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The Department of Geological Sciences offers a comprehensive program of courses coupled with appropriate thesis projects leading to the Master of Science in Geology. Within geology, students specialize in any of a number of sub‑disciplines including engineering geology, environmental geochemistry, geology, hydrogeology, marine geology, mineralogy and petrology, paleontology, petroleum geology, sedimentology, stratigraphy, structural and field geology, and volcanology. In addition, a formal emphasis in geophysics is available. Students may include in their studies courses offered by other departments at CSULB.
The emphasis in geophysics is available for students wishing to specialize in the application of geophysical principles to the solution of problems in engineering geology, geohydrology, structural geology, tectonics, petroleum geology, and mineral exploration. Students are expected to have completed the equivalent of course work required for the B.S. in Earth Science, Geophysics emphasis, and additionally to complete M.S. requirements with a program of geophysical course work approved in advance by both the graduate advisor and a geophysics advisor. Appropriate B.S. programs which provide training suitable for completion of the M.S. in Geology, Geophysics Emphasis, include Civil and Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, and Geology in addition to Geophysics, although some deficiencies will exist in these alternate programs. Confer with the graduate advisor about this program.
The Department has access to an ocean-going research vessel, support staff, and dockside facilities of the Southern California Marine Institute (SCMI), a consortium of several California State University campuses, University of Southern California, and Occidental College.
The basic requirement for admission to the graduate program is possession of a bachelor's degree or equivalent in geology, or a closely related field. The final curriculum requirements for the Master of Science Degree are set by the Thesis Committee at Advancement to Candidacy, but the following undergraduate courses are considered an essential foundation for the program: (1) two courses in calculus, (2) two courses in general chemistry, (3) two courses in calculus-based physics, (4) a course in physical geology, (5) a course in historical geology, (6) mineralogy, (7) sedimentology/stratigraphy, (8) structural geology, (9) a course in field methods or a field camp. Students who are missing some of this course work may be admitted to the program but will be expected to remove deficiencies or present acceptable alternatives prior to Advancement to Candidacy. Students who are missing the general science and math requirements are recommended to complete an undergraduate degree in Geological Sciences or a closely related field before applying to the Graduate Program.
In addition to the above course work requirements, students are required to take the General test of the Graduate Record Examination and to submit three letters of recommendation prior to entry.
Prospective graduate students in the geological sciences, including CSULB graduates, must formally apply for admission to CSULB as described previously in this Catalog and must also apply directly to the Department of Geological Sciences. All applicants must submit the following documents directly to the Department no later than April 1 for the fall semester or November 1 for the spring semester to receive full consideration for admission and financial support:
A limited number of teaching and research assistantships are available to fund graduate studies in the Department of Geological Sciences. Applicants wishing to secure research assistantships are encouraged to make direct contact with faculty in their area of research interest.
The Johnson-Conrey Graduate Fellowship is awarded to the most highly qualified incoming Geological Sciences graduate students each year. The Fellowship, which provides $15,000 per year for two years, is competitive, and is swarded by the Department based on students' Application materials. Up to two Fellowships are awarded each year.
Students are responsible for all University and Department regulations governing master's degrees as outlined in this Catalog. The regulations governing the degree are those in effect at the time of advancement to candidacy. Until that time, students are governed by the most current Catalog. The advising of incoming graduate students is carried out by the graduate advisor, who explains the requirements of the program and carries out initial academic advising. It is required that the student arrange for this initial advising before or during his/her first semester.
All entering students must take GEOL 500 (Introductory Graduate Seminar) during their first Fall semester. This course consists of faculty‑given seminars that introduce to new students the faculty and their research. One purpose of this is to encourage the student to find a thesis topic and thesis advisor by the end of the second semester. This is done with the help of the graduate advisor once the student has chosen a sub‑discipline or option in which to specialize.
Students are required to maintain a GPA of 3.0 or higher at all times. If at any time a student's GPA drops below 3.0, that student will immediately be placed on probation for a maximum of two semesters. If the student does not bring the GPA back up to 3.0 during the probationary period, he/she will not be allowed to continue as a graduate student in this Department. In order for a student to regain status in the Department after failing to maintain this academic standard, he/she must formally reapply for Department admission.
A student must have been advanced to candidacy before initiating formal thesis research necessary to complete the M.S. degree. Students are expected to be advanced by the end of their fourth semester. Students may petition the Department for an extension of the four semester time limit on a semester by semester basis. Students should be aware, however, that they are at risk of not receiving credit toward their graduate programs for research started or courses taken prior to advancement. Students must have fulfilled the Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement (GWAR) and have advanced to candidacy before they apply for graduation. Requests to graduate must be received during the preceding May for Spring/Summer graduation or preceding December for Fall graduation. Filings after the deadlines are not accepted.
Before advancement can proceed, a thesis topic, committee, and graduate program consisting of at least 30 units (see below) must be established by the student and the prospective thesis committee chair. In addition, the following requirements must be met:
Once the above requirements are met, advancement to candidacy proceeds with approval of the committee, graduate advisor, Department Chair and Associate Dean in the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. After the student has been advanced, no course work in addition to that specified in the graduate program may be required of the student. In order for a student to change thesis chair/director, topic, committee members, or courses in the graduate program, approvals must be obtained. Under some circumstances this may mean that additional courses are required.
The graduate academic program consists of at least 30 units of courses and is finalized when the student advances to candidacy. Although courses that will eventually become part of the student's academic program may be taken before advancement, it is strongly recommended that students make up any undergraduate deficiencies first, and then advance as early as possible. The program proposed by the thesis committee chair and the student must be approved by the thesis committee, Graduate Advisor, Department Chair, and Associate Dean. Six units of GEOL 698 (Thesis) must be taken as part of the program. Directed Research, GEOL 697, may account for up to three units, but normally cannot be taken before the student completes 12 units of the graduate program with a grade point average of 3.0 or higher.
A minimum of 18 units of 500 or 600 level courses, including Thesis, must be completed; the remaining units (12 or less) may be 300, 400, 500, or 600 level courses, although courses at 300 level in the Department may not be used in the program. Units may be taken at other universities if suitable courses are not offered at CSULB. Appropriate courses from related areas in science, mathematics, or engineering may be substituted within limits with consent of the Department.
All M.S. students are required to submit a thesis that conforms to the University and Department guidelines. The thesis should document the systematic study of a significant geological problem; evidence originality and critical, independent thinking; and conform to appropriate and accepted organization, format, and writing style. Each student should discuss thesis format with his/her thesis committee chair.
All M.S. students are also required to present the results of their research orally. With prior approval, this presentation can take one of many possible formats, including a departmental seminar, a presentation at a regional or national meeting, or a formal thesis defense. The student must schedule his/her presentation at least two weeks in advance, and with the approval of the thesis committee. The date of the presentation must precede the semester's thesis submission deadline for which the student plans to graduate.


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from Tokyo by Shinkansen.
It was the first time being here, and I was utterly amazed by the beautiful
scenery and amazing food.
If you want to get relaxed, to see around Mt. Fuji, or are interested in
Japanese onsen(hot spring), this area is full of traditional style hotels
and I'm sure you will be fascinated by the profound beauty of nature.
above: Hotel Asaba
The first photo: the view from the room
you can see one of the most historic Noh stages in its garden
below: Skywalk
The longest suspended bridge in Japan
soooo thrilling!!
