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No less an authority than Gilbert Strang frames "row rank equals column rank" (and a couple of other facts) as "The Fundamental Theorem of Linear Algebra."
I'd simply like to assemble (for teaching purposes) a list of research level applications of this basic fact.
Applications can be theoretical or practical, and I would particularly appreciate learning what value this fact has in the minds of physicists.
(It goes without say) please do not start a debate concerning the centrality of this fact (that's not what MO is for). My question merely seek insights or pointers to the literature that would support making a positive case for centrality. So if you use linear algebra all the time but never this fact, no need to chime in.
"Row rank equals column rank" has the consequence for square matrices that $A$ singular makes $A^T$ singular; I'm sure this case comes up everywhere. Here I'm specifically looking for applications of the one-the-nose numerical equality of ranks.
Feel free to offer a philosophical take on linear algebra that would support the centrality of "row rank equals column rank" even if that philosophy isn't grounded in specific results. (For example, does this simple statement offer a hidden paradigm for whole sophisticated theories.)

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RPi Resize Flash Partitions
The prepared images of the raspberry are created for SD cards of the size of 2GB. The SD card can be resized to use the full size of a SD card that is greater than 2GB. This page explains how to format the SD card to use the full size of it.
You might want to backup your SD before resizing partitions. Windows-Users may use the HDD Raw Copy Tool
Manually resizing the SD card on Linux
Tutorial video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4VovMDnsIE
Following on from the instructions above, keep the newly-written SD card in the card reader, but unmounted. We'll use the
parted (partition editor) tool to resize the partitions.
- Show partition information to find your SD card
$ df -h
Look for a partition that matches the roughly 2GB size of your distribution image.
- Unmount the partition
$ umount /dev/sdc2
- Use parted to examine the card
$ sudo parted /dev/sdd (parted) unit chs (parted) print Disk /dev/sdd: 121535,3,31 Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B BIOS cylinder,head,sector geometry: 121536,4,32. Each cylinder is 65.5kB. Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Type File system Flags 1 16,0,0 1215,3,31 primary fat32 lba 2 1232,0,0 26671,3,31 primary ext4 3 26688,0,0 29743,3,31 primary linux-swap(v1)
- This shows how my SD card was formatted after writing the image. Notice that nothing uses the card from end of 'cylinder' 29743 to the card's maximum at 121535.
- Partition 1 is the boot partition: we'll leave that alone. Partition 2 is the root partition, which we'll grow to fill most of the card. Some OS versions will have a Partition 3 for swap space, which needs to be moved to the end of the card. Note that on some other versions of linux (and some other versions of hardware) use /sde not /sdd.
- Move the swap partition if it exists (you'll have to adjust the numbers so that the end of partition 3 is at the end cylinder/head/sector of the card)
- to calculate the number to use in the following command do:-
(Maximum - (Partation 3 End - Partation 3 Start) ) - 1 = Partition 3 New Startso in this example
(121535 - ( 29743 - 26688)) -1 = 118479
- Will not work with parted versions later than 2.4
(parted) move 3 118479,0,0
- Now grow the root partition. This involves removing the partition, re-creating it, then using
resize2fsto grow the filesystem to fill the partition. It won't destroy any data.
(parted) rm 2 (parted) mkpart primary 1232,0,0 118478,3,31 (parted) quit
- Note that the starting address of the new partition is identical to its original value, and the ending address is immediately before the start of the swap partition.
- Now clean and resize the root partition. As before, some users may need to use /sde2 instead.
$ sudo e2fsck -f /dev/sdd2
- (allow it to add lost-and-found)
$ sudo resize2fs /dev/sdd2
- Then put the card in the RPi and boot. You end up with a 7Gb partition to use.
pi@raspberrypi:~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on tmpfs 94M 4.0K 94M 1% /lib/init/rw udev 10M 168K 9.9M 2% /dev tmpfs 94M 0 94M 0% /dev/shm rootfs 7.1G 1.3G 5.4G 20% / /dev/mmcblk0p1 75M 28M 48M 37% /boot
Manually extracting partitions from the image on Linux
Get the information about offsets and sizes from the SD-Card-Image:
$ parted -s SD-Card-Image unit KiB print
Here, the -s option directs parted to go into scripting mode and the commands unit KiB print tells parted to display its results in blocks of 1024 byte (KiB, see also block size in GNU Coreutils docu) and print the partition table.
You will get some information like the following (this is created with the Raspbian Wheezy image dated 15-Jul-2012):
Disk SD-Card-Image: 1894400kiB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 4096kiB 61440kiB 57344kiB primary fat16 lba 2 61440kiB 1894400kiB 1832960kiB primary ext4
Now you can extract the partitions with
$ dd if=SD-Card-Image of=Part1 bs=1024 skip=4096 count=57344 $ dd if=SD-Card-Image of=Part2 bs=1024 skip=61440 count=1832960
Fill in the skip and count parameters with the numbers for start and size, which you got from the parted command above.
Manually resizing the SD card using a GUI on Linux
If you are using a PC with a linux distribution to resize the partitions, you can run GParted to resize the partitions using a GUI. This method is tested on Ubuntu 10.10 using the Gnome desktop. Versions of GParted differ slightly in their GUIs.
GParted can be installed using:
sudo apt-get install gparted
Note: I had to physically remove and re-insert the SD card from the card reader after writing the image before the partitions were recognised properly and the following could be done.
- Start GParted (on my system it is
[System]->[Administration]->[GParted Partition editor]).
- Select the drive corresponding to your SD card (was
/dev/sdh/on my system). You now see the partitions mentioned above (with some tiny unallocated areas in between and a large one after).
- Select the swap partition by clicking on it.
- If the Resize/Move toolbar icon or
[Resize/Move]menu option is disabled, go to Partition / Unmount.
- Select the menu option
[Partition]->[Resize/Move]and drag the partition to the right (click/drag in the middle).
- Select the ext4 partition.
- If the Resize/Move toolbar icon or
[Resize/Move]menu option is disabled, go to Partition / Unmount.
- Resize the partition by dragging the right edge of the partition all the way to the right (click/drag the right edge).
- When you are satisfied with the changes, click on the green check mark, "Return" arrow, or other "apply" control to execute these changes.
You're done!
Manually resizing the SD card on Raspberry Pi
You can also resize the partitions of the SD card that your Pi is running on.
First you need to change the partition table with fdisk. You need to remove the existing partition entries and then create a single new partition than takes the whole free space of the disk. This will only change the partition table, not the partitions data on disk. The start of the new partition needs to be aligned with the old partition!
Start fdisk:
sudo fdisk -cu /dev/mmcblk0
Then delete partitions with d and create a new with n. You can view the existing table with p.
- p to see the current start of the main partition
- d, 3 to delete the swap partition
- d, 2 to delete the main partition
- n p 2 to create a new primary partition, next you need to enter the start of the old main partition and then the size (enter for complete SD card). The main partition on the Debian image from 2012-04-19 starts at 157696, but the start of your partition might be different. Check the p output!
- w write the new partition table
Now you need to reboot:
sudo shutdown -r now
After the reboot you need to resize the filesystem on the partition. The
resize2fs command will resize your filesystem to the new size from the changed partition table.
sudo resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p2
This will take a few minutes, depending on the size and speed of your SD card.
When it is done, you can check the new size with:
df -h


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New Bazooka gum design gets rid of Bazooka Joe comics
Mascot will still be shown in some inserts
Bazooka bubble gum is getting a new look to its packaging that will feature brighter colors and a lot less Bazooka Joe.
According to The New York Times, the red, white and blue color scheme of the brand has been replaced with saturated hues, such as fuchsia and yellow.
But in a change that might be more notable to the gum's older fans, the classic Bazooka Joe comic strips will no longer be wrapped around each piece of gum.
The comics featured the eyepatch-wearing brand mascot and his sidekick Mort and typically told a corny joke. Bazooka Candy Brands said Bazooka Joe the character isn't being eliminated and will still appear occasionally on illustrations in the new inserts that will be included with the gum.
The new inserts will feature brainteasers and activities, along with codes that can be entered on the brand's website to unlock content.


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The little boy could soon be back. El Niño, a periodic warming in the waters of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, will probably emerge in the coming months, according to a forecast issued yesterday by the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). If strong, the El Niño event could not only wreak havoc on weather around the world, but could also trigger a resumption of global warming that has been seemingly stalled for the last 15 years.
The prediction center found that there is a 58% chance that El Niño will emerge within the next 3 months. By the early fall, that probability rises to 78%. "We're more confident than we ever have been," says Michelle L'Heureux, a climate scientist at the prediction center, located in College Park, Maryland.
El Niño is defined as a temperature anomaly of at least half a degree Celsius in the waters of a region of the equatorial Pacific. Once the warm water reaches the surface, it interacts with the atmosphere, creating weather patterns that can cause droughts, storms, fires, and floods throughout the world. The last El Niño occurred in 2009 to 2010, and the last big one, in 1997 to 1998, caused billions of dollars of damage around the globe.
