Installation and Basic Configuration.
When the Oracle Management Agent starts up after installation, automatic target discovery occurs. During discovery, the targets located on the Oracle Management Agent machine are discovered and added to Enterprise Manager to be monitored and administered. Which targets are added automatically is dependent on how the Oracle Management Agent is installed.
Contains general information about the selected target. From a target home page, you can drill down to more detailed performance information.
Allows an administrator to perform operations on a target. For example, the View target privilege allows the administrator to view properties, inventory, and monitor information about a target.
Boundary values against which monitored metric values are compared. The comparison determines whether an alert should be generated.


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Jarbidge Wilderness
IntroductionThe United States Congress designated the Jarbidge Wilderness (map) in 1964 and it now has a total of 110,471 acres. All of this wilderness is located in Nevada and is managed by the Forest Service.
DescriptionAccording to legend, a hardy band of Shoshone braves walled in the original jarbidge (their word for "a weird beastly creature") in a cave in Jarbidge Canyon. Now this northern Nevada Wilderness merits attention as one of the most remote spots in America. Eight of the peaks in the Jarbidge ridge exceed 10,000 feet. But with air as unpolluted as you will find anywhere, the view from these heights goes on for 150 miles. Look down from the peaks and you will see 4,000 feet into the valleys. This area is unusually wet for Nevada, with seven to eight feet of snow falling annually, ideal for vegetation that varies from northern desert plants to alpine plants. Snow often covers high trails from mid-October to mid-June. Many creeks and a few small lakes provides points of interest for anglers and hikers. Elk graze throughout this area, attracting their fair share of hunters, and the deer herd has grown quite large. Mountain lions also prowl these grounds. As you approach the mountains, you may be reminded of the splendor of the European Alps. Although several trails are maintained within the area, remoteness and rugged mountain terrain place this area among the least visited of all Wilderness areas.
Planning to Visit the Jarbidge Wilderness?
- Print a fact sheet
- General things to consider when visiting any wilderness
- Regulations
- Contact the Forest Service
- Visit the National Forest wilderness website
Leave No TraceHow to follow the seven standard Leave No Trace principles differs in different parts of the country (desert vs. Rocky Mountains). Click on any of the principles listed below to learn more about how they apply in the Jarbidge Wilderness.
- Plan Ahead and Prepare
- Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces
- Dispose of Waste Properly
- Leave What You Find
- Minimize Campfire Impacts
- Respect Wildlife
- Be Considerate of Other Visitors


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Re: Is it time to consolidate?
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I wonder if it'd be worth it just to open human roles on the orc side even with Utterby staying? Doesn't have to be a whole new area for them, just a small camp within the orc's base. It might drum up some interest for people to start playing the game again just to give it a go and after a while we'd get a good sense if people like it or not.radioactivejesus wrote: edited to mention : consolidating to having the game be orcs + easterling/hillman camp vs. staff controlled soldiers from the citadel and neighboring orc tribes would actually be fun as hell, if all the human players wanted it. Though it wouldn't be worth it unless at least 3/4 of Utterby players were in favour.


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(CNN) -- Call it the "cheese dip." A 400-foot section of the Leo Frigo Bridge -- named after a late Wisconsin cheese scion -- suddenly sagged Wednesday, forcing police to close off the span that carries Interstate 43 over the Fox River some 120 feet below.
The bridge remains closed, and engineers said Thursday that the pillar holding up a section of the bridge sank 22 inches on one side, and 27 inches on the other.
Engineers said they have been observing the bridge since Wednesday, and so far, no more movement has been detected.
"There's a part that's sagging," a motorist told an incredulous 911 operator, according to recordings posted by CNN affiliate WLUK.
"A part that's sagging?" the operator asked.
"Instead of a bump, it's a dip," the driver said.
It appears that one of the piers holding up the bridge sank about 2 feet into the ground, Gov. Scott Walker told reporters Wednesday.
The bridge, which carries 40,000 cars a day, will be closed indefinitely, state officials said.
"We understand the disruption this is going to cause to traffic," Wisconsin Transportation Secretary Mark Gottlieb told reporters Wednesday.
The bridge was built in 1980 and last inspected in August 2012, declared sound and renovated shortly thereafter, said Kim Rudat, regional communications manager for the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.
The closure comes as an unwelcome addition to the city's traffic headaches, motorist Dennis Kelln of Green Bay told WLUK.
"It's a big hassle, because of all the construction that's going around town," he said. "The downtown bridge was closed for how long? Now this one is out? It's just like it's a never-ending problem here."
It could be worse, of course.
State officials say the bridge is in no danger of collapsing like the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River in Mount Vernon, Washington, this spring.
In that incident, a tractor-trailer struck a support on the bridge, which had been rated "functionally obsolete," sending several cars plunging into the river below. No one died, but three people were taken to the hospital for treatment.
The Wisconsin bridge is named after Leo Frigo, who ran Frigo Cheese Corp. until his retirement in 1983. A former member of Roman Catholic religious orders, he was well-known in the area for his work with ex-convicts and for founding a Green Bay food pantry, according to his official biography on the pantry's website. He died in 2001.


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Gay Friendly Mosque to Open in Paris, France
Though not a huge fan of organized religion in general, I still support progressive ideas and reform within Orthodox communities, as I [personally] think it's better for such organizations to be more inclusive, than exclusive.
Anyway, here it is, with an excerpt and link:
Ludovic Mohammed Zahed is braced for controversy, maybe even worse. A gay Muslim and an expert on the Koran, Zahed plans to open Europe's first gay-friendly mosque in Paris at the end of this month. He calls it a place of shelter as well as a place of worship.
"We need to have a safe space for people who do not feel comfortable and at ease in normal mosques," Zahed told ABC News. "There are transgender people who fear aggression, women who do not want to wear head scarf or sit in the back of the mosque. This project gives hope back to many believers in my community."
"Common prayer, practiced in an egalitarian setting and without any form of gender-based discrimination, is one of the pillars supporting the proposed reforms of our progressive representation of Islam," he said.


