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It was a long five days, and all I can say is that I'm glad we survived the ordeal. Everyone knows restoring a car usually takes months, if not years, to actually complete just the metal work. With that in mind, we had what we thought at first to be a hair brained idea, but after some not-so-careful thought, our idea quickly turned into a plan. It was a plan that was developed at the spur of the moment, and up until we actually carried out said plan, it would cause me sleepless nights, hoping we could accomplish it. But here it is. After five days of cutting metal, sandblasting rust, and installing a couple hundred spot-welds, we finally had a rebuilt Dart. But I guess I'm getting ahead of myself.
The original plan/idea was that we would work with the guys at the AMD Installation Center, to completely rebuild the body of a rusty '69 Dart GT in five days. You heard that correctly. Now, there wouldn't be a crew of 20 people working around the clock to build a completed car. Actually there would be two (maybe three on occasion) people working on the car at any given time, and our given time would be between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Since that was the case, said plan was to simply get all of the required metal replaced on the body, so the car could be painted at a later date. Even though the installation center consists of two guys, we were being somewhat realistic, and felt that we could actually do just the metal work in this short period of time. So, the plan was hatched, and it was time to start cuttin' and weldin', and cuttin' and weldin', and…
Day One and a Non-Productive Day Two
It was around 10:00 Monday morning when work began at the AMD Installation Center run by Craig Hopkins. The plan was that he and his shop manager, Chris Dyer, would completely rebuild the rusted '69 Dart by replacing as much metal with new AMD stuff as required. When we actually got started, what was required to be replaced was the entire floor from the firewall to the rear seat location, the trunk floor, outer wheel houses, the Dutchman panel, the hood and trunk lid, the driver-side door jamb, front fenders, and the quarter-panels. It seemed like a daunting task, and we weren't even sure we would complete it, but we were hell-bent on trying. Day one had us disassembling and cutting all of the rusted metal off of the car. When we were finished hacking, some of us were questioning our sanity, as all we had left was a skeleton of a car. Some of our metal was bolt on, and the removal of those items was straight forward. As for the rest of the metal, with the help of an air chisel, die grinder, and anything else that would cut, we were able to dissect the car on day one.
What I forgot about when planning this little endeavor, was that even though I say we planned to do this transformation in five days, I forgot to figure into this time frame the fact that the mediablasting guys would have the car for a day as well. That meant we actually only had four days to rebuild the Dart. We weren't worried–at first. On day two, since we had no car to work on, we decided that a trip to Auto Metal Direct's facility was in order. After all, where else could we get all of the metal we would need. We spent most of the day at AMD taking a tour, and getting things around for the car, and late in the afternoon we made the trip to Black Mountain Sandblasting to pick up what was left of our Dart.
Day Three
Wednesday morning saw us getting started around 10 a.m., and it didn't take long for things to get accomplished. By 11:43, the trunk floor was in place and ready for welding. While Chris handled that, Craig and I were fitting the floorpan that stretched from the firewall to the rear seat area. I have to admit, I was skeptical about how this new sheetmetal was going to fit, but in the end, I had to concede to the fact that it did, and it fit well.
By 2:30 in the afternoon, the trunk floor was installed, and the cabin floor was having the finish welding done. I did get nervous, though, at about 1:00 when I saw Craig grinding and welding a pair of clamping pliers, but was pleasantly surprised when I saw the sheetmetal clamp that he made to fit over the rocker panel and secure the floorpan to the rocker. When 5:00 rolled around, Chris had the outer wheel houses and trunk extensions ready to accept the first quarter-panel, and it was time to go grab some grub and a beer–or something like that.
Day Four
With the car's floors finished up on day three, and the back half of the car temporarily clamped together, it was time to focus on actually installing the quarter-panels. To do this, the trunk extensions, the outer wheelhouses, the trunk lid, and the doors all need to be installed on the car, but not welded in place. This is where a lot of clamping pliers come into play. Think about it, without having the doors, wheelhouses and trunk extensions in place, there is no way to know if the quarter-panel is properly located. By temporarily assembling all of the panels that coincide with the quarter-panels, the body lines and gaps can be set up like they need to be. By 9:30, the pieces were clamped into place, and the passenger-side quarter-panel was being positioned on the car.
The driver side was a little trickier, however, as the door striker/jamb area needed to be replaced as well. The nice thing about fitting panels on a Mopar is that there are alignment holes, and locating "tabs" that help position the pieces being installed. By 11:30, the driver-side quarter-panel was also hanging in its new location–albeit temporarily. We were really beginning to think that we might make it after all. With the back half of the car clamped together, it was time to cut and remove the Dutchman panel.
The Dutchman panel is the panel between the rear window and the trunk lid, and ours was in bad shape. Over time, water and dirt collect in the window channel, and the result is unwanted rust that creates unnecessary vent holes. It was close to 3:00, and we wanted to at least have everything clamped in place before the end of the day. Things were going our way, and when 5:00 came around, the Dutchman panel and the rest of the back half of the car had been spot-welded into place, and was ready for final welding on day five.
Day Five
What I forgot to mention about day four, is that a couple of guys from the Tennessee Valley Mopar Club made the trek to North Georgia to see how things were going. Since they decided to hang out with us, we decided to put a couple of them to work. In hind sight, they might not come back since we did, but they were cool about it. Anyway, as with any situation where a bunch of guys get together, the night following day four was spent conversing and partaking of the cuisine at the local German eating establishment after we all finally found out where it was, right guys? It was a pleasant surprise to find out that they served beverages there as well–the 8 a.m. wake up time came too soon. Anyway, this was our final day to complete the job, and it looked like we might make it.
While Chris started to handle some of the finish welding, the Tennessee Valley Mopar guys helped Craig get the front fenders and hood mounted. The AMD fenders were the first to go on, and since these were preproduction pieces, we didn't know what to expect. What we learned was that it took several sets of fenders being made to get them right, and the pair we had must have been the latest set, because they looked great to us. The headlight bucket areas had the right mounting points for the headlights and bezels, and the body lines were crisp and in the right spot. Although we didn't have a veneer caliper, the metal felt to be the same as the factory stuff was. What we were told about them, though, was to be careful with them, because they cost roughly $100,000 a piece. Since they were preproduction pieces, that was roughly the cost of R&D to get to this point. We were assured, though, that the actual production pieces will cost a lot less. The hood itself was something A-Body guys have needed for a while. The GT style hood had the correct bulges, and the attaching points for the hood chrome are as good as the factory mounting points.
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By 3:00 on Friday–day five–the newly rebuild Dart was ready for the next phase of restoration, bodywork and painting. But we were done, both literally and physically. We had accomplished our goal, the body was welded back together, and would be able to head to the body shop for the finish work and painting.
We learned that the AMD installation center is a great place for those enthusiasts that really want to restore their car, but fear the problems that can arise when major metal repair is needed. Craig has developed a table/jig system that firmly places the car in the proper position so that assembly is a snap, and the body doesn't flex, twist, or get out of shape when large pieces of metal are removed. We definitely found a shop that can help you get your car back together. Apparently, nothing is ever too far gone to rebuild.


