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NOT ALL CHAOS ON THE WEATHER MAP IS EQUAL, researchers have found, providing insights that are hoped to improve weather forecasting. Researchers usually assume that all spots on a weather map are equally chaotic, meaning that small uncertainties in initial conditions grow to the point at which the conditions become unpredictable. Now, a multidisciplinary University of Maryland team of meteorologists, physicists, and computer scientists (DJ Patil, 301-405-4842, dpatil@ipst.umd.edu) has developed a technique that identifies what can be considered as chaos "hotspots," regions in which small changes in conditions are believed to magnify most quickly into large perturbations in the weather. Chaos hotspots shift their location on a regular basis, but tend to cover only about 20% of the global map at any given time. Making more meteorological observations in hotspots can help reduce forecasting errors, the researchers believe. Since 1992, the National Weather Service has provided "ensemble forecasts," in which a computer model generates a main forecast and several slightly adjusted forecasts providing a range of possible outcomes for the weather. The Maryland researchers look at global wind predictions from five of these forecasts at a particular level in the atmosphere (where the pressure is 500 millibars). Placing these five forecasts on the map, the researchers then look at wind vectors, which specify how each forecast deviates from the main forecast in wind strength and direction. Analyzing 1100 km-by- 1100 km squares in a global map, they identify regions where the vectors tend to line up with one another (see figure at http://www.aip.org/mgr/png). The aligned wind vectors have "low dimensionality," transforming the regions in which they reside into chaos hotspots where good initial observations become most crucial for reducing forecasting errors. All other points on the map are less important for forecasting, the authors say. (Patil et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., 25 June 2001; text at http://www.aip.org/physnews/select.)

************************* SHORT BIO ON DYAN CANON ************************* Birth name Samile Diane Friesen Date of birth (location) 4 January 1937, Tacoma, Washington, USA Attended the University of Washington, Seattle, but didn't graduate. Spouse Stanley Fimberg (1985 - 1991) divorced. Cary Grant (1965 - 1968) divorced, 1 daughter. Perhaps best known for her trademark curly blond tresses. Cannon starred in the pop-culture classic “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice” in 1969 and her received her third Oscar nomination for 1978’s “Heaven Can Wait,” opposite Warren Beatty. Cannon’s most recent film credits include “Drop-Dead,” “Out to Sea” (1997, starring Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon), and the comedic mystery “8 Heads in a Duffel Bag” (1997), where Cannon starred opposite Joe Pesci as a recovering alcoholic. Her additional film credits include “Revenge of the Pink Panther,” “Deathtrap,” “Honeysuckle Rose,” and 'That Darn Cat' (1997) 'Drop-Dead' (1998) and the upcoming television movie, “My Mother, the Spy.” Currently, Dyan Cannon stars as the vivacious and free-spirited Honey Bernstein-Flynn on NBC’s mid-season comedy series “Three Sisters.” Honey is a yoga and meditation enthusiast, as well as a die-hard Laker fan, whose open relationship with her three grown daughters -- played by Katherine LaNasa, Vicki Lewis, and A.J. Langer -- is unconventional and often outrageous. For a more detail biography: http://www.hollywoodjesus.com/dyan_cannon.htm ************************* DYAN CANNON'S INCREDIBLE INTERVIEW WITH LARRY KING Monday, April 23, 2001 on CNN ************************* LARRY KING WAS BLOWN AWAY Larry King opened his interview with Dyan Cannon by saying, "Last Saturday night, my producer, her husband, the wife and I went out to Studio City here at CBS Lot in California to see an amazing thing: Dyan Cannon perform a kind of service... A lot of people watching this. In fact, standing room only, people outside ... what is with the God thing? What happened to you? You're a Jewish person." After much laughter Dyan Cannon responded, "You know, you come to point in your life and you say, I want to be happy and I'm not happy, and I really want to know what real love is. That's how it started with me, my search for love." HOW GOD'S PARTY BEGAN Cannon does not call what she does a church service, but rather, "an outreach... called GPDC, God's Party With Dyan Cannon." It started in her house which it quickly outgrew. So she called the president of CBS, Michael Klausman, and made arrangements to lease the CBS lot to hold the party there two times a month on Saturday night. The party consists of singing with a band and a time of healing. It's been going on for 3 years. Large numbers of people come. It's standing room only. Many can not get in DYAN EXPLAINS HOW PEOPLE ARE HEALED One of the unique features of God's Party is when people are prayed and healed. Dyan Cannon claims that God has healed many through her. Larry King was most fascinated by this. DYAN EXPLAINS THE NEW BIRTH. "All you have to do is say yes. Yes, Christ, I will receive this love that you have taught me about. I'll receive it in my heart say yes just as I am right now, I don't have to lose weight or gain weight, get a job or lose a job, or do anything. I can, just right this minute, say "come in to my heart." I have been so hungry for love, I have been so thirsty I have been so needy, I have been at point of death ... just come into my heart." HOW MARIJUANA ADDICTION BROUGHT DYAN TO JESUS "I was addicted to marijuana. I would have to have a puff off a joint before every take. I'd run out to the bathroom and come back... Well, I just said I need help and I have to do this and I knew I had to do it. I'll tell you what happened. I was going to go make a film in Greece and in Greece, if they caught you with this much marijuana, they threw you in jail, no questions asked, and I was trying to stuff it in my deodorant bottles, you know, in the bottom of my deodorant because I thought they'll never look in there. And I thought, what I am doing? Is this thing bigger than me? Yes, well, I need help with it." And so she turned to God and opened her heart. BEAUTIFUL MUSIC Dyan Cannon has made a bold step. She has come forth in a public way to proclaim her faith in Jesus Christ as a Jewish Christian. Her God Parties are an explosion of that faith with balloons, streamers and beautiful music. Her bottom line is to help others know the love of God. I thought this was a tremendous thing for Dyan Cannon to do. There are lots of people of faith in Hollywood, but few share in a public way as Dyan Cannon did. As you watch the video clips (http://www.hollywoodjesus.com/dyan_cannon.htm) notice how Dyan seems to use laughter to mask her nervousness, and yet at the same time project a strong sense of confidence. I also thought she did an excellent job in not using religious language, and how she included a kindness toward people of other faiths. Here is a woman on a mission. Her life will never be the same again. FOR SOME AMAZING REAL VIDEO CLIPS OF THIS INTERVIEW: http://www.hollywoodjesus.com/dyan_cannon.htm Several videos located in middle of page to bottom Also you will find info on how to get the full transcript and a complete video tape of the Larry King show. Also check out all her films on video.

