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Learning Tech 2012 Conference News January 27, 2012Posted by Eric Matas in News & Events.
Tags: Chicago, E-Learning 24/7, Learning Tech 2012, mLearning
Conference News!
This April, in Chicago, I will be speaking about mlearning design and strategy at Learning Tech 2012. I love Chicago. It's a city with an energy that makes events especially invigorating. I hope to see you there, April 23-25.
For more information, I contacted Courtney Green in New York to ask her about the conference:
Courtney, we know I will be at the conference representing eLearning Weekly Magazine, who else will attendees have the chance to meet, and what companies will be represented?
We have a great line-up of speakers, including Kevin Munson, Chief Learning Officer from Sears Holdings Corporation, Andrea Franklin, Educational Instructor, FedEx Custom Critical and Kacie Walters, Global Knowledge Management Lead, GE Healthcare plus many more!
Who should attend this event in Chicago?
Those who want to launch their learning to the next level and hear from innovative speakers to determine how you can elevate learning and maximize results. The event is focused on improving learning strategies with educational technologies across the corporate world, plus a special focus day for K-12 and higher-education professionals.
Are there any sessions that will share specific and practical information that attendees can take and implement right away?
We have a number of workshops, interactive sessions and case studies that will allow attendees to instantly apply! Including:
- Case Study: Integrating the iPad to Improve Learning – Michelle Burke, Director Learning & Development, Sears Holdings Corporation
- Strategies for Effective Mobile Learning – Eric Matas Editor, eLearning Weekly Magazine
- Workshop A: Interactive "Learning Station"- New Tools and Technologies – Craig Weiss, CEO, E-Learning 24/7
Cool, I love Craig. He's terrific. How can people register or find out more details?
Please register by visiting www.learningtechevent.com. You can also email me, email@example.com, or call 1-800-882-8684.
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Linux distribution vendor Canonical will soon release an updated version of its production-ready server operating system, the company announced Monday.
Ubuntu 10.04 Long Term Support (LTS) Server Edition will be ready for downloading, for no charge, beginning on April 29, along with the desktop edition of 10.04.
[ Canonical will also offer a new version of its Ubuntu OS for the desktop. | See InfoWorld's report on the netbook OS Cannonical also offered a last fall. | Track the latest trends in open source with InfoWorld's Open Sources blog and Technology: Open Source newsletter. ]
Like other Canonical LTS releases, this Linux kernel-based OS has been designed for users who require long-term support and maximum stability, said Matt Asay, the company's chief operating officer. It will be supported with free maintenance and security updates for five years. (Canonical's non-LTS releases typically are supported for 18 months.)
Typically, Canonical releases a LTS server edition every two years, the last one being Ubuntu 8.04.
This will be the first version of an LTS server to feature the Eucalyptus cloud platform, which is part of the company's Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, Asay said. This software allows an organization to run a cloud service from an internal server rather than go with a public cloud provider.
This release will also feature a number of other new packages, such as the CouchDB document-oriented database, Puppet configuration management software and Django Web framework.
Updates to almost all the existing packages will be in the new release as well.
The LTS edition also features some enhancements that should appeal to enterprise users, such as pre-configured AppArmor settings for some packages, kernel hardening measures such as address space layout randomization, and encrypted home directories.
Server versions of Ubuntu 9.10 or Ubuntu 8.04 LTS can be upgraded directly from the command line, also starting on April 29.
Ubuntu is not the only Linux distribution getting an update. Last week, beta versions of both Fedora 13 and OpenSuse were released.

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So many questions to answer, so little space and time! The two I picked this week are ones that often come up in recipe writing and will hopefully be useful to many of you.
As always, if you have questions to ask, send'em along to firstname.lastname@example.com, and please include your Serious Eats user name in your email. All questions will be read, though unfortunately not all can be answered.
"How big is a shallot?"
"I have always wanted to know this: when a recipe calls for one shallot, do you think that means a whole one which includes those two separate inner "halves"? These sometimes come together wrapped in their paper. Or just one of those inner "halves?""
Rule of thumb: If a recipe doesn't specify quantities in a precise manner, then you probably shouldn't trust that recipe. That is, if a book or resource can't bother to be precise when writing their recipes, chances are they weren't that precise when testing them either. Look for sources that make it clear what they mean.
On Serious Eats, every new recipe we publish will contain both approximate number of physical ingredients used ("1 large onion" or "3 medium stalks celery"), but we'll also include the volume you should be working with ("2 medium carrots, diced fine, (about 1 1/2 cups)")*
*With the exception of recipes printed directly from existing cookbooks with permission from the publisher.
As for shallots in particular, it's difficult to tell whether one shallot is going to split into one, two, three, or even four cloves when you peel it, so when our recipes call for "one medium shallot," it's referring to the entire thing, no matter how many cloves it splits into. We use the following basic equivalencies:
- 1 Large Shallot = 1/2 cup minced or sliced
- 1 Medium Shallot = 1/4 cup minced or sliced
- 1 Small Shallot = 2 tablespoons minced or sliced
And for the record, it's the amount that matters, not the size. If a recipe calls for "1 large shallot, minced (about 1/2 cup)," go ahead and get that half cup of shallots from any combination of sizes you'd like.
"How do I know my curry paste is toasted sufficiently?"
"Lots of recipes of eastern origin instruct you to sauté up a mixture of spices "until the oil separates." I'm thinking specifically of Thai curries cooked in coconut milk or Indian masalas sautéed in pureed tomatoes. Is it really an indication that the spices are indeed 'cooked' and it's time to proceed with the recipe?"
It may seems like a relatively arbitrary thing to say "until the oil separates," but it's actually a much more precise measure than you may think. To understand why, you have to take a closer look at what's in your pot when you start a curry. We've got:
- Ground or pounded spices, herbs, and aromatics. These are the main component of curry pastes, along with salt. They're what give your food its flavor.
- Water. This can come either from the herbs and aromatics themselves, or from water-based additives like fish sauce or soy sauce.
- Fat. These are generally added, though some vegetables do contain their own fat which make it into the paste. In the case of Thai curries, this often comes directly from coconut milk, which, like regular milk, is an emulsion of fat in water.
In order to maximize the flavor and complexity of a curry, it's important to toast the spices and aromatics at a relatively high temperature—in the 300 to 400°F range. This toasting causes a cascade of chemical reactions which take a few simple flavor compounds and transform them into hundreds of new ones.
But here's the problem: As we just said, curry pastes contain water, and this water acts as a built-in limiter to how hot the paste can get. Water evaporates at 212°F, and until most of the water in a paste is driven off, you'll have a hard time getting that paste hot enough to toast your spices.
Luckily, as your paste cooks and water evaporates, eventually there is so little water left that the fat droplets in the paste come together and coalesce, breaking out of the paste and forming a distinct, oily layer in the bottom of the pan. It's only after this layer forms that your paste can get hot enough to start toasting. And be careful, because once it hits that threshold, it'll very rapidly increase in temperature.
Just how rapidly? Well consider that in order to change one gram of water to steam, it takes 2,257 Joules of energy. In order to raise one gram of oil by 1°F, you need only a single Joule of energy. So with the energy it takes to evaporate a single gram of water, you can raise the temperature of a single gram of the oil that's left behind by over 2,000°F! No wonder it's so easy to burn curry paste!


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Sandy's wake could make voting difficult
- In New York, state officials won't rule out extra day of voting
- New Jersey will use military trucks as mobile polling places
- Connecticut's top elections official worries about lack of communication
Election officials in the storm-battered Northeast say voting will go on next Tuesday -- but that relocated polling places, mobile polling trucks and even an extra day of voting are possible.
About 80 polling places in Connecticut are still without power as of Friday morning, Connecticut Secretary of State Denise Merrill said. Although most of those should be back up by Tuesday, "some are not going to be usable for safety reasons, even if we get power back," she said.
Another problem: Some schools that had planned to close on Election Day to accommodate polls now say they can't afford to miss any more time.
The state is already planning to consolidate some polling places, but Merrill says that's a last option. "The worst thing you can do is move polling places. It's very inconvenient to voters, and most people don't have communication right now," she said via cellphone from Trumbull, Conn., where she was touring polling places.
In New Jersey, where nearly half the state is without power after Superstorm Sandy's Monday blow, Gov. Chris Christie has said the last thing people are thinking about is how to vote.
"We'll be ready for Election Day one way or the other, and people will have the opportunity to vote in the election, but we're just going to have to see where we are," Christie said Wednesday.
