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Supplementary Service (QSIG-MWI)
4th edition (December 2001)
This Standard specifies the signalling protocol for the support
of the Message Waiting Indication supplementary service (SS-MWI)
at the Q reference point between Private Integrated services Network
eXchanges (PINXs) connected together within a Private Integrated
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The supplementary service MWI enables a Served User to be sent
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The Q reference point is defined in ECMA-133.
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The protocol defined in this Standard forms part of the PSS1
protocol (informally known as QSIG).
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Isolated Limb Perfusion, or ILP, is a procedure used to treat locally metastatic melanoma , specifically in-transit metastases. In-transit metastases are those lesions that occur in between the original melanoma site and the nearby lymph node basin. For example, if a person's primary melanoma was on the right calf, the lymph node basin draining that area would be in the right groin. In-transit metastases would thus include any subcutaneous melanoma lesions that occur between the original site and the lymph nodes, such as on the thigh.
Treatment of in-transit metastases can include surgical resection (if feasible), isolated limb perfusion, systemic chemotherapy, systemic biologic therapy, or radiation therapy.
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Maybe it was better when Urban Meyer wasn't saying anything about Aaron Hernandez.
The former Florida Gators coach, who now runs the The Ohio State program, initially refused to talk about the former Gator who is accused of murder. On Saturday, Meyer sent multiple texts to the Columbus Dispatch regarding Hernandez. But Meyer didn't address an unsolved 2007 Gainesville shooting.
Since then, Meyer reportedly has said more. According to Pat Dooley of GatorSports.com, Meyer says he was told at the time that Florida players were questioned as witnesses.
"I didn't think about it again until a couple of days ago," Meyer said.
According to ABC News, it was more than that. An eyewitness to the shooting initially said former Florida safety Reggie Nelson was present, and the eyewitness gave a general description of the shooter that seems to match Hernandez. More importantly, ABC News uncovered information indicating that, when police tried to question Hernandez, the then-17-year-old invoked his right to counsel.
That would be a fairly important fact to share with the head coach. Meyer's comments imply that it wasn't.
To explore the one further, Meyer would have to identify the person who told Meyer that the players were questioned. Our sense is that Meyer would just as soon pour fresh concrete down the rabbit hole, and move on.
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The nudes in Olivier Fermariello's series "Je t'aime moi aussi" aren't the familiar forms. Do they make you uncomfortable, these images of men and women outside the norm? Do you want to look away? Do the portraits feel exploitive?
People with disability in most cases feel the discrimination of not being considered entirely as a man or a woman: instead they feel treated either as children, either as beings belonging to a third gender, neutral with no libido. This project is about people, who are suffering from this kind of discrimination, but are not willing to give up their fight choosing a direct way to express themselves revealing their intimacy.
There is very specific platonic ideal of attractiveness that we all know, even if we choose not to accept it. Sure Dove has been campaigning for "real beauty" and Debenhams put size 16 mannequins in shop windows, but the vast majority of self-acceptance/social-acceptance images we see feature non-disabled people. The exclusion of images of people with disabilities removes them from the context of normalcy, both alienating and alien-making.
The series title translates to "I love you, too," and this comes through in Fermariello's photos. His pictures are not sensational —there is little effort to make the subjects of the photos look strange or other. There is also very little artifice, especially in the photos of the little person. She is captured, documentary-style, allowing us to see commonalities. This is an adult woman, sexual and sensual. All of the people photographed are making a clear statement in their fierce nakedness.
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Retired IBM executive Gul Iqbal of Bangalore stood up, told the crowd that Pawlenty reminded him of Bill Clinton when he was a governor, and asked Pawlenty when he planned to run for president. Pawlenty deflected the question, and instead talked about how he and Clinton both share a common concern about education.
A Bangalore-based consultant, Mohit Agarwal, said he didn't know much about Minnesota before the governor's speech, but believes Pawlenty is forward-thinking and his attitude may help attract Indian companies to Minnesota.
"He was spectacular," Agarwal said.
Pawlenty talked up Minnesota's workforce, quality of life and the business interest of mutually beneficial partnerships.
On their first full day in Bangalore, often dubbed India's Silicon Valley, the business delegation heard many dos and don'ts about the Indian marketplace. Pawlenty also appeared to be doing his homework, taking a front-row seat during presentations and participating in an afternoon tour of IBM's Bangalore office building.
From floor wipes to how to market flour, speakers about doing business in India said to be successful, Minnesota companies need to adapt products for the Indian customer. Simply selling the same items that are on Twin Cities shelves won't work.
"The needs of India are so specific, so unique," said Ashish Khandpur, who heads 3M India Limited, and moved to Bangalore last year after 17 years at the company's Maplewood headquarters.
Khandpur told the delegation he's researching products lines that meet the needs of Indian consumers.
A version of a dust-free sander that goes for $4,000 in the United States was developed for sale at $100 in India.
"In the process of doing this, we haven't compromised our values, our principles," Khandpur said.
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The Minnesota-based company decided to sell whole wheat flour to make roti, which is the bread eaten daily in many parts of India.
Most Indian women don't have ovens, so baked products were out of the question. Convenience foods wouldn't work either, because most Indian women don't work outside the home and pride themselves on home-cooked meals for their families.
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MIDDLEBURY — While some high school boys are out playing baseball, Aidan Ryan is stuck inside with his dad. Aidan doesn't mind, though; he and his father, Greg, this fall released their second CD together as the band "They Might be Gypsies," featuring 16-year-old Aidan on nylon stringed guitar.
