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New Vistas Open with MIDI at the VLT Interferometer
"First Fringes" in Mid-Infrared Spectral Region with Two Giant Telescopes
18 December 2002
Following several weeks of around-the-clock work, a team of astronomers and engineers from Germany, the Netherlands, France and ESO [2] has successfully performed the first observations with the MID-Infrared interferometric instrument (MIDI), a new, extremely powerful instrument just installed in the underground laboratory of the VLT Interferometer (VLTI) at the Paranal Observatory (Chile). In the early morning of December 15, 2002, two of the 8.2 m VLT unit telescopes (ANTU and MELIPAL) were pointed towards the southern star Epsilon Carinae and the two light beams were directed via the complex intervening optics system towards MIDI. After a few hours of tuning and optimization, strong and stable interferometric fringes were obtained, indicating that all VLTI components - from telescopes to the new instrument - were working together perfectly. Two more stars were observed before sunrise, further proving the stability of the entire system. The first observations with MIDI mark one more important step towards full and regular operation of the VLT Interferometer [3]. They are a result of five years of determined efforts within a concerted technology project, based on a close collaboration between ESO and several European research institutes (see below). Now opening great research vistas, they also represent several "firsts" in observational astrophysics, together amounting to a real breakthrough in the field of astronomical interferometry.
New views at mid-infrared wavelengths
MIDI is sensitive to light of a wavelength near 10 µm, i.e., in the mid-infrared spectral region ("thermal infrared"). This provides rich opportunities to study a wide range of otherwise inaccessible, crucial astrophysical phenomena, e.g., the formation of planets in dusty disks around newborn stars and the innermost regions around black holes. However, it is a great technical challenge to perform mid-IR observations. This is first of all because the terrestrial atmosphere, the telescopes, their mounts and, not least, the complicated optics system needed to guide the beams the long way from the telescopes to the MIDI instrument all glow bright at mid-IR wavelengths. Thus, even the most luminous mid-IR stellar sources "drown" in this bright background, calling for highly refined observational methods and data reduction procedures.
Fainter objects with large telescopes
This is the first time telescopes with mirrors as large as these have been used for mid-IR interferometry. The use of the VLT giants at Paranal now allows observing much fainter objects than before.
Sharper images with Interferometry
The distance between ANTU and MELIPAL during these observations, 102 metres, is a new world record for interferometry at this wavelength. The achieved angular resolution is indeed the one theoretically possible with this instrumental configuration, about 0.01 arcsec, better than what has ever been achieved before from ground or space at this wavelength.
MIDI is the first of two instruments that will be placed at the focus of the VLT Interferometer. It is a collaborative project between several European research institutes:
- European Southern Observatory (ESO)
- Max Planck Institut für Astronomie (MPIA) (Heidelberg, Germany)
- Netherlands Graduate School for Astronomy (NOVA) (Leiden, The Netherlands)
- Department of Astronomy - Leiden Observatory (The Netherlands)
- Kapteyn Astronomical Institute (Groningen, The Netherlands)
- Astronomical Institute, Utrecht University (The Netherlands)
- Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy (NFRA) (Dwingeloo, The Netherlands)
- Space Research Organization Netherlands (SRON) (Utrecht, Groningen; The Netherlands)
- Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg (TLS) (Germany)
- Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik (KIS) (Freiburg, Germany)
- Observatoire de Paris (OBSPM) (Paris, Meudon, Nancay; France)
- Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur (OCA) (Nice, France)
The first observations with MIDI will now be followed up by thorough tests of the new instrument before it enters into regular service. It is planned that the first community observations will be performed at the VLTI in mid-2003. Great efforts have gone into making observations with this complex science machine as user-friendly as possible and, contrary to what is normally the case in this technically demanding branch of astronomy, scientists will find interferometric work at the VLTI quite similar to that of using the many other, more conventional VLT instruments.
A wonderful moment
Another vital step has been accomplished as planned towards full operation of the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the associated VLT Interferometer (VLTI) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile, one of the world's foremost astronomical facilities. Indeed, plans had been made more than one year ago for this milestone event to take place at the end of 2002.
In the early morning of December 15, 2002, at 02:45 local time (05:45 UT), a team of astronomers and engineers from Germany, Netherlands, France and ESO celebrated the first successful combination of mid-infrared "light" beams from ANTU and MELIPAL, two of the four 8.2-m VLT Unit Telescopes .
This special moment, referred to as the "First Fringes", occurred when infrared radiation at a wavelength of 8.7 µm from the bright star Epsilon Carinae was captured simultaneously by the two telescopes (situated 102 metres apart) and then directed via a complex optics system towards the MID-Infrared interferometric instrument (MIDI), a new, extremely sensitive and versatile instrument just installed in the underground VLT Interferometric Laboratory. Strong interferometric fringes, well visible on the computer screen to the delighted team, were obtained repeatedly by the MIDI instrument and the recorded data were of excellent quality.
A great achievement
This is the first time ever interferometry in the near-infrared 8.7 µm-band (technically: the "N"-band") with large telescopes has been accomplished and the first time at 100-m baselines.
For this to happen, it was necessary to keep the difference in the length of the light paths from the two telescopes to the focus of the MIDI instrument stable and equal to within a small fraction of this wavelength during the observations, in practice to about 1 µm (0.001 mm). The team spent the first few hours of the night tuning the system, positioning the many optical components and optimizing the various feed-back mechanisms that involve precision-guided mirrors below the two telescopes and the so-called "delay lines" in the underground Interferometric Tunnel [3].
After a few attempts and successive on-line optimization, modulated "fringes" - the typical signature of interferometric measurements - became visible on the screens of the instrument computers, demonstrating conclusively the validity of the overall concept, cf. ESO Press Video eso0236 . The rest of the night was used to further trim the VLTI and MIDI. The team also observed two other objects before sunrise, the young binary star Z Canis Majoris and the enigmatic Eta Carinae - for both, interferometric fringes were convincingly obtained.
The perfection of all of the 32 optical elements needed to guide the starlight towards MIDI for these observations contributed to this, as did the availability of advanced user-friendly control software, specially developed for the VLTI and its instruments in order to facilitate the future observations, also by non-specialists.
Advantages of MIDI
With its high sensitivity to thermal radiation, MIDI is ideally suited to study cosmic material (dust and gas) near a central hot object and heated by its radiation .
In the case of astronomical observations in the visible spectral region, such material is usually hidden from view because of a strong obscuring effect that is caused by the dust it contains. Most optical observations of star-forming clouds only show the dark contours of the cloud and nothing about the complex processes that happen inside. Contrarily, this obscuring effect of the dust is often entirely insignificant at the longer mid-infrared wavelengths around 10 µm (0.01 mm) at which MIDI observes, allowing direct studies of what is going on inside.
MIDI science targets
Thanks to interferometry and the large collecting surface of the VLT telescopes, MIDI achieves unsurpassed image sharpness (about 0.01 arcsec) and sensitivity at these "revealing" wavelengths, promising extremely detailed views, also of faint and distant objects. Clearly, the associated opportunities for exciting research are almost unlimited.
Some of the first targets for the fully operational MIDI instrument will thus include the enigmatic dust rings now believed to be located around giant black holes at the centers of quasars and strong radio galaxies.
