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10 Things You Didn't Know About Chicago
Many know Chicago is known as "the Windy City" and Wrigley Field is one of America's oldest baseball stadiums, but there are a lot of other things about this great city that are not widely known.
Kennedy Center Raises $90 Million For Expansion
The Kennedy Center says it has raised an additional $40 million in gifts and pledges to fund the first major expansion of the memorial to President John F. Kennedy.
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend Discusses Her Uncle John
Fifty years later. It's been an emotional time of remembrance as we continue honoring former President John F. Kennedy killed five decades ago.
Obamas, Clintons To Visit JFK Gravesite Wednesday
President Barack Obama will visit John F. Kennedy's gravesite next week and pay tribute to two of Kennedy's lasting initiatives as the nation observes the 50th anniversary of his assassination.
Library To Preserve Archive Of Public Broadcasting
Early interviews with John F. Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey and Ronald Reagan are part of a collection of public broadcast recordings dating to the 1950s that will be preserved at the Library of Congress.
Caroline Kennedy: Humbled To Carry Father's Legacy
Former first daughter Caroline Kennedy said Thursday that she would be humbled to carry forward her father's legacy if confirmed by the Senate to be the next U.S. ambassador to Japan.
Objects From JFK Assassination Go On Display In D.C.
Some never-before-seen artifacts from the minutes and hours following President John F. Kennedy's assassination are going on display in Washington.
Kennedy Center Plans First Expansion Since Opening
The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is planning its first major expansion since it opened in 1971 as a "living memorial" to President John F. Kennedy, with new features including pavilions to house rehearsal halls and classrooms, a memorial garden and a floating stage on the Potomac River.
Newseum To Mark 50 Years Since JFK's Assassination
The Newseum in Washington will mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy next year with a new film and exhibits chronicling the 35th president's life.
JFK Ultramarathon To Include Appalachian Trail
The JFK 50 Mile ultramarathon will still include a 13-mile section of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail.
Annapolis Man Who Took Iconic Photograph Of JFK Jr. Dies
Every couple of years, a news photograph comes along that we'll never forget. One of the most memorable images was taken by a photographer from Annapolis.
Air Force One Recordings Released From Day Of JFK Assassination
It's been almost 50 years since John F. Kennedy's assassination and new information from that day in Dallas has just been released to the public. For the first time, we're hearing long-lost audiotapes from Air Force One.


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Toledo Begins 2013 Schedule at Michigan State and No. 15 Ohio State This Weekend
Toledo, OH - The University of Toledo women's swimming and diving team will open up 2013 on the road, with back-to-back matchups against two Big Ten Conference members this weekend. The Rockets (1-1) travel to East Lansing, MI on Friday to battle Michigan State (1-3) at 6:00 p.m. in the Charles McCaffree Pool. Toledo will then have a quick turnaround with a dual meet against No. 15 Ohio State (4-1) on Saturday. That contest is slated for a 1:00 p.m. start in Columbus, OH.
Michigan State will also begin the 2013 portion of its schedule on Friday. The Spartans most recently won the Viking College Invite in Cleveland, OH on Nov. 18. In dual-meet action, MSU's only win was on Nov. 9 against Grand Valley State, 189-108. They have three losses to Illinois (153-147), Iowa (182-117) and Wisconsin (209-91).
UT will face 15th-ranked Ohio State after the Buckeyes host Wright State on Friday. OSU most recently finished in third place at the OSU Invite on Dec. 2. Their four wins in dual-meet competition came against Cleveland State (179-110), Kenyon (168-119), Denison (178.5-110.5) and MAC-opponent Ohio (182-112). The Buckeyes' lone loss was on Nov. 9 at Tennessee (191-109).
The weekend's action will mark the first competition for UT since winning the Akron Zippy Invitational back on Dec. 2. With a little over a month of training under their belts, the Rockets hope to be faster and stronger as they prepare to swim against two quality opponents. UT will also try to win its first dual meet over a Big Ten squad since 2009.
The 2010 and 2012 Mid-American Conference Champions have not fared well against Big Ten teams in the recent past, especially against the Buckeyes. Since 2006, the Rockets have a combined record of 2-12 against the Big Ten, with five of those losses to OSU. The only victories against Big Ten opponents were against Illinois in 2007 and 2009. UT hasn't faced MSU since 2001, when they lost 192-108 in East Lansing.
However, there is plenty of reason to believe this year's squad can reverse the trend this weekend under first-year head coach Chris Peters. In only three meets this season, Peters has guided nine swimmers who have produced top-five MAC times in 13 different events.
That list includes sophomore Maria Bargardi and junior Christina Noens who have recorded NCAA "B" cut times in the 200-yard backstroke. Both qualified at the Zippy Invite, as Noens broke the UT record with a time of 1:57.71. Bargardi finished at 1:58.81.
Meredith Gibbon leads the MAC in the 100-yard and 200-yard breaststroke with times of 1:04.10 and 2:18.56, respectively. The junior won both events at the Zippy Invite, marking her first-collegiate victories as a Rocket.
UT has received solid contribution from its freshmen class too, most notably Kristen Nunnelly and Mary Dombkowski. They are two of the six first-year MAC swimmers ranked in the top five of an event. Nunnelly ranks third in the 500-yard freestyle and fifth in the 200-yard freestyle. Dombkowski is fifth in the 1,650-yard freestyle.
The Rockets also hold the MAC's best time in the 200-yard medley relay, thus far. Senior LesLee Winfield teamed up with Noens, Harter and Rogers to record a time of 1:42.09 against Denison on Oct. 27.
Follow the UT women's swimming and diving team on Twitter (@RocketSwimming) and visit www.utrockets.com for all of the latest news.
UT Swimmers With Top-Five MAC Times
(As of Jan. 9, 2013)
Beth Rogers
3rd, 50 Free - 23.25
2nd, 100 Fly - 54.60
2nd, 200 Fly - 2:02.28
Carly Harter
5th, 100 Free - 51.34
2nd, 200 Free - 1:50.28
3rd, 200 IM - 2:03.88
Kristen Nunnelly
5th, 200 Free - 1:52.34
3rd, 500 Free - 4:58.45
Mary Dombkowski
5th, 1,000 Free - 10:24.90
Maria Bargardi
3rd, 100 Back - 56.16
5th, 200 Back - 1:58.81 NCAA "B" cut
Christina Noens
4th, 200 Back - 1:57.71 school record; NCAA "B" cut
Meredith Gibbon
1st, 100 Breast - 1:04.10
2nd, 200 Breast - 2:18.56
McKenzie Bagan
4th, 200 Fly - 2:02.59
Rachel Johnson
4th, 400 IM - 4:24.25
200 Medley Relay Team
1st, (Noens, Winfield, Rogers, Harter) - 1:42.09

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Loaded with kamikaze loco Central Americans now towing two cars behind pick up trucks in convoys of up to a dozen. A massive number of double truck trailers and the tarmac is in total shit condition.
You can look at the ass end of a truck for a couple of days or you can ride empty and beautiful mountain roads with fresh air and incredible views.
Tough choice LOL!
Both of those hwys have many sections under major rebuilding - not just repaving.
Personally, I don't understand why a rider would stay behind a truck or even a double for very long.
Be prepared for major changes in the roads surfaces. There is little or no notice signed, so try not to mentally zone out.
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Saturday, June 30:
Numbers 20:14-29; Psalm 56; Romans 6:1-11; Matthew 21:1-11
Two transitional events take place in this reading: the King of Edom refused Moses and the Israelites passage through his land, forcing them to further wandering, and Aarons' ministry and life come to an end with the priesthood being transferred to Aaron's son Eleazar. The reference by Moses to "your brother Israel," points back to the conflict between Isaac's twin sons, Jacob and Esau, Jacob later becoming Israel, and Esau moving to the land of Moab and becoming the father of the Moabites. Hereafter, the ancient hostility will be further reinforced by the King's refusal. The King's Highway was a major caravan route running from the Gulf of Aqaba in the south to Syria in the north and passing east of the Jordan.
