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Strawbale home: Dreams bring responsibilities.
Building and birth seem to carry common themes. The hope, the waiting, the pain and sweating, and then, (all going well), the moment of joy when hope becomes reality.
It's a girl/semi-detached bungalow!
About six weeks ago a friend asked how the build was going and I said "I'm in the transition stage of labour. Basically it's come to "JUST GET IT OOOUT! Except the baby is a house."
My friend winced, then blushed. We were in a cafe and I had shouted rather loudly. But I was fed up.
It had been well over a year of working every weekend and two days of the working week. Almost eighteen months of hard decisions, financial pressures and trying to balance home, kids and a building project. It had been a long haul. I wanted my hobbies back. I wanted to wake up on a Saturday morning with the question "What shall we today?" remaining delightfully open.
It's a girl/semi-detached bungalow!
About six weeks ago a friend asked how the build was going and I said "I'm in the transition stage of labour. Basically it's come to "JUST GET IT OOOUT! Except the baby is a house."
My friend winced, then blushed. We were in a cafe and I had shouted rather loudly. But I was fed up.
It had been well over a year of working every weekend and two days of the working week. Almost eighteen months of hard decisions, financial pressures and trying to balance home, kids and a building project. It had been a long haul. I wanted my hobbies back. I wanted to wake up on a Saturday morning with the question "What shall we today?" remaining delightfully open.
Two weeks ago, I was feeling different.?I'd moved on.
It had been a really hard week with conflict with our builder and hard decisions.
What I had now, I explained to Timshel, was more of a post-labour feeling. Perhaps the feeling of being through a hard, long, painful labour that went of for days and days. Your eyes are black from pushing and you have stitches in places where you didn't know stitches could be. You have a new knowledge of pain that makes you see the world with a little less innocence. This shocks you. This aches about as much as your body. But you have this baby. This beautiful beautiful baby. A raw thankfulness springs up and makes your throat sore. A feeling of wonder and gratitude sings loudly. It's the main chorus, it's a loud song. But underneath there is a quiet whisper.?"I hope this is worth it. I hope I forget this pain."
I've cheered up since.
It's two weeks till we leave our rental. The house is unfinished. We are trying to finish the two back bedrooms before their carpet arrives in just over a week. The other rooms remain unpainted, with no final coat of render and unsealed floors. Trenches are being back-filled in the next few days and we hope to get Mick, our Bobcat man, to smudge the dirt into something resembling a potential lawn. Power points are going in on Monday, and lights on Tuesday. On Wednesday the header water tank is being craned onto the it's stand which will deliver water pressure and, if successful, a rousing cheer for Murray, our friend with a crane.
It's not quite how I envisaged it. So much is undone or incomplete and there have been a few disappointments along the way. (We tested our concrete sealer on a few floors. It's not what I expected but that's another post.) I suppose I was hoping that we'd move out of our rental into a new, finished house with everything done and dusted. It's a silly expectation given the number of people who build their own house and end up camping in a small corner of it. Every second person seems to have a story about walking on joists to get their weeties. I should just harden up, I know. My excuse is that I have completionist tendencies. If a strawbale house is, as Pearl and Elspeth say, a really big family craft project then moving in with it still unfinished is like lovingly crocheting your cardigan and then leaving the house with one arm unfinished. It just feels sooo wrong.
However, I have come up with an antidote to the wrongness feeling. It's this.
The house, whatever is state of completion is ours. OURS! No-one can evict us. If there a problem we can choose how, and when, to solve it. We can paint it however we like, keep planting bulbs and trees, and chip away at things in our own sweet time. I do feel a raw thankfulness. Both for our house, and for the 'us'. It?might be unfinished but it's OUR unfinished house.?Back to the birth analogies, I feel like I'm cuddling a lusty, red, squawling newborn to my chest and yelling above the din?"Well, 'e might be ugly but 'e's MINE, innit!?!"
It is a loud and happy song.
Source: http://buildingwithstraw.blogspot.com/2013/03/dreams-bring-responsibilities.html
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Report: Communications technology among tools needed to aid miner safety
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COLUMBUS, OhioA new National Academy of Sciences report identifies tools that would help miners devise their own means of escape when trapped underground.
In part, the report suggests that The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) work closely with technology companies to develop new communications and tracking devicesones that keep working underground after a mining accident.
It also suggests that NIOSH and MSHA work with mining companies to enable frequent escape drills and extensive training with safety equipment.
The report offers the first comprehensive examination of all the diverse factors that affect mining safety, said William Marras, professor and Honda Endowed Chair in the Department of Integrated Systems Engineering at The Ohio State University and chair of the report committee.
"All these factors have been reviewed before, but only in isolation. On the committee, we realized that the problem is that all these things are connected. So we analyzed each one to find out how they fit together," Marras said.
For instance, when the air in a mine is contaminated with smoke or chemicals, miners are supposed to wear a portable air supply. But the standard design requires them to bite down on a mouthpiece to breathe, so they can't talk.
"In an emergency situation, miners need to gather as much information as they can, as fast as they can. Sharing information is especially important, and you can't do that if you're wearing this mouthpiece," he said.
The committee suggested that researchers develop breathing devices that don't inhibit speech, as well as easy-to-use electronic communicators that double as way-finders to help miners navigate to the safest exitalong with training to make using these devices second-nature in case of emergency.
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The complete report, Improving Self-Escape from Underground Coal Mines, is available online from The National Academies Press at http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=18300.
Marras directs Ohio State's Biodynamics Laboratory as well as the Institute for Ergonomics. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2009, and is the immediate past chair of the National Research Council Board on Human Systems Integration.