Equally interesting will be in-depth studies of those disks of matter that are known to accompany the creation of new stars and from which exoplanets are forming . And with MIDI, it will now be possible to investigate the outer zones of the extended atmospheres of giant stars where the dust grains form in the first place - those complex particles that, loaded with water ice, minerals and simple organic molecules, eventually move into interstellar space and later play a crucial role in the formation of stars and planets.
MIDI - a new and powerful instrument for the VLT Interferometer
The MIDI instrument has been developed by a European consortium of astronomical institutes, under the leadership of the Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (MPIA) in Heidelberg (Germany). Following the installation in 2001 by ESO of the VLTI test instrument, VINCI, to verify and tune the exceedingly complex optical system [3], MIDI is the first of two scientific instruments that will be devoted to interferometric observations with the VLT Interferometer during the coming decade. The other is AMBER which will combine three beams from different telescopes and will be sensitive in the wavelength region of 1-2.5 µm.
The MIDI instrument weighs about 1.5 tons and is mounted on a 1.5 x 2.1 m precision optical table, placed at the centre of the underground VLT Interferometric Laboratory at the top of the Paranal mountain, cf. ESO Press Photo eso0236 . The large cube at the back of the table is a vacuum vessel that allows cooling of the infrared detector and the surrounding optics to temperatures of -270 to -240 °C (4K to 35K on the absolute temperature scale), which is necessary for observations at these infrared wavelengths.
Despite its large dimensions, MIDI has to be very carefully adjusted to the light beams arriving from the telescopes, with initial precision exceeding 0.01° (angles) and 0.1 mm (position). The electronic equipment necessary to run the instrument is installed in a separate room in order to reduce any disturbances from heat, noise and vibrations to the lowest possible level. During the observations, the astronomers operate the entire instrument, as well as the VLT Interferometer, from a building below the mountain top, more than one hundred metres away.
This state-of-the-art instrument is the outcome of a close collaboration between several European research institutes [1], greatly profiting from their combined expertise in many different technological areas. This involves the construction of large astronomical instruments for infrared observations, involving operation in vacuum and at low temperatures (MPIA in Heidelberg, Germany), designing and manufacturing optics for the extreme cryogenic environment (ASTRON in Dwingeloo, The Netherlands), designing and creating the complex software needed to run the instrument in a user-friendly way (NEVEC in Leiden, The Netherlands, and MPIA), as well as other specialised contributions from the Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik in Freiburg (Germany), Observatoire de Paris-Meudon and Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur in Nice (France), and Thüringer Landessternwarte in Tautenburg (Germany). This wide collaboration was carried out in close cooperation with and profiting from the professional experience of ESO that has built and now operates the Paranal Observatory, ensuring the proper interfacing between MIDI and the VLTI needed for high-performance interferometric measurements.
Brief history of the MIDI project
Work on the mid-infraredinterferometric instrument MIDI started in 1997 when MPIA proposed to ESO to build such a facility that would conform with ESO's plans for interferometric observations with the VLT telescopes and which would most probably become the first of its kind worldwide.
Soon thereafter, the Netherlands Science Organization NOVA with ASTRON and NEVEC and the other partner institutes in France, the Netherlands and Germany joined the project. With Christoph Leinert and Uwe Graser from MPIA teaming up to lead the project, more than two dozen engineers, astronomers and students worked intensively for three and a half years on the planning, design and production, before the integration of this highly complex instrument could start at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie in Heidelberg. This took place in September 2001 and was followed by a period of extensive instrumental tests.
Much preparatory work had to be done at Paranal in parallel, to be ready for a smooth installation of MIDI [3]. After a positive, concluding status review of MIDI by ESO in September 2002, the many parts of the complex instrument were packed into 32 big wooden boxes, with a total weight of 8 tons, and sent from Heidelberg to Paranal by air freight.
The installation of MIDI in the VLT Interferometric Laboratory began as scheduled in early November. The first test measurements were carried out during the first days of December with two 40-cm siderostats, the same that were used to obtain "first fringes" with the VINCI test instrument in March 2001. These initial measurements led to stable, good-quality fringes on the bright stars Alpha Orionis (Betelgeuse) and Omicron Ceti (Mira).
The total cost of MIDI is of the order of 6 million Euros. Of this, 1.8 million Euros are for equipment, materials and optical parts, with the remaining for salaries during the extensive planning, construction and testing of this front-line instrument.
Some related technical achievements
Astronomical observations of electromagnetic radiation at mid-infrared wavelengths near 10 µm are difficult, because this is the spectral region of thermal radiation from our environment .
If our eyes were sensitive to that radiation, everything around us would be brilliantly bright, including the sky at night, and no stars would then be visible to the naked eye. Sensitive imaging detectors for these wavelengths have become available during the past years, but to work satisfactorily, they must be cooled to a very low temperature around -265 °C (4K - 10K) during operation. Also the optics in front of the detector must be cooled to about -240 °C - otherwise all images would be immediately overexposed, due to the added thermal radiation from those lenses and mirrors.
In practice, the technical solution to this fundamental problem is a so-called closed-cycle cooler that works with high-pressure helium gas and achieves the required low temperatures on several "cold fingers" inside the instrument. However, the associated moving pistons cause vibrations which must be reduced to a minimum by means of special damping materials and connections for the cooler and the instrument. Otherwise this motion would be detrimental to the sensitive measurements, which require near-perfect mechanical stability, to within a fraction of the infrared wavelength, i.e., to 0.001 mm (1 µm) or better.
Similarly, slight bending effects of the instrument parts during cool-down from room temperature would also compromise the measurements. This has been avoided by manufacturing the support of all optical parts near the detector from one single, carefully selected block of special aluminium.
Still, as the light from the star being observed falls on the detector inside MIDI, it will be surrounded by strong thermal radiation from the terrestrial atmosphere in this direction and all uncooled ("warm") mirrors in the light path. The transfer of the digitally recorded images from the detector to the computer data storage must therefore occur at very high speed, one image per 0.001 sec, and always be strictly synchronized with a modulation inherent in the measurement process.
This requires powerful, highly specialized and yet flexible electronics - this crucial part of the new instrument was developed over the past years at MPIA. With this and many other technical innovations successfully completed, and with the first on-the-sky observations just accomplished to the full satisfaction of the MIDI team, this new, powerful instrument will soon be ready to enter into new and unknown research territory. Hundreds of astronomers in the ESO members countries and their colleagues all over the world are now eagerly waiting to get their hands on this new facility.
[1] This press release is issued in coordination between ESO and the research institutes participating in the MIDI project in Germany (Max Planck Institut für Astronomie (MPIA), Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg (TLS) and Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik (KIS)), in the Netherlands ( Netherlands Graduate School for Astronomy (NOVA), Department of Astronomy - Leiden Observatory, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Astronomical Institute, Utrecht University, Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy (NFRA) and Space Research Organization Netherlands (SRON)) and in France ( Observatoire de Paris (OBSPM) and Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur (OCA)). German-language versions are available from MPIA. A Dutch-language version is available from NOVA.
[2] The members of the MIDI team are listed at the corresponding MIDI webpage. Key personnel: Christoph Leinert (MPIA - PI Project Scientist) and Uwe Graser (MPIA - PI, Project Manager), Andrea Richichi (ESO Instrument Scientist for MIDI) and Francesco Paresce (ESO VLTI Project Scientist).
