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Sunday, May 19, 2013
Book Blogger Confessions: Adding a reviewer to your blog
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Question: Have you added or considered adding additional reviewers to your blog? Why or why not? If you have, please share how you found the right match when bringing new people to your established blog. Did you encounter any problems?
I have thought of adding another reviewer to help lighten my review load and add genre variety but I'm really picky because it has to be someone I know and trust. I've invested over three years building the blog and I don't want to add someone that may bring drama or reliability issues.
I also like how the blog is mine...all mine....*cackles*... I don't really want to schedule other peoples reviews and I like the spontaneity that comes with blogging by myself. I'm a total fly by the seat of my pants kind of blogger and I rarely even have a weeks worth of posts ready.
I've had guest reviewers in the past and I loved hosting them but they all moved on. That's the problem with the people I want. They either move on to their own blog, are giving up blogging for good, or review on Goodreads but don't want the pressure of regular reviewing.
I am interested to hear how other bloggers went through the process if they did add reviewers. It's scary to me to pick someone I don't know at all but I'm sure it works out just fine since there are several great blogs that have multiple reviewers.
I'm also interested to hear from followers – if a blogger you love adds a new reviewer how do you feel about that? Do you think it changes the "voice" of the blog or adds to it?
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Yes that's my reasoning for not having someone else too. This blog is my baby. If I did anyone it would be my kids ...But I also an incident go bad with a blog.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 20, 2013 at 1:25 AM
I agree with everything you say except I'm not fly-by-my-pants, I'm very organised so I have scheduled my blog for like the next month...ReplyDelete
My 'co-blogger' (I prefer the term 'occasional contributer') is actually my husband, when he feels like saying something, if he feels like saying something (which he has not yet but there is space for him if he wants to read genres I don't). And of course I am 100% the boss, and if and only if he produces content will I find a place for it in my highly structured blog plan. I would have a hard time adding anyone else, because my blog is 100% ME.Replies
I wish I was more organized. It stresses me out though trying to schedule everything. then it feels like a job, then I don't want to read....I go into a blogger death spiral lolDelete
My hubby has written a few reviews on the blog. I was hoping he would do more but he hasn't :-(
I just asked :) Because I want reviews on my blog and I just do not have the time these days. But yes I did go for people I knew from beforeReplyDelete
Quote: "I also like how the blog is mine...all mine....*cackles*... I don't really want to schedule other peoples reviews and I like the spontaneity that comes with blogging by myself."ReplyDelete
Same here.
Anyway, I've seen an interesting (and funny) thing done by some bloggers...picking up the same book (which they rated differently) and doing a double review. What about that? Just an idea :).
I feel the exact same way Karen. I'm afraid with a partner it might bring up a whole bunch of other obligations and I don't want that. I usually don't have posts scheduled much in advance either. Yes I agree there is something freeing about being able to blog about what you want spontaneously. I like to fly by the seat of my pants too.ReplyDelete
Also, I've done Roberta's suggestion above with double reviews.Replies
I know we've said this before but we are the chillest of the chill lolDelete
I can barely decide what I'm posting day to day never mind keeping track of someone else lol And I think I might get mad if my co-blogger is more efficient and organized than me on my own blog lol
I had a co-blogger in the beginning of the blog but it didn't really work out. I've yet to see a guest reviewer added later on that actually felt like it was the other reviewer's blog too. My fav example of co-blogging is Rather Be Reading because they work seamlessly with the same amount of effort.ReplyDelete
Feels so wrong and personal to me. I don't think I could.ReplyDeleteReplies
It would have to be someone I know and love already but even then I think I would feel like I'm losing something. But I've seen it done successfully on other blogs.Delete
I've thought about it a lot especially when I'm feeling overwhelmed or in a slump but then I decided I would rather just not post for a few days. It's a hobby....it's a hobby...it's a hobby lol
Running a blog by yourself is a lot of work. I totally understand liking having all the control. There are so many concessions that you need to make if you take someone on - as April has experienced with me. I think easing into it is the best way. I think personality is the best thing. You need to find someone who flies by their pants also. April and I got SO lucky with finding each other. Even now over a year later we are still constantly improving the way we work and communicate. I pretty much consider her a bestie now - I talk to her all day - pretty much from the time she signs off to when I go to sleep. She wakes up so much later in the day than me haha. I definitely think being friends is super important.ReplyDelete
I think the reason why people that just contribute reviews move on is because they want more control as well. If they are just a reviewer they might feel like they are an employee instead of a partner...and who wants their hobby to feel like they have a boss?Replies
That's fantastic that you found someone you trust to for with. I would be happy adding someone if I felt that way too.Delete
I had a good blogger friend that used to guest review adult books on my blog (she only reviewed YA on hers) and she was someone I would have trusted completely. Unfortunately she gave up blogging.
I let a few people test the waters here to see if they liked it and like you said they wanted a blog of their own eventually.
I'm totally on board with you on not knowing the reviewer well enough to have them be apart of the blog and I like having the blog to my self too :) I don't ever have things per-planned unless I know what I'm going to be doing; like post some of these Confessions posts or giveaways. There are some blogs I follower that have multiple reviewers and it's great because sometimes they would review the same book and have totally different opinions on them so it's great. Adding a new reviewer to a blog I think is okay, a new voice might or can even give the followers a new perspective or look on a book. But I guess it also depends on if the blogger wants that.ReplyDeleteReplies
I don't even have my Book Blogger Confessions post done until the day before lol I'm hopeless.Delete
If I added someone I think I would like someone whose a little different than me. It would be fun to debate a little rather than always having the same opinion.
I've guest reviewed but not had it the other way round. I'd accept that proposal, probably. No co-bloggers wanted though. I co-blog at a blog; you'll have to ask the lovely Chrissie @ Once Upon A Series how our reviews go to together ;) Obviously it's a different experience but it's just as organized. If I said one was a bigger commitment I would be telling the truth. My blog, for now, consumes my time more. I hope to one day be at the point where we both put in about 50/50, well 40/40 cos we have other guests on the side. I know some great co-bloggers. In some cases it seems like one amazing person & then you realize it's more than one person :PReplyDelete
The bad thing about co-blogging is when things go wrong & it affects everybody. Like technical issues. That's a massive domino!Replies
When I was thinking about giving up blogging a few bloggers asked me to guest review on their blogs and that probably would be a great thing for me. No responsibility but I still get to review but ultimately I Like the spontaneity/flexibility I have with blogging on my own.Delete
I wanted to feature a few of the independent books out there that I knew I wouldn't get to otherwise so I put a call out for reviewers and added 2. One worked out and the other didn't. Still I do enjoy having AimeeKay on as a reviewer. Love her reviews and she is a sweet person. It's still my blog, and she has her own blog for reviews and still does a few for me. So nice! :) She only does what books seem to interest her.ReplyDelete
I wanted someone to help lighten my load, but always worried about bringing someone on. Plus...it's MINE. lol But my cousin offered to help me out recently, and it's working out well for us. I just offer her a book, she says yes or no, and then sends me a review when she has it ready. She's not on a schedule and I try not to bug her.ReplyDelete
Now I'm just scared she'll leave me!
I have thought about it, but always decide no because I want control, and to be able to trust me instead of someone else. i think my husband might write a few, but it is a different genre, and I am still in controlReplyDelete
I have a friend (book club friend) that will do a review every once in a while for me (she has done 3 in 2 years) but no I don't think I could take on a whole blogging partner. I would rather take time off than that. I just like the blog being my voice.ReplyDelete
That being said, I also don't have any aspirations of growing my blog. I think people that do have to have other reviewers. I can actually take a week off and it not be a big deal.
i think it would be hard to add another reviewer unless you started the blog as a joint effort. but whatever works for the indiviual blogger(s)!!ReplyDelete
I've thought about it myself because I feel that reviews are a big weakness of mine, but hate the idea of giving up control...and I'd worry unless it was someone I knew really really well!ReplyDelete
I've thought about it, but it would be horrifying to let someone see how seat of the pants I am at times. Like letting someone watch you cook….ReplyDelete
I don't mind giving up control, but sort of feel that all the coordinating would make as much work for me as just reading the books myself. So I tell myself that I don't have to read ALL the books...
