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Greg Bedard blogs that Mike Nolan is going to the Denver Broncos and Gregg Williams may be headed to New Orleans. There are others. Here's hoping that we lost Nolan (or Nolan and Williams) because we didn't want them and not because we didn't act. (HT, Cindy V.)
Nolan Gone, Williams Going
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Ron La Canne Says:
January 12, 2009 at 1:51 pm |
Let's hope TT and MM have an actual plan. I'm pulling for Sean McDermott. Yes, I was influenced by the actual performance of his charges in the Philly win yesterday and throughout the season. As an old wise man once told me, "History is the best predictor of future behavior." There may be more candidates out there (Aaron brings up Capers) but the pool is shrinking. I'd like to see some movement on the part of the Packers. I know that can't happen if it is someone like McDermott.
As long as it is not Moss or Lewis. If either of them were hired it would be for all the wrong reasons. Niether has demonstrated skills that would lead you to believe they could take a defense with problems and create a fix in a short period of time.
bucky Says:
January 12, 2009 at 2:17 pm |
Allow me to blow my own horn for a minute. . . .
I think if you click the link on my name, you'll find that 4 months ago I predicted a Steelers-Eagles Super Bowl, with the Eagles winning. That pick is looking pretty good now, though it sure didn't look good two months ago.
What do I credit for my incredible foresight? The same thing that is responsible 99% of the time when someone predicts something accurately: luck.
With that in mind, I'm gonna be rooting my ass off for the Arizona Cardinals this weekend. Go Cards!!
Ron La Canne Says:
January 12, 2009 at 3:06 pm |
Time Out – Latest rumor via Denver Palyers — They were told it is Capers. So, Nolan is BACK.
The Choj Says:
January 12, 2009 at 3:07 pm |
Bravo on your prediction…as far as the Cards go,
I live in Tucson, and was one of the lucky few who got tix to the NFC Championship game (that sold out in 6 minutes!) While it won't be the same as sitting Lambeau last year at the same time, I am still excited to adopt the Cards as my team for the weekend and hopefully the Super Bowl
Dave In Tucson Says:
January 12, 2009 at 9:23 pm |
1) Not having a plan is bad; losing someone because of inaction is bad, but….
2) The more I heard/read about Nolan's history as HC/DC, the more it seemed like a bad idea for the Packers to go after him.
Hopefully we'll hear something soon, but I'm at least somewhat heartened that the Packers haven't just jumped at the first available warm body.
DaveK Says:
January 13, 2009 at 10:56 am |
After reading the Gazette article this AM it seems that maybe MM isn't dragging his feet at all but the two guys he wants to hire just do not want to commit to the Packers. It sounds like Nolan chose Denver over Green Bay and Williams is waiting to see if the D.C. job in Tenessee opens up if Schwatz gets hired to be a head coach. That probably puts MM is a spot – does he wait to see if he gets the two guys he wants but if he waits too long his 3rd-4th-5th-etc options may be committed elsewhere as new head coaches fill their staffs out.
Ron La Canne Says:
January 13, 2009 at 11:17 am |
Dave, I think you've summed up the situation quite well. The question I would have is why is GB is not able to draw the teir 1 candidates? I'm affraid there is something about the Packer organization that is causing apprehension on the part of the top candidates. Could that apprehension have the initials TT?
DaveK Says:
January 13, 2009 at 11:41 am |
Ron – I have the same fear. This team needs a top tier D.C. if they want to win a championship. It would be nice to get some definative info on the Nolan situation. Maybe MM was sold on Williams on Nolan wasn't going to wait around. Did they offer him the job and he wanted some time so they went on to interview Williams? Maybe their were family considerations, etc… Who knows but it would be nice to know what happended.
I think the Williams situation may tell us something also. If the D.C. job in TN doesn't open up and he chooses New Orleans over Green bay then I would say that is a very bad sign about the ability of TT and MM to attract top coaches to the staff.
DaveK Says:
January 13, 2009 at 11:46 am |
From JSonline:
"The reason for Nolan's decision to accept the Denver job appears to be personal in nature, the source said, declining to elaborate further.
Despite reports that he was all but assured of becoming the Packers' defensive coordinator, it was clear from the beginning, the source said, that it was not a slam dunk. McCarthy not only understood that, but he made sure he didn't paint himself in a corner by focusing solely on Nolan."
DaveK Says:
January 13, 2009 at 11:50 am |
From Jason Wilde:
"another league source said Monday night that Williams is seriously considering accepting the same job with New Orleans. Williams could join the Saints as soon as today, the source said."
Ron La Canne Says:
January 13, 2009 at 2:52 pm |
Dave, I'm afraid, very afraid! TT's interview with Silvertein gave me much to think about. Like this comment about the draft, "There are a lot of reasons you would drop out of the first round and pick later." This idiot hasn't learned a thing. I'm afraid that people in the know in football are building a detour around GB.
56Coop Says:
January 13, 2009 at 3:11 pm |
Here's an interesteing article I ran across about TT iin USA Today just in case someone missed it. Seems to give insight to his "philosophy" anyway — although I don't think there's much in it that has not already been brought up on this blog:
I did think this comment gives some insight about how he feels about fans:
"I think it's important for the people to know that we're trying as hard as we can to do right by the Packers," Green Bay Ted Thompson said. "That is important to me. Whether they agree with what we do day in and day out doesn't affect us as much. It's not fantasy football.
For what it's worth
Ron La Canne Says:
January 13, 2009 at 3:42 pm |
56, TT says, Yeah, We hear Ya, BUT……!
SF Chronicle interview with Winston Moss: He is qupted as saying, " I'd look forward to being the Head Coach at SF, or doing any other job that Al Davis has for me." Doesn't sound like he bought a two-way ticket does it? "And the Beat Goes On", to quote thos two modern day philosopers, Sonny and Cher.
PackerBelle Says:
January 13, 2009 at 4:05 pm |
"Like this comment about the draft, "There are a lot of reasons you would drop out of the first round and pick later." This idiot hasn't learned a thing. "
Actually there are reasons to drop out of the first round – second and third round picks give you more bang for your buck. An economist actually did a study looking at the value of NFL draft picks by round and found that first round picks are not worth the money it costs to sign them typically. This is especially true if, like last season, you have a late first round pick. There really isn't a ton of skill difference between a late first and and an early second but the price tag can be radically different.
Ron La Canne Says:
January 13, 2009 at 5:45 pm |
Belle, an economist? They really did a bang up job of predicting what happened to the economy didn't they? As a retiree, with a background in retail financial analysis, I can assure you that the product of such an analysis is based on the input selected by the analyst. I wouldn't apply too much credence to such a survey because personal bias usually overcomes objective parameters. In fact, I'd give it no more credence than I would give TT's psuedo-math used to evaluate player risk (Justin Harrell).