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As James Murdoch's Tuesday testimony before the Leveson Inquiry gives way to Rupert Murdoch's on Wednesday, the UK press is salivating over the notion that David Cameron coordinated with the Murdochs on their takeover of BSkyB before he became prime minister. And that would mean Cameron lied when he told Parliament in July he had no such contact with the Murdochs, and they're about to repay him for his lack of support for them before Parliament.
As The Telegraph's blogger Christopher Hope points out, Murdoch has already testified that he "briefly discussed" the BSkyB bid with Cameron, and that the two had dinner just as News Corporation was preparing to take over BSkyB, and conflicting with Cameron's press briefing from last July. At the time, his office stated: "Asked to consider the fact that the Code states that Ministers must avoid any appearance of conflict, the PMDS said the PM had not been involved in any of the discussions about BSkyB." The evidence in Murdoch's latest hearing also shows he worked closely with Jeremy Hunt, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, as News Corporation prepared its bid to take over BSkyB. A Telegraph editorial suggests Hunt, an avowed supporter of Murdoch, couldn't have acted as an unbiased overseer of the deal, something Cameron should have known when he appointed him.
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As first steps go, participants agreed, the inaugural University of Nebraska Rural Futures Conference was a big one, helping to set the stage for creation of the new Rural Futures Institute.
But the next steps are fraught with huge challenges, speakers said as the three-day conference ended. The conference drew about 450 people; its aim was to help set the agenda for the institute, which is expected to be in operation by the fall.
The institute is being established to build partnerships between the university and rural communities in an effort to help rural areas be resilient, sustainable and innovative.
"We already know how to do this," said Ellen Weissinger, senior vice chancellor of academic affairs at UNL. "We have a 140-year track record" as a land-grant university in helping agriculture prosper and innovate.
"We just need to take that model and apply it to even more areas of rural life," Weissinger added.
After a morning of informal small-group conversations that surfaced hundreds of ideas, large and small, for the institute, afternoon discussion featured both excitement and cautions about the work ahead.
Several people observed that the conference was rather insular, dominated by academics from UNL and other universities, and the institute must move beyond that to be successful. Mary Kay Quinlan, associate professor of journalism at UNL, said some suggested the institute consider a youth advisory board and encouraged it not to leave out community, state and tribal colleges.
The institute will challenge the four campuses of the NU system to collaborate and cooperate in ways they haven't before, said Roni Reiter-Palmon, professor of psychology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. "This system, this organization is not designed for interdisciplinary work," she said.
Another closing-panel participant, David Procter, director of engagement and community development at Kansas State University, warned against the "danger of overpromising what can be done by the institute."
And Matt Rezac, director of rural community partnerships at the Omaha-based Sherwood Foundation, cautioned the university against creating a new bureaucracy, what he called "another corridor of mystery for people on the outside, another layer that people don't quite understand."
Weissinger said the institute's work won't be universally popular and not everything it does will succeed.
"If we do our jobs well, we will explore ideas that will be discomforting," she said. "Given the scope and breadth and complexity, we're going to have to be patient while we fail."
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"There's an urgency to get this done. There's a sense of hope," said Esmeralda Cruz, an extension assistant from Purdue University. "People really believe something can come out of this. It's not just one more conference you go to and nothing gets done."
Weissinger said UNL faculty are primed to lead such an effort because "by and large, they find meaning in the fact that they work in Nebraska."
Sam Cordes, a former UNL rural sociologist who's now retired from Purdue, added "We ultimately have to see ourselves as public servants ... We do have a responsibility to do this type of work."
Cordes, a senior advisor for the institute, noted he's been involved in rural development for 40 years. "I have never seen anything considered that's even remotely close to what's being considered here."
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The study also revealed that while these devices may be small, the data breaches that can result from lost or stolen USBs are huge. More than 70 percent of respondents in this study said that they are absolutely certain (47 percent) or believe that it was most likely (23 percent) that a data breach had been caused by sensitive or confidential information contained on a missing USB drive. On average, organizations in the study lost more than 12,000 records about customers, consumers and employees as a result of missing USBs.
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Debi and Bob Boies were adopting a rescue doberman from Tallahassee, Fla., to their home in Landrum, S.C., and needed someway to transport the dog quickly and safely. Friend Jon W. Wehrenberg suggested he fly to Tallahassee to pick up the dog.
Upon completing the mission, Jon began researching animal rescues and found that roughly 5 million animals are euthanized each year.
From that humble start, Debi and Jon teamed up to co-found Pilots N Paws.
The pair established both an online bulletin board (PilotsNPaws.org) designed to pair pilots with rescue opportunities and a not-for-profit 501 c3 corporation so pilots are able to deduct their costs as a charitable contribution. They don't offer tax advice, but say the deduction can be for owner pilots as well as renter pilots. The more detailed your records, the more deduction you may be eligible for.
The organization has a loose structure. More than 370 pilots have registered, for free, and more than 2,000 total users have signed up. There is no pressure for any pilot to fly any mission. If they are able and willing, the pilot and pet rescuer get together to hammer out details and the mission is accomplished.
Any animals can be rescued, not just dogs and cats. Debi and Jon know of a recent flight that rescued three snakes and a monster lizard from south Florida and another flight carried a pot-bellied pig and a baby chick.
While Pilots N Paws encourages pilots to send in photos and share their experience, there is no formal tracking of missions completed or animals rescued. "However, we are confident we've saved more than 1,000 animals," noted co-founder Boies.


