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The Duncan Effect
At Inside Pulse Sports Pip of Fungoes asks:
it's time for a comprehensive study of whether there is a "Duncan Effect" on pitchers, like the one that JC Bradbury did on Leo Mazzone. Until then, no one knows for certain what kind of an impact (if any) Duncan has on pitchers.
Well, because you ask so nicely, I'd be happy to oblige. 🙂 Actually, it's easy because I already did the study.
Two years ago, Sports Illustrated asked me to look into the question, and I ran a study similar to the one I did for Leo Mazzone in The Baseball Economist. I looked at how pitchers performed with and without Duncan, controlling for factors such as age, parks, and pitcher quality. I found that Dave Duncan's pitchers improved their ERAs by about 0.35 runs—yeah, he's pretty darn good.
If you haven't seen this before, it's because the estimate buried on page 60 of the September 27, 2007 issue of SI in a story about Duncan and his sons. I meant to write about it at the time, but I never got around to it.
UPDATE: Pitchers Hit Eighth posts the link to the SI article in the comments. Thanks!
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That's fantastic. We all thought Duncan was an elite pitching coach, and it's nice to see some statistical analysis to back that up.
I don't think I still have that issue of SI laying around. Any way you can post a pdf of the article here?
Thanks for the info, JC.
So it's quantifiable that all of the talk about Duncan reviving careers and improving everyone else's castoffs is actually true (at least in the instances where the individual pitcher actually improves). 🙂
FWIW, here's the SI article:
[…] This post was mentioned on Twitter by J.C. Bradbury, fungoes. fungoes said: JC is a magic genie! Wondering what my next wish should be… RT @jc_bradbury: The Duncan Effect http://tinyurl.com/yh3tq57 […]
[…] Assuming the Yankees' lineup is the same in 2010—unlikely, but for the purpose of this post, let's consider that it is a distinct possibility—Bill James and Baseball Info Solutions project the following numbers for each player (all figures are featured in The Bill James Handbook 2010, which Greg over at Pending Pinstripes pointed me to). […]


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Facebook is reportedly set to reveal its own email application on Monday.
If Facebook's email service is a success, it's bad news for Yahoo and AOL, which are already losing users. It's also bad news for Google, which uses Gmail as a launch point into search, Google Apps, and to small degree social stuff through Buzz.
What would it take for Facebook email to be a success? Well, Facebook has 150 million active users in the United States. It's unlikely to convert all those users, but if it can get just a third of them to start using its email, it would have the second most popular email service in the U.S.
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What Were They Thinking?
A version of this article appears in the September/October 2006 issue of Home Energy Magazine.
September 11, 2006
Holy Smoke and a Six Pack
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I just added some watermelon themed labels to my TpT resource collection. There are 4 different sized labels to print and you can add text in the editable version!
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Do all classrooms need to be cute? Of course not! Do students learn better? I doubt it - the teacher is the most important element in any room. Do I compare classrooms? Seriously, who has time for that?!
I have wonderful photos of the vibrant 'cute' classroom I had in first grade way back in the (cough cough... 1980s). It is the only one I ever had, as most of my other teachers had strengths in different areas. I learned from and treasured every teacher I had, regardless of how much paint and glitter went up on the walls. If a child can understand that, can't we all?
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1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup (plus 2 TBSP) applesauce
1/2 cup unsweetened almond milk
1/4 cup agave nectar
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Lightly grease a muffin pan.
Combine the cornmeal, flour, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl; stir in the applesauce, almond milk, and agave nectar. Pour the mixture into the muffin pan.
Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick or small knife inserted in the top of a muffin comes out clean, 15 to 20 minutes.


