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I know everybody has noticed the serious lack of new posts around here lately. There are some very good reasons why.
Please allow me to explain:
Here's the 1st PIECE of BIG NEWS:
This will be my last regular post here on the CCW Blog. I have enjoyed my time here immensely and have learned quite a lot from Elliott as to how this whole blogging thing works. I have also made a LOT of new friends here. The fact the you guys continue to comment here even in my absence means a lot to me and I greatly appreciate it.
One of the reasons this will be my last regular post here: I have been wanting to EXPAND THE SCOPE of the topics I write about. I also have a driving urge to create something COMPLETELY NEW from the ground up.
Here's the 2nd PIECE of BIG NEWS:
As of tonight, you can find me over at my NEW BLOG. It's a cool place that I will be co-running with someone you will all know. Every single one of my regular posts (Mellow Monday, Who's Getting What, Capsule Reviews, Just Because, etc., etc.) will be up on the new blog– along with some BRAND NEW ones.
Please come on over to Inveterate Media Junkies at www.inveteratemediajunkies.com
Here's the 3rd PIECE of BIG NEWS:
Besides starting this New Blog, I will also be recording a NEW WEEKLY PODCAST to complement it! Yes, you read that correctly. A WEEKLY PODCAST. This is something that I know a lot of you have been asking for and it is here, for better or worse!
Here's the 4th PIECE of BIG NEWS:
On top of the WEEKLY PODCAST, we will also be holding a LIVE, INTERACTIVE BLOGCAST at least once a month!
We will be having all kinds of Contests, Giveaways and Special Guests on both the Inveterate Media Junkies Blog and the PODCAST.
The first contest will be announced on the blog in the next couple of days. Here's a hint: If you are a fan of American Vampire and/or Scott Snyder you will be very interested in our upcoming prizes.
Here's the 5th PIECE of BIG NEWS:
We all know what the big question is…"What about the videos?" CCW*TV videos are NOT going anywhere! Elliott and I will continue to record videos when time allows and schedules permit. In fact, we taped an HOURS WORTH of new stuff today.
Of course all of this comes with Elliott's blessing. The CCW Nation will never know how much his friendship means to me. Elliott is a class act through and through. I truly believe things will only get better from here!
Think about it! The regular columns and posts you like. Lots of NEW STUFF. A HUGE INCREASE in the amount of commentary available and even more chances to interact with me, your other friends on the Blogs and some all new people too!
IT'S THE ORIGINAL CONCEPT TO THE 10TH POWER. So come on over, the water's fine. After all, I am just one bookmark away, right?
For those wondering what will become of the CCW blog: Elliott is working on a few things and as soon as he/we work out all the details there will be another cool announcement.
I really hope that the regular CCW viewers here will give MY NEW BLOG a chance. I am very excited for the promise the future brings and I hope you will be too.
All are welcome there. I really hope to see you all in the comment boards: www.inveteratemediajunkies.com
We will be calling it IMJ for short. Get it? After all, I am (still) Jose.
All the Best,


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By Karin Calloway
Pazole Blanco
While White Chili has been the rage in the recipe world for the past few years, there's another warm autumn stew with a Mexican accent that has equal merit. Pazole Blanco, with its combination of chicken, pork and hominy is an earthy cold weather main dish stew. Made spicy with dried crushed red pepper flakes instead of White Chili's diced green chilies, and made with hominy rather than white beans, it has an alluring, almost mysterious flavor.
I first sampled Pazole at the home of Ron and Eunice Fenchak, friends who had learned how to prepare the Southwestern dish while living in Arizona. Their version was labor-intensive, requiring the long simmering of both a whole chicken and a pork roast.
I've decreased the preparation time without sacrificing much flavor. Diced chicken breast meat and pork chops replace the larger pieces of meat, and prepared low-sodium chicken broth replaces the homemade stock used in the Fenchak's version.
Garnishes of shredded lettuce, diced tomato and avocado and lime wedges are traditional, and can be added according to each guest's preferences. Begin your meal with a salad of mixed greens topped with citrus sections and a sweet-and-sour dressing, and add some corn muffins, tortilla chips or rolls to round out the menu.
Serve in bowls, adding garnishes, as desired.
Makes 4 to 6 servings.


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Yesterday's proceedings in the ongoing "iiTrial" High Court appeal turned up an interesting problem in the copyright holders' wish to turn ISPs into their enforcers: a savvy and funded user group could use Australia's copyright law to prevent ISPs from issuing notices against them.
This issue emerged during submissions by Richard Cobden, senior counsel for iiNet, before the High Court (transcript here).
The problem arises because under Australia's Copyright Act, someone accused of infringement (for example, by way of lawyer's letters) has the right to demand that the accuser "put up or shut up". A "groundless threats" action allows the accused to say "take me to court immediately, or stop harassing me".
As noted by Justice Grummow in the proceedings, "You need not be the owner or licensee of the copyright to be on the wrong end of a threats action", something which needs to be considered "in getting into this world of notices".
According to Cobden, this would put an ISP in an impossible bind: the service provider has no way to establish that copyright even exists for a particular item, with the result that it would be in an indefensible position if a customer kicked back by way of a "groundless threats" action.
Cobden noted that this is particularly the case given what iiNet believes was the inadequate information provided by AFACT in the early days of its attempts to create a disconnection regime by sending "robot notices" on the basis of information provided by piracy detective company Dtecnet.
Whether the Dtecnet information was accurate or not, it offered no shield an ISP could hide behind, Cobden told the court, because AFACT only provided the Dtecnet reports on a confidential basis (indeed, much of the information remains bound by confidentiality agreements, with only redacted information made available in this appeal).
Yet another bind, Cobden told the court, is that ISPs would themselves have to breach copyright law to confirm that an accused user is actually an infringer.
"[T]here is no question that you cannot go on there [to BitTorrent] and have a look at what is going on without infringing copyright, so even later in the piece to have a look and a check and see if there are any iiNet people popping up, for example, still sharing Pineapple Express, we cannot do that without infringing copyright", Cobden said.
Cut off the freetards!
Earlier in the day, while Tony Bannon (senior counsel for the studios) was winding up his argument, it seemed to become clear that while "three strikes" regimes are all the regime in legislated responses to piracy, that's not the copyright owners' favoured response:
Justice Hayne – "The relief which you seek, the only form of relief which you formulate today is relief that would require identified account holders to take down material with the threat of if you do not, we will cut you off."
Bannon – "Effectively."
Also appearing yesterday was Patrick Flynn, speaking on behalf of the Communications Alliance, the peak industry body for carriers and service providers in Australia.
Fynn argued that there is "no relationship" between ISPs and their customers that involves copyright, since ISPs did not issue any invitation to their customers to breach copyright.
Flynn argued that rights holders are demanding that ISPs become their enforcers because acting on their own behalf, the studios would not get users disconnected from the Internet: "copyright owners are seeking to use the ISP's ultimate power of disconnection as an indirect way to enforce their rights. If the copyright owners had sued the user directly, the copyright owners would not have been able to obtain an injunction disconnecting the user from the Internet," he argued.
If the case doesn't run over time, final submissions should conclude at midday (Friday, 2 December). With the summer recess looming, a judgment probably won't be delivered until next year. ®