Kevin Trenberth, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, says the coming event could rival the one from 1997. He has been monitoring sea levels with satellite altimetry data and has noticed about a 20-centimeter difference between the western and eastern tropical Pacific.
In the past 15 years, Trenberth says, winds associated with La Niña—El Niño's sister effect—have piled up warm water in the western Pacific, near the Philippines. Those winds have largely collapsed this year, and so those waters are moving back east. "It's been waiting to slop back, and is now doing so, and will be very hard to stop," he says. He also points out that NOAA based its prediction mostly on data from April—and says more recent data show strong signs that waters off the coast of Peru are continuing to warm. "I don't think we've seen anything like this before," he says.
For Anthony Barnston, it's still too early to say how strong the event could be. Barnston is a climate scientist at Columbia University's International Research Institute for Climate and Society in Palisades, New York, which jointly issues the El Niño forecasts with NOAA's CPC. He says that May is an uncertain time for tropical weather systems and that unstable winds could as easily undermine the gathering El Niño as they could strengthen it. "There's been a lot of buzz in the media about a superstrong event and I think that has been premature," Barnston says.
The impacts of El Niño vary across the globe, by season and location—and they are not all bad. In southern California, for example, El Niño typically brings heavy rains—and that could be a blessing for a region suffering from severe drought.
For climate scientists, a major question is whether the coming event will be big enough to flip the world into the warm phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), a 20- to 30-year climate cycle that is related to El Niño or La Niña conditions. For nearly the past 20 years—probably since 1997 to 1998—the PDO has been in a cool phase, and La Niña conditions have typically prevailed. There is tenuous evidence that a strong El Niño event could push the PDO back into a warm phase—one in which El Niño events would be more common. That could allow heat from the ocean to be released into the atmosphere—causing a jump in atmospheric global warming, Trenberth says: "This could be a very important year."


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Creating a Family is the national infertility, adoption, & foster care education and support nonprofit. Our mission is to strengthen families through unbiased education and support for infertility patients, adoptive parents, foster parents, and allied professionals.
We began in 2007 because we saw a need for accurate information online about infertility, infertility grief, moving to adoption from infertility, and all types of adoption options. We also have a large and active online support group. Creating a Family Facebook Support Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/creatingafamily/) It's a closed Facebook group so that only those in the group can see the posts.
Creating a Family provides extensive resources on all types of adoption and all aspects of infertility (medical and emotional).
Adoption is a wonderful way to create your family. Creating a Family covers all adoption options, including domestic infant adoption, baby adoption in the US, international adoption, foster care adoption, embryo donation (sometimes known as embryo adoption). Check out our Adoption Resource Guide. We also strongly believe that education and support should not end once the adoption is finalized. Post adoption education and support are crucial for adoptive families and adopted kids to thrive. Creating a Family has an extensive post adoption education and support section.
Creating a Family, the national adoption education and support nonprofit, includes extensive resources on the following adoption topics in our Adoption Resource Guide:
- Adopting More Than One Child
- Adopting Older Children
- Adopting Out of Birth Order
- Adoption Grants and Loans
- Adoption Scam / Adoption Fraud
- Adoption Tax Credit
- Adoptive Parenting
- Birth Parents
- Cost of Adoption in the US
- Fundraising for Adoption
- Parenting Adopted Children with Challenging Behavior
- Post Adoption Depression
- Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol or Drugs
- Sleep Issues with Adopted Children
- Special Needs Adoption
- Talking with Kids about Adoption
- Toddler Adoption
- Transitioning Home After Adoption
- Transracial/Interracial Adoption
- Domestic Infant Adoption
- International Adoption
- Foster Care Adoption
- Open Adoption
- Attachment Issues with Adoption
- Adoption Lawyers/Independent Adoption
- Affording Adoption
- Adoption Therapy
- School Issues for Adopted Children
- Adoption and the LGBT Community
- Single Parents
- Choosing an Adoption Agency
There is much misinformation online for those trying to conceive or those who are infertile. Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, provides an Infertility Resource Guide, provided medically accurate information on all aspects of infertility, including: female infertility, male infertility, unexplained infertility, PCOS, endometriosis, IVF, and other forms of fertility treatment.
The emotional aspects of infertility are just as challenging as the medical aspects, and Creating a Family has extensive resources to help those struggling with infertility cope with this disease.
Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, includes extensive resources, including archived radio show/podcasts, blogs, fact sheets, research summaries, videos, and Expert Q&As in our Infertility Resource Guide:
- Egg Donation
- Egg Donation and Surrogacy Fraud/Scams
- Embryo Donation/Adoption
- Finding an Attorney that Specializes in Reproductive Law
- Finding an Infertility Doctor or Clinic
- Grants and Loans for Infertility Treatment
- In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)
- Infertility Clinic Discount Programs
- Intrauterine Insemination (IUI)/Artificial Insemination
- Lowering the Cost of IVF
- Oral Fertility Medications
- Selective Fetal Reduction
- Sperm Donation
- Unexplained Infertility
- Unused Frozen Embryo Disposition Options
- Alternative/Complementary Fertility Treatments
- Coping with Infertility Grief
- Explaining Infertility to Families and Friends
- Surviving the Holiday & Family Gatherings with Infertility
- Talking with Kids about Donor Egg, Sperm, Embryo & Surrogacy
- Male Infertility/Male Fertility
- Egg Freezing/ Oocyte Cyropreservation
- Surrogacy
- Insurance Coverage for Fertility Treatment, Egg Donation, Surrogacy
- Ovarian Issues (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, Premature Ovarian Failure)
- Immunological Connection to Infertility and Miscarriage
- Miscarriage/Pregnancy Loss
- Fertility Tourism / Going Abroad for Infertility Treatment
- Endometriosis
- Parenting After Infertility
Domestic Infant Adoption
It is possible to adopt a baby in the US. Creating a Family provide resources on how to adopt a baby in the US, the cost of adoption, how to prepare an adoptive parent profile, how to assess risk factors, such as prenatal alcohol and drug exposure and mental health issues with birth parents and expectant parents, and how to select an adoption agency or adoption attorney.
In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)
Many infertility patients will need to use IVF to get pregnant. Creating a Family provides resources on in vitro fertilization, how to select a fertility clinic, cost of infertility treatment an IVF, how to save money on fertility treatment, and what is the usual IVF procedure.
Foster Care Adoption
Many children are available for adoption in US foster care system. Creating a Family provides resources on foster care adoption, including the different ways to adopt from foster care, how to choose an adoption agency, the cost of adopting from foster care, how to negotiate for an adoption subsidy, and how to assess risk factors for children being adopted or fostered from foster care.
Coping with Infertility and Miscarriage Grief
Infertility is a painful and often lonely journey. People often do not understand the loss of miscarriage and do not know what to say or how to offer support. Creating a Family provides information and support for infertility grief, surviving the emotions of infertility, miscarriage, and trying to conceive.
International Adoption
It is possible to adopt from abroad. Many countries have international adoption programs allowing Americans to adopt. Creating a Family provides resources on how to adopt internationally from a foreign country, the cost of international adoption, how to prepare a dossier, how to find an international adoption agency, how to choose a country, how to assess risk factors in children available for adoption, issues to consider when adopting a toddler or older child, and much more. Creating a Family also has the most extensive Adoption Comparison Charts allowing adoptive parents to compare the top placing countries to the US for 25 factors they should consider when choosing a country to adopt from.
Causes and Prevention of Miscarriage
It is amazing how little good information is available on recurrent miscarriages. This is partly because there is no medical specialty in miscarriage prevention and treatment.
The good news is that recent advances in chromosomal testing of embryos and miscarried fetuses are helping prevent more miscarriages. In the meantime, the following statistic should give you some peace: 70% of woman that have had up to four miscarriages will successfully carry a baby to term.
Check out the Creating a Family blogroll of bloggers who talk about miscarriage and pregnancy loss.
Two great places to begin to understand the causes, treatments, and coping with recurrent pregnancy loss are these Creating a Family radio shows with interviews with leading doctors and therapists.
- Latest Development in the Cause & Prevention of Miscarriage (1 hour radio show with experts)
- Suggested Books about Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss
Books for Those with Infertility
Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, has a list of the Best of the Best Books for those suffering from infertility. We a review of each book and cover the following topics:
- Books about Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss
- Books for Children Conceived through Egg Donation
- Books for Children Conceived through Embryo Donation
- Books for Children Conceived through Sperm Donation
- Books for Children Conceived through Surrogacy
- Books for Adults – Good Reads
- Books for Children Conceived through Fertility Treatments
- Books About Understanding Infertility Treatment Options
- Books on Talking With Your Kids about Their Conception
- Books about Alternative Infertility Treatments and Diets
- Books about Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
- Books for Older Parents via Fertility Treatment
Best Adoption Books for Kids and Parents
Creating a Family has an extensive list of adoption related books for kids broken out by type of adoption and age of the child. We also have a book list for adoptive parents.
