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NJDOE News
Contact: Richard Vespucci
For Release: June 6, 2001
Commissioner Gagliardi Presents 2000-01 Dodge Fellows to State Board of Education
Commissioner of Education Vito A. Gagliardi, Sr. today presented the 2000-01 Dodge Fellows to the State Board of Education. The board recognized the 25 outstanding first-year teachers who were hired under the states alternate route to teacher licensing.
"I congratulate you for your outstanding performance in your first year of teaching," Commissioner Gagliardi said. "Your credentials and your accomplishments are impressive, and we are privileged to welcome you as new members of an honored profession.
"We are working hard to ensure that we continue our tradition of attracting and retaining a pool of talented educators to serve the needs of our students," the Commissioner said. "I wish you all many years of rewarding experiences in and out of the classroom."
This years recipients were selected from a highly competitive pool of nearly 300 applications from alternate route teachers hired between October 1999 and September 2000. From this group, the Department of Education identified a smaller pool of candidates. Those applications were evaluated by an independent panel consisting of teachers, principals, superintendents, and former Dodge Fellows.
Commissioner Gagliardi presented each Dodge Fellow with a $2,100 Dodge Teaching Fellowship. The awards, funded by the Dodge Foundation, are used to help pay for the costs associated with school-based support and formal instruction required of alternate route teachers.
Gagliardi thanked the Dodge Foundation and its executive director, David Grant, for its support alternative route licensing. Through this route, college graduates who did not major in education can become licensed teachers if they successfully complete a program combining training with on-the-job teaching experience.
"For 16 years, the Dodge Foundation has provided extensive encouragement and recognition to outstanding teachers entering the profession through the alternate route," Gagliardi said. "With continuing generosity, the Dodge Foundation has endowed fellowship grants to more than 300 of these teachers to fund the cost of professional training and formal instruction required as part of the program.
Ellen Schechter, assistant commissioner for the departments Division of Academic and Career Standards, presented an individual profile of each Dodge Fellow.
Members of the statewide selection panel are:
- Dr. James Baker, principal of the Community School of Saddle Brook
- Dr. George Corwell, associate director for education, New Jersey Catholic Conference
- Barbara C. Donahue, director of pupil personnel services, Willingboro Township Public Schools
- Edithe A. Fulton, vice president, New Jersey Education Association
- Delores Harvey, executive committee, New Jersey Education Association
- William P. Hoey, assistant superintendent of schools, Monmouth County Voc-Tech Schools
- Bernadette Kozak a former Dodge Fellow
- Susan Reintzel, director of secondary education for the Washington Township Public Schools.


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Dr. Andrew McLean developed and manages the Australian Equine Behaviour Centre, the most internationally recognised horse training and behaviour modification centre in Australia.Andrew McLean holds a PhD in equine cognition and learning, has been an accredited horse riding coach for over 25 years and has written top-selling books and numerous peer reviewed journal articles. A past winner of the Gawler CCI***, he has also represented Australia in Horse Trials, competed at state and national events in FEI level dressage and eventing and has also showjumped to Grand Prix level.
In great demand as a trainer, coach and speaker, Dr McLean currently conducts lecture demonstrations at universities and conferences around the world. He teaches throughout Australia, Europe, South Africa, USA, Canada and New Zealand. Andrew continues to coach riders on the optimal use of learning theory for improved welfare of the trained horse as well as improved performance.
Sandra Sokoloski has been a physiotherapist for over 20 years and has ridden for most of her life, competing in a variety of disciplines. The focus of her practice is to analyze movement and improve awareness of movement patterns and postures. Througha variety of techniques Sandra helps riders understand their anatomy, improve their movement control and enhance their ability to ride in balance with their horse. She utilizes detailed knowledge of the equestrian athlete to improve the rider's ability to communicate effectively with their horse and optimize their performance. Through clinics and private sessions Sandra assists riders, coaches and others involved with the equestrian athlete to apply the understanding of human anatomy and biomechanics.
Sandra is a certified physiotherapy instructor and has advanced training in manual therapy, movement analysis and performance enhancement. She owns and operates Summit Sport Physiotherapy and E-Sport Physiotherapy in Okotoks, Alberta and has travelled across Canada providing clinics and lectures to equestrian enthusiasts. To encourage the understanding that the equestrian rider is as much of an athlete as the horse is her primary focus. See www.esportphysio.ca
Read Sandra's Article on Balanced Equation: The Human Half
Dr. Terry Whiting D.V.M., M.S.C. This year Dr.Whiting received the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association Humane Award. This award is presented to an individual whose work is judged to have contributed significantly to the welfare and well being of animals. Terry was on the development committee for the Canadian Agri-Food Research Council horse code of practice (1998), the Transport code of practice (2001). Past Chair of the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association Animal Welfare Committee, and is the provincial representative on the National Farm Animal Care initiative.
