On Monday, the Duluth Area Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon-cutting for Duluth Pack's fourth location. That location wasn't a new store, but a new location for the firm's marketing staff.
The 136-year-old bag and backpack manufacturer, which now employs more than 100, has plans to grow even more. And that marketing group—which includes public relations, graphic design, photography and social media staff—is key to those plans as Duluth Pack builds upon its online presence.
Sometimes known as the great-grandpa of Duluth's cut-and-sew industry, Duluth Pack was founded in 1882 as a manufacturer of camping backpacks. The company now ranks as the oldest canvas and leather bag and pack manufacturer in the U.S. Its products are all produced in a production facility built in 1911 in Duluth's Lincoln Park neighborhood and the company continues to use many of its original production techniques, including hand-cut, hand-traced leather and hand-pounded rivets.
The marketing location is just a short walk from Duluth Pack's production facility. Last year, the company updated its one-and-only brick-and-mortar store, located on Duluth's Canal Park. Its other facility is its distribution center, also in Duluth. The "new" building, an Art Deco structure in cream-colored brick, was actually constructed nearly a century ago. Formerly the office of a neighborhood newspaper, it has been unused for several years.
The marketing folks who are helping to drive that global growth work amid vintage lamps and wood flooring, "which is something we wanted to keep [in the new space] because we value that really cool heritage," Sega says.


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Denise Ream, producer of Pixar's Cars 2, talks about the increasing number of female big hitters in the film industry.
How important is it that more women are in positions like yours? And do you feel a responsibility to promote role models for girls?
I do feel a responsibility. I was very pleased with Holly Shiftwell, the Emily Mortimer character in Cars 2, who originally had a much smaller role in the film. Due to Emily's performance and the intelligence that she brought to the role, Holly ended up becoming a major character in the film.
[As for my position at Pixar,] I would never want to be given the job of producer just because I'm a woman. I'd like to think that I got the job because I was qualified and people thought I was competent. I'm excited by the fact that Toy Story 3, Cars 2, Brave [due next year] and Monsters University [due in 2013] are all movies produced by women. And Brave is directed by a woman, Brenda Chapman. I think we are trending in the right direction.
But doesn't Cars 2 appeal primarily to boys?
Interestingly, that's not my experience. I would say [in the weeks before the movie was released] I had more mothers and daughters expressing a desire to go see it.
I came to the first Cars film through my eight-year-old niece, who was a huge fan. One of my friends from high school, a mother of three, loved the first film. So my test at the [Cars 2] premiere was whether my niece, who is now 13, and my friend liked the movie as much as the first one. I said you have to promise me that you're going to be honest – and they absolutely loved it.
They loved the global aspect of it, the locations all around the world. They liked the spy story, and my niece loved Holly.
What dictated the choice of locations?
We picked countries based on their strong automotive traditions – Japan, the UK, France, Italy all have incredibly strong histories and beautiful car design.
A big difference between Cars and Cars 2 is that the latter is darker. It's a comedy and a spy story – and a lot more grown-up.
The feeling was that, if we were going to tell a spy story – and not a parody of a spy story – we had to establish pretty high stakes. In fact, the [opening] scene was a little bit stronger, and we had objections from the parents that were working on the [film], who basically said this is going too far. And we changed it.
It was more tense, to be honest. So we just dialled it back.


Finally we had a thunderstorm last night. We were eagerly waiting for the rain after weeks of sweltering temperatures in the high 30s. I felt like I was back in India! Except that in India we were used to have ceiling fans to keep cool. So to cope with the heat we bought a portable pedestal fan which ran constantly day and night. We then decided it would be good to have a second fan, one for upstairs and one for downstairs, and headed back to the same shop in Pazin where we had bought the first one. But they were already sold out! So were all the other shops.
On Thursday there were hints of a storm approaching, announced by the rumbling sound of thunder coming from a distance. Again, I felt like I was back in India waiting for the first anticipated drops of the monsoon rains to arrive and bring relief from the heat. A few big drops fell, but not enough to completely soak the ground. Then a few hours later, the distinct smell of something burning was in the air. We quickly found out that there were forest fires burning nearby in Kršan and Plomin, where the lightning from the aborted storm had set trees on fire. This was devastating news because there were already fires burning in other parts of Croatia which had decimated hectares and hectares of forests and agricultural land, and just the week before there had been other fires in Istria.
From the village, the view east towards Kršan and Plomin was very hazy because of the smoke in the air and the wind even carried ashes from the fires all the way to our courtyard. By nightfall the fires were still burning in Plomin and we could see the glow of the flames on the hillside.
Then when things finally seemed to be under control, the fire in Kršan suddenly reignited and another fire was announced near Tinjan in central Istria. We heard the Canadair planes whizzing overhead on their way to drop seawater onto the flames.
Forest fires are very common during very hot and dry summers like the one we're experiencing. And unfortunately they are not always started by natural phenomena like lightning but also purposely by arsonists.
So the thunderstorm last night and the intermittent showers we've been having all morning have been very welcome. The forecast for the next few days is a more comfortable 30/31 degrees and hopefully all the fires have been extinguished and the risk of fire is diminished. The fire-fighters can finally take a rest and so can our trusty fan!
I really enjoy your blog Thank you! I could relate to every word in this one....what a hot summer! This was our first long summer here - Thank goodness for the rain when it finally fell! I too hunted for fans high and low including Pevec & Bauhaus in Pula in addition to several shops in Porec. ...not a fan to be had!
It was terrible to hear of the fires close by. The planes flew directly over us. Those fire fighters do a great job.
Thanks so much for visiting! Yes it was a long, hot summer indeed. Things have cooled now down and we can put the fan away. I had also looked for a fan in Pula -- in vain!
The summer is not so warm if you have a out-door ceiling fan.


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Lake core record of Grinnell Glacier dynamics during the latest Pleistocene deglaciation and the Younger Dryas, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
Nathan S. Schachtman, Kelly R. MacGregor, Amy E Myrbo, Nora Rose Hencir, Catherine A. Riihimaki, Jeffrey T. Thole, Louisa I. Bradtmiller
Limnological Research Center
Few records in the alpine landscape of western North America document the geomorphic and glaciologic response to climate change during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. While moraines can provide snapshots of glacier extent, high-resolution records of environmental response to the end of the Last Glacial Maximum, Younger Dryas cooling, and subsequent warming into the stable Holocene are rare. We describe the transition from the late Pleistocene to the Holocene using a ~. 17,000-yr sediment record from Swiftcurrent Lake in eastern Glacier National Park, MT, with a focus on the period from ~. 17 to 11. ka. Total organic and inorganic carbon, grain size, and carbon/nitrogen data provide evidence for glacial retreat from the late Pleistocene into the Holocene, with the exception of a well-constrained advance during the Younger Dryas from 12.75 to 11.5. ka. Increased detrital carbonate concentration in Swiftcurrent Lake sediment reflects enhanced glacial erosion and sediment transport, likely a result of a more proximal ice terminus position and a reduction in the number of alpine lakes acting as sediment sinks in the valley.
Quaternary Research (United States)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2015.05.004
Published - Jul 1 2015
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deglaciation
Holocene
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Schachtman, N. S., MacGregor, K. R., Myrbo, A. E., Hencir, N. R., Riihimaki, C. A., Thole, J. T., & Bradtmiller, L. I. (2015). Lake core record of Grinnell Glacier dynamics during the latest Pleistocene deglaciation and the Younger Dryas, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Quaternary Research (United States), 84(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2015.05.004
Lake core record of Grinnell Glacier dynamics during the latest Pleistocene deglaciation and the Younger Dryas, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. / Schachtman, Nathan S.; MacGregor, Kelly R.; Myrbo, Amy E; Hencir, Nora Rose; Riihimaki, Catherine A.; Thole, Jeffrey T.; Bradtmiller, Louisa I.
In: Quaternary Research (United States), Vol. 84, No. 1, 01.07.2015, p. 1-11.
Schachtman, NS, MacGregor, KR, Myrbo, AE, Hencir, NR, Riihimaki, CA, Thole, JT & Bradtmiller, LI 2015, 'Lake core record of Grinnell Glacier dynamics during the latest Pleistocene deglaciation and the Younger Dryas, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA' Quaternary Research (United States), vol. 84, no. 1, pp. 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2015.05.004
Schachtman NS, MacGregor KR, Myrbo AE, Hencir NR, Riihimaki CA, Thole JT et al. Lake core record of Grinnell Glacier dynamics during the latest Pleistocene deglaciation and the Younger Dryas, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Quaternary Research (United States). 2015 Jul 1;84(1):1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2015.05.004
Schachtman, Nathan S. ; MacGregor, Kelly R. ; Myrbo, Amy E ; Hencir, Nora Rose ; Riihimaki, Catherine A. ; Thole, Jeffrey T. ; Bradtmiller, Louisa I. / Lake core record of Grinnell Glacier dynamics during the latest Pleistocene deglaciation and the Younger Dryas, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. In: Quaternary Research (United States). 2015 ; Vol. 84, No. 1. pp. 1-11.
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Q: Receiving power from antenna (Homework) The question:
"At a carrier frequency of 2 GHz, assuming a transmit antenna gain of 3 dBi and a receive antenna gain of 0 dBi, calculate the line-of-sight received power at a distance of 100 m from the basestation (in units of dBm). Assume 100 mW enters the transmit antenna port."
My attempt:
The equation to use
$$P_{r}=\frac{P_{t}G_{t}G_{r}\lambda^2}{(4\pi R)^2}$$
I am not sure what to do next, I think that \$G_r=0\$, hence the \$P_r\$ will be 0 since the numerator is.
EDIT:
Thanks for the help, I iwll try to solve it now:
\$\lambda=\frac{c}{f}\$,
Therefore \$\lambda=0.15\$ m
\$R=100\$ m
\$P_{t}=0.1\$ W
\$G_t=10^{0.3}=1.996\$
\$G_r=10^0=1 \$
Hence
\$P_{r}=2.844*10^{-9}\$ W \$=-55.5\$ dbm
Is this correct now?

