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Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival - Sunday General Admission
The Chesapeake Bay Events (CBE) held its first festival in 1998. It has quickly gained national notoriety as one of the premier Blues Festivals in the world. Outside of providing top caliber entertainment, the festival also gives ALL net proceeds to charity.
Ticket Types:
VIP Package (Valid for Two People)
- Two passes for Saturday and two passes for Sunday.
- One weekend parking pass in VIP lot. Parking pass will be MAILED.
- Two meals per person each day.
- Free beer, wine, sodas and water.
- VIP Bathroom
- One Event Program
- Lawn Seating in upfront VIP seating area
General Admission Two Day Pass
- One pass for Saturday and one pass for Sunday.
Saturday General Admission
- One pass for Saturday entry.
Sunday General Admission
- One pass for Sunday entry.
What's There: Concert stage with Jumbotron, large crafter village, a wide variety of food and drink, Beer and Wine, beach, lawn seating.
What to Bring: Low back lawn or beach chair or blankets, sunblock, sunglasses. Sun tents may be used on the beach as long as they don't impede anyone's view of the stage.
What Not to Bring: Food, drinks, bottles/glass, alcoholic beverages, drugs, pets,coolers, professional audio or video recording equipment or cameras with long telephoto lenses/tripods.
Parking: Limited parking will be available first come first serve at Sandy Point State Park for $15/ car. Parking is also available at the Naval Academy Stadium for $10/ car and at Kent Island High School on the Eastern Shore with Shuttles running to and from the event throughout the day. Shuttle service will begin at both locations at 9am.
Arrival By Boat: Restricted 600' from shore, no docking. Please check local marinas for docking.
Arrival By Foot or Bicycle: Discouraged (but not prohibited) due to the heavy volume of cars and buses arriving.
Questions or VIP Information: For a quick response, e-mail us at [email protected] or you may call 410-257-7413 and leave a message.
Produced By: Chesapeake Bay Events (a non-profit corporation)
Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival - Sunday General AdmissionSunday, May 21, 2017 11:00 AM to 8:30 PM
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The Time Kate Moss Kicked a Reporter, Then Made Him Apologize
When celebrities get mad at journalists, they throw cellphones, curse them on out TV, and kick them in the leg—twice!—at fancy fashion parties. That's what Larry King replacement Piers Morgan says Kate Moss did to him last winter.
In a diary he kept for The Daily Mail, Piers explained that Kate had a history of assaulting him for no reason:
She had me thrown out of a masked ball a few years ago, and recently ran up and kicked me in the leg at Naomi Campbell's celebrity fashion show for Haiti.
I've never been quite sure what it's all about, other than perhaps a mistaken belief on her part that I was still editor of the Mirror when the paper exposed her cocaine abuse. (I wasn't, and anyway, it doubled her earning power, so what's the big problem exactly?)
Then he replays a long conversation he had with her, in which Piers apologizes to Kate for being an "asshole," Kate kicks him again, and Brit mogul/Topshop owner Sir Philip Green appears out of nowhere:
"Apologize," she demanded.
"For what?"
"Being an asshole all your life."
It seemed a fair enough charge.
"I'll do that if you apologise for kicking me."
I cleared my throat. "I'm sorry for being an asshole all my life."
"Your turn, Kate."
"No, I'm not apologising to you. Forget it."
"OK, then I'll have to retract my own apology."
Sir Philip Green appeared. "You two made up yet?"
"Not quite," I said.
At which point I felt a Louboutin-pointed foot lash out under the table and collide with the table leg.
"Did you just try to kick me again?"
She giggled, then asked, "Are you gay?"
"No," I replied.
Then, the most unexpected deus ex machina of all: Naomi Campbell arrives to stop the violence.
"You've got me all wrong," I persisted. "Ask Naomi."
"She hates you too."
"No she doesn't. I'll prove it."
I phoned Miss Campbell.
"Naomi, please tell Kate what a nice man I am."
"OK," said Naomi. "I will."
I passed my phone to Kate, and could see her face scrunch into a tight ball of disbelief.
"What? No, he's not. Is he? Really?"
I smiled. "See? Told you."
These people's cocktail parties sound like hell. In other news, Kate is going on Piers Morgan Live (or whatever they end up calling his CNN late night variety hour) in March. Hopefully this means his TV show will be some sort of Celebrity Ultimate Fighting match (may I suggest the rare Far Eastern art of Sikaran kick fighting?) but more likely Kate and Piers have reconciled completely, and it'll be a total normal interview. [Daily Mail via HuffPo, image via Getty]


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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
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Aulie, Lightning top Hurricanes 4-1
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[January 23, 2013]
(AP) -- Keith Aulie scored the momentum-shifting goal that propelled the Tampa Bay Lightning past the Carolina Hurricanes 4-1 on Tuesday night.
Tom Pyatt and Cory Conacher scored early goals, Ryan Malone added a power-play tally, and Vincent Lecavalier had two assists. The Lightning pulled away with two goals in the third period.
Jeff Skinner scored a power play goal for the Hurricanes, who had their home opener spoiled by Tampa Bay for the second straight season.
Mathieu Garon stopped 35 shots -- including all 15 he faced in the third period of his first start this season for the Lightning, who opened the lockout-compressed season with two wins in three games.
Cam Ward made 22 saves, but allowed four goals for the second straight game. The Hurricanes have started a much-anticipated season with two losses and have been outscored by a combined 9-2. Carolina has dropped four straight home openers.
Skinner cut Carolina's deficit to 2-1 when he scored a power-play goal 3:45 into the second, backhanding a rebound high past Garon.
Aulie restored the Lightning's two-goal lead 1:37 into the third when he skated unimpeded into the left circle and beat Ward with a high shot for his first goal since the 2010-11 season.
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Malone then put Tampa Bay up by three when he stuffed in a loose puck on the power play with 10:03 left.
Ward was back in net three nights after allowing four goals on just 12 shots in a 5-1 loss at Florida -- and the Lightning continued his rough start by scoring on two of their first five attempts.
Pyatt struck first just 5:18 in when he got past Bobby Sanguinetti, took a pass from Lecavalier and batted the puck out of the air past Ward. Conacher made it 2-0 by shoving in a rebound with 8:24 left.
