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Defense Documents
David Irving, Hitler and Holocaust Denial: Electronic Edition, by Richard J. EvansTable of Contents
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(H) Manipulation of evidence (Wiedemann testimony, Hederich testimony) and suppression of reliable documentation (Goebbels diary, Supreme Party Court Report)
1. On the same page of Goebbels: Mastermind of the 'Third Reich', Irving then attempts to reinforce his thesis that Hitler was totally opposed to the pogrom (for which Irving claims he blamed Goebbels), and to argue that Hitler ordered Goebbels to stop the attacks on Jewish property as soon as he heard about them:
Philip Bouhler, head of the Führer's private chancellery, told one of Goebbels's senior officials that Hitler utterly condemned the pogrom and intended to dismiss Goebbels. Fritz Wiedemann, another of Hitler's adjutants, saw Goebbels spending much of that night of November 9-10 'telephoning...to halt the most violent excesses'.88
2.Irving had given a similar account in 1978, when he wrote: 'Goebbels, now in no doubt where Hitler's real favour lay, also spent the night on the telephone trying to extinguish the conflagration that his mischievous tongue had ignited.89
3. In his footnotes to Goebbels: Mastermind of the 'Third Reich', Irving states that the reference to Bouhler is based on 'Hederich interrogation', presumably a reference to the 'Interrogation of Hederich, Nuremberg, Apr 16, 1947', to which Irving had referred previously.90 Hederich was an old Nazi, first having joined the party in October 1922 (according to his own testimony), in which he also held a senior rank (Befehlsleiter). In 1934, he was made manager of the Parteiamtlichen Prüfungskommission zum Schutze des nationalsozialistischen Schrifttums. This meant that he had the power to declare books and other publications to be official party material. Hederich carried out this work in the party agency run by Hess (not Goebbels, as claimed by Irving). Hederich was first interrogated in Nuremberg by Robert Kempner, who was irritated by Hederich's reluctant and evasive answers.91
4. Examining Hederich's testimony of 16 April 1946, it is easy to see why. Hederich stated that
At that time, I took part in this meeting in Munich, at which Dr. Goebbels spoke, and I had the impression that all these events, which followed this, on 8th and 9th, that that was a provocation of Dr. Goebbels...for he had held a speech, and I had the impression, that it did not harmonise with what Hitler himself had said before, and I have been strengthened in this conviction by the investigation which Herr Schneider has carried out, a man who was well known to me personally. He was in the Supreme Party Court and through this investigation I came to the conviction that Dr. Goebbels and perhaps also Heydrich...must have borne the principal blame for these events and on the other hand, that emerged from the conversations at Buhle(r)'s, but substantial instances and above all it is also said to have been Hitler himself, condemned these things. It was said that Goebbels would be removed from office because of it.92
5. Hederich's testimony is highly unreliable. First, no other witness of the events on the evening of 9 November 1938 claimed that Hitler had made a speech before Goebbels. Hitler left the dinner in the Old town Hall without making a speech, breaking with his usual custom. Despite this obvious inconsistency, Irving has used this part of Hederich's testimony in another passage in Goebbels: Mastermind of the 'Third Reich', claiming that Hederich felt that Goebbels's speech 'conflicted with the tenor of Hitler's speech'.93 Secondly, there is no passage in the report of the Supreme Party Tribunal Report, signed by Schneider, which backs up Hederich's claims. There is also no mention in this document of a speech by Hitler.94
6. So Hederich falsely claimed that Goebbels's speech contradicted a previous speech made by Hitler, thus exonerating Hitler from any guilt for the pogrom. This conclusion seriously undermines Hederich's subsequent claims about the reaction in leading party circles against Goebbels. In any case, Hederich nowhere claims that Bouhler himself told him directly that Hitler 'utterly condemned the pogrom' and that he intended 'to dismiss Goebbels's. As is plain to see, Irving manipulates Hederich's testimony to reach this conclusion. All that Hederich said was that someone in discussions with Bouhler claimed that Hitler was supposed to have condemned the pogrom and that there was also speculation that Goebbels might be dismissed. A lot of this was just hearsay. Thus Irving uses a highly suspect source for his claims, and then manipulates it to say something which it does not.
7. Turning to Irving's claim about Fritz Wiedemann, it seems very peculiar indeed that Irving uses Wiedemann as a source at all, having dismissed his testimony in the 1991 edition of Hitlers War as untrustworthy.95 Evidently the only reason for Irving's use of this supposedly discredited source in Goebbels: Mastermind of the 'Third Reich' is because in this particular instance, it apparently suits his twisted interpretation. The source which Irving gives for his claims in Goebbels: Mastermind of the 'Third Reich' is 'Fritz Wiedemann, handwritten MS, Feb 1939 (Libr. of Congress, Wiedemann papers, box 604).'96
8. Irving has disclosed some documents which appear to originate from this collection. These documents are presented in his Discovery List in no particular order, and include letters to Wiedemann and some hand-written notes, as well as some typed notes. Irving evidently draws on one passage where the author (presumably Wiedemann) refers to the pogrom in November 1938: 'There is absolutely no doubt that this action slipped out of the hands of those who instigated it. It is reliably reported that Göbbels (sic) as well repeatedly telephoned from Munich during the night to stop the worst outrages.'97 Thus it is clear that Wiedemann did not see Goebbels make any phone calls on the night of 9-10 November 1938 at all, as Irving has claimed. He merely repeated what other people had told him. He also only said the Goebbels made a series of phone calls, and not, as Irving would have it, that Goebbels spent 'much of that night' making these phone calls.
9. In any case, Wiedemann's suggestions are incorrect. Goebbels was certainly not engaged in stopping excessive violence against Jews, as Irving well knows. What Goebbels was actually saying on the phone on the night in question is amply documented by other, reliable historical sources. The Supreme Party Tribunal report of 13 February 1939 states that when Goebbels was phoned at around 2 in the morning on 10 November 1938 with the news of the first death of a Jew in the pogrom,
According to the statement of the deputy Gauleiter of Munich-Upper Bavaria, Party Comrade Dr Goebbels answered to the effect that the man reporting it should not get upset because of one dead Jew; thousands of Jews would have to believe in it in the coming days. At this moment in time, most of the killings could have been prevented by a supplementary order. If this did not happen, the conclusion has to be drawn from this fact, as from the comment in itself, that the end result was either intended, or at least taken into account as possible and desirable. Then the individual perpetrator had put ...the correctly recognized, if unclearly expressed will of the leadership into effect.98
10. Thus Goebbels was explicitly intervening to stop any attempt to save Jewish lives. In his diary entry for the night of 9-10 November, moreover, he noted the excesses with obvious approval, as this Report has already shown. And yet, according to Irving, Goebbels had spent the previous few hours desperately telephoning all over Germany to get this kind of thing to stop!
11. Goebbels's only concern was to stop looting and prevent damage to German property, which is what he was referring to when he wrote in the same diary entry for an earlier point in the evening: 'I now issue a precise circular in which is set out what may be done and what not.'99 As the rest of the diary entry and the evidence of the Supreme Party Tribunal both conclusively demonstrate, he continued to encourage all the continuing attacks on Jewish persons and property and to greet news of their occurrence not with alarm, but with enthusiasm. Irving's use of Wiedemann's testimony is intended to give a different impression from this proven reality and to advance his deliberate distortion of the events of 9/10 November 1938.
88. Irving, Goebbels, p. 277.
89. Irving, War Path, p. 165.
90. Irving, Goebbels, p. 613, note 47; see ibid., p. 612, note 32.
91. BA Berlin, Film 44320,Vernehmung des Karl Hederich, 16.4.1947. See also ibid., interrogation of 23.10.1947; interrogation of 16.12.1947; interrogation of 26.2.1948;
92. 'Ich habe damals 1938 diese Versammiung in Muenchen mitgemacht, auf der Dr. Goebbels gesprochen hatte und ich hatte den Eindruck, dass diese ganzen Ereignisse, die sich an diese anschlossen, am 8. und 9., dass das eine Provokation von Dr. Goebbels war... denn er hatte eine Ansprache gehalten und ich hatte den Eindruck, dass sie nicht im Einklang mit dem stand, was vorher Hitler selbst gesagt hatte und ich bin in dieser Ueberzeugung bestaerkt worden durch die Untersuchung, die Herr Schneider gefuehrt hat, der mir persoenlich gut bekannt war. Der war im obersten Parteigericht und durch diese Untersuchung bin ich zu der Ueberzeugung gekommen, dass Dr. Goebbels und vielleicht auch Heydrich... wohl die Hauptschuld an diesen Ereignissen trugen und dass andererseits, das ergab sich aus den Besprechungen bei Buhle[r], doch wesentliche Stellen und vor allem soll es auch Hitler selbst gewesen sein, these Dinge verurteilt hat (sic). Man sprach davon, dass Goebbels dieserhalb seines Postens enthoben wuerde', BA Berlin, Film 44320, Vernehmung des Karl Hederich, 16.4.1947.
