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JOHNSON CITY (Dec. 18, 2012) – For the first time in 20 days, the ETSU men's basketball team will return to action at home Tuesday night, hosting non-conference opponent Charleston Southern at 7 p.m. inside Brooks Gym.
Because of renovations currently underway inside the ETSU/MSHA Athletic Center, the game is being moved to the gymnasium which was once home to ETSU basketball until the mid 1970s. Fans are encouraged to arrive early, as seating will be general admission.
The Bucs (2-6) will be looking to snap a three-game losing streak, and will face a team that they defeated earlier this year 59-57 on the road. In an interesting side note to the game, both programs use the nickname "Buccaneers."
For more on changes to the evenings normal game-day operations, click on the link below:
For more on the game, read the game notes located below or click on the game notebook link above. For more on ETSU men's basketball throughout the 2012-13 season, visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the men's hoops link.
We are "ETSU"
The ETSU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics would like to ask both the print and broadcast media to honor our request to be called "ETSU" ... East Tennessee State in first reference is acceptable, but subsequent references should be ETSU ... On TV graphics please use ETSU ... Our nickname is the Buccaneers, but Bucs is also acceptable.
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After several years of quality returning players and at least some level of certainty regarding what to expect heading into the winter months, the 2012-13 ETSU men's basketball team will enter the new campaign with several questions and concerns. ... The loss of standout seniors such as Adam Sollazzo (Tampa), Isiah Brown (Miami, Fla.) and Tommy Hubbard (Boston) will be hard to overcome, considering that group combined for a total of 3,091 points in their careers ... A year ago, the Bucs enjoyed quality wins such as a road victory over Atlantic 10 Conference foe Charlotte, and finished with a respectable 17 victories on the season. The team finished fourth in the Atlantic Sun Conference standings at 10-8, reaching the league tournament semifinals. ... This season, the Bucs' top two returning starters were guards Sheldon Cooley (Tampa) and Marcus Dubose (Hartsville, S.C.), who both combined to score 19.7 points per game a year ago. ... However, both Cooley and Dubose have been dismissed from the team for violation of team rules and policies ... Along with those two, fellow guard Jarvis Jones (Memphis) and forward Lukas Poderis (Port Richey, Fla.) are the only other ETSU seniors to be returning after playing significant minutes last year, but Poderis is now lost for the season with a left foot injury and will be forced to redshirt, while Jones missed the first seven games of the year for academic reasons ... Jones returned against Ole Miss ... With so few returning, experienced players, ETSU will be looking to some unproven returning players, as well as a recruiting class that includes three incoming freshmen and a pair of junior college transfers, to come in and make an immediate impact. Sophomores Rashawn Rembert (Tampa) and John Walton (Memphis), along with redshirt freshman Lester Wilson (Knoxville) are expected to increase their production this year, while true freshmen guards Petey McClain (Mobile, Ala.), Mario Stramaglia (Birmingham, Ala.), and Yunio Barrueta (Miami, Fla.) will look to blossom into early contributors. ... On the interior, Walton will need help from junior college transfers Kinard Gadsden-Gilliard (Georgetown, S.C.) and Hunter Harris (Nashville). While they may have plenty of questions entering the season, the Bucs' schedule will not provide much patience for development. The team will face teams such as North Carolina, Virginia Tech, Ole Miss and Georgia in the opening weeks of the season, and will host 2011 Final Four participant VCU (Jan. 2) just days before the start of the Atlantic Sun Conference slate. The team will also enjoy a Christmas holiday trip to the Diamond Head Classic and face Arizona in the first round of that event on Dec. 22.
Last time out
OXFORD, Miss. (Dec. 14, 2012) – The return of senior guard Jarvis Jones (Memphis) made a difference for the ETSU men's basketball team, but it still was not enough to upend Southeastern Conference foe Ole Miss Friday night in the Tad Smith Coliseum. ... A much more competitive Buccaneers' team led midway through the first half, but looked on as Ole Miss guard Marshall Henderson put on a shooting clinic from beyond 3-point range, hitting on six attempts from outside and scoring a game-high 22 points in a 77-55 win for the Rebels. ... For the Bucs, freshman forward Lester Wilson (Knoxville) scored a team-high 14 points, while Jones and freshman guard Mario Stramaglia (Birmingham, Ala.) netted 11 each. Along with Henderson, the Rebels (7-1) had three other players reach double figures, with Reginald Buckner pitching in 11 points while both Nick Williams and Murphy Holloway had 10 each. ... The presence of Jones was obvious at the start of the game, as the Buccaneers' offense seemed much more in sync, and that helped ETSU build a lead of 16-13 with 8:52 left in the half. However, at that point the Bucs' shooting percentage went south while Ole Miss put together a 20-6 run to finish the first 20 minutes with a 33-22 lead. ... After the break, the Bucs got to within nine points at 40-31, but again Henderson took over and lit up the nets from outside. The result was a lead that ballooned to as many as 23 points in the second half. ... For the game, the Bucs committed 22 turnovers compared to 18 for Ole Miss. ETSU did hold its own on the glass, being out-rebounded just 43-40.
The series versus Charleston Southern
ETSU holds a 4-0 record all-time against Charleston Southern, having first played CSU back in 1979 ... The last meeting came back earlier this season on Nov. 20, a 59-57 victory in Charleston, S.C.
Last time against Charleston Southern
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Nov. 20, 2012) – Starting three freshmen, a sophomore and a junior, a shorthanded ETSU men's basketball team overcame adversity off the court and rallied from a 20-point first-half deficit to win 59-57 over Charleston Southern in non-conference basketball action Tuesday night inside the Buccaneer Fieldhouse. ... While redshirt freshman Lester Wilson (Knoxville) led the way with a career high 26 points and junior Kinard Gadsden-Gilliard (Georgetown, S.C.) posted a 12-point, five-rebound effort, it was sophomore post John Walton (Memphis) whose layup was the game-winner with 3.7 seconds left on the clock. ... CSU's Saah Nimley raced to the rim as the final seconds expired, but his floater from the lane missed the mark and ETSU completed the remarkable victory. ... The Buccaneers (1-2), who played the game without the services of senior guards Sheldon Cooley (Tampa) and Marcus Dubose (Hartsville, S.C.) because both have been suspended indefinitely from the team for violations of team rules and policies, battled throughout the contest and got spectacular individual efforts from several players to pick up the win. ... In a battle of two teams with the same Buccaneers nickname, ETSU took a major punch to the gut from Charleston Southern (1-3) early on, and trailed by as many as 20 points at 35-15 with 5:49 left on the clock. However, at that point Wilson scored 11 of ETSU's next 16 points and powered a 16-3 run to end the half, making the score 38-31. ... To start the second half, ETSU continued to rally and ultimately took the lead at 49-46 on a Gadsden-Gilliard 3-pointer with 8:20 left in the game. CSU regained the advantage at that point and didn't trail again until a 3-pointer by Wilson made it 57-54 with 2:46 remaining. ... From there, Charleston Southern tied it at 57-57, but on ETSU's final possession of the game, Wilson took a shot that missed, KGG rebounded the ball and missed, and then Walton gathered up the loose ball and scored the game-winner.