NOTES: The Sanguinetti-Joni Pitkanen defensive pairing for Carolina was on the ice for Tampa Bay's first two goals. . Conacher has five points in three games. . Carolina's Alexander Semin struck the left post with a shot during a power play early in the second period. . Former Pittsburgh Steelers coach Bill Cowher watched from the stands. His son-in-law, RW Kevin Westgarth, made his debut with Carolina.
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Investors Rattled Ahead of Apple Earnings
Jan 23, 2013 5:00 AM PT
Investors' eyes are on Apple as the company prepares to announce its quarterly earnings report on Wednesday.
The company's recent stock market losses and several analysts' lowered expectations on iPhone sales suggest this quarter might not be as flush as some in its recent past.
Apple sank to a low of US$496.63 on Tuesday and closed at $507.88, up about 1 percent.
Investors' pessimism stems in part from the increasingly fierce competition in the smartphone market. Although Apple snagged the top spot in U.S. smartphone sales during the three-month period ending Dec. 23, Android was right on its heels, according to a report released this week by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech.
Apple grabbed 51.2 percent of sales during the busy holiday season, with Android taking second place with 44.2 percent. Worldwide, Android is still in first place, including in key markets such as China, the UK and Germany.
Go Big or Go Home
Samsung is leading the Android charge against Apple, thanks to the success of its Galaxy mobile devices. The Samsung Galaxy S III in particular has caught the imagination of consumers with its 4.8-inch display -- larger than the iPhone 5's 4 inches, and dwarfing the 3.5 inches on all previous iPhone models.
Samsung met some skepticism when it first launched the Galaxy S III, with some complaints that it couldn't easily be single-handed, but it has quickly become one of the most popular models on the market.
"Apple may be as surprised as I am with the popularity of larger phones," said Ezra Gottheil, senior analyst for computing practice at Technology Business Research.
"People are carrying them in their bags or having larger pockets, and Apple's argument that you want to be able to use both sides of the phone comfortably isn't really holding up. People like large phones," he told MacNewsWorld.
They might like them so much that Apple would consider making a phone with a larger display, he said.
Rumor has it that the company might debut a 4.8-inch iPhone as early as this June at the company's Worldwide Developer's Conference, the China Times reported this week.
Rumors surface hourly about what may show up in a new iPhone, so even if this one isn't spot on, it doesn't mean the company isn't considering upping its screen size to meet demand, noted Gottheil.
"It's possible," he said. "Apple has said in the past they won't make a larger phone, but they say a lot of things. They will probably have to address the demand for larger screens but will want to give it its own twist."
While Apple has typically taken the approach of telling consumers what gadgets they want rather than emulating successful competitors in the market, the company is willing to acknowledge market preferences in terms of size and form factor, said Gottheil, pointing out that Apple's computer, tablet and music players come in a variety of shapes and sizes.
"The iPad mini and the MacBook Air [are] evidence Apple is willing to change sizes," he pointed out. "They recognize what's happening in the phone market overall is what's happened in established consumer markets like cars, where people want different sizes and have a lot of options open to them."
Semiconductor Switch?
One way for Apple to deliver a blow to Samsung could be to drop it as a chip provider. Since the companies are rivals in sales and in the courtroom, it's understandable that Apple would want to look elsewhere to find some of the hardware to power its mobile devices, said Jim Turley, principal analyst at Silicon Insider.
One of the possible contenders for the job would be Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world's largest contract chip maker. TSMC expects high-volume orders for its 20-nanometer chip over the coming year, CEO Morris Chang revealed last week.
Its technology is certainly good enough that Apple might be looking toward TSMC if it really is considering a switch, said Turley.
"It's great that TSMC is getting a big 20nm order," Turley told MacNewsWorld. "That's cutting-edge technology and every chipmaker apart from Intel likes to show that they're ... state-of-the-art too. Intel has used its presumed advantage in manufacturing technology to batter opponents for a while, so TSMC is understandably keen to show that it's in the game."
With a company as large as Apple, anything is a possibility, said Turley, and Samsung probably shouldn't be alarmed just yet over its chip business.
"It's obvious why the company would want to distance itself from Samsung, but it doesn't necessarily follow that it has to run into the welcoming arms of TSMC. It's certainly possible, but not a sure thing. There are lots of chipmakers out there," he pointed out.
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Well this is interesting: New research by Validas, a company that analyzes wireless phone bills, found that there is barely any difference in the data usage habits of the top 5 percent of tiered and unlimited wireless users. This comes after three of the four major US wireless carriers have begun to throttle speeds for those so-called "data hogs" on unlimited plans. What the findings potentially uncover is that the new policies are ostensibly less about the initial justifications for the limits — esoteric concerns over network bandwidth and wireless spectrum shortage, of which AT&T specifically referred to as an impetus for their policy shift — and more about moving legacy unlimited data plan holders to more modern, tiered contracts.
Validas, which according to their website, "cuts through the confusion that wireless bills and rate plans create to get consumers, businesses, and government agencies more from every dollar they spend on wireless services," analyzed data extracted from a sample of over 55,000 2011 mobile phone bills. What they found was perhaps contrary to common sense: On Verizon Wireless, for example, the top 5 percent of unlimited data plan holders used an average 3.57 GB of network bandwidth, and a median of 2.60 GB per 30 day period. Tiered plan holders used on average 3.59 GB with a median of 2.58 GB, representing no appreciable difference. AT&T's results skewed a bit more towards conventional wisdom, with the average top unlimited data subscriber using 3.97 GB vs. the tiered user's 3.19 GB, a spread of about 25 percent. The difference, however, could involve AT&T's faster 4G data network, in relation to Verizon's slightly slower, but more widespread LTE service.
Of the four major wireless carriers, unlimited data throttling policies differ in a few distinct and important ways. T-Mobile, according to a blog post on Validas' website, "is very transparently throttling over 5GB of data used, which corresponds to a very small portion of users. Verizon Wireless and AT&T, on the other hand, are utilizing active throttling techniques aimed at the top 5 percent (in terms of the amount of data used) of unlimited customers." The post goes on to indicate that Verizon will reduce speeds for its throttled users for as little time as possible and based on particular regional network loads, a metric that is constantly changing. AT&T is a bit more punitive in its data control, heavily throttling top unlimited users for the rest of their billing cycle. Conspicuously absent from the major carriers throttling unlimited data is Sprint. They offer a "truly unlimited" data plan that, barring some recent controversy, seems to be authentically unlimited.
