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Focus Areas
My group's research focuses on the development of novel methods for analyzing and modeling complex systems of all kinds and for extracting scientifically valuable insights from complex data. We are particularly interested in notions of collective dynamics, the emergence of patterns in random processes, population dynamics, and statistical forecasting. These efforts are fundamentally non-discplinary, sitting at the intersection of Computer Science, Physics, and Statistics, and with broad applications across the sciences.
Network Science
The quantitative study of networks has emerged as a fundamental tool for the
study of complex systems, in part for its ability to provide a rigorous
foundation to the study of biological and social complexity. Our
work here focuses on developing novel methods and models of large-scale
structure (regularities like modules, communities, and hierarchies) that can
be fitted directly to empirical network data, that account for auxiliary
information including vertex and edge annotations and temporal dynamics, and
that make precise predictions about missing information, anomalies, or future
Computational Social Science
The computer revolution is generating a revolution in the social sciences,
via both the collection of massive data sets on social behavior and newfound
ability to test complex theories with empirical data. These changes are
allowing us to examine old questions with new data and models and to pose
fundamentally new questions about large-scale patterns in social phenomena.
My group's work here focuses on patterns in global terrorism, the
dynamics of warfare and competition, and the way networks provide a way to
bridge the micro-dynamics of individuals and the macro-patterns of populations.
Computational Systems Biology
Fundamental questions in biology increasingly demand answers that consider
the interactions of different components or subsystems and the impact of
macroevolutionary forces on the large-scale and long-term dynamics of the
biosphere. This work spans all scales, including work with paleontologists,
epidemiologists, geneticists and microbial ecologists. My group's work
includes projects on mammal body size macroevolution, microbial ecologies,
and malaria.
- The misleading narrative of the canonical faculty productivity trajectory.
S. F. Way, A. C. Morgan, A. Clauset, and D. B. Larremore
Submitted (2017). - Revisiting the effect of red on competition in humans.
L. Fortunato and A. Clauset
Submitted (2016). - The Evolution of Primate Body Size: Left-skewness, Maximum Size, and Cope's Rule.
R. C. Tillquist, L. Shoemaker, K. B. Knight, and A. Clauset
Submitted (2016). - Using null models to infer microbial co-occurrence networks.
N. Connor, A. Barbaran and A. Clauset
Submitted (2016).
Publications (Refereed)
- The ground truth about metadata and community detection in networks.
L. Peel, D. B. Larremore, and A. Clauset
To appear, Science Advances (2017). - Eigenvector-based centrality measures for temporal networks.
D. Taylor, S. A. Myers, A. Clauset, M. A. Porter, P. J. Mucha
Multiscale Modeling and Simulation 15(1), 537-574 (2017). - Detectability thresholds and optimal algorithms for community structure in dynamic networks.
A. Ghasemian, P. Zhang, A. Clauset, C. Moore, and L. Peel
Physical Review X 6, 031005 (2016). - Structure and inference in annotated networks.
M. E. J. Newman and A. Clauset
Nature Communications 7, 11863 (2016). [NComms version] - Gender, productivity, and prestige in computer science faculty hiring networks.
S. F. Way, D. B. Larremore, and A. Clauset
Proc. 2016 World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 1169-1179 (2016). - Predicting sports scoring dynamics with restoration and anti-persistence.
L. Peel and A. Clauset
Proc. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 339-348 (2015). - Ape origins of human malaria virulence genes.
D. B. Larremore, S. A. Sundararaman, W. Liu, W. R. Proto, A. Clauset, D. E. Loy, S. Speede, P. M. Sharp, B. H. Hahn, J. C. Rayner, and C. O. Buckee
Nature Communications 6, 8368 (2015). - Assembling thefacebook: Using heterogeneity to understand online social network assembly.
A. Z. Jacobs, S. F. Way, J. Ugander and A. Clauset
Proc. ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci), article 18 (2015). [data supplement] - Safe leads and lead changes in competitive team sports.
A. Clauset, M. Kogan and S. Redner
Physical Review E 91, 062815 (2015). - Systematic inequality and hierarchy in faculty hiring networks.
A. Clauset, S. Arbesman and D. B. Larremore
Science Advances 1(1), e1400005 (2015). (code and data) (visualizations)
Perspective piece in Slate, with Joel Warner - Detecting change points in the large-scale structure of evolving networks.
L. Peel and A. Clauset
Proc. of the 29th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2914-2920 (2015). (download the code) - Learning latent block structure in weighted networks.
C. Aicher, A. Z. Jacobs and A. Clauset
Journal of Complex Networks 3(2), 221-248 (2015). (download the code) [JCN version] - Forecasting of the risk of extreme massacres in Syria.
A. Scharpf, G. Schneider, A. Noh and A. Clauset
European Review of International Studies 1(2), 50-68 (2014). - Efficiently inferring community structure in bipartite networks.
D. B. Larremore, A. Clauset and A. Z. Jacobs
Physical Review E 90, 012805 (2014). (download the code and data) [PRE version] - Exploring community structure in biological networks with random graphs.
P. Sah, L. O. Singh, A. Clauset and S. Bansal
BMC Bioinformatics 14, 220 (2014). - Scoring dynamics across professional team sports: tempo, balance and predictability.
S. Merritt and A. Clauset
EPJ Data Science 3, 4 (2014). [EPJ Data Science version] - Power-law distributions in binned empirical data.
Y. Virkar and A. Clauset
Annals of Applied Statistics 8(1), 89 - 119 (2014). (download the code) [AoAS version] - Body mass evolution and diversification within horses (family Equidae).
L. Shoemaker and A. Clauset
Ecology Letters 17(2), 211 - 220 (2014). - Estimating the historical and future probabilities of large terrorist events
A. Clauset and R. Woodard
Annals of Applied Statistics 7(4), 1838 - 1865 (2013).
(download the code; video lecture, November 2013). [AoAS version] - A network approach to analyzing highly recombinant malaria parasite genes.
D. B. Larremore, A. Clauset, and C. O. Buckee
PLOS Computational Biology 9(10), e1003268 (2013). [PLoS version] - Environmental structure and competitive scoring advantages in team competitions.
S. Merritt and A. Clauset
Scientific Reports 3, Article number 3067 (2013). (video presentation, Spring 2013) [SciRep version] - The Blood Trail of the Veto: A Forecast of the Risk of Extreme Massacres in Syria.
A. Scharpf, G. Schneider, A. Noh and A. Clauset
Zeitschrift fur Friedens - und Konfliktforschung 2(1), 6 - 31 (2013). [In German.] - Detecting friendship within dynamic online interaction networks.