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Letting defensive end Cliff Avril walk into free agency is as risky for the Lions as his playing under a one-year deal was for his future earnings this year.
So with many big-money decisions on deck in Detroit, it's hard to tell right now which side won the gamble.
"I don't think the roulette table has stopped spinning yet," Lions general manager Martin Mayhew said, via Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press. "I don't know if he won the bet yet or not. That's a good question for him, though. But it's not over yet. We'll find out kind of where he is."
Mayhew said immediately after the season he wouldn't be using the franchise tag on Avril, who played under the $10.6 million tag last year. And with a snug salary cap situation and a lot of pending free agents, the Lions may not be able to do a long-term deal sufficient to his desires.
Avril turned down a three-year, $30 million offer last offseason, thinking he'd be able to trade up this year. While his sack numbers declined for the first time in his five NFL seasons, he still had 9.5 sacks and two forced fumbles, enough to make him quite rich in an open market.
Mayhew said that the combination of a pinched nerve in Avril's back and the 4-12 Lions' lack of leads and pass-rushing opportunities combined to depress Avril's numbers.
"We didn't play with a lot of leads," Mayhew said. "We played with some leads last year, so we had some opportunities really to tee off and get our pass rush going, where everybody can just cut loose and just go. We didn't have as many of those. That may have been a reason for some of the decline in sacks and quarterback fumbles."
Avril has said the things nearly every free agent says about wanting to stay with his current team, but it's hard to imagine there wouldn't be a healthy market for him.


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Trouble in College ParkPosted by nvr1983 on January 28th, 2009
Since winning the NCAA title in 2002 (in the ugliest title game I have ever seen at any level), Maryland basketball has fallen on hard times. Since that win, the Terrapins have made the NCAA tournament just 3 times in 6 years and have only advanced to the Sweet 16 once in that period. As you can see from the graphic below, the Terrapins have been a pretty mediocre ACC team since 2002.
During that stretch, Gary Williams's teams have a combined record of 136-79 (63%) overall and 53-49 (52%) in the ACC. While they have had their bright spots (knocking a freshman Stephen Curry out of his first NCAA tournament), it seems like the Terrapins have had more than their fair share of bad moments in the past year.
- Losing Gus Gilchrist and Tyree Evans after they reneged on their prior commitments
- Just this month managing to blow three double-digit leads: a 17-point lead at Miami, a 16-point lead at home against Boston College, and, worst of all, a 14-point lead with 11:39 left at home against Morgan State
- Getting absolutely crushed by Duke in Cameron last Saturday (Maryland's worst loss since 1963)
Terrapin fans and the local media have already started to question Gary Williams. After the massacre at Cameron, I began to wonder how long Williams had to right the ship at Maryland (and rtmsf mentioned it in this morning's ATB). The program is no longer even considered among the upper echelon in the ACC and Williams has been widely criticized for his inability to recruit top players to Maryland. The last class that Maryland had that was even was in Rivals.com's Top 30 was back in 2006 (#19 that year). To be fair to Williams, he never really landed top recruiting classes (exception: 2003, the year after they won the national title, when they landed the #3 class, which unfortunately never panned out), but still managed to have great teams with Juan Dixon, Steve Blake, and Lonnie Baxter.
To make matters worse, the Terrapin players don't even seem to go to class or at least not enough to graduate. (Note: This isn't something new. It has been going on for a while at Maryland.)
Williams has been able to weather all these storms, but the latest news about his public disagreements with the Maryland administration regarding his inability to close on Gilchrist and Evans may just be the tipping point and provide the impetus needed for his opponents in the Maryland administration to get him off the sideline.
This leaves us with the question: How long do Maryland fans have to wait before calling for Williams's head (figuratively please)? Bill Simmons says fans should give their teams a 5-year grace period. Unfortunately for Gary, that period ended with the loss in the 2nd round of the NCAA tournament in 2007 and Maryland fans are not always the most supportive of their own team. With this latest fiasco, which unfortunately for Gary involved the Maryland administration, it may just be a matter of time before the most successful coach in Terrapins' basketball history is sent packing from College Park.


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Apple got a shout out during last night's State of the Union for bringing manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.
At the end of last year, CEO Tim Cook said Apple plans to invest $100 million in domestic manufacturing to produce some Macs here.
In case you're wondering what it means in terms of actual jobs created, it's not much.
In December, Dan Luria, a labor economist who studies factory operations at Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center, told Bloomberg that Apple's Mac production would probably add 200 jobs. (Michael Marks, ex-CEO of Flextronics, also estimated 200 jobs would be needed to make the Macs to Bloomberg.)
That's not exactly going to get the American economy firing on all cylinders, but we suppose it's more about the symbolism, especially for a State of The Union address. If Apple is bringing some manufacturing back to the U.S., maybe other companies will, too.


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I am writing because I am concerned about the lack of competition in agricultural markets, which impacts not only farmers and ranchers, but also consumers. With fewer players involved at every step in the food chain, consumers pay more while farmers get paid less.
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I urge USDA and DOJ to use the public workshops on agricultural competition to thoroughly examine the loss of competition in all sectors of the food chain, from seed and other farm inputs, to commodities and meat packing.
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Right now, they're the best team in the NFL.
In case you think that's a typo, one more time: The best team in the NFL.
If you disagree, perhaps Kam Chancellor should come to your house and deliver a hit like the one he put on Vernon Davis.
The Seahawks are the baddest birds in the air presently. They just gave the 49ers, the most consistent team in the NFL over the past two years, the Arizona/Buffalo treatment.
They pounded a legitimate Super Bowl contender from start to finish, and yet there's a part of you that was disappointed that they didn't score 50 points for a third straight game.
The Seahawks' dominance starts with their exquisite offensive execution. They didn't punt in the first half against the 49ers, widely considered the best defense in the NFL.
Then again, this is a young team with ample room left to grow. It feels like they're still toying with their superpowers.
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Answer: Old Testament theology is what God has revealed about Himself in the Old Testament. The system of Old Testament theology takes the various truths that the Old Testament books teach us about God and presents them in an organized fashion. God's revelation of Himself begins: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." That is a presupposition that all believers accept by faith and is based on the study of God throughout all the Scripture from Genesis to Revelation. Since the Bible is true in all of its aspects, then all of it, as it comes from God, is true and eternal. It never passes away, nor will it ever deny itself in any of its parts.
God said, "My Word is true...it is eternal...it will never pass away." God Himself is true: Jesus said, "For I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life" states, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God; the same was in the beginning with God." Paul wrote in , "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God (God-breathed states, "But men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit."
Since God revealed Himself, His character, His attributes, etc., then a theological study is made of the Old Testament, and it is discovered that the Old Testament (Old Covenant) gives us an application of theology to a relationship that God established with a created people, the Jews. We must relate the word theology to the word testament or covenant. All through this Old Testament there is a progressive revelation of God to his people in order that they might learn who He is, what He is, and what He was doing in the world, especially with them. The application of the word testament carries one beyond the simple fact of books or writings to their main theme. Into the very heart of the Old Testament is woven the idea of a covenant between God and man, first made with Adam, then with Noah, also with Abraham, with the nation of Israel, and with David. The Scripture refers again and again through the history, the psalms and proverbs and prophecy, to this covenant into which God entered with His chosen people. In Jeremiah, prophecy reaches its height in the sublime prediction of the New Covenant, a prediction declared by the writer of the letter to the Hebrews to be fulfilled in Jesus Christ.


