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On August 5, 2011, meteorologist Dane Clark called Diana to say that favorable conditions had arrived. Summer was the only time warm enough to attempt the swim, but exactly when depended on the ideal combination of light winds, warm water, and good currents. (The year before, she had been ready to try, but the weather refused to cooperate. "I had been thinking and training for so long," says Diana about that missed chance. "I bawled like a baby, to be honest. Then I decided to focus on the next year.") Two days later, at 7:46 P.M., Diana entered the waters off Havana, ready to swim for about 60 straight hours. When I ask her how she could go for so many hours without sleeping, she laughs. "A lot of things are difficult when I'm out there, but it's never that I'm sleepy. Sleep isn't really something I find myself thinking about."
Extraordinary logistics, along with much of Diana's savings, went into the Cuba-to-Florida swim. Getting in shape was just one element. She aimed to hold to a pace of about 53 strokes a minute. She had a homemade electrolyte mix to help with the metabolic demand of around 700 calories an hour. Plans needed to be made for navigating the eastward pull of the powerful Gulf Stream, rigging up nutritional support, staying on course in dark waters, getting a license to travel to Cuba, scaring off sharks. As for jellyfish—well, there weren't supposed to be deadly box jellies in the Caribbean, so no worries there.
Through high sea swells and extreme shoulder pain, Diana held her pace. Fourteen hours out, a strong asthma attack set in. The team doctor swam out to administer inhalers. A few hours later, he swam out to administer oxygen. Diana kept going. Around hour 26, in the dark of night, 12 hours into an asthma attack still not abating, Diana found herself saying to her support team, "I'm just barely alive. Right now, I'm just barely alive." They pulled her out of the water.
Key West, Florida, where Diana hopes to touch shore this summer, is an odd bird of a town. It was built up in the nineteenth century on sponging and wrecking: Sponging is trade in sea sponges, and wrecking is waiting on the shore for ships to wreck on the keys' shallow reefs, then treading out to save the lives of anyone left on the boat, which, once done, allowed one to rescue cargo and reap a finder's reward. Later Key West became an expensive resort town, host to many presidents, arts figures, birders, and retirees. In its park of ancestors, more than half of the commemorated heroes are described in their biographies as having arrived at Key West nearly drowned or simply washed ashore. One thinks of the shipwrecks of the Greek hero Odysseus and of how we admire him not so much for any one instance of cleverness or strength—evading Lotus-eaters and sirens and lovesick witches—but for the accumulated handling of 10 years of obstacles on his journey home.
The night before I flew out to meet Diana, I watched the boxing documentary When We Were Kings, about the legendary 1974 Zaire fight between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali. Ali had only recently resumed fighting after being banned and stripped of his heavyweight title for refusing to go to Vietnam. He was 32 years old. Foreman was 25 and a champion. As you watch the two greats training, that Ali has no chance seems obvious. Even Ali's sparring partners repeatedly get the best of him.
On the day of the fight, Ali is not the dancing Ali to which his fans are accustomed. He leans against the ropes, his arms up in perpetual defense. Foreman gets in hit after hit. But as this is going on, Ali is talking. Is that all you've got, George? Is that all you can do? Even as Foreman is winning, he is getting visibly frustrated. The viewer starts to suspect that Ali's plan all along—what he was in training for, as he repeatedly got pummeled by sparring partners—was to become the guy who could take more hits than anyone else, who could take them and still stand. In round eight, far into Foreman's dominance and fatigue, Ali gets in one left hook. Then one follow-up right. Foreman is down. It's a knockout. The fight is over. Diana covered Ali a number of times in her reporting career. When many were saying he was mentally gone, late in his affliction with Parkinson's disease, she reported a piece that showed how his wit and intelligence were still there, beneath the shakes.
"I think a serious 14-year-old can swim the way I do, can have my stroke," Diana says. "But the mental game is very hard in distance swimming." She says she keeps her mind on the swim by internally singing from a set list of songs she knows. But one imagines that the company of Neil Young and Bob Dylan alone can only do so much against the ocean, the classic symbol of vast, indifferent nature. Nature so vast and so indifferent that one reaches for something to give one a sense of scale, to help understand the endurance and accomplishment of Diana's being out in it for hour upon hour. The evening I fell asleep under the spell of the documentary, two mosquitoes made it into my tenth-floor apartment, which is just blocks from the apparently insufficiently toxic Lincoln Tunnel, even though it was November. That 0.002 ounce of nature made the night an unbearable torture of buzzing and biting. For 47 hours, Diana Nyad swam, I found myself thinking. A friend of mine who is a huge admirer of Diana's put it this way: "I can't do anything for that long. Not even sleep. And I have a two-year-old."
A month after the August 2011 swim, Diana and her team went out on another attempt. Just two hours offshore, she felt an overwhelming pain, like an electric shock—a powerful jellyfish sting. The presence of box jellyfish was in itself a surprise; research scientists had sighted them there for the first time only one year before. (Their emergence is hypothesized to be a symptom of global warming and maybe also of the shark population's decline.) After the sting, Diana continued for another 24 hours before she was stung again. Even then, she swam for another 11 hours before she finally stopped. "I remember thinking to myself, I'll get on the boat, get some care, and then I'll get back in the water and finish. It won't be an uninterrupted swim like I wanted, but I'll finish." In Diana's memory, she was on the boat for about six or seven minutes and then started to feel better. Her best friend, Bonnie Stoll, who was there as her main support, said Diana was passed out for hours, that she was shaking, that the boat was like an ICU. "I told Diana, 'If you want me to even think about going out with you to try this again, you need to sit down with me and watch some of the footage.' "
"I was so upset when I got back home from that swim," Diana told me, "that I took all of the equipment we had and just set it out on the sidewalk for garbage collection. In my heart I think I knew that it wouldn't be picked up for a couple days yet. The next morning, I went back to the sidewalk and brought it all back in."
Soon after that swim, Diana and another friend treated themselves to a vacation in New England, where they stayed at a bed-and-breakfast. In the morning, when they sat down to eat among the other guests, the table discussion was about…Diana, whom they didn't recognize. One guest said she'd heard that Diana kept swimming with a broken leg. The young boy at the table contributed that he'd heard that Diana was really old, like, older than his grandmother. Diana and her friend remained quiet.

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Tuning In to God
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"There is no creature so small and abject, but it reflects the goodness of God."
– Thomas A Kempis
Amidst the noise and bustle of the modern world, it can be difficult to find time to simply sit and listen. Yet it is often in the quiet times when the Lord speaks most clearly to us.
In 1 Kings 19:11, the Lord tells Elijah to "stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by." As Elijah waits, he is witness to a powerful wind, an earthquake, and a fire, yet God is not in any of these loud and awesome forces. Instead, Elijah finds the Lord in "a gentle whisper" (1 Kings 19:12).
Scientist George Washington Carver puts it wonderfully: "I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in."
