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GDOT crews head to Atlanta
Mon, 10 Feb 2014 21:41:26 GMT —
According to the Georgia Department of Transportation, eleven plow trucks and 54 employees were deployed to Atlanta on Monday from Southwest Georgia to help with the winter storm that's approaching the northern part of the state.
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Robert Dean Johnston, 52, passed away on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2011, at his home in Holbrook. A memorial service will be held at 11 o'clock this morning (Sept. 28) at the Holbrook Stake Center of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Robert was born to Harry Dean Johnston and Elsie Rowland on July 1, 1959.
He was a member of the LDS church, and he worked as a cement finisher.
Robert enjoyed his time fishing, hunting, collecting petrified wood and watching old movies.
Survivors include his son, Jacob Benjamin Johnston of Holbrook; his daughter, Sarah Marie (Johnathan) Melborn of Harrison, Ark.; his grandson, Charles William Johnston; his mother, Elsie Rowland of Soda Springs, Idaho; and his sisters, Dawnette (Vic) Sylvester of Pleasant Grove, Utah, Tena Clouse of Soda Springs and Cindy (Blaine) Farnsworth of Holbrook.
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LONDON The Peer-to-Patent organization is seeking prior art and annotations on an IBM patent application for a processor that claims advances in dynamic readjustment and which the organization says has just 13 days left for challenges.
IBMs application (No. 20070220238) for a "dynamic readjustment and interpolation of progress in the execution of multi-step program by a computing device" is posted on the Peer-to-Patent site .
The application discloses an invention that provides a displayable progress indicator for a program execution by a corresponding computing device. The progress indicator is updated to accurately reflect the progress of the program execution by the computing device.
The invention discloses a method for updating and inserting a progress indicator of a multi-step program execution by a computing device. This method involves a computation for each step of the multi-step program based on a completion time baseline for each step of the multi-step program. The method would apply to any multi-step application or operating system program that is executable in steps by any type of computing device. The progress indicator can have any form including the form of a progress bar. Peer-to-Patent is an initiative of New York Law School's Institute for Information Law and Policy in co-operation with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The pilot program allows for public participation in the patent examination process by inviting the public to submit annotated prior art relevant to examining computer and software-related patent applications.
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Publishers Say No to Tzomet Sfarim Discount Scheme
Several publishers are refusing to take part in book discount chain Tzomet Sfarim's latest marketing campaign.
Earlier this week, Tzomet Sfarim launched a pre-Hebrew Book Week sale, under which anyone who buys one book at full price can buy two more for just another NIS 10 (for the pair). Normally, new Hebrew titles retail at around NIS 90 each.
The offer began after rival bookstore chain Steimatzky rolled out a buy one, get one free campaign.
But a visit to a Tzomet Sfarim branch to look over the titles participating in the sale reveals that most of them are from the chain's "house" publishers, Modan Publishing House and Kinneret Zmora Bitan Dvir Publishers, which have the same owners as the retailer.
TheMarker has learned that other publishers were approached about joining the sale, but declined.
Among the publishing houses that decided this was an offer they could definitely refuse were Yedioth Books, Keter Books, Matar Books and Am Oved.
According to a senior figure in one of the nonparticipating publishing houses, the refusal represents "an unorganized boycott aimed at bringing Tzomet Sfarim back into proportion. They went over the top in recent months with their demands from publishers, and now they are having regrets and want us to participate in the campaign."
The source said that Tzomet Sfarim wanted to pay just NIS 15 for each copy of the participating titles.
"That's a discount of around 80%," he explained. "The customer [normally] pays about NIS 90 for each book. From that, the chain [normally] receives a discount of up to 50% off the cover price, and 65% during a special sale. They wanted, in effect, to make about an NIS 18 profit per book (NIS 100 for three books, minus NIS 15 per title) and to get an 80% discount, while we wouldn't be making any profit at all."
Bini (Benjamin) Triwaks, one of the owners of Matar Books, confirmed his company's nonparticipation. "At this stage we refused their offer," he said.
"We reached the conclusion that what we are being offered in exchange for our participation won't get us anywhere and we won't continue with it. It's impossible to keep going with the numbers they're offering us at present, and we're even losing money. In the past we agreed to the amount offered us, but today, in light of our past experience, we've decided not to."
In the past, Tzomet Sfarim has held special sales in which it sold four books for NIS 100 (around $25), or two books for the price of the more expensive one plus one shekel.
Yaron Sadan, managing director of Am Oved, also said in a statement that the house is not taking part in the campaign.
Iris Mor, editor in chief of Keter Books, said: "We have decided this time not to take part in the campaign." Yedioth Books could not be reached for comment.
In response, Tzomet Sfarim said: "The sale includes more than 5,000 titles from 12 publishers. More than 50% of the books on the bestseller lists in recent weeks are in the sale. We are witnessing a process that repeat itself with each sale: Some publishers are at first hesitant to join because of pressure from their competitors. But ultimately, all publishers have taken part in all our campaigns. So the real question isn't whether they'll join, but when."
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George Takei writes Coming Out Day tribute to the late Matthew Shepard
'Matthew, I promise you, we will remember'
Star Trek icon George Takei pays tribute to the late Matthew Shepard in a column he wrote for National Coming Out Day in the US which falls each year on 11 October.
'It is also one day before a very sad anniversary – the death of University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard, who was beaten, tortured and killed outside of Laramie, Wyoming in 1998,' Takei writes. 'Matthew was brutally murdered because he was gay.'
Takei, currently starring in the musical Allegiance at The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, shares that he came out publicly in 2005 because he not only had the desire to stand up and be counted, but he also wanted to help people see the human side of how bigotry, hatred and intolerance affects others that resulted in the death of Shepard.
'Coming out is never easy, and often never ending,' he writes. 'If you have gay, lesbian or bisexual friends who have come out to you, take the time to thank them today for their courage, and for helping to make a difference in the lives of others, especially of young people like Matthew Shepard who bear so much of the burden of homophobia, bullying and violence against LGBT people.'
'Thank you. And Matthew, I promise you, we will remember.'


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Kelvin Davis believes Southampton can embark on a winning streak starting at Craven Cottage on Boxing Day
Kelvin Davis believes a trip to Craven Cottage on Boxing Day is the first of number of winnable fixtures
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The Saints will spend Christmas outside the relegation zone, despite a 1-0 defeat to Sunderland on Saturday.
Standing just three points behind 16th placed Aston Villa, Davis is looking to close the gap, starting with Fulham on Wednesday.
The Southampton goalkeeper said: "In terms of Christmas, I think the games we've got are winnable.
"We go into those games fully intending to set our stall out so we can win those games. That's what we'll ask of ourselves.
"Who knows if Dimitar Berbatov is the man to watch out for against Fulham. I am not sure if he has scored many this season, has he?
