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estátuas de reis com mulheres/ statues of kings with women
campo grande, lisboa
photobook, open edition
86 pages, pocket size, colour
art direction: paula roush
photography: paula roush and maria joão afonso
publisher: msdm publica(c)tions
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5×8 in, 13×20 cm
86 Pages
- Publish Date Nov 06, 2011
- Tags artist book, performance art, photobook, photography, reenactment
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My work explores the intersection of open culture and publishing technologies. My recent publication projects have been exhibited at the P74 gallery in Ljubljana [Split-index: a time/space dislocation and Split-screen: a time/space dislocation), Sput-&-nik gallery, Porto (classop: papéis varios/varied papers) and Museu da Cidade, Lisboa (jornal fingido/ fake newspaper). I teach courses on art and media theory, artists publications, self-publishing and the impact of technology in photographic publishing practices. I also run the weblog for the photobook module I teach at the London South Bank University, part of the Digital Photography Programme. http://www.msdm.org.uk/photobook
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 10.1937 Wednesday, 10 November 1999.
Date: Wednesday, 10 Nov 1999 07:13:15 +1000
Subject: 10.1922 Nims's edn. of Golding
Comment: Re: SHK 10.1922 Nims's edn. of Golding
I didn't "recommend" Nims's edition...I just said that was the edition I
happened to have (checked out from the University of Guam's
far-below-standard library, as it happens) I've been looking for other
editions, either affordable for purchase or on-line/etext, without much
luck. Any suggestions? (Thanks for the caveat, John!)
Speaking of (possible) e-texts...another posting in today's digests
mentioned the wonderful Furness site with facsimiles of many relevant
materials, including some sections of Holinshed. Has anyone happened
upon a non-facsimile e-text for Holinshed? The Furness site is
beautiful, but it is very slow-I've been trying to find something online
to consult for content. Any suggestions?
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Call for Papers
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction:
Special Issue on User Modeling and Personalization for Television:
Vol. 14, N. 1, 2004
With the advent of digital networks, the world of television (TV) as we know it -- mass-media broadcast -- is undergoing tremendous change. The increase of the number of available channels, the convergence of TV and internet, and the proliferation of new interactive services will transform the TV set top box from a program watching device to an interactive and tailorable portal into a diverse set of content and services. The next TV era will revolve around sophisticated set-top boxes integrating viewing, listening and recording functionality, connections to several sources (internet, cable, satellite), games, as well as communications features. In order to cope with the complexity of such an environment and efficiently choose among the large amount of available alternatives, users are in need of an advanced user interface to provide them with intelligent assistance. In particular, personalization is taking an increasingly important role in the design of adaptive user interfaces, which can focus services of interest to the user and tailor the suggestion of the available options to her interests. To encourage researchers to report on the application of user models and personalization for television, we are calling for contributions to a special issue of User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research (UMUAI).
For this special issue we will consider all contributions devoted to user modeling and user-adaptive systems in the field of Personalized TV Applications available on the Web and on new generation TV-sets. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
The journal User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction is an archival journal that publishes mature and substantiated research results on the (dynamic) adaptation of computer systems to their human users, and the role that the system's model of the user plays in this context. Papers that present untested research ideas are not ready to be submitted to UMUAI. Instead, these ideas should first be presented at workshops to get feedback from colleagues. Once you can demonstrate ideas that are backed up by results, then they are ready for UMUAI. These results may be generated by building a (partial) computer implementation and from that, either analyze its behavior, run empirical experiments, or analyze the idea using formal means. Many articles in UMUAI are therefore quite comprehensive and describe the results of several years of work. Consequently, UMUAI gives "unlimited" space to authors (as long as what they write is important) and also does not mind if research that is being submitted to UMUAI has been previously published in bits and pieces at workshops and conferences (as long as the synthesis provides significant new insights).
Liliana Ardissono
Dipartimento di Informatica
Universita` di Torino
Corso Svizzera 185
10149 Torino
Mark Maybury
Information Technology Division
The MITRE Corporation
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What is information? This is the first question that information science should answer clearly. However, the definitions of information have been so diversified that people are questioning if there is any unity among the diversity, leading to a suspicion on whether it is possible to establish a unified theory of information or not. To answer this question, a system approach to defining information is introduced in this paper. It is proved that the unity of information definitions can be maintained with this approach. As a by-product, an important concept, the information eco-system, was also achieved.
As the most fundamental basis of information science study, the issue of precisely understanding and properly defining the concept of information has received a huge amount of attention from academic circles in information-related fields. Due to the extremely popular existence and wide applicability of information, hundreds of definitions of information, different from each other in one way or another, have been successively proposed in various fields of research, among which Shannon [
The diversity of definitions of information shows the importance of information studies on one hand but on the other hand, a question has been naturally raised as to whether the definitions which people talked about in different backgrounds have anything in common? In other words, people are concerned as to whether a unified theory of information is feasible or not [
Many scholars have proposed various ways to answer the question, either positive or negative. Mark Burgin recently gave an approach, the parametric approach [
The author of the paper presented a system approach in his monographic book titled "Principles of Information Science" (published in Chinese in 1988) [
The basic concept of the system approach to the definition of information had been very briefly reported to the International Conference on Foundation of Information Science, FIS2010, in Beijing. It was requested to present the approach and the major results in somewhat more detail here in this paper for having further exchange and discussions.
The rest of the paper is organized as follows. The system approach to define complicated phenomena and the concept of spectrum of definitions are explained in general terms in Section 2. The most fundamental, and also most significant, definitions of information derived from the system approach are elaborated in Section 3. An interesting concept of information eco-system based on the information spectrum is introduced in Section 4. Brief conclusions and remarks are made in Section 5.
It may be good to start with a well-known fable, Blind Men and the Elephant. The fable says that, having touched different parts of the same elephant body, different blind men got a different impression about it. Some said the elephant felt like a wall, other said it felt like the trunk of a tree, the third said it felt like a snake, and the fourth said it felt like a spear, and the fifth said it felt like a big fan, and so on.
