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Tesla: Chris Christie's administration just blocked us from selling our cars in New Jersey
posted at 8:01 pm on March 12, 2014 by Allahpundit
All I know about this subject comes from a half-dozen stories I read during the past few hours, so I earnestly defer to commenters who know better. But am I right in thinking that this is nothing more than pure, sweet, 200-proof special-interest cronyism at work? The sticking point, as some of you already know, is that Tesla sells directly to the public through its own stores, not through third-party dealerships. Car dealers obviously have a strong incentive to make sure that that business model doesn't catch on. Solution: Keep Tesla off the market, especially a market like New Jersey where there's high demand for luxury cars among well-heeled Manhattan commuters. Tesla lobbied Christie's administration to block a new rule being kicked around by the state's Motor Vehicle Commission that would require all cars in Jersey to be sold through dealerships. Let it play out in the legislature, they argued, where they'd have more of a chance of defeating a bill along similar lines. Team Christie allegedly agreed; Tesla claims they've already been granted two licenses to sell their cars in state. Then, boom — suddenly the MVC turned around and passed the dealership rule. No more Tesla sales in New Jersey starting on April 1st.
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Having previously issued two dealer licenses to Tesla, this regulation would be a complete reversal to the long standing position of NJMVC on Tesla's stores. Indeed, the Administration and the NJMVC are thwarting the Legislature and going beyond their authority to implement the state's laws at the behest of a special interest group looking to protect its monopoly at the expense of New Jersey consumers. This is an affront to the very concept of a free market…
We are disappointed in the actions of the NJMVC and the Christie Administration, which come on the heels of more than nine months of unexplained delays in the issuing of a new sales license for Tesla, despite our numerous requests, calls, and letters. In addition, the NJMVC has also delayed the annual renewal of Tesla's current dealer licenses without indication of the cause of the delay. The delays have handicapped Tesla in New Jersey, where, without clear licensing procedures and fair enforcement of existing law, we have been forced to delay our growth plans. This is an issue that affects not just Tesla customers, but also New Jersey citizens at large, because Tesla would be unable to create new jobs or participate in New Jersey's economic revival…
We strongly believe it is vital to introduce our own vehicles to the market because electric cars are still a relatively new technology. This model is not just a matter of selling more cars and providing optimum consumer choice for Americans, but it is also about educating consumers about the benefits of going electric, which is central to our mission to accelerate the shift to sustainable transportation, a new paradigm in automotive technology.
Jersey's not the first state to spike Tesla. The two others, if you can believe it, are Arizona and Texas, where the auto-dealer lobby is also extremely influential. They haven't quite kept Tesla off the market there but they've done the next best thing — they've made it a Kafkaesque hassle for interested consumers to actually purchase a car. Seriously:
Store employees, for example, may not tell visitors how much a Model S costs. They can't give test drives. They can't discuss financing, leasing, or purchasing options.
Employees are not even allowed to refer interested people to an out-of-state store. No sales-related activity is permitted…
When we called the Austin store, the young lady who answered the phone would say only that the Model S was priced like similar luxury sedans, and referred us to the Tesla website…
Service centers are not allowed to display the Tesla logo or advertise that they do Tesla warranty work or service.
Christie's team defends the new rule on grounds that, right now, all cars in Jersey are sold through dealerships and therefore they're merely preserving the status quo until the state legislature weighs in. Unless I'm missing something, though, there's no current law stating that cars must be sold that way; that's why Tesla was able to obtain a few licenses before the NJDVM shut them down. Essentially, the Christie administration had a choice between protecting the current cronyist model or opening up the market up to competition and letting the legislature act to reverse that if it wanted to. It chose cronyism. Or am I missing something? This isn't a shoddy fly-by-night operation they're trying to protect consumers from; the Tesla Model S is the highest-rated car that Consumer Reports has ever tested. ("If it could recharge in any gas station in three minutes, this car would score about 110.") If electric cars and the company's direct-sales model are a bust, why can't we let the market tell us that? And why doesn't ostensibly conservative Chris Christie see it that way?
Actually, it may be the market that eventually sorts this out. Tesla is shopping around for a state in which to open its new $5 billion battery plant. Let the bidding begin.
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This is an update to the January 2009 Working Paper China's 1.7 Trillion Bet.
China is now by far the United States' largest creditor. Its treasury portfolio recently surpassed that of Japan's, and it has long held more agency (Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac) bonds than any other country. Never before has a nation as poor as China provided so much financing to a country as rich as the United States. In this Center for Geoeconomic Studies Working Paper, Brad W. Setser and Arpana Pandey estimate the true scale of China's U.S. portfolio and examine how the pace of growth and composition of China's portfolio have evolved over time.

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In September 1940 the German-Jewish intellectual Walter Benjamin walked into the French Pyrenees towards the Spanish border and never came back. It seems that when the Spaniards barred his passage, he swallowed morphine tablets to elude the Nazis. He received a Catholic funeral, as "Dr Benjamin Walter", in the Spanish border town of Portbou.
Today the Franco-Spanish border, like most in Europe, barely exists. It's just a half-forgotten line of stones on a field, photographed by Valerio Vincenzo in one of three magnificent photo-essays on borders showcased here. Nowadays you often only know you have crossed a European border when the telecoms provider on your cellphone changes. Yet as our pictures from Israel, Korea and the Mexico-US frontier show, elsewhere borders still very much exist. The militarised fence photographed by Gary Knight in Arizona's Sonora desert looks as if it could stand for ever.
But it won't. Closed borders are by their nature unstable. Too many forces – similarity on both sides of the fence, trade, desire for happiness – gnaw away at them. Already the southeast Asian states united in Asean are pursuing European-style porous borders by 2015. The South American countries in Mercosur have stumbled along a similar path. There's reason to hope more regions will follow Europe's example. In most places, history seems to be working against borders.
In the decades before the first world war, you could generally cross a European border without a passport. The movement of people and ideas helped make neighbouring countries more similar. From 1914, European borders began to tighten. The process reached its nadir in 1961, when Berliners woke one summer Sunday morning to find that the East German regime was building a wall through town. At least the wartime restrictions that killed Benjamin had been exceptional. With the Berlin Wall, closed borders became the everyday European reality.
There is a poignant piece of footage from that day: Berliners are standing around beside the rising fence, when suddenly a man and a small dog come running into the picture from the east. The man hurdles the waist-height wire and lands in west Berlin. But his dog, leaping after him, hits the wire. A border guard grabs the animal. The man and bystanders implore him to give it back. He refuses.