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Fruit Ninja has found success on portable devices by offering simple gameplay that works well with touch devices and is easy to understand: simply slide your finger along the screen to slice fruit and work up combos to get a high score. Different game modes add a wrinkle here and there, but what you see is basically what you get. Now the game has been ported to the Xbox Live Arcade with Kinect controls, and although it works well with Microsoft's peripheral, it's hard to endorse at the $10 price.
I met with developer Halfbrick Studios at E3, where I was told that it took months of work to make the game responsive. That effort paid off, as this is the rare Kinect game with little lag and interaction that works the way you'd expect; it's quite satisfying to wave your arms around and slice through pineapples and bananas while avoiding the spinning bombs. You see a sort of shadow form of yourself on the screen and you make chopping motions with your hands.
It's fun for a few minutes, and I can't wait to get the kids playing, but the game shows you everything it has in mere moments. You're just chopping fruit.
The game's biggest draw is the challenges, which show the high scores of your friends on the game's home screen. You can then play the same game mode as your buddies and try to best them, which has already led to some serious smack talk on Twitter and via e-mail. The challenge mode gives you a reason to keep going, but still... it's thin.
Gameplay limitations were easier to take when you played on a portable device after only paying a dollar or so, but as a $10 Xbox Live Arcade release I was left wanting more. Halfbrick was able to do impressive things with the hardware, and I'm hoping the team uses that technical know-how in future to create something that feels like more than a momentary gimmick.
My advice: download the demo before you buy and ask yourself if you really need $10 more of what you're playing there.


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Wampanoag Tribe Certifies 10 Wôpanâak Language Teachers
Since 1993, The Wampanoag Tribes of Mashpee, Aquinnah, and Herring Pond have worked together to develop the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project (WLRP) to reintroduce use of the Wôpanâak language. Previous language efforts include Wôpanâak dictionaries, a grammatical framework, and language classes. But according to the Tribes, the main challenge to successfully restoring the language as the primary means of communication among Wampanoag people is the lack of fluent qualified teachers.
Therefore, the Tribes implemented the "Nuwôpanâôt8âm, I Speak Wampanoag" project, implemented by the nonprofit organization Wopanaak Language and Cultural Weetyoo, Inc. and funded by a 2-year (2010-2012) Native Languages Maintenance and Preservation grant from the Administration for Native Americans.
The project used master-apprentice (MA) methodology to train speakers to gain significant fluency in the Wôpanâak language and become competent teachers. Each week the master speaker and project director, Jessie little doe Baird, assigned hours to the apprentices in the following areas: planning activities, independent study, apprentice-to-apprentice interaction, non-immersion instruction, and curriculum development. The apprentices completed a total of 10,166 MA hours across the two project years.
To measure the apprentices' language acquisition, independent evaluators utilized the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages scale of proficiency. All apprentices started on the Novice scale and now their fluency ranges from Intermediate Low to Advanced Middle. An independent evaluator stated "The [apprentices]…are all people I have known for years, and I have never seen any of them so fluent."
Apprentices also focused on creating material for content areas following state curriculum guidelines, such as storytelling and basic health conversation. The curriculum they created includes terminology, activities, grammar lessons, and teaching methodologies.
In addition, WLRP developed and implemented a teacher certification process, with a written and oral exam, that determines the level at which language teachers can teach Wôpanâak. Through this project, WLRP developed three fluent speakers, improved the language speaking abilities of over 100 people, and went from having a few moderately qualified teachers to 10 certified teachers, with more in training.
To continue these benefits, Wopanaak Language and Cultural Weetyoo, Inc. received a new ANA grant in 2012 for a 3-year project to write Wôpanâak language and culture curriculum for kindergarten through third grade, and to apply for a charter school. WLRP staff is hopeful this project has laid the foundation for establishing an immersion school that will instill confidence and pride in Native youth, and create a comfortable and encouraging environment to further support language and cultural learning.
ANA funding provides opportunities to assess, plan, develop and implement projects to ensure the survival and continuing vitality of Native languages. Learn more about ANA funding for Native languages.


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Well groom-ed: How to keep your honey happy
So it's happening. The proposal was accepted.
(Don't hold her to remembering the actual words. Sure, you sweated over them for weeks, and now she just says, "It was a joyful blur." That's okay, get used to it. There will be more joyful blurs.)
And now the planning has begun.
Yes, the planning, the very idea of which makes you think, "How are the e-savers to Greenland looking these days?" or "Would anyone notice if I dyed my hair, grew a beard, and headed for the Yucatan?"
Whatever fears you have, gentlemen, they're all real! Get out while you can. Stop reading The Hook! Fly to Bali!
Okay, if you're still reading, then you're getting married for the right reasons: Lots of gifts!
Jokes aside, you're getting married because you've been graced with the greatest gift humans can offer one another– unconditional love. And because of this gift, your strategy during the upcoming months should be reciprocating that same unconditional love.
With this in mind, here are a few fundamentals that every groom should know:
1) This is your wedding. It is not your parents' wedding, your friend's wedding, or anyone else's. Do it the way you want. Granted, parents may be helping financially. Respect that, but create some boundaries. It's more important for you and your bride to make the wedding uniquely yours then it is to satisfy your parents' lifelong desire to sing you a duet of an Air Supply song. Refocus your parents' energy– otherwise, pass out earplugs to your guests.
2) Try not to "check out" on any part of the planning. Your top priority is to be emotionally present day in and day out. There will be times when you can't be physically present for a meeting with one of your wedding vendors, but you can always be emotionally present. Yes, gentlemen, it's time to get in touch with that– dare I say– feminine side.
3) Expect not to have an opinion on everything. That's okay. Try to establish from the start that there will be things you don't have an opinion on (i.e. should the tables have a pink or white underlay?). This does not mean you don't care. You do care. Make that clear. But also make it clear you are perfectly happy with any of the options.
4) Plan some memories ahead of time. Get creative! Prepare a toast for your wife at the reception, or take the initiative of seeking out some dance lessons for the two of you, maybe even choreograph your first dance. Caution here: Dance instructors may flirt with your wife. Don't take anything personally– even if they say to your wife "Stop that or I'll spank you." They mean no harm– it's part of the gig.
5) Your wedding day will go fast. Enjoy the multitude of moments. Laugh often. Eat the food you took a whole day to pick out. Take extra pieces of cake. Have a drink. Dance.
6) Finally, thank your wife. She likely put a lot more time and effort into the planning than you did. Seriously acknowledge this.
If you stick to these fundamentals, you will have done everything that can be classified as "under your control." There are, of course, those things that aren't under your control. And, unfortunately, those things will happen. When they do, remember this: You're in the business of making a marriage work. The wedding is one day in your marriage. Your marriage will not be defined by your wedding day, but rather by the thousands of days that lie ahead.
Anthony DeBenedet and his wife, Anna, at their June 14, 2003 wedding reception at Ash Lawn.