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Flame Painter is a unique paint application that lets you easily create original artworks, light effects, unconventional design, or beautiful backgrounds with flame brushes. Flame Painter was created within 'I am an Artist' experimental project. The initial vision was to create an application for professional artists as well as for people without artistic skills who want to create original paintings. New features in Flame Painter 3 include Flame Painter Connect - a Photoshop plug-in which works as a live link between Flame Painter and Photoshop, ability to use Wacom tablet pressure pen and Leap Motion camera and a smooth import and export of layered PSD and SVG vector files. Multi-core engine, new high resolution renderer and Photoshop blending modes have made this software a powerful tool for creating professional artworks. New 3.0 features: - Photoshop plugin (for CS5, CS6, CC) - Open and save layered PSD files - Export SVG vector format files - Photoshop Blending Modes - Hires renderer - Multicore optimization - Safe Boundary - Editable vector layers - Wacom tablet support - Leap Motion Support - Copy&paste layers to 3rd party apps - Unlimited layers Changes we made in 3.2 update: - Wacom preserves tablet pressure data with vector layers - Publishing artwork to online gallery without safe boundary fixed - Switching between vector layers in Edit mode fixed - Cancel HiRes rendering with Esc key - Added file association on Mac OS - More minor bugfixes


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Selected as Party of the Day on November 22nd!
2nd Birthday Painting Party!
Party Recap
Deciding on a painting party for Hayden's second birthday was the easy part, trying to make it "boyish" was hard. I came across a fabric on Pinterest and I fell in love. It was a chevron rainbow pattern with more blues and greens, and no purple and pink. It was perfect. I sent Crystal from A Sign of my Love a picture of the fabric and she made a matching invite with coordinating printables that were just what I was looking for. After coming across an adorable shop on Etsy, I was able to contact the seller to make a custom shirt for Hayden using the same fabric.
A few weeks before the party I decided to make a saw horse table as the dessert table. After a few trips to Home Depot and some paint it was done. It was exactly what I had envisioned for the dessert table. I wanted to keep the desserts on the simple side. I ordered the tastiest sugar cookies from A Cookie Jar that were in the shape of a painters palette with the same colors as our chevron fabric. Maria from Love & Sugar Kisses made chocolate covered Oreo's to match the fabric and theme. I was able to find rainbow colored popcorn from Oh Goodie Designs that everyone enjoyed. The cake was a cookie and cream flavor that Janderyn from Earth and Sugar made and tasted out of this world. She designed a cake with the most beautiful fondant touches. The paintbrush was my favorite. A tassel garland from The Flair Exchange was the perfect touch to the front of the table.
Kids Tables and Arts & Crafts:
The kid tables were my favorite detail of the party. I made iron on monogram aprons for each child to wear as they painted. The girls also received a headband that matched their monogramed apron. Each place seating consisted of an 8×10 canvas for them to paint along with their own paint set. Mini easels were put in front of each child with their name on it. I found bright color water bottles on clearance at Hobby Lobby and decided to get one for each child. Stacey from Shes Kinda Crafty made me the vinyl names for each bottle. Clear paint cans with crinkle paper were put in the middle of each table along with Hayden's name, the number two, and paintbrushes.
The sand art station was the kids' favorite. They were able to fill up small plastic containers with different color sand to bring home. My boys love to put their sippy cups into coozies so when I came across bright colored foam coozies at Hobby Lobby I knew they would have fun making their own. Since Father's Day was the day after the party, most kids made them for their dad, and surprised them with a new coozie.
As people pulled up to our house they followed a "Painting Party" arrow sign along with rainbow colored balloons leading them to the back yard. They were greeted by four 36" balloons from The Tomkat Studio where the children's aprons were hung along our hedge for the kids to grab as they entered the party. Our tent was set up in the back yard on the grass with bright rainbow lanterns hanging from the inside. I made chair sashes and table runners with the fabric I ordered online. I bought silver paint cans and dripped paint down the side for the centerpieces. We filled those with hydrangeas and paintbrushes.
Food & Drinks:
Since it's always hot in the summer I decided on cold food. We had Italian and America submarine sandwiches, Greek salad, pasta salad, a rainbow fruit platter, and Chik-fil-A tenders for the kids. Ice cold lemonade in mason jars tied with rainbow twine and a striped straws was the drink of choice.
