Happy Happy Wednesday to everyone. I know last week I said I would try to post more, but time just got away from me and here I am a week later, finally getting to post.
Before I get to everything I am knitting and everything I started.....There is a new really cool pattern out there called Merge....I know this is in my near future....now I just need to find the right colors to make it with! I did not want to steal the picture from the designer...so please click the word "Merge" and it will take you to the pictures!
This past weekend I went to Jaime's niece's graduation....it was nice. I took my Viajante to knit on. The coliseum we were in was pretty cold and we had a vent right above us....so as I knit on Viajante, Jaime put the already knitted part on his legs (he was wearing shorts), so the knitting came in really handy!
I am a little behind on the Viajante. I realized that today is the deadline for the Knit Purl Hunter KAL where we made Ridgely, so I needed to get my knitting needles a going on that to get it finished....which pushed off some of my Viajante knitting. I would need to knit 19.5 grams tonight to get all caught up (which will probably not happen) but I am hoping to catch up this weekend....maybe even start the lace part). Here it is so far.
Now to the Ridgley I neeeded to get done......well, I knit till 11:45 pm (which is SUPER LATE FOR ME) and I finished....I let it block over night.
I also started the fingerless mitts KAL that I am doing for my LYS (Inskein Yarns)......I changed up the cast on. The pattern says to cast on, knit 4 rows, then do a row of k2tog, yo, then knit 4 more rows (same thing at the end of glove)...Once glove is done, you fold the knitting at the k2tog, yo row and seam it to form the picot edging. Well, for the start, I decided to do a provisional cast on (video here), knit 4 rows, knit the k2tog, yo row, knit 3 rows, and on the 4th row, I took one stitch from the 4th row, and one from the provisional cast on and did a k2tog all around so the picot edging is already done. Now, for the bind off, I will do it the way the pattern states. But this is just one less thing to seam up.
Here is the very start of each....not much, but at least started!
I also started one more new project....Yes, I know I am crazy, but I just could not help it. One of my BFF's (Darlene) texted me on Saturday stating she wanted to knit a certain shawl. It is Jared Flood's Leaves of Grass Shawl....it takes 1375 yards. She did a lot of research on the pattern (sometimes she picks some doosey patterns that are really hard) and a lot of the notes said it was a pretty easy shawl except for the cast one. It calls for a circular cast one. I have never done one, but I think I did pretty good (I did have to re-start a couple of times). Darlene had bought me some beautiful Wollmeise Lace yarn in colorway Wasabi last year and I have been dying to make something with it....well, now I have the perfect pattern for it. Here is the start of it (it will sit on back burner till Viajante is done....but I had to get it started)....Darlene is also knitting this pattern in her Wollmeise Lace in colorway Lila Ludmilla.
Guess what else happened this week? It is time for CAMP LOOPY 2013! I am SUPER EXCITED! This week is "Camp Loopy Store Week" so I got 20% off some Desert Vista DyeworksViso in Colorway Spumani.
This first project challenge is any pattern that uses one skein of yarn at least 375 yards. I have been wanting to write my own pattern for a toe up socks with an afterthought heel. I know there are some patterns out there but they are cuff down. So I think I will just write one up, test knit it myself (along with Darlene) and then I will probably post the pattern here. With an Afterthought Heel, I will be able to use up a lot of this awesome self striping yarn (very little going to stash left overs). Camp Loopy Here I come!!!
I hope to get a lot of knitting done this weekend as Jaime will be going on his bi-annual motorcycle ride on his Harley to New Mexico with a bunch of his buddies.
Happy Happy Knitting, and Happy Happy Wednesday! Have a great week!!
PS.....Go Spurs Go.....we won game 5 last night (remember, I was up late) and I hope we take game 6 tomorrow night, but I also hope I am not up late enough to watch it!
Ridgely is beautiful! Lots of great knitting. Go,girl, go.


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The day of Passover was near as Jesus taught all who would hear him.
My brothers it was required that Jesus would die for our sins in order that we might be forgiven of our sins. Because of his death, and resurrection he has and will bring forth much fruit. Just as we are the fruit that he brought forth we are to go about teaching this truth to the lost world in order that His fruit continue to rise up from this dying world.
Brothers, here Jesus says that those who love their life in this world shall loose it. He then says that he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. We all know someone who cares too much about the things of this world, and loves to possess all that he can attain. These are those who love their life in this world, and thus are in danger of loosing their eternal life. Do you see here that we are to hate our life in this world that we shall keep our eternal life. Look around you at all of the suffering, the hatred of God and all Christians, the government who serves themselves and not its people, the diseases which go on crippling and killing, and the pavertion that is rampant in this day. This time in which we live now when people call good evil and evil good. Why would we as Christians not hate his life in this world. There is nothing of this world that we should love.
We are to serve Jesus our Lord, and are to follow him until we are with him.
Jesus says here that he came for the express purpose of dying for our sins that through his death, burial, and resurrection we might know eternal life.
Brothers Jesus is the light in this world even until this day. Without his light in this hour would we all be in darkness even as the lost world is in darkness now. The Bible tells us that they are blind and can not see, they are deft and can not hear. It also says that they are wretched, blind, miserable, poor, and naked, and yet they thank that they are rich. Don't think that you are rich because you possess the things of this world for you are not.
I know so many people who love the praise of men, and seek after that praise. These are those who love this life and are in grave danger of loosing their eternal life.
Brothers, don't walk as the lost world walks in darkness. But, rather walk in the light of Jesus our Lord and Savior. We are children of God, and thus the children of light. Just remember that the lost world loves the things of this world. We are to love God, Jesus, and the eternal life to come. Praise God!
Praise God and may God bless you my brothers in Christ Jesus.


A lovely comforting side dish to go with.....whatever you like really! My recipe serves 4 but you can go as big as you need to!
Lightly grease an ovenproof dish with butter.
Place a layer of potato in the bottom of the dish, then a layer of leeks & about 1/3 of the cheese then season with salt & pepper. Repeat the layer finishing with potato & the rest of the cheese.
Place the cream, milk, garlic & bay leaf in a saucepan & bring to a boil.
Remove from the heat & carefully pour over the potato & leek layers.
Cover with foil & place in the oven for 30 minutes then remove the foil & cook for a further 30 minutes.


Puddle jump in style! Maude rain coat consists of frosted vinyl with black color-blocking at the sleeves, top back and hood center.
Classic coat fit with raglan seams and on-seam pockets. Vent opening at back upper panel. Full coverage hood. Black binding. Black snaps.


Five fab vegetable cake recipes. The 2014 edition of Wellington On A Plate's Bake Club ('like a book club, but tastier') is underway and next week's challenge is to make a cake that includes vegetables as a star ingredient.
TV & digital personality Jill Simonian shares unexpected parenting styles & tips she picked up from performing musical theater.
From being friends with your kids to taking time to power down, Jessica Alba shares her parenting tips.


Display your devotion to the Arizona Cardinals with the Arizona Cardinals Denny Ukulele by Woodrow. This handsome Arizona Cardinals Denny Ukulele is an officially-licensed NFL product and features the Cardinals logo on a background of Cardinal Red.
This one-of-a-kind ukulele features a gorgeous rosewood fingerboard and a linden wood body with nylon strings. The Arizona Cardinals Denny Ukulele also includes an Oxford fabric protective case for easy storage and transport.
Show off your Big Red pride and order an Arizona Cardinals Denny Ukulele Today!


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Classe permettant de gérer les exceptions du projet non liées au namespace \hyperlink{namespace_t_i_m_e}{T\+I\+M\+E}.

{\ttfamily \#include $<$Calendar.\+h$>$}

\subsection*{Public Member Functions}
\begin{DoxyCompactItemize}
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\hyperlink{class_calendar_exception_af4a976332f7659bdd866926f0145a780}{Calendar\+Exception} (const string \&message)
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\begin{DoxyCompactList}\small\item\em Retourne le message d\textquotesingle{}erreur. \end{DoxyCompactList}\end{DoxyCompactItemize}

\subsection{Detailed Description}
Classe permettant de gérer les exceptions du projet non liées au namespace \hyperlink{namespace_t_i_m_e}{T\+I\+M\+E}.

\subsection{Constructor \& Destructor Documentation}
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Constructeur à partir d\textquotesingle{}un string.