"He is a top class player but he is not their only player. He didn't play against us down here and we conceded two goals so they've got quality all over the pitch.
"They wouldn't have been in the Premier League for this amount of time if they weren't quality so we will obviously pay them respect, but it is about turning up on the day, performing and taking the three points."
Saturday's game against Sunderland was Davis' second back in goal after being recalled to Premier League duty.
He added: "When you are used to playing week in, week out, which I have been certainly at this club over the past three or four seasons, it is always difficult.
"But I accept that you can't always have it your own way and that the right thing to do is to keep your head down and work as hard as you can.
"Obviously I looked at myself and what I was doing. I felt that in terms of where I was, I am 36, it is about maintenance and staying on top of yourself physically.
"I felt that if I stayed in good shape and carried on doing what I was doing my time would come again.
"It is not my decision, it is a decision the manager takes."
One key difference to the Saints side Davis lined up behind when he returned earlier this month was the defence.
Having conceded 28 goals in their opening ten games, they have now only conceded five in the last seven.
"We've got a bit more experience," Davis said. "We've worked very hard on the training ground and players have played a few games with each other now.
"Basically it is getting up to speed with the Premier League and how it can be.
"We have had to learn very, very quickly and it is a harsh league, the Premier League.
"We found that out against Sunderland. Half a chance and it goes in so it is about improving all the time and I think we are still doing that."


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NEW YORK (AP) -- The nation's three major credit bureaus are trying to make it easier for consumers to sort out problems stemming from identity theft.
Starting this month, consumers can notify any one of the agencies -- Equifax, Experian or TransUnion -- that they've been victimized by an identity thief, and that agency will relay the information to the other two bureaus.
All three will then put a "security alert" on the consumer's credit file, remove the person's name from mailing lists for preapproved offers of credit cards and insurance, and mail the consumer a copy of his or her credit report. They also promise to speed up the removal of fraudulent items from credit reports after the victim files a police report.
"It's an effort to relieve the consumer of some of the hassle," said Norm Magnuson, spokesman for the Consumer Data Industry Association, the trade group for credit reporting agencies based in Washington, D.C. "And it should help reduce the chance they'll be further victimized."
Identity theft is a growing problem in America. More than 161,000 consumers filed complaints with the government about identity theft last year, according to the Federal Trade Commission.
A new nonprofit program to help identity theft victims has been set up by Call For Action Inc. with a toll-free number, 866-ID-Hotline, to provide phone counseling for identity theft victims. Prevention tips can be found on its Web site at www.callforaction.org .
The toll-free numbers to contact the credit bureaus are:
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TransUnion: 800 680-7289
Besides contacting the credit agencies, consumers also should contact the Federal Trade Commission's ID Theft Clearinghouse, either by phone at 877 ID-THEFT (877 438-4338) or on the Web at www.consumer.gov/idtheft . Consumers can report identity theft as well as get help in dealing with it, including online affidavit forms.
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NAPERVILLE, Ill. — Utah Valley University's Sammie Jensen has been named Great West Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Week after averaging 21.7 points and 11.7 rebounds in three games last week. The award was announced Tuesday by the league office.Comment on this story
Jensen, a senior from Stansbury Park, Utah, became the fifth player in UVU's Division I history to score 1,000 career points last week as she had 16 points in a two-point loss at Idaho State — a 2012 NCAA Tournament Team — on Saturday. The senior forward also helped UVU snap a six-game skid versus in-state rival Weber State last Tuesday by scoring 30 points and grabbing 15 rebounds against the Wildcats. Jensen currently leads the GWC in scoring with 18.5 points per game and rebounding (12.3) and also leads the nation in double-doubles with eight.
The weekly honor is Jensen's third of the season and eighth of her career.
Others nominated were NJIT's Rayven Johnson and Texas-Pan American's Jasmine Thompson.
UVU returns to the court Saturday at 2 p.m. at Northern Arizona.
James Warnick is an assistant sports information director at Utah Valley University. For more information about Wolverine athletics, visit www.WolverineGreen.com.


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Hi all... Kim in south florida here.
I'm in the North Palm area, and wondering if there are any other board members local to me? I'm looking for a quilting buddy to share stash, swap FQ, drink coffee with, and learn from. I'm a new quilter, and a new vintage machine enthusiast. I also am a new seamstress and want to learn how to make my own clothing, etc.
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I DO have a lot of stash that I've been given - so much so... that I cannot keep it all. And I have no one to share it with. I took six 60 gallon bins of fabrics over to the local charity sew group already. Anybody out there want a quilting buddy in south florida?


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An application of the method of moments to volatility estimation using daily high, low, opening and closing prices
We use the expectation of the range of an arithmetic Brownian motion and the method of moments on the daily high, low, opening and closing prices to estimate the volatility of the stock price. The daily price jump at the opening is considered to be the result of the unobserved evolution of an after-hours virtual trading day.The annualized volatility is used to calculate Black-Scholes prices for European options, and a trading strategy is devised to profit when these prices differ flagrantly from the market prices.
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Is Anyone Really Surprised That Snoop Dogg Smokes Weed With His 18-Year-Old Son?
A bit of faux-outrage has hit the Internet today following the "revelation" that Snoop
Dogg Lion likes to blaze with his 18-year-old son Corde Calvin Broadus, and probably has since he was wee. This information comes via photos Corde posted to his Twitter account, as well as common fucking sense, based on what we know about Snoop Dogg.
While I would probably not smoke weed with my own hypothetical high school aged kids because I want my kids to respect me and I am an idiot when stoned, I will say as a teenage pot smoker/valedictorian that it's far from the worst thing he could be doing. And look, they are spending time together! Snoop comes from a community that, due to a variety of socioeconomic factors, has fatherhood issues, so it's nice for his fans to see him sharing his favorite things (weed and hip hop) with his kid. Plus, the sticky stuff is a sacrament under Rastafarianism, so really he's just trying to be a spiritual mentor.
I also have to laugh at all the people who are mad that he's abandoning his promising career in college football to smoke weed err'day and record music as Spanky Danky, because football is totally wrong and fucked up. Weed might slow you down a little, but compared to the kind of life-ruining brain injuries sustained by pro football players, I will take dry mouth and an enduring interest in cartoons, thanks. Plus, in one picture, he's lighting a bong using only the sun and a magnifying glass, so you know he paid attention in science class.
And in addition to posing less of a threat to his brain, a career in hiphop is likely to sustain him for longer. Record labels are going to have an interest in signing Snoop Dogg's son, and his music ain't half bad. Here, have a listen. I can definitely hear his dad's influence in his laid back flow and old soul samples, and his themes of good times, rolling blunts, and being a hippie are a lot more positive than the violent, misogynistic stuff you hear in some rap music.
