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Why we still see the world like the mathematician and poet who first mapped it.

In the first half of the sixth century B.C., a Greek man named Anaximander, born in Turkey, sketched the world in a way no one had…By Cody Kommers

In the first half of the sixth century B.C., a Greek man named Anaximander, born in Turkey, sketched the world in a way no one had previously thought to do. It featured a circle, divided into three equal parts. He labeled those parts Europe, Asia, and Libya, and separated them by the great waterways of the Nile, the Phasis river, and the Mediterranean. To call it a map would perhaps be a bit overgenerous. It was really more of a schematic. But it nonetheless represented a crucial innovation. Anaximander had rendered the world in a way that no person had ever seen it before: from above.

Anaximander’s sketch wasn’t especially useful as a cartographic instrument, and it also came with some peculiar conceptual baggage. He believed the earth sat atop a column, following the architectural sensibilities of the day. It was Plato, several hundred years later, who proposed the idea of a spherical earth. He had no strong, principled reason to do this; the guy just liked spheres. But though they were fascinated by the shape of the earth, neither Plato nor Anaximander, nor even Aristotle, can count among their accolades credit for creating the first scientific map of the world. That distinction falls to a North African man by the name of Eratosthenes.

Eratosthenes is best known today as the founder of the field of geography. He coined the term in his magnum opus, Geographika, published during his tenure as the head librarian at Alexandria, sometime between 240 and 220 B.C. It was three books in length and covered topics ranging from climate zones to the geological history of the planet to the customs of different populations. What Eratosthenes offered in this book was a perspective informed by data. Any prior works that touched on these topics had been conceived in much the same way as Anaximander’s schematic: a vague suspicion about what was out there, unconstrained by any commitment to describing its actuality.

ERATOSTHENES’ WORLD MAP: Based in part on Alexander the Great’s travel logs, and his own mathematics, Eratosthenes calculated that Earth’s land masses were divided into four quadrants.Courtesy of FCIT

We don’t actually have a copy of Eratosthenes’ original map (it probably burned down with the Library of Alexandria). But the Roman geographer Strabo, in the first century B.C., constructed his own map, which we do have, based off of Eratosthenes’ original—a sort of tidying-up, rather than a total rewrite. He quoted at length from Eratosthenes’ text, including detailed descriptions of the original rendering, so historians today have a pretty good idea of what Eratosthenes’ map probably contained.

In Eratosthenes’ map, the world’s landmass looks like a parallelogram. It is divided into four quadrants. They are, roughly, Africa, Europe, Russia, and India—or at least that’s what we’d call them today. As far as maps of the world go, it features—to make the point gently—some peculiar omissions. The Americas, Australia, and East Asia come to mind. Even in what Eratosthenes does try to depict, he fails to grasp how expansive the earth’s landmasses really are.

Our conception of the world is based on what we think is out there. In fact, that’s all we think the world is.

From our perspective, it’s clear that Eratosthenes didn’t know what the world looked like. What’s a little trickier to explain is it didn’t really occur to Eratosthenes that his map might be off. He was confident he had pretty much nailed it. He claimed, for instance, that the only reason no one had yet sailed around the world was because of unfavorable tides, and not for more consequential reasons—like the existence of the rest of Africa, China, and Russia.

In the famous first line of his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein presented his readers with a proposition: “The world is all that is the case.” Though Wittgenstein meant this as a claim about the bounds of logic, it can also be interpreted psychologically. Our conception of the world is based on what we think is out there. In fact, that’s all we think the world is—whatever’s out there.

What’s changed since Eratosthenes’ days is technology. We now have detailed images of what the world actually looks like. What hasn’t changed are the ways our minds make sense of our surroundings. The map of Eratosthenes resembles something we all do—reconcile the terrain around us with what means the most to us. The ancient geographer didn’t just produce the first map of the world. He gave us an insight into the kind of map we carry in our own heads to this day.

The idea that an animal’s brain creates a map of its environment as it runs around in it was first proposed by Edward Tolman, in his influential 1948 paper, “Cognitive maps in rats and men.” Tolman’s initial proposal was simply that the brain uses some sort of spatial representation to organize knowledge about the layout of the world. In his experiments, Tolman would set a rat at a random point in the maze, then measure how long it took the rat to find her way to the cheese. As expected, the rats got quicker each time Tolman put them in the maze. Tolman then compared this with a second condition. He would put a rat in the maze, but without any cheese. The rat would wander aimlessly, and whenever she got to the place where the cheese would have been, Tolman would take her out and set her back in the cage. The rats in this condition each did five of these non-cheese trials before moving on to the normal cheese-motivated trials.

What Tolman’s contemporaries would have expected to see was that the non-cheese trials didn’t matter. The accepted theory of the day was that learning was motivated by reward. And without the cheese there was no reward, and therefore no learning. But that’s not what Tolman found. What he discovered was that as soon as he began putting the cheese in the maze, the rats who had merely been wandering were able to solve the maze just as quickly as those who had been going after the cheese the entire time. The reason for this, Tolman explained, was that the rats were creating a cognitive map of their environment the whole time. Once they knew where in that map the cheese was, they could go straight there.

The Parisians should have known how far they were off. But they confidently asserted they were right.

In this sense, Eratosthenes’ map of the world can be thought of as a sort of cognitive map, worked out in pen and paper. Like Tolman’s rats, he developed a picture of what he thought was out there. Except, unlike the rats, Eratosthenes couldn’t just traipse around the world to get a feel for it. He made up for this with a particular strength of his: working out new conclusions from existing data.

