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See the 'holy grail' of American porcelain at New York Ceramics & Glass Fair
The 18th-century punch bowl was unearthed during an archaeological dig in Philadelphia
By Gabriella Angeleti
18th January 2017 01:00 BST
An 18th-century hard-paste porcelain punch bowl that has been called the "holy grail" of American ceramics will be on view this week at the New York Ceramics & Glass Fair at the Bohemian National Hall (19-22 January). The bowl—along with around 85,000 other artefacts—was unearthed during an archaeological dig conducted in 2014 by the Commonwealth Heritage Group at the present site of the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, which opens on 19 April. The discovery marks the first physical proof of hard-paste porcelain being produced in America at that time.
Hard-paste porcelain—which is considered a "true" porcelain, visually characterised by a greater degree of translucency—was first developed by Chinese artisans in the seventh-century AD but the proper materials, glazing techniques and firing temperatures required were a tightly kept secret and such ceramics became a major export to the Western market. The Prussian alchemist Johann Frederick Böttger was the first European to open a hard-paste porcelain factory in 1710 in Dresden.
Based on an article published in 1772 in a Pennsylvanian newspaper, the bowl has been attributed to a manufacturer called the American China Manufactory. The article states that the proprietors of this company produced "China superior to any bought from the East Indies."
Because the bowl is an archeological specimen, it is "considered unethical to name a market value—although if an intact piece came up in the antique market it could conceivably be worth around six figures", Robert Hunter, an archaeologist, author and editor of Ceramics in America, told The Art Newspaper. Hunter will host a lecture at the fair on 19 January, where he will discuss the history of porcelain production in America. The bowl will return to the museum in time for the opening, where it will be shown in a gallery dedicated to homespun American objects.
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(HealthDay News) — Prenatal marijuana use increased from 2009 to 2016 for pregnant women of all ages, according to a research letter published in the Dec. 26 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Kelly C. Young-Wolff, PhD, MPH, from Kaiser Permanente Northern California in Oakland, and colleagues examined trends of prenatal marijuana use from 2009 to 2016 among pregnant females aged 12 years or older in the Kaiser Permanente Northern California health care system. The adjusted prevalence of prenatal marijuana use was estimated via self-report or toxicology annually. Data were included for 279,457 females.
The researchers found that the adjusted prevalence of prenatal marijuana use increased from 4.2% to 7.1% from 2009 to 2016; prevalence was higher based on toxicology than self-report. For each age group there was a significant increase in adjusted prevalence from 2009 to 2016: from 12.5% to 21.8% for those aged younger than 18 years; from 9.8% to 19% for those aged 18 to 24 years; from 3.4% to 5.1% among women aged 25 to 34 years; and from 2.1% to 3.3% for women aged older than 34 years. Prenatal use increased at annual relative rates of 1.088, 1.092, 1.08, and 1.057, respectively.
"Of concern, 22% of pregnant females younger than 18 years and 19% of pregnant females aged 18 to 24 years screened positive for marijuana use in 2016," the authors write.


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Broomhill Pool Survey for the future
Written by , 1st October 2014
Sports and leisure management organisation Fusion Lifestyle is looking to return Broomhill Pool to its former glory by reinstating its original use.
Broomhill Pool is one of Ipswich's lesser-known treasures, a Grade II listed 1930s lido that is currently lying unused. Historically, it was a much-loved local attraction, drawing up to 60,000 swimmers each year during its 1970-80s peak, with declining regular numbers prior to closure in 2002.
As well as the historic "Olympic-size" pool, Fusion Lifestyle's proposal for the restored facility will include health and fitness facilities and opportunities for other water based leisure activities, such as canoeing and water polo. This will help to ensure that the site would be well used throughout the year and financially sustainable.
It is proposed that the Broomhill Pool complex will include:
• restored lido, grandstand and sun terraces;
• children's pool;
• reinstated clock tower;
• warm-weather refreshment kiosk;
• health and fitness centre with a state of the art fitness suite, studios and an indoor cycling room;
• dedicated changing facilities for the lido;
• café with indoor and outdoor seating;
• an exhibition celebrating the Pool's heritage.
Fusion Lifestyle is currently preparing a bid for Heritage Lottery Fund support, which would make a crucial financial contribution towards the careful renovation of the Pool's remaining historic fabric.
As part of this process they are looking to gain the views of local people and incorporate your ideas into the design process. They want to hear about your suggestions for new and restored facilities and possible additional activities and to capture memories of how you used the Pool before it closed.
Take the quick survey
Fusion Lifestyle will have a stall at Cornhill Market on Saturday 4 October 2014 between 10.00am and 4.30pm to discuss their emerging proposals with local people.
An exhibition will also be available to view at the following locations during normal opening hours:
Crown Pools
Monday 6 to Sunday 12 October 2014
Whitton Sports and Community Centre
Monday 13 to Sunday 19 October 2014
Northgate Sports Centre
Fore Street Pool
Monday 27 October to Sunday 2 November 2014
Maidenhall Sports Centre
Monday 3 to Sunday 9 November 2014
Gainsborough Sports and Community Centre
Monday 10 to Sunday 16 November 2014