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Retourne le message d\textquotesingle{}erreur.

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Q: How a prototype property works in memory? If prototype is shared between all instances, how a prototype property works?
function Foo() {

}

Foo.prototype.property = 1;

var a = new Foo();
var b = new Foo();

a.property = 50;

console.log(b.property) // why this line shows 1?

If it's not shared, what's the difference between a prototype property and a constructor property in memory?
function Foo() {

}

Foo.prototype.property = 1;

vs
function Foo() {
     this.property = 1;
}

Additional doubts:

*

*How this two different ways works in memory?

*Which one uses more memory and why?

*When I create a method in prototype it makes sense to me that it is shared between all instances, I think I'll have only one method loaded in memory, but I can't understand how a property works.

A: function Foo() {

}

// Hey, everybody, if anyone asks you about 'property'
// unless you have your own, use this one.
Foo.prototype.property = 1;

var a = new Foo();
var b = new Foo();

// Hey, you! You're special. You get your own property.
// This one covers the shared one.
a.property = 50;

// Hey you, B! You're using the shared one.
console.log(b.property) // why this line shows 1?

That is kind of the basic difference between 'prototype' and a local property.
If, on an object, you ask for a property that object doesn't have, it runs to its parent and ask "Hey!  Can I use yours?"  This goes all they  back to the root object.
For real fun, and a sure fire way to get your co-workers to hate you, set:
Object.prototype.something = true;

I'll be available everywhere and break all sorts of stuff.

// Everyone share this copy of property
function Foo() {

}

Foo.prototype.property = 1;

// Hey everybody! You get your OWN copy of property! Ain't you special.
function Foo() {
     this.property = 1;
}

A: The difference between a prototype and a constructor can be shown by modifying them after you create an object:
var a = new Foo();
var b = new Foo();

Foo.prototype.property = 50;
console.log(b.property); // This will show 50

If you put the assignment in the constructor, changing it will not affect objects that were already created.
In memory, the prototype is an object that's shared by all objects built from it. So instead of each object having its own copy of property, they all refer to a single prototype object; this uses less memory. If you refer to a property in an object, it first checks to see if it has its own property by that name. If not, it goes through the prototype chain, looking for the property.
There's no difference between methods and other properties in this regard. A method is just a property whose value happens to be a function. It's just that it's more common to share methods between all instances of a class than to share values. But a prototype property is a useful way to give every instance a default value for that property.

A:
If prototype is shared between all instances, how a prototype property works?

An object's [[Prototype]] is only accessed when resolving property names to get property values. When assigning to a property, only the object itself is checked.
> function Foo() {}
>
> Foo.prototype.property = 1;
>
> var a = new Foo(); var b = new Foo();
>
> a.property = 50;
>
> console.log(b.property) // why this line shows 1?

That line shows 1 because when doing the assignment:
a.property = 50;

the object a is checked for a property named property and, since it doesn't have one, it's added and initialised with a value of 50. Then when you do:
console.log(b.property) // why this line shows 1?

The object b doesn't have a property property so it's [[Prototype]] is checked and the property is found there with a value of 1, so that is returned.

If it's not shared, what's the difference between a prototype property and a constructor property in memory?

Your term "constructor property" should really be "instance property". Properties on the prototype are only accessed when getting a value, then are never accessed when setting a value.

How this two different ways works in memory?

They are separate things, in one case you have created a property on the constructor's prototype and in the other a property on the object itself. How it "works in memory" is up to the browser author and really of no concern.

Which one uses more memory and why?

That's irrelevant really. Even if there was a difference, it would be tiny and insignificant in the scheme of things.

When I create a method in prototype it makes sense to me that it is shared between all instances, I think I'll have only one method loaded in memory, but I can't understand how a property works.

"Methods" are just properties too. You access them by reading the value, the same as reading the value of any property on an Object or its [[Prototype]] chain. But when you assign to an Object property, it is placed directly on the object itself, the [[Prototype]] chain is not considered.

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Camera collecting is a very hard to explain phenomenon I would assume most collectors are photographers - or at least, had developed a keen interest in photography before prior hooking on in such a luxurious interest. Possibly most collectors began from couldn't find extra time to pursue further in their respective photographic journal and slowly generate in a interest in camera/lens collecting. Such inner passion can be hard to digest by photographers in why owning such a beauty in possession and yet not making any attempt to bring out its best as a imaging tool. I guess one of the reason was being, you will realize the Xtra-premium it has on the hardware if it has preserved its originality. There is no doubt that it requires financially stable to get into the top camera/lenses league but it is hard to imagine a good collector had not had any interest in photography - rare but not in majority group. I am not trying to grease anyone, but it does take a tasteful personality to target what he intends to collect. A good example is given below over why a well preserved hardware can fetch extraordinary premium over a used item. Premium is all about rarity + condition.
Description in auction literature and see how in the eyes of a neutral party in used , collectors market perspective (extracted from Leicashop® auction":- " ... Here is a black paint M3 in 100% as - new original condition, technically perfect, still L-sealed, with a matching mint black paint Summilux 1.4/50mm as well as a lens hood 12521G and a M3 box without serial number. This camera is the most perfect unrestored black painted M3 in original condition we have ever seen. A unique opportunity!...". The rated condition of the camera is "A". With a late serial number for M3 black 109779x. The start Price for the auction is already priced at EUR 9.000-00; while the hammer price reaches an astonishing EURO 38.125-00 !
Next issue is, when combine rarity with extraordinary premium of a mechanize often attracts some attention to replicate - or fake to be the exact. we have seen faked high price collectibles of MP models in the used market before. Camera with one-level down could also see some ill-minded genious-at-work at the backward. With all the relevant information readily available to the ill-intended, this could help to encourage new/unseasoned entry collectors. IS counterfeiting cameras difficult > ? YES & cost could be high if assuming it is made from scratch and hard to get the right feel of an original. We have seen replicas of Zeiss Contax, or Leica copies everywhere during the difficult times after the war. But it is not impossible trying to make something a like from other readily available and cheaper from similar models. Here is a top class work - it is NOT a fake - as long as it had been mentioned w/no intention to cheat.
A very beautiful conversion by a former Leitz employee, a chrome body was converted using original black paint parts (black paint top plate and all still available other parts), chrome lugs, some parts from M4, the camera is in perfect working order and in near mint condition, with black Summicron 2/50mm. Don't be surprised. This converted M3 Black, despite was not an original M3 black but probably as a form of acknowledgment of its high quality conversion "craftsmanship", it can still fetch a very good premium at a hammer price of EURO 2,160-00* in an open auction.
The illustrations below carry a good intention at times, it is always safer to trade with reputable outlets rather than thinking you had just got a bargain of the century, it might end up with coughing blood later..hehe.
Can anyone explain what is "TYPE 1" in this Leica M3 black paint version as stated by the online Auctioneer Photo Arsenal@Ebay ? I have provided two explosive views for you to help me to add more info in this topic. I guess probably it was refering to M3 Double Stroke Model as the rabbit ears were still the old-style design. As the S/N is approaching 1 milllion mark, just wish to get a firm answer.


