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Noncovalent bonds are weaklings compared to familiar chemical reactions, but they add up to strongly influence the shape and behavior of molecules.
Roald Hoffmann
I used to like my energies big. Strong chemical bonds and large energetic reactions are dramatic and easy to observe and understand. They make fire burn and drive much of industrial chemistry. But a lot of the world around us and inside us works on more subtle atomic and molecular interactions that operate on energy scales 10 or 100 times smaller.
Consider the following phenomenon: You dip a paintbrush into water, or watch Esther Williams jump into a pool—as she often did with staged abandon, wonderfully coiffed, when I grew up and first went to the movies. (If Esther Williams means little to you, substitute the singer Rihanna.) When the paintbrush or Esther emerge from the water, their hairs, to put it colloquially, are stuck together. The first instinctive reaction is to say that the hair clumps up and that the brush acquires its point because they are wet. But hold on: Look at the brush while it is in the water—the hairs remain apart, and you can't get wetter than that!
So, it's not wetness that makes the hairs clump. Rather, it's the small hydrogen bonding forces between water molecules, which are greater in number when as many water molecules as possible are near each other. The macroscopic manifestation of this bonding is called surface tension: It's why water droplets form in clouds, and it's what allows whirligig beetles to scoot on the surface of ponds. It's what C. V. Boys calls "the skin of the water" in his wonderful 1911 book Soap Bubbles: Their Colors and Forces which Mold Them, which Ben Widom brought to my attention. The energy of hair plus water is lower when the hairs clump together; the small hydrogen bonding forces that bring water molecules together carry along the hair strands with them.
Such weak, or noncovalent, bonds are ubiquitous, and their prevalence gives them a power that belies their modest nature. In water, they influence the global geology and climate of the Earth. In organic molecules, they regulate how proteins fold and hold together DNA's double helix. Despite my partiality for big energies, the power of accumulated small energies have prompted me to question my prejudices.
What is big from one perspective is small from another, and energy can be measured in a variety of ways. By "big energies," I mean those equal or greater than about 1 electron volt per molecule, which is equal to 23.1 kilocalories per mole, or 96.5 kilojoules per mole. A photon of yellow light has an energy of about 2.1 electron volts.
In theoretical chemistry, I was looking for molecules that in one bonding arrangement could be at least 1 electron volt per molecule more stable than in an alternative configuration, or that would require an activation energy (the barrier to a reaction taking place) that is at least 1 electron volt lower than a competing reaction, thus proceeding much more expeditiously. I knew that the strength of the hydrogen bonds that hold together the base pairs of the DNA in my body are, per pair of atoms involved, at least an order of magnitude smaller than 1 electron volt. So are the "dispersion" forces (more on these in a moment) that make the molecules around me—be they acetaminophen or ethanol—solids and liquids rather than gases.
Quantum mechanics, through accurate solution of Schrödinger's wave equation for the energies of the matter waves, is needed to describe theoretically the reactants and products in a chemical reaction. I think the reason I favored the large gobs of energy was that my way of solving Schrödinger's equation was … lousy. (I'm just a quantum mechanic—it comes with the chemistry.) I could only get approximate energies, plus or minus an electron volt of the solution. For energetic reactions that is good enough.
Yet I knew that energies much less than 1 electron volt could make a big difference in fundamental molecular processes, such as making functional proteins. Every molecule solves Schrödinger's equation exactly, without worrying about it. Nature's way of exercising decisive control is through the accumulation of many small differences. Once proteins of some complexity (containing more than 100 amino acids) became the toolkits for making and breaking bonds, then small differences in the folding and variations in the kit components (the amino acid sequence) create local environments (active sites) that are exquisitely tunable.
Through accumulation of small interactions, Nature creates an effective qualitative difference in the rate of cleavage of a carbon–carbon bond (C–C), the geometry of binding oxygen (O2), or the firing of a nerve signal. There is room in biology for large dollops of energy: Witness the two photons used in photosynthesis. But soon even that large influx of energy is partitioned in a cascade of many small reactions. This partitioning maximizes efficiency for the overall process, getting the energy of the photons into the energy courier of the cell, adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
Even if I was unable to calculate energies exactly, I've grown to appreciate the cumulating logic of the small. The wondrous world of the unromantic diminutive adding up to something big is increasingly important as the applications of nanotechnology and the potential for quantum computing unfold.
In addition to the hydrogen bonding mentioned earlier, there are other small forces, like multipole interactions that convert an asymmetry of the way electrons are distributed in a molecule into forces between them. And dispersion forces, which are responsible for molecules and atoms condensing and eventually freezing. These are all essential, small, structure-determining factors called noncovalent interactions, to distinguish them from "real" chemical covalent (or ionic) bonds, which are 10 or more times stronger. For example, the covalent bonds that hold methane (CH4) together are achieved when each hydrogen atom shares an electron with the carbon atom; these bonds are much stronger than the hydrogen bonds that cause wet hair to stick together, and so it takes much more energy to break apart methane than strands of hair held together with bonds between water molecules.
There are volumes written on each noncovalent force, and yet people still disagree on their origins and even more vehemently on the relative contribution of the interactions mentioned above to the energy of the molecule as a whole. The energies involved in such interactions are characteristically small, tending to be less than 5 kilocalories per mole of atom pairs involved. I don't want to lump them together; they are so interestingly different. But here I must, while saying just a few fuzzy words on two of them in particular.
Dispersion forces are also called van der Waals interactions. German American physicist Fritz London provided the quantum-mechanical view of these in 1930, so sometimes they are referred to as London dispersion forces. Their physical origin is in the correlated motions of the electrons in two interacting atoms or molecules: A fluctuation in the electron distribution in one induces a local asymmetry of electrons in the other. Carefully averaged over space and time, an attraction emerges that falls off as 1/R6, where R is the separation between the nuclei of the atoms involved.
Dispersion forces can be tiny, as is the case for two helium atoms, which is why helium cannot be frozen at ambient pressure, or large for big molecules, such as the alkanes in candle wax or aspirin. (The forces are related roughly to the number of "exposed" atoms capable of coming close to each other). However big they are, the 1/R6 falloff ensures that they are relevant only when atoms get close to each other. But not too close, because then they repel each other.
Prototypical hydrogen bonding, the noncovalent bond associated with wet hair and brushes, occurs when the hydrogen of a polar oxygen–hydrogen (O–H) or nitrogen–hydrogen (N–H) bond comes near an electron source, typically the lone pair of electrons of a nearby oxygen or nitrogen atom. The chemistry community sees these bonds most commonly as the result of an ionic attraction between the positively charged hydrogen (in the N–H or O–H bond) and the negatively charged electrons of the lone pair on a nearby N or O. (I don't agree, but that is a story to be told elsewhere.)
Despite such disagreement on origins, there is no disagreement at all on the magnitude of the energy involved, generally less than 5 kilocalories per mole. Small again, but there are oh-so-many of them.
Small energies play out in other interesting ways in some of the simplest organic molecules: the unbranched long-chain hydrocarbons, such as the liquid to waxy "normal" alkanes, which are written chemically as CH3(CH2)nCH3. The molecules in gasoline belong to this family with n = 6 or so; increasing n from six leads to diesel fuel, jet fuel, oil, and lubricants. When alkanes become solid, which happens for still higher values of n, there isn't much use for them, except as candle wax. The unbranched, or anti conformation, is energetically preferred, as shown for C18H38 below.
One wants to know the preferred shape of a molecule to understand its chemical personality—how it behaves, and how it reacts. A conformation is a geometry of a molecule that differs from another one by rotation around only single covalent C–C bonds. At each interior point in the hydrocarbon chain, for every four carbons, a choice is available between an extended conformation, which chemists refer to as all-anti, and two mirror-image curled-up forms, known as gauche conformations. The all-anti and one of the two gauche conformations are shown below for lighter fluid, or n-butane, C4H10.
The energy difference between the two conformations is truly minuscule. The gauche geometry is merely about one kilocalorie per mole in energy above the global minimum of the anti form; this is just 1/40th of the energy of a photon that is absorbed by a chlorophyll molecule in photosynthesis.
The two "conformers" are related by 120 degrees of rotation around the central C–C bond. Here's another small energy at work, now controlling the geometry of a molecule. That rotation faces a small barrier; the reasons for it are still rousing my fellow theoreticians to much debate. But there is little uncertainty about its value; it is around 3 kilocalories per mole. Because there are two gauche forms, these conformations are favored by entropy. So, only as temperature approaches zero kelvin would one have the frozen-in anti conformation of n-butane as the only form present. At room temperature in a liquid or gas there is, however, enough energy from molecular collisions to have a significant number of n-butane molecules in the gauche conformation.
Suppose we have two conformations of a longer-chain, normal alkane, say C18H38. The all-anti, extended one is shown above, and a kinked form is shown at right. The turn in the middle of the kinked chain is achieved by incorporating two gauche "turns" (play with a model, and you will see it can be done).
That kinking costs energy, but only a wee amount—each gauche turn has an associated penalty of about 1 kilocalorie per mole. What is accomplished by the kink is visually apparent in the depiction below; the second part of the chain is brought near the first. In that conformation, or actually in a family of conformations looking roughly like that, there is a new source of stabilization that is unavailable in the extended, all-anti geometry: attractive dispersion forces between the two parts of the chain. The more chance for hydrogen atoms to come close to each other, the more stable that arrangement, so the folded molecule is more stable.
Small as they individually are, dispersion interactions add up. For an isolated molecule, for some n in CH3(CH2)n CH3 for example, the energy lowering (stabilization) in dispersion interaction will win out over the increase in energy (destabilization) in kinking, the latter accomplished by two or more gauche conformations along the chain. The molecule that I thought would be "straight" when I forgot to consider dispersion forces actually prefers energetically to be kinked.
To my knowledge, Jonathan Goodman first wrote down this idea in 1997. Theory in his and others' hands confirmed the notion: For CH3(CH2)nCH3, the crossover from extended to kinked (and eventually curled in a more complex way) comes at around n = 16, or 18 carbon atoms. Remarkably, the experimental proof for this hypothesis has recently come forward, in work by N. O. B. Lüttschwager and colleagues.
Noncovalent bonds abound in nature, but there are clever new ways to exploit them artificially as well. Separating the small from the large is important in science, for instance, in gel electrophoresis and centrifugation. The development of nanofilters has opened up new ways to quickly separate small particles from even smaller ones, but most do not exploit noncovalent bonds because materials that rely on weak interactions often are not stable.
In 2011, Boris Rybtchinski and his collaborators at the Weizmann Institute of Science made a nanofilter held together by noncovalent bonds. The nanofilter has the additional intriguing property of being recyclable.
To make this nanofilter, Rybtchinski and colleagues took a beaker with a solution of a molecule in it, call it PP2b (you don't want to know its systematic name), and poured it on a membrane, essentially an inert support. PP2b transformed into a colored gel on the support. That gel could separate the two kinds of nanoparticles. Small ones could go through readily, whereas large ones stayed on top. Then, when they poured a mixture of water and ethanol on the filter (roughly the strength of a good vodka), the gel dissolved and passed through the membrane, along with the large nanoparticles. PP2b and the large particles were easily separated, and then the PP2b was ready to be used again.
A balance of hydrophobic and hydrophilic bonding—that is, two types of weak, noncovalent bonds, working together—explains the magic of supramolecular polymers such as PP2b. Hydrophobic and hydrophilic are terms describing the proclivity of molecules or pieces of molecules to prefer, on a microscopic level, an aqueous environment or its opposite, represented emblematically by a long hydrocarbon chain.
If a piece of a molecule is polar, a local separation of positive and negative charge, that polarity will be attracted to a watery environment; a nonpolar segment would prefer the hydrocarbon surroundings. Soaps and detergents work through providing regions of both hydrophobic and hydrophilic bonding; the balance is also important in the preparation of many good things in this world, such as mayonnaise.
The platelet-like hydrocarbon rings in the middle of PP2b (see above) are nonpolar; the CH2CH2O, repeated on average 19 times, is the polar part, which likes water. In a number of solvents, including the common THF (tetrahydrofuran), PP2b is a biggish molecule with two tails. But in the presence of substantial amounts of water, the hydrophilic and hydrophobic interactions turn on, because the hydrophobic parts (the central organic platelets) want to be near each other.
The organic platelets, with pendant ethylene glycol tails, aggregate. On a molecular level one sees the formation of segments, then fibers, which can be viewed with a scanning electron microscope.
The performance of PP2b in solution is pretty neat—usually, one adds water and a solid dissolves; here, Rybtchinski and his colleagues added water, and a gel, a solid-like material with a lot of water still in it, formed. That's the filter.
Notice that hydrogen bonds and dispersion forces are involved; small interactions that, as I said, are 10 to 30 times smaller than the energies of carbon–carbon, carbon–oxygen, or carbon–hydrogen bonds. Yet these small interactions add up, with a vengeance, to create three-dimensional aggregates, the network of fibers. This network is robust—stable to approximately 70 degrees Celsius—until you pour alcohol on it.
After all that, I still like my energies big. And, for that matter, I also like to follow individual molecules through their collisions with other molecules as bonds are broken and remade. My desire for the big and the particular—and my resistance to calculating averages over billions of molecular trajectories—comes with a price, however. It prevents me from moving from the angstrom scale of molecules to the macroscopic world where we experience the practical results of chemistry. It keeps me away from ferromagnetism and viscosity, and from Esther Williams's interaction with water.
It's an irrational desire, I know. The accumulation of tiny differentials rules nature. How could it be otherwise in a molecular world where it takes 6 x 1023 water molecules to make a single slurp of refreshing liquid? Change happens more readily through shuffling small pieces than by completely rearranging big ones, as evolution has discovered.
On the human level, as in chemistry, a big number of small actions can bring about large-scale change: Within our imperfect approaches to democracy, the small contributions of many can accomplish real change—be it in the abolition of slavery, the empowerment of women, or the limitation of automobile emissions.
I waver. It is so clear that small interactions of molecules can hardly be ignored, even if a weak theoretician with imperfect tools decides he cannot work on them. I like stories—science, and not only science, lives in them. The stories of modern chemistry that I have retold here show ever so clearly that aggregation, the action of many tiny gobs of energy in concert, can lead to essential change and a tangible, macroscopic consequence.
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/2014/2/little-interactions-mean-a-lot/1
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Publisher Council on Foreign Relations Press
Release Date June 2011
The Obama administration was caught flatfooted by the recent Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa. Not only did the intelligence community fail to warn senior officials of the combustible situations in Tunisia and Egypt, but evidently little or no forethought was given to how the United States might respond to popular uprisings or other forms of political instability in those countries of clear importance to U.S. interests and regional goals. As a result, the administration struggled to manage the unfolding crisis, largely improvising its responses without a clear sense of their implications or the overarching strategic objectives. The Obama administration can reduce its chances of being blindsided and unprepared in future crises by instituting a regular national security risk assessment of potential threats and challenges while also elevating the role of strategic planning to provide high-level policy guidance as to how they may be managed and better still averted. The capacity of the National Security Council and the State Department to handle complex contingencies should also be upgraded.
The Challenges
Crisis preparedness can be considered a function of three factors--early warning, pre-planning, and the availability of ready and adaptable resources. Each has its own set of challenges.
Early Warning
As numerous cases of strategic surprise have demonstrated, early warning can be impeded by a failure to identify critical signals amid background noise, counter various analytical biases that can distort the interpretation of incoming information, and minimize the bureaucratic barriers to the timely alerting of senior decision-makers. The United States has invested heavily in intelligence gathering and analytical capabilities to address these challenges, but the sheer complexity and randomness of the many factors and interactions that can precipitate a major crisis makes accurate and timely warning immensely difficult. It is hard to imagine how any early-warning system could have predicted the chain of events triggered by the self-immolation of a lowly fruit vendor in Tunisia in January 2011.
The difficulty of looking far into the future reinforces the tendency for senior policymakers to demand short-term "current intelligence" to help them manage events that could occur next week rather than next year. The need to warn of potentially catastrophic terrorist attacks and support current military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan has further accentuated this short-term focus. Thus, other than the annual unclassified global threat briefing by the director of national intelligence (DNI) to Congress, there is no regular and systematic process of "scanning the horizon" for either potentially threatening developments and contingencies or political opportunities that could arise.
Busy policymakers are understandably reluctant to expend precious time on planning for potential crises that may never materialize, especially those that seem particularly remote or seemingly inconsequential. With every crisis, there is also a natural resistance to make plans that may be irrelevant to the specific circumstances or quickly rendered meaningless. Policymakers also like to retain maximum freedom of maneuver in a crisis, which pre-planning threatens to restrict. As a result, while the Defense Department and Combatant Commands conduct extensive operational planning for specific military contingencies, very little strategic planning takes place within the U.S. government. The small policy planning bureau at the State Department is primarily used to support special initiatives or the day-to-day needs of the secretary, while the even smaller strategic planning directorate at the National Security Council (NSC) does more or less the same for the national security adviser.
Recent efforts to improve the level of strategic planning in the U.S. government have not fared well. A 2005 presidential directive authorizing the State Department "to coordinate interagency processes to identify states at risk of instability, lead interagency planning to prevent or mitigate conflict and develop detailed contingency plans for integrated United States Government reconstruction and stabilization efforts" largely failed because the new coordinator for reconstruction and stabilization (S/CRS) tasked with this responsibility was never given the necessary resources or bureaucratic backing. Similarly, an NSC-led interagency group formed in the late stages of the George W. Bush administration to consider potential strategic challenges--the National Security Policy Planning Committee (NSPPC)--never gained traction within the mainstream policy process, and its work was largely ignored. The Obama administration chose not to reconstitute it or replace it with a similar interagency planning mechanism.
Ready and Adaptable Resources
Because crises are considered rare events, maintaining dedicated personnel and resources on standby to help manage them is generally deemed excessive. Preparing senior policymakers for specific contingencies through simulations and exercises is also exceedingly hard given the press of daily events. And Congress has traditionally resisted appropriating funds for unspecified emergencies. As a consequence, crises are typically managed in a makeshift manner: personnel are pulled from their regular assignments, responses are hastily prepared, and funds are hurriedly reprogrammed if they can be. Once the crisis is over, whatever the lessons or valuable experience gained in the process usually dissipates as life returns to "normal."
Some parts of the U.S. government are better prepared for crises than others. The Defense Department has considerable military and civilian resources at the ready as well as flexible contingency funding to draw on at short notice. Even the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has a modest capability to respond to humanitarian and other emergencies. The State Department, however, continues to be hobbled by a limited crisis "surge capacity" and insufficient emergency funds. At the White House, the newly modernized Situation Room, with its state-of-the-art video conference facilities, has significantly enhanced high-level crisis management and coordination, but the NSC remains chronically understaffed. Valuable experience and operationally relevant guidance for future crises is not retained due to the regular turnover of personnel, especially between administrations.
Improving U.S. Crisis Anticipation, Planning, and Management
U.S. crisis preparedness can be enhanced by implementing these three recommendations:
- Conduct a comprehensive U.S. national security risk assessment every two years at the behest of the national security adviser. This would evaluate potential threats and other plausible strategic challenges over a twelve-to-eighteen-month time frame using agreed-upon criteria for assessing their relative likelihood and impact. A useful model is the UK government's National Security Risk Assessment (see here [PDF]). This effort would be overseen by a newly created and properly staffed deputy national security adviser for strategic planning and carried out in partnership with the Office of the DNI. The Strategic Futures Group at the National Intelligence Council, which has recently been formed from the disbanded National Warning Office, should be tasked to support this effort. Using the techniques of strategic foresight analysis, plausible scenarios of consequence to U.S. interests would be assessed on the basis of identifiable risk factors (e.g., autocratic regimes, demographic imbalances, prior history of conflict) as well as known crisis triggers (e.g., coups, a rigged election, food price spikes) and drivers (e.g., opportunities for public mobilization, regime fracturing, external intervention). The goal would be to not only anticipate potential risks but also envisage possible strategic opportunities.
- Revive and elevate the status of the currently moribund NSPPC for the purpose of directing and coordinating interagency policy planning. The new deputy national security adviser for strategic planning would chair the committee, which would meet at the assistant secretary level. A list of planning priorities based on the findings of the national security risk assessment would be generated and approved by the principals committee of the NSC. The principal planning departments of the relevant bureaus would conduct the bulk of the planning under the direction of the deputy national security adviser. The intent would not be to develop detailed operational plans but rather identify broad policy options to lessen the likelihood of a specific threat or undesired crisis from materializing and mitigate the potential negative consequences if it did. These planning documents would be reviewed twice a year by the deputies committee of the NSC, which would recommend revisions and direct follow-on action.
- Establish a separate Directorate for Complex Contingency Operations within the NSC to oversee and coordinate humanitarian relief and crisis stabilization missions across the U.S. government. Its directing staff should preferably not be short-term political appointees. Reforms identified in the 2010 Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review to enhance in-house capacity for crisis prevention and response at the State Department and USAID need to be implemented and fully funded by Congress. These include the development of an interagency International Operational Response Framework to facilitate government coordination, a roster of on-call experts with proven functional and regional expertise that can be assembled and even deployed at short notice, and a Complex Crises Fund for unforeseen contingencies.