I grew up with the Iron Curtain. The other side seemed as mysterious and exotic as Tahiti. Then, on November 9 1989, the East German politburo member Günter Schabowski announced, possibly unintentionally, during a televised press conference, that the border would be opened immediately. That night people danced on the Wall. Not everyone came out. One East German later told me that when he saw the TV news, he hadn't reacted at all. He could not believe the Wall had fallen, and so he assumed it hadn't.
The German photographer Kai Wiedenhöfer, some of whose pictures of frontiers appear here, says the fall of the Wall "was the most exciting and positive political event I've ever witnessed". I thought so too, which is why in 1990 I went to study in East Berlin. Phones were scarce, so I used to walk 15 minutes into West Berlin to use the nearest call box. But over the months I watched the differences wane. The 100 bus resumed its pre-1945 route across town. I made friends with East German students, and discovered they were rather like us. The Berlin Wall was an extreme example of a general truth: people on either side of any border fence usually have huge amounts in common. On both sides, frontier people are shaped by the same forces of climate, landscape and (often) local dialect.
In 1990 I also spent a month in an East German village 500m from West Germany. At borders, you always wonder what fate placed some people on one side and some on the other. Wandering through the woods by the village one afternoon, I found out: hidden under some bushes was a small, square stone marked "K.P.". A few yards west was another stone, marked "K.H.". The 19th-century border between the Kingdoms of Prussia and Hanover had served again for the Iron Curtain.
After the Wall fell, the former West German chancellor Willy Brandt said, "Now what belongs together is growing together." He meant Germany, but his words were true of all Europe. In 1992 I stood on an apartment balcony in Riga, Latvia, overlooking the sort of courtyard you find in Berlin or Amsterdam. I was behind the Curtain, but almost everything felt familiar. An Indian told me he had the same feeling when he first visited Pakistan: it was like coming home, he said.
Now Europe is the most open it's ever been. While Vincenzo was taking his pictures he crossed European borders more than 1,000 times. Only once, at the Austrian-Czech border, did a patrolman ask what he was up to. Vincenzo says, "I did not even have to show him my ID; I showed him the pictures of my project, which was enough for him." Even the Polish-German border, once the fearsome Oder-Neisse line, has effectively gone. Poles and Germans have a bloodier past than Israelis and Palestinians, but house prices have proved a stronger force than history: many Poles now live on the German side, where property is cheaper. Perhaps the European Union deserved its Nobel Peace Prize.
The one town in Europe where you can still see old-fashioned border fences is Belfast. The Catholic Falls and the Protestant Shankill neighbourhoods are separated by a Peace Wall, but walking around each place, I was struck by their similarities: murals, memorials, churches, poor people wearing football shirts. The photographs of Belfast suggest a divided city à la Berlin, but that's not right. In the open city centre, Protestants and Catholics work or study together. Belfast isn't utopia, but it's much better than Jerusalem.
Europe's border fences are now on the outside of the bloc: between Spain and Morocco, or Greece and Turkey. Miltiadis Varvitsiotis, the Greek deputy foreign minister, says: "Let it be known: no one is welcome here. Our detention centres are hell? Well, let the story travel: tell everyone you know that our detention centres are hell. This is our last possible strategy, to let the news travel back that life in these centres is hell."
Yet people still come. I know a Filipina worker in France who wants to pay human smugglers $10,000 to bring her husband and son into Europe. She left her son when he was one and, because she lacked the papers to travel home, didn't see him again until he was eight.
Knight's pictures of the Mexico-US border look like hell too. But in fact, reality is less bleak. The proposed fence across the border, begun in the years after the 9/11 attacks, ended up covering only about 600 of the 2,000 frontier miles. Then it was quietly abandoned as expensive, ineffective and silly. This is the most-crossed frontier on earth. Mexican-US trade hit $500bn last year, up fivefold since the North American Free Trade Agreement took force in 1994, notes Erik Lee, a border expert at Arizona State University. Yes, many poor Mexicans die while secretly crossing the desert at night. Yes, Arizona's then state senator Russell Pearce pushed through the infamous law requiring police officers to check the immigration status of suspected illegal immigrants. However, even hardline US immigrant-hunters tend to want cheap Mexican labour to build their house, or crave a weekend's hedonism in Tijuana. As with most borders, people on either side need each other.
Lee's colleague Joseph Garcia says American politics are now tending towards a more open border. Pearce lost office in 2011. The Republican party, chastened by last November's election, has begun flirting with Latinos. Meanwhile, Barack Obama wants increased cross-border trade. Politicians may still talk macho about the Mexican frontier, but as we saw in Europe, the sturdiest borders can suddenly evaporate.
Much like the Berlin Wall, the Rio Grande river separates two groups of people with lots in common. Many inhabitants of Mexico's frontier towns work for American companies, watch American TV, and become so Americanised that Mexican governments have worked hard to "Mexicanise" them, for instance by subsidising traditional Mexican festivals. The two sides also have a long history of exchange: Mexicans traditionally go north for the harvest, then return home for the holidays. Along this border, you can't always tell who is a Mexican and who a Yanqui.
Such mutual similarities tend to eat away at the highest border fence. They are most obvious at the Korean-Korean border. The fact that North and South Korean border guards can blare insults at each other, and be understood, is why the border will disappear when the north's regime does. Similarities exist even across the Israeli-Palestinian fences. You see this most clearly in food: these are two peoples raised on hummus, whose methods of slaughtering are so alike that one London Muslim told me that when he couldn't get halal meat, he bought kosher instead. Regimes build walls partly to obscure similarities. The Israeli government and Hamas each needs the other side to be The Other.
Israel's wall will only grow. But the temper of our times – the decline in wars for territory, the rise of global trade – means that the future will probably look more like the Polish-German border. In Vincenzo's words, it's now "just a wooden walkway leading to the Baltic Sea".
Europe's disappearing borders
Since the signing of the Schengen Agreements in 1985, the borders of most of the European continent have been fading from the landscape and from people's imaginations, writes Valerio Vincenzo. The agreements are a giant leap in the progressive unification of Europe and the emergence of a European consciousness. Today, with 26 countries belonging to the Schengen Area, 16,500km of borders can be freely crossed. The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union has ratified the historical importance of this almost imperceptible but radical change in Europe.
With the help of a GPS navigation device and detailed maps, since 2007, I have conducted eight trips along these erased borderlines. I calculated that I crossed the borders more than a thousand times without having to show my papers. Even if these pictures have been taken thousands of kilometres apart, they all provide an image that is far from the stereotype we tend to associate with the notion of a border.
