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(PhysOrg.com) -- A quick, inexpensive and highly sensitive test that identifies disease markers or other molecules in low-concentration solutions could be the result of a Cornell-developed nanomechanical biosensor, which could potentially help with early stage disease detection.
The biosensor, based on a photonic crystal nanowire array, was developed by Yuerui Lu, a graduate student in the lab of Amit Lal, professor of electrical and computer engineering. Their research was published online Dec. 6 in the journal Nature Communications.
The sensor's operation was confirmed in collaboration with Dan Luo, professor of biological and environmental engineering, and his graduate student Songming Peng.
The experimental device is a mechanical resonator 50 microns in diameter made of a thin silicon-silicon dioxide membrane with ordered, tightly packed vertical nanowires on top. The design achieves a high surface-to-volume ratio for biomolecule detection, which means it can detect molecules at very low -- down to femtomolar -- concentrations. The sensor could be useful, for example, for finding just a few molecules in a glass of water.
The sensor works by attaching single-stranded probe DNA molecules onto the nanowires. When those molecules come into contact with a target single-stranded DNA, the relevant molecules bind together, changing the mass detected by the device. The mass change causes a change in the resonance frequency of the device.
A laser beam is shined on the device, and the nanowires' innovative design allows for more than 90 percent absorption of the light, resulting in an efficient opto-thermo-mechanical excitation of the resonator. An optical readout of the resonance frequency change can be accomplished remotely, quickly and free of electrical wires, making the device convenient and inexpensive to make, the researchers said.
Lal said he imagines doctors could use such a device in clinical analysis, for example, in DNA testing. Typically today, DNA in drawn blood is compared against a standard sequence.
The new device could instead be coded with particular DNA sequences of relevance, and those specific molecules could be detected in early stages when concentrations are low.
"You could have a cartridge with an array of the membrane sensors, and you could quickly scan to see what DNA imperfection you might have," he said. "Today's tests take time and are expensive."
Such sensors could also be useful for environmental applications, such as water quality monitoring. The researchers hope to improve their device by making it sensitive to certain protein molecules, which are trickier because they do not bind as specifically as DNA molecules do.
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Liberal Studies
3:30 p.m.Stabley 101
Present: Y. Asamoah, M. Hildebrandt, E.Hwang, D. Pistole, F. Slack, M. Swinker, T. Wacker, G. Wilson
Excused: M. Knoch, M. Taddie
For Information:
Linda Jennings met with the committee to discuss her Music and Culture Around the World Class – she will make revisions and resubmit her proposal
For Discussion:
Motion to Adjourn: Wilson/Wacker. Passed: Unanimous.
The meeting adjourned at 4:45 pm.

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Apple bobbing
Apple bobbing, also known as bobbing for apples, is a game often played on Halloween. The game is played by filling a tub or a large basin with water and putting apples in the water. Because apples are less dense than water, they will float at the surface. Players (usually children) then try to catch one with their teeth. Use of arms is not allowed, and often are tied behind the back to prevent cheating.
In Scotland, this may be called "dooking"[1] (i.e., ducking). In northern England, the game is often called apple ducking or duck-apple.
In Ireland, mainly County Kerry, it is known as "Snap Apple", and in Newfoundland and Labrador, "Snap Apple Night" is a synonym for Halloween.[2]
The tradition of bobbing for apples dates back to the Roman invasion of Britain, when the conquering army merged their own celebrations with traditional Celtic festivals.[3] The Romans brought with them the apple tree, a representation of the goddess of fruit trees, Pomona.
When an apple is sliced in half, the seeds form a pentagram-like shape, and it is thought that the manifestation of such a symbol meant that the apple could be used to determine marriages during this time of year. From this belief comes the game bobbing for apples.[citation needed] During the annual celebration, young unmarried people try to bite into an apple floating in water or hanging from a string; the first person to bite into the apple would be the next one to be allowed to marry.
The custom is mentioned (along with apples suspended on a string) in 18th century Ireland by Charles Vallancey in his book Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis.
Girls who placed the apple they bobbed under their pillows were said to dream of their future lover.[4]
Health risks[edit]
Due to the nature of the game, whereupon a number of individuals each place their entire head into a bowl of water, it is thought to be a somewhat unsanitary game to play.[citation needed] A potentially more sanitary variation of the game exists, with the apples hung on string on a line, rather than in a bowl of water.[5]
In popular culture[edit]
Agatha Christie's mystery novel Hallowe'en Party, is about a girl who is drowned in an apple-bobbing tub.
In a SpongeBob SquarePants episode called "Scaredy Pants", Mr. Krabs manages to catch an apple while he was apple bobbing, but accidentally swallows it and chokes on it.
See also[edit]
- ^ Apple dookers make record attempt, BBC News, 2 October, 2008
- ^ Dictionary of Newfoundland English, George Morley Story, W. J. Kirwin, John David Allison, p500, ISBN 0-8020-6819-7
- ^ "Now health chiefs ban bobbing for apples in case germs are spread...", Daily Mail, 30 October 2010
- ^ "What is bobbing for apples?", History.com
- ^ Halloween, Silver RavenWolf, p77, ISBN 1-56718-719-6. Retrieved 21 October 2008.