You're a loyal suupporter of TT and that is admirable. I am not! The day he ruined the offensive line by dumping Wahle and Rivera, was the day I wrote him off. His extra draft choices have not provided the Packers with two adequate guards for the last four years. And if you're a zone blocking team, you better have good guards. And don't get me started on the D-Line.
an economist?
56Coop Says:
January 13, 2009 at 5:49 pm |
That was exactly my point Ron, "Yeah we hear ya , BUT… Needless to say I am not too confident in TT & I think the points you guys made earlier about the Pack not being a team that great coaches want to flock to may be very valid.
And I am really beginning to worry that MM & TT may take too long to make a move so we end up again with a mediocre coach. I do hope, and Ron I think you made this comment earlier is that they are waiting for a chance at McDermott. I just hope they know something that we don't & I hope we get some FA action.
Hopefully this is just a bunch of useless handwringing & TT & MM turn out to be brilliant strategists 😉
PackerBelle Says:
January 13, 2009 at 6:01 pm |
Ron, some economist did see this coming. The problem with economics is that our data sucks. This isn't like a clinical trial where we can randomize groups and control the circumstances. We have to take crappy data and try to tease out what happened. And when you are dealing with personal motivations and preferences, that is difficult.
However, analyzing something like the value of a football player after the fact is easy to do. After all, you know what pick they were, their salary, various measures of their performance as well as information on other people in that position. That is pretty good data. In terms of predictive power, it's not so great but in terms of assigning value it's very good.
Ron La Canne Says:
January 13, 2009 at 6:11 pm |
To make the situation even more tenuous, just heard an interview with an on-air Jag analyst on WSSP (Vic Hesson?). He said this, "Flat out you don't have the defensive talent in GB to play attack style, whether it's 4-3, or 3-4. Overall GB's defense is not good enough personnel-wise. On the other side Rodgers is going to be a franchise QB. He's going to have a great future.
Maybe this lack of talent is having a negative impact on our potential candidates? Why has the talent level on defense degraded so much? My answer , of course, TT.
DaveK Says:
January 13, 2009 at 8:51 pm |
I look at the Broncos defense I do not see any more talent there then in Green Bay. I can't imagine that Nolan picked Denver over Green Bay because of talent. Denver's line is in worse shape then the Packer line! Schefter on NFL network today was talking about Nolan going to Denver with such a young head coach. He was opining that Nolan was a good compliment to McDaniels and it was a real coup to get him. He alluded to some ties that Nolan has to the area and the organization which probably helped land him in Denver.
I think Ron is correct that a top tier coach is not going to take a gig that does not have the personal to run his scheme. I don't agree though that the Packers have so little talent that they can't play attack style defense.
DaveK Says:
January 15, 2009 at 9:46 am |
From Tom Silverstein:
"An NFL source with knowledge of Williams' intentions said it was his impression that Williams was leaning more toward New Orleans or Tennessee than Green Bay. The coordinator post in Tennessee would open if Jim Schwartz was hired by the Lions."


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Recently they don't, anyway. I mean, it's no massive secret, but I've just been having a glance through, and the extent to which it's true is truly remarkable.
Between 1989, when Australia became a team of note again, and the end of The Ashes 2006/07, the games involving them which were drawn with no interference from rain numbered 15. This out of 197.
Out of interest, these games are:
2005/06 vs SA at the WACA.
2004 vs SL at Cairns (and they were within 2 wickets of winning this)
2003/04 vs India at the SCG
2001/02 vs NZ at the WACA (and New Zealand should have won this and were only stopped by bad Umpiring)
1998/99 vs Pakistan at National Stadium Karachi
1998/99 vs Pakistan at Peshawar
1997/98 vs SA at Adelaide (and of course South Africa should have won this and were only stopped by bad Umpiring, the infamous Mark Waugh game)
1997/98 vs SA at the MCG
1994/95 vs Pakistan at Gaddafi Stadium Lahore
1994/95 vs Pakistan at Rawalpindi
1993/94 vs SA at Kingsmead Durban
1993/94 vs NZ at the WACA
1993 vs England at Trent Bridge
1992/93 vs WI at the SCG
1990/91 vs England at the SCG (and England should have won this, they allowed the last 4 batsmen to survive 200 balls to take Australia to safety )
1989/90 vs Pakistan at Adelaide
1989/90 vs SL at the 'Gabba
As you can see, the trend's even more astonishing since The Ashes 1998/99, when there are just 3 uninterfered (counting Ian Robinson in 2001/02 as interference) draws out of 98 games.
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Washburn went 9-9 with a 3.78 ERA last season with Seattle and Detroit. He still wants to pitch, but has not been swayed by the offers by the Twins and Mariners thus far.
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On Tuesday, Jon Paul Morosi of Fox Sports reported that "the Dodgers remain in active talks with free agent starter Bronson Arroyo." It's been a long offseason for the right-hander, who turns 37 later this month: Arroyo has been linked to the Angels, Cubs, Diamondbacks, Orioles, Rangers, and Twins at various points, just to name a few teams. The Dodgers might be the best fit.
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Arroyo's proclivity for giving up home runs — over the past three seasons, he has given up 104, which is 13 more than the pitcher who has allowed the next-highest total, Santana — is not as much of an issue in the National League West as it might be in other divisions. Dodger Stadium was home to the sixth-fewest homers in baseball in 2013, while San Francisco (fourth fewest), San Diego (ninth), and Arizona (tied 11th) are far from homer havens. For a fly ball pitcher, there is no better division in baseball.
The Dodgers do not necessarily need Arroyo, as they have Dan Haren and the rehabbing Josh Beckett and Chad Billingsley at the back end of their rotation, but all three come with question marks that Arroyo does not have, being a pitcher who has made 30 or more starts each of the last nine years. He might be turning 37, but Arroyo's performance has remained steady, and plugging him in as a No. 4 or 5 starter hardly represents a risk. Arroyo also has experience relieving, and doing so in the playoffs, which is an added bonus for a team with serious October expectations like Los Angeles.
The upside for Arroyo with the Dodgers would obviously be a shot at winning another World Series ring to go with the one he got as a member of the 2004 Red Sox. The contract might not be quite what he hoped to receive when he hit free agency, but it also won't be bad. Also, the Dodgers can use a good guitar player, couldn't they?


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This is awesome and mesmerizing. When water drops on a surface, it generally collides and bounces before merging. When that surface is vibrating, it can bounce and bounce and bounce and bounce and bounce.
When a water droplet hits a surface of water, it doesn't just merge immediately. The two liquids are each held in by surface tension. They are two separate objects. The water hits, beads, and then merges with the liquid some time after impact. But what if the impact never stops, because the surface is constantly vibrating?
Researchers at the National Autonomous University of Mexico filmed exactly this. The vibrated a dish of tap water on a speaker, and put drops of soapy water on top. (The added soap was to allow the drops to be small enough for the experiment to work. There is a size limit. Obviously an entire swimming pool can't be kept bobbing on the ocean if the water is rough enough.) The beads of soapy water just keep bouncing on top of the other water. As the researches add more beads, you can see them run along in lines, or bounce together in groups. It's an amazing video!
