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Because it's work now.
I decided over the weekend that I'm going to stop the blog.
It feels like work, and I'm retired.
Oh, I like to spread information that I find interesting. But people who seek it out will find it anyway, and I'm just annoying those who don't want to know. And I just don't touch that much of the universe so I'm not going to be spreading anything all that far. I'm not going to change the world.
I started out this blog in 2004 because Girlfriend had one. But she stopped hers soon thereafter. Early on it was kind of therapy. I printed bad poems, uploaded some of my songs, some of which were okay, I think. I've written some of my favorite conspiracy theories, but they've all pretty much proven to be true and nothing's changed. Oh well.
I used to write top ten lists of songs I liked, but I don't feel like it anymore. Music Fridays were my favorites.
Friends and anyone else interested who has my email or phone number or even address can find me. Then there's that Facebook thing.
I'd like to spend more time on music and writing, but not this writing. Of course, stopping one thing doesn't necessarily mean I'll put the free time to good use, and with or without the blog I've got plenty of free time.
So I'm just going to ease away from this and see what's next. Unless I change my mind, in which case I'll start up another blog. This one has gone on for almost seven years now.
Mar 14, 2011 5:59:30 PM | Me
What makes a genius?
Maybe testosterone.
Mrazik, a professor in the Faculty of Education's educational psychology department, and a colleague from Rider University in the U.S., have published a paper in Roeper Review linking giftedness (having an IQ score of 130 or higher) to prenatal exposure of higher levels of testosterone. Mrazik hypothesizes that, in the same way that physical and cognitive deficiencies can be developed in utero, so, too, could similar exposure to this naturally occurring chemical result in giftedness.
"There seems to be some evidence that excessive prenatal exposure to testosterone facilitates increased connections in the brain, especially in the right prefrontal cortex," said Mrazik. "That's why we see some intellectually gifted people with distinct personality characteristics that you don't see in the normal population."
Mrazik's notion came from observations made during clinical assessments of gifted individuals. He and his fellow researcher observed some specific traits among the subjects. This finding stimulated a conversation on the role of early development in setting the foundation for giftedness.
"It gave us some interesting ideas that there could be more to this notion of genius being predetermined from a biological perspective than maybe people gave it credit for," said Mrazik. "It seemed that the bulk of evidence from new technologies (such as Functional MRI scans) tell us that there's a little bit more going on than a genetic versus environmental interaction."
Based on their observations, the researchers made the hypothesis that this hormonal "glitch" in the in-utero neurobiological development means that gifted children are born with an affinity for certain areas such as the arts, math or science. Mrazik cautions that more research is needed to determine what exact processes may cause the development of the gifted brain.
He notes that more is known about what derails the brain's normal development, thus charting what makes gifted people gifted is very much a new frontier. Mrazik hopes that devices such as the Functional MRI scanner will give them a deeper understanding of the role of neurobiology in the development of the gifted brain.
"It's really hard to say what does put the brain in a pathway where it's going to be much more precocious," he said. "The next steps in this research lay in finding out what exact stimuli causes this atypical brain development."
But then too much testosterone in the womb might cause autism.
Mar 13, 2011 12:42:00 AM | Science
How did humans conquer the world?
Partly, because they were friendly to strangers.
Research findings published in the March 11 edition of the journal Science by an international team of noted anthropologists, including several from Arizona State University, who study hunter-gatherer societies, are informing the issue by suggesting that human ancestral social structure may be the root of cumulative culture and cooperation and, ultimately, human uniqueness.
Because humans lived as hunter-gatherers for 95 percent of their species' history, current foraging societies provide the best window for viewing human social evolution, according to the authors. Given that, the researchers focused on co-residence patterns among more than 5,000 individuals from 32 present-day foraging societies around the globe, including the Gunwinggu, Labrador Inuit, Mbuti, Apache, Aka, Ache, Agta and Vedda. Their findings identify human hunter-gatherer group structure as unique among primates.
Professor Kim Hill of ASU's School of Human Evolution and Social Change in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is the lead author, along with Robert Walker of the University of Missouri. The collaborative effort involved ASU professors James Eder and Ana Magdalena Hurtado; ASU anthropology graduate student Miran Božičević; and anthropologists from SIL International, Dallas; Southern Methodist University, Dallas; Hawassa University, Ethiopia; Washington State University; Durham University, UK; University of Utah; and Stanford University.
Their finding showed that across all groups, adult brothers and sisters frequently live together, making it common for male in-laws to co-reside. They also found that it was equally common for males or females to move from or remain with family units. This is in contrast to other primate species, where either males or females move to another group at puberty.
A major point in the study is that foraging bands contain several individuals completely unconnected by kinship or marriage ties, yet include males with a vested interest in the offspring of daughters, sisters and wives. This organization mitigates the group hostility frequently seen in other apes and also promotes interaction among residential groups, thereby leading to the development of a large social network.
"The increase in human network size over other primates may explain why humans evolved an emphasis on social learning that results in cultural transmission," said Hill. "Likewise, the unique composition of human ancestral groups promotes cooperation among large groups of non-kin, something extremely rare in nature."
Mar 12, 2011 12:32:00 AM | Evolution, Science
Music Friday: Dissecting "She Looked Back"
Those close to me know I've been working for years on a collection of songs to record. There are many issues as to why there's been a logjam. I won't bore you here.
Suffice it to say that a lot of the songs are about the failure of my marriage. That means that a lot of the songs are downbeat, to say the least. Even musically upbeat songs like "Count Each Misery" are lyrically devastating:
We had our plans all drawn up.
I tried to make 'em work.
You needed one good handyman
but you got stuck with a clerk.
I wish you were as satisfied
as I used to be with me.
Now I get up every morning
just to count each misery.
You get the idea. There are other songs in the collection about what the hell is the meaning of life, about betrayals and failures and death. And looking at it I realized that there was damned little hope in the collection. Oh, I do a slowed-down version of "Daydream Believer" which is actually a hopeful song about a not-so-great situation, if you follow the lyrics. My version of that song isn't very chipper (like the way the Monkees did it) but rather doleful. Cheer up, sleepy Jean.
Here's another problem. I am working on songs I wrote during my failed marriage and in the immediate aftermath when I had good reason to be a Gloomy Gus. These days I'm feeling pretty damned good about myself and my situation. I'm living with the woman I love and who loves me. You know the expression: I can't complain. But that's precisely what I'm doing with this collection of music. And it's a huge roadblock that needs to be busted through before I move to whatever my next batch of songs is going to be.
I needed some positive thinking music. A song to stick in there. The "hit" off the album, if you will. I was going through some old music files on one of my computer music programs and came across one called "She Looked Back". If I have a music file without lyrics I often just give it a name. If and when I come up with lyrics for the music I can change the name to suit the lyrics. This music is years old. I'm not even sure if I had met my woman when I wrote it. Nevertheless, there's a moment when the music and the idea for a song and the lyrics all begin to sync up, and it's a part of the creative process I really enjoy.
(I'm about to give a musical explanation of the song, but since I've never been trained in music and can't even read it, don't expect this to be terribly precise.)
"She Looked Back" has probably the most complicated set of chord changes I've ever used. You don't normally think of country music (and this collection of songs, for want of a better term, is kind of country-ish) as having lots of jazzy chords, but this one does. It's built around generally unadorned piano chording. If the chords are "complicated" in structure then too much action within the playing of the chords further confuses the motion of the melody. And the melody is pretty simple.
The song starts out with a simple piano riff (the song is in the key of C), the line bouncing among C, D, E and G notes with maybe an F thrown in. When the first verse starts there is the first 2m7-5-1 progression. In every key there are various chords related to the root note. 2-5-1 progressions are extremely common in pop music. In the key of C the chords would be D minor, G and then the root, C. In this song I use Dminor7, Gsustained7 and then a Cadd2. The Dminor7 adds a C note to a Dminor. The Gsustained7 sharps the normal B to a C. And the Cadd2 adds a D to a C chord. What does all this do? It makes the chord change more interesting. The Dminor7 is a whole step away from the root, and musical tension eventually resolves to the root. But the Dm7 already is at the root (in that it contains a C) while it is away from it. Likewise, the Gsus7 has a C in it, so while it is supposed to oppose the root it also embraces it. It gently confuses the ear. The Cadd2 adds a D to a C chord, so while it's supposed to be the final resolution the D again confuses the issue. Those three chords thus suspend the resolution, which is fine, they're the first three chords of the song, but they are giving a general resolution without resolving.
If you don't follow you'll have to trust me on this.
The second line in the verse starts with a Cmajor9 instead of what more logically should be a C. This chord adds a B and a D to a C chord (which is C, G and E). Those notes again slightly confuse the ear. The mind knows generally where it's going with the melody but the extra notes suggest a G chord. In fact, you could look at a Cmaj9 as a G chord within a C chord. Oh my! The song then moves from Cmaj9 to a Bbmajor7 which does not normally belong within the key of C. Most of the chord is one whole note down from a C, which gives the melody a feeling of dropping. But the major 7 of Bb is A, and A is the minor in the key of C. So the movement downward and to the minor brings a shift towards a serious or sad point. However, the next chord is an Aminor7, entirely comfortable inside the key of C. The Aminor7 quickly moves to a Gminor7, which mirrors the falling movement a couple bars earlier from Cmaj9 to Bbmaj7. Then the Gminor7 resolves to an Fmajor7, which if this song had been in the key of F would have been a 2m7 to the 1 change. But it's actually moving from 5 to 4 in the key of C. And that is followed by a very quick Dm7 to G7, again the 2-5 movement.
Okay, I realize that if you understand music I sound like an idiot explaining this and if you don't understand music it's beyond you. Help me, folks. I'm trying here.
That was the first verse. The chorus has two sections. The first section returns to the root with a C2, I employ similar ear tricks with the chording. The second part of the chorus gets tricky, immediately going from an Fmaj7 to a Bb9#11 (I won't even go there). But the effect of the next eight bars is much like jazz comping where chord changes come fast enough so that things are interesting, but the melody itself stays simple. The chorus then resolves into that simple little piano riff that starts the song.
