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CINCINNATI – Another game and another victory for Concordia University Wisconsin on Saturday, as it routed the College of Mount St. Joseph, 22-5, during Midwest Lacrosse Conference play at Schueler Field.
The Falcons extended their program record winning streak to eight games and haven't felt the taste of defeat in 22 days now. It was also their first win in the state of Ohio in eight contests. With the win, CUW moves into a first place tie atop the MLC standings.
CUW (9-2, 4-0 MLC) led 5-0 after the first quarter, 11-1 at halftime and 15-3 following 45 minutes of action. They piled on seven more goals in the final period and had 14 different players record at least a point. The Falcons finished a perfect 19-of-19 on clear attempts, won 22-of-30 faceoffs, held a 33-15 advantage in ground balls and outshot the Lions 33-15 on goal.
Senior Sam Wladyka (Winnipeg, Manitoba) scored a team-high four goals, while junior Derek Brueske (Hopkins, Min.) recorded a team-best six points (two goals, four assists). Senior Danny Dahms (Calgary, Alberta) had two goals and two assists, while sophomore Matt Garvey (Winnipeg, Manitoba) finished with a career-high four points, including three assists which is tied for 10th best in program history.
Sophomore Zachary Foster (Calgary, Alberta) ended with a career-high three points, including a career-best two goals, and sophomore Danny Bundra (Lake Zurich, Ill.) scored his first career goal at the end of the second quarter. Bundra also won 21-of-28 faceoffs and picked up a game-high 10 ground balls.
The Falcons opened the game with a 6-0 scoring run before surrendering an even-strength tally by the Lions midway through the second quarter. CUW then put together another 6-0 scoring spree to lead 12-1 less than two minutes into the third period.
Sophomore Mark Wilson (Calgary, Alberta) picked up a career-high five ground balls to lead a strong defensive effort that limited CMSJ (1-11, 0-5 MLC) to just 23 shots the entire game.
CUW returns to action on Wednesday for a highly anticipated MLC road contest against Aurora University starting at 4 p.m. The Spartans will enter the game also at 4-0 in league play and were the MLC Tournament champions a season ago, and they also won a game in the NCAA Division III Tournament.


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Based on what I've seen lately, things don't look promising for Microsoft. This is not wishful thinking. I've been a fan of its products for decades and am writing this column in Microsoft Word on my Windows 7 PC, which I like.
The company should be in a celebratory mood. It just launched its new PC and mobile operating systems and for the first time started selling its own computer hardware -- the Surface Windows RT tablet. Its hardware partners are coming out with all sorts of new PCs featuring Microsoft Windows 8 and Microsoft finally has a tablet device to compete with Apple's iPad and the myriad of Android tablets.
But things aren't going well for the software behemoth that was once so dominant that a court declared it to be a monopoly.
Last week, CNET News reported that "Windows 8 got pummeled" by analysts, including Chris Whitmore from Deutsche Bank, who wrote that Windows 8 "will have a more muted impact than prior cycles for a several reasons." In addition to economic factors beyond Microsoft's control, he cited mixed reviews, a lack of enterprise interest in the new operating system and confusion around the two flavors of Windows 8 -- Windows RT for tablets and Windows Pro for PCs and some tablets.
While some reviewers praised Microsoft's new operating system, my colleague, San Jose Mercury News columnist Troy Wolverton, was far from alone when he declared the new Windows 8 interface, "clunky and unintuitive." I'm certainly not enamored with it. Instead of the traditional Windows desktop, Windows 8 presents the user with tiles to represent each program. That's fine -- especially with a touch screen device -- but as easy as it may be to click on a tile to launch a program, it's sometimes confusing how one gets back to the main menu of tiles once you're ready to launch another program. The Windows desktop is still available, but you have to click a tile to get to it. And there is no Start menu, which drove me nuts until I downloaded a third party app that brought it back.
I usually upgrade my desktop PC with the latest Windows operating system but I have no intention installing Windows 8. Windows 7, which was released in October 2009, is stable, fast and easy to use. And unlike Windows 8, there was practically no learning curve when I installed it over Windows Vista.
Windows 8 does have potential for tablets, but Microsoft is late to the party and will have a tough time competing with Apple's iOS and Android. Even if I were convinced that its tablet-only Windows 8 RT version were a superior tablet operating system, I'd be hard pressed to recommend it, given the paucity of apps compared to Android and iOS. In an interview with French daily Le Parisien, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer admitted that sales of the Windows RT Surface, "are starting modestly."
More powerful tablets running Windows 8 Pro have more potential because they can run standard Windows programs. But Microsoft's tablet entry, the as-yet unavailable Surface with Windows 8 Pro, will be 39 percent heavier and 43 percent thicker than Apple's full-size 4th generation iPad. Still, it will be light and thin by laptop standards, even with its optional keyboard cover. I'm really hoping I'll like it because I'd love to be able to carry around such a light full- featured PC, and I can see the advantage of being able to use it as a tablet. But it's too earlier to speculate whether it will have any impact.
Of course you don't have to buy a new PC to get Windows 8. You could spend $39.99 to download a copy from Windows.com to install on your existing machine. But I wouldn't recommend it. First, unless you have a touch-screen PC, you might be disappointed and second, there is always the chance that things won't work quite right, as I found out when I tried installing it on a Lenovo U300 laptop. The upgrade seemed to go well until I tried using the machine and discovered the track pad no longer worked. I couldn't even access the "windows. old" file to restore Windows 7.
Windows 8 phones are getting excellent reviews, but when it comes to sustaining a platform, quantity is at least as important as quality -- and phones running Windows aren't setting any sales records. The latest figures from Gartner puts Microsoft near the bottom when it comes to installed base.
The good news is that more than four million Windows phones were sold in the 3rd quarter of 2012, which represents a 139 percent increase over the same quarter a year ago. But in terms of market share, it's in sixth place at 2.4 percent, behind Android (72.4 percent), Apple iOS (13.9 percent), Research in Motion (5.3 percent), Bada (3 percent) and Symbian (2.6 percent).
Admittedly, any predictions of Microsoft's demise would be extremely premature. Its operating system continues to dominate the PC market and its Office suite continues to be a cash cow. Yet, if things don't turn around for Microsoft, its time as a major player could be limited. I'd hate to see that happen.