This Sunday, even as we are surrounded by the winds, earthquakes, and fires of our own lives, let us take time to "tune in" to the beauty of God's creation around us and to thank the Lord for all He has done.


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Boston, MA (February 26, 2012)--Bacteria live in a state of perpetual warfare, with different species battling for dominion over their competitors and when pathogen, over their infected host. New research suggests that the human pathogen Vibrio cholerae, which causes the disease cholera, kills off its microbial rivals by jabbing them with a spring-loaded poison dagger. Were it not for that defense, called the Type 6 secretion system (T6SS), V. cholerae might not out-compete its neighbors to sicken millions of people every year.
The results will be published online February 26 in Nature.
The research began with a hypothesis that cholera's T6SS tactic mirrors the system that phage viruses--viruses that infect bacteria--use to inject their genetic material into bacteria for replication. But this hypothesis was grounded in biochemical evidence, in that the phage and T6SS components appeared to have similar protein structures. The only way to confirm the hypothesis was to watch the T6SS system in action. So John Mekalanos, chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology at Harvard Medical School, and Grant Jensen, an associate professor of biology at the California Institute of Technology, teamed up to image the T6SS system working in real-time.
"These images are striking," said Mekalanos. "They're revealing how a beautiful nano-machine really works, and they're also providing new insights about how V. cholerae kills other bacteria and human host cells."
Mekalanos and post-doctoral fellow, Marek Basler, started with fluorescence microscopy: They fused a T6SS protein, VipA, to a fluorescent probe, which they expressed in V. cholerae cells. As this probe diffused in the cell interior, T6SS machinery began to glow as if it were wrapped in green Christmas lights. What the researchers saw was a long tubular structure forming and then suddenly collapsing to half its size in less than five milliseconds. The same structure was then rebuilt within seconds into an extended form at another position in the same cell. That process repeated itself again and again, indicating the cell wasn't harmed by it.
"Like the action film assassin Machete, this bacterial killer is loaded with many daggers," said Mekalanos.
At the California Institute of Technology, Jensen and post-doctoral fellow Martin Pilhofer continued the research with electron cryomicroscopy, in which cells are imaged slice by slice. The combined data from those slices generated a three-dimensional rendering of the cell, revealing that in its extended conformation, the T6SS sheath is "loaded" with an internal structure--the poison dagger--while the collapsed sheath is empty. Mekalanos and Jensen propose that by contracting, the sheath ejects the dagger, which punctures through V. cholerae's outer membrane, and then into adjacent prey or host cells.
The two methods are complimentary, in that fluorescent microscopy supplies "movies" of the apparatus functioning inside living bacteria in real time, while electron cryomicroscopy supplies static, high-resolution snapshots of T6SS components and transitional states in its structure.
The images support an assumption that the T6SS and phage sheath systems are linked by evolution, although it's not clear which of them came first. The two systems also differ in key ways, however. Phage systems, for instance, deliver just one payload, while the T6SS system can assemble, shoot, disassemble, reform, and then shoot again, repeatedly. "It's not a one-trick pony," Mekalanos said.
Also, the actual injection process utilized by phage has never been imaged in real time, so watching the speed of T6SS contraction suggests that phage sheath contraction must be extraordinarily fast as well.
Jensen emphasized that the resolution achieved in this study likely hasn't been exceeded anywhere else. Future research, he said, will aim to determine how, or if, T6SS actually punctures other cells and also compare the structure and function of different T6SS systems in other bacteria.
"Someday, we'd like to be able to re-engineer and repurpose T6SS systems to perform tasks of our choosing," said Jensen. "For instance, inserting toxins into cancer cells."
Mekalanos also said the findings might have biomedical implications. "We know that T6SS is important for the virulence of several bacterial species," he said. "So this could be a useful model system to look for drugs that inhibit T6SS activity."
This research was funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Nature, online publication February 26, 2012
"Type VI secretion requires a dynamic contractile phage tail-like structure" by Basler et al.
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Anno Online is giving out some free currency for E3
Ubisoft is celebrating E3 by giving away free in-game real money currency for Anno Online players -- the newest free-to-play city-building from developer Blue Byte. All you have to do is log in, go to your My Profile page, and enter the following code: "2F5-EF9B-7894" -- you have until June 16th.
I've actually been playing Anno Online almost daily since that preview I linked above -- no joke. I haven't spent any money yet and I've been pretty satisfied, despite the wait-walls introduced later in the game. Since it's in a free open beta, you may as well give it a shot if you're looking for something new.
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ORA-12547: TNS:lost contact
Very simple issue but took some amount of time in troubleshooting so thought about posting it here. May be it proves to be useful for someone.
Scenario was: Oracle is installed from "oracle" user and all runs well. There is a new OS user "test1″ that also needs to use sqlplus. So granted the necessary permissions on ORACLE_HOME to test1. Tried to connect sqlplus scott/tiger@DB and yes it works. But while trying sqlplus scott/tiger it throws:
$ sqlplus scott/tiger SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.5.0 - Production on Wed May 18 09:32:35 2011 Copyright (c) 1982, 2010, Oracle. All Rights Reserved. ERROR: ORA-12547: TNS:lost contact Enter user-name: ^C $
Did a lot of troubleshooting including checking tnsnames.ora, sqlnet.ora, listener.ora and so on. Nothing was hitting my mind so finally raised an SR. And it has to do with the permissions of the $ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracle binary. The permissions of oracle executable should be rwsr-s–x or 6751 but they were not. See below:
$ id uid=241(test1) gid=202(users) groups=1(staff),13(dba) $ $ cd $ORACLE_HOME/bin $ ls -ltr oracle -rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle dba 136803483 Mar 16 20:32 oracle $ $ chmod 6751 oracle $ ls -ltr oracle -rwsr-s--x 1 oracle dba 136803483 Mar 16 20:32 oracle $ $ sqlplus scott/tiger SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.5.0 - Production on Wed May 18 10:23:27 2011 Copyright (c) 1982, 2010, Oracle. All Rights Reserved. Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.5.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options SQL> show user USER is "SCOTT" SQL>
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great fix. had a similar issue. thanks for the post.
Nice post.
I have a database which has been upgraded from 22.214.171.124 to 22.214.171.124 ; when execute "sqlplus /" as a OS user ADMIN which is not belong to the oracle oinstall group,ORA-12547: TNS:lost contact occurs
when do "sqlplus /nolog" and then conn /as sysdba as ORACLE user ,the resault id normal
firstname.lastname@example.com:/home/oracle>sqlplus /nolog
SQL*Plus: Release 22.214.171.124.0 Production on Sat Aug 20 14:59:50 2011
Copyright (c) 1982, 2010, Oracle. All rights reserved.