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Twelve local students will move on to the Regional Elementary School Science Fair in Wilmington next month.
Twelve local students will move on to the Regional Elementary School Science Fair in Wilmington next month.
The projects were selected during the Onslow County Schools Elementary Science Fair Thursday night, during which 84 students from 12 schools presented 78 projects to judges, friends and family.
Among them was Erin Frisch, 9, a fourth grade student at Morton Elementary School, who simulated driving using her Wii game console for her project �Distracted Driving.�
�I wanted to help save lives with these findings so there�d be less crashes,� she said.
Erin tested several different distractions but determined that texting while driving was the most distracting.
�I�m very, very excited,� she said.
Matthew Shirley, 10, a fourth grader at Dixon Elementary School, said he wanted to learn more about how long it took water to freeze. For example, in his project �Freezing Rates of Water�, he added salt and sugar to water and compared rates.
�If you don�t add anything to the water, it�ll freeze quicker,� he said after being presented with his trophy.
Jasmine Toudle, 11, a fifth grade student at Southwest Elementary, will also be moving forward with her project �Which is Stronger?�
Jasmine said she was excited to be selected but didn�t see it coming.
�I was just happy that I was already here,� she said of the system-wide competition.
Michele Halley, director of professional development and academic enrichment for Onslow County Schools, said that the projects were judged on research, originality, creativity, content and scientific method during the fourth annual science fair.
�That�s the big thing we�re looking for: Can the child do research and when they do can they make sense of it?� she said.
Halley said that by participating in the science fair, the children learn about researching, publishing and reporting.
�These are all 21st century skills that are needed for students to be successful in today�s global environment,� she said.
And, according to the students, they also had some fun with the projects.
Jackson Burns, 10, who is also in fifth grade at Dixon Elementary, looked at how best to pop popcorn. He compared the number of kernels left unpopped after cooking popcorn that was stored in the refrigerator, in the freezer or in the pantry. Jackson found that popcorn stored in the refrigerator for eight hours before popping leaves the least amount unpopped.
He said he picked his project for a simple reason.
�I like popcorn and I like to eat popcorn,� he explained.
On the move
Twelve students were selected to move on to the regional elementary school science fair Feb. 8 at UNC-Wilmington. They and their projects are:
-Nia Cruz for Magnificent Electromagnets
-Jalen Lucas for Ripening Bananas
-Lilly Britt for Which Sunscreen Works the Best
-Brianna Ryan for What Makes a Raw Egg�s Eggshell Come Off Best
-Matthew Shirley for Freezing Rates of Water
-Jazlyn Cuadro for Cleaning Up Oil Spills
-Erin Frisch for Distracted Driving
-Jill McBeth and Onna Thackston for A Penny for Your Hot Sauce
-Caroline Cubas for Preservatives
-Riley Stone for Be Safe and Flip the Switch
-Adam Vcarner for Boom Goes the Hair Spray
-Jasmine Toudle for Which is Stronger?
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Great Barrington, MA: When I went to college after tenth grade, many of my former classmates wrongly assumed that I had gone to a boarding school. I've grown accustomed to explaining that it's possible for me to be 17-years-old and a sophomore in college.
Until a couple of years ago I was not aware that there were alternatives to the traditional public school system. As a sophomore in high school, I came across Bard College at Simon's Rock, a liberal arts school in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. This institution offers students the unique opportunity to begin college after their sophomore or junior year of high school. I've wanted to become a writer since I was very young. This ambition brought me to Simon's Rock for the Young Writers Workshop and serendipitously led to my enrollment in its early college. There I learned to organize my thoughts and write essays and stories in many genres.
Simon's Rock has a superb faculty; every class I've taken has been an engaging experience. Professors use a roundtable format that lends itself to lively discussions. Because the classes are small, teachers are very approachable, and collaborating with them is easy and organic.
Those at Simon's Rock have helped me mature as a thinker and opened my mind to new ways of looking at things. This is a small community that brings together students from diverse cultures, nationalities, and backgrounds. We have gotten to know one another very well – one of the advantages of the small class size. The environment allows me to mingle with people of many interests whom I would not have been exposed to otherwise. Two of my housemates, for example, are expert ceramicists, and I've developed a sincere appreciation of their art.
Conversations about issues ranging from politics, to religion, art and literature have been the best part of campus life. Everyone brings a fresh perspective to the table. Over the course of these two years, my class has become my family.
Simon's Rock is not the only school that offers higher education to younger students. Another program is the Bard High School Early College in New York City. Ambitious teenagers may benefit from these options if their high school education isn't helping them reach their potential. High schools put a lot of emphasis on preparing students for standardized tests. This practice leaves much to be desired as students rush to answer multiple-choice questions to beat the ticking clock. And the pressure placed on teachers to ensure their students succeed on these exams limits their ability to hold open discussions, digress from the curriculum, and allow students to explore ideas.
I was fortunate to have stumbled onto Simon's Rock. I've returned to my former high school several times during breaks and found that even some teachers and guidance counselors are unfamiliar with the concept of early college. National Public Radio recently did a segment that described the college and its curriculum in depth. This publicity captured the attention of several students in the class below mine, and ultimately led to their enrollment.
I'd like more students to be aware of the fact that their high school is not the only option out there. If you're a motivated teenager looking to enhance your education, visit Simon's Rock, sit in on a class, and consider whether starting college early is right for you. As Joel and Ethan Coen, two famous Simon's Rock alums, wrote in their Academy award-winning film "No Country for Old Men," "You stand to win everything." See more at simons-rock.edu.


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Supersonic flight, a longtime dream for makers and owners of private planes, is inching closer to reality.
Nine years after the last trip of the Concorde jetliner, the quest for speed without window-rattling sonic booms is spurring research by billionaire Robert Bass, General Dynamics's Gulfstream, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, NASA and others.
The efforts signal that the time may finally be nearing for corporate aircraft flying faster than sound, about 750 miles (1,207 kilometers) per hour at sea level. Technological leaps since the Concorde's development in the 1960s are converging with the willingness of globe-trotting chief executive officers to pay more for ever-bigger and longer-range jets.
"Most all of the manufacturers have done size, have done luxury and opulence," said Andrew Hoy, a managing director at broker ExecuJet Aviation Group in Zurich. "Time is the biggest opportunity for them all and the only differentiator left."
High operating costs and scant demand for the Concorde's premium fares forced its retirement in 2003 after 27 years in service. The 100-seat jets streaked from New York to London at twice the speed of sound, slicing travel times in half to about three hours.
Planemakers took away a lesson in supersonic economics: It may be easier to find CEOs and wealthy individuals who crave faster corporate aircraft than to persuade airlines to invest in a Concorde successor.