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Thermaltake Celebrating its 15th Anniversary in Style at Computex
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Earlier today I discussed Thermaltake's new Tt eSPORTS offerings being shown off at Computex this week, and now it's the core brand's turn. To celebrate its fifteenth anniversary, Thermaltake is presenting a new "HARDCORE" image at Computex with the slogan, "Pure Performance, Built for Enthusiasts by Enthusiasts." On display at the company's booth are a range of cases, coolers, power supplies, and a storage solution, with the highlight being the world premiere of the new Level 10 Gaming Station Titanium Limited Edition chassis.
Restricted to just 500 builds worldwide, the new special edition Level 10 case is not only built with Titanium for extreme durability, light weight, and dent and corrosion resistance, but has also been upgraded to feature six EasySwap hard drive bays (up from five) and four USB 3.0 SuperSpeed ports (up from two). Pricing has not been provided, but with the Level 10 GT having an MSRP north of $200, expect this limited edition version to be well over that.
In addition to the Level 10, the other cases on display include: the new Core Series introduced earlier this year, featuring five flavors: V1, V31, V41, V51, and V71; the Ubran T81; and the Versa Series, featuring four flavors: H24, H25, H34, and H35. For coolers, Thermaltake is showing off the new Frio Silent Series of CPU air coolers, along with the Water 3.0 Ultimate liquid cooling solution, which comes with a whopping 360mm radiator. The company is also showing off a variety of do-it-yourself liquid cooling components, including radiators, reservoirs, a waterblock, a pump, tubing, and coolant.
For power supplies, Thermaltake is showing off the new Toughpower DPS 1250W Platinum along with other, slightly lesser, members of the Toughpower DPS Series: the 80 PLUS Gold 750W, 850W, and 1050W. The company has also added the new Toughpower G Series, which includes a variety of 80 PLUS Gold PSUs ranging from 450W up to 1050W.
Lastly, in the storage department, Thermaltake is debuting the BlacX Urban Wi-Fi Edition Docking Station. It features hot-swap capability, USB 3.0 SuperSpeed data transfer for a maximum transfer rate of up to 5.0 Gbps, and built-in Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n with support for WEP/WPA/WPA2 security protocols. Thermaltake has also provided a mobile app called "TtCloud", available in the Apple App Store and Google Play Market, allowing quick access to your data on iOS and Android mobile devices.
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Objective: SWBAT use the illustrations in a text to analyze and integrate the key details in an informational text.
Big Idea: Teach science in context as students dive into a insightful lesson about how water travels on earth.
Common Core Connection
In this lesson my class will analyze how illustrations and details help them analyze and integrate the key ideas from an informational text. The students look at the images, arrows, and text to make inferences about what is happening as water flows to the ocean. My students do this by engaging in a highly complex concept and expand their phonological skills and vocabulary as they learn new words in context.
Lesson Overview
I like to do Transitions about every twenty minutes to keep the students engaged and I made a video in the resources to explain. There is another video (Peanut Butter Jelly Partner) explaining the grouping of students.
Introductory Activity
This is when I like to excite my class and really get them motivated about the lesson. So, I project the lesson image on the board and ask the students to discuss what they can learn by looking at am image.
Then I share that we are going to analyze two text and learn information by looking deep into the illustrations. Then we chant I can gain information from the illustrations.
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This is the time in my lessons that I usually try to do some kind of formative assessment, so I can plan future instruction based on what my students know. So, I as them to tell their partner where they can look in a text besides the words to gain information. Hopefully, they will tell their partner the illustrations. Whatever they say I will add that I hope they can use the illustrations to learn.
Then we chant the lesson goal to really reiterate what I am wanting the students to learn. They tell their friend the goal, and say it with me. Telling a friend makes it personal and the repetition builds memory. In addition, it gives my English Language Learners more practice speaking in complete sentences in English.


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Advanced Related Rates and the Mean Value Theorem (Part 3 of 4)
Unit 5: Applications of Differentiation, Part 2
Lesson 7 of 8
Lesson 7 of 8
Objective: SWBAT model and solve related rates problems. SWBAT solve problems involving the Mean Value Theorem.
Big Idea: How might the Mean Value Theorem be applied on the AP exam? Students will make sense of and work through a released FRQ involving the MVT.
Math, Mean Value Theorem, Precalculus and Calculus, Differentiation, modeling, calculus ab, Related Rates, calculus, AP Calculus, AP Calculus AB
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The In The Classroom (page 3) file contains the same runners problem from yesterday's class (See Lesson Plan, (part 2 of 4), page 2). Project this problem again, and remind students how we adapted it for understanding the Mean Value Theorem. Keeping a small number of really good examples fresh in students' minds can be very effective at increasing retention and understanding of key ideas (focal points) of the course.
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The adjustable rate mortgage (ARM) is a lot like a dinner that makes you sick to your stomach.
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In a word ... UP!
With mortgage rates being as down as they are, the last thing you want is one that's going to shift. Don't be suckered in by a bank that offers you points or a lower APR that will eventually change. The very purpose of a mortgage with an adjustable percentage is to favor the bank. They want to get as much money out of you as they can.
Since your home is usually your largest asset, what you want most for it is stability. The bigger the asset, the more it affects you when there is uncertainty. If you have debt on your house and on your stereo and both rates get jacked up, which is going to cause a bigger ripple in your pond?
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NASHVILLE — As Tennessee Democrats' electoral fortunes continue crumbling at the state and federal level, some of the party's bright lights are alive, well and leading the state's six largest cities as mayors elected in nonpartisan races.
Former state Sen. Andy Berke, D-Chattanooga, joined the select group when he was elected Chattanooga mayor in March.
Now there's intense speculation the state Senate's No. 2 Democrat, Caucus Chairman Lowe Finney, is eyeing a bid for mayor of Jackson after announcing last week he would not seek re-election next year to the Legislature.
Democrats also serve as mayors in Memphis (A C Wharton), Nashville (Karl Dean), Knoxville (Madeline Rogero), Clarksville (Kim McMillan) and Murfreesboro (Tommy Bragg). All six were elected in nonpartisan contests.
But for beleaguered state Democrats, the mayors present a glimmer of hope, a possible farm team in a state where Republicans now hold the governor's mansion, both U.S. Senate seats, seven of the nine congressional districts and supermajorities in the state House and Senate.
