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Enzymes in Raw Food: Do They Matter?
Diets that focus on raw foods have no proven benefits ... but possible drawbacks 07/04/2019
Diets that focus on raw foods have no proven benefits ... but possible drawbacks 07/04/2019
For about a century, raw foods have been foundational "health foods".
And since the advent of electric juicers, fresh produce juices have led the raw food movement.
Hard-core raw foodists rely entirely on fruits and vegetables (fresh or fermented) but may eat sprouted beans and grains and unpasteurized dairy (raw milk, yogurt, cheeses).
The popularity of raw foods grew fast in the 1970's and '80's, fueled by inescapable "Juiceman" TV ads and rational fears over refined/processed foods.
There's no way to know the size of the "raw foods" movement, but juicing is a fast-growing, $5 billion dollar industry.
Key Points
Advocates assert the superiority of raw foods and inferiority, and even the toxicity of cooked foods.
Clearly, some people thrive while eating little or no cooked foods.
And it's true that inflammation-related medical conditions (e.g., arthritis and allergies) sometimes respond well to raw food diets.
But is that because patients consume raw veggies, or because people on such diets are cutting out proven inflammation-promoters, like sugars and refined starches?
Is there good evidence that raw plant foods are superior to cooked, or that raw food juices trump whole raw plant foods?
Let's take a close look at the claims.
Plant foods: The whole and the raw
The whole foods aspect of the raw-foods movement is laudable, given the overwhelming evidence in favor of whole foods diets.
And that evidence makes sense, because humans and our primate predecessors evolved eating whole foods.
Whole plant foods provide essential vitamins and minerals, many of which occur in animal foods.
Critically, only whole plant foods abound in fibers and diverse "nutrigenomic" antioxidants, which exert broadly beneficial effects on our genes.
(Wild salmon, krill, and shrimp are rare exceptions among animal foods, because they provide the highly beneficial carotenoid-class orange pigment called astaxanthin … which, thanks to their shrimp-y diet, is also what makes Flamingo feathers pink.)
Thousands of published studies show that fruits, vegetables, herbs, spices, cocoa, tea, and coffee exert indirect antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, and other beneficial nutrigenomic effects.
Accordingly, research overwhelmingly shows that whole foods offer health advantages over processed/refined foods … see "Whole Foods Seen Superior to Supplements".)
Raw food-ism: The leap from whole to raw
Whole food diets are clearly essential to minimal and optimal health … but raw-food advocates take things a step further.
They make two controversial claims for diets based heavily on uncooked plant foods:
Humans are better adapted to primarily raw-food diets than to diets containing substantial proportions of cooked foods.
The "food enzymes" in raw (and very lightly cooked) foods help our bodies digest these foods, easing the body's workload and conferring significant health benefits in the body.
These ideas sound good, but there's little evidence behind them … and an exclusively or primarily raw-food diet may have some drawbacks.
Raw food folks accurately say that cooking certain foods in certain ways (e.g., grilling and browning) can degrade their nutritional value and/or generate carcinogenic, oxidizing, and/or pro-inflammatory chemicals.
On the other hand, cooking makes many plant foods more digestible and enjoyable, and renders their nutrients more available and absorbable.
Cooking plant foods:
No nutrition trade offs
What proportion of nutrients are lost when we cook food?
Cooking seems to do little harm, and some good.
Because cooking breaks down plant cell walls, more of a plant food's nutrients become available for absorption and use.
Fresh is best, but frozen vegetables are quick-frozen right after picking, which preserves their nutrients for months
The USDA tested 290 foods to measure the effects of various cooking methods on the levels of 16 vitamins and eight minerals.
The tests showed that most minerals were unaffected by cooking.
Vitamin C, folate, and thiamine were the nutrients most commonly reduced by cooking, but levels rarely dropped by as much as half.
In addition to taking multivitamins, loss of those three nutrients can be offset by foods not normally or necessarily cooked:
And an exclusively plant foods diet (raw or cooked) will lack the most beneficial kinds of omega-3 fat (DHA and EPA), found only in seafood.
Raw foodism and food enzymes:
Dr. Howell's persistent hypothesis
Advocates for heavily raw-food diets often claim digestive and overall health benefits accrue from the enzymes in raw foods.
Many raw foodists are vegetarian, but some include raw dairy and fish, and meats and fish cured at low temperatures, in their raw regimens.
Raw-foodists also believe that the enzymes in a raw food assist in its own absorption and digestion.
Enzymes are a special class of proteins, needed for many critical bodily processes at the molecular level. Heating food above 140° F (60° C) inactivates (denatures) most enzymes in food, while some denature at about 113° F (45°C).
In the 1920's, Edward Howell, M.D., asserted his idea that the enzymes in raw foods help us to break down these same foods and reduce the need to produced enzymes internally.
Further, he claimed that the normal, continuous, internal manufacture of enzymes by the body taxes its limited energy stores.
But healthy people have no difficulty synthesizing enzymes, provided the body gets enough protein and other essential nutrients.
And healthy people normally experience no shortage of digestive enzymes, or any difficulty digesting frozen or cooked foods.
(Cooking animal foods at temperatures in excess of the boiling point (212° F / 100° C) renders their proteins somewhat harder to absorb.)
Nor is there any evidence for Dr. Howell's claim that diets high in cooked foods tax the body's digestion or overall metabolism, promote disease, or accelerate aging.
In brief, we can find little or no persuasive evidence for Dr. Howell's core claims, which were largely based on limited, unpersuasive research conducted in the 1920's and 1930's.
Raw-food proponents point to enzyme-related research conducted in recent years.
But very little of it has proven any more persuasive than Howell's own … as the Beyond Vegetarianism Web site mentioned below documents.
Food enzyme advocates lack persuasive evidence
There are several major problems with Dr. Howell's hypothesis.
First, the enzymes present in food are not equipped to act as digestive enzymes.
Second, almost all of the enzymes present in raw foods are broken down into their components (amino acids) by our own digestive processes.
Last, the healthy human body has no shortage of the amino acids and proteins needed to construct enzymes internally.
Voluntary contributors to a remarkable Web site called Beyond Vegetarianism present a detailed scientific critique of Dr. Howell's claims.
The site's founders and chief contributors present scientifically sound information on various raw, vegetarian, or otherwise restricted diets (e.g., Paleo diet pioneer Professor Loren Cordain, Ph.D., and Steven Bratman, M.D., editor of the Natural Pharmacist book series and e-encyclopedia).
Their exhaustive critique of Dr. Howell's various raw food hypotheses is but one section in a series of private research papers concerning the pros and cons of raw and cooked foods.
You will find a related Q&A at Columbia University's Go Ask Alice site.
Did early humans eat it raw?
Let's test the credibility of the idea that early humans and their ancestors evolved on largely raw-food diets.
If true, this would lend support to the idea that raw-food diets are the healthiest choices for modern humans.
Some raw food advocates say that humans adapt very slowly to diet changes, and that human cooking dates back no more than 50,000 years ... therefore, humans are not adapted to cooked foods.
What about juicing?
Juicing is promoted as a tactic for weight loss and general health enhancement.