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text: 13 April 2015: Kelly receives Dean's Award for Outstanding Research Higher Degree Theses. Great Achievement, Kel! 4 April 2015: Congrats to Chelle (along with Jason and Paul) who just had a paper accepted at JEP:HPP! Not a bad place for your first, first author paper. 4 March 2015: Claire passes her PhD without corrections. Well done - and amazing effort! 2 March 2015: Welcome to Jessica and Maxwell who will be doing honours in the lab this year. 21 February 2015: David, Paul and Jason have a paper accepted for publication at Neuropsychologia. Uses TMS and an individual differences approach to examine the intraparietal sulcus and temporoparietal junction in attentional capture from distractor features. 27 January 2015: Hannah, Paul and Jason have a paper accepted at Neuropsychologia. Uses tDCS to show distinct functional roles for right parietal cortex in the detection of single and competing stimuli. 23 January 2015: Lab alum, Dr. Dana Schneider, wins the Weber-Bosch Award from the Society for Research in Autism Spectrum Conditions. Well done! 5 January 2015: Lab turns 6....wow, where does the time go? 16 December 2014: Long time Dux Labber (Hons, RA, PhD) Claire Naughtin submits her thesis. Magnificent effort! Well done. 3 December 2014: Our cover article in Trends in Neurosciences is out! 3 December 2014: Big time congrats to Lizzie and Casey who received first class honours. 18 November 2014: Huge news - Kelly passes her PhD without her thesis requiring any corrections! Well done, Dr. Garner. 7 November 2014: Hannah, Jason and Paul have a paper accepted for publication at JEP:HPP. Shows objects substitution masking can be observed for a fully attended and foveated target. 29 October 2014: Angela passes her PhD confirmation with flying colours. 28 October 2014: Amy gets accepted to Med School. Such great news. 28 October 2014: Recent Trends in Neurosciences article is going to have the cover! Well done, team and big thanks to Dr. David Lloyd - a true renaissance man. 8 October 2014: Well done to Lizzie, Casey and Steffi who handed in their honours theses! 7 October 2014: Paul along with the "ICAU (Italian-Canadian-Australian-US) consortium" has a paper accepted at Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 2 October 2014: Paul and Natasha welcome a beautiful baby girl - Hetty (Henrietta Elizabeth Frances) Dux - to the world (amazing lab photo). 15 September 2014: Welcome to Dr Ashika Verghese, from Univ of Melbourne, who joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. 12 September 2014: Well done to Michelle who passed her confirmation with flying colours! 1 September 2014: Stef, Anna Grubert (Birkbeck College, Univ of London) and Paul have a paper accepted for publication in Neuroimage. 20 August 2014: Kelly submits her PhD thesis - Awesome job, Kel. Outstanding! 20 August 2014: Claire, Jason and Paul have an fMRI paper on the neural substrates of individuation and identification in VSTM accepted for publication in Cerebral Cortex. 13 August 2014: Hannah, Paul and Jason have a review on tDCS accepted for publication at Trends in Neurosciences. 27-31 July 2014: 12th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON) comes to Brisbane. Claire, Ant and Hannah all present. 16-19 July 2014: Annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) comes to Brisbane. 10 July 2014: Dana, Virginia, Stef and Paul have a paper accepted for publication in Neuroimage. First, fMRI study on implicit false-belief processing. 16 June 2014: Paul spends a week visiting Kia Nobre's and Mark Stokes's groups at Oxford. 23 May 2014: Dana, Zoie Nott (co-first authors) and Paul have a paper accepted for publication in Cognition. 1-6 May 2014: Paul, Claire, Michelle, and Ant all participate in a workshop on Human Cognitive Neuroscience "Multimodal Attention and Perception of Space" hosted by the Queensland Brain Institute and Munich Center for Neurosciences. 23-26 April 2014: Hannah, Ant, Claire, Kelly and Michelle all present at the Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference held in Brisbane. Claire won a student award for best talk and Michelle an award for best student poster. Well done, team! 4 April 2014: Congrats to Morgan who won an Australian Postgraduate Award to fund her PhD! 28 March 2014: Dana, Virginia Slaughter and Paul have a review paper accepted for publication in PBR. 26 March 2014: Hannah, Jason and Paul have a paper accepted for publication in APP. 12 March 2014: Congratulations to Morgan Spense who will join the lab as a PhD student. She will be working with Derek Arnold, Jason Mattingley and Paul. 20 February 2014: Welcome to Steffi, Casey and Lizzie who will work in the lab as honours students this year. 29 January 2014: David, Paul, Susie and Jason have a paper accepted at Journal of Neuroscience. The work investigates the influence of central visual search strategy on feature-based attention at peripheral locations. 22 January 2014: Kelly, old buddy Mike Tombu and Paul have a paper accepted at Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. The research shows that cognitive training transfers differently at different levels of information processing. 5 January 2014: Happy birthday to the lab who turns 5.....wow, where does the time go? 18 December 2013: Paul is a Partner Investigator on the recently awarded ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function to be run out of Monash University and led by Prof. Gary Egan. The grant is worth $20 million. 13 December 2013: Big time congrats to Ant Harris who received an Australia Postgraduate Award to join the lab as a PhD student in 2014. 9 November 2013: Paul, Hannah, Kelly and Claire all present posters at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. 8 November 2013: Paul, Jason and Brad Wyble (from Penn State) receive an ARC Discovery Grant ($547,000, 2014-2016). 7 November 2013: Paul is promoted to Associate Professor. 31 October 2013: Claire, Ben Tamber-Rosenau and Paul have a paper accepted for publication in Journal of Neurophysiology. The research examines the neural basis of temporal individuation using repetition blindness and fMRI. Well done team! 30 October 2013: Big news! Dana is awarded her PhD. Well done, we are all so happy for you. 12 October 2013: Hannah, Jason, René Marois and Paul have a paper accepted for publication at Journal of Neuroscience. Study shows that disrupting left hemisphere prefrontal cortex prevents performance gains from response-selection training. Casual evidence in support of the hypotheses put forward by Dux et al. (2009, Neuron). Really thrilled about this one. 18 September 2013: Big congrats to David who submitted his PhD. Good luck for the postdoc in Japan. You will be missed! 13 September 2013: Well done to Kelly who received a $1000 travel award to attend the 2013 "Learning to Attend, Attending to Learn" workshop in San Diego. Way to go, Kel. 2 September 2013: Welcome to Michelle Hall, from the Yantis group, who received a Scholarship to undertake her PhD in the lab. Well done, Michelle! 28 August 2013: Hannah, Jason and Paul have a paper accepted at Cortex demonstrating how tDCS of the Prefrontal Cortex can enhance multitasking performance. Well done, team! 19 August 2013: Paul gives invited talk at The Australian National University. 9 August 2013: Paul gives invited talk at Macquarie University. 4 August 2013: Dana, Virginia Slaughter and Paul, along with old UQ buddy Andrew Bayliss, now at University of East Anglia, have a paper accepted at Cognition. The work demonstrates that those with ASD have a temporally sustained deficit in implicit theory of mind. Well done team. 24 July 2013: Farewell to Dana Schneider, as she leaves the lab and UQ to start her postdoc in Germany. Wishing you all the best, Dana! 15 July 2013: A founding member of the lab, Dana Schneider, hands in her PhD thesis. Well done, Dana, we are all so proud of you. 15 July 2013: Angela Bender starts as a PhD student in the lab. 20 June 2013: Paul, along with international collaborators Brad Wyble, Pierre Jolicoeur and Roberto Dell'Acqua, has a paper accepted for publication in JEP:HPP. 18 June 2013: Kel returns after visiting The University of Oxford where she gave a number of talks on her training studies. Way to represent! 