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FriendFeed seems to be the source of most of my interesting conversations these days. Sometimes the benefit of FriendFeed is not even the conversation itself, but finding a link to a blog post that I normally would not read. This happened this week when Jesse Stay shared a post to a story on newspapergrl.com. I read a lot of what Jesse shares, but this site is one I had never read. I found the post interesting because it was about tech news and how slow things are:
I just got off the phone with my friend Chris and we talked about how we hardly blog anymore. Also about how nothing seems that exciting in tech lately. It's mostly about Google and the iPhone over and over. Are we just cynical or have things quieted down considerably?I had no idea that this is what people thought. This was not written during the iPhone hype, this was written a few days ago. So, I decided to look and see what news was posted on Thursday, July 31st.
First, let us look at what TechCrunch had to offer.
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Out of 16 stories in our selection, 4 were tech financial news, 3 streaming video stories and the remainder (9) were about various sites and their features. For a technology news site, that seems very reasonable.
ReadWriteWeb tends to have more opinion and review posts than TechCrunch and their stories reflect that.
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You can not tell from all of the headlines, but of the 16 posts, 6 were opinions and reviews. 4 of the posts were about video, image or mobile devices. The remainder were about various sites and their features. Again this is a reasonable breadth of information.
The last "heavy" technical news site I want to look at is Mashable. They tend to be not as news-heavy as TechCrunch, and have more of a social application focus. So, what did they post?
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Out of Mashable's 16 posts, 5 were about video, audio or images and 10 were opinions or reviews of various sites. Lastly, there was 1 self-promotion post. Given the specific content focus, this is also reasonable. So, we have looked at the 3 popular tech sites that many early adopters read. In order to contrast what a mainstream user might read, I took a look at what stories Yahoo Tech News listed for the day.
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For Yahoo, we again sampled 16 stories. Of these stories, 5 were financially related, 2 were about cell phones, specifically controlling kids use and cancer risks. 3 of the stories were about server products (VMware, Microsoft "Midori", and SharePoint). 3 more stories were about video games, 2 of which were about WordScraper/Scrabulous. The last 3 stories were the Chinese internet censorship, a Blu-ray player for Netflix, and 6 Ways to Save on Groceries. A simple breakdown does not really show the difference, except for the groceries story. The 3 stories on server products were mostly business related. VMWare giving something away, another product trying to replace SharePoint, and what "Midori" could do for Microsoft.
Most of the stories on Yahoo contain little or no technical detail. You do not see anything about social networks or other social applications. There was no announcement for the SocialMedian release or the redesign of Delicious. So, why is this important? It is important because most people are not reading about the same things that an early adopter is reading. Obviously, there will always be some overlap, but the mainstream users care about very different things. Given the various discussions about passionate users, early adopters and mainstream users, maybe we need to take a step back and think about how we bridge that gap. If you do not agree, then find your most non-technical friend and explain why they need to use Twitter and FriendFeed. Do not be surprised if they ask whether they could find more than 6 ways to save on their groceries.


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VANCOUVER, BC, September 23, 2020 /24-7PressRelease/ — The Answer Company is excited to announce that it has acquired a large part of Caron Business Solutions' customers. Caron was a Top 5 Canadian Reseller of Sage solutions in a number of verticals. While they shift operations to focus solely on their mining clients, The Answer Company will now manage all of their other accounts. Caron's business, clients and strategic focus complement and fully align with The Answer Company's.
The acquisition will accelerate The Answer Company's growth momentum and long-term growth strategy by strengthening its market position. They are fortunate; despite the economic downturn, they are forecasted to see double-digit growth in 2020.
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"The selfish they're all standing in line
Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time
Me, I figure as each breath goes by
I only own my mind."
~ Pearl Jam, I Am Mine ~
Long time readers know that I have been and remain bullish on gold and gold stocks in the longer-term. However, the reasons why I believe gold and silver will perform well in the longer-term are a bit different than what many economists and pundits are expecting.
I am a contrarian by nature. I generally try to do the opposite of the crowd in every situation I find myself regardless of whether I am in a movie theater or trading options. Before getting into the gold and gold miners analysis, I thought I would explain my position publicly to readers. I do not consider myself an expert economist, but I try to read those who many consider to be experts looking for similarities in their viewpoints and expectations.
The herd mentality exists in financial markets and a similar behavior exists among economists. Most economists in the mainstream media today tend to be Keynesians or neo-classical economists. Both viewpoints are generally accepted as the correct interpretation of economic and monetary policies by academia.
However, the academic world can actually reduce open thought through ridicule and persecution. In the world of academia the herd is right, until someone proves that they are wrong using logic based reasoning.
This leads me to the reason why precious metals and commodities in general may be approaching a major bottom and the potential for a monster rally. The reasoning stems from the fact that across the world central bankers generally share the same views as Paul Krugman. They believe that the modern finance system does not need gold and that fiat currency is the answer even though history argues in their face across multiple millennia.
Most economists and financial pundits believe that sovereign debt is going to bring down the economy and they may be correct. Many believe that the debt will unleash a massive deflationary spiral that will consume fiat valuations, specifically on risk assets and debt obligations.
I do not necessarily disagree that this is a likely outcome, but what concerns me is the number of people that believe this is true.
What if the debt crisis causes a totally different outcome that very few economists envision? What if they follow Dr. Krugman's ideas and create massive amounts of debt to stimulate the economy while printing vast quantities of fiat money to prop up failing financial institutions? Clearly increasing debt levels and debasing the currency do not imply a long term positive scenario.
I believe that should a deflationary crisis caused by massive debt levels and diminishing economic strength present itself, central bankers around the world will behave exactly the same way. They will act simultaneously and through dovish monetary policy central bankers will flood the world with massive sums of freshly printed fiat currency with the intent to print away issues with a liquidity induced risk-on orgy.
Should that be their ultimate choice, risk assets will rally sharply higher initially. Paper assets like stocks will produce huge gains in a short period of time while supposedly safe assets such as Treasuries would likely arrive at negative interest rates across the yield curve in nominal terms. The next phase is the scary part and why I am bullish long term of precious metals specifically.
The devaluation of fiat currencies simultaneously around the world will result in a monster economic crash when the masses realize that the majority of the major worldwide currencies are becoming worth less and less. The resulting crash would be caused by the opposite force of runaway inflation while the herd mentality that anticipates a deflationary debt spiral espoused by most experts and pundits would be proven materially false.
Under those circumstances, precious metals will be the true safe haven. Gold and silver will prove to be a true store of wealth that they have been for centuries. So many so-called experts fail to recognize that gold and silver are currencies. Yes they have industrial uses, but gold and silver represent the last unequivocal bastion of wealth preservation against the constant debasement procured by central bankers and their minions.