- Adoption Books for Parents
- Books for Kids Adopted from Africa
- Books for Kids Adopted from China
- Books for Kids Adopted from Foster Care
- Books for Kids Adopted from Korea
- Books for Kids Adopted from Latin America
- Books for Kids Adopted from Russia/Eastern & Central Europe
- Books for Kids Adopted from Vietnam
- Books for Kids on Open Adoption
- Books for Older Adoptive Parents
- Books for Single Adoptive Parents
- Books for Transracially Adopted Kids
- Books on ADD and Learning Differences for Adoptive Parents
- Books on Attachment for Adoptive Parents
- Books on Creating Lifebooks for Adoptive Parents
- Books on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome for Adoptive Parents
- Books on Parenting & Child Development for Adoptive Parents
- Books on Sleep Issues for Adoptive Parents
- Books on Toddler and Older Child Adoption for Adoptive Parents
- Books on Transracial Adoption for Adoptive Parents
- Books To Help Explain Adoption To Birth Siblings of Adopted Children
- Books to Help Prepare Kids for the Adoption of a Sibling
- Books to Help Talk about Birthparents with Adopted Kids
- Fun and Inspirational Books for Adoptive Parents
- General Adoption Books for Adopted Children
Deciding on a Country to Adopt from for International Adoption
Creating a Family has comparison charts to help prospective adoptive parents decide on which foreign country they should adopt from. We analyze 25 factors we think parents should consider before choosing a country for international adoption.
- 25 Factors to Consider When Adopting From Bulgaria
- 25 Factors to Consider When Adopting From China
- 25 Factors to Consider When Adopting from Colombia
- 25 Factors to Consider When Adopting from Ethiopia
- 25 Factors to Consider When Adopting From Haiti
- 25 Factors to Consider When Adopting From India
- 25 Factors to Consider When Adopting From Latvia
- 25 Factors to Consider When Adopting From Mexico
- 25 Factors to Consider When Adopting from Poland
- 25 Factors to Consider When Adopting from Russia
- 25 Factors to Consider When Adopting from South Korea
- 25 Factors to Consider When Adopting from Taiwan
- 25 Factors to Consider When Adopting from Thailand
- 25 Factors to Consider When Adopting from the Philippines
- 25 Factors to Consider When Adopting From the United States (Foster Care Adoptions)
- 25 Factors to Consider When Adopting from the United States (Private Domestic Adoption)
- 25 Factors To Consider When Adopting From Uganda
- 25 Factors to Consider When Adopting from Ukraine
- Quick Comparison of Adoption Options
Emotions of Loss and Grief when you are Infertile
One of the reasons that the pain of infertility is so hard to deal with is that it is often unrecognized by our society. Therapist and scholars have a name for this type of grief: disenfranchised grief or ambiguous grief.
The lack of recognition for the loss makes it easy to feel that you aren't entitled to mourn, but mourning is crucial to healing. It is hard to grieve a dream and harder still when others don't even see that there is a loss.
You do not have to cope with the pain and grief of infertility alone. Many people have been helped by counselors, but it is especially helpful if the therapist is trained in the realities of infertility.
- Creating a Family has done a number of shows that include a discussion of how to find a good therapist that is knowledgeable about infertility issues. Listen to a few, such as How to Survive Infertility without Losing your Mind, Your Marriage, or Your Friends, Coping with Infertility, and Psychological Issues with Infertility.
- Ask your infertility clinic if they have mental health professionals on staff or can recommend one.
- The American Society of Reproductive Medicine lists members that are mental health professionals.
Post Adoption Depression
Every adoptive parent expects that after working so hard to become a parent, they will feel nothing but joy and thankfulness at the gift that is their child. More often these feelings of joy are mixed with feelings of being overwhelmed and worry about not "falling madly in love at first sight". Throw in the exhaustion of any major life change, and you have the makings for post adoption depression.
We have seen no research on how many adoptive parents experience post adoption depression, but anecdotally from our post adoption support group, we believe that it occurs more often when:
- Parents have unrealistic expectations of what the transition period will be like.
- Parents do not have people with whom to confide their fears and concerns.
If you are struggling post adoption, you are not alone . This is not a reflection on you, or your child, or your eventual adjustment. Talk with your adoption social worker. She will not judge, and she can help.
About Creating a Family
Creating a Family is the national adoption & infertility education nonprofit. Our mission is to provide support and unbiased information before, during and after adoption or fertility treatment to help create strong families. Check out our Five Core Values that we use to guide every decision. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and you can check out our financials and IRS Form 990 at GuideStar.
Creating a Family, the National Infertility & Adoption Education and Support Organization
Creating a Family has the most extensive and diverse collection of resources for those struggling with infertility and for pre and post adoptive families. We are constantly creating more resources and average adding four new resources every week. Since 2007 we also have our weekly radio show where we interview the top experts on every aspect of adoption, adoptive parenting, and infertility. For those folks that want one on one education to get help with a specific decision, we can do that as well through our Individual Education option. While education is important to helping you make decisions on this often painful and confusing journey to creating a family, support is equally important. We have created an incredibly strong online support network via a private Facebook group, Pinterest, and Twitter. Our mantra is 'Information is Power'. We aren't promoting one way of family building over another. We trust that with the right information, every family will find their right path to parenthood. We'll freely admit that we would love for every child in this world to have a family. We would especially love to help find homes for older kids and kids with special needs, but we know that this is not the right decision for every family, and our goal to help every family find their right path to parenthood.
Statement of Core Values for Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit
Creating a Family uphold these core values in our work. They represent what we believe in, what we stand for, and how we approach everything we do.
- There is no "best way" to create your family.
- With education and support families will be able to choose the best way for them.
- Our education and support will be unbiased and accurate.
- It is in a child's best interest to have parents that are educated and supported before, during and after infertility treatment or adoption.
- We will attempt to bridge the gap between the academic and research communities and the infertility patient community and the adoptive parent and adoption professional community by making research findings available and offering researchers access to our audience to publicize their studies and solicit participants.
Bit of Bragging
Of course we're proud of what we do, but what matters most is what our audience has to say. Here's a sampling:
Creating a Family and in particular your radio show has been a lifeline to me over the past 2+ years. In the privacy of my home/car I have been connected with others whose family-building has been challenged and I have had access to invaluable information from experts that have helped us make better decisions. Thank you! ~ S. Potter
I wanted to thank you for all of the wonderful things you do. We brought our beautiful baby boy home from the hospital on April 2nd. While we waited for an adoption match and then waited for his birth, your podcast and website were a continuous reminder that we were part of an amazing adoption community. It really helped us not feel alone. ~Sarah S.
I just felt like I should say Thank You this morning! Your website and e-mails have consistently been a "touch stone" for me through this whole process – sometimes reaffirming what I already believe, sometimes giving me a different perspective, but always being something that I can respect and learn from. Thank you for this!!! ~ L. Adams
Creating a Family has made a big difference to the quality of information that we can share with our adoptive community. We sometimes use your podcasts as the basis for roundtable discussions or our monthly Parent Support Meetings. ~ Louise Garnaut (Adoptive Families of Hong Kong)
Bit of History
Creating a Family started in 2007 as a labor of love. We saw the huge need for unbiased accurate information online about infertility and adoption. We knew people were getting most of their "education" online, but much of what was available was inaccurate junk, slanted towards one form of family building or one type of adoption over another, or was being provided by for profit organizations that were anything but unbiased. We knew that in order to educate and support, we needed to be where the folks were, so we readily embraced all forms of online media (audio, video, social networks), but set out to be the anti-junk and the anti-bias.
Our Leadership
Dawn Davenport is Executive Director of Creating a Family, and the "Official Voice" of Creating a Family since she also hosts of our weekly national radio show and is a frequent speaker at conferences. (We try to not let that title go to her head.) We also are proudly led by a terrific Board. You can check out their bona fides if you're so inclined.
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Morneau, Mauer spearheading offensive surge
MINNEAPOLIS -- After struggling to score runs in April, the Twins have caught fire offensively in May behind Justin Morneau and Joe Mauer.
Minnesota is tied with Detroit with the most runs scored in baseball this month, with 76 in 13 games. The Twins are averaging 5.8 runs per game, which is a marked improvement on the four runs per game they averaged in April.
Morneau has been a big reason for the turnaround, as he has a hit in 10 straight games -- after going 2-for-5 in Tuesday's 4-2 loss to the White Sox -- and is batting .425 (17-for-40) over that stretch. He also leads the Majors with 17 RBIs in May.
"He's a huge part of our lineup," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "This guy has been an MVP. He's been beat up the last couple years, but you can see what he can do when he's healthy. He can come up and drive a baseball. I think the best part of it is last year you saw a smile on his face and he was healthy and better. And this year since Spring Training, he hasn't really had to hold back at all. And so that's been fun to watch."
