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Merlin E. Fisk
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Judge Fisk, born March 18, 1921, in Great Falls, Mont., graduated from Montana State University with a degree in chemical engineering. After graduation, he worked for a subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey (now Exxon Mobil Corp.) in Aruba, Netherlands Antilles, for 20 years; subsequently, he worked for the Exxon organization in Athens, Greece, Madrid, Spain and Brussels, Belgium.
In 1971, he took early retirement from Exxon and, after a six-month sojourn in France, returned to the United States in early 1972, taking up residence in Newtown, Conn. There he was three times elected probate judge for the Newtown District, serving in that capacity from 1979 to 1991.
In 2007, he moved to Southbury, Conn., where he was living at the time of his death.
While probate judge, he served on numerous committees of the Connecticut Probate Assembly and as the assembly's president-judge for 1990-1991. In 1987, he received the Connecticut Courts of Probate award as "Judge of the Year."
At various times, he served as a director or trustee of the Cyrenius H. Booth Library in Newtown, Conn., Newtown Meals on Wheels Inc., and the Brass City Ballet.
In addition, he was active in the Connecticut chapter of Recording for the Blind Inc., and served as the chapter's chairman. He also served as a member of the Newtown Commission on Aging, and as president of the Newtown Scholarship Association and the Horticulture Club of Newtown.
His intellect, warmth and integrity will be deeply missed by those who survive him: his brother and sister-in-law Donald and Marge Fisk, and his sister Barbara Edwards; his daughters and sons-in-law Dana and William Pitts, and Anne and Philip Bergan; his daughters Catherine Forsyth and Elizabeth Fisk; his grandchildren Edward and David Pitts, James Forsyth, and Andrew and Eleanor Barisser; and his great-grandchildren, Walker, Anson, Gemma, Liam and Jane Pitts, and Phoebe and Anna Bergan.
His first wife, Margery Hall Fisk, and his second wife, Helen Ruth Freeman, predeceased him.
A memorial service will be held Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012 at 10 a.m. in Trinity Episcopal Church, 36 Main St., Newtown, Conn.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Brass City Ballet, 1255 Middlebury Road, Middlebury, CT 06762, or to the Cyrenius H. Booth Library, 25 Main St., Newtown, CT 06470.
The Honan Funeral Home, 58 Main St., Newtown, is serving the family.
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Opera Mini for iPhone sits on sidelines due to App Store rulesA professionally-developed alternative to Apple's Safari web browser for iPhone already exists in Opera Software's labs; Apple's guidelines for App Store submissions, however, are allegedly keeping it from seeing the light of day.
Opera chief Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner recently told the New York Times (by way of MacNN) that Opera Mini, one of the company's mobile web browsers for smartphones, has already been ported to the iPhone but can't be released as Apple's rules for the App Store preclude software that replicate the core functionality of the iPhone or iPod touch.
The revelation is an unusual one given Apple's official stance on third-party apps as early as March, when the iPhone Software Developer Kit was first released. The Cupertino, Calif.-based cellphone maker specifically bars third-party interpreters that call on non-Apple frameworks and languages, which by definition would include Opera's web rendering engine. This would have left Opera Software converting software unlikely to be released in the near term.
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Calling herself "a geeky Orange County girl, a chola girl, a rasta girl and an English girl – all mixed together," Gwen Stefani has no mixed feelings about one thing: producing a sibling for her 1-year-old son Kingston.
"Obviously I'm in a race to have another, but I don't want to do it while on tour," the singer, 37, tells InStyle for its September issue (on sale Friday). "But I can't wait to get pregnant again. It's so fun and consuming and romantic."
Being a mom already, she admits, means "I definitely don't get enough sleep, but I'd rather spend time with him. I've got this extra-fun, amazing, little guy who just wants to hang out with me."
Before she hits the stage while on tour, Stefani sings Kingston lullabies like "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" as he falls asleep. "But he sings a lot to himself," she says. "He's just getting into music. He does the whole head-bouncing thing."
Kingston's being musical should come as little surprise. His dad is Stefani's husband, rocker Gavin Rossdale. "I love him so much," Stefani says of Kingston. "He's the best thing that has ever happened to me."
And while Stefani may be in a rush to get pregnant again, there's another aspect to life she wishes to put the brakes on: raunch.
"Everyone's in such a rush to show they're sexy," she says. "Anyone can be sexy. We all have the same body parts. It's pretty boring. Life's not so short that you need to give it all away in five seconds. That was never my thing."


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COLLEGE STATION (July 17, 2013)--Texas A&M University architecture professor Robert Warden heads an effort to create digital models of the historic Alamo in San Antonio.
Imaging data are being collected this summer than the experts hope hope will help computers track rain-related erosion and other weather influences.
The project is backed by the Ewing Halsell Foundation and the Texas General Land Office.
The digital models will focus on how the Alamo existed in 1836 during the historic battle for Texas independence, in 1885 when San Antonio became the site's custodian and from detailed drawings done in 1961.
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Denis McDonough was named President Obama's chief of staff on Friday, Jan. 25. McDonough graduated summa cum laude from SJU in 1992 with degrees in history and Spanish and played on the Johnnie football team for John Gagliardi. McDonough was a 2012 recipient of an Alumni Achievement Award from SJU.
The CSB Dance Team was crowned the 2013 Universal Dance Association (UDA) National Champions in the Pom Division Sunday, Jan. 20, at the UDA 2013 College Cheerleading and Dance Team National Championships in Orlando, Fla. The team also took second place in the Jazz Division.
Joe Mailander, a 2008 SJU graduate and one-half of the Okee Dokee Brothers, won the Grammy Award for "Can You Canoe?", one of five nominees in the Best Children's Album category.
Centennial Commons townhomes, a 125-person student housing development on the campus of CSB, has been awarded LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) for Homes Platinum, the highest level of certification given by the U.S. Green Building Council. It is the first college student housing in Minnesota to reach this achievement and the first building on CSB's campus to achieve any level of LEED certification.
As registration approaches for CSB and SJU students, it's the perfect time for students to assess who they are, explore their interests and skills and evaluate what's important for their future. Registering for classes tends to remind students why they are here, and, while this vision of the future can be exciting for some students, it can feel overwhelming to others. Career Services is here to help your son/daughter navigate this process.
Communication. Time-management. Leadership. Responsibility. Customer service. These are all skills CSB and SJU students say they have gained from their student employment positions. If your son or daughter is working on campus, great! He/she is likely developing these skills and more. If your son or daughter is not working on campus, there is still time to find a job and start developing these skills this year.
Registration is now open for the College of Saint Benedict and Blazer Athletics Summer Camps. While being monitored and instructed by Blazer athletes and coaches, your athlete will hone skills in a positive and high energy environment. For the summer of 2013, we are offering camps in Basketball, Cross Country (co-ed), Soccer, Tennis and Volleyball. Register by April 1, 2013, and receive $10 off your registration. For more information regarding dates, pricing and additional discounts, please visit the Blazer Athletics website.
The Joint Events Council is excited to host siblings of all ages at Little Sibs Weekend 2013. This annual tradition, scheduled for March 8-10, is an opportunity for siblings, cousins or younger friends of CSB and SJU students to spend a fun-filled weekend on campus. Activities include live comedy and musical performances, movies, arts and crafts, interactive dinner and more. Registration begins Feb. 8. Information can be found at the event's website. Please email [email protected] if you have questions.
There is such a thing as a free lunch after all.
Students at Saint John's University have the opportunity to participate in a program called Take a Johnnie to Lunch. The program matches a Saint John's alumnus with a student interested in meeting an alumnus based on a common career interest.
The library staff is committed to helping keep students happy and successful. During study day in December, two massage therapists and cookies helped keep their stress levels down. We received a positive response and hope to do this each semester.
