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Study Reveals High Levels of Formaldehyde in Child Day Care Centers
In a comprehensive survey from University of California (UC), Berkeley, researchers analyzed the indoor environmental quality of day care centers. In general, the results were very similar to most indoor environments except for formaldehyde. This and several other contaminants were found to exceed California state health guidelines. The source is believed to be the cleaning and sanitizing products and furniture coatings.
The study looked at 40 early childhood education facilities in Alameda and Monterey counties. Eight-hour air sample canisters were set up and then analyzed. The laboratory results showed that 35 of the 40 facilities had formaldehyde levels exceed the California guideline for safe exposure, which is 9 micrograms per cubic meter over eight hours.
Formaldehyde is an organic, colorless gas, formula CH2O, with an irritating odor. It is commonly used as a disinfectant and biocide. It is very useful for killing bacteria and fungi, and can even be applied to the human skin as a treatment for warts. However, the chemical is a known respiratory irritant and a listed carcinogen.
"Children are more vulnerable to the health effects of environmental contaminants, and many small children spend as much as 10 hours per day, five days a week, in child care centers," said study lead author Asa Bradman, associate director of the UC Berkeley Center for Environmental Research and Children's Health (CERCH). "We wanted to establish the baseline levels of environmental exposures in these early child care settings, and to provide information that could be used for any necessary policy changes." The 40 child care centers studied served a total of 1,764 children.
In California, the agency in charge of governing air quality is the California Air Resources Board (CARB). They have been developing and implementing regulatory programs to reduce emissions of volatile organic compounds from consumer products. In 2008, CARB passed a rule to reduce formaldehyde emissions from building materials and furniture made from pressed wood, which is the greatest source of formaldehyde in indoor air.
The other major source is the cleaning products, such as d-limonene. This chemical is added to the cleaning products to give it that citrusy fresh scent.
The study authors stress proper ventilation and selecting safer cleaning products as effective ways to reduce contaminant levels indoors.
"These findings show that cleaning and sanitizing products impact air quality in child care settings," said Victoria Leonard, a scientist at UC San Francisco's Institute for Health and Aging. "Given that many young children have asthma or other respiratory problems, this study offers strong evidence to select safer cleaning products that have less volatile chemicals."
Link to CARB Formaldehyde Regulations
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The Voice battles on in ratings
The Voice UK has continued to top the Saturday night TV ratings as the show moved into the Battle Rounds.
The BBC singing talent show has seen in a boost in viewing figures this year with the addition of Kylie Minogue and Ricky Wilson to the judging panel.
But previous series have seen the ratings plummet after the initial Blind Audition stages, featuring the spinning chairs.
Around 6.95 million viewers tuned in to the first instalment of the Battle Rounds at 7pm on BBC One, according to Digital Spy.
This gave the show a 30.4 per cent share of the audience figures, ahead of Ant And Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway which aired on ITV in the same timeslot, taking a 27.79 per cent share with 6.4 million.
The latest edition of The Voice saw 12 acts chosen to face the public vote in the live finals, as the coaches pitched their acts against each other in sing-off battles. Helped by star mentors Katy B, Jake Shears, Dante Santiago, Leah McFall and Tinie Tempah, the contestants all rehearsed duets to perform and their coaches could only choose one from each pairing to go to the live rounds, plus they could each "steal" another rejected act.
Will.i.am put through Anna McLuckie, Callum Crowley and Jermaine Jackman - who revealed he met Will at a festival last year and the musician urged him to audition for The Voice. He also "stole" Nomakhosi Nkosi from Team Kylie.
One of Will's rejected acts Jessica Steele was left in tears, but was then the subject of a "steal" from Ricky. The Kaiser Chiefs frontman also put through Beth McCarthy, Emily Adams and Christina Marie, the latter after an amazing sing-off of The Power Of Love with Nathan Amzi.
Kylie chose rocker Lee Glasson, Leo Ihenacho, who impressed with his dance moves, and Jai McConnell who she said had a voice that sounded like it came from "outer space".
Sir Tom Jones chose Sally Barker, Celestine - whose son ran on stage to congratulate her - and Bizzi Dixon, after the judges declared his battle with Kenny Thompson the best ever, in which they performed Hey Jude. But Sir Tom said Bizzi's gospel style had given him the edge.
He also used his "steal" to welcome Steven Alexander, who had been rejected by Kylie.


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by Catherine Krikstan
December 17, 2012
The harvest of menhaden along the Atlantic coast will be cut by 20 percent, following a controversial decision made by the fifteen-state board that regulates near-shore fishing.
Thirteen regulators voted in favor of the harvest reduction in a heated meeting of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC), held last week in a Baltimore hotel ballroom crowded with hundreds of activists clad in "Fight for Menhaden" buttons and shirts.
Often called "the most important fish in the sea," menhaden are filter feeders that play an important role in clean water and form a critical link in the Chesapeake Bay food chain. The ASMFC received thousands of comments from individuals and organizations in support of conserving the likely-overfished species whose abundance is at an all-time low.
Three states, including Virginia, voted against the cut. Virginia is home to the coast's last remaining menhaden processing plant, which turns menhaden into animal feed, fertilizer and fish oil, and which is responsible for 80 percent of the current coast-wide harvest.
Virginia officials argued for a less severe reduction and warned that a large cut could hurt the state's economy and lead to job losses at its Reedville plant, which is operated by Omega Protein, Inc. A number of Virginia fishermen employed by the Texas-based company attended the management meeting and stood, arms crossed, in silent protest of the reduction.
The first-ever coast-wide limit on menhaden harvest will go into effect in 2013 and remain in place until the next stock assessment, scheduled for 2014.


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After suddenly and somewhat inexplicably plunging off college football's national stage two years ago, the Florida Gators have managed to pull themselves back up on it early in Will Muschamp's second season.
After suddenly and somewhat inexplicably plunging off college football's national stage two years ago, the Florida Gators have managed to pull themselves back up on it early in Will Muschamp's second season.
For the first time since October of 2010, the Gators are in the top 10 again. They arrived there Sunday, 4-0 and feeling good. Now, the question is: are they here to stay, or is this just a temporary thing?
That answer should come Saturday against No. 4 LSU.
"Definitely," sophomore fullback Hunter Joyer said. "Games like this — LSU, Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia — they all tend to tell you where you're going to be in the season and how good you really are."
A year ago, Alabama and LSU revealed how bad the Gators really were. The Tide gutted the Gators 38-10 in Gainesville. A week later, No. 1 LSU overwhelmed the Gators 41-11 in Baton Rouge.
So, only 12 months later, could the Gators possibly be 30 points better?
The Tigers will help them find out Saturday in The Swamp.
"Well, this is obviously a signature game for us," UF offensive coordinator Brent Pease said. "In any aspect, whether it's whatever position you're talking about.
"It's a good measuring stick for us to see what we're up against, or how we handle being against a ranked team, a team that has got talent across the board."
The Gators were no match for the Tigers a year ago. But much has changed on the Florida side since then.
"I feel we're 10 times better (than a year ago). At least," Joyer said. "We're a better team, together and as individuals."
LSU coach Les Miles agrees — at least with the second part of Joyer's quote.
"This team is well prepared, more competitive," Miles said. "They look like a very, very quality Florida team. I don't want to bemoan the other two teams (2010 and 2011), because to me, those guys were pretty good too, but this team is a real good Florida team.
"They've been physical. They've demonstrated that. I think (Muschamp) is really improving the team."
Last year's Florida team looked pretty good when it was sitting at 4-0 and ranked No. 12 in the nation. But the Gators turned out to be somewhat fragile, shattering when starting quarterback John Brantley was injured in the first half of the Alabama loss.
A week later, UF went into Baton Rouge with a true freshman starting at quarterback (Jacoby Brissett), and few doubted what the outcome would be.
This season's 4-0 Florida team seems much more complete, much more competitive, much more capable of playing with a team like No. 4 LSU. At least that is the perception based on the way the Gators have played so far.
UF showed greater depth and mental and physical toughness in comeback wins on the road at Texas A&M and Tennessee. The Gators also have shown signs of being stronger on both lines of scrimmage, and being more efficient on offense and at quarterback with sophomore Jeff Driskel.
"We're much better than we were a year ago," Muschamp said. "We're much deeper, more mature, more experienced. We're stronger. We handle adversity a lot better, and when you play games like this, there's going to be some adversity.
"Anybody that was part of watching us and being part of our organization last year and this year will notice a night-and-day difference between our football team. We've made tremendous improvement in a short period of time.
"Are we where we want to be at? Absolutely not. I'm not trying to say that we've arrived by any stretch of the imagination. But we've improved."
The Gators say today's game will be a measuring stick to show just how much they have improved.
"Definitely," Driskel said. "At the end of the day, it's just another game, but it's definitely a big one. It's a really good opponent and we're excited for the opportunity to be matched up with one of the best in the country.
"Coach has said all along, we're a more mature team. What that means, we get in here on our own. We watch the film. We're not going to be guys that just do the bare minimum. We all want to win and we all want to get better. That's what it takes."
Unlike many of his players, Muschamp said he is not viewing this game as a measuring stick for his team.
"Nah, I don't know about that," he said. "It counts as one game. It doesn't count any more than that. They've got a good football team and it's certainly a team that we're looking forward to playing.
"We've got a great opportunity sitting in front of us here at our home stadium at 3:30. That's the way I look at it. We won't put in any more hours this week than three weeks ago. I know everybody thinks that all of a sudden we're going to change everything for one game. But we're not."
The Gators are staying the course, the one that has brought them back to college football's national stage.
Contact Robbie Andreu at 352-374-5022 or email@example.com. Also check out Andreu's blog at Gatorsports.com.