It takes several pieces of produce to make an average-size juice portion, so a glass of juice made from them will deliver a pretty big load of the "antioxidants" and other nutrigenomic phytonutrients in those pieces.
But juicing whole produce also concentrates its sugar and calorie content into a single glass.
One of the benefits of eating whole plant foods is that their fiber and bulk make you feel "full" fast, and which enhances overall satisfaction.
Juice contains far less fiber than whole fruits and vegetables do, and sharply decreases the fiber-related benefits and feeling of fullness gained by eating them.
The sugar and calorie content of juice is much greater than the sugar content of whole fruit and vegetables, and it takes several pieces of produce to make an average-size juice portion.
Importantly, the most successful weight-control diets are those that can be sustained, and for many juicing is an expensive experiment that proves rather unsatisfying on that score.
There are two problems with this claim.
First, most archaeologists date widespread human use of cooking to about 250,000 years ago, when hearths, earth ovens, burnt animal bones, and flint appeared across Europe and the Middle East.
There is also evidence that early humans cooked tubers, which turns some of these plants' near-indigestible starches into sugars and other digestible carbohydrates.
And according to recent finds in Africa (Borenstein S 2007), humans were cooking shellfish at least 164,000 years ago. See "Omega-3 Brain Evolution Theory Gets a Boost".
Finally, Paleo-anthropological research proves that major evolutionary adaptations – notably, lactose tolerance among cow-herding cultures in Northern Europe – have occurred within periods as brief as 1,200 years.
The most conservative estimates – which some raw foodists cite – place the earliest provable date for the beginning of cooking by humans at about 50,000 BC.
But even if we use that relatively recent date, the example (among others) of northern European cow-herders' rapid, 1,200-year-long adaptation to dietary lactose suggests that it is reasonable to hypothesize that modern people are by now well adapted to routine consumption of cooked foods.
It is worth quoting here from an evidence review by anthropologists from Harvard University (Wrangham R, Conklin-Brittain N 2003):
- "No human foragers have been recorded as living without cooking, and people who choose a 'raw-foodist' life-style experience low energy and impaired reproductive function. This suggests that cooking may be obligatory for humans."
- "The possibility that cooking is obligatory is supported by calculations suggesting that a diet of raw food could not supply sufficient calories for a normal hunter-gatherer lifestyle. In particular, many plant foods are too fiber-rich when raw, while most raw meat appears too tough to allow easy chewing."
- "If cooking is indeed obligatory for humans but not for other apes, this means that human biology must have adapted to the ingestion of cooked food (i.e. food that is tender and low in fiber) in ways that no longer allow efficient processing of raw foods. Cooking has been practiced for ample time to allow the evolution of such adaptations."
Interestingly, a team from Harvard and Germany's Max Planck Institute found that in general, great apes prefer cooked over raw foods (Wobber V et al. 2008).
Another of their studies, published last year, indicates that eating cooked foods takes less energy than eating raw foods… a small but possibly significant survival advantage in terms of calorie conservation (Boback SM et al. 2007).
Modern hunter-gatherers combine raw and cooked foods to healthful effect Studies of modern hunter-gatherer societies indicate two things:
- They cook about half their food, which invariably includes some animal foods (meat, fish, insects), albeit much less meat than Americans and Europeans eat.
- They enjoy low rates of the chronic degenerative diseases that plague Western countries and are rising among developing countries as well: cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and dementia.
Together, these findings suggest that the prevalence of cooked versus raw foods probably plays a minor part in people's overall health and their risk of developing the major degenerative diseases associated with Western civilization.
The negative impact of diets rich in fatty red meats is another matter. Epidemiological evidence suggests that diets high in processed red meats may raise the risk of cancer, heart disease, and dementia.
However, these risks do not appear to apply to hunter-gatherer diets that feature lean meats, as explained by Australian anthropologists from RMIT University in Melbourne:
- "A study of human and pre-human diet history shows that for a period of at least 2 million years the human ancestral line had been consuming increasing quantities of meat… This meat was wild game meat, low in total and saturated fat and relatively rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids..."
- "In our own studies, we have shown evidence that diets high in lean red meat can actually lower [blood] cholesterol [levels], contribute significantly to tissue omega-3 fatty acid [levels] and provide a good source of iron, zinc and vitamin B12."
Yes to fermented raw foods
Fermented (bacterially colonized) "live" foods can greatly enhance people's intestinal flora and contribute bacteria-produced nutritional factors, including B vitamins.
However, there's little evidence that the enzymes in fermented foods – which produce beneficial changes in them – offer significant benefits to their consumers.
While lactobacilli and other food-fermenting bacteria produce enzymes that digest foods such as milk and cabbage, these enzymes are broken into amino acids in the human digestive tract.
People certainly can survive and thrive eating only raw foods … albeit with a bit more planning and care than required for folks who observe a more conventional diet.
The devil, as always, lies in the details.
There is credible evidence that certain cooking methods degrade the healthfulness of certain foods.
But cooking also enhances the availability of nutirents in some foods, and the biomedical literature contains no evidence that cooked foods are unhealthful.
For now, it seems wise to keep cooking food – while also savoring raw salads, veggies, fruits, and sushi as part of the culinary mix.
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Two-Dollar Broker
A broker who conducts trades for another broker's client because the second broker is too busy to do so. The commission the client pays goes to his/her own broker, but the two dollar broker receives a portion from the other broker. Originally, this commission was $2, but now it is negotiated between the two brokers.
two-dollar broker
A member of a securities exchange who executes orders for other members. A two-dollar broker performs essentially the same function as a commission broker except that he or she is independent rather than a representative of a specific firm. Also called independent broker.


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When we create a cookie we assign to document.cookie like this:
document.cookie = 'cookie1=testvalue; expires=Thu, 2 Aug 2001 20:47:11 UTC; path=/'
If it were a simple object or string we would expect this assignment to wipe-out all the other values?! Notice also, that when we output the cookie it displays only the cookie-names and values; the other information (expires, path) is not accessible to us.
In order to read the value of a cookie we need to split the cookie "string" at the semi-colons, and loop through the resultant array. Here's a typical example:
function readCookie(name) { var nameEQ = name + "="; var ca = document.cookie.split(';'); for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++) { var c = ca[i]; while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length); if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length); } return null; }
There is not a delete() method for a cookie. To achieve the deletion we re-create the cookie, setting its expiry to a date either in the past or, perhaps, a few seconds into the future:
function eraseCookie(name) { createCookie(name,"",-1); }
Confusingly as well, document.cookie is singular, but we store a number of (single) cookies in it?!
I built a search page for myself and I wanted to store certain sites that I would exclude from the search as cookies. But i wanted to store the url-addresses as the cookie-name, and a title or description as the value. Standard cookie-methods didn't allow for searching by 'name', and storing the odd characters that might appear in an url could be problematic. So this led me to the use of regular expressions.