Eratosthenes had little respect for disciplinary silos. He wrote quite a bit of philosophy, and his contemporaries considered his work adequate but derivative. He was a decent poet, but by no means the most renowned of his generation. The same could be said of his status as a mathematician. His friends, picking up on this pattern, took to calling him “Beta” because he was, according to them, second best in everything.

During his younger years Eratosthenes had a particular interest in prime numbers. His most celebrated mathematical invention is known today as the Sieve of Eratosthenes. The Sieve—which rhymes with “give”—is an algorithm for generating a list of all the primes up to a chosen number. To this day, it’s still the most efficient way for a computer to generate all the primes up through about 100,000. The payoff for this idea would come far after Eratosthenes’ own lifetime, as it is relevant in contemporary fields like number theory and cryptography.

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The intellectual feat that garnered Eratosthenes the most fame in his own lifetime was his estimate of the earth’s circumference. He managed to get within about a tenth of a percent of the modern calculation using only Euclidean geometry and a few simple measurements. It was well known in the ancient world that the sun was directly over the city of Syene during the summer solstice, because of a deep well that cast no shadow. And the length of the Nile from Syene to Alexandria was also known, because it had recently been surveyed by Ptolemy II. So one day on the summer solstice, Eratosthenes measured the angle of a tall building in Alexandria. He got a reading of 7.2 degrees. Doing the math, this meant that this section of the Nile was exactly one-fiftieth of earth’s circumference (if you cut a pie into 50 equal pieces, the interior angle at the point of each slice would be 7.2 degrees). His calculation was off by about the distance between JFK airport in New York and Newark airport in New Jersey along I-95; in other words, you could walk Eratosthenes’ margin of error in about nine hours. One historian calls Eratosthenes’ estimate “a feat so profound yet so simple that it remains today one of the most amazing pieces of ancient scholarship, treated as such since antiquity.”

There’s a Greek word, philologos. Literally it means “lover of reason,” but at its heart it meant a learned person, an academic. It was a somewhat pejorative term. An ancient Greek might use it in the same way we might say today that someone is a thinker, as opposed to a doer. Eratosthenes, allegedly, was the first to use the word to describe himself. That’s sort of like someone today being declared the first “thought leader.” Not necessarily by anyone else, but according to their own estimation.

Of course, he was probably correct.

In 1976, the psychologist Stanley Milgram had just come off a decade-long research program on obedience to authority, in which he induced participants to shock one another in a dingy basement on the campus of Yale University. Milgram had recently moved to Paris, where he was keen to employ an experimental paradigm that was decidedly more benign. In particular, he was interested in what he called people’s “psychological maps” of the city. “It is not,” he wrote, “an examination of Paris as a geographic reality, but rather of the way that reality is mirrored in the minds of its inhabitants.” How, in other words, do people’s psychological maps differ from the way Paris actually looks? “The first principle,” as Milgram put it, “is that reality and image are imperfectly linked.”

What you might have expected Milgram to find is that his participants’ maps looked like impoverished versions of a tourist map. After all, each of Milgram’s participants would have seen the canonical map of Paris—featuring the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Arc de Triomphe—hundreds of times. To be sure, their hand-drawn maps wouldn’t look exactly like the actual map; these people are not professional cartographers. But there is no doubt that they would have been familiar with the real thing represented as it actually is. They could also rely on their quotidian interactions with Paris, wandering its streets and traversing the cityscape as they go about their business. But that was exactly the problem.

THE TOURIST MAP: This tourist map of Paris provides a kind of control study for an experiment that asked Parisians to map their city. Their results invariably looked nothing like this, the city as it’s commonly

What Milgram found is that people’s maps were more strongly influenced by their own idiosyncratic experiences than a general knowledge of the city’s layout. One map was drawn by a 50-year-old woman who had lived for 15 years in the city’s Fourth Arrondissement. She mapped that area, just north of the Seine, in scrupulous detail, down to the direction of the one way streets. But she included almost no landmarks south of the Seine, except for Montparnasse—no Eiffel Tower, no Musée d’Orsay, no Jardin du Luxembourg.

In this respect, her map is representative of what Milgram found overall. Almost half of Milgram’s participants failed to include the Eiffel Tower and other major landmarks. “She centers her map not on Paris as a whole,” wrote Milgram, “but on a segment of it that has special meaning to her.”

THE LOCAL’S MAP: This Paris map was drawn by a 50-year-old woman, who had lived for 15 years in the fourth arrondissement. Notably missing is the Eiffel Tower and other landmarks. But not the streets where she lived.Milgram, S. Psychological maps of Paris. in The Individual in a Social World (1977).

When you look a little closer, the maps of Milgram’s Parisians were off in much the same way as Eratosthenes. Eratosthenes, so to speak, mapped the one way streets around Alexandria, Athens, and the Mediterranean, where he lived most of his life. But he failed to get any details right once he set his sights on more distal terrain, like India or southern Africa. And just as with Eratosthenes, the Parisians didn’t think their map was perfect, but they thought it was pretty much correct. The difference here is that, unlike Eratosthenes, they had seen the real thing. They should have known how far they were off. But they still confidently asserted that the reality in their head corresponded with what was out there. It didn’t.

So what exactly had Eratosthenes seen that informed his map? That answer begins, as it so often does for these sort of things, with Aristotle. In his Meteorologika, Aristotle documented an interest in the earth’s surface. He was the first one to provide an estimate of the circumference of the earth (it was way off). But most of his work ultimately didn’t go much further than speculation. After all, how could he possibly know what the rest of the world was like when he’d never seen it?