Unfortunately cloudy this time, but when it's sunny
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"The Empire will compensate you if he melts"
- 7 Han Solo Ice Cubes
- Withstands chilling to -40F
- Crystal clear, not scruffy-looking at all
That doesn't really have the same sort of dramatic impact, does it? Still, that's basically what Darth Vader meant when he was talking to Boba Fett in the bowels of Cloud City. Thankfully, you won't need to go to such extremes if your Han Solo Ice Cubes melt. You just stick them back in the freezer and through the magic of the exothermic process you'll have ice in no time at all.
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Beans Hawaiian
From: Munchin with Munchkin
Quick Facts
Servings: 8
Prep Time: 20 min.
Cook Time: 8 hr.
Total: 8 hr. 20 min.
Kris Mullen
Beans Hawaiian is based on recipe by big band leader Moxie Whitney and includes four of his favorite things: beans, pineapple, wieners—and no work.
- 2 cups dried navy beans
- 1 1/2 cups teriyaki sauce
- 1 Tbs soy sauce
- 2/3 cup pineapple juice
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp ginger, freshly grated
- 6 slices thickly cut bacon
- 1 onion, finely diced
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1 cup fresh pineapple, roughly chopped
- 16 oz ham steak, cubed
- Soak dried navy beans overnight in a large pot. You want the water to be cold and about 2 to 3 inches above the beans. Cover and refrigerate at least 8 hours.
- Drain and rinse the beans. Place in a large pot and cover by 4 to 5 inches of fresh water. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 1 – 1½ hours until the beans are tender but not bursting.
- In the meantime, combine teriyaki sauce, soy sauce, pineapple juice, brown sugar, and ginger in a medium bowl. Whisk until brown sugar has dissolved. Set aside.
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Reserving 2 cups of the boiled water, drain the beans.
- In a large Dutch oven, sauté bacon for 3 to 4 minutes over medium high heat. With a slotted spoon remove bacon and set aside.
- Add onions to the bacon fat and cook until translucent, about 5 minutes. Add garlic and pineapple and sauté for an additional minute, until the garlic becomes fragrant.
- Place bacon back into the dutch oven and add the cubed ham steak, beans, reserved water, and prepared sauce. Stir well to combine.
- Bake in the oven covered for 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 200°F and continue to cook for 6 hours, stirring halfway through.
- After 6 hours, remove lid, increase heat to 350°F, and cook for an additional 1 to 2 hours stirring every twenty minutes until the sauce has thickened.
Nutrition Facts
Calories 403
Calories from Fat 52 (13%)
(9%)Total Fat 6g
(9%)Saturated Fat 2g
Polyunsaturated Fat 1g
Monounsaturated Fat 2g
(11%)Cholesterol 32mg
(125%)Sodium 3012mg
(31%)Potassium 1082mg
Total Carbohydrate 61g
(53%)Dietary Fiber 13g
Sugars 26g
Sugar Alcohols 0g
(57%)Protein 29g
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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SHREVEPORT, La. — Just 2 1/2 weeks before kickoff in Saturday's Independence Bowl, Virginia Tech's Frank Beamer mentioned how he was pleased to have coached a program that was strong enough on defense to avoid being involved in shootouts.
After that statement, he should've seen this coming. His final game was bananas, and nearly heartbreaking.
Tech finished Beamer's 29-season coaching career in Blacksburg with a 55-52 victory against Tulsa in a wild game that featured offensive records galore — and forgettable defensive performances. Tech nearly let a 24-point lead slip away, but managed to keep Tulsa off the scoreboard in the closing moments.
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Thermo Fisher launches new leakproof vials
- Published: Jul 19, 2017
- Source: Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Suppliers: Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Channels: Proteomics & Genomics / Gas Chromatography / Laboratory Informatics / Ion Chromatography / Electrophoresis / Detectors / HPLC / Sample Preparation / MRI Spectroscopy / Base Peak / UV/Vis Spectroscopy / Proteomics / Atomic / Raman / Infrared Spectroscopy / X-ray Spectrometry / Chemometrics & Informatics / NMR Knowledge Base
Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed a new series of leakproof vials to provide sample protection and user safety by ensuring correct cap application every time. The unique lid-lock design of the Thermo Scientific Samco Clicktainer vials makes them ideal for the secure transport of valuable and often hazardous clinical, research and forensic samples.
The new Samco Clicktainer vials are designed for the secure collection and handling of fluid, solid and powder samples, including urine, sputum and stool specimens. They bear the CE mark and are compliant with applicable US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) regulations. They are also 95kPa leak and pressure tested in accordance with standards BS EN 14401 and 14254, respectively, and are tested to support their use in hospital pneumatic transport systems.
"Enabling the safe and secure collection and transportation of specimen samples is essential for the efficient operation of many laboratory types where leakages can not only lead to inconveniences associated with lost work, but can also be hazardous for laboratory personnel," said Eric Roman, president, laboratory products, Thermo Fisher Scientific. "Our new Samco Clicktainer vials are rigorously tested to ensure they are leakproof, and our click seal system provides users with peace of mind that their specimens are secure following collection."
Available in 120mL and 90mL formats with an optional built-in temperature strip, users simply turn the lid gently past the lock symbol and an audible 'click' sound will signify the lid is fully sealed. In addition, the click mechanism is tactile, and clear markers on the lid and vial indicate when the lid is correctly closed. As such, users can be confident their samples are safe, while the durable tab design reduces the risk of torn gloves or break-off leading to potential contamination of the sample.
The wide 53mm opening is designed for easy specimen collection and handling, and the cap is available in multiple colors for sample differentiation and management. In addition, the vials are available gamma irradiated to a sterility assurance level (SAL) of 10-6 for routine microbiology and more sensitive applications, or non-sterile for general use.


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Protecting critical habitat for Asia's endangered cranes.
Muraviovka Park was established in 1994 to protect one of the few remaining undisturbed wetlands within the immense floodplains of the Amur Basin of Northeast Asia. Covering 16,000 acres of wetland and cropland leased from the local government until the year 2058, the park is the first nongovernmental protected area and the first privately operated nature park in Russia since 1917. This wetland, with the adjacent croplands, provides critical habitat for more than 500 species of plant, and 200 species of birds, 20 of which are rare or endangered—most notable are the six species of elegant cranes which use the area for nesting and raising their young. The wetlands have been designated as a Ramsar site—a resource of global significance.
Directed by Dr. Sergei Smirenski, the park's mission integrates human and wildlife interests for a sustainable future. Combining research, protection, restoration, management of endangered wildlife species and their habitats with sustainable land use and education, the park has worked to have an impact on the surrounding farms and communities. The success of the park is in identifying and aiding the needs of local people by understanding their way of life and working with them to accommodate that alongside the needs of the wildlife. With this approach, the park is able to win trust, respect and cooperation from local and international people and organizations who share a vision for healthy co-existence of migratory water birds and people.