Under the scenario whereby central bankers flood financial markets with cheap, freshly printed fiat currency one would expect other essential commodities such as oil to also perform well. Furthermore agricultural based commodities would also flourish under those economic conditions. Investors would be in much better fiscal condition owning things that they could hold in their hands versus stocks or bonds.
I posit this potentiality not to say that this is exactly what is going to happen, but to challenge readers to open their minds. The crowd is usually wrong. The central bankers and most economists generally share the same viewpoints and their behavior is literally a giant group-think.
Is it possible that they are a herd which ultimately will be proven wrong? Will the herd mentality of economists and central bankers cause a massive currency crisis as they attempt to stem the tide of a deflationary debt crisis?
Should either scenario come to pass, the human condition will likely be threatened by a decrease in the standard of living across multiple developed countries and ultimately the threat of revolution and military action on a scale not seen in several decades could eventuate.
Clearly I have simplified the issues at hand presently for ease of reading, but the ultimate endgame will likely be one or a combination of both a debt crisis and a currency crisis. They will likely occur in close proximity to one other in terms of time, but the precise outcome will likely be different than what is commonly expected.
Regardless of which scenario occurs, precious metals will eventually be sought for their protection against the constant devaluation of fiat currencies by central banks around the world. For this reason, I remain a long term precious metals bull. With that said, why don't we take a look at the recent price action in gold, silver, and gold mining stocks shown below.
A lot of writers have stated that gold has bottomed. I am not totally convinced, however I do believe that gold is in a bottoming process. For me to get completely in my gold bull suit I would need to see price action exceed the key resistance trend line shown below.
Gold Futures Contract Daily Chart
As can be seen above, until we see price push through resistance I will remain cautious. I would also point out that the last two times gold found bottoms near current prices the bottom forming process took several weeks to complete.
I do not expect for gold to form a V shaped reversal. In fact, lower prices in the short term would help drive the bullish case for the longer term. Bottoms take weeks to form and can be very dangerous trading environments where active traders get chopped around.
Silver is very similar to gold in that it appears to have formed the beginning of a possible bottom. Bottoms are generally not formed in one day. During the recent selloff, silver showed relative strength against gold. It is important to acknowledge that silver has yet to test the key lows that should offer support.
Because of this divergence in these two precious metals, I continue to believe that gold may see more downside again before a much stronger rally begins to take hold. Similar to gold, the descending trend line offers a great resistance level where traders can flip from being short-term bearish to longer-term bullish if the resistance line is penetrated. If we see silver carve out multiple daily closes above the resistance trend line paired with strong volume, I would anticipate that a bottom has formed and silver prices will have an upward bias. The daily chart of silver is shown below.
Silver Futures Contract Daily Chart
As expected, the gold miners have shown relative strength recently. The miners were just absolutely massacred during the recent selloff in equities and precious metals. However, gold miners similar to precious metals have a major descending trend line which they have already tested today. If the gold miners can push through resistance a large scale rally could play out. The daily chart of gold miners is shown below.
Gold Miners (GDX) Daily Chart
In addition, if readers look at a long term GDX price range that dates back to the 2009 lows the recent pullback is almost precisely a 0.50% Fibonacci Retracement. Similar to gold and silver, I would expect to see the gold miners pull back a bit here before pushing through major resistance. We may be setting up for a possible major bottom in precious metals and gold miners in the near future. Only time will tell.
In closing, remember to keep an open mind with regards to the future. The more often you hear the same message coming from financial pundits and experts, the more cynical you should become. Both potential scenarios will likely not end well. The question is whether the reason for the crash is deflation, inflation, or a combination of both scenarios. Regardless of the outcome, the long-term future for precious metals remains quite bright.
Happy Trading and Investing!
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OWASP Juice Shop Tool Project
The most trustworthy online shop out there. (dschadow) — The best juice shop on the whole internet! (shehackspurple) — Actually the most bug-free vulnerable application in existence! (vanderaj) — First you 😂😂then you 😢 (kramse)
OWASP Juice Shop is probably the most modern and sophisticated insecure web application! It can be used in security trainings, awareness demos, CTFs and as a guinea pig for security tools! Juice Shop encompasses vulnerabilities from the entire OWASP Top Ten along with many other security flaws found in real-world applications!
Juice Shop is written in Node.js, Express and Angular. It was the first application written entirely in JavaScript listed in the OWASP VWA Directory.
The application contains a vast number of hacking challenges of varying difficulty where the user is supposed to exploit the underlying vulnerabilities. The hacking progress is tracked on a score board. Finding this score board is actually one of the (easy) challenges!
Apart from the hacker and awareness training use case, pentesting proxies or security scanners can use Juice Shop as a "guinea pig"-application to check how well their tools cope with JavaScript-heavy application frontends and REST APIs.
Translating "dump" or "useless outfit" into German yields "Saftladen" which can be reverse-translated word by word into "juice shop". Hence the project name. That the initials "JS" match with those of "JavaScript" was purely coincidental!
Main Selling Points
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Introduction Video
This recording from OWASP BeNeLux-Days 2018 gives a complete introduction to the OWASP Juice Shop including a live demonstration of the application and how to hack it.
Spoiler warning: The video contains some live hacking including mild spoilers for a few of the easiest challenges!
Official Companion Guide
Pwning OWASP Juice Shop is the official companion guide for this project. It will give you a complete overview of the vulnerabilities found in the application including hints how to spot and exploit them. In the appendix you will even find complete step-by-step solutions to every challenge. The ebook is published under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 and is available for free as work-in-progress in HTML, PDF, Kindle and ePub format on GitBook. The latest officially released edition is available for free on LeanPub in PDF, Kindle and ePub format.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the MIT License. OWASP Juice Shop and any contributions are Copyright © by Bjoern Kimminich 2014-2019.
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The OWASP Juice Shop has been created by Bjoern Kimminich and is developed and maintained by a team of volunteers. A live update of the project contributors is found here.
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LeanPub Royalties
All royalties of Björn Kimminich's eBook are donated to the project!
You can find the current project balance along with a history of all donations and spendings in the Chapter and Project Transactions spreadsheet.
Juice Shop is already implemented, properly tested and has been promoted and demonstrated or live-hacked on various occasions including OWASP events. It has been successfully used by different companies for inhouse security trainings as well as in university lectures or published training slides.
Long-term Goals
- Design/Facelifting of the Angular Material UI
- Hacking Instructor to guide beginners through the challenges
Getting Involved
Involvement in the development and promotion of OWASP Juice Shop is actively encouraged! You do not have to be a security expert or a programmer to contribute. Some of the ways you can help are as follows:
- use Juice Shop in your own hacker or awareness trainings
- use Juice Shop as a "guinea pig" for your security tools
- provide ideas for new vulnerabilities and challenges
- provide feedback via email, chat or by opening an issue
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Editor's note: This column is part of our "Best Stocks for 2013″ series; stay tuned for more entrants today and Monday.
