This week at my customer, I got my laptop replaced. Where I had a laptop with Windows XP and was Local Admin on it, I now have a Windows 7 with a standard user account. For my development work I have a remote pc in a closet (a closet-PC or "Ophok PC").
The most annoying thing is that I can't install my favorite browser Firefox. But I also want to use XMind mindmapping program and several other tools. For instance, Total Commander is becoming more and more my personal desktop. It's the first thing to start and from there I have buttons to start other apps.
Now I remembered that there are several initiatives to have a collection of apps on a USB stick. For Firefox, and XMind there are portable versions. And also Totalcommander is runnable from a USB stick.
So I got me a spare 8GB USB stick (or at least I made it "spare" for this purpose) and I searched and got into "Portable Apps". This initiative makes it really easy to get a stick with your favorite apps, where it gives a Start menu and a place to browse and work with your documents on a stick. It has an "exit" button to savely remove your stick from the machine.
After you install it on your stick, you can start it with the start.exe file.
With Get More Apps it goes checking it's online repository and from there you can install apps just by checking them and press "Next".
With this App you can create your own installer.
Then you can move the contents of the XMind_Windows folder to the upper folder besides the Commons folder. You have to edit the xmind.ini file to replace all occurences of "../Commons" with "./Commons".
Then you can direct the PortableApps installer to that folder, and follow the instructions. However, it will fail running the first time.
With a tool like Irfanview it is easy to replace these icon-files with a resized version of the picture that can be found if you search on xmind pictures in google. (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=icons+xmind and click on images). Then it will complain for a help.html. You can copy that from an other portable app, like the one of Kompozer/NVU. With Kompozer/NVU you can edit the html file easily. After these changes the PortableApps installer will work, and creates a nice XMind installer.
For TotalCommander, you simply install the TotalCommander Launcher. Then running it for the first time, it will complain that it hasn't got a correct TotalCommander installation. But it will suggest to copy the installed version to the stick. So just run it for the first time on a machine with a normal installation of TC.
So what does this have to do with Oracle? Almost nothing. But lots with being a consultant that has to do his "thing" on any machine of a customer, with his own favorite tools.


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TAES Associate Editor Training Materials
AE Training Videos
ScholarOne Manuscript Platform Training Session 1
Q: What about the situation where a revision required either removing a significant portion, or adding a significant portion, that either eliminates an author's contribution, or the new addition included the contribution of a new author? is authorship change ok in that case?
A: I suppose this is OK. It would have to make sense and the authors would have to make it clear (probably in the cover letter) that one of the two cases is happening and why.
Q: What happens if we have sufficient reviewers and the remaining reviewers are not responding. No automated email to notify them that their reviews are no longer required.
A: The system is not currently configured to generate and send such an email. The system is configured to BCC only the reviewers who have completed their reviews. In the rare circumstance that the non-responsive reviewer tried to submit a review after you have made a decision, the reviewer would be presented with a message that indicates his/her review is no longer needed.
Q. How many times can the 'major revision' decision be made? If the first decision is 'major revision' and reviewers are not satisfied with the first revision, we may have to make another 'major revision' decision if the paper has substantial amount of material. Is there a limit for the number of times that the 'major revision' decision should be made?
A: Let us bound the question first. For a manuscript that has passed the initial screening stage, the lower bound for the number of times it must be reviewed is one. IEEE policy defines no upper bound. The practical upper bound defined by your time as an associate editor or the number of times reviewers are willing to review it. Clearly, we do not want to "explore" the upper bound. I think the ideal case is as follows:
Manuscript sent to reviewers.
Decision = major revision (revise and re-review).
Revised manuscript sent to reviewers.
Decision = Accept/Reject
Sometimes the revision is close but requires some minor changes before it can be accepted. In this case the steps are:
Decision = minor revision
Revised manuscript evaluated by AE
Note that in these two scenarios, the reviewers see the manuscript two times. I call these scenarios ideal for two reasons: (1) we do not exhaust the reviewers; and (2) the final decision is timely (assuming the reviewers are also timely).
The question is what happens if the second review (by the reviewers) finds major flaws. Some suggestions:
If the issue is the authors have not fully addressed the concerns of the reviewers, then it is probably best to reject the revision. The justification is that progress is not sufficient, and reviewer and editor resources are limited.
If the reviewers see publishable contributions, then you may elect to issue a second Major Revision decision (which means the reviewers will review it a third time). But, to show respect for our reviewers' time, you should probably make it clear that this is the authors' last chance to get it right.
I have seen manuscripts with seven R's be rejected. This means that the reviewers have evaluated the manuscript eight times! I think it would have been better to reject the manuscript earlier. It saves your time, it saves the reviewers' time, and it saves the authors' time.
Three final thoughts. I worry that we "wear out" our reviewers by asking them to review revision after revision of a manuscript that they are not enthusiastic about. I think many of you are too nice: you are trying to help authors generate a publishable manuscript. This is a worthy goal, but the review process is not the place for helping authors develop a publishable paper. Finally, when an author asks for more time to complete a major revision, this could be a sign that the better decision would have been a rejection.
Q: I have a paper that's been praised for its technical content, but reviewers have pointed to very poor use of English language (and I agree). It is too much to ask of reviewers, to expect them to do the language editing. I have done some of it myself, but it's taking a long time and, quite frankly, I'm not qualified to do that. What is the IEEE policy on prescribing professional services? How much "cleaning up" of the writing happens after we are involved?
A: Accepted manuscripts are edited by IEEE Publishing's editorial staff. AESS pays for the full editing service. (There is a less-expensive option called moderate editing.) With the full editing service, the text in each accepted manuscript is checked and corrected for grammar, punctuation, spelling and style. Consequently, this service is intended for articles where intelligibility is not the issue, but style and grammar.
For manuscripts where intelligibility is an issue but the technical content is reasonably good, it is appropriate for you to request the author to consult with a native speaker of English or use his/her favorite editing service. In the cases where the aforementioned resources are not available, major editorial resources are available via IEEE. The link to this resource is available through the IEEE Author Center. The "navigation path" is the following:
https://ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org → Journals → Create your IEEE Journal Article → Refining the Use of English in Your Article
Here one finds links to language editing services. The authors have to pay for this service, but there is a discount for IEEE authors.
Q: Maybe also tell us why the training has been deemed necessary?
A: When we (the AESS publications committee) go through the manuscripts, we find many are "stuck" at one stage or another and the Associate Editor is not aware that the manuscript is stuck. This is one of main contributors to our longer than average review times. The hope is that this training will help the associate editors understand the process, the various manuscript stages, and avoid the "getting stuck" problems. In addition, the more familiar an Associate Editor is with IEEE policy, the more confident an Associate Editor can be in making decisions.