This perhaps is a typical example showing that people from different angles of observation (locations of touching) may obtain different impressions of the same object. It is common knowledge that the elephant image (as a system) may well be formed from the different descriptions (as elements) given by all the blind men, although their descriptions are so diversified. The only thing that really matters for the restoration of the system from the elements (or for finding the unity from the diversity) is "relation among the conditions" (or the angles of viewing) under which the elements were derived. Consequently, people realized that the wall felt by the blind man is the image of elephant's belly, the tree trunk is the image of elephant's leg, the snake is the image of elephant's trunk, the spear is the image of the elephant's tooth, the big fan is the elephant's ear,
Hence, it is reasonable to set up a spectrum of the formal descriptions about the elephant by properly listing the conditions under which different descriptions were derived. Specifically, putting the conditions and the corresponding descriptions (definitions) in a systematic order, the spectrum in question can then be formed as shown in
What we would like to emphasize here is that as long as the descriptions of the parts of elephant are correct, the unity of the elephant image can be restored no matter how many kinds of different descriptions about the partial image of the elephant existed, and regardless of how different the descriptions of the different parts of the elephant may be. Above all, each of the different descriptions has resulted from the real elephant, and the relation among each of the angles is clearly described.
Similarly, information may be understood in different ways by different observers who may have their own knowledge backgrounds or angles of view. They could make different descriptions on—and thus give different definitions to—information and thus may lead to the diversity. The only thing that does matter for keeping the unity among various information definitions is the correctness of the definition for each kind of the information and the clearness of the relation among the conditions under which the different definitions of information are derived, as was seen in the case of Blind Men and the Elephant. Hence, the system approach for defining and the concept of spectrum of definitions, explained above, can be employed to deal with the definition of information as shown in
As can be seen in
Because of no restriction from any condition, the definition of ontological information is really the origin and must be placed at the top of the table, and must have the widest area for its applicability too. In contrast, if a definition is derived under all the possible constraining conditions, the definition must be placed at the bottom of the table and must have the narrowest area of applicability. Other cases will be placed between the two extremes. As a consequence, if the conditions for defining can be arranged in good order according to certain criterion, then the various definitions thus derived can also be arranged in good order under the same criterion, forming a spectrum of information definitions.
It needs to be pointed out that the word "order" in the arrangement of conditions and that of definitions can either be quantitative order (such as longer or shorter, and so on), or qualitative order (like better or worse, and so forth), or order according to any possible criteria.
This methodology is named system approach because it establishes the definitions by systematically considering all possible synergetic conditions. The system approach makes all definitions, excluding the mistaken ones, which might seem chaotic in order and arbitrary in content, become systematically arranged in good order and with harmonious interrelationship.
Apparently, it is neither possible nor necessary to list all the possible conditions and definitions of each component of the spectrum in the table, due to the limited space. However, whenever a specific condition for defining was given, it is possible to find a proper position for it within the table with the same criterion for arrangement. On the other hand, although some definitions may have not yet appeared so far, the proper positions within the table can be reserved for them respectively.
It is interesting to note that when the condition of "with human subject as observer" is added to the definition of ontological information, this definition will be down to the definition of epistemological information. On the other hand, when the condition of "with human subject as observer" is deleted from the definition of epistemological information, this definition will be upgraded to the one of ontological information. So, the two definitions can go up or down when the condition is deleted or added.
The rule, adding or deleting a condition will move a definition up or down, is also valid for any other definitions in the spectrum of
Therefore, in order to keep the unity from the diversified definitions of information via system approach, the most important issues, among many others, consist of two folds. The first issue is to have a correct description (definition) for the ontological information and epistemological information, the top two in the spectrum. The second issue is to make clear interrelationships among the various definition conditions, including the background of knowledge and the angle of observations under which the various kinds of definitions of information are established. Due to the limited space of the paper, only the first issue, the most important one, will be discussed below.
As can be seen in
There is one basic point that must be clarified before being able to talk about how we could properly define the concept of information. The point is about the question "What should people mean by saying that one obtained information?" Without common understanding over this point, the unity of definitions will really be impossible—people all talk about "information" but they mean different things in their minds.
To the author's understanding, having obtained information about a thing means having observed its appearance including the state at which it is at the time and the way by which its state varies from others. In other words, information corresponds to the description of a phenomenon which is able to answer the question of "What the thing is".
It is "the state in which the things is and the ways by which it varies to others" that can be used to remove the uncertainty concerning the things. Also, "the state in which the thing is and the ways by which it varies from others" is information, but not the things themselves (the matter), and not the energy either.
Note that behind, and/or beyond, the description of phenomenon which can be sensed by humans or machines, there should have been something else which would explain why the phenomenon behaves in such a way and this, in fact, has been the concept of knowledge.
Thus, another issue that we need to make clear before talking about the definition of information is about the interrelationship among the concepts of information, knowledge and intelligence. People will all agree that the three concepts have essential linkages on one hand, but they are all different on the other hand. We cannot consider information as the same thing as knowledge and intelligence, and
Having said the above, the definition of ontological information can be stated as follows.
Ontological Information of a thing is its self-presentation about "the state in which the thing is and the way by which the state varies from others".
Here, the word "thing" can be any phenomena, including human beings in human society, living beings and non-organic things in real world, and also spiritual events in human mind or animal mind, if any. Thus, the definition of ontological information covers everything and can be applied in natural sciences and social sciences to describe the thing's "state in which the thing is and the way by which the state varies from others".
Obviously, this definition of ontological information is highly coincident with our intuition in daily life as well as in scientific research, and therefore can be acceptable. Ontological information thus defined is really a resource provided by nature and society.
Note that the definition of ontological information is in good agreement with the one given by Wiener because "the state and the way of state varying"
Noticing again that the ontological information of a thing is defined without any conditions needed to obey and therefore the definition of ontological information can be unconditionally applied to anything and to whatever fields, like natural science, social science, cognitive science,
According to the principle indicated in
Epistemological information is of high significance; this is because of the vital fact that information itself is a kind of resource and, therefore, making good use of information for humans is just the major, and even the unique, purpose of the study of information science. Hence, the study in depth of the interrelationship between humans and information can never be overemphasized.
Any human subject normally possesses three categories of abilities in dealing with information, namely, the ability to observe the form, the ability to understand the content, and the ability to evaluate the utility of the information he/she faces. The three categories of ability are indispensable. Therefore the definition of epistemological information should become more complicated than that of ontological information, and can be expressed as follows.
The epistemological information for a human subject about a thing is the subject's description on the form, the content, and the utility of "the state in which the thing is and the way by which the state varies from others", and is respectively named form, content, and utility information.
Note that the trinity of the three components is named Comprehensive Information, which is another name for epistemological information, and will be used preferably in what follows.
It is easy to see that the form component of comprehensive information can be regarded as the carrier of information content and utility, while the content and utility components can be regarded as what are carried by the form component and as what the subject really wants to know. As a trinity, the carrier (the form), the content, and the utility cannot be isolated from each other. As a matter of fact, there is no such content and utility that exists without form. There is also no such a kind of form which has no content and utility. In other words, the three components, the form information, the content information, and the utility information, are also indispensable.
