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By now, most of our local high schools have held their graduation ceremonies. Within just a few days, more than 2,200 high-schoolers will soon have graduated locally - 1,078 from public schools and 173 from private schools in Terrebonne Parish, and 905 graduated from public schools and 140 from private school in Lafourche Parish. Nicholls State University conferred 527 degrees two weeks ago.
For the graduates, it is a time of excitement at having reached an important milestone in their lives and the beginning of another chapter.
Some are enjoying the summer before continuing their education in college classrooms. While the coursework is more demanding than in high school, the rewards are greater and the experience serve to broaden the world in which graduates live - even if they never leave south Louisiana. Studying a wide variety of subjects, meeting people from various backgrounds and possibly holding down a part-time job to help finance the pursuit of higher education will help acquaint them with the complexity of the world in which we live and help them to earn a better living. Greater education generally translates into higher-paying jobs and a higher standard of living.
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On March 29, to open the 2010 season, Sogreah will launch the latest addition to its fleet, the Q-Max, a faithful reproduction of a 1,132 ft LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) carrier with a capacity of 266,000 m3. Thanks to this latest model, sailors can now train on a ship that represents the new giants now sailing the seas.
The Port Revel development program was launched in October 2007 and represents an investment of over one million Euros, consolidating the centre's worldwide leadership in training pilots in shiphandling operations. By extending the lake to cover a total of five hectares, of which 70% is shallow water, doubling the number of quays and installing additional current-generating equipment, Port Revel can now offer an extremely varied range of situations and host 10-12 trainees each week as opposed to eight previously.
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Nazif Cungu
|Nazif Cungu
|Leader of FORCA[1]
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22 October 2005
|Mayor of Ulcinj[2]
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September 2011
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|Gëzim Hajdinaga
|President of Econimical-Social Council of Ulcinj[3]
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13 May 1958
Ulcinj, Montenegro
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Nazif Cungu is a Montenegrin-Albanian politician, the leader of the biggest Albanian political party in Montenegro FORCA.
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Nazif Cungu was born in Ulcinj, Ulcinj Municipality, southern Montenegro, near the border with Albania to an Albanian family on 13 May 1958. He finished the secondary school and gymnasium in his hometown. He studied tourism management in Economic Faculty of Dubrovnik, graduating in 1980. From 1983 until 1987 he worked at the Municipality of Ulcinj in the post of secretary for economy, finance and budget. From 1987 to 1991 he had the post of a Chief Commercial of Tourist Organization "Ulcinj Riviera". From 1993 to 1997 he directed the marketing sector of "Primus" company. In 1997 he founded his own company named "Cungu & Co." which employs over 100 people in its branches located in Ulcinj, Podgorica, Tivat, Budva, Niksic, Bjelopolje, Kotor and Herceg Novi. Cungu has extended its activities to other companies in Tirana and Pristina.
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In the years 1996 to 2002 he was the President of the Club of Counsilors of Democratic Union of Albanians, which resigned due to a disagreement with some action and deviations of the party. In the years 2004 to 2005 has performed the function of President of the Economic and Social Council of Ulcinj. Cungu is one of the founders of the party New Democratic Power – FORCA, and is currently chairman of the party. He is a prominent activist of civil society in Montenegro, he was among the founders of the Association "Ulqini" in Switzerland, humanitarian association "Drita", "Montenegro Business Aliances - MBA" and association of olive growers. Also he is one of the founders and currently chairman of the association "Ulcinj Business Association", an association in which there are over 270 businessmen.
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|Preceded by
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Just days after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency made official its "endangerment" ruling, calling greenhouse gases a pollutant that causes global warming, the momentum for change is picking up in places worlds apart.
The United Kingdom is set to include in its next government budget a set of binding carbon emissions targets, according to BBC News.
And in a move that has great implications for the next round of climate negotiations, China is considering its own carbon targets, according to the Guardian.
And in Canada, the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy said that Canada faces possibly ruinous trade retaliation from the United States if it does no respond in kind to a U.S. cap-and-trade program, according to the New York Times. To set Canadian GHG targets for 2020 and 2050, the group released the report "Achieving 2050: A Carbon Pricing Policy for Canada."
If the UK goes forward with its plan to reduce carbon emissions, it would be the first binding program put into place by a government. The plan would establish carbon budgets that would run for five-year periods up to 2022, at which point the UK aims to have cut emissions by 34-42 percent, according to BBC News.
More details of the UK plans will be revealed this summer. It's estimated the carbon budget will add 100 British Pounds to every family's annual energy expenditures.
In China, Su Wei, who serves on the nation's climate change negotiating team, said China may introduce a national target that to limit emissions relative to economic growth in the country's next five-year plan, starting in 2011.
"It is an option. We can very easily translate our [existing] energy reduction targets to carbon dioxide limitation" Su told the Guardian. "China hasn't reached the stage where we can reduce overall emissions, but we can reduce energy intensity and carbon intensity."
Another Chinese diplomat was more conservative, saying the carbon budgets may start in 2020.
The worldwide economy may have other plans for China and other Asian nations, however.
Facing a slump in sales of solar and other renewables, many Asia-Pacific nations are adding incentives to boost demand, according to Reuters.
Australia, China, Japan and South Korea are among nations that are considering ways to encourage renewable energy projects.
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David Stewart was a tough, nasty right tackle for the Tennessee Titans, drafted in 2005 out of Mississippi State.
He did a lot of tone-setting and a lot of mauling.
But he broke his leg two seasons ago, and rarely practiced last season with a variety of injuries, some connected to his recovery and some new.
At $6.4 million his 2014 salary was prohibitive and Wednesday the Titans officially parted ways with him, waiving him with a failed physical.
"Dave was a fixture for us at right tackle over the last eight years," said Titans general manager Ruston Webster. "He played the game with passion and brought a toughness that every team needs. Dave was a player we have always been able to count on and in our mind he will always be a Titan. We wish him and his family the best moving forward and thank him for his time with the Titans."
Byron Stingily is the in-house option to replace him. A mid-level free agent or a mid-round draft pick could be the answer too.
The Titans have second year players at right guard, in chance Warmack, and at center, in Brian Schwenke. Another kid would make them a very young line, but give them a lot of potential to grow together.
A best-case scenario could be to draft a player who can man right tackle this year and be ready to move to left tackle to replace Michael Roos after that.
Stewart did good work for them, but it's time to move on.
The Titans had just over $10 million in salary cap room before signing Dexter McCluster and Leon Washington. They gain Stewart's full scheduled salary of $6.4 million now.
Earlier Wednesday I asked Ken Whisenhunt about waiting on making cuts, as Stewart and Chris Johnson are players the team is not married to who can bring extensive savings.