Q: What is your view on self-plagiarism?
A: There are a number of issues embedded in the phrase "self-plagiarism". The first is reuse of an author's own words and work and the second is citing one's own work. Let me answer these separately.
Reuse of an author's own work. This can be a tricky issue. IEEE' policy is
IEEE's technical publications shall include original material which appears only once in the archival literature.
One way to think about this is to ask, "is the reused material original material?" From this point of view, it is probably OK when an author reuses sentences, equations, maybe even large portions of paragraphs, if the reuse is in the introductory material, problem statement, and problem formulation. We should see less reuse as the new material is introduced and developed. However, the reuse outlined above can be abused. I think this one is a judgment call.
I usually try to catch cases where that I think cross the line and either open a consultation session or attach the Cross Check report to the manuscript record. In the second case, I usually send an email to the Technical Editor to make him/her aware of the Cross Check report. Again, I ask that you review this to see if it crosses your threshold.
Another case of reuse is when an author reuses material from a conference paper version of the work. Within limits, this sort of reuse is anticipated by IEEE's "evolutionary publication process". This is defined in PSPB 8.1.7.F "PUBLICATION OF ARTICLES IN IEEE PERIODICALS BASED UPON CONFERENCE ARTICLES". This section was highlighted in the training session. I repeat it here for convenience:
IEEE Policies, Section 6.4, specifies that IEEE's technical publications shall include original material, which appears only once in the archival literature, and Subsection 1.3.A of this Manual presents a definition of an archival publication. Nevertheless, it is common in technical publishing for material to be presented at various stages of its evolution, such as publishing early ideas in a workshop, more developed work in a conference, and fully developed contributions as journal or transactions articles. IEEE recognizes the importance of this evolutionary publication process as a significant means of scientific communication and fully supports this publishing paradigm, but IEEE requires that this evolutionary process be fully referenced. Accordingly, the publication in an IEEE periodical of original technical material contained in a conference article or articles is permitted provided that:
All the articles have undergone the standard peer review for the specific periodical in question.
With the exception of that specified in Subsection 8.1.7.A, all the articles published in the periodical contain substantial additional technical material with respect to the conference article or articles of which they represent an evolution.
Each article in the periodical satisfies the requirements of Subsection 8.2.4.G.2.
If the organizational unit or units sponsoring the periodical desire to set a quantitative threshold for the additional technical material mentioned in 8.1.7.F.2, the requirements shall be clearly specified in the instructions for the authors of the periodical.
It seems to me that some "reuse" is anticipated, but that the reused material does not constitute a significant portion of the content. As suggested by item 4, many journals establish numeric thresholds for additional technical material (e.g., reuse of conference paper content cannot exceed 30% of the journal version). AESS has not established a numeric threshold. Instead, AESS relies on the judgment of the editors.
The responsibility to cite one's own work. The responsibility to cite one's one work is the same responsibility to cite someone else's work. In other words, if one is using previously-published material, the previously-published material needs to be cited, independent of who authored it. So, I tend to view the responsibility to cite one's own work as part of the responsibility to cite other's work: the same standard applies. With one exception: it is one thing to fail to cite another's work if that other's work is unknown to the author (this is often discovered in the review process). It is another thing entirely to not cite one's own work. The author cannot claim it was unknown.
The two most common scenarios where authors fail to cite their own work are when their own work is a conference paper or when their own work appears in a non-IEEE venue. I am somewhat sympathetic to an author who fails to cite his/her own conference paper. When I started my career, it was common practice to not cite one's own conference papers. When I encounter this scenario during the quality control process, I usually send the manuscript back to the authors with instructions to cite the conference paper and to describe the substantial additional technical material contained in the journal submission.
Authors who fail to cite their non-IEEE journal papers is a little more problematic. Sometimes, authors do not realize this is a requirement. (I do not know why they believe this.) In other situations, I worry that authors are trying to hide closely related work in an effort to artificially inflate the perceived novelty of the current submission. AESS has no policy on how to distinguish between these two cases. Consequently, we adopt a case-by-case approach. If you encounter this situation in the review process, please open a consultation session with your Technical Editor to discuss the particulars of the situation.
Q: I've been doing this for a few years now and the number of invitations to review required in order to get that minimum of two is growing over time - is there any action being taken to deal with people being less and less inclined to review?
A: I am not sure what our "lever" would be in dealing with people who do not accept invitations to review submissions. Suggestions are welcome. On the flip side of the issue, the AESS publications committee currently is exploring the possibility of some sort of reviewer incentives. The discussion is in the early stages.
Q: Chinese reviewers often accept with little or no comments.
A: No comment.
Q: It's also super hard to get timely review...
A: This is a challenge for all journals. But it seems to be a huge challenge for TAES. Historically, we have allowed more time for reviews than other journals because many of our reviewers worked in industry. The feeling was industry people needed more time to complete a review than academics. Today, I am not sure the situation is the same: everyone is overworked. It is challenge for all to find the time to perform a thorough review.
From my perspective, there are two things that help this:
Invite the "right people" to be reviewers. Those who are very familiar with a topic and have published on the topic recently are more inclined to accept review invitations and to perform insightful reviews. This may seem obvious, but it is harder than it might appear. It can be difficult to do this in an area you are not familiar with. I offered some ideas in the training slides for finding the right people. When I was an Associate Editor and I had to find reviews for submissions too far outside my expertise area, it was very very hard. So, it is important for Technical Editors to be aware of the specialties of Associate Editors assigned to the area. This will help.
Submission quality. Reviewers are more likely to accept an invitation to review a high-quality submission than a low-quality submission. I would like to see the overall quality of submissions increase. One way to do this for each of you to invite the best people in your areas to submit to TAES. This is an easy and relatively pain-free way to start the improvement process.
A corollary to this issue is the large number of low-quality submissions. Not all of these submissions have to be reviewed. Given the scope of TAES, it is sometimes hard for me to tell if a submission is good enough to be reviewed. If a low-quality submission is assigned to you, you have permission to open a consultation session with your Technical Editor and explain your views of the submission. The Technical Editor will likely expand the consultation session to include another Associate Editor or two to obtain a concurring opinion. In this case, the manuscript may be rejected without review because it does not contain enough "technical substance". Please review PSPB Section 8.2.2.A.3 "Prescreening of Articles by Editors-in-Chief". (This section was highlighted in the training session.)
Q: How long do I have to wait for the 3rd review?