[3] The progress of the VLT Interferometer (VLTI) and its many parts has been described at the VLTI website, as well as in various ESO press releases:
More information
Information about MIDI and its many components is available at several dedicated websites, including those at MPIA, NOVA, NFRA and FLUOR. Photos are available in the related ESO press releases [3] and in the VLT Photo Gallery.
Christoph Leinert (Principal Investigator)
Max-Planck Institut für Astronomie
Heidelberg, Germany
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Andrea Richichi (ESO VLTI)
Garching, Germany
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Max-Planck Institut für Astronomie
Heidelberg, Germany
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Garching, Germany
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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is hoping to make healthy eating easier for Americans by announcing a makeover for all nutrition labels on pre-packaged foods.
The Food and Drug Administration's proposed new rules would be the first upgrade in 20 years and would include changing the serving size and updating the recommended daily guidelines for various nutrients.
The guidelines will be announced on Thursday by first lady Michelle Obama in an event at the White House.
She has long been focused on getting Americans to have healthier eating habits.
"Folks are really starting to think about what they eat and how active they are, so they're scrutinizing labels; they're asking questions; they're changing what they feed their families," Mrs. Obama said earlier this week.
The new rules, which would go into effect two years after they are finalized, are redesigned to make it clearer for Americans to know how many calories they are consuming.
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Mujica hits sour note in Cards' 6-5 loss to Angels
Edward Mujica's season-opening save streak ended in dramatic fashion with one powerful swing by Josh Hamilton.
Hamilton greeted the St. Louis Cardinals' right-hander with a tying two-run homer in the ninth inning and Erick Aybar delivered an RBI single against Mujica five batters later, sending the Cards to a stunning 6-5 loss Thursday night in the rubber game of their first series at Angel Stadium.
Adam Wainwright, the NL pitcher of the month for June, took a 5-3 lead into the ninth before giving up a leadoff single by Albert Pujols. The three-time NL MVP was 1 for 11 in his first series against the team he spent his first 11 big league seasons with before signing a 10-year, $240 million contract with the Angels in December 2011.
"I tried to get it down and away right there," Wainwright said. "Albert was creeping in on the plate a little bit, and I made a good pitch. It was exactly what I was trying to do and I broke his bat. He's a great hitter for a reason. It's hard to keep a man like that hitless for a series. He's going to get one eventually."
Manager Mike Matheny then brought in Mujica, and Hamilton drove his second pitch into the center field trees for his 11th home run. Howie Kendrick and Mark Trumbo followed with singles, and Mujica (0-1) retired the next two batters before Aybar poked an opposite-field single to left on a 2-1 pitch.
Mujica acknowledged that he shook off batterymate Yadier Molina on the ill-fated pitches to Hamilton and Aybar.
"I made two big mistakes. I didn't follow Yadier on a couple of pitches, and that was the ball game," Mujica said. "He called for a fastball on Hamilton and I threw the changeup. On Aybar, he called for a fastball again and I decided to throw my changeup. I threw a couple good changeups and got two popups so I figured I'd go with my best pitch."
The homer extended Hamilton's hitting streak to nine games, and raised his average to .226
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Wainwright, the only Cardinals pitcher averaging at least seven innings per start, defended Matheny's decision to take him out after 104 pitches. His season high is 120, on May 11 in a two-hit shutout against Colorado.
"We've always liked that situation. He's the right guy in that situation," Wainwright said of Mujica. "He's been great all year. That's what happens when you let a leadoff guy on in the last inning. That's on me, right there. I have to go out and get that guy out."
Scott Downs (2-2) got the victory with scoreless ninth.
Angels starter Joe Blanton gave up five runs - four earned - and nine hits in 5 2-3 innings. The right-hander remained 0-4 with a 5.17 ERA in his nine starts at Angel Stadium.
Blanton averaged 13 pitches through the first three innings while retiring nine of his first 10 batters. But just three batters into the fourth, the Cardinals pulled ahead 3-2 on a single by Carlos Beltran, a walk to Matt Holliday and Allen Craig's homer to dead center field on a 1-1 pitch. Craig leads the majors with a .469 average with runners in scoring position.
It was the seventh straight start in which Blanton gave up a home run. He had a career-worst 11-game stretch last season with Philadelphia in which he surrendered 19.
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The Angels opened the scoring in the third with a two-out, two-run single by Mike Trout, after Wainwright gave up singles to Alberto Callaspo and Aybar, and J.B. Shuck advanced them with a sacrifice bunt.
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Editor's note: The recipe and introductory text below are from_ Fonda San Miguel: Thirty Years of Food and Art, by Tom Gilliland, Miguel Ravago, and Virginia B. Wood. For more on Cinco de Mayo, click here.
Chef Miguel Ravago also shared some helpful tips exclusively with Epicurious, which we've added at the bottom of the page.
This tortilla casserole is a great holiday dish to prepare when you want to use up leftovers. Miguel uses shredded leftover turkey as well as whatever vegetables remain from the holiday feast. It is a reliable dish for brunches or luncheons, paired with a seasonal salad. The tangy tomatillo sauce in this dish can also be used in recipes for other chilaquiles as well as Enchiladas Verdes. Though often referred to as "green tomatoes," tomatillos are members of the gooseberry family.
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- Makes 8 servings
- 3/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon corn oil
- 18 corn tortillas
- 3 medium zucchini, thinly sliced
- 2 cups chayote* or other squash, thinly sliced
- 1 cup fresh or thawed frozen corn kernels
- 2 cups green beans, steamed and cut into 1-inch pieces
- 2 to 3 cups leftover turkey, shredded
- 2 cups (8 ounces) shredded Monterrey Jack or panela cheese**
- 6 cups Salsa de Tomatillo***
- 2 cups sour cream
- 1 tablespoon milk
- Sea salt and ground black pepper to taste
- Salsa de Tomatillo
- Makes 5 to 6 cups.
- 60 tomatillos, husked and rinsed (about 3 pounds)
- 8 serrano chiles (seeded and deveined for a milder dish)
- 4 cups water
- 5 garlic cloves, chopped
- 1 cup coarsely chopped cilantro leaves
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- Sea salt to taste
- *Chayote, also known as christophene and mirliton, is a mild-tasting, pear-shaped squash. Any summer squash can be substituted.
- **Panela is a salty, crumbly cow's milk cheese. Feta is a good substitute.
- ***Tomatillos are often referred to as "green tomatoes," but are members of the gooseberry family. To prepare tomatillos for the salsa, remove their papery husks and rinse away their sticky outer coating. Or, canned whole tomatillos are available under the San Marcos brand.
- Prepare the Salsa de Tomatillo. In a heavy, 6-quart, nonreactive saucepan over medium-high heat, combine tomatillos, chiles, and water; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer until the tomatillos are tender, about 10 to 12 minutes. Drain, reserving 1/2 to 1 cup of the cooking liquid. Working in batches, combine tomatillos, chiles, reserved cooking liquid, garlic, and cilantro in a blender and blend to a smooth puree. In a heavy, 12-inch, deep-sided skillet, heat the oil over medium heat and cook the tomatillo mixture for about 10 minutes, stirring often. Add salt to taste.