Bucs to go back in time at "Back to Brooks" game
The ETSU men's basketball team will return to the site of many great Buccaneer hoops moments Tuesday night as they host Charleston Southern inside Brooks Gym ... Named after legendary head coach Madison Brooks, Brooks Gym was home for Buccaneer basketball until the mid-1970s, when what is now called the ETSU/MSHA Athletic Center opened ... This is the first time the Bucs have played in Brooks since hosting a special "Back to Brooks" game during the 2009-10 season against North Georgia ... ETSU won that contest back on Dec. 10, 2009.
Bartow atop list of second generation coaches
Murry Bartow's coaching lineage is undeniable ... As the son of the late Gene Bartow, he had the fortunate opportunity to grow up learning from one of the most successful basketball coaches in college history ... Setting off on his own career, Bartow has carried on the family tradition of success ... His 61 percent winning percentage at ETSU makes him the winningest Buccaneers' head coach by percentage, and his 181 wins at ETSU ranks second on the Bucs' all-time list ... In addition, Bartow's 284 career victories ranks No. 1 among second generation college coaches ... Along with his father's 647 career wins, the Bartow men have combined for 931 victories, ranking fourth on the all-time win list for Father/Son coaches.
ESPN names Wilson to nation's Top 25 freshmen list
While circumstances have forced the ETSU men's basketball team to struggle in the early going this season, talented redshirt freshman forward Lester Wilson (Knoxville) has still given the Buccaneers reason for hope. ... Wilson, who is averaging 18.1 points per game, was listed as one of the Top 25 freshmen in college basketball Thursday by ESPN hoops writer John Gasaway. The list – which included players such as UNLV's Anthony Bennett, UCLA's Jordan Adams, Michigan's Nik Stauskas and Duke's Rasheed Sulaimon – had Wilson ranked at No. 25. ... Currently the Atlantic Sun Conference's third best scorer, Wilson has posted four 20-plus point games so far this season. Of those contests, he scored a career high 27 points in the win over Milligan back on Nov. 29, after scoring 26 in the Bucs' previous win over Charleston Southern on Nov. 20.
Bucs get defensive in win at Charleston Southern
In their win against Charleston Southern, the Buccaneers held its opponent to just 28.8 percent shooting from the floor ... It was the first time since Feb. 26, 2009 that the Bucs have kept a team under 30 percent shooting in a game ... In that 2009 contest, ETSU held Kennesaw State to just 26.3 percent shooting from the floor.
Talented Bucs still face obstacle with experience
At no time in the tenure of ETSU head coach Murry Bartow have the Buccaneers had less experience ... Currently, the team has eight players who are eligible and healthy enough to play, of that group there is only four total years of Division I experience ... On average, that's less than a half year of experience per player ... With four freshmen and two junior college transfers that means 66 percent of the team is competing in their first season of Division I basketball.
Bucs not feeling charitable at the line
In a strange statistical anomaly, the Buccaneers did not have a free throw made against them in back-to-back games, and in fact, they did not even allow a team a free throw opportunity in their game against Milligan … Against Georgia, the Bulldogs were 0-for-1 at the charity stripe … Meanwhile, Milligan did not even attempt a free throw against the Bucs on Nov. 29 … Going back to the 1984 season, this was the first time no team has made a free throw against the Bucs, much less in back-to-back games.
Three-point streak for Bucs dates back nearly 20 years
Since Feb. 16, 1987, the Bucs have made at least one 3-pointer in 773 consecutive games. ... In that game back on Feb. 16, 1987, the Bucs were 0-for-8 in a loss to Davidson.
Junior college transfers set to power Bucs' inside game
With the signing of junior college transfers Kinard Gadsden-Gilliard (Georgetown, S.C.) and Hunter Harris (Nashville), the Bucs are hoping to have added some strength -- and beef -- to their inside game this season ... At 6-foot-5, 250 pounds, Gadsden-Gilliard is a rare combination of size and agility, while Harris is a high energy player who can rebound and block shots at a high level ... With the loss of senior post Lukas Poderis (Port Richey, Fla.) for the season due to a foot injury, the expectations for Harris and KGG have only risen. ... In the win over Charleston Southern, KGG and Harris combined for 18 points and 12 rebounds.
Bucs have tradition of postseason appearances, success
The ETSU men's basketball team has enjoyed its share of postseason success and ranks as one of the nation's most prestigious basketball programs ... The Buccaneers have earned berths to the NCAA Tournament nine times (1969, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010) and NIT twice (1983, 2007) ... In 2011, the Bucs made their first ever appearance in the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament, winning twice and advancing to the semifinals of that event ... It was the program's 12th postseason tournament appearance all-time.


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Revs' captain is among the five nominees for "Best MLS Player"
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – New England Revolution midfielder Shalrie Joseph is among the five nominees for the 2010 ESPY Award for Best MLS Player, ESPN announced today on its website. Joseph joins fellow nominees Jeff Cunningham (FC Dallas), Landon Donovan (LA Galaxy), Kasey Keller (Seattle Sounders FC) and Conor Casey (Colorado Rapids) as finalists for the annual award. This is Joseph's first ESPY nomination.
The 2010 ESPY Awards will take place on Wednesday, July 14, at Hollywood's Kodak Theater where Seth Meyers will serve as the show's host. ESPN will televise the awards show live at 9 p.m. ET.
Fans can place their votes for Joseph – as well as the nominees in all 36 award categories – at http://espn.go.com/espys/#/home.
In 2009, Joseph was one of three finalists for the MLS Most Valuable Player award after recording a career-high eight goals and eight assists. One of the game's most dominating central midfielders, Joseph moved forward to play striker after a rash of injuries hit the Revs. As the captain, Joseph's late-season performance was largely credited with helping push the Revs into the MLS Cup Playoffs.
After a two-week break from league play, the Revolution returns to MLS action on Sunday, June 27, when the club hosts the archrival Chicago Fire at 7 p.m. at Gillette Stadium. For ticket information, call 1-877-GET-REVS or visit revolutionsoccer.net.


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Giulietti: Metro-North gaining on goals
Metro-North President Joseph Giulietti told commuters Thursday that he couldn't say when the railroad would regain the consistency riders experienced in early 2013, before track maintenance and other issues hobbled the New Haven Line.
But in front of a packed Westport station house, Giulietti did promise that Metro-North would maintain a higher standard of maintenance for tracks and other equipment, and would establish predictable trip times.