– Event Styling & Planning: The Pear, Event Styling & Planning
– Photography: Enduring Impressions
– Invite and coordinating printables: A Sign of My Love
– Treat bags, twine, candy cups, chevron straws, 36" balloons: The Tomkat Studio
– Rainbow Popcorn: Oh Goodie Design
– Cake: Earth and Sugar
– Chocolate Covered Oreo's: Love & Sugar Kisses
– Sugar Cookies: A Cookie Jar
– Tassel Garland: The Flair Exchange
– Birthday Boy Shirt: Chartreuse Giraffe
– Vinyl Names for Kids Cups: Stacey Haycock
– Name Centerpieces: Let's Get This Party Started
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Do you use butter in your home, or do you prefer margarine? The stakes involved in this question may seem rather low, but that's not how dairy farmers saw things when margarine came on the scene in the 1870s. They were accustomed, after all, to selling most of the nation's butter that wasn't being produced at home. In Florida and elsewhere, the question of whether and how to regulate margarine ultimately fell to lawmakers to decide, resulting in a real 19th century "bitter butter battle."
A French chemist named Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès invented margarine in the 1860s in response to a contest sponsored by Emperor Napoleon III to develop a suitable substitute for butter. The emperor hoped the winning substance could be used by the lower classes and the French military. Mège-Mouriès called his solution "oleomargarine." The "oleo" part came from the Latin oleum (oil), since one of the major components of the product was beef tallow. The "margarine" part of the name came from the margaric acid used in creating the compound. The term "margaric" is adapted from the Greek word márgaron, meaning "pearl" or "pearl-oyster," since the fatty acid naturally forms small white pearl-shaped droplets.
Mège-Mouriès patented his new product and marketed it under the trade name "margarine." The idea caught on well enough to cross the Atlantic Ocean, and by 1871 inventors were already seeking patents for margarine production processes in the United States. Meatpackers were some of margarine's most enthusiastic proponents, since the new product gave them something profitable to do with the animal fats leftover from processing meat. Dairy farmers, on the other hand, saw margarine as a threat to their hold on the butter market. They were joined in their opposition by others who were concerned that improperly concocted margarine could be dangerous to human health.
The question of what to do about butter and its imitators began landing in state legislatures across the nation, and in 1881 it was Florida's turn to debate the matter. The following law passed the Senate and Assembly and was approved by signature of Governor William D. Bloxham on February 17, 1881:
AN ACT to prevent the selling as Butter of Oleomargarine or any Spurious Preparations purporting to be Butter.
The People of the State of Florida, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That any person or persons who shall knowingly and willingly sell or cause to be sold as butter any spurious preparation purporting to be butter, whether known as oleomargarine or by any other name, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in a sum not to exceed one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail for a period of time not to exceed thirty days, or by both fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the Court.
SEC 2. Any keeper of any hotel or boarding house who shall knowingly and wilfully, without giving notice to guests at the table, supply oleomargarine or other spurious preparation purporting to be butter, for the use of guests, shall be subject to the same penalty.
That's a stiff punishment for passing fake butter!
Taken in context, Florida's treatment of margarine was not so unusual. Congress adopted a law in 1886 regulating the definition of butter and imposing a tax on oleomargarine at two cents per pound. State governments developed a whole range of solutions to the butter battle, including restricting producers from coloring margarine to resemble butter. Without coloring, margarine typically has a whitish tint, resembling lard more than butter. Delaware, Illinois, and Michigan all passed laws establishing this sort of color restriction. New Hampshire opted for the opposite tactic. Its legislature required margarine producers to color their products pink, so consumers would realize they weren't eating real butter.
Despite all the fuss, consumers gradually warmed up to the idea of using margarine, especially in situations when meat, milk, and butter were in short supply. City dwellers who lacked easy, inexpensive access to farm-fresh butter tended to favor the margarine substitute, and it served as a vital commodity during both world wars. By the 1950s, most of the earlier restrictions on margarine had been dropped.
Margarine has also served at times as creative inspiration. Census and Social Security Death Index records indicate that Florida has been home to many people with some variant of the term "oleomargarine" in their names over the years. The words "Oleo" and "Margarine" were quite common by themselves as names in the early decades of the 20th century, while our research has turned up one case in Duval County of someone with "Oleo Margarine" as their full given name.
