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The Marvel Masterworks hold a special place in my heart. Back in the 1980s, reprints of the early Marvel Age were almost non existent. I fondly recall reading the first few volumes that my parents picked up for me at Christmas. Sure the artwork was rough and the dialog was awful and the narration was over the top, but it was the Silver Age at its finest and I loved every brightly coloured page.
The Marvel Masterworks hit the stands in 1987 with its first volume, Amazing Spider-Man, reprinting Amazing Fantasty #15 and Amazing Spider-Man #1-10. This hardcover collection featured a unique and distinctive marble dustjacket that is still available today as a variant edition.
Volumes featuring the Avengers and X-Men and Incredible Hulk and Uncanny X-Men and Iron Man quickly followed. Each of these volumes generally reprinted 10 issues (in chronology) and for some like Captain
It was a wonderful way for a young comic book reader to catch up on back issues without having to pay a fortune for them. And as an adult now, it's nice to have a full bookshelf of these beautiful hardcover reprints that are very close to reprinting the entire Marvel Silver Age.
The first phase of the Marvel Masterworks ran from 1987-1994 and put out 27 volumes.
Between 1995 and 2004, a handful of volumes were produced, some with the ComicCraft dustjackets which was a break from the traditional marble dustjackets. Only a limited number of the marble dustjackets were produced making them rare and expensive collector's items.
In April 2004, new life was breathed into the Masterworks line and starting from volume #33, it has been regularly producing volumes on a monthly and sometimes twice a month (with the addition of Atlas Age Masterworks). Currently, the Masterworks are over 120 volumes and have reached well into the 1970s.
It's amazing the progress they've made in just over five years. I never imagined seeing hardcover reprints of Jim Starlin's Warlock, or the Defenders, or Captain Marvel (Captain Mar-vell).
Recently, a softcover version of the Masterworks line has been launched. And with the success of the Masterworks, the Marvel Premiere editions reprinting a lot of 70s and 80s content have also been a success.


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State lawmakers came into the 2014 session with a surplus topping $1 billion and a mandate from Gov. Rick Scott to cut $500 million in taxes and fees.
On Friday, the lawmakers handed Scott a $77.1 billion budget, the largest spending plan in state history.
But while much of the money went to must-have programs such as education, health care and prisons, smaller items are littered through the more-than-400-page document (HB 5001): Here are some examples:
BUNGEE JUMPING BAYSIDE: During budget talks, the Senate wasn't as enamored as the House about helping build a 1,000-foot-high office and amusement center to dominate Miami's skyline. But that didn't keep SkyRise Miami, backed by some powerful lobbyists, from getting into budget.
As part of the economic-development road fund, $2 million would go to public transportation improvements so people can get to the planned R-shaped, waterfront glass and steel tower.
SkyRise Miami is intended to offer an observation deck, a nightclub and a bungee jump-like platform.
Lawmakers included language in the budget that says the money is contingent upon developer Jeff Berkowitz showing that $400 million in private-sector funding will go to the project. Berkowitz has estimated the project at $430 million.
The House wanted $10 million for the project, which Miami-Dade County commissioners have said would be a "public asset" that creates $1.3 billion annually in economic benefit by attracting more than 3 million visitors a year.
TRAVEL FLORIDA: Spend your free time seeing how your Sunshine State neighbors live.
The budget's travel plans include $500,000 for Visit Florida to team with the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association to "promote Florida tourism by residents of the state."
The earmark, equal to last year's marketing allocation, comes from the Hotel and Restaurant Trust Fund.
DEER BAN DISSECTED: Now that the state has closed the door on the importation of out-of-state deer, lawmakers want to know the economic impact of the move.
In September, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission prohibited the importation of deer and other cervids in an attempt to keep Chronic Wasting Disease from reaching the state's deer population.
Using $50,000 from the Game Trust Fund, the state would hire the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agriculture Sciences to conduct a study and address issues such as what causes the disease, the economic impact of prohibiting the importation of live captive deer into Florida and "options for deer management that would have been available at the time the importation prohibition was adopted."
The disease has been described as similar to Mad Cow disease, with animals becoming emaciated and often being found isolated and trembling. If an animal is found with the disease, the entire population in the area, free-ranging or farmed, is put down.
BARKING IN THE PARK: The furry friend lobby fetched some points, and cash, for Jacksonville.
The budget includes $123,000 for the Riverside Avondale Preservation dog park, with the money coming out of the State Transportation Trust Fund.
The two-acre park, an effort of the private, non-profit Riverside Avondale Preservation Inc., is slated to include a large dog area that is shaded by an Interstate 95 overpass.
GET IN THE WATER: But don't get wet. As a boost to ecotourism, lawmakers want to make it easier for people to ride the waters of Wakulla County in Florida's Big Bend region.
The budget includes $525,000 to develop canoe and kayak launches along public trails, $1 million for work on the St. Marks municipal dock and $735,000 for the Shell Point public-access boat launch facility.
Meanwhile, the state would float $1 million to help maintain operations of the St. Johns River Ferry, which takes people and cars between Duval County's Mayport Village and Fort George Island. Another $1 million has been set aside to restore the 6,500-seat Miami Marine Stadium. The stadium, which once served as a floating stage for powerboat races and concerts, has largely sat idle since Hurricane Andrew.
ALL I WANT TO DO IS BICYCLE: Incoming Senate President Andy Gardiner, R-Orlando, landed $15.5 million to complete the Coast-to-Coast Connector, a bicycle and pedestrian path across Central Florida. A $50 million allocation for the connector was vetoed last year by Scott, and Gardiner has been working to change the governor's opinion of the trail.
For those seeking a faster and more challenging pedal, lawmakers parked $1.27 million from the State Economic Enhancement and Development Trust Fund for the BMX — bicycle motocross — Olympic Training Facility in Oldsmar.
The training facility is expected to include a starting hill for amateur riders, in addition to a 26-foot-tall hill for those seeking to confront the more-challenging obstacles.
ALLIGATOR MARKETING: No longer apparently on Scott's list of threatened species, lawmakers have designated $150,000 from the State Game Trust Fund to the Department of Agriculture's alligator marketing.
Scott vetoed the line item in 2011, highlighting the expense as budget fat after telling The Wall Street Journal, "We're not doing alligator marketing, things like that."
The past two years, the marketing money, voluntarily paid by alligator farmers, has survived Scott's veto pen.
PALM BEACH WATER SHOW: The ritzy barrier-island community of Palm Beach wants to makes its Town Hall Historic District more pedestrian-friendly.
So the state is chipping in $350,000 for the restoration of the Addison Mizner-designed fountain.
The 1929 fountain, which features a group of sea horses, isn't the only fountain in the spending plan.
North Miami Beach is in line for $205,000 to help renovate the historic Fulford-By-The-Sea Monument. The subdivision entryway fountain was built in 1925.
FREE OJ: Actually, it's not in the budget as it has been listed in past years. But the Florida Department of Citrus assures that money in the budget for the agency will allow orange juice grown in the Sunshine State to continue as a free staple of the state's highway Welcome Centers along Interstates 10, 75 and 95 and on U.S. 231.
