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Longtime Lindenwood University music professor Groff Bittner, a mainstay on the historic St. Charles campus for more than 40 years, carried the mace and lead the faculty into commencement for the final time on May 19.
Bittner received emeritus status at the commencement ceremony. He was honored by faculty and staff at a reception May 9.
"I am moved by all this attention," said Bittner. "I really don't want to make a fuss. I guess I would just as soon be like McArthur and fade away."
Bittner, 71, of St. Charles, says he won't retire completely. He's looking at working part-time as a piano instructor.
"And I'll keep playing at the horse shows all over the country," he said. "I've been doing that for years. I started it when my wife, Fern, ran the equestrian program here at Lindenwood."
Bittner started as a full-time faculty member at Lindenwood in 1961. He has taught numerous classes--fundamentals of music, private piano, music theory, orchestration and arranging, elementary and secondary music methods and class piano.
He has played in numerous musicals at Lindenwood, including "Robber Bride Groom" and "Kiss Me, Kate" and for 25 consecutive years, performed a recital at Lindenwood. He won the St. Louis Artist Presentation Award, which including playing a concert at the St. Louis Art Museum, and has performed recitals all over the state.
"Groff has thousands of students and grand-students and even great-grand students all over the country," said Marsha Parker, dean of fine and performing arts at Lindenwood. ""He is perpetuating the love and mastery of keyboarding across the country."

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Let me guess. You already are using social media to screen candidates. And you are not alone. According to a recent survey by Reppler, 91 percent of people involved in hiring decisions at their company said they do too.
The problem is that recent studies have shown that this can be a highly ineffective and, in some cases, illegal way to screen candidates, if done incorrectly. People have sued and won settlements against organizations for not hiring them after the organization found information about them on social media sites and then used it to allegedly discriminate against them.
That's not to say there is no use in it. There can be, if done legally and effectively. So what are the keys to screening candidates with social media?
Experts suggest:
1. Have A Third Party Screen Candidates' Social Media Pages:
As mentioned, there have been cases where people have sued and won settlements from organizations they applied to work at for allegedly discriminating against them with information found on social media. For example, if you discover on Facebook that a candidate is a homosexual and you don't hire them for that reason, you could be held liable.
To avoid lawsuits, a better solution is to have a third party – perhaps another person at your company not involved in the hire – look at candidates' social media pages for you. Then, they can provide you just the information that you can legally use in your hiring decision. After all, public Facebook posts are public, and they are fair game to use, so long as you are not using them to illegally discriminating against a candidate.
The third party can provide you with just the information you can legally use in your hiring decision: their public status updates, their tweets, their LinkedIn profile, etc. However, that person could filter out certain information that a candidate could argue you used to illegally discriminate against them, such as their sexual preference, age, any health or mental conditions, etc.
2. Look For The Right Things
Okay, so what should you look for in social media profiles? Certainly, a candidate who is posting pictures of themselves using alcohol or drugs should be immediately eliminated, right? Well, not necessarily.
A 2013 study North Carolina State University study showed that people who post pictures of themselves using alcohol or drugs on Facebook were more likely to be extroverted than people who didn't and there was no correlation between people who posted pictures of themselves using alcohol on Facebook and conscientiousness. The lesson was if you were looking for a salesperson, a job that requires someone to be extroverted, and if you eliminated candidates who posted pictures of themselves drinking alcohol on social media, you would actually decrease the chances of hiring the right person.
The study did conclude though that there was a negative correlation between conscientious people and people who badmouthed others or organizations on Facebook, i.e. people who are negative on Facebook are hard to get along with. So perhaps it is better to look at the personality of the person's social media pages than the content itself.
3. Don't "Friend" Candidates
Public posts are public and fair game. Private posts, on the other hand, are private. If a candidate has a private Facebook or Twitter account, as an example, it is not recommended to try to "friend" those candidates or to set up a fake account to "friend" those candidates.
If the candidate has a private account, perhaps the takeaway is that they are smart enough to keep them out of public view.
4. Create A Social Media Policy
The last and most important tip. Create a social media screening policy that describes exactly how you will view candidate social media pages during the hiring process and make all of the employees at your organization follow it. If necessary, have an attorney look it over to ensure everything is legal. Otherwise, you could be eliminating the wrong people or, worse off, setting yourself up for a lawsuit.
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Thanks, Paul. This is very thoughtful and pragmatic.
You've shown us that the goal is not to avoid discrimination, but to discriminate in a way in which our masters cannot be sued...You have learned much of the value of the Dark Side, young Jedi.
Flipping through photo albums sounds legit. I agree that anything publicly posted online is public information.
But seriously what does that have to do with anyone's qualifications to do any particular job?
It amazes me that people actually believe they can determine someone's personality and/or anything else that could be remotely relevant to use as hiring criteria from viewing FB or any other social site. Who has that much time on their hands to go snooping around like that?
I don't agree with having a third party review their social media presence. That's just sneaky. I agree with Kelly, also, the fb posts have very little to do with their qualifications, especially if recruiters are doing their job!
@ Linda: " That's just sneaky." Yes indeed, and that's often why they hire us- to do the things that they shouldn't do in a way they can culpably deny doing it.
I don't mean someone from outside the company to look at the social media pages. Instead, someone inside, but someone not involved in the hiring decision, just to get a few basic facts. Again, though, I'm not advocating for hiring decisions to be based on a candidate's social media pages. I'm just saying if you are going to look through them (and many people do), here's a good way to do it.
Thanks, Paul.
IMHO, the resume and pre-screen questions are the best places to get "basic facts" as relates to theri work skills. It comes down to this: the more places and the longer someone spends looking into someone's background, the greater the likelihood thattsomewhere, sometime they did something less than positive in their lives. So, if you're looking to weed people out for whatever reason, then dig as deep as you have time and money for. (That's what high-level background checks are for.) If you're NOT trying to dig up dirt (and/or spend a lot of time, resources doing so), stick to the resume and pre-screen questions up front.


