His name is Ray Charles, and if you turn your radio to any station you will hear the influence of his ground-breaking music.
Ray Charles was born into a poor family on September 23, 1930 in Albany, Georgia, though he was raised in Florida.
To this day, Ray Charles is one of the most important influences on popular music.
Ray Charles Robinson was born in Albany, Georgia to Bailey and Aretha Robinson.
Charles scored his first Atlantic hit in 1953 with the release of the Ahmet Ertegun-composed "Mess Around" single, he had another hit with the version of "It Should Have Been Me," but his career went into high gear with the gospel drive of "I Got a Woman" (1955).
Charles was significantly involved in the biopic Ray, an October 2004 film which portrays his life and career between 1930 and 1966 and stars Jamie Foxx as Charles.
Ray Charles Robinson was born on September 23, 1930 in Albany, Georgia.
Ray Charles' final public appearance came on April 30, 2004, at the dedication of his music studio as an historic landmark in the city of Los Angeles.
Charles was significantly involved in the critically-acclaimed biopic Ray, an October 2004 film which portrays his life and career between 1930 and 1966 and stars Jamie Foxx as Charles.
This was the incident that propelled Ray Charles into an active role in the quest for racial justice, the development of social consciousness that led him to friendship with and moral and financial support of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
After he was declared legally blind at the age of seven, she enrolled him in the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind in St. Augustine, where he remained for nine years, until her death in 1945.
Charles insisted that he was only doing what came naturally—playing the music that came straight from his soul.
Born Ray Charles Robinson in Albany, Georgia, on September 23, 1930, the eldest son of Bailey and Aretha Robinson.
Ray was admitted to The St. Augustine School of the Blind and Deaf as a charity patient.
Ray Charles was living on top of the world, when he was arrested in the Boston Airport for drug possession in 1964.
Born Ray Charles Robinson on Sept. 23, 1930, in Albany, Ga., Charles was first exposed to country music via broadcasts of the Opry on Nashville radio station WSM-AM.
Charles began recording in 1949, and this early, imitative approach was captured on several sessions.
Charles continued to hit the country chart in the '80s, primarily on the basis of his collaborations with country artists.
Charles' first recordings came in for their fair share of criticism, as they were much milder and less original than the classics that would follow, although they're actually fairly enjoyable, showing strong hints of the skills that were to flower in a few years.
It was at Atlantic Records that Ray Charles truly found his voice, consolidating the gains of recent years and then some with "I Got a Woman," a number-two R&B hit in 1955.
Charles' influence on the rock mainstream was as apparent as ever; Joe Cocker and Steve Winwood in particular owe a great deal of their style to him, and echoes of his phrasing can be heard more subtly in the work of greats like Van Morrison.
Ray Charles, who virtually invented soul music by infusing RandB with gospel fervor, was often called the Genius for his significant influence not only on urban music, but jazz and country as well.
Charles refused to be limited by genres or demographics, which allowed him to appeal to the broadest possible spectrum of fans.
Charles, who is survived by 11 children, 20 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren, always bristled at the idea of retirement.
Charles was born during the Great Depression in the Deep South and was raised on blues, country, gospel, jazz and big band music.
Ray Charles Robinson was born Sept. 23, 1930, in Albany, Ga. His father, Bailey Robinson, was a mechanic and a handyman, and his mother, Aretha, stacked boards in a sawmill.
The Ray Charles version of the piece was declared the official song of the state of Georgia in 1979.
Charles was feeble, and was walked to the electric piano, but backstage he held artists like Brian Wilson, Diana Krall, Norah Jones and John Mayer in thrall.
Charles saw his brother drown in the tub his mother used to do laundry when he was about 5 as the family struggled through poverty at the height of the Depression.
Ray Charles, singer, pianist, saxophonist, composer, and band leader, is a towering figure in popular music.
When Charles was a small child, his family moved to Greenville, FL, where at the age of five, he started to go blind as a result of glaucoma.
Charles, also an internationally famous concert performer, has appeared on stages ranging from Carnegie Hall to the Grand Ole Opry and in countries from those of Scandinavia to England, Italy, Spain, and India.
Known as 'the Genius', Ray Charles was an American institution; virtually inventing soul music singlehandedly with his 1959 hit "What'd I Say".
Ray Charles was my oldest friend, my brother in every sense of the word and bigger than life - a musical genius that made every song he performed his own.
Born Ray Charles Robinson, he was blinded by glaucoma by the age of 7.
Ray Charles overcame blindness and poverty to become a pop music legend.
Ray Charles Robinson -- he later changed his name to avoid confusion with the noted boxer -- was born in Albany, Georgia, on September 23, 1930.
In 1962, Charles decided to release an album of country music, "Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music," which broke new ground by combining soul and country music and was seen as a risk by many observers at the time.
Charles also played a major role in the recording of USA for Africa's "We Are the World" single in 1985.
In the '90s Charles appeared in commercials for Pepsi and was the subject of a PBS documentary.
Charles was inducted into the Blues Foundation's Hall of Fame in 1982.Charles was also inducted into the Rock and Roll's Hall of Fame in its inaugural year 1986.
Ray Charles came into this world as Ray Charles Robinson from Albany, GA, and he left it as Ray Charles Robinson with a huge list of professional accomplishments as well as a string of mistresses, two marriages, nine children (with five different women), twenty grandchildren, and five great grandchildren.
After the service, he was placed in a hearse, and the cortege paused briefly in front of Ray's studio, where this sign adorned the door, before heading to Inglewood Park Cemetery, where he was wheeled one last time to the Sanctuary of Eternal Love, and placed in a wall crypt.
Ray tried to pull him out, but he was too heavy for him to lift.
The Definitive Ray Charles wird sich jeder Fan von Ray Charles anhören wollen, denn hier ist es zum ersten Mal gelungen, die Spitzenhits aus Charles' Zeit bei Atlantic mit seinen erfolgreichsten ABC-Paramount-Titeln in einer Kollektion zu vereinen.
There are plenty of Ray Charles compilations to choose from - some focusing on a particular era or a particular aspect of Ray's career.
Despite Ray's ability to write his own songs, the two songs for which he is best remembered are both covers.
Charles displayed his genius by combining elements of gospel and blues into a fervid, exuberant style that would come to be known as soul music.
Charles studied composition and mastered a variety of instruments, piano and saxophone principal among them, during nine years spent at the St. Augustine School for the Deaf and the Blind.
March 16, 1955: Ray Charles hits #2 on the RandB charts with the Atlantic single "I Got A Woman";, widely considered the first song to be labeled "soul"—a blending of RandB and gospel.
According to Silver, this was the time when Charles "gave his earthy voice its freedom, hammered some gospel chords on the piano, and invented soul music." That hit, "I've Got a Woman," was quickly followed by many more, all reflecting the same sure-fire formula that thrilled his fans and infuriated church folk.
Charles labelled himself as being a "junkie" but insisted that he was always in control of his money, his career, and his life.
Charles has reached the half-century mark of performing, composing, and arranging his own music and that of anybody else's he chooses.
Ray first did it in 1962, and the song is made richer with the jazzy counterpoint of Krall's flawless voice--another contribution from Phil Ramone.
Ray introduced and inducted masterful songwriter Van Morrison into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in the summer of 2003, and their resulting duet, to Morrison's "Crazy Love" (from his amazing album, "Moondance") kick started the whole duet album concept.
Ray lost some of his edginess, but he could still play a mean piano, and of the 13 singers on this CD, he has the most soulful voice.
Ray Charles was one of the entertainment industry's true survivors.
