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THE BIOLOGY OF is a comprehensive, stunning visual resource on living organisms specifically designed for the secondary science classroom. Each program includes a guide with discussion questions, activities, and teaching strategies that will engage students and excite them to learn about living things.
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Microlife Unit: Viruses (#101)
This program introduces these strange parasitic entities--little more than packages of genetic information that subvert cells into producing more viruses. This program presents: the discovery of viruses, their structures, how they are studied, and their various modes of infection and replication from the T-4 bacteriophage to complex retroviruses such as HIV. [17 minutes]
Microlife Unit: Bacteria (#102)
Program 2 shows the range of behavior seen in living bacteria, how bacteria obtain nutrients through 'external digestion,' and how to use sterile techniques for culturing and studying them. It shows the vital roles bacteria play in maintaining the biosphere through oxygen production (by cyanobacteria), decomposition and nitrogen fixation. [16 minutes]
Microlife Unit: Protists (#103)
Protists are defined by exploring a diversity of protist groups. Students investigate the structure, behavior, feeding methods, reproduction and ecological relationships among the different groups to better understand single-celled eukaryotes. Protists featured include Paramecium, Amoeba, Volvox, Spirogyra, and Euglena. [19 minutes]
Microlife Unit: The Light Microscope (#104)
Program 4 teaches students the basics of using a microscope, and then shows them how to use the light source, condenser, iris diaphragm, and different objectives to get the most out of viewing. Students also learn about dark field lighting and colored-field lighting as well as polarized light microscopy. [15 minutes]
Botanical Organisms Unit: Plants (#105)
This program provides a general introduction to the green kingdom and describes the molecular level mechanisms of photosynthesis. The taxonomy section introduces the nonvascular plants (mosses and liverworts), primitive vascular plants (ferns and horsetails), gymnosperms and flowering plants--with emphasis on life cycles in each group. [17 minutes]
Botanical Organisms Unit: Algae (#106)
'Algae' refers to several evolutionary lines of photosynthetic organisms: Red Algae (plastids with chlorophyll A), Brown Algae (with chlorophyll A and C), and Green Algae (Chlorophyll A and B). These organisms play vital roles in aquatic/marine ecosystems, providing oxygen, food and shelter for vast communities of living things. [19 minutes]
Botanical Organisms Unit: Fungi (#107)
Fungi join with bacteria in breaking down dead organic material. In this program, the various types of fungi are recognized by their structures and life cycle stages. Certain fungi (mycorrhizae) form symbiotic relationships with plants. Their help in absorbing nutrients and water probably aided vascular plants in colonizing the land. [21 minutes]
Animal Unit: Sponges (#108)
With an estimated 15,000 species diversity, sponges play important roles in aquatic ecosystems as bacterial filters. This program uses underwater photography, microscopy, animation, SEM, and time-lapse microscopy to provide a colorful overview of sponge biology with an emphasis on structure, taxonomy, ecology and evolution. [14 minutes]
Animal Unit: Cnidarians (#109)
The program offers an in-depth study of Hydra and Obelia as well as the beautiful jellyfish of Class Scyphozoa, sea anemones of Class Anthozoa, and corals, their warm sea relatives. [15 minutes]
Animal Unit: Flatworms (#110)
This program observes the structure, behavior and life cycles of planarians and other free-living flatworms, some so small they can only be studied with a microscope. It examines the bizarre life cycles of flukes and tapeworms with revealing shots of these parasites at home in the organs of their vertebrate hosts. [14 minutes]
Animal Unit: Nematodes, Rotifers, Bryozoans and Various Minor Phyla (#111)
Program 11 highlights roundworms including a number of important human parasites. Thirteen common rotifer species illustrate this diverse group of microscopic animals. Bryozoans, gastrotrichs, tardigrades, nemerteans, and a recently discovered phylum, Gnathostomulida, acquaint students with many of the lesser-known branches of animal life. [18 minutes]
Animal Unit: Molluscs (#112)
The phylum Mollusca is filled with wonderfully adapted soft-bodied creatures that make up four major classes: Polyplacophora, Gastropoda, Pelecypoda and Cephalopoda. In each group the emphasis is on: structure, behavior, larval development, and adaptations. [14 minutes]
Animal Unit: Annelids (#113)
Phylum Annelida is made up of segmented worms divided into three classes: Oligochaetes (earth worms and aquatic worms), Polychaetes (Nereis and thousands of other species that live in almost all marine habitats), and Leeches. [14 minutes]
Animal Unit: Arthropods (#114)
This program explores the major classes of arthropods: Crustaceans; Arachnids (including whip scorpions, scorpions, spiders, ticks and mites); and Uniramians (including centipedes, millipedes, and insects). The program highlights important details of structure and behavior. [25 minutes]
Animal Unit: Echinoderms (#115)
Examining echinoderm life-styles shows that sea stars are predators, brittle stars and basket stars are detritus feeders, urchins and sand dollars are herbivores, sea cucumbers feed on detritus and plankton. [14 minutes]
Animal Unit: Chordates (#116)
The unique features of this group: a supporting rod (notochord), a hollow dorsal nerve cord, post-anal tail and pharyngeal gills, are investigated in modern animals. Key adaptations leading to the diversification and proliferation of the modern vertebrate groups are explored through fossils, living examples and animation. [18 minutes]


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One way that you can prevent a server from becoming overloaded is to use the Connection Throttling feature of Cloud Load Balancers. Connection throttling limits the number of simultaneous connections that are allowed from each IP address. This feature helps prevent malicious or abusive traffic to your server and its installed applications.
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This procedure for configuring connection throttling assumes that you're working with an existing load balancer. If you don't have a load balancer yet, create one now by using the following instructions: Configuring a Load Balancer.
To configure connection throttling
- Log in to the Control Panel.
- At the top of the Control Panel, click Load Balancers
- Click onthe Actions cog next to your load balancer, and selectEdit Connection Throttling from the menu.
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"Pinch me. Wake me up. Is it for real we're 3-0?" Chillicothe football coach Ron Hinton asked after his team's 21-0 shutout against Teays Valley on Friday night.
The Cavaliers' defense can be credited for much of the win, blanking a Vikings' team that had scored 78 points in its first two games. Chillicothe only had scored 41 before Friday, all of which came in the second halves of its games. To take some of the pressure off his defense, which was keeping Teays Valley at bay, Hinton made it a top priority for his offense to score first and before halftime.
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More fact checking with PolitiFact Florida and 10 News
It's a familiar voice that Super PAC American Crossroads hopes will turn your head. But if you do, you need to listen carefully...
"We borrow $4 billion every single day, much of it from China," Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood claims in the pro-Mitt Romney campaign ad.
That's a lot of money, but is the claim true? 10 News turned to Aaron Sharockman with PolitiFact Florida for answers.
"About eight percent of the money we're borrowing actually comes from China," says Sharockman. "A lot of the debt comes from a lot of other places."
So while the "$4 billion a day" from China is for the most part correct, it's wrong to suggest that most of the money being borrowed is coming from China.
As a result, PolitiFact rated the claim HALF TRUE.
Another statement that came out recently was from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam.
As he warmed up the crowd at a rally in Tampa, he said, "You don't have to offer them [voters] cell phones like they're [the Obama campaign is] doing."
Putnam was making a claim that President Obama's campaign was giving out free cell phones to his supporters.
It's not the first time such a claim has been batted about, but repeating such a statement doesn't make it true. And in this case, PolitiFact gives it their worst rating: PANTS ON FIRE.
"There is a federal program that gives some low income citizens a cell phone or access to a cell phone," explains Sharockman, "But it's a program that started way before Obama took office and has nothing to do with the campaign, [and] has nothing to do with the election."
