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Last week I wrote up a guide to the some of the easter eggs in Thor, special items that barely got any screen time and have no meaning to mainstream moviegoers. For fans of Marvel comics and its vast universe however, the artifacts of Odin's vault mean so much more.
According to the latest rumor, one of these items in particular may play a key factor in The Avengers or at least, the stories The Avengers will set to introduce for potential spin-offs and sequels. If true, this would mean Thor has even more ties to The Avengers than we thought, so much so that we can almost say it's a literal prequel to the epic team-up film.
During the Thor post-credits scene (that was directed by Joss Whedon and not Thor director, Kenneth Branagh) we see Loki alive and well, being as villainous as ever. This and press releases from Marvel confirmed that Loki (Tom Hiddleston) will definitely be back for The Avengers as a villain. According to Latino Review, our expectations of there being more villains in the story are true...
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One other cosmic being may be playing into The Avengers movie as well: Thanos.
The addition of Thanos, the intensely powerful cosmic villain, certainly gives more purpose for this special item that was shown at Comic-Con last year and in the Thor movie, locked away in Odin's Vault. Say hello to the Infinity Gauntlet:
This is Thanos' glove, augmented by the addition of the six Infinity Gems, collected and put together by Thanos himself to control the universe. As the inclusion of this item in Thor would indicate, Thanos already succeeded in accomplishing this but presumably, Odin managed to take it and store it safely on Asgard. If Thanos is in The Avengers, this glove plays a part in the movie too and fans will need to prepare for a very cosmic ride, with Loki, The Skrulls and now Thanos all possibly factoring in to the plot somehow.
If Thanos is more than just a cameo expect another important Marvel character, Adam Warlock (Thanos' nemesis), to not be far behind. All of this seems to be too much if The Skrulls are in the film as well, but it's likely that some of these stories are being planted for the sequels. Marvel is planning five years ahead and at Comic-Con this year they will announce some of their upcoming films post-Avengers.
The Avengers stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Samuel L. Jackson, Cobie Smulders, Clark Gregg, Tom Hiddleston and Stellan Skarsgard. It is of course written and directed by Joss Whedon, opening in theaters on May 4, 2012.
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Elon Musk's long-awaited blog post take-down has arrived with what he claims is the data to prove New York Times John M. Broder reporter committed some sort of journalistic malpractice to run a bad review of the Tesla Model S's range capability. The Times continues to vouch for the accuracy of Broder's report and has another upcoming response to the latest Musk claims, a spokesperson told The Atlantic Wire. Musk, however, has followed through on his promise to publish data logs that he claims show that Broder (and not the car) was to blame for it stalling out on a cold day in Connecticut. But Musk is really going beyond that to a much more serious charge: he claims Broder deliberately set out to sabotage the test in a blatant violation of journalistic ethics.
Musk accuses Broder of thinking "the facts shouldn't get in the way of a salacious story" (which is an odd choice of adjective for a car review) and "When the facts didn't suit his opinion, he simply changed the facts." Musk, who's earned quite a following after the glowing media coverage of impressive futuristic empire (he's also the entrepreneur behind private space flight company SpaceX) saw his missive cheered along on Twitter, with some calling Tesla's evidence "damning," "amazing" and "powerful." But do all the annotated charts, lines, and points prove Musk's assertion that Broder staged his road trip to deliberately make the car run out of power? Let's take a look.
Argument 1: Broder took a long detour in Manhattan, which would add up to more miles. Tesla doesn't put any data behind that assertion, only saying he took an "an unplanned detour through downtown Manhattan to give his brother a ride."
Convincing? No. The other charts indicate the trip took a little over 500 miles, which matches up to the mileage Broder gives on his map, which total up to 529 miles. Google Maps claims, with a stop in Manhattan, the trip would take around 500 miles.
Argument 2: Broder didn't turn down the heat in the car to save battery power, as claimed. In his article, Broder writes that after he noticed he wouldn't have enough battery power for the trip, "I began following Tesla's range-maximization guidelines, which meant dispensing with such battery-draining amenities as warming the cabin and keeping up with traffic. I turned the climate control to low." But Musk argues that the data logs show "At the point in time that he claims to have turned the temperature down, he in fact turned the temperature up to 74 F."
Convincing? Partly. The crux of Musk's argument is "at the point in time that he claims." In his preceding paragraph, Broder writes that he was 68 miles out from the charging station in Deleware, and Musk figures that means he is 182 miles into his trip, and indeed Musk's logs show that the "setpoint" (presumably the thermostat setting) of the climate control went up, from somewhere just under 73 degrees to just over 74 degrees. But Broder never claims he turned down his heat at the 182 mile mark. He says at that point he noted the car had 85 miles of range remaining "and a little mental math told me that reaching Milford would be a stretch." He then writes, "I began following Tesla's range-maximization guidelines" including turning the heat down. And in the logs Musk shows, indeed 40 or 50 miles later in the trip, the setpoint drops precipitously.
There are all sorts of questions you could ask about this data, but the data shows that right around the 200 mile mark of Broder's drive, the heat was being turned lower. Maybe Broder waited too long to preserve his battery. Maybe he exaggerated how cold he was. But Musk is making a different, more damning point about Broder: he lied about turning off the heat. This chart does not show a lie.
Argument 3: Musk writes that "Cruise control was never set to 54 mph as claimed in the article, nor did he limp along at 45 mph." This refers to the second part of Broder's sentence about turning down the heat, "I turned the climate control to low — the temperature was still in the 30s — and planted myself in the far right lane with the cruise control set at 54 miles per hour," and then again when he was in Norwich: "The displayed range never reached the number of miles remaining to Milford, and as I limped along at about 45 miles per hour I saw increasingly dire dashboard warnings to recharge immediately." Musk places that first part again at 182 miles in and the second part at around mile 410. We've blocked off both those sections.