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Film Quarterly offers serious film lovers in-depth articles, reviews, and interviews that examine all aspects of film history, film theory, and the impact of film, video, and television on culture and society.
An Introduction to Coutinho
written by Film Quarterly
By Natalia Brizuela and B. Ruby Rich
from Film Quarterly Spring 2016, Volume 69, Number 3
Eduardo Coutinho, the greatest documentary filmmaker in the last half-century of Brazilian cinema, is woefully underrecognized in the United States and has not been adequately incorporated into the global history of documentary cinema.1 This neglect is an injustice not only to Coutinho but to everyone who cares about the power of documentary and its traditions. Something crucial is being lost. Criticism in English has studied Brazil's Cinema Novo extensively, but because Coutinho is not exactly a part of this movement and because so many of his films postdate it, he is usually left out of those histories. Also, Cinema Novo was fiction, whereas Coutinho went in the direction of documentary. On his own, he developed a radically different practice that stayed focused in one place, on one person at a time, with another intent entirely: he was interested in ordinary people's stories and how they told those stories about themselves. In a way, he was interested in the kernel of fiction at the naked heart of documentary, stripped bare not by artifice but by the lack of it.
If Cinema Novo used fiction in its most poetic dimension to function as a sociopolitical manifesto, then Coutinho does the opposite: he uses socially based documentary to uncover the rich dimension of storytelling which, with enough time and attention, ends up revealing the fable, the fabulous, the subjective, lurking within. Where Cinema Novo was mythic in its style, Coutinho was determinedly quotidian in his. In Coutinho's films, especially starting in 1999, unexceptional people reveal themselves to be captivating characters. And 1999 is not an incidental date: it is then that Coutinho begins to be supported by Videofilmes, the production and distribution company of João Moreira Salles and Walter Salles, with a form of patronage that gave him the freedom to pursue his own kind of filmmaking, with a radical steadfastness. What could be more transformative and political than giving the screen over to people who otherwise have no claim on public attention and no purchase on the image?
The one film by Coutinho that has been recognized, analyzed, and distributed internationally is Cabra marcado para morrer (Man Marked for Death, 20 Years Later, 1964-1984).2 What is less known is the vast body of work that preceded and followed it. Eduardo Coutinho was born in 1933, became a cinephile at a young age, studied film in Paris, and returned to Brazil at the time when Cinema Novo was emerging. As José Carlos Avellar's interview reveals, Coutinho's very first script was written for a film that Glauber Rocha was originally asked to make but passed on to Leon Hirszman, who was one of the most radical figures in Cinema Novo and also functioned as Coutinho's father figure at that time.
Coutinho's work can be divided into four distinct periods. First was his participation, prior to the 1964 coup, with the Goulart-era CPC, the Centro Popular de Cultura (Center for Popular Culture), which believed that national cultural production belonged to the people and that it could be found throughout the country (particularly the Northeast, to which Cinema Novo famously paid a lot of attention) outside the main urban settings. The second stage occurs during the dictatorship, with his work in television between 1975 and 1984 where he developed many of his films and ideas in the context of television documentary. The third is the post-coup era when he co-founded CECIP, the Centro de Criação de Imagem Popular (Center for Creation of the Popular Image), and developed a documentary practice tied to questions of citizenship in the new Brazil. The last period finds him housed at Videofilmes under the Salles brothers, where he finally had the freedom to make the films he really wanted to make; this is the period when he achieved wider recognition and crystallized his theatricalization of documentary practice. He died at the age of 80, still making films.3
There is an urgency in reviving Coutinho's model of documentary at this time. The one constant, across all the eras of his practice, was his focus on ordinary people living ordinary lives, and on the absolute fascination of this quotidian existence, lived outside the limelight, outside fame and fortune. His model of enacting a procedure whereby a community and its individuals can be enhanced and enlarged through the "deep listening" and acute vision that Coutinho learned to practice, provides a clear-eyed example of documentary engagement across difference. Today, with lives increasingly isolated into technologically bound spheres and with social systems of injustice and blindness all too commonly accepted, Coutinho's example of documentary is a bracing tonic.
Eduardo Coutinho on location with his crew and subjects shooting O fim e o princípio (The End and the Beginning, 2005).
Photo courtesy of João Moreira Salles
What form does his kind of documentary take? Ever since his first film for Globo in 1976, Coutinho pursued the idea that, in the context of conversation, everything worth knowing will emerge. It is through conversation that subjectivity rises to the surface and that the perceived distance between the self and the other can be bridged. Coutinho's approach, as simple as it is sophisticated, offers a model worthy of renewed consideration at a time when increasingly formal approaches have become dominant in contemporary documentary. The field today risks losing this quality of direct, bare-bones attention: a camera in front of a person, a voice asking, "so how long have you lived here?" and an answer that ends up encompassing the universe.
This dossier has been created to call attention to Coutinho in a contemporary context by privileging multigenerational Latin American perspectives on his work. Ismail Xavier, a member of Brazil's first generation of film-studies academics, was one of the first scholars to write extensively on Coutinho's work. His article was the first to name Coutinho's practice as one of conversation as well as theatricality (jogo de cena) and was therefore influential not only for later scholarship but for Coutinho himself. José Carlos Avellar, a contemporary of Coutinho, is a public intellectual who wrote consistently in the newspaper and also served as the vice director and director of the cinemateca of Rio's Museum of Modern Art, worked at Embrafilme and Riofilme, and facilitated both the creation and reception of many of Coutinho's films. Avellar's interview conversation has the richness of someone who has lived through fifty years of cinema with Coutinho—in this text, encompassing his work up through the release of Santo Forte (The Mighty Spirit, 1999) in 2000, when the interview was conducted. These two texts, originally published in Portuguese, appear here for the first time in English.
The other three articles have been written for this dossier. Consuelo Lins is a filmmaker, professor, and scholar of documentary cinema who has collaborated with Coutinho on a number of occasions, most significantly through her collaboration on Edificio Master (Master Building, 2002), based on an idea that she gave him. Her essay here focuses on his final, uncompleted film, Últimas Conversas (Last Conversations, 2015), which was posthumously edited and released, and which she reads through his earlier work. Cecilia Sayad and Natalia Brizuela represent a younger generation of Latin American scholars who are working outside of Brazil and studying Coutinho's work in a cinema-studies context rather than in a context of Brazilian cultural production. Cecilia Sayad applies her expertise on the status of the author to the one film of Coutinho's that now can never be screened, Um dia na vida (One Day in Life, 2010), which consists entirely of images from one day's television broadcasts and which she uses to argue for a revised notion of authorship. Natalia Brizuela takes up his much-debated theme of conversation, and juxtaposes the conversational to the questions of temporality and duration that occur across Coutinho's entire body of work.
Finally, a filmography is included to encourage renewed exhibition and discussion of Coutinho's important example—in the hope, especially, that his films will be, at last, distributed in the United States and be incorporated into curricula, repertory exhibition, and documentary scholarship. His filmic example of a mutuality of conversation and understanding conducted across barriers of class and race could not be more necessary.
1. Exceptions in the United States include the exhibition at MoMA in 2009 as part of Premiere Brazil, where a tribute of eight films was organized by the late Jytte Jensen; and the Walker Art Center tribute, a part of its "Cruzamentos: Contemporary Brazilian Documentary" in 2014, which Coutinho had planned to attend. This FQ dossier is accompanied by a special tribute at Pacific Film Archive, "Eduardo Coutinho: A Cinema of Listening," exhibited during February–April 2016 in conjunction with the opening of its new facility in the new Berkeley Art Museum building.
2. Such scholars as Robert Stam, Julianne Burton, Randal Johnson, Michael Chanan, and many others began writing on Coutinho at the time of Cabra and have written extensively on his work and that of other Brazilian filmmakers, as have many younger scholars.
3. He was quite ill already in February 2014 when he was tragically murdered.
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Y'know how you have those things in life you WISH you would get the chance to do?
Playing USNAVI in "In The Heights" is one of those things for me.
I had just about given up on the idea since it closed on Broadway, and the character is in his twenties, and I... am not. Good thing I've been healthy!
Amazingly, CR Productions (The Capital Region's Best-Rated Theatre) chose to do the show, and chose me for the part! It was one of those things: Laura had done two shows for them in the past, they knew I wanted to do the show, and when the guy who was going to do it had to drop out (congrats on your baby!), I got the audition!
If you live anywhere near COHOES New York, from September 13-23rd I'll be playing USNAVI in this Amazing Show, and I would LOVE to do it for you!
Also...I win GOLD during the Olympics!
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EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the final installment in a four-part series about the Huron County Honor Trip.
WASHINGTON — For the Taggart family, the Huron County Honor Trip was a three-generation experience.
"I like having Dad here. We sat down and talked about some of his military experiences and stuff — stories I've never heard before. We've discussed some of that (and I) found out some new things. I like spending time with (my) daughter of course," said Taggart, who served in the U.S. Army from September 1990 to September 1994.
"I joined in '53. I served for six months for the active reserves for boot camp and my schooling. Then I attended meetings once a month until '55, when I went on active duty and I was on an aircraft carrier for two years — the U.S.S. Wasp, which is a smaller aircraft carrier," he said. "We got to travel to almost halfway around the world in two years.
More than 30 veterans, their spouses and family members were on the Huron County Honor Trip. The event included tours of the Vietnam Veterans, Lincoln, Marine Corps, Korean War, World War II, Air Force, Pentagon and American Veterans Disabled for Life memorials in and near the nation's capital.
"This wouldn't be possible without the generous donations of businesses and organizations in Huron County," said U.S. veteran Thom Price, of Norwalk, who organized a large part of the trip.
It wasn't the first trip to Washington for any of the Taggarts. Brad, a 1990 Bellevue High School graduate, visited when he was about 8 years old.
That was the case for her grandfather, who hadn't been to Washington in decades.
The first stop on the afternoon of Oct. 12 was the hangar for the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum near Washington Dulles International Airport. American Legion Post No. 177 in Fairfax, Va. hosted the veterans and students for a buffet dinner that night — complete with a color guard.
Bill Taggart wasn't able to choose his favorite part of the trip. While going through the Smithsonian hangar, he pointed out many planes with which he was familiar.
"I enjoyed the whole thing, really. This has been something that I probably should have done more often and come out and see all the improvements they have made in Washington. Now you can associate it with what's really going on," he said.
"I think that was probably the coolest — just talking about what he got to do," she added.
"I wish I would have been able to see it at night when (it was) all lit up," Raquel said.
During the trip, the teenager heard about her father and grandfather's time in the military.
"At home they don't really talk about much. If I ask questions, they'll answer the questions, but they just don't sit down and talk about it. So it's nice to experience all of this with them and then get to hear their stories along with everyone else's too," she said.
Her father enjoyed hearing the stories from veterans of the various branches of service. He said he realized there were similarities — no matter what decade it was.
"(We had) different paths, especially the World War II soldiers and some of the Korean (War) soldiers. More of the history is what I like listening to and then you also see, when you talk to some of the other guys, how some of your stories actually kinda combine," Brad Taggart said.
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Q: web application receiving millions of requests and leads to generating millions of row inserts per 30 seconds in SQL Server 2008 I am currently addressing a situation where our web application receives at least a Million requests per 30 seconds. So these requests will lead to generating 3-5 Million row inserts between 5 tables. This is pretty heavy load to handle. Currently we are using multi threading to handle this situation (which is a bit faster but unable to get a better CPU throughput). However the load will definitely increase in future and we will have to account for that too. After 6 months from now we are looking at double the load size we are currently receiving and I am currently looking at a possible new solution that is scalable and should be easy enough to accommodate any further increase to this load.
        Currently with multi threading we are making the whole debugging scenario quite complicated and sometimes we are having problem with tracing issues.
FYI we are already utilizing the SQL Builk Insert/Copy that is mentioned in this previous post
Sql server 2008 - performance tuning features for insert large amount of data
However I am looking for a more capable solution (which I think there should be one) that will address this situation.
Note: I am not looking for any code snippets or code examples. I am just looking for a big picture of a concept that I could possibly use and I am sure that I can take that further to an elegant solution :)
Also the solution should have a better utilization of the threads and processes. And I do not want my threads/processes to even wait to execute something because of some other resource.
Any suggestions will be deeply appreciated.
Update: Not every request will lead to an insert...however most of them will lead to some sql operation. The appliciation performs different types of transactions and these will lead to a lot of bulk sql operations. I am more concerned towards inserts and updates.
and these operations need not be real time there can be a bit lag...however processing them real time will be much helpful.

