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Standing Heart Topiary
By: Linda Cyr of Red Heart Yarn
Use this amazing pattern from Red Heart Yarn to make a standing topiary. This can be used for a Valentine's presentation, a wedding centerpiece, a bridal shower or baby shower piece of decor.
Hearts measure 2½" across at widest part x 2" long.
- RED HEART® "Soft Yarn": 1 ball each 9770 Rose Blush A and 4600 White B.
- Crochet Hook: 5mm [US H-8].
- Split-ring stitch marker, yarn needle, T-pins, topiary tree.
GAUGE: 17 sts = 4"; 16 rows = 4" in sc. CHECK YOUR GAUGE. Use any size hook to obtain the gauge.
ABBREVIATIONS: A, B = Color A, B; ch = chain; mm = millimeters; sc = single crochet; st(s) = stitch (es); [ ] = work directions in brackets the number of times specified.
HEART (Make 7 each A and B)
With A, ch 11.
Round 1: 3 Sc in 2nd ch from hook, sc in next 3 ch, skip next 2 ch, sc in next 3 ch, 3 sc in last ch; pivot to work in unused loops of beginning ch, sc in next 3 ch, (sc, ch 2, sc) all in ch-2 space, sc in last 3 ch – 20 sc. Do not join but work in continuous rounds. Mark first st of round and move
up each round.
Round 2: [2 Sc in next sc] 3 times, sc in next 2 sc, skip next 2 sc, sc in next 2 sc, [2 sc in next sc] 3 times, sc in next 4 sc, (sc, ch 2, sc) all in ch-2 space, sc in last 4 sc – 26 sc.
Round 3: [2 Sc in next sc, sc in next sc] 3 times, sc in next sc, skip next 2 sc, sc in next 2 sc, [2 sc in next sc, sc in next sc] 3 times, sc in next 4 sc, (sc, ch 2, sc) all in ch-2 space, sc in last 5 sc; slip st in next sc – 32 sc. Fasten off.
Weave in ends.
Pin Hearts to Topiary as desired.
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Heh as Yogi Berra said, it's deja vu all over again. Like you guys and the Bears, we also lost a close one to the Ravens early in the season. We played them again in Baltimore with Ben starting and we beat them. And the Ravens still made excuses. IF you want to see a whiner of a head coach, I suggest you look at Harbaugh of the Ravens, the man never accepts responsibility after a defeat, only throws out crap like "we gave it away." and then like you guys and the Bears, we met again the playoffs and beat them. I chalk it up to jealously over you guys having more success historically than the Bears. It's the same thing with Ravens fans and us really except the Bears have more history than the Ravens do obvously.
Nonsense. I'm a Raven fan. I haven't posted on this board since the Steelers lost because I'm not one to gloat when the Steelers lose. I haven't seen any other Ravens fans gloating or rubbing salt in the wound either.
I think most Ravens fans handle both defeat and victory quite well. Baltimore is a class city and as a general rule our fans are gracious in both defeat and victory. Same with our coach. John Harbaugh is a class act.
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South Africa's main opposition party has criticised the government's refusal to pay legal fees for miners at an official inquiry into killings at Marikana mine in August 2012.
The Democratic Alliance said the decision was "a slap in the face".
Forty four people died during wage protests, including 34 striking miners shot by police.
The inquiry has been delayed several times over legal funding for hundreds of injured and arrested miners.
President Jacob Zuma set up the Marikana commission of inquiry to investigate the events leading to the killings.
The killings at the Lonmin-owned platinum mine near the town of Marikana, 120 km (70 miles) north-west of Johannesburg, shocked South Africa and hit confidence in its mining sector.
In the immediate aftermath of the police killings, the authorities sought to portray the miners, who were striking illegally, as responsible for the violence and bloodshed.
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Lawyers representing about 270 miners say they had approached the government to foot the bill as it was paying for the lawyers representing the police.
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Mining South Africa's riches
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The DA's parliamentary leader Lindiwe Mazibuko said the decision was "unacceptable".
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Customers, however, were not happy, and two groups filed complaints with the FCC. The FCC told Comcast, "Hey, not cool," saying the throttling violated the FCC's "Internet Policy Statement," which holds that "consumers are entitled to access the lawful Internet content of their choice." Because that rule already existed, the FCC said it didn't even need to issue new rules to handle this problem and could, instead, just tell Comcast to knock it off. Comcast agreed. They'd already changed the way they were doing things, so the FCC just made them publish those changes for customers, and said, essentially, if you do this again, we're gonna make a rule.
Is everyone happy? No. Enter the court challenge. Comcast played along, but it also saw an opening to challenge this FCC ruling. It did so on three points: that the FCC doesn't have the authority to intervene in how Comcast (and other companies) manage their networks; that the FCC has no real power to adjudicate disputes (that it can only solve problems by issuing rules, not by choosing sides); and that the initial order was "so poorly reasoned as to be arbitrary and capricious."
It's the first part that the Court based its decision on. Basically, it found that the FCC does not have the authority to tell Comcast, or any other network provider, how to manage network traffic. Maybe that sounds self-evident, but think for a moment about the consequences. A company is now allowed to sell you Internet service and not tell you that your Internet will be limited to what they'd like you to see, hear, and use on the Internet.
Comcast, which is, incidentally, my Internet Service Provider, is currently trying to acquire NBC Universal. If it does, it will own not only the means of distributing that content but also the means of creating it. It will have twice the incentive to begin throttling bandwidth for those who want to share videos over the Web -- and not just using torrents. This ruling opens the door for companies to be able to slow or even block traffic to competing sites.
For instance, Comcast currently runs a site called Fancast. Fancast is like Hulu, only, well, less awesome. It offers TV episodes and movies, some news and entertainment stuff, and a lot of advertising for Comcast. Who's to say now that Comcast wouldn't make sure that anyone trying to access Hulu found it very, very slow going? After this ruling, not the FCC.