Using regular expressions I can treat the cookie as a long string, rather than having to split it apart and loop through the various elements. [There is an overhead involved with the use of Regex, but there is also with splitting and parsing of a (long) string.] With Regex I can make cookies more flexible with the following functions:
cNameExists(cookie_name) // boolean // (sometimes I just want to check for the existence of a cookie!) cValueExists(cookie_value) // boolean cNameGet(cookie_value) cValueGet(cookie_name)
My approach also gives cookie-names added value. Traditionally, the name is a known quantity. We would sometimes squeeze several values into a single cookie, making up our own separator in the process:
document.cookie = 'cookie1=testvalue#value1; expires=Thu, 2 Aug 2001 20:47:11 UTC'
Again, this means we have to split this and ensure that we always follow the same pattern when creating our cookie(s). With my approach we can store them as separate cookies - because we are able to search by either name or value: the cookie now behaves as a dictionary.
Because I am using regular expressions, and I might be storing strange characters in either the name or value, I make use of the following helper function. This escapes the characters (of my names and values) that have a special meaning to Regex (NB this is only used when applying Regex searches, they are not stored this way):
var escapeReg = function (str) { // Helper fn: escapes characters for use with a regular expression. return str.replace(/[-[\]{}()*+?.,\\^$|#\s]/g, "\\$&"); };
This function has utility outside of my cookie methods, and is a candidate for adding to the String prototype. [I cannot take credit for it. I found a couple of examples on the internet and tweaked them a little.]
The tricky thing that remained was to create Regex expressions that would correctly identify the names and values (separately) within the document.cookie.
[Note: encoding the cookies with encodeURIComponent() is a standard approach.]
I also include functions delAllCookies() and cookieStr(), although this second is really only for testing purposes. However, now that both the names and values of cookies have meaning this function could be useful.
var escapeReg = function (str) { // Helper fn: escapes characters for use with a regular expression. return str.replace(/[-[\]{}()*+?.,\\^$|#\s]/g, "\\$&"); }; var setCookie = function (name, value, expires, path, domain, secure) { // Sets the name/value pair (encoded) - 'expires' is the no. of days. var expires_date; if (expires) { expires_date = new Date(); expires_date.setDate(expires_date.getDate() + expires); } document.cookie = encodeURIComponent(name) + "=" + encodeURIComponent(value) + ( ( expires ) ? ";expires=" + expires_date.toUTCString() : "" ) + ( ( path ) ? ";path=" + path : "" ) + ( ( domain ) ? ";domain=" + domain : "" ) + ( ( secure ) ? ";secure" : "" ); }; var deleteCookie = function (name, path, domain) { // Encodes the name before deleting. document.cookie = encodeURIComponent(name) + "=" + ( ( path ) ? ";path=" + path : "") + ( ( domain ) ? ";domain=" + domain : "" ) + ";expires=Fri, 01-Jan-2010 00:00:01 UTC"; // ..could be any date in the past }; var delAllCookies = function () { var currDate = new Date(), i, theCookie = document.cookie.split(";"); currDate = currDate.toUTCString(); i = theCookie.length; while ( i-- ) { document.cookie = theCookie[i] + "; expires =" + currDate; } }; // the following functions are case-insensitive var cNameExists = function (cookie_name) { var testName, myReg; if (document.cookie.length == 0) return false; testName = escapeReg(cookie_name); myReg = new RegExp('(^|;) ?' + testName + '=([^;]*)(;|$)','i'); return myReg.test(decodeURIComponent(document.cookie)); }; var cValueExists = function (cookie_value) { var testName, myReg; if (document.cookie.length == 0) return false; testName = escapeReg(cookie_value); myReg = new RegExp('(=)' + testName + '(;|$)','i'); return myReg.test(decodeURIComponent(document.cookie)); }; var cNameGet = function (cookie_value) { var testName, myReg, results; if (document.cookie.length == 0) return ''; testName = escapeReg(cookie_value); myReg = new RegExp('(^|;) ?([^=]*)=' + testName + '(;|$)','i'); results = decodeURIComponent(document.cookie).match(myReg); return ( results ) ? results[2] : ''; }; var cValueGet = function (cookie_name) { var testName, myReg, results; if (document.cookie.length == 0) return ''; testName = escapeReg(cookie_name); myReg = new RegExp('(^|;) ?' + testName + '=([^;]*)(;|$)','i'); results = decodeURIComponent(document.cookie).match(myReg); return ( results ) ? results[2] : ''; }; var cookieStr = function () { // Returns a string (with line breaks) which could be // placed in, for example, a textarea. return decodeURIComponent(document.cookie). replace(/([^=;]+)=([^;]*)[;\s]*/g,'$1 ($2)\n') || ''; };
NB These are all (global) functions. I had originally tucked them away inside an object (a library) but, for the purpose of this tutorial, have extracted them as standalone-functions.
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The Greek wing of Varoufakis' new pan-European party won nine seats in the 300-seat Parliament — 'big enough to change a lot,' he promised
He's back. Rebel politician Yanis Varoufakis' new party gains toehold in Greek parliament
As dozens of journalists engulfed him, Yanis Varoufakis strode out the door into the parking garage, got on his motorcycle and rode off.
Varoufakis had just resigned as Greece's finance minister in the middle of the negotiations to solve the biggest financial crisis Greece had seen in a long time. His notoriety was doing more harm to Eurozone negotiations than good.
Four years later, Varoufakis, 58, is back on the world scene. He's founded a pan-European progressive movement filled with celebrity endorsements and ambitious plans to upend the European Union. And now he's clawed his way back into the Greek parliament with a new progressive party, just as a right-wing government takes the majority.
Varoufakis, born and raised in Athens, won a seat in the Greek parliament in 2015, running with Alexis Tsipras' left-wing Syriza party, and was promptly promoted to minister of finance. His main goal was to come to a better agreement with lenders to improve Greece's massive debt crisis and reduce the austerity measures that the rest of Europe thought the country needed. With a doctorate in mathematical statistics and years of teaching economics at the university level in the U.K., U.S., and Australia under his belt, he was a different kind of politician. His refusal to severely compromise and the threat of a Greek default shook the rest of Europe and gave Greece some unexpected bargaining power.
As he clashed with German politicians over Greece's future, European media began to take notice. Varoufakis didn't look like a regular politician. He refused to wear a tie and would arrive at negotiations on his motorcycle wearing a leather jacket. A Portuguese member of parliament posted online, "Damn, the Greek finance minister is sexy." According to The New Yorker, "The European press wrote many delighted columns about a minister of state who looked as if he might be armed."
"It worked out fabulously," Varoufakis told The New Yorker. "They called me a Russian mafioso, right?"
The day after Greece overwhelmingly voted "Oxi" against the terms of a European bailout in July — the No side Varoufakis that fervently campaigned for and supported — he resigned. In a blog post, Varoufakis said "I was made aware of a certain preference by some Eurogroup participants, and assorted 'partners', for my 'absence' from its meetings."
But his resignation wasn't his final exit from world politics.
Months later, he co-founded the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), an international group — comprised of several parties but mainly left-wing — which seeks to "repair" the European Union by imposing measures that increase democracy, while fighting the rise of "toxic nationalism" and xenophobia in Europe.