93. lrving, Goebbels, p. 274.
94. Der Oberste Parteirichter an Hermann Göring, 13.2.1939; in Der Prozess gegen die Hauptkriegsverbrecher vor dem Internationalen Militärgerichtshof, Vol. XXXII, ND 3063-PS.
95. 497Irving, Introduction to Hitlers War(1991), copy posted on the Focal Point website at http://www.fpp.co.uk/bookchapters/HWIntro.html.
96. Irving, Goebbels, p. 613, note 48.
97. 'Es ist gar kein Zweifel dass these Aktion denen, die sie angezettelt haben aus der Hand geglitten ist. Es wird zuverlässig berichtet, dass auch Göbbels (sic) während der Nacht selbst wiederholt von München aus angerufen hat um die stärksten Ausschreitungen zu stoppen.' -folder 51 (a).
98. Bericht des Oberseten Parteigerichts an den Minsterpräsidenten Generalfeldmarschall Göoring vom 13.3.1939, Der Prozess gegen die Hauptkriegsverbrecher, Vol. 32, pp. 20-9.
99. Ibid.
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I was both underwhelmed and impressed with the new versions of OS X for the Mac and iOS 8 for iPhone and iPad that were unveiled last week at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.
I know that sounds like a contradiction, but I was underwhelmed in a good way.
As expected, there were no new hardware announcements -- no smartwatch, no Apple TV set, no larger iPhone -- not even an update to the Mac. It was all about software, as well as synergy between Apple's computers and mobile devices. And it wasn't all just for us tech consumers. Much of what was introduced involved tools for the benefit of the thousands of Apple developers in the audience who will hopefully use them to create new killer apps for Apple products.
Let's face it, iPhones and iPads are basically rectangular boxes made of glass, plastic and metal that couldn't do anything if it weren't for the software that brings them to life. Even most Macs, which are elegantly designed, wouldn't be all that different from some high-end Windows machines if it weren't for OS X. Although I must admit that the new Mac Pro, which costs $9,600 fully configured, plus $999 more for Apple's Thunderbolt monitor, stands way apart from the crowd.
This fall, Apple will probably introduce a new iPhone and the tech press will fawn over it and report details on every curve and crevice, as if the shape, texture, color or location of every port on a phone were the most important things in the world. They're not. What's important is how people can use the device to enhance their lives. And that's what last week's announcements were all about.
Apple didn't just announce new versions of OS X and iOS 8, but also demonstrated how Macs, iPhones and iPads can work together in what the company calls "continuity."
The continuity feature enables people to start a project on a Mac, for example, and pick up where they left off on an iPad or an iPhone. Or it could be the other way around. You could start writing an email on your iPad and finish it from your Mac. Mac users can even make or receive iPhone calls from their computer. Apple also beefed up its iCloud Drive cloud storage service so that all the photos on your Mac or iOS device are uploaded to the "cloud" and synchronized to all your other Apple devices.
AirDrop, a feature that already lets you transfer files, photos and video from Mac to Mac or iOS to iOS device, will soon work between Macs and iOS, so it will possible to wirelessly transfer a file between a Mac and an iPhone or iPad.
It seems pretty clear that Apple wants its customers to own three devices -- a Mac, an iPad and an iPhone -- although a few years ago, the late Steve Jobs declared we had entered a "post-PC" era in which most consumers won't even need PCs (or Macs), but would instead use tablets. I never fully agreed with that prediction and am pleased to see that Apple is still supporting and upgrading its Macintosh PCs. Tablets have their place, but so do personal computers.
The skeptic in me thinks some of this integration between Apple devices is a bit silly considering that there are other easy ways to transfer data between devices running different operating systems.
They're not identical to AirDrop, but Dropbox, SugarSync, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive and other cloud-based storage services also move files between Macs and Windows, with support for different brands of tablets and smartphones. When I save a file on my Windows PC, it's automatically uploaded to SugarSync and then automatically downloaded to my Mac. I don't need software from Apple to keep all my machines in sync and I don't have to stay within the Apple ecosystem to seamlessly access all my data from all my devices. Google Drive not only stores and syncs files, but offers Web-based applications that are always in sync even when shared by multiple users.
On a given day, it's not uncommon for me to switch between my Android phone, my Apple iPad tablet, my Windows PC and my Apple MacBook Air without having to miss a beat or worry about data transfer. But I admit, I'm a bit of a techie and make my living keeping up with technology. Not everyone wants to take the time to figure out different ways of doing things and, for many folks, the Apple strategy will be appealing.
An iWorld, populated by Apple devices, is an easier place to live than the hodgepodge world of equipment from various manufacturers across various platforms. It may not be the least-expensive world or most innovative world to live in, but it's a relatively pleasant place, run by a company that's something of a benevolent dictator. The citizens of iWorld don't get a lot of choices when it comes to what services they get from those in charge, but they willingly pay their taxes in the form of higher-priced devices as they wait patiently for new and better gadgets.
With last week's announcements, Apple is making iWorld an even better place for those who live there, with the hope that more people will immigrate and few will emigrate. It's a happy world, but it's not for everyone.
Contact Larry Magid at email@example.com. Listen for his technology chats on KCBS-AM (740) weekdays at 3:50 p.m.


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SNOWMASS VILLAGE - The Snowmass Rodeo will conclude its most successful season ever Aug. 15 with a special event, "Tough Enough To Wear Pink," to honor breast cancer survivors and to raise funds for Susan G. Komen for the Cure of Aspen. Hundreds of "Tough Enough To Wear Pink" rodeos, and other extreme sports events, have been held throughout the country since 2004, raising millions of dollars to fight breast cancer. This is the third such event for the Snowmass Rodeo.
Last week's rodeo on Aug. 8 broke all previous attendance records with almost 1,800 spectators.
"The Snowmass Rodeo continues to grow in popularity and attendance summer after summer," said Diane Teague, executive director of Snowmass Western Heritage Association, which produces the rodeo. "Good weather on Wednesday nights certainly helps. But we also know from our survey of spectators that the rodeo is a must-see on their lists of vacation activities."
This week, for the final rodeo of the 10-event summer series, local breast cancer survivors and their friends and families are invited to attend at special prices. Survivors receive free rodeo tickets (usually $20) and free barbecue sandwich dinners (usually $9) provided by Hickory House. Friends and family members attending with survivors pay only $12 for the rodeo and $6 for the barbecue. As always, children 10 and under are admitted free.
Snowmass Rodeo will donate 10 percent of the night's ticket sales to Susan G. Komen of Aspen.
In addition to the rodeo events, Wednesday's rodeo will feature a freestyle reining performance by international reining champion, Aaron Ralston, of Silt. Ralston has garnered numerous awards and championship buckles including being selected to be part of the four-man reining team that represented the U.S. at the 2006 World Equestrian Games in Aachen, Germany, where the team won gold and Ralston won an individual bronze. Ralston has performed numerous times at the National Western Stock Show in Denver, placing first twice.
Rodeo staff, board members and volunteers along with competing cowboys and cowgirls will be wearing pink. Spectators are invited to wear pink as well to show their support.
In addition to the usual series' buckles that are presented to the top performer in each rodeo event over the course of the season, winners of tonight's events will also receive prizes.
"Pink isn't normally a color associated with rodeo sports," Teague said. "We're proud to join hundreds of other rodeos to show we are tough enough to wear pink, and support the fight against breast cancer."
"We're thrilled to have this support from Snowmass Rodeo, particularly as it comes right before our major fundraising event of the year, Ride for the Cure, scheduled for the following Saturday, Aug. 18," said Logan Hood, director of the Aspen Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
For information on the ride, call 970-920-0250 or go to www.komenaspen.org. For information on the Snowmass Rodeo and to purchase tickets, go to www.snowmassrodeo.org. Survivors and family and friends will need to get their tickets at the gate.


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- Jul 21:
- Comic-Con 2013: Has Comic-Con sold its soul to Hollywood?
