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Trio of Parkites win Canadian national lacrosse title at McGill
November 9, 2012
They never won a high school state championship during their time at Park City, but as three freshmen at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, Rufus Frost, Jake Gutman and Alec Roussos experienced a national title merely four months into their collegiate careers.
On Sunday in Peterborough, Ontario, the three former captains of the Park City High School boys' lacrosse team stormed the field with the rest of their McGill teammates as the team in red and white — in uniforms nearly identical to those of the Miners — after McGill captain Jishon Sharples scored with 12 seconds remaining in the second overtime of the Baggataway Cup Canadian University Field Lacrosse Association (CUFLA) Championship. It was the Redmen's first Baggataway Cup title in school history.
"It was surreal," said Frost. "Even in high school, we had a great team but we never closed the deal on any of the big games or even a state championship."
To say the game was dramatic would be understating what happened when the two best collegiate lacrosse teams in Canada — McGill and Western — squared off for the right to hoist the Baggataway Cup.
Roussos said Western scored two goals late in the final quarter to tie the match at 6-6 and when the game went into the first of two four-minute overtime periods, the Redmen were nervous.
And nervous for good reason.
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"It was crazy because, before overtime, we were thinking we had it won with a minute left," Roussos said. "It was tough to grab that momentum back."
However, when Sharples scored the clinching goal, the three Parkites said they couldn't contain their emotions. Gutman said he immediately thought of the team's first few meetings and practices prior to the start of the season when team captains told their fellow Redmen that they'd be champions of Canada by the season's end.
"Every one of the four captains stood up and said, 'We are winning a national championship this year.' All four of them stood up and said it's our year," Gutman said. "It's hard to believe them because every captain comes in saying that, and every coach is always saying that. But by practice two or three, you could see the talent."
Roussos said coming into the season as freshmen after headlining last year's Park City team was difficult at first.
"We were running new things and to come into a new system and have to carry the balls and goals after practice, it's totally different," he said.
But he said there was no level of seniority at McGill.
"It's a purely talent-based system; it's more practice-to-practice, and that's one of the reasons why we made it to the championship," he said.
Frost said all three Parkites were able to get significant playing time for the Redmen this season, and being part of the McGill run toward the championship in the playoffs was sweeter than he'd ever imagined.
And they're already looking forward to next season.
"We're only going to get better, hopefully," Frost said.


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Free Guide to Sources for Irish
Family Research
It is our pleasure to offer this guide to Irish genealogy sources so that we can share our passion for Irish
genealogy with
you and help you get the most from your time in the library or
archives. For many years, family research has been a passion as much
as a hobby with us at ballybegvillage.com and along the way we have
corresponded with and met wonderful people. We have been researching for many
years and are sometimes surprised to learn that accessible records
have not been utilized by researchers. This sometimes arises
when the description of various records becomes too detailed and
confusing. The following list of sources
will be added to as we remember them. Do feel free to remind us of
any we have forgotten to include. We have also included some
information on Irish land division - an area that often causes
confusion for the researcher. Most County Libraries have Local
Studies sections and will either have copies of the documents and
maps relative to your area of interest, or they will be able to point
you in the right direction. The County Libraries will also be
able to direct you to the sources for Church records and civil
records for your county. The National Archives and the National
Library are the primary depositories of material in Ireland. These
are both located in Dublin, and a search on 'Google' or 'Yahoo', etc.
will find their websites. (Since
this page was compiled more and more sources for Irish research
become available online. However, the information here is VIP
and must not be overlooked.)
Do remember, however, that
one of the best places to start your Irish genealogy research is with an elderly
relative. All too often when asked why they never told their
stories, grandparents and great aunts/uncles will reply, "Well,
nobody ever asked me!" So... Go ahead, ask them!
Documents and Records for Irish Genealogy
and Records
of Ireland 1659
Hearth Money Rolls
Civil Survey of Ireland
Tithe Applotments
Griffith's Valuation of Ireland
Valuation Maps
Cancellation Books
House Books
Ordnance Survey Maps
Civil Registration Records
Census of Ireland 1901 & 1911
Catholic Church Records
Church of Ireland Records
to Irish Land Divisions
Census of Ireland 1659
The Census of Ireland of 1659 is important in that
it lists the major landowners of the time and also lists the number
of Irish in each parish. It also lists the principle Irish
names and the numbers of such names in each barony. Nice to see
the family name if it is in there, but there is no way of linking to
it directly.
Hearth Money Rolls: 1664
In the years after the Cromwellian
conquest of Ireland, a tax was levied on all houses with fireplaces. Each fireplace in the house (usually 1) was taxed.
The record of people who were liable for this tax became known as
the Hearth Money Rolls. This record is of limited use for the family researcher
is certainly worth looking at to ascertain if your family name is
listed in this document from 350 years ago. Available in the National Archives and at most County Libraries. Check
with them to see if it is available for your county.
Survey of Ireland 1659
The Civil Survey of Ireland was a survey of all
land in Ireland and contains lists of the principal landlords of
every townland before the Cromwellian
confiscations of 1641. Some information regarding the
topography of the various parish boundaries is given. It is of limited use to
the family researcher but interesting as a historical document as it
defines the parishes mentioned and sometimes uses townland
divisions that are long forgotten. It also lists mills and
castles in the area in the 1650s. Check with the County Library of the county you are
working on. Failing that, you will find a copy in the National
Archives at Bishop Street, Dublin.
Might not be available for all
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Clonmel, Co. Tipperary 1890s
Some form of tithe taxation ( 'one tenth') on farm produce had been in
existence for many centuries, but in the 1700s it appears to have been
given a more organised format. This tax on all farm produce was used
for the upkeep of the Protestant Church of Ireland which was the
church in Ireland. This tax had to be paid by Catholics as well as
Protestants even though the Protestant community were greatly in the minority.
Needless to say, this caused great resentment among the Catholic majority, and
tithes were responsible for much agrarian strife. Around 1834, a
record of those who were liable to pay tithes was compiled and
this became known as the Tithe Applotments. This document is in many
County Libraries and is available on microfilm at the National
Archives. Very valuable document in that it records every landholder
in the country in the years before the Great Famine of 1845-1850. Here
you can expect to find the name of the occupier of a plot of land, the
type of land, (boggy or mountain pasture etc) name of townland, and
the name of the townland and parish. This differs from Griffiths
Valuation in that only agricultural land holders (and not town and
city property dwellers) were recorded in this record.
Available at National Archives and possibly at the County Libraries.
During the 1830s and the early 1840s, a cartographic
survey of all Ireland was carried out resulting in wonderfully
detailed maps at a scale of 6 inches to 1 mile. This scale
allowed for every house and field boundary in the country to be
recorded on the maps. The maps also recorded archaeological
monuments, streams, wells, ponds, mills, etc. It was these maps that
were subsequently used to record the information from Griffith's Valuation of
Ireland (see below). The copies of the Ordnance
Survey map which have been preserved are often clearer than
the valuation maps (see below) available. They often reveal detail which has
been obscured on the valuation maps.
The amount of information in these O.S. maps is extraordinary. As well
as determining where your ancestor lived, you can very often figure out where the nearest well was to your
ancestors' house, where they went to the mill, where they went to
church, the nearest school, where they visited with neighbours, etc. These are maps of the very roads your grandparent or great
grandparent walked on.
A further edition of the maps
was published in the early 1900s. It is informative to compare
the earlier pre-Famine edition with this later edition.
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Griffith's Valuation of Ireland
In 1850, towards the end of the Great Famine, an ambitious project
was undertaken that has had a major positive consequence for those
researching Irish families, even though it was never intended as a 'family research' document. This was a valuation of all the
property in Ireland and was instigated as a means of raising taxes
(rates) to support the system of Poor Law which had been in place in
the country for the previous ten years or so. It was this Poor Law
system that ran the workhouses and some hospitals of Ireland. It
also administered
outdoor relief to the needy and oversaw many of the Famine Relief
projects that had been in place during the 1840s. A Board of
Guardians -some elected and some appointed - ran the Poor Law in each
Poor Law Union (See guide
to Irish land divisions).
In Griffith's Valuation, every acre
of land, every large house, every farm house, every cottage on every
street and road in Ireland is listed with the size of the
property, the rateable valuation, whether or not they had
outbuildings (offices) etc.
here for important information regarding Griffith's Valuation)
Most importantly, the name of the
person who owned or leased the land is given along with the
lessor. Sometimes the lessor is the landlord and sometimes the
lessor is someone subletting part of their property. The size of the
house can be ascertained by the amount of valuation applied to
it. What is even more exciting is that there is now easy
access to the valuation maps that go with the valuation. These
are available at the Valuation Office in Dublin. (I am informed that
Griffiths is now available online) A
consequence of the blowing up of part of the Four Courts in Dublin
at the outbreak of Civil War in 1922 was that all the censuses for
Ireland taken during the 19th century were destroyed along with
other priceless records. In the absence
of these censuses, Griffith's Valuation has become the primary tool
available to researchers. Fortunately, it is freely available
and all County Libraries will have their own county records on the
shelf or on Microfilm. Failing that, the valuation is
certainly available in the National Archives.
The Valuation Office in Dublin is at Irish Life Buildings, Lower Abbey
Street. Here you can get copies of the section of valuation map
that corresponds with the townland you are researching. Each
entry in Griffith's Valuation has a map reference number and using this
number you can pinpoint the house of your ancestor. Once you
have this information you can trace the ownership of the property down
through the decades by consulting the Cancellation Books (See
old Pictures of Mitchelstown and Kilworth in County Cork.
Ireland Irish Family Research
Guide to Irish Land
Registration and Census of Ireland 1901 & 1911

