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At the American Physical Society in Boston, IBM will be announcing further progress in creating a practical, working quantum processor. Big Blue said it has managed to increase the longevity of information provided by quantum bits, a crucial hurdle that must be crossed in order to make quantum computing useful, practical and scalable.
Don't be too thrilled though -- we still have a long way to go.
IBM's latest achievement centers around manipulating qubits themselves in nearly heatless superconductors frozen a tenth of degree away from absolute zero. Qubits are the various states in which quantum particles can exist, be they off, on or both off and on simultaneously.
Off and on simultaneously? Yep, that's right. Quantum physics is a strange world where particles can exist in multiple places, instantaneously influence other particles billions of light years away, become waves or matter and even pop in or out of existence at the drop of a hat. Some quantum processes like entanglement are truly stranger than fiction.
Soon, IBM hopes to have 5 to 10 qubits working in tandem. According to physicists, a paltry 30-qubit quantum computer could potentially equal about 10 teraflops of processing power. In comparison, that well over a hundred times faster than an thoroughly overclocked Intel i7-3960X -- a CPU that houses over 2 billion transistors.
In the future, a true quantum computer may have the ability to solve unimaginably complex problems almost instantaneously. It sounds fantastic, but according to quantum mechanics, such a device could contain all possible solutions at any given time for any given problem. IBM imagined a scenario that would take billions of years to solve with today's processors and claims it may take about an hour on a quantum computer from the future.
Mark Ketchen, an IBM physics of information group manager, admitted he used to think quantum-based processors were some 50 years away, but now he believes the wait time is more like 15.
Big Blue's latest methods have taken the length of time information sticks around from an impractical one-billionth of a second to a far more usable one-10,000th of a second. That may sound like a tiny achievement, but Ketchen assures us this may take "practical" quantum computers from nearly impossible to achievable.
Even though that is still not long enough for perfect calculations, it is almost good enough for error correction algorithms to detect and fix any mistakes. "We're just crossing this threshold," Dr. Ketchen said, "which is a big morale booster that says, gee, this is becoming doable."
Source: nytimes.com
Quantum mechanics is nothing new to microprocessors or the scientists and engineers who help design them. In fact, modern processors depend upon and work around such unintuitively bizarre quantum processes as electron tunneling, a phenomenon where particles can leak through solid barriers. Such observable phenomena is inexplicable under the scope of classical physics, but as processors become smaller and smaller, they venture further away from our everyday classical experiences and enter the strange realm of quantum mechanics.
"These are very delicate systems," Steffen [Matthias Steffen is the manager of IBM's quantum computing group] said. "The one state is usually encoded in the excited state of a quantum system...that can decay like an atom can emit a photon. That's an error when it happens to our qubit. The frequency that errors occur limit your device's performance. If errors are few and far between, you can implement error correction."
Source: news.cnet.com
Despite the deep connection between quantum physics and existing modern processors, such devices do not actually leverage quantum processes to generate information -- they merely work around the limitations and quirks of this strange system. This is the difference between today's processors and the quantum variety which will actually utilize quantum quirks and behavior to compute information.
Quantum dots, ion traps, quantum annealing, quantum entanglement are just a handful of natural processes being leveraged to create a real-life quantum computer. IBM's approach is being touted as possibly the most practical way to develop such a device, but only time will tell.
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The First Time I completed Mass Effect I new that's how our world will develop, I bet IBM will find some Prothen Technology which will jump them hundred's of years into researching and get this kind of processing power working in the next 10 years.
Just sayin...
Very, very cool.
IBM the new Intel of future? Back to the top once again? Em I just talking poop?
Now I want Quantum Neuronets so I can make my own Data!
IBM has never lost that branch of research and development. Their projects are quite huge and interesting for they'll never target directly consumers like Intel does. Intel is fine and eventually they'll have to think something ahead shrinking transistors, so quantum processors or analog processors are kind of a more viable future roadmap for both AMD and Intel.
Would it be able to run notepad smoothly?
How would Crysis run?
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How would Crysis run?
Simple. It would both run perfectly and not run at all, simultaneously.
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How would Crysis run?
Every time you shoot an enemy the game splits the screen into all the possible outcomes including one where the enemy materializes next to you and bites your head off and then you die.. for real.
In other news, I am excited about new developments like this. For too long now we've only seen tiny improvements here and there coupled by major price hikes for small improvements.
The industry needs a "game changer" like this!
Exciting to see Skynet is finally getting off the ground!
The singularity is only 15 years away? Snap...
well said! :P
With a normal cpu and to much overclock you get overheat, what would happen with to much overclock on this?, maybe it could lead to a time space paradox where your cpu transform into a bunny and you have to pursue it and turn it off, or the black hole than destroy the earh. Very exiting lol
*starts watching Tron*
But can it run Crysis?
D-wave and Canada already won the QC race. First commercial quantum computer. IBM is behind by a long shot.
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Graphing calculator
A graphing calculator (also graphics / graphic calculator) typically refers to a class of handheld scientific calculators that are capable of plotting graphs, solving simultaneous equations, and performing numerous other tasks with variables. Most popular graphing calculators are also programmable, allowing the user to create customized programs, typically for scientific/engineering and education applications. Due to their large displays intended for graphing, they can also accommodate several lines of text and calculations at a time.
Some of the more recent graphing calculators are capable of color output, and also feature animated and interactive drawing of math plots (2D and 3D), other figures such as animated Algebra theorems, preparation of documents which can include these plots and drawings, etc. This is giving the new graphing calculators a presence even in high school courses where they were formerly disallowed. Some calculator manufacturers also offer computer software for emulating and working with handheld graphing calculators.
