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The cloud computing economic model is expected to bring significant rewards – apparently. Those rewards may be possible but the quality of analysis to demonstrate that the cloud paradigm will yield an ever-growing margin is far from assured.
The assumptions underlying the economics of the cloud are tenuous and therefore the promotions and promises should be treated with caution. Supporting claims from vendors with commercial interest do not add greater clarity and their use of concepts about how 'the firm' operates are not empirically grounded.
Paradigm Promises
In many ways the economic model of cloud computing production is akin to a new mechanization, such as the development of factories. But the hype conceals challenges, typical in any first phase transition to another method of working.
In essence cloud computing offers the potential for greater productivity from more efficiently used and deployed assets and resources. The production architecture of cloud computing could simultaneously harness the following forces:
• Enormous economies of scale once investment is operational, and;
• Network effects, which is the power of large groups using similar services or products where leveraged productivity benefits are accrued e.g. Microsoft Office
• Network effects of data in common structures, allowing sharing of information between systems (and even organisations) that were previously isolated.
In such an environment the opportunity cost of moving to cloud computing is paramount because it entails a commitment in 'sunk costs': those are costs that underpin the venture. This must be viewed together with potential yield, i.e. the carrot in the hype.
In the cloud computing model the scalability of an operation removes some capital cost (at the single organization level) and labor. Therefore in the case of Amazon it can service clients at a lower 'use on demand price' than the client would pay had it invested in the same services. Boston Consulting has enumerated related advantages to cloud computing below:
• Reduced capital requirements for up front investments in IT since the enterprise is able to utilize the infrastructure, applications, and platforms in the cloud
• The flexibility to meet sudden changes in demand and peaks and troughs
• Significant cost savings in selected situations notably when the scale of an enterprise computing resources is relatively small compared with that of cloud providers
While these advantages seem ironclad, when real companies are surveyed, the realities of competition demand curves and price are not identical with the arguments that underpin the features listed above.
How firms really operate
A 1998 US survey[1] demonstrated a number of salient features of business practice and the management of costs and prices. It also showed how prices change in the wider marketplace:
• "First, about 85 percent of all the goods and services in the U.S. non farm business sector are sold to "regular customers" with whom sellers have an ongoing relationship … And about 70 percent of sales are business to business rather than from businesses to consumers.
• Second, and related, contractual rigidities … are extremely common … about one-quarter of output is sold under contracts that fix nominal prices for a nontrivial period of time. And it appears that discounts from contract prices are rare. Roughly another 60 percent of output is covered by Okun-style[2] implicit contracts which slow down price adjustments.
• Third, firms typically report fixed costs that are quite high relative to variable costs."[3]
The survey showed a high degree of stable competition and fixed prices. Instant demand peaks and hyper-flexibility are not everyday concerns. Prices are stable and customer relationships static. There are some firms that require or can use flexibility, but not commonly, and that has wide-ranging effect on the aggregate outcome.
Real firms' view of capital and operating expenditure are divergent from theory. Approximately 90 per cent of their output is produced under conditions of constant or falling marginal cost, and rising economies of scale.
The Fallacy of Composition and Total Cost of Ownership
Stable and constant business to business commerce is not normal in arguments or case studies supporting cloud computing. Cloud vendors tend to overstate the unusual instance and extrapolate it to a so-called typical condition of operations. This type of argument and logic at first sight appears quite convincing. It actually confuses any issues.
Independent studies and most, if not all, vendor claims on cloud savings use a simple formula, viz: the evidence from a single study is extrapolated to several or all other players within an industry or sector. The cumulative savings from this methodology, notably in government services are potentially large. Both Microsoft and Google offer the same formula when they present total cost of ownership savings for an individual firm or even for multiple organisations based on single firm or study.
The intention in demonstrating cloud savings has occurred is to rationalize the need for a process of migration and change. The trouble is that the purported savings are not realizable in the typical methodology that is presented by vendors and consultancy firms. This is a problem for organisations looking to achieve similar savings e.g. government agencies, the education sector where many individual organisations share and are joined by common requirements when they share many services. It is also a consideration for organisations joining private clouds i.e. smaller agglomerations of users usually within a specific sector.
In the first instance claimed savings across several organisations is subject to the Fallacy of Composition which refers to errors in logic that arise "when one infers that something is true of the whole from the fact that it is true of some part of the whole (or even of every proper part)". It holds that what is true for one individual will be true for all others. A common example of the fallacy is that thrift is good, which may be true of an individual but if an entire nation or market practice it then demand falls and consequences, such as unemployment, and falling investment may result.
If something is logically invalid it may be considered either irrelevant or just acceptable, depending on attitude, because not everything can be made perfectly logical in real business environments. [4] Most vendors emphasize that the examples they offer of purported savings are an illustration and therefore to be read as indicative, not absolutely definitive. While such a position is understandable, and flexible, it is still wrong because it is an inference about something that is supposedly true, or is understood to be in some way true.
The forecast value of any cloud deployment based on the inferences of prices is incorrect. In addition, an illustration of something that is fundamentally wrong is not useful, it is still wrong, it illustrates an error. It means the methodology is wrong; the argument that coheres the purpose of the savings are also wrong and most of all it cannot be used to build a business case.
Applying the fallacy of composition to proposals and data that present savings is instructive into what can really be achieved. In reference to total cost of ownership (TCO) the fallacy of composition can be applied to all vendors' TCOs as the claimed savings is the element of individual thrift of one firm applied, and/ or inferred to other firms in equal proportion and even across whole industries .[5] For single firms planning on choosing Microsoft's 365 cloud offerings or Google Apps the fallacy of composition may be a useful test.
Measuring Aggregation
The research on cloud computing has mostly used single instances, when larger groups of organisations ought to be analyzed. One of the key aspects to examine is aggregate demand and utilization in which a single organization would be compared to several. It is aggregate utilization and network effects across several organisations, not necessarily within the same industry, which will reveal how the cloud alters costs in relation to productivity.
For larger groups of organisations, such as school districts, or government agencies a more substantial method of analysis is needed to assess future value. This must balance individual organisations with the aggregate. It may also understate the achieved value in either savings or additional productivity.
The conundrum is known as the Aggregation Problem.[6] The aggregation problem refers to the difficulty of treating an empirical or theoretical aggregate as if it reacted like a less-aggregated measure, for example, about the behavior of an individual agent. In other words taking a single instance and extending its results to other instances. This problem is considerable but ignored.
In most models of cloud savings: Public cloud, Private cloud et.al., as the metrics used to evaluate individual cost benefits for each scenario is costed and benefited seem to apply a uniform cost without attention to aggregation. The results of those models are therefore inaccurate. Most of the material (both independent and from vendors) dealing with government cloud savings demonstrates it is never referenced, never solved, and therefore remains a problem.
