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Wide Open Spaces for the Holidays

I originally posted this last Thanksgiving when I packed up the boys and hit the road—in my attempt to make the most of our solo Thanksgiving. This year, although we are staying home and having the Turkey Day with friends, I found myself gravitating to the countryside. I took my youngest, who is fighting a nasty cold, up to visit the horses in Palos Verdes. After screaming for almost an hour, he instantly calmed down when seeing the horses.

“Why are they so sad, mommy?” he asked when looking into one’s big eyes.

“They’re just soulful.” I replied.

“Yup. Sushful.”

But you know what? He was calm for the rest of the afternoon.

Kids really do need wide open spaces and soulful faces.

I hope you enjoy this post.

Happy Thanksgiving all.

L. x

It takes the shape of a place out west

But what it holds for her, she hasn’t yet guessed

~ Dixie Chicks

This Thanksgiving weekend I packed up my boys and headed North toward the Sierra Nevada Mountains. I needed to get out of this town. I needed to breathe. I needed a vista. I needed to distract and cheer up my children. I needed to run far away from the insanity of my life and recent disappointments. So when my oldest did a report for school about a small cowboy and ranching town in the shadow of Mount Whitney, I got the idea. Why should we stay in LA where we have no family? Why should we be alone during the holidays just because I’m on a small budget and can’t travel back East?

As my son researched Lone Pine for his report, I realized that we had actually driven past it a few times on our way to Mammoth. My soon-to-be Ex skis, and we were always in a hurry to get to Mammoth for that reason. Before my son’s report, I didn’t know that 400 movies had been filmed in the area, mostly westerns, but also parts of Gladiator and Iron Man. The majestic beauty of the Sierras amongst miles of ranch land is an amazing backdrop for movies. We had driven through the small Indian reservations and the towns of Lone Pine and Bishop, but never stopped along the way before. Who knew there was so much to discover that is virtually free to visit? This time I stopped along the highway with the boys and we explored the historic fish hatchery;  Manzanar museum where Japanese-Americans were held as prisoners during WW 11; the adorable Beverly and Jim Rogers Lone Pine Museum of Film History; and the Laws Railroad Museum.

This trip was all about slowing down (which is mandatory when traveling with a three-year-old!) and getting off the beaten path. We didn’t stay at a fancy ski resort, but at a modest motel with a breath-taking view. We walked through town and talked with the locals at the drug store, mexican restaurant and Subway where we discussed various topics from Elvis verses Justin Bieber, to teenagers today, to crazy temper tantrums—as my three-year-old showed off his tantrum antics in all places! My only big splurge was riding boots and a horse riding lesson for my oldest. Before I left, I called the chamber of commerce for horse back riding referrals. They directed me to a horse trainer in Bishop who is well-known for training champion jumpers. She was kind enough to give my son a lesson. In fact, the three of us visited the Millpond Equestrian Center in Owens Valley north of Bishop twice to feed and chat with the horses (and dogs and one precocious kitten!).

The one-hour drive from Lone Pine to Bishop, that we did twice, was my favorite. The views are nothing short of spectacular. The youngest napped as William and I sang songs and I breathed in the beauty of the white-capped mountains bathed in fields of gold. As I looked ahead, or in my rear-view mirror, I began thinking of the power of letting go. There is power in not engaging in crazy behavior by others (if any of you have experienced that!) and saying no by moving forward and away from it. Most importantly, there is power in seeking honesty and beauty wherever you can find it.

During my drives I often thought of my lovely, new friends—all single moms who are struggling so much right now. I so wish that you all could have taken a similar trip. There’s something about wide open spaces. It not only lets you breathe deeply, but somehow it helps you expand. I could feel myself trusting the Universe again. I could actually feel hope start to fill my lungs by the second day I was away. Pictures tell a story so much better than I ever could. Here’s my journey. I left Los Angeles blue, confused and with a heavy heart from recent hurts. As I rose in altitude, so did my spirits. Who knew there were so many lessons to be learned on the road?

Extreme pressure is transforming. Hang on. You’ll rise above all of this.

Elk, or Reindeer Crossing? Magic, wonder and mystery may still cross your path.

Kindness heals. Your children know kind souls when they meet them.
Face whatever comes toward you, but don’t forget the bigger picture and the better focus for your life.
Try new things. (And keep your chin up when you do!)
Get off the beaten path. Don’t be afraid to strike out on your own.


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Bible: Acts 20:13-14

The Voyage to Miletus

20:13 We went on ahead 1  to the ship and put out to sea 2  for Assos, 3  intending 4  to take Paul aboard there, for he had arranged it this way. 5  He 6  himself was intending 7  to go there by land. 8  20:14 When he met us in Assos, 9  we took him aboard 10  and went to Mitylene. 11

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Bible: Mat 22:28-30

22:28 In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had married her.” 1  22:29 Jesus 2  answered them, “You are deceived, 3  because you don’t know the scriptures or the power of God. 22:30 For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels 4  in heaven.
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But if you're gonna have an adventure, you're gonna need a hero. (Pt1)

(A journey of two halves. Apologies in advance for another epic. Single paragraph newsflashes for the rest of the month, K? ;))
  1. So, Sunday dawned not quite as enticing as Saturday initially. Sky a little paler, wind a little puffier, light-bouncing-off-the-neighbour’s-wall-right-into-my-eyes a little less golden - so I dallied around the house being a carefree bum for the morning while the weather got up to speed, thinking about where I would go, and doing my usual Google street view check of whether one can turn left at so & so junction and how many turning lanes there are at blah (Yes, ok, that’s a bit neurotic. But I do it whenever I’m heading somewhere new. It helps with landmarks and I like to know potential pitfalls in advance) (Incidentally I tend to read the end of a book first too.)

    When we finally left the house the sun was glorious, and I had the same flutter of nerves that I always do when I set out, and did my usual warm-up lap of the block still trying to decide where we were going. I had really intended to brave the full length of Goodwood Road (2 lanes but with parking; Sunday shopping intersections; buses and dog-toting pedestrians), all the way down to the base of the hike up to Blackwood, and then turn towards Belair National Park to find somewhere scenic to take a trophy shot and then come home. I’d been a bit bummed to find it would only take an hour, mind you, and I knew once up there I was kinda hemmed in by deteriorating roads heading up country, or two serious vertical-drop twisties heading back down to the city, so it would be a simple there-and-back-again (only less exciting than The Hobbit)

    Guess it must have been the sense of the mundane which that evinced which sent me in totally the opposite direction when I came to my first decision point. Instead of east to Goodwood, I was heading west, making a bee-line for Main South Road. Erm, really? Erm, are you sure? Erm ok. What the hell. Why not? haha Go girl! (The sequence of thoughts which happened as I passed the final right turn back to safety) I’d not used Main South before, and had been putting it off. But apparently yesterday I threw in that towel.