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Environmental leaders recognised at Green Star Awards
The United Nations and Green Cross International today announced the winners of the Green Star Awards. The award is given in recognition of individuals, organizations, government and private enterprises that have demonstrated leadership in preparing for, responding to, and reducing the environmental impacts of disasters and conflicts. Particular importance is placed on the connection between environmental risks from disasters and conflicts, crisis-affected populations, and providers of humanitarian assistance.
The Green Star Awards were presented at the 9th meeting of the Advisory Group on Environmental Emergencies (AGEE). "Given the multitude and scale of environmental emergencies the world is experiencing, recognizing those helping to prepare and respond to these catastrophic events is increasingly important," said Alexander Likhotal, President of Green Cross International. "This year's class of Green Star winners demonstrates the depth of efforts being taken worldwide."
The 2011 winners are:
- Dionysia-Theodora Avgerinopoulou, Member of the Greek Parliament: In recognition of her work on reconstruction efforts following environmental emergencies;
- Dr. Mary Catherine Comerio, Professor of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley: Recognised work in the area of post-disaster reconstruction following earthquakes in China (2008) and in Haiti (2009-2010);
- Linda Norgrove: Posthumous Award given for her outstanding leadership and commitment in responding to the severe environmental challenges facing Afghanistan, Ms. Norgrove was kidnapped in Afghanistan in October 2010 and died during a rescue attempt:
- The Blacksmith Institute: A US-based non-profit organisation, dedicated to solving pollution problems in low and middle income countries, where human health is at risk;
- Environmental engineering firm TerraGraphics: Recognised for for its promotion of environmental clean-up methodologies in developing regions;
- Artsen zonder Grenzen (Médecins Sans Frontières - Holland): Acknowledged for its ongoing contribution to environmental emergency response efforts, specifically in regard to lead poisoning in the Nigerian state of Zamfara in 2010.
"Recent events in Japan, the forest fires in Israel and Russia, as well as the toxic lead pollution in Nigeria underscore the relevance of the work undertaken by the 2011 Green Star Awards winners," said ERC Valerie Amos. "These individuals and organizations have all contributed substantially to saving lives and livelihoods, now and in the future."
OCHA works closely with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Advisory Group on Environmental Emergencies, National Focal Points and other UN agencies and programmes to develop policies, guidelines and tools for environmental emergency response. OCHA assists countries improve their ability to prepare for, and respond to natural disasters and other emergencies, and provides support to (governments, local actors, etc?) toincrease national capacity through technical advice and training.
The Green Star award winners "make our work possible, they make our work meaningful and very often they make the difference between life and death,",said UN Under-Secretary-General and UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner. "In the work of UNEP over the years, post-disaster and post-conflict work has become more and more important and, in fact, it has now become one of our six major areas of work. We see our role contributing through the lens of the environmental dimension of these emergencies as being a critical part of the international family to try and assist in these often very trying circumstances."
An international jury of environmental emergency experts selected the winners based on their work in a variety of domains, including international capacity-building missions aimed at helping countries prepare for and providing support to international response missions to countries affected by environmental emergencies.
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Looks like we need a new Forums Sub-Section. Here's the news about the Upcoming "Rebels" line.
I have to say I really like the packaging design this time around. It's refreshing after so much black.
And it's cool to see a Stormtrooper featured on the packaging finally. Very cool!
http://starwars.com/news/star-wars-r...-revealed.htmlStar Wars Rebels Action Figure Packaging Revealed
In anticipation of Lucasfilm's Star Wars Rebels panel at New York Comic Con (Saturday, October 12, 2013, from 2:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. in room 1E of the Javits Convention Center) Hasbro is officially unveiling the packaging treatment for its Star Wars Rebels 3.75-inch action figure line supporting the upcoming animated series.
Star Wars Rebels continues the epic tradition of the legendary Star Wars saga with all-new exciting, action-packed adventures. It is a dark time in the galaxy, as the evil Galactic Empire tightens its grip of power from world to world. As the series begins, Imperial forces have occupied a remote planet, ruling with an iron fist and ruining the lives of its people. But there are a select few who are brave enough to stand up against the endless Stormtroopers and TIE fighters of the Empire: the clever and motley crew of the starship Ghost. Together, this ragtag group will face threatening new villains, have thrilling adventures, and become heroes.
Hasbro's Star Wars Rebels line, featuring highly detailed 3.75-inch action figures with multiple points of articulation, will hit store shelves in 2014.