A: Can you partition the database so that the inserts are spread around? How is this data used after insert? Is there a natural partion to the data by client or geography or some other factor?
Since you are using SQL server, I would suggest you get several of the books on high availability and high performance for SQL Server. The internals book muight help as well. Amazon has a bunch of these. This is a complex subject and requires too much depth for a simple answer on a bulletin board. But basically there are several keys to high performance design including hardware choices, partitioning, correct indexing, correct queries, etc.  To do this effectively, you have to understand in depth what SQL Server does under the hood and how changes can make a big difference in performance.

A: I think your problem looks more towards getting a better CPU throughput which will lead to a better performance. So I would probably look at something like an Asynchronous Processing where in a thread will never sit idle and you will probably have to maintain a queue in the form of a linked list or any other data structure that will suit your programming model.
The way this would work is your threads will try to perform a given job immediately and if there is anything that would stop them from doing it then they will push that job into the queue and these pushed items will be processed based on how it stores the items in the container/queue.
In your case since you are already using bulk sql operations you should be good to go with this strategy.
lemme know if this helps you.

A: Since you do not need to have your inserts/updates real time you might consider having two databases; one for reads and one for writes.  Similar to having a OLTP db and an OLAP db:
Read Database:

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*Indexed as much as needed to maximize read performance.

*Possibly denormalized if performance requires it.

*Not always up to date.

Insert/Update database:

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*No indexes at all.  This will help maximize insert/update performance

*Try to normalize as much as possible.

*Always up to date.

You would basically direct all insert/update actions to the Insert/Update db.  You would then create a publication process that would move data over to the read database at certain time intervals.  When I have seen this in the past the data is usually moved over on a nightly bases when few people will be using the site.  There are a number of options for moving the data over, but I would start by looking at SSIS.
This will depend on your ability to do a few things:

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*have read data be up to one day out of date

*complete your nightly Read db update process in a reasonable amount of time.

