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To all those who doubted it was possible: I did it! I was offline for one whole week!
My Offline Activities:
I read the print version of The Wall Street Journal (I found it discarded in the street).
I stood under the 118 degree Fahrenheit daytime sun in Death Valley for two whole minutes before diving back into my idling Prius.
I cleansed my clothes of filth in the machines of the Hollywood Madam, Heidi Fleiss, at Dirty Laundry in Pahrump, Nevada.
I must confess that near the beginning of the week I fell off the wagon and went online in a Westwood Cafe. After a guilty couple minutes I looked up and sitting across from me eating panini and sipping Orangina was Laurence Fishburne. He was looking right at me and I took it as a sign and got out of there before he could recruit me in a Matrix-like war against the controllers of the true nature of reality. After all, I'd come for a vacation not more skirmishes with patriarchy!
So I turned off, tuned out and dropped in on hard on meatspace starting with Death Valley. Trying to walk around in lethal heat is an excellent way to ground yourself in your physical body. It was impossible to think about anything except what my body needed to survive. But within seconds of returning to the air conditioned comfort of the car I began to wonder at what exact conditions created the rainbow colours in the rock formations. And what the temperature statistics were. I vaily punched buttons on my quaint 80 era Prius onboard computer hungrily searching for answers. All it could tell me is that it was 118 degrees and the air conditioning was on full over and over and over again.
The yearning for online search continued past Death Valley. I channelled a lot of my search desire into my new GPS unit – which I suppose was a bit of cheating. I found myself searching out of idle curiosity for the frequency of Starbucks vs IHOPS in Nevada and the distance between Target department stores in California. The GPS was a necessary evil however so we could rapidly locate Heidi Fleiss' laundromat in Pahrump: Dirty Laundry. Sadly we found out that Heidi is far too busy with her flock of pet parrots and new brothel for women (Janes instead of John's?) to touch base much with her Dirty patrons. I did, however, fully enjoy her brothel-themed decor replete with garish ceilings and mirrored bathroom floor.
The pinnacle of my search pain came when we hit Las Vegas. We actually had to walk into hotel's without first searching for prices and availability online! The horror of it all peaked when we ended up at Excalibur instead of in my regular Vegas stomping grounds in the Glitter Gulch. We made the best of it by pillaging the all you can eat buffet More and demonstrating for them what their advertisements advocate: "Less is not more, More is more."
So I did survive a week offline. But, at the same time, my trip would have only been greatly enriched if I had been connected. While we navigated the desert floor, left hand written questions for Madame Fleiss and tried to stay off the strip in Vegas – my yearning for Google remained constant. Was I merely an addict in withdrawal? Or is search just another technology of privilege like air conditioning and washing machines that shapes my reality? I can live without it but, like going back to sweltering and week long wash rituals, it seems punitive and I've done nothing wrong. (Well, besides reap the benefits of colonialism and whiteness, of course).
Perhaps it is no coincidence that the first Twitter post I read when connecting today was about search. It seems Microsoft is all set to by Powerset semantic search for $100 million, give or take.
Powerset describes itself as revolutionizing search with semantic or full phrase searches. It sure is a sexy idea. However after using Powerset for months I am more bored than turned on. I think semantic search is far harder to pull off and deliver than what they have sold to their investors. They have made semantic search synonymous with the future of online search in order to get the attention of big investors. This tactic has worked to lure in Microsoft. But, as I have often described, search is part of our culture. The skills and needs of search users have surpassed any easy categorization or one-trick revolution. Semantic search is certainly part of the future of search – but the best Powerset and thus Microsoft can hope for is a niche – not domination.
Microsoft's perfunctory purchase of Powerset to reverse the post-YahooFAIL investor anxiety can be contrasted quite starkly against Google's functional and subdued rolling out of semantic-y options like question answering and fill in the blank searches. Building on top of what it has, Google doesn't have to spend $100 million to buy into what it already owns: search.
Google's connotative meaning is the real battleground. It is unsurprising that the Microsofties don't prioritize it because cultural wars are too disturbingly complex to parse into believable profit-winning scenarios. But my entire week offline was haunted by one branded exclamatory refrain: I wish I could Google this!
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Twitter: The Best Of The Week (May 23-29, 2009)
This is a weekly series that looks at the best Twitter-related stories, news and articles within the Twittersphere over the last seven days. You can read previous entries in our archives.
Twitter Trips on Its Rapid Growth
So says the Wall Street Journal. Twitter's user-base has jumped from around 1.6 million to an estimated 32.1 million in a year, but the company still boasts less than 50 employees. "For the entire [three-year] history of the company, most of the resources have gone to managing growth and that is still the case," says co-founder Evan Williams.