Convincing? Yes, then no. The speeds look a bit higher for both parts, almost reaching 70 at some points on the leg to NY, which does not jibe with the 54 mph cruise control. But the section before he broke down it does look like he chugged along at a pretty low speed.
Argument 4: Broder intentionally ran down the battery upon arrival at the first charging station in Milford to reach zero battery.
Convincing? Not quite. It's unclear how driving 0.6 miles at less than 15 miles per hour would drain the battery to completion, or how it indicates he was driving in circles. Google Maps shows that it's 0.2 miles from where the off-ramp starts to where the Tesla Supercharger is located (or where Google thinks it's located—we don't know the charging station's exact location) in the Milford Service Plaza.
Musk is accusing Broder of driving three times the most direct route. Maybe Broder missed the charging station and drove around the McDonald's a couple times looking for it? At the speeds shown in the logs, Tesla says Broder spent around five minutes driving around the service plaza before stopping. If he was deliberately trying to drain the battery, he did not stick to the endeavor for very long.
Update 2:31 p.m.: Broder claims that he indeed did get lost looking for the station. "I was circling the parking lot in the service plaza looking for the unmarked and unlighted Supercharger port in the dark. I was not trying to drain the battery," he told New York's Joe Coscarelli.
Argument 5: The battery never ran out of charge. In this chart he is also trying to prove that Broder didn't charge fully on purpose, deliberately charging less with each leg, even after his bad experiences.
Convincing? No. His other chart shows the mile range dipped below zero, which would indicate the car could not move.
Broder also explains that he did not charge fully because of the time it took to charge. He wanted to show the real world experience of a real driver, who might not want to endure the hour and a half it takes to charge up, when only needing a certain amount of energy to get to point B.
Argument 6: Why didn't Musk stop at one of the many charging stations when running on low battery? "He drove right past a public charge station while the car repeatedly warned him that it was very low on range," wonders Musk, posting all the stations on the path.
Convincing? No. That wasn't the point of the article. Broder wanted to see how the car would do on a long range road trip relying on Tesla's two official Supercharger stations.
Not all of Musk's data is entirely convincing and the parts that are don't point to a malicious plot. In the end, it looks like Broder made some compromises to get from the Newark charging station to the Milford one, in both speed and temperature. Broder may not have used Musk's car the way Musk would like, but Musk is, for now, overhyping his case for a breach of journalism ethics.
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(This is the altitude profile in meters for Brocken Marathon on Saturday)
As I see it, there are two good, but opposite, arguments:
1. Start out fast and then it won't matter how you feel the second half because it's all downhill.
2. Start out slowly so you can run the downhill more quickly.
Then there is the thought that I won't be able to run the uphill anyway, in which case strategy won't really help.
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- PiccolaPineCone said...
strategy: find a fast, flat race elsewhere :)
seriously, strategy, monitor your heart rate and breathing closely and don't let them climb above acceptable marathoning levels. As per steveq's post awhile back, the one that was all letters, L, M P something something... you want to make sure you stay in the aerobic, marathoning zone until at least 20 miles so, use your biofeedback to dictate the strategy.
first comment, yay!
- 6 October 2010 at 22:28
- olga said...
At 350 feet/mile you'll be able to run it just fine. Shorten stride and pump the arms. Monitor your breath and HR rather than pace. Looks like a great course.
- 6 October 2010 at 22:34
- Danni said...
Start fast and hang on. :-)
- 7 October 2010 at 00:15
- mmmonyka said...
800m in 10miles. That's not that bad, but running uphill for 10 miles probably is.
I would go with option 1. Downhill will be probably too technical to run fast so you will have to go slowly anyway and therefore will not have opportunity to use that saved energy.
However, after I read PPC's highly scientific comment I was not sure whether I should even express my "just good old common sense" opinion.
- 7 October 2010 at 03:36
- Ewa said...
Depends on how you feel on the up portion. If half way there you feel strong, push it.
Going down, just go for it.
Oh, gosh, can't wait to read your race report.
- 7 October 2010 at 03:36
- Karen said...
That looks similar to the Equinox Marathon I ran a few weeks ago. What I decided to do was run like hell to the hill, walk whatever I needed on the steep uphill parts, and then the fatigue won't feel so bad for the downhill and probably keep a pretty good pace. :)
It's a lot harder to make up for starting out too slow than to run faster when really tired. Go for broke !! :)
- 7 October 2010 at 05:56
- Karina said...
Hej Sealegs
For mig var det et svært løb. Det er to løb i et.
Jeg tænkte, når først jeg når toppen er resten bare ned af bakke. Men det er svært at løbe så forholdsvist stejlt nedad, når man har løbet opad længe.
Jeg syntes faktisk den sidste del nedad bjerget var den sværeste del af turen.
Løb som du føler, jeg tror ikke der kan laves en opskrift....
Men det bliver fedt og det er en smuk rute :)
KH Karina
- 7 October 2010 at 06:49
i think the math would say start slowly so that you can run strong on the downhill section. think of the extra effort required to climb, say, 10 seconds per mile faster v. the extra effort required to run downhill, say, 20 seconds per mile faster...much less effort required for the additional speed gain. isn't there some physics formula to back this up? w=f*d or some such thing? much less force required to go the downhill d because gravity helps out. less work means less exhaustion, more oppty for speed. have fun! take an ice bath after..
- 7 October 2010 at 12:34
- Dale Nesbitt said...
