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Why must vengefulness be the default strategy for humans—the very thing we dislike and fear most about our adversaries? Mob rule is a temptation we assume we have grown beyond, but have we? The media hounds and the war lovers like Senators Graham and McCain bay for blood, putting enormous pressure on the President to get suckered into a third Middle East war. To avoid the label of wimp, Mr. Obama had to say what he said in his speech to the nation on his strategy against ISIS, but what he said was only a palatable version of the vengefulness paradigm.
The agony of loss the parents of Jim Foley and Steven Sotloff must feel is beyond comprehension. But is their pain any different from the universal pain of violence and war that has been felt by the parents of murdered children time out of mind?—the pain of Aleppo, the pain of mothers in Gaza, the pain of innocents in Baghdad who found themselves on the wrong end of Shock and Awe, the pain of wedding participants in Afghanistan blown up under the pitiless eye of US drones, the horror of people having to jump from the twin towers to avoid being burned alive.
Washington DC - A new paper from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) provides details on an interesting trend in part-time employment over the last year. In the months leading up to the opening of the ACA exchanges, some critics argued that the law would increase involuntary part-time employment. The rationale most often suggested was that employers would cut back workers' hours to less than 30 per week to avoid penalties associated with not providing insurance under the ACA. However, involuntary part-time employment been trending downward throughout the recovery.
Voluntary part-time employment, though, did increase in the first six months of 2014 compared to the first six months of 2013. The paper gives a breakdown of the distribution of part-time employment by age, gender, and whether or not the household has children. The data show that the biggest increase in voluntary part-time employment is for young people with children. This would be consistent with a story where many workers who previously needed to work full-time to get health care insurance at their job are taking the option of buying insurance on the exchanges and working part-time jobs in order to have more time to be with young children.
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I personally carried around, as a general guide, his essay, The Obsolescence of Education for my entire teaching career. When I reached out to him a couple of weeks ago, he informed me that it needed to be updated. I was stunned to see that the article was updated as late as August 21, 2014, after having it intact since the year 2000, when I started teaching. Dr. Setzer is a very inspiring intellectual. I asked him about the obsolescence of education.
We are all citizens of the world now.
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ClassicsOnline Home » HAYDN: Nelson Mass / Little Organ Mass
Franz Joseph Haydn
Nelson Mass; Kleine
It was only after the death of the Emperor Joseph II in 1790 that the
way was once more open to composers to provide settings of the liturgy with
full orchestral accompaniment. The removal of the Josephine restrictions of the
previous ten years by the new Emperor Leopold II, followed in 1792 by his
successor, Franz II, made feasible Mozart's great unfinished Requiem and
the six Masses written by Haydn between 1796 and 1802. Of these the so-called Nelson
Mass is one of the greatest.
Joseph Haydn was born in 1732 in Rohrau in Lower Austria, the son of a
wheelwright. Unlike Mozart, he was to enjoy a long and successful life well
into the early years of the next century. His father gave him all the encouragement
needed to start a musical career and at the age of eight, possessed of a fine
treble voice, he joined the choir of St Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna. Over a
period of some ten years as a chorister he received training in instrumental
and vocal music, with rather less instruction in music theory, a knowledge of
which he acquired, as he later said, largely through the music he knew and
performed. After leaving the choir school he was obliged to find work to
support himself, serving as an accompanist, teaching and performing. His main
chance came when he entered the service of the Esterházy family in 1761, as
Deputy Kapellmeister, eventually, under Prince Nikolaus, succeeding in
1766 as Kapellmeister, now commissioned by this wealthiest of benefactors
to write operas, symphonies, quartets and all kinds of music and to take charge
of the Prince's musical establishment, principally based at the new Palace of
Eszterháza. Apart from a period in the 1790s when he travelled to London for
two seasons, most of Haydn's music was written for the princely family and
their residences in Vienna, Eisenstadt and Eszterháza. The last of these, where
Haydn worked for nearly 25 years, provided a degree of isolation and the
incentive for the composition of a vast quantity of music, as well as the
convenience of having his own permanent orchestra to work with.
The death of Prince Nikolaus Esterházy in 1790 put an end to this
relationship and the Prince's successor disbanded the orchestra, so that
Haydn's services were no longer needed, although he retained his salary and the
title of Kapellmeister. He now moved to Vienna, shortly to accept an
invitation from the violinist and impresario Johann Peter Salomon to visit
England, where he spent some eighteen months from early 1791, enjoying huge
success and receiving an honorary degree at Oxford. Salomon invited Haydn to
London again in 1794 with a commission for six further symphonies and from
Spring 1794 until Summer 1795 Haydn was again acclaimed by the London public.
The accession of anew Esterházy Prince led in 1796 to a rekindling of
interest in music and the return of Haydn to duties under the family's
patronage, now principally at Eisenstadt. The period brought some of Haydn's
greatest works, including the oratorio The Creation in 1798 and The
Seasons in 1801, as well as the three great late Masses, the Missa in
tempore belli (Paukenmesse) in 1796, the so-called Nelson
Mass in 1798 and the Harmoniemesse in 1802. In this last year
Haydn's health began to deteriorate and he was to die five years later, as
Napoleon's troops again occupied Vienna.
