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A group of parents, students and teachers in Indiana is trying to ban gays and lesbians from the annual prom.
The campaign for a 'traditional prom' at Sullivan High School escalated this week when one of the group's members made several homophobic comments.
Diana Medley, a special education teacher and member of the group, told WTWO-TV: 'We don't agree with it (homosexuality) and it's offensive to us.
'Homosexual students come to me with their problems, and I don't agree with them, but I care about them,' Medley continued.
'It's the same thing with my special needs kids; I think God puts everyone in our lives for a reason.'
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Medley's comments, and the anti-gay prom campaign, have sparked national outrage with various groups and individuals calling for reforms and for the teacher's dismissal.
Change.org has generated more than 18,750 signatures on a petition calling for Medley's termination. However, Medley has been defended by Northeast School Corporation Superintendent Mark A. Baker who said she was practicing her First Amendment rights to free speech.
Baker wrote in a statement: 'In regards to the story that WTWO aired on February 10, 2013, the Northeast School Corporation employee that was interviewed was expressing her First Amendment rights. The views expressed are not the views of the Northeast School Corporation and/or the Board of Education.
'These comments were expressed during a Sunday community meeting at a local church and at no time was she representing the Northeast School Corporation. The teacher was participating in a meeting with her local church congregation.
Baker added: 'I would like to clearly state the Northeast School Corporation has never denied any student the right to attend prom or any other Northeast School Corporation sponsored event due to their race, gender, or sexual orientation.'
David Springer, Sullivan High School's principal, confirmed that he will not exclude gay couples from school's prom to be held on 27 April.
'All of our students are encouraged to attend. Our prom is open to all of our students'.
'I don't know how you can have a dance and exclude certain people,' Springer added.
This is not the first time gay and lesbian teenage couples attending prom has hit the national spotlight.
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Minnesota FunkNovember 15, 2012
Kelly Connole's work is included in "Minnesota Funk" at the University of Minnesota
MIA & ACTC Graduate and Undergraduate Art History SymposiumNovember 15, 2012
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Associated Colleges of the Twin Cities (ACTC) will jointly host a day-long symposium for emerging art historians in the Twin Cities on April 13, 2013.
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|Hi. I am new to gardening and need some help please.
I am growing a few varieties of tomatoes this year, and have a couple of questions.
What exactly is an heirloom tomatoe? And would heirloom varieties be better than the newer tomatoes?
What are the pros of growing heirloom tomatoes, over lets say something like better boy or big boy tomatoes?
Also, any heirloom disease resistant varieties good for a long island ny zone 7 garden?
I'm growing better boy, big boy , roma, and bucks county hybrid.
I would like to add an heirloom variety to what I'm growing this year.
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|I'll try to answer questions in order.
A heirloom tomato - general term for an open pollinated (non hybrid-which means it will breed true to parent) type of tomato that was in production before 1950. Most people find that they like the taste better. Most of the newer tomatoes are bred for commercial growing and shipping, which means the taste is not as important as the ability to ship without spoilage, and yet have a bright red tomato. Taste. Someone else had better answer your disease resistance question. hope this helps and that you have a great garden. Val
|The word heirloom is bandied about a lot. Most people just take it mean old-time as per grungy's description. They can be true family heirlooms, or just old-time commercial releases like the tomatoes that A.W. Livingston introduced from 1870 onwards. Some people only mean family heirlooms when they use the word.
In terms of growing, there's absolutely no difference between growing a tomato that was developed and released yesterday, and one that's been around for a couple of hundred years.
As grungy pointed out, many modern hybrids are developed for storage and transport, taste kinda gets lost one the way. Since you're growing for your own consumption and don't really need to ship your tomatoes anywhere or cool store them for weeks on end, then I'd explore the heirlooms more. Many have superb flavour, and they variety of shape, size and colour is just astounding.
As far as disease resistance is concerned, I haven't noticed, nor have I seen anyone report an appreciable difference between modern hybrids and the old-timers.
For good choices for your zone, post your question on the tomato forum, where there are many very knowledgeable people only too willing to share their knowledge.
Hope this helps.
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|I'm growing better boy, big boy , roma, and bucks county hybrid.
I would like to add an heirloom variety to what I'm growing this year.
Actually you probably don't know it but Buck's County Red is a hybrid of Red Brandywine and who knows what.
I grew it, when it was just offered as Red Brandywine Hybr id at Burpees and compared it with my own Red Brandywine and saw absolutley no difference at all.
I don't like to see authentic heirlooms made into hybrids, and that goes for Burpee's Brandy Boy as well. Just my personal opinion.
I'd move the supposed date for an heirloom back to about 1940 b/c that's when hybrids first started being offered to farmers and to the public, as were both Big Boy and Better Boy.
And when you grow Big Boy you're also enjoyiung a bit of heirloom taste since its one parent is Teddy Jones, a pink heirloom from the midwest.
But do come over to the Tomato Forum, link at the top of this first page, where all that's talked about IS tomatoes. LOL
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|Grungy, Raymondo and Carolyn -- thank you all for answering my questions. I'm going to head over to the tomatoe forum.