@>conn /as sysdba
but when do this as ADMIN uers ,ORA-12547: TNS:lost contact occurs;
firstname.lastname@example.com:/home/admin>tnsping alibank1
TNS Ping Utility for Linux: Version 126.96.36.199.0 – Production on 20-AUG-2011 14:57:19
Copyright (c) 1997, 2010, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Used parameter files:
TNS-03505: Failed to resolve name
firstname.lastname@example.com:/home/admin>sqlplus /nolog
SQL*Plus: Release 188.8.131.52.0 Production on Sat Aug 20 14:57:33 2011
Copyright (c) 1982, 2010, Oracle. All rights reserved.
@>conn /as sysdba
ORA-12547: TNS:lost contact
I am a oracle dba from chain and looking forward to your advice..
problem is solve
Thanks. had a similar issue after upgrading from Oracle10g (10.2.0.5) to Oracle11g.
We can also use following commands:
cd $ORACLE_HOME/bin
relink all
Need your help.
Even after perform the command as suggested, I'm still can't start the listener. Help!!
root@ormdevl # chmod 6751 oracle
root@ormdevl # ls -ltr oracle
-rwsr-s–x 1 oracle dba 66435324 Mar 8 2006 oracle
root@ormdevl # lsnrctl
LSNRCTL for Solaris: Version 188.8.131.52.0 – Production on 06-JAN-2012 11:21:02
Copyright (c) 1991, 2002, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
Welcome to LSNRCTL, type "help" for information.
LSNRCTL> start
Starting /oracle/9.2.0/bin/tnslsnr: please wait…
ld.so.1: tnslsnr: fatal: /oracle/9.2.0/lib/libclntsh.so.9.0: Permission denied
TNS-12547: TNS:lost contact
TNS-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error
TNS-00517: Lost contact
Solaris Error: 32: Broken pipe
Had the same issue – thanks a ton!!
chmod 6751 oracle
$ ls -ltr oracle
-rwsr-s–x 1 oracle dba 136803483 Mar 16 20:32 oracle
Resolved my issue. Thanks for your support.
great. chmod 6751 helped a lot.
ORA-12547: TNS:lost contact
exapmple :
– chmod r 777 where oracle is installed
– chown -R oracle_llg uo2 (changing recursively the owner of u02 where oracle is installed )
– chown -R oracle_llg:oinstall uo2(changing recursively the group of u02 where oracle is installed)
this helped me..
Helped me too. Thanks.
Any idea on what would have caused the permissions to change? I don't want it to happen again.
Thanks Amardeep. It worked like a charm.
Great !
Thanks Amardeep.. worked for me
Thanks Amardeep…. worked for me too….


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Though paleontologists have been unearthing dinosaur fossils for nearly 200 years, Dr. Peter Dodson predicts that the digging won't stop any time soon. In fact, dinosaur discovery is just heating up.
"The golden age of dinosaur discovery is still ahead of us," says Dodson, a professor in the University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine and Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Dodson's excitement over the future of dinosaur paleontology comes on the heels of a recent revision to his 1990 census on the diversity of discoverable dinosaurs. In the new study, co-authored by statistician Steven Wang of Swarthmore College, Dodson predicts that 1850 genera of dinosaurs will one day be discovered. The figure marks a 50 percent increase over his first estimate.
To date, scientists have catalogued only 527 dinosaur genera. (Fossil skeletons are generally too incomplete for paleontologists to deal in the more diverse species.) And if Dodson's estimates are correct, that number represents a mere 29 percent of what could be discovered.
The main cause for the revision is the increased rate of discovery of new genera of dinosaur fossils. Between 1969 and 1990, the yearly average of newly described dinosaurs was about six. Today, the average rate of discovery hovers around 15 genera per year.
"To me it's very exciting," Dodson says. "I'm utterly positive that the exploration phase is going to remain undiminished for another century." If the current rate of discovery remains stable, paleontologists are on track to document 50 percent of discoverable genera by 2056.
The paleontologist points to the increase in participation by foreign scientists in the field as the main factor in the faster rate of discovery. Over the last 15 years, finds in China, for example, have produced a range of fossils that support theories on the relationship between dinosaurs and birds. "China is the hottest country on Earth right now for dinosaur discoveries, and those scientists only really became active in the 1970s," Dodson explains.
Regions in Mongolia and Argentina have also produced new genera, but Dodson expects another continent to yield new fossils. "We have hopes for Africa," Dodson says. "Finds there have been scattered and vary in importance, but it could be the next hotbed for discovery." —Emily Masamitsu
Dinosaur Discovery Just Heating Up
Though paleontologists have been unearthing dinosaur fossils for nearly 200 years, Dr. Peter Dodson predicts that the digging won't stop any time soon. In fact, dinosaur discovery is just heating up.


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Blackfeet arrest man critical of tribal council
Blackfeet authorities have arrested a tribal member who has been critical of the tribe's governing council.
Relatives of Bryon Scott Farmer say the Great Falls man was arrested Friday while attending a family gathering in Browning.
He is accused of violating an ordinance that protects members of the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council from threats, slanderous material or misleading information.
The Flathead Beacon reports Farmer was still in jail in Browning on Tuesday.
Farmer's Facebook postings have targeted the council since Chairman Willie Sharp Jr. suspended or removed five council members and several employees.
Last month, Farmer wrote he was planning something for last weekend's North American Indian Days that would show the Blackfeet will not allow corrupt leaders.
Blackfeet Chief Prosecutor Carl Pepion referenced that post in charging Farmer.
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The Gig Harbor Peninsula area is synonymous with water and recreation. Many local and state parks offer opportunities for visitors and residents to play. Sailing, kayaking and pleasure craft are a way of life on the Peninsula.
The Gig Harbor Lighthouse marks the entrance to the harbor and is a welcome site to many. The 15-foot lighthouse replaced a minor aid to navigation in 1988, when community members raised local funds and donated materials for its construction. It was dedicated in 1989 in conjunction with the Washington State centennial celebrations. The lighthouse is located on land owned by the US Coast Guard and is reachable only by water.
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Superb 1 Bedroom Apartment on complex with 3 pools and mature gardens close to beach and all amenities.
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First Floor apartment on a fantastic complex to rent in Corralejo set in mature gardens and close to all amenities. There are 3 swimming pools ,with large sun terraces and ample sun loungers, as well as a court area offering tennis, basketball and five-a-side football. There is also a pool table, table tennis and children's play area available. The child friendly beach is a 5/10 minute walk as is the main street where the numerous shops, bars and restaurants are located. So whether you want to laze in the sun or be more active the complex is an ideal place to stay.
The apartment itself has a large bedroom with twin beds, side reading lamps, a dresser and stool, mirror and a fan. The bathroom includes a bath and overhead shower. The kitchen has a fridge/freezer, hob, microwave, toaster, kettle and iron and is fully stocked with crockery and cutlery. The large lounge has 2 sofas, one being a sofa bed, as well as a TV/DVD player, CD/radio system, fan and a heater (for winter evenings). Outside there is a large balcony with a table with parasol, reclining chairs and sun loungersCredit/Debit card in Stirling and Euros payments accepted via Paypal system (4% charge applies)Bank transfers in Euros and Stirling accepted Stirling cheques accepted
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There are many bars and restaurants in the town catering for all tastes as well as ample shopping. There is also a Baku water park and weekly market.