I'd run the first 8 miles slow, climb that huge hill, then sprint to the end. ;)
- 7 October 2010 at 14:53
- SteveQ said...
In every race, there are essentially two approaches: even pace and even effort. Pick one.
- 7 October 2010 at 17:59
- mmmonyka said...
Looks to me that you have picked a right strategy:) (yes, I am a stalker again). Can't wait to read the report.
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Andy Hudlow
February 18, 2016
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream Speech," is probably most famous for its quote: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
This quote embodies what most people want their world to look like. A world where people are judged solely for who they are as individuals. We have made great strides in race relations since MLK's day, but there's one part of American society that continues to treat individuals like numbers filling a quota.
College admissions offices across the country are the most blatantly racist institutions in modern day society.
They systematically assign value to race as applications come in, and warp the natural outcomes of the admissions process by placing undue value on the applications of minority students while paying no extra attention to white applicants.
Sure, you can argue that other parts of society are equally racist, but at least they cover it up. Admissions offices on the other hand, are very open about their racial bias in pursuit of "diversity."
I hate to break it to all the Affirmative Action supporters out there, but this in itself is racism. And no, it's not the made up definition of racism as "prejudice plus power." It's racist in the real sense of the word.
This is a pertinent issue because we've all experienced it in one way or another. All of us here at Santa Clara could've been given a boost or been negatively affected by our applications on the basis of our race.
In a very basic sense, Affirmative Action is racist and unfair. It assumes that without the university's direct help, minority students would not have the academic credentials to get into whatever college or university they're applying to.
It casts a shadow over their academic career of, "Could I have gotten in here without Affirmative Action?", and that is a burden no minority student at Santa Clara should bear.
Of course most of them could've gotten in without Affirmative Action. It's unfair to them that their academic qualifications are questioned just because they were subjected to a program they never asked for and don't need.
Asians, perhaps so more than any other ethnic or racial group, are tremendously hurt by Affirmative Action. It's a well-documented phenomenon that colleges raise standards for Asian applicants.
Since Asians tend to be higher achieving than other minority groups, institutions want to lower their acceptance rates to maintain, what they see an appropriate racial balance at these schools to be.
That is wrong, plain and simple. Our society should be constantly striving to erase boundaries between groups of people, not reinforce them. College admissions offices across the nation should begin to focus on the merits of a student's application and if they truly deserve to attend the college they are applying to.
Leave behind this racist policy of Affirmative Action, and start to judge people by the content of their character, not by the color of their skin.
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Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced The 2013 AEIRS/Elsevier Innovator of the Year Award recipients. Mahsa Dehghanpour, EDd, MS, CMD, Program Director and Assistant Professor, and Jamie Baker, MEd, CMD, Instructor and Education Coordinator, both of the Medical Dosimetry Program at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center School of Health Professions (SHP), have been recognized for their outstanding work as educators in imaging sciences.
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"We are delighted to honor this year's award recipients," said AEIRS Board President Deborah Leighty, M. Ed., R.T. (R) (BD). "Our organization continues to see a rise in stellar submissions year after year, and we applaud the outstanding work done by so many educators working to innovate student learning."
The winning submission, CSI - Case Study Investigation Interdisciplinary Learning in the Virtual Clinic, addressed the need for effective staff communication between diverse medical practitioners for safe and effective treatment of cancer patients. For a patient to receive safe care, medical practitioners must communicate effectively in a coordinated effort to diagnose and treat the afflicted person. For this reason, the School of Health Profession's leadership and faculty decided to develop and implement an annual Interdisciplinary Case Study Conference for students to learn about other disciplines through an innovative and engaging program implemented in a simulated clinical environment. This program, which took place during a one-day conference, involved students from eight medical and health sciences programs working collaboratively on a fictional patient's visit to a virtual clinic and included students' diagnosis and treatment, and reviews of visit reports.
"This year's winners submitted exceptional work," said Sonya Seigafuse, Executive Content Strategist, Imaging Sciences, Elsevier. "We are proud to play a part in recognizing their efforts in innovation."
Examples of suitable areas of innovations for award consideration included, but were not limited to:
- Unique teaching methods to engage learners
- Innovative integration of electronic resources in the classroom/clinical experience
- Unique use of multimedia, technology, and e-learning tools
- Improve program outcomes using multimedia, technology and e-learning tools
Dehghanpour and Baker received their award and $1,000 prize at the AEIRS annual meeting in July in Salt Lake City.
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Area Police Departments Net Results in Warrant Round-Up
The Port Arthur, Beaumont and Groves Police Departments were busy Tuesday, March 8th as part of the Texas Warrant Round-Up initiative as the three departments joined forces to apprehend motorists with outstanding fines and warrants to the tune of 34 arrests, clearing 140 warrants, according to Lt. Steve Brinson, Asst. Division Commander of Port Arthur's Field Operations Divsion.
The warrants consisted of approximately $69,728 in assessed fines. The three departments placed units throughout Port Arthur Tuesday and used License Plate Readers that are equipped on cars from all the departments which can bring up data on a car's driver when the LPR scans a license plate.
In addition to apprehending citizens for outstanding fines here in Jefferson County, Brinson said in the release that a stolen car was also recovered and the driver had outstanding warrants from Beeville County.


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How much do you pay for house cleaning?
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Hiring a professional house cleaning service is a helpful way to have a healthy home even when your work and personal schedule is packed. House cleaning prices vary based on how many square feet your home is, how dirty your house gets, and how often the cleaning service comes. Some companies charge a set amount — such as 5 cents — per square foot, with a minimum amount, such as $100. The national average cost for house cleaning ranges between $110 and $150. Prices can be lower in areas with a lower cost of living, higher in big cities or affluent regions. You may save money by increasing the frequency of your house cleaning visits. Often a company will charge you less per cleaning when you schedule more cleanings per month. The cost advantage rewards your loyalty, and also reflects the fact that more frequent cleanings make it easier to maintain a high level of cleanliness in your home. A housecleaning service may charge more for the first visit or for one-time services than for recurring cleanings.