- Prepare the casserole. In a heavy, 10-inch skillet, heat 3/4 cup of the corn oil over medium heat until the oil shimmers. Using tongs, submerge the tortillas, one at a time, in the hot oil for about 10 seconds (the tortillas should remain pliable). Transfer to a baking sheet lined with paper towels to drain. Lightly oil a 13-by-9-inch baking dish and set aside. In a heavy, 12-inch, nonstick skillet, heat the remaining 1 tablespoon of oil over medium heat until shimmering. Add both kinds of squash and cook over medium heat about 5 minutes. Add the corn and green beans and cook until just tender, about 2 to 3 minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Arrange 6 of the softened tortillas in the prepared baking dish, overlapping the edges. Cover with half of the shredded turkey, half of the vegetable mixture, 1 cup of the cheese, 1 cup of the Salsa de Tomatillo, and 3/4 cup of the sour cream. Repeat the layering process with 6 additional tortillas, the remaining turkey, vegetable mixture, and cheese, 1 cup of the Salsa de Tomatillo, and 3/4 cup of the sour cream. Top with the remaining 6 tortillas. Drizzle with 1 cup of the Salsa de Tomatillo, cover with foil, and bake in preheated oven for about 50 minutes, or until heated through.
- During the last few minutes of the cooking time, heat the remaining 3 cups Salsa de Tomatillo over low heat and keep warm. In a small bowl, whisk together the remaining 1/2 cup sour cream and the milk; drizzle over the hot casserole when it comes out of the oven. Serve the hot casserole with hot Salsa de Tomatillo on the side.
·This recipe can be made up to 2 days in advance, and kept refrigerated. Follow the recipe up through baking the casserole, but do not add the final 1 cup of tomatillo sauce on top, otherwise the dish will become too soggy. Before serving, let the dish come to room temperature, then top with the tomatillo sauce and reheat in a 375°F oven until warm, about 20 minutes. Check the dish twice during the reheating; add more tomatillo sauce if it seems dry.
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Ten-year old Victoria Lyons learned about the importance of knowing how to contact the fire department in an emergency as part of the Sugar Creek Township Fire Department Risk Watch® Program. This lesson was put into action on March 6, 2012 when she and her older sister Blake (age 13) arrived home and saw a large amount of smoke coming from the back yard. Both girls looked out the window and discovered the smoke was coming from their neighbor's yard. The girls went to investigate. They discovered their neighbor leaning against a fence, his clothing partially burned from his body. Victoria ran back to the house and called 9-1-1. Blake pulled the man away from the burning field behind him. Victoria had learned how to contact the fire department and how to stay calm through the Risk Watch program taught in all fourth grade classrooms.
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Coachability: A Key to Performing up to Capability
When school leaders ask me if their teachers would benefit from coaching, I reply, "All teachers would benefit from coaching, as long as they're capable and coachable."
Capability usually isn't an issue, since most teachers have the potential to be effective. Yet no matter how much potential teachers have, few of them will reach their potential without being open to critical feedback. In other words, they must be coachable.
And a reliable indicator of coachability is how teachers respond when they're struggling. Do they blame their struggles on factors beyond their control such as poverty, parents, or the principal? Or do they take ownership of their struggles? To illustrate, let's look at two videos, starting with this clip of a staged (awesome acting!) coaching conference I discovered on Michael Goldstein's blog, Starting an Ed School:
Patty. Mohammed. Fire drill. This teacher blames her struggles on just about everyone and everything but herself. By contrast, here are excerpts of a conference I had with a teacher who was also dealing with behavior management challenges:
"I don't give them enough structure... I'm not organized... If I'm messing up, it's totally on me. It should be as the teacher.... If we go off task, it is my fault." No blaming colleagues. No blaming students. No blaming outside events. Instead, this teacher takes ownership of her classroom difficulties. This teacher exhibits coachability.
And in my experience, it's only when teachers exhibit coachability that they can perform to their capability.
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Today's online edition of the Wall Street Journal features an editorial piece titled "Presidential Poison." According to the WSJ's op-ed, the Washington torture gang that was responsible for the vile, diabolical water boarding acts in Iraq -- yes, those who were under former Dictator George W. Bush -- should get a "Get-Out-of-Jail-Free" card because what they had done in the last eight years was ethical. After all, these federal thugs were just "acting in good faith," according to the neocon brown-nosing sycophants at the WSJ.
The editors of the WSJ penned the following passage in the piece, which should give more than enough reason of raising eyebrows to anyone who reads it:
Policy disputes, often bitter, are the stuff of democratic politics. Elections settle those battles, at least for a time, and Mr. Obama's victory in November has given him the right to change policies on interrogations, Guantanamo, or anything on which he can muster enough support. But at least until now, the U.S. political system has avoided the spectacle of a new Administration prosecuting [the Bush administration] for policy disagreements. This is what happens in Argentina, Malaysia or Peru, countries where the law is treated merely as an extension of political power.
It gets worse. The news organization tries to justify President Obama's precedessor's actions with these last three paragraphs:
Mr. Obama may think he can soar above all of this, but he'll soon learn otherwise. The Beltway's political energy will focus more on the spectacle of revenge, and less on his agenda. The CIA will have its reputation smeared, and its agents second-guessing themselves. And if there is another terror attack against Americans, Mr. Obama will have set himself up for the argument that his campaign against the Bush policies is partly to blame.
Above all, the exercise will only embitter Republicans, including the moderates and national-security hawks Mr. Obama may need in the next four years. As patriotic officials who acted in good faith are indicted, smeared, impeached from judgeships or stripped of their academic tenure, the partisan anger and backlash will grow. And speaking of which, when will the GOP Members of Congress begin to denounce this partisan scapegoating? Senior Republicans like Mitch McConnell, Richard Lugar, John McCain, Orrin Hatch, Pat Roberts and Arlen Specter have hardly been profiles in courage.
Mr. Obama is more popular than his policies, due in part to his personal charm and his seeming goodwill. By indulging his party's desire to criminalize policy advice, he has unleashed furies that will haunt his Presidency.
In other words, the previous administration's actions were not only legal; they were also ethical. What the WSJ is really saying is this: "Then-President Bush and his administration's actions with respect to their practices of torture (i.e. water boarding) were moral and ethical, and they were necessary to prevent further attacks against American citizens in the U.S. Any attempt to undo the previous administration's decisions will put us in the cross hairs of the terrorists!"
Moreover, those who were critical of Bush's foreign and rendition policies, as the neocons want us to believe, are wrong and off-base to do so because the torture crowd was either giving the orders to have the "enemy combatants" (formerly called "prisoners of war") to be tortured or following them. That kind of attitude expressed by the pro-torture Wall Street crowd is just as bad as a Nazi soldier killing Jews with his guns or putting them in the ovens and then saying, "We were just doing our jobs!"
As LewRockwell.com blogger Christopher Manion correctly put it, the sad truth is that most politicians who "serve in office" or "represent the people" are basically legal criminals who legally steal from us and use the threat of violence in order to get what they want. They can easily punish their enemies and reward their allies in order to justify their lust for power and insulate themselves from any legal consequences, effectively making them above the law.