It is not possible to offer solutions here to such a complex analytical problem.
There are, however, two ways to consider this issue:
1. Vendors and any consulting firms must demonstrate that they have understood and dealt with the problem and have an appropriate algorithm or other mathematical model that answers the issue;
2. Anyone attempting this to produce a verifiable business case ought to start on a small-scale e.g. 2-4 firms or agencies and also ensure they are a similar types of organisations i.e. size, operations etc.
If organisations are going to realize financial benefits in cloud computing the vendors of those products must do a better, more comprehensive and thorough job at explaining them.
Any organization seriously reviewing the return on investment and wider changes of cloud computing is necessarily going to have to assess their own organization over a long period. And that process will require the skills of outside expertise to complete such a task.
• Appraise the value and the inflection points of business that would improve.
• A productivity evaluation is very complex but a yardstick is critical to make.
• Where is the industry heading and how quickly: what are the forces and incentives to change and how extensively?
• Be skeptical about claims and also thorough with measurements.
Guy Cranswick
1. Blinder surveyed a representative weighted sample of US non-agricultural corporations with annual sales of more than US$10 million; a 61% response rate resulted in a study of 200 corporations whose combined output represented 7.6% of the USA's GDP. The interviews were face to face, with Blinder and a team of Economics PhD students conducting the interviews; the interviewees were top executives of the firms, with 25% being the President or CEO, and 45% a Vice President.
2. A causal relationship: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okun%27s_law
3. Asking About Prices: a New Approach to Understanding Price Stickiness, Russell Sage Foundation, and New York. Blinder, A.S., Canetti, E., Lebow, D., & Rudd, J., (1998). p. 302
4. Another contemporary example of a fallacy which appears correct is related to the reconstruction of Queensland after the floods. This situation is presented as a potential boon for the economy yet the idea of economic growth from destruction is an error known as the fallacy of broken glass and identified 150 years ago.
5. This is commonly done in anecdotal pieces in IT media, e.g. Firm X migrated to ABC product and if every firm did the same then there would be a saving of $XX.
6. An aggregate in economics is a summary measure describing a market or economy.


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USMAN Arshad produced a stunning display of bowling to safely guide Lowerhouse Under 11s Bears safely through to the second round of the cup.
The House ace claimed 5-0 in an impressive victory over Bacup.
Batting first, Lowerhouse posted a healthy 288-3 off their alloted overs with three players in particular contributing well with the bat.
Jack Spence top scored with an unbeaten 25 while Aman Singh (17) and Yousaf Nadem (16) also didn't lose a 'life' during their spell at the crease.
While Usman was rightly the pick of the bowlers, James Bridge (3-2) and Josh Butterworth (2-8) more than played their part as Bacup were bowled out for 142.
Lowerhouse U15s also marched on in the cup as an opening stand of 41 paved the way to victory against Ramsbottom.
Dec Standsfield played some big shots in his unbeaten 25 while Max Dawson (24) and Ethan Laraway (11) helped Lowerhouse to 100-3 Ramsbottom were restricted to 87-5 with Jack Moodie claiming 2-12.
The steadily improving Lowerhouse U11s Cubs slipped to defeat against Accrington.
Thomas Holden took 2-2 as Accrington posted 253-4.
In reply, the Cubs scored 226-4 with Henri Cottam and Anthony Barrett both unbeaten on 13 and 11 respectively.
House U11s Koalas – mainly made up of under nines and newcomers – won at Church.
The hosts batted first and finished with 207-4 with Dec Metcalfe taking 2-9.
The Under Nines teams enjoyed two good wins over their Rishton rivals.
The Hornets, who scored 231-4, beat Rishton (185-8) thanks to the efforts of bowlers Rory Cormack (3-2) and Oliver Williams (3-4) sealed victory.
Charles Wilkes, with 2-7, was the stand-out performer for the U11s Bees as he helped restrict Rishton to 219-7 with Lowerhouse scoring 236-3 to clinch victory.


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Dynamics GP Year End Seminar (Downers Grove, IL)
Crestwood Associates LLC
Thursday, December 12, 2013 from 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM (CST)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
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Event Details
Please join Crestwood as our team provides updates for the year-end procedures. You will hear about best practices around the year-end close, as well as things to look for during this process. The team will cover various topics in areas such as:
· Performing pre-Year-End Close Backup
· Performing file Maintenance - Reconcile and Check Links
· Inventory
· Receivables Management
· Payables Management
· Fixed Assets
· General Ledger
· Post-Year-End Backup
· Payroll YE Update Information
We will have a limited number of seats. Please sign up now to reserve your seat. Registration fee is normally $149 per person, but we are offering it to our customers this year for only $49.00.
Registration fee entitles you to one Crestwood Year-End Manual. Additional hard copies are available for purchase onsite for $20.00. Electronic copies will be available on December 15th.
Book your seat today -- seats are limited and go quickly!
Light refreshments will be served mid-morning.
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The Alberta government has quietly presented a proposal to sharply increase levies on carbon production and force large oil-industry producers to slash greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 40 per cent on each barrel of production, a long-term plan that has surprised Ottawa and industry executives with its ambition.
Alberta Environment Minister Diana McQueen stunned a recent meeting in Calgary attended by senior oil executives and her federal counterpart, Peter Kent, with the proposal, which goes well beyond anything Ottawa or the companies contemplated, industry and government sources said Wednesday. The three sides are engaged in intense negotiations, with the industry warning that regulations that are too onerous could undermine the competitiveness of the oil sands sector as it seeks international investment to drive production growth.
Alberta Premier Alison Redford will return to Washington next week as part of a federal-provincial-industry effort to lobby the Obama administration to approve TransCanada Corp.'s controversial Keystone XL pipeline proposal.
She and Prime Minister Stephen Harper are under considerable pressure to introduce regulations for the oil industry to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
Opponents of Keystone XL in the United States point to the oil sands sector as one of the most carbon-intensive sources of crude.
"One of the really important things right now is that both the province and the federal government recognize that there's got to be some signals to Washington that environmental change is taking place in Canada," said Bob Page, director of the Enbridge Centre for Corporate Sustainability at the University of Calgary.
"A larger part of the discussion around Keystone has been about greenhouse gas emissions" from the oil sands, said Clare Demerse, director of federal policy with the Pembina Institute. "This is clearly a sector that is under scrutiny right now, and the right answer to that scrutiny is to come out with credible regulations."
