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Inhabiting open coniferous and mixed coniferous-deciduous forests of western North America, Williamson's Sapsucker has been considered a sensitive indicator species because of its specific habitat requirements. Like other sapsuckers, it drills conspicuous rings of holes ("sap wells") into tree trunks, specializing on coniferous sap and phloem. Breeders switch to a diet of ants during the nestling period.
Unlike all other woodpeckers, Williamson's Sapsucker exhibits spectacular sexual differences in plumage. Males are black with bright red, yellow, and white. Females are mostly cryptic brown with little contrast except for their yellow bellies. These plumage differences confused early naturalists, who thought the two sexes were separate species.
John Cassin first described the species as Picus thyroideus in 1851 from two female specimens collected by John G. Bell in California (Cassin 1852). Cassin (1856) changed the genus provisionally to Melanerpes and first applied the common name Black-breasted Woodpecker. John Newberry (1857) collected a male in 1855 in southern Oregon and named it Williamson's Woodpecker (Picus williamsonii). Both "species" were renamed under the new genus Sphyrapicus by Baird (1857). Two other common names of thyroideus included Baird's (1857) Brown-headed Woodpecker and Cooper's (1870) Round-headed Woodpecker.
The confusion between sexes and species ended when Henry Henshaw verified in 1873 that the two were a single species as he observed a mated pair at a nest in Colorado (Henshaw 1874). The first ornithological compilation to treat both species as one was Coues (1874) using the common name "Black-breasted or Williamson's Woodpecker". The name sapsucker came into use after being applied to Sphyrapicus in the first checklist of American Ornithologists' Union (1886), which also standardized the common name Williamson's. The species was named after Lieutenant Robert Stockton Williamson (1824–1882), who conducted early railroad surveying expeditions in the West Coast states (Mearns and Mearns 1992), including the expedition upon which John Newberry collected the first male specimen.
Williamson's Sapsucker populations were stable overall from 1966-2009 but declined on Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) routes in Oregon (Sauer et al. 2011). In Canada, the species' status is Endangered because of small populations and habitat loss of mature western larch (Larix occidentalis) forests, a key habitat for the species (COSEWIC 2005).
Gyug, Les W., R. C. Dobbs, T. E. Martin and C. J. Conway. 2012. Williamson's Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus thyroideus), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/285


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Solaris running on Intel Atom D945GCLF mini ITX
By PotstickerGuru on Sep 19, 2008
Ever since Intel introduced their Little Valley and Little Valley 2 systems into the low-power, mini-ITX consumer space, they've been a hit. Both from the power savings standpoint, and from the price-performance view. During this summer, they introduced a new board, the Little Falls, or the D945GCLF, which has a new 1.6GHz hyperthreaded 64-bit processor, and Intel ICH7 chipset with GMA 950 integrated graphics. The cost of this board on popular retail web sites have ranged from $65 - $79 for this board - an awesome price. Solaris Community Edition does run on this board, and fairly well, although there were some quirks that need to be to overcome.
Booting into 64-bit
The Intel Atom processor is supposed to be a recent 64-bit hyperthreaded core, and this is true of this system. But up through Solaris Community Edition build 98 and OpenSolaris, we find that Solaris will default boot into 32-bit. A bug in the way the Solaris version of grub boots, mistakens the CPU ID for one that cannot support 64-bit, so it switches and boots into 32-bit by default. With the help of several Atom enthusiasts inside Sun and in the community reporting, a fix for this hopefully should arrive in the next few weeks as we roll out build 99 of Solaris Community Edition and it should show up on the next OpenSolaris 2008 later next quarter. For those who can't wait, a little digging into the kernel shows no potential issues running the 64-bit kernel and so we can force grub to boot the 64-bit kernel simply by editing the /boot/grub/menu.lst file and adding an entry at the top of the list like the following:
#---------- ADDED BY BOOTADM - DO NOT EDIT ---------- title Solaris Express Community Edition snv_96 X86 64-bit explicit findroot (rootfs0,0,a) kernel /platform/i86pc/kernel/amd64/unix module /platform/i86pc/amd64/boot_archive #---------------------END BOOTADM--------------------
If this is the first entry on the grub menu.lst then the default grub boot priority should boot 64-bit going forward. If you added this as the last entry, you may need to also modify the default near the top of the menu.lst to look like:
# default menu entry to boot default 3
Change the number '3' to the placement of your explicit 64-bit boot entry.
NIC Interface - Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102EL
A lot of Linux mail-lists and discussion groups have all had issues with the new version of Realtek NIC that Intel decided to use for this board. And a lot of folks have asked, if Intel makes it's own NICs, like the Intel Pro/1000, why they don't simply put one of their only NICs? Or include a default MAC on the southbridge and just hook up a compatible PHY. The short answer is cost. It's cheaper for makers, even like Intel, to buy a whole MAC/PHY chipset than to bring out a chipset MAC and pay separately for a compatible PHY. That was the case here.
The main problem a lot of folks in BSD, Linux and the Solaris communities ran into however, was that this wasn't your run of the mill Realtek rtls NIC that was rtl-8100/8139 compatible. Starting with the 8101E line, the chips started to use a PCI-express lane off the south bridge and they had MAC interfaces and registers that looked a lot more like the RGE or RTL-8169 (gigabit) series of NICs, only with a fast 10/100 PHY. And while the hardware PCI registers (either lspci or prtconf or /usr/X11/bin/scanpci) all indicate that this version of NIC was RTL8101E, the smbios Intel provides with this board shows that the NIC is actually an 8102EL - a slightly modified version of the 8101E. For all intents and purposes, the chips are the same, except for Hardware Checksum support. The old initialization support for hwcksum isn't the same register, and was either removed (because it's a slow NIC) or changed. I've made contact with Realtek and after explaining the issues, their engineer knew exactly what the problem was and forwarded me a couple of pages torn out of their datasheet. Some minor changes are going to be required and until we get the go-ahead that this is okay to open source, which should be soon, we can't quite export them to the community. However, a quick workaround for HW Checksum is easily done and gets the NIC working just fine, and that is to disable the Hardware checksum for the NIC. The easiest way to do that permanently is to edit the /etc/system file and put:
set ip:dohwcksum=0
then save and exit, and reboot the system. For most Solaris community edition post build 82 or later, I think, we should have the PCI ID already listed in /etc/driver_aliases. If you run prtconf -pv and or /usr/X11/bin/scanpci and the device ID for the NIC doesn't match anything in /etc/driver_aliases, then in the section for rge devices, add an entry for the vendor/device ID following the same format and then either run reboot -- -r or run update_drv rge then devfsadm. A reboot is still required if you haven't done so after editing /etc/system to turn off hardware IP checksum.
Getting the HD Audio Working
The ICH7 chipset supports Intel HD-Audio. However, the Solaris audiohd driver may try to attach but fail to initialize the codec, which looks like a Realtek ALC662. Fortunately, there's been a project underway lead by Garrett D'Amore and the Sun China Audio team to put a parser into an OpenSolaris audiohd driver that can discover and plumb the codec capabilities automatically. It's not perfect by any means, but for the vendors that hook in the codec correctly and publish the correct node-IDs and capabilities to the controller will mostly work, which is about 70+% of most motherboards today. Try downloading the latest August 25th version and try that. I've had good success without the need to go in and hack a hard coded codec into the controller like before. Thanks much Minskey, Garrett and China Audio team!