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How Orb will do in the Preakness Stakes after winning the Kentucky Derby boils down to one thing, according to the Ocala horseman who gave him his early training.
BALTIMORE — How Orb will do in the Preakness Stakes after winning the Kentucky Derby boils down to one thing, according to the Ocala horseman who gave him his early training:
"Is the horse generally better than other horses, or was he just better on that particular Kentucky Derby day?"
The question from Niall Brennan, who broke Orb in Ocala, is the same one many racing fans are asking. But if the question from Brennan is simple, deciphering the answer before the second leg of the Triple Crown is not.
"You can look at it two ways," Brennan said.
The first is that there was luck that got Orb across the finish line first.
The second is that there was a long list of obstacles he overcame to win: mud in his face from a rain-soaked track, starting from a wide 16 post, and coming from far behind after a blistering early pace was set.
And overcoming those things had nothing to do with luck, Brennan said.
For his part, Brennan subscribes to the latter theory.
"It wasn't a fluke," Brennan said of Orb's 2�-length win two weeks ago. "It legitimized the horse … and this is a horse that keeps on going."
Orb will be one of nine horses running in Saturday's $1 million Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course. Of those nine, six ran in the May 4 Kentucky Derby. Seven of the nine have Marion County ties.
Brennan is right in saying Orb ran a great race in Louisville, but the way the Kentucky Derby unfolded for Orb was also ideal.
A frenzied early pace left the front-runners wiped out and decelerating by the time they got to the stretch.
Once out of the second turn, Orb had the room to run his kind of race, putting his long strides to good use.
As for traffic on the outside in the stretch: By then there was none. Orb had that portion of the track to himself.
Strictly by the numbers, Brennan's enthusiasm for the horse is justifiable.
Orb traveled 80 feet (9� lengths) further in the Kentucky Derby than second-place finisher Golden Soul when you take into account Orb's wide run to get around other horses, according to Trakus, an online company that analyzes sporting events.
Orb also finished the Derby's final quarter mile in 25.88 seconds, the only horse in the race to break 26 seconds during the stretch to the finish line.
In the euphoria of watching Orb win, many people also missed how wisely jockey Joel Rosario rode the horse, Brennan said.
While some jockeys tried to match the fever pitch pace at Churchill Downs in the Derby, Rosario saw it for what it was: trouble.
And to Rosario's credit, he made the decision to pull Orb back and conserve his energy, biding his time.
Rosario will again ride Orb in the Preakness.
Orb's pedigree is also impressive. He is a son of Malibu Moon, a stallion that has sired 26 graded stakes winners and nine Grade 1 winners since he was retired after an injury in 2000. His runners have earned more than $58.8 million.
A chunk of those earnings come from Orb, who has won his past five starts, including the Kentucky Derby, Florida Derby and Fountain of Youth Stakes.
But Orb will face few slouches come Saturday. One rival is Departing, which has won four of his five starts, including the Illinois Derby.
The gelding is bound to be one of the favorites in the Preakness. Departing was not in the Kentucky Derby.
But when the horses enter the starting gate Saturday, past performances will be just that: in the past.
"When the starting gates open, it's another race," Brennan said.
The Preakness is shorter than the Kentucky Derby: 9.5 furlongs (1 3/16 miles), which is 1/16th of a mile shorter than the Derby.
BALTIMORE -- The difference may not seem like much, but when tired horses are running to the wire, that 1/16th of a mile can mean the difference between winning and losing.
And the mistake of trying to keep up with an unforgiving fast pace like that in the Derby probably won't be repeated by too many jockeys Saturday.
Regardless, Brennan still has faith in Orb.
"I don't think the pace will be that important," Brennan said. "Most important is a clear run. Getting boxed would not be good."
At Wednesday's post draw, Orb drew the one post along the rail for Saturday.
Trainer Shug McGaughey said after the draw he wasn't worried about the post; the field wasn't as crowded as the Kentucky Derby, and starting from the rail won't be a problem.
Some horsemen say McGaughey is putting on a brave face. But most agree Orb needs room to run and getting pinned along the rail or squeezed by other horses could spell catastrophe.
"(Orb) is a big striding horse, not quick into gears. It's not that he doesn't have gears, it's that he doesn't want to be rushed," Brennan said.
"He's not an in-and-out sort of horse," Brennan said when it comes to dodging traffic.
And then there is the issue of having only two weeks of break between the demanding Kentucky Derby and the Preakness.
On that score, Brennan said he looks more at how a horse is prepping for the Preakness rather than how much the Derby took out of him.
Orb will be the morning-line favorite Saturday at even money.
Meantime, some observers are looking ahead and asking if Orb is good enough to win not only the Preakness but also the Belmont Stakes in June.
A horse hasn't won the Triple Crown since 1978.
"It would be wonderful if he can keep going," Brennan said. "We always want a Triple Crown in the industry. But I think it's about the right one. The whole deal is to make him a worthy champion."
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(a) The Court provides for notice of the action by directing that a notice as stated below be posted in the place specified by the Court where other notices required to be posted are customarily posted, and that the name be published once a week for 2 successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the Territory. The posting and last publication must be made not less than 20 days before the date fixed for the hearing.
(b) Such notice shall be directed to the person or persons having custody or possession of such personal property, to the owners or beneficial owners of, or persons entitled to, the personal property and all other persons whatsoever claiming an interest therein. The notice must be in the form approved by the Court and shall declare substantially the following matters:
(1) the filing of the complaint in escheat;
(2) the ground of grounds of escheat specified in sections 40.0502 and 40.0503, which are applicable to the action;
(3) the names and last known addresses of the owners or beneficial owners of, or persons entitled to, such personal property;
(4) the nature and value of such personal property;
(5) the place, time and date of the hearing in the action; and
(6) a direction that at a specified time before the hearing anyone who claims an interest in the property must file with the Clerk of the Court his claim and at the time and place fixed for the hearing appear in person or by his attorney to substantiate his claim.
(c) Where the name of the owner is not known or there is no information as to the last known address of the owner, the notice must state that fact. The notice may contain such other information as the Court deems proper and which, as a practical matter under the circumstances, might result in notice to the owner.History: 1988, PL 20-64.


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Good Docs In Calgary?
2Boys4Me replied to nvsmom's topic in Celiac Disease - DoctorsDr. Brent Scott and Dr. J. Decker Butzner are both great doctors at Alberta Children's Hospital. I suspect you need a referral though.
Chex (gluten-free) And Lara Bars Finally At My Store In Canada!
2Boys4Me replied to love2travel's topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & MedicationsI found some Honey Nut Chex at Walmart yesterday. $4.97 for a 390g box. There were only a few boxes, so I grabbed two of them.
Chex (gluten-free) And Lara Bars Finally At My Store In Canada!
2Boys4Me replied to love2travel's topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & MedicationsWhich store? I haven't seem them in Calgary yet.
Gluten Free Hotdogs?
2Boys4Me replied to hockeymomofceliacchild's topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & MedicationsThe only gluten-free hot dog I've found in Canada that's readily available at all grocery stores is Top Dog Angus Beef. Please check ingredients though, as the other Maple Leaf brands all contain wheat. I discovered the Top Dog Angus Beef last summer and haven't looked at the ingredients yet this year.
How To 'break The News'?
2Boys4Me replied to Annaatje's topic in Celiac Disease - Coping WithI'm sure he's not picky, he's just "selective".
Packed Cold Dinners.
2Boys4Me replied to Juliebove's topic in Celiac Disease - Parents of Kids or Babies With Celiac DiseaseToday's Parent has a cool lunchbox tool. It has a ton of ideas for lunches/cold snacks. http://www.todaysparent.com/craftsactivities/article.jsp?content=20080725_143732_4104&page=1 It is not even remotely allergy friendly, but I suspect everything can be modified for your daughter's allergies.
Aero Bars In Canada
2Boys4Me replied to divamomma's topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & MedicationsIngredients look okay according to the Nestle website. Nestle website
Foods & Nutrition Class
2Boys4Me replied to 2Boys4Me's topic in Gluten-Free Recipes - Baking & Cooking TipsThanks for the info. He's not required to take the class; it's separate from Health. They have a number of options that they can choose beyond the required curriculum. For example, he could take drama, art, dance, visual communication (?), wood shop, foods/fashion (home ec in the olden days), band, or guitar. He'll just put down foods last on the list and mention that he has celiac so that they won't put him in there at all.
Foods & Nutrition Class
2Boys4Me posted a topic in Gluten-Free Recipes - Baking & Cooking TipsMy son who has celiac is going to be attending junior high in the fall. When we went to the open house for the schools (we went to a late French immersion school and his designated school) we asked about Foods class. Both schools suggested that he put Foods last on his list of option/elective requests. Almost everything requires the use of all-purpose flour, but one school did mention that perhaps he could take grade 9 Foods as it would have more meal planning. I was just wondering how junior/senior highs in your area deal with Foods & Nutrition class. Do they accomodate celiac and/or food allergies? We live in Alberta, Canada, and I'm interested in whether different regions of Canada or the States have different policies. I didn't even bother to ask about the cafeterias since the open houses were in the evening and they were closed. He's been packing his lunch daily since grade one anyway, so it's no biggie for him to keep that up. PS - moderators: please feel free to move this to another sub-forum if needed. I wasn't sure where to put it.
Hot Dogs And French Fries gluten-free?
2Boys4Me replied to SJD's topic in Celiac Disease - Parents of Kids or Babies With Celiac DiseaseI want to remind newly diagnosed Canadians to check labels carefully. At my local grocery the only gluten-free hot dogs I've been able to find are Maple Leaf Top Dog Angus Beef - and I haven't bought those since last summer, so please check the label.
I Am / I Have __________
2Boys4Me replied to zimmer's topic in Celiac Disease - Post Diagnosis, Recovery/Treatment(s)My son usually says he has celiac. Once, though, an adult he didn't know very well asked him (snidely) if he was too good to eat the pizza being served at the party. My son had been eating a bunless hamburger and a baked potato. His response, and in a somewhat rude tone of voice, was "I have a disease". I admit I was proud of him, even though he used a snotty tone of voice it was exactly what that adult needed to hear...put him in his place a bit.
Gluten Free Preschool Teacher
2Boys4Me replied to iamsarar's topic in Celiac Disease - Coping WithAny possibility of turning it into a rice table, rather than oatmeal?
Cadbury Mini Eggs
2Boys4Me replied to mommyoftwinks's topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & MedicationsI'm not sure where you're from, but in Canada, Cadbury makes Cadbury Mini Eggs, and Hershey doesn't. Hershey is a completely different company (Oh Henry, Reese's, etc.). Did you call Hershey or Cadbury about the eggs? What were the ingredients?
In 2006, you posted a recipe for homemade worcestershire sauce. Flash forward to today...I am looking for a gluten free worcestershire sauce. This recipe is perfect! Thank you!!
What Are "grits"?
2Boys4Me replied to divamomma's topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & MedicationsGrits are white and coarsely ground, cornmeal is yellow and a bit finer, but not as fine as corn flour. You should be able to find Unico corn flour and Purity corn meal at any Safeway or Superstore. I can't speak to Save On, we don't have any in Calgary. You *may* be able to find grits at a Mexican store, or possibly on the menu at Denny's. They aren't commonly available here. My husband goes to the states twice a year, and he buys them there for my non-gluten-free son who would get beat up in the states as he eats grits with brown sugar and maple syrup.