What is clear from these statistics is that data throttling of unlimited customers is a preemptive tactic being employed by the largest wireless carriers at the very least to protect against future wireless spectrum needs. To that end, it is disingenuous for AT&T and Verizon to bill the changes disguised as an immediate threat to consumer data traffic. We need look no further than T-Mobile, the nation's fourth largest carrier and one in dire need of wireless spectrum — its own policy could hardly even be considered throttling compared to Verizon, which currently has more spectrum than it surely knows what to do with. What's more likely is that as carriers move to faster, and thus higher bandwidth 4G networks and beyond, unlimited data plan holders will begin to realize a significant advantage over tiered users, presenting a potential liability for carriers. Although 40 percent of Verizon Wireless smartphone users consumed less than 50 MB a month in 2011, those numbers are expected to change drastically as 4G networks become more prevalent; driving unlimited customers to tiered plans right now presents much less challenge to wireless carriers than when mobile users start to get used to truly unlimited bandwidth. If you keep track of how much data you normally use, let us know in the comments.
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Life on Mars: A Definite Possibility
|Rover computer rendering on the edge of a depression, much like Opportunity's perch on the edge of Endurance Crater.
Credit: Maas/NASA/JPL
Was Mars once a living world? Does life continue, even today, in a holding pattern, waiting until the next global warming event comes along? Many people would like to believe so. Scientists are no exception. But so far no evidence has been found that convinces even a sizable minority of the scientific community that the red planet was ever home to life. What the evidence does indicate, though, is that Mars was once a habitable world. Life, as we know it, could have taken hold there.
The discoveries made by NASA's Opportunity rover at Eagle Crater earlier this year (and being extended now at Endurance Crater) leave no doubt that the area was once "drenched" in water. It might have been shallow water. It might not have stuck around for long. And billions of years might have passed since it dried up. But liquid water was there, at the martian surface, and that means that living organisms might have been there, too.
So suppose that Eagle Crater – or rather, whatever land formation existed in its location when water was still around – was once alive. What type of organism might have been happy living there?
|Liquid water may have flowed episodically over the surface of Mars in the planet's distant past. Artist conception of a delta filling a crater.
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Probably something like bacteria. Even if life did gain a foothold on Mars, it's unlikely that it ever evolved beyond the martian equivalent of terrestrial single-celled bacteria. No dinosaurs; no redwoods; no mosquitoes – not even sponges, or tiny worms. But that's not much of a limitation, really. It took life on Earth billions of years to evolve beyond single-celled organisms. And bacteria are a hardy lot. They are amazingly diverse, various species occupying extreme niches of temperature from sub-freezing to above-boiling; floating about in sulfuric acid; getting along fine with or without oxygen. In fact, there are few habitats on Earth where one or another species of bacterium can't survive.
What kind of microbe, then, would have been well adapted to the conditions that existed when Eagle Crater was soggy? Benton Clark III, a Mars Exploration Rover (MER) science team member, says his "general favorite" candidates are the sulfate-reducing bacteria of the genus Desulfovibrio. Microbiologists have identified more than 40 distinct species of this bacterium.
Eating Rocks
We tend to think of photosynthesis as the engine of life on Earth. After all, we see green plants nearly everywhere we look and virtually the entire animal kingdom is dependent on photosynthetic organisms as a source of food. Not only plants, but many microbes as well, are capable of carrying out photosynthesis. They're photoautotrophs: they make their own food by capturing energy directly from sunlight.
But Desulfovibrio is not a photoautotroph; it's a chemoautotroph. Chemoautotrophs also make their own food, but they don't use photosynthesis to do it. In fact, photosynthesis came relatively late in the game of life on Earth. Early life had to get its energy from chemical interactions between rocks and dirt, water, and gases in the atmosphere. If life ever emerged on Mars, it might never have evolved beyond this primitive stage.
Desulfovibrio makes its home in a variety of habitats. Many species live in soggy soils, such as marshes and swamps. One species was discovered all snug and cozy in the intestines of a termite. All of these habitats have two things in common: there's no oxygen present; and there's plenty of sulfate available.
|Round spore of sulfur-reducing bacterium. The rod-shaped Desulfotomaculum exists both in an unsporulated, 'free-tumbling' form in sulfate-rich water and this round sporulated form.
Image Credit: Mazák Károly, sulinet.hu
Sulfate reducers, like all chemoautotrophs, get their energy by inducing chemical reactions that transfer electrons between one molecule and another. In the case of Desulfovibrio, hydrogen donates electrons, which are accepted by sulfate compounds. Desulfovibrio, says Clark, uses "the energy that it gets by combining the hydrogen with the sulfate to make the organic compounds" it needs to grow and to reproduce.
The bedrock outcrop in Eagle Crater is chock full of sulfate salts. But finding a suitable electron donor for all that sulfate is a bit more troublesome. "My calculations indicate [that the amount of hydrogen available is] probably too low to utilize it under present conditions," says Clark. "But if you had a little bit wetter Mars, then there [would] be more water in the atmosphere, and the hydrogen gas comes from the water" being broken down by sunlight.
So water was present; sulfate and hydrogen could have as an energy source. But to survive, life as we know it needs one more ingredient carbon. Many living things obtain their carbon by breaking down the decayed remains of other dead organisms. But some, including several species of Desulfovibrio, are capable of creating organic material from scratch, as it were, drawing this critical ingredient of life directly from carbon dioxide (CO2) gas. There's plenty of that available on Mars.
All this gives reason to hope that life that found a way to exist on Mars back in the day when water was present. No one knows how long ago that was. Or whether such a time will come again. It may be that Mars dried up billions of years ago and has remained dry ever since. If that is the case, life is unlikely to have found a way to survive until the present.