The psalm is a hymn of praise and trust in God in the midst of persecution, and most helpful when one is being intentionally besieged by others.
Does this free gift of redemption in Christ mean that it makes no difference whether or not we sin, and that if we do sin, we simply cause God's grace to abound all the more? This is more than a rhetorical question for Paul. It was the criticism that had been leveled against him because of his insistence that the law was no longer applicable to those who are in Christ. His "By no means" means "Absolutely not!" How can we, who have been baptized into Christ, and in that baptism, died to sin, go on living in it? Rather, as Christ was raised to new life, so too we have been raised to walk in the new life Christ makes possible. We are no longer slaves to sin, but rather, dead to it in Christ and in him, alive to God as God continues to pour his love and Spirit into our lives to make us holy. The references here to baptism reveal just how important this sacrament was in the infant church.
Matthew continues Jesus' journey to Jerusalem and recounts his Palm Sunday entry into Jerusalem. Jesus comes on a donkey not a warhorse, and as the Kings of Israel have traditionally come into Jerusalem for coronation. Misunderstanding Zechariah's poetic use of repetition to strength his phrase, Matthew reports both a donkey and her colt as part of the procession, with the rather awkward image of Jesus as a circus performer, sitting astride both at the same time! Verse 6 is more correctly translated, "and he sat on the cloaks," the word in Greek for "them" being a reference to the cloaks not the animals. The crowd sings fragments from Psalm 118:25-26, which means "Save us," and identifies Jesus as the "Son of David." But once in the Temple precincts and asked who he is, they only dare call him "the prophet from Nazareth." The crowd continues to reveal its confusion about who Jesus is and what he has come to Jerusalem to do.
Friday, June 29:
Numbers 20:1-13; Psalm 130 Romans 5:12-21; Matthew 20:29-34
The wandering stops for a time in the Wilderness of Zin, at Kadesh where Moses' older sister Miriam dies and is buried. Though the wandering stops, the complaining does not. This time the issue is water. Failing to recognized God's lead in their travels, they again blame Moses and say it would have been better had they died with their brothers at the Tent of the Meeting. Moses and Aaron withdraw and return to the Tent where the Lord appears ("the glory of the Lord" being a pious way of not saying "God appeared.") Again, God will demonstrate his power and ability to care for the people through his chosen leaders, Moses and Aaron. They are instructed to assembly the people before a rock and command it to bring forth water. Moses and Aaron do so, except that rather than speak to the rock, Moses becomes a bit more dramatic and decides to strike it with his staff. Water does come forth, as promised. But his failure to trust God in this case means that they too will be denied entrance into the promise land.
The psalm is a classic lament for those living "in the depths" of life, whether physical or emotional, waiting on God to come and save. Notice that the psalmist has moved beyond self-recrimination. This is about more than personal sin and is not God's punishment, for if God counted sin and thus punished, no one would stand. No; with God there is always forgiveness. Rather the psalmist will hold tenaciously to God's word and wait and watch with an intensity that exceeds that of the watchmen waiting for the morning, knowing that when God comes it will be with steadfast love, healing and redemption. This is a prayer for all who wrestle with depression, all with chronic or terminal illness, for all who find themselves in the pit.
Sin entered life through Adam's deliberate disobedience and brought with it death for everyone, whether with or without the Law and whether their sin was deliberate or inadvertent. Death reigned in life for everyone. But now, grace, justification and life have entered the scene through the obedience of one man—Jesus Christ. And the free gift of his work, though for everyone, is even much more than that of Adam, for it has power to redeem all from sin and death. Paul has set up the Adam/Christ typology in parallel, to show that both come from willful action—Adam's disobedience and Christ's obedience—and both have consequences, one death and one life. But, that is where the parallel ends, for the grace that has emerged out of Christ's obedience is "much more" than the sin that has come from Adam's disobedience, and that grace leads to "justification and life for all."
Leaving Jericho, on the way to Jerusalem, Jesus is being followed by a large crowd. Two blind men are sitting by the roadside as he passes and cry out to him, "Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us." The crowd is annoyed but Jesus responds. Notice the language the two men use; though blind, they see who Jesus really is, while those in the crowd with sight haven't a clue what they are seeing. Also notice that when healed, the two men follow Jesus, and rightly so—they know who he is, the power of his mercy, and what it means to call him "Lord."
Thursday, June 28:
Numbers 17:1-11; Psalm 105:1-22; Romans 5:1-11; Matthew 20:17-28
God sets out to stop the jealous grumbling and tribal fighting among the Israelites once and for all. Each tribe is told to present a staff inscribed with the name of its ancestral head, Aaron's name on the staff of the tribe of Levi. The staffs will be placed before the Lord in the Tent of the Meeting. Twelve staffs were placed before the Lord, Aaron's among them. When Moses returned the next day, Aarons had not only sprouted, put forth buds and borne blossoms, but also bore ripe almonds. Moses brought them out for the people to see, each man taking back his own staff. But God instructed Moses to take Aarons staff back and place it in the Tent of the Meeting as a warning to the rebels to end their complaints about Moses, Aaron and God and God's ways with them or they will die.
The psalm of praise recounts God's faithfulness to Israel from the initial covenant with Abraham, the sojourn in Egypt, his work for their liberation from slavery, his provision for them in their wilderness wanderings, to his gift of the land, all so that they might keep his statues and observe his laws.
Whatever alienation existed between us and God because of the power of sin has been undone in what God has done in Jesus Christ. When embraced in faith we are "justified"—put in a right relationship with God—where we experience peace with God and God's gift of true life. We boast then, not in our faith, but in what God has done in Christ and our hope of sharing the glory of God in Christ. And to the extent that we know suffering, we boast in that also, not because suffering is good; it is not! Rather, we can boast in it because of what it leads to: a chain reaction from suffering, to endurance, to character, then to hope. And unlike all other human hope, this hope does not disappoint. Why? Because God's love has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit (this is the first Paul has spoken of either). By faith, we live in a state of grace—a condition as life-giving as the state of sin is deadly. And notice that it is completed action that continues into the future! Back to what God has done in Christ: while humanity was still captive to sin, Christ died. And notice, it was not for the righteous or the Godly. It was for the ungodly! Why would anyone, much less God, do that? So God could prove God's love for the world. Jesus' death on the cross was not an accident, nor the result of things getting out of control. It was God's way of dealing with the condition of sin that kept us from God's presence, revealing God's love for us and enabling us to be reconciled to God. In Christ, God filled the breech so that we can now live out of God's love and power, sanctifying us—the word means "making us holy." Notice that it too is an ongoing action. The life of faith is one in which the love and power of God are making us holy and fit to be God's people at work for God's purposes and able, at last, to live in God's eternal presence.
Jesus turns toward Jerusalem and now speaks as clearly and forthrightly as he has spoken about what is to happen to him there. It is an astonishing announcement, but clearly lost on all of his followers, all, that is, except the mother of James and John. Sensing that Jesus is talking about establishing his kingdom she comes and asks a favor for her boys: let them sit at his right and left hand. Jesus asks James and John if they are able to drink the cup that he will drink in Jerusalem. Obviously, they have not been listening or comprehending what that means, and so enthusiastically say, "Yes, we are able!" Jesus then tells them that indeed, they will drink the same cup. But to sit in the two primary positions of power next to him is not his to give but is for those for whom it has been prepared by his Father. The other ten overhear the conversation, especially the Zebedee family request and are outraged. Jesus gathers them and sets the standard for leadership within his community—servanthood, according to the manner of his own.
