COLLEEN E. SCHLICKERT (nee Clarke) age 52, beloved wife of Ronald; loving mother of Damian (Anne-Marie), Jessica Jaamey (Marjaan); devoted grandmother of Charlotte Jaamey and Guiliana Schlickert; cherished sister of Debbie Wenderoth (Ronald), Kathy Poling (Dale) and the late Patrick Clarke; dear daughter of the late Patrick and Maryjane Clarke.Colleen was born on September 16, 1962 in Cleveland and lived in Timberlake for 24 years. She worked as an assembler in the electronic industry. Continue reading
PETER J. COMPO, age 88, beloved husband for 61 years of Marijayne C. (nee Cassidy); loving father of Roger (Karen), Regina Ohlrogge (Russ) and Renee Marincic (Kenny); devoted grandfather of Dominic (Melissa), Karmell (Angela) and Nickolas Ohlrogge and David Maksymowicz and great grandfather of Keelan, Montey, Mia and Lucas; dearest son of the late Tony and Nina (nee Depasquale) Compo; cherished brother of the late Anthony N. (wife Anita); dear uncle and great-uncle of many.Peter has lived in Continue reading
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ROBERT JAMES LEVY, age 77, beloved husband for 55 years of Dianne (nee Leibling); loving father of Robert Jr. and Catherine Levy (husband John Cernelich); devoted grandfather of Alexandra; cherished son of the late James and Mary (nee Vodnansky); dearest brother-in-law of Elaine and Kenneth Hawk; treasured uncle of Kenneth and Theresa Hawk, Kristina and Gregory Nemeth, Michael and Robert Adams; dear brother of Frances Levy and the late Eleanor Moyers. Bob was born in Cleveland in 1937 and Continue reading
THERESE M. MANGAN (nee Kelly), age 79; Beloved wife for 52 years of the late Ronald. Loving mother of Karen Roth (husband Jim), Brian (wife Tricia), and Sharon Strasshofer (husband Tom Jr.). Devoted grandmother of Christopher (Kat) and Nicholas (Jenny) Roth, Michelle Schroeder (Adam), Kevin, Ben, Caroline, Abe, Eileen and Kenny Mangan, Thomas III and William Strasshofer. Dear aunt, cousin and friend of many. Therese was born on October 2, 1935 in Cleveland and graduated from Lourdes Continue reading
Of the approximate 270 proper names in the surviving plays of Plautus, about 250 names are Greek.[32] William M. Seaman proposes that these Greek names would have delivered a comic punch to the audience because of its basic understanding of the Greek language.[33] This previous understanding of Greek language, Seaman suggests, comes from the "experience of Roman soldiers during the first and second Punic wars. Not only did men billeted in Greek areas have opportunity to learn sufficient Greek for the purpose of everyday conversation, but they were also able to see plays in the foreign tongue."[34] Having an audience with knowledge of the Greek language, whether limited or more expanded, allowed Plautus more freedom to use Greek references and words. Also, by using his many Greek references and showing that his plays were originally Greek, "It is possible that Plautus was in a way a teacher of Greek literature, myth, art and philosophy; so too was he teaching something of the nature of Greek words to people, who, like himself, had recently come into closer contact with that foreign tongue and all its riches."[35]
When Steve invites his second cousin Selena to come and visit, Bub gets the strange impression that he is being neglected and isn't really needed. He decides to take up the offer of managing a movie theater in Plainview, and nothing the boys say or do can make him change his mind.
I have so many fond memories of Christmas Eve at Aunt Julie's. Always too much amazing food and laughter. Thinking today of my cousins, my Godmother and wishing all peace.Love,Michele, Ted, Mara & Garrett
Wonderful memories with Julie, Vicky,Peter and Janine. Julie and i had lots of fun raising our beautiful children. i will always miss Julie and know that her daughters will be kind and loving parents like their Mother was. Rest in peace my dear friend!!!
I knew Julie when she was married to my cousin Matthew Guarino. She always had a smile on her face and was a loving, caring individual. I always loved Julie and will miss her as I remember her, when she was young, full of life, love and hope. God bless you Julie! Always your cousin, Diane xoxoxoxo
Still the Moore's law model of perception has already found its way into the narrative of biotechnological history, where change become ever more complex. Proof of progress is claimed in the simplistic reasoning of a sharp decline in cost for sequencing a human genome from three billion Dollars in the year 2000 to the August 2013 cancellation of the Genomics X Prize for the first 1000 Dollar genome, because the challenge had been outpaced by innovation.