Ray had a whole catalog of classic tunes, including "I Got A Woman," "What'd I Say" and "Georgia On My Mind." "Hit The Road Jack" was recently used in a car ad, and who can forget him in the Diet Pepsi ads from the early 1990s?
Ray Charles absorbed the sounds he heard in blues, gospel, pop, country, rhythm and blues, jazz, and early rock 'n' roll, rearranged them in his head, and helped create what would come to be known as soul.
NPR.org, June 11, 2004 ·; American musical icon Ray Charles died Thursday of complications from liver disease at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 73.
Known as "The Genius" since the early 1950s, Charles started out primarily as a jazz and blues pianist and singer in the style of his early musical idols such as Nat "King" Cole and pianist Charles Brown.
Born Ray Charles Robinson in Albany, Ga., on Sept. 23, 1930, Charles grew up in Greenville, Fla. He contracted an unknown illness at the age of four that began to affect his eyesight and within three years, he was completely blind.
The title "genius" was formally bestowed on Ray Charles with the release of his 1959 album The Genius of Ray Charles.
Singer/composer/pianist Ray Charles virtually invented soul music by bringing together the fervor of gospel, the secular lyrics and narratives of blues and country, the big-band arrangements of jazz, and the rhythms and improvisational possibilities from all of them, making music that was both sophisticated and spontaneous.
The Very Best of Ray Charles, released in March 2000, is an album that should be part of all CD collections because it lives up to its title's ambition.
Ray Charles was first encouraged by local pianist Wylie Pitman to play music.
Ray Charles' duets with Norah Jones, Diana Krall, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, B. King and others, posthumously released, once more remind us of the loss of a famous pianist, singer and songwriter.


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As the child of two teachers, education has always played a very important role in my life. I've always been encouraged to study hard, get good grades, and enjoy my educational experience.
As such, when I was given the opportunity to join Reading with Pictures – a non-profit organization getting comics into classrooms – I jumped at the idea of combining my two lifelong passions: education and comics.
With education playing such a crucial role in my life and my work, I can't help but pay attention when awful situations happen in schools. The latest of which was a tragedy beyond measure, and something this country will not soon forget.
So when Reading with Pictures posted the below press release, asking for all-ages comic donations, I had to participate.
Both Gabe and I feel for the families affected by this horrible tragedy, and as such we have donated a large supply of Albert the Alien comics to the kids of Newton through Reading with Pictures.
Below is the full press release, and they are still accepting donations of comics for the families. If you have some all-ages comics you would like to donate, please e-mail RWP at the below e-mail address.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families affected by this terrible event, and I hope our donation can somehow help to brighten someone's day.
We at Reading With Pictures reacted to the tragic news coming from Newtown, CT with the same sense of loss and sadness that everyone else felt. As a nonprofit organization with a special tie to education and schools, to see the bond of safety and trust punctured was absolutely heartbreaking.
The outpouring of support all across the nation has been inspirational and we want to help in our own small way. An important time of happiness between families is reading together and we want to put together a collection of kid friendly comic books to send to the families in Newtown, CT.
We'll be working with connections we have in that community to coordinate the best possible direction for this donation but we wanted to ask for your own help in this comic book drive.
1. We want children's comic books only. Nothing scary, violent, suggestive in anyway. We will be scanning all donations to ensure the content is appropriate.
From all of us at Reading With Pictures, thank you so much for not only your compassion and caring but also believing in the power of comic books in creating community.
We received our first donation yesterday! We'll be cataloging each comic and making sure its all kid friendly, but at first glance it looks absolutely great!
We're also just waiting to hear from our contact at Sandy Hook Elementary after reaching out. With everything that's been going on, as well as school typically being out for holiday break, we are confident in hearing something concrete in the new year.
Reading With Pictures will also be donating a whole box of the anthology to this effort.


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Hymn for Her at Cafe in the Park
By Wade Tatangelo , Herald-Tribune
/ Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Lucy Tight and Wayne Waxing of Hymn for Her. COURTESY PHOTO
Cafe in the Park, located in downtown Sarasota's Payne Park, continues to establish itself as a coffee and sandwich shop that doubles as a serious player on the local live music scene with the upcoming performance by Hymn for Her. The garage-y Americana duo enjoys nationwide acclaim thanks to a string of memorably quirky releases including their latest album "Drive Til U Die." The title alludes to the duo living on the road with their daughter, soaking up the country from up close, writing songs and giving countless live performances, all the while winning over growing pockets of fans from coast to coast. There's no cover charge for this show but there will be a special menu and plenty of wine and beer. Attendees are encouraged to bring a lawn chair.
7 p.m. Monday; Cafe in the Park, 2010 Adams Lane, Sarasota; no cover charge; 941-361-3032; cafeinthepark.org
Friday Fest at Van Wezel
Ben Prestage at Ace's Live
Independent Jones aims to open space dedicated to live music

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Q: Hibernate and Com_show_warnings == Com_select in MySQL When looking into SHOW GLOBAL STATUS on my MySQL it is showing that Com_select and Com_show_warnings are more or less equal. That means that Hibernate executes SHOW WARNINGS for each query it executes. Is there a way to disable this? Google did not help :/

A: As explained in this blog post, hibernate force us to use SHOW WARNINGS when we set log level from warn or above.
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This position is within HARMAN's EMEA Lifestyle Audio Division, based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The region Europe North includes the Nordics, the UK and The Netherlands. This position focuses on the Nordics and The Netherlands (NL) and reports into the Marketing Manager Nordics, based in Denmark.
The Marketing Communications (Marcom) Specialist Nordics and NL, is responsible for the marketing communication strategy & program implementation for Harman's Consumer Product categories like Portable Audio, Headphones and Wifi Network Music Systems. Together with the Marketing Manager Nordics, he or she supports and develops the marketing communication landscape for all new product introductions as well as give the communication direction for all the brands across the different categories. The Marcom Specialist plans and executes a wide range of marketing tools based on the yearly marketing and business plan.
The Marcom Specialist Nordics and NL works closely with the Commercial Organisation of those particular markets as well as the Regional Product Marketing Department in Amsterdam. He or she translates the local and regional needs into marketing communication plans and tools to drive sales and brand building activities. He or she has to work closely with other departments and (internal) stakeholders, such as the Global Creative team, as well as the EMEA PR-, Online-, Social Media, Trade Marketing Leads and Managers as well as the Category and Customer Marketing Specific Marcom Leads.
• Trade Marketing: drive trade marketing plans and initiatives. Support the ordering and deployment of the trade marketing needs. Identify opportunities to strengthen in-store brand equity, lead the planning and execution for all in-store elements, merchandising and maintenance with vendors. Drive trade programs to support the Nordics and NL marketing initiatives and business priorities.
• Brand Marketing: Own and manage the marketing communication plan to launch NPI's in the most effective way. Support the Commercial Organization and Marketing Manager Nordics and NL collateral such as imagery, videos, translation documents, perfect pitches. Create and/or traffic the necessary tools for Nordic and NL stakeholders.
• Marketing Manager: Support the Marketing Manager on product introductions, pricing and distribution strategy and –plan, media planning and buying, local event management and marketing budget management.
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Why Neutron Stars, Not Black Holes, Show The Future Of Gravitational Wave Astronomy
By esiegel on October 16, 2017.
"This is going to have a bigger impact on science and human understanding, in many ways, than the first discovery of gravitational waves. We're going to be puzzling over the observations we've made with gravitational waves and with light for years to come." -Duncan Brown
Detecting black holes and the gravitational wave signals from them was an incredible feat, but doing the same thing for neutron star mergers is a true game-changer. Instead of fractions of a second, neutron star mergers show up for up to half a minute. Unlike black holes, there's an electromagnetic counterpart. Because of that, we can verify that the speed of gravity really is identical to the speed of light: to better than 1 part in 1,000,000,000,000,000.