Paper Tweets
Fun projects like this always seem to spring up around social media. They rarely last, but still: fun. Twitter on Paper is a free service that allows you to request a handwritten, one-of-a-kind paper edition of a tweet that is mailed to your home. Why? Well, there's the question.
Topsy is a search-engine that is powered entirely by tweets. Here's what it has to say about me. As you can see, amongst other things, Topsy rates a given user's influence on Twitter, using re-tweets as a kind of virtual currency.
Google Twave
Google Wave generated enormous buzz this week, and if it's as good as it looks we could well be seeing the beginning of the end for Facebook and Twitter as well. Meantime, check out Twave, an extension for Google Wave that allows you to manage tweets in unique ways.
New York Times Appoints First Social Media Editor
This story isn't about Twitter per se, but it's definitely related as Jennifer Preston has been appointed the first Social Media Editor of the New York Times. You can follow her on Twitter here.
Location, Location, Location
This week, Twitter announced that they may soon be adding comments and 'likes' as new functionality on the network – the latter of which I detest and wrote about here – as well as attaching controversial geo-referencing metadata to each tweet.

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Mare Crisium
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Mare Crisium (the "Sea of Crises") is a lunar mare located in the Moon's Crisium basin, just northeast of Mare Tranquillitatis. The basin is of the Pre-Imbrian period, 4.55 to 3.85 billion years ago.
Mare Crisium is 555 km (345 mi) in diameter,[1] and 176,000 square kilometres (68,000 sq mi) in area. It has a very flat floor, with a ring of wrinkled ridges toward its outer boundaries. Ghost craters such as Yerkes and Lick (craters that have largely been buried under deposits of other material), are located to the south.[2]
The mare has many notable features in and around it. The cape-like feature protruding into the southeast of the mare is Promontorium Agarum. On the western rim of the mare is the palimpsest Yerkes. The crater Picard is located just to the east of Yerkes, and northwest of Picard is the crater Peirce. Mare Anguis can be seen northeast of Mare Crisium.[3]
Like most of the other maria on the Moon, Mare Crisium was named by Giovanni Riccioli, whose 1651 nomenclature system has become standardized.[4]
By the 17th century, Mare Crisium had acquired the name 'Caspian Sea', being labelled as such by Thomas Harriot, Pierre Gassendi and Michael Van Langren. Ewen A. Whitaker speculates that it received this name because it occupies roughly the same position on the Moon's face as does the Caspian Sea on Earth, with respect to maps of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.[5] The English astronomer William Gilbert's map of c.1600 calls it 'Brittania' after Britain.[5]
Observation and exploration[edit]
Mare Crisium is just visible from Earth with the naked eye as a small dark spot on the edge of the Moon's face.
It is the site of the crash-landing of Soviet Luna 15 probe in 1969. A soil sample from Mare Crisium was successfully brought to Earth on 22 August 1976 by the Soviet lunar mission Luna 24.
In popular culture[edit]
- In Robert A. Heinlein's novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Mare Crisium is the site of a lunar colony named Luna City.
- "The Sentinel", the short story from which Arthur C. Clarke developed the film 2001: A Space Odyssey with Stanley Kubrick, takes place on the Mare Crisium.
- In the game "Mass Effect" (2007), the assignment UNC: Rogue VI, operational zone is established in the southern portion of Mare Crisium.
- ^ a b "Moon Mare/Maria". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology. Retrieved 2010-08-20.
- ^ Autostar Suite Astronomer Edition. CD-ROM. Meade, April 2006.
- ^ "Mare Crisium". lunar.arc.nasa.gov. Retrieved October 18, 2007.
- ^ Ewen A. Whitaker, Mapping and Naming the Moon (Cambridge University Press, 1999), p.61.
- ^ a b Ewen A. Whitaker, Mapping and Naming the Moon (Cambridge University Press, 1999), p.7.
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Sony EXMOR image sensor seems to gather a lot more light
Sony's teasing us with some simulated images, claiming that its upcoming EXMOR image sensor can snag a whole lot more light than any other. Sony explains that its new CMOS sensor technology is able to choose between the most relevant photons, ending up with a much better low-light image.
Expect to see the new sensors in the Sony CyberShot TX1 ($400) and WX1 ($350) still cameras when they ship next month. Those prices are a lot higher than most other comparably equipped point-and-shoots. But hey, if it can "cull ambient photons" as well as this faked and highly suspect shot implies, it might just be worth the extra dough. This we gotta see.