Our apartment is located in the heart of the new town in a mainly residential setting within a 5-10 minute walk of the beach, bars and restaurants and the main shopping area.
The famous Dunes are approximately 20 minutes walk as is the harbour where you can catch a ferry to Lanzarote for the day.
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The Gainesville Archery Club is a member of the North Georgia Archery Circuit. At the present time there are 4 clubs that make up the North Ga. Circuit, these clubs are Gainesville Archery Club In Gainesville Ga., Soul Hunters Ministries At Talula Gorge, Amicalola Bowhunters In Dawson County and Banks County Archery Club.
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I occasionally pick up a graphic novel, often memoirs or biographical fiction, and I am rarely disappointed! Here's a brief roundup of some newer releases that I've got my eye on, as well as a few older gems that you might enjoy.
It didn't take more than looking at the cover to get this title on my reading list, but a few words from the catalogue's summary just make it sound that much more interesting:
"A mesmerizing, heartbreaking graphic novel of immigrant life on New York's Lower East Side at the turn of the 20th century, as seen through the eyes of twin sisters whose lives take radically and tragically different paths."
A friend who's just read it raved about the novel, and the characters that were so real that she read up on the author and the novel to learn about their lives (only to confirm that it's fiction).
This latest release by a young Canadian graphic novelist reads like a memoir, intimate and thoughtful. Read the summary (from our catalogue):
"Geneviève Castrée has long been beloved for her mini-comics, comics, visual art, and music. There is a unique quality to all of her artistic endeavors: quiet, serene, depressing. Castree's keen eye for detail and her fearless ability to probe the depths of her troubled past make Susceptible a stirring portrait of an artist coming into her own.
Susceptible is the story of Goglu, a daydreamer growing up in Quebec in the '80s and '90s with a single mother. From a skillful artist comes a moving, beautiful story about families, loss, and growing up. Whether she's discussing nature versus nurture or the story of her birth, Castree imbues her storytelling with a quiet power and a confidence in the strength of imagery."
This wonderful assortment of pamphlets, mini-comics in paperback form, posters, hardcover graphic novels and other media comes in a big box. Among all the items included in the box, we learn the life stories, woes and preoccupations of the tenants in one apartment building. A truly unique format that enlivens the stories it contains!
I can't wait to read this next installment in the series about Aya. Set in Ivory Coast in the 1970s, the tone is light and easy, telling the stories of the daily lives of Aya and her circle of friends, neighbours and acquaintances. If you're new to this series, you should read them in order: start with Aya, then Aya of Yop City, then Aya: the secrets come out.
From the catalogue summary:
"Aya: Love in Yop City comprises the final three chapters of the Aya story, episodes never before seen in English. Aya is a lighthearted story about life in the Ivory Coast during the 1970s, a particularly thriving and wealthy time in the country's history. While the stories found in Aya: Love in Yop City maintain their familiar tone, quick pace, and joyfulness, we see Aya and her friends beginning to make serious decisions about their future.
This second volume of the complete Aya includes unique appendices & recipes, guides to understanding Ivorian slang, street sketches, and concluding remarks from Marguerite Abouet explaining history and social milieu. Inspired by Abouet's childhood, the series has received praise for offering relief from the disaster-struck focus of most stories set in Africa."
This epic story reads like a timeless fairy tale, and the sumptuous visuals will mesmerize and enchant you! I've previously posted a review, here, but since I was so taken with the book, I couldn't resist adding it to this list. For me, this easily takes a place in my "must reads."
This author is one of my favourites, although my first encounter with his work was The Arrival, a gorgeous, wordless tale of moving to a new land. Tales from Outer Suburbia, on the other side of the "words-versus-pictures" graphic novel continuum, is more like a collection of quirky, illustrated short stories. The stories and illustrations are charming and eccentric, perfect for a rainy afternoon spent in a cozy spot.
From our catalogue summary:
"Breathtakingly illustrated and hauntingly written, Tales from Outer Suburbia is by turns hilarious and poignant, perceptive and goofy. Through a series of captivating and sophisticated illustrated stories, Tan explores the precious strangeness of our existence. He gives us a portrait of modern suburban existence filtered through a wickedly Monty Pythonesque lens. Whether it's discovering that the world really does stop at the end of the city's map book, or a family's lesson in tolerance through an alien cultural exchange student, Tan's deft, sweet social satire brings us face-to-face with the humor and absurdity of modern life."
What did Empress Wang, Anula and Brunhilda have in common?
Never heard of them?
Let's try this: What did Anne Boleyn, Marie Antoinette and Jane Grey have in common?
Aha, you got it…
The first three queens were burned to death; the last three were beheaded. The common denominator for all six of them, and a few more dozens throughout history – their deaths were as premature as they were violent.
In her book Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, from Cleopatra to Princess Di, Kris Waldherr presents about fifty too-brief lives of queens across the ages, from the ancient times of Athaliah, a biblical queen and the daughter of King Ahad and Queen Jesabel, and Olimpias, Alexander the Great's mother, through the Dark and Middle ages and Tudor times, when the position of the queen to Henry WIII, as we know, carried a significant risk, to the French Revolution and its famous royal victims, to the doomed queens of our days…
Some quotes attributed to the above mentioned beheaded queens:
"A queen who is not regent ought, under these circumstances, to remain passive and prepare to die." ~Marie Antoinette
"The executioner shall not have much trouble, for I have a little neck." ~Anne Boleyn
"I assure you, the time hath been so odious to me that I long for nothing so much as death." ~Jane Grey
We've featured 'guilty pleasure' reads before in the Readers' Nook and with summer approaching, now is the perfect time for another installment! Don't be fooled by the nickname, there's nothing to feel guilty about if you like your fictional escapes light, steamy, and a little bit trashy. We're so pleased to have another new contributor in the Readers' Nook today, so read on and start planning your vacation (or staycation) reading list.
The Power Trip by Jackie Collins
The Power Trip was one of the best books I have read this year. I waited for its release since reading last year's Goddess of Vengeance, which I liked but did not feel Ms. Collins was at the top of her game. This review is for all my trailer park friends who, like me, enjoy a bit of trash and a vacation while reading….