Mr. Kent has promised draft regulations soon, but the federal Conservatives are reluctant to introduce anything that could be construed as a carbon tax. Ottawa is likely to agree to an "equivalency" approach with Alberta and perhaps other provinces, in which the federal government would pass regulations that set levels of emission reductions while provinces are free to impose their own systems, so long as they match Ottawa's ambition.
An Alberta regulation that took effect in 2007 required oil sands producers and other larger emitters in Alberta to reduce their per-barrel emissions by 12 per cent from a base year, and pay $15 into a provincially run technology fund for every tonne of emissions above their limit.
Ms. McQueen's proposal would, over a period of time, require a 40-per-cent reduction in per-barrel emissions and a $40-per-tonne payment when the limit is exceeded. At that rate, the regulations would boost the cost per barrel by less than $2 for oil sands producers.
Sources stressed that the provincial cabinet has not yet approved Ms. McQueen's proposals.
The Redford government has conceded it won't meet its 2020 emission targets under current policies. Environmental groups warn that even if Ottawa agreed to Alberta's 40/40 proposal, Canada would be on track to miss its commitment to reduce emissions 17 per cent from 2005 levels by 2020.
In a report this week, the Pembina Institute urged governments to impose a levy of at least $100 per tonne for emissions above the targeted level.
"Getting these regulations right is critical for Canada's climate credibility, and oil and gas is the litmus test for that," Ms. Demerse said on Wednesday.
Mr. Kent's spokesman, Rob Taylor, declined to comment, while Wayne Wood, a spokesman for Alberta's Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Resource Development, said it was "premature to speculate" on the targets the province is proposing.
Officials at the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers also declined to comment, but industry sources called Ms. McQueen's proposal a negotiating position rather than a hard demand. The industry is divided over the looming regulations, with some more willing to accept tougher rules than others. And many oil sands companies have already accounted for much higher carbon prices. Royal Dutch Shell PLC, for example, assumes a long-term carbon price of $40 per tonne.
But like many companies in Alberta, Shell has warned about the potential implications of raising the provincial levy. Asked in a recent interview whether the Anglo-Dutch giant would support a higher carbon price, its Canadian president, Lorraine Mitchelmore, said: "Alberta needs to be sure that it keeps the industry competitive."
Ms. Mitchelmore praised the province's existing greenhouse gas policy, which can feed a technology fund, as "a very, very nice package." She said any discussion of changes needs to "look more holistically about the long-term development [of the oil sands]. We need to think about our cost structure, our competitiveness, but we also need to think about the environmental opportunity."
Other senior energy figures have also warned about raising the carbon tax. "It's a bad idea to make companies uncompetitive," Rick George, who last year stepped down as chief executive of Suncor Energy Inc., said in a recent interview.
But oil sands firms are not the only ones that have raised competitiveness issues.
More strident opposition has come from oil refineries, including those in eastern Canada, which are a large source of emissions and have historically suffered from narrow margins. The natural gas industry, struggling against low prices, has also fought a big new carbon price, warning that it could put some businesses under.
The Alberta government has heard those complaints, the sources said, and is open to creating a regime that imposes different burdens on different industries, under the principle of "use the right tool in the right sector."
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Trafmeter description
TrafMeter is a powerful traffic accounting and Internet sharing tool for Microsoft Windows. Using TrafMeter, you can make flexible and precision measurement of the traffic by any condition (for example, IP address of source/destination, protocol, port and etc) in real-time with immediately output of the collected statistic to graph or other reports. TrafMeter has own built-in NAT (network address translation) engine which enables multiple hosts on a private network to access the Internet using a single public IP address. The firewall (also built-in TrafMeter) defends your host or your network against unwanted intrusions from the Internet. The Traffic Shaper allows restricting the speed of the Internet access (for example, 256 kbit/s) for specific users. TrafMeter authorization agent allows authenticating the users from LAN using TrafMeter Native Authentication or Windows Domain Authentication. Moreover, you can construct TrafMeter filters and rules based on usernames to resolve the problem of the traffic accounting in networks with dynamic allocated IP addresses and the problem with IP/MAC address spoofing by the users.
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In 1920, the critic Henri Collet wrote an article (in the January issue of Comoedia) entitled "Les cinq Russes, les six Franþais, et Satie", in which he identified six young French composers as forming a significant group in contemporary music. What they had in common was more to do with age and friendship than with musical style, but the label stuck and their works were programmed together.
Among their common influences were Jean Cocteau and Erik Satie, both of whom took a critical view of Ravel's music at that period. Insofar as the Groupe des Six represented an iconoclastic avant-garde, Ravel was for them part of the musical establishment, and he experienced strained relationships with several of them at various times. The appearance of his opera L'Enfant et les sortilèges in 1925 did much to alter their view of him.
Georges Auric (1899 - 1983)
Louis Durey (1888 - 1979)
Arthur Honegger (1892 - 1955)
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Program Description
Combine theory and exercise. Train your body and soul. This is the essence of Chinese Martial Arts. Participants train under the guidance of China's prominent past National Chinese Wushu Champions. These highly experienced masters are dedicated to providing high quality training for all students, from total beginners to participants competing in National Wushu competitions. Intensive trainings are held in the morning and extra curriculum activities held in weekends to enhance your Wushu skills and China experience.
Class Hours
8:30 – 11:00am Monday - Friday
Elective: 1:30 – 3:30 Monday and Wednesday
Supervision: 1:30 – 3:30 Tuesday and Thursday
Extra Curriculum Activities
A group of Extra Curriculum Activities are covered by the Program, which are to enhance your Wushu skills and Chinese experience.
Wushu Oriented Electives: Wushu electives are offered to provide participants with a chance of practicing other forms. Forms include Praying Mantis, Sanshou, Drunken Boxing, Tumbling Boxing and Bagua Zhang etc. Electives are open in the afternoon of every Monday and Wednesday.
Wushu Supervision: Supervision aims to correct and perfect your movement and skills as a supplementary to the training section in the morning. Supervisor will really slow down to demonstrate you every movement and emphasize in details. Supervisions are open in the afternoon of every Tuesday and Thursday.
Chinese Language Training (optional): Chinese tutoring is organized for those who intend to learn Chinese at his free time at extra expenses. Time and contents can be arranged flexibly according to learner's needs.
Weekend Excursions: We organize weekend trips in Guangzhou. Attractions include Pearl River Cruise, Qingping Market, The Nan Yue King Tomb Museum, Xiangjiang Night Safari etc.
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Enrollment Deadline
Martial Arts
29 Aug –
26 Sep
01 Jul
01 Aug
12 Sep –
05 Dec
Airport Transfer
With flight details, we can provide free airport arrival-pick-up service to program participant.
Accommodation is optional at extra cost.