At the time of submission for this edition of SaintsNews, the Minnesota Department of Health has reported 1,842 people have been hospitalized with lab-confirmed cases of influenza (the flu) in Minnesota since the onset of the flu season. The media continues to inundate us with headlines about the flu. As a result, keeping the facts straight can be overwhelming. This article is intended to help parents be more informed so you can help your CSB and SJU students take care of themselves this semester.
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January 2, 2014 | Sanofi has agreed to join an effort begun by GlaxoSmithKline to share clinical trial data. Sanofi will make available trial data and clinical study reports and will publish all company-sponsored clinical studies regardless of the study outcome. The company will not release trial data for older drugs and vaccines. Forbes
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(April 23, 2013)--They Might Be Giants members say they have a heavy heart after learning about the death Divinyls singer Chrissy Amphlett's.
They used to get their audiences warmed up with the Divinyls' "I Touch Myself."
Slash tweeted that Amphlett's death is sad news.
Russell Crowe, who played her son in the musical "Blood Brothers," tweeted that he'll remember Amphlett "loving life and reciting verse."
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A Bensonhurst lawmaker said this week that he'll sue if the city's proposal for a garbage facility at Shore Parkway and Bay 41st Street is approved by the state.
"This project poses a great health risk to the community," said Assemblyman William Colton. "If it is approved, we are prepared to take the case to the State Supreme Court."
Three years ago, the Department of Sanitation submitted plans to build the facility at the site of a former incinerator, where garbage trucks would transfer thousands of tons of trash per day to barges, which will then be shipped to dumps outside the city.
Since then, the plan has successfully navigated the city's and state's stringent approval process, including a 2009 ruling that dismissed public health concerns regarding the amount of pollution trucks going to and from the facility will release, as well as the dangers of toxins being released into the harbor during necessary dredging.
Presently, the plan is awaiting a ruling on Colton's appeal of that decision. If the appeal is rejected, it's up to the commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Conservation to make the call on whether construction can begin or not.
Barring, of course, legal action.
This isn't the first time that Colton has tried to stop the proposed facility, which he says is too close to local schools, parks and residences.
Colton commissioned two studies by biologists that prove dredging the bay — which would be necessary in order for the controversial facility at Shore Parkway and Bay 41st Steet to be built — would release toxins that could harm marine life and be a risk to people who eat fish caught in the waters or swim in nearby beaches like Coney Island's.
Colton hired two different biologists in 2006 and 2008 and both found that 30 years of incinerating garbage at the site had caused serious pollution to the bay. The incinerator, which was in use from 1956 until 1989, was demolished in 2005.
"The site [for the proposed facility] should be treated as a contaminated site," said Peter DeFur in his report.
Two years ago, Colton brought out the big guns by claiming that unexploded ammunition that has been sitting underwater for more than 50 years could explode if the city dredges the bay.
"We are still concerned about that," Colton said. However, the Department of Sanitation dismissed Colton's claims.
The assemblyman also suggested putting the garbage site in Sunset Park, but residents of that community aren't too jazzed about having another trash dump in their neighborhood.
Sunset Park already hosts a waste transfer facility on Hamilton Avenue and two other city sanitation facilities. "This proposal is dumping on Sunset Park, which is already overburdened," said Community Board 7 Chairman Randy Peers.
The Department of Enviornmental Conservation will decide if the city can install the garbage facility, but it can't deny the permit based on the findings of the scientific studies, according to a July 2009 ruling in favor of the city's permit. Colton appealed last year's ruling on the grounds that the Department should consider the health risks, and is waiting for the state to review his appeal.
"The July 2009 ruling contradicts the whole purpose of the Department of Enviornmental Conservation, which should be to protect the enviornment and public health," Colton said.
But even if the state reverses the 2009 decision, allowing the DEC to consider the dredging's potential dangers, the DEC commissioner may still approve the city garbage facility.
A spokesman for the DEC did not indicate when officials would make a decision, but said that the city's application includes ways to make the dredging and the waste transfer operations safer. Bensonhurst residents are also eagerly awaiting the DEC decision, as most support Colton in his battle against the facility.
"It's a battle we've been fighting for a long time," said Carmine Santa Maria, president of the Bensonhurst West End Community Council. "We're not going to give up on it because our lives are at stake."
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Deane's Kombucha is looking for investors
For a while last year it seemed doubtful that Deane's Kombucha would survive. The St. Paul-based maker of fermented tea beverages started by Bryan Bertsch in 2009 was well on its way to success when the federal government suddenly discovered that kombucha was an alcoholic beverage. As such, it was subject to the same rules and regulations as beer, wine, and spirits. It could no longer be sold in the grocery and health-food stores that had been the drink's main access to consumers. What to do?
Many kombucha makers chose to reformulate, removing the alcohol that was the root of the problem. Bertsch refused to make this concession, preferring to stick with the traditional method that gave him the flavorful and purportedly healthful drink that he had set out to make from the beginning. He became licensed as a brewer and placed his product in specialty beer and wine stores. Through personal appearances at festivals and in-store tastings, he has built a following among the aficionados of craft beer and wine, a large enough following that he is now looking to expand.
Bertsch wants to take Deane's Kombucha, already sold in Minnesota and Wisconsin, into other states. He is also looking to move from his tiny space in the basement of a Marshall Avenue community kitchen. The goal is to build a larger, dedicated kombucha brewery. He would also like to hire additional staff to help take the business to the next level.
As one of only five kombucha makers with a federal brewer's license, he feels that he is in a good position to take a leading role in a growing market. He cites an article in Beverage Spectrum Magazine that reports a 28 percent sales growth for the category in 2010, despite the alcohol hiccup that took the product off the shelves for a time. The article points to an anticipated 60 percent growth for 2011. According to Bertsch, trade projections suggest kombucha will be a $500 million industry by 2015.
Growth takes capital. To raise the money needed for expansion, Bertsch is looking for investors. He is working with a Minnesota attorney who connects entrepreneurs with investors to seek bigger donors. But he is also looking for some grassroots support. Bertsch wants to sell shares in the company to anyone interested in investing. In a recent email he said, "We plan to use the capital to clean up our start-up debt, invest in equipment, and aggressively grow into several new markets."
Bertsch is inviting potential investors to contact him. You will find more information on the Deane's Kombucha website.
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Designing a custom art brush
Designing a custom art brush
In this movie, I'll show how to customize an existing art brush so that you--yes you-- can create a brush that simulates a traditional medium. So here's the problem that we need to solve: if you go ahead and zoom in on the letters, for example the U, you'll see that the Green art brush in the background ends up tracing very heavily in some areas and very thinly-- so thinly that you can't even see it anymore--in others. And we've got some weird rough spots and almost bites taken out of the stroke in different places.
And that's because of the uneven nature of this brush and the fact that it tapers toward the end. So what you have to bear in mind when you're working with an art brush is that everything about it is getting stretched and therefore exaggerated, so little differences can really become quite magnified. So what I am going to do is take that brush, which as you may recall is Chalk - Round, and I'm going to drag it out into the artboard and I'm going to modify it. And I am going to create a total of three variations and we'll see how they fare when we convert them to their own art brushes in the next movie.
So the first thing I am going to do is turn off this base layer right here so that I have some white space to work in, and I'll create a new layer by pressing the Alt key or the Option key on the Mac and clicking on the little page icon at the bottom of the Layers panel. I am going to go ahead and name this layer chalk alts, short for alternatives, and then I'll change the color from Magenta to Violet, and I'll click OK. And we've got ourselves a new layer. Next, I'll bring up my Brushes panel and I'll locate that brush that I want to modify, which is Chalk - Round, and I'll go ahead and drag it and drop it into the document window.Then I'll go ahead and hide the Brushes panel for now.