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Sue's StoryI have to tell you I was a little leary trying this, but it was well worth it. The blueberry raspberry was my daughters concept because when she was little they loved those blue razzberry snow cones and lollipops so my inspiration came from that. The marshmallows came to the top to create a nice crispy base and the jello and the blueberries created a wonderful fruity topping. My family enjoyed it and I hope yours will too.
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2Mix all the dry ingredients for the cake together. I melted my butter just until it was liquid but not hot. Add the butter, vanilla, eggs, milk. With your mixer on medium beat for about 2 minutes until well incorporated.
3Remove the stems from your blueberries and rinse them well. Place the blueberries in the bottom of your pan making sure they are even around the bottom. Sprinkle evenly raspberry jello powder over the blueberries. Place the marshmallows over the blueberries and jello powder.
4Pour your cake mix over the marshmallows and bake for about 45-50 minutes until the cake is done. Let sit for about 20 minutes until slightly cooled and flip on to your cake plate. Let cool completely before serving.
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Main Ingredient: Flour
Regional Style: American
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Diane Hopson Smith DeeDee2011 - Jun 17, 2012
Another great recipe Susan!!! YUM!!!!
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WOW...makes me wish I wasn't allergic to blueberries!!!
Maybe I could do 'rasphberry jello on rasphberries'...oooh or cherries.
Love that you used the Mini-Marshmallows too.
Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks Diane...
Cin there are tons of options. The mini marshmallows give it a cripy crust on the top that taste so great. If you do it with other fruit please be sure to post it.
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I love original double stuffed Oreos. In college they were my go to staple if I needed to pull an all-nighter studying and I can and have, easily eaten them by the sleeve with a huge glass of milk. Nabisco has started coming out recently with some "interesting" limited edition flavors and I have always been skeptical of these new flavors. I figure why mess with a good thing, but variety as they say, is the spice of life. I hardly ever buy Oreos anymore, due to my inability to just eat a few, but my husband was sent home with a box of Limeade Oreos after I voiced my above mentioned skepticism to his boss. I like the flavor lime but have never been a huge fan of Oreo cookies that do not use the chocolate cookies, that being said I tried to go in with an open mind. The limeade cookies were surprisingly refreshing. Did I want to dunk them in milk and eat them by the sleeve no, but they were an interesting hybrid of limeade Kool-Aid and those lemon Girl Scout cookies, lemonades. For a summer cookie flavor they surprised me by far exceeding my expectations and fairly accurately depicting an actual lime flavor. Do they replace regular Oreo cookies as my favorite? No, but as I happily munch on one, spilling cookie crumbs all over my keyboard in the process; I would say they did okay.
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Festive Chocolate Snowflake Peanut Butter Cookies
Tis the time of year when you are asked to make holiday treats for every party, gathering, and the occasional Tuesday. I made bark for my husbands work and when my work holiday party came around I wanted to bake something different. I love those peanut butter kisses cookies and in a fit of inspiration at Target, I found a bag of dove chocolates with embossed snowflakes on them and they looked much more festive than normal Hershey kisses. And lets face it there is nothing wrong with Hershey but Dove is oh so, so good.
Word to the warning it takes a lot longer for the dove chocolate to set up after you put them on the cookies. It was like hot, melting to the touch still, two hours after I had made them. I finally put them in the fridge for a bit and they set right up. So moral of the story, let them cool on a baking rack till the cookies are cool and then put them in the fridge afterwards for about an hour to set up the chocolate. Also try not to touch the chocolate before its set or you will smear your beautiful snowflakes. You have been warned!
Recipe makes about 2 dozen cookies
1 stick Salted Butter, (its what I had on hand, if you use unsalted butter I would add a pinch of salt to the recipe) softened to room temperature
1/2 cup Dark Brown Sugar
1/4 cup White Granulated Sugar
1 Egg
3/4 cup Peanut Butter (creamy kind is recommended)
1 tsp. Vanilla
1/2 tsp. Baking Soda
1 1/4 cup All-Purpose Flour
First in a small bowl combined the flour and baking soda. Next in a large mixing bowl, use either a hand-held mixer or stand mixer, and cream together the butter and the brown and white sugar on medium speed.
After they are creamed together mix in first the peanut butter, than egg, and lastly the vanilla. Make sure you scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed.
After everything is mixed together. Slowly mix in the baking soda and flour. I usually do this step with a wooden spoon but you can continue to us the mixture if you prefer. Make sure you mix to just combine the ingredients. You no not want to over mix the dough. After you are done place the dough in the fridge for about 30 minutes to chill.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Use either an ungreased cookie sheet or a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Roll about 1 1/2 tbsps. of dough into a ball. Place them on the cookie sheet and bake for 8-9 minutes. Cookies will be soft and puffy when they are done.
While the cookies are baking unwrap the chocolates. After the cookies are done take them out and place them on a cooling rack. Place a chocolate snowflake in the center of each cookie and press down lightly.
After the cookies have cooled place them in the in the fridge to cool for about an hour to set up the chocolate.