The Nelson Mass is a particularly dramatic and emotional work,
well suited to the grandeur of the hero from whom it takes its familiar name.
In truth, the title of Nelson has little or nothing to do with the work that
Haydn had called Missa in angustiis ('Mass in time of tribulation'). The
Mass was composed, dated in Haydn's own hand, between 10th July and 31st
August, presumably intended for the name day of Princess Esterházy. The
connection with the English admiral is derived from the fact that the work was
first performed shortly after news of Nelson's defeat of Napoleon's fleet at
Aboukir Bay had reached the Austrian capital. There is also some suggestion
that Haydn added a trumpet call in the Benedictus recalling the
courier's own trumpet call when news of the battle was brought to Prince
Esterházy. Whatever the truth of this, since that time the name of Nelson has
been associated with the Mass and both Nelson, with Sir William and Lady
Hamilton, met Haydn in September 1800 during a four-day visit to Eisenstadt
during which there seems to have been a performance of the Mass.
The Nelson Mass was originally scored for three trumpets,
timpani, strings and organ, with the organ part later transcribed by the
Esterházy Kapellmeister Johann Nepomuk Fuchs for woodwind. The Mass is
truly symphonic and opens impressively, trumpets and drums to the fore in the
ominous key of D minor, before the entry of the soprano soloist. The joyful Gloria
is in three sections, a D major Allegro in which soloists are
contrasted with the full choir, followed by a B flat major Qui tollis, marked
Adagio, opening with a bass solo and moving to D minor with an
accompaniment of organ and strings. The final section recalls the first in a
cheerful D major Allegro, leading to the customary fugal ending. The Credo
is again in three sections, an Allegro con spirito and Vivace in
D major framing a G major Largo that starts with a moving soprano solo, Et
incarnatus est. The third section, Et resurrexit soon moves from B
minor to D major once more, to end in triumph. The Sanctus starts with a
meditative Adagio, soon leading to a livelier Pleni sunt coeli. The
Benedictus, moving from D minor to an energetic D major Hosanna in
excelsis, gives further prominence to the solo soprano, with continuingly
demanding high tessitura. Solo voices are used in the G major Agnus Dei, a
movement of prayerful serenity, before the final contrapuntal D major Dona
nobis pacem.
The earlier Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo or Kleine
Orgelmesse ('Little Organ Mass') in B flat major was probably written in
the winter of 1777-78 for the chapel of the Brothers of Mercy in Eisenstadt, in
honour of the founder of the order, St John of God. It is on a much smaller
scale than the Nelson Mass and was originally scored for violins and
organ, with a soprano soloist in the Benedictus and a four-part choir.
It is in six sections and follows contemporary practice of the Missa brevis in
offering compact versions of the Gloria and Credo, with their
relatively long texts, in which phrases are allowed to overlap. The Kyrie is
an Adagio and the vigorous Gloria, introduced by the customary
plainchant, is followed by a Credo that finds a place at its heart for a
moving Adagio setting of the words Et incarnatus est. The Sanctus
includes a Hosanna in excelsis of contrapuntal promise, while the Benedictus,
with its more prominent organ accompaniment, introduces elaborate writing
for the solo soprano, before the return of the Hosanna. The Agnus Dei
pleads for mercy on sinners, the music dying away as the heartfelt Dona
nobis pacem comes to an end.
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Kyrie eleison.
Christe eleison.
Lord have mercy.
Christ have mercy.
Lord have mercy.
Gloria in excelsis Deo
Et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis.
Laudamus te. Benedicimus te.
Adoramus te. Gloriflcamus te.
Gratias agimus tibi
magnam gloriam tuam.
Domine Deus, Rex caelestis, Pater omnipotens.
Domine Fili unigenite Jesu Christe.
Domine Deus, Agnus Dei, Filius Patris.
Glory be to God on high.
And on earth peace to men of good will.
We praise thee. We bless thee.
We worship thee. We glorify thee.
We give thee thanks
thy great glory.
Lord God, heavenly King, God the Father
Lord, only begotten Son, Jesus Christ.
Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father.
Qui tollis peccata mundi,
miserere nobis.
suscipe deprecationem
Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris,
Thou that takest away the sins of the world,
have mercy upon us.
receive our prayer.
Thou that sittest at the right hand of the Father,
Quoniam tu solus sanctus.
Tu solus Dominus.
Tu solus altissimus, Jesu Christe.
Cum Sancto Spiritu, in gloria Dei Patris.
For thou alone art holy.
Thou alone art the Lord.
Thou alone art the most high, Jesus Christ.
With the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God the Father.
Credo in unum Deum, Patrem omnipotentem,
factorem caeli et terrae,
visibilium omnium et invisibilium.
Et in unum Dominum Jesum Christum,
Filium Dei unigenitum. Et ex Patre natum
ante omnia saecula. Deum de Deo,
lumen de lumine, Deum verum de Deo vero.
Genitum non factum, consubstantialem Patri:
per quem omnia facta sunt.