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Anthropologie's May catalog is set in India and it is stunning, like all of the other catalogs they've produced. Their styling is always so spot-on. I adore this particular shot for it's soft quality. The yellow blouse is beautiful, isn't it?
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Anthropologie Love
11 comments:
- Laura Trevey said...
So natural and beautiful!
- May 6, 2010 at 7:05 AM
- La Maison Fou said...
We are getting our first Anthropologie in Tulsa at the end of summer. I could not agree more.
- May 6, 2010 at 7:45 AM
- Chic Therapy said...
Anthropologie rocks in all forms and shapes!!
- May 6, 2010 at 7:47 AM
- Mona Thompson said...
Love the blouse. One of my favorite colors this Spring.
- May 6, 2010 at 8:23 AM
- Cara said...
Love the hat! My friends just came back from India with the most fabulous pictures I have ever seen...it is a great "back drop"
- May 6, 2010 at 8:39 AM
- Haley Schultheis said...
I have that shirt on today! ha!
- May 6, 2010 at 9:28 AM
- lizzie said...
my sister just bought that shirt last night! it is a beauty, indeed.
- May 6, 2010 at 5:05 PM
- Carpe Diem said...
Yes, spot-on. The only time I get to step inside an Anthropology store is when I'm in Santa Barbara. And, it has been too long since I've received any of their catalogs. Love it.
- May 6, 2010 at 8:38 PM
- Monique said...
amazingly beautiful...
- May 6, 2010 at 10:34 PM
- kostas said...
Excellent style!
- May 11, 2010 at 1:51 AM
- The Neo-Traditionalist said...
Love that you loved this too! The yellow looks ravishing!
- May 11, 2010 at 8:41 PM


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So, this is what I've been doing all day - coating and frying chicken. Ok fine, not ALL day. For the last hour I have been watching movie gag reels on YouTube. But definitely all morning. Above is a photo of the production line in full cry.
And this photo above is of the evil deep fat fryer (although it's done such great work today, that I'm thinking of granting it a pardon and merely relegating it to lifelong imprisonment in the cellar).
And this photo, above, shows the final thing: 32 pieces of deep fried chicken, all ready to be finished off in the oven just before dinner.
If I ever get the smell of KFC out of my hair, it'll be a miracle.
I promise to write about something other than deep fried chicken soon.


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With some help from C1RCA TM Andrew, Tave and the rest of the crew finally made it out of San Clemente to grab some food and skate the Long Beach park before heading up to L.A.
Its obvious Tony is living the dream, and one thing that he has been really focusing on lately is giving back to the kids and people who might not have it so good. Element, C1RCA and Active all were down to help out with Taves mission for the day to put a smile on some kids faces.
We stopped by the new Long Beach skate plaza to meet up with Tave's dad and circa teammates Julian Davidson, Sierra Fellers and David Reyes. The dudes killed the plaza and decided that all their hard work for the day deserved a little reward, and what better way to end the day then with a party hosted by Rob Dyrdek at his Fantasy Factory.


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Rihanna was one of the first to rock an undercut. The left side of her head is shaved more often than not, but it's only when she flips her part or wears her hair up that it's easy to spot, like here in New York.
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Perhaps more than anyone, Michelle Williams has demonstrated the versatility of a close crop. Ladylike earrings turn this rock 'n' roll look, with side-swept fringe and a closely buzzed undercut, positively ladylike at a New York premiere.
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The recent release of her new music video, "We Don't Stop," cements Miley Cyrus' post-Disney transformation--that and her nearly shaved head. There's no better way to show off your cheekbones.
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Even sweet Rachel Bilson's played around with the undercut! The Hart of Dixie actress worked two trends into one, sweeping her slicked-back side into a faux bob at a CW party.
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Pink's quiff at the American Music Awards gives Danny Zuko a run for his money! Her all-platinum 'do is a softer alternative to Miley's contrasting style.
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Scarlett Johansson fakes it too; instead of gel, the actress keeps one side of her head perfectly flat with two tight French braids reaching across the top of her head at a New York premiere.
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Though we'll stop short of saying an undercut's a breeze to grow out, Ellie Goulding proves that it can be done gracefully while in Los Angeles for a concert.


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The goal of the Reptiles and Amphibians of Southern California (RASCals) community science project is to improve our knowledge of native and non-native reptiles and amphibians in Southern California*. Southern California is home to 22.5 million people and has experienced dramatic urbanization and habitat modification. Museum specimens provide a historical record of where particular species were found in the past, but we need more information on exactly where these species are found today. This is why we need your help in documenting reptiles and amphibians throughout Southern California. Observations will allow us to test how the ranges of various species have responded to habitat modification. So we care about observations from less urbanized places and also observations from heavily urbanized places such as downtowns, schools, neighborhoods, and backyards.
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Berklee Global Jazz Institute: Music on a Mission
Luiza Sales sang the same notes over and over again. Each time, Danilo Pérez challenged her to push her boundaries as a singer.
"I always tend toward the happy side and I need to go deeper," said Sales, a master's student in the contemporary performance program at Berklee's campus in Valencia, Spain. "Danilo touched upon it right away. The thing fitting my tone of voice and my timbre—not everything has to sound happy. He said some things that were really meaningful for me as a singer."
Sales, who hails from Brazil, was one of several students who benefited from Pérez's intuitive and precise feedback during a jazz improvisation clinic at the Valencia campus.
He urged other groups of performers to "create shapes between the lines," reminding them that progress often comes after taking a step back. "Leave space," he said. "You'll find your answer."
This advice could be just as applicable to life as it is to music. And when it comes to Pérez, a Grammy Award-winning pianist/composer and Berklee professor, this seamlessness between music and life is exactly the point.
In fact, the Berklee Global Jazz Institute (BGJI), for which Pérez serves as artistic director, is based on the principle that with talent comes responsibility—that beyond making music for music's sake lies the duty to effect social change and cultivate human development.
To share this message and their music, Pérez and seven members of the BGJI traveled from Boston to Valencia for a week-long visit that featured clinics, a recording session in the campus' state-of-the-art recording studios, a jam session at a jazz café in the city, and a culminating concert. The group also managed to squeeze in some Valencian culture: tasting paella and attending a mascletà, a daily fireworks display leading up to the annual Falles festival.
"I think the most valuable thing Danilo brings is the awareness of our social commitment as musicians," said Sales, following a talk Pérez gave entitled "Jazz as a Tool for Social Diplomacy." "We have to think about not only making music but making a better world through our work and our music."
Indeed, Sales said the first thing she plans to do when she returns home to Brazil is return to singing in hospitals.
"Music can be used as a tool for social change in many ways," Pérez told the audience. "We need missionaries . . . You have that potential."
He added, "You want to be famous? Yes. You want to make money? Of course. But leave a little room for the underprivileged."
Lessons in Life and Music
When the BGJI travels, along with performing its original compositions at festivals, clinics, and schools, members also volunteer at places such as hospitals, prisons, homeless shelters, and nursing homes. The group has helped build cajónes in Panama and has composed and performed music to winning entries from a prison poetry contest.
The BGJI—a performance program composed of 30 students who are selected by a rigorous admissions process—fosters creativity and musicianship through an interdisciplinary and experiential approach and a curriculum featuring ensembles, workshops, private study, and seminars. Students are mentored by and perform with jazz masters like faculty members Pérez, Joe Lovano, and Terri Lyne Carrington.
The students learn about themselves as musicians and as human beings.
"I feel the change. The growth the BGJI has made in me is way bigger than the music," said Roni Eytan, a harmonica player from Israel who was part of the group that traveled to Valencia. "Through the BGJI, I've learned and keep learning how to become a better human being."
Watch a video about the BGJI's recent trip to Berklee's campus in Valencia, Spain.
And it won't end at Berklee.
"The mission is something I'll pursue for the rest of my career," Eytan said. "You've got to give back. You've got to try to make a positive change through the power of music. Being around people like Danilo, [faculty] John [Patitucci], and [BGJI managing director] Marco [Pignataro] is so inspiring, seeing how much they are committed to giving, helping others, and sharing what they have with other people. And that's just a constant inspiration."
The culminating concert during the BGJI's visit to Valencia was a testament to another one of the BGJI's tenets: a high level of creative exploration.
Along with Danilo Pérez and the BGJI members, others from the Valencia family and beyond shared the stage, including Valencia faculty members Victor Mendoza, who directs the contemporary performance master's program, and Alain Pérez, who was also the former bass player for Paco de Lucía's band; Allan Chase, chair of the Boston campus' Ear Training Department; three master's students; and a professional flamenco musician, Rafael de Utrera, who improvised with Danilo Pérez for the first time on stage and left the audience in awe.
Watch a clip from the BGJI concert in Valencia, featuring flamenco musician, Rafael de Utrera.
For one performer, master's student Sergio Martínez, a percussionist from Madrid who was part of the BGJI while a student in Boston, the performance brought everything full circle. He is continuing his studies at the Valencia campus in the contemporary performance master's program and received a BGJI assistantship to explore collaborations between the BGJI and Berklee in Valencia. "We want to build projects that can be followed, to create an infrastructure for other BGJI students to come here, and to start to build a basis for BGJI here."
This first visit to Valencia was a good start. "There's a great interaction happening and that is what we're about," Pérez said during his visit. "This whole place is very inspirational. It invites creativity." In fact, inviting the performers from the Valencia campus fueled a creative exploration of global influences and a true cultural exchange.
Ganavya Doraiswamy, a master's fellow on the Valencia campus, sang in classical Indian style for the concert. "I'm still new to jazz but global jazz by definition is more suited to musicians like me who come from different backgrounds. In addition to being able to perform with the BGJI, being able to hear them perform was wonderful, inspiring, and comforting."
And for the BGJI students, seeing Pérez work with the musicians from Valencia was a reminder of the power of the group's mission and leadership. "Seeing Danilo work with students who have never experienced his teaching was inspiring," said Anthony Fung, a drummer from Ontario.