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Chocolate Carmel Pretzel Bark with Sea Salt
I cannot believe we are already into the second week of December and I only decorated my Christmas tree last night. I haven't posted in a while and its not for a lack of cooking but in my holiday, grad school, end of the quarter work craziness, and a two week trip home for Thanksgiving I manage to take one photo from all my cooking. I made delicious spanakopita cups no photo, a homemade chocolate cream pie that is so good you will want to marry it, no photo, asparagus quiche, honey mustard chicken, chicken noodle soup, parmesan meatballs, peppermint bark no photo, no photo, no photo, no photo and you get the picture but I did capture one picture for one of the best barks I have ever made. Sweet and salty, crunchy, a little chewy and ohh so addictive.
My mom found this recipe on pinterest and I tweaked it a bit because I found the directions were a little lacking on making the caramel. I ended up making two batches because in the first batch the caramel came out way to soft and never set up. The first batch of bark was still delicious but the consistency out of the freezer for a few minutes was like a messy snickers bar. Good but since I was sending this with my husband to work, I didn't want to be responsible for people smearing caramel all over their dress clothes. The second batch was much firmer and can be left of the freezer without turning into a gooey mess.
Chocolate Carmel Pretzel Bark with Sea Salt
1 bag of Chocolate Chips (either semi-sweet or milk)
1/2 bag of Mini Pretzels Twists (you want enough to cover a baking sheet in even rows)
1 cup of Brown Sugar, packed
2 sticks Butter
Generous amount of Sea Salt
Parchment Paper
First preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Than arrange your pretzels in even rows on a baking sheet covered in parchment paper. You really need to use the parchment paper here, otherwise you will never get it off the baking sheet and you don't want to use wax paper, since it goes in the oven.
Second heat the butter and sugar over medium heat in a medium size sauce pan. You want to cook the caramel until its at softball stage. Here is a link to explain what the soft-ball stage is, there is also information if you have a candy thermometer. Once the caramel has reach softball stage. Pour the caramel evenly over the pretzels.
Place the caramel covered pretzels in the oven for about 3 minutes. After 3 minutes take it out and sprinkle the chocolate chips over the caramel pretzels. Put them back in the oven for about 1 more minute till chocolate starts to melt. With a flat spatula or knife carefully spread the chocolate evenly over the caramel. Generously sprinkle the chocolate with sea salt.
Let cool for about 20 minutes and than place in the freezer for a few hours before serving.
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Jazz up your outdoor decorations with these fun and crafty Tuna Can Party Lights! Made from aluminum tuna cans, this recycled project is a great way to get the look you love for less. They're easy to make and fun to show off to your friends!
- 3 Tuna Cans
- 3 Wood Screws
- 3 Wooden Dowels
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- Drill with appropriate Drill Bit
- Awl (to help tap the hole in the can prior to screwing)
- Copper Colored Spray Paint
- Glass Tiles
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- Aleene's Craft Glue
- Patience!
- Start out by cleaning any labels and excess glue off of your tuna cans. Since I was covering mine instead of just painting them I wasn't too worried about a few spots here and there. However, if you are going to prime and paint them without adhering any "bling" make sure they are nice and smooth.
- Use the awl to poke a hole in the center of each tuna can. Since this is the bottom of the can no one should be able to see any scratches or imperfections.
- If you would like to paint your cans do that now, also paint your wooden dowels. (I didn't do this first but I believe it would have been much easier.)
- Once dry, screw your can to your dowel. Be careful here that you are using a screw that will not split your wood. I did apply a dab of E600 glue to the bottom of each can prior to drilling just to give it a bit more stability.
- Make sure your screw is flush with the can.
- Now start decorating it. When I went to Home Depot to buy my dowels, I stumbled across this sheet of clearance glass tile and fell in love with it. Oh the possibilities!!! I will use this over and over again. I measured around the can and cut a strip of tiles to fit. Since I had some gaps I found some scrap pearl like beads that I had on a string and added those in between. I suppose you could even go so far as to grout these, but it would make your cans quite a bit heavier.
- I also found these great amber colored light globes from a discarded ceiling fan at my local Deseret Industries Thrift store and just knew they would work perfectly in the tuna cans and the colored tile.
- I had to use clothespins to get the strips of tile to stay in place while they were drying. The tacky glue worked great. It was dry by morning and we started this project late in the evening.
- Just pop in a tea light and let it shine. I like the globe on mine though just for the extra fancy factor, plus it helps the candle light shine a bit more.
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The meeting's focus continues to be on an Article of the Fundamental Agreement signed by both sides in 1993 that specifically refers to the negotiation of "a comprehensive agreement, containing solutions acceptable to both Parties, on unclear, unsettled and disputed issues, concerning property, economic and fiscal matters relating to the Catholic Church generally, or to specific Catholic communities or institutions."
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17. "Henry's Surprise" (asiatic, fragrant).
18. "Chianti" (asiatic)
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20. Henryi (species lily.. not a spider lily)
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|Mouth watering collection there Kenneth. It might be quicker to just provide the list of names for the above lilies so the rest of us know what to write on our wish lists. Otherwise, please let me know what numbers 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 40, 41, & 42 are.
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|Can you tell me the names of the fifth lily and the eighth. The fifth is a yellow/green with redish lines the length of petal. No. 8 is creamy with oval red spots. Boy, this is tough, describing the delicate tones of flowers. Could you also give the source. Thanks. They are lovely. Marie
|Those are some beautiful lilies, several to add to my wish list. Question about your Chianti. I have a Chianti also, but mine is a bit deeper color & more solid-almost salmon color. I'm wondering if what I have is really Chianti since I think I just bought it from one of our local stores that aren't known for accuracy. Maybe I should scope it out a little closer online. Thanks for the pics!
