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Reports from the UK are talking about a British General lambasting US policy failures in Iraq. From the Guardian:
The bitter transatlantic row over Iraq intensified as another key British general lambasted the US for bungling the aftermath of the invasion.
Major General Tim Cross, the most senior UK officer involved in the post-war planning, said Washington's policy had been "fatally flawed". He also insisted he had raised serious concerns about the possibility of the country sliding into chaos with Donald Rumsfeld – but the then-US defence secretary "dismissed" the warnings.
Once again, the personalities and the media are concerned with the symptoms of our problems in Iraq – rather than the cause.
Although it seems that the Bush administration has made plenty of mistakes in the handling of Iraq – there are always going to be people who support those decisions. Thus, the debate in the media is generally focused on two sides – proper vs improper handling of the war – but neither actually oppose the war itself….just its handling.
The failures of managing an aggressive war are just the symptom of an inherently flawed foreign policy of aggression, force and war.
The US Constitution was written under "positive grant." This means that the federal government is authorized to exercise those powers which are specifically given to it in the Constitution. This was so important to the founders that they codified it in law as the Tenth Amendment.
The war in Iraq was was unconstitutional from the start because it lacked a declaration of war from Congress – as mandated by the Constitution. This has been covered at length in a number of previous posts on this site.
No matter what the politicians or the pundits may tell you, there is nothing, whatsoever, in the Constitution, which authorized the Congress to delegate its war-declaring powers to the Executive Branch.
Undeclared wars are the norm in Washington, and they have been a cancer that's infected U.S. foreign policy for decades. Mismanagement of these undeclared wars is just an obvious and expected symptom. These symptoms will never go away until the cancer is removed.

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Monday 23 May 2011
Poetry and Clothing Project: April
Off the top of her head she came up with (in her words):
- plain but cute things!
- narrow plain high waisted skirt (PLEAAAAASE!) any colour
- feminine vintage blouse 40's 50's style or anything you like (ruffles, puffs, whatevs!) totes trust your styling
- round neck t-shirts (striped or plain, long or short sleeved)
- nicely fitted sexy dress (always thinking of that beautiful coral one you made for your cousin's wedding)
- anything and everything high waisted
- absolutely anything with a peter pan collar
So there's my brief. I'll try and tick as many of those criteria as possible before the year is out. It's no secret that I'm pretty committed to trying to live as sustainably as I can (without living in a tepee ;-)). Harriet's definately on the same page as me when it comes to such issues, so even though sending her packages via the post clearly isn't devoid of environmental impact, I will be making all the garments for this project from second hand/unwanted fabric and existing garments. These days, my main source for second hand fabric and garments is the donated stuff we get at work that my boss feels isn't appropriate for our range. The bummer is that very rarely do we receive solid coloured fabric, or at least a colour that doesn't make your feel sick in a quality of fabric that you'd actually like to wear. I'm going to have to dig deep in my stash, think creatively and pray to the gods of donated fabric so I can create Harriet some much needed plain garments.
Anyways, time to 'play catchup' and document what was sent in the first package of this project which was April's. Denim high-waisted shorts! I know for a fact that Harriet has a serious weakness for such things, so I thought that would be a solid place to start.
I used some lovely, soft broken twill denim that I'd had lurking in my stash for years (the other half of which I used for this skirt) and wanted to get busted. The pattern is the high-waisted shorts pattern I developed for work, first shown here. I've since made myself a plain denim pair a while ago also, but haven't got round to blogging them yet (slack!). I had to squeeze the pieces out from the fabric for Harriet's pair, so they didn't end up quite as high-waisted as the original pattern, but I think the end result are more wearable that way.
I was also tempted to add buttons or some sort of tab detail but decided to keep them plain for maximum outfit adaptability! Inside I added one of my little 'Electric Pussycat' labels, which I usually reserve for my bag making escapades, but I had them to hand and I love how much more special garments tend to look with a little label attached.
The second garment that squirrelled itself into April's package is a jersey top that was the result of some lunchtime experimentation. A vague garment idea that had been floating about in my head and I wanted to see how this teal stretchy stuff from my stash behaved when made into a garment. I love the look of the final outcome, but the fit was a bit wierd on my figure, so I thought maybe it would work better for Harriet. If not, no loss, as a recent email has confirmed the denim shorts are a winner and have been worn with braces by both Harriet and Lola (Harriet's 1920's tapdancing alter ego!)!
11 comments:
- Scruffybadger said...
Zoe, poetry & clothing is such a generous project - love it. Seems you've got it off to a fab start with April's. I adore the shorts the most & the idea of them being worn with braces (& tap shoes) makes me wish I was younger & braver!!
- 23 May 2011 at 23:30
- Tilly said...
Very very cool. Perfect for Lola!
- 24 May 2011 at 00:51
- Carolyn said...
This is a very lovely thing for you to do. She is a lucky friend!
- 24 May 2011 at 06:52
- Shelly said...
Fantastic shorts. I would never wear anything like that but I think they are perfect for your friend Harriet. I love the idea of this project. You certainly have a very lucky friend.
- 24 May 2011 at 07:37
- Stacy Stacybeads said...
"Plain but cute"...hee hee. Great job on the shorts!
- 24 May 2011 at 21:00
- Corrine said...
you sure are able to think creatively for your projects. your friend is very lucky. while my days for wearing shorts like this have long since gone their way, I am sure they will be really cute on your friend.
- 24 May 2011 at 22:58
- Sølvi said...
Cute! Love the shorts - and the project. I am doing something similar to a non-sewing friend who lives in Paris (and I live in Sweden). I just wonder - how do you know that it will fit properly? That is my main concern when sewing for someone living far away, especially when it comes to fitted items, of course.
Love the fact that you´re only using second hand fabric and garments! - 25 May 2011 at 08:57
Wow, what a great friend you are!
- 25 May 2011 at 18:03
Zoe you ARE a great friend. Not enough ways to say how lucky I feel!
Thanks so much again and again and again. You are truly inspirational
Harriet xxxx - 31 May 2011 at 17:53
- Cecili said...
Wow, I hadn't seen those garments yet and I'm totally ENVIOUS! I love the shorts but that top is one of the most excellent things I've ever seen! I wish I had one!!! (hint, hint^^)
- 9 June 2011 at 03:52
- Unknown said...
Sigh...oh to be able to wear shorts!! These aare fabbo and a proper wardrobe basic too. Totally sticking to the brief.
I nabbed some 100% cotton linen look curtains from the ickle charity shop in Burnham yesterday. Whoop whoop!!
Px - 9 June 2011 at 12:58


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PICKERINGTON, Ohio — Roger DeCoster's name is practically synonymous with the sport of motocross, and he is generally recognized as the best-known MX racer in the first 50 years of the sport. On Friday, Nov. 18, he will be honored as a Motorcycle Hall of Fame Legend at the annual Motorcycle Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at the Red Rock Casino, Resort and Spa in Las Vegas, Nev.
When DeCoster was inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 1999, his racing accomplishments were simply remarkable: five 500cc Motocross World Championships, numerous 500cc Motocross Grand Prix victories and four Trans-AMA Motocross Championships.
He also was a member of six winning Belgium Motocross des Nations teams, was a Gold Medalist in the International Six Day Trial (Enduro) and earned numerous national championships in his native Belgium, including a national Trials title.