Net Neutrality, which has been cheered for by groups from Google to the ACLU, has seemed a little closer of late. The FCC proposed new rules last fall that have been up for comment since September. The idea was that they'd make all carriers neutral carriers under new rules. The Court of Appeals ruling, today, says that the FCC doesn't have the authority to make rules like that.
I assume the FCC will appeal, but -- with the Courts being how they are -- I don't know that I expect there's going to be success. Which means only one body does: Congress. And good luck with that.
This is going to end up being a very important fight. It's not really the ability to watch "Castle" at high speed that we're talking about (though that is very important to me), it's the ability to be assured that companies don't censor information based on their own corporate interests. I don't want Comcast stepping in to make Candidate X's Web site run more slowly because Candidate X opposes Net Neutrality; I don't want AT&T to decide that I can only use Yahoo!, not Google, on my iPhone because they have corporate ties.
It's one of those "Call your congressman" moments. Representative Markey introduced the Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2009 last year, and had 21 co-sponsors. It would make it illegal for companies to discriminate against users and types of content. The bill hasn't made it out of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. It might be nice if it did.
Additional questions: What's the status of public broadband efforts?
Also, I wonder what the impact of this decision will be on approval of the Comcast/NBC deal. Who has the power to regulate that? Those may be the folks to whom we should direct our collective dismay.
Incidentally, we (my husband, anyway) just dropped Comcast for Verizon FIOS as of yesterday, not that that will make any difference.
The Comcast/NBC merger doesn't fall under antitrust regulations because it's not reducing competition -- it's consolidation, but of companies in different fields, so it will likely get to go forward without anyone really stepping in (think: Time-Warner-AOL).
I have a hate-hate relationship with Comcast, though we've gotten along a lot better since I dropped my cable plan.
You wrote in a comment, "The Comcast/NBC merger doesn't fall under antitrust regulations because it's not reducing competition -- it's consolidation, but of companies in different fields ..."
You're clearly right about that, I think, but it strikes me as a bit counterintuitive to consider them as being in different fields at this juncture, since both are clearly entertainment delivery systems, merely operating on different levels. And it seems to me also that "consolidation" SHOULD be considered an aspect of anti-trust regs.
It doesn't seem particularly different from a logging company owning a railroad (or vice-versa), which would clearly be consolidation, yet would also threaten competition.
Welcome to the United Corporations of America, eh?
Just a thought, here. Ever since the homogenization of American radio (popular/rock, etc.), I've had a thought it was time for Americans to take back the airwaves. (Not via online method or cable) (Bear with me here)
Maybe this already happened--I won't have heard of it before-- but an idea stuck with me about Public Radio in the rock genre, not only jazz/classical, our only offerings so far in my part of the world.
What I'm getting at is this: We are complaining about behaviors that were predictable. This is a corporate country, with interests in other parts of the globe. WHAT IF we, the people took our broadband business into a broader scope, such as public television has succeeded in doing? --I'm talking, not following in every footstep there, leaving corporate interests in the dust.
I'd pay a bit more to know I had all my freedoms preserved via internet service. Frankly, I found Comcast's practices less than faithful, certainly unsavory. One of their reps lied to me outright--twice. They are no good, just as all monopolistic-minded business practices are simply that: no good. 'Nuff said.
This matter is about trade done by megacorporations that extend across state and even country borders. The Federal Government, the Courts, and the Constitution? Relevant again.
And this matter is about corporatism and civil rights. The courts must take a strong stand or soon people will have no rights at all. This is very, very bad and brings into sharp focus the importance of replacing Stevens properly when he steps down.
Does this analogy work? Let's say in big parts of the country you could only get Sony TVs. And Sony could control the reception you got, say, to fuzzy up programs that carried Toshiba adverts. Or do the same with political ads from groups or candidates they didn't like. Would that be legal or even tolerated? Doubtful.
If that is so, why did they allow so many pictures of the real boob, g. w. bushpunk?
Try to keep in mind that the cable you use was put there by comcast. If you only have comcast, other companies may not even be there, or if they were, you may not have high speed.
In the end I would rather leave it in the hands of a private company b/c if the service sucks competition will come in and replace them. If the government sticks it's nose in. Well that's it, there's no competition.
Originally the FCC was designed to allocate frequencies to Radio stations, then they started issuing rules forcing "community service", becoming the Nations Prig. This court ruling stopped another power grab by the agency. That's a good thing.
If the fears that brought about this ruling do appear, then Congress, not Bureaucrats, can devise laws to put an end to them.
Whereas running things by the profit motive DESTROYS quality.
As everything's a racket in this land of ours nowadays, it pays never to get stuck for something to do that would include our money being invested in companies with overly vested interests. In a public setting, the people are more present in the minds of the ones running the show. That's because we are more visible, and can reach into the wallets they carry. Just a thought. Thanks again, Saturn. I'm spreading the word outside OS on this issue.
I suggest you read the text of the Communications Act of 1934 as modified to date. 47 §151 REQUIRES the FCC to regulate interstate and world-wide wire communications.
The general definition of wire communications in 47 §153 ¶59 covers any method for accessing [sic] the "[i]nternet". This was written long before Gore "invented" the [sic] "[i]nternet" and long before a 77 y/o judge called a new method for using wire communications a wholly new medium, as is idiotic.
Have you examined the history of wire communications?
Neeley Jr v FCC, et al, (5:12-cv-5208) will result in the end of [sic] "open [i]nternet" but must precede wire communications being made publicly available EVERYWHERE.