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Embracing the Dark Side
Now entertain conjecture of a time
When creeping murmur and the poring dark
Fills the wide vessel of the universe
—Shakespeare, Henry V
On Jan. 12, 1998, just before leaving for his honeymoon, astronomer Adam Riess e-mailed his colleagues that the universe appeared to be completely dark and utterly repulsive. Fortunately, he was...
Groundwater use adds CO2 to the air
Using groundwater for crop irrigation or industrial purposes adds more planet-warming carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than volcanoes do, a new study suggests.
As water soaks through soil, it picks up carbon dioxide that's generated when organic matter in the soil decomposes. On average, groundwater holds from 10 to 100 times as much carbon dioxide as the water in lakes and rivers, says...
Check on Checkers: In perfect game, there's no winner
Computers can now play a flawless game of checkers. A calculation that began almost 2 decades ago shows that if both players make perfect moves, the game will be a draw every time. The achievement makes checkers the most complicated game to have been solved completely.
Computers have been able to beat people at checkers since 1994, when a program called Chinook won the checkers world...
Food for Thought
Cinnamon and Diabetes—Disease Type Appears to Matter
Cinnamon—it's not just for perking up the flavor of pies and applesauce anymore. A teaspoonful of the spice can have medicinal properties, at least for most people with diabetes, several trials have indicated. However, the latest study identifies one population that cinnamon doesn't seem to benefit: individuals suffering from what was once referred to as juvenile diabetes.
Math Trek
Cutting a Pie Is No Piece of Cake
Cutting pie is harder than slicing cake, at least if you want to do it fairly. Bizarre as that may sound, mathematicians have proven it.
Julius B. Barbanel of Union College and political scientist Steven J. Brams of New York University have long studied the classical mathematical problem of cake cutting. The question is this: Suppose you have an...
Orexin-blocking pill speeds sleep onset
A new compound that inhibits the activity of alertness-promoting brain peptides called orexins shows promise as a sleeping pill, according to tests in people and animals.
Men who took the drug fell asleep more quickly than did men who took a placebo, neurobiologist François Jenck of Actelion Pharmaceuticals in Allschwil, Switzerland, and his collaborators report in the February Nature...
Letters to the Editor
Letters from the September 2, 2006, issue of Science NewsB line08/28/2006 - 13:12 Humans & Society
"A Vexing Enigma: New insights confront chronic fatigue syndrome" (SN: 7/1/06, p. 10) implies that there's not an available cure for chronic fatigue syndrome. I was amazed to find no mention of vitamin B12. I can attest to the remarkable effect.
Earl L. PyeOak Hills, Calif.
Limited evidence suggests that vitamin B12 absorption may be impaired in some people...
Letters to the Editor
Letters from the December 17, 2005, issue of Science NewsC plus12/14/2005 - 14:57 Humans & Society
Ewan Cameron, who in 1971 began to collaborate with Linus Pauling on vitamin C and cancer, typically initiated patients with 10 grams per day of vitamin C given intravenously for about 2 weeks, followed by an oral dosage continued indefinitely. The two Mayo Clinic trials referred to in "Vitamin C may treat cancer after all" (SN: 10/15/05, p. 253), which failed to show any benefit for...
Mars or Bust!
The Apollo moon missions were a 21st-century idea that was slipped into the 20th century, said former astronaut Eugene Cernan in his 1999 book The Last Man on the Moon (St. Martin's Press). In the 1970s, soon after Cernan and his Apollo 17 crew completed the last moon mission of the 20th century, NASA developed the ferrylike space shuttle that has since dominated the U.S. space fleet. The...
Food for Thought
Leaden Chocolates
Here's something that might give you pause after Halloween: Chocolates are among the more lead-contaminated foods. A new study has probed the source of chocolate's lead and concludes it's not the cocoa bean. Its concentrations of the toxic metal were among the lowest recorded for any foodstuff.
The issue of lead-tainted chocolates is hardly new....


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There are several ways to identify team loans that are not yet fully funded. For example:
- On the team page (the link opens in a new window), above the Family Tree logo, click 'Loans'.
- At 'Loan statuses to display', select 'Raising Funds'.
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Flu season is upon us—did you know it can start as early as October? Don't worry, we've got you covered.
Get your flu shot now—it's free for people with Medicare, once per flu season in the fall or winter, when given by doctors or other health care providers (such as senior centers and pharmacies) that take Medicare.
Stay healthy this flu season and help protect your loved ones. Get your flu shot early!