Standard campus dorms for single and double occupation are available on first come first served basis. All rooms are fully furnished with airconditioner, TV, telephone, bed, desk, book shelf and private bathroom with 24 hours hot water. Public kitchen and washing machine are provided at each level.
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A forthcoming PBS documentary reviewing the Jayson Blair plagiarism scandal at The New York Times will feature the Latina reporter who exposed Blair to complain that the scandal that followed "gave people permission" to stop focusing on newsroom diversity.
Tim Molloy of The Wrap reports Macarena Hernandez "said that as newspapers have suffered financially, there has been far less emphasis on hiring people of color — because of the prejudicial belief that Blair's case discredits all efforts at making newsrooms look like the communities they serve." But will PBS ignore the role of race in Blair's rapid ascent at the Times?
The Times itself buried an account by media reporter Jacques Steinberg then-executive editor Howell Raines confessed a racial bias to the Times staff:
Before opening the session to questions, Mr. Raines made a pre-emptive attempt to address whether Mr. Blair's race -- he is black -- had played a role in his being added last fall to the team covering the hunt for the snipers in the Washington area.
Only six months earlier, Mr. Blair, 27, had been found to be making so many serious errors as a reporter on the metropolitan staff that he had been informed that his job was in jeopardy.
"Our paper has a commitment to diversity and by all accounts he appeared to be a promising young minority reporter," Mr. Raines said. "I believe in aggressively providing hiring and career opportunities for minorities."
"Does that mean I personally favored Jayson?" he added, a moment later. "Not consciously. But you have a right to ask if I, as a white man from Alabama, with those convictions, gave him one chance too many by not stopping his appointment to the [D.C.] sniper [reporting] team. When I look into my heart for the truth of that, the answer is yes."
It's fair for minority reporters to complain that the Blair scandal raised questions about using race as a major hiring criterion. But they can't avoid that race played a role in Blair's reporting errors being tolerated if not ignored. Molloy reported:
Macarena Hernandez was in a remarkable position: a former classmate and colleague of Blair, she wrote the article alerting the New York Times to his plagiarism. But she said exposing Blair led to fewer opportunities for African-American journalists, as well as Hispanic journalists like herself.
Reporters and editors, many of them resentful of Blair's rapid rise at the New York Times, unfairly blamed Affirmative Action programs — and by extension suggested that all journalists of color somehow owed their success to their color.
"It was a very difficult moment, because we all became suspect," said New York Times writer Lena Williams, who worked with Blair and covers race relations. "They said it was because of the Times and the affirmative action program, he should never have been there, some of us didn't deserve to work at the New York Times. And so we were defending ourselves as reporters. We were defending the race, we felt."
"Across the board there were reporters who felt that they were under intense scrutiny," she said.
Blair plagiarized the work of Hernandez and others during his flameout, which included a struggle with mental illness and cocaine and alcohol abuse. His story is told in the Independent Lens film "A Fragile Trust," debuting on PBS on May 5.
From 2003: Brent Bozell column on "Jayson Blair, Star Pupil"
Ten years ago: Clay Waters says Jayson Blair's memoir is "pretty lousy"


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Friday Links
Today is a special day, and we will have another post up later today about Britz, the contraversial "docu-drama" that aired in Britain this past week. But for now, here are some links for 11.2.07" Author Fatemeh Keshavarz talks about her book and leadership in Iran and the U.S. The founder of Canadian Association of Muslims with Disabilities is honored by the Canadian Council of Muslim Women.Ruqaya Al Ghasara, Doha's Asian Games 200m gold medalist, dedicates her v … [Read more...]
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It's Halloween again here in the West, and I have to say...now that I'm a grown up, Halloween sucks. Especially because of:Slutty costumes (I just had to say it) Slutty "ethnic" costumes: Native American girl, geisha, etc.In particular:Harem girl costumes Belly dancer costumes Genie costumes Cleopatra costumes Arab sheikh costumes These costumes reinforce the eroticized and/or dangerous stereotypes associated wi … [Read more...]
Brass Crescent Awards
The Fourth Annual Brass Crescent Awards are here, loyal readers! According to their website, the Brass Crescent Awards are "an annual awards ceremony that honors the best writers and thinkers of the emerging Muslim blogosphere … Nominations are taken from blog readers, who then vote for the winners." Please show us some love by nominating us--for whatever! We appreciate your votes and support! Also, take a look at our links to get ideas for other categories; we have links to some great b … [Read more...]
Friday Links
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National Pink Hejab Day
This Friday, October 26th, is National Pink Hejab day. Women who wear hejab will be wearing pink hejabs to raise awareness for breast cancer.But those of you who don't wear hejab are thinking, what about me? Well, wear a pink scarf, sisters! It's October, and (at least where I am) it's cold! So snuggle up with a warm pink pashmina. Tie a pink ribbon around your hair or wear it on your wrist. Wear pink bracelets or something.Or donate some zakat to a cancer research organization. … [Read more...]
Look Who's Talking Now: The New Orientalism
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FOUR new Chief Pleas members will take their seats when the assembly sits next month and I wish them – and their 24 fellow conseillers – an enjoyable and fruitful term of office.
FOUR new Chief Pleas members will take their seats when the assembly sits next month and I wish them – and their 24 fellow conseillers – an enjoyable and fruitful term of office.
Whether it will be a happy one may well be determined by the amount of vilification and personal criticism they receive if they have the temerity to raise their heads above the parapet. In the light of that, and without exception, they and those who stood unsuccessfully in last week's election are deserving of thanks.
As with any legislature, they will have important decisions to make, not least in relation to the implementation or otherwise of recommendations contained in the report by former Whitehall civil servant Belinda Crowe.
Inevitably there will be a temptation to take the easy route, as they are frequently urged to do from certain quarters, and implement Ms Crowe's recommendations in their entirety. Economically, that will lead to a significant increase in the cost of administration – she advocates a chief secretary and two policy professionals – and, with ideas about other revenue streams sadly lacking, that means tax increases.
However, the implementation of the recommendation that reduces drastically the number of committees is at least as significant in a political context. It would see the current number of close on 20 (including two sub-committees) cut to just three.
I say that simply because, cynical political observer that I have been for almost four decades, experience suggests it is a good deal easier for a government led by three committee chairmen to be swayed and/or influenced by vested interests than it is for a government led by three times that number, which would be the figure involved if the number of committees were halved.
I have no doubt at all that others think along similar lines, but will not thank me for mentioning it.
Then of course the 28 conseillers will be urged to introduce full-time policing and border controls from Guernsey and – in a line which is being frequently and actively pursued – with the automatic conclusion that 'Sark must pay'.
Quite how 24/7 policing at hundreds of thousands of pounds a year will benefit Sark is for the moment lost on this former police officer.
