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Busy hour: In a communications system, the sliding 60-minute period during which occurs the maximum total traffic load in a given 24-hour period.
The busy hour is determined by fitting a horizontal line segment equivalent to one hour under the traffic load curve about the peak load point.
If the service time interval is less than 60 minutes, the busy hour is the 60-minute interval that contains the service timer interval.
In cases where more than one busy hour occurs in a 24-hour period, i.e., when saturation occurs, the busy hour or hours most applicable to the particular situation are used. Synonym peak busy hour.
The idea behind the busy hour is that the traffic is not leveled throughout the day. There are some peak hours in a day which are busy and have more traffic than normal hours. During these hours traffic is at maximum level. The users will receive Grade of Services according to the traffic measured in those hours.
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Opera reports massive browser ballot boost3 March 2010
Statistics released by Opera have shown that downloads of its desktop web browser have tripled since Microsoft rolled out its ballot screen, which allows users to pick a different browser to use, other than Internet Explorer. While the company didn't... >>
EC launches anti-trust investigation into Google24 February 2010
The European Union has launched an anti-trust investigation into Google, following allegations from three companies that the search giant was hurting their businesses with "penalty filters" applied to specific sites. The companies in question are Foundem... >>
US senator criticises proposed Google/Yahoo "monopoly"29 October 2008
Opposition to the proposed Google and Yahoo ad sharing deal is mounting on both sides of the Atlantic. The deal is already under investigation by authories in both the European Union and the US, and a coalition of independent organisations has also been... >>
Intel asked for more time in EU lawsuit20 October 2008
Intel has appealed for more time in a EU lawsuit, which alleges that the chip maker paid a retailer to favour computers made with its technology. The chip manufacturer has asked the European Union's second highest court for more time to respond to allegations... >>
Online shoppers to get more rights10 October 2008
The European Commission has announced plans that could see shoppers afforded more protection when buying online. In particular, the proposals are aimed to protect EU shoppers who opt to buy products from one of the 27 states within the Union but not from... >>
EU probing Google and Yahoo ad deal16 September 2008
Google and Yahoo are now co-operating with European Authorities over a probe into the proposed ad revenue sharing deal between the two web giants. The deal is already under investigation in the States, where a coalition of companies and organisations... >>
Tech talks break down between US and Europe19 August 2008
Things have gotten so nasty between the States and EU over tariffs on tech goods that the US has asked the World Trade Organization to mediate. The US has asked the WTO to set up a "dispute panel" to help the two sides negotiate after talks failed to... >>
US in tech row with EU29 May 2008
A heated row has kicked off between the USA and European authorities over import tariffs. The US has lodged a complaint with the World Trade Organisation over import charges on computer screens and other technology products coming into Europe. Tech companies,... >>
Launch for European satnav project28 April 2008
It won't be at full capacity until 2013 but the bid to set up a European satnav system took a giant step forward today. A "demonstrator" satellite for Europe's Galileo sat nav system has been launched from Kazakhstan. The Giove-B satellite has been sent... >>
Over half of EU citizens go online regularly24 April 2008
The European Commission's latest figures for broadband usage on our continent make for encouraging reading at a first glance. Europe is now the world's most wired region with European broadband users at the 100 million mark, which is about 20% higher... >>


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NVidia driver misbehaving on FreeBSD
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NVidia driver misbehaving on FreeBSD
I have now tried every combination that I could come up with and find on the FreeBSD
mailing-list, unofficial FAQs etc etc. I have tried getting the driver to work on both STABLE
and CURRENT with the exact same result on both. I have a GeForce2/GTS.
2D wise the nVidia driver seems to work great, my system has been up for 9 days without a
single problem with X. But as soon as I use nvidias OpenGL drivers strange things start
I have tried the following:
I have lowered the maximum allowed AGP rate in the BIOS from 4 to 2. (I have a via 694X chipset)
I have tried using FreeBSD's agpgart as well as using nvidias, when using FreeBSD's I changed
the #undef to #define in nv-freebsd.h. When using nvidias I have had agp.ko unloaded.
I also tried enabling the ReqAGPRate sysctl so that I was able to change it to set the speed to
2 and 1. I've also tried disabling AGP by adding option "NvAgp" "0" to my XF86Config.
I have also recompiled my kernel and XFree86 without any CPUTYPE or CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf
glxinfo seems to return correct information. I have checked to make sure I have no libGL from
Mesa etc, I have checked the existing libGL to make sure it was nvidias.
I have option "IgnoreEDID" in my XF86Config in order to be able to use 1400x1050, this was never
a problem in Linux but could this cause OpenGL to act up?
I am not loading dri and I see no errors or relevant warnings in /var/log/XFree86.0.log
I'm attaching 3 truss outputs from when glxgears failed (I hope they are useful). In ginfo.log
and ginfo3.log the computer just hung. I had to reboot with reset, when I ran CURRENT it would
hang for about 5 seconds than automatically reboot. With ginfo2.log glxgears just segfaulted.
glxinfo also caused the machine to hang once.
(the logs are gzipped, my uuencode seems broken)
Two times the reboots caused data corruption, one time it even seemed to have broken gcc (I was
compiling code at the same time as running glxgears). When trying to use gcc afterwards it would
fail with "internal compiler error...". As far as I could tell it only corrupted open files.
I have searched /var/log after crashes but I never found anything relating to nvidia or agp etc.
sysctl -a|grep nvidia returns:
hw.nvidia.agp.host-bridge.rates: 2x 1x
hw.nvidia.agp.host-bridge.fw: not supported
hw.nvidia.agp.host-bridge.sba: supported
hw.nvidia.agp.host-bridge.registers: 0x1f000203:0x00000000
hw.nvidia.agp.card.rates: 4x 2x 1x
hw.nvidia.agp.card.fw: supported
hw.nvidia.agp.card.sba: not supported
hw.nvidia.agp.card.registers: 0x1f000017:0x00000000
hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled
hw.nvidia.agp.status.driver: n/a
hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: n/a
hw.nvidia.agp.status.fw: n/a
hw.nvidia.agp.status.sba: n/a
hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA FreeBSD x86 nvidia.ko Kernel Module 1.0-3203 Wed Oct 30 06:06:58 PST
2002 hw.nvidia.registry.ReqAGPRate: 4
hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPSBA: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPFW: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.SoftEDIDs: 1
hw.nvidia.registry.Mobile: 4294967295
hw.nvidia.cards.0.model: GeForce2 GTS
hw.nvidia.cards.0.irq: 11
hw.nvidia.cards.0.vbios: 02.15.01.07.00
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Findings for PPC in Scottsdale
Scottsdale Ranks Amongst Least Expensive Markets for Google Adwords in USA
SEP's ongoing research into PPC Campaigns has revealed that Scottsdale was the 78th least expensive city in USA in keyword bids in Google Adwords for the month of April 2015. Scottsdale also ranks amongst the least expensive cities in Arizona, ranking as number 4th. In the study, San Buenaventura ranked as the most expensive city in the country, while Manchester ranked as the least expensive city.
