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Flower, flOw, Escape Plan and Sound Shapes releasing on PS4 and Vita with Cross-Buy in November
Flower, flOw, Escape Plan and Sound Shapes will all be released with Cross-Buy for Vita and PS4, Sony has announced. Each will release on November 15 in North America and November 29 in Europe and if you have purchased these games previously on PSN, they will be available to you when they release on PS4 […]
Sound Shapes headlines
Best of PlayStation Network, Vol. 1 contains four games, releases in June
Sony has announced the Best of PlayStation Network collections are in the works and Volume One, which contains four PSN exclusive games, will be the first to release in June.
Sound Shapes DLC heading to PS Store in a couple of weeks
Queasy Games has announced new DLC for Sound Shapes. According to Shack, the pack contains two sound packs, and PSN Stores believes these are the same 80s and Dubstep packs which in March were released on accident in Asia. Trophies for the packs have also been floating around the net since. Expect the packs to […]
PSN Europe 'Lost Treasures' sale starts today, see the savings inside
Sony has launched a 'Lost Treasures' sale for Europe today, which sees games like Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD, Gotham City Imposters and Sound Shapes slashed in price.
Far Cry 3 grabs six at The Canadian Videogame Awards
The fourth annual Canadian Videogame Awards ceremony was held over the weekend, with Far Cry 3 picking-up six including Game of the Year while the excellent Mark of the Ninja won Best Indie and Best Downloadable Game. Hit the break for more winners.
Best of Playstation Network Vol. 1 outed by ESRB
The ESRB has rated a PlayStation 3 title called Best of Playstation Network Vol. 1. The description notes that the retail release includes four games – Fat Princess, Tokyo Jungle, Sound Shapes and When Vikings Attack. We have no information of date, price, regional availability, whether Vita cross-play will be enabled, or if more volumes […]
New Sound Shapes update brings DLC and Offline Play
A big update for Sound Shapes hit the PSN today, and it brought with it a few new things. First, we've got a DLC called Car Mini-Album & Creator Pack ($1.99), which comes with a new vehicle, several new levels, some new editing items and trophies.
Sound Shapes patch & track DLC incoming
Sound Shapes developer Queasy Games has announced it is releasing more tracks for its PS Vita platformer, as well as a new patch.
Sound Shapes update adds Christmas instruments to editor
Sound Shapes has been patched with a free content drop; get your PlayStation 3 or Vita onto the PlayStation Network to score five new Christmas-themed instruments for your editor.
Uncharted: Fight for Fortune, Sound Shapes composing tools hit US PSN
Uncharted: Fight for Fortune is available today on the PS Store for $4.99 in the US for Vita. It will release tomorrow for those in Europe. It includes heroes, villains, weapons, and artifacts from Drake's Fortune, Golden Abyss, and the motion comic Eye of Indra. The action-adventure turn based card game contains 100 cards and […]
Deadmau5 and Beck remixed in Sound Shapes level editor video
Sound Shapes developer Queasy Games and Sony have just revealed a nifty level editor tutorial that shows you how to rip apart songs and lyrics by signed artists, then mash them up into your own creations on PS Vita. Also, did someone say 'trophies'?
Get your Beck on with Sound Shapes
Sound Shapes releases PS Vita and PS3 on August 7 in the US and August 8 in Europe, so the team behind the game though it would entice you by announcing tracks from Beck will be included with the game. The artist provided three tracks for the game: Cities, Touch the People, and Spiral Staircase; […]
PSN PLAY summer returns with Papo & Yo, CS:GO, more
Sony has announced the return of its PSN PLAY summer initiative. Pre-orders start on July 24, and those who purchase two titles or more will be given a bonus cash voucher for use on PlayStation Network. Gamers who buy games during the pre-order period will receive an exclusive PS3 XMB theme based on each game […]
Sound Shapes to release on Vita and PS3 August 7
Queasy Games has announced Sound Shapes will release on Vita via PSN and for PS3 on August 7 for $14.99. The game allows crossplay, and will shown for the first time during Sony's E3 2012 press conference which goes off at 5.30pm PDT/8.30pm EDT. Watch the video below.
Superbrothers contributing to Sound Shapes
Sword & Sworcery creator Superbrothers has announced it will be contributing to musical Vita title Sound Shapes. As detailed on the PS Blog, Superbrothers will offer a number of tracks created in collaboration with long time creative partner Jim Guthrie, presented as an "album" called CORPOREAL. Sound Shapes is the brainchild of Queasy Games, features […]
Sound Shapes-Deadmau5 collaboration shown off
The PS Blog's gone up with a five minute video of Sound Shapes, showing off in great detail how the game is presented via album format. The video features the lush visuals that PixelJam has made and the sounds of Deadmau5. Get it below.
Sound Shapes to feature tracks from Deadmau5
Deadmau5 is making "a variety of exclusive new tracks" for Sound Shapes, a unique Vita title which unfortunately looks likely to miss the console's launch. Navigating a 2D world with vague shades of Loco Roco, the player creates a unique soundscape on each playthrough. In addition to the campaign, you can make and share your […]
New Mass Effect 3, Hitman Absolution trailers promised for VGAs
New trailers of Mass Effect 3 and Hitman Absolution will air at the VGAs tomorrow, EA and Spike have respectively announced.
Vita in 200-screen avalanche: Uncharted, LBP, WipEout
A gazillion screenshots for PS Vita games have been released – well, maybe not a gazillion, but 200 at least. Shots include art and in-game screens from: Everybody's Golf, Uncharted: Golden Abyss, WipEout 2048, Resistance: Burning Skies, Sound Shapes, Super StarDust Delta, Top Darts, MotorStorm RC, Lumines, Gravity Rush, Michael Jackson The Experience, Reality Fighters, […]
Friday Shorts II: Forza 4, Dark Souls, RE: Retribution, $800 3D headset
It's Friday. Likely, you are screaming whoo-hoo as you run out the door of your office, Costanza-style, to your cars and flying home down the freeway. Celebrate with some shorts before you go.
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Flower, flOw, Escape Plan and Sound Shapes releasing on PS4 and Vita with Cross-Buy in November
Best of PlayStation Network, Vol. 1 contains four games, releases in June
PSN Europe 'Lost Treasures' sale starts today, see the savings inside
Uncharted: Fight for Fortune, Sound Shapes composing tools hit US PSN
Deadmau5 and Beck remixed in Sound Shapes level editor video
New Mass Effect 3, Hitman Absolution trailers promised for VGAs
Friday Shorts II: Forza 4, Dark Souls, RE: Retribution, $800 3D headset
Sound Shapes preview name-checks Child of Eden, Rez, Lumines


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The horrified boss of a coach firm has slammed the authorities after they failed to alert his company his employee had been arrested in an international paedophile probe.
The failure meant coach driver Kieron Smith, who is serving a jail term for possessing indecent images of children, was able to continue working on school runs to Hutton Grammar School and other Lancashire secondary schools for months following a raid on his home by police.
