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All good things must come to an endSunday, July 31st, 2011 by Zach Rosenthal
This week we packed up the lab and returned to our respective homes.
I write now from the sanctuary of my bed — there is nothing like submerging yourself in blankets to feel at home. No longer will I fall asleep wondering why my ancient apartment mattress is purring. (My theory is that there is a family of raccoons nesting inside of it. Throughout the summer I would occasionally wake up and find that chunks of my hair had been chewed off…)
Raccoons aside, this summer has been a supreme experience and exceeded all expectations, both in the company I had in lab and with the Haverford summer community at large.
The culmination of this summer was our lab retreat to Patrick Lodge in Rothrock State Forest, PA.
When we were not busy fending off bears by using Misha as a human shield, each member of the lab presented a slideshow detailing their goals, methods, data, results, and future directions for their project.
In our free time, we made pizza, ate enough snack food to feed a small third world country, and went on a hiking trip which met it's unfortunate and unspeakable end in a port-a-potty, in a parking lot, in a swamp.
As far as chemistry goes (is that what this blog is about?!), we have made some awesome discoveries in the world of macromolecular organic aerosol material. This includes some exciting evidence for the possibility of aerosol macromolecules coming from marine sediments, a finding we hope to publish alongside the GCMS data we have generated from our sequential degradation.
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And on that note I leave you until we return to lab in the fall. In the mean time, stay hydrated, eat popsicles, and ALWAYS keep a roll of toilet paper in your car.


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A Tour of Poe Sites in Boston and Providence
A recent business trip gave me an excuse to visit Boston and Providence to see some Poe sites in the area. Sandra Luzzi Sneesby had invited me to speak at an exhibit of her installation The Women who Loved Poe in Providence.
Once she picked me up from the airport, she took me to Edgar Allan Poe Square where, with the help of a map of Boston Poe sites produced by The Edgar Allan Poe Foundation of Boston, we began to trace Poe's footsteps through the city.
We headed for Poe's birthplace at 62 Charles Street South (formerly 62 Carver Street). In honor of this historic site, some lover of literature has memorialized Poe with a fine parking lot surrounded by a chain-link fence. The next photo shows what the building looked like before it was demolished. Notice the building on the left is still there in the above image.
Next we visited the site of the Boston's first regular theater (pictured above), where Poe's mother, Eliza Arnold Hopkins Poe, made her first appearance on stage on April 15, 1796. Between 1806 and 1809 she performed there several more times. Her roles included Cordelia in King Lear, Blanch in King John, and Ariel in The Tempest. Here is a notice of her playing Fanny in The Clandestine Marriage. Here is a review of Poe's mother's performance as Cordelia.
We located the office of The Dial at 15 West Street. Poe was no fan of The Dial, which featured "the so-called poetry of the so-called Transcendentalists."
A number of important sites one stood near the Old State House. Within a block from this location, Poe's first book was published in 1827, "The Tell-Tale Heart" was printed in The Pioneer in 1843, Poe's mother lived shortly after her arrival in America in 1796, and Poe's mother gave her last Boston performance in 1809.
Before leaving Boston, we visited the Boston Common, site of the Frog Pond which inspired Poe to call Boston writers "Frogpondians."
The next day, we toured Providence. Our first stop was the North Burial Ground and the grave of Poe's fiancée Sarah Helen Whitman. We picked up a self-guide tour sheet near the entrance to assist us in locating the grave. My guides told me this was probably the cemetery where Poe and Whitman would take long walks together since it is only a mile from her house. We also visited Swan Point Cemetery, which is also said to be the cemetery Poe and Whitman liked to visit, even though it is a bit farther from her house.
On Benefit Street, we saw Sarah Helen Whitman's house, a place Poe visited while courting Whitman.
Behind the house we found some rose bushes which immediately called to mind Poe's description of seeing Whitman in this garden three years before he would meet her.
I saw thee once — once only — years ago:
I must not say how many — but not many.
It was a July midnight; and from out
A full-orbed moon, that, like thine own soul, soaring,
Sought a precipitate pathway up through heaven,
There fell a silvery-silken veil of light,
With quietude, and sultriness, and slumber,
Upon the upturn'd faces of a thousand
Roses that grew in an enchanted garden,
Where no wind dared to stir, unless on tiptoe —
Fell on the upturn'd faces of these roses
That gave out, in return for the love-light,
Their odorous souls in an ecstatic death —
Fell on the upturn'd faces of these roses
That smiled and died in this parterre, enchanted
By thee, and by the poetry of thy presence.
Clad all in white, upon a violet bank
I saw thee half reclining; while the moon
Fell on the upturn'd faces of the roses,
And on thine own, upturn'd — alas, in sorrow!
Was it not Fate, that, on this July midnight —
Was it not Fate, (whose name is also Sorrow,)
That bade me pause before that garden-gate,
To breathe the incense of those slumbering roses?
No footstep stirred: the hated world all slept,
Save only thee and me. (Oh, Heaven! — oh, God!
How my heart beats in coupling those two words!)
Save only thee and me. I paused — I looked —
And in an instant all things disappeared.
(Ah, bear in mind this garden was enchanted!)
The pearly lustre of the moon went out:
The mossy banks and the meandering paths,
The happy flowers and the repining trees,
Were seen no more: the very roses' odors
Died in the arms of the adoring airs.
All — all expired save thee — save less than thou:
Save only the divine light in thine eyes —
Save but the soul in thine uplifted eyes.
I saw but them — they were the world to me.
I saw but them — saw only them for hours —
Saw only them until the moon went down.
What wild heart-histories seemed to lie enwritten
Upon those crystalline, celestial spheres!
How dark a wo!, yet how sublime a hope!
How silently serene a sea of pride!
How daring an ambition! yet how deep —
How fathomless a capacity for love!
But now, at length, dear Dian sank from sight,
Into a western couch of thunder-cloud;
And thou, a ghost, amid the entombing trees
Didst glide away. Only thine eyes remained.
They would not go — they never yet have gone.
Lighting my lonely pathway home that night,
They have not left me (as my hopes have) since.
They follow me — they lead me through the years.
They are my ministers — yet I their slave.
Their office is to illumine and enkindle —
My duty, to be saved by their bright light,
And purified in their electric fire,
And sanctified in their elysian fire.
They fill my soul with Beauty (which is Hope,)
And are far up in Heaven — the stars I kneel to
In the sad, silent watches of my night;
While even in the meridian glare of day
I see them still — two sweetly scintillant
Venuses, unextinguished by the sun!
Our next stop was the Providence Athenaeum where Poe and Whitman spent time together among the shelves. The Athenaeum still has a volume of The American Review in which Poe signed his name next to the anonymously published poem "Ulalume," which is now considered one of Poe's greatest poems.