"I think we have to do what's in the best interest of the Tennessee Titans and that's really what it's all about," he said.


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Nice new breadboard and power supply from TAUTIC.com
This is just a plug for a cute little pair of gadgets that I got the other day.. If you are like me and use solderless breadboards to experiment with stuff on the Arduino, you end up with the Arduino and the breadboard connected by a hodge podge of wires, and if you accidently tug on a power supply cord or the USB cord, half connections come undone. Or, you do all this experimenting on the dining room table, and when you have to clear it away for dinner, all sorts of wires become undone. Frustrating. Even annoying.
So, I took out an insurance policy against annoyance and frustration and ordered a protyping board for the Arduino Uno from TAUTIC.com. TAUTIC Electronics LLC is one of those cool little bootstrapped companies that have chosen to embrace the Open Source Hardware ideas and offer products of interest to tinkerers like myself. This prototype board is basically just a solderless breadboard bonded to a blue plastic backer, with the holes properly drilled to attach an Arduino Uno and the necessary hardware. He also makes version for the chipKit microcontrollers manufactured by Diligent.
While I placed that order, I decided to also give one of his dual output breadboard power supplies a try. For $9, you get a nice little board that plugs into a prototype board and provides 5V on the top rail, and 3.3V on the bottom rail. Very spiffy. The boards were shipped to me literally on the day I ordered them, great customer service. Jayson has a number of other cool boards, including some thermocouple boards and a PIC based development board. Check his store out and see if there is something that catches your eye.
A micro-power Arduino Morse radio beacon
My G0UPL QRSS beacon is working pretty well, but is only putting out about 40mw of power, when it probably should be putting out 100mw. I was pondering oscillators in general, and (as I do often) surf for information and inspiration. I found both on Steve "Melt Solder" Weber's website, in the form of a ATtiny based Wireless Morse thermometer. It was just a cool little circuit, so I tossed it together on a corner of my breadboard.
Works pretty well! I simulated the circuit using LTSpice before I built it, and found that it takes about 2ms for the oscillator to stabilize after powering down. At 12 wpm, each dit lasts 100ms, so it's pretty clear that you can do a reasonable job of sending morse at pretty much any speed that most humans can use. To test the oscillator, I hooked up a pair of new D cells which were measured at 3.42 volts, and the current draw was a miserly 0.461 milliamperes for a maximum input power of around 1.5mw. The Arduino can supply 20ma, so it's pretty obvious that you can drive this oscillator directly from an output pin. So, I used the Morse code sketch that I wrote a couple of years ago and voila! Instant beacon.
Regarding the legality, without any antenna, the effective radiated power of this antenna is incredibly low. I haven't done any analysis of the circuit to state categorically that it falls inside the restrictions of Part 15 wireless devices, but I'd be shocked if it didn't.
Hadie High Altitude Balloon Project
While listening to the Amateur Radio Newsline podcast this week, I was interested to hear that a group of hams from Ireland had launched a balloon which transmitted digital pictures back from the balloon while it was at altitude, using a version of dl-fldigi. While I was familiar with fldigi, I hadn't heard of this version, so I did a bit of searching on the web.
First of all, you can find details about the hadie high altitude balloon project here:
Hadie High Altitude Balloon Project
The flickr photostream from the most recent flight of hadie:4 can be found here:
Sadly, the balloon had a slower than predicted rise rate (2m/s instead of 3.5) and so overshot England after floating across the Irish Sea and landed in the North Sea. But it's very cool that we got these live photos back.
Digging a bit more revealed this nice project web page which had many details about the hardware and software they used. They used a serial based camera module previously sold by Sparkfun (now apparently retired), an NTX2 module from Radiometrix which broadcasts on 434.075Mhz, and a cpu based upon the ATmega644P chip. The flight software appears to be written in C, and reads the data from a GPS and the camera module, and repackages it in a custom format called ssdv for transmission over 300/600/1200 baud 8 bit RTTY which can then be decoded by a custom version of fldigi known as dl-digi. Very neat. The radio module that they use has an output power of just 10mw, and yet was successfully decoded over distances greater than 500km. What's kind of cool about this technique as opposed to (say) the analog Robot32 mode that ARISSAT-1 uses is that the image is broken up into packets, which are transmitted and received independently. The dl-fldigi can send any received packets to a central repository, and thus if any station successfully decodes a packet, then the image can be reconstructed (something that is difficult with analog SSTV).
I didn't have much to add to this, I just wanted to stash this for later. While the images they got don't really compare to some of the awesome HD footage that we are seeing shot with GoPro cameras, the immediacy of this seems very appealing, and it's a good technical challenge.
Alan's Advent Calendar of Circuits 2011
A couple of years ago, I was big into QRSS and wrote some software to do unattended captures of the portion of the 30M band where people were operating beacons. It was through this rather unconventional means that I first discovered Alan, VK2ZAY, as his callsign scrolled across in DFCW. If you look at this capture from February, 2009, you'll see Alan's call near the top, with VK6DI at the bottom, and ... NM5DV I think? across the middle.
I soon discovered that Alan had a very interesting blog with all sorts of good electronics stuff. But during this holiday season, he's raised the bar again: he's doing one circuit for each day of the Advent calendar. And the circuits are amazing. Thought provoking. Simple. And yet useful.
If you haven't checked them out, be sure to do so.
Project Completed: My $.99 Christmas LED hat, with ATtiny13 controller
Well, it's done! Here's my ATtiny13 controlled Christmas LED hat. It consists of an 8 pin, ATtiny13 microcontroller, a pair of 2N3904 transistors and some 1K resistors, a 7805 voltage regulator with two filter caps, and a switch, all mounted on a Radio Shack perfboard inside an Altoids tin. I'm rather pleased with the way it turned out. I always like it when a project goes from the breadboard to a final mounting in a box.
Addendum: Here's the schematic for the entire circuit. Nothing too surprising, but you should be able to follow it if you need to.
Christmas Lights powered by an ATtiny13
While waiting for my bread to rise the other day, I moved my breadboard ATtiny13 circuit that blinked two leds to a small Radio Shack perfboard, added a couple of switching transistors (2N3904s) to power the LEDs, and built a small 7805 regulator (which doesn't yet have any filter caps, I'll get to that). But, I couldn't resist powering it on. And after finding a small solder bridge (a hairlike strand that spattered and connected two of the microcontroller pins), it worked!
Hopefully this stuff will get mounted in a hat this weekend. Stay tuned for the final video.
Addendum: I received one request for the source code. It's trivial. Here you go.
