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Solstice Space Weather Forecast & the Meteorological Signs

Huge crop formation appeared June 14th in Camponogara, Province of Venezia (Venice), Italy

June in Britain has been—so far—a disappointment, with farmers’ fields almost a month behind in growth. The crop circle season, therefore, has also lagged behind. So, when the first really eye-popping vision of a ‘classic’ crop circle appeared in sun-drenched barley in northern Italian province of Venezia, ten miles west of the floating city, at Camponogara, all eyes in Croppiedom were on the new design: a ‘Pokémon’ ball, an alarm button? what was the crop circle Deva trying to alert us to?

One has the feeling that the Earth, herself, is seeking our attention, and expressing her messages through the most available resource she has: ripening grain.

Golden Ball Hill CC appeared on solstice, June 20, 2012 in Vale of Pewsey, Wilts. Visitors not encouraged.

The British contingent was distraught: the English CC season had been what Brits call ‘difficult’, ‘flaming’ June struggling against weather conditions which would test the most stalwart rain-lover. There were distractions: the full moon of June 4th produced an annular solar eclipse; with a rare Venus transit next day; both witnessed by millions (in person; via livestream, internet, image bottom). So, perhaps encouraged by signs in the skies, the four small early-June crop appearances in Wiltshire were seen, not as a sad flop, but merely a prelude to what croppies now look for in the Solstitial Message—the manifestation of multiple—and meaningful—crop circles during solstice week.

Oare-Pewsey triangle crop circle June 20, 2012 in barley, near same heart-shaped wood featured solstice 2010

Most memorable, and as yet undecyphered, is the Milk Hill Astrolabe, with coded vanes and tail, of solstice, 2009.

But it is interesting that 2012’s solstice duo should appear to flank the same heart-shaped wood which featured on solstice, June 21, 2010, when its code was quickly interpreted to show the precise calculation of Phi, 1.1618, the Golden Mean, the Fibonacci sequence, around which all Nature and organic growth spirals.

And so, the enigma continues.

Pewsey Phi-spiral coded crop circle, solstice 2010, below heart-shaped wood

While deeply disconcerting for Stowell Farms—the Oare Wiltshire farmer who still believes designs are made by local ‘vandals’, and bemoaned this week being ‘recipient’ of two circles overnight on solstice night—the croppie community (with growing internet support group) have had their appetite assuaged, delighted by timely aerial images of both the Vale of Pewsey, Wiltshire and another two in the Vale of Severn, 55 miles due north, in Shropshire. This came as a double surprise: rural Shropshire—ancient Salop—between the awful human morass of Wolverhampton and the stark natural glacial outcrop of the Wrekin, is where hamlets connect through leafy lanes, and rolling fields are still hemmed in by copses (coppices) in olde worlde style, but where—sadly—an indelicately-managed takeover of Ancient Forest lands by corporate behemoth UK Coal, has come up against significant protest from the naturalist and wildlife lobby in its (ongoing) opencast coal extraction pits at Telford, within sight of the Wrekin, and within one mile of both solstice crop circles, at Malthouse Farm June 20th, and its predecessor at Wenlock Wood, June 17th. Wenlock Wood orbs, image below, lead the eye to their Malthouse companion CC one mile distant; while it reciprocates in highlighting a field telegraph pole whose wires lead west to Wenlock Wood. Both have additional meteorological symbol hooks, which point north to the coal extraction dumps.

Much Ado About Little Wenlock

Wenlock Wood, Shropshire 17th June 2012 ‘weather feather’ or transmitter? (Wenlock Hill mast, bottom, out of photo) sending message towards companion CC one mile away at Malthouse Farm; its left hook points to opencast coal pits at Telford, one mile north, ©MichaelSaunders

Both Wenlock crop circles feature weather feather symbolism: Wenlock Wood figure, left—a weather feather—clearly points from the mast on Wenlock Hill towards Little Wenlock and the solstice formation at Malthouse. Both Malthouse Farm and Wenlock Wood designs triangulate over one mile north to the protesters’ Treesit Camp in the middle of one-thousand-year-old Limekiln Wood, Short Wood and Birch Coppice—now being razed by the Coal conglomerate, after being stalled for four years by public opinion. Their ‘restoration plan of pasture and parkland’ promises a return to lark song and mountain views sometime between 2014-2017, but millennium-old oak, and companion natural birch and pine, are gone forever.

405-ft East Field ‘weather feather’ crop circle July 11, 1990 was first of the modern designs to manifest at Alton Barnes

The four-year campaign to protect countryside of ‘outstanding natural beauty’ may not have hit international headlines (coal interests saw to that), but clearly the crop circlemakers felt a need to highlight the plight of irreplaceable natural hinterland of the Severn headwaters, the traditionally-sacred Wrekin*, and the 140-mile Shropshire Way walkers’ and naturalists’ haven, as part of their ongoing subliminal support of getting us thinking like the Back-to-Nature movement.

*On a side-note: the Wrekin, while elevated in ‘recent’ geologic time to its present 1,335-ft, was formed in a primordial (Silurian) tropical sea 425 million years ago, whose coral fragments may still be found along the paths of the Way. An Iron-Age double-entrance enclosure on its sacred summit is locally known as Hell Gate (outer) and Heaven Gate (inner). Nearby fifteen-mile-long Wenlock Edge is one of the finest limestone escarpments in England, supporting wild meadows of endangered cowslip, rare orchids and helleborine. Electromagnetically-speaking, its limestone-permeated soil and alkaline aquifers are ideally suited to conduct subterranean waveforms which appear to be directly associated with crop circle formation.

Influence of the Wrekin

Berkley Lane crop circle, June 17th 2012 at Frome, Somerset reflects roundabout: Ring road (right, ringed dot) leads to Silbury, Avebury, Wiltshire crop/stone circle heartland; while left fork (dark dot with central pale dot marker for emphasis) leads to Bristol, & M5 to Wenlock where weather feather CC appeared on the same day;
photo Stephen Hobbs

‘Out of the confusion of a crumbling society, will emerge individuals who are touched by higher guidance. They will inevitably flow together with others of like inspiration, and a new quality of society will begin to form. This is the true adventure of our time’
Sir George Trevelyan, founder Wrekin Trust

The Wrekin Trust was formed in 1971 by long-time Findhorn Foundation patron, Sir George Trevelyan (1906-1996). He was known in Britain as Grandfather of the New Age Movement, and lived his life according to Earth’s own natural laws, guidance and intuition. He spoke to the ‘Nature spirits’—Pan in particular—and pioneered the teaching of spiritual knowledge as part of adult education. It seems appropriate that 2012 Wrekin Trust Forum is entitled ‘Toward a Planetary Consciousness’.

But, back to weather portents!

“Crop Circles are formed by descending energetic vortices from the atmosphere, a vortex of air which is ionised to the point at which it is better regarded as a species of low-density cool plasma, producing a high-energy electromagnetic field.”
Plasma Vortices Theory, Prof. G. Terence Meaden, Univ. of Oxford Adult Education Archaeologist, Meteorologist and Head of TORRO Tornado Research

Adult educator, Dr Terence Meaden’s Plasma Vortices Theory describes how a rotating mass of electrically-charged air (sometimes reported as a UFO) might form from certain weather conditions, interacting with topographical features in the landscape. It would explain the malfunction of electronic equipment, orb sightings and hundreds of personal testimonies by people experiencing ‘altered consciousness’, within a ‘genuine’ crop circle.

