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Witch-Hazel Blooms in the Autumn Woods Oct 11, 2013 2:48:13 GMT -5
Post by Joanna on Oct 11, 2013 2:48:13 GMT -5
Take me outside: A friendly witch lives in the fall woods
The woods are transforming from many shades of summer green to glorious autumn reds, oranges and yellows. But leaves are not the only thing adding color to our brag-worthy New England forests. One source of yellow is the flowers of the Common Witch-hazel.
The flowers don't get much attention because, though colorful, they are not particularly showy. Less than an inch in length, the stringy petals dangle from the branches of this shrub like tiny bits of thin spaghetti. What makes them special is that they are blooming now. That's why this plant is also called Winterbloom.
Most trees and shrubs put out their blossoms in the spring, but witch-hazel is a true late bloomer.
The fact that the flowers are out now and can often be seen as late as November is a bonus for insects. After most other flowers have turned brown or been killed by frost, the nectar and pollen of the witch-hazel still provides nutrients to the lingering gnats and flies. When the leaves have fallen, the flowers are more noticeable and able to attract the pollinators that provide a service to the plant in exchange for the food they receive.
Once the flowers are pollinated, nut-like seed capsules will develop. These persist on the branches for nearly a year; ripening the following summer and early fall. The simultaneous presence of both flowers and fruit gave rise to the plant's scientific name: Hamemelis virginiana. The Greek word hama means "same" or "together," and melis means "fruit " – thus flower and fruit at the same time.
On warm, dry days the woody seed capsule will begin to shrink and ultimately pop open, scattering two black, shiny seeds anywhere from 20 to 40 feet away. If you happen to be at the right place, at the right time, you might hear the popping sound of these pods as they explode and disperse the seeds. This sound is the origin of another alternative common name: Snapping Hazelnut.
You can tell if you've missed that experience, because the open nuts will remain on the branches for up to another year. Expelled seeds that are not eaten by ruffed grouse, wild turkeys or squirrels may germinate and grow into new plants.
As plants of the under-story, being neither tree nor ground cover, witch-hazel shrubs are often overlooked. They usually grow in clumps along the edge of woods or in moist areas and reach 10 to 25 feet in height. Identification when the leaves are present is quite easy because the rounded, wavy-edged leaves are asymmetrical at the base. So if you fold them in half the long way, they don't match up on either side of the stem.
When the leaves are absent, look for "naked" buds as a characteristic feature. Unlike with most trees and shrubs, witch-hazel buds are not covered with scales for protection.
Though often ignored in modern times, the many unique features of witch-hazel and its multiple uses made it a well-known plant historically. Many tribes of American Indians collected the twigs, bark and leaves and boiled them to extract the sap.
The sap was used for various medicinal purposes such as treating skin irritations, soothing aching muscles, and treating sore eyes, colds and toothaches, and to reduce inflammation.
This knowledge was passed on to early settlers, and they patented witch-hazel extract as a commercial medicine. The extract is still produced in Connecticut today and sold in drug stores and pharmacies across the country.
Another former use of this plant is said to have provided the origin of its most common name. The old English word "wyche" means flexible. The branches are pliable, and settlers used them as dowsing rods or "witching sticks" when they were seeking underground water.
Whatever name you choose to call it, you'll be rewarded if you find this plant. After the brilliance of the autumn foliage fades and we are left with the drabness of November, the lingering yellow flowers of witch-hazel can bring a touch of brightness and a ray of hope to the otherwise dreary landscape. So enjoy the fall foliage of October, but keep an eye out for the friendliest witch of the autumn.
Source: Ruth Smith, The Berkshire Eagle, October 10, 2013.


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RSnake necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 17 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
We are a couple of hilarious guys who want an excuse to sell rubber horse cocks and economy packs of anal lube. Really, nothing is off limits so you should try and have fun.
The target audience is you - if you're reading this (as long as you can handle a joke - if not, stop reading this). We want to sell to people in their 20's 30's and 40's who are a little irreverent, have friends who appreciate bad taste and have a few bucks to deliver unwanted gifts. The gifts will end up going to their co-workers, friends and family - anyone they feel deserves a little unwanted adult gift.
The logo should be somewhat elegant, with a hint of the fact that this is pretty much the worst gift that the person will ever end up purchasing - if they're lucky. If you make us laugh, there's a high chance you'll win. Don't be afraid of sub-titles, or whatever. Fart jokes don't make us laugh - rubber whale penis sold under the title of "Moby's dick" does. We're discriminating in our bad taste. Make us proud! Here's one of our product descriptions:
"Are you trying to date the office slut who you've now found out has banged every dude in the department, not to mention that huge black guy in shipping? Does she make you feel like you're throwing a sausage down a hallway? Do you lack the right words to elegantly inform her that she's loose? Enter the Kegal exerciser! It's a tactful way for you to tell her she needs to tone up and stop spreading her legs for the whole damned office, for fuck's sake."
You get the idea - have fun!
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Memo to "Breaking Bad" fans: Watch out for spoilers.
With word surfacing that a man has been arrested for stealing a "Breaking Bad" script from star Bryan Cranston's car, there's still a distinct chance plot details could leak out about the AMC drama series' final season.
That's because the screenplay has yet to be recovered.
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The day's top national and international news.
E! News confirms that police in Bernalillo County, N.M., took into custody on Friday 29-year-old Xavier McAfee on suspicion of one felony count of burglary. He's accused of breaking into the actor's Audi last December and swiping a brown shoulder bag containing personal property, an iPad and a "Breaking Bad" TV script.
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"We received info from a confidential informant that he knew of an individual having a script from 'Breaking Bad' and wanted to know if anyone wanted to buy an iPad," Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department spokesman Aaron Williamson told E! News.
