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Reclaiming Friendship
Friendships can certainly last forever! My friends and I grew up in a New York City neighborhood then titled, Washington Heights, south of the George Washington Bridge. We all mostly lived on one block which was West 163 Street between Amsterdam and Edgecombe Avenues. Some of our friendships began before we even entered grade school and others during elementary, which have lasted more than fifty years.
We are now in our sixties and a few of us are in our seventies. While some of us have left New York City, we still remain connected and keep in touch through email and phone calls. For the past ten years, we have held a mini reunion in Cape May Court House, New Jersey. We are all extremely grateful for the longevity of friendship and feel that few have experienced the uniqueness we all share.
Harriet Walcott
Wow! The "Friends Interrupted" article makes me feel like your writers read my mind. I am a 45-year-old mother of four and work full-time. Although I have many opportunities to make friends, I do not. This realization makes me sad. In the last year I have made so many changes with my job and my children, moving away from neighbors and friends. The reality of how these changes have affected my friendships has been hard, but realizing how common this is feels like a breath of fresh air. Thank you for the wonderful advice on where to look for new friends, and why we shouldn't look back with sadness.
Shirley O' Reilly
Never Too Late to Nurture
I've read lifestyle magazines for 25 years and have never responded to any article. But Joyce Maynard's piece on adopting at 55 touched my soul. I cried and laughed, and cried again. Maynard made me realize that you are never too old to nurture. I am taking steps to adopt soon, even though at 49, everyone tells me I am crazy. Thank you MORE for making me realize that wasting is worse than wanting.?
Tough Act To Follow
I recently started reading MORE, I'm so happy to have found a magazine of style and substance with age-appropriate articles and features (I'm 41). I've never written to a magazine about an article, but after reading the one about Barbara Corcoran ["When Millions Aren't Enough"], I felt compelled. In this time of economic distress, when American families, and women in particular, are being forced to make heart-wrenching decisions regarding their professional and personal lives, I felt it was irresponsible and offensive to publish an article about a woman like Ms. Corcoran.
She states that she loves to help people and has every opportunity and resource (to the tune of $66 million) to do so, but instead she chose to wallow in her feelings, saying she was "distraught" and "empty." Granted, everyone's reality is different and if you feel unhappy, then nobody has the right to tell you that you aren't. But an article featuring a woman who complained about her lot in life—despite earning money beyond compare, publishing a book, and job options that would bring her the recognition and power she so apparently craved––left me in a state of disbelief.
I don't begrudge her, or anyone, the right to find happiness, but her reinvention tips couldn't be less relevant for me as a reader. Barbara Corcoran has lost her blue-collar roots and I have lost interest in her.
Amy Howard
Lafayette, CA
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- 1/3 cup thawed apple juice concentrate
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- 5 cups fresh or frozen blueberries
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Pour the apple juice concentrate into a saucepan; sprinkle with gelatin and allow to soften for several minutes.
- Meanwhile, in a blender or food processor, finely chop blueberries, 1 cup at a time. Add lemon juice, spices and 2 cups of chopped berries to gelatin; heat over medium-low until gelatin is dissolved. Remove from the heat; stir in remaining berries and mix well.
- Pour into jars or plastic containers; store in the refrigerator up to three weeks. Yield: 4 cups.
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Published: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 at 12:47 p.m.
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A recently announced joint economic development initiative between New Hanover County and Wilmington is already underway, with the bulk of the community outreach on the project happening this week.
Chairman Woody White and Mayor Bill Saffo announced the creation of the "2013 Economic Development Planning Initiative" in early August.
The initiative is expected to answer questions about the region, according to White, and create a message as to "what type of community we want to be in the future." It will let the commissioners and council members know what type of jobs the community wants, where they want them, and what can be done locally to strengthen existing business.
The new initiative also created a diverse 20-member steering committee, spearheaded by Cape Fear Community College President Ted Spring and University of North Carolina Wilmington Chancellor Gary Miller, that will oversee the effort.
Jay Garner from Atlanta-based Garner Economics was hired to begin the process.
New Hanover is bearing the total cost of Garner's $92,500 contract. The funds come from the $320,000 the commissioners set aside in the 2013-14 budget for economic development efforts.
Garner will be seeking input from local constituents in a number of ways, including conducting a series of focus groups with more than 100 people in the community to learn how it is to do business and to live in New Hanover, and by sending out a voluntary survey to residents.
These focus group meetings started Wednesday, according to Beth Schrader, the county's strategy and policy manger.
There are six different focus groups picked by the initiative's steering committee, including a group of large employers, small employers and entrepreneurs, elected officials, media and public relations, education, and area nonprofits.
"He is going to be going through a series of exercises so that he can get a feel for each of these different constituency groups, their prospects for economic concerns, their opportunities, barriers, enablers," Schrader said. "Based on that, the output from those focus groups will be used to do a broader electronic survey with the rest of the community."
Garner's staff economist will also be doing a comprehensive economic and labor review study of the area to determine what the best type of industry targets are for New Hanover.
However, assistant county manager Tim Burgess said this process has been slowed down due to the federal government shutdown because some of the necessary data is located on government websites that are not currently operational.
"Depending on how long the shutdown lasts there may be a delay in working through some of that," he said.
The community surveys are expected to be completed by November. Garner has promised the city and county his full report by February 2014.