Looking for a steady grower, tied to the housing market, that's expanding into the red-hot economy of Mexico? Look no further than Sherwin-Williams (NYSE:SHW).
The company is widely known as the nation's largest producer of paints and coatings. But even setting aside its 4,000 retail shops nationwide, the growth story is strong. Sherwin-Williams also sells a wide range of protective finishes for applications in the marine, automotive, architectural and aerospace industries. And considering that U.S. auto production and jet deliveries are on the rise, Sherwin-Williams should profit even outside of the housing market.
SHW is a great long-term play for 2013 because it resists market shocks like a champion. The housing bust barely fazed this stock compared with its competitors: From 2007 and 2009, SHW gave up 12% while PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) dropped 35% and DuPont (NYSE:DD) plunged 47%. And while I don't expect a repeat of 2007, I bet we're in for some rough waters. As investors adjust to changes wrought by the hastily signed fiscal cliff resolution, we'll need to stick with stocks that can rise above choppy trading activity.
Now, why does SHW consistently outperform the market? One reason that shareholders are so loyal is that Sherwin-Williams takes care of them through a reliable and juicy dividend (the sixth-highest in its industry) and hefty stock buybacks. The company bought back 500,000 shares of its stock in the third quarter; it has more than 17 million shares left on its ongoing share repurchase program. Meanwhile, Sherwin-Williams has hiked its dividend by 160% over the past 10 years and shows no sign of stopping this trend. As a shareholder, next year you'll most likely see dividend payments in March, June, September and November.
Above all else, now is the time to buy Sherwin-Williams because raw material prices are finally falling, while demand for paint and coatings is on the rise thanks to a stronger U.S. housing market. And as I mentioned earlier, the company's industrial finishes business is on the up as U.S. factories churn out more cars and jets.
This upswing was evident in the company's strong third-quarter earnings announcement in October. Sherwin-Williams brought in a record $2.6 billion in net sales (5% higher than the year-ago quarter) thanks to higher traffic at its paint stores. Over the same period, net income jumped 31% to $234.9 million, or $2.24 per share. Analysts forecast earnings of $2.20 per share, so Sherwin-Williams posted a 2% earnings surprise.
And recently, the company lived up to its slogan "Cover the Earth" by buying out Comex Group, the fourth-largest paint maker in North America. What's special about Comex is that this company has exclusive selling rights to thousands of paint stores across Mexico. With existing home sales and housing starts on the rise in Mexico, the market for paint sales is heating up, and now Sherwin-Williams will get a piece of the action through Comex. The Comex acquisition will also give Sherwin-Williams added reach in Canada.
So it's no wonder that analysts forecast 7% sales growth and nearly 20% earnings growth for 2013 … as the rest of the General Building Materials sector is headed towards a 1.4% drop in earnings. This kind of consistent outperformance is one of many reasons why I consider SHW to be the top stock for 2013.


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It's more than just a ride to the hospital when it's a medical emergency involving you or a member of your family. The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Division is a component of the Department of Public Safety, and the provider of "paramedic" level service to both the incorporated municipalities and unincorporated areas of New Castle County. New Castle County Paramedics are deployed from satellite EMS stations located throughout the county.
All New Castle County paramedics are certified by the state Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline to provide advanced life support (ALS) care. Their goal is to bring many of the same skills and procedures of a hospital emergency room directly to the patient's side. County paramedics can administer breathing treatments, insert breathing tubes directly into a patient's lungs, administer intravenous fluids and drugs, conduct heart monitoring and 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) interpretations, and defibrillate or externally pace a patient's heart. In most cases, advanced life support treatment may be initiated by the paramedics under the Statewide Standard Treatment Protocol and Paramedic Standing Orders before they establish radio contact with a hospital.
All of these capabilities are available in an emergency simply by dialing 9-1-1.
Paramedic Response Vehicles
New Castle County Paramedics respond in distinctive red and gold-striped response vehicles that provide temperature-controlled storage of the medications and equipment utilized to provide advanced life support in the field. Most paramedic vehicles have four-wheel drive capability for improved response and safety during inclement weather or off-road conditions.
The New Castle County Paramedics currently deploy nine paramedic units during the day and eight paramedic units during the night hours. Additional paramedic units may be placed in service for special circumstances, such as weather contingencies, special events or major incidents. The Emergency Medical Services Division has incorporated sufficient resources to rapidly expand the number of paramedic units for internal surge capacity, or to provide mutual aid to neighboring jurisdictions without depleting paramedic coverage to New Castle County.
9-1-1 Dispatch & Tiered EMS Response
All emergency medical services resources in New Castle County are dispatched from a county-wide emergency communications center. Paramedics are assigned to the higher-priority medical emergencies as determined by a statewide call processing protocol. Examples of the types of incidents that typically receive a response from a paramedic unit include heart attacks, serious motor vehicle collisions, shootings, stabbings, difficulty breathing, and unconscious persons. The level of EMS response is determined by the emergency communications center based on the answers provided by the caller to a set of standardized questions. It is important for callers dialing 9-1-1 to report an emergency remain on the phone and answer all of the questions to the best of their ability.
The New Castle County Paramedics work in a "tiered response" configuration with the 21 county volunteer fire company basic life support (BLS) ambulances, the Wilmington Fire Department and its contractual private BLS ambulance service provider, and the student-staffed BLS ambulance at the University of Delaware. Lower-priority emergencies that typically do not require the advanced life support services of the paramedics are normally handled by the BLS ambulance companies. However, the ambulances have the ability to immediately request a paramedic response if they believe advanced life support may be required for their patient.
Advanced life support prioritized emergencies are assigned both a BLS ambulance and the closest county paramedic unit. In some cases, such as a possible cardiac arrest, police officers and fire apparatus may also be dispatched to provide a "first response" capability. In fact, many police cars are equipped with automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) to provide electric shocks in an effort to restart the heart during cases of cardiac arrest. The county paramedics will ride in the BLS ambulance and accompany the patient to the hospital whenever the patient requires advanced life support care.
Medical Coordination
A vital aspect of a paramedic's work is the coordination of care with a receiving hospital. New Castle County Paramedics will contact the receiving hospital to provide advance notice of the patient's pending arrival. In critical situations, county paramedics can mobilize special hospital resources even before the patient arrives. For instance, New Castle County paramedics routinely activate special hospital heart teams when they determine by 12-lead ECG that a patient may be having a heart attack. This has been proven to shorten the time from the patient's arrival at the hospital to their receipt of definitive care.