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Editor's note: This post by Edy Setyawan, a scientist with Conservation International (CI) in Indonesia, is part of a series chronicling a joint coral reef health monitoring trip in Raja Ampat, Indonesia with CI, The Nature Conservancy and WWF. Blogs from this assessment are being cross-posted on the Nature Conservancy's Cool Green Science blog.
In addition to assessing coral reef health inside and outside of marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Raja Ampat area, this collaborative survey has also been a great opportunity to help local people gain the experience and capacity to observe and protect their precious marine resources.
Ronald Mambrasar, who is from the village of Arborek on the island of Mansuar and has been working with CI for six years, is responsible for monitoring the seafloor using a systematic data collection method called Point Intercept Transect (PIT). He first joined CI's monitoring team thanks to a desire to find out about coral reef conditions around his village.
Years later, Ronald is very experienced at collecting reef data, and he says this trip "is a great chance for me to learn." Ronald is currently in the process of becoming a facilitator to teach communities about MPAs.
Before becoming actively involved with CI, Elvis Mambraku was a fisherman who used potassium cyanide to paralyze and catch fish. In early 2010, Elvis saw CI's monitoring team (including Ronald) working near his village, and he became interested in their activities. When CI developed an MPA surveillance team made up of local village representatives, Elvis joined the group. After a few months, he attended dive training and learnt how to identify and assess fish amount and abundance. He is now responsible for monitoring activities in Dampier Strait and Mayalibit Bay MPAs.
He now describes potassium cyanide, which is toxic to coral reefs, as his "enemy."
Elvis' partner in fish monitoring, Aser Burdam, used to collect sea cucumbers and lobsters from Raja Ampat's reefs. Aser joined the MPA surveillance team in early 2010; he now spends his time monitoring marine activities and fish populations in the Ayau marine protected area. In his opinion, the training and experiences he has had so far are a valuable investment for the future.
Local communities are an important asset within MPAs. In Raja Ampat, Ronald, Elvis and Aser are leading the way as local people who are aware of the importance of conservation and are actively involved in managing their MPAs. All of us currently taking part in this reef health assessment strongly believe that informed and empowered local communities are our best allies in the pursuit of successful conservation and sustainable development.
Edy Setyawan is CI-Indonesia's Kaimana marine conservation and science officer.


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A writing lesson focusing on alliteration allows students to strengthen their phonemic awareness while practicing their developing writing skills. Through the use of mentor texts, students construct a definition of alliteration. Using these texts as models, students experiment with creating alliterative sentences. First, working as a class, students create an alliterative book. While studying additional mentor texts, students generate their own sentences to contribute to a class book using the beginning sounds of their names. At the conclusion of the lesson, students use the mentor texts as examples when independently creating their own alliterative books using the Alphabet Organizer interactive.
ABC Match: This interactive tool allows students to play a memory game while matching pictures with their beginning sounds.
Alphabet Organizer: This interactive tool allows students to create their own alphabet book or alphabet chart, with several options available for differentiation.
Ehmannn, S., & Gayer, K. (2009). I can write like that! A guide to mentor texts and craft studies for writers workshop, K6. Newark, DE: International Reading Association.
- Although alliteration is well understood, it is often undervalued in classroom writing.
- Alliteration is an appropriate technique to introduce to students early because of its connection to phonemic awareness.
Olness, R. (2005). Using literature to enhance writing instruction: A guide for K-5 teachers. Newark, DE: International Reading Association.
- Pattern books are effective models as primary students often rewrite familiar texts.
- Alphabet books provide many learning opportunities, including letter-sound correspondence, phonemic awareness, visual literacy, organization, and sequencing.