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Amma Marfo
About Amma
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As a freelance writer, I pride myself on my ability required to cover a topic with genuine and open curiosity. What has resulted is work with a variety of outlets; areas of expertise include introversion and creativity in the workplace, comedy and pop culture criticism, the intersection of higher education and larger society, trends in the working world, and technology's role in society.
In addition to these written pieces, I've also been afforded the opportunity to appear as an expert or contributor on a number of podcasts. Select appearances are highlighted below.
Amma in conversation with The Niche Movement, May 2014
Pieces and Podcasts of Professional Pride
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THE SINATRA SONGBOOK / CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE SNEAK PEEK
Still thinking about last week's hour, Chapter Twenty-Four, The Television Concerts. We featured music from Sinatra: A Man and his Music – Parts One and Two.
Dwight Hemion
Sinatra has never been as well presented on television. Of course, it was the mid-sixties and, at fifty years of age, Sinatra delivered with power, maturity and authority. As mentioned, we have director, Dwight Hemion, to thank for staging these specials in a fashion that kept the technology and hardware of television out of Frank's way. There was enough show out there on that stage and Hemion knew it.
By capturing Sinatra as he did, what survives are priceless documents of what the fuss was all about. Dwight, thank you.
Both titles are available in the Shout Factory DVD release, A Man and His Music: The Collection. Add this boxed set to your collection.
The American taste in popular music changed radically between the forties and the fifties. Consider the evolution of Frank Sinatra during the same period. What a contrast!
Frank with Axel Stordahl – Nelson Riddle with Sinatra
From the lush and brilliant collaborations with arranger-conductor Axel Stordahl to the vibrant, heart-pumping inventions of arranger-conductor and music scene game-changer, Nelson Riddle, there emerges a stunningly confident and optimistic middle-aged singer.
The constant is the selection of material. It would come from the pens of the greatest contributors to the American Popular Songbook. Sinatra respected and trusted the integrity found in this body of work. Of interest is how he would approach these classics, given his relative age and maturity at different career stages.
Join us for Comparisons, Chapter Twenty-Five of THE SINATRA SONGBOOK, this Saturday, March 15 at 6pm ET and Sunday March 16 at 8am ET exclusively on Metromedia Radio, (metromediaradio.net). Listen Live link – http://tunein.com/radio/Metromedia-Radio-s203898/
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Readout of second National Climate Task Force Meeting
MARCH 18, 2021 • STATEMENTS AND RELEASES
Today, National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy convened the second National Climate Task Force to discuss the Biden-Harris Administration's whole-of-government approach to tackling the climate crisis, creating good-paying, union jobs, and prioritizing environmental justice.
During the virtual meeting, Cabinet leaders and senior Administration officials discussed their respective plans to integrate addressing climate change throughout their agencies to put the United States in a position of strength to lead the world in a clean energy revolution that creates American jobs with the chance to join a union and builds back an inclusive, equitable economy. Participants, including the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, also looked ahead to the Earth Day Leaders Summit on April 22 and opportunities for each agency to reduce emissions while supporting good-paying, union jobs, improve health in our communities, and ensure America leads the industries that will power the future.
Following the task force meeting, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service announced it will invest more than $218 million to leverage the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) to fund projects that will help drive rural economic recovery and job creation, support the voluntary stewardship efforts of private landowners, and better conserve America's public lands. The Administration's investments through the LWCF are helping expand access to the outdoors for all communities, including in areas that have disproportionately less access to nature, and bolstering the nation's natural defenses against climate change.
Additionally, as part of the Biden-Harris Administration's commitment to restoring scientific integrity, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it is taking the first step to relaunch its climate change website to provide the public with information on emissions data, climate change impacts, scientific reports, and more.
As outlined by President Biden's January 27 executive order on tackling the climate, the Task Force is chaired by the National Climate Advisor and includes Cabinet-level leaders from 21 federal agencies and senior White House officials to mobilize the Biden-Harris Administration's implementation of a whole-of-government approach.
Task Force membership is comprised of the following government officials:
National Climate Advisor (Chair)
Secretary of Transportation
Secretary of Homeland Security
Administrator of General Services
Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Director of the Office of Management and Budget
Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy
Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy
Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism
Assistant to the President for Economic Policy
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We had a great Halloween this year! Kenley started the day as Pinkalicious from Pinkalicious and the Pinkerrific Playdate for the character parade at school. She was also Pinkalicious last year for the Kindergarten character parade which shows that the girl knows what she likes. Crosby also had a storybook parade at school and he was Dash from the Incredibles.
By night, the kids transformed into Addison, the cheerleader, and Zed, the zombie from the Disney Channel movie Z-O-M-B-I-E-S. The movie is super cute and the kids love the soundtrack so it was a quick and easy decision on who they would be this year. Unfortunately, Crosby made a last minute decision to go without the green hair and zombie make up, but they still looked super cute.
We headed around our neighborhood to trick-or-treat and check out all of the decorations. Our neighbors really go all out! It seemed more crowded this year too! The policeman on duty was driving around all night playing the Halloween theme song which was super creepy, yet awesome.
We had such a fun night!
tailgating before the ucf football game!
our shaded seats made for a beautiful november day for football.
a gorgeous sunday afternoon for family photos.
we had a great weekend and i had an extra day off today for errands.
friday morning run and a holiday drink at starbucks.
i headed down to the expo on friday after work to pick up my race packet!
end of the season pizza party!
saturday shopping. he was so excited about his new jacket that the cashier scanned the tag while he was wearing it.
13.1 miles through disney! many more pictures to come!
i found the balloons i picked up at the dollar spot a while ago, well after their birthdays have passed, so they are just playing with them now.
our first weekend in november was packed! the weather was great and we had a lot of fun.


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, and the blood of [HC 2:48] Zion be upon their heads, even as upon the heads of her enemies, and let their recompence be as the recompence of her enemies, for thus shall it come to pass saith the Lord of Hosts, who has the cattle upon a thousand hills, who has put forth his almighty hand to bring to pass his strange act; and what man shall put forth his hand to steady the ark of God, or be found turning a deaf ear to the voice of his servant, God shall speak in due time, and all will be declared, amen.
JS, Journal, 7–9 Apr. 1834.
be bound over under two hundred dollar bonds, to keep the peace for six months, and pay the cost which amounted to near three hundred dollars, all of which was in answer to our prayers, for which I thank my heavenly Father.
JS Journal, 7–9, 10 April 1834.
Edward Partridge et al., Petition to Andrew Jackson, 10 Apr. 1834, copy, William W. Phelps, Collection of Missouri Documents, CHL.