New Jersey Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, who as secretary of State is in charge of the state Division of Elections, encouraged voters to vote early, in person at county clerks' offices any day through Tuesday.
"The backup plan is pretty simple," Guadagno said Thursday. "All the assets that the president of the United States delivered to the governor yesterday, including Department of Defense trucks, will be used to create polling places."
So even if a polling place has been completely destroyed or lacks power, a truck will be on the same site to provide a mobile polling station.
The main phone line for the New York City Board of Elections has been out since Monday, and election offices in Manhattan and Staten Island have been closed all week because of a lack of power.
City and state officials are still assessing the damage, and a spokesman for the New York State Board of Elections told Gannett News Service that an extra day of voting is "a possibility," since state law allows such a contingency if there's less than 25% turnout in a jurisdiction because of a natural disaster. "I can't rule it out, but it would be determined after Election Day," said spokesman John Conklin.
Contributing from Gannett News Service: Jessica Bakeman in Albany, N.Y., Michael Symons in Trenton, N.J.


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Last summer, at the European Centre for Journalism round table on data driven journalism, I remember saying something along the lines of "your eyes can often do the stats for you", the implication being that our perceptual apparatus is good at pattern detection, and can often see things in the data that most of us would miss using the very limited range of statistical tools that we are either aware of, or are comfortable using.
I don't know how good a statistician you need to be to distinguish between Anscombe's quartet, but the differences are obvious to the eye:
Another shamistician (h/t @daveyp) heuristic (or maybe it's a crapistician rule of thumb?!) might go something along the lines of: "if you use the right visualisations, you don't necessarily need to do any statistics yourself". In this case, the implication is that if you choose a viualisation technique that embodies or implements a statistical process in some way, the maths is done for you, and you get to see what the statistical tool has uncovered.
Now I know that as someone working in education, I'm probably supposed to uphold the "should learn it properly" principle… But needing to know statistics in order to benefit from the use of statistical tools seems to me to be a massive barrier to entry in the use of this technology (statistics is a technology…) You just need to know how to use the technology appropriately, or at least, not use it "dangerously"…
So to this end ("democratising access to technology"), I thought it was about time I started to play with R, the statistical programming language (and rival to SPSS?) that appears to have a certain amount of traction at the moment given the number of books about to come out around it… R is a command line language, but the recently released R-Studio seems to offer an easier way in, so I thought I'd go with that…
Flicking through A First Course in Statistical Programming with R, a book I bought a few weeks ago in the hope that the osmotic reading effect would give me some idea as to what it's possible to do with R, I found a command line example showing how to create a simple box plot (box and whiskers plot) that I could understand enough to feel confident I could change…
Having an F1 data set/CSV file to hand (laptimes and fuel adjusted laptimes) from the China 2001 grand prix, I thought I'd see how easy it was to just dive in… And it was 2 minutes easy… (If you want to play along, here's the data file).
Here's the command I used:
boxplot(Lap.Time ~ Driver, data=lapTimeFuel)
Remembering a comment in a Making up the Numbers blogpost (Driver Consistency – Bahrain 2010) about the effect on laptime distributions from removing opening, in and out lap times, a quick Google turned up a way of quickly stripping out slow times. (This isn't as clean as removing the actual opening, in and out lap times – it also removes mistake laps, for example, but I'm just exploring, right? Right?!;-)
lapTime2 <- subset(lapTimeFuel, Lap.Time < 110.1)
I could then plot the distribution in the reduced lapTime2 dataset by changing the original boxplot command to use (data=lapTime2). (Note that as with many interactive editors, using your keyboard's up arrow displays previously entered commands in the current command line; so you can re-enter a previously entered command by hitting the up arrow a few times, then entering return. You can also edit the current command line, using the left and right arrow keys to move the cursor, and the delete key to delete text.)
Prior programming experience suggests this should also work…
boxplot(Lap.Time ~ Driver, data=subset(lapTimeFuel, Lap.Time < 110))
Something else I tried was to look at the distribution of fuel weight adjusted laptimes (where the time penalty from the weight of the fuel in the car is removed):
boxplot(Fuel.Adjusted.Laptime ~ Driver, data=lapTimeFuel)
Looking at the release notes for the latest version of R-Studio suggests that you can build interactive controls into your plots (a bit like Mathematica supports?). The example provided shows how to change the x-range on a plot:
plot(cars, xlim=c(0,x.max)),
Hmm… can we set the filter value dynamically I wonder?
boxplot(Lap.Time ~ Driver, data=subset(lapTimeFuel, Lap.Time < maxval)),
Seems like it…?:-) We can also combine interactive controls:
manipulate(boxplot(Lap.Time ~ Driver, data=subset(lapTimeFuel, Lap.Time < maxval),outline=outline),maxval=slider(100,140),outline = checkbox(FALSE, "Show outliers"))
Okay – that's enough for now… I reckon that with a handful of commands on a crib sheet, you can probably get quite a lot of chart plot visualisations done, as well as statistical visualisations, in the R-Studio environment; it also seems easy enough to build in interactive controls that let you play with the data in a visually interactive way…
The trick comes from choosing visual statistics approaches to analyse your data that don't break any of the assumptions about the data that the particular statistical approach relies on in order for it to be applied in any sensible or meaningful way.
[This blog post is written, in part, as a way for me to try to come up with something to say at the OU Statistics Group's one day conference on Visualisation and Presentation in Statistics. One idea I wanted to explore was: visualisations are powerful; visualisation techniques may incorporate statistical methods or let you "see" statistical patterns; most people know very little statistics; that shouldnlt stop them being able to use statistics as a technology; so what are we going to do about it? Feedback welcome… Err….?!]


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Ocean Boulevard closed in Hampton, North Hampton and Rye
HAMPTON — Ocean Boulevard was closed to traffic shortly after 7 a.m. today because of the severe flooding combined with boulders and debris from breached seawalls in the road.
Officials in Rye and North Hampton took similar precautions, closing the road in those communities.
The flooding began to be a traffic problem around 7 a.m. and within minutes the Hampton DPW barricaded the road.
Predictions were that the storm today would cause problems at the high tide this morning all along the New Hampshire coast. That flooding is expected to last at least two hours or more after the peak of the high tide.
At 7:15 a.m. Rye and North Hampton police departments also closed Route 1-A/Ocean Boulevard from the intersection of Appledore Avenue and Ocean Boulevard in North Hampton. The closure makes all of Ocean Boulevard in North Hampton impassable and drivers should not attempt to travel the coast in that area until further notice, police said in a joint press release.
Rye and North Hampton police reported severe flooding in low lying areas of Ocean Boulevard, along with small debris and large boulders being tossed into the roadway.
The North Hampton Police Department already responded to one disabled vehicles at the intersection of Ocean Boulevard after a driver ignored the signs at the Hampton/North Hampton town line notifying motorists of the dangerous conditions.
At 7:58 a.m., Rye Police Chief Kevin Walsh was also forced to request the state Department of Transportation to close another large section of Ocean Boulevard in Rye. The intersection of Washington Road to Rye Harbor has been posted with signs notifying motorists that Ocean Boulevard is closed.
Updates on the travel conditions along Ocean Boulevard will be released later, but until then, North Hampton Police Chief Brian Page and Walsh are urging motorists to avoid Ocean Boulevard until further notice.


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Liebermann, Max
Liebermann, Max mäks lē´bərmän˝ [key], 1847–1935, German genre painter and etcher. He went to Paris in 1873, where he was impressed by the Barbizon school of painters. In Holland he was influenced by Frans Hals and Jozef Israëls. His early works were realistic, but beginning about 1890 he developed a style closely related to impressionism. As leader of the Berlin secession group (1898–1910), he was instrumental in bringing French impressionism to Germany, where younger artists were already moving toward expressionism. Liebermann depicted the life of the working classes, landscapes, outdoor group studies, and painted more than 200 portraits. A secular Jew and one of his country's most honored artists, he was president of the Prussian Academy of Arts (1920–32) during the Weimar Republic. In his last year, however, he was forbidden to paint by the Nazis and his works were removed from museums and private collections. His painting The Ropewalk in Edam (1904) is in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
See B. C. Gilbert, ed., Max Liebermann: From Realism to Impressionism (2005).
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Thousands attend Salinas Valley Food & Wine Festival
Crowds filled the streets in Oldtown on Saturday for the third annual Salinas Valley Food & Wine Festival.