Researcher Ed Sherwood witnessed scores of orbs—his ‘dragon energy‘—during his three years of living near Alton Barnes, and is convinced optimum weather conditions produce the best circles.

“Of the 56 (orbs) that I saw between 1992 and 1996 while living within three miles of East Field (one of England’s most prodigious crop circle sites), 31 looked ‘plasma-like’: luminous, diffusely edged ‘fire balls’ that materialised in a variety of colours, though most often amber, or ‘Golden’, and/or red; and 29 of those occurred in the same weather conditions, characterised by calm stable air, high pressure, high humidity, and low to no wind speed.” Ed Sherwood ‘Meteorological connection to Crop Circles.’

The appearance of the latest circle on ‘Golden Ball Hill’ seems to mirror his experience with dragon energy, and his report is worth reading.

On the edge of last year’s August 15th Jubilee Plantation crop formation, the mysterious symbol likened to a ‘weather feather’ may have predicted a deluge for England during her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations ten months later

It is tempting to speculate that among the final patterns of last year was a message to prepare us for the wet season of 2012. In hindsight, Jubilee Plantation’s weather-feather at Cherhill, right, now looks like a sure sign predicting a downpour for Her Majesty’s June 3rd Royal Barge procession down the Thames during her Diamond Jubilee celebrations.

Now, with several more meteorological signs appearing, perhaps what the crop circle community senses is somewhat like a playback of one’s own dream/ideas rerun at a different speed, or rewound over slightly antiquated equipent, using symbols which only graze our consciousness, begging to be interpreted. ‘Croppies’—from all walks of life—tend to be imaginative, creative, open-minded, spiritually-adventurous—and communicative—people, so this synergy combined with the internet’s rapid evolution, provides a myriad platforms for transmitting ideas.

And if embryo group consciousness is taking hold, perhaps the CC community is first up to bat…

Alton Barnes ‘tadpoles’ heading North: three designs in early barley, swimming for Woodborough Hill, appeared June 9th in overnight rain; cut out by farmer June 10th 2012; timely photo Lucy Pringle

There is much material available on dimensional reality, the concept of multiple or parallel universes; and the idea of ‘possibilities’ existing alongside one’s choices—until we pick a course that becomes our ‘reality’—is no longer an esoteric subject for rarified discussion. Over (at least) the last three seasons, we have been shown images of dimensions beyond what was previously thought to be ‘real’. We are mesmerized by corn magic, as successive optical illusions, created as 2D images, viewed from above—through the magic of video/computer screens—provide instant mantra: living room meditation. For a moment it seems not at all eccentric to see Lucy Pringle’s tadpoles, left, as messages swimming through the limestone aquifer, the energy matrix, towards our greater enlightenment of this amazing phenomenon.

Manton Drove, Marlborough ‘Polar clock’ June 2nd. Circuits from centre outwards measure 1. month 2. date 3. day of week 4.hour 5. minute 6. second: predicts Saturday August 4th. There is no circuit for the (current) year

Before the Italian design (top) and the meteorological glyphs came to taunt us, the first Wiltshire crop circle in barley appeared June 2nd at Manton Grove in the form of a polar clock, giving wired croppies fodder for debate and a ‘date’ to focus on: Saturday August 4th, at either 18:45:50 or 19:43:53, depending on interpretation. In computer/screen saver ‘polar clocks’, convention dictates that the outermost ring denotes time in seconds. It has been speculated that on Saturday evening, August 4th, the Finals of both Men’s and Women’s Athletics will take place in London’s Olympic Stadium; and this would tie in well with the current media trend of overstuffing the population with visual entertainment—the equivalent of Roman ‘bread and circuses’—but, like the later Shropshire circles, a telephone pole at Manton Drove seems chosen deliberately as a focal point; then one recalls that Cotswold-born Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875), inventor of the polar clock, was also instrumental in the development of early telegraph systems and a major contributor to Spectroscopy: which is the study of the interaction between matter and radiated energy.

Moment of sunrise—out of the Black Sea—as Venus transits for the second/final time this century (paired transits 8-yrs apart, 2004 & 2012) The goddess of love next crosses in front of the sun (from our view) in 2117
photo Emil Ivanov, Sebastopol, Crimea

Now everything seems to be concerned with the interface between matter and radiating energy! If crop circles have opened up the field for group imagination and shared consciousness to express itself, then excitement generated makes them ideal chambers of consciousness, exquisitely decorated multi-dimensional motifs which trigger a range of human emotion: from anger through devoted care through spontaneous healing and revelation. Some chambers seem to ripen as the season advances, as the grain within them also matures. Let us hope that implies hope for the human race.

Some amazing conclusions have already been reached by the croppie following, which do have concensus in their peer group. We shall have to wait and see if these new meteorological portents have relevance to just the earthly dimension, or whether the 2012 season is about to be shocked into reality by space-weather, too. With the runup to solar maximum (2013) and increasing frequency of electromagnetic plasma flares and CMEs heading in our direction, perhaps telephone/power lines highlighted in recent formations point to consequent telegraph/communications disruption, which would affect us all. If we add that variable to the dragon’s brew we are concocting, are we prepared for the consequences?

Alternatively, if we stood up now, as one, and demanded solar power, pollution-free energy, even Tesla’s free lightning generators, as the circlemakers suggest, would we be able to change our own future, in time to save it from such a calamity?
@2012 Siderealview

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3 Comments on “Solstice Space Weather Forecast & the Meteorological Signs”

  1. Fitzy Says:

    Information is flowing at a phenomenal rate now.

    In my very small circle, I know people are rapidly transforming (for the better), and the head that graces the pillow at dawn is no longer the same that lies down later that night.
    We cannot resist the urge to throw off the shabby doubts, foisted on us by our own ignorance and the machinations of the mechanical demiurge.
    Seems we are recalibrating our form, our skins and our minds, all the while immersed in a torrent, demanding we shut up and accept proscribed dogma.
    BUT! we’re past the point of mindlessly collaborating in collective suicide—a billion, billion ways of remaking every situation into a just and joyous moment pervade each second.
    We can move beyond the urge to anchor ‘one’ meaning into anything, even each new crop circle, (no doubt there is some misdirection afoot in the fields) as in any communication medium. I say let the possible meaning float a while, if we can create reality, then let’s warm up to the multidimensional options.
    Let’s attribute every gracefully-intersecting stalk, with generative, life-affirming worth. Let’s resist the adornment of wavy grain, with cheapening narratives, lets hold them as portents of an imminent new birth of all we would renew.
    Thanks yet again, for this generous, and multilayered post, young Lady.

  2. siderealview Says:

    Fitzy: good to see you back. *Like your positive view of recalibrating our form, skin, mind, despite cultural clash with dogmatists. No good ever came from kowtowing; our intuitive spirit ‘knows’ better.

    I don’t minimize the impact of your ‘very small circle'; coming from the Antipodes, its refreshing fillip contrasts with our N.hemisphere entrenched (old world) view and I agree w/your multidimensional outlook, not to over-analyse, because each new day is currently a——surprise. How amazing we are blessed to be here in this time of superfast change, amid super-conductive currents of communication, allowing us just to anticipate, expect, believe.