Many graphing calculators can be attached to devices like electronic thermometers, pH gauges, weather instruments, decibel and light meters, accelerometers, and other sensors and therefore function as data loggers, as well as WiFi or other communication modules for monitoring, polling and interaction with the teacher. Student laboratory exercises with data from such devices enhances learning of math, especially statistics and mechanics.
Since graphing calculators are usually readily user-programmable, such calculators are also widely used for gaming purposes, with a sizable body of user-created game software on most popular platforms. Even though handheld gaming devices fall in a similar price range, graphing calculators offer superior math programming capability for math based games. However, for developers and advanced users like researchers, analysts and gamers, 3rd party software development involving firmware mods, whether for powerful gaming or exploiting capabilities beyond the published data sheet and programming language, is a contentious issue with manufacturers and education authorities as it might incite unfair calculator use during standardized high school and college tests where these devices are targeted. Nowadays graduate (Masters) students and researchers have turned to advanced Computer Aided Math software for learning as well as experimenting.
Graphing calculators can be sub-divided into two categories (both need the graphical display):
1. Numerical (or just graphing) Calculators - non-CAS and producing numerical results, at most represented as a fraction. In some countries, graphing calculators are not permitted in high school science tests or certain basic math tests. See examples below.
2. CAS (or symbolic) Calculators - most advanced calculators capable of producing a symbolic result (in expression or equation form), usually utilizing a Computer Algebra System (CAS). Symbolic/CAS calculators are posing a challenge to high school and undergraduate educators. They can make math easier to learn for high schoolers, provided school curriculum evolves towards this advantage.[1][2] Testing based on tedious hand calculation is also being forced to evolve towards more creative testing.[3] Such tests are often more challenging and expensive to design and can't be recycled as much, but encourage a genuine deeper appreciation of the art of mathematics and critiqueing a fallacy. CAS calculators are therefore usually permitted only in select advanced math or calculus tests, thereby being more of a classroom learning tool for many users who then switch to a permitted and speedy numerical non-CAS graphing or scientific calculator for tests and exams.
Casio produced the world's first graphics calculator, the fx-7000G, in 1985. After Casio, Hewlett Packard followed shortly in the form of the HP-28C. This was followed by the HP-28S (1988), HP-48SX (1990), HP-48S (1991), and many other models. Recent models like the current[update] HP 50g (2006), feature a computer algebra system (CAS) capable of manipulating symbolic expressions and analytic solving. An unusual and powerful CAS "calculator" is the now obsolete year 2001 Casio Cassiopeia A10 and A11 (flip top) stylus operated PDAs which actually ran the Maple V symbolic engine. The HP-28 and -48 range were primarily meant for the professional science/engineering markets; the HP-38/39/40 were sold in the high school/college educational market; while the HP-49 series cater to both educational and professional customers of all levels. The HP series of graphing calculators is best known for its Reverse Polish notation interface, although the HP-49 introduced a standard expression entry interface as well.
Texas Instruments has produced graphing calculators since 1990, the oldest of which was the TI-81. Some of the newer calculators are similar, with the addition of more memory, faster processors, and USB connection such as the TI-82, TI-83 series, and TI-84 series. Other models, designed to be appropriate for students 10–14 years of age, are the TI-80 and TI-73. Other TI graphing calculators have been designed to be appropriate for calculus, namely the TI-85, TI-86, TI-89 series, and TI-92 series (TI-92, TI-92 Plus, and Voyage 200). TI offers a CAS on the TI-89, TI-Nspire CAS and TI-92 series models with the TI-92 series featuring a QWERTY keypad. TI calculators are targeted specifically to the educational market, but are also widely available to the general public.
Graphing calculators are also manufactured by Sharp but they do not have the online communities, user-websites and collections of programs like the other brands.
Graphing calculators in schools[edit]
- North America – high school mathematics teachers allow and even encourage their students to use graphing calculators in class. In some cases (especially in calculus courses) they are required. Some of them are disallowed in certain classes such as chemistry or physics due to their capacity to contain full periodic tables.
- College Board of the United States – permits the use of most graphing or CAS calculators that do not have a QWERTY-style keyboard for parts of its AP and SAT exams, but IB schools do not permit the use of calculators with computer algebra systems on its exams.
- United Kingdom – a graphics calculator is allowed for A-level maths courses (excluding the C1 module where no calculator of any kind is permitted), however they are not required and the exams are designed to be broadly 'calculator neutral'. Similarly, at GCSE, all current courses include one paper where no calculator of any kind can be used, but students are permitted to use graphical calculators for other papers. The use of graphical calculators at GCSE is not widespread with cost being a likely factor. The use of CAS is not allowed for either A-level or GCSE [4] The Scottish SQA allows the use of graphic calculators in maths exams (excluding paper 1, which is exclusively non-calculator), however these should either be checked before exams by invigilators or handed out by the exam centre, as certain functions / information is not allowed to be stored on a calculator in the exam. SQA exams do not favour a graphic calculator, and since working must be shown for full marks, do not give a significant advantage over candidates who do not use them.
- Finland and Slovenia – and certain other countries, it is forbidden to use calculators with symbolic calculation (CAS) or 3D graphics features in the matriculation exam. This will change in the case of Finland, however, as symbolic calculators will be allowed from spring 2012 onwards.
- Norway – calculators with wireless communication capabilities, such as IR links, have been banned at some technical universities.
- Australia – policies vary from state to state.