Google Adwords Keyword Prices 15% Lower in Scottsdale than Tempe
SEP's research also tracks Google Adwords price changes and trends in cities across Canada and the U.S. Recent data shows that average prices in Scottsdale are 15% lower than in Tempe. The average price of a click in Scottsdale is $14.68.
This price difference is interesting though, given the population of Tempe is less than Scottsdale.
To understand if prices in Scottsdale align relatively, we also compared prices with North Las Vegas, which has a similar population, and found the average price of a click in Scottsdale was 9% higher than in North Las Vegas.
The Price Rank shows how expensive keywords are in certain industry and segment relative to other cities in a country, region and province.


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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) University of Texas regents Sunday ordered a review of policies regarding inappropriate relationships between employees and students after a two-hour, private telephone meeting
HOUSTON (AP) Omar Strong hit nine 3-pointers and scored 33 points, leading Texas Southern to an 84-48 victory over Prairie View on Saturday night.
EL PASO, Texas (AP) Mckenzie Moore scored 14 points and UTEP clamped down on Tulane's top two scorers in a 62-50 victory Saturday night.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) Tim Duncan sprained his left knee and right ankle in the first half of the San Antonio Spurs' 96-86 victory over the Washington Wizards on Saturday night.
HOUSTON (AP) James Harden had 21 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists for his first career triple-double in the Houston Rockets' 109-95 win over the Charlotte Bobcats on Saturday night.


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JDBC / MS ACCESS Problem
Im getting an:
ERROR: findSuppliersCandy(): Column not found
error in my program.
i have two related tables. One supplier table and one candy table for different types of candy.
the method below is trying to retrieve all the candy entries related to a specific supplier by passing a supplier id as a parameter
below is the code - any help would be appreciated
public List<Candy> findSuppliersCandy(int supplierId) throws DaoException {
Re: JDBC / MS ACCESS Problem
Amazingly enough, it appears as if you are referencing a column that doesn't exist. I trust you understand what this means.
Check to make sure columns all columns you reference, such as 'CANDYID', 'CANDYPRICE', 'SUPPLIERID', etc.. all exist with no typos.
Re: JDBC / MS ACCESS Problem
I don't really use MS Access but with MySQL the first thing I usually do is open up SQL Browser, copy and paste the SQL statement into it and run it to make sure that I'm getting back the data that I'm expecting as well as check the column names to make sure that I haven't screwed anything up there.
If I don't find my error there I'll usually add the following to my catch statement: System.out.println(e.printStackTrace);
and figure out which column it is that is not being found and investigate from there.
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|Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Greene, Gayle, 1943-
Doris Lessing.
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1994
|Named Person:
|Doris Lessing; Doris May Lessing; Doris Lessing; Doris May Lessing
|Material Type:
|Government publication, State or province government publication
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Gayle Greene
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|285 pages ; 24 cm
|1. Introduction --
2. Efforts of Imagination --
3. Children of Violence: "Something Worked Through" --
4. Landlocked: "A New Kind of Knowledge" --
5. The Four-Gated City: "Something Quite Different" --
6. The Golden Notebook: "Naming in a Different Way" --
7. The Summer Before the Dark: Closed Circles --
8. The Memoirs of a Survivor: The Breaking of the Circle --
9. Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta: "After Long Circling and Cycling" --
10. The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five: "An Enquiry and a Remaking and an Inspiration" --
11. The Diaries of Jane Somers: Filial Atonements and New Romances --
12. The Good Terrorist: Lessing's "New Upsetting Phase" --
13. Conclusion.
|Gayle Greene.
The author brings a variety of approaches to Lessing's work, including psychoanalytic, Marxist, biographical, historical, intertextual, formalist, feminist. Greene's analysis is eclectic and essentially feminist, for she believes that Lessing is a feminist writer - feminist not in offering strong female role models who climb to the top of existing social structures but in envisioning, and indeed helping to bring about, a transformation of those structures.
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Inhibition of DNA methyltransferase activity and expression by treatment with the pan-deacetylase inhibitor panobinostat in hepatocellular carcinoma cell lines
1 Department of Medicine 1, University Hospital Erlangen, Ulmenweg 18, Erlangen, 91054, Germany
2 Institute of Pathology, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria
3 Department of Pneumology, Klinikum Nuremberg Nord, Nuremberg, Germany
4 Institute for Surgical Research, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
BMC Cancer 2012, 12:386 doi:10.1186/1471-2407-12-386Published: 3 September 2012
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) still represents an unmet medical need. Epigenetic inactivation of tumor suppressor genes like RASSF1A or APC by overexpression of DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs) has been shown to be common in HCC and to be linked to the overall prognosis of patients. Inhibitors of protein and histone deacetylases (DACi) have been demonstrated to possess strong anti-tumor effects in HCC models.
We therefore investigated whether DACi also has any influence on the expression and activity of DNMTs and methylated target genes in HepG2 and Hep3B cell culture systems and in a xenograft model by immunohistochemistry, westernblotting, RT-qPCR and methylation-specific PCR.
Our findings demonstrate a rapid inhibition of DNMT activity 6 h after treatment with 0.1 μM of the pan-DACi panobinostat. A downregulation of DNMT mRNAs and protein were also observed at later points in time. This loss of DNMT activity and expression was paralleled by a diminished methylation of the target genes RASSF1A and APC and a concomitant re-expression of APC mRNA and protein. Analysis of HepG2 xenograft specimens confirmed these results in vivo.
We suggest a dual mode of action of DACi on DNA methylation status: a rapid inhibition of enzyme activity due to interference with posttranslational acetylation and a delayed effect on transcriptional control of DNMT genes by HDAC or miRNA mechanisms.


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Israel Navy gets fifth Dolphin-class submarine from Germany
New sub expected to arrive in Israel next year; a fourth vessel, the INS Tanin, was launched in Germany a year ago and is expected to arrive in Israel and be put into service by the navy in the next few months.
