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General Off-Topic Board / Re: was going to Iraq a good idea?« on: February 29, 2012, 02:00:07 PM »
No man, regarding the united states interactions with other nations even simple Hollywood movies and our American tv shows get our behaviors/likes/dislikes and values into other countries and cultures...if they watch CNN they get our news...don't get me started on magazines...
It's not that aye want them to behave like us it's more like other nations people are curious about our values...it just happens over time....It's only natural....like levi and strauss jeans...
It's not that aye know better; it's that they are interested in us..get it?
other countries look to us as an example....in searching for a medical insurance program we scrutinized how other countries work..canada, great britain...yin yang...you sell me this and aye want to know about that...
with international intercourse sometimes residuals from one body will remain on the other body's blue dress...so to speak.
My argument is 1) that the gassing of the Kurds was the trigger to take out the regime...a weighty enough reason...and that weighs like an ocean of culture.
the gassing of jewish in germany was reason enough to take out that regime...
Genocide is a good reason to take out a regime...see?^^ exactly, you seem to want them to behave like us- with our values and our perspective. Saying you know better than them who rules them?
Not that its directly relevant, but you argument would hold more weight if: 1) the majority of the population asked the US to invade, 2) the majority, not one small group that wants a regime change, but most people want us there or 3) the majority, over %50 of the population, not less than %10 do not want the US to leave.
As it turned out, other than a few minority groups who were being abused, no one wanted the US to invade, over through the government or stay after the conquest was complete.
Not even mention why we should be pissed about it- THE GOVERNMENT LIED TO US and killed 100,000s of people in the process.
Nazis were bad. No one argues with that. But that idea of it being the reason for the American involvment in the war (or anyone else's) is due to the romantic rewriting of history. We had no idea of it untill deep into the war, and no true idea of just how bad untill it was well past over.
Russia was just as bad but they were our "ally" because we needed them to be, and then two minutes post WW2 the "coldwar" began.
Genocide is bad, but not the reason for WW2. It was however the reason for the Bosnia and Kosovo wars under Clinton.
Aye agree...genocide was not the reason for entering ww2 at all...but if we stopped genocide from continuing by entering ww2 then our actions for engaging the conflict were beyond justifiable.
Aye agreed with clintons actions for our engagement there as well.
...if a country engages a conflict and genocide is halted...one has to grasp the good in that cease.


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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, February 14, 2011 By Kathleen Ball "Kathleen" This review is from: Sunny Days, Moonlit Nights by Jean C. Joachim (Kindle Edition)
Jean C Joachim know how to keep the reader enchanted. Her settings are well described and her characters have great chemistry. I loved how they interacted and the constant tension.
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Book Review of 'Sunny Days, Moonlit Nights' by Jean C. Joachim
Sunny Days, Moonlit Nights, was written by Jean C. Joachim and published by Astraea Press in February, 2011. You may purchase this book at http://www.amazon.com/
Carolina Davis White is a talented artist in a loveless marriage. For two years, she has put up with this life and she can no longer stand it. Running away from her husband Brad, who cheats on her and uses his riches to get what he wants, seems to be her only option. So she flees to her family's cabin in the Catskill Mountains, a place she loves and in which she found peace in earlier times. There, she begins divorce proceedings.
Enter Mike Foster, a successful man who has lost his wife and child due to his driven work attitude. As Caroline connects once again with old friends, Mike reappears and reminds Caroline how it used to be when they were younger and in love.
This is book is an awesome love story. I started reading and couldn't stop...my favorite kind of romance. It has all the makings of a good love story; a friendship/crush/love that is re-kindled after several years and then goes thru some drama to finally end in a 'forever' scenario. There are some twist and turns that will keep you turning pages and the characters seem real and not 'too' perfect.
I'm giving this book a 5 spider rating and recommending it to anyone who is interested in a good love story. Don't miss this wonderful read!!
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CAROLINE DAVIS WHITE IS A WELL-KNOWN artist married to a philandering multi-millionaire. She has everything any woman could want except love. Brad refuses to give her the divorce she so desperately wants. With no money, family, or friends, she flees to the small community in Catskill Mountains where she spent her summers as a child.
Mike Foster, Caroline's childhood crush grown up, achieved success and made more money than he could ever have dreamed, but it destroyed his marriage and cost him his son. He is wary of women who find his wallet more attractive than his good looks.
Caroline reconnects with the life she had and friends from long ago. Mike steps out of her teenage dreams into her life again, looking more handsome and tempting than ever. She knew who he was then…but who is he now?
5.0 out of 5 stars Sweet, Sensual Romance!, April 18, 2011
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Artist Carolina Davis White is stuck in a loveless marriage. After years of feeling trapped and stuck, she runs away from her cheating husband and his money, which he uses to benefit himself. She finds herself at the family cabin in the solitude of the Catskills and reconnects with old friends including Mike Foster. Finding peace, obtaining her divorce and falling for Mike are in Carolina's future. But alas, watch out for that selfish husband, Brad. If ever a man needed to be knocked down a notch, he is a prime suspect.
Mike is dealing with his own loss, his son years ago and all the money he's made over the years mean nothing to him without true love. Add in that he's wary of all women, who may be after his money.
If you're looking for a sweet, sensual side to romance, this is the book for you. Take the beautiful and charming Catskills, add in love, friendship and romance and this book will grab you in. I was drawn into the storyline immediately and Joachim's dynamic writing style, dialogue between Carolina and Mike is so remarkable. The love grows with each scene creating the love all women cherish and desire in life.
This is one of those "What-if" novels that many women will relate to. I highly recommend this novel and challenge anyone who reads not to find a little of his or herself in the characters experiencing love lost returning from the past.
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Caroline is married to a jerk. That's the short, but not-so-sweet truth. Finally fed up with his antics, she packs her bags and leaves. She heads somewhere with good memories, her family's summer lakeside rental at The Birches, and as part of her new start, adopts the name Sunny, what everyone called her before she married into a life of luxury.
In time, she meets The Birches maintenance man, Mike, who turns out to be her childhood crush. Sunny is understandably surprised, especially when it becomes evident that Mike is becoming interested in her. Naturally, her unfinished business with her jerk of a husband keeps her from being open to a relationship with Mike, and that leads to some misunderstandings.
This was a pleasant read. Oftentimes, when I'm reading romance novels, I'm picturing young twenty-somethings, with an annoying perfectly pretty streak. I appreciated reading a story that seemed to fit my age-group: that don't-you-dare-imply-I'm-pushing-forty demographic. The characters felt like people I could know. Average, intelligent people just looking for a little happiness.
I especially liked Mike. I like Mike. Sorry, can't ignore a fun rhyme, there. I'm always a sucker for a guy who is beautiful to the woman who loves him. I don't need a hero who looks like he just stepped off the cover of GQ. I imagined him as attractive, but not necessarily perfect. When an author gives me that imaginative freedom, the hook is set.
Angst-whore that I am, it often surprises me when I'm given what qualifies as a mellow read, and find myself enjoying it. And I definitely enjoyed this one. The romance in this story isn't about getting to the smutty smut, it's about what's going on in our couple's hearts and minds. And that's something I was definitely on board for in this book. Mike and Sunny made sense. And I'd definitely recommend this story.
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SUNNY DAYS, MOONLIT NIGHTS has been racking up great reviews! Scroll down for the "Five Spider" review from Webb Weaver published on April 15, 2011.
From Bennet Pommerantz, Amazon reviewer, April 28,2011:
5.0 out of 5 stars Suuny Days is romantic and warm, April 28, 2011
This review is from: Sunny Days, Moonlit Nights by Jean C. Joachim (Kindle Edition)
If have have been slightly amiss lately in reviewing books. I have been bogged down in reading this book and Love Tattoo. Both are excellence novels. I must thank Both authors for give me PDF files of their books. I have truly been entertained
What does amaze me about this romantic novel is ..This is a simple romance (the kind I used to read in 1980s) with enough twists and turns to keep any reader interested.
There is old billboard with a picture of chinese man with slogan, "You dont have to be Jewish to Enjoy Jewish rye bread" I would say, you do not have to enjoy romance to enjoy this book.
Ms Joachim uses her writing talents to paint vivid characters that are real to anyone. Nothing about this romance seem false in the story's delivery or characters. It has a bit of spicy, but just enough to keep the reader interested.
The ending is tied up so nice and well. I find this book so charming and good. I cant rave enough about this novel
Now, Would I read this again? Yes, you better believe it..If my mother or aunt would read PDF files (or a kindle), I would have them read this book. In saying that, they both are not computer savy. PLUS they are not young anymore. (sorry Mom!--but its the truth!)