County paramedics will contact a hospital by radio to facilitate an orderly transfer of care from the field to the hospital. In some circumstances, the paramedics may be advised that the patient's initial hospital of choice is experiencing delays in seeing patients. The hospital may request that ambulances transport patients to other facilities to avoid extended wait times. This coordination provides an opportunity for the patient to make an informed decision regarding their selected destination and possibly avoid delays in treatment.
Air Transport
New Castle County paramedics routinely coordinate the transport of critical patients from the scene to area hospitals via helicopter. The Delaware State Police Aviation Section provides aeromedical transport capability and is dispatched on any incident with the potential of serious injury. In situations involving critical patients, the county paramedic may accompany the state police trooper-paramedic to provide a second advanced life support provider during the transport.
Field Operations Supervision
New Castle County paramedics are organized into shifts or "platoons", each with an EMS Lieutenant as the platoon commander and two Paramedic Sergeants as the field supervisors and assistant shift commanders. The EMS Shift Commander's Office is open on a 24-hour basis, and can be reached by calling 302-395-8180 for non-emergency purposes. The EMS Lieutenants welcome your concerns or compliments regarding our service.
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W.H.: Shakespeare's Sonnets
Hungarian quartet: cello (the excellent Albert Markos), drums, bass guitar, some quite minimal synthesiser and voice - perform, on the 400th anniversary of their publication, a selection of 12 of Shakespeare's Sonnets (reproduced from the first edition in the accompanying booklet). Ghanaian Sena Dagadu has a striking voice, and the arrangements are varied, focussed and stripped down to their essentials. An interesting and unusual project.
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In advance of the big Victoria Secret Fashion Show, which is airing tonight, Nov. 30, on CBS, the company announced that they will be launching the first ever worldwide Victoria Secret Olympics
Justin Gelband is the trainer for the models. He has been called a "Model Whisperer" because he is getting all the women in shape for the big events. Here's a shot of his 1500 yard-relay team:
Gelband believes that the American models will be able to defeat most models from other countries. "The only model we are worried about is supermodel Anna Hofverberg from Sweden. She's an incredible athlete with a well-trained body and she's very strong – she can throw the shot put a mile. She also holds the record for the fastest mile ever run by a model."
Hofverberg will also face Candice Swanepoel, of the United States, in the first ever Olympic Model Cage match. Hofverberg is favored but Swanepoel has been training hard with Gelband. "Candice has some strong kicks and punches. It's going to be a great match."
Weightlifting will be a big part of the Olympics. Here's Isabell Fontana lifting – easily – 200 pounds.
Gelband said yesterday he spent the past 12 weeks training the women for the Olympic qualifying rounds.
"I build a foundation for each woman. I find out who they are, what they do now and create a new program for them using fundamental exercise programs. I train them at a Mixed Martial Art studio in New York City. Each girl has her own specific type of workout. The movements and exercises may be similar in structure, but they are always geared specifically for each girl and her needs."
Here's the Victoria's Secret Volleyball Team:
We know you can't wait for the Olympic games to begin. But meanwhile, here's a preview for the Fashion Show tonight.


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Rants from the hill: Trapping the bees
"Rants from the Hill" are Michael Branch's monthly musings on life in the high country of western Nevada's Great Basin Desert, published the first Monday of each month.
Several years ago, at just this time of year, I had to go back East for a few months of work. When I returned home to the Ranting Hill, which I missed mightily while I was away, I noticed plenty of changes. Great horned owls had taken up hunting perches on the peaks of my roof and had pretty well cleaned out the local population of packrats and ground squirrels. My native shrubs had survived, though they were cropped by black-tailed jack rabbits. It was clear from scat and prints that both mule deer and pronghorn had grazed our property regularly. But the most obvious difference was that a thousand honeybees were buzzing around the eaves at the southwest corner of our house. Honeybees are unusual here in the high desert. Although we do have some forage plants, including snowberry, rabbitbrush, a few wild mustards, and several types of Wyethia, we just don't have enough year-round forage to make this severe desert environment very appealing to your average honeybee. I hadn't seen a thousand bees total in a decade on the Ranting Hill, so it was clear that something was out of the ordinary.
Upon closer inspection, the bees were going in and out of a small hole in the eaves where they adjoined the stucco exterior wall. When I called the local extension agent, she immediately asked "Did you spray them yet?" When I replied that I had not she seemed comforted, and then asked "Are they still swarming? That is, are they in a big clump? A swarm of bees can be captured and moved pretty easily." I explained that instead the bees were flying in and out of the house. "Well, you're talking structural removal, then. Hopefully you can do a cut out but you might have to do a trap out. Pest control guys are clueless on this stuff, and most beekeepers don't want the hassle unless they can get an easy score on a swarm. Big Dan's your man on this."
Next I called Big Dan—apparently a legend among local bee freaks—who asked "Spray yet?" and "Still swarming?" before patiently posing a number of other questions, and finally agreeing to come out that afternoon to try to help me. Now let me admit straightaway that as a desert rat I don't know diddly about bees or beekeeping. But somehow I pictured Big Dan as a dude who would step down from an F-350 looking like an astronaut in his fancy bee fighting gear. Instead, a tiny, ancient, hatchback Honda civic rolled up, and out of it rose a man who was not only tall and large but also graced with an immense, bushy red beard, and a long braid of red hair trailing down the middle of his back. He was costumed not in studly bee wrangling gear, but rather in sandals, brown cargo shorts, and a brightly tie-dyed T-shirt with a swirl pattern. He wore small, black-rimmed glasses that were so nerdy as to be completely incongruous with his hippyfied look. Big Dan looked like a red-haired version of Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia, but only if Garcia had also been your local librarian. He responded "I'd be honored" when our then-four-year-old daughter asked if she could call him "Dan Dan the Big Bee Man," and my own thought in that moment was that this guy was a high desert original—just the kind of character I missed so much while I was back East.
Big Dan was a soft spoken man, a mild giant who clearly had a deep feeling for the miracle that is the simple honeybee. He had the sensibility of a teacher, and he taught me a hundred things about bees while going calmly about his work. First Dan climbed my ladder, right up into the cloud of bees, and used a stethoscope to listen to various spots on the eaves and walls of the house. From this he diagnosed that the bees were not hived up in the eaves, where he could have done a "cut out" by sawing open the soffit and physically removing the nest. Instead, the bees were somewhere up inside the interior walls of the structure, and thus would require a full-blown "trap out." When I asked for an explanation, Big Dan agreed to trade one for a good beer. So first we drank and talked beer—it turned out that Dan was not only a microbrewer but also a beer competition judge of some repute—and then he turned to describing a trap out.