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Florida Keys Launch Public Awareness Campaign Ahead of Spiny Lobster Sport Season
FLORIDA KEYS — An extensive public awareness initiative has begun to help leisure Florida Keys travelers and residents have an enjoyable, safe and non-impacting experience during both the two-day lobster sport season and the traditional lobster harvesting season.
A dedicated website, KeysLobsterSeason.com, includes interactive videos with need-to-know dive and boating safety tips, up-to-date rules, regulations for lobster hunting within the Keys such as daily limits and correct harvesting techniques. It also stresses avoiding prohibited, no-take zones protected within Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary boundaries.
Locally dubbed "mini-season" because of its short time duration, the statewide two-day harvesting timeframe begins at 12:01 a.m. the last Wednesday of July and ends at midnight the following day.
Regular lobster season begins at 12:01 a.m. Aug. 6 and continues through March 31.
Newly created public safety awareness messages emphasize the importance of catching lobsters responsibly and protecting their habitats, encourage boating and sport diving safety and convey resource-protection rules, regulations and other measures.
Communications are to be distributed via radio and television public service announcements, outdoor billboards, dynamic roadside messaging for motorists entering the Keys, social media, app technology, and print and digital brochures for overnight lodging properties and vacation home rental agencies.
"We want to impress the need to protect our marine ecosystem resource, as well as vessel and dive safety, not just during mini-season but for the entire open lobster season," said Stacey Mitchell, director of the Monroe County Tourist Development Council, the campaign's creator.
The communications strategy is a collaborative effort with a task force of representatives from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the TDC, Monroe County Sheriff's Office, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, municipalities and other tourism representatives.
"This collective input of so many local stakeholders should help make this a safer, more successful and productive event for our visitors, residents and our environment," said Monroe County Mayor Michelle Coldiron, who chairs the task force along with City of Marathon Councilman John Bartus.
Local, state and federal agencies strictly enforce lobster harvest and boating safety regulations.
FWC officials are to stage an information booth at Key Largo's Waldorf Plaza, mile marker 100 oceanside in front of Divers Direct. Staff are to demonstrate how to properly measure harvested lobsters and provide the latest lobster-catching rules and regulations. Planned hours of operation are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 24, through Tuesday, July 27.
Florida's lobster sport season began in 1974 after the Florida legislature approved it to lessen conflict between commercial trappers and recreational divers.
Keys lobster season information: KeysLobsterSeason.com