- Posted by kdjoergensen z6b NJ (My Page) on Wed, Jul 6, 05 at 14:25
|Number 5 is an OT (orienpet) called TOUCHING .. should be available from several vendors.
I don't know the identify of number 8, but my guess is somekind of tiger lily hybrid (lilium lancifolium)
- Posted by kdjoergensen z6b NJ (My Page) on Wed, Jul 6, 05 at 14:32
|1. OT American west
2. also an OT.. ALBANY I think
5. OT Shocking
6. Species Lilium Henryi
7. some tiger hybrid but not sure of name
8. an asiatic but do not know the name
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Hope the above helps
- Posted by Mystery_Gardener BC zone 8 (My Page) on Wed, Jul 6, 05 at 15:04
|Hi Kenneth:
Love the OT's, sure wish I could find some locally. I have had very poor luck when using mail order and have pretty well given up on that. Patience is the key (I don't have any ;-), sooner or later I will track them down.
Thanks for your quick response on the ID's.
|Beautiful pictures Kenneth, thanks for sharing.
MG, have you ever ordered bulbs from www.lilynook.mb.ca. They are in Neepawa, Manitoba. I have been ordering from them for many years now and they have really expanded their selection. So far, I have never had any problem with their bulbs, always healthy and true to name. Since my family lives in Wpg, I have traveled through Neepawa and met the folks there and they are really very nice. Anyway, I'm in a zone 3 area so I usually stick to the Asiatics however over the past 4 year, I have been expanding into the O/T lilies. Three years ago, I ordered Northern Star and Georgette and so far they have come throught with flying colors, no extra winter protection other that snow. Couple of years ago I ordered Shocking, Red Dutch and Albany and since it was the first year they were all pretty small. This year, Shocking is about 31/2' tall and although hasn't bloomed yet I impressed with it's size and how it increased in the clump. Red Dutch is slower growing and still about 30" and only two stems but it looks good and Albany is about 4' high with 4 stems. Can't wait for them to bloom. This year I planted 3 First Crown and they each have 1 stem and are around 30" high. I'm going to have to be really sneaky when ordering this year because I sure like that Satisfaction and the American series.
|Hey Ken, how about "DSCN2919.jpg", which would be #24 (from the top if I counted correctly? Red edges with yellow center...
- Posted by kdjoergensen z6b NJ (My Page) on Wed, Jul 6, 05 at 20:55
|Todd, that lily is the asiatic "Cancun".
Here is a group of them
- Posted by Joeypack 8 Ark/Tx (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Thu, Jul 7, 05 at 13:15
|Kenneth, after seeing your pictures and looking for our emails, I inadvertantly (sp?) may have sent "Elegant Lady" by accident. The hue of the lily posted is a little pink. If you remember, I purchased several hundred dollars of lilies this past winter and we traded for a Henryii cross for Snow queen.
I will be glad to send you the correct ones this fall. I questioned why I have 3 blooming "elegant lady" and 5 blooming "Snow queen". I apologize!
BTW, out of all of the lilies that I had planted this season, Red Dutch, Triumphator, elegant lady are my favorites! I am not sure of you have Red Dutch and Triumphator, but if not, please get them! They are wonderful.
Look forward to hearing from you in the fall so that I can send you the correct lilies. Joey
|WOW, Great pictures. I came to this forum to ask: Can these lilies be eaten? I have tasted and eaten a number of daylilies, and like the orange ones the BEST. Great in a salad.
Now, I have some friends with lilies, and could get a start of some, and wonder about if they are safe to eat.
Just don't let me loose in your lily garden. LOL
- Posted by Marie_zone5 KC MO (My Page) on Fri, Jul 8, 05 at 19:07
|Kenneth, I have ordered a few bulbs from plantlilies.com. I sent Lynette a picture of your #8 pic. She suggest that it may be primrose lady. So I am adding that to my order if available. Thanks for the great pictures.
- Posted by kdjoergensen z6b NJ (My Page) on Fri, Jul 8, 05 at 22:47
|It is similar, but it is not "primrose lady". You should be happy with that one, however. It is very nice. Plantlilies should be a good source for lilies.
- Posted by idahogardner 7 (My Page) on Sat, Jul 9, 05 at 13:42
|Awesome pics! Your garden must look incredible right now. How do you take all those pictures without getting shadows on them?
I thought that white trumpet was Lorina till I read the other posts, they really look alike.
Anyways, thanks for sharing your pictures with us!
- Posted by Lily_grower_zone_5 z5 NY (My Page) on Sat, Jul 9, 05 at 17:33
|Ken, those are great pictures. I am intrigued by Picture #35 which is a dark red asiatic with narrow petals and very heavily spotted. Five years ago, I ordered some daylilies from Gilbert Wild and they sent three free asiatics with the order. These asiatics bloom faithfully and beautifully each year. They do not spread. Just send up one stem from each plant with three blooms each. They appear to me to be what you have pictured. I have never known the name and I have never seen them pictured anywhere. By any chance do you know the name of these? Thanks.