The skies they were ashen and sober;
The leaves they were crispèd and sere —
The leaves they were withering and sere;
It was night in the lonesome October
Of my most immemorial year;
It was hard by the dim lake of Auber,
In the misty mid region of Weir —
It was down by the dank tarn of Auber,
In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.
Here once, through an alley Titanic,
Of cypress, I roamed with my Soul —
Of cypress, with Psyche, my Soul.
These were days when my heart was volcanic
As the scoriac rivers that roll —
As the lavas that restlessly roll
Their sulphurous currents down Yaanek
In the ultimate climes of the pole —
That groan as they roll down Mount Yaanek
In the realms of the boreal pole.
Our talk had been serious and sober,
But our thoughts they were palsied and sere —
Our memories were treacherous and sere —
For we knew not the month was October,
And we marked not the night of the year —
(Ah, night of all nights in the year!)
We noted not the dim lake of Auber —
(Though once we had journeyed down here) —
We remembered not the dank tarn of Auber,
Nor the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.
And now, as the night was senescent
And star-dials pointed to morn —
As the star-dials hinted of morn —
At the end of our path a liquescent
And nebulous lustre was born,
Out of which a miraculous crescent
Arose with a duplicate horn —
Astarte's bediamonded crescent
Distinct with its duplicate horn.
And I said — "She is warmer than Dian:
She rolls through an ether of sighs —
She revels in a region of sighs:
She has seen that the tears are not dry on
These cheeks, where the worm never dies,
And has come past the stars of the Lion
To point us the path to the skies —
To the Lethean peace of the skies —
Come up, in despite of the Lion,
To shine on us with her bright eyes —
Come up through the lair of the Lion
With Love in her luminous eyes."
But Psyche, uplifting her finger,
Said — "Sadly this star I mistrust —
Her pallor I strangely mistrust: —
Oh, hasten! — oh, let us not linger!
Oh, fly! — let us fly! — for we must."
In terror she spoke, letting sink her
Wings till they trailed in the dust —
In agony sobbed, letting sink her
Plumes till they trailed in the dust —
Till they sorrowfully trailed in the dust.
I replied — "This is nothing but dreaming:
Let us on by this tremulous light!
Let us bathe in this crystalline light!
Its Sybillic splendor is beaming
With Hope and in Beauty to-night: —
See! — it flickers up the sky through the night!
Ah, we safely may trust to its gleaming,
And be sure it will lead us aright —
We safely may trust to a gleaming
That cannot but guide us aright,
Since it flickers up to Heaven through the night."
Thus I pacified Psyche and kissed her,
And tempted her out of her gloom —
And conquered her scruples and gloom:
And we passed to the end of the vista,
And were stopped by the door of a tomb —
By the door of a legended tomb;
And I said — "What is written, sweet sister,
On the door of this legended tomb?"
She replied — "Ulalume — Ulalume —
'Tis the vault of thy lost Ulalume!"
Then my heart it grew ashen and sober
As the leaves that were crispèd and sere —
As the leaves that were withering and sere,
And I cried — "It was surely October
On this very night of last year
That I journeyed — I journeyed down here —
That I brought a dread burden down here —
On this night of all nights in the year,
Oh, what demon has tempted me here?
Well I know, now, this dim lake of Auber —
This misty mid region of Weir —
Well I know, now, this dank tarn of Auber,
In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir."
Said we, then — the two, then — "Ah, can it
Have been that the woodlandish ghouls —
The pitiful, the merciful ghouls —
To bar up our way and to ban it
From the secret that lies in these wolds —
From the thing that lies hidden in these wolds —
Had drawn up the spectre of a planet
From the limbo of lunary souls —
This sinfully scintillant planet
From the Hell of the planetary souls?"
From there we went to the Governor Henry Lippitt House Museum to the see the installation The Women Who Loved Poe. The video installation revealed Poe's character by showing him through the eyes of the women closest to him. Our hostess was Sarah Helen Whitman, portrayed by Linda Goetz.
Thanks to the hospitality of my guides in Boston and Providence and to the staffs of the Providence Anthenaeum and the Lippitt House Museum, I got know Sarah Helen Whitman, Poe's mother Eliza Poe, and Edgar Poe a lot better.


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I need a bit of help here......I have a 16 month old. That 3 weeks from today is going to have to have not only one surgery but two.
He was born with what is known as "BEING TOUNGE TIED". The flap of skin that is under his tounge is connected to his tounge all the way to the tip of it. So he is completely tounge tied. It has affected his speech. He can say about 7 words. But the way that he says them is affected. Like for "BALL" he says "BA". Cause he can't touch his tounge to the top of his mouth. Then ENT that is doing the surgery said that he was amazed that he was even able to latch on correctly as a newborn.
(He is also having reconstructive surgery on his penis) he was born with way to much forskin. And he keeps yeast in it. I don't even know how many tubes of Nystatin that we have gone through.
But he is not in anyway showing any signs of be ready to wean yet. And I surely am not ready for him to either. They Drs. tell me that he will be extremely sore and may refuse to nurse. Some one told me that I should just wean him and let that be it. But as I said we both are not near ready for that yet. And we found out yesterday that he has pneumonia and has become asmathic. So I feel that he still needs nurishment from me. And when he is sick he tends to want to nurse more and eat less.
He has always been a comfort nurser aswell. Like if he wakes up crying in the middle of the night, or if he is teething. So will he still want to try to comfort nurse even if he is hurting? I am at a lose for what to do. And if he does refuse the breast will he want to resume his normal nursing after some of the pain has subsided?
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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
As we prepare to celebrate Easter and the joyous resurrection of our Savior, it is good that we pause to consider another transformation of life that can take place when one chooses to act with love and compassion.
April is National Donate Life Month, an ecumenical observance of the gift of life to others that is made possible through donating one's bodily organs and tissues on one's death. Our Church supports this tremendous act as one ofthe highest expressions of human compassion and giving, one which honors the sanctity of human life. These are basic principles upon which our Catholic faith is based.
In voicing his personal decision to donate life to those who may be in need, our beloved Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI has said that Catholics can "participate spontaneously and in full awareness in the culture of transplants and the donation of organs in which we live."
So many of us have known of friends, family members and others in need of organ transplant, or who have gone before us and in death gave life through donation, to save and help others in a final act of humanity and giving.
This April, we especially remember all of them in prayer and love. I ask all of our parishes to join Catholics across the country in observing National Donate Life Month by discussing our Church's teachings and statements on donation and transplantation.
Please consider the faith-based decision to give the gift of life. Those who wish to receive more information and register a decision to give life may contact Gift of Hope, the not-for-profit organization that coordinates donation and services for families in Illinois, at www.giftofhope.org or 888/307-3668. If you made this life-giving decision in the past, please make sure that you have re-registered in Illinois' new organ/tissue donor registry after Jan. 1, 2006. Joining the new registry will document your legal decision to give life and ensure your wishes are honored at the time of your death.
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This vid always trips me out...we are microscopic.