A: First, it might help to understand how our manuscript management system responds to late reviewers. The system is configured to send three automatically generated emails to reviews:
Review Almost Due – sent 15 days before the review due date
Review Past Due #1 – sent 3 days after the review due date
Review Past Due #2 – sent 10 days after Review Past Due #1
I have the sense that many people ignore machine generated emails, so I am not convinced the last two are effective. If you have not received a review from the 3rd reviewer after the Review Past Due #1 email has been sent, then I suggest you contact the reviewer personally. Perhaps you know this person. Send an email from your email account to the reviewer asking if he/she will be able to submit a review. If you do not receive a response, then it is probably time to move on either make a decision with the two reviews you have received or secure a new reviewer (but this needs to be done fast with a shortened timeline).
Q: What about the 4th?
A: Same answer as the 3rd.
Q: May authors reuse paragraphs or subsections from other papers?
A: The reuse of paragraphs and subsections from other papers (either by the author or by others) is a complicated issue. The best practice is for authors to summarize and cite the previous work. But we must be careful. When an author is listing equations describing, say, the measurements used to formulate a problem and there exists a series of canonical equations describing the measurements and how the measurements are initially processed, it may appear that the author is reusing a paragraph. But there are so few ways to say something like this, that we should probably view this as acceptable.
In summary, the answer is generally "no", but there are reasonable cases where reuse is to be expected.
Q: Do we as AE see the final version they submit after acceptance?
But we don't see the final version submitted for publication
A: The current workflow does not require the Associate Editor to approve the final files. If you perceive we have a problem with authors modifying accepted manuscripts, we can discuss changing the workflow. So, the question is: do you perceive we have a problem?
Q: Can we only use reviewers' comments? What if the AE notes an issue not identified by the reviewers? (I assume we cannot use ourselves as reviewers due to independence requirements.)
A: First, allow me to quote PSPB Section 8.2.2.A.3
It shall be clearly stated by the Editor-in-Chief when the Editor-in- Chief submits the article to the referee that the recipient is a formal reviewer and that his or her comments and opinions, with those of other formal reviewers, will form the basis upon which the Editor-in-Chief will decide whether or not to publish the article, and with what changes.
The editor examines the comments of the referees and exercises his or her own best judgment, in the light of the referees' recommendations, on whether or not to publish. Reviewers' comments and marked articles are normally returned to the author in any case. It is essential that the editor assure that the anonymity of the referees is protected during this process.
Everything within this review process must be done openly, except that the referees are protected from personal interactions with the authors by withholding their names. The editor in any event, should be guided in technical matters by the reviewers' comments. The editor must not arbitrarily withhold the referees' comments from the corresponding author, or vice-versa, unless the editor deems them clearly to be irrelevant, incorrect, or otherwise inappropriate. In particular, editors should not arbitrarily ignore referees' suggestions for modifications of the article without sufficient technical cause to do so. If an article is returned for revision, it is important to make clear to the corresponding author whether on the one hand the article will be accepted if the indicated changes are made or, on the other hand, the article will be resubmitted to the referee for further review.
In writing a review, it is unacceptable for a referee to require additional citations for the sole purpose of influencing bibliometric measures of either an individual or a periodical. In such cases, referee comments shall be transmitted to the authors, but editorial judgment shall be exercised in explaining requirements to the authors regarding addition of citations. The editor's decision is always based on all the reviews received, but mixed reviews present the need for the exercise of editorial judgment. Responsibility for the final decision of acceptance or rejection lies with the Editor-in-Chief.
In summary, the decision is based on the reviewers' comments. "Based on" means the associate editor uses "editorial judgement" in interpreting the reviewers' comments. The reviewers are not voting. They are providing information to you so you can make a decision.
The question here asks what to do if an Associate Editor identifies an issue not identified by the reviewers. This issue should absolutely be a part of the decision process. It is appropriate, when you are summarizing your decision, to explain that your own reading of the manuscript has identified additional issues and that these issues need to be addressed in a revision (or, if rejecting, are part of the reason for the rejection). In this case you are not anonymous, but your opinions are important. Your appointment as an editor is because your opinion matters!
Q: Experimental results of a previously simulation-only paper is generally enough?
A: It depends. It might be in some cases. It might not be enough in others. It really does depend on the area and the particular circumstances of the work. Here, we must exercise editorial judgement.
Q: A common numerical metric for "substantial" is 30-35% additional significant material (theory, numerical analysis, experimental study, etc.). Is this acceptable for TAES?
A: The 30 – 35% additional material rule is in line with what is used by many of the journals that set a numeric threshold. You are free to use that as an initial starting point in evaluating a manuscript. But, because this is not a formal policy, it cannot be the only reason a submission is rejected.
Allow me to construct a hypothetical circumstance where this rule might not serve TAES well. Suppose an author publishes a conference paper with some initial experiments that suggest a new idea has potential merit. Later, the author submits a "journal version" to TAES that includes two theorems and their proofs, some analysis in real environments, and the experiments from the conference paper whose results are reexamined in light of the analysis. It is common for theorems, proofs, and analyses to take up much less space than the description of an experiment with its accompanying block diagrams, plots, procedures, etc. I think we would all say the TAES submission has substantial additional material, but the new material might only account for 50% of the page area of the TAES submission.
Given the breadth of TAES and the different cultures that prevail in the different areas, I prefer sound editorial judgment to a numeric threshold.

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Q: installing express without npm for the MEAN stack My El Capitan shows node installed in /usr/local/bin/node, but  $which npm  reports nothing.
I have Angular installed and which to play around with the MEAN stack which requires express and mangoDB.
My current path is: /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin
Online reading to install express shows I must issue npm command.
Can I install express using brew instead?  Thanks

A: I fixed it by downloading and installing node.js which also installed npm.

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The immune system and other cognitive systems
Hershberg, Uri and Efroni, Sol (2001) The immune system and other cognitive systems. [Journal (Paginated)]
In the following pages we propose a theory on cognitive systems and the common strategies of perception, which are at the basis of their function. We demonstrate that these strategies are easily seen to be in place in known cognitive systems such as vision and language. Furthermore we show that taking these strategies into consideration implies a new outlook on immune function calling for a new appraisal of the immune system as a cognitive system.
definitions of cognition, immunity, complex systems
Biology > Theoretical Biology
Psychology > Cognitive Psychology
Linguistics > Learnability
Linguistics > Syntax
Philosophy > Philosophy of Mind
Psychology > Psycholinguistics
Hershberg, Uri
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Uneasy Calm Reported In Donetsk After Bloody Battle
May 28, 2014 14:51 GMT
A girl plays in front of a destroyed truck used by pro-Russian militants, which was bombed by Ukrainian Army soldiers during clashes in Donetsk on May 27.