S. Merritt, A. Z. Jacobs, W. Mason and A. Clauset
Proc. of the 7th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), 380 - 389 (2013). - Transformation of Social Networks in the Late Prehispanic U.S. Southwest.
B. J. Mills, J. J. Clark, M. Peeples, W. R. Haas Jr., J. M. Roberts Jr., B. Hill, D. L. Huntley, L. Borck, R. L. Breiger, A. Clauset, and M. S. Shackley
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 110(15): 5785 - 5790 (2013). - How large should whales be?
A. Clauset
PLOS ONE 8(1), e53967 (2013). [PLoS version] - Friends FTW! Friendship, Collaboration and Competition in Halo: Reach.
W. Mason and A. Clauset
Proc. of the 2013 Conf. on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 375 - 386 (2013). - The developmental dynamics of terrorist organizations.
A. Clauset and K. S. Gleditsch
PLOS ONE 7(11): e48633 (2012). (video lecture, Summer 2009) [PLoS version] - The performance of modularity maximization in practical contexts.
B. H. Good, Y.-A. de Montjoye and A. Clauset
Physical Review E 81, 046106 (2010). (download the code; video presentation, Fall 2010) - The Strategic Calculus of Terrorism: Substitution and Competition in the Israel-Palestine Conflict.
A. Clauset, L. Heger, M. Young and K. S. Gleditsch
Cooperation & Conflict 45(1), 6 - 33 (2010). [C & C version]- A generalized aggregation-disintegration model for the frequency of
severe terrorist attacks.
A. Clauset and F. W. Wiegel
Journal of Conflict Resolution 54(1), 179 - 197 (2010).- Power-law distributions in empirical data.
A. Clauset, C. R. Shalizi and M. E. J. Newman
SIAM Review 51(4), 661 - 703 (2009). (download the code)- On the Bias of Traceroute Sampling.
D. Achlioptas, A. Clauset, D. Kempe and C. Moore
Journal of the ACM 56(4), article 21, 28 pages (2009). [ACM version]- Evolutionary Model of Species Body Mass Diversification.
A. Clauset and S. Redner
Physical Review Letters 102, 038103 (2009).- Methodologies for Continuous Cellular Tower Data Analysis.
N. Eagle, J. Quinn and A. Clauset
Proc. 7th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive '09), 342 - 353.- How many species have mass M?
A. Clauset, D. J. Schwab and S. Redner
American Naturalist 173, 256 - 263 (2009).- Controlling across complex networks - Emerging links between networks and control.
A. Clauset, H. G. Tanner, C. T. Abdallah and R. H. Byrne
Annual Reviews in Control 32, 183 - 192 (2008).- The evolution and distribution of species body size.
A. Clauset and D. H. Erwin
Science 321, 399 - 401 (2008). [free reprint via Science]
Accompanying Perspectives piece.- Hierarchical structure and the prediction of missing links in networks.
A. Clauset, C. Moore and M. E. J. Newman
Nature 453, 98 - 101 (2008). (download the code) [Nature version]
Accompanying News & Views piece.- On the Frequency of Severe Terrorist Attacks.
A. Clauset, M. Young and K. S. Gledistch
Journal of Conflict Resolution 51(1), 58 - 88 (2007).
(First pre-print version: physics/0502014 in Feb. 2005; replication data) [JCR version]- Scale Invariance in Road Networks.
V. Kalapala, V. Sanwalani, A. Clauset and C. Moore
Physical Review E 73, 026130 (2006).- Molecular modeling of mono- and bis-quaternary ammonium salts as ligands at the a4b2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subtype using nonlinear techniques.
J. T. Ayers, A. Clauset, J. D. Schmitt, L. P. Dwoskin and P. A. Crooks
American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists Journal 7(3), E678 - 85 (2005).- Supervised Self-Organizing Maps in QSAR I: Robust behavior with underdetermined datasets.
Y. D. Xiao, A. Clauset, R. Harris, E. Bayram, P. Santago II, and J. D. Schmitt
Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 45(6), 1749 - 1758 (2005).- Finding local community structure in networks.
A. Clauset
Physical Review E 72, 026132 (2005).- On the bias of traceroute sampling; or, Power-law degree distributions in regular graphs.
D. Achlioptas, A Clauset, D. Kempe and C. Moore
Proc. 37th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) (Baltimore, May 2005).- Accuracy and Scaling Phenomena in Internet Mapping.
A. Clauset and C. Moore
Physical Review Letters 94, 018701 (2005).- Finding community structure in very large networks.
A. Clauset, M. E. J. Newman and C. Moore
Physical Review E 70, 066111 (2004). (download the code)- Genetic Algorithms and Self-Organizing Maps: A Powerful Combination for Modeling Complex QSAR and QSPR Problems.
E. Bayram, P. Santago II, R. Harris, Y. D. Xiao, A. Clauset and J. D. Schmitt
Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design 18(7-9), 483 - 493 (2004).
Workshop Papers
- A unified view of generative models for networks: models, methods, opportunities, and challenges.
A. Z. Jacobs and A. Clauset
NIPS Workshop on Networks: From Graphs to Rich Data (2014).- Change-point detection in temporal networks using hierarchical random graphs.
L. Peel and A. Clauset
KDD Workshop on Outlier Detection & Description under Data Diversity (2014). (download the code)- Social Network Dynamics in a Massive Online Game: Network Turnover, Non-densification, and Team Engagement in Halo Reach.
S. Merritt and A. Clauset
Eleventh Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs (MLG) (2013).- Adapting the Stochastic Block Model to Edge-Weighted Networks.
C. Aicher, A. Z. Jacobs and A. Clauset
ICML Workshop on Structured Learning (SLG 2013). (download the code)- Location Segmentation, Inference and Prediction for Anticipatory Computing.
N. Eagle, A. Clauset and J. Quinn
Proc. AAAI Spring Symposium, 20-25 (2009).- Persistence and periodicity in a dynamic proximity network.
A. Clauset and N. Eagle
DIMACS Workshop on Computational Methods for Dynamic Interaction Networks (Piscataway), 2007.- Structural Inference of Hierarchies in Networks.
A. Clauset, C. Moore and M. E. J. Newman
In E. M. Airoldi et al. (Eds.): ICML 2006 Ws, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4503, 1 - 13. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg (2007).
Preprints and Other Publications
- Data-driven predictions in the science of science.
A. Clauset, D. B. Larremore, and R. Sinatra
Science 355(6324), 477-480 (2017). [Science version]- Untangling the roles of parasites in food webs with generative network models.
A. Z. Jacobs, J. A. Dunne, C. Moore, and A. Clauset
Preprint, arxiv:1505.04741 (2015).- Synthesis aided design: The biological design-build-test engineering paradigm?