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Left Kadiak at 4:30 A.M. and on the way to camp saw lots of V.G. cormorants, pigeon guil., a few murrelets, gulls in plenty, + eagles. Got to camp at 6, ate hard tack + coffee + struck the trail by 6.30. In the marsh meadows we scared [Page 44] up a [female] Green W. Teal, which I missed, + a second afterwards saw 5 little teal-lings in a slip, wh. weren't more than a week old, at the most. On the way up we saw many eagles, and signs of ptarmigan. The usual birds, golden crown Sp., Townsend's Sp., yellow + pileolated W's were in the alders most of the way up, and Magpies were in the balsams (balm of Gillead) in the river bottoms between the mts. Up in the top notch a ptarmigan sailed over, and soon after a hawk-owl flew, falcon-like, over us - but wasn't seen till out of range. Several ptarmigan were seen on the way down, + a covey of a newly hatched young ones were caught. They were beautifully mottled, + when the hat they were in was turned over, they disappeared with a magic velocity, apparently sinking into the moss and grass. About half of them slid into old field-mouse burrough, and the rest half hid under grass or poked down part way under the moss where their olive yellow mottled backs became a part of the place. Several more teal were seen on the flats on the way home, and four or five large ducks rose out of the sedge which looked like {female] mallards.
Mr. Ridgeway came back from Kukak with a Western double crested cormorant and a dipper, and Mr. Devereux, of the hunting party, had a horned puffin and a tufted P., and a dark parasitic jaeger. Ridgeway also had an eagle with [Page 45] a spread of 7' 5-1/2", and in most perfect plummage.
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Corpse Cart (Unholy Lodestone)When the lodestone bell rings, dark magic exudes and ripples across the battlefield.
Corpse Carts act like magnets for Dark Magic, drawing their power from the land itself and re-animating the dead around them. Sometimes a Corpse Cart is hung with a great bell, the clapper of which is a fell lodestone of eldritch provenance. When necromantic magic is thick in the air, the bell tolls and ripples of Dark Magic emanate from the Corpse Cart. Under the influence of this ominous knell, the dead are drawn back together and cadavers stagger to their feet. Other Corpse Carts are lit by braziers that burn with infernal flames. The smoke from these 'balefires' contains particles of Warpstone that can drive enemy Wizards temporarily insane. Though most were hunted down and put to the torch, for more than a thousand years the remaining Corpse Carts have wandered along the back roads and dirt tracks of Sylvania, wearing death and misery like a shroud. On dark nights, they enter ramshackle villages, stirring the dead in their graves and filling the dreams of slumbering peasants with visions of rot and death. These strange constructs are valued highly by Vampires, for Undead creatures near a Corpse Cart will fight with frenetic vigour, bolstering the battle line of their armies.
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The ringing of the arcane bell atop the Corpse Cart inspires Undead minions to continue fighting, even when grievously wounded.
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Joe sez: If you've missed the previous guest blogs, they've been fascinating and informative.
You can read Richard Denoncourt talking about cover art here:
You can read Ann Voss Peterson talking about pacing here: http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/07/pacing-by-ann-voss-peterson.html
You can read Nick Spill talking about his path to publication here: http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/07/guest-blog-by-nick-spill.html
You can read Constance Phillips and Jenna Rutland and Joe Konrath talking about their path to publication here: http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/07/guest-post-by-constance-phillips-and.html
You can read Ian Kezsbom talking about Fuzzbomb Publishing here: http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/07/guest-post-by-ian-kezsbom.html
You can read Gary Ponzo talk about first lines here: http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/07/guest-post-by-gary-ponzo.html
You can read Chris Everheart talking about technophobia here:
Now here's Joe Flynn...
You can read Chris Everheart talking about technophobia here:
Now here's Joe Flynn...
Thanks, Joe, for the opportunity to honor the memory of a fellow writer's father, help a good cause and introduce myself to your audience.
My story as a writer began on the CTA. I took a Monday morning L ride to Loyola University for my first day of college. I intended to become a lawyer. Somewhere between the Sheridan Road and Loyola stations, though, I got the idea for my first short story. Came to me out of the blue. Put the kibosh on a career in law.
Only twenty years later, I got my first novel (traditionally) published.
Of course, a few things happened in between. I completed my studies, graduated and searched for a job in my hometown that would let me write and earn a paycheck. I looked at writing for one of Chicago's newspapers, but the people there told me the papers were looking for great reporters not great writers.
I turned my attention to the ad agencies in town. After a mere six months pounding the pavement, I landed my first job as a professional writer. Started at $13,000 a year. It was wonderful. I was writing and working with smart art directors. I got to wear jeans and polo shirts to work. On Friday afternoons, the agency provided free beer and wine, and people would roller skate through the halls.
The one big drawback to most ad agencies is the account executive, better known as the suit. Suits scare easily, and the thought of taking "risky" ideas to a client terrifies them. Safe ideas, ones that will kill a writer's reputation as a creative thinker, are what they prefer.
Dealing with that reality over the years, made me think I'd better spend my free time working on my own ideas. I was living in L.A. by then, so I tried writing screenplays. I wrote a dozen of them and had one optioned by 20th Century Fox. That ratio put me in mind of Pauline Kael's famous line: "Hollywood's the only town where you can die of encouragement."
Not wanting to die of anything, I switched to writing my first literary love, novels. As with many novelists, I started by drawing on what I knew best, my own life. I set my first novel in the part of Chicago where I grew up, just north of Wrigley Field. I wrote the story of a former cop looking for a missing boy in his own neighborhood. He's forced to treat his neighbors as suspects, and they don't like it. I called my novel The Concrete Inquisition.