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Whether or not you are a Britpop fan, everyone knows that ex-[lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Oasis[/lastfm] frontman and current [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Beady Eye[/lastfm] lead vocalist, [lastfm link_type="artist_info"] Liam Gallagher[/lastfm], has an unmitigated rock 'n' roll attitude, i.e. he likes to sound off to the press.
As huge fans of Gallagher's soundbites, we gathered together ten of our favorites in honor of [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Beady Eye[/lastfm]'s highly anticipated streaming performance at the Live on Letterman concert from The Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City tonight at 8pm ET / 5pm PT.
"I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night."
[Source: I Am Fuel, You Are Friends]
"I'd do time for him. I love him. Me and him are cool. If anyone stepped on his toes, I'd cut them off." (Melody Maker, 1995)
[Source: NME]
"It's good people living on your doorstep and looking through your bins. Gives me a kick up the a**e. Otherwise I'd just sit around getting fat." (The Guardian, 2006)
[Source: Gigwise]
"I am a tender, beautiful and loving guy that happens to slap a photographer now and then because they get in my way."
[Source: Sky Living]
"If I wasn't a musician I don't know. I'd be God, maybe? That would be a good job." (The Sun, 2005)
[Source: NME]
"I guide myself. If I bump into walls, I bump into walls. I'm like a little bumper car, I keep bumping into questions and answers and it's a top buzz, man." (The Times, 2002)
[Source: Monsters & Critics]
"The world is crying out for a great rock'n'roll band. It has been for ages, man. That's why the time is right for Beady Eye." (NME, December 2010)
[Source: NME]
"Lennon was right. And we are bigger than Jesus. We will be as big as the Beatles, if not bigger."
[Source: IMDB]
"The Beatles play guitars, we play guitars. The Beatles got hair, we've got hair. The Beatles got arms, we've got arms."
[Source: Gigwise]
"It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I mean?"
[Source: NME]


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Kale is coming to town. This green winter vegetable fills the ABC's of vitamins—plus there's a lot you can do with Kale! From Kale Chips baked with a little oil and salt to Kale & White Bean Soup, try out this crop for value in flavor, nutrition and versatility. Listed below are links to a Kale-idoscope of recipes. Please feel free to share your own recipe as a comment here or on our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/CurriesMarket?ref=hl.
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Mac users and Mac-loving analysts often use phrases like "the
halo-effect" to explain increased sales of Mac computers and OS
X due to iPods and iPhones. Now, the stock market site The Street
has created a humorous
video analysis that offers up a new explanation for this and more
commercial phenomena -- the "snob"-effect.
In the video, The Street says that on average Mac users surveyed were
discovered to be "self centered, arrogant, conceited" and truly
"snobs". The site says this has many real commercial ramifications,
so all jokes aside, the "snob"-factor warrants serious attention.
Mac users, apparently concerned with self-image, were found to buy
tooth-whitening products at a far greater rate than PC users. Mac users
are also more likely to visit
Starbucks, buy organic food, and own
hybrid cars. Furthermore, Mac users buy on average 5 new pairs of
sneakers a year, well above the average for non-users.
Mac users prefer notebooks to desktops, station wagons to
SUVs. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Mac users prefer
"green" products, even at a higher cost. Perhaps more
surprisingly, Mac users are quite law abiding and are more likely than not to
pay for music -- perhaps more due to the popularity of iTunes than their
moral inclinations. Mac users are more satisfied with their purchase
than PC users.
Interestingly, people surveyed with an "open personality" were found
to be 60% more likely to buy a Mac. Some of the more esoteric
observations on Mac users character are flattering, others aren't. Mac
users were found to be more liberal, socially and politically. Mac users
are also less modest and more assured of their own superiority.
The interesting part about The Street's video, is that while obvious
poking a bit of fun at the Mac crowd, it does illustrate some practical market
trends that can be exploited for the benefit of more effective advertising and
marketing to the growing
crowd of Mac, iPod, and iPhone "snobs".
Hopefully there won't be too many hurt feelings, and await a
possible comment from Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs.


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The holidays are all about family, food, and tradition….and unfortunately, the prep, cooking, and cleanup that come with it. What better reason to change it up this year and escape to Wisconsin for a non traditional Thanksgiving. Here are 3 options to get you started!
#1: Skip the Cooking
Let someone else deal with prep and cleanup while you actually enjoy those around you. The Osthoff Resort has a Thanksgiving Day Brunch that won't disappoint: Smoked salmon, omelets, cheese, fruit, scrumptious deserts and more! The best part is that after you clean your plate, someone else can actually clean your plate.
#2: Amp Up the Family Time
Round up the relatives and head to Wisconsin Dells. Area hotels and resorts have spacious accommodations for large and small groups alike. The Wilderness Resort for example, has 4 bedroom condos with full amenities for rent, so heck, invite the in-laws….both sets!!!
#3: Layer on the Relaxation
Door County, Bayfield, or Lake Geneva, it's easy to relax amidst Wisconsin's natural beauty. Tucked away in a rolling hillside, the Grand Geneva Resort offers a pristine view sure to please. And we can't forget about Wisconsin's indoor water parks, because while it's a blustery 40 degrees outside, it's a balmy 85 degrees inside the water park at the Country Springs Hotel. Now, that's what we call roughing it.
So start a new tradition this year! Do something fun, and exciting, and most of all relax!


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Fox News Anchor Gets Real Job With The Onion
In your wistful Wednesday media column: Fox News anchor moves up in the world, layoffs loom at Time Inc. and BusinessWeek, people still say they read newspapers, and Pat Kiernan has a contest, for you.
Ha, the fake Onion News Network has hired yet another real TV journalist, Suzanne Sena of Fox News (joke). Laugh now; they could totally get Lou Dobbs, if they tried.
Keith Kelly says the bulk of Time Inc's editorial layoffs could come next week—as many as 90 at the company's biggest magazines, to make up for the non-outpouring of buyout volunteers. So next week should be as sunny as this week, in media land!
A new study "finds that 74% of adults — nearly 171 million — in the United States read a newspaper in print or online during the past week." This is presented as a positive sign for newspapers. Left unsaid is the fact that 68% of those readers were reading "Family Circus."
Popular hero NY1 newsman Pat Kiernan informs us of this breaking trivia-related development:
For almost two years now, fans of World Series of Pop Culture have been asking me "when is the show coming back?" Since VH1 has set its priorities elsewhere, the short term answer is "I don't know." I'll keep trying.
In the meantime, my love of Pop Culture trivia can be suppressed no longer. Each weekday at 11:30 am ET I'll tweet a question at @patkiernan. I'll post it on the website at the same time at www.patspapers.com/trivia
It's tough to run a true trivia competition online because everybody can just Google the answers. But for those who respond with the correct answer I'll award a prize at random from time to time. Mostly it's just about writing some fun questions and creating a place for WSOPC fans to gather.
He tells us this week's prize is a $25 gift certificate and adds, "I'm taking the first 10 responses in the "Comments" section and choosing one at random, hoping to take away the incentive to obsessively press refresh and then google the answer." Don't fuck around with Pat Kiernan's contest rules.
Also in layoff news: We've been updating our AP Layoff List throughout the day, and tips keep coming in. Check it again if you haven't lately, it's long. And we hear BusinessWeek staffers are finding out about their own layoffs right now. Email us with info.