Putnam learned his comments were wrong and quickly posted on his Facebook page, "About those cell phones: I'd heard about the YouTube video, wasn't aware it was disclaimed. Won't happen again."


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One of the top players on Michigan States recruiting board is Southfield defensive end Lawrence Marshall. The 6-foot-4, 205-pound prospect is one the most sought after players in the Midwest with scholarship offers from MSU, Ohio State, Michigan, Nebraska and Oklahoma. Rivals.com ranks him the No. 19 defensive end in the nation for the class of 2014.
Marshall has been to East Lansing several times, including this past weekend for the Green and White game. The visit allowed Marshall to see the MSU defensive scheme in action and build rapport with the coaching staff. One of the coaches that Marshall has been getting to know over the past few weeks is new defensive line coach Ron Burton.
Once again, I really liked the whole experience, Marshall told SpartanMag.coms Rico Beard. Coach Burton is a really great coach. He really knows his stuff.
The Spartans view Marshall as someone who can follow a similar path to defensive end Shilique Calhoun, who arrived at MSU as a 6-4, 225-pound prospect and is now 250 pounds and expected to have a breakout season replacing Will Gholston.
Marshall has indicated that he could make his college choice in late May. A commitment from a player of Marshalls caliber would certainly enhance what is shaping up to be an outstanding defensive class with defensive tackle Enoch Smith Jr. of Illinois and linebackers Deon Drake and Byron Bullough of Michigan.
Ohio WR close to a decision?
One of the top play-makers that MSU hopes to add for the class of 2014 is Galion (Ohio) wide receiver Dareian Watkins. The 6-2, 192-pound prospect is a four-star recruit according to Rivals.com and has over 20 scholarship offers.
Watkins was in East Lansing last weekend for the Green and White game and spent a significant amount of time with the coaching staff. Watkins met several future Spartans, including 2014 quarterback commitment Chris Durkin and 2013 recruit Damion Terry.
I had a great time at Michigan State this weekend, Watkins told SpartanMag.com The fans were great even though the weather was bad. Im really glad I went. Spartan fans are awesome to come support their team for a spring game.
Watkins went on to say he is closing in on making his college choice and he just wants to make sure he is 100% solid with his decision. Once he makes his choice, Watkins wants to be an active recruiter and help bring other top recruits to the school of his choice.
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A high school teacher in Illinois has resigned after spraying Lysol in a student's eyes.
Rolling Meadows, Ill., police said they declined to bring charges against the teacher at the request of the student's father, who did not want to sign a complaint against her. She handed in her resignation last week, the Daily Herald reported.
The newspaper did not name the 47-year-old math and science instructor because she was not charged.
According to police reports, the teacher told students to put their safety goggles on, and threatened to spray them with Lysol if they didn't do so.
She first sprayed another student who did not have his goggles on, but he turned away and was sprayed on the back of the head, the victim told police.
The victim said he was adjusting his safety goggles when he was sprayed, according to the police report.
He suffered an eye injury and was taken by ambulance to a local hospital, but was not expected to have any permanent eye damage.
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Architect's rendering of the National Coast Guard Museum, which will be housed in New London, Conn. (Gauchat / Santos)
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The Marine Corps, the Air Force and the Navy each have one. The Army is building one. And finally, the Coast Guard will get one, too.
A national museum for the Coast Guard is slated for New London, Conn., Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio has announced, and the city is donating downtown waterfront real estate.
"The strong connection and ties between the city of New London and the Coast Guard run deep," Finizio said. "With the building of the National Coast Guard Museum, I think it will be clear to all that New London is the home of the United States Coast Guard."
Finizio said the museum will be about 54,000 square feet and cost about $100 million.
Money will come from fund-raising by the National Coast Guard Museum Association board, the mayor said, adding that that the state will fund $20 million. Part of the project includes a new ferry terminal, which will be paid for by Cross Sound Ferry, a New London company.
Commandant Adm. Bob Papp said the museum will "serve both as a valued Coast Guard institution and a national treasure that highlights the historical record of the heroic exploits of the men and women of the Coast Guard and its forebears."
"It will showcase the thousands of artifacts and documents of the Coast Guard's deep and illustrious history and will serve as a repository of critical Coast Guard historical records for scholarly research," Papp said in a statement.
New London is the home of the Coast Guard Academy and the Coast Guard's barque Eagle, the service's tall ship. The city of New London donated the modern site of the academy to the Coast Guard in 1932.
Finizio said the city estimates 250,000 to a million people a year will visit the museum when it opens. The mayor's office expects construction to begin in one to two years and the museum to be done in less than four.
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A publicity shot for Spring Breakers, the latest spring break gone-wrong movie to hit theaters. Watch the red band trailer on YouTube.
You aren't going anywhere for Spring Break this year, maybe it's because you don't have the money, or you're recently sober, or you can never show your face in South Florida again after last year. For whatever reason you're staying put this year, we present these 18 options for passing the time on the couch. From reality goo like The Real Cancun to straight-to-DVD mistakes like Spring Breakdown to sleeper candidates like 1997's Girls Gone Wild, Volume 1, here are the films that should make fans of Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello's saccharine spring break movies weep.
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Black Gold, the Documentary
Watch Black Gold, a new eye-opening documentary directed by Marc and Nick Francis, depicting the harsh reality of the global coffee industry.
Follow Tadesse Meskela on his mission to save his 74,000 struggling coffee farmers in Ethiopia - the birthplace of coffee - from bankruptcy. As his farmers strive to harvest some of the highest quality coffee beans on the international market, Tadesse travels the world in an attempt to find buyers willing to pay a fair price. Against the backdrop of Tadesse's journey to London and Seattle, the enormous power of the multinational players that dominate the world's coffee trade becomes apparent. New York commodity traders, the international coffee exchanges, and the double dealings of trade ministers at the World Trade Organisation reveal the many challenges Tadesse faces in his quest for a long term solution for his farmers.
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Benjamin Moore has tapped a sunny shade of yellow to be its Color of the Year. / MCT
Lemon Sorbet is no longer just a delicious dessert. Benjamin Moore has named their popular pale yellow paint, Lemon Sorbet, the 2013 color of the year.
Sonu Mathew, Benjamin Moore senior interior designer, helps forecast upcoming paint trends to guide homeowners and interior designers in the right direction. As for the Lemon Sorbet, Mathew says that yellow evokes a sense of optimism. As the world seems to be gradually turning the corner on recessionary times, she says, this whispery tint of the color is timely and evocative of the uptick.
This, she notes, is a drastic shift away from the more saturated hues that were popular last year.
Benjamin Moore pairs Lemon Sorbet with other soft hues, such as a light, blue-grey color called Tranquility and a dusty sea-foam color called Stratton Blue, in their Trends 2013 combinations.
We want to help take the guesswork out of color selection, Mathew says. In proposing these combinations were letting consumers know that they can confidently choose any one color for a single or all walls, then use another for the ceiling and another for trims, moldings and other accents.
The 18 other trend colors that Benjamin Moore is serving up for 2013 are equally as delicious as lemon sorbet (2019-60), and they're proposed in combinations that create a feast for the eyes when teamed with existing home furnishings. With lemon sorbet (2019-60) as the common denominator and assured to complement any or all of the other Benjamin Moore paint colors named, the suggested combinations include:
Combination 1: teacup rose (2170-50), spring dust (2150-40) and baja dunes (997)
Combination 2: lemon ice (2024-70), simply white (OC-117) and camouflage (2143-40)
Combination 3: antiguan sky (2040-60), sweet innocence (2125-50) and dark mustard (2161-30)
Combination 4: peachy keen (2014-40), dark linen (2147-60) and thundercloud gray (2124-40)
Combination 5: pink raspberry (2075-40), blue ice (821) and dakota woods green (2139-40)
Combination 6: juneau spring (2041-40), woodland white (463) and polar sky (1674)
To check out all of these color combinations, plus helpful videos, painting ideas and more, visit http://benjaminmoore.com


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Yesterday we took a look at pop superstars taking tumbles during live performances. Today, the tumbles come with a twang.