I sent it to an agent in New York that I'd found through a contact in L.A. She submitted it to two publishers, got two rejections and quit on me. Persistence was not her middle name. I found another agent. She sold "Concrete" to Signet Books to be published as a paperback original. That was okay. I got paid $8,500, my novel would be sold in stores throughout the country and my editor said he saw big things in store for me. I was happy. But I dedicated my novel to all the people I love most, in case it was the only chance I got.
For a while, it looked like that would be the case. My editor got caught up in a shuffle at Signet and lost his job. My agent got seriously ill and wasn't able to work for over a year. I felt I owed it to her to wait for her to recover.
In the meantime, I kept writing and completed my second novel, Digger. It's the story of a Vietnam vet who fought in the tunnels of Cu Chi. His best friend disappeared in one of them. After he comes home to his small town, he and two other friends secretly recreate a portion of the wartime tunnels. The town is divided by a vicious labor strike, and then there's a murder. When the town's major employer, who's trying to bust the union, learns of the tunnels' existence, he responds by bringing in a former member of the Viet Cong to hunt down the vet.
After waiting as long as I could for my agent to get well, I had to find new representation. My new agent knocked the ball out of the park. He got me a two-book deal with Bantam. The first book, Digger, got a high five-figure advance; book two was pegged at a low six-figure advance. Even better, I got an additional audio-book deal, and Bantam gave me a reprint deal for the rights to "Concrete" that had reverted to me.
Things couldn't have been better — until they all went downhill.
The problems started with the first phone call from my new editor at Bantam. She told me that I'd have to do a fair amount of rewriting on "Digger," but if there was anything I really wanted to keep, I could. I wanted to keep the ending. My editor wanted me to change it. When I reminded the higher-ups at Bantam of what my editor had promised to me, the publisher sided with me and my editor bailed out on me.
The editor who took her place … well, we weren't a match made in heaven. Bantam rejected the novel I submitted for my second book, and I had to come up with something new. While I was writing the replacement novel, the term of the contract for the reprint of "Concrete" expired.
I had made several phone calls to Bantam warning that the expiration date was coming up. What I didn't know, because I wasn't told, was that my agent had informed Bantam he'd get me to sign a free extension. Well, the expiration date came and went. I was asked to sign the free extension and I said no. That pretty much killed things with Bantam.
They published the second book of the contract — The Next President, a political thriller that anticipated the election of Barack Obama by eight years — but gave it a halfhearted publicity push at best.
Fast forward eight years, a period during which I kept writing. I went out looking for a publicist and found a publisher instead. It was a small startup house with big ambitions. The publisher had been given a copy of my novel The President's Henchman, the story of James J. McGill, the first private eye to live in the White House. He's married to the first female president, and solved the murder of her first husband. I was offered what, by my old standards, was a modest advance, but it was enough to pay for a trip to Paris to do the research for the second novel in the series.
The publisher told me that he was going to do all sorts of publicity for the book, and would buy front-table placement for it at Barnes & Noble. Only B&N refused to sell him space because his company was new and small and located in the sticks. That was where that relationship started to unravel, and I got the publishing rights to The President's Henchman back just last month.
It was the last of my traditionally published books to return home.
What made that good news was that a few years earlier somebody told me about this blog called A Newbie's Guide to Publishing. What an eye opener that was. I bought the ebook of the same name. Shortly after that, my wife and I started indie publishing all those novels I'd written over the years. We have twenty-one titles on KDP Select right now. With a collection of McGill short stories and the reissue of The President's Henchman we'll have twenty-three titles within the next four weeks. A novella and two more novels are scheduled to round out the year.
My novels span different genres, but they all fall under the umbrella of what I call smart entertainment. Character is stressed as much as plot. And a keen sense of humor runs through all my books.
I'm much happier working through the publishing company my wife and I started, Stray Dog Press, Inc., than I ever was in traditional publishing. I'm closer to my readers. I get direct feedback. I get paid monthly, and I publish on my schedule not someone else's.
All that and I make a living, too. The challenge now is to make an even better living by reaching more readers and adjusting to changing conditions. That and, as always, to keep on writing.
If you'd like to read a free copy of The President's Henchman, the first novel in my Jim McGill series, it's free now through July 22, 2013 on Amazon.
Thanks again, Joe.
Joe sez: I'd love to say that Joe's story is atypical. But it isn't.
Remember the line in Jurassic Park? "Life finds a way."
Well, if there is some possible way to eff up a writer's career, "Publishers find a way."
Not to mix quotes, but I can also appropriate Tolstory here. "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Except substitute "families" with "authors."
I have quite literally lost count of all the ways my peers have been screwed by the publishing industry. Each has their own unique tale of woe and outrage. Each had a giant, uncaring machine kill their hopes with ennui or malice or accident or bad ideas or broken promises or (insert woe here.)
My happiness these days stems from control. I no longer have a group of self-important NY publishers responsible for making sure they keep the promises they made, without which my book will tank. This isn't to say that publishers are evil (though some are). Publishing has a lot of smart, good-intentioned folks in the industry.
And yet, time and again, we see stories like Joe's. A happy, successful author isn't the norm. It's the rare exception. Everyone else gets served a shit sandwich with extra corn, and told to finish every bite and smile while doing it or else You'll Never Work In This Town Again.