Wednesday, June 27:
Numbers 16:36-50; Psalm 101; Romans 4:13-25; Matthew 20:1-16
The bronze censers—round bowls containing hot coals upon which incense was place to raise an pleasing aroma to the Lord—used by the rebels who have now been destroyed are recycled, and transformed into a covering for the altar, to be a warning: only the Levites who are the descendants of Aaron can approach the altar and live. The next day, rebellion breaks out again against Moses and Aaron who return to the Tent of the Meeting to see the glory of the Lord appear. For a second time God threatens to destroy the entire camp, but quick action by Moses, dispatching Aaron into the midst of the people with incense to make atonement, limits the plague's destruction.
The psalm can be read either as a royal psalm in which the King is making an oath concerning his office, and promising to root out the evil and perverse from the community. Or, it may be read as a wisdom psalm that is a model for instructing the young. The language is harsh for effect, and not meant to be taken literally. "Moring by morning" is not a daily call to destroy all the wicked in the land. Soon the land would be desolate! Rather, it is an expression of the need for wisdom's vigilance.
Paul continues to make the point about the superiority of faith over the observance of the law. He argues that God's promise to Abraham that he would inherit the world, did not come through the law but though Abraham's faith based upon God's grace, a grace guaranteed to all of Abraham's descendants, not only the Jews (adherents of the law) but also those who share the faith of Abraham (Gentile believers). Even when all of the external signs pointed away from the fulfillment of the promise, Abraham hoped against hope, trusting that God was able to do what God had promised and that it would be fulfilled. Such unwavering hope is faith in action that put Abraham in a right relationship with God who consequently reckoned Abraham righteous. Such righteous is also reckoned to those who believe God raised Jesus from the dead—the one who was handed over to death for our sin, and raised for our own justification. None of this was accomplished by keeping the law, but by faith that believes God keeps God's word.
Jesus tells a parable about a generous landowner who welcomes workers into his field at any hour of the day, but at the end of the day gives each one a day's pay, regardless of the hour at which they began their work. Those who labored from the beginning are angered at the owner's behavior—it is not fair! They think that having worked longer they should be given more. Reminding them that they were given precisely what they bargained for, he sends them away, telling them that because he is the owner, he is allowed to do as he pleases with what belongs to him, whether or not they think it fair. The good news here, of course, is that the landowner is none other than God who gives us what we need rather than what we deserve.
Tuesday, June 26:
Numbers 16:20-35; Psalm 94; Romans 4:1-12; Matthew 19:23-30
The rebellious group of Levites gathers at the Tent of the Meeting. The Lord appears, angered by their rebellion, and is prepared to wipe out the entire nation. Moses pleads forbearance: should an entire people be destroyed for one man's sin? God consents, but warn, "Get back from the tents of the three elders, Korah, Datham, and Abiram, God is about to act. The scene is dramatic: Moses warns the people, who withdraw. Datham and Abiram appear at the door of their tents surrounded by their families. Moses pronounces God's judgment on their rebellion and the ground opens up beneath them swallowing them, their households, and all their possessions. It is a vivid demonstration that God has chosen him to lead the people. At the same time, fire descends upon and consumed the 250 Levites that had gathered at the Tent of the Meeting to hear God's adjudication of their complaint against Moses.
The psalmist asks, "Fools, when will you be wise? Do you not remember that the Lord rises up against the arrogant?" The One who made the ear and the eye, do you think he does not hear or see? The Lord stands against the wicked, and disciplines and chastises nations so that justice may return to the widow, the orphan and the outsider. In the midst of those who oppress, the psalmist gives thanks that the Lord is his avenger, stronghold, rock and refuge, whose consolations cheer the downcast soul.
Paul illustrates his point about justification through faith rather than works of the law by pointing out that Abraham was justified by his trust in God and God's promise before he was circumcised. His circumcision was simply a sign of the righteousness that came to be through his faith. Now if Abraham could be made righteous by faith before he was circumcised, so too can the Gentiles. For God's promise that Abraham would be the heir of the nations (Gentiles) came not through his keeping the Law—it did not yet exist—but through his trust in the One who made the promise. Thereafter, Abraham received circumcision as a sign of his righteousness, so that he might be the father of both those who believe without circumcision as well as those who believe with it. Both are brought into right relationship with God through faith.
Jesus continues his teaching on the burden of wealth with his famous illustration of the impossibility of a camel getting through the eye of a needle. Forget the tourist's guide's explanations that "the eye of the needle" was an opening in the door of the western gate of the temple that a camel, stripped of any baggage, might get through if it knelt down. Yes, I have heard guides give such explanations as they point to a small opening in the massive door. But it misses the point Jesus is making. It is impossible! The disciples get the point and ask "Who then, can be saved?" Jesus says, only God can do such a thing, and is, in fact, doing it with those who follow him. And whatever of value they have given up to follow him will be restored "at the renewal of all things"—a wonderful image of the coming kingdom—when it will be theirs to be the heads and rulers of the twelve tribes of Israel.
Author: The Rev. Dr. Fred R. Anderson
Created: June 21, 2012
The Rev. Dr. Fred R. Anderson, Pastor of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, offers thoughts on today's lectionary readings.


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I am pooped! Haha, can I write that?
Anyway, had a long day working on Spirit replacing both drive and rear wheel sprocket.
Of course I ran into quite a few glitches, it's turning out to be normal
I had forgotten that I didn't have the socket for my drive wheel nut, so I had my mother in law drive me to AutoZone to get one. Luckily, even though my adjustable wrench said it would be a 26mm socket, I decided to buy a 27mm one too, because I couldn't help but think that I used a 27mm one at Steven's. Sure enough, it needed a 27mm.
Also got very lucky in that my in-laws happened to have a metal tube lying around that I was able to use as leverage to take the nut off.
Then I couldn't get the nuts off the rear sprocket, with my 1/4 inch wrench and couldn't use my 3/8 because I didn't have the adapter for the socket.
Back to the store to buy a 12mm socket for a 3/8 wrench and an adapter.
Another reason to go back to the store was that the drive sprocket was not the right one. It was meant for an older KLR, and was way to thin. To make up for the thickness I bought a thick large washer. I think I got it pretty near the normal size.
While we were out again we stopped by a sporting goods store to check on rain gear, I had no desire to ever get soaking wet again! Again I was lucky in that the gear that I liked was not only on sale, but very thin and compact as well. A very light beige color that should be very visible. Got some reflective tape too that I'll stick on the arms for better visibility.
As you noticed, no pics! I decided that there were way to many pics on my RR of Spirit being partially or whole decommissioned.
One thing I did find out unfortunately, is that there are no camping places in or near Pharr TX, at least not for a tent. I am going to have to figure that out somehow............
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Handbook of Survival Analysis presents modern techniques and research problems in lifetime data analysis. This area of statistics deals with time-to-event data that is complicated by censoring and the dynamic nature of events occurring in time. With chapters written by leading researchers in the...
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This is THE OFFICIAL WP7 application of the University of Massachusetts Lowell robotics lab. It displays our Youtube channel, and will at some point be augmented to display our RSS news feed.
5/28/2011For some reason, if you tap a link to watch one of the videos, nothing happens. You have to choose the "view in IE" button to open the web view, and the links work there. So this app is essentially only useful for browsing, but you have to open each page in IE to use the links. I hope it's just a bug. The app shouldn't stop at that!


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Social networking site Facebook recently unveiled Facebook Messages, essentially a messaging system that merges the traditional email inbox with other communication platforms such as text messages (SMS) and instant messaging (IM). The idea, says Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, is to combine the "slower" email service with much faster modes of corresponding such as SMS and IM chats.
Observers are split as to the repercussions that the new Facebook Messages could have on the spam industry, with a number of well-known sites such as PC Pro declaring that "Facebook looks to kill spam with messaging system." Other such as ComputerWorld are less sanguine however, observing that far from it, hackers and spammers will in fact be attracted to Facebook Messages.
At first glance, the inherent trust-based nature of a social network-based messaging system looks like the perfect tool for the combating of spam. After all, your friends would hardly send you links or malware that will harm you, isn't it? And not only will the annoying spammers be automatically excluded from clustering up your inbox, the ability to look only at messages from your friends means that your online peers also play an inadvertent part in helping to sieve out fake or malicious messages.