A: You are confusing dB with "linear" units.
To convert from mW (a linear unit) to dBm (decibels with respect to 1mW), use the equation:
Power_dBm = 10*log10(Power_mW)

As a general rule of thumb, you should always be very suspicious if you're ever multiplying two numbers in dB.  Note the following property of logarithms:
log10(uv) = log10(u) + log10(v)     (Note: Log base 10 shown here, but this is true for any base)
This means that if u and v are initially in linear units, and you're multiplying them together, that's equivalent to taking their logarithms and adding them together (or, converting to dB and then adding them together).  Multiplying two numbers in dB has no obvious meaning that translates to linear units.

Ok, back to the original question.  The equation you presented is only valid for linear units.  In this case, your powers (Pr and Pt) are in mW, and your gains (Gt and Gr) are unitless - or, perhaps more precisely, they are mW per mW.
So, to use the equation correctly, you need to convert any numbers which are given in dB or dBm back to linear units, plug them in to the equation to find Pr, and then convert Pr back to dBm.

As analogsystemsrf pointed out, there is an equivalent version of the Friis formula which uses inputs in dB - note that now the terms are added together, rather than multiplied.

A: You have an exercise in PathLoss. That formula is
PathLoss = 22dB + 10 * log10 [ (distance / wavelength)^2 ]  (1)
where the 22dB comes from 4*pi in the spherical spreading of energy.
To compute the received power, you need to know the transmitted power, the TX antenna gain, the RX antenna gain, and the PathLoss. Here the pathloss assumes only the losses as computed in equation (1), and no other losses: no rain, no reflections, no tree leaves, no diffraction over the top of hills, etc.

