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Despite some pretty serious money problems, Metro is continuing to fulfill its promises to voters by expanding transit service in the region. This Saturday's shakeup will include two new routes and increased service on many existing routes.
New routes: 157 (serving Lake Meridian P&R) and 215 (serving Issaquah and North Bend)
Routes with increased service: 3, 4, 10, 11, 12, 14, 26, 28, 41, 44, 46, 143, 153, 164, 209, 230, 253, 269, 915
(Oh, 27, why do the transit gods give you no respect? Do they not see how efficiently you zoom down Yesler, putting those excruciatingly slow trolleys [not to name names, but the single-digit routes on the list] to shame?)
Also, some good news for bike nerds: Starting on Monday, you can load your bike at any station in the transit tunnel, instead of only at the first and last stations.
You can find all the details in the county's press release or in this article.
I am happy for the increased service, but–given that there are no prospects for a reversal of the agency's financial fortunes–I'm worried about how long it will last. Metro needs to start lobbying the state (right now) to authorize more funding options for transit agencies; sales tax is hardly the most reliable or progressive. In the meantime, we need to work together as a community to identify revenue sources that don't require state approval. Rochester, NY and Detroit provide some instructive examples.
Other possibilities: contracts with vendors at transit centers and in the bus tunnel, leasing (instead of selling) unused property, bake sales (kidding! sort of)…

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Thinking I had finished with all things Titanic, as well as putting the lid on my Scott of the Antarctic reading with a read of Mrs Chippy's Last Voyage, it felt like time to tuck it all back on the winter shelves and move onto the next nice summery thing, except I had to wake it all up again with the arrival of Impact - The Titanic Poems by Canadian poet Billeh Nickerson.
As Billeh Nickerson reveals, Canada was not writ large in the Titanic story he knew as a child, beyond providing water cold enough to prolong the life of the iceberg, much less well-known ( and to me not really) the fact that many of the victims were buried in Halifax, Nova Scotia, their bodies left unclaimed after the tragedy by families unable to afford to bring their loved one home.
Impact is published by Arsenal Pulp Press who I see are a small, independent Vancouver-based publisher with big and succesful ideas, having won and been nominated for various industry prizes, and the reach of the blogosphere never ceases to amaze me. How in heaven's name would I have heard about this book if not for Kerry mentioning this book in comments and Cynara from Arsenal Pulp reading that blog post and making contact with me.
Billeh Nickerson's book is readable in one sitting, but I have now read it three times at three sittings, and at risk of a terrible pun there really are hidden depths here. Impact is the most perfect title for a series of poems that explore the many unseen facets of the disaster and I can't recommend it highly enough. Just thinking about the multiple meanings of the word 'impact' as noun, verb and adjective had my mind spinning with connotations... collision, effect, impacted meaning to fill up, congest, throng, to be densely packed, impact as the force exerted by a new idea... and these poems filled my head with even more new thinking.
The poems begin in the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, and 'it's true' says Billeh Nickerson in his notes on the text, ' she was alright when she left there.' Perhaps indeed the building of the Titanic should, though I know it all went wrong, be a cause for the celebration of magnificent structural achievement too, and not only be remembered for the tragedy of the sinking. Many men worked many, many hours putting heart and soul into the construction, and who can know the impact of the disaster on them and their damaged sense of pride in their work that must have followed.
Billeh Nickerson focuses on aspects of the ship's building that have come under close scrutiny in recent years, and five poems about the rivets might seem excessive until you actually read them and understand the process and the number of men that must have been involved in making and hammering in three million of them.
But Billeh also gives voice to things that others may not have done...
Jenny the Cat
Jenny delivered her kittens
in the weeks that preceded the maiden voyage.
As if she could sense the impending disaster,
she carried her kittens by the neck,
one by one, down the gangplank
to the quay at Southampton
and in one of those moments convinced
one of the stokers to accept employment
somewhere else, for even though
his impending two-week contract paid well,
he learned long ago to always trust
a mother's instincts.
and if poetry is sometimes about giving voice to the unsayable, and if its purpose may be to teach, to console and to warn, then Impact has done all this and more for me.
I never knew that micro-organisms 'disliked the tannic acid that finished brown leather' and whilst they would work their way through everything else, and had done in the one hundred years since the sinking...
one researcher wondered why all the shoes
appeared in pairs eight inches apart.
That one pulled me up short and I had to sit and think about it for a very long time before I could move on to the next poem.
And who had ever given thought to the piano player whose instrument could not be moved onto the deck, watching as the band played on...
Or the wife who had handed her glasses to her husband for safe-keeping as she got into the lifeboat only to have them returned with his effects when his body was recovered....
Or the rolling pin made from a peice of wood found floating at the scene...
This gathering of poems creates a form of lamentation both heart-breaking and immediate, working as they do to reduce the tragedy down from flabby myth and sensation to its very essence, the lives of the people and their escape, or their sad and harrowing demise, and Billeh Nickerson doesn't flinch from the detail.
Had I ever really given thought to the sounds of that night, of ship and of human?
Well I'm not sure I had...and those shoes.
I think that image will stay with me forever now.
Impact has done its work.


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A Better Back End
We're greeted this April Fool's Day by the entirely unsurprising news that Dustin McGowan, sidelined with plantar fasciitis, isn't expected to be back in action until late April at the earliest, and that his recovery might stretch into May. Everyone put down those ballots for Comeback Player of the Year, and put the caps back on your Sharpie markers, please. This race is still wide open.
I feel awful for Dustin McGowan. The good news, of course, is that this isn't an arm, shoulder or knee problem, but any setback at this point for the oft-injured pitcher inevitably raises questions about his ability to ever stay healthy for an extended period, and about the contract extension the team agreed to give him during the latter part of Spring Training.
There are still 29 players on the 25-man roster at the time of writing, including McGowan and Jesse Litsch, both of whom will be starting the season on the Disabled List. This is where things get interesting on the back end of the rotation. Kyle Drabek and Aaron Laffey have been, we're told, in a battle for the final spot that would have been McGowan's. Drabek would be my pick simply based on upside – an upside that, if even close to realized in the early part of the season, would make for some tough roster decisions when a healthy McGowan is available.
Imagine for a moment a world in which Kyle Drabek, even in limited action in April (since the need for a fifth starter appears scarce), pitches excellent big-league innings. Maybe seven strikeouts per nine, some semblance of control, some knee-buckling curveballs – the sort of performance that makes you want to see more. Can you give him more, if you're John Farrell and Alex Anthopoulos? Can you, with a newly-extended, now-healthy McGowan coming back on the roster, let Drabek stay with the big club? And if the answer is yes, how do you go about it?
This gets even more complicated if Drabek were to out-pitch Brett Cecil, currently penciled into the rotation alongside Ricky Romero, Brandon Morrow, and Henderson Alvarez. In that scenario, the options issue enters the equation: both Cecil and Drabek have options remaining, McGowan does not.
Gaming this hypothetical scenario out even further, a resurgent Drabek would force a decision on either a healthy McGowan or a less effective Cecil. This, given the ability to burn an option on Cecil and an already crowded bullpen, becomes not a terribly difficult decision at all. It would surprise me very little to see Brett Cecil in a Las Vegas 51s uniform before the end of May. (Well, I wouldn't see it for myself, unless someone wants to take me a sweet road trip and pay for it.)