Terry graduated from the Ontario Veterinary College in 1984. He spent 15 of the last 20 years working for Governments in Food safety and Animal health, 8 years with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency in Saskatchewan and Manitoba and 7 years with Manitoba Agriculture at the Veterinary Laboratory. In the other 5 years he completed a MSc in Equine exercise physiology at U. of Guelph and was in mixed primarily food animal practice in Ontario. Terry has published in peer reviewed journals, mostly the Canadian Vet Journal on humane transportation of animals, food safety, and emergency preparedness. He has been an active volunteer with the Manitoba Veterinary Medical Association, serving on the board 1998-2003 and was President in 2002.
Dr.Neil Mckenzie D.V.M., B.Sc.(Ag), M.V.Sc. Neil graduated from the Universtiy of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture. He received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in 1976 from the Western College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. After several years in private practice he returned to the United States and completed a Masters of Veterinary Science. He has been in private practice in BC ever since. Neil now specialises in equine denistry with his Pacific Equine Denistry practice.
Gerard Laverty C.J.F., T.E. , A.W.C.F. Gerard has a thirty year career as a working Farrier in several different countries. Gerard's career began in the early seventies in the North of Ireland. He served a three year apprenticeship in Dublin, Ireland, with the Irish Horse Shoe Board. He graduated with a gold medal in both theory and practical. Gerard moved to the U.S. in 1981 and spent 2 years as a journeyperson after which he immigrated to Canada and began a business in Prince George, B.C. In August of 2003, he accepted the position of Instructor of the Farrier program at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
Michael King CAIB R.I.B. Mike with CAPRI Insurance comes with a wealth of knowledge in the insurance industry, especially Equine Industry Insurance. He has been instrumental in promoting risk management programs for the equine industry. Due to the overwhelming succes of the seminar Mike gave last year at the EEC in Kelowna, the numerous requests to have him speak again, Mike will once again tell you everything you should know about insurance!
Shelagh Niblock BSc.Ag. PAS is an equine nutritionist with Viterra Feed Products, providing nutritional support for ProForm Step Right Feeds. Shelagh has spent more than 25 years in the feed industry in British Columbia and her lengthy experience working initially as a dairy nutritionist piqued her interest in the contribution made by the typical Faser Valley grass hays to diets of our horses. Her work in ruminant nutrition has given her some unique insights into equine hind gut health and its impact on equine performance and health.
Shelagh is also a horse onwer herself and an enthusiastic pleasure rider who is especially intersted in the discipline of dressage and three day eventing. As the owner of two senior metabolically challenged horses she has lots of opportuntiy to observe first hand the outcomes of the feeding choices we make for our horses.
A 4H leader for many years, Shelagh also still is very active as a volunteer in the 4H prgram in BC. She is also a member of the Equine Science Society, the Amercian Dairy Science Association, and the American Registry of Professional Animal Scientists.
View an Article by Shelagh Niblock
Judy Wardrope, drawn to and interested in horses her entire life, has spent nearly 30 years amassing research on the pedigrees of top performance horses in both sport and racing as well as analyzing the functional aspects of equine conformation.
She applied the findings from her research to her own sport horse breeding program, producing champions in dressage and the hunter ring as well as winners in show jumping and eventing. The results spoke for themselves and she was asked to do research for, and consult with, trainers, riders and other breeders at both the national and international level. She has assisted in the selection of stallions for breeding programs in Canada, South Africa and Thailand. She was also a valued member of an advisory board to the Animal Industry Division of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Read the letter of appreciation.
For nearly two decades, Judy has been a respected equine journalist, satisfying a growing demand for informative articles on both sport horses and racehorses. Her work appears in more than twenty equine publications internationally. She is a current member of the International Alliance of Equestrian Journalists, a former member of the National Turf Writers Association and was nominated for the 2006 Equine Vision award through American Horse Publications.
Judy has studied the pedigrees plus photographed and analyzed the conformation of top horses, in both sport and thoroughbred racing, to determine the impact on performance and is now sharing her knowledge through a series of informative and entertaining clinics, seminars and workshops. Of these, Improving Your Eye for Functional Conformation (Thoroughbred and/or Sporthorse) and Pedigree Patterns in Sport Horses are the most frequently requested.
She has expanded her writing and editing to include sales copy, promotional materials, books and non-equine subjects.
Find out about her Insights E-Zine and her 10 Conformation Myths book.

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University of Texas Health Science Center
'Spellbound' Star Reflects On A Spelling Bee Life & Texas Future
For the millions who watched the National Spelling Bee back in 1999, her face is frozen in time. She'll always be the 14-year-old girl, with the glasses and dark shoulder-length hair, her arms raised while leaping for joy. But that was a half-life ago for Nupur Lala.
But that was a half-life ago for Nupur Lala.
Medical Executive Says Texas Needs 150,000 New Doctors
A medical executive predicts Texas will need up to 1 million more nurses and 150,000 additional doctors in the next 15 years.
Texas Researchers Look At Diabetes & Dental Health
Texas researchers are trying to find out if correcting gum and tooth problems can lead to better blood sugar control for diabetics.