All this, plus he's a total cutie pie:
I think he's going to be just fine. If you're going to worry about a teenager, worry about the millions of teens who are not the offspring of a world famous rapper.
(Via The Daily Mail)
Photos: @SpankyDanky


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The market is, over time, converging to provide visual experience. Technology is not just offering the freedom to work when and where we choose. And it is not just technology transforming the way we work. ITEXPO's first keynote today on visual collaboration, from Polycom's Ashan Willy broke down the workplace into three categories to illustrate this change: Who, What and How.
2015 marked the rise in Millennials. It was in this year that they became the dominate group in the workforce. Vastly outnumbering baby boomers and gaining a healthy lead on generation X. Millennials are an interesting group because they are the first generation of digital natives who don't just use tech for work, but to live. Willy noted this generation will check their mobile devices 37 times an hour; the interface for collaboration has changed. This generation touches, swipes and is in general used to interacting differently.
New technology is the top driver of change in the workspace. Willy explained that we spend about 75 percent of our time in the corporate setting, and in this setting we see a few different environments. There's personal space, huddle space and there is group space. With more and more collaboration taking place, it shouldn't come as a surprise that only 4 percent of the huddle areas are populated with visual collaboration tools; there's a conference phone in only 14 percent of these. Willy performed a survey of 60 fortune 1000 companies, and what he found was that we tend to collaborate around a round table as a "natural workspace experience." This is the optimal way to engage everybody in the group. He explains that when a product is natural to use (giving the example of Polycom's RealPresence Trio), it will be adopted.
We then arrive at the area of workflow, the "how we work" piece. Every meeting involves several components: the stages of preparation (pre-meeting and introductions), the meeting itself, and the post meeting. And, typically a meeting takes seven to 12 minutes to begin due to technology hiccups, followed by ten minutes to recap the previous meeting to ensure everyone was on the same page. This introduces a couple questions: How can I keep collective memory of a meeting, offering a seamless experience and how do we integrate tools so the user doesn't have to access replications to be productive?
Willy illustrated that workspaces are growing more personalized, with room to grow. For instance, imagine walking into a meeting room and your device automatically syncs to the room; allowing for access to all of your files via your device. Willy sees this as the next big step. It is not an easy problem to fix, but with the level of innovation taking place one day we will see natural language offer access as a result of the development in natural language processing.
Connecting all of a team's devices to the cloud provides the ability for "collaboration analytics." This will be a giant part of our future where will we be collaborating then getting actionable insight for future development.
Today's digital world offers intuitive and productive ways to collaborate, ways that we couldn't imagine in years past. Millenials are leading the change, and we've only just begun. The promise of progress is there, and it's happening all around us.


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Firm's Sugar Land office moves to Telfair
Published 2:22 pm, Friday, August 22, 2014
After helping and nurturing the moves of countless happy home buyers and sellers, the Sugar Land office of Coldwell Banker United, Realtors is ready for a fresh move of its own. As of Aug. 19, the sales associates and staff, led by vice president/branch manager Donna Dagley, will be welcoming clients to their new office at 1226 Museum Square, No. 700, Sugar Land in Telfair.
Not far from the new Houston Museum of Natural Science, the office is in the path of growth and opportunities and in the new Shops at Museum Square.
"We are excited about moving to this new location in a wonderful upscale community … a more central location to the business we do today. Fort Bend County keeps expanding and we needed to change with it. Our agents are very excited about the move," said Dagley, who has been leading the office for more than five years.
"And with the change in location comes a change in the design of our office," Dagley said. "We are able to focus on our clients' comfort and access to technology. With an open concept that creates a wonderful, welcoming cafe feel, we wanted to encourage interaction and conversation. "
Cyndy Cowley, vice president of Operations for the Houston region of Coldwell Banker United, Realtors, oversaw the new concept and is "particularly thrilled about the WiFi-friendly office.
A grand opening will follow. Go to www.cbunited.com/sugarland for more information or call 281-242-6200.


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These adorable matryoshka dolls are not your typical collectors item; the Pupa Dolls are conveniently packaged makeup kits. The items are all playfully located within the dolls, and contains all the essentials that a girl would need every day.
The compartment is made up of two dolls, a larger one and within that is a smaller matryoshka; the idea is to replicate the original but with a spin. The first compartment, which is the largest doll, comes with a mirror, different colored eye-shadows, and a plethora of different lip and blush shades. The second compartment, which is the smaller doll, contains makeup geared for evening wear such as smokey eye shades, as well as some lip glosses.
The nice thing about this kit is that it's one item you pop in your purse, instead of carrying around a clunky makeup bag.
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text: A few comments: On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Hans Aberg <haberg at math.su.se> wrote: > The reason I used a "data" construct was that I include the size of > the list, excluded in order to keep the example as simple as possible: > data List a = List(Ordinal -> a, Ordinal) This could still be a newtype, because of the tuple you used here. A more standard way to do this would be: data List a = List (Ordinal -> a) Ordinal Or a record so you could name them. By your naming, am I correct in assuming that you're implementing transfinite lists? If so, cool! > In addition, there seems to be no way to choose default value for a > given (non-empty) type in Haskell, so I wrote it > data List a = Empty | List(Ordinal -> a, Ordinal) > Here, if a type T has a default element t, I can represent the empty > list by > List(\_ -> t, 0) > making the constructor "Empty" redundant. You could use 'undefined', which has value _|_ (if you're sure that it will never be used). List (const undefined) 0 Or even: List undefined 0 Which are almost, but not quite, identical. (Many argue they should be) Luke


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A Cyprus court on Wednesday ordered the detention for eight days of an Egyptian man who admitted to hijacking a domestic EgyptAir flight and diverting it to the east Mediterranean island nation by threatening to blow it up with a fake explosives belt.
- EgyptAir MS181 hijacker had personal, not political motives
- EgyptAir hijacking rare occurrence in post-911 world
- British hostage takes 'selfie' with his captor on EgyptAir flight
Police prosecutor Andreas Lambrianou said the suspect, whom Cypriot and Egyptian authorities had earlier identified as 59-year-old Seif Eddin Mustafa, faces charges including hijacking, illegal possession of explosives, kidnapping and threats to commit violence.
Judge Maria Loizou said she found the police's request for the maximum eight-day detention necessary because of fears that the suspect might flee and the fact that he admitted to the hijacking in a voluntary statement to police.
Egyptian General Prosecutor Nabil Sadek's office says he has asked Cyprus to "take necessary measures to extradite Mustafa in order to start an investigation," according to a statement.
Tuesday's dramatic hijacking ended peacefully when police arrested the suspect after all 72 passengers and crew aboard the Airbus A320 aircraft were released. Police said apart from the eight-member crew and 56 passengers of various nationalities, a further eight EgyptAir crew were aboard the aircraft as passengers.