All massless particles travel at the speed of light, including the photon, gluon and gravitational waves, which carry the electromagnetic, strong nuclear and gravitational interactions, respectively. Image credit: NASA / Sonoma State University / Aurora Simonnet.
And perhaps most spectacularly, we can bring the electromagnetic and gravitational-wave skies together for the first time. Even though LIGO has seen more merging black holes, the fact is that there are more merging neutron stars. The key, now, is finding them. We live at a moment where gravitational wave astronomy is just in its infancy, giving us a whole new way to look at the Universe.
The galaxy NGC 4993, located 130 million light years away, had been imaged many times before. But just after the August 17, 2017 detection of gravitational waves, a new transient source of light was seen: the optical counterpart of a neutron star-neutron star merger. Image credit: P.K. Blanchard / E. Berger / Pan-STARRS / DECam.
Astronomy's 'Rosetta Stone': Merging Neutron Stars Seen With Both Gravitational Waves And Light
"It's becoming clear that in a sense the cosmos provides the only laboratory where sufficiently extreme conditions are ever achieved to test new ideas on particle physics. The energies in the Big Bang were far higher than we can ever achieve on Earth. So by looking at evidence for the Big Bang, and…
5 Facts We Can Learn If LIGO Detects Merging Neutron Stars
Newest LIGO Signal Raises A Huge Question: Do Merging Black Holes Emit Light? (Synopsis)
"The black holes collide in complete darkness. None of the energy exploding from the collision comes out as light. No telescope will ever see the event." -Janna Levin Whenever there's a catastrophic, cataclysmic event in space, there's almost always a tremendous release of energy that accompanies…
LIGO's Black Holes Probably Did Not Come From One Star (Synopsis)
"Even if the Fermi detection is a false alarm, future LIGO events should be monitored for accompanying light irrespective of whether they originate from black hole mergers. Nature can always surprise us." -Avi Loeb Ever since LIGO first announced the direct detection of gravitational waves from two…
So they shifted the frequencies of the gravitational waves to the audio so that you can 'hear' the collision.
Do you think this is helpful or misleading?
*and was what you hear real time?"
By Steve Blackband (not verified) on 17 Oct 2017 #permalink
@Steve Blackband #1: In fact, there isn't any shifting involved! LIGO's sensitivity range is right around 300 Hz (spanning a few tens of hertz up to a few kilohertz), which is exactly the range of human hearing (middle C is 256 Hz).
By Michael Kelsey (not verified) on 17 Oct 2017 #permalink
IF gravity traveled at the speed of light, how do you explain the actual orbits of planets around the sun? Interesting things happens if you put your propagation effects at c. Unfortunately stable planetary orbits is not one of them, orbital calculations depend upon gravity being much faster than c to nearly instantaneous in order to work at all. The Earth also orbits a location that is approximately 20 arc seconds ahead of where the sun appears in the sky, where it actually is, not where the light which we are just receiving some eight minutes later shows it to be.
Lets get skeptical and use Occam's razor to clear the air a bit instead:
What did LIGO actually detect? The laser wiggled (effect). The effect was attributed to gravity waves (cause). It is now admitted that what was detected was propagating at c. What was actually detected? Gravity waves traveling at the speed of c, which is in disagreement with our own planet's orbit, or just an electromagnetic effect to begin with? There is also the problem that gravity travels at c in Einstein's math only because he wanted it to, the equations are coordinate dependent, you get differing speeds for gravity unless you cherry pick your coordinates specifically to get c. There has been a lot of debate on this by physicists.
Ethan admitted the reason they could even 'detect' orbiting black holes to begin with is because they created such powerful gravitational waves. How much less powerful are the gravity waves of neutron stars? Magnitudes? Considerably? If LIGO had troubles with detecting black holes, would it not have even more trouble with detecting something far less massive? The sudden pivot to detecting orbiting neutron stars seems a bit suspect, combined with claims of c propagation for the gravity waves. In any case, something has got to give theoretically. I have no trouble picking an initial side. I'm siding with direct evidence of our own planetary motion requiring faster than c propagation of gravity, over a highly inferred and indirect evidence based off a theoretical template in a computer processed 'wiggle' of something much farther away.
This to me seems much like the point of contention with BICEP2. Polarized dust WAS actually found (effect). Assumptions were made about (cause) how and when it was polarized. The assumptions turned out to be wrong. The tragedy of BICEP2 wasn't that it didn't turn out the way they wanted, it was that not a single purportedly brilliant person on the entire research team, or even one of their financial backers asked the obvious question the entire projected revolved around "How will we be able to discern the causes of the polarization?"
The same obvious question is there again. "How do you know what is causing your laser to wiggle?" You have a connection between a subject (neutron stars) and your detector now, but is it what you want it to be? Or is it something more mundane?
By CFT (not verified) on 17 Oct 2017 #permalink
@CFT #3: What an awesome demonstration of ignorance.
"Gravity" doesn't "travel at the speed of light," any more than a _static_ (i.e., unchanging) electric or magnetic field travels at the speed of light. If you actually studied the physics you so blithely distain, you'd already know this.
The gravitational field of the solar system is essentially fixed (the movement of the Sun's barycenter is tiny compared to the sizes of any of the planets' orbits). The same is true, of course, for the orbits of all the planetary moons about their primaries. Consequently, the orbit of the Earth and other planets is perfectly described by a Keplerian ellipse. In Newtonian language, we can say that the force between the Sun and Earth is instantaneous. In Einsteinian language, we say that the solar system metric is static to high precision. The observable outcome is the same in both cases, and in both cases can be derived quantitatively by someone who can handle the maths. Your statements demonstrate clearly that you either can't, or just don't want to because it doesn't fit your argument.
What does travel at the speed of light (as measured to within +/- half a part in 10^15) are _disturbances_ in gravity, such as gravitational waves.
The interferometer didn't "just wiggle," as your willful ignorance would have it. The mirrors (not the laser, another demonstration of your ignorance) moved in a very specific oscillatory pattern, with a frequency which increased over time in a very specific, continuous way. What is observed, measured, is not just the movement, but the very specific time history of that movement. Your sidestepping of those quantitative technical details (here as in so many other of your ranting posts) demonstrates that you are either ill-equipped to understand them, or you do understand them but deliberately confabulate in order to support a false narrative.
Uh, CFT, I think the compounding of events - Gravitational Wave, Gamma Ray Burst, and the correlated Optical detection pretty much seal it as a legitimate detection.
Going forward, there will either be more detection with all the parts, or not. The GRB within seconds of the gravitational wave detection is pretty strong evidence.
By MobiusKlein (not verified) on 17 Oct 2017 #permalink
Dearest Michael,
You lost me the very moment you called me names...many months ago. I certainly would never take you seriously if you told me the sky was blue at this point. Incompetent experts such as yourself should be cleaning toilets until you develop a semblance of humility, not advising people on anything. Now please, go pound some sand.
@MK #4: " In Newtonian language, we can say that the force between the Sun and Earth is instantaneous. In Einsteinian language, we say that the solar system metric is static to high precision."
I really enjoyed that. Pick your language and your theoretical paradigm. Make your argument from that bias.
What happened to the scientific method?!
By Michael Mooney (not verified) on 17 Oct 2017 #permalink
@MobiusKlein #5,
What their 'detection' reveals in terms of by optical and radio is not in contention, those are electromagnetic in nature. What they claim they are detecting on their laser seismograph is. The fact they are claiming detection of gravity waves at c means it could be something other than gravity waves. The math is not convincing me, as it does not stipulate gravity even travels at c unless you choose very specific parameters BICEP2 was claiming a positive detection at sigma 7. Do you know what the statistical odds of that being wrong are? 1 in 10 billion, and they were wrong.