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Executives from Government/General Motors and Chrysler are at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit vaguely holding forth on the prospect of reopening previously shuttered production facilities.
Uh, don't sales have to start heading seriously upward before that happens?
Apparently the Associated Press's Tom Krisher, who has his hands in separate stories on the two companies, and Jeff Karoub, who is co-spokesman -- er, co-author -- of the report on Chrysler, aren't asking that question.
Here are selected paragraphs from Krisher's report on GM's non-announcement announcement:
GM may reopen some factories to meet higher demand
General Motors Co. may reopen some shuttered factories because it can't produce certain vehicles fast enough, its North American president said Monday.
Mark Reuss told reporters at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit that plants building the Chevrolet Equinox, GMC Terrain and Cadillac SRX crossover vehicles and the Buick LaCrosse sedan are at capacity and can't satisfy demand.
Reuss mentioned an idled factory in Spring Hill, Tenn., but stopped short of saying any plants would be reopened.
He said if he does his job right and restores faith in the GM brands, the company could hire workers again. In the short term, he said the company will try to raise output at existing plants.
The Terrain and Equinox are made at a factory in Ingersoll, Ontario, while the LaCrosse is built in Kansas City, Kan. The SRX is made in Ramos Arizpe, Mexico.
Reuss said he will meet with GM's manufacturing and sales executives next week to see if they can figure out how to squeeze more vehicles out of the existing plants for the short term.
For the long term, he said he doesn't like GM to have factories idled.
The models Reuss cites are growing, but plenty of others aren't. A quick review of the detail at the Wall Street Journal's December car sales report indicates that the Chevy Silverado's December 2009 sales barely matched the depressed sales level of December 2008, while the Chevy Impala's December sales were down 35.6%. The company has reported that sales of its core brands were up 13% over November, but its total calendar 2009 sales trailed calendar 2008 by a whopping 30%. Yet there is no evidence of skepticism on Krisher's part, let alone any citation of any real numbers.
In a separate story, Sergio Marchionne of Chrysler part-owner Fiat sang the same tune to Krisher and Karoub about that company's prospects:
Chrysler may rehire workers if sales forecasts met
Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne says the automaker will start hiring production workers again if it sells enough cars and trucks.
Marchionne said at the Detroit auto show Monday that Chrysler Group LLC is revamping its models and will need more engineering and development workers. He says the company doesn't have the manpower at present to accomplish what it wants to do.
He didn't give a time frame for hiring more production workers but says it will depend on meeting its own sales projections.
Marchionne also says Chrysler still has cash reserves and is performing slightly better than expected despite a very difficult 2009.
The same WSJ resource indicates that Chrysler had a decent December, moving over 86,000 units after several months in the 60s and 70s. The problem is that according to an industry observer at edmunds.com quoted in a separate WSJ article, "almost half" of Chrysler's December volume probably came from low-margin "sales to fleets such as car-rental concerns," a percentage of fleet dependence that was probably double that of GM and Ford. This could indicate that the company was desperate to show some kind of decent sales volume after a nearly unbroken year-long string of monthly year-over-year declines of 30% or more. Chrysler's December was down only 4% from December 2008, but its sales for all of 2009 trailed 2008 by a staggering 36%.
Meanwhile, a separate Karoub and Krisher report from the affair notes that Ford is stealing the show, in one case on the energy-efficient turf GM and Chrysler that is supposedly going to be their specialty:
Ford Fusion Hybrid wins 2010 car of year award
Ford Motor Co.'s market momentum got a lift Monday by winning both the 2010 North American Car and Truck of the Year awards.
Ford's Fusion Hybrid midsize sedan took top car honors and its versatile Transit Connect compact van snagged truck of the year at the Detroit auto show.
Last month, Ford announced concrete plans to increase production by 58%. As noted in a previous post (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), Krisher and AP colleague Dee-Ann Durbin, in covering Ford's November sales, relegated that real news to their report's final paragraph.
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If you have doubts that sugar is an addictive substance, a quick search of the Internet should put those doubts to rest. For there you will find hundreds of thousands of sites devoted to sugar addiction, sites that emphasize the addiction is just as hard to beat as addiction to heroin, cocaine or nicotine.
Many of these sites are run by the diet industry, and hence are replete with remedies for this ostensibly overpowering addiction. But even people who have legitimate medical credentials, and who have no financial interest in the matter, seem seduced by the idea of sugar addiction.
Take, for example, Jacob Teitelbaum, an expert on the Dr. Oz show who has detailed four "types" of sugar addiction. Or psychiatrist Charles Raison, CNN's mental health expert, who responded unskeptically to a viewer's claim that she has "a sugar addiction that's as powerful as an alcohol addiction."
After expressing empathy for the viewer — Raison said he "struggles with the same issue" — the good doctor went on to explain that "eating activates the same brain areas that are the primary targets of drugs of abuse," and that foods high in sugar can "stimulate our brain in ways that can become addictive."
Of course, you can always find someone — or some expert — to declare that just about any food is addictive. In addition to academic papers warning of the addictive properties of sugar, chocolate and cheese, there exists at least one paper, published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, attesting to the dangers of carrot addiction.
And that's just food. We also hear of addictions to gambling, sex, shopping, work, television, video games, exercising and just about anything else you can imagine. Indeed, the late comedian Chris Farley, who had reportedly sought treatment at least 17 times before his death from a drug overdose in 1997, was sometimes said to be addicted to rehab.
These claims of addiction, then, aren't necessarily based on any explicit definition of the phenomenon, but are instead often applied to behaviours to which people assign a high priority. Given the breadth and vagueness of this definition, it's little wonder that addiction has been applied to almost everything.