#define F_CPU 1200000UL #include <avr/io.h> #include <util/delay.h> /* * xmas.c * * A small program for the ATtiny13 that can control two strands of * Christmas lights. I found a set of batter powered LED Christmas * lights at CVS on sale for $.99 each. I took the lights out, and * found that they consisted of two strands: one of 4 red and 4 yellow * LEDs, and the other of 4 blue and 3 green LEDS. Each strand is * wired in parallel and draws about 20ma at 3 volts. I have a few * ATtiny13's lying around, which can use between 2.7 and 5.5 volts supply. * I think for this test, I'll wire up a little 7805 regulator to provide * 5V, and then control each strand with one of the two PWM outputs. * If I want to drive the strings directly from the microcontroller, * I'll have to insert another 50 ohms of resistance to limit the current * to around 20ma per pin. I could also add a 1K resistor and a small * NPN transistor to drive each pin at the higher voltage. At 5V, the * strand will draw about 120ma. */ #define LED0 PB0 /* pin 5 on the ATtiny13 */ #define LED1 PB1 /* pin 6 on the ATtiny13 */ #define SWITCH PB4 /* pin 3 on the ATtiny13 */ int brite, dir ; int swd = 0 ; int swu = 0 ; int main(void) { DDRB |= (1 << LED0) ; /* set both LEDs as outputs */ DDRB |= (1 << LED1) ; DDRB &= ~(1 << SWITCH) ; /* and the switch as an input */ PORTB |= (1 << SWITCH) ; /* and activate the internal pull up */ /* This configures the PWM outputs to be in "Fast PWM" mode. */ TCCR0A |= (1 << WGM01) | (1 << WGM00) ; /* Timer is clocked at F_CPU/8 */ TCCR0B |= (1 << CS01) ; /* COM01 COM00 * 0 0 | normal port operation, output compare disconnected * 0 1 | toggle output on compare match * 1 0 | clear output on compare match * 1 1 | set output on compare match */ TCCR0A |= ((1 << COM0A1)) ; TCCR0A |= ((1 << COM0B1)) ; OCR0A = 0; OCR0B = 0; for (;;) { /* SOLID ON */ for (;;) { OCR0A = 0xff ; OCR0B = 0xff ; _delay_ms(1) ; if ((PINB & (1<<SWITCH)) == 0) break ; } while ((PINB & (1<<SWITCH)) == 0) ; /* CROSS FADE */ brite = 0 ; dir = 1 ; for (;;) { OCR0A = brite ; OCR0B = brite ^ 0xFF ; brite += dir ; if (brite == 0 || brite == 255) dir = -dir ; _delay_ms(2) ; if ((PINB & (1<<SWITCH)) == 0) break ; } while ((PINB & (1<<SWITCH)) == 0) ; /* BLINK */ brite = 0xff ; for (;;) { OCR0A = brite ; OCR0B = brite ; _delay_ms(500) ; brite ^= 0xff ; if ((PINB & (1<<SWITCH)) == 0) break ; } while ((PINB & (1<<SWITCH)) == 0) ; /* CROSS BLINK */ for (;;) { OCR0A = 0xff ; OCR0B = 0 ; _delay_ms(500) ; if ((PINB & (1<<SWITCH)) == 0) break ; OCR0A = 0 ; OCR0B = 0xff ; _delay_ms(500) ; if ((PINB & (1<<SWITCH)) == 0) break ; } while ((PINB & (1<<SWITCH)) == 0) ; } }
Microcontroller cheat sheet
I needed to know the pinouts for various AVR chips and the 6 pin ICSP cable they used. I found this cool little one page sheet that had that, and more. Saved for future reference:
Carmen makes an Arduino Stoplight
Today, Carmen decided that she wanted to give Arduino programming a try. She's an experienced programmer, but had never tried any of this small embedded stuff, and knows relatively little about electronics, but with a little direction from me, she got the Arduino development environment installed, and we did a bit of playing around. I showed how we could blink an LED, and then showed her how to read switches and even drive a servo motor. She then walked through some of Lady Ada's tutorials and ended up scavenging a red, green, and yellow LED from some old throwies we had, and coding up a little stop light application:
Here's the code:
// Stoplight // Introductory Arduino program - Carmen & Mark VandeWettering 12/11/11 // with thanks to : http://www.ladyada.net/learn/arduino/lesson3.html // int redPin = 12; // Red LED connected to digital pin 12 int greenPin = 11; // Green LED connected to digital pin 11 int yellowPin = 13; // Yellow LED connected to digital pin 13 int delayTime = 1000; // initiate a delaytime amount here void setup() // run once, when the sketch starts { pinMode(redPin, OUTPUT); // sets the digital pin as output pinMode(greenPin, OUTPUT); // sets the digital pin as output pinMode(yellowPin, OUTPUT); // sets the digital pin as output } void loop() // run over and over again { digitalWrite(redPin, HIGH); // sets the Red LED on delay(delayTime); // waits the delayTime digitalWrite(redPin, LOW); // sets the Red LED off digitalWrite(greenPin, HIGH); // sets the Green LED on delay(delayTime*5); // waits the delayTime * 5 digitalWrite(yellowPin, HIGH); // sets the Yellow LED on digitalWrite(greenPin, LOW); // sets the Green LED off delay(delayTime); // waits the delayTime digitalWrite(yellowPin, LOW); // sets the Yellow LED off (and continue the loop) }
If you have any experience with programming at all, the Arduino should be pretty easy. If you don't, it will take a bit more work, but it's still doable. Give it a try!
The "Hello World" of Servo Programming on the Arduino
This morning I woke up around 5:30AM to catch the lunar eclipse. It was pretty nice: totality began around 6:05AM and the moon became incredibly dark and red. But 30 minute later, it had progressed low enough that it entered the offshore clouds that signaled the arrival of the morning fog. So, I came back, and went to bed.
When I woke up, I knew that I wanted to try something easy with my Arduino. A few weeks ago, I was in a Radio Shack (gasp!) and saw that they carried the Parallax servos (rebranded Futaba servos, if memory serves) so I picked one up, thinking "I should hook this to an Arduino, because I've never done that."
Well, so I did.
So... what can I do with this?
I could use it to pan a webcam back and forth, perhaps under control of a web page.
I could hook up an ultrasonic sensor, and scan for obstacles.
I could rotate an object, and create an animated gif allowing you to see all sides
And ultimately, I could do some kind of animatronic thing.
I know, it's not very impressive. But it's a start. And as I've heard before, the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
More Wisdom on LEDs…
More important help for the budding young electronics designer:
Note: this also works in computer graphics quite well. Just specify a negative intensity for the light value.
More on $.99 Christmas lights…
I didn't have a lot of time to do anything significant tonight, but I wanted to test a few things about this strand of Christmas lights using a multimeter and some simple math.