DeCoster continued to find success after his racing career. He was the manager of the first U.S. team to win the Motocross des Nations in 1981, and managed many U.S. teams at the prestigious event over the years to the present day. He currently is in charge of KTM's Supercross and motocross efforts in the United States.
His stature is such in the world of motocross that he is often simply referred to as "The Man."
"Roger DeCoster is not only a motorcycling legend in America, but around the world," said Jeffrey V. Heininger, chairman of the American Motorcycle Heritage Foundation, which raises money for the Hall of Fame. "It's truly an honor for us to be able to honor him."
DeCoster, who joins Kenny Roberts as Legends honorees at the Hall of Fame induction ceremony, said he was humbled to receive the honor.
"It's always nice to receive this honor, and yet on the other hand I still have a job to do, and I feel like I still have something to accomplish!" DeCoster said. "I am really looking forward to hanging out with Kenny Roberts and reminiscing with all of my friends."
After decades in the sport, DeCoster said a few moments stand out.
"Looking back, it was a very good feeling to win the 250cc [Trophee des Nations] and 500cc [Motocross des Nations] nations' titles in 1981 as the American team captain," he said. "It was the first time for the Americans to win the biggest motocross events in the world. Also, to win it [Motocross of Nations] again last year in America was very special."
As a team manager, he has also been part of many memorable AMA Supercross and AMA Motocross campaigns.
"It felt great to win championships with Ricky Carmichael and Chad Reed," he said. "Perhaps the best for me has been Ryan Dungey's title last year because he was a mid-level guy who became a top-level guy. It's a great feeling that the team accomplished this."
DeCoster will be honored during the Motorcycle Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony for the Class of 2011, which includes motocross promoter Stu Peters, noted magazine editor Phil Schilling, industry leader Fred Fox, roadracing champion Doug Polen and early motorcycling pioneer Norbert Schickel.
The Class of 2011 will officially be inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame on Nov. 18 as part of the AMA Legends & Champions Weekend. In addition to the induction ceremony, the weekend includes the 2011 Motorcycle Hall of Fame Concours d'Elegance on Saturday, Nov. 19, featuring some of the country's most impressive original and restored classic motorcycles. The AMA Racing Championship Banquet closes out the weekend on Sunday, Nov. 20, where AMA Racing amateur champions of all ages will be recognized for their 2011 accomplishments.


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Smartphone manufacturers shipped 990 million units worldwide in 2013, up 41 percent from the 700 million smartphones shipped in 2012.
Strategy Analytics most recent numbers showed Huawei, Lenovo and LG all growing rapidly and combining for 14 percent of the global market.
Samsung clung to the top spot, shipping 319.8 million smartphones in 2013, good enough for 32 percent of the market. Apple stayed in second, shipping 153.4 million smartphones and grabbing 15 percent of the market. But Apple's annual growth rate of 13 percent may have cost it, as the company's global smartphone market share is down from 19 percent in 2012.
Despite the huge numbers, Strategy Analytics' report points out that global smartphone shipment growth decreased from 43 percent in 2012 to 41 percent in 2013. The slight slowdown is attributed to high penetration in some major markets like the United States.
With saturation points nearing in some mature markets, the importance of tapping into growth in markets like China is magnified.
China's demand for 4G-capable smartphones is about to explode, according to new numbers from IHS. 4G smartphone shipments to China are due to increase 1,500 percent this year to 144.1 million up from 4.6 million in 2013. IHS expects that demand to keep rising, hitting nearly 300 million by 2017.


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What is a Sacrament?
The word Sacrament comes from the Latin word sacramentum, which means "a sign of the sacred." The seven sacraments are ceremonies that point to what is sacred and significant for us as Christians. They are special occasions for experiencing God's saving presence. If you learn more about the sacraments, you can celebrate them more fully.
For more information on any of the sacraments at St. Josaphat's Parish, please read below or feel free to speak with our priests before or after mass. You may also contact the rectory and a member of the parish staff will contact you. Thank you for your interest. Peace and blessings!
What are the Seven Sacraments?
The Sacrament of Baptism is the first step in a lifelong journey of commitment and discipleship. Whether we are baptized as infants or adults, Baptism is the Church's way of celebrating and enacting the embrace of God.
The Eucharist, or Communion, is both a sacrifice and a meal. We believe in the real presence of Jesus, who died for our sins. As we receive Christ's Body and Blood, we also are nourished spiritually and brought closer to God.
The Sacrament of Reconciliation, also known as the Sacrament of Penance, is where we find God's unconditional forgiveness, and as a result we are called to forgive others. We are encouraged to receive the Sacrament of Penance frequently throughout our lifetime so that we can benefit from the graces we obtain through reception of this sacrament.
The Sacrament of Confirmation is a mature Christian commitment and a deepening of baptismal gifts. Like Baptism and Eucharist, it is a Sacrament of Initiation for Catholics and a Sacrament of faith in God's fidelity to us.
The Sacrament of Marriage, or Holy Matrimony, is a public sign that one gives oneself totally to this other person. It is also a public statement about God: the loving union of husband and wife speaks of family values and also God's values.
Holy Orders
In the Sacrament of Holy Orders, also known as Ordination, the priest being ordained vows to lead other Catholics by bringing them the sacraments (especially the Eucharist), by proclaiming the Gospel, and by providing other means to holiness.
Anointing of the Sick
The Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick, formerly known as Last Rites, is a ritual of healing appropriate not only for physical but also for mental and spiritual sickness. Through this sacrament, the Church comforts and supports the person who is suffering and continues the healing ministry of Christ. For those who are about to die, the Church, in addition to the Anointing of the Sick, offers the Eucharist as viaticum – food for the journey home.


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New York, NY - In a world ruled by kings and emperors, the United States of America was a risky experiment - a republic of, by, and for the people - with power divided among three branches of government. But it is one branch, the Executive, in which the hopes and aspirations of the American people are primarily embodied - in the President of the United States.
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Nordic skiing hits its stride with local spike in interest
By KATHRYN FLAGG
ADDISON COUNTY — On a crisp, clear Wednesday afternoon, the barn at the Rikert Ski Touring Center was bustling with pint-size skiers, longtime regulars and gangly high school kids alike.
Tim Reilly, the Rikert ski school director, manned the front desk, helping one diminutive girl — Rosemary — into her ski boots. "Do you need help lacing those up?" he asked. She did.
Nearby, volunteer coach Barney Hodges tended to his flock of Bill Koch League skiers. The league, with more than 50 children at some practices this year, provides ski instruction and races for children between 7 and 13 years old.
And as the Bill Koch kids piled out into the bracing air, Reilly warned bystanders of the next incoming wave of skiers.
"You're in the traffic lane," he called. Sure enough, just a moment later, another pack of school-aged skiers — this crowd from the Middlebury Union High School — came charging into the barn, slinging down their backpacks to search for their skis, pile into warm clothes and hit the tracks.
Pointing to January's usually favorable skiing conditions, as well as the sport's affordability and family-friendly atmosphere, local skiers and touring centers said interest in Nordic skiing appears to be up this year. The number of skiers enrolled in youth programs like the Bill Koch League has spiked, as have the numbers of recreational skiers hitting the trails at area touring centers.
"Things are going quite well," said Tony Clark, the owner of the Blueberry Hill Inn and Ski Touring Center in Goshen. On an average Saturday or Sunday, he said, anywhere between 75 and 100 skiers hit the Blueberry Hill trails, more than last year. "There's a lot of interest locally between Bread Loaf and Blueberry."