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Paul D needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 151 designs submitted by 32 freelance designers.
Need a logo for a Italian Restaurant that serves pasta, pizza and sandwiches. Looking for something trendy and eye catching. Would like Il Melograno name with Ristorante in smaller font underneath. Would prefer the background to be white or like a rustic (sort of like Olive Garden logo). The lettering could be the colours of the Italian flag, but not necessary.
Il Melograno Ristorante
Small Italian restaurant open only for lunch, specializing in Pasta's, Thin Crust Pizza's, and sandwiches. We also do catering, take-out and delivery.
Rustic feel
White Background and elegent writing
Company name with "Ristorante" in small letters underneath
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'Thor' Smashes Competition
As expected, 'Thor' enjoyed a solid performance at the weekend box office.
The superhero flick, which impressed most critics with its action-packed storyline and breakout performance by star Chris Hemsworth, took in an impressive $66 million, leaving the rest of the competition in the dust. Globally, the film has already grossed $242 million, according to Variety.
Coming in second place was last weekend's top earner, 'Fast Five,' which fell a whopping 62 percent to earn $32.5 million. The film has grossed $139.9 million to date.
In third and fourth place were two wedding-themed comedies: 'Jumping the Broom' and 'Something Borrowed,' which grossed $13.7 million and $13.2 million, respectively.
Rounding out the top 5 was the animated hit 'Rio,' adding another $8.2 million to its $114.9 million total.


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It is great to see The Rough Guide to Evolution described as "helpful" and cited as frontrunner in what Bunting estimates to be fifty new publications appearing for the Darwin bicentenary year. All this publicity has already pushed my amazon.co.uk sales rank to a little over 4000 overall (at least momentarily) and into the top ten best-selling books on evolutionary biology and to number four in Rough Guides Reference Titles--but see these links on the hazards of sales ranks:
- http://fluff.info/blog/arch/00000188.htm
- http://www.rampant-books.com/mgt_amazon_sales_rank.htm
- http://www.jeffschult.com/blog/2008/01/04/today-is-a-bestseller-day
However, those that know me will be amused and bemused to see me apparently on the side of the angels in the "Darwin versus God" debate, with a single quotation from me in Bunting's article: "A defence of evolution doesn't have to get entangled in atheism"!
- one of the nineteenth century's foremost adventurers and travel writers, as evidenced by his Voyage of the Beagle.
- someone who made important contributions to geology (particularly on the formation of coral atolls)
- a great collector of geological, botanical and zoological specimens
- a natural historian of the highest order, on account of his descriptions and analyses of the flora and fauna of the Beagle voyage, of barnacles and of orchids.
Threading through Darwin's voyage were the twin themes of adventure and discovery. Less than a year into his journey, Darwin was already comparing his escapades to the fantastical adventures of Baron Münchausen. To the modern reader, he is perhaps best envisaged as a geologizing Indiana Jones.
There was risk and privation. Afloat, the quarters were cramped, the seasickness unrelenting. On land and sea, Darwin faced storms. Three of his shipmates died of malaria; fellow crewman, Edward Helyer, drowned collecting specimens. Darwin himself was ill on several occasions, once seriously. The voyage brought Darwin face to face with war and rebellion. He saw Napoleon's tomb on St Helena. He visited the Falkland Islands barely two months after their seizure by the British. In a feat of derring-do, Darwin escaped revolution in Buenos Aires. He helped suppress an uprising in Montevideo, but he was confined to ship during an insurrection in Lima. In the South American equivalent of the Wild West, Darwin witnessed the ruthless genocidal destruction of Native Americans. He met the Argentinean dictator, Juan Manuel de Rosas, and rode and camped with the gauchos (the Hispanic equivalent of cow boys). He recoiled from the sight of drunken men belching blood and was disgusted by the bloody massacre of bullocks in Buenos Aires.
Darwin felt the full fire and fury of nature. He watched an Andean volcano erupt; he felt the earth move beneath his feet. At Concepción in Chile, he was fascinated by the devastation wrought by the shuddering earth and terrifying tsunami... Afloat, beneath the southern stars, he watched the Beagle's masthead and yardarm shine with St Elmo's fire, the ship afloat on a ghostly luminous sea. He saw waterspouts and precipitous blue-iced glaciers... He gloried in the exuberance of the tropical forests, the magnificent desolation of Tierra del Fuego and the boundless plains of Patagonia: "no one can stand in these solitudes unmoved, and not feel that there is more in man than the mere breath of his body".
But as Madeleine points out, Darwin's biggest idea, evolution by natural selection, guarantees him the status of "Newton apart, the greatest British scientist ever". Yet, something more sets Darwin apart—his liberal-minded agreeable "family-man" personality and his consistent intellectual integrity place him well above the irascible Newton in the scientific hero stakes (Newton never married, was often petty-minded and wasted his talents on alchemy and the occult). In his solid opposition to slavery, Darwin chimes perfectly with the modern mindset. And to top it all, his work remains accessible to today's non-expert reader.
With so much to celebrate, why then get bogged down in the Darwin-versus-God debate? And so that brings me on to the second big reason for sidelining this issue during the bicentenary. Atheism doesn't need Darwin and it is daft to dump all the blame for any decline in religious belief on Darwin.
Who trusted God was love indeed; And love Creation's final law–Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw; With ravine, shriek'd against his creed.
And Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach was probably already finished by 1851.
Although Darwin did lose his own religious belief, I am not aware that he ever blames this on his studies on evolution—as pointed out in an earlier post, in his Autobiography, he firmly lays the blame on plain old common-sense arguments, for example as to the cruelty of the Old Testament God (and here I agree with him—my son just covered Abraham's plans to slaughter Isaac in his RE homework and I cannot see this story as anything other than an abomination). Futhermore, Darwin's doubts surfaced at a time in his life before his evolutionary ideas were well formed.
So, why blame Darwin for atheism, when a generation before Darwin, the likes of David Hume (now there's a Scotsman we should have on Bank of England notes!) and Thomas Paine (see recent posting) had already articulated persuasive arguments against revealed religion? Ironically in fact, in one of the Fundamentals, the tracts that launched modern American Protestant fundamentalism (a movement which post-dates Darwin), George Frederick Wright wrote that "Hume is more dangerous than Darwin". Why the need for New Atheism, when Old Atheism was so very dangerous and so very persuasive!
OK, two centuries after Darwin's birth, we still have to deal with creationism, just as two centuries after Paine's death, regrettably, we still have an established church, faith schools and an hereditary monarchy to deal with here in the UK. But as the much maligned "soapy Sam" Wilberforce, pointed out, any battle here has to be fought on the scientific facts, rather than theology. Here is what Wilberforce said in his arguments against The Origin:
"Our readers will not have failed to notice that we have objected to the views with which we are dealing solely on scientific grounds. We have done so from our fixed conviction that it is thus that the truth or falsehood of such arguments should be tried. We have no sympathy with those who object to any facts or alleged facts in nature, or to any inference logically deduced from them, because they believe them to contradict what it appears to them is taught by Revelation. We think that all such objections savour of a timidity which is really inconsistent with a firm and well-intrusted faith."


