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E=mc² is perhaps the most famous, most immediately recognizable to the public, most widely quoted by the public, and least understood by the public, of all equations in science. Most people recognize it instantly, but when asked to explain it, might say something like "It says that matter and energy are the same/equivalent", or "It explains relativity", or "It tells where nuclear power comes from", or "It's about atomic bombs."
The equation is about the physical concepts of mass and energy.
Mass refers to what is often called inertia (though that term is used much less now than it was 100 years ago). It is sometimes called inertial mass. Inertial mass is the resistance of an object to being accelerated when a force is applied. The m in E=mc² is the same as the m in Newton's formula of motion F=ma. Gravitational mass is what makes things heavy, that is, what is acted upon by gravity. It is the m1 and m2 in Newton's formula for gravity . The difference between inertial mass and gravitational mass used to be a burning issue among physicists, eventually being tested, and found to be the same, by the famous Eotvos experiments. (Note that general relativity does have an explanation for why this should be, but this is not relevant here.)
Energy refers to kinetic energy of motion, or radiated energy.
- E=mc² is not about gravity or gravitational mass.
- E=mc² is not about light, or other electromagnetic radiation, except insofar as it is a form of energy.
- E=mc² is not about nuclear power per se. It applies everywhere.
- E=mc² is not about where the power of the atomic bomb comes from, though the physicists developing atomic power and atomic bombs were completely familiar with it.
A little calculation will show that E=mc² is dimensionally correct. So, for example, in SI units (also called MKS units), E is in Joules, m in kilograms, and c in meters per second. In CGS units or units of the US Customary System (pounds and feet) it is also dimensionally correct, as long as the units are used consistently. [1]
In any normal units, the value of c, the speed of light, is enormous, its square even more so. This means that E=mc² equates an extremely tiny amount of mass with an extremely large amount of energy. This gives the equation some of its mystique.
E=mc² is a meaningless though working, almost nonsensical though often applied, e.g., in nuclear physics, statement that purports to relate all matter to energy and light.[2] In fact, no theory has successfully unified the laws governing mass (i.e., gravity) with the laws governing light (i.e., electromagnetism). Simply put, E=mc² is liberal claptrap.
Biblical Scientific Foreknowledge predicts that a unified theory of all the laws of physics is impossible, because light and matter were created at different times, in different ways, as described in the Book of Genesis.
Mass is a measure of an object's inertia, and is directly related to the force of gravity. In contrast, the intrinsic energy of an object (such as an atom) is a function of electrostatic charge and other non-inertial forces, having nothing to do with gravity. Declaring the object's energy to be a function of inertia rather than electrostatics is an absurd and impossible attempt to unify the forces of nature, contrary to Biblical Scientific Foreknowledge.
For more than a century, the claim that E=mc² has never yielded anything of value. Often it seems to be used as a redefinition of "energy" for pseudo-scientific purposes, as by the lamestream media. There have been attempts to find some justification for the equation in already understood processes involved in nuclear power generation and nuclear weapons, and in the speculation about antimatter.[3] The energy released in matter/antimatter annihilations corresponds to E=mc² for example the annihilation of an electron and a positron (each with rest energy of 0.511 mega electron volts according to E=mc²) results in the release of two gamma ray photons, which each have energy 0.511 mega electron volts.[4]
The Theory of Relativity has never been able to mathematically derive E=mc² from first principles, and a physicist observed in a peer-reviewed paper published in 2011 that "Leaving aside that it continues to be affirmed experimentally, a rigorous proof of the mass-energy equivalence is probably beyond the purview of the special theory."[5]
It has been known for a long time that radiation has a mass equivalence, which was correctly derived by Henri Poincare in 1904,[6] but the equation E=mc² makes a claim far beyond that limited circumstance:
|The equality of the mass equivalent of radiation to the mass lost by a radiating body is derivable from Poincaré's momentum of radiation (1900) and his principle of relativity (1904).
—Herbert Ives, 1952
Description for the layman
Ten top physicists were asked to describe in laymen's terms E=mc²:[7]
|Things that seem incredibly different can really be manifestations of the same underlying phenomena.
—Nima Arkani-Hamed, Theoretical Physicist, Harvard University
|You can get access to parts of nature you have never been able to get access to before.
—Lene Hau, Experimental Physicist, Harvard University
|It certainly is not an equation that reveals all its subtlety in the few symbols that it takes to write down.
—Brian Greene Theoretical Physicist Columbia University
History of E=mc²
The liberal Public Broadcasting Service explained the history of E=mc² for its NOVA series as follows:[8]
|Over time, physicists became used to multiplying an object's mass by the square of its velocity (mv²) to come up with a useful indicator of its energy. If the velocity of a ball or rock was 100 mph, then they knew that the energy it carried would be proportional to its mass times 100 squared. If the velocity is raised as high as it could go, to 670 million mph, it's almost as if the ultimate energy an object will contain should be revealed when you look at its mass times c squared, or its mc².
Experimental verification
The first experimental verification for the equation was performed 1932 by a team of an English and an Irish physicist, John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, as a byproduct of "their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles"[9] for which they were honored with the Nobel Prize in physics in 1951. The idea of the mass defect - and its calculation using E=mc² can be found on page 169-170 of his Nobel lecture.[10]
They bombarded Lithium atoms with protons having a kinetic energy less than 1 MeV. The result were two (slightly less heavy) α-particles, for which the kinetic energy was measured as 17.3 MeV
The mass of the particles on the left hand side is 8.0263 amus, the mass on the right hand side only 8.0077 amu.[11] The difference between this masses is .00186 amu, which results in the following back-of-an-envelope calculation:
Accurate measurements and detailed calculations allowed for verifying the theoretical values with an accuracy of ±0.5%. This was the first time a nucleus was artificially split, and thereby the first transmutation of elements using accelerated particles:
Probably the best empirical verification of E=mc² was done in 2005 by Simon Rainville et al., as published in Nature[12], as the authors write in their abstract:
|Einstein's relationship is separately confirmed in two tests, which yield a combined result of 1−Δmc²/E=(−1.4±4.4)×10−7, indicating that it holds to a level of at least 0.00004%. To our knowledge, this is the most precise direct test of the famous equation yet described.
A Famous Example -- Nuclear Fission of Uranium
For most types of physical interactions, the masses of the initial reactants and of the final products match so closely that it is essentially impossible to measure any difference. But for nuclear reactions, the difference is measurable. That difference is related to the energy absorbed or released, described by the equation E=mc². (The equation applies to all interactions; the fact that nuclear interactions are the only ones for which the mass difference is measurable has led people to believe, wrongly, that E=mc² applies only to nuclear interactions.)
The Theory of Relativity played no role in this work, but later tried to retrofit the theory to the data in order to explain the explain the observed mass changes. Here is the most famous example of the mass change.
Nuclear fission, which is the basis for nuclear energy, was discovered in experiments by Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, and analyzed by Lise Meitner, in 1938.
The decay path of Uranium that figured in the Hahn-Strassmann experiment may have been this:
- 235U → 140Xe + 91Sr + 4n
(The Xenon decayed within about a minute to 140Ba. There are a large number of fission paths and fission products, but Hahn and Strassmann were searching for the chemical signature of Barium.)
The masses of the particles are:
|4 neutrons
|Number of protons
|Number of neutrons
|Number of electrons
The mass of the Uranium atom is 235.04393, and the sum of the masses of the products is 234.866503. The difference is .177427 amu, or, using the E=mc² equation, 165 million electron volts. (The generally accepted value for the total energy released by Uranium fission, including secondary decays, is about 200 million electron volts.)
The insight that the conversion from Uranium to Barium was caused by complete fission of the atom was made by Lise Meitner in December, 1938. She had the approximate "mass defect" quantities memorized, and so she worked out in her head, using the E=mc² equation, that there would be this enormous release of energy. This release was observed shortly thereafter, and the result is nuclear power and nuclear weapons.
A Topical Example: Speed of Extremely Energetic Neutrinos
Here is another example of the use of this formula in physics calculations. Recently there has been quite a controversy over whether neutrinos were observed traveling at a speed faster than light. Relativity doesn't allow that, and, since neutrinos have nonzero (but incredibly tiny) mass, they aren't even supposed to travel at the speed of light. This very issue came up on the Talk:Main_Page#Neutrinos. The speeds under discussion were calculated by the use of E=mc².
The mass of a neutrino is about 0.44x10-36kilograms. (Normally all of these things are measured in more convenient units such as Giga-electron-Volts, but that makes implicit use of E=mc². If we don't accept that, we have to do the calculations under classical physics, using SI (meter/kilogram/second) units.) The neutrinos were accelerated to an energy of about 17GeV, or .27x10-8Joules. Using the classical formula , we get v=110x1012meters per second. This is about 370,000 times the speed of light. However, the classical formula breaks down at speeds close to , and indeed, as the speed of a massive object approaches , the object's kinetic energy approaches .
Several scientists have gone on record stating that the neutrinos, which have mass, travel at precisely the speed of light. If true, this disproves the Theory of Relativity and the claim that E=mc². However, it is more likely that those scientists are using language inaccurately. It is impossible to measure the speed of neutrinos precisely. What is meant is the difference between the speed of light and the speed of the neutrinos is too small to measure.
Deducing the Equation From Empirical Observation
While the equation was historically developed on theoretical grounds as an inevitable consequence of special relativity, it is possible to deduce it purely from empirical observation.
So, for the purposes of this section, imagine that one is in the era of "classical physics"; prior to 1900 or so. Relativity has not been invented, but, inexplicably, nuclear physics has. Imagine that the phenomena of radioactivity and nuclear fission have been observed, without any knowledge of relativity.
A well-accepted physical law of classical physics was the law of conservation of mass. This was not easy to deduce. It required careful analysis of such phenomena as combustion, in the 1700's, to eliminate the various confounding sub-phenomena that made the law difficult to see. But, by 1900, the law was well established:
- In all interactions, mass is precisely conserved.
For example, the mass of a TNT molecule is 227.1311 Daltons, or 227.1311 g/mol, which is, for all practical purposes, the same as the mass of its constituent Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, and Oxygen atoms. It is essentially impossible to measure the difference. The principle of conservation of mass is upheld.
But when nuclear phenomena are discovered, we notice something different. The masses of the result particles after an event (e.g. alpha decay, nuclear fission, or artificial transmutation) is measurably less than the masses of the original particle(s). With the invention of the mass spectrometer around 1920, it became possible to measure atomic weights of various isotopes with great precision.
Radium-226 decays into Radon-222 by emission of an alpha particle with an energy of 4.78 MeV.
1 kg of Radium-226 = atoms. (The numerator is Avogadro's number, and the denominator is the atomic weight of Radium-226.) This is 2.6643648 * 1024 atoms.
That number of Radon-222 atoms has mass .98226836 kg. That number of alpha particles has mass .01770864 kg. The mass lost is .00002299 kg.
Each emitted alpha particle has energy of 4.78 MeV, or 4.78 * .16021765 * 10-18 Joules. The total alpha energy from the decay of 1 kg of radium is 2.040 * 1012 Joules.
Also, Radon-222 decays into Polonium-218 by emission of an alpha particle with an energy of 5.49 MeV.
1 kg of Radon-222 = atoms. This is 2.7124612 * 1024 atoms.
That number of Polonium-218 atoms has mass .98194455 kg. That number of alpha particles has mass .018028315 kg.
The mass lost is .00002713 kg.
Each emitted alpha particle has energy of 5.49 MeV. The total alpha energy from the decay of 1 kg of polonium is 2.386 * 1012 Joules.
It looks as though we have to rewrite the law of conservation of mass:
For the Cockcroft-Walton experiment, we us Avogadro's number of particles. The mass of that many of the various atoms, in kilograms, is just their atomic mass. Avogadro's number of Lithium-7 atoms weighs 7.01600455 kg. The Hydrogen atoms weigh 1.007825032 kg, and the Helium atoms weigh 4.00260325 kg each. The atoms weigh 8.023829582 kg before, and 8.0052065 kg after. The mass lost is .018623082 kg.
The energy released is 17.3 MeV per reaction, or 1669 * 10-12 Joules per Avogadro's number.
It looks as though we have to rewrite the law of conservation of mass:
- In all "ordinary" interactions, mass is precisely conserved.
- In nuclear interactions, there is a small but measurable loss of mass.
- By the way, we can clearly see that atomic weights of pure isotopes are not integers, and that it has something to do with the energy released by nuclear disintegration. In retrospect, the formula E=mc² explains the non-integer character of atomic weights.
Making special cases out of nuclear interaction versus non-nuclear ones is unsatisfactory, of course.
We do this for a few other interactions, including the explosion of TNT. This would include many other radioactive decays, and the Uranium fission phenomena described above. We won't bother with the details.
As observational scientists, we look for patterns in the behavior of nature. We make a table:
|energy released per kg, Joules
|mass lost per kg of original substance, kg
|explosion of TNT
|4.184 * 106
|seems to be zero
|alpha decay of Ra-226
|2.040 * 1012
|.00002299 kg
|alpha decay of Rn-222
|2.386 * 1012
|.00002713 kg
|Cockcroft-Walton experiment, per Avogadro
|1669 * 1012
|.018623082 kg
We plot these, and a few others, not shown, on graph paper, and find to our amazement that the relationship is linear.
For Radium decay, m/E = .1126 * 10-16 For Polonium decay, m/E = .1137 * 10-16 For the Cockcroft-Walton experiment, m/E = .1116 * 10-16 As a linear relationship, the mass defect for TNT would have been .47 * 10-10. We couldn't possibly have measured this.
So we can rewrite the rule for conservation of mass in a more satisfactory way:
- In all interactions, there is a loss of mass, equal to about .112 * 10-16 kg per Joule of energy released.
What we thought was exact conservation is just very nearly exact, and we hadn't been able to measure it before.
But maybe there's more. This constant has dimensions of kilograms per Joule. From high-school physics, we know that that is seconds squared divided by meters squared. That is, it is the reciprocal of the square of a velocity. We calculate that velocity. It is about 2.97 * 108 meters per second. Very close to the speed of light! Very interesting! (The calculations above were not extremely precise. The formula has been verified with great precision, but not here.)
Since we are just making empirical observations, we don't understand why this is so (that will have to wait for the invention of relativity), but we can formulate a hypothesis:
- In all interactions, there is a loss of mass, equal to times the amount of energy released.
We don't have to give the units any more, since everything is now dimensionally correct.
- There is a very interesting analogy with the discovery of Maxwell's Equations. Maxwell found an interesting relationship involving the fundamental constants and appearing in his equations. Specifically, has the dimensions of seconds squared divided by meters squared, and that:
- where "c" was the known velocity of light. He also showed that his equations predict electromagnetic waves, propagating at that speed.
This sort of inductive approach is a common way that scientific discoveries are made. For example, Newton's law of motion, F=ma, is empirical and backed up by enormous amounts of confirming data.
The formula E=mc² could have been discovered this way in our alternative universe, but, as stated above, that is not historically how it happened. It was formulated on theoretical grounds in order to obtain conservation of momentum in relativistic interactions, and then confirmed by experiment.
See also
essay:Rebuttal to Counterexamples to Relativity
- ↑ Physicists, when they are really into theory, sometimes like to use "natural units", which are calibrated so that c is dimensionless and has the value 1. That is not the approach taken here, however.
- ↑ The equation claims that the total energy E of a body in all forms is equal to that body's mass m multiplied by the square of the speed of light c.
- ↑ Peter Tyson The Legacy of E=mc² October 11, 2005. PBS NOVA.
- ↑ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory The ABC of Nuclear Science
- ↑ Eugene Hecht: How Einstein confirmed E0=mc², American Journal of Physics, Volume 79, Issue 6, pp. 591-600 (2011)
- ↑ Herbert E. Ives Derivation of the Mass-Energy Relation, JOSA, Vol. 42, Issue 8, pp. 540-543 (1952)
- ↑ Lexi Krock, David Levin (editors) E=mc² explained, June, 2005. PBS NOVA.
- ↑ David Bodanis Ancestors of E=mc², NOVA, Nov 10, 2005
- ↑ Nobel Prize Organization
- ↑ John D. Cockroft Experiments on the interaction of high-speed nucleons with atomic nuclei, Nobel Lecture, Dec 11, 1951
- ↑ Gerard Piel The age of science: what scientists learned in the 20th century, Basic Books, 2001, p. 144-145
- ↑ Simon Rainville, James K. Thompson, et. al World Year of Physics: A direct test of E=mc² Nature 438, 1096-1097 (22 December 2005)] doi:10.1038/4381096a; Published online 21 December 2005