If this hasn't convinced you of food's vital role in history, check out our new primary source set for teachers titled The History of Foodways in Florida. Its purpose is to empower teachers to use food traditions as a lens for studying history with their students, but anyone is welcome to enjoy the historic documents and media it provides.


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Your Dominant Eye
Regardless of whether you are shooting a rifle or shotgun, you will first need to determine your dominant eye. The dominant eye is the eye you use for sighting purposes. It is the stronger of your two eyes, and it's the one that judges speed and range, and focuses more accurately than your non-dominant eye.
Most right-handed people are right-eye dominant. Most left-handed people are left-eye dominant. Some people are cross-dominant. They are right-handed, but left-eye dominant, or vice-versa. If you are cross-dominant, your instructor may wish you to mount a rifle or shotgun on the shoulder of the dominant eye regardless of your dominant hand. This adjustment can make the difference between hitting and missing a target.


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Report: Kevin Kolb's concussion may be career-ending
The Buffalo Bills added free-agent Matt Leinart to their depleted quarterback roster Sunday, and the decision is beginning to make more sense.
The team fears Kevin Kolb's concussion—sustained in the Bills' preseason game against the Washington Redskins Saturday—may be career-ending, Tim Graham of the Buffalo News reported.
MORE: Bills sign Leinart | Sanchez 'day-to-day' | Preseason images
Kolb's injury occurred when the quarterback was accidentally struck in the head by an opponent's knee while scrambling, Graham reported.
EJ Manuel, who is out for the rest of the preseason with a left knee injury, remains slated as the starter for the Bills' regular-season opener, NFL.com's Ian Rapoport reported.
With Manuel and Kolb out, Leinart will fill an immediate need at quarterback for the Bills' preseason finale Thursday against the Detroit Lions.


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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Here's how Sen. Lindsey Graham is navigating through six challengers in South Carolina's Republican primary: goodwill, shrewd politics and nearly $7 million in campaign cash.
Rep. Mick Mulvaney was thought to be a credible challenger in the June 10 primary, until Graham inspired House leaders to give Mulvaney a seat on the House Financial Services Committee. Mulvaney opted against challenging the two-term senator.
A hacking episode resulted in the theft of South Carolina taxpayers' personal information and a public relations problem for Gov. Nikki Haley, also up for re-election this year. Graham advised her on the situation, and now she has better poll numbers than he does.
Not long ago, Graham looked vulnerable to a primary challenge from conservatives offended by his bipartisan dealmaking and votes for President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominees. Tea party challenges ousted GOP incumbents in the past two elections, and, some believe, prevented the party from regaining the Senate.
But Graham's power and shrewdness, not to mention the intimidating $7 million treasury, have positioned him to cruise to the nomination and likely re-election in November. He's benefited from the support of establishment Republicans and allied groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce focused on gaining the six seats the GOP needs to retake the Senate.
Two top potential rivals let people know early on they were out.
State Sen. Tom Davis, an aide to former Gov. Mark Sanford, predicted before the Republican convention in 2012 that South Carolina voters would oust Graham. But Davis said he could do more for his libertarian-leaning causes in the state Senate, and that to run against Graham, he would need to raise a lot of money.
There was a movement to draft Mulvaney, but he demurred, saying he doesn't enter races he can't win.
Graham still attracts criticism from libertarian Republicans and tea partyers. But polls show none of his challenges tops 10 percent support with eight weeks to go before the primary.
"While he is definitely a public whipping boy for one subsegment of the party, a lot of people in power recognize how influential he is," said Scott Huffmon, a political science professor at Winthrop University.
Graham has largely been unchallenged during his career. He positioned himself to replace retiring Sen. Strom Thurmond so efficiently that he faced no opposition in the 2002 primary. He breezed to re-election in 2008 after spending his first six years working with a Republican president and before the rise of the tea party.
But in his second term, Graham has worked with Democrats on immigration and praised Hillary Rodham Clinton's work as secretary of state, although he has distanced himself from Clinton over the attack on the diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, that left four Americans dead.