Wildfires near the park happen twice every year, in the spring and fall, started by farmers who burn unneeded straw in their crop fields and dead grass in the hayfields and pastures. Bird nests, eggs and chicks, as well as many mammals perish in those fires, which on windy days can cause these fires to move into the park – with devastating effects. Since 1996, Muraviovka Park has been conducting a complex fire prevention and suppression program to offset negative impacts of grass fires on wildlife. The program includes prescribed burning in spring and fall to set up fire breaks that protect the park in the event of uncontrolled wildfires, however in fall of 2011, the prescribed burn permit was denied. On October 8, 2011, a fire moved through the park, burning 12,000 acres of crane wetlands, as well as two cabins, 20 acres of soybeans and the park arboretum planted by park staff, supports, and local school children and their teachers. Russian wildlife artist Vadim Borbatov created "The Exodus," a painting depicting a family of red-crowned cranes feeling the wildlife, which was presented to the park and will be exhibited in Blagovehchensk in 2013.
Vibrant symbols of life to many Asian cultures, cranes depend on the vast grasslands of the Amur Region as a breeding and chick rearing location. Red-crowned cranes are renowned for their spectacular and elaborate courtship dances, gracefully circling each other while leaping and calling, head-bobbing toward one another and bowing with spread wings. These dances continue throughout the year as the birds continually reinforce their pair bonds. In addition to endangered Red-crowned Cranes, Muraviovka Park hosts Vulnerable White-naped cranes, Endangered Oriental White storks and many endangered plants species.
In spite of wildfires, productive nests have been found. One of the crane nests is located just 250 yards from the Park's Education Center, so visitors re able to watch them from behind masking netting from the Center's balcony. Additionally, the Center's captive pair of Red-crowned cranes successfully reared two healthy chicks. A captive-reared crane was was released at Khinganski Nature Reserve into a wild flock of cranes, successfully integrating and leaving the park during the migratory period.
Woodland Park Zoo has fully participated in the AZA's Species Survival Plan for the Red-crowned and White-napped cranes for many years, successfully raising several of both species here. SSPs include conservation-oriented research, breeding of selected animals to maintain genetic diversity and cooperative educational efforts. The pair of birds on exhibit at Woodland Park Zoo was received in 1992 from Kobe Zoo, Japan.


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Dimensional Measurement
Non-Contact Thickness Measuring System
CL-5610 - NEW ! Non-contact thickness meter 0.1um resolution
The CL-5610/5610S is used to perform non-contact thickness measurement of objects under measurement including conductors, semiconductors and insulators in combination with the new-developed VE series capacitance type gap detector. The CL-5610/5610S can be connected up to 2 gap detectors and also used as 2-ch displacement meter. The CL-5610 has a built-in amplifier for a sensor and can be used to connect with the VE sensor directly. This model is effective for off-line measurement on a desktop PC. (The cable length between sensor and a main unit is 1.5 m, cannot be extended.) The CL-5610S can be used away from the VE sensor through an external amplifier. The cable length between a main unit and an external amplifier is 2.5 m as standard, up to 10-m extension as an option. It is suitable when the main unit of the thickness meter is set up separately from a sensor such as installation to the other equipment.
Wide range of measurement items Both thickness and gap measurements can be performed. DEVI (deviation value), MAX (maximum value), MIN (minimum value), or Range (MAX-MIN from calculation start time) can be selected for each measurement item.
Performs thickness measurement of conductors, semiconductors and insulators (option) with a single unit When the CL-0300 optional Insulator Measurement Function is installed, the CL-5610/5610S allows measurement of insulators such as thin plastic film or glass sheet.
Enables stable thickness measurement of an object with smaller contact area At measurement of an object on a table coated with fluorine film, the large contact area has been required for stable measurement. The CL-0210 High-impedance Grounding Mode (option) enables measurement of an object with small contact area even if the contact area is smaller than the table. The larger the contact area is, the more the stable measurement can be performed.
The High-resolution Measurement Function (CL-0200 option) enables displaying a minimum resolution at 0.02¼m 1. *1: When the VE-2011/5010/5011 is used. The VE-5010/5011 is available when the measurement range is changed from 20 to 200 by using the optional CL-0201.
Storing of up to 6 calibration informations for sensors. The CL-5610 series can store up to 6 calibration informations for sensors to select suitable sensor depending on a measurement range and resolution.
Control or data transmission can be performed remotely from PLC* or PC. Remote, RS-232C, and BCD (option) connectors are provided as external interfaces. Control or data transmission can be performed remotely when the CL-5610 series is incorporated in production facility. Measurement data in BCD format can be obtained from BCD output connector at every 20 ms. Also optional the CL-0110 Outputs Function enables output of measurement value with analog voltage.
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Measurable objectsConductors or semiconductors : Silicon wafer, steel plate, copper-foil substrate, hard disc, aluminum stainless steel, electronic printed wiring board, flexible material, mirrored material, easily damaged material, and any other materials required to be clean including metal plate.
Insulators: Glass, polyethylene, polypropylene and other plastic (Thin objects composed of a uniform and simple material throughout can be measured.)
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Vacuum fluorescent display; either 2-row display or 1-row display (large character size) can be selected.
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Depends on which sensors are used. 0.1, 0.5, 1, 2 um (0.02, 0.05, 0.2, 0.5, 1um by using optional CL-0200 *2)
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by key operation on the panel can be stored in the internal memory and held in the power-off memory
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Moving mean, 1 to 64 times
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Max., min., max.-min. values of measuring data are displayed in real time Data initialized at the start and held at the stop.
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Comparator function (Option: CL-0100 ) 3-CH output , Analog output (Option: CL-0100 ) Thickness, Gap A, B (linearity ±0.2% F.S./10% to 100% F.S.)
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20 to 80% RH
Power supply
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Outer dimensions
210(W) mm x 99 (H) mm x 276(D) mm
Some great application materials that can be measured with great accuracy : Metal plates Steel, aluminum, stainless steel, etc Silicon Wafers Can be measured in the same way as metal plates. Copper-foil laminated boards The thickness of both surfaces can be measured prior to etching. Pastes such as battery pole plates prior to firing. Carbon plates Plates which include a large amount of the carbon material used for gaskets, etc.