Even highly hypothetical scenarios like this turn Cecil into Exhibit A of the wisdom of accumulating high-ceiling young arms in a team's system. Cecil was formerly ranked among the top prospects for the organization, back at a time when the organization as a whole was not thought to be all that strong. The Brett Cecil of three years ago probably doesn't crack the top five pitching prospects at various levels of the Blue Jays' minor league system that exist today. Sure, Cecil has put in reasonably effective big-league time, which you can't say about Noah Syndergaard, Justin Nicolino, Daniel Norris or Drew Hutchison. But he'd be behind those guys now.
Now, it probably sounds to you like I'm terribly down on Cecil, but I'm not. I also don't think Brett Cecil is by any means on the outs with the Blue Jays. He's just become a different kind of asset for the club than he was when he was first coming up, because the other assets now in place are so much better. In a nutshell, this is exactly what I think Alex Anthopoulos set out to achieve when he took over the organization and set to re-stock it: healthy competition from high-ceiling athletes at all positions, pushing hard against a much stronger core at the major league level for playing time.
If Brett Cecil makes 30 starts for the Jays this year, it will likely either be because of trades and/or health issues with other pitchers, or because the arms pushing against him for a spot didn't quite reach that ceiling the organization expects – yet. But they'll still be there, creating tougher, more intense competition, next spring and the ones after that.
Posted by Anonymous at 3:13 PM
Labels: Aaron Laffey, Brett Cecil, Dustin McGowan, kyle drabek, The Org Guy
3 comments:
- George said...
And we can all have wet dreams about how in a couple of years we could afford to trade Ricky Romero for a Roberto Alomar doppelganger, because there are better arms coming up.
- April 1, 2012 at 8:35 PM
And after todays Cecil sh!tshow, I hope we don't see Cecil at all...
- April 2, 2012 at 10:29 PM
- Paul said...
And explain to me again why we shouldn't have won the bid for darvish or another quality free agent starter?
- April 3, 2012 at 1:26 AM
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The lawyer for a New Jersey man accused of assaulting a Philly cop during a caught-on-camera melee following his brother's wedding early Sunday morning says his client is the son of a cop and innocent of the assault.
Matthew Sofka, 26, of Westfield, N.J., is out on bail on several charges including resisting arrest, aggravated assault, simple assault and reckless endangerment. Attorney Fortunato Perri questions why his client was singled out during the brawl.
"From what we've seen, which is what most people have seen, is Matthew being subdued by members of the Philadelphia Police Department," Perri told NBC10. "Prior to that, it does not show any assaultive behavior on his part."
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Police say Sofka put one officer, Sgt. Sean Dandridge, in a head-lock that caused a concussion.
Viral video shows the utter chaos as dozens of officers try to break up the rumble in the hotel bar.
Perri says Sofka, the groom's brother, and the rest of the family's wedding party happened to walk into the Society Hill Sheraton when there was already a fight among members of another wedding party.
"One thing led to another," Perri said. "Ultimately, the people who started this thing left upon arrival of the police. What I think is that some of our individuals were mistook for individuals involved in the previous altercation."
An uncle of the bride, Vincent Sannuti, 57, of Huntingdon Valley, died of a heart attack during the chaos. There was no indication he was involved in the fight.
The death and the arrest have Sofka feeling terrible.
"He is extremely upset about what's happened here," Perri said. "He has a great deal of respect for law enforcement -- his father was a police officer in North Jersey -- so he's ultimately looking to clear his good name."
Two other people allegedly involved in the fight were charged with disorderly conduct.
Sofka is free on bail awaiting his preliminary hearing on Oct. 25, according to court records.
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No.330 submarine of a submarine flotilla of the East China Sea Fleet (ECSF) of the PLA Navy frequented the vast territorial seas in recent years. It has successfully accomplished dozens of major tasks such as equipment acceptance, test and long voyage and is dubbed as a "pioneer" of the new-type submarine of the PLA Navy.
No.330 submarine is a new generation submarine independently developed and produced by China. And it has such advantages as low noise, long underwater sailing time and advanced power as well as weapon and equipment system.
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A year (Old English gēar, Gothic jēr, Runic Jēran) is the orbital period of the Earth moving in its orbit around the Sun. For an observer on the Earth, this corresponds to the period it takes the Sun to complete one course throughout the zodiac along the ecliptic.
In astronomy, the Julian year is a unit of time, defined as 365.25 days of 86400 SI seconds each (no leap seconds).[1]
There is no international symbol for the year as a unit of time and the International System of Units does not propose one. A common abbreviation in international use is a (for Latin annus), in English also y or yr.
Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by changes in weather, hours of daylight, and consequently vegetation and fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions, generally four seasons are recognized: spring, summer, autumn and winter, astronomically marked by the Sun reaching the points of equinox and solstice, although the climatic seasons lag behind their astronomical markers. In some tropical and subtropical regions it is more common to speak of the rainy (or wet, or monsoon) season versus the dry season.
A calendar year is an approximation of the Earth's orbital period in a given calendar. A calendar year in the Gregorian calendar (as well as in the Julian calendar) has either 365 (common year) or 366 (leap year) days. The average length of the year in the Gregorian (modern) calendar is 365.2425 days (taking account of the century rule for leap years).
The word "year" is also used of periods loosely associated but not strictly identical with either the astronomical or the calendar year, such as the seasonal year, the fiscal year or the academic year, etc. By extension, the term year can mean the orbital period of any planet: for example, a "Martian year" or "Venerian year" is the time in which Mars or Venus completes its own orbit. The term is also applied more broadly to any long period or cycle, such as the "Great Year".[2]
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West Saxon ġēar (jɛar), Anglian ġēr continues Proto-Germanic *jǣran (*jē₁ran). Cognates are German Jahr, Old High German jār, Old Norse ár and Gothic jer (Gothic e is always a long vowel), all from a PIE *yeh₁rom "year, season". Cognates outside of Germanic are Avestan yārǝ "year", Greek ὥρα "year, season, period of time" (whence "hour"), Old Church Slavonic jarŭ and Latin hornus "of this year".
Latin annus (a 2nd declension masculine noun; annum is the accusative singular; annī is genitive singular and nominative plural; annō the dative and ablative singular) is from a PIE noun *h₂et-no-, which also yielded Gothic aþn "year" (only the dative plural aþnam is attested).
Both *yeh₁-ro- and *h₂et-no- are based on verbal roots expressing movement, *h₁ey- and *h₂et- respectively, both meaning "to go" generally (compare Vedic Sanskrit éti "goes", atasi "thou goest, wanderest").
The Greek word for "year", ἔτος, is cognate with Latin vetus "old", from PIE *wetos- "year", also preserved in this meaning in Sanskrit vat-sa- "yearling (calf)" and vat-sa-ras "year".
Derived from Latin annus are a number of English words, such as annual, annuity, anniversary, etc.; per annum means "each year", anno Domini means "in the year of the Lord".
Seasonal year
A seasonal year is the time between successive recurrences of a seasonal event such as the flooding of a river, the migration of a species of bird, the flowering of a species of plant, the first frost, or the first scheduled game of a certain sport. All of these events can have wide variations of more than a month from year to year.