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We have lot of info about cable TV in Falcon, MS. That's part of what makes us CableTV.com. Did you know that 1/3 of Americans have at least 4 televisions in their homes? That means 97 of the 293 people in your city could dedicate a TV to each major network. And did you know that DVR use is rapidly growing in America? DVR recordings now account for 7% of all TV viewing. But there are still 243 Falcon residents who prefer their programs regularly scheduled. Something else you may not know is that approximately 211 homes in your city have a TV and Internet bundle.


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I'm going to be upgrading from my simple zap-pap tun using uninsulated buckets to a cooler system. However, I don't know what type of cooler I want to use. What would people say are the pros and cons of the tall, round coolers (eg. 10-gallon Rubbermaid) versus the lower, rectangular coolers (eg. 60-quart Igloo) for use as a mash tun? I can think of some regarding things such as footprint/portability as well as more technical such as the thickness of the grain bed, but not having used either system, I am obviously ignorant to the real pluses and minuses of each. Thanks!
I have been using the 60qt Ice Cube even though I was originally planning to get a Rubbermaid 10-gallon when I was planning the build. But, the Igloo is half the price (or less) and it turned out that due to the size and shape it is easy for me to reuse the MLT as a fermentation temp control vessel by sticking the fermenter in there and filling it up with water, and adding ice/hot water bottles as necessary. At the time, it also happened to fit in the closet space I had much better than the big round rubbermaid, although that's a moot point now that I have moved to a new place. I had an "incident" recently with my MLT, so I will probably be getting a new cooler, and will probably go with another Igloo. While I'm at it, I will also update my hardware to be 1/2" instead of the 3/8" I have on there now, so I can more easily set it up to recirculate, etc.
I have two Coleman 10-gallon square Beverage Coolers. They are tall, but square. They work fine for me. I don't know about the low rectangular ones. I would think it may be easier to get a seal with a 1/2 ball valve since the surface is flat instead of round. One thing I did was drill some small holes into the lids and fill them with Great Stuff Foam. BTW, your user name is what caught my attention. I'm a Bulldawged Tarheel (oldest daughter is at UGA).
I use a 9 gal Coleman (had it in the garage when I decided to go AG) and put a spigot and a screen in it and have made about 6 batches with it.. 85%+ efficiency doing batch sparging in 2 batches. I got no issue with the square coolers. now back to my regularly scheduled beer.
Cooler shape makes virtually no difference if you're batch sparging. If you're fly sparging, I think round offers a very slight advantage over square, and the taller/skinnier the better. That said, any cooler shape can be made to function very well with the right manifold and sparge arm.
My understanding was that if you had enough grain bed depth then the shape of the mash tun wasn't important.


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Because of the transition between Mission editors, we have taken the liberty of suggesting that the adults use the children's Thirteenth Sabbath Program this quarter. Thank you for graciously understanding.-—Mission staff
"Follow Me"
Leader: The West-Central Africa Division is made up of 22 countries. [Show the map on the back of Children's Mission.]
Three years ago our mission offering helped children in these countries share God's love by providing back-to-school supplies and invitations to attend Sabbath School. Let's hear how one girl helped share God's love by using supplies purchased through our mission offerings.
Storyteller: It was the first day of classes at an Adventist school in western Africa. Children gathered around a table standing under a shelter. The table held neat piles of school supplies—pencils, erasers, notebooks, crayons, and bookmarks with a picture of Jesus and the words "Follow Me" printed on them.
Nine-year-old Joyce joined the other children who were examining the supplies. The teacher arrived and explained why the supplies were on the table.
"We have a special mission project today," she began. "We will make packets of school supplies to give to children who don't know Jesus." A flutter of excitement rippled through the cluster of children.
The teacher gave the children plastic bags and told them to walk around the table and pick up one item from each pile. "Be sure to put the card with the picture of Jesus in last, so it shows through the bag," she said. "This card is an invitation to Sabbath School."
Joyce and her classmates walked around the table choosing what they would put into their bags as the teacher explained that some children in their own village didn't have the money to buy school supplies to do well in school.
The children filled and sealed the bags. Then the teacher bowed her head to pray. "Dear God," she said, "please show us the children You want to receive these school supplies. Bless them and help them to want to know more about You. In Jesus' name, amen."
After school that day the children picked up the bags of school supplies. The teacher said, "Ask God to show you the person He wants you to give the bag to. And when you give the bag to the child, tell them that Jesus loves them and wants to be their friend. Invite them to go with you to Sabbath School this week."
Joyce picked up her bag with school supplies and walked toward home. She saw many children coming home from school. "Dear Jesus," she prayed, "please help me to find someone who needs to know You love them. Amen."
Joyce looked up and saw a boy walking toward her. It was Theo. Joyce smiled, for she knew she had found the person God wanted her to give the packet to.
"Hi, Theo," Joyce said. "Did you start school today?"
"No," Theo said. "My dad didn't have money for school supplies."
Joyce smiled broadly. "Well, now you can go to school! Jesus wants you to have these school supplies!" Joyce held up the plastic bag with the notebook, pencil, crayons, and the picture of Jesus in it.
Theo looked at the bag "Why are you giving this to me?" he asked.
"Children from around the world gave a special offering so we could buy school supplies for children who don't have any. At my school today we prayed that God would show us who we should give them to. God told me to give this bag to you!" Joyce pressed the bag of supplies into Theo's hands. "Take it," she said. "It's from Jesus, and it's for you."
Slowly a smile crept across Theo's face. "Wow," he said. "Thank you! Now I can go to school."
"There's more," Joyce added quickly. "There's an invitation in the bag for you to visit my Sabbath School on Saturday. If you wish, I'll walk with you so you won't have to go alone."
Theo thanked Joyce and promised to ask his mother for permission to go to Sabbath School with her.