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Docomomo Japan ISC Technology has issued a call for papers for an academic conference in Tokyo in May 2010 on the theme of "Metal in Modern Movement Architecture."
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The Technology Seminar to be held in Tokyo, Japan, will focus on the use of Metal in Modern Movement architecture. In particular, The Docomomo International Specialist Committee on Technology (ISC-T) will collaborate with the National Specialist Committee (NSC) in Japan to focus on a seminar that discusses the use of metal and steel structures in Modern Movement Architecture. In particular, presentation of topics which focus on the repair methods, skills and craftsmanship towards the conservation of these structures is encouraged. It is important to note that metal and steel have also been used in Japan as a material which responds well to seismic events while simultaneously forming a unique construction that is part of the modern experience. On the basis of this background, we look forward to a lively discussion on the use of Metal in Modern Movement Architecture from all over the world!
Docomomo International is a non-profit organization initiated in 1988 by professor, architect Hubert-Jan Henket, and architect Wessel de Jonge from the School of Architecture at the Technical University in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The primary role of Docomomo International is to educate and exchange ideas relating to the documentation, history and technology of conservation, for the protection and safeguard of modern movement heritage. As one of the five working specialist committees dedicated to this mission, the Docomomo International Specialist Committee on Technology (ISC-T) was organized in 2000. In a joint effort and close collaboration, the national chapter of Docomomo Japan NSC Technology will now host an international seminar on the use of Metal in Modern Movement architecture in Tokyo, Japan.
This seminar will focus on all aspects of the use of Metal in modern movement architecture; these include but are not limited to the following topics:
\u0001 The use of Metal to form Modern Movement Heritage and Spaces
\u0001 Use of Metal in Repair Technologies and Conservation
\u0001 Use of Metal in Construction and Manufacturing Production Systems
\u0001 Natural forces in steel structures
\u0001 Other suggested topics
Docomomo Japan NSC Technology invites you to the academic conference in Tokyo in May 2010, as a seminar of Docomomo ISC/Technology. Its theme is "Metal in Modern Movement Architecture". The ISC Technology requests that all abstracts be submitted in English including abstract submissions from Japan. Abstracts in English are not to exceed 300 words maximum. Submissions of abstracts are to be sent by e-mail to the seminar secretariat.
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Notification of Abstract Acceptance: 01 March 2010
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
Two top retired Israeli and American generals last week published an unofficial theoretical sequence of events that is likely to precede any strike against Iran's nuclear program.
American general James Cartwright, most recently chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Maj.-Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin, former head of the Israel Defense Forces Military Intelligence and Israel Air Force chief of staff, used the exercise to determine what set of events would justify military action against Iran, and, if it comes to that, which nation - Israel or America - should lead the charge.
Generals Cartwright and Yadlin published the report simultaneously to the websites of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and Israel's Institute for National Security Studies (of which Yadlin is the current director) in hopes of sparking more concerted discussion between the two nations' political and defense establishments over the topic.
The narrative of the Cartwright-Yadlin document follows more or less what Israel and its supporters increasingly expect to see happen. Iran will continue to rebuff all international efforts to curb its quest for nuclear arms, necessitating a difficult decision by Washington and Jerusalem to implement preemptive military strikes.
Despite a deep desire to avoid yet another Middle East war, US President Barack Obama will, according to the two generals, feel compelled to take action, acknowledging that allowing Iran to "go nuclear" would be far more dangerous to American interests in the long run.
If it comes to that, Cartwright and Yadlin have a few suggestions:
America should lead the attack. The Arab states are less likely to feel compelled to react if the US is at the forefront of the action, and America has more capability to inflict serious damage to Iran's fortified nuclear facilities.
The attack should be extremely limited in nature, and by no means include a ground invasion. By acting in this manner, Iran will find no viable excuse to respond with a full-scale war against either American or Israeli interests or allies.
Israel should play a strong behind-the-scenes role, as it has more operational experience in attacking nuclear facilities, and has a far greater moral purpose for striking what it sees as an existential threat.
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If You Still Haven't Changed Your Facebook Places Privacy Settings, Do It Now
We've already told you how to disable (or enable) the feature in Facebook Places which allows other users to tag you at a location. Do this now! If you don't take any action, you're left in a confusing privacy limbo.
There are three situations a Facebook user faces, when it comes to the "friends can check me in" feature of Facebook's new location-broadcasting service. 1) You've enabled it. Any of your friends can check you into a place, as they would tag you in a picture or status update. 2) You've disabled it. Only you can check into a location. 3) You haven't bothered to change your privacy settings; you've neither allowed nor disallowed your friends to tag you. This gets confusing. TechCrunch explains what happens if users continue to coast along in situation three:
As soon as they get tagged for the first time, they'll get an email and a prompt on Facebook itself asking them if they'd like to allow their friends to tag them at Places in the future. Accepting this will allow any of your friends to tag you unless you go into your privacy settings and cancel it (see Option one).But even if you hit the "Not Now" button, you'll still be tagged in the relevant Places update. In fact, you'll still be tagged even if you haven't even seen the prompt asking you to approve Places tags. Facebook treats this as if you were tagged in a basic status update so it will show up on your Wall and your friends' News Feeds - you just aren't associated with whatever Place your friend was tagging you into (i.e. if your friend visits the venue's Place page, they won't see that you've previously checked in there).The logic here is that your friends could manually tag you in a normal status update anyway.
In short, if you're lazy and haven't adjusted your privacy settings, your friends can sort of tag you in a Places check in even if you decline to allow it when Facebook prompts you. Sure, the tag will only behave as a regular status update. ("John and Roger are at Brentwood Mall shopping for Star Wars memorabilia.") But these status updates will always broadcast your location. Get it? No? Well then go change your damn privacy settings, already.[TechCrunch]