Both Lancashire County Council, which operates the contract, and Avacoach, which employed Smith among its 20 drivers, says they were not alerted about Smith's arrest in summer 2015.
The first Avacoach's general manager Jeff Dearden knew about it was when Smith failed to turn up at work on April 11 – the day of his sentence.
Today he said: "We are sickened by his behaviour and did not know anything about it.
"He did not turn up for his shift and we could not make contact with him, then we read what had happened in the Evening Post. The police or authorities have not contacted us. It's a disgrace."
Smith, 28, of Northgate, Leyland, was jailed for eight months after being found with a stash of thousands of sickening indecent images and videos of youngsters. He admitted three counts of making indecent images of children and one of possessing them.
Police executed a search warrant at his home on Northgate in Leyland at 7.45am on June 2. But due to a failure to alert his employers, Smith was able to work on school runs up until December last year.
A police spokesman said: "The safeguarding of children and young people is the highest priority of Lancashire Police and over the last 12 months we have investigated more than 350 cases of those suspected of being involved in the online abuse of children – making us one of the most proactive forces in the country in this area. It is only thanks to this proactive work that Kieron Smith is now serving a term of imprisonment.
"Following his arrest we imposed strict bail conditions on Smith not to have any unsupervised contact with anyone under 16, but we recognise that in this particular case we could have done more to contact the appropriate authorities, including his employer, given the nature of his work and we will ensure that any lessons are learned so that in future we can live up to our own very high standards."

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Optoelectronic components, such as light-emitting diodes (LEDs), form the interface between optical and electronic signals, in that they transform electrical energy into light or light into electrical energy.
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Re: How To: Upgrade your kernel, painlessly.
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 1:03 am
No worries as that was multiple distro-hop sessions ago however should I try it again, I will start a new thread and shoot you a PM. Thanks!
Welcome to the Linux Mint forums! For help, knowledge, and fellowship.
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sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-3.2.16-030216-generic_3.2.16-030216.201204221935_amd64.deb
Selecting previously deselected package linux-headers-3.2.16-030216-generic.
(Reading database ... 226954 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking linux-headers-3.2.16-030216-generic (from linux-headers-3.2.16-030216-generic_3.2.16-030216.201204221935_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up linux-headers-3.2.16-030216-generic (3.2.16-030216.201204221935) ...
Examining /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d.
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d/dkms 3.2.16-030216-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.16-030216-generic
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 3.2.16-030216-generic (x86_64)
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/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-guest/4.1.2/build/vboxsf/utils.c: In function 'sf_nlscpy':
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-guest/4.1.2/build/vboxsf/utils.c:562:13: warning: passing argument 3 of 'utf8_to_utf32' from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
include/linux/nls.h:53:12: note: expected 'unicode_t *' but argument is of type 'wchar_t *'
make[2]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-guest/4.1.2/build/vboxsf/utils.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-guest/4.1.2/build/vboxsf] Error 2
make: *** [_module_/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-guest/4.1.2/build] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.16-030216-generic'
Now it appears that only the /quantal kernels are progressing and precise is still at 3.4AlbertP wrote:@ melbo: They are not Intel specific. amd64 is just the 64-bit technology invented by AMD that's also used in today's Intel CPU's and i386 also targets the AMD CPU's from before 64-bit was introduced such as Athlon XP and early Semprons.
One 3.4 is meant for Ubuntu Precise / 12.04, while Quantal is the upcoming 12.10 version which will be there in half a year. The structure of the kernel packages somehow changed - i.e. the difference between PAE and non-PAE has been dropped, everyone has to use PAE kernels on 32-bit hardware now, and there are new "extra" packages. It is possible that Ubuntu Quantal's kernel packages don't install anymore on older versions. This also happened with 184.108.40.206 on Mint 11 (Ubuntu Natty) for example. But it certainly won't harm your system to try 3.4-quantal. If your new kernel fails to install, the old one will be left intact.
Anyway, as long as the newest version is still available as -precise, I'd just use that one as -precise kernels are proven to work on Mint 12/13.
Just updated my HP 6510b laptop with Mint 13 x64 MATE todinogorgon wrote:Here you find the download links and installation instructions for the actual Quantal kernel for precise LTS:
http://packages.qa.dev.stgraber.org/qat ... /downloads


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Naval Air Station (NAS) New York was home to the largest naval aviation squadron ever assembled, Air Ferry Squadron One (VRF-1). On December 1, 1943, it also became headquarters of the Naval Air Ferry Command which controlled all naval air ferry operations throughout the United States. Three naval air stations were the operating bases of the Naval Air Ferry Command--NAS New York, home of VRF-1 and VRF-4, NAS Columbus (Ohio), where VRF-2 was based and NAS Terminal Island (Los Angeles, CA), home of VRF-3. Approximately 100,000 new aircraft were commissioned into active service and delivered by all naval air ferry squadrons during the war.
The Land and Proceed graphic on Map 4 gives instructions for a pilot to follow in the event that air to ground radio communication fails or is not available. The ground-to-air back-up communication system at El Centro telling pilots to "land" or "proceed" was a large canvas-strip signal lying on the ground. The graphic on Map 4 is informing the pilot that at El Centro there will be a canvas-strip signal--and if his radio fails and he can't communicate by voice with the air field--he is to land or proceed depending upon which canvas-strip signal is out.
Map 4 is stylized to show the general ferry routes—it is not meant to be exact.
Questions for Maps 3 & 4
1. Using the scale in the bottom of Map 3, answer the following questions. Using the shortest flight route, calculate the distance a VRF-1 ferry pilot would have to fly to deliver an aircraft from Floyd Bennett Field to:
2. Using the key to Map 3, answer the following questions:
3. Use the key to Map 4 to answer the following questions:
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A high-ranking AIG exec refused to give back his six-figure bonus and blasted the embattled company's CEO in a scathing letter of resignation printed today in the op-ed section of the New York Times.
In a letter titled "Dear AIG, I Quit!" Jake DeSantis resigned from his position as the executive vice president of AIG's product unit and ripped CEO Edward Liddy -- to whom the letter was addressed -- for not defending workers from searing criticism by the press and Congress.
"I am disappointed and frustrated over your lack of support for us," he wrote. "I and many others in the unit feel betrayed that you failed to stand up for us in the face of untrue and unfair accusations."
The ex-exec said he refused to pay back the $742,006 bonus he received on March 16 and will instead donate it to "organizations that are helping people who are suffering from the global downturn," he wrote.
"As most of us have done nothing wrong, guilt is not a motivation to surrender our earnings," DeSantis wrote. "We have worked 12 long months under these contracts and now deserve to be paid as promised."
DeSantis, who worked for 11 years at AIG, said he was earning $1 annual salary and working 10 to 14 hour days but could no longer justify putting in a day at work "for the benefit of those who have let me down."
"I simply believe that I at least deserve to dictate how my earnings are spent, and do not want to see them disappear back into the obscurity of AIG's of the federal government's budget," he wrote.
