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When a double-layer sheath surrounds a planet, it is protected from direct electrostatic
interaction with any outside body. Electrostatic forces cannot penetrate the double-layer...
However, if a body having a different electrical potential penetrates the double-layer boundary
and moves into the plasma sphere surrounding the planet, charge will flow to try to cancel the
voltage difference. Electrical discharges will occur. D.A. Scott
Such large amplitude arcs would undoubtedly cause scarring
on the surfaces of both bodies. Donald A. Scott Electric Sun pg. 137
It forms in highly conductive plasma if there is
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Kronix SS, the transformation begins.....ZLX[COTW 3/26/12]Under New Ownership
The start of something special begins.....
What's up C5ers,
I'm glad to have found the best Camaro forum out there as I was researching my future SS. Since I'm fairly new here, I'll also give a brief bio & introduction. I recently moved from the South Jersey/Philly area to Central Cali in April (but I'll be moving further south between LA & SD within the next few months). I still have properties & business back east so I frequently fly home for biz & to catch an Eagles game, although this season has been a catastrophe for my team....Anyway, since living here in Cali I went back east 3 times, and all 3 times I rented a Camaro SS from Enterprise rental cars. I did so because I knew I wanted to get back into a muscle car since my last one was a 1989 Vette that I bought new, I got to enjoy that for 4 years until it fell victim to a high end car theft ring operating out of south Florida...Needless to say I was devastated, as I had planned to keep that car forever.
My Camaro love affair started in 1984 when I bought my first Z28, A Black Beauty with Silver Ground Effects then a couple years later when the 5.7L IROC's came out, I knew I had to have one. Black on black with T-Tops, that baby was cherry! Well, in October of 1988 while driving in South Philadelphia, I met an asshole that decided to blow through a red light in his red Dodge Daytona (POS), I T-Boned him square on the passenger door and luckily there was no one traveling with the drunk idiot, cause they would've been dead, as my car crushed his to the center console. I can still remember everything in slo-mo as if it were yesterday, my tops blew off on impact, the car wound up facing 180 degrees the other way..total freakin mess, but plenty of witnesses around & clearly his fault..so I got a nice settlement between him & the City of Philadelphia due to malfunctioning stoplights.....The Vette came when I got my first check, and modded that baby to the hilt!!!
Now, 3 Chevy Tahoes later, and after driving a couple of SS's, I started my search. I knew I wanted a Black on Black 2SS, with LS3 tranny & a sunroof. Since central Cali is a little on the slooow side, my choices were limited, I had just gotten back from a trip back east and drove by the only Chevy dealer with 40 miles and right out front were 3 brand new Camaros, and I spotted a Black SS. I swing by and prayed it was a manual tranny, but unfortunately it wasn't. They tried real hard to sell me that car, I have excellent credit so they were rolling out the red carpet, but after driving both the auto & manual, I just couldn't give in and settle for the auto. I continued my search, luckily I made a call to Paso Robles Chevy/Caddy, which is about 40 miles north of me and spoke with an awesome salesman, Dave. I gave him my criteria and he said to give him a day, well long story short, there was nothing in the state that matched, but luckily they located a loaded 2011 2SS/RS with everything I wanted in Nevada. 24 hours later they had flat bedded to the dealership and came down and picked me up to do the paperwork. Never in my life have I purchased a car from a dealership so quickly & smoothly as I did from Paso Chevy. So anyone in the CenCal area, they're the ones to go to.
Now the whole time I was searching & researching, I was also putting together my modification list. I knew the first thing I wanted to do was add a supercharger, because I found out that a company called SLP (Street Legal Performance), has been working with Chevy for a few decades, making SS & special edition cars. Well I discovered that if I bought a SC from them & had my dealer install it, I'd be able to maintain the power train warranty & engine warranty...I knew they were the way to go, I got turned onto the west coast regional manager, Rick Hill and he was fantastic helping me with my project. Also the Service Manager at PR Chevy, Mike Tate, was very excited to do the build, as was the owner of the dealership. This would be their first & it opened the door for them to start working with SLP, so I also received a generous discount for putting the two together.
So my order from SLP included the 650HP Supercharger, the performance spring/sway bar kit, skip shift, Loudmouth II exhaust, custom engine covers and the optional 5year/100K mile warranty. That covered under the hood, for now. Unfortunately, they will not warranty an upgraded cam or headers, even if it's their products. But 650HP + will be good enough for now
I had already been putting together my cosmetic list & starting to acquire them. Here's a list of everything so far:
*MTX Sub Box from GM (I'll be upgrading to a Double Din Head Unit when the 2012 models come out, with the help of Double D Mods)
*Smoked Black Tailights courtesy of www.smokedouttaillights.com
*Matte Black Taillight Bezels & Black Camaro lettering from forum member Overhaulengines (Thanks Lupe)
*Valentine 1 Radar System in my rear view mirror courtesy of Scott at www.radar-mirror.com
*Heritage Grille from Paul at GMPartshouse
*Matte Black Billit Fuel Door (CAMARO)
*Fieldgoal00's DRL Harness & AAC Plasma Fog Lights
*Gloss Black Billit SS emblems front & rear to replace the bow ties from Sparks
*Powdercoated Black SLP Exhaust tips
*Eric from MPD1 is making some awesome products, so I went with his Z-Force Hood, Rear Spoiler & their new smooth rear exhaust panel to replace the stock diffuser.
*I chose to go with 3dCarbon for my ground effects, as I really like their front fender functional vents. I also got their 4 piece ground effects, because I like the fact that their parts are high injection polyurethane. So front air dam, side skirts & rear spats should flow nicely with the MPD products.
*ZL1 Front Bumper with Splitter conversion by Gary's Customz & Ofer's Lighting Harness
*AAC Ghosted Black LED 4 piece side marker kit (Looks Awesome, Thanks Jonathan!!)
*AAC High Output LED Tinted Reverse lights (Tinted Black)
*AAC Kitt Scanner lights 1 red & 1 white mounted behind the grille.
*Lloyd SS floor mats
*Car already had the red/blue ambient interior lighting.
*Glossy Black Painted Interior-Shifter Bezel, Speedo/Tach, Steering Wheel Bezel, Long Side Center Console Strips. Painted by River City Creations
*For the added HP, I knew I'd need more rubber to keep her locked down, so working with Sean at WSI I went with the 22" Staggered Giovanni Kilis matte black rims(9x22 F & 10.5 x 22 R) with Pirelli P-Zero Nero rubber (265/30 F & 315/25 R). Sean was AWESOME to work with, so I highly recommend him & WSI.
*SLP Removable License Plate Holder
*Windows got 30% tint
*Hydro-Coated Engine Covers, Fuse Box cover, Rear Drain covers & CAI Lid from Roger at Emblem Pros, he does awesome work for a fair price!
*Personalized License Plates (Narrowing it down)
*Performance & Handling Upgrades, So Far: Pedders XO Suspension System with Full Alignment Kit, Pfadt Rear Trailer Arms, Pfadt Bushings & Bearings, BMR Bushing Kit, ZL1 Fuel Pump, Jannetty Racing Tensioner with Pulley, 3.6 Pulley
*Autometer Dual Gauge Pod with ProSport Boost & Air/Fuel Ratio Gauges
*Custom CAI, Inc Cold Air Induction Hydro-Coated with Plexiglass removed to promote true Ram Air Induction.
**I'm sure I forgot a few things, cause I've been on a buying bing!! But I'll add as I remember them..
Well, that's everything I've bought and the car presently is at my friend Ray's shop, Extreme Auto Works in San Luis Obispo. I should be picking it up Monday with the new exhaust, performance suspension, skip shift & wheels installed. Then it's off to PR Chevy to make this baby really come alive with the Supercharger next week. So many more pictures will follow. By the time the SC is installed, I'll have the hood, rear spoiler & smoothie rear from Eric @ MPD, then it's back to Extreme for fitting, along with the 3dCarbon kit, Taillights, Blacked Bezels, Debadged, Heritage Grille, V1 Radar System, then off to the paint shop. I'm working on a special Matte Black/Gloss Black paint scheme (more on that later )
So, this is the start of my build journal. I hope you all will enjoy my updates and feel free to comment and give advice or ask questions. I look forward to meeting fellow Cali Camaro owners and attending as many events as possible.
Now for some pics....
My Birthday present to myself, we met on October 12th, it was love at first sight!
With her BIG Brother, my Hoe:
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I'll have more pics on Monday when I pick her up from Stage 1 mods, so stay tuned, same channel!
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This is the 3dCarbon 4 piece kit I purchased
I love these front fender side vents, although I'll be a bit nervous when breaking out the saw
MPD's Smooth Rear Exhaust Panel should fit nicely with the rear spats
This is the Rear Panel I ordered from Eric, obviously mine will not say "Nickey" on it.
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Nice rims... I dig the kit as well.
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looks great
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Thanks guys, they're so many awesome Camaros on this site, it's great seeing everyone's personalization!
Angel are they the same rims that you have? If so, how do you like them? I noticed that some of the spokes actually stick past the tire, so parking next to a curb must be done with EXTREME care!
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I am really digging your wheels and your build, will check back often for updates!
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Well the first round of mods is done, just waiting on the alignment and I'll have her home tomorrow. I can wait to feel the handling differences and also freeing up the restrictive exhaust, plus I got rid of the annoying 1-4 shift.
Installed this week:
*SLP's suspension package, which included new springs to drop it an inch both front & rear, and 29mm sway bars with 2 way adjustment in the front & 3 way in the rear.
* SLP's Loud Mouth II exhaust with powder-coated tips. I love the sound of the exhaust now! It finally sounds like there's more than 400HP now. Once I get her home tomorrow, I'll try to do a sound video before the SC gets installed.
*Skip Shift Eliminator
*22" Giovanni Kilas wheels & beefed up P-Zeros
It'll be nice to hear the engine opened up, sit a little lower and feel the upgraded handling & cornering over the next couple of days. Next week she gets round 2 and has the SLP TVS 2300 SuperCharger installed, then it's into the 600+ club
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Here's some better pics, now that she's home for the weekend. It's remarkable the improvements in handling that the performance springs & sway bar make. I really like the adjustability option of the sway bars, and when you look at the Eibach bars compared to the stock ones, you really see the quality. Much larger diameter and the adjustability factor.
The biggest difference is the exhaust.....now I know why I love V8s!! SLP's LoudMouth II exhaust really opens the flow up, in both back pressure & sound. Got to love when you downshift and it's rumbling & popping!!
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I also picked up some more stuff from AAC, the White LED Scanner Light, Upgraded Plasm LED bulbs for my DRL to go with the harness I picked up to keep the DRL on along with my headlights, and lastly I got a Blue LED Dome lighting to go with the already installed ambient footwell lighting.
Next week she gets dropped off at Paso Robles Chevy/Caddy to have the SLP (WARRANTIED) TVS 2300 SuperCharger & Tune. And I just spoke to Eric @ MPD and my Z-Force Hood, Spoiler & Smooth Exhaust Panel is getting shipped today, so that'll be dropped off at the paint shop along with the 3dCarbon 4 piece kit + Front Fender Vents.
Stay Tuned for more.....
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Swapping out Tail Lights & Bezels
Well I did a little cosmetic mod over the weekend, in preparation for getting the TVS 2300 installed (hopefully this week). I figured I would document the cosmetic mod and make a DIY, since I didn't see one for both bezels & tail light removal & replacement, you can find it Here