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Lost, and Found: Rediscovering a subterranean kington of memories
By Roberta Israeloff
My mother and I sat in her kitchen. "Daddy told me not to sell the house," she said.
I waited a beat to drain the exasperation from my voice; to remind myself that she'd lived in this house for 45 years, that moving is a major traumatic event for anyone—more so for those as change-resistant as my mother. "He meant don't sell it right away; not right after he died," I said. "He didn't mean not to sell it when you're 85."
"I guess," she said, which only meant that she'd heard me, not that she agreed. I assumed this conversation had dead-ended, as so many before had when the subject of selling the house and moving to a nearby senior housing development came up. But she surprised me a few days later by telling me she'd engaged a real-estate agent who was coming over on Saturday.
Red-haired Ruth, friendly and perky but all business, younger than my mother but older than I, strode into the house with an almost military bearing—even her cream-colored scarf accenting her navy blue pants suit looked crisp. She exuded confidence that the three-bedroom suburban ranch in an excellent school district would sell in a heartbeat. "It's practically market ready," she said, inspecting each room, my mother and I, lowly sergeants, following in her wake.
"Put the tea canister in the cupboard," she said in the kitchen, "and get rid of that basket. Keep the detergent under the sink...." My mother wrung her hands; I jotted down her every instruction, trying to hide my dismay. If she found fault with my mother's uncluttered house, whose kitchen and bathroom floors you could literally eat off of, what would she think of mine? What would I have to throw away, hide, or rearrange to make it optimally saleable?
"Now, what about the basement," Ruth asked. "Finished or unfinished?" I knew this moment would come, but I dreaded it, as did my mother, who audibly groaned and said, "I'll wait up here." The basement was the last place either of us wanted to see.
"I'm going downstairs," my father would say. After 40 years, I can still hear him. He tried for a neutral tone, without feeling, almost as if it had just occurred to him, but we all knew that this was the moment he'd been waiting for, the reward he'd counted on all day, ever since he dragged himself out of bed at 6 in the morning to get to work—he was an engineer—and then come home to sit through a family dinner. He'd imagined it all the while he had to hear his daughters tell him that he had no idea how hard it was to be a student, that suffering through history and having to prepare for tests was much, much harder than anything he did at work. He waited for it as he talked to his parents on the phone, and supervised our homework, and sat in the living room with my mother as they read the newspaper or watched TV, until he finally felt that he'd earned his reward, and could give in, drawn downstairs as if by a mistress.
"It's a mess down there," I said, opening the wooden door off the kitchen.
"I'm sure I've seen worse," Ruth said, leading the way. At the last step, she stopped in her tracks. "Wow, this is even bigger than I thought."
"I was 12 when we moved here," I told her, as she shone her flashlight into the crawl space and examined the boiler. We'd been living in an apartment in Queens. My parents, children of immigrants, house-hunted for years—long enough for me to realize that they were more in love with the concept of home-ownership than with any particular house. Yet something about this house struck a chord with both of them, almost from the moment we first walked in the door. I remember my mother as she stood in the spacious kitchen, not believing how much distance separated the fridge and the stove; my father got lost in the basement.


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Brad - what is the weight recommendation for the Hammock? Body plus gear? Thanks,
Hennessy's website says 200 lbs.
Great article. I'd like to try a hammock sometime.
I had better lose some weight.
I assume you can drop the weight even more with a cuben fiber fly. I see them on Joe's site at zpacks......oh...I have nothing to do with zpacks, that was the first site that came to my mind.
If you're interested in trying a hammock, but don't have a buddy with a Hennessy or othe asym hammock to borrow, the Byer of Maine/Amazonas Moskito Traveller (15.3 oz, no tie ropes or tarp) is available cheap on the 'net. I picked one up for under $20, and I often loan it out. It's not near as comfortable as my Hennessy, but it's an easy way to get the general idea (and nice in the summer in the back yard, too).
Weight-wise, my Hennessy can't compete with my H.S. Contrail tarptent. But hammocks are very comfy and are fun to tinker with. Hennessy offers hammocks in two sizes: 1) if your height is up to 6 foot and 2) if your height is up to 7 foot - along with different weight restrictions. Check out their website for details.Check out http://www.hammockforums.net/ to learn about different manufacturers and methods of hanging.Roche
Nice to see a hammock review!Yes, Cuben tarps will help drop the weight and increase the coverage-- that doesn't happen often!The suspension lines can be converted to Amsteel Blue 'whoopie slings' to drop weight and they are much easier to adjust. They connect to the tree straps via carabiners or toggles. Insulation is the dirty little secret with hammocks. The insulated air mattress is a possibility and wide CCF pads work, but any internal pads detract from the comfort and support of the hammock surface. 20" wide ground-camping pads are too narrow for hammock use and need some extra help from shoulder to hip. There are several cottage manufacturers turning out down or synthetic under quilts that hang outside the hammock on shock cords and come in a range of lengths for partial or complete coverage. They do add considerably to weight and cost, but provide a warmer and more comfortable hammock experience. Hammock campers have taken on Minnesota winter nights of -26F comfortably.Another method of insulating hammocks is the Garlington Insulator which is basically a light trash bag with a crumpled and folded space blanket inside. The insulator is used with an under cover to hold it in place and provide an additional barrier to wind and rain. I had a custom silnylon poncho made to do double duty as an under cover.Two interesting Hennessy accessories are the SuperShelter insulation system and the Cat Cape rainfly that doubles as a hoodless poncho/cape.The SuperShelter is a silnylon under cover with an open cell foam pad for insulation. The pad is used along with a standard space blanket. There is an accessory top cover to use for colder conditions. The Cat Cape rainfly is an asymmetrical silnylon tarp with zippers to allow use as a hoodless poncho or cape. The Xl model provides a bit more coverage than the standard Hennessy tarp and weighs 11.8oz.As to tarps, many hammock users go with larger tarps in the 10'x12' range. They provide much better weather coverage and many pitching options for camping outside the hammock, like cooking or dressing. Again, the cottage manufacturers have stepped up with the features and offer silnylon, spinnaker and Cuben fabric models. Zpacks offers a nice 11'x8.5' Cuben hammock tarp that is just 5oz. My current UL hammock is 15.3oz for hammock and suspension and I use one of the Hennessey XL Cat Capes at 11.8oz. The lightest insulation option I have is a 25"x50" CCF pad at 9.5oz. I am still working on insect protection for this one. Full coverage insect net options range from 3oz on up to a pound.I also have a Hennessy Expedition Zip model that is 41.6oz with suspension. I can use the CCF pad or the SuperShelter pad at 8.5oz and my poncho under cover at 9.5oz, or a Kick Ass Quilts synthetic under quilt at 17oz. My current tarp options are the Cat Cape at 11.8oz or the Hennessy Hex tarp which is 10'x12' PU coated nylon that is 23.8oz with Dynaglide guy lines and a mesh stuff sack. The lightest combo comes to 4 pounds-- about the same as a light double wall tent and pad. It is possible to make your own hammock very easily. If you can make a tarp, a hammock is a very quick project. Most are using 1.1 to 1.9oz ripstop nylon.
The Grand Trunk Ultralight is another good inexpensive hammock. I have been eying the Hammock Bliss No-Seeum No More. The GT UL is $18 at Campmor and the Bliss is $60. Both need to have the suspension re-worked and tree straps added.