I'll also zoom in a bit on my brush here, drag it down too, so that I can see it on screen. Now a couple of things to note about dragging and dropping brushes into the document window. First, Illustrator does go ahead and convert the brush to path outlines so you can modify it to any extent you like. But if you twirl this layer open, chalk alts, you will see that you've got a group, and a nested group inside of it, and the usual weirdness that Illustrator comes up with. So I'm going to do a double ungroup here by going to the Object menu and choosing the Ungroup command, and then I'll go back to the Object menu and choose the Ungroup command again. Of course I could have pressed Ctrl+Shift+ G or Command+Shift+G on a Mac a couple of times in order to pull that off.
Now we've got this group that is the brush itself, and then we've got this invisible rectangle behind it, which represents the path outline. So in this case our brush is going to benefit inside of the entire path. So imagine the path were converted from a uniform stroke, for example, to a path outline, this is how things would map. We want an entirely different looking brush than that. And so I am going to take this rectangle and drag it downward while pressing the Shift and Alt keys or the Shift and Option keys on the Mac in order to create a copy of it.
And then I'll copy this rectangle by pressing Ctrl+C or Command+C on a Mac, and I'll paste it by pressing Ctrl+F or Command+F on a Mac. And you're probably wondering what in the world I am doing. The idea is we need to preserve that invisible rectangle in the background and have a copy of it in the foreground that we will use to create a brush. Now I'll go ahead and fill the foreground rectangle with black by clicking on the first color swatch up here in the Control panel and selecting Black. And now let's go ahead and mess it up the simplest way possible, which is to go up to the Effect menu, choose Distort & Transform, and choose the Roughen effect.
And this time I'm going to change the Size value to 2--I want that to be 2 pt., so I'll select Absolute. And I'll turn on Smooth and I'll turn on the Preview checkbox, and you can see that makes for a kind of blobby brush; but I want it to be way less regular than that, so I am going to click inside of the Detail value and press Shift+Up Arrow several times in a row until I max that value out at 100/in, so 100 little wiggles per inch along this path outline. And that should just about do it. You typically want as much random variation as possible when you're creating a traditional media brush. All right! I'll go ahead and zoom in on this guy here.
Now that's a dynamic effect, we need it to be a static effect; but I don't want to ruin the dynamic effect in case I want to go back and look at it later, remember what my settings were, that kind of thing. So I'm going to marquee both of these paths because there is one rectangle on top of the other, and then drag them down while pressing the Shift and Alt keys once again--that's the Shift and Option keys on the Mac--in order to create a copy. And with both path outlines selected, it really doesn't matter, you want to go up to the Object menu and choose Expand Appearance. And that way you've got a static version of that path outline.
And now I can look at it in the Outline mode, which is going to be a little more helpful because I'll be able to see my transparent rectangle in the background. So I'll press Ctrl+Y or Command+Y on the Mac to switch to the Outline mode. You can also choose Outline from the View menu. All right, now I'll click off the paths, deselect them and I'll click on this guy to select it, and now I am going to manually scale this path by switching to the Scale tool, which you can get by pressing the S key. And I want to make sure that the scribbly path, which is the brush of course, is wider than the rectangle behind it.
So I'll drag very slightly out to the left as you see me doing here. And if you want to constrain the angle of your scale to exactly horizontal, you can press the Shift key as you drag and then release; just make sure that all of these guys are outside of the limitations of the rectangle. Now we need to create yet another copy. So as I was saying at the outset, I am going to create three variations on this chalk brush. And that way we just have a range of options to choose from because you really don't know how well the brush is going to work until you apply it to a path outline. All right! So I'll go ahead and grab these guys, and I just marquee them using the Black Arrow tool, and then I'll go ahead and drag them down while pressing the Shift and Alt keys once again.
And I'm going to scroll up as you see me doing here, and then I'm going to go ahead and select the top rectangle, because we're going to start by editing our first alternate chalk effect. I am going to select that background rectangle and I'm going to switch to the Scale tool once again; and this time I want to scale the path so that it's taller. So I'll drag slightly down like so while pressing the Shift key, in order to constrain my scaling to exactly vertical. And I just want to make sure the rectangle completely encloses the wiggly path vertically, but cuts into it horizontally.
Now return to the Black Arrow tool, marquee those two paths, go to the Window menu, and choose Pathfinder. And I want to go with Intersect, and that will lop off the ends of that path outline like so, so that we're cutting it hard right there at the ends. And I want to show you what that ends up looking like, because that's going to result in a corner as you'll see in the next movie, whereas this little bit of overlap--it's going to be too much overlap as you'll see. I don't want to spoil the surprise, but I do want to have a sense of where we're going here.
And now I'll marquee these two paths and drag them downward while pressing the Shift and Alt keys, the Shift and Option keys on the Mac. This will be our third alternative and I'll show you why we'll need it and what kind of modifications we'll make as I demonstrate how to convert these path outlines into actual art brushes in the next movie.
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Wednesday, October 12
Editor's note: Eric Neel and David Schoenfield were doing a running Second Guessing throughout Wednesday's doubleheader. But the night came down to one play to second-guess...
Eric: Terrible call!
David: Let's hope this doesn't lose the game for the Angels...
Eric: Horrible. I think I'm going to throw up.
Eric: Greatest understatement of the season: "Both the White Sox runs were unearned."
David: Do we have to question Josh Paul not making sure the ball didn't hit the dirt before flipping the ball back to the mound?
Eric: The ball didn't hit the dirt.
David: Yeah, but maybe you have to MAKE sure. I'm saying, the umpire, Doug Eddings, will get all the blame, but Josh Paul could have just tagged Pierzynski and we're heading to the 10th. Yes, I know I'm grasping ... I'm ticked off ... I wanted extra innings, like this game deserved. I wanted Mark Buehrle out there in the 10th and K-Rod coming on for the Angels.
Eric: Scioscia's being very stand-up on ESPNEWS right now: "We didn't play well enough to absorb something like that."
Eric: The ump called him out twice, rang him up twice.
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David: Well, the first one was a flat hand ... was he saying the ball hit the dirt with that motion? I'm not sure the first motion was calling him out. And the second motion, as Harold Reynolds is saying right now, could be interpreted as a strike call, not an out call. It all depends on what Eddings verbalized. It's the verbal that matters here, not the hand signal.
Eric: It'd be interesting to hear from the ump.
David: The White Sox are probably buying him a round right now.
Eric: There's going to be a lot of wailing and rending of garments tonight, and we're all going to be thinking about Denkinger and Orta, and Reggie's big ol' butt swinging wide in the basepath back in '78, but if you'll forgive the cheap riff on a bad bumper sticker, stuff happens. Guys make bad calls (and it was a bad call, I think), but to me, the bigger, and ultimately more interesting, stories are these: (1) Heck of a play by A.J. Pierzynski. Seriously heads-up. If he doesn't push the issue, we're not talking about any of this and the Sox are down 0-2; (2) Very well-played press conference from Mike Scioscia after the game. He's got to get his boys to turn the page. Period. He can't let this thing fester for them on the plane ride home. When he made the outcome tonight about how well his club played throughout the game, he was giving the Angels the best chance to be where they need to be emotionally/psychologically for Game 3.
Eric: I thought the umps, and especially the umpiring supervisor guy, were defensive, unconvincing, and generally weak, in their comments just aired on ESPN.
David: Do you think Eddings needs to come out and say, "I watched the replay. I blew the call." Or does he stick to his guns and turn it on the Angels, saying they still had the chance to complete the play?
Eric: He's saying he thought Paul trapped the ball (and the stuff about "there was a change of direction," sounded dubious; they sounded like defenders of the single gunman theory somehow trying to explain the path of the magic bullet). So he's putting it on Paul. But the way he's putting it on him, like the way Jason Giambi "apologized," was utterly without content or explanation. "I'm looking at Josh Paul. Sometimes you want to see reactions," or some such mealy-mouthed nonsense doesn't really tell us anything about his read on the whole situation.