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|A view from the side shows King Slately sitting in a massive red and gold throne-like chair behind a desk, looking up at a Thinkagram image of Don King hovering over the desk. The desk is decorated on front and side with the Jetstone radish livery, and on top lies a short sword or dagger with the point towards Slately. Facing the desk is a smaller chair, also in red and gold. In the background are a bookcase, a couch, a ladder leaning on the bookcase, and a black hooded robe displayed over the bookcase. In the foreground bottom right is an ornate tea set sitting on top of a small round table, and an armchair facing it.
Narrator: King Slately's Stateroom Spacerock, Capital of Jetstone
King Slately: By whatever odd means... yes, Queen Jillian did save us.
King Slately: I thank you for sending her to our aid.
Don King: Hey.Don King: You're welcome.
|A close view of Slately from behind and to the right of the Thinkagram image of Don King. Slately is frowning, his eyes slightly narrowed and his brow somewhat furrowed.
King Slately: But I must confess, Don: even now, my feelings about the Barbarian Queen are ambivalent.
King Slately: She held a long parley with the great enemy witch, then left the city without engaging.King Slately: It strikes me as deeply suspicious.
|A close view of Don King seated in his throne, his head turned to his left to face the Thinkagram image between the hands of Bunny. His regalia consists of a breastplate bearing a blue-and white floral pattern and the crest of Transylvito in the center, his crown, and a long dark red velvet cape with white and red trim. Don's face is serious and set.
King Slately: As does that turn-ending spell.
King Slately: That was no ordinary Turnamancy that she-Don King: Slately.
|An oblique close view from above of Don King looking into the Thinkagram image. His left hand is gesturing somewhat, and his expression is affable but firm.
|Don King: How 'bout you just forget about her and focus on finishing this thing?
|A close view of Slately from behind and to the left of the Thinkagram image of Don King. Slately's hands are firmly on his desk, and his expression is resolute and determined.
King Slately: Yes, I shall.
King Slately: My remaining son will be here presently, to lead the final slaughter.King Slately: By the Titans' will.
|A close view directly facing Don King's face, still turned to his left to look into the Thinkagram image between Bunny's hands. Don has a small grin on his face as he scratches his chin with his left thumb. In the Thinkagram image, Slately is hanging his head.
Don King: Yeah. Tramennis. He did a number on Stanley's ground forces, didn't he?
Don King: Strikes me as a good general, in general. Heh.King Slately: I suppose.
|A view from behind and to the left of Slately's throne. Slately is looking dejectedly to one side as the Thinkagram image of Don King hovers at an angle over the desk, with the image's face directed towards Slately.
Don King: Guess you never seemed too keen on him, though.
King Slately: He was never much inclined...to lead, I guess.King Slately: He is not an heir. We'll have none, for sixteen more turns.
|A close front view, shifted right, of Slately in his throne, his head slightly bowed, his eyes closed, and one hand to his temple as his expression shows great frustration.
King Slately: We haven't the Schmuckers to designate him. Our treasury has been emptied by this fight.
King Slately: I've had to disband some garrison units in outlying cities, and may raze one of them for upkeep.
Sound Effect: NOCK NOCKJetstone Guard: Sire?
|An oblique view from below and to the left of Slately's desk. Slately's hand is still on his head, and the Thinkagram image is grayed out by ambient light. A door is open on the wall opposite the desk, and a guard is sticking his head in. On that wall are two mounted dwagon heads, one red and one blue. On the wall to Slately's right are statues of men resembling Slately and wearing crowns.
King Slately: As it is, we've had most field units wasting move hunting and foraging.
King Slately: We have harvested three Sourmanders we can scarce afford to spare.
King Slately: With the end of this fight, we may finally-
Jetstone Guard: Sire?King Slately: Yes what is it!
|A view over Slately's left shoulder as he looks up and slightly left, his eyes now open but his hand still to his temple. Prince Tramennis walks in with a wide grin on his face and his arms spread, as a disconcerted guard leans away from him and a warlord peeks around the doorjamb. The Thinkagram image of Don King still floats over the desk, his expression quizzical.
Prince Tramennis: It's me, Father!
King Slately: Oh, uh, farewell, Don.King Slately: Break.
|A view from over the desk of Tramennis, still grinning as he stands by the chair in front of it. In the background, the guard is bowing as he closes the door.
Prince Tramennis: Home from the war!Prince Tramennis: Well, not really, the war's here too, of course.
|A close view from over the desk of Tramennis throwing himself into the chair in an undignified slouch, a sardonic and slightly manic grin on his face.
Sound Effect: FLARF[1]Prince Tramennis: But just guess who I found out is running it?
- ^ A 21st century poetry movement pioneered by the Flarfist Collective, based on several poems submitted by Gary Sullivan to Poetry.com (to test their "standards"(it's a scam)), including "Flarf Balonacy Swingle."


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Rice expert hopes Houston-Galveston leaders use new book to promote storm protection
HOUSTON — (May 14, 2012) — As teachers go, Hurricane Ike isn't likely to win any popularity contests. But the 2008 storm, the third-costliest hurricane in U.S. history, taught severe-storm experts much about how to protect Houston and Galveston from the ravages of future storms.
In the new book "Lessons from Hurricane Ike," Rice University severe-storm expert Phil Bedient and more than 20 researchers from the Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disasters (SSPEED) Center give a 194-page accounting of all they have learned in more than two years of studying Ike, which caused nearly $25 billion damage and killed dozens.
"Ike revealed just how vulnerable the Houston-Galveston region is to a major storm, but Ike also helped us visualize the true 'worst-case' storm scenario for our region," said Bedient, director of the SSPEED Center. "The main lesson from Ike is that we can avoid catastrophic damage from future storms if we choose to act."
"Lessons from Hurricane Ike" will be available June 1 in both print and electronic form from a variety of retail and online vendors. The publisher, Texas A&M University Press, is hosting a Houston launch event from 4:30-6:30 p.m. May 31 at Café Adobe, 2111 Westheimer Road.
The 2012 Atlantic hurricane season begins June 1.
"Lessons from Hurricane Ike" is not a textbook. Its 12 chapters summarize key information about specific topics like storm prediction and emergency planning. The writing is accessible and easy for nonexperts to understand, and each chapter is accompanied by a provocative collection of color photos, diagrams, maps and illustrations. The result is a contextual work that uses the latest science has to offer to contrast Ike with both past storms and future storms.
"This book should be read by anyone in an official capacity who desires a deeper understanding of the complexities of developing in the hurricane impact zone," wrote National Hurricane Center Director Bill Read in a review on the book's back cover. "Particular attention should be paid to the chapter on 'Steps to the Future,' which I found very insightful in addressing the daunting task before the next 'Big One' impacts the Texas Gulf Coast."
SSPEED Center Co-director Jim Blackburn said, "Ike's ranking as the third-costliest hurricane in U.S. history is all the more amazing given that it ranked as a Category 2 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale at the time it made landfall and given that the point of landfall caused most of the storm surge to come ashore east of the major industrial and residential development near Galveston Bay."
The SSPEED Center's research confirmed the need to rethink hurricane damage potential based on storm surge as well wind speed.
"Many people living in high-risk areas failed to evacuate because Ike was 'only' a Category 2 storm," Blackburn said. "If Ike had struck 50 miles down the coast as predicted, it could have killed thousands of people and caused massive damage to the industrial infrastructure of the nation as well as extensive ecological damage due to contaminant spillage."
The SSPEED Center's study of Hurricane Ike resulted from a $4.5 million investment from Houston Endowment. The center issued recommendations from the study in November. SSPEED's Ike research team included experts from Rice, the University of Houston, the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Texas Southern University and other organizations.
Bedient, Rice's Herman Brown Professor of Engineering and one of the world's foremost flooding experts, co-wrote three chapters of the book. Blackburn, professor in the practice of environmental law in Rice's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, co-wrote the final chapter, "Steps to the Future." That chapter compares a variety of structural and nonstructural storm-protection proposals, including the 100-mile "Ike Dike" seawall, a floodgate at the mouth of the Houston Ship Channel and a national recreation area to preserve wetlands as natural flood barriers.
"The Houston-Galveston region has important choices to make about how to prepare for future storms," Bedient said. "There are many options. Doing nothing is an option, but our research showed that would be an expensive choice. One goal of the SSPEED Center is making sure that citizens, business leaders and policymakers understand the true costs and relative benefits of the 'do-nothing' option as well as the structural and nonstructural options."
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CAPTION: Phil Bedient
CREDIT: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University
CAPTION: Jim Blackburn
CREDIT: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University
Located on a 300-acre forested campus in Houston, Rice University is consistently ranked among the nation's top 20 universities by U.S. News & World Report. Rice has highly respected schools of Architecture, Business, Continuing Studies, Engineering, Humanities, Music, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences and is known for its "unconventional wisdom." With 3,708 undergraduates and 2,374 graduate students, Rice's undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio is 6-to-1. Its residential college system builds close-knit communities and lifelong friendships, just one reason why Rice has been ranked No. 1 for best quality of life multiple times by the Princeton Review and No. 4 for "best value" among private universities by Kiplinger's Personal Finance. To read "What they're saying about Rice," go to www.rice.edu/nationalmedia/Rice.pdf.