"A trap out takes eight weeks, sometimes more," he began. I think he noticed my grimace. "Alternatively, you can poison the bees, risk spreading colony collapse to other hives, and leave 50,000 dead bees in your wall. The rotting smell won't last more than a month, but the comb and honey left behind will attract ants, wax moths, and mice. When July comes, you may notice honey seeping through your walls." I fetched another pair of porters and asked him to continue. "In a trap out, we first seal all the entrances to the hive except one. Then we cover that one door with a long, funnel-shaped screen, with the tapered end pointing away from the house. Bees will come out of the cone to go forage, but when they come home they won't be able to find their way back into the tube. Near the small end of the cone we put a 'Nuc box', which is a secondary hive with about five frames of brood comb, cells with eggs and larvae, and of course a queen and a bunch of bees. When the foragers can't find their way back into the hive inside your house, they'll give up and join the secondary colony in the Nuc box. It takes a long time because you have to wait for the colony's full cycle to turn. First the foragers and drones will end up in the Nuc box, but then the brood that's already in your wall has to hatch and develop to foraging stage before they'll be ready to fly out and end up joining the secondary colony. It takes time."
"Yeah, but what about all that pest-attracting honey that'll still be inside the house?" I asked. "Here is the true beauty of the trap out," Dan continued. "Once the colony in your wall has failed, the bees adopted into the secondary colony will have no loyalty to it. At that point we remove the one-way cone and let the bees go back inside your house!" I told him I'd need one more beer to grasp why I'd want to allow what would now be 60,000 or even 80,000 bees free access to my house. But Dan was evangelical about the elegance of the trap out. "Bees in the Nuc box will fly into your walls and rob out every last bit of wax and honey, transferring it to the new colony. They're thorough! Because there's no telling where inside your house the hive is, this is the only way to leave your place clean. So, what'll it be?" "Trap out for sure," I answered. When can we start?"
Without saying a word, Dan set his porter down on the stone wall, cracked a wide, gentle grin, and walked over to his Honda. He opened the hatchback and lifted out a bright white hive box, carried it back by the eye bolt in its top, and set it down next to my beer. The humming and buzzing emerging from that box was so loud that it seemed to be vibrating. Dan then strapped on a tool belt and ascended the ladder, climbing twenty feet up into a cloud of bees. He wore no veil or protective gear, and I could see bees crawling on his shoulders and head, and even gathering in his bushy, red beard. Dan stayed aloft for a half hour, caulking holes and patiently constructing and attaching the cone that would guide the bees out of the house and prevent them from reentering it. He also screwed a large hook into the wooden eaves, and attached to it a heavy-duty carabiner. He then descended the ladder, lifted the white hive box, climbed back up again, and hung the hive by snapping the carabiner through the eye bolt on the box. Next he stapled the narrow end of the cone to the face of this dangling hive, so that bees exiting our house would be sure to discern the alternative colony. Finally, he removed the long, rectangular block that had kept the bees bottled up in the Nuc box. When he came down the ladder for the last time, Dan was wearing a wide smile beneath which flowed his flame red beard, now with at least a dozen bees crawling through it.
Eryn and the girls and I soon came to love having the bees around, and we watched their patterns every day for weeks. We'd observe the foragers emerge from the cone early in the day, return laden with pollen in the afternoon, and circle the funnel in an attempt to find a way back in. That failing, they would beard on the outside of the cone for an hour or two before giving up and joining the growing secondary colony in the suspended hive box. After some weeks the traffic subsided, and we knew the brood in the wall colony was maturing and preparing to forage. Eventually a torrent of bees resumed, and we had several more weeks of the pleasure of observing their daily missions before bees once again ceased emerging from the cone.
After a week of this inactivity, Big Dan came out to the house again. He drank some stout, removed the trap cone, and watched with satisfaction as bees from the hanging hive reentered the house in droves. I confess that I didn't find this reversal of the bee stream consoling, though I tried to imagine the alternative of having honey exude from the walls of my house. After a few more weeks the bee activity once again stopped, and Dan reckoned that the house hive was robbed clean and the new colony was settled and happy. He came out to the house a third time, hoisted a few IPAs, and then climbed up the ladder. He sealed the bees' sole entry hole to the house, blocked the entrance to the hive box, and climbed down carefully with what was now a heavy load. Opening the hatchback of his Honda, he lifted the colony in. There were still quite a few bees clinging to Dan and to his box, and as he drove away in his Honda, waving to the girls, I could see him smiling, and appearing not to notice—or at least not to mind—the honeybee that was attached to his forehead.
The trap out was a wonderful reminder that sometimes the best solution to a confrontation with nature is to work with, rather than against, the problem. Bees in my house was the problem, but it turned out that bees in my house was also the elegant and effective solution to it. Instead of a wall full of pesticide-soaked, rotting bees and rancid honeycomb, I had clean walls and a story to tell. But it was even better than that, because I learned so much about bees, and was able to give my young daughters the experience of living with their own "pet" colony—even if it was twenty feet in the air. I also had the pleasure of meeting a fine high desert character in Dan Dan the Big Bee Man, who later gifted me a jar of the sweet honey produced within the walls of my home.
Michael P. Branch is Professor of Literature and Environment at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he teaches American literature and environmental studies. He has published five books and many articles on environmental literature, and his creative nonfiction has appeared in Utne Reader, Orion, Ecotone, Isotope, Hawk and Handsaw, Whole Terrain, and other magazines. He lives with his wife and two young daughters at 6,000 feet in the western Great Basin desert of Nevada.
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3101.0 - Australian Demographic Statistics, Sep 2004
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 24/03/2005
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NT population increases to over 200,000 people
The Northern Territory's resident population exceeded 200,000 during the September quarter 2004 according to figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) today.
This milestone was achieved with the population growing to an estimated 200,400 by 30 September 2004. This represented a population gain of 540 people (up 0.3%) since 30 June 2004. This is the sixth consecutive quarter of population growth for the Northern Territory.
During the 12 months ending 30 September 2004, the Northern Territory population increased by 1,700 people. This represents an annual growth rate of 0.8%, which was greater than that of the Australian Capital Territory (0.3%) and South Australia (0.5%), and equal to that of New South Wales (0.8%). The remaining four other states grew faster, ranging from 0.9% for Tasmania and 2.1% for Queensland.
During the 12 months ended 30 September 2004, natural increase (the excess of births over deaths) added 2,600 people to the Northern Territory population, while net overseas migration contributed a further 530 people during the 12 months.
However, consistent with recent years these population gains were offset by losses from net interstate migration, with 1,500 more people leaving the Northern Territory for interstate than arriving in the Territory in the 12 months to September 2004. In the September quarter 2004, it is estimated that 3,540 people moved to the Territory from interstate, and 3,690 moved from the Territory to other parts of Australia resulting in a small net loss of 150 people.
Today's release contains the latest available data on natural increase, net interstate migration and net overseas migration, and their contribution to the population size and growth of the Australian states and territories.
