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Desperate hunt is on for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 'black boxes'
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PERTH, Australia — Four weeks after the Malaysia Airlines jet vanished, two ships deployed sound locators Friday in the southern Indian Ocean in a desperate attempt to find the plane's flight recorders before their signal beacons fall silent.
Officials leading the multinational search for Flight 370 said there was no specific information that led to the underwater devices being used for the first time, but that they were brought into the effort because there was nothing to lose.
Beacons in the black boxes emit "pings" so they can be more easily found, but the batteries only last about a month.
Two ships with sophisticated equipment that can hear the pings made their way Friday along a 240-kilometer (150-mile) route investigators hope may be close to the spot where officials believe Flight 370 went down.
"No hard evidence has been found to date, so we have made the decision to search a sub-surface area on which the analysis has predicted MH370 is likely to have flown," Cmdr. Peter Leahy, the commander of military forces involved in the search, said in a statement.
Australian Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, head of the joint agency coordinating the operation, acknowledged the search area was essentially a best guess. He noted that time is running out to find the recorders.
"The locator beacon will last about a month before it ceases its transmissions — so we're now getting pretty close to the time when it might expire," Angus Houston said.
The Australian navy ship Ocean Shield towed a pinger locator from the U.S. Navy, while the British navy's HMS Echo, equipped with similar gear, looked for the recorders in an area that investigators' settled on after analyzing hourly satellite pings the aircraft gave off after it disappeared.
That information, combined with data on the estimated speed and performance of the aircraft, led them to that specific stretch of ocean, Houston said.
Because the U.S. Navy's pinger locator can pick up signals to a depth of 6,100 meters (20,000 feet), it should be able to hear the plane's data recorders even if they are in the deepest part of the search zone — about 5,800 meters (19,000 feet). But that's only if the locator gets within range of the black boxes — a tough task, given the size of the search area and the fact that the pinger locator must be dragged slowly through the water at just 1 to 5 knots, or 1 to 6 mph.
The type of locator being used is a 70-centimeter (30-inch) cylindrical microphone that is towed underwater in a grid pattern behind a ship. It's attached to about 6,100 meters (20,000 feet) of cable and is guided through the ocean depths by a yellow, triangular carrier with a shark fin on top. It looks like a stingray and has a wingspan of 1 meter (3 feet).
Finding floating wreckage is key to narrowing the search area, as officials can then use data on currents to try to backtrack to where the plane hit the water, and where the flight recorders may be.

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By now you may have seen the video making the rounds of Ben Meyers, a freshman at Berklee College of Music, "playing" the new Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion.
Ben came to LACMA for three days in August to turn the new Resnick Pavilion into his personal percussion instrument. It all came about when we saw Ben's earlier piece, Empty School via Boing Boing.
At our invitation, Ben zipped over to LACMA from the east coast (where he was spending his summer vacation after graduating high school) to spend a few days capturing sound and image. He arrived with sheet music sticking out of his backpack—a composition he put together on the plane. Then he got to work, seeking out resonant surfaces on and around the Pavilion.
The video looks so smooth, you'd think the world stopped while Ben was recording, except for that lone security guard seen headed up the BCAM stairs in the background. In fact, Ben managed to capture the recording in between some major construction activity. We had huge drills digging the foundation for the new restaurant and ticket booth nearby, and plenty more noise in and around the Pavilion.
And of course, it was hard to convince people who stumbled across Ben in process that he really did have permission to bang on the new building. Nevertheless, Ben managed to make the travertine tiles, signature red air ducts, steel signage, and Robert Irwin palm trees sing.
LACMA had no hand in the production, beyond the invitation to Ben to participate and a little help with travel arrangements and logistics. He composed the music, shot the video, recorded the sound, mixed, arranged, and produced the video himself.
The project is part of an ongoing series of commissions intended for lacma.org. Our intention is to use the web and social media to provide a place for artists, writers and musicians to create media-based projects that respond to the art and architecture at LACMA. Watch this space in the coming months for new projects by Bari Ziperstein, Steven Roden, Marisela Norte and others.
If Ben's video has you humming a tune, hang onto that melody! This weekend, artist Michael Trigilio is creating an interactive sound piece designed to be heard at LACMA, in the vicinity of the Resnick Pavilion. You'll be able to download or stream a sound work created by Michael, listen on site, and then call 1-888-361-4NPR to contribute your own voice. Visitor interactions will be folded into the sound piece over the course of a few weeks in an ongoing podcast called The Resonant Pavilion.
Bonus: we're free this Saturday and Sunday, so come on by and be a part of this work of art. (You might want to reserve your tickets in advance.)
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Obama: Drone killing is terrible...when Mitt Romney does it
Let's face it: Drone killings have become the Staples' "Easy Button" of what we used to call foreign policy.
The lesson that the French supposedly learned in Algiers and that America supposedly learned -- big-time -- in Vietnam and then all over again in Iraq was that insurgencies and terrorists are hard to defeat when the hearts and minds of the local population have turned stone cold against you.
But we all know that winning hearts and minds halfway around the world is impossibly hard work: It requires time and money and patience...the kind of things that are in short supply in America in 2012. In Afghanistan, building roads or new schools isn't easy in the face of centuries of virtually non-stop warfare and hatred.
But then there's drones. Surgically removing the bad guys in Afghanistan -- and, what the hey, Pakistan and Yemen, etc., etc. -- while leaving the good guys intact to breathe in the smell of freedom. What could possibly go wrong? Especially when the Obama administration came up with the way of listing civilians who are killed in the drone strikes as terrorists and when the basic details of the program are kept from Congress and the general public...except for the self-serving details that are leaked to the New York Times.
It seems so...easy. Just think if LBJ had had drones in Vietnam or Jimmy Carter during the Iranian hostage crisis, and how different things might have been! Right? Anyway, I thought I'd lost my capacity to be shocked by anything I read about the drone program until I read this (in the New York Times, of course) this morning:
WASHINGTON — Facing the possibility that President Obama might not win a second term, his administration accelerated work in the weeks before the election to develop explicit rules for the targeted killing of terrorists by unmanned drones, so that a new president would inherit clear standards and procedures, according to two administration officials.
The matter may have lost some urgency after Nov. 6. But with more than 300 drone strikes and some 2,500 people killed by the Central Intelligence Agency and the military since Mr. Obama first took office, the administration is still pushing to make the rules formal and resolve internal uncertainty and disagreement about exactly when lethal action is justified.
