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Cows, Carbon and the Anthropocene: Commentary on Savory TED Video
Guest post by Jason West and David Briske
Allan Savory delivered a highly publicized talk at a "Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED)" conference in February of this year (2013) entitled "How to fight desertification and reverse climate change." Here we address one of the most dramatic claims made – that a specialized grazing method alone can reverse the current trajectory of increasing atmospheric CO2 and climate change.
The talk was attended by many conferees and has since been viewed on the TED website over 1.6 million times. It has received substantial acclaim in social media, some of which is available at the Savory Institute website, but it has also received considerable criticism (of particular note is a blog post from Adam Merberg and an article in Slate magazine. Although these criticism quickly followed Mr. Savory's presentation and are broadly supported by the available science, his sweeping claims have continued to resonate with lay audiences. An apparent example is his invitation to deliver a speech to Swiss Re during their 150 year anniversary celebration in London in September, in which he is quoted as saying "…only now due largely to my TED talk on the desertification aspect of the global problem, was the public becoming aware of such hope in a world so short on solutions…".
As a result of the continuing discussion regarding this presentation, we felt compelled to interpret these claims within the context of Earth System science to facilitate broader discussions and evaluation. It is important to recognize that Mr. Savory's grazing method, broadly known as holistic management, has been controversial for decades. A portion of this controversy and the lack of scientific support for the claims made for his method on livestock productivity and grassland ecosystem function may be found in peer-reviewed papers (e.g. Briske et al. 2008). This presentation, however, argued for an additional application to climate change.
We focus here on the most dramatic claim that Mr. Savory made regarding the reversal of climate change through holistic management of grasslands. The relevant quote (transcript by author from video provided on TED website) is as follows:
"…people who understand far more about carbon than I do calculate that for illustrative purposes, if we do what I'm showing you here, we can take enough carbon out of the atmosphere and safely store it in the grassland soils for thousands of years, and if we just do that on about half the world's grasslands that I've shown you, we can take us back to pre-industrial levels while feeding people. I can think of almost nothing that offers more hope for our planet, for your children, for their children and all of humanity…"
While it is understandable to want to believe that such a dramatic outcome is possible, science tells us that this claim is simply not reasonable. The massive, ongoing additions of carbon to the atmosphere from human activity far exceed the carbon storage capacity of global grasslands.
Approximately 8 Petagrams (Pg; trillion kilograms) of carbon are added to the atmosphere every year from fossil fuel burning and cement production alone. This will increase in the future at a rate that depends largely on global use of fossil fuels. To put these emissions in perspective, the amount of carbon taken up by vegetation is about 2.6 Pg per year. To a very rough approximation then, the net carbon uptake by all of the planet's vegetation would need to triple (assuming similar transfers to stable C pools like soil organic matter) just to offset current carbon emissions every year. However, the claim was not that holistic management would maintain current atmospheric CO2 levels, but that it would return the atmosphere to pre-industrial levels. Based on IPCC estimates, there are now approximately 240 more Petagrams (Pg) of carbon in the atmosphere than in pre-industrial times. To put this value in perspective, the amount of carbon in vegetation is currently estimated at around 450 Pg, most of that in the wood of trees. The amount of carbon that would need to be removed from the atmosphere and stabilized in soils, in addition to the amount required to compensate for ongoing emissions, to attain pre-industrial levels is equivalent to approximately one-half of the total carbon in all of Earth's vegetation. Recall that annual uptake of carbon is about two orders of magnitude smaller than the total carbon amount stored in vegetation.
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Past Seasons
The Trojan Women, 2016
Spring Awakening, 2016
August: Osage County, 2015
The Learned Ladies, 2015
Brundibar, 2014
Richard III, 2013
Waiting for Godot, 2013
The King and I, 2012
The Beauty Queen of Leenane, 2012
Baby, 2012
As You Like It, 2011
Crimes of the Heart, 2011
The Secret Garden, 2010
Under Milk Wood, 2010
The Bacchae, 2009
Melancholy Play, 2009
Little Women, 2008
Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards, 2008
Measure for Measure, 2007
Endgame, 2007
A Little Night Music, 2006
Arcadia, 2006
Macbeth , 2005
The Frogs, 2005
Tintypes, 2004
How I Learned to Drive, 2004
The Merry Wives of Windsor, 2003
Hedda Gabler, 2003
Quilters, 2002
The Tempest, 2002
On the Verge, 2001
Meet Me in St. Louis, 2001
The Heiress, 2000
Proposals, 2000
Much Ado About Nothing, 1999
The Good Woman of Setzuan, 1999
Into the Woods, 1998
Black Comedy and The Bald Soprano, 1998
Dancing at Lughnasa, 1997
Antigone, 1997
Fiddler on the Roof, 1996
Blithe Spirit, 1996
King Lear, 1995
The Art of Dining, 1995
Lysistrata, 1994
A Streetcar Named Desire, 1994
Gypsy, 1993
The Heidi Chronicles, 1993
The Way of the World, 1992
The Fantasticks, 1992
Playboy of the Western World, 1991
A Lie of the Mind, 1991
A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1990
Les Liasons Dangereuses, 1990
The Dining Room, 1990
The Crucible, 1989
Antigone, 1989
House of Blue Leaves, 1988
Cabaret, 1988
Uncommon Women and Others, 1988
Three Sisters, 1987
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1962 - Picnic
1961 - Under Milk Wood, The Diary of Anne Frank
1960 - Royal Gambit
1958 - The House of Bernada Alba
1957 - GiGi, For the Time Being
1952 - Arms and the Man, The Corn is Green
1951 - Hansel and Gretel, The Rivals
1950 - Night Must Fall, Pelleas and Melisande, The House of Bernarda Alba, Julius Ceasar
1949 - Androcles and the Lion, Barretts
1948 - Kind Lady, Alice in Wonderland, Shadow and Substance
1947 - Great White Way, Berkeley Square, Pride and Prejudice, Dear Brutus
1946 - Jim Dandy, The Power of Fate, Happy Journey, Trial by Jury, The Seagull
1945 - Nine Girls, Imaginary Invalid, Family Portrait
1944 - The Playboy of the Western World, Fashion, Much Ado About Nothing
1943 - Ladies in Retirement, The Little Clay Cart, Our Town
1942 - Arms and the Man, Doctor Knock, Dr. Faustus
1941 - Androcles and the Loin, The Cradle Song, Peer Gynt, Alcestes
1940 - School for Husbands, Adding Machine, Riders to the Sea, Maker of Dreams, Marrige Proposal, As You Like It
1939 - She Stoops to Conquer, Abraham and Isaac, Sister Beatrice, Hay Fever
1938 - A Scrap of Paper, Archibald, St. Joan, The King's Daughter
1937 - The Haunted House, Sire de Maltroi'ts Door, Man of Destiny, Overtones, Pride and Prejudice
1936 - Twelth Night
1935 - Aria Da Capo, King Argimenes the Unknown Warrior, A Curious Mishap
1934 - Caesar and Cleopatra, Romeo and Juliet
1933 - A Thousand Years Ago, Smilin' Through
1932 - The Importance of Being Earnest, Dulcy
1931 - Pomander Walk, Broken Dishes, God Winks, A Minuet, A Little Play in Verse, Rehearsal
1930 - The Heart of Paddy Walk, You and I, Beau Brummel
1929 - Just Suppose, Quality Street, How Death Came Into the World, Hunger, The Kite
1928 - Smilin' Through, Little Old New York, The Patsy
1926 - Comus, the Importance of Being Earnest, When the Chimes Rang Out, The Romantic Age
1925 - Alice in Wonderland
1924 - Pomander Walk
1923 - Daddy Long Legs, The Charm School, Miss LuLu Bett
1922 - The Burglar, Suppressed Desires, the Maker of Dreams, Monsieur Beaucaire
1921 - Emily's Young Man, Three Pills in a Bottle, Mice and Men
1920 - Be Calm, Camilla, Merely Mary Ann
1919 - Secret Service, A Thousand Years Ago
1918 - The Pot of Broth, Helena's Husband
1915 - The Romancers, Arms & the Man, The Importance of Being Earnest, Little Princess
1914 - The Revenge of Shari-Hot-Su
1913 - The Twig of Thorn, A Rose o' Plymouth-town(?), The Colonels Maid
1912 - Captain Brassbound's Conversion, She Stoops to Conquer, Romeo and Juliet, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Quality Street
1911 - As You Like It, You Never Can Tell, Twelfth Night
1910 - Alice in Wonderland, The Mouse Trap, The Merry Jesters in the Land of Heart's Desire
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Fueled by the iPhone and iPad, Apple [AAPL] is in the enterprise -- most recently becoming mobile device vendor of choice for one of Microsoft's oldest enterprise allies, Lifetime Products.
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Once in a Lifetime
There was a time when Microsoft would turn to Lifetime in order to show the relevance and success of its products in the mid-sized enterprise segment.