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When millions of people are bracing themselves for the onslaught of extreme weather, as much information as possible is needed to predict the strength of the impending storm. ESA's SMOS mission again showed its versatility by capturing unique measurements of Hurricane Sandy.
As its name suggests, the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite was designed to measure how much moisture is held in soil and how much salt is held in the surface waters of the oceans.
This information is helping to improve our understanding of the water cycle an essential component of the Earth system.
However, this state-of-the-art Earth Explorer mission has demonstrated that its instrumentation and measuring techniques can be used to offer much more.
Since SMOS has the ability to see through clouds and it is little affected by rain, it can also provide reliable estimates of the surface wind speeds under intense storms.
Parts of the Caribbean and northeastern US are still suffering the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, which is the largest Atlantic hurricane on record.
Unusually, Sandy was a hybrid storm, tapping energy from the evaporation of seawater like a hurricane and from different air temperatures like a winter storm. These conditions generated a super storm that spanned an incredible 1800 km.
As it orbited above, the satellite intercepted parts of Hurricane Sandy at least eight times as the storm swept over Jamaica and Cuba around 25 October, until its landfall in New Jersey, US, four days later.
The data from these encounters have been used to estimate the speed of the wind over the ocean's surface.
SMOS carries a novel microwave sensor to capture images of 'brightness temperature'. These images correspond to radiation emitted from the surface of Earth, which are then used to derive information on soil moisture and ocean salinity.
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Our deepest sympathy to the Tony Taro family on the loss of the family matriarch, Claire Taro. Claire was devoted to her family and her home. Many of her friends referred to her as a truly grand lady. Claire made her family and home her priority. She could always be found cooking, cleaning or working in her garden. Claire was also known for her hospitality to friends and family. Valley Home will miss Claire very much.
Our Valley Home Hawks celebrated their annual Jog-A-Thon last Thursday. The Easter Bunny was on hand to watch the kids run and walk. It was obvious that everyone had some fun. After the jogging, the candy jump was held and the prizes were awarded. Maddie Jones' name was drawn as the winner of the iPad Mini device. The best decorated T-shirt awards went to Brandy Seaton for the K-3 grades and Stephanie Lee for the 4-8 grades. Payton Sinclair won the Craziest Socks competition and Alisha Martinho won for Craziest Hair. Due to the earlier minimum day schedule this year ...
It is that time of year once again when our Valley Home students are stretching their legs and toning up their muscles for the school annual Jog-a-Thon on Thursday, March 28th. Students are decorating their own T-shirts again this year. We have received word that prizes will be awarded for the best T-shirt design for both K-3 and 4 thru 8. Additional contests and prizes will also be awarded. Just a reminder that Spring break begins Friday!
Valley Home 4-H Annual Club Presentation Night will be held on Thursday, March 21 at St John's Church here in Valley Home. The Presentation will commence at 6 p.m. in the Church Hall. This will be the final dress rehearsal for club members attending County Presentation Day. The event provides a wonderful opportunity to come and listen to Valley Home and Orange Blossom 4-H speech project members give their presentations. These young people have been working very hard preparing and practicing their presentations. You are invited to please join them and support your fellow 4-H'ers for an ...
Things will really be hopping here in our Valley Home community on Saturday, March 30th! We have received word that the grounds located at the "old" school will be visited by our friend, The Easter Bunny! Our furry little friend has sent a special message that, with the help of our Valley Home 4-Hers, they are planning on having hundreds of colorful eggs hidden in marked areas of the playing field. We are told that there will be plenty of prizes, candy, games and contest, in addition to the traditional hunt! Staring time for the fun event will be 10 ...
We have received word that our Red Hat Queen, Margo and our Valley Home members of Oakdale's Fun Lovin' Ladies welcomed in our beautiful spring-like weather with a delicious luncheon and meeting at Bella Italia Restaurant in Modesto. The members of the group were able to enjoy viewing all the blossoming Almond orchards they passed along the way.
This week's Valley Home News leads off with the news received that Bob Yuskaitis our Valley Home friend and dedicated Neighborhood Watch Patrolman for our community was involved in a serious automobile accident on February 11th while crossing Highway 120 at Pioneer Avenue. It appears he was driving home after an evening patrol and his and another vehicle collided, with his car rolled and he received serious, multiple injuries. He is recuperating in a facility in Modesto. The residents of the Greater Valley Home Area wish Bob Yuskailis a full recovery.
It sounds like our Valley Home 4-Hers not only had a great time at their February meeting, but also made lots of money at their annual Box Social on February 5th. The Box Social provides an evening of fun for all the members, as they all participate in seeing who can create the prettiest decorated box of goodies to be auctioned off at the meeting. This meeting was no exception and goodies of every kind were auctioned off. A special thank you to Gary Lewis who acts as auctioneer for the fun filled event. Helping Gary with the auction were ...
Where did all the neighbors go? Unbelievably, our Valley Home community was turned into a ghost town this past weekend, nary a soul could be found and our normally busy streets were empty of traffic. There is an old adage that "no news is good news," however I beg to differ! Our normally busy streets were devoid of traffic, where did everyone disappear to? Our normally busy little community was bereft of even a lone car traversing our roads. Where did all our townspeople go? The mystery was solved however, your reporter had simply forgotten that Sunday was "Super Bowl ...
Our members of Oakdale's Fun Lovin' Ladies are all getting gussied up in their purple outfits and making that important decision on which one of their Red Hats to select for their February 6th meeting. The group will travel to Modesto this month to partake of the cuisine offered at Minnie's Restaurant. Just a reminder to be certain to give Cookie a ring at 847-0761, if you need to cancel or have not made your reservation, as we need to confirm with the restaurant how many to expect.
Oak Valley Art Society members met at the Escalon Library on Saturday, and members enjoyed a very informative program on art techniques offered by long time member, and prize winning artist, Dorothy Girling. Due to a mix-up, the artist scheduled to demonstrate that day was unavailable and the group was treated to a very enjoyable program by Dorothy, who offered helpful hints to the group on working with pastels and various and helpful hints on that medium.
Our Valley Home MAC committee will be meeting tonight, January 16 at the Valley Home school. The meeting will start at 6:30 p.m. in the school library. These meetings are a wonderful way to keep the line between the residents and the county representatives. There will be reports of what has happened since last meeting, what is scheduled to happen in the near future and also an opportunity to report a problem that may need to be forwarded to the county leaders. Be at the meeting and see what is going on in your part of the county.