DeSantis also took shots at the "baseless and reckless" comments made by attorneys general of New York and Connecticut, who have taken a hard-line against bonuses the company doled out after it received taxpayer funds to stay afloat.
"I'm not sure how you will greet my resignation," he wrote, "but at least Attorney General Blumenthal should be relieved that I'll leave under my own power and will not need to be 'shoved out the door.'"


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The Central Connecticut women's basketball team topped Wagner by a score of 82-53 on Saturday afternoon. The Blue Devils (9-7, 3-2 NEC) were led by senior Kirsten Daamen's 21 points and 11 rebounds. The Seahawks fall to 2-14 and 1-4 in the Northeast Conference with the loss.
The Blue Devils dominated the Seahawks in the paint throughout the game. CCSU scored 52 of its season-high 82 points in the lane. Daamen's 21 points led CCSU, but all of the Blue Devil centers contributed to the scoring.
Senior Jameilia Dillon scored nine points off the bench and sophomore Johnna Fisher added six points during her time on the court. The Blue Devil center's, Daamen, Dillon and Fisher, combined for 36 points and 18 rebounds in the game.
On the outside, senior Jaclyn Babe scored 19 points to join Daamen in double-digits. Babe was efficient from the floor and connected on nine-of-13 shot attempts. She was also 1-of-3 from behind the three-point arc. Babe also contributed four rebounds and six assists.
The Blue Devils' top scorers in the game, Daamen and Babe, played just 19 and 21 minutes, respectively.
Daamen was also the game's leading rebounder with 11 boards. As a team, the Blue Devils collected a season-high 61 rebounds. Wagner was limited to just 23 boards in the contest. All 13 CCSU players who dressed for the game saw action and each recorded at least one rebound.
Following Daamen on the glass were junior Jessica Babe (8), junior Lauren Arbogast (7), Fisher (6), junior Jaleen Thomas (6), Jaclyn Babe (4), freshman Kayla Miller (4), sophomore Kaley Watras (3), redshirt freshman Amanda Harrington (2), freshman Nicole Ferguson (2), freshman TeJahne Malone (2), Dillon (1) and freshman Raven Makins (1).
In addition to having their best rebounding game of the season, the Blue Devils also shot 47.9% from the field, one of the team's best shooting performances of the year.
Jessica Babe finished with five points, eight rebounds, four assists and four steals. Watras finished with seven points, three rebounds, five assists and two steals.
Jaclyn Babe, Miller, Makins and Fisher also had steals in the game.
The Blue Devils led 43-31 at the half and outscored the Seahawks 39-22 in the second period. Central broke the game open with a 19-8 run over the final seven minutes of the first half. That run pushed the CCSU lead from 24-23 to 43-31 at the break.
The 83 points are the most for the Blue Devils in a regulation game since November 27, 2011. That night the Blue Devils topped New Hampshire 83-44 at Detrick Gym. CCSU also scored 83 points in a double overtime loss to Saint Francis U last February.
The Blue Devils' 61 rebounds are the most in a game in the six seasons under head coach Beryl Piper.
The Blue Devils return to action on Monday night against Mount St. Mary's. That game will tip-off at 7 p.m. in Detrick Gym.


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Birds of Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park is an illustrated list of birds occurring within the park -- each name linked to a species by family. If illustrations are available, thumbnail pictures on the family list pages link to enlarged photos.
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1. Grebes to Egrets
The principal sources of the birds listed here are from:
This website was developed from the National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring website -- now publically available for searches at https://irma.nps.gov/App/Species/Search. The data are from a report on birds of Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park dated 15 December 2008.
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We've been talking about how great it would be if we could store a "datatype" field on each item you're storing, so that different clients could "do smart things"™with the objects. Unfortunately I didn't create the API in an extendible way to make it easy to do so. I would either have to break the API, or I could extend the API with more specialized methods. Ideally I wouldn't like to break the API, but the thought of extending the API with all sorts of specialized functions would just make the API a nightmare to use.
Given that Couchbase server 2.0 is going to give you a lot of new cool stuff, it would be a good idea to change the API before people started to use all of this goodness and make the transition to a new API harder then it has to be.
The first major change you'll notice is that we've shortened all of the names from libcouchbase to lcb. The header file is still libcouchbase/couchbase.h and you should link with -lcouchbase. This change isn't very hard to work around, simply do a search and replace libcouchbase_ with lcb_.
We've also removed a lot of the entry points (all of the _by_key-methods), and renamed some of the methods to make the name clearer (get_locked instead of getl etc). Adapting to those changes shouldn't be that hard either. The change in the API that'll require some effort to fix is however that we've changed the signature of almost all of the functions and the callbacks. I've tried really hard to make the API consistent so that once you know how it works you can "guess" the signature for the function you're going to use. The common form is:
lcb_error_t lcb_operationname(lcb_t instance,
const void *cookie,
int number,
const lcb_operation_cmd_t * const * commands);
What?? I have to send in an array of pointers to commands?? You might think that sucks and I'm only trying to make your life as a user miserable, but there is actually a good reason for not using an array of objects. To explain that, lets start looking at the internals of these lcb_operation_cmd_t. In order to allow us to extend the functionality in the future without breaking the binary compatibility we're using versioned structs. Let's take a look at the operation-struct you would use to retrieve an object:
typedef struct {
int version;
union {
struct {
const void *key;
lcb_size_t nkey;
lcb_time_t exptime;
} v0;
} v;
} lcb_get_cmd_t;
The version member in the structure tells us how we should interpret the rest of the structure. Given that the size of this struct may vary over time, we can't pass in an array of such objects (well, we could, but the internals in the function would have a harder time figuring the offset for the next object since it would need to know the alignment and struct packing you used).
So let's show you a working example on how you would use the new API to retrieve a value from your cache.
In C99 I would typically write something like this:
const lcb_get_cmd_t c = { .version = 0,
.v.v0 = {
.key = "mykey",
.nkey = 5
const lcb_get_cmd_t* cmds[] = { [0] = &c };
lcb_get(instance, NULL, 1, cmds);
We've added constructers for the objects in C++, so all you need there is:
const lcb_get_cmd_t c("mykey", 5);
const lcb_get_cmd_t* cmds[] = { [0] = &c };
lcb_get(instance, NULL, 1, cmds);
We're also using the same method in the callbacks (I've tried to make them as consistent as possible just as the commands), so the get callback now looks like:
void get_callback(lcb_t instance,
const void *cookie,
lcb_error_t error,
const lcb_get_resp_t *resp)
A typical implementation could look like:
static void get_callback(lcb_t instance,
const void *cookie,
lcb_error_t error,
const lcb_get_resp_t *resp)
if (error == LCB_SUCCESS) {
if (resp->version != 0) {
// I don't know how this object look like
// Do some proper error handling
return ;
// Use the information in resp->v.v0
} else {
// Do error handling for miss/errors
We've tried to update the documentation in the headerfile with more information and examples for each of the entry function. Please don't hesitate to drop me an email (or ask questions on #libcouchbase on IRC).