R. T. Gill, A. L. Halweg-Edwards, S. F. Way and A. Clauset
Biotechnology and Bioengineering 113(1), 7-10 (2016).- The Academy's Dirty Secret.
J. Warner and A. Clauset
Slate, published online 23 February (2015).- What Same-Sex Marriage Means for the Future of Recreational Weed.
J. Warner and A. Clauset
Pacific Standard, published online 24 October (2014).- Rejoinder of "Estimating the historical and future probabilities of large terrorist events".
A. Clauset and R. Woodard
Annals of Applied Statistics 7(4), 1895-1897 (2013). [AoAS version]- Adapting to Non-stationarity with Growing Expert Ensembles.
C. R. Shalizi, A. Z. Jacobs, K. L. Klinkner and A. Clauset
E-print, arXiv:1103.0949 (2011).- A Novel Explanation of the Power-Law Form of the Frequency of Severe Terrorist Events: Reply to Saperstein.
A. Clauset, M. Young and K.S. Gleditsch
Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy 16(1), Article 12 (2010).- Story-telling, Statistics, And Other Grave Scientific Insults.
A. Clauset
Nature Soapbox Science Blog, posted 27 October (2010).- A theoretician ponders what physics has to offer ecology.
A. Clauset
Nature 465, 139 (2010).- Multi-dimensional Edge Inference: Response to Comment by Dr. Adams.
N. Eagle, A. Clauset, A. Pentland and D. Lazer
Proc. of the National Academy of Science USA 107(9), E31 (2010).- Comment on Yu et al., 'High Quality Binary Protein Interaction Map of the Yeast Interactome Network.' Science 322, 104 (2008).
A. Clauset
E-print, arXiv:0901.0530 (2009).- How do networks become navigable?
A. Clauset and C. Moore
E-print, arXiv:cond-mat/0309415 (2003).- Chaos You Can Play In.
A. Clauset, N. Grigg, M. Lim and E. Miller
Proc. 2003 Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School (Santa Fe, July 2003).In the Press
Malaria genetics
University of Colorado (October 2015), Harvard School of Public Health (October 2015), Quanta Magazine (October 2015, by Veronique Greenwood).Network assembly
MIT Technology Review (April 2015), CompassBlogs (April 2015), InsightaaS (April 2015).Faculty hiring networks
Science Careers (February 2015, by Rachel Bernstein), University of Colorado (February 2015, by Laura Snider), Quartz Magazine (February 2015, by Sonali Kohli), Washington Post (February 2015, by Henry Farrell), Inside Higher Ed (February 2015, by Colleen Flaherty), Digressions & Impressions (February 2015, by Eric Schliesser), Always Researching (February 2015, by Mauricio Luque), Boston Globe (February 2015, by Carolyn Johnson), Santa Fe Institute (February 2015), AAAS News (February 2015, by Nadia Ramlagan), God Plays Dice (February 2015, by Michael Lugo), Daily Camera (February 2015, by Gloria Dickie), Another Word For It (February 2015, by Patrick Dorusau), Science in balance (February 2015, by Curt Rice), Daily Nous (February 2015, by Justin Weinberg), Wired (February 2015, by Sam Arbesman), Wired (February 2015, by Marcus Woo), Science20 (February 2015), Slate (February 2015, with Joel Warner), Cengage Brain (February 2015), The Daily Princetonian (March 2015, by Zaynab Zaman), Chronicle Vitae (March 2015, by Sarah Kendzior), Ritz Bitz (March 2015, by Anna Ritz), eight hundred words (March 2015, by Mike O'Connor), Brandeis University Press Release (March 2015), In the service of Clio (March 2015, by Nick Sarantakes), Science Political (September 2015, by Ramin Skibba), Nature (November 2015, by Erika Check Hayden), Science (March 2016, by Beryl Lieff Benderly), The Philosophers' Cocoon (March 2016, by Markus Arvan), Science Careers (April 2016, by Viviane Callier).Big data and data science
CU Engineering Magazine (May 2013), Slate (January 2014, by Joel Warner), Haverblog (February 2014), Vox (April 2015).Hierarchical structure and prediction of missing links
Nature (May 2008, by Sid Redner), SFI Press Release (May 2008), Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends (May 2008), Slashdot (May 2008), Science News (June 2008, by Julie Rehmeyer), BioEssays (July 2008, by Natali Gulbahce and Sune Lehmann).Power-law distributions
Nature Physics (May 2008, by Mark Buchanan), Wall Street Journal (July 2009, by Carl Bialik), Science (February 2012, by Michael Stumpf and Mason Porter), Slate (January 2016, by David Auerbach).Mathematics of terrorism
Nature News (February 2005), PhysicsWeb (February 2005), Die Welt (March 2005; in German), Nature News (July 2005), The Economist (July 2005), The Guardian (August 2005), The Why Files (June 2006), American Physical Society (APS) Bulletin (November 2006), SFI Bulletin (Spring 2008), arxivblog (February 2009), arxivblog (June 2009), Neue Zuercher Zeitung (June 2009; in German), Schneier on Security (January 2010), Discover Magazine (July 2010, by Andrew Curry), New Scientist (July 2010, by Kate Ravilious), Miller-McCune (December 2010, by Michael Haederle), Haverford Alumni Magazine (March 2011, by Michael Haederle), The Bengal Post (May 2011, by Sourabh Gupta), Scientific American (July 2011, by Katherine Harmon), Boston Globe (September 2011, by Leon Neyfakh), Economic Times (September 2011, by Hari Pulakkat), Technology Review (September 2012), io9 (September 2012), Daily Mail, MailOnline (September 2012), Wired (September 2012, by Sam Arbesman), Homeland Security News Wire (September 2012), Bloomberg News (April 2013), American Free Press (April 2013, by Dave Gahary), Financial Times (April 2013, by Gillian Tett), Westword (July 2013, by Joel Warner), 250words (February 2014, by Sam McNerney), Less Wrong (July 2014, by Vipul Naik), BBC Frontiers on Radio 4 (December 2014), Nature News (January 2015), Science Update (radio) (February 2015, with Bob Hirshon).Macroevolutionary patterns in species body size
LiveScience (July 2008, Clara Moskowitz), SFI Press Release (July 2008), Science News (July 2008), Science (September 2008, by Kaustuv Roy), CU Engineering Profiles (May 2012), Michael Eisenstein's Blog (January 2013), NeuroDojo (January 2013, by Zen Faulkes), Nature Physics (March 2013, by Mark Buchanan), SFI News (March 2013), The EEB & Flow blog (December 2013, by Caroline Tucker).Mapping the Internet
SIAM News (June 2005, by Sara Robinson)Team competition and dynamics
The Register (March 2012), arXiv blog (March 2012), Slashdot (March 2012), Snale Technology (March 2012), Slate (January 2014, by Joel Warner), The Diss. (January 2014, by Kevin Draper), Biztech (January 2014, by Ricky Ribeiro), syncsort (January 2014, by Mark Underwood), cabletv (January 2014, by John Dilley), Riverfront City Sports (July 2014, by Justin Gregg), SnapLogic (February 2015, by Nick Rojas), Improbable Research (May 2015, by Marc Abrahams), Futura Sciences (June 2015, in French), Slate (June 2015, by Marcus Woo), New Scientist (July 2015, by Gilead Amit), AMS Math in the Media (July 2015, by Allyn Jackson), Nature Physics (July 2015, by Andrea Taroni), AMS Mathematical Moments (podcast) (September 2015).Archeological social networks
University of Arizona Press Office (March 2013), SFI News (March 2013), Arizona Sonora News Service (May 2013). - A generalized aggregation-disintegration model for the frequency of


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Due to hydrodynamics and the lack of a set metal under track in the rides, there is no way possible to guarantee that a person sitting in seat #4 will not get wet, no matter what the ride operator tells you. The only ways to minimize your exposure to water are to:
This is where I spent most of my time for more than three months.