I must admit with the proper tools, these Gen 5 Camaros are fairly easy to work with & plenty of fun!!
Here's some completed pictures
The next 2 weeks should really bring my Camaro closer to where I want it, the MPD Hood, Rear Spoiler & Smooth Rear Exhaust Panel were shipped Friday, so as soon as they arrive here in Cali, they'll go to the paint shop along with the 3dCarbon Front Fender Vents & the 4 piece Ground Effects Kit. In the meantime, I'm waiting on the dealership to tell me when they can install the TVS 2300 Supercharger. Hopefully that can happen, while the parts are being painted, and I can work on what I'm doing to the interior. I think today I'll start removing the badges....Maybe my Heritage Grille will get delivered today :thumb up: and I can do that also!
I enjoy documenting everything here in my journal, it's a great idea that this forum has, I hope you guys enjoy the transformation, as well.
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Maggie TVS 2300 being installed by Paso Robles Chevy, could be done today
Just got a bunch of stuff from Granatelli Motorsports, great products & service, ask for Richard, he'll hook you up!!!
1G Suspension Brace kit: http://www.granatellimotorsports.com...e-2384-28.html
80KV Coil Pack:
Hi-Temp Coil Near Plug Kit:
From Apex Motorsports, another great company & forum sponsor:
Got a CAI made to work with the Maggie from Cold Air Inductions, Inc:
Pfadt Race Engineering Rear Arm Package:
BMR Fabrication Rear Cradle Bushing Kit, Pro Version BK030:
I also picked up from Apex the "Strong" MAF sensor. All MPD1 parts (Z-Force hood, Smooth Rear Exhaust Panel & Rear Spoiler), along with the 3dCarbon ground effects & front fender vents are being painted and install will take place next week.
Custom SLP Supercharged Engine covers are going to get Black Chromed, along with the tube for the CAI by Greg at www.autodynamicswest.com
Today I'm going to prep my Heritage Grille and remove the bowtie from it and replace it with the Black Satin Billet SS. I also picked up a set of Black Billet Race Pedals from Billet Anything on ebay.
I'm hoping the dealership calls and says the car's ready to be picked up, pics will follow once I get her back!
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I'm now the proud owner of a Supercharged Camaro SS! I picked up the car this morning from the dealership, and it's now an entirely different car! I must say that Paso Robles Chevy did an awesome job on the install, they had their top Master Tech do the install and I emphasized that I was in no rush, I just wanted it to be perfect, and they didn't disappoint. The tech ran through everything with me, and showed me all the little things, he was awesome and it looks like it came right from the factory.
He had nothing but good things to say about the SLP support he received when he called them, and that it was an excellent kit, that was very thorough with easy to follow directions. They enjoyed doing my car so much that they are now an authorized retailer/installer for SLP, and they have me to thank for that and they reflected it in the install pricing.
Under regular driving conditions it drove just like before, but when I hit the gas, the fun really begins!!! I was in triple digits in no time! It's a remarkable feeling getting pushed back in the seat like that....I am one happy SS owner!
I'll enjoy it for a day or so, then it's back in the shop for the installation of the MPD1 Z-Force hood, rear spoiler, smooth rear exhaust panel, the 3dCarbon Front Fender Vents & their ground effects. Then I'll work a little more on the already modded suspension, adding to the already installed Eibach Performance Springs & Sway bars, will be the Granatelli 1G Suspension Brace kit, Pfadt Race Rear Arm kit,and BMR Bushings. Then to finish everything under the hood, the install of the Granatelli 80K Coil Pack, Hi Temp Coil near Plug wire kit, my black Billet Catch Can along with an oil breather cap and lastly, swap out the SLP Blackwing tube & filter for a Cold Air Inductions black powder coated CAI.
The remaining exterior mods that I have lined up are the Heritage Grille with black billet SS, to replace the bowtie. Removing the rear bowtie for another black billet SS emblem and then remove the chrome Camaro side script for flat black ones. I also have some custom badges coming from Emblem Pros, and custom hydro coated engine covers to work with the Supercharger.
When it's all finished I'll take it down to Granatelli Motorsports to throw it on the Mustang Dyno and get some numbers!
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This post relates to, is a spin off from Grace Slick's birthday video in the YouTube section. I'm sticking it down here because it's a total thread drift and in the end, a lengthy, meandering bit of offshore folklore. I must forewarn, though I rarely enthuse in or even speak about the past I am indulging myself here this evening.
"Jefferson Airplane Takes Off", with Signe Toly Anderson as the female vocalist, will always remain my favorite of the band's output. And though I love the later stuff mentioned on Grace's birthday thread, tracked into time, Grace Slick Jefferson Airplane has become something too artificially symbolic to me. Not their fault at all. The music and the activities of the 60's have been so heavily overwritten, that everything about it, including my personal memory, has become saturated to the point of drowning and for some unknown reason the 'symbolism' (expressed in over serious droning fashion) often ascribed to the era particularly pisses me off tonight. Therefore, I almost didn't click on the Grace Slick thread... but I respectfully read it and looked at the videos and whilst doing so, I came across the video I am posting below. And what do you know, for the first time in ever so long, my own personal memory emerged, and I remembered the music and the dancing, instead of the extemporaneous shit... well...here, take a look, have a listen.
I was skeptical about the authenticity of the video at first - they've lined the footage up with the track and the light show appears to have been added on top at times (though I wonder if that's Jerry Abrams of Headlights?) - but then, at 1:40 in, I was stunned to see my roommate and running partner at that time! Good Lord, I was at this concert. (She is the slim dark haired girl in the sleeveless top, all of 19 then. One of her nicknames in school was "Olive Oil".)
By today's images of the 60's, the audience looks 'straight' and thus would befuddle many, yet the mixed (only in appearance) crowd is a true representation. The picture most often painted of the era is more of the later 60's, perhaps the early 70's. For example, in the video most of the girls do not have ratted, bouffant hair - that's a giveaway. Mainstream girls looked more like the dark haired girl at 2:05 in with the beehive hairdo. Notice the girl in the beehive's bra and then see that many of the girls are not wearing bras. Quite shocking then. On the guys, facial hair is not of the norm at that time even in the emerging counterculture though it was quicker to grow than long hair and thus you're more apt to see a mustache or beard here and there on the video than long hair.
Some of the audience who attended this concert would have been San Francisco State students, Berkeley too and thereby from other parts of the globe. Others would have been college dropouts like myself and my friend Olive Oil from small towns or downright rural areas in Marin and Sonoma County on the coast to the north of San Francisco or from the inland Bay Area ranging suburbs and the farmlands to the east and south. Though we were living in San Francisco at the time of this concert, my friend and I were from Sonoma County which had a sort of bohemian type scene. 'Subterranean' might be a better word. I remember the first time I walked in the door of the Apex Bookstore in Santa Rosa, a smallish room filled with cigarette smoke (uncommon and frowned upon in the world of my youth) and the sound of an acoustic guitar from some unidentifiable dark corner. I don't think I was yet 18 for my older brother had smuggled me in through the back door alley entrance ("16 will get you 20"). I'd already been introduced to the notion that something vague and exciting was going on somewhere out there. I was an avid reader and had been babysitting for a couple whom I now know were hardcore beatniks (nothing was obvious in the early to mid 60's) and late an evening while the baby slept I discovered straight off, "Giovanni's Room". Most importantly, next to the bookshelf with its James Baldwin, Hubert Selby, Alan Watts, and Kenneth Rexroth poetry translations were stacks of folk albums wide ranging in genre and cultural origins. Unbeknownst to me, and thanks to these folk recording companies (Folkways among others?), I was soon to hear Howlin Wolf, Lightning Hopkins, Brownie Terry and Sonny McGee not to mention The Holy Modal Rounders when my older brother shared his music with me and then in time took me to the Apex that night and I sat very quietly with a disinterested look, as I'd been carefully coached, and observed without the help of a film screen a few old school New York hard liners and somewhere in the mix musicians like Tom Hobson, Dan Hicks, both with links to the Red Dog Salon in Virginia City, Nevada. The Golliwogs/Creedence (and bands like them) were soon performing at the local fairgrounds. Psychedelic bands whose names have been long forgotten or rarely known except by people like me - bands like Wildflower - were emerging. By the time 1966 hit, should I have even considered it, resistance to the ever increasing lure of the music would have been impossible and the lure was dangling above San Francisco.
Accurate chronological memory is also impossible. In retrospect, it is astounding how quickly it all happened then just as quickly exploded, poof, and all that remained was/is a heavily annotated blur. In the majority of the photos of the early part of the era, the photographers focused on the most outrageous subjects they could find. Well, I would have too. But even as far along as 1966, all that was to come was still abstruse. I mean, just check out the audience in the video I posted in comparison to the photographs of the first Human Be-in which I was to attend a mere couple of months later in the beginning of 1967.
The only thing that rings clearly today is the music, good or bad, and thereby I can occasionally search out the times of certain happenings by the recording dates. Doing so today, I realized that, coincidentally or not (and I doubt that it was) a large contingent of people like my friend and I - moved to San Francisco in 1966 somewhere around the time Chet Helms/The Family Dog and Bill Graham started holding concerts at The Avalon Ballroom and The Fillmore Auditorium.
"Jefferson Airplane Takes Off" became hard copy in the fall of that same year so pivotal for many of us, sleeved and slipped in amongst those which only slightly preceded it - Paul Butterfield's "East West", "Blonde on Blonde" to name a couple. Today, one song off that album accompanied by nearly solid images of the people I once danced alongside evoked for me experiences and associations as abstract and elusive as the scent of the unknown brand of Chinese incense purchased in San Francisco's Chinatown that accompanied my first whiff of marijuana smoke (rather than the Nag Champa now associated with the hippie culture). It was like remembering Fire before it was discovered, engaging in the gathering of sticks for no reason at all. Recognizing sorrow in Billie Holiday's voice, finding riches in the impossibly beautiful Sam Cooke, expressing joy dancing by yourself to "I Want To Hold Your Hand" full blast out of the speakers when there's nobody else in the house...and then one day what do you know, you aren't the only one dancing and there you are in a full house beside a stage with three people on it, leaning up against a speaker bigger than you are and the monolith is blasting out "Purple haze all in my brain...". Now that's FIRE and nobody's symbol but my own.
I know that within these randomly expressed and vague recollections lie the roots of the San Francisco sound and phenomenon (different even from its neighbor, Berkely) - some of them anyways, and I also know that I am suggesting that the music and the lifestyle were synonymous. Still are, I would think. It's just that when music is a voice, as it sometimes is, it carries that for which there is no other means of transport, not even within one's own memory.
For those who are unfamiliar:
Wikipedia has an article on the Red Dog Saloon, but it's slanted in that oddly sensationalized way I should, by now, be able to take for granted. More in keeping with this post, here's the band Wildflower's take on the Red Dog Saloon:


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DAYTON, Ohio � This was going to be the season that the big, bad Wolfpack was back. This was supposed to be the return to glory for North Carolina State.
In the NCAA Tournament, part of it proved true. The Wolfpack was bad � for too long. The recovery � the version Friday afternoon � was good to keep television viewers and to hold out hope until the last two seconds, but not nearly enough to satisfy the lofty expectations or come close to reaching the level that had been all but promised.
The Wolfpack is gone, sent packing by Temple in a 76-72 minor upset that, for N.C. State, looked all too familiar. Finished before Duke and before North Carolina and before Miami. Throw in the National Invitation Tournament, and excused before Virginia and Maryland, too.
�We try not to pay attention to all that stuff,� junior guard Lorenzo Brown said. �That was our downfall this year. We didn�t play as well as we should have.�
In a season that often didn�t make sense, N.C. State trailed by 18 points in the second half against ninth-seeded Temple and then was launching a potential tying shot with more l � minutes remaining.
Of course, it didn�t go in.
�We just didn�t get it done,� forward C.J. Leslie said of the season. �It hasn�t sunk in yet.�
In the immediate aftermath, senior forward Richard Howell was the last N.C. State player to leave the University of Dayton Arena court, as the Wolfpack made a slow march into the offseason.
Then came yet another round of inquiries.
�There�s no easy way to put it,� senior swingman Scott Wood said. �It�s pretty much over. � It�s a lesson learned, especially for the people coming back.�
That list of people won�t include Howell or Wood. It might not include Brown and Leslie, who are juniors regularly mentioned in the same breath as the NBA draft.
It was a depressing scene even though there have been hints for weeks that this wasn�t coming all together.
Remember how much fun that was last year for the Wolfpack when it scooted past two opponents in the NCAA tournament and set up all these could�ves, should�ves, would�ves that we�ve been dissecting for the past few months?
�We were a really talented team,� Wood said. �We probably should have achieved more than we have. We feel like as a team we could do special things. At the end of the day, we didn�t go out and do it.�
Reminded that this group might be considered the core that helped turn the corner and put the Wolfpack in the NCAA Tournament for back-to-back seasons after five seasons without a coveted bid, it didn�t register.
�This program doesn�t just deserve to be here,� Wood said. �It deserves to win championships.�
Unfortunately for the Wolfpack, this team didn�t deserve to win in Friday�s tournament game, not after failing to adequately defend in the first half and coming up short down the stretch when the situation demanded something close to perfection.
The core of the team returned from last season and a few newcomers supplemented the roster. This was set up just right.
Then came a tie for fourth place in the Atlantic Coast Conference and an exit before the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament arrived.
�Definitely stunned,� freshman guard Rodney Purvis said. �We definitely felt like we could do better in the postseason. It wasn�t what I expected to be.�
Second-year coach Mark Gottfried pointed to the 48 total victories and periodic appearances in the national rankings as signs of progress. Before his comment concluded, he joined the rest in assessing the common theme.
�We wanted to play a lot longer than one game in this tournament this year,� he said. �We wanted to play a lot longer. We didn�t. So that�s disappointing, no question.�
Brown said the Wolfpack was aiming for ACC championships and a national championship and all the things that come with such accomplishments. There is none.
�You can�t be mad at anybody,� Brown said. �You can�t point fingers.�
Instead, you can point to this team (and its 24-11 record) and wonder what went wrong. Why all these ingredients caused the kitchen to blow up before the feast.
�You have a team that had a good year but didn�t have a great year,� Gottfried said. �It was good, but not where I wanted it to be.�
With that, you could almost hear a collective �amen� from the Wolfpack fan base.