    So down Main South Road we burned. Through every set of lights, one after the other, I was thinking “You’re still going, it seems. You’re gonna do this, aren’t you? Ha! How far exactly are we going?” Ah, hush up Brian, we’re going as far as we can! :D Past the nearish mate I’d set as a plan for last week (but had got rained off)… past the scary big junction..s… Up the hill! Holy crap, up the hill! We’re going up the hill!! Woohoo! TOP of the hill! Wheeeeee! Annnd down the hill. And back up the hill… meh, hills are so last week… Past the friend whose house I had been way too chicken to ride to three weeks ago…

    (What did I learn while ‘flying’ along South Road? Well for starters that the road surface near the start of the expressway is freakin’ TERRIBLE. I mean criminally bad. Remember not to go that way in the rain. Second, that I can do 70 up a moderate hill. Not 80, like everyone else, but screw em’ there’s two lanes. And thirdly, at anything above 60 for a sustained period of time, apparently my right mirror vibrates itself loose and points at the ground. Cheers for that. Helpful.)

    On and on we pushed, further and further away from home, closer and closer to the parts of the region I want to be able to ride. Gateway to the Fleurieu. My favourite wild beach, the cutest country smokehouse restaurant, access to KI, farms full of free kittens (ahem. I am not a kitten addict. honest) And most importantly, a whole difficulty rating 1-10 gamut of reeeeally nice roads.

    Then suddenly a set of lights I know well was approaching and although I had developed a vague notion of reaching McLaren Vale I suddenly flicked my indicator left. I knew this road, but I hadn’t expected to take it and rode along wondering what the hell I was doing there. Did I want to come this way? What about the Vale? You know you could get there, why not spin it round and keep heading south? But somehow I didn’t do a Uie or chuck a right, and found myself at the roundabout at the end. Ahead, I was sure I recalled, nothing but housing estates bounded by foothills. Left, back to the burbs. So right - wasn’t that the one that goes up? But sort of dirty up? Ah well, seems we’re already going right, thanks body…

    Here I learned that on a steep gradient we can do a little over 40. Gmnph. But still, it was forwards, and upwards. We pushed, and climbed, and the surface was degrading about 5% per vertical metre, but suddenly we were UP, plateauing. And there on my right was that view I’d come to find.

    Man, I can’t describe the strange mixture of fizzing glee and calm contentment with which I was half jigging, half styling it out when I pulled over, turned off the engine and shook the hair out of the lid. Look where I was. Look!

    Earlier in the day, when expecting to end up in Belair, I’d pre-felt a sense of anticlimax at reaching my destination, knowing that really, what was I going to do? Admire the trees, pat myself on the back and then get back on with the real point of the trip – the riding. Back home again.

    But up there, 30k from all my stuff and staring through clear blue skies over the southern vales, I was just really freakin' happy. There wasn’t a soul around but me and a battered ute that had passed as I stopped, and that was the point. Nobody else had got me there. I was by myself. Damn it felt good. And rather than anticlimactically thinking “Well, better go back then” I took some photos, soaked up the sunshine, and thought - contentedly - ‘I’d like to go home now.’

    So after a quick hand-tighten of the mirror nut and a swig of juice we got back on the road....

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  1. Daytona500
    Hope you have more exciting rides
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    2. Daytona500
      Just take little steps until your confident then the rides get longer
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    3. JuniperSachs
      :) You just reminded me to write up Sunday's ride..
    4. Daytona500
      I still remember the days when I started getting confidence in my ability and whether the bike would make it back home it was on an old 350cc BSA single and how many pieces I would have to bolt back on when I got home but that was a part of the fun, not like the bikes today at least you know they will get you home
  2. silverblackphantombike
    Welcome to that 'strange mixture of fizzing glee and calm contentment' which only gets better as you will become more confident and does not go away!
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      Ooo, another Adelaidean! :) Thanks SBPB, I truly hoped it wouldn't, its my new favourite buzz.
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      *wouldn't leave. :)


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On faculty meetings

People were shocked last week when I mentioned that DH’s department holds weekly meetings.  Ugh ugh ugh.  They’re long too and the kind where they fight the same battles every week and nothing gets done.  (And if you’re not there they assign you service.)  And they’re definitely not catered.

We have monthly meetings, but they’re canceled when there’s nothing to discuss (like this month!)  Our meetings are an hour long and if they’re held over lunch they’re catered.  We have an agenda, we go through it, and we leave with action items.

For our academic readers:

How often do you meet?

For how long?

Are your meetings catered?

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  1. Edie W Says:

    We meet twice a month, for two hours each time. I think this is too much. Previously none of the meetings had been catered, but we have a new chair as of this month and now the one meeting per month that is over lunch will be catered, so I’m excited about that.

  2. Mimi Says:

    Meetings are once a month or so, about 6 a year. They are between 1-3 hours long – longer meetings for P&T discussions, student awards, etc. Catered twice a year – the first meeting and the last. They are never cancelled, despite my most fervent wishes.

  3. Belle Says:

    Catered? You’re kidding, right? No. Supposedly 1/month, supposedly 1 hr. Don’t count on it, but you can go to the bank on not catered.

  4. Perpetua Says:

    Ours run 1.5 hours, sometimes a bit more, sometimes a bit less. They happen on an “as needed” basis, so sometimes there is more than a month with no meetings, followed by a string of meetings once a week (usually when we have to add meetings about hiring). Catering? Hahahaha.

  5. gwinne Says:

    We meet at minimum once per semester. Other meetings are dependent upon what’s happening, but it usually comes out to once a month. Sometimes there’s food, if there’s money. Not so much these days.

    I used to work at a place that had weekly or biweekly meetings. I have to say I prefer more frequent shorter meetings to meetings that go two hours or more…

  6. feMOMhist Says:

    monthly, 1.5 hours, “catered” by whoever gets stuck picking up snacks if that counts. They are TORTURE but if you are junior faculty and skip you get in trouble.

  7. prof-like substance Says:

    We have a standing weekly time, but don’t usually meet weekly. We probably average about 2.5 meetings a month and they never exceed an hour. No food.

  8. albe Says:

    Once a month, usually 1-2 hours, over lunch. We have to provide lunch for one another. At the first meeting of the year faculty sign up for which month they want to be the lunch providers (usually in groups of 3 or 4). This means the quality of lunch differs a lot throughout the year. Sometimes it’s Thai food delivered, sometimes it’s a limp deli meats tray and some stale buns, sometimes it’s homemade soup and salad.

  9. Ewan Says:

    Two (sometimes three) per semester. I will control my amusement at the thought that we might have funds to cater such things. Maybe 2 hours each max, but I usually skip out early as they conflict with my own lab meeting.

  10. Revanche Says:

    Not academic but there were multiple weeks where 8-9 hours a day were meetings and it got to the point where I ripped the head off the asshole who scheduled lunchtime meetings without food and might possibly have said something like the next time there was a 2+ hour time block across lunchtime sans food meeting, I’d be dining on flesh. His.

    It was so long ago, I couldn’t have been so impatient as to say something *that* uncivil, without a disconcerting smile anyway, but I do recall that the next few meetings there was food and then the lunchtime meetings stopped entirely. Win?