7 June 2013: Angela Bender receives and APA scholarship to undertake her PhD in the lab. Well done! 30 May 2013: Paul along with Ben Tamber-Rosenau, Mike Tombu, Chris Asplund and René Marois has a paper accepted for publication in Journal or Neuroscience. 6 May 2013: Huge news. Paul is a chief investigator, along with 26 other researchers from across Australia and overseas, on an Australian Research Council Special Initiative Grant "A science of learning research centre". The University of Queensland led consortium with receive $16 million over the next 4 years. See the story here. 23 April 2013: Paul gives the 2013 Paul Bourke Award Lecture 1 March 2013: Tough day in the lab as we wish fond farewell to our RA of the last year and a half Bec King. What's important to remember is that people never leave the lab. They just come in less often. We will all miss you. All the best for your exciting new adventures! 28 February 2013: Paul along with Warrick Roseboom and Chris Olivers has a paper accepted for publication in PLoS ONE. 25 February 2013: Lab welcomes new RAs; Amy Taylor and Luke Hearne. 6 February 2013: Paul speaks at a symposium on the "Neural Mechanisms of Cognitive Brain Training" at the Annual Meeting of the Australian Neuroscience Society. 5 February 2013: Paul is a member of successful UQ Major Equipment and Infrastructure (MEI) & NHMRC Equipment Grants. 28 January 2013: Paul along with Lab alum Steph Goodhew and Jay Pratt and Susanne Ferber, from University of Toronto, have review on Object Substitution Masking accepted for publication in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 5 January 2013: Lab turns 4! 5 December 2012: Big News - Hannah has her PhD thesis passed. Well done Dr. Filmer. 30 November 2012: Paul along with Gillian Dale and Karen Arnell of Brock University (Canada) have a paper accepted for publication in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. 28 November 2012: Congrats to Anglea, Jon and Zoie who all received first class honours! 10 November 2012: Congrats to Angela, Jon and Zoie who all handed in the honours theses. Well done this year guys! 26 September 2012: Paul receives the Paul Bourke Award for Early Career Research from The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA). 20 September 2012: Congrats to Dana who won the 2012 Postgraduate Student Research Excellence Prize from the UQ School of Psychology. 18 August 2012: New fMRI paper by Bayliss, Naughtin, Lipp, Kriticos and Dux accepted for publication in Psychophysiology. Well done team! 25 July 2012 (afternoon): Congrats to Claire Naughtin who after a fantastic presentation was confirmed as a PhD student - well done! 25 July 2012 (morning): Paul receives a Future Fellowship from the Australian Research Council (2012-2016, $714,502). Grant examines how cognitive training changes the brain. 1 June 2012: A NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant (Parent R21), Paul is a consultant on, gets funded (2012-2014, $275000, N. Woodward, B. Rogers, P. E. Dux, R. Marois, S. Heckers). The research examines response selection in people with Schizophrenia. 16 May 2012: Paul gives a presentation at VSS based on the work of Kelly & Dux. 11 May 2012: Kelly gives a presentation at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. 30 April 2012: Kelly gets confirmed as a PhD student. Well Done Kel. 15 April 2012: Well done to Kelly, Claire, Dana and Susie who all gave great presentations at the Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference. 13 April 2012: Susie, Jason Mattingley and Paul have a paper on the role of working memory in contextual cueing accepted for publication in JEP:LMC. Particularly well done to Susie as this is her first paper! 28 March 2012: Big time congrats to Steph Goodhew who just accepted a faculty position (Lecturer, Assistant Professor for our North American friends) at Australian National University. She starts in July - Well Done! 24 March 2012: Congrats to lab alum Steph Goodhew who won a Dean's Award for her PhD thesis. 20 March 2012: Congrats to Susie Travis who has won an Australian Postgraduate Award to support her PhD in the lab! 1 March 2012: Congrats to Susie Travis who just got accepted to do a PhD in the lab! 27 February 2012: Welcome to Angela Bender, Jonathan Chong and Zoie Nott who will be doing there honours projects in the lab this year. 22 February 2012: Paul is awarded the 2012 Randolph Blake Early Career Award from Vanderbilt University. 7 February 2012: Kelly and Paul get a paper accepted at Cognition and Emotion. Great job Kel! 23 January 2012: Welcome to Hannah Filmer who joins the lab as a postdoc having undertaken a PhD at Exeter with Prof. Stephen Monsell 15 January 2012: Big News! Dana, Rebecca (Hons student 2011), Andrew Bayliss and Paul have a paper accepted at Psychological Science examining the role played by executive function in implicit theory of mind. 9 January 2012: Dana, along with Paul, Virginia Slaughter and Andrew Bayliss, receive $3500 from the APEX foundation for work on Autism Spectrum Disorders. Congrats Dana! 5 January 2012: Lab turns 3 - Happy birthday! 14 December 2011: Paul has paper accepted in PBR along with international collaborators Dell'Acqua, Wyble and Jolicoeur. 2 December 2011: Paul receives tenure. 30 November 2011: Congratulations to Rebecca Lam, Elle Jones and Susie Travis who all received 1st class honours. 22 November 2011: Paul gets promoted to Senior Lecturer 17 November 2011: Steph, Paul, Ottmar and Troy have a paper accepted at Cognition. For Steph this means that all 3 papers from her PhD ended up in A* journals....not too shabby! 17 October 2011: Mattingley, Dux and Molenberghs receive an NHMRC project grant for $513,675.00 (2012-2014). 12 October 2011: Frances, Elle, Rebecca and Susie hand in their Honours theses. Great job this year team! 16 September 2011: Paul gives a seminar at the School of Psychology at the University of Western Australia. 13 September 2011: Paul wins a UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award which comes with $90,000 research funding. See the news story and video here. 3 September 2011: Paul appears as an APS Rising Star. 24 August 2011: Paul interviewed about multitasking in The Daily Telegraph. 16 August 2011: New unified bottleneck paper in PNAS discussed in Wired Science. 11 August 2011: During science week on the ABC Paul is featured in many radio interviews on the multitasking test. 11 August 2011: The ABC along with Paul, Jason Mattingley and Rob Colvin launch a nation wide community-based science project on multitasking. This is for science week and the test runs till then end of August. 11 August 2011: Congrats to Dana Schneider who just had her first first author paper accepted at JEP:G! Great start to the PhD! 4 August 2011: Welcome to Rebecca King who joins the lab as an RA. 29 July 2011: Farewell to Warrick Roseboom, one of the lab originals, who leaves for a postdoc at NTT in Japan - good luck! 19 July 2011: Paul, along with the Vanderbilt Team, has a paper accepted at PNAS. 11 July 2011: Ashleigh (a former honours student in the lab) and Paul have a paper accepted at JEP:HPP demonstrating that not all attentional blink tasks measure the attentional blink. Big congrats to Ash as this is her first paper! 4 July 2011: Claire Naughtin starts officially in the lab as a PhD Student. 1 July 2011: Paul to appear as a "Rising Star" in the Association for Psychological Science's (USA) APS Observer magazine. 