The attempt to write a formal rule book for targeted killing began last summer after news reports on the drone program, started under President George W. Bush and expanded by Mr. Obama, revealed some details of the president's role in the shifting procedures for compiling "kill lists" and approving strikes. Though national security officials insist that the process is meticulous and lawful, the president and top aides believe it should be institutionalized, a course of action that seemed particularly urgent when it appeared that Mitt Romney might win the presidency.
"There was concern that the levers might no longer be in our hands," said one official, speaking on condition of anonymity. With a continuing debate about the proper limits of drone strikes, Mr. Obama did not want to leave an "amorphous" program to his successor, the official said. The effort, which would have been rushed to completion by January had Mr. Romney won, will now be finished at a more leisurely pace, the official said.
Simply put, what Team Obama is saying here is that killing people with drone strikes (but without judicial reviews or public scrunity) is good and virtuous when Barack Obama is the one with his finger on the "Easy" button, but it might be wrong if anyone else does, especially someone we already don't like, such as Mitt Romney. Or. let me put it even simpler: When it comes to drones, Obama now actually believes his own righteous baloney.
The truth is that Mitt Romney -- as we learned during the debates -- would not have operated the drone-killing program any different from Barack Obama. The flying death robots would be used a lot, and some bad guys would die and some innocent women and children would die -- just as happens today. And another truth is this: This is exactly what some civil libertarians warned -- but not loud enough -- when presidential powers were unconstitutionally expanded under George W. Bush, that a Democratic president would not give these powers back. And the biggest truth is this: That the corrupting power of drone killings -- to make things happen with the push of a button rather than the messy process of dealing with judges and Congress and a free press asking questions -- is all but absolute. Look how it has sucked in President Obama -- lock, stock, and barrel.
Today's New York Times article does a very good job of reminding us of some of the reasons why this is such a bad idea. It quotes author Gregory Johnsen who has found that the drone program has completely backfired in Yemen, strengthening al-Qaeda there instead of destroying it. Also, America -- which once opposed targeted assassinations by other nations, as happened earlier this month by the Israelis in Gaza -- has now lost the moral high ground on this issue.
There is also faint hope in the Times article, that a faction within the Obama administration that wants limits on drone strikes may ultimately rule the day. (That faction includes counter-terrorism czar John O. Brennan who -- significantly for this issue -- could end up running the CIA.)
Let's hope so. Targeted assassinations are the moral issue of Obama's second term. He now has a little extra time...to still do the right thing. But morality deferred is still morality denied.


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In a well-publicised case in India, Graham Staines, an Australian Christian missionary, was burnt to death by hindus along with his sons Timothy (aged 9) and Philip (aged 7), while they were sleeping in his station wagon at Manoharpur village in Keonjhar district in Orissa in January 2015. He was running the Evangelical Missionary Society of Mayurbhanj, an Australian missionary society. Claims of Staines' "distribution of beef & desecrating Hindu Deities" were the primary justification for this attack.
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Why I became an oncologist
Editor's note: George Sledge, M.D., is president of the American Society of Clinical Oncologists, the organization of America's cancer doctors, whose annual meeting begins today. Treating cancer can be an extraordinarily difficult field, guiding patients on a roller coaster ride of fear, pain and sometimes true exhilaration. Dr. Sledge shares the story of the patient who made him decide to become an oncologist.
Cancer doctors tend to get to their profession in one of three ways. Some are drawn in through their love of cancer science. Cancer has always been something like a cobra to those who study it: dangerous and beautiful and endlessly fascinating. Cancer is a universe. One can spend an entire life exploring it without ever getting bored, for the biology of cancer is the biology of life.
Some doctors are inspired by a great teacher. Medicine is still a profession dominated by old-world apprenticeships, where a mentor's passion can be transmitted to a new generation. I have known several oncologists whose careers turned on chance encounters with inspiring professors.
Others get there by way of their patients. I'm one of these. When I was a resident, cancer patients were the ones who touched my heart. In fact, I can remember the very moment I started my path to becoming an oncologist.
We worked through the night stabilizing her. Her veins were hard to access–they had all been used up during her time at the other hospital. In those days (the late 1970's) we lacked modern venous access devices, and I remember it taking a frighteningly long time establishing an intravenous line. Through it all I spoke to Carmie, who was a cheerful if appropriately anxious African-American woman, somewhat overweight, proud of her children and her loving family. We poured several units of blood into her that night, bringing her back from the brink.
We spent the next couple of days establishing a diagnosis. She had Acute Myelogenous Leukemia, then as now a dangerous disease requiring toxic chemotherapy to clear the blood and bone marrow of treacherous cells. I learned the diagnosis shortly after morning rounds. Her staff doctor, an elderly hematologist (or so he seemed then, though I am now about his age) would, I discovered, be off campus until the following morning. I knew that Carmie and her family were desperate for news, so I phoned the staff physician and asked if it was OK for me to speak to her. He agreed.
I had never told a patient that he or she had cancer before. I sat on the edge of her bed and told her that she had a type of leukemia, that it was very dangerous but that it was potentially curable with chemotherapy. I told her that we would be starting treatment the following morning, as soon as her staff physician had a chance to go over the drug regimen with her.
Carmelita had sat quietly while I spoke, a sad look on her face. When I was through she said, almost in a whisper, "Doctor Sledge, who will take care of my children?"
It was the last thing I was expecting, and it was thoroughly devastating. I did not know how to answer. Today I hope I would do better, but at the time I was in my mid-twenties, just a few years older than Carmie, and I did not know how to answer that question. I stammered something, barely maintaining my composure, and then left her room and hid in a stairwell for a half an hour sobbing.
The next day we started her chemotherapy regimen, full of hope. I spoke to her regularly, and to her family. Her husband, a quiet decent man, stood by looking worried. Her mother, a medical technician who understood leukemia, rarely left her daughter's bedside. They were the sort of family we all should have.
For several days things went well. Then, as her blood counts plummeted in response to the chemotherapy, she developed an infection in the area of her intravenous line, followed by sepsis. Her blood pressure dropped, and her breathing became rapid and labored. She was transferred to the intensive care unit, intubated, and treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics. Sometime in the middle of the night, disoriented and alone, she pulled the breathing tube out of her mouth. Though she was quickly re-intubated, things rapidly went from bad to worse, and she died the following day.