Yes, you must take everything with you. Yes, I know this is the only ride in the park with that rule. Yes, I know you have cell phones; everyone has cell phones. No, I will not hold your cell phone for five dollars. Yes, you have to wear clothes.
Working here was not really work. Above all, I did nothing. You see, of the five to eight positions we could work at, three involved sitting still, watching the rafts go by, and under no circumstances were we to be doing anything else. Mostly I spent this time desperately trying not to fall asleep. One of the best things this job did for me was to give me a much higher tolerance for boredom.
Things I Learned:
If the line is short, people will ride. It doesn't matter that it's 65 degrees Fahrenheit, it's raining, they have six cellphones, and they don't want to get wet. They will ride, and will most probably come back with pure hatred in their eyes.
If things go in the water, we will (usually) eventually get them back, but you probably don't want them after that; that water is gross.
No matter how loudly or often you repeat something over a loudspeaker, people will ignore you, but talking to them directly almost always works.
SuperCat is super awesome.
And most importantly, when you spend every waking hour around the same people for months, you'll make some really close friends.
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Tropical Fish Keeping - Aquarium fish care and resources
- Beginner Saltwater Aquariums
- - Crushed Coral or Aragonite Sand?
Crushed Coral or Aragonite Sand? What one would be better? I dont think i will need to give my tank information but if i do, just ask me. |
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The crystalline structure of Aragonite is more stable than the crystalline structure of the calcite in crushed coral. The crushed coral will produce a higher PH and greater hardness than the Aragonite sand. TR |
Which is better for live rock with some corals and fish? |
well i will use de-ionized water with instant ocean saltmix. Wont that provide the nessicary hardness, buffer, and ph? |
You wanr aragonite. CC traps to many waste products in between all the openings. Aragonite is about the perfect size for allowing water circulation without the ability to trap large particulate wast. |
yes, go with the aragonite not the crushed coral. like most, when we started we used cc. it wasnt it there for long before we took it out. and i will never use it or reccommend it to anyone. |
the thing about the aragonite is that a lot of times you need to use a buffer, they were talking about that more indepth here . you guys are mentioning different materials, but is there something alive you can put in the tank to cause the same effect? |
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I wanted to get back to a comic that was pretty far away from the MMA story so what better to go to than a George eating kids strip.
My sister doesn't like when I have George eat kids in the strip.
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Unattended Juicy-Juice boxes will be confiscated. This one was shortly detonated on the tarmac inside a special containment box made out of graham crackers.
Photo essay continues inside…
No one will guess the terrorist plot inside my hardening nipples.
The caption for this photo read, "An unidentified man sprays cologne on himself before throwing it into a trash can while waiting to board a flight." But you know it's totally staged to support a liberal media bias.
What's this so-called, "International Section?"
Miami-Dade ensures you don't get get thirsty.
If you don't obey her bullhorn, she will totally shove the Canada Dry and Pepsi up your ass. BOOM sucka!
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An international research team has documented the link between the way an animal moves and the dimensions of an important part of its organ of balance, the three semicircular canals of the inner ear on each side of the skull. The team's article on its research will be published on 26 June in the print edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and in the journal's online early edition during the week of 18 to 22 June.
"We have shown that there is a fundamental adaptive mechanism linking a species' locomotion with the sensory systems that process information about its environment," says Alan Walker, Evan Pugh Professor of Anthropology and Biology at Penn State University, one of the team's leaders. The researchers studied 91 separate primate species, including all taxonomic families. The study also included 119 additional species, most of which are mammals ranging in size from mouse to elephant, that habitually move in diverse ways in varied environments.
The project is the first large-scale study to document the relationship of the dimensions of the semicircular canals to locomotion. These structures are filled with a fluid, which moves within the canals when the animal moves. The fluid's movement is sensed by special cells that send signals to the brain, triggering the neck and eye muscles to reflexively keep the visual image stable.
The basic hypothesis of the project was that the organ of balance -- which helps stabilize an animal's gaze and coordinate its movements as it travels through the environment -- should be irrevocably linked to the type of locomotion produced by its limbs. "If an animal evolves a new way of moving about the world, its organ of balance must evolve accordingly," Walker explains. From the visual information, the animal tracks its position relative to stationary objects such as tree trunks, branches, rocks or cliffs, or the ground. Having a stable image of the environment is espe cially crucial for acrobatic animals that leap, glide, or fly.
To make the discovery, the scientists scanned skull samples of each species, measuring the size of each semicircular canal and calculating the radius of curvature. Most of the specimens were scanned at the Center for Quantitative Imaging at Penn State on the OMNI-X high-resolution x-ray CT scanner, which can resolve features approximately 1/100 the size of those detected by medical CT scanners. In addition, experienced field workers used personal knowledge or film of animals in the wild to classify species into one of six locomotor categories ranging from very slow and deliberate to fast and agile. The scientists then compared the canal size of each species to its category of movement.
The results revealed a highly significant statistical relationship between the radius of curvature of the semicircular canals and the species' habitual way of moving. More acrobatic species consistently have semicircular canals with a larger radius of curvature than do slower-moving ones. For example, a small, fast-moving leaper like a bushbaby has semicircular canals that are relatively and absolutely much bigger than those of the similar-sized, slow-moving loris. However, because larger animals have absolutely larger canals, the analysis had to take body size into account. The research revealed that this functional tie between the semicircular canals and locomotor pattern is evident both within the primates alone and within the entire mammalian sample.