    My very limited knowedge of your beautiful country—once described by my cousin as like ‘Scotland in the ‘fifties’—makes me think you might be first down the pike in your ‘imminent rebirth of all we might renew’. Some of us northerners get discouraged when we see the effects of ignorance (living, breathing centuries-old oak biting the dust; coal slag waste in their place; mind boggles).

    *Like your suggested life-affirmation: that each elongated node of plasma-stretched barley stalk deserves our awe, respect and *belief that greater energy is at work…
    Thank you for visiting, amid demands from your own fine blog. Keep on keeping on.

  3. Shedea Says:

    A very interesting read, thanks. I find the crop circle phenomenon to be a fascinating enigma.

    “In the fields the old Corn God has made his sign.
    For those who see, his message may be just in time.
    Patterns weave their shapes amongst the golden corn.
    We must heed the warning of the Earth’s song.”

    If you’re interested in the rest of the words, and some [hopefully public domain] crop circle pics, see my vid “Patterns” at

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NSF Proposal Limits

posted Feb 20, 2015, 3:58 PM by Amy Crelly   [ updated Mar 23, 2015, 1:18 PM ]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) limits the number of proposals that can be submitted per institution for its Research Traineeship Program. Letters of Intent are due to NSF on Wednesday, March 25, 2015, and Proposals are due to NSF on Wednesday, May 6, 2015. Proposing institutions may submit three proposals.

PIs who plan to apply for this grant should send an abstract of their proposal to Caitlyn Beals (cbeals@pdx.eduby Monday, March 23. Research and Strategic Partnerships will respond shortly thereafter to confirm whether to move forward with the submission.

More information is available on the NSF's website:

Next RAPs Meeting of AY2014-2015: Thursday, January 15, 10am - Noon, SMSU 296/298

posted Dec 23, 2014, 9:10 AM by Amy Crelly

The first 2015 meeting of PSU's Research Administrative Professionals (RAPs) will be held on Thursday, 1/15, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon in SMSU 296/298. Topics for presentation and discussion will include highlights from the most recent National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA) Regional Meeting.

Monthly RAPs meetings provide a valuable opportunity for DRAs and central SPA staff to collaborate, receive training and learn about professional development opportunities, hear announcements, ask questions of colleagues, and discuss topics that affect sponsored projects activities.

First RAPs Meeting of AY2014-2015: Thursday, September 18, 9am - Noon, SMSU 338

posted Sep 18, 2013, 1:00 PM by Caitlyn Beals   [ updated Aug 12, 2014, 8:48 AM by ]

You are invited to the first RAPs meeting of the academic year on Thursday, 9/18 from 9AM - Noon in SMSU 338 (fruit, breakfast bagels & coffee/tea will be provided).  The time period for this AY 2014-15 kickoff meeting has been extended in order to cover the range of topics on the agenda and allow some time for catching up with colleagues.

Since the last RAPs meeting in May, SPA has been busy working on several process improvement initiatives as well as continuing implementation of the new structure and will update the group on the latest developments. The agenda also includes training sessions on a few updated processes as well as opportunities to discuss proposed process changes and clarification of existing processes listed below.

The monthly RAPs meetings provide a valuable opportunity for DRAs and central SPA staff to collaborate on efforts to best support investigators and meet PSU obligations to our sponsors. The meetings are most valuable when all research administrators from across campus attend and actively participate in the meetings. We recognize that attending a 3-hour meeting is a significant investment during this busy time as we approach the start of the fall term. This up-front investment will yield time savings throughout the year resulting from a shared understanding of expectations and requirements associated with our shared responsibly for sponsored projects activity.

Subsequent meetings will return to the regular 2-hour timeframe starting in October and should already be scheduled on your Google calendars.

Draft Agenda Topics:

- New Process for Tuition/Fee Remissions & Participant Support in the Student Remission Application (formerly Fee Remission Database)

- Cognos Budget Forecasting Reporting Tool

- New F&A Rates

- Data Management Plans (DMP)

- Delegated Approvals on Expenditure Transactions

-  EPAF – LDF Training & Discussion on Sponsored Projects

- Revisions to OPAS Form

- Consolidation of CAS Exception Forms

- Change in PSU requirement for Budgeting for Summer Tuition

- PIAF – When To Do New Approvals?

- Purpose, Requirements & Timing for "Internal Detailed Budgets”

- Introduction to New SPA & DRA Staff

- SAM Registration Update

- RAPs Meeting Topic Suggestion/Google Doc

- NIH Update

- Carry Forward on LDFs From Spring to Fall

- Proposal Not Funded? Send Email to

- Trailout- Reminder of When to Contact the GAT

GAT Team Emails - Update

New F&A Rate Agreement

posted Jul 2, 2013, 4:11 PM by Caitlyn Beals   [ updated Jul 2, 2013, 4:12 PM ]

PSU is pleased to announce the successful negotiation of a new Facilities & Administration (F&A) [aka indirect] Cost Rate Agreement, dated May 20, 2013, with our federal cognizant agency (US Department of Health and Human Services) with new rates for the period July 1, 2013 through June 30, 2017.  The rates negotiated for Organized Research and Public Service/Other Sponsored Activities will increase the reimbursement the University receives for administrative and other infrastructure costs necessary for the oversight and management of sponsored awards.

For more information and to see the new rate negotiation information, please visit the PSU Information for Proposals page on our website.

GAT Proposal & Award Management Calendars

posted Jun 10, 2013, 1:37 PM by Caitlyn Beals   [ updated Dec 23, 2014, 8:48 AM by Amy Crelly ]

As announced in the RAPs meeting on Friday, June 7th, the SPA Grants and Agreements Teams have created separate proposal and award management calendars as a way to communicate important information with each other,  as well as with DRAs.

 Follow the steps listed below to access the new Grants and Agreements Team Proposal & Award Management Calendars:

  •         Open your PSU Google Calendar
  •         Under "Other Calendars" (left side of the screen), click on the text field labeled "Add a coworker's calendar"
  •          Depending on which team is assigned to your unit, type in "spawhite RSP" or "spagreen RSP"
  •          Press "Enter"

This calendar will now be included in the list of "Other Calendars" you are able to view. You can hide this calendar at any time.

Special RAPs Meeting: June 7, 10am - Noon, SMSU 338

posted Jun 3, 2013, 8:42 AM by Caitlyn Beals

You are invited to attend a special Research Administration Professionals (RAPs) meeting this Friday, June 7th, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., in SMSU 338. The purpose of this meeting is to introduce you to the new Sponsored Projects Administration (SPA) office. During this meeting, we will cover topics such as:
  • SPA's new organizational structure and delegation of assignments
  • how to contact and communicate with various SPA staff members
  • the timeline for our transition: what will change immediately, within the first three months, and thereafter
  • how research administration responsibilities will be shared between central and departmental staff
  • changes made to our business processes
As previously announced, our new structure will be officially implemented on Monday, June 10th, so we strongly encourage you to attend this meeting. In case your are unable to attend, we will post materials presented and/or distributed during the meeting on our website as well as in the RAP's Google document collection shortly after for your reference. Additionally, our Grants and Agreements Teams will be holding follow-up meetings with each unit to further discuss the topics addressed in this special RAPs meeting.