VIDEO: Salinas Valley Food & Wine Festival a big success
Organizers said this year there are more vendors, more entertainment and more local food.
"It's almost entirely local," said Michelle Roth, chairperson of the event. "A lot of local wineries, local breweries. So we're really showing off what the Salinas Valley and Monterey County have to offer."
Visitors to the event said they enjoyed tasting a huge lineup of local wine, food and brews while strolling through the streets of downtown and wandering through the historic museum displays of The Steinbeck Center. There were also chef demonstrations and a Kids Zone.
Attendance is expected to exceed the 5,000 who attended last year.
Organizers said they hope the festival will help bring people back to Oldtown and help improve the image of Salinas, a city often overshadowed by crime.
The festival is a completely volunteer-run event with proceeds donated to local charity.


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...A variety of activities in unique destinations...Tracing a ragged line down the west coast of Greece at no more than 30km form the mainland, the Ionian Islands form an independent group of small and large islands, each with its own distinctive character. They comprise a core group of seven – Corfu, Paxi, Antipaxi, Kefalonia, Ithaca, Lefkada and Zakynthos.
Traces of settlements on the islands date back to the Paleolithic period, while Homer's epics provide valuable evidence regarding their early years in history. Their position at the south of the Adriatic put them at the mercy of northerly invaders, primarily the Venetians and later, the British, whose cultures fused with those of the islands. Importing language, art, music, law, architecture, education and local government.
Sailors, merchants and businessmen, energetic and ingenious, the inhabitants of the islands are polite and hospitable and have gained distinction in literature, science and the arts.Boasting a rich cuisine based on the bounty of nature, the islands are a gourmet's paradise particularly renown for the fresh and delicious fish and vegetables available in abundance, as well as meat dishes, superb cheeses and exquisite wines.
A variety of relaxing trekking routes through the lowlands and of hiking on foot or on bike is still the best way to discover the hidden charms of the islands. Vast tracts of forest cloak the rugged landscape with peaks topping 5.000 feet, while plenty of beautiful golden beaches with hundreds of secluded white coves provide small havens to sun lovers. There are over 1.200 different species of flowers and plants and a local fauna that boasts at least 30 different species of birds. Loggerhead turtles (Carreta – Carreta) has used the southern shores of Zakynthos to nest and lay their eggs.
Age-old events are still celebrated here, with the festivities during the Greek Orthodox Holy Week and Easter being the most impressive. Numerous art galleries house exhibitions featuring works of international and local artists and various romantic outdoor locations provide the venue for a variety of events, ranging from rock concerts to classical music performances, ballet, theatrical plays and dances. In September 2003, the local government of the Ionian Islands organized a seminar on "Cultural Tourism in the Balkan Countries".
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Learn to love the person on the inside
I was two miles into my run, and something was really bothering me.
It wasn't the fact that my sock was bunching up in my shoe, though that was becoming increasingly annoying by the minute.
What was more troubling was what I was watching on the gym television. Oprah's guest for the day was Geneen Roth, a weight-loss writer, motivational speaker and author of the book "Women, Food and God." The topic du jour -- seeing food in a healthy light and loving yourself regardless of weight -- clearly resonated with women in the audience and presumably with women across the country.
But I found myself deeply saddened to realize that so many women, overweight and otherwise, struggle with their weight because, at the core, they go through life wondering if they are good enough. For as far as women have come professionally and socially, too many of us still feel unworthy.
That's not OK.
I'm not always thrilled with the way I look. Heck, I perpetually look four-months pregnant in the wrong outfit. But with age, I've learned to separate the way I look from the person I am.
I could drive myself nuts by obsessing over the stretch marks on my stomach, or by thinking about the way the skin wrinkles over my knees. But the fact is this: I use that stomach every time I swing a child into the air, and those knees each time I get eye-level with my little ones.
We live in such a visual, sexual society that it's easy to get trapped in the glossy world of magazines, where everyone is airbrushed, tightened and lifted to perfection. Somehow, we have to remind ourselves that beauty is not ultimately judged based on how you look in jeans.
I made a decision long ago that I was going to age gracefully. Of course, I was the ripe ol' age of 23 at the time. Wrinkles and gray hair were things the distant future was made of.
As I got older -- and wrinkles became inevitable -- I reconsidered my definition of "aging gracefully." It's become less of a physical thing and more of an attitude. The wrinkles are laugh lines from good memories. The stretch marks were a steppingstone to creating new life.
My body became a thing of function -- it can run and dance, cuddle and cook. I will never have the best body in the room, but that's a silly measurement of success anyway. Walk into enough rooms and you eventually will find someone who is thinner, stronger, taller or prettier than you. All you can do is be your best.
And that's why it's so vital for women to find acceptance within themselves. They need to realize that they are good enough, period. No amount of calorie counting or time in the gym is going to change that. It can make your legs stronger or your heart healthier, but it won't change your self-worth. You might go from a size 18 to a size 8, but you will still be as valuable as a human being. At the core, you'll be the same.
So who is on the inside? Because that's the girl you have to fall in love with. She'll be there, regardless of your looks or your age or your physical abilities, until the day you die. To search for something more is to chase something we'll never catch.
I ended my run that day with sore feet -- I've since sworn off those socks -- and sore legs. But more important, I had a hurting heart. It ached for the many women in this sisterhood who don't live up to their potential because they don't give themselves enough credit. They fight the same fight, day after day, because they don't see the beauty that is so obvious to everyone around them.
And as women, we're better than that.
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My Craftsy Family at work on a horse ranch outside Boulder, Co.
I've done many fun projects this year including a wonderful trip to Berlin for Samsung but the project that I had the absolute most fun with was without a doubt the Family Photojournalism class I taught for Craftsy.com. On one level I was the instructor but on another level I was most certainly a student and, in my time off, a very enchanted Colorado tourist.
It was right at the end of September when it all happened. It was steamy hot in Austin and when the Craftsy producers and I decided on our production dates I was happy to get out of town and head to Denver. We were to produce a 2.5 hour program which at its core is a training program for the person in a typical family to whom the responsibility for taking family photos falls. It's not a class about how to leverage the latest techniques or get the most out of frightfully expensive gear. My counterpart, Josh, was a real world dad who really did want to find out how to take better images of his kids at home, school and on vacation. He showed up with a hand-me-down Nikon D200, a 70-300mm kit lens and an 18-200mm lens that looked like it had been through a war, then a mud fight and finally a trip in the tumble dry setting on a clothes dryer. Instantly vintage.
My instruction of Josh would take place at Red Rocks Park, at his suburban Denver home and at a wonderful horse ranch with a crown of mountain peaks framing the background. We covered exposure, hand holding, tripod use, fill flash and even a bit of Lightroom post processing. And we had a blast following around Josh's wife and two adorable kids.
I was "on camera" for most of the adventure so I really didn't get to shoot much. We were depending on Josh's images to use for almost all of the "B-roll" and he came through like a pro. I stayed busy trying to remember which of three cameras to look at and trying to extemporaneously put together what I needed to say for each segment. (No teleprompter, no formal script and no cue cards!!!).
We worked with a great video crew on the project. Their job was to make me sound good, look good and keep me on track so we had what they needed to do the transitions and be able to piece together a two and a half hour program that made sense, taught the lessons and looked good.
The lessons for me were all about being on the other side of the camera. I'm used to shooting and directing but being directed and having to remember simple blocking (where to move and when) and deliver spoken content was a totally different experience. Things I took for granted as a photographer seemed really tough when I got put into the role of being "talent."
The biggest lesson is that doing multi-camera work on location requires more crew. In addition to producer/director: Pattie, we had a sound engineer, an editor/digital technician, camera operators, assistants and a make up person. We worked with a lot more gear than I usually do on my "heroic" one person shoots. And with the gear and the complexity of having to simultaneously shoot in multiple angles there is a certain inertia to getting set up and rolling for each shot. The crew used a jib for most of the scenes and that required several people to move it from one location to another. I needed a bit of rehearsal so I understood what we needed to cover, what would show and where I would end up when I stopped talking.
In most scenes we created some good back and forth with Josh so we had to make sure that we moved as a team and didn't trip over each other.
When you work in the outdoors, especially in public areas, the recording of sound becomes a very complex game requiring much patience and many "do-overs." I might really nail a good line only to have the audio declared "unusable" because of a throaty Harley Davidson motorcycle coming into aural range just near the end of my lines. On another afternoon we seemed to be "sound dodging" a number of private and commercial airplane flights and the attendant roar of engines.
