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BryanM necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 490 diseños de 115 diseñadores freelance.
Looking for an identity package for just Health Shops, a company that sells health products through multiple online stores and catalogs. The design should focus primarily on the corporate logo, but also provide letterhead, #10 envelope, fax cover sheet and business card as the final deliverables. The winner will be selected based upon the logo design.
just Health Shops
We are a company that sells medical and home health products to customers through catalogs and online stores. Each online store focuses on a specific niche. We currently have 4 online stores, with plans for 7 more over the next 9 months. Our current online properties are bedwettingstore.com (specializing in products to help children stop bedwetting), protectivebedding.com (allergy and waterproof protection), vinylbedding.com and nationalincontinence.com (products for adults with incontinence).
This contest is for a logo for just Health Shops – our new corporate brand. "just" emphasizes that we focus on selling health related items. The logo will be used on our corporate website justhealthshops.com and stationery, and represents our corporate image.
IMPORTANT: Six new online stores will be opened that incorporate the word "just". Our goal and design preference is that all future logos that use "just" use it in a consistent manner – to reinforce the brand image. Since this logo, justHealthShops is the first to be designed, it plays an important role in defining the style that all follow-on logos are designed to.
I will be running additional contests for two new online store logos as soon as this contest is finished and a winner has been selected. The logos for justWalkers.com and justNebulizers.com will be based around the use of "just" from the winning logo here. Contests for the additional stores will follow later this year.
FONT STYLE: clean with the words: "just Health Shops", using the tag line "stores for life"
FONT COLOR: open to ideas, we like blue and green tones but let us see your ideas
(our current web site is built from a palette of hex values of:
1c8bb5 4ebfe0 b2e9f5 a2b053 e56e38 000000
ICON and ICON Color: open to ideas
OTHER: Open to some 3D effects. The logo may be used like a watermark so prefer that it work in one color/grayscale, too.
RATINGS:We are very responsive and give feedback in a timely manner. Here is an overview of how we are rating this contest. If your work gets 3 or less stars it means your work is not what we are looking for.
1 Star - Wrong direction missing the mark.
2 Star - Has some elements we like.
3 Star - Getting closer, may need revisions or a different take on your design.
4 Star - Your design is being considered.
5 Star - You made the final cut!
- Clean, sharp logo that uses the words: just Health Shops. An icon, other than the text is permitted.
- Use the tagline "Stores for Life" with the logo
- The design of the word "just" within this logo will be something that can be used with other logos that will be developed later, such as "justWalkers.com" and "justNebulizers.com" We will consider this in the winning design.
- A layered PSD file is preferred, but will also accept AI that contains logo, letterhead, #10 envelope, fax cover sheet and business card.
- Font(s) or font name should be included
- NO Clipart, must be original
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The Bears' Devin Hester came in at No. 32 on NFL Network's list of the "Top 100 Players of 2011." While his contemporaries around the league obviously think highly of Hester's big-play ability, should a player primarily known as a kick returner be ranked that high?
Too many other good playersThis, to me, is a stretch. If we're basing 2010 production as a major category for inclusion, then I don't see him being nearly this high.
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Hester is a game-breaker and a truly unique player. Even still, he certainly was not among the game's elite wide receivers last season, and, with him so heavily invested in the offense now, his prowess on special teams was muted.
He's capable of amazing things with the ball in his hands, but if you're letting me start a football team there are certainly more than just 31 players I would select before Hester.
Teams must scheme for his talentsThere's no problem ranking a returner that high if that returner is Hester. He took three punt returns to the house last season and he averaged nearly 36 yards per kick return. He is a game-changer. Teams scheme for him, mostly how to avoid him. That is remarkable for a returner. I don't see how there is any argument with him being ranked here -- unless it is too low.
Overall numbers don't justify statusHester is a rare athlete who should be on this list for being the greatest return man in the history of the NFL. He owns the NFL record with 14 combined return touchdowns in just five seasons. However, his 2010 total of 40 receptions is pedestrian. He touched the ball 92 times for 1,496 yards, which is an impressive average of 16.3 yards per touch. Still, considering he averaged 35.6 yards on only 12 kickoffs, he should have been used in that aspect even more. He should have been ranked in the 75-90 range of the Top 100.
No denying Hester's impactHester absolutely deserves to be this high on the list because he is one of the league's biggest-impact players. While the kicking game is often dismissed, it has a substantial impact on field position and, in turn, the offense and defense. Hester produced 10 returns over 40 yards last season, including three scores on punt returns. His robust averages of 17.1 yards per punt return and 35.6 yards per kick return reveal his ability to make his presence felt. He's also the all-time leader in return scores. Hester's ranking is not only deserved, but it accurately reflects how pivotal he is to the Bears.
Voters went overboardIt's so easy to get caught up in Hester's unique skill set, and I'm afraid that's exactly what happened with this vote. A player who can change the course of a game in an instant and who caused the entire league to place greater value on return specialists merits tremendous respect and admiration. But I'm afraid, in this case, voters have gone a little overboard. Any player who shows up in the top 50, let alone the top 40, should contribute at a consistently high level at a regular position rather than making the bulk of his impact as a specialist. It is the same argument that is commonly heard in opposition to a specialist being inducted in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Deion Sanders, who headlines Canton's Class of 2011, is one of the greatest returners of all time ... but he also is one of the best cornerbacks the game has ever seen.
Not top-40 materialI canât in good faith put Devin Hester in the top 40. He is the best returner the game has ever seen, but if Hester belongs that high, then Raiders punter Shane Lechler should be in the top 70 or so. He affects the game every bit as much as Hester does on special teams. Yes, Hester is a wide receiver as well, but a strictly average one. As great as he is as a returner, his influence on the game is not comparable to some of the players who were in the bottom 50, like LaMarr Woodley.

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Honors at Binghamton University
The only university-wide honors program at Binghamton University is the Binghamton University Scholars Program. However, the University also offers university-wide graduation honors, school/college-wide honors programs, departmental graduation honors and a host of honor societies.
The Binghamton University Scholars Program is a very small program, and fewer than the top 3 percent of applicants to Binghamton University are enrolled in the program. Determining the few students that are admitted to the program is a difficult and imperfect task. Our Admissions Office makes the decisions on who gets invited to the Scholars Program and while it may seem to be about grades and SAT's, it actually is much more complicated than that. We work hard to provide a balance of males and females, in-state and out-of-state, national and international, while at the same time ensuring that we have a proportionate number of students from Harpur College, the School of Nursing, the Engineering School, and the College of Community and Public Affairs. In trying to maintain that balance and offering admission to so few students, even some of the best students in the US and around the world, may not get invited.
However, Binghamton University offers a wide variety of opportunities for high achieving students to gain academic recognition and academic challenge. For example, Binghamton offers departmental honors in many majors in addition to opportunities for undergraduate research, civic engagement, internships, study abroad, and a host of other programs.