Over the year ended 30 September 2004, Australia's population grew by 236,700 people (an increase of 1.2%).
More details about recent trends in the Northern Territory population are in the news backgrounder released today, Trends in Northern Territory Population Statistics, and in Australian Demographic Statistics, September quarter 2004 (cat. no. 3101.0).
On Thursday 24 March 2005, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the latest estimates of the resident population in Australian Demographic Statistics (cat. no. 3101.0). This News Backgrounder provides additional information about the trends and directions of the Northern Territory population.
The estimated resident population of the Northern Territory at 30 June 2004 was 199,900 persons. This represents an increase of 57,800 persons (41%) since 30 June 1984 and 26,500 persons (15%) since 30 June 1994. Preliminary estimates for September quarter 2004 indicate that the Northern Territory has recently reached a population of over 200,000. This milestone was achieved with a population growth of approximately 540 persons (0.3%) since June 2004.
Recent population trends for the Northern Territory
Over the last four financial years the Northern Territory has experienced low population growth rates, troughing in 2002-03 with a net loss of 120 persons (-0.1%). The last time the Territory recorded a net population loss was in 1974-75 following Cyclone Tracy (-10,100 persons or -9.8%).
In 2003-04 population estimates for the Northern Territory indicated a turnaround in the trend of declining population growth, with a gain of 1,400 persons (0.7%). Recent quarterly estimates also indicate continued improvements in population growth for the Territory. For instance, during the 12 months ended 30 September 2004, the Territory gained 1,700 persons (0.8%).
As shown in graph 2, while growth rates have been stronger in recent times, this growth has continued to be lower than the levels experienced by the rest of Australia.
Historical population trends for the Northern Territory
Over the last 20 years the Northern Territory's total population growth rate has varied considerably compared with the rest of Australia. In 1983-84 the Northern Territory's population growth rate (4.6%) was much higher than that for the rest of Australia (1.2%). This trend continued until the late 1980s when the Territory's growth rate dropped below the national average, troughing in 1987-88 with a growth rate of 0.5% compared with 1.7% for the rest of Australia. Throughout the 1990s the Northern Territory recorded reasonably strong population growth with an average annual gain of 3,200 persons (1.8%).
As shown in graph 3, quarterly population growth rates for the Northern Territory are unstable in comparison to the rest of Australia. This is mainly due to the small population numbers associated with the Northern Territory, but also seasonal patterns. For instance, during the last five years June quarters have consistently recorded the strongest growth rates in the Northern Territory population.
The size and distribution of the Australian population changes constantly because:
All these changes have an impact on the Northern Territory population, although some have greater impact than others. For instance, the low population growth experienced over the last four years is largely the result of many people leaving the Northern Territory to live in other parts of Australia.
The impacts of the various components of growth can be summarised through measures of natural increase, net interstate migration and net overseas migration.
Graph 4 shows that natural increase has consistently added more people to the Northern Territory's population than net interstate migration and net overseas migration. Natural Increase has been reasonably stable from year to year. In comparison, net interstate migration has been a far more volatile component of growth which therefore has had a large impact on the changes that have occurred to the Northern Territory population.
Natural Increase
The Northern Territory continues to have the highest fertility rate of all Australian states and territories. During 2003-04, the total fertility rate was 2.4 babies per woman compared with 1.8 babies per woman for the rest of Australia. However, the Territory also has the highest standardised death rate after taking account of the age differences between the populations of the states and territories.
Over recent years there has been around 2,800 more births than deaths each year in the Northern Territory, resulting in an annual natural increase rate of around 1.4%. The rest of Australia has had an average natural increase rate of around 0.6%. If the rate of natural increase for the Northern Territory were to change substantially it would have a large impact on the population. For further information on the impact of a changing fertility rate see Chapter 4: What if...? of Population Projections, Australia (cat. no. 3222.0).
Net Interstate Migration
As noted above, net interstate migration has been very volatile over the last 20 years, and has therefore had a large influence on population change in the Northern Territory. This is clearly shown in graph 4 with the total population growth rate following the same pattern as the net interstate migration rate.
Low population growth rates experienced over the last four years coincide with large losses of people through interstate migration. In 2002-03 interstate arrivals and departures resulted in a net loss of 3,400 persons, the largest loss of population interstate since 1987-88, and the second highest loss since Cyclone Tracy in 1974-75. This resulted in a net population loss of 0.1% compared with an increase of 1.2% for the rest of Australia.
Estimates for 2003-04 (a net loss of 2,108 persons) and the September quarter 2004 (a net loss of 148 persons) indicate that the Northern Territory is gradually losing fewer people to interstate migration, resulting in stronger population growth, although still at levels lower than the rest of Australia.
Net Overseas Migration
Over the last 20 years, growth in the Northern Territory population resulting from net overseas migration has varied from gains of 1,200 persons (0.8%) for 1985-86 to just 40 persons in 1992-93. During 2003-04, the Territory gained 600 persons from net overseas migration.
Due to the comparatively low numbers associated with net overseas migration, this component has always had little impact on the Northern Territory's population compared with natural increase and net interstate migration. In 2003-04 net overseas migration contributed 607 persons to the Territory's total population growth.
The Northern Territory's population into the future will be as a result of components of population growth: births, deaths, interstate migration and overseas migration. The next Census of Population and Housing to be conducted in August 2006 will provide an updated snapshot of the population for all parts of Australia.
Australian Demographic Statistics (cat. no. 3101.0) is released by the ABS on a quarterly basis. It provides the most recent estimates of the population for states, territories and Australia. The next issues will be released as follow:
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The Big Squeeze film
The Big Squeeze is a documentary film that follows the newest generation of young accordion players as they compete for Texas Folklife's annual Big Squeeze Accordion Contest held as part of the Accordion Kings and Queens Festival in Houston, Texas.
The Big Squeeze was produced and directed by Hector Galan and is a co-production of Galán Inc and Texas Folklife. It was released on DVD in 2009 and premiered at the 2009 SXSW Film Festival and was broadcast on over 200 PBS stations nation-wide.