  11. Revanche Says:

    Oh yes, and they’d be ambush scheduled. AKA: the night before at 8 pm or the morning of. More than one a week. *two thumbs down*

  12. J Liedl Says:

    During term time? We meet one every month or six weeks as needed. If we’re fortunate enough to be hiring, we’ll meet more often.

    Meetings might last 1.5-2 hours. Meetings aren’t catered but we have shared some beverages and chocolates more than once. Catering would be ruinous as we’d have to pay the university’s charges which run well over $10/person for light refreshments.

  13. consuelo Says:

    We meet once per month for about 1.5 hours. Always catered lunch–food is good but not great.

  14. Comradde PhysioProffe Says:

    I have appointments in two departments. In one of them, faculty meetings are monthly at lunchtime, are catered with sangwiches, and always end within one hour. In the other, faculty meetings are irregular–probably averaging once every two months–are catered with sangwiches when at lunchtime, and can last more than two hours.

  15. Cloud Says:

    Ah, now you’re making me wish I’d stuck it out and gone for an academic position. I had 6 hours of meetings today, and have 3 or 4 hours of them tomorrow, plus a seminar from a job candidate. This week is unusual, though. I think I usually only have 5 hours of meetings per weeks, plus another 2 hours of 1:1s with my staff.

    At least I can make sure the meetings don’t fall over lunch and/or order in food if they do. And I run the vast majority of the meetings I’m in (they are project status meetings, and yes they are essential) so I can make sure they are effective and only go as long as they need to. It never ceases to amaze me how many otherwise intelligent people couldn’t run a decent meeting if their lives depended on it.

  16. Z Says:

    Catered, you have got to be kidding. We meet once a semester. At that meeting the results of secret meetings the last semester, meetings pertaining to us, but to which we were not privy, are announced, and excuses are made.

  17. Fie Upon This Quiet Life Says:

    We meet once a month for an hour an a half. No food, but yes, prayer. Usually I’m praying to the universe, since I don’t really believe in god, and my thoughts run something like, “Get me the f out of here.” Unfortunately, a lot of what we’ve been talking about lately has had to do with courses I’m teaching, so I have been in the spotlight. It’s kind of tough.

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Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar Celebrating 40th Anniversary

Oct 25, 2012

By David Tulis

ATLANTA, GA – When the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar rolls into town in late November, it will continue a four-decade tradition of breaking new ground for visual specialists, showcasing some of the world's best photojournalists who are at the top of their game. and providing hands-on skills, business, and video workshops. Plus there’s a popular, world-class photojournalism contest.

This year’s 40th anniversary Atlanta PhotojournalismSeminar ( is set for November 29 through December 1, 2012, at the Westin Atlanta North.

Bringing the latest in technology and photography techniques has long been a hallmark of the Atlanta seminar, beginning with the very first Atlanta Press Photographers’ Association meeting back in 1972 when Vietnam and flower power were the buzz words.

This year’s Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar will be another standout, with special 40th Anniversary three-day event pricing packages starting from $269.00, including rewards for early registration.

Starting on October 31, the seminar will have a random weekly drawing of registrants for prizes that include: Ten portfolio review passes that allow the ticket holder priority selection of their top choice (one review per ticket); two chances to join the faculty and staff for dinner on Friday November 30; and four free seminar t-shirts. Two portfolio passes and one other prize will be randomly selected each Wednesday and announced on our Facebook page and on Twitter (@atlantaseminar).

To celebrate the 40th anniversary, Rich Addicks of Base Camp Media, and Oregon-based photojournalist Ken Hawkins, have organized an inaugural “V Day.” It will be a day of programming dedicated to video, to share insider knowledge from multimedia journalists who are making a successful jump to video from still photography.

Thursday presentations will be made by Pulitzer Prize-winning still photographer - turned DSLR guru - Vincent Laforet, outdoor adventure photography specialist Corey Rich, San Francisco Chronicle visual journalist Mike Kepka, and documentary videographer Ben Knight of Felt Soul Media. Hometown Atlanta favorites Mike Senzon and Nancy Donaldson of, allong with other multimedia specialists, will highlight the ever-changing media landscape facing photojournalists.

Atlanta seminar workshop chairman Ben Gray dug deep for Friday’s presentations, and reminds photojournalists to register early so they won’t miss a minute of their favorite workshops.

On Friday, workshops include sports specialist Pouya Dianat of the Atlanta Braves, showing how he gets amazing action photographs, and past ASMP president Judy Herrmann will bring her business acumen and know-how to offer a photojournalist’s guide to successful self-employment.

Also on Friday, NPR multimedia specialist Keith Jenkins will explain the challenges and rewards of marrying photographs to rich audio storytelling. NPR’s multimedia has come to be recognized as the industry’s standard. Meanwhile, NPPA legal counsel Mickey H. Osterreicher will brief attendees on photographers’ rights and challenges in the digital world.

Canon Explorer of Light presenter Laforet continues his two-day Atlanta seminar stand on Friday by showing how DSLR cameras are becoming cinematographer’s “go-to” choice for film work.

As in the past, Saturday speakers include a virtual Who’s Who of photojournalists whose images are splashed across the home pages of publications world-wide.

On Saturday, Pulitzer Prize-winners Michael Williamson of The Washington Post and April Saul of the Philadelphia Inquirer will talk about documentary work that helped change lives. And Stephen Crowley of The New York Times, David Gilkey of NPR, and Jim Lo Scalzo of European Pressfoto Agency round out the seminar’s 40 years of visual excellence.

The seminar’s international photography contest has long been a bell-weather gauge on how world events play out in other major news picture contests around the globe. Several APS contest first-place images have gone on to win the Pulitzer Prize. This year’s contest deadline is November 18, 2012, at midnight.

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Underwater robotics competition helps students build skills for ocean occupations

Annual competition, sponsored by the Marine Advanced Technological Education Center, gives competitors a taste of the real-life capabilities needed to maintain an ocean observing system

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August 23, 2013

The Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center hosted its 12th annual student underwater robotics competition earlier this summer in Federal Way, Wash. The center is a national partnership of organizations working to improve marine technical education and help prepare the future workforce for ocean occupations.

Headquartered at Monterey Peninsula College, a community college in Monterey, Calif., the MATE Center has been funded as a National Science Foundation (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Center of Excellence since 1997.

The student underwater robotics competition challenged this year's participants to design and build a remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) for tasks related to operating and maintaining an ocean observing system, a collection of high-tech instruments above and below the waves that provide around-the-clock information about what's happening in the ocean.

The challenge was based on work being done at the University of Washington, where researchers are designing an observatory for the ocean floor. The missions assigned to this year's competitors were designed to simulate many of the things that will have to be done by ROVs during the installation and maintenance of the observatory.

"This was a very challenging mission," said Jill Zande, associate director and competition coordinator at the MATE Center. "And we found that a number of the students did really well."

Participants included more than 50 student teams representing middle schools, high schools, home schools, community colleges, universities, after-school clubs and outreach programs from the U.S., Canada, Venezuela, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Macao, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, the UK, Russia and Egypt.