I went home that night in a furiously angry mood. I was supposed to be going out with my girlfriend, but in my grief and guilt I simply could not think straight or act civil, so I begged off. I relived every moment of her care: what had I missed, what could I have done differently, what foul-up had I committed that kept a 22 year-old from taking care of her young children? It is the arrogance of interns that they believe that acute leukemia would turn out differently if only they had gotten a little more sleep.
A few weeks later I got a call from Carmelita's mother. She wanted to meet with me. I agreed, with real trepidation. The wound was still too raw, and there was part of me that feared she might hold me responsible for her daughter's passing.
But she was as gracious as I could ever have imagined. I have three sons, all in their twenties, and if one of them died of leukemia I do not know how I would handle it. Poorly, I suspect. But she was dignified, pleasant and grateful. She told me that Carmie, before she had died, had told her that, come what may, she wanted to give me a gift to thank me for my care, and for the hours I had spent with her. She then handed me $40 and told me I was to spend it on something fun. Carmie had wanted it that way.
My patients, starting with Carmelita Steele, have taught me so much about what it means to be a good doctor and, I hope, a good person. I am an oncologist because of her, and it is a job I have loved for three decades. But Carmelita's question still haunts me: "who will take care of my children?"
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Best-selling author Melissa de la Cruz is working on a book based on the Disney Channel movie "Descendants."
Disney Publishing Worldwide announced Wednesday that "Isle of the Lost" will be a prequel to the planned TV movie about the children of Maleficent and other Disney villains. The movie will be directed by "High School Musical" director Kenny Ortega and will star Kristin Chenoweth. The book and the film come out next year.
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" I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones."
Faye Dunaway is an American actress whose career began in the early 1960s on Broadway, and has won an Academy Award, three Golden Globes, a BAFTA, an Emmy, and was the first recipient of a Leopard Club Award for leaving a mark on collective imagination.
She was born on Tuesday January 14th 1941, in Bascom, Florida, United States.
2023 is a year to be organized and practical. Faye Dunaway has to take care of details, while committing herself entirely to her goals. Faye's concentration and ability to focus will be much improved over last year. She will have an attitude of realism and determination.
There can be a sense of limitation and some frustration during 2023. However, it is a year of important opportunities that must be seized. There can be considerable work-related travel. Dunaway must be flexible this year to make full use of the opportunities that present themselves. It will require a combination of perseverance, hard work, and versatility. Faye Dunaway will receive recognition for her efforts and support from her friends and family.
2023 is a good year to buy real estate or remodel her home. It is also a good time to take care of projects which have been postponed for to long. Faye ought to fulfill her obligations and not be afraid to spend some of that hard earned money. Selling and trading during this year usually is quite successful. 2023 is the year to work on her foundation and prepare herself for the many changes that will undoubtedly come next year. As a result of her hard work, there will be much satisfaction and a feeling of accomplishment.
January and February 2023 will bring some important change, a new opportunity perhaps. March 2023 requires self-reflection and reshaping of Dunaway's plans. It is a good time to meditate on what lies ahead. June 2023 brings a new and important step - a breakthrough, perhaps - in her work. October 2023 brings changes and a sense of chaos. Faye Dunaway may feel threatened by the changes that are on the horizon. But November 2023 brings assistance in the form of a promotion or additional financial support.
Let's take a look now at Faye's monthly forecast for March 2023.
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About Faye's Personal Year Cycle
In numerology, each year of Faye's life is part of an evolving pattern that can be described as a nine-year cycle or epicycle. These cycles begin at Faye Dunaway's birth and progress, one by one, through nine steps that complete an epicycle, and then begin again.
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A news story came out today that specifically served a client of mine. It was a national news story that could help them support their current clients with helpful information, and help convert potential clients with persuasive, current event information. Unfortunately, this client has been adamant against blogs, interactive websites, and social media.
In my Prove It! campaign article series I've been looking at how we "prove it" on the web, prove our value to the world, clients, prospective clients, readers, and fans. While I've been focusing on identifying and clarifying your online persona, writing a solid and convincing About Page, and building trust through your website content and design, let's look at this concept of "prove it" through the eyes of your clients and your social web marketing strategies and methodologies.
Customers make some assumptions about your products and services. They expect warranties, guarantees, and right of return. They also expect to be kept informed of updates, news, changes, sales, and other marketing material that shows you are committed to keeping them as customers.
What are your web-based avenues for such marketing and community building? Have you taken a moment to really analyze how response and interactive you are with your customers and potential clients?
What are Your Web-Based Avenues for Marketing and Communication?
My client made a conscious decision to restrict their client communication to email and direct face-to-face. Their site is merely a billboard on the web with basic contact information. Other than sending out an email to known people about the news, and no avenue for press release or social networks for announcements, his avenues for taking advantage of the news were limited. This works for him, but today is a moment that brings that policy into question. How can he connect with current clients and future clients to alert them to the newsworthy item?
The open and transparent social web market is still a giant unknown and fearful playground for many people. Yet it is critical to our success to reach out and take advantage of the social web. With clients nervous about the web, I ask them to treat it like they would any market research and use networks and communication tools that are familiar to them.
Target Your Demographics – Know Thy Audience
If you want customers, you go where they are to increase your opportunities. You analyze the market demographics and target your approach.
If your customers are on Facebook, you must make Facebook your new best friend. If they are on Ning, get on Ning. If they are in specific user groups or forums, go there.
The social web isn't one giant network, it is a series of nodes where people gather through commonality, like minds brought together by a common interest and enthusiasm. They aren't all on Facebook or Twitter. You want to find knitters and crafters, Ravelry is your first stop. If you want to connect with artists, deviantART is where the exceptional hang out. In my ebook, "Social Media for Crafters," I cover many of the social networks that serve artists and crafters and how to find your own community. While the focus is on crafters, the techniques serve all businesses. Identify your market and hang out where they spend their time and money.
Part of the "Prove It" series is how to prove yourself through your site, so once you have targeted your social web demographics, it's time to bring them back to your blog and use it to cultivate your network even more through interactive communication.
Direct Email
Email continues to be the most popular methodology for traditional communiques. People now leave emails more than phone messages or send letters. How is your site set up to collect emails from those who wish to receive direct email correspondence? Do you have a contact form? Do you save the email information in a way you can reuse it? Do you invite people to subscribe to news and announcements separate from your site's published material and auto-announcements?