David: I guess I'll harken back to the Denkinger play. People forget that after he blew the call on Jorge Orta to start the inning, the Cardinals' Jack Clark proceeded to misplay a foul popup on Steve Balboni, who then singled, and Darrell Porter allowed a passed ball. Don Denkinger didn't lose that game; the Cardinals did. And Doug Eddings made the bad call, but he didn't allow Ozuna to steal second and he didn't allow Crede the double off the wall. Blaming Eddings is the easy way out if you're an Angels fan.
Eric: Agreed. And I think Scioscia's on that same tip. And like I said, I think maybe the most interesting thing to do here is consider credit as well as blame. So let's give Ozzie some credit for the stolen-base call, right off. It's not rocket science to make the decision, but it was smart because Paul was no doubt rattled back there. (He didn't look anything like a guy who was ready to throw someone out when the base was stolen). I wonder why Scioscia didn't try a pitchout in that situation -- Ozuna stole on an 0-2 count. And as for the ball Crede hit (and I guess now I'm getting back to blame, despite the fact that I'm a big, big Kelvim Escobar fan), what was that thing doing anywhere near the plate on an 0-2 count with Ozuna on second?
David: You know ... I'm still angry if I'm an Angels fan.
Eric: No doubt. And reasonably so. But there ain't a thing to do about it now. As an Angels fan, here's the thing that bothers me the most: The call was unclear when it happened on the field, and it didn't get any clearer when Pierzynski described what happened, and it didn't get any clearer when we looked at the footage, and it didn't get any clearer when the league sent those umps and that supervisor up there for a dog-and-pony show that produced nothing in the way of a genuine explanation and a whole lot in the way of defensiveness and hostility. That's what angers me.
Previous Second Guesses
• Oct. 11: Ozzie ball backfires on White Sox
• Oct. 10: $203 million down the drain
• Oct. 9: 'Chris Burke Game' is an all-timer
• Oct. 8: Braves' bullpen stinks it up
• Oct. 7: Unit left in too long
• Oct. 6: Jumpin' on the White Sox bandwagon
• Oct. 5: Why leave Wang in the game?
• Oct. 4: Colon over Lackey ... say what?


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Okay, I just updated ALL of my sites to WordPress 2.5, and I get this error on my site called NintendoDude ([url]http://nintendodude.com[/url]). Whenever I make a post, It posts one post, but then when I try to post another, it says:
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With a link to the post page, and it still doesn't work. Does anyone know what this problem is, or how I can solve it? Thanks in advance!


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About five years ago I was hired by a software company that specialized in database security. Some of our software was used to protect databases in military assets and major banks. But a lot of development was very remote from top-secret weapons or classified information. For example, we wrote a... Read more
My experience as a manager – and in particular, as the leader of a company – has been shaped by two quotes that have helped frame my thinking about that role. One is from Harold Geneen, who oversaw the growth of ITT into the first modern conglomerate: "The skill of management is achieving your... Read more
Register now to join us Thursday, Dec. 9 at 11 a.m. ET for "Building a Better Boss," an Open Your World webcast with Bob Sutton and Polly LaBarre. Bob Sutton, renowned thinker and Stanford professor, will join MIX editorial director Polly LaBarre in a bracing conversation about what it means to be... Read more
Last week I received a heads up about a new web application launching today from a company called BetterMeans with an impressive goal: to build the infrastructure (processes, technology, governance, etc.) to make an open organizational structure like we talk about here on opensouce.com a reality.... Read more
In the years ahead, any leader who hopes to have followers will need to carefully examine the foundations of their own authority. Why? Because we live in a world where the effectiveness of positional power is rapidly diminishing—at least outside of prisons and elementary schools. Thanks to Enron,... Read more
On occasion I get the opportunity to speak publicly about some of the things I've learned over the years applying the open source way in organizations.
A trio of recent Harvard Business Review blog posts all center around a common theme: what does it take to be a successful business leader and manager in the 21st century? What traits and characteristics should this new generation of business leader possess?
Maybe some day we'll look back on the role of the manager in our organizations and laugh. Such a quaint trend. Kind of like having The Clapper in every room of your house, or wearing multiple Swatch watches, or working out to Richard Simmons videos. Each seemed really helpful at the time, but... Read more
When Michael Young coined the word in 1958, he never thought that meritocracy would be idealized 50-some year later. Young's book, The Rise of the Meritocracy, was a satirical glimpse of what the future would look like if Britain continued down the road of ranking individuals with standardized... Read more
I've been toying around with a new hypothesis. Here it is: Formality in business is dying. Now I am not talking about Blue Jeans Friday and Bring Your Pet to Work Day all of the sudden cropping up everywhere. I've seen very formally-run businesses where people showed up in jeans with their dogs or... Read more


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Tuesday, November 15 2005
Breast Case Scenario
In close proximity to a legacy of Attorneys General, this witness addresses that which is hidden behind veils of secrecy -- and blue fabric -- and that which is exposed... but not spoken of.
The Usefulness Trap
Removed from the velvet-draped display; torn from the colorful packaging; off the rack and in the closet... it's just not all it seemed to be. The use value falls so short of the hype value of commodities, that actual ownership and use of a thing is disappointing if not disillusioning.
Monday, November 14 2005
Cultural Imperialism or Friendly Guidance?
The Foreign Devil swears he's trying to help, but when does 'help' become an imperialist action?
Trumping the Box Office Slump
Posner has some advice for all those suits who believe that the current box office slump is centered around bad films or the burgeoning sell-through schism of DVD: 'It's the marketing, stupid!'
Thursday, November 3 2005
Food for Naught
In this initial look back at some of television's forgotten programming and people, Gibron 'elucidates the citizenry' as to the 'epicurean unusualness' of one of the medium's most 'egregiously erudite' cook show hosts: David Wade.
Wednesday, November 2 2005
Keeping an Eye on Mother and Baby
Did Ronnie Spector and Tina Turner play subversive feminist roles under the banner of male-dominated pop music? Or did we simply mistake stilted sexual roles for the progressive politics we desired?
Tuesday, November 1 2005
The Underrated/Overrated List
Bringing you the best in arbitrary, uninformed and mean-spirited opinions since 1986!
Monday, October 31 2005
UN-dermining Hollywood
Wood sheds light on the recent UN resolution allowing countries more control over their cultural heritage -- and how that might impact the billions of box office dollars flowing into Hollywood coffers.
Sunday, October 30 2005
Black After These Messages
Harris wants to clean up TV advertising. So he's offering some advice to Madison Avenue on how it can make its current fixation with African American culture more 'real' for its intended 'peeps'.
Thursday, October 27 2005
Mudlark Movies: Lucky Stiff
Turning the spotlight on those unfortunate films that have somehow fallen through the cracks in the entertainment system, Gibron champions the mudlark movie -- cinematic orphans that truly deserve a second chance.
Wednesday, October 26 2005
Not the Cosbys
You know how they say everyone has a twin somewhere? Well, members of the Horn family look just like those people on (name that sitcom).
Tuesday, October 25 2005
Not Just Zombies
Even though George Romero is famous for his zombie flicks, he has directed a variety of other equally interesting fright films that are usually overlooked by the casual fan.
Monday, October 24 2005
Power Through Responsibility
While working on a storyline for a video game that wants you to care, really care, about the characters, Harvey puzzles over how best to craft letters aimed for the heart.
Sunday, October 23 2005
Small Screen, Big Issues
Some of the Middle-Eastern, Ramadan line-up in TV programming takes on tough issues; Saudi terrorism, Egyptian-Israeli relations, and mainstream US prejudice against Arabs and Muslims, to name a few.