Well, ladies and gents (both terms used loosely as always), it is finally here: the new Jackie Collins came out February 12th. I cannot seem to get one particular review out of my head or think of a better quick description:
"Jackie Collins has created a quintessential page-turning adventure of sex, money, and murder that feels like taking a trip away from the winter climes and into the absolute glamour of summertime." (Casee Marie, reviewer, Literary Inklings blog)
Now really, who in this trailer park wouldn't want to read it mid-February or anytime of the year, for that matter…
This was a new setting for Ms. Collins. As always we had many glitzy locations but most of the story takes place on a luxurious yacht in the Sea of Cortez. This is new but most welcome. I discovered I, too, enjoy a wonderful yacht ride. This book does not disappoint with the glitz and Hollywood factor. We meet Interesting Hollywood types such as Cliff Baxter, a ringer for George Clooney, a Russian mobster, a model, a movie star, a footballer, a singer, writer, a senator and his perfect wife, and investigative reporters. If that isn't quite enough for you, she throws in some Somalian pirates and a Mexican drug and arms dealer. As the glitzy and powerful unite for the maiden voyage, we are privy to the power plays aboard, and those coming to join them. Ending in a struggle: who will live? Who will become a hero? Who will end up with all the power? This is a wonderful mid-steamy read that takes you on a wild high sea adventure. This book does bring some heat but, as I said, mid; don't worry--its fast-paced adventure keeps you flipping pages.
Take the phone off the hook, put your feet up and make yourself a Kraft mac and cheese. Pour a large glass of Kool-aid. Plug in the fan and begin the adventure. You may want to lock the double wide's door as you won't want anyone popping in to stop your fun. Go ahead and soak those teeth; you won't be needing them for a few hours….
Thank you, Jackie, for bringing back the writer we all knew you were…..
Happy Reading!
More guilty pleasures:
The Explorer's Code by Kitty Pilgrim
Crystal Gardens by Amanda Quick
A Week to be Wicked by Tessa Dare
Born to Darkness by Suzanne Brockmann
Low Pressure by Sandra Brown
We're again pleased to have new contributors in the Readers' Nook to help you find a literary gem! Whether your book club meets throughout the year or takes a break until fall, it's never the wrong time to find that next great literary read that will lead to interesting discussions in your book club. And if you need more suggestions, have a look at our Book Club Bag collection.
In the novel 419 four storylines with four main characters make up the story.
The first has its setting in Calgary when a retired teacher, Henry Curtis, drives his truck off an embankment and dies. It proves to be a suicide and upon further investigation it is learned that he has lost all his life savings to a scammer from Nigeria, thus the title: 419 refers to a section of the Nigerian criminal code that states that anyone who obtains goods or money through false pretenses with intent to defraud will be sentenced to a term of not less than 5 years.
Laura, the daughter of the deceased, makes it her mission to trace the emails and meet the person she believes is responsible for her father's death.
Winston, the scammer, is an educated young Nigerian with few prospects for the future. He spends his time in internet cafes scanning the internet for possible e-mail recipients whom he never expects to meet.
Amina is the younger wife of a northern cattle herder who escapes to the South to find a better life for herself and her unborn child.
Nnamdi is the son of a fisherman who sees his village's way of life being destroyed by oil companies. The water is polluted and the forests clear-cut. He works for a time for oil companies but when this employment ends he finds work in the black market.
All the characters will come in contact in Lagos with many harsh and surprising consequences.
This novel gives insight into the techniques of 419ers and why Nigeria is such a dangerous country.
- Juanita
It is never too late to right a wrong! That is what Harold Fry attempts to do when one morning he goes to post a letter and keeps on walking. He is going to walk from one part of England to the other in the hopes to heal a long lost friend who is dying from cancer. He has no equipment, not even proper shoes, and it is completely a spur of the moment decision. He feels that by walking to his friend's beside, he is atoning for how he mistreated her in the past and for oh so many other regrets.
Along the way the kindness of strangers impacts him and propels him on this journey. He meets a young woman who gives him hospitality and reveals that she is waiting for her lover to return—a year ago. And a young boy who probably has nowhere else to go, and travels with Harold for a while. Many characters latch on and are affected by Harold. He even becomes a little bit of a celebrity when the BBC gets a hold of his story and they follow him as he gets closer to the end.
Meanwhile, Harold's wife, who is wondering what happened to him, is befriended by the widower neighbour. Their 40-year long marriage had become a silent and distant relationship until Harold embarks on his pilgrimage. What is fascinating about this story is that Harold takes this journey to heal someone, to give someone who is dying some hope, and the journey really becomes an amazing healing in his own life.
- Joanne
Cutting for Stone is an easy book to read, but not an easy book to describe. For example, how do you summarize a story about conjoined twins, born in Ethiopia, to a nun (who dies) and a British surgeon (who runs away)? The boys are raised by two Indian doctors and have a relatively peaceful childhood, but when political troubles with neighbouring Eritrea erupt, one twin is forced to escape to America.
And that's only the first half of the book!
The story summary may be confusing. To begin with, the plot is set up around the main premise that life is a contradiction of terms. And so, Verghese presents a nun who gives birth, doctors who don't have verifiable credentials, first-rate medical care in a third-world country. The contradictions are set inside the opening framework of the novel – the idea of conjoinment. The boys, Marion and Shiva, are born attached at the head. They are easily separated in a physical sense, but they stay conjoined emotionally throughout the story in many ways. As the tale progresses, we see all kinds of things (love, politics, medicine, family) that are united at first, but then break apart. If, and when, they come back together, there is always a significant difference.
The novel's characters are exceptionally well drawn and balance themselves out in terms of the many themes. Starting with the boys, Marion and Shiva are mirror images of the same person. One embodies emotion, the other, logic. One feels, the other computes. Yet they think of themselves as a single unit and call themselves "ShivaMarion." This becomes true of the many other parallel ideas that Verghese puts on the page.
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Political Science Public AdministrationUndergrad Majors/Minors Courses Offered MPA Program Scholarships Faculty and Staff Bureau of Gov. Affairs Mission Past Events Contact
Courses Offered
Undergraduate Courses
POLS 115 - American Government I
An introduction to political science through the study of the American political system: The Constitution, political processes; the structure, powers and procedures of the Presidency, Congress, and the Judiciary.
POLS 116 - State and Local Government
Structure, function, and problems of state and local government; executive, legislative, and judicial processes; federalism and metropolitan government.
POLS 220 - International Politics
An introduction to international politics with emphasis on the international system, the major actors, the struggle for power, and the struggle for order.
POLS 225 - Comparative Politics
An introduction to comparative politics with emphasis on the democratic systems of Europe.
POLS 250 - Politics of Public Administration
Introduction to the development of public administration in the United States and to the concepts and methods used in its practice. The political aspects of the public bureaucracy and contemporary issues are also highlighted.
POLS 300 - Introduction to Research Methods
General consideration of research methods and data analysis in political science and the social sciences.
POLS 305 - American Constitution - Governmental Powers
American Constitution studied in the light of the U.S. Supreme Court decisions and interpretations; focus on governmental powers, federal relationships, and economic regulation.
POLS 306 - American Constitution - Civil Liberties
Analyzes U.S. Supreme Court decisions and interpretations that focus on civil liberties, equal protections, due process, and First Amendment rights.
POLS 308 - Intergovernmental Relations
Analyzes the growing interrelationship of federal, state, and local governments with emphasis on financial aspects.
POLS 309 - Legislative and Executive Processes
A survey of the organization, functions, and interactions of the American legislative and executive branches of government.