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It's quite true, I think, that we Americans literally cannot comprehend some of the racism of Europe's "far right." (Although our minority citizens probably have a better idea than white guys like me.) I made a post under davorg's journal entry about the BNP, asking for help in understanding because we just don't see that kind of attitude taken to that kind of extreme succeeding in politics over here. We have the attitudes, but people who express them are almost never politically successful (haven't been
I've had your comments on the BNP open in another window for a little while, I'll answer there when I get more time.
But to give a first idea, FN (Le Pen) and MNR (Mégret) ideologists can be roughly categorized in two sections, both of which are racists.
One section is for genocide. It comprises very few intellectuals, mostly old nazis or collaborators, or some people that were involved in dirty operations in Algeria.
The other section can be called racialist. What they believe is t
You know those stories you read about the young person who lived the sheltered life and when he finally gets out can't believe how terrible the world is? That's how I feel right now. While we have people like that here in the States, they are almost universally vilified by the public. They would never succeed in politics. Half of the time when there's a charge of racism, it's because someone thinks we shouldn't have affirmative action programs with quotas to guarantee a certain percentage of minorities
They were fought strongly (and efficiently) here too for a while. But when the MNR split itself out of the FN, we made the mistake of thinking that we'd won. Unfortunately, Le Pen is a political killer. Since 1998 he softened his public speeches, and pretended to be dead. He made a blitz presidential campaign and that's how he went so far.
I've made the comment for the past few years or so that I don't believe in using the term "race." We're all humans made by God.
Indeed, I very much doubt tha
I agree with you on a number of points here (and elsewhere), but I think there are a number of nuances to be made.
To begin with, keep in mind that in Europe the WWII trauma is still very much alive. Even a young guy like me (25) knows first hand accounts from the war. My family is not part of any minority that was specifically targetted by nazism, but nevertheless many of my family members were killed or tortured by the nazis. My grandparents and my great-grandparents were part of the first wave of
I felt literally sick going out this morning and knowing that 1 personne out 8 I would see in the street voted for a fascist
... amongst which most likely half of the people I buy my bread, groceries, etc...
Well, that attitude, which I've seen a lot in recent weeks, sickens me. It is closed-minded, it is not representative of properly working democracy, it is not a love of freedom of ideas. It is villification of people who may have different ideas. It is hatred.
It's not hatred, it's just that I fel
we need to get along with people who think differently than we do.
I have no problem getting along with people who actually think. Too bad this does not include people who voted for le pen.
OK, that was a joke. And I'll stop here. I think our difference boils down to the fact that you always want to convince people of your ideas, or at least discuss them (then convince them
Maybe I am especially sensitive to this because in the US, I am villified because I want to end federal welfare, make abortion illegal, increase military spending, etc. Many people think I am evil scum for my beliefs, and it is sickening. Most of these people purport to love diversity and different ideas, but they lie.
Welcome to the club, pudge!
They hate what is different, and it is disgusting to me. The rare person I meet who completely disagrees with me but still respects me and accepts that I
It's no more than Pat Buchanan would have had to take if he ever found himself in a similar position.
I think Buchanan advocates closed borders and protective tarrifs, but I don't think he advocates racism like Le Pen. If my understanding is correct, then I would hope Buchanan wouldn't face what Le Pen did if he were in a runoff.