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Athens Gate Hotel
- Free buffet breakfast and WiFi
Main amenities
- 99 guestrooms
- Restaurant and bar/lounge
- Rooftop terrace
- Self parking
- In-room childcare
- 24-hour front desk
- Coffee/tea in the lobby
- Air conditioning
- Daily housekeeping
- Car rentals on site
- Computer station
- Lobby fireplace
What's around
- In Athens City Centre
- Acropolis (0.2 mi / 0.3 km)
- Acropolis Museum (0.2 mi / 0.4 km)
- Roman Agora (0.5 mi / 0.8 km)
- Parthenon (0.5 mi / 0.9 km)
- Syntagma Square (0.5 mi / 0.9 km)
would stay there again just for the breakfast with view.
Excellent service, amazing view from the restaurant. Too bad it does not have a gym on…
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- Superior Double or Twin Room (Temple of Zeus View)
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- This hotel has 99 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 8 floors
- Check-in time starts at 2 PM
- Check-out time is noon
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- Government-issued photo ID required
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- Pets not allowed
Extra people
- Roll-away beds available, charges may apply*
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Self parking *
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- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Free buffet breakfast daily
- 2 coffee shops/cafés
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Snack bar/deli
- Room service (during limited hours)
- Coffee/tea in the lobby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Segway rental/tour nearby
- Conference space size (feet) - 1076
- Conference space size (meters) - 100
- One meeting room
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- 24-hour front desk
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- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Rooftop terrace
- Fireplace in lobby
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- Climate control
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- Premium bedding
- Private bathroom
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- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- 27-inch LCD TV
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- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
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The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
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Late check-out can be arranged for an extra charge
Self parking costs EUR 15 per night
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
MHTE number (issued by the Greek Tourism Organisation): 0206K014A0183900


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Large Hadron Collider discovers a new type of matter: Exotic hadrons
- By Sebastian Anthony on April 9, 2014 at 11:32 am
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Scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider have discovered, with "overwhelming" certainty, the existence of a new class of subatomic particles, exotic hadrons. In related news, CERN has begun the painstaking process of turning the LHC back on after being switched off for upgrades over the last 12 months. When it returns, in early 2015, the LHC will have almost twice as much collision power, which will hopefully allow it to further investigate the Higgs boson, and probe the theory of supersymmetry.
First, those exotic hadrons. In all honesty, I don't really understand them myself, but I'll try my best to explain them — and the significance of this discovery. Basically, at four points around the LHC's 17-mile (27km) circumference, there are four major detectors. You've probably heard of ATLAS and CMS, which discovered the Higgs boson, but there's also ALICE (which studies quark-gluon plasma), and LHCb (which studies the weird relationship between matter and antimatter). These detectors are all absolutely massive, weighing over 5,000 tonnes a piece.
The exotic hadrons were found by LHCb (pictured top). The b stands for the beauty quarks (b quarks) that the LHCb is designed to detect. Hadrons, such as protons and neutrons, are made up of quarks. The Large Hadron Collider, as its name implies, collides protons together at very high energies, smashing them back into quarks. Historically there are only two types of hadron — baryons, which consist of three quarks, and mesons, which consist of two quarks. Now, LHCb is reporting that it's discovered a third kind of hadron… the exotic hadron!
The exotic hadron, which the LHCb is reporting with a confidence of 13.9 sigma, appears to be made of four quarks. It has the official name of Z(4430), which means it has a mass of 4430 MeV, or around four times that of a proton. Beyond that, there doesn't seem to be much to can say — it's exciting that we've found a new arrangement of quarks, but no one seems to know the significance of this finding yet. Quantum Diaries has a slightly more expert write-up of the discovery, if you're looking for more info about exotic hadrons. (The chance of a 13.9 sigma discovery being wrong, incidentally, is on the order of winning the lottery multiple times in a row.)
In other news, CERN's engineers have begun the process of switching the LHC back on. The LHC has been powered down for the last year, while maintenance and upgrades were performed. Turning it back on is a slow, multi-stage process that needs to be done carefully, one component at a time, to make sure everything is working as intended. By the end of 2014, the LHC should be back in action and ready to smash protons together at energies of up to 13 teraelectronvolts (TeV), or six times the power of any other particle accelerator. We have an in-depth story about the LHC upgrade, if you're looking for more details.
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This sort of research is interesting, but I would prefer we spent research dollars on more meaningful things, such as sending a person to Mars or genetic research. Things which will have an actual return for humanity, rather than enhanced text book learning.
pelov lov
"This sort of research is interesting, but I would prefer we spent research dollars on more meaningful things…"
Because exploring the way the universe works and finding new laws of nature isn't worth spending tax dollars on?
We know what Mars looks like; we've got rovers up there. At this point, a manned mission to Mars would be a 'Look what I can do!' that costs boatloads of money but offers little in the way of research. I agree with you regarding genetic research though, but that doesn't take away from the importance of this discovery.
Exactly, look what we humans can do. Look what our race is capable of. That's exactly what I want to do. That's exactly the statement that I want to make.
Roger Christie
I'd prefer that we do both. NASA is criminally underfunded.
if it were just money, I'd agree, but our resource pool of top scientists is the big limiting factor. I want our best and brightest working on more immediate results. We are at an important time in human history. In many ways, we stand on the cusp of extinction, whether it be from our own actions, or some outside factor like an asteroid strike. Our ability to colonize other planets is the next big goal we need to tackle. Let's map this solar system, figure out what is really in it, hell we aren't even sure how many planets are in it… Let's go out and explore, building some bases on Mars and the moon is the first step. That will do real immediate things to ensure the survival of the species.