Giulietti, who fielded questions from riders and commuter advocates, said the railroad has been doing its best to design a new schedule that would provide reliable service amid the constraints of mandatory speed restrictions on the New Haven Line.
The next step, he said, would be, "How can you make it better?" he said. "The next challenge is, how do we get even more trains, and do that in a reliable fashion going forward?"
Rob Driscoll, a Westport commuter, said that it would be ruinous to communities like Westport, Fairfield and Bridgeport if the railroad can't trim trip times that can extend past 70 minutes in each direction to Grand Central Terminal.
"If we institutionalize our current failures, that is really going to be damaging, in terms of our local economy," Driscoll said. "Why would you move out of the New York area if you think it is going to be a 70-minute-plus train trip, twice a day."
"We can't pretend the problems Metro-North is experiencing are going to fix themselves," said Westport First Selectman Jim Marpey, "but when you realize that the trains are traveling the same speed they did two or three generations ago, you know we have to do better."
According to the railroad, a schedule change that Metro-North hopes to implement next month would result in shorter trip times for more than 80 percent of New Haven Line trains during the morning peak period, and longer trips for only 12 percent of runs.
The Connecticut Department of Transportation is evaluating whether the state should approve the schedule, after Gov. Dannel P. Malloy raised questions last week about whether the New Haven Line should aim for on-time performance of at least 95 percent.
Giulietti said that the competing priorities of speed and safety will continue to be a challenge, most immediately when Metro-North installs positive train control -- a more advanced speed-control technology -- within the next half-decade.
"Every time you put in safety appurtenances that remove the possibility of human error, the beauty of it is, it gets safer and safer," Giulietti said. "But the other side of that is limitations, in terms of frequency of service."
Jennifer Johnson, director of the Westport Transit District, commended the railroad's management for improving on-time performance of trains in recent months, but said that major improvements in trip time need to remain a priority.
"If we could get train trip times between Stamford and Grand Central Terminal down to 30 minutes, that would be incredible," Johnson said. "I want to understand if that is a really a goal."
Giulietti and Connecticut Department of Transportation Commissioner Jim Redeker said the New Haven Line's ability to achieve 30-minute service between New Haven and Stamford, and Stamford and Grand Central, would require major and costly infrastructure changes to realign curves and accommodate higher speeds.
The 30-minute goal, Giulietti said, "is very aggressive, most of all between Stamford and Grand Central Terminal. I won't be the one to tell you it is inconceivable, but it is very aggressive."
Giulietti said that the railroad's work to complete a section of catenary upgrades between Southport and Bridgeport and a piece of track in the Bronx, N.Y., by next month is on schedule.
"Everything we're doing is going toward better reliability -- but also (toward) the windows for operational maintenance that we'll need going forward," Giulietti said. "My assumption (that) there had been too much emphasis on on-time performance over safety was probably correct."


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Wolfgang Ketterle Speaks on "Superfluid gases near absolute zero temperature"
This lecture has been cancelled due to complications following Superstorm Sandy
Physics Nobel Laureate Dr. Wolfgang Ketterle will deliver the Inaugural Cummins Lecture at the City College of New York 4 p.m. Thursday, November 1, 2012. Dr. Ketterle – whose research explores the bizarre world of ultracold matter – will discuss "Superfluid gases near absolute zero temperature." The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will take place in room 95, the recital hall, Shepard Hall. A reception will precede the event at 3:30 p.m.
Professor Ketterle was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics for his fundamental experiments in low temperature physics leading to Bose-Einstein condensation in a gas. He is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the director of the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultra-Cold Atoms, and the associate director of the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT.
Professor Ketterle's research in atomic physics investigates the characteristics of ultracold matter through laser cooling and trapping atoms. The Nobel Prize Committee recognized Professor Ketterle's research in which he chilled a cloud of atoms to a supercooled state near absolute zero to produce a form of matter called a Bose-Einstein condensate, created an atom laser from the condensate and conducted several seminal studies.
Albert Einstein and Satyendra Bose, for whom the condensate was named, predicted the existence of such a state of matter in 1925. Professor Ketterle shared the Prize with two independent researchers who also accomplished the same feat.
At the frigid temperatures required for this research, collections of atoms no longer behave as a standard gas, liquid or solid. Individual atoms in a condensate abandon independent movement and act as a single entity, taking on strange wave-like quantum properties.
When chilled to these very low temperatures, some materials lose all electrical resistance and become superconductors. In his talk, Professor Ketterle will discuss the related phenomenon of superfluidity – the state achieved by some liquids and gases when they lose their viscosity at low temperatures. Some superfluids display surprising properties, such as the ability to flow directly through solid matter or crawl up the sides of a container.
Particles called fermions must first form pairs before they can become superfluids. These pairs are analogous to the electron pairs, often called Cooper pairs, which are responsible for superconductivity. In his talk, Professor Ketterle will discuss his observations of fermion pair formation at very low temperatures. Such studies of ultracold atoms present a new approach to condensed-matter physics.
Professor Ketterle holds a diploma from the Technical University of Munich and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Munich. He joined the physics faculty at MIT in 1993 after completing postdoctoral work at the Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, at the University of Heidelberg and at MIT.
He received the Rabi Prize of the American Physical Society in 1997, the Fritz London Prize in Low Temperature Physics in 1999, and the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics in 2000
The Annual Cummins Lecture was established by the Cummins family and friends to honor the life and work of Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Physics Herman Z. Cummins (1933-2010.) Professor Cummins came to City College from New York University in 1974 and established a world-class laser light scattering laboratory.
Remembered as an enthusiastic mentor and model, he used laser light in novel and ultra-sensitive ways to investigate the inner structure of matter. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1996 and held numerous other fellowships, such those for the American Physical Society and the New York Academy of Sciences. Although he retired in 2004, Professor Cummins continued to oversee research in his laboratory until 2010.


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This is the time of the year for looking back, a la Time Magazine and CNN. Following is my personal (and highly idiosyncratic) view on how the year unfolded:
Person of the Year: The Three Stooges
This was a no-brainer. Anytime I was stuck for a pictorial representation for a blog piece, these guys delivered. Need something to illustrate the fine points of personality? Moe, Larry, and Curly - and sometimes Shemp - were there. The intricacies if the human condition? Who better? The state of psychiatry today? I rest my case.
Historical Person of the Year: Adolf Hitler
Investigating historical figures sheds endless light on timeless behaviors and current conditions. This year's crop included Lincoln (depressive realism), Ayn Rand (greed), Phil Ochs (depression and empathy), LBJ (bipolar grandiosity), and Chairman Mao (Machiavellianism). We even used President Obama to shed light on the unfortunate condition of chronically normal. And for pure evil - who best to illustrate the point? Wait, that's not ...