The rest just works as normal
What's kind of cool is that the rest just seems to work, like the Intel integrated graphics, the SATA and IDE ports, and the performance isn't bad. The old Little Valley boards were SiS Mirage graphics based and the chips had a quirk that really got "snowy" under the Xorg SiS driver. The solution was to use the VESA driver instead, but that limited usage of 4:3 monitors to a maximum, I think of 1600x1200 pixels. With lots of widescreen LCDs available today, that wasn't really preferrable. The new Intel GMA950 is sharp and bright with all the screen resolutions.
I could end this with a sharp criticism on the power consumption for the Little Falls. The 1.6 Ghz Atom has a TDP of only 4Watts. But the overall board with a cheap ICH7 desktop chipset (not mobile) makes to total system power draw at the wall closer to 26 Watts idle, 41Watts peak depending on the type and efficiency of the power supply used. My box has a DC-DC converter Pico PSU 120 with brick and I use a 2.5 inch SATA hard disk, 2GB DDR2 800 and slim DVD burner. With a 3.5 inch SATA drive and a full sized DVD optical drive (spinning) the peak power draw can hit 59Watts! Admittedly, Intel have said that this board was targeting cost more than power. Other vendors produce palm tops and embedded systems with far lower total power using more expensive mobile chipsets.
Still, the board is very economical and a decent power miser. The system is also fairly quiet, although the irony of this board is the northbridge/gma graphics has a fairly noticeable heatsink and fan, while the Atom cpu has just a half-height block heat sink. At first glance, folks may think the Atom has the h/s fan. I haven't run perf comparisons, but based on boot-up times and running some multimedia apps, this feels like a faster board and CPU. Whether that's because of the faster 1.6GHz clock compared to the previous Conroe-L 1.2 GHz Celeron 220 core or it's the hyperthreading allowing fewer hiccups while multi-tasking needs verification. At just $65 though, I couldn't help myself and bought 3 of them for tinkering around.
What will Intel come up with next? Looking forward to it.


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A complaint that Apple is charging too much for its music downloading service in the UK was referred to the European Commission.
Which, the UK consumer body, contacted the Office of Fair Trading in September asking it to investigate how music is licensed to online music companies in the single market. On Friday the OFT said it had now passed the complaint on to Brussels.
Which said Apple's iTunes downloading service charged UK customers 20 per cent more than its French and German customers, and barred customers in the UK from logging on to the French and German sites to get a cheaper deal.
UK music fans pay 79p per track, while for their European counterparts the price is 99 cents, equivalent to 68p.
'UK consumers are getting a raw deal from Apple. The online music market is a huge growth area; the Single Market should work the same in this market as in others," said Phil Evans, Which's principal policy adviser.
On Friday the OFT said: "The OFT has decided that the European Commission is better placed to consider this matter, in particular as Apple iTunes operates in more than three EC member states.
"In addition, the OFT considers that the European Commission is in a better position fully to address the issues raised by Which in the context of wider single market issues relating to how the online exploitation of music is licensed across Europe."
Apple, the pioneer and leader in global online music sales, did not comment on Friday but have argued in the past that pricing was based on the underlying economic model of each country.
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October 29, 2008
White House and DOE Present Awards for Federal Energy Savings
The White House honored energy management teams from four federal entities on October 23 with Presidential Awards for Leadership in Federal Energy Management, which honored the teams for their support, leadership, and work in promoting and improving energy use in their facilities. The teams included 44 federal employees and contractors that were collectively responsible for reducing the federal government's annual energy use by 3 trillion Btu—roughly equal to the annual energy use of 32,000 average U.S. households—for an annual cost savings of about $72 million. Teams from the Office of Public and Indian Housing at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S. Marine Corps' Air Station Miramar, the U.S. General Services Administration's Pacific Rim Region office, and the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration were chosen for the awards. See the DOE press release.
In addition, DOE honored 22 individuals, teams, and organizations with Federal Energy and Water Management Awards for saving $28 million at federal agencies in fiscal year 2007 through their efforts to save water and energy. The awards went to individuals, teams, and organizations at DOE's Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory in New Jersey; the Tennessee Valley Authority; the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Fort Meade Environmental Science Center in Maryland and Research Triangle Park Campus in North Carolina; the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' VA Medical Center in Huntington, West Virginia; the U.S. Department of Interior's Woods Hole Science Center in Massachusetts, San Andres National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico, and Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge in Ohio; the General Service Administration's Frederick Murphy Record Center in Massachusetts and Northeast and Caribbean Region office in New York; the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Kennedy Space Center in Florida; the U.S. Air Force's Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, Moody Air Force Base in Georgia, Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, and Charleston Air Force Base in South Carolina; the U.S. Army's Fort Hood in Texas; the U.S. Marine Corps' Air Station Miramar and Camp Pendleton in California; and the U.S. Navy's Ventura County Naval Base and Navy Region Southwest office in California, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, in Pennsylvania, and Naval Facilities Engineering Command in Washington, D.C. See the complete list of awardees on the Federal Energy Management Program Web site.
The Federal Energy and Water Management Award winners were selected from nominations submitted by 16 federal agencies for their efforts in the fields of water conservation, renewable energy, sustainable design and high performance buildings, vehicle fleet management, energy efficiency and energy program management, and exceptional service. DOE also presented 10 internal awards to DOE programs, teams, and individuals at the 2008 DOE Transformational Energy Action Management (TEAM) Award Ceremony. The TEAM Initiative, which began in August 2007, aims to reduce the energy intensity at DOE facilities nationwide by 30%. The 10 TEAM awardees have developed projects that, when fully implemented, will reduce DOE's energy intensity to 20% lower than its 2003 levels. See the DOE press release and the TEAM Initiative Web site.


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Smart Grid Panel Approves Six Standards for Catalog
For Immediate Release: July 26, 2011
Chad Boutin
Gaithersburg, Md. – The Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) has made the first six entries into its new Catalog of Standards, a technical document now available as a guide for all involved with Smart Grid-related technology.
The six standards, all of which had been approved previously by the SGIP's Governing Board, received approval by greater than 90 percent of the broader SGIP membership in voting earlier this month. The SGIP, a consensus-based group of more than 675 public and private organizations (with nearly 1,800 individual members), was created by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to coordinate the development of Smart Grid standards. While the SGIP does not develop or write these standards directly, a vote of approval signifies that its member organizations have agreed on the inclusion of a group of standards in the catalog.
"These entries in the Catalog of Standards constitute the first items in what will be a useful toolkit for anyone involved in the Smart Grid–whether they are utilities that generate and distribute power, companies developing new electronic devices, or consumers who buy and use them," says NIST's George Arnold, the National Coordinator for Smart Grid Interoperability. "While it will be of interest to regulators, it will primarily be important as a knowledge base for the entire grid community. It will eventually contain hundreds of consensus documents."