You can't tell scientist what to work on….this isn't China. People have specialties…. some people are all about particle physics, its not like they would be working on Mars Rovers if they weren't working on LHC!
Chri Mo
You know there's fundamental (quantum) physical understanding needed to get further into space in time? Without LHC or similar projects we weren't even slightly able to unterstand a fraction of that topic and invest into engineering.
But yeah, better investigate directly into travelling to Mars, that will help us all a lot…
Amen to that…. I would love to see individual NASA missions asking for public funding like a crowdsource type of thing (not for the whole cost, but part of the cost)
i think a mars mission would cost a lot more than building the LHC and be extremely useless . The LHC creates new knowledge of the universe maybe it isn't that useful yet but in the future it may be.
genetic research is not done by the same people and it has been grinded down to a halt by people that don't know anything about it like Greenpeace if they had let the scientist do there job we might have made super strong crops with extra high yields at lower water consumption.
also it only costed every european like 10 euro each to build it.
There seems to almost be an agenda out there, that human space travel is useless. In fact though human exploration should be the goal of humanity. We should look outward and go forth and learn and develop.
Establishing a future Martian colony will have a
real, meaningful and useful impact on the future. It will enhance our engineering ability, will teach us about other worlds and will change our perspective. It's about humans
going out and doing things, not such adding a new chapter to a text book
on science. Our mission to the Moon, generated a phenomenal amount of
real practical devices and knowledge which has had a real impact on
daily life. That despite, the many poo-poo'ers who would have us believe that it was all for naught.
Having a Martian colony would teach us more about the
universe than we are ever going to learn in a lab. And of course there
is the status of our race to consider, whether we are a one planet race,
or a true space faring race which inhabits multiple worlds, from which
we eventually take the inevitable step of being an interstellar race.
research on the other hand, has generated of "knowledge" but most of it
has either been theoretical or has been weaponized and turned into
terror weapons capable of ending all human life.
A mission to Mars will generate, real useful and non-harmful knowledge.
There is great value in understanding the very small. In fact, the world continues to be very reliant on this type of research. The next generation of computers will be quantum computers. Imagine smaller, faster and more efficient computing. This makes wearable technology possible. It also opens up the possibility for nanobots to deliver chemo packages to cancer cells. These are just a few quick examples of the importance of understanding the subatomic world, but the possibilities are endless.
Matt Menezes
Yeah, I think the understanding of the small has been much more fruitful than the research that goes into launching a mission into space. Quantum mechanics is responsible for the entire electronic revolution. Without intimate knowledge of QM, there'd be no computers or internet – arguably one of the most important things ever.
maybe we will be able to make anti matter in those sub atomic lab then we have a whole lot of energy for space travel. a moon basis might be a better idea than going to mars .
i think we should put our money in automating the world and 3D printing. The main problem is that most jobs can be automated and will be "lost". once we can 3D print we could just put robots on the moon and print automated fabricate our base. later on we could go live there.
and even better concept is the von Neumann probe we create a probe /robot tat can re produce itself then we could send it out to space and let it build bases for us and then it moves on to the next planet. But we don't got the energy nor the tech for such a project.
some kind of small antimatter generator would be the perfect reactor for such a project but we don't know enough about matter to make it.
Reproducing robots?
That's the beginning of the end
yea and no if you force them to just create a base and move on then there is no problem but if you don't program to stop than the might consume the planet which is highly unlikely.
Mr Moo
We must learn to walk before we can fly, using machines like the LHC allows us to learn new methods of getting our asses off this rock, i know nothing real has been achieved yet from the data collected from LHC but its early days yet, its discovering new things and thats all it was made to do – so far, its doing its job well. People now have to take them discoveries and apply them to what we already know and after a bit of time, someone will find out how to create the massive amounts of energy it would require to colonize another planet because as it stands now, rockets are not going to cut it, we need something with with a bit more power.
If, for example, we unlock the mysteries of gravity then we have pretty much hit the jackpot, being able to manipulate gravity would launch us into a new age,
To be honest, if we are going to be colonizing anywhere outside this planet then we should start with the sky (kinda already started with the ISS). its much easier to build a base in space than another planet.
I feel that we need to start with doing what works. While theoretical research is fine to an extent, when it detracts from real hard research that provides us with real products within our lifetime, then it's not. Sure it would be cool if we could unlock the secret of gravity… but there is no indication that we are anywhere close to doing that. Whereas we can go to Mars right now with mostly existing tech. Sure we need to develop a few things first, but those few things are what we should be putting massive R&D into. Put our science into getting to Mars in 10 years, not 100 years or 1000 years, but this decade. Don't put it off, just because people believe it might be easier in 100 years. Sure it will be easier in 100 years, but that's just a cop out.
I'm not opposed to spending a lot on science, but I want a return on the investment. I want to get something back. A lot of this theoretical research detracts from us doing anything. We aren't doing because we are spending all of our money on hypothetical projects without any guarantee of results.