How things change, just listen to Lifetime CIO, John Bowden, who tells CIO.com: "We love Apple. The bottom line is that Apple makes great products."
With over ten thousand employees, Lifetime cannot be seen as a small company with a lackadaisical approach to its IT purchasing decisions. On-site computers use a virtual desktop in order to protect data, USB ports are disabled and there's digital rights management systems and protocols to protect the firm's secrets -- it has suffered intellectual property thefts in the past, the report explains.
A long time Microsoft devotee, the company moved to adopt iPhones and iPads for its mobile solutions.
Why? Because so many of Microsoft's employees use these devices, even if they don't tell company boss, Steve Ballmer.
[ABOVE: Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, talks about iPad. Who feels inspired?]
Get ready for the 'iEnterprise'
A good story? A one-off? I think it is a sign of the times. That's because it isn't just this one company that's putting Apple's mobile solutions through their paces -- huge swathes of the corporate world are now deploying iPhones and iPads. Some in response to Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) culture, others as part of a corporate deployment.
It isn't as if we haven't seen this coming. Apple has been keen to ensure its iOS devices are suitable for enterprise users. The company even licensed Microsoft's widely-deployed Exchange ActiveSync technology to underpin its enterprise bid.
Peter Oppenheimer, Apple CFO speaking in October said: "93 percent of the Fortune 500 deploying or testing the device [iPhone], up from 91 percent last quarter and 60 percent of the Global 500 testing or deploying iPhone, up from 57 percent last quarter."
He also revealed that 92 percent of the Fortune 500 are testing or deploying iPad within their enterprises, up from 86 percent last year.
[ABOVE: Fly boys -- United Continental replace flight manuals with iPads.]
The Apple drops
For example, Lowe's is in the process of deploying over 40,000 iPhones all equipped with an app that will let store staff check inventories, product orders and share how-to videos with customers.
Big firms are buying into the iOS vision: L'Oreal, Royal Bank of Scotland, SAP, Texas Instruments, Jacobs Engineering Group, Tenet Healthcare, Jaguar Land Rover, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Lincoln National and CSX Corporation, to name a few.
There's some interesting uses being made:
- Medical device manufacturer Boston Scientific has distributed about 3,000 iPads to its field sales people and expects to buy 1,500 more by the end of the year.
- United Continental uses iPads to replace heavy, paper-based flight bags.
- All Nippon Airways use iPads in training programs for flight attendants.
- Sonic Automotive is using iPad for customer check-in and analytics.
- General Mills has developed internal apps that their field sales teams leverage daily
- Siemens Energy use iPads when they do maintenance work at the top of their wind turbines.
This is a disruptive moment. The customarily conservative enterprise markets are melting, rather like the ice caps, flowing to favor solutions from the dominant platform provider of our day -- Apple.
Once you go Mac you don't look back
Forrester in October amazed us when it advised us to embrace the Mac: "Time is the only thing that these fierce competitors can't make more of. Many of today's corporate PCs are saddled with management, backup, and security agents that can bog down a PC. Employees want their PCs to boot in 10 seconds, not 10 minutes, and they don't want to have to get a cup of coffee while opening a 20 MB spreadsheet in Excel. They're drawn to uncluttered Macs -- especially those with solid-state drives, which are more responsive and boot in seconds," said analyst David Johnson.
This is driving a resurgence of interest among enterprise users in Apple's Mac platforms. Square Group chief, Darren King, notes, "Total cost of ownership (TCO) for a Mac vs a comparable Wintel device over 3-4 years is actually lower!"
Combined, the market share of Macs and iPads will make Apple a bigger PC solutions provider than HP next year, recent data claims.
With deployment comes interest in creating enterprise solutions for Apple's platforms. RIM -- well aware of its declining importance -- has moved to begin offering mobile management software called Blackberry Mobile Fusion, which is compatible with iPhones.
Supporting tech support
Mobile device management in all its forms seems set to become another competitive market. CenterBeam yesterday announced a hosted endpoint management and security solution for Apple products. These solutions are intended to help IT departments answer the 'challenge' of supporting Apple's pretty much malware free devices on their corporate nets.
"The exploding popularity of the Mac, iPhone and iPad is driving Apple technology deeper into the enterprise as power users and executives rely on the devices to enhance productivity," said Shahin Pirooz, CTO of CenterBeam.
"But the introduction of new technology is pressuring CIOs to broaden the scope of devices that their IT department supports at a time when resources are already stretched."
Will Android dent the corporate markets? This doesn't seem likely right now, especially when it comes to tablets, where Creative Strategies analyst, Tim Bajarin, warns: "Android for tablets may never realize its full potential."
Microsoft meanwhile is looking to ensure there's a place for its software whatever the dominant platforms may become. The company this morning announced a plan to license the protocols for many of its enterprise systems to a company that will develop compatible applications for non-Microsoft mobile operating systems, including Google's Android and Apple's iOS.
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It is also notable that BHP is targeting a 15 per cent-plus return on capital with gearing of 35 per cent to 40 per cent while NAB's target return is 18 per cent with a bank's leverage of around 10:1. The explanation for the contrast has a broader resonance. BHP, post merger, is at the leading edge of a historic consolidation of the global resources sector.
It is the world's largest diversified resources group at a time when scale, diversity and capabilities are rapidly sorting out the global winners and losers and conferring market power and sharemarket premiums to the handful if global giants emerging.
There is consolidation of a more fragmented financial services sector occurring along global lines but it is nowhere near as mature, and NAB, once a contender to be one of the consolidators, isn't a major player on the international front.
Thus the industry context, including the "four pillars" restrictions on domestic growth, and its own self-inflicted wounds, doesn't provide the platform for NAB to sensibly contemplate growth on the scale being pursued by BHP Billiton.
Even if NAB's game plan lacks the ambition and sizzle of BHP's, it was at least a thorough and workman-like attempt to reassure the market that it hasn't been distracted by HomeSide. "Positioning for Growth" is more about detail than vision - which reflects the cautious and methodical personality of Cicutto. (Cicutto's conservatism may also mean that the targets in the project are also understated.)
The strategic review has identified 236 separate "initiatives", split almost evenly between revenue and cost measures. It isn't a broad-brush exercise.
If it lacks drama - other than in the size of the job losses - that is probably because NAB, excepting the HomeSide experience, is in pretty good shape. It is a well-positioned, well-managed organisation with market-leading positions in Australasia and a highly strategic presence in the UK.
"Positioning for Growth", one suspects, was more about trying to reposition the image of its bank and CEO after the damage to their credibility inflicted by the HomeSide experience than a serious attempt to articulate a grand vision. Until that credibility has been restored, of course, the market won't be comfortable about anything that looks like a grand vision involving risk.
The bottom line to NAB's strategy is that, for the moment, it will focus on organic and incremental growth and on trying to maximise the returns from its existing businesses.
The breakdown of its capital spending plans also shows that, in terms of its growth aspirations, it is putting a lot of emphasis on the MLC wealth management business. About $300 million of the $400 million of capital expenditure planned over the next three years is earmarked for the wealth management business in Australia and the UK.
MLC represents a genuine growth option for NAB, particularly in the UK, and is at the heart of an evolving broader wealth management strategy which blurs traditional distinctions between banking and funds management.
Where, however, BHP is able to talk about reinvesting its $US5 billion of cash flows in a vast array of new projects, with particular emphasis on opportunities in the still-fragmented petroleum industry, the fruits of NAB's growth appear likely to be returned to shareholders through share buybacks.
While there is nothing necessarily wrong with that, it is an admission of sorts about the dearth of sensible and large-scale opportunities available to NAB. An acquisition of St George might be an exception, but the price and levels of regulatory opposition might be too high.
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Disabling Windows Pagefile & Hibernation to Reclaim SSD Space
With the storage space offered on traditional HDDs, SSDs can leave a bit to be desired. Making matters worse are the Windows hibernation mode and pagefile, responsible for hogging at least 8GB (22GB in my case) of your precious SSD space. We're taking a look at the caveats of disabling both, and discuss the fixes.
You can read our quick how-to on reclaiming storage space hogged by hibernation and the pagefile, then discuss it here!
I'd like to urge some caution when considering removing the pagefile from Windows. It may seem useless for systems with 6GB+ of RAM, but Windows uses it for some miscellaneous functions, one of which is sleep mode. If the pagefile is removed completely then users typically can't get sleep mode to function properly, in addition to the inability to store crash and error dump files from RAM.
For users with 12GB of RAM I don't see a problem with dropping the pagefile size to say, 4GB, but I'd still recommend leaving the file there. I don't believe moving it to a hard drive would affect using sleep mode, but I actually never used sleep mode to say for sure.
Moved the pagefile to a mechanical drive and never use hibernation so disabled it - freed up 12G on my 60G Vertex 2.