Tilting toward Life
But Mars goes through cycles of obliquity, or changes in its orbital tilt. Currently, Mars is wobbling back and forth between 15 and 35 degrees' obliquity, on a timescale of about 100,000 years. But every million years or so, it leans over as much as 60 degrees. Along with these changes in obliquity come changes in climate and atmosphere. Some scientists speculate that during the extremes of these obliquity cycles, Mars may develop an atmosphere as thick as Earth's, and could warm up considerably. Enough for dormant life to reawaken.
|Drill hole from rock abrasion tool showing spiral or fluted rock form below the surface of El Capitan.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell
"Because the climate can change on long terms," says Clark, ice in some regions on Mars periodically could "become liquid enough that you would be able to actually come to life and do some things – grow, multiply, and so forth – and then go back to sleep again" when the thaw cycle ended. There are organisms on Earth that, when conditions become unfavorable, can form "spores which are so resistant that they can last for a very long time. Some people think millions of years, but that's a little controversial."
Desulfovibrio is not such an organism. It doesn't form spores. But its bacterial cousin, Desulfotomaculum, does. "Usually the spores form because there's something missing, like, for example, if hydrogen's not available, or if there's too much [oxygen], or if there's not sulfate. The bacteria senses that the food source is going away, and it says, 'I've got to hibernate,' and will form the spores. The spores will stay dormant for extremely long periods of time. But they still have enough machinery operative that they can actually sense that nutrients are available. And then they'll reconvert again in just a matter of hours, if necessary, to a living, breathing bacterium, so to speak. It's pretty amazing," says Clark.
That is not to say that future Mars landers should arrive with life-detection equipment tuned to zero in on species of Desulfovibrio or Desulfotomaculum. There is no reason to believe that life on Mars, if it ever emerged, evolved along the same lines as life on Earth, let alone that identical species appeared on the two planets. Still, the capabilities of various organisms on Earth indicate that life on Mars – including dormant organisms that could spring to life again in another few hundred thousand years – is certainly possible.
|Benton Clark Credit: Stardust/NASA/ JPL
Clark says that he doesn't "know that there's any organism on Earth that could really operate on Mars, but over a long period of time, as the martian environment kept changing, what you would expect is that whatever life had started out there would keep adapting to the environment as it changed."
Detecting such organisms is another matter. Don't look for it to happen any time soon. Spirit and Opportunity were not designed to search for signs of life, but rather to search for signs of habitability. They could be rolling over fields littered with microscopic organisms in deep sleep and they'd never know it. Even future rovers will have a tough time identifying the martian equivalent of dormant bacterial spores.
"The spores themselves are so inert," Clark says, "it's a question, if you find a spore, and you're trying to detect life, how do you know it's a spore, [and not] just a little particle of sand? And the answer is: You don't. Unless you can find a way to make the spore do what's called germinating, going back to the normal bacterial form." That, however, is a challenge for another day.
MER flight planning chronicled in the diary of the principal investigator for the science packages, Dr. Steven Squyres: Parts 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 5 * 6 * 7 * 8 * 9 * 10 * 11 * 12 .


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Sam Siewert is CTO of Atrato and has worked as a systems and software architect in the aerospace, telecommunications, digital cable, and storage industries. Dane Nelson is a field applications engineer at Intel.
Flash memory, especially NAND flash memory, has been steadily encroaching into new markets as the density has increased and the cost per gigabyte (GB) has decreased. First it was digital cameras, then cell phones, portable music players, removable digital storage, and now we are seeing the emergence of NAND based solid state drives (SSDs) in the consumer PC market. Some industry analysts predict that SSDs could be the single largest NAND market segment (in billions of GB shipped) by 2010.
The combined performance, reliability, and power of SSDs compared to traditional hard disk drives (HDD), explains the attraction of SSDs in the consumer marketplace.
Intel has launched a line of high-performance NAND based solid state drives; the Intel X25-M and X18-M Mainstream SATA Solid-State Drives utilizing MLC NAND, and Intel X25-E SATA Solid-State Drive utilizing SLC NAND. The higher performance density and lower price point make them a practical choice for the storage and embedded markets.
Solid State Drives versus Hard Disk Drives
Solid State Drives have no moving parts, unlike HDDs. The rotating media and servo-actuated read/write heads used to access HDD data are subject to mechanical failure and introduce seek and rotate latency. Capacity growth due to areal density advancement and low cost per gigabyte stored have been the main advantages of HDDs, but fast random access has always been a significant limitation.
The main difference between an HDD and SSD is the physical media in which the data is stored. A HDD has platters that encode digital data with magnetically charged media. These magnetic platters spin at a high rate of speed (5,400, 7,200, or 15,000 revolutions per minute, or RPM) so that a servo-controlled read/write head can be positioned over the cylinders/tracks of sector data for data access. In an SSD the digital data is stored directly in silicon NAND flash memory devices. An SSD has no mechanical moving parts, which improves the durability in resisting physical shock or mechanical failure and increases performance density. An SSD then uses a controller to emulate a mechanical hard disk drive, making it a direct replacement for mechanical hard disk drives but with much faster data access due to the lack of the servo positioning latency in HDDs.
In addition to the memory, a solid state drive contains; an interface connector and controller, memory subsystem and controller, and a circuit board where all the electronics are housed.
The main performance difference between HDDs and SSDs has to do with the limitation of the HDDs caused by the spinning mechanical platters. Two performance metrics that improve greatly are the random reads and writes per second, and the time it takes to enter and resume from a low power state. Random read and write performance is measured in inputs/outputs per second (IOPs). This is simply the number of reads or writes that can be completed in one second. A typical high performance 15-K RPM SAS hard drive can usually complete about 300 IOPs of random 4-kilobyte (KB) data. By comparison, the Intel X25-E SATA Solid-State Drive is able to process over 35,000 random 4-KB read IOPs, a difference of 117 times. The reason for this is that logical data locations on an HDD are directly mapped to ordered physical locations on the spinning physical disks. To access (read or write) that data, the disk must spin around to the correct location and the read/write head must move to the correct radius to access the data. Therefore, random data accesses require multiple ordered physical movements incurring significant mechanical access latency and significantly limiting performance. In a NAND SSD the data is stored in a virtual memory map on the NAND flash. Accessing any part of that is as simple as changing the address and executing the next read or write. Since most workloads are random in nature, especially as industries move toward multi-core compute engines, multithreaded operating systems, and virtual machines, random disk performance will only increase in importance.