I would wish some of these audio romance publishers like Brillance or Harper Collins) would record this piece to CD or download. It is made for spoken word. It sings off the pages as you read it!
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Review: Sunny Days, Moonlit Nights by Jean Joachim
Joachim provides us with a sweet romance with a tale of powerful love that is once again found. Sunny Days, Moonlit Night follows the story of Caroline who leaves her controlling husband. Caroline finds herself with a Mike, a childhood crush. Together they have a wonderful tension. Together they rekindle something that they had a long time ago. Will that be enough to get rid of Caroline's controlling husband, Brad who won't let go? A man who is used to getting what he wants. Unfortunately he thinks he can step out on Caroline and have her sit and take it. Caroline leaves for this very reason although Brad's trouble seems to find her again. Joachim enchants us with these lovable characters and bonds us to them. We will root for both Caroline and Mike. As an author she has a wonderful talent to put you right in the characters mind and their world. Be enchanted and enjoy the ride that Caroline takes on where love actually conquers all.
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Posted March 10, 2011, 6:55 PM EST: With just enough plot twists to keep you guessing, this beautiful and entertaining love story has something for every romance fan. The characters are fully developed and believable, and the story, about loss, love, and trust, is compelling. It was hard to put this book down.
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My Review: Think boy meets girl. Boy wins girl's heart. Boy dies in a battle fighting for his country. Heroine Callie loses her beloved, Kyle, in the Iraq war but her life is still in topsy-turvy shape when single father Mac enters her world.
Callie and Mac deal with her memories of Kyle while Mac deals with his previous spouse.
Joachim spins a delightful yet innocent romance between the duo. The story crafted by Joachim is one inch shy of being a tissue-crying event. I loved the way she developed the characters, their relationship and the way she brings their past into their future. I highly recommend this book for any lover of romance. The beautifully entwined relationship is one any woman would be envious of. "
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This lovely story is the anatomy of a love relationship between two injured people and how they manage to withstand many obstacles to be truly happy. There is also a suspenseful undertone as the couple gets involved in solving a mystery on campus.
The characters are unique and interesting and the writing is sweet and easy to read. Jean C. Joachim's first fiction work is everything a love story should be, and more. Delightfully genuine and engrossing to read, Now and Forever, a Love Story is exactly that...a love story, but with some thrills thrown in for good measure. This book has all the trials and tribulations, and love and romance, that anyone could want in a great read. I'm giving Now and Forever, a Love Story, a 5 spider rating and recommending this book to those of you who enjoy reading a love story or a something with a little suspense. How sweet is that...?
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"...This is a well-written and enjoyable love story with some suspenseful moments. It is really not a suspense story persay, but the love story is excellent. The author has created two very strong characters who have overcome adversity, and an excellent plot that grabs the reader's interest and holds it to the end. The subplot of the drug sting is an interesting aside that helps to tie up some loose ends in addition to providing a suspenseful interlude. Mac and Callie's story is an emotional one that I really enjoyed."
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Sunday, October 24, 2010
Review: Now and Forever A Love Story by Jean C. Joachim
This is the inaugural fictional work of Ms Joachim who is a published author in the non-fiction field. It is a story of a hurting, grieving young woman who has lost her best friend and fiance in the war in the Middle East. He had been her friend and support during the dark days after her parents' death when she was sixteen. Their friendship had grown into love and they were planning to be married after this final deployment overseas, a tour of duty from which he never returned.
Now Callie Richards is 26 years old, having grieved for two long and lonely years, and she has decided that she needs to complete her post-graduate education at a New York university. Taking part of the insurance money she had received from Kyle's estate, she embarks on what she hopes will be a new start in her life. She is really broke, barely has enough money to live and only if she misses a few meals during the week. She takes a part-time job in the university's administrative office where she comes in contact with the two academic deans and the president of the school. One of those deans is Mac Caldwell, a 34-year-old divorced father of a toddler who is also lonely and discouraged about the sad state of things with his personal life.
Mac's first marriage had occurred when his girlfriend became pregnant and Mac felt compelled to marry her. Now they are divorced and she is difficult to deal with over the custody issues. She has taken to dropping off their son a day early, causing considerable difficulty for Mac with his work load, academic appointments, and class schedule. Callie offers to babysit in light of her former work experience in daycare centers and private babysitting. When this situation becomes a weekly thing, Mac and Callie become friends and eventually lovers.
It is now that Callie faces the need to let Kyle go and move on, and in Mac she believes she has found the man who can fill her heart and her life. Mac is a man who finds it difficult to express his feelings but he comes to know that Callie is a woman who has depth, maturity, and a compassionate heart. He knows that no matter what her former relationships may have been, he cannot even imagine his life without her. Her relationship with his son is also evidence of her ability to open her heart to anyone, even a child who is not her own.
This is a very nice novel that is really the "biography" of a relationship, one that began with pain and disappointment for both Callie and Mac but which blossomed into passion and love. It is also a novel that has a suspense strand as Callie and Mac both get involved in trying to solve the mystery of who is bringing drugs onto the campus. There are some surprises--actually big surprises--in the resolution of this mystery. There are definitely some significant stresses on Callie and Mac's marriage that involve the ex-wife, custody issues over Mac's son, some residual concerns on Mac's part over Callie's former love, the stress of Callie's class projects as she seeks to finish her master's degree, and the pressure that is upon Mac to fulfill his administrative responsbilities; but that is all part of this story of a relationship. Only in fairy tales do love relationships go smoothly. It is also a story of how both Callie and Mac must make some important personal decisions about how they will open themselves to one another, grow in their relationship, and allow room for each to be who they are. There is kindness, friendship, genuine caring and authentic loving here--the kind that is capable of withstanding the ups and downs that two people must endure as they are finding that easy place with one another.
I liked the people in this story--other than the bad guy's, of course. They were real and could have easily inhabited a modern university. They sounded very much like people we all know. Certainly the circle of support they formed around Callie as she was growing into her role as Mac's wife -- the Dean's wife role -- was quite profound. They weren't "other-worldly" but were the kind of friends and supporters we would all like to have.
This is the kind of love story that I like to read on a cool winter night here in So. California, wrapped in my grandmother's afghan and sitting in front of the fire. It is full of warm fuzzies and good feelings and may even remind some of us of our own experiences. That, IMHO, is a really good read. I give this novel a 4 out of 5 rating.
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You are members of an elite medical investigation team, called into action because of a high number of mysterious infant deaths in a remote community in New Mexico. It is unclear whether the deaths are a result of an infectious disease or an inherited gene.. As part of your investigation, your tasks are to determine the cause of these deaths and what can be done to save the lives of other children in this community.
The preliminary investigation revealed that all of the afflicted infants had two copies of the DNA sequence shown below. In addition, the parents of the infants all mentioned that the children had sweat that seemed to be saltier than normal. It is your task to discover the significance of this DNA sequence, determine how it relates to those with the disease, and describe its symptoms and possible treatments. You will then prepare a report to inform public officials of the outcome of your investigation.
For this project you will break into groups of four Each team will use the Koshland Science Museum website as a resource to investigate DNA technology and perform a computational analysis of the DNA sequence that was found in the sick infants.. Using the attached worksheet as a guide, work as a group to complete the following tasks
Group Activity
Group Activity
Do these tasks as a group and complete the Group Worksheet.
1) Learn about DNA technology in the Introduction and Criminology sections of the website. What kind of biological samples could have been used to collect the DNA from the sick infants? How similar is human DNA to that of other species?
Read the Introduction to the Putting DNA to Work exhibit
Read about DNA evidence in the Putting DNA to Work exhibit
2) Go through the DNA Sequence portion of the website. Pay particular attention to the Probe the Sequence activity. What is the relationship between the size of the probe and the amount of times it occurs in the sequence?
Sequence information in the Putting DNA to Work exhibit
3) In the Probe the Sequence activity, you searched a fairly small stretch of DNA (about 1500 bases) for three or six base combinations. This is called a blast search. Now you are going to blast the DNA sequence from the sick infants against the entire human genome, which contains 3 billion base pairs -- just as scientists must when they investigate. The blast search compares the DNA sequence from the sick children below, to all known DNA sequences in the human genome.
Go to the DNA blast search at the National Center for Biotechnology Information website.
Copy and paste the DNA sequence for the sick children into the box with the title: "Enter an accession, gi, or a sequence in FASTA format:" and press the "Begin Search" button at the bottom of the page. You will be directed to another page, where you should press the "View Report" button.