At the Rikert touring center, numbers are up too, Reilly said, and with mittens hung up to dry by the wood stove, and a pot of soup simmering on a nearby burner, on Saturday it was business as usual at the Nordic touring center, owned and operated by Middlebury College.
When it comes to judging an uptick in the popularity of Nordic skiing, the Bill Koch League is a case in point.
Bruce Ingersoll, who with his wife, Sarah, heads up the league, said that the program is seeing more participants than ever. Three years ago, Ingersoll said, the program was fairly small. Now, the league sometimes sees more than 50 kids at Saturday morning practices. A smaller group typically turns out for Wednesday after-school practices.
In addition to the twice-a-week practices, the league also sponsors races throughout the winter.
A longtime fixture of the skiing community here, the Bill Koch League has been around in some form or another in Middlebury for nearly 40 years. In fact, Hodges, now a volunteer coach for the program, skied with the Bill Koch League himself as a child. The man who taught him to ski — Jack Eckels — still works during the week at Rikert.
Eckels said that the league's popularity "ebbs and flows," but that the emphasis hasn't changed much over the years.
"It's all about having fun," said Hodges.
Ingersoll agreed.
"It doesn't matter how cold it is," said Ingersoll. "(The kids) have a blast."
That's due in large part, he said, to the social aspect of the sport — something most of the kids pointed to as their favorite part of the Bill Koch League.
Nine-year-old Amelia Ingersoll said that she enjoyed "just getting to ski with other people, and getting to make new friends."
Her 12-year-old sister Nathalie and 8-year-old friend Thomas Hussey agreed.
This isn't to say that the kids aren't passionate about the skiing. Nick Wilkerson, 9, considered the differences between classic and skate skiing techniques — and said that, these days, he preferred the latter.
"When you get good, you can go really fast," Wilkerson said quite seriously. "Right now, I prefer skate. I like speed."
Hand-in-hand with that emphasis on fun in the Bill Koch League is a goal to engage kids as lifelong skiers.
"It's certainly in the back of every parent's mind that they're going to learn to be better skiers and learn to love to ski," said Ingersoll.
Chris Hodges seconded that. She learned to cross-country ski in college, where she met Barney, her husband. She said she appreciates that the sport's family angle.
"It's something that the whole family can do together," she said. "It's about developing lifelong skiing skills. It's about getting kids to enjoy cross-country skiing into their adulthood."
That's where groups like the Frost Mountain Nordic ski club come into play. While Blueberry Hill's Clark pointed to the "renewed energy of the youth program" as one of the factors driving the popularity of cross-country skiing in the region, equally vibrant are all-ages and adult activities.
The Frost Mountain Nordic group serves as an umbrella organization for not just the Bill Koch League but also local middle school and high school teams, the Middlebury College Nordic team, a masters' team and recreation skiers — for skiers "zero to 80," Ingersoll said.
Unlike the long-running Bill Koch League, Frost Mountain Nordic is a relative newcomer to the cross-country scene in Addison County. But an active Web site and a blog fuel frequent events. Take the weekly time trials, jumpstarted last year by Ripton resident Bill McKibben. A women's group heads out every Thursday morning, and a more competitive batch of juniors and masters skiers train on Wednesdays and Sundays.
And healthy numbers are turning out for many of these events.
"Just seeing the last couple of winters, I've seen more people up there going out for a ski, whether it's before work or after work," said Ingersoll. "They'll slip out for an hour during the week."
Though numbers are up at local ski areas, even skiers themselves could not offer a definitive answer to the question of why that is.
Clark, at Blueberry Hill, speculated that economics might play a role. Day passes at touring centers are less expensive than lift tickets at downhill resorts, and with touring centers outnumbering downhill resorts, travel is often less expensive as well.
"I think people are staying closer to home under the economic forecast," Clark said, "traveling less and enjoying what's in your own back yard."
But there's more to the appeal than pocketbook economics.
"People enjoy the skiing," Reilly said. "I think people just appreciate the differences between (downhill and Nordic). You don't have a bunch of people swooshing by you on the slopes at very rapid speeds. Here you can ski with people and carry on a conversation and feel like you're spending time with them as well as outside doing something."
On the weekends, he said, the Bread Loaf parking lot is often filed with three or four rolls of cars — a nod to that uptick in numbers that Rikert has seen this year — but the sport also maintains a certain degree of peacefulness that Reilly said he thinks Nordic skiers enjoy.
"Once you get on the trails, its almost impossible to see anyone," Reilly said. "I think people very much appreciate that."
This story was published Feb. 12, 2009.


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SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 16, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Integrated Device Technology, Inc.® (IDT®) (NASDAQ: IDTI) today announced that it has shipped more than 70 million units of its cutting-edge wireless power semiconductors. As the leader in wireless power, IDT's transmitters and receivers are delivering wireless charging capabilities globally for such products as Samsung and LG smartphones, Belkin transmitter applications and IKEA furniture.
In addition to early implementation in consumer products, IDT is seeing overwhelming interest in its easy-to-use mass market wireless power kits. This clearly indicates that the technology has crossed the chasm from early adoption to broad market deployment. These 5 W, Qi-certified kits are composed of all the hardware, software and documentation needed to deliver a true "plug-and-play" experience for developers to quickly integrate wireless charging capabilities into their designs.
"2015 was the turning point for wireless power adoption, and in 2016 this capability will become much more commonplace in a variety of portable electronic applications," said David Green, research manager, power supplies and wireless power at IHS. "The infrastructure is developing, and consumers will begin to see wireless power capabilities touted in a much broader array of products on store shelves."
"IDT has emerged as the clear leader in the wireless power market with highly integrated solutions based on leading-edge technology," said Dave Shepard, vice president and general manager of IDT's Consumer Products Division. "Whether developing custom chips for global technology leaders or providing easy-to-use kits for the mass market, we continue to meet and exceed demanding customer expectations."
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Exploration expenditure still in decline Mineral exploration expenditure has declined for the ninth consecutive quarter, and is at the lowest level in six years according to data released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). During the September quarter 1999, the trend estimate for mineral exploration expenditure fell $15m to $169m. Quarterly mineral exploration expenditure has fallen 44% since the peak of $302m reached in the June quarter 1997. Gold was again the main contributor to the decrease in mineral exploration. Gold exploration expenditure fell by 10% in the September quarter 1999 to $102m. This was $33m (24%) lower than the expenditure reported in the September quarter 1998. The trend estimate for the number of metres drilled was also down, with 1.6 million metres reported during the September quarter, the lowest estimate since the March quarter 1993. Expenditure on petroleum exploration increased by 8% to $207 million in the September quarter 1999. This was 7% ($13m) higher than the September quarter 1998. Results from a survey of drilling methods used in mineral exploration during 1998-99 show that diamond drilling accounted for the highest expenditure with 42% ($131m) of the total. In terms of the number of metres drilled, reverse circulation was the most used drilling method. This method was used to drill 2.9 million metres or 35% of the total during 1998-99. Further details can be found in Mineral and Petroleum Exploration, Australia, September Quarter 1999 (cat. no. 8412.0) available from ABS bookshops. This publication was previously titled Actual and Expected Private Mineral Exploration, Australia. If you wish to purchase a copy of this publication telephone 02 6252 5249. Document Selection These documents will be presented in a new window. |


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Presentation of Holy See's Document on New Age
Cardinal Paul Poupard
President of the Pontifical Council for Culture
See Jesus Christ the Bearer of the Water of Life
Also Presentations by Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald
and Rev. Bernard Ardura
New Age is a pressing religious, cultural challenge
Three main reasons explain the shift from traditional forms of religion to these forms of spirituality
1. Much has already been said about the New Age Movement, and much more will be said. I had asked the specialist, Jean Vernette, to dedicate a subheading to "Movements of the New Age" in the third edition of my Italian work, GrandeDizionario delle Religioni (The Comprehensive Dictionary of Religions), which describes them in the following words: "The New Age Movements, like a huge running river with its numerous off shoots, represent a typical form of the modern religious awareness as a new religiosity that assumes many traits of the 'Eternal Gnosis'" (Piemme, 2000, p. 1497-1498). Recently an Italian journal on religious culture entitled: Religioni e sette nel mondo (Religions and Sects in the World, 1996, 1-2) published three times a year, devoted two special issues to the New Age Movement. In my editorial column, I presented this phenomenon in this way: "The phenomenon of the New Age Movement, together with other new religious movements, is one of the most pressing challenges to the Christian Faith. It is a religious challenge, which is at the same time a cultural one; the New AgeMovement setsforth theories and doctrines about God, man and the world, which are incompatible with the Christian Faith. Furthermore, the New Age Movement is both the symptom of a culture in deep crisis and the wrong answer to this situation of cultural crisis, its worries, questions, aspirations and hopes" (Religioni esette nel mondo; Religions and Sects inthe World,6, 1996, p. 7).