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If storytelling is an art, then Maeve Binchy is unquestionably one of today's master artists. After all, Binchy was born, educated, and lives in Ireland, a land well known for its great storytellers. Firmly grounded in the Irish storytelling tradition, Binchy has earned a sizeable following of enthusiastic fans for her 11 novels and 4 collections of short stories. I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer," Maeve jokes. Perhaps that happy childhood is why Binchy did not publish her first novel until she was 43 years old. But there's no doubt that once she did she proved herself to be an immensely talented, multiple New York Times-bestselling author. her name.
Binchy was introduced into the joys of storytelling at an early age. Her mother, Maureen, and father, William, a prominent Dublin barrister, encouraged Binchy and her three siblings to be avid readers as well as to share stories at dinner and, as her brother William admits, nobody loved telling stories more than Maeve.
Growing up in the quiet seaside town of Dalkey, located about 10 miles south of Dublin, Binchy also found herself dreaming of escape. "I love Dalkey now," she says, "but when I was young, I thought it was somewhat like living in the desert." Her desire to escape led her first to the big city, to the University College in Dublin, where she studied history and French. After graduating in 1960, she taught Latin, French, and history in a Dublin grade school and was able to indulge her love of traveling during summer vacations. She proved so popular a teacher that parents of her students pooled their money to send her on a trip to Israel. Her father was so impressed by the letters she wrote describing Israeli life that he typed them up and sent them to the Irish Independent newspaper. That's how Maeve returned home to find, quite to her surprise, that she was now a published writer.
Using her newfound interest in journalism, she got a job on The Irish Times as the women's editor, an unlikely role for her, she jokingly acknowledges, given her hopeless lack of fashion sense. In the early 70s, she shifted to feature reporting, and moved to London. The move was motivated only in part by her career. Making the kind of bold life-altering decision that many of her characters are prone to, Binchy decided to take a chance and move to London to be with the man she'd fallen in love with during a previous visit—Gordon Snell, a BBC broadcaster, children's book author, and mystery novelist.
The risk, as it often does in her novels, paid off big time. Maeve married Gordon in 1977, and the two remain happily married to this day. In 1980, they bought a one-bedroom cottage back in Binchy's old hometown of Dalkey. Struggling to make mortgage payments on their new home, Binchy, who had published two collections of her newspaper work and one of short stories, decided to try to sell her first novel, which she'd managed to write in between her newspaper assignments. When her publisher told her that Light A Penny Candle would likely be a bestseller, Maeve remembers her sense of shock. "I had to sit down," she recalls. "I had never even had enough money to pay the telephone bill."
Maeve and her husband still live in that same Dalkey cottage, where they share an office, writing side by side. "All I ever wanted to do," she says, "is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with." She has unquestionably succeeded with that goal. Light A Penny Candle was followed by such bestselling works as Circle of Friends, which was turned into a major motion picture starring Minnie Driver, and Tara Road, an Oprah Book Club selection. Binchy is consistently named one of the most popular writers in readers' polls in England and Ireland, outselling and rated higher than James Joyce. Of this success, Binchy comments with her typical good humor, "If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than Finnegan's Wake."
In addition to her books, Binchy is also a playwright whose works have been staged at The Peacock Theatre of Dublin, and was the author of a hugely popular monthly column called "Maeve's Week," which appeared in The Irish Times for 32 years. A kind of combined gossip, humor, and advice column, it achieved cult status in Ireland and abroad.
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Salt-dependent regulation of a CNG channel subfamily in Arabidopsis
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In Arabidopsis thaliana, the family of cyclic nucleotide-gated channels (CNGCs) is composed of 20 members. Previous studies indicate that plant CNGCs are involved in the control of growth processes and responses to abiotic and biotic stresses. According to their proposed function as cation entry pathways these channels contribute to cellular cation homeostasis, including calcium and sodium, as well as to stress-related signal transduction. Here, we studied the expression patterns and regulation of CNGC19 and CNGC20, which constitute one of the five CNGC subfamilies.