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I'm posting to say I haven't gone away, nor plans for Waverous... I am still planning on releasing File I/O in a newly patched form for the MOO community.I'm also keen on doing some serious experimentation with Waverous by doing wholesale changes from C to C++, just to see what happens.I've been super busy here in Las Vegas running the Python Programmers Meetup and attending many other meetups, especially the Las Vegas Jellies. The weekly Jelly happens right down the street from me and has exploded with activity.
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Luca Cappellini our Young Leader in Diabetes from Italy, has forged his personal experience from Dubai into his new project, the Young Leaders Italia (YLI). While parents of children with diabetes and adults are working together in a marvellous network in Italy, Luca felt that an organised youth, capable to stand up and speak for themselves, was missing. The first step he took was to create a group on Facebook, open for all young people with diabetes between the age of 18 and 30 to join. This group gave them the chance to meet and get to know each other, and share their personal experiences, which was appreciated by a large group of people from all over the country. Feeling that virtual meetings were not enough, the group held their first real meeting at a camp organised by the "Diabete Sport Training" project.
Luca helped organise this training, because he believes that sport is a fundamental part of daily life for every person sharing this condition and especially for young people. In every camp there is a team formed by local diabetologists, paediatric diabetologists, nutritionists, psychologists, nurses and, of course, professional trainers. Through specific tests and games, the team monitors the physical abilities of each young person from 6 to 30 years and issues a sport passport at the end. The participants learn how to train regularly, eat properly before training and manage their insulin therapy according to their physical activity in these camps.
They get the chance to try out several disciplines and to rediscover the pleasures of sport. During the Catania Diabete Sport Training camp, Luca and the other YLI members had the chance to explain to the other participants about their YLI project and several of them have joined the YLI enthusiastically. YLI aims to prepare young people with diabetes for future challenges and to represent the voice of young people with diabetes. Therefore YLI's goal is to attract more members so the YLI group becomes a melting pot that brings together boys and girls from all over the country and combines the efforts of the several national associations. Luca about setting up YLI: "I'm very thankful for this experience and the support I receive from my YLI team to accomplish this. We have already signed up for two more camps to tell more people about YLI, which, surely, will be another success. Maybe we will meet you there?"


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I was last in Belize ten years ago on a back-packing trip, so things may have changed but:
One or half-day guided trips were readily available on Ambergris Cay, which is the main tourist area. I didn't partake because I was travelling on the cheap.
I had good non-guided success for bonefish off the docks (first light before the people show up) and beaches at Cay Caulker, which was the main backpacking destination back then. At that time you could rent a sea kayak hourly or daily to access some of the more remote parts of the Cay.
Make sure you bring your own flies and gear because at least back then, there was very little for sale.
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Privacy Resources for Librarians, Library Users, and Families
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"How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."—George Orwell
As technologies change, new laws get enacted, and access to the Internet becomes a more and more essential library resource, issues of privacy and confidentiality are becoming far more complex and important for our library patrons than they ever have before. This is all the more true since public and school libraries often provide the only Internet access available to many in our communities. With library catalogs acting as gateways to the World Wide Web, it is becoming imperative that libraries take a proactive role in educating the public about threats to their privacy and confidentiality posed by shopping, emailing, chatting, and even surfing the Internet. Libraries can take steps to minimize these risks; for instance, through enacting privacy policies, through educating patrons, and through installing privacy enhancing technologies. This resource is intended to assist in such efforts, and to encourage librarians to think about and question more than just circulation record policies when rewriting privacy and confidentiality policies.
Resources that provide various types of privacy protection have been gathered here, as a preliminary effort towards responding to Council's charge, and to assist in researching the threats to and possible protections of Internet privacy. Those libraries seeking to write privacy-protecting policies and practices into their Internet Access Policies may benefit from these links to existing privacy policies and other professional, legal, and technological resources. Direct links from library home pages or library privacy policy pages to some of these educational resources could help library patrons seeking to both educate themselves about these issues and to protect their own personally-identifiable information.
I. Existing ALA Policies, Guidelines, and Resources on Privacy and Confidentiality
Background to Privacy Interpretation
- Privacy: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights (2002)
- Questions and Answers on Privacy and Confidentiality (2002)
- Policy on Confidentiality of Library Records (1971, rev. 1975, 1986)
- Policy Concerning Confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information about Library Users (1991)
- Suggested Procedures for Implementing Policy on Confidentiality of Library Records (1983, rev. 1988)
- Libraries & the Internet Toolkit: Tips and Guidance for Managing and Communicating About the Internet (2000)
- Final Report of the Task Force on Privacy and Confidentiality in the Electronic Environment (July 7, 2000)
- Developing a Confidentiality Policy (2000)
II. Resources for Librarians Concerned about Internet Privacy
Papers and Presentations on Privacy
"Fact or Fiction: Privacy in American Libraries," presented at CFP 2002, the 12th Conference on Computers Freedom & Privacy by Carrie Gardner, Ph.D.
"Privacy and Library Systems Before & After 9/11: Outline of talk given March 27, 2002 at the Public Library Directors' Forum" by Karen Coyle
Statements in Support of Privacy as a Human and Civil Right
"No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks." Article 12, Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
"We protect each library user's right to privacy and confidentiality with respect to information sought or received and resources consulted, borrowed, acquired or transmitted." Article 3, Code of Ethics of the American Library Association (1995)
"4. Any organization creating, maintaining, using, or disseminating records of personally identifiable information must assure the reliability of the data for its intended use and must take precautions to prevent misuse; and 5. There must be a way for an individual to prevent personal information obtained for one purpose from being used for another purpose without his or her consent." Principles 4-5 of the "Code of Fair Information Practices." Source: U.S. Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare, Secretary's Advisory Committee on Automated Personal Data Systems, Records, Computers, and the Rights of Citizens viii (1973). Quoted in CDT's Guide to Online Privacy: Privacy Basics
"Demographic or identifying information gathered at servers that is not actively provided by the user should not be used beyond the analysis of site activity; in particular, no attempt should be made to identify individual users or to pass this information on to other parties." Electronic Privacy Principles
Governmental and Legislative Issues
- State Privacy Laws Regarding Library Records
- Federal Trade Commission Privacy Initiatives
- Privacy Laws by State (excerpted from Compilation of State and Federal Privacy Laws, 1997 ed., by Robert Ellis Smith and Privacy Journal)
- EPIC Bill Track: Tracking Privacy, Speech, and Cyber-Liberties Bills in Congress
Privacy Protection: Tools and Technologies
- Is your PC watching you? (November 8, 2001)
- EPIC Online Guide to Practical Privacy Tools (Electronic Privacy Information Center, last updated October 22, 2001)
Privacy Policies
- Sample Library Web sites:
- UT Southwestern Medical Center Library Web Site Privacy Policy (last updated November 6 2000)
- Jimmy Carter Library Web Site Privacy Statement (last updated August 1, 2000)
- Seattle Public Library — Privacy of Your Library Account
"The Library keeps patron transactions in confidence as a matter of policy. This Administrative Policy safeguards the privacy of all library users, regardless of their age or their relationship to the person requesting information. Legal authority for the Confidentiality Policy comes from RCW Title 42; section 17. Everyone, regardless of age, is entitled to free, open and equal access to materials and services, including books, magazines, and audio and video recordings."