According to authorities, on Dec. 20, Cranston drove up to lookout point on Sandia Crest outside of Albuquerque not far from where "Breaking Bad" shoots.
"He had driven up there and parked his car and walked out to the lookout to take in the views of the city. He was only gone for 10 minutes and realized his car, an Audi, has been broken into," said Williamson.
The spokesman noted that the crime appears to be a random act and that the actor wasn't targeted for his role on the show. They ended up arresting McAfee after the informant revealed a man had been bragging about pilfering the items, including the script, at a local bar.
As for what "Breaking Bad" tidbits the theft may have revealed, Williams couldn't say.
"We don't know if it was one scene or the whole season, but I know they are trying to keep tight wraps on this final season and how it is going to end," he said.
Here's hoping it doesn't end up on the Internet. "Breaking Bad's" final season is set to premiere this summer.
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I thought that it might be useful to publish an "episode guide" of my California Fool's Gold pieces here on the Amoeblog. I've also been invited to speak about them for a class on diversity in Los Angeles at Emerson College so this goes out to the students in Professor Oliver's class.
If you're a fan of this sort of thing (or you're just temporarily mesmerized by the computer screen in front of you) you might also enjoy my column over at KCET called Block By Block in which I explore our vast Southland without the use of a car whether by foot, bike, bus, train, subway, ferry or otherwise. As with Eric's Blog, Block By Block also often feature my maps which I create as Pendersleigh & Sons Cartography.


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MILWAUKEE (AP) Dion Waiters scored 18 points and the Cleveland Cavaliers snapped a six-game losing streak with a 94-82 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday night.
CJ Miles added 16 points and Kyrie Irving had 15 for the Cavaliers, playing without starting center Anderson Varejao for the third straight game because of a bruised right knee.
Monta Ellis had a season-high 37 points for Milwaukee. The Bucks won the previous nine games against the Cavaliers.


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Nortel is well-advanced in the process of splitting itself into self-supporting business units which could be sold off separately, if the firm cannot find a buyer for its whole business.
The 100-year old Canadian communications company went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January.
Since then it has split its business into four divisions - Carrier Networks, Metro Ethernet Networks, Enterprise Solutions and the LG-Nortel joint-venture which makes VOIP phones. From now on Nortel will report revenue according to these four business units.
First quarter revenues at Nortel fell 37 per cent to $1.73bn and the company made a loss of $244m in the first three months of 2009.
Mike Zafirovski, Nortel's president and CEO said: "First quarter results showed a decline in revenue and margins as expected due to the severe economic downturn and our filings for creditor protection. However, despite the declines we saw this quarter, revenue has stabilized and our cash balance is stable from year-end 2008."
Zafirovski said the firm was concentrating on getting most value for shareholders and creditors. He said: "These are the key considerations in our decision-making process, and work is well underway to evaluate the ultimate path forward for our businesses. Discussions are taking place with various external parties. However, decisions have not been taken and we continue to evaluate our restructuring alternatives. To provide maximum flexibility we are also taking the appropriate steps to complete the move to standalone businesses."
Nortel had $2.48bn in cash on 31 March 2009 compared to $2.4bn at the end of 2008.
Nortel is expanding its shared services organisation to improve support to its standalone business units.
In other news 229 ex-Nortel employees are taking action this week to highlight what they believe were illegal redundancies earlier this year.
Staff were laid off in January and received no redundancy pay or notice period. The ex-workers will lobby Parliament today and tomorrow and will also demonstrate outside Ernst and Young's offices in London - E&Y are Nortel's administrators. Staff note that Ernst and Young allowed $23m in bonus payments to senior Nortel execs at the same time as approving UK redundancies.®
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Don't Get Scammed by Phony IRS Agents
Crooks use the 1040 season to access your personal and financial information
It's tax season, and scammers are up to their old tricks … and some new ones. So until the April 15 filing deadline for 2012 tax returns — and even afterward — beware of phone calls, text messages, faxes and especially emails claiming to be from the IRS or another tax agency and requesting your personal or financial information.
If you're contacted, you can bet that it's from a would-be identity thief who's trying to get your Social Security number or bank or credit card numbers. With your SSN in hand, the scammer may be able to file a bogus tax return to claim your refund. Or the information can be used to obtain cellphone service, credit cards, even loans in your name.
Here's what else you should know during tax season.
Trust the letter of the law
The official method of correspondence by the IRS and local or state tax offices is U.S. Postal Service-delivered letter. If you initiate contact by phone call or email, you may get a response that way. But the IRS rarely makes unexpected phone calls or sends unsolicited emails, faxes or text messages.
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Know the bait
In past years, conning contact messages have included claims of a problem with your filed return. You're asked to "verify" (that is, provide) your personal information and are warned of a phony $10,000 fine for not filing on time.
If the message arrives by email or text, you may be asked to click on a link for more details. Don't. That can install "malware" programs in your computer to give the crooks remote access to your files and passwords or even let them take control of the device. This year, new ploys include:
- Bogus claims that you can get $80 for completing a customer survey for the IRS. The message asks for personal and financial information that can be used to steal your identity.
- Fictitious promises of refunds or rebates based on excess or withheld Social Security benefits or for the expired Economic Recovery Credit Program or recovery rebate credit. Each of these scams requests your SSN and other personal info.
- False claims that you can use Treasury Form 1080 to transfer funds from the Social Security Administration to the IRS, enabling a payout to you from the IRS.
- Offers of "free money" from the IRS or other government agencies. These lies circulate in flyers posted at churches and other gathering spots, and also in online advertisements. They often imply that tax credits or refunds are available without proof of eligibility.