On Sabbath morning Theo met Joyce in front of his house. The two friends walked to church together. Joyce introduced Theo to her Sabbath School teacher and to the children in her class. Theo enjoyed learning the songs the children sang. He liked the stories about Jesus and His disciples that the teacher told. In fact, he enjoyed everything about Sabbath School.
On the way home later that day, Theo asked if he could come to Sabbath School with Joyce again. "Of course you can!" Joyce said with a big smile. "Jesus—and I—invite you!"
Theo continued attending church with Joyce. He told his mother about what he was learning and asked her if he could take his younger brother to Sabbath School as well. Now Theo and his brother and mother attend Sabbath School regularly. "I am glad that Joyce—and Jesus—invited us to church," Theo says. "And thank you for helping me have school supplies so I could do well in school, too!"
Leader: Our Thirteenth Sabbath Offering three years ago helped thousands of children throughout West-Central Africa go to school and learn about Jesus in Sabbath School. We won't know how many children found a new friend in Jesus until we get to heaven, but we can be sure many will be there because we gave our offering. Let's plan now for a big offering this Thirteenth Sabbath too, so even more children will join us in heaven.
This quarter the children in two schools in Benin and Senegal [locate on map] will receive books so that they can discover the joy of reading while they learn more about Jesus.
Next quarter will feature the Southern Asia Division. Special projects include dormitories and classroom blocks for three boarding schools and churches for existing congregations in every region including the Bhutanese and Nepalese people.


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"Going Rogue" – WSJ.com
Posted By MB Snow On November 16, 2009 @ 1:17 am In Uncategorized | Comments Disabled
McCain aides kept her out of the loop, focusing instead on 'packaging.'
By MELANIE KIRKPATRICK
"Going Rogue," the title of Sarah Palin's autobiography, refers to the snide remark of an anonymous McCain aide late in last year's presidential campaign. It was used to describe the vice-presidential candidate's move to break free of her media handlers and speak out against the campaign's decision to pull out of Michigan, a state that, in Mrs. Palin's view, was well worth contesting. The "word came hurtling down that I had been 'off-script,' " she writes. The campaign hadn't bothered to inform her of the Michigan decision, which she learned of from a reporter. "Of course," she adds drily, "it's pretty easy to issue candid, off-script messages when there is no script to begin with."
One of the biggest mistakes of the failed McCain campaign—and there was no shortage of them—was its handling of Mrs. Palin. Her criticisms of the campaign's treatment of her appear prominently in "Going Rogue." But the book contains self-criticisms too, if not as many as there ought to be for a candidate who was ultimately responsible for her own uneven performance.
That said, "Going Rogue" is more a personal memoir than a political one. More than half the book is about Mrs. Palin's life before the 2008 campaign. She discusses her coming of age in the "new frontier" state of Alaska; her personal faith journey; her experiences with marriage and motherhood, including two miscarriages, a special-needs child and a pregnant teenage daughter; and the free-market convictions that have guided her political career. As a politician, she comes across as a prodigious worker capable of mastering complicated issues—not least the energy policies that matter so much to Alaska's economy—and of building bridges to Democrats.
Through it all, Mrs. Palin emerges as a new style of feminist: a politician who took on the Ole Boy network and won; a wife with a supportive husband whose career takes second place to hers; and a mother who, unlike working women of an earlier age, isn't shy about showcasing her family responsibilities. She writes with sensitivity and affection about her gay college roommate, and she confesses her anguish when she found out that she was carrying a baby with Down syndrome. That experience, she says, helped her to understand why a woman might be tempted to have an abortion. This is not the prejudiced, dim-witted ideologue of the popular liberal imagination.
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I recently went back to high school, to support my little cousin in her cheerleading competition – effectively facing everything I hated about high school (pep rallies, cheerleaders that fit the stereotype, crazy parents, and hormonal teenagers), and without the friends that got me through it. I had flashbacks, felt smothered and claustrophobic, and wondered how I got through my high school years without the assistance of pharmaceuticals. This, of course, got me thinking about high school and all the memories (good and bad) that have stuck with me. Continue reading What is it About High School?
All posts by Melissa Sarno
Okay, this isn't my first blog; however, I haven't always been the most consistent blogger Mike has had on board. After spending a week or so, trying to figure out of where to start, developing a couple of blogs (I'm quite the scatter brain), I realized that maybe I should introduce myself; or rather, reintroduce myself, for those of you that don't know me. I recently graduated from Fresno State with my B.A. in Sociology, worked my ass off while going to school, partied a little too much during some of those years, still work too hard for a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Trustee and doing bookkeeping on the side, and I'm currently saving up for grad school to get the hell out of Fresno. So, that is the very short, compartmentalized version of me and what I do. Since I have my degree in Sociology, expect a lot of my blogs to be mostly social commentary, sprinkled with some sarcasm.


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University of Iowa Mobile Museum
The UI Pentacrest Museums (Old Capitol Museum and the Museum of Natural History) and Office of the State Archaeologist are bringing some of the state's natural and cultural treasures to communities across the state in a new Mobile Museum. Launched in April 2014, the Mobile Museum will visit schools, libraries, RAGBRAI, the Iowa State Fair, and other special events across the state.
Our educators and curators can combine mobile museum visits with education programs or speaker visits for any age group or event.
Call for participation for 2015
We are now accepting proposals from UI departments, faculty, and staff for participation in the 2015 group of physical and digital exhibits. Please see the full Call for Participation for details. Proposals must be submitted by November 1st.
Those proposing 2015 exhibits should check our exhibit planning page for more details on the floorplan, images of this year's exhibits, and answers to frequently asked questions.
2014 exhibits
The Mobile Museum features an array of exhibits that focus on three very different eras in Iowa's history.
- Iowa's Ice Age Giants explores the great mammals that roamed the state during the last ice age and their sudden extinction.