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Beginning in early September, the library will join forces with the Kalamazoo Area Agency on Aging to offer two healthy living workshops that may be of interest to you or someone you know. The first is Personal Action Toward Health (PATH), a 6-week workshop designed to help adults learn techniques and strategies for the day-to-day management of chronic or long-term health conditions, including arthritis, heart disease, diabetes, emphysema, asthma, bronchitis and depression. The PATH workshop takes place on Tuesday evenings at 5:00pm at Washington Square Library beginning September 9. Please call 269-553-7970 to register for Personal Action Toward Health. The second workshop is Matter of Balance, an 8-week workshop designed to reduce the fear of falling and increase activity levels among older adults. Matter of Balance takes place on Thursday afternoons at 1:00pm at Oshtemo Library beginning September 25. Please call 269-553-7984 to register for Matter of Balance.
Tickets are now available at Oshtemo Library for storyteller Chris Fascione's performance onFriday, July 25 at 3pm. Fascione brings classic literature to life with storytelling, mime, juggling, and comedy. Don't miss this crazy fun program! Come pick up a free ticket at Oshtemo Library today!
Summer is a great time to make things with your kids. Whether you are a dad or a mom, you'll find good ideas for collaborative projects to DIY with daughers and sons in Maker Dad: Lunch Box Guitars, Antigravity Jars, and 22 Other Incredibly Cool Father-Daughter Projects. Written by Mark Frauenfelder, the editor in chief of MAKE Magazine, these projects vary in complexity. Most require some kind of tooling but can be adapted in different ways. There are woodworking projects like laminating up wood veneer layers while it's bent to make a pre-sprung long board to cruise the streets. There are imaginitive electonics projects like a kite-mounted video camera. There are plenty of whimsical, imaginative projects here. Also included are tips for devoping practical skills like creating and hosting your own podcast and using a variety of tools. I thought this book was suitable for parents and their elementary or middle-school aged children and up.
The afternoon of Saturday, May 31, 2014 marked the beginning of a new annual event at KPL: Three Book Battle. Middle School students from seven different schools joined forces and battled through book knowledge on The Giver, Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy and Return to Sender to be the first Three Book Battle champion. Teams competed in two battles that day for a total of 48 questions, 16 from each book. Huddles were formed, decisions were made, pencils moved frantically, and pride filled the Van Deusen Room!
This new event for 6th-8th graders set the bar high for the future with near perfect scores and contagious reading enthusiasm. Teen Services would like to thank the Friends of KPL for providing a mini grant opportunity to sponsor this event. Each team received a set of books to keep, Jones Soda and a Bookbug gift card to fuel their love of reading.
Congratulations go out to our final battle teams:
Plans are already underway for the 2015 Three Book Battle. Thank you KPL Teen Services, the Friends of KPL, TBB participants and the audience for making our first Three Book Battle one for the record books!
This spring, we celebrated the 20th year of the Global Reading Challenge! This quiz-bowl program is for 4th and 5th graders. Students form teams at their schools, read ten books chosen by KPL children's librarians, then work as a team to answer questions about the books, earning points with correct answers.
Our intent is for kids to have fun reading the books and participating in a team activity. The ten books are carefully chosen to reflect our diverse world and to show characters successfully solving problems, contributing to their communities, and learning that people are more alike than they are different.
The first Challenge, in 1994, featured 19 teams from Lincoln, North Christian, and MLK Westwood; the winning team was the "Bookworm Warriors" from MLK Westwood. This year we had 129 teams from 17 schools! The District Final Challenge featured teams from Edison, Arcadia, Prairie Ridge, Spring Valley, and Northglade. The champion was the "Crazy Cougars" team from Prairie Ridge. Thanks to the students, parents, teachers, principals, and coaches for another successful year of books and reading!
Over this summer, librarians will be reading and choosing the books for the 2015 Global Reading Challenge. Team applications will be accepted in October and the book titles will be announced in December.
Summer at the library officially begins on Monday, June 2! Sign up for Summer Reading Games at any of our locations beginning June 2. Kick off the summer by attending some of the library's great programs for the whole family, starting next week. Preschoolers ages 3 to 6 can explore strength and materials at Central'sLittle Scientists program on Monday, June 2 at 10:30am. Later that evening, join us at Oshtemo for an outdoor performance of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Learn how to beat the heat by brewing your own iced tea with Tudor House Tea & Spice at Washington Square on Tuesday, June 3 at 6pm. Calling all nerdfighters! Head to Central on Tuesday, June 3 at 6:30pm for An Abundance of John Green and enter to win movie tickets to The Fault in Our Stars. LEGO fans can practice their skills at Oshtemo on Saturday, June 7 at 10:30am. The week wraps up on Saturday, June 7 at Central with the Summer Reading Kickoff Party at 1pm, featuring music, games, obstacle courses, and a bounce house!
The Developmental Timeline from parentingcounts.org includes some great research-based parenting tips videos. Many have good advice for any caregiver of young children about how to speak "parentese, or speak in a way that actually encourages language development. Other videos linked from within the different tabbed domains in the timeline show the world from a child's perspective. If you are parent or caregiver, you might find them interesting, too. I like the videos that try to portray the world from a child's perspective. Other videos have good tips about how to make reading fun from the very beginning. These are things that come naturally to parents when we make the time to read to our kids. I like to think about how many parents and children are making memories reading 1000 Books Before Kindergarten together.
There are lots of fun things to do at Kalamazoo Public Library locations during Spring Break. If you're at the Central Library and want to borrow child/family movies and music, come to the Children's Room. That's where those materials are now located. Maybe you've been wondering what those lullabye renditions of Michael Jackson music sound like. Or maybe it's time to see how Danny Devito voiced The Lorax. Or revisit that beautiful Carl and Ellie sequence from Up. You'll find something that you'll enjoy in this collection and you'll be able to check it out at the kiosk in the Children's Room, too. And while you'll be able to find Dr. Seuss books in the Children's Room, you'll want to go to the lower level to find Thriller and The Wiz. You'll find lots of movie musicals and documentaries that make great family viewing in the lower level, too!