After a few seconds, you will get several "hits." Scroll down to the first result, ">ref|NT_007933.14|Hs7_8090," and look at the comparison of the two DNA sequences. Your sequence is on the top row (Query) and the Blast result sequence (Subject) is underneath your sequence. How does your sequence compare to the known sequence? A vertical line between the two sequences indicates that they are identically matched. If no vertical line appears, it indicates that the sequence you entered has s a mistake, or a mutation. . What is missing from your sequence that is in the known sequence?
***Print out ONLY THE FIRST 2 PAGES and turn in with group report***
• Copy the blue text under "Features in this part of subject sequence" that gives the name of the gene (only up to the comma). Open the site below, paste the gene name into the white box, and press the "Go" button.
***Print out ONLY THE FIRST PAGE and turn in with group report***
Click on the first link (*602421) to find out more about the gene and what disease it causes.
• Discover how the DNA sequence relates to the disease.
Click on the first link (*602421): this will tell you more about the gene and what disease it causes.
• Learn more about how the DNA sequence relates to the disease.
4) Learn more about inherited diseases at the Marian Koshland Science Museum.
Inherited Disease information in Putting DNA to Work exhibit
Give an example of an inherited disease and what kind of mutation causes it.
Individual Roles
Individual Roles
Now that you have matched the DNA sequence to a specific disease, your medical investigation team will need to do more research.. Each member your group should now take on a role: DNA Scientist, Epidemiologist, Disease Specialist, or Genetic Counselor. Work individually according to your role to investigate the cause of the illness. When you are finished with your individual research, you will share what you have learned with your group and prepare a report to be presented to local officials.
The Roles
DNA Scientist (Ph.D. Biologist): Investigate the structure of DNA and how it codes for proteins.
Epidemiologist: Study the history of the disease, including when and how it was discovered, when the genetic basis was determined, how many people are affected and what the risk factors are.
Disease specialist (pediatrician): Learn about the disease, its symptom, and current treatment options.
Genetic Counselor: Explore how genetic counseling works, and use gengetics to analyze inheritance patterns in families with disease.
Summary Activity
Summary Activity (To turn in)
Individually complete and turn in the worksheet for your role.
As a group, prepare a report and/or a presentation answering the following questions:
1) What is the cause of this disease? Gene therapy is a possibility for future treatmente. Discuss the pros and cons of gene therapy.
2) What are the pros and cons of genetic testing for this disease? Who should be tested? Who should be able to access the results of a genetic test (patients, doctors, insurance companies, employers)?
3) Make recommendations for local officials detailing what you think their community policies should be regarding the prospect for future disease, treatments, counseling recommendations, etc.
Each question should be answered in a one page report (for a total of three pages). The report must be approved by all members of the group before being turned in. These questions might require further research into the issues. Start with the references you used for your individual work, and then move to references in theEach question should be answered in a one-page report (for a total of three pages). The report must be approved by all members of the group before being turned in. These questions might require further research into the issues.
Congratulations! You have figured out the cause of infant deaths in this remote community. Now on to your next medical challenge.....


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Xiaosheng Gao received his PhD from Brown University in May 1998 with a major in solid mechanics and two minors: one in materials science and the other in applied mathematics. He then worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He joined the University of Akron as an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering in January 2001, became an Associate Professor in May 2006 and a professor in May 2011. His other appointments including as an assistant professor at the Northwestern Polytechnical University (China) from July 1990 to August 1992, as a visiting scholar at the Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) from November 1996 to May 1997, as a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore in summer 2005, and as an ONR Summer Faculty Fellow in 2006 and 2007.
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Dr. Gao's research areas include mechanics of materials and structures, computational mechanics, fatigue and fracture mechanics, multi-scale modeling of damage and failure and material characterization with microstructure. In recent years he has worked extensively on developing mechanism-based models to simulate material failure process and to predict fracture of structural components. This research bridges the macroscopic continuum mechanics and the microscopic aspects of materials science. The results provide guidelines for safer and more economic design and operation of high-performance of engineering structures. He has authored over 80 archival publications (journal papers, book chapters and conference proceedings) in the areas of his research. He has also presented his research findings at numerous international conferences and workshops and given seminars at various institutions. He received the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator award in 2002. His research has attracted funding from several federal and state agencies as well as industry. He has served as a reviewer for over 30 international journals and reviewed proposals for several government agencies.
- Zhou, J., Gao, X., Hayden, M. and Joyce, J.A. (2012) Modeling the Ductile Fracture Behavior of an Aluminum Alloy 5083-H116 Including the Residual Stress Effect. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 85, 103-116.
- Hu, S., Xia, Z. and Gao, X. (2012) Strong Adhesion and Friction Coupling in Hierarchical Carbon Nanotube Arrays for Dry Adhesive Applications. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, in press, doi: 10.1021/am201796k.
- Gao, X., Zhang, T., Zhou, J., Graham, S.M., Hayden, M. and Roe, C. (2011) On Stress-State Dependent Plasticity Modeling: Significance of the Hydrostatic stress, the Third Invariant of Stress Deviator and the Non-Associated Flow Rule. International Journal of Plasticity, 27, 217–231.
- Gao, X., Zhang, G. and Roe, C. (2010) A Study on the Effect of the Stress State on Ductile Fracture. International Journal of Damage Mechanics, 19, 75-94.
- Gao, X., Zhang, T., Hayden, M. and Roe, C. (2009) Effects of the Stress State on Plasticity and Ductile Fracture of an Aluminum 5083 Alloy. International Journal of Plasticity, 25, 2366–2382.
- Jiang, H., Gao, X. and Srivatsan, T.S. (2009) Predicting the Influence of Overload and Loading Mode on Fatigue Crack Growth: A Numerical Approach Using Irreversible Cohesive Elements. Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, 45, 675-685.
- Gao, X., Joyce, J.A. and Roe, C. (2008) An Investigation of the Loading Rate Dependence of the Weibull Stress Parameters. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 75, 1451–1467.
- Kim, J., Zhang, G. and Gao, X. (2007) Modeling of Ductile Fracture: Application of the Mechanism-Based Concepts. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 44, 1844-1862.
- Gao, X., Zhang, G. and Srivatsan, T.S. (2006) A Probabilistic Model for Prediction of Cleavage Fracture in the Ductile-to-Brittle Transition Region and the Effect of Temperature on Model Parameters. Materials Science and Engineering A, 415, 264-272.
- Gao, X. and Kim, J. (2006) Modeling of Ductile Fracture: Significance of Void Coalescence. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 43, 6277-6293.
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Keynote Systems has announced the launch its MITE 2 (Mobile Internet Testing Environment) tool for automated application testing and verification of mobile content. Mobile content developers can use this tool to test and verify mobile web content using a built-in library of 1,800 devices and 11,000 device profiles for reference.
Carl Howe, research director for Yankee Group said, "As those consumers have become a large part of a company's Internet strategy, businesses must now test how well their mobile websites deliver on their web designs."
In addition to offering on-demand access to a wide variety of mobile devices, Keynote says that MITE offers many other features and functionality that allows mobile content developers and QA professionals to quickly see how well websites, content, and applications perform from an end-user's perspective. MITE includes:
- An embedded WebKit browser engine used by all leading smartphone manufacturers. This lets testers interact with any mobile website and get the most accurate end user perspective.
- Access to the latest smartphone device profiles, such as Apple iPhone 4, Android Droid Incredible, Nokia N8, and BlackBerry Torch.
- Point-and-click scripting capabilities to automate mobile content testing. Mobile content developers can record a single test script on one device and then run it across any number of selected devices.
- An intuitive grading system that helps developers verify that a mobile website is optimized for a given device by providing both a score and actionable recommendations to improve the quality, performance and compliance of the website with W3C's mobile best practices.


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Walter R. Averett grew up in Carp, NV and has written two very informative, and enjoyable books on the surrounding area (Lincoln County, NV) titled:
"Through the Rainbow Canyon" ISBN 0-87062-237-4
"Beyond the Ranges" ISBN 0-87062-279-x
Both books are written using researched information, and notes taken from first hand accounts or the occasional recollection. Both are also full of old photos of the places in discussion, making them alone worth the read.
The only bad thing is they are currently out of print, but I have seen them used on Amazon.com and they can be found on Ebay occasionally.


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I've written before about being a geek and doing geeky things like going to comic book/science fiction conventions, with Erin in tow. I'm not sure how it came to my attention, but there was a convention in San Jose this weekend called Super Con. I didn't know much about it, and in reading the web site I concluded that it would probably be smaller than Wonder Con was, and that was smaller than Comic Con in San Diego. But Emily had some work to get done at the office this weekend and Erin and I hadn't been for a good dadventure in a while, so last week I decided that I was going to keep it on my calendar.