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Mitchell Report proposes solutions
Document cites players for drug use, makes recommendations
By Barry M. Bloom / MLB.com
NEW YORK -- Former Sen. George Mitchell said on Thursday that performance-enhancing drug use has been pervasive in the sport for more than a decade as he released his findings in the shape of a 311-page report, which was fashioned during the past 20 months of investigations. "Everyone involved in baseball shares responsibility," Mitchell said during a news conference at the Grand Hyatt Hotel. "Commissioners, club officials, the Players Association and players. I can't be any clearer than that." In all, 89 players were named in the report, including free agent Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte of the New York Yankees, Miguel Tejada of the Houston Astros, Eric Gagne of the Milwaukee Brewers and Paul Lo Duca of the Washington Nationals, as well as a list of players like Barry Bonds who have already been publicly associated with steroid use. The report itself is posted at MLB.com and is available to read in its entirety. "The illegal use of performance-enhancing substances poses a serious threat to the integrity of the game," the Mitchell Report said. "Widespread use by players of such substances unfairly disadvantages the honest athletes who refuse to use them and raises questions about the validity of baseball records. "Everyone involved in baseball over the past two decades -- commissioners, club officials, the players' association and players -- shares to some extent the responsibility for the Steroids Era," Mitchell said. "There was a collective failure to recognize the problem as it emerged and to deal with it early on." Commissioner Bud Selig, reacting to Mitchell's report, said during his own news conference shortly thereafter that he intended to deal with the background and recommendations made in the report in a transparent manner. "The fact of the matter is that it happened," Selig said. "This document should act as a road map not only for us, but for the people that come after us. What we all need to do is move forward now. I'm satisfied that he achieved what I asked him to set out to do." Don Fehr, the long-time executive director of the Players Association, said he hadn't been able to read the report and couldn't fully comment on it. "We did request a meaningful opportunity to review his lengthy report prior to today, but that request was denied by both Sen. Mitchell and the Commissioner's office," said Fehr, whose union was cited in the report as having been "uncooperative." "We saw this report only an hour before it was made public. For now, however, we can say the following: "Many players are named, their reputations affected forever, even if it turns out down the road that they should not have been." Clemens was the player with the most notoriety to be included in the Mitchell Report. Clemens, a seven-time Cy Young Award winner and apparent lock to be a first-ballot Hall of Famer, was singled out by name 82 times in nearly nine pages of the report. Most of the information regarding Clemens came from former Yankees Major League strength and conditioning coach Brian McNamee. Through his attorney, Rusty Hardin, Clemens denied he used performance-enhancing drugs and expressed outrage that his name was included in the report. "I have great respect for Senator Mitchell. I think an overall look at this problem in baseball was an excellent idea," Hardin said in a statement. "But I respectfully suggest it is very unfair to include Roger's name in this report. He is left with no meaningful way to combat what he strongly contends are totally false allegations. He has not been charged with anything, he will not be charged with anything and yet he is being tried in the court of public opinion with no recourse. That is totally wrong." The reaction to Mitchell's Report from Capitol Hill was immediate. All three -- Mitchell, Selig and Fehr -- have been asked to testify before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on Tuesday. Congressional pressure, exercised by the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, was one of the reasons why Selig commissioned Mitchell and his committee to generate the report in March, 2006. "This is a sad day for Major League Baseball but a good day for integrity in sports," the Committee chairman Henry Waxman and ranking minority member Tom Davis said in a joint statement. "It's an important step towards the goal of eliminating the use of performance enhancing substances. "The Mitchell report is sobering. It shows the use of steroids and human growth hormone has been and is a significant problem in Major League Baseball. And it shows that everyone involved in Major League Baseball bears some responsibility for this scandal." Aside from delving deeply into the past, Mitchell made 19 recommendations on how to move forward and strengthen the current Major League drug policy, which was collectively bargained in 2002 and has been re-opened twice to stiffen the penalties. Mitchell is seeking, among other things, an independent overseer, greater education, increased off-season testing and state-of-the art testing procedures. Selig said he intends to implement as many of Mitchell's recommendations as possible that don't need to be collectively bargained with the union. One of them, 24-hour notice of a pending drug test, has already been eliminated, he said. Mitchell also asked Selig to show restraint and not penalize the current players whose names are mentioned in the report along with the pertinent evidence that points toward their use of performance-enhancing drugs, "except in those cases where he determines that the conduct is so serious that discipline is necessary to maintain the integrity of the game." Selig said he would digest Mitchell's remarks, but would handle discipline on a "case-by-case" basis. "I will take action where it is appropriate," said Selig, who already had meted out 15-day suspensions at the start of next season to Jay Gibbons and Jose Guillen for their part in their Albany, N.Y., investigation. The union has already grieved Guillen's suspension with a hearing most probably early next year. Mitchell is a director of the Boston Red Sox, and was chairman of The Walt Disney Co., the parent of ESPN, at the time Selig established the committee on March 30, 2006, charging it with leaving "no stone unturned" in its quest to determine what happened in baseball's so-called steroid era. When questioned about those ties, Mitchell said that a reading of the full report will prove it's not biased. "Judge me by my work," he said. "Take a look at how the investigation was conducted. Read the report. You will not find any evidence of bias, of special treatment of the Red Sox or anyone else because there is none."
Barry M. Bloom is a national reporter for MLB.com. The Associated Press contributed. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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What i am looking for, is first the value of both resistors.
was this caused by the same wax motor that is talked about everywhere or something elxe? No signs of damage at all at the upper control board.
why is it called a wax motor???
So the was motor did not cause the failure.. now i have to figure out what cause this.
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The University of Sydney is Australia's first university with an outstanding global reputation for academic and research excellence. It employs over 7500 permanent staff supporting over 49,000 students.
The School of Mathematics and Statistics is one of the largest in Australia with research strengths in many areas of mathematics and statistics. The school attracts a strong body of excellent students as well as Australian Research Council (ARC) grants, fellowships, and other competitive external funding.
We are seeking to appoint a Research Fellow (level B) or Senior Research Fellow (level C) in Representation Theory of Quantum Groups to contribute to a research programme investigating quantum algebras, supersymmetry and invariant theory. This position is funded by an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project Grant "Quantised algebras, supersymmetry and invariant theory" held by Professors Gus Lehrer and Ruibin Zhang.
The aim of this project is to use an analysis of tensor powers using diagram categorical methods to throw light on tilting modules and the Lusztig character formula for quantum groups at roots of unity, and algebraic groups and supergroups in positive characteristic. The endomorphism algebras of tensor powers will be studied using geometric and algebraic methods, including scheme theoretic density arguments and cellular algebra theory.
As a dedicated member of the team you will contribute to all aspects of the project including:
Teaching is not a requirement of this role however opportunities to teach may be available if desired. To secure this role you must have expertise in a subset of the following areas: quantum group actions on non-commutative algebras, invariant theory, Kazhdan-Lusztig theory, Lie superalgebras and their representations, canonical bases, cellular algebras and quadratic algebras, the BMW algebras as endomorphism algebras of tensor space and algebraic geometry.
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This is an opportunity to conduct research in a collaborative research team based at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney, where there is a large and active group in representation theory.
The position is full-time fixed-term for one year subject to completion of a satisfactory probation and confirmation period for new appointees. Further offers may be available subject to funding, need and performance. Membership of a University approved superannuation scheme is a condition of appointment.
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The Big Picture
When you go shopping for a flat-panel television these days, the vast majority of available models are LCD TVs. Today's LCDs are super-slim, super-bright, and super-colorful thanks to many improvements made since Sharp introduced the first commercial LCD TV—with a screen measuring a whopping 14 inches—in 1988.
But exactly how does an LCD TV work? What improvements have been made over the last quarter century that led to this technology's overwhelming dominance in the flat-panel market? Let's begin with a broad overview…
Like all video displays these days, LCD TVs form an image in an array of tiny pixels. In most cases, the array is 1920 pixels horizontally by 1080 pixels vertically, though lower-end sets are sometimes 1280×720 or 1366×768. The pixels in an LCD TV are not emissive—that is, they do not emit light on their own as they do in plasma and OLED TVs. Instead, they allow more or less light to pass through them. As a result, LCD TVs are sometimes called transmissive displays because they transmit light through the pixels.
The light in an LCD TV comes from a backlight at the back of the screen. In the past, this backlight consisted of small fluorescent tubes called CCFLs (cold-cathode fluorescent lights), which are much like small versions of the fluorescent lights in a typical office. However, in modern LCD TVs, this type of backlight has been mostly replaced by LEDs (light-emitting diodes), because they have no mercury content, use electricity more efficiently, and can be controlled to a greater degree than CCFLs. In most cases, the LEDs are placed at the edges of the screen in order to make the entire TV thinner, though a few models have an array of LEDs directly behind the screen.
By the way, an LCD TV with LED backlighting is often called an "LED TV" by its manufacturer, a confusing marketing misnomer that leads consumers to think it's a different display technology than LCD. It's not—an LED TV is simply an LCD TV with an LED backlight, which is why I normally refer to them as "LED/LCD TVs."
No matter what type of backlight is used—CCFLs, LEDs on the edges, or LEDs directly behind the screen—the light is diffused by a special layer of plastic to make it as uniform as possible across the entire area of the screen. The light then passes through the pixels, each of which can be independently controlled to pass more or less light through it as well as filter the light into any desired color.Fig. 1: Layers of an LCD TV (Source: Sony Electronics)
In Figure 1, from Sony, you can see the various layers of an LCD TV using HCFL (hot-cathode fluorescent light, similar in principle to CCFL) and LED backlights behind the screen and on the edges. In this example, Sony uses red, green, and blue LEDs behind the screen, but virtually all such backlights use white LEDs these days.
The TV's electronics control the brightness and color of each pixel and process the incoming video signal. For example, if the number of pixels in the signal does not match the number of pixels on the screen, the processor scales the image, adding or subtracting pixels to match the resolution of the screen. If the signal is interlaced—that is, only half of each video frame is sent at a time—the processor deinterlaces it so the TV can display an entire video frame.
How Can a Crystal be Liquid?
The very name of this technology is mysterious. Liquid crystal? What the heck is that? It's a type of material that exhibits characteristics of both a liquid and a crystal. This material was first discovered in the late 1880s, but it wasn't until the mid-1960s that liquid crystal was discovered to change its optical properties—that is, how light passes through it—according to an applied electric field. This is the feature that allows liquid crystal to be used in visual displays of many types, including televisions—hence the term "liquid crystal display" or LCD.Fig. 2: Nematic liquid-crystal molecules (Source: Sharp Electronics)
Basically, liquid-crystal materials consist of rod-shaped polymer molecules that naturally form thin layers, unlike normal liquids in which the molecules are distributed much more randomly. And the molecules in certain types of this material, called nematic liquid crystal, align themselves in roughly the same orientation from one layer to the next, as shown on the left in Figure 2 above. Even more interestingly, if nematic liquid-crystal material is placed against a solid surface etched with microscopic grooves, the molecules next to the surface align themselves with the grooves, as shown in the center and on the right of Figure 2, and the molecules in the layers above align themselves with the ones below, forming a crystal-like lattice.
The actual display panel in an LCD TV—commonly called "the glass"—consists of several layers (not to be confused with the molecular layers in the liquid-crystal material itself). At the core of the panel is a thin film of nematic liquid crystal (a total of less than 5cc in a 42-inch TV) sandwiched between two transparent plates called alignment layers or directors, which are etched with microscopic, parallel grooves.Fig. 3: Nematic liquid-crystal molecules twisting between alignment layers (Source: Sharp Electronics)
As illustrated in Figure 3, on one director plate, the grooves are horizontal, while on the other plate, they are vertical. As a result, the nematic liquid-crystal molecules next to the plate with horizontal grooves align themselves horizontally, while the molecules next to the plate with vertical grooves align themselves vertically. The molecules between them are forced to form a spiral as they try to align themselves with their neighbors. As a result, this configuration is called "twisted nematic."
The director/liquid-crystal/director assembly is further sandwiched between two more plates that polarize light passing through them. Before I explain why this is important and how it relates to the spiral formation of the liquid-crystal molecules, I need to make sure you understand the concept of polarization.
Polarization Explained
As you may know, light is a form of electromagnetic radiation that travels as a wave, somewhat akin to water waves. Unlike water waves, however, the crests and troughs of a light wave can be horizontal, vertical, or any angle in between. The angle formed by a light wave's crests and troughs with respect to horizontal and vertical is called its polarization.Fig. 4: The polarization of most light is random, as shown in the upper part of this diagram. (Source: esemenyhorizont.uw.hu)
It's also important to know that the light from most sources does not have a single polarization. Instead, each photon—a "particle" of light—can have a different, random polarization, as shown in the upper portion of Figure 4.
A polarizer allows only light waves with a certain polarization—that is, waves with crests and troughs at a certain angle—to pass through them. For our purposes, a polarizer can be either horizontal or vertical, so only light with horizontal or vertical polarization gets through. Light waves with different polarizations are at least partially blocked; only the horizontal or vertical portion of each photon passes through the polarizer, depending on its orientation.Fig. 5: Parallel and perpendicular polarizers (Source: Sharp Electronics)
Normally, if light passes through a horizontal polarizer, it is then completely blocked by a subsequent vertical polarizer, as shown on the right in Figure 5. If you stacked a horizontal and vertical polarizer together and looked at a light source through them, you'd see only black, since no light would pass through both polarizers.
Most of us are familiar with polarized sunglasses, which allow vertically polarized light to pass while blocking horizontally polarized reflections, which cuts glare reflected from horizontal surfaces like the road and dashboard of the car. If you place the lenses of two such sunglasses next to each other and rotate one of them 90 degrees, you see virtually no light pass through both lenses.
Polarize This!
Okay, let's get back to the two polarizer plates in LCD TVs. One of them is a horizontal polarizer, while the other one is a vertical polarizer. It would seem that all the light from the backlight would be blocked from passing through the entire structure, but it isn't. Why not?Fig. 6: Light's polarization follows the liquid-crystal molecules' spiral. (Source: Sharp Electronics)
Because a light wave's polarization is affected by the orientation of liquid-crystal molecules. As shown in Figure 6, as the polarized light passes through the liquid crystal, the polarization follows the molecules' spiral orientation, and it ends up in the opposite polarization by the time it gets to the second plate, and so passes through that plate. In other words, light passes through the polarizer/liquid-crystal/polarizer sandwich, which it wouldn't if the liquid crystal wasn't there.
Now, recall that liquid crystal changes its optical properties when it's exposed to an electric field. Specifically, the molecules align themselves with the electric field instead of the grooves in the plates. If the field is weak, the molecular realignment is slight, but as the field gets stronger, the realignment becomes more pronounced.
In the absence of an electric field, imagine that the liquid-crystal molecules form little ladders that have been twisted, forming a double helix much like DNA. When an electric field is applied, the rungs in the middle of the ladders become more vertical, while the rungs next to the alignment plates remain fixed in the grooves. The stronger the electric field, the more the molecular rungs move into a vertical orientation.Fig. 7: Without an electric field, light passes through; with an electric field, the molecules reorient, blocking the light. (Source: Sharp Electronics)
The more vertical the molecules are, the less the incoming light changes its polarization, which means that less light passes through the second polarizer. With no electric field, all the light passes through, as shown on the left in Figure 7; with a strong field, no light gets through, as shown on the right. This allows the liquid crystal to act like a shutter, letting more or less light pass through the entire sandwich depending on the strength of the electric field.
For all this to work, there must be a light source behind the polarizer/liquid-crystal/polarizer sandwich—the backlight. I'll get into the different types of backlights more deeply in the next installment. For now, all you need to know is that a large, flat, (hopefully) uniform light source sits behind the polarizer/liquid-crystal/polarizer sandwich, and more or less light from that source passes through the sandwich according to the strength of the electric field applied to it.
Sub-Pixel Magic
Of course, a large flat panel that gets uniformly brighter and darker is hardly useful as a video display. So the liquid-crystal material is actually separated into tiny cells that can be controlled individually. Each cell is called a sub-pixel, and in most LCD TVs, three sub-pixels form one full-color pixel. In a TV with 1920×1080 resolution, there are 2,073,600 pixels, or 6,220,800 sub-pixels.Fig. 8: Sharp adds a yellow sub-pixel in its Quattron LCD TVs. (Source: Sharp Electronics)
Each sub-pixel is either red, green, or blue, and each full pixel includes one of each sub-pixel, as shown on the right in Figure 8. (Sharp adds a fourth, yellow sub-pixel in its Quattron LCD TVs, as shown on the left in the diagram above, for a total of 8,294,400 sub-pixels in a 1080p set.) If the light from the backlight is white—which it is—how do the sub-pixels acquire their color? Each sub-pixel cell includes a tiny color filter, either red, green, or blue (or yellow in Quattron sets), located after the light passes through the second polarizer.Fig. 9: Sub-pixels in different arrangements (Source: Sharp Electronics)
The sub-pixels can be arranged in various ways, such as a delta or stripe configuration as shown in Figure 9. The delta configuration is better for video, while the stripe arrangement is better for text. However, the stripe layout is easier and cheaper to manufacture, and the pixels of modern TVs are so small that the sub-pixel arrangement doesn't make a lot of difference in visual performance. Thus, the vast majority of LCD TVs today use the stripe configuration.
Now, you can probably see how a full-color image is formed on the screen. The amount of light from the backlight that passes through each sub-pixel is independently controlled by applying an electric field of varying strength, changing the mix of red, green, and blue that makes up each pixel.
For example, if no field is applied to any of the sub-pixels, the light passes through all of them at maximum intensity, and the result is a bright white pixel as all three colors combine equally. If a strong field is applied to all three sub-pixels, very little light passes through any of them, resulting in a black pixel. Changing the field applied to each sub-pixel independently lets more or less light through each one, controlling the corresponding pixel's color and brightness.
Thin-Film Transistors
So how is the electric field generated and controlled for each sub-pixel? In the early days of LCD displays, each alignment layer included a series of long, parallel electrodes—horizontal on one plate and vertical on the other plate—with one electrode for each row and column of sub-pixels, as shown in Figure 10. When a voltage was applied to one row and one column, a field was generated at the intersection point.Fig. 10: Passive matrix (Source: Sharp Electronics)
Unfortunately, this electrode structure, called a passive-matrix design, is not sufficient for a high-quality video display, because the field leaks into the surrounding sub-pixels, causing blurring. Also, the voltage needed to change the orientation of the liquid-crystal molecules is very low, causing the molecules to change their orientation too slowly, which resulted in ghosting.Fig. 11: Active matrix (Source: Sharp Electronics)
To solve these problems, a thin-film transistor (TFT) is deposited within each sub-pixel on the first alignment plate (the one closer to the backlight). Also, both sets of addressing electrodes are deposited on the same plate, with the horizontal electrodes insulated from the vertical ones, as shown in Figure 11. This arrangement, called an active-matrix design, limits the electric field to a much smaller area, greatly reducing blurring.Fig. 12: TFT circuit (Source: Sharp Electronics)
In addition, the second plate (the one farther from the backlight) is coated with a transparent conductive material called indium-tin oxide (ITO). This forms a capacitor with the drain electrodes of the TFTs in the first plate, as shown in Figure 12, increasing the voltage to change the alignment of the molecules, which reduces ghosting.
Of course, in a video image, the field required by each sub-pixel is often different than its neighbors. How can one set of horizontal electrodes and one set of vertical electrodes control each sub-pixel independently? What if two sub-pixels addressed by the same electrode require a different voltage on that electrode?
The answer is surprisingly simple—each frame of the video image is displayed on the screen one row at a time from top to bottom, a process called progressive scanning. This is very similar to progressive raster scanning in an old-style CRT (cathode-ray tube) TV. However, instead of drawing each row from one side of the screen to the other with a beam of electrons as in a CRT, the entire row of sub-pixels in an LCD TV is displayed simultaneously. Then, the next row is activated, and so on until the last row at the bottom of the screen is displayed, after which the entire process is repeated for the next video frame. The horizontal electrode for each row carries a single voltage as it is activated, while the vertical electrodes carry different voltages, providing each sub-pixel in the row with its own, independently controllable electric field.
After each row is displayed, it must remain on the screen with no voltage in the horizontal electrode until the next pass. This requires an additional storage capacitor to be deposited along with each TFT. The capacitor stores just the right amount of electrical energy required for that sub-pixel during that frame, maintaining the liquid-crystal molecules' orientation until the row is activated again for the next frame.Fig. 13: Sub-pixel structure (Source: fcenter.ru)
In Figure 13, you can see a cross-section of the entire sub-pixel structure, along with a circuit diagram with the TFT, storage capacitor (Cs), and capacitor between the TFT and the ITO layer (Clc).
The process is known as sample-and-hold progressive scanning—the electric field for each sub-pixel in a row is created, or "sampled," and then held until it is updated in the next pass. Interestingly, this is one primary cause of motion blur. (Another, more widely known cause is the response time of the liquid-crystal material.)
Why does sample-and-hold progressive scanning cause motion blur? That will have to wait until the next installment of this article, in which I'll discuss the various limitations of LCD TVs and how they have been overcome—or not.
Summary: LCD-TVs – Part I
The technology I've described in this installment is called TN (twisted-nematic) LCD for obvious reasons. (Confusingly, the liquid-crystal fluid is sometimes called TN as well.) This type of display is inexpensive to manufacture and offers fast response times, so it's often used in computer monitors and laptop screens. However, it suffers from poor viewing angles, so it's not used in modern LCD TVs. Still, it is fundamental to understanding how these TVs actually work, which I'll dig into next time. Until then, happy viewing!
Many thanks to Tom Gattinella and Josh Kairoff of Sharp Electronics for their help with this article.