Senate Minority Leader Jim Kyle, D-Memphis, ascribed GOP dominance to Republican-drawn district lines he said "have been drawn to minimize urban influence and maximize" the strength of rural or rapidly growing suburban areas.
Kyle said he sees local office as "a place to build upon, an organization or rebuilding of the party and trying to get back to equal status, competitive status. It's a start."
Some see Tennessee's largest urban areas, which often have major universities and institutions along with larger black populations, as more hospitable to Democrats.
"The cities do seem to be a stronghold, maybe the last stronghold for the Democratic Party," said Ed Cromer, editor of The Tennessee Journal, a nonpartisan political newsletter. "You've got Democratic mayors not only in the four biggest cities, but you have them in every city with a population of 100,000 or more."
In an interview last week, Berke said, "Well, I'm a Democrat. That's how I served in the Legislature."
But Berke said his job depends on results, not political affiliation.
"Ultimately I believe that I'm judged by whether I can make City Hall a place that has the outcomes desired by Chattanoogans," he said.
That includes a stronger economy, "smarter students and safer streets," Berke said.
"City Hall is a place where the rubber meets the road. As the old saying goes: a sewer doesn't know whether you're a Democrat or a Republican. My job is to produce results," he said.
In Nashville, Dean pretty much echoed those sentiments in a statement.
"There's no Democrat or Republican way to make sure the trash gets picked up or potholes get filled," said Dean, whom some Democrats hope to see as a future statewide candidate. "The job of mayor for any large city is to set priorities that help the economy thrive and that give residents a high quality of life."
Rogero in Knoxville and McMillan in Clarksville could not be reached for comment. McMillan is a former state House majority leader who ran in the 2010 Democratic gubernatorial primary but bowed out to Mike McWherter. McWherter, son of the late Democratic Gov. Ned McWherter, lost the general election to Republican Bill Haslam, who was then Knoxville's mayor.
Mayor as steppingstone
Unlike most Southern states, Tennessee has few steppingstones to higher office. Under Democrats' long rule in the Legislature, lawmakers jealously staved off efforts, usually made by minority Republicans, to create an elected state attorney general, lieutenant governor, secretary of state and the like.
Now that they're in power, legislative Republicans have proved to be no more eager to put new offices on the ballot.
And big-city mayors have tried and failed before to hoist themselves to statewide office.
In 1962, then-Chattanooga Mayor Rudy Olgiati challenged incumbent Gov. Buford Ellington in the Democratic primary and lost.
In 1986, Nashville Mayor Richard Fulton, a former Democratic congressman, came in third to state House Speaker Ned McWherter in the party's gubernatorial primary.
But that all changed with Nashville Mayor Phil Bredesen, although it took him awhile. A self-made millionaire, Democrat Bredesen ran for governor in 1994, losing to Republican Don Sundquist, then in Congress.
Eight years later, in the midst of a GOP civil war over Sundquist's championing of a state income tax, Bredesen defeated U.S. Rep. Van Hilleary, R-Tenn., in 2002 to take the governor's chair.
Since then, two other Republican mayors followed the same formula. Chattanooga Mayor Bob Corker defeated two former congressmen in the 2006 GOP U.S. Senate primary. Corker then beat U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr., a Memphis Democrat.
Four years later, Haslam followed suit, defeating the younger McWherter in 2010.
"Really, until Phil Bredesen won, mayors had not had much success running for governor. A lot had tried," noted The Tennessee Journal's Cromer.
"But you've had two mayors [elected governor] in a row. And of course, you still have a Republican-leaning state at the moment," Cromer said. "But it's more than that, it's a conservative state. Bredesen ran as a businessman with a conservative business philosophy, and it may be that someone else may be able to do that, too."
As to why big-city mayors have become more viable in recent years, Cromer said, "I think people see it as you've done something, you've run something before and it's a valuable experience."
And all three men's campaigns were aided by their personal wealth.
The downside, Cromer said, is mayors often have to raise property taxes.
"That'll be used against you. It was used against Bredesen, Haslam and Corker," Cromer said.
Haslam and Corker argued that they left property tax rates at historically low levels. But critics said constituents still paid more taxes because their property values rose.
House Republican Caucus Chairman Glen Casada said he expects Democrats to become more competitive at some point down the road. A good way down the road, he emphasized, especially for statewide offices.
"I don't see it in Tennessee for a while.," Casada said. "Governor Bredesen was extremely conservative on business; maybe somebody of that tone, maybe. But you'd have to demonstrate it. … You have to prove that you are at least a fiscal conservative."
"Little people's republics"
Though most city races are nominally nonpartisan, GOP state lawmakers haven't hesitated to block municipal initiatives that might have a Democratic cast.
In 2012, state lawmakers stopped an effort by Nashville's Metro Council to bar businesses with city contracts from discriminating against gays. Last session, they barred Memphis from requiring a higher minimum wage for contractors.
"They [cities] are all economic generators for the surrounding counties," argued House Majority Leader Gerald McCormick, R-Chattanooga, during the debate. "That alone is reason enough not to let them set up some little people's republic in some city in the state."
House Democratic Caucus Chairman Mike Turner said last week that Republicans "have gone hard" after local governments. "If Glen Casada sees something that the city of Chattanooga's doing [that he disagrees with], he's going to interfere if he has the opportunity to do it."
"Red to the Roots"
Tennessee Republican Party Chairman Chris Devaney recently unveiled a "Red to the Roots" program. It's primarily aimed at county governments and local judgeships.
A number of Tennessee counties have nonpartisan elections and Devaney wants that to change.
"There's no doubt that their [Democrats'] bench is at the local level and where we can, we want to peel back that cloth they're hiding in, which is the cloak of nonpartisanship," Devaney said.
And despite state Republican bylaws that prevent similar actions with cities, he said, he's got his eyes on municipalities, too, especially Chattanooga, where he once lived.
"I'm going to be interested to see what kind of mayor Andy Berke really is," Devaney said. "Is is he going to be like the liberal state senator he was in Nashville or is he going to be a mayor like Bob Corker? I guess the jury's still out on that."
Berke shrugs off talk about the possibility of seeking statewide office in the future, at least for now.
"I am at day approximately 110 or so of my mayoral term," Berke said. "My focus right now is on getting a budget passed."
Contact staff writer Andy Sher at asher@timesfree press.com or 615-255-0550.