I received a very nice e-mail from someone the other day.
"I saw your comment on Wil's blog after reading Shakesville's criticism of his post. You really, really nailed it for me. And it changed me a little bit for the better. For that I thank you."
Last week I read this post on one of my favourite blogs, Wil Wheaton's "Wil Wheaton Dot Net: In Exile". I was inspired to comment on the post because a normally sensitive, sincere, and thoughtful blogger, who also happened to be TV's Wil Wheaton!, had signed off of this post with what sounded to my eyes like an impolitic, careless, and almost disparaging remark:
"I'm not sexist. This isn't sexist. That's a stupid straw man, and if you try to make that claim, I will point and laugh at you."
I couldn't refrain from taking him up on this. Not on the question of whether or not he was a sexist, or manifested sexist tendencies; but on the question of whether or not the post he linked to, entitled "Hillary Clinton: The Psycho Ex-Girlfriend of the Democratic Party", was fundamentally sexist.
He claimed that such a label was a straw-man, meaning that it was a punching-bag of a target that saved troublemakers the effort of actually debating with their opponents. If the debate were about whether or not this post was written using 12-point font, then claiming that the post was sexist would be a straw-man attack. But in this case a very relevant issue seemed to be whether or not Hillary was maligned according to her gender rather than her politics, and in that way the issue of whether or not this post was sexist seemed very much on target; not a straw man at all.
So, in response to the claim that the post wasn't sexist, I left a comment that was a little curt, but because I'm good at this I didn't make it about him.
Others weren't as delicate; I may have been the first to make the "this post is sexist" claim, but I wasn't the last. He seemed flooded, by both antagonists, supporters, and sycophants. And although he eventually allowed that his statements in the sign off weren't productive and maybe shouldn't have been included, he seemed, more than anything, just frustrated that people were attacking him for the link.
I checked back a few times to see how the conversation was going, and I was directly addressed a couple of times in the comments, so I responded to those people. What I had said provoked its own miniature drama of criticism and support, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't really tickled that several other bloggers were referencing my words. I blog; I'm vain like that. Someone even went so far as to anonymously e-mail the webmaster at At Home Dad to leave a compliment. That was strange, but again, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't pleased.
In the end, though, some of the people agreeing with me were also ending up a bit extreme for my taste. As I noted earlier, my comment was about the post, and not about the person, but the line was being blurred.
So earlier this week I sent an e-mail to Wil Wheaton, just letting him know that even though I was the first, and most vocal, critic of the post, that I hadn't made it about him or his politics or his writing or his choice of socks. He still had me as a reader.
Yada, yada, yada
So. Yeah.
Erin met Wil Wheaton today at Super Con.
Sorry. Was that too fast? Heh.
I saw on his blog that he was going to Super Con, and since I was already considering going I thought I would take the opportunity to meet him in person. I'm a fan. I'm a geek.
And Wil totally failed his Save-versus-Cute roll. (For those who don't get that one, well, go back to 1985 and pay attention to what the kids playing D&D at lunch were mumbling about.)
He introduced himself, very comfortably: "Hi, I'm Wil."
"Hi Wil, it's nice to meet you. I'm Shawn. This is Erin." That last with a nod over my left shoulder at the cute-ball peering at her mom's junior high crush.
He made the mistake of noticing how cute she was, and a second of extending a finger in her direction. She promptly grabbed said finger and refused to release it for at least a minute.
We chatted idly for little while (really, he just gushed over Erin, and who could blame him?), and then he moved the conversation away from the precipice of awkward silence that it seemed sure to approach: "So, did you want to exchanged some shiny gold rocks for something?"
Wil's reason for being there, apart from just the fact that it's a comic convention and he's a con-geek, was to promote and sell his books. And I was more than willing to oblige him.
"Just A Geek, please."
"Great. Should I make it out to 'Shawn'?" he asked, retrieving his autographing marker from the table.
"Sure. Or, uh, to 'Backpacking Dad'."
"Ok. Backpacking D....oh you're Backpacking Dad?"
Interestingly enough, the conversation did not immediately turn to the Hillary Clinton post. Instead, his first question was about whether I really backpacked.
"Well, I backpack in this way," I said, hunching my shoulder forward so Erin was reintroduced into the conversation. "I don't hike up mountains or anything."
And then, completely at ease and genuinely engaged, he waxed mountainous about hiking, climbing, and the feeling of owning a hill after climbing it. Or possibly he was describing the feeling of pwning the hill; he is a geek, after all.
We talked for a little while about the post, the comments, the aftermath, and I assured him again that he hadn't lost me as a reader (like one reader he doesn't know matters; but it really seemed that one reader did matter to him, so I didn't feel strange standing in a position of reassuring him) and that the personal attacks were stupid. He spoke at some length about how upset he was about being accused of sexism, and he really did seem bothered by it. He hadn't changed his opinion of the post: he was still convinced that the term "psycho ex-girlfriend" is not sexually charged. I disagree. But that's it, really. We disagree about that. I don't think this says anything else about the man's character, and it doesn't make his blog or books any less worth reading.
Later, after his Q&A session (which was mysteriously moved up 2 hours) I approached him with one last thing.
"HeyWilgoodtalk." (Gah. What a stupid way to open.)
"I neglected to mention earlier that my wife had a huge crush on you when she was 14."
Why did I tell him that? Because Emily asked me not to. And that's just how I roll.
So, Erin had a pretty good day :}
And Just A Geek? Awesome.


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Defining Problem Solving
|The Problem-Solving Standard | Organizing Data | Draw a Diagram or Make a Model | Organize the Data in a List, Diagram, Table, or Graph | Generate and Eliminate Candidates | Additional Problem-Solving Strategies | Low Threshold, High Ceiling Problems | Summary | Your Journal
Often problems are posed in such a way that making lists of possible solution candidates is an effective strategy. Further information lets you eliminate some of the candidates.
Use this method to solve the following problem.
Problem: Find the Number
Here is one way to solve this problem: From Clue 1, we know that the number is one of the 90 numbers 10, 11, . . . , 98, 99. Clue 2 narrows the list to 92, 29, 83, 38, 74, 47, 65, and 56. Clue 3 eliminates all of these numbers except 83 and 38, and only 83 fits Clue 4.
This process, listing all possibilities and eliminating the ones that do not work, more or less "walks" the solver through the solution process. The ability to ask yourself questions and then answer them is a valuable problem-solving skill. When students work in groups, they can question one another. Individual problem solvers must learn to talk to themselves.
This problem is a good example of a problem that is easily adaptable to a variety of concepts and a variety of levels. After experiencing several problems of this type, students often enjoy writing similar problems for their classmates to solve.
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From an up-and-coming indie band struggling on the music-saturated streets of Los Angeles to an immensely successful international musical force, [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Foster The People[/lastfm] are models for many other small bands looking to reach mainstream success while maintaining their musical integrity and not selling out.
Less than a year ago, Foster the People played a free residency at a small bar in Los Angeles. Tonight, they played an amazing free streaming show at the iconic Ed Sullivan Theater for Live on Letterman. Did you miss it? No problem, you can watch the entire show on-demand anytime.
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The first track that [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Foster The People[/lastfm] played, "Houdini," is an upbeat, synthy dance gem with soulful vocals and lyrics that entreaty the listener to "focus on their abilities," despite apparent self-conscious doubts.
Foster The People went into their second track of their Live on Letterman set, "Miss You," a lesser known tune from their debut album Torches.
Ripping through the raw, pounding drums, "Miss You" takes the focus away from the electro-buzz beat of many of their other songs, showcasing the rhythmic talent of Foster The People with a powerful instrumental ending and the sweet and stripped-down vulnerability Mark Foster's voice–without leaving him in puddle of sentimentality despite lovelorn lyrics like "I really miss you I miss you, I said smile at the chance just to see you again."
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Pierre-Paul's Pick Helps Lead Giants To 4th Straight Victory
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- The New York Giants are not only back in the playoff hunt with a four-game winning streak, they're calling the plays that get them those wins.
That's exactly what Jason Pierre-Paul did against the Green Bay Packers on Sunday.
With the Giants clinging to a 20-13 lead early in the fourth quarter and the Packers about to start a series at their 30, Pierre-Paul said in the huddle he was going to pick a pass and score. Pierre-Paul hadn't seen the Packers' formation and he hadn't been listening to coach Mike McCarthy talk to Scott Tolzien on the sideline. He just knew, and he was right.
Pierre-Paul scored on a spectacular, leaping 24-yard fourth-quarter interception return and the resurgent Giants won 27-13 over the slumping and injured-riddled Packers (5-5).