Here is the piano part as I just described it:
Download Piano part from She Looked Back
The bass part is fairly simple due to all of the "confusion" of the chord changes. The bass part generally roots the song and here the bass pretty much stays with the root note of each chord. In simpler chord changes it's nice to have the bass bounce around and make things more interesting, but here you don't want to add to the confusion.
The guitar at the beginning of the first verse plays a baritone part, pretty much mimicking the bass. The guitar has a bit of tremolo which suggests some of the old rockabilly guitar stylings. At the beginning of the first chorus the guitar begins picking notes in the chord, making the guitar part a little more interesting. In the second part of the chorus the guitar begins strumming, which adds a little power to the chorus. And in most songs the chorus is where the point of the narrative is driven home.
Here's the guitar part:
Download Guitar part from She Looked Back
In popular music dynamics are important. Even when there's a lack of dynamics that in a way delivers a message to the listener. It's like sex. The intro is foreplay, you get started, eventually you build to a climax. You have a cigarette.
"She Looked Back" follows the general rules. The verses state something, the meaning or message of the song is defined or generalized in the chorus. The first part of the chorus goes: "She looked back at me. What did she see?" At that point in each verse there is speculation as to what she had seen. The second part of the chorus goes: "Some folks may say it's fate, some folks call it destiny./I'm just glad that she looked back at me." Kind of a folksy statement that things worked out well.
The song is vaguely about the first date Girlfriend and I went on. You know, a meeting in a public place, a little talking, and let's see where it goes. We'd chosen to meet at a coffee shop near the beach in Pacifica. When we were about to leave the shop I dropped my hat and was looking around for it and she looked back. The song speculates about what was going through her mind at that moment. Because she could have easily dismissed me as a dork and that would have been that. So what did she see? And it kind of plays around with the little choices we face from moment to moment. How if you maybe said something to a stranger how your life may have changed forever. And if you didn't say anything it didn't. Something or someone amazing might have walked right past. Anyway, that's roughly the plot of the story, although from the lyrics (which have not been completed) you don't know that we're on a first date. We could be passing strangers. Which we were in a sense.
Back to the music.
The first chorus resolves into that simple piano part. The drums, which had built throughout the first verse and chorus, calm down. Verse two comes, which advances the story, goes into the chorus. But this time the guitar part for the second verse does not mimic the bass but starts out with the picking. When the second part of the second chorus hits suddenly there's a new instrument: the pedal steel guitar. In many pop songs this would be where a string or horn section would come in to reinforce the chorus. Here, in order to further enforce the idea that this is a country song, I use a country instrument. But the pedal steel plays like strings, high, holding notes. And with lots of reverb to make it fill the background.
Here's where the pedal steel comes in:
Download Pedal steel guitar on She Looked Back
(I'll note right now that this entire thing was composed on computer. The pedal steel part was originally a string part. While it's set back in the mix I'm not entirely satisfied with it because it's not "pedal steely" enough. I'll need to put in bends and such to make it sound more realistic.)
The pedal steel continues in the background through the solo. The solo itself is the tremolo guitar, but louder and boosted with reverb. It's playing across the complex chords and has a jazzy feeling to it, but hopefully still keeping a toe in the country genre.
Then the song goes right into the third chorus. The pedal steel disappears. It's the piano chording along with the guitar back to playing a baritone part where you get to those longer notes kind of broinging. When the song hits the second part of chorus not only does the pedal steel return, but there are also fiddles panned to the other side of the stereo spectrum. I say fiddle instead of violin because it's a more fiddle-ish sound than, say, a concert violinist.
The second part of the chorus repeats and then the song resolves to the opening piano riff as things calm down to an end. But before the chorus repeats it lands on a solid C chord. No confusing augmentations. The lyrics are absolutely positive and the chords are too. A solid C. And that C rolls into a C-Am-F-G progression, the most basic progression in American pop music. Then the final chorus. Then the simple piano line. Done.
That's the musical logic behind the song.
Here's the whole song:
Download She Looked Back
Mar 11, 2011 12:41:00 AM | Me, Music
How's fighting the negative portrayal of Muslims going?
Wrong guy was in charge, I guess. From the BBC:
A New York television executive has been given the maximum sentence of between 25 years to life in prison for murdering his wife in 2009.
A jury last month found Pakistan-born Muzzammil Hassan guilty of stabbing Aasiya Hassan and beheading her six days after she filed for divorce.
Hassan argued she had abused him and that he had acted in self-defence.
Hassan founded Muslim-oriented Bridges TV in 2004 in an effort to counter negative portrayals of Muslims.
Prosecutors argued Hassan abused his wife and attacked her in a hallway at the television office, after she filed for divorce following years of domestic violence.
He was arrested in 2009 after he walked into a police station in the city of Buffalo, in New York state, and told officers his wife was dead.
The couple had been married for eight years and had two children.
Mar 10, 2011 12:35:00 AM | Crime
Something new to deny
Because if there is no global warming then the ice isn't melting.
The nearly 20-year study reveals that in 2006, a year in which comparable results for mass loss in mountain glaciers and ice caps are available from a separate study conducted using other methods, the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets lost a combined mass of 475 gigatonnes a year on average. That's enough to raise global sea level by an average of 1.3 millimeters (.05 inches) a year. (A gigatonne is one billion metric tons, or more than 2.2 trillion pounds.) Ice sheets are defined as being larger than 50,000 square kilometers, or 20,000 square miles, and only exist in Greenland and Antarctica while ice caps are areas smaller than 50,000 square km.
The pace at which the polar ice sheets are losing mass was found to be accelerating rapidly. Each year over the course of the study, the two ice sheets lost a combined average of 36.3 gigatonnes more than they did the year before. In comparison, the 2006 study of mountain glaciers and ice caps estimated their loss at 402 gigatonnes a year on average, with a year-over-year acceleration rate three times smaller than that of the ice sheets.
"That ice sheets will dominate future sea level rise is not surprising -- they hold a lot more ice mass than mountain glaciers," said lead author Eric Rignot, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, and the University of California, Irvine. "What is surprising is this increased contribution by the ice sheets is already happening. If present trends continue, sea level is likely to be significantly higher than levels projected by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007. Our study helps reduce uncertainties in near-term projections of sea level rise."
Mar 9, 2011 12:35:00 AM | Science
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Mar 8, 2011 12:15:00 AM
A scientific question
As the world fast approaches St. Patrick's Day, scientists ask, "Does Guinness taste better in Ireland?"
A new study in the Journal of Food Science provides some limited scientific evidence to support the theory among beer enthusiasts that Guinness tastes much better in Ireland than other parts of the world.
Over a period of one year, four researchers of different nationalities traveled to 14 countries and visited 71 Guinness serving establishments in 33 cities to collect data for 103 tastings.
Tasting scores for pints of Guinness were generally high all around the world, yet tastings in pubs in Ireland scored significantly higher.
This difference remained statistically significant after adjusting for researcher, pub ambience, Guinness appearance, and the sensory measures of mouthfeel, flavor and aftertaste. Please note that results are subject to further verification because of limitations in the study design.
I wonder who gets to test for further verification.
Mar 7, 2011 12:18:00 AM | Drinking, Science
I got nothing.
Grrrrr!
I am in the middle of a very frustrating computer, uh, episode. Again it has to do with my music program stuff. What is very cool now is that you can run signals through audio effects that are digital programs. That is, if you want a reverb you can get a reverb program and tailor your sound to whether you want your guitar to sound like it's in a closet or the Taj Mahal. You know, just by flipping through different digital patches.
It's simple and elegant except because it's digital it's easily copied and stolen. Thus, companies who spend money developing these things think of all sorts of ways to prevent people from stealing them. And, unfortunately, sometimes it seems impossible to actually install a program because of all the crap you need to go through.
My instant problem is my new Amplitube Fender program, made by IK Multimedia. I got another program from them, one that emulates all those Mellotron instruments. Unfortunately, that program didn't install right. I just figured since I was working on music that didn't use Mellotrons that I'd get back to it later.
But I'm having problems with this Amplitube too. It comes with a serial number. When you go through the process of registering it and enter the serial number the company sends you two more numbers, one of them is something like 24 digits, that you have to reenter. It took the first number but then rejected the second number which was the very number that IK Multimedia had just sent me.
When I emailed the website to complain I got a message saying that I should download their "Authorization Manager" which will help me authorize the program. Unfortunately, it took me three tries to install the Authorization Manager. Then it didn't recognize that the program was on my computer and tried downloading the program somewhere else in my computer. I need the program to sit inside an effects folder within my music recording program (Sonar, if you're interested) or otherwise Sonar doesn't recognize it.
So as it stands I've got a few hundred dollars worth of software from IK Multimedia that won't work.
It would be nice if there was an actual person I could talk with. Or yell at.
Mar 5, 2011 12:27:00 AM | Computers, Music
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Base class for strategies that are stored as a collection, even if their field value is something else. Handles data loading and basic query functionality. Subclasses must implement abstract methods and insert/update/delete behavior as well as overriding FieldStrategy.toDataStoreValue(java.lang.Object, org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.kernel.JDBCStore), FieldStrategy.join(org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.sql.Joins, boolean), and FieldStrategy.joinRelation(org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.sql.Joins, boolean, boolean) if necessary.
Implement this method to select the elements of this field for the given element mapping from ContainerFieldStrategy.getIndependentElementMappings(boolean) (or null). Elements of the result will be loaded with loadElement(org.apache.openjpa.kernel.OpenJPAStateManager, org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.kernel.JDBCStore, org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.kernel.JDBCFetchConfiguration, org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.sql.Result, org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.sql.Joins).