I've used the Hyperlight and i'm 6'2" tall, 225 lbs...no problem. It's the lawyers who make up those weight limits.Next time, ditch the pad, get an under quilt and open that sleeping bag up as a top quilt and you'll be even more comfy!UK Hammocks has a SUL hammock model called the Woodsman Light that comes in at 6.5 oz. in it's stuff sack (whoopies included!). I have one and they are great for winter when you do not need a bug net.www.UKhammocks.co.uk
I've posted this before, but it never hurts to put it out there again. Here's my current setup: - Grand Trunk Nano-7 Hammock - 10.8 ounces - Lawson Equipment HexaLite 11'x9' Cuben Tarp - 10.4 ounces - DB Bugnet - .7 ounce (yes, just 19 grams)Total: Just under 22 ounces!The hammock weight includes the full suspension: two 6-foot 7/64" Amsteel Whoopie slings, a Dynaglide Structural Ridgeline, and two 1" poly tree straps (one 6-foot and one 8-foot), two toggles for the Marlin Spike Hitch, and three cordlocks (one lighted) on the ridgeline for the bugnet.The tarp weight includes all the guylines with linelocs (8' on the ends and 6' on each of the four corners) and four LE Ti stakes.The weight of the bugnet includes a sandwich-sized Ziploc that I keep it in.I know there are tents out there that are lighter, but this tarp is huge. I had Lawson put grommets at each tie-out point so I can use my trekking poles to hold it up for better visibility when I'm in the hammock (at least on one side). It would be very easy for four people to be completely covered by the tarp in a storm. Try that in a 1-pound tent!One other note...I'm not a small guy: 6 feet tall and 260 pounds. The Nano-7 is the smallest hammock in which I've slept (I also have a Speer, a couple of Byers, and a GT Ultralight) but it's still very comfortable.My UL ground setup is a Gatewood Cape and a GG TorsoLight pad. I seem to sleep better in ANY hammock than I do on the ground anymore.
It's good to see the HH evolving. I've been a long time hanger (expedition for a few years first then upgraded to the original hyperlite). As previously mentioned insulation is the biggest challenge. I've tried about every option and even spent the $$ for the "supershelter" upgrades, and every other "cheap" option but in the end I opted for a Jacks R Better down quilt. It's really no comparison, the various pads helped, but I never could stay warm enough in them since I'm a cold sleeper. The down underquilts completely solved the issue.
a picture says a thousand words.. snow on the ground with a stock Hennessy? reminds me of that famous movie line "You're gonna need a bigger (boat) tarp". you HAVE to block wind.. that's an understatement!
>"You're gonna need a bigger...tarp"The stock Hennessy tarp does just fine in a blizzard. I stake the tarp a lot closer than I normally would, and I don't get any significant spindrift (it's also warmer that way). There's a picture of my Hennessy in a blizzard in this (quite old) thread, which describes cold-weather hammock gear. I've had my Hennessy UL Explorer out in -25F and windy. I do occasionally use a Jacks R Better 8x8 tarp instead, but mostly in the summer when I want to hang it much higher than is possible with the stock tarp.
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We have a vote for 6'2" being ok, anybody 6'4" or taller used the Hyperlite ok?
Honestly, I'm only 5'11" and I find the HH a little cramped. I'm pretty broad shouldered though so it means I don't fit in the taper as well as taller skinnier folk. My older expedition model was more comfortable, but the hyperlite is adequate.
Thanks for the good review. I just may become a convert.
I think 5'11" & taller only works for those who don't mind sleeping in somewhat of a banana shape. I'm 6'1" and found the UL Backpacker too short...the Explorer UL fine. (sold it, though when I got my JRB Bridge - ahhhhhhh - flat!
Hey, gang- thanks for the interest and feedback!Thomas mentioned that his Hennessy couldn't compete w/his Contrail... that's the great thing about THIS Hennessy... it's only, by claimed specs, a half-ounce heavier than even the Contrail! (Although my measurements indicated about 3 more ounces on the Hyperlite.)Several people mentioned insulation. Yup, it's important. (It's important when you're sleeping on the ground, too!) The Exped Downmat visible in several photos is a Downmat 9 LW, the 25 x 77 model with R-8... 3.5 inches of down insulation under me. Love it! And while exploring the realm of hammocking, I decided to just use equipment I have on hand before investing in (or more likely making) an underquilt. I've been thinking about trying an Exped Multimat in the hammock this summer, the price sure is right, & I like the width.The Grand Trunk Nano 7 is the other hammock I mentioned. I love the hammock, and I (GASP!!!) even take it with me on some backpacking trips when I'm already carrying a tent. I think mine weighs 6.7 ounces, IIRC. But I HATED sleeping in it. Small, compressed too much on the sides, far less stable feeling than the Hennessy. I guess I'm just not man enough to spend my nights in the Nano. BUT... that said, even with a custom cuben fly and bugnet, the setup Kevin described is only 2 or 3 ounces lighter than the Hyperlite. That's impressive specs for something "off the shelf!"Happy hangin!
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If you are coming from Belize City with any of the water taxis or coming from Chetumal with the San Pedro Belize Express, you will make a right at the foot of the dock, walk a couple minutes to the corner of the Bambooze restaurant painted in bright orange & green and make a left , walk straight (NO TURNS) until you reach the Pilicano (pilican) Italian Restaurant which is painted in orange with a beige fence. At the corner of their fence you will make a right and look for gray gate with Beware of the dog sign. Our fence is a wire fence lined with palm leaves.
If you are coming from Chetumal on the Water Jets International, we are a few steps away . At the foot of the dock , make a left and walk straight ahead, you will be walking right next to the water. Look ahead & you will see a Yellow with black Jaguar spots painted cabana and a large wooden gate to the right of the cabana. We will be expecting you there.
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Climate change and composing computers
Last night, Plus attended an excellent talk at the Edinburgh International Science Festival by Professor Chris Rapley, who was awarded the Edinburgh Medal. The Edinburgh Medal is awarded each year to those within science whose professional achievements are judged to have made a significant contribution to the understanding and well-being of humanity.
Profesor Rapley's talk was entitled "Great while it lasted; now what?" referring to how humans have exploited carbon-based energy sources for the last century, but now must confront the fact that we are exceeding the safe limits of such use. Professor Rapley is a systems scientist and has studied the Earth mathematically as a complex system through roles as Director of the British Antarctic Survey, Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, and Professor of Remote Sensing Science and Associate Director of University College London's Mullard Space Science Laboratory.
Professor Rapley is now Director of the Science Museum in London, and considers that the best way to study the Earth is to bring together "many -ologists — geologists, biologists, sociologists etc." As a complex system, the Earth has many inbuilt checks and balances — the oceans and the biosphere can act as carbon sinks, reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. However, Rapley thinks that the Earth will also have a "tipping point" whereby the ocean and biosphere can no longer take-up carbon dioxide. Using recent ice melts in the Antarctic and Greenland as examples, he highlighted the incredibly difficult task in modelling the Earth as a complex system. Describing the Earth as "the most complex system in the Universe", he said that the Earth system "has many surprises and can't be modelled too much." He added, soberly, that whilst the greenhouse effect was understood in the 1800s by mathematician Joseph Fourier , the Earth now:
"...has no user's manual, and no spares... . Many senior economists act like they don't understand this."
He likened our current situation to that of the next day after a great party. Burning immense amounts of carbon has given humans a much higher quality of life than before the use of carbon fuels, however the carbon dioxide is the "hangover." He attacked sceptics of climate change by saying that the weight of scientific opinion supports the assertion that climate change is real and man-made, highlighting that 90% of climate change is anthropogenic.