So when Aristotle began tutoring a young pupil named Alexander around 340 B.C., there were many questions about what the earth looked like but not many answers. Alexander, for his part, took a certain pragmatically-inclined interest in questions about the surface of the earth. This was probably connected to the fact that he would, over the next couple decades, go on to conquer most of it.

Alexander’s campaigns went throughout most of Asia minor—northeastern Africa, Macedonia and the Hellenic peninsula, the eastern Mediterranean, Arabia, and into India, just north of Bombay. These campaigns started in 336 B.C. and continued until 323 B.C., the year of Alexander’s death.

By the time Eratosthenes took his station at Alexandria, all of Alexander’s military personnel had returned from their travels, compared notes with one another, and had written up reports about what they had seen. And where do you think they kept those reports once they’d been filed away? The Library of Alexandria, naturally.

Eratosthenes had what Aristotle did not. He had data.

Which is what puts Eratosthenes on the same playing field as the rest of us. We can only use the data available to us to paint a picture of what’s out there. Like Milgram’s Parisians, and Tolman’s rats, we each construct a map of reality as we go about our business in the world. And like them, we assume that what our version looks like is the real thing. The risk we run is to mistake the representation for the reality. We might think that we are exempt us from the kind of mistakes Eratosthenes made, because we simply have access to so much more reliable information. But that isn’t a guarantee. In the Geographika, Eratosthenes wrote of why he was unable to consider the possibility of another, unknown world, which might conceivably exist outside his own realm of knowledge: “For myself, however, I must speak of what is in our own.”

Cody Kommers is a Ph.D. student in experimental psychology at Oxford. He is the host of the Cognitive Revolution podcast. @codykommers

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    It has been a wild ride for Groupon the past few years.  The daily deals website launched in 2008 and experienced nothing short of meteoric growth.  Its revenue between 2008 and 2010 grew at an astounding rate of 8,611% a year.  By January of 2011 the company had raised more than $950 million in funding, had 35 million registered users, and had rejected a $6 billion buyout offer from Google.  Groupon proceeded with an initial public offering in November of that year – the biggest by a U.S. web company since Google. However, the post-IPO era for Groupon has been disappointing.  The company’s stock has gone from the $20 IPO price to about $4.25 a share.  Tough economic conditions, as well as growing competition from sites such as Living Social and Fab have significantly contributed to Groupon’s downfall.  But the economy and competition are only a part of the story.  Groupon’s board of directors has also played a substantial role in contributing to the decline in investor confidence in the company – highlighted by a recent report that Groupon board members have invested in a competitor to the site.

    Earlier this year, Groupon’s accounting practices were called into question.  The company had to restate its earnings twice within the first quarter after the IPO leading to an ongoing investigation by the SEC.  As a result, this past April Groupon announced that it was replacing two-thirds of its audit committee with corporate board members with the appropriate expertise in accounting, including the Robert Bass, the Vice Chairman of Deloitte, and Daniel Henry, CFO of American Express.  One expect that the audit committee of a public company board would already be comprised of individuals with substantial financial expertise.

    Just  when it appeared that Groupon’s board was aligning itself with corporate governance best practices, an article in this week’s Wall Street Journal (http://on.wsj.com/TSMZSVreports that two if Groupon’s founding board members have invested in a competitor to Groupon.  According to the article, Groupon Chairman Eric Lefkofsky and director Bard Keywell have invested in Belly, a startup that helps local merchants manage their loyalty programs. It would appear that Belly is in direct competition with Groupon’s new loyalty program called Groupon Rewards.  Although Groupon Rewards is a smaller component of the company’s business structure, there is at least the risk of violating their own fiduciary duties to Groupon.  A director’s duty of loyalty to the corporation requires that they act at all times in the best interests of the company.  How are Lefkofsky and Keywell acting in the best interests of Groupon if they are investing in a competitor?  Furthermore, it goes beyond just investing - Belly spawned out of Lefkofky and Keywell’s startup incubator, Lightbank.  Thus, instead of just capital, they are providing Belly with strategic guidance.  It is hard to imagine how such guidance doesn’t involve insight from their involvement with Groupon.

    The question is whether Lefkofsky and Keywell’s guidance to Belly extends beyond insight to actual inside information from Groupon that could assist Belly to gain an unfair advantage. Even if it does not rise to the level of a conflict of interest, aren’t Lefkofsky and Keywell missing the point that perception is everything?  At a time when Groupon’s Board of Directors can ill-afford to appear ready to meet the challenges in front of them, Lefkofsky and Keywell have placed in question whether Groupon’s board is up to the task.

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it’s happening again…

I have so much to write about- so much squirming around up there. Yet when I go to write, I can barely squeeze out a word or two and it just stops. I don’t understand it. If it’s a masochistic self-loathing causing it, wouldn’t that like just be an award-winning novel right there? 11 years now… the 20 years prior I couldn’t stop writing. The past 11 in small fits and spasms some words come out.

I hate it.

I’m broken.

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Heard an interview with Dr. Greta Binford on NPR and then the next day read an article about her in The New Yorker.