Qui propter nos homines,
et propter nostram salutem
descendit de caelis.
I believe in one God, the Father almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all things, visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ,
the only begotten Son of God. Born of the Father
before all generations. God from God,
light from light, true God from true God.
Begotten not made, of one substance with the Father:
through whom all things were made.
Who for us men,
and for our salvation
came down from
Et incarnatus est de Spiritu Sancto
ex Maria Virgine: et homo factus est.
Crucifixus etiam pro nobis sub Pontio Pilato:
passus et sepultus est.
And was incarnate by
the Holy Spirit
of the Virgin Mary:
and was made man.
He was crucified
also for us under Pontius Pilate:
suffered and was
Et resurrexit tertia die,
Et ascendit in caelum:
ad dexteram Patris.
Et iterum venturus est cum gloria
judicare vivos et mortuos:
cujus regni non erit finis.
Et in Spiritum Sanctum Dominum,
qui ex Patre, Filioque procedit.
Qui cum Patre, et Filio simul adoratur,
qui locutus est per Prophetas.
Et unam, sanctam, catholicam
apostolicam Ecclesiam.
Confiteor unum baptisma
remissionem peccatorum.
Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum.
Et vitam venturi saeculi.
And the third day he rose again,
according to the Scriptures.
And ascended into heaven:
and is seated at the right
hand of the Father.
And he shall come again with glory
to judge the living and the dead:
whose kingdom shall have no end.
And I believe in the Holy Spirit,
Lord and giver of life:
who proceeds from the Father and the Son.
Who with the Father and the Son is worshipped,
and glorified:
who spoke through the Prophets.
And in one holy, catholic,
apostolic Church.
I confess one baptism
for the remission of sins.
And I await the resurrection of the dead.
And the life of the world to come.
Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus
Dominus Deus Sabaoth.
Pleni sunt caeli et terra gloria tua.
Hosanna in excelsis.
Holy, Holy, Holy
Lord God of Sabaoth.
Heaven and earth are full of thy glory.
Hosanna in the highest.
Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini.
Blessed is he that
cometh in the name of the Lord.
Hosanna in the
Agnus Dei
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi:
dona nobis pacem.
Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world:
grant us peace.
Dona nobis pacem.
Grant us peace.
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1802/1 $1 Wide Date MS62 NGC. B-3, BB-234, R.3....
2013 November 1 - 3 US Coin Signature Auction - New York #1191
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1802/1 Wide Date Bust Dollar, MS621802/1 $1 Wide Date MS62 NGC. B-3, BB-234, R.3. Bowers Die State III, the usual state with an oblong die lump in the right obverse field. Easily a Condition Census specimen and possibly the finest known, this piece is the first example listed in the Notable Specimens roster of the Bowers-Borckardt reference. More recently, an MS63 PCGS example appeared in the Cardinal Collection sale, and a similarly graded MS62 NGC example of this variety appeared in the January 2006 American Numismatic Rarities sale. An MS61 PCGS specimen is part of the famous Hesselgesser Collection on the PCGS Set Registry.
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This impressive overdate dollar has satin luster beneath delicate gold and champagne toning, gradually changing to steel-blue along the left side of the obverse and reverse. The strike is sharp, especially on the reverse, with only a few trivial marks.
Ex: Harley L. Freeman Collection (CSNS Sale, May 1977); Goshen Collection (Stack's, 2/1978), lot 310; Robison Collection (Stack's, 2/1982), lot 1881. (Registry values: P1) (PCGS# 6899)
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Time-Lapse: Trails End
Randy Halverson is an amazing astrophotographer, whose gorgeous photos and time-lapse animations have graced this blog numerous times.
His time-lapses show landscapes lit by the setting Sun, roaring thunderstorms, and of course the night sky wheeling overhead … and his newest, Trails End, is magnificent. He's posted a trailer for it, and wow. Make sure this is set to the highest resolution you can handle (it's filmed in 4K!), make it full screen, and turn the volume up.
If you're heart doesn't pound at 1:30 when that massive thunderstorm rolls in, then I can't help you.
As I watched, I was amused to see quite a few geosynchronous satellites in the sky sequences. These are satellites in orbits about 40,000 kilometers from the Earth's center; in such an orbit they take 24 hours to circle the Earth once, so they appear to stay in more-or-less the same spot in the sky relative to the ground. A trick to finding them in the shots is to not focus on any one part of the sky, but let your gaze take in the whole frame. Stars will move, but the geosynch sats won't.
At 2:48 I noticed something odd, and Halverson confirmed it: He caught a rocket boosting some satellites into orbit. Also, at 3:20, there's a meteor that leaves behind a persistent train, a glowing vapor trail. The video slows there for a moment to give you a chance to see it. Very very cool.
Remember, this is just the trailer for the much longer version that's shot in ultra-high def. If you have a high-res monitor (or a 4K TV!), you could do a lot worse than getting this movie.
Google Doodle Celebrates Sally Ride's 64th Birthday
Today, American astronaut Sally Ride would have have been 64 years old.