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PORTLAND — A new variety of disease-resistant hazelnut aimed at the kernel market has been released by Oregon State University.
The cultivar, McDonald, was found to be "consistently productive with consistent quality" by a farmers' advisory committee that evaluated the trees.
OSU breeder Shawn Mehlenbacher announced the new variety at the annual meeting of the Nut Growers' Society in Portland, Ore., on Jan. 29.
While the cultivar has "not excellent yield, but good enough," the kernel fills nearly 51 percent of the shell, which is a high proportion compared to other cultivars, Mehlenbacher said.
"More of what you harvest is edible," he said.
For example, the Jefferson variety that is popular among Northwest growers produces nuts that fill roughly 43 percent of the shell.
McDonald also has a lower incidence of mold than Jefferson — 1 percent versus 4-5 percent, he said.
The size of McDonald trees is "grower friendly" at about 70 percent of Barcelona, a traditional industry staple. The new variety's nuts also mature about two weeks earlier.
The cultivar is named after Peter McDonald, a hazelnut grower from Wilsonville, Ore., who died last year.
"I hope the new release lives up to the name of the man for which it's named, otherwise I'm in trouble," Mehlenbacher told the audience.
McDonald was instrumental in funding the breeder position at OSU and kept hope alive when Eastern Filbert Blight, a fungal pathogen, threatened hazelnut production in Oregon.
"We went through some dark years, not sure the industry would survive, and he pushed for a brighter future," Mehlenbacher told Capital Press.
The McDonald cultivar is meant to supply the kernel market, which uses the nuts for chocolates and similar confectionary products.
Currently, roughly half the kernels consumed in the U.S. come from Turkey, the dominant global hazelnut producer.
"There's a wonderful opportunity to replace imports," Mehlenbacher said.
While the new cultivar contains a gene that confers resistance to Eastern Filbert Blight, McDonald was recently found to display some symptoms of the disease.
Such "strikes" have been known to occur on previously released resistant varieties, which may indicate the resistance gene isn't completely expressed by some trees.
When disease pressure is heavy, growers can expect some cankers associated with the disease to develop.
McDonald derives its resistance from Gasaway, a hazelnut variety that has been used in breeding since the late 1970s.
More recently, hazelnut selections from Russia, Turkey, Ukraine and Georgia have also been found to withstand EFB and will be used to develop future cultivars.
"Eventually we hope to pyramid several resistant genes into single cultivars," Mehlenbacher said.
Oregon State University will be seeking a plant patent for the cultivar and will collect a 50 cent royalty per tree sold to Oregon growers.
The new cultivar is compatible with Wepster and York, previously released pollinizer varieties.