- Minnesota Public Library Association Intellectual Freedom Committee
"Your privacy is assured when you use our e-mail reference service, or any other service. The Minneapolis Public Library staff will keep the identities of library users and the nature of their inquiries confidential. (See Minnesota Government Data Practices 13.40, Library and historical data, for more information.)"
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III. Privacy Resources for Library Patrons
- Current Privacy News
- Educational Resources
- Know the Rules, Use the Tools: Privacy in the Digital Age: A Resource for Internet Users (September 2000 report issued by the Senate Judiciary Committee)
- Cookie Frequently Asked Questions
- CDT's Guide to Online Privacy (Center for Democracy and Technology)
- Privacy Protection: Recommended Practices
- EFF's Top 12 Ways to Protect Your Online Privacy (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
- Privacy in Cyberspace: Rules of the Road for the Information Superhighway (Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, rev. August 2000)
- Protecting Your Personal Information: It's Your Choice (Federal Trade Commission)
- Privacy Protection: Tools and Technologies
- EPIC Online Guide to Practical Privacy Tools (Electronic Privacy Information Center, last updated Nov. 2, 2000)
IV. Educational Resources for Children and Families
- Center for Media Literacy
- Rules to Surf By: Teach Your Kids to Be Privacy-Wise (GetNetWise Online Safety Guide)
- Children in Cyberspace: A Privacy Resource Guide for Parents (Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, rev. April 2000)
- Consumer Privacy Guide.org
- Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (1974)
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Binghamton University to host Science Olympiad competition
BINGHAMTON, NY -- Binghamton University will host the Southern Tier Science Olympiad competition starting at 8 a.m. Saturday, February 6, at various locations on the University campus.
Hundreds of area high school students, representing more than 10 schools, will face off in a day long series of contests designed to test their knowledge in diverse fields such as chemistry, cell biology, structural engineering, astrophysics and mathematics. A total of 20 different events, held in locations across campus such as the East Gym and the Lecture Hall, will test students' engineering and scientific skills.
A closing ceremony will be held at 3 p.m. in Lecture Hall 1. The winning teams will move on to the state competition at the United States Military Academy at West Point and to the national competition to be held at the University of Illinois, on May 21-22, 2010.
The Science Olympiad is a national non-profit organization devoted to improving the quality of science education, and creating a passion for science. The Olympiad provides recognition for outstanding achievement in science education by both students and teachers. The mission of the Science Olympiad is "to promote and improve student interest in science and to improve the quality of K-12 science education throughout the nation."
This event is sponsored by the Binghamton University Chemistry Department, the Binghamton section of the American Chemical Society and Endicott Interconnect Technologies, Inc.
For more information go to http://chemistry.binghamton.edu/ACS/.


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Year 4 - Week 01 - 360°
The start of the fourth year of weekly GigaPan panoramas in the University of Guelph Dairy Bush. Fantastic!
check out the same week over the past three years:
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2010 - gigapan.com/gigapans/58800/
2009 – gigapan.com/gigapans/32520
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I've extracted images from a year of Dairy Bush GigaPans to illustrate the rapid decomposition of the leaf litter in this forest associated with the presence of non-native worms. The forest floor is changing! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRRv09_oF5w
There is a timelapse video of the third year of the Dairy Bush GigaPan on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G519AVNzp-w
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Pippa. Take a trip back in time and get inspired for your next quilting project.
Q: Where did you find your original inspiration for this collection?
A: This collection was originally inspired by Ingrid Bergman and 1940s era Hollywood. The gray color way is called Silver Screen. Some prints that did not make it into the final stage of production I call Isabella and Pia (named for two of Ingrid Bergman's children), and Ingrid.
Q: What was your "aha" moment in designing this collection?
A: The collection percolated for a long time before finally being scheduled. Initially it included more florals, but in the end the decision was made to emphasize the geometric patterns in the group.
I received the final printouts of the colors and patterns when I was visiting my mother in Florida. We spent the evening drinking wine and pairing together the different colors and patterns. It was a really fun night!
Q: What would be your collection's theme song?
A: I am SO glad you asked this question! The song Ingrid Bergman by Billy Bragg is one of my all-time favorites. I listened to the album Mermaid Avenue by Billy Bragg & Wilco countless times while working on the collection. It is a really beautiful album.
Q: Tell me about your sewing machine(s). What kinds do you have and how many?
A: I have two. One is a White sewing machine which my grandmother purchased for me in 1988 or so. The other is a Singer that was handed down to me through my step-mother. I loved this machine, but the spring on the pressure foot recently broke, and I don't think it can be replaced or repaired. BIG. BUMMER.
Q: What is your favorite part of the fabric industry?
A: Everything! I love the creative people. I love the products, the prints, the colors. I love the shows I get to attend, which include quilt markets and gift shows. There are so many beautiful things to see!
Q: From what aspect of your life do you draw creativity?
A: My entire work life revolves around imagery, art and design. Not only do I spend all day working on creative projects, but I am married to an industrial designer, so in many ways our entire life is a visual process.
I am also always deeply inspired by fine art and painting. The first painter I ever loved was John Singer Sergeant. I saw a Sergeant show at the Art Institute of Chicago when I was in middle school. I was amazed. A current favorite is Mark Rothko.
Q: What is your design process?
A: My initial step is to look at a lot of imagery (magazines, art, and online searches). Then I draw and draw and draw. Then I digitize everything (which is yet another drawing stage). Then my arm feels really tired, so I leave the art alone for a little bit. Finally, I colorize. I usually make many, many versions of each color combination. I have more than 100 versions of the pattern "Bellingham." I think you could say I go a bit overboard, but I love seeing what happens to the patterns when the colors change.