She died in 2012, but her work lives on as an inspiration to young women who want to touch the stars. Ride was indefatigable in promoting education, in promoting the need to explore space, and working to get girls more involved with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. As the first American woman in space her place in history was secure, but she knew what this implied for her as a role model, and maximized that leverage.
Google has helped promote her message today in a series of lovely Doodles, animated images that come up when you open the home page of the search engine. This one is my favorite.
Rather self-explanatory, isn't it? There are five in total; refresh the Google home page to see them all.
Dr. Ride was immortalized when NASA named the GRAIL spacecraft impact site after her. But her legacy was secured by her own doing, by her actions. And we thank her for them.
BA Video: Close-Up on a Comet
In the 1980s, humanity got its first face-to-face view of a comet when a fleet of spacecraft was sent to visit Comet Halley, which was making its first pass into the inner solar system since 1910. We got never-before-seen close-up glimpses of the nucleus of a comet, the inner solid part that creates the gigantic gas cloud and long, beautiful tail.
Over the years more probes were sent to comets like Tempel 1, Hartley 2, and Wild 2. Each is an individual, and each is weird. But all of those missions were flybys—important but brief.
But now we have the Rosetta spacecraft orbiting the comet 67P/Chuyurmov-Gerasimenko, studying it in detail and over a great length of time. We've learned so much about it, but also opened up a Pandora's box of even deeper mysteries about comets in general, and this comet in particular.
The big one, in my mind, is why it and so many others are shaped like bowling pins: two separate lobes connected by a relatively thin neck of material. We still don't know when it comes to 67P, but in this week's Bad Astronomy Video I go over the evidence we have so far.
The Rosetta mission has a nominal lifespan of a year, following 67P as it nears the Sun and becomes more active. There's a huge amount left to learn, but a corresponding amount we'll also discover. And that's one of my favorite facts about science: It's a jigsaw puzzle with an infinite number of pieces, so the fun of exploration never ends.
For more information about comets, read my article 10 Things You Don't Know About Comets.
Climate Change Denial Is a Threat to National Security
First, let me be clear about this reality: Planet Earth is warming because of human activity, because of us, and that is profoundly affecting the climate. There is no honest doubt about this; the overwhelming evidence supports it, so much so that 97 percent of climate scientists agree on it.
The effects of climate change are profound. We are already seeing more extreme weather, more powerful tropical storms, more wildfires. As the sea level rises, coastal populations are threatened, including military bases.
I have been saying for a long time that climate change is a threat to our national security, and it's long past time to call out those who would deny this as abetting that threat.
President Obama did just this last week, in a speech at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. My Slate colleague Eric Holthaus wrote all about this, and I strongly urge you to read that article. Obama used words like "negligence" and "dereliction of duty":
After all, isn't that the true hallmark of leadership? When you're on deck, standing your watch, you stay vigilant. You plan for every contingency. And if you see storm clouds gathering, or dangerous shoals ahead, you don't sit back and do nothing. You take action—to protect your ship, to keep your crew safe. Anything less is negligence. It is a dereliction of duty. And so, too, with climate change. Denying it, or refusing to deal with it endangers our national security. It undermines the readiness of our forces.
This sentiment was reinforced in a tweet from the president:
"Denying it or refusing to deal with it endangers our national security." —President Obama on climate change #ActOnClimate— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) May 20, 2015
Take a moment and ponder this. The president of the United States of America said that people who deny the reality of climate change are a threat to national security. And he strongly implied that members of Congress who do so are guilty of dereliction of duty.
I agree. And they do so on the basis of what is at best wrong information, and at worst a passel of lies.
The only doubt is manufactured, sole-sourced by the fossil fuel industry. Senators, Congress critters, "think tanks," sponsored by fossil fuel (and using the same tactics as the tobacco industry)—the doubt they sow is as fake as $3 bill, and just as obvious (and embarrassing). From ridiculous and patently false claims that global warming has slowed, that the world can't be warming because winter still exists, that (seriously) plants like carbon dioxide so we're just feeding them; these people's only purpose is to slow any real progress on fixing the planetary mess we're in.
And in that way, they are making things far, far worse.
As the latest example, look at an op-ed in Forbes magazine written by Heartland Institute's James Taylor (yes, that Heartland Institute). Taylor has a history of cherry-picking and distorting results from real climate scientists, and he's doing the same thing here.
In the op-ed, he claims that global warming has not caused global sea ice retreat. This is a gross distortion of reality. The truth is that in the arctic we're seeing record low levels of sea ice year after year, including just this year, when in March the North Pole saw the lowest maximum ice extent on record.
It takes a very twisted view of the world to claim global warming isn't doing anything to polar ice not two months after that record was broken. And as we know very, very well, Arctic sea ice is on a long, drastic decline that does not show any signs of recovery at all.
But note how Taylor phrases it, using "global" ice. That includes Antarctic sea ice, but as I have written about over and over again, that is really unfair. Antarctic sea ice is very different than at the North Pole; Antarctica is a continent and conditions there are literally polar opposites. The southern sea ice fluctuates quite a bit year to year, and in fact wind-driven snow can be increased by global warming (warmer air can hold more moisture), so glossing over local conditions the way Taylor does is at best misleading.