Recap: there are two strands of LEDs, each wired in parallel. One strand consists of 4 red and 4 yellow LEDS. The other has 4 blue and 3 green LEDs. When powered by two AA alkaline cells, the two strands combine to draw about 40ma of current.
While mulling what I could do with them during the day, it seemed obvious that I could use my ATtiny13 pumpkin circuit to drive the LEDs. While the ATtiny13 is just an 8 pin DIP, it has two PWM outputs, each of which could drive one strand. My pumpkin was powered by 2 AA batteries. The ATtiny13 should have no problem sinking 40ma of current on two pins. Since the LED strands can be powered by just 3V, I could run the entire thing off just the two AAs.
But there is one thing that is a bit wonky: the yellow LEDs. They are really dim compared to the other LEDs. One is sort of okay, but the other three are really feeble. I thought it was possible that maybe the yellows were just feeble (they usually aren't as bright as good red or green LEDs), but I had another hypothesis: that the forward voltage for those leds was really close to 3v, and they weren't really conducting properly.
To a first approximation, until the voltage across the diode reaches the forward threshold value, the diode doesn't conduct. If the yellow LED was barely meeting (or not) meeting its forward voltage, then it's not passing as much current as the other LEDs. In fact, in this parallel arrangement, it means that the other LEDs are passing more current than you would think (the overall current is still limited by the current limiting resistor in the circuit, but the balance is wrong).
So, I hypothesized that if I raised the voltage perhaps I'd get more even illumination. I hooked up a 5v supply, and... yes! the lights did seem a bit more even, and the yellows, while not exactly blazing, were at least reasonably illuminated. I then hooked up a ammeter to measure the current through the circuit. I knew it would be higher (obviously, since the LEDs were brighter). Indeed, it measured 120ma or so, nearly 3x the current. To keep the same 40ma current, I'd need some additional current limiting resistance. I tried inserting a 220 ohm resistor, and the green and blue strand were nearly completely extinguished, and only the red LEDs of the red/yellow strand were illuminated. Obviously the voltage drop across the resistor was too great to cause the forward voltage of most of the LEDs to conduct.
So, I dusted off a small 200 ohm pot from my junk box, and inserted that. I then tuned the resistance to match the 40 ma of current that we saw at 3v. And, indeed, while the current draw was the same, the illumination was quite a bit more even: the yellow LEDs were quite reasonable.
This suggests that maybe the right thing to do is to drive the LEDs with a bit higher voltage. I'm now thinking that I'll power the ATtiny and the LEDs with a 9v battery into a 5v regulator. Since the capacity of the 9v battery is a bit lower, it won't last as long, and we are wasting more energy in the current limiting resistor (I need to add about 47 ohms of resistance to lower the current draw to just 40ma) but I'll get better illumination.
We'll see how this works when I get it on the breadboard.
Correction: Schematic for $.99 Christmas Lights
I was in a hurry yesterday, and didn't draw the LED connections in my schematic for the $.99 Christmas lights properly. Mike pointed it out to me on twitter, so I thought I'd post a corrected version of the schematic. I've also updated the schematic in the original post, so no one will be led astray by haste and carelessness.
Dissecting a set of $.99 battery powered Christmas lights…
I was over at the CVS repository today, and saw that they had some small strings of fifteen LED Christmas lights on sale for a paltry $.99 (if you used your CVS discount card). That was simply too much to resist, so I got a couple of strings, and thought that I would use them for a Christmas related electronics project of some sort.
And, of course, it provides a reason to test your basic electronics knowledge as well. (Forgive my more technologically saavy readers, this is gonna be pretty basic, but I found it fun to go through the mental exercise).
First of all, here are photos of the box they came in, just so we are all on the same page:
When you pop them open, you'll find a small greenish plastic box that holds the batteries, and a string of fifteen LEDs wired into it with green wire. The box has a small switch on it, which if you stare at you'll see has both an OFF and an ON position, but it can also be set half way to enable a blinking function. Popping two batteries into the case and flipping the switch had the desired effect: Christmas lights!
So, I started staring at them. There are three wires coming out of the battery box. Each LED appears to have five wires operating in its vicinity. One bypasses the LED, and four other wires sprout from each LED (except for the very last one on the string, which just has two connections. A few minutes of thinking reveals that the LEDS must be wired in parallel, with a circuit that looks very much like this:
Ed. note: Mike pointed out that the original schematic was in error. This has been updated.
The lines labelled A and B are just two power lines: each carries power to half of the LEDs. In the "blink" mode, power is applied to only half of the LEDs at a time. Staring inside the box, it appears that there are two discrete plastic cased transistors wired together: my guess is that they are a classic multivibrator circuit. I'll verify that later.
Okay, enough of boring reality, let's try to get to the exciting math.
First of all, the package says that we can get "120 hours or more" from one (presumably) set of alkaline batteries. That seems like excellent battery life, but how realistic is it?
First of all, how much power is in a pair of AA alkalines? Wikipedia says we have about 1800-2600 mAh. I bought some cheap AAs from CVS, so let's say we are in the middle of the range, about 2200 mAh. Naively, to last 120 hours, the current draw can only be 2200 / 120 or about 18ma (this isn't quite right, but it's close) which works out to about 1.2 ma of current per LED (did I mention that the LEDs are wired in parallel?). The total power consumed is about 50mw. If we assume the voltage drop from the LEDs is around 2 volts, we need we need to have a series resistance of about 1 v / 18ma or about 55 ohms. It can be a tiny one, since the power consumed is very small.
All this presumes that they were all in parallel. In reality only half the current flows in each of the A and B circuits, so in blink mode, I suspect the power consumed will be cut by one half (ignoring the power consumed by the multivibrator, which should be very low).
But here's the good thing! The current draw is low enough that it should be possible to power these lights directly from an Arduino, without any additional switching transistors or the like. My intention is to power each of the two strands with a PWM signal, to allow independent fading and glowing.
But I don't trust my math enough (nor the specified 120 hour life) to just hook this up randomly, so I'll be doing a little dissection when I get home tonight, to verify that my calculations are roughly correct. Stay tuned!
Addendum: I took a closer look at the tiny circuit board inside the battery case, and was somewhat surprised to see its inner workings hidden under a blob of epoxy. Two driver transistors do appear on the top side. As far as I can tell, no caps or inductors are visible anywhere:
Addendum2: Last night I put my multimeter in series with the batteries in this circuit, and measured a current draw of 40 milliamps in its "steady", non-blinking mode. That means that the 120 hours on two AAs quoted on the box is likely a fiction, a life of more like 55 hours would seem to be more likely. In blinking mode, the current draw seemed to vary between 20ma and 30ma, but my meter wasn't able to integrate the current to a stable value.