Q: What is your favorite print in the collection?
A: It changes depending on my mood. Today, I like Ikat Dot, available in green and pink, and Bellingham, available in pink and gold, which, I realize, totally reflects my dual obsessions with very classic art and very modern design.
Q: What is the most challenging part of the design process?
A: Narrowing down the patterns to the final group. I always want many more in a collection than can reasonably be manufactured.
Q: What are your favorite and least favorite colors and why?
A: I can't really think of colors that I don't like, but there are definitely colors that I use over and over again. Yellow is a color I use A LOT. I like it because it is both contemporary and classic. It is also a color that works as a neutral. My logo is yellow. I also have yellow shoes, shirts, a jacket, bowls, pillows, a rug, a stapler and so many other yellow things in my house.


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Diverticulitis is small, bulging sacs or pouches of the inner lining of the intestine (diverticulosis) that become inflamed or infected. Most often, these pouches are in the large intestine (colon).
No one knows exactly what causes the sacs, or pouches of diverticulosis to form. Eating a low-fiber diet is one of the most likely causes.
People who eat mostly processed food, as many Americans eat, do not get enough fiber in their diet. Processed foods include white rice, white bread, most breakfast cereals, crackers, and pretzels.
As a result, constipation and hard stools are more likely to occur - causing people to strain when passing stools. This increases the pressure in the colon or intestines and may cause these pouches to form.
Diverticulosis is very common. It is found in more than half of Americans over age 60.
Diverticulitis is caused by small pieces of stool (feces) that become trapped in these pouches, causing infection or inflammation.
People with diverticulosis often have no symptoms, but they may have bloating and cramping in the lower part of the belly. Rarely, they may notice blood in their stool or on toilet paper.
Symptoms of diverticulitis are more severe and often start suddenly, but they may become worse over a few days. They include:
Your health care provider will examine you. Blood tests may be ordered to see if you have an infection.
Other tests that help diagnose diverticulitis may include:
The treatment of diverticulitis depends on the severity of your symptoms. Some people may need to be in the hospital, but usually you can treat this problem at home.
To help with the pain, your doctor may suggest that you:
The doctor may treat you with antibiotics.
After you are better, your doctor will suggest that you add more fiber to your diet and avoid certain foods. Eating more fiber can help prevent future attacks. If you have bloating or gas, reduce the amount of fiber you eat for a few days.
Once these pouches have formed, you will have them for life. If you make a few simple changes in your lifestyle, you may not have diverticulitis again.
Usually, this is a mild condition that responds well to treatment. Some people will have more than one attack of diverticulitis.
More serious problems that may develop are:
Call your health care provider if symptoms of diverticulitis occur.
Also call if you have diverticulitis and:
Fox JM, Stollman NH. Diverticular disease of the colon. In: Feldman M, Friedman LS, Brandt LJ, eds. Sleisenger and Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease. 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier;2010:chap 117.
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SuperNutes is a multivitamin and mineral supplement with important vitamin and mineral components needed for a growing child. Besides having the highest quality professional-grade vitamins' SuperNutes also contains generous doses of industry leading Albion® minerals' setting SuperNutes in a class by itself when compared with other children's multivitamins.
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Thiamine (B1 as thiamine HCI) 10mg / 667% / 1'429%
Riboflavin (vitamin B2) 10mg / 588% / 1'250%
Niacin (as niacinamide) 10mg / 50% / 111%
Vitamin B6 (as phyridoxine HCI) 10mg / 500% / 1'429%
Folic Acid 400mcg / 100% / 200%
Vitamin B12 (as methylcobalamin) 25mcg / 417% / 833%
Biotin 30mcg / 10% / 20%
Pantothenic Acid (as d-calcium pantothenate USP) 10mg / 100% / 200%
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Iodine (as potassium iodide USP) 75mcg / 50% / 107%
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Zinc (as TRAACS zinc glycinate chelate) 2.5mg / 17% / 31%
Selenium (as selenium glycinate complex) 10mcg / 14% / *
Manganese (as TRAACS manganase glycinate chelate) 100mcg / 5% / *
Chromium (as chromemate) 25mcg / 21% / *
Molybdenum (as TRAACS molybdenummm glucinate chelate) 1mcg / 1% / *
Potassium (as potassium glycinate complex' iodide) 25mg / <1% / *
Stevia Leaf Extract 10mg / * / *
Inositol 5mg / * / *
PABA USP 5mg / * / *
Vanadyl Sulfate Hydrate 100mcg / * / *
Boron (as proteinate) 25mcg / * / *
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The Power of No: How to Keep Blowhards and Bozos at Bay : The terrible yes years. You know them well: You're suckered into working late and often, unflattering haircuts and poodle perms, back-fat-exposing blouses, too small jeans, treacherous friendships, and dudes who kiss like a Saint Bernard . . . all because you couldn't use that one little word . . . that one little word with so much power . . . N-O. Unlike "please respect my boundaries," N-O has teeth. It says jump back! Stand down! Mess-with-me-at-your-peril! It can be delivered like a whisper or spat out like a curse. N-O is perfect for every relationship, from cubicle to corner office, backyard to bedroom, dry cleaner to grocery store. Worn on your hip and drawn in one smooth action, NO lets you say, "I don't have time for this nonsense. I am making a great life here." The perfect book for anyone who has ever been passed over for a promotion, dated jerks, married a disaster, suffered too many fools, or just needed more time alone, The Power of No will teach you how to manage what you don't want and get what you do.
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27 August 2012
I just spent a fascinating week in China.
It started at a WHO meeting with 14 countries from the Western Pacific Region discussing the big question: Now that the UN Summit on NCDs is over, how can governments committed to addressing NCDs and diabetes do so in resource poor settings?
In countries and areas where everything is scarce - money, medicines, trained health workers and patient records how can governments make these commitments more than paperwork.
Where health systems are designed to treat one off episodes of infectious illness and not designed for chronic diseases like diabetes, how can governments reshape these systems to tackle the diabetes epidemic.
I ended the week with very hospitable diabetes colleagues in Qingdao, the team led by the amazing Professor Dong who spotted diabetes as an issue decades before others had spotted China's current epidemic.
The hospital he established now sees 50,000 outpatients a year. Demand is so great that they are building a second hospital in an effort to cope. His very able colleague Dr Zhang told me that many of those with type 2 diabetes have never been obese and a high percentage have to be swiftly moved on to insulin.