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Fire And Ice On Display From Arsenal
By Michael Bedard
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Four days, two games, two incredibly important results. We can talk about famous losses this season with Zagreb and Olympiacos but on Tuesday Arsenal put forward a win that could become famous if they continue to execute in the UCL.
Against Watford over the weekend the waiting was the hardest part as for an hour Watford frustrated the Arsenal side. Compared to efforts where we've seen impatient efforts lead to opportunities on the wrong end the Gunners let the game come to them and when Ozil's won penalty went forward for a Sanchez goal there was a breath of relief. In keeping with our form Giroud and Ramsey followed it up making for a comfortable defense to the death.
That brought us to Tuesday and a showdown with Bayern Munich. Taking anything away from Bayern would be a mistake. They're a team that win and win in spectacular fashion on a weekly basis. When any team takes them down in any competition it's a big win. What Arsenal did on Tuesday was a table turning example showcasing the fight and vigor of this team.
Throughout the opening stages Bayern and Arsenal traded blows at a tremendous pace. This was a game that you show non-fans to convert them. Two teams put on a masterclass of attacking, defending, and keeping football. At the back Manuel Neuer showed why he's widely regarded as the top keeper in the world with a blindingly quick bat away of a Theo Walcott header. At the other end Petr Cech showed why he's an institution in the hall of keepers with a number of saves, break ups, and turn aways.
The breakthrough took time but when it came it was off of a Santi Cazorla free kick that somehow found every part of Olivie Giroud's upper body as he was being mugged and careened into the net. A net left exposed by a rare Neuer mistake as he was tied up away from the ball with Koscielny.
Bayern's attack created chances as the second half wound towards the end with Robert Lewandowski, in particular, stymied by Petr Cech late in the game. With stoppage time winding down a Bayern pass floated across midfield – by looking at the makeup of the lineups at that moment there was no question it was the start of their last gasp but Hector Bellerin intercepted with the type of pace, confidence, and ability that just doesn't exist. It was an amazing play that for those who haven't noticed should serve as a warning shot that Bellerin has become one of the top right backs in the world. After the interception, on its own incredible, Bellerin turned on the jets got around a defender and put the ball cleanly on Meszut Ozil who put it in the net. Kudos to the UCL officials on getting this call absolutely right and preventing an Oxlade Chamberlain flub on the rebound.
It was a cold calculating performance against one of the top teams in the world. It was the type of performance we've seen on the other side on a number of occasions. Bayern's performance was classic Arsenal with dominant on the ball possession but it came with the same issues seen by the Gunners in a lack of clear chances and a frustrating lack of goals. The result keeps Arsenal's chances of advancing to the knockout stages intact. Olympiacos squeezed out a 1-0 win over Zagreb to go even with Bayern at 6 points with Arsenal and Zagreb at 3. In two weeks the Arsenal travel to Munich where a result is still needed. A draw would leave them on at 4 points and if they can do the business they should have done earlier against Eastern and Southern Europe's best they'll have a good chance of moving forward. Without the result today nothing less than 3 wins in the back half would have sufficed.
With Everton over the weekend Arsenal would be well suited to take a breath, say a little tithing for Aaron Ramsey's hamstring, and continue to put in the types of performances that have made for a perfect October.
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The company said Friday that the impact of stronger fundamentals for other crops outweighed the impact of the decline in soybeans, which have fallen because of Chinese tariffs. Moline, Illinois-based Deere told analysts on a conference call that higher cash receipts for farmers will support demand for its biggest machines in the next fiscal year, which starts this November. The shares erased earlier losses and climbed as much as 3.6 per cent.
Deere also forecast its equipment sales will rise by about 30 per cent in the current fiscal year. The company expects farmers' net returns per acre in 2019 will rise as much as 20 per cent to the highest level in about five years, Chief Finance Officer Rajesh Kalathur said on the call.
Deere's shares rose 2.9 per cent to US$141.29 at 1:08 p.m. in New York. Deere posted lower-than-expected earnings for its fiscal third quarter and said it's dealing with higher raw-material and freight costs.
Profit excluding one-time items was US$2.59 a share in the three months through July, missing the US$2.74 average of analysts' estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Deere kept its full-year earnings forecast unchanged at US$3.1 billion, compared with an average estimate of US$3.17 billion.
U.S. farmers, the company's biggest customer base, are increasingly looking to replace worn-out tractors and combines, despite a multi-year downturn in the crop markets. That helped to boost Deere's worldwide net sales of equipment by 36 per cent in the quarter from a year earlier.


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Not everyone is a bird enthusiast. But, most guests do not only enjoy experiencing mammals but also enjoy sightings of colourful birds and large raptors. One of the most fascinating birds to watch is the Little Bee-eater. This small insect-hunter often chooses a convenient branch as its base of operation. From this single location it will repeatedly depart to and arrive from short hunts. If the observer is very lucky, he or she can even observe a "kill" :-).
The collage above is a merger of nine hand-held images of this fast flying bird. The camera was set on ten frames per second to record this sequence.
The picture below shows a Bee-Eater and a Bee!
And it is a good idea to bring binoculars, which are a great safari tool for observing small birds, as one cannot get too close before most birds get scared and leave.


This is the second to last installment of the Andrew Ursler stories by Mario Piumetti. You can read the previous installment, Horse Sense here.
Andrew sat in the dark of his truck waiting. He was down the street from his brother Peter's apartment in Burbank. It was movie night and Andrew picked up a pizza in Glendale for them to share, but when he parked around the corner of the road, he felt that he still had some time to kill before going up to his brother's place. A nagging feeling had been working on him for a while, ever since he'd gone to the movies with Charlotte. He still wasn't sure what she was thinking. Andrew picked up his cell phone and dialed her number. Charlotte picked up after a few rings.
"It's been a long day, I guess," said Andrew, and then he told her about how tutoring had been rough on him, particularly with a student who tried using a minor stomachache to get out of doing his homework. "Melodramatic little punks," he said.
The phrase was a signaling one telling her that Andrew had something to get off his chest. It was too late to take back, and held too much gravity to brush away with something trivial.
The answer left Andrew feeling confused. Not angry, just perplexed, because what Charlotte said seemed to contradict logic. Two plus two equaled four. Chocolate and peanut butter made a piece of Reese's. You know when something works, and then your gut tells you to go for it. So why was that not the case now?
"I will," he said, and then he hung up, his spirit uplifted a little more than it had been a few minutes ago.


(2014-July 13-15) Onion Valley to Rae Lakes. Kings Canyon National Park, California.
Left Onion Valley at about 1300 hours and made it up and over Kearsarge Pass by 1500 hours. Was actually planning on taking it easy and only going as far as Heart Lake or even Flower Lake, but I was feeling strong and decided to camp near a large tarn between the Kearsarge Lakes and Bullfrog Lake. The evening was nothing special (photographically), however the morning was beautiful!! Clouds began approaching from the south and made for a nice sunrise. Captured some great shots at the northern most Kearsarge Lake and then headed for the Rae Lakes Basin.
The weather progressively turned wet and made for a windy and rainy Glen Pass summit. I actually hunkered down on the south side of the Pass because I was hoping there would be a break in the weather for photos. I was right!!! After about an hour or so, the weather let up and made for a beautiful view from the Pass. Hiked down to the Rae Lakes Basin and set up camp. Plan was to head up to the Sixty Lake Basin and then Gardiner in the morning, however it rained all morning and didn't let up until the late afternoon. basically a day shot and spent in the tent.
The following day, I hiked toward Arrowhead Lake and was turned back because of the ominous cloud cover. As soon as I made it back to camp, the rain came down again!!! The rain let up at about 1100 hours and I decided to make the long haul back to Onion Valley (rain or shine) because this trip really wasn't panning out for me. I always plan on going to places I have never been each trip (Gardiner Basin) however, this one just didn't work out. Still a great time and some of the most beautiful places in the Sierra with great photographic weather in between storms.
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LAWRENCE — Today's use of "Border Wars" to describe athletic rivalries between the University of Kansas and the University of Missouri did not evolve in the decades that followed the Civil War, according to a study at the University of Kansas.
Jennifer L. Weber, KU associate professor of history, says that referring to KU-MU athletic contests as "Border Wars" has developed within the past 20 years primarily through coaches and sports writers.
Weber will present her findings in a paper, "'William Quantrill Is My Homeboy,' or The Border War Goes to College," at a national public conference on Border Wars Nov. 10-12 at the Kansas City (Mo.) Public Library. Sessions are scheduled at the central library site, 14 W. 10th St., and the Plaza branch, 4801 Main St.
Weber used a slogan that helped boost Border Wars T-shirt sales to title her paper. When vendors hawked T-shirts that disparaged Missouri, MU fans came back with tees blaring "Quantrill Is My Homeboy," featuring a tintype portrait of William Quantrill imposed over a rendering of the 1863 sacking of Lawrence.
Kansas and Missouri played their first game in 1891, making theirs the oldest Division I college rivalry west of the Mississippi River. Held in Kansas City, Mo., the game drew a crowd of 3,000 to see KU win 22-8. Weber has found no references describing the games in the 1890s as a Border War. The earliest Border War reference found appears a century later in 1990.
In addition to reading newspapers from both Kansas and Missouri, Weber has searched yearbooks and school newspapers in the archives of both universities looking for references to the Border War rivalry.
Mascots for both universities, however, can be traced to the Civil War, Weber says. Kansas Jayhawkers – later shortened to Jayhawks -- was a name used by anti-slavery forces during the Bleeding Kansas period and the Civil War. Missouri's Tiger mascot can be traced to the Tiger militia that successfully protected the university's town, Columbia, from Confederate forces in 1864.
The aldermen of Osceola, Mo., made national headlines this September with a proclamation demanding that KU drop its Jayhawk mascot due to its violent historical origins. The proclamation commemorated the 150th anniversary of the Sept. 23, 1861, raid of Osceola by abolitionist Kansas militia that left the town a smoking ruin and about a dozen men dead. The next year on Sept. 7, Quantrill reportedly yelled "Remember Osceola" as he led Bushwhackers to destroy Lawrence and kill about 200 men and boys. The 2011 Osceola proclamation asked MU to educate Kansans about the border wars and Jayhawkers.
Weber's paper is one of lighter topics being covered by some of the nation's leading scholars on the Border Wars at the Kansas City conference. They are focused on the issues and circumstances that shattered the Union during the Civil War — slavery and the politics in Territorial Kansas; the sectional crisis and Civil War on the western border; and reconstruction.
Weber notes that her paper grew out of observing "really hard feelings of residents on either side of the state line." When she moved to Kansas from New Jersey in 2005, Weber met people who would not shop on either side of the state line because they didn't want their tax money to go to the other state.
"One Kansas friend who was over age 30 had never been to the Plaza because her family didn't go into Missouri. And another who grew up in Missouri won't spend her money in Kansas unless she absolutely has to," says Weber, who teaches on KU's Edwards campus in Overland Park.