"How an animal moves is a basic adaptation," says Walker, an expert in primate locomotion. "Now we have a way to reconstruct how extinct species moved that is completely independent of analysis of the limb structure. For the first time, we can test our previous conclusions using a new source of information."
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Allied Carpets, the UK's second biggest flooring retailer, collapsed into administration yesterday, putting more than 1,100 jobs at risk as the depressed housing market claimed another high-street name.
Some 51 of the company's 217 shops were immediately sold to Allied Carpets Retail Limited by the administrators BDO Stoy Hayward, as was the group's insurance inspection business. The move will protect more than 400 jobs, the administrators said yesterday, and the aim will be to sell on the remaining stores as going concerns over the coming weeks.
All staff wages, customer deposits and outstanding orders from any of the chain's shops are safe, the administrator said.
Allied Carpets joins a list of well-known furnishing chains to be devastated by the downturn, with some retailers reporting double-digit declines in sales. The furniture giant MFI collapsed in November last year. Then rival Land of Leather followed suit in January. And Carpetright, Allied Carpet's biggest competitor, saw pre-tax profits plummet by 72 per cent in the year to May as sales dropped by 13 per cent.
Dermot Power, a restructuring partner at BDO Stoy Hayward, said: "Allied Carpets is a well established brand in the marketplace but, like many companies, has suffered because of the economic climate and difficult trading conditions. The stagnation of the housing market has meant that fewer people are buying carpets and flooring."
A struggling Allied Carpets was bought by Sigma Capital Investment, an offshore vehicle of the retail debt specialist Hilco, in March, just a day ahead of the second-quarter rent day and an expected £8m bill. The group's French owner, Tapis Saint-Maclou, put the company up for sale before Christmas and is understood to have pumped in £15m of working capital in the run-up to the sale. Tapis Saint-Maclou, which is controlled by the Mulliez family, bought, and delisted, the chain in 1999 for £84.2m. It is understood to have run up losses of more than £40m in the following 10 years.
Clive Hutchings, the chief executive of Allied Carpets Retail Limited, said: "Allied Carpets is a good business, and through this sale and additional funding, both the retail and inspections businesses now have the opportunity to strengthen their respective market positions, build on the Allied brand and ensure an ongoing commitment to unrivalled customer service."
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MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: MicroLoan Foundation Launches Solar Power Pilot Project in Malawi to Serve Women in Microfinance Groups
MicroLoan Foundation, UK-based nonprofit that works to promote entrepreneurship among women in sub-Saharan Africa, has launched a pilot project in Malawi's rural Kasungu region that is designed to provide women entrepreneurs with an opportunity to tackle the problem of an unreliable electricity supply [1]. Nine members from the foundation's microfinance groups have been selected to receive an array of solar products including a 1.5 watt solar panel, an LED light, a mobile phone battery charger and battery pack which stores the solar energy for use when the sun is not out. The woman can choose to either sell or rent out the products. The "solar entrepreneurs" were selected based on their successful business background including their ability to sell new products. The women attended a three-day training workshop at which they learned how the panels work, how to repair faulty units, how to charge clients' mobile phone batteries, how to identify clients and how to keep records of their sales.
MicroLoan Foundation provides women entrepreneurs the opportunity to start small businesses and has branches in Malawi, Zambia and Namibia. As of 2009, MicroLoan Foundation reported having disbursed 38,700 loans to approximately 20,000 women. 37,900 of the loans were issued in Malawi.
By Nisha Koul, Research Associate
About MicroLoan Foundation: MicroLoan Foundation is a UK-based nonprofit focused on sub-Saharan Africa with the mission "to help poor rural women set up businesses to generate income to feed and look after their families." As of 2010, the foundation reported branches in Malawi, Zambia and Namibia. The MicroLoan Foundation does not report financial data to US-based nonprofit Microfinance Information Exchange (MIX). As of 2009, MicroLoan Foundation reported having disbursed 38,700 loans to approximately 20,000 women. 37,900 of the loans were issued in Malawi.
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[1] MicroLoan Foundation, "Malawi's Solar Women," http://www.microloanfoundation.org.uk/success-stories/case-studies/11-09-26/Malawi_s_Solar_Women.aspx
MicroCapital.org story, October 1, 2011, "MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Prathama, Aryavart Gramin, Gomti-Kashi Banks Bring Solar Lighting to India's Rural Villages Through Microfinance," http://www.microcapital.org/microcapital-brief-prathama-aryavart-gramin-gomti-kashi-banks-bring-solar-lighting-to-india%e2%80%99s-rural-villages-through-microfinance/
MicroCapital.org story, July 19, 2010, "MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Invests $1.8m in Solar Panels in Nepal, to be Distributed via Microloans Disbursed by Ace Development Bank, Provider of Microfinance and Traditional Banking Services," http://www.microcapital.org/microcapital-brief-united-nations-environment-programme-unep-invests-1-8m-in-solar-panels-in-nepal-to-be-distributed-via-microloans-disbursed-by-ace-development-bank-provider-of-microfinance-and/
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Both Survivor Thailand and The Amazing Race 3 conclude next week, but we won't have to wait long for the next season of each show. Survivor Amazon is expected to debut Thursday, Feb. 13, while The Amazing Race 4 may debut on Wednesday, Feb. 26; it's possible that the show might be moved up an hour to 8 p.m. rather than its current 9 p.m. timeslot, according to The Hollywood Reporter. That would move it away from The Bachelor.


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Abdullah Mahhaden was arrested around four hours after he managed to escape from a police crackdown on an anti-government protest in Amman on 31 March 2012.
The demonstration had been calling for the release of seven activists. The 25 year-old accountant-turned-activist had wanted to make his voice heard. He ended up at the city's main police station, where he says he was beaten by as many as 20 police officers.
"I was the last one to get caught that night," Mahhaden told The Independent. "The police started asking me, 'Why were you demonstrating? How did you know about the demonstration? Who organised it?'. I said, 'I forget', so they beat me.
"They slammed my face at the wall, they slammed me into a photocopy machine, they were swearing at me all the time. They forced me to take my clothes off and beat me while I was naked. That was because I resisted giving them the PIN code to my mobile phone."
The issue of obtaining evidence through torture is at the heart of the British government's long-running efforts to deport Abu Qatada to Jordan, where he faces terrorism charges dating back to 1999.
Attempts to deport the radical Islamist cleric, who has been called al-Qa'ida's key UK figure, have been blocked by the UK and the European Convention on Human Rights on the grounds that "there remains real risk that evidence obtained by torture will be used against him".