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TARUN TEJPAL: Professionally nonpareil, but personally yet inconclusive
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His journey started with India Today in 1980 and later on shot to fame with the launching of tehelka.com in 2000, with some of prolific exposures trembling the entire nation. Tarun Tejpal, pre-eminent and illustrious geezer of the journalistic arena, having served with some of the movers and shakers of the Indian media including editor at India Today, Indian Express Group and managing editor of Outlook, is in the spotlight again, but unfortunately this time for iniquitous reasons, which might perhaps tarnish his global stature and career forever.
The incident took place in Goa during Think 2013, Tehelka's annual feast, where the founding editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal sexually assaulted a young journalist of Tehelka on two occasions that is on 7th and 8th November 2013. However it was the second that took place on in the elevator of a five star hotel on their way back from actor Robert De Niro's hotel suite, sparked the lightening on Tejpal, where he is alleged to have lifted the young journalist's attire, penetrating her with his hands and told her "Well, this is the easiest way for you to keep your job."
FIR has already been lodged and police have started with the investigations and a case of rape has been registered against the media tycoon. However despite everything certain weeny things demands consequential introspection.
His Letter to the Managing Editor, Tehelka
Soon after the infamous and abhorrent episode was brought to the notice of Shoma Chaudhary, managing editor of Tehelka by the victim journalist, Tarun Tejpal wrote a intimate letter to the managing editor where he informed of his decision to step down as the editor-in-chief for six months, however despite being the letter a unrevealed one, she forwarded it to the all the employees of Tehelka. As a resultant it got leaked and went viral and that's how the letter as well as the incident came to the media's descry.
Now the question emanating here is despite the letter being a confidential one why the managing editor did forward Tejpal's letter to all the employees of the organization and the biggest one being how it got leaked? Right after the incident became public; the social media sphere was flooded with views and reviews of public who even tried to point towards a self-seeking motive of Shoma Chaudhury. Thus, these facts can't be sidelined.
On the other hand, Shoma Chaudhary had to face severe criticism for referring the incident as an internal one. Whereas, legal experts say the email clearly outlines criminal offences and that Ms Chaudhury broke the law by not reporting the matter to the police.
The Victim too Comes under Scanner
As per the media reports and letter of the victim to Shoma Chaudhary; Tehelka supremo Tarun Tejpal had allegedly tried to sexually molest the victim on two occasions dated 7th and 8th November'2013. Sexual assault of any form is a horrendous and heinous act, and as journalist the victim is well aware of it. So, despite savvying Tejpal's filthy intensions, on the very first day itself, why did she not report about it to the senior Tehelka officials or even the police?
The Goa Factor
Those closely following tehelka will perhaps be well aware that the organization known for its investigative journalism having done extensive reporting and sting operations, exposing the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter, match-fixing scandal involving the cricketers Mohammed Azaharuddin, Ajay Jadega and Ajay Sharma, among other investigative stuffs. The magazine initially launched as a news portal gained popularity after Operation West End, one of India's sensational and highly talked sting operations, that exposed high level corruption in the Indian Defense Ministry, during the tenure of BJP government that led to the resignation of the then Defense Minister of India, George Fernandez and tehelka itself had to go through a rough patch which came on the verge of shutting down.
This recent incident in which Tarun Tejpal is strangled in took place in Goa, which is ruled by BJP, so there are chances that his trial might not be a fair one and perhaps that's why there are reports that considering all his legal options and Tejpal may move the High Court to ask for the case to be transferred out of Goa.
Whatever be it, considering the present scenario it's tough for one to believe that a person who is considered to be the father of sting journalism by The Guardian, a person who was named by Business Week amongst 50 leaders at the forefront of change in Asia. Someone whom the former speaker of Lok Sabha Somnath Chatterjee, said, should be conferred India's highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna for Operation West End, is today battling with such abhorrent allegations.
However, it even can't be over looked as Tarun Tejpal himself has confessed to this stating it to be a complete consensual one and previously forwarded a letter of apology to the victim quoting, "Shameful lapse of judgement that led me to attempt a sexual liaison with you on two occasions on 7 November and 8 November 2013, despite your clear reluctance that you did not want such attention from me." Investigations have already started and one should wait for the results before drawing any conclusions, as truth is inevitable.
Lastly, regarding the attempts to tarnish the image of Tehelka, proves the fact that, no matter how much commendable job one does, just one foul task puts a veil on everything.
Personalism and professionalism are two entirely different stratums and one shouldn't mix them. Tehelka certainly succeeded in bringing a revolution in the arena of investigative sting journalism. As its tag line says, "Free, Fair and Fearless", and so does it deliver.
Why to raise fingers and abuse the entire organization. After all, Tehelka is not known because of a single person, but it's the collective effort of the dedicated journalists that makes Tehelka's global stature.
However, one serious question that the incident has left unanswered is, 'a girl working under the parasol of the fourth estate is, sexually victimized. So, are women really safe in their workplace??'
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'The Voice' Recap: Will Champlin Pulls Ahead - ( 1ND144 ) | Best Book "The Great Gatsby"
The Voice is like a snow globe this season – it loves to be shaken up. And last night's performance show lived by that philosophy, as the artists and coaches once again focused on making risky choices. While it paid off for some, others – including one-time frontrunners – might find themselves in trouble, especially because it's about that time in the season when "shocking" eliminations start happening.
Featuring a choreographed "military theme" conceptualized by coach Christina Aguilera, Matthew definitely looked like he was enjoying himself, trading in his usually serious demeanor for smiles. Unfortunately, though, his voice wavered amid all the movement and he gave what was probably his worst performance so far. It was definitely his worst showing on the iTunes chart, as he came in dead last among the contestants and barely cracked the top 100.
On the flip side, Will Champlin from Adam Levine's team gets a gold star for his rendition of Etta James' "At Last," an unusual choice for a male contestant that worked because he sounded rather feminine. In fact, for the first few lines you probably wouldn't have guessed it was a guy. (Sorry, dude.) But the ballsy move (see what we did there) paid off in spades, as he hit every note and soared into the top 10 on the iTunes chart, ensuring his safety and putting him in the lead. For the time being, at least.
Giving powerhouse vocalist Tessanne No Doubt's reggae-tinged "Underneath It All" could go either way when the votes roll in, as Tessanne's accent was more on display than her vocal abilities. So, now the question is: Will viewers embrace the blatant nod at her Jamaican roots or are they tired of being reminded? According to Adam, the song was "tailor-made" for her and he was "overjoyed to be able to tie Jamaica to America." But he could soon be mumbling "I hate this country" again if she gets cut.
Also on rocky ground is Wolpert, who still can't seem to pinpoint a niche. He's gone from singing Joni Mitchell to the Killers to, now, Queen. While James held his own on "Somebody to Love," he's no Freddie Mercury. But he did make a spectacle by singing among a sea of bespectacled, tuxedo-wearing lookalikes. Christina gave him a backhanded, kiss-of-death comment: "I felt like I was watching a Broadway show [featuring] an army – as if Adam and James cloned themselves and made babies." And while slick Levine-like looks might work for, well, Adam Levine, fans probably miss the nerdy Wolpert they fell in love with.
Another artist seemingly losing sight of what fans like is Caroline Pennell. But you can't really blame her, as she's only 17 and someone else is clearly carving her path at this point. And whoever it is needs to seriously stop caking on the makeup and sticking her in flashy dresses and high heels, because what was charming about Caroline was that she was so innocent and frumpy. Now, watching her wobble around sporting raccoon eyes is just sad. Did The Voice already forget how well Michelle Chamuel did last season by being herself?
Still, as the last contestant standing on Cee Lo Green's team, Caroline seemingly dug herself out of the elimination ditch by singing a spot-on rendition of Florence and the Machine's "Dog Days Are Over," which was upbeat, contemporary and well suited for her voice. Plus, she and Cee Lo are getting along much, much better – a warm serving of humble pie can do that to a coach. After practically reading her the riot act last week, this time he read her a poem: "The only reason you're alone is because you are the only thing that matters to me at this moment. If you win nothing else, you win because you win my heart." Aw, that's the kind of team spirit America likes to reward. But is it too little too late?
Also taking a risk that will probably pay off is Cole Vosbury, who went the country route with "I Still Believe in You" by Vince Gill because, well, he's on Blake Shelton's team. A consistent performer – both onstage and on the iTunes chart – Cole could be this year's Swon Brothers.
Meanwhile, Team Blake's Ray Boudreaux stayed the course that worked for him so well last week by giving another kitchen-sink performance – of the Spencer Davis Group's "Gimme Some Lovin'" – that could go either way. And Xtina's Jacquie Lee stayed in her wheelhouse with the Jackson 5′s "Who's Lovin' You," which left a couple coaches scratching their heads as to why she keeps singing such deep, emotional songs about love when she's only 16. "It's like you swallowed an old lady or something," Cee Lo quipped. But since she got the coveted pimp spot, she'll be safe no matter what. So who'll be the shocking elimination this week?


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Dennis Smith Jr.'s time away from the Dallas Mavericks is coming to an end.
"I am excited to announce Dennis Smith Jr. will rejoin the team on Tuesday," head coach Rick Carlisle said in a statement, according to The Athletic's Tim Cato. "Dennis and I spoke at length today. He is feeling better and plans to resume workouts in preparation for his return. There will be no further updates until Tuesday."
Smith echoed his coach's sentiment.
The Mavericks are set to host the Los Angeles Clippers on Tuesday.
Carlisle reportedly went as far as apologizing to Smith for the ordeal in a recent phone call, sources told The Athletics' Shams Charania.
Smith has missed the Mavericks' past five games with what was originally termed as back tightness and later an illness. The legitimacy of those ailments has been a topic of discussion, given ongoing tension between the two sides over Smith's future with the team.
Selected No. 9 overall in 2017, Smith was named to the All-Rookie Second Team on the strength of 15.2 points, 5.2 assists, and 3.8 rebounds per game. Since the addition of teenage Slovenian prodigy Luka Doncic in this year's draft, however, Smith's role as the Mavericks' primary ball-handler has waned, leading to a dip in his per-game production across the board.
Carlisle told the media on Saturday he believed "business stuff" was the cause of the youngster's absence.
Throughout the situation, Smith is said to have indicated to some parties his desire for a fresh start ahead of the Feb. 7 trade deadline, though he reportedly did not formally request a trade.


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Q: How to make bash keep most frequently used history entries for ever? Duplicates are already turned off, but that's not enough (I feel like I have to enter commands too often).
Assume I have a capacity of 2000 entries of by bash history and a command which I used very often (n times) in the past but not recently and I want to use again now. Assume this command is at the oldest position in the history and would be evicted after the next non-duplicate command execution. I would like this command to be preserved and the oldest command (with usage count < n) to be evicted from history instead.
One might argue that this makes the bash history not a (linear) history anymore. I agree, but don't care since I want easy access to my favorite commands (being automatically collected).
I'm using bash 4.3.42 on Ubuntu 15.10.

A: Warning: This is not an answer to the question as it stands, but rather a suggestion for an approach that you may find useful.
I feel your pain. I like to keep around my Bash history as well, and be able to recall commands that I might have run a long time ago. I have developed an approach that allows me to keep all of my Bash history within a reasonable history size.

*

*my Bash history settings are:
HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth:erasedups
HISTIGNORE="?:??:???:$HISTIGNORE"

That helps to keep down the entries that end up in the Bash history in the first place. Commands like ls are shorter to type than to recall, so there's no point in storing them (that's what HISTIGNORE is for). ignoreboth is shorthand for ignorespace and ignoredups. The former prevents entries with a leading space from ending up in the history. I use it for commands that I know I will never recall, or never want to recall, like  rm -rf * :). There's plenty more stuff that I ignore by default (not shown), which keeps the history size down.

*Despite the countermeasures above, duplicates still end up in my history (e.g., due to multiple Bash shells open at the same time). I have a counter in my prompt that shows me the current history size
PS1='\u@\h:\w:\!> '

(The relevant code is \!, a.k.a. history number of this command.) That shows me when it is time to 'clean up' (see next step).