Forgive me for my skepticism, but no, I don't believe their ridiculously high claims of their calculations certainty, they aren't very credible at this point. Blowhards like Michael Kelsey having such peculiar overreactions to being questioned only further convinces me something odd is going on.
If Michael actually was half as informed as he claims, he would have known the argument I was using to challenge the assertion of gravity waves in a vacuum traveling at light speed was actually not even mine, but someone else with considerably more expertise. In other words, he accused me of making up an actual position taken by one of the finest astrophysicists of the twentieth century who in fact worked alongside Einstein himself, A.S. Eddington.
"The statement that in the relativity theory gravitational waves are propagated with the speed of light has,
I believe, been based entirely upon the foregoing investigation; but it will be seen that it is only true in a very
conventional sense. If coordinates are chosen so as to satisfy a certain condition which has no very clear geometrical importance, the speed is that of light; if the coordinates are slightly different the speed is altogether
different from that of light. The result stands or falls by the choice of coordinates and, so far as can be judged,
the coordinates here used were purposely introduced in order to obtain the simplification which results from
representing the propagation as occurring with the speed of light. The argument thus follows a vicious circle."
---A.S. Eddington, The Mathematical Theory of Relativity
As I said,
Cherry picked coordinates to get the predetermined results you want doesn't prove anything, except that it is just a math push determining your speed of gravity to be c. If you pick some other coordinates, your speed will vary.
@CFT #6 (?)
Go easy on Michael, after all he does work for you as a tax payer. Michael is an employee of a US Govt scientific institution and can provide vital input.
He can be a bit salty at times but that's understandable because of all the testosterone fostered penis measuring contest that has gone here in the past.
Men in the science community should follow some of the decent lessons from physical sports teams in our society where we disagree, give some hard hits, and then shake hands and move on. Holding long term grudges does no one ESPECIALLY the truth any justice.
By Ragtag Media (not verified) on 17 Oct 2017 #permalink
If there is an undetected (by instruments, of course) omnipresent field/medium, that would explain how everything is connected and that direct connection would explain how the force of gravity could be instantaneous.Then we could throw out "spooky action at a distance" as a problem... which resulted in GR.
Notice the opening "If." Yes, I do theoretical physics too... even without credentials! (It's not illegal, except in mainstream physics) "The fabric of spacetime"... so malleable in response to mass... is a story like "the Emporer's New Clothes." Only idiots can't see it. It's the ultimate hypocrisy in science today.
No mathematical or velocity or superluminal speed need be applied to what need not move to be ever present. While such a supposition supervenes even need for an initiating isolated theoretical all inclusive big 'bang[' singularity as a hypothetical a point of origin; even such an singular originating coalescence required prior gravitational and space presence. Also, there are no "holes" in space and space is also not "black". Such seeming appearances result from telescopic limitations.
Since there are no "holes"in sqace -nor would they be sustained by the tremendous pressures within galaxies- what is being observed is other than as hypothesized and widely accepted. What is deemed to be "black" seems so, because so does space so appear. However space also has no color.'The APPARENT darkness is due to telescopic equipment limitati0ns unable to detect and record the full spe4ctrum and breadth and origins of spatial antecedents and content.
By Alby (not verified) on 17 Oct 2017 #permalink
@Ragtag Media #9,
With due respect,
I'll change my stance on Michael when he changes his tone, and learns to argue his point, not talk down. Elitist snobbery is for badly behaved aristocrats, not civil servants.
@CFT:
You need to take a good look at ALL your past/present comments in this blog before blaming anyone for talking you down!
You are obviously someone who see all discussions as a fight for personal honor. I am pretty sure other readers of this blog prefer FRIENDLY DISCUSSIONs instead!
By Frank (not verified) on 18 Oct 2017 #permalink
@CFT #6:
I think that comment alone is good enough reason to get you banned from this blog you need to realize well!
"Scientific discussion"
"I do not think those words mean what you think they mean." - Inigo Montoya (paraphrased)
By Alan G. (not verified) on 18 Oct 2017 #permalink
Steve Blackband,
Yesterday, in the Comments of the Week thread, you appeared to invite comments about the relationship between Science (primarily Physics in this blog) and Philosophy. So, at the risk of antagonizing those few remaining readers I have not yet irritated, the below is a brief reply. If I misinterpreted, please excuse this response.
Scientific Realism is, I think, better understood in a historical context. It originated as a response to Scientific Positivism/Empiricism, another interpretation of what distinguishes Science from other intellectual disciplines. That school of thought came about as the result of Einstein's publishing of "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", his Special Theory of Relativity (SR) in 1905. Also published in 1905, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", Einstein determined a relationship between mass and energy.
SR and E=mc^2 were Revolutionary Science, and criticized for violating Immanuel Kant's categoric scheme that was a (if not the) contemporary philosophic world view. At that time, and to many people now, the three-dimensionality of space, Euclidean geometry, and the existence of absolute simultaneity were thought to be needed to understand Nature, and none of them should be altered by empirical findings. SR delivered a shock to physicists and to scientifically minded philosophers, and did not just point out surprising new facts, nor merely require strange new concepts. It revealed a disturbing lack of clarity within familiar concepts, such as simultaneity and length.
This sets the stage for the logical positivists/empiricists. Their goal was to build a new-and-improved version of empiricism, one that would make the philosophy and the world safe for science. The central principle of logical empiricism is that any cognitively meaningfully statement must be either analytic or a claim about experience. I shall not present an exposition of what an analytic statement might be, but if you are due for some penance, feel free to ask. Science deals with facts, hence the "claim about possible experience".
Once science is rooted in just the facts, the meaningfulness of a statement depends upon verification. By verification the positivists mean a method for finding its truth or falsehood. Since to be cognitively meaningful is to be either true or false, if there is the right sort of method for testing truth or falsehood, the statement will be meaningful.
Okay. All good, clean fun, and useful in clearing away some of the underbrush of 19th century European philosophy. Clarity uber alles, eh?
Now try to shoehorn the Bag Model of Quark Confinement into a vision limited by observation. Assuming it to be true, not only are quarks unobservable, but cannot be individually observed. Is that model of (presumed) quark confinement science, or not?
Scientific Realists find ways to relax many of the constraints which the Positivists had insisted science embrace. The Realists can then say, as the Positivists cannot, that science theorizes about quarks the same way as it theorizes about macro-sized objects. So unobservable objects are, in this philosophical POV, not second-class citizens. Of course, there's a price to be paid. The distinctive virtues that science attained, due to its tight connection to experience are forfeited, and metaphysical possibilities made possible.
By John (not verified) on 18 Oct 2017 #permalink
Frank #14,
A personal attack is not how you respond to an answer you think is incorrect. If you disagree, say you disagree and explain why coherently, that's all.
Michael took the first shot. I responded. Every time Michael takes a kick at me under the table, I'm going to kick back twice as hard and try to make him reconsider his clumsy approach to disagreement.
The advice I gave him also wasn't arbitrary.
I've taken it myself.
I cleaned over 40 toilets a day when I was a teenager, I worked at a fancy hotel near Santa Barbara on the housekeeping staff, and yes it did teach humility, as I believe was my parents intention. When you come home from work exhausted and the skin on your hands is raw from having been in Brasso polish and cleaning solvent, and your back is killing you from having been bent over most of the day scrubbing and making beds, you realize this is all some people will ever know until they die, and you begin to look at the smug self-entitled folk of the world a little differently. I don't care what you know, or what your position is, If you talk down to me I'll suggest you to go scrub some toilets too. I've had to clean up after some of the biggest stars in Hollywood, quite literally, and in the process quickly lost any sense of awe I ever had with fame or celebrity. Cleaning up other people's shit does wonders for gaining perspective.