I'm thinking that I'll resurrect the circuit that I used for my ATtiny13 powered pumpkin to drive these LEDs. The ATtiny13 has two PWM channels, which could be used to drive the two LED channels separately, allowing some cool color fading effects. I could probably even salvage the case to hold the batteries. Stay tuned.
The art of capacitive touch sensing
I didn't get a lot of electronics hacking done, but I found myself again playing with capacitive sensing. I found this interesting article on the EE Times website:
The art of capacitive touch sensing
It also pointed me at the following pretty cool Youtube! vid by the folks at Nerdkits:
My experimentation thus far has been mostly confined to using the CapSense library for the Arduino. This library is pretty simple to use, but it has a number of quirks that make it somewhat cumbersome for the uses that I had for it. I'm currently working on a "better" (for my purposes) version. Stay tuned.
The Sparkfun Serial LCD
I was driving around various Silicon Valley electronics and surplus stores (like HSC and Anchor Electronics) and decided to stop in at Microcenter. I remembered that they supposedly were beginning to stock items from Sparkfun and the Maker Shed. And, indeed they do! I found a Serial LCD module from Sparkfun that I thought might be fun to have, so I got one:
A couple of quick caveats though:
- The module has absolutely no documentation in the box. A quick bit of searching revealed the datasheet for the device, and that was helpful (although not the clearest that I've seen). If you are familiar with HD44780 devices, you'll have no problems.
- The pigtail they ship with it connects to the JST connector, and uses stranded wire. Not the best thing to plug into breadboards and the like. I soldered some female headers onto the unpopulated connector, and that worked out better.
- It doesn't appear that you can load custom characters over the serial interface like you can with the traditional interface. Bummer.
Still, it was dead easy. If you want a simple module to do some simple display tasks with only three wires, it works just fine.


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Check out performances from J. Cole, Major Lazer, Future, Disclosure, Flume, A$AP Ferg, Flosstradamus, & more.
The Cheetos takeover continues.
A step away from the collaboration's usual muted colors.
Showcasing a nostalgic touch of youth.
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In telecommunication a data link is the means of connecting one location to another for the purpose of transmitting and receiving information. It can also refer to a set of electronics assemblies, consisting of a transmitter and a receiver (two pieces of data terminal equipment) and the interconnecting data telecommunication circuit. These are governed by a link protocol enabling digital data to be transferred from a data source to a data sink.
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Volvo Cars Tests Replacing Keys with Smart Phone App
Volvo Cars Tests Replacing Keys with Smart Phone App
For decades, drivers have been accustomed to accessing and driving cars with physical keys. But no longer. In a ground-breaking move for the automotive industry, Volvo Cars plans to become the world's first car manufacturer to offer cars without keys from 2017.
Volvo customers will be offered an application for their mobile phones to replace the physical key with a digital key. The innovative Bluetooth-enabled digital key technology, will offer Volvo customers far more flexibility, enabling them to benefit from entirely new ways to use and share cars.
The new Volvo app enables the digital key on the customer's mobile phone to do everything a physical key currently does, such as locking or unlocking the doors or the trunk and allowing the engine to be started.
This new technology will also offer customers the possibility to receive more than one digital key on their app allowing them to access different Volvo cars in different locations – according to their changing mobility needs.
Using the app people could potentially book and pay for a rental car anywhere in the world and have the digital car key delivered to their phone immediately. On arrival a customer could simply locate the rental car via GPS, unlock it and drive away, avoiding those frustrating queues at airport or train station car rental desks.
Volvo Cars' digital key means that sharing a car will become both simple and convenient. Volvo owners will be able to send their digital key to other people via their mobile phones so that they can also use the car, this may be family members, friends or co-workers in a company.
"At Volvo we are not interested in technology for the sake of technology. New technology has to make our customers' lives easier and save them time. Mobility needs are evolving and so are our customers' expectation to access cars in an uncomplicated way," said Henrik Green, Vice President Product Strategy & Vehicle Line Management at Volvo Cars. "Our innovative digital key technology has the potential to completely change how a Volvo can be accessed and shared. Instead of sitting idle in a parking lot the entire day, cars could be used more often and efficiently by whoever the owner wishes."
Volvo will pilot this technology in spring 2016 via its car sharing firm Sunfleet, stationed at Gothenburg airport, Sweden. A limited number of commercially available cars will be equipped with the new digital key technology in 2017.
"There are obviously many permutations when it comes to how this shared key technology can be used," added Martin Rosenqvist, New Car Director, Special Products at Volvo Cars. "We look forward to seeing how else this technology might be used in the future and we welcome any and all ideas."
Volvo is a pioneer with new digital key solutions. In 2015 the Swedish premium carmaker launched the world's first commercial offer to have online shopping delivered directly to the car, by providing a one-time digital key to a delivery company. Now the digital key technology will also be made available for customers.
Physical keys will continue to be offered for people who want them.
Volvo's innovative keyless car technology will be shown for the first time at the Mobile World Congress 2016 (22-25 February) in Barcelona at the Ericsson booth.
Volvo Car Group profit trebles to SEK6.6bn in 2015
Volvo Car Group, the premium car maker, trebled its operating profit for 2015 to SEK6.620bn compared to SEK2.128bn for the same period in 2014. Revenue for the year was SEK164,043m, up from SEK137,590m in 2014.
The company also reported an all-time sales record of 503,127 cars in 2015, the first time it has sold more than half a million cars in its 89-year history, boosted by the introduction of its new 90 series cars and strong sales of existing models.
"I am pleased to report that 2015 was a year of record sales and trebled profits," said Håkan Samuelsson, President and Chief Executive. "Now, with a successful 2015 behind us, Volvo Cars will enter the next phase of its global transformation. Once completed, Volvo will be a truly global premium car company."
Volvo is implementing a SEK75bn transformation program as part of its long term strategic ambition to establish itself as a global premium car maker. Driven by the complete renewal of its product range, Volvo is aiming to almost double sales to around 800,000 cars a year in the medium term.
In 2015, the company made significant progress in achieving this goal.
Production of the new XC90 started and the end-of-year order intake of over 88,000 XC90s far surpassed initial targets for the model. The start of production also meant the introduction of a third shift at the Torslanda plant in Sweden and more than 1,500 new manufacturing jobs.
In the first half of the year, Volvo also incorporated its three joint venture operations in China, thereby taking control of the operations and providing a more accurate financial and operational picture of the company.
In the second half of the year, construction started on Volvo's new manufacturing facility in South Carolina in the United States. The facility represents an investment of around USD500m and will be operational as of 2018. The new plant means Volvo will be able to build and sell cars in each of its three core regions, highlighting its global aspirations.
In December, Volvo revealed its new S90 premium sedan to wide acclaim at an event in Gothenburg. The S90 is the second new model on Volvo's modular Scalable Product Architecture (SPA).
