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For headsets, I generally favor those that are of a neckband design. I've picked up a few over the years both with and without a mic to use. Meeting SteelSeries at CES 2011, one of two new items they were showing off was their Siberia Neckband for iPod, iPhone, and iPad. SteelSeries was nice enough to send a unit over to me to test out as I was very curious to see how well they worked.
The SteelSeries Siberia Neckband for iPod, iPhone, and iPad looks like it belongs in the Apple family. Each of the 40mm drivers are encased in a white plastic design that should be familiar to fans of SteelSeries. Inside they are lined with cloth and each cup has some soft padding to help with comfort.
In my recent review of the Siberia V2, I expounded on the great mic design. Well, the Siberia Neckband also features the awesome flexible and retractable mic found on the V2 as well. There's a myriad of positions you can put the mic in with its flexible arm and when not in use, you can hide it out of the way inside the left earpiece. It's definitely one of my favorite mic designs out there.
I do wish the headset came with a longer cord though. As is, it's OK but an inch or two more would've given some better breathing room in my opinion. There's a control unit that sits a little high on the cord that can control the volume, fast forward, rewind, pause, or answer the phone when connected to one of the Apple products. Where it's placed, you barely see it out of the corner of your eye, but you can operate it without looking at it. Still, a few inches further down the wire would've been ideal.
To hold the headset in place, the Siberia Neckband features a retractable band that aids in compressing the headset to the sides of your head. To put the set on, you pull the Sibera Neckband's earpieces, extending the neckband, place the headset over the ears, and let go. Now, I'm used to much smaller earcups and a thin plastic piece that hangs on the ears to keep behind the head headsets in place. The way the Siberia Neckband works, it can get a little bit uncomfortable when in prolong usage. I've had my ears become a little hot and did some adjusting multiple times when using the headset for more than twenty minutes. I think because of the large design in the earpieces as well as the neckband, it puts a lot more pressure on the sides of the head than traditional behind-the-head headsets. It wasn't as comfortable as others I've used, which is a little disappointing.
Another problem I ran into with the way the headset stays on your head is that it easily slips off for those with hair around the ears, such as those of my wife. She had a rough time keeping the Siberia Neckband to stay on and when moving her hair out of the way, she said it felt there was too much pressure on the upper half of her ears. Moving a little bit, the Siberia Neckband fell off pretty easily from her head. This can be a pretty big detriment to those that would like to use the headset on the move, such as walking or running. For those on long commutes on a train or a plane, that isn't such an issue. In contrast to my other behind the head sets, they easily stayed on her head since they relied on a plastic piece as well as having smaller ear cups.
Sound, though, is top notch and I expected no less given my experience with the Siberia V2. I don't have an Apple product, but I attached the headset to my HTC EVO 4G and listened to various musical selections as well as participating in a few games from my various emulators and my library. Sound was crystal clear with very good highs and mids. Lows were pretty good too with some solid thumping coming from songs with heavy bass.
The mic also did a pretty good job of picking up my voice, but since there's no noise cancellation built in, it also picked up sound around me pretty well too. When doing some recording tests, I captured more than I would've liked around me and if this set is built for iPhones in part, some noise cancellation would've done some good in making for a better voice experience. Other than that, my voice came in loud and clear with the mic so the party on the other end shouldn't have any problems hearing you. Just make sure there's not too much going on around you when you are talking.
If you don't have an Apple product, the Siberia Neckband does work with other phones, using my EVO 4G as the example. I tried to use the inline control but the only thing I could get it to constantly do was to pause and play the music. Some fiddling let me skip tracks, but it was inconsistent on which way it skipped. It also turned on shuffle play but I could never consistently reproduce the results. At least I was able to talk with the mic during phone calls, so the major functions do work well with non-Apple products.
I had some high hopes for the Siberia Neckband for the iPod, iPhone, and iPad but in the end they turned out to be an average product. They sound great, but the design does have some flaws to it. At $90, I had a few too many issues that prevented me from giving a high grade to them. As is, they are an OK set that are only recommended for those with short hair like me. It's great that SteelSeries is able to get these in the Apple Stores to sell though as I hear it can be hard for third parties to get their products in official retial channels for sale. SteelSeries does make some awesome headphones, but the Siberia Neckband for the iPod, iPhone, and iPad, in my opinion, is not one of the better ones that they produce.