In contrast, psychologists and psychiatrists have identified a number of criteria necessary to demonstrate addiction, or dependence, as it's often called. According to the American Psychiatric Association, addiction proceeds in three stages: First, addicts engage in bingeing – consuming large amounts of a substance at one time — especially after a period of abstinence; second, addicts experience withdrawal — depression and anxiety — if the substance is not available; and third, addicts crave the substance after a period of abstinence, and cravings often continue long after symptoms of withdrawal have abated.
In addition to these psychological/behavioural aspects of addiction, psychologists and psychiatrists have identified physiological aspects that probably underlie them. Specifically, the consumption of certain substances results in various changes in brain chemistry, changes that are at least partly responsible for the bingeing, withdrawal and craving that are characteristic of addiction.
Hence to demonstrate sugar addiction, researchers need to show that consumption of sugar produces both the psychological/behavioural and physiological elements of addiction.
Rats act like addicts
Much of this work has been done with animal rather than human subjects, and the most creative and comprehensive work has been conducted by a team of Princeton psychologists led by Bart Hoebel.
Hoebel has successfully produced in rats both behaviours and brain chemistry associated with addiction, and his work is therefore often cited as evidence of the reality of sugar addiction. But as with all animal models, we must be careful about generalizing his results to humans.
Hoebel's team gave rats 12-hour daily access to food (chow) and sugar water, and then deprived them of sustenance for 12 hours. The behaviour of rats on this intermittent sugar and chow schedule (the experimental group) was compared with the behaviour of three control groups: rats who had access to sugar and chow at all times, and rats who had access only to chow, either all the time or in 12-hour periods.
Rats on the intermittent sugar and chow schedule, but not those in the control groups, displayed behaviours consistent with the three stages of addiction. First, rats in the experimental group tended to binge — to consume several very large meals of sugar, particularly within the first hour of access.
This bingeing behaviour is similar to that of rats provided with drugs such as morphine and heroin, but is markedly different from the behaviour of rats with free access to sugar, as they tended to consume small meals of sugar throughout the day.
Secondly, rats on the intermittent sugar and chow schedule exhibited evidence of withdrawal. When all food was removed from the rats for 24 hours, those in the experimental group engaged in behaviours consistent with anxiety and depression, and also experienced teeth chattering, forepaw tremors and head shaking. This, again, was similar to the behaviour of rats on morphine or cocaine, but not of those in the control groups.
Finally, rats in the intermittent sugar and chow group displayed behaviour consistent with craving: After two weeks of abstinence, such rats were much more likely to press a lever that previously dispensed sugar water than were rats in the control groups. And as the length of the abstinence period increased, so too did the frequency of the experimental rats' lever pressing.
This all suggests that rats who consume sugar can and do display behavioural signs of addiction. And Hoebel's team also found that physiological changes consistent with addiction were present — that rats on the intermittent schedule experienced changes in brain chemistry upon consuming sugar.
Specifically, Hoebel and others have found that the consumption of sugar increases the release of the neurotransmitter dopamine in an area of the brain known as the nucleus accumbens, which is believed to play an important role in reward and pleasure. Morphine and cocaine similarly increase the release of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens, and this is why many experts note that sugar affects the brain in the same way as drugs of abuse.
Evidence unconvincing
Still Hoebel's research has its critics, notably University of Swansea neuroscientist David Benton. In a paper published in the journal Clinical Nutrition last year, Benton noted that dopamine is released, not only by drugs and sugar, but by, among other things, music, humour, winning, attractive and smiling faces, and being in love.
This suggests the release of dopamine is insufficient evidence of addiction; if it were sufficient, then we'd be back where we started, where virtually anything could qualify as an addiction.
Instead, Benton advises that we need to consider the timing of the dopamine release, and the areas of the brain that are affected. And, he notes, drugs and sugar tend to cause dopamine to be released at different times and in different areas of the nucleus accumbens.
Furthermore, and most importantly, Benton notes that the dopamine response to food quickly "habituates" — that is, while dopamine is released when animals are first administered sugar, each subsequent administration results in less dopamine being released. This is similar to the way in which an individual might desire a sugary snack, but upon eating it the individual becomes satiated and eventually loses interest in the food.
In effect, then, you could say that the brain becomes used to the substance, be it sugar or other food. But the brain never gets used to drugs of abuse — dopamine response never habituates and consequently dopamine continues to be released with each successive administration of heroin or cocaine. This seems key to the nature of drug addiction, and represents a fundamental difference between physiological responses to drugs and sugar.
Binge eaters an exception
There is, however, one situation in which the dopamine response to sugar fails to habituate, and this is precisely the situation Hoebel and his team created for the rats in the experimental group. Rats fed intermittent sugar and chow did release dopamine at every feeding, which suggests that they showed physiological signs of addiction to sugar.
However, the control-group rats that received free access to sugar did not exhibit such physiological signs, just as they did not display psychological/behavioural signs like bingeing, withdrawal, and craving. And this suggests that, contrary to what the diet industry and many experts repeatedly tell us, sugar itself is not an addictive substance like heroin or cocaine.
Rather, as Hoebel's team admits, we can conclude, at most, that addiction to sugar may occur if it is consumed in a manner similar to that of the rats in the experimental group — that is, if it is consumed in a highly artificial way that involves a long period of deprivation followed by a period of bingeing.
The trouble here is that most humans — and most rats, for that matter — don't eat this way, and hence the risk of developing an addiction to sugar is effectively nil. Hoebel has, however, suggested that the experimental group's feeding schedule is similar to that of people who suffer from bulimia, since they tend to fast for long periods and then begin periods of bingeing. Consequently, bulimics might be at some risk for developing an addiction to sugar, and treatment for bulimia might appropriately mirror treatment for other addictions.