The six entries relate to high-priority national standards needed to create a modern, energy-efficient power grid with seamlessly interoperable components. In order to convert today's power grid–which still functions largely as it did when grids were created in the 19th century–into a power distribution network that can enable the wide use of electric vehicles, as well as incorporate renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, a number of new standards must be established. Among these are the catalog's first six entries, which include:
The six catalog entries cover five of the 19 Priority Action Plans, or PAPs, named by grid experts as those issues most necessary to address early for the Smart Grid to function properly. PAPs 0, 1, 2, 10 and 11–the latter of which covers both electric vehicle standards–are now addressed in the Catalog. Details on these and the other PAPs can be found here: http://collaborate.nist.gov/twiki-sggrid/bin/view/SmartGrid/PriorityActionPlans
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January, 13, 2009 (Lincolnshire, IL) – Camping World, the nation's largest and fastest growing RV and outdoor retailer has announced today it has relocated the Fairfield accessory store to a brand new state of the art facility in Vacaville, California. Officially named Camping World of Vacaville, the new location has been upgraded to a SuperCenter with an expanded product offering.
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Founded in 1966, Camping World is America's largest direct marketer and specialty retailer of recreational vehicles and outdoor camping accessories and services. The company grew from a single point location in Bowling Green, KY to operating successful nationwide Supercenters.
Over the last five years, Camping World has progressively expanded their products and services offering therefore providing consumers with a vast selection, convenience and value. Camping World now operates under the department store model as a one stop shopping destination providing services to enhance and protect the RV lifestyle including: Recreational Vehicle Sales; RV Rentals; RV Service & Collision; over 8,000 RV & outdoor accessories, Performance & Tow centers; Detail & Refurbishment centers known as RV Spa; President's Club customer loyalty program; Campground reservations & directories; RV Finance and Insurance; RV Tours & Travel and a nationally distributed magazine called RV View.
The dynamic Camping World retail network headquartered in Lincolnshire, Illinois, currently operates in 33 states and serves over 4 million RV enthusiasts.
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Now, To follow this rule one must first know the amount of calories consume per day. Calories consume per day is not same for all. It depends on various factors like what kind of work you do, what is your lifestyle, etc. For example, person who is doing more physical hard work will require more calories than person who is doing less physical hard work. Thus, we can conclude that calories consume per day is directly proportional to energy output from body.
Calorie Count and Weight Loss
In order to lose weight, total amount of calories that need to be burnt should always be more than the total amount that gets absorbed by an individual. For this, a person can make changes in his/her diet or can increase the physical activities. Moreover, a wise combination of both proves helpful to shed the excess weight. On common scale, to lose one pound, around 3,500 calories need to be burnt. By losing 500 calories on daily basis, a person can shed almost 3,500 calories in a week. On the other hand, a person whose calorie deficit is around 900 calories can lose 1 pound in just 4 days.
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BMR for Men:
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The Secrets of Perfect Sushi
Follow Adam Liaw on the road as he films a new food and travel show in Japan.
My favorite sushi restaurant, Otomezushi, is hidden in an alley in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Japan's west coast. Not only is the food exceptional, but for me, this little sushi restaurant embodies the essence of hospitality.
Advocates of Ishikawa's cuisine credit its superior sushi to its geography. Wedged between the Sea of Japan and the Japanese Alps, the prefecture enjoys high rainfall — perfect for the production of high-grade koshihikari rice – and benefits from pristine, flavorful alpine meltwaters. The ocean off Ishikawa's long coastline is also excellent for fishing, and this confluence of rice, water and seafood is ideal for good sushi.
If you want the full experience of the sushi master's craft, an omakase menu is the only choice. The term comes from the Japanese verb meaning "to entrust" and roughly translates to "it's up to you." In an omakase, the master chooses what to serve the diner, similar to a degustation menu except that each "course" may consist of just a single mouthful.
At many top establishments, this is a chance for the master to parade his talents before his diners as edible theater. But at restaurants like Otomezushi, it provides an opportunity for the master and diner to connect. This week, we had the luxury of filming it.
There is a tendency in the West to mythologize sushi, and in fairness, few disciplines of cuisine are as demanding. For one thing, it is generally accepted that it takes a decade just to learn the basics of a dish that can be described accurately, if inadequately, as a piece of fish on top of some rice.
But while there is undoubted skill in the delicate formation of nigiri sushi, the truest skill of a sushi master lies in learning to control time itself.
The idea of "freshness" of seafood when applied to sushi is, if you'll pardon the indulgence, a red herring. After a fish is killed, the passage of time changes its taste and texture, and those effects differ for each species of fish.
As a general rule, smaller animals are eaten sooner after being killed (squid and prawns no more than 12 hours), while larger ones are eaten longer after dispatch for optimal taste and texture (many sushi chefs consider tuna to be at its best around a week after the death of the animal).
A sushi chef must know which species of fish are available and in season, and have an opinion on the best time to eat each one. Add to that the skill of ensuring that each tiny mouthful of rice and piece of fish is at exactly the right temperature for an entire dinner service, plus timing the delivery of each piece to create fluid progression through the meal. And this is all even before addressing the hundreds of different techniques of cutting, rolling, molding and cooking that must also be mastered.
Being in the presence of such culinary skill and knowledge fills many diners with awe. Just think of the normally irreverent Anthony Bourdain on TV, suited, polished and sitting obediently to attention at the legendary Sukiyabashi Jiro.
The meals I have had at Jiro have been undeniably exceptional, but they have been completely different, and in many ways incomparable, to my experiences at Otomezushi.
Kazuhiko Tsurumi is the third master, or taisho, in Otomezushi's 50-year history, and he apprenticed directly under its first. The establishment is as much a dynasty as it is a restaurant.
Where some sushi restaurants will vary their omakase menus daily based on the taisho's whim and the seafood available at the market that morning, at Otomezushi that's only the beginning. Local weather conditions and even the vagaries of individual fishermen (known by name, of course) will influence what ingredients are on offer, and each omakase course will be unique to the person receiving it.
No longer is the diner a disciple passively receiving gifts passed down from on high. At Otomezushi, my interaction with the taisho directly impacts what I am being served. My praise for a particular piece of nigiri may inform his decision of what he chooses to follow it. A passing comment on the quality of today's freshly grated wasabi may lead to a touch more in the next piece. Even the choice of sake I order might affect what I eat, rather than vice versa. It is a meal that is being tailored for me alone, one mouthful at a time.
This ability for a chef or restaurant to connect personally with a diner is, in my opinion, the heart of hospitality.
Tsurumi-san says that he can't tell what kind of sushi a person will like at the moment they walk through the door, but after a few mouthfuls he will have an idea of both their food preferences, and what kind of person they are.
He laughs that short-tempered people tend to prefer firmer toppings such as ark shell. People who are generous are drawn to softer, sweeter ingredients like as sea urchin and kabayaki eel.
Every time I eat at Otomezushi, my experience changes. In part, that's due to how the winds and seas of the previous week have distributed the fishing boats off Ishikawa's coast. But it may also be because every time I walk through its doors, I am older, wiser and slightly different from the time before.
Around the Table is Adam Liaw's column for Scene on Asian food and culture.
Adam is a cook, author, television presenter and winner of MasterChef Australia 2010. He has lived, worked and eaten around the world, including Australia, Malaysia, China, India and most recently, spent seven years in Tokyo, Japan. He is perpetually hungry.