Practically, if someone has obtained all three components of comprehensive information concerning a thing, this means that he/she knew the form, understood the content, and was aware of the utility of the thing. As a consequence, he/she should be able to make decisions about the thing. In contrast, if there is any component(s) of the comprehensive information unavailable, then the decision-making would be difficult, if not impossible. In view of the extremely high importance of decision-making in human activities, the greatest value should be attached to the study of comprehensive information.
Imagine that what we received from the environment is just "the states in which things are and the ways by which the states vary from others"—ontological information and nothing else. On the other hand, what we gave to the environment (things, people, or machines) is just the description about "the states in which things are, and the ways by which the states vary from others" with their form, content, and utility in our mind—comprehensive/epistemological information.
Comparing the two definitions above, it is clear that the descriptions of ontological and comprehensive information are different. The description of the former is the thing itself whereas for the latter it is the human subject. Nonetheless, both definitions are concerned with "the state in which the thing is and the way by which the state varies from others". Consequently, adding the condition of "with human subject as observer" will make the definition of ontological information become the one of comprehensive information, while deleting the same condition will make the definition of comprehensive information become the one of ontological information. This is the harmonious relationship between the two fundamental definitions.
Note that the form, content, and utility information can respectively be called the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic information, which are terms bought from semiotics. Due to controversies still associated with the semiotics, however, great care should be taken in the use of such terms.
As for the relationship between comprehensive information and Shannon information, it is apparent that the latter is a special case of the former. More specifically, adding the condition of "the subject is dealing with statistical communication and, therefore, the content and utility components are ignored" will make the definition of comprehensive information being the one of Shannon information. Hence, Shannon theory does deal only with a kind of carrier (statistical one) and not with content and utility. As mentioned above, Shannon theory is an indispensable branch of comprehensive information theory.
It should also be emphasized here that the definition of Shannon information as a special case of comprehensive information by ignoring content and utility components cannot properly be applied to such fields as economic, social, and psychological sciences. Yet there is no such obstacle in principle for applying the definition of comprehensive information to these fields.
The difference between Shannon theory of information and comprehensive information theory in dealing with economic, social, and psychological sciences can well be explained by mentioning the following fact.
It is well known that the most concerned, and most crucial, parameters in such studies of economic, social, psychological sciences as well as arts, poetry, and the like, are the benefits and harmfulness, gains and losses, appreciation and hatred, to the decision-makers. Due to ignoring content and utility components, Shannon theory of information has only the means of a formal description and therefore cannot describe such kinds of parameters. On the other hand, however, the definition of comprehensive information contains the form, content and utility components so that both the beneficial and harmful parameters in economic, social, as well as psychological science can properly be described by the content and utility components.
It is believed that there should be many more points, in addition to those above, related to the definition of information which needs to be discussed since this is really a complicated issue. However, it may be wise to stop here for the time being as the space of the paper is limited and it is impossible to deal with all issues within one single contribution. Anyway, it has been proved throughout the discussions we have had in the paper so far, that the unity of information definitions has been evidently maintained from its diversity, provided the system approach, the spectrum of definitions, and the definitions of ontological and comprehensive information are observed and accepted.
It is undeniable, however, that due to the high complexity of the information problem, not all definitions of information attempted are correct. Instead, there have been quite a number of incorrect, or imprecise, "definitions" of information put forward in history, and even today. These erroneous definitions cannot find proper positions in the spectrum of information definition, of course.
One of the most frequently seen items in such erroneous "definitions" is that "uncertainty" has been regarded as the same thing as information. This is clearly a misunderstanding. As a matter of fact, information is something that can be used to remove uncertainty. If entropy, to a certain extent, is employed to measure the amount of the uncertainty, then the amount of information is somewhat negative entropy. So, information and uncertainty are opposite concepts. Another example of imprecise "definition" of information is the claim that information should be defined as "pure abstraction without form/carrier". This conception is incorrect because such a kind of information cannot exist in reality.
It is, of course, not possible to list all examples of such incorrect and imprecise definitions here in the paper. However, it can be pointed out again that all the incorrect and imprecise definitions of information will be unable to find their positions in the spectrum of information definition shown in
Based on the definitions of ontological and epistemological/comprehensive information discussed above, an interesting concept, the concept of information eco-system, can be established. In view of its importance, a brief introduction will necessarily be provided in this section of the paper.
Everyone knows that there have been various kinds of information systems working in the field of information technology, such as sensing systems, communication systems, computation systems, artificial intelligence systems, control systems, and so on. Each of them has been growing into different disciplines in history although they are all named as some kind of "information" system. For example, Sensor is named as the system for information acquiring, Communication is named as the system for information transferring, Computation as the system for information processing, Artificial Intelligence as the system for information refining and re-generation and Control as the system for strategic information execution. They can work together via protocols in practice; but there has been a lack of an information theory that can effectively unify all theories of these kinds of information systems into a harmonious whole, until the present time.
After in depth investigations on the essence of information processes and recalling the definitions of ontological and comprehensive information, it is discovered that these kinds of information systems constitute a well-organized family in terms of both theory and technology, as is shown in
This is an information eco-system which clearly indicates how information is growing from its very origin (ontological information) to its final destination (intelligent strategy and intelligent action).
Referring to the definitions of ontological and comprehensive information and the model in
More briefly, the information ecological system described above can be characterized as the growing process from information to knowledge and intelligence, or as the information-knowledge-intelligence chain. The original resource of the eco-system is information, the intermediate product is knowledge, and the final product is intelligence (intelligent strategy and intelligent action). For more detail, see reference [
We must say that it is the system approach and the spectrum of information definitions that not only make the diversified definitions of information unified but also integrates the already separated theories of information systems. This will make great sense both in theory and practice.
A system approach, the methodology for information defining, the spectrum of information definitions, and the definitions of ontological and epistemological/comprehensive information in particular, were proposed in the present paper for discussion. A new concept of high importance called information eco-system was also briefly presented.
It has been noticed that among the great number of useful definitions of information that have appeared earlier or later in various cases, there have been some definitions that do not at all make sense in scientific standards. With the exception of these incorrect ones, all valid definitions can find their positions in the spectrum of information definition introduced in the paper according to the conditions under which they have been derived. This demonstrates the unification between unity and diversity, and thus provides the necessary foundation to the establishment of information science.
However, it was also noticed that there are still some issues that people have frequently been addressing.