New Issue of FUNDED: A Grants Office Publication

posted May 7, 2013, 8:06 AM by Caitlyn Beals

Highlights of the May 2013 issue of FUNDED:
- and the Legacy of the Commons
- Rural Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grants
- How to Read an RFP

CANCELLED - May 9 RAPs Meeting

posted Apr 17, 2013, 4:10 PM by Caitlyn Beals   [ updated May 8, 2013, 8:14 AM ]

The RAPs meeting for tomorrow, May 9 has been cancelled in lieu of department-specific meetings with SPA's newly formed Grants & Agreements Teams. These meetings will happen throughout the month of May. Please contact Caitlyn Beals at with any questions.

April 11 RAPs Meeting in SMSU 238 from 10am - Noon

posted Apr 8, 2013, 2:33 PM by Caitlyn Beals

Draft Agenda:

Updates & Announcements
  • SPA Reorganization and Introductions - Jennifer Ward
  • PIAF/Proposal Development - Janet Albarado
  • Delegated Signature Authority Discussion - Sinnamon Tierney
  • Effort Reporting - Jennifer Ward & Sinnamon Tierney
    • PSU Policy
    • PAR Process

New Research Development and Administration resource site

posted Aug 23, 2011, 4:04 PM by Jeremy Dalton   [ updated Jan 9, 2012, 3:19 PM ]

Welcome to the new Research Development and Administration site where you'll find tools and resources for PIs and Departmental Research Administrators (DRAs).

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Gender Stereotypes and Success in the Military

Yesterday Command Sgt. Maj. Teresa L. King was made commandant of the drill sergeant school at Fort Jackson in South Carolina and is the first woman to fill such a position in any of the Army’s schools across the country. According to a recent article by James Dao of the NY Times women constitute a very small percentage of Army personnel in general (13%) and an even smaller percentage of the Army’s highest-ranking enlisted soldiers in active-duty (8%). The lack of female personnel and those in high-ranking positions has been attributed to “pregnancy, long hours and the prohibition against women serving in frontline combat positions” by the Army. Experimental research, particularly in the areas of gender and stereotyping, indicates that women are evaluated differently than men in military training which may also explain the lack of women in higher-ranking positions.

Boldry, Wood, and Kashy (2001) found that although there were no actual performance differences between male and female cadets men were perceived as having the motivation and leadership to succeed in the military while women were thought to have more feminine attributes that would impair performance. Other research has shown that the proportion of women in a given unit is related to performance evaluation such that when women represent a smaller/token portion of the unit their performance is rated lower than men, but when there was a higher proportion of women performance was rated higher than men (Pazy & Oron, 2001). It seems that perception, not performance, contributes to the maintenance of gender barriers in the military among other domains for both men and women. Hopefully, one day more of us can see the world and ourselves as Sergeant Major King does: “When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a female, I see a soldier.”

First Woman Ascends to Top Drill Sergeant Spot

Gender Stereotypes and the Evaluation of Men and Women in Military Training

Sex proportion and performance evaluation among high-ranking military officers

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  1. The job of the military is far too important for it to become a test bed for sociological experiments. For arguments sake let’s just assume that women are less adept at killing enemy soldiers/terrorists than men are. Since this is the job of the Army it would seem to me that men should lead that organization.

    If research indicates that women are better at killing our enemies then by all means they should be the military leaders.

    We have to put political correctness aside and focus on what the job entails, especially when it is a job that is so vitally important.

  2. That is a good point considering that CSM King was relieved on negative terms. Additionally all of the new attention on females serving is seeming to have a negative impact.
    Personally I believe the “girl power” slogans are annoying and literally make me cringe. I just want to exist and serve. My genetalia does not play a very significant role on past, present or future missions.

  3. It should not be based on gender it should be based on skill. Forget about the fact that one is a male and one is a female. Not all men are the same and not all women are the same. It has nothing to do with gender and everything to do with determination, skill and how well that person can apply their knowledge.

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One of the interesting snippets that came out of Activision’s last earnings call was the information that about 10% of WoW subscribers took up the annual pass offer. Green Armadillo shares his thoughts on this, and I agree that this is higher than I would have expected to see. That’s a lot of people who have committed for the long term, even knowing that there was no new content due, D3 wasn’t likely to be out before the Summer and the next expansion beta probably at around the same time.

I think it speaks for a large number of players for whom WoW has become part of their lives, so they either don’t mind paying a premium for the privilege of only logging on occasionally, or else it’s too much hassle to unsub and then worry about resubbing again later (in the same way that people don’t tend to shift their bank accounts around much, even if they could get a better deal elsewhere.) It’s not fair to say that the annual pass decision is made completely without reference to what new content Blizzard will be providing, because D3 and the MoP beta were thrown into the deal. But I bet a lot of the people who picked it up thought “I’ll probably be subbing for the year anyway, might as well.”

Which mostly boils down to a lot of people being happy to pay Blizzard £92 pa for access to WoW, plus Diablo 3 (when it comes out) and beta access to the next WoW expansion (oh and a mount, I forgot about that). There’s not much more to read into that, except maybe that older established players who are glommed onto their game of choice are much less fussy about new content and bug fixes than players hopping into a new and shiny game. Next year, Blizzard won’t be able to offer as tempting a deal to annual pass holders so it’ll be interesting to see how that goes.

What I do wonder is whether subscription game players in general would prefer the option of an annual sub. (At that point, you’re getting quite close to the old Guild Wars model where they aim to release one paid expansion a year and that’s all people have to pay, the only difference is in the amounts charged and how much extra content you get for your money.)

Watercooler on Class Design

Ghostcrawler posted one of his neat thought blogs, this time on class design and roles  in WoW. And it sounds to me as though they know all the issues inside out and the base problems with  some classes being way more hybrid than others (compare the druids’s 4 roles with the mage’s 1 role) would just be too much hassle to change at this point in the game.

I think that’s fair. No point annoying the players who like their classes just the way they are – well not more than totally shaking up the talent trees every expansion would have done anyway. But it sounds a bit weary to me, the tone of designers who’ve mostly given up. Maybe they got burned on the old DK talent tree model, where each tree was intended to be able to perform both melee and tanking roles. It’s a shame because I thought that was good fun, but I can see why sinking back into one tree per role for hybrids and … uh … one tree per different play style for non-hybrids is an easier and more comfortable fit.

I felt tired just reading it. Tired of the game design which involves always having to chase after ‘OK, so which is the best class/ spec for this role I’d like to do’ or ‘ohnoes, my class/spec  got nerfed and no one will want me for role X any more’  or ‘class X can fill 17 different roles, what do I get to make up for not being able to do that?’ (There’s a theme around balance and how your class ends up as the lens through which you see the game here.) Ultimately, you either pick a class/ spec because you love the theme and feel and playstyle, or you pick your preferred role (possibly because of theme/ playstyle) and try to pick the class that best embodies it – and these two approaches don’t always match.

As a player, I just want to be able to pick my class because I dig it and be able to perform whichever role I want to a level that’s acceptable to the rest of the player base. Is it really that much to ask? (yes :P ) Oh, and I don’t want to play a melee class in PvP but I really like melee classes in PvE. Come back to me when you’ve thought it over again.

Is it that end of expansion time already?

Usually the end of an expansion is marked by an upswing of hype for the next expansion. I think in WoW, this changed during Wrath, because there was a long slow period between the last major raid being patched in and the new expansion. So now in Cataclysm, it’s not surprising that people are already talking about this being the end of the expansion. (Incidentally, it also makes me suspect that the  slow period at the end of Wrath is  setting the pattern now for future WoW expansion cycles).