Contact: William Marras, (614) 292-6670; Marras.1@osu.edu
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Public release date: 15-Mar-2013[ | E-mail |
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Ohio State University
COLUMBUS, OhioA new National Academy of Sciences report identifies tools that would help miners devise their own means of escape when trapped underground.
In part, the report suggests that The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) work closely with technology companies to develop new communications and tracking devicesones that keep working underground after a mining accident.
It also suggests that NIOSH and MSHA work with mining companies to enable frequent escape drills and extensive training with safety equipment.
The report offers the first comprehensive examination of all the diverse factors that affect mining safety, said William Marras, professor and Honda Endowed Chair in the Department of Integrated Systems Engineering at The Ohio State University and chair of the report committee.
"All these factors have been reviewed before, but only in isolation. On the committee, we realized that the problem is that all these things are connected. So we analyzed each one to find out how they fit together," Marras said.
For instance, when the air in a mine is contaminated with smoke or chemicals, miners are supposed to wear a portable air supply. But the standard design requires them to bite down on a mouthpiece to breathe, so they can't talk.
"In an emergency situation, miners need to gather as much information as they can, as fast as they can. Sharing information is especially important, and you can't do that if you're wearing this mouthpiece," he said.
The committee suggested that researchers develop breathing devices that don't inhibit speech, as well as easy-to-use electronic communicators that double as way-finders to help miners navigate to the safest exitalong with training to make using these devices second-nature in case of emergency.
###
The complete report, Improving Self-Escape from Underground Coal Mines, is available online from The National Academies Press at http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=18300.
Marras directs Ohio State's Biodynamics Laboratory as well as the Institute for Ergonomics. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2009, and is the immediate past chair of the National Research Council Board on Human Systems Integration.
Contact: William Marras, (614) 292-6670; Marras.1@osu.edu
Written by Pam Frost Gorder, (614) 292-9475; Gorder.1@osu.edu
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LIVE UPDATES: Conservatives Rally at First Day of CPAC 2013
Thursday marks day one of the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference - an annual gathering in Washington, D.C. where members of the GOP meet to cement their ideology and try out potential presidential nominees for the coming years. Read background about the event here.
Refresh here for live updates and behind-the-scenes looks throughout the day.
All times are in Eastern Standard Time.
2:46 p.m. Marco Rubio Denies Being a 'Bigot' or 'Chauvinist'
ABC's Arlette Saenz reports:
Sen. Marco Rubio today challenged some of the stereotypes affixed to the Republican Party on two hot-button topics, abortion and gay marriage, telling the Conservative Political Action Conference that his positions on the issues make him neither a "chauvinist" nor a "bigot."
"In order to work together with people you disagree with, there has to be mutual respect," the Florida Republican told CPAC. "That means I respect people that disagree with me on certain things, but they have to respect me, too.
"Just because I believe that states should have the rights to define marriage in a traditional way does not make me a bigot. Just because we believe that life, all life, all human life is worthy of protection of every stage in its development does not make you a chauvinist."
Rubio, 41, continued to argue that science was on his side when it comes to abortion, saying "the people who are actually close-minded in American politics are the people that love to preach about the certainty of science when regards to our climate but ignore the absolute fact that science is proven that life begins at conception."
Read more on Rubio from Saenz here.
1:46 p.m. Rubio, Rand Paul Keep Laughs Coming at CPAC
Analysis from ABC's Rick Klein:
Marco Rubio has his water jokes, and now Rand Paul has his filibuster jokes. The possible 2016 rivals spoke back-to-back on CPAC's main stage, with Paul bringing along binders full of ? papers, on which he joked was 13 hours' worth of speeches. Pols break through to pop culture for all sorts of strange reasons these days, and here are two younger Republicans who get that.
Feels like Spring? 2015! MT @ zbyronwolfAfter Rubio's argument for US nationalism to combat China? Rand Paul, isolationist, takes stage.
? Gregory Krieg (@GregJKrieg) March 14, 2013
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1:37 p.m. Conservatives Wrestle With Immigration Divide
Fusion's Jordan Fabian reports:
Speakers on an immigration-reform panel on Thursday morning pitched immigration as an issue that's compatible with conservative principles, but they received a relatively quiet reception from the audience of activists gathered in the conference hall.
"What I would hope is that you help conservatives who are putting their neck on the line," to find a solution, said Jennifer Korn, executive director of the conservative Hispanic Leadership Network. "You can be conservative and you can be for immigration reform. I ask you to be part of the solution."
While the four panelists all agreed on the need to repair the nation's broken immigration system, opinions varied on how to address some of the most pressing issues of reform, including how to handle the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States.
A bipartisan plan being drafted in the Senate includes an earned pathway to full citizenship for undocumented immigrants. President Barack Obama has said that a final bill must include a clear path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) who will address CPAC later Thursday, has helped craft the Senate plan.
But several panelists indicated that Republicans would prefer a path to legal status that doesn't provide a separate path to citizenship for the undocumented.
Read more from Fabian here.
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1:25 p.m. Marco Rubio Garners Loud Applause
Rubio launches a vociferous defense of conservative beliefs on gay marriage, abortion, and climate change at #CPAC
? Jordan Fabian (@Jordanfabian) March 14, 2013
Rubio: "Our government has never been America." (There's a giant Reagan head off his left shoulder.") #CPAC2013
? Rick Klein (@rickklein) March 14, 2013
1:12 p.m. Michigan GOP's Anuzis Eyes Senate Seat
ABC News' Shushannah Walshe and Chris Good report from CPAC:
One person helping to put on CPAC this year is former Michigan state party chair, Saul Anuzis. He also helped run the Romney campaign in Michigan and now is seriously considering entering elected politics himself, telling ABC News he is taking a good look at running for the open U.S. Senate seat that will be vacated in 2014 with Sen. Carl Levin's retirement.