Volvo Cars reveals stylish and versatile new V90 wagon (video)
The eagerly-awaited Volvo V90 was revealed today in Stockholm, Sweden. The stylish and versatile V90 is the latest in the luxury car maker's top-of-the-line 90 series sitting alongside the award winning XC90 SUV and the recently-launched S90 luxury sedan.
Building on Volvo Cars' indisputable heritage in the wagon segment, that began over 60 years ago with the Volvo Duett, the new V90 takes the luxury wagon a clear step forward in terms of aesthetics, materials and finish, while living up to the ultimately practical nature of any true wagon.
"We have a very strong position in the wagon segment," said Håkan Samuelsson, president and chief executive of Volvo Cars. "In many people's minds we are known as the definitive wagon brand. While the Volvo brand today stands for more than wagons, we are proud to carry forward this rich heritage with the V90."
The new V90 is the third car unveiled in Volvo's top-of-the-line 90 series, all of which are built on the company's specially-designed and fully modular Scalable Product Architecture (SPA), which has opened up a range of new opportunities in terms of how Volvos can be designed, built and equipped.
"The modern luxury wagon is all about the intriguing combination of a luxurious experience with the functional origins of the wagon silhouette. The sophisticated ambience of our new Volvo Interiors is combined with a great cargo space, providing the right kind of functionality – whether through connectivity or cargo and storage solutions," said Thomas Ingenlath senior vice president for design at Volvo Cars.
The new V90 delivers cutting-edge Pilot Assist semi-autonomous drive technology, the most advanced standard safety package on the market, with large animal detection and run-off road mitigation, and class-leading connectivity including smartphone integration with Apple CarPlay.
Volvo Cars has also worked tirelessly on driving dynamics in the new model delivering a totally new and refined driving experience characterised by a sense of engaging control and predictability.
"We have a very strong offer in the V90. The T8 Twin Engine gas plug-in hybrid will deliver around 400 hp and a pure electric range of around 50 km," said Dr Peter Mertens, Senior Vice President Research & Development at Volvo Cars.
The new Volvo V90 is scheduled to arrive in the United States in 2017.
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Listening to this album is always a strange experience for any Yes fan. Clearly Starcastle are following Yes. But did Yes then follow Starcastle? Probably not...but released a year before Yes' Tormato, this album's thin synth sound and electric timbre seem to foretell Yes' fate, even as it mimics the polyrhythms and vocal phrasings of Yes from years gone by. Still, the album has its own charms, largely due to the tight unison work of the rhythm section: Stephen Tasster's cascading tom fills in "Fountains" and Gary Strater's supple bass behind the delicate opening of "Portraits" are both marvelous. Herb Schildt's synth sounds, on the other hand, haven't always aged well. Still, he leads the band into some rousing instrumentals in the latter halves of "True to the Light" and "Diamond Song." ~ Paul Collins, All Music Guide
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On this, their second album, Starcastle shrugged off the last vestige of originality from the debut, the atmospheric instrumentals, and aimed for nothing less than 100% Yes. They nearly succeeded too. Still, neither guitarist could touch Steve Howe, and while Jon Anderson could hardly be called a belter, Terry Lutrell makes him sound like Louie Armstrong! In other words, the vocals are more than a bit wimpy. As on the other Starcastle albums, the real star is keyboardist Herb Schildt who was one of the most underrated prog keyboardists and turns in terrific performances all over the band's catalogue.
Fountains of Light is a rather short recording even by vinyl standards, but the length is just perfect as each song blends nicely into the next so that while this isn't a concept album, it still has that conceptual "togetherness" that the best of 70's art-rock featured. Nobody makes this type of record anymore, mainly because it's almost impossible to sustain through the hour-or-more length of CD's these days. Classic prog fans should definitely check out this band's first three albums, with this one recommended as the first to get.
Consumer note: this is a CD-R and like many CD-R's I find that the volume needs to be turned up even on good systems. The cover scan is poorly done and an affront to the original artwork, done by the same guy who did several Kansas covers. The trimming almost cuts off the lyrics at the far right of the inside cover as well, and I could have made a better back cover than this on my home computer. Still, this is about the only way you're going to find this CD and it's worth the inconvenience since it's such a good record.
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UPDATED – Three large publicly held trucking fleets reported first quarter earnings on Wednesday with all showing a decline in profits from a year earlier.
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The Show-Me State is showing how the federal government could make it easier for vets to become truckers.
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The Garmin 670 will now support the Teletrac Navman Drive suite of apps with routing, fleet management and compliance features for drivers.
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After a surge in February, the American Trucking Associations' For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index decreased in March, taking away about half of the gains made the month before.
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U.S. trailer net order numbers in March missed analyst projections, coming in well below expectations, according to FTR report.
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Mitsubishi Fuso Truck of America, Inc. (MFTA) has promoted Scott Coyle to vice president, service operations for North America.
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A decline in available freight and an increase in truck capacity pushed spot truckload rates down across all three equipment types during the week ending April 16, according to DAT Solutions and its network of load boards.
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Traffic congestion on highways drove operational costs for trucking up by more than $49.6 billion in 2014, according to the American Transportation Research Institute.
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A measure of truckload linehaul rates moved lower last month compared to a year earlier for the first time since May 2010 as intermodal freight rates continued their downward slide.
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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is requesting public input on its Beyond Compliance carrier safety-recognition program.
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The number of housing starts in the U.S. fell more than expected in March, but home builder confidence in the market remains strong, according to two new reports.
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Toyota will shut down most of its production of Toyota, Lexus, and Hino vehicles over the coming week, after a pair of deadly earthquakes rocked Japan and caused parts shortages for the automaker.
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Growth in freight shipments slowed in March, according to the latest Cass Freight Index Report, while freight spending turned negative – but a longer-term view of cargo movements and the overall economy appears at least somewhat brighter.
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The number of large trucks involved in fatal crashes decreased by 5%, from 3,921 to 3,744, in 2014 vs. 2013, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's latest annual Large Truck and Bus Crash Facts report.
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Trailer leasing company Xtra Lease is offering the 2016 Size & Weight Guide, a reference guide containing state-by-state listings of size and weight regulations.
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J.B. Hunt Transport Services says its first-quarter profit increased 8.9% from a year earlier as revenue rose by 6%, thanks to volume growth, improved network operations, higher equipment utilization, lower maintenance costs and increased contract pricing.
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Steve Russell, the founder of Celadon Group Inc. died on April 15 at 76 years of age. The company he launched over 30 years ago to haul automotive freight from Michigan to Mexico has since grown into a truckload and logistics powerhouse.
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Industrial production decreased for the second month in a row during March, adding another sign the economy sputtered in the first quarter of the year.