Still the Moore's law model of perception has already found it's way into the narrative of biotechnological history, where change become ever more complex. Proof of progress is claimed in the simplistic reasoning of a sharp decline in cost for sequencing a human genome from three billion Dollars in the year 2000 to the August 2013 cancellation of the Genomics X Prize for the first 1000 Dollar genome, because the challenge had been outpaced by innovation.
This is particularly urgent in the area of programming and coding. Undergraduate computer science programs are starting to bounce back from a dearth of enrollment that plagued them in the early Internet era, but it could do a lot more to fill the ranks. Some of this is due to a lingering view that computer science is an extension of mathematics, from an era when computers were primarily crafted as the ultimate calculators.
Paradoxically, a small study may be more likely to show significant differences between groups than a large one. The Women's Health Initiative study cost almost a billion dollars yet did not adequately test the hypotheses. A smaller study provides more resources per patient to enhance adherence at lower cost.
We humans have had a tough time coping with our unremarkable place in the grand scheme of things. First Copernicus trashed our belief that we live at the centre of the universe, followed shortly thereafter by Herschel and co. who suggested that our sun was not at the centre of it either; then Darwin came along and showed that according to our biological heritage, we are just another animal. But we have clung on for dear life to one remaining belief about our specialness; that we, and we alone, have conscious minds. It is time to retire, or indeed euthanize and cremate, this anthropocentric pomposity.
In Mexico, ferrous material, hydrocarbon condensate, and illegal drugs are trafficked and sold to both legal and illegal firms and individuals inside the United States. "Los Zetas" and other criminal networks operating in Central America also engage in human trafficking, kidnapping, and murdering of migrants before they cross the American border. Between 2006 and 2010, some of those criminal networks laundered $881 millions dollars through a single legal bank inside the United States. In fact, in 2012, the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice pointed out that the same Bank "failed to monitor" $9.4 billion dollars during that same period.
Those who have ever sent or received wire transfers, both inside and outside the United States, will find it difficult to understand how one of the most important banks worldwide could "fail to monitor" $9.4 billion.
Markets can have uplifting consequences. Take just one example. In a series of investigations, researchers show that efficient markets have contributed to the development of countless life-saving drugs (albeit sometimes with a little governmental help), bettering the lives of billions.
To see why, consider a related question: How can we determine the happiest society? As Derek Parfit and others have pointed out, even if you can precisely measure the happiness of each individual, this remains a vexingly hard question. Should we choose the society with the highest total happiness? If so, then a trillion people living miserable lives (but not so miserable that they would rather be dead) will be "happier" than a billion immensely happy people.
As often happens in science, a new discovery simultaneously raises several new questions, which of course was also the case with the Higgs. For instance, Why did the Higgs particle have precisely the mass it had? Were there yet even more basic particles that lay beneath, and explained, certain attributes of the Higgs? Was there in fact more than one Higgs boson? In fundamental particle theory, unfortunately, the answers to such questions have become increasingly, and even prohibitively, expensive. Before it was cancelled, cost estimates for the SSC rose from an initial $3.9 billion to a final $11-billion-plus in 1991.
But how much is it really worth to know the answers to further questions regarding the Higgs particle? How much, if anything, would you pay to know those answers, assuming, optimistically, that you could even understand the questions, such as: How does the Higgs boson explain (if at all) the phenomenon of electroweak symmetry breaking? Science has long since reached the point where some types of new knowledge can be discovered only by building structures so absurdly cosmic, and even comic, in size as to have equally cosmic price tags. In light of this, it makes sense to ask whether the knowledge supposedly to be provided by these dollar-bill-destroying behemoths is in fact worth acquiring.
Major Evolutionary Transitions. Over the past three billion years, natural selection has yielded several pivotal innovations in how genetic information gets assembled, packaged, and transmitted across generations. These so-called major evolutionary transitions have included the transition from RNA to DNA; the union of genes into chromosomes; the evolution of eukaryotic cells; the advent of sexual reproduction; the evolution of multicellular organisms; and the appearance of eusociality (notably, among ants, bees, and wasps) in which only a few individuals reproduce and the others work as servants, soldiers, or babysitters. The major evolutionary transitions concept, when properly applied, is useful and clarifying. 2ff7e9595c
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