Competitors' mission tasks

Student teams piloted their ROVs to complete a variety of underwater mission tasks, prepared and presented an engineering report to a panel of volunteer judges, and created a poster display aimed at the general public.

Students were encouraged to think like entrepreneurs and manage their teams like companies, a process that helps them develop the teamwork, creative thinking and problem-solving skills that are valued in today's global workplace. Teams were evaluated on the design, construction and performance of their ROVs, their ability to communicate what they learned, and how they put their knowledge to use in designing and building their ROVs.

Teams competed in either the RANGER or EXPLORER class, depending on the sophistication of their ROVs and the mission requirements. Teams from California won first place in each class. A complete list of winners appears below.

MATE's impact over its history

With NSF funding, the MATE Center began as an ATE project, and has broadened its mission, expanded its reach and increased its impact over almost 20 years. MATE began with a focus on community colleges, but over time opened up to four-year institutions and high schools. Part of its mission is to develop curricula in marine technology, underwater robotics, marine geospatial technology, career awareness and ocean observing systems. MATE also offers professional development for high school, college and university faculty that focuses on a broad array of marine technologies, workplace skills, and pedagogical innovations.

Now, an Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) project, led by Zande, is reaching middle-school students and teachers.

The idea behind MATE's growth is that the ROV competition can be a means to keep students engaged in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects and create a pathway to careers in the STEM workforce. Ocean careers cover a broad range of skills, and MATE provides information on its website about the preparation required for more than 50 different careers, from that of able seaman to electrical engineer to ROV technician. There are also listings for jobs and internships.

The pathway from MATE to ocean careers is well traveled. "We've had students snapped up by industry into $60,000 jobs before they've finished their associate degree," said Deidre Sullivan, director and principal investigator for the MATE Center. "When the Deepwater Horizon oil spill happened three years ago, some of the people who were operating the ROVs looking at the damage were graduates of the MATE curriculum."

"MATE has become a magnet for these kinds of skills," said David Campbell, program director for ATE. "If a student is interested in this kind of career, most community colleges will train students in electronics and depend on their future employers to train them in marine electronics. MATE is one of the few that's geared toward marine technology."

Winners of the 2013 ROV competition

There were three top winners in each class, and a host of other awards.

Explorer (Advanced) Class Winners:

In the explorer class, the overall first place winner was Jesuit High School of Carmichael, Calif. The team also won an award for being safety conscious.

Memorial University of St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, took the second place prize. Third place was captured by SeaTech 4-H Club of Mt. Vernon, Wash., which also had the highest overall mission score.

Ranger (Intermediate) Class Winners:

Aptos High School of Aptos, Calif. won overall first place in the ranger class. With 310 out of 320 possible points, the team had the highest mission score, and they also won an award for best technical report.

Second place went to Heritage Collegiate of Lethbridge, Newfoundland, Canada. Third place went to Greater New Bedford Voc-Tech of New Bedford, Mass., which also won an award for top poster display.

NSF's ATE program is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. The program was created to improve and expand educational programs for technicians to work in high-tech, STEM fields that drive the U.S. economy. The program is congressionally mandated and focuses on both the undergraduate and the secondary school levels.

--  Maria C. Zacharias, (703) 292-8454

Deidre Sullivan
Jill Zande

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Monterey Peninsula College

Monterey , California

Related Programs
Advanced Technological Education
Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers

Related Awards
#1104310 Marine Advanced Technology Education Center Resource Center 2011
#0929875 MATE ROV Competitions: Providing Pathways to the Ocean STEM Workforce

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1997 - 2013

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The Jesuit High School team won first place in the Explorer (advanced) class.
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The Aptos High School team, first-place winners in the intermediate class, retrieve their vehicles.
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Spare Change

The young man stood on a median strip in Minneapolis, near the Walker Art Center. Traffic to the left was veering onto Lyndale. Cars on the right were heading toward Hennepin. He leaned against the stoplight. Well, leaned would be too strong a word. His back made only minimal contact with the yellow column. His body looked like a giant backward “C”, with his legs a couple of feet out from the base and his shoulders exaggeratedly slumped forward. Most drivers probably assumed he stood in a relaxed stance, but most drivers probably weren’t looking very long. It’s not Minnesota Nice to stare, you know.

Relaxed was how I perceived him at first, too, with the kind of peripheral vision that wanted to look but not see. The kind that doesn’t want to be caught looking. The kind that wants to convey an attitude of worldliness or, even better, invisibility, like the child’s game… if I can’t see you, then you can’t see me. But the light turned yellow about the same time I spotted him, and I knew that I’d be stopped at the intersection. Right next to him. Right where it’s so damned hard to pretend not to see.

He was maybe 20 years old. Tall and lean. His face was clean shaven except for the mustache that didn’t age him much. He wore blue jeans and a black t-shirt with some kind of artwork on it. His small cardboard sign was no more than 8 by 12 inches. It was full of writing, but all I could make out was the first word: “HOMELESS” in open-block letters that struck me as artistic. His blond hair was parted neatly down the middle. Long. Past his shoulders. Shoulders that curled more than you’d expect to see even from an awkward, shy adolescent; he held them away from the metal pole as if he didn’t deserve its support. His head continued along the curve of his back and hung forward slightly as well. And then his eyes. I noticed his eyes too. That’s how much I’d given up pretending we weren’t within arms reach of each other. They focused on the ground a few feet in front of him. Like he wanted to pretend he didn’t see any of us, either.

I don’t give money to the cardboard-sign holders. The admonitions ring in my head… they’re only going to spend it on booze or drugs. Maybe so. I only see them from the insularity of my car. I’ve never known any, never actually talked to them. They don’t tend to write books or get interviewed so I don’t know their stories. But today, not pretending, my heart saw something familiar and it really didn’t matter if he was homeless and needed money for the simplest necessities or if he would head to a drug dealer or liquor store at the end of the day. I needed to show kindness. I needed to do something that felt like love.

Still, I hesitated. Years of training are hard to break, even with a little voice shouting in your head. I reached for my purse and told myself that if I could get to my cash before the light turned green, I would give it to him. In my rearview mirror, I saw the man in the truck behind me hold his arm out the window and the young man moved toward it. He stood there for what felt like too long; doing what? He didn’t look like a conversationalist. What’s the etiquette for begging? What is the prescribed time for listening to someone in exchange for their folded bill? Damn… move already. Come back. The light is going to turn. I want to give you this. Finally! He walked to the front of the median, his back to me. I got his attention. “Excuse me.” He turned and I held my money out the window.

I looked directly at him. I saw his eyes looking down and away, his shoulders still shrinking inward on himself, his hair falling away from his face as he leaned toward my car. I know why I did it. Why I had to do it. I even told him as he took the money from my hand…  even as the light turned green and the cars behind me began edging forward. “You remind me of my sons. I love them. Take care of yourself.”

I pulled away, thinking of my sons… the elder with his long blond hair and whispy indications of a mustache; the younger with his lean, wiry build; their sensitive eyes and artistic endeavors. They haven’t wanted to see me in over eighteen months, and the strangest things can make me miss them. Like a young man on a median.