Similarly, how at least similar amounts on the salaries, equipment and infrastructure essential for Sark to accept fare-paying passengers from French ports will be translated into revenue is also lost. Even if financed by a £1 per head visitor tax, it would need at the very least double the number of visitors we currently welcome to pay for one border control officer – and many more than one will be needed.
I don't know whether this is rocket science or not, but I doubt that anyone need be particularly bright to think – perhaps wrongly, but it's the perception which is important – that the objective of all this suggested expenditure may well be to drag Sark to its economic knees. Given that it's the panto season, cue for a knight in shining armour to enter stage left, galloping to the rescue of our depleted reserves. Or perhaps even two of them.
The trouble is that if the events of the last 12 months are anything to go by then this is not a fairy story and, so far at least, no happy ending is in sight.
This is the last column of 2012 because there won't be one next Friday. Sark is gearing itself up for Christmas as only Sark can, with Christmas lights along The Avenue, carol singers out and about and the promise of a free bar at most business premises on Christmas Eve.
I hope Sark, its residents and readers of this weekly offering – no matter who and where they are – have a peaceful, prosperous and healthy Christmas and New Year.
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Merry Christmas Phil!
The SEM/SNL (they are inseparable) tactic of ensuring that no sane business or knight in any sort of armour would want to come and set up on Sark is something that Colin Kniveton needs to acknowledge and urgently address, if he is to have credibility.
As you say, hiding behind the Crowe imposition may be a tempting and easy way out, but did we ever learn details of any of Ms Crowe's previous advisory missions to give us confidence that she called this situation correctly?
Spending other folks' money is easy.
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Seasons Greetings Mr Falle. Whilst there are occasional dissenting noises, most Islanders regard you as one of the more honest brokers of news of life on besieged Sark, with its many trials and tribulations.
If only the Barclays had the common decency and good sense to put you in charge of the Great "sack 'em all" Dictator as editor of the SNL.
It's exhausting trying to track the machinations of the Sark Saga. But at least after John Sweeney's staggering revelations of the distance between the story according to Delaney and the evidence of camera and mike, most of those under siege can be relieved that the SNL lost any last vestige of credibility.
So no wonder the latest "Christmas Cheer" edition has come out blazing away - denying everything, "borrowing" BBC images, and being ever more economical with reality, in the finest traditions of the propaganda machines of those fascist regimes that seem to fascinate its editor.
It's not going to be a happy new year for some.
Maybe it is not such a bad idea to have border controls for Sark after all. It may be expensive but the outcome could have far reaching results.
For instance, the authority would have absolute control over:-
Who could come in or out of the island.
It could even extend to controlling who actually could have residence on the island with the provision of deportation of undesirables.
Now there's a thought.
Sark doesn't need a costly border force to deport undesirables, just a big enough trebuchet.
The poll-topping election of the "listening" and relatively non-controversial Sandra Williams ought to give some hope for 2013.
This implies that most Sarkees still regard Tourism as their saviour opportunity, so will Sandra be honest enough to spell out that the present island set-up may never be viable unless Sark is ready to sacrifice some of the things that help make Sark unique, and that the old guard regard as sacrosanct??
The one thing that the world remarks upon at every discussion of Sark is the absence of "normal" cars. All else might have to be negotiable.
In any situation of confrontation, there are "deals" to be done. And the first order of play should be to take the Bs on one side and point out the SNL is a chronic deterrent to either tourism or the arrival of supporting businesses. Once the inexcusable SNL goes for good, and its editor sent on a charm course, then maybe many contest matters might become negotiable. Possibly in some instances, subject to an island-wide consensus referendum.
Another thing for Ms Williams' agenda: encourage the Bs divest themselves of at least one of their hotels - maybe to a relevant global chain with a network of "feeder" establishments. The Ritz is very nice, but probably full of guests who are "too posh to pedal".
Then if she could seal a deal and charm the Bs into using some of their VAST Littlewoods windfall rebate to fund a proper power and communication cable... and a well-equipped medical facility that will benefit islanders and visitors alike...
The people of Sark may not be as far from a thoroughly "good deal" that suits all parties as most people assume


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(CNSNews.com) - "Virtual public education," a concept that borrows elements of home schooling, taxpayer-funded charter schools and the Internet, is gaining momentum with the introduction of new online academies in California, Ohio and Idaho.
K12 Inc., the brainchild of former U.S. Education Secretary William Bennett, is not the first organization to offer Internet-based education, but with Bennett's backing, is the most prominent. K12 already has virtual academies set up in Pennsylvania and Colorado, providing more than a thousand students with what Bennett calls a "world-class education" in the privacy of their own homes.
Opposition to K12 is being mounted, predictably by the National Education Association, but also by an unlikely source, home school advocates.
Funding the 'Virtual Academies'
Taxpayers pay for the computers, printers, Internet access, books and other tools used by the students at the K12 virtual academies.
The National Education Association (NEA), which opposes home schooling in general and supports charter schools "with certain provisions," calls Bennett's K12 taxpayer "facilitated home schooling."
"We are raising the bar in terms of accountability in public education every day and now to simply suggest that we're going to spend public funds for a child to be taught at the kitchen table by someone that is not a qualified educator is ... sort of counter to everything else we're saying about what we want in public education," said Barbara Stein, senior policy analyst for the NEA.
Bennett is conducting open houses throughout the summer at virtual academies in California, Ohio and Idaho, where, beginning in September, lessons will be taught over the Internet, combining "traditional materials with innovative technology," according to Bennett.
The McLean, Va.-based K12 Inc. currently provides a curriculum only for kids in kindergarten through the fifth grade. The program hopes to eventually set up academies in all 50 states, and for students through the 12th grade.
K12 describes a charter school as "an independent public school of choice, freed from rules but accountable for results." Although charter schools vary in approach from state to state because of government regulations, K12 identifies four "pillars" - freedom, innovation, choice and accountability - as the general basis for charter schools.
Although the curriculum is home-based, K12's founder and CEO Ron Packard told CNSNews.com that its mandated rigorous curriculum, enforced accountability through state tests, and access to state-certified teachers makes it "dramatically different" than the home school approach.
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K12 finds itself under attack not only from the teachers' union but also from home school advocacy groups.
Tom Washburne is an attorney at the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), as well as director of the National Center for Home Education, the HSLDA's federal policy and lobbying arm. Washburne said the HSLDA is reluctant to mix home schooling with public education.
"We've made great grounds in the last couple of decades on home school freedom and we don't want to see us taking a step back," Washburne told CNSNews.com.
