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Sloppy D, A's Colon spoil Angels' sweep plans
Halos commit three errors as Williams continues to struggle
ANAHEIM -- Angels starters dominated the first two games of the series, but Jerome Williams couldn't continue the trend in a 6-0 loss to the Athletics on Sunday at Angel Stadium.
After Jered Weaver and C.J. Wilson shut out the Athletics for a combined 15 innings Friday and Saturday, Williams allowed six runs (four earned) on eight hits in five-plus innings during the finale.
While Williams' struggles were present, the Angels' defense, which now has a league-leading 72 errors, did not provide much assistance.
Alberto Callaspo, Chris Iannetta and Mark Trumbo all committed throwing errors that led to runs, and although he was not charged with an error, relief pitcher Garrett Richards threw a ball into center field on a pickoff attempt.
"They factored in, no doubt," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "Even though we weren't swinging the bat, we could have maybe given ourselves a chance to stay a little close and then things could happen."
The Angels did take two of three games from Oakland and are 7-2-1 in their last 10 series.
"Overall, a good series," Trumbo said. "Today wasn't that great, but bigger picture, we did do a pretty good job against a good team."
While Sunday's game was a bit of a debacle, Scioscia and Williams each feel the right-hander is getting back into a rhythm.
"I thought he threw the ball well," Scioscia said. "If you look at the line score, it doesn't look really healthy, but I thought Jerome threw the ball very well. He had both sides of the plate going, just not a lot of luck."
Williams also felt like he threw well and said he used the All-Star break to find himself.
"The last three starts before the break, I wasn't my normal self," Williams said. "I was getting out of whack. I think during the All-Star break I kind of figured it out, got back to where I needed to be."
Couple the unearned runs with A's ace Bartolo Colon on the mound, and it was not a good recipe for the Angels.
The 40-year-old All-Star, who won the American League Cy Young Award with the Angels in 2005, threw his 12th career shutout and 35th complete game while limiting his former team to four hits.
"Pretty amazing," Oakland manager Bob Melvin said. "He was sick today on top of it. You saw the velocity. The velocity was down all day, so he did it a little bit differently today with more movement and less power. And still got it done."
Oakland got on the scoreboard when Chris Young led off the third inning with a double and Eric Sogard followed with his second home run of the season, giving the A's their first lead of the series.
"It was supposed to be down and away, it was a sinker," Williams said. "I just cut it off, it came back in the zone and he put a good swing on it, hit it out. I think that's probably one of the only mistakes I made and hitters will take advantage of those mistakes. He took advantage of it."
The Athletics added to that lead with a pair of runs in the fifth. Sogard led off the inning with a single, but the damage started when Coco Crisp bunted for a single.
Instead of just eating the ball on the likely single, third baseman Callaspo -- who has had his share of throwing woes this season -- made an errant throw to first base, allowing Sogard to score and Crisp to advance two bases to third.
Four batters later, Brandon Moss singled to left field, driving in Crisp and extending the lead to 4-0.
The Angels' defensive miscues continued in the sixth when Iannetta's throwing error allowed Josh Reddick -- who had stolen third base -- to score. The very next batter, Crisp, hit a ground ball to Trumbo at first base, but his throw to the plate was errant, allowing another run to score.


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Last Friday, I invited Metropolitan Methodios to come visit the Pastoral Center for lunch. It was his first time here. This year he is celebrating his 25th anniversary as the Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Boston. I look forward to going to his anniversary celebration on Spy Wednesday. Also, he will be visiting our cathedral on Holy Tuesday for the Chrism Mass.
During his visit he gave me a beautiful commemorative book that has been printed to mark the occasion.
Archbishop Methodios is a very close friend of the Church and it is an important relationship for us to foster in order to further Christ's desire for unity within the Church.
One of the more recent milestones in that relationship was our September 2007 ecumenical pilgrimage to Rome, Istanbul and St. Petersburg.
In the Vatican
The metropolitan and I with several priests who on the pilgrimage outside the Church on Spilt Blood in St. Petersburg
Metropolitan Methodios and I led the trip of about 100 pilgrims which included members of both the Catholic and Greek Orthodox communities as well as several Catholic and Orthodox priests. It was a moving experience and there were many wonderful opportunities to pray together, to share our faith, and to learn more about the wonderful traditions of our Church that was one Church for the first thousand years of Christianity.
Praying together at the Orthodox Church of St. Theodore in Rome
It is our hope that, in the future, we will once again enjoy that same unity we had for the first millennium.
Touring the Haggia Sophia in Istanbul
On the international level, there has been a new patriarch elected in Russia and we trust that will also help to bring about advances in the process of working towards reuniting the Catholic Church with the Orthodox Church in the world.
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That evening, I had dinner with the priests at St. Edith Stein Parish in Brockton: Father Brian Smith, Father Brian Flynn and Father Lino Pereira.
We took advantage of the dinner to present Father Brian Smith with his certificate for having participated in the Good Leaders Good Shepherds program. We have had about 50 priests involved in that program and it has been, by all accounts, an excellent tool in enhancing the ministry of our priests and their leadership skills.
Father Lino is a priest from Cape Verde who has been helping at St. Edith Stein. That parish has a very large Cape Verdean community. We are very, very grateful to Father Lino and his bishop for the many years he has spent working with the people there.
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Sunday morning I met Bishop Gregory Mansour, of the Maronite Eparchy of St. Maron of Brooklyn. He was in Boston for a celebration of the Feast of St. Maron at Our Lady of the Cedars Parish in Jamaica Plain. He came to pay me a courtesy visit along the pastor there, Chorbishop Joseph Lahoud.
Bishop Mansour and I have been together on a number of different committees at the Bishops Conference and we were very touched that he would take the time to come and say hello and allow us to be able to celebrate a little bit of St. Maron's Feast with him.
Bishop Mansour is hoping to start a community of sisters in Boston, and we are encouraging him in his efforts to do that.
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On Sunday, the Office of Black Catholics, in conjunction with St. Patrick's Parish in Roxbury, organized a liturgical observance of Black History Month.
At the Mass, gospel music was showcased by the choirs and it was an opportunity to reflect on the growing importance of the black Catholic community — not just in our local Church but throughout the world.
The number of Catholics in Africa is very large and has experienced great growth in recent decades. Our Holy Father will be visiting that continent very soon as a sign of the Church's recognition of the importance of the Church in Africa.
I was very pleased to see that among the exquisite stained glass windows in St. Patrick's one is dedicated to the baptism of the Ethiopian by St. Philip. It is certainly an uncommon theme for a window and I pointed that out during the homily. I also pointed out the fact that, historically, the first personage to oppose slavery in his writings was St. Patrick.
Slavery, particularly in the United States, caused so much suffering to the black people and the legacy of that has been racism and poverty and discrimination that our black Catholics and black Americans have suffered with over their history in this country.
The election of a black president does mark an important advance in our culture's evolution away from the racism that was so strong here historically.
Lorna DesRoses, the head of our Office for Black Catholics, did a wonderful job organizing the event and I was glad to see so many people there, including the Knights and Ladies of St. Peter Claver.
I was also happy to be able to concelebrate Mass with Father Russell Best who, because of health problems, was not able to continue at Cathedral High School but who is now living and helping out at St. Patrick's.
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The following day was President's Day, so I took advantage of the office being closed to fly to Pittsburgh to attend the funeral of one of our friars, Father Marvin Justi.