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1) Ben & Jerry's is over triple the cost (at Walmart) of Stone Ridge Creamery, go to a grocery store and we're talking 5 times the cost
2) Ben & Jerry's has over double the fat (but we are dealing with peanut butter here)
So, what's the first thing you do when you crack open this pint? Oh yeah, you go right for the pb cups. The chunks are huge. I don't really see any rinky dink pieces here. Now, here comes the dilemma. The Stone Ridge bits were basically generic Reese's peanut butter cups. We've all had Reese's before, so take it down a notch, and you know what I mean. Ben & Jerry's can't go this route for a few reasons.
- they are all natural and Reese's are not
- they never do corporate tie-ins like that
- these are probably locally sourced to boot
The Ben & Jerry cups are like every other fancy pb cup. They are very smooth, too smooth in fact. It almost seems like they take peanut butter, mix it with milk, and then pour it in the cup. The chocolate is never the same either. Call me plain, call me simple, but it's very hard to top a Reese's. As much as I'm a big fan of all natural, this is a major sticking point for me.
Maybe I should talk about the ice cream itself. Well, it tastes like peanut butter, but it's nothing to write home about. It reminds me of the homemade peanut butter ice cream I made awhile back, and while I consider my creation good for me, I can't say I was expecting a similar texture in a B&J flavor. I'm sure it has something to do with the fat content of peanut butter and how it changes the way you would typically make an ice cream, but it just wasn't working for me. Maybe if the peanut butter cups had been more salty and gritty, it would have been a nice contrast to the ice cream, but instead it's all kind of boring to me.
It's always weird putting down a Ben & Jerry's flavor, it's just that I hold them to the highest of standards and expect perfection in every pint. No, it's not fair, and I know there are plenty of people who love this quality product, I just think it could be better.
On Second Scoop: Just to clarify, this is a respectable, tasty ice cream, it's just not where I want to be when it comes to pb cups. I've always liked the creamy ice cream vs salty peanut butter combo, and you just don't get that here.
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013
John and Laurie Rudey's Former Fifth Ave Spread
BUYERS: Alfonso de Angoitia Noriega and Maria de la Concepcion Legorreta de Angoitia
LOCATION: New York City, NY
SIZE: 10 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms
YOUR MAMAS NOTES: A couple months ago, to global gasps and a plethora of international publicity, septuagenarian timber magnate John Rudey hoisted Copper Beech Farm, his first-rate, 50-acre water front estate in Greenwich, CT, on the market with a sensational $190,000,000 asking price. As many of the children surely saw, last week the ever-industrious kids at Curbed posted a smattering of interior photographs of the 15,000 square foot main mansion that had not previously been included with publicly available listing details and today the property gossips at The New York Times revealed that Mister and Missus Rudey have saddled Copper Beech Farm with more than a hundred million dollars in mortgages. ¡Escándalo! Or is it? You decide.
In 2010, according to The New York Times, the Rudeys had secured (at least) $203 million in loans against Copper Beech Farm. Presumably there were some payment issues because in 2011 one of their several lenders, Bank of America, initiated foreclosure proceedings. Uh-oh. The Rudeys—natch—responded by filing suit against the bank for "predatory lending practices." We don't know the exact results but the lawsuits were dropped last summer (2012), as per The New York Times, and the Rudeys appear to have restructured their debt and/or paid some of the loan(s) because they currently carry, according to The New York Times, a much less but still gargantuan sounding $120+ million in debt secured against the Connecticut estate. That's unquestionably a lot of dinero but, to be fair, at 63% of the current list price of $190 million, it's actually much less than the 80% loan to value that most people—particularly financial mortals—typically use to finance their home purchases.
A source who claims inside knowledge of the Rudeys financial/real estate arrangements snitched to the New York Times that the super-sized mortgages might have something to do with the Rudey's desire to unload Copper Beech Farm at an elephantine price. However, before you jump on that bandwagon, know the couple's seriously successful real estate agent, David Ogilvy, poo-pooed that ugly notion and told The New York Times that the Rudeys desire to sell Copper Beech Farm was—and we paraphrase—simply the sensible estate planning of a very wealthy family.
Whatever the reason—and we can all be sure their are a myriad of them—the article casually mentioned that last December Mister and Missus Rudey divested themselves of their long time residence at the venerable 1030 Fifth Avenue in New York City that carried, according to online resources, monthly maintenance fees of $10731. Your Mama thought that since we've all (probably) seen the waterside decadence of Copper Beech Farm it might be fun to have a look around the couple's elegant, art-filled and much more contemporary digs in The Big Apple that they sold, according to property records and previous reports on the sale, for $16,500,000 to Mexican-born media mogul Alfonso de Angoitia Noriega and his epically named wife, Maria de la Concepcion Legorreta de Angoitia.
We're not sure exactly when Mister and Missus Rudey acquired their now former apartment at 1030 Fifth Avenue but it had to have been before 1980 when, with the permission of the building's board and much to the chagrin of the Landmarks Preservation Commission, they replaced the apartment's original multi-pane sash windows with much more contemporary, aluminum framed single pane windows. It took years but the controversial window replacement ended up—as they always do with the very rich, kittens—in a legal kerfuffle in the late 1980s. We didn't turn up any reports of the results of the heated skirmish in our brief and incomplete research but it would seem the Rudeys prevailed because the single pane aluminum framed windows remain in place as evidenced by listing photos from the time they sold the apartment last year.
The dining room is open to the kitchen over a built-in buffet set between two tall and thin doors. The center island kitchen has a built in breakfast table, eggshell colored Shaker-style cabinetry with stone (maybe marble) counter tops, two sinks, two dishwashers, two refrigerators, and a walk-in pantry. The service areas behind the kitchen include a windowed half bath, a den/office and an unusually generous laundry room with slop sink and window.
The bedroom wing runs down the southern flank and includes a total of four bedrooms and three bathrooms. The rear most bedroom has a private bathroom plus two walk in closets and the middle two bedrooms each have a walk in closet and share a compact Jack 'n' Jill style bathroom. The perplexingly puny master bedroom also has a walk-in closet but, much to our meaningless annoyance, shares another way-too-tiny but blessedly windowed Jack 'n' Jill style bathroom with the library.
Although it may not be amongst the uppermost echelon of Fifth Avenue buildings 1030 Fifth Ave. is, none the less, a much coveted and brutally expensive address that has long attracted rich and powerful Wall Street titans, spendthrift hedge fund fat casts, and Showbiz bigwigs. In 2009, Oscar-winning actor Matt Damon reportedly had a look-see at a monstrous 9,000-ish square foot duplex with 8 bedrooms and 8.5 bathrooms. Owned by hedge fund queen Karen Fleiss, the suburban mansion-sized apartment originally had a sky-high $47.5 million price tag that was later hacked and slashed to $19.9 million. The duplex was eventually offered as two separate apartments and the lower half was sold in early 2010 for $8,898,000 to financier Richard Duke Buchan III. As far as Your Mama knows—and we really know so very little—Miz Fleiss and her orthopedic surgeon husband still own the upper portion of their former duplex.
Other current owners of swanky spreads at 1030 Fifth Ave. include private equity pasha Prakash Melwani who paid $27.5 million in late 2008 for his 11th floor spread, hedge fund fat cat John Griffon who paid $32.25 million for his place one floor below, also in late 2008, and money man Zachary Jared Schreiber who paid cellular communications tycoon George Blumenthal $31.5 for a sprawling 9th floor apartment in April 2012. In September 2007 Academy Award winning super-producer Wendy Finerman paid just over $10 million for a 12 room duplex and film director Mike Nichols and well-compensated broadcast journalist Diane Sawyer reportedly paid around $10 million in 2001 for the penthouse apartment that was formerly owned by Tinseltown poo-bah Robert Redford.
exterior photo: Scott Bintner for Property Shark
listing photos and floor plan: Sotheby's International Realty
Posted by Your Mama at 4:59 PM
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Is that a dropped ceiling in the kitchen?!?!?!