GUS, GFP and luciferase reporter assays were used to study the expression of CNGC19 and CNGC20 genes from Arabidopsis thaliana in response to developmental cues and salt stress. CNGC19 and CNGC20 were differentially expressed in roots and shoots. The CNGC19 gene was predominantly active in roots already at early growth stages. Major expression was observed in the phloem. CNGC20 showed highest promoter activity in mesophyll cells surrounding the veins. Its expression increased during development and was maximal in mature and senescent leaves. Both genes were upregulated in the shoot in response to elevated NaCl but not mannitol concentrations. While in the root, CNGC19 did not respond to changes in the salt concentration, in the shoot it was strongly upregulated in the observed time frame (6-72 hours). Salt-induction of CNGC20 was also observed in the shoot, starting already one hour after stress treatment. It occurred with similar kinetics, irrespective of whether NaCl was applied to roots of intact plants or to the petiole of detached leaves. No differences in K and Na contents of the shoots were measured in homozygous T-DNA insertion lines for CNGC19 and CNGC20, respectively, which developed a growth phenotype in the presence of up to 75 mM NaCl similar to that of the wild type.
Together, the results strongly suggest that both channels are involved in the salinity response of different cell types in the shoot. Upon salinity both genes are upregulated within hours. CNGC19 and CNGC20 could assist the plant to cope with toxic effects caused by salt stress, probably by contributing to a re-allocation of sodium within the plant.
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Grab the popcorn and turn off your cell phone: The curtain will rise at the Toronto International Film Festival tomorrow. We've had such a good time at the festival the past few years — touring the city, scouting for celebrities, taking in amazing films — that we're going back again as an official TIFF sponsor this year.
As in past years, Timberland is helping to make the 2012 festival more sustainable and less impactful on the environment by providing reusable tote bags and complimentary pedal-powered taxi (EcoCab) transportation for festival attendees. This year, we're also excited to have sponsored the creation of a Festival Walking Map — a colorful, illustrative map detailing the festival "neighborhood" so that attendees can easily navigate their walk from the Isabel Bader Theatre to TIFF Bell Lightbox without missing a turn or a showtime.
The walking map was designed by Toronto artist Jillian Ditner, an award-winning Ontario College of Art and Design grad whose map design started with simple sketchbook drawings:
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|Can you post a leaf of the plant on which you found it? And was this found in the wild or was the plant placed in a garden?
- Posted by bracingwind (My Page) on Wed, Jul 2, 08 at 13:22
|I don't have the leaves. I could go back and get them though.
It's grown in a garden on the far-west end of the campus of The Ohio State University. Someone told me that Asian immigrants, maybe Vietnamese, rent plots of land over there and grow these. (I didn't know this when I took them).
|It helps to provide those details so that people can be thinking about whether this is a native or an introduced plant.
|It looks like an immature Butternut to me. Juglans cinerea. It would be from a tree with long, compound leaves, closely related to Black Walnut.
Here is a link that might be useful: Butternut, Juglans cinerea
- Posted by bracingwind 6 (My Page) on Wed, Jul 2, 08 at 23:34
|OK, today, in my neighbor's backyard, I found a ton of fruits that closely resemble the ones pictured above. I'm going to post several pictures below, of both the fruit and the tree. Do you think these are immature black walnuts?
|Definitely juglans.
The oxalis around the trunk near the bottom tells me that not much else would survive there, so perhaps juglone is at work....
- Posted by bracingwind (My Page) on Thu, Jul 3, 08 at 11:03
|Ignoring the first two photographs, do you have any idea what kind of juglans tree this is? I went to Wikipedia and around 30 different species are listed.
I ask you to ignore the first two photographs as those "immature walnuts" come from different species of tree. I'll try to get some leaf samples later this week.
|In Ohio the only Juglans you'll find outside a botanic garden are Juglans nigra, Black Walnut, and Juglans cinerea, Butternut.
The first two pictures do look like Black walnuts. If you haven't got fruit it's hard to tell the difference between them; the best way is too look for the fuzzy 'mustache' at the top of the leaf scar on the Butternut. There's a picture on the link. (There's a picture of the 'mustache-less" bud on the Black Walnut page, only it's mis-labeled 'flower'.)
|The trees pictured look like the black walnut trees in my yard. About those fruits/nuts (hm. sounds like trail mix), do they have any fragrance when you scratch the surface? -perL
- Posted by bracingwind (My Page) on Fri, Jul 4, 08 at 9:33
|Yes, they smell like limes. That's why I called them a lime-like fruit.
As for the suggestion to look at the leaf scar, I don't see what you're talking about. I noticed that the leaf sample from the Butternut didn't have a leaf at the top of the stem, whereas the one for the Black Walnut does.
Any further clarification you could provide on this point would be much appreciated.
|Here is a picture of a leaf scar.