We're in the middle of updating clients to use the new API and write more and more automatic tests!
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Byron High School faced a crisis when the state of Minnesota issued new student achievement standards. Byron's existing textbooks didn't meet state standards and they couldn't afford new books. So when Principal Michael Duffy's teachers came to him with a radical new idea.
Since they couldn't afford new textbooks, Byron High's math and science teachers offered to donate time to sift through the best free resources and create virtual textbooks. The kids would have access to the lessons 24/7 and the department would have lessons that met the new state standards. Duffy gave them his blessing.
Once the administration proved they were open to change, the teachers upped the stakes. In addition to virtual textbooks, why not add on YouTube videos of individual lessons? Kids would still have normal classroom instruction, but now they'd be able to rewind and fast-forward their teacher. No matter what time they did their homework, the teacher would be there to help them brush up on the day's lesson.
After countless donated hours of hard work, Byron High School adopted the teacher-initiated program. Although improvements in test scores can never be attributed directly to any one thing, the results at Byron have been impressive. In 2007, only 29.9 percent of Byron's 11th graders met the state's math proficiency requirements. In 2010, that number soared to 65.6 percent.
Since they were understandably proud of themselves, the teachers nominated Byron High for Intel's Schools of Distinction Award. In September, Byron was chosen as one of this year's six winners for their achievements in math education.
The award came with a $10,000 grant from Intel, a trip to the awards ceremony in Washington, DC, and a technology package with products from sponsors including SAS, Dell, BrainHoney, Pearson, BrainWare Safari, LanSchool, Smart, iCan, and Knowledge Delivery Systems.
With this award, Byron Senior High School made a 180-degree turn from being so desperate they couldn't afford textbooks to having a wealth of high tech resources they can share with the entire Byron school system. We talked to Principal Michael Duffy about the inspiration and evolution of his school's innovative and award-winning curriculum.
Chris-Rachael Oseland: What inspired you to make such a huge digital leap?
Michael Duffy: Our state standards were revised recently. We looked at our old textbooks and they didn't match. The textbooks only had about 30 percent of the material in the new standards. Honestly, we weren't happy with any of the currently available textbooks. They weren't directed at Minnesota standards.
We have identified with a laser focus things that are essential. We want to make sure our students can do those things before they can move on. We have a tight focus on the essentials. So we took those essential order outcomes and we decided textbooks weren't covering the material. Not only could we not find a textbook that covered all our essentials, we couldn't afford new textbooks.
Oseland: That must have been incredibly stressful.
Duffy: We're lucky to have an incredible staff. Our teachers came to us. They told the administration they saw an opportunity. We could sit down with the standards board and make sure we're covering the essential things, then search through multiple open textbook locations on the Internet to find the best examples of how to teach this one outcome. Instead of using one book, we would find one outcome from one book, another from a second, and gather them all together to make our curriculum.
There are lots of free textbooks out there and free teaching materials. They pulled together a custom-designed series to use in our classes.
Oseland: That sounds like a huge amount of work on top of their existing teaching load.
Duffy: The teachers donated tons of time in 2010. We got a small grant from the Byron Excellence foundation and bought a little bit of software to help support them.
Oseland: With your budget constraints, it sounds like they didn't have a lot of choice.
Duffy: This was all teacher-initiated. Our textbooks were out of date and on a cycle to be replaced and we didn't have the money. We had a technology director here who was supportive and could help us along the way. Our teachers volunteered to jump in and do this in order to help our kids. They came to administration and we said we'd remove all the roadblocks we could for them and make it as easy as possible. We did our part but they sure made it work.
Once they chose the lessons, the teachers asked us how we were going to deliver this material. We thought we'd hit print and put it in a folder. They weren't satisfied with that as an option. They thought there was a better way, so they suggested we make YouTube videos of all their lessons. Our building is only six years old. We had smart boards and sound systems geared for students who are hard of hearing. We can record straight off the smart boards. The picture of the teacher and their hand isn't there, but their voice and whatever they write on the board is recorded. There's no highly unusual video equipment. You hear the instructor off camera, you see the problem solving on the smart board and you can watch along.
Oseland: Do you record your own videos for every lesson or do you use existing resources such as the Khan academy?
Duffy: All the YouTube videos we use are original. Our teachers make them. They can reference the Khan academy. If a student wants to see another example of the lesson, [that's] a supplementary source. They also refer students to other teachers in their own department. They can say, "If you don't like the way I did it, go watch another teacher in our school and see how he did it." The teacher's attitude is that he doesn't care how you learn it, as long as you learn it.
A student can watch the video before they come to class. When the teacher does the same presentation in class, they're hearing it for a second time. They can go right on and do their homework problems in class. They can get support from their classmates. There's a solutions manual with step-by-step guidance online. We've tried to provide all the support for them.
Oseland: YouTube lessons require computers and bandwidth. Do all of your students have access to the right technology at home?
Duffy: We surveyed our kids and found that less than 2 percent didn't have access at home. Almost all of our kids have computers. If they don't have Internet [access], we put the video lessons on a thumb drive and they can take it home. We can also print things or let them watch the videos here at school.
Oseland: Doing away with textbooks is a big change. How did parents react?
Duffy: Honestly, we got a little resistance from people in the community, but not from parents. Parents jumped on the idea. Kids come home and say, "I can't do this problem, Dad, help me." Dad says, "I knew how to do this 20 years ago when I was in high school and can't remember it." Now, they can watch the video with their kids and it all comes back to them. Now parents and students and teachers are all using the same language, the same vocabulary, and it helps parents help their kids.
We opened up our technology so students can bring their cellphone, laptop, iPad, iTouch, all those kind of things, and use them in class. They're watching the videos on them and then go on and do the rest of their work. They can stop the video, back up, and watch that part again. It's like rewinding the teachers. You see kids on college campuses trying to record all their lessons, and write everything down. Our kids can focus on the lessons instead of on writing things down.
A student who is absent knows where to go, find the video, [and] watch the video they missed in class. They can show up tomorrow prepared for class rather than being a day behind.
Oseland: A lot of schools have cellphone bans. How did people react to you going in the opposite direction and encouraging kids to bring their phones to class?
Duffy: People in the community thought all the kids would be doing was playing games. If they're caught playing games, we have disciplinary practices. The reality is kids are so used to cellphones being a tool in their life they don't even blink. We were kidding ourselves when we thought we could stop them. It wasn't realistic.
Some parents were worried we would be burning all the kids' cellphone minutes. We have two Wi-Fi systems here on campus, one for the teachers and one for the students. They can access all our lessons wirelessly without burning their minutes. It uses our bandwidth instead, but that's what it's for.
Oseland: How have the kids reacted to the change?
Duffy: We still have some infractions. Under our old policy, if you took your cellphone out and held it during class, that was a misuse. Now, if you use it for learning, we're good with that. It comes back to asking what is your concern? Is it that they're misusing technology or just that they have it at all? They can use it for learning.