Cheers for that!
I had my pagefile turned off completely but thanks to Rob asking a few questions before posting this article, I clued in that this is likely the reason for the low memory warnings when I play games. Duh!
As for the hibernate file, I don't have one showing. I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that I set my system to never sleep in the power options? I haven't really done any reading on hibernation since my system is either on, on with the monitor off or off all together.
Still, getting around that problem just means having a page file, but having it scale from 16-4096 MBs as I mentioned in the article. That way sleep mode should still work no problem, and you won't lose any GBs (it could be that the required information only takes 16MB anyway, which is why that's the minimum).
Could you have disabled it back when you first got your SSD and were "optimizing" it?
There MIGHT be a way to relocate the hibernation file with junctions/symbolic NTFS links.
You can do it manually, but I prefer to use a utility that gives shell extension to creating these:
Incidentally this is how you have steam have games located in different places, especially for SSD drives. You probably have a couple games you'd like to load faster on the SSD but doing the entire steam install is too big for SSD.
I could be wrong, but I seem to recall hibernation being disabled by default in desktop Windows 7 installs.
Although disabling the pagefile entirely on systems with an abundance of RAM may seem like a good idea initially, in practice (at least on Windows based systems) it's usually more problematic than is worth it. Due to Windows' architecture and software stack *expecting* a pagefile, certain operations will just fail or not work properly without any obvious error messages (a couple examples have already been mentioned here). The better solutions are not to remove it entirely, but to move it to another drive (a hard drive is fine, since it'll only see light use the slow speed is not a problem) or to set it to a scaling size with a low limit. The pagefile doesn't need to be *big*, it just needs to be *there*.
About the recommendation to disable hibernation, this is a great trick to recover some SSD space; not only are SSDs small and benefit well from the recovered space, they're so fast at bootup that normal startup/shutdown is nearly as fast as hibernate would've been anyways.
IMPORTANT NOTE THOUGH: Trying to run the powercfg command to disable hibernation on a stock Windows 7 install will give you a permission error - you need to run cmd as administrator and accept the UAC prompt (assuming you have it enabled) and then run "powercfg -h off".
siberx, would 1GB pagefile be enough for a 8GB RAM system? Or how big would you recommend, if it just needs to be there to store logs and stuff, 10MB?
A gig or two should work just fine for a system like that, but the best thing to do is just try 1GB and if it doesn't give you any weirdness or crashing in your programs, great! If it does, just bump it up a bit ;)
I've never experimented with *really* small (<512mb) page files so I don't have much input there, but for the few hundred megs you'd save compared to a gig or so it's probably not worth the trouble.
Nice post man! This will definitely come in handy when i get the 80GB Intel SSD!! :)
I always shrink and move my pagefile, I had left hibernation on but I turned it off since I got my sleep mode working.
I read this when it first came out and totally spaced it when I got my SSD. I scored another 13GB from my SSD, thanks for the reminder Rob!
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Only the first day, but a deal's a deal... :)
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Did my workout earlier today. Sit ups and push ups, even did some curls with 20lb weights. All told, it was about 20 minutes worth of exercise, but it's the first workout I've really had the chance to do in a week or so.
I managed to avoid fast food today, and I made "Salmon Burgers". Salmon, healthy... The Olive Oil Mayo? Probably not as healthy, but it was still good. I've got the link to the recipe here, in case you're interested.
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OK to user a dimmer with ceiling light?
I have a big ceiling light, with 30 small 10W 12V G4 bulbs. I haven't had it installed yet, but wanted to ask if it would be safe to use a dimmer switch with it (30 bulbs might be too strong otherwise). I don't want to damage the transformer as the light was very expensive.
It has a very heavy transformer. It is round and has a diameter of about 20 cm. Is that likely to be a "wire-wound" transformer?
I bought a 400W dimmer, but it says not to use with a wire-wound transformer.
I have rang several qualified electricians and they all give me completely contradictory advice. Some say it is dangerous to use a dimmer with such a light while others say it is perfectly safe and won't damage the light as long as I use a dimmer with more than 300W.
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I can't answer for you guys in the uk, But I would never put a dimmer on the input side of a low voltage transformer. I have seen them on the secondary side only.
Like jb said. Once you are down to 12V, you can do most anything provided you are using incandesent bulbs. Check out marine suppliers, they should have everything that you need.
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The Fanta Band Featuring ex-Megadeth Guitarist Marty Friedman Releases Their First Song! [VIDEO]
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Apparently in Japan they take the Wanna Fanta thing a bit more seriously than we do here. Fanta assembled a band of Japanese celebrities, each of them representing a different letter of the Fanta name, and now they have recorded what Marty Friedman calls "probably the happiest song I have ever played".
FANTA band is:
Marty Friedman ("F")
Ayanokoji Sho ("A")
Tanimura Nana ("N")
Takamizawa Toshihiko ("T")
Akebono Taro ("A")
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Sundoulos - Fall 2013
Campus Focus
In this issue
- Companions on the Journey
- Mentoring Leaders Through Seminary
- Talbot Authors
- Dean's Column
- Alumni Focus
- Campus Focus
Campus News
On May 24, 2013, 162 students graduated from Talbot School of Theology. The graduation speaker was Adam Edgerly, who holds a B.A. and an M.A. in Intercultural Studies from Biola University. Edgerly is lead pastor of Newsong Los Angeles Covenant Church, a culturally diverse faith community. He is also a corporate consultant and executive coach with the Awaken Group and chief executive officer of Culture Consultants, LLC.
In August of 2013, Scott Rae became the new Dean of Faculty at Talbot School of Theology. Dr. Rae will also retain his positions as Professor of Christian Ethics and chairman of the Department of Philosophy at Talbot. Michael J. Wilkins is stepping down from his role as Dean of Faculty after twenty-one years of service. Dr. Wilkins will continue teaching at Talbot as Distinguished Professor of New Testament.
Talbot chapel speakers for the 2013-14 school year include Greg Ganssle, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Rivendell Institute, Yale University; Mike Broyles, Director, Prison Ministries for World Impact; Joel Rosenberg, Author and Founder of The Joshua Fund; Jamie Shepherd, Director, Oaks Counseling Center; Jennifer Roback Morse, President and Founder of The Ruth Institute; Karen Jobes, Gerald F. Hawthorne Professor of New Testament Greek and Exegesis, Wheaton College; and Chip Ingram, Founder of Living on the Edge Ministry. For the full 2013-14 Talbot chapel schedule, see http://www.talbot.edu/news_events/ chapel-schedule.
Faculty Awards And Accomplishments
Freddy Cardoza was reconfirmed as the Executive Director of the Society of Professors in Christian Education (SPCE) and will be leading the National Conference for the SPCE in Chicago in October 2013. Dr. Cardoza was also invited to be a visiting professor for the Ph.D. program of Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary in San Francisco (Mill Valley, CA).
Andy Draycott received a summer research fellowship from the Wabash Center for Teaching in Religion and Theology.
J. Kent Edwards earned a Ph.D. in Intercultural Education from Biola University in May 2013.
Jonathan Lunde was voted Professor of the Year by Biola's 2013 senior undergraduate class.
J. P. Moreland received the Excellence in Mentoring Award from Biola University in May 2013.
Steve L. Porter received an Academic Visitor Grant for New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology at the University of Oxford.
Michael J. Wilkins received the Career Achievement in Leadership Award from Biola University in May 2013.
Faculty Activities
Freddy Cardoza filmed twenty-six training video sessions in Nashville for church and ministry leaders with Ministry Grid, an equipping organization for those serving the body of Christ.
Garry DeWeese will deliver a lecture on September 26, 2013, at SUNY-Plattsburg, which is entitled "The Truth of Christian Theism" and is sponsored by Protestant Campus Ministries.
Andy Draycott cohosted and lectured at the Faith and Learning Institute for faculty from Universitas Pelita Harpan, Tamerang, Indonesia, which took place at Biola University. Dr. Draycott also participated in and provided Portuguese-to-English translation for the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity Faculty Development Seminar on the topic of Evangelicalism and Social Action, which took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, and the Amazon River in Brazil.
J. Kent Edwards will be speaking at the following events this fall: Mission Hills Church Men's Retreat on October 11-12; EFCA Pacific Northwest District Pastors Conference in Bend, OR, on November 8-9; Advent Christian Preaching Conference in Alton Bay, NH, on November 12-14; and Cross Talk International in Romania on November 18-29.
Orbelina Eguizbal will be giving a presentation entitled "Teaching for Practice" at AETAL VIII Continental Conference in Campinas/SP, Brazil on September 23-26, 2013.
Joe Hellerman spoke on "The Church as a Family" as the plenary speaker for the Evangelical Free North Central District Conference.