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Times editor discusses secrecy and security, April 21
Posted April 14, 2004; 10:52 p.m.
Jill Abramson, managing editor of The New York Times, will present the seventh lecture in a series on "Secrecy, Security and Self-Government" at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 21, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
She will give "A View From Newsroom Management" in the lecture, which is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Program in Law and Public Affairs .
Abramson was appointed managing editor of The Times in August 2003 after serving as Washington bureau chief since December 2000. During the fall 2000 semester, she was a Ferris Professor in Princeton's Humanities Council, teaching an undergraduate seminar on politics and journalism.
Abramson is the co-author of "Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas" (Houghton Mifflin, 1994), which was a finalist in the nonfiction category for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1992, she won the National Press Club's national correspondence award, the group's top prize for political reporting, for a series of articles about the role of money in the 1992 elections.
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Gadowsky named men's hockey coach
Posted May 6, 2004; 12:34 a.m.
Guy Gadowsky, who helped lift the hockey program at Alaska Fairbanks to new levels, has been named the head coach of the Princeton men's hockey team.
"We are delighted to appoint Guy as our new men's hockey coach," said Director of Athletics Gary Walters. "Guy is one of the top young coaches in college hockey today and is committed to building a strong program here at Princeton. We look forward to a bright future for Princeton hockey."
Gadowsky spent five seasons at Alaska Fairbanks. He led the Nanooks to their first 20-win season in 2001-02 as the team finished with a 22-12-3 record and was ranked 11th nationally at the end of the season. He followed that up with 15 wins the following season and 16 last season.
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Lymph node from a case of endometriosis. Inset shows higher magnification of endometrial glandular structures.
A Hidden Problem
The mammalian menstrual cycle is an amazing process. Through this process females' metabolisms modify as their bodies prepare to accept and care for a fertilized egg or ova. If no fertilized egg is present, then their bodies reset themselves, and the whole process starts over. For humans, this cycle averages 28 days, though it is not the same for all women. While this process is happening all the time all over the world, sometimes things don't quite go right. Here you can find out more about some problems which can occur. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L9ARf8LDug
Now that you know some about the process, you can go here to find out more details.
Extension Investigation
Use the resources below to answer the following questions:
- What is the endometrium? What is its function?
- What is endometriosis? How common is it? What happens inside someone who has endometriosis during their menstrual cycle?
- What are some of the symptoms of endometriosis? Do all sufferers manifest these symptoms?
- Can men have endometriosis? Explain your answer fully and be specific.
- What is believed to be the cause of endometriosis? Explain this theory as fully as you can.
- How can endometriosis cause infertility? Explain your answer fully, being as specific as you can.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L9ARf8LDug
- http://authors2.ck12.org/wiki/index.php/File:Endometriosis2Lymph.jpg
- http://www.cedars-sinai.edu/Patients/Programs-and-Services/Obstetrics-and-Gynecology/Treatment/Endometriosis.aspx?gclid=CNTgt-ukz7MCFWlxQgodi2UA7g
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001913/
- http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/endometriosis/DS00289/DSECTION=causes
- http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/endometriosis/DS00289/DSECTION=complications