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Thank you again, Jungshik. As I wrote in my previous mail, I read UAX #11 saying that Neutral should also be rotated sideways. I think it's clear form the statement and Figure 2, and interpreting so works well for other scripts, but if you don't think so, it may be another issue for UAX #11 to write it clearer. Just to make it clear, my personal vote from my wild guess is the option 2 (these code points should be "W"), so I'm glad you agree with this. I raised other options just because Asmus said that the option 2 is the least desired. That said, we don't know the right answer yet other than the option 1 is wrong. You're probably right that it's better to discuss this further in unicode.org, and if you can raise the issue, it's greatly appreciated. Thank you for the support to the CSS specs again. Regards, Koji From: Jungshik SHIN (신정식) [mailto:email@example.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 10:56 PM To: Koji Ishii Cc: Asmus Freytag; email@example.com; firstname.lastname@example.com Subject: Re: HANGUL JONGSEONG, vertical text flow, and Unicode East Asian Width On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Koji Ishii <firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com>> wrote: Asmus, thank you for the response. >> 1. Unicode EAW is correct; these code points should be rotated sideways in vertical text flow. >> 2. Unicode EAW is incorrect; these code points should be "W", not "N". >> 3. There are reasons to make these code points as "N", so EAW is correct, >> but "Narrow are rotated sideways" is incorrect. > > Whatever the outcome, option 2 seems least desirable, because of the way EAW is defined. Can you please shed me a light on why you think so? Soonbo Han told me that 1 is wrong. I also verified that with MS Word; it displays U+1161 upright. I tried to enter: U+1100 HANGUL CHOSEONG KIYEOK U+1161 HANGUL JUNGSEONG A and then made the document to vertical text flow. To enter these two code points into MS Word, type "1100" (without double quotes), Alt+x, "1161", and Alt+x. Given this, it looks like we can exclude first two options, but I'm curious to know what the reasons behind to exclude option 2. According to "4 Definitions" section of UAX #11 East Asian Width[1], "N" is defined as "Neutral (Not East Asian): All other characters. Neutral characters do not occur in legacy East Asian character sets" which looks to be wrong for this case. If you think it's not "W" for whatever reasons, it should be "Na" (Narrow) instead. Why do you think they should be "Na"? Then, if you follow the UAX #11 recommendation, they should be rotated when they stand alone in a vertical layout. That's *not* a desired behavior. Thanks to Soonbo Han, I now understand these code points are part of conjoining. I also verified this with UAX #29 Unicode Text Segmentation[2] that U+1161 is V (Vowel) while U+314F is a grapheme cluster. So I would add another option (as Soonbo Han sent by replying to the original mail): 4. It's always 2nd or 3rd code point of a grapheme cluster, and 1st code point (CHOSEONG) is "W", so the UA should assume the grapheme cluster is "W" by disregarding the EAW of 2nd/3rd code point. Well, 'neutral' characters are not required to be rotated by UAX #11. It's not explicitly mentioned in the section on the display, but if 'neutral' is treated the same as 'ambiguous', their behavior is context dependent, which covers what you tried to do with option #4 and more. Note that a Korean syllable is defined as L+V+T* by the Unicode. V and T (vowels and final consonants) can be 4th or later components of a Korean syllable. Moreover, #4 does not cover cases where Korean vowels and final consonants are by themselves in a vertical layout. If Asmus does not like changing the EA assignment to Korean medial vowels and final consonants from Neutral to Wide, it seems that UAX #11 section 5 (a subsection on the display) has to be changed to special-case Korean vowels and final consonants. However, we still have to resolve the inconsistency in the EA assignment of Korean vowels and final consonants that I wrote about in the previous email. Either all of them have to be Neutral or all of them have to be Wide. Jungshik This is a possible interpretation of EAW, but it's not clearly written in the spec, so I might try to ask Unicode folks to add this description if this is the correct way to go. But even so, theoretically author could type U+1161 alone. MS Word displays it in upright in vertical text flow, so this option may not be as good as what MS Word does. One more possible option is: 5. U+1161 is there for historical reasons or for backward compatibility and nobody uses this in real world, so nobody cares whether it's "W" or "N" or whatever else. I don't like this option very much, but I can live with if this is what Korean users want. [1] http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr11/#Definitions [2] http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr29/ -----Original Message----- From: Asmus Freytag [mailto:email@example.com<mailto:email@example.com>] Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 3:54 PM To: Koji Ishii Cc: firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:email@example.com>; email@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com> Subject: Re: HANGUL JONGSEONG, vertical text flow, and Unicode East Asian Width On 3/9/2011 3:09 PM, Koji Ishii wrote: > Hello, > > Will you mind to help me to resolve a question in CSS3 Writing Modes spec? > > I'm trying to figure out which characters are displayed upright and which are rotated sideways in vertical text flow. I understand vertical text flow isn't very important for Hangul, but I hope you understand I want to write the correct spec in case you need it. > > Current idea is written in the spec[1], paragraphs after Figure 10. The basic idea is to use a combination of font information, Unicode Script Property[2], and Unicode East Asian Width[3]. > > EAW (Unicode East Asian Width) defines character orientation like this in its Recommendation section[4]: > * Wide characters ... are not rotated (and therefore rendered upright) when appearing in vertical text runs. > * Narrow characters ... are rotated sideways, when appearing in vertical text. > > If I look into the data file[5], most Hangul characters are W(ide), so they are rendered upright in vertical text flow according to the Unicode definitions. I suppose this is what you expect. > > However, many of HANGUL JONGSEONG are marked as N and therefore they must be rotated sideways in vertical text flow if we follow this rule. > > 115F;W # HANGUL CHOSEONG FILLER > 1160;N # HANGUL JUNGSEONG FILLER > 1161;N # HANGUL JUNGSEONG A > 1162;N # HANGUL JUNGSEONG AE > 1163;N # HANGUL JUNGSEONG YA > ... > > I'm guessing this is NOT what you expect. Can anyone in this ML help me to resolve this situation? Possible answers I'm guessing are: > The characters in question are conjoining Jamos. They are supposed to form into syllables, which themselves are rendered upright in vertical writing. The question is whether anyone ever renders these things as themselves, that is when not combined into syllables and whether in that case they are upright when (if ever) they are vertical. Whatever the outcome, option 2 seems least desirable, because of the way EAW is defined. > 1. Unicode EAW is correct; these code points should be rotated sideways in vertical text flow. > 2. Unicode EAW is incorrect; these code points should be "W", not "N". > 3. There are reasons to make these code points as "N", so EAW is correct, but "Narrow are rotated sideways" is incorrect. > > Which one is it, or anything else? I asked this to Soonbo Han from LG at CSSWG, he thinks the answer is not 1, but he wasn't sure if it's 2 or 3 or else. > > Your support is greatly appreciated. > > > Regards, > Koji > > [1] http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-writing-modes/#text-orientation > [2] http://unicode.org/reports/tr24/ > [3] http://unicode.org/reports/tr11/ > [4] http://unicode.org/reports/tr11/#Recommendations > [5] http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/EastAsianWidth.txt > >Received on Thursday, 10 March 2011 08:02:12 UTC
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As a mild creature of habit, every weekday morning starts with tea and oatmeal for me. I fluctuate between steel cut oats (which I love) and instant oatmeal.
Instant oatmeal is, quite simply, more convenient. And for the longest time, it didn't occur to me that I could make my own from scratch. After reading a column in the New York Times by Mark Bittman, I had a light bulb moment, and set forth in search of instant oatmeal recipes.
In the end, it's cheaper per packet, and you can control the type and quality of the ingredients.
All told, the recipe takes less than 10 minutes to prepare, bag and store.
After some tinkering with sugar and spice levels, I finally tweaked the recipe I found. Enjoy:
Homemade Cinnamon-Spice Instant Oatmeal:
6 cups quick oats
1/2 cup brown sugar*
2 TBSP cinnamon, ground*
1/2 tsp nutmeg, ground*
1/4 tsp cloves, ground*
1/2 tsp cardamom, ground (optional)*
~12 sandwich resealable baggies
* - spice amounts are variable. Use more of what you like, less of what you don't.
1. Using a blender or food processor, grind 1.5 to 2 cups of the oats, until they're a flour-like powder. Use more if you like your oatmeal really thick, less if you don't. This part may require some tinkering on your part until you find the consistency you like. If using a blender, you may need to grind in batches.