We received word that Cooper Bartholomew had a great time celebrating his sixth birthday on New Year's Day. Cooper celebrated with friends and family on New Year's Eve. A special treat for Cooper that evening was hearing Austin Dickens and Luke Pouncy entertain by playing the guitar during the evening!
Word has just been received that the next meeting of the Valley Home 4H will be January 8 at 7:00 p.m. at the Valley Home School gym.
We hope that Santa was able to make his visit to our Valley Home area and deliver a sleigh full of Christmas cheer even though he was greeted by rainy weather! Valley Home residents were still able to enjoy wending their way through our streets in the rain, and enjoy the colorful display of lighted homes. Even though we had to undergo heavy rain at times, the lights were enveloped in a misty glow that was beautiful to see.
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Barbra Streisand is 'Flattered' by Jennifer Aniston's Tribute Photoshoot
Emmy Award-winner Jennifer Aniston recently paid tribute to Grammy Award-, Tony Award-, and Academy Award-winner Barbra Streisand by recreating some of Streisand's famous poses and fashions in this month's 'Harper's Bazaar.' Today, Streisand herself commented on the photoshoot via her official website.
She said, "I was very flattered that Jennifer Aniston chose to interpret my style with the photos in Harper's Bazaar. She's a delightful person, and I think she did a wonderful job. If only she had a bump on her nose."
The 'Harper's Bazaar' photoshoot can be viewed here.
A star for over four decades, Streisand received Tony nominations for her Broadway debut I Can Get It For You Wholesale and for her star-making turn as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl (she would receive a Star of the Decade, Hall of Fame Tony in 1970). Streisand would go on to recreate the role on film for a 1969 Oscar. She was also nominated for her performance in The Way We Were. She received another Oscar for co-writing "Evergreen" for A Star is Born and was similarly nominated for "I Finally Found Someone" from The Mirror Has Two Faces. Other film credits include Hello, Dolly!, On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, What's Up, Doc?, Funny Lady, Nuts and Yentl. She has also produced several of her movies.
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Two Cedar Point roller coasters were gone from the amusement park along Lake Erie but they won't be forgotten.
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Tonight the Seattle Mariners held the first ever Safeco Field Open House, allowing fans the first opportunity to see the stadium's recent renovations and watch the first game of the season on the new high-definition video screen. There's been a lot of hype surrounding the new screen, and rightfully so. It's 201.5 feet wide and 56.7 feet tall, which is wider than an Olympic swimming pool is long and taller than a five-story building. I was sure to take plenty of pictures of the gigantic screen as I was in attendance to watch the Mariners beat the Oakland A's 2-0. Article found on: Next Impulse Sports
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WALLA WALLA — Police arrested a man and woman on investigation of felony theft after the pair apparently attempted to shoplift at the store twice this week.
According to Officer Tim Bennett, spokesman for the Walla Walla Police Department, Christo Xiggenis, 29, and Jennifer Zamito, 21, were arrested outside Hasting's on Ninth Avenue on Wednesday after store employees recognized the pair from security video relating to the theft of roughly $1,000 of electronics, Monday.
Bennett said officers arrested Zamito when the pair exited the entertainment store at about 6:36 p.m., Wednesday.
"We were there while they were still in there 'shopping,'" Bennett said.
Xiggenis ducked back into the store when he spotted police, and removed his hat and a sweater, then exited through the store's cafe entrance, according to Bennett.
Police found a remote game controller in Zamito's purse, Bennett said. Store employees are still reviewing security video to determine the extent of the alleged thefts, Bennett said.
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The right winger recently turned down a loan move to Port Vale, although it is believed that the lure of a permanent deal will prove decisive as manager Brian Talbot continues to desperately scour the market for new signings.
Meanwhile, Talbot has also offered former French Under-21 international Stephane Leoni the opportunity to resurrect his career following a bizarre accident.
The former Metz right back spent five months out of the game after sustaining serious injuries following an accident which saw him fall through a glass door.
Leoni, 25, who also enjoyed two years with Bristol Rovers, spent last season with Scottish side Dundee United, although he is keen to re-establish himself in England.
"Metz is a big club in France, but already had three right backs on their books and therefore I preferred to try and establish myself again in English football after my freak accident," he remarked.
Chesterfield also expressed an interest in signing Leoni during the summer, although manager Nicky Law pulled out of the deal at the eleventh hour.
The Frenchman is joined on trial at Nene Park by former St Mirren striker Junior Mendes (pictured).
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The Macon County sheriff gave his approval Wednesday to more than 1,000 gambling machines installed at VictoryLand in anticipation of the reopening of what was once Alabama's largest casino.
Sheriff David Warren said the machines have electronic graphics with slot machine-like reels on them, but that's only for entertaining customers. In the sheriff's view, a bingo card in the corner of the video screen and the electronic equipment inside make them different from illegal slot machines.
"Once you get past the eye candy, this is bingo," he told reporters after a demonstration of the machines.
The sheriff regulates bingo in the county. At his request, BMM Test Labs of Las Vegas reviewed the computer software used to run the games, and it declared that they comply with Alabama law on bingo operations.
"These games are different from slot machines," BMM's Rich Williamson said Wednesday.
Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange issued a warning Wednesday that the same thing could happen to VictoryLand that happened to two casinos his office shut down earlier this year.
"I have worked hard to enforce the Alabama Supreme Court's decisions and to end illegal gambling in an orderly fashion through the court system," he said. "I will continue to enforce the rule of law in a consistent manner statewide."
Some counties in Alabama have passed constitutional amendments allowing bingo, but legal battles have developed in counties where the operations have gone from traditional paper bingo to machines with colorful graphics and sound effects.
VictoryLand, about 15 miles east of Montgomery, was once Alabama's largest casino with more than 6,000 electronic games. It also was the largest employer and largest taxpayer in rural Macon County before closing in 2010 under pressure from then-Gov. Bob Riley. He maintained that the games were illegal slots, while VictoryLand owner Milton McGregor called them legal bingo.
McGregor has been working to reopen his casino since he was acquitted in March on federal charges accusing him of trying to bribe legislators to pass pro-gambling legislation.
McGregor has not set an official opening date, but his attorney, Joe Espy, said he hopes to reopen before the end of the year.
Workers at VictoryLand are still prepping some of the machines. But Johnny Ford, mayor of nearby Tuskegee, said McGregor has already hired employees and started ordering supplies and that the reopening will be a windfall for the poor county.
"All we want for Christmas is 2,000 jobs back and millions for our schools," he said.
The Macon County sheriff said he considered the old machines at VictoryLand legal and disagreed with the shutdown. The new machines at VictoryLand resemble the machines there in 2010, but they operate differently and are made by different manufacturers.
