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The terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, on the 11th anniversary of 9/11, which left Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead, became a particularly unseemly part of last fall's presidential campaign.
Republicans seized on the tragedy in a bid to undermine President Obama's record on national security. The Obama administration deflected legitimate questions about the attack and seemed to slow-walk efforts to tell Americans what really happened.
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The ugly truth emerged last month in a report by an independent review board that spread the blame broadly. State Department officials had rejected pleas for more protection amid warnings that the security situation in Libya was deteriorating dangerously. Despite its sanctimonious grandstanding, Congress was complicit in the tragedy, too: It had restricted funding for diplomatic security.
Wednesday's long-awaited congressional testimony by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was an opportunity to end the incessant political advantage-seeking over Benghazi and explore the larger issues going forward. Instead, the day-long hearings in the Senate and the House generated more heat than light.
Republicans treated the proceedings as a chance to rough up Clinton, a possible contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, on her way out the door as secretary of State. Clinton is a legitimate target for criticism who deserves a measure of the responsibility, which she has accepted. But some of the GOP rhetoric was over the top, such as Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul's assertion that she should have been fired for not reading diplomatic cables, and South Carolina Rep. Jeff Duncan's accusation that she let the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi become a "death trap" and committed national security "malpractice."
More important, the finger-pointing overshadowed the urgent priorities going forward.
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Another priority is improving diplomatic security in dangerous areas, particularly Arab nations where strongmen have been toppled and near-anarchy reigns. In Libya, the downfall of Moammar Gadhafi has left a desperately weak central government, with heavily armed militias vying for power.
More broadly, the United States needs to figure out the right mix of diplomacy, nation-building and military assistance to counteract the spread of Islamic terrorism in Northern Africa. Is Congress willing to spend money to back up its demands for action? And how does the United States apply the lessons from Libya to other, more critical countries such as Syria and Egypt?
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007
We've Known Each Other for So Long
I got to see my bestest friend, Amy, and her son, Dylan.
Who is quite possibly the most serious and contemplative two-year old ever.
We had a great time running around, going shopping, eating lunch (at Mimi's Cafe and Carrabba's -- both of which have gluten-free menus) and visiting Trader Joe's.
Which, by the way, Trader Joe's sucked ass. They had only two gluten-free cereals and three gluten-free breads (all of which were As Hard As A Rock, I Swear To Gawd). And the employees were rude (assholes!) and unknowledgable.
They did, however, have really, really cheap wine.
Anyway, I had left for St. Louis at 6:30 am and got home at 12:15 am so Sunday was spent sleeping (thank Aaron!) (he's trying to score brownie points before he sets off for a three week business trip) (which coincides over Darwin's birthday) (so he's in the dog house) (seriously).
The rest of the three day weekend was spent cooking...
gluten-free lemon cake and gluten-free cream cheese raspberry muffins (need sunlight for pictures of those) (and I need to choose one to post today).
And now back to real life, aka - dishes and laundry and dusting and cleaning bathrooms and...
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back to 'real life' for us too, today.
who needs real life anyway?
- Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Glad you had a good time! Sorry to hear about Trader Joe's suckiness. But their Two-Buck Chuck is pretty good, even though it's really $3.00, not $2.00.
- Tuesday, May 29, 2007
- PamKittyMorning said...
I am super glad you had some fun. A day out and then a day sleeping is like gold isn't it?
- Tuesday, May 29, 2007
- LLA said...
So glad that you and Amy (and Dylan) had a super fab time. Sorry, and quite surprised to hear about TJ's - I'm no expert since we only recently got them here in the ATL, but I'm just smitten by them totally. Sounds like that one is the exception to hte rule (which still doesn't make it suck any less...)
- Tuesday, May 29, 2007
- Chickenbells said...
mmmm...food looks good. I didn't know Mimi's had gluten free on the menu...I love Mimi's! I hope you had a wonderful time...drink a bottle of wine and get to cleanin'!
- Tuesday, May 29, 2007
- nuttnbunny said...
Wierd on Trader Joe's. They should know better than to provide cheap alcohol following bad service. Pissed off drunk customers = not good.
- Tuesday, May 29, 2007
- MichelleB said...
Real life means you have to clean? Hmmmm - no real living goes on here, then.
- Tuesday, May 29, 2007
- lera said...
Glad you're home safe and sound and had a great time with your bestest friend.