The other main performance difference is the ability to resume operation from a low power state quickly. The lower power state for a HDD is accomplished by parking the read/write head off to the side and stopping the spinning platter. When the next read or write is requested the platter needs to be spun back up and the head has to be moved back in place, which can take on the order of seconds. In an SSD however, when it is not processing read or write requests, it can put itself into a low power state (through Device Initiated Power Management, or DIPM) and recover within a few milliseconds to service the next request. Hard drives take closer to seconds to do this, so they do not take full advantage of DIPM.
With SSDs' higher performance, added reliability, and lower power, one may ask why they have not completely displaced HDDs. The main reason is cost, because SSDs cost many times more per gigabyte than mechanical hard drives today. There has been early adoption in markets that absolutely must have the performance, reliability, lower power, or resilience to shock and vibration, but mass consumer adoption will only happen when the cost of a comparably sized device approaches that of a Small Form Factor (SFF) hard disk drive.
The second barrier is capacity, because SSDs typically have much smaller capacity than mechanical hard drives. As NAND flash densities increase, however, the capacity of SSDs will be large enough for most consumer, enterprise, and embedded marketplace needs.
Third, the limited number of write cycles per storage cell is a barrier to applications that mostly ingest data (50-percent writes, 50-percent reads) for later access. Flash memory, as it is erased and rewritten, will lose the capability to hold a charge after many program/erase cycles. This makes flash memory a consumable resource. However, with increased density, along with more comprehensive write wear-leveling algorithms, the longevity of solid state drives has improved.
Just because SSDs have an inherent advantage over HDDs in random read/write performance and in resumption from low power states doesn't mean that SSDs are better than HDDs in every case. Hard disk drives are excellent for storing massive amounts of data such as movies, music, and large amounts of digital content in general, due to their very low cost per gigabyte and continued improvements in areal density (gigabits/square-inch). Areal density improvements in HDD media technology have in fact followed or exceeded Moore's Law (capacity density doubling every 18 months or less), but access to that data has not improved at the same pace. The servo and rotational latency for access to data in HDDs has in fact been nearly the same for decades if you look at year-over-year improvements.
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Players' manager Gardenhire nears milestone
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CHICAGO -- Ron Gardenhire appeared all but certain to get career win No. 1,000 with the Twins last season.
The Twins had to win just 10 of their final 28 games in September to get him there, but they fell into a tailspin the last two weeks of the season, losing 10 of 11 to end the year and leave Gardenhire just two wins short of the milestone.
Gardenhire's status with the club was also in doubt, with his contract expiring after 12 seasons with the Twins, but he was ultimately retained on a two-year extension despite Minnesota's struggles over the last three seasons.
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"I don't think about it until [the media] asks me or my wife," Gardenhire said. "I wish it would've taken care of itself so we wouldn't have to worry about it. It's a personal thing, and I'm not really into that. It's longevity more than anything else. We had some good years here, but it's longevity. So it's a milestone, yes, but it's not on the mind right now until somebody brings it up."
When Gardenhire reaches the milestone, he'll be in select company, as he'll be the 60th manager to reach that mark, and just the eighth since 1961 to reach 1,000 wins all with one team. He would also join former Twins manager Tom Kelly in that exclusive club, as Kelly went 1,140-1,244 with two World Series titles in 16 years in Minnesota.
But Gardenhire, who has a career record of 998-948, has a different style than Kelly, whom he served under as third-base coach from 1991-2001 before taking over as the Twins' manager in '02. Kelly was known for his calm demeanor -- he was ejected just five times for arguing with umpires during his career -- while Gardenhire isn't afraid to let his personality show and leads all active managers with 67 ejections.
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Former Assistant Chief Constable Alan McQuillan was speaking after TUV leader Jim Allister challenged a decision by the PSNI for its uniformed officers and specially liveried vehicles to formally join the Gay Pride parade on Saturday.
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He said: "No one is suggesting that the PSNI should show opposition to these crimes by participating in Orange parades."
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He added: "Most of the people in the gay pride parade have never done anything wrong and are simply out celebrating their own sexuality.
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He said there must be a significant number of gay members of the Orange Order.
"The challenge for the future is can we get any gay Orangemen to take to take part in the Gay Pride parade?"
Polls show increasing support for gay marriage in Northern Ireland, he said.
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The teaser trailer for "Interstellar" has hit the web. The coming sci-fi film was directed by Christopher Nolan, the filmmaker behind The Dark Knight Trilogy. Due out Nov. 7, 2014, the movie stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Topher Grace, Michael Caine and Matt Damon, among many others. The teaser taps into a feeling many people might have felt in the age of the web. With so much focus on inner space and the internet, what ever happened to manned space exploration? "Perhaps we've just forgotten," a narrator who sounds like McConaughey says in the clip, "that we are still pioneers. That we've barely begun. And that our greatest accomplishments cannot be behind us–that our destiny lies above us." The plot for the movie has been closely held, but Iceland served as a backdrop for the production. Watch the clip. Does it look like it lives up to Nolan's "Batman" movies? Leave your thoughts in the comments. Follow me on Twitter @cjfarley and check out my coming novel "Game World."


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I am working with a noncongeneric CFA model . N=112, 12 indicators, residual variances from one and two and three factor EFAs are in excess of .85 and as high as .95 for many indicators). Fitting a 1,2, and 3 CFA, 12 indicators on a factor 1, 5 on factor 2, 4 on factor 3. Indicators on factors 2 and three cross load on factor 1. No correlated residual indicator variances and factors are orthogonal.
First run, set scale of latents by fixing loading of an indicators to 1, latent variances freely estimated. No convergence, negative variance for the second latent, zero variance for the third. Selection of indicators with fixed loadings was arbitrary. Second, run, set scale of latents by fixing their variances to 1, loadings for all indicators freed . No convergence, small residual indicator variance. Once this was set to 0, model converges to proper solution.
Negative variance on last model still remains a concern. Am aware that for a congeneric model, holding all else oonstant, models are equivalent irrespective of method used to set the scale of the latent. My reading indicates that this may or may not be the case for noncongeneric models. In my situation, could the scaling of the latent have led to model misspecification accounting for failure to converge and the negative and zero latent variances?