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Today I met with Ashish Kaushal, CEO at HireTalent and Co-founder of Consciously Unbiased at his office in New York City. What a phenomenal guy! Ashish and I first connected through LinkedIn. I was doing my usual evening browsing to see who might be a good connection when I came across a Ashish's profile. I sent a connection request and he accepted. I reached out and we scheduled time to talk by phone. We had a really good conversation about the Women of Color Connecting initiative and he immediately got how the work he is doing through Consciously Unbiased is related to Women of Color Connecting...it's tough to form authentic, real connections with people who view you through a different lens that allows them to only see you as probably unqualified at best or as a charity case at worst. While his work is mostly around talent recruitment, the challenges that are created by unconscious biases in his world and in mine are the same.
What most people don't think about is that it's not the overtly racist or bigoted people who openly seek to oppress others that are the biggest problem. Polite society finds them and over time roots them out. It's the well-intentioned people who say that they care about diversity and inclusion, fairness, equity and equality but who are not active in and mindful about changing "business as usual" who are the real problem. There are many more of these people and their lack of action is harder to address.
Take for instance the recent incident that happened with the young African American wrestler in New Jersey who was forced to cut his locks in order to compete in a wrestling match. The first comments that I saw were calls for disciplinary action for the referee who made the outlandish demand...yes, it's clear that should happen. He should be banned from officiating ever again. What I found more appalling was the people who sat there watching and let it happen. Where was his coach in defending him? Where were his teammates in defending him? Why didn't his competitor say that he refused to win by forfeit? Everyone in the room that day who allowed this to happen was complicit. Yes it was this young man's choice. But was it really? He was trying to fit, to be a team player, to not cause a hardship to his team. I'm sure most of the people in that room think of themselves as progressive and would say it's wrong to discriminate against others and that we are all equal, yet they stood by as someone who was not like them was publicly humiliated and abused.
Talking with Ashish made me think about why good people would be passive bystanders in a situation like this. Their unconscious bias enabled them to view the situation through a different lens than if a similar situation was happening to their own child. We all have a lens with various filters based on our life experiences through which we view the world. Those of us who yearn for a world in which everyone can reach their highest potential have to commit ourselves to being agents of change.
So how does this apply to Women of Color entrepreneurs? Many of the barriers that they continue to face are grounded in unconscious bias. While the entrepreneurs have to be ready, willing and able when opportunity comes, the real work to be done is with the influencers, decision-makers and power brokers...helping them learn how to view these entrepreneurs through a new lens. This is what will drive greater inclusion for Women of Color entrepreneurs (and others) when it comes to access to capital, contracts and large market opportunities.
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Q: How do I get a datepicker to default to "Pick a Date"? I have several DatePickers and many of them will not have a date by default.  When there is data for the given DatePicker I want it to show the date, but if not, I want it to show the default "Select a Date" text when my data is empty for that date.
Before I created a DataBinding for the DatePicker, it showed this text on all of my DatePickers, but after I created a DataBinding it's to a DateTime value, which can't be a null value.  Is there a different data type that does accept a null value that the DatePicker would accept, or is there a better way for the DatePicker to display the "Select a Date?"
I'm kinda new to programming so please forgive if I didn't make it clear or include some required information.  I can provide whatever is needed.  Just ask.