1 July 2011: Steph Goodhew leaves the lab to take up her postdoctoral position in Toronto. Good luck! 14 June 2011: Big news....Claire Naughtin wins an Australian Postgraduate Award to fund her PhD! 26 May 2011: Dana Schneider passes her confirmation seminar with flying colours. Time to remove the the provisional from "Provisional PhD Student". 25 May 2011: (1.45pm) To cap off one of the greatest days of outcomes ever known, Steph Goodhew's PhD thesis was passed with NO corrections! Great job! 25 May 2011: (9am) Steph Goodhew receives Ontario Postdoctoral Fellowship for her postdoc with Jay Pratt at University of Toronto. Well done! 18 May 2011: Claire Naughtin is accepted for a PhD at UQ and will be working in the Dux Lab! 11 May 2011: Successful VSS meeting for the lab! Well done team. 15 March 2011: Steph Goodhew submits her PhD! Well done! 1 March 2011: Kelly Garner's first day as a PhD student. Welcome to the lab! 24 February 2011: Steph Goodhew wins a prestigious Vision Sciences Society (VSS) student travel award for the annual meeting in May - Well Done! 23 February 2011: Honours students Frances Jemesen, Elle Jones, Rebecca Lam and Susan Travis join the lab. Welcome! Is going to be a great 2011. 3 February 2011: David Painter gets a talk at VSS this year - well done! 11 January 2011: Devastating floods hit Brisbane, the lab and its members are all okay, but our thoughts and prayers are with those affected. 5 January 2011: Claire Naughtin joins the lab as a part time research assistant. 5 January 2011: Happy 2nd birthday lab! 16 December 2010: Huge news, hot off the presses, Kelly Garner will join the lab next year as a PhD student having received a prestigious UQ international student scholarship paying both her tuition fees and a living stipend! 13 December 2010: Postdoc position (from ARC grant) to work in the lab with Paul and Jason Mattingley is advertised. See link on the home page for details. 11 December 2010: René Marois leaves, thanks for a great visit! 8 December 2010: Paul and the cognitive neuroscience gang from psychology win a UQ Major Equipment and Infrastructure Grant ($90,000). New eye-trackers and TMS neuro-navigation system here we come! 2-3 December 2010: First annual UQ Centre for Perception and Cognitive Neuroscience Workshop is held. Thanks to everyone for a great meeting! 2 December 2010: René Marois visits the lab. 1 December 2010: Congratulations to Ashleigh Kelly and Claire Naughtin who both received first class honours working in the lab this year. 15 November 2010: Paul receives an Early Career Research Grant from UQ for $20,000 (2011). 5 November 2010: Steph wins the award for best talk at the inaugural UQ School of Psychology Research Higher Degree Day! Another one for the trophy cabinet - well done! 5 November 2010: Eminent cognitive scientist Max Coltheart visits lab the lab and gave a great talk on his amazing career! 25 October 2010: BIG NEWS! Paul and Jason Mattingley receive a discovery grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC) for $382,000 (2011-2013). 22 October 2010: Paul gives School of Psychology Seminar at University of Sydney. 20 October 2010: Steph and Paul, along with lab buddies Troy Visser and Ottmar Lipp, have a paper accepted at Cognition demonstrating that semantic processing survives object substitution masking. 16 October 2010: Steph arrives back from Yale! Welcome home! 13 October 2010: Ashleigh, Claire and Philip all submit their honours theses. Well done team! 14 October 2010: Paul, along with old buddies René Marois and Paige Scalf, has a paper accepted at Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience demonstrating with time-resolved fMRI that working memory load delays information processing in visual cortex. 14 September 2010: Steph leaves for her lab stay at Yale. Have a great trip! 10 September 2010: Paul joins the editorial board for the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance (starting 2011). 4 September 2010: Paul joins the editorial board for the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (starting 2011). 16 August 2010: Paul receives the Research and Innovation Award from the SBS faculty at UQ. 19 June 2010: Paul joins the editorial board of Frontiers in Cognition. 10 May 2010: Paul and Steph both gave talks at VSS and the research was well received. Well done team! 24 April 2010: Paul leaves for the US for two weeks at Vanderbilt University prior to the VSS meeting. 15 April 2010: Paul gives comments in Scientific American on new paper in Science by the Koechlin group. 15 April 2010: Congratulations to Stephanie Goodhew who won a student presentation prize at the this year's EPC meeting - this is back-to-back years for Steph! 8 March 2010: A big well done to Dana Schneider who just got a full scholarship (tuition and living stipend) to do a PhD in the lab. 7 March 2010: Welcome to Claire Naughtin who will be in the lab working on her fMRI honours project. 1 March 2010: Old buddy Chris Asplund stops in for a visit. 1 March 2010: Welcome honours students Ashleigh Kelly and Philip Witowski to the lab. 21 February 2010: Paul and Steph, along with lab buddies Troy and Ottmar, have a paper accepted at Psychological Science....Paul is very happy about this one! 11 February 2010: Dux lab has two talks (Paul and Steph) at VSS this year...very exciting! 5 January 2010: New paper on distractor inhibition and object processing in RSVP by Harris, Benito & Dux accepted for publication at JEP:HPP! 5 January 2010: Lab is one year old. 20 December 2009: Paul interviewed on ABC radio about multitasking by James O'Lochlin. 20 December 2009: Congratulations to Carly Mayberry who just had her first paper accepted at PBR. Not bad for someone who just finished her Honours degree! 4 December 2009: Congratulations to Carly, Christina and Dana for all being awarded first class honours! Well done guys, a fantastic outcome after lots of hard work! 21 November 2009: Congratulations to Steph Goodhew who just had her first paper published in JEP:HPP - a great result! 1 November 2009: Paper by Dux et al. on training, multitasking and the brain discussed in Scientific American Mind. 28 October 2009: Paul joins the editorial board of the European Journal of Cognitive Psychology. 26 October 2009: Paul receives the APS early career research award. 14 October 2009: Well done Carly, Christina and Dana on submitting your honours theses! 27 August 2009: Well done Steph on winning the student presentation prize at the this year's EPC meeting! 7 August 2009: Jason Jones heads back to UCSD. Thanks for a great visit! 16 July 2009: Paper by Dux et al. published in the latest issue of Neuron. Check out a Nature News article on the project. 15 July 2009: Welcome to David Painter who joins the lab as a PhD student (well done on the scholarship David!) 29 June 2009: Blake Butler returns to the US after completing his semester long visit. Thanks for a great lab stay. 10 June 2009: Detailed review on the attentional blink, in press at APP, now available for download from the publications page. 4 June 2009: Welcome to Stephanie Goodhew who officially joins the lab as a PhD student. 25 May 2009: Paper on how the brain changes with training to allow efficient multitasking has been accepted for publication at Neuron! Stay tuned for the paper. 2 Mar 2009: Welcome Christina Kordatou and Carly Mayberry who join the lab as honour students and Blake Butler, from Washington University (USA), who joins as a visiting student. 5 Jan 2009: Lab is officially open for business! 15 October 2008: Paul receives a discovery grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC) (including research fellowship) for $334,000 (2009-2012)! |


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This book answers the age-old question: Can you do anything worthwhile with a hoary cliché as your central plot?