That's possibly why many mega-bestselling authors (I'm looking at you James Patterson and Scott Turow) defend legacy publishing and can't comprehend how any author would want to go indie. There are a few dozen authors (possibly a few hundred) who got the star treatment and drank the Kool Aid and look at the ebook revolution in disbelief. Marie Antoinette eating cake while Paris erupts in violent outrage.
Guess what? If my publishers had made me a big success, I'd probably be signing their praises too.
Unfortunately, that's the big exception. The vast majority of authors wind up getting screwed. Hell, a boilerplate publishing contract is a license to screw.
Thankfully, authors now have a choice, and people like Joe Flynn can earn a living without the incredible hassle that comes with an industry deal.
Some folks say that I'm angry and bitter. Some folks don't like my tone. Some folks erroneously attribute my self-pubbing success to the (non) push from my legacy publishers.
Some folks have Stockholm Syndrome. I knew about this three years ago, and I don't preach about it out of anger or bitterness. This blog exists so authors have access to data and opinion that might help inform their decisions. And based on emails and comments and people I've met, the message seems to be getting out there.
That said, anyone who automatically follows what anyone says on the Internets (me included) needs a reality check. There is no one size fits all. Every writer's goals, and path, are different. The secret to success is keeping an open mind, experimenting, learning for yourself, and never taking anyone's words as gospel.
This isn't an ideology. This is a business. Figure out how to make it work for you.


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Tech's Magdalena Ridge Observatory Now Open for Business, Oct. 8, 2008
By Thomas Guengerich
SOCORRO, N.M., Oct. 8, 2008 – Magdalena Ridge Observatory recently marked the most significant milestone in its 13-year history. In September, New Mexico Tech's new world class-observatory moved from construction phase to operational phase, according to Chuck Cormier, Program Director for the Observatory.
Cormier said the facility's fast-tracking 2.4-meter optical telescope is now off federal funding and the university has initiated full stewardship of the first of two world-class astronomical facilities. MRO, as the observatory is known, also includes an advanced state-of-the-art optical interferometer still under construction that will eventually incorporate ten 1.4-meter telescopes.
New Mexico Tech physics faculty first conceived the project in the early 1990s. The 2.4-meter telescope features a mirror built for the Hubble Space Telescope, which was not chosen by NASA. The mirror was installed at Magdalena Ridge in October 2006, and has been in a testing and set-up phase for nearly two years. The manufacturer, EOS Technologies of Tucson, Ariz., will continue to conduct final performance adjustments through May 2009. In the meantime, observatory scientists are supporting several funded projects and the telescope is officially open for use by paying customers, including external users, Tech faculty, and students.
"The 2.4-meter telescope has now joined EMRTC, Playas, ICASA and other research divisions in the New Mexico Tech family of cost centers," said newly-appointed director of the 2.4-meter telescope facility, Dr. Eileen Ryan. "We already have been successful in soliciting business from external customers like NASA and the Air Force. We are laying the groundwork to ensure that the telescope will become a valuable resource for Tech students through faculty-funded research."
Ryan said she is actively working with the Tech administrators to pursue funding opportunities to make telescope time available directly to undergraduate and graduate students to enhance their educational experience.
"This is all very exciting," Physics Department Chairman Dr. Dave Westpfahl said. "This means a lot of things, but the first thing I think of is what it'll do for our students and our faculty."
Westpfahl said the MRO will be a huge asset for students interested in astronomy.
Jason Speights, a graduate student in astrophysics, said he is excited to use the Magdalena Ridge Observatory to study the angular rotation of spiral galaxies.
"We have a huge community of people interested in astrophysics or astronomy," he said. "This telescope enriches what's available for students at Tech."
Speights came to New Mexico Tech from Texas with the main intention of using the MRO to continue his astrophysics research.
"We'll get good data on stellar phenomena," he said. "With this telescope right here, I have easy access to scientists who can help me write proposals, get time on the telescope and help me use the telescope."
Early in 2008, the Magdalena Ridge Observatory earned its first research contract. After a successful trial, NASA awarded a three-year $825,000 contract to study Near-Earth objects on a potential collision course with the Earth.
Eileen Ryan is now actively soliciting more paying customers to use the telescope. She is forming alliances and partnerships with organizations that have an intrinsic need or desire for knowledge or data about space.
"I am cultivating a basis for research with the National Science Foundation, NASA and the Air Force," Ryan said. "We have used and will continue to use the telescope to characterize manmade objects for space situational awareness. We can contribute to improving national security by studying space objects in the near-Earth zone and developing methods to be able to identify in real time if they are friendly or hostile."
Dr. Van Romero, Vice President of Research and Economic Development said the observatory represents a crowning achievement for New Mexico Tech and its main collaborator, the University of Cambridge.
"New Mexico Tech was featured in Popular Science as being a top laboratory university," Romero said. "This observatory is way cooler than anything Popular Science considered."
Romero, who has three degrees in physics, including two from New Mexico Tech, plans on teaching a class in the spring 2009 semester. He will use the observatory as a laboratory for a physics class in explosives engineering. Students will observe asteroids, and then conduct experiments at one of Tech's testing ranges in blowing up meter-sized "asteroids."
"Sounds like fun, doesn't it?" Romero said. "I think I should be able to keep their attention."
The observatory will be used as a set for the TV program "Blow Up U," a reality series set at New Mexico Tech that will begin filming in early 2009.