Oseland: How does the emphasis on technology change the learning environment for kids?
Duffy: First of all, it puts learning on their time lines. It used to be we were here from seven in the morning to three in the afternoon. Now we're open 24 hours a day. Kids can access the videos at midnight. Others can do it at six in the morning before they come to school. We don't have the highest demand at two in the morning, but if that's when they're doing homework we're here.
We can track which kids are online, how many minutes they're online, and which videos they're watching. We can also see when they access the solution manual and what part they're using.
Many of the resources we're talking about aren't costing us any money. We use an open source software program, the YouTube videos are free, the solution manuals are free.
The biggest change is one teacher watching another's video. As a professional development tool, it's similar to the Chinese lesson design where teachers learn from each other and build their systems stronger and stronger without having to sit in on classes. They can watch the videos instead.
We do have some students watching videos from other classes. I have students say I don't like how my teacher presents it but I do like how another teacher does. This system lessens that luck of the draw aspect of school where if you have a teacher who teaches with your learning style, you win. Now, you can watch both videos and you've got it. Your learning style and your teacher's learning style are both there. It's not luck of the draw anymore.
Oseland: Do you plan on expanding the program outside math and science?
Duffy: Yes. The equipment and supplies that we won as one of Intel's Schools of Distinction, it's not something just a high-schooler can use. These are resources we can use system wide. SAS has software for English, social studies and Spanish for a 6-12 curriculum. They're going to teach us how to use that and how to embed it into the curriculum we already use. It's tremendous.
Oseland: You said you wanted to create a laser focus on essential order outcomes. Have you seen any measurable improvements in student performance?
Duffy: Yes. At one point we were below the state average in ACT scores. Now we're above the state averages.
The district added data coaches. We have five people in the building who crunch all those numbers so we can make informed decisions. They take all the different sources of data and compile it into trends. We can ask them to do studies to compare [grade 6 students] or we can follow them from [grade 3] up with the same kids as [a] growth model. We have a vast amount of data. They help us interpret it to make it useful.
Oseland: Do you have any non-statistical indicators that kids are really learning and retaining more under your new system?
Duffy: We have tremendous anecdotal data from students. Lots are reporting they like it because they can review the material. If they're trying to factor a quadratic equation, sometimes they need to go back and review a method they learned in 8th grade. Maybe they're doing a complex equation and need to learn how to multiply fractions. For those sort of things, there's no scoring. We're hearing from students that they like it. We're hearing from parents that they like the videos because a lot of them can't remember the vocabulary term from when they were in school. Now they can watch the videos with their kids and still be part of the learning process.
It's very frustrating to have parents come to conferences and say, "Well, I hated math too." This gives the parents the tools to help themselves. They can feel smart and knowledgeable in front of their kids.
Oseland: You've credited YouTube, cellphones and virtual textbooks for your success. Are there any non-technological parts of the program you believe led to its success?
Duffy: Teachers. You have to have amazing, motivated teachers who love this stuff. We went out to celebrate a little after the Intel awards. The superintendent and I were sitting with five teachers and our IT person. Forty-five minutes after we received the award, they were huddled around saying, "Here's an improvement we can make and here's what we can change." The superintendent and I stood back and said, "Let's get out of their way." Forty-five minutes later and all they can think about is making it better.
If we tried to force the teachers to do this from the top down it wouldn't have worked. The teachers came to us. That's what really made it happen. There's no way we could've made them do this. They knew our problem. They came up with a solution. It was all driven by them.
With the award, one of the big things Intel looked for was something that could be replicated in other schools without a huge budget expenditure. I can't say the smart boards are commonplace, but the Internet is there in every classroom. A recording system can be very simple. It's not an expensive program in technology dollars. It's expensive in staff hours. The time people put in to do this was huge. More and more there's free software out there and free public information sources where you can pick and choose the information you want. There are great resources for free teaching materials. What we did was take the time to pull it all together while retaining a laser focus on the outcomes.
Oseland: Were there any controls in place to give you concrete data on how the new technology impacted student achievement?
Duffy: We've only had the program in place for one school year. In one of our calculus classes, the teacher is using the exact same test from before the change. The student score gains this year are substantial. That's one of our internal tests.
Oseland: Are you reusing all of the same tests from the year before the technology change?
Duffy: No. Some of the tests are different. Where we do use the same tests, we compare the data. The students who take the tests under the new program do much better than students did before. We'll need more than one year to have more data.
Oseland: What are your plans for the future?
Duffy: I want to focus on two areas. One is to use this notoriety to help other schools say, "Maybe we can do some of that." We want to do what we can to help other schools adapt part of what we're doing. The other part is I want to spread it within our own district. I want it to grow as a culture that is curriculum wide. The excitement is going to carry on. This is a watershed moment for our district.
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CDO/Legacy Mode
The most obvious advantage of the legacy mode is that you don not need to convert your model and to regenerate your classes. This is very useful if you e.g. cannot change the source because only own the binaries. In this case legacy mode is the perfect best choice.
The disadvantage of the legacy mode lies in its nature. It is just a bridge between EMF and the CDO framework. Thus it inherits the limited scalability of "normal" EMF implementations. It is also a bit slower than the native CDO approach. See the chapter about performance for more information.
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We decided to make the legacy mode switchable. This has two reasons. First, native mode is always recommended. Use legacy objects only if you have not other chance. But then you should be aware of the disadvantaged. The second reason is the automatically attaching EObject to CDO could be harder to debug. Guess a user forgot to convert it's model by accident and than receives an error which is related to legacy. This fact might not be show in the behaior of the error or even the stack trace of the exception. With a switchable legacy mode we can assure the user who are using legacy know what they do and that they are aware of using legacy.
From the technical point of view CDO now supports two ways to switch legacy support on or off. The first applies to the CDO session. If legacy is enabled fo a session all transactions on it are created legacy aware. To be exact, this flag also sets the behaviour of the session's transaction. By default legacy is disabled.
public interface InternalCDOSession extends CDOSession, PackageProcessor, PackageLoader, RevisionLocker, ILifecycle { ... public void setLegacyEnabled(boolean legacyEnabled); public boolean isLegacyEnabled(); }
You can also switch legacy on or off on transaction level. The same methods are attached to the InternalCDOTransaction giving you the possibility to switch on certain transaction. You can also disable legacy integration for some transactions even if the session allows by default.
public interface InternalCDOSession extends CDOSession, PackageProcessor, PackageLoader, RevisionLocker, ILifecycle { public void setLegacyEnabled(boolean legacyEnabled); public boolean isLegacyEnabled(); }
The snippet below shows how legacy can be enabled or disabled.