DiEM25 is currently supported by prominent activists and artists such as Naomi Klein, Brian Eno, and Noam Chomsky. Actor and environmental activist Pamela Anderson has appeared on official posters for the movement and has spoken on behalf of the movement at press conferences.
In a statement, Anderson said she agreed to help promote DiEM25 — "I know this poster is a little crazy" — because "they are the only ones putting forward a comprehensive and inspiring green new deal for Europe."
The movement's main goal is to encourage the implementation of a "European Green New Deal" which would tackle increasing debt, climate change, and job losses across the Eurozone.
In Greece's last parliamentary election earlier this month, the Syriza party lost power to the right-wing New Democracy party. But Varoufakis himself was back in. The European Realistic Disobedience Front, the Greek offshoot of DiEM25 led by Varoufakis, won nine seats in the 300-seat chamber with 3.4 per cent of the vote.
"The size of our result is small but it is big enough to change a lot," Varoufakis said in Athens after the election.
Though he is the prominent poster child for these movements, and boasts a huge following on social media, he continually insists he should not be held in such high regard.
"The cult of the leader is detrimental to politics," Varoufakis told The Guardian.
As his global footprint grows, his notoriety rarely extends past aficionados of world politics. But maybe it's time we start paying attention.


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This year, summer did not disappoint! It was a hot hot hot summer and it was fantastic! As I write this post, I am a little sad that it's over. But when I look back at what we did, I am so grateful to have had another beautiful summer with my family. This post is my little ode to summertime fun. So let's take a trip down memory lane and go back to the beginning of my summer!
First up was my school's fun fair. Again, I was doing silent auction but this year, the stuff was at my place. And boy was there a lot of stuff. We raised some good coin for our school!
I couldn't resist sewing crayon rolls and at the last minute, popped in a gift card wallet.
Next up was our town's summer festival. The street closes and we do fun things like the duck race for charity, watch a parade, and party on the street.
On the last day of school, we whisked the boys away for our first camp of the year. I can see this being a tradition! They had all the comforts of home and we made sure there were lots of books to keep them happy.
My summer sewing was mainly for things that we absolutely needed - like a bike bag for me, a yoga mat carrier, and mini camp pillows. The kids were so obsessed with baseball, there was no way they'd let me hang inside to sew.
We went to a wedding. Then jetted off to Niagara Falls for the lavender festival.
The kids were in soccer again but this year, I didn't go picture crazy. Big kid was in camp so little guy and I went to CBC Kids Days and rode the train.
Science Centre is a must and we got to see a monster truck up close.
We watched the Olympics and wished they were in Toronto (like last year's Pan Am Games). The kids cheered for Andre De Grasse every time he ran. It's really cool for them to see a local kid from Markham win Olympic medals. Especially after the year he had at Pan Am. He was also nice enough to come back after the Olympics and be in the parade.
We saw many outdoor concerts but their fave was a Tswift cover artist. I went to girls cottage weekend and had some nice r&r. I also started kniting a blanket which I dragged all around town. It's almost finished! More on that to come... We did some crafty things like make a sock cat.
And lots of puzzles
I finally had zinnias - this is what they looked like in July but by now they've totally exploded.
We had a great time at the CNE - kids loved seeing the parkour guys.
I loved the air show
Little man learned how to ride a two wheeler. I'm happy-sad. They are both growing up so fast!
They fished at their cousins.
I think overall, they had a great summer and were ready to go back to school. Truthfully, this is the first year that I didn't cry a little bit after I dropped them off.
Looking forward to the adventures that fall will bring,


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I came across an interesting Collection of Ambiguous or Inconsistent/Incomplete Statements compiled by Jeff Gray, which illustrates that IDF as measure of the discriminating power of a term is not enough. Gray writes:
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the 500 words used most in the English language each have an average of 23 different meanings. The word "round," for instance, has 70 distinctly different meanings. The variance of word meanings in natural language has always posed problems for those who attempt to construct an unambiguous and consistent statement. It is often the case that a written statement could be interpreted in several ways by different individuals, thus rendering the statement subjective rather than objective. The first detailed examination of this problem with respect to the specifications of computer systems is contained in [Hill, 72]. Hill provides a plethora of examples to illustrate this common problem. Peter G. Neumann illustrated this point by constructing a sentence which contained the restrictive qualifier "only." He then showed that by placing the word "only" in 15 different places in the sentence resulted in over 20 different interpretations [Neumann, 84]. Moreover, other words like "never," "should," "nothing," and "usually" are sometimes applied in a manner in which a double meaning can be ascribed. In particular, the word "nothing" was a favorite word often used by Lewis Carroll.
Under these circumstances, why should we assume that the discriminating power of terms in a collection, particularly of polysemes and ambiguous terms, is the same (unique) regardless of their meanings or neighboring query terms? *
This is where IDF as a term specificity measure breaksdown. This problem is intimate linked to The Original Sin of IR models: The Term Independence Assumption.
* I have modified a bit this assertive question to make the point more clear.
Hill, I.D., "Wouldn't it be nice if we could write computer programs in ordinary English – or would it?" The Computer Bulletin, June 1972, pp. 306-312.
Neumann, Peter G., "Only his Only Grammarian Can Only Say What Only He Means," ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, January 1984, pg. 6.


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Girl's recipe leads to lunch — and a few surprises — at White House
Rori Coyne of Shawnee generally eats her Yummy Cabbage Sloppy Joes — her favorite food — on a bun, or sometimes cold with a fork.
But recently the Westridge Middle School seventh-grader got to enjoy the recipe she crafted about eight months ago on bread with gold silverware at a formal lunch at the White House.
And one of her lunch companions? First lady Michelle Obama.
Rori was one of 54 kids ages 8 to 12 to win the Healthy Lunchtime Challenge sponsored by Epicurious.com in partnership with Michelle Obama's Let's Move! campaign and the U.S. departments of health and agriculture. Parents submitted an original, healthy recipe created by their child, and winners from each state, as well as territories such as Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, were chosen. Their reward was inclusion in the Healthy Lunchtime Challenge Cookbook and a free trip with one parent to Washington, D.C., to attend a Kids' State Dinner on Monday at the White House.
"And then the president walks in and then he did a speech … and it was really cool," Rori said of the event's surprise guest, adding she shook President Barack Obama's hand. "It was my right hand. See?! This one right here."
As she and her mother, Mary Wolarik, waited to get into the event, held in the East Room of the White House, Rori got another surprise: White House assistant chef Sam Kass told Rori that her recipe was one of six chosen to be served at the lunch. She and her mother also got to meet Michelle Obama and take a photo with her.
"She gave us a hug and then asked what my recipe was," Rori said. "And then I told her and she said, 'I can't wait to try it.'"
Girl's recipe leads to lunch — and a few surprises — at White HouseRori "was freaking out" later during the lunch when she received another hug from Logan Henderson, member of Big Time Rush. The band, a supporter of Let's Move! and one of Rori's favorites, performed during the lunch.
"I almost peed my pants I was so excited," she said.