Get to Mars, get a base on the moon, get this stuff done, don't just think about. Don't say, "oh well we need to unlock the secret of gravity first…." That's just crazy talk. Just do it.
Will it be f'ing hard? Of course it will be. That's the point.
Mr Moo
I agree with most of what you are saying, we do need to get to Mars and I'm sure it will happen within our lifetime but to build a colony there is a different story, it will require a huge amount of energy that we just can't provide yet. Building a launch base on the moon is far more important to the human race as, in the long run, it will save us vast amounts of energy if we can harvest water from there, also it will provide us with the knowledge of how to colonise another body in space. I also agree that we need to start spending money on the main projects rather than all these small pointless projects that have no real outcome, I don't believe the LHC to be one of these small pointless projects though, particle colliders are key to unlocking the mysteries of quantum mechanics and particle physics.
Sam Cerulean
I agree, some people believe that if geniuses like Nickola Tesla were actually allowed to present their technology to the public rather than supressing it, we'd be a lot more technologically advanced as a global society than we currently are, it's not that we don't have the technological potential. It's like you said there's not enough money being spent on these technological breakthroughs, one example being grapheme. Like here in the UK we could be spending a lot more money into R&D but we're not.
The reality is that earth is a very fragile place and we could be set back so easily by a global war or an array of natural disasters waiting to happen, that's why It's vital that we push the boundaries of long range space travel. Public and Private Space industries are needed not just in the USA and Russia but around the world. One of the biggest problems at the moment is banks deliberately holding back global economies and wealth inequality; it's a totally different subject but it's another example of how humanity's progression is being held back by selfish individuals.
Your argument for researching graphene is exactly what I am talking about. If we spent the money we are spending on the Hadron project, and similar projects, on graphene we would be there. Put our best and brightest minds into projects that will have a meaningful return on the investment. If we did that, we would have this chips within a few years. Instead our research is being spread out into thousands of different projects. Some of which hold potential, sure, but potential isn't enough. We need to focus on what works and make it happen. Focus on graphene, make it happen. Focus on a Mars base, on a lunar base, on a real space station, make it happen NOW, not in some distant future.
Of course we need future tech to get to another solar system. But we don't need that much tech to get to Mars. We can get there now. Focus on that, make it happen, get it done. Then worry about the next step. You have to walk before you can run. You don't worry about getting to the next solar system, until after you get to the next planet.
The people who say, "Getting to Mars is useless," are clueless. It isn't just a bunch of rocks. And getting there is no small step in the evolution of our race. It is a huge step.
Graphene is worth a major research push now because it isn't just theory. We know it can work and we know it will be extremely useful. It will even be useful for a Mars mission. So let's just do it. Make it happen. Don't spread our R&D out over a thousand different ideas many of which hold no real hope of achieving a result in our lifetime. Make it happen, that's all I'm asking.
Sam Cerulean
It is incredibly annoying when so much money is wasted and the people don't see the benefits of it. It'd be amazing if someone designed a 3D printer to print Graphene.
An I completely believe also what you said, just going to Mars the trip wouldn't be wasted because we'd learn so much in the process. WW2 proved just how quickly our technology can progress, much of our technology still hasn't improve significantly in architecture since then, for example rocket engines. It's just a shame that so much of technological advancement is based around blowing the shit out of each other, really nonsensical but many countries still think it's a necessary to have a bigger gun than everyone else mentality.
Technologically we've advance greatly but we've gone backwards in some respects.
I still remain positive though as their is great shift coming in the way our societies function and hopefully there will be more power equality for the average person in terms of how they can contribute and benefit through the evolving internet.
You are clueless about how fundamental research work (I am a researcher in cosmology and I pretend to have some clues about that). First you cannot simply put the "best and brightest minds" onto applied projects. Putting a particle physicist on a graphene problem will not help advancing the graphene research at all. Sure a particle physicist could bring new ideas, but graphene research mostly need experts on quantum theory and material science. More importantly, the best way to obtain result is to let the "best and brightest minds" doing what they are dreaming about. Fundamental research with no goal apart from learning new things about how the Universe work, do not need justification, or objectives, because, by nature, we do not know yet what we will discover. And we only need one, little, but fundamental discovery to change the way we see the world today, and to unlock things we cannot even imagine today. But this is a long and very slow process.
Mars colonization or graphene discoveries are project-driven research. They are another kind of research, with completely different approaches. It is more "applied research" and engineering. If you want this to advance you need:
– to make children of today dream about these things (because in twenty or thirty years the "best and brightest minds" will try to make real what they were dreaming about during their childhood)
– to spend money to create a lot of University courses on these things (so the young researcher of today will solve many of the technological barriers thus opening the road for the previously mentioned children in twenty or thirty years)
– to be prepared to spend a lot of money in these domains in twenty or thirty years.
And in fact if you want this to happen, as one could say in the open-source community: stop asking and work on it, because no one else will do it better than you if you really want it to happen…
Chri Mo
My bet is that Graphene research already gets more funding than LHC. The LHC project cost approximately $9bn and it's maintenance costs are by around $5.8bn a year. That's not much given that the whole world is funding it, but please, move on.