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Whether you're hosting a wine-and-cheese party or serving a traditional cheese course, these finely crafted French tools provide expert assistance and perfect service. Their classic design was inspired by a shepherd's tool first produced in the French village of Laguiole in the 19th century. Made of thicker, heavier-gauge stainless steel than other Laguiole cutlery and flatware on the market, each is hand polished and finished for a difference in quality you can really see and feel.
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Trinidad's Katalyst the latest Caribbean club to choose Electro‑Voice sound
Caribbean Entertainment Technologies (CET) recently completed a state-of-the-art sound and lighting installation at Trinidad's hottest new nightclub, Katalyst, using a variety of high-quality Electro-Voice loudspeakers.
Katalyst is the latest addition to a burgeoning Caribbean nightclub scene that shows no signs of slowing down, a club-lounge that uses carefully designed combinations of lighting, style, and sound to create an unparalleled nightlife experience. Since opening in December, 2008, Katalyst has taken the Caribbean club experience to a whole new level with a unique three-zone EV sound reinforcement design that precisely addresses the acoustics of each room to produce a highly personalized club experience.
"As soon as the owners started talking about that kind of high‑quality music and vocal intelligibility, I knew we were going to use Electro‑Voice products."
For an installation of Katalyst's magnitude, the club's owners sought the services of Trinidad-based CET, the Caribbean division of sound and lighting company AMR Limited. Michael Pereira, Sales Manager for AMR commented on the installation:
"The owners called us about two years ago to discuss their latest project - a new club with a downstairs lounge and a big nightclub upstairs. A lot of clubs start that way, but they wanted theirs to be different-a cut above, with the very best lighting and sound. That's where the EV sound system makes a difference-exceptional clarity at both low and high volumes, with all the dynamic headroom they could possibly need. Whatever we put in there needed the intelligibility for lounge ambience and the power handling to pump nightclub sound. As soon as the owners started talking about that kind of high-quality music and vocal intelligibility, I knew we were going to use Electro-Voice products."
To deliver this combination, CET designed a three-zone system to address the club's main areas-the lounge, nightclub, and outdoor patio.
"Upstairs in the nightclub we needed the in-your-face, pounding sound, so we went with QRx loudspeakers," says Pereira. "We wanted to give the look of a line array, so we went with two QRx212 boxes, flown horizontally one over the other. It looks like a two-cabinet line array-very neat. We flew them over opposite corners of the dance floor with CET custom-built rigging. With the boxes aimed at a 10-degree angle, plus the precise projection from the rotatable horns, we were able to provide exceptional coverage with a relatively small amount of equipment. No one else has a QRx system design like Katalyst-it's raised the bar for club sound in Trinidad, and we're very pleased with the results." Along with the QRx boxes upstairs, CET installed its own custom-built subwoofers to provide low-end reinforcement. The lounge downstairs required a more delicate touch from Pereira and his designers.
"To handle all the mid and high-frequency sound in the lounge, we installed six SxA250 powered loudspeakers in two rows of three across the ceiling. All the speakers fire diagonally-across and down-into the room. The challenge with the lounge space was hiding the speakers in the ceiling so they wouldn't distract from the aesthetics of the room. The lounge has an open ceiling, which made it difficult to keep our installation tucked away. Working with the designer, we were able to put in some fiberoptic lighting and a couple of black, laser-cut floating panels to break up the ceiling so patrons wouldn't notice the black boxes up there. This achieved that critical "heard but not seen' factor."
The third zone in CET's design is Katalyst's downstairs outdoor patio, which wraps around the outside of the building. For this part of the club, Pereira and his team prescribed a set of eight EV ZX1 speakers-six for the main patio, and two for a smaller, adjacent VIP deck. With their 90 x 50 degree coverage pattern, the compact ZX1s provide even coverage and more than enough throw to adequately reinforce the outside patio. The club's owners chose to use pole-mounted ZX1s, rather than permanently install the boxes. Pereira comments:
"Although the ZX1s are pole-mounted, the poles are not traditional speaker stands. The poles at Katalyst are flush with the walls, which gives the illusion of a sleek, permanent install and the club can still take them down at the end of the day. The owners didn't want to risk leaving the equipment outside all night. It was the perfect solution for their aesthetic and security needs. The ZX1 boxes provide plenty of SPL as needed, but with the pattern control to keep the sound contained in each area."
Since its December debut, Katalyst has quickly gained a reputation as one of the best nightclubs in Trinidad, a standing Michael Pereira says can be largely attributed to the quality of its new Electro-Voice sound system.
"Everyone has been very impressed by the sound since the club's opening," says Pereira. "Though we limited the high-frequency sound a lot that first night, I assured the owners that the EVs could take whatever we pumped through them, so we really stretched the system's legs after that and it sounded great - not your average club system where the highs can be painful at higher SPLs. It gets loud, but it stays smooth. Other companies have even told us that the new system is slamming. Everyone from the owners to the club goers is very happy, which is great to hear because so much of a club's reputation rests on its sound system. We definitely accomplished what we and Katalyst wanted with this installation."
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After spraining the AC joint in his left shoulder while making a diving catch on Aug. 20, Quentin spent time on the 15-day disabled list. He came back for one game on Sept. 12, but hasn't played since.
"Every time he [tries to play], it's just sore and it gets worse and worse. I put him out there, and he went backward — maybe 10 more days," Guillen said. "I don't know why we have to take that chance. What's he got to prove? Can he play in the big leagues? Yeah, he don't have to prove anything.
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Storage departments are trying energy-saving technologies, but measuring ROI is still a challenge. Some storage administrators are plugging vendor-supplied product power consumption numbers into so-called green calculators, but it's no easy task as there are inconsistencies in how each vendor presents its product's power requirements.
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| Storage departments are trying energy-saving technologies, but measuring ROI is still a challenge.
BEFORE THE GREEN movement--before the IT industry was consumed with data center footprint designs, creative cooling techniques and granular metrics like the number of watts per enclosure per I/O--Nick Daffan had a storage problem.
Daffan, principal at Argus Information & Advisory Services LLC in White Plains, NY, watched his firm's storage needs skyrocket a few years ago. More customers, more reports and more precise computations were all fueling storage growth at Argus, which provides quantitative data to financial institutions for risk assessment and marketing purposes.
Daffan would love to say that energy conservation topped his list of concerns when shopping for a new storage system. However, he admits, his primary motivation was less noble: His hardware lease was due to expire and his No. 1 priority when evaluating vendors was performance and how much the system cost, not power use.
"It was before the energy crisis had spiked. We needed scalability and the ability to add capacity," explains Daffan. But he's certainly cognizant that "there's a cost associated with the space and power to run those technologies."
