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In January, Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States.
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The Samsung vs. Apple mobile battle continues: Stats
The latest update to our Internet Statistics Compendium saw some pretty fascinating mobile trends hit its pages this past month.
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But this time round, I wanted to highlight some interesting consumer stats for two of the world's biggest mobile brands: Samsung and Apple.
All the week's digital news (in five minutes)
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For many, the hope was to see Apple's developments in AI, home automation and the advancement of Siri.
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That's the tiny window you have to capture someone's attention with your ad. That window seems especially tiny when the mute button's been pushed by the platform hosting your material.
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FORT NELSON FEATURED IN GREAT BRITISH RAILWAY JOURNEYS - Wednesday, 9 January 2013
The stunning Victorian fortress – Fort Nelson near Fareham – features in Michael Portillo's latest Great British Railways Journeys series, due to broadcast on BBC2 on Monday (January 14) at 6.30pm.
The former Conservative minister and journalist stopped off at the Royal Armouries Museum as part of Series Four of the popular documentary, which sees Michael use George Bradshaw's 1863 railway guide as his handbook.
He tours the length and breadth of the British Isles to discover what remains of Bradshaw's world – and next week travels port to port, from the centuries-old naval hub of Portsmouth to historic Grimsby docks.
During his visit to the Portsmouth area, Michael looked behind the scenes at the Royal Armouries Museum at Fort Nelson – home to the national collection of historic cannon and artillery.
Aided by Royal Armouries' Curator of Artillery Philip Magrath and uniformed gunners from the Portsdown Artillery Volunteers, Michael was filmed firing a 32-pounder, smooth-bore, breech-loading gun, dated 1883.
Philip said, "It was quite a spectacle for Michael to fire a gun of this type. Fort Nelson was built by the Victorians to repel a feared invasion by the French and this is a fine example of a gun used for ditch defence, or for the flank defence of fortifications, such as this.
"We had the Portsdown Artillery Volunteers in full uniform, showing Michael how the gun is primed and discharged and he then fired it himself. Although guns were never fired in anger at Fort Nelson, this is a fine example of a fully-restored Victorian hill fort and provides an atmospheric and authentic backdrop for this fascinating series."
Standing high on Portsdown Hill near Fareham, Fort Nelson showcases one of the world's finest collections of artillery and cannon, from across the ages and from all corners of the globe.
In 2011, this unique heritage attraction underwent a £3.5m redevelopment to create a museum for the 21st century, supported by a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, complete with new galleries, state-of-the-art education centre and visitor facilities.
Great British Railway Journeys also sees Michael in Portsmouth Dockyard for the commissioning of Britain's newest destroyer HMS Dragon. Whilst on board, he feeds the crew and afterwards visits a local factory.
Museum entrance is free and visitors can explore the 19-acre Victorian Fort, complete with underground tunnels and brand new galleries, showcasing the national collection of big guns. There's also the chance to visit Café 1871, offering hot and cold snacks, plus Halloween treats.
Built in the 1860s, the Portsdown Hill Fort is home to the national collection of artillery, with over 350 exhibits from all over the globe. The museum's new galleries tell the fascinating stories of the objects, their history and the people who used them.
The collection originated at HM Tower of London and has been on display in Hampshire since 1995.
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- Royal Armouries is the national museum of arms and armour and has sites in Leeds, HM Tower of London, Fort Nelson and Louisville, Kentucky. It is the first British national museum to open a permanent presence in another country
- Admission to the museum is free. However, there may be a small charge for some special events.
- Open all year daily, 10am-5pm. Closed 24-25 December
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- The Royal Armouries Museum should not be confused with Royal Armouries International plc, the private sector corporate hospitality business.
To find Fort Nelson, follow the brown Tourist signs from the M27. The Fort is open seven days a week, from 10am to 5pm.
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I have been a resident of Woonsocket for the past 62 years.
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For City Councilman
For Immediate Release:
I have been a resident of Woonsocket for the past 62 years.
In Business as a Securities Licensed Financial Adviser in the late 1980's, as an independent broker for Citicorp.
For the past 18 years, I have run a small screen printing and embroidery business called Fagnant's Impact Sportswear in Woonsocket I will bring 29 years of experience in the Business world 1984 thru 2013 to the City Council I'm a member of the Zoning Board Review as Alternate Member SINCE 2012.
I am well known for my independent, outspoken approach to City politics.
I have demonstrated an interest in the taxpayers of this city by attending Council Meetings, Budget Committee Meetings, and Work Shops the last two years.
I have researched and achieved important knowledge of the strengths and weaknesses of this City and will use this information to benefit the taxpayers and citizens of this great City.
I'm Running as an Independent Maverick, Taxpayer, and Invester myself.
The fiscal irresponsibility has led the city to it's current state and I am opposed to excessive spending for projects like the new water treatment plant, which the city is in the process of building under a DEM Mandate.