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An Incomplete History Of The Math Edublogosphere
June 18th, 2012 by Dan Meyer
I don't know much about history (" … and Nowak begat Townsley, father of Cornally … ") but here are a couple of observations from a few years of watching math edubloggers come and go.
There are a few crude but useful ways to categorize math edubloggers. Some stay. Others quit. Some blog regularly. Others blog sporadically. Some bloggers construct posts while they're teaching. Others construct posts after they've taught. The first two are fairly obvious, I suppose. The last one is the most interesting to me. You'll find bloggers who include photos, student work, and other classroom artifacts in their posts as a matter of routine. These bloggers were developing those blog posts — maybe consciously, maybe subconsciously — at the same time they were developing those lesson plans.
Speaking personally, I realized one day that without intending to I had developed a critical community around my blog, a group of people who were willing to save me from my own lousy classroom design choices. They got better at giving criticism and I got better at receiving it. I also got better at posting the kind of rich, multimedia artifacts of classroom practice — photos, videos, handouts, etc. — that facilitated that criticism. I started to plan lessons while wondering at the same time, "What about this is gonna be worth sharing?" Lesson planning and blogging became hopelessly and wonderfully tangled up.
There are generations of math education bloggers that stick together in fascinating ways. Perhaps it goes without saying that math edubloggers start by reading blogs, then commenting on blogs they read, then writing their own blogs. (Not unlike every other kind of blogger, I suppose.) It's interesting for me to lurk around, though, and see where the new bloggers are commenting. Totally anecdotally, new bloggers seem to interact primarily with a) bloggers who started blogging in their same generation and b) bloggers who started blogging in the previous generation. Confusing? Andrew Stadel and Fawn Nguyen both started blogging about math education at about the same time. They both provoke and encourage each other on their blogs. I also see them interact with Christopher Danielson who started blogging a little over a year earlier. Meanwhile, they comment less often on this blog because, I dunno, I'm some kind of old timer and they're ageist or something. Basically: new bloggers find community at their own level of experience and they find mentors one limb above them in the math education blogging family tree.
Those are my only observations that aren't completely obvious. It's a weird community that is always hungry for personality and wisdom, that occasionally collaborates and supports itself in spectacular ways that knock the wind out of me.
Your summer assignment: jump in.
2012 Jun 18. Matt Townsley has a Google survey which may help us construct a family tree. I added my details. Feel free to pitch in.
2012 Jun 19. And the results of that survey. What does it mean?
25 Responses to "An Incomplete History Of The Math Edublogosphere"
I think my summer assignment is reading all of the posts I've starred in Google Reader and on Twitter. If I'm really good, I'll write down my thoughts. Then again, there may not be enough time before classes start again for that to work out…
on 18 Jun 2012 at 4:31 pm2 Matt Townsley
Here's what I have so far:
Feedback on additional data points welcome.
on 18 Jun 2012 at 5:05 pm3 Aaron Carpenter
I first found dy/dan close to two years ago right before the start of a school year. I don't remember what particular Google search brought me to your door any more – probably something about assessment or homework. I tried to run a SBG for mastery grading system similar to http://blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=346, and it flopped. I got busy with school and largely forgot about actively checking the site – I'm sorry because I missed out on a lot of development by becoming an occasionally drop in and lurk kind of reader that would have pushed me to try to become a better teacher. Then I saw your TED talk and how far you had pushed the idea of multimedia hooks and even better you were still sharing it all and had become a celebrity of sorts – attracting followers and connecting me to other innovators and early adopters of the current education paradigm shift that seems to be occurring. So I started using google/reader to help me stay current – been actively lurking and very occasionally commenting for a couple months now. I even begrudgingly signed up for Twitter a couple weeks ago since it seemed like some of the 'behind-the-scenes' conversations were happening there. So now I'm up to over 150 blog subscriptions plus kind of checking twitter, and I find myself trying to spend a lot of my free time this summer to become more than a 'so-so' to 'decently average' teacher – I'm thinking about incorporating 3 act and/or flipped-classroom and/or SBG and so on next year, because I'm ten years into this education career and already starting to feel old when I see some of the great innovative things other people are doing. Best PD ever, am I right?
on 18 Jun 2012 at 5:07 pm4 Aaron Carpenter
oh yeah, and since I'm commenting, I should've totally mentioned this reminds me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s_number
on 18 Jun 2012 at 5:07 pm5 Annie
I do not fit in to your categories. I am a weirdo.
on 18 Jun 2012 at 5:19 pm6 Matt Townsley
@Aaron – Maybe we could coin a new one, the "Dan Meyer number" — the number of posts written by a math edublogger before linking to or mentioning this blog?
I started blogging to prevent burnout the way people exercise to avoid depression. It has been a game changer for me and for my teaching. I cannot say that I have the best blog, but it is a great way to reflect and share and observe. It then grew into a website to organize all my thoughts into one place and one curriculum.
on 18 Jun 2012 at 6:14 pm8 James Cleveland
That latter points makes sense, just in terms of how communities work. From a newbie's point of view, there already exists this community that may be hard to get into, at least on the same level. But there are other newbies, and it's easy to communicate with them. There's not already a shared history. For the vets, there's a bunch of newbies but it's not yet certain who will stay and who will quit. That always seems to be the way of it, not just in the blogosphere.
on 18 Jun 2012 at 6:23 pm9 Darren Kuropatwa
This prompted a trip down memory lane for me. There were very few math bloggers in 2005; at least that I knew about … and I was looking for them. ;-)
@Matt Townsley Would love to see the results as they come in. Is the Google SS embedded somewhere?
on 18 Jun 2012 at 6:25 pm10 Matt Townsley
@Darren Until you asked, I hadn't thought about making the results public along the way. Here's the link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Agwpam0AnwTsdEpZUXJfd1k4bEpHTDVRNTV2Zm42ZXc&single=true&gid=0&output=html
Found you through John Burk, who I found through frank Noschese who I found via an asu modeling email listserv, which I found via slapt.org.
Excellllent . (say like Monty burns).
on 18 Jun 2012 at 6:58 pm12 Darren Kuropatwa
@Matt Thanks for the link! Fascinating stuff. ;-)
on 18 Jun 2012 at 7:09 pm13 Timon Piccini
I wholeheartedly agree with the newbie comment. Seeing big shots, and being a newbie means there is a huge intimidation factor. I have typed many comments to people like Dan, Jason Buell, et al. only to delete it because I felt my commentary may be superfluous, naif, or incompetent. Meeting fellow newbies bridges the gap, and makes the whole interaction thing less intimidating.
I would love to do some research on gateway blogs. I definitely started blogging as a direct result of this site (same with twitter too). I wonder who else are these gateway blogs.
on 18 Jun 2012 at 7:46 pm14 Fawn Nguyen
For 6 years I alone was the math department at our one K-8 school district. Team meetings were kinda lonely; I got really tired of hearing Fawn talk. We have 1.2 more teachers teaching math now, but without common prep time, it's hard to collaborate. Then came blogging and Twitter (many thanks to Peter Price!), and I really feel surrounded by a genuine community of caring and passionate teachers. Teachers' blogs give me lots of ideas and inspiration; their tweets make me want to have a beer with them and beat them at Tetris.