This is really amazing. Astronomers have viewed stars (like our sun) form and die many times. It is quite common. They have also viewed planets form many times as well. But it is rare to have such a clear photograph of the initial stages of a solar system forming.
In this video they zoom into a solar system forming in the Milky Way Galaxy. A solar system just like ours (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, etc). For me, this puts our place in the universe into perspective. People generally think our solar system is large, and to a lesser extant, even Earth itself, but in this photo a solar system is just a tiny speck in the Milky Way Galaxy. And the Milky Way Galaxy is just 1 of a 100 BILLION other GALAXIES!! And each one of those galaxies has over 100 BILLION solar systems in it!!
Now watch the video again. But before you do, allow me to give a very quick and basic lesson on space:
Think of space/gravity as a very, very, massive, gigantic waterbed. In space, a piece of matter that has more mass will attract the pieces of matter around it with less mass. So for example, imagine a bowling ball and a bunch of marbles lying on a waterbed. The marbles (less mass) will travel towards the bowling ball (more mass). But in space, the marbles collide with the bowling ball and fuse with it, which give the bowling ball even more mass. It is considerably more complicated than that but this is to illustrate what is happening in the video/picture.
A nebula is a cloud of dust, hydrogen gas, helium gas and other ionised gases where stars (like our sun), planets (like earth) and solar systems form. Here a piece of matter with more mass attracts pieces of matter with less mass. This matter keeps gaining and gaining mass until eventually the mass is so great that hydrogen atoms fuse (fusion) and a chain reactin (sort of) of nuclear explosions occur. This is what is happening in our sun. It is several hundred million nuclear (hydrogen atom bomb) explosions.
When this initial explosion (star formation) occurs, there is a blast of gas and matter/dust particles. But since the star/sun is more massive, the matter/dust forms around the star.
This is what is in the picture. A cloud of matter spinning around a star. You can barely see the star peaking out from the top and bottom of the massive cloud of matter/dust particles. The matter looks so dark, because the star behind it is so bright.
Now keeping in mind the bowling ball/marbles analogy, the more massive matter particles attact the particles with less mass and continue until planet sized collections of matter are formed. Mulitple planets keep forming in this manner. And as all of them are spinning and drawn towards the more massive sun, eventually planets collide (making asteroids), destroying many planets until a balance of planets spinning around the more massive sun (i.e. a solar system) occurs.
Our solar system has a massive asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It is the remnants of this initial collision of newly forming planets in our young solar system (around 5 billion years ago). There is now a nice balance between our massive sun and massive Jupiter.
Anyway, I hope I made this clear and I hope some of you gain a new perspective on our place in the universe. Maybe next time you get annoyed by something, just remember how insignificant it really was. Just try and enjoy the short amount of time you spend on this spinning piece of dust we call earth.
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This vid always trips me out...we are microscopic.
That is a very humbling video. Although, even more humbling is to realize that all of those stars are in JUST the Milky Way Galaxy.
Here is the location of our enitre solar system (sun, mercury, venus, earth, mars, jupiter, saturn, neptune, uranus) in the Milky Way Galaxy:
Our entire solar system is in that tiny spot in the Milky Way. The Milky Way Galaxy has roughly 100 BILLION stars in it and many of those stars have solar systems like ours.
Want to feel even more microscopic?
In 1995 scientists pointed the Hubble telescope in a random direction towards a location in space that had never shown anything previously before from other telescopes. The Hubble zoomed in for 10 days and took this picture:
Every spot of light in this picture is a galaxy. Not a star, or a solar system, or a planet, but a whole freaking galaxy!! There are approximately 3000 galaxies in this picture. Each one of those galaxies has approximately 100 BILLION stars/solar systems.
Ok if that wasn't enough. In 2003, scientists pointed the Hubble in another random direction in space. It focused for 11 days and took this picture:
Again, every spot of light is a galaxy. Not a star or solar system, but a whole galaxy. There are over 10,000 galaxies in this image. Each one of those galaxies contains 100 BILLION stars/solar systems.
There are more stars like our sun in the universe than there are grains of sand on every beach on earth combined.
Humbling....very humbling. Like you said, we are microscopic. We might as well try and enjoy the split second of time spent on a piece of dust that we call life on earth.
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Yea it's all very humbling. I think this proves the whole "god created us in his image" claim is false. We are specs of dust living in a fraction of a second compared to the universe. (now imagine if they are correct and we really live in a multiverse with a near infinite other universes)
Literally awesome.
Every quarrel, every conjured deity, every delusion and falsehood are so infinitesimally small and wholly meaningless. As are even the brighter things in life: love, spankwire.com, laughter and so on.
OMG should be an abbreviation for "Oh my galaxy"
Thanks for sharing dude...... That was an experience. I'm off to theorise warp speed now.
July 1st, myeh.
In 1990, Carl Sagan requested NASA to have the Voyager spacecraft turn itself around and take a picture of Earth when it reached the outskirts of our solar system (somewhere near Neptune). Originally NASA was reluctant and did not understand why they should bother taking a picture of Earth from so far away (3.7 billion miles).
This is the picture:
That tiny little speck of light on the right side of the image is Earth. This image inspired Carl Sagan to write this:
From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
that was very interesting bro
This is sort of a tangent, but Sagan's research on the possibilities of extraterrestrial life is really interesting. He theorized that we haven't encountered any other life forms in space because any civilization that obtained the necessary advanced technology to travel light-years to our planet would self-destruct before doing so.
He was concerned that our human civilization would reach its demise due to unmanageable technological advancement.
(sorry for another tangent) but this video was made 5 years ago and is eerily familiar now in 2010 [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
The biggest mysteries are the topics of The Ocean and Space.
Amazing how we haven't even explored 5% of The Ocean, there must be thousands of ship wrecks, new species, they even found an extinct shark...if you go on youtube type in extinct shark found...its amazing
Now on the topic of space, it trips me out. Billions of stars in only our solar system and there are like what 100 solar systems, probably more. If we can't see it, it doesnt mean its not there.
It scares me how small we are. Compared to a simple astroid that could wipe out our whole planet, there must be billions and trillions of potential astroids that can blow up this planet.
As a man of faith, I see science and space exploration as truly fascinating. Makes my belief in God stronger, some stuff we just can't comprehend and we don't have answers for everything. Something so massive like space that is infinite is somehow keeping us alive. Somehow for as long as mankind has existed we have never been hit with a huge astroid big enough to destroy our planet. Mind blowing. We are being protected by something, something that has to be supernatural, at least that's my view. There are too many variables against us existing, too many sudden things that can happen. If the Earth tilted just a little off the axis our planet would be in total chaos. The fact that we are perfectly rotating and revolving without inconsistentcy is something we should all think about because we just say "yea we rotate and revolve" but we dont understnand that one little differnce can ruin our existence. This planet is special and our race is special. Unique without a doubt. Protected without a doubt. I know I am not favored on that opinion on this forum but I don't care.