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Keeping your healthcare in order may leave you feeling frustrated and overwhelmed. It often involves managing medical bills, filing health insurance claims, making follow-up appointments, and keeping track of various doctor visits and contact information. Staying organized is especially complicated for people with a chronic illness or serious medical problem, but there are a few things you can do to better manage your medical expenses and organize your doctor visits.
Track Medical Expenses
Medical bills can be confusing, especially when they come from multiple doctors or for multiple visits, tests, and treatments. Regardless of whether you file your own insurance claims, keeping track of the status of your medical bills will provide you with the information you need if a problem or dispute arises with your provider or insurance company.
The first step is to begin keeping a detailed log, or record, of every medical appointment or service you attend, and any prescription drug you purchase. In this record, summarize each medical appointment and include any lab work, tests, or procedures that were conducted. Keep a running log of all medical bills as you receive them. Check the bills carefully to make sure they are accurate, complete, and correspond to your original records of the care you received.
When you visit a doctor or have a medical test or procedure done, make sure you pay the correct copayment at the time of service.
File and Manage Insurance Claims
When you join a health care plan, get a written copy of your policy from your insurer. Make sure you fully understand your benefits, and don't hesitate to ask questions. Communicate any limitations of your plan with your healthcare providers so they can help keep your out-of-pocket costs as low as possible.
Most medical practices employ staff to process insurance paper work. Therefore, it is reasonable for you to expect your doctor's office to file claims on your behalf. If you file your own medical claims, it's especially important to keep a detailed record of each claim. This record can be kept on paper or in a computer spreadsheet program. It should include the appointment date, doctor's name, amount owed, amount paid, when the insurance claim was filed, status of the claim, reimbursements received, and any other important notes.
If you have a chronic condition or serious medical problem, or if you are unable to keep up with your medical expenses for any reason, you may want to enlist help. You can hire a health insurance claims assistant who can help with filing and tracking your claims, reviewing your medical bills, appealing rejected claims, and working with your healthcare providers and insurance company to resolve disputes. Claims assistants usually charge an hourly or annual fee, which can vary widely.
Organize Doctor Visits
It is your primary care provider's job to coordinate your care and keep your records well-organized. This is a good place to start. Obtain a copy of your medical records from your primary care provider and create your own health journal. In your health journal, write down the dates and other relevant information about any illnesses, injuries, hospitalizations, surgeries, or allergies you have had. In addition, include the medications you are taking and your family's history of diseases or conditions.
Your doctor can tell you when and how often you need health check-ups, including screening tests, and any future treatments. Record this information in a multi-year calendar. In the calendar, write down all medical appointments you have and reminders about when to schedule upcoming appointments.
If your medical care is complicated or you have a large family, you may want to use software to help you. This type of system allows you to log all your family members' medical histories, prescription details, and doctors' appointments.
With a little trial and error, it won't be difficult to find a system that efficiently keeps your medical bills, insurance claims, and doctor appointments organized. Keeping an accurate, ongoing log of your healthcare will save you time, money, and relieve a tremendous amount of stress, which, by the way, is good for your health.
- Reviewer: Michael Woods, MD
- Review Date: 06/2016 -
- Update Date: 07/17/2014 -


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Poster Caption: Alexander Hamilton was unique among the Founding Fathers. He was an immigrant from the Caribbean, a disadvantaged orphan who became a war hero, and a self-made man who rose to become a framer of the Constitution and the architect of the American financial system. He was ahead of his time in his opposition to slavery and prescient about the need for a post-agrarian economy that developed industry and trade within a strong capitalist framework. Pictured here as a young officer in the Revolutionary War, Hamilton died in a duel with Vice President Aaron Burr in 1804. (The Gilder Lehrman Collection)
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YORK, PA – The Randolph-Macon Yellow Jackets used a big offensive day to down the York College baseball squad 12-2 at Jaquet Field in York on a sunny but brisk Tuesday afternoon.
The Yellow Jackets improve to 13-12 overall while the Spartans fall to 6-14.
Randolph-Macon opened the game with a five run first, though that outburst could be directly traced to a pair of Spartan errors in the frame. Jordan Walton had the big hit in the inning with a three run homer over the 14-foot high wall in right.
The Yellow Jackets tacked on four runs in the second off reliever Brian Lusby as the Spartan deficit grew to 9-0 through an inning and a half of play.
Randolph-Macon added a single run in the third and two in the fourth to push the lead to 12-0 through four and a half innings of play.
The Spartans had a great chance to score in the sixth as the Green and White loaded the bases with two outs only to hit into a fielder's choice on a 3-0 count, leaving the sacks jacked.
York did score in the seventh on a double play ground out with the bases loaded. The Spartans got a second run in the seventh on a Yellow Jacket error as the Spartans cut into their deficit.
York would be unable to score as they saw their two-game win streak end.
Tyler Kane earned the win as he tossed five shutout innings. He scattered four hits with three strikeouts and one walk as he improves to 1-2. Three of the four Yellow Jackets pitchers that followed Kane to the mound tossed scoreless innings of work.
Spartan ace Andy Rosenzweig suffered the loss as he allowed five runs, two earned, on five hits in his one inning of action. Tommy Moran, Josh Kohn, David Walker, and Bryan Palumbo each had scoreless stints for the Spartans. Moran threw two scoreless frames while Kohn, Walker and Palumbo each threw one inning.
Walton paced the Yellow Jacket offense as he was 2-for-4 with three RBI and two runs scored. He ripped his team-leading third home run and 19th double in the win. Third baseman Michael Helbig chipped in with three hits, three RBI and a run scored while catcher Jay Lichter and shortstop Peter Culver each added two hits, two runs scored and an RBI.
Junior Steve Tretter led the Spartan offense as he was 2-for-2 as he is now 6-for-his-last-6. The Spartans left nine men stranded and did not have an extra base hit in the game.
The Spartans travel to Mary Washington for game one of a three game set on Thursday afternoon. First pitch in Fredericksburg is set for 3:30 pm.
Photo: Steve Tretter had a pair of hits to lead the Spartan offense. Photo courtesy of Theresa Dark, Athletic Communications Practicum Student