"Michigan is in a unique situation," Anuzis said in the hallways of the Gaylord National Resort in National Harbor, Md. "Michigan is a purple seat that could turn red in the right circumstances and in an off presidential year is when we have traditionally won our seats?I think it could be a unique opportunity so I'm talking to everyone who is interested in running, I'm talking to our donors, I'm talking to our activists to see what the feel is out there. We will see who ultimately emerges, but I am looking at it myself and I will decide in the next couple of weeks if I can put together a race to make it competitive."
Anuzis, who also ran unsuccessfully for RNC chair in 2009 and 2011, said the most important thing is making sure a Republican wins, whether it is him or someone else, and he's being "practical" about it.
"If one of our congressman or someone who has a better base emerges, I want to win this seat," Anuzis said. "This is a chance for Republicans to pick up a seat that we have not traditionally been able to hold, so it is a unique opportunity, and I may or may not be the right guy for the job, and we are trying to make an honest assessment of it."
Other Michigan Republicans who have been talked about as possibilities for the seat are GOP Reps. Justin Amash, Dave Camp and Mike Rogers.
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12:51 p.m. Allen West, 'Still Alive,' Talks Gay Marriage, Immigration
ABC News' Shushannah Walshe and Chris Good report:
ABC News caught up with former Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., at CPAC and despite his loss to Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla., in November he said "2012 was great for me."
"I'm still alive," West said while he was stopping to greet supporters outside of the main ballroom here. "You guys think just because you lose a congressional race doesn't mean you are dead, doesn't mean you can't continue to serve your country so to be here to be part of the opening speaking and continue to talk about our country, I'm doing fine."
CPAC invited West to give the keynote speech at the conference in 2011. This year he was one of the first speakers opening up CPAC 2013, held in National Harbor, Md. As for his political future he said he is "probably not" going to make a run for his former South Florida in 2014 because "there are a lot of things I want to do," but he kept the door open for 2016.
"I want to help others so we're going to launch a PAC that will help minority and military conservatives," West said. "That's my immediate focus and then we will see what God leads me to do in 2016."
As for some of the hotter topics at this year's CPAC he said he has "no problem with civil unions and I think that's something everyone can agree on," but the focus of the country should be on "economic security, our international security and our national security."
"I think immigration ties into that because it affects your economy. It affects your national security because everyone coming across the border is not just going to try and cut grass and work," West said. "First and foremost what I want to make sure is tax payer funded benefits are not going to people who are here illegally, we've got to make sure we are doing the right thing to secure our border and enforce our laws and then further down the road we can have some sort of path to residency."
On the lighter side he said he is most looking forward to seeing younger conservatives, "passing the baton" and "raising the next conservative leader."
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11:48 a.m. Free Beer from Ben Franklin at CPAC
One unlikely hashtag out of CPAC is lighting up Twitter this morning: #IMetBen.
The #IMetBen tweets are mostly accompanied by photos of young conservatives posing with a Benjamin Franklin mascot at the conference.
Turns out these tweets earn the senders a free drink ticket from The Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity. Franklin is widely - though some would argue inaccurately - quoted as saying, "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
Here are some of those tweets:
#IMetBen #CPAC2013 heck yes!!! twitpic.com/cbaeqc
? Leah Courtney (@LCourtney90) March 14, 2013
True patriots all around at #CPAC 2013. #ImetBen with @ fernandososa twitter.com/Cary_Cheshire/?
? Cary Cheshire (@Cary_Cheshire) March 14, 2013
#IMetBen #CPAC2013 twitter.com/Tyler_Herrmann?
? Tyler Herrmann (@Tyler_Herrmann) March 14, 2013
This place is a carnival! We just met Ben Franklin #CPAC2013 #IMetBen @ eliseamyx @ leslieehall twitter.com/FaithWorkEcon/?
? IFWE (@FaithWorkEcon) March 14, 2013
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11:24 a.m. CPAC Heckler Interrupts Immigration Speech
Fusion's Jordan Fabian reports:
Republican officials are trying to strike a new tone on immigration reform here at the Conservative Political Action Conference, but the issue is still a contentious one for many in the conservative movement.
Take for example GOP pollster Whit Ayres's speech to CPAC on Thursday. Ayres called for the party to form a new center-right coalition by aggressively reaching out to hard-working Hispanics who believe in family values.
One audience member shouted out: "legally!"
The heckler was a lone wolf and Ayres faced a largely measured and polite reception. But the incident showed that immigration reform is far from a settled matter for in the conservative grassroots.
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10:59 a.m. Santorum for President?
Brett Stokholm, a junior from the Citadel, spoke to ABC's Shushannah Walshe about Rick Santorum's son John running for class president. He's in the same "company" as the freshman Santorum, but since he's in a different class he can't vote for him. He only had good things to say about the younger Santorum.
"I think he would do the work really well," Stokholm said. "I think he's got the motivation and capability to do what needs to be done as class president."
But, as for his father and his presidential aspirations Stokholm says "family relation will have no impact" and his election will be "based on merit" alone.
Spoke to Citadel student abt John Santorum's candidacy: "I think he's got the motivation to do what needs to be done" twitter.com/shushwalshe/st?
? Shushannah Walshe (@shushwalshe) March 14, 2013
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10:37 a.m. Gohmert: Vietnam War was 'Winnable'
At a panel about American wars and whether the U.S. can afford them, Rep. Louis Gohmert insisted the U.S. would have won the Vietnam war if we had given the right resources to the troops.
"You don't send American men and women unless you will give them the permission and ability to win, then bring them home," Gohmert, R-Texas, said.
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10:29 a.m. Reagan Blowing Up at CPAC?