- Victoria – the VCE specifies approved calculators as applicable for its mathematics exams. For Further Mathematics an approved graphics calculator (for example TI-83/84, Casio 9860, HP-39G) or CAS (for example TI-89, Classpad 300, HP-40G) can be used. Mathematical Methods and Mathematical Methods CAS have a common technology free examination consisting of short answer and some extended answer questions. They also each have a technology assumed access examination consisting of extended response and multiple choice questions: a graphics calculator is the assumed technology for Mathematical Methods and a CAS for Mathematical Methods CAS. These two exams have substantial material in common but also some distinctive questions. Specialist Mathematics has a technology free examination and a technology assumed access examination where either an approved graphics calculator or CAS may be used. Calculator memories are not required to be cleared. In subjects like Physics and Chemistry, students are only allowed a standard scientific calculator.
- Western Australia – all tertiary entrance examinations in Mathematics involve a calculator section which assume the student has a graphics calculator; CAS enabled calculators are also permitted. In subjects such as Physics, Chemistry and Accounting only non programmable calculators are permitted.[5]
- New South Wales – graphics calculators are allowed for the General Mathematics Higher School Certificate exam, but disallowed in the higher level Mathematics courses.
- China - calculators in general are banned in primary and secondary education.[citation needed]
- India - Calculators are banned in primary and secondary education. University degree and diploma courses have their own rules on use and permitted models of calculators in exams.
- New Zealand – calculators identified as having high-level algebraic manipulation capability are prohibited in NCEA examinations unless specifically allowed by a standard or subject prescription. This includes calculators such as the TI-89 series [1].
- Turkey – any type of calculator whatsoever is prohibited in all primary and high schools except the IB and American schools.[citation needed]
- Singapore – graphing calculators are used in junior colleges; it is required in the Mathematics paper of the GCE 'A' Levels, and most schools use the TI-84 Plus or TI-84 Plus Silver Edition.
- Netherlands – high school students are obliged to use graphing calculators during tests and exams in their final three years. Most students use the TI-83 Plus or TI-84 Plus, but other graphing calculators are allowed, including the Casio CFX-9860G and HP-39G. Graphing calculators are almost always allowed to be used during tests instead of normal calculators, which sometimes results in cheat sheets being made on forehand and exchanged before the test starts using link cables.
Most graphing calculators, as well as some non-graphing scientific and programmer's calculators can be programmed to automate complex and frequently used series of calculations and those inaccessible from the keyboard.
The actual programming can often be done on a computer then later uploaded to the calculators. The most common tools for this include the PC link cable and software for the given calculator, configurable text editors or hex editors, and specialized programming tools such as the below-mentioned implementation of various languages on the computer side.
Earlier calculators stored programs on magnetic cards and the like; increased memory capacity has made storage on the calculator the most common implementation. Some of the newer machines can also use memory cards.
Many calculators, such as earlier TI graphing and scientific calculators will tokenize the code for a program or function, using ISO 8859 type character codes for the statements and other programming elements. The TI-92 Plus and many HP calculators read the code much like computers do and they have functions such as Chr$, Chr, Char, Asc, and the like in Basic (sometimes renamed) in addition to using somewhat modified or unmodified versions of 7-bit, 8-bit or 9-bit ISO 8859-derived character sets and other character sets running from values of 0 to 127 (07F hex), 255 (0FF hex), or 511 (1FF hex) -- and many of them have a tool similar to the Character Map on Windows.
Three websites with extensive programming information are www.ticalc.org, www.hpcalc.org, and www.casiocalc.org. The official sites of the manufacturers and of other people like professors & teachers, students, statisticians, scientists, and organizations like university business and computer science departments, SourceForge, and the 27. November Spreadsheet Macro Programming Club are also useful. A broad array of third-party software including 3D function graphing tools, web browsers, chat, email and NNTP clients, telnet/SSH, spreadsheets, word processors, sound & graphics tools, network tools, and programming tools can be located on the internet.
A cable and/or IrDA transceiver connecting the calculator to a computer make the process easier and expands other possibilities such as on-board spreadsheet, database, graphics, and word processing programs. The second option is being able to code the programs on board the calculator itself. This option is facilitated by the inclusion of full-screen text editors and other programming tools in the default feature set of the calculator or as optional items. Some calculators have QWERTY keyboards and others can be attached to an external keyboard which can be close to the size of a regular 102-key computer keyboard. Programming is a major use for the software and cables used to connect calculators to computers, other calculators &c.
The most common programming languages used for calculators are similar to keystroke-macro languages and variants of BASIC. The latter can have a large feature set—approaching that of Basic as found in computers—including character and string manipulation, advanced conditional and branching statements, sound, graphics, and more including, of course, the huge spectrum of mathematical, string, bit-manipulation, number base, I/O, and graphics functions built into the machine.
Languages for programming calculators fall into all of the main groups, i.e. machine code, low-level, mid-level, high-level languages for systems and application programming, scripting, macro, and glue languages, procedural, functional, imperative &. Object-Oriented Programming can be achieved in some cases.
Most calculators capable to being connected to a computer can be programmed in assembly language and machine code, although on some calculators this is only possible through using exploits. The most common assembly and machine languages are for TMS9900, SH3, Zilog Z-80, and various Motorola chips (e.g. a modified 68000) which serve as the main processors of the machines although many (not all) are modified to some extent from their use elsewhere. Some manufacturers do not document and even mildly discourage the assembly language programming of their machines because they must programmed in this way by putting together the program on the PC and then forcing it into the calculator by various improvised methods.
Other on-board programming languages include purpose-made languages, variants of Eiffel, Forth, and Lisp, and Command Script facilities which are similar in function to batch/shell programming and other glue languages on computers but generally not as full featured. Ports of other languages like BBC Basic and development of on-board interpreters for Fortran, Rexx, Awk, Perl, Unix shells (ksh, sh, bash, csh, zsh, tcsh &c.), other shells (DOS/Win95, OS/2, and WinNT/2000 shells as well as the related 4Dos, 4NT and 4OS2 as well as DCL), COBOL, C, Python, Tcl, Pascal, Delphi, ALGOL, and other languages are at various levels of development.