*I periodically 'clean up' my Bash history by running the following command:
tac ~/.bash_history | awk '!seen[$0]++' | tac > ~/.bash_history.new && mv ~/.bash_history.new ~/.bash_history

(presuming your Bash history is stored in ~/.bash_history of course). This command removes duplicates while respecting order: commands used last remain last. Only the last (most recent) duplicate is retained.
With this approach, I've been able to keep all of my Bash history within a very modest history size of 600 to 1000 entries.


The 10 Best Museums in Oregon!
A trip to the museum is always a treat, and in Oregon we are sure to have something to delight everybody. From science to art to history we have collections from around the world as well as our backyard. While many museums are found in the city of Portland, there are many others to explore as you travel the state.
Featuring planes ranging from a replica of the 1903 Flyer that the Wright brothers flew to the SR-71 Blackbird which can fly at speed up to 2,000 miles per hour, the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum allows you to dive into aviation history. Need help navigating the exhibits featuring famous planes? The museum offers tours often provided by veteran pilots, even allowing you inside the giant Spruce Goose with a wingspan of 320 feet. Additionally, the museum campus houses a movie theater and water park.
Built in 1914 by Henry Pittcock, the Pittock Mansion is now a Portland-owned museum that offers a glimpse into the daily life of the former owner of The Oregonian newspaper. The mansion has 22 rooms along with gardens outside that visitors can tour. It is one of only a few publically accessible historic homes in Portland. Surrounded by 46 acres of forest, the estate offers hiking trails and stunning views of Portland and Mt. Hood.
Located next to the Oregon Zoo, the World Forestry Center educations visitors on local and global forests. Tour the museum where, using the forests of the Pacific Northwest as an example, you will learn about the life cycle of the forest. Outside you can see a five-million-year-old, 10,000-pound petrified stump of a Giant Sequoia as well as "Peggy" a 42-ton Lima Shay-geared locomotive, estimated to have hauled a billion feet of logs in her lifetime. Many of the exhibits at the World Forestry Center are hands on a great for kids.
Opened in 1998, the Tamastslikt Cultural Institute lets you immerse yourself in the history and culture of the people who inhabited this land for more than 10,000 years. Celebrating the traditions of Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla Tribes through exhibits, artwork, a Living Culture Village, and events the museum is one of a kind in Oregon.
Interactive and fun, this museum is designed to build kid's curiosity in the world around them. Children can choose between multiple hands-on exhibits including water works, clay, and even construction or head outside to check out even more activities. When your child is done discovering their inner thespian or picking up groceries at the "Grasshopper Grocery," you can explore the rotating exhibits. Looking for something new? Sign your child up for the camps and classes offered by the museum.
Located at the mouth of the Columbia River, one of the most dangerous stretches of water in the world, the Columbia River Maritime Museum educates visitors on the history of the region and the Coast Guard located there. Visitors can stroll through the museum learning from interactive displays, including one depicting the 40 foot waves that can occur during winter storms, before heading outside to exploring the lightship Columbia. The museum also features an IMAX theater.
12,000 feet of exhibits featuring life-sized dioramas, replica wagons, authentic artifacts transport visitors along the 2,000 mile Oregon Trail. Looking for even more history? The National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center includes an outdoor pioneer wagon encampment, mining site and 150 seat theater offering history presentations and other educational information. Hiking trails surround the museum, including one which will lead to the Oregon Trail.
The oldest museum in the Pacific Northwest and the seventh oldest in the nation, the Portland Art Museum is known for their vast permanent collection. Encompassing more than 42,000 objects, the collection ranges from Native American art, to English silver to Asian art and other graphic arts. 90 percent of the 112,000-square-foot museum is dedicated to the permanent collection leaving room to feature traveling collections.
The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry offers interactive exhibits that both the young and old will enjoy. Displays range from computers to outer space, labs are located throughout the museum offering an in depth look chemistry, and even insects. Hands on play areas featuring sand and water tables will engage youngers. The museum also offers an Omnimax theater, planetarium and motion simulator. Special traveling exhibits are frequently featured throughout the year.
At the University of Oregon Museum of Natural History visitors can learn about archaeology through their extensive collection of ethnographic and archaeological objects, fossils, and biological specimens from Oregon, the Pacific Northwest, and around the world. The museum also offers educational programs, family events and informational tours. Those who can't make it to the museum can check out an offering of their collection through their web galleries.


It was as a lieutenant (R.N.V.R) in the submarine service of the Royal Navy that John Hayes was made a Knight of the Order of Oranje Nassau, the highest honer in the gift of the Queen of the netherlands, for valour and outstanding achievement while seconded to the Royal Netherlands Navy.
After the war he worked for six years in full-time social service in the East End of London and then in Westminster.
Between 1953 and 1955 he trained for teaching at the College of S. Mark and S. John, London, where he was awarded Distinction in all parts of the ours. He studied for a B.Sc. (Honours) degree as a part-time student at the London School of Economics and was awarded the Lilian Knowles scholarship as the best student in his year.
He was for eight years the Head of Social Studies and History at Walworth Comprehensive School, London, where he displayed the remarkable talent for teaching and for organisation that led in 1965 to his appointment to the staff of Christ Church College, Canterbury, where he became Principal Lecturer and Head of the History Department. He was a member of the Governing Body of the College from 1967-70, and again from 1979 until his death. He was also the College staff organiser for student voluntary social work, and for the Former Students' Association, throughout his membership of the College.
John Hayes' love of Canterbury Cathedral was expressed in his highly valued work as a cathedral guide, and in his work as a Council and Executive Committee member of the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral.
A John Hates Memorial Trust Fund has been established with the ultimate aim of setting up a Heritage Centre for Canterbury. Donations should be sent to: The Urban Studies Centre, St. Pete's Lane, Canterbury.