I noticed that WoW Insider has a column on “what to do when you’re bored at the end of an expansion” to mark this. They suggest speed running heroics (just in case you’re not bored of running heroics yet, I guess), soloing stuff from the last expansion, or joining their new social guild. There is plenty of other stuff to do in WoW, including collecting achievements, PvP, levelling alts etc etc.

Or you could unsubscribe and play something else, the MoP ‘open’ beta isn’t likely to start until Summer at the earliest. Just a thought.

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  1. Incidentally I have read statements by multiple people regretting their impulse choice to buy the Annual Pass. Especially the ones who are now playing SWTOR seem to be struggling with the decision.

    I personally thought the Annual Pass was a clever idea on the part of Blizzard, but I would never have purchased it. I am frankly somewhat shocked by the current state of WoW. 4.3.2 is the last patch, there is going to be absolutely no more new content, and MoP isn’t even in beta yet. Six months or more of absolutely nothing new, mindlessly running LFR and Dragon Soul until you puke? People should kick Blizzard in the teeth for this.

    If you compare this to the content release cycles of Rift, Blizzard should be even more ashamed.

    Yet maybe I am only saying this because I broke my WoW habit last year. I had a short surge of renewed vigor for it in October/November, but that died when I first tried the most soulless experience I ever had in WoW, LFR.

    • “People should kick Blizzard in the teeth for this.”

      But they’re not, is the thing. In fact, sub numbers barely dipped over the last quarter even with SWTOR being released. Some of that will be down to the 10% who are now locked in for the year with the annual pass, but really I was expecting to see a larger drop. So colour me puzzled. Maybe there’s something I’m not seeing.

      With the Annual Pass, it was a no-brainer for me to skip it. I had already stopped playing WoW and knew I wouldn’t miss it (maybe the people but not the game) for at least 6 months. I hadn’t seen a lot of people regretting picking the pass up though, so I just assumed they were mostly equally happy with their choice.

      • I suspect the numbers will look a lot different for the January-March quarter, given that TOR will have been out the entire release.

        I’m very curious about TOR’s long term numbers, given that I know of a few people who unsubbed WoW over a year ago went to playing that instead. It’s entirely possible that WoW might not be affected in their numbers because there’s enough turnover in the MMO market that new players are replacing the old.

        As for the annual pass, 10% seems awfully low to me. I expected that there’d be more along the lines of 20-30%, particularly since you’d figure that there’s a core group of long time players still there. I guess that means that the churn in subscription numbers goes deeper than I thought.

      • Yeah, I don’t understand this at all. What I also don’t understand is people quitting SWTOR to go back to WoW. Why, what in the world? Most of those candidates seem to be the folks who rushed to 50 in SWTOR and then got bored. Fine, they can do weekly LFR and achievements til they’re blue in the face.

        I introduced a RL friend to WoW two weeks ago, and while I played with her in the start zone, it just drove home that it’s not really a game to play together as a duo anymore, not the way SWTOR is, e.g. I’ll rather wait for Guild Wars 2, my anticipation levels for MoP are very low.

      • For my views on the “role of role” post, you can read my latest blog post. But the numbers are, I think, a bit misleading in this quarter. Considering SW:TOR only released at the end of it, a lot of people were annually passed, a new patch dropped, BlizzCon “launched” the new expansion, the last raid of Cataclysm went in, LFR happened, transmogrification was implemented and three new easy dungeons went live… Blizzard couldn’t have possibly thrown any more at the last quarter and STILL posted another loss.

        Since then, there are people regretting the annual pass, there will be no new content, the novelty of transmogrification will wear off, people will be sick of LFR, Dragon Soul will be nerfed to the ground, more guilds will have collapsed, six-month subscriptions will have ceded in the time since BlizzCon, SW:TOR will actually tell on subscriptions and Guild Wars 2 will be closer. I absolutely do not believe the worst has passed, and that the next quarter will see the worst losses yet.

        Expect a loss of over a million, maybe even two. That’s how far I think WoW has fallen.

      • …either way though, we should be debating the effect SWTOR had on WoW during Q1 of this year. We will know for sure if it had an impact.

        In the meantime though, I am gonna bet that sub numbers are going to bleed rather heavily while players wait for MoP. Especially if the choice of prime MMO’s increases with the release of TERA and GW2 during this downtime. Boredom and new games is never a good mix for player retention.

      • In fact, sub numbers barely dipped over the last quarter even with SWTOR being released.

        Where do you find sub numbers reported? And do those count ftp-ers?

  2. Man, the annual pass. That was really one of those things where I just wanted to grab everyone buying it by the shoulders and yell at them for a bit.

    “For God’s sake, they’re not giving you a free copy of Diablo III for subscribing for a year. They’re saying they’re pretty sure you won’t be paying them for WOW five months from now.”

  3. Either a game has hybrids or they don’t. They make each subset skill in the hybrid viable or they don’t. The one thing I most hated about WoW was that all the hybrid classes were cockeyed in one or another to encourage one class type in the trees. Mostly whatever was in the most need at the moment (healers or tanks).

    Then of course you hit a wall in the end if your class type was useless in groups. Goodbye to the chance of ever seeing the end of the latest expansion’s story arc.

    It has to stop. It will eventually. Especially since WoW is continuing to bleed more subscribers.

  4. WoW isn’t bleeding subscribers though, at least not like it has been. A series of failures throughout cataclysm (difficult random dungeons being far and away #1) took a toll on the numbers, but that’s mostly over, and MoP for all its panda silliness looks like it is a 180 from the cataclysm philosophy. I don’t know if people will return but the worst is likely over.

    I recently resubbed to WoW, having quit just before Cataclysm released, but I didn’t take the annual pass. Mainly because I will likely unsub in the event i get Diablo 3 to play it, and it only gives you access to the MoP beta which I don’t really care that much about. Since MoP will release this year, you’re already on the hook for another $40 if you actually want to use the rest of your pass. Now if they threw in the actual expansion for free, I might do it.

    I don’t really get the hybrid complaints though. Does anyone pick mage expecting to heal or tank? It might make sense to get rid of ‘specs’ for dps and have all of them play the same way, but then maybe people like the variety or find one spec smoother to play than the next. This is one of those things that just ain’t broke, so they shouldn’t try to fix it.

  5. Of the active MMOs out there now, which ones have a feature set that is above and beyond what exists in WoW?

    People were clamoring for TOR before it launched and look where we are now. People were ecstatic for the original GW and it didn’t make a big dent in the MMO world.

    There’s so much hype about the next big thing that it’s never actually come. Many people have taken a swing, some have had decent hits but absolutely no one will ever be able to hit a homerun. The MMO-virgin is extinct and that’s how WoW made its millions.

    WoW could release nothing but screenshots for 3 years and still end up with more subscribers than all other western MMOs combined.

  6. Wow can bleed subscribers for the next year and still be a viable – ridiculously viable game. The benefit to all of us is that more and more of those subscriber dollars can support the greater game ecosystem for a little while and give us some additional game choices.

    I paid for the year-pass out of a sense of momentum more than anything ese. My time as a semi-serious world of warcraft player is pretty much done. I know that. That said, my kids still play and I know I’m going to play Diablo 3 when it comes out. So it’s still a win for me.