As I understand it, Einstein's General Relativity (GR) says that if our sun suddenly disappeared, it would take about 8 minutes for the lack of its gravitational effects to be felt by the Earth. However, the Sun has been in place for a long time, and it's gravitational effects have long since propagated throughout our galaxy and beyond. (As it moves with and within our galaxy the effects sweep along with that motion but so does our solar system.) (Recall that according to GR, the effects are a strong local warping of space-time that constrains the orbital motion of nearby objects. This warping may vary slightly as the Sun itself orbits the center of mass of the solar system, but a) this is not a large effe
I read at another site that the equations of GR have been used to calculate (numerically) the orbits of the planets of our solar system for the next 5 billion years, and they all stayed in the same orbits. (This assumed no outside interference.)
By JimV (not verified) on 18 Oct 2017 #permalink
To continue where I was somehow interrupted:
a) this is not a significant effect compared to planet orbital radii; and b) it is a cyclic effect which is part of the existing orbits.
I will also add, there is an immense amount of evidence for GR. E.G., our GSP system would not work accurately until GR calculations were used in it.
Any premise of orig9ns need incorporate adequate inducements for such an fcvcurrence.
Any premise of origins need incorporate original inducements.
Gravity as an all pervading static state is not reasonably viewed as having once been confined singularly with space when both are diverse in function and as such not be subject to an intense coalescence, apart from some prior inducing overpowering factor. able to resolve mutual functional virtual incompatibility.
@John #16: Not irritating at all! I wish I had a good enough grounding in philosophy (and the history of philosophy) to engage in a meaningful debate. On the other hand, this is an opportunity for me to learn about stuff I have had less touch with.
You used an example to make a point that I think is not quite correct. First, in describing empiricism (which I _think_ i my own philosophical basis) you wrote, "Science deals with facts, hence the 'claim about possible experience'."
Later, using the example of the quark model, you questioned whether, in dealing with "unobservable entities," it counted as (empirical) science at all. I think this misses the point. Scientific theory deals with "unobservable entities" all the time, in many fields. Atoms, electrons, electric and magnetic fields, various energy potentials, those are all _unobservable_ in the 18th century sense of directly impinging on our senses.
The test of whether a scientific theory is empirical or not (i.e., whether it is "really science") is whether it can be used to quantitatively _predict_ observable results. QCD uses the unobservable quarks and their interactions to make definite, quantitative predictions about things like the mass of the proton, lifetimes and decay channels of various particles (yes, there's a philosophical chain of inference involved), even predicting new particle states before they were observed.
Whether the underlying invisible entities are real or not is, philosophically, an ontological problem; more pragmatically, it's a question of how well the theory actually works. We treat electric and magnetic fields as real, even though they're not directly observable to our senses, because electrodynamics works _perfectly_ every time it is applied to an observable situation, and has done so for a century and a half and counting. We treat atoms and electrons as real for the same reason. Perhaps quarks seem less real to you (and to most people) because they don't directly impact day to day life, and because QCD has only been around for fifty years?
Incompetent experts such as yourself should be cleaning toilets until you develop a semblance of humility, not advising people on anything. Now please, go pound some sand.
It's idiocy such as this that makes me happy that SWAB will cease to exist on SB (along with SB itself) at the end of the month. Enjoy Forbes, CFT.
By Narad (not verified) on 19 Oct 2017 #permalink
Michael Kelsey,
"... this is an opportunity for me to learn about stuff I have had less touch with."
That's kind of you.
My (limited) exposure to physicists persuades me that philosophy and physics are seldom pursued in tandem.
In re the scientific stature of unobservables: The logical positivists were able to integrate them into Science by the use of the analytic truths which have equal standing with observables (ref prior post) in their Received View of Theories where theoretical propositions such as the bag model of quark confinement are given a partial observation interpretation by inference to their relationship to other, observable phenomena.
In contrast, you, I, and all (LOL! both) physicists I know are Popper's intellectual children.
Look in the mirror snowflake, and then keep scrubbing. Acting snobby while blaming others is not a winning combo. You are going to have to learn to share the playground of ideas a bit, it doesn't belong to you.
The moment Ethan had his Forbes site, this one became an afterthought, a neglected stepchild he didn't really care about anymore, and he wanted out of. Guess why?$?
@John #24,
If you are truly Popper's intellectual children, you realize the importance of falsifiability. Inflation theory, String Theory can't be falsified, at all. Sabine Hossenfelder has pointed this out to Ethan several times...and he has agreed with her in personal discussion, but then glossed over it in his PR (things are fine) narrative on this and the Forbes site.
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2017/10/i-totally-mean-it-inflation-ne…
CFT,
Yes, I am comfortable with the notion that a "scientific" theory can not be proved, but it can be falsified. That criterion of falsifiability means that to be a scientific theory, the theory can and should be tested by experiment.
But what does one say about a theory that has been repeatedly tested using techniques independent of each other, and the results (observations) of those tests have been as predicted by the theory? I don't know about you, but sooner or later I'd say it's correct, or even True, with a capital "T". I'd only start to discount its truthfulness if there started to accumulate observations that fell sufficiently far outside the theory's prediction that they couldn't be honestly attributed to experimental error. The first time some weird anomaly was reported, I'd go back and try to rework the observations within the theory, not instantly drop the theory, wouldn't you? Of course you would! Good physical theories are not found in the bargain bin at Walmart.
If that paragraph didn't sound vaguely familiar, it should have. Newton's law of universal gravitation produced accurate predictions for more than 200 years. When the observations (empirical tests) of the orbit of Uranus were observed to deviate from the predictions derive from that theory, first too fast and then too slow, instead of dropping the theory, in 1846 a scientist, Urbain Le Verrier, proposed the deviations could be resolved within the Newtonian theory. He suggested that the gravity of a farther, unknown planet was disturbing Uranus'orbit. He crunched the numbers (although it must have been a bitch to do back then), and Galle and d'Arrest saw Neptune where the "rethought" Newtonian theory said it was supposed to be. It wasn't until the turn of the 20th century that the illumination provided by Newtonian Physics was to be clouded by the ultraviolet catastrophe and the curious case of the missing ether.
All theories operate successfully with domains. QM, SR and GR are physical theories that are less inaccurate than Newton's. They pass many more tests. Does that make them True? Technically no, but not only are all four scientific theories, you can safely rely on them every day.
I think you're overlooking some of Ethan's poste opinions about String Theory.
http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2008/04/18/on-string-theory-fro…
Factual cosmological antecedents are not entirely telescopically observable being only inferred from keen visual observations and collaborative deductions..
When the 'working story' you tell yourself can't be falsified, and you can just 'change it' to agree with whatever you like, you aren't going to be able to break out of your epi-cycles. This is why I don not like group-think consensus and despise the Bayesian mindset which is turning the scientific community into a self congratulatory echo-chamber of self referential paper writers.
There is good news for the future however:
Scientists eventually die, and someone else is going to come along who doesn't give a rat's ass about the political consensus of experts and their overly convoluted 'stories', and do something else.
This is what happened when a couple of bicycle builders from Ohio somehow managed to figure out what the rest of the scientific community could not.
Science advances one funeral at a time.
@Alby #29,
Try harder. Random word generators are only good for spam.
The detection of the gravitational waves produced by the merger of two neutron stars –GW170817– has allowed scientists to fix at 70 km/s per megaparsec * the value of the increase in speed of the expansion of the universe in the 130 million light years that separate us from the origin of said merger.