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It's official: the party season has begun. We've received our first invitation - to Canapes for a Cause. We're asked to pay $10 a head, the contributions going to the hosts' favourite charity. I'm not sure that I want to think about all the hungry, lost and lonely animals while I'm enjoying good food, wine and the company of friends, but I'm sure they will benefit.
A canape is a type of hors d'oeuvre, or single-bite food, traditionally small, thin pieces of bread with a topping. Modern canapes may use crackers, blinis or pastry as the base.
In French, canape means sofa or couch. I guess in the past, one may have sat on the sofa to eat these morsels.
Today, we usually stand and that is why a canape should be easy to hold and eat. There's nothing worse than a flaky pastry savoury mince pie so piping hot that when it oozes down your fingers, you almost sustain third-degree burns.
Finger foods are fun to serve at any time of the day and it's prudent to be prepared for unexpected callers or at least be organised ahead for a planned gathering. Keep a supply of French bread in the freezer. It can quickly be sliced, brushed with olive oil and baked in the oven.
This makes an excellent base for tapenade and diced gherkins, chopped sundried tomatoes and capers or twists of shaved ham and chutney.
It's impossible to cater for every guest's likes and dislikes but you should check ahead to find out if anyone is vegetarian, dairy- or gluten-free and plan accordingly. Do remember the designated sober drivers - here are two of my favourite alcohol-free sips.
Mojitos (pronounced mo-hee-toes): take one cup of chilled Njoy lime juice (a new beverage available from supermarkets), one large lime cut into eight wedges and eight mint leaves, and "muddle" in a jug. Pour into four glasses, add a little ice and top up with soda water.
Cranberry Tart: combine equal amount of chilled Ocean Spray Classic Cranberry drink with chilled tonic water.
These baked polenta bites can be reheated briefly in the microwave.
1 cup each: chicken stock, milk
1/2 cup fine polenta
1/4 cup finely grated parmesan cheese
25g butter
Toppings of your choice eg, brie and spicy pickle, goat's cheese and rhubarb chutney, tapenade and feta cheese or pesto and chorizo
Bring the stock and milk to the boil. Whisk in the polenta. Stir on low heat for about three minutes, until thick. Stir in the parmesan and butter.
Pour into an oiled tray patting into a 1cm-thick flat rectangle. Chill until firm.
Set oven to 200C. Lightly brush an oven tray with olive oil. Using a 4cm diameter biscuit cutter, cut about 16 rounds from the firm polenta. Place on the oven tray. Bake for about 15 minutes, until crisp.
Cover with your choice of topping. Makes about 16.
This yummy gluten- and dairy-free vegetarian dip is great served with corn chips or crisp veges.
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
2 medium-large onions, diced
3 cloves garlic, crushed
3 medium courgettes, diced
Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
1/4 tsp ground turmeric
3/4 tsp each: ground coriander, cumin
Pinch ground chilli or to taste
2 tsp tomato paste
Heat oil in a heavy, non-stick frying pan. Add the onions and saute on low heat for five minutes. Add the garlic and continue cooking on low until the onions are very soft, about five minutes. Do not brown.
Stir in the courgettes, salt, pepper and turmeric. Cover and cook on low heat for about 10 minutes, until the courgettes are soft.
Remove from the heat and add the coriander, cumin, chilli powder and tomato paste. Mash well with a potato masher. Pile into a bowl, cover and chill.
Can be prepared two days in advance. Bring to room temperature before serving. Makes one and a half cups.
1 & 1/2 cups merlot wine
1 cinnamon stick
1 tbsp whole cloves
1/2 tsp ground mixed spice
Peel of half an orange
1/4 cup brown sugar
250g (1 & 1/2 cups) pitted prunes
Combine the wine, spices and orange peel in a saucepan. Steep on low heat for about 10 minutes.
Add the sugar and prunes and simmer on low for two minutes. Cover and stand until cold.
Store, covered, in the refrigerator.
To serve, drain and place on a platter with cubes of feta cheese, olives and small rolls of prosciutto.
The prunes can be prepared up to five days in advance. Serves 6-8.
Grissini are thin, crisp bread sticks - perfect for dipping, or wrapping in prosciutto or smoked salmon - available at delis and supermarkets.
125g spreadable cream cheese
1-2 tsp wasabi paste
12 slices smoked salmon
12 grissini
Combine the cream cheese and wasabi paste (to taste), until smooth. Spread on the slices of smoked salmon.
Wrap a slice around the end of a grissini, cream cheese-side inside. Repeat. Makes 12.