In what industry analysts and IT users agree is a common scenario, Argus' Daffan wound up getting a "green" investment as a bonus to a storage purchase he made primarily for performance reasons when he bought 16 Xiotech Corp. Emprise 5000 storage systems (each starting at $20,000)--systems Daffan says will continue to cut his power bills for years to come.
David Reinsel, group VP of the storage and semiconductor research groups at Framingham, MA-based IDC, says IT customers haven't reached the point where they're willing to pay money just to get a green, eco-friendly stamp of approval on hardware and software. "In today's economy, even with the price of energy going up, spending is very conservative when it comes to energy conservation," says Reinsel.
Daffan bought Xiotech systems built on the company's Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) technology (which, in turn, is built on technology Xiotech acquired from Seagate last year). Daffan evaluated seven storage vendors and compared them based on throughput associated with large, sequential reads and writes, as well as the ability to accommodate more than 200TB of data in coming years. He also compared power specs and requirements from all of the competing vendors.
With the price of power fluctuating widely and his usage requirements rapidly growing, Daffan says making a multiyear analysis of power costs among different products based on vendor specs without in-house testing wouldn't be an accurate or meaningful exercise. When it came to performance metrics, he says, the ROI was simple. "On our previous system, we had four hosts attached to the SAN and our CPU utilization was about 20% to 25%. It basically came down to the fact that we just couldn't get data off the disk fast enough to feed the CPU. At the time, we were about 200MB per second spread across four hosts," says Daffan. Now, he says, the CPU utilization on the hosts is up approximately 70% to 75%. "We're getting 600MB to 800MB of throughput per host. We are pushing over 2GB per second," says Daffan.
Tim Hershberger, Xiotech's product manager, says there are plenty of meaningless metrics on how to determine how "green" a product is. "Which rack of equipment is taking the most power to do something is totally irrelevant," he says. The trick is to take real-life workloads comparing "apple-to-apple examples of how many dollars you're spending per IOPS. Basically, the metric looks like this: Given an equal workload, what's the power consumption of watts per enclosure per IOPS per disk?" he says.
Some storage administrators are starting to plug storage vendor-supplied product power numbers into so-called green calculators, says Wayne Adams, chair emeritus of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), as well as senior technologist and director of standards, office of the CTO at EMC (see "The green calculator," below). The challenge, he says, is obvious. "[The numbers are] not audited by anyone; the only way to know if they're right for you is to go out and purchase the equipment and test it. I don't think any vendor is being dishonest," says Adams. "[But] there may be inconsistencies to each vendor's response to the power calculator."
MAID reduces power
Alpine Bank installed the Assureon systems with AutoMAID in mid-2007. Brown says the AutoMAID function spins down disks depending on how often data is accessed. For example, Level 1 retracts the hard drive read/write heads and responds to a request from data in less than a second. Level 2 slows the drive from 7,200 rpm to 4,000 rpm and spins back to full speed in less than 15 seconds at the first data request. Level 3 puts the drive in light sleep without turning it off, and it can take 30 seconds to respond to a request. Alpine Bank uses Level 1 AutoMAID for data that hasn't been accessed for five minutes and Level 2 for data that hasn't been accessed for 60 minutes.
"We're a local community bank using optical devices," says Brown. "We put in a new document management system and had the option of doing optical again, which is slow." The optical drives also take up a lot of space, he notes, at about 30 square inches. The Nexsan systems took up about a quarter of a rack, he adds. Brown estimates the bank will save at least 25% in power costs due to the Assureon purchase, and now the company is headed down the virtualization path--an IT project with a clear-cut green advantage.
"Green math"
"I had to unrack a server just to put some new SAN storage in; I had no space left, period," says Wooley. Nielsen Mobile's data center owners were "annoyed with how much power we were using," he adds. The company pays approximately $20,000 per month in power and cooling costs to its co-location data center, about the same as its rent.
Wooley evaluated Copan Systems Inc., the company that premiered the first massive array of idle disks (MAID) technology, which packs a large number of disks into a small space and minimizes power and cooling by only powering up active drives. "They didn't have a file system," he says. "It wasn't the bottom line, but it was important." Instead, Wooley purchased a PowerFile Inc. Active Archive Appliance (A3), which includes compression technology and Blu-ray disk for archival storage.
Before purchasing the PowerFile A3, Nielsen Mobile's Wooley compared its power consumption with a NetApp R200 "because that's what we were using for archiving." According to him, "the NetApp unit has a lot more functionality than the PowerFile A3 and performs better, so this wasn't an apples-to-apples comparison; but for my intended use [long-term archive of infrequently accessed files], I think it makes sense."
Here are Wooley's back-of-the-napkin calculations, done to determine power use and cost, provided with the caveat that he wasn't looking for high-performance storage for active files and that NetApp performs much better. "Both the NetApp R200 and the PowerFile A3 have a head unit, each draws about 300W to 350W, so I left them out of the calculation and only looked at the power used by incremental storage. In my R200, four DS14mk2 shelves yield 10.7TB usable space after RAID and online spares (though newer models may offer more density/watt). Let's say each shelf draws about 350W. That works out to about 130W/TB (4*350W)/10.7TB). A PowerFile A3 library holds 10TB usable space and uses 8W, which works out to 0.8W/TB online. (Offline is obviously 0W/TB.) So, 20TB of R200 disk will draw about 2,900W ((130W/TB*20) + 300W/head) and 20TB of PowerFile about 316W ((0.8W/TB*20) + 300). That's a pretty significant savings, and if I add in the 10TB I have sitting in a drawer offline, it seems even better."
Common goals
Olathe, KS, the county seat of Johnson County, has five different committees dedicated to looking at the county's carbon footprint. For the IT team, a VMware project with 11 hosts and 110 virtual servers was a strong start toward a green future, says Jack Clegg, director of IT services for Johnson County Government. Most recently, a $10,000 desktop project scored green points for Clegg's team, he says. Still, says Clegg, there were initial challenges in measuring their ROI.
"We had a pilot program last year and deployed an agent on 100 desktops to measure the power use at one of our county mental health facilities," he explains. The System Center Configuration Manager (developed by SCCM Expert, a Microsoft partner) for desktop computers forces them to hibernate overnight, but then a heat wave swept through the county and power consumption spiked, making it difficult to determine overall savings by comparing monthly utility bills.
However, says Clegg, the SCCM should save the county $40,000 a year, according to a metrics chart provided by Energy Star, a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy. Energy Star metrics helped convince Clegg to buy the agent. "If you have a desktop that's computing--actually working--that's 188 watts while it's processing," says Clegg. "If that desktop rests, that's 144 watts." When he pushes the SCCM product out, he believes the desktop will draw 8.9 watts.
Three ways to save
Reinsel says MAID and solid-state drives are two smart hardware options for green-minded hardware buyers, but determining ROI with these technologies is a challenge. "MAID, that's a hard one to figure out," he says. "You're talking about different levels of power for each tier, and that becomes another difficult task." And while solid-state drives hold particular promise in high transaction environments, they also present a challenge.