    SWTOR? I’d love to play it. I played the beta and watched a HUGE number of friends give up WoW for it. Maybe when they come out with a Mac client I will ;)

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I really shouldn’t show this to ANYONE but the image below is the cover page of the just completed reviewer’s version of Left Coast Libations. It doesn’t look like much by itself but behind that page are over 150 more pages of bartender biography and cocktail recipe goodness. I will say that again: over 150 pages. 150. 150. 150. Makes me a bit giddy. Sorry.

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To better align a Microsoft Excel worksheet on a printed page, you can change margins, specify custom margins, or center the worksheet horizontally or vertically on the page.

Page margins are the blank spaces between the worksheet data and the edges of the printed page. Top and bottom page margins can be used for some items, such as headers, footers, and page numbers.

  1. Select the worksheet or worksheets that you want to print.

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    Tip    When multiple worksheets are selected, [Group] appears in the title bar at the top of the worksheet. To cancel a selection of multiple worksheets in a workbook, click any unselected worksheet. If no unselected sheet is visible, right-click the tab of a selected sheet, and then click Ungroup Sheets.

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  3. Do one of the following:

    • To use predefined margins, click Normal, Wide, or Narrow.

      Tip   If you previously used a custom margin setting, that setting is available as the predefined margin option Last Custom Setting.

    • To specify custom page margins, click Custom Margins and then, in the Top, Bottom, Left, and Right boxes, enter the margin sizes that you want.

    • To set header or footer margins, click Custom Margins, and then enter a new margin size in the Header or Footer box. Setting the header or footer margins changes the distance from the top edge of the paper to the header or from the bottom edge of the paper to the footer.

      Note   The header and footer settings should be smaller than your top and bottom margin settings, and larger than or equal to the minimum printer margins.

    • To center the page horizontally or vertically, click Custom Margins and then, under Center on page, select the Horizontally or Vertically check box.

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Baking in the middle of the night

In delving more into historic recipes over the last couple of months, and by delving, I mean actually making, I have been struck by the fact that many of the older recipes require a lot more time in the kitchen, or at least are not nearly as instantaneously ready as most of those that we are used to today. This is in part because of the central focus of food in the lives of people in times when it was not readily available in restaurants, take-out joints, all-nite mini marts, and basically around every corner. When you have to plan ahead, and sometimes months ahead for your meals, then the fact that preparation of a particular dish might take you several hours or days, seems like small beans, as long as you have food on the table at the end of the day.

The first time this fact became obvious to me was when I recently made a plum pudding using a recipe from Hannah Glasse’s The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy (1747). The recipe had been translated by a group of culinary historians (the Past Masters) into modern-day measurements and directions, though still meant to be prepared in a pot of boiling water that was placed over the fire in a large fireplace. The batter is placed in a “pudding cloth” (a piece of linen, which I didn’t have, so used a cloth napkin that I didn’t feel much attachment to) and is simmered in the boiling water for 5 hours.

Being someone who doesn’t spend a great deal of time in my apartment, what with school and extra curriculars and spending time with friends, etc., I don’t often have 5+ hours in which I’m home at a stretch, except, of course, when I’m sleeping. Thus began a growing trend where I start multiple-step or time-consuming recipes that require getting up in the middle of the night to do the next step or monitor the progress in one way or another. I can’t say that this is the best way to get a good night’s sleep, obviously, but it can be fairly entertaining to wake up at 2:30 in the morning and pull a cake out of your oven.

My latest adventure in this vein was the making of a baba au rhum or rum cake. For whatever reason, in this day and age where you can so easily be overwhelmed by the sheer number of recipes that fit your criteria once you decide what you plan to make, I find myself making decisions about which recipe I’m going to use without even having read through the entire set of directions. That’s how I ended up setting my alarm multiple times last night to get up and do various different steps in this cake recipe. I made the mistake of trusting that it would take roughly the amount of time that the recipe claimed it would, which we all know is total bollocks, I usually multiply it by 1.5 to get actual estimates. But the recipe promised a finished product in 2 hours and I started at 10pm, so I figured I’d be done a little after midnight at the worst. HA! That’s where I got the 2:30am cake comment earlier in this post, cause that’s when I pulled the baby out of the oven, and it wasn’t even done then, ‘cause you have to wait for it to cool and then pour rum syrup into it, which takes another 20 minutes. So you can see how accurate of an estimate that turned out to be. I suppose I should have been suspicious from the get go because of the fact that there was yeast in the recipe, hence rising time (this being one of the main reasons that I hardly ever make recipes which involve yeast), but, like I said, I made a snap decision on the recipe because it was recommended and I had the ingredients and it sounded good.

So at the time I wrote the above I couldn’t actually comment on how said rum cake turned out since I hadn’t yet had the opportunity to taste the fruits of my night of interrupted sleep’s labor, but I will do so now… There are definitely no complaints on the eating end about the amount of rum in this cake! It is soaked to the brim and then some, leaving excess pooling on the plate at the bottom. This recipe is definitely different than what you might think of for your typical rum cake because of the yeast bread, which I actually really liked. I have to say that the top part was a little bit more cooked than I would have liked ideally, but I was asleep and I’d set the timer for 10 minutes shy of what the recipe said, because I was using a different pan (a loaf pan), but next time I’ll know it needs even a little less time. I am a big sucker for anything gooey or mushy and this recipe absolutely has some of those qualities because of the added liquor in the bread. Above all it’s just a fun / funny experience to be baking and sleeping simultaneously. Not that I’m suggesting this as another area of our lives where we should start to multitask, well maybe every once in a while.

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  1. taylor Says:

    If this is what you brought out the other night, it was phenomenal! I can’t say I’ve had a rum cake like it – so light and moist. Thanks for forgoing the sleep for the sake of the cake!

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Archive for March, 2008

Seriously.  There is essentially no other way to interpret this data from Pew Research, which emphasizes the number of people who haven’t yet realized that their photos are somewhere on the web.  Much more revealing than the photo statistic is the one about “Home Address.”  If you have ever had a phone line or a utility bill in your name, anywhere in the US, I would bet that your home address is freely available online unless you’ve taken affirmative measures to remove it.

You can check by visiting pipl.com.  Or you can just use Google.  Pipl reveals every address that I’ve ever lived at since 1997, all seven addresses, all the way back to Pasadena, CA.  It’s more than a little unsettling.

I can’t help thinking that people would be a bit more concerned about the privacy implications of living in a pervasive surveillance state if they realized how much of their personal information is already published online for the whole world to see.  And although Pew downplays this aspect of their “daily number,”  the real take-away here is that the majority of people are simply unaware of how little privacy they actually have.

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The Politico comes right out and says it: Hillary has no real chance of winning the nomination.

But let’s assume a best-case scenario for Clinton, one where she wins every remaining contest with 60 percent of the vote (an unlikely outcome since she has hit that level in only three states so far — her home state of New York, Rhode Island and Arkansas).

Even then, she would still be behind Obama in delegates.

But who cares what those stupid voters think?  Certainly not Hillary or her floundering campaign.  And, fittingly, that’s the  best explanation for why she’s not winning.

In other news, Obama is scheduled to speak in Eugene tonight, at the UO basketball arena.  Since the Ducks are playing their first NCAA tournament game today, we won’t know whether the choice of venue is inspired or an unfortunate gaffe until just an hour or two before the speech is scheduled to begin.