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Winter League roundup: Lambo keys Lara sweep
Venezuelan Winter League
Lara 5, Margarita 2 (7 innings)
After Margarita plated two runs in the bottom of the fourth inning, Lara charged back in the makeup game of a Nov. 26 rainout. Lara scored five unanswered runs to claim the victory. Luis Jimenez had an important three-run home run in the seventh, and Jairo Perez went 2-for-4 with two RBIs. Box score
Venezuelan Winter League
Lara 5, Margarita 2 (7 innings)
After Margarita plated two runs in the bottom of the fourth inning, Lara charged back in the makeup game of a Nov. 26 rainout. Lara scored five unanswered runs to claim the victory. Luis Jimenez had an important three-run home run in the seventh, and Jairo Perez went 2-for-4 with two RBIs. Box score
Lara 10, Margarita 5
It was a great night at the plate for the Lara hitters, who belted 15 hits. Led by Pirates youngster Andrew Lambo, who went 2-for-4 with a double and four RBIs, Lara claimed the doubleheader sweep. Lambo was one of seven starters who had two hits. Erasmo Ramirez got the win, while Henry Sosa took the loss. Box score
Caracas 5, Zulia 3 (11 innings)
A tight game throughout, it took a two-run 11th inning by Caracas to secure the victory. Caracas posted 14 hits, and the biggest of the night came on a RBI single by Aharon Eggleston to plate what turned into the game-winning run. Box score
Magallanes 7, La Guaira 5
Magallanes struggled to score early but was able to plate six runs in the final three frames. The team was led by Eliezer Alfonzo, who went 2-for-4 with a home run and three RBIs. Lew Ford also had three hits. Box score
Mexican Pacific League
Hermosillo 5, Mexicali 4
Hermosillo scored all its runs in just one inning, but a five-run fifth was enough to get the win. The team had six hits in that inning, including a three-run double by Jerry Owens. Edgar Gonzalez got the win, while Marco Duarte took the loss. Box score
Los Mochis 3, Culiacan 1
A pitchers' duel for most of the game, Los Mochis was able to break a tie with two runs in the top of the ninth to secure the victory. Brian Burgamy went 2-for-4, while Sandy Madera went 2-for-5 with a double and an RBI. Hector Navarro took the loss. Box score
Navojoa 5, Mazatlan 1
Scoring four runs in the final three innings, Navojoa topped Mazatlan. Jon Weber went 3-for-4 with two RBIs, while Luis Fonseca went 2-for-4 with an RBI. Horacio Ramirez took his fifth loss of the season, allowing two runs on eight hits in 6 1/3 innings. Box score
Obregon 6, Guasave 3
Scoring early and often on Thursday, Obregon maintained a comfortable lead throughout and coasted to victory over Guasave. All but one Obregon starter had a hit. Dan Robertson led the charge, going 2-for-5 with a double and three RBIs. Reliever Jeff Bennett took the loss. Box score
Dominican Winter League
Toros 4, Estrellas 3
With the game tied going into the bottom of the ninth, some heroics by Toros and a few fielding miscues from Estrellas secured the win. Jose Valverde picked up his first win of the season, while Enerio Del Rosario took the loss. Box score
Aguilas 3, Gigantes 2 (10 innings)
Aguilas led off the 10th inning with singles from Yankees No. 6 prospect Zolio Almonte and Hector Luna. Another single by San Francisco's Joaquin Arias with one out plated Almonte, the game's winning run. Reliever Ramon Ramirez took his second loss of the season, while Luis Perdomo got the win. Box score
Puerto Rican Liga de Beisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente
Santurce 4, Caguas 3
A tight game throughout, Santurce earned the victory on the strength of the top of its lineup. Adron Chambers went 2-for-3, and Jack Lopez went 2-for-4. Jorge Martinez got his second win of the season, allowing two runs on seven hits in 6 2/3 innings. Box score
Mayaguez 4, Carolina 3 (12 innings)
Mayaguez knocked off Carolina on Thursday with a run in the 12th inning. Four singles in the inning proved to be the difference, with Luis Figueroa striking what proved to be a game-winning single to left field. Box score
Quinn Roberts is a reporter for MLB.com.


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astro33 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de botón o icono y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 179 diseños de 37 diseñadores freelance.
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Consumer-oriented, Social Networking e-commerce Site
15 years old to 60 years old, global, international web audience
Looking for a human figure, drawn by freehand or by a computer program (or both).
Looking for a figure that looks like it was doodled by hand on paper by someone when they were bored in class. Or use the computer for a cleaner illustrative look. Maybe a single color or maybe a few colors. Maybe sketched. Maybe with the bold felt-tip pen? Will be used in a logo for web, print, etc. No taller than 60 pixels (including shadow if there is one). Source file needs to be vector file so can be resized.
Should look professional and sharp, but not too stuffy. Make it look sort of fun. Should be more simplistic, than complex. Not childish - the target audience is 15 years old to 60 years old, so I don't want it to look like a 4 year old drew it.
The figure should probably be standing or jumping, or something. Maybe he's standing in front of other drawn figures? Maybe they're all different colors or something? Or maybe just the single figure is different colors?
Here's a basic human shape that I thought looked ok: http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-238…ments.html
Use your imagination, but follow my guidelines. I'll give feedback where appropriate.


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The National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention (Action Alliance), a public-private partnership, has partnered with First Home Care, to strengthen the country's clinical capacity to provide innovative suicide prevention and care. The partnership significantly advances one of the central priorities of the Action Alliance – to transform health systems and reduce suicides—and marks First Home Care's commitment to be at the leading edge of the transformation.
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NEWPORT NEWS — As those dusty, 33-rpm vinyl albums have rotated back into fashion, a shop tucked in corner of a Denbigh shopping center has emerged as an unlikely hotbed of musical cool.
American Oldies, a record store with roots in the 1970s, has survived countless shifts in trends, tastes and technologies. While most retailers were quick to give up on black plastic LPs decades ago, this used-record mecca never lost faith in the value of vinyl.
Now, it's persevered long enough to seem less like a curiosity and more like a treasured antique. As record stores in general have become a dying breed, music fans say that shops like American Oldies shouldn't be taken for granted.
That sentiment has fueled the growth of national Record Store Day, which will be observed at the Denbigh store and across the nation on April 21.
"People are starting to come back," said Doug Crane, who has owned American Oldies since 1990. "Now, we are the only place around. We're seeing more travelers from Richmond and Virginia Beach. The lack of competition sure helps. There's not that much of a market to share with anybody."
Aaron Bushman, a 29-year-old record collector from Richmond, makes the pilgrimage to Denbigh every couple of months to search for rare 45-rpm singles. He's on a relentless hunt for punk, funk, soul and gospel sides.
"This place is unique in that it has so many records," said Bushman, his fingers robotically flipping through 45 sleeves. A number of small stores sell new and used vinyl in Richmond, he said. "But there's more quantity here definitely ... It's a known spot amongst record nerds."
Bushman represents of a new wave of music consumers, ardent fans in their 20s and 30s who see vinyl records as the antidote to disposable, invisible MP3s and effortless digital streaming.
"I haven't bought a CD in I don't know how long," Bushman said. "I rip records to my computer so I can listen to them on my iPod when I'm driving around, but at home, it's pretty much just records."
Chuck Dailey, manager of American Oldies, said that the average age of his store's vinyl customers falls in the 17-to-29 range. "It's not like they've never heard the music before. They've already got it on their iPods. The kids, and all kinds of people, just want the vinyl. They like the sound of it. It's kind of fun to play records, the whole ritual of taking it out of the cover, putting the needle in the groove. It's kind of ceremonial."
American Oldies does stock new and used CDs and even a handful of new vinyl titles. The store's main focus is on used LPs, however. It offers at least 15,000 of them. Vinyl represents about 35 percent of the store's sales, according to management. Even though overall sales are down from four or five years ago, the renewed appetite for vinyl has been a welcome bright spot.
Young customers who walk through the doors of the neat-but-jam-packed shop are looking for everything from classic rock to cutting-edge indie, staff at American Oldies said.
"Black Keys albums. Jimi Hendrix albums, sealed, new vinyl. Tom Waits. Dead Kennedys, Tool, Amy Winehouse. Adele. Clash and Ramones. It's really all over the place," Dailey said. "I recently got a new copy of the first Specials album. We sold it within 10 minutes of having it in the store."
The vinyl re-issue of the 1967 album "The Velvet Underground & Nico" was also scooped up. "Who would think that kids would be buying that first Velvets album?" Dailey said.
American Oldies trades in another increasingly rare commodity: A sense of community among music fans.
"Anyone can walk in and mention an artist that they like and get directed to an obscure album, or something similar they might appreciate," wrote Zachary McCoy, a recent Christopher Newport University graduate, in a school newspaper feature about American Oldies. "Sure, Pandora can do the same thing sometimes, but it can't look you in the eye, shake your hand or talk with you about why a song makes you feel a certain way. That's something reserved for contact with humans."
Human contact is a big part of what has kept Dailey and Crane devoted to American Oldies for so long. Dailey's been working there longer than five years. He shopped at the store for more than a decade before that.
"We've just got good customers," said Dailey, also a student at Christopher Newport. "The random people you meet and the stories you hear, it's priceless.
"I'm mean bad stuff happens. It's retail. People will try to skeeze on you. But overall, I enjoy it so much." Dailey said he's prone to drop by the store on his days off. "I just go to unwind. It's a happy place. Who goes to work for a happy place? That's just nuts. But working there is effortless. It's like breathing or walking. I enjoy it."
Crane, 58, now lives in New Jersey and travels to Newport News periodically to inspect and replenish the racks. The store was already about 13 years old when he bought it in 1990. Crane moved it to its current location in November of 1993.