"Given the amount of fuel you need to burn to achieve supersonic speeds, it's going to be a more expensive proposition that only a sliver of the market is going to pay the price for," said George Hamlin, president of Hamlin Transportation Consulting in Fairfax, Va. "When you're talking about a supersonic business jet, that begins to make more sense."
The largest corporate planes already cost almost as much as the smallest Boeing and Airbus SAS airliners, and can fly about 90 percent as fast as sound. Gulfstream's G650 lists for $58.5 million. Bombardier's Global 7000 and 8000 jets retail for as much as $65 million. Warren Buffett's NetJets unit ordered 20 last year.
The chief obstacle to supersonic flight is the same one that bedeviled the Concorde: the sonic boom. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration outlawed such flights by civilians over land in 1973 because of the noise, and other countries followed.
Reversing that ban will be pivotal to any revival of supersonic travel, because the planes would lose their business case if they can't fly at top speed, according to Savannah, Georgia-based Gulfstream.
"That requires a solution to the sonic boom problem, and that's where our research efforts are focused," Preston Henne, Gulfstream's senior vice president of engineering and test, said during an aviation conference in Orlando, Florida, on Oct. 29. "We continue to make progress on that."
NASA expects to start building a demonstrator plane in 2016 to show that disruptive booms can be minimized, and that jet may fly after 2020, according to Peter Coen, chief of supersonic research. In an industry in which Boeing's Dreamliner took more than a decade to go from the Sonic Cruiser concept to first delivery, that's not a long-range timeline.
"This is a high-value niche market; the winner here will be the first to market," said Brian Foley, an aviation consultant based in Sparta, N.J. "That's why there's interest and that's why there's motivation for these people to keep on trying."


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A look in the rearview mirror at how the economy performed in the second quarter is likely to confirm the surge in U.S. growth late in the spring.
Economists polled by MarketWatch predict gross domestic product will be marked down a notch – to 3.9% from an initial read of 4%. Consumer spending and the buildup in business inventories don't appear to have been quite as strong as originally reported. Sharp increases in both boosted the U.S. in the second quarter to the fastest pace of growth since the end of last fall.
On the upside, U.S. exports were somewhat better than previously reported and businesses appear to have boosted investment a bit faster.
More important is how the third quarter is shaping up. Most indicators show the economy maintaining most of its momentum, with analysts projecting a 3.1% growth rate.
One clue is how much the Commerce Department revises the estimated $93.4 billion increase in corporate inventories during the second quarter. Any big change up or down could spur economists to sharply recast their forecasts.
A more immediate indicator, U.S. jobless claims data, suggest the economy continues to improve. Claims are hovering near eight-year lows and have fallen below 300,000 in three of the past five weeks, a reflection of the low number of layoffs taking place in the economy.
The GDP and jobless claims reports will be released at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Thursday.
Later in the morning, an index that measures how many U.S. homes are ready to be sold is expected to rebound in July after declining in June. The pending home sales index fell 1.1% in June in another sign that sales continue to fall below expectations.
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Six months is apparently a lifetime at Louis Vuitton, where they've gone from dominatrix to delicate daisies in one season flat.
But Marc Jacobs is, of course, the master of the quick change in the fashion world so this style 180 isn't entirely unexpected. Especially if this LV show is being taken as Jacob's final audition for the job at Dior.
If the parade of the New Look down the Louis Vuitton runway is any indication he certainly wants the job!
As usual, it wasn't all gorgeous. There were some awkward bodysuits, like this argyle sweater version.
If it is this unflattering on Anja I can't even begin to image how it would look on the rest of us.
Although, I suppose, we wouldn't be pants-less!
I also could have done without the plastic, 3D flowers that adorned the evening gowns. They were voluminous enough without them!
For the most part this was a lovely, sweet collection for Spring that will certainly sell.
Especially the Celine-eqsue shapes of some of the new leather handbags.
If this was Marc's final collection for Louis Vuitton it was a pretty note to finish on.
(And then there was Kate.)
Thanks to Style.Com for the pictures!


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When I was a little girl, I would sit on my mother's bed and watch her reflection in the mirror as she rolled her long, dark hair up in curlers. She would wrap her hair around pink tubes which she'd secure with long metal clips. Later, when her hair had set, she would unfasten the clips, letting the curls fall on her shoulders, springy and soft. Then, she would brush her hair out, and the resulting effect was... beautiful.
Hairs-Pelitos, a bilingual picture book by Sandra Cisneros, shares fond memories and descriptions about family members and their hair. Please visit Latin Baby Book Club for my review of this very special book.


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Politics and labor organizing were always tightly intertwined in South Africa, ever since a series of militant strikes in the late 1980s helped make the country ungovernable, forcing the country's white regime into negotiations that would eventually lead to the end of white minority rule. Given this history, it was no surprise that the police killing of 34 wildcat strikers last Thursday—the worst mass slaughter of protesters by police since the election of Nelson Mandela in 1994—should set off such a sustained political firestorm. The slaughter at the platinum mine in Marikana may mark the dawn of a new era of labor unrest in what's still a young democracy.
The most salient question in the massacre's tragic aftermath was whether the government, which proclaims its "bias towards the poor," would manage to keep the lid on or forestall new outbreaks of violence. Its ruling coalition is shaped by a "Tripartite Alliance" that brings together COSATU, the influential national federation of trade unions, and the Communist Party, with the African National Congress, the former liberation movement which has dominated national politics for 18 years. Ties between these groups have long been fraught, but now, as unions within the larger federation compete for members with new, more militant breakaway syndicates—with many workers getting increasingly fed up with the establishment ANC —tensions within the government are bound to intensify.
(PHOTOS: In South Africa, Police Fire on Striking Mineworkers)
In a series of public statements, President Jacob Zuma appeared bewildered by the chaos. On television Wednesday morning, he sounded genuinely perplexed about how the shootings could have happened. "Why [was] the agitation from the strikers so high?" he asked, as if the reporter interviewing him might know better than he. Widely published images and descriptions of private security guards who had been hacked to death with machetes by strikers in the preceding week were followed by a never-ending repetition of video taken of police unleashing a panicky fusillade of automatic fire at the protesters. The grisly clashes served to remind readers and viewers that South Africa is a violent place, with among the highest rates of rape and murder in the world.
Zuma visited the mine as well as its strikers Aug. 22, his second trip of the week. He also dispatched nine Cabinet ministers to comfort the survivors, help with burials, and serve as interlocutors to forestall new outbreaks of violence. Finally, the president appointed a Judicial Commission of Inquiry to determine the underlying causes of the killings. His own political future hinges, in part, upon successfully navigating the crisis. Zuma already faces a considerable challenge for control of his own party in elections that will take place at the ANC National Conference in December.