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TNT's Dallas Sizzles in Its Sexiest Season Yet
Feb 23, 2014 9:00 PM EST
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Grace Ratley benefit Nov. 4
VERONA -- A benefit for Grace Elizabeth Ratley will be held Sunday, Nov. 4 from 12-6 p.m. at the Verona Fire Hall, 5555 Volunteer Ave.
Ratley, born Jan. 25, 2012, was diagnosed with severe combined immunodeficiency syndrome (SCIDS). Her family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio for six months, where she received a bone marrow transplant. While the family is now home, Ratley requires many medications and frequent trips to Rochester and Cincinnati. Proceeds from the benefit will help offset medical expenses.
The event will feature music, food and raffles. Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for children younger than 10 (children younger than 5 are free).


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ORLANDO, Fla. — Battling to stay competitive after his weekend loss in South Carolina, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is taking new steps to save money, including no longer scheduling planes and buses for journalists trying to cover his presidential campaign.
Huckabee said he will continue to campaign in Florida on a shoestring budget, but added that he may pull out of the state before its Jan. 29 Republican primary if his prospects look dim.
"I don't want to abandon Florida yet," Huckabee told reporters Monday on a late-night flight from Orlando to Atlanta, where he planned to campaign Tuesday. "We have not come to the conclusion that Florida is out of play."
A 'leaner team'
He said his campaign will evaluate the Florida situation day by day. Meanwhile, he said, he will find time to campaign in several other southern states holding primaries on Feb. 5.
"We really need to conserve as much as we can" for TV and radio ads in those states, Huckabee said in a 36-minute news conference at the back of his press charter. He said he is airing no ads in Florida, one of the nation's largest and costliest states for campaigns.
"We don't have enough people to try to field staff in all of these states," he said. "So what we'll do is put a leaner team together."
As of Tuesday, the Huckabee campaign stopped arranging planes, vans, meals, hotel reservations and other means of helping national news organizations cover his events. News outlets pay for their travel, but campaigns can lose money if many seats go vacant. Rate candidates' positions
"A 50-seat plane for 15 people doesn't make sense," Huckabee said, noting that his press coverage has thinned since his Iowa caucus victory was followed by losses to Arizona Sen. John McCain in New Hampshire and South Carolina.
Huckabee also defended his relatively light schedule of public events in Florida. McCain, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney are campaigning heavily there this week.
Second-place in South Carolina
Huckabee made a brief appearance in Orlando on Monday, and planned a late-afternoon visit to Gainesville on Tuesday. Meanwhile, he campaigned in Atlanta on Monday and Tuesday, and planned to spend much of Wednesday in Little Rock, doing long-delayed chores such as seeing his eye doctor.
"We'll be in Florida everyday this week," Huckabee said. But he will also find time to campaign in Georgia and other states that could include Alabama, West Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma, he said. They are among the 24 states holding primaries on Feb. 5, and they include many social conservatives and evangelical Christians who are the mainstay of his campaign.
Other political news of note
Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
- Budget deficits shrinking but set to grow after 2015
- Senate readies another volley on unemployment aid
- Obama faces Syria standstill
- Fluke files to run in California
- Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
Elections '08 results — national overviewHis noon event Tuesday in Atlanta featured anti-abortion activists.
Huckabee denied that his second-place finish in South Carolina on Saturday significantly robbed his campaign of momentum, although many Republican strategists disagree.
"I haven't necessarily detected that people are bailing on us at all," he said.
Huckabee said no Republican has established himself as a front-runner, and therefore winning delegates in largely overlooked states can be as important as winning closely watched states such as Florida. Some party activists speculate that Huckabee hopes to win enough second-tier states to cut a deal later, such as a vice presidential spot on McCain's ticket, should McCain win the nomination.
Huckabee dismissed such talk Monday, saying his goal is to win the nomination and the presidency. Still, he indicated that he knows defeat is possible, but he will not go into debt to avoid it.
"If the campaign doesn't make it all the way we want to be walk away completely in the black," he said.
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A lot of normal people are looking at Apple's earnings results and asking themselves a pretty reasonable question: "What exactly is the problem here?"
After all, iPhone sales of 47.8 million units were up on a year over year basis, despite the fact that Apple only had 13 weeks to sell the iPhone this year versus 14 weeks for the year before.
Revenue and profits were new records for Apple. Apple can't make enough iPad Minis to keep people happy. And, oh yeah, it has $137 billion in cash.
Yet, the stock fell 11% in reaction to earnings. And to listen to some people, you might think Apple was going to close up shop tomorrow.
What exactly is the problem here?
Objectively, there is no problem. Apple is still a very strong company making products people absolutely love.
But, Apple's growth has fallen significantly. There was a time when it was producing mind boggling growth. As that growth took off, investors and analysts rejiggered their expectations for the company. And those expectations quickly got out of control.
Now expectations are being reset. The iPhone isn't going to take over the world. The iPad isn't going to be as lucrative as the iPhone. And it's highly unlikely Apple has another magic money machine like the iPhone.
Remember, Apple collects $640 per iPhone sold, with ~50% of that as profit. There will never be another Apple product as profitable that sells in such volumes. So, even if Apple comes out with a TV, it won't save Apple's sliding revenue and profit growth.