Some calculators, especially those with other PDA-like functions have actual operating systems including the TI proprietary OS for its more recent machines, MS-DOS, Windows CE, and rarely Windows NT 4.0 Embedded et seq, and Linux. Experiments with the TI-89, 92, 92+ and Voyage 200 machines show the possibility of installing some variants of other systems such as a chopped-down variant of CP/M, an operating system which has been used for portable devices in the past.
Tools which allow for programming the calculators in C/C++ and possibly Fortran and assembly language are used on the computer side, such as HPgcc, TIgcc and others. Flash memory is another means of conveyance of information to and from the calculator.
The on-board Basic variants in TI graphing calculators and the languages available on HP 48 type calculators can be used for rapid prototyping by developers, professors, and students, often when a computer is not close at hand.
Most graphing calculators have on-board spreadsheets which usually integrate with Microsoft Excel on the computer side. At this time, spreadsheets with macro and other automation facilities on the calculator side are not on the market. In some cases, the list, matrix, and data grid facilities can be combined with the native programming language of the calculator to have the effect of a macro and scripting enabled spreadsheet.
See also[edit]
- Scientific calculator
- Calculator gaming
- GraphCalc
- Personal Digital Assistant
- Programmable calculator
- Casio graphic calculators
- ^ Wildstrom, Stephen. "A Smarter Math Machine". Business Week. Archived from the original on 9 Oct 2006. Retrieved 5 July 2011.
- ^ Mathematics Educators Exploring Computer Algebra Systems. "Let no child be left behind". MEECAS. Retrieved 5 July 2011.
- ^ Pointon, A; Sangwin (20 March 2003). "An analysis of undergraduate core material in the light of hand held computer algebra systems.". International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology 34 (5): 671–686.
- ^ http://jcq.org.uk/attachments/published/898/17.%20ICE%2010-11.pdf General, Vocational and Diploma Qualifications Instructions for conducting examinations.
- ^ http://www.curriculum.wa.edu.au/internet/_Documents/Policy/Calculators_use_in_the_WACE_examinations_2010_pdf.pdf Calculator use in the 2011 WACE examinations
Further reading[edit]
- Dick, Thomas P. (1996). Much More than a Toy. Graphing Calculators in Secondary school Calculus. In P. Gómez and B. Waits (Eds.), Roles of Calculators in the Classroom pp 31–46). Una Empresa Docente.
- Ellington, A. J. (2003). A meta-analysis of the effects of calculators on students' achievement and attitude levels in precollege mathematics classes. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education. 34(5), 433-463.
- Heller, J. L., Curtis, D. A., Jaffe, R., & Verboncoeur, C. J. (2005). Impact of handheld graphing calculator use on student achievement in algebra 1: Heller Research Associates.
- Khoju, M., Jaciw, A., & Miller, G. I. (2005). Effectiveness of graphing calculators in K-12 mathematics achievement: A systematic review. Palo Alto, CA: Empirical Education, Inc.
- National Center for Education Statistics. (2001). The nation's report card: Mathematics 2000. (No. NCES 2001-571). Washington DC: U.S. Department of Education.

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Battle the Urge to Splurge
By Suze Orman
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My husband and I are currently paying off debts from overspending and a failed business. I'm so happy we are finally able to do this. But now that we're in better financial standing, I'm starting to get excited about shopping for new clothes, having some painting done around the house. These are the same kinds of ruinous thoughts I had before, and I'm nervous about how easy it would be to repeat our mistakes. My husband and I are in our late 50s and looking forward to working less than we do now. When do we get to enjoy spending money again?
I see this all the time: As soon as people dig themselves out of debt, they seem to develop amnesia about what it felt like while they were buried in it.
You can fight the urge to spend what you don't have by keeping your "ruinous thoughts" front and center in your mind. Those are your words, not mine, so listen to yourself. When you feel excited about shopping, stop and ask, "Will buying this item now be a mistake down the line?" I bet you know what qualifies as a mistake—credit card balances you can't pay off at the end of the month; spending money that should be set aside for an emergency; shortchanging your retirement accounts. When you focus on what you need to do to ensure your well-being (saving and investing) versus what you'd like to do (spend, spend, spend), making the right choices becomes easier.
I want both you and your husband to check with all past and present employers as well as Social Security (log on to SocialSecurity.gov/estimator) to see what retirement benefits you will be eligible for. Add up all your sources of income, then compare that figure to 150 percent of your living costs today. Why so much? The current rate of inflation is around 4 percent; over 10 years, that works out to costs that are 50 percent above their current levels. This exercise probably means you will find that you need to tuck away more money. If you want to buy something today, let it be your future security.
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All Seasons Marinade Recipe
- 3/4 cup soy sauce
- 1/2 cup canola oil
- 1/2 cup red wine vinegar
- 1/3 cup lemon juice
- 1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce
- 2 tablespoons ground mustard
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh parsley
- 1-1/2 teaspoons pepper
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- In a small bowl, whisk all the ingredients. Cover and refrigerate until ready to use. Use as a marinade for beef, pork, chicken or shrimp. Yield: 2 cups.
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This was a hit in my house. First thing I heard was "This steak is awesome!". I changed the recipe slightly because I didn't need 2 cups and didn't have some of the ingredients. Here is what I did:
1/3 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup canola oil
1/4 cup red wine vinegar
1 fresh squeezed lemon
2 shakes of Worcestershire sauce (I'm not a huge fan, so a little goes a long way with me.)