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From the Casper Star-Tribune:

CHEYENNE — Declaring that Wyoming residents have a right to defend their homes, Gov. Dave Freudenthal signed a bill Thursday that spells out in statute that citizens may use deadly force on intruders. . . .
Wyoming’s version of the bill provides immunity from civil lawsuits to anyone who uses force in defense of his or her “person, property or abode or to prevent injury to another.”

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You might think that the globally famous and highly influential law firm of Greenberg Traurig would use its website to communicate important news and events about the firm to its clients.  And you would probably be right 95% of the time.  However, if you look at their “news & events” page today, you will see no mention at all that the firm is now the target of a federal criminal indictment for money laundering, bribery, and fraud as a result of Jack Abramoff’s tenure there (before he went to prison for bribing disgraced  and indicted Republican Congressman Tom DeLay).

I guess they were too focused on their present and future to notice that their sordid past was finally catching up.

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The Dow In Euros

They days of the strong dollar are over, and we’re just beginning to feel the fallout.  Time to party like it’s 2002.  Folks, the word you are looking for is “inflation.”

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Sorry for the lag between posts.  Life got busy last week.  Today, I saw rumors that Bear Stearns is bankrupt and that the Fed is running out of options to prop up the markets.  What else did I miss last week?

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Les actions françaises depuis 1854 : analyses et découvertes

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Abstract : Le Bris, collecting about 200,000 data on French stocks from 1854 to 1988, builds a performance index. Several biases leading to overestimate the returns in prior French indices are demonstrated, as well as other probable examples across the globe.Over the long run, French stocks provide a better return than other assets, but without any excessive premium.Compared to US stocks, French stocks have underperformed since 1914, including during the periods of peace.The French stock market is highly sensitive to governmental changes, and overperforms under the left ones.A new method to identify market crashes is proposed. This method identifies crashes that are consistent withhistory.Firms from service industries have almost always dominated market capitalization since 1854.The rationality of the French investments in Russian bonds, before 1914, is demonstrated thanks to a portfoliooptimization among French assets (stock, bonds and corporate bonds) and eight international state bonds.A new method to decompose the benefit of diversification is proposed; before 1914, French investors wereclearly attracted by low foreign correlation rather than higher foreign returns.French and US stocks present a long-term rise in correlation, probably following the economic integration.Thus, the incentive to diversify through international markets has decreased.The market risk exhibits a significant rise during the interwar-period, and the pre-1914 level is never reachedagain. This risk appears to be linked to the end of the Gold Standard, the inflation rate and the public deficits.The consequence of the rise of this common risk is that the correlation among French stocks trend upwards, andthen, reduce the domestic portfolio effect; reversely, before 1914, a "super portfolio effect" is identified.
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Michael Miller Challenge Update!

Hi everyone-

We have a new element to add to this challenge: Violet’s Choice! Violet will be picking her personal favorite from the group as well as sending out a little care package out to the winner.

In other news, the Flickr group is filling up with some amazing projects. Thank you to everyone who has been adding their process shots and showing how they are making it all work. I know that it has been inspiring.

Here are just some of the latest additions. (To view more photo’s please visit the individuals’ blog that is linked below the photo)

“Chopsticks” by Dawn T

“City of Bridges” by Melissa

“(WIP)” by Jenn

8383045636_e9a3544fb4_bUntitled by Jan

“(WIP)” by Josee

A few things to note about the challenge:

  • The deadline is January 31st, 2013 at midnight PST
  • One photo of your finished project must be in the MQG Madrona Road Challenge-FINISHED Flickr pool by 1/31/13. Feel free to add now if you are finished.
  • If you have entered a quilt, please list the dimensions in your photo title so Michael Miller Fabrics will have an idea of the size
  • Michael Miller Fabrics will chose projects to be displayed in their booth at QuiltCon by February 7th. There is no set number that they will select at this time.
  • Violet Craft will chose one winner by February 7th
  • All winners will be announced on the MQG blog February 11th
  • Questions? Please email info@themodernquiltguild.com

Also, take note that Violet will be in the Michael Miller Fabrics booth at QuiltCon Friday, February 22nd from 9-11. Stop by and say hi and check out all the projects!

We will continue to highlight Flickr photos on the Facebook page as well as any new information.

Thank you again to Michael Miller Fabrics for sponsoring this amazing challenge.

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Scan: Robert Pattinson & Betty White @ PCA’s in ‘People’

[Insert Awwwww‘s Here] LOL

Los Angeles, Jan. 11:  Betty White, who recently turned 90, and Robert Pattinson get to know each other at the People’s Choice Awards at the Nokia Theatre.

Oh, the things I could say here…  Oh, why not, right?  Here goes then:

  1. Helllloooooo, Mr. Jackman!  Lookin’ good but not as good as…. well, you-know-who!  ;-P
  2. Whoa… What’s up with Dolly Parton’s eyes? LOL
  3. Don’t Betty & Rob look adorable!!??!?!  *squees* LOL  Yes, I’d totally ship Rob-Betty or Whitenson or Bettybert… whatever we’re calling them these days!

This scan is from the January 30th issue of People Magazine, which is on newsstands now.

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The Situationist

Posts Tagged ‘musical prodigy’

The Situation of “Natural Talent”

Posted by The Situationist Staff on March 6, 2011

From Harvard Gazette:

Fields such as music, math, and chess have had a predilection for a long time to seek out the youngest and most accomplished among them. According to Chia-Jung Tsay, this is because “we want to seek something that’s inherent to us. We associate accomplishment at a young age with something that comes effortlessly.” But does this desire to seek out “natural” talent eventually skew our view of what talent is?

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Tsay and her adviser, [Situationist Contributor] Mahzarin Banaji, the Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, began looking at different domains, considering which fields more strongly emphasize natural talent over hard work and experience. They found that music was the most often cited for natural talent, and business was most cited for hard work.

“Venture capitalists recognize that hard work and background knowledge in the field matter a lot,” said Tsay. “It’s the same for a doctor or a lawyer, where hard work and years of experience are what make us successful. But I think there’s a little more subjectivity in evaluation in artistic fields.”

To test this, Tsay and Banaji brought in more than 100 professionally trained musicians. Each participant was presented with two profiles of two professional musicians, and a sample musical clip to listen to from each musician. The participants were then asked questions about how talented and successful they perceived the performer to be, and how willing they might be to hire this person.

In fact, both clips were the same musical excerpt, and the profiles differed only in their mention of whether the musician had natural or learned talent. The results ultimately showed two effects: “We found even in experts and ostensibly professionally trained musicians, most of them could not tell that the recordings were the same. And on average, people seemed to prefer the ‘naturally’ talented individual, even when they said they believed hard work was more important than natural talent.”

The dramatic results suggest, according to Banaji, “a crucial disparity between what experts espouse, and perhaps even consciously believe, is the best indicator of talent, and how they actually behave.”

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These Washable Fabric Circuit Boards Can Even Survive Being Shot

Sure, fitness trackers or a heart rate monitors are technically "wearables." But a new breakthrough in electronic textiles gives us a glimpse at truly wearable electronics—and they look a lot like the shirt you’re wearing right now. Except woven with circuit board thread instead of cotton.

In a study published yesterday in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, Hong Kong Polytechnic researchers Qiao Li and Xiao Ming Tao introduced a whole new type of circuit: FCB, or fabric circuit boards. These electronics are woven out of a mixture of copper and elastic threads using computerized knitting technologies. They’re just like your average textiles—except they can carry a current and communicate.