Father Marvin, who was one of my professors in the seminary, was a man with great priestly gifts and was beloved by all. He was a man of such great charity and had the gift of communicating joy and a sense of God's love for the people and he served in the seminary, as pastor and, most recently, as a hospital chaplain. In all of his ministries and in all of his religious life, he touched the lives of so many people and I was happy to be able to be there at his funeral.
The funeral took place in the Parish of St. Cecilia in Rochester. They built a new church there, because the old church was condemned and it was my first opportunity to see the new building. It's a brand new church but built in a traditional style, with a lovely bell tower.
During my stay I also had an opportunity to meet with the novices there.
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Tuesday, I went to Fontbonne Academy for a LIFT rally. This is my second appearance at LIFT. For two years they have been meeting monthly at the auditorium of Fontbonne Academy.
It was a standing room only event, with young people gathered there for praise and worship, Adoration and the Eucharist. It lasts from about 7-9 p.m. and is a very powerful prayer experience as well as an opportunity for faith formation for our teenagers and young adults. I was asked to talk to them about the saints and I talked for about 45 minutes on the role of the saints in our lives, mentoring us by their example and encouraging us by their friendship and their prayers to lead by discipleship.
I'd like to express my thanks to Father Matt Williams, who has been very instrumental in organizing and supporting the LIFT ministry.
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Wednesday, we had the opportunity to celebrate the funeral Mass for Father Robert Tyrrell at his home parish of St. Agatha's. Father Tom Foley gave a beautiful reflection on the role of the parish priest. Father Tyrrell's nephew gave a lovely eulogy at the end of the Mass and the choir was spectacular, as always.
Father Peter Casey, the pastor at St. Agatha's, was very pleased to show me the renovated downstairs chapel and hall. The last time that I was there was for Tom Flatley's funeral and I had not seen the latest addition.
Until next week,
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Beverly A. Beedle 1928-2012
Beverly Annette Beedle of Stanwood WA went home to be with the Lord on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012, and there reunited with her husband of 62 years.
Bev was born May 25, 1928 to George and Nina Godden in Emmetsburg. It was there that she met the love of her life, Leslie E. Beedle whom she married Aug. 31, 1947. They were blessed with a daughter two years later. Although Carolyn was their only child, Bev was known as Mom and Grandma to many.
She is survived by her daughter Carolyn Godden of Arlington, WA; grandchildren Andrea, Austin and Geoff (Amber) Hugill and great-grandsons of Seattle, WA; her sister Norma Shaffer, brother-in-law Frank, sisters-in-law Arlis and LulaMae, several nieces and nephews and countless friends.
A memorial service will be held Saturday, Sept. 15, at 1:30 p.m. at Josephine Home in Stanwood WA.
At her request, memorials may be sent to Carolyn Godden, PO Box 3781, Arlington WA 98223.
Please share your thoughts of Bev and sign the online guest register at www.gilbertsonfh.com Arrangements are under the care of Gilbertson Funeral Home, Stanwood, WA.


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"What the hell is it, Neil?"
"I don't know, Doctor. It was in my coffee cup when I opened the lab this morning."
Louise Manners wrinkled her nose. "I told you never leave your dishes in the lab over the weekend. We work with biological…"
"Doctor, how could left over coffee turn into…into that?"
"We'd better not expose ourselves. Get the Hazmat gear. Let's get it into a containment box."
"Oh, there you are, you naughty fellow."
Louise and Neil whirled at the sudden intrusion. Archie, the night janitor, was standing at the doorway. Ignoring them, he headed for Neil's cup.
"That's not your coffee." He became aware of the two biologists staring at him.
"My pet fungus Reggie. I bring him to work with me for the company."
Archie turned back to the cup. "You come with me now." Walking out of the lab with the cup, Archie called over his shoulder. "I'll bring this back tonight."
Neil turned to Louise. "Pet fungus?"
"Neil, what if we could market it? Let's get to work."
I wrote this for the FFfAW Challenge for the Week of August 15, 2017 hosted by Priceless Joy. The idea is to use the image above as a prompt to write a piece of flash fiction between 100 and 175 words long with 150 being the ideal. My word count is 175.
To me, the image seemed hideous and humorous at the same time. I was in the midst of writing but having trouble creating the twist at the end until I considered Simon Pegg's rather funny take on the character of "Scotty" in the "Star Trek" reboot movies (the movies themselves aren't that great, but I like Pegg's performance). The story then wrote itself.
To read other stories based on the prompt, go to InLinkz.com.


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Bandhas are energetic locks that contain the prana in the torso and concentrate it in the three main energy channels (nadis) of the body. Uddiyana (upward flying) bandha can be performed in a physical and external manner engaging the skeletal muscles; it can also be felt as a subtle and internal energetic process. Uddiyana bandha engages and tones the abdominal muscles creating a strong core and also activates and energizes the 3rd chakra center. Uddiyana bandha should be practiced individually at first, and then it can be incorporated with the other bandhas, asanas, pranayamas and eventually mudras.
To practice Uddiyana Bandha, come into a comfortable siddhasana or sukhasana cross-legged seated position with the palms facing down on top of the knees. Let the eyes softly close and the breath slow and deepen. Quickly exhale all of the breath out through the nose, lean forward, press the palms into the knees, and engage the abdominal muscles to strongly pull the belly in and up under the ribcage. Hold the breath as you hold the abdominal lock for as long as comfortable. To release, soften the abdominal muscles, lean back and very slowly take a breath in through the nose. Take a few slow deep breaths in and out and let your breath return to normal before practicing additional rounds. Begin with practicing three rounds and you can slowly increase it to up to ten rounds over time.
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Uddiyana Bandha strengthens the digestive fire and tonifies the body's energetic core. The abdominal organs are massaged, toned and purified and the adrenal glands are balanced by the abdominal contraction. Uddiyana Bandha is contraindicated in high blood pressure, heart disease, glaucoma, and pregnancy.
To increase the benefits of Uddiyana Bandha it can be combined with Nauli shatkarma. Uddiyana Bandha is also be combined with Mula and Jalandhara Bandas to create the great lock, Maha Bandha.


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Cover of the 1900 (Volume 1) edition of The Biological Bulletin
Cover of the first edition of The Biological BulletinCreated: 1900
Cover of the June 2014 edition of The Biological Bulletin
Credits from The Biological Bulletin: Snail Natica tecta feeding on the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis (Photo © Ross Coleman, University of Sydney)
Sea urchin Brisaster antarcticus (Photo © Ashley Miskelly)
Branching coral Acropora sp. (Photo by Maria Byrne, University of Sydney)
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Foram Baculogypsina sphaerulata (Photo by Neo Wu)
Periwinkle Afrolittorina unifasciata on the limpet Cellana tramoserica (Photo © Ross Coleman)
Bryozoan Iodictyum yaldwyni (Photo by Abigail M. Smith, University of Otago)Created: 2014
Cover of the 1898 (Volume 1) edition of The Zoological Bulletin
Cover of the first edition of The Zoological BulletinCreated: 1898
Cover of the June 2006 edition of The Biological Bulletin
Credits from The Biological Bulletin: Large image: Illustration in pastel and colored pencil of Tritonia diomedea in mid-escape from its predator, the seastar Pycnopodia helianthoides, by Tamara Clark, Marine Biological Laboratory, <<A HREF="http://www.tamaraclark.com/">http://www.tamaraclark.com/>
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Lymnea stagnalis, provided by Takeshi Karasawa (Tokai University, Shizuoka, Japan);
Cover of the August 2012 edition of The Biological Bulletin
Credits from The Biological Bulletin: Large background image
Sea slug, Elysia chlorotica (Photo by Karen Pelletreau, Univ. of Maine)
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Black carpenter ant, Camponotus pennsylvanicus (Photo by Adam B. Lazarus)
Bobtail squid, Euprymna scolopes (Photo by C. Frazee, Univ. of Wisconsin)
Coral colony, Acropora spathulata (Photo by Madeline van Oppen, Australia Institute of Marine Science)
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Nematode, Brugia malayi (© Mark Blaxter)Created: 2012
The Biological Bulletin
From 1886 to 1889 Charles Otis Whitman was director of the Allis Lake Laboratory in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The lab was established by Edward Phelps Allis, Jr. to provide a place for biological research separate from a university setting and a place where an independent scholar like Allis himself could work. Allis had hired Whitman as an instructor to establish the lab, direct it, and lead a research program there. The lab lasted for eight years, attracted several researchers, and the papers that came out of the lab included a focus on embryology. This raised the question of where to publish the work since there were few life science journals being published in the United States , which led Whitman to propose a new journal.