Supreme Being of the Year: God
When I tell people this blog is about everything from God to neurons I really mean it. Okay, God and I have issues. In fact, earlier this year, in a post here, I reported that I fired God. No one owns the truth about God, but when we're looking to explain life, the universe, and everything, who always turns up in the conversation? My own proof of God? Look at us - someone up there has to be laughing.
Neurotransmitter of the Year: Dopamine (of course)
From a PowerPoint slide presented by Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, reported here earlier this year: "All drugs of abuse increase dopamine in the nucleus acumbens. But stress does, too."
Or this, from a piece on deciding on a partner: "When all is said and done, it is the ventral tegmental area (VTA) that rules, not the parts of the brain we actually think with. The VTA is the dopamine-sensitive region in the midbrain that mediates pleasure and reward."
Trust me, compared to dopamine, serotonin is a wimp.
As I like to tell people, reported in another piece here: "If you think you are experiencing God - it's probably dopamine. If you think you are experiencing love - it's probably dopamine. That doesn't mean God or love is not real, but we know dopamine is."
Ah, the God to neurons thing again.
Psychiatrist of the Year: Emil Kraepelin (second year running)
As I reported last year: "Okay, he's sort of dead - well, completely dead - which is a rather large technically. But even dead, this guy leaves the live psychiatrists for dead."
This year, psychiatry excelled at playing dead. As those of you with at least two working neurons are aware, last year journalist Robert Whitaker published his eye-opening "Anatomy of an Epidemic," which raised the startling proposition that mental illness is on the rise because of meds, not despite meds.
We waited for an intelligent response from psychiatry. And we waited - and waited. Except for a sicko hissy fit from psychiatry thought leader Andrew Nierenberg, psychiatry played dead. And continued to play dead.
This was like waiting for Godot. Last month, I had no choice but to conclude: "So, for right now, in the absence to date of any credible marshaling of the facts from psychiatry, Whitaker stands as the most authoritative voice on psychiatric treatment."
Somehow, I cannot imagine Kraepelin - the father of diagnostic psychiatry who knew far more about manic-depression in 1921 than the failed proctologists who mindlessly dispense antidepressants today - sitting out this vitally important conversation.
Condition of the Year: Crazy
Crazy is not a dirty word. "Here's to the crazy ones," begins the classic 1997 Apple ad. "The misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes ... They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do."
Here's to you, Steve Jobs.
That was the year that was.
Who knows what next year will bring? Whatever happens, we're all in it together. Many thanks to all of you here who gave me a reason to get out of bed each morning.
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
The Year That Was: My 2011 Highlights and Lowlights
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Mr. McManamy,
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, insight, and humor.
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Many thanks, Anonymous, and Anonymous.
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Crazy. I like it
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Junior All-American wrestler Chris Healy is closing in on the Wabash College record for most career wins after smashing the single season record a year ago. This weekend he will compete at the NCAA Regional in an effort to return to the National Championships. But the wrestler, whose record this year is a sterling 38-3, has accomplished all that he has despite being blind in one eye.
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Mayor Don Wesely, U.S. Representative Doug Bereuter and University of Nebraska officials will join NEBCO, Inc. and the Lincoln Saltdogs baseball team to dedicate the new Haymarket Pedestrian Connector Saturday, July 13. The bridge, which connects Haymarket Park with the Haymarket area of downtown Lincoln, will be fully lit for the first time at the beginning of the seventh inning of the Saltdogs game against the Joliet Jackhammers. Tickets for the 7:05 p.m. game are available by calling 474-2255.
"The lighting ceremony will honor the many people who worked together to bring professional baseball back to Lincoln and to build Haymarket Park and the new bridge," said Wesely. "Baseball and the spirit of cooperation are both very much alive in Lincoln."
Haymarket Park is the result of a partnership among the City of Lincoln, the University of Nebraska and the Lincoln Saltdogs, owned by NEBCO, Inc. Haymarket Park, which opened June 1, 2001, is also home to the UNL baseball and softball teams.
The pedestrian/bicycle connector project cost about $4.5 million. Rep. Bereuter was instrumental in securing $3.5 million in federal funds, and the Railroad Transportation Safety District provided $1 million. The two side-by-side spans of the bridge are 265 feet long and enter the Haymarket area on 8th Street next to the main Post Office.
The west span of the connector opened temporarily May 25 for the Saltdogs first home game of the season and for the UNL baseball team's post-season games. The entire bridge is now open to the public and is part of the City trails system. The Haymarket Park parking lots will also be available for UNL football parking this fall, and the connector will provide access from Haymarket Park to Memorial Stadium.
The pre-fabricated bridge spans were built by Continental Bridge in Minnesota. Sampson Construction of Lincoln built the approach ramps, connecting spans and support towers.
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Measurement system
Concept of Measurement system
|Exact copy, made in 1884, the international prototype kilogram registered at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Sevres, France, which defines the unit of mass in the SI, the modern metric system.
Measurement system, any of the systems used in the process of associating numbers with physical quantities and phenomena. Although the concept of weights and measures today includes such factors as temperature, luminosity, pressure, and electric current, it once consisted of only four basic measurements: mass (weight), distance or length, area, and volume (liquid or grain measure). The last three are, of course, closely related.
Basic to the whole idea of weights and measures are the concepts of uniformity, units, and standards. Uniformity, the essence of any system of weights and measures, requires accurate, reliable standards of mass and length and agreed-on units. A unit is the name of a quantity, such as kilogram or pound. A standard is the physical embodiment of a unit, such as the platinum-iridium cylinder kept by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures at Paris as the standard kilogram.
Two types of measurement systems are distinguished historically: an evolutionary system, such as the British Imperial, which grew more or less haphazardly out of custom, and a planned system, such as the International System of Units (SI; Système Internationale d'Unités), in universal use by the world's scientific community and by most nations.
Early units and standards
Ancient Mediterranean systemsBody measurements and common natural items probably provided the most convenient bases for early linear measurements; early weight units may have derived casually from the use of certain stones or containers or from determinations of what a person or animal could lift or haul.
The historical progression of units has followed a generally westward direction, the units of the ancient empires of the Middle East finding their way, mostly as a result of trade and conquest, to the Greek and then the Roman empires, thence to Gaul and Britain via Roman expansion.
The EgyptiansAlthough there is evidence that many early civilizations devised standards of measurement and some tools for measuring, the Egyptian cubit is generally recognized as having been the most ubiquitous standard of linear measurement in the ancient world. Developed about 3000 bc, it was based on the length of the arm from the elbow to the extended fingertips and was standardized by a royal master cubit of black granite, against which all the cubit sticks or rules in use in Egypt were measured at regular intervals.
The royal cubit (524 mm, or 20.62 inches) was subdivided in an extraordinarily complicated way. The basic subunit was the digit, doubtlessly a finger's breadth, of which there were 28 in the royal cubit. Four digits equaled a palm, five a hand. Twelve digits, or three palms, equaled a small span. Fourteen digits, or one-half a cubit, equaled a large span. Sixteen digits, or four palms, made one t'ser. Twenty-four digits, or six palms, were a small cubit.