1 tablespoons ground mustard
1 tsp dried Thyme
1-1/2 teaspoons fresh ground pepper
2 pinches of Red Hawaiian salt
4 garlic cloves, minced
Combine all ingredients in a zip-lock bag, add steak, close bag and place in refrigerator until ready. I let them sit for 3 hours.
This recipe was awesome! We made steak and veggie kabobs with this recipe.I let this marinade sit on the veggies and sirloin for about 30 minutes. My husband brushed the excess marinade on during the grilling process. We couldn't stop eating them! I made a couple adjustments due to ingredients I had on hand and to make the recipe gluten free for my family. First, I used olive oil because that is what I had available. Next, I used a gluten free soy sauce. Also, if you are making this recipe gluten free you will want to verify the brands of Worcestershire and red wine vinegar are also gluten free. I am certain we will be making this again and soon. This is the perfect recipe for summer grilling!
Excellent with chicken on the BBQ. Will try it with steak next.
Very good. I would definitely make this again. My husband and I are trying to eat healthier which means bumping up our salad intake and we marinated a ton of chicken on this and grilled it so we have a supply of tasty protein readily available for the week!
Used marinade on skirt steak and BBQ'd. Totally excellent flavor and taste awesome and meat TENDER.


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Passover Craft For Kids
Kids can help observe the Jewish Passover by making fun crafts to contribute to the celebration. According to Jewish tradition, the prophet Elijah will visit every Seder to take a drink from this special cup. Kids will love decorating a beautiful cup that can be left out in his honor.
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It's funny, Duke, that you say you put the DVDs on as background noise--I do the same thing! I saw the series on PBS when it first aired, and bits and pieces of it when it was aired afterwards, and eventually I got the DVDs as a Christmas present. I have used the series in my classroom for different reasons: for my Civil War club, as a good background (tho not the entire series!) and as a take-off for study of specific battles, and in my regular classes as great short examples of biography--the Grant and Lee snippets are great for how to use both quotes, and how to use unique aspects of the person's life to create interesting biography. There are many little inaccuracies in it, but it's enough for me to know the real facts and still enjoy it. There are worse mistakes in other documentaries and movies (Gettysburg, anyone?). The sound of Shelby Foote's voice is so smooth and cool, and he spins a tale so well. And of course, there's Ed Bearrs--my kids get such a kick out of him, his voice and his mannerisms--but I'd give my right arm to be able to tour a battlefield with him just once! (I sort of did, at Gettysburg a couple years ago. My husband and son and I were hiking around the Rose Woods in July, and from across the Wheatfield came a group in the direction of the woods. However, I could hear Ed way before that, and I kept following the group around discreetly as long as I could, just to listen to him.) Pam |


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Marcy MacDonald has nothing against fellow swimmer Diana Nyad.
But she doesn't think Nyad's 110-mile Cuba-to-Florida swim, celebrated internationally upon its completion on Sept. 2, falls into the same category that her swims do.
Last month, MacDonald, 49, of Andover, quietly tied the American record for English Channel crossings with a 42-mile double crossing, bringing her total number of crossings to 14. The record is now held by two Connecticut residents — MacDonald and Peter Jurzynski of Naugatuck. Jurzynski is retired from Channel swimming after bypass surgery; MacDonald will try to break the record next June on the 20th anniversary of her first Channel swim.
Last week, MacDonald was on a three-hour conference call with Nyad and other members of the marathon swimming community, quizzing the 64-year-old about the validity of her swim, the first completed without a shark cage.
"I don't want to bring her down," said MacDonald, who was inducted into the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame in 2005 and is a member of the board of directors. "I just want to put her in a different category."
There were several issues pointed out by critics; for example, at one point, Nyad picked up speed, doubling her average speed, which her crew credited to a particularly fast current.
But for MacDonald, at the heart of the controversy was a special suit that Nyad wore during the 53-hour swim to ward off a particularly ferocious brand of jellyfish, the box jellyfish, whose sting can be lethal. Nyad had tried the swim four previous times but had pulled out for a variety of reasons, including jellyfish stings.
The suit alone wouldn't have been so bad, MacDonald said. But Nyad took the suit on and off. And when she did, people in the boat helped her. And when they helped her, they touched her.
And for many marathon swimmers, that counts as an assisted swim, not a pure swim.
"If somebody's touching you and there's even a little bit of movement of the boat, you're getting towed," MacDonald said.
English Channel swims are governed by a set of rules, which don't allow wetsuits or any kind of special suits. The swimmer cannot touch the boat or any of the support crew or the swim is over. There are official observers on the support boat to watch for any improprieties.
Many swims around the world — the Swim Across the Sound from Long Island to Bridgeport, the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim in New York, the Catalina Channel swim (which has its own swim federation) — follow English Channel rules. MacDonald knows because she has swam them all.
But Nyad knew she couldn't make her swim — which had been a longtime goal of hers — without a special suit and face mask. Her attempt last year was derailed by box jellyfish.
Her swim was not in the English Channel, where there are jellyfish — MacDonald was stung badly by one on her swim Aug. 28 — but not the lethal variety. And thus, some would say, it should not be governed by English Channel swim rules.
"She can do whatever she wants," MacDonald said. "But the thing that makes it so conflicting is that Diana kept putting the suit on and off. In our realm of things, that's assistance.
"If I was going to be going for a record like that, I wouldn't have risked anything. I would have devised something I could do myself. And I probably couldn't have.
"No one's ever done a type of swim like this. It is opening up a can of worms with records, with the Guinness Book of World Records. People don't know what to do with this swim. They really don't."
There were observers, but MacDonald said they were not well-known to the international swimming community and there was some video, but not of the entire 53 hours. There are some holes in the story. Some of them are nuanced; not everybody is going to understand the difference between wearing a wetsuit and not wearing a wetsuit, so what's the big deal?