Synopsis: The Big Squeeze is a joyful leap into the heart of Texas music. From the urban barrios of Houston, to the colonias of the Rio Grande Valley, we find a new crop of players carrying on a passionate musical legacy fueled by family, friends, and food. The film follows them as they battle at Texas Folklife's annual accordion throwdown


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First Known Use: 1589
verb pa·tron·ize \ˈpā-trə-ˌnīz, ˈpa-\
: to give money or support to (someone or something)
: to talk to (someone) in a way that shows that you believe you are more intelligent or better than other people
: to be a frequent or regular customer or user of (a place)
Full Definition of PATRONIZE
transitive verb
: to act as patron of : provide aid or support for
: to adopt an air of condescension toward : treat haughtily or coolly
: to be a frequent or regular customer or client of
— pa·tron·i·za·tion \ˌpā-trə-nə-ˈzā-shən, ˌpa-\ noun
— pa·tron·iz·ing·ly \ˈpā-trə-ˌnī-ziŋ-lē, ˈpa-\ adverb
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Examples of PATRONIZE
- For the court to come around, at this late date, to acknowledging our existence as "free persons" is shockingly patronizing; it's condescension that has been cast as liberation. —John Cloud, Time, 7 July 2003
- She spoke dryly, but she had to admit that the girl did not mean to patronize, and was pleasant, the way she talked right to Stephen instead of across him the way most people did. —Ursula K. Le Guin, New Yorker, 28 Sept. 1987
- My feelings seem to have been confused and blurred, tinged with sentimentality, colored by a great deal of folklore, and wobbling always between a patronizing affection, fostered by my elders, and downright hostility. —William Styron, This Quiet Dust and Other Writings, (l953) 1982
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Origin of PATRONIZE
(see patron)
Related to PATRONIZE
- Synonyms
- lord (it over), condescend, talk down (to)
Rhymes with PATRONIZE
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PATRONIZE Defined for Kids
verb pa·tron·ize \ˈpā-trə-ˌnīz, ˈpa-trə-\
Definition of PATRONIZE for Kids
: to act as a supporter of <He patronizes the arts.>
: to be a customer of <She prefers to patronize a neighborhood store.>
: to treat (a person) as if he or she were not as good or less important
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I still haven't had a chance to play the new "Leviathan" DLC for Mass Effect 3, but I'm kind of loving the alternate reality advertising going on for it.
The Alliance News Network Twitter stream, in the persona of reporter Emily Wong, "live" broadcast the invasion of Earth back in March when the Reapers hit. This week, it's been temporarily taken over by one Bernard Plim, conspiracy theorist at large.
The delightfully hideous blog of the paranoid Mr. Plim hits all the right notes. Unreadable, lime-green text? Check. Tiled page background straight out of 1995? Check. Gripes against the media? Check. The man (C-SEC) trying to keep him down? Check.
I am the president and founder of the Conspiracy Accountability League Citadel Chapter. OUR PURPOSE IS TO REVEAL TO YOU THE SECRETS AND COVER-UPS THAT THREATEN YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. I do the research so that you don't have to!!!
But the best touch? The repeated, small-font requests of, "please send credits."
All links on the site, sadly, link to "Leviathan" downloads instead of further into the rabbit hole of Citadel conspiracy theorists. It's too bad; I'd like to have seen them take on the Keepers. Ah, well; there will doubtless be more DLC to make the fictitious Mr. Plim even more agitated.
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Global Finance's editorial review board—with input from industry analysts, corporate executives and technology experts—selected the best providers of supply chain finance and management services. A variety of subjective and objective criteria were used for choosing the winners. Factors considered included: market share and global coverage, product innovation, customer service, technology, execution skills and client-specific implementations. In addition, a poll of Global Finance's readership was conducted to increase the accuracy and reliability of the results.
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PEAVEY INT'L. HEADQUARTERS — Hartley Peavey's mission to restore the sound of the historic Hamasa Shrine Temple Theater in his hometown of Meridian, Miss., is more than just a professional challenge. It's personal.
Hartley Peavey's grandfather, Joseph Lane Peavey, was very active in the Hamasa Shriners. His name is even engraved on the Moorish Revival theater's cornerstone. Like Hartley, J.L. Peavey was an entrepreneur and an inventor with many patents to his credit.
Hartley inherited his grandfather'scollection of hand tools when he passed in 1955, and two years later used those tools to build the first Peavey amplifier. Peavey Electronics Corporation, Hartley's music and sound products company, has since earned more than 180 patents around the world for its innovations.
'My grandfather had a big influence on me and my direction in life,' said Peavey. 'He helped me understand that everyone has unique talents, and he gave me the guts to pursue mine. While restoring and upgrading the Temple Theater's sound system is a worthy exercise for us at Peavey Electronics, it also helps preserve something my grandfather really cherished.'
The 1,550-seat Temple Theater originally opened in 1928 as a movie house, but has also served as a staging center for dramatic productions and live-music performances, with artists ranging from Willie Nelson to Wilco appearing on stage. The theater is currently undergoing a full restoration, beginning by returning classic movie screenings to the marquee.
Peavey took on the task of updating the Temple's 1940s-era projection sound system, which is positioned on stage behind the movie-projection screen in a LCR (Left-Center-Right) configuration, in time for the debut showing of 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
When Peavey engineers brought the five towering enclosures to Peavey HQ for analysis, they discovered that over the years the enclosures had weakened and required regluing and additional bracing on the enclosure walls. They eventually rebuilt the antiquated sound system with premium, modern Peavey components.
'These old projection speaker cabinets were built so large because amplifiers could only put out about 25 watts in those days,' Peavey said. 'The cabinets are designed to maximize the sound and utilize fully what little bit of output power those amps could muster.'
Peavey engineers replaced the old paper voice-coil subwoofers in the two huge folded-horn enclosures with a pair of Peavey 15' Low Rider loudspeakers, each rated at 800 watts continuous power handling, with 4' voice coils and Kevlar impregnated speaker cones that provide high performance and durability. These speakers are powered with 4,000 watts from three Crest Audio power amplifiers.
Three of the five enclosures are designed to reproduce mid and high frequencies. For the mid-frequency portion, the engineers employed a pair of 15' Black Widow loudspeakers, while three MF1-X horns mounted to the tops transmit the high frequencies through Peavey's RX 22 titanium compression drivers. The horns are coated in Hammertex, a highly durable coating, and designed for wider dispersion and more thorough coverage than their predecessors.
'We wanted to preserve the classic movie-going experience that so many us remember from our childhood,' explained Peavey. 'Professional audio has come an enormous way since those days. We were able to greatly improve the sound quality, efficiency and performance using Peavey components both designed and made here in Meridian.'


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Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new oxygen "sponge" that can easily absorb or shed oxygen atoms at low temperatures. Materials with these novel characteristics would be useful in devices such as rechargeable batteries, sensors, gas converters, and fuel cells.
Materials containing atoms that can switch back and forth between multiple oxidation states are technologically important but very rare in nature, said ORNL's Ho Nyung Lee, who led the international research team that published its findings in Nature Materials.
"Typically, most elements have a stable oxidation state, and they want to stay there," Lee said. "So far, there aren't many known materials in which atoms are easily convertible between different valence states. We've found a chemical substance that can reversibly change between phases at rather low temperatures without deteriorating, which is a very intriguing phenomenon."
