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Our "Photo of the Week" comes to us from James Rivera, who serves at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt. James submitted this photograph to the Office of Art in Embassies for the "Through Their Eyes...Service Abroad" exhibition. His image captures the Nile River, with two boats silhouetted in the orange and yellow glow of a beautiful sunset.
James' image reminds us of the beauty and importance of our planet's natural resources, particularly our water resources. The U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in partnership with the Ramsar Convention Secretariat are celebrating World Wetlands Day on February 2, 2012. To help us celebrate, now through January 20, anyone can submit his or her best photographs to a Flickr site in one of four wetlands and environmental tourism-related categories: wildlife, landscapes, plants, and tourists (submissions are limited to one per category). All are invited to mark their favorite photographs in each category through January 22. The top photographs will be showcased on the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Ramsar Convention Secretariat, and international organization partners' websites and social media platforms on World Wetlands Day, February 2.
Visit the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Oceans, Environment and Science Facebook page for additional information.
Dr. G. in West Virginia writes:
This is a beautiful photo, and as someone who spent years paddling Appalachian waterways in canoes and kayaks the DoS' interest in waterways is greatly appreciated.
Jen in Virginia writes:
Kudos to the State Department for focusing on water. Looking forward to World Wetlands day on February 2!!
Jonny in Utah writes:
Great photo and great idea for a contest. I feel inspired to try and submit a photo of the Great Salt Lake into the contest.
Pam in West Virginia writes:
Hopefully we can have the world understand the importance of keeping our wetlands and fresh water.
Danny C. in Utah writes:
This is one thing that we need to take care and are wetlands and other natural resources and we need to make more of them because we have toke so many out of our planet's natural resources already.


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The search for common ground at Spain's elite Transvulcania 83K
A grueling descent toward the town of Tazacorte. Photo by Chris Hunter.
This article originally appeared in our September 2013 issue.
I heard a buzzing overhead and saw the flashing lights of a drone helicopter. Pants down around my ankles, squatting in pre-dawn darkness on the edge of a cliff on La Palma Island, I groaned and thought, You've got to be kidding me.
Before I came to La Palma, I'd heard a lot about the differences between the American and European trail-running scenes— how Europe embraces hyper-competitive mountain racing the way America loves football. In writing on his blog about winning last year's Transvulcania 83K on La Palma, elite runner Dakota Jones, now 22, of Durango, Colorado, characterized European trail races as "steeper, more competitive and harder in every sense of the word ... with helicopter footage, prize money and high-profile media storms."
But now that I was here, 30 minutes away from the start of the 2013 Transvulcania, the biggest difference I'd noticed—which Dakota had failed to mention in his blog—was the absence of port-a-potties at the start line. The other points he'd made were on the mark: I'd seen the helicopter camera zooming around that morning—a remote-controlled sort of hovercraft that soared over the crowd at the starting line. And, yes, there would be an €8,900 ($11,600) prize purse—not that I would have any stake in it. As for the "high-profile media storm?" As associate editor at Trail Runner, assigned to cover Transvulcania, I'd happily accept that designation.
But back to the issue at hand. In lieu of a proper toilet, runners flocked to relieve themselves on a rocky cliffside sandwiched between the Atlantic Ocean and the Fuencaliente lighthouse on the southern tip of the island.
As runners finished their business and migrated toward the starting line a quarter-mile down the road, the cliffside grew deserted. Having been immersed in crowds for the past three days—crowds at the airports in Denver, Chicago, Madrid and La Palma, crowds at the Hotel Sol where I was sharing a room with a colleague—I realized that this was the first time in days I'd truly been alone.
But no sooner had I popped a squat than the helicopter camera came whizzing over me, live-broadcasting my pre-race bathroom break on television sets all over Spain.
It wasn't the only time on La Palma that I'd fluctuate between feeling completely alone—for better or worse—to feeling as though I had all the company in the world.


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Now I lay me down to sleep ... if I should die before I wake ...
As I slept under a cement roof in Haiti, this children's bedtime prayer seemed a little too real to me.
This was only two months after Port-au-Prince was devastated by a 7.0 earthquake on Jan. 12.
I stayed in a Haitian friend's home for a week, and I knew the roof over me could collapse in an aftershock. So, even as I prayed, I also kept my running shoes and flashlight beside my bed and had my escape route plotted.
But for so many Haitians who lost their homes or for whom the fear remains too fresh, sleeping indoors is still not an option.
According to official estimates, more than 220,000 people were killed in the Haiti earthquake, and 300,000 more were injured. Nearly 290,000 homes were destroyed and damaged, displacing 1.3 million people.
Some have called it the worst natural disaster ever. But the catastrophic losses were also caused by poverty.
Buildings were so cheaply constructed, they didn't just crack or break, they disintegrated into powder.
Thousands of people survived the earthquake only to die waiting for rescue because there wasn't enough heavy equipment to lift the piles under which they were trapped.
Many more died or lost limbs for lack of adequate medical care. Consider this: In 1994, an earthquake of similar magnitude struck Los Angeles, a city that was more than five times the size of Port-au-Prince. The death toll was 60.
As far as I could see in every direction, multi-story buildings now look like short stacks of pancakes.
But whatever the twisted metal and heaps of shattered bricks had once been could eventually be rebuilt.
The greatest tragedy was that at 4:52 p.m. on that day Port-au-Prince shook for 38 seconds, Haiti's sons and daughters were crushed in classrooms across the capital city.
At the Lumiere School of Nursing, 150 nursing students died. I walked quietly through the ruins of the University of Port-au-Prince, strewn with backpacks and broken desks, as papers fluttered in the breeze. I picked up Jean Raymond's Jan. 11 calculus test he got an A+.
Beneath my feet, hundreds of bodies were still entombed in the rubble Haiti's brightest and most promising leaders for tomorrow.
Because of the obstacles placed in their path by poverty, only 1 percent of Haitian students makes it to university.
Haiti's Compassion staff shared their heartbreaking stories with me. Many had been injured, their homes demolished. Farcine, one of 75 staff members, had been killed.
She left behind a husband and four children under the age of 6. I wept with a man who lost his bride of just two months, another who lost all five of his children, a young woman who lost her fiancé ¯ne week before their wedding day, and one who lost nine members of her family.
Of Compassion's 65,000 sponsored children in Haiti, 21,595 lived in the earthquake-affected area. Our courageous staff, despite being traumatized themselves on Jan. 12, reported for work the next day.
Since the office building was damaged, they erected a "tent office" in the parking lot. They organized themselves to hike into crumpled neighborhoods to the churches where sponsored children attended Compassion centers. Day and night, house by house, they led center workers and church member volunteers in massive search-and-rescue operations.
Every child matters, and every effort was made to find and help each one. Angels must have been everywhere because miracles abounded.
As I write this, we know of 54 children in Compassion's ministry who died in the earthquake.
That's more than our hearts can bear, but far fewer than we feared.
Compassion's staff in the Dominican Republic, Haiti's neighboring country, sprang into action, receiving and coordinating planeloads of relief supplies in Santo Domingo.
The quake knocked down a city but not the resilient spirit that has long characterized the Haitian people.
Many Compassion centers have been cleared of debris, and children are singing and dancing again.
They draw pictures to help heal their grief and write songs and dramas about their heartache, along with their reawakening hopes and dreams.
Now the country's young people encourage their elders, calling Jan. 12, 2010, "the birthday of Haiti's future."
I met with 500 (just 1 percent) of Haiti's Compassion "alumni" young people who had once sat on my lap as sponsored children and are now doctors, lawyers, teachers, mechanics, pastors and businesspeople. Their strength, passion and vision for their country are inspiring!
As Robert Hawkins, Compassion's Board Chairman, and I gave each of them a hug "from their former sponsors," we were overjoyed to see the sparkle of hope in their eyes and to hear them say they were blessed to be a blessing, for such a time as this.