They're spending money that they don't have and will burden the taxpayers with increases in taxes all the way around as usual. Somebody has to put a stop to it, and that somebody is Richard Fagnant ("THE LONE RANGER" ) I believe that sticking to party politics as usual limits the options the City can pursue and often leaves us at a stalemate when a solution is what is really needed. By being an Independent Maverick I am freed from the concerns politicians face during an election.
I promise to work hard for the taxpayers of this great City who vote me in as their next councilman. I will not make promises to get elected.
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Congrats to Steve & Big Pete. Bob is going crazy back in Georgia!!
Congrats to Steve & Big Pete. Bob is going crazy back in Georgia!!
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Congrats to NFC Pete, Steve Yozamp and Bob Zylla!!!! Congrats also to Frank and Rita Jones for the breeding producing Pete. I just got off the phone with them and they are understandably excited as well.
What a great honor...Congratulations to "NFC Pete"..and his entire team!
Also, congratulations to everyone that qualified, that trialed, and the finalists..as well.
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Congratulations to Steve Yozamp and Pete.
Thanks to everyone who volunteered their time to make this event happen. It is an enormous undertaking, and everyone's efforts are much appreciated.
Congrats to all who participated especially the finalists and even more so to Pelican Pete team.
Noticed that Pete is linebred DARE to DREAM. Cosmo seems to be the grandsire of a lot of great dogs lately.
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It's incredible. My last blog post was at the end of January and here we are almost 5 months later and I have not been able to get far in this book.
I'm not a gamer and I don't know (so I don't care) about the characters.
I've only started chapter 2.
Part of the issue is that I am writing and constantly re-reading my own novel. So there's that.
However, this novel is about Darth Malgus (I believe it's spelled). I could be interested. He
This is the death of the Miraluka people (like Shanoeb Culu from TOTJ / Sith War) brought on by Darth Nihlus and it's a great black-and-white short which is made all the more frightening by the absense of color.
That Darth Nihlus would "show" the complete genocide of her people, her world, to his Miraluka Sith apprentice is just totally evil.
You have to love this.
I'm confused. Who is the Emperor in this one?
This is a Sith Empire that has remained secret following the fall of Naga Sadow and never administered by Exar Kun.
I think this is what was left behind of the Sith species and the slaves they took from the Great Hyperspace War (so there are some human Sith Lords, as well as alien) and now one of the apprentices (a girl) has betrayed the Emperor and they have adopted the ways of the Rakatta, a prior Force-sensitive Dark
It's funny, because I'm usually a great fan of Drew Karpyshyn's writing (the Darth Bane books). But it is hard to get into Darth Scourge in this story and Revan and Bastilla Shan begin the story as a domestic couple, not very exciting - though I understand that's what they both want.
I think the story will get better but 56 pages into it is not "doing it" for me.
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I was listening to a podcast the other day, it was pretty political in nature, but the guest on the show said something that I thought was pretty interesting.
Now, I am not going to get into politics here. This is NOT a political Blog. I have personal feelings about politics and this is not the forum for it. And the context of the original comment really has nothing to do with how I took and processed it in my mind.
What he said was that "a person (individual) can either be anything, or they can be nothing".
Here is how I processed that, and by the way it is pretty much in line with what he was saying (take the politics out of it).
A person that apply's them self, works hard, and gives 100% can be anything in this country. I feel that is true no matter what race, creed, or demographic you find yourself in. There are stories every day about rising from the bottom and making something out of themselves. We see it in TV shows like the "Biggest Looser" where a person that is motivated to do better will. They take advantage of a program that will help them, but at the end of the day.. it is their personal drive and will that makes them stay on track and find success.
We can apply that in every part of our lives. I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth and can honestly say that I have never went without. Why? Because my parents and their parents were hard workers. They believed that they had a responsibility to take care of their families. My Dad worked multiple jobs and lots of over time so our family could have the things that we wanted. That work ethic carried from generation to generation and I have it too. My parents and their parents never took and hand out or asked the government for anything. They made a comfortable life for themselves by working hard.
I have never not had a job. When I was a teen ager, I walked dogs, mowed lawns, shoveled snow, house sat, baby sat, raked leaves, and rolled newspapers for delivery. I joined the Army after High School to see the world and have fun. That I did. When I got out of the Army, I sold jeans, worked as a handyman, cut trail, repaired Mountain Bikes, and drive a Truck for UPS. I have not had a day that I was unemployed.
I see so many young people.. and older folks alike that walk away from work and then complain that unemployment is too high. Where I work, they hired 22 new full time employees. All but 2 quit, when asked why they would turn away an $80,000 a year job with full benefits they said the work was to hard.
They do not have what it takes to be successful.
We can be whatever we want, if we apply ourselves. We see it in the papers every day.. there are private companies all over our area that are screaming for employees. And yet we have 10% unemployment.