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It's a fact: every child is unique, and as teachers we know that more than anyone else. So why do we often find ourselves trying to teach every child the same way?
While it is easier and more natural for us to make students sit still and feed them information, it is no longer a viable option. Children need differentiated instruction.
Children Are Hard-Wired to Learn By Using All of Their Senses
The four primary senses, or modalities, everyone uses to process information are the visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic senses. In addtion, we all have talents, strengths, and intelligences in one or more of eight primary subjects (verbal/linguistic, visual/spatial, logical/mathematical, bodily/kinesthetic, naturalist, musical, interpersonal, and intrapersonal). Some people learn better using one of the senses than the others, and are stronger in some subjects than they are at others. And each child has a different mix of these strengths and preferences. Author and teacher Cindy Middendorf states the situation perfectly:
With children processing information in so many different ways (modalities), with so many different strengths (intelligences), at so many different rates (skill levels) and at so many different levels of maturity (developmental ages), what's a teacher to do?
MultiSensory, Active Involvement Grows Brain Cell Connections
By giving your students as many different ways as possible to learn and understand a topic, you are creating many different neurological pathways in their brains, so if they have a hard time processing information through one part of the brain, they can access it through another. It is a shame that subjects like music, art, and social studies are being tossed aside for more "academic" pursuits, despite the fact that they are clearly needed in a child's overall learning experience. You can easily reinstate these subjects in your classroom to create a learning environment that is holistic and yet still entirely academic.
Tailor Your Teaching to Meet the Needs of All Learners
The best way to do this is to provide a variety of activities related to your topic, being sure to include at least one for each of the four primary modalities and the eight primary strengths (there may be some overlap), and incorporating whole-group, small-group, and one-on-one instruction.
Since Mother's Day and Father's Day are coming up, we're learning about families this month. To give you an understanding of how a topic or unit of study can be explored in many different ways, I've listed some ideas below for differentiating while teaching a family unit.
The Modalities
Students can . . .
- Brainstorm and make mind maps about the topic of families
- Follow along as you take them on a guided imagery tour, such as a day in the life of a pretend family
- Visualize their own families or scenarios
- Role-play
- Look at displays of family-related posters, artwork, vocabulary, and books
- Watch videos about families, including home videos
- Have their families show family photographs, make family trees, plot time lines of family events, and indicate on a map where family members live
Students can . . .
- Discuss families as a class
- Talk about their own families
- Listen to you talk about your own family
- Listen to you read family-related books
- Listen to family-related songs and sound effects
- Listen to music while working on activities about families
Students can . . .
- Manipulate family objects (e.g., photo albums, hospital name tags, wedding rings)
- Touch things commonly associated with family members (e.g., neckties, purses, pacifiers)
Students can . . .
- Hop, skip, or jump to chants about families
- Play Mother, May I? or Father, May I?
- Give hugs and blow kisses like families
The Intelligences
Students can . . .
- Read about families
- Listen to audio books or songs about families
- Write or journal about families
- Type family stories on the computer
- Tell family stories orally in whole group or small groups
- Write to family members
- Play Hangman with a family theme
- Showcase their family books in the Classroom Library
Students can . . .
- Draw comic strips of family events
- Design family paper dolls and clothing
- Draw blueprints of their homes
- Build their homes in the blocks center
- Play with dollhouses/play sets
- Play in the housekeeping center
- Make family illustrations on the computer
- Play Pictionary with a family theme
- Display their family artwork in the Classroom Art Gallery
Students can . . .
- Act out family roles, concepts, or scenarios in dramatic play centers
- Put on family-themed readers theater or puppet shows
- Imitate common family movements, body language, expressions, and gestures
- Perform chants, poems, hand claps, finger snaps or fingerplays about families
- Dance to music about families
- Answer questions about their families and find others who answered the same way
- Put together puzzles of families
- Play Simon Says with a family theme ("Mommy says brush your teeth"; "Daddy says sweep the floor," etc.)
- Showcase talents in the Classroom Theater
Students can . . .
- Discover similarities and differences between families
- Look at cut-out faces and predict who belongs in whose family
- Match earlier pictures to later pictures
- Sequence family members by age, birth date, etc.
- Survey or ask questions about each other's families
- Sort and categorize data about each other's families
- Count family members or traits (e.g., how many blondes?)
- Write family word problems
- Evaluate the probability of having a certain height, hair or eye color, etc.
- Classify physical traits and make deductions while playing Guess Who? with pictures of family faces
- Share math logs in the Classroom Laboratory
Students can . . .
- Identify each other and their families
- Classify family members by relation
- Analyze, interpret, and describe family photos
- Sequence family photos and record the changes
- Collect and examine family objects
- Make models of homes and habitats
- Catalog and describe family pets
- Watch videos and make observations about families or family pets
- Plant or dissect anything with seeds to examine how families are made
- Learn about anatomy and biology while playing Operation with pictures of family faces
- Share lab notebooks in the Classroom Laboratory
Students can . . .
- Talk to each other about their families
- Give each other responses and feedback
- Show appreciation for family diversity
- Role-play family traits such as caring, honesty, forgiveness, listening, respect, loyalty, and love
- Practice communication and listening skills with telephones made of toilet paper rolls and yarn
- Work in teams to solve common family problems
- Share ideas about how to help out at home
- Play Family Feud with a family theme
- Plan an event together for Family Night
Students can . . .
- Journal about their families
- Write about the history of their families (since they were born)
- Talk about the strengths and weaknesses of their families
- Share the culture or values of their families
- Describe feelings about their families
- Draw hopes, dreams, and goals for their families
- Relate books, videos, etc. to their own family experiences
- Play Don't Wake Daddy with pictures of their dads or other male family members
- Write to-do/chore lists
- Share family thoughts, stories, and objects in the Show & Tell Theater
Students can . . .
- Listen to and interpret songs about families or family events
- Make up songs about families
- Create sound effects commonly heard in homes
- Listen to music from when they were born, when their parents were kids, etc.
- Listen to music from or about the countries, regions, or cultures of their families
- Record themselves singing or playing instruments
- Make music on the computer
- Play Musical Chairs with family music
- Perform in the Classroom Concert Hall
You Can't Get It Wrong
Keep in mind that the preferrered modalities and intelligences of very young children may not yet be clearly defined or developed. And don't worry about getting it wrong. All children take in information through all modalities, and have potential strengths in all intelligences. Exposing your students to different ways of learning will enrich them, not limit them. Just try to reinforce each child's strongest modality and most comfortable intelligence as much as you can.
To learn about some of my favorite resources for multisensory teaching, tune in tomorrow for my follow-up post, "Resources for the Differentiated Classroom." Also check out my families booklist.
Have a different weekend!