Well, I have been in water in the English Channel, and let me tell you, it is no picnic. I would wear a wetsuit (which isn't allowed). Fifty-four degree water is really cold. And MacDonald swam in it for over 10 hours in her first Channel crossing in 1994. It's the rules. No wetsuits.
It was 64 degrees during MacDonald's August Channel swim. The water was pretty rough, which precluded her from attempting a triple-crossing, something she has tried but not accomplished.
When she puts on her regular swimsuit and cap and plasters herself with lanolin grease to ward off the chill, she is doing what hundreds of other Channel swimmers have done. She can't touch the boat. Nobody can touch her. There are official observers watching. It's a level playing field.
The only variable is the Channel, which can go from level to rough and rocking and rolling in a matter of hours and whose weather is sometimes impossible to predict. And that's what draws MacDonald back year after year. That's what drew Jurzynski back year after year (plus the fact that he really liked the town of Folkestone, England, just up the coast from Dover and travels back there quite a bit now).
According to MacDonald, more answers are forthcoming for the questions she and the other members of the international swim community had, when Nyad's navigator's notes and observations are made public. For her part, Nyad has said because she was the first to make the crossing, she understood that she got to set the rules of the crossing, and also that she never held the boat and was never supported by a member of her support team. "We made it in squeaky-clean, ethical fashion," she said last week.
"It's definitely a different swim than I did," MacDonald said. "Hers was different from most people's. I'm cool with that. It's driving some people crazy, but my life goes on."


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The 2002 American Occupational Health Conference (AOHC), the nation's largest conference of occupational and environmental health professionals, is expected to draw more than 5,000 physicians, nurses, scientists, safety engineers, industrial engineers, and other allied health professionals, April 12-19, to the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, Ill.
The 87th annual AOHC is jointly sponsored by the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) and the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, Inc. (AAOHN). The theme of the meeting is "Workforce of the 21st Century."
The program is designed to provide learner-centered education in the most current issues relevant to the practice of occupational and environmental medicine (OEM). Topics will cover current issues in genetic testing, the latest OEM research, responses to terrorism, migrant farm worker health and safety, disability, welder safety, medically unexplained workplace syndromes, and safety and productivity in the workplace.
Program highlights will include the ACOEM/AAOHN Joint Plenary Session and the ACOEM General Session and Sappington Lecture on Wednesday, and ACOEM's Annual Membership Meeting on Thursday. John Henshaw, MPH, Assistant Secretary of Labor for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has been invited to give Wednesday's Joint Plenary address. Secretary Henshaw will discuss "Worker's Safety and Health in the 21st Century." The Sappington Lecture will be presented by Thomas V. Inglesby, MD, Deputy Director for the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies in Baltimore, Md.
Dr. Edward Hughes, professor of health industry management, and management and strategy at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, will present "A Perspective on the Future of American Health Care" at the Thursday session.
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By Jamie Dupree
It's been almost three weeks since the mid-term elections for the Congress, and there are still a handful of races that have yet to be declared official.
The closest is on Long Island in New York, where Rep. Steve Bishop (D-NY) leads by - 15 votes - yet another lesson in why every single vote is important.
Even more interesting about this race is that Bishop's Republican challenger was ahead a week ago by about 350 votes, and Randy Altschuler traveled to Washington, D.C. to take part in freshmen orientation.
But when he left here on Friday, he was getting the news that his 350 vote lead had evaporated.
There are still more absentee and provisional ballots to be checked and counted in that race.
Democrats are ahead in two other races in California, in CA-11 and CA-20, where the Democratic incumbents lead by over a thousand votes. It's not clear why the GOP challengers have yet to concede, as the votes look like they won't be going to the Republicans here.
The GOP does have the advantage in two other races that remain in limbo, in NY-25, where Rep. Dan Maffei (D-NY) trails by over 500 votes and in TX-27, where Rep. Solomon Ortiz (D-TX) will get a recount starting today.
If you are scoring at home, Republicans have won 61 seats in the 2010 elections, and could pick up a few more out of these final five races.
Meanwhile, up in Alaska, even though the Senate race has swung in favor of Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), that race may not be official anytime soon, as GOP nominee Joe Miller is still doing some legal gymnastics in this election.
But it seems hard to figure out how Murkowski is going to lose at this point.
So, as Thanksgiving approaches, at least three races are in real limbo - and one of them may be settled by just over a dozen votes.
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Book Title | Deciphering Culture |
Year Published | 2000 |
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Echinacea 'Cheyenne Spirit'
2013 AAS Flower Award Winner
This stunning first-year flowering echinacea captures the spirit of the North American plains by producing a delightful mix of flower colors from rich purple, pink, red and orange tones to lighter yellows, creams and white. This wide range of flower colors on well branched, durable plants are sure to please the color preferences of any gardener. As an added bonus, 'Cheyenne Spirit' does not require a lot of water and offers a wide range of uses from the perennial border, in a mass landscape planting, in a butterfly garden or as a cut flower.
The AAS judges and their trial garden visitors raved about the attractiveness of the flowers and the range of colors while appreciating its sturdiness and low water needs. Even during wind and rain, this compact plant does not topple over like many echinacea. The variety of intense, bright colors adds sparkle to the garden from mid-summer through fall. As an added bonus, this maintenance-free echinacea doesn't even need deadheading to provide summer long beauty.