Okay, The Homeland Directive doesn't really answer that question, because everyone already knows the answer: It depends on the creator and what he or she does with it. I mean, there aren't all that many plots floating around (seven, according to some), so it really all depends on what quirks we get out of them. In the case of The Homeland Directive (which is published by Top Shelf and costs $14.95), a great deal of its success can be attributed to its writer, Robert Venditti, and its artist, Mike Huddleston (with Sean Konot along to letter). These two gentlemen take a fairly conventional plot and fire it with interesting dialogue and paths down which the plot can wander, plus dazzling artwork that elevates it even further. Even if you are surprised by exactly nothing in The Homeland Directive, it's still a strong comic.
Venditti is best known in comics circles for The Surrogates, a tremendous science fiction comic with Brett Weldele that was turned into a passable movie with maddening hints of greatness that never came to fruition (but it featured Rosamund Pike, so I can't stay made at it). Huddleston is currently drawing the crap out of Butcher Baker, The Righteous Maker, and it's that style of art (reined in quite a bit, of course, as the story demands it) that he uses in this book. So this has two guys working at the top of their games, and it shows. The plot is fairly standard: In order to make the United States more prepared for a terrorist attack, the head of Homeland Security decides to release a virus into the population to scare the crap out of the president. Yes, it's a stale conspiracy plot, with Homeland Security trying to tie up loose ends while making sure they can kill the virus when the time comes, but if you like thrillers, this hums along nicely. Where Venditti makes it interesting is, as always, in the details.
The protagonist is Dr. Laura Regan, a top bacteriologist who works for the CDC. When Secretary Keene decides to unleash his virus, he has agents kill everyone who knows about it or could figure it out, and Regan is the only one who survives. She survives because three men come to her aid – Nathan the FBI guy, Gene the Secret Service guy, and Ted the Bureau of Consumer Advocacy guy (I'll explain him later). They have to keep one step ahead of the assassins gunning for Laura and try to figure out what's going on. Luckily, right before she was about to be killed, Laura spoke to a doctor in New York who was confronted with some strange cases of infection. When she starts putting pieces together, she remembers that conversation and is able to get some good information about the viurs. Of course, she has to survive first. The book is a cat-and-mouse game, for the most part, but Venditti does a nice job building the tension and making how the government tracks Laura plausible. The book reminded me a little of Enemy of the State, except that Venditti's guys don't use satellites. They do, however, use the Bureau of Consumer Advocacy, which is supposed to deal with complaints about bad businesses and the like. Ted explains to Laura that that's a very small part of their job, and the rest is building profiles on everyone based on what they buy, where they buy it, and how they buy it. BOCA is a fictitious agency (based on the Bureau of Consumer Protection, presumably), but Venditti makes it very convincing that this is something they could do, so the way the government tracks Laura is perfectly plausible. Venditti also does a nice job showing that the government can be both highly efficient and horribly inept, often at the same time, which is a nice touch (and Laura speaks for the reader when she says skeptically, "Our government has a plan for everything" – it's not a question, but Venditti lets us know that she can't believe it). The three men who help her – they're disgruntled government employees who don't think killing American citizens is the right way to form policy – are interesting, too, as they explain how the government tracks Laura and what she can do to stay off the grid. While the ending of the book is, unfortunately, a bit anticlimactic, Venditti gets us there with a lot of nifty ideas, some nice wit, and plausible and exciting scenarios. When you're dealing with a thriller, that's all you can ask for, really.
Huddleston's art is fantastic, unsurprisingly. It's not as batshit insane as it is on Butcher Baker, but that's because the tone of the book is different. When he needs to be more frenetic, as when our heroes are being chased by the assassins toward the end of the book, he's sketchier and looser, with more jagged edges and dynamic pacing. While his pencil work is stellar as always, his coloring, which is good on Butcher Baker, is phenomenal here. He colors each scene differently, highlighting the surroundings in which they occur or just the mood of the scene itself. So we get drab grays when bureaucrats are discussing policy in the White House, a washed-out blue in the hospital when the doctor Laura knows first confronts the infection, and a pulsing array of lights when Laura is at the party where she is approached by a bad guy. When the violence ramps up, Huddleston brings out the darker reds and browns, highlighting the bloodiness, and when we check in with BOCA, he drains the color from the room except for the sickly hues he uses for the computer screens, which is a good way to show the facelessness of bureaucracy. Interestingly enough, when he shows the way the virus spreads (I won't give it away, but Venditti does drop in pages every so often showing it happen), the colors are bright and as "normal" as it gets, perhaps indicating that life is going on all around these people even though they're going to get sick very soon. Huddleston also does a nice job dropping in photographs of buildings (including the White House) so that they fit into the scene even though they're almost painfully artificial – it's as if Huddleston is embracing the weirdness of photo-referencing without trying to hide it, as some artists do. He does it fairly sparingly and only with some buildings and some trees, so it's an odd but not unwelcome distraction that doesn't interfere with his wonderful pencil work.
I enjoyed The Homeland Directive for what it was – a well-constructed political thriller with some interesting ideas and superb art. If you don't like thrillers, it's probably not going to change your mind in the least. The nice thing about comics is that, unlike movies, art has a great deal to do with the way someone reacts to a comic. Even if you're not the biggest fan of thrillers, Huddleston's art is tremendous and almost worth the price of admission. That I enjoy thrillers and Venditti's writing makes this even cooler for me. It's a fun and exciting comic, and worth a look.
This sounds intriguing. I may pick this up.
Huddleston upped his already impressive game visually with this book. The story's fun with some fun twists, but man oh man, that art will keep this book off your shelf and on the coffee table.
I disagree with your "unlike movies" statement. Film techniques can be just as memorable and important as art techniques. The difference is that film is a much more popular medium so a smaller proportion of those who enjoy it are enjoying it on that level.
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The story of drag racers Don "The Snake" Prudhomme and Tom "The Mongoose" McEwen is a great one, and next year that story will be coming to the big screen in the form "The Snake and the Mongoose". The independent film is currently in postproduction and as this trailer shows, it looks like they've nailed the period set pieces and vehicles, thanks in large part to Don Prudhomme's fantastic car collection.
It looks promising, and I'm certainly anxious to see it once it's released in 2013.