No one knows what's out there in deep space, at least we can all agree on that.
Cool thread.
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Actually, humans have only been around for approximately 150,000 years. Dinosaurs were around for approximately 150 million years.
Our planet has been hit numerous times by large meteors. There are many pictures like this that show ancient meteor impact craters:
The dinosaur's extinction is suspected to have been caused by a giant meteor. There is ample evidence to back up this theory.
The earth is approximately 4.6 billion years old and the universe is approximately 14.5 billion years old.
We have been around for only a second in the time-scale of the universe and our earth. It is quite obvious there is nothing protecting us. Odds are that we will be wiped out by a meteor at some point in the future. It may be another 50 million years or so. The dinosaurs existed 1000 times longer than us and it's obvious nothing was protecting them. Why would anybody think something is protecting us? Especially with the number of natural disasters that kill thousands of innocent people each year.
We do know for certain, without doubt, that our star (sun) will eventually use up all of its hydrogen and die. In about 7 billion years it will expand into a Red Giant and wipe out the earth. It will then retract into a white dwarf. We've seen stars form and die throughout the universe. Our sun and planetary solar system are no different than any star we see.
But as was stated previously, we'll most likely kill ourselves before this even happens. And as an atheist, I believe religion will play a major role in our self destruction. We can see it happening now.
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Anyone saw the meteor shower last night? I went outside the town to watch it, stayed up late until 3 am and managed to get some cool shots on camera. It's a really stunning event that takes place every year in august with the maximum around august 12. If you missed it and have the possibility to go somewhere far from any light pollution tonight, i really suggest you go see it.
I'll post some photos later.


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It's been about a year since I wrote a program. I've written snippets of code since then but have mostly focused on managing other developers. This is partly because, as a business owner, my spare time is scarce; I have many tasks to juggle. It's also because programming stopped being fun for me.
I have been fascinated with computers and telecom systems since I was a child, but in the past several years, coding has become more of a chore, in large part because the task of actually designing something useful is a small one compared with the much less interesting work that's now required.
My favorite language is Python. I am partial to it for several reasons, but mainly because Python source is easy to write and easy to read. I have always disliked C/C++ and derivatives languages such as Java because they are, for me anyway, a chore to work with. For whatever reason, I have a tendency not to see punctuation marks when I am writing. It's a trivial thing, but I would spend a half hour trying to track down a missing
{ in Java. The languages themselves make sense, but for me anyway, they just weren't much fun to work with. I'd spend more time debugging a program or trying to figure out some external library than I would working on whatever problem I was trying to solve.
I like Python particularly for its versatility. I could use it as a command-line tool in one instance, a standalone app in another, or as a web script in another. Other languages can do this, but it seemed especially easy to do this with Python. I've used it to build a lot of useful little apps, for example, a Spanish flashcard program that I use to memorize vocabulary. I also like it because it is as close to procedural code as you can get. Anytime I needed to build a small utility of some sort, it was a great choice, unless I wanted to do something like talk to a database, or distribute something for use on other peoples' computers.
When I started my most recent venture, I really wanted to use Python for most of our applications. It's easy to read, runs on everything, and because of that, is cheap to support. The problem is that to do anything useful, you invariably need to talk to a database, and that's where Python falls flat on its face. I am not picking Python out for abuse here; it's what I've worked with the most. And in any case, my critique of current programming tools applies across the board.
Python should have become the dominant language for web apps but instead has remained in the shadows of Perl and PHP (and now Ruby). Most systems I see outside of large organizations run on PHP, ASP (I know, yuck), and in the past year or so, Ruby. You can find services that run on Python, like Zoomr, but they are the exception.
One of the main reasons for this is that getting Python to talk to databases can be quite an annoyance. While it does provide a high-level DB API, that API in turn talks to external modules that are designed to work with specific databases such as MySQL. It sounds simple enough, but if you're supporting servers that are scattered all over, it's a pain in the ass to keep track of which versions of what have been installed on which boxes. I never understood why, in the early 21st century, we're still using proprietary wire protocols to send SQL queries to database servers. I wrote a piece about this, Really Simple Database Protocol, in 2005, but I digress.
My gripe applies to most development environments, as to one degree or another, they each force you to waste time on tasks unrelated to actual design and development. Some languages force you to deal with external libraries. Others force you to load bloated IDEs and ship gigundous distributable packages. Others force you to deal with the author's idiosyncratic ideas about how code should be as unreadable as humanly possible.
What I want from a programming language is very simple:
I'll admit that I am lazy. Tinkering with computers is fun when you're first learning about them. I remember how I'd happily spend hours trying to figure out how to get the drivers for a Dialogic phone card to work. Eventually, though, you reach a point where your curiosity about the machine gets replaced by a desire to do useful things with the machine, and that's where most development tools fail.
That's my gripe with programming today. I remember "back in the day" when you'd turn a computer on and it would start up in BASIC, as if to say "teach me to do something." Today's computers are really fancy, but if you want to write software, and especially if you want to do something really useful, prepare to spend a lot of time just getting your development tools laid out on the table.
Here's a domain where a company like Google could make a really useful contribution to the trade, not by creating an operating system, but by creating the web generation's answer to BASIC. I mention Google because the tech industry has a history of launching new languages about every ten years. The last big industry push to create a standard language was Java. Since then we've slid backward into a confusing muddle of acronyms and competing languages. Google could set a standard here, and dare I say it, by simply dusting the rough edges off Python and getting it baked into all sorts of devices. The company could make a lot of headway.
My vision is to take a mature language like Python and add just two new features to the interpreter. It is a simple change, but it will create a real web operating system--one that is simple to build upon yet infinitely extensible.
I use Python and Google as the primary examples in this article, although this idea could apply to other languages and commercial services. I picked Python because it is easy to read, powerful, and extensible. I picked Google because it has turned into a Bell Labs for software development and has hired many leading open source developers. Google could make an important contribution to software development, much as Sun did by promoting Java and Microsoft did by promoting Visual Basic.
I first wrote about this idea in Dr. Dobbs Journal in 1998. That article, entitled "Concept Oriented Programming," proposed extending object-oriented programming languages with a DNS-like system that would store reusable code, and that would enable developers to write tiny programs that load libraries as needed from the cloud. My original article is somewhat dated now, so I decided to revisit it in this O'Reilly piece, and to show some specific examples of how a hyperlinked version of Python would look. While this article is not a detailed technical specification, it clearly shows how this can be implemented. (Shortly before publication, I learned of UrlImport, a Python module that implements part of what I describe in this article.)
In plain English, you could write very lightweight programs that would load most of their underlying modules on the fly. Such a program might look like this:
import /widgets/foo.py as=foo
import http://2_0_1.popupdialog.widgets.py.code.google.com as=popup crc=a6771234
x = foo.widget()
x.say("Hello World")
y = popup.widget()
y.say("Well Hello There")
What I've done in this imaginary program is simple. In the first import statement, I load a locally stored library, just like a normal import. In the second import statement, I load a library from a network repository. I instantiate objects from each of these libraries and tell them to print a "Hello World" message.