I am compassionate, but have a hard time feeling sorry for someone that will not work.
We can be anything.. or nothing. It is a choice. Are there exceptions? Sure there are. There are people with real disabilities that can not work. But then again, there are many people taking advantage of the system. Fully able to work and make something out of there lives.. but they make a choice.
This has nothing to do with race, religion, or economic back ground.
Did you know that after the civil war there were two "freed slaves" that became Millionaires? Yes it is true.. how.. they worked hard and made smart choices. I love a good rags to riches story.. and when you break them down, it was not the lottery or a hand out that made them what they are. It always comes down to hard work.
Now, it may seem that I am being harsh and insensitive.. and maybe I am. But when it comes to teaching Scouts to be good men, men of Character, good citizens, and fit. I think it is important that they all develop a strong will and work ethic. We have programs in Scouting that can reinforce that. But we must make it happen.
Youth leadership, the merit badge program, adventure and the list goes on.
We need to believe that our Scouts can be anything, more important.. they need to believe that they can be anything.. or they can be nothing. Their choice.
Have a Great Scouting Day!


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I keep meaning to announce that my iswitch-window deskbar handler as described here, has now been included in the core Gnome Deskbar Applet distribution, as seen in the 2.15.1 announcement. Any further changes or improvements will go directly into deskbar cvs.
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Born on this day in 1857. Number 7 of 10 Children. Chief Scout of the World, founder of the greatest peace movement the world has ever seen.
Went to the Scout office for signatures on the Trek application and ended up chatting with some good Scout friends.. then off to the Scout Shop to pick up a few things for the Red and Green Dinner this Saturday.
Had to get new SPL and ASPL patches for the changing of positions coming up at the dinner.
Then it was back home for a final edit and clean up of Show #78 of the SMMPodcast. In this show we talk about keeping all of your Scouts engaged in the program as well as some talk about Founders day.
Then it was off to Dinner with my lovely wife to celebrate her putting up with me for 19 years.
All in all.. A Great Scouting Day! Hope you had one also!


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I only have paper layouts at the moment. What's athe best way to put them on the site, digital camera?
What's The Best Way To Upload Paper Layouts
Started by kheufel , Feb 25 2005 10:05 AM
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#1 kheufel
Posted 25 February 2005 - 10:05 AM
Posted 25 February 2005 - 10:29 AM
I don't know whether there's a *best* way. I think it's whatever works best for you. A lot of people have a scanner, so they scan them and then post them, stitching them two sides together if necessary. If you don't have a scanner, then a digital pic works just as well.
As I said, whatever gets the job done for you! Can't wait to see your stuff!
As I said, whatever gets the job done for you! Can't wait to see your stuff!
Posted 25 February 2005 - 11:38 AM
If you have a scanner, you can scan and stitch together the LO (If it's bigger than your scanner bed) or take a digital photo. The scanner will probably give you clearer results.
#4 talina
Posted 25 February 2005 - 07:36 PM
I opt for scanning also...Sometimes the digi camera is blurry or casts funky shadows on your LOs.
#5 kheufel
Posted 27 February 2005 - 08:05 PM
Thank you so much, it was so easy to scan and stitch
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It's nice that you've revamped Gmail's UI. The redesign is slick and addresses several of my complaints about the way things used to work. It seems snappier too.
However, it'd be nice if all of this didn't come at the expense of reliability. I use Chat in Gmail an awful lot, even more than I use it for mail, perhaps. In the older version this was as reliable as it could possibly be given the inherent limitations of running inside a browser. If I lost connection, switched my VPN on or off, hibernated and unhibernated my computer, or generally screwed around with stuff, it never seemed to miss a beat.
In the new UI, what I've encountered so far:
- It NEVER recovers after hibernate. Anything I type or receive after hibernating is invisible to me until I reload Gmail from scratch.
- Frequently I'll get something from a chat as an offline message, twenty minutes or more after it was originally sent. With no indication whatsoever to myself or the person I'm talking to that a message was lost in the first place. And without me ever having gone offline, or appeared so to the other party.
- The deal-breaker for me was, in the middle of a conversation, several messages in a row simply disappearing into thin air - as if the person I was talking to hadn't said anything at all. But still showing as present and active through the whole of it.
- Thanks for giving me the choice to switch back to the old UI - but it'd be nicer yet if you actually honored my choice! Every time I visit Gmail it switches me back to the new version until I can revert it again.
I really wanted to like the newer version. But you need to make it work right first! And in the meantime, don't keep trying to force my hand. I made the choice to switch back for a reason; do you REALLY think that pushing me forward again every time I load the page is going to do anything but annoy me?


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Funeral recession: Death is inevitable; limousines aren't. By Julia Rappaport
Really going green: Eco-friendly cemeteries. By Alan R. Earls
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It's incongruous to imagine their manicured hands expertly slitting a corpse's neck, fishing around under flesh and sinew with sinister-looking hooks for the carotid artery, exposed muscle tissue looking as plump and juicy as pre-packaged raw chicken breasts.