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The changes currently happening in technology and automation are likely to change trucking as profoundly as the development of the Interstate Highway System, predicted Noel Perry Thursday in FTR's monthly State of Freight webinar.
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Keeneland Sale Ends With 3rd Highest Gross
Keeneland's January Horses of All Ages Sale ended Jan. 15 with the third highest gross in the history of the auction.
Keeneland's January Horses of All Ages Sale ended Jan. 15 with the third highest gross in the history of the auction.
National Thoroughbred Racing Association commissioner D.G. Van Clief Jr. Saturday called upon all facets of the industry to accelerate implementation of recommendations for increased regulatory oversight of participants in U.S. pari-mutuel wagering pools.
Portland Meadows has announced cuts in the 2005 stakes schedule totaling $51,500.
A.P. Adventure heads a field of eight entered for Sunday's $150,000 El Encino Stakes (gr. II) for 4-year-old fillies at Santa Anita Park.
Sweet Catomine, whose 3-year-old debut was delayed Jan. 9 when racing at Santa Anita Park was postponed due to heavy rains and slick track conditions, returns Sunday in the rescheduled $100,000 Santa Ysabel (gr. III).
The last five races at Golden Gate Fields were called off Thursday due to safety concerns voiced by jockeys.
The long Triple Crown trail for 3-year-olds gets starts in earnest on the West Coast Saturday with Santa Anita Park's $150,000 San Rafael Stakes (gr. II), which drew six entries.
The Count Fleet Stakes, originally scheduled to be run last Saturday but postponed when racing was cancelled at Aqueduct, has drawn a field of nine 3-year-olds.
A record 15,850 foals were nominated to the Breeders' Cup program in 2004, Breeders' Cup officials said Jan. 13.
The New York Racing Association said Jan. 12 it has suspended clerk of scales Mario Sclafani and assistant clerk of scales Braulio Baeza with pay until further notice pending developments in an ongoing investigation into the weighing of jockeys.
The California Horse Racing Board announced Monday that the review by the Santa Anita Park stewards of Patrick Valenzuela's 2004 record and licensing agreement will take place Wednesday.
In Monday afternoon's sixth race at Portland Meadows, apprentice jockey Jorge Herrera was injured after he was unseated when his mount Nasty Jab clipped heels and stumbled.
Arlington Park president Cliff Goodrich announced Monday that the track's plans to build two new backstretch family housing facilities, originally scheduled to be completed in two phases over the next 17 months, has been accelerated into a new schedule that calls for both buildings to be ready for the start of the track's 2005 meet in May.
In his first start since the Breeders' Cup Sprint (gr. I), the odds-on favorite Gold Storm took over at the quarter pole and won the $58,200 Colonel Power Handicap at foggy Fair Grounds Sunday with plenty to spare.
Saratoga County, thought to be better at distances longer than the six furlongs of Saturday's $100,000 Mr. Prospector Handicap (gr. III), humbled the field with a torrid stretch run at Gulfstream Park.
Gulfstream Park has verified a world record set on its new turf course for one mile during the Jan. 3 opening day racing card.
Tropical Storm, a son of Storm Cat out of the grade I-winning Pearl City, has been purchased by the NewLife Stud of Roger Braugh and his daughter, Jane Braugh. They plan to stand the 5-year-old at a Central Kentucky farm.
The Charles Town Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association announced Jan. 7 it has signed a new contract with Penn National Gaming Inc., owner of Charles Town Races & Slots, which increases the number of live racing dates per year.
Smarty Jones electrifying run at the 2004 Triple Crown started modestly enough with a victory in the Count Fleet at Aqueduct. Some horsemen took note. The $75,000 race for 3-year-olds at a mile and 70 yards Saturday attracted an overflow field of 13.
The winter convention of the National Council of Legislators from Gaming States will feature a "Thoroughbred Summit" at which speakers will discuss the changing forces impacting the pari-mutuel industry.
A unique advertising campaign has been undertaken by the Kentucky Equine Education Project to alert drivers to competition faced by the Thoroughbred industry from other states.
The National Thoroughbred Racing Association announced Tuesday that WAVE 3 TV in Louisville, Ky. and Premiere Radio Networks have been named recipients of Media Eclipse Awards.
Mike Jensen of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Bill Christine of the Los Angeles Times won Media Eclipse Awards in the feature/enterprise and news/commentary categories, respectively, for 2004.
Full race fields helped handle figures stay on par during the fall Thoroughbred meet at Hawthorne racecourse that ended Sunday.
Jockey Jordan Charkoudian rides first winner...The Jockey Club deadline for naming foals is Feb. 1.
Malibu Stakes (gr. I) winner Rock Hard Ten, who breezed three furlongs Sunday in :36 4/5, may not be ready for the second leg of the Strub series for 4-year-olds, the $200,000 San Fernando Stakes (gr. II) at Santa Anita Park on Jan. 15.
Bad weather in Southern California will keep Fusaichi Samurai, the much-publicized $4.5 million colt who broke his maiden in his only start thus far, out of Sunday's San Miguel Stakes for 3-year-olds.
Edmund Gann's heavily favored Personal Legend got trainer Bobby Frankel's year off to a good start with a win in the $100,000 Stage Door Betty Handicap at Calder Race Course Saturday.
The Adam Kitchingman-trained Vikki's Honor, a dark bay California-bred filly named for the late wife of the Australian trainer, won her debut Saturday, a $45,600 maiden special weight event at Santa Anita Park.
Trainer Todd Pletcher, jockey John Velazquez and owner Michael Gill head the individual earnings lists for 2004 in North America, according to final statistics released Jan. 1 by Equibase Company LLC.
Resplendency, a 3-year-old filly trained by Bob Baffert, held off a late charge from Puxa Saco to win the $113,550 Monrovia Handicap by a length as jockey Casey Fusilier won his first stakes ever at Santa Anita.
Expect an Angel sprang a huge upset when she came from last to win the $100,000, grade III Chaposa Springs Handicap on Friday at Calder Race Course.
Gigawatt broke on top from his outside post and never looked back, running off to capture the $60,000 Louisiana Handicap in front-running fashion Friday at Fair Grounds.
Lord Langfuhr closed from well back to pass dueling frontrunners in midstretch to win the 26th running of the $84,000 Alex M. Robb at Aqueduct on Friday.
Overlooked at 7-1 odds, Legal Control tracked lone speedster Busy Prospect down the backstretch and into the turn, then wrested command at the top of the lane and powered to victory by 2-1/2 widening lengths over Monster Chaser in Friday's $100,000 Maryland Juvenile Championship at Pimlico.