Says he's not hot?yet. #CPAC2013 twitter.com/shushwalshe/st?
? Shushannah Walshe (@shushwalshe) March 14, 2013
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10:04 a.m. Rubio Post-State of the Union Water Bottle Meme Lives on at CPAC
Marco Rubio water bottles for sale in the exhibit hall! twitter.com/charliespierin?
? Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) March 14, 2013
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9:46 a.m. - Toomey Rallies Republicans with Morning Appearance
Reviving the term crony capitalism and sporting a blue polka dot tie, Sen. Pat Toomey took the stage Thursday morning to criticize the left and re-energize his conservative audience.
"Frankly, we've got to win not only this fight, but we've got many more coming and we've got to be engaged in all of them," Toomey, R-Pa., said.
He went on to touch on some of the core principles of CPAC, praising the family unit, condemning government spending and warning that America is headed on a path towards Greece's fate if the debt continues to grow.
"We have gone on a spending binge as I mentioned we've doubled the size of government in recent years," Toomey told the audience. "What has it gotten us? It's gotten us the weakest economy since the Great Depression."
"This is what happens when the government gets too big. This is what happens when the government spends too much."
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9:10 a.m. - CPAC 2013 - Why It Matters, Who's Going and What We Will Learn from It?
From ABC's Michael Falcone:
Today marks the start of a three-day gathering of conservative leaders and activists from around the country. The Conservative Political Action Conference - CPAC, for short - is organized by the American Conservative Union and has become an annual focal point bringing together establishment figures, new leaders, grassroots types and, in particular, the younger generation of conservatives. It kicks off this morning at the Gaylord National Hotel in National Harbor, Md. just outside Washington, D.C.
We'll be covering the speeches and panels extensively, and here's a quick guide about what we can expect:
WHO'S GOING: A whole lot of big-name speakers like Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Donald Trump, Rick Perry, Bobby Jindal, Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, Paul Ryan Rand Paul and many more. (A more extensive list of speakers follows at the bottom of this note). Numerous other lawmakers from Capitol Hill will also address the gathering and attendees will also have a chance to hear from a host of unelected officials who have a prominent role on policy and other matters within the conservative orbit: the National Rifle Association's Wayne LaPierre, American Crossroads head Steven Law, American Conservative Union chairman Al Cardenas (a prominent Hispanic Republican), Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist and Heritage Foundation president and former U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint.
WHO'S NOT GOING: The two most-talked-about names who don't have speaking slots at this year's CPAC conference are New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (although McDonnell plans to participate in a prayer breakfast associated with the conference on Friday morning). American Conservative Union chairman Al Cardenas did not mince words about why Christie was not invited this year: "This past year he strongly advocated for the passage of a $60-plus billion pork barrel bill, containing only $9 billion in disaster assistance and he signed up with the federal government to expand Medicaid at a time when his state can ill afford it, so he was not invited to speak ? Hopefully he will be back in top form next year. We would be delighted to invite him again in that case." Nevertheless, the exclusion of politicians like Christie and McDonnell and the inclusion of someone like Donald Trump has already led some conservative pundits to declare that "CPAC is dead." There are other big names who will be absent too, including House Speaker John Boehner, Arizona senator and former GOP nominee John McCain, New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez and more. ABC's Chris Good compiled a list of the "13 Top Republican You Won't See At CPAC": http://abcn.ws/WmHmBu
MITT'S MOMENT: Mitt Romney has chosen this year's conference as the venue for his first major speech since losing the 2012 election. He offered a preview of his post-election thoughts during a recent interview on Fox News Sunday, but his remarks to the gathering (scheduled for 1 p.m. ET on Friday) will be his chance to set a tone for his future role within the Republican Party. We'll be watching to see whether he focuses on lessons learned from 2012, what he would be doing differently if he were in the White House, his vision for the future or all of the above. Recall that in his Mar. 3 Fox interview, he said: "As the guy who lost the election, I'm not in a position to tell everyone else how to win," but added: "I'm not going to disappear." Notably, CPAC is something of a fraught venue for Romney. It was at the same conference in 2008 that he dropped out of that year's Republican presidential primary. And last year it was at CPAC where he declared himself "a severely conservative Republican governor" - a comment that did not win him much praise on the right.
WHO IS THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER?: Freshman Sen. Ted Cruz, who will be the last major speaker at the conference before it wraps up on Saturday night. Just a few months since arriving in Washington, Cruz, of Texas, has already established himself as a hard-charging, outspoken and controversial figure on Capitol Hill. He made waves in his questioning of Chuck Hagel during his confirmation hearings and some knowledgeable Texas Republicans say Cruz has privately told associates that he is thinking about a 2016 presidential bid. Cruz is scheduled to speak at 5 p.m. ET on Saturday.
2016 LIKE IT'S TODAY: As we've already mentioned, this year's conference will include many of the top potential Republican presidential candidates for 2016 (Marco Rubio, Bobby Jindal, Paul Ryan, Rick Perry, etc.), so it will be a chance for them to position themselves for the years ahead as they contemplate higher office. And it's clear that after Romney's loss, many conservatives are already focused on taking back the White House in 2016. Of course, the coming midterm elections and even the two 2013 governor's races in Virginia and New Jersey will also be a topic of conversation this week, but make no mistake: 2016 is already upon us. CPAC and the Washington Examiner newspaper are also collaborating on a 2016 straw poll, the results of which will be announced near the conclusion of the event on Saturday. (We'll see if the Ron Paul forces stack the deck in favor of Rand).