A: The SelectedDate property of the DatePicker is of type DateTime?, so it's nullable.
If you have this in your view model:
public DateTime DateTimeInVm { get; set; }

And this in your view:
<DatePicker SelectedDate="{Binding DateTimeInVm}"></DatePicker>

Then yes, the output will be:

Because as you said DateTime is a struct so it can't be null and will be initialized to DateTime.MinValue.
But if you have this in the view model:
public DateTime? DateTimeInVm { get; set; }

The result will be:

So try to change the property you're binding to to a nullable DateTime.

A: Do you really need to bind your DatePicker? Because you can simply give it a name  and you will be able to give it null value (for Select a date) or set date:
AXML:
<DatePicker Name="MyDatePicker"/>

C#
MyDatePicker.SelectedDate = null; // will show "Select a date"
MyDatePicker.SelectedDate = DateTime.Today; //will show today's date

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It's time for abortion rights advocates to stop denying reality.
How long can supporters of abortion rights go on denying the distinct legal significance of unborn human life? Not any longer, if they want to save Roe v. Wade.
That's the message the U.S. Senate delivered Thursday as it passed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act. Under UVVA, which had already passed the House, anyone who injures or "causes the death" of a "child in utero" during a violent federal crime will get the same punishment "provided under Federal law for that conduct had that injury or death occurred to the unborn child's mother." The bill defines a "child in utero" as "a member of the species homo sapiens, at any stage of development, who is carried in the womb." President Bush will soon sign it into law.
Once enacted, the law will double the penalty for any boyfriend, husband, or thug who harms or kills a fetus in the course of beating or killing a pregnant woman. More broadly, it will enshrine in federal law the principle that killing a fetus is legally equivalent to killing a child. That's exactly the principle the Supreme Court rejected in Roe.
Advocates of UVVA say it won't affect abortion rights because it stipulates, "Nothing in this section shall be construed to permit the prosecution … of any person for conduct relating to an abortion for which the consent of the pregnant woman, or a person authorized by law to act on her behalf, has been obtained." But the exemption is plainly illogical. Imagine a federal ban on gay marriage that stipulated, "Nothing in this section shall apply to a daughter of the Vice President of the United States." A gay marriage is a gay marriage. A child is a child. Once the embryo is defined as a child, and killing it is defined as killing a child, abortion at any stage of pregnancy becomes murder—immediately in theory, and eventually in law.
Is this what the Senate intended? Not really. Last year, 52 senators voted for an amendment declaring that Roe "secures an important constitutional right" and "should not be overturned." Fourteen of those 52 pro-choice senators voted Thursday for UVVA. Five of them voted against an amendment to UVVA, offered by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., that would have preserved UVVA's penalties for assaults on pregnant women while changing its language to avoid a collision with abortion rights. Feinstein's amendment was the sole alternative put forward by abortion rights supporters. It was the whole ball game, and those five senators held the balance of power. With their support, Feinstein's amendment would have been adopted, and abortion rights would be safe. Instead, the amendment failed, 50 to 49.
It's a strategy of denial. And this week, it ran into too much reality.
This is what happens when you deny reality. You have trouble making sense. You use words like "injury" and "death," forgetting that you've refused to acknowledge the existence of anything capable of being injured or dying.
Tell that to all the unfertilized eggs that have become cloned mammals in the last seven years.
In Thursday's debate on UVVA, Feinstein charged, "The bill says a one-day-old fertilized egg is a member of the species Homo sapiens. Translation: It is a person." But those two sentences aren't an accurate description of UVVA. The first sentence is a fact; the second is a mistranslation. A human embryo is a member of our species. But that doesn't mean it's a person. An adult is a senior member of the species. A child is a junior member. A viable fetus is a more junior member. A pre-viable fetus is a still more junior member. A zygote is the most junior member. You can argue that personhood begins at viability while admitting that human distinctness begins at conception. On the other hand, if you deny the human distinctness of the fetus, most people will stop listening to you. Given a choice between calling the fetus a child and calling it a pregnancy, they'll call it a child.
That's the choice abortion rights advocates have offered the public and the Senate in the debates over cloning, prenatal health insurance, and violence against pregnant women. In two of the three cases, their rigidity has turned a morally and politically winnable debate over whether the fetus is a person into a morally and politically unwinnable debate over whether the fetus is a distinct human entity deserving of legal consideration as a member of our species. Such consideration need not override Roe's central principle that a woman's privacy rights trump the legal value of a pre-viable fetus. In fact, it can rest on Roe's acknowledgment of the state's "important and legitimate interest in protecting the potentiality of human life." Many states already criminalize, in language compatible with Roe, the killing or wounding of a fetus during an attack on its mother.
"If a state can put someone in jail for life because they took the life of an unborn child, then we're clearly saying there is something very valuable there," Feinstein warned Thursday. She wasn't endorsing that conclusion. She was reading aloud, with disapproval and alarm, the words of a Nebraska state senator. Guess what: There is something very valuable there. And if you can't see it, we can't hear you.