The details of how the networked import command works are less important than what it enables you to do. Properly implemented, it will mean that you can write tiny programs that will grab whatever underlying code they need at runtime. No more bloated distributable packages. There are no more install scripts. Just send your program and say "run mywidget.pyc, have fun!".
One of the goals of this manifesto, or whatever you want to call this, is to have a networked programming language baked into every box. The runtime environment will be built in, much as Python is preloaded on Mac OS X.
With most languages, the standard library becomes ever more bloated with each new release. With this technique, we can radically downsize the runtime environment. All we need is the interpreter (updated to recognize network imports and a couple of other functions). It can get everything else it needs from networked repositories.
The goal is to make the runtime environment so small that it can be a part of any computing device.
Python's "Batteries Included" philosophy enables developers to do quite a lot without venturing beyond the standard libraries. With a fully networked language, we no longer need to distribute a large standard library with the runtime environment or applications. Everything you need will be stored in the public network.
The distinction between the standard library and extras developed by other authors will also go away. With today's languages, it is usually best to stay with the standard libraries if at all possible, to avoid headaches when you share the application with other users, to install it on other machines, etc. Distribution and installation headaches can be a powerful disincentive to use third-party code.
With a networked language, there will be no build or install process. You'll just share an application and it will get what it needs on the fly.
While the networked
import function could load from a simple HTTP file store or similar service (this will work fine), we could take this a step further to create a DNS namespace for code. This section is a bit of a sidebar to this article, so if you think this is too forward-looking and it's a distration to you, skip forward to the next section.
We could create a .code (or .turing) top-level domain. From there, we could create a DNS namespace for objects that works much like the namespace for Internet hosts. The second-level domains would be reserved for major language branches, for example, *.py.turing. Tertiary domains would go to anyone who wanted to host a code repository, while a std subdomain would be reserved for official releases and libraries. (For example, the official standard Python libraries would live in std.py.turing.)
Using this system would be as easy as including an
import statement in a program, and might read as:
import http://2_0_1.doodad.widgetcorp.py.turing as=doodad crc=aa123456
The runtime engine, when it sees an
import statement like this, will do a standard DNS lookup and go grab the file from the appropriate server, just as in the earlier example. The idea here is to create a persistent address space for reusable code.
This may or may not happen, and in any case, the
import statement can pull modules from any domain. Commercial organizations will likely host early implementations of this, but it's good to know that we can move in this direction if the idea catches on.
One of the primary concerns people raise about hyperlinked code is that a small program could call libraries that in turn call others that contain malicious instructions. If this system is built incorrectly, this is a real risk, but if it is done right, hyperlinked programs will actually be more secure than programs that are distributed as a single package.
While a detailed discussion of security is beyond the scope of this article, there are two measures we can use to make this a trustworthy system: a validation mechanism that enables a runtime environment to know that a module it fetched from a repository has the same checksum or certificate as the author intended, and a trusted code repository.
In the examples in this article, I imagine that the system uses a simple validation technique--a 32-bit checksum--to detect changes. An author would include the checksums in the program's main module. At runtime, a module swapped out in one of the code repositories would cause a hyperlinked import to fail because the checksum for the replaced module would be different. I know there are even more secure ways to do this, but I wanted to use a simple example.
The second and more important security measure is a trusted code repository. One of its jobs is to remove modules that are flagged as malicious, hopefully before they can inflict damage. The ability to disable modules will help to halt the spread of malicious code and to disable the parts of a program that are dangerous. Imagine, for example, a simple Trojan program that invokes an apparently harmless module that deletes files at a certain date. If this module is identified and reported before that time, the code repository can disable it and flag it as harmful. When D-Day arrives, the runtime environment either cannot retrieve this module or learns that it has been flagged and refuses to run it. Even if millions of people have downloaded this program, the harmful portion will be defunct. With a conventional program distributed as a single package, there isn't an efficient way to recall harmful components once they're in the wild.
One of the reasons I chose to use Google as an example in this article is that it is uniquely qualified to address these issues, having both the intellectual and technical resources required to build a system that is reliable, trusted, and also easy to deal with. The security issues surrounding hyperlinked code aren't trivial, but they are all solvable, and if this is done right, it will be a more efficient way to build and distribute software.
Unless you need to talk to a low-level hardware API or do something especially CPU intensive, you can do quite a lot without leaving Python. At least, that's been my experience. Where possible, I always tried to write programs without going outside of the core libraries, mainly so that I could distribute the programs onto other computers without running into a rat's nest of configuration and admin issues.
With this system, it will be easy for developers to share code and for people to use shared code without creating a lot of version control and distribution headaches for themselves. Sharing a module will be as easy as uploading the module to a trusted repository and then referencing it in a program. This will look something like the following:
import http://2_0_1.wellhithire.widgets.py.code.google.com as wellhithere crc=aa712345
x = wellhithere.widget()
x.say("It's certainly nice to see you")
As you might have guessed, this fetches a copy of wellhithere.py (version 2.0.1) and refers to it locally as
wellhithere. The program instantiates this object and tells it to say something. It's pretty basic stuff, with the twist that the
import directive makes it easy to load external libraries on the fly. The CRC option allows the program to do checksum verification.
When executing this application, the runtime engine will use a procedure like this one:
This can be done in such a way that indicating a local or networked source becomes simple. An import path such as /widgets/helloworld indicates a local file path. A path such as http://helloworld.foocorp.com points to a network file store. There could be other syntax, of course, but this is one example of an easy way to do this.
Like many languages, Python allows you to talk to external binaries, typically written in C or C++, to talk to hardware APIs, or to optimize performance for especially CPU intensive tasks. The issue with these, of course, is that it is difficult and many times impossible to make this type of code portable because the API the C program talks to (a telecom interface, for example) does not exist on many platforms.
For this type of module, how about a slightly different syntax to tell the runtime environment to load an external binary? This also requires changes to the runtime environment, which I'll discuss later. In our hypothetical language, we'd write:
import http://1_0_9.fastfft.widgets.code.foocorp.com type=bin runonce=n as=fastfft
x = fastfft()
fft = x.transform(some_pcm_audio)
This short example adds two parameters to the
import statement,
type=bin and
runonce=y/n. This tells the runtime engine to fetch and launch a compiled binary that will process data from the application, not unlike a DLL. The
runonce parameter tells the runtime engine whether it can launch multiple instances of the binary or only one.
The runtime interpreter hides the messiness of this process from the Python application and does something like this:
This is a simple and fairly clean way to make it easy for Python apps to use external binaries. This itself is not news. A voice-scripting language I used years ago did something similar to this, minus the dynamic load and binding trick. The goal here is to make it easy to talk to binaries, but do so in a way that does not require the user to run a build command prior to running the application.