These fresh faces are the future of funeral service.
As President Obama tries to resuscitate a flat-lining economy left for dead, a new wave of young females like Peterson and Byles are breathing life into the business of death. With increasing fervor, women are permeating what was once a male-dominated industry. According to a study conducted by the National Funeral Directors Association, women now make up approximately 60 percent of the country's mortuary-college enrollment; the average mortuary student is a female who falls between the ages of 18 and 24, and does not have family ties to the estimated $11 billion industry.
Both Peterson (of Quincy) and Byles (of Groton, Connecticut) are studying funeral-home management and bereavement at the New England Institute (NEI), one of the area's two mortuary colleges and an academic subset of Mount Ida. Here, students learn every aspect of the industry: technical skills, such as restorative art and embalming (the odors churned up by an embalming "kind of depends on the person," notes Peterson. "Once you start, you can smell faint formaldehyde and cavity fluid, but that's really it."); scientific fields of study, such as anatomy and microbiology; and the "human" side of mortuary science (bereavement counseling, marketing, and funeral-home management).
Yes, the funeral business is multi-faceted, and in many ways like a regular business — albeit one in which corpses play a critical role. But its stigma still makes the choice for women to go into this field a difficult one.
"I'll never forget what happened to me at freshman orientation," says Byles. "I was in a crowd of students and a girl asked what my major was. I told her, and she made this terrible face at me and then just walked away, as if I was so bizarre and weird. Dead bodies don't gross me out, but I'm not obsessed with the dead. People assume that I should be weird and goth. Or that I should be in fashion or something. Because I'm a girl, I guess?"
"Everyone looks at us like, 'Really?' " says Peterson, scrunching up her face in imitation of a skeptical classmate. "Usually people don't remember my name — just my major. I think it's because there's a lack of information out there as to what [funeral directors] actually do. We interact with families, help them, give them advice. We try to make the deceased look the best we can."
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Family: Ardeidae, Herons, Egrets, Bitterns view all from this family
Description ADULT Has beautifully patterned brown plumage. Neck and breast have chestnut stripes on paler background and feathers on back and upper wing are marbled and finely marked. Note the white throat and supercilium, and black malar stripe. Daggerlike bill is yellow and legs are greenish. JUVENILE Similar to adult, but facial markings are less striking.
Dimensions Length: 23-34" (58-86 cm)
Habitat Widespread across Canada and northern U.S. in spring and summer, but seldom common. Associated with well-vegetated freshwater marshes and present in breeding range mainly Apr-Sep. Moves south and west in winter and then found mostly in coastal wetlands with large stands of cattail.
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Edgar Choueiri, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, used funding from the engineering school's Project X to build a sound lab, including a chamber lined with foam tiles that dampen reflected sound. Project X is intended to give faculty members in the engineering school the freedom to pursue hunches and unconventional ideas, even if those ideas are outside their direct expertise.
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It was close to midnight one April evening when Princeton seniors Maya Srinivasan and Hunter Garland glimpsed the first evidence in their long-shot bid to revolutionize heart surgery.
The two mechanical and aerospace engineering majors had spent months researching, acquiring and setting up pumps of the type used in heart-lung machines, the devices that keep patients alive during heart surgeries. Finally, they were at the point of running laboratory-grade blood through the pumps and looking under a microscope for signs of cell damage.
Microscope images reveal that blood cells become increasingly damaged as they flow through pumps of the type used in heart-lung machines. Dark spots in the images indicate cells whose walls have been broken. LEFT: After 30 minutes in the pump, only a few are broken. RIGHT: The fuzzy and white cells are intact, but the many dark ones are broken. Research undertaken through the engineering school's Project X fund seeks to decrease this cell damage. (Images: Courtesy of Hunter Garland and Maya Srinivasan)
Their mission: find an alternative method of pumping that could reduce the incidence of brain damage and other debilitating side effects that doctors increasingly believe stem from the use of heart-lung machines.
"We want to use this data to redesign the machine from the bottom up," said Srinivasan.
That kind of bold thinking is the point of Project X, a fund that is providing financial support for Srinivasan and Garland's work. Given by Lynn Shostack in memory of her late husband David Gardner, a 1969 Princeton graduate, the fund is administered by the dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and is intended to give faculty members in the engineering school the freedom to pursue hunches and unconventional ideas, even if those ideas are outside their direct expertise.
Maya Srinivasan (center) and Hunter Garland (right) show Professor Alexander Smits their newly acquired microscope images of blood cells that were damaged by pumps. They tested several types of pumps in an effort to improve heart-lung machines, which are believed to cause side effects in many heart surgery patients.