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UNFRIENDLY FIRE: A CoMo area Army Vet remembers a mass murder in Iraq, Part 5
Lt. Colonel Mike Jones left Columbia, Missouri for several tours of duty in Iraq as a combat psychiatrist. This is the story of his last tour, which did not end until last week, 4 years after it began.
Part 5 of 6 parts
Monday morning began much as Sunday for Jones, who walked from the cans to his office around 6:30.
Camp Stryker Chaplain Peter Keough telephoned, records say around 7:50 a.m. "Dr. Jones, I have Sergeant Russell in with me," Jones quoted the Army captain. "He's distraught. He's talking about harming himself. We've disarmed him and consoled him, but I think you need to see him."
"I have an opening at noon," Jones told Keough. The sudden turn of events prompted Jones to insist on a "command referral," a formal order approved by the soldier's commander. Capt. Keough had little familiarity with it, so Jones emailed him the referral package at 8:34 am.
"This will save time...and be better for the soldier," Jones wrote. "He should come with an escort who will carry the paperwork." And to preserve the soldier's identity: "It's okay for Sgt. Russell to have his weapon, as long as it has been disabled by removing the firing pin or bolt."
After a "concerted effort" to make sure his other work was done, Jones again met Russell in the waiting room, where he was sitting disarmed next to another one-person escort, Staff Sgt. Enos Richards. "I took his command referral paperwork and brought him back to my office," Jones says.
Before they started the session, Jones read the referral, looking for comments from Russell's commander.
"Usually they're fairly explicit, but this one was sketchy," Jones explains. "It was only a sentence or two, mentioning that Sgt. Russell was talking about harming himself. There was nothing I can remember about the unit climate or anything else that indicated what was motivating him."
Sgt. Russell took the chair by the door again. "What's going on?" Jones asked.
Chaplain Peter Keough
"Now do you believe I'm abnormal?" Jones remembers Russell responding. "You need to help me get out of here!"
But discharging Sgt. Russell from the United States Army was not in Jones power. "He seemed incredulous that I could not just wave him through," Jones explains.
The stress clinic could help Russell if he would let them, Jones said, at which point Russell raised his eyebrows and assumed an "oh no, here we go again," posture. "This is bullshit!" Russell exclaimed. He stood up abruptly, walked out of the office and down the hallway.
"Sgt. Russell, please come back to my office," Jones said.
"I was done with the Army two years ago," Russell shot back. He went through the waiting room, past the receptionist, into the parking lot. Jones followed. The escort, Sgt. Richards, got to his feet.
"Call his unit," Jones told the receptionist. He motioned to the escort, explaining the stress clinic had a "zero tolerance policy" for soldiers eloping from the clinic under circumstances like these, which included a formal command referral.
Jones and Richards went out to find Russell. Barriers separated the parking lot from the clinic, so it wasn't simply a matter of looking across an empty expanse. A person could crouch behind a barrier, or collapse and remain unseen.
Fortunately, Russell was in plain sight, walking around the SUV that brought him, "sputtering with anger and disgust," Jones says. He approached, using his best "command voice."
"Sgt. Russell—you're just going to make your situation worse. This isn't going to help you."
At a solid 6'4", Russell was a big man, outweighing Jones by two or three dozen pounds, and towering over his 5'11" frame. "I stayed about 10 feet back," Jones says. "I felt there was a danger he would attack me, but I also had to control the situation. I gave him some room."
Russell opened the car door and sat. "I've been to three different doctors," he said. "One mocked me." He paused. "Enough of this suicide game!" He looked at Jones. "Just send me back to my unit. I want to go back to my unit."
Two staff sergeants—Kathryn Pollock and Leah Gates—arrived. Jones told them to work with MPs who would soon arrive and keep Russell at the clinic. He went inside. "I wanted to talk to Russell's command, but I didn't want to force him back into the clinic."
With phone numbers constantly changing for security and logistical reasons, calling another command was no easy feat. Though Jones had requested one for some time, his office didn't have a phone, so he went to make the calls in a different office near the staff lounge, where a small crowd gathered toward the end of lunch was talking about the commotion in the parking lot.
While Jones was dialing, he overheard Charlie Springle tell Matthew Houseal in the lounge that Russell was the "guy I was telling you about who was looking for a diagnosis."
"He who was looking for a diagnosis," Springle said again.
"It was the first I had seen Springle that day," Jones says.
A 2009 Mother's Day greeting from Leah Gates
Sgt. Pollock returned momentarily to tell Jones they let Russell return to his unit with his escort and that he was gone. She didn't explain why Russell was allowed to leave, but before Jones could react, an MP approached him about a different case Houseal was handling.
Jones sent the MP to Houseal and returned to the phones, calling Camp Stryker's chaplain.
"Glad you called," Capt. Keough said. Russell just commandeered a vehicle and took his escort's weapon, Keough explained.
"I told him we needed to use all resources possible to find Russell," Jones says. Then a phone rang in the OIC's office next door. The OIC—Officer in Charge—was out. The receiver from Keough still in his hand, Jones reached through the connecting door and answered.
"Sir: I just wanted you to know that Sgt. Russell has commandeered a weapon," said a man who identified himself as Capt. Ake. "We think he may be going back to hurt the people who were trying to help...."
Jones heard a single shot mid-sentence. "I froze," he says. "The report was unbelievably jolting." Then more shots. He moved away from the sound, through office connecting doors that kept him out of the hallway. He came to a small recreation room at the other end of the building where people were crouched. He kept going.
"I went out a window in the occupational therapy office," Jones says. "I saw Lt. Keener and another soldier ahead of me. I followed the barriers around to the next building and told people there a shooting was going on and to call the MPs."
Keener had done something Jones considered heroic: gunfire and splinters bursting through wood panel walls, the Navy psychologist jammed a chair against the door, slowing Russell just long enough so that he and his soldier-client could slip out his office window.
Matt Houseal (center), Palmer Station physician, South Pole
Jones did not set foot in the Camp Liberty Combat Stress Center again. For hours after the shootings, he stood with other survivors in 110° desert heat giving statements and waiting for a debriefing that never came.
"I thought they'd do a lengthy psychiatric forensics analysis, go through everything with a fine toothed comb," Jones says. "But that never happened."
That night, Jones returned to the can that he shared with Matthew Houseal, who had served as a physician from the freezing Antarctic to the deserts of the Middle East. Surrounded by Houseal's personal effects—his clothes, his family pictures, faint smells that prompt powerful memories—Jones crashed, contemplating suicide himself.
A black Army chaplain from a Christian church in Wisconsin prayed with him and helped himthrough.
"Houseal and Springle were my friends," Jones says. "Charlie and I had gotten very close—we had a tremendous amount of respect for each other. Matt Houseal was a man I lived with, day and night. He left a huge, loving family behind, his wife and lots of children."
Jones stops here, in tears. He's a stoic man, and it's the first time during our eight hours of interviews that he breaks down. He finishes with something about not killing himself because he didn't want John Russell to claim yet one more victim.
Investigators cordoned off the stress center as a crime scene and split the staff into different groups. To get himself back on the horse, Jones—whose three month tour was up in a few days—re-upped for another three months.
"Staffing was short until August. I felt my unit needed me and I needed them," he says. "I also thought it would have sent a terrible signal had I left so soon after the killings."
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10 Things On The Internet That Are Surprisingly Old
By Nathan Gibson on November 11, 2014 Technology
The Internet plays such an important role in our everyday life that it's easy to forget it only become widespread in the last 15 years. Before then the Internet was used by a select few and far less often than it is now. Yet it may surprise you to know that there are things on the Internet that are far older than they initially seem to be. In some cases, the Internet is simply taking advantage of technology that's decades old.
10. The "@" Symbol
The "@" symbol has become one of the most easily recognizable and most used characters on a keyboard. Its importance in the use of emails, and now in social media, makes it seem like something that came along with the Internet. The truth though is that the symbol has had a much longer life, dating back at least 500 years.
There are numerous theories about who invented the symbol and what exactly it's been used for in its long history. These include the proposition that it may have come evolved from other words, such as the Latin 'ad' and the French á, or that that it may have been a way for scribes to be more efficient in their writing.
The most widely accepted explanation is that it was used by merchants as useful shorthand for "at the rate of," with the first documented use coming from a Florentine merchant in 1536. Merchants used the symbol in this manner for a long period, but it eventually fell into obscurity until Ray Tomlinson decided to use the symbol to separate usernames from the computers that they were used on.
Since the early 2000s, the number of email accounts has grown significantly, with a 32% rise in the number of users between 2009 and 2013. People had largely been content with text messages and phone calls as their primary communication method before then.
However, that doesn't mean that email wasn't still around before. Hotmail, now known at Outlook, began life in 1996 and had over eight million subscribers by 1997. Email goes back even further than that — the system began as a way to send messages directly to another person's file directory and was first used by MIT in 1965, although users could only send these messages to others on the same computer network. The first actual email that was sent over a network rather than a single computer system came in 1971 thanks to Ray Tomlinson, with the system soon becoming widespread in academic and military institutions.
8. Emoticons
Emoticons are used in almost all forms of Internet communication, from message boards to emails to instant messages, but they have humble beginnings in Morse code. Early documents show that operators would use particular numbers to express emotions and feelings as shorthand, something of a precursor to what emoticons would become. Then, in 1881, satirical magazine Puck published some typographical emoticons, though not with the same intention that they're used today.
Graphical symbols used to express emotion became more mainstream thanks to the smiley face from Harvey Ball that inspired the creation of other graphics. The first use of emoticons from text used to express feelings came from Scott Fahlman on a message board in 1982. The use then spread across the web through other message boards and eventually evolved into what we use today.
7. Text Speak
The fact that text speak came to the mainstream through SMS messaging means that it would have been moderately popular before most people were using the Internet regularly. SMS became standard in mobile phones from around 1999, even though it was first introduced in 1992.
The practice of using shorthand words and acronyms in messages has now become commonplace not just on smartphones but also in emails, instant messaging and chatrooms. The first time such a system was commonly used was with telegrams, where operators would often charge per character. This forced customers into being economical with their words, with coded expressions and agreed upon abbreviations used. But text speak goes back even further than telegrams — a collection held by the British Library shows documents from the 19th century using such abbreviations, while a letter from 1917 to Winston Churchill has an "OMG" contained in it, with the writer even explaining the term.
6. Electronic Spam
Junk mail and spam isn't new. Mass-market printing allowed companies to send junk mail advertising their products or services through the mail, filling up people's homes with paper that in nearly half of cases is thrown away unread.
The practice has now spread to the digital realm. In addition to physical paper filling up your mailbox, Internet users have the joy of having their inboxes bombarded by spam every single day. Having unwanted electronic advertisements sent directly to users is nothing new though — it's over 150 years old.
In 1864, a dental surgery sent a large number of unsolicited telegrams to various people in London informing them of their new services. Predictably, most of the recipients were less than welcoming to what was the first instance of electronic spam. Other businesses soon followed that example and spam has been with us ever since.
5. Selfies
The craze of people taking "selfies" has grown to such an extent that smartphones now come with front facing cameras to allow them to be taken much more easily. Whether it's at a club, a concert or a tourist destination, you'll probably see someone taking a photo of themselves on a fairly regular basis. Heck, even monkeys are getting in on the act.
And that's nothing new. A letter from the Russian Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna speaks of a photograph that she took of herself in the mirror, much like the type of photos you see on Facebook. Similar photos from the same time exist, showing that the process was at least somewhat widespread. The first selfie is widely believed to be a photograph taken by Robert Cornelius. The American photographer created the portrait in 1839, making the selfie at least 175 years old.
4. Online Gaming
Xbox Live, PlayStation Network and other platforms like Steam and Origin have made online gaming incredibly popular. They allow people to connect with others from all around the world to play a multitude of games. Online multiplayer has evolved to be one of the most important aspects of gaming, with developers spending as much time creating them as single player experiences.
While consoles like the Xbox have helped make online multiplayer mainstream since 2002, gamers have been able to play with others through the Internet for far longer. Doom was released in 1993 and became one of the most famous shooters of all time, thanks in part to its online deathmatch mode. Sega meanwhile introduced an online service in 1990 known as Meganet.