With Allis's support, Whitman started the Journal of Morphology in 1897 for long, almost monographic articles complete with elaborate illustrations. In addition, Whitman and his student William Morton Wheeler (who had also worked at the Allis Lake Laboratory) started a second journal for shorter articles and reports that could quickly appear in print. This was seen as a companion for the Journal of Morphology and was intended to embrace the entire field of animal biology. At first they called it the Zöological Bulletin, but after the first two years of publication in 1898 and 1899, the title changed to The Biological Bulletin. This also fit with the fact that the journal started out independently and then in 1890 became affiliated informally with the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, of which Whitman served as first director starting in 1888. The MBL also published its series of evening lectures throughout the 1890s, as The Biological Lectures Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Holl. Whitman encouraged MBL investigators to publish in the first two journals and the lecturers to contribute their lectures to the third. Very quickly, Whitman had helped the United States establish itself as a place where serious scientific research was done in the life sciences.
Most new scientific journals start with an introduction, a statement of mission, or something that tells the reader and potential subscriber or submission author what this publication is about. Not The Biological Bulletin. It began its first issue as The Zöological Bulletin in 1897 (The Biological Bulletin in 1899) with an article by Allis himself. Other investigators from Allis Lake Lab and from the MBL submitted their work, including women scientists who were generally rare among life science researchers.
By 1899 Whitman had moved to Clark University and had realized that the journal needed a broader base. The first issue from the MBL and under the new Biological Bulletin name opened with Maynard M. Metcalf on "Some Relations between Nervous Tissue and Glandular Tissue in the Tunicata." The issue includes articles by T. H. Morgan, Anne Moore, Garry de N. Hough, and C. W. Hargitt. The front matter says only the title of the journal and that it was edited by the Director and Members of the Staff of the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Holl, Massachusetts.
This continued for two years, but in 1900 Whitman and the Ginn Company in Boston that was publishing the journal had disagreements, and finding funding for the journal was a challenge. As a result, the 1900 volume had only three spring issues and 1901 came out only midway through the year. Issues resumed full force in 1902 with the New Era Publishing Company in Lancaster, Pennsylvania (which later became Lancaster Press). This was the real solid start of the journal, with the excellent administrator and Assistant Director of the Marine Biological Laboratory Frank R. Lillie serving as Managing Editor and an appointed editorial board comprised of Whitman, Edwin Grant Conklin, Jacques Loeb, Thomas Hunt Morgan, William Morton Wheeler, and Edmund Beecher Wilson. Lillie remained as managing editor for nearly a quarter of a century and placed the journal, as he did the MBL itself, on a solid intellectual and economic foundation.
In starting again in a more formal way, the MBL staff recognized the need to explain what The Biological Bulletin was meant to be. It was meant to offer an American version of the German Biologisches Centralblatt or Anatomischer Anzeiger, they said. And it was up to American scientists to join the editors and make the enterprise successful.
The journal has remained strong through many different editors and changes in MBL administration, in large part because of a clear and coherent mission that is broad enough and yet focused enough to have remained compelling for more than a century. It has been a challenge at times, when specialty publications have become the norm, to define a valuable niche for a publication that includes all of biology in its mission. The articles have been largely reports of experimental work, often but not always with marine organisms, often concentrating on the areas in which the MBL itself excels, such as neurobiology, development, cell biology, and physiology.
The journal has helped build the MBL library into one of the world's best biological research centers, since from the beginning, the editors swapped with many other publications and thereby helped all the collections grow. Today, MBL Corporation members can choose to receive a copy of the journal with their membership, and as of 2008, all past issues are now available through open access online.
- Clapp, Pamela. "The History of The Biological Bulletin." The Biological Bulletin 174 (1988): 1–3.
- Marine Biological Laboratory Annual Reports: available in the MBL The Biological Bulletin Vols. 17 and 21–105 at http://www.archive.org/details/biologicalbullet01mari and beginning with 2004 at http://www.mbl.edu/governance/gov_annual_report.html.
From 1886 to 1889 Charles Otis Whitman was director of the Allis Lake Laboratory in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The lab was established by Edward Phelps Allis, Jr. to provide a place for biological research separate from a university setting and a place where an independent scholar like Allis himself could work. Allis had hired Whitman as an instructor to establish the lab, direct it, and lead a research program there. The lab lasted for eight years, attracted several researchers, and the papers that came out of the lab included a focus on embryology.Created: 2008-10-24
Biological Lectures Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole
The Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, began in 1888 with one building housing researchers upstairs and students in a shared lab and lecture space downstairs. For the first two years, instruction took the form of general lectures covering a range of topics in zoology. In addition, the trustees offered some public lectures in Boston to raise funds for the lab.
In 1890 the lab began a new tradition that has continued every year since. They began a series of evening lectures intended to be accessible to a wide audience of those interested in biology. Eventually these became known as the Friday Evening Lectures, and since the opening of the auditorium in the Lillie Building in 1924 (named after second Director Frank Rattray Lillie) the lectures have been held there. Every Friday evening during the summer season, the community of scientists, students, and members of the public interested in science stream into the auditorium for their weekly lecture, then move to the reception held afterward. These lectures are a high point of the MBL's summer of science.
Throughout the 1890s Charles Otis Whitman, as the MBL's first Director, persuaded the lecturers to write up their lectures and publish them. He organized the lectures of 1890 and then 1893–1899 into volumes that appeared as a serial that both showed the larger world what the MBL offered and brought leading scientists to the lab to participate in the lectures and their publications.
The Biological Lectures Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Holl provides a useful insight into what were thought to be the driving questions of the day and what were seen as productive ways of approaching them. Some years reveal a general distribution of topics, while other years are much more focused.
For an introduction to the lectures, see Jane Maienschein's introduction to Defining Biology. This volume offers a sampling of the lectures and also a complete list of lectures published during the 1890s. The MBL Annual Reports provide a list of every year's lecturers and demonstrate the shifts in emphasis over time, as well as changing trends in biology.
- Maienschein, Jane, ed. Defining Biology: Lectures from the 1890s. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986.
- Marine Biological Laboratory Annual Reports: available in the MBL Biological Bulletin Vols. 17 and 21–105 at http://www.archive.org/details/biologicalbullet01mari and beginning with 2004 at http://www.mbl.edu/governance/gov_annual_report.html.
The Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, began in 1888 with one building housing researchers upstairs and students in a shared lab and lecture space downstairs. For the first two years, instruction took the form of general lectures covering a range of topics in zoology. In addition, the trustees offered some public lectures in Boston to raise funds for the lab.Created: 2008-10-24
James David Ebert (1921-2001)
James David Ebert studied the developmental processes of chicks and of viruses in the US during the twentieth century. He also helped build and grow many research institutions, such as the Department of Embryology in the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Baltimore, Maryland and the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. When few biologists studied the biochemistry of embryos, Ebert built programs and courses around the foci of biochemistry and genetics, especially with regards to embryology. He eventually directed the MBL's Embryology Course, and later, the MBL itself.
Ebert was born on 11 December 1921 in the town of Bentleyville, Pennsylvania. He attended public schools while growing up and then graduated from Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania in 1942. Not long after graduation he joined the United States Navy and eventually became a lieutenant. Ebert was stationed on a destroyer in the Pacific Ocean that was attacked by a kamikaze pilot. The destroyer sank and Ebert spent twenty-four hours in the ocean until being rescued. Afterwards, as a biologist, Ebert befriended and trained several Japanese developmental biologists.
In 1946 Ebert began working towards his PhD in developmental biology under the instruction of Benjamin Willier at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. In the same year he married Alma Goodwin, who was a Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency during the war. Ebert received his PhD in 1950 and immediately became a member of the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After one year at MIT, Ebert moved to Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Ebert became an associate professor of zoology by 1955, and he had started a program of experimental embryology. He studied chick embryos and the processes by which the protein make-up of the embryos changed throughout development.
Six years after receiving his PhD, Ebert became the director of the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of Embryology, in Baltimore, Maryland. Prior to Ebert's term as director, the department had had three other directors. The Institution's president, Caryl Haskins, had contemplated closing the department and starting something new. However, with some persuasion from Willier, Haskins spoke with Ebert and decided to give him the opportunity to run the department. Ebert and Haskins agreed that the department needed to focus on the study of genes and their regulation as well as the ways cells influence one another. Haskins said that Ebert's youth and enthusiastic personality made Haskins believe that Ebert would provide a fresh perspective to the department.
Ebert argued that it was his job to recognize and to recruit new talent and then support them in their work. He stressed the use of biochemistry and genetics, which in the 1960s blended together to form molecular biology. During this time, Ebert started to study the relationship between muscle cell differentiation and the propensity to infection in the Rous sarcoma virus.
While still director of the Carnegie embryology department, in 1970 Ebert also became the president and nonresident director of the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) at Woods Hole. At the MBL he researched, with Keiko Ozato, the response of murine lymphocytes to mitogens.
In 1977 Ebert ended his term at the Carnegie Department of Embryology, but he remained the director of the MBL. From 1978 until 1987, Ebert lived in Washington, D.C., and he was the president of the whole Carnegie Institution of Washington. As the institution's president, he made the decision to help build a large optical telescope in Chile at Las Campanas Observatory, and he worked towards the creation of a common campus for both Carnegie departments in Washington.
Ebert remained involved with scientific institutions for the rest of his life. When leaving one institution, he found another one to join. He retired from the Carnegie Institution in 1987 and became the president of the Chesapeake Bay Institute at the Johns Hopkins University, where he was a professor of biology for six years. Ebert was elected to many societies including the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Institute of Medicine. He was the vice president of the National Academy of Sciences from 1981 through 1993 and he also chaired its Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable from 1987 through 1993. His colleagues elected him as president of the Society for the Study of Development and Growth, the American Institute of Biological Sciences, and the American Society of Zoologists.
In retirement, Ebert and his wife Alma spent half of each year in Woods Hole and at the MBL. Ebert and Alma died on 22 May 2001 in an automobile accident while en route to Woods Hole.
- DeHaan, Robert L., and James D. Ebert. "Morphogenesis." Annual Review of Physiology 26 (1964): 15–46.
- Ebert, James D. "An analysis of the effects of anti-organ sera on the development, in vitro, of the early chick blastoderm." Journal of Experimental Zoology 115 (1950): 351–77.
- Ebert, James D. "An analysis of the synthesis and distribution of the contractile protein, myosin, in the development of the heart." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 39 (1953): 333–44.
- Ebert, James D. "The effects of chorioallantoic transplants of adult chicken tissues on homologous tissues of the host chick embryo." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 40 (1954): 337–47.
- Ebert, James D. "The formation of muscle and muscle-like elements in the chorioallantoic membrane following inoculation of a mixture of cardiac microsomes and Rous sarcoma virus." Journal of Experimental Zoology 142 (1959): 587–621.
- Ebert, James D., and Ian M. Sussex. Interacting Systems in Development. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.
- Ebert, James D., and Fred H. Wilt. "Animal Viruses and Embryos." The Quarterly Review of Biology 35 (1960): 261–312.
- Obituaries. "Jim and Alma Ebert." Marine Biological Laboratory. http://www.mbl.edu/news/obit/obit_ebert.html (Accessed December 8, 2007).
- Ozato, Keiko, William H. Adler, and James D. Ebert. "Synergism of bacterial lipopolysaccharides and concanavalin A in the activation of thymic lymphocytes." Cellular Immunology 17 (1975): 532–41.
- Singer, Maxine. "James David Ebert." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 148 (2004): 124–27.
James David Ebert studied the developmental processes of chicks and of viruses in the US during the twentieth century. He also helped build and grow many research institutions, such as the Department of Embryology in the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Baltimore, Maryland and the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. When few biologists studied the biochemistry of embryos, Ebert built programs and courses around the foci of biochemistry and genetics, especially with regards to embryology.Created: 2008-09-12
The Marine Biological Laboratory
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) was founded in 1888 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Woods Hole was already the site for the government's US Fish Commission Laboratory directed by Spencer Fullerton Baird, and it seemed like the obvious place to add an independent research laboratory that would draw individual scientific investigators along with students and instructors for courses. From the beginning, the lab had the dual mission of teaching and research, and from the beginning leading biologists have found their way to this small village on the "heel" tip of Cape Cod.
Supported by trustees who were largely in the Boston area, the lab opened its doors that first year with one small wooden building and great enthusiasm. Advertising was largely word of mouth since the building was still being constructed and the supplies had not yet arrived up to the last minute. Nonetheless, eight students and seven investigators made up the pioneer group in a six week session with a budget of just over $10,000 to build and equip the new laboratory building. With a focus on marine life, Balfour H. Van Vleck served as first instructor for a general zoology course.
The second year brought considerable expansion to six instructors and the addition of botany. After that, the lab was on its way to becoming an international presence in marine biology and eventually in certain defined areas of biology generally. From the beginning, embryology was one of the primary focus areas of the lab, and it has remained so throughout the MBL's 120-plus years. The leadership of the laboratory had a strong embryological interest from the beginning, as did the individual investigators and trustees. Especially when the work was experimental, the emphasis was sometimes labeled "physiology" instead of "experimental embryology" to get at fundamental processes of development.
Charles Otis Whitman served as first director of the lab. He had directed the small private Allis Lake Laboratory near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, then directed the biology program at Clark University, and then the biology program at the University of Chicago. Whitman was an able administrator who inspired people intellectually, and he somehow managed to make things work even when money was short. This is probably due in large part to the talents of Frank Rattray Lillie, who followed Whitman at Chicago and at the MBL where he became Assistant Director and then second Director. Where Whitman left financial matters to hope, saying things like "well, what is money for?," Lillie was an astute manager with support from his wealthy brother-in-law Charles Crane and other individuals and foundations. Whitman and Lillie made a fine team, and they attracted a board of trustees that included top research biologists and also loyal donors. This has remained true, as the MBL has developed a Corporation of research scientists who pay a membership to be part of the group, plus installed a governing Board of Trustees to oversee operations. Despite some challenging times and some tempting take-over offers, the lab has always remained independent; research and instruction both have increasingly come to rely on federal grants and private foundations but the lab has resisted various attempts to make it an arm of a university, the government, or other organizations.