The digit was in turn subdivided. The 14th digit on a cubit stick was marked off into 16 equal parts. The next digit was divided into 15 parts, and so on, to the 28th digit, which was divided into 2 equal parts. Thus, measurement could be made to digit fractions with any denominator from 2 through 16. The smallest division, 1/16 of a digit, was equal to 1/448 part of a royal cubit.
The accuracy of the cubit stick is attested by the dimensions of the Great Pyramid of Giza; although thousands were employed in building it, its sides vary no more than 0.05 percent from the mean length of 230.364 metres (9,069.43 inches), which suggests the original dimensions were 440 by 440 royal cubits.
The Egyptians developed methods and instruments for measuring land at a very early date. The annual flood of the Nile River created a need for benchmarks and surveying techniques so that property boundaries could be readily reestablished when the water receded.
The Egyptian weight system appears to have been founded on a unit called the kite, with a decimal ratio, 10 kites equaling 1 deben and 10 debens equaling 1 sep. Over the long duration of Egyptian history, the weight of the kite varied from period to period, ranging all the way from 4.5 to 29.9 grams (0.16 to 1.05 ounce). Approximately 3,500 different weights have been recovered from ancient Egypt, some in basic geometric shapes, others in human and animal forms.
Egyptian liquid measures, from large to small, were ro, hin, hekat, khar, and cubic cubit.
The BabyloniansAmong the earliest of all known weights is the Babylonian mina, which in one surviving form weighed about 640 grams (about 23 ounces) and in another about 978 grams (about 34 ounces). Archaeologists have also found weights of 5 minas, in the shape of a duck, and a 30-mina weight in the form of a swan. The shekel, familiar from the Bible as a standard Hebrew coin and weight, was originally Babylonian. Most of the Babylonian weights and measures, carried in commerce throughout the Middle East, were gradually adopted by other countries. The basic Babylonian unit of length was the kus (about 530 mm, or 20.9 inches), also called the Babylonian cubit. The Babylonian shusi, defined as 1/30 kus, was equal to 17.5 mm (0.69 inch). The Babylonian foot was 2/3 kus.
The Babylonian liquid measure, qa (also spelled ka), was the volume of a cube of one handbreadth (about 99 to 102 millilitres, or about 6.04 to 6.23 cubic inches). The cube, however, had to contain a weight of one great mina of water. The qa was a subdivision of two other units; 300 qa equaled 60 gin or 1 gur. The gur represented a volume of almost 303 litres (80 U.S. gallons).
The Hittites, Assyrians, Phoenicians, and Hebrews derived their systems generally from the Babylonians and Egyptians. Hebrew standards were based on the relationship between the mina, the talent (the basic unit), and the shekel. The sacred mina was equal to 60 shekels, and the sacred talent to 3,000 shekels, or 50 sacred minas. The Talmudic mina equaled 25 shekels; the Talmudic talent equaled 1,500 shekels, or 60 Talmudic minas.
The volumes of the several Hebrew standards of liquid measure are not definitely known; the bat may have contained about 37 litres (nearly 10 U.S. gallons); if so, the log equaled slightly more than 0.5 litre (0.14 U.S. gallon), and the hin slightly more than 6 litres (1.6 U.S. gallons). The Hebrew system was notable for the close relationship between dry and liquid volumetric measures; the liquid kor was the same size as the dry homer, and the liquid bat corresponded to the dry ʾefa.
Greeks and RomansIn the 1st millennium bc commercial domination of the Mediterranean passed into the hands of the Greeks and then the Romans. A basic Greek unit of length was the finger (19.3 mm, or 0.76 inch); 16 fingers equaled about 30 cm (about 1 foot), and 24 fingers equaled 1 Olympic cubit. The coincidence with the Egyptian 24 digits equaling 1 small cubit suggests what is altogether probable on the basis of the commercial history of the era, that the Greeks derived their measures partly from the Egyptians and partly from the Babylonians, probably via the Phoenicians who for a long time dominated vast expanses of the Mediterranean trade. The Greeks apparently used linear standards to establish their primary liquid measure, the metrētēs, equivalent to 39.4 litres (10.4 U.S. gallons). A basic Greek unit of weight was the talent (equal to 25.8 kg, or 56.9 pounds), obviously borrowed from Eastern neighbours.
Roman linear measures were based on the Roman standard foot (pes). This unit was divided into 16 digits or into 12 inches. In both cases its length was the same. Metrologists have come to differing conclusions concerning its exact length, but the currently accepted modern equivalents are 296 mm, or 11.65 inches. Expressed in terms of these equivalents, the digit (digitus), or 1/16 foot, was 18.5 mm (0.73 inch); the inch (uncia or pollicus), or 1/12 foot, was 24.67 mm (0.97 inch); and the palm (palmus), or 1/4 foot, was 74 mm (2.91 inches).
Larger linear units were always expressed in feet. The cubit (cubitum) was 11/2 feet (444 mm, or 17.48 inches). Five Roman feet made the pace (passus), equivalent to 1.48 metres, or 4.86 feet.
The most frequently used itinerary measures were the furlong or stade (stadium), the mile (mille passus), and the league (leuga). The stade consisted of 625 feet (185 metres, or 606.9 feet), or 125 paces, and was equal to one-eighth mile. The mile was 5,000 feet (1,480 metres, or 4,856 feet), or 8 stades. The league had 7,500 feet (2,220 metres, or 7,283 feet), or 1,500 paces.
Prior to the 3rd century bc the standard for all Roman weights was the as, or Old Etruscan or Oscan pound, of 4,210 grains (272.81 grams). It was divided into 12 ounces of 351 grains (22.73 grams) each. In 268 bc a new standard was created when a silver denarius was struck to a weight of 70.5 grains (4.57 grams). Six of these denarii, or "pennyweights," were reckoned to the ounce (uncia) of 423 grains (27.41 grams), and 72 of them made the new pound (libra) of 12 ounces, or 5,076 grains (328.9 grams).
The principal Roman capacity measures were the hemina, sextarius, modius, and amphora for dry products and the quartarus, sextarius, congius, urna, and amphora for liquids. Since all of these were based on the sextarius and since no two extant sextarii are identical, a mean generally agreed upon today is 35.4 cubic inches, or nearly 1 pint (0.58 litre). The hemina, or half-sextarius, based on this mean was 17.7 cubic inches (0.29 litre). Sixteen of these sextarii made the modius of 566.4 cubic inches (9.28 litres), and 48 of them made the amphora of 1,699.2 cubic inches (27.84 litres).