As these calculations approach the speed of light throughout the age of the universe, we can do the inverse calculation to determine the average increase in the velocity of expansion so that the observable universe is of the age stated by the Big Bang Theory.
The result is 300.000 km/s /(13.799/3,26) Mpc =70,820 km/s Mpc. https://molwick.com/en/gravitation/072-gravitational-waves.html#big-bang
By Jose (not verified) on 29 Oct 2017 #permalink


Following are several templates that can be used to develop a professional growth plan. Choose the one that best suits your needs while incorporating the components of a good plan.
Professional growth is a result of identifying professional goals to improve your professional practice and taking action towards achieving those goals. Once you have completed the self-assessment, a general goal or TQS focus area you might select could be to focus on "inquiry-based learning". As you develop your own learning goal, a more specific one would be "to integrate inquiry learning into my grade 7 mathematics pedagogy using targeted teaching and learning strategies".
have deadlines that help to ensure that the goal is attained.
A common technique for writing goals is to think about SMART goals.
Once you have identified your goal(s), it is important to think about the strategies, timelines and resources you will employ to achieve the goal(s). First of all, make sure that a goal is realistic and achievable within the time and resources available in a given year. Outline the strategies and timelines you will use to accomplish your goal. For some goals, it may be better to break the goal into manageable pieces that can be part of a multi-year growth plan.
You, the learner, are in control of your learning. Since you chose the goal(s) based on self-identified needs, you also should choose the strategies and human and nonhuman resources to achieve your goal(s). Not all strategies require attendance at a conference, workshop or other formal PD event. There are many possible forms of learning that can be considered when considering learning strategies that best meet your needs.
Some strategies are directed by the individual teacher whereas others may involve colleagues or a learning community within or outside of your school. Other strategies involve attendance at workshops or conferences. Search out which resource(s) might be best to help you achieve your goal and include them in your plan.
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Q: summarize more than one variables by multiple factors separately in R I have data with a sample size of 1000. The data have 20 variables (1 numeric variable and 19 categorical variables). In one code, I would like to calculate the mean and SD of the numeric variable by each level of categorical variables. I want to know the average of the numeric variable by gender, for example. Then at the same time, I want to calculate this average by age group, education and other qualitative variables.
If I use the group_by (sex, age, education, ...), then I can not calculate the mean of numeric variable by each level of categorical variables separately.
How can I calculate the mean of numeric variable by all categorical variables?


Author Jeannette Walls and Director Destin Daniel Cretton on the set of "The Glass Castle."
"The Glass Castle," a memoir by Jeannette Walls, recounts her life growing up in poverty in an unconventional household with dysfunctional parents. After having sold millions of copies worldwide and spending 261 weeks atop The New York Times bestseller list the book's film adaptation is anticipating its upcoming release on Friday, August 11.
In an interview with Walls, she revisits how unprepared she was to see the incredible cast and crews hard work, how the filming process changed her and how trash equals trust.
The cast for this movie was phenomenal. I don't know how you could've done better.
I couldn't have done better. It's not humanly possible to have had a better cast.
During your Q&A for the film, you mentioned your fantasies for writing the book. Did you have a fantasy for writing the film when you were going through the filming process?
My fantasy for the film was that they would be able to capture the complexity of it. I wasn't sure that that would happen. It's so horrible, but so joyful at the same time. Such despair, yet such hope and the fantasy was, "Are they going to be able to pull this off?" And they did in spades.
I suppose my other fantasy for the film – well this isn't a fantasy, this is a reality, this is a hope – so many young people in schools who have read the book start out the conversation, "I don't usually read books and I wouldn't have read this book unless it was assigned in class, but I loved it." I think we all love books, we all love stories, but there are people out there who have an aversion to reading books. Nobody has an aversion to seeing movies. So my fantasy for this is that it will reach a wider audience.
The people who worked on this movie were so passionate about getting it right and all of the details. It exceeded my wildest dreams, my very high hopes for the movie.
I love that you mentioned complexity. You've got this incredible cast, like you said you couldn't have done better. Were there still fears they wouldn't capture this?
Okay, Brie Larson. The woman was so smart in my conversations with her. She kept asking these really good, really direct questions about things like posture. "I noticed you have really good posture, most tall people don't. Could you talk about that?" and I thought wow… you actors are pretty clever. I knew Brie Larson could handle it. I'd never had any fears.
I also dealt a lot with Naomi Watts and her questions were so smart, she was so good: just fearless about getting inside this really complicated, contradictory woman. And I knew that Woody Harrelson would be good. I was totally unprepared for how over the top spectacular he was.
Even some of the other actors like the person who plays what they call, the Middle Jeannette, Ella Anderson. Oh. My. Gosh. I know they spent a lot of time auditioning these child actors and the producer told me the thing about child actors was they are rehearsed within an inch of their lives. They have that scene down solid. What you've got to do with them is have them go off the script and see who can adlib.
So they actually adlibbed with the wonderful actor who played the guy who molested me, Dominic Bogart and he and Ella were adlibbing and she had the camera people crying. This kid, I don't know how old her soul is, but she was phenomenal. Phenomenal.
One time we had a conversation and she said, "I have a dumb question: during the pool scene did you trust your dad?" I was like, "Oh my gosh, that is not a dumb question that is the heart of not only this scene but the entire movie." They were all so smart that I just sat back and let these geniuses do their job. It wasn't just the actors either, but also the set designer.
I got an email from the woman who did the set design and she said we have a bit of a dilemma. "We're filling up the foundation for The Glass Castle with garbage so we have to put together a substantial amount of garbage and there was a discussion going on about what kind of things would the Walls family throw away. Here's what were thinking…" and I was like who worries about garbage? If they're worried about garbage, you can kind of breath a sigh of relief. So I trusted them.
That being said, I was unprepared for how much I loved the movie. Watching it on a couple of occasions I was thinking, "That was really smart," because Destin had the unenviable challenge of taking this big mess of a story and putting it into a story. I just thought he was utterly brilliant.
There's so much good in this movie. Was there a scene for you in this film that resonates with you more emotionally or painfully that you were unprepared for?
Painfully? Ella Anderson watching my father detoxing and the look in her eyes of love and fear and confusion and "What do I do?"
Scenes that I love, the moment I loved? The howling. Owwoooo. It sort of captures it doesn't it? It captures the joy and exuberance, but also the crazy wild quality.
You've said in writing your book, you learned something new about yourself. Was there something new you learned about yourself in creating the movie?
I think I forgave myself a little bit more. I think seeing Brie Larson and Ella Anderson doing these things I just love them so much, in a way I never really loved myself. They are just really neat people.


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Gyanmanthan is an educational consulting and management company that provides transformational educational services to schools and other places of learning in North India, including the start-up of new schools and the continuous improvement of existing schools.
Mr. Inderjit Singh Brar is an agriculturist, real state developer, social worker, philanthropist and educationist. He is presently at the helm of a number of companies and charitable trusts. For his humane qualities, values and business ethics, he was adjudged 'Business Achiever of the North' by the Times of India Group for the years 2008 & 2009. As the principal promoter and founder of Gyanmanthan, he envisions being a true nationalist through his work in improving educational standards in North India, to bring them at par with international education standards.
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SCREEN-L April 1999, Week 1
Re: Canadian release of "Trainspotting"
Julia Rice <[log in to unmask]>
Lang wrote:
>I received an e-mail from Showcase (Canadian cable channel) who says
>they're showing the North American release version which means Canada got
>the same (slightly) re-dubbed version the US did.  Admittedly, this is
>pretty minor, even benign, tampering especially considering what Miramax is
>capable of doing but it's somewhat amusing that they didn't change the
>slang term very few Americans understand: the title.