John Hutchison became one of the pastor-elders of Oceanside Christian Fellowship in El Segundo, CA, this spring, serving on the pastor-elder team with Dr. Joe Hellerman (Talbot professor) and Brandon Cash (Talbot alumnus). From May 26-June 22, Dr. Hutchison was the leader and Bible teacher for two tour groups to Israel: Biola University's Israel tour (co-led with Dr. Barry Corey and Adam Morris) and a tour with Oceanside Christian Fellowship (co-led with Dr. Joe Hellerman and their wives).
Klaus Issler spoke for the MBA Distinguished Speaker Series at Biola University on March 25, 2013, on the topic "Jesus Values Business." Dr. Issler also gave three hour-long interviews on Moody Radio (Chicago) "Midday Connections" with host Melinda Schmidt regarding his book Living into the Life of Jesus: The Formation of Christian Character (InterVarsity, 2012) on March 6, April 10, and June 5; and a 45-minute interview on June 8 with Dennis Moles, RBC Ministries, Grand Rapids, MI, on hearing God in times of desolation and consolation as an audio resource for an online course entitled "Christian Formation" for the University GlobalNet, a world- wide online Christian studies program.
Rex Johnson ministered in Korea in May 2013 with a team led by Dr. Sunny Song, where he spoke on "Helping People Recover from Addictions," "Marital Intimacy and Parenting Your Children," "Your Marriage as a Model of Jesus Christ and His Church," and other topics in churches and at a Christian college and seminary. Dr. Johnson also consulted in July with a Bible institute president and board in Grenada on the development of a ministries track for their program.
Rick Langer led a two-week intensive training seminar on the integration of faith and learning for ten Indonesian faculty members from Universitas Pelita Harapan that took place on the campus of Biola University.
Kevin E. Lawson led seminars on "Teaching the Bible for Deeper Impact," "Small Group Ministries," "Intergenerational Ministry," and "Designing Church Ministries with Adults" for Chinese-Australian pastors and lay leaders in Sydney, Australia, in March 2013, where he also taught a course on teaching the Bible at Presbyterian Theological Centre. In May 2013, Dr. Lawson led faculty development seminars on "Pursuing Spiritual Maturity as Faculty" and on "Stress Management" at Bandung Theological Seminary in Bandung, Indonesia, as well as a seminar for church leaders on Spiritual Formation for Christian Growth.
Jonathan Lunde spoke at the Baccalaureate Service and Senior Dinner at Biola University in May, 2013.
Gary L. McIntosh was the keynote speaker for the Southern Baptist Convention of Kentucky on August 17, 24, and September 7, 2013 speaking on the topic "There's Hope for Your Church." Dr. McIntosh also will be the keynote speaker for the Singapore Assemblies of God Pastor's Convention held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on November 18-14, 2013, speaking on the topic "Overcoming the Dark Side of Leadership."
Steve L. Porter delivered several conference presentations this spring: "The Cure for Anxiety: Jesus, Freud, and Prozac," Psychology and Religion Research Group, May 2013, at Queens College, University of Cambridge; "Christian Sanctification and the Evidential Force of Spiritual Maturity," Joseph Butler Society, May 2013, at Oriel College, University of Oxford; "Spiritual Formation in the Classroom: The Problem of Slow Change," March 2013, at Arizona Christian University; "Why Don't We Grow?: The Flesh as Habituated, Relational Resistance to the Holy Spirit," March 2013, at Arizona Christian University; "Four Considerations in Favor of Penal Substitution," March 2013, at University of Notre Dame Philosophy of Religion Cluster Fellowship Group in Phoenix, AZ; and "Why Don't We Grow?: The Flesh as Habituated, Relational Resistance to the Holy Spirit," February 2013, at the Center for Spiritual Renewal Conference at Regent University.
Scott Rae spoke at Summit Ministries' summer session.
Mark Saucy became the director of the new satellite site for The Urban Ministry Institute, an international educational ministry of World Impact aimed at developing church leaders among the urban poor, at Granada Heights Friends Church in La Mirada, CA. In addition, Dr. Saucy taught a course and spoke in chapel at the Ukrainian Evangelical Seminary in Kyiv, Ukraine, in June 2013.
David Talley will be teaching at Hyderabad Institute of Theology and Apologetics in India on October 12-26, 2013.
Erik Thoennes preached at Forest Home Family Camp and Hume Lake Summer Teaching Series and High School Camp in July and August of 2013, and will preach at the Hume Lake Men's Conference and The Los Angeles Bible Training School Bible Conference in October of 2013.
Michael J. Wilkins was invited to give a paper on "The People, the Land, and the Future of Israel: According to the Gospels" for The People, the Land, and the Future of Israel Conference sponsored by Chosen People Ministries which will take place on October 3-5, 2013 in New York City.
Faculty Papers to be Presented at Scholarly Conferences in 2013-2014
Evangelical Theological Society (November 19-21, 2013): Uche Anizor, "Beyond Barth? Colin Gunton and the Doctrine of Scripture"; Freddy Cardoza, "Your Academic Career: Determining Your 'Doctrinal Fit' within a Prospective Institution"; John Coe, "The Great Commission as Spiritual Formation"; Garry DeWeese, "Pedagogical Best Practices for the Doctrine of Inerrancy"; Tom Finley, "The Calculation of Time in the Book of Daniel: Ancient Versus Modern Methods"; Gary Manning, "'All the Things Written about Him': How the Four Evangelists Viewed Scripture"; Ashish J. Naidu, "The First Adam-Second Adam Typology in John Chrysostom and Cyril of Alexandria" and "Biblical Authority and the Ministry of the Word in the Early Church: Reading Scripture with John Chrysostom"; Steve L. Porter, "Sarx' as Habituated, Relational Resistance to the Spirit"; Charlie Trimm, "Genocide and Inerrancy: A Categorization and Evaluation of Recent Approaches to YHWH's Commanded Destruction of the Canaanites"; Michael J. Wilkins, invited paper on "Discipleship in Relationship to Spiritual Formation as an Outgrowth of the Great Commission" for special session on "Spiritual Formation and the Great Commission" for the Spiritual Formation/Sanctification Section of ETS, and invited panel participant for the Career Connections for Faculty Session: "Assessing Institutional Fit."
Other Conferences: Garry DeWeese, participating in a panel on "Inerrancy, Hermeneutics, Epistemology: Keeping the Categories Straight" (Evangelical Philosophical Society); Kevin E. Lawson, "Eschatological Foundations of Christian Education: How Our Beliefs about Christ's Return Impact Our Educational Ministry Efforts" (Society of Professors of Christian Education); Scott Rae, "A Theology of Work, Business, and the Common Good" (Acton University); Charlie Trimm, "Divine Warrior in the Hebrew Bible: Diversity in the Motif" (Society of Biblical Literature).
Faculty Publications
William Lane Craig, Garry DeWeese, and Doug Geivett contributed entries to God and Evil: The Case for God in a World Filled with Pain, ed. Chad Meister and James K. Dew (IVP, 2013).
Doug Geringer, Douglas S. Huffman, Joanne Jung, Michelle Lee-Barnewall, Darian Lockett, Jim Mohler (deceased), Ben Shin, and Ken Way contributed entries to The Baker Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ed. Tremper Longman III (Baker, 2013).
Uche Anizor, "Luther, the Priesthood of Believers, and the Theological Interpretation of Scripture," in Aspects of Reforming: Theology and Practice in Sixteenth Century Europe, ed. Michael Parsons (Paternoster, 2013).
Kenneth Berding, "At the Intersection of Mission and Spiritual Formation in the Letters of Paul," Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care 6 (2013): 18-37; "Who Searches Hearts and What Does He Know in Romans 8:27?" Journal of Biblical and Pneumatological Research 5 (2013): 94-108; Workbook in Romans: Arranged According to the History of Redemption (Weaver Book Company, 2013).
Orbelina Eguizabal and Fritz Deininger, eds., Foundations for Academic Leadership (VTR Publications, 2013).
Alan W. Gomes, "4 Views on Davy Jones' Locker: A Plea for Literalism," Zeitschrift für Dogmangeschichte 72 (2013): 43-62.
Joe Hellerman, Embracing Shared Ministry: Power and Status in the Early Church and Why It Matters Today (Kregel, 2013).
Douglas S. Huffman, "Are There Contradictions in the Bible?" in In Defense of the Bible: A Comprehensive Apologetic for the Authority of Scripture, ed. Steven B. Cowan and Terry L. Wilder (B&H, 2013).
Gary L. McIntosh, "Ely Reeves Callaway, Jr., A Life in Three Acts," THE HIGH COUNTRY. Temecula, CA: Temeula Valley Museum, Spring 2013 No.83: 16-21; Gary L. McIntosh and Charles Arn, What Every Pastor Should Know: 101 Indispensable Rules of Thumb for Leading Your Church (Baker, 2013); Gary L. McIntosh and Samuel D. Rima, Japanese Translation of Overcoming the Dark Side of Leadership: How To Become an Effective Leader by Confronting Potential Failures (2013).