The Home Secretary, Theresa May, said this week the Government had signed a mutual assistance treaty with Jordan, complete with new assurances on fair trials, to ensure Abu Qatada can be deported even if the Government's latest appeal to the Supreme Court is blocked.
The case has been watched closely in Jordan. Many feel it has cast a shadow across their country, not because of the implications for its justice system, but because the cleric links Jordan with extremism. "The [legal] issue is complex, but in terms of Islam it is very easy," says Mohammad al-Safadi, who works in a hotel in Amman. "He projects the wrong image of Islam. He is the complete opposite of people in Jordan. This is a moderate and modern place."
Mr Safadi likens Abu Qatada to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the late Jordanian leader of al-Qa'ida in Iraq, who claimed responsibility for suicide bombings in Amman in 2005 which left 60 people dead. He was killed in a US drone strike in 2006.
Hossam al-Kaid, from Aleppo, who studied law in Syria, also works in Amman and agrees: "In Jordan, there is a fear of people like Abu Qatada."
He says he would rather the radical cleric stay in the UK, but if he were to be sent back to Jordan, he believes he would receive a fair trial.
"This is a small country, but the law is very strong," Mr Kaid says. "King Abdullah II has a European mindset and democratic values. He gives rights for everyone." When asked whether he believes the treatment Abdullah Mahhaden received was fair, Mr Kaid says "personal mistakes" can happen. However, Mahhaden argues his case – and those of dozens of other detainees – show the international community cannot be sure Jordan will deliver on its promises regarding Abu Qatada.
After being beaten, Mahhaden spent 15 days in detention before he was released after King Abdullah II issued a royal pardon. He says he was later detained again in September, this time for 44 days.
Despite being a civilian, he faces trial in a state security court on charges of undermining the political regime for his role in the protest in March last year. He says he has also been charged with attending an "unpermitted demonstration", and with another offence "which is difficult to translate: having a big mouth. It is literally translated as 'having a long tongue'".
At a hearing this week, Mahhaden's lawyers submitted a memo to the court saying he refuses to speak to take part in the trial because he is a civilian. He is waiting for an answer.
Mahhaden attempted to press charges against the police for his mistreatment while in detention, but his case – heard in a police court – was dismissed on lack of evidence.
At the time, Jordan's Public Security Department described the accusations "baseless", and Mohammed Khatib, a spokesman for the police, said: "The Jordanian police do not torture, do not beat and any claim is a direct attempt to harm the image of Jordan."
Human rights advocates continue to claim otherwise. "Jordanian law already proscribes torture and the use of confessions obtained under duress, yet judges routinely accept these confessions," says Adam Coogle, Middle East researcher for Human Rights Watch. The organisation has in the past both praised the Jordanian government for its openness towards investigating human rights abuses in prisons, and criticised its insistence on paying little attention to the results of the investigations.
Mr Coogle has little faith in the mutual assistance treaty: "How can the UK expect Jordan to honour its promises when it fails to abide by its own laws?"
Muhhaden – like many Jordanians – believes Abu Qatada should remain in the UK. "If England gives back Abu Qatada, it is like a gift for the Jordanian government," he says. "It is like the English government sending a message to the world that it has ensured that there is no torture in Jordan. And that is not the truth."
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Effect of glucocorticoid receptor gene polymorphisms in Guillain-Barré syndrome
Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is a postinfectious immune-mediated polyneuroradiculopathy in which host factors influence disease susceptibility and clinical course. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) gene influence the sensitivity to glucocorticoids and are related to both microbial colonization and susceptibility to develop auto-immune disease. This genetic variation may therefore also influence the chance to develop GBS. In this study, we genotyped 318 GBS patients and 210 control subjects for five known SNPs in the GR gene. We could distinguish six different GR haplotypes of which two carried the BclI polymorphism: haplotype 1, which consists of the minor allele of BclI in combination with the common variant of TthIIII and haplotype 2, which carries the minor allele of BclI as well as the minor allele of TthIIII. The GR haplotypes were not related to susceptibility to develop GBS. Carriers of haplotype 2 had more frequently preceding diarrhea, serum antibodies to GM1 and GD1a, and more severe muscle weakness at entry. Haplotype 1 carriers had a significantly better prognosis. In conclusion, GR haplotypes are not a susceptibility factor for GBS. However, haplotypes carrying the minor allele of the BclI polymorphism were related to the phenotype and outcome of GBS.
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Keywords | Auto-immune disease, Glucocorticoid receptor, Guillain-Barré syndrome, Single-nucleotide polymorphism |
Persistent URL | dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1529-8027.2009.00216.x, hdl.handle.net/1765/24838 |
Journal | Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System |
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Dekker, M.J.H.J, van den Akker, E.L.T, Koper, J.W, Manenschijn, L, Geleijns, K, Ruts, L, … Jacobs, B.C. (2009). Effect of glucocorticoid receptor gene polymorphisms in Guillain-Barré syndrome. Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System, 14(2), 75–83. doi:10.1111/j.1529-8027.2009.00216.x


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They're like 1-8 since Dirks been back lol
Originally Posted by Sneakers This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote They're like 1-8 since Dirks been back lol but he is looking a helluva lot better tonight. I doubt he's been playing like this for all those games.
Feel like we could really use Carroll right now
Game got really interesting fast.... just put Al back in so I can go to bed.
sick move by burks, too bad he couldn't get the roll
Hayward, one of the key young players on our team, is having himself a ball game. Yet... Corbin has played Tinsley, Foye, Millsap, and Jefferson more time. Incredible. Because... We all know that Tinsley is the PG who will lead us to the promised land. We all know that Jefferson and Millsap are coming back this summer. We also know that Foye is going to be our best SG for the future, not Burks or Hayward. Duh. Corbin at its finest. Honestly... I don't watch these games anymore. And truly, I'm not missing much either. Same old same old. The only way we can get changes is if we stop watching this crap. Our once proud franchise is quickly becoming a joke... Like the Kings or Wizards. No identity and no plan whatsoever. Just put some product out there and try and turn a profit. sigh
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I Love watching Hayward, Favors , Burks & Kanter. Did anyone else notice Hayward yelling at Al again after Hayward made a 3. Al is just too dumb. I bet Al is gone.
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The Quadropolis Surround-Plugin is a VST effect Plugin dedicated to Quadraphonic Music. There was a lot of research on Quadraphonics back in the early 70s.
This Plugin simulates an anechoic chamber with 4 loudspeakers in it (starting from 45° in 90° steps). Within the soundfield there is - of course - the listeners head, which is simulated with a 512 Tap HRTF-Convolver (FIR-Filter). This causes high CPU-Load (about 50% @2GHz, but improvements are on the way).