- Glenwood: Iowa's Ancient Agriculturalists tells the story of the Glenwood culture centered in the Loess Hills and their connections to the Iowa landscape through agriculture.
- Cornerstones focuses on the founding of Iowa and writing of its constitution, the building of the Old Capitol building, and the creation of the University of Iowa.
The museum also features a new interactive digital wall that allows visitors to learn about UI space research, the Santos Virtual Soldier program, and the UI Flood Center's sophisticated flood-prediction mapping systems, as well as additional information on Iowa archaeology.
Contact Information
Email us at firstname.lastname@example.com to invite the University of Iowa Mobile Museum to your community or event! Follow us @UIMobileMuseum.
Calendar and Events
Check out our upcoming stops on the Dare to Discover calendar.
Some of our major stops in our innaugural summer included:
- July 17-18: The Mobile Museum visited the Winnebago "Out of this World" Grand National Rally in Forest City, Iowa, to show off our incredible museum in a 'Bago! To learn more about this exciting annual tradition, please visit the Grand National Rally homepage.
- July 19-26: The Mobile Museum and Team Archaeology from the Office of the State Archaeologist will rode along for RAGBRAI XLII. We were along for stops in Rock Valley, Okoboji, Emmetsburg, Forest City, Mason City, Waverly, Independence, and Guttenburg.
- August 7-17: The Mobile Museum enjoyed tons of fun and deep-fried Twinkies just inside Gate 11, at the West end of Grand Avenue, during the Iowa State Fair.
Mobile Museum Coloring Book
We're excited to share with you a fun coloring book featuring some of the many discoveries housed in the Mobile Museum. To get free copies of a printable version of the coloring book please click the link below to download a PDF (3.3 MB) version:
2014 Annual Report
Learn more about what we accomplished during the Mobile Museum's Annual Season. Click here to read the 2014 annual report online.


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Pickens Urges Wind, Natural Gas – Not Oil Texas Billionaire Says U.S. Could Cut Imports 38%
By Jeff Smith
The U.S. could cut oil imports by 38 percent if it generated enough wind power to provide 22 percent of the country's electricity, and use natural gas primarily to fuel cars, Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens said Thursday.
"I want one loser – foreign oil," Pickens said at a news conference at the Colorado Oil & Gas Association's 20th annual Rocky Mountain Gas Strategy Conference & Investment Forum in Denver.
Pickens said the country is on the verge of a disaster because of its dependence on oil from countries that don't like the U.S. much and that his plan could save $300 billion in imports annually.
He characterized the country's reliance on foreign oil as "similar to being on drugs."
Pickens unveiled his energy plan – which he thinks could be accomplished in less than 10 years with the "right leadership" – this week, complete with the Web site PickensPlan.com.
He said he realized Americans are confused and need to be educated about energy policy, and he plans to spend up to $58 million on the effort.
Pickens said he decided, " 'Hell, I'll do it myself.' I think I know more about energy than anyone else does."
Pickens, 80, is building a huge wind farm in Texas. But he said it's easy to do wind projects these days, and that he's not receiving a direct financial benefit by promoting his energy plan.
About 22 percent of the country's electricity generation now comes from natural gas. In its simplest form, Pickens' plan is to replace that with wind power, and use natural gas to fuel automobiles instead.
George Douglas, spokesman for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, noted that NREL was the lead lab on a recent Department of Energy report that concurs the U.S. can get 20 percent of its electricity from wind. It's currently less than 2 percent. But the DOE has a more conservative timetable for doing so – 2030, rather than within the next decade.
The technology exists, Douglas said, but the challenge is distributing the wind energy from the farms in the middle of the country to the coasts where most Americans live. In addition, the manufacturing capacity of wind turbines would have to be boosted.
Xcel spokesman Mark Stutz made similar points. Xcel is a leader in wind energy, deriving about 10 percent of its electricity generation from wind.
"We're all aiming for the same thing – to lessen the dependence on foreign oil," Stutz said. But he echoed former Vice President Al Gore in noting there's no silver bullet and that many things will have to be tried.
For example, Xcel also is supporting new technologies such as battery-operated vehicles that could supply excess electricity during peak demand.
Pickens acknowledged additional infrastructure would be needed to distribute the wind energy across the country, and that some natural gas would still be required for peak electricity demand. But he said those and other challenges, such as encouraging automakers to build more cars that run on natural gas, could be overcome if an administration sees energy dependence as an emergency.
He also said he supports solar energy, hybrid vehicles, ethanol and oil exploration and development. But domestic oil reserves are in decline, Pickens noted, and he sees natural gas and wind power as the cleanest, easiest routes to energy independence.
Energy independence has been a mantra of a number of past administrations, but Pickens characterized the country as having a "pitiful, pitiful case of leadership" on the issue and going 40 years without a real energy plan.
Why? "Because of cheap oil (in the past)," Pickens said.
Pickens said representatives of John McCain and Barack Obama have called to discuss his plan. He also briefed the White House eight weeks ago, including Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman.
"We talked. They were very interested, but nothing came of it," Pickens said.
Originally published by Jeff Smith, Rocky Mountain News.
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Hey everyone, Mameoyashi here again!
Many of you may have seen "Polyamory 101: a polyamorous support thread" floating around the LD and you may be asking yourself....is this a rip-off thread? Answer: no. What I'm doing is taking over the old thread for the original owner. I have big plans for this small thread, hoping to include more resource links, more discussions, a section for polyamory in the media, common misconceptions and updating the FAQ with questions actually asked in the thread itself!
So here goes, brand new thread, new slate.