Yet clearly, bulimics have a pathological relationship with food that predates any sugar addiction, and such addiction, if it occurs, is a consequence of their problematic relationship with food, not of sugar itself. Indeed, the research suggests that those who eat in "natural" ways have little to fear in the way of becoming addicted to sugar.
Of course, many people who enjoy a sugary treat — or 10 — might quarrel with that conclusion. But interestingly, surveys suggest that most people don't crave sugar per se. Rather they tend to crave foods high in both fat and sugar, with a majority of the energy coming from fat. Furthermore, research suggests that cravings for sugary foods tend to decrease the longer people stay on low-calorie diets.
Since cravings ought to increase when people abstain from sugar, this provides further evidence that sugar isn't addictive in and of itself. And it means that despite the claims of many doctors and dieters, being sweet on sugar is nothing like having a heroin habit.
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Here in South Africa, witchcraft is being blamed again for the deaths of some young men, who themselves participated in unnecessary circumcisions. To try criticise even the circumcisions, one is left with the "culture" defense which is worth strongly criticising and opposing.
Look, no matter what it's blamed for, I can almost guarantee that witchcraft probably wasn't responsible. But more importantly, it ties into a general attitude of long accepted traditions, which go against reason and science. JT Eberhard makes some good points. [Read more…]


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Barry Duncan has an obsession that follows him everywhere he goes. "I see street signs, restaurant menus, objects while I'm walking along, and I'm just reversing them all the time," he tells Guy Raz, host of weekends on All Things Considered.
Duncan is a master palindromist. He creates phrases, sentences, even passages that read the same forward and backward. He's been at it since 1981, when he was working at a bookstore in Philadelphia and stumbled onto a book of wordplay.
"I was 24 years old, so I'm sure at that point I knew what a palindrome was," Duncan says. "But when I saw palindromes on the page, I just thought: I could do that. I just felt like something was missing that I needed to do. And so I've been doing it since then."
In the beginning, Duncan's palindrome obsession wasn't much fun. For the first 10 years, he says, it drove him a little crazy. "There was a point in the early '90s where I thought I would have to be hospitalized," Duncan says. "I would go to bed thinking I was missing three letters from the beginning of a palindrome and I could work it out, and I just couldn't. Now I know better."
Duncan is constantly working out new palindromes — not just on paper, but in his head. Strolling down the street, he spots a "Don't Walk" sign. He turns the words around in his head and comes up with "Don't nod" and "Walk Law" — both palindromes. He expands "Walk Law" to "Walk, sir, I risk law." He identifies the "I" as the middle pivot point and then begins to build it out on each side. "I walk, sir. I risk law. I" leaves that last "I" dangling, so he resolves it by adding one more word: "Won't I walk, sir? I risk law. It now."
Once Duncan gets rolling, he can write some of the longest palindromes in the world. He has written palindromes for friends that are 800 words long. He fills up pages and pages of notebooks. He reads them at parties. He writes them for local businesses. But his favorite palindromes are the ones that aren't obvious — they're stealth wordplay.
"When I was in Russia in 1997, I sent an email to a friend and I gave it the subject line 'Part One: Russia is sure no trap,' " Duncan says. "The person never commented on it, so I think maybe it was never detected to be a palindrome."
In 2010, Duncan wrote a palindrome expressing his incredulity that Lost was still airing new episodes on ABC: "No, still? It's not so long? No, Lost on. Still, it's on?"
Duncan says that the secret to writing a good palindrome lies in finding its middle, its center. You have to identify "the letter on which the palindrome is going to pivot and turn," he explains.
That perfect fit isn't just about letters. Finding the word that works, or puzzling through a complex language challenge can be a tremendously rewarding experience.
"I think it's one of life's sweetest moments when we find the people or things that are right for us, or fit us, or resonate with us, or compliment us. And that's how I feel about me and reversibility," Duncan says. "I feel like once I saw it, I knew it was something that was missing. And now we've had a pretty good relationship for 30 years."
Reading Palindromes: A Casual Introduction
By Barry Duncan
If you are new to reading palindromes, here is the best advice I can give you: Read a palindrome the way you would read anything else. In other words, read it forward. If you insist on reading it forward and backward (thinking that you are being clever and sophisticated by following both ends until they meet in the middle), you may become dizzy and confused. Wait. The time will come.
Some novice readers of palindromes are under the impression that the punctuation in a palindrome must be the same in both directions. These people are misinformed. Pay them no mind.
Without too much formal training, you should be able to recognize some of the mistakes made by beginning palindromists. There is the unfortunate stylistic decision to use all capital letters in the palindrome. There is the near-fatal error of doubling in the middle, instead of letting the palindrome pivot and turn. These early efforts are often marked by the use of abbreviations, proper nouns, strange exclamations, unusual spelling and erratic punctuation. The palindromist's goal should be to produce something that is as close to everyday language as possible. Even an experienced palindromist will sometimes find it necessary to employ abbreviations and abrupt exclamations, of course, but standard usage is always preferred.
When you are finally comfortable with the idea of reversibility, it should be safe for you to read a palindrome forward and backward. In addition to being a useful mental/visual exercise, this reversing can also have practical advantages. Perhaps you suspect that the palindrome you are reading was written by an incompetent and therefore you want to make sure that it really is the same both ways? Check it. Perhaps you are completely stunned by a masterful palindrome and simply cannot believe that front and back meet in the middle? Trace away. One effective method for learning to write palindromes is to read palindromes back and forth (with a reversible eye, as it were). Keep in mind, however, that the process may remain a mystery to you even after its mystery has been revealed.