An uneasy calm appears to have returned to the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, one day after dozens of pro-Russian separatist fighters were reported killed in fighting with government forces.
Intense gunfire was reported earlier on May 28 around the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) building occupied by the separatists, and jet fighters were heard flying over the city.
There were, however, no immediate details on fighting, and the gunfire later stopped.
In a statement, the mayor denied that the separatists had seized more public buildings in the city.
In an interview with Germany's "Bild" daily, the winner of Ukraine's presidential election, Petro Poroshenko, said that "the antiterrorist operation has finally begun in earnest."
"A real war is being waged against our country," he added. "We will end this terror."
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the Ukrainian people were "in essence being pushed into the abyss of fratricidal war."
An aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Yury Ushakov, said that what he described as the Ukrainian government's "provocative" military actions in eastern Ukraine were pushing the crisis further into deadlock.
The pro-Russian separatists said dozens of separatist fighters were killed during nearly 24 hours of fighting for control of the city's international airport that began on May 26. Some rebel leaders said up to 100 fighters had been killed.
Ukrainian officials said there were Russians and Chechens among the dead and wounded.
On May 28, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov denied that he had sent soldiers to help the pro-Russian separatists, but did not rule out that some Chechen volunteers could have gone there on their own.
A Polish priest, who had been missing since May 27 and was believed to have been held by the separatists, was freed. No further details on his release were immediately available.
There was also no news on the whereabouts of a team of OSCE monitors who have been missing since May 26 while on patrol east of Donetsk.
With reporting by UNIAN, Reuters, and ITAR-TASS
Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Donetsk?
Putin Demands End To Ukraine Offensive
Fighting Continues Around Donetsk
Poroshenko's Top Priorities As President
Interview: Russia Watcher Lucas Says 'Tide Has Turned A Bit' For Ukraine
Voices From Ukraine's 'Borderlands:' Fears Of 'Chaos' Bring People To The Polls


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In this University of Kansas Museum of Natural History mural, the Cretaceous squid Tusoteuthis tussles with a mosasaur. Only, there's no evidence that such battles ever took place. Image: Courtesy Mike Everhart.
Giant Squid vs. Mosasaur
ByRiley Black
There are giant squid in Kansas. They are not pickled museum specimens rescued from a Newfoundland beach, nor, b-movie schlock like Eye of the Beast aside, are they monsters that found their way into freshwater lakes. Truth be told, the big squid have been dead for about 80 million years. What little remains of them is petrified in the rock. But in their heyday, these huge cephalopods lived and died alongside equally fantastic marine reptiles that ruled North America's shallow inland sea.
Prehistoric squid are rare fossils. Unlike their hard-shelled cousins the ammonoids, ancient squid lacked the hard, coiled shells that were so amenable to preservation. Even then, the soft parts of shelled cephalopods rotted away, leaving us with only an outline of what the mollusks were like in life. Only cases of truly exceptional preservation can provide researchers with a near-complete view of primordial cephalopods.
All the same, paleontologists have been able to identify the teuthids of different eras thanks to certain chitinous hard parts of squid bodies. The nipping, bird-like beak is one squid organ resilient enough to enter the fossil record, and the other, called a gladius, is at the core of the squid's body. This structure – vaguely spoon-shaped, with a rod leading into a rounded expansion – supports the mantle of the squid and anchors some of the animal's muscles. It's this bit of internal scaffolding that has let paleontologists track the giant squid of Kansas.
The Western Interior Seaway, circa 75 million years ago. Image: R. Blakey, from Wikipedia.
In 1898, as part of a massive review of Cretaceous fossils found in Kansas, paleontologist William Newton Logan surveyed the various marine invertebrates that evidently swum through a long-vanished seaway. While dry and landlocked now, the "Wheat State" was submerged for much of Cretaceous time.
Starting about 130 million years ago, and lasting almost to the very end of the Cretaceous, the ocean spilled over the landmass to create two subcontinents – the dinosaurs and other creatures on the western slice, called Laramidia, were separated from their eastern kin on Appalachia by a sea filled with sharks, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, toothed birds, and other wondrous sea creatures. Of course, numerous forms of marine invertebrates were often food for these more famous and charismatic aquatic animals, including what Logan identified as huge squid.
The fossils Logan cataloged were roughly 90 to 70 million years old, and he divided his list according to the geologic formations in which they were found. From the fossils found in the Niobrara shale, now understood to be around 82 to 87 million years old, Logan described a previously-unknown genus of squid he called Tusoteuthis. The key fossil was a gladius, or pen, collected by H.T. Martin near the Smoky Hill River. Part of the structure's shaft was missing, but the whole thing measured a little more than 20 inches long. While Logan did not speculate on the size of the entire squid itself, such a large gladius indicated an even longer cephalopod, especially if the squid had long tentacles that extended past the muscular arms.
But how big did Tusoteuthis actually get? In a sea full of sharp-toothed marine reptiles and huge fish, size most certainly mattered. Frustratingly, though, all we really know of Tusoteuthis comes from their fragile, fossilized pens found in Kansas, North Dakota, and elsewhere along the path of the vanished seaway. No one has ever found a pancaked impression of a Tusoteuthis body to fill out the rest of the details, and the biggest near-complete pens found so far are about six feet long. According to Western Interior Seaway expert Mike Everhart, who runs the richly-detailed Oceans of Kansas website, Tusoteuthis may have reached about 25 feet in length. That's not quite as big as the 40-foot-plus giant (Architeuthis dux) and colossal (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) squids that jet through today's ocean depths, but still quite large.
An updated view of Tusoteuthis by D.Bogdanov. Image: Wikipedia.
Nevertheless, we don't really know whether Tusoteuthis was any longer or shorter than the 25 foot estimate. Our picture of the Cretaceous squid depends on how we restore its soft tissues, and that's constrained by where Tusoteuthis falls in the teuthid evolutionary tree. While it's easy to think that Tusoteuthis was more or less like today's giant squid Architeuthis, Everhart suspects that the Cretaceous form is more closely related to the bizarre, deep-sea Vampyrotheuthis. This translates to a relatively squat squid with shorter arms than previous, slimmer versions.
Let's run with the hypothesis that Tusoteuthis was about 25 feet long, though. That's a big squid, and it's certainly tempting to think of the cephalopod wrapping its arms around the lizard-like mosasaurs and long-necked plesiosaurs, dragging the air-breathing reptiles into the abyss. Geologist Mark McMenamin tapped into this tantalizing imagery last year when he presented his bullshit idea that a hyper-intelligent Triassic squid drowned giant ichthyosaurs and rearranged the bones of the deceased "fish lizards" into a self portrait. McMenamin had no evidence – no body impression, gladius, or other trace of Mesozoic squid – but news services enthusiastically regurgitated his unsubstantiated claims of the artistic Kraken. Who wouldn't love a story about real-life leviathans tearing at each other in the prehistoric deep? The famous giant squid vs. sperm whale exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History has sparked visions of real-life abyssal battles for decades, and a skirmish between a prehistoric squid and the likes of the mosasaurs would have been even more spectacular. Using the old, slender vision of Tusoteuthis, the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History even commissioned a painting of such a conflict for their exhibits.