Using the example above, I want to use a C program that does a fast Fourier transform on a segment of audio data. This is a computationally intensive task, so it'll be a lot faster in compiled C than in an interpreted language such as Python. In this framework, the runtime engine launches an instance of fastfft.exe in the background and tells fastfft.exe to talk to it at
From my perspective, I am just talking to something that looks like any other object. When I invoke a method, the runtime engine sends a message to the external application via IPC, does its thing, and sends a response back, which gets returned to my application. Simple.
Again, the details of how this works behind the scenes are not so important. I use TCP via localhost as an example, mainly because any networked appliance will, by definition, be able to talk via a localhost socket. In a real-world version of this, C and C++ developers will have a wrapper library that provides a simple interface in and out of their programs. The key requirement here is to eliminate the need to preload external modules, without the need for a build operation prior to running the program. It's worth losing a little bit of performance to gain this flexibility.
You may have noticed that this system has a built-in form of version control. Code repositories must explicitly create a separate path for every version of a module. Likewise, developers would be required, or at least strongly encouraged to explicitly refer to a unique version at runtime.
This is a simple extension of a proven language. At the very least, it will make building and sharing applications easier, though it has potential beyond that.
Imagine a minimal machine that has the basic guts you need in a computer. Storage, I/O, and a network. It has a lightweight, built-in interpreter and is designed to run only Python apps. In effect, it's a Python computer and operating system.
When you first take this computer home, it boots up with a picture of a snake and a command line. You type the name of a program you want to run. Any program. Maybe you want to run an MP3 player, so you type "PyMP3".
Your computer is brand new, and you don't have that program yet, so behind the scenes it tells itself to:
import http://pymp3.code.widgetcorp.com
It then runs this program, and because it probably contains
import statements of its own, automatically works through the underlying packages it needs to run. This all happens in the background, and after a short while, the program runs, as if it had been on your machine all along.
While many companies could do this, Google is in a unique position to make a system like this a reality. With its data center infrastructure and world-class software engineers, it can easily fund a project to make the necessary modifications to the Python interpreter (as well as other languages if desired) and to operate a trusted code repository--the two key ingredients required to build this system.
With the right sponsorship, a system like this could lead to major changes in the way developers build and share software. It could do so at a surprisingly modest cost, because this system requires only straightforward modifications to existing and widely used programming tools. Just as hyperlinking was a straightforward enhancement to document markup languages that enabled the development of the World Wide Web, hyperlinked source code will bring similar benefits to software development.
Brian McConnell is an inventor, author, and serial telecom entrepreneur. He has founded three telecom startups since moving to California. The most recent, Open Communication Systems, designs cutting-edge telecom applications based on open standards telephony technology.
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Heart disease can be the result of a congenital or hereditary defect or may be induced by smoking, poor diet or obesity. Whatever the cause, most heart conditions, detected in good time, can be treated or cured by modern medicine.
When a cardiologist explains symptoms, treatments or technicalities in unfamiliar terms it is easy to become confused and frightened.
To help, get to know these terms related to diseases of the heart and their treatment.
Ischemia means "blood restriction."
To function properly, the heart needs a constant flow of blood. When the vessels around it become narrowed, blood cannot flow properly, Dr. Arthur Schoenstadt explains.
The tissue of the heart muscle -- the myocardium -- is highly sensitive, and when arteries become constricted, the heart becomes starved of vital oxygen which. If left untreated, can result in serious damage.
Myocardial ischemia is also known as angina.
Atherosclerosis is an accumulation of plaque on the artery walls, Dr. F. Brian Boudi says.
The easiest way to visualise what is happening is to compare the arteries with domestic water pipes. Over a period of time, if your water contains excessive lime, the pipes will become obstructed and water flow diminished.
In the same way, coronary arteries can become clogged -- not with lime scale, but with cholesterol, calcium or other substances. Although some causes of atherosclerosis, such as aging and congenital disease, are beyond our control, factors like smoking, obesity and a diet high in sugars are things we can change to alleviate or prevent the problem.
Endocarditis is an inflammation or swelling of the lining of the heart chambers and valves.
Unlike atherosclerosis, endocarditis is not generally caused by factors within the control of the patient.
The most common cause is bacterial infection, where germs from elsewhere in the body spread through the bloodstream and find their way to the heart.
Endocarditis is not common in people with healthy hearts, being more likely to affect people already suffering with heart disease. It is normally treated with strong antibiotics, but occasionally demands surgery.
Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty
Generally known by the acronym PTCA, or more simply as balloon angioplasty, this is a surgical procedure to open blocked arteries and restore normal blood flow to the heart.
A long tube is inserted into the affected artery, with a very small balloon at its extremity. Once the balloon is inflated, the fatty tissue which has caused the blockage is compressed and the artery opening slightly enlarged, allowing blood to flow more freely.
PTCA can involve rather more complicated surgery, including the insertion of stents, which are coiled springs that keep the artery open.
Aldosterone antagonists
Aldosterone is a naturally occuring hormone released by the renal system. Its presence in the body regulates our sodium and potassium levels.
In the presence of decreased blood flow -- hypoperfusion -- in heart disease, the body tries to compensate by activating the aldosterone system. This can lead to an over-production of aldosterone, which can cause coronary inflammation and aggravate the underlying heart disease.
Aldosterone antagonists are drugs that inhibit the body's production of aldosterone and are prescribed in certain instances of heart disease.


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Associated Jehovah's Witnesses for Reform on Blood (now Advocates for Jehovah's Witness Reform on Blood) and this web site (AJWRB.org) were established back in 1997 as the work of one dissident Jehovah's Witnesses elder who was deeply troubled by the Watchtower Society's policy on the use of blood and blood products and by Daniel Sydlik's (A Watchtower Governing Body Member) complete disinterest in even discussing the issue. The original web site was called "New Light on Blood."
In very short order this brother, known by the pseudonym "The Liberal Elder" (later abbreviated to "Lee Elder") was joined by other elders and HLC members from the United States and South America as well as Jehovah's Witnesses from well over thirty countries in calling for clear answers regarding the numerous contradictions that become apparent when one carefully examines the policy.
That was the birth of AJWRB in 1998.
The Associated Jehovah's Witnesses for Reform on Blood began with the mission of educating Jehovah's Witnesses regarding the many inconsistencies in the Watchtower's blood policy so that they could truly make an informed choice about their medical treatment and that goal has never changed.
AJWRB has grown to be a diverse group of individuals including current and former members, non-believing family members, medical professionals, legal professionals, child advocates and interested members of the public. What we share in common is our sincere desire to see all Jehovah's Witnesses be able to make informed, conscientious choices about their medical care without threat of controls or sanctions from either the Watchtower or local congregations.
This site is also an important resource for doctors looking for objective analysis of the Watchtower Society's policy as well as tools and methods to better establish informed consent with their patients. Judges, lawyers, media and other interested parties will also find very useful and informative material available.