- Posted by kdjoergensen z6b NJ (My Page) on Sat, Jul 9, 05 at 19:19
|Asiatic lily RHODOS
Try one year to deadhead (pinch) flower buds off before they can bloom. That should result in lots of offsets at the base of the lily. Atleast deadhead after flowering.
- Posted by Lily_grower_zone_5 z5 NY (My Page) on Mon, Jul 11, 05 at 19:20
|Thanks for the information regarding the Rhodos lily. I have received an e-mail suggesting that rather than Rhodos, the picture you have submitted is more than likely an Asiatic named Blackout, and said mine is probably Blackout also from the description I gave you. It was said that Rhodos have rounder petals that tend to curl under and those of yours have flat, longer and pointed petals. By any chance have you grown Blackout Asiatic lily as well as the Rhodos and therefore might have a first hand comparison? Continued thanks.
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Is the Universe a Computer?
Wolfram even tackles the old conflict between belief in a deterministic view of nature and in the existence of free will. He suggests that free will is an illusion that arises from the apparent unpredictability of the complex behavior produced by those simple rules of biology that he imagines to govern the human organism. This is odd, because we certainly don't attribute free will to other unpredictable complex phenomena like earthquakes or thunderstorms. Surely the impression of free will arises instead from our personal experience of actually deciding what to do, an experience that we are unwilling to suppose is enjoyed by earthquakes or thunderstorms. This is not to say that I have any enlightenment to offer about free will either, because I have never been able to understand the inconsistency that other people find between free will and a completely deterministic view of nature. Free will to me means only that we sometimes decide what we do, and we know that this is true by the same sort of mental experience that convinced Descartes that he existed, but we have no mental experience that tells us that our decisions are not inevitable consequences of past conditions and the laws of nature.
Other scientists like myself study phenomena that may not be intrinsically very interesting, because they think that studying these phenomena will help them to understand the laws of nature, the rules that govern all phenomena. In such work, we tend to study the simplest possible phenomena, because it is in these cases that we can most easily calculate what our theories predict, and compare the results with experimental data to decide whether our theories are right or wrong. Wolfram makes it seem that physicists choose simple rather than complex phenomena to study because of long habit or mathematical flabbiness, but in seeking the laws of nature it is the essence of the art of science to avoid complexity.
My own work has been mostly on the theory of elementary particles, but I have never found these particles very interesting in themselves. An electron is featureless, and much like every other electron. Most of those of us who study elementary particles do so because we think that at this moment in the history of science it is the best way to discover the laws that govern all natural phenomena. Because of this special motivation, we don't generally care whether we can calculate everything that happens to elementary particles in complicated situations, only whether we can calculate enough to check the validity of our theories. In collisions of elementary particles at moderate energy the energy of the collision goes into complex showers of particles. No one can predict the details of these showers, even where the underlying theory is known, and hardly anyone cares. At higher energies things are simpler: the energy goes into well-defined jets, each containing particles that travel in the same direction, in a way that can be calculated theoretically and compared with experiment to test our theories of elementary particles. It is the laws, not the phenomena, that interest us.
Unlike elementary particles, planets have historically seemed interesting for religious and astrological reasons. But it was the simplicity of planetary motions that allowed Newton to discover the laws of motion and gravitation. The planets move in empty space and to a good approximation under the influence of a single motionless body, the sun. Newton would never have discovered his laws by studying turbulence or snowflakes.
Wolfram himself is a lapsed elementary particle physicist, and I suppose he can't resist trying to apply his experience with digital computer programs to the laws of nature. This has led him to the view (also considered in a 1981 article by Richard Feynman) that nature is discrete rather than continuous. He suggests that space consists of a network of isolated points, like cells in a cellular automaton, and that even time flows in discrete steps. Following an idea of Edward Fredkin, he concludes that the universe itself would then be an automaton, like a giant computer. It's possible, but I can't see any motivation for these speculations, except that this is the sort of system that Wolfram and others have become used to in their work on computers. So might a carpenter, looking at the moon, suppose that it is made of wood.
There is another reason for studying complex phenomena—not because the phenomena are interesting, which they sometimes are, or because studying complex phenomena is a good way to learn the laws of nature, which it isn't, but because complexity itself is interesting. Maybe there is a theory of complexity waiting to be discovered, that says simple things about complex behavior in general, not just about the rule 110 cellular automaton or turbulent air flow or the human nervous system.
There are other examples of what I like to call free-floating theories, theories that are applicable in a wide (though not unlimited) variety of very different contexts. The theory of chaos, which has captured the public imagination, deals with systems, from the weather to the pebbles in the rings of Saturn, whose behavior exhibits an exquisite sensitivity to initial conditions. Thermodynamics, the science of heat, is a less trendy example. Concepts of thermodynamics like temperature and entropy are applicable to black holes as well as to steam boilers. A less familiar example is the theory of broken symmetry. Many very different substances, including superconductors, magnetized iron, and liquid helium, are governed by equations that have some symmetry, in the sense that the equations look the same from certain different points of view, and yet the substances exhibit phenomena that do not respect this symmetry.