However, the first fully online game came out more than 40 years ago. John Daleske and Silas Warner created Empire in 1973, allowing players to control a spaceship and battle with up to 30 players at a time.
3. 419 Scams
One of the most common types of spam that people receive today are 419 scams. These try to trick people into handing over their bank details so that a businessman or royal can smuggle money out of their country. In exchange for allowing your bank account to transfer the funds, they promise to pay the victim a share of the wealth.
Even before email was widespread, fraudsters commonly used the same con but with the assistance of snail mail. It was a popular scam at least 20 years ago in Nigeria, with criminals sending letters to victims through the postal system. And the basic outline of the con has been going since the 16th century — then it was known as the "Spanish Prisoner" scam and involved an apparent prisoner who needed someone to pay his bail so he could be released from jail. In exchange, the prisoner would give the victim a share of some treasure or savings.
2. Denial-of-service Attacks
DoS attacks are actions designed to make a website, network or computer system unavailable. The attackers do this by flooding the target with requests so that it can't communicate with legitimate users, effectively taking the target offline. The most common occurrence of DoS attacks happen when hackers try to take websites offline.
DoS attacks are far from the first time that a technique has been used to prevent technology from operating in its usual way. Black faxes were a common way for pranksters and disgruntled recipients of fax spam to get their revenge on companies. Essentially, the attackers would send a fax machine multiple pages filled entirely with black tone. This served a number of purposes. It forced the fax machine to use huge amounts of ink, which was expensive, and it forced the machine to shut down. The attack also stopped others from communicating through fax, potentially forcing the recipient from being able to conduct any of their business.
1. The Internet
What most people think of as the Internet officially went live in 1991. But the World Wide Web, a way of searching the Internet using specific characters, was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989. The CERN employee made the software for the World Wide Web available freely, which helped in getting users to adopt it and eventually made it widespread.
The Internet had humble beginnings in the 1960s thanks to networks such as ARPANET. This allowed universities to communicate with each other over a closed system. Networks from that time weren't compatible with others, preventing communication across separate networks. Later systems such as BITNET and USENET allowed users to access messages from different servers, yet there was still no real unifying system to connect all of the networks together until Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web.
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5minutes on November 11, 2014 7:29 am
A couple of other notes about online gaming:
1. The first home video game system I'm aware of to have a downloadable game service was the Atari 2600. Over GameLine, people could download games, get news, stock info, sports scores, e-mail, banking, forums, etc. – all on their little Atari 2600. It didn't provide cooperative or competitive gaming, but it did let people pay for game downloads that would last 5-10 plays. The service was ultimately discontinued and the technology was used to form a company called Quantum Link that would provide similar services for the Commodore. Eventually, this company was re-named America Online.
2. While it wasn't the first, one of the big jumps in online gaming popularity came in the late 80's and early 90's over dial-up BBS doors, specifically with a game called Trade Wars, a space simulator that let people fight each other in a massive online world.
Shell Harris on November 11, 2014 12:36 pm
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Griff on November 10, 2015 4:04 pm
A lot of the original online games can still be played. Cyber1.org is the place to go for a sign on. Many different styles of multi user games are still running. There is still a weekly Empire battle being played by some of the original players. If you are interested in experiencing the game first hand: get a sign on; Down load the terminal program; Open the terminal and the keyboard shortcut help window (The first command you'll need to learn is the stop command, ctrl S) ; Start poking around the system.
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So really. What IS science? Mere miracles?
PZ Myers, recently challenged to answer the question What is science?, wrote several definitions. This is the one that I think sums up science best.
#3: Science is a process. It is a method for exploring the natural world by making observations, drawing inferences, and testing those inferences with further experimentation and observation. It isn't so much the data generated as it is a way of thinking critically about the universe and our own interpretations of it.
Yet, in the same century, same language, this is being said:
Finally, notice that professor Dawkins and his fellow evolutionists offer no proof at all for any of their speculations, for the simple reason that there is no way to prove them. One might as plausibly speculate that the sun was originally blue when the earth was formed; no one can disprove it. Because they are "scientists," we are required to take their word for it. - Thomas E. Brewton, Rational Evolutionary Hypothesis? Intellectual Conservative
What a neatly convoluted argument. Does the author know that no scientist worth the term 'scientist' would say the sun was originally blue unless there was an observation made, and then a process followed that led to that postulation? Or does the author work on the assumption that people think that scientists are declaratorians — clerics in white coats? And is there a good reason for the author to assume this?
Science, good science, despite the way it's often portrayed as 'ask the experts' and can come across as smug, never purports to know definitively; never has the assurance that nevadamistermom, one of the comment-posters displays in agreement with Brewton's essay: "I have yet to find questions that creationists cannot answer."
Nevadamistermom says: The problem boils down to this: evolutionists simply can't get past the fundamental premise made by creationists; namely, that there is an uncreated Being who designed everything. However, once you accept this premise, the evidence for a Designer rather than random mutation is really quite overwhelming. All the observable data "fits" the creationist model much better than the evolutionist model.
There's certainly been a lot of evolution in answer-creation since I was in the US back in 1995, when I was invited to speak about Australia at an elementary school. I showed slides of the bush — kangaroo tracks, old-man banksias — and a beach with a rockshelf thick with fossils. "These lived back in the time of the dinosaurs," I said to the class of six-year olds. After that class and before the next, I was pulled aside by the principal. "Everybody loved your talk," she said, "but please don't talk about dinosaurs."
Since that question has now been settled so well that it got a letter in Nature, I will skip to other questions—questions that science has failed to answer.
1.Did God put reproductive organs and nipples on man because He has them, too?
2. What does He do with His?
3. If God made Adam like a Ken doll, and then added these items, did He fashion them during the operation in which He took Adam's rib? This would be efficient, so it seems the most intelligent time.
4. Why, despite the Book of Genesis, have scientists gotten away with the propaganda for hundreds of years, that men and women have the same number of ribs?
I look forward to the answers, but in the meantime, I'll stick my neck out and say what I think is so confusing, and wrong, with science today: too often, science is told in the language of religion.
David Sinclair believes resveratrol is a miracle drug.
That is the first line of a recent 'news' story. (A votre santé: now in pill form? by Erika Check, Nature news, 2 November 2006)
Later we read, if we bother, that he doesn't have enough evidence to show that it works in humans, but that after a series of experiments, he and his team were able to show a finding that . . .
News stories are usually written without the explanation. The miracle is the message, and if it's not the cure, there's the inevitable let-down, and more confusion as to what is science, what is mumbo-jumbo, or Lourdes-based cure.
Sense About Science has garnered quite a bit of coverage, and its motives could be pure, but if so, I don't understand why the organisation doesn't put its 'answers' online, and why it isn't more transparent. SAS fosters more of the illusion amongst the public that science is answer-based and not a continual process of questions that are tentatively answered, only to have those answers over-ridden by what often seem to be downright fiendish 'surprises'. In topics such as xenotransplantation, for instance, scientists are quite split amongst those who say that the science (and evolution itself) is ignored when it comes to zoonoses, and those who some might say are dazzled by possibilities in the short term (the Sense About scientists?) but call themselves pragmatists and the others junk-science fear-mongers. They say that science is above all, a constant weighing of possibilities: risks against benefits—and that they have assessed the risks with 'real science'. Scientists were not on one side only when it came to BSE-CJD, but the early public assurances in the name of science were as all-knowingly faith-based as Nevadamistermom's, in her little old book.
Today, more than any time in our history, the public needs to know not only what science is, but what scientists are capable of. Today, as scientists can do more in and to the natural world than anything humans have done before, we need to assess cause and effect. We need to fully discuss implications, but to do that, we need to be able to have a broader knowledge of not only what is possible in the life sciences, but what the magic and miracles of life and the natural world are. Otherwise, xenotransplantation and work on retroviruses are just more black boxes, or stories that are written about in the media only in terms that religious 'ethicists' pick, or 'trust me. I'm a scientist (but don't ask questions)', or even worse: the ugh or cool labels that 'breakthroughs' and 'research' wear when they appear as 'news'.
We are capable of change beyond what we can change, though we act as if the world is infinitely conquerable. We've got a 19th century mentality still, even down to using up the 'miracle' of antibiotics within a generation and playing now with viruses as if they and not we, have the brains. Wherever there is a chance to do exciting work, there is an arrogance, especially when it comes to the natural world. Many scientists have called for a measured approach to discovery when there is danger on a species scale. We have so many evolution-given gifts. I hope that we as humans, progress to the stage of using them, though the evidence at the moment shows that so far . . . Its solution: lab workers "will be trained to stop breathing".
Uncertain Science . . . Uncertain World by Henry N. Pollack (Cambridge University Press, 2003) is an excellent book for explaining science — the full contradictory world of science, all its tensions in expectations and perceptions. Above all, it stresses the core of science, the excitement of the unknown, the excitement of the search, the lack of any point as end, and the lack of any reason to want to reach that point. I recommend the whole book, but will quote just a little here.
When scientists acknowledge that they do not know everything about a complex natural phenomenon such as the spread of disease through an ecosystem, the public sometimes translates that to mean that scientists do not know anything about the subject. That, in turn, leads to a loss of public credibility in the capabilities of the scientific community. A byproduct of the loss of credibility is an all-too-frequent willingness of the general public to entertain flimsy pronouncements from kooks, charlatans, and marginal skeptics. With an air of scientific authority and certainty, these pseudo-scientists make assertions that have never been subjected to the rigorous probing that is the foundation of genuine science . . .
The problems with understanding science begin very early, with some inadequacies in the educational system. In a very important sense, children are born as natural scientists. They emerge into a strange world and are curious about everything surrounding them. They look, they touch, they listen, smell and taste. They make observations of this new world, and they process and evaluate the stream of information coming at them from every direction. They explore, experiment, and learn from their mistakes. Then they go to school . . . science in school is, more often than not, presented as a recitation of accomplishment rather than as a process of inquiry.
So science is confusing. Students are taught science as catechism, and its achievements are explained to the public, even to scientists, in religious terms — miracles, magic, black box.
No wonder then, that there's confusion explaining the world of the unexplained arcane. The funny thing, though, is that while 'science news' is miracles, the most common 'science' that people come upon is in consumer packaging, from sweet and soft drink labels to cosmetics.
And there, in ageing especially, people have learnt that miracles don't happen.
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KooKee said...
Hello Anna,Never liked the term
"Scientist". "Observer" would fit,
then connecting the dots of what's observed.The old saying of fooling some of the people all of the time....ect. until someone looks behind the curtain,sometimes it just takes a long time for that to happen.
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Wild boar attack leaves four injured in Berlin
Animal shot dead by police after biting three victims during rampage through residential neighbourhood of German capital
Tue 30 Oct 2012 06.18 EDT First published on Tue 30 Oct 2012 06.18 EDT
The number of wild boars in Germany has grown in recent years due to a milder climate. Photograph: Timm Schamberger/AFP/Getty Images
Berlin authorities say they shot and killed a wild boar after it attacked and injured four people including a police officer in a residential neighbourhood.
Police said the 120kg (265lb) boar bit a 74-year-old man on the back and leg and knocked a 74-year-old woman to the ground in the Charlottenburg area of the German capital on Monday afternoon.
It also bit a 24-year-old woman who escaped to safety by climbing on to a parked car. All three victims were treated in hospital. When a police officer arrived to tackle the boar, it attacked him and cut his leg. The officer pulled his gun and shot the animal.
Wild boars are relatively common in Berlin, although they rarely cause problems beyond digging up gardens.