They are poised to build Haiti's future.
The word compassion means "to suffer with."
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A lab technician named Raymond Clark has been arrested for the murder of Annie Lee, the Yale student recently found murdered. Lee was a graduate student at Yale university, with her wedding just a few days away, when she was found strangled to death behind a basement wall in a Yale lab this past Sunday.
Raymond Clark was arrested at a motel he was staying at after police were able to secure an arrest warrant based on several sources of evidence.
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Intel Corp. said in a statement that the findings by the European Commission that accuse the world's largest maker of chips of anticompetitive behavior are not correct. The firm claims that the EC refused to obtain evident that show Intel's innocence and said that it would appeal.
"Intel takes strong exception to this decision. We believe the decision is wrong and ignores the reality of a highly competitive microprocessor marketplace – characterized by constant innovation, improved product performance and lower prices. There has been absolutely zero harm to consumers. Intel will appeal," said Paul Otellini, president and chief executive officer of Intel.
According to Intel, the company has never violated European laws and that the findings of the EC are incorrect.
"We do not believe our practices violated European law. The natural result of a competitive market with only two major suppliers is that when one company wins sales, the other does not. The Directorate General for Competition of the Commission ignored or refused to obtain significant evidence that contradicts the assertions in this decision. We believe this evidence shows that when companies perform well the market rewards them, when they don't perform the market acts accordingly," said Mr. Otellini.
The company claims that while it does provide rebates to certain partners, this is a natural behavior and this does not violate laws.
"Intel never sells products below cost. We have however, consistently invested in innovation, in manufacturing and in developing leadership technology. The result is that we can discount our products to compete in a highly competitive marketplace, passing along to consumers everywhere the efficiencies of being the world's leading volume manufacturer of microprocessors," the head of Intel said.
Intel will appeal against the EC ruling.
"Despite our strongly held views, as we go through the appeals process we plan to work with the Commission to ensure we're in compliance with their decision. Finally, there should be no doubt whatsoever that Intel will continue to invest in the products and technologies that provide Europe and the rest of the world the industry's best performing processors at lower prices," Mr. Otellini claimed.


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About the Author: Diana Chu serves at U.S. Embassy Canberra in Australia.
U.S. Embassy Canberra staff and their Australian and diplomatic guests were "California Dreamin'" at this year's U.S. Independence Day Celebration in Canberra, Australia. More than 900 people (one of the largest groups in recent memory) attended the celebration, which drew on everything California in honor of Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich's home state.
Though it is winter in Australia, the event brought a touch of summer with a Beach Boy cover band and surf shack. There were also cutouts of movie stars, such as Marilyn Monroe, and the famous Hollywood sign; 20 classic American cars; and batting cages and pitching tents provided by Major League Baseball. On the menu were burgers, chili dogs, fajitas, margaritas, vanilla milkshakes, Ghirardelli chocolates and, of course, California wine.
To kick off the festivities, Ambassador Bleich welcomed guests and toasted the U.S.-Australian friendship. Ambassador Bleich asked guests to remember and honor the ideals our founding fathers envisioned in 1776. The colors were presented by the U.S. Embassy Marine detachment and accompanied by a performance of the U.S. and Australian national anthems. And, of course, the night ended with a spectacular fireworks display.


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AURORA, Wis. – Michael J. Mitchem, 48, of Aurora, passed away Tuesday, April 2, 2013, at his home.
He was born April 19, 1964, in Iron Mountain, son of Charles and Sandra (Charette) Mitchem.
Mike loved his pets, nature, and the outdoors and was an accomplished deer hunter. He enjoyed watching NASCAR, chatting with friends on Facebook, and spending time with his family and friends.
He is survived by his wife, Jane Mitchem of Aurora; his parents, Charles and Sandra Mitchem of Holiday, Fla. and formerly of Kingsford; one sister, Michelle "Missy" (Phil) Kairis of Minneapolis; his close aunts and uncles, Denny and Drema Charette of Iron Mountain, and Sharon and Bill Rocheleau of Iron Mountain; mother-in-law, Riva Cowell of Iron Mountain; father-in-law, Richard Abbot Sr. of Saginaw, Mich.; two sisters-in-law, Jennifer (Dan Westcott) Abbott of Escondido, Calif. and Julie (Terry) Kirk of Carbondale, Colo.; one brother-in-law, Rich (Jessie) Abbott of Greencastle, Ind.; special friends, Mike Pavlat and Joe and Mike Plourde; and many other aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, other relatives and friends.
Private family services are being held.
You may light a candle in remembrance of Mike or leave a condolence to his family online at JacobsFuneralHomes.com.
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A diverse panel of big thinkers demonstrate how writers and scientists can jointly explore the wide spectrum of theories and questions around storytelling.
What do a fiction writer and an astrophysicist have in common? Marilynne Robinson and Marcelo Gleiser connect the dots between the cosmos, our minds, and all the ways we discover the story of where we came from.
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is a professor at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She's the author of several novels including Housekeeping, Home, and Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
is Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College. He's author of The Dancing Universe: From Creation Myths to the Big Bang and A Tear at the Edge of Creation: A Radical New Vision for Life in an Imperfect Cosmos.
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This artist's concept illustrates a supermassive black hole with millions to billions times the mass of our sun. Supermassive black holes are enormously dense objects buried at the hearts of galaxies. (Smaller black holes also exist throughout galaxies.) In this illustration, the supermassive black hole at the center is surrounded by matter flowing onto the black hole in what is termed an accretion disk. This disk forms as the dust and gas in the galaxy falls onto the hole, attracted by its gravity.
Also shown is an outflowing jet of energetic particles, believed to be powered by the black hole's spin. The regions near black holes contain compact sources of high energy X-ray radiation thought, in some scenarios, to originate from the base of these jets. This high energy X-radiation lights up the disk, which reflects it, making the disk a source of X-rays. The reflected light enables astronomers to see how fast matter is swirling in the inner region of the disk, and ultimately to measure the black hole's spin rate.
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I enjoyed this conversation.
I enjoyed this conversation. I think the main part that really stood out to me was Marcello discussing the beauty of imperfection and how science is coming to terms with that. I think there is so much in that idea that I would like to explore further.
Can we expect the transcript
Can we expect the transcript here in the coming days?
Wess, we'll have it sometime
Wess, we'll have it sometime by the end of the day today. Cheers!
Every week is rich and
Every week is rich and expansive. This week is possibly the widest and deepest. Wow. I love it when we invite atheists into the conversation. Gleiser takes us into the sacred mystery in unique and important ways. And, Robinson? I don't know what to say. I'll read anything she writes! Thank you Krista and team.
The discussion of the terms
The discussion of the terms describe vs. explain should include the word create. Science uses the term loosely. Our arrogance is our biggest obstacle to true knowledge and understanding. Robinson and Gleiser did not hesitate to use the term. I was alittle dismayed. The conversation was going welll to that point then returned to the ego driven state most intellectual discussions end in.
We do describe rather than
We do describe rather than explain. We also manipulte rather than create.
I thought science was about
I thought science was about measurement, observations and organized data? Yet your 2 guests whom you had a "public conversation" with two scientists M. Robinson and Gleiser, was full of pithy lines and loaded with quotations of others, no data or observations, just generalizations, nominalizations, presumptions, history of others beliefs instead of their own, and undefined jargon. These two brought nothing to the conversation.
When Marilynne (Irish/Scottish? accent) lectured us on how Americans are so dumb regarding sciences, she gave no examples and you did not follow up and have her elaborate. I was constantly confused by the pseudo-debate since they both spoke of the "presence of God" yet both seem desperate to trump God with science. Wish you could have deconstructed that a bit(?)