The University has a variety of smaller telescopes at Etscorn Observatory, the largest of which has a 14-inch aperture. The 2.4-meter telescope at MRO, with a 96-inch primary light collecting mirror, will offer images with resolution at least 50 times greater than anything available at Etscorn. Instead of using an eyepiece, the MRO uses state-of-the-art instruments to acquire images.
Professor Peter Hofner said he will use the new telescope to generate infrared images of young stars. He hopes to be able to look at stars forming in our galaxy that are from 100 to 2,000 light years away from Earth.
Hofner and his students will examine and analyze young stars that are thought to form from mass accretions, from a disk around them, similar to Saturn.
"I have great hopes for using the observatory," he said. "This instrument will greatly increase the resolution available at infrared wavelengths."
Eileen Ryan said the telescope has three main missions: traditional astronomical research, educational outreach and national security or military work.
Ryan and her husband Dr. Bill Ryan, the telescope scientist at the 2.4-meter facility, were the researchers responsible for getting the NASA contract funding to track near-Earth objects, the work for which pays for about one-third of the telescope's operational time.
"Our 2.4-meter telescope is the largest in NASA's network of telescopes that discovers and characterizes Earth-crossing asteroids," Eileen Ryan said. "As a consequence, we can see the faintest – that is, smallest – of the asteroids being discovered. That means we can contribute to solar system astronomy like never before, and on a daily basis, we are doing work that is groundbreaking and cutting edge."
In December 2007, NASA asked Bill Ryan to track an asteroid that was on a potential collision course with Mars, with the possible impact to occur within a month's time.
"We were able to get critical orbital information on the asteroid to NASA within 12 hours of receiving the request," Bill Ryan said. "We were the only telescope immediately available that could take data on such a faint object, which had a visual magnitude of 24.5."
Those observations eventually helped to rule out that a collision with Mars would occur.
Another potential customer is the Army, which is interested in using the telescope to track missiles at the White Sands Missile Range. Two special, uncommon features allow the telescope to provide detailed tracking of missiles. First, the telescope can look 2 degrees below the horizon, which gives the site a good view of the missile range 30 to 100 miles away. Also, the telescope moves 10 times faster than most traditional astronomical telescopes, and can keep up with a missile rapidly traversing the sky.
Tech was quite lucky to find an excellent mirror for the telescope – and at a bargain price. Two mirrors were finalists for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in the late 1980s. The agency selected one – the least-expensive mirror.
After launching the Hubble in 1990, NASA discovered that they had chosen poorly. The mirror in space was ground incorrectly and needed costly repairs in 1993.
The Air Force acquired the mirror for a missile tracking project, but the mission was terminated before a telescope could be built. As the story goes – perhaps apocryphally – the Air Force had simply warehoused the mirror and was considering demolishing it when New Mexico Tech offered to take if off the military's hands.
Because the mirror was built for space, it is 70 percent lighter than a standard mirror of its size. The original designers of the mirror also needed to design a specialized cell that would work to keep the mirror's shape from flexing in Earth's gravity. "The people who created the (at the time) state-of-the-art mirror and support cell say it cost about $8 million to develop and manufacture," Ryan said. "The market value now is about $2 million … and we got it donated to us."
All those considerations created challenges and they've all been overcome. Now, the sign is out: "Magdalena Ridge Observatory: Open for Business."


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My childhood fascination with movie and TV-related trading cards started with - of all things - a loaf of Wonder Bread.
It must have been late 1977 or early 1978, and Star Wars was the one-and-only blockbuster of the day and my constant obsession (I was 8, I guess...). Well, those canny makers of Wonder Bread decided to slip special collectors cards from the George Lucas space opera in each and every loaf of their product, and that made every trip to the local Shop-Rite a wondrous one! What an incentive to eat loads of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches!! In fact, I remember trying to slip my beautiful calico cat, Penny, some pieces of wonder bread when no one was looking, so we could get the next loaf faster. Had...to...collect...Star Wars...cards...
But then I discovered (thanks to my parents), a flea market in New Jersey called Englishtown, and one cold Saturday morning in the late 1970s, I found a vendor there selling packs of bonafide Star Wars cards from a manufacturer named Topps! About ten or so cards came in each carefully wrapped pack, and each pack included a stick of crumbly chewing gum, stickers (which I quickly adhered to everything I could...) and information about the making of the movie on the back side of the cards. The front of the cards always featured wonderful photos from the movie and were even sequentially numbered for easy collecting.
Naturally, I had to have them all. But then the first "blue" set of Star Wars cards gave way to the "red" set, and I was still collecting. Then the red set gave way to the yellow set, and I kept buying. I also remember an orange set...but the point was, there were something like 300 frickin' cards to collect just from the first Star Wars movie. Honestly, I don't actually remember trading many of these cards with friends, just keeping them in a drawer and trying to find the ones I didn't yet have. Today, I have what's left of my Star Wars collection (and I fear I've misplaced many over the decades...) in a nice loose-leaf notebook, with each card in a plastic holder. Geek alert! Geek alert!
Yet Star Wars was merely the gateway for more and more hardcore (!) trading card experiences. I've written on this blog before about how 1979 was one of the greatest years of my childhood because it saw the release of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Black Hole, Moonraker, Alien and on TV, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century and Battlestar Galactica. It was a hell of a time to be a young fan of science fiction "space adventures," and it was just great (especially that Christmas...)
Well, I lived in a town named Glen Ridge in New Jersey, on a street called Clinton Road, and our house was only about two blocks away from Bloomfield, where there was a small convenience store (we called it a "milk store" back then for some reason). Anyway, that store sold -- wait for it - trading cards from all these great sci-fi productions. My grandfather (who passed last January after a long illness), used to give my sister and me silver fifty-cent pieces every time we saw him, and I would save these up and use them to purchase trading cards.