Mind the mailbox
By now you should have received all forms necessary to file your tax return — W-2s, 1099s and statements from your banks, mortgage company, and investment and retirement accounts. They all include a trove of personal information that scammers would love to get their hands on. In January and February scammers often follow postal carriers to steal just-delivered forms out of household mailboxes. If you haven't received a particular form, call the organization that would have issued it. If you suspect it was stolen from your mailbox, contact the IRS Identity Protection Specialized Unit at 800-908-4490, extension 245.
If you're mailing your return, take it to a U.S. post office or a blue postal service mailbox in a busy location. Why? Scammers can easily steal outgoing returns if you put them in your home's curbside mailbox. And although it's rare, thieves sometimes "fish" outgoing returns from USPS mailboxes in deserted locations.
When in doubt, check it out
Whenever you're asked for personal identifiers related to your tax returns, even if by U.S. mail, ensure the request is legitimate before responding. For communications supposedly from the IRS, you can call the IRS hotline at 800-829-1040. For local or state tax offices, check your phone book for a number. Don't rely on any number that's included in the message you receive.
This time of year, scammers sometimes double as tax preparers, offering to do the forms for you or review them for inaccuracies. But what they're really after is all that personal information on your return. Be wary of claims of a faster refund. If you're using a new tax preparer, verify his or her license by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com (the IRS Office of Professional Responsibility) with the full name and address of the person or company. Of course, you'll want to carefully review any prepared return before it's submitted — and make sure it's signed by the preparer as well as you. And make sure it includes his or her ID number.
Sid Kirchheimer is the author of Scam-Proof Your Life, published by AARP Books/Sterling. He writes the Scam Alert column for AARP.
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Internet-Dept necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 97 diseños de 29 diseñadores freelance.
Straight 2 Success
The company is a coaching and psychological performance support company (run by a Professional Clarity Coach) that:
- specialises in coaching (and creating supportive products and tools) people to enhanced levels of CLARITY about what they really want
- it is a personalised service where clients will be coached either face to face or over the phone
- clients will enter into an agreement where they will have an agreed number of sessions with their coach therefore TRUST is going to be essential and trustworthiness should be reflected in the brand where and however possible
- the brand name (Straight 2 Success) reflects the processes used in the coaching session - our ultimate goal is to get people to a point where they know with absolute certainty what they want - this may be in their career, a type of business (or business idea) that they want to start or to understand just what they want in order to feel fulfilled and good about themselves if they presently feel empty . Once they have their clarity we formulate a plan of goals and actions that puts them on a straight path to their success
- the strap line (CLARITY - FOCUS - DIRECTION) really sums up what the service is really offering a prospective client
WHY? - so that people can really take charge of their lives and have greater value to others
-people who are overwhelmed by choices (of careers they could pursue or business ideas or opportunities or interests to follow) and simply don't know what they REALLY want to go for (but they really want to know what they want!! so that they can take focused and effective action)
....so you could call them FRUSTRATED GO GETTERS!
- people who want a fresh start or change of direction
- people who are into personal development and understand the value of having goals and plans for themselves (there is a growing market of people who avidly attend personal development workshops and seminars and read self help books and look into way to improve themselves for work, social and life in general..their mindset etc..)
So it's a market segment determined by the TYPE of person (whether they are undecided or unclear about what they really want in their career, business or personal life) they:
- know they can achieve or do or have more
- realise they need to be more clear about what they want and focused
- have quite a strong will and drive to take action but lack the certainty about what they really want
- are quite or really ambitious and value being clear and focused
- are open minded to being coached and helped (value support)
- are willing to learn and stretch
- already attend courses and seminars to develop and focus themselves
WANTS: - a modern and professional look
- modern and smooth font (neat and professional looking and good to the eye)
- the key word is CLARITY - we are selling a service the evokes clarity (so our logo must be clear and give a sense of clarity)
- a very clear logo (where very easy to see: Straight 2 Success is the
company name) but unique and original concept
- something that looks energised or dynamic and got life to it (but not tacky)
- please produce hi res eps file
- an original concept – please don't just copy someone/ thing else's idea
- I will leave the colours to your inspiration
DON'T WANTS: - any jagged edges or outdated fonts or looks
- any icons that are unclear as to what they really are (we are selling clarity)
- the 2 does not have to be made like the icon or iconic part of the logo (unless you think you can still keep it very clear that it's a 2 but make it very iconic and unique)...so the icon / logo part may sit next to the text if better??
- anything tacky or Amateurish looking
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If Peru is on your travel bucket list, chances are it's the historic citadel of Machu Picchu that inspires you. The extraordinary citadel remains the iconic symbol of the Inca civilization, as well as its awe-inspiring engineering and construction techniques. The structures, built without mortar, are still so solid even a knife can't pass between stones. Not to mention its location on a mountain ridge nearly 2500 metres (nearly 8000 feet) above sea level. Part of its mystery is that it remained isolated, unknown to the outside world until American historian Hiram Bingham was brought there in 1911. Since then, it has been declared a Peruvian Historical Sanctuary, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and even voted one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. But Machu Picchu is more than mystical ruins…
Cave Paintings Discovered Near Machu Picchu
Two new cave paintings have been discovered near the Machu Picchu ruins. The paintings depict a man and a camel in black and are drawn on a rock located about 15 minutes walking distance from Machu Picchu. The two drawings may have been made in pre-Inca times, the Cuzco Cultural Department has said, adding that more study is needed to confirm this theory. The paintings are not recorded in explorer Hiram Bingham's original findings when he discovered the Lost City of the Incas in 1911. An awe-inspiring lesson in how much more scholars and travelers can learn about this ancient and nearly mythical site.