POLS 310 - Introduction to Political Thought
Classical political thought from classical times to the 19th century with emphasis on issues raised in the workds of Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Mill, Marx and Nietzsche.
POLS 318 - American Political Thought
A historical analysis of the major thinkers and the streams of thought that molded the political life and institutions of the United States from Puritans to the present.
POLS 320 - Foreign Policies
Examination of the roles of major powers in the international system, with emphasis on the foreign policies of the United States and other major powers.
POLS 321 - International Human Rights
Examination of factors that contribute to human rights violations and domestic, multilateral and bilateral efforts to combat such violations with emphasis placed on the changing nature of the international system of states.
POLS 323 - Issues in Comparative Politics
Examination of contemporary issues in comparative politics with particular emphasis on the dynamics of change in political systems.
POLS 324 - Chinese Politics
The course evaluates the politics of China following two underlying themes: assessing the changes that have taken place in China since the death of Mao and China's place of prominence on the global stage. Focus is placed on Chinese politics since the economic reforms in the 1970s and the political implications of these reforms. The course also evaluates Chinese public policy with regard to critical issues facing China today.
POLS 327 - Transitions to Democracy
Based on liberal democratic theory, the course will investigate the different processes and components associated with successful democratization. The course will evaluate multiple case studies, including those found in Southern Europe, Latin America, and post-communist Europe. The course will conclude with an assessment of cases beginning to democratize presently.
POLS 328 - Legislative Processes
Emphasis will be placed on the structure, functions, and duties of Congress, as well as congressional elections, patterns of congressional leadership, policy successes and failures, and the relationship between Congress and the federal court, and Congress and the U.S. Presidency.
POLS 329 - Presidential Institutions and Management
This course focuses on the intersection of politics and management with the executive branch. Special emphasis is placed on the roles of institutions and critical executive branch actors such as the President in the management and execution of public policy.
POLS 351 - Women and Politics
Role of women in politics, including selection of women for political offices; the political attitudes and behavior of women; and the development of public policy initiatives as they affect or are likely to affect women.
POLS 361 - Nonprofit Management
This course is an overview of the management of nonprofit organizations. Content includes the history and legal foundation of nonprofits, leadership, marketing, management of employees and volunteers, and operations management.
POLS 393 - Problems in Political Science
Students study special topics that vary by semester.
POLS 397 - Cooperative Education
Compensated on-the-job experience in various areas of political science. S-U grading only Prereqs: 3.00 GPA; 12 hours in POLS, and course related to cooperative experience; permission of department.
POLS 404 - Urban Politics and Administration
Analysis of the socio-economic context of urban America and its impact on politics, policy, and administration.
POLS 405 - Political Behavior
A review of the role of the public in a democracy, focusing on the formation and content of public opinion, the means of communicating that opinion to government, and the impact of that opinion on policy.
POLS 432 - Public Policy Making Process
Two-thirds of the class is devoted to understanding the stages of the policy process: (1) Problem Identification and Agenda Setting; (2) Policy Formulation; (3) Policy Adoption; (4) Policy Implementation; and (5) Policy Evaluation. The last third applies the model to substantive policy areas such as health, environment, and education.
POLS 433 - The Administrator and Public Affairs
Designed to make students aware of the political and community implications of public administration in a democratic society. Reviews and analyzes the political environment of public administration and considers various techniques for accommodating democratic influences in the administrative process.
POLS 437 - Administrative Processes
Explanation of theoretical and practical aspects of personnel and financial management in the public sector. Spring.
POLS 480 - Administrative Internship
On-the-job training in a governmental position with final report and analysis of the agency by the intern. S/U grading only. Prereqs: 3.00 GPA; 12 hours in POLS, and course related to internship experience; permission of department. Coreqs: Prior approval of instructor required before enrollment.
POLS 491 - Readings in Political Science
Selected readings with oral and written reports. Prereqs: Consent of instructor required.
POLS 495 - Senior Colloquium
A capstone course in Political Science and Public Administration designed to integrate the subareas of the discipline. The development of the discipline, its great thinkers, and current directions will be examined. Prereqs: Senior standings. This course is designed for majors only.
Graduate (MPA) Courses
POLS 500 - Research Methods
This course will first focus on various approaches to analyzing political phenomena with the goal developing students' ability to think analytically and to distinguish between empirical and normative analysis. The course will then introduce techniques of empirical research including research design, measurement, data gathering, and data analysis. Prereqs: MPA students only or consent of instructor.
POLS 501 - Political and Public Policy Analysis
This course focuses on the use of empirical data both to develop empirical theory and to make policy choices. Topics to be discussed include hypothesis testing, public choice, and policy evaluation. Students will be required to complete an original research project. Prereqs: MPA students only or consent of instructor.
POLS 502 - Seminar: Problems in State and Local Government
Directed in-depth inquiry into contemporary structural and policy problems of state and local governments. During the course, each student will prepare a research paper relevant to a current problem suitable for publication and distribution to an identifiable body of public officials and citizens for problem-solving purposes. Prereqs: MPA students only or consent of instructor.
POLS 503 - Government and Business
This course is designed to make students aware of the interrelationship of business and government in our society and the importance of this interrelationship in an era of globalization. A component of the course involves travel to Washington, D.C. to meet with political officials, e.g., the Congressional delegation; Legislative staff; government regulatory agencies, government advocacy agencies, and national and international business representatives. Prereqs: MPA students only or consent of instructor, on-campus only.
POLS 508 - Seminar: Legislative and Executive Processes
Description, analysis, and evaluation of the structures, processes, procedures, and positions of the legislative and executive offices in government. Prereqs: MPA students only or consent of instructor.
POLS 511 - Seminar: Political Theory
Study of major political theories and the methodologies employed in their formulation. Prereqs: MPA students only or consent of instructor.
POLS 531 - Seminar: Public Administration
An extensive overview of Public Administration stressing the basic concepts and trends in the discipline as well as the classic scholars. Prereqs: MPA students only or consent of instructor.
POLS 532 - Public Policy
A discussion of the initiation, formulation, adoption, implementation, and evaluation of American public policy. Various policy areas such as agriculture, education, environment, and welfare will be analyzed. Prereqs: MPA students only or consent of instructor.
POLS 533 - Administrative Ethics in the Public Sector
This course examines the challenges faced by public administrators in establishing personal standards of conduct in the administrative environment. Issues such as moral versus political accountability, social justice, and whistle blowing are among the topics that will be explored in this course. Prereqs: MPA students only or consent of instructor.
POLS 535 - Public Organizations
Description and analysis of bureaucratic organizations with particular emphasis on concepts and characteristics common to public bureaucracies. Prereqs: MPA students only or consent of instructor.