At one point in the park I waited in the bright sun until car after car went by only to be interrupted by the arrival of trail hikers. But when the silence was on we hit it quickly and got our stuff done. In the down time I got to review the sound to hear just what the sound engineer was going for. With my eyes closed and headphones on I could hear every little chipmunk squeak or candy wrapper rustle you could imagine. It's only by dint of skillful microphone placement and careful timing that we were able to get what we needed. That, and a bucket of patience.
I learned by watching the camera operators the lesson that at least one camera always needs to keep moving. When you are cutting all the footage together being able to cut to moving shots, compressed shots and wide angle "establishing" shots goes a long way toward keeping a program visually interesting.
Another "miracle" of being the "talent" is that you don't have to worry about any of the details that are commonly fretted over when you are also the producer. I never worried about when lunch would arrive...or from where. Never needed to know which cooler had the sparkling water, that just seemed to appear at need. And I never needed to sweat the details of how things looked, a team of professionals was taking care of that for me. When we broke for the day each day I didn't have to load gear into cases, load cases into cars, re-pack for the next day, charge batteries, etc. I could hop into my rental car and head off to my hotel, to a nice restaurant or to one of the good museums in Denver for a bit of site seeing. Where my hands on shooting days generally turn into marathon sessions of both shooting and logistics my talent days ended at a reasonable time and required only a tiny modicum of homework: review the outline for the next day.
I loved being on the other side of the camera but you probably already guessed that I'm a bit of a ham. It's fun to think that I have something of value to share after nearly 30 years in this business/art/craft.
When I flew back home after spending eight days in Denver (we did a shorter production the week before) I was tired and drained but a bit sad. I'd come to enjoy this new, fun work and I was melancholy to be leaving it behind. When I got back to Austin I noticed that I immediately started incorporating what I'd learned in Colorado into my own projects. I write scripts now with simpler lines and I write scripts so that my talent has lots of natural break points in which to regroup or for me to cut with in edit. We're trying to write shorter scenes so we don't run out of camera movement before we run out of words.... And I'm trying to break my reliance on artificial lighting and learned to manage existing light better. And by that I mean always being mindful of color balance and exposure so that lit footage can be cut together with natural light footage without huge visual discrepancies.
The two valuable lessons I learned from Pattie, my producer/director on the project were these: An outline that's been thoroughly discussed, picked apart and improved beats a script because it gets the content across in a way that is more genuine and natural. And, that details are important. Where I was standing when we cut and went back to shoot close ups for B-roll, my inflection, my expressions and even my posture were all important cues to continuity and continuity really counts for believable documentary style work. But finally, the thing I learned that is most valuable is that it's important to stay flexible because sometimes, when you are working with really talented people, a different approach or a happy accident can work better than all the careful plans.
It's amazing and fun to go from "know it all expert" to newbie beginner student all in the same project and all at the same time. What an incredibly fun and immersive way to learn new stuff.
Our sound engineer tries to master all of the outdoors to make me sound good.
If you go to the on of the links above and click through Craftsy also has a free course I did on family portrait stuff. I'll post a direct link a bit later. I'm running out the door to have fun....
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POTTS, Thomas Henry
A new biography of Potts, Thomas Henry appears in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site.
Thomas Henry Potts was born on 23 November 1824, the son of Thomas Potts, small-arms manufacturer, and his wife, Mary Ann, née Freeman. He was christened at Brandon Church, Suffolk, on 16 July 1826. Through his father he inherited both a fortune and the family firm of Branders and Potts, later one of a group which formed the Birmingham Small Arms Co. Though Potts was trained as a gunmaker, his heart was in his hobbies – ornithology, entomology, and botany. On 2 April 1850 at the parish church of Bourton-on-Dunsmoor, Warwickshire, he married Emma, daughter of Henry Phillips. The wedding was not unnoticed by foreign dignitaries: a portrait of the bride and groom shows presents from Prince Louis Napoleon and an Indian prince. Three of the 13 children of this marriage were born at Croydon, the remainder in New Zealand.
After the death of his parents, Potts emigrated to New Zealand where his father-in-law had settled at Rockwood in the Malvern Hills, Canterbury. He made careful preparations for a new career, consulting with Kew as to the best plants to grow around homes in the young settlement. Before his departure for Lyttelton on the Ballanquith, on 24 April 1854, Potts sent out seeds, plants, and trees, including azaleas and rhododendrons, the first of their kind to be introduced into the province. These were the nucleus of his nursery at the corner of fashionable Tuam and Antigua Streets, Christchurch, from which seedlings were supplied to public and private gardens. In 1858 the family lived at "Ohinetahi", Governors Bay, Lyttelton Harbour, the home most associated with them; and here, in a life spent mainly out of doors, Potts indulged his passion for nature study. Extensive explorations were made into the mountainous districts of Canterbury, Westland, and Banks Peninsula. His acute observations of nature gave to New Zealand literature unique records of birds and flora even then retreating before the progress of European occupation. Among new species discovered by Potts were the roa or great grey kiwi, and the black-billed gull.
Potts was a member of the Canterbury Provincial Council, for Port Victoria, from 1858 to 1861 and from 1866 to 1875, member of the House of Representatives for Mount Herbert from 1866 to 1870, and was the first parliamentarian to advocate forest conservation. A member of the Philosophical Society of Canterbury, the Canterbury Acclimatisation and Agricultural Societies, the Christchurch Domains' Board, and the board of trustees both of Canterbury College and Canterbury Museum, Potts played a full part in public life. He shared actively in the work of the magisterial bench and was one of the visiting Justices to the gaol where he took a keen interest in the welfare of prisoners. His church was St. Cuthbert's of Governors Bay, and here Potts delighted to serve in any capacity required.
A brisk, peppery, extremely strong, little man, witty and congenial, Potts was an expert cattleman, master of a 20 ft stockwhip. Loyal to his friends, Potts backed them financially against impossible odds, and of his fortune there was little but mortgages left when he died suddenly on 27 July 1888. After a life without a day's illness, he collapsed with a heart attack while making purchases in a stationery store. Best remembered for "Out in the Open", a collection of scraps of natural history, Potts was a contributor to the Canterbury Times, the Field, London, the New Zealand Country Journal, the Journal of the Linnaean Society, the Transactions of the New Zealand Inst. and, unacknowledged, Buller's History of the Birds of New Zealand.
by Alan Drummond McKinnon, B.FOR.SC. Assistant Director (Forest Management) New Zealand Forest Service, Wellington and Lanna Coughlan, New Zealand Forest Service, Wellington.
- Press (Christchurch), 28 Jul 1888 (Obit).


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You will have to put up with a few quirks to use Republic's version of the phones, but with fewer strings than before. And in the Moto X phone, you can get a really good phone at an even better price. It's expected to be available beginning this week at the Republic Wireless website.
Republic is charging $299 (plus taxes and fees) for the Moto X with no contract required. For comparison, an "unlocked" Moto X on Amazon commands around $600. And Republic has added four aggressively priced monthly rate plans:
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• For $10 a month you can add cellular to the mix, but only for unlimited talk and texting; you're still confined to Wi-Fi for unlimited data.
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Republic says you can switch plans up to two times each billing cycle. You're still encouraged to make calls over Wi-Fi whenever possible, which offers genuine advantages in places like my basement, where cellular coverage is often spotty.
Republic can sell service so cheaply in part because most of the time you make or receive calls over Wi-Fi, rather than piggybacking over the Sprint nationwide cellular network, with which Republic has a wholesale business arrangement.
With the Moto X, Republic has addressed one of the major bugaboos I faced with the Motorola Defy XT phone that I previously reviewed. Under Republic's hybrid calling system the "handoff" from Wi-Fi to cellular worked like this: If you began a call over Wi-Fi then moved to a cellular-only area, the call was dropped and the Defy phone automatically redialed the number on the cell network. Not exactly a seamless scenario.
Republic still sells that Defy and offers the $19 plan. But now the company is reaching out to consumers who relish a higher-end device.
When I began Moto X calls in my basement under Wi-Fi and then walked down the street beyond the reach of my router, neither I, nor the folks I talked to, detected the switch to cellular. That's a marked change from before. Republic also now supports MMS (multimedia messaging) and visual voice mail.