The money, $240,000 last year, comes from the Citrus Advertising Trust Fund, which has $37 million this year for advertising and promotion. In past years, the funding specifically for the Welcome Center OJ has appeared in the fine print of the budget.
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Chaka Khan sang, "Tell me somethin' good." The 2014 National Urban League (NUL) report, State of Black America, "One Nation Underemployed: Jobs Rebuild America," contains a lot of great information, but it will only prove to be "good" if we use it to build a solid and long lasting economic base. The 236-page report is full of statistics and insights Black people need to know – and act upon. Knowledge is only power if we use it.
For the most part, Black people in this country are at the bottom of every good category and at the top of every bad one. Of course most of us don't need the National Urban League or anyone else to tell us that; we see it every day all around us, but supporting statistics are a great way to drive the point home. Sad to say, our overall "state" is not good. (Sorry, Chaka)
I would love to see a report on the "Fate" of Black America. Maybe that would wake us up and get us involved in changing our "state." Reports on our "state" are nice but they usually tell us what we already know. Acknowledging and discussing our fate might scare us into implementing long term, solution-based, and work related approaches to our challenges.
I was intrigued by some of the responses to our "state" from Black folks. For instance, a chapter on "Minorities Losing Economic Ground," by Jesse Holland, states, "Despite the 'dismal' numbers, an analysis by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found African-Americans significantly more 'optimistic' about their future standard of living than whites…" Holland continued, "The survey found high optimism even among Blacks who say racism is a cause for economic inequality."
Say what?
Another irony in the Urban League report referred to the new "Chocolate City," Memphis, Tenn., which is 63 percent Black, according the 2010 U.S Census (The NUL report says 46 percent), yet ranks the "most equal for 'Hispanics' in unemployment equality" (3.8 percent), compared with a 6.5 percent unemployment rate for whites." The unemployment rate for Blacks in Memphis is 16.6 percent
What's wrong with that picture?
While optimism is commendable, it is irrational for us to be complacent and continue responding to old problems with the same failed measures of the past. We should know by now what relying on hope and optimism brings. MLK's words, "Why we can't wait," and the "Fierce urgency of now" ring true. Do we just recite his words, or do we act upon them? As I wrote in a previous article, "Just how long is 'now'?"
It's been 46 years since King died in Memphis, fighting for economic rights; according to an article on nashvillescene.com, Memphis is "Among worst the U.S. cities to be Black, male, and unemployed." The city just spent $28 million to revamp the civil rights museum; I wonder how many jobs were created for Black men on that project, and how much of the $28 million went to Black contractors. Did Blacks in Memphis settle for symbolism over substance, or did they get both?
Information on the State of Black America is great, but if we don't change our inappropriate behavior we will continue to be distracted from the real solutions to our problems. Heck, Tavis Smiley televised the revolution for several years. What did we do with that? I am worn out by our tepid and sometimes total lack of response to the problems we face in this nation.
It's frustrating to see Black people settling for a nebulous request for "jobs" and an increase in the minimum wage to $10.10. We do need more jobs, but we must create some of those jobs ourselves, and be able to hire a significant percentage of our own workforce. A decade ago, Economist, Thomas Boston proposed his "20 by 10" concept that called for 10% of Black workers being hired by Black businesses by 2010. We missed that boat, so maybe Professor Boston should now call for a "10 by 20" effort.
We must raise our level of entrepreneurship by including it in our schools' curricula, and by growing our businesses via mutual support and strategic alliances. The NUL report states, "We must recognize…entrepreneurship as the most important vehicle of economic development in the Black community." Amen
Jim Clingman, founder of the Greater Cincinnati African American Chamber of Commerce, is the nation's most prolific writer on economic empowerment for Black people. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati and can be reached through his Web site, blackonomics.com.


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Hating BlackBerry has become something of a bloodsport, but Research in Motion shares have been on an incredible tear for the past two months -- and the RIM rally continued Friday after a bullish analyst report.
National Bank Financial analyst Kris Thompson upped his price target on the stock and his predictions for product shipments in 2014. RIM (RIMM) shares closed 14% higher Friday as a result.
Last week, RIM announced that its long-delayed BlackBerry 10 operating system will finally debut on January 30, a year after the company's next-generation smartphones and software were slated to go on sale.
RIM initially said its new BlackBerry 10 software and devices would be available at the beginning of 2012. The company first delayed that to the end of 2012, and then again to the beginning of 2013.
The new operating system is meant to be the crown jewel of the company's turnaround, so the delays were incredibly troublesome. Some critics wondered if RIM would even survive long enough to launch BlackBerry 10.
Related story: RIM's fate hangs on BlackBerry 10
RIM CEO Thorsten Heins has spent the past few months assuring naysayers that the software will launch in early 2013, and that it will be worth the wait.
Investors appear to be growing more optimistic as well. RIM shares have gained an astounding 59% over the past two months.
That jump is even more remarkable when compared with the slump Apple (AAPL) suffered in the same two-month period. The smartphone king hit bear-market status this month, falling to an intra-day low of about $506 last Friday -- down nearly $200 from the all-time high it hit on September 21.
The Apple sell-off comes after an incredible runup over the past few years -- and during a tumultuous time in the broader stock market on concerns about the fiscal cliff and Europe's continued debt crisis.


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A Massachusetts company with the same founders as a pharmacy tied to a deadly meningitis outbreak says it's laying off nearly all its employees amid its prolonged closure for inspection.
Ameridose employees were notified of the layoffs Thursday November 8th.
A company spokesman says the notice affects 650 employees at Ameridose and 140 employees at its marketing and support arm. He says a small number will be retained amid an ongoing product recall. Ameridose LLC says it hopes the layoffs will be temporary.
The Westborough company paid its employees since it voluntarily closed for inspection Oct. 10 because of problems at the New England Compounding Center pharmacy, a sister company. The meningitis outbreak has been linked to a steroid made by the NECC, in Framingham, near Boston.
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Like the rest of the world, when I think of Kentucky, one thing comes to mind: world-class cyclocross racing.
Just kidding.
Instead, like most folks, the mention of Kentucky elicits images of horse racing, bourbon, and folks clad in Carhartt overalls topped with Carhartt jackets (a.k.a. "the Midwestern tuxedo"). It came as a bit of a surprise when Louisville, Kentucky, was selected to host the 2013 World Cyclocross Championship.
Not content with just one renowned cyclocross race in town, the fervor surrounding the prestigious race spilled over with true Kentucky style in the form of the not-even-remotely-UCI-sanctioned Raleigh Singlespeed Cyclocross Derby.
Though they started as a cohesive team, the competitive nature of SSCX Derby left one team member too deflated to finish.
Open to anyone on a bike—or unicycle as it were)—the SSCX Derby matched serious competitors with people who take the art of not racing very seriously. Denizens dressed up as bananas, clowns, and disconcertingly hairy prom queens charged through the sleeting darkness. Featuring fire spewing barricades, chants of "Hurry up, buttercup!" and the occasional Krispy Kreme donut followed by a bourbon chaser, SSCX proved a remarkable display of how much fun can be had while being absolutely miserable on a bike—a perfect opening act to the big race.
Beware of the devil in red leather pants.