((InternalCDOSession)session).setLegacyEnabled(true); ((InternalCDOTransaction)transaction).setLegacyEnabled(true);
While it was forbidden and punished with an exception to use DynamicEObjects on CDO this is now possible. You can create the dynamic objects as you are used to and store them in CDO. But remember that this is not the recommended way. Cause dynamic EObject can easily be converted to CDO you encouraged to use CDOUtil.prepareDynamicEPackage(dynamicMapEPackage) whenever possible to convert your dynamic model to a CDO native one. For this reason the tracer, when activated, gives a warning if you have not done so.
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Due to its nature legacy mode is slower than the native approach. But have in mind that the loss of performance only applies to the client site. For the communication and the server side legacy is transparent.


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[Morgan & I pre-race]
Confession: I take my personal records very seriously (in all parts of life), so much that I nearly knocked down ten Santa Clauses and a few men in Speedos to beat mine at yesterday's Jingle Bell 5K Run. I had my arms flailing, my legs moving faster than ever and I think I even boxed out a few Santas (oops). According to the timer on my iPod, I beat my PR of a previous 27:11 with a record-breaking 27:05. However, according to the online race results, I got 27:15, but I'm going to trust my iPod and celebrate anyway. If I had a clear pathway at the end (sans reindeer, Santas and fat men in Speedos), I totally could have broke 27 minutes. That's all I'm sayin'. I was on a roll, baby!
But whether my time was 27:05 or 27:15, I am more than proud of myself. I am also ecstatic for my best friend who completed her first ever 5K! She hasn't ran 3 miles straight in ages, yet finished the entire race like a champ just a little over 30 minutes. (Good job Morgs!) You see, her goal was simply to finish the race and that she did…beating a good 3,000 people or so too. If that's not breaking a PR, I don't know what is.
But, back to the point. I've never been an extremely competitive person. I don't really care for gambling and I've never cried after a rec basketball loss. However when it comes to me and my personal achievements, that's when I get competitive. That's how it should be, after all. Who cares if your roommate ran the race in half your time? Why get down if your friend from college was offered a great job (and a raise) within one year after college? Why let someone else's success completely break you down? If you think about you and you only, other people's success won't get to you. Be proud for them, and move on with it. They are them and you are you. Nothing else matters, really.
After all, there's nothing quite like the feeling of knowing that you did it, that you reallllly did it. Whether that's completing a 5K at record-breaking time, signing up for your first marathon, going after your dream job or pushing yourself to do yoga twice a week or aiming to be a better mother/friend/girlfriend, that's completely up to you. But the fact that you did it all by yourself is the most rewarding thing there is in life.


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San Bernardino County Friday Night Live Partnership
There are many dangers associated with teens drinking alcohol or riding in a car with an impaired driver: fights, damage to property, injuries, sexual assault, unwanted pregnancy, STDs, and trying other drugs are all possible outcomes of underage drinking. Friday Night Live (FNL) is a youth development and substance abuse prevention program for high school and middle school age youth. FNL provides support and opportunities for young people to build leadership and advocacy skills while promoting healthier lifestyles. Parents are encouraged to talk to their teens about the choices they have if they were to find themselves in a situation where some of their friends may be drinking alcohol. Focus on ways that they can increase their safety and responsible decision-making in these situations.
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- Friday Night Live (FNL) for high school age youth
- Club Live (CL) for middle school age youth
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Youth involved in FNL or CL thrive because of the community partnerships developed by the program. These include partnerships with local schools, churches, community agencies, law enforcement, health organizations, and community coalitions.
If you are interested in establishing an FNL or CL chapter at your site, or have resources to offer in support of drug-free youth, please contact the FNL program at 1(800) 782-4264.
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FNL and CL youth organize into chapters. Chapters are located throughout the County and are located at schools, churches and community sites. Each chapter includes adult advisors who work with program staff to create opportunities for youth to advocate for healthier lifestyles, build resiliency skills, and to develop the social competencies needed to thrive as they transition into young adulthood.
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On Wednesday December 12th, Colton High School Friday Night Live (FNL) students in Colton coordinated a Casey's Pledge lunch activity, promoting awareness and prevention against underage driving and staying safe & sober. The FNL students provided Casey's Pledge informational materials and incentives, along with a simulation of impaired driving using a pedal car and impaired-vision googles. FNL students provided a game featuring a spin wheel with safe & sober questions they drafted. The lunch activity was a success as several Casey's Pledges were received from the students. Thank you Colton High School FNL for coordinating this activity and encouraging your peers to be safe & sober!
Congratulations to Granite Hills High School in Apple Valley for a successful event geared towards Teen Safe Driving.
Officer Wheeler of Barstow CHP and the Peer Helpers conducted sobriety lines and obstacle courses to educate students on the effects and dangers of drinking and driving.
Students played trivia games and received valuable educational materials provided by San Bernardino Department of Public Health and CHP.
The Allstate office of Apple Valley came out in support of the event and distributed education materials and incentives to all of the students.
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The Friday Night Live Program and Peer leaders at Granite Hills High School in Apple Valley are participating in a Teen to Teen Safe Driving campaign sponsored by the Safety Center and the Allstate Foundation.
They are competing against 24 other Southern California High Schools to win a cash prize which will support their program's continuing efforts.
On Wednesday October 17th they hosted a Fall Festival event where they managed a booth educating the community on the dangers of drinking and driving.
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Violin Memory on Tuesday introduced two new all-NAND flash arrays that double the capacity over their predecessors and offer up to 160TB of capacity in a rack with 10 million IOPS and an aggregate 40GBps performance.
Violin also unveiled the Violin 3220 memory array, doubling the storage capacity of the 3200 Series to 20TB per 3U shelf.
As with its previous lines, Violin said its new 6000 series flash memory arrays are available in high-end single level cell (SLC) flash or lower-end multi level cell (MLC) flash technology. The company said 6000 series greatly reduces cost as tied to system performance and boosts density by 15 times.
For example, Violin's previous rack-mounted, all-MLC flash array - the Violin 3200 - stored up to 140TB per rack. Multiple memory arrays can also be clustered together scaling to petabytes of capacity and tens of millions of IOPS.
A single 3U (5.25-in. high) array can deliver 1 million IOPS with 4GBps aggregate throughput, enough performance to replace multiple racks of traditional disk arrays for savings of both capital and operational expenditures, Violin said.
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The 6000 series array comes in two models: The Violin 6616, which is based on SLC flash and optimized for high IOPS and low latency; and the Violin 6232, which is based on MLC flash memory and optimized for high capacity.
Violin's memory arrays also use an algorithm it calls "vRAID" to stripe data across multiple Violin Intelligent Memory Modules (VIMMs), which are the same thing as DIMMs (Dual Inline memory modules), but are made with NAND flash versus DRAM.
Block or chip failures are handled on the fly and in the event of a VIMM failure, data is moved to a spare and the VIMM can be hot-swapped. The combined result is a system that meets the highest mission critical availability standards for enterprise customers.
"The need for real time access to applications and data is challenging many CIOs and data center managers in data-intensive enterprise environments," said Jeff Janukowicz, research director for solid-state storage at IDC. "All-silicon enterprise storage solutions, such as Violin's Memory Arrays, that incorporate high reliable system-level enterprise design features provide CIOs a new way to accelerate their storage infrastructures."