In 1890 the lab started a series of evening lectures that became known as the Friday Evening Lectures. The goals of offering these lectures and advertising them widely to the public were twofold: first to take science to the larger public and increase interest in science, and second to bring specialists together to learn from each other. Lecturers were instructed to make their talks accessible to beginners as well as of value to senior researchers. These were not intended to be courses, but rather to supplement the systematic organized instruction of the courses. For the years 1890–1899, the lectures were published as the Biological Lectures Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Holl.
Courses included zoology, of course, and botany starting in the second year. In addition, Jacques Loeb added physiology as a focus. By 1893 the lab announced instruction in zoology, botany, embryology, physiology, and microscopical technique. In particular, Whitman was directing a course of lectures in embryology, working with Lillie. The Embryology Course has remained a core part of the MBL instructional offerings since 1893, with additional specialized training programs at different times with different emphases.
From the beginning, individuals or institutions could rent lab space and carry out investigations. Since embryological research drew heavily on comparative studies of marine development, it made sense for universities to send their embryologists to the seashore to do work. As Philip Pauly noted, the combination of doing one's research while summering at the seashore was a tremendously attractive option. The MBL has always been a place for the world's top embryologists to gather in the labs, in lectures, on sailing picnics, and with their families at the beaches. Annual Reports show the range of work done at the MBL, and since 1897 the publication of the Biological Bulletin has added an outlet for research carried out by MBL researchers and others.
For the early decades of the lab, embryological work centered on descriptive and comparative studies, especially cell lineage work that reported the details of each cell division for as long as it could be followed in each organism. Different researchers took up different organisms and compared their results, developing concepts of determinative and regulatory development depending on how much the cell divisions could respond to changing environmental conditions. Edmund Beecher Wilson placed cells at the center of developmental research, with his masterful The Cell in Development and Inheritance (1896; second edition 1900; much revised third edition 1925). Then the early twentieth-century brought experimental embryology, and by the 1950s and 1960s embryology embraced genetics and became known as developmental biology. Leaders such as James Ebert and Eric Davidson led the lab and also the Embryology Course in the direction of studying differentiation through processes like organogenesis or genetic regulation of development, for example.
While other places often gave up the embryos, the MBL has retained an interest not just in the cells and molecules but also in the developing organisms, which exist in specific environments and depend on complex systems of interacting cell signals and environmental cues. The Embryology Course and the investigation carried out in labs has changed over the 120-plus years at the MBL, but the MBL has played an important role in securing the central place of embryos and the value of comparative study of developmental processes. Perhaps being near the organisms and being able to have them delivered directly from the collectors in the Supply Department makes them more real and the interactions of the parts more salient.
Complex systems, modeling, molecules, and physiological systems all join together in the study of marine and related material at the Marine Biological Laboratory. Researchers have gone out to collect their specimens and have kept them alive in the on-demand seawater running through designated pipes. They have studied normal development, pathologies, and experimental conditions. Generation, regeneration, and new generation are on the research agenda. As the Annual Reports show starting with the very first years, the MBL has been a place for leading investigation and instruction in several areas including embryology, neurobiology, and physiology. Over the years, this has placed the MBL in a solid position to develop such diverse promising areas of research as molecular genetics, neuroembryology, and regenerative medicine.
View a timeline of the MBL here.
- Lillie, Frank R. The Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory. Chicago: the University of Chicago Press, 1944. Reprinted as a Supplement to The Biological Bulletin Vol. 174 (1988) available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/17426.
- Maienschein, Jane. 100 Years Exploring Life, 1888–1988. Boston: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 1989.
- Marine Biological Laboratory Annual Reports: available in the MBL Biological Bulletin Vols. 17 and 21–105 at ,http://www.archive.org/details/biologicalbullet01mari and beginning with 2004 at http://www.mbl.edu/governance/gov_annual_report.html.
- Marine Biological Laboratory. Symposium Supplement to The Biological Bulletin Vol. 168 (1985): 1–204.
- Pauly, Philip. "Summer Resort and Scientific Discipline: Woods Hole and the Structure of American Biology, 1882–1925." In The American Development of Biology, eds. Ronald Rainger, Keith R. Benson, and Jane Maienschein, 121–150., Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) was founded in 1888 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Woods Hole was already the site for the government 's US Fish Commission Laboratory directed by Spencer Fullerton Baird, and it seemed like the obvious place to add an independent research laboratory that would draw individual scientific investigators along with students and instructors for courses.Created: 2008-10-24


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MVP catcher at second Midsummer Classic; first time for Giants lefty
NEW YORK -- In between questions about his first All-Star Game experience, Madison Bumgarner glanced over at Buster Posey and wondered how many more Midsummer Classics await the reigning National League MVP.
"I'm sure Buster will be here every year for the rest of his career," Bumgarner deadpanned.
Couldn't Posey say the same thing about Bumgarner?
But Posey, 26, and Bumgarner, 23, have already made it look almost easy since they became part of the Giants' core in 2010. The Giants' batterymates' remarkable talent and seemingly limitless potential helped them both land on this year's National League All-Star team alongside Marco Scutaro and Sergio Romo.
"Those guys, they are important pieces of the puzzle that is our team back home. I definitely expect to see them make more," Romo said. "They definitely have that ability, and they do have that star power about them.
"Those guys are faces of the franchise. If you look at our team, you could honestly say, 'Who are the guys that are untouchable in any right?' You would say Bumgarner or Posey first, but they would both be in the same sentence."
Posey's list of accomplishments is already running long after 398 games in the Majors: two World Series titles, a Rookie of the Year Award, a Comeback Player of the Year Award, a batting title, last year's MVP honor and a number of other accolades. He's putting together a strong follow-up to his 2012 campaign, batting .325/.395/.536 with 13 home runs and 56 RBIs.
Posey is the only Giants representative in New York to have gone through the All-Star Game experience before, as he was elected by fans to start last year's Midsummer Classic. Posey didn't seem overwhelmed by the scene at Citi Field on Monday, as is seemingly always the case with the stoic catcher, but that didn't mean this year's selection meant any less to him.
"It's a great honor," Posey said. "It's about [the most] unique, special American tradition that we have. It's something that, as a child, you grow up -- I watched every single one of them. I watched the Home Run Derby. I'm humbled to be a part of it."
Even though he won't take the field until Tuesday, Bumgarner said his first All-Star Game has already been a unique experience. He made his first flight on a private plane to New York. He was eager to meet a few pitchers he's grown to admire and joked that he wanted to talk to some hitters he's come to loathe facing -- in a good way, of course.
"I'm definitely excited. I'm extremely blessed to be here and be a part of it," Bumgarner said. "It's been fun so far, from the time we left San Diego."
When Bumgarner will pitch remains to be seen. Manager Bruce Bochy has said he'd like to get Bumgarner in the game at some point, but Bumgarner will most likely be held back as a long reliever. He hasn't pitched out of the bullpen since the 2010 NL Championship Series against the Phillies, but he said he will be ready if called upon.
Even if he's left sitting in the bullpen all night Tuesday, Bumgarner said he'll still remember his first Midsummer Classic.
"I'm just excited to be here and to get to watch everything," he added.