Weeks before the Cyclocross World Championship, there were murmurs that the weather might be too nice and the course too easy. It was the first time this caliber of cyclocross racing graced the U.S., and speaking on behalf of everyone who has spent an inordinate amount of their lives wearing spandex in America, we really didn't want to screw the pooch on this one. As the race neared, an atypically warm Louisville winter was replaced with the Ohio River Valley weather we know and loathe: nasty gray slush.
World class racers display incredible focus as they race through mud, snow, and the occasional pornographic playing card.
Awful weather in the days before the race threatened to flood parts of the river-adjacent course by Sunday. Press releases were scrambled, schedules were changed, and Saturday was turned into a non-stop race extravaganza as the Junior Men, Men's Under 23, Elite Men and Elite Women competitions fired off back to back.
Spectators cheered for racers covered in freezing mud from morning until the sun began to fade. We cheered riders who fell, and cheered harder when they got back up. We even cheered for some guy who took to the course in nothing but a Speedo and a pair of boots (a.k.a. "the French tuxedo.")
Amid a sea of spectators, some head to the trees seeking higher ground.
Amid the ruckus of vuvuzelas and cowbells, the heartbreak of unexpected defeat danced with the glory of hard-earned success. No matter which flag peered from beneath the mud on riders' jerseys, the crowd rode the ups and downs with each racer. We felt the frustration of Katie Compton's chain deciding this was the day to be a jerk and reveled in her determination as she fought back to second place. We fell silent as Ryan Trebon stayed on the ground too long after a palpably hard fall, and roared as he slowly righted himself knowing this would be his last lap. We soaked in the glory shared by Marianne Vos and Sven Nys, as though our furious cowbell ringing and bourbon swigging had something to do with their perfect riding.
Ryan Trebon quiets the crowd with a hard fall.
Trebon walks away from a hard fall in obvious pain as the crowd cheers him on.
Just beyond the crowds, a horde of city workers spent the day racing the mighty Ohio river, filling bags of sand and running water pumps to hold back its rising waters. One of the workers explained: "You see that red line on the tree by your waist? That's where the water should be right about now." When I thanked him and wished him a day off to rest his back, he responded in a born-and-raised Kentucky accent, "There isn't any place I'd rather be right now."
For those of us at the race that day, thoughts of Kentucky will be forever intertwined with world-class cyclocross racing. And I'm not kidding.
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My six year old daughter and I went out for a test hang Friday night. We recently purchased two Hennessy hammocks and the extra large rainfly came along as part of the package. Perfect, I thought. Two hammocks under one fly. I'll be close in case she freaks out.
Well, it seemed like a good idea and it does work, but not perfectly. I had to hang the fly and her hammock about as high as I could reach. My hammock was a bit low so that she didn't bump into my ridgeline when she got in. I got in and was a bit closer to the ground and plants than I would have wanted. Also, my hammock body stuck out below the edge of the tarp. Blowing rain would have been a problem.
She didn't freak out but she did complain about the thermarest pad I had stuck into her sleeping bag to keep her warm. "It's itchy!" Out it came. I put it under the bag and then she complained. "I'm tipped!" As I had discovered when we set up the hammocks inside and slept in our basement, the pad squirted all over the place. I took it out and she slept until 9 the next morning. Snug as a bug and not cold. It was a mild night. Good thing too because Saturday night it dropped to 39 F. I had set up our tent as a bail out plan just in case and if we had been camping last night, we could have gone back to the ground where the pads work better.
I ordered a super shelter. I thought about making my own but time is limited and skills are lacking. I may attempt to make the second one though once I get a feel for how it works.


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A total world population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal. – Ted Turner, in an interview with Audubon Magazine
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To my mind controlled friends, I temporarily interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to inform you that America is now entering into martial law. In order to receive this information, you must temporarily suspend all other previous programming whether it be from CNN, FOX, CBS, ABC, NBC or any of the other 98% of media outlets controlled by only five corporations.
You have allowed your media to make you ignorant, passive, unable to engage in critical thinking and blind to the fact that you have been made a slave to the state, controlled by the megabanks, who have hijacked your government. Soon you will awaken to a life where every choice, every action and even every belief has been predetermined for you. Soon you will come to realize that that your neighbor was correct when he tried to tell you that if you let the illegitimate government come and take your guns, it would not be long until they would come and take you. We are witnessing the first stage of the total destruction of the United States.
The Russians Understand America Better Than Most Americans
Recently, a Russian blogger wrote the following about the history of his own country, with regard to the Red Revolution, in an attempt to get Americans to realize that we should never give up our guns under any circumstances.
Moscow fell, for example, not from a lack of weapons to defend it, but from the lying guile of the Reds. Ten thousand Reds took Moscow and were opposed only by some few hundreds of officer cadets and their instructors. Even then the battle was fierce and losses high. However, in the city alone, at that time, lived over 30,000 military officers (both active and retired), all with their own issued weapons and ammunition, plus tens of thousands of other citizens who were armed. The Soviets promised to leave them all alone if they did not intervene. They did not and for that were asked afterwards to come register themselves and their weapons: where they were promptly shot.
If we ever allow Obama and Feinstein to get any kind of a foothold on the elimination of private gun ownership, we won't being going off of some imaginary fiscal cliff, we will be jumping headfirst into the abyss of "national suicide by gun control." History has spoken America, are you going to listen? Even the Russian communists are warning us not to give up our guns.
Even Law Enforcement Is Beginning to Pay Attention
A North Carolina police officer, Lieutenant McCoy, called into Brandon Smith's radio broadcast and stated the following:
Isn't it interesting that Lieutenant McCoy mentioned North Carolina as a jumping off point for the implementation and trial run for the full roll out martial law? North Carolina is where ex-FEMA personnel are relocating their families to which referenced in an two earlier articles.
What is the Crown Jewel In the Banker Subjugation Movement?
The criminal Obama Administration does not dare act against the American people until they get enough of our guns and subsequently to render us defenseless. Their determination to disarm the citizens speaks to their fear of the American people. If we give up our guns, the American people will sacrifice any leverage that they now enjoy over this criminal administration.
What's been described here could be categorized as the chest pains before the heart attack. As an American citizen, you have one duty and only one duty and that is to obey the United States Constitution. As an American citizen, you have a duty to resist all enemies of the Republic, whether they be foreign or domestic. The Obama Administration is an illegitimate government which is controlled by the five megabanks who have hijacked this government.
Oh, you do not think that is true? Then tell me how, when we as a country, are supposedly plunging off of the fiscal cliff and we are still giving new bail outs to Goldman Sachs?
These criminals violate the Constitution every time they read one of your emails, illegally listen to your phone calls, financially bailout criminal organizations like Goldman Sachs or abduct American citizens under the NDAA.
The Hijackers of the American Government Have Declared War on You
The day that Congress passed the NDAA and Obama signed it into law, this illegitimate government declared war on the American people. If you have been living in a fog, the NDAA allows the government to secretly arrest and even murder you. You don't believe it, click here, right now. No, do not read the next sentence until you have clicked and read this link, or this link. Do I now have your attention? Are you listening to me? Still not convinced? Watch this brief interview with Obama as he lies and says that he does not want to use this against Americans even though his lawyers fought in court for the right to indefinitely detain Americans under the NDAA without following due process of law.