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Beyonce Video Game Lawsuit Headed to Trial
Sounds like there's going to be drama in Queen Bey's kingdom. A video game company is suing Beyonce for $100 million, and a judge just agreed to let the case go to trial.
Software developer Gate Five claims that Beyonce agreed to develop a motion-sense video game called 'Starpower: Beyonce' for a cool $20 million. When she reneged on the deal at the last minute, the company sued for breach of contract, claiming that Bey's backing out cost over 70 people their jobs and destroyed their business.
Gate Five was slated to meet with financiers on Dec. 6, 2010, and claims Beyonce bailed on them on Dec. 3, 2010. Beyonce's lawyers argued that they were within their rights to walk away because Gate Five hadn't had its financing finalized yet. The result? The $100 million lawsuit.
Those numbers and dates didn't sit well with Manhattan judge Charles Ramos, who, according to the New York Post, gave Gate Five the green light to take the matter to trial. Ramos reportedly told Bey's attorneys, "You continue to negotiate right up until the time you pull the plug. That is not going to work with me."
Gate Five's lawyer, naturally, claimed to be "pleased" with the judge's decision, while Beyonce's team had no comment on the matter.


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Reddit boasted a record 1.8 billion page views in October.
Its competitor Digg, yeah not doing so well.
The site has seen its unique visitors in the United States plummet from 9.4 million in May to 4.6 million in October, The Next Web reports.
Reddit, by comparison, had 13.7 million US unique visitors during the same month (and 28 million worldwide).
In September, Digg rolled out a redesign that made it more like Reddit. The "Newsroom" feature was supposed to help it compete with Reddit's "subreddits." So far, that has not happened.


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Everyone in the publishing business realizes the important of reviews.
A review is part advertisement, part endorsement. Studies have shown that even the bad ones are useful in boosting sales. That's why publicists, and authors, spend much of their time and money getting books into the hands of those who review.
Internet reviews are thriving. In the mystery field, a good review or mention on websites (www.booksnbytes.com), listservs (www.dorothyl.com), newsgroups (news:rec.arts.mystery), and even blogs (www.sarahweinman.blogspot.com) can reach thousands of fans, and these are fans who buy books. Unlike newspapers or magazines, the World Wide Web allows people to respond, interact, and debate.
A print review will run for a day. An Internet review can circulate forever.
The downside is that amateur reviews are written by amateurs, and sometimes give away spoilers, or fail to convey any plot points whatsoever, or have grammar or spelling or coherency problems.
Sometimes there's even doubt that the reviewer has read the book at all.
There's a certain Internet reviewer named Harriet Klausner who has somehow managed to review every single book released in the past five years. I don't know anyone who has actually met Harriet. Perhaps it's because, like Shakespeare, she's actually a dozen people working in tandem (one of which is the Earl of Sandwich). Or perhaps it's because she's hooked up to a feeding tube and IV, never able to leave her bed due to reading and reviewing thirty books a day.
Though Harriet's reviews rarely amount to anything more than a brief retelling of the plot and a generic comment about how good it was (she never pans a book), I've seen her name and comments on actual book jackets, and I've heard that many publishers send her galleys.
The line between amateur and professional has become very blurred.
Professional reviewers have (or should have) a certain level of writing ability, some professional standards, and a realization that their opinion is only a part of what constitutes a review.
For the time being, the professional reviews dominate the public mindset, and these tend to be the ones that get into print. What did the Times say? Does Publishers Weekly like it? Can we salvage anything quotable from that Kirkus review?
The print reviewers were (mostly) kind to Whiskey Sour, and I was able to cull some good quotes for the paperback edition. I've been keeping my fingers crossed for Bloody Mary, because everyone has told me that reviewers are traditionally harder on the second novel.
The finger-crossing paid off, because I just received a good review in Kirkus for Bloody Mary. But my excitement was short-lived, because there is absolutely nothing I can quote from the review.
While being very complimentary of my book, the way the review has been written makes it impossible to crop out a sentence or liberate a phrase for use in my promotional material. The reviewer seemed to enjoy it, but never came right out and said that.
For example, "Jack and her partner, Det. Herb Benedict, have him in their sights, and that's when the fun really begins."
Obviously the compliment is "the fun really begins," inferring that the book is fun, but they didn't come out and say, "the book is fun."
Another line, later on, is, "Konrath keeps the proceedings moving so briskly that you may not even notice how many corpses are piling up--over a dozen, with plenty more in the backstory."
Again, there's a reference to "briskly moving," but worded in a way that's very hard to extract. Plus, the entire sentence draws attention to the violence in the book, which I wouldn't exactly call a selling point. Nor would I entirely agree with it (I would swear I killed less than a dozen people...)
A friend of mine is a genius (read: shameless) when it comes to paraphrasing reviews. He once took the quote "Astonishingly bad!" from the London Times and trimmed it to, "Astonishing..." - The London Times.
It made his cover.
I don't think I'll ever be that brazen. But talk to me again in ten years.
I have another friend who had a review so bad all he could cull was, "the book had... characters... a plot."
That one didn't make the cover. You win some, you lose some.
Ultimately, not being able to quote Kirkus isn't a big deal. The libraries and bookstores that read Kirkus will get the point, and hopefully be swayed enough to stock my book.
In the meantime, I'm waiting, scissors in hand, for more reviews. They can even be from amateurs with spoilers and spelling mistakes and coherency problems.
As Oscar Wilde said, "It's better to be talked about, than not talked about."
But I'm paraphrasing there...
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"No Woman, No Cry"
I came across this article, "America Must Do Better for Mothers in Childbirth, Says Documentarian Christy Turlington" in "Vanity Fair" magazine.
After learning that a woman dies in birth every minute around the world and that 90% of those births are preventable, former model Christy Turlington felt she had to do something. So, instead of just throwing money at the problem (which isn't always bad), she set out to create a documentary, "No Woman, No Cry" (see the trailer by clicking on the movie's title), showing the oftentimes fatal path women take as they struggle to obtain quality healthcare. Or even healthcare at all -quality or otherwise.
Turlington took her cameras to Bangladesh, Guatamala, Tanzania and the United States. She was determined to highlight the fact that the US is in 41st place (today we are number 39) regarding keeping women alive in birth. (Even with our techno-medicine obstetric care, women continue dying at an alarming rate.) And as bad as it is here, it is horrific elsewhere.
"Turlington chose these countries because they have the best chance of achieving United Nations Millennium Development Goal Five: reducing the maternal mortality ratio by three-quarters and achieving universal access to reproductive health."
Besides the film, which is being shown at various festivals around the world, Ms. Turlington Burns is also working on her Master's Degree in Public Health. Nice to know her committment hasn't ended just because the editing has.
I very much look forward to seeing this movie when it becomes available to the rest of us.