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The 6th Annual Convocation ceremony of the College was held on 23rd December, 2017 (Saturday) in the College auditorium in the presence of Revered Swami Sarvalokanandaji Maharaj, Secretary of the Ashrama, Prof. (Dr.) Rajagopal Dhar Chakraborty, Registrar, University of Calcutta and Prof. (Dr.) Sourav Pal, Director, IISER, Kolkata. They handed over the awards and certificates of merit to the new graduates. Prof. Chakraborty gave an inspiring speech emphasizing the present employment opportunities. Prof. Pal, in his speech, highlighted the potentiality of Ramakrishna Mission Residential College in light of their status as a college with potential for excellence, and their academic autonomy.


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In the world of Harrah, Evon is a young sorceress, more powerful than she realizes. For years she grew up in the clutches of a wicked sorcerer who nurtured her powers for his own ends. Evon decides to take her fate in her own hands when she runs away, but when she starts getting pursued by the sorcerer's thugs she learns that he is not just after his runaway apprentice. On the run for too long, Evon decides to get help. She finds Herodotus, a mercenary, a wanderer, a hero. Little does she know that he has secrets of his own. Together, they uncover Evon's past and face off against the people that mean her harm.
Updates Friday (ish)
Evon is based off of an RPG that Mr. Wax and I made up and played years ago. The overall plot went through a lot of revisions and there were quite a few name changes for the characters before we wrote the outline for the comic.
About the Creators
Name: Brittany Evon Shepard
I've been drawing for most of my life. I know most artists say that, but it's true 🙂 Instead of being outside playing with the other kids, I was inside either drawing or playing video games. The inspiration for what I draw come from the types of cartoons that I watched as a kid; I was a Disney kid growing up and my all time favorite Disney series was and will probably always be TailSpin. My fascination with TailSpin would also explain why most of my female characters have always been bears 🙂 I'm also a big fan of anime and some of those influences have also helped to shape my work.
I am a Fine Arts graduate from the University of Cincinnati college of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning (DAAP)
Name: Mr. Wax
Born: Sometime in early December
Long time imaginary friend of his co-author, his roots are in classic science fiction and fantasy such as Edger Rice Burroughs, Robert Hienlien, and Robert E. Howard. He Enjoys well writen comicbooks and stories that are about people. He lives in the Mythical land of North Dakota where he grew up walking to the local library as his primary source of entertainment.


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Amherst back to state, now for basketball
Scott A. Williams
AMHERST - Garrett Groshek already knows the exhilaration of being a state champion.
The senior guard was part of the Amherst High School football team that hoisted a gold trophy at Camp Randall Stadium in late November after winning a Division 5 state title.
Now Groshek and a large contingent of his football cohorts are returning to Madison, looking to add a basketball state championship to their football hardware.
How Amherst football makes champions
Amherst (25-1) takes on Cameron (25-0) in a Division 4 semifinal at 8:15 p.m., Thursday at the Kohl Center, looking to move one step closer to bringing home more gold.
"It's kind of surreal right now," said Groshek of returning to Madison with a shot at another state championship. "I don't think we'll really feel it until we actually step foot on the floor at the Kohl Center.
"We love that we have an opportunity to make history in Amherst and we're working hard to be in the best possible position to make that happen."
The Falcons are making the third state trip in school history and are still in search of their first state championship on the hardwood.
Football champions such as Tyler Biadasz, Amaziah McCall, Harry Piotrowski and Cam Gaulke would like nothing more than to add a basketball legacy to their resume.
Success on the football field has rubbed off on the basketball court.
"The mental aspect of football is a lot more similar to what's needed in basketball than it seems," Groshek said. "You need to be mentally tough in both sports. There are not a lot of things that are going to phase us."
Amherst basketball coach Scott Groholski has witnessed the mental aptitude first-hand with this group.
He believes there is an intrinsic connection in regards to the mental toughness required on the football field carrying over to the court.
"The experience these guys have had in big games and being down (at state) all the time, they just have that mentality; they refuse to lose," Groholski said. "We've been down early in so many games and these guys don't flinch. They just have this winning mentality."
As a coach who wants to save his timeouts for end-of-the-game scenarios, Groholski trusts the veterans to figure out what needs to be done to get the momentum turned around.
Drawing on the tough times encountered over the course of a football season enables them to adjust on the fly when dealing with some adversity on the court.
"I pretty much just tell them to tighten up their short strings and fix what's wrong on the court and they've done it every time," the coach said. "It's just something our guys have within them."
Scott A. Williams can be reached at 715-345-2282, or on email at ssswilliam@stevenspoint.gannett.com. Find him on Twitter as @SPJScottWill
WIAA Boys State Basketball Tournament
Thursday's Games
Division 3 Semifinals
1:35 p.m. - Prairie du Chien (24-2) vs. Waupun (25-1)
3:15 p.m. - Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau (25-0) vs. Xavier (23-3)
Division 4 Semifinals 6:35 p.m. - Aquinas (15-11) vs. Dominican (25-1) 8:15 p.m. - Cameron (25-0) vs. Amherst (25-1)
Friday's Games
Division 5 Semifinals 9:05 a.m. - Barneveld (23-4) vs. Catholic Central (18-9)
10:45 a.m. - McDonell Central (25-2) vs. Green Bay N.E.W. Lutheran (13-14)
1:35 p.m. - Waunakee (24-2) vs. Whitnall (20-6)
3:15 p.m. - La Crosse Central (22-4) vs. Kaukauna (24-2)
6:35 p.m. - Muskego (22-4) vs. Marquette (23-3)
8:15 p.m. - Stevens Point (26-0) vs. Sheboygan North (24-2)
Saturday's Games
11:05 a.m. - Division 5 semifinal winners
12:45 p.m. - Division 4 semifinal winners
2:40 p.m. - Division 3 semifinal winners