Bumgarner has earned his time in the spotlight this year, further evolving as the dependable frontline starter the Giants have expected since they drafted him in 2007. Over 19 starts, he's gone 10-5 with a 3.02 ERA and 122 strikeouts in 125 innings. Amid uncharacteristic struggles by Matt Cain and the rest of San Francisco's rotation, Bumgarner has been the Giants' rock.
"He's definitely been our horse this year," Romo said. "He's a guy that, for his age, carries himself like a veteran, like a been-there-done-that kind of attitude. It's impressive to watch him pitch. He has no fear. He fears nobody, no hitter. He respects, but no fear. ... He's definitely earning that respect that everyone gives him."
But, Posey noted, Bumgarner doesn't appear to be content with anything he's accomplished so far, not even his first trip to the All-Star Game. The quiet left-hander is constantly changing his routine in the weight room, tweaking his between-starts throwing regimen and looking for any adjustment that might give him an edge.
Perhaps, then, they should both get used to keeping their calendars clear around the All-Star break.
"I hope so," Bumgarner said. "It'd be nice."
The final phase of All-Star Game voting will again have fans participating in the official voting for the Ted Williams All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award presented by Chevrolet. During the Midsummer Classic, fans will vote exclusively online at MLB.com via the 2013 All-Star Game MLB.com MVP Vote, and their voice will represent 20 percent of the official vote determining the recipient of the Arch Ward Trophy.
The 2013 All-Star Game will be played at Citi Field on Tuesday. Come to MLB.com for extensive online coverage of the All-Star Week festivities.
The 84th All-Star Game will be televised nationally by FOX Sports, in Canada by Rogers Sportsnet and RDS, and worldwide by partners in more than 200 countries via MLB International's independent feed. ESPN Radio and ESPN Radio Deportes will provide national radio coverage of the All-Star Game. MLB Network and SiriusXM also will also provide comprehensive All-Star Week coverage. For more information, please visit allstargame.com.


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Hong Kong Island, located south of Hong Kong, is the state's historical, political and economic center. The central district of the island is where you can find towering skyscrapers housing international businesses and financial offices, while the northern area forms the southern side of Victoria Harbour, which is largely responsible for the development of Hong Kong.
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Before Nashville was the "it city." Before there was a hit TV show on ABC and before Hollywood stars like Nicole Kidman had moved into town. Before award-winning, elite ranking restaurants and boutique hot spots existed. And long before The Black Keys, Kings of Leon and even Meghan Trainor were calling Nashville home, there was already a movement brewing outside the walls of the country music scene. Their forward thinking may not have broken headlines, but this community of artists banded together and forever changed the game for emerging indie artists. Meet Ten Out of Tenn.
It's hard to believe that in 2005, Nashville had little to show for outside of country music. Now, this city maintains its unique temperament fostered by a community of collaborators rather than competitors. And it is this very characteristic that stirred Kristen and Trent Dabbs to develop Ten Out Of Tenn. At the time, many people were skeptical – a coalition of ten artists with repertoires that ranged from organic pop to modern folk, touring the country together. But since its inception, the collective has been highly embraced, garnering national praises from USA Today, Paste Magazine, American Songwriter, Nylon, ELLE and more.
A sort of singer-songwriter supergroup, Ten Out Of Tenn started from a conversation between Kristen and Trent after realizing that much of the music they enjoyed listening to happened to be of their friend's. From the beginning, TOT tackled the seemingly impossible – 10 artists, all who have their own successful careers and fan bases, rallying together as they swap vocals and instruments during their shows for a unique twist on each other's creative work. The result is magical.
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Now, 10 years later, there is much to celebrate. With 27 artists, 7 tours, hundreds of shows, 6 compilation albums and over 500 TV/Film placements shared amongst the group, this journey of Ten Out Of Tenn has seen far more success than anyone could have ever predicted. In 2009, TOT released their award winning documentary, "Any Day Now," which debuted during the Nashville Film Festival. Throughout the years, TOT artists have shared the stage with musicians such as Rihanna, Bon Iver, Taylor Swift, John Mayer, Ingrid Michaelson, REM and Sarah McLachlan, to name a few.
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French families have an Epiphany tradition to celebrate the Magi each January 6. Even non-religious families celebrate because they have such fond childhood memories and the galette, a covered almond tart or pie, is so good that they just can't leave it only to the Christians.
I think you should adopt it too because your children will love the game (adults enjoy it too) and all your taste buds will rejoice. The recipe is easy and fast too if you don't have a French bakery near you.
You'll have to "draw a king." After a fancy holiday dinner, everyone eats the Galette Des Rois (Mages). Inside the covered pie is a "feve" or a small ceramic figure or even just a fava bean or button. The figures are traditionally of the Baby Jesus, but can be of any of the nativity pieces, of a champagne bottle, a lucky clover, a horseshoe or anything symbolizing good luck for the New Year.
The mother or hostess cuts and serves the pie pieces while the youngest child gets under the table or simply closes his eyes to tell the server to whom each piece should go to without being able to peek at the little hidden figure.
When someone finds the figure, they are crowned King or Queen and everyone toasts to them with Champagne or non-alcoholic sparkling apple cider, and none will prevent you from drinking soda or milk if you prefer. Each time the King drinks everyone says "The King drinks!"
Then that person discretely places the figure in the glass of someone of the opposite sex so that the King has a Queen or vice versa. Everyone waits for the Queen to find her figure in her glass and when she drinks, everyone says "The Queen drinks!" The King and Queen wear their crowns all evening.
When children are participating, the mother strategically makes sure that one of the children gets the treasured figure. Should a parent accidentally become King, that parent should make a child the Queen (or King or Prince), NOT his spouse.
The game is rigged, but the gullible children have no idea and believe that each year they are just the luckiest kids in the whole wide world and it makes them quite happy and excited. It also boosts their self-esteem in a safe manner. You could crown all the children or even everyone present too.
When the game is played only among adults, it is often agreed upon that the King or Queen will host the Feast of the Magi the following year or bring next year's galette or pie to the party, and everyone looks forward to more good times among good friends or family.
Whether children or adults, the King and the Queen are supposed to have good luck all year long!
You will need 2 crowns. Your children can easily make them out of paper and decorate them by drawing jewels or using stickers or gluing plastic jewels or sequins. It's an easy and fun craft. Otherwise you can find crowns from the most basic paper to fancy gold plastic or even velvet ones at a party or costume store.
For the figure you can use a bean or a button. Be sure to warn everyone so there is no tragic chocking! If you decide to play each year, you can even buy tiny figures on-line like the ones in the photo or even outside France at some French bakeries. E-Bay also auctions them as they have become collectibles.
Here's the recipe:
Galette Des Rois
For 4-6 people
- 2 circles of store-bought puff pastry
- 1 1/2 cup of powdered almonds
- 1 1/2 stick of butter (melted)
- 3 eggs
- 1 heaping cup of granulated sugar
- Natural flavoring to taste such as orange flower water, rose water, pure vanilla extract, rum, Amaretto or Grand Marnier
Mix the sugar, butter, 2 eggs, almonds and your chosen flavoring. Evenly spread the mixture on one of the puff pastry circles. Insert your "feve" or a button or bean, and cover with the second circle. Make a pleasant design on the top with the tip of a knife and paint with 1 egg yolk. Bake for about 25 minutes or until golden at 325-350 degrees F. depending on your oven.
It is best served warm. You can also serve at room temperature.
Bon Appetit and Bonne Fete Des Rois!!