With her mother's help, Rori came up with her recipe one evening when trying to find something to make for dinner. Having a registered dietitian for a mother — Wolarik is president-elect of the Kansas Diatetic Association — Rori said she's always eaten healthy foods and has loved cooking and baking since she was a toddler.
Her initial inspiration for the recipe was the ample amount of leftover cabbage in the refrigerator, Rori said. But the fact that the end result was sloppy Joes isn't too far a stretch of the imagination where Rori is concerned, Wolarik said.
"This is a child that adores a sloppy Joe," she said.
Wolarik initially didn't tell her daughter she'd submitted the recipe in May. And Rori was on vacation with a friend when Wolarik was notified this summer that Rori's recipe had been chosen.
"I looked at my phone and there was like 20 calls from my mom and a bunch of texts and it was really annoying because she kept calling me every second," Rori said.
She thought her mother simply wanted to check up on her.
"I was like freaking out and rolling on the ground and stuff," Rori said of her reaction after she talked with her mother. "I don't think I screamed, but I was being really loud."
Rori's recipe will be served for lunch next Monday at Westridge, where guests will include district administrators and board members.
Yummy Cabbage Sloppy Joes
1 pound lean ground beef
1 medium onion, diced
1 medium zucchini, shredded or diced
2 ribs celery, diced
1/2 cup chopped red pepper
1 1/2 cups finely shredded cabbage
1 cup tomato sauce or crushed tomatoes
1 tablespoon brown sugar
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 tablespoon white vinegar
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon mustard
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
8 sandwich rolls, split (optional)
In a large skillet, cook the beef until cooked through, about five minutes. Drain the fat from the skillet and reserve the meat on a plate.
In the same pan, over moderate heat, cook the onion, zucchini, celery, red pepper and cabbage until all the vegetables are crisp-tender, about 4 minutes. Add the cooked beef to the pan and stir to combine.
In a small bowl, combine the tomato sauce or crushed tomatoes, brown sugar, lemon juice, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, mustard, salt and pepper. Pour the same sauce into the pan with the beef and vegetables and simmer, stirring occasionally until thickened, about 8 minutes.
While the sloppy Joes are simmering, toast the buns in the oven or toaster oven.
Evenly divide the mixture among the toasted bun bottoms, top with the other halves and serve.
Makes 8 servings.


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These buttons were popularized during queen Victoria's reign.
Images are subject to variation. The buttons will vary slightly in design as each piece is one of a kind. Buttons are all made of black glass, but each has a unique finish & design.
Chain Length: 18" / 457mm
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Button Size: 1/2 Inch (13 mm).
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It has become commonplace to lump California in with European countries such as Greece and Spain when it comes to talking about places that are overwhelmed by big budget deficits and debt.
It's also unfair.
California's financial problems, as serious as they are, are very modest compared to those countries. California's debt and deficits are tiny fractions of the state's annual input. That isn't true in these European nations.
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But that shouldn't be the end of the conversation.
While comparing California to Greece and its problematic European friends is bogus fiscally, it's a very fair comparison when it comes to the question of how those countries are responding to crisis.
In short, Greece, Spain and Irelandare making big, painful changes to how they govern themselves in response (though the Greeks may end up rolling back some of those changes in elections this coming Sunday).
There have already been significant changes, and there is real movement in all three European countries to draft new constitutions.
Heck, even former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's home country of Austria is getting in on the constitutional action.
In addition, on the European level, Germany and other nations are calling for revamping the broader agreements that bind the country together through the European Union.
In comparison, California's attemps to reform itself seem modest -- and limited to one-off ballot initiatives. There is no real effort to change the constitution -- indeed, the whole idea is dismissed as outlandish and unrealistic.
One could argue that's because our fiscal challenges, while severe, are not that big in the grand scheme of things.
That's true in one sense. But in another, California's problem is less about its amount of public debt and more about its broken governing system, and the inability of that system to reckon with its budget or those problems.
One would think that, given this reality, California would be leading in constitutional reform.
Instead, we're trailing Greece.
Lead Prop Zero blogger Joe Mathews is California editor at Zocalo Public Square, a fellow at Arizona State University's Center for Social Cohesion, and co-author of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It (University of California, 2010).
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The perfect recipe for a summer night on the water is back for a second year.
The Maritime Cruise & Cuisine Fridays in Norwalk offers a sunset cruise followed by a three-course meal.
Starting Friday June 28, the event will take place weekly from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
The $52 cruise and dinner package includes a sunset cruise around the Norwalk islands followed by dinner at Mama's Boy restaurant near the dock.
The cruise, sponsored by the Norwalk Seaport Association, leaves Sheffield Island Dock at the corner of Water and Washington Streets) at 6 p.m. and returns at 8 p.m.
The Cruise and Cuisine runs from June 28 through Aug. 30.
Parking is available at the Maritime garage for $1.
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LOS ANGELES -- Pretty soon, the only Mazda CX-7 you'll be able to buy will be a used one.
Mazda confirmed to journalists at a recent press event that the CX-7 crossover is being discontinued for the U.S. market. It'll still be sold elsewhere. CX-7 sales through February were averaging about 2,600 units per month. Mazda said about 6,100 units of combined inventory and port stock were available at the end of last month, but no more dealer deliveries were scheduled. At this rate, dealers should run out of the CX-7 sometime in May.
Why did Mazda pull the plug?
The crossover didn't have a business case to support the cost required to pass the next set of U.S. emissions and safety certification hurdles, Robert Davis, Mazda's former product guru-turned U.S. operations boss, said in a recent interview.
Mazda wanted to make way for the new CX-5 and not crowd showrooms with too many crossovers. Despite less overall length, wheelbase and width than the CX-7, the CX-5 is bigger inside.
The CX-5 will compete more directly with the big players in the compact crossover segment like the Honda CR-V, Ford Escape and Toyota RAV4.
The CX-7 failed to live up to sales expectations set prior to its 2006 launch. Annual sales only surpassed the company's 40,000-unit target once, in 2007. Sales rebounded during the last two years, peaking at 35,641 last year.
Granted, the turmoil of 2008 and 2009 didn't help sales, but a few packaging issues also were blamed.
The CX-7 is a little bigger than the usual compact crossover and too small to compete with mid-sized crossovers. It also launched with a 2.3-liter turbocharged engine that required premium fuel as its sole powerplant, which dealers have said was a big reason consumers avoided the vehicle. A more basic 2.5-liter powerplant that ran on regular gas was added mid-cycle.
"CX-7 was positioned between where the CX-5 is now and where the CX-9 is, and the only other person in that range was really the Nissan Murano," Davis said.
"Between the size, along with the pricing and launching with a turbo engine, that put us at too many disadvantages to be successful."
Davis also said dealers expected the CX-5 to be smaller than it is. Before seeing the CX-5, dealers pushed back against the factory's plans to stop selling the CX-7 stateside, Davis said.
But things changed.
Said Davis: "After they saw the CX-5, they said don't muddy the waters with two of 'em."