To deploy solid-state drives or MAID, you need to understand your data mix and its storage requirements. "It's become a very laborious exercise for end users," says IDC's Reinsel. He named Compellent as a vendor offering the type of automated tiered storage that contributes to green data center storage. LSI Corp., which makes storage systems sold by IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. among others, is "probably one of the most energy-efficient storage solutions out there when you look at IOPS per watt, bandwidth per watt," says Reinsel.
From a software perspective, says Reinsel, users should look at compression and data deduplication, although measuring tangible ROI can be difficult with deduplication because the dedupe ratio varies widely depending on the file types.
That's precisely the problem Mark Bramfitt, principal program manager of customer energy efficiency at Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) Company, currently faces. "Fundamentally, I'm buying kilowatt hours [to rebate customers] and I'm buying kilowatt load reduction from customers, and I need to be really clear on how much I'm buying. We think data deduplication has the potential to contribute, but I can't accommodate it in my rebate right now." Storage and server virtualization, thin provisioning and MAID are among the technologies on the PG&E rewards list.
Meanwhile, Larry Freeman, NetApp's senior marketing manager for storage efficiency, has been working on a proposal to bring to PG&E to show "how they can calculate how you gain energy through deduplication." For NetApp, dedupe is the hook to a longer list of functionalities the company offers in its pitch to customers. "The key for NetApp with deduplication is that we provide it through all tiers of storage," says Freeman. "It's about fewer watts per usable terabytes." However, he says, "PG&E has a legitimate challenge."
For example, "if I can unplug something, then I can measure it," says Freeman. "But squeezing the disk down by 95%, well, that's still consuming the same amount of watts. Deduplication is a form of delayed gratification. If I dedupe my storage over time, I'll gain efficiencies because I won't have to buy as many storage shelves."
In the last few years, Copan Systems and 3PAR have announced PG&E programs that provide financial incentives to customers whose data center storage projects show energy savings. It's a good sign, says Bramfitt, that the IT industry is grasping the significance of the energy shortage.
"We're doing a lot better than we were two years ago, but it's frustratingly slow," admits Bramfitt. "Two years ago, we'd give presentations and the audience was dumfounded. They'd ask 'What does energy efficiency have to do with me?'" he recalls. "The IT guys don't pay the [facility] bills typically, so they don't have any real reward for making wise purchasing decisions."
Performance and reliability will always rank first and second on IT priority lists, concedes Bramfitt. "But I want energy efficiency to be number three, not number 17."


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Acer: Aspire One HSDPA support is imminent
Gentlemen, prepare your dongles
IFA Owners of Acer's Aspire One mini laptop will soon get the USB 3G modem support so many of them have been crying out for - and that's without having to replace Linux with Windows XP.
Robert Perenz, Acer Europe's product manager for the AA1, confirmed that the machine has the ability to support HSDPA dongles, but admitted the missing link is a utility to initiate and managed connections to carriers.
However, that will be rectified in the coming weeks, he promised here at IFA, Berlin today.
Right now, the Linux version of the AA1 won't support a USB HSDPA modem out of the box - though there's a flyer in the package that invites owenrs to download code that will allow the Small, Cheap Computer to do so.
So far, though, Acer has yet to release the code.
The Connection Manager utility works, Perenz told Register Hardware, and is now undergoing final testing ahead of its release.
In the meantime, some AA1 owners have turned to a Linux version of Vodafone's Mobile Connect in a bid to get their SCCs connecting at mobile broadband speeds. However, the utility doesn't support all the available HSPDA modems, only those resold by the carrier.
The arrival of Acer's own utility is also a step toward the release of an internal HSDPA module for the AA1, space for which - and for a SIM card - already exists within the laptop.
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In the battle between plasma and LCD, the former generally comes out ahead in most areas of our picture quality tests, while the latter has dominated the less-important, but somehow costlier, dimension of depth. LCDs like the Samsung and Sony edge-lit models, and the Hitachi UT37X902 cost a hefty premium for their manufacturers knocking an inch or two from the standard panel's thickness. Now plasma makers want in on that premium, and PNB850 and PNB860 series represent Samsung's less-depth-for-more-money gambit.
Like the company's thicker, less expensive PNB650 series, the PNB850/860 series offers excellent picture quality with accurate color, deep black levels–albeit not as deep as the best plasmas and LCDs–and solid video processing. In fact, we awarded the two Samsung plasmas the same Performance score, although the PNB850/860 gets the nod in Design. If you can stomach the higher price and like the thin profile, however, the PNB850/860 makes a compelling option.
Series note: We performed a hands-on evaluation of the 50-inch Samsung PN50B850, but this review also applies to the 58-inch member of the series, model PN58B850, as well as to the two models in the PNB860 series: the 50-inch PN50B860 and the 58-inch PN58B860. According to Samsung, the only difference between all four models, aside from screen size, is the presence in the 860 models of a manual option for 1080p/24 processing and an extra calibration mode (see below for details). For that reason, we expect the picture quality of all four models to be very similar.
The PNB850/860 series is commendably sleek and high-tech, even by Samsung's standards, and is easily the coolest looking plasma HDTV we've seen this year. Its principal design trait is the thin depth–just 1.2 inches thick–which out-thins every plasma on the market except for Panasonic's ultra-expensive Z1. Here's where we mention that we don't really consider the 3- to 4-inch depths of standard flat-panel TVs anything to sneeze at, but if you want that razor-thin look from the side, the 850/860 series is your only somewhat reasonably priced plasma option.
Other exterior characteristics include hidden speakers and a glossy black frame that's equal in width on all four sides. It lacks the "one sheet of glass" design of Panasonic's V10 series, but the frame is a bit slimmer around the sides, which terminate in a transparent edge that lends a high-tech luster. Samsung's trademark transparent stalk is also in evidence, which allows the panel to swivel atop the substantial, stainless steel-colored metal base.
Samsung used the same menu system as last year and we still think it's one of the best in the business. Big, highly legible text is set against transparent backgrounds that occupy almost the whole screen. Getting around is easy and there's helpful explanatory text along the bottom to describe the different selections.
The remote control is similar to last year too, aside from a sort of fin added to the back that keeps it stable on a flat surface, and we're definitely fans. The buttons are big, backlit, and easily differentiated by size and shape, and we liked the dedicated "Tools" key that offers quick access to picture and sound modes, the sleep timer, and the picture-in-picture controls. However, we didn't like the remote's glossy black finish that picked up more than its share of dulling fingerprints after a few minutes.
The PNB850/850 series has the numerous features we'd expect in a flagship plasma. Samsung and Panasonic share many spec sheet bullet points, including "600Hz" panels that are said to improve motion resolution/reduce blur. The best thing we can say about this feature is to ignore it; the number was created in response to the 120Hz and 240Hz refresh rates of LCDs. Plasma technology is inherently less subject to blurring than LCD, and in any case it's really hard to see any difference with real material.