- July 17, 2013 at 4:35 AM
Wow. And Wow. Now that was heavenly Mama.
Seems like all iconic estates are hitting the market like wild fire, and judging by the enormous loans taken against these estates, it's no wonder.
Green Acres in Beverly Hills is probably next. Ron Burkle is known for taking HUGE loans against it.
Anywoo....i quite like the 1030 Fifth Ave apartment. Not epic, but it is gorgeous!
What i want to see though is the penthouse at 1030 Fifth Ave hit the market. Would love to have a look-see at that. Diane Sawyer currently owns it.
Thanx Mama, nice informative and juicy post, as usual.
- July 17, 2013 at 11:18 AM
Ron Burkle is about to embark on a major expansion at Green Acres. That's why so many houses around it are for sale.
- July 17, 2013 at 11:30 AM
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Saxophonist Mitch Paliga, a member of North Central College's acclaimed jazz faculty, performs Sept. 26 at the College.
The performance begins at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26, in North Central College's Madden Theatre at the Fine Arts Center, 171 E. Chicago Ave. Tickets are $20/adults and $15/students and seniors; call the North Central College Box Office at 630-637-SHOW (7469) or visit northcentralcollege.edu/showtix.
Paliga is an active performer, educator and composer based in the Chicago area. He has taught at Benedictine University, Governor's State University and the Old Town School of Folk Music. Since 2007 he has toured with actor/musician Gary Sinise's Lt. Dan Band, performing in Europe, Canada, Afghanistan, South Korea, Japan and throughout the United States.
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Paliga has a master's degree in jazz pedagogy from Northwestern University and a bachelor's degree in music from Eastern New Mexico University. He has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Chicago Community Arts Assistance Program Grant. His personal discography includes the albums "Blythe Moments" and "Fall Night."
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The study by University of California, Berkeley, scientists is the first to link the ubiquitous chemical – used in hard plastics, canned food liners and some paper receipts – to altered thyroid hormones in babies, and it adds to evidence that BPA may have some effects on fetuses.
"An issue we should not ignore"
For every doubling of the mothers' BPA levels, there was 9.9 percent less thyroid-stimulating hormone in their baby boys. No significant effect was detected in the girls; animal studies suggest females may be able to metabolize the chemical better.
"Most work up to this point has focused on [BPA's] estrogen properties. The fact that it's also messing up thyroid function is very surprising," said Laura Vandenberg, a postdoctoral fellow at Tufts University who studies BPA but was not involved in the new study.
Experts said they do not know what, if anything, the reductions in thyroid hormones might mean for the health of the babies because their levels remained within the range considered normal. But previous research suggests that reduced thyroid hormones might impair learning abilities and motor skills.
"Thyroid hormone is probably the best known factor in terms of influencing brain development," said Thomas Zoeller, a biology professor at University of Massachusetts-Amherst who specializes in studying thyroid hormones and brain development. "The fact that the researchers see relationships at all is a very important issue that we should not ignore."
The scientists analyzed data from 364 pairs of moms and newborns in California's Salinas Valley, a low-income community of mostly Mexican- American farm workers. Most of the mothers had low levels of BPA – 42 percent less than the average U.S. woman. Eighty-two percent had the chemical in their urine, compared with 95 percent of women of childbearing age tested nationwide.
While the study does not prove that BPA alters babies' thyroid hormones, scientists say it provides evidence that the link should be further investigated.
"Our data suggest that there is not a safe level of exposure," said Jonathan Chevrier, an assistant researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, Center for Environmental Research and Children's Health and lead author of the study, which was published in Environmental Health Perspectives.
Permanently exposed
The American Chemistry Council, which represents chemical manufacturers, maintains that BPA is safe to use and questioned the validity of the study.
"The author's speculation that BPA is linked to health effects caused by thyroid hormone levels in women and newborns is not supported by the data," said Steven Hentges, of the council's Polycarbonate/BPA Global Group, in a prepared statement. "The authors themselves note that the thyroid hormone levels reported were within normal range and the study was not designed to measure any health effects."
He also said the testing was too limited to be an accurate representation of the mother's levels during pregnancy.
Thyroid hormones are continually produced, and BPA doesn't stay in people's bodies for long, but Chevrier said this doesn't mean the findings aren't cause for concern.
"This effect we see might not be permanent...Some people might think that's good news," he said. "But people are continually exposed to BPA. The effect isn't permanent, but people are permanently exposed."
However, Zoeller cautioned that "because BPA is not bio-accumulative, it is very difficult to get a good sense of what exposure is."
"Even with multiple measurements, you have to start out realizing that establishing these links is enormously challenging," he said.
Results from previous studies investigating BPA and thyroid function have been inconsistent. Different studies on rats have shown BPA to increase, decrease and have no effect on thyroid hormones after prenatal exposure. In human studies – before now only conducted on adults and teens – BPA has been linked to both increased and decreased thyroid hormones.
Health at risk
The new study found significant decreases in thyroid hormones in the babies' blood only when compared with the women's BPA levels shortly before they gave birth, not during their first and second trimesters. That may mean that BPA's effect on the fetuses' hormones is temporary or comes only at certain times.
"This association was strongest when BPA was measured in the third trimester of pregnancy, which may either be due to a transient effect of BPA on thyroid-stimulating hormone or a developmental window of susceptibility," the study said.
The mothers also had reductions in some thyroid hormones that correlated to their BPA levels. However, the type of hormone, called T4, "is not biologically active" so the importance is unknown, the researchers wrote. The study controlled for their iodine intake, which can affect thyroid hormone levels, and for other chemicals they were exposed to.
The researchers, led by epidemiologists Brenda Eskenazi and Kim Harley, have tracked this group of Salinas Valley women and their children since before they were born in 1999 and 2000. They are investigating an array of chemicals, particularly pesticides, to investigate whether the children's health is at risk.
The children tested as newborns for thyroid hormones in this study are now teenagers, and Chevrier and his colleagues plan to look for any potential effects of the lower hormones. "We are aware of no studies that investigated the developmental effect of lower but normal neonatal TSH," they wrote.
Only a few studies have investigated the possible neurological effects of BPA in children, including two that found a link to hyperactivity in girls and other behavior problems. Animal studies have found impaired memory, gene changes and altered behavior.
Starting in the womb
Cheryl Stein, an assistant professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, said usually it is high thyroid hormone levels that are cause for concern because they can spur development problems or mental retardation. This is because higher levels indicate the body is trying to make up for a thyroid that isn't functioning properly.
But too little thyroid hormone also can be problematic, causing reduced IQs or learning problems, Zoeller said.
Scientists in the Netherlands studied 220 women and reported in 1999 that those with the lowest thyroid hormone levels had babies who scored lower on mental and motor skill tests. They warned that it "may be an important risk factor for impaired infant development."
Zoeller, who was not involved with the new study, said the potential health impacts remain vague because it measured hormones in the babies' blood instead of tissue, which gives a more complete picture of their functioning.
"This should really be a trigger to look further into this relationship," Zoeller said.
In animals, some studies report that low levels cause reproductive problems, obesity and cancers. In human adults, it has been linked to increased risk of diabetes and heart disease.
The idea that "many lifelong chronic diseases start in the womb" has gained wide support in recent years, according to a 2012 study from the Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology. And "pretty much anything mom is exposed to the fetus is exposed to," Vandenberg said.
BPA circulates in pregnant women's blood, and it passes through the placenta the same way alcohol would, she said. It's also found in amniotic fluid, which cushions fetuses in the womb and provides nutrients for development.