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On Saturday, Japanese artist Megumi Igarashi was arrested for the crime of distributing indecent material. And what did she distribute, exactly? Digital data that represents 3D modeling information of her vagina. After raising around $10,000 via her crowd-sourcing campaign, Igarashi was able to complete the construction of her planned vaginal-shaped kayak. As part of the campaign, donors were promised the digital file from which Igarashi was able to complete her design – it is for sending these files that Igarashi was arrested, and faces up to two years in prison and a fine of up to $25,000. If you thought sexist double standards were beyond apparent here in the States, then let me direct you to Japan's incredible double standards, most strongly evidenced by the celebration of penises in an annual penis festival and their stance on most international pornography standards. Known by the pseudonym rokudenashi-ko ( "good-for-nothing kid"), 42-year-old Igarashi began working with 3D models of her vagina as a response to the shame and ignorance she felt about her own genitalia.
From her web site: "I make art pieces with my vagina, which I would rather call Manko(MK). I thought it was just funny to decorate my vagina and make into a diorama, but I was very surprised to see how upset people get when they see my works or even hear me say the word Manko. Even when a TV station asked me to be on their show, they wouldn't dare let me say DECO-MAN because "MAN" is from the taboo word "Manko". Why did I start making these kind of art pieces? It's because I had never seen the vagina of others and I was too self-conscious of mine. I did not know what a vagina should look like at the same time, so I thought mine was abnormal. Manko and vagina, have been such a taboo in Japanese society. Penis, on the other hand, has been used in illustrations and has become a part of pop culture. But vagina has never been so cute. Vagina has been thought to be obscene because its been overly hidden; although it is just a part of a woman's body."
There is a petition circulating advocating for Igarashi's release that has already collected almost 19,000 signatures. You can watch her crowd-sourcing campaign video here. (via guardian and spoon & tamago)


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6-Year-Old Toms River Boy Accidentally Shot in the Head
A four-year-old Toms River boy remains in a trauma unit after being shot in the head by his four-year-old neighbor. His condition has been downgraded from stable to serious.
At a morning press conference, Toms River Police Chief Mike Mastronardy and Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph Coronado offered little detail about the victims.
They said the incident occurred at 6:43 p.m. The four-year-old took the .22 caliber rifle from inside his house and brought it out to the yard. A shot was fired at the six-year-old from 15 yards out.
The four-year-old boy's parents were "nearby," but officials would not elaborate. The young shooter's mother called 9-1-1.
Mastronardy and Coronado also did not offer information about whether or not the gun was legally registered and how it was stored, and whether or not the gun went off accidentally.
Counselors were on hand at both St. Joseph's Grade School in Toms River, where the six-year-old is a student, and the Cedar Grove Elementary School, the school in the neighborhood where the boys live.
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Nonprofit organizations and charities have distinct needs compared with other sectors of the economy. To get perspectives on the risk management and insurance problems that nonprofit managers face, I turned to several independent insurance agents and brokers who are experienced in the nonprofit market.
Read related: "Nonprofit/Charitable Organizations: Big Business, Big Risk."
It's a small world, and budgets are no exception. Despite the large combined size of nonprofit organizations, most nonprofit entities and charities are small. Overall, about 75 percent of charities that are required to report to the Internal Revenue Service showed yearly expenses of less than $500,000 in 2008. Just four of 100 charities reported expenses of more than $10 million.
Ronald Johnson of Western Dakota Insurors, Inc. in Rapid City, S.D., noted: "Nonprofit organizations generally have low budgets and are tight on money." The proof: Charitable giving fell 3.6 percent from 2008 to 2009, according to the most recent data from the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University as reported by the Independent Sector, a network for nonprofits.
One broker who works with a number of nonprofits commented that in the face of these budget pressures, some nonprofits are seeking to cut insurance costs with too little regard for the consequences. "We have seen some not-for-profit clients cut the heart out of their coverage and have really had to fight them on some decisions," he said. He suggests that agents and brokers get a careful read on the board of directors. Does it seem to have a good mix of community and business leaders? If so, that's a good indicator that the long-term interest of the organization will be upheld even when the pressure is on to cut cost.
Mission is critical
"In any selling situation you have to understand the needs of the customer and be able to convince the potential customer that you do understand these needs and their business model," said Ralph M. Ricketson, Jr. of McNeary, Inc., based in Charlotte, N.C. "There are some fundamental differences. Nonprofits rank nonfinancial objectives such as compassion, safety, excellence, accountability, innovation, faith, respect, friendliness, etc. highly."
Blind spots and misconceptions
Donna Haynes, CPCU, of Pilkey, Hopping & Ekberg, Inc., Tacoma, Wash., noted that charitable organizations and volunteers often need information about the nature of various coverage forms and guidance on policy selection.
For example, they might mistakenly look to a personal lines umbrella liability policy for the coverage they are seeking. "Personal umbrellas do not provide the same level of protection that is included in a nonprofit D&O policy," she said. "Personal umbrellas typically pay for bodily injury or property damage only." They also often need guidance on D&O issues such the definition of who is insured, and the most appropriate extended reporting period, she said.
The "event"-ual risk
Beware liquor liability. "A not-for-profit will have a fund raiser, selling tickets, which includes providing liquor," said Carole Hartman of Alper Services in Chicago. "In Illinois, this has been construed as selling liquor. Even though a not-for-profit has host liquor [coverage] it is wise to provide a separate liquor policy to ensure coverage."
Read related: "Social Services Profile: First Nonprofit Insurance Co."
Don't miss the miscellaneous
Hartman pointed out various out-of-the-ordinary risks:
- Travel accident and foreign liability is a must for entities that offer aid or services overseas.
- Miscellaneous professional liability is needed for any organization that offers any type of hotline offering professional help and/or referrals.
"Theft and embezzlement are hazards, but are often overlooked," said Haynes of Pilkey, Hopping & Ekberg.
Special risks
The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) estimated that volunteer time for 2010 was valued at $21.36 per hour. But that time is not free to nonprofits. Volunteers for nonprofit organizations and charities might not get paid, but they do cost.
Bill Yaeger of McNeary Inc. explained: "Many nonprofits have volunteers. The entity may not have considered how they want to cover them for general liability, workers compensation, medical benefits or other benefits. A general liability policy can easily be adopted to include volunteers as insureds, much as it covers employees."
There's an option, though: For a client, Yaeger moved coverage from a self-insured workers comp fund to a volunteer insurance program with medical and accidental death and dismemberment coverage. "We thought it was cost effective and we were able to provide a defined limit of coverage in lieu of broader WC coverage at a higher cost," he said.
Nonprofits have additional layers of volunteer risks
As employers, charities face the usual array of risks, but their board members and other volunteers present unusual risks. "Employment practices liability can include third-party coverage in case some board member or volunteer commits an act such as sexual harassment or discrimination against a third party," said Johnson of Western Dakota Insurors. "This usually comes with the directors and officers coverage at a low premium."
What's worse is that charity leaders may think they are protected without insurance. "At times a lawyer has told nonprofits that they do not need D&O coverage as there are state statutes protecting them. This is true but they generally only do part of the job," Johnson said. "They do not cover gross negligence, fraud or dishonest acts. And who is going to defend them until a determination is made? The directors are putting their personal assets on the line when acting in a voluntary capacity."
Read related: "Increasing Reliance on Volunteers Complicates Insurance for Childcare."
Johnson advised that, in addition to having a D&O policy, the charity's by-laws should include a hold-harmless agreement for the directors and officers in accordance with state statutes.
Ricketson of McNeary said, "D&O coverage for nonprofits is typically broader than what is available to for-profits. For example, the entity itself is covered to a much broader extent. Entity coverage for for-profit corporations is usually limited to coverage for securities claims."
Nonprofit organizations, their boards and volunteers have risk exposures that are much different from those of for-profit organizations. They also need the skillful guidance of an insurance agent or broker to help them understand those exposures, give them the same careful consideration they give all their other expenses in a world of tight budgets, and make the right choices to help the organizations carry out their missions of doing good.