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Dmitri Mendeleev
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For the Russian Prime Minister with a similar name, see Dmitry Medvedev.
"Mendeleev" redirects here. For other uses, see Mendeleyev (disambiguation).
This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Ivanovich and the family name is Mendeleev.
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev in 1897
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
8 February 1834
Verkhnie Aremzyani, Tobolsk Governorate, Russian Empire
2 February 1907 (aged 72)
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Alma mater
Saint Petersburg University
Known for
Formulating the Periodic table of chemical elements
Scientific career
Chemistry, physics
Academic advisors
Gustav Kirchhoff
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Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev[2] (English: /ˌmɛndəlˈeɪəf/ MEN-dəl-AY-əf;[3] Russian: Дмитрий Иванович Менделеев[note 1], tr. Dmítriy Ivánovich Mendeléyev, IPA: [ˈdmʲitrʲɪj ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ mʲɪndʲɪˈlʲejɪf] ( listen); 8 February 1834 – 2 February 1907 O.S. 27 January 1834 – 20 January 1907) was a Russian chemist and inventor. He formulated the Periodic Law, created a farsighted version of the periodic table of elements, and used it to correct the properties of some already discovered elements and also to predict the properties of eight elements yet to be discovered.
- 1Early life
- 2Later life
- 3Periodic table
- 4Other achievements
- 5Vodka myth
- 6Commemoration
- 7See also
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Early life
Mendeleev was born in the village of Verkhnie Aremzyani, near Tobolsk in Siberia, to Ivan Pavlovich Mendeleev (1783–1847) and Maria Dmitrievna Mendeleeva (née Kornilieva) (1793–1850).[4][5] His paternal grandfather Pavel Maximovich Sokolov was a Russian Orthodox priest from the Tver region.[6] Ivan, along with his brothers and sisters, obtained new family names while attending the theological seminary.[7] He worked as a school principal and a teacher of fine arts, politics and philosophy at the Tambov and Saratov gymnasiums.[8]
Maria Kornilieva came from a well-known dynasty of Tobolsk merchants, founders of the first Siberian printing house who traced their ancestry to Yakov Korniliev, a 17th-century posad man turned a wealthy merchant.[9][10] In 1889 a local librarian published an article in the Tobolsk newspaper where he claimed that Yakov was a baptized Teleut, an ethnic minority known as "white Kalmyks" at the time.[11] Since no sources were provided and no documented facts of Yakov's life were ever revealed, biographers generally dismiss it as a myth.[12][13] In 1908, shortly after Mendeleev's death, one of his nieces published Family Chronicles. Memories about D. I. Mendeleevwhere she voiced "a family legend" about Maria's grandfather who married "a Kyrgyz or Tatar beauty whom he loved so much that when she died, he also died from grief".[14] This, however, contradicts the documented family chronicles, and neither of those legends is supported by Mendeleev's autobiography, his daughter's or his wife's memoirs.[5][15][16] Yet some Western scholars still refer to Mendeleev's supposed "Mongol", "Tatar", "Tartarian" or simply "Asian" ancestry as a fact.[17][18][19][20]
Mendeleev was raised as an Orthodox Christian, his mother encouraging him to "patiently search divine and scientific truth."[21] His son would later inform that he departed from the Church and embraced a form of "romanticized deism".[22]
Mendeleev was the youngest of 17 siblings, of whom "only 14 stayed alive to be baptized" according to Mendeleev's brother Pavel, meaning the others died soon after their birth.[8] The exact number of Mendeleev's siblings differs among sources and is still a matter of some historical dispute.[23][24] Unfortunately for the family's financial well being, his father became blind and lost his teaching position. His mother was forced to work and she restarted her family's abandoned glass factory. At the age of 13, after the passing of his father and the destruction of his mother's factory by fire, Mendeleev attended the Gymnasium in Tobolsk.
In 1849, his mother took Mendeleev across Russia from Siberia to Moscow with the aim of getting Mendeleev a higher education. The university in Moscow did not accept him. The mother and son continued to Saint Petersburg to the father's alma mater. The now poor Mendeleev family relocated to Saint Petersburg, where he entered the Main Pedagogical Institute in 1850. After graduation, he contracted tuberculosis, causing him to move to the Crimean Peninsula on the northern coast of the Black Sea in 1855. While there, he became a science master of the Simferopol gymnasium №1. In 1857, he returned to Saint Petersburg with fully restored health.
Later life
Between 1859 and 1861, he worked on the capillarity of liquids and the workings of the spectroscope in Heidelberg. Later in 1861, he published a textbook named Organic Chemistry.[25] This won him the Demidov Prize of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences.[25]
On 4 April 1862 he became engaged to Feozva Nikitichna Leshcheva, and they married on 27 April 1862 at Nikolaev Engineering Institute's church in Saint Petersburg (where he taught).[26]
Mendeleev became a professor at the Saint Petersburg Technological Institute and Saint Petersburg State University in 1864,[25] and 1865, respectively. In 1865 he became Doctor of Science for his dissertation "On the Combinations of Water with Alcohol". He achieved tenure in 1867 at St. Petersburg University and started to teach inorganic chemistry, while succeeding Voskresenskii to this post.[25] and by 1871 he had transformed Saint Petersburg into an internationally recognized center for chemistry research.
In 1876, he became obsessed with Anna
Ivanova Popova and began courting her; in 1881 he proposed to her and threatened suicide if she refused. His divorce from Leshcheva was finalized one month after he had married Popova (on 2 April[27]) in early 1882. Even after the divorce, Mendeleev was technically a bigamist; the Russian Orthodox Church required at least seven years before lawful remarriage. His divorce and the surrounding controversy contributed to his failure to be admitted to the Russian Academy of Sciences (despite his international fame by that time). His daughter from his second marriage, Lyubov, became the wife of the famous Russian poet Alexander Blok. His other children were son Vladimir (a sailor, he took part in the notable Eastern journey of Nicholas II) and daughter Olga, from his first marriage to Feozva,
and son Ivan and twins from Anna.
Though Mendeleev was widely honored by scientific organizations all over Europe, including (in 1882) the Davy Medal from the Royal Society of London (which later also awarded him the Copley Medal in 1905),[28] he resigned from Saint Petersburg University on 17 August 1890. He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1892,[1] and in 1893 he was appointed director of the Bureau of Weights and Measures, a post which he occupied until his death.[29]
Mendeleev also investigated the composition of petroleum, and helped to found the first oil refinery in Russia. He recognized the importance of petroleum as a feedstock for petrochemicals. He is credited with a remark that burning petroleum as a fuel "would be akin to firing up a kitchen stove with bank notes."[30]
In 1905, Mendeleev was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The following year the Nobel Committee for Chemistry recommended to the Swedish Academy to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1906 to Mendeleev for his discovery of the periodic system. The Chemistry Section of the Swedish Academy supported this recommendation. The Academy was then supposed to approve the Committee's choice, as it has done in almost every case. Unexpectedly, at the full meeting of the Academy, a dissenting member of the Nobel Committee, Peter Klason, proposed the candidacy of Henri Moissan whom he favored. Svante Arrhenius, although not a member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, had a great deal of influence in the Academy and also pressed for the rejection of Mendeleev, arguing that the periodic system was too old to acknowledge its discovery in 1906. According to the contemporaries, Arrhenius was motivated by the grudge he held against Mendeleev for his critique of Arrhenius's dissociation theory. After heated arguments, the majority of the Academy chose Moissan by a margin of one vote.[31] The attempts to nominate Mendeleev in 1907 were again frustrated by the absolute opposition of Arrhenius.[32]
In 1907, Mendeleev died at the age of 72 in Saint Petersburg from influenza.
The crater Mendeleev on the Moon, as well as element number 101,
the radioactive mendelevium, are named after him.
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In 1863 there were 56 known elements with a new element being discovered at a rate of approximately one per year. Other scientists had previously identified periodicity of elements. John Newlands described a Law of Octaves, noting their periodicity according to relative atomic weight in 1864,
publishing it in 1865. His proposal identified the potential for new elements such as germanium. The concept was criticized and his innovation was not recognized by the Society of Chemists until 1887. Another person to propose a periodic table was Lothar Meyer, who published a paper in 1864 describing 28 elements classified by their valence, but with no prediction of new elements.
After becoming a teacher in 1867, Mendeleev wrote the definitive textbook of his time: Principles of Chemistry (two volumes, 1868–1870). It was written as he was preparing a textbook for his course.[25] This is when he made his most important discovery.[25] As he attempted to classify the elements according to their chemical properties, he noticed patterns that led him to postulate his periodic table; he claimed to have envisioned the complete arrangement of the elements in a dream:[33][34][35][36][37]
"I saw in a dream a table where all elements fell into place as required. Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper, only in one place did a correction later seem necessary."
Unaware of the earlier work on periodic tables going on in the 1860s, he made the following table:
Cl 35.5
Ca 40
Br 80
Rb 85
Sr 88
Cs 133
Ba 137
By adding additional elements following this pattern, Mendeleev developed his extended version of the periodic table.[40][41]
On 6 March 1869,
he made a formal presentation to the Russian Chemical Society,
titled The Dependence between the Properties of the Atomic Weights of the Elements, which described elements according to both atomic weight and valence.[42][43] This presentation stated that
The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weight, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties.
Elements which are similar regarding their chemical properties either have similar atomic weights (e.g., Pt, Ir, Os) or have their atomic weights increasing regularly (e.g., K, Rb, Cs).
The arrangement of the elements in groups of elements in the order of their atomic weights corresponds to their so-called valencies, as well as, to some extent, to their distinctive chemical properties; as is apparent among other series in that of Li, Be, B, C, N, O, and F.
The elements which are the most widely diffused have small atomic weights.
The magnitude of the atomic weight determines the character of the element, just as the magnitude of the molecule determines the character of a compound body.
We must expect the discovery of many yet unknown elements–for example, two elements, analogous to aluminum and silicon, whose atomic weights would be between 65 and 75.
The atomic weight of an element may sometimes be amended by a knowledge of those of its contiguous elements. Thus the atomic weight of tellurium must lie between 123 and 126, and cannot be 128. (Tellurium's atomic mass is 127.6, and Mendeleev was incorrect in his assumption that atomic mass must increase with position within a period.)
Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights.
Mendeleev published his periodic table of all known elements and predicted several new elements to complete the table in a Russian-language journal. Only a few months after, Meyer published a virtually identical table in a German-language journal.[44][45] Mendeleev has the distinction of accurately predicting the qualities of what he called ekasilicon, ekaaluminium and ekaboron (germanium, gallium and scandium, respectively).
For his predicted eight elements, he used the prefixes of eka, dvi, and tri (Sanskrit one, two, three) in their naming.
Mendeleev questioned some of the currently accepted atomic weights (they could be measured only with a relatively low accuracy at that time), pointing out that they did not correspond to those suggested by his Periodic Law. He noted that tellurium has a higher atomic weight than iodine, but he placed them in the right order, incorrectly predicting that the accepted atomic weights at the time were at fault. He was puzzled about where to put the known lanthanides, and predicted the existence of another row to the table which were the actinides which were some of the heaviest in atomic mass. Some people dismissed Mendeleev for predicting that there would be more elements, but he was proven to be correct when Ga (gallium) and Ge (germanium) were found in 1875 and 1886 respectively, fitting perfectly into the two missing spaces.[46]
By giving Sanskrit names to his "missing" elements, Mendeleev showed his appreciation and debt to the Sanskrit grammarians of ancient India, who had created sophisticated theories of language based on their discovery of the two-dimensional patterns in basic sounds. Mendeleev was a friend and colleague of the Sanskritist Otto von Böhtlingk, who was preparing the second edition of his book on Pāṇini[47] at about this time, and Mendeleev wished to honor Pāṇini with his nomenclature.[48] Noting that there are striking similarities between the periodic table and the introductory Śiva Sūtras in Pāṇini's grammar, Prof. Kiparsky says:
"[T]he analogies between the two systems are striking. Just as Panini found that the phonological patterning of sounds in the language is a function of their articulatory properties, so Mendeleev found that the chemical properties of elements are a function of their atomic weights.
Like Panini, Mendeleev arrived at his discovery through a search for the "grammar" of the elements (using what he called the principle of isomorphism, and looking for general formulas to generate the possible chemical compounds).
Just as Panini arranged the sounds in order of increasing phonetic complexity (e.g. with the simple stops k,p… preceding the other stops, and representing all of them in expressions like kU, pU) so Mendeleev arranged the elements in order of increasing atomic weights, and called the first row (oxygen, nitrogen, carbon etc.) "typical (or representative) elements".
Just as Panini broke the phonetic parallelism of sounds when the simplicity of the system required it, e.g. putting the velar to the right of the labial in the nasal row, so Mendeleev gave priority to isomorphism over atomic weights when they conflicted, e.g. putting beryllium in the magnesium family because it patterns with it even though by atomic weight it seemed to belong with nitrogen and phosphorus. In both cases, the periodicities they discovered would later be explained by a theory of the internal structure of the elements.[49]"
The original draft made by Mendeleev would be found years later and published under the name Tentative System of Elements.[50]
Dmitri Mendeleev is often referred to as the Father of the Periodic Table. He called his table or matrix,
"the Periodic System".[51]
Other achievements
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Mendeleev made other important contributions to chemistry. The Russian chemist and science historian Lev Chugaev has characterized him as "a chemist of genius, first-class physicist, a fruitful researcher in the fields of hydrodynamics, meteorology, geology, certain branches of chemical technology (explosives, petroleum, and fuels, for example) and other disciplines adjacent to chemistry and physics, a thorough expert of chemical industry and industry in general, and an original thinker in the field of economy." Mendeleev was one of the founders, in 1869, of the Russian Chemical Society. He worked on the theory and practice of protectionist trade and on agriculture.
In an attempt at a chemical conception of the Aether, he put forward a hypothesis that there existed two inert chemical elements of lesser atomic weight than hydrogen.[29] Of these two proposed elements, he thought the lighter to be an all-penetrating, all-pervasive gas, and the slightly heavier one to be a proposed element, coronium.
Mendeleev devoted much study and made important contributions to the determination of the nature of such indefinite compounds as solutions.
In another department of physical chemistry, he investigated the expansion of liquids with heat, and devised a formula similar to Gay-Lussac's law of the uniformity of the expansion of gases, while in 1861 he anticipated Thomas Andrews' conception of the critical temperature of gases by defining the absolute boiling-point of a substance as the temperature at which cohesion and heat of vaporization become equal to zero and the liquid changes to vapor, irrespective of the pressure and volume.[29]
Mendeleev is given credit for the introduction of the metric system to the Russian Empire.
He invented pyrocollodion, a kind of smokeless powder based on nitrocellulose. This work had been commissioned by the Russian Navy, which however did not adopt its use.
In 1892 Mendeleev organized its manufacture.
Mendeleev studied petroleum origin and concluded hydrocarbons are abiogenic and form deep within the earth – see Abiogenic petroleum origin. He wrote: "The capital fact to note is that petroleum was born in the depths of the earth, and it is only there that we must seek its origin." (Dmitri Mendeleev, 1877)[52]
Vodka myth
A very popular Russian story is that it was Mendeleev who came up with the 40% standard strength of vodka in 1894,
after having been appointed Director of the Bureau of Weights and Measures with the assignment to formulate new state standards for the production of vodka. This story has, for instance, been used in marketing claims by the Russian Standard vodka brand that, "In 1894, Dmitri Mendeleev, the greatest scientist in all Russia, received the decree to set the Imperial quality standard for Russian vodka and the 'Russian Standard' was born",[53]
that the vodka is "compliant with the highest quality of Russian vodka approved by the royal government commission headed by Mendeleev in 1894."[54]
While it is true that Mendeleev in 1892 became head of the Archive of Weights and Measures in Saint Petersburg, and evolved it into a government bureau the following year, that institution was never involved in setting any production quality standards, but was issued with standardising Russian trade weights and measuring instruments. Furthermore, the 40% standard strength was already introduced by
the Russian government in 1843,
when Mendeleev was nine years old.[54]
The basis for the whole story is a popular myth that Mendeleev's 1865 doctoral dissertation
"A Discourse on the combination of alcohol and water" contained a statement that 38% is the ideal strength of vodka, and that this number was later rounded to 40% to simplify the calculation of alcohol tax. However, Mendeleev's dissertation was about alcohol concentrations over 70% and he never wrote anything about vodka.[54][55][56]
A number of places and objects are associated with the name and achievements of the scientist.
In Saint Petersburg his name was given to the National Metrology Institute[57] dealing with establishing and supporting national and worldwide standards for precise measurements. Next to it there is a monument to him that consists of his sitting statue and a depiction of his periodic table on the wall of the establishment.
In the Twelve Collegia building, now being the centre of Saint Petersburg State University and in Mendeleev's time – Head Pedagogical Institute – there is Dmitry
Mendeleev's Memorial Museum Apartment[58] with his archives.
The street in front of these is named after him as Mendeleevskaya liniya (Mendeleev Line).
In Moscow, there is the D. Mendeleyev University of Chemical Technology of Russia.[59]
After him was also named mendelevium, which is a synthetic chemical element
with the symbol Md (formerly Mv) and the atomic number 101.
It is a metallic radioactive transuranic element in the actinide series, usually synthesized by bombarding einsteinium with alpha particles.
The newly discovered mineral mendeleevite-Ce, Cs6(Ce22Ca6)(Si70O175)(OH,F)14(H2O)21, was named in Mendeleev's honor in 2010.[60] The related species mendeleevite-Nd, Cs6[(Nd,REE)23Ca7](Si70O175)(OH,F)19(H2O)16, was described in 2015.[61]
A large lunar impact crater Mendeleev that is located on the far side of the Moon, as seen from the Earth, also bears the name of the scientist.
The Russian Academy of Sciences has occasionally awarded a Mendeleev Golden Medal since 1965.[62]
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Mendeleev seemed to have very few theological commitments. This was not for lack of exposure. His upbringing was actually heavily religious, and his mother — by far the dominating force in his youth – was exceptionally devout. One of his sisters even joined a fanatical religious sect for a time. Despite, or perhaps because of, this background, Mendeleev withheld comment on religious affairs for most of his life, reserving his few words for anti-clerical witticisms… Mendeleev's son Ivan later vehemently denied claims that his father was devoutly Orthodox: "I have also heard the view of my father's 'church religiosity' — and I must reject this categorically. From his earliest years Father practically split from the church — and if he tolerated certain simple everyday rites, then only as an innocent national tradition, similar to Easter cakes, which he didn't consider worth fighting against." …Mendeleev's opposition to traditional Orthodoxy was not due to either atheism or a scientific materialism. Rather, he held to a form of romanticized deism.
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Further reading
Gordin, Michael (2004). A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-02775-0.
Heilbron, John L. (2003). The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199743766.
Mendeleev, Dmitry Ivanovich; Jensen, William B. (2005). Mendeleev on the Periodic Law: Selected Writings, 1869–1905. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-44571-7.
Strathern, Paul (2001). Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest For the Elements. New York: St Martins Press. ISBN 978-0-241-14065-9.
Mendeleev, Dmitrii Ivanovich (1901). Principles of Chemistry. New York: Collier.
"MENDELÉEFF, DMITRI IVANOVICH (1834-1907)". The Encyclopaedia Britannica; A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information. XVIII (MEDAL to MUMPS ) (11th ed.). Cambridge, England and New York: At the University Press. 1911. p. 115. Retrieved 5 October 2018 – via Internet Archive.
External links
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Babaev, Eugene V. (February 2009). Dmitriy Mendeleev: A Short CV, and A Story of Life – 2009 biography on the occasion of Mendeleev's 175th anniversary
Babaev, Eugene V., Moscow State University. Dmitriy Mendeleev Online
Original Periodic Table, annotated.
"Everything in its Place", essay by Oliver Sacks
Works by or about Dmitri Mendeleev in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
Dmitri Mendeleev's official site