GOP SOUL-SEARCHING: This year's conference comes against a backdrop of intense Republican concern about the future of their party. In fact, just a few days from now - on Monday - the Republican National Committee plans to release the results of a months-long effort called the "Growth and Opportunity Project" that is meant to chart a course forward on key issues like how to better engage minority voters and how to close the GOP's digital divide with Democrats, among other things. But just four months since the Nov. 2012 election it's already clear that there are major divisions within the party on some of these issues - immigration reform is a good example. And there's no doubt that we'll hear a lot of talk this week about controversies like the move by the Karl Rove-backed group, American Crossroads, to take an active role in weeding out those they deem "problem" candidates in GOP primaries in favor of those who they believe would be better positioned to win in a general election. We are likely to see the differences and disagreements within the Republican Party in stark relief over the next three days, and it's a story line we will be following closely.
ON THE LIGHTER SIDE: CPAC is not just about serious speechmaking and politicking. This year's conference, for example, features a panel called "Fight Club 2013," a debate between liberal heavyweight Paul Begala and conservative pundit Tucker Carlson. There's another panel titled: "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Plastic Water Bottles, Fracking, Genetically Modified Food, and Big Gulp Sodas," and yet another called "Getting Hollywood Right." One attendee has even released a helpful guide for fellow conference-goers, "What to Wear at CPAC" (business suits, button-downs, pumps and loafers are in; rompers, halter-tops, tee-shirts and Tom's shoes are out). And the nightlife should prove interesting too: on Friday, for example, CPAC is hosting what they are calling the Obama Zombie Apocalypse Party. The motto: "First they come for your brains, then they come for your ballots."
BOTTOM LINE: From ABC's Rick Klein: There they will all be (mostly) in one place, several generations lost about the next race. Perhaps the only thing attendees at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference can agree on is the "conservative" label. Beyond that, question about who's not there (Chris Christie, Bob McDonnell, GOP gay-rights groups) are competing with questions about who is (lots of future stars, sure, though nobody figures to get more coverage than Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin). Attention and talk will turn to 2016, including the straw poll winner who almost certainly won't be the party nominee. But of more immediate concern to the gathered conservative flock is how attendees interact with their allies on Capitol Hill. The red meat is set to be served at the first time in the Obama presidency that Republicans are breaking bread with the president. The message coming from CPAC is highly unlikely to involve bargains with President Obama, grand or otherwise.
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Pamela Redmond Satran: The Pope, My Catholic Girlhood, and Baby Names
I couldn't wait to hear who the new pope was going to be, not because I'm a practicing Catholic any longer or because I cared which Cardinal got elected.
No. As usual, I was in it for the name.
I couldn't help but wonder: Do all the Pope candidates approach the process like Academy Award nominees, except with their name choices rather than their acceptance speeches clutched tight in their hands? Does the name choice have any influence on which Cardinal gets chosen -- I know it would in my world -- and do the finalists have to reveal their pope names before the decision is made final?
My Catholic girlhood went far to making me a professional name nerd. In fact, we all might owe the existence of my website Nameberry to Sister Miriam Gervase.
Most kids back at Immaculate Conception School were dying to know whether the nuns had hair under those veils or what they wore to bed at night, but to me those mysteries paled in comparison to the nuns' names.
Nuns got to pick new names for themselves when they entered the convent. That itself was appealing enough, but what was really amazing was that their choices were not confined by ethnic background, historical period, or even gender.
The principal of Immaculate Conception, for instance, was named Sister Miriam Gervase, an appellation that had it all going on. Miriam may have been a Mary relative, but it was one used mostly by Jews. unfamiliar in our Irish and Italian Catholic enclave.
And Gervase! That may have been a hot name in 6th century Gaul....for guys. But in mid-20th century New Jersey, it really stood out in the world of Gerrys and Jeans.
My favorite nun was also the one with the best name: Sister Jacinta. Sister Jacinta was young, at least as far as we could tell, and she was Irish. So where did the name Jacinta come from? I may have even been brave enough to ask her, and she explained that it was the Spanish name of a holy person -- the blessed Jacinta, one of the children who saw the apparition that became known as Our Lady of Fatima.
Jacinta: What a gorgeous name, and how exotic! It was as if the nuns had access to some secret list of fantastic names they've since passed down to Hollywood celebrities.
But actually, we all have access to those names today, thanks to the internet and such sites as Catholic Online, Which sends out a Saint of the Day newsletter that I get for -- what else? -- the names.
These names go far beyond the names I gleaned as a girl from the Lives of the Saints books that detailed the usual saintly suspects: Anne, Francis, Cecilia, Anthony, saints' names used consistently over the centuries down to my (yawn) neighbors and schoolmates. Though there was the occasional outlier -- one boy in my class was called Guy Ignatius and a church nearby was named for Saint Cassian, we were privy to only a narrow slice of the saintly possibilities.
Thanks to my grown-up name research, I've become familiar with the wide world of saints' names that the nuns have obviously known all along, names that are still unfamiliar yet might translate into modern life. Among the thousands of intriguing possibilities are Marinus and Marcellina, Romaric and Romana, Dallan and Dominica.
(Here's a much longer list of wonderful saints' names.)
Of course there are also thousands of saints' names it's hard to imagine ever clawing their way back into contemporary usage, from Disobod to Dingad to Dodo. But that doesn't really matter to a name nerd.
What was most appealing about Catholicism was the ritual of renaming, which extended far beyond the nuns to include pagan babies, popes, and even yourself.
I was an enthusiastic collector of coins in the interest of adopting these so-called pagan babies, not because I had any interest in their welfare but because I wanted to bless them with new names. Once the class had pulled together something like $36 in pennies and nickels and dimes, we laid official claim to another theoretical orphan in another far-flung locale, and held an election on what to rename her (somehow, in my memory, they were all girls, so much more fun for an 11-year-old girl to name than boys). My classmates' imagination for this practice was as limited as their enthusiasm, but mine wasn't. If only there'd been a Nameberry back then, I'd have given these poor children much better names.