We have to prevent and delay as much as we can, but we must also take action to cope with the 366 million people with diabetes who are with us now, 92 million of them in China.
That's where the WHO meeting I attended last week comes in. Five years ago IDF experts were involved in developing a WHO protocol for identifying and treating NCDs at the primary care level in low income settings. The PEN (Package of Essential NCD Disease Interventions) got off to a slow start. It appears that new focus on diabetes and the NCDs following last year's Summit has prompted WHO to brush off the PEN package and see how it can be updated and evolved to answer that big question of 'what should we do?'
And we should applaud WHO for doing this and for rightly focusing on primary health care. Primary health care workers must be equipped and trained to recognise and treat diabetes and its complications as far as possible. The numbers are now too great to think that the tertiary level can cope. Primary care workers need to be trained to know when they should refer a case on and then, have somewhere to refer it to.
The challenges are immense. Primary health care workers are already scarce and overloaded. But ignoring diabetes is not an option. And as we know, real people come with multiple conditions. It is illogical to treat someone for TB only to let them die from diabetes complications. Diabetes is with us, governments have committed to act and so they must.
The PEN package is not perfect. It misses out diabetes in pregnancy, it has no strategy for dealing with traditional and 'quack' medicine which targets NCDs far more than infectious, it needs to develop health worker training to fit the real world and promote the all essential empowerment of patients. And it must recognise the role that NGOs like IDF and its member associations have to play. We have expertise, experience and people power to assist governments in a job they will not be able to do alone.
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1.8: Equations that Describe Patterns
Suppose that you have 45 minutes to do your math homework, and your teacher has assigned 15 problems. To find out, on average, how many minutes you can spend on each problem, what equation could you set up? Also, if you set up an equation and solve it to find the answer, how will you know that your answer is correct? In this Concept, you will learn how to decide what equation to use and how to make sure your answer is correct once you've found it.
When an algebraic expression is set equal to another value, variable, or expression, a new mathematical sentence is created. This sentence is called an equation.
Definition: An algebraic equation is a mathematical sentence connecting an expression to a value, a variable, or another expression with an equal sign (=).
Suppose there is a concession stand at a theme park selling burgers and French fries. Each burger costs $2.50 and each order of French fries costs $1.75. You and your family will spend exactly $25.00 on food. How many burgers can be purchased? How many orders of fries? How many of each type can be purchased if your family plans to buy a combination of burgers and fries?
The underlined word exactly lends a clue to the type of mathematical sentence you will need to write to model this situation.
These words can be used to symbolize the equal sign:
Exactly, equivalent, the same as, identical, is
The word exactly is synonymous with equal, so this word is directing us to write an equation. Using the methods learned in lessons 1.1 and 1.6, read every word in the sentence and translate each into mathematical symbols.
Example A
Your family is planning to purchase only burgers. How many can be purchased with $25.00?
Step 1: Choose a variable to represent the unknown quantity, say for burgers.
Step 2: Write an equation to represent the situation: .
Step 3: Think. What number multiplied by 2.50 equals 25.00?
That number is 10. Checking an answer to an equation is almost as important as the equation itself. By substituting the value for the variable, you are making sure both sides of the equation balance. Let's check that 10 is the solution to our equation by substituting it back in for .
Since these numbers are equal, 10 is the solution. Your family can purchase exactly ten burgers
Example B
Is a solution to ?
Solution: Begin by substituting the value of 3 for .
Because is NOT a true statement, we can conclude that is not a solution to .
Example C
Check that is the solution to the equation .
Solution: To check that is the solution to the equation, substitute the value of 5 for the variable, :
Because is a true statement, we can conclude that is a solution to .
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Guided Practice
Translate the following into equations:
a) 9 less than twice a number is 33.
b) Five more than four times a number is 21.
c) $20.00 was one-quarter of the money spent on pizza.
a) Let "a number" be . So, twice a number is .
Nine less than that is .
The word is means the equal sign, so .
b) Let "a number" be . So five more than four times a number is 21 can be written as: .
c) Let "of the money" be . The equation could be written as .
More Practice
For c) above, find how much money was spent on pizza.
Think: One-quarter can also be thought of as divide by four. What divided by 4 equals 20.00?
The solution is 80. So, the money spent on pizza was $80.00.
Sample explanations for some of the practice exercises below are available by viewing the following video. Note that there is not always a match between the number of the practice exercise in the video and the number of the practice exercise listed in the following exercise set. However, the practice exercise is the same in both. CK-12 Basic Algebra: Equations and Inequalities (16:11)
In 1 – 3, define the variables and translate the following statements into algebraic equations.
- Peter's Lawn Mowing Service charges $10 per job and $0.20 per square yard. Peter earns $25 for a job.
- Renting the ice-skating rink for a birthday party costs $200 plus $4 per person. The rental costs $324 in total.
- Renting a car costs $55 per day plus $0.45 per mile. The cost of the rental is $100.
In 4 – 7, check that the given number is a solution to the corresponding equation.
In 8-12, find the value of the variable.
In 13-15, answer by writing an equation and solving for the variable.
- You are having a party and are making sliders. Each person will eat 5 sliders. There will be seven people at your party. How many sliders do you need to make?
- The cost of a Ford Focus is 27% of the price of a Lexus GS 450h. If the price of the Ford is $15,000, what is the price of the Lexus?
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Hey,who's the photographer this time? You can't have a jamboree without showing some pictures to the rest of us that can't be there .
Well the day got off to a messy start. It was raining early in the morning and had been raining most of the night. Nevertheless, my great friend and I were there by 6:40am. Even though there was still a light rain, we proceeded to set up. We ran land first with a poison bird with the blind under the arc. The bird was thrown right to left at about 100 yrds and the blind was about 160 yrds at the base of a tree along a fence line. I also set up a blind tight behind the gunner which went up a hill and into a wide open area at about 180-200 yds. All but me chose to run the blinds but without the poison bird. I guess that is something I like to do quite often to demand decipline in that the dog has to run tight to the bird when running the blind.
Given the line, the marks were set up about the length of a FT Q. Left bird thrown R to L at about 180 yds. from behind a brush pile in the middle of a big field. Middle bird at about 220-250 thrown R to L from the edge of a tree line that juts out into the field. The right bird at about 150 yds. thrown L to R into a little cove along the tree line. The right bird and middle bird were fairly tight. The field had been strip cut but the cover was still medium to fairly heavy.