The 3220 and 6000 series arrays offer three connectivity options: PCIe (four or eight lanes), Fibre Channel (4Gbps or 8Gbps links) and Gigabit Ethernet (memory gateways support up to four 10GbE ports).
"The overwhelming response to the Violin 6000 Series from our customers and partners has made it clear that the future of primary storage within the Global 5000 is flash memory arrays," said Donald Basile, CEO of Violin Memory. "We offer CIOs both the performance and reliability to build a bullet-proof, state-of-the-art, virtualized, silicon data center."
The Violin 3220 is available now and the new 6000 series arrays are shipping to strategic partners in limited quantities with general availability in the first quarter.
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In the past few weeks several Genealogy Blogs have mentioned various Blurb book projects of great interest. I hope they spur you on to some new and creative uses for preserving information, photographs and documents.
T. K. at Before My Time created a book project on her Schulte cousins. It is collaboration with a cousin, and I know that working on a Blurb project online with collaborators is easy. T. K. also is the one who figured out that any book under 120 pages will have a sewn binding, which is important to many family historians. I already had the experience of a wedding book disintegrating at a family gathering. For your information, it was not produced by Blurb and it had a glued binding. The bride was very distressed.
Kathy at I Will Remember just received her copy of her blog which had been "slurped" via Blurb. The software automatically downloaded her posts into a book, and she spent a few days editing it for her final approval. The photos on her post looked great, and she thought the whole process was easy and quick.
The Grand Prize goes to T. J. Rand, who wrote to me that he read my blog last spring and checked out the Blurb website. T.J. not only found it interesting, but created 10 books for the Epsom Historical Association! Included are 5 books on cemeteries, a book on the oldest house in town, a book on the Epsom Free Will Baptist Meeting house, and two books on the first 100 years of the town history. You can check them out at the Blurb Bookstore at this link http://www.blurb.com/search/site_search?search=epsom+history&filter=all
T. J. Rand's books are an extremely creative project for archiving local historical information. The books are available for sale online with a small profit to benefit the Historical Association of Epsom, New Hampshire. They will also be selling a few copies at their Old Home Day on August 14th. The town library has plans to purchase copies of all them, and one was also donated to the town library. You can preview the first fifteen pages of each of these books, and perhaps come up with some creative ideas for you own family or town history. As T. J said in an email "....even though the information may be available electronically online or in other formats, there is nothing like a book."
In the next few weeks I'll be slurping three months of posts from Nutfield Genealogy into another book, and also creating a coffee table sized, hard cover photo book of our trip to Hawaii. No more paper and scissors scrapbooking for me!
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The evangelical world expands to a far-off horizon and the topographical valleys and peaks cover landscapes that are both long and wide. Many in the media seem to have little knowledge of how large of a space the evangelical map covers. So, with this said, I welcomed Ross Douthat's thoughts in Monday's New York Times. His column, "American Theocracy Revisited," places good markers on the fears that Rick Perry and Michelle Bachmann's presidential runs are nothing more than an attempt at theocracy.
In much of the coverage of these two campaigns, the evangelical world gets flatten, stereotyped, and portrayed as only coming from one narrow point. Whether or not you agree with this view, the fact remains that any group that includes Miroslav Wolf, Jim Wallis, RC Sproul, Rick Warren, Joyce Meyers, Philip Yancy, Chuck Missler, Rob Bell, Albert Mohler Jr, TD Jakes, Amy Grant, Tony Campolo, Lucy Swindoll, Debrah Joy Winans, and so many more hues and colors of evangelicalism should not be placed in one bag and shaken into one lumpy mess, while saying that any one of their diverse views politically are the one true color. I know many will view this list and say who should or should not belong, and then justify their choices. A coherent political agenda could not be drawn from such a list of people. But following Jesus and making Jesus known in the world is at the core of each of these people's identity. Many on the list may disagree as to the best way to provide for the widows and orphans, but all would agree that we must care for them.
Douthat gives us four points to consider in evaluating the runs of Perry and Bachmann. His first point is to understand how large the evangelical community is. Secondly, don't judge the whole by the most extremist example. Most evangelicals I know are outraged that Fred Phelps claims to be an evangelical. Thirdly, I am an evangelical, and I do not know hidden code words that make jump. Yes, there are words that are important to Christians, which attract little attention outside of Christendom, such as justification, renewal, and sanctification. The evangelical is not some pavlovian dog salivating at the sound of these words. Finally, and this is the most important, many of the policies that Bachmann and Perry promote, as well as the different policies other evangelicals may promote, are not always coming strictly from their faith, but their political philosophies and allegiances.
Evangelicals are a diverse and feisty bunch, and in the coming months as many seek to make us all into one, let us celebrate the various body parts that make up evangelicals. We all share a love of Jesus and a desire to follow Him.
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N.Y. shouldn't discount drilling-related quakes, scientist says
New York officials have dismissed the threat of earthquakes from drilling activities as they develop state rules for shale gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing, but a New York-based seismologist says that's a bad idea.
"This is a hazard that needs to be recognized and thought about when you're looking at regulating these activities," said Geoff Abers, associate director for the Division of Seismology, Geology and Tectonophysics at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in the New York City suburb of Palisades.
Abers is part of a research team that asserts a November 2011 earthquake east of Oklahoma City was "likely triggered by fluid injection" (EnergyWire, Dec. 3, 2012). Their paper on the subject has been accepted for publication in an academic journal. The magnitude-5.6 quake injured at least two people, damaged 200 structures and destroyed at least 14 homes. Lamont-Doherty, where Abers works, investigated an earthquake in Ohio that has prompted new rules for injection wells.
In an op-ed earlier this month in the Times Union of Albany, Abers said the state has "overlooked one threat that could give New Yorkers a jolt: the potential for wastewater disposal to trigger earthquakes."
Oil and gas industry officials are dismissing his warnings as the product of an anti-fossil fuel agenda at Abers' institution.
"This is such a non-issue in New York," said Karen Moreau, executive director of the New York State Petroleum Council. "He obviously wants to make it an issue."
She noted Lamont-Doherty is part of Columbia's Earth Institute, which states its mission as "Solutions for sustainable development." Sustainable development, she said, indicates "a fairly negative view of fossil-fuel development." She also noted that Abers has no background in petroleum geology. He has a doctorate in geophysics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In an interview, Abers said his criticism is not based in opposition to drilling. He wrote in his op-ed piece that "Clearly, fracking brings great benefits." But he said there needs to be a clear understanding of the risks.
Moreau said the rules being drafted by New York state's Department of Environmental Conservation are for drilling and hydraulic fracturing, not the wastewaster disposal injection that has been linked to earthquakes. She said any such wastewater from high-volume fracturing would likely be shipped to injection wells in other states.
"This would not fall within DEC regulation," Moreau said. "The geology of New York does not lend itself to deep well injection."