Calendar year
A calendar year is the time between two dates with the same name in a calendar. A half year (one half of a year) may run from January to June, or July to December.
No astronomical year has an integer number of days or lunar months, so any calendar that follows an astronomical year must have a system of intercalation such as leap years. Financial and scientific calculations often use a 365-day calendar to simplify daily rates.
In the Julian calendar, the average length of a year is 365.25 days. In a non-leap year, there are 365 days, in a leap year there are 366 days. A leap year occurs every four years.
The Gregorian calendar attempts to keep the northward equinox on or shortly before March 21, hence it follows the northward equinox year. The mean length of the year is 365.2425 days (as 97 out of 400 years are leap years); this is within one ppm of the current length of the mean tropical year (365.24219 days), and even closer to the current March equinox year of 365.2424 days that it aims to match. It is estimated that, by the year 4000, the northward equinox will fall back by one day in the Gregorian calendar, not because of this difference, but because of the slowing down of the Earth's rotation and the associated lengthening of the day.
The Revised Julian calendar, as used in some Eastern Orthodox Churches, tries to synchronize with the tropical year. The average length of this calendar's year is 365.242222 days (as 218 out of 900 years are leap years). Gregorian and Revised Julian calendars will start to differ in 2800.
The Persian calendar, in use in Afghanistan and Iran, has its year begin on the day of the northward equinox as determined by astronomical computation (for the time zone of Tehran), as opposed to using an algorithmic system of leap years.
Numbering calendar years
A calendar era is used to assign a number to individual years, using a reference point in the past as the beginning of the era. In many countries, the most common era is from the traditional (though now believed incorrect) year of the birth of Jesus. Dates in this era are designated Anno Domini (Latin for "in the year of the Lord"), abbreviated AD, or CE (for "common era"). The year before 1 AD or CE is designated 1 Before Christ (BC) or Before the Common Era (BCE), the year before that 2 BC/BCE, etc. Hence there was no year 0 AD/CE.
When computations involving years are done involving both years AD and years BC, it is common to use Astronomical year numbering, in which 1 BC is designated 0, 2 BC is designated −1, and so on.
Other eras are also used to enumerate the years in different cultural, religious or scientific contexts.
Other annual periods
Fiscal year
A fiscal year or financial year is a 12-month period used for calculating annual financial statements in businesses and other organizations. In many jurisdictions, regulations regarding accounting require such reports once per twelve months, but do not require that the twelve months constitute a calendar year.
For example, in Canada and India the fiscal year runs from April 1; in the United Kingdom it runs from April 1 for purposes of corporation tax and government financial statements, but from April 6 for purposes of personal taxation and payment of state benefits; in Australia it runs from July 1; while in the United States the fiscal year of the federal government runs from October 1.
Academic year
An academic year is the annual period during which a student attends an educational institution. The academic year may be divided into academic terms, such as semesters or quarters. The school year in many countries starts in August or September and ends in May, June or July. In Israel the academic year begins around October or November, aligned with the second month of the Hebrew Calendar.
Some schools in the UK and USA divide the academic year into three roughly equal-length terms (called "trimesters" or "quarters" in the USA), roughly coinciding with autumn, winter, and spring. At some, a shortened summer session, sometimes considered part of the regular academic year, is attended by students on a voluntary or elective basis. Other schools break the year into two main semesters, a first (typically August through December) and a second semester (January through May). Each of these main semesters may be split in half by mid-term exams, and each of the halves is referred to as a "quarter" (or "term" in some countries). There may also be a voluntary summer session and/or a short January session.
Some other schools, including some in the United States, have four marking periods. Some schools in the United States, notably Boston Latin School, may divide the year into five or more marking periods. Some state in defense of this that there is perhaps a positive correlation between report frequency and academic achievement.
There are typically 180 days of teaching each year in schools in the USA, excluding weekends and breaks, while 190 days for pupils in state schools in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Canada.
In India the academic year normally starts from June 1 and ends on May 31. Though schools start closing from mid-March, the actual academic closure is on May 31 and in Nepal it starts from July 15.
Schools and universities in Australia typically have academic years that roughly align with the calendar year (i.e. starting in February or March and ending in October to December), as the southern hemisphere experiences summer from December to February.
Astronomical years
Julian year
The Julian year, as used in astronomy and other sciences, is a time unit defined as exactly 365.25 days. This is the normal meaning of the unit "year" (symbol "a" from the Latin annus) used in various scientific contexts. The Julian century of 36525 days and the Julian millennium of 365250 days are used in astronomical calculations. Fundamentally, expressing a time interval in Julian years is a way to precisely specify how many days (not how many "real" years), for long time intervals where stating the number of days would be unwieldy and unintuitive. By convention, the Julian year is used in the computation of the distance covered by a light-year.
In the Unified Code for Units of Measure, the symbol a (without subscript) always refers to the Julian year aj of exactly 31557600 seconds.
365.25 days of 86400 seconds = 1 a = 1 aj = 31.5576 Ms
The SI multiplier prefixes may be applied to it to form ka (kiloannus), Ma (megaannus) etc.
Sidereal, tropical, and anomalistic years
- The relations among these are considered more fully in Axial precession (astronomy).
Each of these three years can be loosely called an 'astronomical year'.
The sidereal year is the time taken for the Earth to complete one revolution of its orbit, as measured against a fixed frame of reference (such as the fixed stars, Latin sidera, singular sidus). Its average duration is 365.256363004 mean solar days (365 d 6 h 9 min 9.76 s) (at the epoch J2000.0 = January 1, 2000, 12:00:00 TT).[3]
Today the tropical year is defined as the period of time for the ecliptic longitude of the Sun to increase by 360 degrees.[4] Since the Sun's ecliptic longitude is measured with respect to the equinox, the tropical year comprises a complete cycle of the seasons; because of the biological and socio-economic importance of the seasons, the tropical year is the basis of most calendars. The modern definition of mean tropical year differs from the actual time between passages of e.g. the northward equinox for several reasons explained below. Because of the Earth's axial precession, this year is about 20 minutes shorter than the sidereal year. The mean tropical year is approximately 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 45 seconds[5] (= 365.24219 days of 86400 SI seconds), averaged over equinoxes and solstices, with the northern equinox tropical year (used for the Gregorian calendar) currently being 365.2424 days.
The anomalistic year is the time taken for the Earth to complete one revolution with respect to its apsides. The orbit of the Earth is elliptical; the extreme points, called apsides, are the perihelion, where the Earth is closest to the Sun (January 3 in 2011), and the aphelion, where the Earth is farthest from the Sun (July 4 in 2011). The anomalistic year is usually defined as the time between perihelion passages. Its average duration is 365.259636 days (365 d 6 h 13 min 52.6 s) (at the epoch J2011.0).[6]
Draconic year
The draconic year, draconitic year, eclipse year, or ecliptic year is the time taken for the Sun (as seen from the Earth) to complete one revolution with respect to the same lunar node (a point where the Moon's orbit intersects the ecliptic). This period is associated with eclipses: these occur only when both the Sun and the Moon are near these nodes; so eclipses occur within about a month of every half eclipse year. Hence there are two eclipse seasons every eclipse year. The average duration of the eclipse year is
- 346.620075883 days (346 d 14 h 52 min 54 s) (at the epoch J2000.0).