The fund, now in its second round of grants, has supported eight projects, so far all in the area of human health. Projects, which often have involved undergraduates, range from a hearing aid that restores patients' three-dimensional perception of sound to a greatly improved system for removing tattoos.
The creation of Project X stoked immediate interest among faculty members. In the most recent round, four projects were chosen from among 28 submissions. Recipients said the funding, typically less than $75,000 a year, provides flexibility and opportunity that is rarely available from conventional grant-making agencies. Instead of the voluminous applications typically required for grants, Project X applicants submit one or two pages outlining their idea, and then have no formal requirements for reporting their progress.
For Alexander Smits, chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and leader of the heart-lung project, the funding meant the difference between trying a new idea or not. Smits is a leader in the field of fluid mechanics and turbulence. Lately he has applied that knowledge to biomechanics and the movement of animals in water, but he knew he was out of his depth when he began speaking with Shostack about heart-lung machines during one of her early visits to the engineering school.
"This is not an area that is anywhere close to my primary expertise, but these kinds of funds allow me to explore new ideas," said Smits, Princeton's Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. "Imagine me writing a proposal to the NIH (National Institutes of Health) to explore heart-lung machines! I'd need a team -- I'd need a doctor, a clinician, all kinds of experts."
The opportunity to establish credibility in a new field was also important for Edgar Choueiri, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering. A pioneer in developing advanced propulsion systems for deep space travel, Choueiri has had a lifelong interest in music and pursues a hobby of recording classical and jazz performers. He began to apply his engineering skills to understanding how the brain performs sound localization, the ability to identify the direction from which a sound is coming. In 2003 he attended his first conference in the field of acoustics, but knew nobody and had no basis for interacting with the experts in attendance.
Using just two speakers in his sound lab, Choueiri recreates the full three-dimensional atmosphere of an original recording situation, giving the listener the perception of being immersed in sound. The model head has microphones implanted in its ears and is used to replicate measurements that would be obtained had a human head been in the same location.
Within a couple of years, he had set up a laboratory in his home to test ideas, and was able to develop a mathematical technique for recording and playing back sound in 3-D with high spatial accuracy and no alteration of tonal quality. The technique uses just two low-cost speakers to create an immersive "sound field" in which the listener perceives the sources of sounds to be spatially distributed in the same way they were during the original recording -- coming from behind or next to the listener for example.
Project X is allowing Choueiri to further develop the technique and pursue uses such as improved hearing aids. He now has a small but well-equipped sound lab, a short distance from his large federally funded propulsion lab in the Engineering Quadrangle.
"The goal here is to fundamentally understand how humans hear sound in 3-D," Choueiri said.
A common complaint among hearing aid users, he said, is that the devices greatly reduce their ability to identify the location of a sound. He said his technology restores that ability, and he is working to reduce the circuitry to something that will fit inside a conventional hearing aid.
Choueiri is now publishing a paper on his work and has begun receiving inquiries from other acoustics researchers, as well as many businesses.
One particular enthusiast has been Paul Lansky, Princeton's William Shubael Conant Professor of Music, who visits Choueiri's studio to listen to his own compositions and other music.
"Loudspeakers have always been the weak link -- they create a very limited aural space," Lansky said. "What Edgar has done is quite ingenious. What he's managed to do is recreate the spatial dimension of the original recording situation. If he could make this truly portable, it would change the world."
In another part of the mechanical and aerospace engineering department, Project X funding is allowing Assistant Professor Michael McAlpine to push the limits of technology he recently developed to combine silicone rubber with a material that generates electricity in response to small movements. The hybrid substance offers myriad possibilities for harvesting energy from everyday motion such as walking.
Postdoctoral researcher Yi Qi holds a piece of silicone rubber imprinted with super-thin material that generates electricity when flexed. Michael McApline, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, is using funding from Project X to push the technology in new directions.
Through Project X, McAlpine is pursuing an idea for using the action of breathing to power a pacemaker. The silicone material would be implanted around the lung cavity and each breath would deliver a small jolt of current to refresh the charge on a battery. McAlpine invented the basic technology using government research grants, but developing a medical use for it is a leap in a new direction, he said.
"Most sources of funding require you to prove something works and then you get the funding," McAlpine said. "Here you show something risky -- within the bounds of reason -- and you're encouraged to try it. I think that's the best way to get breakthrough science. It allows you to do revolutionary science rather than evolutionary science."
Promoting creativity and risk-taking has been a longstanding interest for Shostack, who created the David A. Gardner '69 Magic Project in 2003 to support inventive projects in the humanities and other areas at Princeton.
"You have world-class minds here, with ideas and interests and things they want to do," said Shostack. "In engineering you have tinkerers, and through this tinkering they come up with good ideas." With Project X, she said, "there's no one they need to report to; there's no one demanding a long grant application. It doesn't even matter if the project succeeds or fails. So in that sense it's pretty subversive."