Wish Marcelo could have touched on the mechanics of Big Bang theory. What data exactly is he talking about? And he couldn't support unified theory imply or string theory or God……what exactly does he believe? Very confusing people, that much is true. Was sad when Marilynne lectured Gleiser on his usage…… like he was an 18 yr old college student.
If you want a useful debate/conversation/even controversy, could you just once balance with a real theologian? Daniel Cardinal DiNardo, Dr. E Michael Jones? How about a conversation with Robert Sungenesis who believes we are in a geocentric solar system. (sounds like Marcelo might agree with him?). See if your backers would allow a Catholic spokesman on your show.
It's gratifying and
It's gratifying and encouraging to hear a brilliant compatriot speaking so humbly about the marvels of the Atlantic forest, the enchantment of nature, uncertainty theory and the vast domaine of the brain. It's also encouraging to see Marcelo transcending ethnic limits, a Brazilian contribution to the world. "Transculturation", the dynamics of Latin American cultures, characterized by absorbing, transforming, and reinventing is what his words brought back to mind. Congratulations Marcelo! Would you spend time in to Brazil share what you have been saying in the US? People will adore you!
you sound surprised a
you sound surprised a Brazilian can make a contribution. nice!
The first time I ever
The first time I ever listened to this program, and I was "blown away." I was driving home, listening, after an intense work weekend in southern Vermont where the radio signal threatened to fade off, so I slowed down to hear the end before I lost the signal. There were so many revelatory thoughts .... I cannot isolate one. The dialogues from disparate fields was so fascinating. I arrived home in NW Mass. and shared with my wife about the issues raised. So want to hear again and share with her... how can I download?
thanks Mike for taking the
thanks Mike for taking the time to share! I am curious, or maybe just don't listen well, can you isolate one revelatory thought so I can go back and try to understand? Many thanks.
Michael Bedford, please try,
Michael Bedford, please try, try to express at least one of the many revelatory thoughts. See if you can isolate one, I would appreciate it. I know I am a poor listener and would like to know what you heard. Ok, thanks.
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Krista! Like your e-mail audience, I couldn't be happier that you were able to get Marilynne Robinson to do this live conversation. As editor of a sixty-five year old scholarly journal, RENASCENCE: ESSAYS ON VALUES IN LITERATURE, I had the good fortune to hear three talks on Robinson's work in May of this year. I am currently working on a special issue on Robinson's work. The more I hear about and read her work, the more I am impressed with the importance of this voice for the religious view in Amercia. With great gratitude.
Please check out ny new book
Please check out ny new book (just published) "The Joys and Benefits of Connecting with Our Cosmic Spirit". It describes what True Meditation is and how to connect with the Spirit within your Being (It explains what is meant by "The Kingdom of God is within You").
I tell a story about an in
I tell a story about an in-person meeting with Dr. Gleiser in my kickstarter project video.
I didn't appreciate Ms.
I didn't appreciate Ms. Robinson's dig at Richard Dawkins, who has done so much for science. It seems that Ms. Robinson feels threatened by atheism and those who advocate for it. Intuition certainly plays a role in science's quest for truth because scientists must rely on their own best educated guesses about how things work in order to formulate hypotheses and design experiments. I don't want to base my own understanding of the origins of the universe on faith in a religious text, some sort of personal "experience" of a deity, or gut feelings. I want facts and figures. If you truly understand the enormity, complexity, age, and magnificent energy of the universe you will feel awe and wonder in a way that no manmade religious myth could ever duplicate. I enjoy On Being, but this is the first time this show ever offended me, a devout atheist. Here is a gorgeous video called "Science Saved My Soul From Religion." Yes, it may offend those who believe in an organized religion, but it's breathtakingly beautiful.
Yeah, I was a bit
Yeah, I was a bit disappointed at that too. To say that "as far as the scale of what we're learning to know, the psalmist has better intuitions about it than Richard Dawkins" is a claim that boggles my mind.
Are you sure you aren't
Are you sure you aren't threatened by sound theism? If your answer is no, it would stand to reason that instead of Ms. Robinson, or other believers of faith, being threatened by atheism, maybe it's simply a matter of an opposing opinion. With the same certainty, either side could say the same. I'm neither threatened, nor will I be offended by anything that helps you feel sound in your truth, however, I will logically respect that it is your truth.
"If you truly understand the
"If you truly understand the enormity, complexity, age, and magnificent energy of the universe you will feel awe and wonder in a way that no manmade religious myth could ever duplicate". -
But how does one "truly understand" the universe, and who can claim that they "truly" understand it? The greatest spiritual writings of all religions, including psalms, mysticism, and mythology, are reflections on and acknowledging expressions of the "enormity, complexity, age and magnificent energy of the universe", not attempts to "duplicate" it. In "The Case for God" author Karen Armstrong describes an all too common miss-take on our current thinking about mythology: "Today…myth has fallen into disrepute. In popular parlance, a "myth" is something that is not true. But in the past, myth was not self-indulgent fantasy, rather like logos (reason), it helped people to live effectively in our confusing world in a different way…they were really focused on the more elusive, puzzling and tragic aspects of the human predicament that lay outside the remit of logos. Myth has been called a primitive form of psychology."
We've regressed in our thinking about "God", falling behind great theologians, scientists and philosophers of the past who didn't feel pressed to approach these ways of thought as contradictory. A literal interpretation of the bible (fundamentalism) is relatively recent; in previous centuries biblical stories were not read as they are now, like a "book"; they were enacted as plays or told as stories that were adapted by the presenters to be most effective as morality lessons or calls to action. To quote Armstrong again: "A myth was never intended as an accurate account of a historical event; it was something that had in some sense happened once but that also happens all the time." Fundamentalism has squeezed the life out of "God", a concept that historically and contemporarily comprises our senses of "the enormity, complexity, age, and magnificent energy of the universe."
Before the proliferation of the printed bible and its subsequent translations, the kind of fundamentalism we've seen in 20th century America to the present would not only likely have been considered bizarre, it would also probably have been considered idolatrous. Avowed atheists who have contempt for religion in general have valid complaints and concerns in light of what Armstrong refers to as "unskillful" approaches to faith, but they need to look at the history of religion beyond its most negative extremes to have a better understanding of how it serves us.
"Fundamentalism has squeezed
"Fundamentalism has squeezed the life out of "God": To my mind, Kathryn, you have directly hit the nail that atheists focus their anti-God attention on in their efforts to debunk, disprove and intellectually demean belief as well believers. From what I have listened to, the God atheists debunk is the God of fundamentalist belief systems, and of those who embrace a literal interpretation of the Bible.
I wonder how they debunk a God that is described as : "all there is, all there was and all there ever will be is God" or some other very broad transcendental view of GOD..
Marcello notes how what we
Marcello notes how what we can understand about reality is limited by what we can observe and experience about the world.
It may be technically true that our instruments are limited and incapable of making certain measurements, thus limiting our direct understanding of reality, but it seems that Marcello also alludes to us being limited by a subjective perspective that is not fully possible to overcome.
This butts-up against our desire for ultimate truth, which extends from our need for understanding of our origins (As Marilynne notes, if we know our origins we feel that we will then be able to find our purpose in the universe or the meaning of our existence), but perhaps opens up a plurality of paths that may all lead to some understanding of the self and its place in the universe for the individual who chooses to pursue them.
Interestingly, Marilynne praises science for its capacity for self-criticism, yet there are truisms familiar to scientists that go along the line that science may only progress one funeral at a time. Science is a human endeavor, and the way in which new ideas are adopted can be a human and so chaotic process.
I have just listened to and
I have just listened to and enjoyed this conversation between Marcello Gleiser and Marilynne Robinson, conducted by Christa Tippet. I found the podcast having already discovered Marilynne Robinson's book "Absence of Mind", which I return to often.