Zuckerberg himself was quoted elaborating on precisely this topic, noting that: "Because we know who your friends are… we can do some really good filtering for you so you only get the messages you want." While not incorrect, there are unfortunately a couple of dangerous assumptions made that can lead to an unfortunate false sense of security from unsolicited digital trash and link-baiting attempts.
Let's take a look at a few of them here.
Are your friends really your friends?
The "friends" used by Facebook is really a misnomer originating from the desires of the social network giant to be the hub that facilitates your communication channel with people you already know. These days however, we befriend just about anyone who sends us a request; while many businesses have worked hard to garner a robust number of friends as part of their marketing and branding efforts. The herd mentality of blindly accepting friends request to the liberal dose of prize giveaways has resulted in network of friends that are really acquaintances or "friends of friends."
Honestly, how can one be even sure that the identity of the new friend is who he or she claims to be, and not a bogus account created with ripped off photos obtained from somebody's online photo gallery? In addition, spammers could just as easily create disposable Facebook identities, befriend you, and then proceed to spam via Facebook.
The use of automated tools
One minor point that is often missed by novice computer users has to do with how spam is practically never sent manually. In fact, it is common for criminals to remotely engage the use of compromised servers and computers systems from around the world to spam. Indeed, an entire ecosystem has sprung up in which tens of thousands of commandeered machines are "rented out" to spammers- for a fee.
On the same token, is it reasonable to expect these same hackers to refrain from writing automated tool that can sign up for Facebook accounts en masse from which they will be used to spam you, or from participating in the trading of compromised Facebook accounts?
Compromised systems
The same tools that allow spammers to harness commandeered computers to surreptitiously send their spam also allow them to spy on their victims. It really is trivial to capture all typed keystrokes in order to obtain the password to legitimate Facebook accounts. From there, it is but a small step to spread spam and malware havoc by leveraging on the established web of trust.
As Charles Arthuron over at the Guardian.co.uk wrote: "I think that's underestimating how peoples' systems can be compromised. Remember that Facebook has seen scores of spam attacks and virus attacks which have spread at huge speed through the network… "
Back to traditional defences
Ultimately, I feel that the ideal of the social network being able to defend users from spam is but a fallacious hope. Indeed, fellow writer John P Mello Jr recently blogged about how nicked accounts are the cause of spam sent via Facebook – the new Facebook Messages will certainly not be able to change this. If anything, the very fact that Facebook operates a spam prevention system underscores how spam detection and filtering are still essential components required in corporate and personal email systems. So don't throw away your spam appliance just yet.


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HSBC Holdings plc (LON:HSBA), British American Tobacco plc (LON:BATS) and GlaxoSmithKline plc (LON:GSK) are the heavyweight holdings of City of London Investment Trust plc (LON:CTY).
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Oven Floor question
this is my first posting here on the site...
I'm a "foodie", and pizza making happens to be one of my passions.
Although I've been on this site many times, just now I noticed about this forum.
In any case, although I know a lot about cooking, i'm not very handy (construction guy) and need some advice.
I have owned many Pizza ovens in the past, generally hand made by professionals when i lived down in Brazil. Although they took a long time to get hot, they held the temps for a long time and the Pizza's were amazing.
2 years ago (here in the US) I bought a modular oven, and although i have been happy with the overall results, I feel like the floor (made of 4 large refractory pieces) might not hold the heat as well as the individual bricks that I had in my past ovens.
The result, is that sometimes the dough, although gets cooked, does not show the natural cooked spots at the bottom.
Now the question:
I was thinking about resurfacing the floor of my oven with fire bricks but do not know witch ones to buy. I have a very good contractor to do the work for me...just need some advice.
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I used a basic firebrick, I can send you the specs (I have an MSDS and data sheet).
they come in both full brick 4-1/2 x 9 x 2-1/2, and what are called splits. the splits are half as thick, 1-1/4 and might be suited for your purpose.
I would attach a document, but ther is not an attachment option.
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Do you have an idea of your current floor temperatures?
Being an experienced user of pizza ovens, you have probably already considered heating your oven to a hotter cooking range to get the crust you prefer.....yes?
When you replace your oven floor, you'll have to be careful to keep good air/gas circulation, facilitated by the oven door/dome heigth ratio (63% is optimum).
Just some thoughts :)
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Thanks for the feedback!
As far as the insulation, i dont remember what was used.
the oven base was made with uniblocks to match the rest of the outdoor kitchen space, sand and sheet rock were used to fill the hole and then addttional uniblocks were aplied on top to create the flat surface of the oven...the oven was built on top of that base.
As far as creating a new floor, I was thinking about Doug's idea...to resurface the floor with Firebricks. I also don't mind making the floor thicker since i was also planing to reduce the size of the door.
As far as getting Firebricks, is there a brand that i should look for? I live in Michigan, do they sell them at Home Depot or Lowes?
Lastly, what do i include below the firebricks to hold them in place? clay mortar?
Thanks guys
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As to the brick question, the ordinary firebricks that are sold at a brickyard or masonry supply (not one of the big box stores) are low duty firebricks, and are the ones you want. There are medium and high duty bricks available at refractory suppliers, and these are generally considered overkill at our operating temperatures. Depending on what your insulation layer is, the floor bricks are either laid flat, without mortar, on the insulation, or if the insulating surface is rough, a layer of sand and fireclay is laid down as a leveling medium. Floor bricks aren't mortared in place.
Now, this is very important. I suspect that your floor is not giving you the results you want, not because of the composition of the floor sectors (which in many cases is the same material as firebricks) but there is inadequate insulation underneath it. Between your masonry support layer and your oven floor there should either be two inches of refractory insulation board (which is a dense, fibrous, usually buff colored material) or four inches of vermiculite concrete (This is a grey, cork like, crumbly layer). Without proper insulation layer (or damp insulation, which is another topic) your floor won't give you the leoparding that you want.
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Thanks for the information...that is very helpful.
So, if i add the firebricks on top of my exisiting floor, will I have better results?
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so, where in Michigan? there is a great supplier in GR, Industrial Firebrick on Ann Street. you can get larger brick there for your floor if you don't want as many seams. they also have several thicknesses of ceramic insulation and sell it by the piece
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I'm actually in Bloomfield Hills and I did find a supplier in Novi.
The guy actually has an oven himself...not very common in this part of the State, but he seems to know his trade.
I'm going to swing by on Tuesday.
His recomendation was to use just a little sand on top of the exisiting floor and dry-fit the bricks inside the over. Easier to remove if necessary...
Thanks everyone for the great feedback and ideas.
I can't wait to fire up the oven for the 2011 season.
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so, are the 4 floor bricks laid loose inside the oven? if so, and you are thinking about putting a layer of firebrick over them... wouldn't you be ahead of the game to just lift your current floor out and put a layer of 2" ceramic insulation under it?
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|Hearing Research; Neurophysiology; Psychophysics; Auditory Prosthesis; Computational Neuroscience; Auditory Cortex
Our research addresses the brain mechanisms of hearing. There are three projects ongoing.
(1) Spatial Hearing: We are exploring the auditory cortical mechanisms that enable a listener to pick a sound out of a complex auditory scene on the basis of the sound's location. Our recent experiments have demonstrated that the spatial selectivity of cortical neurons can sharpen dramatically when an animal is actively engaged in a sound-localization task compared to when it is idle. Parallel human psychophysical and animal physiological experiments are demonstrating that single cortical neurons can synchronize selectively to one of two sound sequences from closely separated locations under conditions in which a human listener would report two segregated "streams".
(2) Cochlear Implants: We are characterizing brain responses to cochlear implants that are similar to clinical devices used to restore hearing to deaf people. In our animal studies, we are quantifying transmission of temporal information from an implant to the auditory cortex. Ongoing studies seek to evaluate plasticity in the auditory pathway in response to long-term deafness and electrical stimulation.