A former computer programmer, Crane said he left that rapidly growing field to run the store full time. Looking back, he knows that some people would consider him crazy for leaving computers to trade in used records.
He remembers telling his wife his decision as they were driving to Atlanta. "I broke the news to her on the James River Bridge," Crane said. "It was a quiet ride, let me tell you. She was trying to figure out whether I was serious or not. But I hated the [computer] work. I couldn't take it anymore. Of course, money wasn't the inducement."
He has no regrets, he said.
Meeting eccentric, music-obsessed friends such as the late Steve Pyrados made running American Oldies a rewarding lifestyle as much as a profession.
"Steve was one of the biggest characters I've ever known," Crane said. "He would only own 10 albums at any one time, but they'd all be $400 albums. His phone was always getting cut off because he called Europe and talked to some collector for 20 minutes."
In addition to owning American Oldies, Crane runs a music mail order business in New Jersey and sells discs at record shows and conventions. Those events keep him connected to his fellow music fanatics.
He hopes American Oldies will continue to help music lovers discover vintage sounds — and each other — for years to come.
"It's been a great run," Crane said. "I just couldn't imagine myself sitting at a desk writing code. Twenty-two years of working for myself, that's been the reward."
Want to shop?
What: Record Store Day, a national event created to promote independent music retailing. On Record Store Day, stores sell special, limited-edition vinyl and CD releases and other promotional items.
When: Saturday, April 21
Where: Independently owned record stores across the country, including American Oldies, 14333 Warwick Blvd., Newport News.
More info: Contact American Oldies at 877-6877 or at facebook.com/AmericanOldiesRecords. To learn more about Record Store Day, visit http://www.recordstoreday.com


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(Warning: Spoilers galore for "The Good Wife" and "House of Cards" below.)
From the moment the gunshots rang out, one after another, during the "The Good Wife" Sunday night, hope filled the gap between what we heard and what we saw.
Viewers knew that Will Gardner, the hard charging, ethically flawed lawyer who is the virtual co-star to Julianna Margulies' title character on the CBS drama, was in the courtroom his distraught client filled with bullets.
But even after the camera showed Will sprawled on the floor, barely breathing, even after a doctor minutes later solemnly walked out from behind the emergency room treatment area curtain, a sense of disbelief and a glimmer of optimism pervaded – until viewers saw the lawyer's lifeless body.
The murder of Will Gardner marked the most stunning moment and the biggest turning point yet for "The Good Wife," which has proved in its four-plus seasons to be one of network television's strongest, most consistently twist-filled adult dramas. The episode also marked the latest, unexpected death of a major character on a high quality TV show – putting another stake in the heart of the old television trope that you don't kill off co-stars without warning.
Season 2 of "Boardwalk Empire" ended with main character Nucky Thompson executing his treacherous surrogate son, Jimmy Darmody. Season 3 of "Downton Abbey" ended with the car crash that killed Matthew Crawley. Season 2 of "House of Cards" began with Vice President Frank Underwood pushing his mistress, reporter Zoe Barnes, to her death in front of a Washington Metro subway train.
Perhaps the only thing more shocking than the characters' demises is that word didn't leak beforehand online. Less surprising is how the Internet lit up after the various deaths. Gardner's murder proved no exception, quickly becoming a trending topic on Twitter. "Crying my eyes out! Shocking plot twist...," one viewer tweeted, as reactions ranged from sadness to anger.
The changing, but always intense relationship between Margulies' Alicia Florrick and Josh Charles' Will Gardner propelled the show as he went from her old law school buddy to mentor to lover to bitter rival. Even after Alicia left to start her own firm, her paths kept crossing in odd ways with Will, who, before his death, held the key as to whether her wayward governor husband would face voter fraud charges.
"The Good Wife" has thrived by constantly moving forward with smart, hard-to-forecast turns. Now we'll see whether the fatal shooting of Will Gardner becomes a legal-shark-jumping moment. An extended preview after Sunday's episode offered tastes of what's to come, including the welcome return of Michael J. Fox's recurring character, savvy lawyer Louis Canning, in a presumably larger role.
The only safe prediction is that "The Good Wife" can never be the same – and can never surprise fans like this again. The show's creative team has turned expectations upside down, robbing the characters and viewers of any sense of permanence with a searing, evolving drama we have to see to believe.
Jere Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is also the author of "Raising a Beatle Baby: How John, Paul, George and Ringo Helped us Come Together as a Family." Follow him on Twitter.


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Men of War takes place in Europe and North Africa during the height of World War II. The story takes place over three different campaigns and players take on the role of Soviet, Allied and German soldiers. Each campaign has its own scenario and structured timeline, which brings different elements of the war to life.
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Innovations in EDA Webcast: RF System Architecture - Techniques for Optimal Design
1 Hour | Webcast - recorded | Where & When
Why this Webcast is important:
Techniques to design RF System Architecture optimally to avoid costly system hardware integration failures downstream will be presented. Learn how to simulate and troubleshoot RF system block diagrams to determine the root cause of spurious signals through any path and at any node in the system. Also understand how RF system frequency planning is also related to the system architecture so that you can identify potentially bad designs early and transform them into an optimum one. Learn how to verify your RF system architecture in the latest wireless communication and aerospace defense applications with realistic digitally modulated RF signals.
Topics covered include:
• RF System Architecture beyond spreadsheet models and calculations
• Simulating RF system block diagrams effortlessly
• RF System Frequency planning and sweeps to quickly identify spurious free bands from different system architectures
• Troubleshooting signal paths and mixing origins of spurious signals
• Inserting circuit level blocks into system simulation for accuracy
• Verifying RF system architecture in commercial wireless LTE-Advanced applications
• Verifying RF system architecture in aerospace defense phased array radar applications
Who should view this Webcast:
RF System Architects, ESL (electronic system level) designers, RF and Microwave component designers, RF and Microwave Engineering Managers, High Frequency and EDA tool decision makers.
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Clarence Thomas Center for Historic Preservation
The Clarence Thomas Center for Historic Preservation was built in 1908 in the Classic Revival style as an orphanage and convent for the Missionary Sisters of the Franciscan order. As a child, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was an altar boy in this building, thus the facility bears his name.
Following an extensive restoration and rehabilitation in Fall 2009, the handsome three-story brick building became home to the historic preservation program. In January 2010, Justice Thomas returned to Savannah for the building's dedication.
The state-of-the-art facility provides classrooms, offices, computer labs, a historic conservation lab and workshop in a restored property that is a contributing building to the National Historic Landmark District.


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Has anyone got an ASRock X370 or 470 Fatality Pro Gaming mobo with GSKill RAM running at 3400MHz? If so could you post your pertinent settings or post a few screenshots?
Either for the X370 and/or the X470. I have both and a few DDR4 GSKill 16 & 32 GB (2x8/2x16) memory kits designed for use with the latest BIOS and both of my boards.
Thank You
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Scientists doubt inventor's global cooling idea — but what if it works?
WASHINGTON — Ron Ace says that his breakthrough moments have come at unexpected times — while he lay in bed, eased his aging Cadillac across the Chesapeake Bay bridge or steered a tractor around his rustic, five-acre property.
In the seclusion of his Maryland home, Ace has spent three years glued to the Internet, studying the Earth's climate cycles and careening from one epiphany to another — a 69-year-old loner with the moxie to try to solve one of the greatest threats to mankind.
Now, backed by a computer model, the little-known inventor is making public a U.S. patent petition for what he calls the most "practical, nontoxic, affordable, rapidly achievable" and beneficial way to curb global warming and a resulting catastrophic ocean rise.
Spray gigatons of seawater into the air, mainly in the Northern Hemisphere, and let Mother Nature do the rest, he says.
The evaporating water, Ace said, would cool the Earth in multiple ways: First, the sprayed droplets would transform to water vapor, a change that absorbs thermal energy near ground level; then the rising vapor would condense into sunlight-reflecting clouds and cooling rain, releasing much of the stored energy into space in the form of infrared radiation.
McClatchy has followed Ace's work for three years and obtained a copy of his 2007 patent petition for what he calls "a colossal refrigeration system with a 100,000-fold performance multiplier."
"The Earth has a giant air-conditioning problem," he said. "I'm proposing to put a thermostat on the planet."