The virtual charter schools' offer of a free education could tempt home schoolers to trade in the private freedom they currently enjoy, Washburne said, placing them "back under the public school umbrella."
Washburne said this would undermine the "political presence that you need to fight back the regulations on home education." Even though virtual charter schools might feel like home schooling, their affiliation with the states in which they operate is an invitation for government intrusion, he said.
Jeff Kwitowski, Bennett's press secretary, dismissed that argument, insisting that government is only intruding on the K12 concept by requiring state funding and tests to measure student performance. Bennett is "not going to let any state politics or any education gurus come in and try to alter things and change things," Kwitowski said.
Packard said he was "shocked" by the opposition being mounted by home school advocates. "It's really amazing to me that a group that has fought so hard for [its] right to home school would oppose someone else's parents who are fighting for their right to be doing at home a great public school education," Packard told CNSNews.com.
"The same level of intolerance that you saw in the education establishment toward home schooling, I think home schooling [groups] are showing toward us," he added.
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Welcome to the Aquatic Eddy Covariance Research Lab at the University of Virginia. We work with the eddy covariance technique, also known as the eddy correlation technique, for underwater flux measurements in three main areas:
The aquatic eddy covariance technique was adapted from the atmospheric boundary layer to the benthic environment by Peter Berg and the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany. The first proof of concept paper focusing on oxygen fluxes for different benthic ecosystems was published in 2003 (Berg et al. 2003), and since then an increasing number of groups have adopted the approach
The technique is more expensive and challenging to apply than traditional benthic flux methods, but it has several unique advantages:
For most benthic ecosystems, the eddy covariance technique represents the closest we come today to measuring true in situ fluxes.
The technique has been used in the atmospheric boundary layer for many decades, and it is by far the most common approach for measuring fluxes between land and air. We hope to see a similar development for the aquatic environment as more experience is gained with the technique and more sensors are being developed.
This research is made possible by funding and support from the University of Virginia and the National Science Foundation.
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Written by Freedom Drayton
Produced by The RZA & Kenetic
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Written by Maurice & Saffran Harris
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8. Charles' Theme
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Written by Maurice
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Written by Thea & The RZA
Produced by The RZA & Little O
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Produced by Marko Glogolia
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Theater Students Share Stage with Tony-Nominated Faculty Member Forrest McClendon in 'Big River'
The 'Huckleberry Finn' adaptation runs for one weekend only Feb. 23-25 at the Arts Bank Theater
January 6, 2011
Students from the Ira Brind School of Theater Arts at the University of the Arts will share the stage with special guest star Forrest McClendon – a 2011 Tony Award nominee and Barrymore Award winner – in a concert performance of "Big River."
This production will be on stage for one weekend only with three performances February 23 - 25 at the University's Arts Bank Theater (601 South Broad Street, Philadelphia).
"Big River" is adapted from Mark Twain's classic novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, with music and lyrics by Roger Williams and book by William Hauptman.
In "Big River," McClendon plays runaway slave Jim, opposite UArts student Adam Hoyak '13 (Musical Theater) as Huck Finn. McClendon has been an adjunct professor in the Brind School for 15 years and has played the role of Jim twice before at Surflight Theatre and Mount Gretna Playhouse. He debuted on Broadway with a 2011 Tony Award-nominated performance as Mr. Tambo in "The Scottsboro Boys" and is currently recreating the role in a Philadelphia Theatre Company production (Jan. 20 – Feb. 19).
"Big River" follows the journey of Twain's unforgettable characters Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer and Jim as they discover friendship and freedom at the mouth of the Ohio River. Set to an award-winning bluegrass and country music score, this concert presentation is a collaborative production featuring the students and faculty of the Ira Brind School of Theater Arts.
Also working alongside the students is Adjunct Professor of Musical Theater and UArts alumnus Ben Dibble BFA '00 (Musical Theater) as the Duke. Dibble is a Barrymore Award-winning actor, singer and educator who most recently received critical acclaim as Elyot in "Private Lives" at Lantern Theater Company.
Frank Anzalone, an adjunct assistant professor and Barrymore Award-nominated director whose career has spanned over 100 productions, directs the cast. He also directed McClendon as Jim in the Mount Gretna Playhouse production. Assistant Professor Linda Henderson serves as music director. Her credits include numerous UArts and regional productions and work in theater orchestras at the Academy of Music, Forrest Theatre and Walnut Street Theatre, among others.
Performances of "Big River" run Thursday, Feb. 23 at 8 p.m., Friday, Feb. 24 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, Feb. 25 at 8 p.m. (press opening: Feb. 23, 8 p.m.). Tickets are $10 - $20 and available online at tickets.uarts.edu or (215) 717-6450. Seating is general admission and on a first-come, first-served basis.


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Jeff Sutphen Dishes About Nickelodeon's 'BrainSurge'
What other show will you watch where practically everyone gets slimed – even the host gets green! Nickelodeon has brought back it's ultimate game show, BrainSurge, but this time its family style! BrainSurge has families making a mess as they battle against each other through brain teasers and brain trips for awesome prizes!
The show premiered on Monday, July 18. Only its first week in, Family BrainSurge rocked the TV charts with over 2 million viewers! The show isn't just for kids though, it seems like adults are interested in all the slimy fun. BrainSurge also ranked as the top program parents watch with their kids for the week.
You know, it's funny because a lot of people go 'Oh, you got to go to work,' but I don't consider what I do work, number one. Secondly, I have the maturity level of a ten-year-old so, this show is a really good fit for me, but at the end of the day – it might be a long day, but when I look back at it and go 'Okay, let's see what did I have to do today, I had to slime someone, send someone down the brain drain, and give away prizes' – it doesn't get any better than that as far as work goes.
Do you have a Game Show Host idol?
Bob Barker he was awesome, especially because he had that long, slender microphone. Then you got the people like Alex Trebek, who, I mean, would there be Jeopardy without Alex Trebek? I mean it just kind of seems silly that you could have it – I don't think you could have one or the other. Deal or No Deal, Howie Mandel, that guy has a scary talent. He's just on his A-game everyday, and he's fun to watch.
If you had to choose Jeopardy or Wheel of Fortune, which one would you pick?
Two iconic shows still running, Jeopardy or Wheel of Fortune. I will tell you why this is extraordinarily tough for me – I'm a lousy speller so that puts Jeopardy in the front runner. Then again I don't necessarily consider myself a very smart man, so that's going to put Wheel of Fortune. Prizes versus cash, chance versus knowledge. I'm going to have to go with Wheel of Fortune because I just think I would stand a better chance there.
If you could have any two celebrities compete against each other on the show, who would it be?