(3) Auditory Nerve Electrode Arrays: We are testing the feasibility of a new mode of hearing replacement using arrays of electrodes implanted in the auditory nerve. Our short-term studies in anesthetized animals have shown substantial improvements compared to conventional cochlear implants. Ongoing studies will assess safety and efficacy of long-term stimulation in chronically implanted animals prior to eventual human trials.
Experimental approaches used in the lab include human and animal psychophysics, and single-unit neurophysiology in anesthetized and awake/behaving animals.
|Lee, C-C, Middlebrooks, JC: Auditory cortex spatial sensitivity sharpens during task performance. Nature Neurosci, 14:108-114, 2011
|Kirby, AE, and Middlebrooks, JC: Auditory temporal acuity probed with cochlear implant stimulation and cortical recording. J Neurophysiology 103:531-542, 2010.
|Middlebrooks, JC and Snyder, RL: Selective electrical stimulation of the auditory nerve activates a pathway specialized for high temporal acuity. J Neurosci, 30:1937-1946, 2010.
|Middlebrooks, JC: Auditory cortex phase locking to amplitude-modulated cochlear-implant pulse trains. J Neurophysiol, 100:76-91, 2008.
|Middlebrooks, JC, and Snyder, RL: Auditory prosthesis with a penetrating nerve array, JARO 8: 258-279, 2007.
|Stecker, GC, Harrington, IA, Macpherson, EA, and Middlebrooks, JC: Spatial sensitivity in the dorsal zone (DZ) of cat auditory cortex, J. Neurophysiol. 94:1267-1280, 2005.
|Stecker GC, Harrington IA, Middlebrooks, JC: Location coding by opponent neural populations in the auditory cortex. PLoS Biol 3(3): 520-528(e78), 2005.
|Middlebrooks, JC: Effects of cochlear-implant pulse rate and inter-channel timing on channel interactions and thresholds, J. Acoust. Soc. Am, 116:452-468, 2004.
|Mickey, BJ, and Middlebrooks, JC: Representation of auditory space by cortical neurons in awake cats, J. Neurosci., 23:8649-8663, 2003.
|Macpherson, EA, and Middlebrooks, JC: Listener weighting of cues for lateral angle: the duplex theory of sound localization revisited, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 111:2219-2236, 2002.
|Bierer, JA, and Middlebrooks, JC: Auditory cortical images of cochlear-prosthesis stimuli: Dependence on electrode configuration, J. Neurophysiol. 87: 478-492, 2002.
|Xu, L, Furukawa, S, and Middlebrooks, JC: Auditory cortical responses in the cat to sounds that produce spatial illusions, Nature 399:688-691, 1999.
|Middlebrooks, JC, Xu, L, Eddins, AC and Green, DM: Codes for sound-source location in non-tonotopic auditory cortex, J Neurophysiol 80:863-881, 1998.
|Middlebrooks, JC, Clock AE, Xu L, Green DM: A panoramic code for sound location by cortical neurons. Science 264:842-844, 1994.
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|NIDCD contract N263-2009-00024C: Feasibility of an Intraneural Auditory Prosthesis Stimulating Electrode Array
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My Nikon is still busted, so these are all iPhone pics. Still worth seeing though.
I remember the first time I stumbled across Mr. Choi's taco shop. It was way back in 2005. When I saw the sign "초이스 타코스," I misread the transliteration as "Choice Tacos." At any rate, it sounded interesting, so I ventured in. Because of the countless disappointments that had previously befell me trying to find edible Mexican in Seoul (e.g., tacos filled with pineapple, tortillas made from crepe batter, honeyed bulgogi tacos etc.), I admittedly had my sights set low. But I was pleasantly surprised with the quality and price of the selection here. Whenever I'm in the area — and sometimes even when I'm all the way across town — I swing over to Chois' to satisfy that hankering (that anyone from the western US likely gets about once a week) for some Mexican food.
Recommended menu items: I'm a big fan of the chicken burritos. But I recently tried the steak quesadilla — just to, you know, mix it up a little after a five-year spell of order invariability — and it was awesome.
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Getting there: From Shinchon Station, head towards Yonsei University. When you get to the first major intersection (you'll see U-plex and its big pipe thing on the left), take a right on the road that meanders off in a diagonal. Continue about 50 meters and you'll see it on your right.
Some more shots of Gyeonghui Palace.
I highly recommend you take a trip to this traditional market located in southeastern Seoul. It's a great place for fresh-from-the-farm produce and still-wriggling seafood. (Check out the shark and ray in row five.)
The third photo shows the government's plan to transform Garak into an "environmentally friendly, cutting-edge market." The city's "improvement" projects often entail scrubbing away the character of a place and leaving behind a sterilized vapid space. I hope this is not the fate of Garak Market. But just in case, you'd better get over there soon to check it out.
Getting there: Take Line 3 or Line 8 to Garak Market Station.
Deoksu Palace is open later than any other palace, making evening visits possible. The Western architecture intermingled throughout this palace was at first a major turn-off for me: It's already next to impossible to find Korean-style buildings in Korea, and seeing them within the palace walls was the final straw. Recently, however, I have warmed up to the palace. Seeing it again after six years, I found a new charm in it.
Getting there: Deoksu Palace is located across from Seoul Square, right next to City Hall Station (Line 1 and 2). Admission is W1,000 for adults; W500 for children.
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Despite the announcement today of the end of the war in Iraq and the Naked Gun-like elimination of a three iconic terror-related figures in six months, there's a kind of consensus -- based on utterly solid polling -- that this stuff won't matter in next year's election.
As Chris Cillizza wrote yesterday:
Chris cites the example of George H.W. Bush, and Bill Clinton's famous slogan, "It's the economy stupid."
...even the broader political benefits to Obama from bin Laden's death quickly wore off. In the latest Post-ABC poll his job approval rating stood at just 42 percent.
"If Obama only got a brief, small bump from bin Laden's death, Gaddafi's death isn't going to matter at all by the time we hand out candy this October, much less next October," said Glen Bolger, a Republican pollster whose firm is working for the presidential campaign of former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. "The election is much more about Americans losing their jobs than about Gaddafi losing his head."
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Queen Simi-walk around bed in master
Queen bunk bed
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Air Conditioner
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Double Sink with cover/cutting board
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YIELD: Makes 4 servings
Coat grill with cooking spray; heat on high. Mix sirloin, pepper, egg white, 1/2 teaspoon of the salt and hot sauce in a bowl. Form into four 4-inch patties. Set aside. Cook corn with 1 tablespoon water in microwave 30 seconds; mix with tomato, cilantro, juice and remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt in another bowl. Grill burgers 12 minutes, turning halfway through, until no longer pink in the center. Place on buns and top with salsa. Serve with Grilled Tricolor Peppers .
Nutritional analysis per serving: 444 calories, 19 g fat (7.1 g saturated), 37.5 carbs, 4.6 g fiber, 31 g protein
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NPR reported Sunday morning on efforts to save the many dying (or, to be frank, dead) Native American languages. It was a good enough piece, and terribly, terribly sad. How difficult it was to hear tribal members learning sentences by rote based on a recording of their language's last native speaker. I mean, think about it: What if, say, George W. Bush were the last native speaker of English, and we all had to learn the language from scratch based on his voice, his inflection, his words. In the end, we all might be speaking a new language, but it wouldn't be English. So who's to say this woman was any more literate than Bush? Or, to put it more respectfully: I imagine that any one speaker possesses just the tiniest sliver of a language's possibilities. Is it even possible to resurrect a tongue from just one source?
These are the kinds of questions you ask when you're not a Native American, when it's not your culture & history slowly going silent.
Anyway, the report left me feeling like there's just so much more to be said on the history & politics & anguish & bad feelings wrapped up in language loss. So I dug out a story I wrote back in 2001, when I lived in Maine, a report on the Penobscot Indian Nation and its own struggle to resuscitate a dead language. It was one of the most difficult & most interesting piece I've ever worked on: At the center of it are some pretty remarkable characters:
• An often angry tribal chief who was once named one of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People.