This link has good definitions for some of the terms you hear in identifying plants:
Here is a link that might be useful: Leaf scar
|A leaf scar is the mark left on the twig when the leaf falls off in autumn. You can use leaf scars to identify woody plants in the winter when there are no leaves, if you're really into it. Unfortunately, in the summer it's hard to see them because the current crop of leaves hides them. You might be able to find a dead twig that has some recognizable leaf scars. In a few cases, and this is one of them, a characteristic of the leaf scar, ie the little fuzzy 'mustache' on the top, is one of the most reliable ways to tell two species apart (the really easy way to tell these two apart is the fruit, but you haven't always got fruit.)
Anyway, here's a pdf that has information about telling Butternut and Walnut apart; scroll down a couple pages. I couldn't find any really clear pics on the web in a quick search. I think I've seen the end leaflet/no end leaflet used to tell them apart, but it's not real reliable.
Here is a link that might be useful: Telling Butternut and Walnut apart.
|The tree pics posted are black walnut for sure. Black walnut has deeply furrowed bark, whereas butternut has much shallower furrows and a smoother appearance to the bark (see pic). Immature black walnut fruit sometime has that little "tail", so I'm sure that is black walnut. Butternut fruit is very elongated, no roundess to it at all. Both nut trees have that citrusy fragrance to their fruit and leaves/young twigs. Be careful, the pulp that surrounds the nut stains very readily - looks like and stains like iodine.
Here is a link that might be useful: Butternut mature bark
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So here we are, stop four on The Chapman Files International Blog Tour. We're heading to Canada and Australia over the next few months, stopping in with the Australian Romance Reader Association blog, and stopping in England, too. Kelly Chapman (for those of you who don't know Kelly is the expert witness psychologist who is the continuing character in The Chapman Files, four books, out this fall) has never been out of the country so that should be interesting. She's another one of those who take on so much to do that she's always getting in just under the wire. I'm guessing she'll be packing her bags on the way to the airport.
Take the book club she's in. Kelly shows up for every single meeting. And she always has the book read – even if she doesn't particularly like the selection. But she's inevitably tired, too, due to having stayed up most of the night the night before to finish the book. She was recently on the committee to beautify Main Street in Chandler, the little Ohio town where she lives. She wasn't just on the committee, she chaired it. The original, gas light street lamps are now all freshly painted, their shiny black lamps striking against the pots of geraniums hanging from the arms extended from their poles. One time when I went to visit Kelly at her office, I saw her outside and down the street with a watering can, going from lamp to lamp, giving the geraniums a drink. The city water supply had been shut off that morning for some piping work.
In addition to her regular office hours, and being on call twenty-four hours a day seven days a week, Kelly mentors a psychology student, and is a regular volunteer at Chandler's soup kitchen, too. She's always on time. She always does what she says she's going to do. She just does it all at the last minute because the minute before that she's busy doing what he'd said she'd do, first. I really like this about her. She makes life count. Every single minute of it. And she takes time to rejuvenate, too.
Kelly told me this story, once. She'd heard it in a seminar when she was in college. There were these two guys who were sawing huge logs. They had equally humongous logs to saw and were using the same kind of saws. They started at the same time. One guy was diligent and tended to his job without distraction. He sawed. And he sawed. And he sawed. The other guy sawed a while. And then ran off. He came back, sawed some more, and then ran off again. This continued for a long time. One guy being diligent, the other running off when there was work still to be done. The weird thing was that in the end, the log that broke first was the one being sawed by the guy who was running off. Diligent guy's log was still only two thirds cut. So diligent guy, who is sweating and exhausted, says to run-off, how did you do that? How did you slough off and get that log sawed so quickly? Simple, run-off says. When I ran off, I went over there and sharpened my saw.
Once again, Kelly comes through for me…in the midst of being on tour, selling a house, and writing two new books, I'm now trying to find ways to sharpen my saw so I have a better chance of getting it all done and being healthy enough to enjoy the fruits of the labor.
So there you have it. The life of a writer. I spend my days with an imaginary character who gives me advice. And I take it!
I hope everyone on the tour with us had a good night last night.
Kelly and I worked until almost ten. (Tim, our tour director, was in the office with us, working, too.) And then, while we ate the omelet Tim made for us, we watched I Love Lucy. And I do love Lucy. She gets herself into the biggest messes. And always manages to get herself out again, too. Over the years, I've managed to learn how to tune out Ricky's yelling at her. No matter how much she messes up, she shouldn't be hollered at like that. No one should be.
Which brings me to a very important announcement. Over the next three months, as we celebrate The Chapman Files, Kelly Chapman and I are going to be asking for help. If you can, join us in our fight against Domestic Abuse. Since February of this year, the United States' first battered women's shelter, Strengthen Our Sisters is down $400,000.00 in donations. Some of the staff members are working without pay as they struggle to pay mortgages on ten houses filled to capacity and keep their women and children housed and safe. If you'd like to help, to donate to Strengthen Our Sisters securely through PayPal. Even fifty cents would help.