In a letter to the Maryland Racing Commission and Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association, the Maryland Jockey Club announced Friday its intention to open Laurel Park for training by early next week, weather permitting.
Dixie Talking was unraced at the beginning of December and a stakes winner at year's end when she beat seven other Maryland-bred fillies in Thursday's $100,000 Maryland Juvenile Filly Championship.
Art McFadden, President of MEC Oregon Racing will resign his post on Friday, it was announced Dec. 30.
Colonial Colony will be seeking his first win since his 62-1 shocker in the Stephen Foster Handicap (gr. I) at Churchill Downs in June when he lines up in the $60,000 Louisiana Handicap Friday at Fair Grounds.
Newly-turned 3-year-olds get their first shot at graded glory right from the get-go Jan. 1 at Calder Race Course in the $100,000 Tropical Park Derby (gr. IIIT). A full field of 12 that includes four also-eligibles passed the entry box. The ones to beat are Exceptional Ride and Crown Point.
Kinsman Stable's 4-year-old homebred filly Ebony Breeze has won both of her previous starts at Calder Race Course and goes for win number three Friday as one of the choices in a field of seven fillies and mares set for the $100,000 Chaposa Springs Handicap (gr. III).
Wallop, owned by the Childs and Childs Stable of John and Clayton Childs, caught pacesetter Glorious Again late to post a half-length victory in Tuesday's $75,000 New Year's Eve Stakes at Mountaineer Park.
Harris Farms homebred Alphabet Kisses reclaimed the lead in mid-stretch and held off 8-5 favorite Bending Strings for a one-length victory Monday in the grade I, $250,000 La Brea Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Santa Anita Park.
Yearly Report, the 6-5 morning line favorite for Monday's $250,000 La Brea Stakes (gr. I) at Santa Anita, was scratched due to a minor ankle injury, trainer Bob Baffert reported Monday morning.
With less than one week remaining, the 2004 American racing season will conclude with new leaders in earnings for jockeys and trainers.
Undefeated juvenile Cajun Pepper won his fifth in a row, overpowering the field by 4 1/4 lengths in the $161,331 Riley Allison Futurity Sunday at Sunland Park.
Made the favorite in his turf debut Sunday at Santa Anita Park, 2003 juvenile champion Action This Day failed to fire while finishing ninth. In other stakes on opening day of the winter meeting, Whilly prevailed in the $112,700 Sir Beaufort Stakes and Uncle Denny took the $138,625 California Breeders' Champion Stakes.
Michael Gilligan, Santa Anita Park's vice president of marketing and sales, was relieved of duties a couple of days prior to the opening of the track's 70th anniversary season.
TVG will break new ground when it presents a live telecast of the 34th annual Eclipse Awards, Monday, Jan. 24 from 6-10 p.m. PT. The network's telecast, from the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles, marks the first time horseracing's "Oscars" will be presented live on TV.
Golden Eagle Farm's Yearly Report, who set a Lone Star Park record for seven furlongs in her most recent start, shoots for her first grade I victory in Monday's $250,000 La Brea Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Santa Anita Park.


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Apple Crisp Muffins Recipe
Total Time
Prep 30 mins
Cook 20 mins
This is today's TOH recipe of the day. They look wonderful!
Ingredients Nutrition
- 473.18 ml all-purpose flour
- 78.07 ml packed brown sugar
- 9.85 ml baking powder
- 2.46 ml salt
- 2.46 ml ground cinnamon
- 1 egg, beaten
- 236.59 ml 2% low-fat milk
- 118.29 ml canola oil
- 473.18 ml finely chopped peeled apples
- 226.79 g package cream cheese, softened
- 29.58 ml maple syrup
- 19.71 ml grated orange peel
- 1.23 ml ground nutmeg
- 59.14 ml all-purpose flour
- 59.14 ml old fashioned oats
- 59.14 ml packed brown sugar
- 1.23 ml ground cinnamon
- 44.37 ml cold butter
- 59.14 ml chopped pecans
- In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. In another bowl, combine the egg, milk and oil. Stir into dry ingredients just until moistened. Fold in apples. Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups three-fourths full.
- In a small bowl, beat the filling ingredients until smooth. Drop by tablespoonfuls into centers of muffins.
- For topping, in a small bowl, combine the flour, oats, brown sugar and cinnamon. Cut in butter until crumbly. Stir in pecans. Sprinkle over filling. Bake at 400° for 16-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in muffin comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pan to wire rack.
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These are fabulous!! The filling, topping, and base of these muffins are each really good; but together, they're extraordinary (especially when warm!). I made the recipe as written, but scaled it down to six servings--and ended up with seven beautiful, soft, moist, flavorful, regular size muffins. Thanks for posting, DeeVaFoodie; this one's absolutely a keeper! (Made for Let's P-A-R-T-Y! 2011.)


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When using the Ratio Test, having $$\limsup_{n\rightarrow\infty}\left|\frac{a_{n+1}}{a_n}\right| > 1$$ is inconclusive. However, I'm having trouble imagining how such a series $\sum a_n$ could possibly converge. Is it because when examining the sequence $\left\{\left|\dfrac{a_{n+1}}{a_n}\right|\right\}$, there is a subsequence that converges to something greater than one, while the rest of the sequence stays below one?
Consider the series $$1+2+ r+2r +r^2+2r^2+r^3+2r^3+\cdots,$$ where (say) $r=\frac{1}{10}$. The series clearly converges, but $\limsup \left|\frac{a_{n+1}}{a_n}\right|=2$.
The ratio $a_{n+1}/a_n$ is "often" large, but it is also often small, and the small, in this example, beats the large.


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Stump the Smith: Can you answer the questions Michael Smith was asked on ESPN?
Michael Smith, a University of Utah graduate and resident of Salt Lake City, was crowned ESPN's "The Schwab" champion Wednesday night.
A passionate sports fan, Smith answered questions about the NHL, the NBA, the NFL, college sports, sports pop culture and sports social media. However, the line of inquiry that won Smith the contest, particularly in the later rounds, was centered around hockey, Smith's favorite sport.
Smith's victory got the Deseret News sports staff thinking: How knowledgeable are our readers in general sports trivia? Can Deseret News readers also "stump the Schwab" like Smith did? Deseret News Sports invites you to try to outdo him.
Of these questions, the first five were asked in a pool format. Contestants were asked a question with multiple correct answers and were eliminated as they failed to answer correctly. Smith correctly gave at least two answers to every question.
Once getting through the first round, contestants were given questions with only one correct answer. Smith correctly answered three of the five.
Here are the 10 trivia questions Smith had to answer (with three bonus questions at the end). Can you stump the Smith (without Google)?
Good luck!
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9/13. Not bad, considering I don't like hockey.
- 3:21 p.m. May 29, 2013
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