According to a source of mine there were indeed calls to completely re-dub
the film *Trainspotting* for its American release, however a compromise was
reached in which it was agreed for English subtitles to be added to the
film.
It is not uncommon for British actors to have a clause in their contract
which prohibits their voices being totally re-dubbed for exhibition within
English speaking countries......a small percentage of re-dubbing for
replacing slang words or swearing remains acceptable....... I'm not sure if
that was the case with *Trainspotting*....however it is a possibility.
I can vaguely remember reading somewhere of a director who cast an actor in
a film that he was making without auditioning him. He had seen him in
another film and thought that he was perfect for the role. This turned out
to be a big mistake as the actor's voice was terrible, he had been
completely re-dubbed in the previous film. ;-))
Julia C. Rice
U.W.C.N. UK
Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the
University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu


The first endowment made to ProKids occurred in late 2015, a landmark made possible by Elizabeth "Liz" Ricci in honor of her sister, Amy Merrell.
Ricci, who is from Montgomery, Ohio, created the Amy Merrell Steps to Success Endowment to remember her sister who died earlier in 2015. Ricci had learned about CASA organizations like ProKids while a Kappa Alpha Theta at Indiana University. Nationally, CASA is the partner philanthropy for the Theta sorority.
ProKids volunteers are Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASAs). They work with family members, foster parents, county social workers, school professionals, healthcare providers and others to advocate for the best interest of the children they serve. CASA Volunteers, working with ProKids staff, help find safe, permanent and nurturing homes for the children they work with and break the vicious cycle of child abuse and neglect.
Ricci learned that of the thousands of children who are abused and neglected in Greater Cincinnati, ProKids could only touch some of them.
The endowment enables ProKids to make plans to serve even more children far into the future, said ProKids Executive Director Tracy Cook. And that makes a very real difference for children.
Compared to national statistics, ProKids outcomes also show that children are more likely to live with their siblings, are more likely to get therapy and educational services they need, and are less likely to move from placement to placement.


$3500.00 – Private double stateroom for 2 people.
$3250.00 – Private double stateroom for 1 person.
All provisioning for breakfasts and lunches (and snacks) aboard including drinking water, juices, and ice.
All boat associated costs including fuel, moorage, marine park fees, etc.
Customs and immigration clearance fees (should the group choose to sail to Antigua or other countries).
Airfare, taxi's and similar ashore based costs.
Inland national park pass fees.
Personal alchohol (and for sharing) and mixers desired aboard.
To make a deposit now to secure your stateroom directly through Agwe's secure booking system click here.
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It is of course important to ensure we all understand that we are not only committing to what will be an amazing trip but also committing to each other as a "crew" and that any potential cancellations from here forward would dramatically impact all of us. It is important that we all understand the level of commitment considering the nature of a trip like this. I always want everyone to be as informed as possible so as to help in making the best choices for each and all of us. (This is actually a part of my approach in sharing sailing and instructing as well).
One of the many incredible experiences to feel is when you're cutting loose and you toss off that last dock line – you're fully committed to heading out. After all the preparation and planning and details, the checking and double checking; that moment, as you pull the line aboard and the boat slips gracefully away from the dock, can be one of the most extraordinary experiences one may ever have.
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Flores de Mayo . . .
Instant summer temperatures in the center heart of the spring season have made Manhattan bloom at the start of May.
Memories remain as May flowers on the West Side of Manhattan.
Teasel Season . . .
I have been drawn, pun there yet unintended; I have been drawn to draw, sketch, the crown of the teasel this season.
October Ghosts Are Not Green . . .
There is a brief hour or so in morning and in evening both where a walk in the park feels shadowed. Time good to run.
Darkness, the simple absence of sun, comes at a quicker pace in October. The bluebird sky with cirrus vapor trails glowing goes dim in almost a blink when our star dips rather than slides below the horizon. Branches above remain leafy, block the darkening sky, and make a roof. You find yourself feeling enclosed in the outside, feeling fun scared outdoors. Imagination takes the macabre, perhaps Gothic, trailing path within the confines of nature's haunted house.
The space below the branches is a more quiet place. Scattered yellowed leaves grace the ground. Single crickets scrape out a weak, woody, tonal rhythm like a single string lonesome and slower in step with the cool temperature. The tremulous vibrato creates the scare soundtrack. Some wind in the tree tops helps as well. The leaves will always carry voices.
Progress forward and happen to contemplate how this year a space probe from Earth, New Horizons, encountered Pluto and Charon and revealed their faces. The Ferryman? He of Hades? Spooky times as we drift down a line through the days toward Halloween.
Ghosts along the way do appear more resolute now upon colder, damper, ground. The chilled white caps of the Amanita, the Death Angel, may appear. Perhaps that trio clustered at the base of the ivy? Huddled, it seems, around something hidden?
Jogging along now, faster of foot, find bracketing the paths (in a way that just demanded pun dropped), the shelf fungi. Bracket fungi like the Ganoderma sport high contrast stripes that act as reflectors when spotted and passed by head lamp. Trametes, known also as Turkey Tail, rippled and lined in white like the fins of the brook trout, the inner bracket concentric rings in a range of brown true to the bird. Equally; Autumnly: the match for any tale of spectres encountered along the path lit low.
That October evening run in the Manhattan green, remember it formed a loop, a circle, haunted by ghosts lost to the living, uplifted anyway by the living still. Like those white caps, which turned out to be Amanita citrina, the False Death Cap, an edible mushroom spared the table because it so closely resembles its fatal fellow.
New York City harbors paths, routes where ghosts remain to roam, and where that Earthy symbol from ghost stories, a kind of flowering not green, grows.
More Fungi of the West Village . . .
Hurricane Irene appears to have brought on an early beginning to the autumn season. The bright sun and steady heat of July and August switched to sustained gray skies, high humidity, and cool temperatures once the storm passed through the region. NY1 news reports that over four inches of rain have fallen on Central Park during the first week of September 2011. One result of this inundation has been has been a continued bloom of fungi species in the West Village.
A stretch of low light with damp weather is an essential element of mushroom growth. Another ingredient is abundant food, in this case organic material, and the urban environment provides a rich source of nourishment from two sources. The first is the mulch and wood chips people use to cover the bare soil of their tree pits and stoop gardens. The other is dog dung, which also usually ends up on or around the base of trees. While I do not condone the laziness of irresponsible canine managers, what gets left behind does often foment the new and sometimes unusual appearance of fungi.
lacks in stature can be made up for in numbers. Dense clumps will take over a spot where dead wood is available and when conditions are right. I found mature individuals as well as one such cluster beginning to push through wood chip mulch on Bethune Street.
Another group of Agarics common to urban areas is the genus Inocybe. Members of this group are somewhat larger and thicker and can be identified by the cap, which is usually fibrous and umbonate. The umbo is the raised knob at the cap's center that gives the organism a tented appearance. I found one stand-out example soaking up the rain beside Christopher Street. I returned the next day with my camera. Although it had begun to deflate, the mushroom's general appearance remained intact enough for a positive identification: Corn Silk Inocybe, Inocybe fastigiata (also listed as Inocybe rimosa).
The Lingzhi Mushroom, Ganoderma lucidem, has been thriving in the rain, too. I returned to the stump along West 13th Street where I found the example I wrote into the essay "'Conked' on the Head." That tree gravestone is now completely ringed by new growth. The conks, deep red edged with white, look particularly attractive when wet and shiny, reflecting the silvery light of a September evening.


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SINGAPORE: About S$1.7m has been wrongly paid out in Medisave grants for newborns due to a processing error.