The old machines took cash. The new ones don't. Players put money on a card resembling a bank ATM card and use it to play. The card identifies their winnings, which they pick up from a cashier.
The old machines were from major suppliers. But the attorney general reached an agreement with International Gaming Technologies, Bally Manufacturing and Multimedia Games in 2011 that allowed them to pull their games out of the shuttered VictoryLand and another closed casino in return for not returning to Alabama until the state's highest court ruled electronic bingo legal or state law was changed to permit it.
Because of that, McGregor had to get games from smaller manufacturers.
The Alabama Supreme Court ruled in an electronic bingo case from Lowndes County that bingo players must announce their wins to other players. The new machines at VictoryLand automatically credit a win to a player. The sheriff's attorney, James Anderson, said he doesn't believe the Lowndes County case applies to Macon County.
During the legal battle over electronic bingo, casinos run by the Poarch Creek Indians in Wetumpka, Montgomery and Atmore have avoided any raids or legal action because they are federally regulated. Among them, they have nearly 2,500 machines.


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Best rock for the price By Dan on 5/13/2015 Dan would recommend this product to a friend I started my tank dry and this was an excellent rock to go with. Arrived with nice shapes and sizes and was easy to landscape. live rock By shaggy on 4/24/2015 shaggy would recommend this product to a friend It looks a hole lot better then the live rock that I had in it VERY NICE!!!!! By Abigail'sReef on 4/16/2015 Abigail'sReef would recommend this product to a friend This is very nice rock! Very porous, and has lots of dead algae, et cetera + a dead crab! Awesome nooks, holes, and caves. :) Exactly what you would expect. By Adam on 4/16/2015 Adam would recommend this product to a friend It's what you would expect, but you may want to cure or pressure wash this rock before putting it in your tank. Decent choice By Tony on 4/11/2015 Tony wouldn't recommend this product to a friend I ordered this rock to start my 55 gallon tank. BRS shipping is amazing, i received my order in 2 days. As for the rock, there is a great selection of sizes (even large enough i can not fit it in my acrylic tank) the look of Fiji is awesome. but the down side and the reason i am only giving it a 3 star rating is the amount of dead organisms on it, and what look to be the sign of dried up bubble algae. I have had it curing for almost 3 weeks and the ammonia is still off the charts. been doing 50-75% water changes and scrubbing the "bad" off the rock. In the end i have decided to push the Fiji off to the side and buy Reef Saver rock. BETTER THAN THE PICTURE!!!!!!! By Abby'sReefTank on 4/9/2015 Abby'sReefTank would recommend this product to a friend The rock I received was awesome!!!!! It looks even better than the picture depicts it!!!!! There were so many crevices and holes, and the rocks took on many different shapes. I was able to make overhangs and caves...there was even a dead crab in one of the holes... 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By Geofame on 12/25/2014 Geofame would recommend this product to a friend I was initially hesitant to buy a box of rock where I couldn't pick and choose what goes in my tank, but I took the chance and I was pleasantly surprised. Thank you BRS for restoring my faith in that there are still companies out there that you can trust to get quality out of blind faith. I will be ordering from them again soon. Very happy with the product and service. By Paul on 12/6/2014 Paul would recommend this product to a friend This is my first order with BRS and there will be many more. I was a little nervous ordering dry rock as you hear the occasional horror story about someone recieving a box of gravel. I was relieved to find 5 nice sized pieces weighing in at 21.5 lbs with very little rubble. It was well packed and the pieces had great shape with lots of nooks and caves. Thank you BRS! Best rock ever purchased!! By Roger on 12/3/2014 Roger would recommend this product to a friend I purchased this rock when setting up my tank and didn't need to spend countless hours on trying to figure out a aquascape. It's was super easy to structure, and is very porus. I will definatly be purchasing more in the future. Great product By dolpator on 11/23/2014 dolpator would recommend this product to a friend My in tire tank was set up using this rock, many holes and crevasse can be achieved. Great rock to atach corals to as well. Great product would buy and recommend to anynoe Win Win with this Dry Rock Package By K. Keels on 11/5/2014 K. Keels would recommend this product to a friend I ordered the 50 lb package and what I got was excellent product. I have a total of 15 pieces with many shapes and sizes. Much better deal than what I was bargaining for so I'm happy to say the least. There was hardly any rubble rock, all solid pieces that came pretty clean. After I started to cure it I spent maybe an hour to two hours total trying to get every tiny piece of dead matter of the rock. Good deal through and through. Would definitely recommend to friends. Excellent By Bvaughn7 on 10/14/2014 Bvaughn7 would recommend this product to a friend I love figi rock, always have. I would not do the florida base rock when I could get this instead. Much more porous. My box came with all sizes, a yes I got some large pieces. I added a note to my order and that helped. Thanks for the excellent customer service by BRS! really good buy By brock leonard on 10/6/2014 brock leonard would recommend this product to a friend I ordered this rock for my new 55 gallon i've started. The rocks were all sorts of sizes. Some were so big i had to pick up with both hands. Once i finished stacking, or aquascaping, all the rocks seened to line up with eachother. There wasnt big open spaces. They fell perfectly together. If you're looking for some good priced rock that doesnt have any pests on it, this is the best offer you'll find in my opinion. obviously selected with care By b-christopher on 10/5/2014 b-christopher would recommend this product to a friend My order was very well packaged and the rock arrived on time, and in pristine condition. My first thought was that this order was obviously selected with care. I received an excellent mix of shapes (from good, round base rock to flat and arched pieces) and sizes (from the ever popular "softball sized" to a 10+ lb flat shelf). The rock has a great variety of textures, and everything looks very porous. I am extremely satisfied with my order. If you are on the fence, I suggest you trust the majority of reviews and strongly consider a purchase. It's obvious to me that the person putting together my order choose the rock they would have picked for their own tank - that's the best I could have hoped for, and beyond what I expected. This rock is great By George on 7/9/2014 George would recommend this product to a friend I ordered this product on July 3rd and just got it today. With all the reviews being mixed I was eager to see what I was gonna be receiving. my order was packed very well and handled properly to my surprise I work for a shipping company very little damage maybe a handful of ruble the rock I received was better than I was expecting got a huge piece with a tunnel running through it the smallest piece was the size of a softball I can't wait to aqua scape my 150 tall dt do yourself a favor and order this you won't be disappointed Only good for sump By Paul on 6/26/2014 Paul wouldn't recommend this product to a friend I wouldn't waste my money. I have 50 pounds of dry rock ruble. The largest piece is the size of a soft ball. I went off BRS's overview and it is totally incorrect. The only way possible to aquascape is to have a pile of rubble, so if you consider that aquascapeing then I guess it would be the easiest to aquascape with. This is the only purchase I've been disappointed with from BRS. I will continue to use Marco rock. You actually get pieces you can aquascape with. A great deal By friartuck on 6/7/2014 friartuck would recommend this product to a friend Ordered this 50lb box. Got a little more than that (thanks BRS!) Got several huge pieces, some mid sized and a few smaller. Was exactly what I needed for my 50g tank set up. I've had a ton of issues with wet live rock- nudis, aiptasia, other assorted horrors. This rock appealed to me because I didn't have to worry about that stuff one bit. The rock came pretty clean too. I thought having to cure it would be a bummer- but as per BRS's recommendation- I put a little BioSpira in and the rocks cycled nicely. 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Former Green Bay Packers defensive end Cullen Jenkins was released Monday by the Philadelphia Eagles. With Jenkins due to make 5.5 million for the 2013 season, the Eagles decided to part ways with the 32-year-old veteran. Jenkins had four sacks, 26 tackles and one forced fumble this past season while playing in all 16 games. Jenkins, who played his first seven NFL seasons in Green Bay before signing with Philadelphia in 2011, is now a free agent. The Packers showed no interest in re-signing Jenkins two years ago despite a productive 2010 season that helped lead to Green Bay's Super Bowl victory. But, with Packers young defensive lineman Jerel Worthy unlikely to be ready for training camp after recently undergone knee surgery, could Jenkins be back in Green Bay next season? Given the Packers' reported interest in former New York Giants defensive end Chris Canty, general manager Ted Thompson is seemingly looking to upgrade the group surrounding B.J. Raji and 33-year-old veteran Ry...