This term is sometimes erroneously used for the draconic or nodal period of lunar precession, that is the period of a complete revolution of the Moon's ascending node around the ecliptic: 18.612815932 Julian years (6798.331019 days; at the epoch J2000.0).
Full moon cycle
The full moon cycle is the time for the Sun (as seen from the Earth) to complete one revolution with respect to the perigee of the Moon's orbit. This period is associated with the apparent size of the full moon, and also with the varying duration of the synodic month. The duration of one full moon cycle is:
- 411.78443029 days (411 d 18 h 49 min 34 s) (at the epoch J2000.0).
Lunar year
The lunar year comprises twelve full cycles of the phases of the Moon, as seen from Earth. It has a duration of approximately 354.37 days. Muslims use this for celebrating their Eids and for marking the start of the fasting month of Ramadan. A Muslim calendar year is based on the lunar cycle.
Vague year
The vague year, from annus vagus or wandering year, is an integral approximation to the year equaling 365 days, which wanders in relation to more exact years. Typically the vague year is divided into 12 schematic months of 30 days each plus 5 epagomenal days. The vague year was used in the calendars of Ancient Egypt, Iran, Armenia and in Mesoamerica among the Aztecs and Maya.[7]
Heliacal year
A heliacal year is the interval between the heliacal risings of a star. It differs from the sidereal year for stars away from the ecliptic due mainly to the precession of the equinoxes.
Sothic year
The Sothic year is the interval between heliacal risings of the star Sirius. It is currently less than the sidereal year and its duration is very close to the mean Julian year of 365.25 days.
Gaussian year
The Gaussian year is the sidereal year for a planet of negligible mass (relative to the Sun) and unperturbed by other planets that is governed by the Gaussian gravitational constant. Such a planet would be slightly closer to the Sun than Earth's mean distance. Its length is:
- 365.2568983 days (365 d 6 h 9 min 56 s).
Besselian year
The Besselian year is a tropical year that starts when the (fictitious) mean Sun reaches an ecliptic longitude of 280°. This is currently on or close to January 1. It is named after the 19th-century German astronomer and mathematician Friedrich Bessel. The following equation can be used to compute the current Besselian epoch (in years):[8]
- B = 1900.0 + (Julian dateTT − 2415020.31352) / 365.242198781
The TT subscript indicates that for this formula, the Julian date should use the Terrestrial Time scale, or its predecessor, ephemeris time.
Variation in the length of the year and the day
The exact length of an astronomical year changes over time.[9] The main sources of this change are:
- The positions of the equinox and solstice points with respect to the apsides of Earth's orbit change: the first because of precession, and the apsides because of the long-term effects of gravitational pull by the other planets. Since the speed of the Earth varies according to its position in its orbit as measured from its perihelion, Earth's speed when in a solstice or equinox point changes over time: if such a point moves toward perihelion, the interval between two passages decreases a bit from year to year; if the point moves towards aphelion, that period inreases a bit from year to year. So a "tropical year" measured from one passage of the northward ("vernal") equinox to the next, differs from the one measured between passages of the southward ("autumnal") equinox. The average over the full orbit does not change because of this, so the length of the average tropical year does not change because of this second-order effect.
- Each planet's movement is perturbed by the gravity of every other planet. This leads to short-term fluctuations in its speed, and therefore its period from year to year. Moreover it causes long-term changes in its orbit, and therefore also long-term changes in these periods.
- Tidal drag between the Earth and the Moon and Sun increases the length of the day and of the month (by transferring angular momentum from the rotation of the Earth to the revolution of the Moon); since the apparent mean solar day is the unit with which we measure the length of the year in civil life, the length of the year appears to decrease. The rotation rate of the Earth is also changed by factors such as post-glacial rebound and sea level rise.
Numerical value of year variationMean year lengths in this section are calculated for 2000, and differences in year lengths, compared to 2000, are given for past and future years. In the tables a day is 86,400 SI seconds long.[10][11][12][13]
|Type of year
- 346.62 days: a draconic year, also called an eclipse year
- 353, 354, or 355 days: the lengths of common years in some lunisolar calendars
- 354.37 days (12 lunar months): the average length of a year in lunar calendars, notably the Muslim calendar
- 365 days: a vague year and a common year in many solar calendars
- 365.24219 days: a mean tropical year (rounded to five decimal places) for the epoch 2000
- 365.2424 days: a vernal (northward) equinox year (rounded to four decimal places) for the epoch 2000
- 365.2425 days: the average length of a year in the Gregorian calendar
- 365.25 days: the average length of a year in the Julian calendar
- 365.2564 days: a sidereal year
- 366 days: a leap year in many solar calendars
- 383, 384 or 385 days: the lengths of leap years in some lunisolar calendars
- 383.9 days (13 lunar months): a leap year in some lunisolar calendars
An average Gregorian year is 365.2425 days = 52.1775 weeks = 8765.82 hours = 525949.2 minutes = 31556952 seconds (mean solar, not SI).
A common year is 365 days = 8760 hours = 525600 minutes = 31536000 seconds.
A leap year is 366 days = 8784 hours = 527040 minutes = 31622400 seconds.
The 400-year cycle of the Gregorian calendar has 146097 days and hence exactly 20871 weeks.
There is no universally accepted symbol for the year as a unit of time. The International System of Units does not propose one. NIST SP811[14] and ISO 80000-3:2006[15] suggest the symbol a, taken from the Latin word annus.[16] In English, the abbreviations "y" or "yr" are sometimes used, specifically in geology and paleontology, where "kyr, myr, byr" (thousands, millions, and billions of years, respectively) and similar abbreviations are used to denote intervals of time remote from the present.[16][17][18]
Symbol a
NIST SP811[19] and ISO 80000-3:2006[20] suggest the symbol a (in the International System of Units, although a is also the symbol for the are, the unit of area used to measure land area, but context is usually enough to disambiguate). In English, the abbreviations y and yr are also used.[16][17][18]
The Unified Code for Units of Measure[21] disambiguates the varying symbologies of ISO 1000, ISO 2955 and ANSI X3.50 [22] by using
- ar for are and:
- at = a_t = 365.24219 days for the mean tropical year
- aj = a_j = 365.25 days for the mean Julian year
- ag = a_g = 365.2425 days for the mean Gregorian year
- a = 1 aj year (without further qualifier)
A definition jointly adopted by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and the International Union of Geological Sciences is to use annus, with symbol a, for year, defined as the length of the tropical year in the year 2000:[23][24]
- a = 365.24219265 days = 31556925.445 seconds
The notation has proved controversial; it conflicts with an earlier convention among geoscientists to use a specifically for "years ago", and y or yr for a one-year time period.[24]
SI prefix multipliers
For the following, there are alternative forms which elide the consecutive vowels, such as kilannus, megannus, etc.
- ka (for kiloannus), is a unit of time equal to one thousand (103) years. This is typically used in geology, paleontology, and archaeology for Holocene and Pleistocene periods where a nonradiocarbon dating technique, i. e., ice core dating, dendrochronology, uranium-thorium dating, or varve analysis, is used as the primary dating method for age determination. If age is primarily determined by radiocarbon dating, then the age should be expressed in either radiocarbon or calendar (calibrated) years Before Present.