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Assessing and critiquing some notable debuts
It's overreaction season in baseball, and there's nothing quite so much fun to overreact to as a debut. So with about one percent of the season (give or take) in the bag, we decided to take a look at how some notable debuts have gone so far.
Some of these players are just new to their teams, acquired by trade or via free agency. Others are new to the Major Leagues entirely, hot prospects or international arrivals. In every case, they are all part of what should make this a very interesting season.
Jackie Bradley Jr., Red Sox: Bradley came out of his big league debut hitting .000, and nobody minded. That's because the rookie outfielder drew three walks and scored two runs, showing the impressive plate discipline that helped him scale the Boston system so quickly. It was a source of some controversy as to whether Bradley should have been on the Opening Day roster, and the business side of that question remains unanswered. But the baseball side looks good.
R.A. Dickey, Blue Jays: OK, Dickey is one of a seeming cast of thousands who are new in Toronto, but he's the headline acquisition. And unfortunately, his debut as a Jay wasn't all that pretty. The right-hander took the loss in a 4-1 defeat to Cleveland, allowing four runs, three earned, on five hits with four strikeouts. Dickey walked four and threw a wild pitch, and catcher J.P. Arencibia was charged with three passed balls.
Kyuji Fujikawa, Cubs: Perhaps no one had a more newsworthy debut with his new club than the Cubs' 32-year-old Japanese reliever. Fujikawa closed out the Cubs' first win, and he may have begun displacing Carlos Marmol in the process. Marmol came in to finish out a 3-0 game, retired one of the four batters he faced and gave way to James Russell. After Russell retired the left-handed Neil Walker, Fujikawa finished it off. He's likely the Cubs' closer in the long term, but that future may already be here.
Evan Gattis, Braves: Gattis, a 26-year-old rookie, is one of the best stories in baseball. He emerged from seemingly nowhere to crush Minor League pitching before forcing his way onto the Braves' Opening Day roster. Once he got there, he made it count. Gattis homered in his first big league game, off Roy Halladay no less, in the Braves' second game of the season on Wednesday night. He also held his own behind the plate, which is the only real question about a man who seems to be a natural hitter.
Jedd Gyorko, Padres: Gyorko isn't necessarily one of the most hyped prospects, but he is one of those with the best chance to make an early impact. He's a polished and dangerous hitter who raked at pretty much every level. And he's already showed some of that ability, doubling in four at-bats in his Monday debut, an 11-2 loss to the Mets at Citi Field. He followed that up with a hit and two runs in his second game.
Josh Hamilton, Angels: Hamilton is hitless so far with his new club, but that's not to say he hasn't contributed. In his first game with the Angels -- appropriately in Cincinnati, where his big league career began -- Hamilton walked twice and scored a run in a 3-1, 13-inning win. Hamilton's reunion tour continues when the Angels head to Texas, the place where he made the bulk of his baseball fame.
Aaron Hicks, Twins: A 23-year-old center fielder, Hicks was thrust into the spotlight after the Twins traded not one, but two center fielders who were on the depth chart ahead of him. He spent last season in Double-A, so it might have been a bit of a push for the speedster. Hicks went 0-for-4 in his debut on Monday at home against Justin Verlander and the Tigers, drawing a walk and also striking out three times.
Hyun-Jin Ryu, Dodgers: Ryu probably deserved better in his first game with Los Angeles. He struck out five and didn't allow a walk or a home run, but was charged with three runs (one earned) on 10 hits in 6 1/3 innings in a 3-0 loss to the Giants. If the 26-year-old pitches like that on a consistent basis, the Dodgers will be quite pleased. They didn't bring him in to be an ace, but instead to be a reliable mid-rotation starter behind Clayton Kershaw and Zack Greinke.
James Shields, Royals: "Big Game James," on the other hand, has some very high expectations in Kansas City. And though he took the loss in his first game wearing Royals blue, Shields lived up to the hopes. He allowed a run on eight hits over six innings, striking out six against one walk. The Royals lost, 1-0, to the White Sox, but that's hard to pin on Shields.
B.J. and Justin Upton, Braves: The Upton brothers were a combined 1-for-8 in their first game wearing the same big league uniform, but no one was complaining. B.J. Upton went 0-for-4 with a strikeout, while Justin Upton hit a solo homer off of Cole Hamels in a 7-5 win. Given that the new-look Atlanta lineup dropped 16 runs on the Phils in the first two games of the season, most likely everyone with the Braves is quite happy with how things are working out so far.