Newsletters by email continue to also be popular, though they are so ubiquitous, people tend to ignore them unless their value is critical to their life and work. Not everyone or business needs a newsletter, but if you do wish to expand your communication opportunities, do you have an easily-identifiable newsletter subscription form on your site?
Site Subscriptions
Site subscriptions come in several flavors. On this bullet point, they are email-based subscriptions for those wishing to be alerted when you publish new content on your site. These email updates happen automatically, reducing your workload, and provide the subscriber with the full or excerpt version of your latest post and an invite to visit your site to get more information. Everyone should have this feature on their site.
There are many WordPress Plugins and Widgets to add this feature to your WordPress site.
Another form of subscription is through site feeds. Mistakenly referred to generally as RSS, feeds include RSS, Atom, and other XML formats.
Do you have an easy to find feed? Do you have a Subscribe page that lists all the ways to subscribe to your site including a list of the various feeds by category, tag, author, all posts, all comments, etc.?
With the popularity of Google Reader and the new mobile version of Google Reader called Google Currents, your feeds are becoming more and more important for reaching your audience with site updates automatically.
By the way, when was the last time you validated and tested your feeds?
Social Networks
Many believe they have to subscribe to every social network out there and work them all. While it is important to preserve your namespace on all social networks, again, where is your audience?
Work the social networks where you have a higher opportunity for return on your investment. However, there are three ways to take advantage of the social web: Share, Push, and Pull.
Share is to help your site visitors share your content with others. Make sure you have social sharing features on your site and each post. People like to share good news and information, so make it easy for them.
Push is to tell the world about your news and invite them to learn more. You can do this through automation with WordPress Plugins that push out notifications to social networks every time you publish a new post.
Pull is to bring the social web audience back to you. This is done through push auto-notifications to social networks and you building up a fan-base and community and giving them reason to keep coming back for more.
Serve Your Mobile Market
Have you checked your web analytics lately to really get a feel for how people are accessing your site? While it is easy to be dismissive of mobile technologies in the United States, the truth is that mobile Internet access is quickly surpassing traditional desktop access to the web around the world. Mobile adoption rates in the United States are slow but growing quickly.
Is your site mobile-friendly? You don't need a mobile app unless it serves a specific purpose and client-base, but your site MUST be designed to be easily accessible via a smart phone and/or tablet. Have you tested it lately?
People who need to know now in their business are connecting, searching, and collecting information via mobile technologies. They are picking up their email, visiting websites, and searching through their phones. They want text message notifications. They want regular updates by email and the social web. They want to make a decision and take action immediately and not wait to get back to their desktop computers. Be ready for them.
If the news or trending topic is critical to your business, make sure that your site takes advantage of search engine optimization techniques by keyword optimization.
If the news is about pet safety and your site is about pet grooming, it's time to go through the content and add new content or edit old content to address pet safety to increase the changes of being organically found in search results.
Today's hottest news is about US President Obama's new orders that allows young illegal immigrants respite from deportation. If your site covers migration, immigration, illegal workers, or any related topic such as politics, you will want to have your site pop to the top with the keywords related to today's news.
Separate Social Network Accounts
I maintain several Twitter and other social media accounts, some for specific blogs and companies, others for the different "versions" of me. I'm a trainer and teacher, so I have avenues of convening information directly related to my social web training and teaching. I'm also a WordPress evangelist as Matt Mullenweg calls me, so I use my @lorelleonwp Twitter account to stay fairly WordPress-centric there. My @Lorelle Twitter account is a place for me to announce anything and say anything that represents me on the web without being tied to a specific product or service.
If you are making a lot of personal noise on your social web accounts, will people pay attention when you have something newsworthy to say, or will it be lost in the babble? Maybe, maybe not, but you need to analyze how you use your social web accounts to maximize the return on customers and business.
Search Engine Marketing
Yesterday's newspaper ads are today's search engine marketing, an advertising method that targets individuals based upon contextual marketing strategies through search engine results and on-site advertising. If you need to extend your reach online, maybe it's time to use traditional methods modernly and buy some contextual advertising.
Make sure that you have your site ready for the visitors and landing pages are in place to funnel them down the right path.
Create a Separate Site
A long-time practice of cross-marketing involves setting up a separate site to handle the news or current activities around a specific marketing campaign and pushing and pulling traffic between them. That is always an option, but I've found that it dilutes the energies, response, and brains of many of my clients. Keeping everything centralized, you tend to put more energy and commitment into making the singular work better for you. The key is to build a long lasting relationship. Still, some people have learned how to make it work well for them.
Does your site have or need a forum or it's own social network like BuddyPress? Make sure you make announcements there and help your community discuss the news and story. They are your community, there because they feel value and connection, so don't forget them.
Your Own Unique Nature of Communicating
Don't forget that we all have a unique way of conveying our messages. You have your own style, so use it. If not, get one. Find a way of connecting with your audience that keeps them coming back for more and telling their friends about you. Prove it by proving yourself as a resource.
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A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.As Winterfell characters often remark in Game of Thrones: "winter is coming".
- George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
So the winter comes
where we belong
I feel the cold
within my heart
I see the night
deep in your eyes
the winter comes at last...
- Covenant, Winter Comes
Winter is nearing and there is absolutely no doubt about that. You can feel it in your lungs with every breath you take, smell it in the air, taste its watery sapidity, hear its broisterous complaint and deadly silence, and witness it through your eyes focused on barren landscapes and white mountain tops. Everywhere there are signs of the impending bitter season and whether you want it or not, it is only the beginning. So if you are wise enough, you'd better get your duvet jackets, wolly hats, fleece scarves and leather gloves out of the wardrobe or you'll end up frozen like an icicle...
Let us love the winter for it is the spring of geniuses.Most people fear and loathe this gloomy and glacial period of the year, but not me. Wintry weather makes me gleeful and dissemilarly to a majority of the population, I never get a bad case of the blues once the trees are stark naked and the fall sunlight commences to fade. As a matter of fact, when November dies and painfully gives birth to December, glowing joy and powerful positiveness invades the very core of my soul. This is paradise!