How do we determine the quality of a palindrome? Certainly, the work of an accomplished palindromist will be smoother and less balky than that of a beginner; its cadence will seem more natural. I am impressed when a palindrome contains grammatically correct sentences. While you should be careful not to judge a palindrome by its size — quick and concise is preferable to sprawling and chaotic — a big palindrome that consistently makes sense is a notable achievement. If someone is talented enough to introduce irony, humor, sarcasm or wordplay into a palindrome, that is worth admiring. And one sure sign of uncommon reversible aptitude is the ability to write on virtually any subject; it takes a peculiar combination of versatility and strength to be able to compose a palindrome on demand.
Palindrome writing is an exacting discipline, and a mastery of reversibility is not acquired overnight. If you will continue to work on your reading, and will allow us to work on our writing, I am confident that we will meet in the middle.
Our next story is about Barry Duncan. He is a man with an obsession that follows him everywhere he goes.
BARRY DUNCAN: I'm walking down the street...
RAZ: ...in Boston, where he lives, and he'll see a street sign. For example...
DUNCAN: Don't walk.
RAZ: And Barry? He cannot help himself.
DUNCAN: What I usually think is where will the middle be? Like, what letter will this have to turn on? Don't walk. Don't walk.
RAZ: And after just a few moments...
DUNCAN: Where will the middle be, middle be?
RAZ: ...he's got it.
DUNCAN: I would just say: Walk, sir. I risk law.
RAZ: Which is a palindrome.
DUNCAN: Which is a palindrome.
RAZ: A palindrome. A phrase that could be read the same backward and forward, like, a man, a plan, a canal, Panama, or...
DUNCAN: Some men interpret nine memos.
RAZ: Barry Duncan calls himself a master palindromist. He is renowned for writing some of the longest palindromes in the world. One of them was 800 words long. He fills out pages and pages of notebooks. He recites them at parties, he writes them for local businesses. His obsession started in 1981. Back then, Barry Duncan was working at Encore Books, that's a bookstore in Philadelphia. He was 24. And one day, he picked up a book on wordplay.
DUNCAN: I just opened up to the page or chapter on palindromes. And when I saw palindromes on the page, I just felt like something was missing that I needed to do. And so I've been doing it since then.
RAZ: Now, what's most amazing is that Barry can do a lot of this in his head. Take the first example: Don't walk. How do you make don't walk into like a longer palindrome?
DUNCAN: If I said for example, walk, sir. I risk law. The I is the middle of it. And so you've got walk sir on one side and risk law on the other, then you could build it out from the center. So let's keep I in the middle: I walk, sir. I risk law. I. So you've got that I, I, I hanging, I risk law. I. So you might say: Won't I risk law? Won't I walk, sir? I risk law. It now.
RAZ: That's incredible. Anybody listening to this right now should be writing this down. You should listen to this with a pen in your hand.
RAZ: I need a pen. I can't do this using my brain.
DUNCAN: One of my favorite ones that I've written, just because it was never noticed, when I was in Russia in 1997, I sent an email to a friend, and I gave it the subject line: Part one. Russia is sure no trap. And the person never commented on it, so I think maybe it was never detected to be a palindrome. When the T - I was watching television, this is a couple of years ago, and I saw a commercial for the final episode of "Lost," TV show "Lost." And I thought, my gosh, those people are still on that island?
DUNCAN: That's not over yet?
DUNCAN: So I wrote one, and it's just: No, still? It's not so long? No, "Lost" on. Still, it's on?
DUNCAN: I like the incredulity expressed in that one.
RAZ: What's a secret to writing a good palindrome?
DUNCAN: The key - a key to writing a palindrome is finding the middle, the letter on which the palindrome is going to pivot and turn. Once you get the hang of it, it's a very beautiful thing. And, I mean, it's one of life's sweetest moments when we find the people or things that are right for us or fit us. And that's how I feel about me and reversibility.
DUNCAN: Once I saw it, I knew it was something that was missing. And now, we've had a pretty good relationship for 30 years.
RAZ: Master palindromist Barry Duncan. He spoke to us from WBUR in Boston. He wrote a palindrome for us here at ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. It's over 150 letters long. You can check it out at our web site, npr.org. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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- Yield:Makes about 12 meatballs with sauce
- Active time: 35 minutes
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Romney, 65, is the first Mormon to clinch the presidential nomination of a major U.S. political party, and he doesn't speak often to voters about his faith in any great detail.
His church attendance was on display today in large part because his campaign on Aug. 6 started allowing what's called a protective pool of reporters to follow every movement he makes, whether by plane or by motor vehicle. While cameras weren't allowed inside the church in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, a small group of reporters were allowed to attend and take notes.
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Moving words
Moving Words brings together strands from National Curriculum dance, music and literacy and is aimed specifically at year 5 and 6 students.
I loved making the Jaberwocky because I like working in groups and it was fun being up and about rather than in lessons!
Moving Words participant
Comprising of three 2-hour workshops led by a dance artist and musician over three consecutive weeks, each workshop will be based on a poem agreed between the school and Northern Ballet. The sessions each include a warm up class and creative tasks exploring elements from the poems such as rhythm, imagery or performance. The aim of each session will be to develop dance skills through the study of poems.
The resource pack for teachers consists of lesson plans for all the poems, worksheets, suggestions for working with music and ideas for continuing the workshop material into the classroom along with information on how this relates to the National Curriculum.


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This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.
In addition to the electronic theses found in the ASU Digital Repository, ASU Theses and Dissertations can be found in the ASU Library Catalog.
Dissertations and Theses granted by Arizona State University are archived and made available through a joint effort of the ASU Graduate College and the ASU Libraries. For more information or questions about this collection contact or visit the Digital Repository ETD Library Guide or contact the ASU Graduate College at email@example.com.