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The Fifth Annual Brilliant 10
Worms, planets, extra dimensions: just a few of the things that inspire the most creative young scientists of the year
By the PopSci Staff
by John B. Carnett
John B. Carnett
By "brilliant," we don´t mean smart. Or at least not just smart. Brilliance is marked by insight, creativity and tenacity. It´s the confidence to eschew established wisdom in order to develop your own. It´s the foolishness needed to set out for the edge of understanding and sail right past it, ignoring the signs reading "Thar be monsters" (not to mention "Turn back lest ye never be awarded a decent research grant again").
That´s why, when we started the six-month-long process of selecting our Brilliant 10 awardees, we asked hundreds of respected scientists, university department heads and journal editors to name not the most established or well-known scientists in their fields. We asked for the mavericks. The young guns. The individuals who are changing not just what we know but the limits of what we think it´s possible to know. The eventual winners are young (average age: 34), and each is just beginning to be noticed in the world outside their respective fields. But among their peers, our winners´ oft-radical ideas are generating a rare degree of respect and admiration. Among us, as well. And for that, they deserve to be part of our Brilliant 10.
Nima Arkani-Hamed, 34
_**Inventor, Fifth Dimension
**_
Explaining gravity was just the start-now he thinks our universe might be one in a near-infinite sea
How can gravity be so strong that it can move planets yet so weak that a simple refrigerator magnet can resist its pull? The question eats at the core of physics; our best theories don´t come close to explaining why gravity is so much weaker than the other fundamental forces (electro-magnetism, for example). Hard problems, though, often demand unorthodox solutions, and the one Nima Arkani-Hamed and his collaborators came up with is a doozy. Gravity, they hypothesized, is seeping out of our three-dimensional universe and into two exceedingly large extra dimensions that are diluting its force. In other words, our universe has a leak.
One year and three papers later, brand-new fields of research had sprouted up around the idea. Just a
year after he got his Ph.D. from the
University of California at Berkeley, Arkani-Hamed had become a household name (well, in the households of theoretical and particle physicists). "It was obvious to me that Nima was going to be a star, even as an undergrad," says Harvard University theoretical physicist Howard Georgi, who tried unsuccessfully to woo Arkani-Hamed to New England for grad school. "Now he is so far ahead of everyone else in his generation that it´s a little embarrassing."
Arkani-Hamed did eventually end up at Harvard-at 30, he was made a full professor of physics-and it´s there that he´s following his latest hunch. But this time, it´s not extra dimensions he´s betting on. It´s extra universes-some 10500 of them. He and a growing minority of maverick scientists suspect that our universe is just one of untold billions of universes that exist side by side in a cosmic landscape, each with its own laws of physics and its own constants of nature.
His first piece of evidence, albeit indirect, for this multiverse could be collected as soon as next year, when physicists in Geneva turn on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most powerful particle accelerator in the world. If Arkani-Hamed´s calculations are correct, the LHC will reveal a hidden feature of the universe called split supersymmetry, or split susy (pronounced "SOO-see"), a theory that half of all particles in the universe have partner particles that the LHC will be able to see. (Not incidentally, the LHC may instead turn up Arkani-Hamed´s extra dimensions.) If it works, and the LHC finds these partner particles, "it will be a mammoth hint that the multiverse is real," Arkani-Hamed says.
So what does this mean? Remember 500-odd years ago when a heretic named Copernicus broke the news that our little planet Earth was not, in fact, the center of the universe? Well, brace yourself. If Arkani-Hamed and his cohorts are correct, our existence is about to be denigrated again. As he explains, "The significance of our world within the multiverse will be no greater than one atom relative to all the matter in our universe."-rena Marie Pacella
Jerry Goldstein, 35
_**Space Weatherman
**_ He showed why Earth´s natural plasma shield isn´t as stable as we hoped
As a student at Brooklyn College, the only "B" Jerry Goldstein received was in a physics class, so he did what no other right-thinking college student would: He decided to go into physics precisely because, in his words, "it´s the only thing that keeps me on my toes."
Today he studies the magnetosphere, an invisible magnetic shield that wraps around the Earth. Although scientists knew that the outer layer
of this shield is buffeted by solar winds that come tearing off the sun
at a million miles an hour, most of them thought that the inner layer,
the plasmasphere, was a relatively placid blanket of electrified gas.
Goldstein changed all that. Using readings from NASA´s IMAGE satellite, he demonstrated that during the most severe solar storms, that supposedly calm blanket of plasma almost completely erodes into outer space. This exposes astronauts to intense electromagnetic radiation, fries circuit boards on defense and communications satellites, and creates 250-foot errors in GPS readings. Goldstein went on to rebuild the models of how the Earth interacts with the sun so that they matched the new data. In the process, he showed the plasmasphere to be a more volatile environment than anyone had predicted. Jim Burch, a colleague of Goldstein´s at the Southwest Research Institute, notes that if it weren´t for Goldstein, "we´d still be trying to figure it all out 10
years from now."-Adam M. Bright
**Melody Swartz, 37
_**Body Part Builder
**_ She´s showing how a mysterious current inside the body could help us grow organs
Every paper cut is a reminder of the blood pulsing through our arteries, but Melody Swartz is about to demonstrate the importance of a lesser-known kind of flow, the slow currents of intercellular fluid pulsing through our tissues. With any luck, that flow will prove to be the long-sought-after key to growing organs in the lab.
At the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne, she points to the web of tubes on her monitor. "See those thin, spindly things?" asks Swartz, who is also a bioengineer at Northwestern University. "Those are the begin-
nings of a functional network"-the first biological system that she´s grown by exploiting the intercellular currents.
Previously, the processes driving organ growth were so poorly understood that bioengineers were able to create only a few simple tissue types, such as skin and heart muscle. Last year, however, Swartz´s experiments with human cells showed that during development, these currents redistribute proteins called morphogens, which then signal cells to create networks of capillaries that support growing tissue. She was the first to show that these slow streams are so crucial to development that when they are absent, specialized tissues degenerate into something of a biological casserole gone wrong.
Swartz´s driving force has always been her mechanical mind. As an undergraduate, she majored in engineering, not biology, and even today, she likens her discoveries to "taking apart a car and seeing how it works."
Her research is so novel that she sometimes has had trouble nailing down grants; her studies tend to defy predesignated award categories. According to her colleagues, this difficulty shows how revolutionary her approach is. Her work suggests, for instance, that creating transplantable organs in the lab will require reproducing the currents of intercellular flow. Understanding these currents could also help researchers invent new cancer-fighting drugs, since tumor cells use them to spread to the rest of the body. "She´s showing how sensitive cells are to small changes in flow," says Linda Griffith, a bioengineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "These are phenomena that will endure as foundational ideas."-Elizabeth Svoboda
**David Thompson, 36
_**Arctic El Nino Discoverer
**_ His identification of a key northern weather pattern pulled climate science into the stratosphere
David Thompson was still in his 20s, a graduate student at the University of Washington, when he helped discover a phenomenon that would radically alter the way climatologists understand northern weather patterns. Thompson and his adviser, atmospheric scientist John M. Wallace, were the first to identify the extent of a climate system that engulfs the top third of the planet. This Arctic Oscillation (AO), as they called it, changes weather patterns all over the hemisphere, from blizzards in Cleveland, to rainfall in Spain, to the frequency of the Eastern seaboard´s dreaded Nor´easters. Call it El Nio of the North.
Swirling counterclockwise from a latitude of 55 degrees north-about parallel with Moscow and Ketchikan, Alaska-the AO can shift from its negative phase (when its ring of wind blows more slowly and is easily thrown off course, causing cold Arctic air to spill out into the midlatitudes) to its positive phase (when winds are strong, holding in the cold air) as frequently as every few days. But over time, trends emerge. The positive cycles associated with warmer winters, for instance, dominated much of the 1980s and 1990s
The discovery of the AO had a near-immediate influence on many fields of climate study, notably among climate-change experts who suspect that emissions may be responsible for pushing the AO to remain in the positive phase for longer periods of time. Meanwhile Thompson, now a professor at Colorado State University, turned his focus south, where cooling over parts of Antarctica has been held up by global-warming skeptics as evidence that the world is not, in fact, heating up. In 2001 Thompson and Susan Solomon of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration offered a more likely explanation for the temperature aberration: the ozone hole. That huge void in the atmosphere, they found, shifted wind patterns over Antarctic in a way that cooled its surface-except, tellingly, over the Antarctic peninsula, the glaciers of which have been calving into the Southern Ocean at alarming rates.
What ties Thompson´s global
work together is an obsession with
the importance of the upper atmo-sphere. "What happens down here comes back down," he says. "The tail does wag the dog."-Kalee Thompson
Kelly Dorgan, 26
_**Worm Whisperer
**_ Her engineering tricks turned the underground world inside out
"I´ve always kind of liked worms," says Kelly Dorgan as she tries to coax one to begin burrowing through a tank of gelatin. This particular specimen, a six-inch-long sandworm provided by a local bait shop, isn´t cooperating, and Dorgan, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Maine, gently prods it while she readies her video equipment. She needs good footage for an upcoming paper. Dorgan turns on a backlight. The worm writhes on the surface of the gelatin. Dorgan adjusts her monitor. The worm noses around. Dorgan nudges. The worm wriggles. Nothing happens. Fi-nally, our little star acquiesces, and with a sudden display of resolve one doesn´t expect from an invertebrate, plunges its head into the gelatin and executes a swift, surprisingly elegant descent.
Working mostly in this chilly lab, Dorgan has challenged a century-old theory, endorsed by none other than Charles Darwin, about how worms move. The work has quickly established her as an authority on the world underground. Steven Vogel, a professor of biomechanics at Duke University, says "Anyone who´s working in her area is going to start by checking her papers or writing her an e-mail."
Worms are notoriously difficult to observe, and biologists have never been able to say definitively how they move. Darwin, who always liked worms himself, was one of the first scientists to seriously investigate the question. He didn´t believe "that the ground could yield on all sides" to a worm nosing through soil. When push came to shove, he thought, worms swallowed a path through the earth. His theory held for more than 120 years but led later scientists to wonder why burrowing should be so popular. Compared with other ways of getting around (walking, swimming, flying), eating through mud seems extraordinarily inefficient.