In the liquid series, the quartarus, or one-fourth of a sextarius (35.4 cubic inches), was 8.85 cubic inches (0.145 litres). Six of these sextarii made the congius of 212.4 cubic inches (3.48 litres), 24 sextarii made the urna of 849.6 cubic inches (13.92 litres), and, as in dry products, 48 sextarii were equal to one amphora.
The ancient Chinese systemCompletely separated from the Mediterranean-European history of metrology is that of ancient China; yet the Chinese system exhibits all the principal characteristics of the Western. It employed parts of the body as a source of units—for example, the distance from the pulse to the base of the thumb. It was fundamentally chaotic in that there was no relationship between different types of units, such as those of length and those of volume. Finally, it was rich in variations. The mou, a unit of land measure, fluctuated from region to region from 0.08 to 0.13 hectare (0.2 to 0.3 acre). Variations were not limited to the geographic; a unit of length with the same name might be of one length for a carpenter, another for a mason, and still another for a tailor. This was a problem in Western weights and measures as well.
Shi Huang Di, who became the first emperor of China in 221 bc, is celebrated for, among other things, his unification of the regulations fixing the basic units. The basic weight, the shi, or dan, was fixed at about 60 kg (132 pounds); the two basic measurements, the zhi and the zhang, were set at about 25 cm (9.8 inches) and 3 metres (9.8 feet), respectively. A noteworthy characteristic of the Chinese system, and one that represented a substantial advantage over the Mediterranean systems, was its predilection for a decimal notation, as demonstrated by foot rulers from the 6th century bc. Measuring instruments, too, were of a high order.
A unique characteristic of the Chinese system was its inclusion of an acoustic dimension. A standard vessel used for measuring grain and wine was defined not only by the weight it could hold but by its pitch when struck; given a uniform shape and fixed weight, only a vessel of the proper volume would give the proper pitch. Thus the same word in old Chinese means "wine bowl," "grain measure," and "bell." Measures based on the length of a pitch pipe and its subdivision in terms of millet grains supplanted the old measurements based on the human body. The change brought a substantial increase in accuracy.
Medieval systemsMedieval Europe inherited the Roman system, with its Greek, Babylonian, and Egyptian roots. It soon proliferated through daily use and language variations into a great number of national and regional variants, with elements borrowed from the Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, Scandinavian, and Arabic influences and original contributions growing out of the needs of medieval life.
A determined effort by the Holy Roman emperor Charlemagne and many other medieval kings to impose uniformity at the beginning of the 9th century was in vain; differing usages hardened. The great trade fairs, such as those in Champagne during the 12th and 13th centuries, enforced rigid uniformity on merchants of all nationalities within the fairgrounds and had some effect on standardizing differences among regions, but the variations remained. A good example is the ell, the universal measure for wool cloth, the great trading staple of the Middle Ages. The ell of Champagne, two feet six inches, measured against an iron standard in the hands of the Keeper of the Fair, was accepted by Ypres and Ghent, both in modern Belgium; by Arras, in modern France; and by the other great cloth-manufacturing cities of northwestern Europe, even though their bolts varied in length. In several other parts of Europe, the ell itself varied, however. There were hundreds of thousands of such examples among measuring units throughout Europe.
The English and United States Customary systems of weights and measures
The English systemOut of the welter of medieval weights and measures emerged several national systems, reformed and reorganized many times over the centuries; ultimately nearly all of these systems were replaced by the metric system. In Britain and in its American colonies, however, the altered medieval system survived.
1The U.S. uses avoirdupois units as the common system of measuring weight.
By the time of Magna Carta (1215), abuses of weights and measures were so common that a clause was inserted in the charter to correct those on grain and wine, demanding a common measure for both. A few years later a royal ordinance entitled "Assize of Weights and Measures" defined a broad list of units and standards so successfully that it remained in force for several centuries thereafter. A standard yard, "the Iron Yard of our Lord the King," was prescribed for the realm, divided into the traditional 3 feet, each of 12 inches, "neither more nor less." The perch (later the rod) was defined as 5.5 yards, or 16.5 feet. The inch was subdivided for instructional purposes into 3 barley corns.
The furlong (a "furrow long") was eventually standardized as an eighth of a mile; the acre, from an Anglo-Saxon word, as an area 4 rods wide by 40 long. There were many other units standardized during this period.
The influence of the Champagne fairs may be seen in the separate English pounds for troy weight, perhaps from Troyes, one of the principal fair cities, and avoirdupois weight, the term used at the fairs for goods that had to be weighed—sugar, salt, alum, dyes, grain. The troy pound, for weighing gold and silver bullion, and the apothecaries' weight for drugs contained only 12 troy ounces.
A multiple of the English pound was the stone, which added a fresh element of confusion to the system by equaling neither 12 nor 16 but 14 pounds, among dozens of other pounds depending on the products involved. The sacks of raw wool, which were medieval England's principal export, weighed 26 stones, or 364 pounds; large standards, weighing 91 pounds, or one-fourth a sack, were employed in wool weighing. The sets of standards, which were sent out from London to the provincial towns, were usually of bronze or brass. Discrepancies crept into the system, and in 1496, following a Parliamentary inquiry, new standards were made and sent out, a procedure repeated in 1588, under Queen Elizabeth I. Reissues of standards were common throughout the Middle Ages and early modern period in all European countries.
No major revision occured for nearly 200 years after Elizabeth's time, but several refinements and redefinitions were added. Edmund Gunter, a 17th-century mathematician, conceived the idea of taking the acre's breadth (4 perches, or 22 yards), calling it a chain, and dividing it into 100 links. In 1701 the corn bushel in dry measure was defined as "any round measure with a plain and even bottom, being 18.5 inches wide throughout and 8 inches deep." Similarly, in 1707 the wine gallon was defined as a round measure with an even bottom and containing 231 cubic inches; however, the ale gallon was retained at 282 cubic inches. There was also a corn gallon and an older, slightly smaller wine gallon. There were many other attempts made at standardization besides these, but it was not until the 19th century that a major overhaul occurred.
The Weights and Measures Act of 1824 sought to clear away some of the medieval tangle. A single gallon was decreed, defined as the volume occupied by
10 imperial pounds weight of distilled water weighed in air against brass weights with the water and the air at a temperature of 62 degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer and with the barometer at 30 inches.
The same definition was reiterated in an Act of 1878, which redefined the yard:
the straight line or distance between the centres of two gold plugs or pins in the bronze bar…measured when the bar is at the temperature of sixty-two degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer, and when it is supported by bronze rollers placed under it in such a manner as best to avoid flexure of the bar.
Other units were standardized during this era as well. See British Imperial System.
Finally, by an act of Parliament in 1963, all the English weights and measures were redefined in terms of the metric system, with a national changeover beginning two years later.
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when the example of its benefits, long and practically enjoyed, shall acquire that ascendancy over the opinions of other nations which gives motion to the springs and direction to the wheels of the power.