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GSK to build £350m factory in UK
By Andrew Turley2012-03-22T00:00:00+00:00
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has announced £350 million plans to build its first new UK production plant for almost 40 years in Ulverston, Cumbria
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has announced £350 million plans to build its first new UK production plant for almost 40 years in Ulverston, Cumbria. The move follows the UK 2012 budget announcement, which included further reductions to the corporate tax rate and, according to chancellor George Osborne, 'unashamedly backs business'.
Osborne said in his October 2011 spending review that he would reduce corporation tax and introduce a policy devised by the previous administration: a 'patent box' that would reduce the tax collected on company profits generated from intellectual property to encourage R&D investment in the UK. The main rate of corporation tax would fall from 28% to 24% over four years from 2011. And the tax rate on profits generated from IP would be reduced to 10% from April 2013.
GSK welcomed the plans and, in November, responded with a promise of £500 million in manufacturing investment that would create 1000 jobs.
The company has now added detail to those plans. It will start construction in 2014 or 2015 at Ulverston, where it already has a site employing 240 people to manufacture antibiotic ingredients. It will then take six years for the plant to become fully operational. In addition, GSK will invest £100 million in its two manufacturing sites in Scotland - the sites at Montrose and Irvine - and £80 million at its sites at Ware and Barnard Castle.
The company said it was considering doubling the investment at Ulverston - to £700 million - if the government continued to improve the 'environment for innovation in the UK'.
The wider pharma industry was heartened by the further reductions in corporation tax announced by Osborne. The basic rate will now fall to 24% next month - it is currently 26%. It will then fall to 23% in 2013 and 22% in 2014. Meanwhile, Osborne backed up support for industry with a further £100 million for scientific research at UK universities. Stephen Whitehead, chief executive of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, said that the budget had not contained many surprises. But he welcomed the extra tax relief for industry which he said would 'allow pharmaceutical companies operating [in the UK] to remain competitive in a global market'.
RSC chief executive Robert Parker said that big pharma had endured 'a real rollercoaster ride in the last two years'. He added: 'This announcement by GSK is fantastic news and hopefully a sign of bigger and better things to come from the industry.' The RSC has supported the patent box since it was first suggested in 2009.
The chemical industry was more critical of Osborne's plans. Steve Elliott, Chief Executive of the Chemical Industries Association, said that the UK is still lacking a 'joined-up and long-term industrial policy'. He said the UK government needs to do more to support energy intensive industries from high energy costs. He welcomed the support for R&D but was 'gravely disappointed' that similar support will not be provided for companies looking to renew the equipment in their plants - support that is needed for the lower corporation tax to become relevant.
Brexit deal creates path for UK science to engage with EU but ambiguity remains
UK embarking on era of pay-to-play in EU research programmes
Vibrational energy antenna offers 'a completely new way to run a reaction'
First infrared analogue to natural light-harvesting systems drives isomerisation
Massachusetts crime lab scandal could widen as another chemist is investigated
A third Massachusetts state chemist is being investigated for possible misconduct that might have resulted in wrongful convictions


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Kathleen Clifford was born in 1909. Her family lived in a tiny flat near Paddington Station and her earliest memories were of the smell of horses and the shrill whistle of steam trains. For a girl from the slums there was really only one option once school was over - a life in service. She started work in 1925 as a lowly kitchen maid in the London home of Lady Diana Spencer's family. Here she heard tales of the Earl's propensity for setting fire to himself as well as enjoying the servants' gossip about who was sleeping with whom. The Spencers were just the first in a line of eccentric families for whom she worked during a career that lasted more than thirty years and took her from a London palace to remote medieval estates. But despite long hours amorous butlers and mad employers Kathleen always kept her sense of humour and knew how to have fun. On one occasion she was almost caught in bed with her boyfriend who had to jump out of the window and run down the drive in his underwear to escape the local bobby.


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Aisling Franciosi (6 de junho de 1993) é uma atriz irlandesa. Ela é mais conhecida pelo seu papel como Katie Benedetto na série The Fall, e Kate Crawford em Legends. Em 2016 e 2017, interpretou Lyanna Stark em Game of Thrones.

Biografia
Franciosi nasceu na Itália, mas foi criada em Dublin, na Irlanda. É filha de pai italiano e mãe irlandesa. Ela é fluente em inglês e italiano, e estudou francês e espanhol na Trinity College, em Dublin.

Filmografia

Cinema

Televisão

Prêmios e Indicações

Ligações externas

Atores da Irlanda
Naturais da Itália

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The West Vancouver Chamber of Commerce is pleased to host our annual Conversation with our Mayor. Mayor Michael Smith will join in a candid conversation with the business community, including plans for the future, the importance of the October 2018 election, what the issues are, and more.
This event is always sold out as it gives guests, sponsors, and members a chance to meet the Mayor, hear his honest, outspoken views of our struggles and triumphs. Get your tickets now and bring your questions: "no topic is off the table." Appetizers, drinks, and networking for all attendees.
Be there to hear Mayor Mike and ask your most candid questions. It's your opportunity to learn what our future can look like – with great wine, great food, in great company.
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We are engaged in a 3 year project to attain The Bristol Standard which helps Early Years settings develop and improve the quality and effectiveness of their provision through an annual cycle of reflection. It is designed to support the process of continuous quality improvement as a journey, not a destination.
As with all early years providers in the UK we must meet the statutory framework set out in the Department of Education's Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).
Below is a brief explanation of how we approach certain key areas within the EYFS framework.
By doing and talking whilst they are playing young children learn to think. Our setting provides a range of play activities which help children to make progress in each of the areas of learning and development set out in the EYFS. In some of these activities children decide how they will use the activity and, in others, an adult takes the lead in helping the children to take part.
We assess how young children are learning and developing by observing them frequently. We use information that we gain from observations, as well as from photographs of the children, to document their progress and where this may be leading them. We ask parents to contribute to assessment by sharing information about what their children like to do at home and how they as parents are supporting development.
We keep a Learning Journey record on an app called Tapestry for each child. Staff and parents working together on this is one of the ways in which the key person and parents work in partnership. Your child's learning journey helps us to celebrate together his/her achievements and to work together to provide what your child needs for his/her well-being and to make progress.
Please contact us on 01453 543661 or use our contact form.