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Flexible Automated Manufacturing
by Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Board member Michael Vassar.
The integration of distributed information systems with modern manufacturing techniques promises to enable a massive change in both production and distribution. Techniques are described. Economic and regulatory implications are addressed.
The contribution of industrial production to US employment is falling rapidly. This trend is likely to continue into the foreseeable future, ultimately bringing into existence a society where industrial production consumes as little labor as agriculture. The most obvious cause of this shift is globalization, but such an explanation is superficial.
The primary cause of this shift is simply the improved capital associated with manufacturing and increased availability of manufactured goods. Domestic industrial production has increased substantially every year, yet productivity improvements outpace it, and production as a whole becomes a smaller part of the global economy. As a result, industrial production now employs less than 15% of the US workforce and accounts for less than 20% of the GDP. This can be compared with the 15% of the GDP associated with the health-care sector, but while the health care sector is growing by about 8% per year relative to the GDP, the manufacturing sector is shrinking by about 5%/year, so the two sectors should be expected to be approximately equally large in less than three years.
In addition to the radical improvements in productivity, US manufacturing capital is becoming far more precise and flexible, due to the use of industrial robotics and novel manufacturing techniques. Dragonfire, Drexel OYMBA's award winning business plan, is an example of one of these novel manufacturing techniques. They hope to market inexpensive, rapidly manufactured, customized steel molds for injection molding, the process which has long enabled inexpensive manufacture of plastic parts and which can now shape other materials including ceramics and amorphous metals.
The trend towards flexible manufacturing was apparent in the form of reduced retooling costs as long ago as 1981, when Alvin Toffler invented the term "mass customization" to describe it. More recently the advent of widespread network access and powerful inexpensive CAD programs and VR bring the possibility of controlling manufacturing into the garage or even into the living room. While a networked society may continue to distribute discount goods via Wal-Mart and Fed Ex for some time, it is likely that luxury goods will increasingly be the product of mass customization.
In addition to traditional robotics and flexible manufacturing techniques, some novel manufacturing techniques promise to enable almost total flexibility of manufacture, so long as an appropriate supply of raw materials is available. This class of machine is being developed today in the form of 3-D printers and rapid prototyping devices. Surprisingly, the basic technological insight behind dot-matrix printing has been extended to roles varying from the production of spare parts on naval ships to the construction of housing. Small droplets of a chemical are sprayed into location and solidify in place.
3D image created with a printer.
Soon, barring restrictions, nanotechnology devices such as lab-on-a-chip chemical synthesis and biological engineering systems will be mass produced. Such systems, in addition to their massive medical applications, will close the loop for 3-D printing by synthesizing a diverse array of chemical feedstocks from a small set of inexpensive chemicals. These feedstocks can be used by the printers to build more chemical chips. Eventually mechanochemical nanofactories should provide engineering capacity exceeding that of current economies into the living room.
Such ultra-flexible forms of capital are economically different from prior forms of capital in one important respect. Because they can be used to build almost anything, they can be used to build new flexible capital. For this reason, these forms of capital have a novel capacity for reproduction. Once a new type of flexible capital becomes inexpensive to use, due to the development of inexpensive sources of the relevant raw materials, that form of capital should become inexpensive to acquire, because it will be inexpensive to make, at least for those who already have some. All that is needed is an algorithm for its synthesis by some other flexible manufacturing system. Hardware becomes software.
It may be valuable to examine the necessary features of any disruptive manufacturing system.
The first requirement is that it function reliably without the need for any significant labor input. There are a number of ways in which this can be achieved, but fundamentally they revolve around the combination of high precision and reliability and redundant modular design.
If a manufacturing system is composed of discrete separable modules, and equipped with sensors capable of registering error, and if each module is redundant, then any single failure can be detected and can trigger an automated routine wherein the faulty module can be removed and replaced. Preferably, a replacement module can be constructed on-site by the manufacturing system using its normal inputs. If not, it is necessary that replacement modules be mass produced and available on short notice and at moderate expense.
The second requirement is that it be capable of constructing novel products in response to digital instructions without the need for retooling. This can be enabled by using digital programs to direct the flow of work-in-progress through any of a number of different modules. If the modules can be cheaply constructed, it is not necessary that each module be fully utilized. Some can be available for special applications even if they are only rarely used. Inexpensive modules also reduce the otherwise gratuitous expense of replacing an entire module whenever an error occurs. This option is necessary if the skilled labor requirement is to be minimized.
The third requirement is that a system be capable of working with a modest number of inexpensive general purpose raw materials. The more sophisticated the techniques for manipulating these materials, the fewer the materials that will be needed.
For instance, hydrocarbons can be distilled into fuel, lubricant, etc, processed to yield alcohols, waxes, fats, and other organic chemicals, polymerized to produce fibers or hard plastics, dehydrogenated to produce hydrogen, graphite, and carbon fibers. Lab-on a chip chemical processing units can carry out the production processes required for any of these transitions. Carbon nanotubes have a huge range of further applications, and can serve as semiconductors, conductors, or insulators for electronics applications. Other moderate substitutions to hydrocarbons yield carbon filters, catalysts, etc.
The final requirement is that the manufacturing system be able to assemble a copy of itself from inexpensive raw materials and with only a minimum requirement for labor, assembly, or separately prefabricated parts. Once such a system exists, it can reproduce itself exponentially, rapidly scaling up production capacity to meet any possible demand.
If it takes a system less than one day to manufacture 1% of its own mass, such a system can in principle produce twelve copies of itself in a year and over 1011 copies of itself (far more than the population of the Earth) in a decade. This is what is meant when it is asserted that such a manufacturing technology can be disruptive. It can completely replace any prior manufacturing infrastructure if it can work with the appropriate materials and if digital instruction sets exist to guide its processes.
3-D printing may not qualify as a disruptive manufacturing technology because it will be difficult for it to meet two of these criteria. First, the range of materials that it can work with is seriously restricted by the requirement that all materials must be capable of being sprayed as droplets. Second, the process depends on very high precision but is incapable of manufacturing parts with that same precision. As a result the potential for exponential manufacturing with digital printers is limited. It still warrants discussion here because it
Already exists and has found a market, and
Has the further benefit of enabling entirely new products which cannot be built using conventional manufacturing methods. Components of products can be manufactured in place, without the need for special compartments. The simplicity of the concept is also inspiring, given its widespread application and multiple variations. There is every reason to expect that more applications and extensions to this idea will be developed.
At the highest levels of manufacturing precision, fractal fabricators will use nanotechnology to process raw materials with a combination of traditional chemical purification techniques and novel "mechanochemical" reactions. The latter set of reactions will resemble the processes carried out by enzymes. Molecules will be held by larger molecules and physically manipulated into bonding in the desired fashion. Reactions carried out in this manner can be far more reliable than traditional chemical reactions.
More importantly, this technique allows the process of a chemical reaction to occur under digital control, eliminating the need to devise a novel reaction pathway and acquire a novel set of reagents to enable every new reaction. A great variety of new molecules of great complexity can thus be synthesized. This class of syntheses bridges the gap between the precise but uncontrolled synthetic control currently held over chemical processes and the high tolerance but variable digital processes that are used today in macro-scale manufacturing. In essence, the top-down control of today's robotics will be incrementally extended to ever smaller scales, and in being so extended will gain the advantages of older techniques for molecule level manipulation.
This manufacturing technique promises to fulfill all of the above requirements for a disruptive manufacturing technology, while providing the special flexibility of 3-D printing and more. Reliable, flexibly automated with digitally controlled retooling, capable of producing a wide variety of products from inexpensive raw materials, and capable of building a copy of itself from raw materials, early versions of such manufacturing devices have been investigated in detail in such publications as "Design of a Desktop Nanofactory" and "Nanosystems".
Although the designs that have been analyzed so far are specialized in so far as they are only capable of catalyzing a small set of organic reactions, it has been demonstrated that this set is great enough to enable the construction of engines, motors, crude mechanical computers, and electronics. Over a decade of public scrutiny of Nanosystems by such individuals as Rice's Nobel Laureate Richard Smalley and Harvard's Professor Emeritus Robert Whitesides has failed to identify any technical errors.
Although mechanochemical manufacturing is extremely versatile, it does, like any technology, have certain limitations. First among these is that when one takes control of mechanical operations on the molecular scale it is necessary to perform a very large number of computations in order to construct anything of substantial size. Nanofactories can build both computers and copies of themselves, so a lack of computer hardware does not limit their functionality, but carrying out a great deal of computation will require a substantial energy source.
Nanofactory in action. Courtesy Lizard Fire Studios.
Current nanofactory designs require colossal energy inputs to power that computation. At current prices this energy would cost over $5/kg, making this process somewhat too expensive to provide a practical source of bulk materials. Of course, nanofactories can build facilities for energy production, reducing the cost of energy and thus of nanofactory products, but environmental costs associated with energy production imply that the cost of energy will remain non-negligible. If the demand for digitally nano-structured materials was great enough, energy might even become more expensive than it is today. Since variations of 3-D printing can be devised that utilize mud as their building material, there appears to be an economic niche for both approaches.
Another limitation of current nanofactory proposals is associated with their primary strength. Mechanical catalysis puts every atom precisely where it is desired, but in many cases we may simply not know where it is desirable to put a molecule. Many materials, especially those of a relatively unrefined biological origin, are already extremely complex at the molecular level, and many of the details of that complexity are unknown. Unless one knows how to describe such materials on an atomic level it will not be possible to assemble them with a molecular factory.
A partial solution to this problem may involve evolutionary programming. A programmer could describe the physical properties of a material and run a computer program that explores the properties of a variety of materials that your factory is capable of building. As part of the program, proposed materials could be modified slightly in a number of different ways. The modifications that resulted in a set of properties that more closely approximate the desired set could then be retained and modified yet again while the sets that did not match the designations as closely could be discarded. It is possible that rather than simulating materials it would be more computationally efficient to actually build these materials, evolving them against one another in a process analogous to the evolutionary process described above.
The obvious effect of all of this is a massive reduction in the cost of manufactured goods. This overstates one aspect of the impact of flexible manufacturing while ignoring other consequences. While industrial employment is likely to fall to near zero, the price of most manufactured goods is not dominated by the cost of labor. Other expenses, such as development, marketing, distribution, and inputs such as raw materials and energy account for a large fraction of the cost of most manufactured goods. More importantly, exponentially expanding manufacturing systems will still not lead to expanded production when firms have monopoly power and demand is inelastic.
Flexible manufacturing techniques, however, will eventually enable firms to more easily extend their production outside of current manufacturing specialties simply by acquiring the relevant software and building new capital in order to compete in another industry. This should greatly increase competition, driving firms out of existence and ultimately leading to a new equilibrium with a smaller number of more generalized manufacturing firms, at which point profits can again rise.
It is important to realize that cheap capital can reduce several of these non-labor expenses. Capital is used in the production of materials and of energy, and with adequate capital both can become available much more cheaply than they are today. Distribution also depends on large capital intensive networks, which can be built by automated systems.
Far more importantly, inexpensive automated manufacturing systems eliminate the need for much distribution by allowing products to be produced near their final destination. More or less extreme versions of this style of distribution are possible. Before there is a factory in every garage there will probably be one in every Wal-Mart, and possibly in the local gas station mini-market.
For any informed analysis of the economic consequences of exponentially expanding capital, it is important to understand that labor and capital can be substituted for one another across an extraordinary range of relative prices.
Labor can substitute for capital.
In Haiti, for instance, the labor substitutes for the capital of a pier. When wealthy Haitian citizens wish to board a boat without getting wet, poorer people wade through the water, carrying a client and any baggage over their heads.
Likewise, it is easy to imagine uneconomical methods for substituting capital for labor in the United States, given our prevailing cost of capital. For instance, water condensers, distillers, and tanks could substitute for those workers employed in water treatment, while grinding machines, grates, centrifuges, and incinerators could substitute for most trash collectors and sorters of recyclable wastes. Occasional labor would be involved in collecting the recycled materials.
Less extreme measures would include the automated preparation of hamburgers and of other fast foods, or the substitution of robots for lawn mowers. Because the price of capital will be more purely a function of demand instead of being a consequence of manufacturing cost, the prices of capital goods which would today be impractically expensive will fall much farther and faster than the prices of goods which already have markets.
An important consequence of this conclusion is that unemployment is a more likely outcome than it casually appears; Service economies will be transformed.
As is currently the case with software, automated manufacturers with monopoly power will have strong motivation to institute price discrimination. One of the most important ways in which markets can be distinguished is by geographic location. GPS locators, cellular network detectors, or integrated RFID tags should enable the production of complicated products which can only be used in a particular geographic area.
In this manner, computers, for instance, could be sold at one price in India and at a different price in the United States, but designed not to work outside of a designated set of low income nations. This could also be done with prescription drugs. Advanced containers could dispense unmarked pills upon demand given the proper GPS signal. Even economically depressed regions within a country could be targeted in this manner.
In a world of cheap manufacturing there will still be a place for labor-intensive high-end manufactured goods. The ability to customize designs means that made-to-order clothing can be produced by the same process used for mass produced goods, but specialists might apply their skills to adjusting designs to a particular consumer.
For instance, an expert might watch you walk in shoes with integrated sensors, then produce a prescription based on your results and order the automated production of a set of personalized shoes in a variety of styles. In general, personalized service by a variety of experts can be expected to add value for those who can pay for it. In addition, certain rare materials, such as gold, will retain their scarcity, as no economical process exists for synthesizing most elements.
Beyond manufactured goods there are of course no end to the number of physical goods, services, and abstract goods that can be both scarce and desired. Original artwork is valuable because it is in some abstract sense "original", and would retain value even if imitations were arbitrarily precise. Land in many locations is intrinsically scarce. Pollution rights and other rights to finite commons such as hunting cannot be easily expanded through improved production.
Certain services are likely to resist the substitution of labor for capital, either because they are difficult to replace, or because they are protected by interest groups with the power and the desire to maintain scarcity. Legal services are a particularly obvious example of the latter class.
Attention is often valued for its own sake, independent of its association with any particular service. As such, attention is an intrinsically scarce good, while fame and admiration are even scarcer. If an increasing amount of effort is devoted to drawing attention, people are also likely to employ more gatekeepers, as well as technological devices such as augmented reality "spam filters" designed to screen instances of commercial speech from their awareness. After all, spam is a consequence of the inexpensive duplication of information within computers. When physically substantiated information is equally easily duplicated it will need to be screened equally aggressively.
The above economic analyses generally assume some semblance of a perfect free market. In reality, it is likely that novel regulations will be passed to moderate the impact of disruptive technologies as they arrive.
There are a number of reasons for governments to try to prevent the widespread dissemination of flexible manufacturing capabilities. The most elementary reason is to prevent the manufacture of contraband. Almost every government restricts the possession of certain goods. Although no design has yet been developed for any manufacturing system so flexible as to enable it to directly produce the majority of drugs, chemicals, weapons, etc, almost any flexible manufacturing system could be used to produce the specialized facilities required to refine opium, construct military weaponry, or culture and package anthrax.
Protection of intellectual property will be extremely difficult in the presence of flexible automated systems of manufacture, and will provide another reason for restriction.
Even if the ability to make extremely dangerous contraband is more difficult to develop in reality than it sounds (and it is worth noting how few organizations so far, even governments, have succeeded in effectively producing weaponized anthrax), existing manufacturers who see their businesses threatened are likely to publicize such dangers in order to restrict the availability of competing products manufactured with such systems.
Because distinguishing between legitimate and non-legitimate uses is so difficult, and because recognizing all of the potential misuses of a flexible technology is probably impossible, there is a natural tendency for the system to settle into an equilibrium characterized by a highly regulated and not-very innovative manufacturing industry and a highly innovative but incautious black market.
Because the manufacturing industry will be in a position to eliminate so many jobs, less wealthy citizens may find it difficult to afford the monopoly prices of authorized goods, and may turn to the black market increasingly regularly.
The tendency to do this will be minimized if a) price discrimination policies enable monopolies to sell goods for affordable prices, or b) extremely expanded industrial capacity leads to ultra-inexpensive surveillance devices which are used to find unauthorized manufacturers, convict them, and punish them severely. Because many proposed systems can be built to be very small, this surveillance would have to be very total. Investigation of its implications is beyond the scope of this paper, but I refer the reader to The Transparent Society by David Brin.
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The newly released IRC Boken is a classic gravel bike tyre, with a file tread across its centre coupled to a row of more widely spaced knobs at its edges. Unwrapping the tyre, the first thing you notice is how tacky the rubber feels. IRC emphasises its ultra-gummy compound, designed for added traction.
Like most gravel tyres, the IRC Boken is tubeless ready. Tubeless set-up is hassle free; it's easy to get the tyre over the wheel rim and I was able to seat the beads and pump up to 60psi without any more effort than it would need to pump up an inner tube. There was little or no escaping air before or after the tyre beads popped into place, even before adding sealant.
The IRC Boken tyre comes in 36mm or 40mm widths. For the 36mm variant, IRC recommends inflation pressure between 45 and 65psi on the tyre sidewall, 40 – 65 psi on its website. Strangely, the minimum recommended on the site for the 40mm variant is higher at 45psi.
As with most wide tyres, running tubeless means that you can comfortably drop below this and realise gains in traction and a less bumpy ride, without the risk of pinch flats. I rode the IRC Boken tyres at 30-35psi without problem. Like most gravel tyres, there's enough sidewall height to stop bottoming out on roots and bumps at low pressures.
The company says that the IRC Boken tyre is developed for extreme gravel racing. As you'd expect, there's plenty of grip over rough surfaces in the dry, so they have been fine to ride in the drought of this summer. But the tread doesn't have enough grip to keep you moving confidently once things get proper damp or muddy.
The IRC Boken tyre provides a subtle ride over rough terrain and plenty of grip in the dry or with surface dampness. But it's not up to muddier conditions, such as you'd find through the UK winter.