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Nearly everything we know today about the ocean depths we owe to a particularly strange man called JBS Haldane and his father, John. The latter cracked the problem of why divers suffered from the bends and the former pushed the science of diving forwards by decades. He did so by a series of experiments he conducted in a decompression chamber, known as a pressure pot, which he had built in his house after returning from service in WWI. During one experiment, simulating a hasty surfacing in a submarine, all of Haldane's fillings exploded in his mouth. He often suffered collapsed lungs, epileptic fits and perforated eardrums. He liked the latter, stating: "The drum generally heals up; and if a hole remains in it, although one is somewhat deaf, one can blow tobacco smoke out of the ear in question." He was quite a persuasive sort and had no difficulty in getting other people to help out with his experiments. He once nearly killed the Prime Minister of Spain and, on another occasion, his wife who had a 13-minute fit but was eventually revived and sent home to make his tea. One memorable experiment left him without feeling in his buttocks for six years.
Less helpful in the greater scheme of things was the member of the landed gentry John Mytton (pictured), a dissolute Regency rake, who had no ambition in life other than to spend his vast inheritance as quickly as possible. Among his many hobbies were naked fox hunting and rat hunting on ice skates. He once arrived at a dinner party at Halston Hall riding his pet bear. Despite the fact that guests dived out of windows screaming, he was angry that his entrance was not spectacular enough and applied his spurs to the animal causing it to throw him off and eat part of his leg. A prodigious drinker, Mytton could put away eight bottles of port a day and once killed his favourite horse by making it drink a litre – in fact when he arrived at university he did so with nothing but 2,000 bottles to "sustain him". Of course the money didn't last that long and he fled to France to escape his creditors. While there he suffered a severe case of the hiccups and set himself on fire in order to "scare" them away. The intervention of friends meant he didn't roast himself but he never really recovered his health either, and died just months later.
These two men, in case you were wondering where I'm going with this, were eccentrics. Dev from Lightspeed Champion isn't, he just has a good haircut and wears a scarf. Yannis from Foals even less so. Yannis, one could argue, is the exact opposite of an eccentric. Of course it's not Lightspeed Champion's fault and nor is it Foals' that the Observer Music Monthly has decided to artificially create a scene: the so-called New Eccentrics (remember this news? Full feature here). Now we shouldn't worry ourselves too much about what The Observer - a once-proud newspaper dumbed down into near oblivion, sagging under the weight of interminable features about pet psychology, astronomy, homeopathy and the latest fashions in espadrilles – has to say. The OMM will no more influence the future of indie music than DrownedinSound will be asked to choose the conductors for this year's Proms.
Scenes, when they spring up at a grass roots level, especially outside of London, are a useful thing. They provide support for struggling bands just starting to get on their feet, a protective cocoon with the offer of joint gigs, shared equipment and local indie labels. Any scene that you care to mention that has been media concocted however has been damned to failure as it shows a level of witlessness about the way that music operates that is quite stunning. The Next Big Thing has always relied on its stars being in alignment. An abundance of a new drug is handy, as is a shift in popular culture and the arrival of new musical technology. If you look back you can see this happening in several key points over the last 50 years, especially with the birth of rock 'n' roll, disco, acid house and, to a lesser degree, movements such as punk, Britpop and drum and bass.
(Punk really didn't have much of an influence outside of London and Manchester in the two years while it was most creative. Drum and bass, although probably the most militant musical form in living memory was just a mutation of house music that occurred steadily over time and wasn't the quantum leap forward that some would claim for it. Britpop was a completely retrospective movement whose 'forward looking' practitioners were stuck in the '70s and '80s - Pulp, Elastica - and whose 'backward looking' practitioners were stuck in the '60s - Oasis, Cast.)
You only have to check out the number of new/nu/neo genres we've had over the last ten years to see that this is essentially true. The irony of the word new when applied to music now means it is almost certainly old. But the reason why The New Eccentrics is of great offence is that it doesn't even have any musical cohesion. The only thing that links The Ting Tings with Lightspeed Champion with These New Puritans with The Tigerpicks seems to be that the author of the piece considers them bright. Hardly the most promising start for a cohesive musical revolution. As we speak there is probably a string quartet practising in Trinity College. Are they part of The New Eccentric movement, I wonder? And if not, why not? They're clever, they're playing instruments. If you have any sense you will probably discard the other New Eccentric qualifiers of having a daft name and having an eclectic sense of fashion as being beneath contempt. So ironically we're left with the sense that the guiding principles of the New Eccentric movement seem to be ones of stupidity and lack of forethought.
Exploding out in reaction against the piece was the thoroughly modern James MacMahon (nee Jam) of NME who sent a blistering text message from his mobile to his entire address book. Now I don't know James but he seems like a nice guy and any friend of the potentially career-damaging drunken epistle is a friend of mine. (I recently had an avenue of work closed to me after drunkenly e-mailing the music editor of a big newspaper and telling him he wouldn't recognize a good CD if it was fired out of a fucking bazooka into his face.) But the scribe has made one serious error and it's something I've got to point out. The NME Features Editor slags off "swot rock" and states, rightly, that the OMM piece shows an "inherent fear" of the working classes. So far so good. Then he goes on to suggest that his Sunday has been ruined by the suggestion that rock and roll is intelligent. "What absolute tripe" he says, like a less hairy Boris Johnson.
Well hold on a second. By equating intelligence with class you're saying some pretty appalling things yourself, Mr MacMahon. Only the lickspittle, the yes man, the shoe shine boy to the upper classes, would suggest that to be working class is to be all about ruddy faced vigour and not a thought in one's head. Let's hope it was just the booze talking, eh?
In case you were wondering where the opening story of JBS Haldane comes from it's from an audio book of Bill Bryson's A Short History Of Nearly Everything that my dad listens to in his car. He left school when he was 15 with no qualifications and worked his entire life in a factory. The story about John Mytton comes from Wikipedia; again, hardly the preserve of the upper echelons of society. This feature also indulges in some rhetoric, an oratorical device I discovered when studying for my O level English at Sir Edmund Campion RC, a comprehensive boys school in a sink estate in St Helens that got knocked down the year I left. To conflate privilege and intelligence and lack of choice and stupidity is not only wrong, it is damaging in the extreme. At the end of the day I demand to be able to listen to Velvet Underground in the same way I demand to be able to listen to AC/DC.
Of course instead of championing 'poshos' with strange haircuts the OMM could have looked at the multitude of guitar bands at the moment who are almost acting as reaction against Britpop's chippy nostalgia, which was pureed so as to be easily digestible by US audiences. Instead, now we have a definable group of young bands who are exploring what it means to be English or British in a much more intelligent and tangible way. Of course, personally I've got better things to do than to be creating shit genres and even if I didn't I wouldn't, but I'm happy for the OMM to build something from the bare bones that I'll leave below.
1. British Sea Power
2. One More Grain
3. iLiKETRAiNS
4. These New Puritans
5. The Twilight Sad
6. George Pringle
7. Patrick Wolf
8. Mystery Jets
9. Arctic Monkeys
10. Young Knives
1. Fraggle
2. Romo
3. The New Wave of New Wave
4. The Scene That Celebrates Itself
5. Skunk Rock
6. Arse Quake (no, we haven't made this up)
7. New Grave
8. Shit Gaze
9. The New Acoustic Movement
10. Grebo
DiS Missive is a column featuring a quite singular opinion in every irregular edition; expect subjects to be tackled which regular features and reviews can't touch, and for that grain to be gone against in the name of just because. Previous pieces, on Adele and hype and the return of the Pumpkins, can be read by clicking the relevant link.
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User:Pranav Rathi/Notebook/OT/2010/05/12/Characterization of AOM module
AOM Characterization
The motive of this is to study AOM as power modulator for the tweezers. AOM (Gooch & Housego R23080-2-1.06-LTD; 138252) operates in CW and normal mode. We use 1st order diffracted beam. First CW mode operation is characterized, to know the usable power (of the diffracted beam) Vs ascending input laser power. Second normal mode operation is characterized: Computer controlled ascending input voltage for RF signal power Vs usable power of the diffracted beam, at several input laser powers. The laser temperature is kept constant at 62F.
Relatively simple setup ThorLabs power meter is place infront of the diffracted beam from AOM. An aperture is used infront of the power meter to keep off all the stray beams.
CW mode operation characterization:
The AOM is operating in CW mode. Data is recorded; laser power (.25W to 4W in .25W increments) Vs 1st order beam power. This 1st order beam power is the usable power for tweezer. The data is presented below: {{#widget:Google Spreadsheet |key=0ApjWjFYiQdkfdHZ1VTdkaGFGbDFnSmtpUHJGdzR5aWc |width=800 |height=500 }}
The relationship is linear. So the AOM gives output power in 1st order diffracted beam, of average around 70% of the input power (in CW mode). This help us calculating the usable power of any input power without measuring; for example if I set the laser on .10W, then the usable power at the tweezer is 70% of it, which is .07W or 70mW.The maximum usable power for the tweezer is 2.66W. If we want to stay in the single mode operation regime, it is 1.4W (at room temperature). When the laser is cooled down to 60F, it is stretched to 1.9W (2.75W input).
Normal mode operation characterization
In normal mode, AOM is controlled through NI-DAQ by LabView program. Voltage input for RF signal is from 1 Volt to 5 Volts in any Volt increment. 1st order diffracted beam power is recorded for every ascending voltage increment of .1Volt for .5W, 1.5W, 2W and 2.5W input laser powers. Different laser powers are used to check if any how the characteristic of the AOM is input power dependent, which it should not be. RF signal Vs diffracted beam power will help us in obtaining the best workable range of voltages over which power increases linearly. I will also help us in characterizing the relationship between the voltage and diffracted power. The data is presented below: {{#widget:Google Spreadsheet |key=0ApjWjFYiQdkfdDhNLXZOMUZwYXpONzhIU3V3MElicHc |width=800 |height=600 }}
- Data Sheet 1 and Chart 1: By looking the chart it's clear; diffracted beam power is not linearly related with voltage. It has strange characteristic, which is same for all laser powers: So there is no laser power dependence and any laser power can be chosen to define the AOM characteristic. Characteristic: It runs somewhat exponentially in the beginning from 1 to 1.4 volts, somewhat linear between 1.5 to 3.1 volts (the two straight vertical lines on the chart represents that) and second degree polynomial in the end from 3.2 to 5 volts. So the most appropriate workable range for linear power modulation (in relatively same size of steps) is from 1.5 to 3.1 Volts at any input laser power.
- Data Chart3: Shows how power increases in % over 1 to 5 Volts at 2W of laser power. By joining the head of each histogram the characteristic curve can be traced out. Between 1.5 and 3.1 Volt the power increases almost in same step size of avg 3.45% (.069W) /step in comparison to .8% (not linear; over range of 1 to 1.4 Volts) and .42% (not linear; over range of 3.1 to 5 Volt). 3.45% step size is more convenient for power modulation and power is also linear over the steps.
- Data Chart 2: Shows power step in %; the difference between the two consecutive power-increments over the difference in the two consecutive voltage increments (.1 Volt; steps). It gives us the better idea of over what range of voltage, the steps are over all large with somewhat of same histogram height difference. The region between 1.5 to 3.21 Volts contains that.