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Reinventing Watergate
Jules Witcover
Who would have thought after all these years that the Republicans would turn to
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In the poisonous political atmosphere of the Watergate affair, minimized then by the Republicans as a "third-rate burglary" of the
He had underlings draw up an "enemies list" that included about 60 reporters and commentators to be cold-shouldered by his administration or worse, including what turned out to be some retaliatory audits by the
As a reporter covering Nixon in those days, I was disappointed not to have been honored by inclusion on the list that came to public light. Nevertheless, when I wrote a somewhat critical book about Nixon's political resurrection in 1968, I was audited for the first time, for reasons the
One of my best sources for the book in the Nixon administration, based in
The incident came back to mind the other day in the context of the latest
Rogers said the
In doing so, Rogers was taking a giant leap from that regional office into the
Other leading congressional Republicans -- most notably
Without putting too fine a point on the promise, Issa's semi-certitude seems to echo the late Sen.
The revelation of the inappropriate targeting of conservative groups came, notably, from the head of the screening office within the
In any event, to equate the tea party and other right-leaning organizations singled out by the
What will be next from these hunters for deep Oval Office conspiracy? Will there be more cries for impeachment, to rescue a
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Some parts of Kansas have had recurring problems with gray leaf spot in corn and this year is no exception, according to a Kansas State University scientist.
"Recent surveying has indicated that it will be a very good year for gray leaf spot in many of the areas where it has traditionally been a problem," said K-State Research and Extension plant pathologist, Doug Jardine. "In the Kansas River Valley, for instance, gray leaf spot has already reached the ear leaf minus two in some continuous corn fields where the tassel was just beginning to exert itself. On the other hand, southeast Kansas appears to be free of the disease at this time."
Jardine said scouting of fields should be done prior to any fungicide applications. Many of the new hybrids have improved tolerance to gray leaf spot and may not require a fungicide application.
"Most seed company catalogs will contain the gray leaf spot rating for a hybrid. Keep in mind, different companies may use different rating systems so you can only compare hybrids within a company, not between companies," he said. "For moderately susceptible hybrids, fungicide applications are appropriate, if lesions can be found on the ear leaf minus three on 50 percent or more of the leaves at tasseling."
For intermediate hybrids, lesions need to reach the ear leaf minus two and, for moderately resistant hybrids, the ear leaf minus one.
"If you have lesions on the ear leaf at tasseling, you need to spray regardless of the rated resistance," Jardine said.
He said producers should keep in mind that there are many reports of crop injury when fungicides are applied prior to tasseling. Also, nearly all research shows that tasseling is the optimum time to apply a fungicide for maximum yield savings.
"Reduced rate applications are strongly discouraged because of the possibility of fungicide resistance development," he added.
Current registrations for many of the labeled products allow application beyond the full blister stage, the plant pathologist said. This will allow for a later application if it is not clear yet that one is needed at tasseling.
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And Here Is Obama's Comment on the Jay-Z Cuba Trip
"We've got better things to do."
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney was very firm in his response to Jay-Z's "Open Letter" — "It's a song. The president did not communicate with Jay-Z over this trip" — but of course that did not stop Today's Savannah Guthrie from asking the president himself (in an interview taped before the Boston bombings). So here is Obama's official comment on the Cuba controversy: "I wasn't familiar that they were taking the trip … You know, this is not something the White House was involved with. We've got better things to do."


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The Price of Preemies
And other news from the techno-frontier.
You and I are cultural and political creatures living in an age of science and technology. From sexuality to liposuction to surveillance to cloning, we're being overrun by technologies full of implications about who we are and how we should live. The purpose of Human Nature is to expose and discuss those implications. In the weeks to come, what you'll find here is a steady diet of news updates and quick takes, coupled with longer columns exploring some topics more thoroughly.
Let's start with a few updates.
Item: Most premature babies who survive to age six have disabilities.
Source: New England Journal of Medicine
Outlet: Associated Press, Jan. 6
Gist: Eighty percent of 6-year-old children who were born between the 22nd and 25th weeks of pregnancy (the current lower limit) have disabilities, and 46 percent have severe or moderate disabilities (cerebral palsy, learning disabilities, hearing loss, vision problems, etc.).
Implication drawn by the researchers: "Parents need to go into this situation with their eyes wide open and with an open dialogue with their doctors as to what they should do."
Translation: Pull the plug.
Other implications: According to the AP, "The rate of premature births in the United States has crept up in recent years, in part because of a rise in multiple births and older mothers." So think twice about IVF, ladies.
Item: Reducing inflammation may reduce heart disease.
Source: New England Journal of Medicine
Outlets: New York Times, Washington Post, et al., Jan. 6
Gist: Two studies suggest "C-reactive protein," an inflammation marker, may correlate as strongly with heart disease as cholesterol does.
Skeptical view: CRP may be the symptom, not the cause. Either way, the less you have, the safer you are.
Lifestyle implications: To reduce CRP, quit smoking, exercise, eat healthy, lose weight, and take statin drugs. Oh, wait—that's the same stuff you're already supposed to do. ... 10:50 a.m. PT
Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2005
Item: A guy has been arrested for aiming a laser pen at aircraft.
Outlet: New York Times, Jan. 5
Gist: Several pilots have reported distraction or temporary vision loss from ground-based lasers since Christmas. Some people thought it might be terrorism. But now prosecutors are blaming one incident on a guy fooling around with a laser pen he bought online for $100. The charge, interference of the operator of a mass transit vehicle, is based on the USA Patriot Act. Prosecutors say they're sending a message that after 9/11, no funny business will be tolerated.
Security implication: Now anyone can blind a pilot.
The good news: The lasers haven't downed any planes, and this incident wasn't terrorism.
The bad news: 1) This guy had nothing to do with the other incidents, so those could still be terrorism. 2) The government has no mechanism to regulate laser pens. 3) The only reason this idiot was caught is that he aimed his pen at the helicopter that came back to search for the source of the original beam. Otherwise, good luck enforcing a ban.
Item: Morning-after pills don't lull women into risking unprotected sex.
Outlet: Washington Post, Jan. 5
Gist: Last year the Food and Drug Administration refused to allow nonprescription sales of Plan B, a morning-after pill, on the grounds that its easy availability might lull young women into having more unprotected sex. A study by CRHRP finds no such effect.
Liberal spin: This cuts the scientific legs out from under what was really a political decision. Now give us the pill.
Item: The FDA will let some terminally ill people take Ecstasy.