2. Throw everything into a large bowl and mix well.
3. Fill your sandwich baggies with 1/2 cup of the mixture.
4. When ready to have your oatmeal, add as much or as little boiling water as you like, usually about 1/2-3/4 cup.
5. Enjoy!
The beauty of the recipe is that once you grind the oats, the rest is a free for all. You can add dried fruit or nuts (about 1/2 cup is recommended), or cocoa powder, or other spices you really like. The possibilities are endless.
Some recipes for fruit & cream oatmeal recommend adding 1 TBSP milk powder to each baggie in addition to about 1-2 TBSP of the dried fruit.
I keep my oatmeal baggies stored in an empty oats container, and have another oats container for the empty baggies, which can be reused.
Enjoy! And if you develop your own unique & tasty variety, please let me know!
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It seems that the other site was taking her content from her feed, reposting it in it's entirety in their forum. Not only her content was posted there but the content of many other garden bloggers too. (I haven't been through all of the pages yet but so far I haven't found any of my content there. If you have please let me know!) They have since removed Annie's content but the content of the others is still there. This is how they responded to Annie:
All we are doing is subscribing to your RSS feed. You are publishing an RSS feed for your blog. You have control over the amount of content that you are syndicating in your feed. RSS feeds are designed to help you distribute your content, and that's exactly what we feel we are doing. We are getting your content out in front of a wider audience, giving you attribution, and linking back to the original source.
I did check out the site and the posts came up without a date or author name. The original title was used and the name of the blog where the post originated was in shown in parentheses. The name of the person posting clearly was not the original author. All of the original photographs and links are there. If you read all the way through a post there was a link to "more" that took you to the page where the work originally appeared. Directly to the right of the beginning of each post is a Google ad box. So they are clearly trying to profit from the work of others and it is my personal opinion that they are not giving proper attribution.
Make sure you read Annie's post and all of the comments that follow. Then check out what Mr. Brown Thumb had to say here. I urge any of you who are unhappy about your content being found elsewhere to file a complaint with Google as he recommends. He also has information about shortening your feed. If you do not want to get a feedburner account but you do want to shorten your feed to avoid this type of theft you can do so easily by going to your settings tab and selecting site feed and resetting your preference to short or even none. You need to be aware that if you set it to none that those of us that follow your feed will no longer know when you have a new post. If you shorten your feed those that subscribe to your feed will have to click through to see your entire post, not necessarily a bad thing, but you may lose a few readers. In Mr. Brown Thumb's comments the other site responded with this:
That fact that we have struck such a nerve has gotten us thinking about how we do what we do, and clearly there is room for improvement. Starting now, we will provide more clear attribution in every post we syndicate via RSS, we will indicate in the post that it was from an RSS feed, and we will provide two links back to the originating content, one at the top of the post, and one at the bottom.They have done this BUT now they no longer have the name of the original site in parentheses. They have not gone back and amended the older posts and there are so many that it would probably take them weeks to do so. The posts are still appearing in their entirety. Is this fair use or a service? Not to my mind, but I'm not a lawyer.
Over the summer Ancestry introduced the Internet Biographical Collection which caused much a lot of controversy among bloggers and website owners. They used web crawlers to find content, cached it and then added it to the collection. (Do a search for "Internet Biographical Collection" and "IBC" and you will find information on what happened and the differing opinions.) Ancestry's initial response at 24/7 Family History Circle was similar to the response Annie received:
Ancestry.com just added the Internet Biographical Collection which is a compilation of genealogy information across the web. For the first few days, the information was in the paid section of the site. Based on community response to the addition of the Internet Biographical Collection, Ancestry.com has decided to make the database free. The site is also displaying a live link back to the source site where the information was extracted. The goal behind the collection is to help surface genealogical information that many people would not be able to find easily because it is often scattered among numerous websites across the Internet. We are currently evaluating the viability of this collection and whether it can meet its goals.Outrage continued on both sides until Ancestry removed the database.
After things had died down a bit Craig Mason, writing at GeneaBlogie, wrote a series on copyright law that was very informative and I urge you to read all of it. It is very long (start at the bottom and work your way back up) so read a piece or two each day.
To protect yourself from having your site cached you can add code to your template. Do a search for "prevent caching" to find the code that will work for your site or blog type.
So how do we protect ourselves? We can't totally as there will always be those that try and profit from the work of others. In September I added a Creative Commons License or Copyright Notice to all of my blogs. Will this stop content theft? Nope! But maybe it will give those with something to loose pause. I certainly am not willing to stop blogging just because my content might be used in a way that I object to. For those that may be considering not blogging anymore because of this (OR for other reasons!) I would suggest that you make your blog private and invite those that enjoy your writing to continue to visit.
Now we come to the question of whether or not we want to shorten or eliminate our feeds or prevent our material from being cached. I have four different blogs with four different goals so I personally have different answers.
On this blog I post pictures of my family and I don't want those pictures showing up on somebody else's site. I also write about school bus safety and that information I want to share with as many people as possible. So here I will shorten my feed and be more aware of how far into a post I place pictures. I do have a private, by invitation only blog, that I may start using for all of my family posts in the future. I have to give that some more thought. I will allow caching so that my bus safety information remains available.
My Sister's Garden is pretty much closed for the season and as I team blog I want to talk to Country Girl before I make hard and fast decisions there. She is having some internet problems but I hope sometime next year she will have them worked out and share some of the amazing renovation work that she has done on her old farm house. For right now I will shorten the feed. We enjoy being part of the garden blogger community and if we don't keep our blog public how will anyone be able to stop by and answer our questions????
The whole point of Apple's Tree is to make connections and interact with other genealogists so I will not be making any changes there at this time. Having my work stolen is a definite concern but as a genealogist I am happy to share my research and (limited) knowledge with others. I just ask that my efforts be acknowledged. If you can take what I have and build on it to both of our benefit feel free but please to not take my work just to make a profit for yourself. I have gained so much from this blog that I'm not willing to make any changes right now.
The fourth blog that I maintain is for the School Bus Training Team, Inc. I have posted a copyright notice there. As a non-profit corporation we want to get our message out there. I will be talking to the Board of Directors about the potential for our content to show up in an objectionable location but right now I don't foresee any changes there. I may shorten the feed at some point in the future.
There may be other ways to protect your content that I am not aware of. I hope that anyone thinking about removing their blog will think twice and worst case go the route of an invitation only blog as I would hate to not be able to benefit from your knowledge or share your smiles in the future.


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by Tina, a mom in Illinois
That was the horrible thought that I repeated to myself over and over again when I was first struck with the fear that I would hurt my daughter 36 hours after she was born. After working as licensed counselor specializing in psychiatric crisis assessment for the last 10 years, it never occurred to me that I might be the one in need of help. The beginning of my story goes something like this:
Around 11 pm that night, the nurse brought Alyssa in for a feeding. I fed her until she fell asleep, then set her down on the bed and watched her for a while. Suddenly, out of nowhere, I was seized with the fear that I would pick her up and throw her against the wall. I could imagine myself doing just that, and the fear that overcame me was a physical presence in the room. I felt what I can only describe as a hot flash (not that I have ever had one), and my heart started pounding in my chest. The fear seemed to move down my arms to my hands, and they started to twitch. I took this to be a sign that I was going to make a move to pick her up, and I quickly jumped off the bed and backed away from her as fast as possible. As quickly as the fear came, it disappeared, and I was left shaking and weak. I quickly swaddled Alyssa the best I could and called for the nurse to take her back to the nursery.