In 2015 we added an alternative reading of our name to better illustrate our expanded reach, objectives and direction.
This site is dedicated to the memory of the thousands of Jehovah's Witnesses (many of them children) who have died because of the Watchtower's irrational policies on blood. It is our sincere hope that the toll in death and suffering can be lessened and one day stopped.
Lee Elder – Director of AJWRB


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Home List of Titles Mechanical characterization of plasma sprayed ceramic coatings on metal substrates by contact testing
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/41691
- Title
- Mechanical characterization of plasma sprayed ceramic coatings on metal substrates by contact testing
- Author(s)
- Pajares, Antonia; Wei, Lanhua; Lawn, Brian R.; Padture, Nitin P.; Berndt, C. C.
- Abstract
- Hertzian indentation testing is used to generate contact damage in plasma sprayed ceramic coatings on metal substrates. Two basic ceramic/metal coating/substrate systems are examined: alumina on steel and zirconia on superalloy. Macroscopic mechanical responses are measured via indentation stress-strain curves, which quantify the relative role of the coating and substrate in the net deformation and facilitate evaluations of elastic moduli and yield stresses. Micromechanical damage processes within the coating and substrate subsurface layers are studied using a "bonded-interface" specimen. Degradation occurs primarily by delamination and other cracking at the coating/substrate interface or in the coating, but plastic deformation of the metal substrate contributes importantly to the crack driving force.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Source
- Materials Science and Engineering A, Vol. 208, no. 2 (Apr 1996), pp. 158-165
- Publication year
- 1996
- Keyword(s)
- Alumina; Ceramic coatings; Coatings; Contact damage; Cracks; Degradation; Delamination; Fracture; Hertzian indentation; Indentation stress strain curves; Mechanical properties; Metals; Plasma spraying; Plastic deformation; Plasticity; Steel; Substrates; Superalloys; Zirconia
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- 0921-5093
- Publisher URL
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1996 Published by Elsevier B.V.
- Peer reviewed


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|US State Names
Title text: Technically DC isn't a state, but no one is too pedantic about it because they don't want to disturb the snakes.
Randall has taken a map of the United States of America labeled "Geography Challenge: Name all 50 States" and filled in the states with words that sound similar to the states' names. The joke is that Randall is apparently terrible at remembering states by heart, or else that he interpreted "name" as "give a name to" and is giving each state a name similar to but different from its previous name. Songs such as the 50 Nifty United States make these issues seem rarer, thus making it funnier. Below is the table.
This also may be a play on the ambiguity of the phrase "Name all 50 states". When you are asked to "name" something, it can be a request to supply its given name or to come up with a new name for it. Randall has apparently taken the latter interpretation. He also may be playing with the distinction between an object's identity and its label, e.g., "The state of Texas (identity) is named Hexxus (label)", though you can argue that "Texas" is also a label.
This comic is similar to 1759: British Map. Also note that the text at the top of the comic is not in all caps.
Table of States
| This explanation may be incomplete or incorrect: Some states unfinished. Make wikipedia links.
|Fictional State
|Actual State
|Wil Wheaton is an actor and writer.
|Could refer to either body parts that perform vital functions, or large musical instruments having rows of tuned pipes. Also a reference to Organ Trail, a retro survival video game that parodies The Oregon Trail.
|A cafeteria is both a kind of restaurant and a name for a lunch room that serves food. California is large and diverse, offering a wide variety of choices. California also grows a large proportion of common vegetables available in the US (Source), making it a 'Cafeteria' for the country.
|Fallout New Vegas
|Fallout New Vegas is a video game set in Nevada.
|Idolatry is the worship of a physical object as a god, forbidden in many religions.
|mount -a
|A command to mount all disk volumes in fstab (except for ones with the noauto flag).
|Acronym for "what you see is what you get". A reference to Types of Editors.
|U-Haul is a company which rents vans.
|Verizon, a telecommunications company, has the shared text "Rizon" with Arizona (Verizon, Arizona).
|New Mexico
|Namaste is a Hindu greeting.
|The antagonist of Ferngully. FernGully is said to be the model for the later film "Avatar". This is the second time Hexxus was mentioned in xkcd, the first occurrence being in 1750: Life Goals. May allude to the Texas oil industry and the state's general reputation for a lack of environmental protection.
|OK is the state's abbreviation. Okay is a spelling of another abbreviation O.K., which means "yes" or "good", and has quite a few possible origins.
|Candice is a girl's name of Latin origin, meaning "clarity, whiteness" ("canditia").
|Refers to computer servers located in a colocation centre.
|New Brunswick, a Canadian province. People sometimes write "NB" as the postal abbreviation for Nebraska; in reality, Nebraska is "NE", and while there is no "NB" in the U.S. postal system, New Brunswick is "NB" in the Canadian postal system.
|South Dakota
|Randall seems to have forgotten his directions, so he drops the normal "South" and "North". He may also be teasing that this doesn't matter.
|More Dakota
|North Dakota
|Probably just reference to the fact that there are two Dakotas, but mishearing/misrepresenting "North" as "More" (leaving South Dakota as just "Dakota"). Might be a reference to "More Dakka", a catchphrase by Orks from the Warhammer 40000 universe, though WH40K isn't a usual XKCD touchstone.
|Minestrone is a thick vegetable soup, originating in Italy.
|Wainscot is a type of wood panelling covering only the lower half of a wall.
|Iota is the ninth letter of the Greek alphabet. The word is used in a common English phrase, 'not one iota', meaning 'not the slightest amount'.
|"Skater Boys" or just "Skater Boy" if the '-ois' is pronounced the same as it is in "Illinois". Sk8er Boi is a song by Avril Lavigne.
|The single different letter represents probably a typo (O is adjacent to I in a keyboard). This typo has about 22,000 results on Google. Alternatively, this could be an attempt to "correct" the spelling of the state name to match its non-intuitive postal abbreviation, MO, which is sometimes used as a pronounceable acronym. Or it could be a reference to Katie Mossouris.
|Arkanoid is an arcade game, developed by Taito in 1986.
|Louisa, feminine of Louis, is an Old German name meaning "famous warrior". Louisiana was named after King Louis XIV when it was founded as a French colony.
|The word "misstate" means to state improperly. "Mis-" is also a prefix meaning "wrong," "incorrect," or simply negating. "Misstate" could be a non-state. Miss State is a university in Mississippi. This may also be a joke on the fact that Mississippi is one of the most commonly misspelled state names.
|A bandana is a large handkerchief cloth, worn either around the head or neck. Often used in Westerns.
|Hennessy is a brand of cognac.
|Kennedy Fried Chicken is New York City–based fast food brand that shares its initials with KFC, which was formerly (and still conventionally) Kentucky Fried Chicken. "Kennedy" is also the name of a former US president (John) and two former US senators (Robert and Ted).