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Live coverage rates #1 among cable's non-news networks
New York – BBC AMERICA scored a hit with its live coverage of the Royal Wedding on Friday, April 29. More than 7.2 million viewers tuned in throughout the day* as BBC AMERICA celebrated the marriage of Prince William and Catherine Middleton.
During the Westminster Abbey ceremony (6:00-7:15am ET) BBC AMERICA pulled over 1 million viewers and was #1 in cable among non-news networks covering the wedding. It beat out other live feeds from MSNBC, TLC and E!, coming #3 overall, behind news channels CNN and Fox News Network.
Additionally, the BBC's Royal Wedding has been the #1 TV Season on the iTunes Store for the past two days.
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Both the National Transportation Safety Board and KTVU-TV of Oakland, Calif., have apologized for a mistake that led the television station to broadcast incorrect – and racially insensitive – names of the pilots of Asiana Flight 214, which crashed at San Francisco airport July 6, killing three. But the airline is considering legal action against the two organizations, CNN reports.
KTVU on Friday reported what it thought were the names of the Asiana pilots, but the names were clearly fabrications intended as crude phonetic jokes. One of the pilot names reported by KTVU, for instance, was "Wi Tu Lo."
KTVU officials have said that they did not sound out the names before airing the report, nor did they carry out adequate fact-checking. While KTVU called the NTSB to confirm the names, it managed only to reach a summer intern, who falsely affirmed the veracity of the report, both KTVU and the NTSB say. It remains unclear how KTVU got the list of fake names or why the NTSB intern confirmed the names as true.
The report was so offensive that Asiana might have weighed legal action regardless. "The reputation of the four pilots and of the company had been seriously damaged by this report," the airline said in a statement. "The company is reviewing taking legal action against both KTVU-TV and the NTSB."
Yet the controversy also comes amid an investigation that has already angered some in the aviation community. The NTSB, which is typically circumspect in its investigations, releasing information slowly and over months, has provided an unprecedented volume of crucial information to the public in the past week.
The NTSB says its hand has been forced somewhat by the Internet age, where misinformation and conspiracy theories can spread widely and quickly when official information is not forthcoming. But pilots and some aviation experts have worried that the information is leading the public to jump to wrong conclusions, unnecessarily ramping up pressure on the South Korea-based airline and its pilots.
"It is imperative that safety investigators refrain from prematurely releasing the information from on-board recording devices," said the Air Line Pilots Association in a statement. "We have seen in the past that publicizing this data before all of it can be collected and analyzed leads to erroneous conclusions that can actually interfere with the investigative process."
The Asiana pilots have already come in for scrutiny after the accident, in which a Boeing 777 clipped a sea wall on landing in San Francisco, lost its tail, and then spun across the runway where it caught fire.
The pilot at the controls during the landing had only 43 hours of experience on 777s, though he had more than 10,000 hours total flight experience, according to an earlier CNN report. While the pilot was legally qualified to fly the plane, he was trying to build up additional hours of 777 cockpit time to "gain comfort at the controls and experience flying the plane under certain conditions," former Department of Transportation Inspector General Mary Schiavo told CNN.
Though the NTSB does not release pilots' names during investigations, the pilot's real name has been reported as Lee Kang-kuk.
Asian-American groups said the prank was deeply troubling. "Words cannot adequately express the outrage we … feel over KTVU's on-air blunder that made a mockery of the Asiana Airlines tragedy," wrote Asian American Journalists Association President Paul Cheung and MediaWatch Chair Bobby Caina Calvan, according to the Los Angeles Times. "We are embarrassed for the anchor, who was as much a victim as KTVU's viewers and KTVU's hard-working staff."