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The Siberia Neckband has great sound, but the technique used to keep the headset on your head doesn't work too well in some situations. It does have a nice Apple look to it if you're into matching your peripherals with your devices. Mic picks up some surrounding noise, but I love the design.
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1:00 I think that guy received that such a heavy damage that he had to quit forever.
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Hydrogel-Based Platforms for the Regeneration of Osteochondral Tissue and Intervertebral Disc
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Abstract: Hydrogels currently represent a powerful solution to promote the regeneration of soft and hard tissues. Primarily, they assure efficient bio-molecular interactions with cells, also regulating their basic functions, guiding the spatially and temporally complex multi-cellular processes of tissue formation, and ultimately facilitating the restoration of structure and function of damaged or dysfunctional tissues. In order to overcome basic drawbacks of traditional synthesized hydrogels, many recent strategies have been implemented to realize multi-component hydrogels based on natural and/or synthetic materials with tailored chemistries and different degradation kinetics. Here, a critical review of main strategies has been proposed based on the use of hydrogels-based devices for the regeneration of complex tissues, i.e., osteo-chondral tissues and intervertebral disc.
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — The State Department has warned Americans not to travel to Pakistan and evacuated nonessential government personnel from the country's second largest city because of a specific threat to the consulate there, a U.S. official said Friday.
The move was not related to the threat of an al-Qaida attack that prompted Washington to close temporarily 19 diplomatic posts in the Middle East and Africa.
According to U.S. Embassy spokeswoman Meghan Gregonis, the U.S. is shifting its nonessential staff from the consulate in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore to the capital, Islamabad.
Emergency personnel will stay in Lahore, and embassy officials do not know when the consulate will reopen, she said.
"We received information regarding a threat to the consulate," said Gregonis. "As a precautionary measure, we are undertaking a drawdown of all except emergency personnel."
The consulate in Lahore was already scheduled to be closed for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr from Thursday through Sunday.
The personnel drawdown at the Lahore consulate was precautionary and wasn't related to the recent closures of numerous U.S. diplomatic missions in the Muslim world, said two U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the order.
Earlier this week, 19 U.S. diplomatic outposts in 16 countries in the Middle East and Africa were closed to the public through Saturday and nonessential personnel were evacuated from the U.S. Embassy in Yemen after U.S. intelligence officials said they had intercepted a recent message from al-Qaida's top leader about plans for a major terror attack.
None of the consulates in Pakistan or the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad were affected by the earlier closures.
On Thursday, the State Department issued a travel warning saying the presence of several foreign and indigenous terrorist groups posed a potential danger to U.S. citizens throughout Pakistan.
The country has faced a bloody insurgency by the Pakistani Taliban and their allies in recent years that has killed over 40,000 civilians and security personnel, and is also believed to be home base for al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. Most of the militant attacks have been in the northwest and southwest along the border with Afghanistan.
Gunmen killed six people and wounded 15 others Friday in an attack on a former lawmaker outside a mosque in Quetta, the capital of southwest Baluchistan province, said police officer Bashir Ahmad Barohi. The lawmaker escaped unharmed. A day earlier, a Taliban suicide bomber killed 30 people at a police funeral in Quetta.
Pakistan's major cities, including Lahore, have also experienced periodic attacks.
A powerful bomb exploded at a busy market street in Lahore in early July, killing at least four people and wounding nearly 50.
Lahore is considered Pakistan's cultural capital and has a population of at least 10 million people.
A CIA contractor shot to death two Pakistanis in Lahore in January 2011 who he said were trying to rob him. The incident severely damaged relations between Pakistan and the U.S. The contractor, Raymond Davis, was released by Pakistan in March 2011 after the families of the victims were paid over $2 million.
Associated Press writer Abdul Sattar in Quetta, Pakistan, and Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report.