Partisanship does not and should not have a license to be reduced to a "policy dispute." It just simply means that some criminals legally decide on partisan politics as a career. Besides, the Democrats, according to the Journal, may be implicated as well. It's even suggested that investigations of any wrongdoing by both parties shouldn't be considered at all. If they are, as the statists say, they should be dismissed. It's an insult to the American people that both parties should not be probed even if they are tied to a crime.
And the Washington establishment says "ethics" matter in politics. How pathetic these people truly are!
[Hat tip to Chris Manion at the LRC blog.]
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Last month Niall Horan introduced us to his latest chapter by dropping a new single, "Nice To Meet Ya," and before sharing its official video he gifted us with a great black and white alternate clip that shows the former One Direction star letting loose as he sings. On Thursday (November 7), Diplo released a remix of the song along with a video that upon first glance looks an awful lot like those black and white visuals; however, look closer and you'll realize that's not Horan dancing around — it's Diplo styled in the exact same way as the singer. The resemblance is uncanny.
Watch the trippy "Nice To Meet Ya" remix video below.
Horan is performing at this year's iHeartRadio Jingle Ball in New York City, alongside a star-studded lineup. Fans will be able to watch the show on December 13th via an exclusive livestream on The CW App and CWTV.com. The CW Network will also broadcast the event as a nationwide special on Thursday, December 19th at 8pm ET. Fans will also be able to listen to December 13th's festivities across the country on 100 iHeartRadio CHR stations.
He also plans to head out on the road next spring. Check out a full list of tour dates here.
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Torrington Titans looking to break even next season
Torrington >> In the wake of City Council's approval of a contract extension last month, Titan's owner, Chris Carminucci hopes next season will see the team break even.
"Oh we're definitely losing," said Carminucci, CEO of Carminucci Sports Group, of the Titan's finances. "I think next year we have a chance of breaking even. None of us are in this to make money, but what we want to do is get it to break even or to make a little bit of money so we can put it back into the team."
The Carminucci Sports Group began operating the Titans in 2011 as part of the formation of the Futures Collegiate Baseball League of New England. Carminucci said next year is an opportunity to build on the things they got right last season.
"First year was a work in progress to put it together and make it work last minute," said Carminucci. "We went to the playoffs the first year. It was a good year. Last year, we brought in Sander. He basically got our attendance up and renewed a lot of sponsors. Just the overall feel of the games became more how we wanted it. You know we want it to be fun at the ball park. Last year, I believe we accomplished all that."
Sander Stotland became the Titan's general manager in 2012.
This coming season is all about growth. Carminucci wants to see the fan base grow and said that promotions are already being planned to bring in more people.
"We're going to work with the Little Leagues, work with the Boys and Girls Clubs, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts," said Carminucci. "We're going to advertise more on the outskirts of Torrington too; go into Litchfield County. Try to reach out a little bit more."
Carminucci hopes this season will prove to Torrington that the team is here to stay.
"Adding stability is never an easy thing," said Carminucci. "Time will have to tell and people will have to see that we're there for a long time and they will see that we're committed. That's why we just asked for a longer lease extension."
At Mayor Ryan Bingham's suggestion in their meeting on Jan. 22, City Council voted to extend the Titan's contract for an additional five years.
"That was a big thing for us," said Carminucci. "Really the reason that I wanted it is because we want to stay as long as we can and I don't want anybody to come in behind us. I think that also gives everyone a sense of OK these guys are here to stay."
Another matter that has been presented to City Council, although not at the Jan. 22 meeting, is allowing alcohol in Fuessenich Park. Carminucci said the sale of alcohol could bring in more revenue for the team, and he would like to see City Council approve it.
"I really want to see alcohol at the ball park, I do," said Carminucci. "I think minor league baseball and summer collegiate baseball without beer is a tough sell."
City Council has denied allowing alcohol to be sold in Fuessenich Park before. One reason is that the sale of alcohol could ruin the family-friendly environment that the ball park encourages. Carminucci said he understands the council's reasoning.
"I understand the politics involved," said Carminucci. "We're asking for it but we're not pushing it. It comes down to this, we're not going anywhere. If we don't get beer, we're still going to be there. If we do get beer, the revenues will be higher and would then allow us to put more money back into the team and that would really be the reason behind us wanting to do it."
Bringing alcohol into the park is just one of the Titan's projects. There is always a new project, said Carminucci.
Generally, baseball is a tough business because so much of it is based on luck, Carminucci said.
"It's about business, if it rains, you lose money," said Carminucci. "You're dependant on how the weather is cause your expenses don't change if it rains, it just means you don't get any revenue."
Carminucci admitted that sometimes it is tough but the Titan's will remain vigilant. He said all they want to do is make the City of Torrington proud.
"It's not a business for the faint of heart, I'll tell you that," said Carminucci. "You have to keep working, and you have to hope the weather is good."
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Japan PM's Fukushima remark backfires at home
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's reassurance to the International Olympic Committee that contaminated water leaks from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant are "under control" has backfired at home.
Just hours before Tokyo was chosen Sept. 7 to host the 2020 Olympics, Abe gave an emphatic speech declaring that radioactive contaminants from the leakage had no impact to waters outside the bay near the plant and "will never do any damage to Tokyo."
The Japanese media and opposition lawmakers have suggested that Abe's comments were overkill.
"Contaminated water 'control' running astray," the nationwide Asahi newspaper said in its front-page top story Saturday. "Credibility of prime minister's message to overseas is shaking."
Hikariko Ono of the prime minister's office defended Abe's pledge, citing offshore monitoring results showing undetectable radioactivity. The government has stepped up efforts to contain the leaks.
In a meeting with opposition Democratic Party of Japan lawmakers Friday, senior TEPCO official Kazuhiko Yamashita said the water situation was "not under control," appearing to contradict Abe. DPJ leaders said they will demand Abe clarify his IOC speech.
TEPCO later issued a statement to explain that what Yamashita meant was isolated incidents such as tank leaks and did not dispute Abe's comment.
Japanese officials have acknowledged that the ground water contaminated with radioactive leaks from the melted reactors has been seeping into the ocean since soon after the March 2011 disaster. Recent leaks from storage tanks holding radioactive water have also added to concerns.
The plant has been reporting spikes in radioactive tritium from underground water samples near a major tank leak last month. TEPCO said Saturday tritium in the latest sample measured 150,000 becquerels per liter, more than twice the limit allowed for release into the ocean.
Experts generally agree that overall impact from the contamination gets diluted becomes negligible as it further spreads into the sea.
Lake Barrett, a former US nuclear regulator and an outside advisor to TEPCO, agrees with Abe.
"Now, to get into a little, tiny detail about it, is there a little, tiny bit of runoff that may have cesium in it? The answer is, yes there is, but that's still under control from a public health and safety and environmental protection point of view," he told the Associated Press.


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It's easy to forget that Jose Canseco used to be a baseball player of some distinction and not just a social media punchline. Which got us thinking, how long has this been going on? When did the tide start to turn against the Worcester Tornadoes' newest outfielder?
As far as we can tell, the movement goes back more than 22 years, when Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles hit theaters in March 1990. Canseco was still two years away from cameoing on The Simpsons, and he was still beating the hell out of opposing pitchers. (In fact, one could argue that Canseco was about to have the two best statistical years of his career, outside of 1988.) And yet, a sullen Raphael, tussling with Casey Jones during an otherwise typical Manhattan evening, seems to have set us all upon an irrevocable path of hug-centric business models, Al Gore death rumors, and motivational hokum. Thanks a lot, Raph.