A former ally of the president's, Julius Malema, swept into Marikana last Saturday to pay tribute to the strikers. Malema is the charismatic, allegedly corrupt politico ousted from his position as head of the ANC's youth wing and expelled from the party after falling out with Zuma. He told the strikers that the President and the ANC were handmaidens of the mine owners. "Phanzi, Zuma, Phanzi" (Down with Zuma. Down!)," he chanted, provoking a clamorous response. Not so many years ago, he was part of a national campaign, where the slogan was "Phanzi, Thabo Mbeki, phanzi!" that swept the former president from power. Malema lit up the crowd with a call to nationalize the mines. "These are your minerals," he cried. "You must never retreat, even in death." The racial subtext was clear enough: Malema wondered aloud why the police had protected the interests of London-based Lonmin PLC, which owned the mine, rather than striking black miners.
(MORE: As South Africa Reels from Mine Shootings, Social Inequality Threatens to Undo the Post-Apartheid 'Miracle')
The massacre itself had taken place last Thursday as police were trying to remove strikers and their supporters from a hill called Wonderkop. The police action came after tensions exploded between 3,000 rock drill operators, who were supporters of a new more militant union, and members of the National Union of Mineworkers. Ten people on both sides had been killed in the preceding days. Then, last Thursday, a crowd of men armed with sticks, iron rods, machetes and several handguns, were mowed down by the police in a scene, captured on video, that was reminiscent of apartheid era slaughters at Sharpeville in 1968 and during the Soweto Uprising of 1976.
This historic resonance means the massacre at Marikana will tug at the consciences of South Africans for years. Among other things, the shooting forced citizens of the relatively new democracy to consider what has changed — and what has not changed — in the intervening 18 years. In this case, the challenge to authority, not only to the owners of the third largest platinum mine in the world but also to the rule of the so-called "people's government," came not from the people at the very bottom rungs of the new society, but rather from skilled workers in critical jobs who make up the ranks of the working poor.
These workers once provided the bedrock of popular support for the ANC. In the wake of the killings they have turned, perhaps irrevocably, away from the governing party and the ANC-allied labor movement. On the eve of the nation's day of mourning of the fallen, another shadow loomed. It was not clear if the calm and relative quiet of the last several days in Marikana would hold. It is possible that the shock of the shootings, when it wears off, could lead to far more serious outbreaks of labor unrest that will prove even more combustible and difficult to contain.
Douglas Foster is author of AFTER MANDELA, The Struggle for Freedom in Post Apartheid South Africa, out from Liveright, an imprint of WW Norton, in September.
MORE: South Africa's Police Open Fire on Striking Miners: The Video


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SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) Johnny Manziel accounted for six touchdowns, including two to fend off a late rally, and No. 22 Texas A&M held on for a 59-57 win over 23rd-ranked Louisiana Tech to hand the Bulldogs their first loss Saturday night.
Texas A&M (5-1) won its fifth straight game and improved to 11-0 all-time against Louisiana Tech (5-1) in a game that was originally supposed to be played on Aug. 30, but was postponed because of Hurricane Isaac.
Louisiana Tech trailed by 27 points early before mounting a furious second half rally attempt capped by a 13-yard touchdown reception by Ray Holley to cut the lead to two points with 38 seconds left. But Colby Cameron's throw fell incomplete and the Aggies had the win.


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Doppler Tuning Algorithm for Gpredict
The first beta version of Gpredict 1.0 included a simple Doppler tuning algorithm that could adjust the receiver frequency and even take external frequency changes (e.g. tuning dial) into account. While it was a very good first cut at automatic Doppler tuning, the shortcomings were quickly identified. For example, it didn't take the PTT status for simplex radios into account and so Gpredict kept on sending RX correction commands to the radio even when the user was trying to transmit.
Clearly, a more sophisticated algorithm is needed and this page describes the design and prototyping of that algorithm.
- Gpredict shall be able to perform Doppler tuning for both uplink and downlink.
- Gpredict shall be able to take external frequency changes into account, e.g. when the user turns the dial.
- Gpredict shall be able to perform Doppler tuning using a receiver, a simplex transceiver, or a duplex transceiver.
- Gpredict shall take into account that there might be transverters in the loop.
Operating Modes
The operating mode for the controller depends on what kind of radio is used. For now, the following options are considered:
- Receiver Mode
- The radio is only a receiver or a transceiver where tuning via CAT is only possible in receive mode. In this case, Gpredict shall perform Doppler tuning on the downlink only.
- Simplex Mode
- The radio can be tuned via CAT both in receive and transmit modes. Gpredict will perform Doppler tuning on the downlink and uplink depending on the PTT setting.
- Duplex Mode
- The radio is a full duplex transceiver like the IC-910H or FT-847. Gpredict will perform continuous Doppler tuning using VFO_MAIN for uplink and VFO_SUB on the downlink regardless of the PTT setting.
The Controller Algorithm
The control algorithm will need the following parameters:
- Doppler
- The current Doppler shift at 100 MHz.
- SatRX
- The downlink frequency at the satellite. This is set by the user on the Gpredict control panel or automatically if the uplink and downlink frequencies are locked, or if RadioRX is changed externally (e.g. via tuning dial).
- SatTX
- The uplink frequency at the satellite. This is set by the user on the Gpredict control panel or automatically if the uplink and downlink frequencies are locked, or if RadioTX is changed externally (e.g. via tuning dial).
- RadioRX
- The downlink frequency of the radio.
- RadioTX
- The uplink frequency of the radio.
- RadioPTT
- The PTT status of the radio. When available, this is used to switch between RadioRX and RadioTX tuning on simplex radios.
- UsePTT
- Flag indicating whether the PTT status on the radio should be polled and taken into acount (i.e. don't set RadioRX when RadioPTT = true).
- PrevRX
- The RadioRX frequency set during the previous cycle. This can be different than RadioRX in that the user may have turned the tuning dial since the last cycle.
- PrevTX
- The RadioTX frequency set during the previous cycle. This can be different than RadioTX in that the user may have turned the tuning dial since the last cycle.
There are also other user interface parameters like Engage and Track that influence the overall functionality, but these parameters are outside the scope of the controller algorithm.
Receiver Mode
In this mode the radio is used for reception only even if it is a transceiver. The reason could be that frequency setting via CAT is not possible in transmit mode as would be the case for the FT-817. If configured with UsePTT = true, gpredict will also poll the PTT setting and ensure that downlink correction are only set to the radio when RadioPTT = false.
Pseudo code
/* Receiver chain */ if ((UsePTT = true) AND (RadioPTT = true)) return; endif; read RadioRX; if (RadioRX != PrevRX) update SatRX; calculate SatTX if locked to SatRX; PrevRX = RadioRX; else /* update Doppler correction */ RadioRX += SatRX * Doppler / 100 MHz; PrevRX = RadioRX; write RadioRX; endif;
Simplex Mode
In this situation the user uses the same radio for uplink and downlink but in simplex mode, i.e. can not receive and transmit at the same time. The prerequisites for this mode are:
- Radio is set to split mode. Gpredict will not care about VFO A and B — it will simply send uplink or downlink correction to the active VFO.
- RadioPTT can be read
- Radio can receive SET_FREQ commands via CAT in both receive and transmit modes.