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Zoning Enforcement Officer
The Town of Cape Vincent Zoning Officer, Cody Higgins, is responsible for the issuance of all zoning permits. He can assist you with applications and information regarding the zoning laws, the Planning Board and the Zoning Board of Appeals. The fee schedule for the Town of Cape Vincent Zoning and Planning are as follows:
Variances - $100.00 plus any additional legal fees.
Minor Subdivisions - $150.00 per lot plus any additional legal fees.
Major Subdivision - $200.00 plus any additional legal fees.
Site Plan Review - $250.00 plus the board has the right to establish a discretionary fund based upon the nature of the project.
Lot line shift - $75.00
Wind Energy Conversion System up to and including 100KW - $50.00 per KW
Wind Energy Conversion System greater than 100KW - $10,000.00 for each generating device
Meterorological tower permits - $2,500.00 per year per tower for a maximum of 3 years
Solar Project - $50.00 minimum or $10.00 per KW whichever is greater
Sign Permit - $50.00
Zoning Permits:
$25.00 – Decks and also buildings or storage sheds less than 500sq. ft.
$50.00 – Garages and buildings or storage sheds or other structures greater than 500sq. ft. Also additions to existing structures.
$75.00 – Mobile homes – single wide.
$100.00 – Mobile homes-double wide, and all other homes such as modular and stick built.
$200.00 - Special meetings requested by applicant
**If a zoning permit is applied for after building has already been erected an administrative fine equal to the fee will be imposed.
The Zoning Officer can be reached at (315) 654-3795 x7 and his office hours are Fridays from 8am until 6pm or by appointment.
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First Lines: Finders Keepers — Did I Say That?
Posted September 23, 2015 & filed under First Lines.
Although Stephen King's Finders Keepers is the second part in what has to become the Bill Hodges trilogy, it takes its sweet time to pick up the threads Mr. Mercedes left dangling. The story starts some thirty years before those events, with three guys robbing a reclusive writer of the contents of his safe (and his life). Flash forward to the present, where the titular Finder happens onto the stash of that robbery. Those strands alternate, until we end up firmly in the here and now, and Ret. Det. Hodges joins the fray.
As with Mr. Mercedes , Finders Keepers is a highly enjoyable romp, but certainly not among King's best work. The characters are, as usually, likable and fully formed, and story is crafted and paced just right, but sometimes it felt a little too convenient. Our hero and his antagonist growing up in the same house, some thirty years apart; their fascination with a certain reclusive writer: it's almost as if their inevitable face-off was, well, inevitable. Not that it matters much: it's fun, and that's what counts.
The trilogy will be concluded with End of Watch . Whenever that one's done.