The America you thought you were living in is gone. In past articles, I have covered how it is legal to steal your bank accounts. I have covered on my talk show how the banks can steal your home even when the payments are current. I have also covered how this pseudo government, which, again, has been fully hijacked by the bankers, has complete control over you because they have complete control over the elected officials.
I know that some of you find that difficult to believe, but ask yourself, how can Diane Feinstein accumulate $200 million in personal assets, while engaged in insider trading, while she has never held a job outside of government? The fact is, she cannot gather that much wealth without being bought off? Your entire Congress is bought off. Every four years, you receive a Judas kiss on the cheek while these "representatives" continue to aid and abet the bankers in separating you from your money and your civil liberties.
America, you are now living in an occupied country. As an American, you are now either a de facto prisoner of war, or you are a resistance fighter, there is no longer any middle ground.
Americans were dragged into this fight in 1913 at the inception of the Federal Reserve. The last century of our history has largely been about people who know nothing of what's going on, or think that CNN tells the truth or that your vote really matters, you are prisoners of war. You will be like the Jews who bowed and curtsied to their Nazi executors before taking a bullet in the back of the head. If you are one of those, I cannot help you. However, if you are willing to make a stand against this criminal government's attempts to disarm the people, I will stand with you because resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
If you give up your gun, you become a prisoner of war, and very soon, you will become a statistic in the growing number of people who will have fallen victim to their criminal governments after surrendering their guns.
Three Little Questions
Has anyone ever bothered to ask this illegitimate government the following questions?
1. Why did you get TruTV to ban replays of Jesse Ventura's Conspiracy Theory's airing of the FEMA Camp report?
2. Why was the MIAC report written by DHS?
3. Why does Obama continue to use false flag events as a pretext to seize our guns?
Before I return you to your regularly scheduled programming, I would suggest that you watch the following because it could soon apply to most of us.
It is time to make a line in the sand and stand up to these criminal bankers who have captured our government through an economic coup d'état. And now these same bankers are installing a technocratic dictatorship in which most of us will be obsolete.
Dave is an award winning psychology, statistics and research professor, a college basketball coach, a mental health counselor, a political activist and writer who has published dozens of editorials and articles in several publications such as Freedoms Phoenix, News With Views and The Arizona Republic.
The Common Sense Show features a wide variety of important topics that range from the loss of constitutional liberties, to the subsequent implementation of a police state under world governance, to exploring the limits of human potential. The primary purpose of The Common Sense Show is to provide Americans with the tools necessary to reclaim both our individual and national sovereignty.
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Carbon monoxide (CO) is a colorless, odorless, and deadly gas. Because you can't see or smell it, carbon monoxide can kill before you know it's there. Today's more energy-efficient, airtight home designs contribute to the problem by trapping CO-polluted air inside the home.
Why is carbon monoxide dangerous?
The greatest danger of carbon monoxide is its attraction to hemoglobin in the bloodstream. Carbon monoxide is breathed in through the lungs and bonds with the hemoglobin in your blood, displacing the oxygen cells needed to function. When CO is present in the air, it rapidly accumulates in the blood. It will eventually displace enough oxygen in your system to suffocate you from the inside out, resulting in brain damage or death.
Where does carbon monoxide come from?
Any fuel-burning appliance can be a source of carbon monoxide. Carbon monoxide is produced when any fuel (i.e., gas, kerosene, oil, propane, etc.) is incompletely burned or exposed to heat (as in a fire). Typical appliances that we rely on for comforts such as our furnaces, fireplaces, clothes dryers, or stoves, are often the main source of CO. When they malfunction or are not properly ventilated, CO levels rise quickly.
What are the symptoms of CO Poisoning?
CO poisoning can cause a variety of symptoms based on the length of exposure.
Mild Exposure: slight headache; nausea; vomiting; fatigue (often described as "flu-like" symptoms)
Medium Exposure: severe, throbbing headache; drowsiness; confusion; accelerated heart rate
Extreme Exposure: unconsciousness; convulsion; heart and lung failure; brain damage; death.
If you suspect carbon monoxide is present in your home, leave the premises immediately and contact the fire department for further assistance. Do not open any windows for ventilation prior to exiting the home. This will cause the CO level to dissipate and prevent us from getting an accurate reading with our monitors.


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HP, which makes the Windows Home Server-based MediaSmart Server that I use and love, has issued the following statement regarding Microsoft's ongoing efforts to track down and fix the highly publicized Windows Home Server data corruption issue:
HP has been in close communication with Microsoft on the Windows Home Server data corruption issue. There are two points to remember: we are only aware of a small percentage of customers with confirmed instances of the issue, and it occurs only when utilizing certain programs on Home Server systems with more than one hard drive. We understand disappointment with the estimated June delivery of a fix. But we also understand the challenges MS faces in reproducing bugs that occur so infrequently, the complexity of finding the right solution, and the need to complete extensive testing to ensure the bug fix is done correctly. HP is working with MS and is providing engineering and test resources to expedite this fix. With all the complexities of various operating systems, numerous applications, the variety of networking components, and the layers of software on top of Drive Extender, the testing will, in our experience, take some time to complete. Until that time, HP recommends that all HP MediaSmart Server owners follow Microsoft's recommendations to ensure their data remains safe. More information can be found on Microsoft's web site.
It's worth noting, incidentally, that HP hasn't actually had anyone call in with this issue to their support line. I was also told that the data corruption issue isn't even a top five question from customers seeking support. This suggests to me that the issue is indeed rare, as the MediaSmart Server has to be the best-selling WHS solution that's currently available.
Personally, I'm disappointed that Microsoft has been so quiet about this problem. On the other hand, because of the way I utilize the server (i.e. I never directly edit anything on the WHS), I probably won't have any issues. Certainly, I haven't seen any data corruption issues so far.


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Let $A{\buildrel F\over\rightarrow}B{\buildrel G\over\rightarrow}C$ be additive functors between abelian categories.
Hartshorne, in Proposition 5.4 of Residues and Duality, constructs the obvious natural transformation $\zeta_{G,F}:R(GF)\Rightarrow (RG)(RF)$ and notes its obvious properties. He then remarks:
This proposition shows the convenience of derived functors in the context of derived categories. What used to be a spectral sequence becomes now simply a composition of functors. (And of course one can recover the old spectral sequence from this proposition by taking cohomology and using the spectral sequence of a double complex).
I've always felt like I'm missing something here. In what sense does the composition of functors (together with the natural transformation $\zeta_{G,F}$) replace the old spectral sequence? I understand that there's a conceptual insight here, but my questions are these:
What (if anything) is an example of a statement that used to be proved by invoking the spectral sequence but can now be proved more succinctly using the composition of functors?
In what sense does the recovery of the spectral sequence actually use the derived formalism? Isn't the prescribed double complex exactly the same one I'd have written down if I'd never heard of derived categories?


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NHUHSD Board Demands Resignation, Johnson Offers Accusations
By Jack Durham
Press Editor
McKINLEYVILLE/ARCATA – With the festering scandal over a plagiarized speech crippling its ability to conduct business, and with the public demanding that action be taken, the local high school board voted Tuesday, Sept. 10, to ask Trustee Dan Johnson to resign.