Although it might sound preposterous, a computer model run by an internationally known global warming scientist suggests that Ace's giant humidifier might just work.
Kenneth Caldeira, a climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University, roughly simulated Ace's idea in recent months on a model that's used extensively by top scientists to study global warming.
The simulated evaporation of about one-half inch of additional water everywhere in the world produced immediate planetary cooling effects that were projected to reach nearly 1 degree Fahrenheit within 20 or 30 years, Caldeira said.
"In the computer simulation, evaporating water was almost as effective as directly transferring ... energy to space, which was surprising to me," he said.
Ace said that the cooling effect would be several times greater if the model were refined to spray the same amount of seawater at strategic locations.
He proposes to install 1,000 or more devices that spray water 20 to 200 feet into the air, depending on conditions, from barren stretches of the West African coast, bluffs on deserted Atlantic Ocean isles, deserts adjoining the African, South American and Mediterranean coasts and other arid or windy sites. To maximize cloud formation, he'd avoid the already humid tropics, where most water vapor quickly turns to rain.
"It does seem like evaporating water outside the tropics would be more effective," Caldeira said.
The spraying would be targeted mainly at higher, northern latitudes, where Ace thinks that air currents known as Ferrel Cells could deliver heavy snow to the Arctic, offsetting the melting of the polar icecap.
It stretches the imagination — and perhaps credulity — to suggest that a solitary inventor with no government support could solve global warming, especially a man who never earned a degree despite studying physics for much of a decade at the University of Maryland.
Several scientists who reviewed Ace's patent petition for McClatchy reacted with caution to outright derision over its possibilities, but some softened their views upon learning of the computer model.
Ace's invention rests on some unconventional theories.
He contends that the planet is 5 to 6 degrees Fahrenheit too hot to stop the meltdown from the last ice age 20,000 years ago, not a couple of degrees too warm, as government scientists say. He proposes to lower the temperature by 3.5 degrees to 4 degrees, leaving a cushion to avoid tipping toward another ice age and always retaining the option of turning the sprayers down or off, if needed.
He suspects that deforestation is a major cause of global warming, not just because trees absorb carbon dioxide, but also because a large-leaf tree can wick up and evaporate hundreds of gallons of water in a single day. Ace said that the absence of tens of billions of trees, destroyed by southward-creeping glaciers thousands of years ago and again by man's recent timber cutting, has left the planet "slightly dehumidified," reducing cloud cover.
Ace points to recent research that found snow cover is shrinking even at below-freezing altitudes on Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro and other mountaintops, a change that's attributed to declining snowfall.
It would be relatively easy to design spraying equipment to carry out his plan to fill that water vapor deficit, but it would take a major international effort to install 1,000 large spraying devices, or thousands of smaller ones. If fully deployed, the 15,800 cubic meters of sprayed water per second would be equivalent to the flow at the mouth of the Mississippi River and would require enough energy to power a medium-sized city.
However, spraying only a portion of that amount for a decade would be enough to cool the equivalent of current man-made global warming, estimated to range up to 0.76 degrees Fahrenheit, Ace said. Such cooling, he said, could buy mankind decades of time for more research and precision.
Depending on its scale, the water evaporation scheme would cost anywhere from hundreds of millions of dollars to billions of dollars a year, but Ace said it still would have "a net positive financial effect." It would prevent global warming-related damage, he said, and the extra rainfall would provide the cheapest way to transport water to drought-stricken regions, counteract desert expansions, increase natural irrigation for crops and boost the output of hydroelectric power plants.
Added rainfall also would reduce atmospheric greenhouse gas levels, because cold raindrops carry more carbon dioxide back to the oceans than is released when water evaporates, he said.
Caldeira's computer results could surprise many scientists because water vapor is a greenhouse gas widely recognized to be more powerful than carbon dioxide. The simulation suggests, however, that water vapor's cooling effects overwhelm its heat-trapping properties.
Ace has his doubters, partly because he took the patent route rather than submitting his idea for scientific peer review. A patent certifies that an invention is unique, not that it would work.
Douglas Davis, an atmospheric chemist at Georgia Tech University who's known Ace for years, lauded some of his inventions but called his global cooling idea "big-time speculation" because so little is known about the behavior of water in the atmosphere.
"In the case of the computer models that are used for global warming, I know that the hydrological cycle is a critical component of those models, and the hydrological cycle is not well understood," Davis said, stressing that he's not a climate expert.
David Travis, a University of Wisconsin-Whitewater professor who's studied clouds extensively, praised Ace's innovation, but said he's "generally opposed to geo-engineering" solutions and can't imagine evaporating water on a large enough scale to have a near-term effect.
Caldeira, who plans to submit his computer findings in the spring for peer-reviewed publication, is among scientists so concerned about sluggish progress in curbing greenhouse gases that they met last year to consider geo-engineering options.
"Ideas such as Ron Ace's should be carefully and impartially evaluated," Caldeira told McClatchy. "Every brilliant innovation in the history of technology looked a little bit loony when first proposed."
Ace's invention looks less loony when compared with some others. NASA scientists conceived the multi-trillion-dollar idea of orbiting megaton mirrors in space to deflect sunlight. Other scientists have proposed reflecting solar energy by placing mirrors on thousands of high-altitude balloons, by foaming the oceans' surfaces or by filling the upper atmosphere with tiny sulfates or inert particles, or by adding water droplets to low-level ocean clouds from 1,500 unmanned boats.
Ace said he thinks that mankind is "headed straight for a disaster."
By focusing solely on solutions that deal with carbon in the atmosphere, Ace thinks that mankind won't prevent a "big glacier melt" that could lift ocean levels 20 feet and wipe out the world's seaports.
One thing is certain: Ace is dead serious. He's tenaciously compiled more than a thousand pages of research, sometimes during all-night binges despite a fight with cancer. He said he's invested large sums in patenting his global-warming inventions.
Ace said he's created more than 700 inventions, starting with a gravity-measuring machine he built in seventh grade to record passes of the sun and moon on cloudy days. He's won nearly 70 U.S. and foreign patents, but said he's lacked the time and money to submit petitions for all but about two dozen of his inventions.
Ace said that he did not consider any of his inventions to have had big commercial success, but only because he burned up millions of dollars in income in a years-long court defense of his patent for laminated glass-and-plastic eyeglass lenses that were winning popularity across the country. The legal costs also erased millions of dollars in proceeds from sales of a pioneering scratch-resistant lens coating and from several other inventions, Ace said.
Ace said that his unusual blend of expertise in physics, optics and heat transfer has helped him understand the role of light-scattering clouds and water's influence on climate.
Maintaining a hermit-like existence during the past three years, he's churned out more than half a dozen inventions that could help curb global warming, including several that he said would cut energy use.
He often speaks in professorial tones, but can quickly morph into a cynic or a feisty debater over the laws of physics, always mindful of the role of "the big heater" — the sun.
Ace said that he gradually steeped himself in the science of global warming because of "curiosity, nothing more."
"I never saw myself making a dime on it," said Ace, who said he'd donate his patent to the U.S. government if he gets one. "It's mostly that the data seemed to be incorrect, and I wanted to know what is right."
The Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology
Probe finds politics drove endangered species decisions
NASA reports '08 was ninth warmest year since 1880
Environmentalists: New rule guts Endangered Species Act
White House backs down on easing air-pollution rules
Effort to limit air-quality lawsuits dropped from auto bill
Tree's rapid decline sounds alarm on global warming
EPA officials didn't violate lobbying laws, audit finds
Go green: Algae could be next hot biofuel
Could electric cars charge up struggling automakers?
EPA to gut mountaintop mining rule protecting streams
U.S. grant will help China's new buildings go green


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Tuesday, March 18, 2008
No cure for the syphilis meme
Anyone who doesn't bother to get historical facts right isn't entitled to be taken seriously in the public discourse.
On MSNBC's "Hardball" today, it was Ed Gordon. He responded to Roger Simon's condemnation of Jeremiah Wright's suggestion that the government invented the AIDS virus as a genocidal weapon.
Gordon said that this suggestion is "not so far-fetched" when you consider that "the government was giving syphilis to black men."
Likewise, on CNN last Friday night, Roland Martin said: "I was watching another channel where they played a sermon where [Rev. Wright] said that America infected African-American men with syphilis, called the Tuskegee Experiment. That actually did, indeed, happen."