These Washable Fabric Circuit Boards Can Even Survive Being Shot

What makes these wearable circuits so cool—and potentially groundbreaking—is how durable they are. Each of these insulated threads can carry a current, but thanks to their elastic content, they’re also extremely stretchable. According to New Scientist, you can stretch them 20 percent up to a million times before they’ll fail. Crucially, they can also endure water and intense wear—which means that throwing them in the washer repeatedly is fine. You certainly can’t say as much for the other fragile, gadget-like wearables out there.

And while fabric like this could be a boon for your average consumer—who just wants to know how many calories they burned during their yoga class, damn it—the team in Hong Kong has their sights set on a far more impactful application. Quite literally. As part of a durability test, they actually shot bullets at the fabric, sewn underneath a layer of kevlar, simulating what a soldier or cop might endure in the field.

These Washable Fabric Circuit Boards Can Even Survive Being Shot

It turns out their wired fabric survived—and it could still communicate after being shot. A fitness-tracking shirt is cool and all, but a vest that lets a central base know if a soldier’s been wounded could be groundbreaking. [New Scientist]

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GOVERNMENT:: Testing Missile Defense Intelligence: Israel

JERUSALEM — Israel says it has successfully tested an upgraded radar for the Arrow missile defense system, developed with the United States and designed to intercept projectiles that might be fired at the Jewish state from Iran.

Defense official Yair Ramati says the test was conducted on Friday in conjunction with the U.S. Missile Defense Agency.

He says the purpose of the test was to validate the system’s improved radar.

He said a Blue Sparrow 2 missile was fired west to east from “deep within the Mediterranean” but he would not say how far from Israel it was fired or what sort of threat it was designed to simulate.

A defense ministry statement says the Blue Sparrow was “representative of potential ballistic missile threats facing Israel.” -The Huffington Post

In light of the interesting developments with today’s economical stability foundations, I find it even more interesting that you have Israel building and testing a new missile defense system in a soup of 151 billion dollars in debt. This, of course does not accountably amount to the $15.4 trillion that the United States is under. But, this still poses an interesting set of events that may signal something of a larger situation in the future. Most people don’t realize, but in order for someone to get a new desk in a government building it takes(just about)an act of congressional approval. Anything associated with governmental spending, control, or legislation takes significant and detailed planning on the parts of the delegated people in those positions of power. With this in mind, you must take into consideration the recent release by RIA regarding the successful testing of a new missile defense system by Israel. In order for this to come into nationwide play, many many steps had to be played out in direct succession and accordance to Israeli governmental protocol. After realizing this, you could imagine for just a moment what this could mean. For if the government of Israel went through all of the systematic steps to produce, fund, and test a  Block 4 stage of the interceptor that will soon enter service with the Israeli Air Force (IAF). Estimates are that they bought half a dozen missiles. Including some nuclear tipped Sunburn missiles for the US battle groups, from Russia. The plans that are subsequential to these actions give into the assumption that the Israeli government believes they are in need of such powerful weapons. Conclusively, you must take into consideration that for a country that is nearly $200 Billion in debt to create such expensive weaponry, is possibly equal to a country that is $15 Trillion in debt continuing to participate in a war lasting for 12 years.

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The Difference

Friday’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.  (Click to view the original along with the bonus content.)

So which are you?

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  1. Gaurav Tiwari Says:

    This is an off topic (possibly) comment on this great humor. Once my classmate asked me to write \pi= \sqrt{10} or {31}^{1/3} (and more…. Oomph.. I don’t remember.) When I said him to stop thinking about these kind of nonsense values of \pi – she replied, “Are you Sure that I’m wrong?”, “Why can we not try to represent \pi as squareroots or cuberoots, instead of a rational number?” “pi is not just like 3.14…etc.” blah. Blah

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    […]  Carnival regular, John D. Cook, brings us A Ramanujan series for calculating pi, 360 has The Difference and Qiaochu Yuan counters with Pi is still wrong.  Finally, madkane brings us a Pi day […]

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Friday March 29, 2013

A Journey of Faith and Work

An executive coach and human resources entrepreneur will keynote the annual Faith and Work Breakfast.

An educator and entrepreneur with experience in coaching executives and helping people manage career transitions will speak at the annual Faith and Work Breakfast at the University of Dayton.

William F. Pilder, president of Leadership Transitions Solutions, has been a founding partner in three ventures that provided career development and transition services to individuals and major corporations, including the steel, auto and energy industries.

He will speak on "My Pilgrimage with Faith and Work" at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, April 11, at the 1700 South Patterson Building on the University's River Campus.

A 1960 graduate of the University with a degree in secondary education, Pilder earned a master's degree and Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. He is experienced in coaching senior executives and authored a series of eight books for Prentice-Hall on the career transition process.

"Dr. Pilder describes his work as a 'healing intervention with corporations'," said Br. Victor Forlani, S.M., director of the center. "He operated a very effective human resources practice for many years, serving many Fortune 500 firms. I believe his work fits well with what we do at the Center for Integration of Faith and Work."

The breakfast is open to the public. The cost of individual attendance is $30; corporate tables are available from $300. Each table of eight will include a University of Dayton student or faculty member as guests. For information and registration visit, phone 937-229-3798 or email

This is the second annual breakfast for the Center for the Integration of Faith and Work, which was established in 2009 to help business students find the deeper meaning in their life's work and give them the tools to live out a commitment to their values in the spirit of the University's Catholic, Marianist heritage.

The mission of the center includes bringing business leaders together with students and faculty to explore how faith and values can enrich work, life and career.


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November 13, 2011

Game Rewind: Doing it again

Just when it looked like Kansas State was headed for defeat, quarterback Collin Klein delivered a 53-yard touchdown pass to Chris Harper to spark a rally in the Wildcats' remarkable 53-50 four-overtime victory over Texas A&M.

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Reese Witherspoon gives birth to baby boy called Tennessee!

Aww how we love to hear that a new arrival has graced Celebville with its presence - and today Reese Witherspoon is the latest A-lister to give birth.

Reese Witherspoon, baby boyReese Witherspoon has given birth to a baby boy! Copyright [Rex]

The actress welcomed her THIRD child this afternoon - a baby boy named Tennessee James!

The Oscar-winning star confirmed in a statement to MTV News: "Reese Witherspoon and husband Jim Toth welcomed Tennessee James into their family today.

"Both mom and baby are healthy and the entire family is thrilled."

Reese Witherspoon, babyReese and Jim have welcomed their first child together. Copyright [Wenn]

The little bundle of joy is Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth (who tied the knot back in March 2011)'s first child together.

The 36-year-old has a son Deacon, eight, and 13-year-old daughter Ava with her ex husband Ryan Phillippe.

Throughout most of her pregnancy, Reese kept her baby bump covered - and kept a very low profile.

But after eventually having to admit she was pregnant she told the Chicago Sun Times: "I'm feeling very round tonight. After I finish [Devil's Knot], I'm going to take a little time off -- and go have a baby!"

When she appeared on Daybreak here in February, the actress revealed she loved babies.

She said: "I hug all my girlfriends' babies. They're all so stinking cute. There's a little sadness as they're growing up and walking away from you, but it kind of changes the whole dynamic.

"We have really funny dinner conversations now, and they know more about certain topics than I ever, ever knew."