And in actual fact, land ice in Antarctica is melting away extremely rapidly, and worldwide we're losing 450 billion tons of land ice every year.
That doesn't sound at all like what Taylor is claiming, does it? I guess he doesn't know (or doesn't say) that his corporate sponsors are using the ongoing decrease in arctic ice as a reason to explore more drilling sites in north polar waters.
I'll also note Taylor links to some satellite data from the University of Illinois Polar Research Group to make his claim … and that same group has issued a rebuttal saying Taylor cherry-picked his data and refutes his claim. Oops.
As much as I loathe what Taylor is doing and saying, I reserve my strongest feelings for people like Sen. James Inhofe (R-Oklahaoma); my own senator, Cory Gardner (R-Colorado); and virtually all the GOP presidential candidates, who claim with various degrees of head-in-the-sand-ness that humans aren't causing global warming.
These people have a sworn duty to protect the people of our nation. What they are doing is the exact opposite in every way. They cut NASA's funding to investigate climate change. They even cut the Pentagon's funding to act on it. The Pentagon.
In the medium to long run these politicians are putting us at greater risk from drought, wildfire, extreme weather, and rising sea levels. In the near run they are cruelly crippling our ability to do the kind of research that has made the United States of America a world leader in scientific innovation.
They claim to love this country. But they sure don't act that way.
I have written about the reality of global warming and the lies of the deniers so often that to list them all would be counterproductive. Instead, here are some highlights that you can use to counter the denial; check links therein to find even more.
How to Lie With Data (or, "Melting Away Global Warming")
New Observations Confirm Greenland, Antarctica Losing Land Ice Rapidly
The Top of the World Sinks Ever Lower
New Study: Climate Scientists Overwhelmingly Agree Global Warming Is Real and Our Fault
Slaying the Zombie Ideas of Climate Change Denial
… and, of course, always check Skeptical Science when you hear a claim from someone saying global warming isn't real. The vast, overwhelming amount of the time, that claim is nitrogen-rich.
It's Crowded Downtown
Funny. I was thinking I want to just post a big, gorgeous, colorful photo showing a bunch of different astronomical objects in one scene, and then I found an old note from Derek Demeter, planetarium director at the Seminole State College of Florida. He's an accomplished astrophotographer, and took this stunning picture of the galactic center last October:
Wait. That's the Same Comet?
The folks at the European Space Agency released a new picture of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and I have to admit that it threw me.
Huh. That's the comet? Where's the second lobe?
For a second I thought we were just seeing it end-on, so that the bi-lobed rubber ducky shape wasn't obvious. But then I realized the part we're seeing is too thin; the big bottom lobe is much wider than seen here. I did a bunch of rotations and such in my head, and quickly concluded there's simply no angle on the comet that would produce this view.
My brain really jammed at that point, and I had to concede: I didn't understand the photo. I read the accompanying text to find out what was going on and got a good chuckle. I forgot about the Sun.
Here's the same photo, with the contrast/brightness wildly stretched:
Aha! The smaller lobe is there, a barely darker black against the black sky. The reason it can't be seen is that it's in the bigger lobe's shadow. And also, the bottom of the bigger lobe is flattened, shaped more like a river rock than a potato. At this angle it looks foreshortened, so that fooled me as well.
I love puzzles, and I love getting as far as I can before going to the answer key, but this still felt a little like cheating, since I couldn't figure it out all out by myself. Drat!
But there's one thing I did see that I do understand. Look to the left, just below the tip of the lobe. See that luminous line dropping down? Care to guess what that is?
Hint: The plumes you see coming from the comet are actually jets of gas, caused by the Sun heating the ice in the comet, turning it directly into a gas.*
Got it now? That vertical line is the shadow of the solid part of the lobe on the gas surrounding the comet. Comets are so weird: They can cast shadows on themselves!
I've spent a lot of my life interpreting astronomical images, squeezing the science out of them by analyzing their shapes, contours, brightness, colors, and more. This picture is a good reminder not to take experience for granted, nor to invest too much confidence in it.
Any of us can be fooled at any time. That's an uncomfortable but necessary piece of information to always keep in mind.
*Also making it useful for the annual Pacific Tech "Smart People on Ice" show. And yes, I did just watch Real Genius for the 300th time the other night. Why do you ask?
How Do Clouds Form?
As someone who loves looking at clouds, and may have a somewhat scientifically directed brain, I'm fascinated by the shapes and structures of clouds. Where I live, at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, provides endless examples of them.
I write about them a lot, but I don't think I've ever explained just how clouds form. After all, it's a little weird: A typical storm cloud can have a mass of millions of tons, yet they float! I know this is because they're less dense than air, but that still seems weird.
But, if you watch this great video on how clouds form by my friends at Minute Earth, you'll understand exactly how this all works.
There were two parts in that video that I want to emphasize. One was just why clouds are buoyant; it's for the same reason a helium balloon is. At a given temperature, a volume of a gas will have the same number of atoms or molecules in it no matter what those atoms or molecules are. Helium atoms have way less mass than oxygen and nitrogen, so it weighs less, so up it goes. And it's the same for humid air!