Only, there isn't any evidence that Tusoteuthis captured and killed the marine reptiles of its time. Granted, such traces would be rare. Like other squid, Tusoteuthis fed on flesh rather than crunching into bone, and I have no idea if anyone has ever found a squid bite mark in the fossil record. But there's no reason to think that the squid targeted dangerous prey as large, if not larger, than itself. Tusoteuthis was undoubtedly a predator of smaller game such as fish and other cephalopods. If the squid ate marine reptiles at all, it probably only snarfed up baby ones unlucky enough to blunder across the larger cephalopod.
There's solid evidence that Tusoteuthis was a frequent victim of other Western Interior Seaway inhabitants, though. In addition to squid pens bearing bite marks from unknown predators, one particularly unlucky fish appears to have died in the act of swallowing a Tusoteuthis. Arms trailing out of the gluttonous fish's mouth, the fossil hints, the squid filled its assailant's tract so completely that water could no longer pass through the vertebrate's gills. A final moment of payback for the giant squid of North America's vanished sea.


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Days after Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced a statewide ban on plastic bags in Uttar Pradesh, Governor Ram Naik on Sunday cleared an ordinance imposing a maximum punishment of one-year imprisonment and fine ranging from Rs 1,000 to Rs 1 lakh on defaulters.
According to the 'Uttar Pradesh Plastic and Other Non-Biodegradable (Regulation of Use and Disposal) Ordinance 2018', the fine would be imposed on those found re-constructing, selling, distributing, packaging, storing or transporting plastic bags below 50 microns, nylon, polypropylene, polystyrene or thermocol.
A ban had been imposed earlier in 2000 through the UP Plastic and Other Non-Biodegradable Garbage (Regulation of Use and Disposal) Act. However, the ordinance cleared Sunday is more stringent, with a fine ranging from Rs 1,000 to Rs 10,000, or a month's imprisonment, for first-time defaulters.
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Although it's only home to about 300 000 people, Chiang Mai is the 2nd most populous city in Thailand (Bangkok has 10 million). Historically, some of the more remote Thai provinces have been less than complete in their acquiescence to the central government in Bangkok, which helps to explain why Chiang Mai is known as Thailand's "Northern Capital;" to many people in the north, Bangkok is so distant (both physically and conceptually) that the regional administration in Chiang Mai is the only relevant government.
Touted by tour operators as the "gateway to the north," Chiang Mai is situated at the southern end of the infamous "Golden Triangle," where Thailand, Burma (aka Myanmar), and Laos meet at the Maehkong (Mekong) river. This part of Thailand was once internationally renowned for it's huge opium industry, but the central Thai administration has tightened its grip on the area recently, and much of the production has moved across the border into Burma.
Chiang Mai itself is a remarkably multicultural city, with (in addition to ethnic Thais, who are the majority) a large ethnic Chinese population, hill tribe(?) people, Burmese and Laotian immigrants, and quite a few ex-pats who can't stand the noise, dirt, traffic, heat, etc. (I could keep going, but I won't), of Bangkok. The city is a popular destination in and of itself, but also because of the numerous trekking companies that offer multi-day treks through the surrounding mountains. Hannah did one of these treks shortly after she arrived in Thailand, and this was again the principal purpose of our trip to Chiang Mai.
We left on Friday evening; the trip from Bangkok to Chiang Mai takes about 9hrs by road, so we took an overnight bus. We arrived Saturday morning, made arrangements to leave on a trek the following day, and then set out to see as much of Chiang Mai as we could in 1 day.
The 1st thing that we noticed was the temperature. Having spent almost 8 months in Thailand, I had not yet experienced a day in which the temperature didn't reach at least 30°; the temperature in frigid Chiang Mai, however, topped out at about 27°.
Because many of the important Chiang Mai sites are outside of the town, we decided that the best way to see them would be by rented scooter. We were able to see many of the important wats(?) (some dating from the early part of the millennium), including Wat Phrathat Doi Suthep, a very significant mountain-top wat to the north-west of the city. We also made it to an impressive nearby waterfall, and the somewhat less impressive royal winter palace.
In the evening, we briefly visited Chiang Mai's famous night market. Besides being an excellent place to find Thai and hill tribe handicrafts at very low prices, the Chiang Mai night market is interesting in that the roots of the market can be traced back several centuries to when Chiang Mai lay on the caravan route by which merchants from southern China brought their goods through to Burmese ports for conveyance around the world.
The next morning, after some anxious moments and one aborted attempt, we set out on a trek (the company that we original registered with wasn't able to take us because one of the other trekkers was sick, and without her and her friend there weren't enough people to justify a trip — fortunately they hooked us up with another company, whose truck we literally chased down the highway).
We spent the next 3 days walking, bamboo-rafting, and riding elephants through the jungle, led by our guide, Rose (pronounced "loss," of course) and accompanied by a veritable contingent of Dutch people. We spent 1 night in a jungle camp, and the other in a hill tribe village, where we were able to watch the hill tribe people peform their traditional dances and songs and we were even invited/coerced into trying to copy their uneven dance steps. We saw some fairly stunning scenery, standing on top of one mountain and looking down at others (some of which were actually across the border in Burma). Although the mountains aren't particularly large (generally in the 2000m range), the mere fact that they're foothills to the Himalayas makes them impressive.
In participating in a trek, we could hardly avoid contemplating the relative merits of trekking through hill tribe villages. That the treks impact the hill tribe people is certain; that this impact is predominantly negative is less so. While the fact that bunches of boorish farangs(?) periodically come tramping through their villages certainly interferes with their ability to live the traditional lives of their various peoples, these traditional lives are far from idyllic. Hunger and disease are common, and as much as we might have been interfering with his ability to live a traditional life, I can hardly regret the fact that we were able to give some antibacterial cream to a hill tribe farmer with an infected foot (he'd been bitten by a scorpion). I can certainly sympathize with people who say that the glut of trekking companies in Chiang Mai is destroying the hill tribes' way of life, and this is certainly not an unequivocally positive development; neither is it unequivocally negative, however. To a certain extent, I think that we just have to realize that change happens, and that in some situations there's not a whole lot we can do to stop it, even if we don't like it.