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Must May Show Your Work
As a new teacher, I upheld the longstanding requirement among math teachers that students must always show their work. And like many teachers, I deducted points when students refused to comply. But the more pushback I got from them--"you shouldn't make us work the problems out if we already know the answers"--the more I questioned the wisdom of this rigid requirement. And eventually my message for students changed from you must show your work to you may show your work. Here's why.
A common reason teachers give students to show their work is that "I can't help you if I can't see what you did." But seeing students' work isn't the only way to know what they did. In fact, you can often learn more about students' thinking when they explain--out loud and/or in writing--what they did than when they just show what they did. (See Standard 3 of the CCSS Standards for Mathematical Practice: Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. Also check out Marilyn Burns and her team conducting Math Reasoning Inventory interviews with students.)
A problem with requiring students to always show their work is that it risks emphasizing mathematical procedures and computation to the exclusion of mathematical thinking. The more programmed students are to show their work, the less likely they are to develop mental math and intuitive problem solving skills. I'm reminded of a robot--I mean, student--who was about to work out 2 x ½ on his paper until I interrupted him by saying, "put your pencil down, and look at me." I then asked him what two halves add up to, and he looked back at the problem and laughed at himself as he wrote 1 on his paper.
Another example was when students were asked to determine if the product of .49 and 3.25 was greater than .1 and less than 1. My hope was that at least some students would reason in their heads that the product had to be greater than 1 (i.e., they might have thought something like, "since half of 3 is greater than 1, then .49 x 3.25 must be greater than 1"). But once again students weren't concerned about the values of the factors. They just saw two numbers that needed to be multiplied, and that's what every student did. No points lost for not showing their work, but no thinking or learning either. And lots of time lost when this happens over and over.
Shouldn't we be more concerned when students do show their work in cases like these than when they don't? There's a difference between doing math and knowing math, and requiring students to always show their work reinforces doing math more than knowing it.
Why the emphasis on "requiring" in the previous sentence? Because I'm not saying students shouldn't show their work, but that we shouldn't force them to show their work, much less penalize them when they choose not to. Giving children choices like this is a key to empowering them. If they can solve problems in their heads, great. And if they can't solve problems in their heads, but think they can, that's great too. Let them learn about themselves as learners, and make adjustments--with your feedback and help as necessary. Let's stop demanding that students show their work, and let them determine when to show their work.
(Note: See an earlier post of mine for a clever way to "make" students show their work when you really want to emphasize the problem-solving process.)
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W no HigekiJapanese DramaMako Watsuji (Emi Takei) is from a rich family that surrounded her with an abundance of love. As a result, Mako Watsuji wants to build her life by herself. Satsuki… [More]Status: Completed Released: 2012 Rating: 9.64/10 (56 Votes)
Wagaya no RekishiJapanese DramaThe story takes place between 1945 and 1964, chronicling the lives of the seven members of the fictional Yame family. [More]Status: Completed Released: 2010 Rating: 9.67/10 (24 Votes)
Waiting AloneChinese MovieSet in Beijing, the film is a window into modern Chinese youth culture. Waiting Alone is a coming-of-age tale which tells the first-person-narrative story of Wen (Xia Yu), an antique… [More]Status: Completed Released: 2004 Rating: 7.3/10 (10 Votes)
Wakamonotachi 2014Japanese DramaAsahi, Hikari, Haru and Tadashi are siblings that all live together in the house they grew up in located in Shitamachi. There is another brother, Satoru, but due to something… [More]Status: Completed Released: 2014 Rating: 9.67/10 (72 Votes)
Waking Love UpTaiwanese DramaA poor hotel maid, because of an accident, she falls in love with the CEO of a major company, played, who had lost his memories. When he regains his memory,… [More]Status: Completed Released: 2011 Rating: 9.85/10 (79 Votes)
Walk Into Your MemoryChinese DramaA chef's assistant helps her boss regain one year's worth of memories. Throughout the process, they come to understand, help and love each other. An Ning is a cook who… [More]Status: Completed Released: 2019 Rating: 10/10 (2 Votes)
Walk on Fire (Movie)HongK MovieIn Macau, criminal Tong Heung Tung of the Hunan Gang, who bombed to Hong Kong police headquarters is being back to Hong Kong by Kowloon OCTB inspectors Lee Ho Lung… [More]Status: Completed Released: 1988 Rating: 8/10 (1 Votes)
Wall Lover (Movie)Japanese MovieMaiko is a housewife who does not satisfied with the sex life with her old husband, Shusaku. One day Maiko's student Kaito and his wife, Ayano, move to her neighbor.… [More]Status: Completed Released: 2009 Rating: 5.87/10 (15 Votes)
Wanee and Junah (Movie)Korean MovieWanee and Junah, a couple in their mid-twenties, are living together. Wanee (Kim Hee-Seon) is an animator and Junah (Joo Jin-Mo) wishes to make his debut as a scriptwriter in… [More]Status: Completed Released: 2001 Rating: 8.93/10 (28 Votes)
Wang Mao (Movie)Chinese MovieShaolin Temple to learn martial returned Gosone (Wang Dazhi ornaments) childhood crush Myolie (Ge Xiaofeng ornaments), but he was poor second generation of Yue Zhang (Luo Jingmin ornaments) despise. Did… [More]Status: Completed Released: 2016 Rating: 9.5/10 (2 Votes)
Want a Taste?Korean DramaHae Jin is 36-years-old. She is married to Jin Sang, who is 6 years younger than her, and they have a daughter Yoo Ri. Hae Jin runs a restaurant that… [More]Status: Ongoing Released: 2019 Rating: 9/10 (1 Votes)
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As our population ages, we are most of us likely to fall into one of two categories: the "older adults" who want to stay independent, and the children of those older adults who are trying to support their parents in their independence.
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Speaking of driving, once seniors either drive less or stop driving, their degree of social interaction can decrease significantly, leading to loneliness and depression. Some older adults will turn to social media for interaction. If that's the case, make sure you go over safety guidelines with them. Talk to them about passwords, identity theft and safe social media usage. Then be sure they are getting real-life interaction as well, through activities and family time. Yes, you're busy. But this is part of keeping older relatives safe, because seniors living in isolation have a higher mortality rate.