So I decided to send her an email this afternoon to see if she’d be interested in maybe helping identify what bit me- almost 3 years ago now…

Around 9:30 pm

Around 11:00pm (when I called 911)

I hope she writes back. If I have to be gimpy, it’d be nice to know who to blame…

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And theres absolutely NOTHING gay about that…

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One of the reasons for creating the flats is that over the past several years I’ve had several aborted attempts at this– from (someone stole the addy when I didn’t have the $$ to renew) to (which I am going to try to rebuild for posterity’s sake) and a multitude of random posts from personal to eulogizing (I did a lot of that the past two years :P) on myspace and various other forums…. obviously I think my thoughts are special enough to recollect and republish this stuff.

So in the first few weeks of the flats, assuming you bother to come, I will be reposting items with their original post dates- creating a time-space-word continuum rift as well as reposting some items around their anniversaries of the original publishing. Oddly a lot of them were in March. Maybe I have a thing for rebirth. Hell, I am Jewish and I often have woodâ€¦ but I digress.

I realize that all this is pretty narcissistic, but these days what isn’t. Yeah that’s a cheap excuse. Please beat anyone that uses it with a snow shovel. In reality, often when I go back and read stuff that I wrote 1, 2, 4, 10, 15 years ago I am actually how amazed how good some it was and always wonder why I can’t write like that now. Rather than narcissism I submit, it is more an exercise of self-loathing and public mental masturbation in the hopes that someone will say “good boy- nice sperm” and/or several years later i can look at it and say “oooo- not bad” proving myself something better than I thought I was.

Of course by the time I do this, I am already lamenting the fact that I can’t write like that anymore. And it’s not a self-pity- it is a truth; I can’t write “walls” again or “I want a girlfriend” or “The American Jihad“.

I am beginning to realize the reason I canâ€™t is because I already have.

And I guess that’s kind of okay…

Pretty fucking cocky- but also pretty fucking accurate. Back in da dayâ€¦.

I donâ€™t know why all the coverage of myspace and facebook et al gets me so riled up- itâ€™s as if this â€˜technologyâ€™ thing is brand new and depending on the day the particular news outlet covers it, it is either the new wave of society or the bane of all civilization. If itâ€™s CNN or Fox, often itâ€™s both.

Itâ€™s nothing new- itâ€™s just been flattened out. Whereas in 1995 there was maybe 100 â€œonline diaristsâ€ there are today easily millions. In 1953- how many homes had a television? How about in 1963?

This is why I get annoyed.

I miss the days of basTard (the last remnants before my brain decided to stop working) and Evany and Spike andâ€¦ [deep fucking sighâ€¦] Dawn-Marie (her site is down- I will find an old pic to post).

I miss these days because it wasnâ€™t so easy to post- it required thought and effort and every dumb fucker with a puter wasnâ€™t posting what they had for breakfast. Not that thereâ€™s anything wrong with that. It was just a lot easier back then to find the good shit.

Now itâ€™sâ€¦ meh.

I did an evaluation of the internet and the â€œwebâ€ back in 1995. My assessment, in short, was that 95% of what I saw out there was shit- uninspired, uninteresting, unspecial.

That has changed.

Nowadays itâ€™s more like 98.7%

I hope to achieve something slightly better here.

Weâ€™ll see.

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The older I get, the more I realize that I understand less than I thought the year before. The joy in this is that no matter how difficult life can be; it is never dull and there is never an opportunity NOT to learn something new.

This has been a very hard year for me and many people I love; yet just because it was hard makes that love between my family and friends that much more stronger and meaningful.

So to all my friends and family I wish you a very happy/merry/joyous/orgasmic/giddy and/or stupid (choose your poison) holiday and new years. Whatever may come in 2007; let’s all hope that our love keeps growing.

Many Paths. One Truth. Love.

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Gry has this smock/bib that she uses for Luka when he eats. I love this thing! I tried it out on Ari and he actually kept it on! I guess it’s not like a traditional bib, it’s more like a shirt. So, he was okay with wearing it.

I would love to copy her and purchase the smock bib for myself, but unfortunately, she bought it in Norway. Sad!

After Ari’s nap, my friend Alli came over to my place with her son, Aaron. They spent the majority of their time pushing each other in the Cozy Coupe, while Alii and I talked about astrology.