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In 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper boarded a plane in Portland, Oregon which was bound for Seattle. He settled into his seat in the Boeing 747, ordered a bourbon and water, and lit up a cigarette. He then handed the stewardess a note saying that he had a bomb in his briefcase.
D.B. Cooper, as he has since been mistakenly referred to by the media, then insisted the stewardess sit down next to him. He demanded $200,000 in cash and some parachutes. The plane landed in Seattle, Cooper got his cash, and the plane took off again. Cooper jumped out, and when the plane touched down in Reno, he was gone. No one has ever found him, or figured out who he really was.
A few weeks ago, a certain Marla Cooper contacted the FBI and said she believes her uncle was the man who hijacked that Northwest Orient plane 40 years ago. She told her story to several news outlets (http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-08-03-DBCooper-hijackijng-new-lead-niece-LD-Cooper-uncle_n.htm). Her uncle, Lynn D. Cooper, known as L.D., died in 1999. She remembers being eight years old and overhearing her father discussing the hijacking with her Uncle L.D. She even provided the FBI with a guitar strap that L.D. had made, assuming it would have some of his DNA on it. The FBI has a clip-on tie with DNA on it from the hijacker. The guitar strap DNA did not match the tie DNA.
However, the clip-on tie itself is not infallible. They don't know if the hijacker owned the tie, or just borrowed it for the hijacking. It could have had someone else's DNA on it. Forensic evidence in this case is leading to nothing conclusive.
There is still no answer as to who this hijacker really was and what happened to him. Readers have been captivated by this story for decades, and likely our interest will continue. I can think of several reasons to love this story:
Mr. Cooper was able to order a cocktail on an airplane.
Mr. Cooper was able to smoke a cigarette on an airplane.
Mr. Cooper wore a tie on the airplane, unlike most passengers today who look like they just stepped out of the dormitory after an all-night study session.
The bomb was in his briefcase, not his shoes (déclassé!) or his underwear (EW!)
Mr. Cooper was able to get on an airplane with a made-up name.
Mr. Cooper asked for $200,000. He was realistic. He didn't ask for $12 million, or the release of 200 hostages, or the preservation of grasslands in the west.
Mr. Cooper had no intention of killing himself. He wanted money, not senseless slaughter. And he wanted to live to enjoy his money.
He kept his bargain. Once he got the money, he left everyone alone and just jumped out. He didn't try for more, he didn't try to feel up the stewardess, he just took his ransom and left.
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EVANSVILLE - When an Evansville police officer tried to stop the car of a man suspected of buying more than the legal limit of the meth-making ingredient pseudoephedrine Thursday afternoon, he led police on a high-speed chase that ended in Warrick County.
The chase began about 4:09 p.m. and ended about 20 minutes later near Kansas and Asbury Cemetery roads, according to Evansville-Vanderburgh County Central Dispatch.
Sgt. Jason Cullum identified the driver as Joey Young and said he was also registered sex offender who was being sought for violating parole.
He said Officer Matt Hastings attempted to stop the car, a Dodge Avenger, at Morgan Avenue and Interstate 164 but Young refused to pull over. The chase reached speeds up to 80 mph on the interstate, Cullum said, and continued when Young got off on Boonville-New Harmony Road at Exit 15.
It then continued on gravel roads in the Bluegrass Fish & Wildlife Area in Warrick County. Cullum said Hastings was familiar with the area from his time as a Chandler, Ind., police officer and directed the pursuit.
It ended when Young jumped out of the moving car right before it was stopped by a cable barrier across a private road, Cullum said. Young then fled across a field and was apprehended by a K9.
He was taken to a hospital for dog bite treatment and was expected to face charges of resisting law enforcement, as well as drug-related charges, Cullum said.
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Involve local learning researchers or educators. Make use of other resources available in your community to discuss learning and learning outcomes. You could create an advisory group of knowledgeable experts.
Join online communities of peers. There are a variety of listservs and blogs that provide informal science educators with connections and opportunities to discuss learning with peers (e.g., ISEN-ASTC-L for science museums and science centers).
Discuss evaluation data with an outside consultant. Reviewing evaluation data with an outside expert may help you see the information with fresh eyes. The consultant also may have good ideas of how to use the data more effectively.
Complete an informal survey of your setting as a way to better understand those who visit. Staff at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology modified their program based on information they learned through surveying participants. Consider surveying participants in your program to learn more about their preferences and what could be modified in your setting to expedite learning.
National Research Council. (1999). Executive summary. How People Learn (pp. xi-xvii). Committee on Developments in the Science of Learning, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
National Research Council. (2007). Goals for science education. Chapter 2 in Committee on Science Learning, Kindergarten Through Eighth Grade, Taking Science to School. R.A. Duschl, H.A. Schweingruber, and A.W. Shouse (Eds.). Center for Education, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.