Lambrianou said that the suspect told police after his arrest: "What's someone supposed to do when he hasn't seen his wife and children in 24 years and the Egyptian government won't let him?"
Long criminal record
An official at the general prosecutor's office in Egypt, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press, said there was no travel ban on Mustafa. Egypt's interior ministry said he had a long criminal record but had finished serving a one-year prison term in March 2015.
A handcuffed Mustafa flashed the "V" for victory sign with his hand out of a police vehicle as he was driven away from the Larnaca court house after the hearing.
Cypriot officials had described Mustafa as "psychologically unstable" following a bizarre set of demands he made to police negotiators, including what Lambrianou said was a letter he wanted delivered to his Cypriot ex-wife in which he demanded the release of 63 dissident women imprisoned in Egypt.
Lambrianou said that 15 minutes into flight MS181 from the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria to Cairo, the suspect demanded that the aircraft be diverted to airports in either Greece, Turkey or Cyprus. The aircraft eventually landed in Larnaca after the pilots warned of low fuel, and despite an initial refusal from Cypriot authorities on the landing request.
Passenger takes 'selfie'
The police prosecutor said witnesses saw the suspect wearing a white belt around his waist laden with cylindrical objects stuffed in pockets. Wire protruding from the cylinders led to what appeared to be a "push-button" detonator the suspect held in his hand.
#SelfiesOutOfControl: #EgyptAir passenger apparently takes a photo with the alleged #MS181 hijacker. #CBC pic.twitter.com/TTp9KbBsEl—
Among those held was Ben Innes, a British man pictured in a photo with Mustafa that quickly made the rounds on social media.
'I figured if his bomb was real I'd nothing to lose anyway.' - Ben Innes, passenger who took photo with hijacker on plane
Innes told The Sun newspaper he wanted to take "the selfie of a lifetime" while the incident was unfolding. The photo, taken by a member of the cabin crew and shared on social media by people who know him, shows him posing next to Mustafa, who has his jacket open to reveal the fake explosive belt.
"I figured if his bomb was real I'd nothing to lose anyway," Innes, 26, told the newspaper in a story published Wednesday. He told The Sun he had been texting his mother throughout the ordeal.
The suspect had threatened to detonate the belt if police attempted to "neutralize" him, Lambrianou said, but he eventually gave up after the crew and passengers were released.
Lambrianou said no explosives were found in the belt, except for a container filled with an unidentified liquid. Police also found an unidentified liquid in the suspect's bag as well as numerous documents written in Arabic.
The prosecutor said Cypriot authorities will ask the help of Interpol to determine how the suspect managed to pass the fake explosives belt through airport security in Egypt.
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Pretty dark and foggy round Edinburgh last night, so I had the headlights and foggies on.
Got through the fog, turned off the foglights and was suddenly left travelling at 70mph in pitch darkness as my headlights went with them!
Can't say I recommend that experience.
Checked the fuses at lunchtime and they seem fine, so presumably both bulbs blew simultaneously(?!??)


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ALPS Equal Sector Weight (EQL) is benchmarked to the Banc of America Securities-Merrill Lynch Equal Sector Weight Index. It owns each of the nine Select Sector SPDR ETFs in equal weights. The nine Select Sector SPDR ETFs are rebalanced back to equal weight on a quarterly basis.
Most equal-weight indexes are based at the stock level," states ALPS Director of Product Research Jeremy Held. "EQL is an important extension of the equal-weight concept in that it addresses sector risk, which we consider to be a much more important and fundamental risk to client portfolios than individual stocks."
Held continues: "Over the last 30 years the largest annual declines in the S&P 500 have been precipitated by a crash in the market's largest sector. In 1981 it was energy stocks. In 2000 it was technology. Most recently in 2008 it was the financial sector. An equal sector strategy minimizes the negative impact of any one sector by diversifying over multiple sectors. At the same time by offering meaningful exposure to each sector of the market, it allows investors the ability to participate in market rallies regardless of where they occur."
Ron DeLegge is the San Diego-based editor of www.etfguide.com.


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The Free Standard Game Server (FSGS) is the core part of the Net-Games
gaming network technology, available for Windows, MacOS, Linux and FreeBSD.
It enables you to build your own gaming network, either on the internet or
in a local area network. It gives you rankings, ladders, built in chat and
user management functions.
WWW: http://www.fsgs.com/
[ This port is maintained by Donald Burr <firstname.lastname@example.com> ]
No installation instructions: this port has been deleted.
The package name of this deleted port was: fsgs
distinfo: There is no distinfo for this port.
There are no ports dependent upon this port
No options to configure
Number of commits found: 10
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ports. They will be removed on or after that date if they are still
broken and no fix has been submitted to GNATS.
SIZEify (maintainer timeout)
Clear moonlight beckons.
Requiem mors pacem pkg-comment,
And be calm ports tree.
E Nomini Patri, E Fili, E Spiritu Sancti.
Fix startup-scripts for -current /bin/sh issues.
Marked IGNORE: "Disabled for legal reasons"
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- Sorts pkg-plist - Add to pkg-plist etc/rc.d/fsgs.sh
This port should be installing things setgid games, not setuid games. Make the
change but mark the port FORBIDDEN because it probably needs to be able to
write to some of the files/directories it installs, and so won't work with
this change. I'll let the maintainer fix that.
Use user:group instead in call to chown.
New port games/fsgs, a network game server thingy. that supports player chat,
rankings ("ladders"), user management, more.
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It's strange, I went to cocaineanonymous.org and they have this self-test for addiction (I know that these things aren't real diagnoses), but I took it and was laughing that I answered "yes" to everything but three questions. Within 48 hrs of that, I had answered "yes" to all of them. So, how exactly does one start to clean up? I think the scariest thing is my friends, I know that I can't break from them.
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[VIDEO PICK: Golazo] To fly head first and kick the ball forward with your heel has been dubbed a scorpion kick -- because the leg during this motion resembles
a scorpion's tail. It's no mean feat, yet Huseyin Akoglu of Turkish club Nazilli Belediyespor managed to score a magnificent goal in such manner.
It happened in Turkish third division play, and fortunately a fan caught it on video with a cell phone.
The footage may be a bit fuzzy but crystal clear is that Huseyin Akoglu pulled off a golden golazo.
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John Laverty: Brendan Rodgers can help exorcise the ghosts of Liverpool past
One of the quickly cobbled-together 'profiles' of Brendan Rodgers informs us that "he doesn't believe in ghosts."
So far so good, then. Because, if you buy into the lore, there are quite a few of them currently patrolling Anfield.
Predominant are the spirits of the late Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley and Joe Fagan who, individually and collectively, made Liverpool the world-renowned football club it is today.
These are the men who occupied the legendary Anfield Boot Room, a cubby hole where the seeds of domestic and European domination were sown in the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties.