The 'Second Machu Picchu': the Fortress of Kuelap
Keep some time in your Peru travel schedule for lesser-known historic attractions in Peru. Savvy travelers are paying more attention to historic treasures off the well-beaten path to Machu Picchu, like the fortress of Kuelap. This 1500-year old site sits atop a mountain ridge in Peru's north and is one of the largest monuments in the world, with more than 200 buildings, and stone walls reaching nearly 20 metres (more than 65 feet) high!
The site was built around 500AD by the Chachapoyas "cloud people" to deter conquests by the Incas. Reaching Kuelap has previously been reserved for adventurous travelers willing to climb steep mountain terrain. That's all changed with the launch of a new cable car system with 26 cars that can carry eight to 10 passengers at a time.
But the countryside of Peru has more to offer than the mysteries of ancient ruins!
Peru Sets a New Birding Record
There are officially more birds in Peru to see than anywhere else in the world.
Peru set a new record for birds during a recent international bird survey organized by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's eBird project. This virtual gathering of the world's birding community logs bird species in 145 countries via checklists on just one day a year. This year, the most species were recorded in Peru with 1,242 bird species logged, once again beating second-place Brazil for top country with the most species of birds spotted.
No wonder nature lovers are 'flocking' (pun intended!) to Peru for birdwatching. With some 1,830 total species of birds, Peru is not only one of the most important birding destinations in the world. As confirmed by the eBird project, Peru is also the leading global country for actual bird observation. Birding hot spots in Peru include the Tambopata National Reserve, Manu National Park and the Pacaya Samiria National Reserve.
Make sure your itinerary is designed to experience this South American country's incredible biodiversity as well as its history and culture.
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Is College Over?
The CLA, which is used at more than 500 schools, is just one of the assessment tools that universities are employing these days to determine where learning and teaching are coming up short. Another that's been dreamed up right here in Massachusetts is the Vision Project, which involves "curriculum-based embedded assessments" to identify areas where colleges can improve teaching, curriculum development, and even the sequence of courses. The man behind the project is Massachusetts Commissioner of Higher Education Richard Freeland, who worked for more than 20 years in the UMass system, is the author of a book on the history of higher education in the Bay State, and is the former president of Northeastern University. Freeland's effort involves a team that's working with the faculty and deans at the state's 29 campuses to come up with a strategy to better measure how much students learn. He got a huge boost this July when Governor Patrick announced a new $2.5 million Performance Incentive Fund that will provide competitive grants to campuses that demonstrate performance-based innovation—kind of a Race to the Top for state colleges.
"I consider this the most important educational work of our generation of educators," Freeland says. "The strong universities and colleges in the future will be ones who have figured out how to do this."
On a warm afternoon in July, I join the next generation of educators at Harvard's Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning for the start of a new course called "Developing and Articulating Your Teaching Philosophy." Associate director Marlon Kuzmick, a young guy with a shaved head, bushy eyebrows, and rolled-up shirtsleeves, sits in the front of the room. Thirteen graduate students from various disciplines are arranged in a rectangle before him. All of them will soon leave the crucible of Harvard and begin looking for teaching jobs at universities across the country.
The Bok Center's courses are part of an effort at Harvard to improve the teaching skills of its faculty, but they also speak to a problem that's plagued universities for decades: that the brilliant educators whose classes you pay so much to attend are not often the ones actually teaching students, and, what's more, the graduate student who's filling in for Dr. Brilliant hasn't been taught to teach.
When I bring up the subject to author Richard Hersh, he sighs. "You have to remember, virtually no faculty member in doctoral work has ever been prepared to teach," he says, noting that most Ph.D. candidates get only a few hours of teacher training before they set out to shape the supple minds of undergrads.
We all know this story. I had an exceptional professor who was so engaging it was like watching literary gymnastics in his class, but when I went to see him during office hours, he curled up like an awkward snail in its shell, unable to actually interact with me.
Professors understand that learning and teaching are important—it's the reason they were drawn to academia in the first place—but many I spoke with pointed to the university system and its emphasis on tenure and publication instead of working with students. "Even at an education school, the most important priority is writing and research," says Jal Mehta, an assistant professor at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. "People feel a real conflict between the desire to work on their teaching and the incentive structure that's in place. It needs to be rebalanced."
At the Bok Center, Kuzmick switches on the huge flat-screen television at his side, and I immediately wince. I'm watching Harvard students use clips of Dead Poets Society for lessons on teaching methodology. Can he be serious? I wonder. And it's not just Robin Williams evincing spontaneous poetry from Ethan Hawke that they're watching; they're also analyzing the marbles scene from My Fair Lady, and Daniel-san and Mr. Miyagi's wax on/wax off exchange in The Karate Kid. The graduate students titter as Mr. Miyagi inflicts a beat-down, then discuss each of the teaching methods depicted in the films. ("A deeply gendered magisterial response method," one student says of Henry Higgins's efforts to turn Eliza into a lady.)
Kuzmick's aim, as bizarre as it seems, is to help these students think beyond the Hollywood tropes of what good teaching looks like and determine what good teaching means to them. More important, the class is a starting point for a discussion about teaching, something few of them have had the chance to think about until now. At this stage in their careers, Kuzmick says, the students have spent enough time in classrooms to have experienced nearly every technique portrayed in the clips. This is their opportunity to write their own script. He asks them: "Who or what are your models for teaching?" "What's motivating you?" "To what extent are you trying to make your students better people?" They talk about "aha!" moments—the times when you realize that your students really understand something—and whether planning your instruction around them is a form of narcissism, particularly since research shows that rote learning and repetition help students retain information. And of course, there is discussion among the teachers-to-be about the inevitable challenges they will face when they leave Harvard and begin working with average pupils for whom "aha!" moments are few and far between.