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I don't think the problem has anything to do with the metric. Usually when setting the metric using a factor loading has problems, changing to fixing the factor variance to one solves it. It is usually caused by the factor loading selected being negative for example. It sounds like you have a difficult model. If you send the output and your license number to
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cathy labrish
posted on Friday, January 27, 2012 - 9:59 pm
Thank you Linda both for the answer and for the kind offer of help. We think we have it solved, for now, but I will take you up on your offer as necessary. Have a wonderful weekend.
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Leucippus of Miletus carried on the scientific philosophy which had begun to become associated with Miletus. We know little of his life but it is thought that he founder the School at Abdera on the coast of Thrace near the mouth of the Nestos River. Today the town is in Greece and is called Avdhira. At the time that Leucippus would have lived in Abdera it was a prosperous town which politically was a member of the Delian League.
The philosopher Protagoras was born in Abdera and he was a contemporary of Leucippus but Protagoras, the first of the Sophists, spent most of his life in Athens and may have left Abdera before Leucippus arrived there. Although now there seems little doubt that Leucippus existed, it is worth remarking that Epicurus, at the end of the fourth century BC, actually believed that Leucippus had never existed since so little was known of him. However we now know enough in the way of independent evidence to be sure that Leucippus did exist.
Aristotle refers to Leucippus as a philosopher with rather different views to those of Parmenides. Aristotle refers to him several times and quotes from his works on a number of occasions. For example in De caelo Aristotle writes:-
... of those who have maintained the existence of indivisibles, some, as for example Leucippus and Democritus, believe in indivisible bodies, others, like Xenocrates, in indivisible lines.Unfortunately Aristotle is not entirely consistent in his references to Leucippus. Some quotes suggest that atomism began with Leucippus, other quotes such as the one above bracket Leucippus and Democritus, while in a few places Aristotle seems to imply that Democritus alone invented atomism.
Certainly it seems that Leucippus was much influenced in his thinking by Zeno of Elea and by Parmenides, but it seems relatively unlikely that there is any truth in the later claim that he was a pupil of Zeno of Elea. More likely here is that later writers realised that Leucippus followed Zeno's ideas and 'pupil' was intended in this sense.
It is thought that Democritus was a pupil of Leucippus, where this time 'pupil' really does have its standard meaning. Together they are considered as the joint founders of atomic theory. Leucippus stated that atoms are [7]:-
... imperceptible, individual particles that differ only in shape and position.The mixing of these particles gives rise to the world we experience. The reason that some early writers did not believe in the existence of Leucippus seems to be because his views and those of Democritus became completely entwined. Quite soon the whole became attributed to Democritus who was the more famous of the pair. It seems likely that Democritus as a pupil of Leucippus, developed the ideas of his teacher but it is quite beyond us to disentangle the contributions of each to this important doctrine.
Two works, almost certainly written by Leucippus, are The Great World System and On the Mind. The first of these is attributed to Leucippus by Theophrastus. Theophrastus (about 372 BC - 287 BC) was a pupil of Aristotle who had studied at Athens under Aristotle. Theophrastus became head of the Lyceum in Athens after Aristotle in 323 BC. He was in a position to be able to distinguish the works of Leucippus from those of Democritus and we shall describe his views on this matter.
Theophrastus claimed that the basic ideas of atomism were present in the philosophy of Leucippus according to which [1]:-
Both matter and void have real existence. The constituents of matter are elements infinite in number and always in motion, with an infinite variety of shapes, completely solid in composition.According to Diogenes Laertius, the cosmology put forward by Leucippus in The Great World System is a creation of worlds by agglomerations of atoms by chance collisions. There is then differentiation with the smaller atoms being sent off into the infinity of space while the rest form into a spherical structure with the larger atoms at the centre and the smaller atoms further away from the centre.
From the treatise On the Mind we have the only quotation of the words of Leucippus which have survived. In this work he writes (see for example [8]):-
Nothing happens in vain, but everything from reason and of necessity.Leucippus also contributed to the method of exhaustion.
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Commentary: This cartoon, which makes use of a characteristic du Maurier misunderstanding leading to a play on words, comments on male dress of the period, the speaker claiming that on the footman and the clergyman, both of whom are wearing costume largely unchanged since the eighteenth century, are the only ones attractively dressed. Since the most important difference between those men and the others in the room consists in the fact that they wear tight breeches and long stockings whereas the other wear trousers, du Maurier may be making a commentary on conservatism in politics as well as dress: as Carlyle reminds us, many French revolutionaries wore the trousers of the working classes and were known therefore as "sans culottes" (without breeches) -- and now even members of the upper classes dress like the lower orders. What is implied about their social roles by the fact that (only) a servant and a clergyman wear this already archaic costume?
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Michigan licensing just dropped Narconon Freedom Center's Residential Detox from their list of programs. Normally it should have been fine until renewal in July.
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And the Outpatient program just dropped from their LARA listing.https://w2.lara.state.mi.us/VAL/License/Details/2179425
Quote from: DeathHamster on May 17, 2017, 07:44And the Outpatient program just dropped from their LARA listing.https://w2.lara.state.mi.us/VAL/License/Details/2179425The license expiry was kicked from July 31, 2017 to 2018. Strange how this location never has an annual report listed.
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Best of Summer: Hot Dogs
Squirt on some ketchup or mustard, slather on some relish or sauerkraut, and pour on the chili and cheese. Or try it with some sweet pickled ramp (more on that later).
The next installment of our "Best of Summer" series focuses on a quintessential summer snack: hot dogs.
Nearly 600 readers voted on their favorite place to get them, and here -- drum roll, please -- is the winner: Super Duper Weenie in Fairfield.
The place: Super Duper Weenie, 306 Black Rock Turnpike, Fairfield
The history: Starting as a food truck in 1991, SDW got so big that owner Gary Zemola decided to open a permanent location, right off Exit 25 on I-95. The popularity of his product owes to an old-school mentality. "We create something from a bygone era," Zemola, a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, said. "Think your granny's relish recipe. Everything is made from scratch." From the fresh Hummel hot dogs to the assorted homemade toppings, Zemola's product is top dog in the wiener game.
The vibe: The old-school ambience of a 1950s hot dog stand, complete with a bright neon sign, a cartoon hot-dog statue and an open kitchen from which Zemola slings row after row of plump, buttery hot dogs.