Present document on New Age
Today, together with Archbishop Fitzgerald, I have the honour of presenting a Document on the phenomenon, which was drafted by Rev. Peter Fleetwood, at that time an official of the Pontifical Council for Culture, and by Dr Teresa Osório Gonçalves of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. It is the fruit, therefore, of a long and authentic collaboration between offices [of the Holy See] in order to help provide an answer, with "gentleness and respect", as the Apostle Peter once recommended (1 Pt 3,15) to this religious and cultural challenge.
2. Today, Western culture, now followed by many others, has passed from an almost instinctive awareness of God's presence to what is often called a more "scientific" view of reality. Everything must be explained in terms of our daily experience. Whatever makes one think of miracles immediately becomes grounds for suspicion. As a result, all symbolic actions and objects, known as sacramentals, once part of the daily religious practice of every Catholic, are today far less evident in the religious panorama than they once were.
3. The reasons for such a change are numerous and diverse, but they all come down to the noticeable cultural shift from traditional forms of religion to more personal and individualistic expressions of what is now being called "spirituality". It seems that there are three specific reasons at the heart of such a change.
Loss of sense of personal God
The first liesin the feeling that traditional religions or institutions no longer give what they once claimed they could provide. Some people in their view of the world are really unable to find any room for believing in a transcendent, personal God, and the experience for many has driven them to ask whether this God has the power to bring about change in this world, or if He really even exists at all. The dreadful experiences that have convulsed the world have made some people very cynical towards religion. I have in mind terrible events like the Holocaust and the repercussions of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of the Second World War. I came to realize it personally during the course of my recent visit to Nagasaki when I had the privilege of praying (but utterly unable to find the words) before a monument dedicated to the memory of those whose lives were cut short or compromised forever on that August day of 1945. Today the threat of a war in the Middle East reminds me of my father's reminiscences as a stretcher bearer, during the Second World War. The things he told me about the horrors of war makes it easier for me to understand the doubts that people have about God and religion. The bewilderment of so many people before the suffering of the innocent, which is also exploited by certain movements, explains in part why some believers go over to them.
Neo-pagan religions
4. There is another reason to explain a certain anxiety and a certain rejection of the traditional Church. Let us not forget that in ancient Europe, pre-Christian, pagan religions were very strong, and often, unseemly conflicts took place linked to political change that have been inevitably labelled as Christian oppression of ancient religions. One of the most significant developments in what may roughly be called the "spiritual" sphere in the last century was a return to pre-Christian forms of religion. The pagan religions have had a considerable role in supporting some of Europe's most violent and racist ideologies, thus reinforcing the conviction according to which certain nations have an historic role of world-wide importance in such a way as to have the right to subject other peoples, and that has almost inevitably brought with it a hatred for the Christian religion, which is seen as a new arrival on the religious scene. The complex series of phenomena, known by the term of "neo-pagan" religions, reveal the need felt by some to invent new ways to "counter-attack" Christianity and return to a more authentic form of religion, a religion more closely bound to nature and the earth. For this reason, one has to recognize that there is no place for Christianity in the neo-pagan religions. Like it or not, a struggle is taking place to win the hearts and minds of people in the interrelations between Christianity, ancient, pre-Christian religions, and their more recently developed "cousins".
Rise of Eastern spiritualities
5. The third reason, at the origin of the rather wide-spread disillusionment with institutional religion, derives from a growing obsession in Western culture with Oriental religions and the paths of wisdom. When it became easier to travel outside of their own continent, adventurous Europeans began exploring places that they had previously known only by consulting the pages of ancient texts. The lure of the exotic put them into a closer contact with the religions and esoteric practices of various Oriental cultures from Ancient Egypt to India and Tibet. The growing conviction that there exists a deep-down truth, an essence of truth in the heart of every religious experience has led to the idea that they can and must gather the various elements from different religions in order to reach a universal form of religion. Once again, in such an enterprise there is little room for institutionalized religions, especially for Judaism and Christianity. That is worth remembering the next time you come across a public advertisement for Tibetan Buddhism or some sort of gathering with a guru; these are all things you will often have the opportunity of seeing in any European capital. My concern is the fact that many people, involved in such types of Eastern or "indigenous" spirituality, are really not in a position of being fully aware of the implications behind the first invitation to observe these gatherings. Furthermore, it is also worth noting the fact that for a long time now one finds a vibrant interest for esoteric religion amongst certain Masonic circles that aspire to a universal religion. The Enlightenment used to push the idea that it was unacceptable that there be so many conflicts and that war be waged in the name of religion. On this point I cannot but be in agreement. However, it would be dishonest to fail to recognize that a wide-spread anti-religious attitude developed from the original concern for guaranteeing the well being of mankind. Even in such a scenario it is not uncommon that what gets classified as a religious conflict, in reality is nothing more than a conflict of a political, economic, or social nature.
Age of Aquarius
6. The spirit of this new universal religion was explained more clearly in a very popular way in the 1960 musical entitled Hair, when it was proclaimed to the public of the whole world that "This is the dawn of the Age of Aquarius", an age based upon harmony, understanding and love. In astrological terms, the Age of Pisces was identified with the time in which Christianity ruled; but it appears that this age should come to an end soon in order to make room for the Age of Aquarius when Christianity will lose its influence and leave the way open for a universal, more humane religion. A large part of traditional morals would no longer have any place in the New Age of Aquarius. People's way of thinking should be completely changed and there should no longer be the ancient separation of male and female. Human beings should be systematically called to take on an androgynous form of life in which each of the two sides of the brain gets used in harmony at the right time, and they should not be disconnected as they are today.