Thursday, October 20 2005
A Bad Man: Reading Mike Tyson's Body of Work
The only sure thing about Tyson is that he stands opposed.
Tuesday, October 18 2005
Intervening Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone is in trouble, and its up to Posner and his pals to see him through this latest creative crisis, or else all might be lost for the once mighty Oscar winning moviemaker.
Sunday, October 16 2005
Today the Hill District, Tomorrow the World: August Wilson
August Wilson now takes his place in the pantheon of black arts and letters for the dignity he gave the blues singers, mill workers, rooming house owners, ex-cons, neighborhood eccentrics, and 300-year-old matriarchs among us.
Thursday, October 13 2005
At long last, indie kids and mainstream critics no longer have to listen to their metal music in clandestine shame. Metal's in the midst of an artistic renaissance, and, as Begrand explains, it's a headbanger's ball out there.
Wednesday, October 12 2005
Laughin' Louis Armstrong: The Trickster
Satchmo's subversive humor struck multiple targets simultaneously: it commented on the very music he was transforming; and, as a survival tool, it presented a league of oppressors with unexpected resistance.
Tuesday, October 11 2005
For the Love of Music
Not even a knife-wielding tsotsi can keep Leonard away from his reggae supplier.


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Math/CS Welcomes New Faculty Member Lars Ruthotto
Published: 08/11/2014
Lars Ruthotto completed his Ph.D. degree in Mathematics at the University of Münster, Germany (2012). Prior to joining the faculty at Emory in 2014, Ruthotto held positions at the University of British Columbia, the University of Lübeck and the University of Münster. Ruthotto's primary research focus is scientific computing for inverse problems arising in medical and geophysical imaging. His articles have been published in a number of leading journals including SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging and Geophysical Journal International.
Math/CS Welcomes New Faculty Member Jinho Choi
Published: 08/06/2014
Jinho Choi is an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Emory University. He obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2012. Jinho Choi has been active in research on natural language processing; especially, on the optimization of low-level NLP (e.g., part-of-speech tagging, dependency parsing, semantic role labeling) for robustness on various data and scalability on large data. He has developed an open source project called ClearNLP, providing NLP components with state-of-the-art accuracy and speed, which has been widely used for both academic and industrial research. His current research focuses on the development of NLP components for different domains (e.g., social media, medical data) and the applications of these NLP components for end-user systems such as question-answering, information extraction, dialog management, etc. He is also interested in interdisciplinary research where NLP can enhance researches in other areas.
Math/CS Welcomes New Faculty Member Ymir Vigfusson
Published: 08/06/2014
Ymir Vigfusson completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Cornell University (2010). Prior to joining the faculty at Emory in 2014, Vigfusson held positions at Reykjavik University and IBM Research. Vigfusson's primary research focus is on distributed data replication and security. His articles have been published in a number of leading venues including VLDB, EuroSys, SOCC and the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing.
Computer Science Graduate Student Dmitry Lagun Wins SIGIR 2014 Best Student Paper
Published: 07/15/2014
Dmitry Lagun, a graduate student in the Data Management Research Group, was awarded Best Student Paper at the SIGIR '14 Proceedings of the 37th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research & development in information retrieval. "Towards better measurement of attention and satisfaction in mobile search" was in collaboration with Chih-Hung Hsieh, Dale Webster, and Vidhya Navalpakkam, all with Google, Inc The paper can be found here.
Emory Math Circle on CBS 46 Better Mornings Atlanta
Published: 06/12/2014
Amanda Clemm and Sarah Trebat-Leder were interviewed this morning talking about the Math Circle program and the fun with shapes and bubbles at the Children's Museum of Atlanta. Their interview can be found here.


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FFmpeg Brings WebM Support to Version 0.6
The newest version of the open source of the A/V recording and conversion tool was codenamed "Works With HTML5" for obvious reasons.
The FFmpeg project released version 0.6 of the audio and video converter adds myriad improvements relevant to the HTML5 Web standard. The features in the new release (codenamed appropriately "Works with HTML5") include VP8 support via Google's libvpx library, WebM support in Matroska de/muxer and a Dirac in Ogg demuxer.
The H.264 proprietary codec, but HTML5 video codec supported by both Microsoft and Apple received optimizations making it significantly faster. Full features and specific command line instructions can be found at the FFmpeg documentation page. Also, here's the changelog.
Issue 26: Linux Shell Handbook 7th Ed./Special Editions
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Customers can take a free test drive of SLES for HPC on the Azure Cloud
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San Francisco-based chip company announces their first fully open source chip platform.
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Ubuntu Vendor tries to solve app packaging and distribution problem across distributions.
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If suburban living in New York City is what you're after, living in Fieldston might be exactly the sort of thing you've been looking for. Located in the northern reaches of the Bronx, this neighborhood is a privately owned community within the neighborhood of Riverdale, and is bordered to the north by 250th Street (and Riverdale proper), to the east by Broadway (and Van Cortlandt Park), to the south by Manhattan College and the Manhattan College Parkway (and neighborhood of Kingsbridge), and to the west by Henry Hudson Parkway (and, again, Riverdale).
There aren't many apartments in this privately owned community, because the housing stock consists almost entirely of large, single family, detached houses on mid-sized lots, surrounded by magnificent old trees, constructed amid the craggy outcroppings and steep hills that define this romantic, rocky landscape. Though hard-to-find, a Fieldston apartment can be worth the hunt to call this beautiful community your home.
The housing stock primarily consists of Tudor mansions, Dutch colonials, Norman houses and Mediterranean bungalows, as well as a few smaller "brick boxes". In 2006 much of the community was declared to be landmarked, a somewhat controversial measure because it limits what home owners can and cannot do on their property.
Being privately owned means that streets and common areas are maintained and operated by the Fieldston Property Owners' Association, Inc., to which all residents make annual contributions. Snow plowing, sewer repair, tree pruning, leaf removal, safety patrols, and stocking the goldfish at Indian Pond: all are handled by the Association.
And because the streets are owned by the community, parking is allowed anywhere for residents in Fieldston. Guests are also allowed but must put a note on their dashboard saying with whom they are visiting. Much the same arrangement is also in place in Forest Hills Gardens; one of New York City's other privately owned and managed communities.
Fieldston apartments, when you can find them, are near two of New York City's prettiest (and most prestigious) private schools, Horace Mann and Ethical Culture Fieldston School (which serves as the middle school and high school for the Ethical Culture on Manhattan's Upper West Side), with the third of the "Hill Schools" trio, Riverdale Country Day, right next door.
The public schools in the area are also among the city's best. Residents of Fieldston who are commuters to Manhattan often drive, jumping on the nearby Henry Hudson Parkway, but public transportation is also an option, either via express MTA bus, the 1 train, or the Metro-North railroad, which gets you to Grand Central Terminal in 25 minutes.


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Seasonal Update
Water: Water in the picnic area and campground is turned on. (5/6/16)
Drinking Water: Drinking water is available year-round behind the wood shed near the office at an orange water spigot.
Bathroom Facilities: The bathroom in the picnic area and campground are open. (5/6/16) A flush toilet at the park contact station is available year-round during open office hours. Vault toilets are available year-round in the campground and picnic area.
Showers: The shower building is open. (5/6/16)
Dump Station: The dump station is open. (updated 5-6-16)
Campgrounds: The campground is currently open, all sites are reservable. Same day and future reservations may be made at www.mndnr.gov/reservations or by calling 866-857-2757. (updated 5-6-16)
Electric Sites: 19 drive-in electric sites are available April 1 - November 30.
Special Notes for RV Campers: Please check the lengths of the campsite spurs. A few of our campsites are relatively small.
Reservations: All sites at Frontenac State Park are reservable April 1 - October 31. Reservations are highly recommended for weekends. Reservations are not needed November 1 - 30. Campground is closed December 1 - March.