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As Voyager 1 spacecraft speeds through the outermost boundary of our solar system it is tearing clods out of our understanding of the universe, say mission scientists.
Researchers at the University of Maryland's Institute for Physical Science and Technology confirmed in Science last week that Voyager 1 had crossed the termination shock, the unexplored area of space that marks the beginning of the heliosheath, where our sun's solar wind starts to run out of steam as it comes smack against the swirling currents of interstellar space. (The date this occurred had been disputed, but it happened on 16 December 2004, said the Maryland team).
When Voyager got to the shock it discovered that things were not quite as predicted. Scientists expected it to find there the source of the little understood Anomalous cosmic rays (ACRs). Instead, it found that they come from somewhere further out there on its trajectory.
Matthew Hill, an anomalous cosmic ray expert at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (who was at Maryland till this week), said the findings will help us understand other shocks, such as those created by the solar flares that wreck our communications systems and endanger our astronauts.
ACRs were thought to be created in the termination shock after electrically neutral particles had been netted from the interstellar space clouds through which our solar system hurtles on its course around the galaxy. On hitting the solar wind, the interstellar particles pick up a charge, becoming pickup ions. The ions are then accelerated with energy, it was thought, by the shock, to become anomalous cosmic rays.
ACRs are, as their name would suggest, a bit weird. They are weaker than cosmic and galactic rays, and tend to get buffeted around like clouds of manic dandelion spores on the solar wind. They exist in high densities at the edge of the solar system and spread farther apart the closer they get to the sun. They pass through the solar system without causing any bother beyond a headache for puzzled astrophysicists.
It appears they are now causing a little more turmoil than their low charges would warrant. Hill said 25 years of research on the termination shock and ACRs would now have to be revised.
"We'd now like to find out where these particles are coming from. It's either in the heliosheath or beyond," he said. "We don't know where they are coming from...But they are probably still created in the heliosphere because with their energy it would be difficult for them to come from too far away."
Next up on Voyager 1's intrepid mission into the heliosheath, in addition to discovering the source of anomalous cosmic rays, will be a greater understanding of what happens when our solar wind goes phut phut against the pressures of interstellar space - and there are probably some more theories to be debunked as well. ®


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MAM to wager a masterpiece on the Packers?
We all know that Packer fans will lay down their hearts, and perhaps a few bucks, for their team a few Sundays from now. But the Milwaukee Art Museum may wager a masterpiece on a Super Bowl win.
Here's the deal.
At about this time last year, before the Indianapolis Colts played the New Orleans Saints in the Super Bowl, art critic Tyler Green, then of the Modern Art Notes blog at ArtsJournal.com, instigated a bet between the Indianapolis and New Orleans museums of art.
Green suggested the two art museums put one of the most treasured artworks on the line for their respective teams. The museums agreed, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art wagered a painting by British romantic landscape artist JMW Turner, while the New Orleans Museum of Art put up a work by Baroque painter Claude Lorrain.
When the Saints won, Indy sent its treasured work to New Orleans, where the Turner (image left) was hung in the museum's galleries for three months. That's how it works, the losing community sends one of its best artworks to the winning one.
Green, who is now at Artinfo.com, is at it again. This year he is baiting the Carnegie Museum of Art and the Milwaukee Art Museum to put precious works on the line as a sign of support for their teams, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers. Both museums are seriously considering the bet. Dan Keegan, the director at MAM, it should be noted, is a Green Bay native. He is salivating over the idea, I'm told.
Who could turn this down? How great would it be not only to see the Packers win but to have a nice little Renoir or Van Gogh to gloat over in the bargain? Think of all the Packer fans that would stream through the museum doors to see the spoils of victory? And what better sign is there of having the whole of Wisconsin behind the Packers than having the artsy fartsy set in put-up-or-shut-up mode?
I'm all for this arty smackdown. Come on, MAM, take the bet.
The question then becomes, just which little treasures are we talking about here? I mean, MAM can't throw down a nice German beer stein, no matter how outstanding our Von Schleinitz collection of them may be, and call it a day. Ditto respectable, German genre paintings and artists most people have never heard of.
As we ponder this, let's consider what we might get from the Carnegie.
In addition to their Renoir and Van Gogh, the Carnegie Museum has this Monet, Cezanne and Degas, a Manet still life, some nice Edward Burne Joneses and this stately John Singer Sargent portrait of a boy. Wouldn't they look grand at MAM? Or, how about a lovely painting by Mary Cassatt?
So what should Wisconsin offer? If shipping costs, insurance and logistics were no issue, I'd certainly put our Kandinsky, Rothko or Fragonard at or near the top of the list. Or, how about the Calder?
I doubt Pittsburgh, the birth place of Andy Warhol and home to a museum of his work, is in need of any more Pop, but we've got some nice things in that category, including some 40 Warhols, if they needed any holes plugged, temporarily of course. Lichtenstein's "Crying Girl" would be apt.
MAM has a few Frank Lloyd Wright artifacts, but probably nothing that would impress those who live just an hour and a half from Fallingwater.
MAM is especially strong in Minimalism. I wonder, would Pittsburgh be interested in a Donald Judd, Carl Andre or Eva Hesse? These are among my personal favorites. Our eight gorgeous, dappled Bonnards and exceptional collection of Kirchners are worth a serious look, too. Among others.
If Pittsburgh wanted to make Wisconsin hurt, though, they might ask for our Janitor, a popular touchstone in the museum's galleries. The life-like, leaning sculpture is my editor's favorite work. My editor Jim Higgins, who, by the way, though born and raised in Pittsburgh, has let the Packers into his heart. Sorry Steelers.
Or, how about Tony Oursler's existential little man? Titled "MMPI (Self Portrait in Yellow)" and affectionately dubbed "The Guy With a Chair on His Head" by school groups, the installation includes a tiny rag doll, a folding chair and video projection. It's a beloved piece. It would hurt to see it go. But the odd, cranky musings of the wee doll might be just desserts for preening Steeler fans. We'd be sending a whiner to Pennsylvania in our stead, as Green reminded me in a tweet.
The best work, symbolically, though, might be Bill Viola's video installation "The Science of the Heart," which features the image of a mammoth heart, beating loud and angry, quickening and then coming to absolute stillness. What would be a better metaphor for the broken hearts in Wisconsin, should it come to that.
So, what do you think? Should MAM be all in? What should these two museums place on the line for their teams?
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There are quite a number of documentations / blogs on creating cascading (dependent) list of values in ADF Application using BC4J as model.
Some examples
1. https://blogs.oracle.com/shay/entry/got_to_love_cascading_lovs_in
2. http://mjabr.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/cascade-list-of-values/
However, these entries talk about creating list of values for master-detail attributes. In this article, I would be explaining about creating list of values which have master-detail-grand detail relationship (though the implementation is same, the use case is different).
Assuming that we've our model ready, with an VO for Person (based on Person EO), Country, State and City (read-only VOs).
Now, we'll modify the query of the dependent VOs to include a bind variable in their where clause.
We could then create List of Values for the CountryId, StateId and CityId attributes in the Person VO.
Above image shows an example for creating LOV for the CityId attribute. LOV is created for the CountryId and StateId attributes in the similar fashion.
Now that we've created LOV for all the 3 attributes, we need to pass the required values for the bind variable we created previously (in State and City VOs). That is done from the View Accessors tab of Person VO.