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Shadow of War might be near impossible to balance, which is good
With more and more features of Middle-earth: Shadow of War being revealed as the release date draws closer, it is becoming increasingly obvious that all of the game's systems will be a nightmare to balance. For once, this may actually turn into an advantage for the game.
There were several relatively easy ways to break Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. One could dominate every orc in sight once the skill becomes available and completely mess with the nemesis system, or invest heavily and early into Talion's shuriken attack to almost entirely break the combat. While it may seem counter intuitive, games and especially sandboxy ones can benefit greatly from situations in which players manage to break them in one way or another.
Middle-earth: Shadow of War - Nemesis intro
Shadow of War has so far presented an impressive number of interlocking systems and mechanics. All of the old features still seem to be in place; stealth, assassinations, beast and orc domination, the old combat and nemesis systems, weapon and skill upgrades and collectibles - all of which look like they have been improved with more depth and options. On top of those, now there are siege, warfare, leveling, and even flight systems and mechanics in place.
Monolith Middle-earth: Shadow of War
It is relatively clear at this point that all these moving and interacting individual parts will be a minor nightmare to balance, and breaking or abusing the game's systems will most likely be a constant possibility. Monolith might even be counting on players to toy with the game beyond the breaking point.
Shadow of Mordor was in many aspects a power fantasy. A revenge story, visceral combat, the domination mechanic, the list of elements pointing to this simple truth is a long one, and that is perfectly fine - whatever sells your game.
The stroke of genius that might end up being in Shadow of War - by design or by accident - is the ultimate fulfilment of that power fantasy. The moment in which player not only triumphs over the obstacles that the developers have placed in front of him, but over the developers themselves and the game as a whole, is rarely designed for intentionally. It is far to delicate a thing to achieve with ease, so studio's generally take a pass on the opportunity or just add in cheat codes.
There is no greater expression for this power fantasy than managing to break a game in some way. As long as the path to attaining this meta kind of goal isn't too obvious, Shadow of War might just have that crucial hidden thing going for it.
Monolith Middle-earth: Shadow of War - Overlord
We will know once we get our hands on Middle-earth: Shadow of War on 10 October 2017.
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