With the population of Americans over age 65 doubling in just 40 years, chances are we will either be in that group or taking care of that group. Knowing ahead of time how to help ourselves or others to stay safe later in life while still enjoying our independence can be a huge help in preventing accidents and their long-term consequences—that make independence


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Network Working Group W. Luo Request for Comments: 4667 Cisco Systems, Inc. Category: Standards Track September 2006 Layer 2 Virtual Private Network (L2VPN) Extensions for Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) Status of This Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2006). Abstract The Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) provides a standard method for setting up and managing L2TP sessions to tunnel a variety of L2 protocols. One of the reference models supported by L2TP describes the use of an L2TP session to connect two Layer 2 circuits attached to a pair of peering L2TP Access Concentrators (LACs), which is a basic form of Layer 2 Virtual Private Network (L2VPN). This document defines the protocol extensions for L2TP to set up different types of L2VPNs in a unified fashion. Table of Contents 1. Introduction ....................................................2 1.1. Specification of Requirements ..............................2 2. Network Reference Model .........................................2 3. Forwarder Identifier ............................................3 4. Protocol Components .............................................4 4.1. Control Messages ...........................................4 4.2. Existing AVPs for L2VPN ....................................4 4.3. New AVPs for L2VPN .........................................5 4.4. AVP Interoperability .......................................7 5. Signaling Procedures ............................................7 5.1. Overview ...................................................7 5.2. Pseudowire Tie Detection ...................................8 5.3. Generic Algorithm ..........................................9 6. IANA Considerations ............................................12 Luo Standards Track [Page 1] RFC 4667 L2VPN Extensions for L2TP September 2006 7. Security Considerations ........................................12 8. Acknowledgement ................................................13 9. References .....................................................13 9.1. Normative References ......................................13 9.2. Informative References ....................................13 1. Introduction [RFC3931] defines a dynamic tunneling mechanism to carry multiple Layer 2 protocols besides Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP), the only protocol supported in [RFC2661], over a packet-based network. The baseline protocol supports various types of applications, which have been highlighted in the different Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) reference models in [RFC3931]. An L2TP Access Concentrator (LAC) is an L2TP Control Connection Endpoint (LCCE) that cross-connects attachment circuits and L2TP sessions. Layer 2 Virtual Private Network (L2VPN) applications are typically in the scope of the LAC- LAC reference model. This document discusses the commonalities and differences among L2VPN applications with respect to using L2TPv3 as the signaling protocol. In this document, the acronym "L2TP" refers to L2TPv3 or L2TP in general. 1.1. Specification of Requirements The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119]. 2. Network Reference Model In the LAC-LAC reference model, a LAC serves as a cross-connect between attachment circuits and L2TP sessions. Each L2TP session acts as an emulated circuit, also known as pseudowire. A pseudowire is used to bind two "forwarders" together. For different L2VPN applications, different types of forwarders are defined. In the L2VPN framework [L2VPNFW], a LAC is a Provider Edge (PE) device. LAC and PE are interchangeable terms in the context of this document. Remote systems in the LAC-LAC reference model are Customer Edge (CE) devices. Luo Standards Track [Page 2] RFC 4667 L2VPN Extensions for L2TP September 2006 +----+ L2 +----+ +----+ L2 +----+ | CE |------| PE |....[core network]....| PE |------| CE | +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ |<- emulated service ->|Show full document text


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Samaritan's Purse founder Franklin Graham and Georgia evangelist Keith Fordham expand the Hall of Faith to 36 members since its creation in 2008. Past inductees, 16 of whom are still living, range from Billy Graham to Ron Dunn and Jerry Spencer.
Receiving the award for Franklin Graham was his son, Maj. Edward Graham, who serves as a commander with the U.S. Army Rangers.
Graham said his father's tight travel schedule prevented him from attending the ceremony to accept the honor. He spoke briefly, acknowledging that he is the only son in the Graham family not to be serving in fulltime ministry.
"The key to my dad and granddad's success is the local church. That's who empowered and spread their ministries. It is the church who invited them to come share the Good News in communities large and small across America and around the world," Graham noted.
"I pray for the pastors and evangelists who serve together to win this nation for Christ because they are the individuals America needs today -- those who have been called to be fishers of men."
Fordham said he has testified to the life-changing power of the Gospel "since Jesus walked into my home and changed our family forever," he told the attendees at the banquet at the Hilton Conference Center Hotel.
Fordham told of his childhood with a father who was not a believer, but that changed when the family came to faith in Christ.
"Ever since Jesus walked into my home and saved my family I have spent my life telling others about how He can change their lives. It made that great of an impact on my life.
"For 46 years now I have been thanking God for His allowing me to be His mailman, carrying the Good News to those waiting to receive it."
Fordham, a member of Harp's Crossing Baptist Church in Fayetteville, Ga., has served in more than 1,500 revivals in the U.S. and India. He was the 2004-05 president of COSBE and, most recently, a trustee of the North American Mission Board. He was accompanied to the banquet by his wife Shirley.
Keynote speaker Ed Stetzer, president of LifeWay Research, told the attendees that the Southern Baptist Convention, also restored to its theological orthodoxy, has not been restored to its historically strong evangelical witness.
Addressing the steady decline in baptisms, Stetzer lamented that in the 1950s the denomination grew 4 percent, then 3 percent in the '60s, 2 percent in the '70s and only 1 percent in the '80s. Since then the denomination now is contracting at nearly the same rate as it grew.
"True, this year's decline was less than the previous year but it continues to trend lower. We have not reversed that trend, and that should concern us," Stetzer said.
"The reality is that we will soon catch up with the decline experienced by the Methodists, who we always used to use as an example of a formerly strong denomination.
"Southern Baptists love evangelism as long as someone else is doing it," he added. "We are dependent on evangelism for growth but are seriously uninvolved in living it."
In other matters, SBC Executive Committee President Frank S. Page welcomed the Hall of Faith's move to the SBC Building in Nashville, which received formal COSBE approval the next day, including placing COSBE materials in the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives in the building.
Page said COSBE's Hall of Faith and archives would provide greater visibility in Nashville than they currently receive at North American Mission Board's offices in Alpharetta, Ga. Page said NAMB President Kevin Ezell offered to pay all costs to transfer the exhibit and archives to Nashville this summer.
"It will be an honor to house these important materials in our building," Page said.
Joe Westbusy is managing editor of The Christian Index (www.christianindex.org), newsjournal of the Georgia Baptist Convention.
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(LiveHacking.Com) – As demonstrated many times, social engineering is a key method used by hackers to solicit personal information from victims and now, due to a new SMS spoofing flaw which has been discovered on the iPhone, users need to be extra careful about trusting text messages they receive on their phones.
Security researcher "pod2g" has found a serious flaw in the way iOS processes SMS messages that leaves iPhone users open to spoofing.
This means that an attacker can spoof messages from a victim's bank asking them for some private information, or linking to phishing website and, because of the flaw, the message look genuine. Also false messages can be sent to a device and used as false evidence. In fact, pod2g writes that the spoofing can be use to do "anything you can imagine that could be utilized to manipulate people, letting them trust somebody or some organization [that] texted them."
This flaw has existed since 2007, when the first iPhone was released, and still hasn't been addressed with iOS 6 beta 4.
SMS messages are converted to complex PDU (Protocol Description Unit) packets for delivery. As part of the payload, a section called UDH (User Data Header) allows the sender to add a reply-to number. If included, any replies written by the receiver will be sent to that number rather than the original number.
The problem with the iPhone SMS app is that the reply-to address is displayed rather than the genuine originator number. This means a message can be sent from one device and made to look like it came from another. What should happen is that if the reply-to and originator numbers are different both should be shown or a warning displayed.
Tools exist for smartphones and even online for sending raw PDU messages meaning that these fake messages are relatively easy to generate.
"Apple takes security very seriously," representatives from the Cupertino, Calif.-based company told The Verge on Saturday. "When using iMessage instead of SMS, addresses are verified which protects against these kinds of spoofing attacks."
"Now you are alerted. Never trust any SMS you received on your iPhone at first sight," wrote pod2g.
The question now remains, will Apple fix this before iOS 6 is released?