So, I did something I’ve never done before because in an unguarded, unexpected moment I was reminded of the many ways I can no longer love my children, the ways I am prevented from taking care of them or even knowing how they are.

I want that young man to be okay. I want him to know that mothers love their sons, that we worry about them and miss them and wish that we could fix everything that aches in their heart and troubles their minds. I want him to know that he’s not alone, no matter how it seems, because somewhere there’s a woman who carries him in her heart forever. A ten-second sentiment probably isn’t going to do that, not even when accompanied by a ten dollar bill. But I can hope.

I’ve gotten so incredibly good at hoping.

Three Words

“In three words I can sum up what I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”

                                                  ~Robert Frost

Life goes on.

When times are easy, life skips like a perfectly flat stone across a perfectly still lake. Like a child whose heart is full of an orange and yellow song.

When times are hard, life skids and weaves like a car on black ice. Like a word said in haste and anger and regret.

Sometimes life goes on like a teardrop hanging from the corner of an eye already full of tears. Sometimes like a laugh that tickles on its way out and bounces across the air like a musical balloon.

Life goes on and does not stop. Not for a joy that takes your breath away, nor for a sorrow that does the same.

Savor every spice of it on your tongue; remember every sweet, violent, marvelous lyric it sings; memorize every color in every burst and bubble.

This is your life. Take it by the hand and do your best to keep up. Because, no matter what, life goes on and it’s up to you whether you are dragged behind or dancing alongside.

Mothering & Moving On

Mothering. A profession at once maligned and exalted. Mothers are predominantly blamed for what goes wrong in children’s lives and grossly overlooked when things go marvelously right. We set aside one day a year to glorify their work, then leave them to fend for themselves the other 364. Even in your children’s eyes you go from being saintly (childhood) to beyond redemption (adolescence) to invisible (young adult). If you’re lucky, you live long enough for them to become parents themselves and you become wise (and forgiven) to them at last.

I was a full-time mom for 20 years. If someone asked me today if they should have children, I would honestly say no; not unless you are willing to shelve every other aspect of your life, have your heart broken repeatedly, be questioned, dismissed, and disregarded,  and postpone dreams, goals and plans for years to come. I figure if they hear the worst of it and decide to parent anyway, they may actually have what it takes to do the job well and with their sanity intact. The truth is I’m like those Oscar-winners who tell interviewers that they live for acting but discourage their children from the same pursuit. Because contrary to my apparent cynicism, I loved what I did unequivocally; I would go back and do it all over again in a heartbeat.

There is no “going back” though and  thank goodness for that. Everything has its season. Despite how deeply fulfilling the work was, I am moving on. The time for mothering as I knew it is past. The time has come to create something new. I can, however, look to my years as a mother to illuminate my future. Mothering used my strengths and my passions. It engaged my heart, mind and spirit in ways little else ever has. The work inspired me, nourished my soul, and stretched and tested my abilities, assumptions and fortitude. It was the most rewarding experience of my life. These are the characteristics of the life I want. These are the signposts that I am on the right path.

I let my heart guide me into and through motherhood. I know I can trust it now to lead me again into a life that I will look back on and say “I would do it again… in a heartbeat.”

Like Her

I laugh like her.

Only recently have I noticed that I hear my mother’s laugh in my own. Not always but, when it comes from deep in my throat and is especially spontaneous and heartfelt, it’s there. It surprised me at first. I’d never noticed I laugh like her before, and I probably didn’t. It’s developed since she died nearly eight years ago and it pleases me. Not because I miss her, though I do, but because I hope that sharing her laugh means I am like her in other ways as well.

People remember her laugh. It was distinctive and frequent. It was the frequency people remarked on most of all at her memorial service. “Judie was always laughing. She always had a good time. You could always tell it was Judie.” She could be silly and spontaneous.It seemed as if her body laughed, not just her voice. She was a slight woman, standing at 5’1″, but when she laughed she filled the room. She made people feel good and it’s why they remembered her laugh. She participated in their happiness; helped to create it. What a gift! I would like to be like her in that.

By my teenage years I recognized that my parents struggled deeply in their marriage and their eventual divorce surprised no one.  In spite of the difficulties, she maintained a sense of humor, of balance, and of purpose.  The effort it must have taken, when it would have been so much easier to focus her energy on her problems. What I didn’t appreciate until much later was the way she also managed to create such normal childhoods for us despite her personal burdens. She didn’t turn her frustration on us; she created happy memories for us instead. Simple things really, consistently nurtured and attended to, that built a foundation of stability. She handled her stresses with a quiet, private dignity and enduring diligence. I’m humbled by how she managed it all. I would like to be like her in that.

She supported me in everything, even if it looked like a mistake from where she sat. Her approach was understated and  I sometimes wish now that she had spoken up, both in encouragement and in warning. But that wasn’t her way. She kept her assistance at the ready and her thoughts to herself – like when I moved back to Minnesota from California. I planned to drive the 2,000 miles alone. She didn’t argue; she  bought a one-way ticket, showed up at my door and drove back with me. During the 15 years she witnessed of my marriage, she never suggested it was a mistake. Only since her passing have I learned that her concerns for its condition grew over the years. She was right about my marriage, although I would have denied it at the time. She had the courage to let me do what I was bound to do and still be there for me unquestioningly. She held her tongue and extended her hand. I would like to be like her in that.

In remembering her, I focus on the strengths although I am aware there were weaknesses as well. There is no point in pretending otherwise. As a child, I adored her. As a teenager I disdained her. As a young adult I neglected her. Thank goodness I have at long last reached the age where I can see my mother with compassion, charity and forgiveness. She was flawed and beautiful. I hope I’m like her.

Today my mother would have celebrated her 68th birthday. Somehow I  think that wherever she is, she’s laughing …  because that is what she did, often and well.

The Difference

I wanted this day to matter. It didn’t have to be monumental or “important”. I didn’t have to accomplish great things or even check off multiple items from my growing to-do list. But I wanted to feel like I lived it on purpose. That every choice had intention behind it… whether it was to savor a bowl of chili, fold laundry or take a walk.

This is a familiar feeling. The urge to do something is compelling and frustrating. It’s just so tempting to fill time and make the easiest choices rather than the most satisfying ones. I’m especially conscious of this because I am living away from home. The normal distractions are missing. There is no pre-exisiting agenda; no familiar tasks to attend; no casual preoccupations. At the end of the day I can’t pretend that I’ve accomplished anything unless I really have. But I want more than mere “tasking” or just keeping busy. I want to feel, at the end of the day, that I was really in my life.

I woke this morning feeling adrift, until I remembered that no one but me is going to captain this life of mine. I can stay adrift or I can set a course, but I mustn’t fool myself into thinking that the quality of my day is somehow outside my influence. And oddly enough, the simplest things can be satisfying when I bring my full attention to them. That bowl of chili? It was a craving fulfilled and I was aware of every bite. The laundry? A necessary task done with enhanced focus and appreciation.

In a moment of clarity I remembered who is empowered with the attitudes and the abilities to shape my life. Today, although I did nothing out of the ordinary, it felt like my life mattered. The difference, I realized, is Me.