One such issue is that people would very much like to have "only one single definition of information" than to have the concept of spectrum. It is a quite understandable and acceptable demand. In this case, the definition of ontological information can be the best candidate because of the fact that this definition has no restriction in any sense and can generally be applied wherever. However, as usual, there is a sensitive relationship between "general" and "specific". If one is concerned only with the general study, like the study of philosophy of information, the definition of ontological information would be sufficient; if one is concerned with some more specific studies, like the study in biology, intelligence, sociology,
Another such issue is the argument over Shannon theory of information. Some people insist on the viewpoint that information is concerned only with meaning, or content, and has nothing to do with the carrier, or the form. Therefore, they do not accept Shannon theory of information as a branch of information theory. Some of them even strongly denounced Shannon theory as a mistaken theory of information. As was mentioned in a previous section, the precise concept of information should be the comprehensive information which consists of three components,
The third issue is the argument as to whether information is measurable or not. Some people, who insist the view of "information is concerned only with the pure content", consider that information cannot be measured quantitatively. Generally speaking, whenever people properly set up parameters for the description of information, it should be, in principle, a measurable entity. Even if for the time being there is a lack of suitable mathematical tools or instruments for measuring it, one can reasonably expect to have such mathematics and instruments in the near future, as long as the mathematical and technological progress continues.
It is realized, of course, that the open issues related to information science must be much more than those herein clarified. Due to the high complexity and the great importance these issues possess, further exchange and discussion among researchers are absolutely essential and very valuable for future achievements. It is believed that the collective efforts will be much more effective than those achieved individually and separate from each other.
Lastly, but not necessarily the least, it may also be worth mentioning that the concept of information ecological system can make great sense in the study of information science and technology. Only when all the information systems (sensing, communication, computation, artificial intelligence, and control system) work as a harmonious entity, could information systems as a whole become real intelligent systems, providing human society with more and more intelligent services.
Conceptualized Model of Information Eco-system.
System Approach to Defining: An Example.
|Elephant as a whole (Original System)
|Ignoring Legs
|Second Highest
|Main Body of Elephant (Big Element)
|Ignoring Legs, Head and Tail
|Third Highest.
|Belly of Elephant (Small Element)
|More conditions Constrained
|Smaller Element
|The strictest Condition
|Smallest Element
System Approach to Information Defining and the Related Spectrum.
|Ontological Information
|Human subject as observer
|Second Highest
|Epistemological Information
|Second Widest
|More conditions added
|Definition k
|All possible conditions added
|Definition K
The work related to the paper has been supported in part by National Science Foundation of China via the project No. 60873001. The author would express his sincere thanks to NSFC. At the same time, the FIS discussions led by P. C. Marijuán and W. Hofkirchner have been very helpful for view exchange. The author would also like to express his high appreciations.


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MAIN-A-DIEU — Main-a-Dieu residents still blame Ottawa for the MV Miner disaster, but say they are impressed with the plans to remove the derelict ship from the coast of Scatarie Island.
Representatives from Nova Scotia Lands, the Crown corporation overseeing the project, and Antigonish-based RJ MacIsaac Contruction, the company awarded the $12-million contract, held a public meeting Thursday to keep area residents updated on removal plans.
The freighter, which once plied the Great Lakes, went aground on the north shore of Scatarie Island in September 2011 when a line snapped as it was being towed to Turkey to be scrapped.
After the wreck, the federal government denied any responsibility for the costly cleanup, a claim that angered many residents of Cape Breton's most easterly community as the Greek tugboat Hellas was operating under federal regulations when the incident occurred.
A previous effort to remove the vessel was ill-fated and the ship has remained in the same location since it ran aground.
Sean Howard, past-president of the Main-a-Dieu Community Development Association, said he left the meeting reassured that the right people are now on the job to finally clear away what area residents call an "eyesore."
"We're reassured, but we're not celebrating yet," said Howard. "We understand that it's a big job and it's very complicated and we got a feeling tonight how many dimensions there are to it."
Howard said the team now working on the project appears to be competent and thorough.
Julian O'Neil of the Main-a-Dieu Discovery Centre said he now has more confidence that the vessel will be removed by the tentative mid-November deadline.
"We are pleased to hear all the planning that has gone into it and to know that there are things happening on the island," said O'Neil, who serves a community liaison officer to the project.
Main-a-Dieu fisherman Herman Wadden agreed that both Nova Scotia Lands and RJ MacIsaac Construction have won over the local population.
"There's a lot to this and they know what they're doing," said Wadden. "A lot has already gone into it."
Officials with the construction company provided an overview of the behind-the-scenes work, which included satisfying a number of federal and provincial departments and regulatory agencies.
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He said half of the rock needed for a new breakwater near the site of the MV Miner is already on the island and construction of a base camp, a road and staging area will begin soon.
Nova Scotia Lands officials said they were pleased with the progress already made but noted that issues such as weather, tides, celluar coverage and the potential for isolation on the remote island may prove to be obstacles.
The original location of the base camp also had to be changed as it was found to be on the nesting grounds of the Leach's storm petrel, a small seabird that breeds on inaccessible islands in the North Atlantic.
• Project being overseen by Nova Scotia Lands, a Crown corporation with a mandate to remediate and redevelop government-owned properties.
• Removal work being carried out by Antigonish-based RJ MacIssac Contruction on a $12-million contract.
• Breakwater to be built near ship, half of rock needed already barged to Scatarie Island.
• Construction of base camp, island road and staging area to begin soon.
• Removal of asbestos subcontracted to a Halifax firm.
• Ship to be cut up "Pac-Man" style by large hydraulic shears.
• Steel and waste material to be barged away for scrap.
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I had 11 teeth extracted one wisdom tooth. after a week I still have pretty moderate pain. The dentist said a couple were difficult extractions. But I don't have dry socket or infections. Is this common.
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Pain after extractions.
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11 extractions is a fair amount in one visit and is not uncommon to have pain lingering for a week or so. Are the pain killers helping? You should start to notice the pain lessen over the next few days but if not then definitely go back and see your dentist.
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Artist Helen Pashgian roamed her light-filled Pasadena studio with the energy of a teenager Sunday morning, flipping through the pages of the new Italian Vogue to show me the crazily creative pictures the photographer had set up in the same high-ceilinged, whitewashed room in which we stood.
She'd been outfitted with a wig to look like some magic enchantress, conjuring up fantastical plastic sculptures with the aid of a bunch of bunny-suited helpers in the big feature story spread. It doesn't hurt that, tall and slim and blonde, Helen could be a Vogue model herself.