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When you are within reach of a public hotspot, the phone determines whether or not the Wi-Fi signal is going to provide a good calling experience, and if not switches to cellular. The only way you can tell for sure whether you're on cellular or Wi-Fi is by looking at a green arch at the top left corner of the display. Republic plans to add an "auto-credentialing" feature so you won't have to enter a password or authenticate a public Wi-Fi connection, but that feature won't be available at launch.
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In most respects, the Moto X you buy from Republic is the same as the model you'd get from any other carrier. It runs Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean), has a 4.7-inch 720p HD display, and includes the Active Display feature that lets you check the time or see icons indicating a text or email has arrived by peeking at the screen, even if the phone's asleep.
But you cannot custom design Republic's Moto X via the Moto Maker website, as is possible with the versions from the other carriers. Republic's model is only available in black or white, at least for now.
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You also cannot insert a SIM card from a rival provider into the Moto X that Republic sells. Republic modified the Moto X to work with its hybrid wireless system.
The cellphone world is rapidly changing, with carriers such as T-Mobile leading the way in relaxing burdensome cellphone contracts. But even without a contract, you're still paying a lot. Republic's Moto X handset doesn't come cheap, either. But by today's rate standards, Republic is offering a true bargain.
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BofA discussing about 40,000 job cuts: report
Bank of America Corp officials have discussed slashing roughly 40,000 jobs during the first wave of a restructuring, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the plans.
The number of job cuts are not final and could change. The restructuring aims to reduce the bank's workforce of 280,000 over a period of years, the Journal said.
BofA could not immediately be reached for comment by Reuters outside regular U.S. business hours.
The Journal said BofA executives met Thursday at Charlotte, North Carolina, where the bank is headquartered, and will gather again Friday to make final decisions on the reductions, putting the finishing touches on five months of work.
Investors are pressing BofA to improve its performance after it lost money in four of the last six quarters and its stock has fallen by half this year.
The Journal said the proposed job cuts may exceed BofA's last big cutback in 2008 when it called for 30,000 to 35,000 job cuts over three years. That move was triggered by an economic slowdown and the planned takeover of securities firm Merrill Lynch & Co.
Earlier this month, the Charlotte Observer reported that BofA executives were discussing plans to potentially shed 25,000 to 30,000 jobs over the next several years.
BofA had earlier planned to cut 3,500 jobs, its Chief Executive Brian Moynihan had said in a memo to staff on August 18, as it tries to come to grips with $1 trillion of problem home mortgages.
BofA announced a far-reaching reorganization of its senior management team on Tuesday, which included the departure of consumer bank chief Joe Price and wealth management head Sallie Krawcheck.
Banks are shedding jobs worldwide as stricter regulations and a tough second quarter for trading income take their toll on investment banking units in particular.
More than 70,000 staff cuts have been announced this year or are reported to be in the works at U.S. and European banks, some of them to be lost over three or four year programs.
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Toast chiles in a dry large skillet over medium heat until slightly puffed and lightly darkened on both sides, about 2 minutes. Remove from skillet; let cool. Stem chiles and halve lengthwise; discard seeds. Place in a medium bowl and add boiling water to cover. Let chiles stand until soft, about 20 minutes. Drain.
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ROCK HALL — A new solar power array in Rock Hall will provide most of the electricity for the Town Hall, a school and three other buildings.
Rock Hall and Kent County officials plan to unveil the new array Friday morning. The 5,300 solar panels were installed at the Rock Hall Waste Water Treatment Plant. The plant, the Rock Hall Town Hall, an elementary school, the Kent County Board of Education building and a pumping station will use power from the array. The five buildings are expected to get about 75 percent of their electricity needs from the solar power system.
The array was installed by Standard Solar and will be owned and operated by Washington Gas Energy Systems, which will sell the electricity to the town.


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World famous artist has passed away on Wednesday at the age of 79 in a Vienna hospital?
VIENNA: Ceija Stojka survived three Nazi death camps and then found her life s work: Raising awareness of the Nazis persecution of Roma also known as Gypsies in her art and her writings.
Stojka carried the horrors of those camps with her until she was in her 50s, speaking out in words and pictures only decades after she was liberated from the Bergen-Belsen camp at age 12.
Her death Monday at age 79 in a Vienna hospital was announced by her publisher. The Budapest-based European Roma Cultural Foundation described Stokja s concentration-camp themed paintings to The Associated Press on Wednesday as reflecting "entrenched sorrow in the bodies and spirit of the victims."
Austrian Education and Culture Minister Claudia Schmied lauded Stojka s work in exposing Roma suffering under the Nazis, saying her advocacy gave rise to "hope that the oath Never Again! is and will remain more than a historic promise."
Her family s persecution under the Nazis began in 1941 and ended four years later with Stojka s liberation from the Bergen-Belsen camp in Germany. While her mother and four siblings also survived, Stojka s father and brother were killed in Auschwitz, two of the more than 1 million Roma estimated to have been killed under Hitler. In all, nearly 200 members of her extended family perished under the Nazis.
Stojka kept those experiences to herself for decades at a time most Austrians embraced the popular notion that they and their nation were victims of Hitler instead of his willing accomplices.
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Born in Austria to a nomadic family of horse traders, Stojka returned after the end of the Nazi era and made a living selling carpets. She started speaking out in the 1980s, as Austrian awareness of the country s complicity in Nazi crimes grew. And she started painting dark somber pictures depicting the death camps that alternated with joyful images of pre-war life on the road in her family s horse-drawn wagon.
Despite those happier images, she never forgot the horrors of the Nazi era and implored audiences not to let history repeat itself.
"How is it possible at the beginning of the new century that the Roma population is still humiliated and maltreated and sometimes killed as it happened in Hungary for the only reason of being Roma?" she asked a gathering of Hungarian university and high-school students three years ago after a spate of Roma hate killings there.
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Eustis, William yo͞o´stĭs [key], 1753–1825, U.S. government official, b. Cambridge, Mass. A surgeon in the patriot forces during the American Revolution, he later served (1801–5) in Congress as a Jeffersonian. Eustis was appointed (1807) secretary of war by Jefferson, but he was forced to resign in 1812 because of charges of incompetence in dealing with the problems of the War of 1812. He was later minister (1814–18) to the Netherlands, again a member (1820–23) of the House of Representatives, and governor (1823–25) of Massachusetts.
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Washington has been awarded the NHL's Winter Classic in 2015, a source tells The Canadian Press.
The Capitals will host the game four years after they visited the Penguins at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh.
Capitals owner Ted Leonsis is set to make the announcement at the team's fan convention Saturday.
It was not immediately clear which team the Capitals will play, though there is speculation it will be the Philadelphia Flyers, who hosted the 2012 outdoor game.
The NHL did not have any comment on the Capitals and their announcement Saturday.
It was not clear where the game would be played. Nationals Park is the most logical place, though RFK Stadium and FedEx Field, which is in Landover, Md., could also be options.
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It acts as a creative incubator, enabling artists to create or complete an in-depth, photographic series exploring themes of their choice, and providing the infrastructure for a professional exhibition of their new work in the New York area. A photographic artist's work can be in any photo-based style or genre (documentary, autobiographical, landscape, abstract, digital, pinhole, alternative processes, etc).
NEW WORKS #12 Deadline: July 7 2008
JUROR: Deborah Willis, curator, author, photographer and Chair of the Photo & Imaging Dept at NYU/TISCH
Guidelines and Entry Forms can be downloaded HERE
The New Works #11 Winners and Honorable Mention recipients were selected by juror Melissa Harris, Editor in Chief of Aperture Magazine:
Kesha Bruce, Adriana Katzew and Donald Daedalus – Winners
Charlie Grosso, Myra Greene, Esther Hidalgo and Wanda Acosta – Honorable Mention Awardees
The 2007-08 Winners receive:
a $1,000 honorarium;
professional tripods from Bogen;
camera bags from Lowepro;
Gift Certificates from Print File;
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Music can recall memories, inspire action, soothe fevered minds and… summon robots? For the remixed classical maestros, or "classicaloids", a unique "musik" is their sword and shield with explosive notes that do way more than rouse emotions. Motz and Beet-san, who claim the names of timeless composers Mozart and Beethoven, are only the overture to the wacky concerto ready to awaken an unsuspecting modern town. What could go wrong?
Kanae is stuck with two strange squatters in her home, Motz and Beet-san. When a demolition crew arrives to tear down her house, Beet-san unleashes his musical rage.