In another Bok Center class, "Designing the Course of the Future," graduate students reverse-engineer their curricula to determine exactly what they want students to learn, and use classroom-assessment technologies to measure how much students understand as they're being taught a new concept. "We're fighting against old ideas of Harvard," Bok Center executive director Terry Aladjem says in his office, which is crammed floor to ceiling with books on teaching theory, "that it was far too focused on research and didn't care about teaching." His challenge is turning theory into practice.
It's not exactly fair to call Laura Deming a college dropout, since, at 17, she left school before most people start. "Ever since I was eight, the big problem I wanted to sort out was how to solve the cure for aging," she says when I get her on the phone from California. She set out to do just that, and was accepted to MIT at age 14. But now, saying that she hasn't been all that challenged at the Institute, she's pulled out after her sophomore year. "I wanted to learn about physics and science in the coolest place in America," she explains. "But after I got there, I realized that a lot of the coursework that they teach you can learn on your own. I'm not sure college is such a hard-and-fast requirement that people think it is today."
Perhaps that's so, but there was another, even more powerful motivation for Deming to leave. This spring she was named one of 24 Thiel Fellows, a cadre of young geniuses from across the U.S. who were each offered $100,000 to skip out on college.
The Thiel fellowships are the brainchild of billionaire PayPal cofounder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel, who set off a firestorm this spring when he declared that the latest bubble is not housing or the Internet, but higher education. Thiel argues that the growing cost of college has so far outpaced its return on investment that certain very smart people should ditch the time, effort, and debt it takes to get a degree. Not, as he told the influential website TechCrunch, that he expects his message to be embraced. "Education may be the only thing people still believe in in the United States," he said. "To question education is really dangerous. It is the absolute taboo. It's like telling the world there's no Santa Claus." Still, Thiel believes young innovators can learn more from the real world than they can in a classroom, and he's provided two dozen of them with the cash to prove it.
Thiel himself has two degrees from Stanford, but he insists that little thought went into the decision to pursue them. "It was just this default activity," he said in an interview with The Chronicle of Higher Education.
It seems to me that Thiel's fellowships are doing little more than providing a new, and potentially temporary (the Einsteins are allowed to return to college if they want after two years), detour for a bunch of self-motivated kids who were already moving through the educational system with impressive speed. But there's evidence that it's not just the genius contingent that's reconsidering college. In July, the education think tank Public Agenda released a report showing that an increasing number of young people who've earned only high school degrees now view college as merely one option for a successful life. "Most fully accept that college is a good thing and can be very beneficial in terms of getting a good job and building a future," the report found. "But many don't seem to see it as an outright necessity."
"That's total nonsense," Michael Greenstone, an economist at MIT, says when I bring up the subject of bypassing college. Greenstone recently published a paper arguing that if students were offered the choice between taking $102,000 and paying for college, or investing it—in the stock market, bonds, home ownership, even gold—those who chose to go to college would earn $570,000 more over the course of their lifetime. College, he concludes, returns two to five times more than any investment. "People with more education make more money, whether they're white- or blue-collar," Greenstone says. "The data are screaming out that the returns on getting a college degree are very high. Anything we can do to help people to get advanced degrees is a good policy path."
Okay, fair enough. College graduates earn more than those without a degree. But does that necessarily mean they got the education they paid for?
One afternoon this summer, I return to my alma mater, Boston College, and am greeted by a banner welcoming the class of 2015, which hangs over the dining hall on Lower Campus—a dining hall now flanked by two buildings that didn't exist when I was at school more than a decade ago.
I've come back to BC to meet with Patrick Rombalski, the vice president of student affairs, because I keep hearing about BC's assessment efforts from the experts I've been interviewing. But I want to ask a more basic question: Was it worth it?
In the course of reporting this story, I've thought more than once about my monthly student loan payments, wondering if, as Matt Damon's character Will Hunting once posited, I could have saved all that money and paid late charges at the public library instead. (BC's total cost has only gone up since I left; now $54,528 a year, it's the most expensive in Boston.) Coincidentally, the issue of the Chronicle with the "Crisis of Confidence" cover story is sitting on a coffee table in the lounge outside Rombalski's office.
Dressed in a button-down and khakis, Rombalski is slim, with close-cropped hair and an eager smile. He begins telling me how BC is working to create a 24-hour learning environment. From its residence halls to academic advising, the school is developing new ways to engage students, asking them how they're doing, what they want from school, what their goals are. The school is encouraging students to reflect on their academic experiences, and training the faculty to better understand how people learn.
This all sounds lovely, but it also frustrates me. It makes me want to go back to school and do it over, perhaps even do it better. So I air all of my concerns: I tell Rombalski about my experience sorting out my major, my trials with student advising, how I worry I'll still be paying my student loans when my own kids go to college—everything all the way back to the missed opportunity to learn more about professors during my original campus tour. On that last point, he pauses. "I don't get a lot of questions about that," he admits, perhaps making a mental note for another area of improvement.
I tell Rombalski that when I finished college, I felt like I'd read a lot of really great books and that my writing had gotten stronger, but I didn't feel like I had certifiable proof of what I'd learned.
"You didn't know what you didn't know," he says, nodding. "And if you're going to spend four years in a place, you want to make sure that you're covered."
He's right. We don't know what we don't know. But if we're not thinking about learning, if we're not making dramatic strides in improving it and testing it and proving that it's still worthwhile, should we be surprised that more and more of us are losing faith in higher education?
College isn't a fairy tale. Many of us no longer believe in the magical tower on the hill, which is probably a good thing. If we can see college for what it really is—an investment that has the potential not to pay off—we'll start asking the tough questions…and demanding answers. And that may be the closest we can get to guaranteeing a happy ending.


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Average life expectancy at birth in the United States is 78.5 years. However, the range of life expectancy across the country is nearly 10 years and depends largely on the city.