Source: Food and Drug Administration
Outlets: Washington Post, Dec. 27; Associated Press, Dec. 28
Gist: The FDA has approved a study to see whether Ecstasy can help terminally ill cancer patients mellow out, connect with their families, and find spiritual transcendence. Another study is testing Ecstasy on post-traumatic stress disorder. Two others are testing psilocybin ("magic mushrooms") on obsessive-compulsive disorder and terminal cancer.
Positive spin: 1) Maybe we're finally admitting it's OK to get high. 2) Psychedelic drugs and FDA-approved antidepressants affect the same parts of the brain. Why allow one but not the other?
Negative spin: The study still needs approval from the Drug Enforcement Administration. Good luck.
Item: A woman has given birth to her own grandchildren.
Outlet: Washington Post, Dec. 29
Gist: A Virginia woman couldn't bear children, so her 55-year-old mom accepted her IVF embryos and carried triplets to term.
Positive spin: It's the greatest gift a mother can give to her daughter.
Negative spin: Yuck. 1) The kids' gestational mom is their genetic grandma, and their genetic mom is their gestational sister. 2) The grandma may think of herself as the kids' real mom, and if she goes to court, some states will agree with her.
Quote: The dad says watching his mother-in-law carry his child was "surreal." ... 11:53 a.m. PT
Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2005
Item: We're going to live longer than Social Security administrators expect.
Source: "many population experts"
Outlet: New York Times, Dec. 31
Gist: Life expectancy at birth rose 21 years from 1900 to 1950 (47.3 to 68.2) and another nine years from 1950 to 2002, reaching 77.3 years. The Social Security Administration assumes life expectancy will now grow more slowly, increasing only six years by 2075. Longevity experts say this assumption is too low. Why? 1) Life expectancy has increased by three months per year pretty regularly for 160 years. 2) Government projections have historically underestimated increases in longevity. 3) After 1950, although the rate of increase declined for the general population, it increased for the population over age 65. 4) Our average life expectancy is far below any biological "ceiling."
Financial implication: We're doing such a good job of keeping people alive that we're going to bankrupt ourselves.
Critique: Three of the four "expert" arguments are social science dressed up as natural science. They're just demographic extrapolations from the past to the future, with no biological theory to explain why we could increase the longevity of old people as easily as we increased the longevity of young people. The fourth argument is biological but tells us only about a ceiling. It doesn't matter how high the ceiling is if we don't have a ladder to get there—and that's the argument on the other side. As the token skeptic puts it in the Times, "There are no lifestyle changes, surgical procedures, vitamins, antioxidants, hormones or techniques of genetic engineering available today with the capacity to repeat the gains in life expectancy that were achieved in the 20th century."
Buried political story: Read down to the 10th paragraph of the Times article.
For the American population as a whole in the last century, most of the gains in life expectancy at birth occurred from 1900 to 1950. But most of the gains in life expectancy among people who had already reached age 65 were seen after 1950. Last year an expert panel advising the Social Security Administration found "an unprecedented reduction in certain forms of old-age mortality, especially cardiovascular disease, beginning in the late 1960's."
In other words, as old people increased their share of the country's economic and political power, they consumed more of the country's medical attention. Further down, the Times adds, "Nor do economists generally foresee a reversal of the trend toward early retirement. Though researchers have observed a significant decline in chronic disability among the elderly, most workers retire and begin drawing Social Security benefits before they reach 65."
Disability down. Cardiovascular disease down. Longevity up. Social Security benefits earlier. This isn't a biological problem. It's a political problem.
Punch line: Two other problems may solve this one. One expert observes that obesity is proliferating and lethal infectious diseases are thriving in our increasingly connected world. Human self-destruction may spare us the financial cost of human self-absorption.
Item: More adult women are having unprotected intercourse.
Outlet: Washington Post, Jan. 4
Gist: From 1995 to 2002, the percentage of sexually active adult women not using contraception rose from 5.2 to 7.4. This could increase unintended pregnancies by more than 20 percent.
Liberal spin: This is the tragic result of insufficient sex education, too much abstinence-only curriculum, more people without insurance coverage, and lower federal funding of family planning relative to inflation. One liberal complains that drug companies "have cut way back" on free samples and tells the Post, "It is absolutely unconscionable that women have a co-pay of $20 or $25 [a month] for contraceptives and men are getting off scot-free."
Critique: 1) If erosion of sex ed is the problem, why is contraceptive use increasing among teenagers? 2) Before you blame health insurers and drug companies, ask how safe, reliable, and expensive birth control was before they got into it. 3) Doesn't "co-pay" mean we're socializing some of the cost, and nobody's getting off scot-free? 4) Have we really been relying on free samples to get birth control to poor women? If so, shouldn't we make that subsidy public and stop leeching off greedy drug companies?
Conservative spin: Women are rejecting birth control because they want to get pregnant or don't like birth control's side effects. An abstinence proponent tells the Post, "The women making these choices are making a conscious choice. They are not stupid."
Critique: We'll quote you on that next time you propose legislation—like, say, S. 2466—to regulate women's choices on the grounds that they're dupes of the abortion industry.
Item: There's no evidence that commercial weight-loss programs work.
Source: Annals of Internal Medicine
Outlet: New York Times, Jan. 4
Gist: 1) Virtually no commercial diet program has "published reliable data from randomized trials showing that people who participated weighed less a few months later than people who did not participate." 2) Since there's no good evidence, maybe you should avoid the most expensive programs. 3) The most expensive programs are supervised by doctors. 4) "Doctors could do as well as these programs" just by telling people to diet and exercise. 5) All diet programs fail because "they're fighting biology."
Critique: Thanks for the help.
Item: Medicare will pay for alcoholism screening and for counseling to quit smoking.
Source: Medicare administrators
Outlets: New York Times, Dec. 24; Los Angeles Times, Jan. 2
Gist: Alcoholism screening begins this week. Coverage of smoking cessation counseling begins in March. Both will cost a lot of money but save more by preventing cancer, heart and liver disease, and other maladies.
Cultural analysis: We're socializing treatment of smoking and drinking because we now view them as diseases, not vices.
Economic analysis: We socialized treatment of the consequences of smoking and drinking when we created Medicare 40 years ago. Now we're just cutting costs. ... 10:30 p.m. PT


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I'm trying to do a WMV encode right now that works on *some* versions of MediaCoder (.6.0.395 but not .6.1.66), but the commandline reports back "error when encoding video frame" or "broken frame at 0x10587d" no matter what I use as an input file (TSCC-encoded AVI, H264-encoded MP4).