Once she was gone, the horrible thought that I would throw her against the wall returned. For the next few hours, this thought returned over and over. It was like swimming against the current. One minute I would be drowning in fear, unable to breathe, and the next I was calmly telling myself that I was being ridiculous and all I needed was to get some sleep. I cried a lot that night as I battled my overwhelming anxiety. When I was overcome by the fear, I wanted to reach out the night nurse and tell her what I was feeling. Every time I was about to do that, I was then seized by the fear that I would be hospitalized and Alyssa would be taken away from me. I sobbed as I played out the scenario in my mind of what this horror would do to Nick and how my life would be over. A large part of my job as a therapist is to evaluate people for psychiatric hospitalization. The belief that I was now someone that needed to be evaluated because I was a danger to my baby was too much to take. I vowed that I would do whatever it took to hide this fear from everyone and make sure Alyssa was safe no matter the cost to me.
I finally fell asleep sometime after 3 am and slept until about 6. Looking back, they must have brought Alyssa in for a feeding again that night, but I can't remember that. When I woke up, I found that I was still terrified and could not make the fear go away. For lack of anything better to do, I started organizing my things so I would be ready to go home. Cleaning and organizing has always been a coping skill for me. It didn't work this time; I moved around my room as though I was in a dream, battling back the fears that were getting stronger by the minute. Every time I would hear a sound in the hallway, I would both hope and fear that it was the nurse bringing Alyssa in for a feeding. I felt myself torn between wanting to see my daughter and knowing that seeing her was likely to trigger my crippling anxiety. I felt myself shutting down in order to avoid dealing with what seemed like the end of my life. I hopelessly watched the clock wishing away the hours until my husband would arrive.
When Nick came in, I smiled and laughed and pretended that nothing was wrong. We fawned over the baby when she was in the room with us, and discussed our concerns over her jaundice. At around noon, my doctor came in to examine me for discharge. I listened to her instructions about caring for my sutures and other physical issues as my anxiety ramped up again. When she asked how I was feeling, I started to cry and told her I was really anxious. She asked me what I was so anxious about, and I blurted out "I am afraid I am going to hurt her". It was as split-second decision to speak those horrible words out loud, but I did so in order to protect Alyssa. My anxiety was so all-consuming by this point that I knew I couldn't shoulder the burden myself. I knew I was at risk of being hospitalized, but decided that I no longer cared. I felt a small measure of relief as my doctor calmly told me that we needed to talk about this issue and referred to my symptoms as Postpartum Depression (PPD). She advised me that the symptoms don't usually come on this quickly, but that she would write me a prescription for Zoloft. She then shifted into making what I knew to be a "safety plan" with me; I have made countless safely plans with clients over the years. She wrote out my prescriptions and gave them to my husband with explicit instructions that he was to keep control of the medication. She scheduled a check-in call with her the next day, and instructed me to call my therapist to schedule an appointment. I listened to her making this plan and felt like I was having an out-of-body experience; I couldn't understand how I had come to be on the other side of the psychiatric crisis work I had been doing for years.
It's been just over a year since those first horrible moments. The months that followed can only be described as a roller coaster, although that doesn't really give the experience justice. I was terrified to be alone with my daughter; sometimes even just thinking of her or seeing her made me so anxious that I could barely breathe. I saw a therapist and a psychiatrist, both of whom were never worried about the safety of my daughter. They made it very clear to me that the thoughts I was having; "intrusive thoughts" they called them; were a manifestation of my anxiety and nothing more. I was not a danger to my baby. The judgment and shame I was sure I would get from everyone I spoke to about this never came.
I have done a lot of self-help work that I integrated with my professional work, and can finally say that I, too, believe that I am not a danger to my baby. These symptoms are scary and awful, but you CAN overcome them and become the mother you always knew you could be. I have not only seen the light at the end of the tunnel, I am living in it.


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Third Avenue was opened Thursday after a five-month realignment and widening project that will allow traffic to enter from Broad and First streets.
Jordan Hughes, city engineer, said the Department of Transportation has completed striping the new pavement and putting in directional arrows and signage. For the first time, Third Avenue can now accommodate two-way traffic, he said.
Before the road was realigned with First Street it was only one-way traffic that did not allow motorist to turn onto Broad Street or cross the intersection to First Street. It was only an exit connecting Cedar Street with Broad Street.
Although Third Avenue is now open, DOT still has some work to do, Hughes said.
�If you are leaving Third Avenue, making a turn onto Neuse Boulevard, only right turns are currently permitted and there is signage in place to indicate this,� Hughes said in a press release. �The materials should be received by the end of October that will allow NCDOT to make the signal light modifications to permit all movements at this intersection. At that point, the temporary stop sign and right-turn only sign will be removed and the signal lights will be used for traffic direction.�
The realignment of Third Avenue will open up access to Cedar Street and the Five Points and Duffyfield communities. It was done through a $1 million Community Development Block Grant the city received in 2010 to acquire 22 dilapidated and abandoned houses that were demolished for the realignment and to rehabilitate houses and areas on the east side of the street.
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Update: If you're looking for this kind of information for the general election, please see this post.
If you live in Minnesota, you're used to primary elections happening in September. Not this year. The primary is tomorrow. Surprise!
They've also moved some polling places. I don't vote in my usual spot tomorrow. You may not either. Check at the Secretary of State's polling place finder. This site will also give you a sample ballot for your district and links to candidate websites, where you see what they stand for. As usual, I'm posting my choices, so those who trust me and/or feel we share the same politics have a starting place for their own choices.
Before I get to those, if you are a liberal or progressive in the Fifth Congressional District, please make a point of voting tomorrow. This is the election in which this seat will be settled. Two years ago, conservatives finally figured out that this is a liberal enough area that they have no chance in a general election. They've started running in the DFL primary instead.
This year's stealth candidate? He has a picture of fetus at the top of his website, right below the words "under God". He claims to believe Keith Ellison is dedicated to Sharia law for all. He's a nasty piece of work who could never get elected running honestly, so he's trying to sneak in while people aren't paying attention. Don't let this happen. Show up tomorrow.
Now for my choices.
U.S. Senator: Amy Klobuchar
Why: Klobuchar isn't my favorite senator, but that's because I have the privilege of comparing her to Al Franken. She's a moderate without being particularly centrist, and she concentrates on getting things done where she can find the political will.
Her opponents, on the other hand, are another stealth pro-life, anti-government candidate; someone who lists running for office as experience; and a candidate who lists things like "ending hunger and reducing poverty" as part of his plan for governing.
U.S. Representative: Keith Ellison
Why: I frequently list Ellison as one of the reasons I'm not jaded about politics. He works hard for progressive causes. He meets with, listens to, and educates his constituents. He uses his speaking platform eloquently and passionately to promote the public interest. Given any option at all, I'll choose Ellison to represent me.