Dorgan thought worms must use some kind of trick to help them through the mud, but to investigate the forces involved would require the equivalent of a degree in engineering. "My background was pretty much straight biology," she says. "I didn´t know any of the physics I needed." To remedy that, she took engineering
classes by day and Googled shop tricks by night. She eventually came across a method known as photoelastic stress analysis, which employs an elaborate setup of polarized light and camera filters to measure the stress placed on an object. She found a seawater-gelatin mixture that had the physical properties of marine sediment and let it set in a tank. Then she added a worm and filmed it burrowing.
By studying the stress fields around the worms, Dorgan discovered that they actually launch their mouths inside out like a wedge to pry open the mud. Then they ease into the space opened by the crack. To keep moving, they just keep leveraging the crack. In engineering terms, this is known as crack propagation, and Dorgan´s studies suggest that it costs the worms much less energy than having to ingest every inch of mud in their path.
Her finding has changed scientists´ understanding of the entire underground ecosystem. Everywhere biologists look now, they´re realizing that burrowers such as clams, sea urchins and even growing root tips are really living levers. Next, Dorgan plans to study the large-scale effects of burrowing in coastal areas, where worms can mix up the top four inches of the mud, releasing buried nutrients and churning up pollutants like DDT. Scientists have studied the phenomenon, known as bioturbation, since at least 1881, when Charles Darwin made the first serious attempt to describe it.-Adam M. Bright
Omar Yaghi, 41
_**
Hydrogen Nano-Architect
**_ He's building the minuscule scaffolds that could one day hold the hydrogen in your gas tank
Omar Yaghi walks out of his chemistry lab at the University of California at Los Angeles, closes the door, and looks over his shoulder. "I've had a terrible secret for most of my career," he says with a sly grin. "I'm afraid of chemicals."
It's an unlikely phobia for a chemist whose research papers rank among the most influential in his field. But Yaghi chose his field for its intellectual puzzles, not its explosive ingredients. Fill a jug with one of the materials he's invented (it looks like baby powder), and, as paradoxical as it seems, it will hold more natural gas than an empty room. Many chemists believe that Yaghi's creations, if suitably tailored to store hydrogen, could lead to the first workable fuel tank for a hydrogen car.
If you zoomed in a billion times, his substances would look like enormous scaffolds. Materials scientists had seen similar frameworks before, but they couldn't custom-build them for specific purposes. "It was a dream" to engineer these frameworks to chemists' specs, says University of South Florida professor Mike Zaworotko. "Yaghi was the person who turned it into reality."
To build the frameworks, Yaghi used tiny metal supports, which, because they form stable joints, allowed him to create nearly any pattern. His tight-knit honeycombs, for instance, are great at storing gases--as gas molecules stick to the crossbeams, they draw close to-gether, becoming compressed without high pressures or low temperatures.
"We [humans] like to control our surroundings," Yaghi says. "I'm no exception." Even as a child in Jordan, Yaghi wanted to manage his life on his own; he felt offended whenever his parents checked up on him by asking for his report card. He moved to the U.S. to start college at age 16 and has organized his days around science ever since. "I find that shaving in the morning, taking a shower, is an impediment to me getting to the lab," he admits.
Within the next few years, Yaghi's devotion could pay off in real-world applications such as filters that capture the carbon-dioxide emissions from smokestacks. But to Yaghi, such uses are a secondary concern. "I didn't start out to solve some big societal problem," he says. Rather, he's always simply chased the unknown. "If you do that honestly, then usefulness to society will come." --Lauren Aaronson
Terry Tao, 31
Math's Great Uniter
He searches the mathematical universe for his next big trick
The code breakers who are about to employ a powerful new method to piece together broken messages have UCLA day care to thank. While waiting to pick up their kids, Terry Tao, a UCLA mathematician, and Emmanuel Candes, a mathematician from the nearby California Institute of Technology, wondered if it was possible to reconstruct
a garbled message even if you inter-
cepted only bits and pieces of it. Using ideas from fields as diverse as geometry, statistics and calculus, they not only proved it possible (in special cases), they showed how to do it. Their technique is being adopted by anyone trying to clean up a jumbled signal, be they CIA agents tapping phone lines or doctors restoring spotty brain scans.
The work is quintessential Tao: a breakthrough in a new field that requires a mastery of techniques from across the mathematical spectrum. It´s this kind of ingenuity that won Tao this year´s Fields Medal (announced as this issue went to press), the Nobel Prize equivalent in mathematics. He´s the youngest person to receive the Fields since 1986, which was two years before the then-13-year-old Tao became the youngest person ever to win the International Math Olympiad. In the decade since he earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University at age 21, "he´s really taken the math world by storm," says Tony Chan, the dean of physical sciences at UCLA. Tao has made major discoveries in at least five branches of mathematics, and, Chan says, "the senior people in these fields are scratching their heads in awe."
Tao´s most famous result brought an end to a mathematical search that had lasted for centuries [see box, left], in which he used techniques from several fields to uncover an astonishing pattern among primes. But to Tao, the tradi-tional boundaries between different mathematical fields don´t seem to exist. "They´re interconnected in some way," agrees John Garnett, his colleague at UCLA. "You have to be Terry Tao to see all this, but they are."-Lauren Aaronson
Tao´s Infinite Primes
Terry Tao and Ben Green at the University of Bristol in England found a surprising pattern among prime numbers. Here´s the condensed version of their 35-page proof.
First, Find a Prime
A prime is a number divisible only by 1 and itself, such as 3, 11 and 421.
Then, Create a Prime
Arithmetic Progression (PAP)
That´s a sequence of prime numbers in which each number is separated from the next by the same difference. The PAP "5,11, 17, 23" is four numbers long, and each number differs from the next by six.
What did Tao and Green prove?
There are infinitely many PAPs of every length. So "5, 11, 17, 23" is just one of an infinite number of PAPs with four numbers in it. There´s also an infinite number of progressions that are five, 10 or even 1,936,046 numbers long.
Sara Seager, 35
Seeker, Distant Earths**_
Her simulations tell astronomers what fingerprints life may leave on other planets
In the past decade, astronomers have found 200 new planets orbiting distant stars, and not one of them looks like Earth. Sara Seager, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, thinks that´s set to change. Having devised a way to figure out what kind of atmosphere, if any, a far-off planet has, she´s trying to prove that planets like our own dot the Milky Way.
Since information about what distant planets are made of is scarce, Seager created her early models of extrasolar planets by considering what Earth must look like from thousands of light-years away. She then altered her "Earth" in a thousand different ways-doubling its size, or adding strange gases to the atmosphere-and recalculated its appearance each time. Her library of worlds not only reveals what newly
discovered planets might be made of, it also gives astronomers ideas for what to look for. "She is predicting things for which we have little or no experimental data," says San Francisco State University astronomer Debra Fischer, a member of the renowned team credited with discovering most of the known planets outside our solar system. "And those predictions drive all our observations."
In fact, Seager´s models helped in finding the first atmosphere around a distant planet. In 1999, just one month after Seager earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University, astronomers discovered a planet that passes in front of its parent star during every orbit as seen from Earth, blocking a small but detectable amount of starlight. Seager plugged what was known about the planet into her models and predicted that this Jupiter-like "gas giant" would have sodium and potassium in its atmosphere. Two years later, astronomers searched for and found these chemical "signatures."
Seager has since used her technique to chart the atmospheres around 12 worlds, and now she´s looking for chemical signatures like ozone, which could indicate Earth-like conditions and maybe even extraterrestrial life. She´s cataloguing every potential chemical that might be released by alien life and modeling what biosignatures each compound might leave in a planet´s atmo-
sphere. That way, when a telescope brings back those first signs of a living world, we´ll recognize it for what it is: another Earth.-Rena Marie Pacella
Erich Jarvis, 41
Bird-Human Translator
His studies of songbirds are upending much of what we thought we knew about human language
If you think being surrounded by a chorus of songbirds would be a delightful experience, think again. Stepping into the middle of Erich Jarvis´s zebra finch breeding colony at Duke Univer-sity is like entering an auditorium filled with 200 tiny, screeching car alarms. The only pleasant sound in the room comes from Jarvis himself, as the star neurobiologist sings a surprisingly faithful version of a song made by the courting male zebra finch.
Jarvis learned the song the same way finches do: by listening to other finches and imitating the tune. This makes humans and finches both "vocal learners," a rare trait in the animal kingdom (only humans, songbirds, hummingbirds, parrots, bats, dolphins, whales and elephants are known to do it). Jarvis´s groundbreaking work suggests that this shared ability is rooted in a fundamentally parallel brain structure. It also may provide proof that "language" is an innate ability encoded into all vertebrate brains.
Jarvis first investigated how songbirds learn new songs by freezing, slicing, and dyeing the birds´ brains immediately after their final serenade. That process confirmed that birds use two distinct neural pathways to learn a song, one in front of the brain and one in back. He then discovered that on the neurological level, humans (and parrots and hummingbirds)learn to speak (and sing) in the same way.
But if each group evolved the ability to "speak" independently, how could
our brains all employ the same neural arrangement? Jarvis believes the answer lies in evolution-when we shared a common ancestor 300 million years ago, brains were hardwired for language. If he´s correct, even sophisticated human language grew out of the brain´s ancient networks, the same networks out of which "language" arises in finches.
Once neuroscientists better understand this genetic blueprint, they can in theory alter it, perhaps to repair brain damage or simply to enhance our ability to learn new languages. Until then, Jarvis is expanding his studies. He´d like to do more work on mammals, especially humans (though he finds it difficult to find subjects). "I see myself working with humans, but not just with humans," he says. After all, there´s so much to learn from the birds.-Adam M. Bright
Luis von Ahn, 27
_**The Matrix Builder
If something´s too hard for computers, he tricks human processing units into solving the problem
Most artificial-intelligence researchers face the gargantuan task of making computers think like humans. Carnegie Mellon University professor Luis von Ahn works the other way around. He harnesses tens of thousands of people´s reasoning skills for those rare yet important jobs that are too hard for computers. His strategy is to make the work seem like a game. Von Ahn´s most popular application tackles one of the most difficult tasks in computer science: labeling every image on the Internet. Computers can´t make fine distinctions in visual information, so in the ESP Game (espgame.org), randomly paired online participants compete to label photos from the Web. If it´s successful, your next Google Images search might turn up exactly what you´re
looking for.-Elizabeth Svoboda