BPA is mass-produced, heavily studied and controversial. Each year about six billion pounds are produced globally and more than one million pounds are released into the environment, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
A synthetic estrogen, BPA has been used as an ingredient in polycarbonate plastics since the 1950s. It also is used to produce resins for the liners of canned foods.
Since BPA is ubiquitous, it's hard to pin down how people are exposed, but Vandenberg said canned food is a major source.
Currently, 11 U.S. states have banned BPA in some products. In July, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned the chemical from baby bottles and sippy cups after manufacturers had already abandoned its use in these products. Earlier this year, the FDA denied a request to ban uses in food packaging but announced that it was "not a final safety determination" because research continues.


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Now's a great time for fishing
Delavan Lake Fishing Report 8/4/13 through 8/12/13
With the cooler weather the fishing has continued to be excellent and is even improving a bit. The other benefit with the cooler weather, is that the early morning pleasure boaters aren't out in full force so the boat is not too busy. The fishing pressure remains very high though.
Largemouth bass are still in their mid-summer pattern. They are in large schools associated with deep main lake points with scattered weeds. The best approach has been Black/Blue ¾-oz. jigs with a black Craw Trailer or a split shot rigged night crawler. With the cooler water temperatures, some of the bass are moving shallow and are accessible on slip bobbered medium suckers in 12-13 feet of water. The best bobber for this kind of fishing is the Thill Big Fish bobber. The benefit is that it will lay flat and then slowly stand up as the fish strikes, which aids in detecting the initial strike. Lakeside Bait and Tackle has an ample supply.
Northern pike are being caught on the weed line in 18-21 feet of water. They can be caught on slip bobbers or on lindy rigged suckers. Both methods use medium suckers. The size of the bait continues to matter this year, the bigger bait means bigger fish. Look for them by the gray condos and by the old Boy Scout camp on the west end.
Bluegill action remains exceptional. The best depth is 13-15 feet of water. I like to use a split shot with a single hook and leaf worms. Fish this rig straight lined beneath the boat for the best action. The best success I've had is by Assembly Park point and just west of Willow Point.
Walleye fishing has been above average. The best approach has been chrome and blue jigging Rapalas or lindy rigged leeches. I've been working depths of 21-24 feet. This time of year, I prefer to troll but the fishing pressure makes that very difficult. The best location is adjacent to main lake points, just off the weed line. They are scattered in the main lake basin.
Good luck and I hope to see you on the water. For guide parties, please call Dave Duwe at (608) 883-2050.
Lake Geneva Fishing Report 8/4/13 through 8/12/13
Fishing remains excellent on Lake Geneva. The real cool weather of the recent weeks, has kept the morning boat traffic low, which makes fishing very enjoyable. Everything is biting very well except the northern pike. In recent weeks, there have been reports of musky being caught. The biggest fish I heard about was 40 inches. Most of the reports I've heard were about fish in the 32-to 34-inch range.
Bluegill fishing has been excellent. The bigger fish are in the 18-22 ft depth range. My best luck has come near the Yacht Club or by the west end of Elgin Club. The best approach is straight lining a leaf worm beneath the boat and lightly trolling or drifting into the wind. Most of the bluegills I'm catching are nice eaters, over 8 inches.
Smallmouth bass fishing has been fantastic. The best depth is anywhere between 21 and 33 feet of water. The bigger fish I've been catching have been in the deeper water. You can either catch them while drop shotting small plastic worms or on a lindy rigged night crawler. This time of year, the fish are really schooled up so a good Hummingbird locator is essential to find the active schools. This past week, I started to catch a few on lindy rigged yellow perch caught in the lake. This pattern should continue throughout August and into September.
Largemouth bass are on the deep weed lines. The best locations remain in Trinkes, Geneva Bay or in Williams Bay. I will position the boat in 25 feet and cast back to the weed line. The best location to catch the fish is where you can find hard bottom with the weeds. Dragging heavy football head jigs or Carolina rigging a Zoom 6 inch green pumpkin lizard are producing most fish. I have been catching an occasional largemouth, while fishing for the smallmouth and those fish have been biting on lindy rigged night crawlers.
Lake trout action has been seeing a lot of pressure. There have been two or three boats trolling the main lake basin every day. Most of the fish are coming from 75 feet down in whatever depth you are in. Purple flies fished behind a silver Dodger have been producing the most.
Walleye pike fishing has been very good at night. The best bite is from midnight to 2 a.m. on nights where there is some wind. Trolling large Rapalas has been working well. Look for them in Abbey Springs and Williams Bay.
Good luck and I hope to see you on the water. For guide parties, please call Dave Duwe at (608) 883-2050.
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8/1/13 - Delavan Lake, 72 degrees, sunny, W winds at 10 mph. Water temp 76 degrees. Caught 19 largemouth and one smallmouth. The average size of the fish today was 17 inches, which is substantially higher than recent trips out. The bigger fish were caught on slip bobbered medium suckers in 13-15 feet of water.
7/31/13 - Geneva Lake, 65 degrees, heavy fog and mist. Light wind out of the SW. Water temp 73 degrees. Caught 15 smallmouth and four largemouth. Three of the largemouth were over 16 inches and five of the smallest were legal. Fished by Yerkes Observatory and in Fontana. The best depth was 22 to 24 feet of water. With the crummy weather, boat traffic was light.
7/30/13 - Geneva Lake, 65 degrees, winds N at 10 mph. Water temp 73 degrees. Had a full day trip. Caught over 20 smallmouth bass with a couple in the 19 inch range. The fish are located anywhere between 21 and 33 ft of water. The biggest fish were in the deeper water. Lindy rigging night crawlers on 8-lb. test was the best bet.
7/29/13 - Delavan Lake, 62 degrees, winds E at 10mph. Water temp 76 degrees. Caught 18 largemouth bass, two northern pike and a bunch of bluegills. The bigger fish today were caught on a Thill Big Fish slip bobber with medium suckers. I caught most of the fish in less than 13 feet of water.


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Sochi, Russia, the host city of next month's Winter Olympics, is nothing close to cold right now. The temperature hovers at a very mild 55 degrees which means it's very far from freezing which means it's very far from snowing. But. Like. Um. You kind of need snow to host a Winter Olympics. So Sochi enlisted the help of snow machines to get man made snow spewed for the games.
Snow machines have always been used for the Olympics so it's nothing especially new to see. What's fascinating though is seeing SMI Snow Makers, the weather gods behind the man made snow, talk to National Geographic about the entire process of making snow, where they're pulling in their water source, what type of pressure is necessary how good of a quality their snow product is (equivalent to two week old natural snow) and just seeing the snow machines blow. It's a lovely haze.


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AirAsia granted 6 months to operate flights
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PETALING JAYA (Nov 23, 2012): AirAsia Bhd has been granted with an air operator's certificate (AOC) by the Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) to fly for another five months — instead of a two-year period — for not meeting regulatory standards, said sources.
The current AOC is valid until April 2013.
Sources told SunBiz that AirAsia had only obtained a six-month AOC — an approval granted from the DCA to an aircraft operator to allow it to use aircraft for commercial purposes — after periodical audit findings by DCA showed shortcomings in AirAsia's flight operations procedures and practices including flawed communications between flight operations and pilots, an outdated manual and flight operations not in keeping with the manual.
The six-month period allows for AirAsia to work with the DCA to bring its flight operations procedures and practices up to mark.
It is also understood that AirAsia's head for flight operations has been changed due to the action.
Three key posts in an airline are nominated with the approval of the DCA, namely the head for flight operations, engineering maintenance system and crew training.
"The fact that they have not grounded AirAsia aircraft shows that it's not a serious safety issue, but this action still serves as a warning," one source told SunBiz.
Scheduled commercial airlines based in Malaysia are awarded two-year renewals of AOC by DCA.