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Award: | AAS Flower Award Winner |
Award Type: | National Winner |
Class: | Echinacea |
Variety Name: | 'Cheyenne Spirit' |
Genus: | Echinacea |
Species: | hybrida |
Year: | 2013 |
Common Name: | Coneflower |
Type: | Flowers |
Breeder: | Kieft Seed |
Close Market Comparison: | 'Paradiso Mix,' 'Magnus,' 'Bravado' |
Plant Needs | |
Duration Type: | Perennial |
Hardiness Zone/Hardy to Zone: | Zone 4 |
Light Needs: | Full sun |
Water Needs: | Drought tolerant |
Dead Heading Recommended: | NO |
Staking Required: | NO |
Plant Characteristics | |
Foliage Color: | Green |
Plant Habit: | Bushy, Upright |
Plant Height: | Tall: Over 24" |
Garden Spacing: | 24 inches |
Bloom Time: | Summer, Fall |
Bloom Color: | Red, Pink, Yellow, Orange, Purple, White |
Bloom Color Pattern: | Solid |
Bloom Size: | 3-3.5 inches |
Fragrance: | Slight |
Weather Tolerance: | Drought |
Pollinator Friendly: | Bees, Butterflies |
Home Gardener Use | |
Container: | YES |
Hanging Basket: | NO |
Low Edging: | NO |
Medium Height Divider: | YES |
Tall Background: | NO |
Ground Cover: | NO |
Herb: | NO |
Cut Flower: | YES |
Dried Flower / Everlasting: | NO |
Houseplant: | NO |
Water Garden: | NO |
Edible Ornamental: | NO |
How to Grow
All echinacea are perennials and native to the American prairie. To produce plants from seed that will flower the first year, sow seed no later than January 25, regardless of location. Sow seed on top of germination media that has been thoroughly wet and allowed to drain. Seed can be exposed to light or covered lightly with media. Maintain 65F to 70F soil media for 10 to 15 days, the length of time for germination. Seedlings can be transplanted into larger containers within 20 to 28 days. Transplant into a full-sun garden location with amended soil that is well draining. Plants thrive with few disease or insect problems.
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Our apologies for not updating our blog recently. We do have some exciting things to share! The month of May was highlighted by the Grand Opening of the Darrent Williams Memorial Teen Center, which as you all know, has been in the works for over a year. The kids are absolutely in love with their new center, and it is wonderful to see it going to such good use so quickly. A special thank you to the hard working staff we collaborate with at the Broncos Boys & Girls Club to make all these new visions reality: Rich Barrows and Company (Guy, Meca, Dave, Amber, Karly, Julio . . .all of you are the best!!)
This past Monday was highlighted by the annual Mike Shanahan Golf Classic in partnership with the Phil Long Community Fund. Many players hit the links with community members in the spirit of charity. The tournament proceeds alternate between Denver and Colorado Springs (where Phil Long is headquartered) projects and this year's proceeds will go to support a Phil Long designated project: John Venezia Park.
Special thanks to Kelly Woodward in our Community Development office who spearheaded the entire Shanahan Golf Classic. Kudos!!
Have a great weekend in Broncos Country!!


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When most men put a suit on, they suddenly feel like James Bond. They mess with their cuffs and walk a little taller, even if they've only got a suit on because they're going to court for not paying child-support. However, you're not James Bond until you've killed thousands of people, had unprotected sex in every country of the world and had someone swing a knotted rope at your balls. Read More >>
Here's a pleasing message for those of you who plan to purposefully drink yourself to unconsciousness several times over the next fortnight, courtesy of a few doctors, who suggest Bond's preference for shaken Martinis may be to mask his alcohol-induced shakes. Read More >>
This week, we learned that NASA can beam data to the moon — at a frankly astounding 622Mbps — using a high powered laser. Sounds like cutting edge modern tech? Perhaps. But it also sounds like the best weapon from the best scene of the best James Bond movie ever made: Goldfinger. Read More >>
You could probably argue there are worse offenders, but there's no denying that James Bond's Thunderball jetpack is definitely up there in the pantheon of ridiculous(ly awesome) 00-gadgets. Tinkerer Rodger Cleye recently tried to put a more modern spin on the concept, and the result is this still-ridiculous-but-fully-functioning quadcopter "belt." Read More >>
I'm not quite sure what's happening here, just a load of people getting shot, kicked, and bludgeoned to death. Oh, and lots and lots of totally badass first-person stunts. If you kitted out James Bond or Jason Bourne with Google Glass, this is probably what it would look like. [Ilya Naishuller via Kotaku] Read More >>
Ever wished you were James Bond in Tomorrow Never Dies, with his BMW 5 series he drove using a touchpad on an Ericsson phone? Yeah, me too, and while no, you can't drive a BMW with your phone (yet), you can drive a Vauxhall with your iPad. Read More >>
With society becoming increasingly mobile, the importance of keeping your data safe has never been more in the public eye. The issue is even spreading into popular culture, what with James Bond having to combat the leaking of every MI6 agent's details onto the internet in his latest adventure Skyfall. Read More >>
Sometimes GIFs are funny. Other times they are horrifying. And then, some feature Hitler. But, on occasion, you find the absolutely perfect GIF. This, my friends, is one of those GIFs. Read More >>
As expected, Skyfall stormed the cinemas; broke some records, and even had a few of us reaching for our tissues during that scene. While the rest of us are now looking forwards to The Hobbit, opening next month, one talented Giz UK reader will soon be receiving a pretty unique Skyfall souvenir -- designed by their own fair hands in our 3D Printing Challenge. Read More >>
Ever wanted to be a secret agent like James Bond? If so, you're probably a little insane, but the government's official job site briefly posted an opening for a position called "Target Elimination Specialist." The job code? 007. No doubt it comes with a license to kill. Read More >>
These days filmmakers often turn to computer graphics for scenes of destruction that would otherwise be too expensive or dangerous to stage in real life. But Skyfall posed a different problem. Namely that the effects crew didn't want to damage a priceless 1960 Aston Martin DB 5 that appeared in the original Bond film 50 years ago. Read More >>
James Bond has quite the arsenal of high-tech gadgets, plenty of which would be awesome if they were real. And though slingshot master Joerg Sprave may not make the highest tech weapons, I'm sure Bond could find a way to make use of this silent but deadly slingshot spy-pistol. Read More >>
The formula for success when it comes to make Bond films has been uncovered. Stick him in something British and don't let him anywhere near a Renault 11. Read More >>
Ben Collins, who spent seven years being The Stig on BBC's Top Gear before getting himself sacked and relegated to Channel 5's Fifth Gear for outing himself as being the anonymous race driver, has got himself the fantastic new gig of driving Bond's DB5 in the new Skyfall movie. Read More >>
It looks like Bond might have met his match in the new Q. He might be a tad on the young side, but he's certainly no pushover -- more Desmond Llewelyn's "oh shut-up Bond" than John Cleese's crazy, all-over-the-place Q, as this brand new Skyfall clip shows. Read More >>
We've seen a couple of trailers now, and a load of gorgeous DB5-featuring images, but this complete two-minute trailer will tell you everything you need to know about Skyfall. Time to break out the credit card and book those tickets. Read More >>
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Tolworth Hospital mental health ward closure consultation delayed
5:00am Monday 14th January 2013 in News By Jon Sharman, Reporter
The group holding the purse strings for health services in Kingston has delayed ordering a public consultation into the future of a mental health ward for elderly people.