Sosuke's plans for Kanae's birthday involve Musik, and there's a problem: neither of the classicaloids know how it happens. The stage is set for an a-Motz-ing reveal!
While Kanae tries to prepare the mansion for prospective tenants, she discovers two unique individuals in the house - and it seems one's been living there for a while!
A bespectacled man wanders Japan, leaving a strange phenomenon in his wake. Stranger yet, he seems particularly interested in finding who he calls Beethoven-senpai!
Beethoven is so close to learning the secret of a nostalgic gyoza, but it comes to a halt as a mysterious "King" tries to take the classicaloids away from the Otowa mansion!
The origins of the classicaloids are revealed, and just when Kanae's at the end of her rope, the mansion is once more in danger of being demolished!
The small town is besieged by a wild urban legend! Strangely, Motz is nowhere to be seen. What could be keeping the prolific pink composer away from the mansion?
Liszt takes Kanae out for a "Girls' Day", starting with a CLAKLA performance. However, when the two idols join them, the "Girls' Day" becomes something a bit different.
Beethoven becomes enthralled with guitars, but can't seem to find the right one. Haunted by a vision of his past, he struggles to find the thing he's missing.
Chopin becomes enamored with a cyber-idol program, and his musik brings it to life. The others in the Otowa House get the wrong idea about what's going on with him.
As Kanae makes plans to visit her ailing uncle, she must prepare her "tenants" to take care of the house while she's gone.
Motz and Beet are invited to Arkhe Corporation's New Artist Auditions. Is Motz destined for pop stardom? Will Beet change his tune? Just what will master Bach think of it all?
While singing in the bathtub, Schubert finds that he's accidentally turned himself... into a fish?! It's a good thing the residents of the mansion love fish... for lunch.
A raging mad Tchaiko shows up at the mansion claiming to be done with Bada, and Kanae gets pulled as her replacement. Has Kanae found her true calling as an idol?
Sosuke begs the ClassicaLoids to perform with him at the school festival, and he gets a harsh reality-check when he discovers how popular they are with his classmates.
Beet and Motz search for a perfect job with nearly disastrous results. In their absence, Chopin reveals another side of himself, and Liszt finds a new way to express love.
Has Hasshie cursed the ClassicaLoids? A night of horror ensues as Beet-san and Schubert find themselves turning into oranges, leaving Sosuke, Chopin, and Motz to deal with it.
Bach searches for musical inspiration and ends up in a compromising position. Meanwhile, Mitsuru kidnaps Sosuke (accidentally) and uses him to unleash her new creation.
Kanae and the others try to survive the curse of "Swan Lake" when Tchaiko accidentally unleashes musik which makes it easier to fall in love... and then meet a tragic end.
When Motz's pranks go to far, Kanae forbids him from pulling any more. However, his pent up energy might unleash something even more chaotic: a phenomena called Motz Panic!
Schubert realizes that no one recognizes his existence... or his musik! In a foreign land, Schubert discovers his own beat and unleashes his frustrations on the others.
Eccentric Beethoven has discovered a new obsession: creating the perfect cup of coffee. However, the path to destiny (and his "best coffee") is filled with obstacles!
Bach sets his plan in motion to collect the ClassicaLoids and activate the Octave. When force fails to bring them together, Mitsuru's backup plan throws the city into chaos.
The entire world has become mindless versions of Bach. It's up to Kanae, Beethoven, and Motz stop the device before the world is changed permanently.
Aliens attack the Earth. When the ClassicaLoids' attempts to communicate with musik fall flat, they place the fate of the world on Kanae and Sosuke's shoulders.


text: Paul Allen's SETI array was powered up yesterday. Currently with 42 6-meter dishes in operation, the final product will have 350 antennas (antennae?), capable in total of scanning over 1 million star systems in the hope of finding some kind of intelligent life out there. Since the Hat Creek, California, telescope station is jointly run by SETI and the Radio Astronomy Laboratory at UC Berkeley, it will be used to study other phenomena as well, such as black holes, supernovas (supernovae?) and "exotic astronomical objects." (Insert yo mama's butt, US defense expenditures or Google stock price joke here.) [BBC News; photo from Forefront]


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You could help scientists rediscover a big asteroid that has been lost in space for 14 years.
Officials with the online Slooh Space Camera tried to image the asteroid 2000 EM26 — nicknamed Moby Dick by some stargazers — on Monday night (Feb. 17), when it cruised within 2.1 million miles (3.4 million kilometers) of our planet. (For comparison, the moon orbits Earth at an average distance of 238,900 miles, or 384,500 km.)
But the effort was unsuccessful, suggesting that astronomers are missing some key details about the near-Earth asteroid's orbit. Slooh officials are now urging the public to help fill in these gaps about Moby Dick, which hasn't been seen since March 14, 2000, just nine days after its discovery.
"We are calling on amateur astronomers to find this asteroid, and as a reward we will promote their accomplishment on our homepage for one year," Slooh CEO Michael Paolucci said in a statement. "We don't have the authority to name the asteroid after them, but we would if we could."
The near-Earth asteroid is thought to be about 885 feet (270 meters) wide. While 2000 EM26 poses no impact risk to Earth, losing track of it still highlights our planet's vulnerability to space-rock strikes, Slooh officials said.
"Discovering these near-Earth objects isn't enough. As we've seen with 2000 EM26, all the effort that went into its discovery is worthless unless follow-up observations are made to accurately determine their orbits for the future," Slooh Observatory director Paul Cox said in a statement. "We not only need to find them before they find us, but we also need to keep a watchful eye on them."
Moby Dick's flyby came nearly one year to the day after two major asteroid events got the world's attention.
On Feb. 15, 2013, a 65-foot-wide (20 m) space rock exploded without warning in the skies above the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, Russia. The Russian fireball occurred just hours before a 100-foot-wide (30 m) asteroid called 2012 DA14 gave Earth a close shave, missing the planet by just 17,200 miles (27,700 km).
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JFK library releases last of his secret tapes
BOSTON (AP) — Final recordings President John F. Kennedy secretly made in the Oval Office include an eerie conversation about what would become the day of his funeral.
In talking to staffers while trying to arrange his schedule, Kennedy remarked that Nov. 25 was shaping up to be a "tough day" after his return from Texas and time at Cape Cod.
"It's a hell of a day, Mr. President," a staffer agreed.
The exchange was among the last 45 hours of private recordings Kennedy made, tapes which the The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum released Tuesday. They provide a window into the final months of the 35th American president's life.
They include discussions of conflict in Vietnam, Soviet relations and the race to space, plans for the 1964 Democratic Convention and re-election strategy. There also are moments with his children.
The tapes are the last of more than 260 hours of recordings of meetings and conversations JFK privately made before his assassination in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
David Coleman, the professor who chairs the Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia, on Tuesday called the final recordings significant because while JFK didn't tape himself regularly, he chose to preserve important moments.
Coleman said the university's Miller Center already has published three volumes of Kennedy transcripts and is working on another two volumes from recordings that previously went public.
"Kennedy did not tape as systematically as Johnson or Nixon. But what he did tape was often very important discussions," Coleman said. "...What you have is an unusually rich collection of decisions being made in real time."
The professor said the recordings also are valuable because they're a raw look inside the Kennedy White House.
"It's all unfiltered. It hasn't been massaged by committees or by the White House press machine."
Coleman said historians may gravitate most to Kennedy's recordings about Vietnam to see where his policy was heading when his presidency ended.
Kennedy kept the recordings a secret from his top aides. He made the last one two days before his death.
Kennedy library archivist Maura Porter said Monday that JFK may have been saving them for a memoir or possibly started them because he was bothered when the military later gave a different overview of a discussion with him about the Bay of Pigs.
The latest batch of recordings captured meetings from the last three months of Kennedy's administration. In a conversation with political advisers about young voters, Kennedy asks, "What is it we have to sell them?"
"We hope we have to sell them prosperity, but for the average guy the prosperity is nil," he says. "He's not unprosperous, but he's not very prosperous. ... And the people who really are well off hate our guts."
Kennedy talks about a disconnect between the political machine and voters.
"We've got so mechanical an operation here in Washington that it doesn't have much identity where these people are concerned," he says.
On another recording, Kennedy questions conflicting reports military and diplomatic advisers bring back from Vietnam, asking the two men: "You both went to the same country?"
He also talks about trying to create films for the 1964 Democratic Convention in color instead of black and white.
"The color is so damn good," he says. "If you do it right."