- Pietro Aretino
December is an old friend; it reminds you of the past, together you share some laughs and tears, you feel warm-hearted though it's freezing outside
- Mohamed Atef
After all I am a capricorn who was born on a frigid full moon Christmas morning (the 25th, precisely) and I have Helvetic, British and Russian blood running through my veins (and maybe a little Danish blood too). Consequently, I'm related to an ancient race of humans (the Teutons, Northmen and Slavs) reputed for having the capacity to brave the cold and being insensible to extreme meteorologic conditions - I guess this also explains my strong attraction to Northern Hemisphere countries and regions such as Great Britain, Scandinavia, Canada, Alaska, Siberia, etc... It's in my genes.
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.When gusts of freezing wind chill you to the bones, croaking crows break the ghastly quietude, mesmerizing starling murmurations - similar to evil clouds - hover over towns, snow heavily tumbles down like chalky rose petals and starts flirting with the plains, nature is frozen still, duck egg blue skies magically appear through the thick fog, darkness covers the countryside and a fiery sunsets illuminate the horizon, my brain becomes hyperactive, my energy is multiplied and exhilaration kicks in.
- Albert Camus, The Stranger
I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Jack Frost is my drug, my muse, my guide, my lover and my friend. He knocks me off my feet, inspires me, stimulates my intellect, helps me focus on what's important in life, puts me in a happy and romantic mood, fills me with endless hope, feeds my hunger for adventure, uplifts my spirit and gets me going.
From December though March, I savor every passing moment and enjoy the soothing comfort of my snuggly apartment, relish rustic food that sticks to the ribs (only on weekends though, otherwise I'd end up looking like a Michellin woman!) and brings a grin of satisfaction to my face, appreciate cuddling up on the settee with a cup of steaming cappuccino or spicy chai and revel in spending some cosy afternoons with my friends or evenings with my dearest. It is the time for relaxing at home and engaging in cheering activities.
At my table, variety rules and I rarely serve the same legume twice in the same week, hence my fridge is chock-a-block full with greens of many colors, shapes and sizes. Not only do I adore eating those harbaceus plants, but I also have loads of fun inventing new dishes with them.
While some of my experiments are only worth being metioned on my Facebook page (where I speak about my daily meals), some of the recipes I put together are just too exquisite not to be fully shared on my blog. It is the case with one of my latest creations to date: a festive "Farro Salad With Roasted Pumpkin, Dried Cranberries And Ras-El-Hanout Vinaigrette" inspired by my fondness for Middle Eastern, North-African and Mediterranean cuisine.
This unique, luscious, sweet and savory, hearty, spicy and colorful main course is a real showstopper. Indeed, nothing captures the attention more than a glorious bouquet of flavors as well as a harmonious combination of aromas and textures - the roasted and soft pumpkin, nutty and crunchy farro, sour and chewy cranberries, fragrant dill, heady mustard, deeply toasted sesame seeds, pungent citrus zest, creamy tahini and exotic ras-el-hanout spice come together just marvelously.
A hors-d'oeuvre which is perfect for any occasion - be it lunch, supper, a picnic, your family's Yuletide banquet or New Year's Eve Party - and will please both vegetarians and carnivores alike - it can be served per se or as accompaniment to meat, fish, cheese, tofu or seitan.
Give it a try, you'll be conquered!
Serves 2.
Ingredients For The Salad:
550g Pumpkin, roasted (see recipe) and cut into 1cm/0.39inch cubes
250g Raw farro, cooked (see recipe)
1 Onion (small), chopped finely
The zest of 1 organic lemon
3 Tbs Sesame seeds, toasted
4 Tbs dried cranberries
Fresh dill, chopped, to taste
Ingredients For The Vinaigrette:
1 Clove garlic, crushed
2 Tbs Tahini paste
1 Tsp Semi-strong mustard
1 Tsp Ras-El-Hanout
6 Tbs Olive oil
3 Tbs Lemon juice
1 Tbs Apple vinegar
Fine sea salt, to taste
Black pepper, freshly ground, to taste
1. In a medium bowl, whisk together all the ingredients for the Vinaigrette.
2. In a big salad bowl, put all the ingredients for the salad and add the vinaigrette.
3. Delicately combine.
4. Plate the salad and sprinkle with extra dill.
Choose a type of pumpkin that can be roasted (potimarron, butternut squash, blue Hokkaido, sugar pie, red kuri, tan cheese, etc...).
Both the farro and pumpkin can be used either warm or at room temperature.
Serving suggestions:
Serve as main course alone or accompanied with fish, meat, pan-fried tofu, seitan steaks or cheese and pair with Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Riesling, Pinot Grigio or Sauvignon Blanc.
Salade De Petit Épautre À La Courge, Aux Canneberges Séchées Et Au Ras-El-Hanout
Recette par Rosa Mayland, Décembre 2013.
Pour 2 personnes.
Ingrédients Pour La Salade:
550g de Courge, rôtie au four (voir recette) et coupée en dés de 1cm
250g de Petit épautre (cru), cuit (voir recette)
1 Oignon (petit), haché finement
Le zeste d'un citron bio
3 CS de Graines de sésame, torréfiées
4 CS de Canneberges séchées
Aneth fraîche, hachée, selon goût
Ingrédients Pour La Vinaigrette:
1 Gousse d'ail, écrasée
2 CS de Tahini
1 CC de Moutarde mi-forte
1 CC de Ras -El- Hanout
6 CS d'Huile d'olive
3 CS de Jus de citron
1 CS de Vinaigre de pomme
Fleur de sel, selon goût
Poivre noir, fraîchement moulu, selon goût
1 . Dans un bol moyen, mélanger ensemble tous les ingrédients pour la vinaigrette .
2 . Dans un grand saladier, mettre tous les ingrédients pour la salade et ajouter la vinaigrette.
3 . Mélanger délicatement.
4 . Garnir les assiettes avec la salade et saupoudrer avec un peu d'aneth.
Choisissez une courge qui peut être rôtie (potimarron, butternut, courge musquée, etc...).
Le petit épeautre et la courge peuvent être utilisés légèrement chauds ou à température ambiante.
Suggestion d'accompagnement :
Servir comme plat principal seul ou accompagné de poisson, de viande, de tofu poêlé, de steaks de seitan ou de fromage. Ce plat se marie bien avec un Chardonnay, Pinot Noir , Riesling, Pinot Grigio ou Sauvignon Blanc.