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At the very time Indonesian women are lauded for their campaign skills (look at Eva Bande and the Kendeng farmers, who just won the Yap Thiem Hien Award for organising protests to protect the environment), it remains a lamentable shame that the role women in Indonesian politics doesn't show any significant progress.
It's been that way ever since Suharto's New Order regime took over the Sukarno's throne, of politics dominated by men.
The low number of women participating in parliament also influences the priority placed on regulations that would favour women in society.
What makes this such a sticking point? Start with the present, then look back at history.
According to the data from National Development Planning Board (Bappenas) and the United Nations Population Fund, the number of women in Indonesia stands at 132 million, from total population 265 million, or roughly 50%, as expected. Yet since the fall of Suharto until the latest election in 2014, the number of women that have become the lawmakers have never reached even 30%.
Regulations have been issued with the hope of boosting the number of women in the Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR), as Indonesia's House of Representatives is known. In 2002, for instance, Law Number 31 concerning Political Parties, and, in 2003, Law Number 12 concerning General Elections, both sought to increase the proportion of women's representation in the parliament.
Such regulations have helped, but in an uneven fashion.
In the 1999 election, women occupied 44 seats in the DPR, or a mere 8.8% of the total. This proportion increased to 65 seats in the 2004 election, an increase to 11.8% overall. Women's representation was highest after the 2009 elections, with a proportion of 17.9%. Unfortunately, between 2014–2019, growth in the number of women as members has stalled – and even gone backwards as proportion of the total, to 97 out of 560, or 17.3%.
The lack of representation has wider consequences. The low number of women participating in parliament also influences the priority placed on regulations that would favour women in society. Unfortunately, women activists are still struggling to push the DPR to ratify a sexual violence bill, a crucial fight in the war to unwind misogynist elements of Indonesian law.
But even this bill has been challenged by Indonesian women themselves aligned to ultra-conservative groups. Against a backdrop of rising of fundamentalism, populism, and militarism in Indonesia, clearly more needs be done.
But there is also history to overcome.
In the years leading up to independence, women's organisations in Indonesia flourished after the launch of the Indonesian Women's Congress (Kowani) in 1945.
During the Sukarno era, 1945–1966, women made up names of some of the leading politicians in political parties. Women such as Kartini Kartaradjasa and Supeni were well-known in the Indonesian National Party (PNI). Walandauw was a leading figure in the Indonesian Christian Party (Parkindo), Mahmuda Mawardi and Wachid Hasyim prominent in the Nadhlatul Ulama Party, and Salawati Daud was a famous female figure from the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI).
However, all these women were forced to disappear when the Sukarno fell to a coup by General Suharto.
Without the work of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), which has properly documented the data, Indonesia's millennials would not understand the fate of the generation that came before.
Suharto sought to replace women's political activism with such "women's organisations" as the Dharma Wanita, focused on domestication and femininity. Women were displaced from the political stage or public space and shunted into the "kitchen" for decades.
However, the spirit of the women's movement survived among the Indonesian women, in both those living under the repression of Suharto (particularly the relatively privileged in Java) and indigenous women.
In the 1980s, women organisations such as Kalyanamitra Foundation and Rifka Annisa arose in the country, offering a little hope.
And slowly, so do the indigenous women across Indonesia. Some names deserve careful attention: Mama Yosepha Alomang (West Papua), Sukinah and Gunarti's (Kendeng farmers), and Aleta Baun. Many were not touched by the "modernity" of new order – most of them didn't have an obligation to attend the Dharma Wanita. Indigenous women in West Papua for example, were busy gardening, growing up in indigenous families and learning the grace of equality, instead of the supposed luxury of being "modern" and "well educated".
Aleta Baun, from West Timor, winner of the 2013 Goldman Environmental Prize
Following this lead, other Indonesian women are working hard to gradually change the culture. It started with a fight against cat-calling in the street, then lead to something bigger, such as resisting the biggest gold mining company in the world.
Is there hope for women in politics, especially as representatives in parliament? A question mark still remains. One party raises the issue of women, Indonesia Solidarity Party (PSI), yet must yet observe a commitment on the struggle of the indigenous women. Meanwhile, National Awakening Party (PKB), an Islam-based political party, is promoting Aleta Baun, who happens to be a non-Muslim, but a commitment towards women's issues in general is still not clear.
For the rest, women are just seen as cheer leaders. Look how both presidential candidates sometimes use the tagline "the power of emak-emak" (emak is mother or housewife), yet glorify the ideal "strongman" to lead the country. The "emak-emak" is reduced to only issues of guiding men, daily goods, and childcare. They still put women in the "kitchen".
The good news is that politics is not limited. There is no measurement or quota that can be reached guarantee women's issue will be prioritised. Because even when a woman becomes a lawmaker, does it mean she has a perspective on women's issues?
For now, the women's movement has to be satisfied to focus on influencing the public. In the future, perhaps Indonesian women will not only occupy more seats in parliament but also the strategic positions, such as in the ministry of education, environment or defence. Or perhaps a woman will chair the human rights commission, a labour union, or even be a leading ulema.
There is always a chance for Indonesia to create a better atmosphere for women across the nation.
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An illegal immigrant is finally facing justice for a 2016 attempt to evade police that led to the death of a beloved Florida peace officer.
Nassau County Sheriff Bill Leeper called it a "tragic day" when 32-year-old Deputy Eric Oliver was killed chasing down a suspect across Florida's State Road 200 in 2016. "He was just doing his job, and doing it well," Leeper recalled at the time.
Yet, if his nation's already robust set of immigration laws were sufficiently enforced, Oliver might have never encountered the twice-deported suspect who led him on that fatal foot chase. Instead, Oliver left behind a then-six-year-old daughter, and the suspect, Francisco Portillo-Fuentes, has been charged this week with aggravated manslaughter of a police officer, felony murder, escape, and resisting arrest without violence.
An El Salvador native, Portillo-Fuentes was transferred from federal prison, where he was serving a maximum two-year sentence for illegally re-entering the U.S., to a Duval County jail where he will remain during his manslaughter trial.
The Florida Highway Patrol is working with the State Attorney's Office and immigration officials to establish a case against the 26-year old immigrant who illegally crossed the southern U.S. border in November 2011, and again on Sept. 28, 2016.
"We want to make sure that we're covering all the bases — we're documenting all the necessary evidence and gaining as much information as possible to conduct a thorough and complete investigation," FHP Sergeant Dylan Bryan said during the initial phases of the investigation.
At 7:30 a.m. on Nov. 22, 2016, Deputy Oliver and a partner were called to assist Border Patrol agents who were monitoring several people in a vehicle at a local gas station located on State Road 200. As officers approached, Portillo-Fuentes fled on foot, crossing the dangerous highway with Oliver trailing not far behind.
Oliver, a seven-year veteran of the sheriff's office and a Navy veteran, was struck by an unidentified woman driving an SUV. He was the sixth sheriff deputy killed in the line of duty since the Nassau County Sheriff's Office was founded in 1827.
Ann and I are deeply saddened of the by the death of Deputy Eric Oliver and we join all Floridians in mourning this tragic loss. Deputy Oliver was not only a proud member of the Nassau County Sheriff's Office but also a Navy veteran and a loving father and husband. Our prayers and deepest condolences are with his family. The brave men and women of law enforcement choose to dedicate their lives every day to keep our communities safe and we owe them our sincerest gratitude for all they do. We will forever honor the service, courage and sacrifice of Deputy Oliver and pray that his family and loved ones find peace and healing during this very difficult time.
After Oliver was struck, Portillo-Fuentes was able to take advantage of the chaos that followed to avoid capture. However, it didn't take long for law enforcement to catch up with the wanted man in Jacksonville, Florida, where he was subsequently arrested and charged with illegal re-entry.
At the time of Oliver's death, Nassau County was considered a "sanctuary county" by the White House for shielding immigrants from deportation, although that designation was officially withdrawn in April 2017 for unspecified reasons. County executive-appointed Sheriff Michael Sposato maintains that the local jail honors deportation orders from federal immigration authorities, insisting, "We were never a sanctuary county." Since 2014, however, his jurisdiction has required that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents file extensive warrants and provide "probable cause" when seeking to deport prisoners.
During his short time in the U.S., Portillo-Fuentes was no stranger to law enforcement. In addition to being deported twice, he was arrested for drunk driving and other lesser offenses in May 2016.
He is being held without bond and is scheduled to appear in Nassau County court Thursday morning.