Well, here it is, the last day of Black History Month and all month I have been reflecting on what an honor it is to be working at a trailblazing library system, such as Kalamazoo Public Library. Why would I call KPL a trailblazer? Well, it all started with Mrs. Alma Harrod Powell. She was before her time. She went from being a housekeeper to a Library Assistant to a renowned storyteller and historian. It all started while working in the home of a world traveler, Mr. Larry Firth. Mr. Firth would return from Africa with artifacts that heightened Mrs. Powell interest in African history. In 1944 she participated in an apprenticeship course at KPL and in 1946 she became a KPL Library Assistant. In 1957 Mrs. Powell received a citation from the Michigan Library Association which acknowledged her skill as a storyteller. In 1968 a small library room in Lincoln School opened and was named Alma Powell Library Project. Mrs. Powell was followed by Mary Mace Spradling and Roberta Cheney. They were trailblazers in their own rights.
This all happened at KPL in Kalamazoo, Michigan before the civil rights movement. As a black female Mrs. Powell was a pioneer and Kalamazoo Public Library was a trailblazer. And we keep right on blazing because this year KPL will be the first library in Michigan to have its own antiracism team. We have begun selecting a team and we will begin training and working towards institutional equality.
Yes, as I said, it is truly an honor to be a part of this historical establishment.
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Moving from the reproductive years through menopause and beyond, a woman experiences many physical changes caused by both menopause and aging. Some normal changes related to menopause include hot flashes, difficulty sleeping and vaginal dryness. Changes that can occur due to age include diabetes, thyroid disorders, sleep apnea (disordered breathing, high blood pressure, and an increased risk for heart disease and certain cancers). For women who also have an unhealthy lifestyle, high stress or unlucky genes, the changes due to menopause and aging can be particularly challenging.
Each woman experiences menopause differently. How she responds to the physical changes may be similar to or different from how her mother or sisters responded. A woman's own expectations of this time of life are important, too. The menopause experience varies around the world and within ethnic groups, suggesting that both culture and genetics influence it. A woman may view the end of fertility as freedom from concerns about birth control, or she may regret the end of her childbearing ability. Some women will have troublesome symptoms, while others may have few or no symptoms at all.
Menopause is better understood and more openly discussed than ever before. Many women look back on menopause as a passage to a new part of life in which they feel confident, empowered, involved and energized. Menopause is an ideal time to begin or reinforce healthy changes in your life.
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Let's learn more about what you can expect in the transition through menopause. First, here are some essential terms.
Physical clues that you are approaching menopause may start years before your final menstrual period. This time is called "perimenopause" (meaning "around menopause"). It is the result of changing levels of ovarian hormones in your body. Estrogen levels decline, but they do so unevenly. Sometimes they can even be higher than when you were younger. Irregular menstrual periods, hot flashes, vaginal dryness, sleep disturbances and mood swings are common, normal signs of perimenopause. At this time, women may still be able to get pregnant, although it does not happen often. Birth control is recommended until one year after the last period if pregnancy is not desired.
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Natural menopause is a spontaneous, permanent ending of menstruation that is not caused by any medical treatment. In North America, most women experience natural menopause between ages 40 and 58, averaging around age 51. Some women reach natural menopause as early as their 30s and a few as late as their 60s. Today, most North American women spend at least one-third of their lives after menopause. Women often experience menopause around the same age as their mothers and sisters. Smokers may reach menopause about two years earlier than nonsmokers. No clear connection has been found between age at menopause and race, age at first period or use of birth control pills or fertility medications.
Postmenopause is the time after menopause. Some menopause-related symptoms (such as vaginal dryness and hot flashes) may still occur because your body is only making a small amount of estrogen. In this time, your risk increases for diseases associated with low estrogen levels, including osteoporosis.


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Scientists prove Beowulf and the Iliad are true stories! Not. Sometimes scientists can be so clueless, you just want to pat them on the head and go "Aw, that's so sad." To get up to speed on this new silliness, check out John Bohannon's article for Science Now: Is Mythology Like Facebook?, which summarizes this scientific paper: Ralph Kenna and Pádraig Mac Carron, "Universal Properties of Mythological Networks," Europhysics Letters 99.2 (July 2012) #28002. To be fair, they only claim to have evidence "the societies" and "some of the events" in them are true, not the entire stories as wrote. But really they don't.
Kenna and Mac Carron mapped out the social networks in three myths (Beowulf, the Iliad, and the Táin, a lesser-known Irish epic) and tested those networks for the properties of real networks. Then they used as "controls" four works of modern fiction (Les Misérables, Shakespeare's Richard III, The Fellowship of the Ring, and the first book in the Harry Potter series). (If you are noticing a fatal flaw here already, you get ten bonus points. Fifty points if you already notice more than one fatal flaw.)
Facebook is a real network that's been well-studied this way (hence the title of Bohannon's article). And real networks have certain properties. As Bohannon explains:
For example, one universal feature of real social networks is that they are highly clustered, with tight clumps of people who all know each other. These groups are linked to each other by highly social people known as "connectors." Real social networks also have a property called "small world," which indicates that there is never more than a few degrees of separation between any two people. Such statistical properties have been found in networks of movie actors, jazz musicians, and even scientific collaborators. If the ancient myths were based on real people, Kenna and Mac Carron expected to find the same patterns.