Different people chose to run them different ways. Some ran as singles; some ran the right and left bird as a double and then ran the middle bird as a single. We did wind up tying white steamers to the birds because given the weather and background, they were very hard to see. I do believe each handler did a good job choosing a manner of running the marks that based on the level of the dog, challenged them but also taught the dog. Each handler seemed to be happy with what they tried to accomplish.
Later in the day, the sun came out and the rain gear came off. We then went to water. Three marks and a blind. The blind was away from the marks, but crossed two fairly short points then to the base of a group of trees with the blind to the very left of the trees. Getting the dogs on the points and then off was the meat of the blind. It was about 160 yds. Left mark at about 160-170 yds thrown R-L at the end of a channel. Middle bird thrown L-R angled back into a little cut out of woods at about 130 yds. The right bird thrown R-L at about 110 yds over a levee into a 2nd body of water that was a cheating mark from the line. The dog had to get into the water tight to the shore then get up on the levee then into a pond of water on the other side of the levee. That middle bird was along the edge of the little pond over the levee into the cut out of the woods along the left edge of the pond over the levee. To give you an idea of how tough it could be, here is what my chocolate girl did. I threw the birds L-R. Molly did not cheat the water but when she got up on the levee, she cut left around the pond and I thought the little sh$t was going to pick up the middle bird instead of the go bird. But then she just cut back to the right into the water and picked up the go bird. At first I thought it might be considered a switch since she got close to the middle bird. But when I sent her to the middle bird she pinned it. Oh well. On the left bird, she wanted to get out early and I had to cast her back into the chanel afte a correction.
I wasn't the only one who was surprised. A friend of mine who ran it also had trouble. After picking up the go bird, his dog wanted the long left bird. Since he was training he insisted that he pick up the middle bird. When he veered of to go for the long bird, he called him back and resent him. Just telling this to let all know that it was a challenging setup.
The grounds and water were great. I also believe that all felt that a lot was accomplished training- I know I did.
Ken, those who got a bottle of your Maple Syrup are really licking their chops. I just drew names out of a hat. One person has already tasted it and wants to know where it came from. He wants to know if you sell it. Will PM you later about it. I must admit that I kept one of the bottles myself. My true desire is to keep it and give it as a gift to the next person that hosts the 3rd Jamboree. It is my goal to sign up as the 1st person commiting to attend.
You know how much I thought of your effort. People who have an idea and the initiative to follow throuh with their ideas are those whom I have the highest respect. Again I want to thank you for your effort and support.
To whoever hosts the 3rd Jamboree, I will be there with your bottle of Ken's Maple Syrup. To whoever comes, I LOOK FORWARD to meeting you and watching your dog or dogs run
Great going Cary. Hope to see pictures! Too bad the weather could not be more cooperative. Real rainy here in SW Ontario this morning. Good luck.
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cary and kendall,
i am sorry i missed the event. i was helping out at north alabama trial with minor stakes and qual didn't finish on saturday. i wish i could have been there.
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Thanks for hosting, sounds like some great set-ups, and a real success. Wish we could have been there, we really enjoyed meeting and talking to you and seeing your dogs run at the first one.
Colleen and Jim
To those who wanted to come and for some reason were not able to come, I wish it had worked out differently. As I have said, when I went to the first Jamboree, I did not know a single person who was there. In fact I was reluctant to go but went because Stan asked me. To my surprise I DID get in some very good training. Very little standing around listening to people talking about how they trained. The theme was get your dog out and TRAIN!
Even though I have many books and videos, there is nothing like training with both pros and amateurs alike, something I have been so lucky to be able to do. To those who are starting this journey, I can't tell you how important it is to see and train with those who have experience. To those who do have the experience, I hope you realize how much you can help those just beginning.
Two years ago, I had muddled through training and had managed to get seasoned titles on my two girls. I wanted to go south for the winter and Bill Autey was kind enough to allow me to train with him during that time. After a time he set up a poisoned bird to be run. When I told him that neither my dogs nor I had ever run one, he said "get your dogs and RUN it"! Later on he set uup 4 marks to be run as a Double-Double( I guess that is what you call it). When I complained that my dogs had not even run a triple yet, he again said "get your dogs out and run it"! Another time when I got upset with myself for making a mistake, he told me "get your head out of your A$$, you have another dog to run". He made me realize that my dogs wern't the problem, I WAS THE PROBLEM. What lessons he taught me. So much did I learn from him. So much I have since learned from those that I have been able to train with.
When I came back home, I ran back to back weekends with one girl going 4 for 4 in finished,getting her title and the other going 3 for 4 and her failure was MY FAULT. I give so much credit to Bill for my girls' success, something that I can never repay him. This was just the start for me and now I am so lucky to be able to train with many who are more experienced that I.
I can't do anything for those who have helped me but maybe I can help someone who is just beginning in some small way. That is my goal.
I saw the Jamboree as something that I might be able to do just that. Maybe there is a better way but I do know there is a real need to help those who are beginning this journey. I know club training days are part of the answer but you will only see the same people.
I know that there are many on this forum that are smarter than me, have more knowledge and ability than me, and have ideas that could address helping those who are just beginning. I do hope someone will step forward to make this wondersul sport more satisfying to those beginning.
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A primary characteristic of professionals is that they use knowledge to guide their decisions and actions, sensitive to the impact of these actions on an individual or on society as a whole. The physician making a decision about the treatment of a patient or the engineer making a decision about safety issues in a highway design project must use the best available information. Scientists, engineers, health-care professionals and others have a responsibility to continue to grow and to use the most current and most appropriate information in making their decisions. The discipline-based scientific, engineering and professional societies and associations perform an outstanding service in assisting their members in staying current and determining best practices. Multidisciplinary societies and associations play a very different and perhaps critical role of bringing together professionals from across the spectrum of science and engineering. These two types of professional organizations are very different but complementary.
Frequently I hear colleagues asking what membership in a certain professional organization provides as a tangible asset for me. Does membership help me in resume building, does membership provide me with printed materials, or does it assist me in getting grants, tenure, promotion, etc.? All organizations should be prepared to answer questions about the benefits of membership, and they have a clear responsibility to provide members with the tangible items promised with membership. However, it seems to me that as professionals we should ask other questions: How can we enhance our discipline? How can we enhance the spectrum of disciplines represented by science and engineering?--and, most importantly, how can we benefit society? In my opinion, membership in discipline-based and multidisciplinary organizations is a responsibility that professionals accept because it is one method of fulfilling our commitment to society. Organizations that represent specific disciplines are well suited to serve the role of advancing that discipline and to provide an interface between the discipline and society.