I've already mentioned one of his opponents. His other is running for the second time and still hasn't put enough work into his campaign to have a website. A bare-bones profile shows no governing experience.
School District: Carla Bates
Why: Bates is the incumbent. She had far and away the best performance at the candidate forum held last week. She presented specific plans for dealing with the district's challenges.
State Supreme Court Chief Justice: Lorie Skjerven Gildea
Why: As is fairly typical in high-profile Minnesota judicial elections, all the candidates except the incumbent (Gildea) appear to be running, not to become a judge, but to provide themselves a platform for talking about the process by which judges are appointed in Minnesota. While both are attorneys, neither Jill Clark nor Dan Griffith has any experience as a judge in a lower court. Neither is either of them the sort of judicial scholar who might usefully substitute study for experience. Griffith has, however, received Tea Party endorsements.
State Supreme Associate Justice 4: David Stras
Why: Once again, Stras is the incumbent. He's one of those justices who came from a background of scholarship instead of being a judge in a lower court first. You can contrast that with the relatively naive topical statements of opponent Alan Nelson. And Tim Tinglestad, who has a page dedicated to arguing against the current judicial understanding of the First Amendment, is terrifying.
4th District Court 22 Judge: Liz Cutter
Why: There are no bad candidates running for this position. I chose Cutter for the breadth of her experience, but I wouldn't be disappointed if any of these candidates were elected. Check them all out for yourselves:
We canvass for president here rather than voting in the primary, so that's it for this election. If you live in a different precinct and have done the research on your candidates, feel free to add your picks and your reasoning in the comments.


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Stacy Schapiro Del Gallo
Class of 2005
Major/Minor: Sociology
After graduating from Washington College in 2005 I began a career in IT project management. I know it seems like an odd job for someone with a BA in Sociology, but it is actually a great fit for me. As a project manager on a daily basis I must interact with my team as well clients from all around Europe and Asia. It is interesting to observe first hand how social media has changed the way people interact and communicate information. The technology industry is fascinating to me and I've been able to use the skills I acquired during my time at Washington College to excel in my career. I currently work for a mid-sized IT consulting firm in the DC area called hodgsonConsulting. In February I received my Project Management Professional certification, which has been a goal of mine for several years and will allow me to continue to grow.


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We've decided that wrestling (running like banshees, biting each other, jumping everywhere and knocking furniture down) is not acceptable in the house, a long time ago.
The issue is, that when they're bored they do it all the time, I have to separate them or put them in a down-stay, otherwise they will not stop if I ask. I do recalls, Iggy comes very quickly,and then resumes the playfight as soon as I release him.
Sometimes I think they start it for attention, obviously if I'm paying attention to them they are not doing it. But whenever i'm busy I have to stop whatever I'm doing to stop them...
If I send them in the yard, where they're allowed to do whatever, they sniff around and eat stuff... Grrr!
Any suggestions on how to stop this situation? Whatever I'm doing is not working... and separating them every time and giving them a toy would pretty much result in less contact between them, and possibly more excitement when they see each other? I know playfighting can be a healthy thing and don't want to stop it altogether, just in the house.


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The Genesis Account of Creation is not a scientific description or explanation of how the universe was created. If God simply willed the universe into existence we're not sure that any "scientific" process will accurately describe it. In fact, though, the Big Bang theory was initially offered by a Christian because he thought an explosively created universe matched the creation event described in Genesis.
It would seem to be increasingly evident that modern cosmology has nearly everything wrong, including the Big Bang theory which has become unassailable dogma. Michael Goodspeed is one of the scientific critics of Big Bang theory and some of its attendant gospels…..s8int.com
By Michael Goodspeed
Why is cosmology in a state of crisis? Some might doubt the tenability of this loaded question, but to many critics of standard cosmology, the question must be asked. New observations continually shock and disturb astronomers and astrophysicists. But rather than see the underlying pattern in these "surprises" and "mysteries," which would alert them that something is terribly wrong with their view of the Universe, they resort to exotic interpretations with little or no evidentiary — or even logical — support. From black holes, to dark matter, to dark energy, to "warps in the spacetime fabric," the esoterica in astronomical literature has grown so weird and fantastical as to rival the most implausible plot twists on Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek.
Carl Sagan warned of this problem more than 25 years ago in his iconic book, Cosmos. At that time, the Big Bang had not yet become a "fact"; questions were still permitted. On the question of whether the Doppler interpretation of galactic redshift is a reliable indicator of an "expanding universe," Sagan wrote: "There is nevertheless a nagging suspicion among some astronomers, that all may not be right with the deduction, from the redshift of galaxies via the Doppler effect, that the universe is expanding. The astronomer Halton Arp has found enigmatic and disturbing cases where a galaxy and a quasar, or a pair of galaxies, that are in apparent physical association have very different redshifts…."
Sagan continues, "If Arp is right, the exotic mechanisms proposed to explain the energy source of distant quasars — supernova chain reactions, supermassive black holes and the like — would prove unnecessary. Quasars need not then be very distant. But some other exotic mechanism will be required to explain the redshift. In either case, something very strange is going on in the depths of space."
Sagan's acknowledgment here revealed both a candor and humility no longer found in popular scientific media (and the electrical theorists can't help but note the irony of this). It's also remarkable that 25 years ago, the astronomer Halton Arp had already posed the challenge to the expanding universe, and the Big Bang. And yet today, one would think the issues have all been settled.
For background on the discoveries that have challenged the Doppler interpretation of redshift, including the extraordinary research of Halton Arp, see here.
To see just how far BB theory has taken cosmologists into a fantasy land, consider the recent Internet item, "Evidence for a parallel universe?". The story discusses recent data acquired by NASA's WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe) satellite that supposedly reveals a "huge void" in the universe: "Since our universe is relatively heterogeneous, empty spaces are not rare, but in this case the enormous magnitude of the hole is way outside the expected range. The hole found in the constellation of Eridanus is about a billion light years across, which is roughly 10,000 times as large as our galaxy or 400 times the distance to Andromeda, the closest 'large' galaxy."
The story continues, "The dimension of the hole is so big that at first glance, it results [sic] impossible to explain under the current cosmological theories…."
So how are some scientists reacting to this data that may be "impossible to explain under the current cosmological theories"? The same way they react to other "impossible" observations and discoveries — by inventing esoterica that have no analogs in experiment or nature.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill physics Professor Laura Mersini-Houghton says that this "void" is "…the unmistakable imprint of another universe beyond the edge of our own". The article goes on to refer to the observation of the "void" as possible "experimental evidence" for a parallel universe.
But what are scientists actually seeing that would lead anyone to speculate about "parallel universes"? Answer: "NOTHING." And the testable prediction offered by this interpretation is that MORE "nothing" will be found — "Her model predicts the existence of two voids rather than one, one in each hemisphere of our universe."
Of course, no one predicted the appearance of a "void," and then went looking for it. WMAP was mapping the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) when the "void" came looking for them. Ergo, this was not an "experiment," but rather an astonishing, even "impossible" discovery that has thrown astronomers onto their back feet.