And the truth about the iPhone as currently constructed is that it has largely run its course. Its hyper-growth era is over. It will still grow, just not in the same tremendous way.
Yes, Apple is still a very healthy company, but contrary to expectations it is mortal. It will not fly to the moon. The $1,000 price targets are going away.
And, weirdly, that's sort of good news. The resetting of expectations gives Apple more room to breath. It won't have to live up to impossible standards. It can start beating expectations again.
If Apple's lucky, the stock will come back to life. If it doesn't, it doesn't. It won't mean Apple's products aren't great. It just means investors don't like the stock.


text: Hardeeville High School's Class of 1961 celebrated its 50th reunion in May. Out of 15 members of the class, 11 are still living and most were present. Holding a banner from the school that students waved or hung in their bedrooms years ago are, from left, John Sellers Jr., Joyce Harper Meeks, Louise Tackett Collett and Dianne Cooler Reynolds who had saved the banner. The school was open from 1926 to 1981. Reynolds, who provided the photo, noted that among the many attendees this year was Sidney Horton, 92, who always attends the reunions.


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Yet Another Journalism Professor Gets Nearly Every Fact Wrong In Saying Google Needs To Pay
from the facts?-who-needs-them? deptWith all the journalists declaring that Google needs to pay newspapers, it's amazing how often their arguments are based on simply incorrect statements -- the sort of thing that is the real problem newspapers face. When they make an argument based on entirely incorrect information, no one trust them. For example, reader David Muir points us to Joel Brinkley's article in the San Francisco Chronicle, where he compares the newspaper industry to the recording industry and gets nearly everything wrong. Brinkley is a former NY Times' reporter and a journalism professor at Stanford. This is the sort of person who shouldn't fall prey to getting stories backwards, but he does. First, he claims that Google is using newspapers content "without compensation."
This is wrong. Google is indexing and linking to newspaper content. They're providing a service to those newspapers, by sending them more traffic. If those newspapers don't want that service, it's quite easy to opt-out. The fact that very few do so suggests they do, in fact, value that service, and thus they feel they are getting compensated.
Then, amusingly, he compares the newspaper business to the recording industry, suggesting Google is like what Napster was a decade ago -- and questions where would the recording industry be if it hadn't shut down Napster. Rather than talk to an unbiased party, he goes straight to the RIAA, who of course talks up what a wonderful victory Napster was, and says, without having shut down Napster: "We would be in a world with thousands of pirates."
Um. I hate to break it to both Brinkley and the RIAA... but we're in a world with millions of (what they falsely define as) "pirates." In fact, I'd imagine that the recording industry would actually consider it a real victory if there were only "thousands." But does Brinkley point this out? Does he note that the legal effort to shut down Napster not only failed to stop "piracy," but actually helped advertise it, make it more prevalent, and drive it further underground to sites and communities that were much more difficult to work with?
Of course not. Because why would a super journalist like Brinkley bother with reality in making his case?
Also, it's worth pointing out that the situation with Napster was also entirely different in that it didn't involve the musicians/labels putting the content up themselves, and didn't involve Napster offering up an easy tool for them to remove that content. When it comes to newspapers and Google, both things are true.
This is the sort of stuff anyone familiar with what they were talking about would know. But Brinkley is a journalism expert, so why should he bother to understand what he's talking about before writing an entire column on it?
He then goes on to (falsely) claim that "without newspaper journalism, the nation would have little original journalism left" extrapolating out (incorrectly) the idea that because most journalism originates from newspapers today, it must continue to do so in the future. We're already seeing that's false, as new operations spring up to take over where newspapers are faltering (such as in putting forth bogus opinion pieces comparing Google to Napster).
Then (because he's not done being wrong yet), Brinkley tries (and fails) to respond to the "information wants to be free" line (which he falsely states "information should be free" -- the distinction is important, but Brinkley doesn't bother to even notice) by saying:
Wouldn't that be nice. Wouldn't it be nice if metropolitan newspapers didn't have to pay millions of dollars a year for their reporting staffs? Wouldn't it be nice if Keller's paper didn't have to pay $2 million a year to maintain its Baghdad bureau? Newspapers provide an expensive product. They deserve to be paid for it.We've debunked this argument probably 50 times in the last year alone, but since Brinkley apparently doesn't do any research, let's debunk it one more time. No one is saying that because information is offered to consumers for free that it means that you don't make money or you don't pay your reporting staff. Brinkley is setting up a bogus strawman (the sort of thing reporters shouldn't do). What they are saying is that they need to come up with better business models (which we've pointed out do exist) that leverage (rather than deny) the basic economics of content, and do so in a way that makes a more valuable product.
Brinkley, of course, never bothers to explain how to make the product any more valuable (hint: it's not by writing columns that are entirely based on incorrect statements) or why people would want to pay for such rubbish. He just insists they "deserve to be paid for it." But if Brinkley's writing is an example of the type of quality found in papers today, is it any wonder people don't find it worth paying for?
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Noisebrige Distilled
This is about people who want to learn the art of building, maintaining, and/or operating a still
Sean is planning on teaching a hands-on class on distilling basics, but needs to decide a time! Vote for your favorite below. I'll release the final choice to noisebridge-discuss. If you'd like to be informed and are not on -discuss, add your e-mail contact info below. You can vote more than once. Total time for the entire class will probably be about 3-4 hours or so since physics is a slow mistress. A basic outline of the class is as follows:
- Overview of what distilling is, and why it works
- Things you can distill, and what you can expect out of the other side
- Intro to the still, and what all the crazy valves do
- Post- and pre- processing operations, and why your really do need to do them (a.k.a. Brita filters are useful)
- And of course...hands on use of the still, and a chance to try the fruits of your labor!