At one or two points in the conversation, the physicist Richard Feynman is mentioned. Marilynne Robinson refers to writing by Feynman in which he wonders how it is that my self can persist, and I can have memories of my self, when over the course of time the atoms of my brain are replaced. Robinson reminds us that the English empiricist philosopher John Locke arrived at this thought in the 17th or early 18th century, to reiterate, I think, that thought is capable of reaching places at a time many would regard as pre-scientific, or at least backward in some sense, compared to our time. Marcello Gleiser refers to Feynman as one of his personal heroes.
There was also some discussion of the role of the words "describe" and "explain" as used in popular science, and a consensus seemed to be reached in this conversation that describe is the better word, because it preserves a notion of incompleteness to our thought.
While listening to these things I was reminded of a wonderfully entertaining lecture given by Richard Feynman which I think, somewhat paradoxically, illustrates both the tendency of popular science to want to diminish mind, and also the brilliant awareness Feynman had of treating mathematics as descriptive while also being mindful of the "explanatory power" of any physical theory.
The lecture is called "The Relationship Between Mathematics & Physics", from 1965, and is on YouTube and other places.
It is Feynman's closing statement to this lecture that has interested me, in which, really I think out of a feeling of frustration or even inadequacy, he wants to admonish people of what he calls "the other culture" (by which he seems to mean philosophers) who wonder how or why it is that our thinking, our mathematics, should, so to speak, fit the world. Feynman says, with not a little force and even animus, "The horizons are limited which permit such people to imagine that the centre of the universe of interest in man".
Given Marcello Gleiser's view that science needs a kind of aesthetic shift towards recovering human "centrality" in the universe, and his evident admiration for Feynman as a scientist, which so many share, I think Feynman's statement, and it's context, is interesting here. From Marilynne Robinson's side, she has been concerned to show the ways that the style of thinking evinced by popularisers of science, in their writing, tends to close down questioning in advance. So again, I think Richard Feynman's performance of this lecture, and his closing statement, is interesting.
Feynman's lecture was given at a time when there seems to have been a considerable cultural stand-off between the disciplines of sciences and humanities. When Feynman, in his lecture, refers to the "other culture" I think he has in mind a book called "The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution" by CP Snow, which was published in 1959. This book shows a personal attitude (on the part of CP Snow) hostile, for various complcated interesting reasons, to the kind of things valued in humanities academic disciplines. I think it is a book which contains many of the "declensions" Marilynne Robinson describes as common to what she calls "para-scientific" literature.
I wonder if Feynman would have been quite so antipathetic towards those of the "other culture" if he had been alive to the importance to Einstein of Kant's attempt to answer that very question of why our minds seem to fit the universe such that we can have knowledge of it? Newton's theory, the very model of warranted knowlege, was being overturned, after all. It seems to me that Karl Popper was driven to develop his adaptation of Kantian epistemology and philosophy of science in opposition to the attitude that mathematics is in direct contact with the world. He is the philosopher of science who would be at pains to support the use of the word "description" in preference to "explanation", precisely to deter the feeling underlying scientism or positivism that we have achieved complete knowledge. Again, I wonder if Feynman would have had any interest at all that people like Popper, or Kant or Einstein for that matter, could have found interesting any kind of problem to do with why our mathematics works. My feeling is probably not.
I write because I listen to a conversation like this one and come to anticipate mention of, say, Kant, or Popper, or Heidegger, or Wittgenstein, particularly from the scientist. Popper seems important to me, because he makes explicit that science is an outgrowth of mythical thinking, and of the same character as mythical thinking. Science is an expression of human being, and cultural. For Popper there is no cognitive divide (as Marilynne Robinson speaks of in "Absence of Mind") that elevates our thinking so greatly that we can be dismissive of the past. His work is quite deflationary in that sense.
At the beginning of the conversation, Marcello Gleiser refers to the centrality of the notion of irreducibly conflicting values in the work of the one-time linguistic philosopher and intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin. Not long ago, I was very motivated to research and get to the bottom of what I had come to regard as a characteristic antipathy towards, or blindness for, the kinds of thing valued in humanistic or humanities learning. It was because I had found this antipathy in myself at a young age, as it had been in my father, and it has had a huge impact on my life. So I was very grateful to come to (not long before finding Marilynne Robinson's book) to an essay by Isaiah Berlin called "The Divorce Between the Sciences and the Humanities". I think Berlin locates a time and a place, after Descartes, when certain human-centred studies are preserved from the limitless domain of mathematics, in the person of the Italian philosopher Vico.
I am very concerned about the closing-down quality of thinking that goes into the "para-scientific" literature, because it comes from people who are popularly regarded as thinkers par-excellence when, even before any thoughts are put down, the tone of presentation is already conveying to the reader or listener that all the thinking has already been done and "he has it". It is not from science that we acquire the ability to understand the significance of style in communication, but from attending to qualities of feeling, in other words from art. Yet, armed with facts and bolstered by prestige and plaudits, what para-scientific thinking seems to push onto impressionable minds is that there is nothing for me to learn, because there is nothing to learn, because it has already been learned (by him). The reader finds himself participating in the writer's assumption of completeness. An opening into what could possibly make of my style of presentation, of my voice and tone and choice of words, anything remotely significant is closed off in advance, always in advance. Becoming aware of this in oneself is disquieting and painful. It is painful to be gripped by an essay like "Modern Science, Mathematics and Metaphysics" by Martin Heidegger, only to find that the "scientific world view", sanctioned by virtue of its success, and pressed into one, casts those insights as meaningless, and that writer as a charlatan, if not an irrationalist. One does not want to be caught unaware quoting the work of a one-time Nazi, and another reason comes up to feel defensive about even raising any kind of query or question or reservation over the value of science.
I'm sorry for a meandering response, but as you can see, I found this conversation very thought provoking!
Richard Feynman did not, at
Richard Feynman did not, at least at the time of his 1965 lecture at Cornell University, " The Relation Betwee Mathematics And Physics", share Marcello Gleiser's desire for a science with humanity in any place of importance. Speaking of people of the "other culture" (by which it seems he meant humanists), he says, at the close of this lecture, with some force and animus, "the horizons are limited which permit such people to imagine that the centre of the universe of interest is man".
"The truth is, indeed, that
"The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe. Beyond the vibrations with which we are familiar, the rainbow-like range of its colours is still in full growth. But, for all the fascination that the lower shades have for us, it is only towards the "ultra" that the creation of light advances. It is in these invisible and, we might almost say, immaterial zones that we can look for true initiation into unity. The depths we attribute to matter are no more than the reflection of the peaks of spirit."
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"The Evolution of Chastity" (1934), as translated by René Hague in Toward the Future (1975)
Hallelujah. the mystery.
Hallelujah. the mystery. yes. this IS sacred territory. We must not disrespect the fact that we have no idea what's going on here, and more specifically, the mystery is consciousness. so we can learn about "thinking" in neuroscience, but it's a mistake to assume consciousness comes from the biology. Let's not disrespect the mystery.
Trent, I just want to say
Trent, I just want to say thank you for what you're doing here.
We are in a time when consciousness is getting hit by
big storms from all four directions.
We need to feel our creation and its love for all,
and you're helping, sir, and I send you blessings.
In a famous Buddhist book
In a famous Buddhist book about the concept of reality, it was compared the scientific approach to nature, by dissecting, 'a flower' has a corolla, a pistil, a chalice etc. meanwhile the oriental approach (or we may say, the contemplative approach) is 'the flower' as it is when is seen, smelled or chewed without stopping being the flower that grows in your sidewalk.
I think this statement isn't
I think this statement isn't quite correct; "This high energy X-radiation lights up the disk, which reflects it, making the disk a source of X-rays"…X-radiation does NOT "light up" the disk, which visually appears black. X radiation is the only radiation that "emanates" from or comes out of the black hole, because of it's unique frequency. The recent ability to focus X-ray radiation has given scientists the ability to "visualize" (but not actually "see") where the black hole is. We can see the stars near the black hole as they "fall in" to it; and this direct vision (not reflection) allows us to quantify the size and density of the black hole. Several photographs have shown this; Search proof of stars falling in to black holes.