Instead of adopting metric units, the United States tried to bring its system into closer harmony with the English, from which various deviations had developed; for example, the United States still used "Queen Anne's gallon" of 231 cubic inches, which the British had discarded in 1824. Construction of standards was undertaken by the Office of Standard Weights and Measures, under the Treasury Department. The standard for the yard was one imported from London some years earlier, which guaranteed a close identity between the American and English yard; but Queen Anne's gallon was retained. The avoirdupois pound, at 7,000 grains, exactly corresponded with the British, as did the troy pound at 5,760 grains; however, the U.S. bushel, at 2,150.42 cubic inches, again deviated from the British. The U.S. bushel was derived from the "Winchester bushel," a surviving standard dating to the 15th century, which had been replaced in the British Act of 1824. It might be said that the U.S. gallon and bushel, smaller by about 17 percent and 3 percent, respectively, than the British, remain more truly medieval than their British counterparts.
At least the standards were fixed, however. From the mid-19th century, new states, as they were admitted to the union, were presented with sets of standards. Late in the century, pressure grew to enlarge the role of the Office of Standard Weights and Measures, which, by Act of Congress effective July 1, 1901, became the National Bureau of Standards (since 1988 the National Institute of Standards and Technology), part of the Commerce Department. Its functions, as defined by the Act of 1901, included, besides the construction of physical standards and cooperation in establishment of standard practices, such activities as developing methods for testing materials and structures; carrying out research in engineering, physical science, and mathematics; and compilation and publication of general scientific and technical data. One of the first acts of the bureau was to sponsor a national conference on weights and measures to coordinate standards among the states; one of the main functions of the annual conference became the updating of a model state law on weights and measures, which resulted in virtual uniformity in legislation.
Apart from this action, however, the U.S. government remained unique among major nations in refraining from exercising control at the national level. One noteworthy exception was the Metric Act of 1866, which permitted use of the metric system in the United States.
The metric system of measurement
The development and establishment of the metric systemOne of the most significant results of the French Revolution was the establishment of the metric system of weights and measures.
European scientists had for many years discussed the desirability of a new, rational, and uniform system to replace the national and regional variants that made scientific and commercial communication difficult. The first proposal closely to approximate what eventually became the metric system was made as early as 1670. Gabriel Mouton, the vicar of St. Paul's Church in Lyon, France, and a noted mathematician and astronomer, suggested a linear measure based on the arc of one minute of longitude, to be subdivided decimally. Mouton's proposal contained three of the major characteristics of the metric system: decimalization, rational prefixes, and the Earth's measurement as basis for a definition. Mouton's proposal was discussed, amended, criticized, and advocated for 120 years before the fall of the Bastille and the creation of the National Assembly made it a political possibility. In April of 1790 one of the foremost members of the assembly, Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, introduced the subject and launched a debate that resulted in a directive to the French Academy of Sciences to prepare a report. After several months' study, the academy recommended that the length of the meridian passing through Paris be determined from the North Pole to the Equator, that 1/10,000,000 of this distance be termed the metre and form the basis of a new decimal linear system, and, further, that a new unit of weight should be derived from the weight of a cubic metre of water. A list of prefixes for decimal multiples and submultiples was proposed. The National Assembly endorsed the report and directed that the necessary meridional measurements be taken.
On June 19, 1791, a committee of 12 mathematicians, geodesists, and physicists met with King Louis XVI, who gave his formal approval. The next day, the king attempted to escape from France, was arrested, returned to Paris, and was imprisoned; a year later, from his cell, he issued the proclamation that directed several scientists including Jean Delambre and Pierre Mechain to perform the operations necessary to determine the length of the metre. The intervening time had been spent by the scientists and engineers in preliminary research; Delambre and Mechain now set to work to measure the distance on the meridian from Barcelona, Spain, to Dunkirk in northern France. The survey proved arduous; civil and foreign war so hampered the operation that it was not completed for six years. While Delambre and Mechain were struggling in the field, administrative details were being worked out in Paris. In 1793 a provisional metre was constructed from geodetic data already available. In 1795 the firm decision was taken to enact adoption of the metric system for France. The new law defined the length, mass, and capacity standards and listed the prefixes for multiples and submultiples. With the formal presentation to the assembly of the standard metre, as determined by Delambre and Mechain, the metric system became a fact in June 1799. The motto adopted for the new system was "For all people, for all time."
The standard metre was the Delambre-Mechain survey-derived "one ten-millionth part of a meridional quadrant of the earth." The gram, the basic unit of mass, was made equal to the mass of a cubic centimetre of pure water at the temperature of its maximum density (4 °C or 39.2 °F). A platinum cylinder known as the Kilogram of the Archives was declared the standard for 1,000 grams.
The litre was defined as the volume equivalent to the volume of a cube, each side of which had a length of 1 decimetre, or 10 centimetres.
The are was defined as the measure of area equal to a square 10 metres on a side. In practice the multiple hectare, 100 ares, became the principal unit of land measure.
The stere was defined as the unit of volume, equal to one cubic metre.
Names for multiples and submultiples of all units were made uniform, based on Greek and Latin prefixes.
The metric system's conquest of Europe was facilitated by the military successes of the French Revolution and Napoleon, but it required a long period of time to overcome the inertia of customary systems. Even in France Napoleon found it expedient to issue a decree permitting use of the old medieval system. Nonetheless, in the competition between the two systems existing side by side, the advantages of metrics proved decisive; in 1840 it was established as the legal monopoly in France, and from that point forward its progress throughout the world has been steady, though it is worth observing that in many cases the metric system was adopted during the course of a political upheaval, just as in its original French beginning. Notable examples are Latin America, the Soviet Union, and China. In Japan the adoption of the metric system came about following the peaceful but far-reaching political changes associated with the Meiji Restoration of 1868.
In Britain, the Commonwealth nations, and the United States, the progress of the metric system has been discernible. The United States became a signatory to the Metric Convention of 1875 and received copies of the International Prototype Metre and the International Prototype Kilogram in 1890. Three years later the Office of Weights and Measures announced that the prototype metre and kilogram would be regarded as fundamental standards from which the customary units, the yard and the pound, would be derived.
Throughout the 20th century, use of the metric system in various segments of commerce and industry increased spontaneously in Britain and the United States; it became almost universally employed in the scientific and medical professions. The automobile, electronics, chemical, and electric power industries have all adopted metrics at least in part, as have such fields as optometry and photography. Legislative proposals to adopt metrics generally have been made in the U.S. Congress and British Parliament. In 1968 the former passed legislation calling for a program of investigation, research, and survey to determine the impact on the United States of increasing worldwide use of the metric system. The program concluded with a report to Congress in July 1971 that stated:
On the basis of evidence marshalled in the U.S. metric study, this report (D.V. Simone, "Metric America, A Decision whose Time has Come," National Bureau of Standards Special Publication 345) recommends that the United States change to the International Metric System.