There is a low-intensity culture war going on between scientists who specialize in free-floating theories of this sort and those (mostly particle physicists) who pursue the old reductionist dream of finding laws of nature that are not explained by anything else, but that lie at the roots of all chains of explanation. The conflict usually comes to public attention only when particle physicists are trying to get funding for a large new accelerator. Their opponents are exasperated when they hear talk about particle physicists searching for the fundamental laws of nature. They argue that the theories of heat or chaos or complexity or broken symmetry are equally fundamental, because the general principles of these theories do not depend on what kind of particles make up the systems to which they are applied. In return, particle physicists like me point out that, although these free-floating theories are interesting and important, they are not truly fundamental, because they may or may not apply to a given system; to justify applying one of these theories in a given context you have to be able to deduce the axioms of the theory in that context from the really fundamental laws of nature.
This debate is unfortunate, for both kinds of science are valuable, and they often have much to teach each other. My own work in elementary particle physics has benefited tremendously from the idea of broken symmetry, which originated in the study of the solid state but turned out to be the key both to understanding reactions involving particles called pi mesons at low energy and to the unification of some of the forces acting on elementary particles. The theory of complexity might also have lessons for elementary particle theory (or vice versa) but it is not likely to be fundamental in the same sense as elementary particle physics.
Lately particle physicists have been having trouble holding up their end of this debate. Progress toward a fundamental theory has been painfully slow for decades, largely because the great success of the "Standard Model" developed in the 1960s and 1970s has left us with fewer puzzles that could point to our next step. Scientists studying chaos and complexity also like to emphasize that their work is applicable to the rich variety of everyday life, where elementary particle physics has no direct relevance.
Scientists studying complexity are particularly exuberant these days. Some of them discover surprising similarities in the properties of very different complex phenomena, including stock market fluctuations, collapsing sand piles, and earthquakes. Often these phenomena are studied by simulating them with cellular automata, such as Conway's Game of Life. This work is typically done in university physics departments and in the interdisciplinary Santa Fe Institute. Other scientists who call themselves complexity theorists work in university departments of computer science and mathematics and study the way that the number of steps in a computer calculation of the behavior of various systems increases with the size of the systems, often using automata like the Turing machine as specific examples of computers. Some of the systems they study, such as the World Wide Web, are quite complex. But all this work has not come together in a general theory of complexity. No one knows how to judge which complex systems share the properties of other systems, or how in general to characterize what kinds of complexity make it extremely difficult to calculate the behavior of some large systems and not others. The scientists who work on these two different types of problem don't even seem to communicate very well with each other. Particle physicists like to say that the theory of complexity is the most exciting new thing in science in a generation, except that it has the one disadvantage of not existing.
It is here I think that Wolfram's book may make a useful contribution. Wolfram and his co-workers have been able to show that numerous simple "class four" automata that produce complex behavior, like the rule 110 cellular automaton, are able to emulate each other. That is, by setting up a suitable input pattern of black and white cells in the rule 110 cellular automaton, one can produce the same complex pattern that would be produced by other class four automata, and vice versa. (In this emulation, blocks of cells in one automaton represent a single cell in the automaton being emulated.) What makes this particularly interesting is that one of the automata that can be emulated in this way is the universal Turing machine.3
The Turing machine is the most important automaton in the history of computer science, and the forerunner of today's digital computers. It was invented in 1936 by Alan Turing, who in World War II became one of Britain's ace cipher-breakers and was later the hero of Hugh Whitemore's play Breaking the Code. Turing's purpose was to answer a classic question of mathematical logic known as the Decision Problem: given some deductive mathematical system like arithmetic or Euclidean geometry or symbolic logic, is there any logical method that, when applied mechanically to any statement of that system, is guaranteed to decide whether that statement can be proved by following the rules of that system?4
To answer this question, the Turing machine was designed to capture the essence of mechanical logical methods. Just as a person going through a mathematical proof works with a string of symbols, focusing on just one at a time, the Turing machine works on a one-dimensional sequence of cells, each containing a symbol taken from some finite list, with only one "active" cell that can be read and possibly changed at each step. Also, to correspond to the fact that a person working out a proof would keep some memory of previous steps, Turing gave his machine a memory register, which can be in any one of a finite number of "conditions."
Each type of Turing machine obeys a fixed rule that tells it at each step how to change the symbol in the active cell, how to change the condition of the memory register, and whether to move the active cell one step to the left or right, according to the symbol in the active cell and the condition of the memory register. It makes no difference what symbols we choose to use or what conditions are possible for the memory register; their significance arises only from the rules of the machine. The problem to be solved and the data to be used are fed into the machine as an initial string of symbols, and the answer appears as the string of symbols found when the memory register reaches a condition that tells the machine to stop.
Turing never actually built such a machine (though he did go on to build some special-purpose computers), but if you like you can think of the cells in a Turing machine as forming a paper tape, with the symbols just a sequence of colored dots on the tape, read and written by a scanning device that moves up or down the tape from one active cell to another. In this example the memory register is a simple mechanical pointer which can take any of two or more positions. The decision how to change the color of the active cell and the position of the memory register and how to move the tape is made according to the color of the cell being read and the position of the pointer, following rules that are hard-wired into the machine. A specific Turing machine is entirely characterized by the number of possible colors on the cells of the tape, the number of possible positions of the pointer, and by the rules wired into the machine.