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The Combined Chiefs of Staff (CCS) was the supreme military staff for the western Allies during World War II. It emerged from the meetings of the Arcadia Conference in December 1941.[1] The CCS was constituted from the British Chiefs of Staff Committee and the American Joint Chiefs of Staff that was created, in part to present a common front to the British Chiefs of Staff, in early 1942 holding its first formal meeting on 9 February to coordinate U.S. military operations between War and Navy Departments.[2][3]
After its first meeting 23 January 1942 in the Public Health Building at Nineteenth Street and Constitution Avenue in Washington, the CCS charter was approved by President Roosevelt 21 April 1942.[2] The American members of the CCS were General George C. Marshall, the United States Army chief of staff, the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Harold R. Stark (replaced early in 1942 by Admiral Ernest J. King); and the Chief (later Commanding General) of the Army Air Forces, Lt. Gen. Henry H. Arnold. In July 1942 a fourth member was added, the President's personal Chief of Staff, Admiral William D. Leahy.[4]
On the British side the Chiefs of Staff only normally attended during the heads of states' conferences. Instead the British Joint Staff Mission was permanently situated in Washington, D.C. to represent British interests.[5] The British members were a representative of the Prime Minister, in his capacity as Minister of Defence, and the Chiefs of Staff Committee, which consisted of the First Sea Lord, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, and the Chief of the Air Staff, or the Washington representative of each. The representative of the Prime Minister was Field Marshal Sir John Dill and after his death Field Marshal Sir Henry Maitland Wilson. The Washington representatives of the Chiefs of Staff Committee, who normally met with the United States members in place of their principals, were the senior officers from their respective services on the British Joint Staff Mission in Washington. In the course of the war, the First Sea Lord was represented by Admiral Sir Charles Little, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, Admiral Sir Percy Noble, and Admiral Sir James Somerville; the Chief of the Imperial General Staff was represented by Lt. Gen. Sir Coville Wemyss and Lt. Gen. G. N. Macready; and the Chief of the Air Staff was represented by Air Marshal D. C. S. Evill, Air Marshal Sir William L. Welsh, and Air Marshal Douglas Colyer.
The Combined Chiefs of Staff organization included the Combined Secretariat and a number of committees.
In the Northern hemisphere spring of 1942, Britain and the United States agreed on a worldwide division of strategic responsibility. On 24 March 1942, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff were designated as primarily responsible for the war in the Pacific, and the British Chiefs for the Middle East-Indian Ocean region, while the European-Mediterranean-Atlantic area would be a combined responsibility of both staffs.[4] China was designated a separate theater commanded by its chief of state, Chiang Kai-shek, though within the United States' sphere of responsibility. Six days later the Joint Chiefs of Staff divided the Pacific theater into three areas: the Pacific Ocean Areas (POA), the South West Pacific Area (SWPA), and the Southeast Pacific Area.[6] The Pacific Ocean Area command formally became operational on 8 May.
The CCS usually held its meetings in Washington, D.C.. The full CCS usually met only during the great wartime conferences on grand strategy, such as at Casablanca (see List of World War II conferences). The meetings of heads of government at those conferences were designed to reach formal agreement on issues thoroughly staffed by the CCS.[2] At the Casablanca Conference in January 1943, General Frank Maxwell Andrews was appointed commander of all United States forces in the European Theater of Operations.
Although it was responsible to both the British and American governments, the CCS controlled forces from many different countries in all theaters, including the Pacific, India and North Africa. Representatives of allied nations were not members of the CCS but accepted procedure included consultation with "Military Representatives of Associated Powers" on strategic issues.[2] Much cooperation continued between the British and American militaries after the war including the Combined Chiefs of Staff structure, and it was used again during the Berlin Blockade of 1948 even as negotiations began that resulted in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.[7]
- ^ Leighton, Richard M.; Robert W Coakley (1995). United States Army in World War II - The War Department - Global Logistics and Strategy 1940-1943. Center Of Military History, United States Army, Washington, D. C. p. 143. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
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- ^ Leighton, Richard M.; Robert W Coakley (1995). United States Army in World War II - The War Department - Global Logistics and Strategy 1940-1943. Center Of Military History, United States Army, Washington, D. C. p. 144. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
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- ^ Federal Records of World War II Volume II: Military Agencies, General Services Administration, National Archives and Records Service, The National Archives, Part One: Interallied and Interservice Military Agencies, Washington, D.C.: 1951, accessed December 2011
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- Conference Proceedings of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, 1941-1945, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library


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Lynnwood mayoral candidate Nicola Smith (left) embraces her campaign manager, Ean Olsen, after the numbers show Smith leading in the race against Don Gough.
Smith had 61.4 percent, or 2,076 votes. Gough had 1,284 votes, or just under 38 percent.
"I am really honored to be in this position and I'm very excited that the voters have entrusted me to move our city forward," Smith said.