Steve L. Porter, "Why Should We Read Spiritual Classics? Three Theological Rationales for the Practice of Spiritual Reading," in A Guide to Spiritual Classics, ed. Jamin Goggin and Kyle Strobel (IVP, 2013); "Christian Spirituality and Christian Mission: On Not Trying To Be More Generous Than God," Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care 6 (2013): 6-10.
David Talley, The Story of the Old Testament (Reclaimed Publishing, 2013).


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Herbs are very beneficial to use in treating scalp issues, growing healthier longer hair, and in certain cases re-growing hair that has been lost from poor hair braiding installations and chemical relaxer's. Herbal infusions, tintures and spritzes may be taken internally by making herbal teas and drinking them or tinctures to use topically on skin. Herbal spritzes are also very beneficial and can be used for natural body fragrancing and hair revitalizing. I've been using them often lately and really love the results. Less tangles, shine even when my hair is completely dry. Similar to oil mixing, herbal hair and skin care is great since it provides us with the ability customize our hair care especially to address our individual needs. Adding dried herbs to your favorite carrier oil in a glass jar that seals air tight for 2-6 weeks is a really great and inexpensive way to make your favorite oil even more therapeutic. Here are a few root herbs I purchased in both dried and powdered from:
Burdock Root
[Arctium Lappa]
Do not use if pregnant or lactating. For external use only.
Burdock root is commonly used to improve hair growth, stop hair fall, while adding sheen, and strength to the hair. It can be used as a final rinse in place of conditioner. When Burdock root is infused with hot distilled water it releases the Burdock root mucilage (slippery plant proteins) & oils which helps to promote effective recovery of scalp irritation, supplying nutritional support to the hair follicles and sebaceous glands thus it promotes natural hair growth. Burdock root is great for correcting excessivly oily hair as well. It treats skin issues like seborrhea, acne and eczema. Infusing Burdock root in oil or mixing with hot water and allowing it to steep are great ways to apply this beneficial herb into your hair care regimen.
Yucca Root
[Yucca Filamentosa]
Yucca has a high content of saponins which makes it a great shampoo and soap in whole plant form or powdered. It prevents hair loss and cures dandruff. When used in skin care has been shown to have anti-fungal and anti-bacterial qualities, benefiting dandruff and acne. It's richness in powerful anti-oxidants also makes this herb great for skin and hair care. It slows down the aging process due to its combating effect of free radicals (pollution). Yucca root has been used for centuries by Native Americans to keep their hair shiny and clean without any harsh chemicals. Use approximately one teaspoon of dried and chopped yucca root for each cup of water. Remember to leave some room in your mug because yucca root foams up when added to water. Allow the herbal infusion to steep in the hot water (avoid using boiling hot water as it decreases it's effectiveness) for between 15 and 30 minutes and rinse. It may also be combined with stronger herbs like Ginger root.
Dandelion Root
[Taraxacum officinale]Dandelion Root is especially beneficial in treating those who suffer from hair loss. Highly rich in iron, this root will treat dandruff, seborrhea, and correct dry hair issues. It is very useful in treating black eyes, skin spots and discolorations as well. The leaves are loaded with potassium, gluten, magnesium, niacin, calcium, phosphorus, proteins, resin, iron, sulphur, zinc, vitamins B1, B2, B6, B12, C and E. The leaves are a richer source of vitamin A than carrots! (Vitamin A: it is an antioxidant that aids in the making of healthy sebum in the scalp.) Dandelion root can be infused in water and injested as a tea or used as an herbal hair rinse or added to spritz.
Marshmallow Root Powder
[Althaea officinalis]
[Althaea officinalis]
Marshmallow root powder is a great hair conditioner that gives kinky curly textured hair "slip" it needs to prevent excessive hair loss during the detangling process. This herb is highly emollient (moisturizing) and mucilaginous (moist and soft) which is why it provides slip when added to any conditioning treatment, store bought or do-it yourself mix. When mixed with apple cider vinegar it makes a great deep conditioning treatment for hair and scalp. Apply mix to hair and scalp for 5-10 minutes and rinse before the paste dries on the hair. Follow up with your conditioner of choice and detangle. You will find it much easier to detangle regardless of what your texture is.
Ginger Root
[Zingiber officinale]
Ginger root has antiseptic properties that are useful in treating dandruff. It increases scalp cirrculation thus stimulating hair follicles to encourage thicker healthier hair growth. Rubbing a mix of ginger root powder and extra virgin olive oil or jojoba oil will stop hair loss and aid in regrowing hair as well. 1tbsp of Ginger Root Powder mixed with 1tbsp of oil and massaged into the scalp, leaving it for 30 minutes will cause a warming effect to the scalp. After rinsing shampoo and condition well. If the tingling sensation is too strong you can moderate this formula by making 1tsp of Ginger Root Powder and 1/4 cup of oil leaving it on for 10 minutes instead of 30. It has been noted that usng fresh cut ginger root trimmed of skin and applied directly to the scalp is the most effective way to regrow hair and prevent future hair loss.
Source: Helpful Herbs for Health and Beauty by Barbara Griggs
For educational purposes only. This information has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This information is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.


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Kuwait warns against unlicensed protest planned for Sunday
KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwait said on Saturday it had not issued a permit to allow a planned protest against new voting rules and the prime minister warned police would use force if the nation was under threat.
Kuwait outlawed unauthorised gatherings of more than 20 people last month after an opposition-led demonstration by thousands ended in clashes between protesters and police in which at least 30 people were taken to hospital.
Although OPEC member and U.S. ally Kuwait has avoided the kind of mass pro-democracy unrest seen in other Arab countries, tensions have mounted between the elected parliament and the government, dominated by the Al-Sabah ruling family.
Demonstrations about local issues often occur in the major oil producer, but violence has previously been very rare.
Security forces used tear gas and smoke bombs at protests last month, witnesses said. Protesters, which include opposition politicians, youth groups and their followers plan a protest march on Sunday in central Kuwait.
Kuwaitis have been protesting changes to an electoral law, announced last month by ruler Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah.
Some opposition politicians have said the changes are an attempt to give pro-government candidates an advantage in the parliamentary election on December 1. The government says the amendments were needed to preserve national unity.
"The state does not ... want to use violence, but when the security of the homeland is endangered and the safety of its citizens at risk, it will not hesitate to use force in the framework of the law and the constitution," state news agency KUNA quoted Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber al-Mubarak al-Sabah as saying.
Opposition politicians have said they will boycott parliamentary elections next month, the second time Kuwait goes to the polls in 2012. Continued...


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Sounds like you have a pretty cool mom The '68 was my first car and I got it right after graduating from high school. The motor is an original 302 4bbl with a C-4 automatic. The motor was rebuilt in '91 and isn't a power house...maybe 270 HP. I'm tempted to stuff a big block 428 in there with a 5sp manual, but we'll see...I have the Cobra around if I want to go fast.
I agree, these fastbacks are selling for crazy prices. Just look on e-bay. Fastback mustangs I used to see in junk yards are now fetching bids in the $3,000 to $4,000 range....insane.
I wish your mom the best of luck and I hope she is able to get another one. I hate seeing muscle car prices getting out of reach so only rich investors can get their hands on them rather than the average enthusiast.
I only have actual photos on hand, but I do need to get some digital pics of the '68 soon. I'll post some here for you if I get the chance.


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The Opera Orchestra of New York Announces 2010-2011 Season
The Opera Orchestra of New York and its founder and Music Director Eve Queler today announced the company's 40th anniversary season to open at Carnegie Hall on Monday, October 25, 2010. The season begins with an opera-in-concert double bill of Jules Massenet's La Navarraise starring tenor Roberto Alagna and mezzo-soprano El?na Garan?a, and Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana starring Mr. Alagna, soprano Maria Guleghina, and mezzo-sopranos Krysty Swann and Mignon Dunn, conducted by Music Director Designate Alberto Veronesi in his Carnegie Hall and The Opera Orchestra of New York debut on Monday, October 25 at 7:30 p.m.
The 2010-11 season also includes an opera-in-concert performance of Giacomo Meyerbeer's L'Africaine with tenor Marcello Giordani and Italian soprano Chiara Taigi in her U.S. debut, conducted by Eve Queler at Avery Fisher Hall on Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. L'Africaine was last presented by Eve Queler and The Opera Orchestra of New York in 1972 with Richard Tucker singing the role of Vasco da Gama and this season's performance will be presented in tribute to that historic performance.
The season will also include the company's annual Vidda Award recital featuring 2011 Award recipient soprano Meagan Miller at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 8:00 p.m.; and young artist recitals as part of the Opera Orchestra of New York's Rising Star recital series.