"I have never seen anything like it before in my life," fellow defensive end Justin Tuck said. "We were literally in a TV timeout and he said, 'I'm going to pick this.' "
Tuck said Pierre-Paul made the call before the Giants had even called a defense.
"If you look at my reaction to him picking it, I was in awe because he had just called it before it happened," Tuck said. "He called it before seeing the formation, so I don't know if it was Voodoo. I don't know."
Pierre-Paul, questionable because of a shoulder injury against Oakland that limited him to one day of practice, said he had a feeling.
"I knew I could deliver that play, that significant play, and I did," Pierre-Paul said. "It changed the game."
Tolzien, starting his first NFL game, took the blame.
"That's on me giving their team a freebie," said Tolzien, who finished 24 of 34 for 339 yards and three interceptions. "We had a chance at that point. That kills ya. It was a game-changer. You see the arms up in the air and you can't throw it."
Eli Manning threw a 26-yard touchdown pass to Rueben Randle, and Brandon Jacobs added a 1-yard run as the Giants handed the Packers their third straight loss, their longest skid since a five-game losing streak near the end of 2008.
"It's not good," Packers linebacker Clay Matthews said. "It's definitely new territory. It's tough, because you go 10-5, 10-6, 15-1. You lose three, it doesn't feel good. But right now we're just not playing very good ball. We're 5-5 right now, so we've just got to move forward with the guys we have and play better."
Two of the three losses have come with 2011 NFL MVP Rodgers sidelined with a broken left collarbone.
The Giants are heading the other way. Their winning streak follows a 0-6 start and it improbably has moved them within 1½ games of first-place Philadelphia (6-5) in the weak NFC East. They are a game behind second-place and idle Dallas (5-5), which will play here next Sunday.
The Packers, who got a 1-yard TD run by Eddie Lacy and two field goals by Mason Crosby, including a 57-yarder, fell a game behind Chicago and Detroit in the NFC North.
The Giants never trailed, but they never put the Packers away until the interception by Pierre-Paul.
New York had the better of the play in the first half, holding the ball for almost 20 minutes. The Giants jumped to a 10-0 lead on Manning's 26-yard touchdown pass to Randle and Josh Brown's 40-yard field goal.
The touchdown reception was Randle's sixth in the last six games, and he set it up with a 32-yard punt return. Manning finished 25 of 35 for 279 yards and an interception.
A 30-yard pass to Victor Cruz, who had eight catches for 110 yards, and a 5-yard run by Jacobs on a fourth-and-1 at the Packers 36 set up the field goal.
Tolzien threw passes of 25 yards to Jordy Nelson and 45 to James Jones on consecutive plays to set up a 24-yard field goal by Crosby on the next series.
Taking over at the Green Bay 37 with no timeouts, Tolzien hit on two passes, setting up Crosby for a 57-yard field goal on the final play. It was a yard shy of his Packers record and it was the longest against the Giants.
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Holy Saturday
The present is all past. The future is nothing. The hand has disappeared from the clock's face. No more struggle between love and hate, between life and death. Both have been equalized, and love's emptying out has become the emptiness of hell. One has penetrated the other perfectly. The nadir has reached the zenith.
--Hans Urs von Balthazar on Holy Saturday
3:33 when the numbers fell off the clock face
Speed dialing with no signal at all
Go, shout it out, rise up
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6 comments:
- Mary said...
I love this.
- 11 April, 2012 20:58
- dave said...
what would you guesstemnate the percent chance that Bono has actually read HUVB (or at least come across the quote..) The more i learn, i am blown away to imagine what may be on Bono's bedside reading table..We know he reads Eugene Peterson, and Peterson quotes him a lot, and even has called HUVB "the twentieth century's premier theologian on Christian spirituality"..
- 11 April, 2012 23:35
- U2 Sermons said...
Dave - I was not aware of the Peterson connection. My guess on the quote is that the odds are infinitesimal - but that he's read vonB, well, maybe, then....
- 12 April, 2012 07:36
- Funny Sermon Illustrations said...
What a great find - I love it!
- 20 April, 2012 13:24
- Anonymous said...
Why does it say 3:33 when it happens?
- 12 June, 2012 08:08
- U2 Sermons said...
The most usual answer about why 3:33 is that, as we know was done on the cover of "All That You Can't Leave Behind," the number is a reference to Jeremiah 33:3.
- 12 June, 2012 08:24


text: This is a type of maple that was planted by early settlers in the prairie lands of the United States as a shade tree. The tree is used for maple syrup production, and the plain wood is sometimes used for making crates or furniture. This stock is from a burl (tree cancer) that has been dyed wine under intense pressure. Please note that due to the nature of the dying process the results can vary from more solid wine to the variegated pattern shown here. They all make for a beautiful set of dice.


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Civilian Occupation is the name of a banned exhibition catalogue, which was later published as a book in 2003, edited by Rafi Segal and Eyal Weizman. The original exhibition entitled, 'The Politics of Israeli Architecture', was prepared in response to an open architectural competition organised by the Israeli Association of United Architects (IAUA). The exhibition was to be their contribution to the International Union of Architect's congress which was held in Berlin in 2002. Segal and Weizman's response explored the role of architecture in the continuing occupation of Palestine and the politics of the Middle East. The IAUA objected to the proposal and withdrew support from the exhibition citing budgetary concerns; they also destroyed the five thousand copies of the exhibition catalogue which had already been published.
The book, A Civilian Occupation, finally brought this work into the public sphere. In it Israeli architects, writers, photographers, journalists and a film maker reflect on the spatial dimension of the Israeli occupation, exploring the ways in which specific architectural strategies have been used to control territory and to wield power. The essays are accompanied by maps, photographs and statistical data that reveal in detail the complicity of architectural practice in the occupation, from the strategic placement of settlements on hilltops that act as fortresses to survey the Palestinian villages below, to the role of infrastructure such as bypass roads in fragmenting Palestinian territory. The exhibition also included a map produced by Weizman, in collaboration with the Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem, which showed for the first time all the Palestinian villages located in the West Bank alongside the Israeli settlements. The latter are usually represented as points but through mapping their precise locations, size and spatial form, the map revealed them to be carefully designed to achieve certain strategic goals such as bisecting a road or surrounding a Palestinian village. It also revealed how the settlements have managed to completely fragment Palestinian territory whilst only occupying a small fraction of the land.
The book thus shows clearly and in great detail how architecture is never an isolated or neutral profession and whilst the Israeli case may be an extreme example, the proliferation of urban enclaves, gated developments and evictions everywhere shows the relevance of this work to the profession in general. The interview with Thomas Leitersdorf, the architect of Ma'ale Edummim, the city which has grown to be the largest settlement in the West Bank serves as a warning to architects willing to follow their dreams to build at any cost.
Jeffrey Kastner, Sina Najafi and Eyal Weizman, 'The Wall and the
Eye: An Interview with Eyal Weizman', Cabinet, 2002,
[accessed 31 March 2010].
Rafi Segal, Eyal Weizman and Daṿid Ṭarṭaḳover (eds.), A Civilian Occupation: The Politics of Israeli Architecture (Tel Aviv/London: Babel/Verso, 2003).
Eyal Weizman, 'Introduction to The Politics of Verticality', Open Democracy, 2002, http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflict-politicsverticality/article_801.jsp [accessed 31 March 2010].
---, Hollow land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation (London: Verso, 2007).
Eyal Weizman and Markus Miessen, 'The Wall: Settlement Archeology', Bidoun Magazine, http://bidoun.com/bdn/magazine/05-icons/the-wall-settlement-archeology-eyal-weizman-with-markus-miessen/ [accessed 31 March 2010].
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"The politics of Israeli architecture is the politics of any
architecture. It involves-to paraphrase some common architectural
slogans-much more than 'more ethics and less esthetics':
architecture is not just a magnificent game and urbanism is not
always a gay science. To really appreciate them, you don't need to
commit murder. And if you can't be responsible, don't be
irresponsible, because when more is more, enough is enough."
- Sharon Rotbard quoted in, Rafi Segal, Eyal Weizman and Daṿid Ṭarṭaḳover (eds.), A Civilian Occupation: The Politics of Israeli Architecture (Tel Aviv/London: Babel/Verso, 2003), p. 16.
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"The party is doing well, we're surviving. In the last governor's race we gained a slot on the ballot," Long said. "I really think that a lot of people are starting to become aware of the overreaching power of government getting involved in our homes and our pockets."
Current initiatives of the party include pushing for legislation on term limits and financing of political campaigns. Long believes that these are the two components of the current political framework that are most responsible for breeding corruption in government.