In any case, at the end of the trek, our guide generously hustled us back to Chiang Mai just in time to catch the overnight bus back to Bangkok, where we arrived dark and early (around 5) the next morning.
You might wish to look at the Chiang Mai photos in the photo album.


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International Hydrology Prize 2006
Prix International d'Hydrologie 2006
Prof. William James SHUTTLEWORTH
The 2006 International Hydrology Prize has been presented to W.J. Shuttleworth by A. Askew, IAHS President, A. Szöllösi-Nagy, Director of the UNESCO Water Sciences Division and B. Steward, President of the WMO-CHy, representing A. Tyagi, Director of the WMO Hydrology and Water Resources Departement.
The ceremony took place on July 3, 2006, at UNESCO Headquarters during the IHP-UNESCO Intergovernmental Council
Citation by Dr Arthur ASKEW, IAHS President
William James Shuttleworth – Jim as he is known to us all - was born in the United Kingdom in the 1940s and from 1964 until 1971 he studied high energy nuclear physics at the Univer-sity of Manchester. He obtained a bachelors degree in 1967, a Masters in 1968 and his Doc-torate in 1971. He then spent a year as a research assistant in this same field before "seeing the light" and deciding to bring his undoubted abilities in scientific research and mathematics to bear on fundamental questions facing the hydrological sciences. Accordingly, he spent the next 21 years at the Institute of Hydrology in Wallingford where he rose to the position of Head of the Hydrological Processes Division.
During this period Jim established several links with the scientific community in the USA and in 1993 he crossed the Atlantic on a more permanent basis to take up the post of Professor of Hydrometeorology in the Department of Hydrology and Water Resources at the University of Arizona, a position he holds to this day. In 1997 he added to his responsibilities that of Joint Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Science at the same university. Three years ago, he took on a further responsibility at the university as Director of its Science and Technology Center for Sustainability of Semi-Arid Hydrology and Riparian Areas.
Jim is a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, the American Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union, and a Lifetime Member of the British Hydrological Society. He has written or contributed to 20 technical monographs and book chapters and over 140 scientific papers. He has served on numerous scientific committees and panels, particularly those concerned with large scale water cycle and climate studies. For example, he is cur-rently a member of U.S. National Research Council's Climate Research Committee, the U.S. National Committee for IUGG, the U.S. National Committee for the International Hydrology Program, and the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Large-scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia. He also served for six years on both the Scientific Steering Com-mittee for the HELP Initiative and the Strategic Advisory Group for IAHS' PUB initiative. He was a founding member of what is now IAHS's International Commission on the Coupled Land-Atmosphere System and is currently an Associate Editor of the Hydrological Sciences Journal.
This is a brief and factual summary of Professor Shuttleworth's career, but it is not the reason for which he is being awarded the International Hydrology Prize for 2006.
In the 1960s, hydrology was often regarded as a sub-discipline of engineering, geography or geology. It has now grown to become an important discipline of earth system science. Throughout his career, Jim has made major contributions to this evolution, both through inno-vative research and novel scientific thinking at the interface between hydrology and other earth science disciplines, and through his outstanding leadership of international research programs. In so doing, he has motivated a new generation of young hydrologists to move be-yond their established boundaries and work within hydrology as a major branch of earth sys-tem science. That is why he is being awarded the Prize this year.
Early in his career as a hydrological scientist, Jim developed novel theories and experimental methods in the area of natural evaporation and his contribution to this field is so well recog-nized that he is regarded within the hydrological community as a leading international expert on the subject. He led the team which, for the first time, created the capability to make routine measurements of surface-atmosphere exchanges using the then-novel eddy correlation technique and as such is the father of the now huge international networks of surface sta-tions, such as Fluxnet, Euroflux Ameriflux, etc, that measure surface exchanges of energy, water and carbon using this method.
Professor Shuttleworth was among the first hydrologists to understand the importance of hy-drologic science to climate and weather prediction. He was a pioneer, not only in improving the representation of surface exchanges in meteorological models, but also in seeking the data required to improve such representation. In the context of that work, and through inter-national entities including the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), the International Geosphere-Bioshere Programme (IGBP), the International Hydrology Programme (IHP), and by organizing relevant symposia at IAHS General Assemblies, Professor Shuttleworth emerged as a leading member of the international community responsible for organizing the large multi-disciplinary research teams required to address these issues.
Jim was also among the first hydrologists to recognize the importance of the interface be-tween hydrology and ecology and to understand the need for combining an understanding of land-surface hydrology with an understanding of oceanic processes
Recognizing the growing need for safe water for an expanding world population, Professor Shuttleworth has, over the past decade, been a major advocate for the directed deployment of hydrological understanding in support of societal needs. As mentioned earlier, his contri-butions have been critical to the creation and development of the Hydrology for Environment Life and Policy (HELP) initiative, which is jointly sponsored by UNESCO and WMO, and the Prediction in Ungauged Basins (PUB) programme of IAHS.
In summary, Professor Shuttleworth is widely recognized for his innovative, international leadership over more than thirty years, contributing to the growth of hydrology into a major discipline of earth system science. It is therefore with great pleasure that, together with WMO and UNESCO, the Association awards him the International Hydrology Prize for 2006.
Response by Prof. W.J. SHUTTLEWORTH
President Askew, Secretary General Hubert, Directors Szöllösi-Nagy and Tyagi, Members of the Intergovernmental Council for the International Hydrology Program, International Hydrological Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen:
I am sincerely grateful to the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, the UNESCO International Hydrological Program, and WMO Hydrology and Water Resources Program for jointly bestowing upon me the huge honor of receiving the International Hydrology Prize for 2006. I am humbled by the generosity of the citation; I appreciate enormously the initiative of my friends in nominating me, and gratefully acknowledge the support of hydrological colleagues in the several IAHS National Committees worldwide who supported my nomination. I recognize the International Hydrology prize as the most prestigious award that can be made for contributions to hydrological science and engineering, and it is a source of immense personal pride that my name will now join a comparatively short list of those whom I have for many years respected as the international giants in hydrology.
I share this pride with my family, many of whom are present here today. I share it with my wife, Hazel, my lifelong partner and friend; my four sons, Craig, Matthew, Nicholas, and Jonathan; my daughter, Amy, and daughters-in-law, Emma and Catherine; and my eight grandchildren. I also share it with my ex-colleagues at the Institute of Hydrology and current colleagues at the University of Arizona and the SAHRA Center, and with all my fellow travelers in the journey of life, the outstanding scientists in numerous countries with whom I have personally shared the great adventure of scientific discovery.