In other markets, depending on the track record of the airline, AOCs can be valid for up to five years before a renewal is due.
While the audit is a biennial affair, the DCA conducts inspections on airlines at least once a year.
According to another source, a two-year renewal is given if airlines meet standards set by the regulator. Otherwise they are given a period of time, depending on the issue, to comply before a renewal of AOC is given, or it is revoked entirely.
In the event of a withdrawal of an AOC, the airline can work to meet standards set and re-apply for an AOC which will have to be approved by the Cabinet.
AirAsia and DCA officials did not respond to questions sent via e-mail, as at press time.
An industry observer said it is unlikely that AirAsia will let the situation progress to an outright withdrawal of AirAsia's AOC, ultimately grounding its flights.
"They (AirAsia) will definitely address whatever issues DCA have and make sure they bring in the right people and fire the wrong people, because too much is at stake."
He added that while the action taken by DCA is unlikely to have any financial impact on AirAsia as a company, it may impact its reputation as an airline and its ability to secure the best deals for financing in the future.


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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Evangel University is one of 16 private liberal arts colleges and universities in Missouri that will benefit from a $15,200 scholarship grant recently provided by Enterprise Holdings Foundation to the Missouri Colleges Fund.
This grant from Enterprise Holdings Foundation will provide scholarships to students studying in a business-related field with special emphasis on minority candidates.
"The Missouri Colleges Fund is very grateful for this gift from Enterprise Holdings Foundation," said Mike Backer, MCF president. "Enterprise Holdings Foundation recognizes the importance of education and the significant impact that an educated workforce has on Missouri's economy.
"Evangel University is grateful to be among the recipients of this generous gift to higher education," said Dr. Robert H. Spence, president. "Many students would not be able to attend college without the assistance of scholarships, and we are indebted to Enterprise Holdings Foundation and the Missouri Colleges Fund for providing resources to educate the workforce of tomorrow."
The MCF was formed in 1952 as a partnership of private enterprise and the member independent colleges and universities in the Show-Me state.
Missouri Colleges Fund member schools include Avila University and Rockhurst University, Kansas City; Central Methodist University, Fayette; Columbia College, Columbia; Culver-Stockton College, Canton; Drury University and Evangel University, Springfield; Fontbonne University, Maryville University and Missouri Baptist University, St. Louis; Hannibal–LaGrange College, Hannibal; Park University, Parkville; Southwest Baptist University, Bolivar; Westminster College and William Woods University, Fulton; and William Jewell College, Liberty.
More information about the Missouri Colleges Fund can be found online at www.mocollegesfund.org or by calling Mike Backer, MCF president, at 573-893-3818.
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Hi All,
My call out to the #FOAmafia for support.
Later this month I am riding with a group of McDonald's Licensees, Corporate Staff and Associates through the beautiful south west of WA in a bid to raise funds for the Ronald McDonald House Perth Capital Campaign.
A little info:
Ronald McDonald House (RMH) provides a home away from home to regional families who require accommodation and support while their child is receiving treatment at the current Princess Margaret Hospital for a serious or life-threatening illness.
Since 1990 RMH has been home to more than 3000 families, and the demand is increasing steadily. Currently the existing house is full every night, and staff already had to turn away close to 45 families in June. Thus, RMH is currently undertaking a $20million capital fundraising campaign to build a new House, and asks for support from philanthropic individuals, trusts and foundations, corporations and government in an endeavour to raise the funds required.
The WA Ride for Sick Kids is being organised by a Committee of McDonald's licensees and corporate employees who would like to contribute to the RMH capital campaign. 2012 is the inaugural ride in WA, and covers roughly 350 km stretched over 4 days through some of WA's most stunning regions.
We are very grateful for your support, and look forward to conquering the road on two wheels with you in November.
Thank you very much,
WA RSFK Committee
Regardless of whether you want to sock it to the man, and hate evil global corporations, or you think the food is crap, I have seen the work RMH do first hand in both NSW (Westmead Childfrens) and WA (Princess Margaret) and it is a great thing for regional families with seriously ill children to have.
If you can spare a couple of dollars, I'd love for you to donate on my fundraising page.
100% of every cent raised will be passed on to RMH Perth to assist with their goal of building a new house.
The link to my Everyday Hero fundraising page is: Everyday Hero Australia: WA Ride for Sick Kids
And anything donated over $2 is tax deductible.
Thanks in advance. I know there are some good hearts out there.


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18-Minute Sermons? Pastors Blast TED Inspired Advice
Several pastors criticized the suggestion that 18-minute sermons would be the most effective way to share the Gospel on Sunday mornings, as proposed by a seminary student inspired by TED talks.
Jeff Tatarchuck, an Andrews University seminary student and guest writer on TED, a non-profit dedicated to "Ideas Worth Spreading," suggested pastors limit their Sunday messages to 18 minutes. He argued that shorter messages would make more sermons go viral.
If "the topic is short and simple enough for people to listen and digest the information, it makes it much easier for the audience to take action, which is to share the information with others," he wrote. Making the Gospel short, simple, and shareable would greatly expand the pastor's reach, and bring more people to Christ, he said
While agreeing that they need to broadcast the Gospel as widely as possible, several pastors said that 18 minutes proves extremely insufficient for their mission in the pulpit.
Ken Hutcherson, former NFL linebacker and senior pastor of Seattle's Antioch Bible Church, told The Christian Post, "I guess we'd better make professional football games eighteen minutes – have you noticed how bored they are when the fourth quarter comes around?" Hutcherson found Tatarchuck's suggestion of 18-minute sermons laughable.
"No one can drive over eighteen minutes anywhere because their attention span drops," he quipped. Like some people's morning commute, his sermons go for about 40 to 45 minutes, "and sometimes that's too short."
Hutcherson, who has spent three years preaching through the Gospel of John, claimed that inspiration from the Holy Spirit and connecting with his audience matter a great deal more than the length of his sermon. He traced the problem back to pastors themselves, who too often make their sermons dry.
"As in the football stadium, people in church get excited by something that stimulates them," he said. To better connect with his congregation, Hutcherson said he studies the word, trusts God, and uses all of himself, "steadied up under the Holy Spirit, I turn myself loose when I get in the pulpit."
"I love TED talks," Ryan Carrell, lead pastor of Indianapolis' The Southeast Project Church, to CP Thursday, but said his focus, like Hutcherson's, isn't on brevity.
Less heavy on step-by-step exegesis, Carrell zeroes in on connecting with people, he said. He acknowledged that every week "there are churched and unchurched, Christians and not-yet-Christians, in the same room." He connects people with biblical narratives, not by holding up biblical heroes, but by linking their struggles with the struggles of his congregation – and showing how God changes everything.
Carrell emphasized that faith grows gradually, over time, in the process of sanctification. His "modern church" uses sermons as a path to relationships with his congregation. "We can do a lot of teaching on Sunday mornings, but discipleship really occurs in those community moments as people are wrestling with faith together, not staring in rows and listening to somebody preaching," he said.
Despite his church's modern style, the Indianapolis pastor said he would never limit his sermons to 18 minutes, because sometimes it takes 40 or 45 minutes to inspire his audience through scripture.
Wallace Henley, senior associate pastor of the 60,000 member Houston Second Baptist Church and columnist for CP, echoed both Hutcherson and Carrell's main points. "What happens when the Spirit of God manifests itself through the world and people are magnetically attracted to it? They want more after 18 minutes," he told CP. Also, "it would be wrong to think that we could truly disciple a person in an 18-minute time span."
Henley also emphasized the need, even in topical sermons, of setting the exegetical background for a bible passage. He said his 40-minute sermons explain the background, why the text was written, and how to apply the passage today.
He related Hutcherson's focus on teaching and Carrell's emphasis on community with the call for discipleship. "You can make a disciple, as Jesus made disciples, in the relationship and the intentional teaching ties, as modeled in the Sermon on the Mount."