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Defining authentication system security weaknesses to combat hackers
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a Unix login prompt, most systems' security relies solely on a valid user ID and password to prove one's identity. Since this is usually the only access requirement, it's worth putting your authentication system security practices under a magnifying glass to uncover any authentication weaknesses and see just how well they hold up to a curious hacker.
It's extremely common for hackers to try to brute-force their way into a system by guessing commonly used user IDs and passwords. It's a best practice to avoid using "admin," "test," "user" and any default user IDs. Common passwords to avoid are the user ID, "password," "pass" and any default passwords. Some systems make it easy for a user to discover a valid user ID, displaying a message when a logon failure occurs. Such messages may say, "Invalid user ID," telling the hacker that he or she should keep guessing user IDs. When a valid user ID is found, a malicious hacker may then be shown another revealing message, such as, "Invalid password." Ideally, a system's logon failure message should be generic, such as, "Invalid user ID or password," regardless of the reason for failure. Otherwise, the hacker could enumerate a valid user ID and start guessing passwords, looking for a weak one, which brings us to the next point.
Weak passwords are a significant authentication system security weakness. If at all possible, enforce password rules for every system on the network, especially for systems at the network border. Password and account rules should at least require a mix of letters and numbers, and should specify a minimum password length, password history, account lockout and password expiration. If possible, set password rules that do not allow a password to be the same as the user ID or the user's first or last name, as these are easy to guess. The goal is to force users to choose strong passwords.
To really beef up your authentication mechanism, you should enforce a two- or three-factor authentication system. Multifactor authentication means at least two different types of credentials must be submitted for a user to be authenticated. There are three categories of authentication factors: something you have, something you know and something you are. Each factor in the authentication mechanism should be from a different category than the others. In other words, a user ID and password is still one-factor authentication, since both pieces are something you know. Some valid combinations would be a key fob token and a PIN, a thumbprint and a password or a retina scanner and your voice.
By improving your authentication mechanisms you are making it tougher for hackers to brute-force their way into your systems. With the exception of multifactor authentication systems, the above recommendations should not cost much, if anything, to implement.
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This year's theme, Get Seizure Smart, call for Americans to learn to recognize the signs and symptoms of a seizure and know how to respond if someone is having a seizure. The campaign website,
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Band CNBLUE-Jung Yong Hwa Top Japan July Ringtone Chart Band CNBLUE's "Lady" and Jung Yong Hwa's "You've Fallen for Me" have both ranked number 1 on the Japan Ring Tone Weekly chart.
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Michael Jackson took one for the team.
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MJ stepped up – you really have to hand it to him. In sports parlance, you could say he "sacked up," but that might lead to all sorts of fanciful innuendo so I'll lay back in the cut on that one. He came out and put on a show that the whole world was ready and willing to take and embrace in its collective water cooler theatre. The military-industrial-media-infotainment complex (I like to call them MIMIC, but again, that's just me) really hit it out of the park by Selecting the aging whacko pop war horse. You've really got to hand it to them.
Indeed, after several smash rating seasons of OJ: He of the Bloody Glove, who would have thought the Gloved One himself could have Ascended to take the throne.
The Celebrity Trial Throne.
But that's the past. People want to see some action. People are fickle. People want to see sex and scandal and gore and analysis and Crisis.
And they also want to see courtside reporters and breaking news and wonderful blissful logos and neon and interrupted broadcasts (General Hospital can wait, no worries there) and magic caustic wisdom by People Who Profess to Know.
The Hangover Times have already begun. It's been a good run, a good decade really, filled with OJ and Peterson and Kennedy(s) and That Guy From That Show From Back in the Day and That Other Music Producer Dude.
And on and on.
But can a new celebrity be trotted out in time for the new season to begin?
Undoubtedly MIMIC is even now furiously working to bust out a Fall season of superstar scandal to bedazzle the ages.
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You would think that a film dedicated to the Goomba stompin' Mario Bros would easily be considered the greatest concept EVAR. But naturally,Hollywood has
its own unique way of crushing our childhood by making
a movie about the Mario bros as quick as humanly possible.
The film begins in a poorly made cartoon about the stoneage and how people didn't exist back then.
Just the memory of this makes hardcore Mario fans cringe:
Then,out of nowhere, a metorite strikes the Earth.
GOODBYE DINOSUARS.But what if the dinosuars were'nt all
destroyed? What if the impact of that metorite created a parrelle unverse where dinosuars thrive and continued to evolve into intelligent,agressive beings?!
And hey,what if they found a way back?
Oh yeah just like in the game.(I can't believe it took three
writers to come up with this.)
The movie was so awful that even the creator of Mario himself(Mr.Miyamoto)regrets the films creation)
The story is about Mario and Luigi, two Italian American plumber brothers living in Brooklyn, New York who are being driven out of business by the mafia-like Scapelli Construction Company. Mario is the elder of the two, being close to the late 40s, and Luigi is about in his early-mid 20s. Luigi falls in love with an orphaned NYU student, Daisy, who is digging under the Brooklyn Bridge for dinosaur bones. After a date, she takes Luigi to the dig and witnesses Scapelli's men (who, along with Scapelli himself, had previously threatened her to end her research on that specific piece of land for their own interests) sabotage it by leaving the water-pipes open. Luigi tries to stop it but he does not have his tools on him so he can not fix it. They rush back to his apartment where they inform Mario about the incident. The three go back to the flooding and the Mario Bros. manage to fix it but are knocked out by two strange characters, Iggy and Spike. The two crooks kidnap Daisy.
I think the movie budget was low because when they kidnap Daisy, they through her into a Taxi titled "Wiggler".I just don't get it,are they trying to piss us off ?
Another thing: why is Daisy in this movie and not Peach?
Princess Peach is in every single Mario game except Super Mario Land 1.
Nobody in the movie protrays there character correctly:
(Dennis Hopper)
He is supposed to be a giant Koopa not a T-REX as he claims he once was.He is also germophobic.(I just don't get it)
GOOMBA (This one is disturbing)What happened here?
DAISY (Samantha Manthis)
In the movie,she is an archaeologist.Why? I still don't know.
If not for the movies title,I would never have quessed that this is Mario bros.Bob Hoskins does a miserable job
at attempting to be Mario.Its like they gave him a mustache and that's it.
And, for one final kick in the face,Mario and Luigi aren't even brothers they are father and son!
But isn't the tittle of the movie Super Mario BROS?
The movie sucks and ends in a cliffhanger but, thank God there isn't a second movie.
If you want to watch this film then I dare you but be warned,you won't like it.