Now we are set to go with the dependent LOV. Before running the Tester, we need to make the CountryId and StateId attributes automatically submit their values upon change (by setting Auto Submit UI Hint to true)
(Above image shows setting Auto Submit UI Hint to true for CountryId attribute. In the same manner, set the Auto Submit UI Hint to true for the StateId attribute as well).
and add make StateId dependent on CountryId, CityId to depend on CountryId and StateId.
We are set to go now. Run the AppModule tester to verify the values.
When using this in jspx page, set the AutoSubmit properties for the CountryId and StateId components, and add the partialTriggers for StateId and CityId components with the Id of CountryId component, as shown below.
Hint: Right click on the images and select View Image to view it completely if it is cropped.
This solution works if I save all three foreign keys in the PersonVO. In my opinion it is only necessary to save the city_id, but then your example does not work (and I have no idea how to build it).


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New York, New York, July 21, 2011 - TV Land's audience continues to grow as last night's premiere episode of "Hot in Cleveland" scored a season high with total viewers.
On the heels of two Emmy(R) nominations, including Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for Betty White, "Hot in Cleveland" averaged over 2.4 million total viewers at 10 PM ET/PT, up +22% over prior week, according to Nielsen. Additionally, the series scored a 1.0 rating with A25-54, up +22% versus prior week and posted a 1.5 rating with Women 25-54, up +31% from last week.
TV Land recently renewed "Hot in Cleveland" for a third season with a 24-episode order. The series is filmed in front of a live studio audience and is executive produced by Emmy(R) Award-winner Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner of Hazy Mills Productions and is helmed by Emmy(R) Award-winning Suzanne Martin ("Frasier," "Ellen") serving as executive producer, show runner and writer. Lynda Obst also serves as executive producer, and Larry W. Jones and Keith Cox are executive producers for TV Land. "Hot in Cleveland" is currently seen around the world in over 165 countries.
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Given a random vector $(X_1,X_2)$. If $aX_1 + bX_2$ is Gaussian for all pairs $a,b$, then $(X_1,X_2)$ is jointly normal. More generally, is the following statement true? If $aX_1 + bX_2$ has the same distribution as $aY_1 + bY_2$, for all $a,b$, then $(X_1,X_2)$ has the same distribution as $(Y_1,Y_2)$. I know this is true if $(Y_1,Y_2)$ is the pullback under some diffeomorphism of a jointly normal vector. But is it true in general?
Also if I have total variation bound on the difference between $aX_1 + bX_2$ and $aY_1 + bY_2$ for all $a,b$, say above by $\epsilon$, does that give any total variation bound between the joint distributions?


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The Dutch designer Tian Zhen presented his new series of filigree lamps at this year's Luminale, the satellite event during light+building in Frankfurt.
Both versions, the pendant as well as the floor light, are simply made from sheets of Tyvek paper sewn together and folded, without any extra hidden support. The lamps have a delicate leather base and slim wooden stands.


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Vergilius Raskolnikov was an unassuming literature snob for many years, until his midlife crisis set in one second before half his skull was destroyed in a carwash accident.
When Vergilius woke up at the surgery table, his life saved by a bionik implant, he was filled with delusions of grandeur. He vowed to conquer the universe or destroy it in the attempt. Many minifigs looking for a direction in life were inspired by Vergilius' energetic megalomania. Soon he had plenty of soldiers under his command.
The power of Vergilius seemed unstoppable, and he conquered the major systems of Tomania, St. Helens and Kurtz in quick succession, as well as numerous less important worlds. His campaign against the Charybdian pirates ended in disaster, however, as Vergilius was killed when attacking a pirate party. Unfazed, his army withdrew and regrouped, confident that their leader would not let death stop him from completing his quest.
Vergilius Raskolnikov showed nothing but disdain for the horrors of the Hell he was sent to. He conquered part of it, then opened a way into the mortal world where he and some of his demons got out. The exit happened to take place on the world of Alighieri, a frozen world on the edge of FELC space. After butchering a few locals for good measure, Vergilius contacted his army. Within minutes a conquest fleet was headed for Alighieri.
The war was going and blowing things up, when suddenly those pirates appeared again. A simple fort assault turned into a chaotic bloodbath as more forces joined in, including an Immortal delegation sent to declare war on the FELC. In the end, Vergilius was killed again, before the whole damn planet was burnt to ashes.
Vergilius came back soon enough though, and led a new invasion force against the unclaimed worlds in strategic positions between his empire and the FELC. The FELC brought both their allies and their enemies, and carnage ensued. On Remarque, Vergilius was killed yet again, and the FELC stood victorious.
Some time later, one of Vergilius' ships picked up an encrypted signal broadcast from neutral A.N.U.S. space. Vergilius decided that this was a sign and set out in a expeditionary fleet to investigate. Unfortunately, the mission was intercepted by an A.N.U.S. diplomat-fleet... and soon after, the Immortals. It turned out that the signal had been sent by one of the Warhead splinters, and the "real" Warhead was on his way to face his splinter in single combat. Perhaps foolishly, Vergilius challenged the two Warheads to a drinking contest. After being decisively beaten, Vergilius and his flagship was sucked up by an Immortal black hole mine.
The Diplomat-Commodore of the A.N.U.S. forces (who escaped only by commandeering one of Vergilius' escorts) left a very unfavorable report to the A.N.U.S. council, and there were calls to exclude Vergilius Raskolnikov from the A.N.U.S. The USA eventually took matters into there own hands, stole an Amygdala-Disruptor cannon and attacked the core worlds of Vergilius' empire. Though many citizens found their amygdalas disrupted, the invasion force soon got trapped in a time anomaly.
Vergilius ran for Secretary-General of the A.N.U.S. and was supported by several other empires (for some reason). The election got postponed when the Third Alliance attacked and destroyed the A.N.U.S. headquarters, but Vergilius is still hopeful...


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Conan O'Brien is filming his late night talk show, Conan in Dallas this week, and to curry favor with the local audience, the gangly, red-headed host has been taking some pot shots at Houston. On Monday's show, Conan made a joke or two at the Astros' expense, but things got personal last night when Conan sang a song about Dallas that ended with an ad hominem attack on Houston. Or as the website describes it: "Conan wrote a catchy tune that celebrates his favorite city, Dallas, and lays waste to the hell that is Houston."
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I guess Conan is still bitter about Houston's NBC affiliate, KPRC, pushing his original show, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, to a 2 a.m. time slot for a decade.
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IF we all show up together and shop at Tugra Market
THEN 50% of all revenue will be spent on new eco-friendly lighting and cooling systems
29 Aug 2009
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August 29, 2009 was the first Carrotmob in Antwerp! The owner of Tugra, a supermarket in the Brederodestraat, promised to invest 50% of all sales that day in environmentally conscious investments in his shop. This simple eco-concept comes from the USA. Everybody shops, but we never coordinate our spending. Why not organize ourselves into a large group and go shopping in the same corner store on the same day? When we do that, we can get a store to invest a portion of our expenditures into energy saving measures. Our money is well spent, the store saves energy and money, and the environment will be better... win-win-win!
Saturday was the first Flemish Carrotmob... a great success for Antwerp! Nearly 600 customers spent 4000 euros, which means that Tugra Market is spending 2,000 euros on environmentally friendly measures, specifically related to energy savings. After the energy audit performed by Boris Forno Ville we knew that the big energy bottlenecks in Tugra Market were light and refrigeration. The old circuits for the fluorescent lights were replaced, and freezers are being adjusted from -28 ° to -18 °. Additionally, we generated a basket full of dry food and preserves which was donated to the food bank. The grocery store was open from 9:00 to 20:00, which means 0.86 minutes per paying customer.
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