Sadly, the Boot Room itself is no longer with us — but, we're reliably informed by the Kop spin doctors, "its spirit lives on."
There are other ghosts at Anfield, of course, and these ones are very much alive. They don't need a medium per se — but they do have The Media.
And they use it regularly to undermine virtually everything that's being done at Liverpool to recapture past glories.
These people, having contributed to the aforementioned halcyon days, believe such a cv gives their opinions more heft.
The passage of time has, however, transformed them from sage-like figures to craggy hecklers. Such transmorphicizing is rarely pretty.
Chief among these ghosts of the past is Mark Lawrenson (below, right), who, along with Alan Hansen (left) formed such a formidable central defensive partnership at Eighties Liverpool ©.
And they're still inseparable, be it in the Match of the Day TV studio or on the golf course with their old pal Kenny Dalglish.
Lawro believes the decision to appoint 39-year-old Ulsterman Rodgers as King Kenny's successor is "a major gamble." Really, Lawro? Is it a bigger gamble than dragging a twitchy, curmudgeonly — and, let's face it — anachronistically arrogant old man off the fairways and expecting him to recreate the magic of two or more decades earlier?
Hansen, meanwhile, believes Dalglish should have been given more time but Liverpool's horrified American owners had seen enough — the appalling league form, the frightening overspend on ordinary players, the constant haranguing of reporters asking fair, legitimate questions and, perhaps most tellingly, the nauseating, cackhanded and embarrassing defence of Luis Suarez's racial misconduct.
To all but the likes of Lawrenson and Hansen, Dalglish himself had become indefensible.
And that's why Brendan Rodgers — a polite, personable but firm and unflappable individual, bursting with talent, enthusiasm and ideas — is now occupying the Anfield hot-seat.
Liverpool's owners FSG had tried going back to the past and found out that it should have stayed there; nostalgia really ain't what it used to be. When we were kings, Kenny...
Now, the Yarks are going back to the future — a future in which Rodgers, who exemplifies and epitomises the thrusting, modern-day football manager — will hope to thrive.
His task isn't simple, but it is simply spelt out for him — have Liverpool Football Club regularly challenging for a top four finish in the Premier League.
Such relatively limited ambitions would never satisfy multi-European Cup winners like Lawrenson and Hansen — but they apparently exist to (constantly) remind us what Liverpool once were, not what they can reasonably expect to be today.
These ghosts of the past should adopt a more realistic — dare I say spirited — approach to changed times. This is Anfield |. . . in 2012.
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Subject: [PATCH v11 0/4] block layer runtime pm
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.power-management.general
Date: Tuesday 5th March 2013 03:03:50 UTC (over 4 years ago)
In August 2010, Jens and Alan discussed about "Runtime PM and the block layer". http://marc.info/?t=128259108400001&r=1&w=2 And then Alan has given a detailed implementation guide: http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=133727953625963&w=2 To test: # ls -l /sys/block/sda /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/ata1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda # echo 10000 > /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/ata1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/power/autosuspend_delay_ms # echo auto > /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/ata1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/power/control Then you'll see sda is suspended after 10secs idle. [ 1767.680192] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronizing SCSI cache [ 1767.680317] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Stopping disk And if you do some IO, it will resume immediately. [ 1791.052438] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Starting disk For test, I often set the autosuspend time to 1 second. If you are using a GUI, the 10 seconds delay may be too long that the disk can not enter runtime suspended state. Note that sd's runtime suspend callback will dump some kernel messages and the syslog daemon will write kernel message to /var/log/messages, making the disk instantly resume after suspended. So for test, the syslog daemon should better be temporarily stopped. A git repo for it, on top of v3.9-rc1: https://github.com/aaronlu/linux.git blockpm v11: - Add Alan Stern's Acked-by tag. v10: - Add link of Alan Stern's ideas on block layer runtime PM to patch 2 and 3's changelog; - Add back code to schdule device suspend if scsi driver return -EBUSY. v9: - No need to mark last busy and autosuspend in blk_pm_runtime_init as suggested by Alan Stern; - mark last busy in blk_runtime_post_suspend if driver failed to runtime suspend the device, so that PM core can try to autosuspend it some time later; - Update scsi bus layer runtime callback to handle scsi devices which use request based runtime PM and which don't. v8: - Set default autosuspend delay to -1 to avoid suspend till an updated value is set as suggested by Alan Stern; - Always check the dev field of the queue structure, as it is incorrect and meaningless to do any operation on devices that do not use block layer runtime PM as reminded by Alan Stern; - Update scsi bus level runtime PM callback to take care of scsi devices that use block layer runtime PM and that don't. v7: - Add kernel doc for block layer runtime PM API as suggested by Alan Stern; - Add back check for q->dev, as that serves as a flag if driver is using block layer runtime PM; - Do not auto suspend when last request is finished, as that's a hot path and auto suspend is not a trivial function. Instead, mark last busy in pre_suspend so that runtim PM core will retry suspend some time later to solve the 1st problem demostrated in v6, suggested by Alan Stern. - Move block layer runtime PM strtegy functions to where they are needed instead of in include/linux/blkdev.h as suggested by Alan Stern since clients of block layer do not need to know those functions. v6: Take over from Lin Ming. - Instead of put the device into autosuspend state in blk_post_runtime_suspend, do it when the last request is finished. This can also solve the problem illustrated below: thread A thread B |suspend timer expired | | ... ... |a new request comes in, | ... ... |blk_pm_add_request | ... ... |skip request_resume due to | ... ... |q->status is still RPM_ACTIVE | rpm_suspend | ... ... | scsi_runtime_suspend | ... ... | blk_pre_runtime_suspend | ... ... | return -EBUSY due to nr_pending | ... ... | rpm_suspend done | ... ... | | blk_pm_put_request, mark last busy But no more trigger point, and the device will stay at RPM_ACTIVE state. Run pm_runtime_autosuspend after the last request is finished solved this problem. - Requests which have the REQ_PM flag should not involve nr_pending counting, or we may lose the condition to resume the device: Suppose queue is active and nr_pending is 0. Then a REQ_PM request comes and nr_pending will be increased to 1, but since the request has REQ_PM flag, it will not cause resume. Before it is finished, a normal request comes in, and since nr_pending is 1 now, it will not trigger the resume of the device either. Bug. - Do not quiesce the device in scsi bus level runtime suspend callback. Since the only reason the device is to be runtime suspended is due to no more requests pending for it, quiesce it is pointless. - Remove scsi_autopm_* from sd_check_events as we are request driven. - Call blk_pm_runtime_init in scsi_sysfs_initialize_dev, so that we do not need to check queue's device in blk_pm_add/put_request. - Do not mark last busy and initiate an autosuspend for the device in blk_pm_runtime_init function. - Do not mark last busy and initiate an autosuspend for the device in block_post_runtime_resume, as when the request that triggered the resume finished, the blk_pm_put_request will mark last busy and initiate an autosuspend. v5: - rename scsi_execute_req to scsi_execute_req_flags and wrap scsi_execute_req around it. - add detail function descriptions in patch 2 log - define static helper functions to do runtime pm work on block layer and put the definitions inside a #ifdef block v4: - add CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME check - update queue runtime pm status after system resume - use pm_runtime_autosuspend instead of pm_request_autosuspend in scsi_runtime_idle - always count PM request v3: - remove block layer suspend/resume callbacks - add block layer runtime pm helper functions v2: - remove queue idle timer, use runtime pm core's auto suspend Lin Ming (4): block: add a flag to identify PM request block: add runtime pm helpers block: implement runtime pm strategy sd: change to auto suspend mode block/blk-core.c | 183 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ block/elevator.c | 26 +++++++ drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 9 +-- drivers/scsi/scsi_pm.c | 84 +++++++++++++++++---- drivers/scsi/sd.c | 22 ++---- include/linux/blk_types.h | 2 + include/linux/blkdev.h | 27 +++++++ include/scsi/scsi_device.h | 16 +++- 8 files changed, 331 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-) -- 18.104.22.168 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html


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Landon Donovan and the rest of the Los Angeles Galaxy are hoping to keep the Sounders current habit of not winning alive. The first place Western Conference Galaxy won't have it so easy, though. The fifth place Sounders are hungry for their first win since April 17th. Seattle has shown considerably more offensive charge of late, thanks to the new 4-3-3 formation and we all know that the fans at Qwest Field will not make it any easier for the Galaxy to score!