Joe is getting ready to leave me for 2 weeks. I feel your pain. (Although he is not missing any birthdays this time.)
I found Lego fruit snacks at Target this weekend. I thought of you, but your children would probably be allergic to them.
- Tuesday, May 29, 2007
- Chara Michele said...
Sounds like you had a fun time (other than trader joe's)!
Real life = cleaning = Can I just live in my own little world...
- Tuesday, May 29, 2007
- Marshamlow said...
Glad you had a good weekend, sorry to hear Aaron will be away so long. You are so pretty in your picture.
- Tuesday, May 29, 2007
- amy h said...
Sounds like a good visit. I'm glad you got to sleep in and recover -- and prep for that super-long business trip!
Raspberry cream cheese muffins sound really, really yummy.
- Tuesday, May 29, 2007
- Kim -today's creative blog said...
glad you had a great day. Sounds a bit exhausting though.
Trader Joe's did you wrong? I would complain. They are usually so good here.
- Tuesday, May 29, 2007
- Soo said...
That lemon cake looks delicious......yum!!!
- Tuesday, May 29, 2007
geesh girl! does any place ever suit you?? you crab and bitch about every place! it's the law of society... drink some wine and get over it!
- Tuesday, May 29, 2007
that cake looks delish - anything with lemon I say.
- Tuesday, May 29, 2007
glad you had a little escape. i can't decide if getting away for a day or two makes me feel better or worse. you know, because i see what i'm missing! course i wouldn't trade places with anyone, even on the hard days.
going to drink some two buck chuck right now, and yes, they replace the flour in their gluten-free products with buckshot. every gluten-free thing i've tried from there sucks.
- Tuesday, May 29, 2007
- Joanne : The Simple Wife said...
So glad you had a great time with your friend. Aren't friends you've known for a long time the best? And how disappointing about TJs...personally I miss the Fruit Floss popsicles the most...Mmm...
- Tuesday, May 29, 2007
- Heidijayhawk said...
so glad you had a great weekend! sounds like a blast!
- Tuesday, May 29, 2007
So glad you had a wonderful time - and Dylan is TOO cute - those eyes!!! And your cak - YUM. TJ's I only go to for nuts. I can't remember if you are allergic to nuts or not, though I KNOW you are one. LOL.
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This lesson is not about markers over pencils; it is about developing a relationship between students and media and how such nurtured connections can support students' ideas in what they write and how they write it. Through in-class discussions about writing/drawing materials and carefully observing how an illustrator uses media to communicate ideas, students will see how materials can extend knowing. This lesson provides opportunities for students to explore and experience the meaning potential of everyday writing and drawing tools in their own writing. The lesson can (and should be) adapted for older students.
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On Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration said it is expected to relax the ban on use of some personal-electronic devices at low altitudes and on runways, as result of a FAA study groups' review of the agency's policies.
Fliers, long frustrated with having to turn off and stow their gadgets before pushing away from the gate, will be expected to use devices, such as cellphones, tablets and e-readers, when the plane is at a low altitudes, as well as during takeoff and landings. While the study group is reportedly still in discussions over the finer details, cellphone calls are expected to continue to be off limits.
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Ever heard of password masking problem? To be honest, I have not – until I've read the Stop Password Masking article by Jakob Nielsen (somewhere referred to as "usability guru"), followed by a lot of other publications, blog posts and comments (see 'em all); so-called security guru Bruce Schneier wrote even two essays on that.
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In brief, here is the "problem": for years (I think starting from Windows 3.0 released almost 20 years ago), the passwords are being masked as you type them (in most programs what have any kind of password protection, and an operating system itself), i.e. replaced with asterisks or black circles. What for? To prevent the password from being read by someone who stands behind you.


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This set which are numbers 5 to 8 include William Klein: Life is Good & Good for You in New York, Yutaka Takanashi: Toshi-e, David Goldblatt: In Boksburg and Koen Wessing: Chili, September 1973.
To order a set of all four please visit the Errata Editions website and click on the 'SHOP' page to purchase using our convenient Paypal buttons.
A very limited number of sets of numbers 1 to 4 are still available. This set includes; Eugene Atget: Photograph de Paris, Walker Evans: American Photographs, Sophie Ristelhueber: Fait, and Chris Killip: In Flagrante.