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Read here from jsonline. Not sure really what else Rodgers might say when asked a direct question about a teammate like Jones – but he probably didn't have to go on to say it should be priority #1. Frankly, I agree with Rodgers. I know Jones was frustrating last year but he does far more good than harm. Issue is price. My guess is TT is not too worried about letting Jones go.
Rodgers clear about position on James Jones
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Dave in Tucson Says:
July 26, 2011 at 10:35 pm |
Re-sign James Jones? Sure. Priority #1? Not hardly.
We'll have Greg Jennings, Jordy Nelson, Donald Driver, Quarless and/or Crabtree (and/or one (or both?) of the late-round TEs they drafted this spring), along with Randall Cobb (unless he's a bust).
Given the raft of talent the Packers already have signed, Jones' level of production put him solidly in the "only at the right price" category.
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July 27, 2011 at 3:12 am |
Well, gotta remember that Rodgers is not going to say.. no we shouldn't worry about him. He's not important.
Also, its very possible that Rodgers is very close to James Jones. They could get along very well and could have a lot of chemistry. It's very important between a QB and WR. There is no doubt that James Jones has talent. Consistency is what is questioned. I still think that he's capable of being a very good WR and being much more consistent.
But in the end, we need to make the smart business move. And financially, we can't break the bank to keep him. This is likely Drivers last season, but we have Cobb coming in who hopefully can learn things quick and become a big part of our offense year 2. Finley is now back in the offense to go with Jennings and Nelson.
Depth wise, it would be nice. Maybe a guy like Swain can take over should a guy go down but who knows. But financially speaking, we just can't spend a lot of money on James Jones. Down the road, a year or two from now, we got a lot of contracts to extend. I really hope we try and keep Finley, along with extending Nelson. And thats just the receiving corps. Plenty of other stars on this team that will need big paydays.
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July 27, 2011 at 12:32 pm |
Watching Jones was frustrating at times but its worth noting that Rodgers never stopped throwing to him and Jones did make some big catches in the playoffs (Atl). They went through the fire together, learned together and won a Super Bowl together. I'd want to keep the same guys on my team that I did all that with.
that said, I agree with everyone else that from the GM/fan perspective, it only makes sense at the right price.
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July 28, 2011 at 8:10 pm |
If your quarterback is as emphatic about his desire to keep a reciever as Rodgers was, you better think twice about letting him get away.
Rodgers did not have to say, in such detail the things he said about James Jones, and after having re-watched the season, I would say that letting Jones go could be a mistake.
Had there been a normal offseason, then the team would have had time to prepare Cobb, and evaluate his capacity to pick up the system and contribute. Without that preperation time, he is unlikely to be able to perform in such a way as to replace James Jones.
Donald Driver is getting old, and said that he was unable to fully rehab his injury in the offseason. Jones performed very well when Driver was injured in the regular season.
The Packers beat defenses with thier scheme, and all the recievers learn all the positions so that they can be put in matchups that will enable them to beat the oppositions defense. James Jones is the most physically gifted of the Packer wideouts. He has the athletic ability to out leap defenders, and the speed and escapability to turn short plays into long ones.
Despite his drops, he has excellent hands. McCarthy says his drops are a product of concentration lapses, not bad hands. The Pack had another such reciever during the ninties in Antonio Freeman.
Consider this, despite being the third reciever in the Packer offense his whole career, he has comparable numbers to Sidney Rice of the Vikings who was a number one option for two years of his career.
If the goal of this season is to repeat as champions, then you have got to put your best team on the field. You do not have to worry about Ted Thompson over paying becuase he won't. Teds system is similar to the Pittsburgh Steelers system, so we are going to loose some players we really like over the years, but this year is different, and maybe striking while the iron is hot can be done without damaging the futrue of the team.