- Jul 20:
- Comic-Con 2013: 'Hunger Games: Catching Fire' debuts trailer, talks kissing
- Comic-Con 2013: Jamie Foxx stands with Trayvon Martin's mom 'forever'
- Comic-Con 2013: Metallica goes intense in concert film
- Comic-Con 2013: Superman to return with Batman
- Comic-Con 2013: 'Once Upon a Time' -- Robert Carlyle and Colin O'Donoghue hint about what future holds
- Jul 19:
- Comic-Con 2013: Geek god Joss Whedon strikes back with 'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'
- Comic-Con 2013: 'Games of Thrones' Slays the Crowd with action-packed panel
- Comic-Con 2013: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost crack wise on Edgar Wright's 'The World's End' panel
- Comic-Con 2013: 'Walking Dead' headed for most extreme season yet?
- Jul 18:
- Comic-Con 2013: 'Ender's Game' stars answer gay rights questions
- Comic-Con 2013: Seen and heard around the convention halls
- Comic-Con 2013: On Matt Smith and buzz about the new Dr. Who
- Jul 17:
- Comic-Con: 5 survival tips
- Jul 16:
- For many celebs, San Diego's Comic-Con is an annual pilgrimage
- Comic-Con takes comics culture from geek to chic
Matt Smith! Robert Kirkman! Joss Whedon! Peter Jackson!
If the sound of those names sends a frisson of delight through your heart, if you know your "Battlestar Galactica" from your "Buffy," you can come out of the closet right now, my friend, for you are one of the few, the not-so-proud, the geek nation.
It also means you will truly appreciate my upcoming assignment, covering the epicenter of quirkiness known as Comic-Con 2013. As a job. Seriously. Don't tell my editors, but this trip has been on my dweeb bucket list for years. We're talking Disneyland for nerds, right?
For a few days every July, the San Diego Convention Center becomes engulfed in genre fan(atic)s from all over the world. More than 100,000 fan faithful are expected to attend. Trekkies and superheroes and zombies, oh my.
This may surprise those of you who know me by my first love, theater, and my day job, dramatic criticism. But a culture vulture does not live on Bard alone. With a job that requires spending so many nights out, plus a toddler at home, my down time often involves a remote control in one hand and some icy sauvignon blanc in the other.
Since Comic-Con badges are as hard to come by as winning lottery tickets and most fanboys book their hotels a year in advance, I know I am lucky to have a press pass to pave the way for my pilgrimage to Nerdstock.
Plus, this is a big news year for the Con, the 10th anniversary of the "Walking Dead" zombie apocalypse. We are about to bid adieu to my favorite regeneration of the Gallifreyan (see Matt Smith) so there might be breaking news on the Whovian front. There are also new fanboy blockbusters in the works such as Marvel's "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." TV show and the "Amazing Spider-Man" sequel. The truth is also out there about the "Thor" movie, the "Hunger Games" sequel and "Captain America 2." Oh, and did we mention the long-awaited "Godzilla" remake? OK, so it's not the latest dispatch from Syria, but in my multiverse, it's front page, above-the-fold news.
I'm also hoping to get a little quality dork time with the creators of "Game of Thrones," "Falling Skies" (yes, I know it sucks, but I enjoy it) and the eye-candy cast of "Supernatural."
Mostly I'm dying of curiosity about the culture of the convention. For us newbies, there's a lot of mystery to the proceedings. For example, if you don't like to "cosplay" (costume meets play) are you a hopeless outsider? How many true believers fear the convention has sold out to Hollywood?
And why do they call the convention center the Hall of Doom?
Alas, it's probably because you have to start standing in line for the hot panels in Ballroom 20, like "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," very, very early and even then you might not make it in. This is because they don't clear the room after each panel. Anybody seated gets to stay, so truly insane fans get there at sunrise so they can nab a seat and squat all day. Bathroom passes are available, otherwise you are pretty much in a "Waiting for Godot" situation, but without the bowlers.
However, for the truly epic panels such as "Game of Thrones" and "The Walking Dead," even more sacrifice is required. For the panels in Hall H, the Mount Everest of venues, snagging a seat means setting up camp the night before -- and pitching a tent in an Orion slave girl outfit isn't easy. Celebs may visit the devout in the wee hours, but it's still a survival-of-the-fittest type of deal.
So why do fans put up with such an obstacle course? Because there is nothing like Comic-Con anywhere else in the world. No self-respecting gore hound can resist AMC's interactive zombie gauntlet. What hard-core Scooby could beg off a chance to attend a "Buffy" panel 10 years after the show wrapped? Let's not even get into how devoted the folks attending the 20th anniversary "X-Files" panel must be (now that's loyalty). And just how do you choose between a Whedonverse panel and a "Walking Dead" panel without having your head explode?
Either way, here's hoping I come out of this with a passing familiarity of Klingon. I'm also a little intrigued by the secret Metallica concert (only those in the know are invited) and the chance to sail a Viking ship.
As it happens, the party circuit is a huge part of the Comic-Con experience from red carpet stalking to killer apps. The Dark Con fete, a horror fan's dream, promises nibbles such as Intestines on a Bun and Shattered Glass Cupcakes in its all-the-humans-you-can-eat buffet.
Such gems may help me cope with the heart-sinking realization that I am flying out before the "Supernatural" panel, so no Winchester boys for me. I also have to skip out on the "Doctor Who" and "Breaking Bad" panels. Where's a Tardis when you really need to dabble in time travel, eh?
If you'd like to experience the insanity of it all, I invite you to follow my running commentary from the capital of cons starting July 17 (preview night!). Beam me up -- already!
Contact Karen D'Souza at 408-271-3772. Read her at www.mercurynews.com/karen-dsouza, follow her at Twitter.com/KarenDSouza4 and like her at Facebook.com/Dsouzatheaterpage.
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About the Book
Jesus Wars reveals how official, orthodox teaching about Jesus was the product of political maneuvers by a handful of key characters in the fifth century. Jenkins argues that were it not for these controversies, the papacy as we know it would never have come into existence and that today's church could be teaching some-thing very different about Jesus. It is only an accident of history that one group of Roman emperors and militia-wielding bishops defeated another faction.
Christianity claims that Jesus was, somehow, both human and divine. But the Bible is anything but clear about Jesus's true identity. In fact, a wide range of opinions and beliefs about Jesus circulated in the church for four hundred years until allied factions of Roman royalty and church leaders burned cities and killed thousands of people in an unprecedented effort to stamp out heresy.
Jenkins recounts the fascinating, violent story of the church's fifth-century battles over "right belief" that had a far greater impact on the future of Christianity and the world than the much-touted Council of Nicea convened by Constantine a century before.
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"Are you hungry for a rip-roaring tale of theological intrigue filled with conspiracies, Byzantine plots, murder, and mayhem? Or are you longing for a solid, informative, and accurate history of the development of Christian orthodoxy? If your answer is yes to both, Philip Jenkins's Jesus Wars...is your book." — Christianity Today
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Explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb.
The Axiom of Choice is a recurring topic in xkcd. It states the product of a collection of non-empty sets is non-empty, or more simply, given any collection of bins, each containing at least one object, it is possible to make a selection of exactly one object from each bin.
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Theory of General Relativity
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General Relativity is a classical field theory formulated by Albert Einstein in 1915 that describes gravity as the curvature of four-dimensional spacetime in the presence of matter or energy using Riemannian geometry. (TNG: "The Nth Degree")
The five types of resonances of the subquantum states associated with transitional relativity are, in alphabetical order, assymetrical, inverted, phased, stable and universal. (TNG: "The Mind's Eye")
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This theory unified gravity with acceleration. This is shown through an example of an elevator in space, if accelerating upward, the person occupying the elevator feels as if he is in a gravitational field.
The theory was proven in the year 1919 by a photo of a total solar eclipse. The picture showed light bending around the sun, showing gravity is a curvature of spacetime and not the pull force of Newtonian mechanics.


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Tuesday, May 3, 2011 3:30pm – 6:00pm Heritage Common
The Center for Rural Partnerships and the Social Science Department at PSU invite you to attend this presentation of engaged student research. In each of the projects, PSU students worked with off-campus organizations to shape and conduct the research. This event showcases the fruits of their labors.
Each time we're privileged to do this, we're impressed with the thoughtful and creative ways in which the students approach their work and support one another in executing project activities—maintaining a high level of scholarship throughout. This set of projects is particularly compelling, spanning a wide range of content areas while maintaining threads that pull them together into a cohesive whole.