One improvement for the trade edition of the Books on Books series has been a redesign of the dustjackets. Although we liked the way the older belly-band style jackets looked initially, in the actual stores they were very problematic. The belly band often slipped to the bottom of the cover throwing off the entire design of the book, got torn frequently, and due to the paper choice - they attracted dirt like a vacuum. Although we had carefully chosen a nicer and more expensive paper stock for the jackets, it just didn't survive well in the retail environment.
So, after careful consideration we have created a new design which is a full jacket on a matte laminate paper which will last longer and can be cleaned.
Since this is a series we are concerned for buyers who purchased a couple of the first books and would be bothered that the next have a different look. So to address this we have printed up a few hundred newly designed jackets for the older books so all of your Books on Books can have the same look. These will be available through our website as a courtesy, with the only charge being to cover shipping costs. See the 'SHOP' page for ordering details.
The newest trade editions seen above should be in stores in the next couple weeks. As always, thank you for the support. Meanwhile I am at work on editions 9 to 12...


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A clip from "Jar City (Myrin)" by Baltasar Kormakur
I watched this film by Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur recently and really enjoyed it. Set in Reykavik, it's a really nice twist on the cop thriller. Yes, Inspector Erlendur the main protagonist is a grizzled, cigarette-smoking cop but he also wears cardigans and eats sheep's heads for dinner.
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It's best to discuss any concerns about chemotherapy and sex with your doctor, who's familiar with your individual situation. In general, however, it's usually OK to have sex while undergoing chemotherapy — as long as you're feeling up to it.
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Ducks' Teemu Selanne keeps focus on 'only this game,' not distraction of a last game
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Thursday had been that rarest of days around the ever-helpful Anaheim Ducks when the team publicists had to apologize for Teemu Selanne.
The 43-year-old Finnish Flash, who goes into the Hockey Hall of Fame the minute he is eligible, if not before — a man who has made devoted friends everywhere he has played, among fans, teammates, club employees and the media — was hiding in the back room, refusing to talk.
Reporters loitered around for an hour after dressing room access and formal interviews were over, sure that the legendary winger wouldn't leave them hanging on the eve of what might be his last National Hockey League game: A Game 7, no less, against the Los Angeles Kings.
But eventually, it was clear: Teemu was, uh, ducking out.
He didn't want to feel the emotions he knew the scribes would be trying to pull out of him. But more than anything, he didn't want the hours before the most important game in the short history of Southern California's hockey rivalry to be about him.
"Well, that's why I didn't talk to the media yesterday," Selanne said Friday morning, acceding to the mob of reporters who waited in front of his stall in the Ducks' room.
"I didn't want anybody starting to think too much about some player, maybe last game or stuff. It's not about that, you know. It's all distractions, it shouldn't be here. The focus should be this game, and only this game."
This wasn't just "some player," of course.
But it's as teammate Ben Lovejoy said Thursday:
"We know that this could be everybody's last game for the season," said the defenceman. "Teemu is incredibly important to this organization. The Samuelis own the team but Teemu has BEEN the team. Forever.
"But tomorrow night, this is bigger than Teemu. This is for our season. We need to be ready to go for everybody. For all 20 guys. For the hundreds of people that work for this team. This is an incredibly important game."
Selanne feels that, too. Feels it keenly.
"Obviously we want to do it for ourselves. I don't want to pick out any one individual more than another. You gotta enjoy this. It's very special," he said.
It might also be the last game for his fellow Finn Saku Koivu, who at 39 has his own maelstrom of emotions to subdue in the twilight of a career that has seen him conquer cancer in Montreal but never hold hockey's Holy Grail.
Friday, so different from his days with the Canadiens when he wore the 'C' and had to appear every day with something to say, it was Koivu who stayed in the back room, letting his teammates speak. He hasn't said that this season is it for him, as Selanne has, but it's a strong possibility.
"It's something that you know, but that's not the focus now," Selanne said Friday morning.
"I try to look at this as a big game. It's funny how it works. When we were down 2-0, if somebody said there would be a Game 7, we would have taken it. Then you're up 3-2, and you don't want it."
No amount of experience can get rid of the butterflies before a Game 7, he admitted.
"It's a little more exciting, and your body feels different, that's for sure, but that's how you create the energy and the passion, and at game time, it's going to come out."
He didn't need it coming out a day early.