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1) Globalize the draft
2) Institute a cap
1) Globalize the draft
2) Institute a cap
I have no idea what that says... but I bet they signed about 10 million dollars worth of international players right?
I can't read the article either but I'll add my 2 cents...
I hate the Yankees
It will be so great if Boston can win the division and Tigers/White Sox win the wild card. SO great
Can't hardly blame the Yankees; it's the system that isn't right. Globalizing the draft would help.
Back to following MiLB; there's always hope for tomorrow!
Whoops...my bad. They signed the "consensus top prospect, Venezuelan catcher Jesus Montero, for $2 million" and are starting to wipe their posteriors with the slotting system.
Ian Kennedy: Somewhere btw $2.25 and 2.6 million. Expected slot was $1.45 million.
Betances: Broke the record also held by NYY (2005 - Austin Jackson) for an 8th rounder at $1 million.
Hey Bud, the system still isn't fixed.
It kills me how some teams can do that. Drew Stubbs, our first round pick was selected by the Astros in the 3rd round and offered him a million bucks and Bud stepped in and said no, you have to offer him close to slot money. He went to college and we got him instead. The Yankees can offer a million bucks to Betances though? He was a projected 2nd round type guy, but signability issues dropped hm to the 8th, but its ridiculous.
The article made it sound like it was done. Not offered...done. Such a joke.Originally Posted by dougdirt
Its done, Betances is signed. Its just a joke that Bud picks and chooses where he steps in. Wish he wouldnt have stepped in with Stubbs, then we couldnt have drafted him.
Amen, brother.Originally Posted by dougdirt
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text: After shooting my new AR15 and pistols today with my brother, nephew, and a good friend, I stopped by to visit my mother. She is not terribly political and is a casual, shall we say, news of the day follower. I would consider her pretty much the norm of the american 70 year old. I have never really had any discussion with her about any politics or hot topic news subject until our conversation turned to my AR15. I brought it in the house and showed her and she said she would like to shoot it along with my .45 and .40 handguns. I found that pretty funny, since she has never show any interest in shooting anything while I've had a gun since i was 12. The conversation evolved to the point of a debate about the proposed gun regulations. She brought up Newtown and how all the little children were tragically killed, while referring to my 6 year old niece who was in the kitchen playing. I acknowledged the horrors of that event, as everyone does, and proceeded to explain to her that the proposed regulations would have done absolutely nothing to prevent Newtown. She countered with the number of rounds and the hi cap magazines, claiming that if they were limited to 10 rounds there would be 20 more people alive today. I then asked her if she knew how long it takes to change a magazine, and she explained how if a magazine is empty a shooter doesnt have anymore bullets to shoot. I took out my AR, put 2 empty thirty round mags in my back pocket and proceeded to change out the mags one after another in mere seconds. She was shocked that you could do that as quickly as you can and acknowledged that would have little effect on a Newtown like tragedy. I also explained to her that nobody has proved conclusively, that I can tell, that the AR was used in that massacre. Also, citing the fact that an AR style rifle is use in a tiny fraction of murders compared to things like shotguns and handguns. She was unaware of that fact also. Through the conversation, she mentioned how the rifle the nutjob in CT used was fully automatic, and she was also shocked when I told her that the weapon she was talking about was the same one I had showed her earlier. She at that point, was in agreement that banning hi cap mags and AR style rifles would realistically and logically would have no effect preventing another Newtown. She then asked how we get justice for the parents of the senselessly murder children, and I asked her justice against who? The perpetrator is dead. We had talked about armed guards in school earlier in the conversation and she was totally against it. I asked her why, and she said more guns in a place like that could increase the danger to the children. I gave her a hypothetical situation where in a war, if a garrison or post is being attacked, does it make any sense for said post to declare their post a gun free zone in order to stop the attacks? Of course not, you meet threat with threat. After some further discussion, including securtiy at schools for high profile children and how they are guarded by men with guns because of percieved and real threats to them and how school shootings are a real threat in today's society and our children deserve the same protection, she agreed to it would be a good idea. I was dissapointed how skewed her views were on guns, gun violence, and gun bans. I asked her how she got her news, and she said she watches MSNBC. Bottomline is, I was shocked at the information she was sharing with me and how easily her views changed when she got some real information about guns and gun violence.