The 2010-11 season features the company debuts of numerous celebrated artists, including tenor Roberto Alagna; sopranos Maria Guleghina, and Chiara Taigi, also making her U.S. debut; and mezzo-sopranos El?na Garan?a and Mignon Dunn, who returns to the stage for the first time since performing in Elektra at the Metropolitan Opera in 1994. Returning artists include tenor Marcello Giordani, soprano Ellie Dehn, baritone Giovanni Guagliardo, and bass-baritones Daniel Mobbs and Brian Kontes. Mezzo-soprano Krysty Swann, a former Opera Orchestra Young Artist, will also make her Opera Orchestra main stage and Carnegie Hall debut.
"It is hard to believe that it has been 40 years since I founded The Opera Orchestra of New York and conducted the company's first performances at Carnegie Hall-one of which was Meyerbeer's L'Africaine," said Music Director Eve Queler. "I look forward to revisiting L'Africaine this season and presenting this beautiful work for only the second time in the company's history with some of today's most important artists including tenor Marcello Giordani, with whom the company has had a long association."
"I am very excited and honored to open The Opera Orchestra of New York's 40th anniversary season and make my debut with the Opera Orchestra conducting La Navarraise and Cavalleria rusticana. I am pleased to present these two masterpieces of Verismo opera with singers whom over the past few years, I have a developed a special rapport and artistic bond," said Alberto Veronesi, Music Director Designate. "I look forward to beginning my association with The Opera Orchestra of New York and continuing the company's long distinguished history of presenting new and lesser known operas."
Chairman of the Board Norman Raben added: "Following The Opera Orchestra of New York's 2009-10 bridge season of recitals, we are pleased to announce the orchestra's triumphant return with a season of operas-in-concert at Carnegie and Avery Fisher Halls, in addition to our young artist recitals. We look forward to welcoming our new Music Director Designate, Alberto Veronesi to the podium this season, as well as Music Director Eve Queler."
La Navarraise and Cavalleria Rusticana
La Navarraise, a "French Verismo" opera, is Jules Massenet's answer to Pietro Mascagni's popular opera Cavalleria rusticana. The operas were commonly performed on a double-bill until the early 20th century, and both recount stories of jealousy and betrayal ending in tragedy. La Navarraise, inspired by Jules Claretie's short story "La cigarette," is a dramatic love story set during the Carlist War in Spain. Anita (Garan?a) must raise money for a dowry to marry Araquil (Alagna), and assassinates army leader Garrido for a monetary reward. When Araquil searches for Anita believing she is having an affair with Garrido, he is shot and killed while Anita looks on. Cavalleria rusticana recounts the story of a calm SicilIan Easter morning, disrupted by tragedy when love-struck Santuzza (Guleghina) is forsaken by Turiddu (Alagna) who has rekindled his relationship with married Lola (Swann). A jilted Santuzza goes to Lola's husband to inform him of Lola's indiscretions, igniting his revenge.
This double-bill opera-in-concert performance features many important debuts, including the company premiere of La Navarraise; Music Director Designate Alberto Veronesi's U.S., Carnegie Hall and company debuts; and Roberto Alagna, El?na Garan?a, Maria Guleghina and Mignon Dunn's first performances with the company.
Giacomo Meyerbeer's final work, the now-neglected grand opera L'Africaine, is primarily known for the tenor aria "O Paradis." L'Africaine is a fictional account of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama's (Giordani) travels beyond Africa to India, where he becomes caught in a love triangle with Selika (Taigi), queen of Madagascar, and the Portuguese noblewoman, Inez (Dehn), he left behind.
The Opera Orchestra of New York last performed an Italian-language version of the opera, L'Africana, during the company's premiere season with Richard Tucker starring in the role of Vasco da Gama and Antonietta Stella as Selika. This season's revival is dedicated to Mr. Tucker and that first historic performance, and features Marcello Giordanni in his sixth performance with the company and Italian soprano Chiara Taigi in her U.S. and company debut.
2011 Vidda Award Recital
The Opera Orchestra of New York's annual Vidda Award Recital will this season feature Vidda Award Winner soprano Meagan Miller at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufmann Center on February 9, 2011 at 8:00 p.m.
Ms. Miller has performed on opera, recital and concert stages all over the world and has been hailed by The New York Times for her "gorgeous and lively tone" and "considerable communicative powers." Ms. Miller recently made her European operatic debut as Ariadne in the Vienna Volksoper's new production of Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos, and has performed with esteemed opera companies such as New York City Opera, Minnesota Opera, L'Opéra de Montréal, Wolf Trap Opera, and with San Francisco Opera's Merola program. She made her Opera Orchestra debut in October 2008 singing the role of Saburova in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride. She is also an accomplished recitalist and noted interpreter of new music and has appeared in more than thirty professional recitals. Ms. Miller is the winner of the George London/Kirsten Flagstad Award, the Liederkranz Foundation Competition, a Richard Tucker Music Foundation Study Grant and the 1999 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.


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Masterfully layering time and space, thought and sensation, Mary Gaitskill dazzles the reader with psychological insight and a mystical sense of the soul's hurtling passage through the world. A novel unlike any other, Veronica is a tour de force about the fragility and mystery of human relationships, the failure of love, and love's abiding power. It shines on every page with depth of feeling and formal beauty.


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Marty Solomon, M.D., Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine
"Methods to interrogate mechanisms of altered ciliary dynamics and mucus transport"
Michael Stalvey, M.D., Pediatrics - Endocrinology
"Pathogenesis and mortality of CFRD: yesterday, today and tomorrow"
Namasivayam Ambalavanan, M.D., Pediatrics - Neonatology
"Normal and abnormal lung development and its relevance to adult lung diseases"
Tamas Jilling, M.D., Pediatrics - Neonatology
"Why would you want to study the rold of platelet-activating factor (PAF) in CF pathogenesis?"
Vedrana Bali, M.D., Ph.D., Cellular, Developmental & Integrative Biology
"Synonymous but not the same. A synonymous codon change alters ΔF508 CFTR corrector sensitivity"
Kathryn Oliver, Ph.D. Candidate (Mentor: Eric J. Sorscher)
"Ribosomal P Stalk pertubation rescues F508del CFTR maturational arrest"
Zhengrong (Wendy) Yang, Ph.D., Center for Biophysical Sciences/Engineering
"Interactions and cooperativity between P-glycoprotein structual domains determined by thermal unfolding"
Rui-Ming Liu, M.D., Ph.D., Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine
"Therapeutic potential of a small molecular PAI-1 inhiibitor for chronic asthma"
James Collawn, Ph.D., Cellular, Developmental, & Integrative Biology
"Regulation of hypoxia-inducible factor 1alpha expression by miR-429 in human endothelial cells"
Veena Antony, M.D., Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine
"Environmental exposure to Cadmium and the development of COPD"
Brad Woodworth, M.D., Surgery - Otolaryngology
"LPS-mediated acquired CFTR dysfunction in chronic sinusitis"
Steve Rowe, M.D., Director, CF Research Center
"State of the Center"
J. Michael Wells, M.D., Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine
"Translational and Clinical Approaches to Pulmonary Hypertension in Cystic Fibrosis"
Michael Stalvey, M.D., Pediatrics - Endocrinology
"Understanding Growth and Bone Metabolism in CF"
Stephen G. Aller, Ph.D., Pharmacology & Toxicology
"Pharmacophores of CFTR Modulators for In Situ Click Chemistry"
Sigrid Ladores, Ph.d., Assistant Professor, UAB School of Nursing
"Female Fertility in the Age of New CFTR-Modulating Drugs"
NACFC Practice Session
Note: Other regularly scheduled workshops (not shown above) include 1) rehearsal sessions for UAB talks in preparation for NACFC, 2) CF journal club, 3) review of the European CF meetings (provided by Drs. Bebok and Rowe), and 4) discussions regarding grant opportunities from NIH (RFAs, PAs. etc.).


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Rustic Vegetable Soup with Salt Cod
Never has a name so inadequately described a dish. Called acquacotta ("cooked water") in Italian, this hearty vegetable soup, nearly a stew, has been a staple of Lazian farmers since at least the second century BC, according to Emilio Ferracci, a food historian and the son of Anna Dente, the chef of Osteria di San Cesario.
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- One 28-ounce can whole tomatoes—tomatoes chopped, juices reserved
- One 3/4-pound salt cod fillet
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for brushing and drizzling
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 medium zucchini, sliced crosswise 1 inch thick
- 2 pounds fresh cranberry beans, shelled (2 cups), or canned pinto beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 medium onion, coarsely chopped
- 1/2 pound kale—stems discarded, leaves coarsely chopped (3 cups)
- 1/2 pound escarole—large stems discarded, leaves coarsely chopped (3 cups)
- One 1/2-pound baking potato, peeled and cut into 1-inch cubes
- 2 quarts water
- 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper
- Salt
- Four 1/2-inch-thick slices of country-style bread
How to make this recipe
In a large bowl, cover the salt cod with cold water. Cover and refrigerate for 24 hours or up to 2 days. Change the water three times a day.