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The 'Green Cross Code Man' was famously played by Dave Prowse, the man who later starred as Darth Vader in the original Star Wars movies. Designed to bring the Green Cross Code "to life", Prowse a 6'7" tall, body builder and former Mr Universe became the road safety superhero character for 14 years.
The 'Green Cross Code Man' series was a part of a wider campaign to raise awareness of the Green Cross Code. Introduced in 1971 the Code procedure was designed to enable pedestrians to cross streets safely. The campaigns specifically targeted children, who in the early 1970s accounted for half of all casualties on the road.
Following the launch of the Green Cross Code, casualties dropped by 11 per cent. But six months later the rate was as high as before. The need to constantly relay road safety messages, explains why so many pedestrian public information films were frequently released.
In 1975 the number of children killed on the roads had fallen to 505, the lowest since the 1950s. By 2003 the figure was as low as 171 children. But with as many as 3,929 children being seriously injured on the roads each year, the work of road safety campaigns is far from done.
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Network: ABC
Episodes: 52 (hour)
Seasons: Four
TV show dates: June 3, 2013 — September 6, 2016
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Alyssa Milano, Yunjin Kim, Rochelle Aytes, Jes Macallan, Jason George, Brett Tucker, Erik Stocklin, Rob Mayes, Jennifer Esposito, and Tabrett Bethell.
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Based on UK TV series of the same name, this drama follows the scandalous lives of a sexy and sassy group of four girlfriends — each on her own path to self-discovery.
Savannah "Savi" Davis (Alyssa Milano) is a successful career woman who's working toward the next phase in her life — both professionally and personally. She's bucking for partner at the law firm where she works and is also trying to start a family with her husband, Harry (Brett Tucker). They've been trying to get pregnant for some time, but when their fertility issues begin to take center stage, Savi finds herself attracted to a flirtatious colleague named Dominic Taylor (Jason George).
Savi's free-spirited and capricious baby sister is Josslyn Carter (Jes Macallan). She couldn't be more different from Savi; living the single life, dating and partying, and regularly leaning on her big sister. Josslyn is a real estate agent who has no interest in a committed, long-term relationship.
Their common best friend, April Malloy (Rochelle Aytes), is a recent widow and the mother of a ten-year-old daughter. In an effort to rebuild her life and move forward, April opens a shop for home decorating. After she receives her late husband's lucrative life insurance check, she begins getting prank phone calls. April tells her closest girlfriends that she's convinced that her husband is still alive.
Meanwhile, Karen Kim (Yunjin Kim) is a therapist with a thriving practice. She reconnects with the girls after her involvement in a complicated relationship with a wealthy, married patient goes too far. She was having an affair with a terminally ill client, Tom, to whom she had prescribed morphine.
After Tom's death, his distraught son, Sam Grey (Erik Stocklin), confides in a guilt-ridden Karen — unaware of her role in his father's life. The grieving widow, Elizabeth Grey (Penelope Ann Miller), has no idea her late husband had a romance with another woman.
Episode #52 — The Show Must Go On
Fast-forward several months, Joss and Harry, as well as April and Marc, are happily married and are new parents. Marc takes on the role of an overly concerned, overly attentive parent, while Harry is more hands-off as he tries to navigate how to be a father. Harry's world is turned upside down when he meets Gabe, someone from his past.
First aired: September 6, 2016
What do you think? Do you like the Mistresses TV series? Do you think it should have been cancelled or renewed for a fifth season?


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As a percentage of ever-growing profits, corporations are paying less in taxes than they have in decades.
Thanks in part to federal tax breaks, corporations paid out just 12.1 percent of their 2011 profits in taxes, according to the Congressional Budget Office. That's well below the country's top marginal corporate tax rate of 35 percent -- and as The Wall Street Journal notes, it's the lowest percentage corporations have paid since 1972. During the two previous decades, a period that included the economic prosperity of the 1990s and the housing boom of the George W. Bush administration, corporations were paying an average percentage almost twice as high.
The CBO's numbers undercut a popular conservative claim -- that the United States places a higher tax burden on its corporations than almost any other first-world nation -- and arrive at a time when national politicians are engaged in a fierce rhetorical battle over how much wealthy institutions and individuals should pay to the government.
Corporations reported a combined $1.97 trillion in profits in the third quarter of 2011. As recently as June, they were also believed to be sitting on more than $2 trillion in cash hoardings. Most of that money has not been touched by taxation, even though the federal government has experienced budget shortfalls of more than $1 trillion for each of the past four years, and is scrambling to cut back on staff and services as a result. Meanwhile, the money isn't going to employees either, as real wages for most Americans declined in 2011 in spite of strong corporate balance sheets.
There are any number of methods available to a firm looking to avoid paying the full tax rate. Companies can take advantage of industry subsidies, restructure their operations so as to sidestep certain taxes, and offer workers payment in the form of stock options, which then allows the company to claim a greater deduction. Many companies also move assets overseas where they can't be taxed. In 2008, 2009 and 2010, thirty major U.S. corporations, including General Electric, Boeing, Verizon and Wells Fargo, used so many tax-avoidance techniques that they ended up paying no income taxes at all, according to a report last year from Citizens for Tax Justice.
President Obama has denounced low corporate taxes in specific instances while at the same time downplaying the importance of raising the corporate tax rate itself. The president is said to be planning a major revision of the corporate tax code sometime in February.
Meanwhile, much of the country continues to struggle financially, with nearly 13 million people looking for work, 49 million people officially in poverty, and almost half of households lacking the kind of savings they would need in an emergency.


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An Illustrated History of Computers
Part 4
John Kopplin © 2002
The title of forefather of today's all-electronic digital computers is usually awarded to ENIAC, which stood for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator. ENIAC was built at the University of Pennsylvania between 1943 and 1945 by two professors, John Mauchly and the 24 year old J. Presper Eckert, who got funding from the war department after promising they could build a machine that would replace all the "computers", meaning the women who were employed calculating the firing tables for the army's artillery guns. The day that Mauchly and Eckert saw the first small piece of ENIAC work, the persons they ran to bring to their lab to show off their progress were some of these female computers (one of whom remarked, "I was astounded that it took all this equipment to multiply 5 by 1000").
ENIAC filled a 20 by 40 foot room, weighed 30 tons, and used more than 18,000 vacuum tubes. Like the Mark I, ENIAC employed paper card readers obtained from IBM (these were a regular product for IBM, as they were a long established part of business accounting machines, IBM's forte). When operating, the ENIAC was silent but you knew it was on as the 18,000 vacuum tubes each generated waste heat like a light bulb and all this heat (174,000 watts of heat) meant that the computer could only be operated in a specially designed room with its own heavy duty air conditioning system. Only the left half of ENIAC is visible in the first picture, the right half was basically a mirror image of what's visible.
To reprogram the ENIAC you had to rearrange the patch cords that you can observe on the left in the prior photo, and the settings of 3000 switches that you can observe on the right. To program a modern computer, you type out a program with statements like:
Circumference = 3.14 * diameter
To perform this computation on ENIAC you had to rearrange a large number of patch cords and then locate three particular knobs on that vast wall of knobs and set them to 3, 1, and 4.
Once the army agreed to fund ENIAC, Mauchly and Eckert worked around the clock, seven days a week, hoping to complete the machine in time to contribute to the war. Their war-time effort was so intense that most days they ate all 3 meals in the company of the army Captain who was their liaison with their military sponsors. They were allowed a small staff but soon observed that they could hire only the most junior members of the University of Pennsylvania staff because the more experienced faculty members knew that their proposed machine would never work.