The important thing about Turing machines is that some of them are universal. Turing was able to prove that any of these universal Turing machines could calculate or prove anything that could be calculated or proved by any other Turing machine. For instance, at least one of the huge number (96 to the power 48) of the possible Turing machines that use two colors and have a memory register with twenty-four positions is universal. Further, from the way that Turing machines were designed to imitate the way humans mechanically do calculations, Turing argued that universal Turing machines could calculate or prove anything that could be calculated or proved by any purely mechanical procedure. This is often called the Church-Turing thesis, because at about the same time the Princeton mathematician Alonzo Church reached similar conclusions about a more abstract but equivalent mathematical method of his own. Incidentally, Turing and Church found that the answer to the Decision Problem in most mathematical or logical systems is "no": there is no mechanical procedure that is guaranteed to decide whether any given statement can be proved by following the rules of that system.
Since universal Turing machines can be emulated by the rule 110 cellular automaton, it follows that this cellular automaton, and all the other automata that can emulate it, are also universal—they can do any computation that can be done by any computer. The program for the calculation and the data to be used would be fed into a rule 110 cellular automaton as a pattern of black cells in the top row, and the answer would appear as a pattern on a lower row. Wolfram says that all these automata are computationally equivalent, but that is only true in a limited sense. The simpler the design of a universal computer, the more steps it takes to emulate each single step of a practical computer. This is why Dell and Compaq do not sell Turing machines or rule 110 cellular automata.
Wolfram goes on to make a far-reaching conjecture, that almost all automata of any sort that produce complex structures can be emulated by any one of them, so they are all equivalent in Wolfram's sense, and they are all universal. This doesn't mean that these automata are computationally equivalent (even in Wolfram's sense) to systems involving quantities that vary continuously. Only if Wolfram were right that neither space nor time nor anything else is truly continuous (which is a separate issue) would the Turing machine or the rule 110 cellular automaton be computationally equivalent to an analog computer or a quantum computer or a brain or the universe. But even without this far-reaching (and far- out) assumption, Wolfram's conjecture about the computational equivalence of automata would at least provide a starting point for a theory of any sort of complexity that can be produced by any kind of automaton.
The trouble with Wolfram's conjecture is not only that it has not been proved—a deeper trouble is that it has not even been stated in a form that could be proved. What does Wolfram mean by complex? If his conjecture is not to be a tautology, then we must have some definition of complex behavior independent of the notion of universality. The pattern produced by the rule 110 cellular automaton certainly looks complex, but what criterion for complexity can we use that would tell us that it is complex enough for Wolfram's conjecture to apply?
There is a well-known parallel problem in defining randomness. The most common precise definition of the randomness of a string of digits or of a sequence of black and white cells on a tape is that it is random if there is no way of describing it with a string of shorter length. The trouble is that according to this definition the string of digits in a number like the square root of two would not qualify as random, because it can be described very simply—it is the square root of two—even though it surely looks random. (Mathematica gives the first thirty digits as 1.41421356237309504880168872420.) In the same way, it wouldn't do to define the output (shown in Figure B) of a cellular automaton like rule 110 with a single black cell in the top row as complex only if it can't be described in simple terms, because it can be described in simple terms—it is the output of rule 110 with a single black cell in the top row. There are other definitions of randomness, such as the absence of correlations: the digits in the square root of two can be said to be random because, as far as is known, being given one digit at an unidentified decimal place tells you nothing at all about what the next digit is likely to be. Wolfram has not even begun to formulate a similar definition of complexity.
In fact, as he admits, for Wolfram the real test of the complexity of a pattern is that it should look complex. Much of his discussion of complexity is anecdotal, relying on pictures of the patterns produced by specific automata that he has known. In this, Wolfram is allying himself with one side in the ancient struggle between what (with much oversimplification) one might call cultures of the image and cultures of the word. In our own time it has surfaced in the competition between television and newspapers and between graphical user interfaces and command line interfaces in computer operating systems.
The culture of images has had the better of it lately. For a while the culture of the word had seemed to have scored a victory with the introduction of sound into motion pictures. In Sunset Boulevard, Norma Desmond recalls that in silent films, "We didn't need dialogue. We had faces." But now movies can go on for long stretches with no words, only the thunk of cars running into each other and the sizzle of light sabers. The ascendancy of the culture of the image has been abetted by computers and the study of complexity, which have made possible the simulation of complex visual images.
I am an unreconstructed believer in the importance of the word, or its mathematical analogue, the equation. After looking at hundreds of Wolfram's pictures, I felt like the coal miner in one of the comic sketches in Beyond the Fringe, who finds the conversation down in the mines unsatisfying: "It's always just 'Hallo, 'ere's a lump of coal.'"