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Cote d'Ivoire: Humanitarian challenges in a country in transition
Savanes in northern Cote d'Ivoire is an arid part of the world. It sits on the southern fringe of West Africa's Sahel region, and people there face many of the stresses that communities in Sahel countries deal with. They regularly endure extended periods of draught, high food prices, food products diverted to foreign markets, food insecurity and malnutrition.
In the town of Korhogo, one woman has devoted many years to supporting mothers and children affected by these concurrent and consistent crises. Koné Sali runs a Red Cross Therapeutic Nutrition Centre that treats chronic, moderate or severely malnourished children under five years of age.
However, in 2012 almost all of the UN agencies and international NGOs that were present in Savanes left, citing a lack of funding. Ms Sali is now on her own, struggling to mobilize sufficient resources to keep the center running.
"(There are) no more financial partners, no more therapeutic milk and medication, no care for little patients with HIV/AIDS. I need to be able to provide a full treatment package, but I have to settle with the little I have, every day again," she says.
Massita and her son
Massita, 41, came to the center three weeks ago with her 18 month old little boy, Soro Ibrahima. She lives in one of Korhogo's neighbourhoods and her husband is unemployed. She survives on very little.
"At one point Soro was ill all the time, refused to eat and started losing weight. I got very concerned, as I can't afford any hospitals", she starts explaining. "Now, after several weeks at the (nutrition centre), he is eating again and looks healthier".
Massita is still very worried. She is expected to report to the centre every morning with Soro but she has no money and no means to feed herself during her stay or provide for Soro's needs in addition to the therapeutic milk that he gets from the Center.
"This morning I had to borrow 500 Francs (US$1) from my neighbour, but I don't know if I will be able to get any money tomorrow," she says. "I'm exhausted and weak. If only the center could take care of us mothers as well, provide some type of food assistance. Then it wouldn't be so difficult for us".
"Humanitarian needs do not disappear overnight"
Massita's story is a familiar one in a country where about 40 per cent of young children are believed to be chronically malnourished, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Ministry of Health. Humanitarian needs remain significant in Cote d'Ivoire but many aid agencies are forced to downscale their interventions due to a lack of financial support by donors.
"Cote d'Ivoire may in fact be in transition, but humanitarian needs do not disappear overnight," said Ute Kollies, the Head of OCHA's Office in Côte d'Ivoire. "Humanitarian agencies need continued and focused support in order to address remaining residual needs."
"This is essential to ensure a successful transition to early recovery, development and economic prosperity.
The Red Cross' Koné Sali agrees. "Consider this message as a cry from the heart directed to the institutions that have the means to help."


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Grizzlies at Bulls
January 19, 2013
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- Marc Gasol
- Tony Allen
- Mike Conley
The Grizzlies got the best of the Chicago Bulls in a low-scoring affair last month at FedExForum. The Grizzlies, who shot 37.5 percent in that game, limited the Bulls to 37.3 percent and their fewest points this season.
While Memphis is giving up 89.8 points per game to rank second in the NBA, Chicago isn't far behind at 91.9.
Join the Claw Crew for the Grizzlies and Harrah's Watch Party at Harrah's Tunica or, catch the game on SportSouth or 92.9FM / 680AM. Channel Listings.
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- The Grizzies defeated the Bulls 80-71 on Dec. 17 at FedExForum.
- After opening the game with their lowest‐scoring quarter of the season, the Memphis Grizzlies regrouped and stifled the Chicago Bulls to pick up their 16th win of the season…
- Memphis shot 4‐of‐22 and trailed 20‐11 after the first quarter before long‐range shooting from the second unit boosted the Grizzlies in the second frame
- Wayne Ellington scored all 11 of his points in succession with four consecutive shots, including a trio of three‐pointers that put Memphis ahead, 31‐28, with 5:35 remaining in the second quarter…
- The Grizzlies outscored the Bulls 28‐14 in the second quarter, draining all five of their three‐point attempts…
- Memphis held Chicago to a season‐low 71 points, outscoring the Bulls 69‐51 over the final three quarters, and limited an opponent to 71 for the first time since Jan. 15, 2011 vs. Dallas…
- Mike Conley led all scorers with 17 points, his first game this season to lead the team outright in scoring and assists (4)…
- Zach Randolph maintained his NBA lead in double‐doubles (18) with 10 points and 15 rebounds…
- Rudy Gay was held to a season‐low 12 points, snapping a career‐high streak of 24 consecutive games scoring 14‐or‐more…
- Carlos Boozer scored eight in the first quarter en route to leading the Bulls in scoring (16) and rebounding (13)…
- Memphis defeated Chicago for the ninth time in the last 11 home meetings.
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Meade Instruments is commonly acknowledged as one of the most innovative and dynamic companies in the telescope market. Known for its groundbreaking leaps in telescopic design, Meade has introduced dozens of improvements over the years that have made amateur astronomy easier to access and more enjoyable than ever.
Founded in 1972, Meade began business as a one-man, mail-order supplier of small refracting telescopes. Word began to spread among amateurs that Meade Instruments is a company that can be trusted, one that does and means what it says. These values, now so often abused, are still very much at work in the Meade Instruments of the present day.
In 1978 Meade Instruments took on its most formidable challenge to that date: the Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope market. Meade Instruments has built its reputation and its products through industry-leading innovation. You'll find that on every product they make.


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Dolphins quarterback Chad Henne completed 23 of 36 passes for 231 yards with 2 touchdowns against the Packers at Green Bay this past Sunday.
Chad connected with Brandon Marshall on 10 of those 23 passes that resulted in the wide receiver piling up 127 yards. It appears that Chad has found some chemistry with the teams number one receiver and has the confidence to go to him consistently. But, Chad has been able to spread the ball around to not only Marshall, but to Hartline, Bess, and Fasano.