Mauer is also a major part of the offense's success, as he extended his hit streak to a season-high 13 games with a single in the first inning against the White Sox on Tuesday. Gardenhire said he'll continue to bat Mauer second in the lineup despite not getting much production from the leadoff spot, as Twins leadoff hitters have combined to rank last in the Majors with a .189 batting average and a .231 on-base percentage.
"I like Joe where he's at," Gardenhire said. "The lineup rolls around him. He seems to come up with some pretty big situations. If I move him up, I still have to move everybody else around. Who would be our second hitter? [Josh] Willingham isn't a second hitter and Morneau isn't a second hitter. So we'll let it flow. Right now we're swinging good and scoring runs, so we'll leave them the way they are."


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With headlines from the past week, here's Bubba's second economusic rendition. He's getting smoother, like it Bubba, keep bringing the sting!
Friday, March 12, 2010
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Undergrads Win Critical Language Scholarships to Study Overseas
Addison Larson
Adam Mendonca
Addison Larson is not too worried about the blistering heat and dusty terrain of Oman, where she is spending this summer learning Arabic.
"I'm well-prepared, coming from West Texas," Larson said.
The Midland native wants to pursue a career in urban planning and development in the Middle East or North Africa. This summer, she hopes to improve her fluency in Arabic and gain a deeper knowledge of Arab culture.
Larson is one of three UT Dallas students — and about 550 from across the U.S. — who have been granted a Critical Language Scholarship for Intensive Summer Institutes from the U.S. State Department.
Adam Mendonca, an electrical engineering freshman, is studying Mandarin in Suzhou, China. Biology senior Roxanne Lee had to decline her scholarship due to a conflict with her duties related to starting medical school.
Since 2008, nine UT Dallas students have received Critical Language Scholarships. The program supports summer language institutes to help more Americans master 13 critical foreign languages needed for diplomacy and trade, including Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Japanese, Punjabi, Russian and Turkish.
Recipients spend seven to 10 weeks studying the language. They are expected to continue their language study after the program and use their skills in a future career.
Larson said her interest in Arab culture goes back to childhood when an Arab Palestinian friend introduced her to the culture and food.
She said that after she read Arabic comic books she began thinking about cultural differences and how to bridge the gap.
After studying Arabic for a year at UT Dallas, Larson said she is at the "advanced beginner" level, and has become more interested in the Middle East.
Scholarship Winners
UT Dallas recipients of the Critical Language Scholarship and their destination countries:
Adam Mendonca, China
Addison Larson, Oman
Irene Morse, Oman
Allison-Leigh Beatty, China
Samia Hossain, Jordan
Dina Shahrokhi, Morocco
Stacey Knepp, Jordan
Molly Wurzer, Tunisia
Nehe Firoze, India
"Once you start studying a language, you become passionate about the culture and the country," Larson said.
In Oman, she will be immersed in Arabic, taking classes and living at the Noor Majan Training Institute in Ibri, a small mountain town bordered by a large desert that connects to Saudi Arabia.
"I've never been to the Middle East, so I don't know what to expect. But my experience with Arab people has always been wonderful," Larson said.
Larson, an international political economy sophomore and an Academic Excellence Scholar, said she switched her major from mechanical engineering after taking a Collegium V course on ethics in computer science and engineering.
"I realized I was pouring a disproportionate amount of time into that one course," Larson said. "It made me realize that I was more interested in studying the social sciences and the human condition than the technical sciences. That began my pivot on majors."
Dr. Douglas Dow, coordinator of the Office of Distinguished Scholarships and associate director of the University's Collegium V Honors Program, said Larson is well-suited for her chosen path.
"I really think she's found her intellectual home," Dow said. "She has a lot of linguistic competencies, and is one of the most upbeat, enthusiastic people I know, full of energy and gusto. She will thrive in the intense social experience of being part of a group learning team."
Mendonca, who is a McDermott Scholar, wants to become fluent in Chinese so that he can one day communicate with colleagues in the telecommunications industry.
Though he lived in China for three years during elementary school, he lost fluency over time from not speaking Mandarin regularly.
"Speaking proficiently is what hammers it in," Mendonca said. "On paper, I can make it out, but when I'm speaking Mandarin I have to translate it in my mind to formulate a response. I want to be able to think in Chinese."
Dow said Mendonca is the first freshman from UT Dallas to receive the scholarship.
"Studying Chinese is a passion he's developed and systematically pursued. Adam is an outstanding scholar, and it's been a real privilege to have him in class. He's comfortable being outside his comfort zone, which makes him a great candidate for this scholarship," Dow said.
While attending high school in Fayetteville, Ark., Mendonca enrolled in a Chinese school to regain his language skills and also took a college-level Mandarin class. Now, he hopes this summer's experience will bring him back up to speed.
"I want to be able to communicate when I'm on business trips someday, and also with those from China who come here," Mendonca said.
Media Contact: The Office of Media Relations, UT Dallas, (972) 883-2155, [email protected].


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Islamist Boko Haram insurgents have overrun much of a northeastern Nigerian town after hours of fighting that killed scores and displaced thousands of residents, security sources said on Tuesday.
The Islamists launched an attack on the town of Bama, 70 km (45 miles) from the Borno state capital of Maiduguri, on Monday. They were initially repelled but came back in greater numbers overnight, the sources and witnesses said.
Nigeria's defence spokesman did not respond to a request for comment. The sources said there were heavy casualties on both sides and one said at least 5,000 people fled the town.
In a bungled air strike, several Nigerian troops were killed at the Bama armoury by a fighter jet targeting the insurgents, a soldier on the ground told Reuters.
Two months after Islamist militants in Iraq and Syria declared the area they seized an Islamic caliphate, Boko Haram has also for the first time explicitly laid claim to territory it says it controls in parts of northeast Nigeria.
They captured the remote hilly farming town of Gwoza, along the Cameroon border, during fighting last month. The group's leader Abubakar Shekau in a video declared it a "Muslim territory" that would be ruled by strict Islamic law.
Shekau's forces have killed thousands and displaced hundreds of thousands since launching an uprising in 2009 to revive a medieval Islamic caliphate in religiously mixed Nigeria. They are the biggest security threat to Africa's top oil producer. "When we started hearing gunshots, everybody was confused. There was firing from different directions. We just ran to the outskirts of town," Bukar Auwalu, a trader who fled with his wife, three children and brother, told Reuters by phone.
"There were military helicopters and a fighter jet. We slept in the bush on the outskirts of town. We can't go back." Adrian Edwards, spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), said 9,000 people fleeing violence in Nigeria's northeast had arrived in Cameroon's Far North region in the past 10 days.
"Even upon arrival in Cameroon, they are not necessarily out of harm's way. On Sunday, insurgents attacked Kerawa town inside Cameroon, forcing refugees and some local residents to flee further inland," he said in a briefing note from Geneva.
Another 2,000 had crossed into Niger, which is already hosting some 50,000 refugees of fighting since May 2013. Some 645,000 people are internally displaced in Nigeria, she said.
Because of Bama's proximity to Maiduguri, a large metropolis and home of a major army base, security officials are worried there is now little to keep Boko Haram from gaining access to a key city that was also the birthplace of their movement.
The military has extended Maiduguri's nightly curfew to 7 p.m. (1800 GMT) until 6 a.m. – it previously started at 10 p.m. – to fight "infiltration into the Maiduguri metropolis by insurgents," Nigerian defence headquarters announced on its Twitter account on Tuesday.
Boko Haram attracted the international spotlight on April 14, when its fighters kidnapped more than 200 girls from a school in the northeastern village of Chibok in April. They remain in captivity. Their tactics have started to resemble those of Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army: kidnapping boys and forcing them to fight while taking girls as "wives".
A military offensive launched over a year ago to crush them has merely made the rebels more brutal. The apparent powerlessness of the military to protect civilians or prevent the militants' raids has triggered much criticism of President Goodluck Jonathan's administration, although it argues counter-insurgency is something new that the government is having to learn how to fight.
A soldier involved in the Bama fighting, who declined to be named, said the insurgents had targeted the Bama armoury with heavy weapons including tanks. As troops tried to repel the attack, they called in air reinforcements.
But by the time the fighter jet arrived, they had mostly lost the battle for this location. The jet then bombed the area but accidentally killed everyone there, both Nigerian troops and insurgents, the soldier said. "The situation is bad. We lost so many of our men," he said.
Farmer Ibrahim Malu said hundreds had fled the town. He had gone out to his farm early in the morning when gunfire and loud explosions erupted. He ran back home, but by the time he got there his wife and children had already fled.
"I still don't even know where they could be," he told Reuters by telephone. "Two soldiers fled with me. One of them didn't even have any shoes."
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I was leafing through my copy of Small Business Breakthrough the other day and I realized that, each time I turned the page, images of flailing business owners were flashing through my mind. This was especially true when I got to Rule #7: "Your Business is too Dependent on You..."