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1.Italian nuclear physicist (in the United States after 1939) who worked on artificial radioactivity caused by neutron bombardment and who headed the group that in 1942 produced the first controlled nuclear reaction (1901-1954)
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Enrico Fermi (Italian pronunciation: [enˈriko ˈfermi]; 29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954)[1] was an Italian-born, naturalized American physicist particularly known for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, nuclear and particle physics, and statistical mechanics. He was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity.
Fermi is widely regarded as one of the leading scientists of the 20th century, highly accomplished in both theory and experiment.[2] Along with J. Robert Oppenheimer,[3] he is frequently referred to as "the father of the atomic bomb".[4][5] He also held several patents related to the use of nuclear power.
Several awards, concepts, and institutions are named after Fermi, such as the Enrico Fermi Award,[6] the Enrico Fermi Institute, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station, a class of particles called fermions, the synthetic element fermium, and many more.
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Enrico Fermi was born in Rome to Alberto Fermi, a Chief Inspector of the Ministry of Communications, and Ida de Gattis, an elementary school teacher of unusual intelligence.[7] As a young boy, he shared his interests with his older brother, Giulio. They dismantled small engines and other parts. When Giulio died unexpectedly of a throat abscess in 1915, Enrico was distraught, and immersed himself in scientific study to distract himself. According to his own account, each day he would walk in front of the hospital in which Giulio died until he was inured to the pain.
One of the first sources for the study of physics was a book found at the local market of Campo de' Fiori in Roma. The 900-page book, titled Elementorum physicae mathematicae, written in Latin by Jesuit Father Andrea Caraffa, a professor at the Collegio Romano, covered subjects like mathematics, classical mechanics, astronomy, optics, and acoustics. Notes found in the book indicate that Fermi studied it intensely. Later, Enrico befriended another scientifically inclined student named Enrico Persico, and the two worked together on scientific projects such as building gyroscopes and measuring the Earth's magnetic field. Fermi's interest in physics was further encouraged by Adolfo Amidei, a friend of his father, who gave him several books on physics and mathematics, which he read and assimilated quickly.
In 1918, Fermi enrolled at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. In order to enter the Institute, candidates had to take a difficult entrance exam which included an essay. The given theme was Specific characteristics of Sounds (Italian: Caratteri distintivi dei suoni).[8] The 17-year-old Enrico Fermi chose to derive and solve the partial differential equation for a vibrating rod, applying Fourier analysis. The examiner, Prof. Giuseppe Pittarelli, interviewed Fermi and concluded that his entry would have been commendable even for a doctoral degree. Enrico Fermi achieved first place in the classification of the entrance exam.
During his years at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Fermi teamed up with a fellow student named Franco Rasetti with whom he would indulge in light-hearted pranks and who would later become Fermi's close friend and collaborator. Besides attending the classes, Enrico Fermi found the time to work on his extracurricular activities, particularly with the help of his friend Enrico Persico, who remained in Rome to attend the university.
In Pisa, Fermi was advised by the director of the physics laboratory, Luigi Puccianti, who acknowledged that there was little that he could teach Fermi, and frequently asked Fermi to teach him something. Fermi's knowledge of quantum physics reached such a high level that Prof. Puccianti asked him to organize seminars about that topic. During this time he learned tensor calculus, a mathematical instrument invented by Gregorio Ricci and Tullio Levi-Civita, and needed to demonstrate the principles of general relativity. Between 1919 and 1923, Fermi studied general relativity, quantum mechanics, and atomic physics.
In 1921, his third year at the university, he published his first scientific works in the Italian journal Nuovo Cimento: the first was titled: On the dynamics of a rigid system of electrical charges in translational motion; the second: On the electrostatics of a uniform gravitational field of electromagnetic charges and on the weight of electromagnetic charges. At first glance, the first paper seemed to point out a contradiction between the electrodynamic theory and the relativistic one concerning the calculation of the electromagnetic masses. After one year with a work entitled Correction of severe discrepancy between electrodynamic theory and the relativistic one of electromagnetic charges. Inertia and weight of electricity, Enrico Fermi showed the correctness of his paper. This last publication was so successful that it was translated into German and published in the famous German scientific journal Physikalische Zeitschrift.
In 1922, he published his first important scientific work in the Italian journal I Rendiconti dell'Accademia dei Lincei entitled "On the phenomena occurring near a world line", where he introduces for the first time the so-called "Fermi coordinates", and proves that when close to the time line, space behaves as a euclidean one. In July of that year, Fermi submitted his doctoral thesis Un teorema di calcolo delle probabilità ed alcune sue applicazioni (A theorem on probability and some of its applications) to the Scuola Normale Superiore and received his Laurea from there at the unusually young age of 21.
In 1923, while writing the appendix for the Italian edition of the book The Mathematical Theory of Relativity by A. Kopff, Enrico Fermi pointed out, for the first time, that hidden inside the famous Einstein equation (E = mc2), there was an enormous amount of nuclear potential energy to be exploited.
In 1924, Fermi spent a semester at the University of Göttingen with Max Born, and then stayed for a few months in Leiden with Paul Ehrenfest. From January 1925 to the autumn of 1926, he stayed at the University of Florence. In this period, he wrote his work on the Fermi–Dirac statistics.
Aged 24, Fermi took a professorship at the University of Rome (one of the first three in theoretical physics in Italy) [9] which he won in a competition whose selection committee was chaired by Professor Orso Mario Corbino, director of the Institute of Physics. [9] Corbino helped Fermi in selecting his team, which soon was joined by notable minds like Edoardo Amaldi, Bruno Pontecorvo, Franco Rasetti and Emilio Segrè. For the theoretical studies only, Ettore Majorana also took part in what was soon nicknamed "the Via Panisperna boys" (after the name of the street where the Physics Institute was). The group went on with its now famous experiments, but in 1933 Rasetti left Italy for Canada and the United States, Pontecorvo went to France and Segrè left to teach in Palermo.