How much does it cost to run a FOSS4G conference ?
Since the formation of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGEO) in 2006, there has been an annual FOSS4G event that brings together open source geospatial developers, users and supporters from around the world. The first event in Lausanne, Switzerland attracted 560 participants and last year's event in Boston, USA brought together over 1,100. The first FOSS4G event I attended was in 2007 in Victoria, British Columbia and what I remember most was the energy and collaborative spirit among all the participants. These are all volunteer initiated and run events and usually generate a positive financial return.
There are also regional FOSS4G events around the world. At this year's FOSS4GNA (FOSS4G North America) get together in St Louis, Michael Terner, who helped organize the Boston FOSS4G event, gave an overview of what is involved in organizing a FOSS4G event including a financial breakdown of the revenue and expenses for the Boston meeting.
This year's FOSS4G meetup will be held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, the second time the event has been held in Africa. The venue for the 2019 meeting has been decided - Bucharest, Romania. If you are interested in staging this event, Michael's breakdown of the revenue and costs will be very helpful in budgeting for such an event.
The Boston event generated about $1 million in revenue primarily from registrations, but 25% of the total was provided by sponsors. The space for the event was provided by Harvard University. It employed a professional conference organizer, but a lot of the work in making the event happen including finding sponsors came from volunteers. OSGEO provided about $70,000 as an advance to help get things started. The single biggest cost, nearly half a million dollars, was the venue and food. The next biggest costs were the social events and the audio-visual plus recording, each of which cost over a hundred thousand dollars. The Boston event generated about a $140,000 surplus for OSGEO.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a U.S. Government intelligence agency and Department of Defence combat support agency. But it also provides support for disaster relief and humanitarian aid. At FOSS4GNA today in St. Louis I found out that NGA is the largest consumer of geospatial data in the U.S. and the first intelligence agency to contribute to Github.
Mark Munsell of NGA gave a very interesting keynote at FOSS4GNA this afternoon. Until a decade ago NGA did not use open source software. But NGA found that relying on proprietary software left it lagging behind. About 10 years go NGA decided to begin using open source software. It acts as a user of and contributor to open source code and as a supporter of the geospatial open source community. Boundless, Postgres, OSSIM, MapStory, OpenSensorHub, geomesa, GeoTrellis and others have all been supported by NGA. Internally NGA provides geospatial services to other intel services as well as the Department of Defence. NGA has implemented a Data Corps consisting of data scientists and specialists that can work on specific problems in any intel agency.
In the mid 1990s the U.S. government decided to outsource most development work and laid off most the the coders working in the intelligence community. They subsequently realized that they had lost an incredible wealth of expertise and knowledge as a result of that policy decision. Under the name of Dev Corps NGA now wants to hire developers, especially from the geospatial open source development community Mark emphasized. Mark finished off with an impassioned plea for geospatial open source developers to continue contributing as they have been, but if they are interested in working for an agency that does do humanitarian and disaster relief in addition to intel and defence, he wants to talk to them.