They did. The character social networks of all the stories, including the modern fictions, were "small world" and highly clustered. But the modern fictions differed from the ancient myths, as well as from real social networks, in several ways. For example, in the fictional narratives, most of the minor characters link to the main character. But that wasn't true for the myths. If the researchers removed the character of Beowulf from the network, they found that the other characters are linked with one another in other ways. "Certainly there are similarities between fiction and real life," says Kenna, but in fiction "everyone tends to be connected to everyone else, otherwise the story becomes too hard to follow."
That last sentence sounds like a contradiction, but I think a connecting sentence must have gotten lost. That last sentence refers to a different property of fictional networks, which is "small world without clustering" or what the authors called in the paper "too small world," in which every character is connected to many other characters, independently of the main character, which is not typical of real networks. Thus we have two measures of artificiality: one in which everyone is connected only or mostly through one or a few key persons, and one in which everyone is connected to everyone else almost regardless.
What's wrong with this? Lots.
#1: Scientists Need to Learn How Historical Fiction Works
The first problem here should be obvious. Bohannon claims earlier on, of Beowulf and the Iliad, that "historians and archaeologists agree that much of those ancient narratives was based on real people and events." Even on the most charitable reading, this confuses the difference between history and historical fiction.
Certainly Beowulf is based on real historical persons and contexts (Wikipedia has a nice summary), but Beowulf himself is by all accounts a fictional character inserted among them, to play out a supernatural drama that obviously has no basis in history (no monster was terrorizing the lands that required finding a special young warrior named Beowulf to gather a band of men to hunt it down). This is actually admitted by Kenna and Mac Carron, so I should not take them to task for that (as I did in the original draft of this critique). But the general fact of it illustrates that any character could be similarly inserted, possibly thereby undetected. This tale appears to be a Nordic (and possibly Christian-influenced) adaptation of Virgil's Aeneid. Like the Aeneid, if in Beowulf any ancillary (non-central) character was invented to fill out the story, would Kenna and Mac Carron's method be able to detect it? I don't see how. We can only confirm the historicity of its characters by other, more traditional methods; and by that method, we have.
But as much cannot be said of the Iliad, in which none of the characters have any likely basis in history. There was probably indeed a Trojan War, between the Ilians and an alliance of Achaeans (proto-Greek nations that sailed and lay siege in Ilia, probably in defense of their coastal holdings in Turkey). But reality almost certainly ends there. Achilles, Hector, Odysseus, Ajax, these are again inventions of religious fiction, inserted into a distant memory of historical events. The war was certainly not fought over Helen. And even if there ever was a king Agamemnon, he lived centuries earlier (and thus was in no way involved in the Trojan War).
Indeed, the Iliad was written over the course of several centuries. For example, the story randomly and inexplicably jumps from bronze-age technology to iron-age technology and back again throughout, indicating that the tale as a whole was freely built up over a very long span of time. Yes, that means a man named Homer did not write the Iliad, at least the Iliad we have, but rather a series of anonymous bards over many centuries did. So it would be absurd to suggest the characters in it are likely to be real, much less its stories about them.
This may even explain the findings of their study: the heroes of the Iliad all derive from local national myths from diverse Greek nations, which may have been added into the story over time, to create an increasingly panhellenic epic as bards traveled the Greek states. Each local myth involved its own artificial family and political social network built around the central hero or heroes (usually mythical royal houses). Then by assembling all these heroes onto one battlefield, they brought their independent networks with them. The result would look very much like Facebook. By accident.
These kinds of possibilities (and I am sure I will have not exhausted them all in this essay) are precisely why the mathematical properties of the networks are meaningless by themselves: you have to ask a Classicist (especially an expert in Homeric studies) to look at the nodes of the network that make it look real and tell you the most likely literary explanation for those connections being in the story. "Not written by a single author," "artificial panhellenic epic built over centuries," and so on (more examples below) might turn out to be the better explanation.
#2: Scientists Need to Learn Logic
The methodology in this paper is also illogical. It employs one giant fallacy of affirming the consequent. To illustrate, I'll adapt a table I used when identifying this same error in the writings of Bart Ehrman:
|If p, then q.
|If it's a real social network, it has properties [x, y, z].
|If a dog ate your homework, then you have no homework to turn in.
|The social network in story P has properties [x, y, z].
|You have no homework to turn in.
|Therefore, p.
|Therefore the social network in story P is a real social network.
|Therefore, a dog ate your homework.
Really, you can prove anything with logic like this. Which is precisely why you can prove nothing with logic like this.
The study does attempt to avoid this fallacy by using a scientific "control," but the control they chose is wholly invalid. In effect, they want to argue that "If it's a fake social network, it will never have properties [x, y, z]," and they try to do that by testing an arbitrary and unscientific selection of modern works of fiction, and used them to represent all fake social networks, even those constructed in ancient literature. This is just error piled on top of error, one for every word I put in bold.
First of all, the study's authors fail to consider that fake networks can have the same properties as real ones, especially in cultures that create myths to map and mimic social realities, which was often the very purpose of ancient myths. Those social realities included extended families and community-pervading political relations, two things often lacking in modern novels because most people don't live in those social networks anymore. Hardly anyone is connected to a political figure, and extended families are rare. Yet those kinds of social networks were so common in antiquity they were emulated in their myths, deliberately. Indeed, in a way, myths were training for the tracking of social networks (thus, as discussed in Rafaella Cribiore's Gymnastics of the Mind, students in ancient schools were often tasked with mapping the social networks in them, for example being forced to memorize the families and genealogies of famous heroes like Ajax, along with lists of their colleagues).