I think that even as a kid, I was most "into" collecting things from Star Trek. And Star Trek: The Motion Picture truly fascinated me. It seemed so different from the space combat shows like Star Wars, Galactica, Buck Rogers and even, to some extent The Black Hole and Moonraker. Well, Topps did a great job with their set of 88 cards (and 22 stickers) from the movie. Many of their cards featured close-up views of the re-crafted U.S.S. Enterprise, the new "pajamas" uniforms and other interesting details. For one thing, there were a lot of new and really weird aliens in Star Trek: The Motion Picture that barely appeared in the film. But suddenly, on the cards, you could see all the weird costumes and make-ups close-up, and I thought that was fantastic. It opened up my eyes to the diversity of the Star Trek universe, So I enjoyed these cards tremendously. I still have 'em too. A complete set. Also stored safe and proudly in a notebook.
I was only nine or ten when the Sigourney Weaver blockbuster Alien came out, so I understand why my parents wouldn't let me see it. It was R-Rated, after all. But my next door neighbor, David, was the same age as me and he got to see it, and consequently was always talking about it. The movie sounded so cool, and naturally I felt inferior for not having seen it, so it was back off to the "Milk Store" (by then operated by Krausers, maybe...) to purchase cards from the Ridley Scott movie. Like the Star Trek: The Motion Picture set, these trading cards were fascinating to me because some of them revealed early designs of the spacecraft and set designs (By Ron Cobb). The cards were also - frankly - my first look at this now-classic alien design and the movies' main characters.
By 1983 and the advent of Return of the Jedi, I felt I was too old to be collecting trading cards, so I put my various collections away, and didn't think about them much. But, by 1992, I was back on my crazy science fiction kick, this time as a young adult. I was working at a chemical "flavoring" factory in New Jersey that summer, and I met a guy in the warehouse who was selling trading cards from Alien 3. Although a lot of people hated that David Fincher film, I thought it was pretty awesome - even artistic - and the price was right, so I bought the whole series and re-commenced my long tradition buying whole collections and displaying them in books.
The Alien 3 cards were nicely done, and fascinating because - again - some of the cards seemed to refer to events that weren't in the film. For instance, in the movie released, a dog was infected with the alien chestburster, but in an earlier version, it had been an ox, I believe. So there were some interesting discrepancies to chart in the set.
In 1993 and 1994, I began my adult obsession with the mid-1970s TV series, Space:1999. I collected all the laserdiscs, bought a laser disc player, and set about watching all of the episodes and recording my observations in a journal. This is how my first book, published by McFarland, actually came about.
I wanted to feature a section in my Exploring Space:1999 book about collectibles (how convenient!) and my then-girlfriend-soon-to-be-wife, Kathryn, patiently indulged me buying up comic books, magazines, action figures, model kits, water pistols and the inevitable trading cards from the series. The card set had been produced by Donruss in 1976. There were 66 cards in all, but no stickers, and all the scenes were from the first year. Hence no Maya, to my dismay. Still, these cards are great because they adroitly capture the minimalist, visual appeal of the series, and many cards display the fantastic miniature special effects work from the show (particularly the hanger bay where the Eagles are grounded between flights).
During the years from 1995 - 2005, I've been on a sometimes-passionate mission to collect trading cards from the franchises I missed between 1966 and 1992. One of my favorite finds (and I paid 35 dollars for it) was the entire trading card series from the short-lived 1974 Planet of the Apes series starring Mark Lenard, Roddy McDowall, Ron Harper and James Naughton. I had a special Planet of the Apes day at a flea market called Metrolina in Charlotte: I picked up the trading card set and a Planet of the Apes lunch box on the same day (total price: $70.00).
Over the years, I have also begun collecting cards from the 1984 David Lynch film, Dune (which I guess turned out to be a bomb...), from Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters, from the Bond flick, Moonraker and on and on.
I have to say, I enjoy owning trading cards from almost any TV series -- from Happy Days to ALF. Also, my dear friend, Christopher Curry, recently gave me as a gift an unopened pack of Jaws 3-D cards from 1983. I'll tell you, I didn't even know that Jaws 3-D card existed.
Anyway, I think that as a rule, trading cards provide the same joy that colorforms, novelizations, storybooks and Little Golden books do. They're a way to nicely experience a favorite production again and again, but without a VCR or DVD player. Collecting trading cards isn't as passive an experience as watching TV can be, and I think it even teaches one a degree of patience. It also happens to be an entertaining pastime.
You'll notice I haven't ventured into the modern world of trading cards here. I'm aware that this collecting niche/market has just really, really taken off in recent years, but ultimately I'm a nostalgia freak. I like the cards from the productions of my childhood, and the new cards just don't hold the same appeal for me. Not that there's anything wrong with collecting or enjoying them, it's just that I prefer the universe of Space:1999, Planet of the Apes, and so forth.
So, let me hear your stories, folks! Who collected trading cards growing up? Who still does? And what's your greatest trading card story?


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Lyle's Golden Syrup
A question about this product...
What exactly is it and what is it used for? Bread baking or sweets?
A question about this product...
What exactly is it and what is it used for? Bread baking or sweets?
Hi Janet,
Both Lyle's Golden Syrup and Black Treacle are hugely popular in the UK and have been around over 100 years.