|That Other One
|'That Other One' is something someone might say if they were trying to name all the states from memory, and knew where a state was but not what it was called. Appropriate for Indiana, due to being a state with relatively few distinguishing features.
|According to the Urban Dictionary, "mishy" means "mushy and horny at the same time". Or it could just be a nickname, the way a lot of people's names, often children, get shortened with a trailing y (Bobby, Becky, Johnny, Suzy, Davey, Jimmy, etc.).
|Oh Hi
|Oh (expression of surprise), Hi (greeting). A common utterance upon meeting an acquaintance unexpectedly.
|Pencil Mania is a 1932 Tom and Jerry cartoon in which they pull out a pencil and proceed to draw figures in the air.
|New York
|The city of Newark is a suburb of New York City, and many people who live in Newark commute the 14 miles to work in New York City, however it is actually located in the state of New Jersey rather than New York. Other references: Newark Liberty International Airport is a major flight hub serving the New York metropolitan area, the village of Newark, New York (near Lake Ontario), and Newark element14 (or simply "Newark"), the official distributor of Raspberry Pi. Possible reference to William Gibson's works. A mispronunciation of New York.
|Vermouth is an Italian alcoholic beverage.
|New Hamper
|New Hampshire
|A hamper is a large basket, often with lid, used for laundry. Also another name for a picnic basket.
|Spanish Maine
|The Spanish Main was the mainland Spanish colonial possessions around the Gulf of Mexico. Also refers to the surrounding sea, as in the opening of the (children's?) song, "Sailing, sailing, over the bounding main, ...". May also refer to the USS Maine (ACR-1), which, upon sinking, started the Spanish-American war.
|Women who give massages professionally. A contentious term in the therapeutic massage industry due to its appropriation by prostitutes.
|Roald Dahl
|Rhode Island
|A British writer, famous for child novels such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
|Connect Four is a two-player game, in which the objective is to connect four of your checkers in a row while preventing your opponent from doing the same. It has already been mentioned in 1002: Game AIs.
|Nude Juggalos
|New Jersey
|Juggalo is a name given to fans of the group Insane Clown Posse or any other Psychopathic Records hip hop group. Also shares the same initials as New Jersey.
|A car made famous as the time machine in the Back to the Future movies.
|Maybelline is a make-up brand.
|District of Colubrids
|District of Columbia
|The Colubridae are the biggest family of snakes, accounting for about two thirds of the world's species. As the title text mentions, the District of Columbia, although not part of any state, is technically not a state itself, but is usually labeled on the maps like the 50 others for practical reasons. Here, Randall humorously explains the reason as people not wanting to upset the aforementioned snakes by dismissing their district for this pedantic reason.
|West Virginia
|A Wyvern is a mythical creature.
|Virginia is similar to vagina. Vajayjay is slang for vagina.
|Sweet Caroline
|North Carolina
|A song by Neil Diamond.
|South Caroline
|South Carolina
|A further reference to song 'Sweet Caroline' by Neil Diamond, similar to 'Dakota' and 'More Dakota.' Plays on similarity between the names 'Caroline' and 'Carolina'.
|Georgia was named for George II of Great Britain.
|Possibly derived from the Russian name Fyodor, as in Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
|Alberta is a Canadian province.
|A Japanese term for cute, commonly romanized similar to Hawaii. Not to be confused with Kauai, a Hawaiian island.
[A map of the United States, with incorrect state names. A title:]
Geography challenge:
Name all 50 States
| Alabama => Bandana |
| Alaska => Alberta |
| Arizona => Verizona |
| Arkansas => Arkanoids |
| California => Cafeteria |
| Colorado => Colocated |
| Connecticut => Connect Four |
| Delaware => Delorean |
| District of Columbia => District of Colubrids |
| Florida => Fyoridor |
| Georgia => George |
| Hawaii => Kawaii |
| Idaho => Idolatry |
| Illinois => SK8RBOIS |
| Indiana => That Other One |
| Iowa => Iota |
| Kansas => Candice |
| Kentucky => Kennedy |
| Louisiana => Loisa |
| Maine => Spanish Maine |
| Maryland => Maybelline |
| Massachusetts => Masseuses |
| Michigan => Mishy |
| Minnesota => Minestrone |
| Mississippi => Misstate |
| Missouri => Mossouri |
| Montana => mount -a |
| Nebraska => Nebrunswick |
| Nevada => Fallout New Vegas |
| New Hampshire => New Hamper |
| New Jersey => Nude Juggalos |
| New Mexico => Namaste |
| New York => Newark |
| North Carolina => Sweet Caroline |
| South Carolina => South Caroline |
| Ohio => Oh Hi |
| Oklahoma => Okay |
| Oregon => Organs |
| Pennsylvania => Pencilmania |
| Rhode Island => Roald Dahl |
| South Dakota => Dakota |
| /North Dakota => More Dakota |
| Tennessee => Thennessy |
| Texas => Hexxus |
| Utah => Uhaul |
| Vermont => Vermouth |
| Virginia => Virjayjay |
| Washington => Willwheaton |
| West Virginia => Wyvern |
| Wisconsin => Wainscot |
| Wyoming => WYSIWYG |
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John Bramley, the former interim president of the University of Vermont, is going to lead an effort to help the state get more from its investment in the states flagship university.BURLINGTON The former interim president of the University of Vermont is returning to campus to head up efforts to retool the school for the 21st century, in keeping with the recommendations of a report he led calling for a sharper focus on technical innovation and a stronger relationship between the university and the state.
Its estimated that more than 60 percent of the job openings in this decade will require some form of post-secondary education. And Vermont, frankly, is ill-prepared to meet that challenge, John Bramley said Wednesday at the announcement of his appointment.
Bramley said hell focus on better integration of the states public schools with its flagship university, and between the university and businesses, to address the problem as he works to implement 11 key recommendations in the June report, New Ideas for Changing Times: Strengthening the Partnership Between the State of Vermont and the University of Vermont.
One way that relationship wont be strengthened much, at least right away, is through increased financial support from state government, said Gov. Peter Shumlin. UVM gets about $40 million a year from the state budget among the lowest in the country. Shumlin said other budget pressures will keep that from going up in the near future.
Shumlin, Bramley and UVMs new president, Thomas Sullivan, were not specific when asked whether or how the dollars the school gets from the state should be reallocated. Currently, Bramley said, about a quarter of the money goes to UVMs agriculture and engineering schools, about a quarter to its medical school and about half to financial aid for Vermont students.
The report calls in several instances for spending new money, including on a doubling of the size of the engineering school.
Among its other recommendations are the creation of a new Vermont Institute, modeled on the Aspen Institute, that attracts great thinkers and innovators to solve world problems, in the words of its executive summary; and a new on-campus or off-campus Vermont University Innovation Center to develop new delivery models that address economic development needs across the state to enhance entrepreneurship and job creation.
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