Wolfram's classification of the patterns produced by cellular automata dates from the early 1980s, and the discovery that the rule 110 elementary cellular automaton is a universal computer was made in the early 1990s. Since then, none of this work has had much of an impact on the research of other scientists, aside from Wolfram's employees. The strongest reaction I have seen by scientists to this new book has been outrage at Wolfram's exaggeration of the importance of his own contributions to the study of complexity. Wolfram's survey of the complex patterns produced by automata may yet attract the attention of other scientists if it leads to some clear and simple mathematical statement about complexity. I doubt if even Wolfram cares what picture is produced by the rule 110 cellular automaton after a billion steps. But if Wolfram can give a precise statement of his conjecture about the computational equivalence of almost all automata that produce complex patterns and prove that it is true, then he will have found a simple common feature of complexity, which would be of real interest. In the study of anything outside human affairs, including the study of complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting
Wolfram says that the main elements of the proof were found in 1994 by one of his assistants, Matthew Cook, and he gives an unreadable updated version in this book, along with an admission that a few errors may still remain. I gather that the proof has not been published in a refereed journal. An article in Nature by Jim Giles titled "What Kind of Science Is This?" (May 16, 2002) reports that when Cook left his job with Wolfram in 1998, he gave a talk on his work at the Santa Fe Institute, but the talk did not appear in the conference proceedings; Wolfram took legal action against Cook, arguing that Cook was in breach of agreements that prevented him from publishing until after the publication of Wolfram's book.↩
Turing took pains to point out that this issue had not been settled by the famous 1931 theorem of Kurt Gödel, which states that there are statements in the general system of mathematics presented in the Principia Mathematica of Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead that can be neither proved nor disproved by following the rules of that system.↩
Wolfram says that the main elements of the proof were found in 1994 by one of his assistants, Matthew Cook, and he gives an unreadable updated version in this book, along with an admission that a few errors may still remain. I gather that the proof has not been published in a refereed journal. An article in Nature by Jim Giles titled "What Kind of Science Is This?" (May 16, 2002) reports that when Cook left his job with Wolfram in 1998, he gave a talk on his work at the Santa Fe Institute, but the talk did not appear in the conference proceedings; Wolfram took legal action against Cook, arguing that Cook was in breach of agreements that prevented him from publishing until after the publication of Wolfram's book.↩
Turing took pains to point out that this issue had not been settled by the famous 1931 theorem of Kurt Gödel, which states that there are statements in the general system of mathematics presented in the Principia Mathematica of Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead that can be neither proved nor disproved by following the rules of that system.↩


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Asian-American Anti-Cancer Program Reaches Out To Communities
Published on April 25, 2001
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- On Wednesday in California, Ohio State University professor Moon Chen will assemble colleagues from cancer centers at Harvard, UCLA, Columbia, and two other national cancer centers to prepare to wage war on cancer in the Asian Community.Moon Chen Chen is principal investigator for the Asian American Network for Cancer Awareness, Research, and Training (AANCART), a $7.6 million National Cancer Institute project--the first of its kind--to reach into Chinese and Vietnamese communities to reduce their risk of cancer, particularly lung and liver cancer.
AANCART is holding its first cancer control academy April 25 and 26 at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, Oakland, California. Chen, professor of health behavior and health promotion at Ohio State University's School of Public Health, will convene the academy.
academy will provide insights into how culture affects cancer
prevention efforts in Chinese and Vietnamese communities."
"We refer to this meeting as an 'academy' to signify that we are preparing people to work in the community, as opposed to simply increasing their knowledge about the community," said Chen, a researcher with Ohio State's Comprehensive Cancer Center. "We are preparing people to conduct cancer control research and cancer awareness activities in Chinese and Vietnamese communities.
The academy will provide insights into such topics as how culture affects cancer prevention efforts in Chinese and Vietnamese communities. In contrast to the usual conferences, the people attending the academy will be primarily community-based leaders and clinicians, as opposed to academics.
"I think that will be unique," said Chen.
Speakers will present tested models for promoting smoking cessation, Hepatitis-B vaccination, and other forms of cancer prevention in Chinese and Vietnamese communities.
The academy is targeting tobacco use as a way to reduce the burden of lung cancer. It is also promoting Hepatitis-B vaccination as a way of reducing liver cancer, he said.
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among Asian Americans and Americans generally. Liver cancer is the third-leading cause of cancer death among Asian Americans. (Colorectal cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer death among Asian Americans and Americans generally.)
Hepatitis-B viral infection is responsible for about 80 percent of liver cancers.
"Hepatitis-B vaccine is actually the world's first anti-cancer vaccine," said Chen, explaining that the vaccine hasn't been appreciated as a way to prevent liver cancer.
On April 26, and coincidentally with the academy, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will hold a press conference there to encourage Hepatitis-B vaccination of Asian-American children ages 8 to 18.
During the press conference, Chen will represent the American Cancer Society's national board and endorse the Hepatitis-B vaccine program.
AANCART's primary mission is to develop strategies to reduce the burden of cancer in America's diverse Asian community, which encompasses more than 30 ethnic groups and 800 languages and dialects.
The other centers are Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Harvard University, Boston), Columbia University (the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, New York City), Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (University of Washington, Seattle), University of California, San Francisco (Northern California Cancer Center), and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (University of California, Los Angeles).
Collectively, nearly half of all Asian Americans in the United States live in these cities.#
Contact: Moon Chen, (614) 932-6349; firstname.lastname@example.com Written by Darrell E. Ward, (614) 292-8456; email@example.com
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