In the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area, life expectancy is 81.0 years at birth, greater than the average life expectancy nationwide. Across California, life expectancy is 80.4 years, higher than the national average.
Nationwide, women live an average of 4.7 years longer than men. In the Los Angeles metro area, life expectancy among females is 83.2 years, about three years longer than males.
Average life expectancy is often closely tied to the health behaviors and habits of a given population. Tobacco use is the number one cause of preventable death in the United States, and the typical smoker's life expectancy is about 10 years shorter than that of a nonsmoker. While it is not always the case, pervasive tobacco use often correlates with a lower regional life expectancy. In Los Angeles, 12.1% of adult residents identify as smokers, compared to the 17.0% of American adults who report a smoking habit.
The prevalence of obesity has also been linked to premature death. Obese Americans tend to exhibit a range of unhealthy behaviors, and are more likely to suffer from other life-threatening conditions like diabetes and heart disease. As a group, obese people have a lower life expectancy than healthy individuals. In the Los Angeles metro area, 20.7% of adults are obese, less than the national rate of 27.0%.
Higher educational attainment among a given population is also linked to longer lifespans. According to one study, an extra year of education increases earnings by roughly 10%, which ultimately improves life expectancy by about two months. An estimated 32.7% of Los Angeles adults have at least a bachelor's degree, a larger share than the U.S. college attainment rate of 30.6%.


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Freediving is not, as one might expect, a journey of meters or minutes – it's the journey of a lifetime. While in the global scale of distance and time, a free diver's trips to the relative shallowest depths of the oceans are small – the position one must put one's self in to make such a dive requires immense dedication, patience, training and time.
Few can tell that journey better than world champion William Trubridge. In his new book, Oxygen, he invites us to join him for his life's journey, and trust us when we tell you, what a journey it has been. To call his childhood 'unorthodox' would be putting lightly, or perhaps politely – born in England to world-wandering parents, he was traveling the world before he could walk. About that, in fact – he had to learn to walk twice. The first time on a boat – and the second time when the ground wasn't moving beneath his feet. With his older brother and parents, they traversed the world, taking harbor in the Galapagos, the British Virgin Islands, South Pacific, and more. There were times where they wouldn't see land for months at a time – including a 5500 km crossing to the Marquesas.
The obsession with the deep came early. Diving was a necessity of boat life. He recalls being impressed with their father, who dove 18 m to work on the boat's anchor. When they met another boat family, led by a Frenchman named Benoît who could dive to a depth of 27 m, that depth seemed as deep as the sea would go. Little did William know he'd be trying for four times that depth a couple decades later.
Will sat down to write the book – for several hours a day, over many months after encouragement from friends and his agent Jason Chambers. He's long-held fascination with the written word – something he delves into over the pages of his memoir – but the long format was something yet untried. One thing should be made clear: although you can learn a lot about the sport, it's not a tutorial on free-diving.
"I tried to write it in a way that would explain the sport to those who haven't encountered freediving, giving a glimpse of how beautiful and peaceful it is," says Will. "I also tried to include descriptions that might allow other freedivers to get a feel for my approach, the way I train, and why I've stuck with the sport."
The meandering pages take you both through the days of Will's life and the depths of his dives, digging into both the mindset he needs to be in to make them, the risks of being underwater, and how free diving happens mostly in your head. For someone who's already gotten a taste of the deep, or someone who wants to, it's a must-read.
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surf travel necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 28 diseños de 7 diseñadores freelance.
Surf School Reviews
Surf School Reviews will be the biggest website giving surf school reviews for surf schools and camps all over the world. This site will have the top 5 surf schools and separately the top 5 surf camps rated by location, value, service, equipment, and instruction based on customer reviews.
Everyone and anyone who is interested in learning how to surf or looking for a hot surf camp/surfing destination. People will most likely be visiting sites such as tripadvisor.com to get an idea of choosing their surfing destination and experience.
I'd like a site with an iphone as navigation. It makes it easy, fun, contemporary.
Please create something that will stand out, is easy to navigate, is very professional, is easily accessible, and is going to be very catchy and trusting from the first click.
Please follow this site as a model, but DO NOT copy it: http://iphone.wavewatch.com/ or http://www.icarkits.com/
Instead of surf cameras, my site offers surf reviews for destinations all over the world. I'd like an interesting take on the design, something so eye-catching that people will look no further.
For LOCATIONS refer to http://www.surfschools.com
Please make a new logo for the site. Again, something eye catching and edgy.
For the internal pages, I'm looking for a background picture for each location. For instance, I'd like the California schools to divide into Santa Cruz, Los Angeles, and San Diego. Each location will need a different photo in the background luring each client to the location. I attached images that I like as examples for the background for one of the locations.


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Criminal charges are not expected in connection with an incident in which a local truck driver died, said Preble County (Ohio) Sheriff Mike Simpson.
Myron Hallett, 59, of Fayette, was found dead May 26 near a fuel island at the Travel Centers of America truck stop near the intersection of U.S. 127 and I-70.
Police believe Hallett was accidentally struck by one or more vehicles or had a medical event causing him to collapse at the station before or after he was hit.
Police said it was raining when the incident was reported, making it difficult for motorists to see Hallett in the dark lot.
Sheriff Simpson told the Palladium-Item newspaper that investigators are preparing to send their report to Preble County Prosecutor Martin Votel who will make a determination on whether criminal charges will be pursued.


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This week, a tranquilized bear was caught tumbling out of a tree into a tarp held by Steamboat Springs, Colo. officials. Or, as the subtle Daily Mail put it, "Look out below! ANOTHER bear falls out of a tree (after being given a shove by the fire department)." Since bears falling out of trees is an internet obsession of late, NewsFeed hosts a short Q&A regarding the incident.