The 3-1 vote by the Northern Hum
boldt Union High School District (NHUHSD) Board of Trustees came after a tense meeting at which a defiant Johnson lashed out at critics, called them "haters," criticized the superintendent's job performance and accused a fellow board member of posting "hurtful" comments about himself and his family on the Internet.
More than 140 people packed into the McKinleyville High School Multi-Purpose Room to hear the board discuss the issue, which has plagued the district since Trustee Johnson gave a plagiarized speech at the Arcata High School graduation ceremony on June 13.
This was Johnson's first public appearance since giving the speech. He was a no-show at the last two meetings, due to what he described as an "intense personal issue."
Last week's meeting began with public comments similar to those heard at the last two meetings. Residents said the board needed to take action and do something about Johnson's plagiarized speech.
But there was also a strong contingent of Johnson supporters, who rallied behind the embattled board member. About half of those who spoke said it was time to "move on" – a term that saw frequent use – that Johnson had made a mistake and apologized. His good deeds and dedication to the district should not be forgotten, they argued.
After hearing public comments, the trustees began their deliberations determined to resolve the controversy and put the issue behind them. They also repeatedly defended their actions and responded to public criticisms that they had failed to act and, in doing so, had coddled their fellow board member with special treatment.
Board defends its actions
"It's taken so much time and so much energy out of people for such a long time. It's a very serious matter," said Trustee Dana Silvernale, who requested that the issue be placed on last week's agenda.
Silvernale said the trustees hadn't had an opportunity to sit down together with Johnson and discuss the issue. She said she didn't feel it was right for the board to take a stand without first having a conversation on the matter.
Board President Mike Pigg also defended the board's actions. He noted that after the graduation speech, Superintendent Chris Hartley and Trustee Dan Collen went on vacation.
"It was very hard to move faster than we did in addressing this issue," Pigg said.
When they returned from vacation, a special meeting was held on July 26, during which the board approved a process to try to prevent such incidents from happening at future graduation ceremonies.
"Still, that didn't satisfy the public, it didn't satisfy the media. And some board members still had a hard time not hearing from Dan Johnson." Pigg said.
Pigg acknowledged that Johnson's failure to address the issue early on made matters worse.
"One of the roles of the board is to communicate with the public. And if there's anything Dan has let down in his role, is not communicating with the public," Pigg said.
When Johnson finally did issue a public apology in July, it fell short of board expectations. In particular was the final two sentences in Johnson's apology, which were repeatedly referenced by trustees at last week's meeting.
Johnson ended his July apology by stating "I understand that for some in our community – the self-appointed referees of good and evil – no explanation or apology I can offer is good enough. But I'm comfortable in the knowledge that their intolerance, so readily on display, is a far more profound flaw than mine."
This didn't sit well with Pigg. "I'm going to speak for myself. I don't think it was the greatest apology. I wasn't very happy about the last line. It wasn't a good comment from a board member," he said at last week's meeting.
Johnson's apology, Pigg noted, did not put the controversy to rest.
"So with the help of the media, things kept growing and growing," Pigg said of the summer speech scandal.
Apparently, Pigg had additional conversations with Johnson with the hope that the board member could issue a proper apology and resolve the issue.
"I spoke with Dan and I asked if he could listen to the comments and he could issue a statement. That's what the board member needs to do. I hope we hear that statement tonight," Pigg said.
But when it came time for Johnson so speak at the meeting, his latest apology was anything but contrite.
Johnson's apology
"First of all I'd like to apologize to the board for missing the August meeting. As many of the board members and administration know, I was dealing with a pretty intense personal issue with my family that took complete priority over this board during those months, so unfortunately I was unable to make the July meeting and./or the August meeting," Johnson said.
"Thank you all for the kind words and support…. I really encouraged a lot of the people to not come, because I felt like I didn't want to waste the district's time because at the end of the day we're here to do something better for the kids."
"I'm sorry for the people who have some not-so-kind words feel the way that they feel. I think that if you really got to know me you'd probably have a different interpretation. But unfortunately the people that have those unkind words don't really have any idea who the hell I am as a person nor do they care who I am as a person because not one person has picked up the phone and wanted to talk to me about the subject other than the media, which I'm unwilling to have a conversation with."
"We need to move this district forward and focus on the kids. That's what this is about. I'm sorry the district and fellow board members that they've had to go through this. It's been not a pleasant situation for Dr. Hartley, brand new superintendent, and I'd bet he'd look back and say he hasn't done everything correct. And I'm sorry the district has had to go through this."
"Most importantly, sorry to [my] family, and the 18-year-old girl who has graduated and everybody thinks is ruined for life is standing right back in the back of the room and maybe you want take a few minutes to actually ask her how she feels about this and what she's learned about treating human beings through this process because she may have a different interpretation than what you all say she has."
"It's a shame we can't take the passions in this room and take all the energy into educating about the negative effects of drugs and alcohol. Or working to ensure the homeless kids we have in our school can get to school every day and eat three square meals and maybe even have some shelter."
"As my brother spoke a minute ago, I've been on this board now a total of three years, coming into the end of the third year, and I've never seen this many people in the room combined for the entire time I've been on the board. It would be great to see this kind of energy around trying to make this district a better district. If this many people put their energy into caring about kids this district would be even better than what it is today."
At this point in Johnson's apology, someone in the audience was talking and laughing. Johnson looked toward the north side of the room and directed comments at someone who he believed was a teacher, although later he admitted he couldn't see who had disrupted his comments.
"You can give me the respect to listen to what I have to say, this teacher, because I can tell you right now if someone was sitting in your classroom laughing while you're lecturing, you'd probably send them out," Johnson said.
At that, he raised his arm and pointed toward the door. "So why don't you head out of the room right now and go stand in the hallway while I speak and have my opportunity to talk. Thank you," said a visibly angry Johnson.
He then continued his commentary, which seemed to suggest that his critics in the room, many of whom were teachers, parents and students, weren't doing enough for the schools.
"I urge you all in the room to run for the board. I urge you to get on a committee. Get involved in a classroom. Put some passion into the school, and actually see if you can make a difference in a kid's life, like everyone of these board members who are on here have made," Johnson declared.
"We all need to move this district forward and focus on the kids. We need to leave the district and the administration and the board alone. They have acted, they have taken the action and they are not in this. If you want to keep running me through the media, and running my family through the media, then so be it. But the district and the board needs to be left alone. They have done what they should do, they have done everything that they can do."
"I acted at graduation as a dad and I meant every single word I spoke. I'm not perfect. None of us are in the room, by the way. There was nothing malicious intended. Nobody was killed, no drugs were given or sold to any children. Just a simple message to my daughter [name redacted], who's in the back of the room, written in my words with the input of years of learning and coaching from many, many people."
Johnson then cited David McCullough Jr. (referring to him as "McCoughlin"), who gave the original "You Are Not Special Speech" that Johnson plagiarized, as one of those people who gave him "input." Johnson also cited numerous influential businessmen like Bill Gates, as well as friends and family members for giving him inspiration.