The only thing more exciting than naming the pagan babies was getting to pick our own Confirmation names. Not strictly a renaming, this meant adding a second middle to our own lineups. My choice, I'm chagrined to admit, was the pedestrian Mary, but for very name nerdish reasons: Combined with Pamela Ann, it made my initials P.A.M. Brilliant!
While the Pope aspect -- upon election to that highest office, popes take on a new name -- gave renaming the highest possible endorsement south of Heaven, it was too distant and too infrequent to have much meaning in the everyday name nerd's life.
Still, I hung on the announcement of the new pope's identity yesterday, waiting for his name choice. I give the new pontiff high marks for choosing a name, Francis, never before used as a pope name, yet wish he'd picked something a little less stereotypically...Catholic. I know he was confined to the world of saints, but Leopold might have been cool, or even Xavier. Looking at popes of the past, my choice would have been Clement or Felix.
Or even cooler, he might have defied gender boundaries the way Sister Miriam Gervase did. A male Pope Felicity or Tatiana (yes, those are saints' names)? Now that would be name nerd heaven.
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Meet the Russian Man Who Would Build Your Avatar
Thirty-two-year-old Dmitry Itskov made a dot-com fortune in Russia, founding what eventually became the online media company New Media Stars. And now that's he's part of the one percent, he aims to give back to humanity in a big way. In 2011, he announced his 2045 Initiative for taking humanity to the next evolutionary level. The Initiative's goals include extending the human life span, augmenting our native intelligence, and extending our minds into machines.
In a conference call with reporters today, Itskov outlined those plans for advancing humanity's physical, mental, and spiritual evolution and previewed the upcoming Global Future 2045 International Congress, set to take place at New York's Lincoln Center June 15 and 16. Itskov says that the major focus of his organization is to develop the technologies for extending human consciousness into robotic avatars, the kind familiar to fans of sci-fi movies like Surrogates and James Cameron's epic Avatar.
"By the date of 2045," Itskov says, "the artificial body will be superior to the biological body in terms of its abilities. You will look and feel and act like a human." He anticipates people coming to prefer using the avatars to staying in their own bodies. "Eventually I think everybody will realize that it's better to continue living in an artificial body than to die in the biological one, when the original biological body is exhausted."
The next order of business for the 2045 Initiative: establish a research center for advancing the work of figuring out what exactly consciousness is, and how it could be transferred into a robot. "I actually sent a proposal with the structure for such a research center to the Russian government," Itskov says. "But my ideal vision is to have an international collaboration." Ultimately he envisions a friendly international competition between centers not only in Russia, but also in the United States, Europe, Japan, China, Brazil, and elsewhere.
Why put all this energy into pushing beyond humanity's limitations? Itskov says that, along the way to becoming a business success, he began to question the meaning of his own life and that of those around him. "I wanted to understand?what is consciousness and what is the potential of its development?" he says. Itskov says that asking these questions led him to want to "do something important for humanity, to help keep people from physical and psychological and suffering, to overcome their limitations." That led him into his own investigations into life-extension technologies, and eventually to the avatar project.
When we asked how much he planned to kick into the effort himself, Itskov declined say, or even to reveal how much he personally is worth. "It's interesting that I was called billionaire in the media," he says, "and actually I have never told the media anything like that." He called that characterization an exaggeration, but said that after founding two successful businesses he has enough money to fund the 2045 organization along with several research projects. "I will be announcing some startups in this field during the congress," he said.
The lineup of speakers at the Global Future 2045 International Congress reads like a who's who in anthropomorphic robotics researchers and big thinkers about consciousness. These include Ray Kurzweil, prophet of the "singularity," in which humans will merge inseparably with our machines; MIT artificial intelligence scientist Marvin Minsky; quantum physicist Sir Roger Penrose; University of Southern California neuroprosthetics researcher Theodore Berger; and roboticists Hiroshi Ishiguro and David Hanson. An assortment of religious leaders and philosophers will attend Itskov's meeting, too.
"We have to move to a higher stage of development through scientific revolution and through significant spiritual changes," Itskov says. "Natural selection doesn't work nowadays because of the development of medicine and technology."
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Repix turns smartphone snaps into finger-paint masterpieces (video)
Sepia, Polaroid, Vignetting... Sepia again. The realm of ironic picture-sharing services suffer from a lack of imagination on the filter front -- which is why everyone's snaps are shot with the same three tints. Repix, on the other hand, is an iOS app that wants to bring some creativity back to food pictures with a set of creative brushes that you can apply to the limits of your artistic talent. Rather than uniformly applying the effects, you finger paint them onto your original image. If you're familiar with iPad app Paper, then you'll already be comfortable with the UI and business model, with additional brushes setting you back $1.99 / £1.49 per set, or $4.99 / £3.99 for everything. If you'd like to see some more, erm, professional examples of what Repix can do, head past the break for a video.
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Whales Trap Dinner with Mouthful of Swirling Bristles
Humpback and bowhead whales create their own food nets from specialized bristles in their mouths to more efficiently nab fishy morsels, a new study of baleen whales suggests.
When these whales feed, some open their jaws wide to gulp mouthfuls of seawater, whereas others swim with half-open mouths (called ramming or skim-feeding). Both rely on baleen, a system of hairy bristles that line their mouths and trap food. The new study, published today (March 13) in The Journal of Experimental Biology, shows that the baleen of bowhead whales and humpback whales is not the passive structure it was thought to be, but forms a tangled mesh in water that streams through it as the animals swim.
And how the baleen gets morphed is different depending on the specific whale's feeding style, the study found.