Another interesting, and perhaps unfortunate, point (well, for me anyway) was that meat-eaters contribute far more than vegetarians to climate change. This is because much more energy goes into meat production than vegetarian foods.
Professor Rapley's talk was preceded by an oration by Dr James Lovelock. Dr Lovelock is a systems modeller and is well-known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis — that living and non-living parts of the Earth are a complex interacting system that can be thought of as a single organism, and that all living things have a regulatory effect on the Earth's environment that promotes life overall. Lovelock and Rapley have recently proposed a radical idea to "Help the Earth heal herself" in a letter to Nature Magazine. The proposal is to use huge pipes to pump lower ocean water, rich in nutrients, to the surface, stimulating the growth of algae and plankton in the upper ocean. The surface layer of the ocean is increasingly starved of nutrients such as phosphates and nitrates. These nutrients are needed by the algae to grow, but as the surface warms, there is less mixing with the nutrient-rich water layers beneath. The mixing of ocean layers would encourage algal blooms — the algae take up more carbon dioxide, which is eventually locked up in the tiny shells of plankton when they die and fall to the bottom of the ocean. This proposal essentially assumes that it's too late for carbon emission controls and other alternatives to have any effect on climate change — the damage is already done.
To read more on the mathematics of climate change, read the Plus article Maths and climate change: the melting Arctic.
Another interesting session that Plus attended was on a computer that had been taught using hidden markov models to harmonise melodies in the style of Johann Sebastian Bach. A hidden Markov model is a statistical model in which the system being modelled is assumed to be a Markov process with unknown parameters, and the hidden parameters need to be determined from the observable parameters. Hidden Markov models are known for their application in pattern recognition such as speech, handwriting, musical score following and bioinformatics.
You can read more on Machine Learning at the Edinburgh Festival on yesterday's blog, and you can read more about Markov Processes in the Plus article Formulaic football. And to read more on using hidden Markov Models to analyse Bach, see the group's publication Harmonising chorales by probabilistic inference.
This afternoon, I eagerly await the screening of Pi in the maths film festival. For more information and a comprehensive program, see the Festival website. The event runs until April 6.
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Monday, March 31, 2008
Machine learning and clever 8-year olds
This week, Plus is attending the Edinburgh International Science Festival — an educational charity aiming to engage society in the value of science and technology, placing a particularly strong emphasis on providing experiences of science that are inspiring and confidence building. The Festival is internationally well-regarded and one of the biggest science events in the UK. Its timing suggests we are now well into science festival season, with roughly another 10 city-wide events to be held around the country, in addition to the recently run Cambridge and Brighton Science Festivals. In 2007, Plus attended the BA York Science Festival — you can read more on the Plus Blog.
There is a comprehensive range of talks from some of the world's leading scientists, and last evening Plus attended a talk by Chris Bishop, Deputy Director of Microsoft Research in Cambridge, on Machine Learning. Compared to humans, machines are very bad at recognising some patterns — for instance, recognising that a photo of a cow is actually a cow and not a dog or a shadow or even a spoon — they simply do not innately know these things and must be taught. Whilst humans are very good at understanding messy handwriting — a subtle task — computers must learn. Bishop's work involves developing computers that can learn and so become smarter in completing their tasks. To read more about the mathematics involved, see the Cambridge team's introduction to applied mathematics for machine learning.
Central to machine learning is the Turing Test. English mathematician Alan Turing — instrumental in breaking the Enigma code during World War II — is widely regarded as one of the founders of modern computer science — see the Plus article What computers can't do. In a 1950 paper, he described what he called the Imitation game, now known as the Turing Test, in which a person (in a separate room) tries to distinguish between human and computer test subjects by asking them each a series of questions. If the person can't distinguish between the computer and the human, the computer is deemed to be intelligent. There is a (currently unclaimed) prize of $100,000 for a computer that can pass the Turing Test. Bishop talked about the Forza Motorsport X-box game, in which you race against other players or against the computer. The computer car can be taught to drive like a human — you can create a "Drivatar" which will learn from the way you drive and then drive like you. The word Drivatar comes from avatar, which in gamer-speak is the player's representation within the game. Participants in trials have said that they cannot tell the difference between a human playing and a computer, and so within a very limited context, the Drivatar passes the Turing Test.
Bishop also talked about other developments in machine learning, from Spam email detection — see the Plus article CAPTCHA if they can — to websearches and modern developments in HIV detection. New software is being developed to look for patterns in the HIV protein code. This code evolves over time, and so searching for the same string of amino acids each time is likely not to work. He also discussed developments in the way computers play the games Chess and Go. He stated that whilst the IBM Deep Blue chess-playing computer was able to beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, it was not because of any particular advances in machine "intelligence" — the success was largely due to advancements in computer memory and speed that allowed the computer to analyse the game very thoroughly. If at each turn you can make around 30 possible moves, and then there are around 30 possible replies by your opponent, and then in turn another 30 possible moves you can make, and so on, then a human could never hope to analyse each and every scenario. However, Deep Blue was able to look at the full set of possible moves and then make the best one (although it did have the intelligence to look within a set of smart moves). With the game Go however, at each turn there are around 200 possible moves, meaning that it is impossible currently to completely analyse each scenario before playing a move. Bishop is working with computers that are learning by playing against humans.
I have also attended Wonderama and the mathematical puzzles at the Museum of Scotland. Wonderama is designed for the whole family and hosts many free activities and events for budding scientists, aspiring surgeons, wannabe adventurers and trainee archaeologists. Thankfully, my time around science festivals means that I wasn't outdone by 8-year olds in the mathematical puzzle department. Actually, that is not completely true...
Tonight, I am eagerly awaiting the Edinburgh Medal Address by Professor Chris Rapley, Director of the Science Museum, on the dangers of climate change. The Edinburgh Medal is awarded each year to those within science whose professional achievements are judged to have made a significant contribution to the understanding and well-being of humanity.
For more information and a comprehensive program, see the Festival website. The event runs until April 6.
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March 28, 2008
Friday, March 28, 2008
One of the most important international prizes for mathematics has this year been awarded jointly to two outstanding mathematicians — even though one of them was originally unable to find a publisher for his groundbreaking work.Read more...
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March 28, 2008
Friday, March 28, 2008
Alexander Grothendiek, one of the most important mathematicians of the twentieth century, turns 80 today.Read more...
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March 27, 2008
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Film3 — maths at the movies
Mathematical films will be featured next week in the Edinburgh International Science Festival's mathematics film festival Film3 — maths at the movies.
Pi will be featured on 1 April.
The season of mathematical movies was created by the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences and Filmhouse Cinema to showcase three very different independent films. Each film is based around a mathematical concept, but also provides an element of social commentary.
The season opens on 27 March with the UK premiere of the highly acclaimed animation, Flatland the Film. Based on the 1889 novel by Edwin A. Abbot, the film tackles issues revolving around race, gender, religion and globalisation. Mr A. Square is an average middle-class Flatlander until enlightenment allows him to see his world from a different dimension. He discovers that Flatland is threatened by forces it cannot possibly recognise. Will he be able to save his family and his world? Everyone attending the screening will receive a "goody bag" containing postcards signed by Flatland's director Ladd Ehlinger Jr, a copy of the novel donated by Transreal Fiction, vouchers from Filmhouse and Edinburgh International Science Festival, and other mathematical goodies from ICMS. A discussion led by Maximillian Ruffert of University of Edinburgh and Katie Russell of Heriot-Watt University will follow the film.
You can read the Plus review of the original 1889 novel Flatland in the Plus article 'Flatland'.