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Golf Media needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 164 designs submitted by 28 freelance designers.
AAU World Golf Tour
This project is for the new AAU World Golf Tour. The tour is an extension of the AAU Junior Golf national program. We may, from time to time, add the golf ball/AAU shield logo. This project is for the design of the actual text "AAU World Golf Tour" which can be used as a stand-alone text-type logo, or have the AAU shield placed next to it (by us as needed) for other applications. We would like an "action" feel to the text design, yet something very easy to read (especially in the cases where it is embroidered onto apparel and headwear). MAKE ONE SUBMISSION IN ALL STYLES WITH COLOR SCHEME RED/WHITE/BLUE PLEASE.
Our specific market is junior golfers and their families. Golf is a very logo-rich sport (logos are on everything). So we want something distinctive for branding purposes and all-around recognition by these folks.
Again, a simple yet impactful text-based logo design. NO golf balls, pin flags, putting green backgrounds. Just powerful text logo. (See golftrakk.com for a great text-based logo that was created here for me recently). Once you've decided upon a font and general design theme, submit in horizontal (all words along one line in linear style) and a "stacked" version, whereby the words "AAU WORLD" are the first line and "GOLF TOUR" are the second line. Do NOT incorporate the AAU shield (major brand icon) into this design, it will be added by us later as needed.
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Discuss the pros and cons of a test site.
What would it achieve?
Who would get into the test site?
How many games should be played before the game play stamp is given?
Degaston started this line so will quote the posts so far starting with his.
degaston wrote:koontz1973 wrote:It has been said, and many agree with it, that the standards within the map making community for conquer club has declined over the past year or two. If, and this is a big if, is this true, and who is to blame for it and what can be done about it.
Sorry I missed this discussion when it was more relevant. I see you mentioned my map, Murder One (Clue), in your article and said that development stopped when the know how to carry on or community support fell away after time.
As I recall, the main reason I stopped working on it was because I felt that there was something important missing from the foundry. Namely, the ability to try out a map under development. This may not be necessary for a classic-style map with straightforward play, but for a relatively complicated map like mine that was going to use several of the special features, deciding on the "best" combination of territories, connections, neutrals, bonuses, objectives, etc. is not something that I think can be adequately resolved through a forum discussion.
There were a variety of conflicting suggestions made, and I would have like to have tried several of them to see what worked and what didn't. Unfortunately, the foundry requires that you choose one particular path, get the game-play for that path approved, tweak the graphics until everyone is happy, create the xml, and then finally you get a chance to actually play it. If the game-play turns out to be just so-so... oh well. You can tweak a few things here and there, but who in their right mind is going to go back and make major structural changes to the design of the game after doing all that graphics work? I suppose a few people may, but I don't have the patience for that kind of wasted effort. As a programmer, I know a poor development process when I see it.
Is it any wonder that the quality of maps has declined? Trying something unique carries too big a risk if the experiment fails. So map makers mostly have to stick with something that they know will work, and that everyone can understand without playing. The solution is obvious, fairly simple, and I've mentioned it before. Create a "sandbox" where anyone can plug in their jpg and xml map files and play a solitaire game or invite some friends for a no-points game. It shouldn't be very hard to modify the existing system to do this, but I don't have the time to create it from scratch.
So that's my 2¢. If it's ever implemented, I'd be happy to finish my map.


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The Columbus school district already has an in-house auditor. But an issue on the ballot on Tuesday asks voters to create a new auditor position. Issue 51 would establish the position - an auditor who would be selected and overseen by a five-member panel of the Columbus mayor, school-board president, city council president, city auditor and Franklin County probate judge.
The Columbus school district already has an in-house auditor. But an issue on the ballot on Tuesday asks voters to create a new auditor position.
Issue 51 would establish the position � an auditor who would be selected and overseen by a five-member panel of the Columbus mayor, school-board president, city council president, city auditor and Franklin County probate judge. The idea is to make the position more independent of the Columbus City Schools board and administration.
�The point of the independent auditor is to have an independent auditor ... just like the city of Columbus has that check and balance� in an auditor elected by city voters, said Dan Williamson, spokesman for Mayor Michael B. Coleman.
The school district would pay for the auditor. But the amount of money it would dedicate to the office is tied to whether the 9.01-mill combined levy/bond issue that is also on the ballot passes. The levy sets aside a tenth of a mill � $850,000 a year � for the office. The school board voted in July to commit a total of $5 million to the office over the life of the levy.
If the levy fails and the auditor issue passes, it�s unclear how much money the board will spend on the office. School-board liaison Jason C. Smith said it�s �widely assumed� that the roughly $600,000 budget for the current internal auditor�s office would be shifted to the new, external office.
A poll of Columbus residents by Saperstein Associates for The Dispatch found that nearly 48 percent of likely voters in Tuesday�s election favor the auditor position. Another 34.4 percent say they are against it, and about 18 percent were undecided. A total of 796 people responded to the question. The poll has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.
Supporters of the auditor issue say the district�s current internal audit office isn�t separate enough from the district it�s auditing, but others question why it�s needed. The current internal auditor, Carolyn Smith, has played a large role in investigating student-data rigging in the district. She said it appears she would be out of a job if voters approve the measure.
Columbus� internal auditor reports directly to the school board, though an audit committee that includes board members and members from outside the district also oversees the work. The district has had an internal auditor for more than a decade � a rarity in public school districts.
Still, there�s a history of tension between Columbus� internal auditors and the district�s administration. Previous auditors have said the administration has tried to quash unflattering audits and retaliated against auditors if they pushed on.
And though Smith is widely viewed as persistent in trying to point out wrongdoing � and did investigate and uncover student-data manipulation in Columbus � she acknowledges that sometimes it has been difficult to remain autonomous.
For one thing, Smith works in a district building. Until two years ago, the internal-audit office worked in an open area among other departments that it might audit. Smith had to appeal to then-Superintendent Gene Harris over time to get a more-private location.
�I would definitely say ... that management has been able to have a much stronger influence in the operations of internal audit than it would someplace in another organization,� she said
Two auditors before Smith investigated data-rigging allegations in the district, but neither appears to have completed the audit. Some eight years later, and with apparent resistance from within the district, Smith did. Williamson said that�s evidence that an auditor with more independence is needed.
But Smith said she thinks creating an all-new office is unnecessary.
�In my honest opinion, I think with some more strengthening of the audit committee, you could have an independent auditor within the school district,� she said.