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The Wellmont Cancer Institute is holding a community yard sale on Saturday, April 12, from 7 a.m.-4 p.m. The event will be held at the Wellmont Medical Associates Oncology & Hematology office at Allandale, 4485 W. Stone Drive.
People who are interested in selling items can reserve space for $30. The deadline to secure a spot is Wednesday, April 9.
The yard sale will benefit the cancer institute's patient assistance fund, which provides financial resources for emergency and personal needs. The fund assists patients who receive compassionate care at the cancer institute's locations in Johnson City, Kingsport, Bristol and Norton, Va.
Sue Lindenbusch, the cancer institute's senior vice president, said organizers look forward to seeing a large crowd at the yard sale. She said participation will demonstrate again how cancer patients in this region do not have to fight cancer alone.
"Patients who have been diagnosed with cancer can experience financial challenges as they recover but continue to show tremendous strength," Lindenbusch said. "This fund is an outstanding method for the community to support our patients so they can focus on recovery.
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As Appalachian coal production continues its drastic decline, West Virginia's coal-producing counties are not only losing people as lifelong residents are forced to flee their homes in order to find work, but in many cases, they're also relinquishing millions of dollars from their budgets.
As Appalachian coal production continues its drastic decline, West Virginia's coal-producing counties are not only losing people as lifelong residents are forced to flee their homes in order to find work, but in many cases, they're also relinquishing millions of dollars from their budgets.
Updated Nov. 28 to reflect filing on timeline by Consumer Advocate Division.
How much is Harrison power station worth?
Reasonable people can disagree, when it comes to a unique asset — in this case, a 40-year-old, 1,984-megawatt coal-fired power plant in the Harrison County community of Haywood.
But the question is important because Columbus, Ohio-based FirstEnergy wants subsidiary Mon Power, which supplies electricity to northern and eastern parts of West Virginia, to buy the 80 percent it does not own of Harrison from another subsidiary, Allegheny Energy Supply Co.
FirstEnergy filed its long-awaited "generation resource transaction" proposal, 600 pages worth, earlier this month with the Public Service Commission of West Virginia.
The stated purpose of the proposal is to meet Mon Power's needs into the future. The utility estimates that, given current generation assets and anticipated demand growth, it would have to buy more than 6 million megawatt-hours, or 40 percent of demand, in 2026. It would be 1,400 megawatts short of meeting peak demand.
Some observers see the proposal as a move to shift a risky coal-fired generation asset out of the de-regulating Ohio market, where it will have to compete, into the regulated West Virginia market, where the PSC would assure it a guaranteed return through rates.
"This plant is actually a long-term liability that they want to unload onto West Virginia where it will be guaranteed to recover its cost regardless of whether or not it's competitive," said West Virginia Citizen Action Group Executive Director Gary Zuckett in a media release.
The value of the Harrison plant will be one of several important points that will be hashed out among intervenors in the case, which so far include the West Virginia Citizen Action Group and the commission's Consumer Advocate Division.
So, what is Harrison worth?
There are a few traditional ways to go about valuation, according to Navigant Capital Advisors. FirstEnergy included Navigant's appraisal of the Harrison station in its filing.
A "cost approach," based on the current expected cost to recreate the asset minus depreciation, is given little weight by buyers of existing power plants, the appraisal says.
A "market approach" looks at transactions of similar assets. According to the appraisal, there simply aren't enough transactions with enough publicly available information to be meaningful.
Navigant used instead an "income approach," which estimates future revenues the asset will generate. Harrison is expected to operate for 27 more years.
Using the income approach, the consultants estimated the fair market value of the entire Harrison plant at $1.68 billion; AE Supply's 80-percent share would be worth $1.33 billion.
Having arrived at that market value, FirstEnergy offers rather to sell it to Mon Power for the lower book value, estimated at $1.16 billion.
Along with other parts of the proposed transaction — primarily, that Mon Power would sell its 8 percent interest in Pleasants power station to AE Supply — the net cost to Mon Power comes to $1.1 billion. Mon Power's generation capacity would increase by 1,476 megawatts.
What's the counteroffer?
Whatever Harrison is "worth" according to an appraisal, what it's "worth" to MonPower may be clearer alongside some alternatives.
That is, is Harrison the best answer to Mon Power's future needs? Is there a more cost-effective solution?
A resource plan the company filed with the commission in August takes a brief, not comprehensive, look at some possible alternatives.
Utilities have been building natural gas combined cycle power plants, for example. The resource plan acknowledges this but assumes that such a plant would run only 25 percent of the time — making it expensive. But major utility Southern Co. reported for the first quarter that it ran its natural gas combined cycle plants 70 percent of the time when gas prices were very low, and AEP reported running its combined cycle plants 85 percent of the time. Under those conditions, such plants are giving more "bang for the buck" than FirstEnergy assumes and could be competitive with Harrison.
In addition, while FirstEnergy energy efficiency promotions in other states are reducing demand significantly — it is required with other utilities by Ohio state law, for example, to reduce demand by more than 4 percent over a five-year period — the August resource plan dismissed energy efficiency as a solution for any part of the shortfall.