Gough, 60, has served two terms as mayor and was previously on the City Council. He's been running a quiet, stay-the-course campaign.
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Smith, 54, is a dean at Edmonds Community College and a political newcomer. She's been pushing the idea of "resetting" City Hall to be more responsive. Her Election Night party was held at the Mill Creek Lombardi's Italian Restaurant, which is owned by outgoing councilwoman Kerri-Lonergan-Dreke.
Smith planned to meet with her boss at the community college on Wednesday to talk about her transition to the mayor's office, she said.
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Gough's often drawn scrutiny for his brusque manner. He's also been navigating Lynnwood through a tough economic crisis. Gough has repeated throughout his campaign that he's committed to following up on the city's vision, which was laid out with residents' input a couple of years back.
Smith has expressed support for a new city center in Lynnwood. She and the city both turn 55 next year, she said. Her areas of concern for the city have included development, affordable housing and transportation.
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"We have discovered a new particle," CERN director general Rolf Heuer said Wednesday morning. "A boson. Most probably a Higgs boson." Even the most anticipated news in science does not come without some caveats.
Still, all signs point to a discovery today, arguably one of the most important findings in modern physics. The inscrutable Higgs boson, carrier of mass and final puzzle piece of physics' prevailing theory, may have finally been found. Now comes the fun part — depending on what it looks like, this saga may be just beginning. [UPDATED]
Two experiments at Europe's Large Hadron Collider, built to study the fundamental particles and forces underlying physical reality, separately found evidence for the new particle. Both the ATLAS and CMS experiments reported a 5-sigma statistical confidence level — essentially a 100 percent certainty that a new particle exists. We first saw tantalizing signs of this last fall, but since then the LHC has collided many more particles to see what comes out. Wednesday's news is the result of 2011 and 2012 data, although the 2012 data is still being crunched.
The Higgs boson weighs what theoretical predictions say it should, according to both ATLAS and CMS. It's about 125-126 gigaelectronvolts, or about 130 times heavier than a proton. The LHC was able to find it by speeding protons at incredibly high energies through its vast series of tubes, and smashing them together. Mass and energy are the same thing, so when the protons have very high energies, they're very large. They blow apart when they collide, and physicists look for smaller constituent particles in the shrapnel. That's where they see the Higgs boson.
"This is indeed a new particle. We know it must be a boson, and it's the heaviest boson ever found," said CMS spokesperson Joe Incandela. Lots of work is still needed to verify that it is the storied Higgs, however. Despite the cautious statements, the news was clearly cause for celebration at CERN and at physics laboratories in the US. "As a layman, I would say I think we have it," Heuer told the crowd Wednesday morning. "Would you agree?" A roar of applause went up in response.
Without the Higgs boson, physicists have no way to explain how the universe — stars, galaxies, us — can exist. The boson is a particle, like a quark or an electron, but this is really a component of a force field known as the Higgs field. It's like a universal stickiness that all things feel. A photon is a good analogy, says Paul Padley, a particle physicist at Rice University. It's a light particle, but it also carries the electromagnetic force. The Higgs boson is a similar force carrier. According to theory, every other particle, every little quark and lepton, interacts with this sticky field; this interaction gives them their mass. Mass allows the particles to interact with each other, combining into atoms and molecules and stars and us.
"The reason why we care about it is if the Higgs boson doesn't exist, then we have absolutely no physical understanding of why we exist," Padley said. "You can't explain the universe."
Scottish physicist Peter Higgs, now 83, theorized the eponymous particle decades ago, to explain this mass confusion. He sat in the front row for CERN's symposium Wednesday, and his eyes welled with tears, according to Reuters: "It is an incredible thing that it has happened in my lifetime," he told his fellow scientists.
Two separate verifications at five sigma is a stronger signal than some physicists were expecting. Last year, the ATLAS team saw signs of a Higgs particle weighing 125 to 126 GeV, at a confidence level of 3.6σ. The CMS team saw potential around 124 GeV, with a confidence level of 2.6σ.
Using two different experiments is a way to verify the results, said Dan Green, a physicist at Fermilab and a member of the CMS team. The ATLAS and CMS detectors use different cooling mechanisms and detection methods to study particles, so each detector has different errors. If they both see something, that dramatically decreases the likelihood that it's a fluke.
The ATLAS and CMS teams each kept their results confidential until Wednesday, reducing the potential for cross-contamination or unintentional bias. Physicists involved in both collaborations said this made for some awkward conversations.