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Today's Music: PJ Harvey – One Time Too Many
Thank. God. I thought I'd never make it this far into the week. Ridiculously busy at work! Rough commute! It snowed!!! Sheesh! Good thing I had blogs to get me through. Here's some of what I saw…
Susie Lindau Smooshed Her Boobs. DJ Matticus' Prince fought a Great Battle! And WhiteladyInTheHood had a run-in with…well… Bunny Tails. Sort of.
Thanks to them and everyone else for a whole lot of great reading this week!
But last week, sex was on everyones minds. Especially when we asked about turning into the opposite sex. And wow, did you people have some interesting thoughts on the subject. (Seriously, get help!) Here's what you said. (As always, my comments are androgynous in italics.)
Figure out if it's really all that hard to aim into the BOWL (Samara)
(Of course it isn't. Sinks are wide! Oh..waitaminute..)
Words can't describe the assault I would lay siege to my new apparatus (Samara)
(For that, grunts are better than words.)
Say feck loudly and in a deep voice, while scratching my balls :-\ Indecisive Eejit
(RuPaul? Is that you?)
make sure the snozberries still tasted like snozberries. thematticuskingdom
(That's the last time I'm checking Urban Dictionary for definitions.)
immediately steal The Queen's title. thematticuskingdom
check the calendar to see if it was some sort of Freaky Friday. thematticuskingdom
(Doublecheck that it isn't 1976.)
Poke someone… Yes of course with my finger 😉 lol Andro
(Whew! Because you can take someone's eye out with those other things!)
Flirt a lot more than usual, hey I'm kidding 🙂 Andro
(What is more than an "infinite" amount?)
Slap myself twenty times… Shouting get me out of here – Andro
(Two men enter. One man…umm…nevermind)
prove that men can have multiple orgasms. Aussa Lorens
(We don't because of the dehydration risks.)
Finally be able to kill my own spiders. The Sailor's Woman
(Well that's not taking very good care of your pets…)
become a militant feminist and chide my former self for intense dumbness (Trent)
Fart and blame it on the dog, yell at the TV and pretend to fix stuff. Kayjai
(Even better if you don't own a dog!)
Listen to the song "If I were a boy" by Beyonce? #WeirdIKnow
(So…bad taste in music regardless of gender?)
Slap myself across the face repeatedly just so I could wake up from this horror
(So you're still into that, regardless of gender?)
take a duckface selfie (Stacy)
(At least you'll be able to hide it behind facial hair.)
(Like a little girl?)
wear kilts and suits! NBI
(You can get a mankini. Good for any gender!)
have serious balls. (Nadia)
(If you'd grown up with them, they'd probably be more playful…)
Do a pee, leave the seat up and think HARD about WHY I do something so annoying! Miss Lou
(Or revel in doing it the right way!)
Be dumber than I was before I went to sleep Elyse 54.5
(Yes…but you wouldn't care!)
Scratch myself in public and then spit on the ground in front of myself
(Hmm…not sure which gender you're changing to…)
get a big set of fake boobs!! SnB
(Oh, I have a pair of those mounted on the wall.)
(Zoe) Wonder why I had a man in my bed
(Because if he were under it, it would lead to a whole lot of questions…)
(Zoe) I would have a new toy to play with.
(Careful it doesn't go off while you're cleaning it…)
Be boring as hell! SnaapyG
(We prefer to think of it as "being introspective".)
Find out which organ I really think with… (Gretchen, drifting through.com)
(No thinking involved.)
(With either of them.)
…be glad to give my brain a break from doing all the thinking. (Miz Yank)
(Or start thinking about important stuff!)
Make my husband, 37, get a sex change — Linda Vernon
(Just don't let him do it with his own tools!)
In my best Corleone way I would yell out "I GET TO ACT LIKE A MAN" Marie Nicole
(I thought every man acted like a boy?)
play with my new boobies… Twindaddy
(You wouldn't return them when you changed back, would you.)
earn 20 cents more on the dollar and never again wait in line for a restroom!
(Wait in line? We just pee outside when it's crowded.)
PMAO… be glad I have long, sexy legs.
(Nono, this is after the sex change.)
still write about my naughty bits – Rutabaga
(What, no video?)
Refuse to answer the question for fear of reprisal. (Frank)
(If these polls have taught me anything, it's that there are no right answers.)
Enjoy peeing standing up. (Deanna)
(Why not? I often enjoy it then! Or while walking…)
see if scratching my junk is all that it's cracked up to be. Polysyllabic Profundities
(Once you scratch junk, all else is…bunk!(?))
Relish having one thought at a time. Bliss! – Sandy Mitchell
I would never reduce myself to a single orgasm entity. – Sandy Mitchell
(There's an amoeba joke in there somewhere…)
Congratulations to Trent for this weeks winning answer! (And we hope he uses his prize to work out his issues.) And from the offered choices, the most popular was still look great. So congratulations on all the self confidence!
This week, Easter is coming right before Passover leaves. But instead the end of the weekend, this poll is about what happens at the beginning. Good Friday! What could be better than that.
Well, that's what we'd like to know.
Answer often, but answer soon, because this one closes at 2359 EDT on Tuesday, 22 April. Try and keep yourself to three Other answers if you do write-ins, and if you do leave an Other, add a way to recognize you at the end, and I'll link back to you next week.
And since the new Captain America is out (good flick. Stay til the end of the credits.), enjoy this as we head into the weekend.
See you…out there.


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Federal and local officials are also expected to be on hand for the announcement, scheduled for noon Monday at the plant.
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Anyone with a smidgen of intelligence, anyone who has ever used the grey matter that Hakodosh Boruch Hu gave him/her, realizes that in this age when animals are raised much faster than nature intended them to (with the help of various chemicals added to their foods), red meat consumption has to be cut down. Even yours truly, carnivore to the core, admits it. Thus, I welcomed Roberta Kalechosky's books when I first heard of them. While I never intended, nor intend, to abandon my preference for meat I was looking for healthy tasty alternatives.
When I got The Vegetarian Shabbat Cookbook by Roberta Kalechofsky and Roberta Schiff and The Vegetarian Pessach Cookbook by Roberta Kalechofsky, I expected to find some great recipes that would lessen my interest in meat dishes. Instead, while I found some intriguing possibilities I also found myself barraged – specifically in the Passover book – with anti meat sophistry based on often made up statistics (even if Ms. Kalechofsky quotes others), out of context quotes and even horribly misquoted quotes. The Vegetarian Pessach Cookbook (published in 2002) spends the first 20 of its 72 pages preaching against eating meat in terms that misunderstand – or purposely obfuscate the intent of – the religious texts she quotes and bringing politics as a reason for ceasing our consumption of meat. I could go on, but I see little point in continuing to discuss the all too often shrill tone of the author's polemics.