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NORTH BERWICK, Maine — The Noble High School Student Council helped raise over $1,000 and over 500 food items for local families in need during their Year of Caring Thanksgiving Food Drive.
The effort was led by President Kylie Pratt, Vice President Chelsea LeClerc and advisor Jen England. Special thanks to teachers Katie Rielly, Nancy Freeze, Sarah Cesario, and Meg Fox for their exceptional efforts.
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Like most people, I had always thought that Style Wars, a documentary film about the hip-hop culture of the early 1980s, first aired on PBS in 1983, was the first to deal with the graffiti scene in New York City. But, also like most people, I hadn't heard about the movie Stations of the Elevated, released in 1981. Stations of the Elevated is a independent film produced, directed, edited, and photographed by Manfred (Manny) Kirchheimer. Presented by New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1981, it's set to the music of legendary New York-based experimental jazz musician Charles Mingus and the sounds of urbana (such as the shrill screech of the trains, horns blaring in traffic, police car sirens wailing, and the indistinguishable sound of crowds) lend itself to the authenticity of the work.
This was perhaps one of the first cohesive attempts to document the phenomenon of graffitied trains in New York City and present it as a cultural phenomenon rather than an act of vandalism. Because there is no commentary, it tries to create a narrative about the urban environment using the elements of the urban visual landscape as brief respites from the monotony of everyday city life. Footage of painted trains rolling along the elevated lines are interspersed with shots of Technicolor billboards and stern brick facades inherent in the corporate landscape, as well as the decaying urban neighborhoods and ghettos that spawned the youngsters who partook in the movement. Stations of the Elevated attempts to give its viewers the experience of living and moving through New York City by relating sights and sounds that are common to its urban setting. The images, experiences, and juxtapositions that tend to stay with viewers at the end of the film are the same that those that would remain at the end of the day walking about town.
Because it was never widely released, Stations of the Elevated is incredibly difficult to get a hold of, especially in its entirety. Despite my extensive combing of the internet, I've only been able to download a 27 minute version of it, and if you do as well, I strongly advise that you DO NOT watch it because it's a total hack job (as in, it features very abrupt cutaways) and a pain to get through because of it. Rather, watch it streaming in five parts starting here. Although I tend to abhor watching streaming movies, especially in parts, Stations of the Elevated is definitely one worth seeing, especially if you want to experience New York City in the early 1980s.
Style Wars was a documentary film co-produced and directed by Tony Silver, and co-produced by Henry Chalfant, who provided the background research as well as photo-documentation throughout the movie. It's almost as if Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant wanted to expand on the idea of Stations of the Elevated. In actuality, Chalfant had been taking pictures for three years and had probably not known about its development. Rather than presenting assumptions and drawing conclusions about the spawning of a new expressive art out of urban decay, Silver and Chalfant worked to present graffiti as the controversial form of expression that it is, providing viewpoints from all sides, including then New York City Mayor Ed Koch, Head of MTA Richard Ravitch, various MTA personnel, parents, random citizens, conventional artists, art collectors, as well as the graffiti writers and graffiti artists themselves.
Style Wars works to introduce its audience to the entire blossoming hip-hop culture of the early 1980s, not only graffiti. If graffiti was chosen means of written communication, then rap was a new means of verbal communication, and break dancing served as the new means of body language. Style Wars moves seamlessly between these the branches of the hip hop movement, and documents them as a new method of communication developed by the youth population to communicate with each other.
Much like Stations of the Elevated, Style Wars opens in a train yard under the cover of darkness (much like graffiti). Poetically, an elevated train passes under a lone street lamp, first at a distance, then closer, illuminating some indistinguishable markings on the side. However, instead of jazz, Style Wars opens the movie with a Wagner orchestral composition which had been made popular by the movie Excalibur, released only a few years before. This choice is a rather poignant one (that may not be appreciated as much by the film's younger audience), as the composition was one that could be associated with glorified action and adventure. And admittedly, glory and adventure were the two objects of the graffiti game in the 1980s. Then, in the full light of day, tagged-up trains burst forth into the full and the music cuts to hip hop.
There is no doubt that Style Wars is a well-made film. It is both informative and appealing, both graphically and audibly. It is also exciting, following graffiti writers into underground tunnels and into train yards. The film follows and features interviews and works from graffiti writers and artists such as Iz the Wiz, Seen, Zephyr, Skeme, Mare, Case, Doze, Mean Dez, Duster, Dondi, Min, Case, among others, and perhaps most controversial, Cap (a toy tag bomber). Additionally, Style Wars comments on the importance of knowing the roots of graffiti writing (Taki 183) and predicts the future of the movement and its appeal to the art world. Not only does the film explain the incredibly diametrically opposed philosophies of the government and the graffiti artists and writers, but also the difference of opinions between those who consider themselves graffiti artist and those who write/bomb/tag. This dynamic documentary draws the viewer into the tensions that exist between the differing viewpoints exhibited in the films, creating a plot worthy of any feature length film.
Perhaps among the most poignant of questions the viewer might have once they've watched these two awesomely engrossing films is "why did it take so long for the next graffiti/street art documentary to be produced?" Over the next 20 years maybe only half a dozen mainstream feature-length films based loosely on graffiti writers or crews have been made, and it wasn't until 2005 that appreciation for graffiti and the documentation of the movement was renewed in full force. In fact, in 2005, no less than six graffiti documentaries were released, including Infamy, NEXT: A Primer on Urban Painting, Piece by Piece, Rash: Scratch it and it Spreads, Friendly Fire, and the Stolkholm Subway Stories.
However, it is no coincidence that over a generation had to pass before the retrospective importance of the roots of the graffiti movement, now global, could be realized. Even after numerous government counter-measures attempted to stifle the creative expression of the first generation of graffiti writers out of Northeast America, the movement nevertheless spread throughout America and the rest of the world. Since the 2000s, a new generation of graffiti artists and street artists, inspired by the urban visual landscape of the 1980s (especially that of NYC), have taken up the mantle and are continuing the self-expressive tradition of graffiti in the urban setting, and the importance of the movement is being recognized by the main stream contemporary art world. In fact, Kirchheimer returned to broach the subject of New York City graffiti in his 2007 documentary Spraymasters, which featured Lee Quiñones, Zephyr, Lady Pink, and Futura, who reflect on their own youthful adventures, their development, this new generation of writers and artists, as well as the world-wide interest in the graffiti and street art movement.
An interview with Stations of the Elevated's Manny Kirchheimmer can be found here and an interview with Style Wars' Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant can be found here as well as in the extra features of Style Wars. Check out my featured films page for more documentaries and films about graffiti and street art.