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If it helps you try and guess what kind of a second home he'll buy in Dallas, know that Yu Darvesh just divorced his wife, actress and TV personality Saeko, age 25 and the mother of his two children. I had wondered if Yu has a family. Knowing this explains why he was looking at this slick glass goddess over at the W: 2430 Victory Park, #2509 right smack below Khloe and Lamar. Yu toured this two-story with Crestron Audio Visual System, elegant mother of pearl and suede entry with LED lighting, tooled leather columns, warm suede walls, art lighting, hip Euro kitchen. He liked it, but still looking. Asking ONLY $1,900,000, possibly furnished.
I'm still drooling!


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The Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals (LAJAM) publishes scholarly articles concerning the biology, management and conservation of aquatic mammals in Latin America.
Published since 2002, LAJAM is the scientific journal of two societies: the Sociedad Latinoamericana de Especialistas en Mamíferos Acuáticos (SOLAMAC) and the Sociedad Mexicana de Mastozoología Marina (SOMEMMA). In 2011 LAJAM ceased its print version and became an online-only publication. As the online journal becomes established in the next two years, LAJAM will seek coverage in indexing services as well as in the Directory of Open Access Journals and in the Science Citation Index, which will provide LAJAM with an Impact Factor. Read more about the journal history...
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Public Records Act
California Public Records Act
What is the
In 1968, the California Legislature enacted the California Public Records Act (CPRA) under Government Code (GC) sections 6250-6270. In its findings and declarations, mindful of the right of individuals' privacy, the Legislature declared it was the publics right to access information concerning the peoples business.
What is a Public Record?
As defined in the Public Records Act, GC 6252 "public records include any writing containing information relating to the conduct of the public's business prepared, owned, used or retained by any state or local agency regardless of physical form or characteristics."
Police Reports
Based on this definition, the report of crimes and incidents written in the course of business of a law enforcement agency are public records and subject to release under CPRA with some exemptions.
Who can initiate a Public Records request?
Any person can make a Public Records request.
However public disclosure is regulated by several different statutes dependent upon on the record.
Such resources are Government Code 6250 et .seq. and 34090.6, Welfare and Institutions Code 827, California Vehicle Code 20012, Penal Code 841.5, 293, 11167.5 and 13300.
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- Crime reports
- Accident reports
It is the responsibility of the law enforcement agencies to allow the public access to certain information obtained during the normal course of daily business.
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GC 6254 specifies exemptions in order to balance the individual's right to privacy with the public's need for information. Items that will most likely be redacted from Tulare Police Department public records are:
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- Criminal offender record information
- Information that may endanger the safety of a witness or the other person
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This environment did not train the workforce we need today and tomorrow:
We need to start fostering a learning environment and culture within our own organizations that encourages life long learners. Without this culture & environment we will not be able to generate the innovation and solutions that allow us to be leaders in the market yet alone keep up the pace demanded by changing technologies and a public who demands inter-connectivity via technology.
Learning organizations both grow and attract star innovators and performers. Organizations that refuse to change wisely & rapidly often fade or fail. There are no magic bullets when it comes to developing a learning culture and environment. It's really damn hard work, that doesn't seem to pay off immediately, but it does require a vision and courage to change.
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(a) Each governing board may establish and operate a bookstore at the institutions under its jurisdiction to sell books, stationery and other school and office supplies generally carried in college bookstores.
(b) The prices to be charged may not be less than the prices fixed by any fair trade agreements and shall, in all cases, include in addition to the purchase price paid by the bookstore, a sufficient handling charge to cover all expenses incurred for personal and other services, supplies and equipment, storage and other operating expenses.
(c) Each governing board shall ensure that bookstores operated at institutions under its jurisdiction minimize the costs to students of purchasing textbooks. The governing board may:
(1) Require the repurchase and resale of textbooks on an institutional or a statewide basis; and
(2) Provide for the use of certain basic textbooks for a reasonable number of years.
(d) The Legislature recognizes that in two thousand four, the Congress of the United States commissioned the United States Government Accountability Office to study the high prices of college textbooks. Upon completion of the study, the Legislative Oversight Commission on Education Accountability shall obtain the results and any related reports produced by the Office.
(e) An employee of a governing board:
(1) May not:
(A) Receive a payment, loan, subscription, advance, deposit of money, service, benefit or thing of value, present or promised, as an inducement for requiring students to purchase a specific textbook for coursework or instruction; or
(B) Require for any course a textbook that includes his or her own writing or work if the textbook incorporates either detachable worksheets or workbook-style pages intended to be written on or removed from the textbook. This provision does not prohibit an employee from requiring as a supplement to a textbook any workbook or similar material which is published independently from the textbook; and
(2) May receive:
(A) Sample copies, instructor's copies and instructional material which are not to be sold; and
(B) Royalties or other compensation from sales of textbooks that include the employee's own writing or work.
(f) A governing board shall provide to students a listing of textbooks required or assigned for any course offered at the institution.
(1) The listing shall be prominently posted:
(A) In a central location at the institution;
(B) In any campus bookstore; and
(C) On the institution's website.
(2) The list shall include for each textbook the International Standard Book Number (ISBN), the edition number and any other relevant information.
(3) An institution shall post a book to the listing when the adoption process is complete and the textbook is designated for order by the bookstore.
(g) All moneys derived from the operation of the bookstore shall be paid into a special revenue fund as provided in section two, article two, chapter twelve of this code. Subject to the approval of the Governor, each governing board periodically shall change the amount of the revolving fund necessary for the proper and efficient operation of each bookstore.
(h) Moneys derived from the operation of the bookstore shall be used first to replenish the stock of goods and to pay the costs of operating and maintaining the bookstore. Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, any institution that has contracted with a private entity for bookstore operation shall deposit into an appropriate account all revenue generated by the operation and enuring to the benefit of the institution. The institution shall use the funds for nonathletic scholarships.
(i) Each governing board shall promulgate a rule in accordance with the provisions of section six, article one of this chapter to implement the provisions of this section.
(j) This section applies to textbook sales and bookstores supported by an institution's auxiliary services and those operated by a private contractor.


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Former Pittsburgh Police Chief Nate Harper pleads guilty in federal court
He served as Pittsburgh's police chief from 2006 until earlier this year but on Friday, 60-year-old Nate Harper walked into the federal courthouse downtown the same way as everyone else who has broken the law.
"And it's a big fall because he has taken his position as a police officer, chief, a member of the community and a public servant seriously," said defense attorney Robert Del Greco.
Channel 4 Action News reporter Matt Belanger asked Harper if he had anything to say to the people of Pittsburgh as he walked into court, and he answered, "No, not at this time."
In court, Harper was respectful, answering, "Yes, your honor," as the judge asked him the many questions involved with entering guilty pleas for the five charges he faced.
Harper now admits to funneling more than $70,000 away from the Pittsburgh Police Department into credit union accounts he opened. He then used Visa cards associated with those accounts to spend more than $30,000 on personal expenses, like meals at restaurants, buying a television and alcohol. Harper's attorneys say they will argue some of those expenses still benefited the city before he is sentenced.
Harper also pleaded guilty to failing to file federal tax returns for the years 2008-2011, skirting more than $22,000 in tax liability. In court, Harper said he has since filed those taxes and paid his tax due.