The other part was why clouds have flat bottoms. The video makes that really obvious: As you go up in altitude, the temperature of the air drops (this is called the lapse rate, which for some reason is a term I think is really cool). Water vapor (water as a gas) is transparent, so you don't see that big bubble of rising humid air until it gets to the part of the atmosphere where it's cool enough for the water to condense into droplets (and becomes visible). If the air over a wide area over the ground all reaches that temperature at the same altitude, it forms a plane parallel to the ground. As the humid air rises through that plane it condenses, forming a cloud that is round on top and flat on the bottom. It's actually a bit of an illusion; the parcel of rising air is still balloon-shaped (very roughly), but you only see it where the water condenses.
I have to admit: I knew all the pieces of this but hadn't really put it all together in my head all at once. Seeing it drawn out this way in animated form made it very clear (so to speak, har har).
At the top of this post is a picture of clouds forming with flat bottoms, and you can see their bottoms are all at about the same altitude. I have always thought this would explain why we see the sky as a flattened dome over our heads; a cloud directly overhead is close to us, but one near the horizon is much farther away, giving the sky a flattened look. The perspective effect is strong; you can see how the clouds appear to bunch together when they're farther away. That's not real; they're probably scattered just as much 50 kilometers away as they are overhead, it's just that when they're farther away you see more of them in the same area of sky because they appear smaller with distance.
If all of this seems obvious to you, then yay! But I know that many times, when we live our lives in the natural world, there's a lot of stuff we see, and even a lot of pieces of it we understand. But putting it all together, turning it from a lot of jigsaw puzzle pieces into a single glorious picture, well, sometimes you need someone to show you that part.
If you want more about clouds, then watch this other video by my pal Joe Hanson from It's Okay To Be Smart. There's a lot more there.
Tip o' the brolly to the good folks (who are also friends of mine!) at Science Alert, too, for linking to both videos.
Dragon-Eye View of SpaceX Pad Abort Launch
On May 5, SpaceX tested its launch abort system: a set of powerful rockets on the Dragon space capsule that can pull the Dragon away from the Falcon rocket underneath in case of catastrophe.
SpaceX just released video taken from a camera on the Dragon capsule, and it's pretty dang dramatic. Come along for the ride:
Whoa. SpaceX said the capsule went from 0 to 160 kilometers per hour in 1.2 seconds, which is an acceleration of four times Earth's gravity. It reached a top speed of 550 kph, arcing nearly 1,200 meters into the air.
You can see the trunk jettisoned at 0:30 (in a real flight, this sits under the Dragon and contains unpressurized cargo and the capsule's solar panels). At the time I wondered where the trunk landed after the test; from this it looks like it came down in the water; it looks to me the capsule was already past the shoreline when the trunk jettisoned.
Seconds later the drogue chutes deploy to stabilize the capsule, then the three main parachutes release. Weirdly, the video stops just before the capsule splashes down. Perhaps we'll see more of that later.
This test was critically important: NASA requires any human-rated vehicle to pass stringent tests, including the ability to get astronauts away from the rocket stack in case of emergency. If SpaceX had failed this test, it would have been a major setback to getting Americans back into space on an American rocket. As it happens, things look to have gone pretty well.
There's also video of the test taken from cameras on the ground, and you can see just how fast the capsule blasted away from the pad.
The SuperDraco thrusters used for this test have double duty with Dragon; besides being there if needed in an emergency, they can be used on-orbit for maneuvering the capsule. SpaceX plans on being ready to put humans into space by 2017. They are also currently building the next generation Falcon Heavy rocket with plans for a test launch later this year.
Update, Friday, May 22, 2015, at 3 p.m.: Slate posted a review of a new biography of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. I also wrote about meeting Musk during a visit I made to the SpaceX rocket factory earlier this year.
Crash Course Astronomy: The Lord of the Rings
Who out there doesn't need a little more Saturn in their life? I can deliver.
This was a cool one to record. Even though we'd done 17 episodes before, I like to play with the format a little bit. I was a little more relaxed when we shot this, leaning back in the chair more and just having more fun with it. I hope that shows.
I know I'll get asked about this, so to head the question off: Yes, Saturn's rings really are thinner to scale than paper, by a lot. I've done the math.
For clarity, I'll note that there are places where Saturn's rings are thicker than 10 meters; they range up to a kilometer thick in some regions. But bear in mind that's still compared to their 300,000 km diameter! That's a heckuva ratio.
And why not: Here's an article I wrote about what would happen if Saturn made a close approach to Earth, inspired by a very cool video showing what it would look like. You'll like it.
As for Saturn itself, now is a great time to go out and see it. By a funny coincidence, Saturn is at opposition tonight: That means it's opposite the Sun in the sky, rising at sunset and setting at sunrise. It's up all night, and that also means it's as close to Earth as it will get for the year (about 1.34 billion km). If you want to see the planet for yourself—and oh my, yes you do—the next few weeks are the best time to do it.