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Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, ca. 1686 - 1764)
Courtesan Striking a Shuttlecock with a Battledore, Edo period, 1710s
Woodblock print, ink on paper
25 5/8 x 12 5/8 in. (65.2 x 32.2 cm)
Mary A. Ainsworth Bequest, 1950
The lithe, graceful lines and engaging composition of this early work by Okumura Masanobu reveal why he is considered to have been one of the most innovative and important printmakers in eighteenth-century Japan.
Little is known about Masanobu's background or early training. Some have speculated that he taught himself the art of woodblock-print design, but even his earliest prints of 1701 are so confident and skillful that it seems likely he had some formal instruction.1 Although most of Masanobu's early prints were issued in album format, he also designed several larger single images in the kakemono, or "hanging scroll" format. This print, which may be the only copy of the design left in existence, belongs to the latter category. The subject is a courtesan, elegantly attired in a kimono decorated with poetic verses written in calligraphic script. The somewhat frenetic energy of the calligraphy enhances the dynamic lines of her robe as she turns to strike the shuttlecock, thus creating a pleasing tension between her figure and the narrow straight-edged space she fills. Such imaginative designs, combined with a masterful control of form and composition, remained hallmarks of Masanobu's prints throughout his long career.
The elegant and playful subject of this print suggests that it was originally created to be sold in the shop of Masanobu's publisher, who is identified by a seal on the print as Nishimura of Komagome.2
Komagome was a village on the outskirts of Edo (modern Tôkyô), along the Kisokaidô Road leading to Kyôto. A publishing house in this town would have been perfectly situated to take advantage of the business and tourist trade between Japan's two major cities, selling images recording the delights of the capital as souvenirs for travelers going home, or as mementos for those setting out on a long journey.
The subject of this print was undoubtedly intended to remind its buyers of the Yoshiwara, Edo's famous licensed quarter. However, the poetic phrases on the courtesan's robes, which recall verses from the Heian period (794-1185), may have been chosen to attract Kyôto customers as well. (Kyôto was the capital of Japan during the Heian period.)
Masanobu's signature, in which he calls himself a "Yamato-style painter from Tobu," would also have appealed to buyers from both cities, since Kyôto was closely associated with Yamato-style painting, while the name Tobu identified the print as a product of Edo.
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The first concrete fact of Okumura Masanobu's existence is an album of 1701, in which he reworked a series of prints that had been designed by Torii Kiyonobu (1664-1729) the previous year. During the next twenty years, Masanobu produced a number of albums and single-sheet prints for several different publishers in Edo. In the 1720s, he took the then unusual step of opening his own publishing house. This gave him greater creative control over his work, and allowed him to keep the lion's share of the profits from prints he designed.
Masanobu's career spanned the most important evolutionary phase in Japanese printmaking, from monochrome prints to simple two-color prints to full-color wooblock prints. With every new technical development, Masanobu was part of the creative vanguard, and he was also known as an innovator in subjects and compositions. Masanobu does not seem to have had many direct followers, although his pupil and perhaps adopted son, Okumura Toshinobu (active ca. 1717-1750), is also recognized as one of the leading printmakers of the eighteenth century.
General References
Lane, Richard. Masters of the Japanese Print. Garden City, N.Y., 1962, pp. 102-24.
Roberts, Laurance P. A Dictionary of Japanese Artists. New York, 1976, p. 103.
Bequest of Mary A. Ainsworth (OC 1889), Moline, Illinois, 1950
Keyes, Roger. Japanese Woodblock Prints: A Catalogue of the Mary A. Ainsworth Collection. Oberlin, 1984, pp. 20-21, pl. 2.
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This woodblock print, printed in black ink on paper, is in the kakemono format. It is in good condition, with some fading and wear. It is signed in the lower left corner, with one seal of the artist ("Masanobu"), and one publisher's seal ("Nishimura of Komagome").
1. A sheet from Masanobu's first album of 1701 is reproduced in Richard Lane, Masters of the Japanese Print (Garden City, N.Y., 1962), p. 104.
2. This print is discussed in the context of early Japanese print publishing in Roger Keyes, Japanese Woodblock Prints: A Catalogue of the Mary A. Ainsworth Collection (Oberlin, 1984), pp. 20-21.


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Saturday, August 18, 201811:00AM - Sunday, November 25, 20185:00PM
At Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, located at 129 North Main Street in Farmville, VA.
Organized by LCVA
LeUyen Pham (but you can call her "Win") is an award-winning author and illustrator of more than 100 books for children. In addition to being the The New York Times bestselling illustrator of Julianne Moore's picture book series, Freckleface Strawberry, Kelly DiPucchio's picture book Grace for President, and Shannon and Dean Hale's middle grade series Princess in Black, LeUyen is also the illustrator of God's Dream by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Twenty-One Elephants by Phil Bildner, the Vampirina Ballerina picture book series by Anne Marie Pace, and The Boy Who Loved Math by Deborah Heiligman. LeUyen is the author and illustrator of Big Sister Little Sister, There's No Such Thing as Little, A Piece of Cake, All the Things I Love About You, and The Bear Who Wasn't There. She is also the co-creator, along with Shannon Hale, of the groundbreaking graphic memoir Real Friends.
Born in Vietnam, LeUyen and her family fled the country on the second-to-last transport out of Saigon in the final days of the Vietnam War. She studied illustration at The Art Center College of Design, and for a short period of time worked at DreamWorks Animation as a layout artist before turning to illustration full time.
This exhibition is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grant impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov.
On View: August 18-November 25th
LCVA is open Monday through Saturday, 11am-5pm and Sunday 1-5pm.
Reception with the artist, October 19th 5:30-8:00pm