Pseudo code
/* Are we in RX mode? */ if (RadioPTT = false) read RadioRX; /* did user change RX frequency on dial? */ if (RadioRX != PrevRX) update SatRX; calculate SatTX if locked to SatRX; PrevRX = RadioRX; else /* update Doppler correction */ RadioRX += SatRX * Doppler / 100 MHz; PrevRX = RadioRX; write RadioRX; endif; else /* we are in TX mode */ read RadioTX; /* did user change TX frequency on dial? */ if (RadioTX != PrevTX) update SatTX; calculate SatRX if locked to SatTX; PrevTX = RadioTX; else /* update Doppler correction */ RadioTX += SatTX * Doppler / 100 MHz; PrevTX = RadioTX; write RadioTX; endif; endif;
Duplex Mode
In this mode, gpredict updates both uplink and downlink frequencies continuously and at the same time regardless of the RadioPTT setting — RadioPTT is still used though to decide which VFO to track.
- When using duplex, transmission can only occur on the main band? However, it is the opposite when enabling the SAT mode; therefore SAT mode must be switched OFF!
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John Metcalfe
John Metcalfe was CityLab's Bay Area bureau chief, covering climate change and the science of cities.
Noise-sensitive renters in New York should think twice about locating to the Upper West Side near 100th Street. Beginning at 8 a.m., a perfect storm of pandemonium arises from the neighborhood, booming with a god-awful cacophony capable of defeating the thickest of earplugs.
There are people singing and yelling, a marching band rehearsing, roof air compressors humming, and buses idling while their drivers get coffee and doughnuts. Helicopters hover, construction workers bang tools loudly while swaying to salsa music, a man pushes a power-steam cleaner and a mysterious musician toots on a trumpet all morning long. Then there's this complaint submitted to the city's 311 line: "Caller states that the neighbor upstair are on drugs and they are stomping jumping and banging with a hammer on the ceiling from the bedroom to the livingroom. Caller states anywhere he walks they follow him to make noise."
This little enclave near the Hudson is possibly the loudest place in New York during the morning, to judge from its thick black coloring on this map of noise complaints. Columbia University's Spatial Information Design Lab created the acoustic cartography using a year's worth of calls to the city's 311 non-emergency line; the 270,000-plus complaints sketch a city of pure sound that roars in the day and talks ferociously in its sleep.
The most common pleas for quiet occur with loud TVs, music emanating from clubs, drunken hubbub in the streets and the occasional moped-revving competition. Manhattan is by far the noisiest borough, and Staten Island whispers like a well-mannered librarian. The Lower East Side and the East Village are huge generators of sound waves, as well as a stretch of land running from Morningside Heights to Washington Heights. The Bronx continually yelps like a pack of chained pitbulls eye-mauling the mailman.
If you want a good nap, head to Linden Hill in Queens, a working/middle-class neighborhood near Newtown Creek that couldn't wake a sleeping baby if it tried. (Perhaps the locals don't want to wake whatever monster lurks under the creek's 15-foot-thick layer of "black mayonnaise.") Dyker Heights in southern Brooklyn is also an audio ghost town, although that's probably because there's a huge golf course there and golf isn't known for its raucous fans.
Double-click an area in the map and you can get details on specific complaints. For instance, one late night in Williamsburg a policeman kept the neighborhood awake for half and hour by directing traffic through a loudspeaker. In Washington Heights, one tortured soul bemoaned: "Loud noise (religious) coming from a radio in the window – person puts speaker in the window for the neighborhood to hear it. This is an ongoing problem – super has spoken to her and she won't answer the door – this goes on daily."
The noise map is part of the Guggenheim Museum's "Stillspotting" program, a two-year exploration of sound, energy and silence that had its finale earlier this month. It's unclear if the map is representing an area's true decibel level, or if it's measuring more the noise sensitivity of humans. Either way, I wouldn't want to live in the Bronx's Mott Haven, home of bedlam-making cads like this: "Caller said that neighbor is blasting music. Caller said that she went upstairs and asked them to turn it down. They told her he can't, the knob is broken."
Graphics courtesy of Stillspotting.
This year-long journey across the U.S. keeps you at consistent high temperatures.
Residential "upzoning" policies being adopted from Minneapolis to Seattle were once politically out of the question. Now they're just politically fraught.
Living close to public amenities—from parks to grocery stores—increases trust, decreases loneliness, and restores faith in local government.
How much money do workers have after paying housing costs? For working-class and service workers in superstar cities, the affordable housing crisis hits harder.
Game of Thrones' destruction of the capital of the Seven Kingdoms revealed a city of mean living conditions and rampant inequality.


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Old and young alike enjoyed a day of events and activities on Oct. 31 at the Skinner Center. Seniors hosted 18 preschoolers from the area as guests.
Pumpkin decorating and baking contests and Zumba filled the rest of the day with fun for the young at heart.
Community Partners, Council on Aging, Greene Lamp and Neuse Regional Library, collaborated to offer an assortment of storytelling, laughter yoga, crafts, treats and yard games.
Senior volunteers, including Patricia Kasprzk, Carla Famularo, Lisa Pritchard, Jeanette Best, Helen Dixon, Al Gooding, Merrill Darden, Evelyn Baker, Clara Bryant, Earnest Edwards and Ada Meritt, among others, led and participated with the children in these activities.
Intergenerational programs are beneficial in increasing the value placed by society on the wisdom and experience available from senior citizens.
Opening up children�s perceptions of seniors to foster appreciation of their many assets makes the children well-rounded in the way that playing with dolls teaches how to be a nurturing parent. It is never too early to influence an individual�s opinion of the world, and the people in it.
Contest winners were chosen by volunteer judges, Yvonne Jones and Yvonne Deatherage. Pumpkin decorating: Jeanette Best, 1st; Ada Meritt, 2nd; Clara Bryant, 3rd; Mary Barnes, honorable mention. Baking contest: Merrill Darden, orange mandarin pineapple cake, 1st.
After contests were judged, seniors were treated by guest Zumba Gold instructor, Sarah Crowe. Zumba Gold will be introduced in November at the Skinner Center for Lenoir residents ages 55 and older. Classes will be held at 5:15 pm. Tuesday beginning Nov. 12.
Chamber invites community to help plan goals for 2014
The Kinston/Lenoir County Chamber of Commerce plays an active role in addressing issues and projects that are significant to the Kinston and Lenoir County�s business community. Planning for success can be accomplished with your help.
Each year, the Chamber conducts a series of planning forums to lay the groundwork for next year�s goals. This year, the Chamber is offering four 90-minute-long sessions, making it easy for everyone to participate by choosing one time that best fits their schedule. Each session covers the same topics so you only need to attend one.
�It�s important to have representation from all sectors of our membership and community so we hope you will plan to participate,� Chamber Director Laura Lee Sylvester said.
Sessions are scheduled on November 25 and November 26 and will take place in the Chamber of Commerce board room located at 301 N. Queen Street. You can register by going to www.kinstonchamber.com or by calling 252-527-1131. Seating is limited for each session so please register early.
The Chamber board of directors appreciates your assistance in shaping a work plan that will have a positive impact on our business community. Please call the chamber office if you have questions.
Sessions dates and times to choose from are:
Monday, November 25- 9:30 a.m.