Right now human space travel is useless until we can develop better energy sources, food/oxygen production, better materials for outer hulls/interiors, long term cold storage/stasis for humans, and better methods of travel. Hell we have speculated that we can probably bend space time like in Star Trek but we would need the power of a small sun to do it.(another thing that came out of the LHC tech with inspiration through fusion from our sun…)
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Yeah, not to mention a lot of the money goes right back into the economy by paying scientists and equipment makers (who turn around and spend the money).
The same argument is made for military spending and wellfare. I want a return on investment. I want a Mars colony and I want it within my life time. I don't want to run a bunch of theoretical projects just under the theory that it helps the economy. I don't buy the whole idea that government spending helps the economy much anyway. The Government first had to take the money from the people before it spends it, reducing the people's own ability to spend money. Which isn't to say that I'm against all Government spending. I'm all in favor of a Mars mission because it will give us a meaningful independent return on the investment, as opposed to simply handing out money and hoping that effects the economy.
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I'm not saying money going back into the economy is the only motivation. You are right, that money has to come from somewhere. I'd prefer it come from the defense budget as no new taxes would arise, and we don't really need such a massive defense budget in the USA.
but this is a meaningful thing.
This is the kind of research needed for humanity to actually survive its own shortcomings. Without this kind of research we will never figure out how to manipulate the fabric of existence which is what is preventing us from teleportation and hyperjuming from galaxy to galaxy.
You don't' go galaxy to galaxy until you go to the next planet first. You have your steps out of order.
What good is getting to Mars if in the long run, once our Sun burns out we have to find other galaxies to colonize? Can't do that without figuring out the fabric of existence.
That's the irony of common sense, go out, go big, go to Mars. The way to mars is through the fabric of space/time, not on top of it, and for that you need to go small first.
Sublight travel has no practical chance of propelling our species outside of the solar system. By the time we reach the nearest inhabitable planet we'll have evolved way beyond human or we'll simple be gone.
It may surprise you to learn this, but Mars is not outside of our Solar System. The reality is that neither you nor I know what we will learn going to Mars. We may well find things there which will redefine our view of reality in a much bigger way than what we will ever learn in a laboratory.
Seriously? You're implying I don't know where Mars is? That was your takeaway from my comment?
So now you call me a troll, is that the best you can do? I assumed you knew where Mars was, but you completely ignored the fact that we do not need to be able to go to other solar systems to get there. A mission to Mars will do far more for people today than hypothetical research which may or may not lead anywhere. It is quite possible that life on this planet may even be at risk. We haven't even mapped our own solar system. A colony on Mars will do much more to ensure humanities future than any sort of long term, multi-generational theoretical research. Now you can call me names because of my beliefs, that's fine, but I will continue to hold them.
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These types of research are key to getting new types of energy… Sending someone to Mars does nothing for humanity at all(yet). Also genetic research is being done, we need to fully map the genome before we can start really playing around with that(as well as develop ways to better gene modification). Exotic particle research and material sciences are 100% the future of our time.
If people like you had been in charge, and mostly people like you were in charge, back in 1500, they would have waited on the steam engine before crossing the Atlantic. That's why Europe was stuck in the Dark Ages for 1000 years.
"Oh there is no point going out there…. let's wait until we can do it easily."
carol argo
Nice!they find new maetrial building block.given the energy it took to discover it?i suspect its a particle within the neutral part of our universe .they have their use in the universe but given our limited knowledge very useless for us for at least the next 100 years
Exactly, this sort of research is at best only useful for future generations. We could go to Mars in our lifetime. We could have went to Mars in my parents lifetime, but people waited. People set around doing basically nothing but lab research, hoping against hope, that somehow they would find some easy cheap way to get to Mars. Well there are no shortcuts.
Matt Menezes
OK, assuming it's not useful for 100 years, then the clock starts now. In 100 years, we might have a massive breakthrough that changes the world (kind of how experiments on the electron brought on the age of computers). If you push it off, you are pushing off that breakthrough.
Going to Mars is not as much science as it is engineering. Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of going to Mars, but I like fundamental breakthroughs more as they lead to bigger things.
Barry P
I knew it!.. just as I predicted on my TI graphing calc.
How does the exotic hadron have 4 times the mass of a proton when it makes up protons? I must not be understanding something…
A proton is made up of 3 quarks, while Z(4430) is made up of 4 quarks. The mass isn't determined by their constituent particles nearly as much as their energies. You can also notice this in the proton, since its mass isn't the sum of the masses of the 3 quarks that make it, not by a long shot.
I'm still confused… You're saying that the energy from the quarks when converted to mass has 4 times the amount than the proton?
The mass (small) + the energies converted to mass (large). For example a positive pion is made up of one up quark and one down antiquark, and has a mass of ~139 MeV/c^2. The mass of the up quark is ~2 MeV/c^2, and the mass of the down antiquark is ~5 MeV/c^2.
That's ~132 MeV/c^2 unaccounted for by the mass of the constituents.
A proton consists of two up quarks and one down quark, which would add up to ~9 MeV/c^2. Yet the mass of a proton is ~938 MeV/c^2. So you can see that despite consisting of just one more quark, the mass is over 7 times greater than that of the positive pion, and we see something similar occurring with this new exotic hadron.