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How to use the 7 principles of Zen in Planning your home0
The basis for these modern Japanese aesthetics has existed for thousands of years and is rooted in Buddhist writings and teachings. However, the full concept of aesthetics relating to these ancient ideas has been discussed only within the past two centuries, as the the traditional Japanese concepts have been infused with the Western idea of art and aesthetics.
These same Japanese aesthetics, the attributes that define a Japanese garden, can be further stretched by the Western mind to relate to other areas of thought. If you are particularly interested in personal finances, as we are here at Consumerism Commentary, you might attempt to apply these concepts to attitudes and behaviors surrounding interaction with money.
Here are seven aesthetics rooted in Japanese culture that can be drawn upon to make us think about the way we live with and deal with money, from personal expenses to investing.
Step One
KANSO 簡素 - Keep your finances simple. The extreme limit of necessity would be to have no other financial accounts but one checking account for paying your bills. Simplifying at this level may beyond the limit of practicality even if still possible. But there is no reason I should continue to have savings accounts at seven different banks, even if seven is an odd number, compliant with other aesthetics. In addition to utilize as few banks as possible, simplify your investment accounts. Keep your investments in one account in one index fund or target retirement fund that matches your risk profile. This also makes it much easier to evaluate your asset allocation to ensure your investments on the whole match your tolerance for risk. There is rarely a need to have more than one credit card for your personal matters. Zero is an even better number. Simplicity in all financial matters is an attainable goal.
Step Two
SEIJAKU 静寂 - Managers of actively managed mutual funds earn their pay by buying and selling investments frequently. Index funds take the opposite approach by matching a stock index, adding or removing stocks only when the index does, which is rarely. Index funds embody this concept of stillness. Unnecessary activity, like stock trading, makes the stock broker rich while you're adding risk and decreasing your chance of beating an index fund's performance. Keeping your wealth still and motionless allows time to have a chance to cultivate it. The effect of compound interest increases when you let it work for decades. If you've simplified your finances down to a small number of accounts, you can further keep your money motionless by removing the necessity of transferring funds from one place to another. The 0% balance transfer game or otherwise moving your credit card balances from one card to another is in direct conflict with this aesthetic.
Step Three
DATSUZOKU 脱俗 - Break free from your possessions. We buy things because they reflect who we are or who we want to be, but no thing can be a true reflection of a self. Not only do material possessions drain you of funds that could be spent on necessities, but you will have less money for sharing with others within and outside of your family. Break free from conventional thought and following the bandwagon. You are free to be your own person and find your own path. You should never feel trapped in a job or a career. Even a steady bi-weekly paycheck is a pattern that could be broken without fear. With creativity, draw income to you through something unexpected. Don't confine yourself to your budget. The ultimate way to grow wealth is to spend less than you earn, so as long as that continues, you can break free from your budget and enjoy flexibility without too much worry.
Step Four
KOKO 考古 - Focus on the bare essentials. Add something to your life only if it has a functional purpose and fills a need. This concept is a nod to frugality and sparsity. For example, do you need three televisions, one for each large room in your house? Do you even need one television when you can find entertainment, including comedy, nature, and drama — possibly even crime-focused drama — for free, by sitting in a park and watching other people interact? Wouldn't it be more fulfilling to visit a National Park than to sit on your couch and watch a documentary about it? Decide what in your life is not essential and eliminate it. If something does not add value more than or equal to its expense, consider it a candidate for elimination. I think immediately of the interest that you pay on a credit card balance. Once you pay interest, you've paid more than the value of whatever you've purchased with the credit card. If you decide a $1,000 television brings $1,000 worth of value into your life, then it may be worthwhile. But if you put that on a credit card and pay the balance and interest over time, the new question is whether that $1,000 television added $2,000 worth of value into your life.
Step Five
SHIZEN 自然 - You should represent yourself to the world truthfully and without pretense. There is no need to purchase expensive cars and houses when necessity allows for lesser purchases. Don't concern yourself with "keeping up with the Joneses." Without the need to show the world you have more money than you really have, you will lose the desire to buy more than you can afford. As a result, the chances of falling into the trap of debt from unnecessary spending will diminish. My thoughts on this are drawn to people with public-facing careers. Real estate agents, for example, often want to project an aura of success. If clients believe that the agent is rich, the clients will then believe that they are successful agents. The natural conclusion is that these agents are successful because they represent clients fairly and offer quality houses. The same is true for lawyers whose business is representing clients in court trials. Lavish spending projects an image of wealth, which indicates to prospective customers a history of successful court appearances. This is all show and all pretense. Anyone can look wealthy or successful thanks to the availability of credit. You can't see what lurks beneath someone else's surface. Do not cover up all that is natural. Do not hide money or money-related problems from your partner or spouse. Finances should be part of a communication that is open and honest, not hidden beneath layers of creative stories.
Step Six
FUKINSEI 不均整 - Create a budget, a monthly spending plan that outlines your limits for expenses in a variety of categories that make sense for you. A budget by definition starts out the same each month but will look different by the month's final day. Life's asymmetry is natural, and your budget should reflect this asymmetry while maintaining balance. You spend more for gifts as the December holidays approach, so you might budget more for gifts in November and December than you might in June or July. In order for this asymmetry to be balanced, an increase in one category at one time should correspond with a decrease either in another category or at another time. This flexibility is essential for creating a workable budget. A budget should free you, not trap you. Balanced asymmetry appears elsewhere. "Work/life balance" is a relatively new concept that is based on this idea. When my employer talks about "work/life balance," they are not trying to imply that we should spend an equal amount of hours in our life between our career and everything else we do. It is an asymmetrical approach to living a more fulfilled life.
Step Seven
YUGEN 幽玄 - Whenever your personal financial issues are public rather than private, choose subtlety over directness. Do not brag about your successes. There is no need for you to have your latest business acquisition or marriage listed in your college's alumni magazine. If you give charitably to an organization, you do not need to publicly list your name or the amount of money you donated. In the business world, there is a movement towards personal branding. It is good for your career to find ways make yourself stand out among your colleagues or among a sea of job applicants. While I would agree that it's important to protect your identity, particularly online, from anything that might damage your reputation, the best way to stand out is to be the best rather than to declare you are the best.