On the April morning after Smits' students began their first tests running blood through various pumps, Smits watched as Srinivasan and Garland displayed microscope images of cells whose membranes had broken. The longer the blood ran through the pump, the more cells burst, producing the evidence of cell damage for which they had been looking.
"That's exciting!" said Smits.
"We're excited, too," Srinivasan replied. "Finally something we can use!"
Their research, which also received support from the mechanical and aerospace engineering department's John Marshall II Memorial Award, forms the basis of Srinivasan and Garland's senior independent work. Both said the work allowed them to apply what they've learned while pursuing their engineering degrees and earning certificates in engineering biology, which they earned in June. Garland, who has volunteered as an emergency medical technician, plans to go on to medical school. Srinivasan plans to pursue a master's degree in vocal performance before returning to the field of biomedical engineering.
In their review of scientific literature on heart-lung machines, the two students found previous studies looking at mechanical damage to blood cells caused by heart-lung pumps, but did not find studies that examined alternative pumps.
"That's where we saw stagnation in the research," Srinivasan said. "The barrier to introducing new technology is so high that there's little conventional funding for looking beyond accepted technologies. Now we can do that."


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BINGHAMTON, NY – State University of New York Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher and the Binghamton University Council today announced modifications regarding the appointment of a new presidential search committee. The changes follow recommendations that were put forward by Chancellor Zimpher, and discussions between the Chancellor's office and the Council.
Kathryn Grant Madigan and James Orband will serve as co-chairs of the search committee. The Chancellor and the Council have also agreed on a range of additional search process improvements, including providing periodic updates to both the Chancellor and the SUNY Board. The enhanced search process includes an open invitation from the Council to both the Chancellor and the SUNY Board to discuss any concerns regarding the committee's activities.
Binghamton University President C. Peter Magrath will also assume a larger role in the search process by acting as consultant on committee and procedural issues.
Both the Chancellor and the Binghamton University Council reaffirmed their commitment to finding an outstanding leader who will enable Binghamton University to continue its proud tradition of academic excellence.


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The Charleston Museum Oyster Roast at Dill Sanctuary benefited The Charleston Museum, a non-profit organization. The museum was originally founded in 1773, and proudly bares the title of America's Oldest Museum. The Dill Sanctuary contains assorted habitats for wildlife and numerous cultural features including four earthen Confederate batteries and prehistoric, colonial, antebellum, and postbellum archaeological sites. The Dill Sanctuary has been protected for purposes of preservation, wildlife enhancement, research and education, and is used only for Museum-sponsored programs.


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Mary Ann Swain, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Binghamton University, State University of New York, was recently honored by the Girl Scouts-Indian Hills Council as the 2007 Woman of Distinction Honoree.
Swain, who has held her position since 1993, administers all of the academic programs conducted at Binghamton University and sees to the enhancement and development of the curriculum. She holds a concurrent tenured appointment in Binghamton University's Decker School of Nursing.
Swain earned master's and doctoral degrees in psychology from the University of Michigan and holds a bachelor's degree from DePauw University.
This year marks the 95th anniversary of Girl Scouting, which is dedicated to building girls of courage, confidence and character. The annual Women of Distinction event, which began in 1999, honors a woman who exemplifies the values of the Girl Scout program and who has given to her community in a significant way. This year, more than 200 individuals and businesses supported the event and celebrated Swain's achievements.


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OCHA is halfway through its 2010-2013 Strategic Framework. As part of the biannual planning process for 2012-2013, OCHA reflected on each of its strategic objectives to ensure they still reflect the organization's top priorities, and are aligned with the USG's vision and the organization's commitments to partners.
For Goal 2 (a more effective humanitarian coordination system), OCHA's focus has gravitated towards two objectives: strengthening humanitarian coordination leadership (2.1) and improving the common programme cycle for better system-wide accountability (2.4). These two objectives comprise the USG's vision for strengthening OCHA's field effectiveness. They are aligned with the IASC's transformative actions and are now the foundation for OCHA's field performance frameworks. With renewed emphasis on both objectives, OCHA is committed to demonstrating even more tangible progress and achieving results.
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Objective 2.3 (a more predictable set of tools for preparedness, response and transition) is being mainstreamed into several other objectives. Many important OCHA tools and services (e.g. IM, inter-cluster coordination and needs assessments) are being revamped and are now covered under other strategic objectives, i.e. Objective 2.1 on coordination leadership includes OCHA's role in supporting inter-cluster coordination; Objective 2.4 includes important tools for improving coordinated needs assessment, planning, resource mobilization and information management; and Objective 1.3 on preparedness includes contingency planning tools and newly introduced Minimum Preparedness Packages. By focusing OCHA's tools on these important areas, we expect to improve the predictability of our services.


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The question arises... these recent FFL purchases have all been well documented. Unlike many of the purchases and trades we might have made in the past.