Injection wells regulated under oil and gas law are deemed "Class II" wells under federal rules. There are 481 such wells in New York, according to an EPA inventory. Most are likely for "enhanced oil recovery." An EPA spokesman said six are oil and gas wastewater disposal wells.
New York's DEC and U.S. EPA both play a role in regulating the disposal wells. The state requires permits for any such wells deeper than 500 feet, and the regulations New York is working on cover the state's role in regulating disposal. EPA regulates the wells under the Underground Injection Control program of the Safe Drinking Water Act.
In drafting proposed rules for shale drilling and hydraulic fracturing in New York, the state Department of Conservation dismissed the risk of earthquakes from both "fracking" and disposal of fracking waste as "extremely low."
"There is essentially no increased risk to the public, infrastructure or natural resources from induced seismicity," state officials wrote in responses to public comments about the agency's draft regulations.
But geologists have known for decades that deep injection of industrial waste can lubricate faults and unleash earthquakes. One of the most famous instances of man-made earthquakes, or "induced seismicity," occurred in the late 1960s at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal near Denver, where the Army manufactured chemical weapons.
Fracking vs. injection wells
Most seismologists agree that the specific process of hydraulic fracturing presents little or no risk of triggering earthquakes that damage property or injure people.
But fracking and production of shale gas produce millions of gallons of wastewater far saltier than seawater and laced with toxic and even radioactive chemicals. Some can be reused, but eventually, what comes to the surface must be disposed of.
Even with shale gas production blocked by a moratorium, the state's conventional wells produced about 24 million gallons of water along with oil and gas in 2011.
Abers noted that the state doesn't allow filtering the water through public wastewater treatment systems, and officials have indicated that storage in open pits won't be permitted. That leaves spreading it on roads, deep underground injection in New York or trucking it out of state.
USGS and other scientists have blamed a "remarkable increase" in the number of earthquakes in the middle of the country on oil and gas drilling activities, particularly disposal of the "brine" waste from fracking and drilling (EnergyWire, March 29, 2012).
There are about 40,000 brine injection wells in the country. Very few of those have caused earthquakes. But in the drilling boom of the last few years, earthquakes have been linked to injection wells in Arkansas, Colorado, Ohio, Oklahoma and Texas.
Arkansas and Ohio oil and gas officials shut down injection wells that were linked to the seismic ruptures. One company shut down its injection wells near the Dallas airport after scientists linked them to small quakes.
Under federal environmental law, it is not illegal to cause an earthquake. And oil and gas disposal wells are exempt from the construction standards designed to prevent industrial waste injection wells from triggering earthquakes.
States can have rules to address earthquakes from injection of oil and gas waste. But aside from Ohio, which adopted rules last year after a series of quakes around Youngstown, most don't.
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Comic strips offer a unique form of social criticism and commentary. The best cartoons expose some truths and, to quote the Bible, "the truth will set you free." Cartoonists must often be provocateurs. As cartoonist Keith Knight says, "Cartoonists are the court jesters of modern times. We can get away with things that others can't because of our 'cute' drawings." Coloring Outside the Lines features some of those "court jesters." They share their experiences, inspiration and perspectives as social commentators and provocateurs.
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Digital Electronics: Seven-Segment Displays
A seven-segment display is an electronic array of seven LEDs arranged in a way that can display numerals as well as some alphabetic characters. You can purchase an inexpensive (less than $2) seven-segment display at any electronics-parts stores.
To use a seven-segment display for any practical purpose, you have to connect the display to a digital circuit that's capable of controlling the individual segments to display meaningful information such as numerals or alphabetic letters. You can do that using a computer to control the individual segments via a parallel-port connection.
A single-digit seven-segment display module is usually wired up as follows: the segments themselves are referred to by the letters a through g. This particular display module is contained in a 14-pin DIP package, but only 8 of the pins are actually used. The anode of each LED segment is connected to one of the pins. The cathodes for all the segments are connected at pin 4.
This is called common-cathode wiring. You can also get 7-segment displays in which the anodes are connected to a common pin; this arrangement is called common-anode wiring.
To control a seven-segment display, you must first connect a positive voltage source to the anode of each of the seven segments. The cathode should be connected to ground. Be sure to use a current-limiting resistor in series with each anode to limit the current that flows through the LEDs.
To drive a seven-segment display from your computer's parallel port, just connect the anode of each segment through a current-limiting resistor (1 kΩ is typical) to one of the data output pins. The most straightforward way to do that is to connect DATA1 (pin 2) to the a segment, DATA1 (pin 3) to the b segment, and so on until DATA7 is connected to the g segment.
After you've connected a seven-segment display to the parallel port, you can form numerals or some alphabetic characters by sending the right data to the parallel port.
Thus, to display the numeral 5, use this RELAY command:
To understand why the data values are required, remember that each of the segments in the display is connected to one of the data output pins of the parallel port. Thus, to light a particular combination of segments to form a numeral, you must set the parallel port's output so that the data pins corresponding to the segments you want lit are HIGH and the remaining pins are LOW.
To form the numeral 3, for example, segments a, b, c, d, and g should be turned on. Those segments are connected to data output pins 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7. Thus, you must send a byte of data to the parallel port with the bit positions corresponding to pins 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7 set to the binary value 1 and the other bit positions set to binary 0.
In a binary number, the bit positions are numbered right to left, so the binary pattern you need to send to the parallel port to form the numeral 3 is
The hexadecimal equivalent for this binary number is 4F. Thus, the following command displays the numeral 3:
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Only the Light of Heavens can provide requisite illumination to the Golden letters in which Holy Accomplishments of Divine Guru Arjan can be befittingly penned down.
Guru Arjan is the Supreme Divine Donor. He incarnated out of love for us. He burnt Himself on the burning hot plate out of love for the burning world. He gave Himself away unto us. It was not an half hearted donation. He gave Himself away and wholly to us.
Let us not be half hearted in our acknowledgement and devotion to our Beloved Satguru.
Guru Arjan was burning in fire for the sake of the burning world. Guru Nanak, the Fifth sat on fire because the world was on fire.
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NASA is considering re-purposing its successful Cassini-Huygens probe to do something that it wasn't designed for, but is nonetheless amazing: searching for signs of life on Saturns frozen moon Enceladus. Back in July 2005 Cassini observed a huge plume of ice particles and water vapour shooting from the tiny moon, suggesting the possibility that there's a liquid ocean hiding beneath its surface.
Now scientists are calling for the probe to be sent sailing through the plume and over the moon in detail to look for complex carbon molecules that may indicate the presence of life in the ocean using its Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer. The argument runs that abundant life living in the ocean should produce molecules like methane which could then be detected: scientists have already built a test chamber at NASA's Ames Research Centre to try to simulate the conditions on Enceladus and calculate what kinds of gasses may be expected.
It's a long shot, but it may provide useful data before NASA sends more probes to the gas giants in the next decade. And you never know, we may find out we're not alone. [New Scientist]


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