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The Last Cylon
January 14, 2009 deonandan	11 Comments
This article was originally a blog post on Deonandan.com
Obama about to take office, war in the Gaza strip, Russia freezing out Ukraine, enormous military movements in Sri Lanka, the world economy tanking…. so what will I blog about? Well, Battlestar Galactia, of course.
I have long held that the reborn (or "re-imagined", as the Powers like to say) series is the single finest current television show in the world. I am not alone in this assessment (see here, here and here.) Few other mainstream entertainment products offer such dark assessments of the human soul, drawing fairly obvious analogies to modern American military policy, primarily the "war on terror". It takes courage to present a universe that clearly mirrors our own, North American world, but in which the polytheists are the ostensible good guys and monotheists the bad guys. It takes further courage to miraculously get us to sympathize with the mass-murdering, robotic bad guys– and yet somehow the show manages to do this.
There are many ripe philosophical fruits to be plucked and devoured in this show. Among my favourites is the anti-heroic path of Dr. Gaius Baltar. He is demonized as a villain for having made some selfish, but very human, self-serving decisions. But if we are honest with ourselves we recognize in Baltar (in all but his genius intellect and creepy narcissism) the truth of our existence. He, unlike other impossibly and predictably heroic members of a typical TV show, behaves pretty much how a normal human being would behave, given the truly extraordinary circumstances in which he finds himself.
Baltars quest for redemption underlies, for me, the lesson of the show: that everybody is both good and evil, that everyone both deserves life and deserves death, and that only the honest among us can embrace this truth and thus seek justification for our continued existence. Dark? Of course; it's Battlestar Galactica.
The other, more accessible philosophical plumb presented by the show is the number of models of "skin jobs", or human-form Cylons. There are exactly 12 of them. Why? It is never expressed explicitly, but the implication is that the race of mechanic Cylons took a good, long look at humanity and saw only twelve of us. There are only 12 archetypal human beings, so simple are our motivations, so predictable our behaviours and responses.
Others have discussed this aspect of the show's mythology. The show's producers have encouraged this discussion, and most have landed upon a summary of the archetypes, as summarized well by a poster on nightly.net:
The regular guy
The caregiver
The destroyer
The ruler
Now, as fans of the show know, while there are 12 archetypes, there are only 11 Cylon models so far identified. The lasting mystery is, of course, the identity of the final Cylon. As shown in the image below, Cylon D'Anna glimpsed the faces of the Final Five Cylons, four of whom are now known to us as occupants of the Colonial fleet.
The producers have fed the speculation, most famously by issuing the following manipulated photo, based on "The Last Supper", with the message that none of the characters portrayed is in fact the Final Cylon:
A series of snippets were also released by the producers on a website called YouWillKnowTheTruth.com, that further fed speculation and planted clues (or, more likely, misdirections). A summary of those clues is given here.
For a lot of reasons, I believe the identity of the Final Cylon boils down to two candidates: Felix Gaeta and Anastasia Dualla.
Now, I know that I have discussed this several times in the past. And I have linked to at least one thorough analysis of the clues. But I love a good mystery. I am so satisfied that the Final Cylon is one of these two individuals that I'm even willing to put money on it.
Part of the charm of the mystery is the bizarre, almost secretive, evolution of Felix Gaeta. If you're a fan of the show, I doubt you will ever be able to forget the haunting, creepy yet beautiful song sung by Gaeta as his leg was amputated. The composer of the song talked about it on his blog, and called it both "Gaeta's Lament" and "The Stump Serenade". Much analysis has surrounded the eerie song, as it supposedly contains clues to the identity of the Final Cylon, to whom God (or the gods, depending on which of the show's faiths you subscribe to) has bestowed a special fate relating to the dispositions of both races, the humans and the Cylons.
This post has, for my money, one of the more intriguing analyses, specifically that Gaeta's secret is his transsexualism. The theory has some appeal to me, since the nature of the hidden Cylon(s) has been something of a bridging of gaps or paradigms. Much the same way that the "skin jobs" cross the divide between men and machine, a transsexual Cylonic Gaeta would cross the divide between male and female.
Then again, for all I know, the Final Cylon is the dead cat formerly owned by Apollo's lawyer buddy. It's just a TV show, after all. The identity of the Final Cylon will be revealed to all in a matter of weeks.
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11 thoughts on "The Last Cylon"
Well I wrong about that one. Sigh.
DeeMack says:
Not necessarily…(as shocking as that moment was)…it could still be!
amphibious says:
I' m trying to follow the logic of the Slate/io9 discussion but it eludes me.
Portrayal of militaristic wymmen and breast feeding men misses the point, if any.
Rather like the ovary encumbered wanting to be Xtian priests, or gays wanting to be Xtians.
WTF would anyone with two spare neurons to connect want to be Xtian?
Sorta like the old Oz joke – the shearers have been working like trojans all week and, come Saturday are all scrubbing, shaving & buffing so the "new chum/Pom" thinks theyre off to see the shielas of negotiable affection in town a hundred miles away.
Instead they all rush for the yard of, as yet, unshorn jumbucks. When he asks "why's everyone running?", the old ringer sez "Well ya don't want an ugly one do ya?"
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Vito Orone says:
Hey! This is kind of off topic but I need some advice from an established blog. Is it tough to set up your own blog? I'm not very techincal but I can figure things out pretty quick. I'm thinking about setting up my own but I'm not sure where to start. Do you have any points or suggestions? With thanks
deonandan says:
@Vito: Just go to any free blog service (blogger.com –if that's still around– or wordpress.org), sign up for a blog, and start writing. Its as easy as that.
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Hi. Not yet. working on it.
Jamal Calderone says:
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The Best of Back Bay was on November 28 at the Fairmont Copley Plaza. Four hundred guests gathered in the ballroom to celebrate another successful year of improving, promoting, and protecting business in Back Bay before 40 Premium Sponsor groups departed for dinner at some of Back Bay's best restaurants.
The Back Bay Association would like to thank these Best of Back Bay restaurants for their support and for the standard of excellence that they uphold all year long!