Back to our tour!!! There's an item from my new book, The First Wife, hidden on the tour with us. Guess the item to enter the drawing to win it! Today's clue: It's something people use to relax.
Don't miss The Chapman File tour party on December 4th! Tour prize winners will be announced!
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cheryl c. says:
August 26th, 2010 at 2:26 pm
I liked the "saw" story with the motto of keeping your saw sharp. Good advice for all of us!
The guessing game is fun. When we want to start guessing, do we post here or email you privately?
Cheryl Koch says:
August 26th, 2010 at 8:26 pm
Have fun in Canada and Australia. I have all four of these books on my to purchase list.
I agree that the saw story was a good one.
Lee says:
August 26th, 2010 at 9:16 pm
the person with her tools in tip top shape always gets the job done right! a very important lesson from my father as well! Looking forward to the next stop!
Mary M says:
August 26th, 2010 at 11:25 pm
I love the saw story too! I'm mulling over the clue. Is it bubble bath? Wish you, Kelly and Tim a great tour!
Lynda K says:
August 26th, 2010 at 11:59 pm
I *love* the saw story! That's a keeper. What a wise person run-off guy is, but man do I feel for diligent guy. Kind of like Dory in Finding Nemo — just keep swimming even if you can't remember where you were going. Thanks for reminding us that isn't always the best way to get things done and to "think sharp."
Tara Taylor Quinn says:
August 27th, 2010 at 8:08 am
We have three Cheryls on tour with us now! I'm really glad you're all here! Please stick with us. We've got some great things coming on the tour. Things for you all.
I actually have been trying to live by that saw story for several years and when I can remember to do so, I always accomplish more in less time. Of course, sometimes I'm like Lynda's fish. That's a great image, thank you. I didn't see the movie, but I now have an image that will help me remember to sharpen my saw!
Tara Taylor Quinn says:
August 27th, 2010 at 8:59 am
Mary M!!! You're name just came out of the bag! You're the winner of The First Wife!
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Colonels dismiss Panthers, 73-70
John Brown did a lot of things again Friday night, but he couldn't complete one final rally for the High Point University men's basketball team.
Brown powered the Panthers with 18 of his team-high 20 points in the second half as they rallied from eight behind Eastern Kentucky. But HPU got away from the driving and dishing that helped it lead by two with five minutes to play, fell behind by five with just over two to go and came up short when Brown's 3-pointer from midcourt failed to reach the rim, allowing the Colonels to escape with a 73-70 victory at the Millis Center.
The shot came after Glenn Cosey hit one of two free throws to put Eastern up by 3 with 3.8 seconds to play.
"I was just too far out," said Brown, who snagged 10 rebounds. "I needed to take a couple of more dribbles and I would have made it. But with just three seconds, that was the best I could do. Having five seconds would have nice."
HPU coach Scott Cherry said the plan was to get the ball closer to the basket.
"We had a couple guys open down the court," Cherry said. "But with three seconds and no timeouts, it's tough to get the play you want."
HPU's sixth straight loss against an NCAA Division I foe came against a team that improved to 10-2 and ended a two-game losing streak. The Panthers are 4-6 heading into a tournament in Chattanooga next week.
Cherry was happy with the effort. The Panthers had 17 assists on 25 made field goals, committed 16 turnovers against a pressure defense and held the Colonels to 30 per cent from 3-point range. Allan Chaney added 14 points for the Panthers, while Derrell Edwards added 11.
Mike DiNunno led Eastern with 22 points and sank four free throws in the final 29.9 seconds. Corey Walder added 13.
"We played a complete game from start to finish," Cherry said. "We missed several shots (at least four) from close range in the first half and then came back against a good basketball team. We made a shot or get a stop and it's a different story."
Thanks in part to missing the point-blank shots the Panther trailed by as 12, that with 10:18 left in the first half, before cutting the margin to six at the half. Brown and Chaney had only five points combined while HPU couldn't penetrate the Colonels' defense at times and settled for jump shots. Brown, who was double-teamed early, made just 1 of 8 shots in the first 20 minutes.
"We were slow getting going," Brown said. "They were double-teaming me and we were standing around too much."
The Panthers were down eight before going on a 15-4 run to take their first lead of the second half at 43-40 on a Chaney 3. The rally came after Jairus Simms, who did not start after missing two days of practice because of illness, replaced Dejuan McGaughy at point guard.