One of the most obvious problems was that the design would require 18,000 vacuum tubes to all work simultaneously. Vacuum tubes were so notoriously unreliable that even twenty years later many neighborhood drug stores provided a "tube tester" that allowed homeowners to bring in the vacuum tubes from their television sets and determine which one of the tubes was causing their TV to fail. And television sets only incorporated about 30 vacuum tubes. The device that used the largest number of vacuum tubes was an electronic organ: it incorporated 160 tubes. The idea that 18,000 tubes could function together was considered so unlikely that the dominant vacuum tube supplier of the day, RCA, refused to join the project (but did supply tubes in the interest of "wartime cooperation"). Eckert solved the tube reliability problem through extremely careful circuit design. He was so thorough that before he chose the type of wire cabling he would employ in ENIAC he first ran an experiment where he starved lab rats for a few days and then gave them samples of all the available types of cable to determine which they least liked to eat. Here's a look at a small number of the vacuum tubes in ENIAC:
Even with 18,000 vacuum tubes, ENIAC could only hold 20 numbers at a time. However, thanks to the elimination of moving parts it ran much faster than the Mark I: a multiplication that required 6 seconds on the Mark I could be performed on ENIAC in 2.8 thousandths of a second. ENIAC's basic clock speed was 100,000 cycles per second. Today's home computers employ clock speeds of 1,000,000,000 cycles per second. Built with $500,000 from the U.S. Army, ENIAC's first task was to compute whether or not it was possible to build a hydrogen bomb (the atomic bomb was completed during the war and hence is older than ENIAC). The very first problem run on ENIAC required only 20 seconds and was checked against an answer obtained after forty hours of work with a mechanical calculator. After chewing on half a million punch cards for six weeks, ENIAC did humanity no favor when it declared the hydrogen bomb feasible. This first ENIAC program remains classified even today.
Once ENIAC was finished and proved worthy of the cost of its development, its designers set about to eliminate the obnoxious fact that reprogramming the computer required a physical modification of all the patch cords and switches. It took days to change ENIAC's program. Eckert and Mauchly's next teamed up with the mathematician John von Neumann to design EDVAC, which pioneered the stored program. Because he was the first to publish a description of this new computer, von Neumann is often wrongly credited with the realization that the program (that is, the sequence of computation steps) could be represented electronically just as the data was. But this major breakthrough can be found in Eckert's notes long before he ever started working with von Neumann. Eckert was no slouch: while in high school Eckert had scored the second highest math SAT score in the entire country.
After ENIAC and EDVAC came other computers with humorous names such as ILLIAC, JOHNNIAC, and, of course, MANIAC. ILLIAC was built at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, which is probably why the science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke chose to have the HAL computer of his famous book "2001: A Space Odyssey" born at Champaign-Urbana. Have you ever noticed that you can shift each of the letters of IBM backward by one alphabet position and get HAL?
JOHNNIAC was a reference to John von Neumann, who was unquestionably a genius. At age 6 he could tell jokes in classical Greek. By 8 he was doing calculus. He could recite books he had read years earlier word for word. He could read a page of the phone directory and then recite it backwards. On one occasion it took von Neumann only 6 minutes to solve a problem in his head that another professor had spent hours on using a mechanical calculator. Von Neumann is perhaps most famous (infamous?) as the man who worked out the complicated method needed to detonate an atomic bomb.
Once the computer's program was represented electronically, modifications to that program could happen as fast as the computer could compute. In fact, computer programs could now modify themselves while they ran (such programs are called self-modifying programs). This introduced a new way for a program to fail: faulty logic in the program could cause it to damage itself. This is one source of the general protection fault famous in MS-DOS and the blue screen of death famous in Windows.
Today, one of the most notable characteristics of a computer is the fact that its ability to be reprogrammed allows it to contribute to a wide variety of endeavors, such as the following completely unrelated fields:
By the end of the 1950's computers were no longer one-of-a-kind hand built devices owned only by universities and government research labs. Eckert and Mauchly left the University of Pennsylvania over a dispute about who owned the patents for their invention. They decided to set up their own company. Their first product was the famous UNIVAC computer, the first commercial (that is, mass produced) computer. In the 50's, UNIVAC (a contraction of "Universal Automatic Computer") was the household word for "computer" just as "Kleenex" is for "tissue". The first UNIVAC was sold, appropriately enough, to the Census bureau. UNIVAC was also the first computer to employ magnetic tape. Many people still confuse a picture of a reel-to-reel tape recorder with a picture of a mainframe computer.
ENIAC was unquestionably the origin of the U.S. commercial computer industry, but its inventors, Mauchly and Eckert, never achieved fortune from their work and their company fell into financial problems and was sold at a loss. By 1955 IBM was selling more computers than UNIVAC and by the 1960's the group of eight companies selling computers was known as "IBM and the seven dwarfs". IBM grew so dominant that the federal government pursued anti-trust proceedings against them from 1969 to 1982 (notice the pace of our country's legal system). You might wonder what type of event is required to dislodge an industry heavyweight. In IBM's case it was their own decision to hire an unknown but aggressive firm called Microsoft to provide the software for their personal computer (PC). This lucrative contract allowed Microsoft to grow so dominant that by the year 2000 their market capitalization (the total value of their stock) was twice that of IBM and they were convicted in Federal Court of running an illegal monopoly.
If you learned computer programming in the 1970's, you dealt with what today are called mainframe computers, such as the IBM 7090 (shown below), IBM 360, or IBM 370.
There were 2 ways to interact with a mainframe. The first was called time sharing because the computer gave each user a tiny sliver of time in a round-robin fashion. Perhaps 100 users would be simultaneously logged on, each typing on a teletype such as the following:
A teletype was a motorized typewriter that could transmit your keystrokes to the mainframe and then print the computer's response on its roll of paper. You typed a single line of text, hit the carriage return button, and waited for the teletype to begin noisily printing the computer's response (at a whopping 10 characters per second). On the left-hand side of the teletype in the prior picture you can observe a paper tape reader and writer (i.e., puncher). Here's a close-up of paper tape:
After observing the holes in paper tape it is perhaps obvious why all computers use binary numbers to represent data: a binary bit (that is, one digit of a binary number) can only have the value of 0 or 1 (just as a decimal digit can only have the value of 0 thru 9). Something which can only take two states is very easy to manufacture, control, and sense. In the case of paper tape, the hole has either been punched or it has not. Electro-mechanical computers such as the Mark I used relays to represent data because a relay (which is just a motor driven switch) can only be open or closed. The earliest all-electronic computers used vacuum tubes as switches: they too were either open or closed. Transistors replaced vacuum tubes because they too could act as switches but were smaller, cheaper, and consumed less power.
Paper tape has a long history as well. It was first used as an information storage medium by Sir Charles Wheatstone, who used it to store Morse code that was arriving via the newly invented telegraph (incidentally, Wheatstone was also the inventor of the accordion).
The alternative to time sharing was batch mode processing, where the computer gives its full attention to your program. In exchange for getting the computer's full attention at run-time, you had to agree to prepare your program off-line on a key punch machine which generated punch cards.
University students in the 1970's bought blank cards a linear foot at a time from the university bookstore. Each card could hold only 1 program statement. To submit your program to the mainframe, you placed your stack of cards in the hopper of a card reader. Your program would be run whenever the computer made it that far. You often submitted your deck and then went to dinner or to bed and came back later hoping to see a successful printout showing your results. Obviously, a program run in batch mode could not be interactive.
But things changed fast. By the 1990's a university student would typically own his own computer and have exclusive use of it in his dorm room.
This transformation was a result of the invention of the microprocessor. A microprocessor (uP) is a computer that is fabricated on an integrated circuit (IC). Computers had been around for 20 years before the first microprocessor was developed at Intel in 1971. The micro in the name microprocessor refers to the physical size. Intel didn't invent the electronic computer. But they were the first to succeed in cramming an entire computer on a single chip (IC). Intel was started in 1968 and initially produced only semiconductor memory (Intel invented both the DRAM and the EPROM, two memory technologies that are still going strong today). In 1969 they were approached by Busicom, a Japanese manufacturer of high performance calculators (these were typewriter sized units, the first shirt-pocket sized scientific calculator was the Hewlett-Packard HP35 introduced in 1972). Busicom wanted Intel to produce 12 custom calculator chips: one chip dedicated to the keyboard, another chip dedicated to the display, another for the printer, etc. But integrated circuits were (and are) expensive to design and this approach would have required Busicom to bear the full expense of developing 12 new chips since these 12 chips would only be of use to them.