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Fernando Jose Torres Sanz Spanish pronunciation [fenando tores] born is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a striker. Torres started his career with Atletico Madrid, progressing through their youth system to the first team squad..Name in home country Fernando Jose Torres Sanz. Date of birth . Place of birth Fuenlabrada Madrid Spain. Age . Height .Back in , Fernando Torres became the first player to finish third behind both Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo in their era of Ballon d Or .Emotional event at Fuenlabrada as Torres unveils a new Cruyff Court in the school where he grew up. Francisco de Quevedo School, located in Fuenlabrada .The Fernando Torres of the s may not always have been blessed with world class teammates, but he was a force like no other..Fernando Torres has explained why his three and a half years with Liverpool represented the peak of his powers on the football pitch and .Fernando Torres is one of the most prolific Spanish strikers ever. He scored three goals at the World Cup and won the version of the tournament with .Follow @fernandotorres to never miss photos and videos they post..
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Fernando Jose Torres Sanz Spanish pronunciation [fenando tores] born is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a striker. Torres started his career with Atletico Madrid, progressing through their youth system to the first team squad..
Name in home country Fernando Jose Torres Sanz. Date of birth . Place of birth Fuenlabrada Madrid Spain. Age . Height .
Back in , Fernando Torres became the first player to finish third behind both Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo in their era of Ballon d Or .
Emotional event at Fuenlabrada as Torres unveils a new Cruyff Court in the school where he grew up. Francisco de Quevedo School, located in Fuenlabrada .
The Fernando Torres of the s may not always have been blessed with world class teammates, but he was a force like no other..
Fernando Torres has explained why his three and a half years with Liverpool represented the peak of his powers on the football pitch and .
Fernando Torres is one of the most prolific Spanish strikers ever. He scored three goals at the World Cup and won the version of the tournament with .
Follow @fernandotorres to never miss photos and videos they post..


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Toronto man, 22, killed after motorcycle collides with truck in Woodbridge
By Ilya BañaresStaff Reporter
Wed., Aug. 15, 2018timer1 min. read
A 22-year-old motorcyclist from Toronto has died after a crash in Woodbridge late Wednesday evening, York Regional Police said.
Shortly before 10 p.m., York Region paramedics received a call about a collision in the area of Hwy. 7 and Vaughan Valley Blvd., just north of Steeles Ave. W. Police say the motorcyclist was travelling west on Hwy. 7 when he collided with a truck attempting to turn.
Reports indicate the victim died "instantly," police said.
The identity of the victim will not been released until next of kin are notified. York police's Major Collision Bureau investigated the scene and the area has reopened.
With files from Claire Floody
Ilya Bañares is a breaking news reporter, working out of the Star's radio room in Toronto. Follow him on Twitter: @ilyaoverseas


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Seagrass making slow recovery near Sebastian Inlet
Written by: Sue Cocking September 27 2018
Seagrass meadows that were devastated by cold weather and severe algae blooms between 2010 and 2012 are making a slow recovery in the vicinity of Sebastian Inlet. But propeller scars caused by careless boaters could compromise their progress.
That's the preliminary finding of recent aerial photography and a fins-in-the-water survey commissioned by the Sebastian Inlet District.
A comprehensive report will be released later this fall on the status of more than 100 acres of shallow lagoon bottom surveyed by marine ecologist Don Deis and his team from Atkins North America, an engineering and project management company.
Meanwhile, "we're at about 75 percent recovery since the die-off of 2012," said Marty Smithson, Sebastian Inlet District Administrator. "It's gonna take a few more years to get back to where it was in 2009."
Seagrass recovery is important because the underwater meadows are the foundation of the lagoon's ecosystem, serving as a nursery for juvenile fish, habitat for shrimp and other marine creatures, and a food staple for manatees.
Boaters could aid progress by using marked channels to navigate the inlet instead of cutting across sea grass shoals and by not attempting to power off the shallows at low tide.
"Prop dredging is picking up frequency," Smithson said.
Still, the grass cover surrounding the inlet is in better shape than seagrass in many areas of the lagoon, especially the brown algae-laden Banana River to the north and the blue-green algae-plagued Martin County area to the south, where seagrass has pretty much disappeared, according to Vero Beach marine scientist Grant Gilmore.
Gilmore and Smithson said Sebastian's regular tidal flushing has helped to dissipate the destructive algae.
Much of the Sebastian Inlet area's recovery is due to Johnson's seagrass, a threatened species found only in the Indian River Lagoon and parts of Miami-Dade County's Biscayne Bay.
"Johnson's seagrass was first recognized as a separate species in 1980 . . . [and was] named in honor of J. Seward Johnson Sr., the founder of Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution in Ft. Pierce, Florida," according to the Florida Museum of Natural History.
Deis, who's been studying the lagoon bottom for years by walking and snorkeling, said that manatee grass and shoal grass were the predominant species in near the inlet in 2009, with Johnson's as a minor component. But in 2013, following the freeze and subsequent brown algae spread, Johnson's began to take over.
"It grows from season to season. It doesn't reproduce sexually – it breaks off [and roots]," Deis said. "It's been holding the shoals together."
Added Smithson: "If it weren't for Johnson's, we would have an unstable mess out there."
Today, Deis said, the grass cover is a mixture of shoal grass and Johnson's. The surest sign of full recovery, according to Gilmore, would be a predominance of manatee grass.
Deis was heartened at the increased grass cover and appearance of manatees, juvenile green sea turtles, cow nose rays and bonnethead sharks he found in his recent survey. But he was dismayed to find new prop scars that weren't there last year at this time.
"A pontoon boat plowed its way through the shoal [while I was out there]," Deis said.
Smithson said the frequency of prop scarring eased up dramatically after the District dredged a new navigation channel from the Intracoastal Waterway to the inlet in 2007. Signs were posted to direct boaters away from the shallows, and illustrated brochures were distributed to local marinas.
But lately, Smithson said, as many as 300 boats are showing up in and around the inlet on weekends, with many skippers unfamiliar with proper navigation. Some who anchor on the shoals while the tide is high get stuck when the tide falls and use their propellers to dig their way off instead of using a push pole or paddle or wading and walking the boat. Seagrasses can take many years to recover from such damage.
The District's seagrass report will be shared with the South Florida Water Management District and the National Estuary Program.
Central lagoon in fair condition, but better than north or south
Sea trout spawning sounds offer hope for lagoon


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