I think Vince Vaughn would be a great addition to the show. Will Ferrell and Cameron Diaz would be a nice addition to the show as well, and Emma Stone – I think she's awesome. Those would be the braniacs right there, that would be a toss-up. Those would be my dream braniacs right there.
What has been your favorite reaction to someone going down the brain drain?
I would have to say the best reaction was the show we just shot with Jennie Garth from 90210. After she came down, she went back and grabbed a bunch of foam and threw it [around], while falling because she tried climbing back up the slide. It didn't stop her from doing what she needed to though. Then she threw it on everyone in the audience! That was probably the best reaction that we saw.
Do you know if the slime taste good or not?
I've been around slime for a while now, and it gets everywhere. It's actually harvested in the center of the earth. Taste wise, it tastes good, but I wouldn't recommend sitting down and eating a bowl of it. If you're going to get slimed, I wouldn't look up and open your mouth. I've been slimed plenty of times it gets everywhere. Just when you think you're clean, two days later you find some in your ear.


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I could sit here & cry my eyes out right now. I have just reported a pet shop i have mentioned on here once before. I feel REALLY nervous for some reason. But after the horse rescue here last week, i really can't ignore the gut feeling in my stomach. But we went there on Saturday and it is obviously owned by "Pikey's", the number of birds of all wildness & exotisism is quite saddening, some with feathers missing, and the noise, oh my god the noise. There was a porr little snuffly chinchilla sleeping and peeping on every breath out, and LIONHEAD BUNS!! 4 of the poor little things in tiny grotty cages barely room to stretch out comfortably.
One was JUST LIKE BRIAN BUMSTAR as a baby, and they are selling these rabbits with TOTALLY the wrong age on the price sign. Luckily the rats had the sense to curl up and sleep hidden from the horrible children who come in and tap on the glass. But this one poor little white lionhead with black rings around his eyes was sat in filth (far too much filth to have been cleaned out that day anyway or the day before..IN A TINY CAGE), when i went back to see him he had moved, and was chomping on some hay, but i noticed he had a snotty / gunky nose and a massive fur matt by his ear, now clearly to me that screams out the welfare of the animal is not at the forefront of the nasty dirty moneygrabbing pikeypeople's minds.
I wont tell the boyfriend what i've done as he'll just roll his eyes and want to know why i involved myself. The council and rspca said they would keep me informed (even if it is just me being a bit over sensitive at the mo what with aforementioned horse cruelty), so ....
i don't think that's a bad thing you did. i doubt they'll stop selling animals, but it may improve the condition in which they're kept.
Let us know if you get any feedback from the officials you lodged the complaint with.
Absolutely you did the right thing!!!!!!!!!!! Will whoever you reported them to take real action? That's so awful. I would have done the same thing. In fact should a rescue "rescue" them????
Great!!! Good girl!
i was watching the ASPCA rescue show on Animal Planet last night (i can never get thru an episode without crying... but i still watch) and this woman had pups that were severely malnourished. turns out, she had surrendered another litter of pups to a vet not long before saying she "found" them somewhere. they figured out she was lying and they were her pups. it's people like that who abuse the system, that make it so difficult for folks who truly want to help.
Rachel that's exactly how i am. lol I always wanted to be a vet but i'd just be distraught at the negative side of that.
Well i had a message on my phone earlier from the RSPCA. She had just been to the shop and checked it out, in one way fortunate as no homeless animals to contend with, unfortunately the pikey bstrds are still peddling their wares! The RSPCA said they have advised the owners of relevant care and conditions, and it is now down to "ROYAL Windsor & Maidenhead Borough Council" to visit & issue the necessary licensing conditions again as they are a licensed premises. It makes me a tad cross! (I'll have to keep going back and keeping a check on the animals, and if needs be keep on reporting!!) If it were one of the Queen's precious swans i'm sure it would be a whole different outcome!!!! RAAR!!!
Defiantly no question about it, you did do the right thing and there should be more of it.
There are a lot of these places around but people just say that is disgusting but do nothing about it.
Animals will continue to suffer until people like you come to their rescue.
Spacehopper... what if in a month or two, one of your friends or acquaintances checked and decided to file a complaint? would it carry more weight if more than one person was complaining (assuming you "omit the fact" that you know each other...)


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"I remember how it upset me when we would take her to visit my great-grandpa Joe in a Jewish home for the aged. He was blind, and when he bounced my kid sister on his knee, he kept asking in his thickly accented English: 'Why doesn't she talk? Why doesn't she talk?' "
It was that experience so long ago that led him to do research in pediatrics in the field of early language development.
"I was not consciously aware of that connection until 10 years later, when someone asked me how I became interested in this field, and suddenly, I remembered great-grandpa Joe," he says. "Even before I realized it, my course in life was already set."
Today, that course finds Coplan immersed in the field of autism. Coplan, who has been caring for children with special needs since 1977, is an award-winning educator, published author and medical scientist, as well as a sought-after speaker in several areas, including autistic spectrum disorders, known as ASD.
His book on the subject (just released, and especially appropriate now since April is National Autism Awareness Month) is Making Sense of Autistic Spectrum Disorders: Create the Brightest Future for Your Child With the Best Treatment Options.
What the author attempts to do is bring the issue down to its most basic level of understanding.
Coplan, who trained at New York Medical College and at Johns Hopkins University, directed resident training in child development for 20 years at Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, N.Y. He followed that with an appointment at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and is now in private practice in Rosemont, where this member of Beth Am Israel in Penn Valley specializes in the assessment of children with ASD.
ASD is a developmental disability that can cause significant social, communication and behavioral challenges, explains Coplan, and is typically evident in the first three years of a child's life. Symptoms can range from very mild to severe.
ASD occurs in individuals in all racial, ethnic and social groups, and is four times more likely to strike boys than girls.
"We have seen children who are completely nonverbal, who never acquire verbal speech, and then we have children who are highly verbal," he states. "So there's a huge variance."
"But parents still need answers — a reason why, how, when and where their child developed this condition," Coplan says, citing one of the reasons for his book.
It also, he says, "demystifies — once and for all — the argument that vaccines are a major contributor to the current ASD explosion."
In fact, he adds, the journal that originally developed the theory has formally retracted the statement.
Although the experts still do not have all the answers, it is clear that early intervention is important, he adds. And parents are the ones who can offer that to their child.
Coplan remembers a mother who came to him when her child was 3 years old. He was making the diagnosis of autism for the first time.
"She said she knew the moment they brought him to her in the delivery room and put him in her arms that something was wrong, but she just couldn't put her finger on it," he says. "She breast-fed the baby for nine months, and for those entire nine months, he never once looked up at her."
'In Their Own Little World'
In his book, Coplan says that's one of the telltale signs of autism: "Children make no eye contact, they live in their own little world, and suffer from poor language and social skills, as well as other behavioral issues."