• A fast-talking, dyslexic maple syrup-harvester who is one of the language's most passionate & controversial advocates.
• A self-trained, probably crazy linguistic genius who at the end of his life knew more about the Penobscot language than anyone before or since. He also seemed to hate just about everybody but especially the Indians he had lived among for so many years.
• A self-deprecating languages prodigy from Harvard who does his best to rise above the shame & resentment and teach the Penobscot their own language.
Here's their story . . .
UPDATE: Here's a point-by-point response to the story from Maulian Dana.
IMAGE: "Algonquin Sketch" by Lawren Stewart Harris
At the center of a tribe's quest to save its language is the controversial Frank Seibert.
Richard Garrett isn't the sort you'd expect to find mixed up in the language business. After all, what is it that he says about the written word? "I abhor it. I'm a dyslexic photographer, you know. I mean, don't bother me with that crap."
Nevertheless, this Wellington, Maine, resident and erstwhile maple syrup harvester was, with his wife Martha, who is also dyslexic, the driving force behind something called the Penobscot Primer. You'll find the Primer upstairs at the Hudson Museum on the campus of the University of Maine. It's an interactive exhibit on the Penobscot language, once spoken widely in the Maine woods, and it features native speaker Madeline Shay Tomer filtering the world through this lost tongue and a knife-edged personality.
The routine went like this: Garrett gave Tomer a photo, Tomer described it in Penobscot. For instance, when presented with a bucolic scene of a woman paddling a birch bark canoe, the elderly Tomer quipped that she paddled like a white woman.
"When I showed Madeline a picture of the outfall from the Lincoln Pulp and Paper Mill—and make no mistake, this is an insult to the Penobscot people, the crap that it pukes into the river," Garrett remembers. "I figured, Oh well. She's not going to know what this is. But that wasn't the case at all."
Here, Garrett quotes Tomer in Penobscot, words that translate to "That's the white man's bad medicine."
It's fair to say that Garrett and Tomer were an unlikely couple in the history of linguistic preservation, but it's a history that depends on such couples. After all, language must travel between speakers to survive.
Garrett says Tomer giggled a lot. "She was a wonderful person, a superb craftsperson and basket maker, an artist." His voice catches, though, when he recalls her 1993 death. "I've held my dead brother in my arms, and my mother, too. And of course I loved my brother and mother, and I felt deep grief when they died. But I did not feel the same profound, utter despair at witnessing the end of a language. I still remember driving home from Bangor that day. It was like a 90-degree day and my face was cold from the tracks of my tears."
You see, according to Garrett, Madeline Shay Tomer wasn't just a native Penobscot speaker. She was the last native speaker.
Mention Richard Garrett's name to Carol Dana, who teaches Penobscot at the Indian Island school, and her face wrinkles up. "Oh, don't even go there," she said during a recent interview in her classroom. According to Dana, Madeline Shay Tomer was not the last native speaker at all, and to portray her as such is little more than publicity-mongering.
"Everybody's out to make a name for themselves," she said, noting that there are at least "a couple" native speakers left.
So what's to be gained by arguing that the language is dead? "It's like The Last of the Mohicans," she said. "People buy into this whole idea of 'last of,' even some of our elders, as if our language and culture were something that has been passed by."
Here's a rule of thumb, then. When you're talking about language loss, and all of the cultural and political upheaval that attends it, there are no simple statements. Madeline Shay Tomer was the last native speaker? The Penobscot language is dead? These are statements that demand question marks and provoke fierce debate.
This is no academic debate, either. The Penobscot Indian Nation on Indian Island is working hard to revitalize its language—it's an effort many in the tribe link to their survival as a distinct culture—and such debates have a way of tripping up the process. For instance, how do you improve the health of the language when no one can seem to agree on a diagnosis?
For a blunt assessment, consult Dr. Ives Goddard (pictured), curator of the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History. "The Penobscot language is extinct," he said by phone from his Washington, D.C., office. "There are no native speakers. A lot of Native American groups face this juncture in their history and they don't want to hear that their language is extinct."
Goddard is an expert on indigenous languages. He reports that 50 percent of the languages spoken today—and that's a conservative estimate, he says—will be extinct in 100 years. Meanwhile, the number of surviving native languages in North America is 175 and dropping fast. Among those still hanging on is Passamaquoddy, spoken by the Maine tribe of the same name.
According to Goddard, Native Americans want to redefine what the term extinct means. "As a scientist I have to be objective. You can stand in front of a classroom and teach kids a few words and say that your language is not extinct, but that would be delusional."
Most other assessments on the health of Penobscot are more diplomatic. For instance, they all decline to use the E-word. There is this from Dr. Maureen Smith, an Oneida Indian from Wisconsin who is director of the University of Maine's fledgling Native American Studies program: "I've heard that the Penobscot language is dead, but there are people out there who speak it." Or this from John Bear Mitchell, a native Penobscot who teaches at the tribal school on Indian Island: "Language in this tribe is very, very, very, very low. Scary low." Says Carol Dana: "The elders say it's dead, while the younger ones say it's only dormant."
Finally, there is this from Carol Dana's cousin Barry Dana (pictured), the Penobscot Nation's governor and the one who introduced Richard Garrett to Madeline Shay Tomer: "Basically, we have the language. We just don't have people speaking it."
Governor Dana doesn't like to dwell on such apparent contradictions, however. Instead, he has formed a committee on Indian Island to spearhead what he hopes will be a community-wide effort to revitalize the language. The tribe has just applied for a federal grant that would fund the effort for four years to the tune of a half-million dollars. And, to work as a consultant on the project, it has hired a non-native linguist fluent in Penobscot, Conor Quinn of Portland.
Quinn, 22, who is now a graduate student at Harvard, was only 17 when he hooked up with Garrett and his Primer. "Garrett flopped the dictionary in front of Conor and said, 'I want this memorized by morning," Dana related. "In other words, 'Conor, we don't have a lot of time this summer to work with the language. So the more you can get done by the time September rolls around, the better off we'll be for funding for next summer.'"
Quinn, according to Dana, was happy to take the challenge literally. "Conor came into breakfast the next morning and threw the dictionary back in Richard's face and said, 'I could only get to page 783,'" Dana said. Within 24 hours, the full 1,200 pages were completely memorized.
Quinn denies that anything like this ever happened.
Of course, common sense tells us that you can't learn a language just by reading a dictionary—especially a dictionary printed in an only recently invented alphabet, a dictionary whose pages are faded Xeroxes of dot-matrix printing, with corrections and addenda scribbled all through the margins. But if Quinn didn't learn Penobscot from the dictionary, neither did he learn it from the dyslexic Garrett ("Working in language," he says, "is like confronting my demons."). No, Quinn learned from the late Dr. Frank T. Siebert, Jr., a pathologist by trade and by nature an eccentric—some prefer disturbed—recluse.
Siebert is the one who invented that alphabet and who compiled that dictionary. Garrett had introduced himself to the amateur but legendary linguist at the insistence of Madeline Shay Tomer, who suggested that Garrett might find him controversial but interesting. "She thought I could get through his gruffness," Garrett recalls. "A lot of Native Americans I know call him a curmudgeon." Quinn had found Garrett because he was a family friend. His first summer on Indian Island, in 1995, was spent working with Garrett at transferring much of Siebert's material from rough notes onto computer files.
Since the sixth grade, when he taught himself Irish-Gaelic, Quinn had been a voracious devourer of languages, and over the next few years he earned the respect of the curmudgeonly Siebert. And it was this partnership, said Governor Dana, that "probably saved the Penobscot language. . . . Frank basically downloaded the language into Conor's head."