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Park Sessions 2012: Buttermilk at Aspen
Photos: Darcy Bacha
Video: Justin Gunson
Our last Park Sessions of 2012 took us to the land where beautiful women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. We're talking about Aspen! We had the plan destroy the Buttermilk park, so we had to round up a top-notch crew of dudes that we knew could do just that. The crew on this mission was a vast, and super varied group. We had Midwest jib dudes Danimals and Brandon Larson, terrian park destroyers Scotty Vine, Alex Rodway, Tyler Flanagen, Colorado local Madison Ellsworth, and nomad shredder Mason Aguirre to round out the crew. They had a week of sun to tear apart the Buttermilk park, and that's exactly what they did…
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A coastal, tourist-popular settlement. It is built between twin natural ports where people leave their crafts. Its coastal street has many fish taverns, bars and coffee houses. The island night life is centered here. In the east side (after Kalamos village) are the beautiful beaches of Chalkos and Vroulea. The settlement is located 3 km E of Chora.
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Cohoes, NY ....circa 1949 and a home movie. My mother, married about four years and still childless, loved to pose with the children of her friends. She manages to snuggle in, at the end of the clip, with her best friend's children for sweet little portraits of Margie, Jackie and Wayne. Looks like it was Easter time.
Stories of family and ancestors who lived and worked in Cohoes (textile and garment workers, butchers and barbers), Waterford (canalers), Whitehall (farmers and canalers), Port Henry (iron miners and Civil War soldiers), Champlain (canalers and farmers) and other towns along the Champlain Canal in New York State with some diversions to the places they emigrated from....Quebec (landless farmers, shoemakers, sailors, soldiers), Acadia (more farmers), and even Cornwall, England (tin miners).
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The Wrap: This Week in Review
- The first bomb threat came into John Morrell packing plant in Sioux Falls by phone on the evening of January 2. There were three more similar calls made the next day. A Sioux Falls Police detective was hired and, after a brief investigation, a 22 year old man named Nathaniel Martin was arrested. Officials are calling it a case of a "disgruntled employee." Maybe someone who really didn't want to go into work. Either way, it's a felony.
- Sioux Falls Police spent much of Monday investigating what they called a "suspicious death". The house, which is located on E. 8th Street near Cliff Ave, was surrounded by police tape for most of the day. The deceased male has been identified as Crescencio "Chris" Conde-Vergas. Police have arrested 22 year old Robert Bass in connection with the killing. It will go down as the first homicide of 2013 in Sioux Falls.
- The numbers are in and Sioux Falls has added 2,500 new residents in 2012. The new population in the Sioux Falls metro is roughly 158,800. Our city has increased 24,000 just in the last 10 years. By comparison, Sioux City's population was estimated to be 82,967 in 2011.
- High speeds and alcohol were factors in the fatal one vehicle accident in Sioux Falls Thursday night. The accident happened shortly after 10pm at Oak St. and Faris Avenue. The driver was killed and four others injured in the collision with a tree. Investigators have determined that the car was traveling of speeds up to 60 mph in the 25 mph zone.
- Huron was put on high alert and schools were locked down Tuesday morning as authorities searched for an escaped inmate from the Beadle County Correction Center. The public was asked to not approach Charles Beeny but rather call 911 if seen. And he was, in Sioux Falls, the same night, and was arrested thanks to alert citizens.
- Someone is buying the next round of beers. A winning Mega Millions lottery ticket sold in Lennox is worth $250,000! They matched all the white balls but missed the Mega-Ball. If all six numbers would have matched, it would have been worth $50 million or so. In another twist to this story, the winner, identified as Kenneth Lund of Luverne, Mn. mistakenly threw the ticket away and had to retrieve it from the garbage after believing it wasn't a winner.
- In yet another lucky lottery story, a Dakota Cash ticket sold in Sioux falls for Wednesday night's drawing yielded a jackpot. Someone will cash in on $149,141 from the SD Lottery office. The jackpot will now reset to $20,000 for the next drawing.
- Severe weather will impact traveling this weekend with a variety of elements. Snow, fog, rain, and drizzle. Winter Storm warnings are in effect for much of western and northern South Dakota. Keep informed of changing weather conditions and keep checking our winter radar. Dial 511 for the latest in road conditions and closings and check Safe Travel USA for road conditions.
- Dumb Criminal Alert: It was too cold Wednesday night. Much too cold to be whizzing outdoors. However, Sioux Falls Police responded to a call about an intoxicated male peeing his name in a snowbank. I wonder how far he got? Stay classy.
- The Viral Video of the Week: What happens when drive-thru workers see a car pull up to the window...without a driver? 10 million views this week can't be wrong. It's that funny.
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|Mar 29, 2006
Study sets benchmark properties for most popular conducting plastic
|(Nanowerk News) Steadily increasing the length of a purified conducting polymer vastly improves its ability to conduct electricity, report researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, whose work appeared March 22, 2006 in the Journal of the American Chemical Society("Nanostructure Dependence of Field-Effect Mobility in Regioregular Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Thin Film Field Effect Transistors"). Their study of regioregular polythiophenes (RRPs) establishes benchmark properties for these materials that suggest how to optimize their use for a new generation of diverse materials, including solar panels, transistors in radio frequency identification tags, and light-weight, flexible, organic light-emitting displays.
|"We found that by growing very pure, single RRP chains made of uniform small units, we dramatically increased the ability of these polymers to conduct electricity," said Richard D. McCullough, who initially discovered RRPs in 1992. "This work establishes basic properties that researchers everywhere need to know to create new, better conducting plastics. In fact, designing materials based on these results could completely revolutionize the printable electronics industry."
|"Our results are very significant, since they cast new light on the mechanism by which polymers conduct electricity," said Tomasz Kowalewski, associate professor of chemistry and senior author on the study.
|Unlike plastics that insulate, or prevent, the flow of electrical charges, conducting plastics actually facilitate current through their nanostructure. Conducting plastics are the subject of intense research, given that they could offer light-weight, flexible, energy-saving alternatives for materials used in solar panels and screen displays. And because they can be dissolved in solution, affixed to a variety of templates like silicon and manufactured on an industrial scale, RRPs are considered among the most promising conducting plastics in nanotech research today, according to McCullough, dean of the Mellon College of Science and professor of chemistry.
|"Our tests showed that highly uniform RRPs self-assemble into well-defined elongated aggregates called nanofibrils, which stack one against the other," Kowalewski said. "About 5,000 of these nanofibrils would fit side by side in the width of a human hair. The presence of these well-defined structures allowed us for the first time to make a connection between the size of polymer molecules, the type of structure they form and the ease with which current can move through nanofibril aggregates." (See image.)
|Atomic force microscopy image of aligned nanofibrils of a highly conducting plastic. Each nanofibril is made of stacks of regioregular polythiophene (RRP) molecules. Charge carriers move particularly well along the length of RRP molecules, perpendicular to the rows of nanofibrils. (Source: Tomasz Kowalewski, Carnegie Mellon)
|The vast improvement in conductivity is tied to several key properties that were unambiguously shown for the first time in this study, according to Kowalewski.