On Obama's nominees to the high court, Graham says he believes the advice and consent power given to senators in the Constitution isn't an ideological test, but a measure of fitness for the office.
Graham's re-election is far from a sure thing.
A Winthrop University poll found his approval rating among registered voters in South Carolina at 40 percent, compared with 49 percent for Haley.
Graham does have six GOP opponents. Three are lawyers, including one who's also a minister. There's one of the most conservative state senators, a man who supported his family with a fleet of ice cream trucks, and the first woman to graduate from the Citadel.
Each is outspoken and keeping alive the idea that Graham is not sufficiently conservative.
They have allies among the half-dozen or so of the state's 46 county Republican parties that have passed resolutions chastising Graham during his second term.
One is Pickens County Republican Party. Chairman Phillip Bowers, says the challengers, at the least, have grabbed Graham's attention.
"Incumbency is so strong, and the money — if you add those two together, I will be very surprised if Senator Graham does not win," Bowers said.
Graham must win a majority of votes in the primary to avoid a runoff. In a seven-way race, that may be difficult. But South Carolina's primary is open, meaning that independents and even some Democrats may vote for the more moderate Graham in the Republican race.
Whenever he isn't in Washington, Graham is campaigning.
The money the senator has amassed for his race means he can run ads almost daily, host free barbecues and ice cream socials and organize the more than 5,000 precinct captains that he claims into a massive get-out-the-vote effort.
Graham's campaign leaves little doubt that the lawmaker, who while in the U.S. House helped with President Bill Clinton's impeachment, is still a conservative. One ad harshly criticizes President Barack Obama's heath care law and promotes Graham's bill to allow states to opt out of "Obamacare." His campaign speech includes a promise to get to the bottom of the attack in Benghazi.
But Graham said what differentiates him from his opponents is that he wants to return to the Senate to improve the country, not just advance the Republican agenda.
"Some want to win this election just to get back power," Graham said. "But the goal should be to win the election with a purpose."
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Trying to Avoid All Student Loan Debt? Not So Fast!
As someone who has actively used student loans to help finance my own undergraduate and graduate degrees along with my husband's law degree, I have seen the benefits of taking on student debt to achieve specific goals firsthand. My husband is a practicing attorney and I have been steadily employed in the financial services industry ever since I graduated. Neither of those statements would be true without our degrees.
Recently, there have been a number of news stories highlighting the fact that high school students today are either completely averse to student loans or plan on borrowing only a very minimal amount. So what's the problem with this financial mindset among young adults?
According to a TIME Money article, "The drawback to this wariness is that for those who do not borrow, they are unlikely to get four-year degrees." The reasons cited in the article include: families not saving enough and the fact that working your way through school or starting at a community college to save money significantly decrease your chances of graduating with a four-year degree.
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We see upside down, so the brain has to turn that around, and then everything including motion that goes with it. We have 2 ears that each hear what they hear, then the brain has to interpret that as spatial information. Military exercises teach "off center" seeing at night, since when staring at something in near darkness it usually disappears. I've always assumed there's an audio "blind spot" that defeats a lot of blind testing of very subtle differences.
The Puzzle of Perception
"Reality is nothing but a collective hunch."---Lily Tomlin
The thing pictured above---a poyuit? a potrzebie?---puzzled me immensely when I first saw it in MAD magazine in the early '60s. It is, of course, a trick, the two-dimensional drawing giving conflicting clues to the poor brain trying to visualize it as a three-dimensional solid object. But I used it to open this discussion because, far from being fully understood, the more there is known about human perception, the more it seems there is to know. Sir Francis Crick, who, with James Watson, discovered the double-helical nature of the DNA molecule, referred to perception in 1979 as "science's greatest mystery." The retina of the eye does not behave like photographic film or a video camera tube or CCD; the ears are not microphones. After three decades of research into Artificial Intelligence, there is still no way to make a microphone aware that it hears, a video camera that it sees (footnote 1). In his 1991 book (footnote 2), Edmund Blair Bolles summarized this mystery as:
• "Our basic scientific ideas cannot grasp something fundamental to daily living.