In The Vegatarian Shabbat Cookbook, (published in 2010) a far more attractive tome, far less shrill and more than three times the number of pages than the earlier one, there are some good recipes. Whether she has matured in her thought in the eight years since she published the Passover book, whether she studied Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, or whether her co-author – Roberta Schiff – served as as a tempering foil, she has curbed down her anger and her politics. What emerges instead is a far more sensible book with some interesting possibilities for those who would vary their diets and veer away from constantly eating meat. While none of the recipes got me very excited, unlike other cookbooks we reviewed on this pages, some are definitely not bad and here's one I intend to try:
Roasted Root Vegetables With Wine Sauce
Preheat Oven to 375 F
- 3 golden beets scrubbed
- 1 turnip, scrubbed, but not peeled, if organic
- 2 parsnips, scrubbed, but not peeled, if organic
- 2 large potatoes, do not peel if organic
- 3 carrots, scrubbed, do not peel, if organic
- 3 medium or 2 large sweet potatoes, peeled
- 4 Tablespoons olive oil
- 8 shallot cloves
- 2 garlic cloves
- 2 teaspoons of a good prepared mustard
- 1/2 teaspoon cumin
- 1/3 cup red or white wine
- sea salt and pepper to tasteBring a large soup pot to boil.Cut all the vegetables into large chunks and put the chunked vegetables in to the boiling water in three or four batches. Boil 2-4 minutes for each batch. Take each batch out and drain.Put the olive oil in a large skillet. Mix wine, mustard and cumin. When oil is hot (but not smoking), add the mixture of vegetables to the oil.Add the root vegetables and the sliced shallots and garlic. Stir-fry until golden at the edges. Combine wine with the mustard and cumin and add to the pan. Add salt and pepper.Transfer to a roasting pan and roast for 45 minutes. Turn over every 10-15 minutes.They should be golden and crispy.Serves 6-8
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David Ray Papke, has posted his recent paper, "Law, Legal Institutions, and the Criminalization of the Underclass" on SSRN. Here's the abstract.
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The contemporary underclass is defined not by race but rather by its weak or nonexistent ties to the labor market. Members of the underclass are more likely to be labeled as criminals than are any other members of society. The process is not a tightly coordinated conspiracy, but in various ways police, prosecutors, and jailers routinely deem members of the underclass to be nefarious lawbreakers. While in many cases underclass men and women have committed acts that justify this perception, the criminal justice system as a whole is too eager and too hasty to attach the criminal label to members of the underclass. What's more, law and legal institutions contribute to an even broader process of criminalization, one which assumes the entire underclass is criminal. This criminalization of the underclass dooms members of the underclass to be outsiders in American life and becomes a central and powerful premise in the general framework of sociopolitical thought.
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To download the paper for free, click here. For a sample of related Situationist posts, see "A Situationist View of Criminal Prosecutors," "Jennifer Eberhardt's "Policing Racial Bias" – Video," "The Situation of Criminality – Abstract," "Clarence Darrow on the Situation of Crime and Criminals," "The Racial Situation of Criminal Juries and the Consequences," "The Situation of "Justice" in Tulia Texas," "Jena 6 – Part I," and "Jena 6 – Part II."


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Researchers have discovered new Mac-based malware that's designed to trick users into paying pricey subscription fees.
Dubbed Trojan.SMSSend.3666, the trojan masquerades as "VKMusic 4 for Mac," a name that closely resembles an app used to listen to music on a popular Russian social networking site, according to a report published on Wednesday by Russia-based antivirus provider Doctor Web. An installer prompts users for a cell phone number, purportedly as part of the registration process. Users who respond to a subsequent text message then receive a bill charged to their mobile account.
"Trojans of this family used to plague Windows users, but Trojan.SMSSend.3666 targets owners of Apple computers," Wednesday's advisory stated.
The installer is being spread under an affiliate program known as ZipMonster, a service that has helped scammers design similar malicious trojans in the past. The discovery is further proof that users of all computer platforms should be careful to download programs only from official websites.


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No fax faux pas this time: Elvis Dumervil spurns Denver Broncos for Baltimore Ravens
DENVER – Elvis Dumervil is putting his seven seasons in Denver and one bizarre fax fiasco behind him after agreeing to a five-year deal with the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday.
So, after a second stinging loss to the Ravens this offseason, the Broncos find themselves in need of a new pass-rushing partner for Von Miller.
Broncos football operations chief John Elway issued a statement Sunday saying the Broncos "worked diligently over the last week" to re-sign Dumervil but "are now moving forward without him."
Free agents John Abraham, 34, and Dwight Freeney, 33, visited the Broncos last week and it's expected one of them will sign on soon to replace Dumervil, 29.
Dumervil collected 63½ sacks in seven seasons in Denver, three of which ended with Pro Bowl berths. He was scheduled to fly from his offseason home in Miami to Baltimore to take his physical Tuesday and sign his new contract.
On March 15, Dumervil waffled but finally agreed to reduce his 2013 salary from $12 million to $8 million in Denver as part of a renegotiated three-year, $30 million contract. But the paperwork didn't reach the NFL offices in time and the Broncos were forced to release him to avoid having to pay him the full $12 million for next season.
Dumervil fired agent Marty Magid after that deadline debacle and hired agent Tom Condon.
The Broncos issued a new contract proposal to Dumervil and his new agent, but the Ravens swooped in and beat Denver for the second time this year — they also upset the AFC's top-seeded Broncos 38-35 in double-overtime in January on their way to winning the Super Bowl.
The Ravens have suffered several blows since beating San Francisco for the Lombardi Trophy, losing wide receiver Anquan Boldin, safeties Ed Reed and Bernard Pollard, cornerback Cary Williams, linebackers Paul Kruger and Dannell Ellerbe and guard Bobbie Williams while also bidding star linebacker Ray Lewis and center Matt Birk good luck in their retirements.
Luring Dumervil — and taking him from their AFC rivals — eases some of that sting.