Done Pretending

I pretended to be small for a good portion of my life. But that’s all it was: pretending. I even pretended I wasn’t pretending, as we must to make the pretense seem real. However, like all games of make-believe, it had to yield eventually to reality. In my case, it exploded.

Over the years, I developed a variety of behaviors to maintain the illusion of my smallness. I denied my instincts and emotions. I accommodated and acquiesced to requests without asking what I wanted for myself. I postponed my dreams, big and little. I looked to others for confirmation of my choices. I took on the emotional work of others. No one forced me to do these things; in fact, they were well-received. They passed as nurturing. In hindsight, I realize I took them to extremes and they justified and protected my fear of living fully.

We all learn that while a large object can be compressed to fit into a small space, it will exert an internal pressure on the container that holds it. In other words, it risks bursting the seams. It turns out my spirit was equally unaccommodating to being confined. Sooner or later, the myth of my smallness had to give way to the reality of my substance. Though there were minor indications of the coming breaking point, I compare what happened to the rupture of a dam: the effects were immediate, raw and uncontainable. It seemed for a while that I lost everything and I struggled to ride the waves that followed. Life as I’d known it changed completely. I guess it had to; truth and illusion cannot coexist. On some instinctual level, I had finally chosen my reality.

It seems sadly ridiculous to me now that I would be so afraid to embrace the strength, talents and passions that I sensed within – but the young woman I was felt terrified. To move on, the only thing I can do is forgive her and let go of her mistaken notions. I find I’m still scared occasionally of what lies ahead and, perhaps more accurately, what lies within – but I will never again accept a lesser version of my Self. I am done playing games.

I am done pretending.

Here Now

When I look around at my life lately, I’m amazed at the fullness of it… at how I finally seem to be “taking up my space” rather than shrinking back. I wonder what is different now than from, say, a year ago. Mind set, I guess. I made a difficult choice in order to keep my Self from disappearing. That decision shook my world, my foundation, and my expectations. In the aftermath I grieved but I also had an incredible opportunity to redefine my way of thinking about my Self and therefore my life. This realization gave rise to an attitude of can instead of can’t; embrace instead of avoid; yes instead of no. Though I am still learning, I am putting one foot in front of the other with my eyes on the horizon and my heart in the moment.

This gives me a direction in which to move, inspires the actions I take and clarifies my focus in the present. ‘Now’ is the only moment I can influence and yet it took years to realize and practice. If I am to live at all, it must be here. If I am to love, it will be today. In this, I find fearlessness.

Now I can live. At last.


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Software above the level of a single device

The PC is no longer the only access device for Internet applications, and applications that are limited to a single device are less valuable than those that are connected. In our technologically advancing society, the PC is not the only device that can access the internet. More current devices such as the IPAD, smartphones, and other tablet PCs can all access the net and therefore allow users to access applications online. Likewise to this, web services have been in order to allow access to all these devices and not just the PC. This trend is known as “Software above the level of a single device” and it is another essential pattern in regards to Web 2.0. The trend can be labelled as synergy between web services and mobile devices that provides high accessibility for all users. Creating high accessibility for users will help generate higher profit in the long run and will help improve lives in ways unimaginable.

Facebook is a brilliant example of software above the level of a single device. Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. Facebook is the most valuable web startup ahead of Zynga, 360Buy, Groupon, Twitter and Dropbox.

Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. Thus, it is highly significant for Facebook to offer ease of access. With this said, Facebook has followed it’s mission and provided its service accross different platforms. Today, Facebook can be accessed on all smartphones, Ipads and other tablet PCs. Facebook is highly user friendly  and aids in storing and sharing information to help make it more manageable. Although, it is said to have it’s privacy and security issues like most cloud computing apps, Facebook has made many efforts towards eradicating these issues by giving users the choices to make when choosing in these settings. Nevertheless, due to its high accessibily, ease of use, and fast service, Facebook is a great example of a Software above the level of a single device.

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  1. Ha, I never actually knew how addicted to facebook I was until I had my iPhone and checked the app so frequently, I became acutely aware of how much I was relying on it. good example, probably the most striking too in this respect.

  2. thanks chris. i’m sure a lot of us realized and accepted our addiction in similar ways. it’s too late for me now so i’ve just accepted and go with the flow. it seems Facebook will just keep adding better functionalities to make it more productive and therefore harder for us not to use it.

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Damien Hirst — Studio Half Skull, half face with diamond dust

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In the iconography of art, skulls have always been contemplative objects. This silkscreen was produced using a photograph of a human skull that Damien Hirst had been using as a subject to paint; the blue paint marks being the result of the artist handling the work, positioning it, whilst working.

Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst was born in Bristol in 1965. He first came to public attention in 1988 when he conceived and curated ‘Freeze’, an exhibition of his own work and that of his contemporaries at Goldsmiths college, staged in a disused London warehouse. Since this time Hirst has become widely recognised as one of the most influential artists of his generation.

Through a varied practise of installation, sculpture, painting and drawing Hirst has sought to explore the complex relationship between art, life and death. Alongside over 80 solo exhibitions he has worked on numerous curatorial projects. In 2008, Hirst took the unprecedented step of bypassing gallery involvement in selling 244 new works at a Sotheby’s, London auction entitled ‘Beautiful Inside My Head Forever’.

Hirst was awarded the Turner Prize in 1995 and his contribution to British art over the last two and a half decades has been acknowledged in a major solo retrospective exhibited at Tate Modern, London. He lives in Devon and has studios in Gloucester and London.

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Your Inspiration Sandwich: Part 1

Honing your ability to lead and inspire others in a bigger way, is more important today than ever before. Because people need leaders – mentors and teachers they can look up and respect, and who have their best interest at heart.

But how exactly to you do that – inspire people? Is there a formula for inspiration? A recipe, perhaps? Well, sort of. There’s a recipe (of sorts) for what I call an inspiration sandwich. It’s a formula for framing your events – both online and offline – so that attendees’ minds are open to inspiration.

Of course, it all starts with knowing exactly what inspiration is.

My favorite definition for the word inspire is: “To fill someone with the urge or ability to do something creative.” Love that! In fact, the word inspire comes from the Latin word inspirare – to breathe. Beautiful, when you reflect on that, isn’t it?

The inspiration sandwich is an approach for opening and closing events (thus the sandwich visual) so that attendees are ready and willing to take in your information in a way that inspires them to absorb it and take action on it. In this article (and video) I’m sharing the first part of the inspiration sandwich – the event opening. In a second article and video I’ll share part 2.