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- Reverse Fountain Cytoplasmic Streaming in Rhizopus Oryzae
- Diné Research Practices and Protocols: An Intersectional Paradigm Incorporating Indigenous Feminism, Critical Indigenous Research Methodologies and Diné Knowledge Systems
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The large-scale anthropogenic emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere leads to many unintended consequences, from rising sea levels to ocean acidification. While a clean energy infrastructure is growing, mid-term strategies that are compatible with the current infrastructure should be developed. Carbon capture and storage in fossil-fuel power plants is one way to avoid our current gigaton-scale emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. However, for this to be possible, separation techniques are necessary to remove the nitrogen from air before combustion or from the flue gas after combustion. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a relatively new class of porous material …
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Larry and Erma Thompson have an entire room in their home dedicated to Larry's fish hobby, but it's outside where his love of fish really shines. Twenty-two koi in 20 varieties spend the entire year (cold Iowa winters, too) in a well-kept pond at the couple's home in Cedar Rapids. Goldfish are in a separate pond. Larry Thompson was awarded the Koi Person of the Year for Iowa, a regional award given at the Associated Koi Clubs of America during February's koi show in San Diego, California. The award is a testament not only to his koi expertise, but dedication to the craft and volunteer hours he donates to community projects. Larry gives credit to his wife for her support and the beautiful plants that surround their ponds. "Anything pretty is Erma's," he said. "The functional stuff is mine."
Their home will be one of the stops on a pond tour next weekend. Following is info from the Eastern Iowa Pond Society and other groups holding garden walks next weekend.
Whether you are a serious water gardener, Koi keeper, casual pond owner, want-to-be pond owner, or just plain love flowers and water, you won't want to miss the chance to view the ponds in this year's Eastern Iowa Pond Society annual pond tour, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Sunday, July 12, 2009, rain or shine. As usual, pond owners and club members will be available at each pond to answer questions. They will also have a plant and small art/craft sale at one of the pond locations. This year's tour will feature ponds in the Cedar Rapids/Solon/Swisher areas. Tickets and maps are $5.00 for adults (kids under 12 are free) and are available at all pond sites with all proceeds going back to the community for area landscape and beautification projects. A good place to start might be 131 Rosedale Rd SE, Cedar Rapids or 3682 Douglas Dr. NE Solon. For more information please call Jackie Allsup 319-934-3665 or visit: www.eips.org
Here are other garden walks coming up next weekend:
Friends of Hickory Hill Park will have a garden walk in Iowa City from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, July 11, 2009. The walk benefits the group's stewardship fund for maintenance and restoration work. Four gardens will be on the tour, plus tornado recovery areas on Hotz and Rochester avenues. Speakers will be at each site to discuss prairie plantings, Backyard Abundance and organic lawn care. Start at 1167 E. Jefferson Street to purchase tickets and pick up a map. Cost is $10 per person or $8 per person if you bike or walk to 1167 Jefferson St. Families are $15. To volunteer or for more information, phone 319-338-5331 To make a donation: Anyone unable to attend the Garden Walk but wishing to make a contribution should make the check out to LEAF and mail it to: LEAF, P.O. Box 1681, Iowa City, IA 52244-1681.
The Fairfax Parks Committee will have a walk, rain or shine, at five Fairfax gardens from 1-4 p.m. Sunday, July 12, 2009. Iowa State University Extension master gardeners will be available at the gardens to answer questions. The walk includes the garden of Megan McConnell Hughes, which is featured on the cover of the summer 2009 Country Gardens magazine. Tickets can be purchased at Fairfax State Savings Bank or Guaranty Bank in Fairfax. Tickets can also be purchased the day of the event at the Fairfax North welcome sign at Williams Boulevard and Prairie View Drive. Cost is $5 for adults and $10 for families. Proceeds will be used to buy playground equipment for Hawks Ridge Park.
Also on Sunday, July 12, Project GREEN will have a garden walk in Iowa City from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. If you want to know how to garden with deer, this is the walk for you. Four large gardens at the edge of woodlands are featured on the walk, including one property that covers nearly four acres. All gardens are located north of Interstate 80, off Dubuque Street. Cost is $5 for adults. Children under 16 are admitted free. Start at any of the following sites for a map, which becomes your ticket for the other gardens: Pat and Stan Podhajsky, 3817 Cedar Drive NE; Maggie VanOel, 8 Oak Park Lane NE; Twila and Dick Hobbs, 9 Oak Park Lane NE; Bill and Michelle Welter, 15 Oak Park Place NE. Wear comfortable walking shoes. The weather may be hot and buggy, so bring along a bottle of water and bug spray . To learn more, see: www.projectgreen.org


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The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops apparently doesn't understand the meaning of the word "compromise" or that crazy theory known as "separation of church and state."
Although the bishops acknowledged that the Obama administration's revised contraception plan was a "first step," they still have "two serious objections" to the policy, and they're still planning to fight against it. First, they're pissed that the plan includes a "nationwide mandate of insurance coverage of sterilization and contraception, including some abortifacients," causing "grave moral concern." They're also upset that the plan would require insurers to provide contraceptive coverage for free, meaning that self-insuring religious employers and religious employees would not be exempt from the mandate. These issues, the bishops said, are "unacceptable and must be corrected."
It's unlikely that Obama will alter the plan again, especially because a lot of other Catholic leaders have voiced satisfaction with the changes, so the bishops should start getting used to the fact that, horror of horrors, women won't have spend their hard-earned money to prevent unplanned pregnancies and receive other crucial health benefits.
Bishops call Obama's contraception compromise 'unacceptable' [Politico]


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Curiosity Crew: Lego Mindstorms EV3 - Glenroy Library
During Term 3 learn to build and program with Mindstorms EV3 robots. This is a play-based session with some guidance.
Children will learn about the programming process, problem solving, and collaborating with other children while having FUN!