During their time in Rome, Fermi and his group made important contributions to many practical and theoretical aspects of physics. These include the theory of beta decay, later referred to as the theory of the "weak interaction" (one of the 4 basic forces in nature, then brand new) with the inclusion of the neutrino postulated in 1930 by Wolfgang Pauli, and the discovery of slow neutrons, which was to prove pivotal for the working of nuclear reactors. His group systematically bombarded elements with slow neutrons, and during their experiments with uranium, narrowly missed observing nuclear fission. At that time, fission was thought to be improbable if not impossible, mostly on theoretical grounds. While people expected elements with higher atomic number to form from neutron bombardment of lighter elements, nobody expected neutrons to have enough energy to actually split a heavier atom into two light element fragments. However, the chemist Ida Noddack had criticised Fermi's work and had suggested that some of his experiments could have produced lighter elements. At the time, Fermi dismissed this possibility on the basis of calculations.
Fermi was well known for his simplicity in solving problems.[10] He began his inquiries with the simplest lines of mathematical reasoning, then later produced complete solutions to the problems he deemed worth pursuing. His abilities as a great scientist, combining theoretical and applied nuclear physics, were acknowledged by all. He influenced many physicists who worked with him, such as Hans Bethe, who spent two semesters working with Fermi in the early 1930s. From the time he was a boy, Fermi meticulously recorded his calculations in notebooks, and later used them to solve many new problems that he encountered based on these earlier known problems.
When Fermi submitted his paper on beta decay[11] to the prestigious journal Nature, the journal's editor turned it down because "it contained speculations which were too remote from reality". Thus Fermi saw the theory published in Italian and in German before it was published in English. Nature eventually did publish Fermi's report on beta decay on January 16, 1939.
Fermi remained in Rome until 1938.
In 1938, Fermi received the Nobel Prize in Physics at the age of 37 for his "demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons". After Fermi received the Nobel Prize in Stockholm, he, his wife Laura, and their children emigrated to New York. This was mainly because of the Manifesto of Race promulgated by the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini in order to bring Italian Fascism ideologically closer to German Nazism. The new laws threatened Laura, who was Jewish. Also, the new laws put most of Fermi's research assistants out of work. Soon after his arrival in New York, Fermi began working at Columbia University, where he had already given summer lectures in 1936 (preface to Thermodinamics, Dover Publications, Inc. NY).
In December 1938, the German chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann sent a manuscript to Naturwissenschaften reporting they had detected the element barium after bombarding uranium with neutrons;[12] simultaneously, they communicated these results to Lise Meitner. Meitner, and her nephew Otto Robert Frisch, correctly interpreted these results as being nuclear fission.[13] Following an advice of George Placzek, Frisch confirmed this experimentally on 13 January 1939.[14][15]
Meitner's and Frisch's interpretation of the work of Hahn and Strassmann crossed the Atlantic Ocean with Niels Bohr, who was to lecture at Princeton University. Isidor Isaac Rabi and Willis Lamb, two Columbia University physicists working at Princeton, heard the news and carried it back to Columbia. Rabi said he told Enrico Fermi; Fermi gave credit to Lamb. Bohr soon thereafter went from Princeton to Columbia to see Fermi. Not finding Fermi in his office, Bohr went down to the cyclotron area and found Herbert L. Anderson. Bohr grabbed him by the shoulder and said: "Young man, let me explain to you about something new and exciting in physics."[10] It was clear to a number of scientists at Columbia that they should try to detect the energy released in the nuclear fission of uranium from neutron bombardment. On 25 January 1939, a Columbia University team conducted the first nuclear fission experiment in the United States,[16] which was done in the basement of Pupin Hall; the members of the team were Herbert L. Anderson, Eugene T. Booth, John R. Dunning, Enrico Fermi, G. Norris Glasoe, and Francis G. Slack. The next day, the Fifth Washington Conference on Theoretical Physics began in Washington, D.C. under the joint auspices of The George Washington University and the Carnegie Institution of Washington. There, the news on nuclear fission was spread even further, which fostered many more experimental demonstrations.[10]
While at Columbia during World War II, Fermi and his wife resided in Leonia, New Jersey.[17]
Fermi then went to the University of Chicago and began studies that led to the construction of the first nuclear pile Chicago Pile-1.
Fermi recalled the beginning of the project in a speech given in 1954 when he retired as President of the American Physical Society:
In August 1939 Leó Szilárd prepared and Albert Einstein signed the famous letter warning President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the probability that the Nazis were planning to build an atomic bomb. Because of Hitler's September 1 invasion of Poland, it was October before they could arrange for the letter to be personally delivered. Roosevelt was concerned enough that the Uranium Committee was assembled, and awarded Columbia University the first nuclear power funding of US$6,000. However, due to bureaucratic fears of foreigners doing secret research, the money was not actually issued until Szilárd implored Einstein to send a second letter to the president in the spring of 1940.
The money was used in studies which led to the first nuclear reactor — Chicago Pile-1, a massive "atomic pile" of graphite bricks and uranium fuel which went critical on December 2, 1942. The pile was built in a squash court under Stagg Field, the football stadium at the University of Chicago, as part of a secret project code-named the Metallurgical Laboratory[19]. (Due to a mistranslation, Soviet reports said Fermi's work was performed in a converted "pumpkin field" instead of a "squash court",[20] a mis-translation based on confusion between dual meanings of "squash", the food-crop plant and the game.)
This experiment was a landmark in the quest for energy, and it was typical of Fermi's brilliance. Every step had been carefully planned, every calculation meticulously done. When the first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction was achieved, one of the physicists, Arthur Compton, made a coded phone call to James Conant, chairman of the National Defense Research Committee. The conversation was in impromptu code:
- Compton: The Italian navigator has landed in the New World.