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Joplin, Mo., Emergency Management Director Keith Stammer has a long list of lessons learned from the destructive tornado five years ago.
This spring will mark the fifth anniversary of the devastating tornado that struck Joplin, Mo., on Sunday, May 22, 2011. The tornado killed 161 people and caused nearly $3 billion in damage. Keith Stammer was the Joplin/Jasper County director of Emergency Management and is today. He talked recently about the recovery and lessons learned in Joplin.
This year marks the fifth anniversary of the 2011 tornado. How has the recovery gone?
Recovery is going pretty well; everything is cleaned up. We got that done in short order. The problem here is coming back with housing. Joplin has more rentals than it has homeownership, so we have a lot of low- and moderate-income people who need places to stay. If you've ever done that, particularly with state and federal tax credits, it takes a while.
We were warned that this would take some time, but I was hoping it wouldn't take as long as they thought. That being said, we've gained back what little of the population we lost. We actually have a few more residents than we had prior to the tornado, and unemployment is running under 5 percent. The other big thing that helped Joplin was that we basically live off sales tax and not off property tax, and the sales tax did not go down in terms of revenue. In fact, it went up because everyone wanted to rebuild. So that helped us from a financial standpoint in terms of not losing anything.
You have a long list of lessons learned from this event. Can you talk about a few of them?
For the first three years, you couldn't talk weather and not talk about the tornado. Most of what I have [learned] is from a response standpoint. There are also some lessons learned from a recovery standpoint this far down the road, as we're still in recovery mode.
One of the big things that helped us probably more than anything else is we had a standing COAD, Community Organizations Active in Disaster. We've had one since the tornadoes in 2003. We had two ice storms in 2007 and a Mother's Day tornado in 2008, so when the 2011 tornado came along, we had the COAD there that immediately formed a Long-Term Recovery Committee, and they acted as the umbrella organization for all our different entities. We said, "If you're interested in rebuilding and recovery, we want to do this as a group." At the height of it we had 120 people representing 80 different organizations as members of our LTRC.
That has wound down and been dismantled and taken over by the COAD, which continues to meet every other month.
Emergency managers are traditionally more involved during response. What's been your role during the recovery?
And so [the advisory committee] produced a booklet with a lot of different ideas that was used as feedback to the city. Another thing we learned is that you can't depend on yourself in this kind of thing because who has this kind of experience, particularly on this scale?
We have had people from Springfield, Tulsa, Kansas City and other locations come in and work with our planning and zoning group, public works group and public information officer to help us, increase our staff load and also to gather information on experiences they've had.
What are a couple of major lessons that would have aided response?
First of all, let me emphasize that what we did in terms of response wasn't that much different from how we responded to other disasters that we've been through. It was just on a larger scale. With that in mind, it's easy to get complacent when you're planning for an emergency response to whatever type of disaster you might have.
There are only two things you can do: run and hide. Running we call "evacuation," and hiding we call "shelter in place." We incorporate those in there, but if we had one failing prior to the tornado it was that we didn't think much beyond the past. We would have a tornado exercise or a hazardous release exercise, but it was based on what we had seen before.
Another big thing that helped us is that relationships are key. In the first 72 hours after the tornado, there was nobody who came into my EOC in terms of agency head or department head who I did not already know. On a local, state and federal level, these were people we'd already worked with.
I wished we had printed more so that the police officer standing on the corner for eight hours directing traffic could look through one and say, "I see what they're trying to do" and be able to point people in the right direction. We kind of assumed that would get pushed out to the individuals on the ground, but we could have done a better job of making sure that happened.
It's almost impossible to be totally prepared for something like that isn't it?
In emergency management, we participate in and we advocate for the all-hazards approach. In your standard National Incident Management System response and recovery, it's people first, scene second and property third. We felt like we were fairly well prepared. Confidence is that feeling you have just before you fully understand a situation. We had, like, nine different exercises in the 12 months before the tornado. In fact, the Wednesday prior to that Sunday we had a four-hour EOC ops tabletop exercise in conjunction with seven states for an earthquake along the New Madrid fault. That helped a lot as far as making sure everybody knew their role, how to respond to the EOC and how those things were going to work.
People used to say "that can't happen here," and now they don't say that anymore. I've had several emergency managers that have called me and said, "Can we have a map and outline or overlay of the path of the tornado?" And they've laid it over their own city because they know it happened in Joplin and it can happen there. They used that map for a tabletop exercise of how they would work things.
We continue to encourage builders and citizens that sheltering is a big deal. Many if not most of our schools, not just in Joplin but in surrounding areas, have applied for FEMA mitigation money on a 75/25 split that enables them to build storm shelters within their schools.
You have to adhere to certain building codes and standards, and most of this is low and moderate income. It's quite a labyrinth to work through state and federal regulations that touch on many of these things.
How do you continue to get that point across and not let momentum lag?
One of the things we use is the fifth anniversary, and we've used the other anniversaries. It's a chance for awareness. We do an annual weather education training within the city. Then I do about 20 different individual weather training sessions with churches, clubs, nonprofit organizations, governmental entities and such, and emphasize what happened and why.
Our planning and zoning departments continue to keep all this in mind and will for some time as they look at these new buildings that we want to put up, particularly for housing, and to say, "It happened to us and we've got to continue to hold tight and make sure we don't go back to the way we were." It might be a bit easier for us having been bitten so hard as opposed to a community say 50 miles down the road that wasn't affected by it.