Contact Notes: Best time to contact the park:
Spring & Fall: 12:30-4:30pm M,W,Th; 12-6pm F; 10am-6pm Sa; 10am-4pm Su; Closed Tuesdays
Summer: Monday - Thursday, 12:30 - 4:30 p.m.; Friday 12-8pm; Saturday, 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.; Sundays, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Winter: Saturday - Sunday, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.; Monday - Friday, office hours will vary. Please leave a message.
Trail Notes: In the summer, the park has 13 miles of hiking trails, A 1 mile paved bike trail and 1 mile of wheelchair accessible trail. In the winter, the park maintains 7.1 miles of groomed cross-country ski trails, 4.7 miles of snowshoe trails, .75 miles of winter hiking trails and a sliding hill. The park has 2 wood heated trail shelters available in the winter.
Season Rentals: Canoes are available for rent at the park office Mid-May-Mid October. 1.1 mile hike to canoes. In the winter snowshoe rental is available.
Naturalist Programs and Park Tours: Weekly nature hikes at 10 am on Saturdays throughout the summer. Meet at the amphitheater in the campground. Check our events calendar for other monthly activities.


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Hi there.
I see that WP by default now is "spitting" out it's version number.
Normally this is the first thing an attacker look for to run known exploits of the system.
A common known rule is to NOT give the visitor any info about running version of the script.
<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 2.8.4" />
Any good reason for sending this to a potential "spambot"?


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Aedes aegypti Assembly and Gene Annotation
About Aedes aegypti
Aedes aegypti exists in at least two forms (considered either subspecies or separate species according to different authors), namely Ae. aegypti formosus (the original wild type found in Africa) and Ae. aegypti aegypti (the worldwide urban form). The yellow fever mosquito, Ae. aegypti aegypti, has a worldwide distribution in the tropics and subtropics where it is the main vector of both dengue and yellow fever viruses.
Picture credit (public domain): James Gathany (CDC) 2006
The Aedes aegypti Liverpool LVP strain genome sequence is a joint effort between the Broad Institute and The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) [1]. Assembly of 8x shotgun coverage was performed using the Broad's whole genome assembly package ARACHNE. The assembly presented here (AaegL3) consists of 4,756 supercontigs and a mitochondrial chromosome, totalling 1.3 gigabases.
The initial annotation of the Aedes aegypti genome is a collaboration between VectorBase and TIGR. Each group generated a set of gene predictions which were merged into a single canonical set (AaegL1.1). The geneset presented here (AaegL3.3, August 2014) represents the original set integrated with several rounds of community annotations; additional gene predictions that were excluded from the AaegL1.1 set but subsequently found to have supporting evidence (transcriptome, mapped protein domains); mitochondrial genes; and non-coding RNA genes from the Ensembl Genomes pipeline.
Two sets of variation data are available for Aedes aegypti, both imported via VectorBase.
The first is derived from the Bonizzoni et al. study [2]. This study used RNA-seq to characterise sequence variation in three laboratory strains of Aedes aegypti. An analysis of the transcriptomes from the Liverpool (LVP) reference strain, and two strains that exhibit differential susceptibility to Dengue-2 infection (Chetumal and Rexville D-Puerto Rico) was conducted, identifying many novel transcriptional units and polymorphisms in immunity related genes.
The second set of variation data covers multiple populations of Aedes aegypti, and was produced using a SNP chip containing 25K validated SNPs. This chip has been used to genotype a total of 160 individual insects from 25 Aedes aegypti populations isolated from 12 different regions around the world [3].
EST and Protein Alignments
Aedes aegypti ESTs were mapped onto the genome using Exonerate (Example: supercont1.174:147000-580000).
Proteins from all VectorBase species were mapped to the Aedes aegypti genome (using blastx) (Example: supercont1.174:147000-580000).
- Genome sequence of Aedes aegypti, a major arbovirus vector.
Nene V, Wortman JR, Lawson D, Haas B, Kodira C, Tu ZJ, Loftus B, Xi Z, Megy K, Grabherr M et al. 2007. Science. 316:1718-1723.
- Probing functional polymorphisms in the dengue vector, Aedes aegypti.
Bonizzoni M, Britton M, Marinotti O, Dunn WA, Fass J, James AA. 2013. BMC Genomics. 14:739.
- A multipurpose, high-throughput single-nucleotide polymorphism chip for the dengue and yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti.
Evans BR, Gloria-Soria A, Hou L, McBride C, Bonizzoni M, Zhao H, Powell JR. 2015. G3 (Bethesda). 5:711-718.
More information
General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.
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Small non coding genes are usually fewer than 200 bases long. They may be transcribed but are not translated. In Ensembl, genes with the following biotypes are classed as small non coding genes: miRNA, miscRNA, rRNA, scRNA, snlRNA, snoRNA, snRNA, and also the pseudogenic form of these biotypes. The majority of the small non coding genes in Ensembl are annotated automatically by our ncRNA pipeline. Please note that tRNAs are annotated separately using tRNAscan. tRNAs are included as 'simple fetaures', not genes, because they are not annotated using aligned sequence evidence.:
| Long non coding genes
Long non coding genes are usually greater than 200 bases long. They may be transcribed but are not translated. In Ensembl, genes with the following biotypes are classed as long non coding genes: 3prime_overlapping_ncrna, ambiguous_orf, antisense, antisense_RNA, lincRNA, ncrna_host, non_coding, non_stop_decay, processed_transcript, retained_intron, sense_intronic, sense_overlapping. The majority of the long non coding genes in Ensembl are annotated manually by HAVANA.:
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| Pseudogenes
A pseudogene shares an evolutionary history with a functional protein-coding gene but it has been mutated through evolution to contain frameshift and/or stop codon(s) that disrupt the open reading frame.:
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I would get a versipack (our your favorite fanny pack) and a Glock. After a day at the beach I would detail strip and clean the gun. This sounds like a dumb idea but Glocks were designed with abuse in mind. You can use any gun that you can completely take apart and clean. I would use a Glock (its simple). I'm sure must people would not consider getting the gun wet. Remember it is a tool and look at how and why it was designed. I think we tend to baby our firearms. I know its a $400+ investment and you want to keep it clean and shiny. I was an Instructor in a PD and at first I was appalled at how S&W m36's, used for recruit training, were kept in milk crates.
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Hell and High Water in Buffalo News
On the problem with hydrogen cars:
A June 30 letter stating that we should consider using hydrogen fuel as an alternative to ethanol is misleading. My opinion on hydrogen fuel car is based on the book "Hell and High Water" by Joseph Romm, an MIT-trained physicist who managed energy-efficiency programs in the U.S. Department of Energy during President Clinton's administration.
According to Romm's analysis, the math for hydrogen cars simply doesn't work out. There are two ways to create hydrogen, extract it directly from fossil fuels or split water molecules using electricity. For cars, the latter is the better approach.
A vehicle needs about one megawatthour of electricity to produce enough hydrogen fuel to travel about 1,000 miles. In order to produce the electricity needed, it will burn coal and as a result, will produce about 2,100 pounds of carbon dioxide. Driving the most efficient car (40 mpg) for 1,000 miles will produce an additional 485 pounds of carbon dioxide.
A vehicle powered by hydrogen fuel cells would indirectly create four times the carbon dioxide emissions of today's most efficient gasoline cars. We need to invest in cleaner energy technologies and energy-efficient programs such as hybrid cars, wind and solar plants.
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Let me second the opinion expressed above. As I said on my own site, even if you've already concluded hydrogen won't have an impact on transportation in the near or mid-term, you should still read the book, as Romm does an exceptional job of discussing the market dynamics and tradeoffs in our energy and environmental decisions.