Now that it's been found — ahem, probably, very likely, seems to have been found — there's still a lot to be done. As Heuer said, now physicists have to find out which kind of Higgs boson this is. Does it behave according to the Standard Model of particles and forces, or not? What are its properties? These questions may in some ways be even more interesting. "It's the beginning of a long journey to investigate all the properties of this interesting particle," Heuer said.
Padley compared the next steps to a crime scene. Imagine someone goes missing, and a massive search begins. A few months later, a body is found in a lake, and it fits the description of the missing person.
"At that point, the police are going to be very careful. They're going to say, 'Before we decide who this is, we're going to do DNA testing,'" he said. "So once a particle is found that is consistent with being the Higgs, there is still a lot of work to be done, studying it and making sure it is in fact the Higgs boson we know and love from our theory."
There are plenty of theoretical questions to address. The Higgs may have four cousin particles, said Tom LeCompte, a physicist at Argonne National Laboratory and a member of the ATLAS team. On a scale of "Higgsiness," this particle may be 100 percent Higgsy, or it may be less, he said. Physicists need to figure out whether it does everything it's supposed to, or if there really are four versions. Maybe there are versions with an electrical charge, or versions that weigh more or less. Maybe it is a scalar particle — a very weird thing indeed, with no charge or spin. It would be the first scalar fundamental particle.
"This is why everybody is not only excited about the discovery, but everybody is excited about the prospect this discovery opens for physics," Heuer said.
So, stay tuned for a summer of more interesting results.
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Warp Engines, Flying Cars here we come? Well at least we know the other forces like electromagnetism completely reshaped our species. From electricity itself to electric engines to computers to Light bulbs and Mobile phones. Who knows what the understanding of gravity at the most fundamental level will bring us. Of course it might still take years or decades before they fully understand gravity let alone can manipulate it.
If this boson matches the description of the theoretical Higgs, and the Standard Model, then FTL travel is still beyond us. At least beyond any idea we have come up with so far. The Alcubierre drive, the best, i believe, model for FTL, would require overcoming several technical difficulties, not the least of which would be harvesting and distributing exotic matter. Even if we fully understood gravity, making an engine that manipulates it in any significant way would probably require amounts of energy that would be utterly impractical, if not completely beyond us.
However, this is still a cool find, Cheers to the guys and gals at the LHC!
The wonderful picture of the cosmos in its great mass and particles, always puts me in AWE! It is such a wonderful painting as we humans create our knowledge as we observe what our dear Lord has made! We humans were giving free will, artistic ability, intellect to expand and multiply ourselves in vision, our souls and the descovery of the cosmos. We are so blessed! With our faith in a mustard seed, we can move mountains!
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Cool! I think it is great they found the Higgs Boson! Beautiful!
An interesting fact emerges along a different track.
That, when something is around for long enough, praised enough, monopolized discussion enough, many are tempted to assume it must be the most efficient way of doing something or even is the only way of doing them.
There used to be times when collision experiments were used with antiparallel beams of antiparticles, usually electrons and positions. These completely annihilated, supposedly, and the resulting energy, presumably, could form any of a number of quantum stochastically rqandom particles. Proton-proton beam collisions supposedly produce new particles from excess energy of motion of particles, but often through various more exotic interactions of fields between quarks, and, then, only certain types of particles seem to be possible.
In a matter-antimatter collision, all the energy could be put to particles, and particles presumably of any type. In proton-proton collisions, not all the energy is converted to new particles. In fact, much of the energy is expended just in overcoming electrostatic repulsion, getting protons close enough for exotic interactions. Too, almost no particles should remain in annihilation collisions, whereas all the original particles or their fragments should remain in proton-proton collisions.
It can be a good question why the evidently less efficient proton-proton method is being used rather than the matter-antimatter method.
I find it quite amazing seeing the ever expanding reaches of both the micro and macro worlds. It would be extremely funny to one day see so far into a particle or out into the grand vastness of space, that you find yourself looking at your own universe with total cyclic redundency.
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The Higgs bit we know. But the boson? Western science is overlooking India's contribution
With yesterday's announcement of the latest findings in the search for the Higgs boson, the elusive particle is on everyone's mind. This kind of fame is relatively rare, even for important scientific discoveries; but the Higgs boson has been called, or miscalled, the God particle, enabling it to pass into the realm of popular scientific lore, like the discovery of the smallpox vaccine, the structure of DNA, or the theory of relativity.