POLS 536 - Public Personnel Administration
This course is designed to help managers in all positions of an organization to understand the fundamental nature of public personnel administration, also known as human resource management. Topics to be covered include basic functions such as position classifications, wage and salary administration, and performance appraisal. It will also examine merit systems and contemporary reforms and techniques including TQM and conflict resolution. Attention will be given to contemporary issues such as sexual harassment, affirmative action, privacy, and unionization. Prereqs: MPA students only or consent of instructor.
POLS 538 - Public Budgeting and Financial Administration
This course will encompass the normative and descriptive budgetary question in public administration. Orthodox prevailing and alternative budget theories are presented in generalized and applied settings. Prereqs: MPA students only or constent of instructor.
POLS 539 - Administrative Law
Study of the legal dimension of public administration. Study of requirements for rule-making and adjudication and of judicial review of administrative decisions. Prereqs: MPA students only or consent of instructor.
POLS 551 - Health Administration and Organization
The evolution of health systems and their organizational challenges of administration from human resources to management in times of scarce resources are explored. Specific attention is devoted to Financial Management, Managerial and Fund Accounting, Medicare, Medicaid, Fiscal Intermediaries, and Managed Care, and Organizations in Decline. Prereqs: MPA students only or consent of instructor.
POLS 552 - Health Policy
This course examines historic and contemporary trends in health care delivery in the United States. Emphasis is placed on addressing health care cost-containment issues, access to health care, and recent efforts to invoke broadly based systemic reforms of the U.S. health care system. Prereqs: MPA students only or consent of instructor.
POLS 561 - Creation and Management of Social Enterprises
This course is an overview of social entrepreneurship and the management of social enterprises, often nonprofit organizations. The objective of the course is to expose students to content related to these topic areas, including methods and techniques of entrepreneurship for social purposes, strategic selection of an organizational form to advance a mission, the legal foundation of social enterprises in the U.S., and management topics such as leadership, strategic management, business planning, management of employees and volunteers, and operations management, and program evaluation.
POLS 562 - Political Advocacy and Social Entrepreneurship
The primary purpose of the course will be to explore all facets of building an advocacy campaign. We will consider our expectations, and the likely consequences, of collective action in fulfilling our social entrepreneurial objectives through advocacy.
POLS 580 - Administrative Internship
Students are employed on a full-time or part-time basis in on-the-job learning situations in federal, state, or local government. Students are required to make an analytical report on some facet of their work. Arranged. Prereqs: MPA students only and prior approval of instructor required before enrollment.
POLS 591 - Readings in Political Science and Public Administration
Selected reading with oral and written reports. Arranged. Prereqs: MPA students only and prior approval of instructor required before enrollment.
POLS 593 - Problems in Political Science and Public Administration
Students study special topics under the direction and supervision of a member of the staff. Arranged. Prereqs: MPA students only or consent of instructor.
POLS 595 - Professional Development in Public Administration
Specific issues will vary, but topics will focus on the latest issues, trends, and problems facing administrators, especially those in public and not-for-profit agencies. Prereqs: MPA students only or consent of instructor.
POLS 599 - Master of Public Administration Capstone
Seminar course intended to assist students in strengthening and developing essential skills of research and formal presentation (written and oral) for both academic and professional audiences, and applying these skills to the completion of their individual Independent Study Project. Enrollment is restricted to MPA students to have presented a satisfactory Independent Study proposal to their review committee at the conclusion of the previous fall semester. Prereqs: POLS 997.
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Hanna-Barbera Studios Howard Morris William Hanna, Joseph Barbera William Hanna, Joseph Barbera, Alex Lovy Warren Foster, Mike Maltese, Dalton Sandifer, Tony Benedict, Art Davis, Alex Lovy, Lewis Marshall, Paul Sommer, Art Scott, Steve Clark; more Writers .. Warner Leighton, Donald A. Douglas, Larry Cowan, Greg Watson, Dan Finnerty, Tony Milch, Ken Spears, Edward Warschilka, Milton Krear Ted Nichols
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- Cartoon Characters: Atom Ant.
- Vocal Talent: Howard Morris (Atom Ant).
- Directed By William Hanna, Joseph Barbera.
- Produced By William Hanna, Joseph Barbera.
Associate Producer: Alex Lovy.
- Animated By George Kreisl, Irv Spence, Ed Aardal, Don Lusk, Bob Carr, Don Patterson, C. L. Hartman, Bill Hutten, Dick Lundy, Allan Wilzbach, Carlo Vinci, Ken Southworth, Jack Parr, Rudy Cataldi, Jerry Hathcock, Louis Kachivas.
Animation Direction: Charles Nichols (as Charles A. Nichols).
- Written By Warren Foster, Mike Maltese, Dalton Sandifer, Tony Benedict.
Story Direction: Art Davis, Alex Lovy, Lewis Marshall, Paul Sommer, Art Scott, Steve Clark.
- Edited By Warner Leighton, Donald A. Douglas, Larry Cowan, Greg Watson, Dan Finnerty, Tony Milch, Ken Spears, Edward Warschilka, Milton Krear.
Supervising Film Editor: Warner Leighton.
Additional Crew:
- Production Supervisor: Howard Hanson.
- Assistant Production Supervisor: Victor O. Schipek.
- Story Supervision: Arthur Pierson.
- Character Design: Jerry Eisenberg.
- Layouts: Willie Ito, Richard Bickenbach, Brad Case, Lin Larsen, Homer Jonas, Bruce Bushman, Alex Ignatiev, Walt Clinton, Morris Gollub.
- Backgrounds: Richard H. Thomas, Ron Dias, F. (Fernando) Montealegre, Bob Gentle, Fernando Arce.
- Technical Supervisor: Frank Pakier.
- Camera: Frank Paiker, Charles Flekal, Norm Stainback, Roy Wade, Frank Parrish.
- Sound Direction: Richard Olson.
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In the middle of Patagonian Andes, in the south of Chile, in the centre of the Valdivian Ecoregion Ecoregions are big units of earth or water that contains a group of habitats and communities that characterized them geographically. In addition, they share most of their species and environmental conditions.
The Valdivian Ecoregion houses one of the seven temperate moist forests that are left in the planet and the second largest in the world. It has been stood out like one of the 25 ecoregions most valuable and threatened of the world. In Chile, embraces from the VII Maule Region (35º south latitude) up to the XI Aysén Region (48º south latitude), in addition to the east slope of the Argentinian Andes. It has a total surface nearing the 34.500.000 hectares.
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Three international organizations – World Wildlife Foundation (WWF), The World Bank and The World Resources Institute, have qualified the Southern Chilean Temperate Moist Forest, as one of the 200 world's ecoregions that must be guarded for its unique contribution to world biodiversity. In the year 2007, Unesco declared an area of more than 2.000.000 hectares as the "Austral Andes Temperate Moist Forest" and also as Biosphere Reserve, in which Huilo Huilo Biological Reserve is situated.