(NOTE:this is just my opinion,people)
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- AnonymousSeptember 24, 2011 at 5:29 PM
Amazing cards, Fran!
For some reason Blogger won't let me use my acc, so I'm going anonymous!
The 2nd last card...with aqua and green dots...is the writing your handwriting or a font? I love it!!
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I don't think I will ever forget Matthew's animal yelp of distress as he read a two-day old English newspaper in a Greek taverna on the tiny, peaceful island of Poros. "Sweet Lord Jesus, no," he wailed. "What have they done? God damn them all to hell, what have they done?"
Looking back on it now from the calm vantage point of several weeks later, I see that, wittingly or otherwise, Matthew was imitating, or even aping, Charlton Heston's reaction to finding the Statue of Liberty half buried in the sand at the end of Planet of the Apes. At the time, though, I did what everyone else in that taverna did; I stared at him in alarm and asked: "What is it, what is it? Please, tell me, what on earth has happened?"
Matthew lowered the paper and looked at me. His distress was palpable. He shook his head slowly from side to side and said: "It is not good news. Not good at all."
And then I started reading for myself and even in that instant I was aware that this would be a JFK/Princess Diana moment; that I would never be able to forget where I was or what I was doing when I learnt the truly shocking news...
Where were you when you heard that Carol Vorderman had left Countdown over a pay dispute? It is almost a month now since that media earthquake and the aftershocks continue to affect all of us. All of us, that is, in our particular household. How the rest of the nation is coping I have no idea, but we – Matthew, Louis and I – are not doing well. We suffer still on a daily basis and it doesn't look as if it's going to get better.
Louis and I would, I imagine, be doing fine if it weren't for the extraordinary effect that the announcement has had on Matthew and the knock-on effects of that effect. Why it has taken him this way I can't fathom, especially as he has not seen Countdown since the late Nineties. But, he says, that isn't the point. The crucial thing about Carol Vorderman, he maintains, is that she was one of the few surviving, immovable fixtures in British life, and that her absence "will affect us all in ways we won't understand. And one day in the not too distant future we will wake up feeling spiritually the poorer for her going."
As I have said to Matthew a number of times since that shocking afternoon in late July: "I can't quite see it myself." I can't quite see that her absence from our screens, especially as we never watched her anyway, will have such a resounding effect on our everyday lives. I admit I have never been a huge fan of Carol and I don't have a huge amount of sympathy for someone who was earning more than £1m a year for doing sums, although Matthew says this is a manifestation of my envy – and he could be right; I am what I like to call "numerically dyslexic". I can't add up, or multiply, or subtract, and I am not at all good at fractions. I must also be grateful that he has not suggested that I am jealous of her trim, size 10 figure.
Still, the fact that I am no great fan aside, I could accept her as a symbol of permanence in a fast-changing world. And I can admire her for the unflinching way she undertook her annual detox and promoted health-giving yogurt- based drinks. I must also commend her for her heroic efforts in helping the tragically indebted by advertising advantageous loan packages on the telly.
What I couldn't quite cope with was Matthew's startling announcement that I should be Carol's replacement on Countdown despite my failure to reach the mathematical standards expected of a pre-school child. A Professor Higgins glint came into his eye when he revealed his plan to transform me from innumerate dunce to genius mathematician and for three days he coached me until I was able to complete the famously tricky 11 times table, getting stuck only on 10 x 11; a confusing equation coming after the 77, 88, 99 pattern that I had brilliantly grasped quite early on.
Then one evening, as we watched The Weakest Link, Anne Robinson posed the question: "In mathematics, what is 58 plus 2?" and I, excited about my new-found skills, shouted out: "59!" Matthew looked morosely over at Louis, who had been drafted in to play the Wilfrid Hyde-White role in this version of "My Thick Lady", and they raised their eyebrows at one another, and Matthew said he was giving up on me.
What he has not given up, however, is his habit of relentlessly holding Carol up as a role model. Nothing I do is right these days. "Carol wouldn't roast a chicken like that," he will say, as I render the schmaltz, preparatory to putting it in the oven (as instructed by Nigella). Then, when I am driving, he says such things as: "No way would Carol still be in third gear on a gradient like this one."
Then, as I am relaxing in the evenings, he will ask me if I think Carol would be pouring herself a third gin and tonic. "Even out of detox season I don't believe she'd have finished the second, do you?" he queries. And out of desperation, I admit, I do pour myself a third gin and tonic.
So, in conclusion, no, I don't think that Matthew ever will let me forget where I was the day Carol Vorderman left Countdown.
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Friday, May 13, 2011
Mother's Day Brunch
The menu.
[All Photos - The Grower's Daughter]
Happy Friday Girls!
This past week has been a blur. Between my sister's wedding preparations and a trip out of town earlier this week, the days have just flown past!
But, I managed to sneak in a few minutes today (between batches of cupcakes for a shower tomorrow), to post quickly on my Mother's Day Brunch.
For the past few years (since I've been married), I've hosted a tea for my moms (and sisters), in celebration of Mother's Day. I like to go all out with little hors d'oeuvres and pretty tablescapes to make the day more special.
They always appreciate it and I always have a lot of fun planning and getting things ready.
Here are a few (actually, a ton) of photos from the morning.
Enjoy, and have a lovely weekend!
Fresh cut hicaynths made the room smell divine.
A few apple blossoms from a local orchard.
They where so pretty and made a lovely centerpiece.
The table - simple and white.
I found these gorgeous napkin rings on the clearance shelf at Pottery Barn. Each number from 1 to 6 is slightly different around the edge.
A few different kinds of loose tea made for a good selection for a special occasion. I wrote the names of each on little tags and tied them to the holder with twine.
Loose leaf tea balls were provided.
The selection for brunch.
(clockwise from the top)
Petite Croque Monsieur, Cherry Turnovers, Sweets, Mini Scones with an Assortment of Jams, French Toast Cups with Bacon and Maple Cream, and Petite Potato Pancakes with Creme Frais and Chives.
The Sweets - Petite Vanilla Bean Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream, Truffled Chocolate Brownies and Petite Rosewater with Vanilla Buttercream French Macarons (Yes! I got them! - - Post coming soon on those!)
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- justineMay 13, 2011 at 8:09 PM
Wow really pretty maria...wish i could do something like this!
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Devil's Machine. Mostly done by MatCab, with some ozwalled assistance to speed him up.
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I'd debated for a while on how to tackle the Soul-Consuming Flame, and finally decided on fewer flames and sort of inner glow. I was thinking of actual images I'd seen before of lava flows, with flames poking up at their surface.
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ozwalled | Sparkle and Shine |
Brushin' those chompers.
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A Smilin' Sphere.
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