Far too many of the small business owners I've met are absolutely essential to the day-to-day, if not minute-by-minute operation of the business. They are oblivious to Rule #7 and, therefore, oblivious to that fact that they have a business that is NOT
- Sustainable--things crumble when the owner isn't present to "do it the right way"
- Scalable--growth creates pain, confusion and customer complaints
- Saleable--who wants to buy a business that so dependent on a single person?
As the author says, being overly dependent on specific people is bad for your employees, the owner, and the business. It is bad for the employees because they become stuck in job traps that prevent them from being promoted. It is bad for ownership because it turns the employee-employer relationship upside down, preventing ownership from asserting their authority for fear of upsetting key employees who may choose to quit.


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More to proveby Staff Writer / Montréal Canadiens
MONTREAL – The only thing better than landing Daniel Briere is landing him with something to prove.
Coming off a career-low 16-point season in 34 games with Philadelphia last year, Briere wasn't shocked when the Flyers decided to buy out the remaining two seasons of his contract on June 20. But with plenty of gas left in the tank and a chip planted squarely on his shoulder, he's coming to his fourth NHL team ready to show that 2012-13 was the exception, not the rule.
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"I'd be lying if I said I was happy about it when I heard the news [of the buyout]. It's like someone closed the door on you and you're not happy about it," explained Briere via conference call from Hearst, ON. "But after a few minutes you realize it can open the door for new opportunities.
"My whole career has been about finding the motivation to bounce back," added the Gatineau, QC native. "Coming to Montreal makes it really easy. There's no better motivation than having the chance to play for the Canadiens. Last season was definitely one where I wasn't happy with the way things went and I'm going to do everything in my power to turn that around. I'm hoping I can prove to everyone it was just a fluke."
With 659 points in 847 career NHL games, Briere has proven he can be the offensive powerhouse the Habs have been looking for up front. Currently sixth among all active NHLers in postseason scoring with 109 points in 108 playoff games, the two-time All-Star is looking forward to bringing his big-game production to an even bigger stage.
"There's pressure in Philly, too – not as much as there is in Montreal, maybe, but it's still there. I think I matured a lot there," explained Briere, who has enjoyed seven 20-plus goal seasons, including a career-high 34-goal haul in 2010-11. "I was really impressed with Marc [Bergevin] and Michel [Therrien] when we talked. We didn't talk ice time; we talked more about the team concept and the Canadiens family and what they're trying to build here."
His new Canadiens family members weren't the only ones who helped tip the scales in Montreal's favor, however.
"To be able to come home and have my family and friends close was a big factor in my decision," he admitted. "It's special. We all grew up watching and cheering for the Canadiens. There's no question everyone was pushing in this direction."
This isn't the first time the 35-year-old forward has had a chance to fulfill his childhood dream. A free agent in the summer of 2007, Briere came within a dotted line of becoming a Hab, but opted instead to sign a long term deal with Philly that July. The veteran forward immediately started feeling the heat from the Montreal faithful every time the Flyers came to town. Watching Briere drop to one knee for one of his trademark fist pumps used to bring out the Bell Centre boo birds, but that celebration is about to become a fan favorite in Montreal.
"Deep down, I've always been a kid from Quebec who wanted to play for the Canadiens," shared Briere. "I'm lucky to be able to have a second chance like this to be able to [sign with] Montreal. It's a huge honor for me to play here. For me, Montreal Canadiens fans are probably the most passionate fans in the NHL. It's an honor to be playing for them and in front of them and all I'm hoping is we'll all be cheering in the same direction when the season starts. We'll be pushing along together to rack up some wins."
About to embark on what could be the final step in his NHL career, Briere knows exactly what he's getting into in Montreal – and he can't wait to get it going.
"The more I thought about it and the more I talked about it, the more excited I got about it. It was an emotional decision. It's the Montreal Canadiens," he stressed. "I realized this was my last chance to be able to play for the Canadiens and I seized that opportunity. I'm looking forward to getting the season started as soon as possible."
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How is pressure measured?Pressure is classified into three types:
- Fluid pressure – the measurement of force per unit area of a fluid, either liquid or gas.
- Absolute pressure – the absolute value of force per unit on a surface exerted by a fluid.
- Gauge pressur e – the difference between atmospheric pressure and absolute. This can differ based on altitude, weather, and ambient temperature. This means pressure gauges readouts can vary at different heights.
Types of pressure measuring devices
There are is a wide range of types of pressure measurement instruments, that can perform here are some of the most commonly used types and what they are used for:
- Pressure gauges – can be used to measure all types of pressure. They are available in analogue format that uses a scale and needle on a gauge for a readout. Digital pressure gauges are also available that feature a digital screen that provides a reading of higher accuracy. They're commonly used in general industrial applications as well as test applications and calibration.
- Pressure pumps - pneumatic, vacuum and hydraulic pressure pumps are used to generate pressure quickly and easily to the required level, ideal for calibration applications or machinery maintenance.
- Pressure meters - are used to measure absolute pressure, negative pressure or differential pressure in air and liquids. They give extremely fast and highly accurate measurements that make them ideal for use in the field of research and development.
- Pressure calibrators - are devices that not only measure pressure but are used to calibrate (verify) other pressure measurement instrument's readings. They are highly accurate instruments and can have multiple advanced features running at one time, such as a regulator.
Innovations over recent years have allowed for improved technologies to be integrated into devices to allow more data to be collected, take more accurate readings and operate more effectively in challenging environments.
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The Shape of Time Reconsidered
The author reviews a selection of critical opinions published about his Shape of Time (1962) during the last twenty years. Articles and studies by Priscilla Colt, Jan Białostocki, Boris Nakov, Giovanni Previtali, Joyce Brodsky, Ad Reinhardt, Robert Morris, Siegfried Kracauer, Robert Smithson, are discussed.
This study discusses a Madonna with St. John by Bronzino, formerly in the Aram Collec-tion, Berlin, now in the collection of Alvan Macauley Jr., Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. The work is dated ca. 1540-1545 by stylistic analogy with Bronzino paintings such as the Nativity (Budapest), the Chapel of Eleonora (Florence, Palazzo Vecchio), the Madonna with St. John and St. Elizabeth (London, National Gallery), and it is suggested that it may be one of the as yet unidentified Madonnas mentioned by Vasari as painted in these years by Bronzino. It is noted that the Macauley Madonna is related to Bronzino's other Holy Families of the 1540s in its treatment of the theme of the destiny of Christ. Finally, a preparative study by Bronzino for the work is identified in Budapest, Szépmüvészeti Múzeum.
The Altar Painting of San Giovanni Crisostomo by Giovanni Bellini; the Subject, Sponsoring and Meaning
On the basis of archival sources, the author manages to weigh the evidence as to the intention of the sponsor of the painting and in this way to identify more precisely the saints repre-sented. This enables us to get at the scheme of ideas behind the painting i.e. the contrast between active and contemplative life. In fact the figure of S. Jerome stands for the priority given to the mystical encounter with the divine occurring in ascetic dimensions. That is why the saint is elevated and clearly detached from the area with S. Christopher and St. Louis, saints who symbolize two complementary ways of searching for the divine through the active life. At the same time the overall harmonizing, unified pyramid structure show how these forms of spirituality are brought together, albeit in a precise hierarchy in the Mystical Body of the Church. The question posed by the verse from a psalm, running along the inner side of the arch represented in the picture, is given a reassuring answer, bringing together both terms of the dichotomy.
The Fortunes of Caravaggio and the Concept of «Nature» in the First Decades of the 17th Century in Rome. Misunderstandings about the Caravaggesque Movement
About forty years have passed (since Longhi's essay in 1943) — forty years of research on the concept of naturalism in the 1600s as originating in the brilliant ethical and aesthetic intuitions of Michelangelo da Caravaggio (ca. 1571–1610). Here is to be reappraised how his followers were influenced by him, leading to the conclusion (on the basis of original docu-mentary sources) that the very concept of Natura in painting as far as the area around Rome is concerned does not so much come from Caravaggio, whose basic vision was practically abandoned, but rather was the result of a series of relationships worked out between painters, patrons, and modes of expression.
Essentially a misunderstanding of Caravaggio by some of his contemporaries and passed on to subsequent criticism.
In this context we must distinguish between, on the one hand painters who were actually spurred on to new things by coming into direct contact with Caravaggio (Gentileschi, Bor-gianni, Saraceni, and up to around 1630 Valentin and Serodine), and on the other, those rejecting Caravaggio's cultivated moral concept of "Nature" (or even Nature «tout-court») and settled for merely imitating what had already been carried out by others (Bartolomeo Manfredi and the followers of his method).
Landscape and Narrative in Edgar Allan Poe
It is interesting to realize that Imagination, as Edgar Allan Poe points out, is faced by the choice between «either Beauty or Deformity, only the most combinable things hitherto uncombined". Poe's passionate and intriguing taste as regards Nature, i.e. landscapes, seems, at first, to be dominated by this theoretical law and to be produced only by the talent of an ec-centric and visionary genius.