No. It. Did. Not.
And the only reason Ed Gordon and Roland Martin didn't get their face broke on national television is because Chris Matthews, Anderson Cooper and white people in general are more ignorant about black history than they are.
22 comments:
- DeAngelo Starnes said...
Okay, Dave, we get your mission in accuracy. I'm down with it.
There's a larger point here. There's a thin line there because, while passive or aggressive, the result was the same. There was knowledge about the disease and active participation in denying treatment.
Both are criminal acts in the law and neither would be treated any differently as there is evidence of a conspiracy to allow the disease to fester.
Now what did the government do when it learned about that?
Draft a letter asking for correction, but the ultimate point remains.
- March 18, 2008 at 8:01 PM
- Qadree said...
I think this touches upon something that you brought up previously regarding the rhetoric of people like Farrakhan. There seems to be a need to justify the confrontational rhetoric of some of the older leaders in the black community.
Though Lee Atwater didn't invent the abstract and coded forms of communication that prevail today in politics and media, I believe he ushered that new style in with such force that it rendered the confrontational style of many black leaders obsolete. Now they have to justify using an outdated, confrontational style by referencing events that took place when that style was the norm, even if that means exaggerating or distorting things a bit.
I think this is why many of the leaders have lost relevance with younger black people. Just look at the Don Imus situation. When all of the confrontational black leaders pounced on him, he switched from his usual confrontational mode to a more abstract mode and the confrontational black leaders didn't know how to respond, some of them actually took the bait and began blaming rap music for what he said.
While their are plenty of black people that could handle this kind of attack, the ones that the media relies on the most are the old-school confrontational types. Obama is a different type of guy, but unfortunately he's has these people around him that openly make inflammatory, confrontational remarks and I'm not sure he can weather much more of it.
- March 18, 2008 at 8:31 PM
- Carla said...
In light of your fact-checking, check out yesterday's Wright post on NewsOne.com
- March 18, 2008 at 10:15 PM
- Michael Fisher said...
I see D already dealt with this, but let me ask you as well. What is the qualitative difference between identifying people with a disease and lying about treating them and injecting them with the disease in the first place?
- March 19, 2008 at 7:05 AM
- Kellybelle said...
My great uncle was one of the Tuskegee experimentees and my mother always told me that he had been injected with syphilis. She was pretty adamant about it. So I see how that mistaken belief cd take root.
- March 19, 2008 at 7:56 AM
- Sarastani said...
Thanks for this information and your honest opinions. I read your blog daily and this post finally motivated me to comment. Keep up the good work.
- March 19, 2008 at 8:03 AM
This is interesting b/c atleast two of the commenters on this page have said exactly what I thought when I read your statement. I am all for historical accuracy, but the point is moot as to whether the African American men were injected with syphillis or had already contracted the disease. The point is that these innocent men were experimented on like lab rats to see the effect that the disease would have on the American American body. Besides being evil and unethical, the experiment shows a substantial amount of racial ignorance in that the scientists thought that the disease would progress significantly different in the African American body vs. Caucasion bodies, etc. The human body is essentially the same, regardless of race. Certainly, eating habits, lack of exercise, environmental pollutants, etc. all have affects on the body's ability to heal, withstand trauma, etc., To pretend to cure someone is unusually cruel. I think that the grandchildren/ surviving family members should file a malpractice suit if they haven't already. If people can sue McDonald's over hot coffee, surely the families can sue over the loss of life.
- March 19, 2008 at 9:27 AM
- Undercover Black Man said...
What is the qualitative difference between identifying people with a disease and lying about treating them and injecting them with the disease in the first place?
The difference, Michael, is that one actually happened... and the other didn't.
Since when do conscious black men defend the spread of bad information? Is the propaganda value of the idea of the govt. actually injecting blacks with disease so important that you say "Who cares what really happened?"
- March 19, 2008 at 9:57 AM
- DeAngelo Starnes said...
Dave, I don't think anyone disagrees with your mission for accuracy. I think the other point is that we shouldn't lose focus on the aftermath. Because the lack of treatment was almost as bad as a deliberate injection because the treatment denial was as deliberate as the mythological injection.
I think we're all intelligent enough to understand the point that it is inaccurate to broadcast "the government injected Black with syphillis." But don't stop there. Make the correction and then continue the point.
I think that's where we're coming from.
- March 19, 2008 at 11:25 AM
- cnulan said...
Forget about being persnikkity about syphillis, and catch up on what T3 has been putting down about the long con of William Jefferson Clinton....,
I had forgotten all about the polio vaccine hypothesis for HIV/AIDS - despite knowing full well the realities of human medical experimentation that were routine in the American medical industrial complex.
now there's some x-files type shit to wrap your script writing muse around...,
- March 19, 2008 at 4:02 PM
Can I please get the name of the Black Man who investigated the results of the Tuskegee experiment? The Tuskegee experiment ran from 1932 to 1972, and you mean to tell me that you believe these doctors waited around for patients to show up with syphilis? If you believe that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
- March 19, 2008 at 5:17 PM
- Undercover Black Man said...
^ That comment is almost nonsensical enough for me to delete.
I feel like a lone voice in the fucking wilderness trying to get this particular item of bullshit banished from our rhetorical arsenal. Because one of these days somebody's gonna run up on a white TV host who knows his shit... and he's gonna get clowned.
- March 19, 2008 at 5:59 PM
- Christina said...
I'm with you, UBM. If you're going to be talking about racism, it behooves you to at least get your facts correct. Otherwise, people will say "that's not true, black people weren't injected with syphilis!" The End, conversation over. And isn't the truth bad enough?
I don't feel wedded to the Tuskegee syphilis "injection" story any more than I feel a need to believe a guy in Vegas woke up in a bathtub full of ice with his kidneys gone. If it's not true, it's just not true.
And here's another one that is not true that blew my mind when I learned the truth: Charles Drew did not die when white doctors at a hospital decided not to give him a blood transfusion because he was black. He died because he was too badly injured and nothing could have saved him.
- March 19, 2008 at 6:55 PM
- DeAngelo Starnes said...
I don't think the person is gonna get clowned too badly. Because after the correction is made, the more powerful argument will come forth, i.e. there was deliberate denial of treatment of men doctors knew were infected with syphilis for over thirty years. I knew that the injection story was inaccurate and cringed when I heard it.
I think your journalistic instincts are what's driving you crazy on this issue.
Like I suggested, it's more constructive to send these gentlemen correspondence requesting that they correct that aspect of the story unless that is all there is to their story.
- March 19, 2008 at 11:07 PM
- Undercover Black Man said...
Begging your pardon, DeAng, but that is all there is to their story... when Tuskegee is brought up to justify a belief that the U.S. government designed AIDS as a genocidal weapon.
In the four recent examples I quoted, that's the context every time. The government's active role in infecting black people with disease is the point at issue.
I'm gonna go another route in attempting to quash this mythology...
- March 20, 2008 at 2:54 AM
- DeAngelo Starnes said...
^Now see, I almost asked you that question. If that is all to the story, I clearly understand why your nuts are twisted about it.
Count me in because I hate to see the story (a) told incorrectly and/or (b) not being told in its entirety. The story is vile and powerful in a vile way as to not be distorted so that folks like you and I have to clean that shit up.
- March 20, 2008 at 11:32 PM
- Undercover Black Man said...
^ You hit on something, DeAngelo. The vileness of this crime is what was done to the men. Look at that photo I put up in the earlier post... they're about to give that man a spinal tap!
He was literally a laboratory animal to them. Rather than cure his disease, they drilled into his spine for research.
The truth is horrific. To misrepresent it just to feed into a conspiracy theory about AIDS... that dishonors the truth.
- March 21, 2008 at 10:47 AM
I am back UCBM. This is the "Brooklyn Bridge" anonymous commenter in which you responded "That comment is almost nonsensical enough for me to delete." Nonsensical you say. Just because I don't believe everything I read exactly as I read it? Unlike some people, I think about the information after I read it and then form my conclusion. You must be a passive reader UCBM. I bet you believed Ronald Reagan when he said the goverment did not sell drugs in the Iran Contra Affair.
- March 22, 2008 at 6:04 AM
- dj said...
Re:Roland Martin
When you first posted the picture,I thought that was a example of one of the horrible side effects of syphillis,"cranial gigantism".