In a large, enameled cast-iron casserole, heat the 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Add the garlic and cook over moderately high heat until fragrant, about 20 seconds. Add the zucchini, beans, onion, kale, escarole, potato and tomatoes with their juices. Add the water and crushed red pepper and bring to a boil. Simmer over moderately low heat, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables are tender, about 50 minutes. Season lightly with salt.
Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 400°. Set the bread on a rimmed baking sheet. Generously brush both sides of the bread with olive oil. Bake for about 12 minutes, until browned and crisp.
Add the cod to the casserole and simmer over moderately low heat until the cod is heated through, about 5 minutes. Using a wooden spoon, gently break the cod into 2-inch pieces.
Set the toasted bread in shallow bowls. Ladle the stew over the bread. Drizzle with olive oil and serve.
Make Ahead
The soup can be prepared through Step 2 and refrigerated overnight. Reheat gently before proceeding.


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Posted by Harley Manning on October 30, 2013
Although it seems like Forrester's Forum For Customer Experience Professionals West in Los Angeles just happened, we're now just three weeks away from Forrester's Forum For Customer Experience Professionals EMEA in London.
I can't tell you how excited I am about how the London event is shaping up.
On second thought, I can tell you. Read on!
This year's theme is "Boost Your Customer Experience To The Next Level." What's that about? Well, we know from our research that companies are at wildly varying levels of customer experience maturity, ranging from not having gotten started yet to pulling even further ahead of competitors through CX differentiation. That's why we've tailored this event to show attendees the one sure path to CX maturity and provide detailed guidance on how to advance along that path.
Posted by Benjamin Ensor on October 4, 2013
This is a guest post from Rachel Roizen, a researcher serving eBusiness & Channel Strategy professionals.
Gamification, which Forrester defines as the insertion of game dynamics and mechanics into non-game activities to drive a desired behavior, has rightfully been a hot topic of debate in many roles and many industries. We've blogged about it here, and written reports on success stories ranging from Club Psych on the USA Network to the use of games in education.
The banking industry has been using some features of gaming for years, such as by offering redeemable points based on credit card purchases, but some remain wary of combining games with finances. Forrester's view is that game mechanics can be used to draw in new and existing digitally connected customers. Digital teams at financial firms that have begun experimenting with gamification are seeing positive results, including increases to online engagement, online banking use, product sales, and social influence. Here are four leading firms that are betting on gamification and implementing it in innovative ways:


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'Tuscany', a spacious, three bedroom poolside villa, is located in a private, gated 'The Villas at Summer Beach' community on Amelia Island in the Summer Beach/Ritz Carlton Resort. A very short walk or bike ride to the beautiful white, sandy beaches of Amelia Island.
A two story Great Room creates a large open living and dining room with open kitchen and adjacent glassed in sun room. Interior designer decorated with comfortable furnishings. This spectacular villa is furnished with beach towels, linens, stocked kitchen, all comforts of home! Master bedroom and bath on main floor.
Outside a covered sitting area at front door with chairs and ottomans. A two car garage includes portable beach cabanas, umbrellas and 4 beach chairs. Beach games, 2 comfort bicycles, charcoal grill in garage.
Upstairs are two private bedrooms - both with walk in closets. All bedrooms are equipped with televisions, all have private bathrooms, and decorator shades. No pets, no smoking.
Less than 8 miles from Old Town Fernandina, 'Tuscany' is in a wonderful location for quick access to fantastic restaurants, shopping, beach activities, and night life. This townhouse is located between the Ritz Carlton and Amelia Island Plantation. Other nearby amenities include world class golf, tennis, Cumberland Island, Little and Big Talbot Island State Parks, Fort Clinch National Park, and Jacksonville Beach.
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Keywords: Tuscany, The Villas at Summer Beach spacious three bedroom villa, is located in a private, gated community near beach. closest villa to pool.
We really enjoyed our stay at this villa in Amelia Island. The villa was very spacious and had everything we needed for a family of 6. The master bedroom and bath were especially nice on the first floor. The pool was located right across from the villa which was super convenient. The beach was a short drive (less than 5 minutes) or there is a walking/bike path also.
The Villa was perfect. It was spacious, clean and fully loaded with everything you need for a wonderful vacation. Close to grocery store and the beach. Pool is just out the front door. It is about 1/4 mile walk to beach access but has a great shaded sidewalk for walking or biking. I would definately stay here again.
The villa setting and amentities were incredible. Having a pool directly across the street was a huge bonus. The ONLY thing that would make this the most perfect place would be if it sat on the beach.
We booked this house on less than 2 days notice, yet we were not the slightest bit disappointed. We enjoyed a wonderful week. The house was really cute and it was better equipped than any house we have ever rented! Our sons were the perfect age for the bike paths all over the island and per the owners recommendations we had a great day at Amelia Kayak.
We will definitely be coming back.
We loved the Villa and would stay again. All the amenities like home. Comfy mattresses and nice linens. The pool is a few feet from the Villa and seemed like our private pool. Wish the beach were within walking distance but really we needed to drive (two minute drive at most). With all the stuff we were taking to the pool (provided by Villa) we needed a car anyway. Parking at beach was seamless. Beach next to property was never crowded. About a ten minute drive into Ferdinandina Beach which was where we headed every night for dinner.
We were very pleased with this villa. We had everything we could possibly need. The villa was roomy, well-decorated and clean! Bedrooms and baths were large and comfortable. The enclosed sun porch worked beautifully as a nursery for our 1 yr old granddaughter. We loved being across from the pool, and using the grill on several occasions. The inclusion of the two bikes was a definitely a plus as well. Thanks to Dave for being so helpful and easy to work with. We had a fabulous time! I'd highly recommend this villa.
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PLAYBOY Energy Drink Orlando Presents: The "Grand Royale" Premier Party
Thursday, August 1, 2013 at 9:00 PM - Friday, August 2, 2013 at 2:00 AM (EDT)
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"PLAYBOY Energy Drink... Gets the party started...!!!"
Team "PLAYBOY Energy Drink Orlando" has initiated their very first, major promotional event, in the Orlando and Central Florida region! And, they plan to kick it off in a BIG way on Thursday, August 1st, with The PLAYBOY Energy Drink Orlando "Grand Royale" Premier Party; taking place at the fabulous Majestic Event Center- 801 N. John Young Pkwy, Orlando. A night for all of Orlando's best "Taste-makers", and "Movers-and-shakers", to see and taste this HOT new product, featuring a full PLAYBOY Energy Mix-Drink Menu.
Attendees will be engulfed in an atmosphere of "Pure NRG" and excitement! This will be a "Red-Carpet Event", so please DRESS TO IMPRESS!!! Joining us for the evening will be Playboy Model, 'Tancy Marie' & Friends, as well as the "PLAYBOY Energy Drink Girls", and music by one of the area's HOTTEST "music-mixologist"; DJ E.T. Worldwide!
With a few special celebrity invites, and some surprise artist performances, this will be one Grand night to remember!
$15 Advanced tickets are on sale NOW, but will certainly be "more at the door"!
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Emmanuel Eboue came off the bench after just 24 minutes when Kieran Gibbs limped off with an ankle problem during Wednesday's 3-1 win over Partizan Belgrade.
The Ivorian played the rest of the game in the relatively unfamiliar position of left back and helped Arsenal ensure their qualification to the Champions League knockout stage.
After the game the defender spoke to Arsenal TV Online. He discussed:
- qualification to the knockout stage
- playing at left back for the night
- finishing second in Group H
- a 'massive' game against Manchester United
- the importance of defensive strength
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MyPatients provides referring primary care providers with secure access to their patients' information.
Boston Children's has launched the world's 1st program dedicated to offering hand transplants to children who qualify.
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Read the latest blog by a Boston Children's doctor, clinician or staff member.
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HTC Turkey details Ice Cream Sandwich rollout
0. phoneArena 09 Jan 2012, 09:50 posted on
This may not be from the most official of HTC sources and it may not be the most precise information, but at the very least this leak of Ice Cream Sandwich rollout plans gives us the info on which devices we will see...
This is a discussion for a news. To read the whole news, click here
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1. dirtydirty00 (Posts: 425; Member since: 21 Jan 2011)
it also lists the thunderbolt as Q1 2012... is this really possible?
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FAKE, a user posted it on htc's wall, not HTC himself
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Boeing talks with machinists break down
Updated 12:00 am, Friday, December 13, 2013
An effort to reach a new labor deal under which Boeing would build its new 777X in Washington failed Thursday, the aerospace giant reported.
Boeing said it responded Thursday afternoon to a proposal from the International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers District 751 with "a best and final counterproposal," but union leaders rejected the offer.