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Buddhism parasol / umbrella
In Buddhism, the parasol is a symbol of royal dignity and protection from the heat of the sun. Besides that it also represents protection from the "heat" of negative forces, like greed, lust and suffering, obstacles in the path towards enlightenment.
The ornate parasol usually is depicted with a dome, representing wisdom and a "skirt" around the dome, representing compassion. Sometimes the dome is octagonal (having eight angles and eight sides), representing the Eightfold Path. Sometimes it is square, representing the four directional quarters.
The Buddhist parasol is part of 8 other important symbols of Buddhism, called the The Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism.
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Lawmakers seek a modernized U.S. atomic arsenal.
Capitol Hill Republicans are threatening to block any possible attempts by the Obama administration to obtain further nuclear arms reductions without congressional approval.
In remarks on Friday at an annual nuclear deterrence summit, Senate Armed Services Committee GOP staffer Rob Soofer said any move on nuclear arms reductions "is going to be dead on arrival in the Senate" until the administration makes good on its promise to modernize the current U.S. atomic arsenal.
President Obama made the vow during 2010 negotiations with the Senate over ratification of the New START pact with Russia. Republicans have accused him of stepping back from the promise.
For fiscal 2013, the administration requested $7.6 billion for National Nuclear Security Administration programs aimed at maintaining "a safe, secure and effective nuclear deterrent." The figure was $372 million less than what the administration projected in 2010 in order to keep its side of the bargain, but was still a 5 percent increase over what Congress approved for fiscal 2011. Congress, though, has yet to approval a final federal budget for this fiscal year.
The United States today has approximately 1,700 deployed long-range nuclear weapons, along with thousands more held in reserve. The New START accord requires Washington and Moscow by 2018 to field no more than 1,550 strategic warheads and 700 delivery systems.
Recent reporting indicates Obama supports a secret Pentagon paper that suggests the country can maintain a viable deterrent with as few as 1,000 deployed warheads.
Soofer acknowledged that Obama could seek further arms reductions without authorization from Capitol Hill. A leading precedent is then-President George H.W. Bush's unilateral move in 1991 to draw down the U.S. nonstrategic nuclear arsenal, which led to corresponding measures from Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in what became known as the so-called Presidential Nuclear Initiatives.
However, Soofer warned that "Congress will seek remedies" against any such move. He did not elaborate, but some observers have speculated that Republicans might look to pass legislation that would require the president to obtain congressional approval for any additional nuclear arms reductions.
Soofer during his talk reaffirmed Republican arguments against further nuclear arms reductions. "If Russian relations are really stable, why do you need another round of reductions?" he asked rhetorically.
The president has a choice, he said: "He can listen to his disarmers … or, he can listen to deterrence realists."


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Part of the attraction of the Ryder Cup is that it's so radically different than the golf you see on a week-to-week basis.
During the PGA Tour, there's only one match-play event -- The World Matchplay Championships. And there isn't a team event until the "Silly Season", which is after the Tour comes to a close as it just did.
But the Ryder Cup asks players to combine with each other and in a matchplay format. It's really a departure from watching one guy try and birdie the last hole to claim 3rd place check instead of splitting a 4th place one.
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The Cup is played over three days. The first two days have a morning session and an afternoon session. These two are split up between a four four-ball matches and four foursomes matches. The four-ball involves two players from each side being paired up, but everyone plays their own ball. Whoever gets the lowest score on a hole wins the hole. This one doesn't require as much thought as who to pair together as everyone is playing their own shots. However, you wouldn't want to pair two golfers who like to take risks together, because they might both end up in the woods and provide and easy hole for the opponent. It makes sense to have one guy who consistently gets the ball in the fairway and on the green paired with a big-hitter who can make things happen but also can get into trouble. Provides a nice baseline.
The foursomes matches take a little more thought. In these, teammates will alternate shots. This is where you can out-think yourself. Do you pair two similar players together so that everyone's playing from positions they are used to? Or do you combine two different players to cancel out their weaknesses? Still, the looks teammates will shoot each other after one leaves the other in a bunker can be highly entertaining. Tiger Woods would have maimed Phil Mickelson if looks could kill when they were paired together years ago.
Because there are only four of these matches in each session, a captain also has to decide which four of his 12 players have to sit out. Most captains like to get everyone involved before the singles matches on Sunday, but the Europeans haven't always trusted their depth to do so. This led to problems the last time the Cup was on these shores, as Europe threw four guys into the deep end on Sunday without getting a feel for the competition beforehand. It didn't work out.
The tourney wraps up on Sunday with a royal rumble of 12 singles matches. When everyone's on the course, this gets out of control. Matches are being tossed on their ear left and right and the crowd is going nuts and you go from euphoria to despair in the matter of a couple shots.
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Kashmir issue not UN business, says Tharoor
Asserting that the Kashmir issue does not fall under the purview of the United Nations, Congress MP and ex-UN official Shashi Tharoor has said there are specific instances when the world body can be involved in a country's internal matters but Kashmir is not among them.
Image: Shashi Tharoor at the UN Assembly in New York
Photographs: Jay Mandal/On Assignment
'We have not invited the UN'
"But internal disturbances of a state, which is an integral part of India, is frankly not much the Secretary General's business," the former UN Under-Secretary General said. "We are neither unable, nor unwilling, nor have we invited the UN."
Tharoor further pointed out that the involvement in the internal affairs of a country could be permitted when there was a complete breakdown of authority.
Image: Tharoor with fellow MP D Raja at the UN
Photographs: Jay Mandal/On Assignment
'UN role in Kashmir is limited to military observers'
"In the question of Kashmir, we have a perfectly capable sovereign government that has been exercising its statutory responsibility as a government and I think India is right to take the position that on this subject the Secretary General has no role or no basis to say anything," he said.
Tharoor pointed out that the UN's "limited role" goes back to a 1948 resolution which places military observers on the ceasefire line, and the world body would have a "legitimate basis to saying something" if, for instance, "firing on both sides of the line had broken out."
Image: Tharoor speaks to Pakistani ambassador to the UN, Haroon Rashid
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Pak wants Un intervention in Kashmir
Earlier this month, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon had underlined that the UN would "offer its good offices" when "both parties" asked it to step in.
"As far as this role of good offices is concerned, the United Nations normally takes that initiative when requested by both parties concerned," Ban had said.
In the past few weeks, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has raised the issue of Kashmir at several public forums, calling on the United Nations and the US to intervene.
At the UN, Pakistan's diplomats have repeatedly claimed that Kashmir is not an "integral part" of India.
Image: Shashi Tharoor with his wife Sunanda Pushkar (right) in New York
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It may not be a household term yet, but President Obama's mention of the College Scorecard in his Feb. 12, 2013 State of the Union Address was top news on The White House Blog the following morning. The College Scorecard was developed by Obama's administration as a tool to help families compare schools and determine "where you can get the most bang for your educational buck," the President said.
The interactive College Scorecard shows five key pieces of data about a college: costs, graduation rate, loan default rate, average amount borrowed, and employment––information about the cost and value of institutions that Obama hopes will help students choose a school well-suited to meet their needs, priced affordably, and consistent with their educational and career goals.
"We know students and families are often overwhelmed in the college-search process—but feel they lack the tools to sort through the information and decide which school is right for them," the U.S. secretary of education, Arne Duncan, said in a written statement.
The Scorecard data will be updated periodically.
Claremont McKenna College's Scorecard is available online.
How CMC rated in each of the categories:
• Costs: The average net price for undergraduate students (after factoring in grants and financial aid that isn't paid back by families) is $23,064 annually, which falls in the "High" range on an accompanying Scorecard graphic
• Graduation Rate: CMC's 91.1 percent graduation rate (qualified as full-time students earning bachelor's degrees within six years) is ranked "High."
• Loan Default Rate: The College's rating shows that 0 percent of borrowers defaulted on Federal student loans within three years of entering repayment; the national loan default rate average is 13.4 percent.
• Median Borrowing: CMC families typically borrow $15,500 in Federal loans for a student's undergraduate study. The Federal loan payment over 10 years is about $178.37 a month, putting CMC between the "Low to Medium" range.
• Employment: This information is not yet available on the College Scorecard. (The Department of Education plans to update its site within the year, with information about average earnings of former undergraduate students.)
A Feb. 13 article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Mark S. Schneider calls the Scorecard "difficult to understand and use." Schneider is vice president of the American Institutes for Research and president of College Measures, an AIR offshoot that has developed its own online college-data tool. "If the audience for this is a 17-year-old kid and his family, this does not tell me enough,"