His book also offers a description of the leading intervention programs and which children they benefit the most, and advises on how state-of-the-art medications can help in certain situations. He also maintains that some children will mature out of the autistic spectrum entirely, while others will need long-term care.
If you plan on seeking a therapist, then Coplan strongly urges parents to read the sections in his book that offer those options.
"I don't provide any form of therapy myself, nor do I get any kind of financial compensation by any therapy provided. But the first thing to be aware of is the money," he cautions.
"In other words, find out who this therapy has actually helped, and what are the side effects in a biomedical sense. As our parents always advised us, use your common sense. Ask questions and keep a tight grip on your wallet.
"If something doesn't feel right," he emphasizes, "it probably isn't."


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Re: Mathematica graphs in WORD
I have found that the best looking results are when you export the
Mathematica output to a postscript file - a sample code is shown below.
Then go into WORD and import the graph as a file.
I will admit that this is not the most convenient. I would love to
have a simple "Cut/Paste as postscript" solution. But I work in the
Windows environment and have tried the various Cut/Paste options
available and have always found that they have some jaggedness to them.
The postscript file route also has the advantage that you can resize
the graph inside WORD without any loss of resolution.
Here is my code to export the postscript file. See Export in the
Mathematica Help for details.
sinplot = Plot[Sin[x], {x, -2 Pi, 2 Pi}]
Export["C:\Graphs\sinplot.eps", sinplot, "EPSTIFF", ImageResolution ->
I use the ESPTIFF option because it produces a reduced resolution
preview that provides a view inside WORD. The default resolution in
Mathematica produces a somewhat jagged preview within WORD although it
prints nicely. I personally want a smoother on screen preview and have
found that the ImageResolution -> 100 produces a nice on screen view
with a minimum increase in the file size. I have not tried this under
OSX so you might need to modify the directory syntax - I am writing the
file to a "Graphs" folder on the main C drive.
Adam Smith
tsokos at acs.gr wrote:
> I have a very elementary question to
> which I would appreciate help from
> someone. I use Mathematica 5.0 for the
> Macintosh (OSX). How do you copy a graph
> from Mathematica into a WORD document so
> that when you print it the graph is
> smooth rather jagged?


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He said the government would consult with the mining industry and further analyse the government's proposed reforms, which include a 40 per cent resource super profits tax, or RSPT, but his first thought on reading the documents was for his own children.
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Berkeley CA (SPX) Sep 22, 2013
California biologists have discovered four new species of reclusive legless lizards living in some of the most marginal habitat in the state: a vacant lot in downtown Bakersfield, among oil derricks in the lower San Joaquin Valley, on the margins of the Mojave desert, and at the end of one of the runways at LAX.
"This shows that there is a lot of undocumented biodiversity within California," said Theodore Papenfuss, a reptile and amphibian expert, or herpetologist, with UC Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, who discovered and identified the new species with James Parham of California State University, Fullerton. The discoveries raise the number of California legless lizard species from one to five.
The herpetologists named the new snake-like lizards after four legendary UC Berkeley scientists: museum founder Joseph Grinnell, paleontologist Charles Camp, philanthropist and amateur scientist Annie Alexander and herpetologist Robert C. Stebbins, at 98 the only one of the group still alive.
"These are animals that have existed in the San Joaquin Valley, separate from any other species, for millions of years, completely unknown," said Parham, who obtained his doctorate from Berkeley and is now curator of paleontology at the John D. Cooper Archaeology and Paleontology Center.
"If you want to preserve biodiversity, it is the really distinct species like these that you want to preserve."
Papenfuss and Parham reported their discovery this month in the journal Breviora, a publication of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University.
Legless lizards, represented by more than 200 species worldwide, are well-adapted to life in loose soil, Papenfuss said. Millions of years ago, lizards on five continents independently lost their limbs in order to burrow more quickly into sand or soil, wriggling like snakes.
Some still have vestigial legs. Though up to eight inches in length, the creatures are seldom seen because they live mostly underground, eating insects and larvae, and may spend their lives within an area the size of a dining table. Most are discovered in moist areas when people overturn logs or rocks.
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They discovered one new species - yellow-bellied like its common cousin - under leaf litter in protected dunes west of Los Angeles International Airport. They named that species A. stebbinsi, because Stebbins grew up and developed an early interest in natural history in the nearby Santa Monica Mountains.
Because many sandy, loamy areas, including dunes and desert areas, offer little cover for lizards if they emerge, Papenfuss distributed thousands of pieces of cardboard throughout the state in areas likely to host the lizard. He returned year after year to see if lizards were using the moist, cool areas under the cardboard as resting or hunting grounds.
This led to the discovery of a silver-bellied species near Fellows in the oil fields around Taft, which they named A. alexanderae after Annie Alexander, who endowed the UC Berkeley museum in 1908 and added 20,000 specimens to its collections.
The herpetologists found another species in three isolated, arid canyons on the edge of the Mojave Desert just below and east of Walker Pass in the Sierra Nevada and named it A. campi after Charles Camp, because of his early-career discovery of the Mt. Lyell salamander in the Sierra.
The purple-bellied fourth was found in three vacant lots in downtown Bakersfield, though only one of those lots remains: the others have been bulldozed and developed. The biologists named that species A. grinnelli after Joseph Grinnell, who in 1912 first noted habitat destruction around Bakersfield from agriculture and oil drilling.
Interestingly, all these species had been collected before and were in collections around California, but when preserved in alcohol, the lizards lose their distinctive color and look identical. Papenfuss and Parham identified the species through genetic profiling, but they subsequently found ways to distinguish them from one another via belly color, number and arrangement of scales, and number of vertebrae.
However, two species - the previously known common legless lizard of Northern California and the newly named southern species found at LAX and apparently broadly distributed south of the Tehachapi Mountains - remain indistinguishable except by genetic tests or, now, the location where they are found.
Species of special concern
"These species definitely warrant attention, but we need to do a lot more surveys in California before we can know whether they need higher listing," Parham said.
Papenfuss noted that two of the species are within the range of the blunt-nosed leopard lizard, which is listed as an endangered species by both the federal and state governments.
"On one hand, there are fewer legless lizards than leopard lizards, so maybe these two new species should be given special protection," he said. "On the other hand, there may be ways to protect their habitat without establishing legal status. They don't need a lot of habitat, so as long as we have some protected sites, they are probably OK."
Papenfuss says they are not yet in danger of going extinct, since he has found some of the lizards in protected reserves operated by the CDFW, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and a private water reserve outside Bakersfield, in addition to the El Segundo Dunes near LAX.
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