It brings back good memories, thinking about when I first started blogging (which was when I first started teaching). I was leaving grad school to start teaching, and I had been reading your blog in preparation, and was so energized by the ideas. There were only a handful of bloggers back then (2006/7), and I remember individually checking each blog every day or two. (That was before I felt the need for Google Reader, because there were only a handful.) I still remember slaving over my entries for your "four slides" contest.
I was so inspired that I started my blog, but I kept it secret so only my sister could read it and comment on it. After enough time had passed (6 months), and I was sick of lurking and commenting, but never posting my own, I took the plunge and made my blog public. I don't know if everyone felt this way, but at the time I felt like the bloggers/commenters weren't a tight-knit community, even though there were only a handful. I also remember the types of schools, the student populations, and the locations we were all in were super different.
A couple years later there were more. And Kate busted on the scene and inspired more and more with her refreshing style and great ideas.
And then there were more, and more, and more. And twitter came along and changed EVERYTHING (for the better, in my opinion). However as the number of blogs increased, I found my interaction with blogs change significantly. In order to keep up with the blogosphere, I skim a zillion blogs. Instead of reading everything, I scan a post and ask myself two questions:
1. Is it useful for teaching something in a classroom If yes, then I read the post.
2. Is it musings about something concrete (e.g. SBG) that I can apply? If yes, then I read the post.
Out of, say, 30 posts, I will probably only read 3 or 4.
Also, with this explosion, I've found that I do everything in Google Reader. And I comment waaaaay less — because it takes effort to go to the blog, read the other comments, and then type in my own. I feel bad about it, because there are times when even saying "This idea rocks! Thank you!" doesn't happen. I just have too much on my virtual plate. And I don't always go to the blog I take an idea from and thank the person either. For me, blogs have become less the forum for conversation/criticism. (Exceptions exist, like this blog.) Now I see them as more individual, introspective spaces with little interaction. They have turned into places to share resources we've created or ideas for the classrooms that we've come up with.
Still, I feel a much stronger sense of community now than I did when I started. That's probably largely because there are more people that I interact with, but also because we have twitter, and have gotten to know each other as people and friends. The trials and tribulations that we might not blog about get bandied about, and we celebrate and commiserate and encourage and challenge each other in real time.
on 18 Jun 2012 at 9:13 pm16 David Wees
My first blog entry came in 2005, but I started a blog for purely personal reasons – to have a place to post pictures for my mom where she wouldn't have to log in to view them. I got to school at Southbank International School, and I almost immediately started a classroom blog for my students. I shared summaries and ideas via the blog, and my students shared summaries of what we had done during class.
It wasn't until 2008 that I started blogging for a personal educational purpose (as opposed to a classroom blog), and I can honestly say, I wasn't following other people's work at the time. I don't have any links in my work to anyone else's stuff for most of a year.
I wonder how many people started blogging on their own, without being part of a support network in advance. The survey was interesting, but it certainly seemed to suggest that any "family tree" we might construct would only start with one root system. Surely many of us started blogging before we knew there were other bloggers out there?
on 18 Jun 2012 at 10:00 pm17 Andrew Stadel
Fawn sent me a DM right after your post and I read it when there were only 2 comments. I've been out all night and this is the first chance to comment, and I'm the 17th (maybe later by the time I press submit). I'd like to keep this short, but doubt that will happen. For the record: I think this is a ruse to get me to comment on Dan's blog (I kid!).
First, I don't think there's a right or wrong way to approach blog communication, posting, and interaction. It's an art. Art shouldn't be contrived (Dan, I'm not implying that you think it's contrived). I truly believe blogging is an art form. I'm a complete novice at this stuff. Blogging is simply a way for me to practically journal my thoughts, emotions, or rational behind a lesson or significant moment in my teaching. I like to look back on them. Usually, my feelings are, "Oh yea, that was cool." or "What was I thinking? Did I really do that?" Either way, it helps document my craziness since I can't rely on my porous memory.
Dan, much love and respect my math brotha!
You're the main reason I am currently involved in this blissful math online PD. I'm sure I'm not the only one you've inspired. As you can see, my blog and other online artifacts demonstrate this admiration. I'm a huge advocate for what you've created, because I believe it's right, natural, effective, and what education so desperately needs.
Time allocation: I recently posted that my online PD and math community has consumed me in ways that I neglected other important components of my life, especially my family. My wife and son are at the top of my list, and when I realized they were no longer at the top and my online math PD interaction ousted them, it was time for a reset. Hence, why I'm posting 17th and not 3rd.
Dan, you've made many posts that I want to submit a comment. By the time I get around to commenting, there have been at least 3 people who share my point. I concur with post 14 or post 21 or post 3. Meh, I feel it a moot point. Dan's site has heavier traffic. He's a rock star. I'm not. I'm still writing songs in my garage. My immediate go-to's are Fawn Nguyen and Nathan Kraft. I've connected with them like no other. All three of us are still writing songs in our garages, jamming out ideas, dreaming of the big stage one day. We three are in the classroom living the dream (no slight to you Dan). You've done your grunt work in the classroom and we have benefited from your posts; past and present.
I've made it a goal to get my priorities back in order where my family gets me the most, my online math PD colleagues are next, and my students reap the benefits of the previous two being fulfilled. My head was spinning at the end of this school year. I wanted to post on the Coffee Traveler blog and even do my own calculations, but never got around to it. Being an 8th grade teacher at my school has its share of nonsensical extracurricular activities. Your Popcorn Picker had impeccable timing. I met with a 2nd grade teacher who was interested in teaming up with me for next year after my 3 Act presentation. She literally had the Popcorn Picker scenario in her 2nd grade textbook. I wanted to tell you, but got extremely busy. She was floored that a concrete media representation of it was available. I tip my hat again.
Anyway, I'm not one to be tied down to a certain protocol, especially with blogs. It's an art. I gravitate toward those that I connect with. My quantity of commenting or lack thereof does not necessarily equate with my level of interest. Dan, I look forward to your posts. I've commented on them, but not as much as I'd like.
You da man! I still think we should play a game of H-O-R-S-E if we ever meet.
A pint of beer is just as good. Cheers!
on 18 Jun 2012 at 10:08 pm18 John Berray
I came across Dan's brilliant TED talk, which then linked to his blog. I was hooked and couldn't believe what I had found. Here was a guy with passion, doing what I did for a living, and blogging about it! He spoke my language. I had never read any blog of any type before Dan's. Then I started reading his Faculty Lounge Links. Blown away. I wanted to be part of this culture of educators who undoubtedly were leaders in their schools.
I agree with Timon's claim that intimidation can creep in and kill the drive to put oneself out there. Influenced by Seth Godin's work, I jumped in. I'm no where near the type of blogger I want to be or can be. But I started. That's the beginning. Dan was was inspiration.
I'm going to say something else that I've felt in the edublogosphere, which may or may not resonate with others. I often wonder how well certain bloggers know each other. It can be tough to show up to the party alone. If Twitter is an indicator, it seems that there are seemingly impenetrable pockets of exclusivity that do not engage with the newbie, and then there are surprising pockets of inclusivity that invite the newbie into their circle with welcome arms and maybe even give a helpful boost. I favor that tight-knit community feel.