"Programs to reduce demand simply cannot fulfill the need for supply-side resources on this scale," the plan reads.
PSC Consumer Advocate Byron Harris has suggested another approach: that the value of 80 percent of Harrison to Mon Power could be arrived at by seeking bids for any means of meeting the utility's coming shortfall, an approach that would in fact be comprehensive.
"They should put out a Request for Proposal," Harris said. "Utilities do this all the time. That will tell you what it's worth."
Other issues
Some other important aspects of the proposal will draw attention.
One aspect is that FirstEnergy wants to wrap this up quickly, by mid-April, in order to close the deal by May 1. That would give Mon Power the benefit of owning the generation when prices rise for summer, the company has said.
The CAD filed with the commission on Nov. 27 protesting that the short timeline is inadequate for a consultant to be hired and perform the needed analysis, noting, "Evaluation of the proposed acquisition/sale will involve an analysis of petitioners' forecasted electricity requirements and the supply-side and demand-side resources available to meet the forecasted requirements."
Another aspect is that, while Mon Power's and Potomac Edison's customer rates were scheduled to fall on Jan. 1 because earlier utility "underrecoveries" for fuel and purchased power — which move independently of the base rates that pay for capital costs — have finally been recovered, the company proposes to instead to keep rates the same and divert the difference toward purchasing Harrison.
Billy Jack Gregg said in testimony he filed on behalf of the CAD in a related case that that muddies the waters improperly.
"(Fuel and purchased power) revenues should not be used to cover base rate items," Gregg wrote. "If base rates need to be increased to pay for the asset swap or the acquisition of other capacity, the company should file a base rate case, where all of the elements of the cost of service can be examined in detail … ."
Gregg also said there's no hurry. Rates for purchasing power in the market are at historic lows right now because of the low price of natural gas.
FirstEnergy's generation resource transaction case will unfold well into 2013. Follow it under case number 12-1571-E-PC on the PSC's website.
And look for a similar proposal from AEP in December.
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But this sense of wonder does not touch the hearts of those who reflexively dismiss scientific findings as merely "materialistic" threats to their faith. They have no interest in knowing more about Halley's Comet, or Andromeda's trajectory, or indeed even in stimulating young leaners.
No, creationists took to the air this week to complain that their ideas were not getting equal time on Cosmos.
Danny Faulkner, an astronomer with the creationist organization Answers in Genesis, appeared on The Janet Mefferd Show to complain that "consideration of special creation is definitely not open for discussion" on Cosmos. The host added,
"...when you have so many scientists who simply do not accept Darwinian evolution it seems to me that that might be something to throw in there, you know, the old, 'some scientists say this, others disagree and think this,' but that's not even allowed."
Actually, it is allowed. If creationist astronomers want to fund and produce a major television series that refutes Cosmos, they are perfectly free to do so.
Monday, March 24, 2014
Cosmos Wars
Creationism: defender of superstition
Friday, March 21, 2014
Atheist Morality
Of course this is not the case. No, not even close. But it is what believers tend to believe and it IS an interesting question: where do we get our morality? For the religious, it comes from a holy book such as the Bible and is often presented along with a threat of hell for the sinner or a promise of eternal life for the repentant. Of course it gets a bit confusing as most Christians also believe in the forgiveness of sins in the act of accepting Jesus - so go ahead and behave badly, just accept Jesus before you die and you're good to go. Makes for some pretty loose morality I'd say. Now, I'm just speaking here of Christians. Other faiths do not necessarily provide such an easy ticket into whatever version of an afterlife they are promoting.
Before we go any further let's have a look at the definition of how morality is defined:
According to the New Oxford American Dictionary:
morality |məˈralətē, mô-| - noun (pl. moralities) principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior.
• a particular system of values and principles of conduct, esp. one held by a specified person or society: a bourgeois morality.
• the extent to which an action is right or wrong: behind all the arguments lies the issue of the morality of the possession of nuclear weapons.I see no mention here of religion as a requirement for morality. From Wikipedia:
Morality (from the Latin moralitas "manner, character, proper behavior") is the differentiation of intentions, decisions, and actions between those that are "good" (or right) and those that are "bad" (or wrong). The philosophy of morality is ethics. A moral code is a system of morality (according to a particular philosophy, religion, culture, etc.) and a moral is any one practice or teaching within a moral code. Morality may also be specifically synonymous with "goodness" or "rightness." Immorality is the active opposition to morality (i.e. opposition to that which is good or right), while amorality is variously defined as an unawareness of, indifference toward, or disbelief in any set of moral standards or principles. An example of a moral code is the Golden Rule which states that, "One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself."I think it is fairly obvious that morality is relative depending on different sources as well as interpretations. But we're not just talking about the source or framework of morality are we? We are also talking about actual human behavior and the notion that only those that believe in a higher power can or will behave in a moral way. One aspect of this seems to be that the threat of eternal damnation should serve as a deterant even as the promise of an eternal heaven serves as an enticement. Of course, for many Christians, actual conduct is irrelevant as long as one accepts Jesus before dying. As an atheist I'd suggest that human morality, both the structure of recommended behavior as well as the actual behavior, is far too important to leave to religion. I would suggest that our morality requires a level of rational thought and understanding of evolving complex systems and that to rely on outdated and unproven religious beliefs rooted in confused texts and superstition is nothing short of folly.
Let me put it another way. Any morality rooted in contradictory and confused texts written by men worshiping an unproven supernatural power should not be the basis for a modern morality that guides human behavior in era of science and rationality. Such texts are, simply, not up to the task. What is needed today (and what has been needed for a very long time) is a living morality that is being actively questioned and fine tuned by the humans of today. In this regard I would suggest that it is to atheists that we might look for a new, updated morality that is based on an understanding of reality as informed by the best minds of our times. This is not to say that such a morality is to be the sole province of atheists but that it is past the time that we stop pretending that superstitious belief systems can be the primary foundation for what is considered good human behavior. In fact, the longer we cater to such belief systems the more likely we are to cause irreparable damage to our planet. Let's explore some examples.
A common emphasis of faith-based belief systems is the idea of eternal life after death. Depending on which interpretation of the New Testament you might prefer, such eternal life takes place in heaven or on a new earth. Regardless of that, in such a worldview long-term life on Earth becomes far less important. Our dealings with our environment, with the ecological systems of our planet, are one area of morality that might be considered not only important but critical to our survival. What kind of morality do we get from religions that not only emphasize an unproven afterlife but which explicitly state that that life is more important than the current one? What kind of relationship can we expect with our planet's life support systems when the guiding morality explicitly states that a new Earth will be provided?