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When photographing a scene with a digital camera, both your eyes and the camera sensor see much more color, contrast and other fine detail than the LCD display on mobile devices can typically show. Increasing the backlight brightness only makes the image "brighter" and does nothing to improve overall image quality while draining the battery much more quickly. CrystalView™ PhotoPlayer is an great alternative to your mobile device's standard photo viewer app and is designed to remedy these problems.
Incorporating CrystalView™ image enhancement technology, PhotoPlayer provides clearer, sharper, more colorful and all together more vibrant images for your viewing pleasure. This app is not a photo editor or a photo flash app and does not alter your original photos in any way while enhancing them for optimum viewing on even the worst or best LCD displays. Best of all, there are no complicated controls. With only one simple setting, CrystalView™ PhotoPlayer automatically displays all your photos as you eyes originally saw them and as your digital camera originally captured them!
Developer Website: http://aexeda.com/crystalview-photoplayer/


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June 4-6, 2009, Bellingham, WA, USA
Behavioral Economics: What can it do for Environmental and Resource Economics?
Organisation: College of Business and Economics, Western Washington University, USA
June 4-6, 2009, Bellingham, WA, USA
Behavioral Economics: What can it do for Environmental and Resource Economics?
Organisation: College of Business and Economics, Western Washington University, USA
Happiness and Relational Goods: Well-being & Interp. Relat. in the Econ. Sphere
in Venice,Italy
from 11. June 2009 to 13. June 2009
Deadline for paper submissions: 09. February 2009
JEL classification(s): A, B, D, H, I, J, N, O, R, Z
Further information at: http://heirs.unimib.googlepages.com/happiness
Alan Krueger has produced an excellent power point presentation called Bringing behavioral economics into the classroom.
I have just found a video lecture by George Loewenstein titled: The Economist as a therapist: Behavioral economics and "light paternalism". The lecture was given during the 2007 IAREP conference.
See also on SSRN the working paper The Economist as Therapist: Methodological Ramifications of 'Light' Paternalism by George Loewenstein and Emily Celia Haisley February 28, 2007.
Scott Simkins, Mark Maier, Bill Goffe and Steve Greenlaw announce on the tch-econ list:
"Pre-ASSA Roundtable Discussion/Workshop
Adapting Pedagogical Innovations Across Disciplines
At this year's ASSA meeting in San Francisco (Januray 3-5,2009) we will be hosting a pre-meeting Roundtable Discussion/Workshop exploring pedagogical innovations developed in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines and their adaptability in economics.
In particular, we will focus on pedagogical innovations developed from physics education research such as context-rich problems, just-in-time teaching, interactive lecture demonstrations, and concept tests/peer instruction.
Our objectives for this Roundtable Discussion/Workshop are to:
(1) introduce economists to pedagogical and assessment-related innovations from other disciplines and to encourage more economists to experiment with these techniques in their own classes;
(2) encourage more economists to initiate research exploring the adaptability of these innovations in economics (we believe that there is significant potential in this area, especially with respect to the NSF); and (
3) develop a network of economists interested in interdisciplinary pedagogical connections.
To meet these objectives we plan to share insights from recent research on these topics, develop working groups interested in pursuing funded research opportunities, introduce a significant new NSF-funded Economics Pedagogic Portal project, and promote an economics pedagogy blog focused on
interdisciplinary pedagogy research and teaching innovations.
The ASSA pre-meeting Roundtable Discussion/Workshop will take place at the San Francisco Hilton on Friday, January 2, 2009, from 3:00-5:00 pm in Room Mason A. ASSA sessions begin the morning of January 3. We scheduled this meeting so even those from the east coast attending the ASSA meeting should be able to attend. We hope to have some light refreshments available.
If you can't attend but are interested in this initiative, please contact
Scott Simkins (email@example.com) or Mark Maier (email@example.com).
We hope that you will join us for this initial meeting. If you plan to joinus, please register at:
[Click on Academy for Teaching and Learning, then click on "Sign Up" for the relevant event and complete the registration information. You will receive a confirmation of your registration and a reminder one day before the event.]
Below are links to some useful background readings related to our meeting.
Why Not Try a Scientific Approach to Science Education?
By Carl Wieman
Change, September/October 2007 Volume 39, Number 5
In this article, Carl Wieman, Nobel-prize-winning physicist, discusses how using the practices of science ■ gathering objective data, building on demonstrated effectiveness, and fully utilizing modern technology ■ can significantly increase students' learning. Our interest is in how these principles can be applied to economic education research and the teaching of economics.
See also:
Learning from Physics Education Research: Lessons for Economics Education
By Scott P. Simkins and Mark H. Maier
June 27, 2008
Download from one of the following repositories:
We believe that economists have much to learn from educational research practices and related pedagogical innovations in other disciplines, in particular physics education. In this paper we identify three key features of physics education research that distinguish it from economics education
research – (1) the intentional grounding of physics education research in learning science principles, (2) a shared conceptual research framework focused on how students learn physics concepts, and (3) a cumulative process of knowledge-building in the discipline – and describe their influence on new teaching pedagogies, instructional activities, and curricular design in physics education. In addition, we highlight four specific examples of successful pedagogical innovations drawn from physics
education – context-rich problems, concept tests, just-in-time teaching, and interactive lecture demonstrations – and illustrate how these practices can be adapted for economic education.
Developing an Economics Pedagogic Portal (grant project)
National Science Foundation
Award Number: DUE 0817382 (2008-2011)
Investigators: Scott Simkins, Mark Maier, KimMarie McGoldrick, Cathryn
Abstract available at:
We look forward to seeing many of you in San Francisco.
Scott Simkins
Mark Maier
Bill Goffe
Steve Greenlaw"
Pete Dunn and Tim Harford debate on whether behavioral economics represents a revolution in economic thinking.
Nordic Conference on Behavioral and Experimental Economics
in Copenhagen,Denmark
from 14. November 2008 to 15. November 2008
Deadline for paper submissions: 20. September 2008
JEL classification(s): A, D, Z
Further information at: http://www.econ.ku.dk/cee/conference2008/


text: Just a few days after the new series premiere, RadioShack has announced that it scored exclusive rights to sell Mio's Knight Rider GPS in the US. I already have a GPS unit, but the geek in me wants to buy this thing just to hear William Daniels tell me where the nearest McDonald's is. The KITT GPS is available now for $US270. [RadioShack via CNET]


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CHICAGO — The Chicago Bears toned it down some this weekend, working out lightly inside Soldier Field for family night on Saturday night and taking a day off on Sunday.
But it's back to work back in Bourbonnais on Monday, which means another day of trying to win over the Bears' coaching staff for young wide receiver Marquess Wilson.
"It's all a battle; it's always a battle," the second-year Bear wideoout Wilson said. "I know this is a process, and I'm just going out every day and trying to do what I can to get in there."
He was in there plenty on Saturday, and he's sure to see plenty of reps come Friday night when the Bears host the Eagles in their preseason opener. He also got plenty of work during last year's training-camp stretch, but everybody seemed to know the former Washington State star was going to need some time to transition to the NFL.
That time appears to be over.
"The indicators right now are that he's still competing for that position," Chicago head coach Marc Trestman said. "And he's in the lead right now into winning it."
Wilson is 6-foot-4, 184 pounds, similar in size to both of his mentors: Brandon Marshall (6-4, 230) and Alshon Jeffery (6-3, 216). And at times during camp — like last Tuesday, when he had a diving catch for 20-plus yards and another long TD catch in 11-on-11 drills — he has separated himself from the other potential No. 3 wideouts, like Eric Weems, Chris Williams and Josh Morgan.
Still, he only had two catches for 18 yards last year, and the very important job of taking some pressure off of Marshall and Jeffery in the big games will not be handed out freely.
"We're still going to look closely at each and every guy and let the training camp and the preseason make that decision for us," Trestman said. "The decision will be made on the field, there's no doubt about it, and it will be throughout training camp and the preseason."
Wilson will most likely be in the thick of it all the way through. There seems to be too much talent packed into that prototypical wide receiver body to waste — at least right now.
There's no shortage of confidence hidden inside the quiet man on the field as well.
"I know I've got what it takes; I've always known," Wilson said. "I'm not looking for anyone to give me anything. This is the NFL, I know I'm going to have to earn everything I get, and I intend to spend the next couple weeks making sure I can."
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Digital Photography All-In-One For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Knowing your way around digital photography is easy once you're familiar with the layout of a basic digital camera and a few digital photography terms.
Basic Parts of a Digital Camera
Don't let all of the controls on a digital camera scare you. Selecting the right camera to get you into digital photography is a snap. Here are the common components of a typical, non-SLR digital camera (not all cameras have the exact same features):
Faking Your Way through Digital Photography
Do you clam up when the topic turns to digital photography? Here are some hot topics and cool terms to use if you want to sound like you are living on the leading edge of digital photography technology:
Aperture priority: A camera control that lets you choose the lens opening, letting the camera's exposure meter automatically determine the appropriate shutter speed.
Calibration: Zeroing in components of your computer system (such as your monitor) to provide color that matches the original.
CCD, CMOS: Two kinds of computer chips used as sensors to capture images in digital cameras.
Compact Flash, Secure Digital, xD, Memory Stick: The four competing types of removable storage for digital cameras.
Compression: A way of using software to squeeze an image down to a smaller, more manageable size. If you want to seem really cool, use the terms lossless compression (which doesn't discard any information during the squishing process) and lossy compression (which does throw away some image information but makes smaller files).
Depth of field: How much of your image is in focus at one time.
Digicam: A cool term for a digital camera.
Dye-sub: A kind of printer that produces extra-good hard copies of digital images.
Interpolation: A process by which software pulls pixels out of thin air to produce an image with higher resolution. (Actually, it calculates the pixels based on those that already exist.)
ISO: Shorthand for the speed equivalent of a digital sensor when compared to traditional film sensitivity, such as ISO 100 or ISO 200. (ISO is the International Organization for Standardization. To earn extra awe, point out that ISO is not an acronym but comes from the Greek word isos, meaning "equal.")
JPEG: An image file format used by most digital cameras to make images really small so more of them will fit in the camera. JPEG uses lossy compression.
Megapixel: One million pixels; a measurement of the resolution of your camera's sensor.
Ppi: Picture elements (pixels) per inch; the more the better, especially when it comes time to make a print.
RGB: Red/green/blue: the primary colors of light used by your digital camera to capture images.
Resample: To change the size of an image by recalculating the pixels.
Resolution: How sharp your camera, monitor, or scanner is.
Shutter priority: A camera control that lets you set the length of the instant of time used to take the picture (the shorter the better when it comes to freezing action) and lets the camera's exposure meter automatically determine the proper lens setting.