I have since seen other photos of him and am amazed that this is not the case or Photoshop in play.
He's got enough Mug to do a two shot set up and not turn his head to look directly at either camera!
- March 22, 2008 at 11:31 AM
Thanks for trying to get the story of the Tuskegee syphilis study out there. As an historian of the Study (Tuskegee's Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, 2000) and a member of the Legacy Committee that lobbied for the federal apology from then President Bill Clinton, I have spent more than a decade trying to explain that the racism is worse because the men were left untreated. This makes the Study more normative. If you want to understand the Study, go talk to the families in Macon County, spend time with them at the Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in Notasulga, Alabama, and learn some history while you're at it.
As you note, it is not as if the white newsmen know anything either. Both Peter Jennings on ABC (may he rest in peace) and Tom Brokaw on NBC said the men were infected by the Public Health Service. Alas, the story of the doctors as monsters is an easier sell than the story of normal everyday racism and the day to day business of doing medical research at the time.
The response to the Study was new rules to govern research. The men who were in the Study have provided safety to many of us over the years. We owe them more than I can say.
Susan Reverby, Wellesley College
- March 23, 2008 at 9:11 AM
We the members of the Shiloh Community invited you to come to the community,there are famlilies members still alive who have the lived through the experience the pain and suffering watching their parents die and not knowing why as a child.The birth defects and blindness.Generations after generation who have been affected from their foreparents.There has been round table discussion with family members,and there will be interviews with family members.
- August 6, 2008 at 7:16 PM
the fact remains that nobody knows if they did or did not inject some of the men with syphilis. like that one guy said his mother was the wife and she said they did inject him so it is very possible. Seeing as she didn't have the disease....get yo cake up son.
- March 7, 2009 at 10:06 PM


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Hi ladies,
I would like to invite mommies who have a November 2011 due date to join me so that we can share our journeys together.
I was blessed with a beautiful baby boy on November 2009 with a fresh cycle. In September 2010, my husband and I decided to give our little guy a companion. We did a FET cycle and it failed. We did another cycle this month with our last 2 embryos and I were overjoyed when I got the call for a BFP this past Sunday.
Having miscarried one of my twins on my Fresh cycle and having recently hit 41 with no more embies, the pressure is of course on however I decided to take it one day at a time and accept whatever lies ahead always thanking God that I have already been blessed with a miracle.
I wish everyone who post on this board the best of luck and look forward to sharing our experiences together.
This message board was a blessing with my last pregnancy and I still keep in touch with one of the moms here.
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Whether brothers in the hood be chivalrous
So I rest defense on my ligaments
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So life living it, never giving back
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A steel dick full clip for punk butts
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Cause tricks be out for your blind side (side)
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Today, most campus networks comprise around 80 per cent wired ports serving individual users, and 20 per cent WLAN ports supporting multiple users. However, there's a growing swell of users across the globe pushing organisations to create 'bring your own device' ready environments, and usher in the enterprise mobility era that will inevitably change the structure of networks.
Raoul Tecala, Dimension Data's Business Development Director for Network Integration said, "Today's users want the freedom to move around as they please, and still be able to access the information and tools they need, seamlessly, from wherever they are, and using their own mobile devices."
When comparing a traditional wired network deployment supporting 100 users to a wireless network of the same size, the reduction in physical hardware – LAN switches, discrete wireless LAN controller and cabling – makes the wireless network up to 50 per cent less expensive. In addition to the capital savings, the operation and management of this user environment is also reduced.
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According to Tecala, the data in the 2013 Network Barometer Report indicates that organisations aren't upgrading their networks for enterprise mobility and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) environments as aggressively as expected, but this will inevitably change to accommodate the new structure of future networks and the cost saving that this brings.
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
So thoroughly spoiled I am!
29 comments:
- mooncalf said...
What brilliant gifts!
I LOVE Diary of a Wombat and it made me smile to see a Dalek in your lovely blanket.
Lucky you and lucky baby!
- 13 April, 2010
- Bells said...
i love the way you've grouped them all. Nicely done. It was a pleasure.
- 13 April, 2010
Teddy is going to have more blankies and cot blankets than the local "babies r us"!!!. let's hope he's a grubby baby so they all get a work out...
- 13 April, 2010
- m1k1 said...
What gorgeous gifts. "Worth the wait" = So cute. Where do people find these Brilliant Things?
- 13 April, 2010
- Snoozen said...
Wow, how lucky are you...
- 13 April, 2010
all thoroughly deserved. it was so wonderful to see the clever and beautiful things that people came up with. such a great day, and im so happy to have been able to be part of it xx
- 13 April, 2010
- Jan said...
Just lovely. Every single gift. Even better is the love and care behind the whole affair, gifts and shower.
Is that a Dalek on one of the white squares?
I hope you have lots of storage!
- 13 April, 2010
- Roxie said...
Showers are SUCH fun! You scored big time. Bravo!
- 13 April, 2010
- Leonie said...
Oh how fabulously lovely. Teddy is going to be a very well loved child!!
- 13 April, 2010
- Sarah said...
Oh the loveliness of knitters, what fab gifts all - I love the blankie best too - I wish I had been there with you - I do have a gift for the Tedster planned so you'll have to email me your address and I'll have to get the needles clicking :)
- 13 April, 2010
- Julie said...
Lovely. Congratulations on your upcoming bundle of joy, and also on having such a lovely group of friends. :) Cheers!
- 14 April, 2010
What a haul! The blanket is truly precious.
- 14 April, 2010
- amy said...
I knew your shower was this past weekend and I've been waiting to see the gifts!! Lovely lovely. Sounds like a wonderful afternoon too (I'm jealous! my baby shower featured my father grumbling over everything). Unlike MadMad, I did not get my gifts over in time for the shower. I'd hoped to send them over with Chris so he could mail them from Melbourne and they'd have far less time at the mercy of various postal services, but alas, no. So you shall have a post-birth package to look forward to!!
PS The word verification is "rests." Ha!! Do that now. :-)
- 14 April, 2010
- Geek Knitter said...
I so wish I could have been there!
- 14 April, 2010
- Caffeine Girl said...
What a wonderful shower. It's so much fun to share the joy!
- 14 April, 2010
- Alwen said...
What a great haul! I love the blanket, so clever (but then mah baby is almost 11 already).
- 14 April, 2010
- 2paw said...
What lovely gifts!! You are going to have such fun using everything!!!
- 14 April, 2010
- sue said...
Your one lucky mum to be with all those special gifts! Isnt your baby going to be spoilt with all his wonderful aunties making him gifts! The blanket does look very special!
- 14 April, 2010
- missfee said...
YAY so many times I was worried you had cottoned onto our plan.
I agree with drk so deserved.
I just can't wait to meet teddy now.....
- 14 April, 2010
- Grandma Flea said...
What precious gifts and what wonderful friends. The rug is magnificent and a bottle of champagne for you - how wonderful.
- 14 April, 2010
- MadMad said...
What a great post - almost as good as being there! Sounds like it was a lovely time, and I love all those gifts. Those are the cutest toys ever! And the outfits, and blankies and books. Aw. OK. Yeah, I still wish I'd been there!
- 14 April, 2010
Oh the blanket looks great!!
I'm really sorry I couldn't be there to join in on the fun, couldn't get out of work.
Looks like everyone had fun!!
- 15 April, 2010
- kgirl said...
what a great mix of gifts (particularly like the Moet!)
you deserve to be thoroughly spoiled and I'm sure it brought as much pleasure to the givers and you
now we just have to wait for the little tinker!!
- 15 April, 2010
- Jejune said...
What a beautiful collection of thoughtful, cute, and special treasures! Sounds like a wonderful occasion :)
- 15 April, 2010
Wow, everything is soooo cute and fun! That last blanket, though - OMGosh, it's stunning.
- 16 April, 2010
- Michelle said...
Sounds like a wonderful day. Cake! Gifts! Knitted goodies! Lovely!
- 17 April, 2010
- Lynne said...
Lovely - you (and Teddy) were truly blessed.
- 17 April, 2010
- kim said...
Such a wonderful array of goodies. What good friends you have!
- 17 April, 2010
- Probably Jane said...
Thank you so much for your warm hospitality - I really feel as if I have a wonderful group of friends on the other side of the world now!