• "The world that physicists describe is unlike the sensory one we perceive.
• "The world we feel is so surely out there seems to depend on an interior construction of our own."
Bolles's mention of the brain making use of "interior constructions" echoes something Meridian's Bob Stuart recently mentioned (footnote 3) and to which I referred in the introduction to my loudspeaker reviews last month. When someone listens to a recording on a stereo system, the reality is that two complex audio-bandwidth pressure waves emanate from the loudspeakers. The impression the listener gets that instruments and voices are hanging in space between and behind the loudspeakers is an illusion, the brain deciding that that must have been what would have been heard at the original event. In Bob Stuart's words, the brain creates "acoustic models" as a result of the acoustic information reaching the ears, models that are totally subjective.
You do this automatically---it's what you do when your ears pick up real sounds. It doesn't strike you as incongruous, therefore, that the illusion of the sounds and spatial aspects of a symphony orchestra, for example, can be reproduced by a pair of speakers in your own room. Yet there is no measurement that can be performed on the two channels of information to reveal that they represent one or all of the instruments of an orchestra. Routine review measurements examine changes in the voltage or pressure signals in just one of the information channels at a time, yet the defects of recording and reproduction systems affect not just one of those channels but both. And the audible effect of those defects is not heard as their direct measurable effect on the signals but as changes in the perceived character of those oh-so-fragile acoustic models.
System distortions that may be thought inconsequential compared with the total sound level can become significant when referenced to the clues, often very low in level, that allow the listener to create any particular acoustic model. Similarly, a large measurable difference may be inconsequential if it doesn't change the perception of that acoustic model.
While we can only measure physical differences, we have almost no idea of how changes in those measurements alter the subjective map created by our perceptive processes. Tony Rothman, in A Physicist on Madison Avenue (footnote 4), examined the fact that measuring the spectra of flutes does not reveal the subjective differences that can be perceived between different instruments. In fact, Mr. Rothman declares that the conventional wisdom that the timbral differences between different types of instruments lies in the spectra of their harmonics is wrong. Certainly a correlation can be drawn between the fact that their sounds are different and that their harmonic spectra recorded in an anechoic chamber are different. Rothman states, however, that "the spectra of a note on the oboe sampled at two different points in an auditorium differ more than the same note played on an oboe and a trumpet." Yet the subjective difference between "oboe-ness" and "trumpet-ness"---the identities of their acoustic models, if you will---is vast.
"The map is not the territory," we are all taught, yet when it comes to perception, the subjective map is the territory. It is all the evidence concerning the nature of reality we have to go on. (When that map no longer correlates with reality with any degree of fidelity, we are insane or hallucinating.)
To be able to form that subjective map's acoustic or visual models is not trivial, depending as it does on experience and education. A February 1985 BBC TV "Horizon" program written by Hilary Lawson (broadcast in the US as one of the "Nova" series on PBS) examined how "seeing" and "observation" are not the same. Observation requires of the observer a considerable degree of interpretation based on expectations and already-formed models and structures. The English language even distinguishes between "listening" and merely "hearing" by the presence or absence of "awareness." In Ms. Lawson's words: "What we see is governed by what we already know is there."
Footnote 1: For further reading on awareness and Artificial Intelligence, see the January 1990 issue of Scientific American, as well as the second edition of David Berlinski's Black Mischief (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988). (You also might want to dip into Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Vintage Books, 1979.)
Footnote 2: Edmund Blair Bolles, A Second Way of Knowing: The Riddle of Human Perception, Prentice Hall Press. This fascinating book also contains an excellent bibliography.
Footnote 3: In his interview with Robert Harley, "The Increasing Importance of the Smaller Difference," Stereophile, Vol.14 No.9, September 1991.
Footnote 4: Princeton University Press, 1991. Tony Rothman quotes flautist Robert Dick, examining the fact that the best flutes are indistinguishable to the 99th percentile: "But art takes place in the remaining 1%." Just as in high-end audio!