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WASHINGTON — North Korea confirmed on Tuesday that it had conducted its third, long-threatened nuclear test, according to the official KCNA news service, posing a new challenge for the Obama administration in its effort to keep the country from becoming a full-fledged nuclear power.
The KCNA said it used a "miniaturized and lighter nuclear device with greater explosive force than previously" and that the test "did not pose any negative impact on the surrounding ecological environment."
Many nations initially detected the test as seismic activity centered near the same location where the North conducted tests in 2006 and 2009. The United States Geological Survey said it was only a kilometer underground, an indication consistent with a nuclear blast. And in Vienna, the organization that monitors the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty said that tremor had "clear explosionlike characteristics."
Preliminary estimates suggested a test far larger than the previous two conducted by the North, though probably less powerful than the first bomb the United States dropped on Japan, in Hiroshima, in 1945.
The test is the first under the country's new leader, Kim Jong-un, and an open act of defiance to the Chinese, who urged the young leader not to risk open confrontation by setting off the weapon. In the past few days a Chinese newspaper that is often reflective of the government's thinking said the North would "pay a heavy price" if it proceeded with the test. But it was unclear how China would act at the United Nations Security Council, which scheduled an emergency session for Tuesday morning as news of the blast played out.
The United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, condemned the test in a statement Tuesday.
The Obama administration has already threatened to take additional action to penalize the North through the United Nations in the event of a test. But the fact is that there are few sanctions left to apply against the most unpredictable country in Asia. The only penalty that would truly hurt the North would be a cutoff of oil and other aid from China. And until now, despite issuing warnings, the Chinese have feared instability and chaos in the North more than its growing nuclear and missile capability, and the Chinese leadership has refused to participate in sanctions.
Mr. Kim, believed to be about 29, appears to be betting that even a third test would not change the Chinese calculus.
The test set off a scramble among Washington's Asian allies to assess what the North Koreans had done.
The United States sent aloft aircraft equipped with delicate sensors that may, depending on the winds, be able to determine whether it was a plutonium or uranium weapon. The Japanese defense minister, Itsunori Onodera, said Japan had ordered the dispatch of an Air Self-Defense Force jet to monitor for radioactivity in Japanese airspace.
Japan's new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, told Parliament that "based on precedents, Japan believes that this quake was triggered by a North Korean nuclear test," and said the country was considering "its own actions, including sanctions, to resolve this and other issues."
But the threat may be largely empty, because trade is limited and the United States and its allies have refrained from a naval blockade of North Korea or other steps that could revive open conflict, which has been avoided on the Korean Peninsula since an armistice was declared 60 years ago.
It may take days or weeks to determine independently if the test, was successful. American officials will also be looking for signs of whether the North, for the first time, conducted a test of a uranium weapon, based on a uranium enrichment capability it has been pursuing for a decade. The past two tests used plutonium, reprocessed from one of the country's now-defunct nuclear reactors. While the country has only enough plutonium for a half-dozen or so bombs, it can produce enriched uranium well into the future.
No country is more interested in the results of the North's nuclear program, or the Western reaction, than Iran, which is pursuing its own uranium enrichment program. The two countries have long cooperated on missile technology, and many intelligence officials believe they share nuclear knowledge as well, though so far there is no hard evidence.
The Iranians are also pursuing uranium enrichment, and one senior American official said two weeks ago that "it's very possible that the North Koreans are testing for two countries." Some believe that the country may have been planning two simultaneous tests, but it could take time to sort out the data.
The timing of the test was critical. It came just as a transition of power is about to take place in South Korea, and the North detested the South's departing president, the hard-line Lee Myung-bak. By conducting a test just before he leaves office, the North could have been both sending a message and giving his successor, Park Geun-hye, the chance to restore relations after the breach a test will undoubtedly cause.
There had also been predictions that North Korea might hold a test on Tuesday because it is the day of President Obama's State of the Union address.
Western officials considered the country's first nuclear test, in 2006, a failure, but the next one, in 2009, was judged more successful. It may take outside experts days or weeks to determine if the latest blast moved the program to a "higher level," as Pyongyang recently promised.
While intelligence officials in Washington and Seoul are jittery about the North's progress, there is still no proof that it has yet mastered the difficult technology of miniaturizing bombs so they can be fitted to ballistic missiles. But arms experts declared a recent rocket launching a success, suggesting the country was making advances that could eventually allow it to lob a nuclear-tipped missile as far as the United States mainland.
The apparent nuclear test came just weeks after the Security Council unanimously passed a resolution calling for the tightening of sanctions against North Korea for that rocket launching, a violation of earlier resolutions prohibiting the country from testing ballistic missile technology.
Stung by the promise of stiffer sanctions, Pyongyang ratcheted up its threats, vowing to build its capacity to "target" the United States in its most explicit warnings yet. The statement last month, one in a series of threatening statements over several days, said the country planned to test more long-range rockets ("one after another") and to conduct a nuclear test, despite Washington's warning that such actions would lead to more penalties for the impoverished country.
Pyongyang has often lashed out when it felt ignored, especially by the United States. It was unclear if the untested Mr. Kim was following a pattern of behavior perfected by his father, the last North Korean leader, in which the North provoked the West and Seoul to win more badly needed aid as an inducement to draw it back to international negotiations on its weapons programs.
Analysts suspect that Mr. Kim, in the face of more sanctions, might have felt a more urgent need to assert his standing among his people, who continue to suffer crippling food shortages they are told is the price of developing a costly and credible deterrence. He also might have needed to improve his standing with the military, which has been considered crucial to keeping the Kims in power, analysts said.


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Nearly five months after launch, Rosie O'Donnell's Chicago-based talk show has shifted gears in an effort to boost eyeballs.
The show, which had been taped in the massive studio vacated by The Oprah Winfrey Show, has moved into a smaller, more intimate area. As a result, about 30 employees have lost their jobs, Crain's Chicago Business reported Friday.
"What's going on with the show is what goes on with a lot of shows — they evolve over time to better deliver upon what viewers' and advertisers' expectations are," the publication quoted consulting producer Scott Carlin as saying.
The changes follow the departure last week of Lisa Erspamer, the executive vice president of production and development at OWN, The Oprah Winfrey Network. Her ouster was first reported by entertainment magazine Deadline.com.
Winfrey ended her show last May and left the West Washington Boulevard facility for digs in Los Angeles, where OWN is based in a partnership with Discovery Communications.
O'Donnell recently purchased a home near Wrigley Field, shortly before her show's Oct. 10 debut.