There are 3 important elements of an event opening (teleseminar, webinar, workshop, seminar, retreat) that help attendees to become open to inspiration:

  1. Acknowledge where they are. Many people today feel distrustful, confused, frustrated, overwhelmed, etc., therefore their minds are closed to possibilities. One of the best ways to help people relax, and open their minds, is to acknowledge that you understand how they feel and to validate their feelings. Once you’ve done that,  the walls of resistance usually tumble right down, and they’re willing to hear what you have to say.
  2. Be transparent and be yourself. Too many people begin talks, workshops and events by focusing on themselves. That’s an inspiration turn-off! It’s one thing to include a relevant story that helps you to connect to your audience, it’s another thing entirely to share your resume and your oh-so-perfect successes – ugh! If your goal is to open people’s minds to be inspired by your message, just be yourself – and be a little transparent. Admit mistakes you’ve made and how you’ve overcome them. That’s what makes people trust and identify with you – and opens their minds even more.
  3. Paint a picture of results. People come to you and attend your events so that they can get better at something, solve a problem and/or improve their lives in some way. Be sure to paint a picture of their results when your begin your event. The more you can help people dream about and imagine their possibilities, the more excited they become about their future. That means that they’re not only open-minded about your message, but they eagerly hang on your every word. Now, that’s what inspiration is all about!

Keep in mind that this is just one half of the inspiration sandwich – the beginning or event opening. In part 2 I’ll be sharing the other half of the sandwich – how to close an event that makes your audience want to jump with inspirational joy! Stay tuned …

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  1. Hello Pamela, Honestly sometimes I think you put out tooooo many videos, but you know whenever I finally get to listen to you I am truly glad I don’t delete you. You are very good and each and every time you get me thinking about something positive.
    My name is Terry Ladner Martin. 17 years ago I invented Mederi Clinicals/Cosmetics. There has been so much blood, sweat and tears put into this business. We are not a very big company, however even in this economy we are holding our own. This is not good enough or I wouldn’t be hanging on to all of the reading info, or listening to self help programs so much. You make me understand today that I have to do more with what I already know and have.
    Thank You!

    • Hi Terry, thanks so much for the note … I’m very appreciate when someone mentions feeling more positive because of something I’ve shared! That makes my day! I’m cheering you on as you put your all into your business. All of us who run our own businesses understand the blood, sweat and tears part. We entrepreneurs just can’t get enough of it!🙂 Best to you, ~ Pamela

  2. I think you are right on Pamela. I love this concept of the inspirational framework around a message, offer or whatever we are “selling.” It seems like this would really move clients to take action. Acknowledging the pain really does open up the doorway for sure….I think that if people know we have been there too, it helps them to know we truly understand. Visualizing those possibilities — just as Olympic athletes visualize their win is essential for winning. Thanks again for your insightful advice. Keep it coming. See you in Roma soon.

    • Thanks, Mindy! I just love creating “frames” for things … it helps to keep strategies consistent, doesn’t it? I’m sooooo looking forward to seeing you in Roma … and in the beautiful countryside of Tuscany and Umbria. What a great time we’re going to have!

  3. Love the ‘sandwich’ analogy Pamela! It truly is a good way to visualize on what others want, need and expect. Adding in inspiration gives a purposeful and meaningful direction which in turn, builds that important leadership role with your audience. Always enjoy your videos and wonderful insight!

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Thinking Out Loud

June 23, 2013

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Awhile ago, my oldest son wrote a piece that continues to be one of this blog’s top ten posts for traffic; so it seemed only fair to have you meet my youngest son…

the part nobody sees

by Aaron Wilkinson

Every now and then I have a dream that changes the way I see myself. It’s like when I fall asleep and stop trying to overthink the world my subconscious mind gets a chance to offer a new interpretation or understanding of something I’ve been entirely blind to. Recently, there has been one in particular that I keep remembering.

I’m on stage. In a play. The audience is every friend, every acquaintance, every person I have ever met or interacted with at all. Being my egotistical self, I was playing the main character. The audience ‘ooh’ed and ‘aah’ed and gasped and laughed as I recited my lines and went through the motions with precision and artistry. The performance ended. Standing ovation. Myself and the other faceless actor’s bowed. After the curtain closed I stepped through the curtain and invited my friends backstage.

Suddenly the expressions of awe and admiration were replaced with confusion and disappointment. Some went backstage. Others just left. The ones that did inspected the scene and the props. They spoke with the other actors. Then I approached a group of them that were my closest friends. They introduced themselves. They had no idea who I was and no interest in finding out. Then I woke up in tears.

I think the moral of the story if fairly obvious. I don’t actually believe that no one knows who I really am but I believe that I often make that knowledge hard to achieve. I get scared of what people will think of me when I’m not ‘performing’. When there’s no objective, no expectation, and no script what’s left of me? How much of what people know of me is a character I play or an imposter I’m unaware of?

How often do I invite people backstage? How often do you? The tagline for this blog is ‘a library of unfinished works’. Some of my friends will know that I love the idea of what I call ‘thoughts without conclusions’. Just bouncing ideas and asking questions for the purpose of figuring out what we don’t know. Seeing what we still need to see. Recognizing what is still unfamiliar. With that in mind I’m still trying to figure out the answer to the questions: what is backstage and how can I let people in there more often.

  1. Excellent Post! You speak for a lot of people in your age bracket.

    I was the same back then (teens thru to early 20’s) – I was only comfortable or ‘high’ when I was in ‘show’ mode. The real me, the backstage me sucked – at being Christian, at being authentic, at being holy. The ‘egotistical self’ was the safer self … and then everything collapsed because that was just (and can only ever be) a thin shell of what we’re meant to be. God ran to me one day years later and rescued me, once again. I’m sure I’ll be rescued many more times throughout my remaining days as well. He is faithful.

    Keep up your writing Aaron. Very few words with a very full and valuable message. Well done. Well said.

    Comment by flagrantregard — June 24, 2013 @ 2:55 pm

  2. I can understand why it attracts a lot of traffic.
    Short, easy to read, holds the attention – and most importantly, presents a challenge.

    Comment by meetingintheclouds — June 27, 2013 @ 5:59 pm

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One of my favorite things is to load up any given synth in the various Photosynth viewers and use the strengths of each viewer.
I suspect that the new synths are likely formatted differently than original synths (aside from the obvious lack of a deep zoom collection file and the addition of the depth maps), but I must admit that when I first loaded up the Tech Preview one of the very first things I did after loading several new synths was to copy the collection ID of new synths and paste them into the URL of the old viewers and vice versa to see if anything would load and was sad to see that they didn't in either direction.
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The new synths each have a point cloud, camera positions, and a deep zoom image representation so there's no real reason why those components couldn't be served to the older viewers.

Similarly, original synths' primary point cloud, camera positions, and DZIs could all be loaded in the preview viewer, even though there's no depth maps or smoothed paths for original synths.

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Just for the record, I'm not talking about stitched panoramas at all. That's why the title says 'synths' and not 'synths and panos'.

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Even for non-Marxists, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is considered one of the most profound analyses of revolution. Marx’s imagery is taken from the coup of Napoleon Bonaparte on November 9, 1799 (the Eighteenth of Brumaire in the revolutionary calendar), but his seminal analysis is about the reign of the general’s nephew, Louis Bonaparte, who was brought to power by a coup against the Second French Republic on December 2, 1851.

The work is most commonly known for its play on Hegel’s aphorism that history repeats itself. But what is commonly overlooked is Marx’s addition to Hegel’s adage: for Marx, history didn’t just repeat itself, it manifested itself first as tragedy and then as farce.