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Security Infrastructure advice.
One of my duties will be to set up some sort of infrastructure to detect hacking attempts, what vectors they are using to get in, manage alerts and configs, tell when there has been a successful hack, and things like that.
I've fooled around with snort, ossim, and tripwire in the past but wanted to get everyone else' advice on what you would put in place and other options out there. They don't necessarily have to be open source options, those are just the ones I've dealt with. I know it's a little hard to recommend too much without knowing the lay of the land, but anything you can suggest would be great!
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Over a decade ago I started exploring simple geometry with a compass and rule. I might call myself as an artist, although I was unsure how my activities fitted into the canon of late 20th century art. Over subsequent years I developed my method and evolved a geometric language that gave form to my bent for abstract ideas. In 2000 I adopted digital tools and in 2004 I built the first incarnation of root2art.co.uk. For many years I had struggled to find a sympathetic home for my work within the established currents of contemporary art. Today, my work is creeping into many distant corners of the internet where its starting to look and feel at home. Amongst the boundless strangeness and visual intelligence of the evolving internet I think at last my work is being increasingly recognised as an uncompromised art born out of its own unique DNA. - 2008
Over the years my blog has become the most popular part of my site providing me with a way of staying connected to my audience.
The best work from the entire Root2Art canon. Works are given a commentary and include personal related anecdotes where no obvious analysis springs to mind. Ignore the numbers against each image, I don't know why I added them and will remove them one of these days.
I made my first animations for my 'Geometrics' pages in an attempt to show how a typical Root2Art motif was derived from geometric relationships. I've dabbled with the medium sporadically over subsequent years, but never really got my teeth into it. In early 2007 however, I got quite excited about a series of work I created called 'Time Symmetry' and maybe in these studies are the kernels of some more sophisticated work somewhere down the road.
This part of my site is a remnant from a previous cyber incarnation. I built it in 2005 before I learnt more efficient ways of creating dynamic galleries. This said, I still kinda like the way it looks and it also contains the main body of the work that makes up the Root2Art canon I have produced over the last decade.
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About My new project 'Moonleap': Our primary wish is to support the practice of sitting meditation. Our Moonleap meditation cushion (zafu) is one step towards finding more intelligently designed, ergonomic solutions to supporting our bodies in this practice. Harvey Rayner, designer of the Mooleap cushion, has estimated to have spent more than 20,000 hours sitting on 100s of different supports over 2 decades. We might say the design for this cushion has been born out of the wisdom of his very well qualified buttocks. Join us in exploring new ways of offering energy and support to all those engaged in the direct and peaceful practice of sitting meditation.
The visual effect of face-mounting createsrich colors and enhanced contrast giving a striking impression of expensive quality.
The mounting technique is completely different from that given by holding a print behind glass using conventional means. Because with Face Mounting the print is hermetically sealed to sheet of Plexiglas, all the light that strikes the image is reflected back through the Plexiglas without becoming defused or lost through reflection. The resulting image is startlingly dynamic with fine detail appearing crisper, colors more intense and contrasts more striking. In essence Face-Mounting brings an almost third-dimension to the print surface and a life and vitality that is unobtainable with standard framing methods.
I love designing these shirts as it is a way just about anyone who likes my work can own and enjoy it on a personal level. I'd get more of a kick from going to a big city and seeing a stranger wearing one of my t-shirts than going into a big commercial gallery and seeing my art on the wall. Its still a very, very slim percentage of individuals who every set foot in a commercial gallery. Nearly all of us however enjoy wearing a t-shirts on a regular basis regardless of our social 'status'. In a sense it is one of societies levelers: the fact that we can all gain access to unique and inspiring t-shirts and make a statement with design.
Quality print + ultimate contemporary style picture frame. I designed these frames to tackle the problem of presenting a digital print as a substantial 21st century work of art. Asides from face mounting I felt that there was nothing on the market that gave a sense of luxury and class to the new medium of digital print. My 'Node Frames' are crafted from oak, stainless steel and 4mm toughened glass with beautifully polished edges. This combined medium creates a strong designer statement in any setting.
Root2art (rut-tu-ärt) n.
Art of Geometric Composition
I describe my work as being created in and derived from a unique system of geometric meter. This is the meter of visual composition as opposed to the meter found in poetry although the formalising and ordering property is the same. This meter, derived from particular and distinct geometry, provides a grammar and the actual fabric of my visual language...
A scrapbook of random logic and logical randomness
The links below are to pages in my semi-ordered online scrapbook containing geometric working drawings, material about influences and numerous weird ramblings about what this all means to me. Some of the illustrations are missing notes and some of the notes are missing illustrations. These pages are an ongoing project however, and primarily aim to provide an impression of the ideas and methods that go into creating Root2Art and is not a definitive A to Z.
1. Firstmodel: The significance of the square root of 2 within the geometry of Root2Art
2. Manifold Unfolding: The varied use of repetition in Root2Art design and composition
3. Contrapunctus: The logic and visual forces used within Root2Art composition
4. Axis-mundi: How ancient influences have shaped my graphical digital art language
5. Polar-coaxis: Recurring sacred and esoteric geometric themes in my art
6. Death Of Modus: The conceptual architecture of complex abstract design
7. New Direct Sadness: Finding a pure and unique modern expression in Root2Art
He's the coldest bastard you're ever likely to meet. Read my sordid story
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Family: Charadriidae, Plovers view all from this family
Description Adult has dark green upperparts with sheen in good light; underparts are white, except for orange vent and black foreneck. In winter plumage, throat and foreneck are white, nape is flushed with buff, and back feathers have buffy fringes.
Dimensions Length: 12 in (30.5 cm)
Range Eastern Canada
Discussion Spiky-crested wader that looks black and white at a distance. Rounded, black and white wings are striking in flight. Eurasian species, rare in northeast in fall and winter, favoring open grassland.


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Michigan State tops Iowa
Hawkeyes limited to just 23 rushing yards
IOWA CITY, Iowa - Michigan State 26, Iowa 14: Connor Cook threw a pair of touchdown passes and the Spartans' defense tamed the host Hawkeyes' vaunted rush attack in a marquee Big Ten showdown.
Cook completed 25-of-44 passes for 277 yards and also threw an interception for Michigan State (4-1, 1-0 Big Ten), which limited Iowa to just 23 rushing yards on 16 carries.
Macgarrett Kings Jr. led the way with five receptions for 94 yards and a touchdown, while Bennie Fowler added nine catches for 92 yards and a score. Jake Rudock threw for 241 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions for the Hawkeyes (4-2, 1-1), who struggled to move the ball against the FBS' second-ranked run defense.
Damon Bullock was the lone Iowa offensive star with five catches for 71 yards and a touchdown. After Cook's 46-yard touchdown strike to Kings put the Spartans up 10-0 less than nine minutes into the second quarter, the Hawkeyes stormed back to take a 14-10 lead into the break. Bullock took a Rudock screen pass 47 yards for a score to put Iowa on the board, and Rudock connected with C.J. Fiedorowicz on a 10-yard touchdown pass with 1:10 remaining.
Michigan State went back in front for good on the first possession of the second half, as Cook faked an option run before hitting Fowler in stride for a 37-yard touchdown strike. Field goals of 35, 49 and 40 yards from Michael Geiger extended the lead to 26-14 and the Spartans' defense did the rest, intercepting Rudock with just over five minutes remaining to quell any hopes of a comeback.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Iowa entered the day averaging better than 244 rushing yards per game; the Hawkeyes' longest carry Saturday went for just seven yards. ... The Spartans held the Hawkeyes to 13 first downs - five coming on their final drive - and a 4-for-15 third-down conversion rate. ... Iowa leads the all-time series 23-20-2.


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LOL! It just occurred to me ... what if Muslims wanted to put up a display at Rahmadan? Would the atheists feel compelled to "speak out"?I think the point is it's disrespectful to put the Atheist display right next to the Christian display. It's intent to get a reaction. So they can complain about the reaction.
It really seems that Christmas gets all the "display" because it is a majority of the population. As long as a government institution is willing to give display space to any religious group that would request same, it doesn't appear that the government is actually beholden in any particular religion; more like "allowing" any and all religions freedom of expression.
I would agree that the issue becomes more one of free speech.


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Brewers shut out Marlins 2-0
Lohse leads Milwaukee to win
MILWAUKEE - Kyle Lohse allowed only five hits in six shutout innings to lead the Milwaukee Brewers to a 2-0 win over the Miami Marlins Friday night at Miller Park.
Lohse (6-7) threw 105 pitches, struck out five and didn't allow a walk.
He got all the offensive support he needed with two solo homers- one by Juan Francisco in the fourth and one by Carlos Gomez in the fifth.
John Axford pitched a scoreless seventh, John Henderson a scoreless eighth before Francisco Rodriguez finished in the ninth to record his 10th save of the season.
Jacob Turner (3-2) took the loss for the Marlins, pitching five innings, allowing five hits, four walks and two runs.
The Brewers are now 39-56 this season. Miami drops to 35-59.