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Rebuilding Freeze Frame
Posted in Education Outreach, Projects by Bill
31 May 2012
As you may have seen already, I enjoy volunteering for the local Science Museum. This time I took on rebuilding one of my favorite exhibits, Freeze Frame. The exhibit is simple, guests stand in front of a photo sensitive wall while a flash activates to ingrain their silhouette in the wall for a few minutes. The museum had one that had long since died and the previous volunteers simply ripped out all the parts except the photo sensitive wall and added an LED on a pen to let patrons 'write with light'. While interesting, it's not the same awe inspiring effect as Freeze Frame, so I took it on myself to resurrect the original function. This is how I did it.
All that was left of the exhibit was the hole where the flash unit was once installed, and the photo sensitive wall. Everything else had to be built from scratch. Ok, so first the flash. I tested a friend's photographers flash unit and it worked well, so I acquired one for this task. It has a 'PC-Sync' connection that is used to remotely trigger a single flash. Searching the internet gave me clues that this is a simple two wire connection that just needs to be shorted for a brief duration to trigger the flash. I tested this with an optoisolator (just to be safe) and I was able to trigger the flash with the flip of an IO pin.
Next is the user interface. I already used Sparkfun's big red dome button for another project in the museum and knew it worked well for kids and adults. I also wanted to add audio feedback to give patrons the cue it was about to flash so I grabbed an small 8 ohm speaker as well. I figured between the audio tones and the flashing light in the button, guests would know exactly when the flash was coming and to strike a pose. I threw together a quick PCB design and had it made by Dorkbot.
The circuit is centered around an ATtiny85 which I like to use for small projects like this. When pressed, it runs a short three count of flashes and audio tones before triggering the flash. This gives guest enough time to run back to the wall and strike a pose.
To house the electronics and interface, I had Patrick McCabe design and laser cut a wall plate for this exhibit.
To mount the speaker to the plate, I warmed up the old Makerbot, designed and printed a retaining bracket for the speaker. This is how the end result turned out:
I also started pondering about how to mount the relatively heavy flash unit. For kicks I bought a extension arm when I bought the flash unit figuring it might prove useful. Then I realized if I mounted the flash upside down with the extension arm it could bolt to the wood paneling above it. I was about to run to Home Depot to start figuring out how to make a bolt-able bracket when I remember I had a 3D printer (still getting use to this luxury, thanks again Wired Insider for the printer). I designed and printed a simple bracket to mount the flash to the wall.
Side note: while printing this I finally figured out why my print quality on my Thing-o-Matic has been so poor since updating to the latest firmware. Turns out there's a bug in the firmware that reverses the setting in the machine profile "Hold Z axis". So if it is checked (like it should be) it doesn't actually hold the z axis, allowing the head to fall while it's printing a layer. You have to uncheck it to make the machine hold the Z axis while printing. Here's a before and after:
Last Minute Design Addition…
Anyone paying close attention to the pictures will have already noticed the schematic and design of the PCB doesn't quite match what is in the pictures. After playing with the flash for a while I realized running the flash in stand-by all day was not a smart thing to do. I've been burned by that before, and wanted to make sure it didn't happen again. I had wisely broken out an extra IO pin on my PCB design and decided to go ahead and put it to good use. I grabbed a PowerSwitch Tail off the shelf to allow the control board to cut power going to the flash when the exhibit is not used after a few minutes. I've made the changes to the design posted here to include the change as a proper screw terminal block.
Install Day
When I had everything working the way I liked, I packed it all up and headed for the museum. Dave, the handyman with a heart of gold was there to help me install everything. First we removed the cover that was over the window in the back of the exhibit and installed the mounting bracket.
Then the flash.
Next we had to cut out a hole for the control panel. No one remembers where the button has located in the original exhibit.
Finally we finished it off with a pane of plastic to keep wondering fingers out.
Time for a test run…
Here's what the sequence looks like:
The Source Code
I used AVR Studio to write and program the code running in the ATtiny85. It looks Arduino compatible because I like the API even when not developing for Arduino, so I write all my helper functions in the Arduino style.
The main loop simple waits for a button press, then turns on the power to the flash, gives a 3 count of tones and flashes before triggering the flash, then sits in another loop for 2 minutes. This loop alows the Flash to stay running while patron are in the exhibit and presumably pressing the button multiple times. This will avoid short cycling power to the flash. When no one has pressed the button for 2 minutes, then that loop exists, the flash power gets turned off and the code continues the main loop. I also used the hardware watchdog timer just to make sure the exhibit stays running.
To create the tones from the speaker, I just used one of the times to create a square wave.
And the sequence that leads up to a flash…
And there you have it, Rebuilding the Freeze Frame exhibit. All source for this project is available to download here: FreezeFrameSource
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[...] people to "draw with light", but in [Bill's] opinion this wasn't as impressive. He promptly volunteered to rebuild the display himself and we commend him, both on the fantastic job he did as well as his service to his local [...]
Nice work. I loved that exhibit as a kid. The one at my local museum didn't have a button. The flash simply went off every 90 seconds or so. That may be why nobody remembered where the button was at your museum. I like your implementation much better.
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When APL developed the stacktrain in the mid-1980s, it effectively launched the modern intermodal era by going beyond the basic concept of placing truck trailers on flatcars that dated back to the 1950s.
Others had developed domestic containers, but weren't gaining widespread traction. International intermodal, the term applied to 20- and 40-foot marine containers transferred from a ship to a train or vice versa, was the vanguard in what is today a full-fledged intermodal heyday fueled as much, if not more, by domestic cargo transitioning from over-the-road trucking to double-stack 53-foot containers.
Just as international containers pioneered the modern intermodal market, the concept of locating distribution centers near railheads was developed for international cargo. The concept of the "inland port," where DCs are positioned adjacent to a rail intermodal facility near a population center such as Dallas or Chicago, is, for now, applied exclusively to international intermodal.
The DCs at the CenterPoint Intermodal Center outside Chicago, which handled 2.9 million TEUs last year, are meant to receive or process primarily cargo arriving or leaving in 40-foot marine containers. The shipper benefits from the lower cost of intermodal versus truck for the long-haul segment, as well as substantially lower fuel costs on the short drayage move from the railhead to the DC. It's a formula that works, as the success of inland ports at Alliance, Texas, Kansas City SmartPort and elsewhere shows.
But what about domestic intermodal, which has grown consistently faster than the international segment? In the first half of this year, domestic intermodal was up 15 percent compared to the first half of 2010, while international was up 9 percent, according to FTR Associates.
Do logisticians and site-selectors see the same opportunity? Do they see cargo moving in a domestic intermodal environment — whether international containerized cargo transloaded into 53-foot domestic containers near a seaport, or more pure domestic cargo moving intermodally — as benefiting from the same proximity of the DC to the railhead? The idea isn't farfetched, given the demonstrated cost savings importers have realized by positioning DCs close to inland ports.
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Seeing an opportunity to convert millions of over-the-road shipments to intermodal, railroads are reducing the distance needed for intermodal to make sense and thereby are greatly expanding the universe of potential intermodal shipments.
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