- Ma (for megaannus), is a unit of time equal to one million (106) years. It is commonly used in scientific disciplines such as geology, paleontology, and celestial mechanics to signify very long time periods into the past or future. For example, the dinosaur species Tyrannosaurus rex was abundant approximately 66 Ma (66 million years) ago (ago may not always be mentioned; if the quantity is specified while not explicitly discussing a duration, one can assume that "ago" is implied; the alternative "mya" unit includes "ago" explicitly). In astronomical applications, the year used is the Julian year of precisely 365.25 days. In geology and paleontology, the year is not so precise and varies depending on the author.
- Ga (for gigaannus), is a unit of time equal to 109 years (one billion on the short scale, one milliard on the long scale). It is commonly used in scientific disciplines such as cosmology and geology to signify extremely long time periods in the past. For example, the formation of the Earth occurred approximately 4.57 Ga (4.57 billion years) ago.
- Ta (for teraannus), is a unit of time equal to 1012 years (one trillion on the short scale, one billion on the long scale). It is an extremely long unit of time, about 70 times as long as the age of the universe. It is the same order of magnitude as the expected life span of a small red dwarf star.
- Pa (for petaannus), is a unit of time equal to 1015 years (one quadrillion on the short scale, one billiard on the long scale). The half-life of the nuclide cadmium-113 is about 8 Pa.[25] This symbol coincides with that for the pascal without a multiplier prefix, though both are infrequently used and context will normally be sufficient to distinguish time from pressure values.
- Ea (for exaannus), is a unit of time equal to 1018 years (one quintillion on the short scale, one trillion on the long scale). The half-life of tungsten-180 is 1.8 Ea.[26]
Symbols y and yr
In astronomy, geology, and paleontology, the abbreviation yr for "years" and ya for "years ago" are sometimes used, combined with prefixes for "thousand", "million", or "billion".[17][27] They are not SI units, using y to abbreviate English year, but following ambiguous international recommendations, use either the standard English first letters as prefixes (t, m, and b) or metric prefixes (k, M, and G) or variations on metric prefixes (k, m, g). These abbreviations include:
|non-SI abbreviation
|SI-prefixed equivalent
|order of magnitude
|kya or tya
|"ka ago"
|"Ma ago"
|bya or gya
|"Ga ago"
Use of "mya" and "bya" is deprecated in modern geophysics, the recommended usage being "Ma" and "Ga" for dates Before Present, but "m.y." for the duration of epochs.[17][18] This ad hoc distinction between "absolute" time and time intervals is somewhat controversial amongst members of the Geological Society of America.[29]
Note that on graphs using "ya" units on the horizontal axis time flows from right to left, which may seem counter-intuitive. If the "ya" units are on the vertical axis, time flows from top to bottom which is probably easier to understand than conventional notation.
"Great years"
Equinoctial cycle
The Great Year, or equinoctial cycle, corresponds to a complete revolution of the equinoxes around the ecliptic. Its length is about 25,700 years, and cannot be determined precisely as the precession speed is variable.
Galactic year
The Galactic year is the time it takes Earth's solar system to revolve once around the galactic center. It comprises roughly 230 million Earth years.[30]
See also
- 2015
- Astronomical year numbering
- Before Present
- ISO 8601: standard for representation of dates and times
- Jēran
- List of calendars
- List of years
- Man-hour
- Orders of magnitude (time)
- Unit of time
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- ^ International Earth Rotation and Reference System Service. (2010).IERS EOP PC Useful constants.
- ^ Richards, E. G. (2013). Calendars. In S. E. Urban & P. K. Seidelmann (Eds.), Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac (3rd ed.). Mill Valley, CA: University Science Books. p. 586.
- ^ Astronomical Almanac for the Year 2011. Washington and Taunton: U.S. Government Printing Office and the U.K. Hydrographic Office. 2009. p. M18 (Glossary).
- ^ Astronomical Almanac for the Year 2011. Washington and Taunton:
- ^ Calendar Description and Coordination Maya World Studies Center
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- ^ The Astronomical Almanac Online
- ^ U.S. Naval Observatory Nautical Almanac Office and Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office (2010). Astronomical Almanac for the year 2011. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. C2, L8.
- ^ Simon, J.L.; Bretagnon, P.; Chapront, J.; Chapront-Touzé, M.; Francou, G.; Laskar, J. (February 1994). "Numerical expressions for precession formulae and mean elements for the Moon and planets". Astronomy and Astrophysics 282 (2): 663–683.
- ^ Taff, Lawrence G. (1985). Celestial Mechanics: A Computational Guide for the Practitioner. New York: John Wiley & Sons. p. 103. Values in tables agree closely for 2000, and depart by as much as 44 seconds for the years furthest in the past or future; the expressions are simpler than those recommended in the Astronomical Almanac for the Year 2011.
- ^ Seidelmann, P. Kenneth (2013). Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac. Sean E. Urban (ed.) (3 ed.). Univ Science Books. p. 587. Tabulates length of tropical year from -500 to 2000 at 500 year intervals using a formula by Laskar (1986); agrees closely with values in this section near 2000, departs by 6 seconds in -500.
- ^ Ambler Thompson, Barry N. Taylor (2008). "Special Publication 811: Guide for the Use of the International System of Units (SI)" (PDF).
- ^ "ISO 80000-3:2006, Quantities and units – Part 3: Space and time". Geneva, Switzerland:
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- ^ Ambler Thompson, Barry N. Taylor (2008). "Special Publication 811 – Guide for the Use of the International System of Units (SI)". National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). para 8.1.
- ^ "ISO 80000-3:2006, Quantities and units". Geneva: International Organization for Standardization. 2006. Part 3: Space and time.
- ^ Gunther Schadow, Clement J. McDonald. "Unified Code for Units of Measure".
- ^ http://aurora.regenstrief.org/~ucum/ucum.html#para-31
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- ^ a b Celeste Biever (April 27, 2011). "Push to define year sparks time war".
- ^ P. Belli et al. (2007). "Investigation of β decay of 113Cd".
- ^ F. A. Danevich et al. (2003). "α activity of natural tungsten isotopes".
^ North American Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature. "North American Stratigraphic Code".
(c) Convention and abbreviations. – The age of a stratigraphic unit or the time of a geologic event, as commonly determined by numerical dating or by reference to a calibrated time-scale, may be expressed in years before the present. The unit of time is the modern year as presently recognized worldwide. Recommended (but not mandatory) abbreviations for such ages are SI (International System of Units) multipliers coupled with "a" for annus: ka, Ma, and Ga for kilo-annus (103 years), Mega-annus (106 years), and Giga-annus (109 years), respectively. Use of these terms after the age value follows the convention established in the field of C-14 dating. The "present" refers to 1950 AD, and such qualifiers as "ago" or "before the present" are omitted after the value because measurement of the duration from the present to the past is implicit in the designation. In contrast, the duration of a remote interval of geologic time, as a number of years, should not be expressed by the same symbols. Abbreviations for numbers of years, without reference to the present, are informal (e.g., y or yr for years; my, m.y., or m.yr. for millions of years; and so forth, as preference dictates). For example, boundaries of the Late Cretaceous Epoch currently are calibrated at 63 Ma and 96 Ma, but the interval of time represented by this epoch is 33 m.y.