The crowd: Families, kids, high school students, road trippers and devoted locals.
Best seat: "Right in front of me," Zemola said, laughing. In other words, a seat at the counter, where diners can see their hot dogs sizzling on the grill. "You can rest assured that every hot dog is handled with care," Zemola added. "You know that nobody's going to drop it."
What I tried: I staged an epic East Coast-West Coast hot dog battle, ordering the New Yorker (topped with sauerkraut, onion sauce, mustard and hot relish) and the Californian (topped with homemade meat chili, freshly chopped onion, American cheese and hot relish). Both dogs struck a delicious balance of sweet and spicy, with a hint of smoky flavor and a delicate, snappy crunch. However, being that I'm a huge chili fan (and SDW makes a killer chili), the Californian came out as top dog.
Must-have dog: The New Englander, topped with sauerkraut, bacon, mustard, sweet relish and raw onion. "It's the champ," Zemola said, adding that it has "all the flavors a hot dog should have." Also, try the fresh-cut, hand-pressed fries cooked in 100 percent soy oil.
Must have drink: Chocolate shakes. The base for the ice cream comes from Wade's Dairy in Bridgeport, and they're made with 100 percent real chocolate. Indulgent, yes, but necessary.
Bonus: Pickled veggies. That's right: Zemola pickles his own wild ramp, string beans and more. The toppings are seasonal, but if you ever catch it on the menu, make sure to grab some.
Double bonus: SDW is getting a new, plumper, juicier frank. Zemola declined to go into details on the supplier, but he said he would make an announcement soon. (After eating two hot dogs, Zemola offered to grill up one of his new superior dogs. Topped with pickled ramp, it was hands down the best hot dog I ever tasted.)
Best In Show: The eatery came to national prominence in 2009 when it was featured on Food Network's "Diners Drive-ins and Dives."
Second place: JK's Restaurant, 126 South St., Danbury
Third place: Tomlinson's Restaurant, 1400 Noble Ave., Bridgeport
Other top vote-getters: Rawley's Drive-In, 1886 Post Road, Fairfield; Bridge Street Wienery, 17 Bridge St., Stamford; Windmill Tavern, 400 Hollister St., Stratford; Joey B's Chili Hub, 118 River Road Extension, Greenwich
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Catching the first sunrise of 2017.
We're back!
The last week of 2016 saw us successfully make the jump back across the big pond that is the Atlantic Ocean back to the United States. It also saw us contract a flu that was sweeping the Spanish expat community of Jimena de la Frontera just days before departure, a flu which, despite our best efforts, progressed to mild pneumonia upon arrival back. Hey, we fully planned to get our yearly flu shot on return, honest. Anyways, we're now (finally!) regaining strength, and thought we'd reflect on the trip last year and our return while impressions are still fresh in our mind's eye.
It's always a bit surreal, coming back to the U.S. Here, gas is cheap, and goods are plentiful. It's hard not to grab random people and try to explain to them just how good they have it, and just what real poverty looks like. I know that it's all relative to what people have experienced in their own lives, but travel opens you up to just how huge the disparity exists between the haves and have-nots is worldwide. And yet, we experienced such generosity from those who had the least to give us. Back in the States, it seems like we're once again stuck in our own little bubble, with an indifference to others.
But its not all bad. Here, the WiFi screams along as fast as my fingers and brain can move, and I'm not clinching my teeth with every mouse click. In the States, we can really get business done. Whereas abroad, finding batteries or a place to get a haircut feels like a daily victory, here everything is a Walmart stop or an Amazon click away.
We also realize what a precious and expensive commodity personal space is on return to the U.S. Here, secondary roads are wider than main highways abroad, and garages are bigger than many European apartments.
Still, we miss the quiet solitude of writing amid the Andalusian foothills with the goats and cows, and the pleasant winding drive through the mountains home vs the endless redlight stop-start traffic of Florida's US 19.
We did prove to ourselves that we can travel and work online indefinitely from the road in 2016, and keep the cash outflow equal to the very modest inflow our current lifestyle affords.
Of course, the return to the new 'Occupied America' was a bitter sweet one, though the current political polarization isn't as oblivious in day to day life even here in purple state Florida as our online life would suggest. We just do our best to break that bubble, and reach out to friends of all stripes. And speaking of which, PBS Newshour has an excellent quiz (and we almost NEVER take online quizzes) to help you see if you're doing the same.
Well, that's it for now. Time to rest up get healthy, and be ready to outrun the government's fleet of flying killer robots if needed. Hey there's and eclipse in 2017, so its already a good year.
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Carbohydrate counting is an important
skill to help you maintain tight control of your blood sugar (glucose) level
when you have
diabetes. It gives you the flexibility to eat what you
want and increases your sense of control and confidence in managing your
Carbohydrate counting
is a recommended method of meal planning for people who have diabetes. It
involves matching your insulin dosage to the grams of carbohydrate in the foods you eat to
keep your blood sugar level in your
target range.
Carbohydrate—the body's
main source of glucose—affects blood sugar more than any other nutrient. All
forms of carbohydrate increase your blood sugar level. Foods that contain
carbohydrate include:
Contrary to what you may have heard, you can eat sugar when
you have diabetes. But if foods that contain sugar make up a large part of your
diet, you are probably not eating enough of other more nutritious
Which of these foods contain
Wheat bread, rice, peas, and oatmeal all
contain carbohydrate. Carbohydrate is an essential nutrient found in foods such
as bread, cereal, grains, and vegetables. It also is in fruit, milk, desserts,
and candy. Both answers are correct.
Cheesecake, skim milk, and pears all contain
carbohydrate. Carbohydrate is an essential nutrient found in foods such as
bread, cereal, grains, and vegetables. It also is in fruit, milk, desserts, and
candy. Both answers are correct.
Continue to Why?
counting helps prevent low or high blood sugar levels, which can cause medical
emergencies. Over time,
high blood sugar levels can damage many body tissues and organs.
Counting carbohydrate grams allows you to match insulin to the food you
eat every day to keep blood sugar at your target level. This method is
effective because carbohydrate is the main nutrient that causes blood sugar to
rise after meals, increasing the need for insulin. Carbohydrate turns into
glucose within 2 hours after you eat.