Find a local observatory or nearby astronomy club; I imagine they'll have viewings. I expect some people will be thinking of buying a telescope, too, so read this first!
Saturn through a telescope can be literally life-changing. It changed mine, and it's done so for others. Go look.
I've been listening to electronica music for a long time (like, a really long time; as in I have Isao Tomita albums), and it's interesting to me that variations of it are still popular. I can't keep up with kids these days (STAY OFF MY ELECTRONS), so when a publicist sent me a note about Jamie XX, well, I'd never heard of him.
But she said the video for his new song "Gosh" has cool planetary visuals, so I figured what the heck. I clicked the link, and I have to admit: Yeah, the video has stunning visuals. It starts slow, so give it a chance.
I have to admit to chuckling when the rotating arm of the spaceship swings into view fully a minute into the video, after the very long approach sequence to Mars. That was well done. And the parts with spaceships and space stations set against the planet's limb are really beautiful. Not to mention looking down on the dunes, craters, and other landscapes. The bits at the end with water-filled craters are really, really nice, jumping into the future after the planet is terraformed. That was pretty cool.
The music isn't exactly my cup of tea, but after listening to it a couple of times it grew on me. I have pretty eclectic taste (I'll listen to the Captain America 2 soundtrack then ABBA then Shostakovich all without a break), but this was still something of a stretch. But I do kinda like it.
And I like that the video is slow, languid, letting you linger over each scene. It's nice to know that some people making visual art still appreciate simple beauty and give you a chance to soak it in.
And who knows? What's art today may very well be fact in a century or two. That's the point.


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It's long been the argument by the Mr. Makers and Takers such as Losing Vice-Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan, and his ideological ilk such as Newt Gingrich that programs that are intended to help lift the poor out of poverty are destined to fail and that the entire "War on Poverty" has resulted in nothing more than a Total Rout.
He's repeatedly told us how the Safety Net has turned into a Soft Sensible Soothing Quicksand Pit Hammock Of Doom.
Ryan: "We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock, that lulls people into lives of complacency".So Ryan did this study to prove his point (why he wanted to do that I'll never understand because - gee - isn't it obvious that the worse thing you can do for people who need help, is to give them any help!?) - so he did the study and guess what?
it turned out he was completely, totally wrong about Poverty Programs.
Conservatives have long argued that they are not the ones who are truly undermining the poor. They've said that they aren't the cruel ones, who would relegate them to a unending life of servitude and suffering. They argued that when you give a man a fish, he eats for a day, but when you give them a fishing rod, they eat for a lifetime.
Yet in fact their own policies would not only take away the fish (that's provided in programs like WIC or SNAP) but they also would take away the rod (provided by Student Loans and Small Business Loans) because - Deficit Spending is so just like 12 Years A Slave - or something.
But, that's not what Ryan's own report shows.
Veterans Health Administration is the largest single-payer health care system in the United States. The report finds that the program is "effective in providing access to inexpensive health care for low-income veterans. "But nevermind all that, we have a bunch of 1 Percenters who are too paralyzed by fear of the impending Kristalnacht to go about their duty of Job Creating and clearly we have to make sure they get nice soft velvetly tax reach-around so they finally stop worrying and being jittery, calm down, and be the engines of creation that we all depend on them to be.
The Child Tax Credit provides assistance to families with children. "According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the CTC protected about 2.9 million people from falling into poverty, including about 1.5 million children," the report says.
The Earned Income Tax Credit provides cash assistance to low-income working families. Accord to Ryan, the "consensus among studies on the EITC is that it is an effective tool for encouraging and rewarding work among lower-income individuals, particularly single mothers."
Rural Housing Assistance Grants fund the repair and improvement of rural housing units. The report finds that the grants "allow very low-income elderly homeowners on a fixed budget to remain at home and independent."
Title X Family Planning "provides grants to states for family planning and related preventive health services, excluding abortion services." The report found that the program is "moderately effective." According to a 2005 OMB assessment, "women who utilize Title X (Family Planning program) services as their primary source of health care have significantly greater odds of receiving contraceptive services and/or care for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) than women who utilize private physicians or HMOs."
Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program provides funding to states in support of health care costs associated with HIV/AIDS treatments for individuals and families. The initiative "has been shown to fill gaps in Medicaid's HIV/AIDS services and delivery programs," the report found.
Housing Opportunities For Persons With AIDS provides housing assistance and supportive services for low-income people living with HIV/AIDS. The program was found to be "effective" in "assisting a vulnerable population to achieve beneficial outcome."
Federal Health Centers provide grants to outpatient primary-care facilities. The report found "fewer racial and ethnic disparities at community health centers" and concluded that they "perform better than private-practice primary case in some cases." What's more, medical expenses for health center patients were found to be lower compared to patients who receive care elsewhere.
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Low income subsidy for Medicare Part D helps low-income seniors access medications they otherwise would not use. "A 2012 study compared two groups of seniors with similar commodities and found that seniors taking advantage of the LIS subsidy were significantly more likely to take medically necessary medications than the group not enrolled in the LIS program," the report found.