text: OK, folks. Neozeks gets the credit for planting the idea in my head of trying to cover something we never actually see happen in Star Trek, something of far more scope and interstellar consequence than how one uses the bathroom. Namely, how the hell new members are integrated into the Federation. In particular, how their military forces are integrated. (This first post wound up focusing on First Contact and is absurdly long. My apologies.) --- The rules of thumb posted in that linked thread apply here. []'s indicate margin notes. The perspective of the document is approximately 2383 to 2385. This document is out of character in nature. With that, modelling assumptions: 1. The Federation has money and economics. It is, generally speaking, what those of the 21st century would call a capitalist economy, although with a good deal of governmental intervention. 2. Use the governmental structure for the UFP proposed in my Federation governmental structure thread. 3. Religion exists. Humans may be a plurality atheist (or at least of a secularist bent), but human religion exists as well. It is not a given that a species is religious or atheist. 4. Starfleet: Utilize the Starfleet Command structure and Starfleet Academy design postulated in the respective threads. --- Introduction [This all describes a non-emergency situation (The Borg aren't coming to eat the target world, nobody's poised to invade the local space, etc, etc.) - Obviously, if circumstances are more demanding, what happens changes, or happens faster.] So, your species has broken the warp barrier! You can travel faster than light! Congratulations! Along with this accomplishment and all that it might do to a society, a planet, a civilization...By 2383-2385 in the Terran calendar, you're also likely faced with something else, something possibly even more worthy of a "I want this all to go away!" reaction where you climb into bed and never get out again, like a small child. Very soon after you first achieve FTL travel, people claiming not to be of your species either come out of the woodwork or contact you from ships...ships orbiting your homeworld. They claim to be not just of one alien species but many, to be the representatives of an interstellar government comprising dozens, hundreds of species even! And they'd like to say hello. First Contact Before one can even begin to speak of a world joining the Federation, one has to begin by thinking of First Contact. While it's possible that contact could be made by ships in space running across Federation (or other groups') ships, which is possibly the most ideal scenario, the reality is that by 2383-2385, in the Alpha Quadrant and near Beta Quadrant, it is far more likely that contact is made either by First Contact teams that had been observing on a planet, or as a result of sensor detection by Federation ships (or other sensors) of consistent FTL activity, either around a world or between worlds. As a general rule, Federation observation teams on a planet go in before a society achieves warp travel; they do their level best to get out before FTL travel (and especially FTL sensors) are achieved, as well. Sometimes, however, events move too fast or combine with unexpected issues to make getting out beforehand impossible. In those cases, observation teams are trained and ordered to keep observing, clandestinely, to the best of their ability, and not to make First Contact if they can possibly avoid it. This is largely informed by the human experience and human intuition, though it's a point agreed with as a general principle by virtually every species (particularly within the UFP), and confirmed by inevitable occasional experience: First Contact made by in-place observation teams, particularly teams that had posed as members of the target species, tends to...seriously unnerve the target species, most particularly the leadership thereof. [This is a significant understatement. Humans, in the Trek timeline, are possibly uniquely prepared by the sheer commonality of the modern UFO mythos for the idea of extraterrestrial contact. Even so, First Contact must have seriously freaked people out when it did occur, no matter how prepared they may have thought they were for the idea. It seems unlikely that other species would react as well to the idea of extraterrestrials, and reactions would likely be even worse if the ETs emerged from within the society(/societies), as an Observation Team caught on-planet would. Add whole new levels of worse if the planet doesn't have a single government. You could try to be as non-threatening and as gentle as you please, but it would still be a horrible way to make an introduction.] Much preferable is to extract Observation Teams without on-planet notice, posting Federation ships (at a point where on-planet sensors likely cannot detect them) to keep outsiders from barging in. (Occasionally, this requires the use of force, but it's the rare interstellar traveler who doesn't respect a Federation request/demand to keep away from a "newly arrived species". Other groups and governments, for fear of more general Federation reaction, don't usually push the matter - The UFP is really touchy about this issue.) This may seem like an unnecessary application of the Prime Directive, an interference in the development of a warp-capable species, but it has proven essential to "easing in" a society to the idea of extraterrestrial life. [They may think they're ready. You may think, for a minute, they're ready. Truth is, no species is ever truly ready to find out they aren't alone in the cosmos, and it's doubtful any ever would be.] The target world is then observed from space (by posted "picket ships" and very occasional close-in measures such as probes) until sensors capable of detecting FTL ships are developed, until the target species seems likely to step outside of their immediate area, or until other evidence arises of the target world being about to stumble upon the truth regarding extraterrestrial life. [As a rule, if the target world develops FTL sensors (which may not happen at the same time as FTL mobility, and indeed probably happens a bit later), they'll be able to see the ships watching them, confirm their existence, and react. Hence, at that point you'd best be ready to say hello, whether you like it or not. (And there are times, yes, where either the Federation, the target species, or both wish that they'd had the chance to delay that hello, whether for a short time or a long time. However, once the target species can see for itself that there are others out there, you can't avoid it, even if it's ill-timed.)] What happens next depends greatly upon the individual target species and their circumstances, the nature of their "eligibility" for First Contact, the time between warp travel being achieved and first contact, Federation resources available, the galactic situation, the level of knowledge about the target species, whether there are still Observation Teams on-planet, and other factors. That said, there are general rules: 1. It's greatly preferred that shipborne assets make the first contact, not on-planet Observation Teams: The "aliens" being out in space is a lot less scary than the idea they've been living among you and you haven't had a clue. [OTs making the First Contact just scares the locals, and should hence be avoided if at all possible.] 2. Don't send the biggest ship you can find. Send a smaller ship. If it's briefed, trained, crewed, and equipped to specifically to say hello, even better: The Galaxy-class (for example, but replace with any larger ship) may have the most diplomatic captains and the best diplomatic facilities, but it's also incredibly huge, especially if you're relatively new to space. You may not to be able to avoid it, but try to send a small ship. It scares the locals less. If it can be prepped for the mission, say through crew training, the presence of Federation diplomatic personnel (and personnel from the Starfleet First Contact Office unit responsible for the target species 'portfolio'), command crew briefing by the First Contact Office (who should also attempt to brief the rest of the ship's crew), etc., all the better. If you can't mobilize Diplomatic Service or relevant FCO personnel to physically be there, have them "on speed dial" as well as Starfleet Command. This can be essential. 3. If there are still OTs on-planet that haven't been extracted, they aren't the ones making First Contact, and you can do so without the locals noticing, try to get them out before you send the first signal saying hello. This may not always be possible, but it's worth delaying the first contact if you can stealthily extract the OTs, debrief them, and reverse cosmetic alterations before the target species is contacted. They may have information not otherwise available, as well as skills (such as target language ability without UT usage - UTs are better than nothing, but for various reasons, newly contacted species tend to like people who speak their own language "naturally") nobody else has. If you cannot delay first contact, OTs are trained to stay clandestine and continue observing until they can be extracted if at all possible, not revealing their presence unless they must. [Or until they're discovered as extraterrestrials by the locals.] 4. First Contact should occur only with a limited spectrum of species persons. Leadership elements are always preferred, followed by military personnel (who tend to be listened to by the leadership), followed by security forces, followed only then by scientists. Avoid it with some random person. [The Vulcans picking Cochrane and friends to say hello to first was perhaps the worst possible example.] In the event there isn't a single world government, contact the confirmed "Great Powers" first. If they have an organization such as the United Nations, this is sometimes best to use as a conduit, if the planetary political situation warrants. Otherwise, you have two options: Simultaneous contact of the Great Powers, or far less preferably, picking one nation (preferably a Great Power) to contact, ease into comfort with the idea of extraterrestrial life, and use to "spread the news", with the utmost discretion, to the other nations. (If there is a "superpower", or multiple superpowers, either talk to them first or talk to them at the same conversation as with the Great Powers.) Never, ever make contact to or through media if you can avoid it. For that matter, try not to even merit the notice of the media before contacting the target world's leadership. It may be the case that the target society's leadership (particularly if there isn't a single world government) decides not to reveal the existence of ETs to the general public just yet, for whatever reasons - this may be a very good idea. Doubters are asked to imagine the likely reaction had extraterrestrials been discovered and confirmed during, for example, most of Earth's 20th Century in sociological terms, or actually during World War III (instead of after World War III). If there are religious hierarchies or even just religions in the target society/societies - swallow your own views on the topic of religious belief, whatever they may be, and accept the fact of the target society's beliefs. (Now is absolutely not the time to tell the target species that there is, or is not, a God. Period! Do not even discuss the topic if you can avoid it, certainly do not bring it up, and if they bring it up, duck the question. They are, not to put too fine a point on it, going to go through enough as a species.) Contact them along with political powers. (To use a 21st Century human example, if you're making First Contact with the UN, or even just the superpowers outside of the UN, take the time to get representatives of the Pope and other religious hierarchs and hierarchies included on the conversation. (You can't expect to "get everybody in the room" on even a moderately religiously-diverse planet, but where there are hierarchical structures and "notables", invite them along with political/military powers.) It can sometimes be enormously helpful in getting the news of "life out there" to "go down easy" when the time comes if the major religions are also informed, actively involved in "preparing the ground", and generally not shut out of the conversation.) If you can, get leaders (or at least representatives such as diplomats of ambassadorial rank) in the same physical room at the same time - if that isn't possible, use secure communications systems (preferably with video capabilities) to get everyone in the same conversation. 5. Only with the active concurrence of the target world's leadership should the existence of extraterrestrial life be revealed to the general population. Period. Mass societal hysteria can easily result if you "go over the heads" of the leadership. If the leadership is not ready, for whatever reasons, then offer to limit contact to the governments of those powers already aware (or who become aware) of the existence of extraterrestrial life, with the explicit goal of making them comfortable with extraterrestrial contact and at some point revealing the fact of extraterrestrial life to the general population. Respect the political evolution of the planetary structure: Do not contact governments not generally recognized (a good rule is that if none of the great powers will talk to them, you shouldn't either unless circumstances are obviously in flux). After the initial conversation with global leadership, back off and let them decide what to do, careful to avoid even the appearance or implication of extraterrestrial pressure or "dictates". Do advise them that Federation starships and sensors will, to the best of their ability, continue to "fence them off" from interstellar visitors until they decide to step into the galactic community (and do make clear Federation preference that such a "debut" wait until the target world's societies are generally aware of extraterrestrial life; gently but firmly discourage "forward runners" from "getting ahead" of others, and explain openly to leaders that this is to encourage the planetary leadership strata to adopt a single policy, whatever that policy may be), as a precautionary measure. --- There's more but the buffer won't take the whole thing at once. Please wait for the whole thing.