Too bad that Romm fella doesn't have his own, you know, blog, or something…
Romm's argument assumes that you are using dirty hydrogen… generated from fossil fuels… to drive your hydrogen car 1000 miles. Of course such an approach would be foolish, burnign much more carbon than simply using a gasoling powered car. On the other hand, using renewable energy to generate hydrogen by electrolysis would allow you to drive your car as far as you want to without adding a single molecule of CO2 to the air. Romm's is a typical straw man argument against hydrogen… there are clean and dirty ways of making hydrogen, and the anti-hydrogen crowd ALWAYS makes their arguments against the dirty form.
To Deane Little:
Let's say you decide to eliminate fossil fuels from personal transportation. You know how to generate electricity from wind or solar. What do you do with it? If you're given a choice of (1) using the electricity to produce hydrogen, or (2) using the electricity to charge the batteries of plug-in vehicles, which do you choose?
The plug-in vehicle case is easy to analyze, since production vehicles exist. The U.S. drove 2.7 trillion miles in 2004 in passenger cars, other 2-axle 4-tire vehicles, and motorcycles. Using 260 Wh/mi, 370 Wh/mi, and 150 Wh/mi for these three vehicle classes, you come up with 821 TWh needed per year (300 Wh/mi on average). The grid (power plant to wall plug) is 92%, so you need to generate about 900 TWh at the power plants. For wind, this will take about 410 peakGW of wind turbines (102 GW average, assuming 25% of peak). Wind turbines used to cost $1000/peakkW (anyone have a newer number?), so the cost of the wind farm is $410 billion. (Solar thermal in the desert (e.g. Stirling Energy or Ausra), is alternative to wind.)
The hydrogen fuel cell vehicle (HFCV) case is a bit trickier, because HFCVs are not production-ready (this an issue all by itself). Since a HFCV is essentially a battery electric vehicle (BEV) with some (but not all) of the batteries replaced by a hydrogen tank and PEM fuel cell, we can compare them by just looking at the two paths: (1) electricity to plug, plug to battery, battery output; (2) electricity to H2, H2 compression, H2 shipment, H2 storage, H2 decompression, and H2 to electricity in the PEM fuel cell. For (1), the figures are 92% and 86% efficiency, giving 79% overall. For (2), Lovins proposes to extract some of the energy from H2 compression during decompression; I don't know what is reasonable here, so let's be very generous and assume the product achieves 90% efficiency. I don't know what to assume for H2 shipment, so again be generous and assume 95%. H2 storage is another issue (there is leakage, and H2 does affect the stratosphere), but let's ignore it here. Wikipedia gives the efficiency of electrolysis of water as 50-70% (the rest of the energy goes into heat). PEM fuel cells are at best 50% efficient (again, heat gets the rest of the energy). Multiplying these figures gives 21-30% overall efficiency. That is a factor of 2.6 to 3.7 reduction from the 79% efficiency of the BEV pathway (more detailed estimates often come up with a 4 times). Therefore, instead of $410 billion of wind turbines, one would need $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion.
Given the choice between spending $410 billion, and $1 to $1.5 trillion, which do you choose?
A postscript to the above reply to Deane Little:
The above analysis ignored the cost of the vehicles themselves. Since BEVs are much cheaper than FCVs, it would be an even more skewed comparison if vehicle costs were included. Let's say the cost of the H2 storage tank and PEM fuel cell could be brought down to a mere $10,000 premium over the batteries saved (the premium is currently much more than this). There were 136 million passenger cars on the road in 2004, 6 million motorcycles, and 92 million non-car 2-axle vehicles (mostly light trucks and SUVs), for a total of 234 million vehicles. To replace that fleet with FCVs instead of BEVs costs an additional $2 trillion. Moreover, this cost recurs with higher frequency than the 20 year lifetime of wind turbine farms, or the 30 year lifetime of solar thermal farms.
Again, I protest the numbers in the original post and the way they have been skewed to give every advantage to the petroleum powered vehicle and every disadvantage to the hydrogen car. So an efficient petroleum powered car (40 mpg) generates only 485 pounds of CO2 during a 1000 mile trip? That low number assumes that gasoline magically appears inside the gas pump, having apparently reproduced within the underground tank every night when the lights go out. In fact my understanding of the process is that petroleum is extracted from deep within the earth, pumped to the surface, transported thousands of miles, refined in an energetically wasteful process, transported to gasoline stations and then pumped into your car… where it is finally burned to create 480 pounds of CO2 (19 pounds per gallon). My humble guess is that the very complicated path the gasoline takes to reach your car might add just a few pounds of CO2 to the air. I am sure someone here knows the ratio, what is it? Not pretty I am sure, which is perhaps why it always gets ignored in the equation.
Re Joe's argument about using renewable energy to make hydrogen vs just using the electricity, point taken. But your numbers are MUCH higher than those projected in the Socolow Wedge model. If you crunch their numbers for producing hydrogen from wind vs just producing electricity from wind there is about a two fold difference in carbon saving efficiency. But their model (wedge 10 I think it is) suggests 1 megawatt hour generated by wind saves about 1267 pounds of carbon dioxide… not 2100. So depending on how much CO2 is generated drilling, pumping, transporting, refining, transporting again and finally burning gasoline, the numbers sure look a lot closer than your 485 vs 2100 argument. And who's driving a 40 mpg car anyway?


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Doo Crowder's show at West Side Books will not be boring
Doo Crowder (due at West Side Books on Sunday, November 4) first gained renown as a member of indie-pop outfit the Dinnermints. But he's most well known for his tenure as frontman of the anarcho-orchestra Pee Pee. Since Pee Pee went on indefinite hiatus a few years ago, Crowder has played numerous solo shows exploring a variety of musical approaches. Through the use of loops and synths, raps, inspired dancing, stripped-down guitar and vocals and bombastic karaoke, Crowder has proved not only that his creative skills are multi-faceted, but that he's not afraid to take personal and artistic risks or to use equipment that doesn't always behave as it should. What will this show be like? Who knows? But it definitely won't be boring.
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USC Upstate Shoestring Players hope to shake audience with 'Six Degrees'
Published: Thursday, November 14, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.
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The USC Upstate Shoestring Players hit the stage tonight with their second performance of the semester, "Six Degrees of Separation" by John Guare. The play will be directed by Ahsha Daniels, a recent graduate of USC Upstate.
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After graduating in May 2012 with bachelor's degree in communications with an emphasis on theater, Daniels decided she wanted to continue working with The Shoestring Players. This is the first time at Upstate that a graduate has been able to direct a main stage performance. Daniels is looking forward to showcasing what a product of the college can do beyond graduation.
"It's really intimidating and exciting at the same time," Daniels said.
Daniels has enjoyed working with the peers she studied with while being a student at Upstate, and hopes they can learn as much from her as she has from them.
"Six Degrees of Separation" is inspired by a true story involving the clash of classes and race. The plot follows a young, black con man, who calls himself Paul, as he travels around staying with wealthy families of New York. Each of these families help Paul in a one way or another, but he finds himself developing a more meaningful relationship with one family in particular, the Kittredges. While experiencing discontent among their own family, the Kittredges end up falling in love with Paul despite his troubled past.
"I think on a bigger level, it's about connections," said Hayden Bishop, who plays Ouisa Kittredge.
The dramatic and intense play is a major transition from the Shoestring Players previous comedic performance last month of "A Midsummer Night's Dream." The cast says that this kind of production is a lot more exhausting and emotionally draining, but they're excited about the impact the show will have on the audience.
"I think what we try to do is, when we're done with a play, we put that behind us and just move on to the next thing," said Townsend Reynolds, who performs as Flan Kittredge in "Six Degrees of Separation."
Chauncey Meeks-Owens, who plays Paul, says that he is expecting the audience to have a re-evaluation of their own lives following the performance.