I've had problems encoding to WMV on several computers, have never gotten it working properly using Mediacoder -- our eventual goal is to get a commandline mode running under Linux so that we can run transcoding on our webserver.
Any ideas?
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So let's stop using it as our default every time we are too lazy,
busy, insecure, stupid or whatever to think of a more original or
relevant word.
Let's stop using it because we're middle-aged business people who think it makes us look cool. It doesn't.
Let's stop using it because we are so riveted to the game control,
iPhone or other obsessions that we begrudge the brain cells required to
process language.
Scary awful meanings
Despite the monotonous ubiquity, most people seem unaware of the full
meaning. In addition to inspiring joyful awe, "awesome" can mean
inspiring terror, as in "the awesome power of the sea."
Not only that, the word "awful," I discovered, is actually a synonym
for "awesome," providing you communicate in an olde English dialect.
Gee, I'm starting to sound like Grammar Girl. Back to the anti-awesome movement I'm trying to muster.
In my quest for alternatives to "awesome," I checked with Wikipedia,
Thesaurus.com and some other sources. I also asked people on Facebook
and other social media, where I often spot the biggest offenders. I even
cooked up a few more on my own.
The anti-awesome list
Please add your suggestions in the comments below.
1. Amazing
2. Astonishing
3. Awe-inspiring
4. Awe-struck
5. Beautiful
6. Beyond the call
7. Breathtaking
8. Brilliant
9. Clever
10. Cool
11. Dazzling
12. Exciting
13. Excellent
14. Exceptional
15. Fabulous
16. Fantastic
17. Great
18. Groovy
19. Heart-stopping
20. Humbling
21. Impressive
22. Incredible
23. Ingenius
24. Magnificent
25. Majestic
26. Marvelous
27. Mind-blowing
28. Momentous
29. Moving
30. Out of this world
31. Outstanding
32. Overwhelming
33. Remarkable
34. Righteous
35. Shazam
36. Simply divine
37. Spectacular
38. Staggering
39. Striking
40. Stunning
41. Stupendous
42. Un-freakin believable
43. Wonderful
44. Wondrous
45. You rock
I don't want to banish "awesome" entirely. Occasionally, it is the best choice. But I would love to hear a little more thought behind those robotic mouth movements.
For those who want to keep it simple, try a word from this list the
next time you are tempted to slip into "awesome." Maybe you should give
yourself a daily "awesome" limit, and wean yourself off gradually.
Welcome to the anti-"awesome" movement, oh wise ones.
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Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 3:06 am
Post subject: Newbie Waystation
Credit to Agamemnon (the creator of the most recent Waystation thread I saw), Twilight Mage, and any other creators of the many Newbie Waystations over the years.
Welcome to the Newbie Way Station!! Everything you could want is right at your fingertips. But, before we continue, a word from our sponsors, with a special thanks to the Sinfest Forum Oldbies, and the new hugely delicious double third pound burger from Hardees with two 1/3 lb. patties and four strips of bacon on a toasted and buttered bun. The mere name of this burger will give you a heart attack, so, to protect the innocent....Probably doesn't matter here, but anywho The almighty sage of newbie welcome, TwilightMage, has laid down this list of suggestions (with a few minor clarifications provided by me...)
If you want to say hi, please post here. Please don't start a thread to say, "Hey look at me. I'm here." I'm not saying it's a rule, I'm just suggesting you do this as a courtesy. Besides, no one's really impressed when you post a newbie threat to flout the rules. It's been done before and it's usually a simple tale of sound and fury signifying stupid.
Way Station Rules
(applying to this thread, not necessarily to others)
First, NO Super powers, God powers, Anime powers, et cetera (not even Austin Powers) or weapons of any sort past this point. CHECK THEM HERE. They will be returned to you in time. Not so much a big deal anymore, but still on the books.
Please respect your elders. It's only polite.
Violators will be persecuted, hunted down, killed, filleted, eaten and then treated rather shabbily.
Repeat offenders will be stapled to a metal folding chair with your eyes nailed open and forced to watch Gigli. (Or if that movie has finally been burned from existence, Ishtar)
And now . . .
1. No puking on the Strippers.
2. No resurrecting dead threads. A thread older than a week is dead.
3. No posting replies to old threads in a new thread.
4. Newbies can't pick on Newbies.
5. No "I want to see Monique naked" posts.
6. Sexual Harassment is allowed (but will be graded on a scale of 1-10)
7. All females must be bisexual or at least bi-curious.
8. Take the newbie hazing like . . . well, a newbie
Newbie - any person under an undetermined amount of posts, depending on whether or not we think you deserve not to be called a newbie. Not to be confused with Fleem, which is far worse.
If you feel like you ABSOLUTELY MUST be hazed, just wait - we'll get to you. However, there is no hazing/fighting in the Way Station.
Regulars, please do the newbies a favor and give this thread a bump if it needs one. And please DON'T spam the waystation.
Now, welcome!! And above all, HAVE FUN!!!
"What we believe to be the truth is only the truth because we believe it to be."
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Note: Ignore non-applicable Keenspot related things.
Here's my little contribution to the Way Station. A Small Forum FAQ. (Some facetiousness thrown in so as not to seem too lecturing, ok?)
I am looking to create some traffic to my website. Should I register, and then just post the link?
Yes. Then, please nibble on some high tension wires. Noobs!! DO NOT click on a lone link in a post by someone with just a few posts. This is likely spam. Anyone who clicks on a link like this will likely encourage further spammers to visit these forums, which is a presence we're lucky to avoid. Also, don't post in the thread, as one of the oldbies will mail the admins and have the thread deleted. The thread won't be deleted if there are responses to the spammer. Thank you in advance. Oldbies, this is the Spidiot thread.
Why are there more than one Way Station threads?
We are all narcissistic here. We don't want to scare away the Newbies, so when a Way Station gets too cluttered, it's time to bomb it in favor of a new one. What does this have to do with narcissism? You tell me.
But, what has happened now? The Way Station is still here, but all the posts are gone! Did I just lose all my postwhoring? Did I just lose my train of thought?