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The same dating site which kicked off 5000 members who "overindulged" over the Christmas break has now launched a sperm and eggbank section of its site, promising "beautiful babies" for anyone who partakes.
While online sperm/egg donor sites are nothing new, it's yet another controversial move for the already-controversial dating site BeautifulPeople.com, which only accepts those who lucked-out in the gene pool. Only about one out of five people who apply to the exclusive dating site are given memberships, but so far there are over 600,000 singles looking for dates in over 190 countries.
I'd say that those not good-looking enough to sign up to BeautifulPeople.com should consider Cupidtino...but there's probably not much difference in it, sadly. [BeautifulPeople.com via The Telegraph via TechRadar]


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PRATT — The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT) will offer 2012 Free Fishing Days on June 2-3, helping launch the Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation's (RBFF) National Fishing Week, June 2-10. On the weekend of June 2-3, anglers of all ages may fish without a fishing license. Ordinarily, nonresidents 16 or older and residents age 16 through 64 must have a fishing license to fish in Kansas, but on Free Fishing Days, everyone gets to fish for free, making this the ideal time to introduce curious would-be anglers of any age to an outdoor pastime that will provide pleasure throughout their lives.
In conjunction with National Fishing Week, RBFF has launched the "Nature's Waterpark Showdown," which uses the TakeMeFishing.org Facebook page to highlight parks around the country. In Kansas, El Dorado State Park has been nominated, one of 23 parks in the nation to receive the honor. The promotion will run for eight weeks and will culminate in a list of the top eight parks in the country based on fan votes. Once fans have voted, they can also register to win weekly prizes and one Grand Prize. The Grand Prize winner will receive a trip for four to one of the top-eight parks of their choice.
Kansas has hundreds of lakes and streams, including numerous conveniently-located community lakes. Finding the ideal fishing location is simple: go to the KDWPT website, ksoutdoors.com, click "Fishing" at the top of the page, then "Where to Fish in Kansas" in the left-hand column.
Public fishing waters also are listed in the Kansas Fishing Regulations Summary, available on the KDWPT website or in printed form at KDWPT offices and license vendors around the state. The summary also provides a fish identification guide, length and creel limits, and a variety of additional information for anglers. The 2012 Kansas Fishing Atlas includes maps with locations of all state-managed and F.I.S.H. waters.
For information on fishing prospects, lake ratings for all sportfish may be found on the KDWPT's online Fishing Forecast. In addition, the most recent biologists' fishing reports may be found on the Fishing Reports page.
Late May and early June are some of the best times to take advantage of Kansas angling opportunities. If you haven't already bought a license or are curious about fishing, take advantage of this opportunity on June 2-3.


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The Erdős-Ko-Rado theorem talks about how large an intersecting set system (a set of pairwise intersecting sets) can be if the size of the base set is fixed. I'm interested about intersecting set systems where the base set is not fixed, but the size of the sets is bounded. I can prove the following lemma (see proof below).
Lemma 1. For every natural number $k$ there is a natural number $N(k)$ such that for every set $C$ each of whose elements are sets of size at most $k$, if every two element of $C$ has a common member, then there is a kernel $A$ which is a set of size at most $N$ so that every two element of $C$ also has a common member that's in $A$.
I'd like to know if this lemma is known in some literature, and whether you can give me a simpler proof for it than mine.
I'd also like to know what bound you can give on $N(k)$. An exact bound is probably hard and not too interesting, but I'd like to get the order of magnitude, say whether you can make $N(k)$ a polynomial of $k$. My proof only gives $N(k) = 2^{O(k^2)}$, so anything with a smaller order of magnitude would be nice. (I know that $N(k)$ has to be $\Omega(k^2)$. You can show this by chosing a prime $q$ between $k/2-1$ and $k-1$ and then letting $C$ be the set of lines of a finite projective plane of order $q$.)
There's also a strengthening of the lemma, which follows easily from my proof and can be useful.
Lemma 2. For every natural number $k$ there is a natural number $N^{\ast}(k)$ such that for every set $C$ each of whose elements are sets of size at most $k$, if every two element of $C$ has a common member, then there is a kernel $A$ which is a set of size at most $N^{\ast}$ so that if $Y \in C$ and $X$ is a set that intersects every element of $C$ and $X$ has at most $k$ elements then $X \cap Y \cap A$ is nonempty.
Update: the original phrasing of lemma 2 was wrong, I added the condition that $|X|\le k$.
I'm asking the same questions as above for this stronger version, and also whether it follows easily from the first lemma.
Proof of lemma 1.
Fix $k$. We will use induction on $p$ to show the existence of a set $A_p$ such that the size of $A_p$ is bounded by a constant natural number depending only on $k$ and $p$ (but not $C$), and that for every $X \in C$ either $p \le |X \cap A_p|$ or the intersection $X \cap Y \cap A_p$ is non-empty for every $Y\in C$. This is enough because $A = A_{p+1}$ satisfies the conditions of the lemma (in fact even $A = A_p$ would work). The case of $p = 0$ is trivial, because $A_0$ can be the empty set.
Now suppose we have found $A_p$ and we want to construct $A_{p+1}$. Now sort the elements of $C$ in equivalence classes such that two element is equivalent if their intersection with $A_p$ is equal. There are at most as many such classes as subsets of $A_p$ (or even subsets with at most $k$ elements), which is a constant bound because the size of $A_p$ is bounded by a constant. Now chose a single element from each equivalence class and let $B$ be the set of these elements. Let $A_{p+1} := A_p \cup \bigcup_{Y\in B} Y$.
Thus all we have to prove is that for every $X \in C$ either $X \cap A_{p+1}$ has at least $p+1$ elements or it intersects every element of $C$. From the induction hypothesis we know that $X \cap A_p$ either has at least $p$ elements or intersects with every element of $C$. If it's the latter, we're done, because $X \cap A_{p+1}$ is a superset of $X \cap A_p$, so let's now assume the former: $X \cap A_p$ has at least $p$ elements. Now if $X \cap A_{p+1}$ intersects all elements of $C$ then we're done, so we can also assume that there is a $Z \in C$ such that $X \cap A_{p+1} \cap Z$ is empty. Now consider the class of $Z$ in the equivalence we defined above, that is, all sets $Y$ for which $Y \cap A_p = Z \cap A_p$, and let $Y$ be the representant element we chose from this class for the construction. This means that $Y \in B$ thus $Y \subset A_{p+1}$. Now $X$ and $Y$ has a common element, say $x$. Now it's not possible that $x \in A_p$, because by our second assumption $X \cap Y \cap A_p = X \cap Z \cap A_p \subset X \cap Z \cap A_{p+1}$ is empty. But then $X \cap A_{p+1}$ has the at least $p$ elements of $X \cap A_p$ from our first assumption (because $A_p \subset A_{p+1}$), and the extra element $x$ which is not in $X \cap A_p$, so it has at least $p + 1$ elements, which completes our proof.