"I would love for a family to come see this play, get in the car, and talk about it," Meeks-Owens said.
"Six Degrees of Separation" will be performed tonight, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., as well as 3 p.m. on Sunday, in the Humanities and Performing Arts Center of USC Upstate.
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Pit bullsthey're so good with children!
Pit Bulls can be safe with kids despite what all the articles of pit bull attacks suggest.
Using common sense, watching your dogs behaviour, and keeping an eye on all interactions between kids and your pit bull will go a long way to preventing any possible accidents or problems.
And finally, Pit Bulls love kids and the two make a perfect combination. High energy wired up kid + high energy wired up Pit Bull = loads of fun and laughter for all involved. :o)
Just make sure your high-energy, wired-up kid doesn't bump your high-energy, wired-up pit bull, okay?
A 5-year-old girl attacked by a pit bull in a family friend's backyard in Simi Valley has died, authorities said Monday….
Katya's mother Katia Todesco said she and her daughter were visiting a friend who was taking care of the pit bull Tuesday. The little girl and the friend's 13-year-old daughter were playing in the backyard when the 5-year-old bumped into the dog, then was mauled. Her mother heard screams and came outside to find the dog latched on to her daughter.
"It was a horrible attack," Todesco said Monday. "With my own hands I was pulling the dog's jaw."
UPDATE: Sounds like pit bulls are popular dogs in Ventura County…
It was only the second time a dog has killed a Ventura County resident in Jenks' 36-year career with the county, she said. The only other time Jenks could recall was in the mid-1990s, when a family's pit bull bit and killed an infant in the living room of an east county home, she said.
On the night Katya was attacked, a different pit bull killed another dog on Lysander Avenue in Simi Valley, and yet another pit bull bit a woman on her legs on Ballard Street, Jenks said. Both dogs were taken to the animal shelter, and the owner of one immediately agreed to have it destroyed. Simi Valley police did not report any of the attacks to the media.


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News that work is set to begin this week on Birmingham City Council's new office building at Woodcock Street in Aston is a huge boost to the jobs market and the environment – as well as saving taxpayers' money in the process.
The new office is a key element of the authority's plans to deliver over £200m of gross savings by streamlining its office portfolio through the Working for the Future Business Transformation programme.
When complete, the new office building will be a base for over 2,000 staff, replacing more expensive leased buildings in the city centre. It will also set the standard for new ways of working for its employees with the aim of delivering first-class services to the citizens of Birmingham.
Planning permission was secured in February 2009 and since then the proposals have been closely examined to ensure that best value for money is being achieved. The project shows the council's commitment to the regeneration agenda and will create and secure up to 3,000 jobs locally.
This building project will also see the Council delivering on its promise to reduce CO2 emissions. The building has been designed with the aim of achieving an "excellent" BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method) rating.
This means the building will contain a number of innovative low carbon technologies including solar hot water heating, passive ventilation, rainwater harvesting and the use of 'living' brown roofs to create a habitat for urban wildlife.
Additionally, the building will be connected to the Aston University district combined heat and power (CHP) network giving further substantial reductions in CO2 emissions.
Thomas Vale were appointed as contractor for the works early in the design and planning stage through the Birmingham Construction Partnership, working closely with, Birmingham Property Services – identifying and adding considerable value for money benefits to the project. The building is due to be completed in August 2011.
Cllr Neville Summerfield, Birmingham City Council's Cabinet Member for Regeneration, said: "The plans for the new offices at Woodcock Street are now on the way to becoming reality.
"It is crucial that we ensure that taxpayer money is spent as effectively as possible, and the plans that have been drawn up as part of this Business Transformation project are supported by a compelling business case.
"When complete, the council will have an office block that is fit for the 21st century that will enable employees to work in a flexible way that is for the ultimate benefit of citizens through better service delivery."
Tony Hyde, Managing Director of Thomas Vale Construction, added: "As a local company Thomas Vale are extremely proud to be undertaking this amazing transformation for Woodcock Street on behalf of Birmingham City Council and the Birmingham Construction Partnership.
"We will be working closely with all local stakeholders in order to realise the potential of what a project such as this can bring to the local regeneration of an area."
Through their use of cutting edge IT facilities, provided by Service Birmingham, the plans will also form a key part of the strategy to develop a Digital District in and around the Eastside area of the city. The Digital District initiative was announced in June during the Digital Britain regional launch event in Birmingham.
The vision behind the Digital District is to create an area in which businesses and other hi-tech enterprises can flourish, driving forward the wider plans for inner-city regeneration, which itself is underpinned by the ambitious Big City Plan.
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Dr. Masters co-founded wunderground in 1995. He flew with the NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990. Co-blogging with him: Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 3:47 PM GMT on December 12, 2007
The hurricane season of 2007 is almost over (again!) Tropical Storm Olga's passage over the rough terrain of Hispaniola has considerably disrupted the circulation of the storm, and visible satellite loops show a poorly organized circulation with a few weak rain bands removed to the north and east of the center. Radar loops out of Gran Piedra, Cuba show disorganized patches of rain impacting eastern Cuba, western Haiti, and the southeastern Bahama Islands. Puerto Rico took the brunt of Olga's rains, with amounts exceeding eight inches common (Figure 1). Satellite estimates of rainfall over Hispaniola show maximum rainfall amounts of up to four inches thus far over the northern Dominican Republic and Haiti. Additional rains of 2-4 inches from Olga may cause localized flash flooding and mudslides, but Olga will cause nowhere near the chaos that the 10-25 inches of rain from Tropical Storm Noel did in late October.
Wind shear has increased to 30 knots over Olga, and water vapor satellite imagery shows that Olga is moving into some very dry air. These influences should destroy Olga by Thursday. The remnants of Olga may still bring heavy rains of 2-4 inches to the southeast Bahamas and eastern Cuba, and 1-2 inches to Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. The 00Z runs of the GFDL and HWRF computer models foresee that Olga will regenerate on Friday and threaten the north coast of Honduras on Sunday as a Category 1 hurricane, but this solution is not supported by the other models. Given Olga's current weak condition, it is unlikely there will be enough left of the storm on Friday to regenerate into anything.
Figure 1. Precipitation estimated from the Puerto Rico radar for Tropical Storm Olga.
Major 'Noreaster coming Sunday
All of the major computer models forecast that a major winter storm will track across the Ohio Valley on Saturday, then explode into a powerful 'Noreaster Sunday off the U.S. northeast coast. Heavy snow amounts of 1-2 feet and significant ice accumulations are possible in inland regions of the Northeast. Rain appears to be the most likely type of precipitation at locations nearer the coast, such as Philadelphia, New York City, and Boston. It is too early to be confident of this forecast, since minor changes in the storm's track will greatly influence the type of precipitation. Minor to moderate coastal flooding is possible along the coast from New York City to Maine on Sunday.
Ice storm in the Midwest
I haven't found the opportunity to say much about the remarkable ice storm that has paralyzed much of Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and surrounding regions this week, as I've been busy talking about Olga and trying to keep up on the latest in climate change science at the American Geophysical Union Conference here in San Francisco. The wunderphotos posted by people to the web site have been truly astounding, chilling, and beautiful, and I thank all of you who posted photos.
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Festival evening. Starts at 8pm and finishes at 12 pm. Broken Chords (our band) is on at 9pm.
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Our second featured artist night is Bradninch's very own singer / songwriter Kevin Spiers with his newly formed band. Kevin has been a regular at the Acoustic club from its earliest days, the Folk club and makes regular appearances at the Festival and Musical Gardens. Kevin's band comprises Deborah Hamilton on Viola/violin, Joe Shaw on percussion / drums and Mike Batsch plays Electric Bass. There are several links to recordings on the Folk clubs facebook page and we eagerly await their debut album.
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