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In a change of character for the market equity futures are down once again, dip buyers are apparently hiding. Below is a 5 minute chart of the DOW on the left and a 30 minute view of the S&P and its downchannel on the right:
The downside follow through yesterday also showed the change of character with people expecting a meaningful correction, they have shifted to selling the bounces. Frankly I would have expected some sort of bounce by now and think that it still could come later today or tomorrow but we may need to put a little more fear in place first with a good flush, we'll see. It could be that this range over the past couple of days was a sideways wave 4 and there is one more leg lower to finish this wave. A break below /ES 1,155 will mean that another leg lower is underway, but a bounce above 1,175 will mean a correction of the decline.
The dollar is again higher overnight, it is in a parabolic rise towards the top of its channel while the Euro is crashing towards the bottom of its channel. The daily chart below shows how the dollar is getting close to its boundary:
Oil is continuing to correct, down nearly another buck and a half this morning at $78.60. It should find some support around $77 and that may correspond to the dollar reaching its channel top. Gold is just doing its own thing, yesterday falling and recovering, today is a little higher again.
Freddie Mac needs another $10.6 billion of your money, no biggie in the media, mere pocket change.
Of course tomorrow's employment situation report will be significant. All indications are that we'll pick up 120,000 temporary census workers (on your nickel, of course), and that there will be positive numbers all the way around – that's the set up anyway and the "Monster" employment index rose to cement those expectations, here's Econoday:
The Monster employment index jumped 8 points in April to 133 for the biggest increase in nearly three years and the latest indication of recovery for the jobs market. Job postings in transportation & warehousing are on the rise as shippers respond to growing demand and slowing delivery times, and construction showed strength in a sign of recovery likely centered in the residential sector. Retail trade and manufacturing also gained, two sectors that have been showing building strength, as did mining. The data are seasonally adjusted.
Of course they are seasonally adjusted – must have a reason to be able to "adjust" the numbers and not provide the raw data, it's the American way.
Unemployment claims came in roughly the same as last week and inline with estimates, falling from 448k to 444k, the prior week, of course, was revised higher:
Unemployment claims improved for a third straight week but far from dramatically. Initial claims for the May 1 week fell 7,000 to 444,000, pulling the four-week average down 4,750 to 458,500. The prior week was revised 3,000 higher to 451,000. Continuing claims for the April 24 week fell 59,000 to 4.594 million, though the four-week average for this reading rose slightly to 4.649 million. The unemployment rate for insured workers is unchanged at 3.6 percent.
Month-to-month comparisons show very little change and are not strongly supportive for expectations of incremental improvement in tomorrow's employment report. Markets are showing no significant initial reaction to today's results.
According to the DOL, "States reported 5,354,259 persons claiming EUC (Emergency Unemployment Compensation) benefits for the week ending April 17, an increase of 153,786 from the prior week. There were 2,279,478 claimants in the comparable week in 2009."
That is still roughly a 3.1 million year over year increase in the number of people drawing Emergency Unemployment Compensation, something seldom reported in the media.
Nonfarm productivity was reported as rising 3.6% in the first quarter and 6.3% year over year. Meanwhile labor costs fell by a very large 1.9%. While that may sound like nirvana if you are a businessman, it is actually quite indicative of a deflationary environment. Here's econoday:
Productivity growth slowed in the first quarter while the recent decline in labor costs came to a near halt. Nonfarm business productivity rose an annualized 3.6 percent in the first quarter after a 6.3 percent surge in the final quarter of 2009. Analysts had forecast a 2.6 percent gain in productivity. Unit labor costs slipped an annualized 1.9 percent in the first quarter, following a fourth quarter drop of 5.6 percent. The market projection was for a 1.0 percent dip in costs.
The easing in productivity growth was largely due to less robust output growth and was largely expected, given the slowing in GDP growth. Output in the nonfarm business sector advanced 4.4 percent, following a 7.0 percent spike the prior quarter. The good news in the report is that hours worked has risen modestly for two quarters, indicating some improvement in demand for labor. Hours worked increased 0.8 percent in the latest period after edging up 0.7 percent in the fourth quarter. While modest, these gains are in sharp contrast to large declines in prior quarters.
Year-on-year, productivity rose 6.3 percent in the first quarter-an improvement 5.6 percent in the prior quarter. Year-ago unit labor costs slipped to minus 3.7 percent from minus 4.6 percent the previous quarter.
Both productivity and costs were a little better than expected. This is good news for the Fed, which needs to see a continuation of subdued inflation pressures. Equities were up slightly on the news.
Equities were not up for very long.
Here's my take. The "miracle" increases in productivity are not what they would lead you believe. Yes, technology and layoffs are forcing marginal increases in productivity, but not anything like the scale that's being reported. That's because productivity is measured in DOLLARS, not widgets. It is based on a trumped up GDP that is fluffed with false inflation figures, financial engineering, and false accounting. Turning on my printer and cranking out instruments of debt is not real productivity, it is Ponzi.
Falling wages against huge amounts of debt issuance is simply not good. It requires income to service debt. The lower the income, the less debt that it can service. The less debt in a debt backed money system, the less money. Sure, compensate by issuing even more debt, that will lead to a loss of confidence and events like you are seeing in Greece. Those events will spread to the rest of the world, you should be concerned – very concerned.
Yet what does the media tell you? Hey, there's nothing to fear, there's a "recovery in bloom…"
Don't fear the VIX
…Yet despite all the hemming and hawing, the market really hasn't been all that volatile. Between the high on April 27 and the low on Wednesday, the one-week swing on the Dow was 404 points.
But year-to-date the Dow is still up 4% and stands higher than it did a month ago. There are still plenty of signs that the U.S. recovery is moving forward.
That's not the case now.
Reality check
Let's compare the recent slide to the seven trading sessions between Oct. 7, 2008 and Oct. 15, 2008. During that period, the Dow ended higher or lower by an average of 464 points a day, and the swing between the high and low was 2,241 points.