So what does it mean that so much of the ailing Penobscot language is invested in two white men? What does it mean that most tribe members cannot understand their legends as told in Penobscot, let alone read them? What does it mean for Governor Dana to acknowledge that Conor Quinn alone "can tell us what our legends are"?
To answer that requires a much closer look at Frank Siebert.
Almost universally Siebert has been declared a genius by a section of academia that is notoriously insular and specialized. Ives Goddard at the Smithsonian will go so far as to say that Siebert "learned more about Penobscot than anyone ever will."
The child of old Philadelphia money, Frank Siebert first encountered the Penobscot in 1932. He was 19 and returning with his parents from a vacation in Québec. After convincing them to detour through Indian Island, he met the first of what would become a long line of "informants," or native speakers, who would teach him Penobscot language, history and stories, all of which had been fostered and preserved inside the tribe's oral tradition.
While studying medicine at the University of Pennsylvania—apparently at his father's insistence—Siebert fell into orbit around Frank G. Speck. Speck (pictured) was the author of a seminal work of anthropology called Penobscot Man (1940), and he kept office hours in a converted Gothic chapel he decorated with live snakes and turtles, even a white fox that hid behind a leaking radiator. There were Indian crossbows that he tested against the door, a whole collection of native artifacts, and a floor-to-ceiling library along three walls. Here Siebert began to apply himself to the study of the Penobscot. While tribe members joked that "Speck" was short for "speculation," Siebert strove for an approach that was even more rigorous than his teacher's, and less sentimental.
He attended Indian language meetings in New York City and got away with inviting himself to the prestigious summer institute sponsored by the Linguistic Society of America. There he boldly corrected one of the field's leading scholars and proceeded to write a groundbreaking paper about his theory.
Siebert went on to lead an academic double life—pathologist by day and linguist by night. He married in 1942 and was bitterly divorced in 1964, refusing to maintain contact with his wife or two daughters. By that time, he had spent many years off the reservation, discouraged by Indians who were suspicious of working with a white man. It was a suspicion that would nag him and his work even after his death. Finally, convinced that his life had been a failure, he returned to work with his main informant, Andrew Dana, Governor Dana's great-uncle.
In an essay for Maine History magazine, Goddard described first meeting Siebert while on a field trip with Harvard professor Karl Teeter:
The scene that greeted us was unforgettable. Andrew was in a wheelchair, having had a leg amputated as a consequence of diabetes. (He was later to lose the other one.) Frank was sitting opposite him checking Penobscot vocabulary from a file. Our arrival disrupted the work, and soon Frank, Karl and I were launched into a discussion of linguistic topics. Andrew appeared to doze off. Then, suddenly, as Frank was holding forth about the meaning of something in Penobscot, Andrew perked up and interjected: "Frank, your schwa is a little low in that word."
The encounter suggests a rich and rewarding collaboration between Siebert and Dana, who had only a sixth-grade education.
Siebert went on to win several important research grants, including a Guggenheim in 1969-70, but following Dana's death his relationship with the tribe and with the outside world began to deteriorate. In December 1987, while he was hospitalized for a broken hip, Siebert's Indian Island office was burglarized and ransacked. In a fit of paranoia, he withdrew from people and even deeper into his continuing work on a Penobscot dictionary and collection of legends. In 1996 he grumbled to a Portland newspaper reporter: "I'd like to be free. Free from shopping. Free from eating. Free from cooking. Free from nuisances and people calling you on the phone."
When speaking of Siebert, who died in January 1998 at the age of 85, most of his acquaintances resort to euphemism. For instance, Conor Quinn described him as "grumpy." Siebert assistant Dr. Pauleena MacDougall, a linguist fluent in Penobscot who is now associate director of the Maine Folklife Center, called him "mean, rude, obnoxious and abusive." Some have reported that Siebert rarely bathed or changed clothes. But James Neptune, curator of the Penobscot Tribal Museum, maintains that he was only "unkempt."
"He didn't care," Neptune explained. "He says, 'I am who I am.' "
"Frank was an old-school German," Garrett observed cryptically. When asked to elaborate, he added: "Let's just say that a favorite quote of his was, 'Poor old Hitler. He wasn't all bad.'"
"Everybody thanks Dr. Siebert, though, for what he did," Governor Dana insisted. "It's just that he himself was a hard man to get along with. He had very little tolerance for people. He loved my great-uncle, Andrew Dana. They were a package deal. It's kinda funny because I almost see Conor and I as being the return of the dynamic duo that's going to preserve the language. It was Frank Siebert and Andrew Dana, and now it's me and Conor Quinn."
A character like Frank Siebert can easily distract a tribe from such important business, however, even years after his death.
For instance, before his body was even cold, a battle raged between Richard Garrett and Siebert's two estranged daughters over his estate. Garrett initiated the lawsuit, claiming that when Siebert excised Garrett's name from his will shortly before he died, it was invalid because the old man suffered from dementia. Some inside and outside the tribe privately contend that Garrett's name was only added to the will in the first place through his unfair manipulation of Siebert. In any event, Garrett lost the suit, and Siebert's collection of rare books, letters, maps and treaties—which had been strewn all over his small, cluttered and impossibly dirty home—was auctioned in 1999 at Sotheby's Auction House in New York City for a whopping $12.6 million.
Meanwhile, much of Siebert's academic work, including his dictionary and his two-volume compilation of Penobscot legends written both in English and a phonemic alphabet of his own invention, were donated to the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. Publication of this very important material has been stalled, though, in part due to concern over proprietorship. Although the APS is a nonprofit organization, the Penobscot Nation is skeptical about granting rights to material that was partially completed using grant money awarded the tribe back in the 1980s. In addition, there is concern about even the idea of another party copyrighting the Penobscot language.
"Our tribal council is pretty adamant about that," Governor Dana said. "The language is ours. The stories are ours."
James Neptune at the Penobscot museum has a photocopy of Siebert's dictionary and doesn't plan on handing it over to some outside institution. His response to the APS: "bullcrap."
"No one has a copyright on my people's language," he said.
Richard Garrett argues that the hang-up is all over a misunderstanding. The APS doesn't want to copyright the stories per se, he says, only the phonemic device that Siebert used to put them on paper. Carol Dana insists that that's not the point. In Penobscot oral tradition, ownership of stories has always been respected. "If you wanted to hear my family's stories," she explained, "you would ask my permission first, and then I would tell them to you."
"Timiskaming Youth" (1913) by Frank G. Speck
So can any of this be worked out? Penobscot tribal attorney Mark Chavaree says the council is looking into it. The APS editor in charge of the Siebert texts, Carole LeFaivre-Rochester, responded via e-mail with a terse "no comment."
Bad feelings abound. Historically, the Penobscot, much more than their more isolated neighbors the Passamaquoddy, have been forced into close proximity with white Mainers. While their grip on the language has weakened as a result—a fact that is deeply shameful to many Indians—their distrust of outsiders has grown. For years, it was a hallmark of federal Indian policy to eradicate native languages. Meanwhile, native-speaking Penobscot who attended school in nearby Old Town have reported facing intolerance and pressure to assimilate.
These circumstances are partly responsible for controversies that might otherwise puzzle outsiders: Why can't they agree on whether there are any native speakers left? Or, why would the publications of their legends be anything but a good thing?
"My wife says we have a chip on our shoulder," Governor Dana, whose wife is white, said. "Well, we do, because that chip is a memory bank in which are stored all the past bad dealings between us and non-Indians."
Dana admits that the burden of that attitude has fallen on Harvard linguist Conor Quinn. "So when you see Conor, you see the non-Indian," he said, describing what he figures to be a prevalent attitude among Penobscot. "Uh-oh. What's he here for? What's he really after? And what are we going to get? He's going to get rich and famous and we're going to get nothing."
"All I can offer the Penobscots is Penobscot as analyzed by me," Quinn said. "But the Penobscots eventually would like Penobscot as presented by themselves and to give their own take on it, not filtered through this linguist or that linguist."