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- Jessica in NoblesvilleAugust 16, 2012 at 5:33 PM
The prices for your meals sound high ... do you think those are representative of Maui restaurants? I've heard things are more expensive there then on the main land, but I would think if you're eating locally-sourced foods, it wouldn't have the same mark-up. Perhaps because of the tourism industry?? Your pictures of Maui are lovely and someday I plan to get out there and see it for myself, but I apparently have to budget more for meals than usual.ReplyDelete
Jessica-- yes Hawaii is really expensive in most every way. The gas was at least $1 per gallon than it was here. So many food ingredients have to be shipped in, which is one of the reasons I think, but I also think the places that are in this post had high prices for fish (which in theory is local) because they were using small fishermen/women and were all about sustainable seafood, etc. I think you could eat more cheaply (and we did at several places) if that was your preference. But even the most standard foods (like breakfast, etc) is going to be more expensive than the mainland.ReplyDelete
$1 MORE per gallon I should have said.ReplyDelete
I love everything Alan Wong does. When I was in Honolulu I ate at the Pineapple Room every chance I got. The ahi tuna burger was unbelievable and their tropical iced tea is to die for.ReplyDelete
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The dose of famotidine (2.5 mg) that I give Patrick means he only gets 1/4 of a very small 10 mg.pill (makes having a pill cutter very handy!), and I have no problem popping this tiny bit of pill in his throat.
I'm sorry to hear you and your kitty are having to deal with this, if you need or want, I have some good websites I can recommend, or if you want to talk about it, I (I have 2 with this, one diagnosed almost 3 years ago, one just diagnosed) and others on the forum, have (or have had) kitties with CRF.
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It would definitely be trickier if you had to restrain your cat and simultaneously use the pillgun yourself, but I know a couple of acrobatic people who have managed it!
Pat, can I get those forum sites? I have a senior female cat with kidney failure, and would like to see if there is some information on some of the symptoms she's having, and how to treat.
Your vet or some local vet should have pill poppers. They sell them in pet stores too but the ones the vet have a much thinner – like a pencil. We've had mixed results with them. The key is to get the pill back behind the tongue. If you can do that by hand or with the pill popper its almost impossible for your cat to cough it back up. If you blow in the cats mouth as soon as you release the pill I find that causes the cat to startle a bit and generally always swallow. Works a charm once you get your technique down. It helps to squirt a little water in their mouth if you have a syringe, after they've been pilled so the swallow and push the pill down to the stomach before it dissolves in their throat.
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Mark Collins: Canada and the F-35: Government Apparently Shifts Position Fairly Substantially
In the Commons' Question Period November 22 Minister of Public Works and Government Services Rona Ambrose– who now answers all questions on the CF-18 replacement for the government–said something new and potentially significant that, as far as I can see, only Colin Horgan of iPOLITICS.ca picked up amongst our ace media:
In the aftermath of the public accounts committee tabling its report [text here, actually a bit more critical of DND/CF than one might have expected from the Conservative majority] on the auditor general's spring assessment of the F-35 procurement, the New Democrats devoted three questions to the topic in question period Thursday [Nov. 22]. And, as they did earlier this week, Public Works minister Rona Ambrose's talking points [the National Fighter Procurement Secretariat is under her department] changed…
"Could the minister assure us that the requirements to replace the CF-18 have been changed?" [NDP MP Matthew] Kellway asked.
"As I said previously," Ambrose began (she'd given a similar answer a moment earlier to Kellway's caucus colleague, Christine Moore) "the options analysis is a full evaluation of choices, not simply a refresh of the work that was done before."
Then came the new bit.
"That review of options will not be constrained by the previous statement of requirements [emphasis added]," Ambrose said…
The RCAF's "Mandatory Capabilities / Requirements" (the head of the webpage still reads "F-35 Joint Strike Fighter: Next Generation Fighter Capability") make it clear only the F-35 will do:
An analysis led to the determination that one of the System Effectiveness requirements and four of the sub-system requirements could only be satisfied by a fifth generation aircraft. A general description of these is as follows;
- The possession of stealth capabilities that make detection by enemy sensor systems exceedingly difficult…
Lots more on the SOR here. And from an earlier post:
Then see the two slides for the Chief of the Air Staff at pp. 23 and 24 from a March 2010 presentation. The one at p. 23 concludes: "F-35–The only option that met all CF Mandatory Requirements". The slide also refers to the "Statement of Operational Requirements"–but those were only completed in June that year, see Maclean's piece below…
Now if the new fighter's selection is not to be "constrained" by the SOR–which allowed only for the F-35–a number of serious questions arise. Such as:
If the old SOR are not in effect what are the new criteria against which the aircraft will be chosen? Who defines those criteria? Presumably the air force but who knows? The "options analysis" the minister refers to looks like it is being done by the RCAF but what precisely is it?