The majority of the mass comes not from the mass of the constituent particles, but from their energies. This includes the energy of the massless gluons that hold them together.
dale ruff
Exotic hardons do not say why but where?
Sebastian, good thing you are not a dyslexic typist when throwing the word hadron around. good read cheers
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Fun story about that, actually. When I wrote this story back in 2012, I originally want to put 'hardon' in the title, for lols: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/118287-happy-valentines-day-from-cerns-large-hadron-collider
Wasn't that kind of expected ? If we can has 2 quark and 3 quark particles then with enough energy we can have short lasting 4, 5, 6 ….. quark particles. Why not ? Do we have good theory that prohibits it ?
why not use the 13teraelectrovolts to jump into hyperspace or discover the farthest regions of the universe, if we can generate 13 tera electrovolts in on or two years why not us it for this and as Mr kaku said we needs 15 to the square of 1 million electrovolts to go to a parallel universe why not us it for this because their equivalent is the same


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Commitments must be followed by action said national and international human rights NGOs today in the wake of the second review of Pakistan under the UN's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process.
NGO representatives said that they feared that an overoptimistic picture of progress since 2008 had been presented by the government delegation, headed by Minister for Foreign Affairs , Hina Rabbani Khar. The glossy depiction was said to belie the great challenges experienced by swathes of citizens in protecting their civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights.
The UPR is a peer mechanism, where states make observations and recommendations on the human rights record of other states. However, NGOs are concerned that the recommendations made this week will be made again in four years time, unless words turn into committed action. More than 80 states spoke during the review in Geneva, and several underscored that their recommendations echoed those they made in 2008.
A key concern of many states was the persistent threat to religious freedoms. Repressive legislation, including the infamous blasphemy laws which are open to abuse remain in place despite recommendations made in 2008 for them to be repealed. More than fifteen states raised serious concerns about the blasphemy laws in this year's review, many of whom urged their abolition.
"Hina Rabbani Khar said that Pakistan had built protective walls around victims of gross rights violations", Shobha Das of Minority Rights Group said. "But people from religious minorities are not seeking walls. They are seeking full participation in economic, social and cultural life. And they seek the right to walk down the street without fearing for their lives."
Scheduled Castes face additional challenges to realising their basic rights to education, work and food. Progress is again far from advanced. Many landless, rural workers from the Scheduled Castes are trapped into bonded labour, despite the fact that it was outlawed for almost two decades. Zulfiqar Shah of Pakistan Dalit Solidarity Network said, "Two governments recommended Pakistan to address caste issues, and Ireland called upon the government to implement its own laws to eradicate bonded labour. We are here to call once again for the government to enact an anti-discrimination law and to implement existing legislation that bans forced labour. We don't want to make the same call four years from now".
Children are also drawn into bonded labour, one of many concerns raised by states related to children. "Thirteen children working as domestic workers died between January 2010 and December 2011, as a result of severe torture and abuse. We are still waiting for strong laws, strong penalties and strong implementation on child abuse" said Arshad Mahmood of the Child Rights Movement Pakistan.
"Ratification of international treaties must be followed by domestic legislation and proper implementation of the relevant laws. Three child's rights Bills must be passed both at the federal and provincial levels" said Mr. Mahmood.
During the review, the government noted that Pakistan's buzzing civil society and journalists were responsible for wider global awareness of events in Pakistan. This, said Hina Rabbani Khar was evidence of an active media, unhampered by undue interference. She noted that since the last review, curbs on the media had been lifted. However, four states made strong calls for Pakistan to immediately implement measures to protect journalists noting that they operate in highly precarious situations.
Dur-e-Shahwar of the Pakistan Press Foundation said that journalists work under constant threat. "Journalists are often targeted by security forces and those perpetrating violent attacks often enjoy impunity. In addition, access to information on the internet is under threat as new filters are being introduced. You cannot celebrate free media in front of diplomats in Geneva and return home to block people's access to information". Francesca Piccin of G-Media added that it was important for journalists to operate in an environment which welcomed scrutiny to ensure leaders are held accountable.
The NGOs said they were open to cooperating with the government of Pakistan, especially where that would encourage acceptance of a greater number of recommendations from the review. Consultations with affected groups and the creation of a national action plan for the implementation of UPR recommendations would be an ideal starting point for action. "We stand ready to provide our expertise and inputs on next steps. A practical action plan with our full collaboration will enable us to make real progress in the coming four years." concluded the group.
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Dame Beryl Grey Gala
March 2002
London, Sadler's Wells
by Lynette Halewood
Gala audiences must be pretty intimidating at the best of times, but particularly this one, gathered to celebrate Dame Beryl Grey's 75th year and including a substantial part of the dance establishment. The performance will be scrutinised with a particularly knowledgeable eye. And in the opening item, four dancers from the Royal ballet - three of them very recent joiners from the School - had to reprise moments of Dame Beryl's most acclaimed roles in front of her. I really felt for those girls. The list was a substantial one, including Odette, Les Syphides, Myrtha, the Winter Fairy, Sylvia, the Black Queen from Checkmate, and her Birthday offering variation. Only snatches of each, but quite a challenge all the same. The dancers were Laura McCullough, Kristen McNally, Lauren Cuthbertson and Vanessa Fenton, and the excerpts were not individually credited. The dancers appeared in simple practice clothes in front of projected pictures of Dame Beryl. Myrtha and the Black Queen probably came across the most strongly, but it is difficult to establish much of a presence in so brief an appearance. The Lilac Fairy was not included - perhaps too much of a challenge, though the School paraded in lilac dresses around her at the end of the evening.