- Maximizing Community Benefits from Large Infrastructure Projects presented by Katie Beairsto and Dean Williams
- Heritage Tourism in Crawford Notch presented by Rachelle Lyons and Nathan Pasquale
- Social Media, Education, and the Weeks Act Centennial presented by Nicole DeGrandpre and Kelly Rice
- Community Energy Planning presented by Thomas Evans
- Assessing and Communicating About University Engagement presented by James Boynton, Kaleb Hart, and Christopher Lauria
The showcase begins promptly at 3:30 pm, on Tuesday, May 3, 2011. Parking is available on the street at meters, in the public lot by the athletic center (with free shuttle service to the campus entrance nearest the venue), and by permit with advance arrangement. Please contact Melissa (firstname.lastname@example.com), Alice (firstname.lastname@example.com), or Thad (email@example.com) for parking permits and event-related information.
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For Mikaela Matthews, it's not really a matter of training for the World Championships freestyle moguls competition in Voss, Norway, this weekend.
She's already got that covered, seeing as she's been earning top honors in World Cup competitions around the globe this season.
What matters in the days leading up to the event is her sleep schedule.
"You don't have any time to adjust once you're there," she said, explaining that she takes off Friday for the Scandinavian country, arrives on Saturday and begins training on Sunday for the week's competition.
On Wednesday, she went to bed at 2 p.m. and slept until 10 p.m., with the goal of staying up through the night.
She and fellow local athlete, Dylan Walczyk, will both be competing for top honors at the World Championships.
Walczyk earned his spot on the U.S. Team by doing well as an alternate on the World Cup circuit. Matthews was already on the team, but she wasn't guaranteed a World Championships spot until she beat Hannah Kearney recently in the dual moguls event in Inawisharo, Japan, to take the silver medal. Kearney finished third and Eliza Outtrim finished fourth. Matthews finished 18th in the ladies moguls event.
With a maximum team size to divvy among athletes, the strong ladies' moguls team was awarded an extra spot for Voss, creating a team of four - and a spot for Matthews to go.
"We have eight girls on the team. It's pretty exciting to be in that top half. I hadn't been expecting to go, but I was hoping to go," Matthews said, adding that her lack of expectations may have been what led her to earn her way in. "I wasn't stressing about it or anything. I was just skiing my runs."
It's Matthews' first full year on the World Cup tour. Last year, she qualified for the second half with a top 10 finish in Deer Valley, Utah.
In Japan, Walczyk finished sixth in dual moguls and 18th in men's moguls. His consistency this season earned him the spot on the World Championships team.
Matthews hasn't competed in Norway before, but she also doesn't expect anything different from Finland or Sweden - both of which put on "good events."
"I saw a picture of the course on Facebook and it looks good," Matthews said. "It looks like they worked hard and it's a consistent course."
She plans to treat it as another World Cup event, even though there will be fewer skiers there.


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corporal 1
A low-ranking noncommissioned officer in the armed forces, in particular (in the US Army) an NCO ranking above private first class and below sergeant or (in the US Marine Corps) an NCO ranking above lance corporal and below sergeant.
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- The Americans - three corporals and one private first class - were from the 4th Ranger Company and had volunteered for a classified mission.
- Maybe he can sell it to generals, but not many privates, corporals and second lieutenants.
- He then would assign to his men the ranks of sergeant, corporal, private and so on.
Mid 16th century: from French, obsolete variant of caporal, from Italian caporale, probably based on Latin corpus, corpor- 'body (of troops)', with a change of spelling in Italian due to association with capo 'head'.
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corporal 2
Relating to the human body.
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- Many encumbrances that our bodies endure, including detrimental ones like viruses, have an unwelcome and deeply altering effect on our already flimsy corporal authority.
- Two skilled therapists subject me to an extreme form of corporal reward known as the Harmony Banyan Massage.
- This fact confirms directly the concept of higher responsiveness of brain regions to acupuncture of auricular versus corporal points.
corporally adverb
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- The researchers began by interviewing mothers of the 5-year-old twins to gauge whether children had been punished corporally, through spanking or slapping.
- Someone is going to get burned financially, legally, or worst of all corporally if they continue to operate under ignorant supposition.
- When they 'do not perform', they are corporally punished and sometimes denied meals.
Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin corporalis, from corpus, corpor- 'body'.
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Syllabification: cor·po·ral
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Middle English: from medieval Latin corporale (pallium) 'body (cloth)', from Latin corpus, corpor- 'body'.
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University of Evansville Alumni Gathering in Amman, Jordan
Event Date: Saturday, May 25, 2013
Time: 8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Alumni and friends are invited to a dinner reception welcoming UE's 23rd president Dr. Tomas Kazee and his wife Dr. Sharon Kazee. Please join them at Fekhreddine Restaurant in Jabal Amman. To reserve your places, please e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com with the names of the people attending and mention the Amman event.
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Early American wilderness photographers were snapping gorgeous vignettes of mountain peaks and sunrises before Instagram's "1977" filter was even a thing.
Oil and gas drilling can be a dirty business. Drilling projects operate on a 24-hour basis, disrupting wildlife, water sources, human health, recreation and other purposes for which public lands were set aside and held in trust for the American people.
According to last year's metrics, wind energy was the number one source of new energy in the U.S. in 2012, clocking in at a whopping 43 percent of total new energy generated.
Many of America's important public lands are simply "too wild to drill," which is why The Wilderness Society continues to fight against drilling in those places.
California's Carrizo Plain National Monument, designated by President Clinton in 2000, is the largest single native grassland remaining in western state.
Arches National Park, Dinosaur National Monument, Chaco Canyon... these are some of America's places that are just too wild to drill.
Today's youngsters spend a daily average of 7.5 hours in front of a computer or television, and less time outside than ever before, but thankfully there are those in Congress who want to see those number
Joshua Tree National Park is located in southeastern California and includes parts of two deserts: the higher Mojave Desert and the lower Colorado Desert. Previously a national monument, Joshua Tree was designated as a U.S.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently announced it will take a second look at the effects of toxic air pollution caused by 34 oil and natural gas drilling projects across western Colorado.
This pattern is pushing drill rigs right to the edge of our communities and national parks, while leaving wildlands protection in the wake.
Chronic under-funding has left our nation's trail system in poor shape. Support a bill that would change that.


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- Daphne Webb case: Massive search planned for Saturday for missing Oakland toddler
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- Daphne Webb case: Family questions father's account of toddler's disappearance
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- Search for missing toddler focuses again on Oakland shoreline park
- Oakland police search father's home, shoreline park after reported abduction of 21-month-old girl
OAKLAND -- As anxious family and friends of toddler Daphne Webb stood by at Oakland's Merritt College on Saturday morning, a team of about 45 investigators with search dogs spent about five hours scouring new areas in an effort to find the missing 22-month-old.
They turned up nothing.
"We are done with this area for now," said Oakland police Sgt. Mike Gantt, the department's lead investigator on the case. "We do have one more location we are going to search in the future."
A helicopter flew over that "area of interest" west of the Merritt College late Saturday taking photos, said Oakland police officer and spokeswoman Johnna Watson.
Daphne has been missing since July 10, when her father said someone snatched her from his car when he went into a convenience store and left her with his mother, who has dementia.
Daphne's maternal grandfather, Kevin Davis, 53, of Oakland, joined the dozen family members and friends who gathered at Merritt College awaiting any developments.
"I'm glad they didn't find Daphne out there in the field. It keeps our hopes up, and we continue to still be optimistic as we have been from day one," Davis said after the search concluded.
Searchers began at about 9:30 a.m., fanning out into East Bay Regional Park trails and open space. They searched a 3-mile radius of Merritt College and spread out to parkland and Joaquin Miller Park after new Oakland Police Department investigative information led them there.
Assisting the department in the case, the FBI used aerial photos in the past week to identify areas that had not yet been searched. In addition, searchers in vehicles covered areas from Skyline Boulevard to Piedmont, Watson said.
Gantt declined to specify why the focus was on those areas.
Shortly after noon, it appeared investigators may have found a lead when Watson told the assembled media they found something that "may potentially have evidentiary value." It turned out crews found two hidden shovels and a pickax left behind by some young mountain bikers who had been working on trails and thought they might get into trouble when searchers showed up.
Among the searchers were Peg Thompson, a volunteer and K-9 handler with the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office, and Kato, an 85-pound, 2-year-old black German shepherd.
"He's trained to find everything from teeth to newly dead bodies," Thompson said. "He won't find any live people, so today we are looking for things he's trained to search for."
The missing 22-month-old's father, John Webb, 49, was not among the family members at the site Saturday. Investigators have said they questioned Webb's story that someone took his daughter from his black Ford SUV on July 10 near 79th Avenue and International Boulevard.
Webb was arrested the next day on suspicion of felony child endangerment because the child was not in proper care in the SUV, but prosecutors declined to file charges, and he was released from jail the following day.