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on 18 Jun 2012 at 11:07 pm20 Timon Piccini (@MrPicc112)
@John Berray
I know how you feel about the impenetrableness, and I find that the social media realm is just the same as any other social context. You are going to mesh, and therefore infiltrate the community that you most identify with. We may start off with math education, but some of my Twitter interactions have been strengthened simply by un-mathy common interests.
I also personally have a self prescribed rule; if you interact with me, I will try to interact with you. I don't know if anyone else follows this standard, but I know that a lot of great people have interacted with me once I actually shared. I've spent many late nights bugging the heck out of jybuell for help with Science/SBG. I have e-mail fnoschese for advice on modelling. I've pestered Dan about who knows how many different topics, and they are all kind enough, willing enough, and overjoyed to see some teachers trying to make a worthwhile change in education, that they interact.
This tells me that, once again, like any other social circle, people will invest in you as much as you invest in them.
on 19 Jun 2012 at 7:08 am21 Joe Kremer
It's funny (but true!) to think of Dan as a rock star blogger!! I think as the online PD community expands it starts to take on elements that are similar to the music community. The visibility of a few individuals inspires the rest of us to push ourselves more, share more, be more creative. This is an amazing and productive system of mutual inspiration!
I'm pretty new to twitter/blogosphere but I have some experience with the music community and I'm fascinated by the similarities, both good and bad. As the community grows, so do some complex and potentially negative aspects like Andrew, John have brought up ("time allocation" for bloggers over family and friends, perceived "exclusivity" of twitter communities). I think it's wise to keep a vigilant eye on my motivation, since questions like "How many twitter followers do I have?!" are good indications that my priorities may be getting a lil wacky!
on 19 Jun 2012 at 10:47 am22 Bob Lochel
I am a newbie to the blog (my first post on my blog was in January), and I often wonder what teachers' motivations are for having a blog. For me, I have found that having the blog allows me to share ideas with colleagues in an efficient, and archived, manner. For example, a colleague recently wanted to know about some ideas I had for factoring, and I referred them to the blog, where a discussion had already taken place. As one who often facilitates professional development for math teachers, I understand that many teachers don't immediately latch onto the ideas they receive during inservice, but perhaps after a few months they have the opportunity to come back to an idea and are ready to utilize something learned a while back. The blog allows for this.
I had a pre-service teacher, a former student, observe my classes for a few days. At the end of the 3 days, he remarked that I seem to have a story for everything I teach; there is always some nugget or "what if" attached to what I teach. The young student wondered where all my stories cam from. It occurred to me that the stories, ideas, and hooks I have used are all culled from experience, and that by leaving that classroom to take a job in our district's curriculum office, those experiences risk being lost. Hopefully, the blog provides a chance to share what I know, and pull in new ideas from my new network of friends.
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on 19 Jun 2012 at 3:49 pm24 Greg Schwanbeck
@Matt Thanks for making the results public, now I have a huge list of new blogs to check out!
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/// Oscar Night Means a Torrent of Twittering. Trendrr Gets Ready to Tally It Up.
Things that will happen tonight: Lots of people will watch the Oscars*. Lots of people will tweet about the Oscars. And lots of people will spend a lot of time and energy tracking those tweets. Many of those folks work at Trendrr , one of several start-ups trying to make a go of the "social TV" boom. A dozen of the company's 20 employees will spend the day monitoring the broadcast, as well as the red carpet run-up to the show and the post-event recaps. But Trendrr did its heaviest lifting last week, when it had to figure out exactly how it was going to track Twitter's Oscar conversation. (Like its peers, Trendrr also keeps tabs on Facebook and other social outfits, but Twitter provides it with the most complete data stream.) Some of you will go out of your way to help Trendrr and its competitors, like Bluefin and Socialguide, by explicitly labeling your Oscar tweets via hashtags like "#oscars." But many of you may simply type something about "The Descendants" at some point during ABC's broadcast. And some of you may leave out the space between the two words, or the "The" altogether. How to account for all of that? A combination of art and science, says Trendrr CEO Mark Ghuneim. His team spent the week going through the list of award categories and nominees that will be televised, as well as any presenters expected to be on stage, etc. That yielded around 200 search terms that his computers will use to search the Twitter stream.
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The college football season is upon us. Media days are under way, and the smell of fall practice is starting to tickle the nostrils. What better way to get ready than a list? There are so many games to watch that I broke it down to 10. I know. I know. There are probably 20 that jump off the schedule to the naked eye. These 10 are by far my favorite right now. So grab a brew. If you don't know which one, check out the 2 Mugs Beer Draft. Now that you're sufficiently prepared, enjoy, and feel free to add to the list.
10. Wisconsin at Michigan State Oct. 27. I know that some of the main characters from last year's game have moved on. You know who hasn't? Montee Ball. For the second year in a row, the Badgers will be led by the Heisman contender as well as an ACC QB transfer. Exit Russell Wilson. Enter Danny O'Brien. If he has the same type of impact that Wilson had, Wisconsin will be tough as nails. Plus, is there any doubt that Camp Randall will be jumping in anticipation of payback? After last year's ending, I think not.
9. USC at Washington Oct. 13. Washington is a sneaky up and comer. If you don't know about Keith Price. Here's a quick primer: 67% comp, 3000+ yds, 33TD 11INT in his first year as a starter. The Husky faithful will be in full throat to welcome the PAC-12 favorite Trojans. Their motto is "unfinished business" and coming off that bowl ban, Barkley, Lee, Woods and Co. will be looking to not only win the conference, but also the national title. With the Sark/Kiffin dynamic, and the fact that USC rolled the Huskies in the Coliseum last year, this should be a fun one.
8. Michigan at Notre Dame Sept. 22. This was one of the best games of 2011 and the rematch shouldn't disappoint. All-everything Denard Robinson looks to leave his mark on Touchdown Jesus. Last time he was in South Bend, he was doing his best Snoop impression by letting the country know what his name was. He had over 500 yards of total offense… ALONE. Manti Te'o and the notoriously high turf will do their best to slow Shoelace down, but if the last few years are any indication this will be a shootout to the finish.
7. Florida State at Virginia Tech Nov 8. These teams have only met once in the last 3 years, and that's a damn shame. This matchup is well timed. Logan Thomas has a Heisman campaign that should be in full swing by this time of the season. He'll have to prove his worth in this game against a Seminole defense that finished in the top 5 last year. There are few places better to watch a game than Lane Stadium on a Thursday Night. There's sure to be an electric atmosphere both on the field and in the stands.
6. Alabama at Arkansas Sept 15. The SEC opener for both teams will be an interesting one. This used to be a meeting of two of the biggest chap-asses in college football. We still have Saban, but Petrino traded in the headset for some road rash. In his place will stand John L. Smith, more of a Les Miles wacky type of guy. His contract's for less than a year, but he's got a talented bunch of kids to roll with. Tyler Wilson back at the helm with Knile Davis back from injury. He'll need them both at their best to matchup with the best defense in the country.
5. Notre Dame at Oklahoma Oct. 27. Check the top 10 winningest programs of all time. Notre Dame checks in 3rd and the Sooners are in 8th place. Having these two teams meet in the middle of the season is a treat, and something we may not see too much of once the playoffs kick in. Landry Jones to Kenny Stills is a connection made for big-time games. Unfortunately for Brian Kelly, a return to this list means the Irish schedule is not an easy one to navigate. This is the end of a 5 week stretch that includes Michigan, Miami, and Stanford.