At no point in last week's apology, or in his previous written apology, does Johnson use the word "plagiarism."
"Yes, I made an error. Who has not?" Johnson continued. "All I can do is apologize and learn, which I've done."
"I find it disheartening that people so quickly forget all the wonderful things that people do in their life and they jump on the controversy. I guess that's human nature, certainly not my human nature. We've all learned from this. The district and the board has listened and acted on your concerns. It is time to move on and focus on improving the already exceptional district and educating and providing extracurricular activities for the experience of our kids here in the Northern Humboldt Unified [sic] School District. Thank you," Johnson concluded.
The audience bursts into a thunderous applause. Numerous people rose from their seats and gave Johnson a standing ovation.
'Plagiarism, by anyone, is unacceptable'
Johnson's feisty apology and his lashing out at critics didn't go uncommented by fellow trustees. But before the board got down to trying to resolve the issue, some trustees felt compelled to again defend their actions over the last three months.
"I'd like to clear up a few misconceptions, first of all the approval of plagiarism," said Trustee Colleen Toste to the packed house. "Not only did the board hold a special meeting in the summer and provide an open forum for the public to come, we also issued a press release that stated a firm belief that plagiarism is unacceptable. We affirmed that we uphold academic integrity at all levels in the district. To me that means from students through board members. If we support plagiarism as some have tried to indicate why would we take the time and effort I just described and craft steps that Chris [Hartley] described to ensure that it never happens again? The message was very clear to our students, teachers and staff and the entire community – plagiarism, by anyone, is unacceptable."
As for accepting Johnson's written apology, Toste clarified that the board accepted his statement at the forum and into the minutes, rather than the content of the apology. "That's it," she said.
As for calls that the board make Johnson resign, Toste said the board doesn't have the legal authority to do so.
"To look at us as not taking action, or coddling Dan, is completely wrong. He hasn't been coddled, he just doesn't want to resign. Why not censure, people say. Many people have been speaking loud and clear that they want Dan to resign and think that a public condemnation of Dan's speech will get that result. They don't know Dan Johnson," Toste said.
'I accept Dan's apology'
Trustee Dan Collen said that Johnson has been a good board member and provided the district with lots of expertise.
"He did apologize. I accepted his apology," said Collen, who agreed that the last paragraph in Johnson's written apology should have been left out.
"I respect Dan Johnson, I think he made a mistake – I know he made a mistake. No one on this board approves of plagiarism," said Collen. "I'd like to move on. I accept Dan's apology. I think this community needs to do that as well."
'Something more has to happen'
But Dana Silvernale had a different take on Dan's apology and his conduct, which she said appears to violate the board's governing standards.
Board members, she said, are supposed to keep the district focused on learning and achievement for all students. The board has lost that focus as a result of Johnson's speech and his response to critics, she said.
"It's been how many months now that our focus has been on Dan's speech?" Silvernale asked.
Board members, she said, are supposed to operate openly with trust and integrity.
"I think we have. I don't believe we violated the Brown Act," said Silvernale, referring to allegations that the board violated state law by holding numerous secret meetings via e-mail and possibly telephone calls, during which a quorum of the board tried to figure out how to handle the scandal.
Another board policy requires that trustees "govern in a dignified and professional manner, and treat everyone with civility and respect."
According to Silvernale, Johnson violated this policy.
"I think that Dan, you made a mistake. I'll take your word that you didn't know, you didn't even think you were plagiarizing, that you thought you were taking really inspiring ideas and conveying them… But your closing paragraph, accusing people of being the judges of good and evil who would never be satisfied unless you resigned, was not respectful. It just invalidated the whole apology."
Silvernale then referenced the earlier incident in the meeting when Johnson told someone who he believed to be a teacher to stand in the hallway for interrupting his apology.
"That comment really makes me question whether you can be trusted to behave in a civil and respectful manner and to really listen to what everyone has to say," Silvernale said to Johnson.
Silvernale said that while there were people early one who were calling for Johnson's resignation, there were others who wanted to just hear a sincere apology and who would be willing to move on.
"Your apology destroyed that opportunity," Silvernale said. "So it seems to me something more has to happen."
Silvernale told Johnson he needed to take responsibility for what he did and "you need to do something to compensate for it."
"What can you do, Dan, to make things right for our community?" Silvernale asked him.
She asked Johnson how he was going to be able to effectively serve as a board member at events, like the ribbon cutting ceremony for the new bleachers at McKinleyville High School scheduled for Friday, Sept. 13.
"You have a lot of people who are upset and very distrustful of you. What's it going to be like?… How can you be an effective and joyful member of the board in that kind of environment?" Silvernale asked.
"I'm not in a position to answer those (questions) tonight," Johnson responded.
'Need to hear a sincere apology'
Moving closer to a resolution, Trustee Toste made it clear who she would be representing when making a decision.
"I think it's important that we listen to our community. I appreciate people coming here who live in Eureka and Fortuna.," she said, referring to the Johnson supporters who turned out for the meeting. "That's wonderful to come and support Dan and the good deeds that he's done. But I really think it's important for us as a board to (remember) that we are the Northern Humboldt School District, and that's who I want to represent – your views, your wishes and your concerns."
Later, Toste said "What I hear people saying is that we either need to hear a sincere apology from Dan, or he needs to resign." Her statement was greeted with applause.
'A loss of trust'
President Pigg found himself in an awkward position of having to criticize a Johnson, with whom he went to high school and considers a personal friend.
"There's been trust that's been broken, a loss of trust with our staff and our kids," Pigg said about the situation.
"But I do know that teachers feel this is a big issue and they're not happy with how Dan has been responding. I'm not happy with how Dan has responded. I accept his apology, but I don't accept that last line. I have hard time with that."
Pigg said he also has a hard time with Johnson's tone with staff.
"You don't know how hard it is for me to say this, but…" Pigg said, pausing and appearing to choke up. "I've known Dan since high school. We've done a lot of things together. And he's done a lot of good for this community… if Dan can't step up before this crowd and give an apology that is heartfelt… I'd like to ask for a motion for Dan to resign. That's one of the hardest things I've ever done in my life."
Next was Johnson's moment to try yet again to give the kind of apology that board members wanted to hear, but it didn't happen.
'The haters'
"You spoke that the focus continues to be on the speech," Johnson said. "The focus is on the speech because we're letting it be on the speech. So if the board and the administration… we need to move on from the speech, then the speech is no longer the focus. You know, the closing paragraph, I just want to speak to that because there are some pretty hurtful things that your colleagues are saying about me in the blogs… As a matter of fact, one of your colleagues, I won't mention the name of that colleague… has actually said in a recent blog that I bought my daughter's 4.0 grade point average, that I bought the teachers off to get her that grade…"
"So the reason I put that last paragraph in there was because the personal things you people in this community have said about me and my family, I had the opportunity to say something," Johnson said. "And, and, let me tell you what, I could have said a whole lot more. And, and the comments that I made to the young lady in the front row, I'm not even sure who that is, I can't see that well and can't even tell who the person is, but she was being disrespectful. She was laughing and talking while I was speaking. That's disrespect, and that shouldn't be accepted in any classroom…"
"The last thing I would say is that, you know, the board needs to take a stand," Johnson said. "I've taken a stand. I've made a mistake, I gave my apology, and there's nothing I could have said in that apology that could have been good enough for the haters. There's nothing, and it's over. We need to move on."