Webb had custody of Daphne because the child's mother, Kiana Davis-Webb, 31, is living in a drug rehabilitation home in Oakland. Police have not named her as a person of interest or suspect.
Davis-Webb's father on Saturday said his daughter, who is five months pregnant with a baby girl with John Webb, has been in contact with Webb during the past week.
"On one hand, she's trying to be a good wife," he said. "But at the same time, she's trying to be a wife to a person of interest in this case."
On Friday, the FBI raised the reward for information leading directly to the whereabouts of the missing girl to $20,000.
Previous searches have focused on parks and trails behind Webb's Greenridge Drive home, the waterfront along Martin Luther King Jr. shoreline, Joaquin Miller Park and East Oakland neighborhoods where Daphne was reported missing.
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The future of information technology will be based on controlling the flow of natural light. This project is an attempt to establish the code (or software) that will enable this to happen. It involves rewriting an OS from the ground up.


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State receives record number of charter school applications
Published: Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at 10:43 p.m.
March 1 marked the deadline for groups or individuals interested in starting a charter school to submit applications to the N.C. Department of Public Instruction, which received 70 applications.
It was the largest number of charter school applications in the state's history, according to the N.C. Public Charter Schools Association.
Locally, the Franklin School of Innovation submitted an application to the state. Organizers said in January that if approved, the new charter school for middle and high school students may be located along the Hendersonville Road corridor in Buncombe County, although a possible site in Henderson County had not been ruled out.
The greatest number of charter school applications came from Mecklenburg County — 19 proposed schools, or 27 percent of all applications.
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Make user-defined size screenshots of websites.
Paparazzi! is a small utility for Mac OS X that makes screenshots of webpages. This very simple tool takes screenshots of websites which do not fit on one screen. You specify the desired width, minimal height and the URL. The program displays a preview and you can save the screenshot to PNG, JPEG, TIFF, or PDF.
It's written in Objective-C using the Cocoa API and the WebKit framework... It was inspired by webkit2png which is a commandline tool written by Paul Hammond in pyObjC, so all intellectual credit for the basic functionality goes to him ;)
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Tags: capture , screengrab , screenshot , utility , web , image
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I like to download Creative Commons licensed images but I have noticed that some people will try to retroactively remove the license, so now I use Paparazzi as a way to prove it was released under CC in case there is ever a dispute.
Handy tool.
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Yeah, I've been looking for a way to turn of plugin sounds, but I haven't figured that out yet. :(
I told it to take a picture of a myspace page and it played the music. :)
Simple and incredibly useful!
This is an indispensable app for anyone working in the field of web design or IA. It's saved me hours. Support this app.
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You could always donate! ;)
I'd actually pay money for this app if it was shareware. i-n-d-i-s-p-e-n-s-a-b-l-e.
This is great! Let's you set minimum and maximum sizes (640×480, 800×600, 1024×768) so you can see what a site looks like on smaller screens. Very handy for any web developer.
great, but i now use screen grab - a firefox extension - more, becausee it renders pages using fire fox, and so isn't mac specific
This app isn't found when doing a search for its name. I found it by chance on the hot apps list.
That said, I found it now, use it and love it. Great little screenshot app!
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A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, July 21, 2012, at 10 a.m., at the Butte County Fairgrounds, in Gridley, for Geoffrey "Geoff" Kauffman, 59, of Gridley. Geoff passed away on Monday, July 16, 2012, at his residence in Gridley following a long illness.
He was born on December 10, 1952, in Chico California to Gene and Nedra Kauffman. He grew up in Yuba City, having attended local schools and graduating from Yuba City High School Class of 1971. He served in the US Air Force during the Vietnam war, stationed State side. Geoff was a long time resident of Gridley, he enjoyed hunting fishing and working on his lumber tree farm. He worked for many years for Sutter North Medical Foundation. Geoff was a member of Yuba City Friends of the Library and was a past board member of Middle Mountain Foundation.
Geoff is survived by his loving wife of 28 years, Lori Kauffman, of Gridley, two sons: Michael Kauffman, of Chico and David Kauffman, of Gridley; parents Gene and Nedra Kauffman, of Yuba City; one sister Cynthia Wunsch, of Madreas, Oregon; and one brother Mitchell Kauffman, of Hillsboro, Oregon.
Pastor Jim Anderson ,of Corner Stone of Evangical Free Church in Yuba City will officiate the service.
The family suggests contributions to Sutter Rehab Institute in Roseville, Sutter Hospice in Yuba City, or the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation.
Inurnment will be private.
Arrangements are entrusted to Gridley-Block Funeral Chapel.
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Coach Trent Laune joined the Greenville College coaching staff for the 2013 season and is its defensive coordinator. He will coach the defensive backs this season. He is coming off an impressive first year debut as the Panthers defensive coordinator. Laune helped coach the Panthers to a school best 9-1 record in the regular season and an NCCAA victory bowl appearance. Four Panther defensive players earned UMAC all-conference honors, and two Panther defensive players earned NCCAA mentions.
As the defensive coordinator and linebacker coach, Laune's defense held opponents to just 117 rush yards per game and limited offensive scoring to 23 points per game. The defense showed tremendous improvement from the year before when the Panther defense allowed 30 points per game. Defensive backs Bryce Wright and Anthony Moore were named to the UMAC all-conference squad. Moore was also a first team NCCAA selection. Linebacker Cody Lopez and defensive lineman Issac Barber were also all-UMAC selections. In addition, Laune coached linebacker Johnny Uperesa, who was named defensive MVP in the NCCAA Victory Bowl.
Coach Laune joined the Panthers from Concordia, an NAIA member in Nebraska. Laune held many titles at Concordia including linebacker coach, defensive line coach, and graduate assistant. In 2011, he was a part of a defensive coaching staff that limited opponents to 2.8 yard per carry. He also coached the top linebacker in the conference that same year. Coach Laune has coached 14 all-conference performers on the defensive side of the ball. He has also served as a clinic lecturer Nebraska high school football clinics.
Coach Laune has his bachelor's degree in business and an MBA in finance, both from Concordia. He and his wife Megan are heavily involved in international missions work. They have been married since 2009 and reside in Greenville.
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Four killed in Clarksburg shooting
Two were innocent bystanders
July 26, 2013
CLARKSBURG, W.Va....
I can hear em {THE NRA} now.... "If those two innocent bystanders had been armed they would still be alive." ----------------- But, one thing I have never heard the NRA say is IF TRAYVON MARTIN had been armed, he could have stood his ground against Zimmerman. You gun rights advocates should agree that all young BLACK MEN should be armed now, don't you????????
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typical ignorant liberal response
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Not all Manydemocrats, just the law abiding ones.
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Maybee if you would have been in zimermans shoes you may think different are you racist!
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I simply believe that all young black men should be armed to defend themselves equally against ALL the Racists out there, that are out to harm them........SIMPLE; WHATS GOOD FOR THE GOOSE, IS ALSO GOOD FOR THE GANDER.....
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Trayvon, being a "child" could not and anyone under 21 cannot legally carry a pistol thanks to Liberal lawmakers previous restrictive laws passed to "curb gun violence". Seems he was taking his GF's warning to heart and thought he would beat up a gay pedophile for following him. How did that work out? Being a homophobe with an attitude cost him dearly, Zimmerman. according to the FBI, wasn't a Racist, just concerned about the recent crime taking place in his neighborhood. Go to Chicago and find out how many "yutts" are illegally armed and report back if you make it out alive.
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GET REAL! What does a shooting in Clarksburg have to do with Trayvon Martin? Get over it and move on people. How many of our soldiers are killed in a week? No big deal, huh?
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We don't know for sure since the Main Street Media quit posting "daily deaths" when Obama was elected and it became the good war overnight. When was the last anti-war demonstration covered by the MSM? Code Pink, paging Code Pink.
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OK Random, we will have it your way... All Young BLACK Men {OVER 21} should have the right to be equally ARMED just like all you white folks.... I support this idea very strongly, since the end of the Zimmerman trial. If I was a young Black Man, {of any age} {legal or not}------- I too, would be adequately armed to defend myself against some of you that post on the PN&S...... And MUDWIFE, GUN VIOLENCE is the connection between Clarksburg and Travon Martin. Right or wrong the military death toll does have reason for happening.... The death toll in this country and on our streets from these armed NRA morons is another story....
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What is wrong with you people. Four human beings are dead in Clarksburg. I normally very quiet town. Born and raised there. How did this turn a Trayvon Martin crusade or a black man crusade. This has nothing to do with any of your racist, rediculous comments. All of you need to get a life. Pray for everyone involved in this tragedy.