|"We made the key discovery that mobility how easily electrons move – increases exponentially as the width of a nanofibril increases," Kowalewski said. Each rope-like nanofibril actually is a stack of RRP molecules, so the longer these molecules, the wider the nanofibril and the faster the electrical conductivity. (See image insert of RRP stacks.) In this way, electricity moves preferably perpendicular through the rows of naturally aligned nanofibrils.
|"We found that charge carriers encounter fewer hurdles when jumping between wider nanofibrils," said Kowalewski. "Ultimately through this study, we found that the nanostructure of our conducting plastic profoundly enhances its ability to conduct electricity."
|Conductivity increases with the length of an RRP molecule and hence the width of each nanofibril – because it takes less time for a charge carrier to cross through wider nanofibrils than narrower ones. (Charge carriers are unbound particles that carry an electric charge through a molecular structure). All this can be tied to the fact that a charge carrier that enters a short molecule disrupts its energetic environment considerably more than if that same charge carrier enters a long molecule. This energetic hurdle, called reorganization energy, thus slows the movement of charge carriers that move from short molecule to short molecule. The energetic hurdle is lower for a long molecule, which can absorb changes to its electrical environment more easily. This phenomenon could be one of the reasons why charge carriers jump more quickly from long molecule to long molecule, according to Kowalewski.
|"We hope that these findings will stimulate further theoretical and experimental work which will significantly improve the performance of polymer-based electronics and open the way to a wide range of applications," Kowalewski said.
|To show that increasing the width of RRP nanofibrils exponentially increased charge carrier mobility, the Carnegie Mellon team first created pure RRPs of uniform size, or molecular weight. Next, they placed the drops of RRPs dissolved in a solvent onto silicon chips whose surfaces were specially prepared for use as nanotransistors. Such "drop casting" allowed the team to create a series of nanostructures that varied in accordance with the length of the RRP chains initially present in solution.
|The team ran a current through these different RRP-based nanotransistors to measure their ability to conduct electricity. They used atomic force microscopy and a technique called grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering to verify that periodic, stacked structure of different RRPs indeed formed nanofibrils of corresponding widths. The latter technique was performed using the High Energy Synchrotron Source at Cornell University.
|The team of investigators included students Rui Zhang in the Department of Chemistry; Bo Li in the laboratory of David Lambeth, professor of electrical and computer engineering; and faculty from the Department of Physics, who participated in X-ray scattering studies.
|The research is supported by grants and contracts from the National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health/Centers for Disease Control.
|Source: Carnegie Mellon
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The Times Higher Education's annual Reputation rankings were released last night, and by the time this is published will no doubt be the subject of much discussion on the internet. Much as I enjoy most of what the THE does, the hype around these rankings is pretty tedious.
Though they are not an unalloyed good, rankings have their benefits. They allow people to compare the inputs, outputs, and (if you're lucky) processes and outcomes at various institutions.
Really good rankings – such as, for instance, the ones put out by the Centre for Higher Education Development in Germany – even disaggregate data down to the departmental level so one can make actual apples-to-apples comparisons by institution. Similarly, regular publication of various measures of student satisfaction (such as from the National Student Survey), if nothing else, serve to keep administrators on their toes.
But to the extent that rankings are capturing "big" phenomena, like the quality of teaching and research, is it realistic to think that they change every year? Both of those things are dependent on the professoriate which changes relatively little in any given year.
Take the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), produced annually by Shanghai Jiao Tong University (full disclosure: I sit on the ARWU's advisory board). Those rankings, which eschew any kind of reputational surveys and look purely at various scholarly outputs and prizes, barely move at all. If memory serves, in the ten years since it launched, the top 50 has only had 52 institutions, and movement within the 50 has been minimal. And this is surely about right. Changes in relative position among truly elite universities can take decades, if not centuries.
On the other hand, if you look at the THE's World Reputation Rankings, you'll see that, in fact, only the position of the top six or so is genuinely secure. Below about 10th position, institutions are so closely packed together that changes in rank order are basically guaranteed, especially if the geographic origin of the survey sample were to change somewhat.
How, for instance, did UCLA move from 12th in the world to ninth overall in the THE rankings between 2011 and 2012 at the exact moment the California legislature was slashing its budget to ribbons? Was it because of extraordinary new efforts by its faculty, or was it just a quirk of the survey sample such as statistical noise, or a drop in the percentage of respondents coming from the United States? (Year-to-year changes in the geographical distribution of the reputational survey respondents is believed to be a significant source of variation in the reputation rankings, but the THE does not publish enough information about this to be certain).
This is the paradox of rankings: the more important the thing you're measuring, the less likely it is to change on a regular basis and hence the less useful it is to have annual rankings. Big, important things like reputation almost never change because reputation is in part correlated with institutional age. Imperial College may be a fine university, but Oxford has an 800-year head start; one will not overtake the other anytime in reputation in the forseeable future.
A reputation ranking done every five years might, over time, track some significant and meaningful changes in the global academic pecking order. In an annual ranking, however, virtually all changes in position are likely to be the result of things like geographical changes in response patterns.
While reputational rankings do impart useful data - there are meaningful differences between schools in first and 10th position, for instance, and between 10th and 100th - small annual movements up or down are largely meaningless. Pay them no mind.
Alex Usher is President of Higher Education Strategy Associates, a consultancy based in Toronto, Canada. He is a founding member of the International Rankings Expert Group, and has been responsible over the years for three different sets of higher education rankings.
ANALYSIS: which world university rankings should we trust?
For an alternative to university league tables, try the Telegraph's University Course Finder, which offers detailed statistics on all aspects of university life.


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Schmeckfest Review
If the words Fiegele, Pfeffernuesse Brot, Fleischkuchle, or Kaeseknoepfla mean anything to you, I suspect you will enjoy the Prairie Public Television Web site and video. "Schmeckfest" is the name for "Food Traditions of Germans from Russia."
Starting in 1784 in the southern Germanic provinces, many families moved overland and by water into Eastern Europe and on to the steppes of Russia. Even though they lived in Russia, most continued to speak German. Many families lived there peacefully for a century or so, until political upheaval forced many of them to leave. Many decided to try the New World. Most took train routes to German ports, then crossed the Atlantic to the United States.
The Germans from Russia settled in several states, especially in North and South Dakota. They brought their language, their traditions, and their recipes. The documentary "Schmeckfest: Food Traditions of the Germans from Russia" is a co-production of Prairie Public Television and the North Dakota State University Libraries. Additional funding for Schmeckfest was provided by North Dakota Humanities Council.
The "Schmeckfest: Food Traditions of the Germans from Russia" Web site shows examples of many foods, including Fiegele (Little Birds bread treat), Pfeffernuesse Brot (Pepper Spiced Bread), Fleischkuchle (Black Sea-style Meat Turnovers), Fleischkuchla (Volga-style Meat Turnovers), Grebbel (Fried pastry) and Knoepfla Supp (Dumpling Soup).
You can see these and more at: http://www.prairiepublic.org/features/schmeckfest/gallery.htm
WARNING: Do not view this site on an empty stomach!


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