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Can You Guess the Celebrity Cleavage?
Hey sports fans, can you guess who this celebrity cleavage belongs to?
This babe has been involved in sports all of her life and started out as a surfer/skateboarder from Northern California. Because of her background in sports, she was sought out as a host for EXTV, LG Action Sports Championships and ASP Surfing World Tour. From then on, she's had a wide list of jobs as a journalist and sportscaster, making her one of the hottest sports correspondents around.
Can you guess who it is?


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Hands On with God of War: Ascension Multiplayer
The gigantic Kratos statue outside Sony's God of War: Ascension booth
Coming into this year's New York Comic Con, there were only a handful of games I was excited to see, one of which was God of War: Ascension. As a frothy-mouthed supporter of the original trilogy, I know single player will be another visceral, beautiful, face-melting affair, however the addition of multiplayer was a bit of a worry point. Thankfully multiplayer is exactly what Sony had on display on the Javits Center floor, so I was either leaving with soothed nerves or the rage of the Gods.
Disclaimer: like a good Christopher Nolan film, this article will leave a variety of open questions. The kind Sony folks protecting the giant Kratos statue were unwilling to offer answers when questions were posed. Whether or not this was due to my lack of press badge is up for discussion.
We started with some very underwhelming customization options, as I was only able to adjust my avatar in a few simple ways: choice of two very similar helmets, and choice of either mace or sword. My armor was reminiscent of Hercules' and I believe my name was something along the Herculean line, so I assume I was his champion. Can't say for sure because no one would answer my questions! SCEA: 1, OBG: 0.
After the cosmetic options, I was given the opportunity to choose a magical skill and was then forcibly ushered into the game by the Sony employees, who had no desire in fostering my snail-paced menu exploration. Due to this, I may have missed some options which would have been nice to mention here, but such is life. The match started with teams on opposing sides of the map, as is the norm for these games. The battle system felt very much like it did during the campaign of God of War 3, which is welcome. The player is blessed with light and strong attacks - both of which can be modified to special attacks while holding L1. My Spartan (from Sparta, not UNSC) could do everything else expected of Kratos, such as jump, block, evade, parry, throw, all the mundane necessities. There's also a Burst move (speaking in Guilty Gear terms) which knocks your nearest opponents back and recovers a bit of health. Yep, all the tools required to become a God of the arena.
The stage up to play was built as a selection of elevated platforms connected by bridges, ziplines, and hookpoints where 8 warriors fared combat as a gigantic cyclops thrashed the very near background. The game started much as a 4 on 4 deathmatch pit between Spartans and Trojans, but seemed to evolve into an objective piece once the teams realized what what happening. Different points on the map were contested to control the chained cyclops, and when either team held the points, they also held the Gods' favor.
Battle felt surprisingly tight and well polished, almost as if I were playing a single player affair. The action ran smooth in all respects whether 2 or 8 players on screen, with the titanic cyclops thrashing just behind all the while. During battle, prompts were given for various actions, similar to how Kratos dispatches non-player characters in campaign. There are gruesome quick time events during grapples as well as executions to rid yourself of an opponent. The heat of battle was so frantic I often found myself missing these commands, perhaps they are not prominent enough, or maybe I'm too impatient. Either way, I do think the commands could use a little more visibility.
Aside from properly thrashing everything on screen, there are other concerns to take note of. The battlefield is littered with respawning chests which contain magic, health, bonus points and other goodies. There are also powerups to grab for a temporary advantage, all in line with the mythos of course, such as Hermes' boots which give you a speed boost and are simply dashing. My favorite touch to the map are the selection of traps laying about, which are triggered by pulling a switch sitting just within spitting range of the hazard. A pit of spikes greeted me once too many during my session, and only afterwards did I begin paying attention to where I roam and when I engage combat. I'm not sure if the traps caused friendly fire, for obvious reasons. SCEA: 2, OBG: 0.
After each side had hacked, trapped, grappled, platformed, and magicked the Hades out of each other, a weapon of Zeus himself screeched down from Olympus and crashed onto a platform beside the weary cyclops' drowsy head. In the heat of battle and the flurry of 8 player fury, I may have missed what exactly occurred with said spear (SCEA: 3, OBG: 0), but our match was capped with a thrilling cut scene of one of my teammates wielding Zeus's spear and dispatching the cyclops with a clean pierce to the middle of the eye. Sick.
I will never question the integrity of the God of War: Ascension campaign, as my previous experiences have have prepared me for the enjoyment to come. At a time I was concerned about multiplayer, but after my time spent in the old world, my worries have been surprisingly released as red orbs of joy, and now I look forward to more of the multiplayer of the Gods.


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Dr. J Shows Off Impressive Dunking Skills at age 63
He's still got game.
In this video, the great Julius Erving, one of the greatest dunkers in NBA history, shows he can still dunk, even at the ripe old age of 63.
Dr. J's antics come on the heels of 50-year-old Michael Jordan showing he can still elevate at his camp.
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Anthony Berent ARM 110 Fulbourn Road Cambridge CB1 9NJ United Kingdom
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Anthony is a software engineer with over 25 years experience. He has worked in computer aided design, and on software for networking hardware. Over the last 10 years his main area of work, first for Digital, and more recently for ARM, has been on tools for debugging embedded software. In particular he lead the team that developed the first software to exploited ARM's trace hardware, and has worked on a number of ARM's and Digital's debuggers.
For the last two years Anthony has spent much of his time investigating the problem of describing embedded hardware to debuggers. From these investigations he concluded that there is an opportunity to extend and use the IP-XACT standard (created by The Spirit Consortium for the exchange of information about IP between EDA tools) to solve this problem.
Anthony is now interim chairman of The Spirit Consortium's new Debug Technical Working Group, which is working on the application of IP-XACT to embedded debug.
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Nan at Gardening Gone Wild is hosting a Garden Bloggers Design Workshop - Made for the Shade. I have enjoyed reading the other workshops since I have been blogging, but this is the first one I felt comfortable participating in. At least 3/4 of my garden space is shaded and fortunately some of my favorite plants (regardless of light requirements) are shade plants. I have decided to list my top 10 favorite shade plants, all of which I grow now in my zone 8a garden, though not all of the pictures were taken there. I could not imagine a garden of mine without either one of these plants.
Acer palmatum Japanese Maple
Who doesn't love these trees? I only have two of them, but if I had more room, I'd have more Japanese Maples. In this climate they need light shade to do well. Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua I could never live much further north than I do now. Not only would it be too cold for me, but I could not grow these. Ferns
I have several ferns but my two favorites are Ursula's Red Japanese Painted Fern (Athrium niponicum 'Ursula's Red') and the evergreen Autumn Fern (Dryopteris erythrosora). The Painted Fern looks best when you put other things near it, but the Autumn Fern can stand alone. Both of them have been very longed lived for me.
Edgeworthia chrysantha - Paper Bush, Rice Paper Plant
I need this plant because its fragrant cheery flowers bloom in February when I need something fragrant and cheery the most.
Helleborus orientalis - Lenten Rose
Evergreen, winter blooming, flowers for a long time, drought tolerant, shade loving, beautiful, and seeds around nicely - what's not to love?
Hydrangea macrophylla
When I see the first bloom of the hydrangeas, I know summer is here. I took this one yesterday morning. I have more varieties of this plant than any other, or maybe its the Camellias - I'll have to count.
Liriope is common as dirt, but this variety has chartreuse foliage that creates pools of light where none exists. It is also the newest member of my top ten. This one is shown next to another plant that almost made the list, Hardy Begonia (Begonia grandis).