It would be difficult for most people to understand its significance, just as it would be to comprehend the notion of relativity, but such problems are overcome by locating science in personalities as well as cultural and national traditions. The first thing that you and I know about the Higgs boson is that it's named after Peter Higgs, a physicist at Edinburgh University who made the discovery — although the original insight, in one of those recurrent back stories of science, was Philip Anderson's.
Still, we have Higgs, and Edinburgh, and western civilisation to fall back on. The rest — "the Higgs boson is a hypothetical elementary particle predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics. It belongs to a class of particles known as bosons ..." — we needn't worry too much about. But maybe we should worry just enough to ask, "What is a boson?" since the word tends to come up as soon as Higgs does. Is it, an ignoramus such myself would ask, akin to an atom or a molecule? It is, in fact, along with the fermion (named after Enrico Fermi), one of the two fundamental classes of subatomic particles.
From Bose
The word must surely have some European genealogy? In fact, "boson" is derived from Satyendra Nath Bose, an Indian physicist from Kolkata who, in 1924, realised that the statistical method used to analyse most 19th-century work on the thermal behaviour of gases was inadequate. He first sent off a paper on quantum statistics to a British journal, which turned it down. He then sent it to Albert Einstein, who immediately grasped its immense importance, and published it in a German journal. Bose's innovation came to be known as the Bose-Einstein statistics, and became a basis of quantum mechanics. Einstein saw that it had profound implications for physics; that it had opened the way for this subatomic particle, which he named, after his Indian collaborator, "boson."
Still, science and the West are largely synonymous and coeval: they are words that have the same far-reaching meaning. Just as Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings digest the Japanese prints they were responding to so we don't need to be aware of Japanese prints when viewing the post-impressionists, western science is pristine, and bears no mark of what's outside itself.
Other Indian contributions
The last Indian scientific discovery that is universally acknowledged is the zero. Indians are very strong at maths, and the only modern Indian who's remotely part of the western mythology of science is Srinivasa Ramanujan, equally well known for his Hindu idiosyncrasies and his agonised stay in Cambridge as he is for his mathematical genius.
Indians can be excellent geeks, as demonstrated by the tongue-tied astrophysicist Raj Koothrappalli in the U.S. sitcom Big Bang Theory; but the Nobel prize can only be aspired to by Sheldon Cooper, the super-geek and genius in the series, for whom Raj's country of origin is a diverting enigma, and miles away from the popular myth of science on which Big Bang Theory is dependent. Bose didn't get the Nobel Prize; nor did his contemporary and namesake, J.C. Bose, whose contribution to the fashioning of the wireless predates Marconi's. The only Indian scientist to get a Nobel Prize is the physicist C.V. Raman, for his work on light at Kolkata University. Other Indians have had to become Americans to get the award.
Conditions have always been inimical to science in India, from colonial times to the present day; and despite that, its contributions have occasionally been huge. Yet non-western science (an ugly label engendered by the exclusive nature of western popular imagination) is yet to find its Rosalind Franklin, its symbol of paradoxical success. Unlike Franklin, however, these scientists were never in a race that they lost; they simply came from another planet.
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Readers, please keep in mind that what they've so publicly announced is actually more like a 4.9 sigma level of confidence. Neither the Tevatron finding of a potential heavy particle between 115 and 134 GeV, nor this two group finding at LHC, have the refinement to fully analyze in that high an energy field in full confidence. The margin of error at LHC is much lower than the Tevatron, but still significant enough to be an error here. Also, the Higgs boson would seem to require evidence of decay in differing voltage environments; and while it's certainly possible that this is what was observed, for it to be defined as a real Higgs boson, it's interaction with other particles at other energy levels will define whether this is actually what Higgs predicted. They apparently have no evidence that any mass was generated either at Tevatron or at LHC.
Risky business, these public declarations. The head of OPERA was fired for doing this same thing.
If it's true that the Higgs boson has been confirmed at CERN, then one must ask whether such an elusive and strange particle really exists in our dimension, at all - or in another, higher dimension.
Gardner Brooks, in his insightful novel The Gensis Project, explores this question from an interesting and provocative point of view. Paraphrasing his God-character, "Human scientific discoveries have advanced to the point where they are literally bumping up against the edge of reality, the boundary between your dimension and mine. When you finally figure out that your dimension - your reality - is simply the result of computer code running in my dimension, a lot of what you consider weird or incomprehensible may begin to make sense."