"Everyone assumed baleen works like a sieve," study author Alexander Werth, a biologist at Hampden-Sydney College, Va., told LiveScience. But as soon as he put pieces of baleen in a flow tank, "it became immediately apparent that it was a dynamic tissue rather than a static one."
Baleen is made up of keratin, the protein found in hair and fingernails, which forms large plates that enclose a fibrous inner core. Whales typically have about 300 plate structures on either side of their mouths, perpendicular to the direction that water flows. The whales' tongues wear away the inner edges of the plates to create a fringe that traps krill and other tasty morsels.
?Baleen biomechanics
Werth wanted to compare the biomechanics of the bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) with that of the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae). He placed pieces of baleen from these whales in a giant tank, and pumped water and small latex beads (stand-ins for the food morsels they filter from water) through them, observing this with an underwater camera.
Werth tested small sections of each kind of baleen at water speeds between 2 and 55 inches per second (5 and 140 centimeters per second), which is comparable to whale swimming speeds. Werth also varied the angle of the baleen between parallel and perpendicular to the flow. He observed how many beads the baleen bristles trapped for at least 2 seconds.
The single baleen plates trapped the most beads at the lowest water speeds, the results showed. As the water speed increased, the bristles streamed out ? like hair blowing in a strong wind ? creating gaps where particles could slip through.
But baleen isn't found in single plates in a whale's mouth, it's found in rows, so Werth tested a small rack of six baleen plates. Now the bristles formed a tangled net in the flowing water, with most beads being trapped at about 28 to 31 inches/s (70 to 80 cm/s) ? exactly the speed bowhead whales swim when they're "ram" feeding.
"The first thing I saw was the size of that net depends on how fast the waters are flowing through it and in what direction," Werth said. "The fringes from adjacent plates would tangle up and make a really dense knot."
Humpback whale baleen was shorter and coarser than bowhead baleen, and captured fewer beads.
Feeding styles
The findings reveal how the baleen of bowhead whales and humpbacks differs biomechanically. Those differences explain the specialized feeding styles of the two types of whales: Bowheads feed by continuous ram feeding at slower speeds, whereas humpbacks feed in intermittent gulps at higher speeds.
The baleen of humpback whales performed best at the same speed as that of bowheads, despite the fact that humpbacks typically swim faster than bowheads when feeding.
"This is a fascinating study," marine ecologist Ari Friedlaender of Duke University, who was not involved in the study, told LiveScience in an email, adding he was surprised ?that the bowhead whale baleen functioned better at higher flow speeds than the humpback whale baleen.
"We think of [bowhead] whales generally as slow-feeding animals that are basically mowing the lawn and that humpback whales are more energetic and feed faster," Friedlaender said, but it appears humpbacks may actually be moving at a similar speed while feeding.
Werth also hopes to explore how pollutants affect the whales' baleen. "I'm really worried about what would happen if the filter gets clogged with oil or debris," he said.
Follow Tanya Lewis on Twitter @tanyalewis314. Follow us @livescience, Facebook?or Google+. Original article on?LiveScience.com.
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Evernote Passwords Hacked - Business Insider
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The Evernote app for iPhone.
Evernote, the popular note-taking app on mobile devices and computers, has been hacked, forcing the company to reset all user passwords.In a blog post, Evernote said the hackers did not take any private user data or payment information. The system-wide password reset is just a precaution.
Here's Evernote's explanation for what happened:
Evernote's Operations & Security team has discovered and blocked suspicious activity on the Evernote network that appears to have been a coordinated attempt to access secure areas of the Evernote Service.
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In our security investigation, we have found no evidence that any of the content you store in Evernote was accessed, changed or lost. We also have no evidence that any payment information for Evernote Premium or Evernote Business customers was accessed.
The investigation has shown, however, that the individual(s) responsible were able to gain access to Evernote user information, which includes usernames, email addresses associated with Evernote accounts and encrypted passwords. Even though this information was accessed, the passwords stored by Evernote are protected by one-way encryption.
All Evernote users will be prompted to change their password next time they try to log in. The company updated its mobile apps today to make changing your password easier.
The Evernote hacking is the latest in a series of hacks of popular tech companies, web services, and apps. All kinds of companies from Facebook to Apple have experienced some form of hacking in recent weeks.
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/evernote-passwords-hacked-2013-3
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Obama pins blame on Republicans for sequester in weekly radio address; vows to press his agenda (Washington Bureau)
Cancer doesn't change young girls' desire to have children, Moffitt Cancer Center study shows
Public release date: 1-Mar-2013[ | E-mail |
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Healthy teens raise fertility concerns from threat of disease; researchers validate quality-of-life assessment tool
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues have found that healthy adolescent females have predetermined expectations for becoming parents in the future, but have concerns about fertility and childbearing should they develop a life-threatening illness, such as cancer.
The study appeared in the February issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health.
According to the researchers, this study helped further validate a tool that seeks to understand teenage girls' hopes and feelings about reproduction, especially when fertility is threatened by cancer. The participants were given the same survey tool previously used to determine the values and hopes of female adolescents who had cancer diagnoses. The researchers included healthy controls to compare their responses to those of teens who have been diagnosed with cancer and whose fertility may be at risk.
"This study sought to examine if girls who did not have cancer wanted to have children in the future and determine if they would feel negatively about losing the ability to have a biological child due to a life-threatening illness, such as cancer," said study lead author Gwendolyn P. Quinn, Ph.D., member of the Health Outcomes and Behavior Program at Moffitt. "We found that teen girls with cancer had the same hopes and dreams for the future as their healthy peers."