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Gerber that is the point I was trying to make. This was nothing like the Martin case. Reportedly Drugs was the cause of this tragedy. The innocents had nothing to do with it. They were just there. I do pray for these families. They too were someone's loved one.
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PETERfitswell: Your PRAYERS are well received and heard. So is the message of peace...I guess this case in Clarksburg was "GUN-PEACEFULNESS" and not gun violence. Regardless, 4 people are dead and the American gun nuts cling to their violent behavior and beliefs. I sincerely hope that the next Trayvon is armed to the hilt to defend himself against the hate and violence.
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PeterFitzwell,well spoken!! Since everything you post is accurate, how can any truly non biased reader disagree?
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manydemocrats, go back to your moms basement and have another joint. Your mellow is harshing and your ignorace is showing.
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This part of Clarksburg was a good neighborhood until the slumlords moved in, just like parts of Parkersburg is now!
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Prayers for the family, stay away from drugs, and please quit using these 4 deaths to further your stupid political argument about Trayvon Martin. Many, you give democrats a bad name.
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These deaths only reaffirm my hope that drug dealers caught should be executed immediately. Prayers for the innocent bystanders!!
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Prayers to the families involved in this tragedy.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - When he meets with about a dozen business executives Wednesday at the White House, President Barack Obama will be looking for support for $1.6 trillion in new revenue, to avoid the "fiscal cliff" in January, the White House said.
A spokesman said Mr. Obama will bring a proposal to the table involving new taxes on business and the wealthy.
The targeted revenue is twice the amount Mr. Obama discussed with Republican leaders during debt talks last year.
Jay Carney says the figure, combined with $1.1 trillion in spending cuts already signed into law, would reduce deficits by $4 trillion.
The meeting with CEOs follows a gathering of labor leaders and liberal groups Tuesday.
Participants said Mr. Obama remained clear that he would push for his campaign pledge of making the wealthiest Americans pay more in taxes.
Failure to act would bring automatic spending cuts and higher taxes on all Americans.
According to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, middle-income families would pay an average of about $2,000 more next year.
Mr. Obama held a news conference immediately before the meeting with business leaders.


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Definition of cryobiology in English:
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The branch of biology which deals with the properties of organisms and tissues at low temperatures.
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- This site lists cryobiology topics that make excellent science fair ideas and do not require much equipment.
- Yearly, a scientific meeting is held, which focuses specifically on cryobiology and related topics.
- The physical principles of cryobiology are universal, which provides some coherence to the field, but the biosphere contains many surprises and twists, which adds endless fascination.
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- The sleeve maintains a consistently low temperature throughout the vertically disposed shelves of the cryobiological materials contained within the inner tank.
- The study of this tiny insect named Belgica antarctica provides an outreach program to students from elementary to high school but it also has important cryobiological and medical implications.
- Closed trucks or vans are not recommended for transporting cryobiological storage containers; ventilation is required to prevent nitrogen gas from accumulating.
cryobiologist noun
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- Previously, cryobiologists had focussed on the problems that occurred when ice formed in a solution.
- Conventional cryobiologists, the people who freeze sperm or the odd body part, are skeptical.
- Then go to Antarctica, where cryobiologists have been studying frogs and fish that survived freezing temperatures in order to learn how to use ice to preserve and even destroy life.
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Chevy Switches Tagline to 'Find New Roads'
It is official: Chevy no longer runs deep. Or at least it will stop running deep within a month or so.
Chevrolet, the bread-and-butter brand of General Motors Co., said today it will now organize its engineering, design and retail operations behind "a single vision and communications platform" called Find New Roads.
The new theme will begin appearing at the tail end of television commercials and in other advertising next month, a spokesman said.
If this sounds like a new tagline to replace the previous advertising battle cry of "Chevy Runs Deep," that's because it is. The old theme will be phased out as the new one takes over, the company said. Still, Chevrolet and other car makers often shun the term "tagline."
Indeed, for some a memorable marketing theme seems closer to religion. Think of BMW's decades-old chant of "Ultimate Driving Machine" or Ford's legendary "Built Ford Tough" line for its trucks.
Chevy said Find New Roads is "a new guiding principle" that reflects its history of innovation and customer service.
"Find New Roads embraces the spirit of ingenuity that has been in Chevrolet's DNA since the beginning and it will continue to guide every aspect of our business moving forward," said Mary Barra, GM's senior vice president of global product development. "We have sold Chevrolets around the world for almost a century, but this is the first time we have aligned behind one global vision."
The change marks perhaps the most obvious swing away from the residual influence of GM's former marketing boss Joel Ewanick, who left the company abruptly last year.


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9 Ways to Impress Your Man
"When I was in college, my mom hated my Ecuadorian boyfriend, warning me, 'Be careful with those extranjeros machistas!' What Mami did love was her cockatiel Coco, who tried to peck Diego (the 'macho' Ecuadorian) every time he went near the cage. Diego hated Coco, and probably my mom equally, and was waiting for an opportunity to get his revenge.
"One day, Diego and I were alone in my house and he decided it would be adventurous to have sex with me in my mother's bed or 'with her little virgencita,' as he sarcastically put it. The altar filled with huge saints in her bedroom gave me pause, but the excitement of being naughty in my parents' house led me to his arms and right into my mama's cama. I was lost in the moment when suddenly Diego started slapping his butt and shaking one leg. For a second, I was confused about his sudden freakiness, but I decided to just join in, saying, 'Oh yeah, baby, you're a dirty dog.' Diego's face changed from one of pleasure to discomfort, and he got up like a crazy man. He was jolting his hips back and forth, brushing his arms across his back, cursing up a storm, and when he turned around, I could see little Coco pecking away at his butt and flapping her wings! I tried to get up to help Diego, but I was laughing so hard that my legs got weak.
"I decided this must have been a punishment brought on by Mami's saints. Diego, on the other hand, was convinced that my mother had trained the bird to enter combat. Either way, Diego turned into the most well-mannered Eduadorian my mama ever saw. Soon, he became a santo in her eyes and in front of the bird. We didn't need a shotgun to set the men straight in my house!"
—Inaru Dorado, Puerto Rico
"When I was in college, after months of dating, I finally dared to share my hottest fantasy ... my boyfriend covering me in whipped cream. I was nervous about telling him, but so excited when he said yes! There was only one problem: Back in Colombia in the '90s—where I spent my school years—finding a canister of Cool Whip was almost impossible. You could get plenty of fresh whipping cream everywhere, but almost no cans of the precious processed product we needed.
"We finally found one ridiculously expensive can...We thought about skipping it, but we had come too far to be deterred, so we bought it immediately. We were so excited to get started on our sexual experiment that we did a carrerita from the bus stop to his front door. There we were: The colchoneta ready on the floor, clothes off, condom handy, can in hand. He covered my nipples, my ombligo and below in whipped cream, then slowly tasted it. We both loved it! Then he covered the rest of me and laid his body on top of mine. The cream quickly dissolved on our very hot skin, dripping down the sides of our bodies.
"After sex, we always liked to cuddle, and I fell asleep in his arms. When I woke up, my boyfriend had a weird expression on his face. He said, 'I didn't wanna wake you, but I can't get this sheet off me.' The bed linens had stuck to our skin! After an awkward peel off (nothing a quick shower couldn't fix), we were good to go. Si me preguntas: Was it worth it? Definitely. Just make sure you buy a good degreaser for the sheets!"
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Belpre weighs in on possible health department mergers
February 9, 2013
BELPRE — The Belpre Board of Health is willing to listen to proposals about joining with the Marietta and Washington County health departments, but members are in no hurry to consolidate....
Consolidation would actually result in smaller government, with more front line workers actually SERVING the public. Big Government = 3 Administrators, 3 health commissioners, 3 nursing directors, 3 environmental health directors ALL serving ONE county. Can you please explain to me how consolidating all the top paying administrative positions makes government bigger? We could hire at least 2 front line workers out in the rural communities for each of the top heavy administrative positions we could consolidate. Get some facts before you spew founding father nonsense. Our citizens deserve to get maximum services, they don't need multiple upper level bureaucracy, they need direct services. Ignorance and a lack of critical thinking are two of the greatest enemies of our time. The same willful ignorance that got us into two unfounded and unpaid for wars keeps rearing its ugly head amongst Republicans, keep it up boys, your families must be proud!
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Please remind us all who was leading the country during the era's where America experienced a surplus? 1980: Ronald Reagan runs for president, promising a balanced budget
1981 – 1989: With support from congressional Republicans, Reagan runs enormous deficits, adds $2 trillion to the debt.