Louis Bonaparte’s presence on the stage of history was a farce. By culture he was a foreigner. By political inclination he was a pretender, a man who was all things to all people, and a man who was carried into political life by plying the outcasts of society with sausages. Then, as Marx so aptly put it, he plied them with sausages anew. Bonaparte represented no class interest and no transcendent interest except his own.

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Confronting Marx was a political situation where no one class could achieve power. The bourgeois had failed to consummate its revolution, and the proletariat had marched too quickly on the bourgeois’ heels. This situation was ripe for exploitation by the foreigner, the pretender, who was all things to all people. To some scholars of this period, this was a description of what would later become known as fascism. The template for Hitler, Mussolini, and Peron is to be found in an examination of the reign of Louis Bonaparte.

So too, in a sense, is the presidency of Barack Obama.

As I have argued elsewhere, Obama is not a communist, even in the twentieth century meaning of the term. Communism is about state ownership of the means of production. The Obama administration does not seek ownership. In fact, where it acquired ownership through the bailout, the administration now works to divest itself. What Obama is building is a large government bureaucracy whose expanding limbs find their way into every facet of human existence, a government that does not own the means of production but controls them by increased and oppressive regulation and taxation. Obama’s political inspiration is more likely to be Mussolini or Peron, even Hugo Chavez, than Lenin or Stalin.

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Transcript of DNA

The Explorer, the Investigator and the Organizer The Chronicles of DNA Friedrich Miescher: The Explorer The Big Picture Experiment Conclusions He determined that nuclein was made up of hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and phosphorus and there was an unique ratio of phosphorus to nitrogen. He was able to isolate nuclein from other cells and later used salmon cells (as opposed to pus) as a source. Phoebus Levene: The Investigator Experiment Conclusions Tetranucleotide Erwin Chargaff: The Organizer Conclusions Chargaff's Rules Experiment 1871 1950 1844- 1895 1869-1940 1. the number of adenine (A) bases always equals the number of thymine (T) bases and the number of guanine (G) bases always equals the number of cytosine (C) bases
2. the composition of DNA, ATCG, varies from one species to another **we now know that A-C or T-G cannot form because a purine has to bond with a pyrimidine 1905
*** His model shows 3' to 5' phosphodiester linkages like the model made by Watson and Crick however he treated it as a separate molecule instead of one whole as well as the bases are outwards rather than in. 1859
1865 "... But as they did not seem to know much about anything, I was not unduly surprised ... I believe that the double-stranded model of DNA came about as a consequence of our conversation."

"technology of genetic engineering poses a greater threat to the world than the advent of nuclear technology." Bibliography
1. "Concept 15DNA and Proteins Are Key Molecules of the Cell Nucleus." Friedrich Miescher. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Jan. 2013.
2. "DNA Structure: The Discovery of Nucleic Acid Structure." Bright Hub. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Jan. 2013.
3."Tetranucleotide Hypothesis." Tetranucleotide Hypothesis. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Jan. 2013.
4. "Concept 15DNA and Proteins Are Key Molecules of the Cell Nucleus." Phoebus Levene. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Jan. 2013.
5."Erwin Chargaff." â Biography. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Jan. 2013.
6."Chargaff's Ratios, 3D Animation with Narration :: DNA Learning Center." DNALC Blogs. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Jan. 2013.
7.Gerards, Susanne, Keith Gibbons, Susan McCallum, Robert Noble, Jennifer Parrington, Clyde Ramlochan, and Sharon Ramlochan. "DNA Structure and Organization in the Cell." Biology 12. By Trent Carter-Edwards. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2011. 208-09. Print.
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The Chemistry of Explosives
Collection and Analysis of Evidence of Explosives
The entire bomb site must be systematically searched to find any trace of a detonating device or other foreign object to the sight.

The scientist must identify the location of the blast crater and collect/preserve loose soil and other debris from the sight.
Ion Mobility Spectrometer
-The residues placed in the device are vaporized with heat. The substances are then exposed to a beam of electrons or beta rays and become charged molecules/ions. The charged particles are then allowed to move through a tube under the influence of an electric field. The explosive can be identified by the time its takes the particles to move through the tube.
Collection and Packaging
-Must be placed into airtight sealed containers and labeled with all information. Loose materials and sharp-edged objects should be placed into metal containers
-Debris collected from different areas should be packaged separately

Case Files: Liquid Explosives
Security agencies in the U.S. and Great Britain discovered a terrorist plot to destroy commercial planes using liquid explosives. Liquid explosives can be easily purchased and can be made by combining easy to obtain chemicals. After 9/11 security shifted its focus to solid explosives. In 2001, Richard Rein was arrested for attempting to blow up a flight out of Paris. TATP (triacetone triperoxide) and a detonator was discovered. Current scanning devices in airports can detect nitrogen-based chemicals but not peroxide-based.
Analysis of Evidence Explosives
Once the debris from the bomb scene are recovered and returned to the lab they are examined for any unconsumed explosive and identified by using a water color test to determine the different particles. Once analyzed the debris is then finally screened by either TLC, HPLC, X ray diffraction or mass spectrometry.
Is a proposal that in all commercial explosives that sets of small colored chips are added in manufacturing so that after an explosion they can survive to be identified and with the interchangeable patterns the type and manufacturer can be identified.
Types of Explosives
Classified as either high or low
Deflagration (the speed of decomposition for a low reaction)- rapid oxidation reaction accompanied by a small pressure wave
Detonation (the speed of decomposition for a high reaction)- extremely rapid, accompanied by an intense shock wave
Fire needs oxygen so most fire oxidation reactions take the oxygen from the air --> however explosions occur so rapidly that oxygen in the air cannot participate
Oxidizing Agents- substance that supplies oxygen to a reaction
In Black powder this agent is KNO3

Low Explsoives
Low Explosive- Velocity is less than 1,000 m/s
Black Powder- Mixture of KNO3, C, and S
Safety Fuse- A cord containing a core of black powder that is meant to carry a flame at a uniform rate
Smokeless Powder (single-base)- Contains nitrocellulose
Smokeless Powder (double-base)- Consists of nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin
Common oxidizing agents- chlorate mixture & gas-air mixture
High Explosives
Detonation with velocity greater than 1,000 m/s
Primary Explosives- High explosive that is easily detonated
Secondary Explosives- High explosive, relatively insensitive
Ammonium Nitrate Explosives & TATP
Dynamite used to be exclusively nitroglycerin-based
Now ammonium nitrate explosives are widely used
water gels
ANFO's (ammonium nitrate/ fuel oil)
TATP- Triacetone Triperoxide, primary explosive recently used by terrorists

Military High Explosives
Most popular form is C-4. Often in the form of a pliable plastic of doughlike consistency, known as a composition. TNT was used on a large scale in WWII
Commercially the chemical is used as the core in a detonating cord. Cord allows for simultaneous detonation
High explosives must be detonated by an initiating explosion.
Usually blasting caps filled with lead azide
High Explosives
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