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The Equipment
For the class, a 20L custom designed glass still will be used since its a great teaching aid (you can actually see what is happening!) It can handle both reflux and pot distillation modes with just a couple of minor adjustments (if you don't know what that means, but want to find out, you should come to the class!). However, I'll cover how to "roll your own" out of a variety of different materials.
Owning and operation of a still is legal in California as given by part 23367 of the ABC code. Full unabridged (read: annoying) text of the 2010 ABC code can be found here: [1]
Note: Still laws vary state to state, so check to make sure you aren't breaking any laws!


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Trustee's gift establishes Richman Distinguished Fellow in Public Life
Program will bring to campus individuals who advance social justice
Brandeis Trustee Carol Richman Saivetz '69, P '97, P '01 and her family made a generous gift to establish the Fred and Rita Richman Distinguished Fellow in Public Life, which will bring individuals to campus who have had a significant impact on improving American society, strengthening democratic institutions and advancing social justice.
The new fellowship program, named in honor of Carol's parents, complements the recent conversion of the Fred and Rita Richman Distinguished Visiting Professorship to an endowed chair in politics or economics.
"The Richman Distinguished Fellow in Public Life makes an important contribution to Brandeis as an institution committed to public service and social justice," President Fred Lawrence said. "We thank the members of the Saivetz family for their gift and their longstanding commitment to Brandeis."
Appointment as a Richman Fellow includes an honorarium of $25,000 and requires the individual selected to spend two to three days on the Brandeis campus, meeting with students and faculty and participating in other activities.
Adam Jaffe, the Fred C. Hecht Professor in Economics, will chair a faculty-student committee that will review and evaluate nominations before forwarding recommendations to the president. Nominations, which must include a narrative of no more than 1,000 words explaining the rationale for the nominee's selection, must be received by March 1 for candidates to be considered for appointment during the 2013-2014 academic year.
Nominations may be mailed to the Richman Distinguished Fellow in Public Life Committee, attention John Hose, Brandeis University, 415 South St., Mailstop 122, Waltham, MA 02453 or submitted online at the Richman Fellow website.
The Richman and Saivetz families have a long, multi-generational involvement with Brandeis. Carol became an alumni leader in the 1970s, together with her husband, former Brandeis Alumni Association President Richard Saivetz '69, who died in 2000. Their children, Michael '97 and Aliza '01, are both Brandeis alumni. Aliza is married to Daniel Glasser '02. The gifts from the Richman and Saivetz families have supported student scholarships and the study and teaching of architecture at Brandeis.
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Those voltage readings are good. So if we use a 220-ohm resistor between the MCU and MOSFET gate, and just drive the pin with digitalWrite() rather than PWM, when the pin is driven high, what are the voltages on either side of the 220-ohm resistor?
You want me to take the motor out of the circuit or leave it in?
Yet when driving a pure resistive load, the voltage looked steady, correct? Does the motor spin at a constant speed or does it act as though it's getting variable voltage?
Interesting ... agree it seems to be pointing to breadboard or wiring or something similar.How many miles on that breadboard? I'm pretty surprised that I don't have more breadboard issues than I do, they're really quite rare, but most of mine are relatively new.


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- Place: Companhia de Ca., Pico, Azores, Portugal
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Cedarcrest Select girls basketball offers athletic opportunities for younger set
- Written by Woodinville Weekly Staff
Cedarcrest Select AAU Basketball (CHS feeder program) provides grades 4 - 8 a unique athletics opportunity in the competitive Cascade Travel League.
The program allows Snoqualmie Valley youth an opportunity to learn about basketball and develop skills above recreation level, while building relationships with classmates as they move through elementary and middle school then on to basketball at Cedarcrest High School.
We would like to wish the 6th grade girls and all of this year's Sno Valley teams the best as they tip off the 2012-2013 season on December 8th.


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DAHLONEGA, Ga. – On the strength of a trio of great pitchers and some timely hitting, the No. 1 Georgia College baseball team (15-2, 1-0 PBC) opened the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) season with a victory Sunday, taking down No. 11 North Georgia (11-4, 1-3 PBC) 4-2.
Seniors Jason Nicholas (Wright City, Mo.), Ryan Parson (Madison, Ga.) and Tanner Moore (Thomasville, Ga.) combined to allow just two runs on nine hits, stifling the Saints bats to set the table for the victory. Nicholas tossed the first five, allowing two runs on six hits while striking out four. Parson threw three scoreless with a pair of whiffs, and Moore shut the door for his fifth save, tossing a perfect ninth.
GC got three runs in the fourth, putting up four singles after an out. Benton Yaun (Marietta, Ga.) was the third safety, bringing home Richard Pirkle (Norcross, Ga.) to start the scoring. Third baseman Travis Echols (Lawrenceville, Ga.) joined the hit parade next, singling home Tanner Funk (Kearney, Mo.). Freshman Matthew Robinson (Hull, Ga.) then capped the run with an RBI double to left center, plating Yaun.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, back-to-back winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports andwww.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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News for January 8, 2003
So, the new year, and the only thing I've added to the site is an art gallery. Yes, just remember: aim high when you shoot. I got new speakers for my computer. In all honesty, the main reason I haven't been updating on time is (aside from laziness) that I really haven't done much scripting since page 11, so I'm treading carefully to keep the stroy together. I usually write stories right off the cuff to give them an air of spontanaity, but that can have the side effect of having the story lose cohesion. Solution: I'm going to slow the story down a little bit because I would rather give quality than quantity. I promise that I will also endeavor to script a little more. The last series of changes I made were because the story was focusing entirely too much on the Moonhawk crew and not enough on Milea and Ael, as they are the stars of this strip, but more on that later. In the meantime, please keep reading and voting. Oh, and seriously, any of my readers who came from Starship Moonhawk first, or anyone for that matter, I'd like to hear any ideas, criticism, suggestions, etc. in the forums, so post away!