What will be the process to make a selection? A competition? Who will run it? Who will be invited to compete?
I'm sure others will have further questions. It still seems to be ouija board time. Meanwhile the last part of the post below is particularly relevant to what the politicians should be doing:
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MarkOttawa Says:
November 24th, 2012 at 1:39 pm
The March 23 Question Period version for your ouija board:
'…she [minister Ambrose] said this — the new part: "In terms of the statement of requirements, I said yesterday that the secretariat will take a full options analysis. The statement of requirements will be set aside while that full options analysis is done."..'
And it seems the gov't will at least try to give the impression of a serious re-think:
"Harper government seeking alternatives to troubled F-35 fighter jet: sources
The Conservative government will signal it is serious about buying an alternative to the F-35 fighter jet by asking rival manufacturers about the cost and availability of their planes, according to defence industry sources.
The formal request for information will be issued to rivals like Boeing, which produces the Superhornet, and the consortium that makes the Eurofighter Typhoon, asking them what jets are available, and at what cost, if the Canadian government decides to ditch the trouble-plagued F-35 purchase.
The pricing and availability information request falls short of a formal tender but government sources said the "market analysis" will send a signal to voters and industry that it is taking seriously the Auditor-General's spring report that was heavily critical of the F-35 procurement process…
Sources suggest the new secretariat set up within Public Works to look at the F-35 purchase is not comfortable with the previous statement of requirement produced by National Defence, so it is carrying out its own due diligence on what the Royal Canadian Air Force is likely to need in the coming years…"
'Canada to talk to allies, competitors in options to replace CF-18s, sources
The agency overseeing the replacement of the country's CF-18s [the fighter secretariat noted in the post] intends to talk to the U.S., Australia and Britain as it conducts a full-fledged options analysis into the future of Canada's fast fighter fleet, say defence sources.
That review, which will also include consultation with competitors to the oft-maligned F-35 stealth fighter, will get underway soon and could last several months…
The process usually happens in reverse. The military defines what it needs and then, in conjunction with public works, conducts an analysis of what is out there and how the capability can be filled [see my questions in the post]…
Defence sources said National Defence will have input into the new, expanded options analysis [one would really hope so], but "it will not be driving the bus."..'
Are "defence industry sources" different in any serious way from "defence sources"? "Twould be nice to have more, er, specificity.
Mark Collins
MarkOttawa Says:
November 27th, 2012 at 12:38 pm
The bigger picture:
"Will Stealth Survive As Sensors Improve? F-35, Jammers At Stake"
Remember also that major powers France (Rafale) and Germany (Typhoon) will not have stealth fighters. And that the Typhoon will remain the main RAF fighter, ditto for Spain (no stealth plans known).
Mark Collins
MarkOttawa Says:
November 28th, 2012 at 11:25 am
E.R. Campbell has a WAG at Milnet.ca:
"A guess - an unsupportd even by rumours wild arsed guess: the (reported (on CBC radio)) changes in the FWSAR SOR to include a possible multiple platform solution [see below], presages a similar change in the next generation fighter/bomber SOR.
My second (equally unsupportd) guess is that Minister Ambrose has the PM's ear on this whole defence procurement issue…"
My own WAG (without the "r", another "s" on FWSAR:
"Fixed-Wing SAR: A Tale of Two Tails?"
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There was this conference thing about design vs. hard-core technical stuff (on computer stuff). Pretty interesting. In the lunch break me and my roommate went to the city to get something to drink. I made sure I picked up some cream soda's and he got some Chinese drinks at one of the Chinese stores here. Yummee.
Hiya! Sorry I'm not doing much stuff here. Just going to school, at home playing Final Fantasy (still on disc 2) and WipeOut on the PlayStation, and attempting to cook. Nothing special. See ya!
Another rainy Sunday, I'm off to church so see you later… Later: I just designed+printed out some new business cards for myself. Yay =)
I learned a few new Chinese words today. Two of them were: Mama and papa. Woohoo. I hope I'm able to remember those words ^_^ haha.
Whoo the Fantasy is really cool. I'm now starting at disc two! Well, after the weekend that is, cause I'm gonna head to my parents place this weekend…
I got the game Final Fantasy VIII and momentarily I'm hooked by it! I hope I'll get Squall through all the assignments.
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