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Merrilee Olson, right, kitchen supervisor Mayte Lopez on her left, in the FoodWorks kitchen. Photo: Duncan Garrett
It's no secret that Marin County farms produce an abundance of local, seasonal, and organic produce enjoyed by residents around the Bay Area.
But finding homes for all that fresh food, whether lemons, tomatoes, or apples, can be a challenge for farmers during harvest time — and what to do to generate income during the months when specialty crops are out of season?
Enter canning queen Merrilee Olson to the rescue. Olson heads up the new food manufacturing company Community Action Marin's (CAM) FoodWorks, a small-batch, co-packing company that helps Marin farmers turn their excess fruits and vegetables into jams and jellies, conserves and chutneys, and salsas and sauces, giving them a shelf life beyond the growing season, adding another source of revenue to farmers, and providing an artisan product to consumers.
And — the CAM community hopes down the track — turning a profit that would supplement this San Rafael-based, non-profit, county organization, which funds, among other services, food programs for local residents in need.
From Olson's perspective, it's a win-win all round. "We're trying to create a model here that's replicable and plays a role in creating a resilient, thriving, and healthy community," she says. "Though my new motto is: We're sailing the ship while we're building it. Since we're creating something that hasn't been done it's both exciting and challenging," she adds. "We're a local food company for the people and we want to make stars out of our local farmers and their produce through these value-added products."
Launched last June as a project with long-term fundraising objectives for Community Action Marin, a social services agency that provides child care, energy assistance, emergency family needs, mental health care, employment training, and senior programs for the county's low-income residents, FoodWorks began producing jars of jams back in August from the agency's central kitchen and production has been steadily building ever since.
The CAM kitchen — which feeds more than 600 children in the county's Head Start program every day — used to shut down at 2 p.m. CAM staffers realized that the state-of-the-art space was an underutilized resource that could be put to good use and hired canning guru and recipe tester Olson, the founder of PRESERVESonoma, a nonprofit canning organization previously profiled on BAB, to come on board as FoodWorks' director.
Given her canning and culinary background, Olson was able to attract many big name small producers to her nascent project, including McEvoy Ranch in northern Marin, as well as Middleton Farms, Preston Vineyard, and Medlock Ames Winery, all in Healdsburg.
A trio of value-added products produced by FoodWorks. Photo: Shae Irving
Others who have sought out FoodWorks include small local food entrepreneurs, who want to sell their own BBQ sauce, and restaurant clients who want to produce their own line of condiments. Kenny Rochford of School Garden called on Olson's service for an apple chutney product using gleaned produce from an unused farm in Healdsburg as part of a fund-raising effort for a local school garden. "As charitable endeavors go, I'd rather write a check for apple chutney than gift wrap," jokes Rochford. The project has proven popular; up next: Meyer lemon marmalade. "Gleaned fruit is tricky, there are variations in color, flavor, and texture," notes Rochford. "Olson is good at tweaking recipes to accommodate that."
FoodWorks recently landed a commitment from Bi-Rite Market to make tomato sauce using produce from the independent retailer's farm, and FoodWorks' biggest client, whose product will hit a major grocery store chain at a $5.99 price point, will be announced shortly. Both are big gets for the budding business.
While Olson, a former culinary director for Bon Appetit Management Corporation, enjoys coming up with unique specialty products for farmers, she's especially glad to be crafting quality artisan products out of pristine produce that was otherwise destined for the compost pile. (Speaking of compost: Olson sends all of hers to Tara Firma Farms in Petaluma, where it's enjoyed by the resident pigs.)
Persimmon pickles with ginger and chile ready for canning. Photo: Shae Irving
Olson, who supervises a kitchen crew of three, works with clients on product concept, recipe development, production, and packaging and labeling, often with farmers own private label attached for instant branding purposes. Higher-value, less-perishable products can also help subsidize small farmers whose profit margins are slim in the sustainable, organic produce world.