Q: Wasn't this a meme only a week or two ago? I vaguely remember some bear falling out of a tree appearing in my Facebook feed.
A: Yes, that was "Falling Bear," a 200 lb black bear that gracefully toppled out of a tree on the University of Colorado, Boulder campus. The photo became so internet-iconic that it sparked a copyright scuffle. And, sadly, the fun ended when the bear was hit by a car on a highway days later.
Q: Thank you, that's actually a tragic story. And this new mid-air bear is different?
A: Yes, this is another bear that has become internet-famous. But this time, it reportedly didn't just slump and fall away from the tree upon being tranquilized.
Q: What happened?
A: The Steamboat Pilot & Today reported that local officials tranquilized the bear, but it got snagged in a branch; it took a firefighter to dislodge it.
Q: Why didn't the firefighters just carry it down instead?
A: "[Area Wildlife Manager Jim] Haskins said they considered putting the bear on the ladder to bring it down, but they figured that could be a bad idea if the bear would wake up," the Pilot & Today reported.
Q: That makes sense. Hey are there any really big pictures showing tranquilizer gun-brandishing officials, the mid-air bear and its precarious-looking fall?
A: Yep, those are right here.


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cyberscribe1 brauchte ein neues Website Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 61 Designs von 31 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Need a clean, professional layout for a small law firm web site --- see the brief for more details!
Brough Law Firm
Desired Color Scheme:
Classy and professional
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Classy and professional
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Your design will be used as the foundation for a web site redesign project for a small law firm web site.
The old site was created in, oh, 1892, and it's in need an extreme makeover. To help you plan your menu presentation, we're looking at having the following pages on the site: Home (duh), Attorney Profiles, Cases, Publications, Presentations, Affiliations, Bar Memberships, and Contact
The winning design will be clean and professional. Here are a few guidelines:
- While you don't want to copy these sites, you may find it helpful to know that the lawyers here like the looks of the sites at
- http://cghp-law.com/ and - http://www.nclawyers.com/staff_dire…index.html,
- We want to stay away from the large, complex and ultra-corporate looks of these sites:
- http://www.wcsr.com/ and - http://www.kennedycovington.com/.
- ...and in the Things-The-Lawyers-Really-Hate Department, we definitely want to stay away from the law-template look of sites like
- http://www.everettlawfirm.biz/, - http://www.michaeldriverlaw.com/, and - http://www.barrywinston.com/. You provide the design in a layered psd or png file and we'll take care of slicing it up.
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What's going on everyone? (title pending) time!
This week, Tank and I put on the Hobbit feet and trek into Middle Earth to discuss Peter Jackson's return to the Shire in "The Hobbit". We break down our feelings about the film, including a discussion of the new 48 fps format! It's causing as much a stir as the film is, what did we think of it?
After which we discuss the start of awards season… the nominees for the first major movie awards for 2012 have been announced, the Golden Globes and the Sag Awards. We share our thoughts before heading into "On the Radar" to discuss a ton of new trailers that have been released this week!
It's another fantastic episode of (title pending), give it a listen! As always, you can download it directly here, or search for us on iTunes or Stitcher!


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Police in Virginia say singer Chris Brown will remove graffiti, pick up trash and wash cars as part of his sentence for beating ex-girlfriend Rihanna.
The 20-year-old Brown was sentenced in California last month to five years' probation, six months of community labor and a year of domestic violence counseling for the February attack. He is performing the labor in Richmond near his home.
In a letter to the judge, Richmond Police Chief Bryan Norwood outlined some of Brown's tasks. They include graffiti removal, trash pickup, washing cars, cleaning and maintaining grounds.
Norwood said Brown will be supervised during his service, but Brown would have to pay for any additional security if the public becomes aware of his presence.
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pwn2own day one: Safari, IE8 fall, Chrome unchallenged
Fully patched versions of Safari and Internet Explorer 8 were both successfully hacked today at pwn2own, the annual hacking competition held as part of the CanSecWest security conference. If a researcher can pwn the browser—that is, make it run arbitrary code—then they get to own the hardware the browser runs on. This year, not only did they have to run arbitrary code, they also had to escape any sandboxes—restricted environments with reduced access to data and the operating system—that are imposed.
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Iwasawa theory gives a formula for the power of $p$ dividing the class group of the $\mathbb{Q}(\zeta_{p^n})$ (where $\zeta_{p^n}$ is a primitive root of unity of exact order $p^n$) for sufficiently large $n$. (See, e.g., Theorem 2 of these notes.) More generally, one gets a similar result for arbitrary $\mathbb{Z}_p$ extensions of number fields. Mazur and Mazur and Rubin have studied the variation of the $p$ part of the Tate-Shafarevich group of an elliptic curve in $\mathbb{Z}_p$ extensions and the variation of the rank of an elliptic curve in $\mathbb{Z}_p$ extensions.
I find this somehow unsatisfying. The restriction to the study of the $p$ part of the ideal class group & Tate Shafarevich, and the restriction to the study of $\mathbb{Z}_p$ extensions seem quite strong.
Yet I've gotten the impression that Iwasawa theory is considered to be fundamental in number theory. So I feel as though I'm missing perspective on why Iwaswa theory is important.
What are some important applications of Iwasawa theory?
I'd also be happy with high-level philosophical comments.