Pi is screened on 1 April and explores the life and experiences of Max, a gifted mathematician who believes that everything in the Universe can be expressed mathematically. He becomes obsessed with finding the underlying pattern behind the stock market, but religious and commercial groups try to exploit his research. Can he pass through this philosophical maelstrom and survive unscathed? Giorgos Papageorgiou and Tim Johnson of Heriot Watt University will discuss the film with the audience after the screening.
The final film, Cube, is screened on April 3. Cube investigates the relationships between six apparently unconnected individuals who wake up inside a three-dimensional maze of interlocking cubes. Developing mutual trust is the key to survival as they are forced to collaborate on cracking the code behind the Cube's mechanism. How many will escape to discover the bigger mystery that lies outside their existentialist prison? Science fiction author and mathematician Hannu Rajaniemi will discuss questions arising from the mathematics in Cube with the audience.
Tickets are available for individual films, or at a discounted rate for all three, from the box office at Filmhouse Cinema, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh, EH3 9BZ (phone: 0131 228 2688). Each screening will start at 5.45pm, and there will be discussion in the theatre after the screening, and then over coffee and drinks.
Plus will be attending the screening of Pi, so please come and chat to us! You can read more on the Film3 — maths at the movies website.
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March 25, 2008
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
American Institute of Mathematics last week. Ce Bian and Andrew Booker from the University of Bristol showed the first example of a third degree transcendental L-function.
L-functions underpin much of twentieth century number theory. They feature in the proof of Fermat's last theorem, as well as playing a part in the recent classification of congruent numbers, a problem first posed one thousand years ago.Read more...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Junior guard Jarrod Polson scored 10 points - three more than he had in his career at Kentucky - and made the clinching free throws with 7.7 seconds to play as the third-ranked Wildcats held off a furious second-half rally by Maryland for a 72-69 victory Friday night.
Kyle Wiltjer, a sophomore, led Kentucky with 19 points in the second game of the Barclays Center Classic, the first college basketball games played in the new arena in Brooklyn. Archie Goodwin, the only one of the four freshmen in Kentucky's heralded recruiting class to score in double figures, had 16 points for the defending national champions.
Seven-foot-1 sophomore Alex Len led Maryland with 23 points and 12 rebounds, both career highs. His rare three-point play - he made the first free throw then rebounded his own miss of the second - brought the Terrapins within 70-69 with 8.9 seconds left.
Polson was fouled with 7.7 seconds left and made two free throws for a 72-69 lead.
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As a soldier, Smith was hand-picked to be a small group leader at the Maneuver Support Center of Excellence Noncommissioned Officers Academy at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. So far, he has accumulated 3,144 instructor contact hours over 12 classes, including while serving as the senior instructor for two overseas mobile training teams. He also conducted the first completely digital engineer advanced leader course, setting the bar for other courses at the NCO Academy.
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``It is an existential threat,'' Mofaz said at a forum on Iran at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. ``We have to make sure we are prepared for every option.''
At talks in Geneva on July 19, European diplomats and U.S. Undersecretary of State William Burns gave Iran two weeks to reply to the offer and to their repeated calls for it to halt enrichment.
The current standoff seems to be moving forward, and not in a good direction. It would seem that world powers are making Iran an offer it cannot refuse...or else. Unfortunately, Iran appears to be growing even more defiant. It now has 6,000 operable centrifuges, with a stated goal of having 54,000 (source: MSNBC).
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CHICAGO (AP) - Wisconsin scored three times in the second period and held on to beat second-ranked Minnesota 3-2 Sunday in the Hockey City Classic at Soldier Field.
Sean Little capped a flurry of goals with the game-winner at 16:22 of the second period for the Badgers (13-10-7, 10-7-7), who spoiled the Gophers' first outdoor game. Wisconsin is 3-0-0 in games played outdoors.
"That's what cost us the game," Minnesota coach Don Lucia said. "They got some puck luck and we got away from the things we should be doing."
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When multiple dogs at Blue Ribbon Labradors began getting sick, Michelle Wood's first thought was parvovirus.
The symptoms seemed to fit, and the fact it was spreading so quickly seemed to confirm it in her mind. Wood never would have thought the dogs had been poisoned, but their veterinarian confirmed antifreeze was the cause of all their problems.
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Buncombe County health officials are seeking the public's help in locating individuals who may have been exposed to a potentially rabid fox.
An injured juvenile fox was found by a motorist at the intersection of Sardis Road and Sand Hill Road on June 3. It was taken from the site and transported to an unknown location. In that time, at least four people came in contact with the animal, including a child, Buncombe County Health and Human Services said.
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The Energy Department suffered a cyber attack last month that compromised the personal information of several hundred federal and contractor employees, the agency said in an internal email to staff Friday evening.
The attack, which occurred in mid-January, targeted computer networks at Energy's headquarters, according to the email. Energy is working with federal law enforcement to determine the nature and scope of the attack and the potential impacts to staff and contractors. The department would not say what personal data was compromised but said no classified data was stolen.
The Washington Free Beacon reported the attack Monday morning, citing unnamed officials.
Energy said it is increasing monitoring across all department networks and is deploying specialized defense tools to protect the department's sensitive assets.
Meanwhile, employees have been told to encrypt all files and emails containing personally identifiable information, including files stored on hard drives or on the shared network. Also, they have been told not to store or email non-government-related personally identifiable information on Energy network computers.


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Republicans, by and large, are frustrated with recent polls of the presidential election because they think Democrats are being oversampled. Many pollsters respond by saying that "weighting" the polls for partisan identification creates its own problems and might end up skewing the polls in the wrong direction.
I am not in favor of partisan weighting, per se, although some polls like the Rasmussen poll do it in a sensible and nuanced way. So, I think the pollsters are offering a false choice between weighting and not weighting.
Furthermore, a lack of weighting creates its own problems, which many pollsters often fail to acknowledge. Specifically, many polls have, in my judgment, overestimated the Democrats' standing right now. I base this conclusion not on a secret, black box statistical methodology or some crystal ball, but rather on a read of American electoral history going back to 1972. If I am right, then some of the polls are giving a false sense of the true state of the race, and will likely correct themselves at some point or another.
One important "tell" in my opinion, is this president's continued weak position with independent voters, who remain the true swing vote.
Obama's average overall margin over Romney in these same polls is roughly 4 percent. Bottom line: You do not get a four-point lead overall with a tie among independents, unless you are squeezing substantially more votes out of your base than your opponent is. And more generally, you are not "winning" an election in any meaningful sense of the word when 3/5ths of unaffiliated voters are either undecided or against you.
So, I see two ways the polls are tilted in favor of the president.
First, many of the polls are guessing that Democrats are set to turn out at levels that match or sometimes exceed 2008. Take two examples – recent polls in Ohio and Florida. I've included the 2008 and 2004 exit polls as a baseline for consideration.
Here's Ohio:
The midpoint between 2004 and 2008 is D+1.5. You'll notice that Gravis, Washington Post, and Fox basically see a replay of 2008 while Rasmussen and the Purple Poll see roughly something in between 2004 and 2008. Relatedly, the polls on the high end for Democrats see a 5-point lead or better for the president (with Gravis being a strange exception), and Obama at or near 50 percent. The polls that see a tighter partisan split basically see a toss-up.
We see the same thing in Florida as well.
The median between 2004 and 2008 is actually a Republican advantage of 1.5 points. But, once again, only Rasmussen and the Purple poll show anything like that. The rest of them tilt toward 2008, with several of them overwhelmingly so. And, once again, the polls that feature "2008 Mach 2.0" show a very healthy Obama lead; the polls that see something between 2004 and 2008 show a pure toss-up.
We also see the same tendency in Virginia, Colorado, and, as best I can tell, Nevada (there has been less polling there).