Catholics have a reputation for severity, for judgment that comes down heavily. My experience with Father Martin was not at all like that. He was very kind. He served me tea and biscuits in a tea set that tinkled and rattled at every touch; he treated me like a grown-up; and he told me a story. Or rather, since Christians are so fond of capital letters, a Story. And what a story. The first thing that drew me in was disbelief. What? Humanity sins but it's God's Son who pays the price? I tried to imagine Father saying to me, "Piscine, a lion slipped into the llama pen today and killed two llamas. Yesterday another one killed a black buck. Last week two of them ate the camel. The week before it was painted storks and grey herons. And who's to say for sure who snacked on our golden agouti? The situation has become intolerable. Something must be done. I have decided the only way the lions can atone for their sins is if I feed you to them." "Yes, Father, that would be the right and logical thing to do. Give me a moment to wash up." "Hallelujah, my son." "Hallelujah, Father." What a downright weird story. What peculiar psychology. I asked for another story, one that I might find more satisfying. Surely this religion had more than one story in its bag - religions abound with stories. But Father Martin made me understand that the stories before it - and there were many - were simply prologue to the Christians. Their religion had one Story, and to it they came back again and again, over and over. It was story enough for them. (Yann Martel. Life of Pi)

The child's temperament is more effective in constraining the development of the opposite profile than in determining a particular profile. The principle that a temperamental bias eliminates more possibilities than it determines also applies to the effects of environments. If all one knows about a group of children is that they were born to economically secure, well-educated, loving parents, one can be confident that they are unlikely to become criminals, psychotics, drug addicts, or homeless beggars, but one cannot predict what they will become. Similarly, among children born in poverty to single parents who did not graduate from high school, it is possible to predict the adult occupations they are unlikely to choose--curator of a museum, Wall Street stockbroker, or cellist--but not those they will select. Imagine a stone rolling down a steep mountain over a five-minute interval. An observer of this scene can eliminate a great many final locations after each few seconds, but not until the final second will the onlooker be able to predict exactly where the stone will come to rest.