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If I go to see this in the theater I think I'll be crying the whole time. It's that awesome.
cant wait, sim so excited, pumped and anxious to see this, screw skyfall, this is were it at :D
Looks great! I'm not usually into drag racing but there's something different about the vintage stuff. Sorta like when NASCAR used to use production-based full frame cars rather than tube frame. It was watch-able back then.
Oh man, I cant wait to show this to my Dad, he used to go watch these guys back in the day.
Indeed! This, plus Ron Howard's new F1 film should make 2013 a fine year for automotive cinema!
@Mike Garrett With Senna, TT:3D, and Eric Banas Love the beast movie/ docs that have come out in the last few years. Can't wait for more racing one to be released. I'm dying for a rallying based 3D movie, after seeing Nitro Circus last week, flying 3D dirt looks awesome.


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Nowadays the Nile-green plain of the Panhandle abounds with distant compass points: windmill, telephone poles, ranch houses with stands of cottonwoods and elms. But when Coronado's expedition wandered twenty miles south of the present site of Amarillo back in 1541, the Spaniards were lost in a shortgrass sea. No hills, no trees, no shrubs, nothing but moving brown herd of shaggy bison. The only features of terrain were the dry, shallow lake beds now called playas (the Spanish word for shores) but described more vividly in Western lore as buffalo wallows. In those low spots rainwater gathered and stood, the theory goes, and over the ages the buffalo millions deepened the drying sloughs by rolling in the mud. Sweating under the postfuedal armor and Panhandle heat, the conquistadores were, in modern vernacular, as spooked as they could be.
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, the well-married colonial governor, led a mass migration of cavalry, infantry, priests, and Indians, 1500 of them in all, along with thousands of horses, cattle, and sheep. In search of Quivira, the richest of the seven mythical Cities of Gold (an intoxicating myth, considering that the first had proved to be nothing more than a Zuni pueblo), the Europeans were lured on by a captured Indian slave they called the Turk, because he looked like one. "Just ahead," he kept telling them. One of Coronado's officers, Don Rodrigo Maldonado, was dispatched eastward until he could find something—anything—to report. He tried to line his way back to the camp with piles of rocks and buffalo chips. The land offered no inkling of what he was about to see. From a distance of three or four hundred yards, the horizon of pale grass may have shown its first sign of parting, a glimpse of the underlying caliche. And then, suddenly, he was on the stunning brink of it—a vast chasm extending thousands of yards across, a subsoil mountain range snaking and broadening in the distance for miles, dropping off from the prairie five hundred feet and more. Straight down.
The rock cliffs were hued downward in beige and yellow, grays becoming olive and lavender, maroons approaching vermilion on the canyon's floor. On the walls giant boulders perched at precarious angles. The crags and mesas suggested the profiles of camels, humans, apes. Yet the cheeks of the earth's rock face wore a stubble of clinging juniper. Among glens of grass, trees grew thick-trunked and tall on the canyon's floor. The Mexican traders later named the canyon Palo Duro, which means hard wood. Coronado's scout gaped at a geological fluke that had begun as a simple erosion gully about a million years earlier. The rock formations tell anteceding stories of Ice Age horses, saber-toothed cats, dinosaurs, and the landlocked Permian sea. Don Rodrigo Maldonado had no clear sense of that, of course. He was probably thinking that if they could just find a safe way down, here at last was shelter and water. But after seeing nothing but miles of the eerie uniform plains, standing on the rim of Palo Duro produces a vertigo that suggests the epochs and transcends mere centuries. How could this netherworld of utter contrast possibly be here?
"Mules, Outlaws, Pistols, and Cynicism"
Four hundred forty-three years later, my wife and I sat on saddled mules and peered down over the canyon rim. Ordinarily, we embarked on camping trips with chilled asparagus, a marinated leg of lamb, my stepdaughter, Lila, and the family car. Having left with apologies and a promise of souvenirs to the child, this morning we wore boots, thick shirts, leather work gloves, stylish trim-line chaps called chinks, bandannas, and gimme caps (hers a USS New Jersey, mine a Bell Helicopter)—we were dudes with a mildly daring recreational plan. You can drive through a well-maintained state park at the broad mouth of Palo Duro, but to really appreciate the canyon you have to see the upper regions still owned by private ranchers, one of whom had granted us access. I was a dilettante historian on muleback—not the most swashbuckling self-image—and Dorothy was along for the ride. Against the backdrop of Palo Duro's past, the cushy triviality of our little adventure already had me feeling sheepish. And now the rock-hard fact of the place had my heart in my throat.
I do not wish to exaggerate the dimensions of Palo Duro Canyon. Seen from the air, it loses much of its mystery. Wrinkled with gullies the plain deteriorates into a raw scrape of erosion, the brakes of the heavily silted and aptly named Red River. The headwater ravines sprawl 120 miles across four counties south of Amarillo. Geologically, Palo Duro's rock formations are said to approximate those along the rim of the Grand Canyon—a good mile above the massive Arizona canyon's floor. On the scale of comparison, that will do. But the schizophrenic dislocation and euphoria born of first seeing Palo Duro have not diminished since Coronado's discovery. Fixed here and there with windmills, the shortgrass plain goes indifferently right to the brink, then picks up and extends with the same monotony beyond the divide; it would not be a good place to stub one's toe in the dark. While the dry creek and wooded meadows below were handsome, at the moment I couldn't call them inviting. Our host rancher, like most of his neighbors, had brought in bulldozers to grade crude roads down to the floor. Locally the Caterpillar operators have reputations and renown comparable to those of Alaskan bush pilots. Using the blades for brakes, they essentially skidded down the cliffs, prepared at all times to bail out. Some of that heavy machinery landed upside down on the canyons floor. Safe and easy ways down are Palo Duro's scarcest feature.
Selden Hale, a laconic man with prematurely gray hair, had volunteered to be our guide and outfitter. Selden practices criminal law in Amarillo, but the inscription on his stationary, "Mules, Outlaws, Pistols, and Cynicism," suggests his avocation and preferred topics of conversation. His great-grandmother was one of


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Major Section: EVENTS
Examples: (include-book "my-arith") (include-book "/home/smith/my-arith") (include-book "/../../my-arith")whereGeneral Form: (include-book file :load-compiled-file action ; [default :warn] :uncertified-okp t/nil ; [default t] :defaxioms-okp t/nil ; [default t] :skip-proofs-okp t/nil ; [default t] :doc doc-string)
is a book name. See books for general information,
see book-name for information about book names, and see pathname
for information about file names. Action
is one of t
, nil
, :warn
(the default), :try
, or :comp
; these values are explained
below. The three -okp
keyword arguments, which default to t
determine whether errors or warnings are generated under certain
conditions explained below; when the argument is t
, warnings
are generated. Doc-string
is an optional documentation string;
see doc-string. If the book has no certificate
, if its
is invalid or if the certificate was produced by a
different version of ACL2, a warning is printed and the book is
included anyway; see certificate. This can lead to serious errors;
see uncertified-books. If the portcullis of the certificate
(see portcullis) cannot be raised in the host logical world,
an error is caused and no change occurs to the logic. Otherwise,
the non-local
events in file are assumed. Then the
keep of the certificate is checked to ensure that the
correct files were read; see keep. A warning is printed if
uncertified books were included. Even if no warning is
printed, include-book
places a burden on you; see certificate.