Like Panasonic, Samsung can also properly deal with 1080p/24 sources. The main difference between the PNB850 series and the PNB860 series concerns the options available with those sources. On the B860 models, there's a Cinema Smooth option in the Film Mode menu that let you manually turn on or off the 96Hz refresh rate that allows proper display of 24p signals (however, it does not introduce dejudder processing). The B850 models lack that manual setting and simply switch automatically to the proper 96Hz refresh rate when you input a 24p signal. See performance for more details.
Samsung's main interactive capability is supplied by Yahoo! widgets. The system gathers Internet-powered information nodules, called "snippets," into a bar along the bottom of the screen. The model we reviewed came with widgets for stocks, weather, news, and Flickr photos, plus YouTube, Yahoo video, sports scores, games and, Twitter–and more are sure to appear in the near future. For more information, check out our full review of Yahoo widgets. That review is based on our experiences with a Samsung UN46B7000, and our impressions of the system on the PNB850/860 are mostly the same, including its relatively sluggish response time. Mainly for that reason, we still prefer VieraCast to Yahoo Widgets.
Other interactive features on this set abound. Unlike the Panasonic, it can stream videos, photos, and music from DLNA-certified devices via the network connection, as well from its USB ports–that can connect to MP3 players, USB thumbdrives, and digital cameras (we didn't test this capability). There's also built-in "content," such as recipes, games, workout guides, and a slide show of high-definition art and photos with music. We went into depth discussing the underwhelming content features last year, which are similar this time around, so if you're interested check out the Interactive section of the 2008 Samsung LN46A750 review.
Like other Samsung sets the PNB850/860 series offers numerous picture tweaks, starting with four adjustable picture modes that are all independent per input. One of these modes is called "Eco" but, aside from its slightly lower default light output and consequent power savings, it's no different from the other three.
There are five color temperature presets augmented by the capability to adjust each via a custom white balance menu; three levels of noise reduction, including an automatic setting; a film mode to engage 2:3 pull-down (it also works with 1080i sources) or, on the 860 models, manually take advantage of 1080p/24 sources with the CinemaSmooth setting; a seven-position gamma control that affects the TV's progression from dark to light; a dynamic contrast control that adjusts the picture on the fly; a "black tone" control that affects shadow detail; and a color space control that lets you tweak the Samsung's color gamut.
It's also worth mentioning that the B860 models have a Night/Day mode, intended for professional calibrations, that must be activated via the service menu. In addition to Cinema Smooth, it's the only difference between the 850 and the 860 models.
You can choose from four aspect ratio modes for HD sources, two of which let you move the whole image across the screen horizontally and vertically. As we'd expect from a 1080p TV, one of those modes, called Screen Fit, lets the PNB850/860 scale 1080i and 1080p sources directly to the panel's pixels with no overscan–the best option unless you see interference along the edge of the screen, as can be the case with some channels or programs.
We appreciated the three power-saver modes (not to be confused with the Eco picture mode) that further reduce energy use. Samsung also throws in picture-in-picture, an "E-manual" on a USB thumbdrive, and even a customer care screen that includes the firmware version for when you need to call the company. We're also big fans of the new-for-2009 capability, unique among HDTVs, to get firmware updates via an online download, rather than making you go to the Web site, as was the case before.
Samsung's "screen burn" menu offers a couple of ways to combat burn-in, aka image retention, and address it should it occur. By default, the pixel shift function automatically moves the image slightly around the screen. You can set the bars to either side of 4:3 aspect ratio programs to gray or black (light gray, the default, is the best to help prevent burn-in). And if you do see image retention, a few hours of the scrolling ramp pattern should clear it up.
It's worth noting that on our review sample, we did notice more image retention than we saw on the Panasonic and Pioneer plasmas, although as usual it was quite temporary and disappeared quickly during normal viewing. We only noticed it after the screen faded to black after displaying still images, like our PS3 menu. We'd expect the issue to go away after a couple hundred hours of use.
The shallow depth of the PNB850/860 series necessitates some connectivity sacrifices, at least in the analog video input arena. An ample four digital HDMI inputs, however, are arranged vertically along the shallow connection bay on the back of the TV (note that fat cables might not fit the nearly flush sockets very well). You also get two USB inputs, a VGA-style PC input, and a single component-video input that can be converted to accept composite video instead. An RF input for antenna or cable, an optical digital audio jack, and the Ethernet port complete the picture. There are no S-Video or dedicated composite-video connections, so if you need to connect more than one analog device, you'll need to use a switcher or an AV receiver. There's also no separate side-panel input bay.
Overall, the picture quality of the Samsung B850/860 series is superb, albeit a bit short of its prime competition, Panasonic's V10 series. Between the two we give the Panasonic the edge in black level performance and the Samsung the nod in terms of color–with the V10 winning overall in our opinion, if by just a hair. Notably, the B850/860 delivered overall performance that was very similar to that of the less-expensive B650 series, although between the two, surprisingly, the B650's black levels were just a bit better.
Prior to evaluation, we subjected the B850/860 to our standard calibration, which began with placing the set in Movie mode. We bumped light output up to our standard 40ftl, chose the -1 gamma setting to come closest to the 2.2 standard (it ended up at a respectable 2.25, albeit darker on the bottom end), and tweaked the color temperature controls a good deal more than we had to with the B650, with slightly worse results. As usual, for Samsung we felt no need to mess with the color management system since primaries and secondaries, along with color decoding, were extremely accurate.
Our lineup for comparison this time around included Samsung's less-expensive PN50B650, along with the Panasonic TC-P50V10 and the reference Pioneer PRO-111FD from the plasma camp. We also included a couple of good-performing LCDs, namely the Samsung LN52B750, the Sony KDL-55XBR8, and the LG 47LH90. Many of our image quality tests were conducted using the "Donnie Darko" Director's Cut on Blu-ray Disc.
Black level: The Samsung B850/860 delivered a nice, deep shade of black that lent realism to dark and bright scenes alike, but in the film's many dimmer moments it came in behind most of the other displays at approaching true black. During the black screen showing a date, such as "October 2, 1998," in Chapter 3, the difference was most apparent, and even the B650 plasma got a bit darker. However, as brighter elements appeared onscreen, the differences narrowed; during the succeeding shot showing the Darko house at night, or a bit later when Donnie sees the scary bunny on the golf course, the two Samsung plasmas and the two LCDs were difficult to differentiate black levelwise, although the other two plasmas along with the Sony XBR8 were clearly closer to true black.
Details in shadows, such as the toys and shelves in Donnie's room or the siding of the house behind the leaves, appeared a bit more distinct on the other plasmas and the XBR8 as well, although it was about the same compared with the two LCDs and the B650 plasma..