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New cybernetics
|It has been suggested that this article be merged into Second-order cybernetics. (Discuss) Proposed since June 2012.
|It has been suggested that New Cybernetics (Gordon Pask) be merged into this article. (Discuss) Proposed since February 2014.
New cybernetics is a study of self-organizing systems according to Peter Harries-Jones (1988), "looking beyond the issues of the 'first', 'old' or 'original' cybernetics and their politics and sciences of control, to the autonomy and self-organization capabilities of complex systems".[1] New cybernetics is otherwise known as the cybernetics of cybernetics or second order cybernetics.,[2][3][4] and second order cybernetics is called a new cybernetics.[5]
The term is an attempt to move away from the cybernetics of Norbert Wiener. Old cybernetics is tied to the image of the machine and physics, whereas new cybernetics closely resembles organisms and biology. The main task of the new cybernetics is to overcome entropy by using "noise" as positive feedback.[6]
In 1992 Gordon Pask summarized the differences between the old and the new cybernetics as a shift in emphasis:.[7][8]
- ... from information to coupling
- ... from the reproduction of "order-from-order" (Schroedinger 1944) to the generation of "order-from-noise" (von Foerster 1960)
- ... from transmission of data to conversation
- ... from external to participant observation – in short, from "CCC" to an approach that could be assimilated to Maturana and Varela's concept of autopoiesis.
Gertrudis van de Vijver stated in 1994 that the old cybernetics, the new cybernetics and the cognitive paradigms are not that different from each other; and as is mostly the case, the so-called new paradigms are in a sense "older" than the "old" paradigms. The so-called "old" paradigms were in most cases strategically successful specializations in a general framework. Their success was based on a strong but useful simplification of the issues. The "new" paradigms are further specializations in the earlier one, or (as is mostly the case) a strategic retreat which broadens the specialized approach and is a return to the original, broader inspiration and outlook.[9]
In March 1946, the first of ten influential interdisciplinary Macy conferences were devoted to the "new cybernetics",[10] and opened with two presentations: the first by von Neumann on the new computing machines, followed by neurobiologist Lorente de No on the electric properties of the nervous system. These circuiting of analogies between behaviour of computers and the nervous system became central to cybernetic imagination and its founding desire to define the essential "unity of a set of problems" organized around "communication, control, and statistical mechanics, whether in the machine or living tissue. In particular, the early cyberneticists are convinced that research on computers and the organization of the human brain are one and the same field, that is, "the subject embracing both the engineering and the neurology aspect is essentially one."[11]
Wiener defined cybernetics in 1948 as the study of "control and communication in the animal and the machine". This definition captures the original ambition of cybernetics to appear as a unified theory of behaviour of living organisms and machines, viewed as systems governed by the same physical laws. The initial phase of cybernetics involved disciplines more or less directly related to the study of those systems, like communication and control engineering, biology, psychology, logic, and neurophysiology. Very soon, a number of attempts were made to place the concept of control at the focus of analysis also in other fields, such as economics, sociology, and anthropology. The ambition of "classic" cybernetics thus seemed to involve also several human sciences, as it developed in a highly interdisciplinary approach, aimed at seeking common concepts and methods in rather different disciplines. In classic cybernetics this ambition did not produce the desired results and new approaches had to be attempted in order to achieve them, at least partially.[12]
In the 1970s new cybernetics has emerged in multiple fields, first in biology. Some biologists influenced by cybernetic concepts from Maturana, Varela and Atlan, according to Dupuy (1986) "realized that the cybernetic metaphors of the program upon which molecular biology had been based rendered a conception of the autonomy of the living being impossible. Consequently, these thinkers were led to invent a new cybernetics, one more suited to the organizations which mankind discovers in nature – organizations he has not himself invented".[13] It however remained a debate in the 1980s whether or not the new insides of new cybernetics could be projected on social forms of organization.[13]
In political science, Project Cybersyn attempted to introduce a cybernetically controlled economy during the early 1970s. In the 1980s, according to Harries-Jones (1988) "unlike its predecessor, the new cybernetics concerns itself with the interaction of autonomous political actors and subgroups, and the practical and reflexive consciousness of the subjects who produce and reproduce the structure of a political community. A dominant consideration is that of recursiveness, or self-reference of political action both with regards to the expression of political consciousness and with the ways in which systems build upon themselves".[1]
One characteristic of the emerging new cybernetics considered in 1978 by Felix Geyer and Hans van der Zouwen, according to Bailey (1994), was "that it views information as constructed and reconstructed by an individual interacting with the environment. This provides an epistemological foundation of science, by viewing it as observer-dependent. Another characteristic of the new cybernetics is its contribution towards bridging the "micro-macro gap". That is, it links the individual with the society.[14] Another characteristic (Geyer and van der Zouwen noted) was the "transition from classical cybernetics to the new cybernetics [that] involves a transition from classical problems to new problems. These shifts in thinking involve, among others:
- (a) a change from emphasis on the system being steered to the system doing the steering, and the factor which guides the steering decisions.; and
- (b) new emphasis on communication between several systems which are trying to steer each other".[14]
New Cybernetics: Topics[edit]
Just as quantum theory has superseded classical physics, so the new cybernetics approach has superseded the classical theory of communication. According to F. Merrel (1988) in this new era, and speaking generally of the reigning conceptual framework, incompleteness, openness, inconsistency, statistical models, undecidability, indeterminacy, complementarity, polycity, interconnectedness, and fields and frames and references are the order of the day.[15]
Geyer & J. van der Zouwen (1992) recognize four themes in both sociocybernetics and new cybernetics:[3]
- An epistemological foundation for science as an observer-observer system. Feedback and feedforward loops are constructed not only between the observer, and the objects that are observed them and the observer.
- The transition classical, rather mechanistic first order cybernetics to modern, second order cybernetics, characterized by the differences summarized by Gordon Pask.
- These problem shifts in cybernetics result from a thorough reconceptualization of many all too easily accepted and taken for granted concepts – which yield new notions of stability, temporality, independence, structure versus behaviour, and many other concepts.
- The actor-oriented systems approach, promulgated in 1978 made it possible to bridge the "micro-macro" gap in social science thinking.