Between March 2016 and January 2017, 885 children who obtained their citizenship after birth received between S$1,000 and S$3,000 more under the Medisave Grant for Newborns (MGN) than they were eligible for, the Central Provident Fund Board (CPFB) said in a press release on Wednesday (Apr 5).
This was due to a processing error, CPFB said. "We will be recovering the overpaid amounts, totalling about S$1.7 million, from the Medisave accounts of these children in April."
The children affected were not Singapore citizens at birth and therefore either not eligible for the grant or should have received a pro-rated amount, depending on the age at which the child became a citizen.
All Singapore citizen newborns are given a S$4,000 MGN in their CPF Medisave accounts. Children who are not citizens at birth but who obtained citizenship before the age of 2 are given pro-rated amounts.
The MGN was introduced on Aug 26, 2012 and was enhanced from S$3,000 to S$4,000 for citizen babies born from Jan 1, 2015.
Affected families may contact the CPF Call Centre at 1800 227 1188 (Mondays to Fridays, 8am to 5.30pm) if they need further clarifications.
– CNA/nc
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/s-1-7m-overpaid-in-medisave-grants-for-newborns/3654016.html
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You might be surprised to learn that air pollution is declining in the U.S. and that Americans are living longer because of it.
The news comes from the Harvard School of Public Health, where researchers linked living longer with fewer fine particles of pollution in the air and in our lungs. In fact, our longevity could still improve as time goes on if we continue to lower air pollution levels.
With the industrial boom, little thought was given to air pollution, but the past few generations have worked hard to clean the environment. With the greater focus on environmental impact, industry has had to clean up their act, and emissions across the country contain less particulate matter than they used to.
Particles that are less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter are most dangerous to our health. We breathe them in, and they can be responsible for serious health problems with the heart and lungs, which can hasten death.
The Harvard researchers examined how this type of air pollution was affecting the health of people in 545 U.S. counties from 2000 to 2007. They found that a drop of 10 micrograms per cubic meter in fine particulate matter was linked to a four-month increase in life expectancy. That's a tiny reduction in pollution for such a significant result.
The more populated an urban area is, the greater the link between pollution and life expectancy. The study also found that women seemed to benefit more than men from better air quality (but it did not postulate a reason).
A similar recent study found that long-term exposure to particulate matter is directly tied to heart failure.
Correia, A et al., "Effect of Air Pollution Control on Life Expectancy in the United States: An Analysis of 545 U.S. Counties for the Period from 2000 to 2007," Epidemiology, published online December 3, 2012.


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Ecological Lessons From History: St Kilda, Abandoned
June 24, 2012 by Mike Sowden
Island life is a fragile thing.
Deciding to live on a remote island is to enter into a complex balancing-act with the local environment. Your arrival puts an unusual drain on the carrying capacity of the land – something you need to offset if you want to survive. You gamble that the climate will help rather than hinder you. You trust that bouts of extreme weather will be fleeting. However hard you work to establish a toe-hold, you could be knocked off your feet by any number of factors – including sheer bad luck.
Such is the case with the remote Scottish archipelago of St. Kilda.
Head forty miles west of the Outer Hebrides, deep into the Atlantic Ocean, and you'll find a cluster of fang-like islands forming the archipelago of St. Kilda, one of the most savage-weathered parts of Britain (waves up to 5 meters high; recorded windspeeds as high as 130 mph). Its forbidding cliffs, often inaccessible from the sea, include the sheerest drop to sea level in the whole of the UK. This is not a place you linger.
Tell that to its previous inhabitants. There have been people on St Kilda for 2,000 years. Or rather, there were, until 1930. Thanks to a tragic combination of crop failure, accidental contamination of the land and an unsustainably low population (70 people in 1920; 37 in 1928), the delicate ecological balance that had sustained a hundred generations of human inhabitants was broken. The St Kildans were a dying community – even with their dwindled numbers, the land couldn't support them. They were too far from the mainland to rely on food deliveries until the soil recovered. They had no choice. On August 29th 1930, the remaining inhabitants were evacuated off the low-lying main island (Hirta) and back to mainland Scotland.
Since that day, the island has had no permanent population. It's now a World Heritage Site and an important seabird breeding station, a place of scientific interest…and a poignant reminder of our relationship with the land we stand on.
Images: CaptainOates.
Tags: agriculture, ecological lessons, ecology, farming, islands, Scotland, St. Kilda


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This is a fun and enthusiastic introduction to the game of baseball for all boys and girls entering kindergarten in the fall of 2019. Players will be placed on teams and receive uniform caps and tee shirts representing real Minor League baseball teams. The Pre-K Explorer program is an 8-week plan featuring structured learning engaging the players in a series of activities and games that will include skills, drills and plenty of activity all in an age appropriate environment. We play using softer "sponge" baseballs and we ask all parents to come help "coach" on the field.
In 2018, the 1 hour program ran April 28 - June 16 held each Saturday (including Memorial Day Weekend) between 9:00 – 10:00 am at Curtis Middle School. We anticpate similar dates and timeframes in 2019.
Whether your family participated in the Pre-K Explorer program last year or are brand new to baseball, this is a great way to build on your prior experience or introduce your child to organized baseball in Sudbury. Our T-Ball program goals are for the kids to have fun, meet new friends and learn the basic skills of catching, throwing and hitting a baseball.
In 2018, the T-Ball program meets for 1½ hours each Saturday morning beginning at 9:00am from April 28 through June 16 and is open to both boys and girls who are currently enrolled in Kindergarten. We play at Curtis Middle School. We anticipate 2019 to follow a similar schedule.
We strive to make T-Ball a rewarding experience for children at all levels of ability and experience, and we hope they will continue to participate in Single A, Double A, Triple A and Majors as they grow.
The weekly T-Ball format includes a few minutes of warm up exercises, a short team meeting detailing the activities of the day, demonstrations of the featured skill of the day, and thrills doing skills. As the season progresses, the teams play practice games against each other just for fun. Uniform caps and tee shirts will be provided, but players need their own baseball gloves. The team names will be the same as real Minor League baseball teams like the Durham Bulls and Lansing Lugnuts. We play using softer "reduced injury factor" (RIF) baseballs, and we ask all parents to come help "coach" on the field.
Youth baseball in Lincoln is run as part of LS Youth Baseball. The program starts with t-ball, which is open to boys and girls currently in kindergarten, and those who will start kindergarten next fall. In 2018, players met on the Smith School fields in Lincoln each Saturday morning 10:00-11:30, after in-town soccer and we anticipate similar dates/timeframes in 2019. The basic mechanics of baseball are taught and each week features a practice followed by a game. Opening day is April 28th and the season runs through June 16th.
Uniform caps, tee shirts and other equipment will be provided; players will need to provide their own baseball glove. The team names will be the same as real Minor League baseball teams like the Portland Seadogs and Wisconsin Timber Rattlers. We play using softer "reduced injury factor" (RIF) baseballs, and safety is a priority. Parents are asked to come help coach on the field (previous coaching experience or extensive knowledge of baseball is not required). Coaching your child and their friends is easy and a lot of fun. Without parent involvement, there is no program so please sign up as a coach when you register your child.
The objectives of the program are: having fun, learning baseball skills, and safety. The program is a great way to introduce your child to baseball, and start to build a solid skill foundation that they can build on as they grow and play at more advanced levels.
If you would like to register your child for any of these T-Ball programs, please select the register online option in the left column of our website home page. The fee for the T-Ball program is $135 and the fee for Pre-K Baseball Explorer is $80. We request that you register by April 1st. There is a space provided on the registration form to indicate any specific requests to be with a certain coach or with friends.
In April, all registrants will receive a mailing with final instructions, dates, times, and location.