The Broncos, on the other hand, have been one of the league's big spenders in free agency, acquiring wide receiver Wes Welker, right guard Louis Vasquez, defensive tackle Terrance Knighton, cornerback Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie and linebacker Stewart Bradley — all of whom could be starting for a team that went 13-3 in Peyton Manning's first year in Denver last season.
The debacle with Dumervil put a big blemish on the Broncos' otherwise stellar offseason makeover. Dumervil agreed to a $4 million pay cut two weeks ago but when the paperwork didn't get submitted on time, the Broncos had to cut Dumervil or else his $12 million salary for next season would have been fully guaranteed.
By cutting him, they took a nearly $5 million salary cap hit for next season, which factored into the latest offer from Denver that Dumervil ultimately rejected in favor of Baltimore's.
"As we have from the start of this process, we worked diligently over the last week to find a way for Elvis Dumervil to remain a Denver Bronco," Elway said in a statement Sunday. "Although we made multiple contract offers to Elvis after being forced to release him, we were unable to reach an agreement and are now moving forward without him.
"Elvis was a team captain and a talented player who made a great impact during his seven seasons in Denver. I appreciate all of his effort on the field and the work he did in the community," Elway added. "I wish Elvis all the best as he continues his NFL career."
Although Dumervil was often replaced on early downs last season, the Broncos weren't eager to jettison him. But they thought his $12 million salary for next season was out of whack, so they asked him to take a cut in pay. Dumervil earned $14 million in each of the last two seasons, part of a six-year, $61.5 million deal he signed in 2010 shortly before missing that entire season with a torn chest muscle.
Dumervil is a popular teammate who will be sorely missed in Denver, both on and off the field.
"I concern myself with everything and the locker room's a huge one because you're dealing with players," coach John Fox said at the NFL owners meetings last week. "But I think our guys understand there's two sides of football. ... I don't know if business is my favorite part or anybody else's favorite part. But it's a part of football and it usually occurs in the offseason. So, they understand that and I think guys separate that."
Dumervil, a fourth-round draft pick out of Louisville in 2006, had 20½ sacks the last two seasons, making two trips to the Pro Bowl alongside Miller, the NFL's Defensive Rookie of the Year in 2011 who had 18½ sacks last year, breaking the franchise record of 17 set by Dumervil in 2009.
Together they were dubbed "Doom & Gloom," and were the most prolific pair of pass-rushers in the league over the last two years.
Freeney, who played a decade with Manning in Indianapolis, has 107½ career sacks in 11 seasons, all with the Colts. He had 13½ sacks over the last two seasons.
Abraham has 122 sacks in 13 NFL season, six with the New York Jets and the last seven years with the Atlanta Falcons. He collected 19½ sacks over the last two years.
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Barack Obama offered yet another argument about why the current federal-budget stalemate is so risky: "[T]he sequester, as it's known in Washington-speak — it's hitting our scientific research." As things now stand, "we could lose a year, two years of scientific research as a practical matter, because of misguided priorities here in this town."
That was the president's warning to researchers and policymakers in an address, April 29, before the National Academy of Sciences. He was there to help celebrate that august body's 150th birthday.
"America remains a world leader in patents and scientific discovery," Obama told the attendees. U.S. universities represent "the crown jewel of our economy as well as our civilization." But much funding for new research comes from the federal coffers. And tightening the purse strings, he argued, risks slowing the pace of discovery and the protection of intellectual property that drives the U.S. economy.
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Indeed, as an academic geneticist remarked to me just this past weekend, even before the sequester, grant money had become amazingly tight. That neighbor has lately been applying for National Science Foundation grants. Yet the programs where his type of research might qualify for funding now possesses only enough money to finance 7 percent of incoming proposals. Or it did. That was before the sequester. Moreover, the tenured scientist pointed out, it's become increasingly hard for researchers under 45 — even those with a robust publication record — to get money to investigate new ideas. The government just persists in "funding more of the same," he lamented.
The president also charged in his NAS address that direct political interference by Congress has been fettering the development of new knowledge. Said Obama: It's imperative that "we make sure that we go where the evidence leads us." The United States has "got to protect our rigorous peer review system and ensure that we only fund proposals that promise the biggest bang for taxpayer dollars . . . [And] make sure that our scientific research does not fall victim to political maneuvers or agendas that in some ways would impact on the integrity of the scientific process."
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Fine words. But Obama gave no explicit examples from his science & engineering soapbox. It's fair to guess he was alluding to efforts by various elected officials to limit further investment in climate change studies, renewable energy technologies and proposals for outside-the-box basic research — the type of high-risk but also potentially high-payoff investigations from which transformative developments most often emerge.
One thing about which there can be little controversy: a need to encourage ever more K-12 students to embrace science and engineering. Some have and are already garnering a national reputation for it. Obama gave a shout-out to a few notable examples from among the 100 kids that his staff invited to take part, last week, in the third White House Science Fair. It wasn't a competition. More of an exhibition really — sort of a national cross-section of amazing research by teens.
"I know you guys were smart when you were their age," the president said to researchers at the NAS birthday celebration. But those kids at the White House, last week, "I might give them the edge. I mean, you had young people who were converting algae into sustainable biofuels — that was one of my favorites, because the young lady, she kept the algae under her bed." Added the president, with a chuckle: "I pictured it bubbling out and starting to creep into the hallways."
Obama was referring to Sara Volz. The 17-year-old senior from Colorado Springs, Colo., took home the $100,000 grand prize, last month, for that research at the 2013 Intel Science Talent Search (a competition established by Science News' parent organization, 71 years ago, and still administered by us).
And then there were the kids who developed a way to purify water with bicycle-power-generated batteries, the president noted, and a boy who had already devised a faster, cheaper test for cancer. And "these are 15, 16-year-olds," Obama observed.
Fourteen percent of the students at this year's White House Science Fair were finalists or semifinalists in competitions that Society for Science & the Public runs. You can read more about these amazing teens in a story posted last week at Science News for Kids. And one measure of their contributions: A large share of such teen competitors now patent their developments. It's something Science News for Kids explored in a story almost six weeks ago.
But we can only reasonably expect to keep kids in the pipeline to become professional researchers if there will be jobs at the other end. Drying up the grant money is one way to turn off the spigot. So is giving most of the money to the same small community of investigators. Research is a powerful investment that pays rich dividends — both in terms of our future and that of our kids. Shouldn't we try to divorce politics from it?