- ^ Bradford M. Clement (April 8, 2004). "Dependence of the duration of geomagnetic polarity reversals on site latitude". Nature 428 (6983): 637–40.
- ^ "Time Units". Geological Society of America. Retrieved February 17, 2010.
- ^ "Science Bowl Questions, Astronomy, Set 2". Science Bowl Practice Questions. Oak Ridge Associated Universities. 2009. Retrieved December 9, 2009.
Further reading
- Fraser, Julius Thomas (1987). Time, the Familiar Stranger (illustrated ed.). Amherst:
- Whitrow, Gerald James (2003). What is Time?. Oxford:
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HERMAN, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota's state archaeologist is investigating the disappearance of a pioneer cemetery near Herman.
Scott Anfinson says he used Department of Natural Resources aerial photos and satellite mapping to confirm that the Boerner family cemetery was gone.
Anfinson tells KFGO-AM he drove by the site recently and clearly could see the changes.
Anfinson was notified not long after the cemetery's disappearance was reported to the Grant County sheriff.
The sheriff was called after members of the family discovered that trees had been cleared and tombstones moved.
Sheriff Dwight Walvatne says there's no indication that the graves themselves were disturbed.
Anfinson says there is a public record of the cemetery, which dates to the late 1800s. He says he'll likely return in the spring to help restore the cemetery.
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2007 Honda Fit Achieves Top Safety Rating
All-new 2007 Honda Fit is awarded a "5-Star" rating for safety from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.<br />June 6, 2006
The 2007 Honda Fit has earned a "5-Star" safety rating for frontal crash performance from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), American Honda Motor Co., Inc., announced today. A "5-Star" rating is the highest government safety rating.
Ninety-nine percent of Honda-branded vehicles on a sales-weighted average now achieve this top front impact rating under the federal government's NCAP (New Car Assessment Program).
"The Fit has the highest level of standard safety equipment of any car in its competitive set," said John Mendel, American Honda senior vice president. "Fit's 5-Star rating demonstrates once again that Honda customers do not have to choose between safety, utility and fuel efficiency. The Fit has it all."
Already a leader in vehicle safety as demonstrated by Honda's "Safety for Everyone" initiative, Honda continues to implement leading airbag technology in all vehicles regardless of size or price. Dual-stage, dual-threshold front airbags, dual front side airbags and side-curtain airbags are standard equipment on all Fit models. In addition to its six airbags, Fit incorporates 3-point seat belts at all seating positions, as well as two Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children (LATCH) positions in the rear seats. Fit also utilizes active safety systems that include an anti-lock braking system (ABS) and electronic brake distribution (EBD).
Honda's commitment to safety extends to pedestrians as well. To help reduce pedestrian injuries in the event of a collision, the Fit's hood and fender areas are designed to help absorb energy if contacted by an adult pedestrian.
Honda will complete the first phase of its "Safety for Everyone" initiative this year by voluntarily putting extensive levels of standard safety equipment on all its vehicles, with the exception of two small volume models (S2000 and Insight).
Additionally, Honda is the first and only auto manufacturer to list the NHTSA crash test "star" ratings on all new vehicle window stickers. This is the same information available to consumers on the NHTSA safercar.gov Web site.
The 2007 Honda Fit, which went on sale April 20, is designed to take the subcompact market into new territory with its highly-refined and ultra-adaptable functionality, sporty driving demeanor and high levels of standard safety equipment. With a vast array of standard features - including a unique multi-configuration 60/40 split Magic Seat(R) and an estimated EPA fuel economy of 33 mpg city / 38 mpg highway (manual transmission) - the fun to drive Fit is a premium entry vehicle that emphasizes style, functionality, safety and value. In a seven-way comparison test drive, Car and Driver magazine selected Fit as its first choice among vehicles under $15,000.


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WASHINGTON, March 7, 2012 – Military families with special-needs members would benefit from better communication and education, members of an exceptional family member panel concluded yesterday.
"We're working some great programs up at the [office of the secretary of defense] level," Charles E. Milam, principal director for military community and family policy, said in an interview following the panel here. "I think the key is how do we take that information and deliver down to the very lowest level."
The panel, chaired by Milam, was composed of nearly a dozen military family members with special needs -- from children with educational or physical challenges to adults with medical problems -- with representation from all services, as well as the active duty and reserve components.
The panel first met in the fall to cite ongoing challenges. At the time, they pointed to three key areas of concern: communication, consistency of programs across the services, and health care. This follow-on panel was intended to track progress in each area and offer information on available resources, officials said.
Communication is key to aiding military families with special needs, said Milam, noting this issue is a personal one for him. His wife is active-duty Air Force and they have a special-needs child.
"What I find when I go out to installations and I speak to families and our service members, they're not aware of some of the things we're doing," he said. "We need to make these processes as easy as possible for these families."
A one-stop source of information would be a step in the right direction, noted Rebecca Posante, deputy director of the office of community support for military families with special needs, which oversees the department's Exceptional Family Member Program. Officials would like to use the Defense Department's Military OneSource website for that purpose, she explained.
But first, they must ensure they're providing the most relevant and accessible information, she said.
Posante said she handed out a list of key words to panel members to see if they match up with how families search for online information. For example, families are more apt to use the term "moving" rather than "relocation" when seeking resources. Officials will use this feedback to build content for the site, she added.
Having readily available information is vital for families seeking answers, she noted. "We want to educate families on: Where do you go when you need something done?" she said. "Where do you go if you don't think you're getting the correct answer?"
Posante cited progress her office already is making on this front. They've created a new information kit on the Exceptional Family Member Program that's been sent militarywide, she said, and also have sent books and videos on special needs to all installation libraries and family centers. They're launching online modules to aid families with special-needs children and adults, and to explain how EFMP works, she added.
Families also are concerned with the consistency of programs and resources across the department, Posante noted. She meets with service representatives quarterly to tackle this issue and will continue to push for progress, she said.
Across the board, panel members raised issues about health care, such as being able to see a specialist in a timely manner at a new duty station, Posante said.
Her office is working with health affairs, she said, to address as many of these issues as possible. Posante noted the presence of Dr. Jack Smith, director of clinical and program policy integration for health affairs, who attended the panel to provide information and address concerns.
"We really want to approach how we can answer their questions on medical care and help communicate to the families when there are answers already," she said. "People at the highest levels are really listening and trying to figure out what these issues are and how to address them."
Panel member Army Maj. Charlotte Emery, mother of twin boys and a military lawyer at Fort Belvoir, Va., cited the importance of "knowing the system." Her sons both are enrolled in the Exceptional Family Member Program. One was diagnosed with autism at 18 months and his brother with developmental delays for speech, language and socio-emotional behavior.
"Many of us today were learning stuff for the first time about things that have been in the system, especially in regard to TRICARE," she said, referring to the military's health care program.
Military families often are hesitant to "rock the boat," she noted, which can result in unnecessary out-of-pocket expenses. However, there are people they can go to for information or better answers, she explained. Emery said she plans to take the information from these panels and disseminate it to other families.
This information sharing is one of the key purposes of the panel, Posante said. With that in mind, these panels will be ongoing, she added, and she's also forming smaller working groups to tackle specific issues.