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Helen Williamson died at home in East Hampton on May 26. She was 93.
Ms. Williamson was born in Southampton on Nov. 26, 1917, to Marjan and Lydia Szczepankowski. She grew up on a farm in Wainscott and graduated from East Hampton High School.
Ms. Williamson raised her five children in Bridgehampton, taking in laundry to earn extra money. She lived in Bridgehampton for 40 years before moving to East Hampton 15 years ago.
Ms. Williamson was a prolific gardener and had a flower garden in Bridgehampton that reminded her family of window boxes in Holland. She passed along her love of flowers to her grandchildren and her great-grandchildren.
She enjoyed spending time them, watching them play and grow, her family said.
Ms. Williamson is survived by her children James Williamson of Sag Harbor, Eileen Cob of Virginia Beach, Va., Helen Wallace of Wilmington, N.C., and Patricia Hanson of Castle Rock, Colo. A fifth child, Michael, died in 1998. She is also survived by 11 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren.
The family received visitors on May 30 at the O'Connell Funeral Home in Southampton. A Mass of Christian burial was said on May 31 at Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Bridgehampton. Burial followed at Sacred Hearts Catholic Cemetery in Southampton.


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Samuel John Luchsinger
1922 - 2013
Samuel John Luchsinger died on Monday, Oct. 14, 2013, at Heritage Homes in Watertown. He was 90. The cause of death was old age and complications of dementia.
He and his wife, Margaret, owned the Salick Jewelry Store, located at 217 Main St. in Watertown, for 42 years, and sold the business in 1988, currently Bradow Jewelers. Salick Jewelers was founded in Watertown in 1853. Mr. Luchsinger was highly respected in the Watertown business community for his integrity, sincerity and friendliness to customers and colleagues. Sam was a lifelong practitioner of "everything in moderation" and kept himself physically fit by taking daily walks, breathing fresh air and enjoying his surroundings, especially big old trees. He delighted in the faces of children. He took pleasure in the beauty and symbolism of eagles and often refrained, "Rather an old eagle than a young sparrow."
Mr. Luchsinger's greatest joy was his marriage of 67 years to his wife, Margaret. He was constantly at her side both in family life and in business. For many years he kept a weekly afternoon golf date with her.
Samuel John Luchsinger was born on Nov. 19, 1922, in Oshkosh. His father, Samuel, was a judge in the Winnebago County Court. His mother, Mildred (Kensel), was a housewife. Young Sam enjoyed fishing on Lake Winnebago and graduated from Oshkosh High School.
Mr. Luchsinger served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during World War II and received an honorary discharge. Following his service, he enrolled in Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., and graduated in 1946.
He married Margaret Ann Salick of Watertown on June 15, 1946. He joined the Salick family business shortly thereafter.
Mr. Luchsinger attended Sunday Mass at St. Bernard Church, followed by dinner at home with his family, a short nap, and often a car trip to "poke around" with a few of his children. He instilled in his family the value of education and "using your mind." He had a strong faith in "Our Creator," and carried a peaceful inner reserve that made his family feel protected and secure.
Sam was active in Watertown's social life and loved a jolly good time with his wife, friends, family, good food, singing and dancing, and joking around. Even as his health failed, he amused his family with his wry, understated sense of humor.
Mr. Luchsinger was trained in gemology and a respected member of the American Gem Society. He was a lifetime member of the American Legion and a former member of the Watertown Elks Club, Watertown Chamber of Commerce and the Watertown Country Club.
After he retired, he and his wife lived in Venice, Fla., during the winter months and in Watertown the rest of the year. He was a member of the Epiphany Cathedral and Capri Isles Golf Club in Venice.
Besides his wife, Margaret, Mr. Luchsinger is survived by two sons and three daughters, Steven (Ping) Luchsinger, Stoughton, Richard (Amanda) Luchsinger, Estes Park, Colo., Margaret Luchsinger (Craig) Vossbrinck, Scotts Valley, Calif., Patricia Luchsinger, New York, N.Y., and Amy Luchsinger (David) Moecher, Lexington, Ky.; 10 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; a sister, Ellen Baynes, Oshkosh; and nieces and nephews.
His parents, Samuel and Mildred Luchsinger, and a brother, William, preceded him in death.
Mr. Luchsinger's family would like to thank Marquardt Hospice of Watertown, especially his nurse, Jayne.
Memorials in Sam's memory can be directed to St. Bernard Church or Friends of the Watertown Public Library, or the charity of one's choice.
A funeral Mass will be held at St. Bernard Church in Watertown at 10 a.m. on Saturday with Monsignor Daniel T. Ganshert officiating. Visitation for family and friends will be at Pederson-Nowatka Funeral Home on Friday between 5 and 7 p.m. and at the church on Saturday between 9 and 10 a.m. Private inurnment at St. Bernard cemetery will take place at a later date.
Pederson-Nowatka is caring for the family. To leave an online condolence or to light a candle in Samuel's name, please visit www.pn-fh.com.
Pederson-Nowatka Funeral Home 213 S. Fifth St. Watertown
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On Tuesday the Turkish central bank more than doubled short-term interest rates to stop the recent slide in the lira. India's central bank also hiked rates again, and South Africa followed suit Wednesday.
But after an initial rally, currency and stock markets headed sharply lower again.
Several major emerging markets, stars for much of the last decade, now seem increasingly vulnerable. The current mini-panic started last spring and summer, when the U.S. Federal Reserve indicated it would start tapering its $85-billion monthly bond purchase program, called quantitative easing or QEIII. (On Wednesday, it said it would cut back monthly bond purchases by another $10 billion.)
Emerging markets had been one of the prime beneficiaries of cheap money and now that that money is getting slightly less cheap, investors are heading for the hills.
But two other leading currencies have become collateral damage. Over the past year, the Australian and Canadian dollars both have lost more than 10% of their value against the U.S. dollar, and currency traders expect them to fall further still. What's more, their own central bankers have suggested they want to see their dollars even weaker.
That reverses a long period in which the Aussie and the loonie towered over the greenback.
More importantly, it shows — along with the tumble in emerging market assets — that the era of the 2000s, marked by China's rise and the commodities supercycle, is over. Commodity currencies like the Aussie and the loonie are as passé as Hannah Montana and Britney Spears.
Countries like Australia and Canada "are rebalancing their economies by encouraging weaker currencies," said Sebastien Galy, an FX strategist for Societe Generale in New York.
And central bankers aren't shy about admitting it. In October 2012, one U.S. dollar bought you less than 98 Canadian cents; this past week, a greenback was worth C$1.11.
But Bank of Canada Governor Stephen S. Poloz said last week that "inflation is expected to remain well below target for some time, and therefore the downside risks to inflation have grown in importance."
Translation: We're more worried about deflation than inflation.
And the Bank's Monetary Report put it even more bluntly: "Despite depreciating in recent months, the Canadian dollar remains strong and will continue to pose competitiveness challenges for Canada's non-commodity exports."
Investors got the message. Chief economist Douglas Porter of BMO Capital Markets published a report entitled "BoC declares open season on loonie."
"Until today, the Bank of Canada had been careful not to openly talk down the loonie," he told The Globe and Mail. "They effectively gave sellers the green light."