The texts and messages from well-wishers flooding his mobile? Mostly unread.
"I've tried not to really pay attention to all those right now," he said. "It's a situation you've got to try to enjoy and all those other things are distractions. You put them aside."
And so for Game 7, he said, there would only be the usual family and friends at the Honda Center, "just normal, nothing special."
No surprise appearance from the reclusive Paul Kariya, who came out of hiding to attend Selanne's final regular-season game?
"No, no, that was already a miracle," Selanne grinned. "I don't want to try to do that twice."
A win in Game 7 would put the Ducks into the conference final starting at home Sunday afternoon. If the Kings were to win, they would be on a flight to Chicago on Saturday with barely a 36-hour turnaround before Game 1.
After going back and forth on which team has the most pressure on it, even the two coaches eased up Friday morning.
"Heck, if you had a choice as an athlete to play one game, I don't think it'd be pressure, it'd be 'Let's go play,' " said Kings head coach Darryl Sutter.
"You know what, I'm just going for my own (experience), if I had a choice of coaching Game 7 (bangs on table) I want it in my house.
"And I've been through both. I lost Game 7 of a Stanley Cup Final on the road, and you always think there's maybe one shift there somewhere that (home ice) could have made a difference in a close game.
"Last year, we played Game 7 against San Jose at home, and it was a 2-1 game. So that'd be me personally, I'd want Game 7 at our rink."
Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau acknowledged that home teams have not handled Game 7 pressure very well this spring. Boston, Pittsburgh, Colorado, San Jose … all lost, and all looked antsy to start their games.
"All the higher-seeded teams seemed to be very tentative," he said, "so we talked a little bit about that."
The veteran players always have an important role in setting the emotional tone. This would be Selanne's sixth Game 7. Even so, he said, he wasn't sure he'd have anything to say in the room prior to the game.
"I don't know," said the great Finn. "In these situations I don't think you need much. Usually less is more."
Boudreau altered Selanne's line at the morning skate, moving defensive-minded Daniel Winnik in to replace Patrick Maroon, with Mathieu Perreault at centre. But he called it "just a little tweak.
"I'm excited," Boudreau said. "Hey, Game 7. The only game in town tonight. I think for hockey people, it's a real exciting time, a real exciting time for Southern California. You either fear it or embrace it. We want to embrace it. We want to go after it.
"When you're drawing up rivalries and you're saying, 'Jeez, I wish the Kings would play the Ducks in a series,' you want a seven-game series," he said, smiling, "with the home team winning.
"I think that's the best way to have it."
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- Check out the list of blogs blogging for the Blogathon.
- Visit them.
- Talk back.
- Create your own blogathon called a visit-a-blogathon and set a goal number of blogs to visit every thirty minutes (or hour) for the whole 24 hours. At a minimum, 373 blogs over 24 hours equals 15.5 blog visits per hour or 7.7 per 30 minutes.
- Sponsor a blog and win prizes and premiums and do some good in the world around you.
- Write about what you are reading, learning, discovering, and even about how you are helping, on your own blog.
- Help them. This is more than an endurance test. It is a brain bender. Writing 48 posts in 24 hours is hard work. They might need help with ideas, feedback, and just "being there". Help them make it through the night.
- Nap during your day, and talk to the bloggers during the lonely hours of their night.
- Play games with the Blogathon blog list. Visit first the blogs which support your favorite charities. Go through the list in alphabetical order, backwards. Print the list out and throw darts at it, visiting the blogs you hit. Have fun with how you visit the blogs. Don't ignore the blogs in the middle or the end of the list.
- Follow through. If you sponsor or make a pledge, follow through and keep your promise. Help make this a huge success. This is not a cause to benefit the one. This is a special fundraising event because it benefits the many.
For all of the Blogathon bloggers out there, you are my heroes and heroines. This is a great thing you are doing. You not only put a great spotlight on blogging and your worthy cause, but you set an example of the good that can come of blogging. Thank you for setting the bar so high and giving so readily of yourselves. You honor us. Thank you.
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You're Not Getting Anything Good for Christmas This Year
As America's Second Great Depression wears on and the Christmas season approaceth, it's time to think about present budgeting, even for the nation's top 10% of wealth. They've settled on a spending figure, and it's even lower than last year.