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Minnesota Twins Winter Caravan stops in La Crosse
LA CROSSE, Wis. - "Welcome to La Crosse," Hall of Fame pitcher Bert Blyleven said as he walked off the bus.
Dozens of happy kids greeted him at a private event at the La Crosse Boys and Girls Club, a part of the Minnesota Twins' Winter Caravan Tour.
Blyleven, as well as pitchers Cole De Vries and Liam Hendriks, took the time to meet, greet, and sign autographs for kids in the after-school program.
Blyleven says it's part of an effort to show that La Crosse is part of "Twins Territory."
"Even though it's in Wisconsin, we have a lot of Twins fans here," Blyleven said. "My first [Winter Caravan] was 1970, so I've been through La Crosse many times."
"It's good to come into a place like this and raise awareness of the Twins and try to beat the Twins over the Brewers," said Hendriks, an Australian native.
"That's one thing that's funny with the kids, is you never quite know what you're going to get," said Cole De Vries.
The Twins' Winter Caravan is wrapping up, as Spring Training begins in three weeks.
"When the winter caravan goes along with Twins fest, it's always the smell of spring right ahead," Blyleven said.18257136


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Hello all, new member from Connecticut here. Just finished my 3rd season in Ct., and 5th in New York. Generally I'm hunting in Northwest Ct. and in various areas in NY north of the Albany region. The turkeys in both states gave me a real education this year, and my turkey-hunting buddies tell me I've caught the bug! This year's highlight was calling in a friend's first bird, on his own land after a 3 year drought.
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I saw the UPC price sticker on the shelf, so I talked one of the employees into scanning it to see if any were in the back. They had a case, so I took one and he put the other five out for sale. The trick to getting the employees to go to the back is to get someone who doesn't work in the toy deptartment. This guy was working in housewares, so I don't think he knew about the whole anti-scalper policy (where they don't bring out cases from the stock room).Originally Posted by mtriv73
By the way, I got him to manually punch in the UPC (which I had written down) for ROTS Collection 1 Obi-wan and ROTS Collection 2 Battle Droid. They were both in the computer, but not in stock. But get this: the price came up $5.99. Not sure if that's news to anyone, but it made me happy. Heck of a lot better than $6.99.


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Bird On A Branch Wall Art
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Add garden variety to your walls with this printed floral wall art starring a sweet songbird. Printed on cotton canvas and hand finished for the look of an original.
- 24 x 24"
- Giclée-printed canvas.
- Finished with a hand-applied water-based sealant.
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- Canvas is secured to wood stretcher bars.
- Mounts via wire on the back.
- Wipe with a soft, dry cloth.
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This item ships directly from our manufacturer. Please allow 2-3 weeks for delivery.


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Douggie wrote:"A Total Waste of 6 Minutes and 35 Seconds"
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OmegaBastard wrote:I am wondering to all you music video makers. Having subtitles in your videos a good thing or bad thing. I want to hear some of your views on the matter at hand.
xstylus wrote: B) The creator was too much of a fucking leech to go buy DVDs and is using downloaded fansub source, and nothing will get me to DQ an entry faster than to find evidence that it was made from fansub source. That means I would also DQ any video that was "false letterboxed" to hide subtitles.
)Advent( wrote:Hah, I resent that, I live in a small town and don't exactly have loads of access to dvd's, and i refuse to use ebay.
Fansub's are my bread and butter
JaddziaDax wrote:not everyone who sells on eBay are bootleggers, but you do have to be careful to watch out for them there.
xstylus wrote:JaddziaDax wrote:not everyone who sells on eBay are bootleggers, but you do have to be careful to watch out for them there.
A large majority of it is, but yes, now and then one or two legit copies pop up among the deluge of bootlegs.
Here's a good site that gives info on how to spot bootlegs: http://www.digital.anime.org.uk/piratefaq.html
My beef is that I've been observing that people don't really seem to care so long as it's cheap (or free).
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They're essentially a troll show, meant to get people riled up, nothing to take seriously. However, one of the hosts made a point that is bugging me a bit,
The indie game genre (for lack of a better term) is becoming more and more out in the open with programs like Steam and Xbox Live giving people a chance to be heard under the mass of AAA developers, and that's fantastic! I love seeing all these innovative games coming up. However in terms of art design, I've noticed a trend. It seems that a large portion of indie developers are using a "retro" art style. Games like Minecraft and FEZ are good examples. This isn't directly bothersome of course, but I'm starting to get the idea that in leu of doing creative artwork for a game, developers are using retro styled graphics simply for the reason that it's easier to make. I'm not by any means saying that a game HAS to look amazing for it to be good, or ALL games have to have different or creative art styles, but I am saying that maybe the retro style is becoming less and less of a style and becoming more and more of a copout. Just a sentiment, what do you think, GD?
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This was opening day of the Cherry Blossom Festival. I drove in and parked at 9AM in a free, on-street, unlimited-time block near the Washington Monument. By tihe time I left three hours larter, after walking around the basin and through the Jefferson Monument, the place was teaming. Lots of little kids, lots of asian ...


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Are you here to participate in one of our current school-based festivals? If so, choose your school and follow the instructions:
School: Bridgewater State University Undergradute
Do you know why you should "tap that"? Watch this Public Service Announcement to learn why you should drink from the sink rather than reaching for a plastic water bottle!
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So we won't be getting the extra 6th round pick because overall for the Colts Davis was a disappointment and couldn't stay healthy.To land Davis, Grigson sent the Dolphins a 2013 second-round draft pick along with a conditional sixth-rounder. The Colts regain the latter because Davis won't meet the play-time conditions.
Miami still has 9 total draft picks at this moment, but expect that to grow with a compensatory pick(s).


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Christine Lynn Bucher
STOUGHTON--Christine Lynn Bucher, age 51 passed away Thursday, May 16, 2013 surrounded by her family and friends at Oregon Manor.
Christine was born in Madison on October 7, 1961 the daughter of Jerome and Diane (Skalitzky) Blied. She was a graduate of West High, Class of '80. She worked as a beautician for many years.
She is survived by her mother, Diane Blied of Stoughton; 4 siblings, Brian Blied of Chicago, Barb (John) Morrison of Madison, Chuck (Tammy) Blied of DeForest, and Mary Kay (Damon) Wilcox of Milwaukee; nephews, Jonathan Morrison and Tyler and Jordan Blied and her two special cats "Gray and Tux". She was preceded in death by her father, Jerome on June 7, 2012.
The family wishes to thank the outstanding nurses and staff of Heartland Hospice and Oregon Manor that allowed our sister to depart this world with dignity, grace and humor.
In lieu of flowers, Memorials may be made in Christine's name to Heartland Hospice.
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President Shapiro expresses concern for detained alumnus
Posted April 18, 2001; 01:32 p.m.
Princeton University President Harold T. Shapiro has written to Chinese President Jiang Zemin, expressing concern for a graduate alumnus detained since February without being charged.
In a letter delivered Tuesday to the Chinese embassy in Washington, Shapiro noted "deep concern" about the detention in China of Li Shaomin, a demography scholar who received his Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton in 1988. Li, a U.S. citizen, is a member of the faculty at the City University of Hong Kong.
"Since he is an active researcher and scholar, there is great concern that his detention may be related to his academic activity, and thus could have a chilling effect on scholarly engagement between the United States and China," Shapiro wrote.
"Princeton is one of many universities where there has been much fruitful scholarly collaboration and student exchange with China in recent years," the letter continues. "As I am sure you appreciate, these activities depend on respect for the freedom of academic inquiry and the thoughtful pursuit of academic research."
Li was detained Feb. 25. In his letter, Shapiro said he hoped the matter "can be resolved as promptly as possible."
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