The researchers suggested that their data could demonstrate to health care professionals that the desire to have children does not change with a cancer diagnosis and could serve to "motivate health professionals to discuss fertility and preservation options with more of their teen patients in the future," issues rarely discussed among the age groups tested.
Control group participants included 25 female adolescents ages 12 to 18. They were divided into two age groups: 12 to 14, and 15 to 18. A 10-statement survey was designed to elicit responses about if a participant would feel sad, disappointed or frustrated if facing fertility impairment. Participants were also allowed to write about their feelings. Each provided feedback on the research tool, commenting on the types of statements and wording of questions.
The researchers found differences between the older and younger group responses to a few of the survey statements. For example, the older participants felt that they should have more opportunity to express their feelings rather than agree or disagree with predetermined ideas.
"The reproductive concerns of healthy female adolescents parallel those of adolescents with cancer in the same age ranges," explained Quinn. "Because this study highlights the fertility concerns among healthy adolescents, it strengthens the argument for using the adapted 10-item scale to assess girls with cancer."
The scale, researchers said, can be used in the clinic to determine the values female adolescents with cancer hold regarding fertility and how the life-altering event of cancer has impacted these values.
"Understanding the importance of reproductive concerns of adolescents confirms the need for interventions and developmentally appropriate tools to prevent negative quality- of-life effects during survivorship among those diagnosed with cancer," the researchers concluded. "The validation of this tool with a healthy population increases its potential value for use with girls diagnosed with cancer."
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About Moffitt Cancer Center
Located in Tampa, Moffitt is one of only 41 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers, a distinction that recognizes Moffitt's excellence in research, its contributions to clinical trials, prevention and cancer control. Since 1999, Moffitt has been listed in U.S. News & World Report as one of "America's Best Hospitals" for cancer. With more than 4,200 employees, Moffitt has an economic impact on the state of nearly $2 billion. For more information, visit MOFFITT.org, and follow the Moffitt momentum on Facebook, twitter and YouTube.
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H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
Healthy teens raise fertility concerns from threat of disease; researchers validate quality-of-life assessment tool
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues have found that healthy adolescent females have predetermined expectations for becoming parents in the future, but have concerns about fertility and childbearing should they develop a life-threatening illness, such as cancer.
The study appeared in the February issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health.
According to the researchers, this study helped further validate a tool that seeks to understand teenage girls' hopes and feelings about reproduction, especially when fertility is threatened by cancer. The participants were given the same survey tool previously used to determine the values and hopes of female adolescents who had cancer diagnoses. The researchers included healthy controls to compare their responses to those of teens who have been diagnosed with cancer and whose fertility may be at risk.
"This study sought to examine if girls who did not have cancer wanted to have children in the future and determine if they would feel negatively about losing the ability to have a biological child due to a life-threatening illness, such as cancer," said study lead author Gwendolyn P. Quinn, Ph.D., member of the Health Outcomes and Behavior Program at Moffitt. "We found that teen girls with cancer had the same hopes and dreams for the future as their healthy peers."
The researchers suggested that their data could demonstrate to health care professionals that the desire to have children does not change with a cancer diagnosis and could serve to "motivate health professionals to discuss fertility and preservation options with more of their teen patients in the future," issues rarely discussed among the age groups tested.
Control group participants included 25 female adolescents ages 12 to 18. They were divided into two age groups: 12 to 14, and 15 to 18. A 10-statement survey was designed to elicit responses about if a participant would feel sad, disappointed or frustrated if facing fertility impairment. Participants were also allowed to write about their feelings. Each provided feedback on the research tool, commenting on the types of statements and wording of questions.
The researchers found differences between the older and younger group responses to a few of the survey statements. For example, the older participants felt that they should have more opportunity to express their feelings rather than agree or disagree with predetermined ideas.
"The reproductive concerns of healthy female adolescents parallel those of adolescents with cancer in the same age ranges," explained Quinn. "Because this study highlights the fertility concerns among healthy adolescents, it strengthens the argument for using the adapted 10-item scale to assess girls with cancer."
The scale, researchers said, can be used in the clinic to determine the values female adolescents with cancer hold regarding fertility and how the life-altering event of cancer has impacted these values.
"Understanding the importance of reproductive concerns of adolescents confirms the need for interventions and developmentally appropriate tools to prevent negative quality- of-life effects during survivorship among those diagnosed with cancer," the researchers concluded. "The validation of this tool with a healthy population increases its potential value for use with girls diagnosed with cancer."
###
About Moffitt Cancer Center
Located in Tampa, Moffitt is one of only 41 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers, a distinction that recognizes Moffitt's excellence in research, its contributions to clinical trials, prevention and cancer control. Since 1999, Moffitt has been listed in U.S. News & World Report as one of "America's Best Hospitals" for cancer. With more than 4,200 employees, Moffitt has an economic impact on the state of nearly $2 billion. For more information, visit MOFFITT.org, and follow the Moffitt momentum on Facebook, twitter and YouTube.
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Morocco, EU begin talks on free-trade accord | Morocco World News
RABAT, March 1, 2013 (AFP)
Morocco and the European Union began?discussions on Friday aimed at concluding a free-trade agreement, as EU?Commission head Jose Manuel Barroso visited the country.
Such a deal ?will give each better access to the other?s markets and?improve the business climate in a way that will make it more predictable and?stable,? Barroso said after talks with Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane.
?Today, we begin negotiations on a deal to ease the procedures for?obtaining visas for certain categories of persons, particularly students,?researchers and businessmen and women,? he said.
Barroso, who was later to meet King Mohammed VI, also said Morocco will?have received 660 million euros in economic, social and institutional?development aid in the three years ending this year.
Source: http://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2013/03/80621/morocco-eu-begin-talks-on-free-trade-accord-2/
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