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All quotes tagged Fields
(2385 quotes found)
"There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown."
"A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches"
"You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play"
"...What I like does tend to be left-field. I feel somehow much more comfortable playing it. I relate more easily than I do when I run across straight roles. I hate the obvious stuff, I just don't respond to it."
"The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise."


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Sox-wise and Otherwise
My weekly offseason musings about the White Sox and more…
* If you're a reader of the daily transactions, you came upon the news this week that two former White Sox have been named coaches under new Indians skipper Manny Acta. Sandy Alomar Jr. is the new first base coach and former Sox lefty Scott Radinsky is the new bullpen coach.
* Most of the focus for White Sox fans from the Arizona Fall League has been directed toward Peoria Javelinas outfielder Jordan Danks, who continues to impress with his .343 batting average, .458 on base percentage and league-leading 31 runs scored. But lately another name has emerged that bears close watching–third baseman Brent Morel.
Morel, a third round 2008 draft pick out of Cal Poly, replaced the injured Dayan Viciedo on the Javelinas roster in late October. Since then, Morel has hit .435 with a couple of homers and 11 RBI in 16 games. And, remarkably, just today he won the AFL batting title–the only player in the league to hit .400.
Last summer, his second in pro ball, Morel hit .281 with 33 doubles, 16 homers, 79 RBI and 25 stolen bases for Class A Winston-Salem. He was also named the best defensive third baseman in the Carolina League.
He's definitely another Sox youngster to keep an eye on.
* Both Danks and Morel will be in the Javelinas lineup when they face the Phoenix Desert Dogs Saturday afternoon in the AFL Championship Game, to be televised on the MLB Network.
* Sox fan Seymour Berke continues to do well. It'll be good to see him next week and he'll undoubtedly have a lot to say about his Bears.


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This year's Tony Awards pits a little girl with a very wild imagination against a man who sure knows how to make a good pair of high-heeled boots.
Cyndi Lauper's musical Kinky Boots earned 13 nominations, including Best Musical and Best Original Score, edging out Matilda, which earned itself a whopping 12 noms.
Based on the 2005 British film, Lauper wrote the music and lyrics for the play about a family-owned English shoe factory struggling to avoid bankruptcy by producing fetish footwear for drag artists rather than the men's shoes they made previously.
Lauper took to Twitter to share her excitement over the accolades.
I'm crying and jumping up and down! I can't believe it so excited! @kinkybootsbway !! So proud to be part of this! Thank you Harvey!xxx
— Cyndi Lauper (@cyndilauper) April 30, 2013
Kinky Boots' writer Harvey Fierstein earned a nomination for Best Book of a Musical, while actors Billy Porter and Stark Sands got nods for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical. Annaleigh Ashford also received a nom for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical for Kinky Boots.
Kinky Boots also earned noms for Best Choreography and Best Orchestrations, pitting the play against Matilda, A Christmas Story and Bring It On.
The Tony Awards broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall on CBS June 9.
For a full list of the nominees, go to CBS New York.
– E.J. Judge, WCBS-FM/NYC


text: It's always refreshing to see creativity used to the fullest advantages on a hot rod. This evil looking hotrod pickup is slightly extended in the nose region due to the front mounted roots type blower! WUT!? Yes, settle down now. While I can't confirm exactly what goes on within the walls of those silver intake tubes, I have to assume that they aren't the only thing holding the boost inside. How does it work you say? Well… The crankshaft has a …well… shaft coming off the front of it. That shaft passes through some bearings, and has a dual pulley on the front side. That dual pulley spins the supercharger, which begins moving air. The air then flows up the duct work to the blow-thru carb, and voila, "Bob's your uncle." Like it, Love it, Lust it. The choice is yours and yours alone.