Other topics where new cybernetics developed are:
- Artificial neural networks [12]
- Living systems[16]
- New robotic approaches[12]
- Reflexive understanding[17]
- Political communication[18]
- Social dimensions of cognitive science [19]
- Sustainable development [5]
- Symbolic Artificial Intelligence [12]
- Systemic group therapy [20]
Types of new Cybernetics[edit]
Cybernetics of cybernetics[edit]
The term "Cybernetics of cybernetics" is also called "second order cybernetics".
Organisational cybernetics[edit]
Organizational cybernetics is distinguished from management cybernetics. Both uses many of the same terms but interpret them according to another philosophy of systems thinking. Organizational cybernetics by contrast offers a significant break with the assumption of the hard approach. The full flowering of organizational cybernetics is represented by Beer's Viable System Model.[21]
Organizational Cybernetics (OC) studies organizational design, and the regulation and self-regulation of organizations from a systems theory perspective that also takes the social dimension into consideration. Researchers in economics, public administration and political science focus on the changes in institutions, organisation and mechanisms of social steering at various levels (sub-national, national, European, international) and in different sectors (including the private, semi-private and public sectors; the latter sector is emphasised).[22]
The reformulation of sociocybernetics as an "actor-oriented, observer-dependent, self-steering, time-variant" paradigm of human systems, was most clearly articulated by Geyer and van der Zouwen in 1978 and 1986.[23] They stated that sociocybernetics is more than just social cybernetics, which could be defined as the application of the general systems approach to social science. Social cybernetics is indeed more than such a one-way knowledge transfer. It implies a feed-back loop from the area of application – the social sciences – to the theory being applied, namely cybernetics; consequently, sociocybernetics can indeed be viewed as part of the new cybernetics: as a result of its application to social science problems, cybernetics, itself, has been changed and has moved from its originally rather mechanistic point of departure to become more actor-oriented and observer-dependent.[24] In summary, the new sociocybernetics is much more subjective and the sociological approach than the classical cybernetics approach with its emphasis on control. The new approach has a distinct emphasis on steering decisions; furthermore, it can be seen as constituting a reconceptualization of many concepts which are often routinely accepted without challenge.[14]
Second order cybernetics[edit]
The term "second-order cybernetics" is from Heinz von Foerster, introduced in hindsight to denote the explicit preoccupation of the new cybernetics with the nature of self-reflexive systems.[7] New cybernetics does operate on higher-levels of order from classical cybernetics, however, it does not focus only on investigators as part of the system and the self-referentiality of the entire process alone but as covered above it has re-imagined the fields previously not considered cybernetic.
The work of Gregory Bateson was also strongly influenced by the new cybernetics.
See also[edit]
- Gordon Pask's model of New Cybernetics
- Cybernetics
- Computational cybernetics
- Cybercognition
- Systemics
- Systems science
- System of systems
- Meta-
- ^ a b Peter Harries-Jones (1988), "The Self-Organizing Polity: An Epistemological Analysis of Political Life by Laurent Dobuzinskis" in: Canadian Journal of Political Science (Revue canadienne de science politique), Vol. 21, No. 2 (Jun., 1988), pp. 431–433.
- ^ Joseph Zeidner (1986), Human Productivity Enhancement, University of Michigan, p.173.
- ^ a b R.F. Geyer and J. v.d. Zouwen (1992), "Sociocybernetics", in: Cybernetics and Applied Systems, C.V. Negoita ed. p.96.
- ^ Anatol Rapoport eds.(1988), General Systems: Yearbook of the Society for the Advancement of General Vol 31, p.57.
- ^ a b Loet Leydesdorff (2001), A Sociological Theory of Communication: The Self-Organization of the Knowledge-Based Society ..p.253.
- ^ Tom Darby (1982), The Feast: Meditations on Politics and Time, p.220.
- ^ a b Alessio Cavallaro, Annemarie Jonson, Darren Tofts (2003), Prefiguring Cyberculture: An Intellectual History, MIT Press, p.11.
- ^ Evelyn Fox Keller, "Marrying the premodern to postmodern: computers and organism after World War II", in: M. Norton. Wise eds. Growing Explanations: Historical Perspectives on Recent Science, p 192.
- ^ Gertrudis van de Vijver (1994), New Perspectives on Cybernetics: Self-Organization, Autonomy and Connectionism, p.97
- ^ Karl M. Newell & Peter C. M. Molenaar (1998), Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics to Developmental Process Modeling, p.217.
- ^ Orr, Jackie (2000), "The ecstasy of miscommunication: cyberpsychiatry and mental dis-ease", in Traweek, Sharon; Reid, Roddey, Doing science + culture, New York: Routledge, p. 158, ISBN 9780415921121.
- ^ a b c d Luciano Floridi (1993), The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information, pp.186–196.
- ^ a b Jean-Pierre Dupuy, "The autonomy of social reality: on the contribution of systems theory to the theory of society" in: Elias L. Khalil & Kenneth E. Boulding eds., Evolution, Order and Complexity, 1986.
- ^ a b c Kenneth D. Bailey (1994), Sociology and the New Systems Theory: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis, p.163.
- ^ Merrel, F., "An Uncertain Semiotic", in: The Current in Criticism, eds. V. Lokke and C. Koelb, West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1987, p.252
- ^ Rachelle A. Dorfman (1988), Paradigms of Clinical Social Work, p.363.
- ^ Policy Sciences, Vol 25, Kluwer Online, p.368
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Further reading[edit]
- Laurent Dobuzinskis (1987), The New Cybernetics and the Science of Politics an Epistemological Analysis, Westview Press, pp. 223.
- Richard F. Ericson (1969). Organizational cybernetics and human values. Program of Policy Studies in Science and Technology. Monograph. George Washington University.
- F. Heylighen, E. Rosseel & F. Demeyere Eds. (1990), Self-steering and Cognition in Complex Systems: Toward a New Cybernetics, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, New York, 432 pp.
- Stuart Umpleby (1989), "The science of cybernetics and the cybernetics of science", in: Cybernetics and Systems", Vol. 21, No. 1, (1990), pp. 109–121.
- Karl H. Müller (2008), The New Science of Cybernetics. The Evolution of Living Research Designs, vol. I: Methodology. Vienna:edition echoraum
- A second-order notion of Governance: Türke, Ralf-Eckhard: Governance - Systemic Foundation and Framework (Contributions to Management Science, Physica of Springer, 2008) ISBN 978-3-7908-2079-9
External links[edit]
- History of organizational events of the American Society of Cybenertics. In 1981 the title of the ASC conference was "The New Cybernetics", Oct. 29 – Nov. 1, GWU, Washington, DC (chair Larry Richards, local arrangements Stuart Umpleby).


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