I bit disappointed by the
I bit disappointed by the lack of substance in the discussion. And why the jab at Dawkins who has done more than most to advance rationale, scientific thought over the degenerative forces of scripture and superstition?
I was reminded of Tyson's quote: "God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance." I would recommend listeners check out any of his youtube clips for a more direct discussion on this topic.
Very interesting discussion.
Very interesting discussion. My thanks to everyone for such enlightening program.
The challenge before us can be explained rather simple terms. Our finite mind, within finite time of our consciousness can never fully comprehend the infinite universe existing over endless time. Hence the need for God and for science.
Think of this simple equation, (I will call it Jyotindra Shukla Equation)
Total Universe = Known Universe + Unknown Universe
The first term on the right belongs to the realm of knowledge and the second term represents the unknown and therefore belongs to the realm of faith. Since the Total Universe is infinite, and the first term on the right hand side is finite, the second term on the right hand side must always be infinite for the equation to be valid. Hence the need for God will remain. We can see the evidence of the validity of the above equation in a limited manner in our day to day life. When we trust the knowledge of doctors, we take medicine and not pray to God because we are in the Known Universe, but when doctors cannot cure us, we resort to prayer (the second term, the realm of unknown and faith).
If we can somehow reach a point where the second term is zero and the Total Universe becomes equal to the known universe, God would cease to exist for us. This boundary condition will never be reached except through the wormhole of human intuition and this is where science and religion meet in the highest reaches of the supreme Knowledge. When we reach that level, the conflict between science and religion dissolves. Also, the limitations of space and time fall away and we enter the realm of timeless bliss that is known as Brahman by ancient Hindus and by other names by all the inquisitive souls that followed them. We get tangled in limitations of language while trying to describe what is essentially beyond language.
Our need to know this ultimate entity (unified theory or Brahman, whatever we may choose to call it) is the result of the homing device that is in each one of us (and in every living entity). Just as Monarch Butterflies fly to their destination; we try to reach this panacea. Trouble is, we get lost when the language combined with intellect strays us away from what can only be felt from within.
We seek the mercy of our creator to give us the divine vision to see through the fog. There is nothing Holier than this ultimate knowledge.
Best wishes to all who use their conscious span (this precious life) to pursue this ultimate knowledge.


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Topic: modularize javascript code in rails app
I have a rails app that uses livevalidation to ajax-validate some form fields, and the same javascript validation code exists on multiple pages (for example, everywhere that password and confirmation is validated).
I thought I might be able to DRY this up using a partial but that doesn't seem to work in the javascript. If this was php I would simply include a file containing the common javascript, but what would be the best way to do this in rails 2.3.8?


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Gorgeous Long Brown Cascading Hairdo
This is a really cute hairstyle as this young woman has her hair styled long and curly. The hair is thick and has lots of volume to it. For a prom or homecoming, this is a really nice style.The hair has been cut long for this look.The hair colouring is a fabulous medium mocha.
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The Most Popular Rooms Of The Week
ELLE DECOR: This home is in Seattle's North Capitol Hill neighborhood. How would you describe the area?
TOM KUNDIG: It's an older neighborhood, with a large number of homes from the 1920s and '30s, some of them quite stately. Like many neighborhoods in Seattle, it has a mix of upper-, middle-, and lower-income families, and modern residences alongside traditional ones.
ED: And what about the house itself?
TK: It was a typical cedar-sided '70s contemporary. When the owner bought it, it was basically falling apart. But before we came on the scene, she had done a lot of work to make it stable, and had brought in a designer, Janice Viekman, to create a design she could enjoy.
ED: What did she want you to do with it?
TK: The client's brief was to open it up and provide more light. She loved the contemporary aesthetic but wanted to take the house to another level. She knew my work but was unsure if I would be interested in a remodel. She wasn't sure that there was enough to work with, that I could make something out of the place that we could both be proud of. I thought there was.
ED: Was it a complete house remodel?
TK: Yes and no. Changes were made in all parts of the house, but we didn't change the entire house. I looked for the moments where I could make the greatest impact. No rooms were actually refigured, although we did open up the rooms to one another.
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Little Caesar's doughs are intended to be baked on screens, as they are in the PJ and LC stores using conveyor ovens.
I also forgot that I used a cutter pan when I made the LC clone pizza.
Dont they make a thin crust as well as deep dish?
You have 60% hydration in your cracker recipe the dkm and the one I used was 36% is there a reason you are using that recipe not the Pizza Inn dkm thin ?


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Where Fine Art and Family Converge
Textures are the key to the sensual style of the white parlor in interior designer Alina Apteker's home. White leather sofa and chairs from Ralph Lauren, thick wool rug from Laundry & Arcari, and breezy curtains of Bergamo sheer fabric all suggest romance. Mirrors from Oly Studio reflect candles on the nearby beverage cart, adding another romantic element.
A painting by Itzchak Tarkay adds color to the white parlor. Tickling the bottom of the painting is an arrangement of white ostrich feathers, one of Alina Apteker's favorite elements. "Feathers are so suggestive of sensual delight," she says.
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Topic: How to add some ajax to shopping cart in rails?
All i want to do in simple words: When input value is changed, i'll put this value in db. I want to add some ajax. I want to do this: When I change my input value (focusout), i call some method, using get-parametr, my method looks like this:
def update_quantity
@cart = current_cart
@line_item = LineItem.find(params[:id])
respond_to do |format|
if @line_item.update_attribute(:quantity, params[:quantity]) #&& @cart.id == params[:cart]
format.html { redirect_to(@line_item, :notice => 'Line item was successfully updated.') }
format.xml { head :ok }
format.html { render :action => "edit" }
format.xml { render :xml => @line_item.errors, :status => :unprocessable_entity }
This is test-work, so it maybe have some bad solutions, and my view looks like this:
= line_item.art_name
= line_item.ART_ID
= line_item.art_code
= line_item.quantity
%input{ :class => "quantity", :value => line_item.quantity }
= link_to "обновить", :controller => "line_items", :action => "update_quantity", :id => line_item.id, :quantity => line_item.quantity, :cart => @cart.id
= line_item.total_price
As you see, I want to: when input focus is out, i get new hidden link, and call it, which calls method, which is written upper. What i need to do? what files to create and where, and how to do this? Wanna some ajax)
All i want to do in simple words: When input value is changed, i'll put this value in db.


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Winter in North Dakota
Winter can be wonderful, woeful, belligerent and downright cold especially in North Dakota.
When it comes to winter North Dakota is rivaled by very few states in terms of border-to-border blasts of weather, north to south and east to west. The entire state is situated to annually receive the worst weather winter has to offer, and it often does.
There are other winter states that lay claim to lengthy, snowy and cold winters too Maine, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota to name a few. Still, there is no escaping the cold, hard facts that North Dakota winters often rank as some of the most severe anywhere in the United States. Other than heading south, far south, there's not much relief from winter's elements for several months. True, Dickinson has much warmer average winter temperatures than Bottineau, but traveling to one of the state's most southern destinations does little to alleviate winter woes.
The plains of Dakota are not made for blocking bone-chilling wind that swirls and piles snow into immense drifts. Other areas in the northern climate and those at much higher elevations are known to receive more snow than what North Dakotans can usually expect, but there are other factors that can make winter the most imposing season of the year. Mix in temperatures that are often below zero and you have weather that is not only adverse, but life-threatening.