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From Iceland — HELLO, ANYBODY HOME?
HELLO, ANYBODY HOME?
Anna Andersen
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In our last issue we ran a story that stirred up a lot of attention on our site and in the Icelandic media. It was called "Twenty Thousand ISK Gets You An Illegal Strip Dance," and recounted the story of how we discovered this to be the case at a club in downtown Reykjavík.
In short, we went to a champagne club called VIP on Austurstræti, asked to see their 'menu', purchased something called "15 minutes of private time" for 20,000 ISK, followed one of their female employees upstairs to a booth and—five minutes later, received a nude strip dance.
It has been illegal in Iceland since 2010 for businesses to promote or in any way profit from the nudity of staff or others present. Yet with the opening of two new champagne clubs in the city this summer, there has been some discussion in the media about whether men are only frequenting these clubs in order to buy expensive bottles of champagne and have pleasant conversations with the staff.
Prior to the publication of our piece, one of Iceland's main dailies sent a couple of journalists to investigate these clubs, but the story it ran amounted to little more than 'he said/she said' speculation. It also resulted in one of the club's lawyers threatening them with a defamation suit.
While it was refreshing to see evidence of Icelandic journalists leaving their desks to work on a story rather than just making calls for reaction quotes to a press release, it seems their efforts fell short for one reason or the other.
Why did it take a low-budget tourist rag like The Reykjavík Grapevine to bring forth little more than the cold hard facts? Is there any such thing as real investigative journalism in Iceland?
According to the report delivered to parliament by the Special Investigation Commission following Iceland's financial meltdown in 2008, Iceland's media largely failed to fulfill its duty as the so-called fourth estate as our banks grew to ten times the country's GDP.
Now, five years later, it seems to me that the media is still in pretty lousy shape. This may be one small example, but it points to a bigger problem that needs to be discussed (see also "So What's This Censorship Of Icelandic State Media I Keep Hearing About?" on page 8).
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This Nov. 3, 2008, file photo shows one of Pacific Gas and Electric's Diablo Canyon Power Plant's nuclear reactors in Avila Beach, Calif.
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PUBLISHED: December 2, 2021 at 8:58 a.m. | UPDATED: December 2, 2021 at 10:50 a.m.
California needs reliable, zero-carbon energy to power the state and meet its climate goals, yet the last remaining nuclear power plant in the state, Diablo Canyon, is set to close. Investor-owned utility PG&E made the decision in 2016 to allow the licenses for the plant's two reactors to expire. They will shut down in 2024 and 2025.
Diablo Canyon has been producing about 8% of the electricity used in California. It is a zero-carbon energy source that's steady and reliable when the sun goes down, when the wind doesn't blow and when drought conditions reduce the output of large hydroelectric plants. In July, as a wildfire in Oregon threatened transmission lines on which California relies for imported electricity, the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant was essential to keeping the state's lights on.
When Diablo begins to shut down, what will replace the energy it produces? That's still a work in progress.
The California Public Utilities Commission issued an order to utilities demanding that they buy a massive amount — a total of more than 14,000 megawatts — of renewable energy and battery storage in the coming years. However, that may not be sufficient to prevent electricity shortages in the hot summer months, according to the California Energy Commission and the state's grid operator.
The Biden administration may get involved. On Tuesday, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said she thinks "there is a change underfoot about the opinion that people may have about nuclear" and she said she would be willing to talk with state officials about keeping Diablo open. Also on Tuesday, the Biden administration said it is actively searching for communities that would be willing to do their part to fight climate change by hosting nuclear waste sites. Then "those communities that have nuclear facilities won't have to worry about that problem," Granholm said.
We'll keep checking in to see how that search is coming along, but in the meantime, California has to figure out how to procure enough electricity to meet the needs of the state's residents and businesses without the perpetual risk of dangerous power outages. In addition to shutting down Diablo Canyon, the state is phasing out four electricity-generating plants that run on natural gas. They are all scheduled to be closed by the end of 2023, if not sooner.
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In the scramble to procure more renewable energy, there has not been much discussion of the cost to ratepayers. Southern California Edison estimated in 2019 that it could cost up to $250 billion to meet the state's goal of carbon neutrality by 2045. It would not be surprising if state regulators allowed utilities to recoup those billions of dollars through higher rates or surcharges.
An honest public discussion of the cost and limitations of solar, wind and battery-storage energy would be helpful as the state works through these challenges. Solar and wind energy will always be intermittent, and large-scale batteries that can supply power for longer than four hours are still in development.
Nuclear power has serious challenges, too. The dangerous waste-storage problem has simply not been solved, anywhere in the world. But if the goal is zero-carbon energy that is reliable and affordable, keeping Diablo Canyon open beyond 2024 and 2025 makes sense. Ultimately, the future of the nuclear plant is up to its owner, PG&E. However, public officials would be wise to do what they can to extend the life of Diablo Canyon until other renewable energy sources can stand on their own.
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BOSTON, Jan. 24, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A young athlete in seemingly excellent health dies suddenly from a previously undetected cardiovascular condition such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in nearly every U.S. state annually. Although these conditions can be detected using electrocardiography (ECG) during a screening exam, the American Heart Association recommends against routine use of ECG, because it has a high false-positive rate. Limiting screening to a history and physical, however, usually fails to identify at-risk athletes. "The sports medicine physical lacks an effective way of ferreting out these heart problems," says Gianmichel Corrado, MD, from Boston Children's Hospital Division of Sports Medicine. Until now.