Even so, the tribe has instituted a new policy through which they hope to better control their contact with outsiders. The governor said that now any non-Indian who wishes access to Penobscot language, culture, stories or songs for the purpose of writing about them must go before the tribal council's Preservation Committee and present a statement of purpose. If the committee were to approve the project, there would probably be contracts to sign, Dana said.
No such requirement was made in the preparation of this article, however. And Neptune said he is not interested in such a regulation as it might affect him. "This committee is not going to tell me how I can talk to people," he said, "because it's all history anyway."
What seems clear is that Barry Dana has his work cut out for him when it comes to revitalizing Penobscot on Indian Island. He described how the language meetings have been going.
"We have, or at least I've decided to accept, this constant initial part of the process, which is, 'I need to vent,'" he said. "'So I'm going to come to this language session, but I need to tell you that so-and-so beat my grandfather 50 years ago because he spoke Penobscot.' So we have to still live through all that oppression. And it's usually the first 10 to 20 minutes of the session before we get on to the future discussion."


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CHEATER, Cheater, Pumpkin Eater
By Jackie Burrell
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 at 3:43 pm in Parenting Issues, Schools.
Well, we don't actually know about those cheating pumpkin eaters, but 64 percent of the nation's teens say they've cheated on tests and 36 percent have plagiarized, according to a major study by the Josephson Institute, and 30 percent have stolen something from a store. The study, which included 29,760 high school students from across the nation, also found that 83 percent of them had lied to their parents about something major. And, in what New York Times columnist Lisa Belkin calls the most "jarring" news of all, not only had 93 percent professed themselves "satisfied with their personal ethics," but 26 percent admitted they lied on the survey about lying. (Which reminds us of that old riddle about the tribe that always tells the truth, the tribe that always fibs and some question or other. Is a lie about lying a lie? And shouldn't we be plagiarizing that joke right about now?)
Some educators think the grim news is a natural outcome of the increasingly high pressure world of high school, grades and college admissions. Others are appalled. What do you think?
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Back in September, we began a month-long campaign publicizing the fact that in eight states and Washington, DC, insurance companies could deny coverage to a victim of domestic violence, citing it as a "pre-existing condition." Since that time, you've blogged, posted on Facebook, and tweeted about women's health care. You've written over 10,000 letters to your members of Congress demanding gender equity in health care reform. You've worn t-shirts and handed out information outside Congressional offices. And now, that work has paid off: the House health care bill language, released today, includes a clause specifically outlawing the practice of treating domestic violence as a "pre-existing condition."
The House bill states:
A health insurance issuer offering health insurance coverage in the individual market may not, on the basis of domestic violence, impose any preexisting condition exclusion (as defined in section 2701(b)(1)(A)) with respect to such coverage.
Yes, there is still a lot of work ahead as both this bill, and the one from the Senate, moves to the floor for a vote. But, for just a moment, we can sit back and celebrate the results of our hard work over the past few months!


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Carver reading club makes book donation
Apr. 01, 2014 @ 10:11 AM
The One Step Above Reading Club at Carver Elementary School recently donated the book "The Elf on the Shelf" to the library at the school. Club members present for the donation included (from left) Thomas Elliott, Kyren Bradberry, Citlali Segundo, Shelton Robinson Jr., Yanira Hamrick, Edgar Hernandez and Jordan Clopton. They are joined by the school librarian, Jodi Long. The club received the book as a donation from the author, Carol V. Aebersold, at a book promotion during the Christmas holidays in Durham.


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April 25, 2010
Homework Hell
Can someone tell me how many math problems is enough to demonstrate that your kid understands subtraction that involves borrowing? I have a feeling it is less than most teachers might think. The thought of one more worksheet makes my skin crawl--and they aren't even my worksheets!! The research (or so I hear), says that homework isn't even effective until around 5th grade. On the other hand, my sister who teaches K says that most parents feel reassured by homework because they see what their kids are doing in school. I am not reassured by homework or by worksheets. I support education, but I want it to be interesting and compelling and not 2,000 opportunities to show everyone that you know what 82 minus 53 is. (It's 29, by the way.)
In second grade at Neighborhood School, weekends aren't made for homework. On Mondays, a packet of math worksheets comes home, to be returned on Friday. These are dreaded worksheets, or at least dreaded by all in our family.
It seems that while I was away, J did not do his weekly homework, and it was still lingering around when I got back. We slunk off to Target, our place of choice for doing homework these days.
One page spoke volumes: there were probably 30 simple two number addition problems on the page, and then my favorite part: "Shade all of the boxes that result in the number 72."
J sighed every time he found the answer was 72. At one point, he said, "Don't they know this is a waste of pencil lead?" At another point, he inquired, "What is the point of shading all these boxes anyway?" I responded impulsively, "You should ask your teacher what state standard that requirement addresses." J thought for a moment and said simply, "Motor skills."
In addition to those 30 problems, he had another 30 or so of subtraction that involved borrowing, and another page of the same. He also had a few pages of telling time, and some other things I don't even remember anymore.
On top of that, he had to write a journal entry in response to the following prompt: "If I owned a restaurant, I would serve...." J is too pragmatic for these things. He doesn't want to own a restaurant and serve anything. Yet, he knows that's not the right answer, so it takes him forever to come with something. So we sat there for what felt like an eternity, talking about serving lego sandwiches (no one would eat it), cat food (too complicated to write about), and the list goes on. We settled on fruit.
I won't say how the writing got done, but it did get finished. In his own handwriting. The math, on the other hand, is another story. A flock of penguins (are they a flock? or a gaggle? or a quorum?) seemed to waddle by the windows of our local Target, catching J's attention. When he looked back at the table, the math worksheets were gone, and we're not sure where they went.
If J's teacher is reading this, I am so busted. But, I'm sure she's too busy grading papers to take time to surf the net.
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April 9, 2010
the art of passive resistance
J has been going to his new school for three weeks now. He likes that we stop off at a bakery on the way to school each morning. He likes that there's no homework on weekends and there was no homework during spring break. The lovefest ends right there.
The lunch lady called the other day to tell us that he doesn't each the free breakfast, and he also hasn't been really eating much for lunch. Well, I suppose stopping at the bakery on the way to school doesn't leave him much of an appetite for the USDA approved free breakfast. Did I mention it was free? As for lunch, he tells me he drinks a carton of milk and eats a bag of carrot sticks--he says he's just not hungry at that time. He eats a big snack after school and a good dinner, so I'm not worried. But I guess they told him he needs to pick three items so that they can charge him for lunch. He added a pear to the carrot sticks and milk the other day and said it was ok. I think it is just fine he's somehow not eating the chicken nuggets, the meat patties, the pizza, etc. But, that's just my opinion.
We signed up for the virtually free afterschool programs for the spring term. It's our way of not having to pick him up until 5pm and hey, we don't have to pay $12 a day for the afterschool care program. On Wednesdays he had his choice of art adventure or soccer, and he thought for a long time and chose art adventure. This week, when the class met, he sneaked a book into the program and read during the art lesson. They were making paper crowns, he told us later. I'm sure the kindergarten kids had fun with it.
Today, the principal called to say that J had refused to go to music, and he was in her office, and she was unsure what to do. C talked to J, who had no real explanation for not wanting to go to music, and J agreed to go back to class. Sigh.
No one said it would be easy, that's for certain.
In other news, S is refusing to stand on her own. This is a skill marker she should have passed a few months ago, and frankly, she doesn't seem to be anywhere close to making this one happen any time soon. She can do lots of interesting fine motor things--feed herself, empty containers, try to scribble, take things apart, etc--but she's not into standing and walking. We're giving her another couple of weeks to figure this standing thing out before we do something about it. She did just discover that she can hold TWO things if she doesn't have to hold onto something for support. So...that's a good sign!
I guess with kids, it's always something...keeping us alert and making sure we're paying attention. So, here's some eye candy as a reward for your paying attention:
Happy spring, everyone!
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