Long is also commander of American Legion Post 1424 and head of the Forest Hills Memorial Day Parade, an event that was on the verge of cancellation three years ago before the local Kiwanis Club stepped in to help out with fundraising.
With their help, along with a grant provided by Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz and support from local businesses and private donors, the parade has been able to grow each year. This year's parade will be no exception, Long said.
"We have seven or eight bands, all the schools, churches in Forest Hills and even some from Richmond Hill," Long said. "We have kids from the Little League, baseball teams, football teams, a scout group, members of Holy Child in Richmond Hill and the Church on the Gardens, not to mention students from PS 101 and members of the local PTAs.
"I think we're going to have a great event this year," he added.
As a special feature for this year's parade, which will take place at noon on Sunday on Metropolitan Avenue, Long is hoping to include active Marines so that the Forest Hills community can get a taste of what the Memorial Day spirit is all about.
"I am waiting for the final call from the US Marines to get active people to march from Fleet Week," he said. "We hope to get some active military personnel to participate in this parade."


text: The effects of density on recombination rates are illustrated in figure 9, which shows recombination rate as a function of density for various ions of H, He and O. The curves correspond to temperatures logarithmically spaced between 10K and 10 K, and the dashed curve shows the XSTAR v.1 value. Stimulated recombination can cause large enhancements in the rates at high density, but its effects are dependent on the shape of the assumed ionizing spectrum; therefore it has been excluded from the results until the end of this section for illustrative purposes. In the H and He-like ions the lowering of the continuum is apparent at moderate densities, and the effect of 3-body recombination is apparent in H I and He I at the highest densities. This is an illustration of the fact that, at a given density, 3 body recombination is greater for ions with lower free charge, and is greater at lower temperature ([Bautista and Kallman 2000]). The calculations shown in this figure were done at a fixed ionization parameter of log()=2 with an ionizing continuum. As a result the lower ionization stages, of oxygen, O I, O II, and O III have low abundance and are not included in the full multilevel matrix calculation and their recombination rates are treated using the total rates shown in figure 3. Other ions show the effects of continuum lowering, which causes a decrease in rate by a factor of up to a few beginning at densities greater than 10-10.


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Acer CEO sent out a warning shot to Microsoft saying it should "think twice" about building its own tablet.
He warned that Microsoft was going to be making a huge mistake and it would damage the ecosystem.
We were on CNBC today to defend Microsoft's decision to build its own tablet. The video is below.
It's certainly a risky decision for Microsoft, but doing nothing is an even bigger risk.
The iPad represents the future of computing and Microsoft has no answer to the iPad yet.
It could sit back and trust that HP, Acer, Dell, etc. are going to step up to the plate and build something that can compete with the iPad, but that's a huge risk. Those companies failed to beat Apple in smartphones. There's no reason to think they can beat Apple in tablets. In fact, HP tried to release a tablet before the iPad and it failed. It bought Palm, tried to release a tablet and failed again. Is that a company Microsoft can trust?
Further, many of Microsoft's big PC partners have been trying to get out of the PC business because the margins are terrible.
The iPad is a high quality device. These companies can't be trusted to make a high quality device that can compete on price.
While Microsoft will certainly irk some of its partners with the Surface, they should take it in stride.
First of all, this is Microsoft's first attempt at hardware. If experienced hardware companies can't beat what is essentially a hardware startup, they deserve to lose. Second of all, it's not like Microsoft is keeping Windows 8 to itself. The hardware partners can still get the software. And finally, Microsoft isn't going wide with the release. It will only sell at Microsoft's stores. That's a small distribution channel.
Microsoft is arguably doing its PC partners a favor. If the Surface is a total flop, then the PC makers can try to figure out why. Or they can ignore Windows 8 for tablets, and just go with Android. If the Surface is a success, they can build on that and release their own tablets.
The only real mistake Microsoft can make is letting Apple take over the tablet market with out putting up a fight.
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text: Loyola receives $1.75 million gift from Mary Catherine Bunting, MSA '64, to create peace and justice studies program September 19, 2013 | By Nick Alexopulos Mary Catherine Bunting Loyola University Maryland has received a $1.75 million gift from Mary Catherine Bunting, Mount St. Agnes College '64, to form the Bunting Program in Peace and Justice Studies, an undergraduate program that will also serve as a host for speakers and events that contribute to raising awareness about global peace and justice issues. Bunting's gift is one of the largest program-specific gifts in Loyola's history. "I am very grateful to Mary Catherine Bunting for this extraordinarily generous gift, which will allow our students and faculty to reflect systematically on the prospects for the peaceful resolution of personal, social, and international conflicts," said Rev. Brian F. Linnane, S.J., president of Loyola. "Her support is a recognition of the growing significance of peace and justice education at the most challenging academic level, and positions Loyola – in accordance with its mission as a Jesuit, Catholic university – to build a truly transformative program focused on peaceful, ethical leadership in an increasingly interconnected and uncertain world." In addition to the new academic program and speaker series, the gift funds an endowed faculty scholar in peace and justice studies to support the teaching and research of a current faculty member who will lead and develop the program. The gift also provides funds to support interdisciplinary faculty workshops and the development of new courses to bolster the program's interdisciplinary focus, along with funds to support summer research fellowships and other research opportunities for undergraduate students. The gift is deeply meaningful to Bunting, who is a lifelong advocate of peace. "We're living in a time when wars start and small disagreements become bigger because people don't respect one another. They don't respect their differences, and now the differences in everything – politics, culture, religion, race, gender – are magnified because the world is so global, so small," said Bunting. "To arrive at peace, we must learn conflict resolution early on, and learn to respect our differences with an open mind. I look forward to the leadership role Loyola and its excellent faculty will take on the forefront of this critically important learning and teaching." Students in the peace and justice studies program will explore the causes and consequences of various forms of violence and conditions of peace from an interdisciplinary perspective. Much like students pursuing Loyola's interdisciplinary global studies major, students interested in peace and justice studies will take courses in a variety of academic departments and be challenged to develop a deep understanding of how to study and promote peace and justice through interpersonal, institutional, societal, and global contexts. Students will examine these issues through theological, sociological, philosophical, historical, and political lenses. A core group of Loyola faculty who are already teaching peace and conflict resolution concepts in their courses initially articulated the idea for a program of this kind, but no funding was available until Bunting made her gift. "A little money going into peace is much better than all of the money going into war," Bunting said. Bunting, of Ruxton, Md., is the chair of the Mary Catherine Bunting Foundation and is a director with the Bunting Family Foundation. She is a retired certified nurse practitioner and was at one time a member of the Sisters of Mercy. She is a 1958 graduate of the Mercy Hospital School of Nursing and a 1964 graduate of Mount St. Agnes, and she received her master's from the University of Maryland School of Nursing in 1972. She holds a Doctorate of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa, from Notre Dame of Maryland University. Bunting has made significant philanthropic contributions to numerous organizations and in 2010 was named Outstanding Philanthropist of the Year by the Association of Fundraising Professionals Maryland Chapter. She is the daughter of the late Dorothy W. Bunting, MSA '29, and the sister of George L. Bunting, Jr., '62. The program is expected to launch in 2014 with support for course development, peace and justice studies workshops, faculty and student research, and development of the speaker series.


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Mills, Leonard lead balanced Spurs past Suns 97-87
Mills, Leonard lead balanced Spurs past Suns 97-87PHOENIX, AZ - FEBRUARY 24: Tim Duncan #21 of the San Antonio Spurs passes the ball around Goran Dragic #1 of the Phoenix Suns during the second half of the NBA game at US Airways Center on February 24, 2013 in Phoenix, Arizona. The Spurs defeated the Suns 97-87. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
PHOENIX (AP) -- Tony Parker took the night off with a sore right triceps. Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili were far from their best.
Yet, even at the end of a long, long road trip, the San Antonio Spurs still had plenty to handle the Phoenix Suns in a 97-87 victory on Sunday night.
Patty Mills and Kawhi Leonard scored 16 points apiece to lead six players in double figures and the Spurs had a successful finish to their nine-game trip - a long annual journey caused by a rodeo back home - to boost their NBA-best record to 45-13.
''It was a great trip,'' coach Gregg Popovich said. ''We were 7-2, you have to be happy with that. I thought the guys kept good focus on the road here in the last game. You know they all want to go home and I thought they did a fine job.''
Tiago Splitter scored nine of his 14 in San Antonio's 35-point second quarter.
The Spurs have developed the kind of depth that they still win when one of their Big 3 is out.
''We've had to do it quite a bit this year as far as having one, two or three of those guys out,'' Popovich said. ''So the bench has gotten a good look and I think they have gained some good confidence through all that.''