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Chris Brown Set to Nab His First No. 1 Single in the U.K.
Chris Brown is poised to achieve his first No. 1 single in the U.K., according to Official Charts Company. His dance track, 'Turn Up the Music,' is charging up the tally and could bump Katy Perry off her perch with her single, 'Part of Me,' on Sunday.
If Breezy reaches the top of the U.K. chart, it would be his personal best since he reached the No. 2 spot with 'Run It' (Featuring Julez Santana) in 2006. This is promising news for Brown as he prepares to release his new album Fortune on May 4.
Meanwhile, Brown is the latest celebrity to wear a hoodie in remembrance of Trayvon Martin. On Tuesday, the R&B singer tweeted out a few pictures of himself and his crew wearing 'F.A.M.E.' and 'Fortune' hoodies.
Brown follows other artists like Diddy, Frank Ocean, The-Dream and others who don hoodies on Twitter in support of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed 17-year-old teen who was shot to death by neighborhood watch guard George Zimmerman in Sanford, Fla. It was Martin's hoodie that aroused suspicion with Zimmerman, which led to the deadly shooting. The case has sparked "Million Hoodies" marches in cities nationwide to seek justice for Martin.
In addition, veteran songbird Chaka Khan released an all-star tribute song to the late teen called 'Super Life,' with the message "Fear Kills. Love Heals."


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In Henry's world every body of water is made just for him to play in,
doggie friends are always sweet and loving,
each new experience is an adventure to behold,
everybody wants to hold him and give him attention,
kiddie rides are the coolest thing ever,
ferris wheels aren't scary at all (he's singing to himself right here),
and everyone wants to read him a story if he'll sit still long enough.
Reading all of that, reminds me again that I have to soak it all up now. Someday he might not think that the carousel operator has the coolest job in the world.


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Home is where the heart is, no? But it does take time for the heart to settle in somewhere. I agree with Sherri there is a feeling of desolation in the photo, like the sadness of being out of touch with the heart.
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text: It's been a while since I posted here, so I thought it was probably time to bring you up to date with my 7.25" gauge loco building exploits. A long running personal project has been to build a single fairlie, a cousin of Taliesin at the FR. She has taken about 3 years to build, and her first public running day coincided with ExpoNG, which is just over the hill from our railway.


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From: Super Mario Sunshine (2002)
- High-tech water pump designed by Professor E. Gadd.
- Uses water to clean up graffiti, douse flames, aid mobility, annoy hapless natives, etc.
- Has three interchangeable nozzles (Hover, Rocket and Turbo) along with the standard Squirt Nozzle.
- Offers annoying helpful hints in robotic monotone.
- Is tragically destroyed during the final battle (but gets better in the end).
- Appears as one of Mario's moves in Super Smash Bros. Brawl and its sequel, and as an item in the Mario Kart Arcade GP series.
- Is it possible for a machine... to possess a soul?
From: Super Mario Galaxy (2007)
- Adorable, chubby star baby.
- Gives Mario the ability to do a Star Spin, which serves as his standard attack and also gives a little extra height to his jump.
- Can apparently turn into a bunny at will, if the game's first mission is any indication.
- Sacrifices itself to stabilize a supermassive black hole and restore the galaxy to it's former state, or rebirth the universe, or whatever the hell happened at the end of SMG.
- Reappears in Super Mario Galaxy 2 with the same function as before, and as Rosalina's partner in Super Smash Bros. U/3DS.
- We are all made of star stuff.
From: Super Mario Odyssey (2017)
- Friendly hat-ghost-thing.
- Lets Mario possess "capture" sentient beings. But not if they're wearing a hat, for some reason.
- Can also be used to collect nearby items, and to serve as a platform for Mario to bounce off of.
- Can be controlled by the second player in co-op mode.
- Joins Mario to rescue his sister Tiara, who is also a hat-ghost-thing.
- Can be cosmetically changed into a sombrero, a fedora, a toque blanche, and more!
- Our hats are off to you, Cappy.


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Project: P-PH 0240(12)128, PCN 038D, Pennington County
Location: SD Highway 240 from Wall South 6.3 miles to the entrance to Badlands National Park
Improvement Type: Shoulder Widening, Cold Milling Asphalt Concrete and Asphalt Concrete Surfacing
Public Meetings
The South Dakota Department of Transportation (SDDOT) has a long history of public involvement in the development of transportation plans and projects. The 2005 passage of the Safe, Accountable, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) requires a public involvement process. Public meetings for the project scope and/or design will occasionally be scheduled to collect public input, provide information and answer questions.
Public Information Meeting - May 9, 2013
For more information or comments please contact the SDDOT project manager Mark Leiferman, who can be reached by email at email@example.com or by phone at (605) 773-3433.


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Axel Botte
Brexit vertigo
18.10.2016 - Axel Botte
Weekly markets analysis from experts of Natixis AM's Fixed Income investment division.
- Brexit risks evident in joint falls in Sterling, Gilt
- The ECB may wait until December to unveil QE changes
- Neutral on Bunds, long USTs, including vs. UK Gilts
- Spain to tap 50y bond for the second time this year
Read further in Fixed Income Strategy Weekly 17/10/2016
Axel Botte is Strategist at Ostrum Asset Management.
He began his career in 2000 at AXA Investment Managers as strategist producing both geographical and regional equity allocation recommendations.
In 2007, he was named Head of the Fixed Income research within the Investment Strategy department managing 2 fixed income strategists.
He joined Ostrum Asset Management in October 2010 as Strategist. He provides top-down analysis of fixed income markets in close relationship with fund management teams. The research covers interest rates, developed market government bonds, sovereign debt allocation, global inflation-linked, credit and structured credit.
Axel Botte is a graduate of the University of Cergy-Pontoise. He holds a Advanced Studies Diploma (DEA) in Analysis of Financial and Industrial Strategies.