Distorted vision of Christ
7. When we see and hear the expression New Age Movement,it is important to remember that originally this referred to the New Age of Aquarius.The document that is being presented to you is a response to the need felt by the Bishops and faithful in various parts of the world. These people have repeatedly asked for help in understanding the New Age Movement from the moment they became aware of the number of people involved in such a movement in different ways and at different levels. They have also asked for a guide to better respond to this already omnipresent phenomenon. The title itself of the document, from the outset, makes it clear that the age of Aquarius will never be able to offer what Christ can offer. The encounter between Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well of Sychar (Jn 4,1-42), told in the Gospel of John, is the key text that has guided the reflection during the drafting of the preliminary report on the New AgeMovement presented to you today. As one can see, the Document is not intended to be a definitive declaration on the issue. It is a pastoral reflection aimed at helping Bishops, catechists, and as many as are devoted to the different programmes of formation of the Church in order to point out the origins of the New AgeMovement, sothat one may see in what way it influences the lives of Christians and to work out means and active methods to respond to the numerous and various challenges that the New Age Movement posesto the Christian community in those parts of the world where it is present.This can also be a challenge for those Christians who are tempted by what the New Age Movement is saying about Jesus Christ, in order to recognize that there are many differences between the Cosmic Christ and the Historical Christ. In the last analysis, this Document is another sign of the Church's attention towards the world. This is born from the Church's obligation to remain faithful to the Good News of the life, death and Resurrection of Jesus, who truly offers livingwater to all those who draw near to Him with an open mind and heart.
Collaborative product of different offices of the Holy See
8. The nature and the importance of the Document will be better understood if I explain to you theway in which it was written. There is an inter-departmental study Commission that deals with sects and new religious movements. The Secretaries of the Pontifical Councils for Culture for Interreligious Dialogue and for Promoting Christian Unity as well as the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples make up such a Commission. In order to prepare this Document, the officials of the four aforementioned Vatican offices that were working on the text, were helped by an official of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Thus, it is clear that the Holy See saw the project as an opportunity to produce a sound, accurate Document. A long period of time was necessary for such a Document to appear. I hope, above all, that this Document inspires reflection among Bishops in the Catholic communities of every sort. If it is to be replaced by a better text, and one that has a more definitive character, it will mean that it has achieved its goal by stimulating all those engaged in pastoral ministry and those who work with them in order to reflect upon it in a theological manner.
Difference between ideology and by products, clients, devotees, disciples
9. The Document encourages the readers to do their best to understand correctly the phenomenon of the New Age Movement. That requires an open attitude which Archbishop Fitzgerald will discuss with you later in due detail. But I would like to say that there might be some criticism on the part of Christians who, going through this Document, notice that some current forms of spirituality in which they are engaged come under criticism. The use of the term New Age to define the phenomenon is already problematic. For this reason, some people prefer reverting to the term the "Next Age", but with all due respect, I see it only as shifting the problem and covering it over with hazy terminology. The fact that the term New Age includes many things indicates that not everyone who acquires New Age products or maintains that they are gaining a benefit from a New Age therapy, has embraced the ideology of the New Age Movement. A certain discernment, then, is necessary both for what pertains to products labelled New Age and for what pertains to those who, to a greater or lesser degree can be considered "clients" of the New Age Movement. Clients, devotees and disciples are not the same thing. Honesty and integrity require that we be very prudent and not turn every blade of grass into a bundle, by using labels with the greatest of ease.
Basic problem: new age is a false utopia
10. In conclusion, I would simply want to point out that the New AgeMovement presents itself as a false utopia in order to respond to the human heart's deep thirst for happiness, which is prey to the tragedy of existence and the discontentment of the deep unhappiness of modern happiness. The New AgeMovement presents itself as a deceptive response to the most ancient hope of man: the hope of a New Era of peace, harmony, reconciliation with himself, others and nature. This hope, which is as ancient as humanity itself, is an appeal that bursts from the heart of people especially in times of crisis. The small document presented will help one to get a better understanding, to discern between things proposed and to raise in the Christian community a renewed commitment to proclaim Jesus Christ, the Bearer of Living Water. I look forward to the debate which our document will certainly spark; in the meantime, however, I sincerely thank the whole team of experts, especially Rev. Peter Fleetwood and Dr Teresa Osório Gonçalves, who have worked with energy and diligence in order to produce it.
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Meeting in Berlin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy appeared to resolve a running dispute over whether to force private holders of Greek bonds to participate in the bailout, which many are loath to do. The two leaders agreed that such investors would take part only on a voluntary basis.
European markets, which had been hammered over the past few days out of concern over Greece, immediately rose on the news of a rapprochement between Merkel and Sarkozy and on the back of a shakeup of the government in Athens.
Investors have been worried that Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou will be unable to win parliamentary approval for a new round of austerity cuts to bring down his nation's massive budget deficit. That and European infighting over whether to extend more emergency aid to Athens fueled market fears this week that Greece would slide into bankruptcy.
Huge public protests in Athens against the austerity package have also shaken investor confidence.
In a reshuffle of his Cabinet on Friday, Papandreou booted his unpopular finance minister and appointed in his place a powerful fellow Socialist Party member who analysts say is capable of delivering the votes in parliament that Papandreou needs.
"The country must be saved and will be saved," new Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos told reporters, adding that he accepted the post as his "patriotic duty."
Papandreou will present his new ministerial lineup for a vote of confidence in the parliament next week.
In Germany, Merkel appeared to back down from her insistence that private holders of Greek debt be forced to participate in a second bailout of the Mediterranean nation by extending the maturities on their bonds. Many Germans believe that such investors should not be given a free pass in the crisis while taxpayers are on the hook to rescue Athens.
But the idea has drawn sharp opposition from the European Central Bank and countries such as France, which fear that ratings agencies would see forced participation as tantamount to a default by Greece. That, in turn, could trigger a worldwide financial crisis.
Merkel and Sarkozy agreed instead on a "softer" option that would see private bondholders take part of their own volition – for example, by maintaining their exposure to Greek debt after their current bonds come due.
The agreement between the European Union's two most influential nations helps pave the way for approval of a new EU bailout package for Greece in July, just in time for a fresh infusion of cash for Athens to pay bills about to come due.
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Item #: SCP-650
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-650 is to be stored in a lockable room at least 4 meters by 4 meters, with comfortable lighting. It must remain under constant surveillance by no less than three (3) personnel. Observers are to position themselves so that the SCP and at least one additional observer are in their line of sight at all times.
Observation via remote methods such as security cameras is permissible, so long as concentration is not broken at any time. This method should only be used in case of emergency, however, due to the possibility of accidental loss of sight.
Description: SCP-650 is a black statue of a stylized humanoid 167cm tall. The statue does not possess hands or facial features: the limbs taper off into rounded points and the head is a smooth surface all around. The default posture while under observation has the statue reaching upwards, head tilted as if facing the sky. Composition of the statue is currently undetermined; materials testing has yielded inconclusive and contradictory results.
If the statue is not being observed, it will relocate itself to a point immediately behind whomever is in the containment site and assume a threatening posture. No noise is made during this relocation process, so the precise method of locomotion is as of yet unknown. The relocation point and posture are typically close enough to induce an automatic fight-or-flight response in the observer once they turn around and see it.
However, it should be noted that SCP-650 has not yet shown any signs of active aggression or hostility. Based on trial responses that varied the amount of time between breaking and re-establishing line-of-sight, its purpose does not seem to be to attack but merely to startle. The reason for this is unknown, and no further research is pending to determine its motives.
While the primary method appears to be triggering a startled reaction via close proximity, the SCP has also shown varied other postures in the presence of observers who have become used to its effects. In the cases of these observers, the statue has assumed other postures a comfortable distance away, including reclining on a table, "sitting" on a chair, and in one instance, huddled in a corner as if terrified. Given that the observers who reported these postures also mentioned that they were left feeling uneasy, it is theorized that this may simply be a secondary method of generating reactions.