The observation of clumps and "voids" has always been a problem for Big Bang cosmology, but the discovery of this "impossibly" huge "void" only highlights BB theory's inherent implausibility. From its first formulation onward, the Big Bang hypothesis was hampered by the problem of "inhomegeneity." Critics argued that raw subatomic — or preatomic — material exploding outward at nearly the speed of light would produce an evenly distributed cloud with no force present to generate cosmic structure. But in fact, we observe cosmic structure everywhere we look, and the distribution of matter is profoundly uneven. Both the concentrations of matter, and the "voids" between these concentrations, falsify the inherent, logical "predictions" of the original theory.
The force of gravity is weak and takes time to move things around. The elapsed time since the conjectured Big Bang sets a limit on how big any structure can be. Structures exceeding that limit are, by the cosmologists' own admission, impossible. And just as the "huge void" constitutes a problem, BB theorists must wrestle at the other end of the spectrum, with massive galactic structure which, by their own measuring stick (redshift = distance interpretation), must have formed in the first phases of cosmic evolution. Now they can only respond to undeniable observations by making things up — in this case, a PARALLEL UNIVERSE, no less.
Decades ago, the father of "plasma cosmology," Nobel Laureate Hannes Alfven, had already admonished cosmologists that the problem of inhomogeneity would lead them to a dead end, so long as they refused to deal with electricity in space. More recently, physicist Eric J. Lerner, author of The Big Bang Never Happened, wrote that the scale of observed voids in galaxy distribution, "combined with observed low streaming of galaxies, imply an age for these structure that is at least triple and more likely six times the hypothesized time since the Big Bang…." According to Lerner, while this unevenness refutes the BB hypothesis, "…the predictions of plasma cosmology have been strengthened by new observations, including evidence for the stellar origin of the light elements, the plasma origin of large-scale structures, and the origin of the cosmic microwave background in a 'radio fog' of dense plasma filaments." (These observations of Lerner were offered years before the recent observation of the "impossible" void — IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, Vol. 31, No. 6, December 2003.)
It needs to be pointed out that scientists are handicapped both in trying to assess the actual "size" of the "void," and why they are seeing it. WMAP observed an area of space where the "temperature" of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is interpreted as 20 to 45 percent lower than that of the surrounding region (they interpret "hot" spots and "cold" spots by the peak intensity frequency — interpreted as "black body" (thermal) radiation (the Planck curve) — that varies slightly from one direction to another). This suggested to astronomers the appearance of a "void." They then looked at the SDSS galaxy-redshift survey, and saw that the "void" (the space where no galaxies could be observed) was 900 million light-years across. This lack of galaxies (actually galaxy clusters) was confirmed by a survey of radio-galaxies by the Very Large Array (VLA).
But in a plasma universe, the appearance of a vast and remote "void" may be entirely illusory. It is now evident that astronomers imagine they are seeing things at the far edges of the visible Universe that are actually occurring in our own cosmic neighborhood, the Milky Way galaxy. The research of radio astronomer Gerrit Verschuur has demonstrated that the "cosmic microwave background" shown by WMAP is local microwave fog, as Lerner proposed in the article noted above. So the "vision" of observers using WMAP is clouded by the local activity of electric current filaments.
See Big Bang or Big Goof?
Underlying this issue, of course, is the controversial method of measuring an object's distance from the observer by its redshift. We are told that the larger the redshift of an object, the farther away it must be, and the faster it is moving away from us. But since the late 1960's, Halton Arp has been accumulating discordant redshift evidence, as noted by Sagan above. Indeed, some have said that the Big Bang has already been falsified due to the refutation of the underlying redshift = distance assumption.
One of the most dramatic refutations can be found in the galaxy NGC 7319. This galaxy is a Seyfert 2, which means it is a galaxy shrouded with such heavy dust clouds that they obscure most of the bright, active nucleus that defines a normal Seyfert galaxy. This galaxy has a redshift of 0.0225. In front of its opaque gas clouds, or embedded in the topmost layers of the dust, is a quasar with a redshift of 2.114. What does this tell us? By the Big Bang principles, the quasar must be BILLIONS OF LIGHT YEARS farther from us than the galaxy, because its redshift is so much larger. And yet the galaxy is opaque, so the quasar must be near the surface of the dust clouds or even IN FRONT of them.
See Quasar in Front of Galaxy
It is clear that no legitimate reason exists for anyone to be concocting science fiction fantasies about "parallel universes," based on phenomena that are perfectly explicable by plasma science. Imagine a meteorologist going on television and explaining an unusual weather front as an effect of "mini black holes," or "invisible dark matter," or a "parallel universe." When asked to verify his fantasies, he could pull out his chalkboard and begin sketching some very elegant mathematical equations. Whom would he succeed in convincing? We must remember that the laws of physics that we observe on the earth are not suspended in the vast reaches of space! The irony is that the most outspoken critics of the Electric Universe have repeatedly asserted that it "violates" or "rewrites" the known laws of physics. Somehow, discredited theoretical guesses have become "laws of physics" in their minds. In fact, the electric hypothesis observes the laws of nature much more faithfully than the unmitigated esoterica that dominates astronomy and theoretical physics. And this is precisely why mainstream cosmology is now in a state of crisis bordering on meltdown.


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For once, it was a good day for Mets fans to be ensconced in the basement. I don't mean the National League East standings, lest Marlins fans grow jealous of our impinging on their hard-earned territory, but specifically the basement party room at Foley's, where our little get-together to celebrate the recent release of the first volume of The Happiest Recap and, peripherally, my upcoming 50th birthday gathered steam away from a frigging, swigging swarm of Santa Clauses, average age approximately Not Old Enough To Drink.
While the Santas took Manhattan, most of my train in this morning and the cavernous bar area of Foley's, we were, per AC/DC, safe in New York City in that down in the basement there were was no overrun of Santas (not counting the giggly line of young lady elves lined up to use the adjacent privy) and no Internet reception. In a room lousy with terrific bloggers, you might think that would be a problem…and not just because there went our chance to match the profile of our vocation (you know, blogging in our mother's basement, albeit with pants fully on). No Internet meant not a single phone's browser could track the progress of the R.A. Dickey trade talks.
And for that, I am glad.
Maybe you remember an episode from the later, preachier seasons of M*A*S*H in which Hawkeye, B.J. and Hot Lips conspire to fudge the time of death for one of their patients so it doesn't appear the soldier on their operating table died on Christmas Day, lest his kid back home think only sad thoughts every December 25. In that same spirit, I didn't want a few dozen Mets fans to remember that where they were when R.A. Dickey was traded was with that damn Greg Prince and his eminently readable and enjoyable book.
So I had that going for me. Dickey wasn't traded Saturday afternoon, and even if he was, one would have to fight his way upstairs through, around and over the exponentially multiplying Santas to find out. Not worth the trouble, let alone the heartache.
But you know what was worth doing? This party. Geez, I can't thank enough everybody who spent this Saturday away from the park with me. As David Wright has said again and again (and again and again), Mets fans are the greatest fans in the world, and I am compelled to add that Mets fans who read Faith and Fear in Flushing represent a whole other level of greatness, one generally inverse to the quality of the team itself. Let's just say I've never sung the entirety of an a capella version of "Meet The Mets" with a better bunch of fellow travelers, and I doubt I ever will.
Thank you. You gave me and my book a day we'll cherish for a long time to come.
The Mets can go and make their stupid trade now.