Wishing you and your family all possible good things for the future.
- 26 April, 2010


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US teachers unions and Hispanic activists said Wednesday that an Arizona-style immigration law upheld by a federal judge last week is creating a "humanitarian crisis" as thousands of parents keep their children home, fearing that teachers will act as immigration agents.
Alabama's first Republican supermajority since Reconstruction approved this summer what many consider America's toughest immigration law. And last week, federal Judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn surprised many Americans when she upheld key parts of the law – including a portion that says schools must check the immigration status of children when they enroll, as well as the status of their parents.
"This law revisits Alabama's painful racial past," Sam Brooke, a staff attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., said in a conference call with reporters Wednesday. "When a law that demonizes people to the point of pushing children out of schools is cheered, it's a dark day for the state and the country."
Lawmakers and Gov. Robert Bentley (R) have said they were forced to pass the state law because the US government had failed to enforce federal immigration statutes. The state law is designed to ensure the safety and economic security of Alabamians, the officials say.
"It's heartbreaking to read about [children being pulled out of school], but it's going to be an immigration bill or it's not going to be one," state Sen. Rusty Glover (R) told the American Independent News Network. Senator Glover voted for the law and is a history teacher in Semmes.
Federal courts have struck down large parts of similar legislative attempts by other states, but Judge Blackburn allowed key provisions in the Alabama law to stand, saying they passed constitutional muster because they reinforced existing federal law.
Teachers unions and Hispanic advocacy groups, as well as the Obama administration, have filed an appeal, but the law began to take effect this week. Some 2,000 Hispanic students did not show up to school Monday, according to state education officials. That figure amounts to about 7 percent of the state's Hispanic student population.
Yet education officials have vowed that even children without birth certificates attempting to enroll will be allowed to attend school. Information about a child's immigration status "will not be used to individually identify your child," but rather will be used only to report "statistical data," interim state superintendent Larry Craven said in a statement Wednesday.
The statistics will be gathered by the state Department of Education to track the cost of educating illegal immigrants.
The US Supreme Court ruled in 1982 that states cannot deny a free public education to undocumented immigrants. Hispanic advocates said they've been counseling parents to send their children to school.
Still, Hispanics – many of them part of families where the children are US citizens, but the parents are illegal immigrants – are responding to "a fear factor out there that's written between the lines of this law," said Roseann Rodriguez of the Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama, which is one of the plaintiffs in the case. Such a fear factor "is accomplishing the impact of folks who want to see these families leave," said Ms. Rodriguez during the Wednesday conference call.
The big question is whether the students absent this week will return once, and if, fears about being reported to immigration authorities fade.
American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten said Alabama has crossed an unprecedented line, waging a political battle over immigration on the backs of children.
"Parents are afraid to drive their kids to school, [fearing] that something will happen and they won't be able to care for their children," she said. "Nobody wins when a law pushes children into the shadow of society. Teachers should be safety nets, not snitches. Guardians, not guards."


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As with last week's Tombstone Tueday, the photograph this week shows another Tombstone on the wall at St. Mary's, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
James James is the husband of Catherine Read (whose tombstone was featured last week). (Catherine James (nee Read) is the granddaughter of my 6 x great grandfather Cozens Read).
James James was a lawyer and was very well known in and around Aylesbury. I have heard that he seems to have been a little naughty with client's money, but don't know the truth of that rumour and I am still trying to discover more about it!!
Transcript of Monumental Inscription for James James
Beneath are deposited the Remains of
JAMES JAMES, Gentleman
who died the 7th of December 1808
Aged 39 Years
And of JOHN, one of the Sons
of the said JAMES JAMES
by CATHERINE his first wife;
who died the 8th of August 1800
Aged 3 Years and 7 Months
Also of ELIZABETH his widow who departed this Life
the 12th of May 1830 Aged 63 Years
And of their Son JOHN who departed this Life the 11th of May 1813
Aged 5 Years and 10 Months
I was very pleased to find this tombstone as it gave the information that James James had married again after Catherine died. I know from Catherine's Uncle Michael's Will dated 1820 that she had 3 sons with James James. I have only found two, John and James. I don't know anything about James James' second wife Elizabeth apart from what is mentioned on this tombstone. I don't know if the son John he had with Elizabeth was their only child or if there are more children.
It seems I have a fair bit of investigating to do concerning this family group, as well as looking into the rumours about what James James really did!!


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How do I number equations only if they are referred to in the text?
I would like to number only the equations I actually refer in a manuscript. I know plenty of ways to do this manually, but as the manuscript progresses and I change which equations I refer to later I am likely to forget to change the display style of those equations.
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In these tough fiscal times, all agencies are going to be focusing on doing more with less. How does one get more done with less budget and staff? Consider turning to Analytics.
The consulting firm Nucleus Research has been looking at the Return on Investment [1](ROI) for various types of IT projects. According to David O'Connell, Principal Analyst at Nucleus Research, "projects involving analytics have some of the highest ROIs of any projects studied."
Nucleus Research recently studied an analytics project IBM performed at DC Water, the local water authority for Washington, DC. In 2008, IBM began a first of a kind project using advanced analytics to create a smarter water system that analyzes data on valves, storm drains, service vehicles, truck routes and more to optimize its infrastructure. With some pipes and other assets that date to the Civil War, maintaining high levels of service while replacing older infrastructure is an ongoing challenge.
The project has resulted in the following benefits from a combination of IBM Asset Management and Analytics technology and services:
· Field Services trucks can be automatically routed to optimize work management. This results in more work orders being completed each week, as well as up to 20 percent reduction of fuel costs related to fewer truck rolls and reduced "windshield" time.
· Revenue loss from defective or degrading water meters allowed recapture of $3.8 M because the analytics behind the advanced metering infrastructure delivers more timely identification and replacement of those meters. Revenue was also recaptured because DC Water can now identify and bill locations where there is unmetered water usage.
· DC Water has been able to identify assets most critically in need of repair using predictive analytics, so aging infrastructure replacement programs can be more accurately scheduled, preventing costly incidents that reduce service quality, such as outages and water main breaks. This reduces both maintenance labor costs and call center costs associated with emergency incidents.
Nucleus Research reported in its case study that the DC Water project resulted in $19.677 M of benefits over 3 years with a cost of $883 K, giving an ROI of 629%.
In 2010, Nucleus Research studied a number of other public sector analytics projects. The results from these projects are shown in the chart below. On average, the analytics projects have resulted in an ROI of almost 600%! This means that over 3 years, the projects have returned benefits 6 times the original cost of the projects. The payback period has been less than a year in all cases. This is important to government agencies because it means you can see cost savings in the same fiscal year that you invest in an analytics project.
According to David O'Connell, Principal Analyst at Nucleus Research, "When government entities adopt analytics, returns are high for two reasons. First, waste such as leaky water mains, defective meters, or benefits overpayments can be identified and eliminated. Second, by making information more readily available, employees spend less time looking around for information and more time getting their jobs done." O'Connell went on to say, "Another improvement is better use of workers' time. The more an organization knows about the public it serves, their needs, and the means of delivering service, the smarter managers' decisions are when they hand out workers' assignments."
PAYPACK Period
2.0 mo.
2.7 mo.
2.0 mo.
9 mo.
Has your agency implemented any analytics projects? What's been your experience?
Don't feel comfortable sharing publicly? I'd be happy to hear your thoughts directly as well (email@example.com).
Frank Stein
Director, Analytics Solution Center
[1] ROI = (net savings year 1 + net savings year 2 + net savings year 3)/3 * 100
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A few updates and ponderings.
As I finished going through the entire stack of papers that were the culmination of work for Howard Ross, I sensed a bit of frustration that I may have missed something. Some note, hidden on the back of some page I forgot to turn over and examine. Moreover, there are always the little nuances that a symbol or a phrase can bring back a memory for Howard, but does nothing for me. It is part of deciphering the past and someone else's research. Looking at that, I realized what a great thing it is that I am putting these notes up on a blog. Someday, there will probably be some form of this blog available and it is much easier to search a blog than going through a stack of papers. Another good part is that I may die, my house may burn, and all I have may be lost, but this will give an extension to another dimension. I am sure somebody is printing or copying the things I am putting up that is relevant to them. So this is a mass sharing that is effective for saving.