But the most original feature of Poe's landscapes is the continual sequence of descriptions demonstrating an exceptionally good familiarity with specifically technical terms of represen-tation. Analyzing this sort of passage from both the linguistic and rhetorical point of view, it becomes clear that the author was well informed about the aesthetics of gardening as well as the contemporary literature an landscape. Thus, the intertwining of subtle connections between certain aspects of American painting and their correlatives in literature in the earlier Nineteenth Century is seen in a new and stimulating light.
History of Art or History of Artists? – Remarks on the Present State of Research on Viennese Baroque Architecture
The purpose of this article is to show, that most of the palaces built in Vienna during the decades around 1700 (and some important churches too) cannot be considered as creations of only one architect, but are the result of a complicated interwoven process of planning and execution, where several important factors beside the architect have to be considered: competition between rival architects; influences by projects sent from Italy or France; patrons; «masterbuilders», etc. As usual, the method of dealing with these buildings cannot therefore be restricted to the few «great» architects (Fischer von Erlach, Hildebrandt, Martinelli); in keeping with J. Burckhardt's demand for «art history for purposes» («Kunstgeschichte nach Aufgaben») a much wider perspective has to be taken for an adequate approach to Viennese Baroque architecture.
This article argues that 20th century emphasis on formal problems has prevented us from understanding Cezanne's work. It further argues that Merleau-Ponty's focus on Cezanne's self-portraits and on his other paintings as well, as paradigmatic of the ambiguity of perception engages them at their deepest level. While they are radically modern articulations of the ambiguity of perception they are also investigations of the genres developed in the tradition of western art. It is in that unresolved tension between a desired primal encounter and the decod-ing of the structures of western tradition that the nature-culture ambiguity emerges as the es-sential problem in the painter's ouvre.
The Measured Image
Reconsidering the gnoseological function of perspective and of orthogonal projections, the differences between them and their historical development, the author comes to outline a criticism of surveying and design. This criticism is lifted at the point where technology and modern science define general criteria for uniformity through measurement, freeing surveying from any ulterior motives or subjectivity. It is in this direction, that research is moving that may contribute significantly to historical investigation particularly in the field of art criticism, in attributing, authenticating, and dating. Here are opened remarkable opportunities for verifying and comparing data. The author points out in particular the most significant advances coming from measurements carried out by topographical and photogrammatic procedures.
Film Language as Artistic Language
The author deals with the following question; to what extent film – considered in terms of language communication – can be characterized by features allowing for classification on an artistic «order». This is based on traditional literary research, especially the achievements of the Russian Formalists and the Prague School of Linguistics. The author specifies the charac-teristics of artistic language as individualization, emotional appeal, violation of standard rules, excessive organization of the language, and the weakening of the referential function. Then, accepting the thesis of the massive heterogeneousness of the film sign, she searches for the rules governing the "artisticness" on the level of the image, spoken language, music, etc., and tries to support her stetements through psychological perception.
There are two basic conclusions to the article:
1) systemic relations in filming, distribution, and conjunction rules, are generated on the level of a particular film (the thesis based on the semiotics of film), and 2) "artisticness", understood as rule-breaking, is achieved through devices violating semantic co-hesion (e.g. shots) and conspicuous particularity of presentation.


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Nearing return, Escalona to work on going long
DENVER -- Rockies right-handed relief pitcher Edgmer Escalona said he reached 97 mph on some of his fastballs Friday night in his first, and possibly only, injury rehab appearance at Triple-A Colorado Springs.
Escalona, who hasn't pitched since June 9 because of right elbow inflammation, struck out two and gave up one hit in 1 1/3 innings in Colorado Springs' 4-2 victory over Tucson.
"I feel like it's the first day of the season; I feel like it's April," Escalona said. "I felt comfortable, threw a lot of strikes and threw very hard. The important thing is I threw strikes, but it's also important that my arm felt good."
Manager Walt Weiss said he would talk with pitching coach Jim Wright to decide whether Escalona needs another rehab appearance.
Escalona will return to his middle relief role, which means he can be called upon to pitch multiple innings. Weiss said he doesn't want to extend Escalona beyond one inning initially, but wants to be able to do that soon. Escalona was more of a one-inning reliever in the past and prefers that, and he said he will have to learn to maintain health and effectiveness. He said he will work harder on cardiovascular fitness and proper eating.
"I don't know what I have to do, but I have to do something," Escalona said. "For me, I feel more comfortable as a short reliever, one inning. That's what I've been doing all my life. Now I'm doing two innings."


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I need add 16c554 on 9261 system to expand my uarts.
I found there is 16550 driver in wince 6.0 and I think this driver can be used to drive 16c554, like linux. In internet, i can not find a whole solution for this application, please help to tell me how i can do.
even if no one use 16c554, it will be better if can tell me how to add 16550 driver on 9261 system.
how can i make reg file for it?
I use CS0 of 9261, interrupt pin is PC3, I can calculate the IOBASE, but what the IRQ is here?
and i can find com16550, ser16550, isr16550, which one i should use?
external 16c554 driver for 9261, wince6.0
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Pagan Paths
The morning sun rising in the east calls to the Bright Youth in me, and the Bright Youth responds. The full moon calls to the Muse, and the waning and dark moon to the Dark Maiden who is a part of me. The earth I touch with my fingers calls to the Mother, in both her guises, Nurturing and Devouring. The bright green shoots rising from the earth and the green leaves on the trees on my street in the spring, these call to the Stag King, while the red leaves fallen to the earth in the autumn call to the Dying God. The spring storm that rises up suddenly in the west calls to the Storm King. The night sky, the dark space between the stars, calls to Mother Night, my death come to make peace. The gods-without call and the gods-within respond.
But are the archetypes real?
"Scorn not the Gods: Despite their non-existence in material terms, they're no less potent, no less terrible. The one place Gods inarguably exist is in our minds where they are real beyond refute, in all their grandeur and monstrosity."
-- Alan Moore, From Hell
"But are the archetypes real?" This is a question that haunts any discussion of the archetypes, especially discussions of the gods as archetypes. I have made the argument here and here that the polytheistic experience of deities can be explained in Jungian terms as archetypes. But the question of the ontological nature of the archetypes remained unanswered.
In Neo-Pagan discourse, the archetypes are described as everything from mere metaphors to metaphysical Platonic forms. Part of the reason for this is that Jung was not always clear or consistent in his use of language. In addition, his beliefs about the nature of the archetypes evolved over time. So, in what follows, I will be selective, as is necessary in any discussion of Jung's ideas.
Giving the psyche its due, or putting the "psyche" back into psychology
The short answer is that the archetypes are just as real as is the psyche or mind. Jung did not live to see the recent advances in neuroimaging, but neuroscience has still yet to account for consciousness in terms of the brain structure. Materialists believe we have only to wait upon the progress of science to explain everything about the mind, but Jung believed that the psyche was a phenomenon that deserved to be treated as a phenomenon in its own right.
While recognizing the "undeniable connection between psyche and brain", Jung nevertheless rejected the notion that the psyche was "a mere epiphenomenal by-product of organic processes in the brain" (CW 11, P 14) or "a symptom of chemical reactions" (CW 11, P 769). Whether organic processes in the brain were the cause or the effect of changes in the psyche was an open question for Jung (CW 11, P 14), and I think it remains an open question today. In spite of the dependence of the psyche on the functioning of the brain, Jung insisted that the structure and physiology of the brain was not sufficient to explain the psyche: "The psyche has a peculiar nature which cannot be reduced to anything else" he wrote. (CW 10, P 528).
"For the human psyche is neither a psychiatric nor a physiological problem; it is not a biological problem at all but--precisely--a psychological one. It is a field on its own with its own peculiar laws. Its nature cannot be deduced from the principles of other sciences without doing violence to the idiosyncrasy of the psyche. It cannot be identified with the brain, or the hormones, or any known instinct; for better or worse it must be accepted as a phenomenon unique in kind." (CW 16, P 22)
The concepts of both matter and spirit, according to Jung, "are mere symbols that stand for something unknown and unexplored, and this something is postulated or denied according to the temperament of the individual or as the spirit of the age dictates." (CW 8, P 650). Jung recognized that the pendulum of the spirit of the age in his time had swung toward the sovereignty of the material, which resulted in "a psychology without the psyche." (CW 8, P 650). Jung sought to describe a psychology which gave the psyche its due.
Jung believed that ultimately matter and psyche were both mysterious (CW 6, P 961), and it was a mistake to believe that mind is produced by matter, just as it is a mistake to believe that matter is produced by mind. These two phenomena are irreducible to each other. They are different aspects of the same mysterious "undivided unity". (CW 6, P 962, 968). (See also CW 9 I, P 117-118; CW 16, P 202).