Among the standard gala fare of showpiece pas de deux there were a few more unexpected items - an appearance from a young tap dancer: Wayne Sleep in a frenetic tap routine: and a new work danced by the ENB School which was a real hit. This was by Antony Dowson, and featured one girl, six boys and a long pole used both as ballet barre and vaulting device with some very imaginative lifts. Very smooth and well controlled, it was confidently danced and very well received. I hope we see some more work from him. The RB School also appeared in a brief excerpt from Christopher Wheeldon's Souvenirs - again well danced, but lacking the real element of surprise of the ENB appearance.
Another standard feature of galas such as this are the tributes from the great and good of the dance world. I was struck by the efforts that so many people had made to be there - Eva Evdokimova saying that crossing the Atlantic was worth it just to be there. There were very fluent speeches from Matz Skoog, ENB's AD, and the AD of the Royal Swedish Ballet, and a very sincere speech from Patrice Bart of Paris Opera Ballet, thanking Dame Beryl for the opportunities she had given him as a dancer. There were more than ten different speakers and it seemed very strange that the Royal Ballet was not represented at all among them, especially as Bussell and Cope had had to pull out of appearing. (Like everyone else, if there was any notice about this, I missed it entirely). The award for most engaging speaker must go to Lady Walton who addressed the 1400 people in the audience as if we had just dropped by for a friendly chat. And her hat deserved a billing of its own.
But back to the dancing. We had a generous number of companies represented. The Royal Swedish Ballet gave the black swan pas de deux from Swan Lake: Monica Perego and Yat Sen Chang of ENB performed the Corsaire pas de deux, Oaks and Edur the Don Q pas de deux. Oaks and Edur were in particularly fine form, (a lovely balance from Oaks) but I really don't feel the need to see another fouettee for quite a while after that. Not that these were run together - the scheduling was thoughtful so that other items with a completely different atmosphere were interspersed. There was a very fine Spring pas de deux from Nao Sakuma and Chi Cao: it was made for them by Bintley and it fits them perfectly. NBT provided a touching excerpt from Madame Butterfly with Chiai Nagao showing a physical and emotional recklessness in choreography with a certain Macmillan influence. Christopher Bruce's lovers in Grinning in your face looked more quizzical and down to earth.
The audience gave a huge welcome to Irek Mukhamedov, appearing in Rosalinda (a work commissioned from Ronald Hynd by Dame Beryl for LFB) with Marcela Giocoechea of the Ballet de Santiago. She was delightful, a very fluid mover, and Irek partnered her with tender care. He clearly relished his role in winning round his recalcitrant lover, and his stage presence is still remarkable. All galas ought to have an opportunity for us to glance at dancers we have loved and on this occasion we also got Marion Tait and Alan Dubreil, who now both only appear in character roles for BRB, in a particularly lively account of the Tango from Ashton's Façade. Great fun.


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CASE in point...
The Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) is the international professional organization for those of us who work in development, alumni relations and communications for higher education. I've enjoyed serving as a member of our district's board, which covers Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Washington, Alaska and all of Western Canada — and the process provides me with the opportunity to meet and learn from our advancement colleagues across the region. There are some amazingly creative and smart people at these institutions!
Most recently, we all gathered in Vancouver BC for the district's annual conference, where we saw one of the highest levels of attendance in years. It was wonderful.
Why am I telling you this, you ask?
Because one couldn't turn around at the conference without running in to Willamette. I was so proud!
Right out of the gate, our own Stacey Lane, director of the alumni career network, presented a master session on professional development. This was followed by some unsolicited recognition in the opening keynote by Andy Goodman for the great story-telling aspect of Willamette's website. As the conference progressed, Scene editor and WU News master Erik Schmidt and I each did a presentation to colleagues; after that, WU football Coach Mark Speckman presented an amazing keynote address. To top it off, there were WU alumni on the volunteer conference committee, attending as representatives from other schools and one was even the top winner of the Newcomer's Scholarship!
All this is to say that our Willamette network is broad, engaged and impressive, and I thought of the university motto - Not Unto Ourselves Alone Are We Born - multiple times. Everywhere I turned, I was met by an alumnus or someone who knew one and wanted to share their positive experience.
It was such an amazing showcase of Bearcats. And I'd be lying if I said that I didn't flaunt them to my colleagues at every opportunity. Who could resist?
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Cheap sticks causing extra fatigue?
I usually play the unmarked Vic Firth sticks, and they're just as good as any other name brand sticks I've used. Recently, I went to get more, and all they had in bulk packs were ten pairs of no name sticks for $30. I reluctantly bought them, because they were a good deal.
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