The style-conscious Italians, apparently, can't get enough of Helen. Neither can the art world, all of a sudden. Her hugely successful show, "Light Invisible," on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gets 6,000 visitors a week, though only 25 at a time are allowed in the room in which her ethereal acrylic columns gleam. She just won the Distinguished Women in the Arts award from MOCA, joining previous winners such as Anjelica Huston, Annie Leibovitz and Yoko Ono.
Those of us who have known Helen forever have long known she is a wizard, a true star, whose technical accomplishments in creating smoothly polished artworks that shine with an amazing inner purity have made her legendary among the members of L.A.'s Light + Space movement. In Pasadena, where she is of ancient lineage — her great-uncle M.L. Pashgian was such a prominent citizen he was grand marshal of the Rose Parade in 1915, and her studio space off an alley east of Lake has been in the family for over a century — she gets the acclaim she deserves, and a piece has been in the permanent collection of the Norton Simon since it was the Pasadena Art Museum.
But the other movement members, see, are almost all men: Robert Irwin, James Turrell, Larry Bell and many others — and all better known, because of their gender. It's an art-world crime. Since the '60s.
But it's not Helen complaining about it. It's me. For Helen, who turns 80 this year, is right now in the prime of her career. Breaking news: She's over the moon the new exhibit was just purchased for a lot of money by a museum patron for its permanent collection.
And she worked like the devil to make it happen. She spent every day for a year and a half, excepting Christmas and New Year's, in her studio and at a Duarte fabricating firm creating the 12 columns of "Light Invisible." Though she doesn't tell all about how the mysterious pieces work, she does allow that a technical breakthrough was recent. "I wasn't ready before," is the simple way she puts it. And she is thrilled, too, as a proud Pomona College grad, that three recent permanent acquisitions by LACMA all went to Sagehens: herself, Chris Burden and James Turrell. She says the broad liberal arts education they received there is indispensable in creating art with intellectual depth.
Even the guards are in love with the show. They whisper about how amazing it is that there's no internal light sources in the massive clear acrylic columns that, as you pass by them, begin to gleam with color and weird, constantly changing shapes inside them. Visitors are at first in awe, trying to suss out what is happening, and then give up, sitting on benches to the side in a kind of meditation, not wanting to leave.
Monday I finally had to, and, grabbing some lunch at Ray's and Stark's Bar outside before a meeting, saw out of the corner of my eye Helen herself leading a group of Pasadenans and others with a Pied Piper-ish glee off toward her show.
My favorite column, I have decided, is the 11th, with its tiny circular cobalt-blue glow. Tell me, when you have seen "Light Invisible" — what's yours?
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Miss Rhode Island Olivia Culpo Named Miss USA 2012
It's the pinnacle of pageantry each year, and last night (June 3) Miss Rhode Island Olivia Culpo was crowned as 2012 Miss USA.
Miss Culpo, a self-described 'modern-day Audrey Hepburn,' was visibly shocked when her name was called, though she contained her excitement rather well as she took it all in.
With stars such as Joe Jonas, Giuliana Rancic, Kelly Osbourne and Ali Fedotowsky watching on from the audience, Olivia received a hug and congratulations from the first runner up, Miss Maryland Nana Meriwether. Miss Ohio, Miss Nevada, and Miss Georgia rounded out the top five.
During her interview session, Culpo was asked by Rob Kardashian, "Would you feel it would be fair that a transgender woman wins the Miss USA title over a natural-born woman?" referring to another beauty pageant that allowed such a scenario to occur.
And in a Donald Trump-approved response, the 20-year-old Boston University student replied, "I do think that that would be fair, but I can understand that people would be a little apprehensive to take that road because there is a tradition of natural-born women. But today where there are so many surgeries and so many people out there who have a need to change for a happier life, I do accept that because I believe it's a free country."
After her big win, Olivia took to her Twitter page to share her feelings with her followers by writing, "I was just so surprised, so shocked, so honored to be there."
Enjoy the pictures from the 2012 Miss USA pageant (June 3).
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Swivel Chair Rotates Into Its Own Private Office
The Tuttomio by Emanuele Magini lets users create private enclaves when needed.
People work differently and can be productive under different conditions. Some people like working in an open area, some prefer to work quietly and privately in their own work space, and there are some who can thrive in both types of working conditions.
Italian designer Emanuele Magini has designed a piece of furniture that lets people choose how they create their work space. The Tuttomio chair can become a private workstation where users can focus on their work or an open area that allows them to interact freely with other people.
The Tuttomio chair is an attractive, tulip-shaped individual workstation that can swivel between open and closed positions to allow people to be available for interaction or work in a cocoon of privacy.
The chair looks like two halved cups — one sitting inside the other. The inner component has a work desk for the user's laptop and other items for work, and, of course, a comfortable seat for the user to sit on.
If the user wants to work in private, he or she can simply swivel the inner component so that the work desk and seat become completely enclosed on all sides so that the user can focus on his or her work and avoid getting distracted from all sides.
If the user wants to open up their work area, they can just swivel the inner component back to the "open" position. In the fully "open" position, the Tuttomio chair becomes a work station with a screened desk and no backrest. The users can also swivel the chair only part of the way or halfway to create a semi-private space with a part of the outer component serving as a backrest for the user.
The Tuttomio furniture allows people to customize their own work space the way they want it. The chair lets them create their own private space when they need it and lets them be open for interaction when they are ready to be. It also allows the users to have their own space where they can be comfortable and be themselves.
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Booker Ervin, who always had a very unique sound on the tenor, is heard in prime form on his quartet set with pianist Horace Parlan, bassist George Tucker and drummer Al Harewood. In virtually all cases, the jazz and blues musicians who recorded for Candid in 1960-61 (during its original brief existence) were inspired and played more creatively than they did for other labels. That fact is true for Ervin, even if he never made an indifferent record. In addition to "Poinciana" and "Speak Low," Ervin's quartet (which was a regular if short-lived group) performs four of the leader's originals; best known is "Booker's Blues."
Very nice set of Mingus' legendary Candid recordings – produced in 1960, after Mingus angrily departed Columbia records, and was finally given the freedom to work in the way that he wanted. The recordings are some of Mingus best – and they feature a righteous anger and sheer jazz power that's unmatched by few other recordings.
Pianist Jaki Byard's first recording as a leader was not released domestically until this 1988 CD. That fact seems strange for Byard is absolutely brilliant on the solo piano set. Many of his selections (all nine tunes are his originals) look both backwards to pre-bop styles and ahead to the avant-garde including such numbers as "Pete and Thomas (Tribute to the Ticklers)," "Spanish Tinge No. 1," and "One, Two, Five." The most remarkable selection is "Jaki's Blues Next" which has Byard alternating between James P. Johnson-type stride and free form à la Cecil Taylor; at its conclusion he plays both styles at the same time. A highly recommended outing from a very underrated pianist.