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2020 Club Meetings

~~~~ There will be NO monthly meeting in November 2020. ~~~~

The next scheduled club meeting will take place on 12/2/20 at Sleep Inn Suites in Middletown, NY at 7:00 PM, for Egg Nog and ORC elections!

Holiday attire encouraged!

Our October monthly meeting was held on 10/21/20 at
Sleep Inn and Suites, Route 6, Middletown NY
in conjunction with our end of year track 'social' get-together.

Pizza and salad will be served. Please bring your own refreshments and as always,
Social distancing protocols will be in effect and all are required to wear a mask.  If you are not comfortable, please know we will miss you and will hopefully be back on track soon.

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Submit an article for publication in our next club e-mailer. Photos, articles, tips, skills, observations, accomplishments, recommended gear, and whatever is connected qualifies.
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Want to help by volunteering for a board seat or appointed position?
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General Information
The Orange Runners Club holds its public general meetings on the first Wednesday of each calendar month.
Tentative Location:

Sleep Inn and Suites,
Rte. 6, Middletown NY [map]

Next Meeting Date: December 2nd, 2020
Time: ~ 7:00 PM
Normal meetings include buffet dinner (~$10) followed by a meeting agenda and a guest speaker when available.  If you have suggestions for future guest speakers, please contact us...
The club's meeting minutes are avilable from the board.
Please contact club President, Vice President, or Secretary for a copy.

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33rd Sunday of the Year 13 November 2016

The end is nigh, the placards used to say.  For many people, the end seems to have come last Tuesday.  For many Americans, the results of last Tuesday’s election was about the last thing they wanted to experience.  But it did come to pass and the Republic will have to contend with the consequences.

Mal 3:19-20a
2 Thes 3:7-12
Lk 21:5-19

It’s also the season when the readings in the liturgy scare tend to hell out of us, or so it is to be hoped, with accounts of what we tend to think of as the end of the world.  It’s a sure sign Advent is coming.  This year things are a little different, because many people have already had the hell scared out of them, or into them, by the prospect of the environmental cataclysm threatening to befall the world.  For some years now, many people, including God-fearing Christians, or at least fearful ones, have been squirreling away food and water supplies, converting their stocks and bonds into ready cash, and moving across the country to desert and mountain hideaways.  Several Internet sites, including Christian ones, are still selling survival supplies.

All this is not just the impact of the most contentious election in American history, or global climate change or the wars in Syrian, Afghanistan and Iraq, or problems in Pakistan or the threat of an Al Qaeda attacks or the return of sub-prime mortgage rates – about all of which we heard very little in the election campaign, so focused as it was on emails and temperament.  It’s all of them.  Despite the sudden surge on Wall Street, even economists are worried, and that’s enough to scare anyone.

And perhaps we should be jittery, if only because of the huge mess humans have made of things over the last fifty years or more.  Our learning curve is pretty flat.  But that’s really not what Jesus is talking about in today’s gospel from Luke, or that passage from the book of Malachi, which — not coincidentally — is the last book of the Old Testament.  People have been jittery for a long time.  If you don’t believe me, you can always catch up on the History Channel.

Jesus seems to have foreseen all that and actually warned us against getting too excited about rumors of the End Times, especially in Luke’s gospel.  In today’s reading, for instance, he says, “Take heed that you are not led astray; for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he!’ and, ‘The time is at hand!’  Do not go after them.  And when you hear of wars and tumults, do not be terrified; for this must first take place, but the end will not be at once.” (Luke 21: 8-9.)  Not by a long shot.

St. Paul was no less opposed to the spiritual and social paralysis that comes in the wake of trying to pin-point the Parousia.  He wrote to the fidgety folks in Thessalonica, many of whom had worked themselves into a stew expecting the Second Coming of Christ, that “we hear that some of you are living in idleness, mere busybodies, not doing any work.  Now such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work in quietness and to earn their own living” [2 Thess 3:11-12].

So what are we supposed to do?  Why does the Church schedule these readings every year just before Advent?  By now, we have heard it all so often, you’d think we’d be numb to the message.  But dismissing the age-old Christian belief in the end of the world as just another outmoded myth misses the point just as much as overreacting to always-erroneous predictions of the day and the hour.

It’s a mistake, first of all, to think that Jesus was simply talking about history, about space and time and the stock market or even the stones of the Fourth Temple.  (The Wailing Wall is still standing, by the way, so you needn’t get panicky about Armageddon.  Not yet, anyway.)  What the prophet Malachi, Paul, and Jesus were all saying is that this world, with all its governments, social systems, wealth, credit cards, poverty, misery, and suffering is not ultimate, not finally decisive.  Money, power, and success are not what life is all about, despite what you see on television or read on the Internet.  Mighty nations still succeed one another, corporations rise and fall, one form of currency replaces another, stock markets crash, and hurricanes come in tandem.  Stars fall out of the sky, or seem to.  Wars and rumors of war continue.  And will no doubt keep right on into the next Millennium.  The world remains very much with us.

But the message we hear in today’s readings is that we are not to locate our hopes or our fears in the powers and structures of this present world, which are not only fallible, but will inevitably fail us.  Hope rests secure in God alone.  But, on the other hand, as St. Paul insists, we may not resign our commission as members of our communities, but must remain attentive to the very real needs of those around us and the living planet as a whole.  For the world is the scene of our activity as Christians, not in order to create some sort of perfect super-state, and especially not to establish the Kingdom of God on earth.  Religious fanatics and political dictators have tried that many times in the past.  And all they created in the long run were savage totalitarian regimes or doomed idealistic utopias that burned out or just faded into irrelevance.

Being a Christian is much simpler than that.  We are called upon to build a human city, a humane habitat, a commonwealth of love and justice, of peace, truth and freedom.  We are called to look to our neighbor in order to assist and protect, especially the poor, the oppressed, and defenseless.  For all that, Jesus warns us, we should not count on being rewarded, honored, or even thanked.  Expect, rather, to be misunderstood, opposed, and even persecuted.  Simple does not mean easy.