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School Breakfast Program increases "both nutrition and academic achievement among low-income children," the report says, even though "it doesn't seem to increase the likelihood that a child will eat breakfast."
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It's not every day you see an ex-president ask the Supreme Court to strike down a law he signed.
The justices must decide whether the Defense of Marriage Act "is consistent with the principles of a nation that honors freedom, equality and justice above all, and is therefore constitutional," Clinton writes in The Washington Post. [7]
He adds: "As the president who signed the act into law, I have come to believe that DOMA is contrary to those principles and, in fact, incompatible with our Constitution."
Clinton says that when he signed the law in 1996, "it was a very different time." No state recognized same-sex marriage, but some were considering it — and congressional opponents were proposing "quite draconian" responses, the 42nd president writes.
"As a bipartisan group of former senators stated in their March 1 amicus brief [8] to the Supreme Court, many supporters of the bill known as DOMA believed that its passage 'would defuse a movement to enact a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, which would have ended the debate for a generation or more,'" Clinton writes.
Now nine states and the District of Columbia sanction gay marriage, but those couples are denied rights available to others, Clinton notes; they "cannot file their taxes jointly, take unpaid leave to care for a sick or injured spouse or receive equal family health and pension benefits as federal civilian employees."
Says Clinton:
"When I signed the bill, I included a statement [9] with the admonition that 'enactment of this legislation should not, despite the fierce and at times divisive rhetoric surrounding it, be understood to provide an excuse for discrimination.' Reading those words today, I know now that, even worse than providing an excuse for discrimination, the law is itself discriminatory. It should be overturned."
The Supreme Court decision is expected in late June.
David Jackson writes for USA Today [10]. Via Religion News Service [11].
[1] http://sojo.net/blogs/gods-politics
[2] http://sojo.net/biography/david-jackson
[3] http://sojo.net/blogs/2013/03/11/bill-clinton-urges-supreme-court-overturn-gay-marriage-law-he-signed#comment-covenant
[4] http://sojo.net/letter-to-web-editor?post=Bill%20Clinton%20Urges%20Supreme%20Court%20to%20Overturn%20Gay%20Marriage%20Law%20He%20Signed
[5] http://sojo.net/donate
[6] http://sojo.net/sites/default/files/mainimages/blog/3529541865_65c917bf59.jpg
[7] http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/bill-clinton-its-time-to-overturn-doma/2013/03/07/fc184408-8747-11e2-98a3-b3db6b9ac586_story.html
[8] http://www.glad.org/uploads/docs/cases/windsor-v-united-states/amicus-brief-of-former-senators-who-voted-for-doma.pdf
[9] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/scotts/ftp/wpaf2mc/clinton.html
[10] http://www.usatoday.com/
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Category of the week: Major league outfielders who've blossomed in 2009
In the interests of keeping the Starting 9 from expanding to the Starting 20-something, a few qualifiers were necessary. We left out guys older than 30, so Juan Rivera and Matt Diaz didn't make the cut.
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Also being recommended was the "immediate rehabilitation and expansion of the Naga airport; subsidy for the establishment of inter-island missionary routes, and the completion and activation of several sea passenger and trade routes linking several islands of Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon, Palawan and Batangas, among others."
"Connector roads are basic to cutting the costs of logistics. The earlier that perishable goods and services from South Luzon are delivered to markets, the lower the costs of spoilage, the lower the borrowing costs, and the earlier the entrepreneurs earn their returns," PCCI president Miguel B. Varela said.
"Improved transport infrastructures have deep impact on the creation of more jobs, generation of higher incomes in South Luzon and dispersing the benefits of high economic growth to the poor," he added.
The South Luzon chambers, according to Varela, were urging the government to immediately start the process for plans that were "already on the shelf." They acknowledge the fact that it often took a certain period before the government could complete the feasibility and engineering studies and then conduct the bidding and awarding of the projects.
This particular proposal is part of a package of recommendations by the South Luzon chambers—representing Regions 4A (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon or Calabarzon), 4B (Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon and Palawan or Mimaropa) and Bicol. All these proposals are aimed at increasing investments and incomes in the agricultural sector, supplying more farm goods to consumers and creating jobs.
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Dead Bodies stay forever?
I noticed that Dead bodies disappear after a while or when reloading a savegame.
The higher you set the EFFECTS QUALITY setting in the options, the longer dead bodies stay until they disappear.
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or is this a to large performance impact?
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with this command you can adjust how long dead body stay g_ragdollUnseenTime
try 999 and the will stay very long.
and you can also make the staytime of bullet holes longer,try this :
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don't forget the min distance before they disappear
g_ragdollDistance 999
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When we were cruising, we anchored far away from other boats for peace, quiet and privacy.
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I had to have 110v or the family would not go cruising....
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I love animals, rock n roll, art & makeup
Life story in less than 140 characters? Well I don't think that's going to happen! But we can try, my name is Sarah, I'm 16 years old from Jersey. I table for Peta 2,I love adventures, being myself, my friends & family, the little things in life, music, and of course animals. Alive to be happy, happy to be alive.
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