Marcin Gortat scored 21 for Phoenix, 16 in the first half. Luis Scola added 15, and Goran Dragic had 10 points and 11 assists.
San Antonio beat the Suns for the sixth straight time and ninth in their last 10 meetings.
''There's always some mental lapse from wanting to get home, but this is what makes this team so professional and how we carry ourselves on and off the court through the entire season,'' Mills said. ''It's pretty impressive just as a player on the team watching how we carry ourselves.''
The Spurs scored the first 14 points of the second quarter, taking a 33-21 lead on Stephen Jackson's 3-pointer from the corner. The outburst reached 25-4 with Splitter scoring seven straight points, punctuated by his three-point play that put the Spurs up 44-25 with 4:53 left in the half.
Phoenix cut the lead to 13 three times the rest of the quarter with San Antonio leading 54-40 at the break.
The Suns never got it to single digits in the second half.
''We just have to be smarter and just continue to get better execution-wise at both ends of the floor,'' Phoenix interim coach Lindsey Hunter said. ''You play so hard and then you make one mistake against those guys and they make you pay. That's what they do. We'll continue to chip away at getting better.''
Danny Green sank a 3 to start the third quarter and make it 57-40. The Suns crawled back to cut it to 72-61 on a pair of free throws by Markieff Morris with 1:22 to go in the third quarter, but the Spurs scored the last six points of the period, capped by a breakaway layup from Mills, to lead 78-61 entering the fourth.
After San Antonio took its biggest lead at 84-63, the Suns scored eight in a row to cut it to 84-71 on Gortat's three-point play with 6:42 to go. But Green made another 3 and it was 87-71 with 6 1/2 minutes remaining. The final 10-point margin was as close as it got after that.
Gortat scored 16 in the first half on 8-of-12 shooting but no other Phoenix player had more than four in the first two quarters.
Mills had 12 points and Splitter 11 to lead first-half scoring for San Antonio.
Parker probably shouldn't have played in Friday night's overtime loss to Golden State, Popovich said, and there was no doubt he would sit this one out at the end of such a long trip and facing the worst team in the Western Conference.
''We're asking everybody to step up and pick up the slack again,'' Duncan said. ''Tony has been our best player all year long and our most consistent player all year long. He's got a little injury so it's great to give him some time off and let him get healed. It was just great to get a win for him.''
The Spurs play their next six at home, starting with a rematch against Phoenix on Wednesday night.
Notes: The Spurs' long road trip, which was separated by the All-Star break, is an annual affair due to the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo. ... San Antonio last played at home Feb. 2 against Washington. ... Phoenix has lost three straight at home by 28 to Oklahoma City, 30 to Boston and 11 to San Antonio. ... Suns G Shannon Brown sat for the fourth straight game by coach's decision. ... Markieff Morris, in his second game since being reunited with twin brother Marcus, fouled out in 18 minutes on the court.


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Operator of Alternative School Discharged Social Worker With Breast Cancer Because It Regarded Her as Disabled, Federal Agency Charged
DETROIT – A Detroit-based operator of a for-profit alternative school will pay $47,500 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged that Evans Solutions, Inc. unlawfully discharged a school social worker diagnosed with breast cancer because it regarded her as disabled, even though she had a solid work record with the company.
According to the EEOC's lawsuit (Case No. 2:09-cv-13016 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan), Doris Bennett was a capable school social worker hired for the 2006-2007 school year. In April 2007, she informed her employer that she had been diagnosed with stage-zero breast cancer. In response, Bennett's supervisor prepared an e-mail for Evans' chief of staff which gave details about Bennett's breast cancer and recommended that another school social worker be hired for the following academic year. Defendant let her go at the end of the 2006-2007 school year, the only school social worker who was not retained.
Such alleged conduct violates the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). The EEOC filed suit after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
As part of the consent decree resolving the suit (entered by Judge Avern Cohn), Evans Solutions will pay $47,500 to Bennett. Evans also agreed to train all of its management personnel annually on the ADA and the other laws enforced by the EEOC.
"We are pleased with the relief provided by the consent decree," said Dale Price, the EEOC attorney who handled the case. "It provides meaningful relief to Ms. Bennett and protections for the employees of Evans Solutions. It also reminds employers that they cannot make employment decisions based on fears and stereotypes about people with cancer."
The EEOC is responsible for enforcing the nation's laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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Iain Neill Reid Appointed as Head of STScI Science Mission Office
The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) has appointed Dr. Iain Neill Reid as Head of the STScI's Science Mission Office (SMO).
The SMO is responsible for maintaining the science infrastructure required to support research by STScI staff, for oversight of science policies and for acting as an interface between the Hubble Space Telescope and the broader user community. Among other activities, SMO manages the Hubble telescope time allocation process, the Space Telescope User Committee, and the Hubble Fellowship program. SMO is also responsible for STScI's Giacconi Fellowship Program, the Caroline Herschel Visitor Program and the John Bahcall Lecture Series.
Reid joined STScI in 2001. During his tenure he has held a number of positions, including Instruments Scientist with the Wide Field Camera 3, and Head of the Science Policies division.
Prior to coming to STScI, Reid held a variety of fellowship and research associate positions at Sussex University, the Royal Greenwich Observatory (at Herstmonceux Castle), Caltech and the University of Pennsylvania. While at Caltech, Reid was the primary scientist associated with the second Palomar Sky Survey. In that capacity, he visually inspected every 14-by-14-inch photographic plate taken on the Oschin Schmidt telescope between 1986 and 1999. These plates form the basis for much of the Digitized Sky Survey, used as an everyday resource by the astronomical community.
Reid's research areas include low-mass stars and brown dwarfs, Galactic structure, extrasolar planets and astrobiology. In particular, he has focused on understanding the stellar mass function at very low masses, and, as a member of the 2 Microns All Sky Survey Rare Objects team, was closely involved in elucidating the nature of ultra-cool L and T dwarfs. He was also the first to use data from the Hipparcos satellite to derive revised distance estimates for Galactic globular clusters.
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MINNEAPOLIS – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that a federal district court in St. Paul, Minn., recently approved consent decrees that settle two religious discrimination lawsuits against a leading St. Cloud, Minn.-based chicken processor, Gold'n Plump Poultry, Inc., and an employment agency, The Work Connection, which referred workers to it.
Under the decree preliminarily approved in the Gold'n Plump case, the employer will add a paid break during the second half of each shift which -- in addition to a break early in the shift and lunch breaks otherwise required by applicable law -- will accommodate the religious beliefs of Muslim employees who wish to pray during the course of the work day. The timing of the added break will fluctuate during the year so as to coordinate with the religious timing for Muslim prayers.
In addition to other related relief, Gold'n Plump will provide $215,000 in monetary relief to a class of Somali Muslims who claimed religious discrimination, including discharge and discipline. An additional $150,000 will be paid to class members under the consent decree entered in The Work Connection case. EEOC attorneys estimate that the total number of individuals receiving monetary relief in the cases after claims processing will be in the 40 to 80 range.
The decree in The Work Connection case has also been given preliminary approval and entered by the court. The EEOC had alleged in The Work Connection case that, in order to be referred for work at Gold'n Plump's facilities in Cold Spring, Minn., and Arcadia, Wis., applicants were required to sign a form stating that they would not refuse to handle pork in the course of their jobs. In addition to stopping use of the "pork form," The Work Connection will offer placement at Gold'n Plump to job seekers previously turned away for refusing to sign the form.
The EEOC held that both companies violated the religious discrimination prohibition of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The decrees in both cases prohibit retaliation by the employers and provide for training and reporting to the EEOC.
The consent decrees were the result of a series of mediation sessions conducted by federal Magistrate Judge Jeanne J. Graham of the St. Paul Division of U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota and by retired federal Magistrate Judge Jonathan G. Lebedoff. The EEOC joined the mediation as part of the conciliation process. Final approval and entry by the court of the consent decrees will occur after claims for relief are processed, and the court approves individual monetary distributions.
"Both of these cases reflect the EEOC's determination, especially in this post-9/11 era, to be sensitive to the high level of religious diversity in the American labor force and to assure that all employers and employees do their best to accommodate our rich tapestry of religious beliefs and practices," said Ronald S. Cooper, the EEOC's General Counsel in Washington, D.C. "We are especially pleased that the employers shared our determination to reach a just and equitable result and that everyone will be able to avoid the burdens and delay of protracted litigation."
Cooper noted that the EEOC participates in the Interagency Workgroup on Arab, Muslim, Sikh, and South Asian American Communities convened by the U.S. Department of Justice to address issues of concern to those communities in the wake of the events of 9/11.