Anyhow, having given my deep thoughts for the day, here is the latest news.
One of those papers in Howard Ross' massive stack was an address for a Beulah Duncan in Zillah, Washington (The sheet it was on was dated 1972). I knew I had a Beulah Ross who was the daughter of Robert Leonard Ross. The rascal that disappeared and I have yet to catch up with him. I knew she had married a Duncan but that was it. Could she have really made it to Washington State? I thought I might as well venture to find out.
I looked up Zillah, Washington on Google and found it is between Yakima and Sunnyside. I searched Duncan in the phone book for Zillah and found a couple in Sunnyside and a couple in Toppenish both of which were nearby. After about a half dozen phone calls, I found nobody home. So I left it for a day or two. I knew that she was probably not still alive, but a good chance a family member who knew of her would be able to lead me in the right direction.
I rang the numbers again last night to find some woman with what I believe was a Irish accent in Toppenish. First strike. The second call was a lady I had a devil of a time understanding. But she assured me she was the daughter-in-law of Mrs. Beulah Duncan. I thought she told me her name was Debra Lee. We visited and she gave me the phone number of her daughter Terel Stan Stone. I know, that is what I thought, a girl with a guys name! I hung up and called Mrs. Stone and she thought I was crazy when I told her I had visited with her mother Debra Lee. Come to find out, her mother's name is Beverly and the lady I was talking to was Carol Ann Stone. Wow, it is amazing how hearing can alter things.
We visited for a few minutes; she told me what she knew of her grandmother, Beulah. Their story goes something like this. Robert was an alcoholic and his wife Minnie had some sort of Drug addiction. All the children were farmed out to others. Beulah was taken in by her grandparents, my great great grandparents James Thomas Meredith Ross and Damey Catherine Graham. She was taken and raised near Rupert, Idaho. But her strict Mormon grandparents was a bit much for her so she was anxious to get out. That came when she met a Jack or Mack Duncan. She was 14 and married him. They moved to Zillah, Washington and lived out the remainder of their days. He died in the late 70's and she died in 2002 at about 96 years of age. They had four children, two of which are deceased.
Anyhow, I am excited to finally flesh out one of Robert Leonard Ross' lines. However, it will not be easy to get the rest of the siblings. Carol did not know what happened for sure to her siblings and we will have to see what we can scrounge up. It sounds like even Beulah herself did not know where some of her siblings ended up.
At least for now, we are one step closer to filling in some holes on the Robert Leonard Ross line. I look forward to any information Carol has which may give clues to more.
See, one little note on a piece of paper has opened a door to an entire family line. Carol was not aware of us and we were not aware of them. Now we are. Let's see where family can take us.


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The air-intake manifold on a high-end European car may be one sign of a renaissance for phenolics. This "old-style" thermoset has been losing ground for decades to engineering thermoplastics.
Although glass-reinforced nylons dominate injection molded automotive intake manifolds, a new manifold for the eight-cylinder BMW 7 series (735i and 745i) is made of phenolic. Development of this application was a joint effort of BMW Group in Germany, system supplier Pierburg AG, injection molder Baumgarten GmbH, and materials supplier Vyncolit N.V. of Belgium.
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The intake manifold was initially prototyped in glass-reinforced PPS and PPA (a high-temperature aromatic nylon). Ultimately, the housing was molded in Vyncolit X7250 phenolic filled with glass fibers and beads. One reason is that it retains high stiffness at 140 C (284 F) despite an average wall thickness of only 2.5 mm. Room-temperature flex modulus is 120,000 Mpa (1.74 million psi). Maximum temperature exposure of the housing is 338 F.
The phenolic housing is injection molded in nine pieces, which are bolted together. Eight single-piece rotors are mounted inside the phenolic housing. They are injection molded of Vyncolit X6952 phenolic with 55% glass fiber, which has even higher stiffness than the housing material. They withstand heat exposure up to 356 F. The complete unit weighs 11.88 lb, including metal inserts. The whole assembly fits inside a magnesium outer shell.
Phenolic renaissance
Vyncolit sources see the BMW manifold as one example of a revitalizing of phenolic applications under the hood. This market is growing 15%/yr in Europe, says Henny van Dijk, president of Vyncolit North America. After its recent acquisition of Rogers Corp.'s Moldable Composites Div., Vyncolit NA opened a Technical Market Development Center near Detroit.
Vyncolit specializes in high-end glass-filled phenolics for metal replacement. Van Dijk cites growing applications in automotive water pumps, temperature-regulator modules, fuel pumps, transmission reactor/stators, and commutators. Promising applications in development include air-conditioner compressors and throttle bodies.


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CPJ Condemns Gabon Crackdown
"The suspension of L'Espoir and the detention of its publisher are part of a disturbing pattern of censorship and intolerance of criticism in Gabon,� said CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon.
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An editorial critical of Gabonese President Omar Bongo, Africa's longest-serving head of state, has led authorities in the capital, Libreville, to arrest a publisher and suspend his newspaper, according to news reports and local journalists.
Guy-Christian Mavioga, director of the private periodical L'Espoir, has been in police custody since Thursday on accusations of offending the head of state in connection with a June 14 editorial headlined "The last days of Bongo," local journalists told Committee to Protect Journalists.
A day after the arrest, the state media regulator (known by its French acronym CNC) suspended L'Espoir on the grounds that Mavioga violated media laws prohibiting a civil servant or someone drawing civil servant benefits from controlling a newspaper, according to news reports.
In an interview with CPJ, CNC spokesman Nestor Taylor denied the ruling was linked to the paper's content and declared the suspension would be lifted if Mavioga appointed a new director.
Several other newspapers have been headed by civil servants or individuals still drawing civil service benefits, including the state daily L'Union, headed by former information minister Albert Yangaré, local journalists told CPJ.
Gabon's small private and financially vulnerable press is reeling from the government's crackdown on critical reporting in recent years. Since 2001, the CNC has banned seven publications and handed temporary suspensions to five newspapers and a television station in response to coverage critical of the government, according to CPJ research.
Just last month, the satirical bimonthly Edzombolo resumed publishing after serving a three-month suspension handed by the CNC in connection with a February editorial critical of Bongo.
"The suspension of L'Espoir and the detention of its publisher are part of a disturbing pattern of censorship and intolerance of criticism in Gabon," said CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon. "A newspaper has the right to run critical editorials and should not be intimidated into silence by accusations of offending an elected public figure. Guy-Christian Mavioga should be released immediately."
Mavioga, also head of a small pro-government political party, was the first journalist imprisoned in Gabon since the 21-day detention of Norbert Ngoua Mezuï in October 2006. Mezuï is president of the private press group known by its French acronym APPEL, according to CPJ research.
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In Stein's Complex Analysis, the integral of $f$ along $\gamma$ is defined by $$\int_{\gamma}f(z)\text{d}z=\int_a^bf(z(t))z'(t)\text{d}t$$
where $z:[a,b]\rightarrow \Bbb{C}$ is a parametrization of $\gamma$
the right hand of the equation is a definite integral, and it is defined by: $$\int_a^bf(z(t))z'(t)\text{d}t =\lim_{||\Delta t||\rightarrow 0} \sum_{k=1}^{n}f(z(\xi_k))z'(\xi_k)(t_{k}-t_{k-1})$$
where $a=t_0<t_1<\cdots<t_{n-1}<t_n=b$ is a segmentation of $[a,b]$ and $t_{k-1}<\xi_k<t_k$ and $||\Delta t||=\max\{|t_{1}-t_{0}|,|t_{2}-t_{1}|,\cdots,|t_{n}-t_{n-1}|\}$
If I want to define the integral by
$$\lim_{||\Delta z||\rightarrow 0} \sum_{k=1}^{n}f(\zeta_k)(z_k-z_{k-1})$$ where $z_k$ is points on $\gamma$ which divided $\gamma$ into some segments
assume $f$ is continuous and $z'(t)$ is continuous too. then they are all exists and equal.
My Question is: why author define $\int_{\gamma}f(z)\text{d}z=\int_a^bf(z(t))z'(t)\text{d}t$,but not directly use Riemann sum to define:$\int_{\gamma}f(z)\text{d}z=\lim_{||\Delta z||\rightarrow 0} \sum_{k=1}^{n}f(\zeta_k)(z_k-z_{k-1})$?
thanks very much