"Mr. Harper, are you sorry for what you did?" Belanger asked as Harper left the building. Harper did not respond.
Harper, who lives in Stanton Heights, will remain free on bond until a presentencing report is complete. His sentencing date is Feb. 25. Guidelines suggest he could face up to a year and a half behind bars. His attorneys said Friday that they plan to stress Harper's long career in public service as they asked the judge for a sentence without jail time
"We think we can make a compelling argument to the judge, based upon a lifetime of good work and good service. Jail is not a place for him. Jail is for dangerous people. He's not a danger to the community," defense attorney Robert Leight said.
"Nate pleaded guilty because he is guilty and we are hopeful at some point, well, to get to the point that we can keep him out of jail and keep his pension," Del Greco said.
It's not until after Harper is sentenced that the matter of whether he will be allowed to keep his public pension will be addressed. Right now, Harper is collecting about $5,300 a month from the plan.
The benefit was calculated using his salaries during his last few years of working, which averaged above $100,000. Harper was charged with conspiracy to commit theft and conspiracy is not a crime that's specifically identified as one requiring an automatic forfeiture of pension benefits. So even though Harper has admitted to the crimes, there's a chance he'll be able to keep collecting those retirement payments. The decision will be made by a pension review board.


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The 28 women limbering up on the south bank of London's River Thames gave morning commuters a giggle as they broke the world record for the most people crammed into a Mini car.
Faces and body parts squashed against windscreens, toes perilously close to door hinges belonged to a group of fitness enthusiasts whose successful stunt followed a new didgeridoo-playing record set in Australia and the largest number of women – more than 2 500 – dancing a traditional Kaikottikali in India earlier in the day.
"The adrenaline is amazing, but it's like the worst thing ever because there's no air – you just have to zone out," said Jayne Brockwell, one of the car-cram record-breakers whose carefully choreographed position earned her the nickname "Gearstick Girl".
Even more uncomfortable record attempts are scheduled for later on Thursday. Among the hopefuls is Manjit Singh, the "iron man" from the English city of Leicester, who will try to lift more than 23.5kg using only his eye sockets.
"I think it's a sort of fundamental human need to set yourself challenges and push yourself," Craig Glenday, Guinness World Records editor, told Reuters.
Raising money for charity
"What differentiates us from animals is that we do things that are distracting and fun – it's just about having fun … raising money for charity."
Volunteers in Italy will try to create the largest chocolate coin to raise money to restore a primary school near Modena destroyed in an earthquake.
Across the Atlantic, 420 000 US schoolchildren will participate in a "speed-stack", aiming to break the record for the highest number of people simultaneously building pyramids of paper cups.
"It sounds a bit silly … but in fact what you do find is they use these things to improve kids' motor skills and hand-eye coordination," Glenday said.
"We're hoping with that 420 000 … that makes it our biggest event of all the Guinness World Record day events we've ever done." – Reuters


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Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, 6 September 2012 (IUCN) – The IUCN World Conservation Congress, the world's largest and most important conservation event, begins today on Jeju Island, South Korea.
More than 8,000 people from more than 170 countries are in Jeju to discuss, debate and vote on solutions to some of the globe's most pressing environmental and development issues.
Held every four years, the Congress, which runs to 15 September, brings together government and non-governmental organizations, scientists, business and community leaders from around the world to look at how nature provides the solution to many of our problems.
"Nature is inherently strong, but we must improve how quickly nature and people adapt to change," says Julia Marton-Lefèvre, Director-General of IUCN. "If we strengthen nature, we'll see that ecosystems are more resilient and people, communities and economies are healthier."
A huge range of issues is on the agenda, including the latest news from the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, growing threats to tuna populations, fresh figures on coral reef destruction and the urgent need to stop countries making false claims on ocean protection.
Several important multimillion dollar announcements on initiatives and corporate partnerships with major international business will also be made. Climate change, growing threats to natural ecosystems and improving global decision-making on environmental issues will also feature.
While conservation is focused on global issues, various local issues will also be in the spotlight. Korean and German experts will be debating how to use the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea, and its surprisingly intact nature, to promote peace, referencing experiences from the former iron curtain. Across the border, replanting and rehabilitating the destroyed forests of North Korea will also be addressed.
Delegates will be joined by notable figures including South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, human rights advocate Bianca Jagger, leading author and oceanographer Sylvia Earle, Japanese singer/songwriter Iruka and HRH Prince Carl Philip of Sweden amongst other CEOs, and several government ministers and heads of major NGOs and UN agencies.
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Congress website: www.iucn.org/congress
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IUCN is the world's oldest and largest global environmental organization, with more than 1,200 government and NGO members and almost 11,000 volunteer experts in some 160 countries. IUCN's work is supported by over 1,000 staff in 45 offices and hundreds of partners in public, NGO and private sectors around the world. www.iucn.org


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Professor Lee Lynd Th'83 Th'87 has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his contributions to research, technology development, and policy work on renewable cellulosic biofuels.
The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society has named Professor Ian Baker a fellow for his "pioneering contributions to the characterization of microstructure and mechanical properties of metals and materials."
Professor Eugene Santos has been named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for his "contributions to decision support systems and reasoning under uncertainty." He also received the Best Paper Award at the International Defense and Homeland Security Simulation Workshop last fall for "Modeling and Simulating Dynamic Healthcare Practices," a paper he coauthored with Ph.D. candidates Keumjoo Kim and Fei Yu, Deqing Li Th'11, Elizabeth Jacob '11, project assistant Phoebe Arbogast, and Adjunct Professor Joseph Rosen, M.D.
The U.S. military has turned to a team of researchers led by Professor Fridon Shubitidze to help develop technology for tracking buried, unexploded bombs. "The goal is to dig up all the explosives—100 percent—and leave behind 75 percent of the clutter," Shubitidze told Innovation News Daily. The Department of Defense gave the team a Project of the Year Award and a $1.4-million grant for a new three-year effort to boost detection of smaller and deeper-buried explosives.
An international consortium led by Thayer Professor Margaret Ackerman and Galit Alter of the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT, and Harvard has been awarded approximately $8 million to develop a new type of HIV vaccine. Funded by Partners Healthcare through a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-sponsored Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery, the project will focus on inducing production of antibodies that would recruit cells of the innate immune system to block HIV infection soon after viral transmission. The innate immune system is an early-response system that keeps pathogens in check until the more specialized adaptive immune system can respond. Ackerman and Alter have teamed experts from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Tulane University, University of Oxford, and Germany's Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg to collaborate on the vaccine.
Thayer School, Dartmouth Medical School, and injury-prevention company Simbex will investigate brain injuries in contact sports with a $1.3-million grant from the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment. "This is a great opportunity to answer important questions related to the link between head impact biomechanics, brain tissue motion, and neuroimaging findings," says Simbex president and Adjunct Professor Rick Greenwald Th'88, a principal investigator with Professor Songbai Ji.
The National Science Foundation's Partnerships for Innovation program has awarded $600,000 in academic support to students in Thayer's Ph.D. Innovation Program, which provides skills for commercializing research findings.