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Folks' Linksys WRT54Gwhatever shat itself recently. I had set them up with what seemed to be the equivalent of mine, at the time. Mine's the black model with the green lights; theirs were blue for some reason. Mine's older, but still going. Although a couple of years ago I had to start resetting it every day. I switched off its DHCP and assigned static IP's to my few devices, and that worked around the problem evidently. Maybe it was just getting bombarded at the time, and I could go back to dynamically-assigned IP's now, but whatever.
Anyways, it's dissappointing that theirs didn't last very long. I think these were about $60 routers (which bought you just wireless A/B/G, at that time). The wireless light was off and all four network port lights were flickering (even though only one had something connnected to it), not responding at its admin web address even after unplugging it for a minute. So definitely not salvagable, at least at my knowledge level.
So it seemed to keep it reasonable at under three figures, today's choices are $45 wireless-n routers and $90 wireless-ac ones. The "TP-Link Archer C5 Wireless-AC1200 Dual Band Gigabit Router" seemed well-reviewed, so I picked one up at the local Fry's. It has two external antennae, which I figured was a plus. It's got gigabit ethernet ports, which might possibly come in handy when Time Warner Cable bumps up its Internet speeds. It supports wireless-ac, which mom's iPhone could use, but also wireless-n that is the fastest that dad's netbook uses.
I'm not an expert, but of course I don't use the "dummy button" (WPS), which auto-sets up God-knows what defaults. Their admin screens were unfamiliar, having only used that formerly ubiquitous Linksys system, but everything was findable. Apparently wireless-ac and wireless-n operate on different frequencies or bands or whatever, so you actually set up two access point names. It auto-switches its admin addy to 192.168.0.1 when something else is taking 1.1, which is nice, as they had called cable guy out while I was at work, and he replaced their cable modem with one that had built-in wireless capability and took up 1.1. (I initially tried that address, and got web pages for the vendor of that device, which was my first clue.) I don't think our old Linksys models do that.
The results: Crap. Wireless-ac signal was so weak that mom's iPhone would switch over to cellular downstairs. (Wireless light was off on the cable modem.) Wireless-n signal is better, but still not all bars or whatever. Seriously, this is all of a 1200 sq ft two-story duplex home. One room down and one room over, and wireless-ac was paltry. I have a 1000 sq ft townhome of similar configuration and with wireless-g I get full bars from anywhere in my place, and a least a few feet outside my garage.
So basically I paid $90 for low-power wireless-n, because I had to switch her iPhone to that. So what then I'm wondering about is, are the later wireless technologies only theoretical, laboratory tech? These houses are just wood and drywall. I thought by getting the $90 router my folks would be ready if they ever wanted to stream movies some day. What good is wireless-ac if you basically have to be in the same room; it'd be faster to just do a wired connection then.


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KathyChung, Monday September 24, 2012 - 3:39pm
Happy Monday, ladies and gents!
Less than four weeks remain until SiWC 2012 gets underway!
Have you been dithering, trying to decide if a writing conference is right for you? Looking for a reason to register, in addition to the dozens and dozens of amazing workshops, panels, and master classes, the great meals, the keynote speeches, the night owl events, the cameraderie, the inspiration, and all the other great stuff SiWC has to offer?
How about a little inspiration in the form of this lovely success story, shared with permission of its author, Christine Brant? Enjoy!
Dear SiWC,
I'm writing to thank you for your amazing conference and share with you that I am a Surrey success story.
It started six years ago. There were so many ideas spinning around in my head. I wanted to write them all down, but I never took the time or put any effort into an attempt. Then I read a book by an author I really enjoyed. Her name was Kelley Armstrong. When I went to her web site, I learned she had three children and a full time job. Just like me. Finding this out was the inspiration I needed to sit down and put my ideas on paper.
I started writing my first manuscript that night. It now lives tucked under my bed.
But I finished and that was significant to me. During the time I was writing and editing, my family moved from the east coast of the United States to Seattle. After settling into life in Washington, I visited Kelley Armstrong's website. I discovered she would be attending a conference in Surrey, Canada. Not far from our new home. I wanted to go and get one of my books signed since she had been such an inspiration to me.
My husband encouraged me to go a step further by attending the conference and entering the Storyteller's contest.
So I wrote my first short story.
I'll never forget the call from kc telling me I won. She asked if I was sitting down, and I'm glad I was. :)
In 2007 I attended my first Surrey International Writers Conference. I won the Storytellers Award, and I got to meet Kelley Armstrong, the author who first motivated me to write. I also met so many other incredible writers and authors. All of whom gave me incredible advice and encouragement.
Over the next five years there were moments that I wanted to quit. Times I was discouraged and my creativity felt gone. It was the friends I made at Surrey who kept me going. They gave me the boost I desperately needed, just when I needed it, and occasionally the kick in the butt to write when I would have abandoned my dreams. They made sure I didn't give in to discouragement during those times it would have been so much easier to stop.