Obviously, such mythical networks will have "properties [x, y, z]" even when fabricated. Because they were designed to be. And even when they weren't designed to be, they still reflected the social realities familiar to authors and readers, which realities were very "Facebook-like" (in the complexity of political and familial relations binding nations and communities together). Thus ancient myth and modern fiction are simply not sufficiently similar for this study to use one as the control for the other.
Secondly, just arbitrarily picking some works of modern fiction is the height of unscientific claptrappery. Can you imagine doing a scientific control study by arbitrarily picking four people to be the control group? Not only is "four" way too few to be representative, not only is the selection not a random one from among all available works of fiction, and not only are the genres chosen not functionally similar (the author of a play has specific interests in mind as far as plotting characters that can be cast and represented conveniently on a stage, concerns which are not shared by a novelist; likewise, Harry Potter is about the students, faculty, and alumni of a single elite school, whose social network properties are not going to look like Facebook even if it were real), but I'll bet any literary expert could point them to confuting counter-examples.
For example, what do you think will happen when they test The Godfather for social network properties? I suspect it will look a lot like Beowulf. Which means, a lot like Facebook. Because the author of The Godfather was aiming to mimic exactly that kind of network. The same might be true of War and Peace. Likewise, The Belgariad, a complete work of fiction (not even historical fiction), also might have those features, because its authors liked to play with complex social networks.The same might be true of Game of Thrones. Even if these don't fit the analysis mathematically (I am only guessing they could), there still may be plenty of works of fiction that do. You can't just claim there aren't, because you picked four books out of a bin.
And again, that's still modern fiction. That is no parallel to ancient myth, either in cultural context or aims and function. So even if they constructed a proper control (which they didn't), it still would not be a valid control.
#3: The Result Is Useless in Application
For these reasons we can't conclude a mythical hero existed because the social network he is inserted into looks real. Not only because real networks are easily mimicked (as is almost certainly the case in the Iliad)–especially by persons aiming to mimick such networks, and persons in cultures that live and breathe such networks and depend on navigating them–but also because fictional persons can easily be inserted into real networks (as is almost certainly the case in Beowulf). Thus their tool is useless.
This kind of social network analysis can't be used the other way around, either. Because a historian might deliberately focus on a single individual and his connections (e.g. Lucian's account of Alexander of Abonuteichus), and thus leave out the social network attributes, even though the person in question really existed (as we have effectively confirmed archaeologically). Or he might focus on people who are all connected to each other (and thus not connected through only one or a few central characters). Either way, looking exactly like the works of fiction Kenna and Mac Carron analyzed (which means even their premise "if it's a real social network, it has properties [x, y, z]" fails to relevantly hold, because the premise "all accounts of real social networks will have properties [x, y, z]" is false, and they are analyzing literary accounts of networks, not the networks themselves). And importantly, not all historical works will operate the same way (some will capture real networks, some will focus on single-characters and who they connect with, some will focus on highly interconnected cabals–and therefore no one set of "network properties" will characterize "histories" as histories).
For both reasons, we cannot use this tool in the myth-or-historicity debate surrounding Jesus, as some have suggested in various places online. Jesus would almost certainly fail the analysis (removing him from the network would leave few connections among the characters in the Gospels, making the network look highly artificial), unless we allowed network connections to be drawn among the historical actors (e.g. Herod, Pilate, Caiaphas) using data outside the Gospels, but that would just confirm the obvious: that some historical persons were used as backdrop for the mythical tales of Jesus. No one doubts that. What we want to know is whether Jesus (the story's Beowulf or Odysseus) existed. And this tool cannot help us with that.
Thus, if this analysis were turned on the Gospels and showed a seemingly-artificial Jesus-centric social network, that would not mean the Gospels were fiction. Nor would the Gospels showing a more distributed network mean the Gospels were fact.
[Update: those interested in pursuing the Beowulf case will find even more reason to doubt its historicity from the analysis and bibliography provided in Eve Siebert, "Monsters and Dragons and Dinosaurs, Oh My," Skeptical Inquirer 37.1 (January/February 2013): 43-48, albeit there dealing with an entirely different claim.]


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This interdisciplinary major entails the study of the structure, synthesis, properties and regulation of biomolecules. Cellular, organ, and organismal processes are examined through the study of the complex molecular networks that comprise and regulate them. As such, biochemistry has strong components from the fields of both biology and chemistry. This major is especially appropriate for those who intend to pursue careers in any of the medical fields, graduate education in biochemistry, medical research or employment in the biotechnology industry.
Required Courses: (70 credits)
BIOL 121, 221, 311, 318, plus one additional 300 level BIOL course other than BIOL 398
CHEM 123, 234, 235, 236, 333 or 334, 335
BCHM 317 (enroll in BIOL 317 which gets changed to BCHM 317 by registrar), 322 and 310 (1 credit)
PHYS 191, 200 (or 105, 106)
BCHM 350 (1), 351 (1) or 398 (4)
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Senior majors are required to give a seminar presentation on their laboratory or library research (BCHM 350, 351, or 398). Either the Biology (BIOL XXX) or Chemistry (CHEM XXX) Comprehensive Exam is also required.
310 Biochemistry Journal Club. (1)
Student presentations and discussions of modern biochemistry literature related to specific topics or themes. Emphasis will be on literature search strategies, critical analysis of the literature and biochemistry seminars, and presentations. Prerequisite or Corequisite: Either BCHEM 317 or 322. Spring.