The National Weather Service uses a Windchill Temperature index to describe the combination of cold temperatures and dangerous winds. The WCT is almost macabre in nature, calculating the dangers to human flesh exposed to winter elements. The best protective clothing available is often necessary to avoid the dangers presented by cold and wind.
A temperature of zero with a 15 mile per hour wind is not uncommon during the winter months in North Dakota, perhaps even quite tolerable to many residing in the state. However, warns the NWS, exposed skin can freeze in 30 minutes in such conditions. In colder temps and higher winds the chance of frostbite increases dramatically. Sometimes forecasts warn of death due to exposure. Stranded motorists are at particular risk. Those who opt to abandon their vehicles in the hopes of reaching shelter elsewhere are often found frozen to death mere yards away.
Weather forecasts, particularly those that warn of sub-zero temperatures and biting wind chills, should be taken seriously. Failure to do so can result in frostbite, hypothermia or death.
Wind chill effects animals too. Many pets are not bred for the extreme weather often experienced in North Dakota and can suffer from exposure. Wind chill rates heat loss from exposed skin. Wind chill does not effect inanimate objects. For example, if the air temperature is minus 10 and the wind is gusting from 20 to 25 mph, the temperature of a vehicle parked outdoors will not drop below minus 10.
In North Dakota winter officially begins on Dec. 21 each year. It is so designated because it is also the shortest day of the year in terms of daylight, just 8 hours and 20 minutes. For the remainder of the winter the amount of daylight increases each day.
Officially winter ends March 21, which is the first day of spring. By that date the amount of daylight increases to 12 hours, 10 minutes. The longest period of daylight of the year, June 21, marks the beginning of summer. On that day Minot receives 16 hours, 5 minutes of daylight almost double that of the first day of winter.
Despite what some snow shovelers may believe, when it comes to snowfall North Dakota does not receive more than anybody else. While no apologies are needed, a few facts prove interesting.
Minot's record winter snowfall total was 100 inches in 1950. The average for the city is 46.1 inches. However, as recently as 2010-11 snowfall totals of more than 100 inches were recorded at various points in North Dakota. Minot's record for snowfall in a single month is 27 inches set in April 1984.
Surprisingly, snowfall in Anchorage, Alaska differs little from North Dakota. The Anchorage record snowfall for a single winter occurred in 2011-12 at 134.5 inches. The least is 30.4 inches in 1957-58. The greatest single day snowfall in Anchorage is 22 inches on March 17, 2002.
The Black Hills of South Dakota is famous for spectacular scenery and monster snow events that completely drift over anything North Dakota has produced. Lead, S.D., located near the Wyoming state line, received a whopping 364.7 inches of snow during the winter of 1993-94. Lead's single day record snowfall is a 52-inch dump on March 14, 1973.
Snow totals over most of the rest of South Dakota do not come close to Lead. Conversely, much of South Dakota annually experiences what would be considered a very mild winter by North Dakota standards.
Further south, in Nebraska, winter weather is much shorter in duration and generally far less severe than that experienced in the Minot region. Lincoln, Neb., has recorded only five days since 1948 with more than 10 inches of snow on the ground. Lincoln's record snowfall would hardly be noticed here, 59.4 inches in the winter of 1914-15.
There's another tell-tale sign of how much more agreeable winter can be just two states south of North Dakota. A Nebraska regulation forbids any motor vehicle traffic on frozen lakes. Only under certain circumstances are snowmobiles and ATV's allowed on the ice. The reason? It rarely gets cold enough to create more than a few inches of ice on any body of water in Nebraska.
Ice thickness on lakes in North Dakota usually reaches two to three feet. Ice houses don't have to be removed from state lakes until March 15. Most lakes don't lose their ice pack until sometime in mid-April. Nearly all lakes in Nebraska were reported to be ice free earlier this week.
The difference, of course, is latitude. North Dakota is about as far north as it gets in the United States. Minot's average December temperature is 15.4 degrees. In January the average drops to 12.1 degrees. In February it rises to 17 degrees and in March to 19.4 degrees.
Meteorologists define winter to be the three months with the lowest average temperatures, meaning December through February in North Dakota. However, the reality is, we recognize winter as being much, much longer. Sometimes winter starts with cold temperatures and snow in October and can continue well into April. August remains the only month in which snowfall has not been seen in Minot.


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"from a former MOS8541 and Hunter reader"
First off, Carlos Hathcock, whom I have met, as a guest instructor at the school in 86 WAS NOT demeaned, etc. Read it to the end!. Yes it has a little too much gun tech jibber jabber, and there were a few plot/continuity flaws. Why we Snipers are getting all this TV and Movie and Book press is beyond me. Hunter has been writing since before gulfwar 1 and def. knows his stuff. At least his subjects and characters AGE! Some writers got jason bourne , jack ryan etc. aging 10-15 years over a 30 year period! or worse aging 30-40 years over a 10 year period! Without spoiling the plot/end the "Irish" team were a little too obvious.
Dept Q, Harry Hole... where are you?
"I Wanted to Like It.."
First, I love the sniper characters. Some of the criticisms I read before purchasing the novel were complaining about Hunter's politics, which appeared to them as right wing. This surprised me and intrigued me because, as a conservative, I constantly ignore the left leaning politics of most all of my favorite authors. I thought surely even liberals cringed at the actions of Jane Fonda during Vietnam, Bill Ayers' terrorist acts and Ted Turner's loony, chauvinistic, and extreme obsessions.
Nevertheless, I give this one 2 stars due lack of cleverness, poor narration, (did the reader have a cold?), and very poor character development.
"Bob Lee... Superman???"
Hunter has gotten away from the Bob Lee in Point of Impact as a real world character with plausable scenarios and gone to turning him into a cross between Sherlock Holmes and Superman. Still exciting but getting out of the original realm.
"tactical culture"
It may not be the greatest literature, but it is well-written enough to hold my attention from start to finish, and Buck Schirner does a great job bringing to life the story and its sometimes memorable characters. ..... Maybe I was unknowingly responding to what this book calls "tactical culture" when I first noticed my interest in the sniper storyline in "The Janson Directive." I was amazed to learn of the physics knowledge, skills and personalities of the military/law-enforcement sniper. I then went from Ludlum to Hunter, thoroughly enjoying "Point of Impact" (narrated by Beau Bridges) The movie version, starring Mark Walburg, presented a younger Bob Lee Swagger than I had been imagining, but he was quite believable in the role). "I, Sniper" takes place 10 years later, when Swagger's expertise (nicely detailed) is called upon by the FBI in their attempt to bring to justice the perpetrator what of seems to be a serial sniper murderer. I enjoyed the true-to-life characters (also a characteristic of "POI"), and I recommend the book as an entertaining read.
"He is back!"
If you like Stephen Hunter novels and Bobby Lee Swagger you will enjoy this book. I usually try to listen to a book over a couple weeks so I stretch my 1 credit per month. This book I finished in a days. As good as any Daniel DaSilva with Alon or David Balducci trilogies. Enjoy.
Dont let the narrarator ruin your listening to a good book! I read waaay to many "critics" who go on and on about a bad narrarater, so what!
"NOT disrespectful to Carlos Hatchcock"
First before the review, having been an 8541 for many years in the 80s, and having had Hatchcock as a guest instructor, I can say that this book is NOT disrespectful to him, yes in the beginning he is shown as a patsy etc. BUT read/listen to the whole book!
The book is sort of a conspiracy type plot and yes the characters from hunter's older books are probably too old to do what they do in this book, but its not bad. Yes hunter does over detail the weapons etc. but he ALWAYS does that so its not a surprise. Curious to see how the newer characters are developed in future books as replacements for Swagger/Memphis.
Regarding the ANTI LIBERAL bias, of course! Most of the leftists killed in the book got what was coming to them, better late than never I guess. Hunter is pro second ammendment etc. If libs dont like the "bias" maybe they shouldnt read the book but read the constitution instead.