The American Affluence Research Center — yes this exists, and is likely run out of a home in Lexington, MA and its mascot is a Saab playing tennis — called up 439 folks whose net worth is $800,000 or greater and asked them "How much are you, er is Santa, planning on spending on Christmas, er holiday, gifts this season?" The richies' average answer? A meager $2,370, down from last year's pathetic $2,399. Guys! Only $2400?? What are you, Dickensian Londoners scraping meat off an emaciated goose carcass? You gotta make it rain on the Savior's birthday! 10k at least.
You — all of you, not just rich people — should be paying off Christmas until well into July. How else are your kids going to know you love them? How else will college students get sweet gift certificates? How else will the young men of this country wear new sweaters on January dates? How??? Christmas is the greatest time of the year because it's an insane melee of consumerism that enriches and enlivens even the crustiest and blackest of coal-souls, and all anybody is willing to do to support that tradition, to support the entire US economy, is fist out a measly $2400??
No wonder we're in the hole. You stingy Ebenezers can't do your part to stimulate. You're the prudish girl at the Seven Minutes in Heaven party, basically. No stimulation whatsoever. And you know what? You've broken baby God's heart. Just broken it in two.


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*Starred Review*
Did you know that in its Nov. 25, 2013 issue the trade journal Publishers Weekly gave a starred review to my latest Nero Wolfe novel, "Murder in the Ball Park." PW is most selective in handing out its starred reviews, and I was honored to again receive that merit, which also had been awarded to my "Archie Meets Nero Wolfe" a little more than a year earlier.
The PW reviewer called my latest effort "superb" and went on to say that in the storyline "the investigation follows the dynamic of Rex Stout's originals, with Archie (Goodwin) dutifully reporting back to the sedentary genius (Nero Wolfe) before a gathering of the suspects in Wolfe's West 35th Street brownstone for the satisfying denouement."
I hope readers agree the PW assessment of "Murder in the Ball Park," which came out January, both in print and as an e-book.
You can also find several of my previous Nero Wolfe books on Amazon.com.


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For all the accolades and criticism Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is getting for his attacks on union prerogatives, he has been cowardly in his proposals to demand that public employees contribute more to their pensions. Where's the cowardice? He exempts law enforcement personnel -- cops and firefighters -- from his pension changes, even though law enforcement salaries and benefits are the biggest budget item in local governments and their pensions are the most generous and out of whack.
California Gov. Jerry Brown, who routinely faces criticism for being too kind of public employee unions, has been braver, at least in this regard. Brown went to Orange County yesterday to speak to police chiefs and told them that law enforcement couldn't be exempt from pension reforms. This isn't new for Brown. If you recall last year's gubernatorial campaign, you'll remember the episode when someone in Brown's camp used the word "whore" to describe Meg Whitman in an internal conversation recorded on a police union voice mail when Brown failed to hang up the phone. The context of that insult was: Whitman had included a Scott Walker-style exemption for cops and firefighters in her pension plan, in order to win support from law enforcement unions.
Such statements are not good politics -- getting into fights with popular public workers like cops rarely is -- but it is wise policy. And Brown, for all his failings, deserves serious credit for being one of the few American politicians to speak straightforwardly on this point.
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(A related note: Brown's approach to the budget, to the extent the governor is courting unions, also may produce more than Walker's confrontational strategy -- a point I made recently in a column at The Daily Beast).


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Vail chef Kelly Liken wins Esquire Network's "Knife Fight" cook-off
It's been a big week for Kelly Liken, chef-owner of Restaurant Kelly Liken in Vail: On Sept. 23 she won the Esquire Network's "Knife Fight" cook-off, besting Steve Redzikowsk of Oak at Fourteenth in Boulder.
Liken won the contest with a beef heart tartare served with dandelion greens, plus a Southeast Asian-style shrimp broth that featured raw and thinly sliced beef hear, live spot prawns layered at the bottom of the bowl, mixed with lotus root, crimini mushrooms and dandelion greens.
"The Knife Fight Kitchen was such a high-energy environment," Liken told The Denver Post. "It was easy to get caught up in all of the shouting and the fast pace- It was so much fun. And then to bring home the win made it that much more memorable.
"I had a great time," she said. "I really like to win. It's that simple."
This isn't Liken's first culinary-contest rodeo. She has also appeared on Food Network's "Iron Chef" and Bravo's "Top Chef." Liken, who has run her namesake Contemporary American restaurant at 12 Vail Road for 10 years, was also a James Beard Award nominee for Best Chef Southwest in 2009, 2010 and 2011.