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Hello, I'm new to java and I'm pretty bad at it. When I run my program it says array index out of bounds. I'm supposed to write a program that translates an English sentence to morse code with a driver and utility class. I have to read in a txt file that list the morse code translation like:
I tried reading in the txt file and then calling on a method in my utility class to store them in an array
(I made the array [26][2])
Then later to translate the code I call on a method in my utility class where I bring in g as a string argument (g is the next letter in the string I'm string to translate)
I'm sorry if this looks choppy, I just don't want to get accused of cheating so I only listed the parts I thought might be the problem. I just need a hint, thank you.int w=0; if(g==code[w][0]) { w=0; h=code[w][1]; } else { w++; }


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… and Four Teams DownPosted by rtmsf on November 3rd, 2010
David Ely is an RTC contributor.
Every year teams come out of nowhere and burst into the top 25, while sports writers run to their keyboards to type the requisite "Where Did Team X Come From" story. I mean how many people saw Cornell coming last year? Who said last October that Butler would go on to lose the national championship game by just a couple of inches? Conversely, there are teams that look great on paper in the preseason but fail to live up to the hype once the season starts. Think North Carolina last season. Why did the Tar Heels begin the year in the top 10 again? Allow us to sort through the mess and pull out this year's Cornells and North Carolinas for you. Missouri fans, get ready to be excited. West Virginia fans, start thinking of things to say in your hate mail.
On Monday we took a look at four teams that will be up this season. Today we'll examine four teams that will be down as compared to where they were last year.
#1) West Virginia
No Devin Ebanks. No Da'Sean Butler. All kinds of problems for the Mountaineers, who are the only team from last year's Final Four to begin the season outside of the AP top 25. Bob Huggins' squad lost a lot of what made last year's team so tough to handle with the depatures of Ebanks and Butler. The 2009-10 Mountaineers got by on their ability to suffocate opponents with their brutally physical play combined with Butler's brilliance on the offensive end. Now much of the responsibility falls to forward Kevin Jones, who averaged 13.5 points per game as West Virginia's third option. Can Jones step up his game this year when defenses single him out as the guy they have to stop? If Jones struggles, then the Mountaineers will have a hard time duplicating even some of the success they enjoyed last year.
Reports coming from preseason practices aren't too encouraging. Huggins recently told the Charleston Gazette that freshmen Kevin Noreen and Noah Cottrill "look lost" at practice. And that was after Cottrill sparked rumors when he was introduced but didn't participate in West Virginia's Midnight Madness. There also was the case of Casey Mitchell, who was suspended for a violation of team rules but is now back with the team. These aren't the kinds of stories that equate to success in the regular season. This year might be one to forget in Morgantown.
#2) Cornell
The Big Red was the last year's feel good story, upsetting Temple and Wisconsin en route to an unprecedented run to the Sweet 16. And what was the reward for America's favorite brainiacs turned basketball stars? A return to obscurity.
Cornell lost its X&Os wizard in Steve Donahue when he opted for the greener pastures of the ACC, taking the head coaching gig at Boston College. The Big Red lost all-time leading scorer and 2010 Ivy League Player of the Year (Ryan Wittman), the sparkplug and catalyst of its NCAA Tournament run (Louis Dale) and six other seniors from last year's squad. That would be a lot of attrition for even a team like Duke to endure, and there's no doubt Cornell and new coach Bill Courtney are headed for a big step backward this season.
The Big Red was predicted to finish third in the Ivy League, which would require a number of players to step up fill the voids left by the likes of Wittman and Dale. Cornell needs big seasons from proven players like point guard Chris Wroblewski and forwards Adam Wire and Mark Coury. Then the Big Red will need some of its unknown pieces (one if its four freshman or maybe junior transfer Anthony Gatlin) to emerge if Courtney & Co. hope to compete for a fourth straight league title.
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Remember that time we wanted a deficit-reduction deal that included, oh, I don't know, higher tax rates on those who can afford them? And instead we got, you know, a proposed deal to make cuts to Social Security and Medicaid? I do! Check out this GREAT article by Guy Saperstein that analyzes President Obama's "Grand Bargain" politics... and what we can do about it. Key quotes follow, but be sure to read the article in full so you can be fully prepared to fight.
Obama was willing to make substantial cuts to the crown jewels of liberalism---Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid---and get little in return, in order to get a deficit-reduction deal with Republicans. The details of the proposed deal should be very disturbing to anyone who believes in Democratic core values and protecting the American Dream. In addition to substantial cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the domestic budget, Obama was willing to reduce top-end tax rates, maintain current tax rates on investment income (the reason millionaires like Mitt Romney pay such low tax rates) and prevent the expiration of the Bush tax cuts in return for increasing tax revenues by $800 billion. ... The progressive vehicle for this pressure may now be in sight with plans by The 99% Spring to train 100,000 people in nonviolent direct action April 9 to 15 to push a progressive agenda about foreclosure relief, student debt, protection of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, job creation, poverty, pollution, wealth inequality and the roll-back of tax cuts for the rich. Let us hope this potentially game-changing force puts its allegiance squarely behind real change, not protecting the president, or any other politician.
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Sunday, December 02, 2012
The gun battle broke out Saturday in the Balal-Dheer neighborhood, about 62 miles away from Dhusamareb, the capital of Galgadud, the Shabelle Media Network reported Sunday.
Witnesses said the fighting was sparked by a dispute between two clans over a water well. The clans were allegedly calling for reinforcements as the battle was ongoing Sunday, Shabelle reported.
Clan elders, though, called for a cease-fire and asked the clan militias to end hostilities in favor of talks.


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A great scientific research paper on when human life begins-
This site is not necessarily prolife but it's a great resource to use for embryology/fetology-
Secular Pro-life is another great resource. They have a facebook page too!
I just took a quick look at it, but it looks really good.
I'm going to print it out so I can underline & whatnot.
IMO, the key has always been (p.6),
"Is a human zygote a human organism?"
Unfortunately, 'organism' doesn't have a crystal clear def.
Also, it may be nitpicking, but I really hate when people say
that a fertilized egg is an egg (as if a frozen liquid is still
liquid) & there may be some good stuff on that too. :)
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Huge peaceful rallies have taken place across the US against racism and police brutality on the 12th day of protests sparked by the death of George Floyd.
Tens of thousands o...