Retired Army, avid listener
"A little short of a full load...."
I am a fan of Bob Lee- not sure what has happened to Stephen Hunter this time around. A little too much detail on all the gun technology, something a few gun smiths would enjoy, but it dragged on without adding to the story. The bad guys get the technology, it is a little too far off for me to enjoy, and it made the ending predictable. At least towards the end the pace picked up before I put this book down. His other books I would rate higher- this one really dipped and I can not recommend it.
"Well done narrative. Good book."
Better than what Hunter's work has been of late. More in the tone of the original Point of Aim. He gets all the technical stuff right. One of the few.
"Sounds like a commercial at times"
I find the whole premise for how the case is is broken a little questionable. No such thing as a perfect rifle and perfect ammo. Everything induces small errors. (Trying to be vague so as to not give anything away) Anyway 200-300 yards are hardly challenging shots requiring sniper gear.
Seems like excessive gear and and brand name dropping; way beyond being detailed to almost feeling like a commercial.
Really liked the part about how the newspaper's accusations ended and the details of authenticating a photo. Well done.
"Great novel, outstanding narrator"
This is a special genre, and Hunter is a master of it. The environment is good versus evil, with a traditional hero who is an expert with firearms. The technical details are accurate and informative.
The narrator is superb, making the dialogue with a large number of characters understandable, and keeping the plot moving.


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The Queen has been pleased to appoint Mrs Claire Hensman as Her Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant for the County of Cumbria to succeed Sir James Cropper, KCVO when he retires on 22nd December, 2012.
Firefighters in Cumbria are reminding communities celebrating the Diwali festival to light up safely.
Letters have started going out to more than 60,000 Cumbrians who will need to renew their NoWcards for concessionary bus travel between now and the end of March 2013.
For nearly two centuries the gruesome tale of the Muncaster Boggle has been at the heart of ghost stories in the west of the county and next week it'll come under the spotlight for the latest celebration of Cumbria County Council's Archives Service.
The next meeting of Cumbria County Council's Barrow Local Committee will take place on Wednesday 7 November.
Cumbria County Council are ensuring the safety of the public and residents in South Lakeland by carrying out works on dangerous trees in the area over the Autumn.
Firefighters in Carlisle are teaming up with the police to help clamp down on anti-social behaviour over the Halloween and Bonfire Night period.
Today sees the official opening of Silloth's new Local Links (Wednesday, 24 October 10:30am) – a one-stop-shop for local services.
In November 2011 inspectors from Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service's Fire Protection team carried out a joint inspection with the UK Border Force, Cumbria Police and Carlisle City Council's Environmental Health Department, on the Shaha Restaurant in Botchergate, Carlisle.
The new headquarters for Cumbria County Council Fire and Rescue Service got the royal seal of approval yesterday (22 October) when the new building was formally opened by Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal.
Householders across Cumbria will be urged to push the button, not their luck when the clocks go back this weekend.
The Cumbria Police Authority will be replaced by an elected Police & Crime Commissioner (PCC) in November 2012.
On 15 November 2012 everyone in Cumbria who is eligible to vote will be invited to elect their first Commissioner.
Cumbria County Council has this week raised £63k to bring back into the council's budget after a collection of 19th and 20th century weights and measures sold for more than double the expected amount at auction.
An official opening ceremony will be held for the new Northside Bridge in Workington on Monday 22 October at 1pm. The public are invited to come along to the north side of the bridge for 1pm.
Parents with children about to enter their next stage of schooling are being advised by the council's school admissions team to apply now for a school place for a better chance of getting their preferred choice.
A vintage bus will be visiting towns around Cumbria as part of a drive to recruit new adoptive parents during National Adoption Week.
Cumbria County Council and Carlisle City Council will be seeking views from members of the public about on-street parking in the city centre's Historic Quarter and in Disc Zones A, C, and D and E and how they think it can be improved.
Cumbria County Council is putting on a free business management training opportunity on Thursday 25 October in Penrith.
Six of Cumbria County Council's care homes have struck gold for standards in dementia care.
Cumbria County Council is setting out its flagship programme to support people in communities who need extra help with small jobs they struggle to do themselves.
Cumbria County Council's Trading Standards and Fire and Rescue Services have once again joined forces with Cumbria Police in the lead up to the firework sales period to remind retailers to be vigilant and ensure that fireworks are not sold to anyone under the age of 18.
Cllr Eddie Martin, Leader of Cumbria County Council, said:
20 young people are set to start a new career path as they begin an apprenticeship in the county council's highways department.
Two of Cumbria County Council's libraries have been picked from hundreds of applications to be two of only 24 libraries on the English and Welsh leg of the Children's Laureate Libraries Tour this autumn.
Cumbria County Council's Fire and Rescue Service staff, volunteers and partners have been honoured for their life-saving work at the service's sixth annual awards ceremony.
Cumbria County Council's Cabinet member responsible for transport is welcoming the confirmation from Government that it is entering into talks with Virgin Trains to run services on the West Coast Main Line for at least another nine months.
One of Cumbria's most successful and trusted businesses has become a member of Cumbria County Council's Trading Standards 'Buy With Confidence' scheme in recognition of their fair and honest business practices.
Cumbria County Council's Fire and Rescue Service will now be able to offer enhanced road safety education to students across the county thanks to a new batch of laptops.
One of Cumbria's most successful and trusted businesses has become a member of Cumbria County Council's Trading Standards 'Buy With Confidence' scheme in recognition of their fair and honest business practices.
Firefighters in Carlisle and Barrow will be equipped with new state-of-the-art vehicles to add to their fleet collection.
Carlisle East and Barrow Fire Stations are taking delivery of Volvo-built fire appliances to boost firefighting and rescue capabilities.
Firefighters in Carlisle East and Barrow Fire Stations are taking delivery of Volvo-built fire appliances to boost firefighting and rescue capabilities.
Cumbrian firefighter Mike Barton has been selected as a finalist in The Daily Mirror's Pride of Britain awards.
Cumbria County Council's Fire and Rescue Service this morning attended a fatal house fire in Penrith.
Cumbria County Council is set to sell a collection of 19th and 20th century weights and measures, potentially raising around £30k which will be put back into the Trading Standards budget.
New foster carers are needed in Kendal and South Lakeland to help transform the lives of vulnerable children.
Cumbria County Council has published details of councillors' allowances and expenses for 2011/12.
Electric blanket testing by Cumbria County Council has shown that more than half of the blankets tested were faulty.
New foster carers are needed in Wigton and Aspatria to help transform the lives of vulnerable children.
Cumbria County Council's Cabinet member responsible for transport is urging the Government to quickly confirm how rail services will be delivered on the West Coast Main Line, following the announcement that the competition to run trains on the line has been cancelled following the discovery of "significant technical flaws" in the way the f
The three Cumbrian councils involved in the Managing Radioactive Waste Safely (MRWS) process are asking the Government for further information and clarity before making a decision on whether take part in a search to see if there is a suitable site in the Allerdale or Copeland areas for a repository for the country's higher activity radioac
The views and experiences of informal carers are needed to develop carer support services in Cumbria.
A group of enterprising Cumbrian school pupils will be heading to the heart of Government this month to pick up a prize for their entrepreneurship.
Councillors from Cumbria County Council's Local Committee for Copeland have agreed to more than £37k worth of funding for projects and schemes in their local communities.


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DeVine, Lip Shimmers, Rose / Merlot, 2 Pack, 0.07 oz (2 g) Each (Discontinued Item)
Shipping Weight:?0.07 lbs (0.03 kg)Shipping WeightThe Shipping Weight includes the product, protective packaging material and the actual shipping box. In addition, the Shipping Weight may be adjusted for the Dimensional Weight (e.g. length, width & height) of a package. It is important to note that certain types of products (e.g. glass containers, liquids, fragile, refrigerated or ice packed) will often require protective packaging material. As such, these products will reflect a higher Shipping Weight compared to the unprotected product.