Fantastic facts and imaginary realities
Jung wrote, "What most overlook or seem unable to understand is the fact that I regard the psyche as real." (CW 11, P 751, emphasis original). The archetypes are the structures of the psyche, so they are real as well. This is not to say that the archetypes are material, nor is it to say that the archetypes exist in some reified form independently of the human subject. For Jung, the archetypes are as real as the material world, but just not in the same way.
Jung explained that the archetypes should be understood as realities, "not as concrete realities--that would be a regression!--but as psychic* realities, real because they work." (CW 7, P 151, emphasis original). When Jung says the archetypes "work", I understand him to mean that we can observe their effects in our lives. When Jung was asked about whether he believed God exists except as an archetype, he responded, "I am sufficiently convinced of the effects man has always attributed to a divine being. [...] I am well satisfied with the fact that I know experiences which I cannot avoid calling numinous or divine." (CW 18, P 1589). I believe Jung's answer to the question about God applies equally well to the archetypal gods.
God, the gods, the numinous, the divine: these we can only infer from our experience of their effects. But the inferential nature of our knowledge of the archetypes is no reason to doubt their reality. Jung considered it remarkable that human beings would consider only material causes to be real. After all, he pointed out (following Kant), our subjective experience is the only thing that we have immediate knowledge of. (CW 11, P 769) "We might well say, on the contrary, that physical existence is a mere inference, since we know of matter only in so far as we perceive psychic images mediated by the senses." (CW 11, P 16).
Indeed, for Jung, "fantasies are facts" and the imaginary is real (Jung Speaking: Interviews and Encounters/The Houston Films, p. 302; CW 11, P 16). The reality of the psyche can be demonstrated by their effects on both the individual and collective levels. On the individual level, psychosomatic disorders, for examples,
"make it exceedingly difficult to believe that the psyche is nothing, or that an imaginary fact is unreal. Only, it is not there where a near-sighted mind seeks it. It exists, but not in physical form. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical."
On the collective level, the effects may be even more obvious:
"Even if a neurosis had no cause at all other than imagination, it would, none the less, be a very real thing. If a man imagined that I was his arch-enemy and killed me, I should be dead on account of mere imagination. Imaginary conditions do exist and they may be just as real and just as harmful or dangerous as physical conditions. I even believe that psychic disturbances are far more dangerous than epidemics or earthquakes. Not even the medieval epidemics of bubonic plague or smallpox killed as many people as certain differences of opinion in 1914 or certain political ideals in Russia." (CW 11, PP 16-17).
In fact, in his "Essay on Wotan", Jung describes the disastrous events in Germany in the 1930s in terms of a nation "possessed" by the archetypal storm god.
"The world seen from within"
Jung complained that the statement, "'It's only psychological' too often means: It is nothing." (CW 18, P 606). "The prominence of the subjective factor does not imply a personal subjectivism, despite the readiness of the extraverted attitude to dismiss the subjective factor as 'nothing but' subjective. The psyche and its structure are real enough," wrote Jung. (CW 11, P 777).
"Psychic events are facts, are realities, and when you observe the stream of images within, you observe an aspect of the world, of the world within. The psyche, if you understand it as a phenomenon occurring in living bodies, is a quality of matter, just as our body consists of matter. We discover that this matter has another aspect, namely, a psychic aspect. It is simply the world seen from within." (Jung Speaking: Interviews and Encounters/The Houston Films, pp. 302-303).
This brings us full circle, back to the "undivided unity" of mind and matter, the one being the world seen from within and the other the world seen from without.
Thus, the archetypes are part of the world, but they are the world seen from within. In Jung's words, "the world of gods and spirits is [...] the collective unconscious inside us", and "the collective unconscious is the world of gods and spirits outside us". (CW 11, P 857). B.T. Newberg has described it thus:
"Deities in this view are wholly natural phenomena embedded in the universal chain of cause-effect, just like ourselves and everything else in the cosmos. They are not metaphors for nature, they are specific natural phenomena occurring within the cosmos of our mind."
So, to answer the question whether the archetypes are real, Jung would definitely respond in the affirmative. If asked if the archetypes are material, he would probably say "no", but acknowledge that brain and psyche are not wholly independent phenomena. For Jung, the archetypes are are real as any other subjective experience, like love, awe, and transcendence. This answer may be unsatisfactory for some who might wish for more concrete gods, but in my mind, this analysis puts the gods on par with the most important things in human life.
* "Psyche" here means "of or relating to the psyche" and does not refer to extrasensory powers or paranormal phenomena.
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JON HAMMOND: "WHERE'S THE GIG?" – Alex Walsh
Jon Hammond is a musician, composer, bandleader, publisher, journalist, TV show host, radio DJ, and multi-media entrepreneur. He currently travels the world, playing gigs and attending trade shows.
"Every time I see a musician walking down the street I say, 'Hey, where's the gig?' Because it doesn't matter what kind of music you play, if you're carrying an instrument–going to a rehearsal, or coming back from a repair shop, whatever it is–we all need our gigs. And that's what the union is all about. Hopefully, we can all keep working and be supportive of everybody's gigs. There's room for everybody."
Jon Hammond was born in Chicago in 1953. His father was a doctor and his mother was a housewife. They both played the piano. In 1957, his parents moved Jon and his four sisters to Berkeley, CA, where his father worked in a hospital as head of the emergency room. When he was nine, Jon started accordion lessons. "In those days, they had studios where parents would drop their kids off after school for tap dancing and accordion lessons. There were accordion bands and they would compete against each other."
Jon played his first gig at a senior citizens luncheon when he was eleven. Not only did he get a free lunch but he was paid $25 –a lot of money in those days. Jon says his father was supportive, but did not want him to pursue a music career. "He told me that music was a great hobby. He got me a wonderful professional accordion for my Bar Mitzvah, directly from John Molinari, one of the greatest accordionists who ever lived. It was a Guilietti Professional Tone Chamber accordion. That's the accordion I won Jr. Jazz Champion on in 1966."
In high school, Jon attended a private boys school in San Francisco. He was a class clown, and when it got to the point where he was going to be expelled, Jon took his accordion and ran away from home. He immersed himself in the San Francisco music scene and started playing organ in several bands. By 1971 he was in a four piece rock group called Hades which shared a rehearsal space with Quicksilver Messenger Service. "I was friends with their manager, Ron Polte, who also managed guitarist John Cipollina. We got to open for his band, Copperhead."
Jon continued to play gigs in the Bay Area in different configurations, including a few gigs with a young Eddie Money. By this time Jon had become frustrated with the Bay Area scene. One night while playing a biker bar he got into a fight and his band didn't come to his defense. "That was the last straw. I was angry and I said I wasn't coming back."
Jon in the early 70s
Jon moved to Boston in 1973 to attend the Berklee School of Music. He also got a gig playing in Boston's Combat Zone backing up burlesque shows. When Jon saw one of his idols, pianist Keith Jarrett play in New York he told him he was going to Berklee and asked him for advice. "Keith looked me right in the eye and said 'Berklee can be very dangerous for your music.' It was like he popped this huge bubble. Years later I came to understand what he was talking about. You have to learn the fundamentals, but the music itself comes from a much deeper place. They can't teach that, you have to find it yourself."
When Jon's teachers began sitting in on his gigs in Boston, he questioned why he was in school if the teachers were coming to play with him. He quit school, moved to Cape Cod and started playing with bandleader Lou Colombo. "He did all the private parties for Tip O'Neill. We played what they used to call the business man's beat. On the gig it was forbidden to swing. It was like swing cut in half. So if you tried to go with the four, Lou would say, 'Don't swing it, don't swing it.' He pounded it into my head night after night."
In 1981 Jon took a trip to Paris where he broke through his writers block and wrote some of his best music. He returned to New York with his new tunes and started a production company with the idea of getting a record deal for a friend that had played on a #1 hit record. After months of pounding the pavement with no results, Jon realized he had better work on his own music before his money ran out. He took the last of his savings, including his upcoming rent money, and went into the studio to record what came to be known as "The Late Rent Sessions".
The session had Todd Anderson on tenor sax, Barry Finnerty on guitar, Stephen Ferrone on drums, and Jon on B3. They recorded at Intergalactic, the last studio that John Lennon recorded in. Jon had no luck getting a record deal for his new project, but he did get gigs in New York with his band Jon Hammond and the Late Rent Session Men.
Jon Hammond Band Onstage at NAMM, 2014: Joe Berger, Dom Famularo, Alex Budman, Koei Tanaka, Jon Hammond
In 1982, Jon found out about public access television and the idea that anyone could produce a show and get it on TV. He started broadcasting on Manhattan's public station in 1984. "I decided I was going to produce a radio show on TV. The first episodes showed just my tapping foot and my voice. It was a gimmick. We had graphics that were synchronized to go with the music. It worked out well. People dug it." Within a few weeks, Jon was interviewed and featured in Billboard Magazine. The Jon Hammond Show was considered an alternative to the clips on Cable TV. "MTV was still in its infancy. We had a concept that was revolutionary. My phone started ringing and we were the hot kids on the block."