A rare treat from soulful reed player Sonny Fortune – a session recorded in 1987 in New York, but only ever issued by the Japanese Why Not label. Fortune's alto has this incredibly sharp tone – searching and yearning with a sound that's as great as that heard on any of his 70s recordings. The group's a quartet with Renee Rosnes on piano – but the real talents on the record are Sonny's, as he spiritually blows his way through original compositions like "Real Knowing", "Space In Time", and "5/4 Train", plus an incredible reading of Bronislaw Kaper's "Invitation".
The cultured piano style of Kenny Barron has graced many albums in the last half century. He is an easy swinger deeply admired for his nonpareil musicianship and innate sensitivity to the needs of his musical companions of the moment. Born in 1943 he was gigging with Philly Joe Jones at sixteen and soon playing in a band with his tenor saxist brother Bill. In 1962 he was hired by Dizzy Gillespie and the five year stint he had with Dizzy established him firmly on the jazz scene throughout the world.


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Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Hand quilted Dresden Plate
As I said in a previous post I lap quilt, I have a favourite tool I use for any straight line quilting it is called the Hera Marker ( it is the best thing and also works for machine quilted quilts) It leaves a shiny indent on the fabric, no mess no worry about getting
anything out of the fabric. It is another great product by Clover.
I love using Clover Betweens # 12 and use mostly Guetterman Hand Quilting Thread, I also use chalk powder, slivers of Soap,2B Pencil to mark my quilts.
My favourite batting is Heirloom Cotton ( crinkle look after wash), Thermore ( for easy quilting) and Hobbs Poly Down.
I will show you in another post how I quilt.
11 comments:
- Karen said...
I only did lap quilting once and the quilt came apart on the back. I know several people who successfully do it though. I am hand quilting today. I don't do it nearly as often as I used to.
- November 1, 2011 at 8:39 AM
- Deidre said...
Where have you been hiding this beauty. It is gorgeous and the hand quilting is superb. Bring this quilt out more often.
- November 1, 2011 at 9:33 AM
- Lisa said...
I just used a hera marker for my last quilt, and I loved it. What a great thing!
- November 1, 2011 at 12:23 PM
- Val said...
Your dresden plate quilt is lovely. I like the quilting design.
- November 1, 2011 at 3:03 PM
- Cardygirl said...
Gorgeous Dresdens!
- November 1, 2011 at 3:30 PM
- veerle said...
I have the dresden plate on my wishlist for the future. Just like you I'll do it by hand. It looks fantastic!
- November 1, 2011 at 6:08 PM
- Janet said...
I love hearing about processes. I think your quilting is gorgeous. The hera marker is such a great tool for straight lines with quilting.
- November 1, 2011 at 7:04 PM
- Steffi´s Candy Quilts said...
Beautiful Dresden quilt! I love the spiderweb quilting design. And I would like to hear more about your hand quilting.
- November 1, 2011 at 7:41 PM
- Cheryl said...
I love the look of hand quilting, but rarely do it. What a shame, although mine is not nearly as beautiful as your little, even stitches. I look forward to more info.
- November 1, 2011 at 10:12 PM
- Yvonne said...
What a tiny and beautiful stitches you make!
- November 2, 2011 at 3:33 AM
- Barb said...
Thanks for reminding me to try the hera tool!! I keep forgetting to do that.
I absolutely love your spider web quilting on the DP. What a wonderful quilt
- November 2, 2011 at 6:38 AM


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How to set up Touch ID on iPhone 5s – Video
Posted by: Pece Andonoski in iPhone News, Video, tags: iPhone 5S
Touch ID (aka fingerprint sensor) is without a doubt the most touted new feature of the iPhone 5s. How to set up and how it works? Check the video after the break.
On the other hand I'm sure that all of you iPhone 5s owners want to know how safe the new Touch ID technology is. Apple has explained that the fingerprint information is stored in an encrypted section of the iPhone 5s's A7 processor and is not stored on Apple servers, or backed up to iCloud.
But what if someone chops off your finger and want to unlock your stolen iPhone 5s? Have no fear. Sebastien Taveau, chief technology officer at Validity Sensors, for Mashable said:
"The [RF capacitive sensor] technology is built in a way that the [fingerprint] image has to be taken from a live finger. No one in biometrics wants to talk about cut fingers and dead bodies, but at the end of the day we are still asked to remove the fears of consumer and make sure that they understand that [a severed finger] will not work."
Little bit morbid, but good to know.
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Congratulations to Sasha Polyakov on his selection for a Physics Frontier Prize for his many discoveries in field theory and string theory including the conformal bootstrap, magnetic monopoles, instantons, confinement/de-confinement, the quantization of strings in non-critical dimensions, gauge/string duality and many others. His ideas have dominated the scene in these fields during the past decades. On a related front, two of the New Horizons in Physics Prizes this year went to a
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The New York Library, created in 1886, is one of the leading library systems in the United States, and indeed the world. It consists of four research libraries and 80 neighborhood branches, serving almost two million cardholders. The most famous of the library's buildings is the Main Research Library on Fifth Avenue, noted for its expansive main reading room and the two carved lions guarding its entrance.
The New York Public Library System, as it exists today, was formed in 1886 by combining the Astor Library, donated by financier John Jacob Astor, and the Lenox Library, a small research library housed in what now is the Frick Museum, with the $2.4 million bequest of Samuel J. Tilden to create a New York Library. Industrialist Andrew Carnegie added $5.2 million to the project in 1901 to create the branch libraries. The main research library was opened in 1911.
Today, the New York Public Library system has 80 neighborhood branches in Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island. (Queens and Brooklyn have their own systems.) In addition to the Main Research Library, there are three other research facilities: the Schomburg Center for Black Research and Culture, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, and the Science and Business Library.
The New York Library's Main Research Library at Fifth Avenue and 40th Street is a classic Beaux-Arts edifice, opened in 1911. Designed by the architectural firm of Carrere and Hastings, it contains over 75 miles of open shelves. The building is particularly known for its main reading room - Room 315. This cavernous room is 78 feet by 297 feet and has 52-foot ceilings. Many a student, writer, and researcher have taken advantage of this free resource. In fact, during the Great Depression, many out-of-work New Yorkers gave themselves the equivalent of a college education by accessing the materials available from the main reading room.