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Overwork is not good for productivity. If you're doing physical labor, you get tired. If you're doing customer service, you get cranky. If you're sitting at a desk doing so-called knowledge work, you get stale and unimaginative. Moreover, these deficits are cumulative; the longer you work crazy hours, the more of a strain this puts on your productivity.
So why, over the past few decades, have knowledge workers come to work such long hours? A recent column by James Surowiecki explores the issue, and he hits a lot of good points. But I want to highlight one possibility that he doesn't mention: As work has gotten more specialized, the penalty for handing off work to multiple people has risen.
When people complain about work-family balance, they frequently complain that two people who each work 30 hours a week are paid much less than half as much as one person working 60 hours a week. Surowiecki notes that it's more expensive to hire two people (benefits, desks, etc.). But that's not the only cost. In specialized jobs, two people who are each working 30 hours a week may actually be much less productive than one working 60 — even if working 60 hours makes each of those hours much less productive than they could be.
The problem is that when work is specialized, each worker has individual knowledge about the job that has to be passed off to anyone else working on that job. If you split the job, you increase the amount of time that is spent telling the other person what you know . . . and increase the risk that something will be missed because one person knew one thing and the other knew something else, and those two pieces of information never met in the same head.
More workers also means more time managing those workers. Ever been at a firm or department that went from five people to 35? How much more of your time got sucked up in meetings? As work teams grow, you start to need elaborate hierarchies of communication and control that absorb lots of time and require extra people whose jobs are just managing all the others.
And as the pace of communications has accelerated, it has paradoxically gotten more difficult to do without people. If you're an American working with folks in Europe, you quickly learn to write off the summer, because it's impossible to get anything done when everyone takes multiweek vacations. By the time one person gets back, the other person is off. This is maddening if you're working on anything time-sensitive.
This is not to say that the overcrowding of the American schedule is the right approach. I have the American tendency to fill every waking hour with work, as much as someone is willing to give me. After seven years of blogging professionally, I've come to realize that I have to force myself to take vacations — real ones, where the phone is off and I don't promise to work on just a couple of little tidbits, such as maybe a reported feature. Every time I come back from vacation, I dive back into work with new ideas and a lot more energy, and I think, "Why don't I do this more often?" And still, every year, I lose most of my vacation days.
Maybe U.S. employers should be more like the Economist, which, when I worked there, required you to take all your vacation — not "use it or lose it," just "use it." But you can see why they aren't, when most of the economic and cultural pressures run the other way.
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Well, I've been considering this for a little bit, and now I'm doing it. I'm posting up my Mario & Sonic Worlds in Danger Series here on newgrounds. The first three episodes I put up on youtube were done with Windows Movie Maker, so I'm remaking them into swf files and will be posting them up here.
Wow, seriously, wow, you and LordAsylus I look up to big time, you're two of my favourite Sonic, Mario, and Kirby movie makers. I wish I could do the same as you, but I'm aweful, and I don't have the app either way. Anyways, loving the series, and the intro song is PERFECT! Well done, 5 stars earnt.