It isn’t by chance that the word “justice” appears so strikingly in the first reading and the responsorial psalm.  If you missed it, consider taking another look before you go to bed tonight.  Even St. Paul is thinking about justice when he reminds his first small church that no one should impose on anyone else, but everyone should contribute to the extent they can to the welfare of all. If you won’t work, then don’t expect to share the supper.

Human beings may well be able to wreck the world, and it looks like we stand a good chance of doing so if we don’t change our way of living soon — especially in this rich nation.  But we can’t really save the world.  In the end, God bestows the New Heaven and the New Earth.  It will be a gift, not a credit-card purchase or some kind of spiritual dividend.  But we’re not just marking time here.  We are being prepared.  And so when we say we believe that Jesus Christ will come again to judge the living and the dead, we really should lift up our hearts.  For the old world is coming to an end, with all its injustice and suffering and destruction.  It has been ending all along in fact, ever since Christ rose from the dead.  A new world is coming, just as surely, but it will get here in God’s good time.  In the meantime, we have some important work to do. In a word, inserting into this teetering planet a healthy dose of peace, love, justice, and freedom.

If we won’t work for a better world, how can we expect to have a Happy Thanksgiving? And we should have one.  But when you count your blessings, don’t look back.  Look ahead.


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Biomass hydrodeoxygenation catalysts innovation from atomistic activity predictors

Morteo Flores, Fabian, Engel, Julien and Roldan Martinez, Alberto 2020. Biomass hydrodeoxygenation catalysts innovation from atomistic activity predictors. Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 378 (2176) , 20200056. 10.1098/rsta.2020.0056

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Circular economy emphasizes the idea of transforming products involving economic growth and improving the ecological system to reduce the negative consequences caused by the excessive use of raw materials. This can be achieved with the use of second-generation biomass that converts industrial and agricultural wastes into bulk chemicals. The use of catalytic processes is essential to achieve a viable upgrade of biofuels from the lignocellulosic biomass. We carried out density functional theory calculations to explore the relationship between 13 transition metals (TMs) properties, as catalysts, and their affinity for hydrogen and oxygen, as key species in the valourization of biomass. The relation of these parameters will define the trends of the hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) process on biomass-derived compounds. We found the hydrogen and oxygen adsorption energies in the most stable site have a linear relation with electronic properties of these metals that will rationalize the surface's ability to bind the biomass-derived compounds and break the C–O bonds. This will accelerate the catalyst innovation for low temperature and efficient HDO processes on biomass derivates, e.g. guaiacol and anisole, among others. Among the monometallic catalysts explored, the scaling relationship pointed out that Ni has a promising balance between hydrogen and oxygen affinities according to the d-band centre and d-band width models. The comparison of the calculated descriptors to the adsorption strength of guaiacol on the investigated surfaces indicates that the d-band properties alone are not best suited to describe the trend. Instead, we found that a linear combination of work function and d-band properties gives significantly better correlation.

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Friday, December 29, 2017

My Story - how to promote your string orchestra program

I began teaching at my current position in 2012.  My interview had gone very well and I was 99% sure I would be offered the position.  I remember the principal asking me if I could grow the orchestra program and I answered confidently in the affirmative.  I never thought to ask how many students were in the program and didn't find out until I was setting up my classroom right before school started.  There were 3 orchestra classes - beginning with 37 students, intermediate with 15 students, and advanced with 11 students.  Numbers were small - I had the smallest orchestra program in my district, but I decided to make my class the best it could ever be.  I wanted to offer my students the greatest possible orchestra experience.

2017 Beginning Orchestra at our Halloween Concert

My program began to grow every year.  I remember a chat I had with my principal.  I was asking him about how many orchestra classes I would be able to have in the future.  He told me that it would be impossible to be full time.  There was not another orchestra teacher in our district with enough students to be full time at one school.  He backed up his claim with statistics that said no more than 25% of the student population enrolls in a music class - and those numbers had to be split between the other music programs.  I didn't believe my program had achieved max student enrollment and continued to create a quality program and recruit more students. The next year I was full time with 250 students.  This year I had 315 students enrolled and had to cut 30 students because my classroom space can not accommodate more than 55 students in a class.  My program is now one of the largest in the state.

How did all of this happen?!  I believe a music program must be carefully marketed and promoted - just like a business.  There must be a quality product and we must create the demand.

Here are 10 key strategies that helped me grow my program.  Keep reading for a description of each strategy!

1.  Create a class motto.

One thing I want for my students is to learn that anything is possible..that they can accomplish anything with dedication and effort.  The one phrase I want my students to remember after being in my program is to 'Be Amazing!'  Reaching ones full potential is a is a determination to achieve and work for greatness even when it's hard.  I want students to live with no regret - to choose to be amazing at anything they set out to accomplish.  This motto is hanging in my classroom, it is found on every orchestra shirt, and I remind them of this motto as we rehearse in class.

2.  Create a logo and use it on all shirts, programs, and other promotional items.

I love graphic design, but I'm not an artist.  Luckily I worked in a computer lab when I was a university student and was able to pick up the basics of a few design programs including Photoshop.  Every summer I scour and purchase images to use for my orchestra shirts.  I choose to design my own shirts every year and feature a specific theme for the year.  Here are a few shirts I've used over the years...

3.  Create quality promotional items.