1993: Bill Clinton passes economic plan that lowers deficit, gets zero votes from congressional Republicans.
1998: U.S. deficit disappears for the first time in three decades. Debt clock is unplugged.
2000: George W. Bush runs for president, promising to maintain a balanced budget. 2001: CBO shows the United States is on track to pay off the entirety of its national debt within a decade.
2001 – 2009: With support from congressional Republicans, Bush runs enormous deficits, adds nearly $5 trillion to the debt. 2002: Dick Cheney declares, "Deficits don't matter." Congressional Republicans agree, approving tax cuts, two wars, and Medicare expansion without even trying to pay for them.
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@ Tess:
You are a big government left leaning progressive democrat.
I am a very limited right leaning founding fathers believer. I would never get caught voting for a recent democrat, but I sure would have thrown a vote for JFK.
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@IC-I don't spew! Let's look at your post, "leaving the area" Kraton: Not hiring DuPont: Contract labor force-DuPonters all retired PubDebt: All transplanted here Middleton Doll: Gone Degussa: Changes names every year-No hires AMPO: Lefties/Obama killed it Chevron: Retired, moved to China Aerolite: Status Quo at best Hospitals: SJ-Closed, CCMH-?, MMH-entry level & mostly new transplants Hino: Laying off
Now tell me why in the HADES am I off my rocker with my substantiated argument? Lastly, tell me why you are a simple D#$% A@# with your flawed argument?
Lastly, her points are not valid or logical! Regional = bigger more ineffective government! Contracting works very well for Belpre, & we happen to like it very much. Leave us alone!
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For anyone wondering why young, educated people choose to leave this valley to live elsewhere...please read DA's comments.
Ms. Singer's points were valid and logical. DA was spewing traditional ignorant rhetoric that has kept our region in the shadows for generations.
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Devils Advocate, I can finally see in print why you and I butt heads so often. Like Ms.Singer, I'm not a native, and I've lived in more progressive thinking areas.
You said, "My folks & I were here long before you & your kind".
That kind of thinking is a problem in this area. As an outsider looking in like Ms. Singer, I can see where some in local "power" develop tunnel vision. The old "we've always done it that way" kind of thinking. Well guess what? Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result maintains chaos. That means change and you better get used to it. The good old boy system is about to change on a large scale because of natural die-off.
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Where to start? Just start now, from any perspective that pleases the good faith participants. For instance, consider the stated mission (from websites): "The mission of the Washington County Health Department is to assure a healthful environment, prevent disease, and prolong life and well being for the citizens of Washington County." "Marietta City Board of Health is a public agency supported by taxes and fees. The health department has its basis in Ohio law and serves the City of Marietta. The mission of the Health Department is to develop and maintain an efficient and effective system that will provide for the highest quality of public health services practicable, and to promote and protect the community's physical, mental, social and environmental well being."
Don't these missions seem a little too broad, inviting expansion of taxpayer costs beyond what cannot be accomplished effectively by any entity except government?
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We may not agree with everything Ms. Singer wrote; but don't we just wish we had the courage to sign our names here, as she did hers? If we aren't willing to step out in the open as she has, don't we at least owe her the respect of civil discourse -- devoid of insults about her home, her background, her degree, her (courageous, again) run for city office?
Officials at the county level have started this ball rolling by acting to restrain the budget and reappointments. Good. They have invited a creative discussion among the pros. It would be great if all three health entities would mount a good faith search for ways to cooperate and save the taxpayer a few dollars. If they find savings, that won't mean they have been doing a bad job up 'till now. It will just mean they stepped up to this most recent challenge.
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Lastly & please don't be offended... But why in the world am I supposed to trust you & your judgement. Your quote studies from all over, but you aren't from here. We are small time, & want to stay small. You arrived in the MOV w/ a law background, but tried politics, & settled for a health job. If this happens, what promise do we have in Belpre that you won't leave. Another state down, big gov't promises & system that works fine for us is now defunct with its main backer doing who knows what. My folks & I were here long before you & your kind, & I suspect we will be here long afterwards. We're skeptical in small SE Ohio when snake oil saleman show up & push something we don't want or need. Sorry....
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We are very happy with the services we buy from Athens & Marietta. Why can't you "regional" believers, & "big" gov't followers understand that the we buy a service from Marietta. They deliver it to us w/o fail. We get what we buy. We also do that with Athens, & they too deliver what we buy. We have no problems with either of them. That is not a problem, that is how it is supposed to work. Buy, then receive! If we regionalize, I believe you get all the money to fatten your paycheck, we fall in line with the entire county. We have inked paper contracts for service. We won't have that promise if we regionalize. We will only be told it isn't our day for the county folks to be in our neck of the woods.
I can sort of appreciate Ms. Singer's efforts to twist studies from all over to fit her agenda. It's her next paycheck & promotion. Take it back to wherever you used to call home. It isn't for us. Why fix it, it isn't broke. Smaller gov't, not larger gov'
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As additional evidence that Churchill ranked health below certain freedoms --
Nancy Astor to Churchill: "Sir, if you were my husband, I would give you poison." Churchill to Astor: "If I were your husband, I would take it."
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Ms Singer correctly quoted Churchill, "Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have". But do we think the great statesman would have actually chosen healthy citizens over freedom-defending citizens, or self-reliant citizens, or truth-seeking citizens? Do you think he could have ever imagined how far his country and ours would slide toward making the government responsible for the health of each citizen? Churchill also said, "There is no such thing as a good tax." Let's commend Ms. Singer and others who are urging the three health departments to creatively cooperate -- to take a new look at how they deliver appropriate services. But let's also urge them to reduce the burden on local taxpayers. These departments are funded by the taxpayer. Their boards and officials owe the taxpayer their best efforts to keep costs down and deliver good quality. This will take time to achieve, so let's not waste time foot-dragging and fighting old battles.
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Google 10 essential services for public health and then ask the 3 different health departments serving one single county whether they are familiar with them and how they are meeting them. I would love to expand the dialogue on how we, as a region, plan to meet those standards and serve the citizens in our area in the most effective, efficient and economic way possible. I demanded nothing, I only asked that entities that SERVE the public if they would engage in forward-thinking dialogue to determine if it could be improved through the restructuring that ALL the experts are showing is the direction Public Health is moving. Keeping the doors open and providing minimum services is not enough and requesting a full dialogue to begin addressing what is coming should not be something that merits such rhetoric, grandstanding and turf wars. Our population is getting sicker and sicker, the sooner we start looking forward and joining forces instead of competing, the sooner we can bend that curve.
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If anyone is interested in what a regional health department can accomplish and how much broader the scope of services and outcomes could be, I would be happy to set up a meeting at our main office in Parkersburg. Change is hard, but this is important. As Winston Churchill noted- "Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have."
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See that's the problem- people that have absolutely no idea of what is possible; what standards other regions and states hold themselves to and disparage anyone who challenges the status quo. I have spent the last year researching National Public Health Standards from multiple sources and guidance from federal entities - the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB), the National Association of Local Boards of Health (NALBOH), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) the American Public Health Association (APHA) and they all confirm that cross-jurisdictional sharing with an emphasis on regionalization is the future of public health. It is more efficient, more effective and results in better health outcomes- as well as makes regional health departments more competitive for funding to begin addressing the disparate health outcomes. Where did you do your research? I also have the broad perspective of having lived in 5 states and having travelled globally- I know what is possible.
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Way to go Belpre! A truly smalll community in the county that gets crap from the county. You "contract" with neighboring municipals for guaranteed services. That is a principal others need to adopt. The other community beg the county, & sometimes the county shows up, sometimes they don't for needed services. Folks, if you buy it, it is yours. Again, WTG Belpre!!!
Now, why is a Marietta resident working in Parkersburg who has only been in the valley for a mere few years demanding a plan that has been reviewed over the ages to be instituted? Wrong answer lady! Listen to folks that have been dealing with this over the years.... Our gov't doesn't care about SE OH. Columbus doesn't care about SE OH. And I bet if given the ability, the county would begin ignoring deeper/smaller SE OH towns/villages
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Bakeries choose local wheat to make their artisan bread
Sense of community is baked into every loaf, pretzel, pizza and pastry
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As an artisan baker, Matthew Hickman refuses to compromise on the ingredients he uses or the age-old methods he employs.
'Brezels' help put Underground Baking on map
Underground Baking Co. in Hendersonville received some big-time exposure recently when it was invited by organizers of the sixth annual Asheville Winter Warmer Beer Festival to serve as a vendor at the event.