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Executive power plays: Lawsuits, recess & judges
"So sue me," the President said in the State of the Union address when he announced he would be using the executive powers of the
"So sue me," the President said in the State of the Union address when he announced he would be using the executive powers of the presidency more, since the Republican-controlled Congress was blocking all the big legislation and lots of the little stuff, too.
"Fine, I'm suing," the Speaker of the House said, after the president did just what he said he would do.
Since January, President Obama has used his executive powers to raise the minimum wage for employees of government contractors, stop the deportation of minors in the country illegally, to empower the Environmental Protection Agency to curb carbon emissions from coal plants and to extend family leave to same-sex couples in the federal workforce.
This week House Speaker John Boehner announced he would seek legislation authorizing the House to sue the president who, he says, has not "faithfully executed the laws." Or maybe he meant that the president has executed too many laws. Whatever.
The pendulum of power swings both ways, at times favoring Congress, at other times the executive and sometimes neither one, thus fostering the type of gridlock we see today. Usually the down dog thinks the top dog is lawless and over-reaching.
The speaker has not indicated precisely which executive actions the lawsuit will target and what the legal approach will be. And courts do not like to get in the middle of separation of powers spats between Congress and presidents.
The whole process of writing and passing legislation and getting adjudication in courts will take, conservatively, forever. If there is litigation and then a final resolution, it is likely the republic will have a new president.
That is one reason why House Minority Leader Pelosi says the threat of a lawsuit is a "subterfuge."
Because of the long legal odds, the Conventional Wisdom seems to be that the Speaker's lawsuit is a stunt, an election year protest. Perhaps.
But there is also something to be sad for Congress standing up for itself. It is part of the process whereby the powers separate themselves. At some point in most presidencies, the opposition party, whether it controls the Congress or not, complains that the incumbent president has become an imperial grabber of power. Tick-tock.
The speaker has yet to give out any jurisprudential detail, but conservative columnist George Will laid out the strategy to get "standing" (getting the courts to accept the case) in a recent column.
Will says four conditions must hold for a successful suit:
"That a majority of one congressional chamber explicitly authorizes a lawsuit. That the lawsuit concern the president's 'benevolent' suspension of an unambiguous provision of law that, by pleasing a private faction, precludes the appearance of a private plaintiff. That Congress cannot administer political self-help by remedying the presidential action by simply repealing the law. And that the injury amounts to nullification of Congress's power."
There is a rather enormous irony here. Will says that, "Congress cannot reverse egregious executive aggressions such as Obama's without robust judicial assistance."
"Robust judicial assistance" is a fancy-pants way of saying judicial activism, something conservatives abhor at every opportunity. But this, alas, would be judicial activism, Will writes:
"Some say the judicial branch should not intervene because if Americans are so supine that they tolerate representatives who tolerate such executive excesses, they deserve to forfeit constitutional government. This abstract doctrine may appeal to moralists lacking responsibilities. For the judiciary, it would be dereliction of the duty to protect the government's constitutional structure. It would be perverse for courts to adhere to a doctrine of congressional standing so strict that it precludes judicial defense of the separation of powers.
Advocates of extreme judicial quietism to punish the supine people leave the people's representatives no recourse short of the extreme and disproportionate "self help" of impeachment. Surely courts should not encourage this. The cumbersome and divisive blunderbuss process of impeachment should be a rare recourse. Furthermore, it would punish a president for anti-constitutional behavior but would not correct the injury done to the rule of law."
This would seem to support the de facto, real life definition of judicial activism: Rulings with which I disagree.
In fact, the judiciary was active Thursday on a case involving executive power. In NLRB v. Noel Canning, the Supreme Court put some new definitions on the president's power to make recess appointments. The Court basically said that presidents may make recess appointments only when the Senate is in a real recess, not just a short break.
There is irony in this ruling as well. During George W. Bush's term, Democrats would put the Senate in pro forma sessions when they went on vacation precisely so the President could not make recess appointments. President Bush ignored the advice of some legal counselors and didn't challenge that practice in court. And now future presidents of both parties may have to grapple with this new complication. Tick-tock.
The Speaker may not fully appreciate how shortsighted descriptions of executive power can haunt you in the long run. Still, there is civic value in arguing over these things.
His lawsuit may be a political stunt, sure. But as far as stunts go, it isn't the worst one in the world.
Dick Meyer is Chief Washington Correspondent for Scripps News. An experienced writer, reporter and author, Meyer was executive producer for the BBC's news services in America, NPR's executive editor and editorial director of CBSNews.com. Meyer also wrote a book on American culture and politics, "Why We Hate Us: American Discontent in the New Millennium" (Crown Publishing/Random House, August 2008).