Porter said the public first heard about the existence of the Kennedy recordings during the Watergate hearings.
In 1983, JFK Library and Museum officials started reviewing tapes without classified materials and releasing recordings to the public. Porter said officials were able to go through all the recordings by 1993, working with government agencies when it came to national security issues and what they could make public.
In all, she said, the JFK Library and Museum has put out about 40 recordings. She said officials excised about 5 to 10 minutes of this last group of recordings due to family discussions and about 30 minutes because of national security concerns.
Porter has supervised the declassification of these White House tapes since 2001, and she said people will have a much better sense of the kind of leader JFK was after hearing them. While some go along with meeting minutes that also are public, she said, listening to JFK's voice makes his personality come alive.
She said he comes across as an intelligent man who had a knack for public relations and was very interested in his public image. But she said the tapes also reveal times when the president became bored or annoyed and moments when he used swear words.
The sound of the president's children, Caroline and John Jr., playing outside the Oval Office is part of a recording on which he introduces them to Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko.
"Hello, hello," Gromyko says as the children come in, telling their father, "They are very popular in our country."
JFK tells the children, mentioning a dog Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev gifted the family: "His chief is the one who sent you Pushinka. You know that? You have the puppies."
JFK Library spokeswoman Rachel Flor said the daughter of the late president has heard many of the recordings, but she wasn't sure if she had heard this batch.
"He'd go from being a president to being a father," Porter said of the recordings. "... And that was really cute."


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Black History Month is about celebrating what happens when people refuse to be defined by limits set by themselves or by others. But as we all know everyone needs a pep talk now and then. What could be better than this pep talk by Kid President (Robby Novak) of Soul Pancake currently featured on TED Talks.
Kid President's very existence speaks to what makes Black History Month important.


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LAS VEGAS – Whether or not Martin Kampmann parlays his latest victory into a title shot, he's proven he has the durability to survive all kinds of trouble.
In what was billed as a No. 1 contender's bout, Kampmann overcame an early knockdown from Jake Ellenberger and ultimately scored a second-round win via knockout.
The welterweight bout headlined The Ultimate Fighter Live Finale. It was part of the FX-televised main card, which followed prelims on FUEL TV and Facebook.
During a lengthy UFC career, Kampmann has proven time and again his ability to both absorb punishment and find a way to victory. But few of the Danish kickboxer's performances saw him turn the tables on an opponent so quickly.
Ellenberger, a well-rounded wrestler who entered the bout on an impressive six-fight win streak, struck first and nearly stopped the fight in the opening minute when he floored Kampmann with a left hook. He immediately followed it up with a flurry of ground and pound, but Kampmann recovered and worked for a guillotine choke to slow his opponent for the remainder of the round.
Kampmann agreed to a firefight to start the second round, and though he got through some shots, a storm of Ellenberger punches left his nose a badly bloodied mess. But after Ellenberger briefly stumbled while resetting after a blow, Kampmann swarmed with with knees from the clinch. The third strike caught him flush and sent Ellenberger crashing to the mat.
Referee Steve Mazzagatti quickly halted the action at the 1:40 mark of the second round.
Ellenberger wasn't pleased with the referee's decision.
Kampmann admitted it wasn't the type of performance he wanted.
With current welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre on the sidelines until later this year with a knee injury, and with interim titleholder Carlos Condit first on deck, Kampmann very well could find himself in a title-eliminator bout with former training partner Johny Hendricks.
Kampmann (20-5 MMA, 11-4 UFC) now has won three straight fights. He's also 5-2 in his past seven fights, and the lone losses came via questionable decisions to Diego Sanchez and Jake Shields.
Ellenberger (27-6 MMA, 6-2 UFC), meanwhile, suffers his first defeat since a UFC-debut split-decision defeat to Condit in 2009.
Up-to-the-minute results for The Ultimate Fighter Live Finale include:
- Martin Kampmann def. Jake Ellenberger via knockout (knees) – Round 2, 1:40
- Mike Chiesa def. Al Iaquinta via technical submission (rear-naked choke) – Round 1, 2:37 (to win "TUF: Live" championship)
- Charles Oliveira def. Jonathan Brookins via submission (guillotine choke) – Round 2, 2:42
- Max Holloway def. Pat Schilling via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
- Justin Lawrence def. John Cofer via knockout (kick) – Round 3, 0:19
- Daron Cruickshank def. Chris Tickle via unanimous decision (29-27, 29-27, 29-27)
- Myles Jury def. Chris Saunders via submission (guillotine choke) – Round 1, 4:03
- Sam Sicilia def. Cristiano Marcello via TKO (punches) – Round 2, 2:53
- Joe Proctor def. Jeremy Larsen via TKO (knee and punches) – Round 1, 1:59
- Erik Perez def. John Albert via submission (armbar) – Round 1, 4:18
For more on The Ultimate Fighter Live Finale, stay tuned to the UFC Events section of the site.
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Zen and the art of management
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Every day, twice a day, for the past 20 years, the executive charged with investing tens of billions of dollars for Singapore's sovereign wealth fund thinks of nothing. He does this by sitting silently and saying a word inside himself. After a few minutes, his breathing calms, his face muscles relax and the flutter behind his eyelids stills.
I know this because I am sitting opposite Peter Ng. Unlike the chief investment officer of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, however, I am a poor meditator. I know this because halfway through our 20-minute meditation session, I open my eyes after engaging with a thought: is meditation compatible with the cut-throat world of finance?
It is an apt reflection given that Mr Ng sits on a panel sponsored by CFA Institute, a standards-setting body for fund managers and financial analysts, pondering the "future of finance".
Over the past decade or so, meditation – the practice of becoming aware and then letting go of the thoughts and emotions that make up our stream of consciousness – has spread gently from an esoteric practice into an activity nearly as ubiquitous as jogging or flossing teeth. That may be because – as the refrain goes and as many have quietly discovered – "meditation is not what you think".
It has been quietly incorporated into corporate life: Google and General Mills encourage the secular practice of mindfulness to help make employees more productive.
Now meditation is penetrating the halls of high finance, too.
Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater, the world's largest hedge fund with $150bn of assets under management, is unequivocal about its effects. "Meditation, more than anything else, is responsible for whatever success I have had," he says. "When I meditate, I acquire an equanimity that allows me to see things from a higher-level perspective and that allows me to make sensible decisions."
Lord Myners, a former chairman of Marks and Spencer, is another executive who finds meditation helps him focus. "I get excited about things and meditation helps pull me back and see the bigger picture," he says. "I am probably more effective for it, although I'm not going to say it makes me a better person – that's awful!"
Backed by clinical trials and married with neuroscience, the idea that meditation can help anyone find a greater sense of equanimity is well established. Money managers such as Bill Gross, the founder and co-chief investment officer of Pimco, the world's biggest fixed income investor, say it helps remove confirmation bias, the universal tendency to seek information that confirms ego-driven preconceptions while remaining blind to valuable data that contradicts it.
CFA Institute is looking to offer meditation classes, and business schools increasingly offer courses for the "behavioural advantages" it brings.
Next year, as part of its MBA program, Georgetown University will offer a credited course led by Laurence Freeman, a Benedictine monk who heads the World Community for Christian Meditation. Although a proselytiser for that form of meditation's benefits, Mr Freeman is also acutely aware that its spiritual component can turn many off. "Meditation is an aspect of both a universal and very old Christian tradition that can be shared with anyone and understood in a secular way," he says. "For some people, its distance from formal religion provides a comfort zone."
Still, many are sceptical that alpha-male executives could possibly set aside their egos while meditating. Some hard-nosed financiers still see it as a dubious "New Age" activity. Lord Leitch, chairman of Bupa, the private health provider, and a former insurance executive, says meditation can generate uncomfortable reactions. "Sometimes I get weird looks when I mention it in passing. Clearly it's not for all. Still, I think we should be open to techniques that can help in life, and this is one of them."
A more acute problem is finding the time. "It's the biggest challenge, and the biggest reason people stop," says Mr Dalio, who has meditated since 1969 and says anyone who keeps at it for six months never looks back. "I can't tell the difference between meditators and non-meditators but you can see changed behaviour in someone who starts and carries on."
For Sean Hagan, chief legal counsel of the International Monetary Fund who began meditating 30 years ago while a junior lawyer at JPMorgan, it is a question of priorities. "You come into the office every morning and there is a host of things to do, which is overwhelming and can cause a sense of panic. But meditation helps you focus, which is a good skill, and it encourages a one-thing-at-a-time approach, which helps slow things down," he says. "Therefore, it's really straightforward for me. It gives me a lot of benefits, so I prioritise it."