John Hendrickson, the EEOC regional attorney for the Chicago District, which includes Minnesota, added, "These were complicated cases in which real differences posed real challenges. But everyone came to the table with the goal of finding a solution which would accommodate the needs of Gold'n Plump and The Work Connection to continue to conduct business and, at the same time, respect and accommodate the sincerely held religious beliefs and practices of their employees. In the end, cooperation and common sense prevailed, and today's consent decrees are the result."
The EEOC's lawsuits were filed Sept. 8, 2008, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, St. Paul Division. (EEOC v. Gold'n Plump Poultry, Inc., 0:08-cv-05136-DSD-JJG; EEOC v. The Work Connection, 0:08-cv-05137-DSD-JJG). The EEOC cases are docketed as related cases to a private case previously filed in the same court by certain of the class members. (Aware Daud, et al. v. Gold'n Plump Poultry, Inc. and The Work Connection, 0:06-cv-04013-DSD-JJG). In addition to Hendrickson, the EEOC was represented by Associate Regional Attorney Jean Kamp and Nicholas Pladson, an EEOC trial attorney in the Minneapolis Area Office.
On July 22, 2008, the EEOC issued a new Compliance Manual Section regarding religious discrimination, harassment and accommodation. The EEOC issued this section in response to an increase in charges of religious discrimination, increased religious diversity in the United States, and requests for guidance from stakeholders and agency personnel investigating and litigating claims of religious discrimination. Religious discrimination charge filings with the EEOC nationwide have risen substantially over the past 15 years, doubling from 1,388 in Fiscal Year 1992 to a record level of 2,880 in FY 2007.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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Hubble Captures Galaxy in the Making
Images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have provided a dramatic glimpse of a large and massive galaxy under assembly by the merging of smaller, lighter galaxies. Astrophysicists believe that this is the way galaxies grew in the young universe. Now, Hubble observations of the radio galaxy MRC 1138-262, nicknamed the "Spiderweb Galaxy" show dozens of star-forming satellite galaxies as individual clumpy features in the process of merging. A radio galaxy emits more of its energy in the form of long-wavelength radiation (radio wavelengths) than at visible light wavelengths. Because the galaxy is 10.6 billion light-years away, astronomers are seeing it as it looked in the universe's early formative years, only 3 billion years after the Big Bang.
A striking feature of the Spiderweb Galaxy is the presence of several faint, small linear galaxies within the merging structure. The complexity and clumpiness agree with predictions of hierarchical galaxy formation models. Hierarchical structure formation is the scenario in which galaxies and clusters are assembled "from the bottom up," with small building blocks merging to form the larger structures. It also supports the assumption that distant powerful radio galaxies represent the merging of smaller star systems to create the giant galaxies seen at the centers of galaxy clusters in our own cosmic neighborhood. The Hubble provides a unique real-world example for simulations of forming dominant cluster galaxies.
The Spiderweb Galaxy is located in the southern constellation of Hydra (the water snake), and is one of the most massive galaxies known.
This result was published in the October 10, 2006 issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters by G. Miley, R. Overzier, M. Franx, H. Röttgering and E. Helder (Leiden University), A. Zirm, H. Ford (Johns Hopkins University), J. Kurk (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg), L. Pentericci (INAF Osservatorio di Roma), J. Blakeslee (Washington State University), G. Illingworth (Lick Observatory), M. Postman (STScI), P. Rosati (European Southern Observatory) and B. Venemans (Institute for Astronomy, Cambridge).
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WelcomeWelcome to the Beaufort Gyre Exploration Project website. On these pages you will find a wealth of information about oceanography on top of the world. The site contains the following sections:
Overview: learn about the experiment and the scientists
Methods: examine the tools scientists use to study the Arctic Ocean
Expeditions: read dispatches and view photos from the research cruises
Data: access buoy and model data
Results: see the most recent scientific results
History: discover the history of Arctic exploration and science
A climate out of balance...Ice, ocean, atmosphere. These three components constitute the health of the Arctic climate. At the heart of this system is one of the least studied bodies of water on the planet: the Beaufort Gyre, a slowly swirling bowl of icy water north of Alaska ten times the size of Lake Michigan.
Recent observations suggest that because of global warming, the natural rhythms of the Beaufort Gyre have been tipped out of balance. To find out what this means for the future of the Arctic climate, scientists from the United States, Canada, and Japan will set out every summer from 2003 to 2014 for month-long expeditions aboard the Canadian icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent. They are using an array of newly-developed instruments to measure the environment above, below, and within the floating icepack.
Join the research team on the ice and aboard the icebreaker through realtime dispatches and photos posted to the Expeditions pages.
On December 14, 2013, Russian National Television (NTV) released a new educational film "Cold" (~47 minutes in duration) where our Beaufort Gyre research is described amongst other studies on climate change and extreme weather conditions. WHOI researchers Andrey Proshutinsky, Richard Krishfield, and Lloyd Keigwin are among the scientists interviewed in this film who discuss their investigations to document and understand observed changes and predict future variability in the Arctic Ocean.
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I'm struggling here, I really am. I have a really groovy event to chat about, and I'm torn on what to say. Of course, I could just heap praise on our Lytton Springs site — the phenom staff, the exquisite location, the multiple green-award-winning facility, the wines, the wines, the wines — and of course I could sing the praises of the organizational and community-minded spirit of the folks over at wineroad.com, those arch supporters of, and advocates for, that holy trinity of wine valleys in Northern California that is Alexander, Dry Creek, and Russian River (who are also the folks who are behind the event in question), and of course I could just praise YOU, because YOU have apparently already rendered this event SOLD OUT!
What in blazes am I actually talking about? Why, Wine & Food Affair, of course!
And it's happening this weekend! Ridge Vineyards/Lytton Springs is a proud participant, and if you have any way to get to Sonoma County this weekend — don't rule out hiking, parasailing, transporting, extreme pogo-sticking, sack-racing, or donkeys — then I really and truly do strongly recommend that you attend. And if you didn't get a ticket in time, then you might want to try and find a way to bribe someone who already has a ticket into giving you their ticket. (Bribes really are the obvious choice for the currently ticketless, but I suppose there are other ways to barter. Depending on who you ask … and of course, depending on what you offer …)
I kid! I'm a kidder! I'm just kidding … I'm a kidder.
In all seriousness, Wine & Food Affair is really a kick of a happening, and if you're going to be anywhere near our Lytton Springs facility this weekend, then I really hope you can find a way to participate. And if the Sold Out signs prove to be daunting, well, just write me with a really erudite and compelling explanation of why you should be in attendance, and I'll see what I can do!
You can find all the relevant event specs here, by the way …
Now admittedly, that was a pretty roundabout plug for a fairly straightforward event. Perhaps what I really should have written was the following:
New Ridge Vineyards Syrah/Grenache …
WAIT! That's no fun! Ok, let's try it again … Here are all the WORDS I should have written, but let's let YOU put them together …
Cannellini Mazzoni Lytton Confit Syrah Duck Grenache Soup Sonoma Carignane Northern
And hey, by the way, if you do indeed plan to be on hand to dig the festivities, and if you really want to fully swim in the social media stream, then I should tell you that the Twitterisciously Hashtagged virtual nom-de-plume is as follows: #WAFA10 … (and if you're tasting Ridge wines, don't forget to include #ridgewine in your tweet!)
And all THAT said, don't let the on-site specificity leave you feeling left out; if you have a Rhone-varietal Ridge Vineyards wine at home, dig it out, and dig participating in some on-line virtual community tasting! Why? Well, not only will you be unity-planing with the on-site cats and kitties, you'll be joining the jetstream of a particularly special charitable endeavor that Ridge Vineyards is pleased to already be on board with; it's Syrah-centric, it helps young children dodge a disease that really should no longer still be considered a threat, and it involves drinking wine. Problem? No, of course not …
I'm talkin' Pneumonia's Last Syrah, people!
More on this in the next post, but for the time being, back to Wine & Food Affair. The gist of it is that we'll be pouring a rippingly delightful selection of wines, and those wines are going to be paired with a delectable in-house-crafted dish created specifically for its contribution to the food & wine pairing paradigm, and if you already have a ticket, then don't miss the Lytton Springs contribution, and if you don't have a ticket, but will be in the area, then get ahold of me for some velvet rope mojo (don't forget,erudite and compelling!), and if you don't have a ticket and aren't in the area, but want to join in the tasting festivities on-line, then pull some Ridge from your cellar, and join us for some virtual tasting via the hashtags noted above! (#WAFA10 and #ridgewine) …
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