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"New Views of Byron in Context," a one-day conference, Saturday 8 May 2004, organized by the Newstead Byron Society and the Midland Romantic Seminar, held at the Nottingham Trent University Clifton Campus, Ada Byron King Building. See the International Byron Society's event page.
At Newstead Abbey: a new exhibition, 1 April - 30 September 2004, Byron at Southwell: Randy and Rebellious, previously unseen material highlighting Byron's rebellious and amorous youth in Nottinghamshire and focusing on his friendship with the Pigot family of Southwell.
Charles E. Robinson
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The Byron Society of America
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EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 2Win 2GB Dual-GPU Graphics Card Review
EVGA Changes the Game Again
Dual-GPU graphics cards are becoming an interesting story. While both NVIDIA and AMD have introduced their own reference dual-GPU designs for quite some time, it is the custom build models from board vendors like ASUS and EVGA that really peak our interest because of their unique nature. Earlier this year EVGA released the GTX 460 2Win card that brought the worlds first (and only) graphics card with a pair of the GTX 460 GPUs on-board.
ASUS has released dual-GPU options as well including the ARES dual Radeon HD 5870 last year and the MARS II dual GTX 580 just this past August but they were both prohibitively rare and expensive. The EVGA "2Win" series, which we can call it now that there are two of them, is still expensive but much more in line with the performance per dollar of the rest of the graphics card market. When the company approached us last week about the new GTX 560 Ti 2Win, we jumped at the chance to review it.
The EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 2Win 2GB
The new GTX 560 Ti 2Win from EVGA follows directly in the footsteps of the GTX 460 model - we are essentially looking at a pair of GTX 560 Ti GPUs on a single PCB running in SLI multi-GPU mode. Clock speeds, memory capacity, performance - it should all be pretty much the same as if you were running a pair of GTX 560 Ti cards independently.
Just as with the GTX 460 2Win, EVGA is the very first company to offer such a product. NVIDIA didn't design a reference platform and pass it along to everyone like they did with the GTX 590 - this is all EVGA.
Continue reading our review of the EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 2Win!!!
The card length is pretty big coming in at 11.5-in and matches the size of the Radeon HD 6990. The three fan cooling design is both quiet and efficient and I didn't notice any significant noise during the testing process.
The back of the card shows us the placement of the two GTX 560 Ti GPUs, each housing 384 CUDA cores and able to access 1GB of memory. The core clock speeds are set at 850 MHz, just a bit higher than the 822 MHz reference clock and the memory speeds are still set at 1002 MHz / 4008 MHz effective. Keep in mind that even though the card does have 2GB of memory, each GPU only gets to access half of that.
You might also notice there is an SLI connection on the card - according to EVGA the GTX 560 Ti 2Win still does not support adding in any other GPUs for additional SLI action. Why they continue to leave the connection on the PCB is beyond me - they did the same thing on the GTX 460 2Win.
The display outputs include three dual-link DVI connections and a single mini-HDMI port, all of which can be run at the same time. This card can even run NVIDIA Surround and 3D Vision Surround modes with three displays where most single graphics cards (other than the GTX 590 for example) are limited to two monitors.
The power connections on the card do require a bit more juice than even the GTX 580 - dual 8-pin ATX power is needed. As we'll see in our power testing, the EVGA GTX 560 Ti 2Win actually is a bit more efficient than a pair of the cards thanks to less redundant hardware to push.
Taking apart the card we find each GPU with its own separate cooler, both of which are modest in weight but still seem to do a great job keeping the GPUs cool with a load temperature of 71C according to GPU-Z.
Hidden under the left most cooler is the same PCI Express 2.0 bridge chip used to split the connection from the motherboard to each GPU on the PCB.
For a quick size comparison we set the new EVGA GTX 560 Ti 2Win next to the GTX 580 reference card. You can clearly see you are going to need a bit more space in your case to fit all 11.5-in.
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The reason products like this arnt common cause it seems they cant make them cheaper then 2 cards. They need to price this 400-500, not over 500...
While I am sure that would help them sell more cards, look at where it performs - better than a GTX 580 and close to the level of the GTX 590. I think its pricing is pretty much justifiable from that.
I think the performance is great for the price point. I personally would be hard pressed to consider this card though. I would rather go with 1 580 and look at going SLI further down the road, when they become cheaper. It is a good solution for those with only one PCIE over the 590, with out a doubt. I just doubt it will be plausible to put in those cases that only have one PCIE with it's considerable length in mind. If you're going to go with a 560ti, spend a little more and get this if your case & psu supports it. Overall nice review.
Hmm good idea but has 1 major flaw... and its a MAJOR flaw... 1Gb of memory is not enough for SLI systems which usually are for people who run large resolution monitors.
BF3 for example uses over 1GB on High settings and a lot more on ultra with 4x MSAA
The card 1Gb memory per chip, giving it 2 Gb memory in total.
It doesn't work that way tardo.
Hey now, no need to get mean
SLI and Crossfire both do not work that way. You do not have 2Gb of total framebuffer space. Each GPU needs to contain the entire contents of the scene since they both render the same thing. Even 4 way SLI with 1Gb cards would result in 1Gb of total vram.
Yeah but with SLI enabled you have 1GB in Total.
"This card can even run NVIDIA Surround and 3D Vision Surround modes with three displays"
So where are the benchmarks with three displays?
Due to the quick launch we didn't do any. I can hook it up and run some tests next week if you want.
Too bad you can't run 2
Agreed. Or at least add in a third 560 Ti single GPU card.
Great job once again. It behooves me to understand why other reviewers do not get the importance of minimum frame rate. It is probably the most important metric for me.
On that score, do you think the better smoothness you saw with the 580, despite the lower frame rates, was a result of lower min on the 2Win, or is it related to SLI?
If I had to put my house on it one way or the other, I would bet on SLI.
They should have made this SLI compatible for people with mid-tower cases it's nice to have 4-way SLI in a compact space.
Interesting comments on BF3. I use a GTX 570 SLI system and it has been butter smooth at 2560x1440 even with 4xMSAA on, though MSAA does slow it down. It's best to turn this off anyway when using Nvidia cards as FSAA is just as good without a large the performance hit.
Regarding the GTX 560 Ti 2Win, my feeling is that this is likely a combination of a tiny lack of speed but largely the limitation of 1GB onboard memory when 4xMSAA is applied.
I bet it is a folding monster. Nice review :D
Hey Ryan, did you ever hear back from EVGA or Nvidia regarding the BF3 results?
You might want to try the following to smooth out gameplay...http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,852914/Solved-Battlefield-3-lag-issue-with-DirectX-10-Geforce-cards/Practice/
I read it gives off twice the heat as a GTX580 So if you have a large case with plenty of out-let fans you may be ok, Id prefer the GTX 590 OR GTX 580 Personally.
the GTX 460 2 Win is much, much cheaper at £300 compared to £419 FOR THIS GTX 560 2 Win. okay the 560 has the edge but for an extra £119... Dunno? what do you guys think?
Can i install N.2 EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 2Win in order to work in SLI (4xSli)?


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ROME (Reuters) - Roger Federer will be returning to his newborn twins earlier than expected after his Italian Open adventure ended with a 1-6 6-3 7-6(6) second-round defeat by Frenchman Jeremy Chardy on Wednesday.
Federer had been hoping to get his claycourt form back in gear after skipping last week's Madrid Open to attend the birth of his twin boys Leo and Lenny but the winner of a record 17 grand slam titles will now be flying back home to his family.
Fourth seed Federer made a promising start but, with dust whipping up off the surface and the ball playing tricks, Chardy fought back with some brutal forehand winners and saved match point in the tiebreak before sealing victory.
World number one Rafael Nadal laboured into the third round with an energy-sapping 7-6(1) 6-7(4) 6-2 victory over dangerous Frenchman Gilles Simon.
The 13-times grand slam winner has endured a slow start to the season, winning just three titles and suffering a number of uncharacteristic losses on his favoured clay surface.
He won the Madrid Open on Sunday after his final opponent Kei Nishikori of Japan was forced to retire through injury having been on the brink of victory and Nadal was forced to endure another scare by Simon.
The 29-year-old forced Nadal into a tiebreak in the opening set but the Spaniard gained the impetus and his heavy groundstrokes gave him the lead.
In the second set Simon, a former world number six, survived an early break, match point, and a brief interruption by an errant pigeon before forcing a deciding set with a series of powerful forehands.
Nadal, the 'King of Clay', coped best in a draining final set and from 2-2 won four games in a row to claim victory but doubts remained about his form ahead of his bid for a record-extending ninth French Open title starting later this month.
"It was a tough moment in the second set, but this was the first match on clay where I had to suffer, mentally and physically," Nadal told www.atpworldtour.com.
"I was not playing bad and I am happy to have dealt with that kind of anxiety.
"I look forward to playing the third set because these are the matches that give me more satisfaction, the ones that test you very deeply. I did it and I am very happy."
Andy Murray made light of the swirling winds to ease past Spain's Marcel Granollers 6-2 7-5.
The seventh-seeded Briton proved far too solid for his unseeded rival as he set up a third-round clash with Austrian veteran Juergen Melzer.
Murray reeled off four games in a row from 2-2 in the opening set and, apart from losing his opening service game in the second set, he always looked in control.
While not being forced to play his best tennis, it was an impressive opening for Murray, who a year ago at the same tournament retired with a back injury against the same opponent.
"All the dust and stuff was getting in your eyes. It was extremely blustery, strong conditions," Murray, who is looking to get in some match-time for the French Open, told Sky Sports.
"From one of the ends it was really tough to get any real depth on the ball. I just tried to play a smart match."
Melzer beat Croatia's Marin Cilic in the three sets and sixth seed Tomas Berdych saw off Dimitry Tursunov 6-4 6-3.
Women's top seed Serena Williams showed no signs of the thigh injury that had threatened her participation in the tournament with a routine 6-2 6-2 win over Germany's Andrea Petkovic.
She will be joined in the third round by Russia's Maria Sharapova who beat Monica Puig 6-3 7-5 to record her 12th win from 12 matches on clay in 2014.
Writing by Martyn Herman and Pritha Sarkar, editing by Ed Osmond


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Walking Dead Trailer
I love Robert Kirkman's Walking Dead series of graphic novels. They came about when Kirkman was frustrated at how much he loved zombie movies, only to have them all end and not explore the continuing effect on society – the collapse, the adjustment, the rebuilding, the progression of events after the initial crisis. So, he decided to write it himself. With 13 volumes so far (I have 'em all), the series is fresh and interesting. It ranges in tone from heartbreakingly hopeful to unthinkably horrific to occasionally even uneventful and dull, much as I imagine attempting to survive in the circumstances would. The story's main character is Rick Grimes, a police officer who is shot in a standoff with a criminal, and wakes from coma in the hospital to find the world he knew, along with his wife and child, gone. Grimes sets out to look for his wife and son, to find what is left, to help where he can, and to survive. Other characters rotate in and sadly, often out, of the story.
If you're a fan of zombie stories (it's okay, everyone has to be a nerd about something), this series isn't to be missed. The story is thoughtful, the art is fantastic, and I look forward to the rest to come.
And now, it's going to be a television series, too! Please, please AMC – do it right. Don't screw this up. From the trailer, I feel pretty optimistic that this could be good.