Another highlight of the Main Research Library, and today the logo of the library system, are the two lions that sit on either side of the main entrance. Created of pink Tennessee marble by Edward Clark Potter, they have come to symbolize the library. The lions have had many nicknames over the years. New Yorkers dubbed them "Astor" and "Lennox" for the two library benefactors, when the library opened. Later, Mayor LaGuardia called them "Patience" and "Fortitude" during the Depression. Today, they are often referred to as "Uptown" and "Downtown."
The Main Research Library's extensive collection rivals that of the British Museum in London, the Bibliotheque National in Paris, and Washington's Library of Congress. It includes several important manuscripts, two of which are a Gutenberg Bible and Thomas Jefferson's copy of the "Declaration of Independence."
The New York Library's Main Research Library has appeared in numerous books, television shows, and films over the years. Among them are the films, "Breakfast at Tiffany's," "the Wiz," "Ghostbusters," and "Spiderman"; the books, "Duplicate Keys" by Jane Smiley and "Go Tell it on the Mountain" by James Baldwin; and the television series "Seinfeld."
One unique services of the New York Public Library system is its telephone reference system, established in 1968. Ten researchers, with degrees ranging from child psychology to English literature, are available to answer questions every day between 9am and 6pm. According to the rules, each question must be answered within 5 minutes. Researchers may not call the inquirer back.
Today, people may ask questions via e-mail as well as via telephone. Researchers may take up to 35 minutes to respond to an e-mail question. Library researchers will not answer contest, crossword, or homework questions, or questions or an open-ended philosophical nature.
The main reading room is open to all visitors. Those who live, work, pay taxes, or study in New York City may obtain a free New York Public Library card. Non-residents may obtain a card by paying a $100 fee. Non-residents may also apply for a free "Access" card, which gives access to the library system's research materials, but not the circulating items.
More than 15 million people visit the New York library each year and over 1.86 million have New York Library cards. The collection continues to grow at approximately 10,000 items per week.
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text: [Long answer follows] On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 14:50:22 +0530 (IST), santosh dwivedi <santosh at iiita.ac.in> wrote: > Hi Group, > > I want to port TinyOS on 32 bit TMS470 MCU or TMS320F28XX > > I know that it will involve writing platform specific code. But the first > i need is a working make system for new platform.. although the ".. .. > /platform/newplatform/" is empty yet ;-).. And for it I need a C compiler > for TMS470/TMS320F28xx. TI provides windows based C compiler for them. But > I am not sure about a gcc port. Is one available? Don't know about that... > Can I use the windows based compiler? The answer is yes, but some significant work required, see below (I'll assume this compiler can be invoked from the command line, though...). > Also what sort of changes I need to do in make system for > supporting my new platform. I use cygwin this time. Somewhat long answer on compiler/make system issues for new platforms follows (the "significant work" is described at the end...): The TinyOS compilation environment has three parts: - a "make system" (something of a misnomer, it's built using make but only bears a passing ressemblance to standard uses of Makefiles...) - a nesC compiler driver (ncc) - the nesC-to-C compiler (usually found in /usr/local/lib/ncc/nesc1) Roles: - the "make system" is sort-of like an IDE (minus the text editor): it provides simple ways to compile, install and otherwise manage TinyOS programs for different platforms, using a set of standard options. To do this, it invokes 'ncc' (to compile) and various mote-programming tools ('uisp', 'msp430-bsl', etc). - "ncc" is the driver for the nesC compiler. It is (purposefully) designed to work as an extension to "gcc" (the driver for all the GNU compilers). In particular, ncc accepts all gcc options and will also happily compile C files, assembly code, etc. It does this by simply invoking gcc with a few extra options to make gcc recognise .nc files (*). - "nesc1" is the actual nesC compiler. It reads in nesC components and C source files, and outputs a C file (usually found in build/<platform>/app.c, though this is just the result of the -fnesc-cfile=build/<platform>/app.c option added by the "make system"). How to add a new platform if your target supports gcc: - Extend the "make system" to have compilation, installation options for your new platform. See tinyos-1.x/tools/make for details. You can probably copy and modify an existing platform without too much trouble... - Make "ncc" recognise your platform: "ncc" requires each platform directory to contain a .platform file (written in perl) which specifies compilation options for that platform. This is generally quite simple -- check the mica, telosb, etc .platform files. You can do anything you want in this file actually, it's just run half-way through the "ncc" script. I'd recommend reading /usr/local/bin/ncc if you want to do anything fancy. For "ncc" to accept -target=<newplatform>, you must either: place your <newplatform> directory in tos/platform, or specify -I<path to newplatform> as an option to "ncc". - Get "nesc1" to understand your new platform. You should be able to use the "env" target documented in tinyos-1.x/doc/nesc/envtarget.html. You will also need to use the 'hwevent' or 'atomic_hwevent' attributes to mark your interrupt handlers. 'hwevent' should be used on interrupt handlers which run with interrupts enabled, 'atomic_hwevent' on interrupt handles which run with interrupts disabled. How to add a new platform if your target uses a non-gcc compiler: - "make system": this should be fairly similar to what you would do for a gcc-based target, but it's probably going to invoke some alternative to "ncc" with somewhat different options (see below). You'll have to build more stuff yourself. [A little work required] - "ncc": ncc's goal is to work just like "gcc", so that you can pass all relevant options on for the link step, specify the gcc optimisation levels, debugging options, etc, which you want to apply while compiling the C output from "nesc1". If you're using a non-gcc-based compiler, these options are clearly going to be different, so you'll want a different compiler driver. There's no particular reason that this driver has to look much like "ncc" - it's all up to you... [Some work required] - "nesc1": this is where you may have more fun. "nesc1" is a full compiler frontend, based on gcc, which understands the various gcc extensions (but, for those who care, it doesn't have most of the C99 features). [More work required] If your target compiler has its own extensions to C, and these are used in include files you care about (i.e., the include files for some C library which you want to use in your TinyOS code) you will have to extend "nesc1" to understand these extensions. This means: parsing them correctly, issuing appropriate error messages when they are misused (**), and outputing them when "nesc1" produces the C code for your nesC application. If the extension has effects on some aspects of C (e.g., types, declarations of variables, etc, etc), you may have to make other changes to nesc1. Some experience writing compilers is probably helpful for this process... If your target compiler is basically strict ANSI C, then things should not be too complicated. nesc1 should happily parse and output your header files. You are likely to run into two issues: o nesc1 recognises gcc's options for controlling warnings, etc (e.g., -Wall). These are presumably different from your target compiler. You have to decide what options you want to present to users (via the "make system" and your "ncc" replacement), and how these will map to nesc1's existing options. Or you might just require users to specify both gcc-style options and your-target-compiler-style options... o nesc1 currently ignores #pragma's. It needs to preserve these, and output them in the right place (the "right place" is the tricky part - nesc1 outputs its C code in an order unrelated to how it was found in the input files...). If you need to fix this, the save_directive function and nesc-generate.c, unparse.c files are good places to start... David Gay *: note that "gcc" is NOT the C compiler. 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Mets Game Watches 2012April 9th, 2012 Posted in Mets Watching
I'm trying something new this season by picking one Sunday a month for a game watch. This way, people can have it on the calendar now and if you can make it, great. If not, no big deal either. I think trying to plan ahead of time might get more turn out than a last minute get together. (Of course, I'll still probably send emails for those as well.)