317 Biochemistry I. (4)
Lecture and laboratory study of the chemical characteristics of biological molecules with emphasis on bioenergetics, enzymes, metabolic pathways and integration, biological signals and membrane receptors. (Enroll in BIOL 317, which gets changed to BCHM 317 by registrar.) Prerequisites: BIOL 121, 221 and CHEM 235 or instructor's consent. Fall or Spring. (Biochemistry majors are recommended to take BCHM 317 in the Fall and BCHM 322 in the Spring of their junior year. This allows students to complete the entire Biochemistry course sequence (BCHM 317, 322, and 310) in the junior year, giving them optimal background to read the biochemistry literature and conduct research in their senior year. In cases when it is not possible to follow this recommendation, students may take any of the courses in the Biochemistry sequence [BCHM 317, 322, and 310] in any order in their junior and senior years.)
322 Biochemistry II. (4)
A study of biological macromolecules and how they participate in binding, catalytic and regulatory reactions. Emphasis is on the role of kinetics and thermodynamics in determining the structure and function of the macromolecules, and the influence of macromolecular structure on reaction mechanisms. Laboratory emphasis is on purification and characterization of biological molecules, molecular modeling, the study of enzyme catalysis, and independent projects. Prerequisite: CHEM 236 and 335. Spring.
350 Library Research. (1)
Library research done under the supervision of a faculty advisor. Emphasis on reading and comprehension of modern primary biochemistry literature. Students write a final paper and give an oral presentation at the end of their senior year. Fall or Spring, senior year.
351 Laboratory Research. (1-4)
Laboratory research done under the supervision of a faculty advisor. Emphasis on planning, conducting, and evaluating laboratory research. Students review the literature, write a final paper and give an oral presentation at the end of their senior year. Fall or Spring, senior year.
398 Honors Senior Essay, Research or Creative Project. (4)
Required for graduation with "Distinction in Biochemistry." Prerequisite: HONR 396 and approval of the Biology or Chemistry department chair and Director of the Honors Thesis program. For further information see HONR 398.


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I enjoyed your baking article. Before I pass More on to a friend I felt compelled to write to you about coconut cakes. That was my birthday cake each year. But let me tell you how we made ours. Decades and decades ago I was raised in the south and we had cake, pie or cookies, along with biscuits, rolls or cornbread every day of our lives. Everything was completely made from scratch. To make a coconut cake... We went to the A&P grocery store and bought a coconut. Mother baked it in the over for awhile so that later we could easily remove the skin from the meat. After the coconut cooled, Mother drove a screwdriver into the "holes" with a hammer and poured out the milk. Then she handed the cocnut to my sister and me. We took it out on the driveway and chopped it open with an axe. After taking off the shell, we returned it to the kitchen, peeled the brown skin off, and grated the meat. The dough recipe is close to yours-- we call it a 1, 2, 3, 4 cake as the main ingredients were 1 c shortening, 2 c sugar, 3 c flour, and 4 eggs. Coconut milk, cow's milk, salt, baking powder and vanilla were added to the mix. But wait, I want to tell you about the hard part-- and what makes a coconut cake truly a coconut cake. Have you ever made 7 minute icing? Pllace 2 egg whites, unbeaten, 1 1/2 c granulated sugar, 5 T water and 1 1/2 t white Kato syrup in top of a double boiler over boiling water and beat for 7 minutes with an electric beater. Just as you think your wrists are going to break in half, the icing is perfect. Then you fan ice the cake and liberally sprinkle with shredded coconut, remembering to save some to press into the sides of the cake. Now, that's a coconut cake.
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As I sit in my not quite making it art gallery and pass the time reading, I found myself thankful for your Editor's letter today. I left a successful Human Resources career to study interior design and try my hand at marketing local artists. It has been a wonderful but also difficult journey. I may be headed back to the HR bench next month. I appreciate your willingness to encourage women to find a life that they love. That has been my goal even when it hasn't always had a good financial outcome.
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My name is Vanessa Morganstern and I subscribe to More magazine. I look forward to its arrival each month, and wanted to tell you what a fantastic job you and all of your staff are doing. The articles are current and topics interesting; the photography and layouts very eye-catching. I would like to ask, though, why Christy Turlington-Burns was featured on the cover, both in the April and June issues. Anne Heche could have been selected; she's a major star as well. To see the same model on the cover practically twice in a row is a bit boring. Also, would you consider doing a monthly horoscope column? I think many women would enjoy it. Astrologers Susan Miller or Hazel Dixon-Cooper would be perfect for the job, as they're quite witty. Thank you for hearing me out. Here's to many more years of More!
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I really appreciated your letter this month. I have been promoting your magazine to many women I encounter who are in a state of transition. In my view, "More" is offering an opportunity to delve into the possibility that there is "more" to life than what meets the eye. I could certainly dismiss the stories of high powered, wealthy women who have made changes. I look at those stories as a way for me to reflect, look inside myself and see if there is a way that I can tweek or make a small change in my everyday living. I really look forward to your magazine every month.
"Kudos!" to your Editor's Letter, "Reinvention Comes in All Shapes and Sizes," in the June 2011 issue of MORE magazine. As a long-time MORE reader, long before I hit 40, I was already seeking additional ways to satisfy the deep yearning in my soul for a bigger, richer life. I have tried and failed at businesses and all sorts of other larger-than-life reinvention success stories sometimes featured in MORE. I appreciated you sharing your tiny reinvention through gardening. Although it is not as earth-shattering as starting a hospital in Rwanda for sick children, it is just as soul-enriching and much more attainable for the majority of working-class women in midlife. I know as a full-time employee, wife, mother, and part-time author and artist, I struggle with not having enough time and realizing I have to let some things go either to the back burner of tomorrow or to the slush pile of maybe after I retire. In fact, I've been looking at ways to simplify my life, to shed the extra jobs and hobbies and responsibilities to gain more peace and relaxation and space to be who I am. If doing less in midlife brings more satisfaction, then that's fine by me. I don't need to save the world. I just need to save myself. Thanks for making it okay to have a tiny reinvention!