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What constitutes molecular evidence in terms of a look at origins for life?
Does molecular evidence support evolution theory?
What types of evidence has science gathered thus far?
The chemical composition of molecules from living cells— when used to compare species to species, be these species closely related or taxonomically distinct— make for yet another unique perspective on origins. Any changes in genetic codes or protein composition over time tell us something about life's origins. As in many areas of discussion on origins, we find that much of the scientific data is initially considered in light of what evolution theory would require. The real question to ask, however, is there an alternate interpretation from these data? Given evidence for considering alternatives, do we then find ourselves facing the task of reviewing life's entire knowledgebase in terms of some other explanation for origins?
A short answer can be framed like this: If we expect that evolution theory fits with all the data to be collected, scientists will seek to fit the data to the theory. Yet, as recent data are amassed, the fit is not precise to this expectation and in some places is contradictory. So, NO the evidence does not necessarily have to find a fit. Again, the molecular data are commonly interpreted in light of expectation (i.e., assumption). That aside, the evidence considered here forces us to rethink origins based on what is now discovered at the molecular level.
There continue to be observations that do not fit what Darwin suggested would come by science and in time. What would he have told us if he had some insight on future results from molecular biology. He did speculate the fossil record would reveal a continuum of forms leading from species to species, phyla to phyla, from ancestral form to the diversity of life we see. This paints the picture of evolution's 'tree of life' (<< considered in another article). Taking Darwin's inclination we might then expect he'd say there would be a molecular pattern that also shows the imprint of this evolutionary trend over time. But what if it is a different sort of pattern? Without the expected trend at this level of detail— along with the absence of fossil evidence Darwin presumed would be forthcoming— we are left with one more aspect of an evolution scenario that is mysterious or unsupported.
We have seen that at a morphological level the pattern of nature seems to correspond reasonably well with the old nineteenth-century typological model. Nearly all known groups appear to be isolated and well defined and clear sequential patterns whereby one class is linked to another through linear series of transitional forms are virtually unknown. Moreover, classification procedures invariably result in orderly hierarchic schemes from which overlapping classes indicative of sequential relationships are emphatically absent.
The statement above reflects what we know from the physical form of beings. But within these forms are chemical entities that can further serve as added evidence to unraveling information on origins. The scientific revolution, with all the new technologies— those that sequence DNA codes, model proteins in three dimensions, etc.— present us with a new way to look at organisms. During the mid-20th century, for example, the amino acid composition of hemoglobin (specifically the order of amino acids making this unique protein) revealed that this molecule was not identical from species to species. Might the differences reflect change over time much like evolution theory would suggest for life in general?
Scientists have taken the amino acid sequences and lined them up to compare not only the differences but also to see how such differences might correspond to the biological origins of the organisms from which the particular hemoglobin molecules were taken. The comparisons here lend themselves to something we can quantify— by counting the differences. That is, 3 amino acids may be different for two of the hemoglobins from two different species, but comparing still another hemoglobin, from yet one more species, one might identify a larger number of amino acids that differ. The differences make for a score card of sorts. The amount of difference makes for a means to compare the organisms that contain each type of hemoglobin. But do these differences trace a pathway for evolution? Well, first off, let's consider what's changing here?
Note that a protein molecule overall has certain amino acids ( AAs) in a sequence that also contains an 'active site' that must be conserved — that is, must not change — to sustain the protein's function.
Amino acids outside such a region may be swapped with a number of other amino acids without affecting the protein's role in cell metabolism.
From the 1960s and on, amino acid sequence information gathered for a number of proteins provided a growing knowledgebase of from which evolution might well have been confirmed at the molecular level.
When comparing the a considerable number of sequences, it is convenient to present the data in the form of a percent sequence difference matrix. In the Dayhoff Atlas of Protein Structure And Function (1972 edition) there is a matrix with nearly 1089 entries showing the percent sequence difference between thirty-three different cytochromes taken from very diverse species.
Examination of the percent sequence difference matrix reveals that it is possible to use the cytochrome sequences to classify species into groups and that these groups correspond precisely to the groups arrived at on traditional morphological grounds. It is also apparent that the sequential divergence becomes greater as the taxonomic distance between organisms increases, a finding that would again have been predicted from traditional taxonomic considerations.
Lets say we are looking at three protein molecules... each from a different group of organism, yet the same biological protein. In this example, there are only 5 of the one or two hundred amino acid (AA) molecules that are linked together to make the larger functional protein. The idea of a sequence difference can be noted when comparing sequence 1 to 2, 2 to 3, or 1 to 3. The colored AAs help us to see where amino acids are substituted for one another. When Dr. Denton writes about the percentage of sequence difference, as given in the examples in this article, he is not saying that exactly the same amino acids are always different, but the number of AAs that change (thus the total percent change) is what is remarkably similar. If one assumes that the molecular change is time related, then more advanced organisms might have a far different amount of change compared to older (ancestral) organisms. But the pattern is one of 'equal distance' as noted in similar percentages of change. This is not what one would assume for evolution.
Again, we are just taking a glimpse of a more precise presentation by Denton. But he maintains a consistency here in that modern molecular data appear to parallel observations made long before molecular technologies were known to science.
Typology looks at arranging organisms by types based on their characteristics (traits, morphologies, etc). Adding the molecular picture reinforces what one sees at the morphological level. If this relationship holds across time, then separate groups remain separate from the start and not branching out over time (note diagram below at right with vertical lines depicting origins a the base and each line ascending upward over time without branches. Darwinian theory is represented on the left. The typological observation of separation is further illustrated by the groupings within the boxes at the top right. Each diagram at the right and left only represent a portion of biodiversity not all organisms on earth.).
This adds different perspectives together and reinforces a viewpoint not anticipated by the standard evolutionary scenario. Let's put a text description together with a graphic that has appeared in a number of sources we've encountered.
So, with the carp (fish) in the midst of this example we look in a number of directions to other groups and see protein sequence (percent) differences that are relatively uniform.
Okay, this compares fish to other groups. Denton provides a number of other similar comparisons. So, if one looks at the lamprey (cyclostome), a gastropod (mollusk), silkworm, or bacteria... the story is the same... equidistance between compared groups based on the amount of sequence difference in the molecular data!
The point to glean here is that the the sequence differences don't reveal some evolutionary progression over time. That's something we might expect in support of the standard story.
To be fair, one may say the jury is still out on the approach of classifying organisms by typology. Denton is careful to note this point. Yet, regardless of where typology stands, the molecular data still pose a problem for the Darwinian perspective.
Denton further discusses how a divergence of sequences might appear in proteins in various species over time. He introduces the concept popularly known as the 'molecular clock hypothesis' (Denton (ETC) Page 295). The idea here is that molecular changes occurring in a way that tracks with time. Yet, the observed molecular diversity seems to suggest a kind of constraint is applied. The alterations in molecular sequence are not simply playing out over linear time... as might be expected for a clock scenario. And each protein seems to have its own clock running independently of other clocks! No one knows how this works!
Rather than being a true explanation, the hypothesis of the molecular clock is really a tautology, no more than a restatement of the fact that at a molecular level the representatives of any one class are equally isolated from the representatives of another class.
Looking around a bit, we can go back to the idea of looking for living fossils. That is, extant (present and alive) organisms that also are found in the ancient fossil record. The living fossil provides a means to sample the molecules of an organism that has roots to past geologic time. The lungfish is one such example that Denton discusses in relation to the molecular clock hypothesis and use of molecular data to assess evolution (see Denton (ETC) Pages 301 and 302).
Lungfish almost identical to those of modern Africa are found as fossils in the rocks of the Devonian era 350,000,000 years ago alongside fossils of the earliest amphibians and the very fish groups from which the amphibia supposedly of arose.
As above, sequence comparisons yield a pattern of equal distance between vastly different groups of life. So, humans... by the presumed biological evolution... should be exhibiting remarkable morphological transformations and internally considerable organ system development. The molecular 'environment' in such a case must also experience considerable change. Yet the living fossil of today goes back in time to something apparently the same, or nearly so, as the ancient remains indicate by in the fossil record. The lungfish thus is a relatively static organism. It's molecular environment would seem relatively static compared to that of organisms undergoing the rather dramatic transitions, for example, leading to modern humans.
Despite the fact that no convincing explanation of how random evolutionary processes could have resulted in such an ordered pattern of diversity, the idea of uniform rates of evolution is presented in the literature as if it were an empirical discovery. The hold of the evolutionary paradigm is so powerful that an idea which is more like a principle of medieval astrology than a serious twentieth century scientific theory has become a reality for evolutionary biologists.
Here is, perhaps, the most dramatic example of the principle that wherever we find significant empirical discontinuities in nature we invariably face great, if not insurmountable, conceptual problems in envisioning how the gaps could have been bridged in terms of gradual random processes. We saw this in the fossil record, we saw it in the case of the feather, in the case of the avian lung and in the case of the wing of the bat. We saw it again in the case of the origin of life and we see it here in this new area of comparative biochemistry.
For DNA and RNA, there are numerous articles in the recent literature on how similar or dissimilar nucleic acid sequences are between species and within a species experiencing various conditions. The example given above focuses on protein sequences, which in part are a reflection of the genetic code (genome) that determines the amino acid composition of these molecules. One should note that new and unique proteins must come into play to support the increased complexity and functionality of the higher organisms that appear progressively in time. The assumption is that the information in the genome is supplemented to yield these new molecules.
Where does this new information come from! Beyond this question, we find another area of discussion is how changes appear in the genome's sequence for various species.
There are also numerous reports about rates of change and clocks in relation to genomes. Researchers sometimes report apparently rapid rates of evolution based on observations of genomes revealing change in relatively short time spans. We might ask how environmental impacts are part of these observed changes. Elsewhere we hint that the rapid change is simply a process that rapidly reveals information already within the standing genome. We hardly hear of such considerations because too often it's evolution that a researcher wants to see in motion.
Evolution can be predicted in the short term from a knowledge of selection and inheritance. However, in the long term evolution is unpredictable because environments, which determine the directions and magnitudes of selection coefficients, fluctuate unpredictably. These two features of evolution, the predictable and unpredictable, are demonstrated in a study of two populations of Darwin's finches on the Galapagos island of Daphne Major. ... The phenotypic states of both species at the end of the 30-year study could not have been predicted at the beginning. Continuous, long-term studies are needed to detect and interpret rare but important events and nonuniform evolutionary change.
By these words, and by everything else that emerges in the window's view, we are not surprised... and yet the Grants need more time... again perhaps to see the theory demonstrated among the oscillations of change in both the species and the environment in which they live. Meanwhile, finches remain finches.