In a unanimous vote on Tuesday, the Kingston clinical commissioning group (CCG) decided to re-open negotiations with relatives of patients on Fuchsias ward, at Tolworth Hospital.
The CGC is offering a possible compromise deal, but with important conditions.
The strained relationship between relatives and CCG leaders, including chief officer David Smith, means "champions" from among the board's members will mediate the discussion.
A four-week time limit was imposed, and the results of negotiations will be on the agenda when the board next meets on March 5.
A balance must be struck between the ward's running costs of £1.46m a year and maintaining the quality of care its six patients receive.
Dr Phil Moore, deputy chairman of the CCG, said: "This is really difficult stuff. These are real people with real needs, with real relatives.
"There's emotion involved and we need to be sensitive to those issues.
"We have a responsibility to individual patients and we have a responsibility to a population.
"If we're spending hundreds of thousands on one individual we can't spend it on others."
Louise Tarleton-Hodgson, whose father is a patient at Fuchsias Ward, opposes its possible closure. She said: "The staff looking after our relatives know them.
"One patient has been there for 20 years, which shows how well they are looked after. They know the slightest change to their expressions and when something could be wrong.
"We're happy to spend money on a court case because it will go that far."
But the willingness of several board members to act as go-betweens could bring about a settlement.
Mrs Tarleton-Hodgson added: "We are open to any option that works. We're not going to turn anything down that could bring a solution."
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But this evidence abuse and misunderstanding of the scientific method is not all their fault. Scientists too often fail to engage with politicians (and the media). So Mark calls for scientist to do just that, help support politicians, talk to them and make science (and evidence based policies) a vote winning issue.
One of the book's fans, Dave Watts, took Mark's message to heart. He thought that our politicians should read the book so he rallyed the troops and via an online pledge site got scientists to agree to send a copy of "The Geek Manifesto" to every MP in the UK parliament. With the help of the publishers (Transworld, who agreed to match the individual pledges) the target has been reached and books are winging their way to MPs right now.
I joined in the fun and have sent a copy to my MP with the following accompanying letter.
Dear Graham,
Within the next few days you should receive a copy of "The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters" by Mark Henderson (Head of Communications at the Wellcome Trust) I hope you enjoy reading it.
A few years ago we engaged on the Royal Society's Scientist/MP pairing scheme. I found it a most useful insight into the workings of government and the role that science can play in the decision making process.
Unfortunately and despite excellent schemes, like those run by the RS, it seems to me, and many others, that science is greatly undervalued and misused in British politics. Many of our decision makers are unfamiliar with the scientific methods and how it can be applied to policies.
This lamentable state is in no small part due to scientists' failure to engage with politicians. But this is changing. In recent years scientists have started to form lobby and pressure groups to better make their cases heard.
Mark Henderson's book follows in this vein. It is acting as a call to arms, rallying scientists and persuading them to make science and evidenced based decision an electoral issue. Therefore many of us consider "The Geek Manifesto" to be an extremely timely and important book. It contains arguments that all rational thinkers should consider. With this in mind hundreds of scientist around the country have pledged to buy and send their MP a copy of the book. Within the next few weeks every MP should receive a copy.
I hope you and your colleagues find the book to be an interesting read.
An offer to help
I know from my experience on the scientist/MP pairing scheme that you are a extremely busy working to help you constituents.
In turn I believe that scientists must do more to help their MPs understand science and the scientific method. I would therefore like to offer my services in helping to form evidence based views and decisions.
My specialist expertise lies in chemistry and biochemistry. However my scientific skills are highly transferable, after all science is more about asking rational questions, solving problems and understanding date than it is learning facts and figures.
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Lastly, I would like to draw your attention to your local "Café Scientifique" (details attached); a monthly meeting were local scientists talk, in an informal, setting to members of the public. You are welcome to come to our meetings, which would be an excellent opportunity for you to meet some of your 'geek' constituents.
I look forward to your reply, which I will post on my blog www.t2ah.com .
Dr Mark Lorch
I'll keep you posted on any reply. In the mean time you can read more about the book and the pledge on blogs here and here and many others. And of course I heartily recommend reading the book.


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