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For woman whom fear reinvention – I wonder if they are scared/fearful of what they want and how these changes will impact their current life or situation. I appreciate the stories regardless of their ending – divorce, quitting job and changing perspective on what and how we see things. On the other hand, Beauty Queens – give me a flipping break! Page 77 tells/shows everything you need to know about these beautiful ladies – no smiles, tension for crying out loud who needs it!!! It is okay to grow older and not aspire to be a beauty queen. Each and every one of you is beautiful…. Good grief!
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I just read your editors letter and want to commend you, not that you need it, you are clearly a strong capable women. I bought my first issue of the magazine last year, in anticipation of turning 40, the whole turning 40 thing really had my hair on fire! There was a story in it titled "Bunting". In hind sight I can tell you that was the greatest piece of information I got my hands on all year. I am a single mother of two teenagers and have raised them by myself with no financial help, a girl(19) and a boy(15), I am also a business women in a man's industry. Many, many times over the years I have had to remind myself to keep my head down and keep moving forward, that in the end perseverance and patience would payoff. That story in your magazine really brought that home for me. I have shared with several strong business women friends as well as several men friends, as a matter of fact I shared it with a football coach who passed it on to the entire team. The whole wanting more thing is dead on and so achievable. 40 is fine......
I received the June issue today & thought "oh great! Something to curl up with tonight after a long, hard & very stressful month." But to no avail, articles on beauty queens & Anne Heche could not keep my attention. PLEASE-with all the important issues happening in our country, we want "MORE" from a magazine than that.
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I had not read MORE for a year or two, but picked up a copy of the June 2011 issue and read it last night. Your editorial describes the many facets of personal reinvention, from the small (seedlings and cakes) to the grand (a documentary on maternal health). I wish that you had included the reinvention, required by circumstance and history, which is still underway for Lt. Colonel Milonas. Her continued fight to return to mental and emotional health, when contrasted with Ms. Burns' ability to leave home and children for her documentary, puts into sharp perspective the difference between necessary and voluntary reinvention. You must be aware that many women in this country are more like Lt. Col. Milonas than they are Ms. Burns: required to reinvent themselves because previous vocational skills are now obsolete, financial insecurity, or as direct or indirect victims of the effects of war. To do the topic of reinvention justice, at this time in our nation's history, both types should be acknowledged openly. Otherwise, your magazine of style and substance becomes one of style only.
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The Design program follows a generalized model, but each student's program is individualized based on placement testing, transfer credits, and individual progress as the student advances. The first year of the program is spent in Foundations. Then the student chooses to specialize in interior architecture or visual communication and motion design.
During the first year of study, all Art, Design, Film+Media students are in Foundations courses together. For the second through fourth year of study, students concentrate on their area of interest. Specialized professional practices courses bridging the gap between being a student and becoming a working professional, group study developed by students, and independent study focusing on a special project of the student's choice are available for those who meet the current criteria.
Course descriptions are updated at the beginning of each academic year and available for download. For this and previous years, please refer to the online archive of catalogs
All incoming students (Fall 2015) will need to purchase a laptop and software before the start of classes. Provided below is a list for you to make sure you have everything you will need.
In order to redeem the education discount you can either take your Cornish Student ID with you to an Apple store, or you can purchase directly through the Apple online store.
Our primary goal is to provide the educational foundation for graduates to continue in advanced degrees and to become leading design professionals and active citizens in our local and global communities. To achieve this goal, students engage in a variety of curricular experiences throughout the four-year programs culminating in the following learning outcomes.
Upon graduation, students will be able to:
Cornish views design as a collection of practices, and our students explore a full spectrum of skills and techniques. Here students will find the tools needed to express their own views and visions, as well as increase their digital literacy, learn about systems-thinking, define and solve problems, and question the social and cultural implications of design.
It's a great time to be a designer! Many kinds of design, once in silos, are converging, and graphic novelists now find themselves working with motion, illustrators make package design, UX designers partner with interior architects—the relationships are endless. But underneath, all these kinds of designers have something in common. They have been schooled in identifying and solving problems. They have honed their "conceptual thinking," that is, their ability to understand problems by identifying underlying patterns and connections, and they then solve problems with these fresh insights in mind. This approach leads to innovation in design rather than to repetition of known techniques and formulae. At Cornish, students develop into "360 degree" professionals with broad and transferrable skills.
I'm excited by Cornish's robust expansion. The renovation of many of our downtown campus buildings and the building of our new residence hall and campus center are metaphors for the changes happening in our curricula. In this, the 100th year of the College, we have not forgotten Nellie Cornish's original vision of a place where students can immerse themselves in innovative programs.
At Cornish, design is participatory, user experience-based and multi dimensional. We're in the midst of curricular changes that support our belief that the student needs to be at the center, and we'll be supplementing that experience with integrated Humanities and Sciences and Critical and Contextual studies. In our up-coming "reorg," research-led and theme-based projects will continue to give students an excellent design education, while an understanding of contexts, and experiences in the professional arena, will round out their ability to make clear decisions for themselves and others in a complex world.
Jeff Brice
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Design is moving faster than ever. As the connected world gets more complex, it demands designers who are able to work across platforms and technologies, seamlessly interweaving print, media, user-experiences and the markets they serve.