If there is a compiled file for the book that was created more
recently than the book itself and the value action
of the
argument is not nil
, or is omitted, then
the compiled file is automatically loaded; otherwise it is not
loaded. If action
is t
then the compiled file must be
loaded or an error will occur; if action
is :warn
default) then a warning will be printed; if action
is :try
then no warning will be printed; and if action
is :comp
the file will be immediately compiled (if the compiled file does not
already exist) and loaded. Certify-book
can also be used to
compile a book. The effect of compilation is to speed up the
execution of the functions defined within the book when those
functions are applied to specific values. The presence of compiled
code for the functions in the book should not otherwise affect the
performance of ACL2. See guard for a discussion. NOTE: the
argument is not recursive; that is, calls of
that are inside the book supplied to
will use their own :load-compiled-file
arguments (default :warn
), not the :load-compiled-file
argument for the enclosing book.
The three -okp
arguments, :uncertified-okp
, defaxioms-okp
and skip-proofs-okp
, determine the system's behavior when
the book or any subbook is found to be uncertified, when the book
or any subbook is found to contain defaxiom
events, and when
the book or any subbook is found to contain skip-proofs
respectively. All three default to t
, which means it is ``ok''
for the condition to arise. In this case, a warning is printed but
the processing to load the book is allowed to proceed. When one of
these arguments is nil
and the corresponding condition arises,
an error is signaled and processing is aborted.
is similar in spirit to encapsulate
in that it is
a single event that ``contains'' other events, in this case the
events listed in the file named. Include-book
processes the
event forms in the file, assuming that each is
admissible. Local
events in the file are ignored. You may
use include-book
to load multiple books, creating the logical
world that contains the definitions and theorems of all of
If any non-local
event of the book attempts to define a name
that has already been defined -- and the book's definition is not
syntactically identical to the existing definition -- the attempt to
include the book fails, an error message is printed, and no change
to the logical world occurs. See redundant-events for the
When a book is included, the default defun-mode
(see default-defun-mode) for the first event is always
. That is, the default defun-mode ``outside'' the book --
in the environment in which include-book
was called -- is
irrelevant to the book. Events that change the defun-mode are
permitted within a book (provided they are not in local
However, such changes within a book are not exported, i.e., at the
conclusion of an include-book
, the ``outside'' default defun-mode
is always the same as it was before the include-book
Unlike every other event in ACL2, include-book
puts a burden on
you. Used improperly, include-book
can be unsound in the sense
that it can create an inconsistent extension of a consistent logical
world. A certification mechanism is available to help you
carry this burden -- but it must be understood up front that even
certification is no guarantee against inconsistency here. The
fundamental problem is one of file system security.
See certificate for a discussion of the security issues.
After execution of an include-book
form, the value of
is restored to what it was immediately before
that include-book
form was executed.
See acl2-defaults-table.
This concludes the guided tour through books.
See set-compile-fns for a subtle point about the interaction
between include-book
and on-the-fly compilation.
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I have a beam boat also but I'm a tactical officer.. What I do is cycle my weapon buffs to keep reasonable DPS and make extensive use of weapon batteries. For instance in KASE I usually keep gard on probe and I rarely have any that goes beyond me, I always park above the travel lane just behond the range of the gate (10-10.5 km). One trick I use is hit weapon batteries or any buff than use fire at will. By the time the first on blow up the second one (and more if there is) already has his shield down and close to 50% hull.
When I need to kill something real fast I stack up my tac buff for a good burst of power. Now my tactical officer has almost all weapons skill maxed out so that help a lot.
Also I don't use beam overload anymore, always get weapon power to zero and it always take a while before I do decent damage again if no buff or batteries are availlable. I use 8 beams and power level usually go to around 50 to 60% at the end of each cycle and never below 85% on batteries. One thing I like about antiproton is that you get lots of criticals hits so that helps keep DPS up.
I almost always have weapon power set to 100%, plus any buff from console and stuff on top (120% now). Also to maximize batteries I have two purple maintenance engineer which gives me 4 second extra on batteries (my skill are maxed out also for batteries).


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peyton manning vs steelers defense (minus clark)
joe flacco vs cincinnati
i'm leaning manning because, well it's peyton manning. i also hate qb's against opponents within their division. then again, flacco has looked really good this preseason, especially with the hurry up offense, and i'm betting harbaugh wants to lean on flacco as much as possible early on to build him up this season.
That's a tough call. Flacco had a passer rating over 100 last year against the Bengals and threw 3 TDs to 1 INT but only a total of 400 yards in two games. OTOH, I think that last game was a gimme game and he didn't play much. I wouldn't be surprised if Flacco lights them up.... OTOH, he's going to be throwing a pass or two at Jacoby Jones. So. There you go.
Peyton? He scares me. If it's the old Peyton, then hell yeah. But it's not the old Peyton and these aren't his old receivers and this isn't his old offense. OTOH, he's going to be throwing a pass or two at Joel Dreessen. So. There you go.
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Hi - So, I started this pattern, and am not sure whether my gauge is right as I didnt know what part of the pattern was 'brioche stitch'. So now I think i do , but its too late... I think my gauge is too small in both the red and striped versions in the picture.
My next problem or challenge with the pattern is that what I have knit ended up a square, and the pattern rows go opposite of what Lisa's example shows in her finished sample photo. I guess mine could go that way if i folded it in half and turned it upside down!! I'd like some feedback from Lisa or whoever can give some on what I may be doing right or wrong.
Here's a picture:
You have gotten further than I have. I'm still trying to figure out how to get the k1b to work with the brioche. Good luck. (Also, on ravelry.com, they said that it comes out as a "wonky square")
Cait -
Below is the reply i got from sending an email to the help desk on this site.
I believe the k1b *is* the brioche stitch, although it is a shortcut type of thing, with none of the yo's, etc that you do on the traditional brioche. I have seen a couple other patterns using k1b that call that the brioche stitch. I did it this way and it looks like the pattern.
I will say that I never got the gauge to work out, as the yarn specified is said to be a DK, and i used that , but have never been able to get it to knit up as big as the gauge says, even using size 11 needles, which are a heck of a lot bigger than the ones recommended. So i wonder if the yarn is actually a worsted gauge.