Johnson's final comments were met with applause from the audience, but he'd sealed his fate with the board.
The final vote
Silvernale said that the comments showed that Johnson doesn't know how to treat other people. She also asked Johnson who the colleague was that posted the comments on the Internet.
"Yeah, I was speaking of you," Johnson said to Silvernale.
In an email interview Sunday, Silvernale wrote that she was confused by Johnson's comments and left the meeting unaware that he had accused her of posting comments about him on a blog – a charge she flatly denied.
Silvernale asked Pigg if his comment that the board call for Johnson's resignation was a motion. Pigg said no, it was just a suggestion. Silvernale moved that the board call for Johnson's resignation. The motion was seconded by Toste.
The board voted 3-1, with Trustee Collen dissenting, to ask for Johnson's resignation.
Trustee Dan Collen said he was a "process guy" and didn't see the point of asking for Johnson's resignation. The voters, he said, have the option of voting Johnson out of office when he comes up for election, or they have the option of recalling Johnson.
Johnson abstained from the vote and made no further comments.
The vote signals board disapproval of Johnson's performance, but does not require him to resign.
(See a video of Johnson's apology at www.mckinlyvillepress.com.)


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MEDFORD — One moment, Jonathan Garlick is doing something you might expect of a scholarly looking researcher, leading Tufts University freshmen through a discussion of the complicated scientific, ethical, and political questions surrounding stem cell research.
The next moment, Garlick does perhaps the last thing you would expect of a mild-mannered, 60-year-old scientist and college professor: He cranks up a karaoke machine, dons a baseball cap (tilted to the side), and becomes the Stem Cell Rapper. He adapts what they were talking about to popular rap music, and — in his words — "breaks it down."
"Moral issues to address/Hypotheses we need to test/Why capturin' pluripotency/Is causing so much controversy," Garlick raps to the beat of "Paper Planes" by M.I.A.
At first glance, it seems like a shtick more appropriate for the bar mitzvahs and weddings where Garlick performs humorous raps for friends and family. But his students, who end up singing along with the refrains and tapping fingers and feet to the beat, say Garlick's rapping helps hammer home the subject matter.
"To be able to connect on a level like this not only in a musical sense but in a genre that really connects to us as students is fantastic," said Ryan Leung, a freshman from New Bedford, after rocking to Garlick's rap at the end of a recent class.
Such a response is music to Garlick's ears. The point of wrapping up the class with rap, he says, is to make the interface of science and society relevant to young students, and to encourage them to talk about science as they learn about it.
"It immediately creates a common language that didn't exist before," Garlick said. "The deeper meaning is to engage learners, get the message out, and encourage others to do the same."
Garlick assigns the lyrics of his science raps as homework. At the end of the semester, the students must complete a project he calls "Write it, rap it, sing it, play it, say it, dance it," for which they have to make their own statement about science in the medium they find most expressive. Raps aside, this is still a serious course; they take a series of quizzes in science literacy, and also write an opinion piece to develop and explain a position on science.
Educators have sung to students. But by tapping into the popularity of such superstars as Kanye West, Alicia Keys, and Jay-Z, Garlick has become somewhat of a science rap celebrity. Though he has written dozens of articles and book chapters on such subjects as bioengineering of human skin equivalents to study the pathogenesis of a variety of oral and skin diseases, Garlick says he is more often recognized for his rapping.
"When I go to science meetings these days I'm asked for autographs because I'm the Stem Cell Rapper, not for anything I've discovered in years of doing science," he said.
Garlick performed Stem Cell Rap in class. As the riff kicked in, Leung laughed and told the other students: "I know this one! I listen to it every morning!"
Before we go any further, it must be said that Garlick's musical work is uneven at best. Boston Globe pop music critic Sarah Rodman does not think he should be trading his microscope for a microphone anytime soon.
"He may be a great scientist but his flow could use some work, though it's no doubt difficult rhyming 'pluripotency' with 'controversy,' " she said. "It's clear he's got a playful spirit, however, so he gets a B for effort."
Garlick took the critique in stride.
"It wasn't meant to be artistry," he said.
But there is no question that he takes pride in his work. Raised in the Catskills in a family where everyone belted out show tunes, Garlick hit upon rap as a medium decades ago, when he was studying to be a dentist. He was listening to "The Message," the iconic1982 rap by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, and decided it related to the trials of being a dental student.
Thus was born "The Dental Message" ("Dentistry's got me close to the edge/I'm tryin' not to lose my head.")
As his career progressed from dentist to scientist, Garlick said, he realized he had a talent for putting together scientific phraseology to the rhythm of rap.
"All the words rhyme with each other anyway," he said. "I can pretty much do it on the spot."
His science raps are not just for students: "Colonoscopy," based on "Black Coffee," by Heavy D. & the Boyz, is intended as a public service message to middle-age men. ("Sign me up/colonoscopy/it's time to see/what's inside of me.")
Garlick adapts rap lyrics for other purposes. He has rendered Kanye's "No Church in the Wild" to the story of Purim, and turned Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back" into "Melissa Got Joe," for a wedding.
A different rendition of "Baby Got Back" also served as the finale for the recent class at Tufts. Entitled "I See Cells," it is Garlick's tribute to pathology. ("I see cells!/So what can these cells be/they all look benign to me/but the tumor's growin' quicker/and the patient's getting sicker.") The students joined him on the "I see cells" refrain. Garlick began to wiggle and shake to the music; his co-teacher in the course, Lara Park, joined him in dance. Science class suddenly looked a bit like the final scene of "Slumdog Millionaire."
"He's on beat, he has rhythm," observed Nii-Ofei Dodoo, a freshman from Cherry Hill, N.J.
Added Erica Schwartz, a first-year student from Albany, N.Y.: "He has swag."
More music to Garlick's ears.
"Based on the audience response," he said, "I would say I was born to do this."
David Filipov can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @davidfilipov.


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I've known Ryan Nichols, the CEO and co-founder of Tylr Mobile, for a number of years now – he has an impressive record of picking great problem areas and executing upon them in short order – I first came across him at Appirio and we later talked when he took on the role of business development at Podio which was, in mere months, acquired by Citrix. Nichols contacted me recently to talk about his new startup, and explain to me the problem they're trying to solve.
Their product, Tylr Mobile, is an enterprise mobile platform that seeks to connect existing, well utilized but ultimately siloed tools into one process-savvy mobile application. The theory behind the company's first product, WorkinBox, is that today's main mobile application is email – which, despite its ubiquity, is a poor tool given the fact that it lacks context, is incredibly noisy and is siloed with poor interaction with the systems of record an enterprise uses. WorkinBox is focused on helping salespeople tie their two main applications, email and CRM, into one seamless, context-rich and agile experience.
I was given a sneak preview of the product and I have to say it's user experience is exquisite. The experience is not unlike Mailbox, the smash hit email app that Dropbox acquired recently – but a UI, no matte how beautiful it looks, doesn't make a difference if the core proposition for the product is unsound.