- Product Code: DVL-00104
- UPC Code: 856584001045
- Package Quantity: 2 Pack, 0.07 oz (2 g) Each
- Dimensions: 0.5 x 2.8 x 4.8 in, 0.05 lbs (0.02 kg)
- Look DeVine with Benefits from Wine
- 100% Natural
- Grape Seed Oil
- Resveratrol
- Red Wine Antioxidants
- Alcohol Free
- Gluten Free
- Cruelty Free
- No Pesticides, Parabens, or Other Unkind Chemicals
Contains 2 Lip Shimmers
- Rose
- Merlot
We have taken the timeless beauty and benefits of wine and unleashed them into DeVine Lip Shimmers. Wine grapes contain Polyphenols, which are known to fight free radicals and helps prevent cell damage. We have also added Resveratrol, a powerful antioxidant derived from red wine and grape seed oil, which was treasured by the Egyptians and praised by Greek philosophers making it a truly ancient beauty secret.
DeVine Lip Shimmers feature the finest quality 100% natural ingredients available, for a truly natural balm for beautiful and healthy lips.
Tasting Notes:
Merlot - Deep Red Berries enhance feeling bold & dramatic! The soft Berry finish shimmers to a smooth and luscious conclusion.
Rose - Soft Pink hue for a more subtly exciting look. The light fruit finish makes this a perfect every day lip shimmer.
Sunflower oil (helianthus annuus), beeswax (cera alba), castor oil (ricinus communis), coconut oil (cocos nucifera), shea butter (butyrospermum parkii) fruit, grapeseed oil (vitis vinifera), natural flavors, candelilla wax (euphorbia cerifera), mica, iron oxide, tocobiol, resveratrol (pichia/resveratrol) ferment extract, titanium dioxide (only rose).
Rose: Very frosty light beige/mauve. Exactly the color on the cap. Strange smell: like a mix of kiwi & rose. One thin, light coat is best. I have pale skin, blonde hair & this color washes me out, especially when two coats are applied. Merlot: Medium pink (on lips). Smells fruity. The nicer of the two colors, for sure. One light coat is best; two coats make it appear patchy & it's hard to get a smooth color without overloading on it. And this is not the kind of lipproduct you want to go heavy on. These are alright. Not too much color, more frost. Easy to overapply, hoping for a deeper color... & ending up with too much of an 80's look. These don't feel too moisturizing, basically a lip tint. Can feel 'cakey' and drying if too much is applied, so I wouldn't recommend that. For a very light coat, they're just okay. Less moisturizing than a lipbalm, less shine than a lipgloss, less color than a lipstick. But on the positive side, at least the color is not sticky on the lips! Nice that they're gluten free & a good price, but would not repurchase. If they were sold in singles, might rebuy the merlot shade.
too much shimmer, but this is very pigmented and softer lips. maybe someone like it!
Lip Shimmers
Posted by 5671014467253561572 on Oct 20, 2013
These lip shimmers are OK, not really what I was expecting, I would say they are more of a lip balm, not a shimmer.
Love them both
Posted by 5602475129292382614 on Oct 10, 2013
The co,our is beautiful, and can be put on eachother, smells amazing as well
No repetiré...
Posted by 5078071664595423520 on Jul 31, 2013
No me han gustado ni el olor, ni el color...
No bad
Posted by 5273975919164953863 on Jul 15, 2013
Is fine
Lèvres soignées à croquer !
Posted by 5155015415438185141 on Jul 15, 2013
Super natural formula, beautiful shimmer colours, divine fragrance, more than affordable price, super sweet healthy lips : a must-have :) !


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The two credit union trade associations began their relationship in 2004
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Less than a year after officially signing the WOCCU
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What is a SIMPLE IRA?
A SIMPLE IRA plan is a Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees. The plan gives small employers a simplified method to make contributions toward their own and their employees retirement. Under a SIMPLE IRA plan, employees can choose to make salary reduction contributions to the plan rather than receiving these amounts as part of their regular pay. In addition, as their employer you must contribute matching or nonelective contributions.
A SIMPLE IRA plan is a retirement plan that uses SIMPLE IRAs for each eligible employee. Under a SIMPLE IRA plan, a SIMPLE IRA must be set up for each eligible employee. You can set up a SIMPLE IRA plan only if you had 100 or fewer employees who received $5,000 or more in compensation from you for the preceding year.
Deducting contributions to a SIMPLE Plan: You can deduct any contributions that you make to your employees' SIMPLE Plans. In addition, your employees can exclude these contributions from their gross income. SIMPLE IRA plan contributions are not subject to federal income tax withholding. However, salary reduction contributions are subject to social security, Medicare, and federal unemployment (FUTA) taxes. Matching and nonelective contributions are not subject to these taxes.
Simple IRA Contributions include salary reduction contributions and employer contributions: 1) matching contributions, or 2) nonelective contributions. No other contributions can be made to a SIMPLE IRA plan.
Salary Reduction Contributions: The amount the employee contributes to a SIMPLE IRA cannot exceed $12,500 in 2016 (not to exceed the employee's gross wages). If an employee participates in any other plan during the year and has elective salary reductions under those plans, the total amount of the salary reduction contributions that an employee can make to all the plans he or she participates in is limited to $18,000 ($24,000 if over age 50).
If permitted by the SIMPLE IRA plan, participants who are age 50 or over at the end of the calendar year can also make "catch-up contributions". The catch-up contribution limit for SIMPLE IRA plans for 2016 is $3,000.
The employer is generally required to match each employee's salary reduction contributions on a dollar-for-dollar basis up to 3% of the employee's compensation. This requirement does not apply if the employer makes nonelective contributions instead. An employer may choose to make a matching contribution less than 3%, but it must be at least 1% and for no more than 2 out of 5 years. The employer must notify the employees of the lower match within a reasonable period before the 60-day election period for the calendar year.
Nonelective contributions. Instead of matching contributions, an employer can choose to make nonelective contributions of 2% of each eligible employee's compensation. If the employer makes this choice, it must make nonelective contributions whether or not the employee chooses to make salary reduction contributions. An employee's compensation up to $265,000 (for 2015 and 2016; $270,000 for 2017) is taken into account to figure the contribution limit.
If the employer chooses this 2% contribution formula, it must notify the employees within a reasonable period before the 60-day election period for the calendar year.
Time limits for contributing funds. Employers must deposit employees' salary reduction contributions to the SIMPLE IRA within 30 days after the end of the month in which the employee would have received them in cash. They must make matching contributions or nonelective contributions by the due date (including extensions) of their federal income tax return for the year.


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I had a question regarding San Marzano tomatoes and the DOP designation.Some have posted that the La Bella brand of San Marzano should be avoided. While I understand they are not marked DOP, does anyone know whether these are from the San Marzano region of Italy. I have used this brand several times and they have been outstanding - they are sweet, they tomatoes have all been high quality and fully ripened, and you could eat them straight out of the can they are so good. The Pennsylvania Macaroni Company carries them also, so I thought that gave them some credibility. I will be traveling to New Jersey in July and planned to visit the distributor listed on the web.ThanksTom
I will be going to New Jersey in July to visit my parents, they live about 15 minutes away from the La Bella San Marzano importer, I can go over and knock on their door - apparently they sell out of a garage adjacent to their house from what someone posted
Just made one of my better sauces tonight with the La Bella san marzano's. My wife and the friend that I had over immediately commented on the sauce. I don't care if these are DOP or not, they taste really good. No acidic taste in this batch.
Scott,I've got a can of these I want to try. How did you make the sauce? Chopped, pureed? Seasonings? Did you use any of the liquid from the can? Thanks.Bill/SFNM