The department will continue to "chisel away" at these issues, Milam said. Officials are engaged with Congress, and also are looking at policies to discern which ones work and which need to be deleted or refined, he added.
"We're writing a book one chapter at a time," he said, noting there's been considerable progress in recent years.
"Just listening to some of the concerns from the different services and from the different families, just speaks volumes to what we had before," Milam said. "The fact that we are listening to them through this panel as they represent families from all over the services is very important."
Milam said he hopes this panel and future efforts send a clear message to families with special needs.
"We care, the department cares, [and] Congress cares about these programs," he said.


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The national health care debate right now is all about giving more people affordable access to doctors and hospitals. Yet the vast majority of health care decisions 80 percent or more, experts say are really made by individuals, instead of medical professionals, whether choices are about diet and exercise or ways of managing chronic conditions like diabetes and heart disease.
The long-term answer to improving the health of the nation's population and curbing costs, experts agree, is to help people make smarter decisions day in and day out about their own health. And the most powerful potential tool in the march toward intelligent consumerism in health care may be the Web.
That is why on Tuesday, a start-up company led by Adam Bosworth, former head of the Google Health team, plans to become the newest entrant to the online consumer health business.
Already, surveys show that a majority of adults in America routinely scour the Internet for health information. Doctors joke that the standard second opinion of diagnosis and treatment has become a patient's Google search, with the results printed out and brought to the doctor's office.
But the Web is still mainly a vast trove of generalized health information. The ideal, health experts say, would be to combine personal data with health information to deliver tailored health plans for individuals. That is what Mr. Bosworth and his San Francisco-based company, Keas (pronounced KEE-ahs) Inc., mean to do.
Using the Keas system, for example, a person with Type 2 diabetes might receive reminders, advice on diet and exercise, questions and prompts presented on the Web site or delivered by e-mail or text messages all personalized for the person's age, gender, weight and other health conditions.
Although success is far from certain, Keas has some big partners, including Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault.
Health technology experts say Keas is at the forefront of the effort to combine advanced Web and database technologies so it can personalize health education. The promise, they say, is a big step forward for online health tools, and could help accelerate their adoption much as the spreadsheet program helped kick-start the personal computer industry back in the early 1980s.
"This is the next generation of applications for online health care," said Dr. David C. Kibbe, a health technology expert and senior adviser to the American Academy of Family Physicians, who is also a member of the Keas advisory board.
The Obama administration has drafted its guidelines for producing electronic health records patient records held by doctors and hospitals with applications like Keas in mind. To qualify for government subsidies, the electronic records must be able to generate patient education materials that help guide care, and eventually share information with personally controlled health records of the sort offered by Google Health and Microsoft Health Vault.
"The goal is not just health care information, but knowledge about what that means and what action to take," said Dr. John D. Halamka, chief information officer at the Harvard Medical School, and a member of a federal advisory group on electronic health records. "And that is what Keas, and others in different ways, are really starting to think through."
Other initial partners of Keas are impressed with its technology. Healthwise, a nonprofit supplier of online health information, has created 15 care plans for Keas so far, including ones on high blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, weight management and stress management.
Healthwise provides health content to major managed care companies, insurers and Web portals, including Kaiser Permanente, Aetna, WebMD, Revolution Health, Yahoo, MSN and AOL.
But Keas, said Jim Giuffre, president of Healthwise, has a feature that is distinct from other health services online. "They have developed the technology to make decisions from personalized data," Mr. Giuffre said. "We think it's going to help consumers make better health care choices."
Dr. Alan R. Greene, a clinical professor of pediatrics at the Stanford University School of Medicine, has two children's care plans on Keas, for ear infections and asthma, and is working on others. Dr. Greene has done projects with WebMD and Yahoo in the past. "But this little start-up has an extremely powerful tool, both personalized and interactive," he said.
For medical experts, Keas is currently helping them with technical assistance. But the company intends to keep simplifying the tools so that individual physicians or health experts can build their own care plans.
The technical game plan at Keas bears the imprint of Mr. Bosworth's career. As a senior engineer at Microsoft in the 1990s, he led the design team that created Access, a personal computer database program, introduced in 1992, which enabled nonprogrammers to build databases. Later, Mr. Bosworth focused on Internet software, working on Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser and then XML, an open technology for tagging text documents on the Web and data sharing between programs.
Database expertise, easy-to-use tools for nonexperts and automated data sharing among Web documents are all essential ingredients in the personalized care plans.
At Google, which he joined in 2004, Mr. Bosworth worked on Gmail, Blogger, online spreadsheets and other products. But the company's leaders knew he was interested in using Internet technology to improve health care. Having studied history at Harvard, Mr. Bosworth is a voracious and eclectic reader and a globe-trotting traveler. (The name "kea" refers to a species of alpine parrot, which he spotted on the South Island of New Zealand).
"I spent 25 years of my life building Lego blocks for computing," said Mr. Bosworth, 54, adding that the time had come to pursue wider horizons.
His years at Google, Mr. Bosworth said, were good ones, and the work the health team was doing with personal health records was important. Moving people's data online, where individuals can control it, he said, would be vital to using Internet technology to improve health care and only big companies like Google and Microsoft can do that.
"But I decided my focus should be on the other side of the equation what to do with the data," he said.
So Mr. Bosworth left Google, founded Keas and started hiring people in March 2008. The company has 24 employees, and last December it received venture capital backing from Atlas Ventures and Ignition Partners.
The Keas site requires a user to sign in and fill out a questionnaire. Personal health records from Google Health and Microsoft Health Vault can be automatically fed into the Keas care plans.
Another early partner is Quest Diagnostics, the nation's largest clinical laboratory company, and, with permission, an individual's lab data can influence the Keas plans. Users can put in as much or as little personal information as they want. Because Keas works with care providers, like doctors, it is required by law to adhere to all federal rules under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, for encrypting and handling information to safeguard the privacy of personal information, Mr. Bosworth said.
The care plans present personalized status reports, as individualized dashboards, showing a person to be in the red, yellow or green bands. Green is good, and care plans make recommendations on how to get there.
Initially, the care plans will be free, but eventually Keas will include subscriptions for plans, probably at a few dollars a month. Keas will take a slice, and pass the rest on to the plan creator the model used by the Apple's iPhone applications store.
"We're still learning, so we're in no rush to charge," Mr. Bosworth said. "But the idea is that people will get paid for doing things that are really engaging and useful."
In the long term, Mr. Bosworth hopes Keas will evolve into a marketplace, where health experts are the sellers, and consumers who want the best personalized advice are the buyers. "I think that's a pretty big idea," he said. "If it works, it helps drive consumerism into health care."


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Lobster Mac 'n Cheese
I decided last month that our family should make a better effort to eat more seafood and less crap like deep fried nuggets of chicken fat. Not that I wasn't trying to be healthy or anything, because that would be called a D-I-E-T, which is against my religion, culture, gender and overall cellular structure.
Looking for inspiration, I browsed some of my favorite food blogs and drooled over a dish that took a humble comfort food and paired it with lobster. So, my kids and I headed off to the supermarket to buy the ingredients for the dish.