██/██/████ - Object upgraded to Euclid class after statue somehow managed to appear on the other side of Site ███ and manifest directly behind Dr. ███████ in his office. Additional observational measures are to be put in place to prevent future incidents.
Researcher's note: I don't give a flying rat about the budget; keep this damn thing contained! Turning around in a dim office to see this thing a half-inch away from your nose is guaranteed to take years from your life. And given what we deal with, we don't have many to spare. -Dr. ███████


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Aluminum Aerospace Coating May Replace Toxic Chromates
November 15, 2012
A materials engineering research team at the University of Nevada, Reno has developed an environmentally friendly, self-healing coating for the aluminum used in defense and aerospace applications. The coating is designed to replace the highly toxic chromate conversion coatings that have been used for more than 50 years to protect aluminum and aluminum alloys from corrosion.
The research team presented its findings at the international Pacific Rim Meeting on Electrochemical and Solid-State Science in Honolulu. "It was well received at the conference," Dev Chidambaram, lead scientist and assistant professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Nevada, told the university's Nevada Today.
Since the 1980s, researchers have been working on nontoxic replacements for coatings that use chromates, a class of carcinogenic substances made famous in the 2000 movie Erin Brockovich. They have been banned in consumer and automotive applications, but some defense and aerospace applications are still exempted. That's because nontoxic replacements with equivalent performance have not been found, and the risks associated with failure from corrosion in those applications is high.
We reported last month on nontoxic coatings developed by Turkey's Duzce University that use extracts of date palm juice. The coatings are designed to protect the wrought aluminum-zinc-magnesium-copper AA7000 alloys often used for load-bearing structures in aerospace applications. These structures are susceptible to saltwater corrosion and intermetallic phases.
The main problem in replacing chromates in aerospace and defense applications has been finding a nontoxic coating material that can prevent pitting corrosion and self-heal. Chromate-based coatings repair themselves after being scratched or otherwise damaged; chromate ions migrate from passivated regions on the aluminum's surface to a damaged site, causing repassivation and reprotecting the alloy underneath it.
Chidambaram's team says its molybdate-based coating solves that problem. It can be applied to aluminum and all aluminum alloys, performs in a way similar to chromates, and is self-healing. A time-lapse video (on this page under "Cool Videos") shows the coating forming on a piece of the aerospace aluminum alloy AA2024-T6.
The researchers developed and tested more than 300 versions of the coating. They used multiple advanced surface analytical techniques to confirm the presence of molybdate in scratched areas of aluminum, including Raman microspectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, energy dispersive spectroscopy, secondary ion mass spectroscopy, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. To show that the coating could self-heal after a scratch test, the team used electrochemical testing. Further work will optimize the coating for improved protection.
Chidambaram, the team's principal investigator, is the head of the university's Materials and Electrochemical Research Laboratory. The team includes David Rodriguez, a University of Nevada graduate student who conducted extensive testing on the materials, and Roshan Misra, an undergraduate majoring in aerospace engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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A look at the best tweets from the world of UFC. Follow @ufc, the list of official UFC accounts, and the list of UFC fighters to keep up with these guys and gals.
It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Listen here hipster, if you didnt want me to call you young Santa, you'd trim your beard or lose some weight #justsaying -Mitch Clarke
There's a lot of bad pop Christmas music out there. #bahhumbug -Daniel Downes
It's the season to drink lots of eggnog -Felice Herrig
All I want for Christmas is... A zombie apocalypse, a .338 Lappula Barrett, a @Trijicon TARS scope, and/or a unicorn. -Tim Kennedy
JoeB and the Mouse: UFC on Fox Rewind
I really do have such amazing friends, family, fans and supporters. It amazes me and I love you all. Thank you. -Joseph Benavidez
@JoeJitsu thank you joe b for the great fight. I hope you are okay. You will be back stronger it's in your character..remember milkshake :) -Demetrious Johnson
And who the hell says Flyweights don't hit hard... -Joseph Benavidez
Pretty sure cereal helps concussions. #DrJoeB -Joseph Benavidez
That sleep after a long fight camp is priceless!!! -Danny Castillo
I will be back a new person in my next fight. This is just a minor set back on my road to the title. Thanks for the support everyone! -Nik Lentz
Thx for the war @niklentz ur a tough sob! -Chad Mendes
Maybe Mighty Mouse can get me a hook up on a XBox 1 now...... -Stipe Miocic
Yo, Cody McKenzie! You lost your shorts! RT @TheDolceDiet: Ummm...somebody forgot their shorts!!! @ufc @ufconfox pic.twitter.com/9BFHaavuMd -UFC
KenFlo's Very Strange Day
Was REQUIRED to send a fax. Saw a Kardashian. Got paparazzi'd & it snowed in LA. So my question is...what the HELL is going on today?!!!
I went to another coast to avoid the #snow and I see this in my hood today... #LA http://instagram.com/p/iHsdMOSSc5/
Let's not get ridiculous now...crazy has its limits. "@Scahrossar: @kennyflorian Your hair is a mess?" -Kenny Florian
Potentially Catastrophic
http://youtu.be/h1dOWpihlmQ Don't bother me when reading my magazines!!! -Chris Weidman
Isaac Zoo-Lander
Ha ha ha @willfox captured magnum, my new look tonight after @Valle_Flow striking class pic.twitter.com/txYCzhVXaF -Isaac Vallie-Flagg
Speaking of Fashion...
If you are going to dress like an idiot at least do it with confidence http://instagram.com/p/iDPHzatSeA/ -Tim Kennedy
Hey Buddy! Use Your Turn Sig- Yikes, it's the Warmaster!
Entertaining HW @JoshLBarnett hits the streets for a photo shoot flexing his American muscle:http://on.ufc.com/1bYKpr5 pic.twitter.com/TaDLbKcQcp -UFC
Uncle Creepy Has No Future in the UTC
Yup I suck at trampolines http://instagram.com/p/iDRiRGzFtO/ -Ian McCall
In Case You Forgot...
Mark Hunt is a BAD ASS -Dana White
Mitch Clarke is Weird. Awesome... but Weird.
Sometimes I like to make things up, like "my dad invented cheese" or "I discovered the alley-oop in basketball" l don't know why -Mitch Clarke
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While Thomas Edison is often lauded as the most prolific American inventor, his mother, Nancy Edison, and how she fostered an open education and an open mind in her son is often overlooked. When a headmaster labelled Edison as being 'addled,' slow, and unteachable, his mother disagreed and decided to withdraw her son from school and teach him at home. She knew her son was a bright, curious, creative child who thought divergently yet was often disorganized, disruptive, and hyperactive; today he would most likely be diagnosed as having ADHD.
Thom Hartmann has suggested, in his book The Edison Gene, that people like Thomas Edison may hold immense value to human evolution and possibly the key to survival of the human species due to their open mind and creativity, despite symptoms or a diagnosis of ADHD. Instinctively Nancy Edison knew that her son had tremendous potential and that his creativity and inventions had immense value. She encouraged her son to learn by doing. And she never considered her son's hearing impairment to be a barrier either.
Years later, Thomas Edison recalled, "my mother was the making of me" and credited her for believing in him and his profound creative abilities.