Tate and Lyle are manufacturers of sugar from cane only. The other main sugar producer in the UK, Silver Spoon from British Sugar is made from beet.
Golden Syrup is used in a variety of different ways. It's popular drizzled into porridge and has a variety of uses in baking. For instance it makes greatr flapjacks. It has the hygroscopic advantage of all syrups. But it is not as flavoursome as other syrups, although it is of course, very sweet!
Best wishes
ps. website is here, although it's not that informative to be honest:
how it compares in flavor to honey or maple syrup or molasses....or is it more like karo syrup?
This is like asking what a bananna tastes like.
I grew up on the stuff (thanks mom) and it is one of those taste/memory triggers for me. It has a warm, buttery flavor unlike anything else. I have yet to find a source for it locally but am always on the lookout for it when i travel.
There is a whole foods in Little Rock, I will look for it next time i get round that way.
My favorite way of eating it... Toast, Waffles, Licking the back of a spoon :o)
was much like a very light molasses (in U.S. terms). Sweeter and not quite as "dark" in taste as Grandma's light or Br'er Rabbit Gold, for instance.
in Canada the equivalent is Roger's Golden syrup, a thick delicious treat. My DH likes it on hot buttered biscuits right out of the oven, poured over the melted butter. This is great.
This was the syrup of choice of my mother, she wasn't really into corn syrup, and swapped out any recipe that asked for corn syrup with the golden.
I can't describe the taste, although the buttery comment is close. Its great drizzled on pancakes, its thicker than any maple syrup or pancake syrup and is sort of like very thin caramel oozing along the pancake.
My actual favourite syrup is chokecherry a thin pancake syrup made from my own pickings, my daughter loves this with breakfast sausages and pancakes.
I can't, obviously, talk for TROC (The Rest Of Canada), but Lyle's is readily available in La belle province.
Hi Janet,
Yes it is a syrup made from cane.
It does not carry the flavour of the products you mention. We don't have Karo Syrup in the UK to my knowledge, although it appears to be a corn syrup. My guess is they will be quite similar in terms of relatively light flavours, but the Golden Syrup will probably be just a bit sweeter than the Corn Syrup.
You know, for years I always thought Lyle's Golden Syrup was a corn-base product too. Then it dawned on me that it was part of the Tate & Lyle based empire, and so would be made from cane!
Hi Janet,
Rose Levy Beranbaum refers to Lyle's Golden Syrup as 'refiner's syrup' in her book The Cake Bible.
Imho, Lyle's Golden Syrup tastes a lot better than regular corn syrup.
(Rose advises Lyle's Golden Syrup can be used interchangeably with light corn syrup; I've done so many times and have been very happy with the result).
:^) from breadsong
It's very highly refined cane syrup. The viscosity is like molasses (perhaps not quite as thick) and it's intensely sweet, easily as sweet as corn syrup, perhaps more so. I use it to make caramels. You can buy it at Whole Foods here in Colorado (and expect to pay a small fortune for it).
Most cane syrups are not nearly as refined as Lyle's. I like the unrefined ones much more, like Steen's Cane Syrup.
I love Lyle's, it is a wonderful syrup and I also use it in place of corn syrup.
I'll ask my SNL to bring me some of your suggested syrup back from his next trip to LA. I'm sure he's heard of it. The molasses also, sounds wonderful for my ginger bread cakes, too. Reading the history about the LA cane, brings back my childhood memories of buying sugar canes for a nickel or dime and chewing on them.
You can order Steen's directly from their website.
Their order form looks rather ancient, but they ship quickly.
Try it with buttermilk biscuits.
Wonderful syrup with a flavour unlike any other - available here in British Columbia at my local supermarket @ $3.99 for 250ml. But when they run out it seems to take months before they get more. Whenever I go back to England I bring back a large can of it ! I'm suprised nobody has mentioned making syrup tart - Tartshell , syrup and enough bread crumbs to to soak up the syrup. A few decorative pastry strips accross the top and baked at 400 degrees for 25 minutes. Lovely sliced cold. ( or warm with custard ! )
...since I bought any, but it was about $6.00 for a tiny jar (maybe 11 ounces?).
Hi Janet,
I guess this shows the costs of importing!
I just checked Sainsbury's online. A 454g tin costs 68p, on special offer just now. Ordinarily, the retail price is 85p.
I am quite shocked, for a number of reasons. Hold on to those teeth now!
Best wishes
Hi Janet
1 dollar = 0.64 british pounds.
So you could say that the tin of Golden Syrup I highlighted above cost just over 1 dollar equivalent...and it weighs 1 imperial pound!
I reckon you are paying between 10 and 12 dollars for the same imperial pound in the US!
As I said, wow!
They sell it in tins in Ireland, but the homemade steamed pudding with Lyles' Golden Syrup is heavenly! I'm going to use a tablespoon or two in the sticky buns I'll be making on Wednesday.
There are several classic puddings, popular in the UK both in the home and restaurants, that have Golden Syrup as one of their main ingredients. Typically:-
Steamed golden syrup sponge pudding
All the above links are to the BBC web site where there are also several variations of each, but you will find lots of other recipes for similar dishes on UK sites. Whilst the last one is called Treacle (Molasses) Tart and can be made with dark treacle, it is more frequently made with the light coloured syrup in my experience.


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The Plein Aire Cottage Artists and guest Jen Savedra will open their "Coastal Cottages" exhibition on October 23th 2008 at the Food Gang, Bal Harbour Florida. This exciting exhibition will feature cottages and scenes of both Florida and Europe. The show runs through December 2008.
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