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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) — A University of California, Riverside electrical engineering professor will receive the 2013 MRS Medal for his work on thermal properties of graphene, a single atomic plane of carbon atoms, and development of a new materials characterization technique.
Alexander A. Balandin, who is also the founding chair of the materials science and engineering program at UC Riverside's Bourns College of Engineering, will receive the MRS Medal Dec. 4 at the 2013 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston. The MRS Medal is awarded annually by the Materials Research Society for a specific outstanding recent discovery or advancement that has a major impact on the progress of a materials-related field. It is one of the highest recognitions a materials scientist can receive.
Balandin is being honored for his discovery of unusual thermal properties of graphene and two-dimensional crystals, development of an original optothermal measurement technique for the investigation of thermal properties of graphene, and theoretical explanation of the unique features of the phonon transport in graphene.
Balandin pioneered the graphene thermal and phonon engineering fields, which resulted in major advances in understanding the thermal properties of low-dimensional materials, physics of phonons, and led to development of practical applications of graphene in heat removal and thermal management. Balandin's contributions range from the first-principle theory to experiments and to demonstration of prototype devices.
Phonons are quanta of crystal lattice vibrations that carry the heat, affect the optical response of materials and scatter electrons, thus limiting electrical conduction. Phonons reveal themselves in all electrical, thermal and optical phenomena in materials.
In the late 1990s, Balandin recognized that nanostructures open opportunities for tuning the properties of phonons in a way similar to electrons. An approach for controlling the phonon spectrum of materials for specific applications was termed phonon engineering or nanophononics. The advent of graphene and quasi two-dimensional materials, also referred to as van der Waals materials, resulted in a discovery of a wealth of new phonon physics and created opportunities for better control of phonon interactions.
The exceptionally high thermal conductivity of graphene can be used in thermal interface materials, heat spreaders and thermal phase change materials, which are used for heat removal from computers, laptops and batteries. Balandin and his group members are currently working on developing practical technologies for graphene applications in thermal management of electronic and optoelectronic devices.


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In late August I posted a short video clip of myself on YT shooting a pistol, just to show that the slide action and shell casing ejections should be seen from a first person POV (as opposed to the video in the WDBJ "Shooting" event).
full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szM9nMn2kvo
Another YTuber made a video which incorporated mine to contrast with the fake one in the WDBJ "Shooting" in Virginia. It went viral and had almost a half million views in less than a week. YT removed it with the dubious explanation that it violated their policy on "shocking and disgusting content". Fortunately someone else has reposted the one below.
full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR16CmP9ER4


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By Cara Dahl
Staff Writer
BERLIN – The Berlin Town Council considered a number of items Monday night at their regular meeting, including assistance for people having difficulty paying their electric bills, a new member for the Ethics Commission and temporary paving of Harrison Ave.
Berlin Energy Assistance
Program Being Supported
The Berlin community has contributed $2,500 towards fellow residents' energy bills since the energy assistance program debuted, Mayor Gee Williams announced.
The town will match that amount dollar for dollar, making a total so far of $5,000 available to help those struggling to pay their energy bills.
"All of us are very pleased and proud of the support the community showed for that program," said Williams.
The energy assistance initiative was set up during budget deliberations last spring. Shore-Up will handle the screening of candidates for the assistance, and has dedicated a staffer to handling requests.
"This is another service the town can provide to those who in these economic times may be temporarily struggling…I think it shows the town is truly very generous," Williams said. "We'll see how far the $5,000 goes. If the demand is greater than we expect, we'll make an appeal at a later time."
The council has set aside up to $10,000 in matching funds. Contributions go directly to a local bank and are anonymous. No one could say how many donations had been made.
"It's kind of steadily been streaming in," said Williams. "It's been incrementally increasing for a month."
Ethics Commission Changes
The Berlin Ethics Commission will see more changes, with one member, Father Michael Moyer, resigning his position.
The ethics commission faces one of its rare cases in the next few months, after resident Marge Coyman alleged that Councilman and developer Troy Purnell violated ethics laws by participating in a discussion of wastewater capacity prices for new development.
The ethics commission met over the summer and determined that Purnell had violated the town ethics laws, but held no hearing and did not give Coyman a chance to make her case, nor did they give Purnell a chance to defend himself.
The town council recently established guidelines for the ethics commission detailing procedures on complaints and hearings, which had not been in place before.
The council approved a new member for the ethics commission, Anita Todd Monday night. That will allow commission Chair Paul Gorman to set up a hearing and proceed with the case before the commission, Williams said.
"This is not a hidden closed door inquisition. This is an open meeting like all the other meetings we have," said Williams.
Temporary Surface
Set For Harrison Ave.
Drivers who use Harrison Ave. will soon be able to enjoy a paved road, though that road covering will be meant as a temporary fix to last just a few years.
The temporary layer of asphalt proposed should last four to five years and cost less than $10,000, said Councilman Troy Purnell. Funding could come from the current road rehabilitation bond.
Previous attempts to cover the road with gravel or crush and run do not last long, especially with the amount of traffic using the road to cut over to the western edge of town, said council members. A complete rehabilitation or redo of the road would cost much more and take longer.
"This will get it stabilized," said Mayor Gee Williams.