This past year, my very good friend and fellow conference attendee, Tyner Gillies, had his first novel published. After his novel came out, he offered to forward my first fifty pages to his editor. Within a week of receiving them, she requested my full manuscript. Two weeks later her publishing company, a small house in Canada, made me an offer. I signed a contract this summer.
None of this would have happened if not for the Surrey International Writers Conference. I am so grateful to be part of such a wonderful conference each year. I'm honored to attend and learn from more experienced authors, and fellow new writers.
Thank you Kathy, kc, and the Surrey Board for putting on a wonderful conference each year, you rock.
Thank you to the volunteers. Thank you to the presenters. Thank you to the community of writers who support and encourage each other. You are the most amazing group of people.
I am Surrey success story thanks to this amazing group of individuals.
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Chimera Synthesis bC16 Patchable Synthesizer
A mighty little modular at an unbeatable price! Yes, it's a real analog modular with real patch points, not some sort of fake connection points like in that controller with the shape of an MS-20 in the Legacy Collection.
The bC16 can be cryptic at first, with no printed layout to describe the functions of the knobs, no description of the 25 patch points and just three blinking lights. But that's the whole of the bC16-experimentation. You can try just about any connection point with one of the ten provided 2mm mini banana patch cords. After a while you get very accustomed to this micro-modular. Lets face it, with 1 ADSR, 1 LFO, 1 VCA, and 1 VCO (actually two linked VCO's) you can't really lose yourself. For its bargain price it's also a very good contender for use with other modular or semi-modular systems to add flexibility to them-need a resettable LFO for your MS-20? You got one here. Want a second ADSR for your Sherman Filterbank? You can find one in the bC16 (although you would have to make your own mini banana adapter). The bC16 is battery powered via six AAA batteries or by an external 9 to 12v source.
The linked oscillator is a very clever way to have two oscillators without another bundle of knobs. One VCO knob can adjust how detuned they are while another knob selects which waveform you want for both, or in some combination. Because the bC16 is battery powered, the VCO responds to a unique 0.586v/octave (5v/8.5 octave=0.586v/octave) control voltage signal. All the other modules respond to a more typical +/- 5v signal. The headphone amp is very noisy, though you can get around that when recording by using a mini-banana adapter to use the direct output of the voltage-controlled amp.
But beware, while it can do some basic synth applications, its main strength is to provide a powerful array of synth-FX sounds. Because of the ability of the synth to run by itself, you don't necessarily need a MIDI connection to make sounds with this tiny modular. And there's a lot of fun to be had with it-keep your sampler handy to sample whatever weird sounds you may find. For its price, it's a great and versatile device, which you can learn from without costing yourself an arm and a leg.
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- Oscillators - 2 linked analog VCOs
- Waveforms - sine, triangle, sawtooth and square wave (with adjustable duty cycle)
- Filter - 24dB/oct discrete ladder analog filter with Resonance and Cutoff knobs
- LFO - 2 linked LFO's with a host of modulation possibilties and waveshapes
- VCA - 1 voltage-controlled amplifier
- Envelope - 1 ADSR eg
- Arpeggiator - rising, falling, rising/falling, ordered. Via internal clock or MIDI clock.
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Growing entrepreneurs starts young. In the Blue Valley School District, it is starting in an innovative $12.5 million building where the next generation of entrepreneurs, engineers and life science researchers are getting a head start while still in high school.
It's called the Center for Advanced Professional Studies or CAPS. While many high school biology students are learning about DNA from textbooks, there are teens here actually extracting it from the saliva glands of fruit fly larva.
More than 500 Blue Valley juniors and seniors are getting this opportunity in a program that's fast getting national attention Producer Rich Miller takes us inside in the first of two parts about this program.
Believe it or not students in the CAPS program have also created dozens of businesses and products…everything from rechargeable cell phones to a prosthetic knee brace.
Some of these teenagers even have patents on their products. Next week on the Local Show, we meet some of those enterprising students.
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It was a relaxing, elegant reception for the small crowd that gathered upstairs at Anson Restaurant to celebrate the success of Lowcountry AIDS Services' Dining with Friends Weekend.
The hosts of the weekend's brunches and dinners were able to kick back and mingle over glasses of wine and a delicious spread of small bites, which included spring rolls, bruschetta, and fried macaroni and cheese topped with pimento cheese.
Everyone lingered around the spread or lounged at tables, reflecting on the wonderful weekend. The annual Dining with Friends Weekend supports and benefits Lowcountry AIDS Services. People of all walks of life host brunches, dinners, or cocktail parties during this annual event, in exchange for a donation to Lowcountry AIDS Services.
Lowcountry AIDS Services was founded 20 years ago to assist and support individuals living with HIV/AIDS and their families. To date, the organization has helped over 3,200 individuals affected by HIV in the Tri-county area.