All told, we see a statistically significant relationship between Obama's margin and the Democratic advantage in partisan identification. In other words, there appears to be a bimodal distribution of the polls. They are not converging around a single point. Instead, some (notably Rasmussen, Purple Strategies, Survey USA, and Mason-Dixon) see Obama ahead by just 1 to 3 points in the key swing states, while others (notably the Washington Post, Fox News, PPP, and NBC News/Marist) see an Obama lead that ranges between 4 and 8 points. And the difference looks to be built around how many Democrats are included in the polling samples.
If it comes down to whether or not this will be a repeat of 2008 -- which is basically what the latter camp of pollsters is suggesting -- then my money is on no. Of course, it is possible that I am wrong. I have no crystal ball looking forward. All I can do is look back through history, where I see on average a nationwide Democratic identification edge of about 3 points, which is also roughly the midpoint between 2004 and 2008. That is my guess about 2012. It is an informed guess, but it is still a guess. If I'm right, then Rasmussen, Purple Poll, Mason-Dixon, and Survey USA are closer to the mark. But I could be wrong, in which case Fox, PPP andWashington Post are closer to the mark.
Importantly, the pollsters are guessing, too. They are guessing via the myriad of choices they make about when to poll, whom to poll, and how to poll. By Election Day, polling will be much more "scientific" than it is today; but now there is quite a bit of "art." That's how we wind up with two points of convergence, instead of just one.
Another point to keep in mind: bimodal distributions are extremely messy to deal with. It is hard to average them in a meaningful way, and analysts who build complicated predictive models based on these sorts of polls are going to have a difficult time handling them.
Second major point: There is a subtler dimension to this Democratic polling advantage, one that nevertheless exercises a powerful effect on the margins between the two candidates. And it looks to apply to most of the polls, at least for the time being. It has to do with how tightly the two sides have control over their own coalitions. For instance, a recent Rasmussen poll had Romney winning 85 percent of Republicans, and Obama winning 11 percent. So, we might say that Romney is pulling a net of 74 percent from his own side.
We can replicate this methodology for recent polls that provide enough data.
As we can see, Obama has tighter control over his base at the moment. Now, the difference may seem insubstantial, but I assure you it is not. After all, this is a race that will see the two sides separated at most by 5 points, so this basically gives the president a one-point boost over Romney, simply by virtue of having a more unified base.
But is this historically accurate? Not really. In fact, over the last forty years, Republican candidates have consistently had tighter control over their base than their Democratic counterparts. Here is the most recent historical data from the exit polls:
The GOP control over its base has been remarkably consistent over the last forty years (at least in years without a major third party challenger), falling within a very tight range of +81 and +87, for an average of +84 over the last three cycles. The Democrats, meanwhile, had problems up through the 1980s, as the old New Deal/Great Society coalition was breaking down. Nevertheless, the party has since been rebuilt with a relatively loyal base of support. If we control for the Nader factor in 2000 breaking apart the Democratic base at the margins, then they are probably averaging about 78 or 79 percent these days.
Notice that the GOP outpaces the Democrats in party unity. That was true even in 2008, which was the best year for the Democrats and the worst for the Republicans in a generation. But notice also that the average of recent polls has the Democrats more unified than the GOP. That is a historical anomaly.
Again, it is possible that history will be defied, but I am rarely one to bet on that happening. If we instead assume that the GOP will have a net of +84 among its own partisans, and Obama can recreate the +79 he managed in 2008, then we are talking about a 2-point shift in these polls in favor of Romney. In other words, the above national polls give Obama a 3.6 percent edge over Romney; if the two bases fall back into historical alignment, then that lead would be cut to about 1.5 points.
As with the first point, I'm not saying that any of this will happen. But I suspect that when the Democratic enthusiasm bump from the DNC finally settles, we are going to see the two parties sort themselves roughly in line with what they have done through history – meaning a slight edge for the Republicans, not the Democrats. That is also going to shrink Obama's margin.
Final thought: As I mentioned earlier, a big "tell" here is that Obama cannot build any kind of lead among independent voters. That suggests to me that his advantage is built entirely on Democratic enthusiasm, which right now is above its historical trends and clearly on a post-DNC bump. Nobody in the postwar era has won the presidency by carrying less than 49 percent of independents, and Obama is quite a ways below that mark, even if some polls show him at or above 50 percent nationwide and in the key swing states.
Jay Cost is a staff writer for THE WEEKLY STANDARD and the author of Spoiled Rotten: How the Politics of Patronage Corrupted the Once Noble Democratic Party and Now Threatens the American Republic, available now wherever books are sold.


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A federal judge in Boston is considering whether to freeze $461 million worth of assets from the owners of a drug compounding firm blamed for a nationwide outbreak of fungal meningitis that has sickened 490 people and killed 34, including 13 in Tennessee.
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U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV took the seizure request under advisement Tuesday after a two-hour hearing. He scheduled an additional session in the case for Nov. 28.
The lead plaintiffs in the class-action suit are a New Hampshire man and a Pennsylvania woman, both of whom contend they contracted fungal meningitis after injections with a steroid produced by New England Compounding Center.
The drug compounding firm is owned by two Massachusetts families, the Caddens and Conigliaros, who are related by marriage.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs have estimated the combined value of the assets at $461 million, including the Caddens $1.8 million home in Wrentham, Mass., and Gregory Conigliaros $3.5 million home in Southborough, Mass., with six bedrooms, nine bathrooms and more than 11,000 square feet of space.
Gregory Conigliaro also owns a Cape Cod home worth $700,000 according to court filings.
The Caddens, according to the filing, also purchased and renovated a Rhode Island shore property.
Cited in the brief was the fact that one of the Conigliaro brothers and an officer of one of the related companies is Douglas Conigliaro, a licensed physician who was fined by the Florida medical board due to complaints about his failed attempt to implant a pump to deliver painkillers to a 64-year-old female patient.
A letter of concern was also issued against the physician by Florida authorities.
A civil suit stemming from the same case was settled for $1 million, Florida records show.
Douglas Conigliaro, described in the briefs as a disgraced anesthesiologist, heads an affiliated firm, Medical Sales Management, which acts as the sales arm for New England Compounding and Ameridose LLC, another drug compounding firm owned by the same two families.
Both Ameridose and New England Compounding have shut down and recalled all of their products.
The plaintiffs lawyers conceded in their brief that even with all the assets and yet-to-be-determined insurance coverage, it is unlikely to be enough to satisfy all the claims.
Lawyers for New England Compounding argued that it would be premature to seize the assets because no charges against the company have been proven.
Currently, more than 50 suits are pending in state and federal courts across the country, including 13 filed in circuit court in Nashville and a dozen before Saylor.
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UNITED NATIONS — Syria says it became a full member of the convention banning the use of chemical weapons as of Thursday but the United Nations says it will take at least another 30 days.
Bashar Jaafari told reporters he presented the secretary-general with the instrument of accession to the Chemical Weapons Convention after President Bashar Assad signed a legislative decree earlier Thursday declaring Syrias approval to join the treaty.
With this, the chapter of the so-called chemical weapons will be ended and ... Syria has become, starting today, a full member of the convention, Jaafari told reporters.
But U.N. associate spokesman Farhan Haq said Syria will become a member 30 days after its instrument of accession is deposited. He said the documentation is still being studied.
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When it comes to visual analysis, large datasets or data with intricate internal details often makes plotting in 2D useless, as the outcome is either just a fraction of the full dataset, or no details can be observed in the mess of datapoints. How can one make the process of changing the plot range and/or zooming, panning, etc. less tedious than doing it programmatically and iteratively, from time to time? I often meet with this issue, and developed various methods to deal with it (like this). Though I have now a working solution that I would like to share (see below), I also am highly interested in what kind of methods and tricks others invented to visualize and manipulate complex 2D data with ease.