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A Tale of Terra Nui
I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
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Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
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Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
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Of Shakaz and the Sharaku
From the beginning of the universe, there was Shakaz. A sister island to Zakaz, in a dome beside that of its sibling. And while Zakaz was once a lush and fertile land, the expanses of Shakaz were always desert, dotted by oases. Yet, to its natives, Shakaz was always a paradise.
It was Shakaz, home of two races similar to the Skakdi — the Torika and the Sharaku. These races were related as the Matoran are to the Toa, for Torika hold the potential to transform into Sharaku. But unlike the Matoran and Toa, the small Torika and the powerful Sharaku lived, fought, and loved together, as equals, for millennia.
But, as Makuta Spiriah and his monstrous experiments reigned on Zakaz, so did a Makuta finally descend to rule Shakaz — a fiend known only as the Dark Lord. The Dark Lord enslaved the inhabitants of Shakaz. He forced the Sharaku to serve as soldiers to the Brotherhood, for the Sharaku already possessed varied powers, including those of the elements. Bleak fortresses dotted the land, and Shakaz had its own Dark Time.
The Dark Lord, in his mad dreams of glory, soon left Shakaz, taking with him seven mighty, elite Sharaku, warped by his darkness. They were accompanied by their personal Torika servants — Hanak, Zanta, Thukor, Rieka, Kavan, and Vukaz. The Dark Lord came to the isle of Terra Nui, and waged war upon it. He sought the great Kanohi Zlinj, Mask of Nature. Yet the strength of Terra Nui's eight Toa, aided by the rebellious Torika and the Zlinj itself, destroyed the Dark Lord and his servants, and the invaders' fortress on Terra Nui sank below the waves.
And so, the six Torika came to live on Terra Nui, in the village of Terra-Koro. Soon, the Toa Terra and Terra-Koro's Turaga Akito departed for the isle of Kemet Nui, to visit its elder, a member of Akito's old Toa team. On their journey, they were first shipwrecked on Punt Nui, where they fought the foul Atukam Aso and the twisted Toa Ballom. Then, on Kemet Nui, the group faced both Aso and her mate Apep, the Scourge of Kemet Nui. Combined with the Toa Septiu of Kemet Nui, the Toa Terra confronted these Atukam, and the demonic hordes of Betshu, in a mighty battle.
On Terra Nui, as the Torika guarded it in the stead of the Toa Terra, strange beings called the Quntaino were unleashed on the island. Led by the being Argantaros, they sought mysterious ends on Terra Nui. In time, during their conflict with the Quntaino, the unusual energies of a cavern on the frozen Mount Tongaru transformed the six Torika into Sharaku. With their new strength, they were ultimately able to resolve the crisis of the Quntaino.
When the Toa Terra returned to Terra Nui, the six new Sharaku then departed their second home. They bought transport from the infamous Skakdi bounty hunter Chazok, and set a course back to Shakaz, for, although the Dark Lord was dead, the six Sharaku knew their home still suffered from the blight of the Brotherhood's forces . . .
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JJ Abrams Regrets Keeping Khan Secret For 'Star Trek Into Darknes'
After the disappointing fan response of Star Trek Into Darkness, which included voting it the worst Star Trek film of all time, director JJ Abrams says he regrets lying to the fans about Khan.
Speaking to MTV, Abrams admitted that he regrets keeping the true nature of Benedict Cumberbatch's character secret and even directly lying about it. Originally, Abrams went on record telling fans that beloved villain Khan would not appear in the new film. After the casting of Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch, Abrams assured that Cumberbatch wouldn't be playing Khan, but a character named John Harrison. When we all saw the film, Abrams kept his word at first and Cumberbatch was introduced as a rogue Starfleet officer named John Harrison, only to later be revealed to be Khan. There was immediate backlash due to Abrams deceiving fans, which he now says he regrets,
The truth is I think it probably would have been smarter just to say upfront 'This is who it is.' It was only trying to preserve the fun of it, and it might have given more time to acclimate and accept that's what the thing was.
However, Abrams doesn't accept responsibility for deciding to keep Khan a secret, instead saying it was a decision made by the studio, who were intent on the film not being made for the existing fan base,
The truth is because it was so important to the studio that we not angle this thing for existing fans. If we said it was Khan, it would feel like you've really got to know what Star Trek is about to see this movie. That would have been limiting. I can understand their argument to try to keep that quiet, but I do wonder if it would have seemed a little bit less like an attempt at deception if we had just come out with it.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, it's a major mistake to remake any established franchise but not make it for the existing fans, the people who made the franchise a success in the first place. Who do you think are going to be the first people in line to see it? Were there really that many people who didn't like the original Star Trek films complaining that there wasn't a Star Trek movie for them?
What Abrams doesn't seem to understand is that the fans, me included, weren't upset about being lied to, but that Khan was used in the first place. His presence made no sense in the overall structure of the story, he was used only as a way to appease the already frustrated fans, and he's from India but played by the whitest British man alive. The whole film felt like a poor spoof of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, widely considered one of the greatest science fiction films of all time. All we can hope now is that Abrams has learned his lesson before he starts filming on the new Star Wars.


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HANG TIME NEW JERSEY — For NBA fans like us, there's nothing better than League Pass. Having the ability to watch every game every night (and then again the next day) is heaven.
Of course, with local broadcasts, you get local broadcasters, which can be good and bad. It can be good, because these guys know their teams better than most national broadcasters. It can be bad, because these guys love their teams more than most national broadcasters. And they're usually not afraid to show that love.
Air Check is where we highlight the best and worst of NBA broadcasts.
This week, we have a special edition of Air Check, solely dedicated to the verbal stylings of one Clyde Frazier, who provides color commentary for Knicks broadcasts on MSG.
There was so much good stuff, we had slice it and dice it into two separate videos.
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A couple of my favorites: "And then the neophyte. He's been a delight tonight!" and "That play is indicative of their continuity, their spontaneity, their altruism."


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So you want to make a movie? Easier said than done.
The artistic realm of movie-making is one of the more challenging mediums in which to express one's ideas. First you might want to seriously consider some kind of practical film education.
I personally attended a broad university where I majored in electronic media with a concentration in animation, eventually earning a bachelors degree in fine arts. Some of the classes were more flexible than others, allowing me to incorporate more of my interest in making movies. This approach relied heavily on resourcefulness, networking skills and a high level of self-motivation. Since a real "film-making" class didn't exist I sort of had to teach myself, often times through trial and error.
There are also quite a few short "film-making" non-degree courses offered at universities and smaller community education centers. This can be a more affordable alternative for those who are financially challenged.
One other alternative is to try and contact your local public media access center. These places are never used to their fullest potential. They operate in similar fashion to a public library. Everything is free:(some access centers require you to volunteer to be able to use their equipment) cameras, tripods, lights and editing machines. The training is free as well. A self-motivated film-maker could realistically go to their public access center, pick the brain of one of the employees (usually someone who went to college for video production and loves every opportunity to display their knowledge), get trained on expensive equipment and do it all for free!
If institutional education is not your thing, then watch as many movies from the directors you admire as possible and allow everything to sink in. The behind-the-scenes bonus features now included on DVDs can also be invaluable sources of film-making knowledge.
Your first film-making attempt can be quite intimidating and overwhelming. What I would recommend is starting off with something short and easy.
For example, silent film is a fairly low-maintenance format. Creating a silent film means you do not have to worry about one of the most challenging aspects of film: sound. Professional sound, without a lot of money and experience, is the most difficult thing to mimic in the domain of film-making. Also try to keep the length of the movie short and sweet (5 to 15 min.) Nobody truly realizes how much time and pain goes into making a short film, let alone a full length feature. Bottom line: keep it within a manageable scope and do not bite off more than you can chew.