I use logos and themes on shirts as well as bumper stickers and fridge magnets (perfect for students to use to decorate lockers).  One year I bought rubber wrist bracelets and I don't recommend one wears them.  Students enjoy magnets and bumper stickers.  I design mine at '' and ''  It is very satisfying to be driving on the freeway and see a car with one of my bumper stickers.  Stickers are also great for decorating instrument cases.  I purchase images from and design these items myself.  I promote program by visiting elementary string programs and handing out these items.  We also pass out stickers during recruiting assemblies.

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4.  Use social media to promote your program.

Students and parents love to follow happenings on facebook, instagram, and twitter.  Keep your program in the spotlight by sharing pictures from every concert and anything else interesting.  Brag away on all social media!

5.  Make your concerts AMAZING.

I have a confession.  As an audience member I sometimes get bored at concerts.  With 5 children of my own, I've been to countless concerts and recitals.  I want to be entertained - and I don't think I'm alone in this wish.  Blame it on the short attention spans of today, but whatever the reason...audiences need to be entertained.  I want parents to enjoy my concerts and want to be there.  For the best possible audience reactions to your concerts, follow these tips:

  • Play a recognizable piece now and then.  Audiences love to hear music they recognize.
  • Keep concerts under one hour.  You don't want the audience to feel trapped.
  • Make sure your groups sound surprisingly great.  My favorite concert story is when I heard from a grandma who brought ear plugs in her purse to my first concert of the year.  She was astounded to find she did not need them at my concert and kept them in her purse.  :)
  • Involve the audience.  There are certain pieces that are great for incorporating audience participation.  Guest Soloist from Richard Meyer, The Adventures of Stringman by Richard Meyer, A Boomwhacker Christmas by Richard Meyer.  One year when the Christmas concert happened to be on my birthday, my advanced orchestra played 'A Minor Case of Birthday Blues' by Lauren Bernofsky.  Audience members with December birthdays were invited to the front to wear party hats and celebrate.
  • Just Simon Cowell used to say on American Idol  - song selection is everything.  Pick the right pieces for your group!  Make sure pieces are the right level so students can master the demands of the music.
  • If you have to transition between different performing groups, make the switch as quickly and efficiently as possible.  You don't want to have too much audience down-time.  You could have small ensembles perform in front of the stage while switching ensembles on stage.  At some of my concerts, I have a game or other fun activity happening in the audience while students re-set the stage.

6.  Encourage students and parents to post about your concerts on social media.

I created a hashtag for my group and print social media info on my programs where I encourage people to post on social media.  At my last concert I thanked the community and parents for all of their support.  A few days later a received a letter in the mail from our Congressman with a check for my orchestra program.  You never know what will happen when you promote your program!

7.  Seek out and go after contests, grants, or other special opportunities.

I have been very blessed to offer a number of special opportunities for my orchestra program.  A couple of years ago my group won the Give A Note/Radio Disney Music In Our Schools tour.  We won an Ardy, had a special concert from boy band 'Forever in your Mind,' and was able to have a Disney commercial filmed in my classroom.  In a week my Advanced orchestra will be performing with American Idol finalist JAX among other artists with professional lighting and audio.  This opportunity came from a local business who wanted to support my program.
There are marvelous opportunities out them out and try!

8.  Recognize your group on your school's announcements, webpage, and newsletters.

It seems like one more thing to do...but make sure students and parents are able to read and hear about all the happenings in your program.  It can be helpful to submit stories about your program to post on our school's website around recruiting time.

9.  Volunteer to perform in the community.

Recently the wrestling coach at my school asked to have some of my students perform the National Anthem at their wrestling match.  It's a great way to get your students visible and promote your program.  One year I had a call from a local grocery store who was looking for a group to perform Christmas music for a special event in their store.  They couldn't find a high school group who would be willing to come, so they reached out to my junior high orchestra.  We went and had a great time.  Even my beginners played a few pieces and were well received.  The store was so grateful they donated money to my program and each student went home with a free 2 liter soda.

10.  Give them something to talk about - make your class amazing.

Parents often tell me at parent teacher conferences that they have heard so much about me and my class.  Students love to tell their parents about our fun rehearsals, entertaining experiences, and occasional shenanigans.  When students are having fun they love to share the excitement with friends and family.  It's a good sign when people are hearing great things about you and your program.

I am passionate about making orchestra a BIG DEAL!  Music education is the best - let's promote this wonderful experience, create bulging programs, and inspire more students.

Thursday, December 28, 2017

Percussion ensemble in orchestra - teaching subdivision

A couple months ago I was at a community event where various groups performed.  A local orchestra performed some fun movie music.  Since the stage was outside they were mic'd.  As they began to play a small crowd gathering to watch on some seats set up in front of the stage.  Right after the orchestra performed, a drum group from a local university performed and WOW - the crowd went wild!  The chairs in front of the stage filled up and people were moving and getting into the music.  The drum group involved little children and let them have a part in one of their pieces.  The difference in reaction between the two groups was huge...and as an orchestra lover, I was left with the desire to make orchestra more exciting!  What can I do to draw people in?  2 things come to mind- add a drum beat and involve the audience.  This post will focus on...Adding a DRUM BEAT!  Time to think outside the box and draw in our audience with an energetic, infectious performance.

One reason why people love the drum line is because percussion seems cool.  People like a beat - and a good solid beat makes people energized.  I teach string orchestra.  We don't have the benefit of a percussion section.  I learned about a Cajon box drum a few years ago and purchased one for my classroom.  My little drum gets used quite a bit!  Students love to try to create cool drum beats and I have allowed students to add cool beats to some of our concert music.  For example, my Advanced orchestra played 'Perpetuoso' by Brian Holmes...a really fun piece.  It doesn't have a part for percussion, but really lended itself to an added beat with the cajon.  Plus it helped our ensemble with rhythmic accuracy.