It is with particular pride that I accept this honor in the context of Intergovernmental Council for the International Hydrology Program and on behalf of the U.S. hydrological community as a whole. It is particularly relevant that a U.S. hydrologist is receiving the IHP in this setting this year, because the United States has recently established the U.S. National Committee for the IHP and I serve on this committee. We look forward to contributing to IHP by providing recommendations to the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO in the area of hydrology and, in due course, to the United States once again playing a full and active role in the Intergovernmental Council of IHP.
In his citation, President Askew spoke of my contribution over many years in the form of theories and experimental methods in the area of natural evaporation. It is true that since I first became a hydrologist, or more correctly a hydrometeorologist, the complex problem of understanding and describing mathematically the processes that control the movement of this "invisible" form of water have provided an intellectual challenge and consistent component in my research. They still do today. In retrospect, it is amazing to see just how far this subject has come during my career and it has been great fun to contribute to that growth in understanding and to the capability to measure evaporation routinely.
In his citation, President Askew also spoke of my providing international leadership through a transition period that has involved immense growth in the scope, participation, and importance of hydrology. Hydrology has now become not only a major component of earth system science but, in my mind, the most important and relevant component. Let me respond to Arthur's generous praise by speaking of privilege. I celebrate the privilege that I have had by belonging to a generation of hydrologists who have had the extreme good fortune to live and work during a period when hydrology grew by exploring its interface with other environmental sciences, and by learning to communicate and work effectively with other environmental scientists. If, as President Askew says, I was among those who first recognized the importance of hydrology interfacing effectively with other earth science disciplines, and if I contributed leadership during the change, this was my privilege and my pleasure.
The truth is that water is an important aspect of many processes in the different earth science disciplines. Consequently, for scientists in other disciples, working alongside hydrologists is not just essential, it happens naturally and easily. Water is, for example, arguably the most important influence on the geomorphic evolution of the solid earth. Water is the primary mechanism by which energy is exchanged between the earth's surface and the atmosphere above, and a crucial aspect of energy transfer within the atmosphere. There is a greenhouse effect, it is part of the natural climate system and water vapor is the primary greenhouse gas. Without it the earth would be several tens of degrees cooler. It is uncertainty in the effect of water related processes in the atmosphere that is the primary cause of ambiguity in computer model predictions of future climate. Over the last few decades we have come to understand better how changes in oceanic surface water temperature, such as El Nino, are related to changes in precipitation and hydrologic flows over land, and how intimately related are the ecological and hydrological process that occur in the natural environment. This is true everywhere, but it is particularly true in the semi-arid environments which cover approximately one third of the globe. The growth in understanding of how important water is within the earth system has been massive over the last three decades. Much is now known, but much is still to be learned.
But water is not just a critical controlling aspect in the processes that govern the complex earth system that is always changing, through both natural and human influences. Water is also usually the most important medium through which the earth's environment influences human welfare. The sustained provision of safe water for human use is a priority in a world that is changing in response to increasing population pressures on water systems. If, as stated in the citation, I have helped to raise consciousness of the need to improve communication between the physical and biological sciences and the human sciences, and of the need for the directed deployment of hydrological understanding in support of societal needs, this is a further source of pride to me.
Finally, the citation speaks of me motivating a new generation of young hydrologists to move beyond their established boundaries and work within hydrology as a major branch of earth system science. Let me respond to this, and conclude, by offering the same three pieces of advice that I gave once before to young scientists on a similar occasion. First, in one's progress through life there are basically two ways to proceed: either to take safe, small steps or make risky leaps forward, recognizing that in the latter case one is bound to fail about half of the time. In my experience, the latter way ultimately leads to more rapid progress and is certainly more exciting! Do not be afraid of risks. Second, as a young scientist, respect the established peers in your field, and listen to what they say, but don't necessarily believe them! Always question. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, remember that it is very difficult to keep your own end of the boat afloat while trying to sink the person at the other end. Water is the life-blood of the earth system, and water is a commodity we necessarily all must share. In this respect, we are all in the same boat.
Distinguished colleagues, I thank you once again for the immense honor of awarding me the International Hydrology Prize. I accept it with pride and I will treasure it.


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Ormond Beach Observer Monday, Sep. 21, 2015 4 years ago
sidelines: Father Lopez cross country No. 1
The Father Lopez cross country boys, ranked first in the 1A state division, finished another meet amid the top competition, placing second, a fourth consecutive Top 10 finish, at the University of Florida Mountain Dew Invitational Saturday, Sept. 19.
Nick Theriault led the Green Wave with a 17th-place finish, and Matthew Roof followed in 20th; Noah van der Burgt, 21st; Tanner Rosolino, 27th; Chase Massi, 45th.
This was the best finish for the boys in an invitational meet, which had 41 schools compete.
"Since I took over as the boy's head coach four years ago, it has truly been a Cinderella story for us," Coach Sue O'Malley said. "From going to regions, finishing 22nd two years ago, to 10th last year and now possible podium position is unbelievable. Most of these young men have been so motivated since their freshman year. They have believed in themselves and me. They are focused and determined now more than ever. They give a lot of their talent and gifts to our Lord, knowing that He is their ultimate coach not me."
In the girls' race, the Lady Green Wave placed eighth out of 41 teams. Bryanna Pado placed 10th with a personal record time, and Annie Morejon took 41st.
The Green Wave will next run in the Bales & Trails Invitational Saturday, Sept. 26, at Bartram Trail High School.
Lady Bucs, record breakers
It was a great evening for the Mainland Lady Buccaneers, who swept Deltona, for the second time this season, 25-10, 25-15 and 25-17 Thursday, Sept. 17, at Mainland.
Tori Huffman, who had 27 assists, broke the school's career assists record (read more about her in the column), and Kate Litke had eight aces, 26 points on her serve and 19 digs, which helped her break the school's digs record. As the libero, Litke now has 589 digs and counting.
"Well, with such a great team this year, it has been a lot easier to get more digs because I know I can count on them to help me out and back me up," she said. "I'm really happy, and I feel much honored to have reached my goal."
Kick it clinic
Chevrolet is hosting a free youth soccer instructional clinic at the Ormond Beach Soccer Club for boys and girls ages 6-14 Thursday, Sept. 24, at the Ormond Beach Sports Complex at 700 Hull Road.
Instruction will be provided by the Soccer.com staff. Players will break out into age groups and rotate through stations to learn the essentials of dribbling, passing, shooting and more. Special Needs participants of all ages are also welcome to attend. Spots are available on a first come, first serve basis.
Registration is available at http://soccer.youthsportsclinics.com. Select "Orlando" in the drop-down menu and click "Go," enter the password "kickit" (all lowercase, no spaces) and click "Submit"
Click "Register Now" for desired session and enter registration information in each of the fields provided. Click "Add Participant" on the next screen to add players.