On Jan. 26, about 1,800 craft-beer fans, brewing representatives and media packed the upper arena level of the Asheville Civic Center, where Underground brought 11 flavors of its Bavarian-style soft pretzels, or "brezels."
Fans of Southern Appalachian Brewery, just around the corner from Underground in the Seventh Avenue District, have been enjoying the brezels with their beer on a daily basis since SAB opened nearly two years ago and formed an instant partnership with Underground.
Winter Warmer, however, opened up a whole new door for the local bakery and — with SAB serving its beers right across the aisle — provided a shout-out for Hendersonville and its own culinary artisans.
"We had a really good response," Underground co-owner Matthew Hickman said. "I can't tell you how many people came up and said they didn't know where we were (located) — they thought we were a new bakery in Asheville."
Among the variety of brezels — made with 100 percent organic wheat flour — were fresh jalapeno, Lusty Monk Mustard and onion and the always-popular spinach artichoke. But the "runaway hit," Hickman said, was the macaroni and cheese, a flavor he had never made before.
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"We make bread, literally, the way it was made 100 years ago," said Hickman, co-owner of Underground Baking Co. on Seventh Avenue in Hendersonville.
Hickman is among a handful of bakers in Western North Carolina devoted to using organic, regionally grown grains because, they say, it is a healthier option for their customers, supports a local economic cycle and represents a natural component of their craft.
"I think the artisan bread industry lends itself to using organic flour," said Dave Workman, owner of Flat Rock Village Bakery. "I think if you're an artisan baker, in general, you've got a more small-scale, healthy approach to it all that you would just choose to use organic flour, because we're spending a lot more time and energy on each individual loaf of bread than any grocery-store bread you'll find. It's really the only option for me."
Longtime baker Debi Thomas, owner of Wildflour Bakery in Saluda, called using organic wheat a "personal commitment," adding, "We wouldn't serve anything we wouldn't serve our own family."
Thomas and Workman are two of the more active members of Carolina Ground, a cooperative of WNC bakers whose micro milling facility in Asheville was designed to link Carolina grain growers with Carolina bakers. Project Coordinator Jennifer Lapidus, a 14-year bakery owner in Tennessee and Madison County, said she began spearheading the initiative in 2008 when the price of conventional wheat jumped more than 100 percent, causing a "train wreck" for bakers of higher prices and compromised quality.
Led by the work of David Marshal with the USDA Agricultural Research Service, Lapidus said, a natural breeding program had begun earlier in the decade to develop regionally adapted wheat varieties in the Carolinas, with the first crop from those initial trials released in 2008.
After securing a grant from the N.C. Tobacco Trust Fund, Lapidus was hired to lead the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association's N.C. Organic Bread Flour Project, a North Carolina L3C low-profit limited liability company that laid the groundwork for the construction of the Carolina Ground mill. Wheat serves as a great rotation crop in the state's tobacco fields, Lapidus said.
North Carolina has become the largest supplier of pastry wheat in the Southeast, so the agricultural and production side of the project was in place.
With the program's first full bounty of locally milled Carolina grains available this year, Lapidus' biggest challenge now is getting local bakers to buy into the program — and Workman and Thomas, who ended a 30-year practice of buying her chemical-free wheat from Montana to support Carolina Ground, stepped up to the plate. "I'm a big fan of both of them," Lapidus said, "because they've given me real commitments to this.
It's not an easy thing to do to shift your buying practices to support the local farming community."
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Hickman is not a member of Carolina Ground, but he said most of his wheat comes from North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia, is shipped to a 100 percent organic North Carolina mill and then delivered weekly to Underground by a small distributor, thus supporting a local, micro-economic cycle.
It also ensures a betterquality product that Hickman insists on, he said, adding that supermodified, heavily sprayed conventional wheat has changed the crop for the worse during the past halfcentury. He thinks those changes have contributed to wheat allergies and bread-related digestive issues that have gained much attention in recent years. Hickman said the use of high-quality, all-organic wheat flour in his breads, pastries and Bavarianstyle soft pretzels — plus a traditional, slow (12-hour) fermentation of his breads that allows the natural enzymes in the wheat to break down hard-todigest proteins — results in a product that can be a healthy part of anyone's diet except those with severe gluten allergies.
"We're educating the public every single day," Hickman said. "I can't tell you how many times people will walk through that door and they have no idea what we do, and literally we explain to them our process, our breads, we have them sample our breads. It's really an ongoing process, and that's what a lot of consumers need right now. They want more information, and there's a lot of misinformation out there, especially when it comes to bread."
Workman agreed, saying his naturally leavened breads are much healthier than the store-bought variety with fresh, locally ground organic flour that retains essential nutrients.
Lapidus and local artisan bakers are hopeful that the soaring popularity of WNC tailgate markets in recent years is a clear sign of a "buy local" movement, in which consumers are becoming increasingly diligent in sourcing the food they put in their bodies, and that baked goods are as much a part of that as produce, honey and jellies, meat and dairy products.
Either way, Workman said he's committed to the core values that made him an artisan baker.
"As much care as I put into producing bread every day," he said, "any bakery like mine — like Matthew (Hickman's) — it's all about using the best ingredients and the best processes to deliver the best loaf of bread you can possibly make."
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I know Andy took a detailed list at the tourney, but this also might help
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Recent letters have complained about the "cost" of the Affordable Healthcare Act health care law. They seem never to consider the fact that we are already paying the medical costs of the uninsured. Several studies have found that an additional one thousand dollars is added to the premium of each private insurance policy.
This to help pay for treatment for the uninsured, usually in an ER the most expensive venue. Further the federal and state governments pay billions every year to reimburse hospitals, which can't by law refuse to treat the uninsured, for treatment provided. Even worse those uninsured with chronic conditions such as asthma, diabetes and heart disease are twice as likely to require hospital admissions. These are often due the person not having the funds to fill their prescriptions. Missouri has about 800,000 uninsured.
Two hundred and sixty thousand of them could have been covered under the expanded Medicaid program , but our legislature in a moment of insanity decided to refuse millions of federal dollars which would have paid the full cost of this expansion for three years. Those people would be able to substitute doctor visits for the ERs and would not have to decide between food for their families and medicines, thus reducing the number of hospitalizations. It would be a win, win situation healthier people and lower over all costs. There has been a lot complaining about the glitches in the web site for the ACA.
There were similar problems when the largest unfunded entitlement program in our history Pres. Bush's Rx program was rolled out. During the first month of the sign up for Romney care in Ma. only about 120 people were able to sign up but by the end of that period 40,000 had signed up, and now more than 90 % of the population has health insurance and overall costs are lower. We should be so lucky.
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To paraphrase Malcolm McLaren, learn to be a magnificent failure.ReplyDelete
Fortunately I had time to follow the links to Coates and Mamatas. I thought the isolated quotes were cryptic, maybe even misleading.ReplyDelete
Might Coates' main point be usefully rephrased, that understanding people is part of writing; that your emotional reactions can't be validated by their intensity; that you have to examine yourself for deep ideological prejudices; that all these are consequences to the inability (or lack of desire) to imagine another viewpoint.
Out of context, Mamatas' injunction that dramatic structure with hero and resolution isn't the real seems like another dreary insistence that the world is absurd and stuff just happens. In context, isn't really pleading for a deeper understanding of the distinctions between reality and realism in fiction and drama, implying a validity to non-realist modes of writing?


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In order to identify cold storage treatments that are efficacious against spotted wing drosophila (SWD) the project seeks to determine the most cold-tolerant stage of SWD, develop lethal exposure (LT) times necessary to produce 95, 99 and 99.9863% mortality of the most cold tolerant stage of SWD exposed to commercial cold storage conditions (0.5-2.2C and 90-95% RH), and determine rate of survival of SWD after SO2/CO2 fumigation and 21 day exposure to commercial cold storage conditions.
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All SWD life-stages in artificial diet will be treated at 0.5C for 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25 days following the guidelines for optimal cold storage of table grapes. Probit analysis will be used to calculate LT values and identify the most cold tolerant stage, which will be used to estimate LT values for 2.2C, using the methods described above. Large-scale confirmatory tests using grapes infested with the most cold tolerant SWD stage and held in standard commercial shipping boxes will be done at 0.5 and 2.2C using the optimal treatment times derived above. Grapes infested with SWD will be treated with SO2/CO2 at the levels and times currently used for export to Australia/New Zealand and then held at 0.5 and 2.2C for 7, 14, 21 and 28 days. In all tests, treatment temperatures will be recorded with data loggers.
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