Cornish Design has always kept up with changes in technology and culture, but this year it has launched a curricular plan that goes beyond "responding to change" and gives our students the tools they need to lead innovation, rather than merely adapt to it.
Cornish Design offers a student-centered education, currently enrolling 133 students. Our department is small enough to work with every student personally, and we support each student's particular range of talents. First, students develop the time-honored foundational skills: drawing, 2D fundamentals, and 3D fabrication. Then, while using the most current in digital tools, they incorporate design history, semiotic and systems analysis, and design thinking into their skill-sets.
A solid design education is an exceptional long-term investment. The ways we facilitate problem-solving strategies in our students ensures that they are able to "pivot" and act quickly and intelligently in our evolving world.
Cornish designers never grow stale, because they are not trained in a single agenda or in one way of approaching problems. They learn design as a way of thinking that can be applied to all the different kinds of practice that are currently converging. The Cornish way of thinking about design underlies all aspects of our program's cross-concentrations, and is what makes our education unique.
Design students begin their study as freshmen in the combined Art, Design, Film + Media Foundation year, which gives them the basic skills they need to excel in Design's three concentrations. This first year—a year of project-based learning—hones the student's skills with work featuring topics ranging from designing for social change to imagining future worlds.
In the sophomore year, the student declares a concentration— either Design: Visual Communications and/or Motion, or Interior Architecture. That's when important building blocks get into place: digital skills, basic foundational thinking in the concentration's area of expertise, and the beginnings of critical and systems thinking.
Junior year is more independent, Students develop individual capabilities and take part in our program's exceptional internship opportunities. Juniors go deeper into what they find most valuable in design, tapping the resources that our department has to offer.
Finally, the senior year focuses on a culminating capstone project—the Degree Project—in which all of the student's skills in honing design process, systems thinking, creative planning, and hand and digital skills come together in an exhibition at the end of the year.
Through their four years as a part of Cornish Design, guided and mentored by a faculty made up of award-winning, practicing designers, students master the tools and skills needed to become working designers. Perhaps just as important, they learn to question the designer's role in the world and their own responsibility to that world and to their own talent and well-being.
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Should be fixed in trunk, branch, incubator (well how in the standard and extras) and git zf2.
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Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 1:16 pm
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I recently thought about something that has been true for years without my paying any attention to it: U. S. elections are held less than a week after Halloween and share several similarities beyond the time of year.
Halloween blends multiple cultural and religious threads. The name comes from All Hallows' Eve(ening). All Hallows refers to All Saints' Day, which is followed by All Souls Day (in Mexico, the two days of The Day of the Dead). There are centuries of pagan and Christian traditions from multiple countries, plus many accretions in the last couple centuries. It continues to evolve. Just in my lifetime, the threat side of "trick or treat" has waned considerably and trick-or-treating has also changed. We saw a couple hundred trick-or-treaters where I lived a couple decades ago, but saw zero this year. At least part of the decline in trick-or-treating came from many warnings a few years back about dangers to trick-or-treaters.
Modern Halloween could be said to be about children, masks, monsters, treats and tricks.
The current U. S. presidential campaign brings the same keywords to mind in a different way. This election has seen more than the usual degree of a candidate wearing masks: Right-Wing-extremist Romney (a monster) of the GOP primaries somehow morphed into Moderate Mitt for the general election, evidently believing that the electorate consists of children who will forget what he said months ago and believe whatever he says now. Since poll after poll shows he stands a chance of getting elected (unlike a recent poll showing that in Europe 90% of people prefer Obama to Romney), there must really be some pretty widespread Romnesia. I suspect the real Romney (if there is one under all the masks) is the one secretly recorded telling an audience of the richest 1% that he disregards 47% of the U. S. population.
Once one's mind connects Halloween and elections, all sorts of comparisons come to mind:
ALL politicians say they will treat you and their opponents will trick you.
Most politicians wear masks most of the time.
Many politicians are monsters under innocent masks.
I will leave more as an exercise for the reader.
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Hey, that's a remarkably valid comparison which gave me quite a few chuckles. Just this AM I read a journalist's assessment of the way his speeches have changed in the last week; he's trying for the "common" touch.
Brought back some memories too about the trick parts of Halloween. Remember the one wherein one stuck a tableknife under the clapboard, pulled it out and let it go? It would sound like somebody was using a jackhammer on the house. That's not possible anymore, so many houses have vinyl siding.
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Is there a politician in existence who DOESN'T wear a false mask? I know I've never seen one.
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I'm afraid I never heard of the jackhammer sound effect trick. What I heard about (never actually saw) growing up was TPing a house or yard.
I said most instead of all for political masks because I think there are a few rare honest public servants.
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Yes, I think there may be a few rare (VERY rare) honest public servants left out there. Problem is, the honest ones never make it high enough on the ladder to do as much good as they might have otherwise. Certainly I've seen NO honest presidential candidates in many, many years. I don't know if they really are growing more and more dishonest, or if I'm just getting better at discerning liars as I get older.
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The Boulder Racing #2 race was held Saturday out at Xilinx in Longmont Colorado, the home of many past racing events including state championships from years back. The course selected is one many may have been familiar with and one that slightly favored strength over skill but the lack of elevation really made it fast and even the most boring course can get challenging as the speeds increase like was at Xilinx. As a single speeder myself this was a dream course given the lack of climbing, this course really made the riders focus on energy conservation as you prepared to enter a corner and ride on through it will as little brakes as possible. Thanks to Mother Nature the course was also very dusty, at least for the fields racing near the end of the day.
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