Since Mathematica does not have a built-in plot manipulating interface, here is a gui of a plot-manipulator. Updates are indicated with bold text.
Known issues:
The function:
Now let's call it with some plots:
Zooming in/out with the Ctrl key, panning with Shift using the slider:
Panning the plotted area using Shift:
Please report any errors/glitches if encountered, and please feel free to correct it in this post!
In addition to István's fine answer, there is also
If you call the above function with no arguments, you can choose to interactively work with either
Now you can simply enter the different functions that you're plotting and you can manipulate it using simple dropdown menus and checkboxes. Some of the features are
Here's an example of an explorer panel with lot of customizations done to the plot:
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Service sector's growth called good sign
But break down the job numbers by sector, and a trend emerges -- it's the service sector that is leading the recovery. Employers in the service sector added 179,000 jobs, while manufacturing added just 14,000 and construction just 48,000.
This isn't surprising to economists -- the United States has long been shifting to a service economy as manufacturing jobs are automated and go overseas, and mining becomes less labor-intensive. But it brings to mind jobs at places such as McDonald's and Wal-Mart, where workers are protesting the low wages and poor conditions in some service jobs. A study last year by the National Employment Law Project found that 43 percent of the jobs created during the recovery were in low-wage service industries including retail, food services and employment services.
So is it a problem for the U.S. economy and the recovery in general that the service sector is leading the recovery?
Economists say no. It might actually be a good thing.
For one thing, growth in services means that households are spending money again -- a positive sign, as consumer spending drives the economy.
"It's a sign of health," said Michael Gapen, senior U.S. economist at Barclays. "Those tend to be jobs that are based on strengths of household balance sheets and what consumers are buying."
Consumers aren't just going to Wal-Mart and McDonald's, he said; they're also buying cars, stocks and health care. Professional and business services added 73,000 jobs in February; health care added 32,000; retail added 24,000.
Many of the service sector jobs being created are actually high-skilled and well-paying, said Francisco J. Buera, an economics professor at the University of California-Los Angeles, who published a paper last year, "The Rise of the Service Economy," arguing that low-skilled service jobs have been shrinking while high-skilled service jobs have been growing in recent decades. Health care and financial services jobs have grown, he said, and even jobs in places such as restaurants have gotten more specialized -- think chefs rather than cashiers.
"Over time, as we are getting richer, the type of goods we have been consuming are produced with high-skilled workers," he said.
Just as manufacturing has become more specialized, requiring engineers rather than just bodies, so too will the service sector, he said. This theory makes a case for education, even for those workers planning to work in retail or food services.
February's job numbers play that out: Unemployment for people with less than a high school degree was at 11.2 percent, compared to unemployment of 3.8 percent for people with a bachelor's degree or higher.
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MASHPEE — Mary Anne (Tully) Lane, 61, of Mashpee, passed away on Feb. 14, 2013.
She was the beloved wife of Michael Lane, and the daughter of the late Leo and Anna Tully.
Mary Anne graduated from Weymouth High School, class of 1969. She was a bookkeeper for many years, working primarily in the financial industry. She was a Eucharistic minister to the congregation and to the sick and an active member of the Christ the King Church. Mary Anne was a caring and giving woman who initiated the Giving Tree Program for children in the Mashpee area and ran several clothing drives dedicated to raising money and resources for parts of the Caribbean. She was also a foster parent for a number of children.
In between her own medical struggles she volunteered through the American Cancer Society to drive many cancer patients from various parts of the Cape to their treatments in Boston. Mary Anne was a certified Reiki Master who volunteered at the Brain Center in Mashpee and various Reiki centers.
Mary Anne was an avid traveler and thoroughly enjoyed cruising with her husband and with their friends. She loved watching sports, especially the Patriots, the Bruins, and the Red Sox, and particularly loved hosting gatherings at her home. "The Party," whatever the event, was always at Michael and Mary Anne's house. She was a loving wife, sister, and friend and will be dearly missed by all who loved her.
Aside from her loving husband Michael, Mary Anne is survived by five siblings, Sheila Boyle of Malden, Eileen McCoy and her husband William of Whitman, Peg Kosonen and her husband William of Weymouth, Thomas Tully of Weymouth, and James Tully and his wife Sharon of Brockton; brother in-law Thomas Lane and his wife Ginny of Canton; sister in-law Rosemary Haddad and her husband Charles of Taunton; brother-in-law Gerald and his wife Rosemary of Canton; brother-in-law Daniel and his wife Donna of Canton; and many nieces and nephews.
A visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 18, 2013, at the Chapman, Cole and Gleason Funeral Home, 74 Algonquin Ave. (Route 151), Mashpee. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 19, at Christ the King Parish, 3 Job's Fishing Road, Mashpee. A private burial will take place in Great Neck Woods Cemetery at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, P.O. Box 849168, Boston, MA 02284.
For online guest book and directions, please visit www.ccgfuneralhome.com.


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Billing errors, such as duplicate claims and missing information on the claim, result in more private insurance claim denials than judgments about the appropriateness of the service, says a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
For this report, GAO analyzed data from insurers in California, Connecticut, Florida, Maryland, New York, and Ohio, and annual studies produced by the American Medical Association (AMA) in 2008, 2009, and 2010 that included data on the incidence and reasons for claim denial. Data from Maryland showed that the most prevalent reason for claim denials in 2007 was duplicate claim submissions, accounting for 32% of all denials. Also in Maryland, 74% of denied claims did not meet the state's criteria for "clean" claims, those claims that include all of the required information needed for processing. Among 6 of the largest managed care organizations in California, the 4 that reported on the most prevalent reasons for claim denials in 2009 all reported duplicate claims as one of those reasons.
Denials also frequently resulted from eligibility issues. For 6 of the 7 insurers in 2010 data from AMA, more than 20% of claim denials occurred as a result of eligibility issues such as services being provided before coverage was initiated or after coverage was terminated.
GAO says that state and other data indicated that when denials are appealed they are frequently reversed in the patient's favor. Data from 4 states that the agency identified as collecting data on the outcomes of internal appeals filed with insurers show that at least 39% of internal appeals resulted in the insurer reversing its original coverage denial, many times because the insured or provider submitted addition information.
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Thanks for posting Gregg! We're pretty honored to receive these accolades. We knew last month we were the World Single Malt, but World Whisky of the Year was a surprise for us! Go Texas!
"Unless it survived a tornado, weathered a snow storm in Scotland, and then spent a year on boat before returning home, I'm not really interested."
Me too, I have been commenting on an outfit whose sole purpose is to get paid for giving out awards and promoting the winning brands which is thinly disguised advertizing. That and excluding Scotch from a malt competition is an out loud laugh. That's like an island in the South Pacific declaring it's coconut tossing contest to be a World Competition.
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I don't think I mentioned it here already, but our new stills are completed and fully operational! Looking beautiful too I might add #copperporn
New copper spirit stills! Gorgeous
New copper wash stills. They're like 10'+ tall. We almost weren't sure they were going to fit, lol
Just some magic happening
Hand built super efficient copper condensers
The view from the production floor
Gleaming, beaming, bubbling away, I can hear them sing.
We're Bourbon Geeks, it's who we are, it's what we do.
What does it sound like? Is it angelic? Or more like Daft Punk blended with Dimmu Borgir?
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Opponents said it would be too massive and incompatible with the area, while proponents said it would blend with the nearby 11-story Dartmouth and eight-story Willow Terrace buildings and the 20-story 1400 Willow condo building. The Bordeaux apartments at 1418 Willow Avenue would be razed for 24-unit Willow Grande tower.
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