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Herzog Wine Cellars, California
Joseph Herzog is walking toward my table while he gently pulls the cork out of a bottle of a 1996 cabernet sauvignon.
"Just look at that cork," Herzog says, handing it to me. "It's perfect."
So is the wine. Like silk. Rich, ruby-red silk.
"The wine is just great," Herzog softly remarks.
The wine is his. Well, it belongs to the Herzog Wine Cellars in, of all places, Oxnard, California. Herzog Wine Cellars (not to be confused and no relation to the Herzog Winery in New Zealand) is a kosher winery, one of two in California. The state of the art facilities in Oxnard, about 60 miles northwest of Los Angeles, are listed on the Ventura County Wine Trail map. The restaurant at the winery, Tierra Sur, also kosher, is on many of the area's lists of best restaurants. What is not so often noted is that Herzog Wine Cellars is cigar friendly.
After Joseph finishes his second pouring of the '96 cab into my glass, my dining companions and I study the menu. I ask the server whether he recommends the seared duck breast with confit of duck leg and red wine, fig and shallot sauce or the wood-grilled rib eye steak with onion gratin, almond bread crumbs and cabernet green peppercorn sauce.
Joseph interjects. "What do I always say?" he asks the waiter. "I recommend the rib eye," the waiter advises.
My guests choose the Cornish game hen and the wood-grilled organic salmon.
Before we can decide on an appetizer, a plate of house-made kosher chorizo and salami, accompanied by roasted red pepper and a green chickpea mash, is set on the table with thinly sliced French bread and English mustard. The restaurant makes all its own charcuterie, some out of lamb, like the "bacon." On other visits I've ordered the lamb sausage, which is really a version of a beautifully spiced merguez, a classic North African sausage.
After I take the final sip of the cabernet, I order a glass of the zinfandel. Great with the nicely cooked rib eye.
Dessert is all about chocolate. A molten, flourless chocolate cake is always on the menu and that is paired with a special Mexican chocolate cake this evening. We finish, and finally I am able to plan my cigar finish. I have my own with me, a Padron 80th Anniversary. I order another glass of zinfandel, a great mouth-watering wine that goes well with cigars.
I walk just outside the dining room and turn right and take a seat in the "gazebo." This was in the midst of remodeling.
Two weeks later, Joseph Herzog is telling a group of cigar and wine lovers, "The same way we approach wine, we approach cigars."
The group is gathered in a private dining room at the winery to enjoy a dinner of maple-cured, hot-smoked salmon, paired with a 2007 Herzog Russian River Special Reserve Chardonnay; Wagyu rib eye with a Herzog Alexander Valley Special Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon; and a decadent dessert of figs poached in zinfandel and chocolate pecan frozen custard with a warm chocolate brandy sauce and cacao beans. All this before the group of 20 step onto the newly-furnished patio to taste Macallan 18 and Highland Park 18 Scotch with cigars from Perdomo.
The dinner was held to introduce the Herzog Cigar & Wine Club. For $400 a year, subscribers will get four cigars and two bottles of wine every three months. This is part of Joseph Herzog's continuing education in the enjoyment of cigars.
"I really began smoking three years ago," Joseph said. "My father and grandfather used to smoke. You know, the language of wine and cigars is very similar."
Herzog, who lives in Los Angeles and commutes to Oxnard every day, got to know Albert Chrikjian, owner of the Old Oaks Cigar & Wine Co. in nearby Thousand Oaks.
"I started talking to Albert about a private line of Herzog cigars," Joseph explained. "But I thought it would be better to start slowly."
That was about three years ago, just after Joseph moved to California from New York to run the newly opened winery.
Among the cigars currently sold at the winery are the Padrón 3000, La Gloria Cubana Wavell, Perdomo Habano Robusto, Casa Magna Robusto, Partagas Spanish Rosado and C.A.O. Italia and Brazilia cigars. There are plans to expand the list.
We should make clear that Herzog's wine is not your father's Manischewitz or Mogen David, and nothing like what comes from the Concord grapes usually associated with kosher wines. Herzog is making cabernet sauvignon, syrah, merlot, zinfandel and pinot noir in red; and sauvignon blanc and chardonnay, among other varietals, in white. Still, the Herzog story is very different from many other California wine families.
Phillip Herzog began making wine in Slovakia more than a century ago. Back in the day, Herzog made both kosher and non-kosher wines. His product was so appreciated by Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Josef that he gave Phillip the title of "Baron."
During World War II, Phillip's grandson Eugene hid his family from the Nazis in the Slovakian countryside. After the war, Eugene reclaimed the winery.
Just three years later, in 1948, the new communist Czech government drove the Herzog family away to Brooklyn. Eugene worked for a small kosher winery that produced the common Concord grape sweet wine. He was paid in shares.
Ten years later, Eugene and his sons, who had come to control the failing venture, renamed the winery Royal Wines. In 1985, the Herzogs expanded to California and in 2005, opened the new winery in Oxnard.
Today, after finishing a rich, delicious meal in the winery's restaurant, you can step out on the patio, sit in an overstuffed lounge chair, light up a great cigar and toast Baron Phillip and his extended family—I'd recommend the zinfandel—for keeping their eyes on the prize.
Herzog Wine Cellars & Tierra Sur Restaurant
3201 Camino Del Sol
Oxnard, CA 93030
Winery Hours:
About 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., closed Fridays at 5 p.m. and all day Saturday.
Restaurant Hours:
Lunch: Sunday—Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m., Friday (Summer) 11:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. (Winter) 11:30 a.m.- 2 p.m.
Dinner: Sunday—Thursday 5 - 9 p.m.
Tasting Room: Open when winery is open; self-guided tours available.


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By Erin Regier
Today was a day that I was both looking forward to and dreading. Today we visited the Buchenwald concentration camp. Located right outside of Weimar, Germany, this camp is nestled into a gorgeous dense forest on Ettersberg (Etter Mountain) According to the informational video we watched before touring the camp, over 56,000 people died in this camp. It was unreal to me that such a beautiful setting could hold such an ugly past.
For the duration of our tour of the camp it was overcast, drizzling rain and quite chilly. Although it was not great weather for being outdoors, it somehow seemed fitting. As I walked through the area that used to hold the barracks and holding cells, I tried to imagine what it must have been like to be prisoner in this camp during the winter. Here I was, shivering in my snow boots, fleece lined leggings and ski coat (not to mention a full meal in my belly!) and I was miserably wet and cold. The prisoners held here had nothing- just ill-fitting shoes and clothes and an empty stomach. Yet still they were expected to put in a 10 hour workday or face certain death. I can't fully comprehend how terrible that must have been.
Although it was an unsettling and difficult place to visit, I feel like this was an important and moving experience for the entire choir.
Tonight we gave a concert in the oldest church in Weimar, the Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche St. Peter und Paul. This church was built in 1200s and has such a rich history. During one of the breaks in the concert, Open Road (the men's a capella group) sang a song that I found especially meaningful for today. The lyrics are taken from an inscription found scratched into the walls of a hiding place of Jews during the holocaust and are as follows:
"I believe in the sun,
even when it is not shining.
I believe in love,
even when I don't feel it.
I believe in God,
even when He is silent."
After a rather emotionally draining day, these words bring me hope!