The "Knife Fight" judges were Naomi Pomeroy of Beast in Portland, Ore., Brendan Collins of Waterloo & City, along with show host Ilan Hall.


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text: MC Hammer was out of commission for a while there but he appears to be back in big way. First we saw him in a full-on parody for Monday Night Football, and now he has been spotted enjoying the Microsoft Surface at the TechCrunch 50 conference. If I were the one wearing Hammer Pants in the '80s, I would try to avoid public scenarios that invite obvious jokes—but he seems to have come to terms with his past. [JacobMullins TwitPic via Microsoft Surface Blog]


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A new $4 million collaboration announced today will help scientists in their efforts to produce a new generation of electronic nose, the 'cybernose'.
Researchers in the collaborative Cluster between The Australian National University, Monash University and CSIRO's Food Futures National Research Flagship are trying to understand how simple animals make sense of smells.
The microscopic nematode worm will be central to the cybernose research due to its highly sensitive molecular recognition system, allowing it to sense smell and flavour qualities in grapes.
The cybernose will involve putting sensor proteins from insects and nematodes in to an electronic nose to replace the current generation of electronic sensors that are not discriminating enough.
The cybernose may also be used in future across other sectors of the food and beverage industries and, in the long term, the cybernose technology could be developed to enhance Australia's biosecurity by detecting and intercepting pests and diseases
The Minister for Education, Science and Training, Julie Bishop, has announced the first round of Flagship Collaboration Fund Cluster funding, designed to facilitate the involvement of the wider Australian research community in addressing the critical national challenges targeted by the Flagships.
As part of the $305 million over seven years provided by the Australian Government to the National Research Flagships, $97 million was specifically allocated to further enhance collaboration between CSIRO, Australian universities and other publicly funded research agencies.
The Flagship Collaboration Fund enables the skills of the wider Australian research community to be applied to the major national challenges targeted by CSIRO's Flagship Initiative.
The University Cluster partners will receive $2.2 million from the Flagship Collaboration Fund over two and a half years. This money will be matched in-kind by ANU and Monash.
Dr Bruce Lee, Director of the Food Futures Flagship, says that the Olfactory Pattern Recognition Research Cluster is one of the first Clusters to receive funding from the Flagships Collaboration Fund and university partners.
"This is the first time that we've had a real opportunity to collaborate with CSIRO to build on basic science to generate a potentially extremely useful technology," says Cluster leader, Professor Mandyam Srinivasan from ANU.
"It is very exciting that the research will have applications in a number of industries."
Dr Coral Warr from Monash University says the collaborative cluster is an exciting opportunity.
"It is bringing together Australian olfaction researchers using very different approaches to solve a common problem - how do animals detect and discriminate odours," Dr Warr says.
She says that participation in the Flagship Cluster has enabled her to bring to Australia one of the foremost insect olfactory electrophysiologists, Dr Marien de Bruyne, thus enabling her group to study odorant receptor function in the fruit fly Drosophila in entirely new ways.
"The information we generate about how these receptors function will directly benefit CSIRO's development of olfactory biosensors," Dr Warr says.
Although the applications will be numerous, in the first instance, the group is working with the wine industry.
"The Cybernose will draw on how the brains of simple organisms such as insects and tiny nematode worms process information about smells and tell the difference between related odours," says Dr Trowell, the Flagship theme leader.
"By 2013, we aim to have, in wineries around Australia, a Cybernose that will enable the wine industry to objectively measure aroma and flavour - a more reliable measure than chewing some grapes.
"This will enable winemakers to pick grapes at the time of optimum ripeness and even to tailor the style of wine precisely and so improve its value. This has the potential to contribute $750 million annually to the industry."