I am power hungry! Hear me roar! I discovered a new trick that allows the original poster to edit the title of a thread. Check around. I bet you can find the last thread somewhere.
I thought Twilight Mage was running the Waystation. Whatever happened to him?
Yeah, I miss the Mage too. But, he's moved on to his own things. I believe he pops in from time to time. Perhaps he'll come back like most of the oldbies do from time to time. In the mean time, I try to run this in a way that meets his approval, and brings respect to all the forum oldbies. Now if you excuse me, I have to go blow stuff up
When I click on the last page (or several pages) of a thread, I get a " No posts exist for this topic". What did I do wrong?
You forgot to stand on your head when clicking this thread. Keenspot has had problems in the past. It still has problems occasionally with crashing. This often happens with one or more people are trying to submit their post. As such, the counter for a thread registers the post, but the post actually never gets posted. I think the Post office snatches these "Phantom" posts, posthaste. For the solution, try clicking on the previous page (i.e. if there appears to be 27 pages, click on page 26.) If this doesn't work, click on the title of the Thread, and scroll down. There is info at the bottom of the page that might help you. If you still can't figure this out, cover yourself in Jell-O and post a picture here. If you are attractive enough, you might get some help .
I see these fight threads, and I'm heavy into it. They look like a lot of fun, but are there any rules?
First off, I would read the entire thread to get a feel for the atmosphere there. Next, I would visit here for the rules. And Finally, I would be prepared to die quickly if you screw up. I mean, someone like Black Leviathan will transfer himself electronically through your screen and squeeze your small intestines through your bellybutton. Messy, and I didn't like it.
ahem.......... excuse me for interupting........... its just its been 6 days........ 6 days and no new sinfest................and no ones seems to have said anything???? is it just me??? am i the only one not getting my hit??? HELP!! does everyone know something i don't?? (Credit for this question goes to gabrielle)
What the hell do you think this is? A forum to discuss the Sinfest comic?....(Listens to an oldbie whisper in his ear) Well, I guess I even learned something today. Okay, we all love Tat for his ability to keep up with the updates. He is among the best on the net with this. But, he is only human after all (can anybody actually confirm this bit?) He deserves vacations too. And, occasionally he has taken them. Don't worry. So far, he has come back every time. (Usually not more than a week to 10 days.) [Tat info thread for the oldbies]
What's with the double posts? Are all of you here stupid morons or something?
No, only newbies who insult the existing community are morons. The system that hosts this forum (that keenspot word you see in the upper left of your screen) is not perfect. Several factors can cause a duplicate post. One common one is when one posts to a thread that has the last (several) page(s) and then gets the message "No posts exist for this topic" (see first FAQ question). If you hit the back button, and it asks you to re-submit the information, it results in a duplicate post. When the system gets unstable right before a crash, sometimes duplicate posts are created due to hitting the submit button twice. There are other things that might cause this to happen. If it happens to you and you have the last post, you can use the "x" in the upper right of your post to delete your duplicate. This only works if you are the most recent poster.
I hear there is a sinfest chat channel. But the link at the top leads me to some sort of general keenspot chat. What's up with that?
The only place worse for a newbie to be than the forum is on #sinfest channel. We are a bunch of elitists that hate you on general principle. Okay, not really. #Keenspot CHAT @ irc.nightstar.net is the Keenspot Chat Channel, and you won't find Sinfest specific chat there. #sinfest channel is actually located on the sorcery.net server, port 6667. This requires IRC. There's a java applet floating around, but I'm not sure it works anymore. Anyway, if you can't find it with this info, then either ask around discretely or stay away. Or better yet, post a question about it, and include a disclaimer of "NSFW" and include some boobage. I bet you'll get a response that way.
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This is my "Hallo".
Usually skip intro's on forums, but I'll put this down so I can point later and say I actually read it.
If Pro is the opposite of Con, is Progress the opposite of Congress?
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I am posting on this high quality forum!
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I am posting on this high quality forum!
You guys are going to haunt me until the end of all time with that quote.
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I am posting on this high quality forum!
You naughty, naughty boy.
attitude of a street punk, only cutting selected words out of context to get onself excuse to let one's dirty mouth loose
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You guys are going to haunt me until the end of all time with that quote.
More than likely, or for 7 years. Chances are though, with a quote such as that one that the phrase will show up on an image and be circulated around the 'net until countless parodies have been produced and killed the humor for most. The picture will be forced to make appearances at weddings and birthday parties to make ends meet and be ultimately forgotten until VH1 does a special on it 20 years from now. There will be a short lived revival of interest in the phrase which will turn into a backlash when VH1 announces that the phrase will have its own reality show.
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I think that makes us
newbies again.
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hm... does this make me a newbie again?
I hope not, cause you and I were newbs at the same time.
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The California Energy Commission must prepare and adopt an Investment Plan for the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program to determine the funding priorities and opportunities and describe how program funding will be used to complement other public and private investments.
2011-2012 Investment Plan for the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program Committee Final Report
Publication # CEC-600-2011-006-CTF (PDF file, 185 pages, 1.7 MB). Posted August 24, 2011.
On April 22, 2009, the Energy Commission adopted its first Investment Plan, as required by statute. The adopted Investment Plan contains specific recommendations for expending $176 million appropriated for the first two years of the Program (fiscal years 2008-09 and 2009-10).
The Energy Commission is required to annually update the investment plan. On August 11, 2010, the Energy Commission adopted its updated Investment Plan, outlining funding for fiscal year 2010-2011. Anticipated funding for this period is approximately $108 million. All projects funded by the Energy Commission will be consistent with the priorities established in the 2010-2011 Investment Plan.
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The Energy Commission develops the Investment Plan in coordination with an Advisory Committee. The Advisory Committee is composed of individuals from a wide range of interests that can provide advice and guidance to the Energy Commission. By law, the Advisory Committee must include, but is not limited to: representatives of fuel and vehicle technology consortia, labor organizations, environmental organizations, community-based justice and public health organizations, recreational boaters, consumer advocates, academic institutions, workforce training groups, and private industry as well as representatives from the Resources Agency; the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency; the Labor and Workforce Development Agency; and the California Environmental Protection Agency.
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Universal Studios' new Harry Potter attraction — Diagon Alley — will have at least eight new shops, an ice cream parlor and Leaky Cauldron restaurant when it opens this summer, the resort revealed on Thursday, but it did not give an opening date.