Color accuracy: As with the Samsung B650, accurate color proved a major strength of the B850/B860 plasmas. Its primary and secondary colors were nearly perfect, including the green of the golf course and the light blur of Donnie's shirt at the beginning of Chapter 4. Both looked more realistic and closer to our reference than on the Panasonic that had more neon greens were fairly obvious in this scene. The somewhat pasty skin of Gyllenhaal and the bronzed face of Swayze in the morning sun also looked just a tad more realistic on the Samsung than on the Panasonic, although the difference was much more subtle. Colors did appear just a bit more rich and saturated on the Panasonic; however, it's a difference we attribute to the Samsung's lighter black levels–but compared with the LCDs, the Samsungs saturation was punchier and more realistic. Like the Panasonic, the B850/860 reproduced dark and black areas with very little color tinge, lacking the comparatively bluish cast of the B750, for example.
Video processing: The B850 we tested lacks a manual option for 1080p/24 sources, dubbed Cinema Smooth in Samsung's menu, but it still handled 1080p/24 sources perfectly as far as we could tell. When we fed the set a 1080p/24 signal, it displayed the proper cadence of film during our favorite test clip, the pan over the Intrepid from "I Am Legend," as well as during "Darko" when the camera follows Donnie in through the back door to the refrigerator in Chapter 1. In these scenes and others, the proper judder of film was evident, as opposed to the somewhat stuttering, hitching motion of 2:3 pull-down. We couldn't see any difference between the B850's handling of these scenes and that of the other 1080p/24 capable displays in our lineup, including the 96Hz Panasonic V10. (It's worth mentioning that since we didn't test the B860, we can't speak to whether it has the same issues with Cinema Smooth as the B650 we tested, but we do prefer the automatic implementation found on the B850 overall).
According to Samsung, its plasmas use 600Hz subfield motion technology, which sounds like the 600Hz subfield drive employed by Panasonic on its plasmas, but the two didn't deliver the same results. The Samsung B850/860 didn't quite match the motion resolution of the Panasonic plasmas, the Pioneer, or the 240Hz Samsung B750 in our comparisons, it delivered between 800 and 900 lines, according to our test. However, that's still very good and as usual, we suspect that even the most blur-sensitive viewers won't notice a difference with regular program material.
As expected, the B850/860 delivered every line of still resolution when we selected the "Screen Fit" aspect ratio mode, and it deinterlaced both film- and video-based source properly. To pass our film deinterlacing test, the TV had to be in the "Auto1" Film Mode setting; Auto2 is the default when the TV detects 1080i sources.
Bright lighting: Under bright lights, the Samsung performed as well as any plasma we've tested aside from the Pioneer, which was roughly its equal. Its main strength was its capability to preserve a darker shade of black–despite ambient lighting–than the Panasonic that has blacks that washed out and became grayer faster than they did on the Samsung. On the flip side, the Samsung did not attenuate reflections, such as bright lights in the room or reflections such as a viewer's clothing. The Panasonic's reflections were dimmer and thus less distracting than those of the Samsung, but we still liked the Samsung's bright-room image better overall. It's worth noting that the matte-screened Sony LCD provided the overall best bright-room performance in our lineup.
Standard-definition: The PNB850/860 evinced generally solid standard-definition picture quality. According to our tests, the display handled every line of a DVD source and the shots of grass and steps from the detail test looked good. The set eliminated jaggies from video-based sources well, and its noise reduction cleaned up the lowest-quality shots of skies and sunset with aplomb. Finally the set passed 2:3 pull-down test by eliminating moire from the stands behind the racecar.
PC: Samsung's PNB850/860 series delivered excellent performance with HDMI sources from computers, resolving every line of a 1,920×1,080-pixel resolution image with no overscan or edge enhancement. The image did appear very slightly softer via VGA but the set still resolved every line, according to our DisplayMate test.


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Activity Overview
Participants are asked to draw upon their artistic skills to create pictures that represent a higher functioning, more cohesive group or team. Appropriate for any team, department, or group.
- To create a pictorial vision of how a group works together
- To identify ways a group could function better in the future
- To discuss best practices for leaders who are establishing a vision
Up to 20 participants from intact work teams
Time Estimate
30 to 60 minutes, depending on discussion
Materials and Discussion
- Flip chart with paper for each subgroup
- One set of markers of various colors for each subgroup
- Crayons (optional)
- Masking tape
Area Setup
Tables arranged so that participants can work in groups
- 1. Ask participants whether they have ever had a mental picture of how they would like their group to work. State that this activity will give them an opportunity to create and share their ideas. Ask them to form into their work groups of four or five each. (Divide larger work groups into smaller subgroups.) Give each group a flip chart and a set of markers.
- 2. Tell the participants to use the markers (and crayons, if provided) to create a picture on the flip-chart without words or numbers. Ask half of the groups to draw a picture that represents how they function as a team/department/organization today. Ask the other groups to draw a picture of how they would like to function in the future. Tell them they have 20 minutes to create their pictures.
- 3. After the allotted time, ask each group to select someone to present their pictures to the large group.
- 4. Ask the groups assigned to draw a picture of how they function today to present their pictures first. Hang the flip-chart pages along a wall. Applaud after each presentation.
- 5. Ask the groups assigned to draw a picture of how they would like to function in the future to present their pictures. Hang the flip-chart pages along a wall. Applaud after each presentation.
- 6. Lead a discussion about the pictures using some of these questions:
- What happened as you worked together? What was the atmosphere like?
- What did you learn about yourself? What did you learn about your group?
- How does this relate to what happens on a day-to-day basis in this group?
- What differences do you see in the pictures of how you function today and how you would like to function in the future?
- What can you do differently that would move you closer to how you would like to function?
- What did this activity tell you about visions?
- How could a leader use this concept to create a vision?
- What advice would you give a leader who is establishing a vision?
- How can you ensure that you make changes that move you closer to your desired future?
- 7. Summarize by encouraging the small groups to come together again to establish action plans for future improvement.
Insider's Tips
- You may wish to use an observer to see how each small group handles the assignment. These observations (and your own) can be shared in the debriefing period.
- Be flexible regarding time and allow for discussion going in a direction you did not expect.
- This activity works in every country where I've used it, including Nigeria, Indonesia, and China.
Excerpt from The Book of Road-Tested Activities, edited by Elaine Biech and co-published by Pfeiffer and ASTD.
Mel Schnapper is an international consultant, currently working in Lesotho, who has worked in over 20 countries and in corporate America with companies such as Quaker Oats, Chicago Board Operations Exchange, AT&T, and American Express. Author of Value-Based Metrics for Improving Results, he can be reached at email@example.com.


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On Exhibit
Animal Facts
Scientific Name
Invertebrates from several major divisions (phyla): For example, Annelida, Chordata, Cnidaria, Ctenophora and Platyhelminthes
Animal Type
True jellies range from about 2 mm in diameter to about 3 m, depending on the species
Natural History
No Backbone, No Problem
Jellies don't have bones, brains, teeth, blood or fins—and they're more than 95 percent water. Yet they thrive in the world's ocean, and to its darkest depths. Jellies are strange and captivatingly beautiful, making them one of the Aquarium's all-time favorite animals.