I started by picking a game for April, May and June that fit into my schedule. There is a weekend series in May vs. the Marlins which would make for a great meetup, but I already have something else scheduled that weekend. I'm planning these meetups for Finley Dunne's, since I know they'll put the game on for us, Sunday is typically a slower day for them and it's conveniently located by an El stop – the Paulina Brown Line. (The above picture is from Finley Dunne's. They hung a Mets pennant for me, so you know they are good people.)
The games:
Sun. April 15 – Mets vs Phillies, 12:35 CT
Sun. May 20 – Mets vs Blue Jays, 12:07 CT
Sun. June 10 – Mets vs Yankees, 12:05 CT
Hopefully none of the games get flexed to ESPN Sunday Night baseball. And the only thing that would prevent me from making any of these dates is if the Blackhawks have a home playoff game. Let's see how these go before picking the next batch of games to plan for.
Hope to see you. Let's go Mets!


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Bioarchaeologist Tiffiny Tung examines mummies and skeletons from archaeological contexts from the Peruvian Andes. Students in her Anthropology 270: Human Osteology course learn to identify bones and reassemble skeletons. The course involves time in the Osteology lab in Garland, which also houses skeletons from a variety of animals. Here, she quizzes students to see what they recall from class. From left: junior Cristina Francois, Tung, and sophomore Sebastian Rogers, who made the documentary of last year's Peruvian study (see link to documentary on main story page).
From left: junior Matt Migneron, Tung, sophomore Kirsten Delay and senior Penny Dolan.
photo credit: Joe Howell
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Larry Bartels, May Werthan Shayne Professor of Public Policy and Social Science, and Randolph Blake, Centennial Professor of Psychology, were elected to the National Academy of Science. Election is considered one of the highest honors accorded U.S. scientists. Richard Blackett, Andrew Jackson Professor of American History, has been named the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at Oxford University for 2013-14. Colin Dayan, Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities, has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
It was "methinks" and "sooth" and Shakespeare filling the air as College of Arts and Science students worked with classically trained actors during an intense week of workshops, classes and study with Actors From The London Stage.


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Side-By-Side: Brian Stelfreeze's 'Day Men' #3 Line Art and Finished Colors
On sale March 5, Day Men #3 will be the first issue of the BOOM! Studios vampire noir to be released since December. The reason for the delay is of course the uncommonly intricate nature of Brian Stelfreeze's artwork, which is rarely seen in serial projects at all, much less in an ongoing series. Co-writer and BOOM! Editor in Chief Matt Gagnon has referenced the "insane amount of effort" Stelfreeze brings to each issue, some of which is certainly apparent in these Day Men #3 images you're seeing here for the very first time.


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California voters are increasingly concerned about childhood obesity and are supportive of policies that encourage healthier eating and more physical activity, according to Field Poll results released today.
The findings, unveiled on the first anniversary of Michelle Obama's obesity prevention campaign, show that 59 percent of voters said childhood obesity is a very serious problem in the state, up from 46 percent eight years ago. Another 33 percent said the problem is somewhat serious; 7 percent – unchanged from 2003 – said it is not a serious problem.
The Field Poll interviewed 1,005 California registered voters, sampled randomly, in October. The survey was funded by the California Endowment, which also contributes funding for California Watch.
Asked to identify the single greatest health risk to California children, 31 percent cited unhealthy eating habits, compared to 25 percent who said this in 2007 and 23 percent in 2003. Other health risks cited include illegal drug use (17 percent), lack of physical activity (15 percent) and violence (13 percent).
Three out of four voters said it is important for businesses and government to make it easier for people to be healthier, such as creating more parks or bike lanes, labeling menus or limiting the number of fast food restaurants.
Some policy proposals garnered wide support among all voters and demographic groups.
For example, 89 percent of voters supported requiring physical education classes for all four years of high school. The state requires just two years, and tests show only 35.6 percent of 9th-graders meet all fitness standards.
The proposal was favored by Democrats (89 percent), Republicans (89 percent) and non-partisan or other party voters (88 percent) alike, and across all income groups. Latinos showed the strongest support (93 percent), and Asian Americans approved the least (81 percent).
But voters were sharply divided on other policy proposals.
A ban on the sale of all drinks with added sugars at schools, for example, received 61 percent of voter support overall. But Democrats (69 percent) were far more likely than Republicans (47 percent), or non-partisan or other party voters (62 percent) to say goodbye to sodas, sports or energy drinks, or sweetened fruit drinks. Women (67 percent) were also more likely to support a sugary-drink ban than were men (53 percent).
While 70 percent of Democrats supported a special tax on sodas that would fund efforts to fight childhood obesity, only 34 percent of Republicans and 59 percent of non-partisan or other party voters agreed. Among ethnic groups, the tax was favored by 72 percent of Latinos, 70 percent of African Americans, 53 percent of Asian Americans and 50 percent of whites.
Ethnic groups that favor a soda tax also consume the most soda at schools, according to the California Healthy Interview Survey. In 2007, 61.3 percent of African American and 49.9 percent of Latino children ages 12 to 17 bought a soda at school at least once a week. By comparison, 35.6 percent of white and 31.8 percent of Asian American children bought soda that often.
The Field Poll found similar disparities in voters' access to fresh produce and safe neighborhoods for kids.
Sixty-one percent of voters overall said it was very easy to find places nearby selling fresh fruit or vegetables. But the rate was much lower for African Americans (55 percent), Latinos (45 percent), and those with less than $20,000 household income (47 percent).
These groups were also the least likely to rate their neighborhoods as places that help kids be healthy.
Fewer than half of African Americans (48 percent), Latinos (41 percent), and those with less than $20,000 in household income (40 percent) rated their neighborhoods as excellent or good in this regard. By comparison, 62 percent of white and 59 percent of Asian American voters gave their neighborhoods such ratings.