The rugrats had fun poking at the lazy crustaceans in the tank, trying to guess which one the seafood monger would clumsily capture with his primitive wooden rake. A feisty three pounder was stuffed a plastic bag, weighed, priced and dropped in our cart. Off we went to pay, stopping briefly to pick up a hunk of nice cheese and a box of pasta.
Now, I have nothing against the teenage workforce manning the check-out line, but I feel very strongly that I simply must write these 3 letters.
Dear Ritalin:
When a customer gently places a bag of squirming lobster onto the conveyor belt, the appropriate response is not, "Oh shit, dude. You really gonna kill it and eat it?" Because a smart customer (for example, myself) will shoot right back with, "Why yes, pimple-ass, that is the plan. I might even torture it first with long, sharp objects before dunking it head-first in a vat of boiling hot water. Wanna watch?"
Dear Pep Squad Reject:
When that same bag is handed to you to place back into the cart, the itty-bitty buggy-boo with rubber bands on its claws really isn't a ferocious, drooling elephant man who wants to tie you up and lick your toes. Please don't scream. You're scaring my kids. You're even scaring the freakin' lobster.
Dear Parents:
I implore you to introduce the world of live seafood to your children at an early age. Teach them where our food comes from and how to properly handle and cook it. If you're vegetarian, maybe it wouldn't be a good idea for your kids to work at supermarkets where they might just come in contact with raw animal carcasses and squealing lobsters. Maybe a job at the mushroom petting zoo would be more appropriate.
Omnivorally yours,
Steamy Kitchen
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Lobster Mac & Cheese Recipe
Servings: Serves 4 (main dish) or 8 (side dish)
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Notes on the lobster. You can buy uncooked lobster tails at the market and just remove the meat from the shell. Or, if you are buying a whole lobster, I've found it easier to steam or boil it for 1 minute exactly, drain and then remove the meat. The 1 minute steam firms and shrinks the meat just enough to make an easy job of cracking and removing the prized meat. But of course, if you are welcome to skip this steaming part.
1/2 cup butter + more for ramekin
1/2 cup flour
2 cups half and half
2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp cayenne
pinch of ground black pepper
3 cups sharp cheddar cheese, shredded
2 cups gruyere cheese, shredded
1 lb dried elbow pasta
1/3 cup panko breadcrumbs
1 lb uncooked lobster meat, chopped (see notes)
3 tbs grated parmesan
Preheat oven to 350F.
1. Boil pasta in a large pot of salted water until 1 minute shy of done. Drain well.
2. In meantime, with medium saucepan on medium-low heat, melt butter and add flour a little at a time, whisking constantly for 3 minutes to make a roux. Add half and half, a little at time, whisking to combine. Cook 3 minutes until sauce has thickened. Turn off heat. Add cheddar and gruyere, salt, nutmeg, cayenne and pepper. Stir until cheese is melted. Taste and adjust seasonings. Add cooked pasta to pan, stir to combine.
3. Butter 8 small ramekins or a large baking dish. Spoon pasta/cheese mixture into dish, up to 2/3 full. Bake in oven for 30 minutes.
4. While pasta is baking, melt 2 tbs butter in a medium skillet over medium heat. Once butter melts, turn off heat and add lobster meat, parmesan and panko bread crumbs. Toss to combine.
5. When pasta is done baking, remove from oven. Top pasta with a spoonful of lobster mixture. Set your oven rack to top 1/3 of oven, turn to broil and return ramekins to oven for 6-8 minutes. Lobster should be cooked through and a nice cheeesy crunchy crust will form.
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Story, how exciting!!! and I agree about the vampyres! First thing they do, get you undressed, then take blood.
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Tookish_Traveler wrote:hmmmm...do I have toby's address???
This is a yes. My brother's girlfriend has won the case but the payment is still being quibbled over. Not by her or the judge, but by the Govt who has to pay it. Could be a while before that is resolved. *sigh*I also hope the court thingy gets resolved, in your favour of course.
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Hmmh, I think I'd like...a strawberry to represent me.
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What to Do When You Feel Like a Newbie
- Ann Hibbard Home Educating Family Magazine
- 2019 10 May
I sit in my home library surrounded by stacks of books. The stacks over there need to find a storage home until the next child needs them. The stacks closer to me will hopefully stay intact until I determine how to arrange them on the shelves. (Enthusiastic and curious children continually threaten that hope.) Oh, and I forgot about the stacks tucked out of the way in the corner. I must tell the kids to come claim the books they want on their shelves since I won't be needing them for official schooling anymore! Maybe that will keep them away from the stacks of new books. I doubt it.
The many stacks, combined with the storage tubs in the closet, reflect the many years we have invested in this thing called homeschooling. Are we really starting our ninth year?
I also see a number of books borrowed from my mother, reminding me that homeschooling has been a part of my life for much longer than eight years. As the oldest of five homeschool graduates, I even helped teach the youngest of my siblings.
Then why in the world do I still feel so much like a newbie?
All of us want to feel like we know what we are doing. We want to know that we are not ruining our children, leaving out essential learning opportunities, or failing them in some way. I wish I could say experience takes away that fear, but that is far from the truth. I can readily point to the positive impact my own homeschool education had on me academically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. I see how my own children are growing despite my many failures as their mother. Yet I still fear. I still feel like I know nothing. I still feel like a newbie.
As I begin to produce order from the chaos around me, a realization fills my heart and mind. I have learned much. I truly can rely on many of the lessons I have learned from my thirty years as a homeschooler.
But I can also learn from my persistent insecurity.
My nature is strongly bent toward an inclination to worry, despite the emphatic command found throughout Scripture to put aside fear and anxiety. Every time anxious thoughts well up within me, the Holy Spirit offers a little nudge and reminder to turn all of those worries over to him.
When it comes to homeschooling, it seems to me that the Lord uses my insecurities to make sure I rely on him fully every single year.
What if I ever came to the point of feeling as if I had everything all figured out? What if I ever felt competent and completely prepared to teach my children? What if I believed myself to be the ultimate expert?
There is no doubt in my mind that were I to come to such a belief, I would neglect to turn to the Lord for wisdom. There would be no prayers over curriculum planning. The Lord's direction for scheduling would not be sought. Daily struggles would be met with my own wisdom.
We would really be in trouble.
In all honesty, I do not enjoy feeling like a newbie. "Expert homeschooler" feels like a preferable label. But my qualifications to homeschool the three incredibly precious munchkins entrusted to me do not come because of my inherent greatness. My qualifications are directly related to my ability to trust and listen to the one who created those munchkins. He knows. He understand. He has it all figure out. I am just the servant who must obey.
Do you feel like a newbie this year? Good! Embrace it! May those feelings drive you to the very best place for a homeschooling mom to be: the throne of God.
© 2014 by Home Educating Family Association. All rights reserved. Used with permission. Originally published in 2014 Issue 4 of Home Educating Family Magazine, the publication with the most meaningful discussions taking place in the homeschooling community today. Visit hedua.com to read back issues and for more articles, product reviews, and media.
Ann Hibbard loves chocolate, working with words, and ministering to young moms, especially in the homeschool and ministry communities. Her position as Senior Editor, Web Publishing for Home Educating Family allows her to combine all of those passions, including the chocolate! Ann processes best by writing out her thoughts, and she enjoys sharing many of those thoughts on her two blogs, The Hibbard Five. and The Joy of Writing.
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