Unsurprisingly given Nichol's background and experience, WorkinBox makes total sense. The idea is to connect the emails related to particular opportunities, accounts and contacts, and deliver them in one integrated screen that allows users to take actions and track progress between email and their CRM. Say an email comes in from a prospect asking for a soft copy of a recent presentation, WorkinBox has all the communications relating to that opportunity in one window so the salesperson can find the particular file, attach it to a reply and, most importantly, have the opportunity updated within Salesforce. No more replying to emails with a "I'll find it when I'm in the office" or worse, no more being unable to communicate with customers in a timely manner, WorkinBox captures the history, communication streams and context behind a relationship. It's application convergence delivered in a logical manner.
To an extent WorkinBox begs some core questions about the assumption that more and more communication is happening off email. This is, to an extent a realistic viewpoint but also somewhat limited. If WorkinBox had the ability to capture customer communications from channels other than email (SMS, voice, Twitter for example) it would more nicely fit in with the multi channel message that social protagonists are articulating. The reality however is that business is still done via email – it's the way that the overwhelming majority of communication occurs. But therein lies the rub. The overwhelming majority of communication happens via email, and within Outlook – convincing salespeople to ditch their regular modes of working for a new way of looking at the world will be hard. I suspect that the company realizes this and is considering how their approach towards integrated email and CRM would play in a desktop application world – perhaps an Outlook plugin for those who are forever wedded to the staple app of salespeople?
WorkinBox is launching today at the demo conference and is being released as an iPhone app – one assumes that other platforms won't be far behind. The concept, and the execution thus far is highly compelling – it strikes me that, once again, Nichols may have picked a winner – this is the sort of product that would find a very happy home under Salesforce itself – I'd not be surprised if the company didn't snap them up rapidly.


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"Flow Batteries for Grid Energy Storage"
Dr. Marc-Antoni Goulet
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Seminar: 12pm on Thursday, October 26th at CAER' in the Ben Bandy Conference Room
As the demand for electricity continues to increase around the world, so does the size and complexity of electrical grids. Although new energy generation infrastructure is often necessary to address this additional demand, in many cases, constraints such as capital cost, resource scarcity and legislation make energy storage and arbitrage a more cost-effective option. Among the technologies available, batteries are a leading contender due their adaptability and suitability for a wide range of arbitrage timescales. In a world looking to transition towards non-emitting renewable energy, one particularly important timescale is the daily disparity between peak demand and the supply of intermittent solar energy. Flow batteries have recently gained considerable interest for such longer duration requirements due to their decoupled energy and power costs. This presentation will introduce the concept of these flow batteries and provide a brief overview of the history and development of the technology. Some of the current approaches to address remaining challenges will also be discussed to provide a realistic perspective on the state of the art and the probability of large scale deployment.
Biography: Marc-Antoni is currently a postdoctoral fellow working on aqueous organic flow batteries within the research group of Michael J. Aziz at Harvard University. He earned a B.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics from McGill University followed by a M.Sc. in Physics from McMaster University. His Ph.D. in Engineering Science at Simon Fraser University included work on hydrogen fuel cell membranes and optimization of vanadium based microfluidic batteries. Since then, his research interests have become focused on grid scale energy storage technology and range from fundamental electrochemistry and battery lifetime to cost modeling and commercialization pathways.


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Each week, Symposium Magazine invites an author to guest-blog. This week, Prof. David M. Levinson is blogging about "Understanding the Irrational Commuter."
The politics of security are difficult. If you are in favor of security, you must be in favor of more spending on security, or on anything that will "keep us safe." If politicians or bureaucrats oppose a proposed security measure and something happens, they will be blamed. Security ratchets up quickly. Ratcheting down can only really be by attrition.
Although the increase in security spending post–9/11 exceeds $1 trillion over ten years, the Department of Homeland Security has systematically failed to study the costs and benefits of proposed security measures, most notably radiation scanners. Other Western countries have had similar spending increases.
The problem is not just the total, which is large and might be spent in other sectors. The problem is the allocation within the security sphere. If you have $1 trillion to spend, what is the best way to do that to maximize security? The idea of opportunity cost rises again and again, and is never properly dealt with.
Rather than assessing both the probability of an outcome and its cost if it occurs, the agency has dealt with risk qualitatively, imagining worst-case scenarios and engaging in what the legal scholar Cass Sunstein calls "probability neglect." The artifice of travelers removing shoes and belts, unpacking suitcases, pouring out liquids, while agents frisk grandmas and children at security checkpoints has been called "security theater" because it aims to give travelers the impression that something is being done to improve security, when there is no evidence any of this has made a difference.
The vector of attack from 9/11, hijacking planes and crashing them into buildings, has been unrepeated not because TSA has ensured safety. Instead, secured cockpit doors and the willingness of passengers to take action in the event of a threat on board has prevented this from occurring. Other attack vectors that remain are receiving less protection because so much money is spent in response to the previous attack. While the TSA monitors security, the lines leading up to security are managed by the airport or airlines themselves, and the latter give priority to certain passengers (e.g., first class), even though they pay exactly the same amount of security tax as everyone else.
This has some analogy with HOT lanes; the key difference is that the car in the HOT lane pays more money to go faster, while in this case, first class passengers only paid more money for a better seat on the plane. Security is not just an issue on airplanes. Inter-city buses and high-speed rail sometimes have security measures, though rarely as stringent. Intra-city public transit generally does not, because it would quickly become unworkable. As a consequence, these other modes are much more vulnerable, as shown in the Madrid attacks (2004), London attacks (2005), or the Tokyo Sarin gas attack (1995).
Security is the enemy of efficiency. Just as with safety, we want perfect security. That goal is unattainable, and security providers should rationally trade off between value of time and value of life.
Excerpted and adapted from The Transportation Experience: Second Edition, by William Garrison and David Levinson (Oxford University Press, 2014)


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Rising star Samuel Anderson (The History Boys, Gavin & Stacey, Emmerdale) is set to join the cast of Doctor Who as a recurring character in Series 8, which will also introduce Peter Capaldi as the Doctor.
Anderson will play Danny Pink, a teacher at Coal Hill School where companion Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman) also teaches. On joining the show Samuel Anderson said: "I was so excited to join Doctor Who I wanted to jump and click my heels, but I was scared I might not come down before filming started!"
He continued: "It's a quintessential part of British culture and I can't believe I'm part of it. It's an honour to be able to work alongside Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman and I can't wait to show people how my character becomes involved with such a fantastic duo!".
Steven Moffat, lead writer and executive producer, added: "For the fourth time in Doctor Who history, Coal Hill School is coming to the aid of the TARDIS. In 1963 teachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright accompanied the First Doctor. These days it's the turn of Jenna Coleman as Clara Oswald. And very soon now, Sam Anderson as Danny Pink will be entering the world of the Doctor. But how and why? Answers are coming later this year in Peter Capaldi's first series of Doctor Who!".
Filming recently began on episode 4 of the new series, which will co-star Robert Goodman (Gangs of New York, Game of Thrones) and episode 5, co-starring Jonathan Bailey (Broadchurch, Groove High), and Pippa Bennett-Warner (The Smoke, Death in Paradise).