The Dartmouth Aires singing group, including engineering major Will Hart '12, finished second on NBC's The Sing-Off. In this video Hart discusses links between music and engineering:
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BANGKOK - A senior Thai minister rejected a proposal for talks from the leader of an anti-government protest movement on Friday as demonstrators rallied at ministries to put pressure on Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to step down.
Protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban had suggested that he and Yingluck should hold a televised debate.
"Yingluck is the legitimate leader of the country and Suthep is a man with warrants for his arrest who heads an illegal movement. The prime minister should not talk to Suthep," said Labour Minister Chalerm Yoobamrung, who oversees a state of emergency imposed last month.
"Suthep is only proposing negotiations, even though he dismissed them before, because protest numbers are dwindling."
The protesters have blocked big intersections in the capital, Bangkok, since mid-January and forced many ministries to close as part of a four-month campaign to push out Yingluck and eradicate the political influence of her brother, ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra, seen as the real power in Thailand.
The crisis is hurting the economy with confidence and domestic demand both down. Data on Friday showed factory output fell 6.41 per cent in January from a year before.
In some good news for the government, China is to buy 400,000 tonnes of Thai rice, providing funds to help pay farmers who have been protesting because a state rice-buying programme has run out of money.
On Feb. 4, China scrapped a deal to buy 1.2 million tonnes of rice because of an investigation by the Thai anti-graft agency into various deals between Thailand and China.
Yingluck was on Thursday served with charges of negligence relating to the rice programme. The case could eventually see her forced from office.
Violence is on the increase, with almost daily gun and grenade attacks around Bangkok protest sites by unidentified people, and 23 people have been killed since November.
Army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha, asked by reporters if the violence would trigger a coup, remained noncommittal and expressed exasperation at the question being put to him time and again.
"We must not discuss this every day," he said. "I can't promise whether there will be a coup or not."
Protest leader Suthep's debate offer on Thursday came after weeks of refusing to talk.
However, in a speech to supporters later, he showed his more combative side, blaming Yingluck for weekend attacks on protesters in which five people were killed, including four children.
"You have murdered four young, innocent children, Yingluck," he said, challenging her supporters in the rural north and northeast to a fight in the capital.
"Come to Bangkok and try to start a civil war," he said.
Yingluck, speaking in the northern city of Chiang Mai, gave a guarded response to the idea of a debate on Thursday.
Talk of a possible civil war has picked up recently but Prayuth said he doubted that outcome: "We must control the situation using the law."
The crisis broadly pits Bangkok's middle-class and southern opposition supporters, backed by the royalist establishment, against the largely rural supporters of Yingluck and Thaksin.
After a period of calm following Yingluck's election win in 2011, opposition swelled when her government tried to push through a political amnesty that would have let Thaksin return from self-imposed exile without having to serve a jail sentence for graft. He says the charges were politically motivated.
Thaksin was toppled by the army in 2006. The military has tried to stay above the fray this time but Yingluck is still facing multiple challenges from the courts, which threw out two governments allied to Thaksin in 2008.
On Thursday, she was served with charges relating to the rice scheme that has failed, leaving hundreds of thousands of farmers unpaid and costing taxpayers billions of dollars.
Yingluck faces removal from office and a five-year ban from politics if she is found guilty. She has until March 14 to try to refute the charges, after which the anti-corruption agency will decide whether to take the case further.
She called an election for Feb. 2 to try to end the crisis but it was disrupted by the protesters.
The Election Commission will try to hold polls on Sunday in five provinces where voting was not completed. Election re-runs planned for April in other provinces have been suspended pending a court decision on procedures.
The protesters want to set up a "people's council" of unspecified worthy people to force through political and electoral changes before a new general election is held, hoping that will stop parties loyal to Thaksin from winning.
Although Suthep still manages to draw big crowds when he marches around the city, the number of protesters has dwindled and many ministries have been able to reopen.
Critics have accused the military of siding with the protesters, a charge denied by army chief Prayuth.
"If indeed we sided with the protesters we would already be with the protesters. We have sent soldiers to look after security around protest sites for everyone's benefit."


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Welcome to the Alford Town Council Website
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On the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds and within easy distance of the coastal resorts of Mablethorpe and Sutton on Sea, Alford offers a unique glimpse into a traditional market town. With its regular outdoor markets on Tuesdays and Fridays, the Market Town is complimented in the summer months with the Craft Market.
A Brief History
Named after the "alder trees growing by the ford" and granted a market charter by King Edward I in 1283, Alford became the market town serving the rural community with markets on Tuesdays and Fridays, cattle markets (now finished) and latterly craft markets. The ford in question is now a bridge, and the Wold Grift "stream" flows into Alford alongside the Manor House and runs underground to emerge near South Market Place car park. Linking into it is the Old Mill Rundle Drain which runs alongside the Memorial Park.
The buildings in town represent most of the architectural periods since the 14th century and the centre of town is a Conservation Area. The Market Place was given a complete makeover, and a marble fountain, commemorating Queen Victoria and fed by a natural spring exists in North Market Place.
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Putting a plan for avoiding alcohol and substance use in writing will
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your teen help you write the contract. Teens feel more responsible for their
actions when they are part of the rule-making process. The symbolism of signing
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Some people like to dismiss this debate as a secondary issue, not directly related to the gospel. But it is clearly an issue that goes to the authority of Scripture. And furthermore, as MacArthur rightly points out, it has massive repercussions for the gospel:
If Adam was not the literal ancestor of the entire human race, then the Bible's explanation of how sin entered the world makes no sense. Moreover, if we didn't fall in Adam, we cannot be redeemed in Christ, because Christ's position as the Head of the redeemed race exactly parallels Adam's position as the head of the fallen race: "For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive" (1 Corinthians 15:22). "Therefore, as through one man's offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man's righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man's obedience many will be made righteous" (Romans 5:18–19). "And so it is written, 'The first man Adam became a living being.' The last Adam became a life–giving spirit" (1 Corinthians 15:45; cf. 1 Timothy 2:13–14; Jude 14).
So in an important sense, everything Scripture says about our salvation through Jesus Christ hinges on the literal truth of what Genesis 1–3 teaches about Adam's creation and fall. There is no more pivotal passage of Scripture.[9]
The opening chapters of Genesis are not up for debate, nor are they negotiable. The academic credibility of our faith is meaningless if we're so quick to sacrifice the meaning of Scripture at the altar of public opinion. Better to be counted a fool for the sake of God's Word than to be embraced for our willingness to compromise it.
It's basically saying that if you're not a YEC then you're not really a true Christian at all.


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This song has enough pain in it for an entire album's worth. I've attached the lyrics because their honesty and brutal imagery perfectly describes the feelings almost everyone has had when shit in a relationship feels hopeless. I really hope these guys can somehow hitch onto the back of the locomotive that is Mumford & Sons right now. At least there's enough room for beautiful storytelling and Scottish accents in my library.
"I might never catch a mouse and present it in my mouth
And make you feel you're with someone who deserves to be with you.
But there's one thing we've got going and it's the only thing worth knowing.
It's got lots to do with magnets and the pull of the moon."


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