Code Going High-Tech
The town of Berlin will pay $1,200 a year to General Code, a legal code publishing company which handles the Berlin legal code, to host an up-to-date version of the town's laws on its own website. The Berlin website will have a direct link to General Codes' Berlin page. Updates will be nearly instantaneous, officials say.
The funds will come out of the $10,000 set aside for website improvements.
"This is definitely one of the highest priorities they have," Mayor Gee Williams said of the Information Technology Committee appointed several months ago.
Updates will no longer take staff hours to do, saving time for other work, Williams said, calling the switch a good long-term change.
"We're always going to have a code. We're always going to have a website," he said.


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The call for improved energy efficiency and government/energy code requirements continues to drive the need for greater use of lighting control. Effectively, flexible lighting control delivers the necessary amount of light for a given task in a safe manner. The two strategies used to accomplish this today are:
1) occupancy-based control — turning lighting on when a space is occupied and reducing it when it's not (using either time-based scheduling or occupancy/vacancy sensors); and
2) daylight harvesting, which increases or decreases electric lighting, depending on how much natural light is available.
Solid-state lighting (SSL) — light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and organic LEDs — the light sources of the future, don't use gases, plasma, or filaments, so they are not bound to the limitations of legacy light sources. This opens up the lighting field to new form factors (how a fixture looks) as well as new ways for control and delivery of power to the lighting fixture.
An interesting aspect of the LED chip is the relative ease with which it may be controlled: There is no warm-up time or hot-restrike issue to contend with, and changes in light levels or color output are easy to handle. All of the components (LED drivers and controls) are now essentially digital, solid-state devices that can work together easily, delivering performance not previously achievable. This means we are at the forefront of complete digital control that will not only allow for individual lighting fixtures to be controlled, but also enable communication between devices and a high degree of interaction with the environment.
Let's look at one of the strongest markets today for LED lighting as an example: streetlighting and other outdoor area lighting. Leaving aside the continuously increasing lm/W efficiency and high color rendering properties of LED chips, an outdoor luminaire can be dynamically controlled for appreciable energy savings. The electronic circuitry in the chip driver can include a microcontroller, temperature and humidity sensors, input from a pavement-embedded induction loop, or other vehicle sensor. This information can be communicated to a central location by using an RF or powerlinenetwork. As a result, the light output of a roadway luminaire can be changed from sunset to midnight and midnight to dawn, or at other intervals in between. During inclement weather, such as fog or rain, the light output can be adjusted for maximum safety, and a similar scenario is possible during an accident/ emergency or police activity.
On a smaller scale, one manufacturer has introduced an LED outdoor luminaire that can be controlled by an onboard, camera-based occupancy sensor and video processor. Motion detection can be confined to any part of the camera's field of view for operation, using specialized microchips as part of the control system.
Beyond the outdoor area lighting market is an even larger growth sector. The commercial market is poised to become the biggest user of digital controls. The ceiling and walls of a typical office should be able to mimic the outdoor environment regarding the amount of light as well as spectral content. Manufacturers now offer autonomous and semi-autonomous light control systems that place ambient light sensors in individual luminaires and even LED-based replacement lamps themselves. This improvement in sensing and control will mean that, just as a mobile phone automatically detects available networks, an integrated lighting system should be able to deliver a preselected setting of dimming and color temperature when you enter a room. A key element in the success of these newer systems is the development of low-cost, chip-based sensors, first used in cell phone/ computer display equipment.
For example, an ambient light sensor (ALS) should offer a performance that matches the technology of other control system components. In the past, these sensors were either a simple photoresistor or a photodiode. Now, a system-on-chip light sensor serves as a complete light-sensing subsystem, including conversion of analog readings to a digital I2C output signal. This includes correction for any effects caused by light flicker on an integrated circuit as small as 2 mm square, and the sensor costs about the same or even less than a simple photosensitive component alone.
Additionally, an ambient light sensor in an interior space should measure only the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, and it should weigh the various colors to roughly match the sensitivity of the human eye, meaning it should have a photopic response. Being able to distinguish between daylight, incandescent, CFL, and LED lighting is also useful, because the sensor can aid a controller in reducing energy consumption by automatically switching to the most efficient light source(s).
Another manufacturer in the lighting industry, with wide experience in data networking, now offers a sensing and control system for commercial lighting that places a variety of such sensors in a single, small module so that a number of ambient conditions can be measured. The module can be located adjacent or within a luminaire. In addition to detecting the light level at each fixture, other ambient conditions, such as temperature, carbon dioxide level, carbon monoxide level, air pressure, air velocity, humidity, particulate, and color, can be recorded. The company developed this sensor based on the idea to shift from simply using energy to managing it.
A sensor built into the luminaire that automatically responds to its environment — whether it's occupancy, available daylight, time of day, or other variables — and delivers just the right amount of light when and where it is needed is the perfect solution for reducing energy consumption and costs. Rather than applying controls as an afterthought, this built-in approach maximizes energy efficiency.
In the simplest case, as more or less ambient light is sensed by the lamp, it responds in the opposite direction with more or less output in order to maintain a preset target illumination level. When communication and networking functions are wrapped around the sensor/microcontroller combination, a more sophisticated set of interactions is enabled. For example, as daylight increases, theluminaire would not only respond autonomously, but it also would report a response to nearby luminaires. This would enable the device to act in coordination to "balance" the light seamlessly across not only the space directly affected by the daylight, but also in adjoining areas that are more influenced by the dimming luminaires. With low-cost and low-power wireless networking (such as ZigBee), or wired networks, group intelligence and centralized control systems can be implemented readily.
The author wishes to acknowledge the assistance of Sajol Ghoshal, director, Sensor Driven Lighting, austriamicrosystems, in the writing of this article.