Parliament went further and established a long-range program of changeover.
The International System of UnitsJust as the original conception of the metric system had grown out of the problems scientists encountered in dealing with the medieval system, so a new system grew out of the problems a vastly enlarged scientific community faced in the proliferation of subsystems improvised to serve particular disciplines. At the same time, it had long been known that the original 18th-century standards were not accurate to the degree demanded by 20th-century scientific operations; new definitions were required. After lengthy discussion the 11th General Conference on Weights and Measures (11th CGPM), meeting in Paris in October 1960, formulated a new International System of Units (abbreviated SI). The SI was amended by subsequent convocations of the CGPM. The following base units have been adopted and defined:
Length: metreSince 1983 the metre has been defined as the distance traveled by light in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 second.
Mass: kilogramThe standard for the unit of mass, the kilogram, is a cylinder of platinum-iridium alloy kept by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, located in Sèvres, near Paris. A duplicate in the custody of the National Institute of Standards and Technology serves as the mass standard for the United States.
The kilogram is the only base unit still defined by an artifact. However, in 1989 it was discovered that the prototype kept at Sèvres was 50 micrograms lighter than other copies of the standard kilogram. To avoid the problem of having the kilogram defined by an object with a changing mass, the CGPM in 2011 agreed to a proposal to begin to redefine the kilogram not by a physical artifact but by a fundamental physical constant. The constant chosen was Planck's constant, which was defined to be equal to 6.6260693 × 10−34 joule second. One joule is equal to one kilogram times metre squared per second squared. Since the second and the metre were already defined in terms of the frequency of a spectral line of cesium and the speed of light, respectively, the kilogram would then be determined by accurate measurements of Planck's constant.
Time: secondThe second is defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 cycles of the radiation associated with a specified transition, or change in energy level, of the cesium-133 atom.
Electric current: ampereThe ampere is defined as the magnitude of the current that, when flowing through each of two long parallel wires separated by one metre in free space, results in a force between the two wires (due to their magnetic fields) of 2 × 10−7 newton (the newton is a unit of force equal to about 0.2 pound) for each metre of length. However, in 2011 the CGPM agreed to a proposal to begin to redefine the ampere such that the elementary charge was equal to 1.60217653 × 10−19 coulomb.
Thermodynamic temperature: kelvinThe thermodynamic, or Kelvin, scale of temperature used in SI has its origin or zero point at absolute zero and has a fixed point at the triple point of water (the temperature and pressure at which ice, liquid water, and water vapour are in equilibrium), defined as 273.16 kelvins. The Celsius temperature scale is derived from the Kelvin scale. The triple point is defined as 0.01 degree on the Celsius scale, which is approximately 32.02 degrees on the Fahrenheit temperature scale. However, in 2011 the CGPM agreed to a proposal to begin to redefine the kelvin such that Boltzmann's constant was equal to 1.3806505 × 10−23 joule per kelvin.
Amount of substance: moleThe mole is defined as the amount of substance containing the same number of chemical units (atoms, molecules, ions, electrons, or other specified entities or groups of entities) as exactly 12 grams of carbon-12. However, in 2011 the CGPM agreed to a proposal to begin to redefine the mole such that the Avogadro constant was equal to 6.0221415 × 1023 per mole.
Light (luminous) intensity: candelaThe candela is defined as the luminous intensity in a given direction of a source that emits monochromatic radiation at a frequency of 540 × 1012 hertz and that has a radiant intensity in the same direction of 1/683 watt per steradian (unit solid angle).
Widely used units in the SI systemA list of the widely used units in the SI system is provided in the table.
Prefixes and units used in the metric systemPrefixes and units used in the metric system are provided in the table.
*The metric system of bases and prefixes has been applied to many other units, such as decibel (0.1 bel), kilowatt (1,000 watts), megahertz (1,000,000 hertz), and microhm (one-millionth of an ohm).
Metric conversionsA list of metric conversions is provided in the table.
**Common term not used in SI.
Source: National Bureau of Standards Wall Chart.
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Q. Feet to the fire Cody…GMCR tonight, calls or puts? I'm bullish on GMCR due to lot's of keurigs sold over Christmas season. A. GMCR has been flagged by David Einhorn, one of the greatest shortsellers/fraud-finders extant, as having questionable accounting. That leads me to believe that eventually that stock is going MUCH lower than today's $55 quote. That said, I have no idea about whether any of that will matter tonight, and in fact, if the company reports "good numbers" tonight (whether those numbers in coming years have to be restated is another matter), that could very well force a squeeze among the many shorts who have blindly followed David's short thesis. Feet to fire, I'd guess higher tomorrow, but as a bear on the stock overall, I wouldn't trade it to the long side without a better edge on tonight's earnings than just "a lot of kuerigs sold over the holidays". And to be clear, I'm not in any way mocking you in repeating that logic back to you…I used a variation of that same logic with the "lots of Kindle Fires were sold over the holidays" earlier this week too.
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Q. Hi Cody! I had just missed you last week. I was asking your thoughts on EA before earnings tonight. Analysts are split in their expectations but EA has been tight-lipped on SW:TOR performance since that first weekend after release. It has been beat down more than the other game makers. A. The contrarian in me likes the horrid EA chart and the fact that it indeed has been beaten down much worse than the other video game makers. I've been buying Ataris, Nintendos, Intellivisions, Segas, and Playstations on eBay lately, but I actually haven't connected any of those or my old Xbox 360 since I moved into my new house and I haven't played hardly any home video games in a couple years now…meaning I have no edge in what video games are hot and what's not. Good luck tonight!
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Q. Would it be a good idea to add to SNDK calls here? A. Yes, I do think adding to Sandisk in the mid $40s will probably work out very well in the next year.
Q. Cody, I know you remain bullish on STX, but any thoughts on taking some profits on the March calls? A. The company really might be paying out a $2/share annual dividend by the end of 2012, and if that's the case, this stock will be north of $40. Even without that, I think the stock is just too cheap for me to sell given all the plates lined up for it this year and into next.
Q. Hi Cody, any new thoughts on VIX? In the past, you thought it might benefit from upward or downward volatility but do you still hold to that? A. I feel like a total idiot on this VIX trade. The markets haven't been volatile at all since we put it on and the calls have lost a lot of value. I've not forced any further trades or averaged down or anything so the loss is minimal, as you guys, but that doesn't mean I don't feel like an idiot about the trade. I don't know if and when I'll add to these VIX calls, but I don't plan on selling them anytime soon either. Not enough value left in them to sell now vs. the fact that they do give me a good hedge in case the markets do get crazy volatile. Mea culpa on this so far, though. – Cody, it's nice to hear an analyst who will admit to the losses as much as the wins (of which you have had many) and it keeps me faithful, so thanks!
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