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Demitra says farewell, Danes finish eleventh
BRATISLAVA Playing only for placement and pride, host Slovakia beat Denmark 4-1 Monday afternoon at Orange Arena to end the tournament for both teams. Neither side was in contention for the quarter-finals.Slovakia Denmark 4-1 (2-1, 0-0, 2-0) Game Sheet PhotosSlovakia finishes either ninth or tenth, depending on the result between Switzerland and the United States. Its a slight improvement over last years inaugural outing under coach Glen Hanlon, when they came 12th.It was just Slovakias second win of the tournament after opening with a 3-1 decision against Slovenia. Nonetheless, the capacity crowd gave the team repeated, extended ovations after the game was over. "It was tough to get ready," said Slovakia's Michal Handzus. "Youre not playing for a medal. Youre done with the tournament. But our fans were great. Theyre the best fans in the world, and they showed it today."Captain Pavol Demitra confirmed after the game that this would be his last national team game with Slovakia. The 36-year-old star will continue to play at least one more season with the KHL's Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, however."For me and everybody, it was very emotional," said Demitra of the post-game cheers. "Youre going to remember it the rest of your life."I dont want to close the door to any of these players, head coach Glen Hanlon said when asked about retiring veterans. Pavol Demitra, Miro Satan and these players are always invited back to our team. They (Demitra, Satan) are the greatest players ever in Slovak hockey and I wished they could be forever young. Today was a great example of the character of these players and the passion they have for the country and for the team.There will be changes and thats the cycle of life. Its a really exciting time for Slovak hockey. There are new players who will be the future for Slovak hockey.Miroslav Satan had a goal and an assist for Slovakia, and Jozef Stümpel, Marian Hossa and Richard Zednik also scored. Mads Christensen replied for Denmark.Slovakia outshot the Danes by a wide margin, 43-18, and Slovak starting goalie Jaroslav Halak got the win versus Denmarks Patrick Galbraith.Im happy with our team and the way we played. We felt freer, we skated well, our goaltender played well and we could have even scored another four goals in the second period, coach Hanlon said. The fans supported our team in tough times. The arena was full and very loud today and this will be my best memory of the tournament. But its hard to see the enthusiasm of the fans and that were not involved anymore.Win or lose this day, nothing could mask the Slovaks disappointment. They didnt break the fabled home ice curse, meaning no host team has won the Worlds since the 1986 Soviets. They didnt capture a medal of any colour, extending a drought that goes back to 2003s bronze. And without showing much heart or hustle, they fell short against all the top teams (Russia, Czech Republic, and Finland) they faced, not to mention Germany.Looking at the host nation's future, the legacy forged by legendary Slovak stars like Vladimir Dzurilla, Peter Stastny, and Peter Bondra is in jeopardy, with a lack of young emerging talent.The Danes finish eleventh. Its a step back after coming eighth last year. But they were considered a longshot to crack the quarter-finals for the second time ever this year without key NHLers like Jannik Hansen (Vancouver), Frans Nielsen (New York Islanders), Lars Eller (Montreal), and Peter Regin (Ottawa)."Weve got to put everything in perspective, looking at the team we had here," said Christensen. "I think its all right what we did. Its always a little disappointing, because once youve been there, you want to get there again. But we're still a small hockey country, and weve still got a lot to learn. Overall, its OK."Denmark drew first blood at 4:09 when Mads Christensen got the puck from Mikkel Bodker in the neutral zone, danced past Slovakias Stefan Ruzicka, and rushed in solo to loft a nice backhand past Halak. That goal, his fourth, tied him for the team lead along with Nichlas Hardt.Slovakia gave its long-suffering but faithful fans something to cheer about when it scored midway through the first period just after a Danish penalty expired. Milan Jurcina took a pass from Miroslav Satan, and Jurcinas shot from the center point deflected in off Stümpel.Satan gave the Slovaks a 2-1 lead with 4:08 left in the first, circling Galbraiths cage and warding off a Danish defender as he tucked in a wraparound.Galbraith was shaken up after taking a rising Martin Strbak slapper off his mask halfway through the second period, but he'd stay in the game. The Slovaks had some scoring chances, but their overall frustration was best symbolized by Satans getting into a wrestling match with Danish defenceman Jesper B. Jensen.Marian Hossa made it 3-1 Slovakia just 32 seconds into the third period, rushing down left wing and squeezing a bad-angle shot through Galbraiths pads.The Danes had a chance to get back into it during a two-minute two-man advantage with Branko Radivojevic serving a double-minor for high-sticking and Jurcina off for interference, but they didnt manage to click.Zednik got the fourth Slovak goal at 10:05 on the rush, taking a Michal Handzus pass, firing from the right faceoff circle, and bouncing the puck in off a Danish defender.The Slovaks havent cracked the quarter-finals at this tournament since Moscow 2007, where they placed sixth."I dont think its about the coach," said Demitra about what might have gone wrong this year. "Nobody in our team can say we played well. Everybody tried so hard in front of our fans. Maybe sometimes the fans push you and make a few mistakes, like we did against Germany. The tournament is over and we can do nothing about it."Meanwhile, Denmark is bidding against Ukraine and Russia to host the 2016 IIHF World Championship. The decision will be announced in Bratislava during the IIHF Annual Congress.The next chance for both Slovakia and Denmark to climb back up the IIHF World Ranking will come at the 2012 IIHF World Championship, co-hosted by Finland and Sweden.LUCAS AYKROYD


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