Jon continued to play gigs in New York and produce his TV show. In 1987, he went to his first trade show (NAMM) where he was introduced to Mr. Julio Guilietti, the man who built his accordion. He then began traveling to trade shows and making contacts with musicians and companies around the world, including Hammond Suzuki. "They gave me the Hammond XB-2, the first really powerful portable Hammond organ. Glenn Derringer, one of my all-time heroes, presented it to me. I got one of the first. Paul Shaffer from the Letterman Show got the other. At the time there was only one EXP-100 expression pedal–we had to share the pedal. I used the pedal for my gigs and when Paul needed it I would bring it over to him at 30 Rockefeller Center on my bicycle."
In the early 90s, when his New York gigs began drying up, Jon was encouraged to go to Germany. "It was a hard time. My father had just died and there were very few gigs. I got the XB-2 organ right when I needed it, so I decided to take a chance. I bought a roundtrip ticket to Frankfurt with an open return. I went with 50 bucks and stayed for a year. When I came back, I had 100 bucks."
Jon stayed at a friend's house and played a borrowed accordion on the street until he could get a band together. "I played on the street until my fingers turned blue and would collect enough money to get some fish soup. After about two weeks I got a call—I had put a band together and had 3 gigs coming up. A TV show had heard my story and wanted to do a story on me. At the first gig 19 people came; the second only 15 people came. Then I got the little spot on TV. When I came to the third gig people were lined up down the street. When I walked up I thought they were having an art exhibit. When they said, 'No, they're waiting for you.' I choked up, I couldn't even talk. So I've been playing there every year since. The people in Germany really saved my musical career at a time when very few things were happening for me in New York or San Francisco. I have a really good following in Europe. I keep busy as a musician in the States, playing hospitals and assisted living places, but my band dates I pretty much play overseas."
Jon's Late Rent Sessions was eventually released on a German label and received modest airplay. During the 90s he travelled back and forth to Europe, spending a year playing gigs in Paris, and eventually settling in Hamburg. Since then he has released two more albums and has played gigs in Moscow, Shanghai, and Australia. With the help of the internet, Jon is able to produce his TV show anywhere.
In the mid-2000s Jon produced Hammondcast, a radio program for CBS that aired in San Francisco at four in the morning and was rebroadcast before Oakland A's games. "When the baseball games played in the afternoon, my show would play for about 20 minutes and then it was pre-empted. I had a lot of fun with that." His guests included Danny Glover, Barry Melton from Country Joe & the Fish, and many local people. "It took me awhile to figure out that I had permission to broadcast anything I wanted. I could play the London Philharmonic or Stevie Wonder. My tag line was 'Hello, Hello, Hello! Wake up or go back to sleep…'"
Today, Jon continues to visit tradeshows and is determined to keep doing everything he does as long as he can. "I made a pact with my longtime co-producer, guitarist Joe Berger, that we are going to go to these trade shows until we are little old men with canes."
Jon has released four CDs
For more info visit www.jonhammondband.com
Jon Hammond Funk Unit https://www.namm.org/summer/2015/events/jon-hammond-funk-unit
JON HAMMOND Instruments: Organ, Accordion, Piano, Guitar Attended: Berklee College of Music 1974, City College San Francisco Languages: English, German Jon is closely identified with the two main products of his career, the Excelsior Accordion and the Hammond Organ. Musician: Jon Hammond is one of the premier B3 PLAYERS in the world. Jon has played professionally since age 12. Beginning as a solo accordionist, he later played Hammond B3 organ in a number of important San Francisco bands. His all original group HADES opened shows for Tower of Power, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Michael Bloomfield. Eddie Money and Barry Finnerty became musical associates. Moving East he attended Berklee College of Music and played venues as diverse as Boston's "Combat Zone" in the striptease clubs during the '70's and the exclusive Wychmere Harbor Club in Cape Cod, where he was house organist with the late great trumpet player Lou Colombo and developed a lasting friendship with House Speaker Tip O'Neill. He also toured the Northeast and Canada with the successful show revue "Easy Living", and continued his appearances at nightclubs in Boston and New York. Subsequently Hammond lived and traveled in Europe, where he has an enthusiastic following. TV/Video Producer: In 1981 Jon formed BackBeat Productions. Assisted by Lori Friedman (Video by LORI), the innovative TV show "The Jon Hammond Show" became a Manhattan Cable TV favorite. Jon's "Live on the street" video style included news events, as well as live music/video clips of Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Butterfield, Jaco Pastorius, John Entwistle, Sammy Davis Jr., Percy Sledge and many others. The weekly show is now in it's 30th year and has influenced the broadcasts of David Letterman and others. Billboard Magazine hailed Jon's show as "The Alternative to MTV". LINK http://youtu.be/7TApELTO1XI Head Phone – Jon Hammond Band THE SOUND SOUL SUMMIT All-Star Jam Video Movie of Jon's Band Featuring Bernard Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Alex Budman, Joe Berger2, Koei Tanaka, Jon Hammond Organ Group
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Tuesday, April 5 at 9 PM Musikmesse Warm Up Party celebrating 30 years
Best Party of The Year! Jon Hammond's annual musikmesse Warm Up Party in jazzkeller Tuesday April 5th 2016 celebrating 30 years
Jon Hammond's annual musikmesse Warm Up Party in jazzkeller Tuesday April 5th 2016 celebrating 30 years
Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/JonHammondsMusikmesseWarmUpPartyJazzkeller
Jon Hammond – organ
Joe Berger – guitar
Peter Klohmann – saxophone
Giovanni Totò Gulino – drums
Mr. Hammond has toured worldwide since 1991 using the incredible Sk1 organ by Hammond Suzuki..™ "Classic Hammond Sound…In A Suitcase!" The Jon Hammond Show is a funky swinging instrumental revue, featuring top international soloists. The show has universal appeal. Big Hammond orgel sound – 100% organic
"Werden Sie im Jazzkeller wieder eine Hammond Orgel spielen?
Ja, sicher, das neueste Modell, eine Sk1, die exakt so klingt wie die legendäre B3. Ich liebe sie. Und sie wiegt nur noch sieben Kilo (Anm. des Autors: Das Original, ein echtes Möbel mit viel Holz, mussten immer zwei Menschen mit viel Muskelkraft die Treppen rauf und runter hieven), ein deutliches Indiz, dass wir in der Zukunft angekommen sind. Da stecken viele Jahre Forschung und Entwicklung drin, auch Bühnenerprobungen. Ich ziehe den Hut vor den Ingenieuren von Suzuki, ein unverwüstliches Instrument erschaffen zu haben. Und das unterziehe ich jetzt einen echten Härttest (lacht)."
Interview: Detlef Kinsler
Web: www.jazzkeller.com / www.jonhammondband.com
photo by Lawrence Gay co-producer of West Coast Live Radio Program
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IBM has made a stop-motion film—A Boy and His Atom—using individual molecules as pixels, in what Guinness has acknowledged is the world's smallest movie.
The movie's plot line depicts a character called Atom who befriends a single atom and goes on a "playful journey." This journey involves dancing, jumping on a trampoline, and playing catch. It's unlikely to win any Oscars, but that's not really the point; it's designed to get people inspired about science.
IBM moved the molecules using two of its own scanning tunnelling microscopes. It's a huge machine that weighs two tons, operates at minus 268 degrees Celsius and magnifies atoms—placed on a copper surface—by 100 million times. The machine moved around 5,000 carbon monoxide molecules to create the movie. Each time the molecules were arranged in the right way, the IBM team rendered a still image to create each of the 242 frames. In those frames, you can only see one atom or pixel because you look at it from above. It took roughly 10 days of 18-hour shifts to get each frame right.
The machine itself is operated via a standard computer and the atoms are manipulated by a super sharp needle that can "feel" atoms. The needle can be used to physically attract atoms and molecules (using an electrical current) on the surface and then pull them into a particular location. This process makes a unique, scratchy sound called an "atomic short" which indicates to researchers how far the atoms have moved.
This is important because atoms can't be filmed while they are being moved, so the sound is a critical indicator for the research team to assess whether the atom has been moved to the right slot. The noise is created as the atom is dragged between two binding sites—when it finds itself between two positions like this, the current changes, and this generates the sound that researchers play through speakers as an aural guide.
The research team has developed this technology for exploring how to use atoms to improve computation and data storage in accordance with Moore's Law. Using the same technology the team also created the world's smallest magnetic bit—using just 12 atoms to reliably store one bit of magnetic information, compared with approximately a million atoms it takes to store a bit of data on a modern electronic device.
Andreas Heinrich, principal investigator, IBM Research, said: "Research means asking questions beyond those required to find good short-term engineering solutions to problems. As data creation and consumption continue to get bigger, data storage needs to get smaller, all the way down to the atomic level. We're applying the same techniques used to come up with new computing architectures and alternative ways to store data to making this movie."
Guinness has certified the movie as the World's Smallest Stop Motion Film.
This story originally appeared on Wired UK.