Each child must have a completed waiver to participate. For more information, call 527-0611.
The "Greatest" Weekend
The Greatest Save benefit weekend will be making its way to Volusia County and will include multiple activities, beginning with a celebrity softball game that will feature former Major League Baseball players including Hall of Famer Rollie Fingers and local celebrities at 5 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 26, at Jackie Robinson Ballpark.
The Greatest Save Hall of Fame banquet, where law enforcement from the surrounding areas and the teen PSA winners are set to be recognized for their work to protect children and teens from those who would harm them, will be held at 6 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 27, at Hammock Beach Resort.
All attendees will be given a baseball for autographs and can participate in the meet and greet at 5 p.m. The banquet will include auction items and concluding with a Hall of Fame Q&A.
On the event's final day, there will be a TGS Celebrity Golf Tournament beginning at 9 a.m. Monday, Sept. 28, at the Ocean Course at Hammock Beach Resort. For more information, call 872-2371.
From practice player to team leader to record holder
Mid-season high school football grades


Hyper-V is Microsoft's virtualisation solution that can be installed with Windows. Visual Studio device emulators for Windows 10 Mobile rely on Hyper-V for the guest system. While this may work in most cases, it has the major disadvantage that Hyper-V is running permanently when installed, unlike application hypervisors like VMware or VirtualBox. With the Hyper-V hypervisor already running, these other virtualisation solutions cannot work properly, for example 64-bit support is no longer available and performance is degraded because the VT-x CPU hardware extensions are not available inside a VM guest (which your entire Windows desktop will then be). When using device emulators for Android or other VM solutions for other work, Hyper-V interferes badly with those virtualisation applications.
The only option that Microsoft allows is uninstalling the Hyper-V role from Windows. This takes a short time and then restarts the system. It is also a bit hidden within the classic control panel in a lenghty list of features. When installing it again, you need to know which features to select.
Another solution is to configure the BCD boot configuration file to set a parameter that enables or disables Hyper-V on system startup. This parameter can be set with the command line tool bcdedit.exe and Administrator privileges. Again, this is not an intuitive way to work with multiple virtualisation solutions.
Hyper-V Switch automates the second described procedure, reading and writing the BCD file, displaying the current state and offering a one-click action to toggle Hyper-V and restart the computer. The restart is still required because to toggle Hyper-V usage, Windows needs to be booted either without permanent virtualisation or as a virtualised guest from the beginning. Also this information is only available (and can be changed) with Administrator privileges.
To avoid the UAC (Administrator) confirmation for every start of this program, you can create a scheduled task to run this program file, set no trigger, activate the "Highest privileges" option and then create a batch file to run something like schtasks /run /tn HyperVSwitchTaskName.
There's a public Git repository of HyperVSwitch on GitHub.
Created on 2016-03-01, updated on 2016-08-12.


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Reverend Jack Abel
Senior Director of Spiritual Care
MBA, MDiv
Addiction Spirituality, Interfaith Chaplaincy, Spirituality in Clinical Supervision and Self-Care
Rev. Jack Abel, MDiv, MBA, is Senior Director of Spiritual Care. In this role, he provides oversight for spiritual care services on the Pennsylvania campus, where spiritual counselors and interns offer a mix of individual, psychoeducational, and more experiential group services, depending on patient needs and preferences.
Rev. Jack is also the principal presider for the historic Caron Chapel Service, a gathering of family members, alumni, and current patients for a weekly celebration of recovery. As part of this, Rev. Jack oversees the chapel music program, which invites musician patients to share their creativity with the Caron community as a therapeutic element in their treatment experience.
A popular teacher and speaker, Rev. Jack has led efforts to establish and affirm clinical spiritual care as a core component in the panel of disciplines that shape integrated clinical addiction care in the United States and around the world. He helped to design and launch Caron's unique program in clinical pastoral education (CPE) that educates chaplains in the work of addiction-related spiritual care.
Rev. Jack began work at Caron in 2008 as the Director of Pastoral Services and worked collaboratively with Father Bill Hultberg to evolve the chapel program and clinical spiritual care services on Caron's Pennsylvania campus until Father Bill's retirement in 2015.
An ordained and authorized minister of the United Church of Christ, Rev. Jack previously served as an elder and endorsed chaplain in the United Methodist Church and pursued advanced studies in sacramental theology at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. He holds a Master of Divinity summa cum laude from Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C., and also an MBA from Wilmington University in Delaware. A graduate of the interfaith studies program at the New Seminary in New York, Rev. Jack completed his undergraduate studies in mathematics and music at Hampshire College in Massachusetts and began his liberal arts studies at the New School for Social Research in New York City.
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We are adding EIGHT new classes to our schedule starting the week of January 16th, 2012!!!
Gracie Tampa is now offering TWO extra Level One Conditioning Classes in the mornings from 8:30 – 9:30 am on Mondays and Wednesdays.
We are also adding a late night MMA Section Class that will run from 9:00pm – 10:00pm for those who are interested in later training times. This class is labeled at MMA Section 5.
We have also decided to give our MMA Section members access to ONE STRIKING CAP Class per week on Thursdays from 8-9. This will give our newer members a taste of what being in our CAP Program is like.
Lastly, we have added 2 more CAP GRAPPLING Classes in the morning as well as another CAP STRIKING Class!!
Nice!!!! With my schedule this is perfect!!!!!


While I didn't focus on shopping when we were in Japan I did take the opportunity to hunt down some beauty buys ranging from cult classics to things that sounded intriguing.
Shu Uemera make two eyelash curlers a classic curler and what is called an S curler ( S for Small). Both feature a silver metal construction and silicone pads.
Shu Uemera curlers have a cult like following, right down to being mentioned in The Devil Wears Prada.
Much like any other eyelash curler when open you set against your eye, get lashes in and squeeze for a few seconds. The classic curler only requires you do this once, maybe twice to get your lashes curled. With the S curler you need to work your way along the lash line to curl as you prefer.
In the classic styler curler size (as I mentioned in the video) can be a challenge.
In the S curler the additional work and time that it takes could definitely be seen as a con but for me is offset by the additional control and lack of pinching my eyes that has happened with the original curler.
Will I buy them again / would I recommend them?
If you watched the video you'll know that the classic style curler was just too big to comfortably curl my lashes so it wouldn't be on my purchase list personally, but the S curler I would recommend no matter what size you are or how long your lashes are, it might be a little more work but the control it provides is absolutely worth it.
In short if you have a petite face, small eyes, or prefer precision the S curler may be the better purchase for you.