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Utilizing a remote trainer is often challenging. A lot of people feel awkward because they're unclear about what to do, however with just a little practice and direction, anybody can learn how to use a remote training collar properly and effectively. When I first began, it even required a couple of days to get comfortable but now it's virtually second nature! A few people think remote trainers are used simply to correct undesirable habits like digging in the trash or chewing, however you will find numerous good habits you'll be able to teach and stimulate using a dog training collar. The devices can definitely improve your rapport with your dog.
1. "Sit": This simple behavior is usually taught in a short time, and you could add an suggested "stay" so that you won't need to train another command. Simply, tell your dog to sit when pressing the button. Keep in mind, the static amount needs to be on the setting that will get your dog's attention yet will not frighten them. Having a treat in your other hand, proceed in the direction of your pet and hold it just over his / her nose. As his nose goes up, his tail lowers. When his seat hits the floor, stop pressing the switch. Do it again a couple of times by using a treat, and after that eliminate the reward so he / she simply learns the communication from the remote. See? Now your dog will be able to sit.
2. "Bed": This can be a good thing to train, since it gives your pet a particular location to go and stay. It also comes in really handy if you have visitors entering your house or perhaps the pizza delivery person is at the front door. While pressing the button, with your dog on the lead, guide him or her to his / her bed and say "bed" or whichever instruction you desire (others consist of place, home, etc.). Whenever he is on the chosen place, cease giving the stimulation. Back away from the location and observe your pet's response. If he steps away from the bed, move back next to him while once again pressing the button, and repeat the demand until he returns. Before long he'll fully understand the place you want him during that command.
3. Voiceless "come": Maybe you have been in a dog park or perhaps open field along with your four legged buddy playing around having a ball, however, when the time had come to call him back you end up shouting with no success? Making use of the vibration or beep functionality with a remote trainer provides you with the capability to instruct your pet to return to you without needing to say anything. This is certainly one thing that every one of my clients love! It is simple to train this once you have taught the sit command. Simply ask your pet to sit and, when he is on the leash, back away from him or her. As soon as you're a couple of feet away, call him to you while pressing the vibration or tone button. As soon as he reaches you, quit the sound or stimulation and repeat. He'll quickly recognize that sound or sensation signifies to join you anywhere you happen to be.
4. Off leash "heel": Among the most typical difficulties I experience can be a dog, that has absolutely no leash etiquette. As opposed to being drug about or maybe pulled to the floor, you may use a remote training collar to prevent tugging completely. While, you've got a dog on the leash, press the static button as well as draw your pet towards your side walking where you would like him. Tell him to "heel," and – when he does as you ask – take away the stimulation. In the event that he starts to pull once more, go back to the stimulation to motivate him to behave. Your pet will begin to realize what you're requesting of him.
Using these commands you should have a well behaved dog, and every one of them can be trained in a couple of weeks. Don't forget to have patience and relaxed throughout your training periods. Treat your dog frequently and needless to say provide them with plenty of love to ensure that it stays enjoyable for them. Very quickly, you will notice the improvement in your pet's behavior and the relationship you share.


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Compromise. Compromise. Compromise.
Those are the three magic words that supposedly will fix Washington.
The nation gets a holiday season break and roughly three months of political theater before the economy lands back on the fiscal-debate chopping block.
If there is one item holding any widespread agreement, it's that the only hope for success in the latest round of fiscal negotiations – due date, early 2014 – is the re-emergence of the art of compromise in national politics.
Skeptical? Me, too!
That's because this will not be easy. To prove that, I imagined myself in the compromise zone. How would I act? What might I think? And, bottom line: Where am I willing to give in?
Not that anybody would listen to me, but I cobbled together a list of key economic battlegrounds where I could give in. (Yes, I'd want something in return!) I do this to stir your own thinking: What would you surrender to stop the continuous fiscal game-playing that hurts our broad economy? (Armed insurrection is NOT on the bargaining table!)
This hurts a bit to give up secrets, but here are my negotiating soft spots:
• Zap annual deficits. I'd argue that the economy still is too wobbly to fully take away the boost it gets from federal budget deficits. The ridiculous cycle of Washington fiscal fights does nothing to stimulate confidence within the business climate. But if it's actually compromise season, lawmakers could smartly eliminate the annual federal deficit – both with added revenue and budget cuts – in a reasonable time frame, say by decade's end. That may not be too catastrophic.
• Fix Social Security. So many people need this retirement cash flow. It would be unfair to make any across-the-board cuts in benefits to improve this program's relatively decent fiscal health. Equating Social Security benefits to a recipient's income does make it feel like a welfare program, but we all must rethink priorities. It would be impossible to cut benefits for current or soon-to-be recipients. Pruning long-term benefits seems to hurt the ones we're supposedly trying to protect, younger Americans. So I'd agree that some sort of means testing, trimming benefits to those who really don't need this money, could be the type of compromise that could put Social Security on firmer financial shape.
• Overhaul Medicare. If somebody has a grand idea that would draw all sides into a rational debate about health care, especially for our aging population, I am all ears. The government must find a way to limit the relative blanket coverage of today's Medicare program without creating painful gaps in services. That will be tricky. A far greater level of financial participation by beneficiaries may be needed. Again, trimming benefits for well-heeled retirees might be part of the solution for the sake of compromise.
• End mortgage deduction. I've stepped on the supposed third-rail of politics. Potential fixes might include some change to the scope of the deduction, such as limiting its use for second homes. That could hurt housing in a market with significant interest in second homes like Orange County. I will assume that reasonable people can figure out a way to limit the cost of this home-mortgage incentive without doing huge damage to the residential real estate market. But that's the price of being an adult: the willingness to negotiate differently.
• Cut corporate taxes. Please, somebody tell me how big companies already sitting on historically high levels of cash with near-record high profit margins need much help. But in the spirit of compromise, I would be willing to back certain changes in business tax law that rewarded companies that either invested in their domestic operations or employees or repatriated various sums of cash or assets back to the United States. The devil – in a big way in this case – would have to be in the details. I, for one, do not want this to translate to yet another corporate giveaway.
• Review disaster aid. Let's rethink all federal help for victims of all sorts of natural disasters, from individuals to businesses. This could include the creation of a national disaster insurance system, done in a spirit that's not harsh. With compromise in the air, think of ways to limit Uncle Sam's outlays while aiding people who are truly blindsided by truly unforeseen catastrophe. Meanwhile, make sure those who skipped on available insurance pay some price for their irresponsibility.
Now it is your turn. Send me your ideas on what economic issues you might bargain on – and why – to the email address below. Remember, it's compromise – not bashing the other side.
If I get enough good ideas, I'd be more than willing to share them in this space on another day. I look forward to healthy debate and well-earned compromise.
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31243, Hymns, We'll Sing All Hail to Jesus' Name, no. 182
1. We'll sing all hail to Jesus' name,
And praise and honor give
To him who bled on Calvary's hill
And died that we might live.
2. He passed the portals of the grave;
Salvation was his song;
He called upon the sin-bound soul
To join the heav'nly throng.
3. He seized the keys of death and hell
And bruised the serpent's head;
He bid the prison doors unfold,
The grave yield up her dead.
4. The bread and water represent
His sacrifice for sin;
Ye Saints, partake and testify
Ye do remember him.
Text: Richard Alldridge, 1815-1896
Music: Joseph Coslett, 1850-1910
2 Nephi 9:5, 10-12
Moses 4:20-21


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5.0 Mustang & Super FordsEvents
Auto Club Dragway is Back in Business
Auto Club Dragway Dedicates a Sound Wall That Will Keep Racers and Neighbors Happy
At the end of the day, you just can't keep a good drag strip down! That definitely seems to be true in Southern California, as the once-thought-to-be-finished Auto Club Dragway in Fontana is back in action, after a 2-year shutdown that many thought—based on the area's the long history of permanently closed tracks—would be forever (we actually were among the last people to race on the track [at a private track rental] before it was ordered closed, in March of 2012. An in-car video of our Project T-top Coupe's last run on Fontana can be seen here: http://youtu.be/2hrcYfuwqz8).
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That's not the case this time. On Saturday, February 15, 2014, racers, fans, sponsors and dignitaries that included 2012 NHRA World Champion Funny Car driver, "Fast" Jack Beckman, returned to the 'strip for its "Open House;" an event held to celebrate the LA-area's only quarter-mile drag track's return to regular operation, which was made possible by support from the NHRA, Automobile Club of Southern California, and SEMA, and through the construction of the facility's new "Sound Wall;" a 25-foot-tall, nearly 2,000-foot-long series of concrete panels that was erected as part of a lawsuit settlement with area residents, who were upset about the noise that emanated from the track each weekend.
The roar of race engines and squeal of blazing tires officially begins at Auto Club Dragway starting Saturday, February 22, 2014, with the return of the widely popular "Street Legal Drags" program. In addition to the Street Legals, and several Open Test-and-Tune dates, the track's impressive 2014 schedule includes events held by the NMCA West and Pacific Street Car Association, which both feature "Mustang Madness" classes (Open Comp-style index categories) for West Coast 'Stangbangers and Ponies to race in.
For schedule and additional information, visit Auto Club Dragway's web site at: www.autoclubspeedway.com