Reflecting on Thomas Edison and his education, we are reminded how much children, particularly our own, can be a source of motivation for an open education and an open mind. Roger Hargreaves may have always wanted to draw cartoons for a living, but it wasn't until his six-year-old son Adam asked what a tickle looked like that the idea of the Mr. Men and Little Miss children's book series took shape.
Similarly Mel Stuart would never have directed the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory unless his ten-year-old daughter Madeline had been obsessed with reading Roald Dahl's book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and asked him to make a movie about it.
Roald Dahl, the children's writer, warrants special attention on how much a child can be a source of motivation for an open education and an open mind. Though Dahl is widely known for being a much beloved children's author, he is far less known for his role in treating his son Theo's brain injury and his contributions to neuroscience. Dahl's son was four-months-old when his baby carriage was struck by a taxi in New York City in 1960; baby Theo suffered a traumatic brain injury, cerebral damage, and soon developed secondary hydrocephalus, or commonly known as water on the brain.
After his son's accident, Roald Dahl almost exclusively took the initiative of finding an unorthodox approach and solution to his son's hydrocephalus condition. He refused to accept the status quo. Instead, he read widely on his son's condition and sought to understand the ramifications, even though he had not taken or formally studied science since his Repton boarding school days.
The family returned to England. Roald Dahl took his son to see Kenneth Till, a neurosurgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital. He consulted with British toymaker Stanley Wade about hydraulic pumps as a way to create a shunt valve, eventually the Wade-Dahl-Till (WDT), for his son. The Wade-Dahl-Till valve worked to alleviate cranial pressure, which significantly affected the treatment of pediatric hydrocephalus. Yet the Wade-Dahl-Till valve would never have been come to fruition if it wasn't for Roald Dahl's persistence, open thinking, or without sharing his ideas and knowledge—and having them be accepted by Stanley Wade and Kenneth Till.
What is remarkable about these parents and others is that their insights and innovations helped to usher in a new era: where children provided the motivation or the ideas for an open education, an open mind, and action.
Nancy Edison, Roger Hargreaves, and Mel Stuart believed their children had bright, creative ideas, and that such ideas could possibly affect positive social change. Dahl, too, believed that goodness would prevail from his son's tragedy. These parents were intrinsically motivated. They learned to trust their intuition and never to stop learning, creating, and exploring ideas. While Edison, Hargreaves, Stuart, and Dahl lived in an era where ideas flowed, yet these ideas flowed in an age of print, film, radio, and television.
Today we live in a new age: a world of digital innovation and creativity with open source and open content. There are thousands, if not millions, of examples of parents (and children) turning to the Internet to affect positive social change with open content and open source. Sal Khan, for instance, has affected social change by creating open content for everyone; Sal Khan, a hedge fund analyst in Boston, began tutoring his cousin in New Orleans when she started to struggle with algebra via the Internet.
For Khan, tutoring his cousin was a labor of love, a desire to help with his cousin's math skills. Khan Academy eventually evolved from the tutoring, but the idea of an open education and an open mind bubbled from his intrinsic motivation and a personal, family relationship with his cousin.
Like Sal Khan, first-time filmmaker Vicki Abeles, a Northern California lawyer and mother of three, was motivated to pick up a camera and use the Internet to document the school-related struggles her children faced with homework, headaches, and panic attacks. Like Khan, Abeles has taken the idea of an open education and an open mind to the forefront of the American educational system that is often devoid of play, creativity, and innovation with her website End the Race to Nowhere. Her documentary film, Race to Nowhere, has been making headway and gaining momentum across the US. Abeles and other parents have spread their ideas of an open education and open mind further by creating digital "learning webs" or digital networks of parents, professionals, and repositories of freely accessible information.
Carolyn K., founder and director of Hoagies' Gifted Education Page, is an example of a parent who is spreading ideas by creating a network for gifted parents due to her children.
These are just a few of the countless examples of parents creating such digital networks with blogs, wikis, support forums, websites, open source—such as MIT's Scratch, to spread ideas, spark creativity and innovation. These parents and advocates of an open education on Ted Talks or SchoolForge, for instance, want children to take control of their learning, creativity, and to share their ideas. From Sir Ken Robinson to Massimo Banzi—who helped to invent a tiny, open source microcontroller—ideas about curiousity, creativity, and learning are being spread, shared, and creating a new era in open education, open content, and open source.


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Participants in the New York City Student Ancestry Project providing DNA samples for analysis by National Geographic's Genographic Project. © AMNH / D. Finnin.
Spencer Wells, National Geographic explorer-in-residence and director of the Genographic Project, presents findings of the New York City Student Ancestry Project. © AMNH/R. Mickens.
City College of New York Assistant Professor of Biology Mike Hickerson (at podium), who directed the Student Ancestry Project, leads a panel discussion and Q&A session with prominent population geneticists about the findings and their implications. © AMNH
National Geographic's Genographic Project finds 130 distinct maternal lineages among participants in study led by City College of New York
The 200 college students who provided DNA samples in February for the New York City Student Ancestry Project, led by The City College of New York, today learned the results of an analysis of their genetic profile at an event held at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). The students, from eight institutions in the New York metropolitan area, had their samples analyzed by National Geographic's Genographic Project.
Key project findings include:
- The 200 student participants uncovered a vast diversity of maternal and paternal haplogroups, i.e. groups of people with similar genetic traits, from throughout the world.
- The students' DNA represented more than 130 distinct maternal lineages, from nearly every major world haplogroup.
- Of the 71 male participants, 59 had distinct male lineages from five different continents.
- Many participants had genetic ties to populations from throughout the world, suggesting their parents and grandparents were both of different background and, in some cases, from distant places.
- The students' genetic composition showed the true melting pot of diversity that is New York.
In addition to City College, students from Columbia University, Stony Brook University, Queens College, Ramapo College, New York University, Fordham University and the Graduate Center/CUNY participated in the project.
Spencer Wells, National Geographic explorer-in-residence and director of the Genographic Project, and Mike Hickerson, assistant professor of biology, The City College of New York/Graduate Center-CUNY, presented the results to the student participants.
"The New York City Student Ancestry Project combines classroom learning with citizen science," said Dr. Wells. "The more people who participate, the more we will learn about new or rare genetic lineages and their present-day distributions. We also hope to increase representation from groups that may not be included among the current participants. Ultimately, we're trying to tell the human story, and that has a multitude of fascinating chapters."
"The goal of the New York City Student Ancestry Project is to directly involve students with their own DNA to learn how human history, ancestry and evolution can be better understood through genetics," said Professor Hickerson. "With the growth of personal genomics and public databases, these sorts of public programs are critical in light of the potential for misunderstanding and misuse of genetic information."
After the presentation, a panel of prominent population geneticists discussed the significance of personal genomics data and genomics testing in general.
The Student Ancestry Project is linked to Professor Hickerson's National Science Foundation-supported research to develop computational models that use DNA evidence to reconstruct how communities of species have responded to climate change.
His aim is to use thousands of genes from many species at once to test scenarios of how members of ecological communities can synchronously or idiosyncratically expand, contract, move and go extinct as climate change modifies the habitat.
The event is part of AMNH's ongoing interest in public education about the impact of the relatively new science of genome mapping. Under its Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, the Museum supports the work of about 75 researchers, including Dr. Rob DeSalle, with projects ranging from conservation genetics to the diversity of malaria parasites in non-human hosts.