- Conant: How were the natives?
- Compton: Very friendly.[21]
This successful initiation of a chain-reacting pile was important not only for its help in assessing the properties of fission — needed for understanding the internal workings of an atomic bomb — but also because it would serve as a pilot plant for the massive reactors which would be created in Hanford, Washington, which would then be used to produce the plutonium needed for the bombs used at the Trinity site and Nagasaki. Eventually Fermi and Szilárd's reactor work was folded into the Manhattan Project.
To continue the research where it would not pose a public health hazard, the reactor was disassembled and moved to a wooded site outside Chicago, where Fermi directed research on reactors and other fundamental sciences. The name of the lab was Argonne Laboratory, which grew into the first of the U.S. national laboratories.[19]
Fermi moved to what was to become Los Alamos National Laboratory in the later stages of the Manhattan Project to serve as a general consultant. He was sitting in the control room of the Hanford B Reactor when it first went critical in 1944. His broad knowledge of many fields of physics was useful in solving problems that were of an interdisciplinary nature. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States of America in 1944.
Fermi was present as an observer of the Trinity test on July 16, 1945. Engineer Jack Aeby saw Fermi at work:
As the shock wave hit Base Camp, Aeby saw Enrico Fermi with a handful of torn paper. "He was dribbling it in the air. When the shock wave came it moved the confetti. He thought for a moment."Fermi had just estimated the yield of the first nuclear explosion. It was in the ball park.[22]
Fermi's strips-of-paper estimate was ten kilotons of TNT; the actual yield was about 19 kilotons.[23]
In 1947, Fermi invented the FERMIAC, an analog computer that used the Monte Carlo Method to study neutron transport through fissionable materials.
In Fermi's 1954 address to the American Physical Society (APS) he also said, "Well, this brings us to Pearl Harbor. That is the time when I left Columbia University, and after a few months of commuting between Chicago and New York, eventually moved to Chicago to keep up the work there, and from then on, with a few notable exceptions, the work at Columbia was concentrated on the isotope separation phase of the atomic energy project, initiated by Booth, Dunning and Urey about 1940".
Fermi was widely regarded as the only physicist of the 20th century who excelled both theoretically and experimentally.[2] The well-known historian of physics, C. P. Snow, says about him, "If Fermi had been born a few years earlier, one could well imagine him discovering Rutherford's atomic nucleus, and then developing Bohr's theory of the hydrogen atom. If this sounds like hyperbole, anything about Fermi is likely to sound like hyperbole". Fermi's ability and success stemmed as much from his appraisal of the art of the possible, as from his innate skill and intelligence. He disliked complicated theories, and while he had great mathematical ability, he would never use it when the job could be done much more simply. He was famous for getting quick and accurate answers to problems which would stump other people. Later on, his method of getting approximate and quick answers through back-of-the-envelope calculations became informally known as the 'Fermi method'.
Fermi's most disarming trait was his great modesty, and his ability to do any kind of work, whether creative or routine. It was this quality that made him popular and liked among people of all strata, from other Nobel Laureates to technicians. Henry DeWolf Smyth, who was Chairman of the Princeton Physics department, had once invited Fermi over to do some experiments with the Princeton cyclotron. Walking into the lab one day, Smyth saw the distinguished scientist helping a graduate student move a table, under another student's directions. Another time, a Du Pont executive made a visit to see him at Columbia. Not finding him either in his lab or his office, the executive was surprised to find the Nobel Laureate in the machine shop, cutting sheets of tin with a big pair of shears.
After the war, Fermi served for a short time on the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, a scientific committee chaired by J. Robert Oppenheimer which advised the commission on nuclear matters and policy. After the detonation of the first Soviet fission bomb in August 1949, he, along with Isidor Rabi, wrote a strongly worded report for the committee which opposed the development of a hydrogen bomb on moral and technical grounds. But Fermi also participated in preliminary work on the hydrogen bomb at Los Alamos as a consultant, and along with Stanislaw Ulam, calculated that the amount of tritium needed for Edward Teller's model of a thermonuclear weapon would be prohibitive, and a fusion reaction could not be assured to propagate even with this large quantity of tritium.
Fermi was among the scientists who testified on Oppenheimer's behalf at an AEC hearing in 1954. The hearing resulted in denial of Oppenheimer's security clearance.
In his later years, Fermi did important work in particle physics, especially related to pions and muons. He was also known to be an inspiring teacher at the University of Chicago, and was known for his attention to detail, simplicity, and careful preparation for a lecture. Later, his lecture notes, especially those for quantum mechanics, nuclear physics, and thermodynamics, were transcribed into books which are still in print.
He also mused about a proposition which is now referred to as the "Fermi Paradox". This contradiction or proposition is this: that with the billions and billions of star systems in the universe, one would think that intelligent life would have contacted our civilization by now.
While he came from a Roman Catholic family and was baptized, he later on became an agnostic.[24]
Toward the end of his life, Fermi questioned his faith in society at large to make wise choices about nuclear technology. He said:[25]
Fermi died at age 53 of stomach cancer in Chicago, Illinois, and was interred at Oak Woods Cemetery. Two of his graduate students who assisted him in working on or near the nuclear pile also died of cancer. Fermi and his team knew that such work carried considerable risk but they considered the outcome so vital that they forged ahead with little regard for their own personal safety.[26]
As Eugene Wigner wrote: "Ten days before Fermi had died he told me, 'I hope it won't take long.' He had reconciled himself perfectly to his fate".
Enrico Fermi had been the first to use a neutron to produce the radioactive change of one element to another. On 2 December 1942 he initiated the atomic age with the first self-sustaining chain reaction, after which he became known as "father of the atomic bomb". Michael H. Hart ranked him No. 76 in his list of the most influential figures in history.[27]
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