What i did is faked it - I knit the bottom part a little bigger than in the photo, then bound off a few stitches in the middle to be the neckline and knitted the two remaining 'arms' to be like a scarf and wrap around my neck/shoulders. I can wear this with the point in front like this pattern or in back like a shawl. Get lots of compliments on it. :))
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I just finished this, but am going to frog it. I did the brioche stitch correctly, and I knit it on a circular needle but there's no way it's a triangle - it's a square and even folded in half it's too small to wrap around my neck (and it's too bulky). Can someone please look at the pattern and make sure it's written correctly. I'd love to end up with the neckerchief if the photo, but not going to happen with this pattern.
Hi All Brioche Knitters,
The brioche stitch pattern is quite simple to follow but to get the understanding of the pattern sequence is another thing all together! Firstly, the item made with the brioche stitch pattern must be knit back and forth and not knit in the round. You can use circular needles but knit it back and forth and don't join the foundation row to make a circle. It doesn't work. I am someone who loves to knit in the round but had to do the back and forth thing for this.
In my efforts to understand this stitch pattern, I surfed the net last year and came up with this site. It gives the written instructions followed by a video to demonstrate the brioche. I read and re-read the instructions and the ones in EZ's book Knitting without Tears. I realized that this was not going to work unless I got the foundation row knit as written. I then followed word by word and row by row to get this. And yes many frogs came out to sing before my project looked like it was supposed to look. I made the hat as per this site. I have never attempted to do brioche with two colors, and, maybe someday I will try it. Once I got going, the hat took me one hour to knit up. http://megan.cc/Hat/
One thing more that helped me out was to make that foundation row, and then sit there and knit right along with the video. I had to pause it many times but I did get it done!
Don't let frustration get in the way of the happy knitting, I hope I was able to help out??? Zoe
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Every day I think conservatives have finally reached some plateau of ridiculousness in making a mockery of themselves and their country, and then something like this happens, reminding me that GOP stupidity is apparently boundless.
I bring Fox News into this mostly because of the faux outrage from the right over the White House acknowledging what anyone with a brain has known for years; namely that FNC and the Republican Party might as well go to Massachusetts and get married. Fox aired nearly wall-to-wall coverage of the "tea party protests" – protests only attended by Republicans, along with a smattering of eager white supremacists) while other networks like MSNBC covered the events, but didn't obsess over them.
They were written about in every major paper including the New York Times.
That alone ought to be cause enough to seriously reconsider the impartiality of Fox News, but that would have been a pretty obvious waste of time when Fox News employees – on-air hosts after pimping these protests on their shows – joined the "protests" to give what amounted to keynote speeches that Fox was covering. That is something you never see the other networks doing, mind you, Keith Olbermann never gave speeches at Iraq war protests and neither has anyone else that I'm aware of.
But FNC aside, along comes news that 75 House Republicans – people who generally have a reputation as nutjobs for trying to pass "birther" legislation posthaste like Michelle Bachman – are trying to use Congress to officially endorse the Fox News rallies with a resolution that repeats the long-debunked lies about crowd size.
All this after John Boehner issued a teary-eyed press release complaining about Democrats wasting time with frivolous bills while unemployment "nears 10 percent".
If you recall, and you should since this was a hot topic not too long ago, a director for FreedomWorks – a corporate lobbying group that was a principal organizer and founder of the original fake tea party protests (they represent health insurance companies, naturally, not the boobs who showed up at these rallies) – lied in front of a crowd about the the size of the D.C. event, citing a non-existent ABC News report putting the crowd at around one million people. An obscure conservative blogger (no offense intended by that, just stating a fact here, it's not like I'm not obscure as well) took to Twitter and immediately doubled that lie up to two million people, and that tweet rocketed around the conservative echo chamber the rest of the day, week, and still even now, despite being debunked within minutes.
ABC denied having made any such report (and to this date nobody has been able to "find" it) and the only semi-official estimates put the actual crowd size at somewhere between sixty and seventy thousand people. Not insubstantial, but a far cry from the two million figure from FreedomWorks.
Now, thanks to dishonest Republicans who love to lie apparently, those bloated figures are sitting in House Resolution 870 with nearly 80 endorsements:
Whereas estimates of the number of people who peacefully marched from Freedom Plaza to the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on September 12, 2009, range as high as 1,700,000 marchers;
Whereas all 50 States were represented in the march;
There is no proof of course that "all 50 states were represented", they are simply making that up just as they are lying about the size of the crowd.
Seven years have passed and we're still waiting for House Republicans to introduce a resolution commemorating the Iraq war protests that Fox News didn't cover, and certainly didn't send their biggest on-air stars to speak at.
Or these useless Republicans could take their own advice, shut up, and get back to work.
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Chistine Besack posted that the Frick will be hosting the Unfinished Print Exhibit. Part of the National Gallery of Art "Unfinished Print" Exhibit is still online.
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Where I stayed
What I did
On Christmas day Abby and I got up at 7 to make pancakes. Molly had worked 14 hours the day before and been up for 18, so we let her sleep. Chrissie had got us 3 our own stockings, which was so nice as it meant we could sit down with the rest of the family and open presents with them. We got them each something small as well. Then we had pancakes and headed to Bondi beach. It was the worst weather we'd had the entire trip... so we weren't expecting much. But the beach was very empty, which we were a bit gutted about! But the Bondi area had quite a lot of people most of the restaurants were full, loads of people were wearing Christmas hats and costumes and things. So we decided to get some lunch, it was really nice as we were all in good spirits and had a good laugh. Then we headed back to Molly's were we had Christmas carols on, watched some films played cards and charades. It was really good fun.
Then on Boxing Day, we got up and watched home-alone (a classic I know), Then Molly started the Christmas roast while I watched the Boxing Day test, Aus vs. SL. Molly made an amazing meal, it's the first time she had done a Christmas roast and it was sooo good. We had chicken, sweet and normal roast potatoes, homemade Yorkshire pudding, pigs in blanket, gravy, runner beans and wine. It was really quite impressive, I was well happy!
The girls were going out that night but I wanted to go home and Skype my family as I wasn't able to the day before. However because it was boxing day there were loads of replacement buses and it took me a few hours to get home and I was so tiered when I got back I fell straight asleep. Luckily I woke up to Gwen ringing me on Skype. So I got to speak to my family which was great, as it was my first Christmas away from home and it is quite weird missing all the KP Banta!
Anyway, I got tickets to the Big Bash 20/20 league in a few days, hopefully surfing tomorrow and seeing the fireworks over the opera house for New Year's :) I'll do another blog in the New Year! Hope you have a happy new year everyone!!