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MODE OF VISUAL PERCEPTUAL LEARNING: AUGMENTED HEBBIAN LEARNING EXPLAINS THE FUNCTION OF FEEDBACK AND BEYOND by Jiajuan Liu _______________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (NEUROSCIENCE) August 2011 Copyright 2011 Jiajuan Liu
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|This thesis concerns the augmented Hebbian reweighting model (AHRM) in perceptual learning. The development of AHRM was inspired by two sets of research endeavors: first, converging researches in perceptual learning suggest that subjects' performance may be improved through specific channel reweighting between representation areas and decision units in visual system (Dosher & Lu, 1998; 1999); second, the complex pattern of empirical results concerning the role of feedback in perceptual learning rules out both a purely supervised mode and a purely unsupervised mode of learning, and leads some researchers to suggest that feedback may change the learning rate through top-down control instead of acting as a teacher signal (Herzog & Fahle, 1998). Constructed by Petrov, Dosher and Lu (Petrov, Dosher & Lu, 2005), the AHRM utilizes feedback to influence the effective rate of learning by serving as an additional input instead of a direct teacher signal. In this thesis, we discuss two predictions of the AHRM: one regarding the interactions between feedback and levels of training accuracy, and the other concerning the facilitatory effect from trials of high training accuracy to low ones. Training in a Gabor orientation identification task over six days, subjects were divided into groups of different feedback conditions and levels of training accuracy (or mixtures of different levels of training accuracy). In the tasks with a single training accuracy level, contrast thresholds improved in the condition of high training accuracy independent of feedback conditions, but thresholds improved in the condition of low training accuracy only in the presence of feedback. In the tasks with levels of low and high training accuracy mixed, however, even without feedback, contrast thresholds in the low training accuracy level still improved roughly the same amount as those in high training accuracy levels and/or with feedback. The results are both qualitatively and quantitatively consistent with the predictions of the AHRM, but inconsistent with purely supervised error correction models or purely unsupervised Hebbian learning models. ❧ The AHRM was also applied in modelling the perceptual learning in external noise and helped us to understand several interesting observations: (1) perceptual learning improved contrast thresholds at all levels of external noise in peripheral orientation identification (Dosher & Lu, 1998, 1999), (2) training with low external noise improved performance in high external noise, while training with high external noise did not affect performance in low external noise (Dosher & Lu, 2005), and (3) pre-training with high external noise only reduced subsequent learning in high external noise, whereas pre-training with zero external noise practically eliminated any or left very little additional learning in all the external noise conditions (Lu, Chu & Dosher, 2006). ❧ The behavioral confirmation of the predictions from the AHRM, together with its ability to interpret a range of experimental results in perceptual learning, provides strong support for further developments and applications of AHRM in future research of visual perceptual learning and other related areas.
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It's Tuesday, and that means it's Release Day! Today's release is OMEGA 12, also known as the E17 release candidate. It contains a number of bug fixes, and I highly recommend it.
In addition, I have a special treat for all the readers out there. For the first time ever, an external module for E17 has been released! Yes, friends, it's true. Today marks the first release (v1) of Echievements: achievements for E17. That's right, it's something completely useless aside from testing the recently released Etrophy library. It does track and notify you of your achievements in real-time, however, which I think is pretty neat.
Download it here.
Ticket #2003: E_Config bug [invalid profile creation – user]
Sometimes, using a GUI is too difficult. In these cases, you either know what you're doing or you get the abort().
Ticket #2009: everything stays unclosable
Possibly the most infuriating bug ever filed.
Ticket #2014: refresh button in efm does not function
Now it does.
Ticket #2013: Spanish translation
Those of you who lean en Español will see that their main menus are substantially less gordo when the shot module is loaded. That's right, hablo un poquito Español tambien, perro no estoy mucho bueno.
Ticket #2006: Scale settings doesnt close after OK
Now it does.
Ticket #2005: Either pager or shelf temporary coruption
Shelf config is now more pedantic about hiding the shelf and unpopulating the swallowed gadcon when config changes.
Ticket #2023: Always selected Inset layout on shelves
Ticket #2025: Pressed F5 in EFL, Crash
Another one bites the dust.
Ticket #2026: EFM Crash on Display settings change.
Getting tired of these…
Ticket #2022: EFM favorites doesn't display on pathbar all the folder path
Probably a remnant of the last time I was fixing the toolbar code.
Ticket #2024: EFM cannot distinguish between files and directories with the same name
No longer can a man rename his files into other directories. A sad day for us all.
Ticket #2030: EFM Toolbar Settings
Toolbar position now saved based on last window closed.
Other Improvements Today:
- Notifications are now slightly more attention-grabbing when compositing is enabled
- Locales without a region component are now correctly detected and applied
- .desktop files pointing to directories are now navigable by EFM main view (not sidebar)
- Navigate menu no longer has failure-prone "show files" option