Many energy storage and sensor devices rely on this valence-switching trick, known as a reduction-oxidation or "redox" reaction. For instance, catalytic gas converters use platinum-based metals to transform harmful emissions such as carbon monoxide into nontoxic gases by adding oxygen. Less expensive oxide-based alternatives to platinum usually require very high temperatures—at least 600 to 700 degrees Celsius—to trigger the redox reactions, making such materials impractical in conventional applications.
"We show that our multivalent oxygen sponges can undergo such a redox process at as low as 200 degrees Celsius, which is comparable to the working temperature of noble metal catalysts," Lee said. "Granted, our material is not coming to your car tomorrow, but this discovery shows that multivalent oxides can play a pivotal role in future energy technologies."
The team's material consists of strontium cobaltite, which is known to occur in a preferred crystalline form called brownmillerite. Through an epitaxial stabilization process, the ORNL-led team discovered a new recipe to synthesize the material in a more desirable phase known as perovskite. The researchers have filed an invention disclosure on their findings.
"These two phases have very distinct physical properties," Lee said. "One is a metal, the other is an insulator. One responds to magnetic fields, the other does not—and we can make it switch back and forth within a second at significantly reduced temperatures."
The international team's design and testing of this novel advanced material from scratch required multidisciplinary expertise and sophisticated tools from such places as Argonne National Laboratory and ORNL, including Argonne's Advanced Photon Source and ORNL's Center for Nanophase Materials Science, Lee said.
"As we showed in this study, only through the study of a well-defined system can we build a framework for the design of next-generation energy materials," said co-author John Freeland of Argonne. "This insight was made possible by merging the capabilities at Oak Ridge and Argonne national labs for advanced synthesis and characterization of novel materials."
The study, "Reversible redox reactions in an epitaxially stabilized SrCoOx oxygen sponge," involved ORNL's Hyoungjeen Jeen, Woo Seok Choi, Matthew Chisholm, Michael Biegalski, and Dongwon Shin; Argonne's Chad Folkman, I-Cheng Tung, Dillon Fong, and John Freeland; and Hokkaido University's Hiromichi Ohta.
The work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science.
The Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory is one of five national synchrotron radiation light sources supported by DOE's Office of Science to carry out applied and basic research to understand, predict, and ultimately control matter and energy at the electronic, atomic, and molecular levels, provide the foundations for new energy technologies, and support DOE missions in energy, environment, and national security. To learn more about the Office of Science X-ray user facilities, visit the user facilities directory at http://science.energy.gov/user-facilities/basic-energy-sciences/.
The Center for Nanophase Materials Science is one of five DOE Nanoscale Science Research Centers, or NSRCs, national user facilities for interdisciplinary research at the nanoscale, supported by the DOE Office of Science. Together the NSRCs comprise a suite of complementary facilities that provide researchers with state-of-the-art capabilities to fabricate, process, characterize, and model nanoscale materials, and constitute the largest infrastructure investment of the National Nanotechnology Initiative. The NSRCs are located at DOE's Argonne, Brookhaven, Lawrence Berkeley, Oak Ridge and Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories. For more information about the DOE NSRCs, please visit http://science.energy.gov.
ORNL is managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy's Office of Science. DOE's Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit http://science.energy.gov.


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The Testarossa was not Ferrari's finest hour, but that doesn't mean custom pickup truck builders should be barred from emulating its cheese-grater appearance. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Nissan is a fine example, but does its price grate on you?
It would be hard to come across a more sketchy deal than yesterday's bizarre Mercedes Benz G-500 with a Ford 302, unless it had been proffered by a Nigerian prince who had lost his passport and cash in the UK and needed someone to stuff envelopes for cash in order to secure 11 million dollars in untraceable gold bullion international lottery winnings and lolcats. A highly skeptical 65% of you sent it to the Crack Pipe spam filter, unswayed by its intrigue or the vague promise of lolcats.
Perhaps less sketchy, but still looking like something actually sketched on a seventh grader's notebook is what is described by its North Carolina seller as the Truxarossa. The South is an interesting place, populated by interesting people. People with unique and sometimes contrary images of the world order. What was called the American Civil War everywhere else, was referred to in the South as The War of Northern Aggression. What was it that made those Northerners get all their panties in a bunch? Quite possibly it was something like the Truxarossa.
The D21 Nissan Pickup was dubbed by its manufacturer the Hard Body, and the trucks angular, chiseled appearance bore that name out. In the case of this 1991 edition, somebody eschewed that hard body for one that looks like the result of an unholy coupling of the Pillsbury Doughboy and Gumby. Like that Gilbert Stuart painting of George Washington that graced everybody's 4th grade classroom this truck is a work in progress, although it looks driveable in its current state - which, if I didn't mention it, is North Carolina.
No evidence of the D21's original bodywork appears extant on this Bondo and fiberglass bedecked truck, save for the standard cab roof and dumbo-ear mirrors. Strakes sprout from each door, leading into massive faux scoops ahead of the rear wheels. They also make for handy steps to the roof and spoiler-equipped bed cap in case you wanted to climb up there at, oh say a NASCAR race, and flash everyone your boobs.
Up front the simple horizontal grille has been supplanted by one that's more expressive, while out back the stock tail lights cap flared fenders that bookend a stock tailgate. That gate has had its handle shaved like a Brazilian, as have the doors, meaning getting inside probably means poppers and a prayer for a strong battery. That's likely the only option as the interior door latch seems to have gone missing as well, making the reach-around option ineffectual. Once you're in there, you'll notice a pair of Recaro seats and a stick shift, the latter meaning that the big-ass 2.4-litre four under the hood should be able to send most of its 134-bhp to the rear wheels.
Not that you'd want to send them there unless your driving surface is mirror smooth as the Truxarossa has been dropped to the point that every railroad crossing and splayed road possum will be a white knuckler for fear of cracking the oil pan like an egg. Of course it's possible that it hasn't actually been dropped, but that there's so much Bondo on the truck that the springs just plain can't cope - sort of like Paul Prudhomme's knees. Not mirror smooth is the bodywork that Bondo covers, which has all the rumpled bumpiness of the Pillsbury Doughboy's hot cross buns. That's likely due to the fact that this trucks mods are only half complete, and the patina of Bondo dust evident on the windows and miss-matched wheels bares this out.
Magnolia trees, mint juleps, and food so good it could kill you, the South has a lot going for it. And what better reason to travel there and experience it for yourself than to purchase and drive home a new and exciting project vehicle. At $3,300, or a trade for something mulleticious, the Tuxarossa could make that dream come true for one lucky buyer. Just don't call the seller after 8 pm, 'cause that's Willy's time! What do you think, is this custom worth that kind of cash? Or, does that price weigh heavier on it than all the Bondo?
You decide!
Winston Salem Craigslist or go here if the ad disappears. H/T to Cortinanut for the hookup!
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