During all that turmoil, the VIX jumped just 25%.
A little over a week later, on Oct. 24, 2008, the Dow plunged 312 points as part of a global market bloodletting and the VIX briefly hit an all-time high of 89.35 before closing off those levels.
During that time, the jumps in the VIX clearly reflected what was going on around the world.
Investors were in full-blown panic mode as credit seized up, Congress swooped in to prop up falling banks and signs pointed to the coming of the second Great Depression.
Money was yanked out of stocks and dumped into cash or low-yielding bonds. The yield on the three-year note, seen as the safest place to hide cash short-term, fell to a 68-year low of zero percent.
When the market was pricing in Armageddon, the VIX was in tune with the reality.
Recovery in bloom
That's not the case now.The threat of Europe's debt problems spreading is out there, but it's been out there for months. It's one of the factors that caused the 9% selloff on the S&P 500 between Jan. 19 and Feb. 4. But since that time, stocks have recovered and moved higher. The S&P 500 is currently up 4.5% year-to-date and up 10% since its February lows.
Most recently, European leaders pledged to provide Greece with $146 billion in loans over three years, taking the edge off worries that the nation would default on its growing debt.
That's nice, nothing to fear. Well, there is certainly nothing to fear for at least three Greeks, the rest of us living might want to think about what the central bankers are really up to just a wee bit more…
Oh, and don't be concerned that despite the fact the market has gone up for 14 straight months that the number of new 52 week lows has risen to 44 on the NYSE while on the Nasdaq new lows are outnumbering new highs already. Yeah, that's normal, nothing to fear.
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Thankfully for James Cameron, "Avatar" didn't have to end with most of the characters dying in a boat crash. That leaves him free to do a second movie in the world of Pandora and begin printing his own hard currency. And, in this interview with the LA Times, Cameron explains just what that sequel will entail. It'll be just like the first movie, only set in the fictional planet's ocean. That exploding sound you just heard was Cameron's effects people all having simultaneous aneurysms.
I've already announced this, so I might as well say it: Part of my focus in the second film is in creating a different environment – a different setting within Pandora. And I'm going to be focusing on the ocean on Pandora, which will be equally rich and diverse and crazy and imaginative, but it just won't be a rain forest. I'm not saying we won't see what we've already seen; we'll see more of that as well.
Ask most movie people about setting a movie in water or on it, and all of them will begin spontaneously cursing and breaking dishes. "Avatar 2" won't require any actual filming on water, of course. That'll all be created in post. But creating the effect of water is also a brutal business. The lighting is more nuanced and the BUBBLES! My God, there are bubbles everywhere.
When Cameron first brought the idea of "Avatar" to his effects people, they said to him (according to Cameron): "We can't do this. We'll die." Well, Cameron is nothing if not pushy, and so now he's built an even higher mountain to climb: taking the biggest film of all time, setting it in water, and doing it in half the time for half the price.
You don't get to be King of the World by being reasonable. Expect to get your money's worth on this one.


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Pwn2Own 2013 Google patched 10 security vulnerabilities in its web browser Chrome on Monday - two days before the start of Pwn2Own, the annual hacking contest in which experts race to compromise software to win prizes.
The latest update fixes flaws in Chrome's Windows and Linux builds. Six of the 10 holes addressed are rated as "high" risk, the second highest severity rating.
The updates bolster the defences of Chrome ahead of Pwn2Own, which tees off on Wednesday at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, Canada.
Boosting the browser's fortifications obviously benefits the web giant two-fold: if its product remains intact, it gets bragging rights over its rivals, who will also be targeted in the contest. And Google contributed to the competition's $560,000 prize fund, but presumably can claw back unclaimed cash.
Microsoft battled to secure all versions of its Internet Explorer browser, including versions 9 and 10, by issuing two updates in February that collectively squashed 14 security bugs. A cumulative IE update is a regular feature of the Windows giant's monthly Patch Tuesday, but pushing out two is highly unusual. It's suspected that Redmond's security gnomes may have been thinking ahead to Pwn2Own.
Meanwhile, Mozilla updated Firefox on 19 February, fixing eight security bugs in the process, again possibly with one eye towards Pwn2Own.
Pwn2Own 2013 expands the focus of the hackathon beyond phones and web browser vulnerabilities to include hacks that exploit vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash and Oracle Java. Prizes will be awarded according to a sliding scale of perceived difficulties. Successful hacks against Google Chrome on Windows 7 will earn $100,000, while pwning IE 9 on Windows 7 is worth $75,000 and Apple Safari on OS X Mountain Lion will earn up to $65,000.
By contrast, exploiting Oracle Java web browser plugins in Internet Explorer 9 on Windows 7 earns a maximum of $20,000, five times less than the maximum prize for hacking IE 10 on Windows 8 ($100,000). Tellingly, Java exploits also earn less than a third of the $70,000 prize for exploiting either Adobe Reader or Flash plugins for IE 9 on Windows 7, each of which earns $70,000. In total, $560,000 is up for grabs, a record prize fund.
Upon successful demonstration of an attack, the contestant will be required to provide HP's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) a fully functioning exploit and all the details of the discovered vulnerability. HP's ZDI and Google are the main sponsors of this year's competition. Successful security researchers also gain possession of the kit they've hacked into as part of their prize, hence the Pwn2Own title of the competition. Past winners of the competition include Charlie Miller, serial exploiter of Apple bugs.
Unlike previous editions of the event, a prize for hacking into smartphones will not be a feature of this year's competition.
The third annual Google-organised Pwnium competition, also taking place at CanSecWest, offers a prize fund of $3,141,590 to researchers who can successfully crack the advertising giant's Chrome OS. Details of this parallel competition can be found in a blog post here. ®