The problem of faith-based belief systems is the resistance they provide against critical, rational thought. In the U.S. there is a long standing conflict between many Christians and those that advocate science literacy. It manifests in a variety of ways, most notably in the "debate" over evolution and creationism. The "Big Bang" theory of the origin of the Universe is another. On the issue of human-caused climate change and what might need to be done to address the problem, we see a situation in which the public, lacking the scientific literacy needed to understand the available information, has demonstrated a very confused reaction. While this confusion is not the direct result of any specific religious influence, it might well be presented as an example of what happens when a superstitious population, lacking in basic scientifc literacy, is presented with a very serious and complex social-ecological problem that can only be understood in scientific terms. Without the skills and knowledge needed to evaluate the quality of information (and the sources) being presented on the internet and in the corporate media, public opinion has swayed back and forth year to year.
Ask a few adults you know about the cause of seasons on Earth and many will not know the correct answer. This is basic science knowledge and yet many do not understand. According to a recent National Science Foundation poll, 25% of Americans do not know that the Earth orbits the Sun but think the opposite is true. These are just the basics of scientific knowledge. Unfortunately we also see a general lack of understanding of the scientific method or of how science works on a larger scale via peer reviewed publishing. Unfortunately it's not just average citizens that are ignorant of basic scientific knowledge and process but also many elected representatives that make important decisions on funding and regulation. Currently less than 2% of U.S. Congressman have a background in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Perhaps this helps to explain why so little has been done to solve problems such as climate change?
A society which has the capability of sending spacecraft to the edges of its solar system is one which is obviously capable of leaving behind superstition and embracing complex, rational thought. A society which has remotely landed a variety of rovers on other planets is a society which is capable of developing advanced technology and has, at the very least, some portion of the population which is dedicated to scientific endeavors. Of course it is also true that science is the tool that is often used for ethically questionable ends. Asking how we might develop this or that technology is not enough. We should also be asking why we should be developing such technologies. Bioengeneering is one area of scientific development which has met with a great deal of resistance across the planet. Whether the issue is the genetic engineering of the food supply or some other application of the technology, the ethics are not yet settled. Who do we turn to when we are uncertain of the ethics of certain technological development or the ethics of the goals of some areas of scientific pursuit? Is there a difference between science that is conducted by a corporation such as Monsanto and that conducted by a publicly funded university? Science is a tool and can be used in many ways. Are we to turn to the religious texts of history to guide us in such discussion and decision making?
I propose that there really is no need for debate on this topic. Human society has outgrown moral frameworks based on unproven historical texts that are little more than superstition. Such frameworks are not just a hinderance to our understanding of the Universe around us but also an obstacle to our ability to adjust to new social ecological problems. What is needed today is a living, rational morality which is informed by reasoned discussion and debate guided by the most current information provided by peer reviewed science.
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Kaleesha's Book!
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Cosmic Dance
A few weeks back I wrote about viewing the supernova in M82. It was first observed around the same time that an article was circulating about the continuing and drastic decline of Monarch butterfly populations. I had both the supernova and the threat to the Monarch on my mind when I sat down to write about my observation of M82 but I couldn't quite make the connection I wanted to make. A few days ago the Bad Astronomer, Phil Plait, in describing the earlier generations of star birth and death, comes close to articulating what it was I was pondering:
This happened in the Milky Way billions of years ago, and those elements from some long-dead star made their way into you. Your bones, your teeth, your blood, your very DNA have elements in them forged in the heart of a mighty star that violently tore itself to bits so that eventually you may live. It is a transformation on a literally cosmic scale.
I should hope the metaphorical metamorphosis is obvious enough. The only constant in the Universe is change, and much of it is a cycle. Birth, life, death, restructuring, and rebirth. That is also the theme of much of human art, from paintings and movies to myths and great novels.
Some say science is cold, dealing unemotionally with hard data. But that's far from the reality. Humanity and life are reflected in the stars, and the Universe itself is poetry.
The thoughts I'd had were specific to the harsh reality of extinction on Earth. The Monarch is not there yet but it's numbers have declined drastically. Other species are also in decline and extinctions happen every day. In fact, according to the Center for Biological Diversity we are now experiencing the 6th mass exctinction event of the planet, loosing dozens of species a day:
It's frightening but true: Our planet is now in the midst of its sixth mass extinction of plants and animals — the sixth wave of extinctions in the past half-billion years. We're currently experiencing the worst spate of species die-offs since the loss of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Although extinction is a natural phenomenon, it occurs at a natural "background" rate of about one to five species per year. Scientists estimate we're now losing species at 1,000 to 10,000 times the background rate, with literally dozens going extinct every day. It could be a scary future indeed, with as many as 30 to 50 percent of all species possibly heading toward extinction by mid-century .
Unlike past mass extinctions, caused by events like asteroid strikes, volcanic eruptions, and natural climate shifts, the current crisis is almost entirely caused by us — humans. In fact, 99 percent of currently threatened species are at risk from human activities, primarily those driving habitat loss, introduction of exotic species, and global warming. Because the rate of change in our biosphere is increasing, and because every species' extinction potentially leads to the extinction of others bound to that species in a complex ecological web, numbers of extinctions are likely to snowball in the coming decades as ecosystems unravel.
For most of my adult life I've gone through a cycle of depression connected to or caused by my awareness of what we are doing to the planet and our fellow species. I will never accept what our species has done, is doing, to our planet but I have found a certain peace in the understanding that the Universe will go on regardless. Our fragile planet and the life on it has an end date. In 600 million years our sun will have have increased in luminosity significantly and the carbon cycle plants depend on will shift causing mass die-off of plant life and animal life. By the time the sun transitions from a main sequence star (4.5 bililon years from now) life on the planet will have long since disappeared. Such is the case for all life supporting planetary systems in the Universe. All stars have a limited lifespan.
The Monarchs will end. Humanity will end. Our planet, our solar system and our Sun will all have an end. So it goes. The cosmic dance will continue... for awhile anyway. What can we do but live our lives in the best possible way? I for one will try to live with a respect for the fragility of life on this Pale Blue Dot and with an understanding that the star stuff that makes up my body and this planet will one day be pushed forth into the Cosmos.
Tuesday, March 04, 2014
New York Times Cosmos Review
"'Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey' comes at a critical moment for a society that is increasingly fragmented. If we are going to decide big issues, like eating genetically modified food, fracking for natural gas, responding to the prospect of drastic climate change, exploring space or engaging in ambitious science research, we are going to have to start from some common experience."


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can you watch network apps from your ipad on your tv with apple tv?
i want to know if i am watching a tv show on my ipad through a network app (nbc,cbs, abc, etc) if i can airplay it through apple tv and actually watch it on my tv.
- Asked by Jacqueline S from Fresno
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Yes you can, I do listen as well as watch music videos and listen to music. However, some times it does this glitch kind of noise and can freeze for like a second and continue on. I found the best way to minimize this not to use or move device while air playing.
- Answered by Michelle O from Virginia Beach
- 11/05/2013