If you use an
insulin pump or take multiple insulin injections, you
need to know how many grams of carbohydrate are in a meal to calculate how much
rapid-acting insulin to take before you eat. A pump
provides a continuous (also known as basal) rate of insulin throughout the day,
but it must be programmed at meals to provide extra insulin to allow for the
rise in blood sugar after meals. When you know how much carbohydrate you will
eat, you can program extra units, or boluses, of insulin to cover your
You figure out how much insulin to use based on your own
insulin-to-carbohydrate ratio. This ratio may be different from one person to
another, and even your own ratio may change over time. You and your doctor will
calculate the ratio by recording the food you eat and testing your blood sugar
after meals.
Carbohydrate counting helps me know how much insulin I
need to take at meals.
Carbohydrate counting does help you know how
much insulin to take at meals. You will use your own insulin-to-carbohydrate
ratio to determine how many units of insulin you need to cover the carbohydrate
in your meal.
Continue to How?
count carbohydrate grams at a meal, you need to know how much carbohydrate is
in each type of food, whether it is a slice of bread, a bowl of lettuce, or a
tablespoon of salad dressing. Fortunately, nearly all packaged foods have
labels that tell you how much total carbohydrate is in a single serving.
And you can get carbohydrate guides from diabetes educators and the American
Diabetes Association.
To calculate the carbohydrate in food that
is not packaged, you will need to know standard portions of
carbohydrate foods. Each
serving size or standard portion contains about 15 grams of
When you know the number of grams of carbohydrate in
a meal, you can figure out how many units of insulin to take based on your
personal insulin-to-carbohydrate ratio.
For example: Your doctor may recommend that you take 1 unit of rapid-acting
insulin for every 10 to 15 grams of carbohydrate you eat. So if your meal
contains 50 grams of carbohydrate, and if your doctor has decided you need 1
unit of insulin for every 10 grams of carbohydrate, you would need 5 units of
insulin to keep your post-meal blood sugar from rising above your target
Your insulin-to-carbohydrate ratio may change over time. In
some people it will differ from one meal to another. You might take 1 unit of
insulin for every 10 grams of carbohydrate for lunch but take 1 unit for every
15 grams at dinner. Keep the following in mind when counting carbohydrate
By keeping track of what you eat and testing your blood
sugar after meals and exercise, you can learn to estimate the effect of
protein, fat, fiber, and exercise on the amount of insulin you need.
Count carbohydrate grams and eat a balanced diet by:
I can eat only a certain amount of carbohydrate at one
sitting, or my blood sugar will be too high.
The amount of carbohydrate you eat at a meal
can vary. You keep your blood sugar under control by matching the amount of
insulin you take to the amount of carbohydrate you eat.
Calculate the carbohydrate content in the following
breakfast. Use the information in the "carbohydrate foods"
and "foods that contain protein" links to calculate the
carbohydrate. The breakfast includes 2 eggs, 1 cup of milk, 1 slice of toast,
and 2 teaspoons of margarine.
This breakfast contains 30 grams of
carbohydrate. The eggs and margarine have no carbohydrate, while the milk has
15 grams and the toast has 15. If you had problems with this exercise, take the
question with you to your next visit with your registered dietitian or
certified diabetes educator. Have him or her help you learn how to calculate
the carbohydrate content in food.
This breakfast (2 eggs, 1 cup milk, 1 slice of
toast, and 2 teaspoons margarine) contains less than 35 grams of carbohydrate.
The breakfast contains 30 grams of carbohydrate. There
is no carbohydrate in the eggs and margarine, 15 grams in the milk, and 15 in
the toast. If you had problems with this exercise, take the question to your
next visit with your registered dietitian or certified diabetes educator to
learn how to calculate the carbohydrate content in food.
Continue to Where?
Now that you have read this
information, you are ready to plan regular meals and snacks and calculate the
amount of carbohydrate in your diet.
Talk with your diabetes
specialist (doctor or other health professional, registered dietitian, or
certified diabetes educator). If you have questions about this information,
take it with you when you visit your diabetes specialist.
If you
need help with carbohydrate counting or meal planning, see a registered
If you would like more information on meal planning for
people who have diabetes, the following resources are available:
The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is a national organization
for health professionals and consumers. Almost every state has a local office.
ADA sets the standards for the care of people with diabetes. Its focus is on
research for the prevention and treatment of all types of diabetes. ADA
provides patient and professional education mainly through its publications,
which include the monthly magazine Diabetes Forecast,
books, brochures, cookbooks and meal planning guides, and pamphlets. ADA also
provides information for parents about caring for a child with diabetes.
Return to topic:
Other Works ConsultedCampbell AP, Beaser RS (2010). Medical nutrition therapy. In RS Beaser, ed., Joslin's Diabetes Deskbook: A Guide for Primary Care Providers, 2nd ed., pp. 91–136. Boston: Joslin Diabetes Center.
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Medical Review:
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- You should be working ahead anyway: Often, the rush to be ready belies an overall lack of preparation. Speakers who don't take the time to plan their talks in advance are those most likely to say, afterward, "Oh, I forgot to include..." or "I wish I'd added..." Planning a message ahead of time gives you time to tweak, edit and reconsider, so use that time to advantage.
- You need to imagine audience questions: What the audience wants, can absorb or is interested in should be the primary driver for your effort to engage them as a speaker. If you don't take the time to test your message or content plan for your assumptions about the audience--and its likely assumptions about your topic--you may be unpleasantly surprised come question time. Take the time to look at your plan and hear it as an audience member might, then come up with the questions you want, expect and fear to see how those might alter your content.
- Your topic may demand it: I do a lot of work training scientists and engineers, whose complex concepts often require a lot of unpacking before they can be understood by a more generally educated audience. The more detail you're trying to summarize, the more work it will take. Or, as Albert Einstein said, "You don't really understand something until you can explain it to your grandmother," an oft-misquoted aphorism that suggests your understanding of your topic will improve if you can explain it with simplicity and clarity. That takes time.
- You need that time to become familiar with it. Working and reworking your message is a form of rehearsing. Only by editing and considering it at some length can you know it well. (Practice also is important, once you have it where you want it.)
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