4. Oklahoma at West Virginia Nov. 17. Speaking of nasty schedules, the Sooners head to Morgantown for a late season tussle that should determine the Big12 title as these two teams were picked 1-2 in the media's preseason poll. I've already talked about the Sooners' offensive weapons. West Virginia has it's own combo: Geno Smith and Tavon Austin. Obviously, this isn't the Big East they're playing in anymore. But watch the film. Their talent is good enough to be effective anywhere in the country, especially in the offense that Dana Holgorsen runs. Smith is a darkhorse Heisman candidate and should be a top pick in the NFL Draft. Don't blink, you might miss something in this one!
3. Virginia Tech at Clemson Oct. 20. This matchup gets bonus points because of two coaches who are Sickness favorites, Frank Beamer and Dabo Swinney. Dabo seems like the type of coach that players have dreamed of playing for. Judging by their last few recruiting classes, that isn't far from the truth. These squads met twice last year. V-Tech was handled by the Tigers in the first matchup, and with the ACC Title on the line, Tahj Boyd and Sammy Watkins made sure there wasn't going to be a different outcome. Gotta believe that this one is already circled on the wall of Beamer's office.
2. Michigan at Alabama Sept 1. We clamor for big match-ups early in the season and the powers-that-be have given us just that. Tuscaloosa. Wolverines. Saban. Shoelace. Need I say more?
1. November 3rd, 2012. Cop-out? YES INDEED! Just check the TV listings. Oregon travels to South Central LA to take on the Trojans in what's going to be a prelude to a ridiculous Pac-12 Championship game. The Big12 newcomers, TCU and WVU meet in the back hills of Morgantown; Talk about a contrast in styles. TCU likes to beat you down with a fast physical defense, while the Mountaineers are cool just flat out running you off the field. And down in Baton Rouge, the rematch of the BCS National Title game will take place. As they said in The Program, "Kill em all and let the paramedics sort it out!" To separate this date would've been too hard to do and I saw no reason to.
You'll notice that none of the traditional rivalries are on this list. That's because we'll countdown the top 5 college football rivalries next. In the meantime, set the DVR cause we're about to have some fun this year. But then again you know this…. because you have the SICKNESS!! GET YOUR HELMET ON!!!


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Hormones are fundamental to regulating reproductive success and animal health and well-being. The ability to measure reproductive and stress hormone patterns can help determine reproductive status throughout life, physical fitness and physiological responses to change, ranging from the impact of human disturbance to the ability to adapt to a new environment (e.g., reintroduction from captivity into the wild). Most importantly, hormone data can be used to improve animal health and reproductive potential.
When rare animals fail to breed or thrive, clues generally can be found through hormonal assessments. In the past, monitoring hormones relied on blood sampling after physical restraint or anesthesia, procedures that can be stressful or dangerous for many wildlife species. Hormone byproducts can be measured in urine, feces, and saliva, and collected by animal handlers or field biologists that do not have to disturb the animal's natural routines.
These "noninvasive" approaches offer extraordinary new opportunities for biologists to understand the fundamental mechanisms associated with endocrine control of general health and reproductive success. Because data can be gleaned from voided urine or feces, reproductive and/or adrenal status can be assessed without the sampling procedures themselves causing stress.
In fact, excreted hormones can be superior to blood data because they represent average values pooled over time, rather than a single point-in time measure.
Among the many advantages, evaluating hormonal metabolites can allow biologists to determine
Exciting new research focuses on using these noninvasive methods to increase our fundamental knowledge about free-living wildlife. Hormone measures are providing important information on reproductive status, but it now is also possible to study the impact of human disturbance or environmental disrupters on animal well being (forestry practices, agriculture, pollutants, toxicants).
Eventually, these techniques may also be important for determining the effectiveness of pre-release conditioning and reintroduction on reproductive performance and animal well-being.
Our understanding of the reproductive physiology of most mammals is rudimentary at best, and detailed knowledge exists for fewer than 100 species. Much less is known about birds, reptiles and amphibians. Although we have begun to utilize zoo-based collections to augment our understanding of reproductive biology, especially through the power of non-invasive hormone monitoring, we have been too slow to extend these studies to free-ranging species.
The past 20 years have witnessed a revolution in the discipline of wildlife endocrinology. There is now the technological capacity to accumulate detailed reproductive databases for literally hundreds of unstudied mammalian and non-mammalian species. Together with non-invasive steroid monitoring, we now have the capability to conduct both basic and applied physiological-endocrine research that can be integrated with other disciplines, including genetics, behavior, nutrition, animal health, ecology and evolution.
The information derived from endocrine studies can satisfy our scientific curiosity, but integrating findings with those of other disciplines is key to defining life history requirements of individuals, populations, and species, as well as complex ecological relationships.
Our goal is to generate more holistic perspectives of how animals reproduce, and to develop an improved understanding of population dynamics, the impacts of human disturbance and the wisdom of undertaking animal translocations and reintroductions.
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The Bad Film Society screens 1943 science-fiction classic "Missile to the Moon" in Ashland.
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The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights will meet at the Palais Wilson in Geneva from 29 April to 17 May to examine measures taken by Japan, Iran, Jamaica, Azerbaijan, Togo, Rwanda and Denmark to comply with the standards of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The session will be opened on Monday, 29 April with an address from the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights or her representative. The Committee will then elect its Chairperson and Bureau, adopt its agenda and discuss organizational matters and its methods of work. In the afternoon meeting, the Committee will hear information from non-governmental organizations and national human rights institutions with respect to the reports that it will review during the session.Six of the seven countries presenting reports have been reviewed by the Committee before. Japan is presenting its third periodic report (E/C.12/JPN/3) and the Committee's concluding observations and recommendations on the second periodic report, reviewed in September 2001, can be found in (E/C.12/1/Add.67). Iran is presenting its second periodic report (E/C.12/IRN/2) and the Committee's concluding observations and recommendations on the initial report, reviewed in May 1993, can be found in (E/C.12/1993/7).Jamaica is presenting its combined third and fourth periodic report (E/C.12/JAM/3-4), and the Committee's concluding observations and recommendations on the second periodic report, which was reviewed in November 2001, can be found in (E/C.12/1/Add.75). The Committee is considering the third periodic report of Azerbaijan (E/C.12/AZE/3) and its concluding observations and recommendations on the second periodic report, which was considered in December 2004, can be found in (E/C.12/1/Add.104). Rwanda is presenting its combined second to fourth periodic report (E/C.12/RWA/2-4), and the Committee's concluding observations and recommendations on the initial report, which was reviewed in February 1989, can be found in (E/C.12/1989/5).Denmark is presenting its fifth periodic report (E/C12/DNK/5), and the Committee's concluding observations and recommendations on the fourth periodic report, which was considered in December2004, can be found in (E/C.12/1/Add.102).Togo is presenting its initial report.The main documents before the Committee in respect to these countries are accessible from the Committee's web page for the current session. At the end of the session, the concluding observations of the Committee on each State party will also be accessible on this site. The dialogues are also webcast (in one language) at http://www.treatybodywebcast.org/ where archives are also available. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural RightsThe General Assembly adopted and opened the Covenant for signature, ratification and accession in 1966. It entered into force on 3 January 1976.Article 1 of the Covenant states that the right to self-determination is universal, and calls upon States to promote the realization and respect of that right. Article 3 reaffirms the equal right of men and women to the enjoyment of all human rights and enjoins States to make that principle a reality. Articles 4 and 5 provides safeguards against the destruction or undue limitation of any human right or fundamental freedom, and against misinterpretation of any provision of the Covenant as a means of justifying infringement of a right or freedom or its restriction to a greater extent than provided in the Covenant. They also prevent States from limiting rights already enjoyed within their territories on the ground that such rights are not recognized, or recognized to a lesser extent, in the Covenant.Articles 6 to 15 recognize the right to work; to the enjoyment of just and favourable conditions of work; to form and join trade unions; to social security, including social insurance; to the widest possible protection and assistance for the family, mothers, children and younger persons; to an adequate standard of living; to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health; to an education and to take part in cultural life.The Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights is an international treaty establishing complaint and inquiry mechanisms for the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. It was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 2008, and opened for signature on 24 September 2009. As of 5 February, the Optional Protocol has 42 signatories and 10 Parties, having been ratified by Argentina, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mongolia, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and Uruguay. It will enter into force on 5 May 2013.States Parties to the CovenantThe Covenant has been ratified or acceded to by 160 States: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Germany, Georgia, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Timor-Leste, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United Republic of Tanzania, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Yemen, Zambia and Zimbabwe.Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural RightsThe Committee is composed of the following 18 Experts: Aslan Khuseinovich Abashidze (Russian Federation); Mohamed Ezzeldin Adel-Moneim (Egypt); Clement Atangana (Cameroon); Maria-Virginia Bras Gomes (Portugal); Jun Cong (China); Chandrashekhar Dasgupta (India); Zdzislaw Kedzia (Poland); Azzouz Kerdoun (Algeria); Mikel Mancisidor (Spain); Jaime Marchan Romero (Ecuador); Sergei Martynov (Belarus); Ariranga Govindasamy Pillay (Mauritius);Lydia Carmelita Ravenberg (Suriname); Renato Zerbini Ribeiro Leao (Brazil); Waleed Sadi (Jordan); Nikolaas Jan Schrijver (Netherlands); Heisoo Shin (Republic of Korea); and Alvaro Tirado Mejia (Colombia).
Programme of WorkMonday, 29 April 10 a.m. Opening of session3 p.m. Meeting with non-governmental organizations
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3 p.m. Initial report of TogoTuesday, 7 May10 a.m. Togo (continued) 3 p.m. Togo (continued) Wednesday, 8 May10 a.m. Second to fourth periodic report of Rwanda 3 p.m. Rwanda (continued)
Thursday, 9 MayOfficial United Nations HolidayFriday, 10 May10 a.m. Fifth periodic report of Denmark3 p.m. Denmark (continued) Friday, 17 May 10 a.m. (closed)p.m. Public closing of the session
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Geriatric sea otter takes it to the hoop at Oregon Zoo
By The Associated Press & KPLU
Nothing but net? No problem for one sporty sea otter at the Oregon Zoo.
Eddie the otter has been trained to dunk a basketball through a small plastic hoop. It's an exercise a veterinarian recommended for his arthritic elbows.
Eddie is 15, quite old for a sea otter. But as they put it at the Oregon Zoo, he's got game.
Eddie makes most of his shots. But when he misses, he hits the boards, grabs the rebound and goes up again until he scores.
Keeper Jenny DeGroot notes sea otters have incredible dexterity, so Eddie's hidden talent for hoops isn't that surprising.
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According to a report released by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) in September 2014, there are more than 9,000 untested rape kits at law enforcement agencies statewide, some dating back 30 years. Nearly 7,000 of the untested kits are in Memphis. The Bureau had previously estimated there to be a backlog of approximately 20,000 untested kits across the state. This report was the result of Senate Bill 1426, which required law enforcement agencies to conduct an inventory of the untested rape kits in their custody and report the number to TBI by July 1, 2014.
Additionally, in April 2015 Governor Bill Haslam signed legislation that creates protocol for the collection of sexual assault kits, the submission of some kits to the police and then the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation for forensic analysis.
In September 2015, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office announced the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation was awarded $976,420 in funding to test 1,400 rape kits. The City of Memphis Division of Police Services also received funding through the initiative, as well as funding from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance.
As we have seen from other states that have enacted similar legislation, such reforms allow us to move closer to ending the backlog. Take action today to advocate for transparency and change from our elected officials.
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Through The Accountability Project, we are using public records requests to bring the number of untested kits in the Tennessee Crime Lab to light.
In addition to what we know about the backlog in Memphis and Knoxville, there is also information about the backlog from other jurisdictions in the state.
Nashville, which had previously acknowledged a backlog of 338 kits, reported getting that number down to 200.
WBBJ 7 Eyewitness News reported in June 2014 that the Jackson Police Department had 426 rape kits in storage, some dating back to 1998. Of those 426 kits, the Department had tested just 177.
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Florida Georgia Line's Tyler Is Back Onstage After Motorbike Wreck
Opened for Jason Aldean in Michigan.
Tyler Hubbard of Florida Georgia Line was back onstage Thursday night (Feb. 20), four days after crashing his motorbike and hurting his back.
Tyler was attempting to do a jump on his bike Sunday (Feb. 16) when he crashed. He went to the hospital for treatment, and doctors sent him home to recuperate.
Tyler had to skip a show for Country Radio Seminar in Nashville, and that's when his partner, Brian Kelley, revealed the accident.
But Tyler, as promised, was back alongside Brian on Thursday, opening for Jason Aldean in Grand Rapids, Mich.
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Elton Ray McVaney, 90, of Ravenswood, died Monday (Aug. 27, 2012) at Marietta-Memorial Hospital, Marietta. He was born Jan. 12, 1922, in Burnsville, W.Va., the son of June B. and Opal Barker McVaney.
He was a member of the Ravenswood Church of Christ. He was a veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard serving in World War II. He worked at Hazel-Atlas National Carbon in Clarksburg, W.Va., and he was employed at Kaiser Aluminum from 1958-1982. After his retirement, he opened McVaney's Machine Shop in Ravenswood. He was a member of Ashton Lodge #12 of Ravenswood; Nemesis Shriners in Parkersburg; was active in various gas engine clubs, and several dance clubs.
He is survived by his wife of 41 1/2 years, Jean Wagner McVaney of Ravenswood; son, Randal McVaney and wife Sandra of Cleveland; brother, Jude McVaney and wife Betty of Clarksburg; four grandchildren, Michelle, Rebecca, Jessica, and Sean; and several nieces and nephews.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by two brothers, Paul and Blair McVaney; two sisters, Betty and Willa; and first wife, Sylvia Phillips McVaney.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday (Aug. 31, 2012) Time: 11 a.m. Place: Roush Funeral Home, Ravenswood, W.Va. with Pastor Grady Scott officiating. Burial will be in Ravenswood Cemetery, Ravenswood, with Masonic graveside services provided by Ravenswood Ashton Lodge #12, and graveside military rites provided by Ravenswood VFW Post 6669. Friends may visit the family at the funeral home on Thursday (Aug. 30, 2012) from 5 to 8 p.m.
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