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Hi all. I KNOW many will not like this announcement. I KNOW many users use the search function on the forum for many reasons. But having said that, our database now has over 80,000 indexed search terms and around 3 MILLION wordmatches.
Back in the day, we never envisaged the forum growing to the popularity it has. 100,000 posts seemed like a lifetime away, and now we've exceeded that! The database has grown so large that it is getting difficult to manage, and culling the search function would go a long way towards downsizing it..
Please remember, that we who run this forum are volunteers, and we mostly have very limited knowledge of database and server setup and management. Funny thing is, it is my experience that most support people within the hosting environment, have little actual knowledge themselves, but rather read from scripts and FAQs how to "help" their clients. There are also those one can pay (over and above what we already pay for site hosting) to do certain jobs, who themselves have limited knowledge outside whatever it is they're trained in, and who all too readily take your money yet wash their hands once something falls into their "too hard basket".
But one thing is clear, our database needs to be trimmed of excess fat, and the search function is the biggest contributor to our weight problem, after the posts themselves.
There are of course many off-site search engines which can be programmed for specific sites and specific parts of sites, and I am thinking we are going to have to send users off-site to one of those facilities for searching.
However IF anyone on here knows of anyone who can offer a better suggestion, I am willing to listen.
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I grew up in a base town....I saw first hand all of the people called
"grunts" and "jerks" and the havoc they wreaked not only in their homes,
but on the base and in the town. I left that town thinking every marine was
a "grunt" and swearing that I would never marry one, let alone date one. As
much as I am ashamed to say it, I must admit that I harbored a hate for
marines and all that they stood for.
I moved three thousand miles away from that hometown and that marine base
as soon as I was old enough to. In my new home I met a wonderful man with
whom I fell in love. He displayed all of the qualities that those "grunts"
seemed to be missing, and none of the qualities that made those Marines
"grunts". He was the last person I could ever see as a Marine. He is gentle
and loving, He loves pets and children, and he seemed almost too good to be
true. He is one of the most honorable men I have ever met, so I should not
have been surprised the day he told me that he wanted to be an officer in
the Marines.
But I was. I was surprised and angry. I was sure that those "horrible"
people were going to ruin this man that I had come to love. I resented him
and the Marines for doing this to me.
Yet, for some reason I stood by him through OCS and TBS.
I have learned more in the last year than I have learned in the last 25
years of my life. I have learned a tremendous amount about myself and seen
sides of myself I never imagined....both good and bad. I want to impart to
you what I have learned:
I have learned that I am not as diverse and understanding in my thinking as
I had previously thought. I have come to realize that I am prejudiced,
specifically against those men who make up the corp. I have learned that I
am far more selfish than I thought and that I am far more giving and
malleable than I ever thought possible. I have learned that I am too
outspoken on things I don't know a lot about and that I am not outspoken
enough on those issues on which I should speak up. I have learned that I am
much weaker than I thought and I have learned that I have this amazing
strength that I never knew existed. I have learned that I learned that I am
more independent than I ever imagined yet I have also learned that it is
okay to need others sometimes.
I have learned that the Marines are not "grunts". I have learned that there
is so much to admire these men and women for. I have learned that they have
more courage, honesty and loyalty than I ever imagined any one person or
any million people could have.
The Marines taught not only their recruits teamwork and respect, but they
also taught me it as well. I have learned a lot, but I have learned a
miniscule amount, compared to what so many men and women have learned in
their process to become Marines and officers.
I admit that I am not willing to give a part of my life to this country in
the way that these men and women have. I do not have the courage to
sufficiently challenge myself to carry the honor of being a Marine on my
shoulders, nor do I have the stamina to receive the emotional and physical
challenges these men and women face everyday to become stronger and better
But I have the courage to admit that I was wrong.
So to every Marine out there, and to every Marine's spouse who stands
beside him or her, I send you my profuse apologies.
Never again will I make such harsh assumptions about any individual or
group. You deserve my admiration and you deserve the respect of all who
know you.
So to all of you out there who have made unkind remarks about the Corp and
those men and women in it. Remember, that it takes all kinds to make up
this world, but no one holds themselves more responsible for those in it
than the Marine Corp. No one deserves more respect than these people who
have so much courage and honor.
To my loving fiancé, Michael, thank you for teaching me so much about
myself. To the Marines, thank you for teaching me so much about the world.


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Poor Glenn Beck: First he goes into the hospital with appendicitis, then, when he can't fight back, Jon Stewart goes and uncovers Real America's vast internal organ conspiracy - and introduces the 11/3 project.
The full bit is here:
|The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
|Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
|The 11/3 Project
"The naysayers will say, 'Oh, Jon, the organs don't have thoughts! They can't hatch a plan and get together and execute that plan!' Oh, really, really? They can't organize?"
If you can't see the video, all you really need to see is this:
Glenn Beck's appendix issues? Clearly, it's they're part of one giant plot, with ACORN(s), Van Jones, and Che Guevara trying to bring down the Fox News host through his own internal organs. He would know, of course: Watch him break down the pro-Communism propaganda at Rockerfeller Plaza:
They really need to rename this show "Leaps of Logic with Glenn Beck."
More leaps of logic? When Beck connects his own questions to link Obama and an Oligarchy...only, he forgot the C and the Y.
It's surprising Beck appears in public without his tinfoil hat.
It's even more surprising his show doesn't follow the Colbert Report.
November 5, 2009: The 11/3 Project [Comedy Central]
Beck's "Questions" About Obama Spell "OLIGARH" [sic] [Media Matters]


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Note: The Sharks of Greene County Library used to be an eight week summer book and activity club, for guys aged 9 - 14, run by guys. The Sharks was formed in the summer of 2007 Beginning in the summer of 2013, Sharks now runs year 'round and meets monthly on the first Saturday of the month from 2 to 3:30 pm.
Sharks Summer 2007 Reading List
- Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
- This is book 1 of the series An Alex Rider Adventure
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- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
- The Princess Bride : S. Morgenstern's classic tale of true love and high adventure ; the 'good parts' version abridged by William Goldman
Sharks Summer 2008 Reading List
- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
- I loved this when I was a schoolchild and still love it as an adult. Yes, the people "eating their words" and the half-child are blow-milk-out-your-nose funny, but they remind us that our words do have consequences and statistics can be hard to interpret and can be used to mislead as well as inform. --Bbjoring 19:01, 4 June 2009 (EDT)
- The Education of Robert Nifkin by Daniel Pinkwater
- The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton
- This book is really an adult book. It is good, but there are sections that could be controversial for some in this age group.--TomW, 21 Oct 2009
- The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp by Richard Yancey
Sharks Summer 2009 Reading List
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret: a Novel in Words and Pictures by Brian Selznick
- Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Alabama Moon by Watt Key
- The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
- Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques
- The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
- This is book 1 of series Percy Jackson & the Olympians
Sharks Summer 2010 Reading List
- Mudshark by Gary Paulsen
- Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
- The Name of This Book is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch
- Holes by Louis Sachar
- Trouble Don't Last by Shelley Pearsall
- Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
Sharks Summer 2011 Reading List
- Aladdin by Unknown
- No Talking by Andrew Clements
- Lunch Money by Andrew Clements
- A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
- The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff
- A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
Sharks Summer 2012 Reading List
- Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
- The Mouse That Roared by Leonard Wibberley
- The Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Sharks 2013 Reading List
- July 6 The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
- August 3 Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
- September 7 BOOM! by Mark Haddon
- October 5 Holes by Louis Sachar


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Before Zack Snyder was "the visionary director of Watchmen," the guy handed Comic Con-tested projects and instructed to rally the fanboys, he took a bunch of actors to a Canadian mall and filmed them getting attacked by zombies. This wasn't exactly Sam Raimi trekking off into the wilderness to make his low-budget Evil Dead--Snyder was remaking George A. Romero's original zombie classic at the behest of Universal Pictures-- but it was a mid-budgeted, R-rated movie starring actors you'd barely heard of, directed by some guy who had only worked in commercials.
The movie was a hit, dethroning The Passion of the Christ to become #1 at the box office, and sending Snyder on a trajectory toward higher and higher movie budgets that's now landed us with Sucker Punch, not the most expensive movie Snyder has ever made but quite possibly the most indulgent to his own specific tastes. While Dawn of the Dead forced Snyder to work within his limitations, every movie he's made since then has been about expanding them-- the garish blood of 300, the sprawling narrative of Watchmen, the sheer shiny audacity of that 3D movie about owls, the gonzo and nonsensical action scenes in Sucker Punch. And not any of them put together added up to the sick thrill of even the pre-credits sequence in Dawn of the Dead.
It's not just that Snyder's speed-ramping and candy-colored action were novel and unique in Dawn of the Dead, but that the movie doesn't barrage us with so goddamn much of it. Working on a limited budget and schedule and with actors who hadn't been told he was the "visionary" director of anything, Snyder had to keep his flourishes in check, using his impressive visual skills to liven up the story, not stand in for it entirely. Yes, he owes a lot to Romero for the movie's plot and many of the gags, but in all the ways Snyder's personal jazz weighs down Sucker Punch, it makes Dawn of the Dead a remake with a reason to exist. We liked the visual punch and dark humor that Snyder brought to Dawn of the Dead, and as our punishment he's been bludgeoning us to death with it ever since.
All of his movies, Dawn of the Dead included, have been financial successes, which of course entitles Snyder to the larger budgets and greater directorial control that have come since. And who knows, maybe Superman will scale Snyder back the way I'm hoping-- on that movie he's working with a studio and a producer, Christopher Nolan, who may have plans that don't involve CGI-aided extreme closeups and constant slow motion. But once he's done with the Man of Steel, I'm dying to see him handed $30 million and a shopping mall again, to prove he's still a director who knows how to get out of his own way, who knows his great talents are sometimes even better when we don't see quite so much of them.