"Jellies" are any animals that have gelatinous body forms and live in the water column, including jellyfish. Jellyfish, or "true jellies," are medusae belonging to the phylum Cnidaria. At the Aquarium we have both kinds of animals on exhibit.
Sting for Your Supper
Jellies use stinging cells—also known as nematocysts—to catch, sting and inactivate their prey. The stinging cells are blind but sensitive; when they brush against an object they burst and out pops a tiny, sharp barb that pierces the prey and injects it with venom. Digestion begins in the jelly's oral arms, which guide the prey to its mouth found in the center under its bell.
Inside the bell there are open chambers, like stomachs, where the prey is further digested and then passed around the body through a series of interconnected canals.
Most jellies have mild toxins that don't bother humans. But some can be as painful as bee stings, and a few, like the sea wasp, can be extremely dangerous.
Muscle and Rhythm
Jellies are not the strongmen of the ocean, but if you've ever been mesmerized by a group of them pulsing to their own rhythms, you've seen them flex their muscles. The transparent muscle fibers are arranged in rays that stretch from the center of the bell to the margin. With a synchronized squeeze of these muscles—coordinated by a simple net of nerve cells—the jelly throws its body into a wave that moves smoothly outward from the bell, pushing it forward. The motion also stirs up water and pushes it past the jelly's tentacles.
Eat and Be Eaten
Most jellies eat small, swimming organisms called plankton: a mixture of tiny creatures like amphipods, copepods and krill. They also eat juvenile shrimps, crabs, fish and even other jellies.
Some fish turn the tables, eating jellies for dinner: blue rockfish, molas, dogfish, anchovies, chum salmon and mackerel have all been recorded eating jellies. They're also a favorite food of sea turtles. Still other fish spend time swimming amid the tentacles of jellies. Their strange choice of hangout may help them avoid being eaten by bigger fish. They also get the chance to pick at scraps the jelly has caught, or nibble parasites off the jellies.
The Most Dangerous Jelly
The sea wasp (Chironex fleckeri), or box jelly, is widely regarded as one of the most dangerous jellies in the world and lives in the waters off Australia. Its potent toxins can cause great pain, scar or even kill people unlucky enough to swim into the tentacles. But as long as you're not getting stung, a box jelly is a remarkable creature. The body is square rather than umbrella shaped, and each corner of the "box" has a set of eyes. Slightly less dangerous species live in other tropical waters, including near Hawaii, where they often gather in shallow waters eight to ten days after a full moon.
Hungry? Pass the Jellies
A few kinds of jellies are popular as food in Asia. Worldwide, an estimated 321,000 metric tons of jellies are caught for food every year. Japan alone imports up to 10,000 tons of jellyfish annually, where they can sell for $10 to $12 per pound. Preparing jellies is a competitive business complete with trade secrets practiced by respected "jellyfish masters."
In Full Bloom
Most jelly populations are stable, but recently some jellies have appeared in areas they've never been seen before. For example, massive blooms of Mediterranean jellies appeared in the Mar Menor coastal lagoon after human activities, including agriculture, caused excessive nutrients to seep into ground and eventually run into the lagoon through coastal runoff. Scientists are investigating causes for jellyfish blooms like these, but it is too soon to determine them. Scientists are also studying how climate change might affect jelly populations.
An Important Role
Jellies play a vital role in ocean ecosystems, acting as important predators of plankton as well as abundant prey for large animals like sunfish and sea turtles. But some people view jellies as problem species with little value, which can lead to intentional destruction or removal of jellyfish populations. This can be disastrous for other sea animals. In Monterey Bay, for example, the enormous Pacific leatherback sea turtle travels across the Pacific Ocean, all the way from Indonesia, to feed specifically on sea nettles.
What You Can Do
Jellywatch.org is a database created by our sister organization, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), to monitor jellyfish populations. Report your own jellyfish sightings to help scientists learn more about jelly blooms!


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The Accounting Historians Journal Vol. 16, No. 2 December 1989
PATTI A. MILLS, EDITOR Indiana State University
Diran Bodenhorn, Economic Accounting (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1988, 325 pp., $40.00)
by Catharine M. Lemieux Indiana State University
The FASB series, "Financial Accounting Concepts," states that the objective of accounting should be to provide informa-tion for business decisions rather than to describe economic events. In contrast Bodenhorn states, "that the primary concern of the accountant should be to measure the variables which economists have identified as the most important in describing the performance of an economy, and the entities in the economy" [p. 11. In this book Bodenhorn develops a model of a simple economy based on economic theory and constructs an accounting model appropriate for this economy.
The economy in this model consists of a firm and a person who is both a laborer and a consumer. The individual, labeled Crusoe, maximizes a known welfare function subject to a wealth constraint and the firm maximizes profit subject to a known production function. Three groups, firm, household, and society, comprise the economy. Although this is a simplified view of the real world, Bodenhorn states that, "if an accounting principle gives a poor description of a simple Crusoe model, I find it very difficult to believe that it will provide a reasonable description of a more complicated model" [p. 4].
The author draws four conclusions from this economic model: (1) the sum of the value of individual assets of the firm is equivalent to measuring the value of the firm, (2) the appro-priate price index to use for deflating values is a general price index, (3) the current value of real capital corrected for changes in the price index is the appropriate measure of capital mainte-nance, and (4) the only way to measure income is to measure wealth.


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Teenager Mistakes Little Brother for Intruder, Shoots Him
According to police the 16-year-old mistook the 12-year-old for an intruder.
March 23, 2013 -- A teenager shot and killed his 12-year-old brother because he mistook him for an intruder in their Florida home, police said today.
According to police the 16-year-old was home alone on Friday when his younger brother came home.
"He heard some noises and he called out for his brother and he didn't answer and then his brother startled him," Orlando Police Department Detective Mike Moreschi told ABCNews.com affiliate WFTV.
Scared that there was an intruder in the home, the older boy grabbed a gun and shot his brother, according to police. Once the teen realized what had happened, he immediately called 911.
The younger boy was taken to Arnold Palmer Hospital where he was pronounced dead a short time later. The teenager and his parents were taken to the police station for questioning and released hours later.
"He's devastated, obviously. His parents are devastated by what happened and it's just a really bad situation for the family," Moreschi said.
Police said the teenager would not be charged with any crime related to the shooting, although the state attorney's office will review the case for possible negligence.
Neighbors of the family were in disbelief over the shooting.
"All I can say is it's so scary," Julia Bracey told WFTV. "It's heartbreaking I can't imagine what the parents are going through right now."
Francis Ikwueme, who also lives near the family in the Orange County subdivision, found the shooting devastating.
"It cuts deep and it breaks my heart," Ikwueme told WFTV. "There was the shooting up in Connecticut. Anytime young life or life in general has to be cut short senselessly, it's a very unfortunate thing."