Shops will include a larger Ollivander's wand shop, a Quidditch equipment and apparel store, Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, and Borgin and Burkes, which specializes in gear for the Dark Arts.
Thursday's webcast unveiled the most information yet about the second Wizarding World of Harry Potter attraction, but offered scant detail about the Hogwarts Express ride, which will connect the two parks, or the centerpiece ride, which Universal had previously said will be set in Gringotts, the goblin-run bank where wizards keep their money.
Mark Woodbury, president of Universal Creative, standing in a vault in the basement of Gringotts for the webcast, said the name of the ride will be Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts.
A fire-breathing dragon that guards the bank will sit atop the white marble building, Thierry Coup, senior vice president of Universal's Creative Studio, said in an interview. Guests will enter the bank lobby and go through a queue as long and detailed as the celebrated queue at Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey, which opened in 2010, he said.
The only description of the ride itself: "Riders will navigate their way through the perils of the Gringotts vaults."
The two Harry Potter attractions — Diagon Alley (a secret wizard neighborhood in London) at Universal Studios and Hogsmeade (the village in Scotland where the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is set) at Islands of Adventure — will be connected by the Hogwarts Express.
The ride from London to Hogwarts will be an adventure in itself, but no details have been revealed. The train will appear exactly as the train in the movies, Woodbury said, and "there will be a few surprises."
In addition to the King's Cross Station at Diagon Alley, Universal is building a new station just outside the current boundaries of Hogsmeade, Coup said.
Guests will have to buy a two-park pass to ride the train or visit both Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade.
Diagon Alley at Universal will include these shops, drawn from the Harry Potter books and movies:
•Ollivanders wand shop.
In the books, Ollivanders is only in Diagon Alley, but when Universal created the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Islands of Adventure, it created a branch of Ollivanders for Hogsmeade. Coup said the new Ollivanders will be larger, but it has not been decided whether it will have multiple rooms for simultaneous ceremonies, where the wand chooses the wizard.
•Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes,
with novelty items, magical jokes, and toys. This shop was the most challenging to design, Coup said. Three stories tall and very old, the store has tilted floors and curves where there should be straight lines, and is "packed to the rafters" with the Weasley twins' magical toys and tricks.
•Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions,
with wizards' robes, item of the Hogwarts uniforms and character costumes
•Magical Menagerie,
which features a collection of plush animals, such as owls, Hippogriffs, snakes and toads. The Magical Menagerie is where Harry Potter buys Hedwig, his owl, when he first learns he is a wizard. And it is Coup's favorite shop. "It's a small shop, but it's going to be filled with incredible animals. It's going to be a big surprise for our guests," he said.
•Wiseacre's Wizarding Equipment,
offering compasses, hourglasses and other wizard gear.
•Quality Quidditch Supplies,
with Quidditch brooms, Golden Snitches, and athletic apparel.
a stationery store with feather quills, inkwells, parchment and journals.
•Borgin and Burkes:
In Knockturn Alley, home to the "dark side of wizarding," Borgin and Burkes will specialize in gear for the Dark Arts such as Death Eater masks and skulls.
•The Leaky Cauldron
will offer traditional British fare, such as fish and chips and bangers and mash.
•Florean Fortescue's Ice-Cream Parlour
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DECORAH, Iowa (Blugolds.com) – The UW-Eau Claire women's basketball team ended a two-game losing streak today with a 56-52 victory over Luther College (Iowa) in the Regents Center.
Both teams kept the game close with neither team leading by double figures at any time throughout the contest. Luther led by as many as nine points with 6:39 left in the first half while the Blugolds led by as many as six points less than five minutes into the game.
The Blugolds led most of the first eight minutes but Luther used a 9-0 run to get up by six with eight minutes left in the opening half.
Luther, which led at halftime 32-29, never trailed again until midway through the second half. With less than nine minutes to play, Arien Becker (Fr.-Hayward, Wis.) hit a jumper that gave the Blugolds a lead. But Luther eventually worked its way to another lead and was up by two points with 1:29 remaining.
Over the final minute and a half, however, the Blugolds held Luther scoreless, ending the contest with a 6-0 run to beat the Norse by four.
Sarah Bingea (Sr.-Delano, Minn.) led the Blugolds in scoring and rebounding with 15 points and eight rebounds. Courtney Lewis (So.-Prairie Du Chien, Wis.) added 12 points.
Eau Claire outshot Luther 40.4 percent (21-for-52) to 32.7 percent (17-for-52) but the Norse edged the Blugolds in rebounding, 38-37. Luther also committed 21 turnovers to 15 for Eau Claire.
The Blugolds got back to .500 with a 5-5 overall record. Luther falls to 6-3.
Eau Claire will be back in action at the Smokey Ballenger Classic in Westerville, Ohio on Dec. 28 and 29. The Blugolds will play Thiel (Pa.) Friday and Frostburg State (Md.) Saturday.


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These are things that Eclipse Project leads and committers need, and should, be doing on a regular basis (daily/weekly/weekly/quarterly/etc).
A common question new projects ask is "how should we use Bugzilla effectively?". There are many schemes for using Bugzilla, but a common one is described on another page.
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The eclipse.org site has various news and announcement pages, as well as pages that describe the projects and top-level PMCs. To request an announcement or news, send email to email@example.com. To change your project's pages, use the project's website CVS:
Nuturing the Three Communities
Project teams will obviously be doing this, but we include it here for the sake of completeness and as a reminder that it is very important. Continue to use the public mailing lists, respond in the newsgroups, write articles, staff code camps, triage the bugzilla, attend the Eclipse community events (e.g. EclipseCon, Eclipse Summit Europe, Council meetings, ...) and so on.
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How to calculate the surge voltage using MOSFET to drive stepper motor?
Latest Updated:09/02/2013
I would like to calculate the surge voltage when using a MOSFET to drive a stepper motor. Specifically, how would I calculate it?
If the circuit for driving the stepper motor is the same as the avalanche destruction resistance test circuit in figure 2.6 on page 16 of the Power MOSFET Application Note, as shown in figure 2.6 V(BR)DSS (breakdown voltage of the MOSFET) surge voltage will be produced. This is operation outside of the rated VDS. Since the 2SK2415 and 2SK2415-Z do not permit continuous avalanche operation, always connect a free wheel diode in parallel with the load (stepper motor) to make sure that surge voltage is not produced when the MOSFET is turned off.
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