"We entered these discussions to address the concerns we were hearing from our employees," Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and CEO Ray Conner said in a statement. "We've listened to the union leadership and had an open dialogue in hopes of moving toward each other. Unfortunately the offer, which would have ensured this great airplane for the Puget Sound region, was immediately rejected by the union leadership."
Union leaders told The Associated Press the price of Boeing's counterproposal "was too high." Union president Tom Wroblewski said the counteroffer was "mostly unchanged" from a proposal union members rejected last month by a 2-to-1 margin.
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Shortly after local Machinist union leaders said they could not recommend what Boeing called its final counterproposal in negotiations to keep much of the work on a new 777X jet in the Puget Sound region, a national union negotiator said union members should get a chance to make the decision."Our members are very sophisticated and smart on this matter," Rich Michalski, who represented the national leadership of the International Association of Machinists in the talks, told The Seattle Times late Thursday.
"Once we get the information on the offer to them, they will let us know," Michalski said. "We really need to hear from our members."
Boeing said it has continued evaluating other potential 777X assembly sites in parallel with this week's meetings.
"In an overwhelmingly strong response from interested participants, Boeing has received proposals from 22 states, many of which submitted multiple sites for consideration," the company said. "A total of 54 sites are now being evaluated in the next critical stage of the process."
Boeing and union leaders started negotiating again this week after union members overwhelmingly rejected an earlier contract deal.
Boeing said its revised eight-year contract extension would have added $5,000 to the previously negotiated $10,000 signing bonus, provided additional dental benefits and kept in place the current rate in which employees accelerate to the top of the pay scale. But Boeing stuck with changes to future retirement benefits, a key sticking point in the earlier deal.
"Employees would keep everything they have accrued under the existing defined benefit plan and earn future benefits under a defined contribution plan with the new Special Company Retirement Contribution, starting November of 2016," Boeing said.
Under the agreement, Boeing would have committed to placing final assembly of the 777X, as well as the fabrication and assembly of the airplane's composite wing, at a Boeing location in the Puget Sound area. The company also would have extended a separate agreement committing final assembly of the 737 MAX to its Renton site through 2024.
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I, along with some help from the Hackers-IL mailing list of which I am a member, formulated a list of Open-Source rules', not unlike the Ferengi Rules of Acuiqisition. The Rules are still open and any additions are welcome.
I, along with some help from the Hackers-IL mailing list of which I am a member, formulated a list of Open-Source rules', not unlike the Ferengi Rules of Acuiqisition. The Rules are still open and any additions are welcome.
First of all the Meta-Rules:
1. Rules must be either funny, whimsical or true.
2. You are not expected to understand these rules.
3. The rules as a whole may be self-contradictory.
4. Rules may have exceptions.
5. Rules may be false.
And now the rules themselves:
The Rules of Open-Source Programming
1. Don't whine unless you are going to implement it yourself.
4. If you don't work on your project, chances are that no one will.
5. A project is never finished.
6. The user is always right unless proven otherwise by the developer.
7. Release early, release often. Clean compilation is optional.
8. Open-Source is not a panacea.
9. Give me refactoring or give me death!
11. When a developer says he will work on something, he or she means
13. Your first release can always be improved upon.
15. If you like it, let the author know. If you hate it, let the author
know why.
20. Open Code != Good Code
22. Backward compatiblity is your worst enemy.
23. Backward compatiblity is your users' best friend.
31. You are your best tester
32. Your users are your second best testers
33. Your test-cases and test-scripts are your worst testers
34. Every successful project will eventually spawn a sub-project
37. Duplicate effort is inevitable. Live with it.
48. The number of items on a project's to-do list always grows or
remains constant.
Thanks should go to Mulix, Oleg Goldshmidt, Omer Zak, Nadav Har'El and all the other great guys who contriubted to their (initial) formation.
I forgot to mention it in the article, but you can grab it from here:
Notice the Suggestor and Phraser fields.
Have fun!
> 1. Don't whine unless you are going to implement it yourself.
This should read:
1. Don't whine unless you can credibly threaten to implement it yourself.
> 5. A project is never finished.
... only abandoned.
> 11. When a developer says he will work on something, he or she means > "maybe".
...and if they say "immediately", they mean "probably".
And some of my own, from experience on Mozilla:
31 is niether funny, whimsical, or true.
The number of items on a project's to-do list always grows or remains constant.
Not quite true. In my experience, the number of items on the to-do list (or bug list) varies proportionally with the number of users. See: Debian, Windows, Mozilla, StarOffice.
Also wander around bugs.debian.org for a while to see that a package's popularity determines the number of bugs, much more than the code quality. There are some near-totally broken packages with only one or two bugs reported against them, but dpkg (which works fine for almost 100% of people) has uncountable hordes of bugs, most of them real.
Some more rules, more or less in the same vein.
1. Always give attribution. If you don't, you're not doing free software, no matter what the license lets you get away with.
2. Don't take on a dependency on some other project unless it's either mature or you're willing to maintain it yourself.
3. Don't try to push other people to take on a dependency to your project unless it's either mature or you're willing to see it through.
4. You really don't have any obligation to your users (or anyone) unless they're paying you.
4a. It really doesn't matter when it gets done.
5. The good reasons to do free software are to have fun, and to learn something.
5a. Don't count on being able to make money off it.
6. If you have a clear vision, stick to it. Don't let other people try to talk you out of it.
7. Don't be discouraged by competing projects. Chances are, they will fail.
8. Resist the pressure to join forces with a competing project just to save manpower. "Because it will be fun" is a good reason to NIH.
9. Accept it when other people adapt your work, perhaps not in the way you intended. It is the free software way.
10. If other projects have done useful things you want to steal, go for it. Tying together pieces is a good thing.
11. Make sure that it's possible to configure the backspace key to do something other than delete the character to the left of the cursor. Bonus points for discouraging this as the default behavior.
12. Do not expect others to contribute significantly to your project. If you treat it as a pleasant surprise each time they do, you will be happier.
13. Simple and lightweight almost always wins.
This doesn't feel anything like a complete list. But perhaps some of them will be amusing.
The corollaries to that are
4a. When others work on your project, let them take all the credit.
4b. Don't overshadow others by working harder than they do.
These aren't related only to open source projects, but all projects. For example, kuro5hin and MeatballWiki both took off when their respective founders (Rusty and myself resp.) stopped posting. The reason? As long as the project looks like one person's work, it is one person's work.
The task for the leader of a team project is to work on the team, not the project.
For free software, the rule would be:
The person who do the work gets to decide. Corrolary: The developer is always right.
[ For the overlap between free and commercial software: Whoever pay for the development gets to deccide. ]
Automated test are always the best tester, you are always the worst tester.
4a. When others work on your project, let them take all the credit.
Yes, absolutely. Or just "Be generous with attribution", which has the attraction of succintity
4b. Don't overshadow others by working harder than they do.
That one I'm less sure about. "Don't overshadow others by appearing to work harder than they do"; maybe I could go for that...
these rules will of course intersect with general programming guidelines. you can find tons of 'em ``out there''. i've an interesting list by alan perlis somewhere, and some by lesser comp sci professors. hmm. i also recall a few good ones on larry mcvoy's web site, and a pretty substantial db of quotes by some students at cmu.
here's one of my own: ``those who try to reimplement windows(tm) are missing the point of unix.''
I agree that
The ratio of contributors to complaining onlookers decreases as project size increases.
I have found that, generally speaking, a healthy open source project has:
The interesting thing is that the same "pyramid of participation" seems to occur in corporate software development projects at large companies as well. In fact, a lot of the rules for open source that people have listed also apply to closed source development, so long as there is some degree of voluntary contribution, which is true in more work environments than one might imagine.
I'm not familiar with the numbering scheme used here, but anyway:
9. Give me refactoring or give me death!
9a. Any successful project without a design document to begin with will grow to the point where it becomes too unwieldy for any single person to understand.
7. Don't be discouraged by competing projects. Chances are, they will fail.
7a. If a competing project takes off from the ground, join it, unless you wish to cleave the chances of success of both projects.
Automated test are always the best tester, you are always the worst tester.
33a. Your own test cases and test scripts are your second worst testers.
33b. Others' test cases and test scripts are your best testers.
That's true. And it's also true for a project *WITH* a design document, without refactoring. :)
The advantage of not having an initial design document (or not following it) is that the quality, simplicity and elegance of your design will not be limited by it.
33. Your test-cases and test-scripts are your worst testers
This should read:
33 Regression testing reduces the communication effort to fix a bug.
33a Alpha testing tells your whether you have fixed the bug on your platform.
33b Regression testing tells your whether you have reintroduced any previous bugs on your platform.
33c Your co-developers tell you whether you have fixed the bug on other platforms.
33d Your users tell you whether the bug you fixed was the bug they wanted fixing.
33e Fixing a bug without adding a test case into the regression test-suite is asking for your co-developers to re-introduce it.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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