However, as scientists and engineers we should not only accept the obligation of being members of professional organizations, we should be willing to assume the many leadership roles required to make organizations like Sigma Xi serve society. Every Sigma Xi member, active or inactive, was nominated by a member and therefore honored for having achieved a significant goal in scholarship. Having been honored by election to membership, each member then has a continuing obligation to seek out others deserving of the same honor. By electing to membership those who have earned the honor, we assure continuance of Sigma Xi and enhance our organization's ability to serve society.
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Members of the campus and area community will have a chance to learn more about graduate student research at Princeton during a Graduate Research Symposium from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 5, in Whig Hall.
A student initiative in its first year, the symposium is an interdisciplinary forum that is intended to give students practice at discussing their research with nonspecialists. Nineteen graduate students from disciplines as diverse as Near Eastern studies, psychology and electrical engineering are slated to share the results of their recent work during poster sessions. A panel of judges will award prizes to the three poster presentations that most effectively convey the nature and significance of a particular research problem to people with no advanced training in the subject.
The event also will feature a 10 a.m. speech by Robert Weisbuch, president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and a 2:30 p.m. address by Daniel Kahneman, Nobel laureate and professor of psychology at Princeton. The full conference schedule is available online .
The symposium is sponsored by the Princeton Graduate School, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning at Princeton, the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni and the Princeton Graduate Student Government. Organizers hope the symposium will become an annual event that brings the results of important research to the attention of the wider Princeton community.
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"Perhaps the prettiest number system of all," writes Donald E. Knuth in The Art of Computer Programming, "is the balanced ternary notation." As in ordinary ternary numbers, the digits of a balanced ternary numeral are coefficients of powers of 3, but instead of coming from the set {0, 1, 2}, the digits are –1, 0 and 1. They are "balanced" because they are arranged symmetrically about zero. For notational convenience the negative digits are usually written with a vinculum, or overbar, instead of a prefixed minus sign, thus: .
As an example, the decimal number 19 is written 101 in balanced ternary, and this numeral is interpreted as follows:
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1 x 33 - 1 x 32 + 0 x 31 + 1 x 30,
or in other words 27 – 9 + 0 + 1. Every number, both positive and negative, can be represented in this scheme, and each number has only one such representation. The balanced ternary counting sequence begins: 0, 1, 1, 10, 11, 1, 10, 11. Going in the opposite direction, the first few negative numbers are , 1, 0, , 11, 10, 1. Note that negative values are easy to recognize because the leading trit is always negative.
The idea of balanced number systems has quite a tangled history. Both the Setun machine and the Frieder emulator were based on balanced ternary, and so was Grosch's proposal for the Whirlwind project. In 1950, Claude E. Shannon published an account of symmetrical signed-digit systems, including ternary and other bases. But none of these 20th-century inventors was the first. In 1840, Augustin Cauchy discussed signed-digit numbers in various bases, and Léon Lalanne immediately followed up with a discourse on the special virtues of balanced ternary. Twenty years earlier, John Leslie's remarkable Philosophy of Arithmetic had set forth methods of calculating in any base with either signed or unsigned digits. Leslie in turn was anticipated a century earlier by John Colson's brief essay on "negativo-affirmative arithmetick." Earlier still, Johannes Kepler used a balanced-ternary scheme modeled on Roman numerals. There is even a suggestion that signed-digit arithmetic was already implicit in the Hindu Vedas, which would make the idea very old indeed!
What makes balanced ternary so pretty? It is a notation in which everything seems easy. Positive and negative numbers are united in one system, without the bother of separate sign bits. Arithmetic is nearly as simple as it is with binary numbers; in particular, the multiplication table is trivial. Addition and subtraction are essentially the same operation: Just negate one number and then add. Negation itself is also effortless: Change every into a 1, and vice versa. Rounding is mere truncation: Setting the least-significant trits to 0 automatically rounds to the closest power of 3.
The best-known application of balanced ternary notation is in mathematical puzzles that have to do with weighing. Given a two-pan balance, you are asked to weigh a coin known to have some integral weight between 1 gram and 40 grams. How many measuring weights do you need? A hasty answer would be six weights of 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32 grams. If the coin must go in one pan and all the measuring weights in the other, you can't do better than such a powers-of-2 solution. If the weights can go in either pan, however, there's a ternary trick that works with just four weights: 1, 3, 9 and 27 grams. For instance, a coin of 35 grams—110 in signed ternary—will balance on the scale when weights of 27 grams and 9 grams are placed in the pan opposite the coin and a weight of 1 gram lies in the same pan as the coin. Every coin up to 40 grams can be weighed in this way. (So can all helium balloons weighing no less than –40 grams.)
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2nd day, I walked up on a flock coming up through thick cover. A jenny appeared in an opening, 1st tag filled, good break at the shot, however no call back, rather odd. 3rd day, ran the dogs ragged, went back out in the afternoon, blind called for over 2-1/2 hours (coarse yelp,and cluck or two on a funky ol' box call, and every once in a while a pissy hen with a mouth call), Stood up to leave (had to go back to send caregiver home), and caught movement 60 yards out going in behind a big tree. Dumb luck I didn't get caught. Out stepped two gobblers, they were coming to the call. I waited til 30 yards,and dropped one. Both were similar size. We'll be out taking the dogs rest of the season for my wife,and a few hunting buddies.


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During the 2013-14 fall turkey season, 5,351 turkeys were harvested. The 2013-14 season total was the highest fall harvest reported over the past 9 years. This harvest was 21% above last year's reported kill (4,432). The harvest increased 8% in counties west of the Blue Ridge Mountains (WBR) (1,734 vs 1,869). Counties east of the Blue Ridge Mountains (EBR) increased 29% percent (2,698 vs. 3,482). EBR hunters harvested 22 birds per 100 square miles of forest range. The rate was nearly identical in counties WBR where 21 birds were killed per 100 square miles of forest range. Bedford led all counties with a harvest of 167 birds. Most (93%) of the harvest was reported on private lands. Approximately 5% of the harvest was on federal lands. The harvest on the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests increased 15% and 11%, respectively. On the youth apprentice fall turkey hunt day, 50 birds were harvested which is lower than last year (60).
The 2013-14 fall season was the third year where a 2-week turkey hunting was provided in January. The harvest during the January season was 265 birds, a slight increase over the 2012-13 harvest of 245 birds. Many hunters submitted complimentary remarks about the opportunity to hunt in January.
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