Others, such as Philipp Hildebrand, vice-chairman of BlackRock and a former head of the Swiss National Bank, who has meditated for seven years, slot it into their schedules when they can – in aeroplanes or while being chauffeured between meetings. "In a world of screens, texts, cell phones, information all over you, spending 20 minutes purposefully not thinking of anything is a wonderful thing," he says. "It's a pause that refreshes. In some ways in the financial world, it is a must."
Quelling the mind can help managers conserve energy in daily work life. "Greater clarity makes you more orderly," says Mr Ng. But it is especially useful during a crisis, when "volatile markets and their profit and loss implications can really throw you off-balance, even as people are mostly looking to you for direction".
None of the highly practical men interviewed for this story suggested meditation was a ticket to nirvana or that something amazing happened by just sitting still and turning off the iPhone. "It is not a magic panacea," says Lord Leitch.
Indeed, as odd as it may seem that financiers, often lambasted for their lack of ethics, are looking to meditation in the wake of the financial crisis, it may be precisely because of the crisis that more are turning to it.
"I've learnt from public office, especially in times of crisis, that people, particularly younger people, look to you not just for technical knowhow . . . What does it mean, for example, that Greece has 65 per cent youth unemployment?" says Mr Hildebrand, "There are always technical issues that need to be addressed. The financial crisis is forcing people to go deeper."
Meditation may be one way to "go deeper". Certainly, it seems to have increased the willingness of some to explore their interiority. Whether that will make a difference to the ethics of the financial world is an open question.
This article has been amended since original publication to reflect the fact that CFA Institute plans to offer meditation classes to its members but has not yet launched them.


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"Steve Jobs has his own idea and he's a brilliant guy... There's just an element that we're not very happy about, as people. We are holding out." So says Yoko. And as Yoko goes, so go the Beatles on iTunes.
What's the story here? Well, it's not that you aren't able to download the Beatles catalog—that's always been the case. And it's not that Yoko Ono isn't being super clear with her vision (Plastic Ono Band, anyone?). It's that the stakeholders in Apple Corps are engaged in the most annoying bargaining posture there is. They're playing hard to get (as Paul McCartney did in 2008), hinting that of course they want to have Beatles songs on iTunes, and would, except for... something. That they won't say.
The longer they hold out, though, the weaker their position becomes. Digital music sales are projected to overtake those of physical albums within a couple of years, and iTunes accounts for at least 25% of all music sold in the US. It's not that the Beatles will ever go away. They're timeless, they're classic, they're staying. But the longer they vaguely squabble, the the bigger the barrier to newer generations letting Abbey Road change their lives. [Reuters via All Things D]
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Pulling hard for `Doc' Roberts
This has been a distressing week, and I'm not talking about the Angels' struggles to score runs and stop clubs from abusing their pitching staff.
Two giants of the game, Ernie Harwell and Robin Roberts, have passed away in the past two days. They lived a combined 175 years and made wonderful use of their time on the planet, enriching countless lives in countless ways. They were among the very best the sport had to offer.
Stunning news arrived earlier in the week in the form of Hodgkin's lymphoma having invaded the body of Dave Roberts, who also has enriched the game in ways both small and large. Roberts, smart, intuitive, irrepressibly upbeat, is meeting this challenge head-on, committed to overcoming this obstacle and living a long, rich life, just as Harwell and Roberts did.
If there is any justice, Roberts will be alive into his 80s, making people laugh and feel good about themselves, like those two gentlemen.
I came to know "Doc," as we called him, during the two seasons he played for the Padres and I covered them on a daily basis for MLB.com. He was what we call in the business a "go-to guy," much like Torii Hunter is with the Angels. In hard times, when players are disinclined to talk about their team's troubles and their own, there hopefully are those who can be counted on to offer insights no matter how dire the straits.
Dave Roberts, with the Padres and the other teams he graced, was one of those athletes, just as Hunter is a magnet for Angels beat writers.
In 2005, Roberts was coming off his triumph in Boston, when he stole a base against the Yankees in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series that triggered one of the greatest comebacks – and stories – in the game's history. Roberts is a part of New England lore for his lore in exorcising those Bambino curses and ghost.
Coming home to San Diego, Roberts led off and played center field in 2005 for a club that made the postseason, getting swept by the Cardinals. He played the game with passion and intelligence. One thing nagged at him: his reputation for being fragile. We collaborated on several articles that knocked down this widely-held perception.
Athletes given to hurling themselves into the game, as Roberts did and Hunter does, put themselves in harm's way. It has nothing to do with being injury-prone. It's simply the by-product of playing full-tilt, with abandon.
In '06, Roberts moved over to left to accommodate the arrival of Mike Cameron, a man Hunter considers one of the three premier defensive center fielders of the generation. In right was Brian Giles, completing a wonderfully productive outfield.
There was one horrific moment involving Roberts that season that seemed to characterize his career. Pursuing a fly ball at Angel Stadium, he rammed his right knee into the base of the fence in left field chasing what turned out to be an inside-the-park homer by Dallas McPherson.
"The only way for him to stop his momentum is to slide — and he smoked his knee good," Giles said. "That's the way Doc approaches it. Hopefully, it's a bruised kneecap and he'll be out a few days."
Roberts — a star quarterback in high school who could have been a defensive back at UCLA but focused instead on baseball – soon was back in his leadoff role, creating havoc. He stole a career-high 49 bases in 55 attempts in '06 and would have exceeded 50 if not for that incident in Anaheim. In 129 games, he scored 80 runs, another career best.
The Padres were a joy to cover. With Mike Piazza behind the plate, Adrian Gonzalez emerging at first base, Khalil Greene and Josh Barfield looking like future stars in the middle of the infield, and Jake Peavy, Chris Young and the great Trevor Hoffman anchoring the pitching staff, this was a good team, seemingly on the verge of even better things.
They won the NL West again, and the Cardinals took them out in four games in the NLDS on their way to a World Series triumph.
Doc moved on to San Francisco in 2007 and ended his career as a Giant – fittingly – in '08. He did some broadcasting work for the Red Sox last year and was in Spring Training, getting in a uniform and teaching young Padres some tricks in his new role as a club executive, when Hodgkin's surfaced. Treatments began, and he is telling people he's optimistic he'll beat it.
Not surprisingly, he kept working with those young Padres. Their totally unexpected start, bolting out of the gate this season under manager Bud Black, might not be a coincidence.
Good teams and things seem to follow Doc Roberts around. It could be all those good vibes he passes around, without even trying. They don't make them any better than this guy. – Lyle Spencer


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Submitted to: American Society for Microbiology Meeting
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 9/8/2005
Publication Date: 9/23/2005
Citation: Palmer, M.V. 2005. Tuberculosis: a Re-emerging Disease at the Interface of Domestic Animals and Wildlife [abstract]. American Society for Microbiology Meeting. p. 8.
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Technical Abstract: In the early 20th century there were large numbers of tuberculous cattle in many countries. An association was made between the number of M. bovis infected humans and the prevalence of tuberculosis in cattle. Mandatory pasteurization of milk caused the prevalence of human tuberculosis due to M. bovis to decline in developed countries. In some countries eradication has been prevented by several factors not least of which is the presence of a wildlife reservoir of M. bovis. In Great Britain evidence suggests that M. bovis is endemic among badgers (Meles meles), and that tuberculous badgers are the source of infection for cattle. In New Zealand, brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula), first taken to New Zealand in the mid-19th century now occupy over 90% of New Zealand's land mass and serve as a source of M. bovis for domestic livestock. In Michigan, USA free-ranging white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) represent the first reservoir of M. bovis in free-living wildlife in the United States. Deer to cattle transmission of M. bovis has been documented. Wildlife reservoirs of M. bovis represent a serious challenge to the eradication of M. bovis. The presence of wildlife reservoirs is the direct result of spill-over of M. bovis from domestic livestock and efforts to eradicate M. bovis from domestic livestock are impeded by spill-back from wildlife reservoirs. The test and slaughter policies of tuberculosis control, effectively used with livestock, are insufficient where wildlife reservoirs exist. It will not be possible to eradicate M. bovis from livestock until transmission between wildlife and domestic animals is halted. Such an endeavor will require a collaborative effort between agricultural, wildlife, environmental and political interests.