But a new Intel employee (Ted Hoff) convinced Busicom to instead accept a general purpose computer chip which, like all computers, could be reprogrammed for many different tasks (like controlling a keyboard, a display, a printer, etc.). Intel argued that since the chip could be reprogrammed for alternative purposes, the cost of developing it could be spread out over more users and hence would be less expensive to each user. The general purpose computer is adapted to each new purpose by writing a program which is a sequence of instructions stored in memory (which happened to be Intel's forte). Busicom agreed to pay Intel to design a general purpose chip and to get a price break since it would allow Intel to sell the resulting chip to others. But development of the chip took longer than expected and Busicom pulled out of the project. Intel knew it had a winner by that point and gladly refunded all of Busicom's investment just to gain sole rights to the device which they finished on their own.
Thus became the Intel 4004, the first microprocessor (uP). The 4004 consisted of 2300 transistors and was clocked at 108 kHz (i.e., 108,000 times per second). Compare this to the 42 million transistors and the 2 GHz clock rate (i.e., 2,000,000,000 times per second) used in a Pentium 4. One of Intel's 4004 chips still functions aboard the Pioneer 10 spacecraft, which is now the man-made object farthest from the earth. Curiously, Busicom went bankrupt and never ended up using the ground-breaking microprocessor.
Intel followed the 4004 with the 8008 and 8080. Intel priced the 8080 microprocessor at $360 dollars as an insult to IBM's famous 360 mainframe which cost millions of dollars. The 8080 was employed in the MITS Altair computer, which was the world's first personal computer (PC). It was personal all right: you had to build it yourself from a kit of parts that arrived in the mail. This kit didn't even include an enclosure and that is the reason the unit shown below doesn't match the picture on the magazine cover.
A Harvard freshman by the name of Bill Gates decided to drop out of college so he could concentrate all his time writing programs for this computer. This early experienced put Bill Gates in the right place at the right time once IBM decided to standardize on the Intel microprocessors for their line of PCs in 1981. The Intel Pentium 4 used in today's PCs is still compatible with the Intel 8088 used in IBM's first PC.
If you've enjoyed this history of computers, I encourage you to try your own hand at programming a computer. That is the only way you will really come to understand the concepts of looping, subroutines, high and low-level languages, bits and bytes, etc. I have written a number of Windows programs which teach computer programming in a fun, visually-engaging setting. I start my students on a programmable RPN calculator where we learn about programs, statements, program and data memory, subroutines, logic and syntax errors, stacks, etc. Then we move on to an 8051 microprocessor (which happens to be the most widespread microprocessor on earth) where we learn about microprocessors, bits and bytes, assembly language, addressing modes, etc. Finally, we graduate to the most powerful language in use today: C++ (pronounced "C plus plus"). These Windows programs are accompanied by a book's worth of on-line documentation which serves as a self-study guide, allowing you to teach yourself computer programming! The home page (URL) for this collection of software is www.computersciencelab.com.
"ENIAC: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer" by Scott McCartney.
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EVERETT — The temptation to infuse the food-truck fad with marijuana apparently was too great to pass up.
And so, if things go as planned, expect to see an entrepreneur pull into a south Everett farmers market this weekend to hawk cannabis-laced snacks from a converted school bus.
The hot-pink rolling restaurant, dubbed the Samich Truck, isn't intended to comply with Washington's rules for legal pot sales — and won't. The state isn't even scheduled to start issuing licenses for voter-approved retail pot sales until July 7.
The food truck's backers want to sell THC-fortified sandwiches, popcorn and other treats to people with a doctor's permission to use pot. It's a gambit to promote a botanical extractor made by a Seattle-based MagicalButter.com.
"We have incredible chefs and we want to showcase their skills and the quality of the machine," company CEO Garyn Angel said Tuesday.
A blender-like appliance marketed as the MB2, the extractor can infuse plant flavors such as pomegranate or rosemary into all sorts of food products: oils, butters, vodkas and more. It also can do that with THC, the psychoactive — some would argue medicinal — ingredient in marijuana.
Angel spoke by phone from Denver, where the truck debuted April 20 — naturally — at a pot festival called the Cannabis Cup. His venture soon attracted media attention from the likes of Newsweek, the Huffington Post and Forbes.
A New York City-area P.R. firm sent out press releases last week to advertise the truck's first Washington appearance, in Everett.
The plan is for the truck to set up at the Jet City farmers market at 1120 112th Street SW from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. The spot is in unincorporated Snohomish County, just outside Everett city limits.
"We want to be fully compliant and up-front and fully cooperate with authorities and not be a nuisance for them," Angel said. "But we also want to provide patients with incredible infused meals."
The truck will operate in the gray area of medical marijuana sales. That puts it outside the scope of rules the state Liquor Control Board has been working on since November 2012, when voters passed Initiative 502.
"There are any number of reasons why it's incompatible with I-502," Liquor Control spokesman Mikhail Carpenter said.
A fixed store location is a given under the state rules. The state also requires all food containing recreational marijuana to be in marked, child-proof packaging. Food must be tested for potency and cannot require refrigeration.
The Liquor Control Board will issue about 20 retail licenses on July 7, and the stores that are ready can open the next day. More stores will get licensed in the following days.
Snohomish County, Everett and other cities have layered on zoning requirements and other specifications to which retail shops must adhere. Marysville and Monroe are among the jurisdictions that have banned pot retailers outright.
Local public health agencies lack the authority to regulate medical or recreational marijuana, in food or otherwise, said Kristin Kinnamon, a spokeswoman for the Snohomish Health District. Local health officials are, however, warning people of the potential dangers of pot edibles, particularly the risk of accidentally poisoning children.
"While our food safety program is not involved in regulating marijuana-infused foods, pot is still a significant public health concern to (the) Snohomish Health District," Kinnamon said.
Angel's pioneering pot truck started life as a 40-foot Freightliner C2 school bus.
Its name, Samich, is slang for sandwich and doubles as an acronym for Savory Accessible Marijuana Infused Culinary Happiness. The menu includes a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich, a Vietnamese-style pork sandwich, smoked turkey over corn bread and truffle popcorn — all spiked with THC.
"They're comfort foods," Angel said. "I'm a foodie myself and I love great food."
The Associated Press contributed. Noah Haglund: 425-339-3465, firstname.lastname@example.com.
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TAMIU International Music Festival Friday Honors Heroes
To honor the memory of the Sept. 11 tragedy heroes and their families, this year's Texas A&M International University International Chamber Music Festival will be dedicated to them. The Festival is scheduled for Friday, Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. in the TAMIU Center for the Fine and Performing Arts Recital Hall.
Admission is free and open to the public.
"This concert will be in special memory of the heroes and their families," explained Dr. Yu-Mei Huang, Festival founder and coordinator.
"From solo organ, woodwind duet, three different sets of trios and our jazz band, we will have several different interesting sets in both classical and jazz music," Dr. Huang continued.
The Festival features performances by TAMIU faculty members and guests artists with a special performance by Dr. Ray Keck, TAMIU president, on the Sharkey-Corrigan Organ.
In addition to Huang, performing musicians include: Dr. Susan Berdahl, associate professor of flute and musicology, Dana Crabtree, instructor music and voice, Dr. Friedrich Gechter, associate professor of music and piano, John R. Reimund, adjunct instructor of music/low brass, Dr. Gilberto Soto, professor of music education/guitar, Brendan Townsend, assistant professor of music, cello, and Dr. Xiaohu Zhou, guest artist, bassoon.
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