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Made Fur You
Made Fur You is a custom costume and fursuit-making company featuring the work of Syber, located in the Tampa Bay Area, Florida, USA.[1]
Products and services[edit]
Made Fur You specializes in hand made animal and fantasy costumes. According to the company, each suit takes three to seven days to create "from scratch", with an output of four to seven a month, and a waiting list of about six to seven months.[1] The company sells plantigrade and digitigrade full suits (for which a duct tape dummy is required), partial suits, and individual parts.[2]
Made Fur You accepts domestic and international[3] orders from those 18 or older; parents or legal guardians may place orders for younger individuals.[1]
While used by Syber as a trade name since March 2010,[4] the first official instance of Made Fur You was formed as an LLC in Arizona in March 2011, with Balto Woof as a manager and Syber as a member.[5] In July 2012, Made Fur You INC was registered on Syber's behalf in Florida, listing her as the sole officer.[6] In December 2013, a new Made Fur You LLC was registered in Florida, with Syber and Domino Wuff as managing members.[7]
As of January 2018, Made Fur You INC is listed in Florida with Syber as the sole officer and managing member. [8]
Company representatives regularly attend Midwest FurFest, Furry Weekend Atlanta, Rainfurrest and Megaplex.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "About" on the Made Fur You website. Retrieved February 9, 2014.
- ↑ "Prices" on the Made Fur You website. Retrieved May 29, 2014.
- ↑ "How To Order" on the Made Fur You website. Retrieved May 29, 2014.
- ↑ "About" on the Made Fur You website (archived copy; 4 July 2010)
- ↑ Made Fur You LLC (L-1669501-4) - Arizona Corporation Commission (23 March 2011)
- ↑ Made Fur You - Florida Profit Corporation (P12000063986) - Florida Department of State (23 July 2012)
- ↑ Made Fur You - Florida Limited Liability Company (10 December 2013)
- ↑ Made Fur You INC (8 January 2018)
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- Made Fur You official website
- Made Fur You on Fur Affinity
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- Made Fur You on Twitter
- Made Fur You on Tumblr
- Made Fur You on YouTube
- Fursuits built by Made Fur You at The Fursuit Database


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We're all off cycling so we're taking a break from our meeting this month, back in September
Come along and hear what's happening with cycling in the borough. It's a great opportunity to get involved or just to have a social drink and chat. Bring along any ideas you have for making the borough of Richmond an even better place to live and to cycle in – you really can make a difference.
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Minutes will be posted after the meeting here (where you can also find minutes from previous meetings)
20:00 – 21:30 – We meet in the bar and then head upstairs for a chat.
The Old Ship, 3 King Street, Richmond, TW9 1ND – Location Map
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Officials continue to warn against the use of a popular cut-through where two Marines recently died. But no other changes are planned to the road.
Officials continue to warn against the use of a popular cut-through where two Marines recently died. But no other changes are planned to the road.
While an improved road, Catfish Lake Road is unpaved and without guardrails or shoulders. What makes it even deadlier is that it is often surrounded by deep water, said Curtis Toler, a sergeant with the Craven-Pamlico County Highway Patrol.
�There are many dangerous factors with this road,� said Toler. �We have a generation of young people that haven�t grown up driving on dirt roads. Then, this road is approximately 12 miles long and it�s isolated. If there is a crash, you�re not likely to be noticed immediately due to the flow of traffic. ...If you go off into a deep ditch, and most of them are full of water, the penalty is quite severe unfortunately.�
There have been 12 fatalities on Catfish Lake Road since 2001, including a 2010 crash that killed two Cherry Point Marines when the driver lost control of the vehicle; a crash the next year that claimed five family members traveling in an SUV that went into a canal; and most recently, the two Lejeune Marines who drowned Jan. 8 when their vehicle ended up in a nearby canal.
The problem, Toler said, is that most people do not practice how to handle their vehicle when it goes out of control � something he said should be practiced in a safe environment with supervision from a driving instructor and not when heading for a ditch.
�First and foremost it�s not recommended for people to travel this road,� Toler said. �It�s designed for hunting or outdoor activities. It�s a cut-through for hunting and fishing. They�re not designed like US-17 with a surface for going at a fast rate of speed. When it�s used as a main thoroughfare you will see disastrous effects.�
Despite the most recent deaths and hundreds of crashes over the years, the N.C. Department of Transportation has no plans of improving the road any further, according to Preston Hunter, the division maintenance engineer for the NCDOT based out of Greenville.
�Guard rails are a double-edged sword,� he said. �Unfortunately when you get on Catfish Lake Road there are ditches on both sides and it�s not feasible to run guard rails down the length of the entire road. The same goes for shoulders. As far as lighting goes, the road doesn�t get enough usage to justify lighting.�
One thing that may possibly change, according to Hunter, is the speed limit. The Department of Transportation in Raleigh, he said, is currently evaluating whether the speed limit should be reduced to 35 mph since speed has been noted as a common factor in most of the fatalities on the road.
�For the most part it�s a very wide road and it�s in great shape,� he said. �It�s got some shoulders and it�s safe for driving � if you obey the speed limit.�
Marine Corps Installations East in 2010 restricted Marines from using the road unless they were hunting, fishing or participating in other recreational activities, citing the high volume of crashes.
�These accidents have an obvious effect on the health and welfare of Marines and sailors and have adversely affected unit readiness,� the order states. �The risk of vehicle mishaps along Catfish Lake Road are significantly higher because of the curves, blind spots, lack of posted speed limits, and absence of roadway lighting at night.�
The Marine Corps has no plans to further limit the use of Catfish Lake Road, said Nat Fahy, the public affairs representative for Marine Corps Installations East.
�The order specifically prohibits them from using this road as a cut-through when traveling between Camp Lejeune and Cherry Point,� he said. �Visible warning signs are posted on either end of this road citing this order, which was put in place to safeguard lives and prevent future tragedies from occurring. With its soft shoulders, deep culverts, blind spots, and lack of lighting, Catfish Lake road presents all kinds of hazards that could spell disaster for anyone traveling at a high rate of speed. While the investigation surrounding last week�s fatal accident is still ongoing, it certainly underscores the inherent dangers of this road and why this order was put in place.