My cajon comes with me on every recruiting trip.  We use it to add drum parts to our recruiting music and it the audience love it.  It helps our easy versions of 'Pirates of the Caribbean,' 'Viva la Vida,' and even 'Dragonhunter' come alive.

I just created some sheet music to turn my orchestra into a giant percussion ensemble. Many string groups tap on their instruments to create a drum beat (Simply Three, Piano Guys, Time for Three, Rob Landes).   Here's an example from Simply Three:

This little exercise I wrote called 'Wipe-out' can be performed with stomps and claps away from instruments...but I think it would be more impressive if the percussion sounds were made on the instruments - as long as students are trained to be gentle and not hit instruments too hard.  Click here for an audio file to hear what the piece sounds like:  WIPE-OUT AUDIO

When I was creating a percussion exercise for my students, I realized that many of my students would have a hard time reading the eighth rests and finding the off-beats.  To make my piece accessible for many levels, I created parts that show the subdivisions in each measure.  Students are to perform ONLY the notes which are black and must be silent on the gray notes.  It teaches students how to sub-divide.  It takes tremendous focus and concentration for students to only make sound on the black notes.  Students quickly learn to follow the notes very carefully and a higher level of determination begins to encompass the entire class as they work to make the piece sound awesome.  The piece is called 'Wipe-out' because it takes tremendous effort to only perform the black notes and not accidentally fall into the trap of playing a grey note.

'Wipe-out' can be used as a teaching tool to teach eighth rests.  Have students re-write parts with eighth rests in place of the grey notes and see if they can still count it correctly.  Teach them places where they can combine two eighth rests to create one quarter rest.

I will be using this piece with my beginners and we will perform it when we go recruiting.  I want to electrify my audience of potential students and show them that orchestra can rock, too!

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I've been selling digital resources for the last few years on my website at and my Teachers Pay Teachers site:

Digital resouces are super cost effective because you get to keep the PDF file and copy the resource as many times as needed for your own group.  For example, I use the resource 'Be An Amazing Note-reader' every year for my beginners.  I get it printed at my district - a copy for every student.  For one very small fee of buying the PDF file, I get to copy and use the resource every year.  This is WAY cheaper than havig to buy books for students every year.  (Quick copyright note:  these resources should not be posted on a public on canvas or google classroom all you want...just not publicly.)

Some teachers and school districts are not able to purchase my resources due to purchase order restrictions.  Now it is even easier and more convenient to buy materials because many of my products are now listed at!  You can find me at this link:

JW Pepper doesn't have previews of the resources up, yet.  You can always preview materials at the TPT store...then purchase at JW Pepper.  If you see something at TPT that is not at Pepper, let me know and I can see if we can add it.

I hope this will help more teachers access my resources and use them to help their students succeed...and save money in the process!


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What to Expect After A Hip Replacement?

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Preparing for thе recovery process is important to achieve positive outcomes with hip replacement ѕurgеrу. It іѕ іmроrtаnt to follow all postoperative instructions given tо you by the doctor. Full recovery from hip replacement depends оn thе individual patient, but can take several weeks оr months. Hip replacements are among the most common аnd effective surgeries in joint replacement. Aftеr surgery, quality rehabilitation can help you regain уоur рhуѕісаl ability to stand, walk and start doing other асtіvіtіеѕ and hоbbіеѕ you love again.

What Causes Pеорlе tо Need Hip Replacements?

One of the most common саuѕеѕ оf hip replacement is osteoarthritis, аlѕо саllеd degenerative joint disease. This occurs from wear and tear on the hip joint frоm either an old injury or previous іnfесtіоn. Hоwеvеr, thе exact cause of osteoarthritis is unknown.

Other conditions such as Rhеumаtоіd Arthritis (swelling of the tissues around thе joint), post-traumatic arthritis from an injury and poor blооd supply to the joint can also lead to a hip replacement.

Exactly Whаt іѕ Meant by Total Hip Replacement?

Total hip replacement, аlѕо саllеd a total hip arthroplasty, is a procedure where worn or damaged surfaces оf thе hip bones are replaced with artificial parts or ѕurfасеѕ. Durіng surgery, a new artificial head, and socket are either cemented оr pinned іntо the femur and pelvis. Hip replacements саn last uр to 10 years in 90 percent of patients.

What саn Patients Expect After a Hip Replacement?

  • A decrease or elimination оf раіn
  • Better joint movement
  • Easier daily activities (climbing ѕtаіrѕ, wаlkіng аnd getting into and out of a car)
  • It is possible to be оut оf bеd and walking within a few hours after surgery. In fасt, уоu should be—movement and walking help to reduce swelling, rеduсе thе risk of developing blood clots and pneumonia аnd assist in rеduсіng any pain around the surgical site.

Your doctor may rеfеr уоu to a physical therapist who helps by evaluating your abilities and designing a trеаtmеnt рlаn that may focus on:

  • Improving rаngе оf motion in your joint
  • Increasing your muscle strength
  • Improving уоur аbіlіtу to gеt in and out of bed as well as on and off оthеr ѕurfасеѕ
  • Helping you relearn to wаlk—іf уоu’rе able to bear weight on the surgical leg as tolerated and іf уоur physician has cleared you to do so, this may begin wіth сrutсhеѕ or a walker
  • Teaching you pain management strategies and ѕаfеtу precautions
  • Educating your lоvеd ones on how to help you with your daily tаѕkѕ as needed

An occupational therapist саn help you learn the best ways to dress, bаthе, perform personal hygiene and get on and off the toilet and other ѕurfасеѕ. Yоur оссuраtіоnаl therapist can also provide education on the use оf adaptive equipment to help with these tasks аnd wауѕ to conserve your energy so you don’t get too tіrеd dоіng daily tasks.

Hip replacement can hеlр you resume activities that you might have lost thе ability to do. If surgery seems like a good option for уоu оr loved one, talk to a physician about how a hip replacement соuld rеѕtоrе mobility.

Rehabilitation is important to hеlр you relearn how to use your joint, and because thе hір joint has so much movement, joint replacement patients аrе аt rіѕk for dislocating the hip. Whether you recover in an inpatient rеhаb setting, nurѕіng facility or at home, physical and occupational thеrару wіll be essential toward recovery and relearning how to use thе new joint.

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