The Genographic Project is a multiyear global initiative that is gathering and analyzing the world's largest collection of anthropological DNA samples in the hope it will capture an invaluable genetic snapshot of humanity. More than 600,000 people from 130 countries have participated in the project.
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About The City College of New York
Since 1847, The City College of New York has provided low-cost, high-quality education for New Yorkers in a wide variety of disciplines. More than 16,000 students pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees. For additional information, visit www.ccny.cuny.edu.
About the Genographic Project
The Genographic Project is a multiyear global initiative that is gathering and analyzing the world's largest collection of anthropological DNA samples in the hope it will capture an invaluable genetic snapshot of humanity. Members of the public can take part in this real-time research initiative with the Geno 2.0 Ancestry Kit.www.genographic.com
About the American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History, founded in 1869, is one of the world's preeminent scientific, educational, and cultural institutions. The Museum encompasses 45 permanent exhibition halls, including the Rose Center for Earth and Space and the Hayden Planetarium, as well as galleries for temporary exhibitions. Visit amnh.org for more information.


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"How does a hedge fund get an edge?" postulates a prominent New York corporate lawyer from a white-shoe firm. "Cheating, that's how. How do you outperform the market year after year? You can't, so you cheat."
No wonder then that Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, focused his latest insider-trading attack on financial "professionals willing to traffic in confidential business information, all to obtain an illegal inside edge…."
As hedge funds have risen to prominence in the last decade and remained largely sheltered from onerous regulation or much public disclosure, they have grown enormously, with between $1.7 trillion and $2 trillion now estimated to be under management. Miraculously, hedge funds rarely seem to lose, with Hedge Fund Research reporting only three calendar-year losses for the industry since 1990. One of those years was 2011, with hedge funds down 4.8 percent, and the group that concentrated on equities—stocks—down 8 percent.
One cannot help but wonder whether at least some of those hedge funds lost their "edge" because suddenly flows of inside information dried up as prosecutors in New York racked up convictions and uncovered what they called widespread corruption by hedge fund types manipulating securities markets.
Certainly, the unveiling Wednesday of seven new defendants—including three now cooperating with the Justice Department—must be striking more fear among some of the biggest players in the hedge fund industry. Court documents unsealed Wednesday suggest the three defendants who are cooperating have been taping their phone calls with others for months, under the direction of the feds.
The most obvious worrywarts could be Steven A. Cohen and his colleagues at his hedge fund based in Stamford, Conn., SAC Capital, although neither he nor the firm has been charged with any criminal acts.
Reuters first reported in 2007 that the firm was under investigation, and three SAC employees have been charged in the last two years before the latest filings. SAC has had a wildly profitable run over the years, and reported an 8 percent profit for 2011. It now has $12 billion entrusted to it by investors, according to Hedge Fund Research. The firm declined to comment Wednesday to the financial news wires, except to reiterate its previously disclosed cooperation with the federal investigation.
The latest criminal complaint outlines a scheme where the accused received inside information about financial earnings reports Dell was about to make. In the first instance, those tipped learned that Dell was going to report better-than-expected earnings in early 2008, and subsequently they bought Dell stock before it rose on the earnings news. The bigger profits came later in 2008, when those charged bet against Dell after learning Dell's profits would be far lower than anticipated.
SAC alum Anthony Chiasson was charged with overseeing the trades that allegedly made $53 million shorting Dell for Level Global, a New York-based hedge fund where he was head of research and cofounder, with David Ganek. The two men had met while working at SAC Capital, and since 2003 had built Level Global into a $3 billion hedge fund, before it closed last year after news of the investigation first hit, according to Bloomberg.
Also charged was Todd Newman, a former analyst at Diamondback Capital, a $4 billion Stamford, Conn. hedge fund cofounded by two other former SAC Capital employees who have not been charged.
A third man arrested Wednesday, Jon Horvath, was employed as a technology analyst by Sigma Capital, a New York-based unit of SAC, when his firm made $1 million from the alleged insider trading in 2008, according to the criminal complaint.
Given the new charges, the following partial transcript obtained last year by Reuters of an exchange between the normally reclusive Cohen and a combative lawyer taking his deposition becomes more fascinating. Cohen was interrogated in a civil suit that accused a group of hedge fund managers of collaborating to destroy a Canadian insurance company called Fairfax Financial. At one point, Cohen told Michael Bowe, the lawyer for Fairfax: "The way I understand the rules on trading on inside information, it's very vague." Bowe persisted.
Bowe: "Mr. Cohen, are you familiar with the term "edge"?Cohen: "Yes, I am." Bowe: That's a word that you use at S.A.C., correct? Cohen: "I hate that word."Bowe: What's that word mean?Cohen: "It just means that somebody believes that in a particular situation, stock, that the word suggests that somehow their expectations are different than either investors' expectations or Wall Street's expectations."Bowe: They think know something everyone else doesn't, right?Cohen: "You know, I think that's an over — I think that's an incorrect characterization of the word."
At his press conference Wednesday, Bharara said 63 defendants have now been charged in the last two years, 56 already have been found guilty, and more should expect to be caught soon. He said: "Insider trading activity in recent times has, indeed, been rampant and routine, and this criminal behavior was known, encouraged, and exploited by authority figures in several investment funds."
Together with FBI Assistant Director Janice Fedarcyk and Securities & Exchange Commission Enforcement Director Rob Khuzami, the U.S. Attorney sketched a picture of hedge fund employees whose idea of friendship was functioning as "a criminal club, whose purpose was profit and whose members regularly bartered lucrative inside information."
The FBI assistant director talked tough: "Each wave of charges and arrests seems to produce leads that lead us to the next phase… This initiative is far from over."
Khuzami was most pointed in his overall assessment of hedge funds, claiming there is "systemic dishonesty" and "a deeply embedded level of corruption." He continued: "Hedge funds are also characterized by a lack of transparency in trading practices, market power that can give them influence over those who possess inside information, access to leverage and large amounts of capital, and the techniques to trade extremely quickly. Those characteristics, if put to use for illicit purposes, present a grave threat..."
At the press conference, the authorities declined to say whether the huge short-sale trades were detected by SEC computer analysis at the time. One suspects they were not, and that raises the next question: Could the SEC go back over trading records for every short sale worth more than $50 million in profits and turn up more hedge funds acting illegally?


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Philip Morrison
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Philip Morrison (7 November 1915 – 22 April 2005) was an American physicist from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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- Archaeology of the future is what it should be called. Archaeology of the past is very interesting because it tells us what we once were. But archaeology of the future is the study of what we're going to become, what we have a chance to become...it's a missing element in our understanding of the universe which tells us what our future is like, and what our place in the universe is. If there's nobody else out there, that's also quite important to know.
- On SETI, Nothing is Too Wonderful to be True (1995)
- There is a narrowness of action, though not of intent, which characterizes university departments, and scientific publications and scientists in general: if it is too popular, it is somehow vulgar and wrong. You can't really speak to those people across the street. I live next to the chemists at MIT, but I never see them. I hardly know who they are, yet between physics and chemistry it is hard to know who should study what molecule. I myself am guilty. We form communities not based on the problems of science, but on quite other things. This is part of the general split between the intelligent member of the public and the scientist who speaks in narrow focus. But the great theoretical problems which I believe the world expects will somehow be solved by science, problems close to deep philosophical issues are the very problems that find the least expertise, the least degree of organization, the least institutional support in the scientific institutions of America or indeed of the world.
- On specialization, Nothing is Too Wonderful to be True (1995)