CAM FoodWorks plays an invaluable role as an incubator for small food businesses, says Sarah Darcey-Martin, outreach director for Agricultural Institute of Marin, which operates eight Bay Area farmers' markets. And the group can assume many of the costs of regulation and certification, a commercial kitchen space, and labor that could prove prohibitive for small farmers, adds Ellen Roggemann, the specialty food developer and an assistant gardener at McEvoy Ranch, who works with Olson on recipes for the ranch's line of products, including apple and lavender jelly.
Each jar that comes out of the FoodWorks kitchen costs between $2 and $3.50 to produce, with a minimum order of 25 cases (by comparison, the industry average is around 500). Farmers pass on this cost to consumers, with products retailing around $8-$12 for the gourmet goodies, typically sold on site, at farmers' markets around the Bay Area, or in small specialty stores. (Though the notion of landing bigger takers like Whole Foods remains a goal, as is farmers pooling produce to come up with a product — say, five-farm soup — for the wholesale or retail market.)
The range of products produced by FoodWorks for Medlock Ames Winery. Photo: Shae Irving
"Foodworks is one of the few kitchen partners able to work with boutique volumes and Merrilee Olson has the skill and zeal to help us craft delicious products, says Dawn Pacheco of Medlock Ames Winery, for whom FoodWorks has produced strawberry jam, quince apple butter, apple pear butter, mandarin marmalade, and rustic marinara sauce. "The scale, flexibility and passion of Foodworks is perfect for us."
Olson, a Good Foods Award winner for her raspberry preserves using Middleton Farm fruit, would also like to see the kitchen made available for community canning projects, such as jarring excess tomatoes, for instance, that can be used as sauce in school lunch programs.
Olson also hopes to see other small-scale food processing places popping up emulating FoodWorks efforts. And she's already talking about expansion plans for her own nascent enterprise.
"We need other local food-processing facilities to get where we need to go in terms of advancing a local, sustainable food system," she says. "We need to build momentum here — for us that means a bigger facility and more investment. We've already demonstrated the business is there."
This post originally appeared on KQED's Bay Area Bites. You might also like:
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I've seen a Porsche advertised at a good price. The seller says the car is not damaged but is listed as a Cat D due to the previous owner being held at gunpoint. The car was impounded by the police and never returned to the original owner. Is this a good buy?
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Porsche values are very sensitive to provenance, and a murky history can make values plummet. You may pay less for this car, but you can be sure it'll be hard to sell on.
Before you buy any Category C or D car, we recommend you get it independently inspected. This may cost several hundred pounds, but it will give you peace of mind by confirming the car's true condition.
An inspection will find accident damage, mechanical problems or electrical faults, so you can decide whether to buy or walk away. When you come to sell the car, a report will be invaluable to the new buyer, too.
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This is Brooks. He just won $100,000 at the SEC Championship throwing a football like a straight-up asshole. Who throws a football like that?
This is actually just the tiebreaker round because Lindsay, who actually throws a football like a normal human being, tied Brooks in the first go-round. But Brooks gamed the system, found a repeatable motion and beat Lindsay.
Look at this shit!
There should be a clause requiring participants to recreate an actual football throwing motion. Dr. Pepper needs to comment on this bullshit right now.


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Lay the key is the palm of your hand and the magic begins. At your commandthe key will slowly roll over in your hand. Easy to perform and great forbeginners or experienced magicians.
Surprisingly, this is one of the best effects I have seen, and used. It is: small, lightweight, easily carried, easily used, easily instantly repeatable, very affordable, can be worked from any angle, can be handed out for examination, and is best used close up. It can take some practice to master. This can be worked in any of several ways, and the instructions are somewhat vague about the method. I experimented a bit, and found a method which works well for me. It will vary a bit, from performer to performer, as everyone's hand will be a slightly different shape, musculature, etc. You may get better results placing the key in your hand one way, while I may get better results using a different placement. Practice makes perfect. Rather than talk about having found a haunted key, from a haunted house-as the instructions I received suggested-I claim to have PK powers, myself, and have worked up some patter built aroun! d that. I hand out the key before the show, and suggest that it be: pulled, pressed, twisted, etc, so as to make sure that it is solid, and that there are no: wires, threads, levers, pins, hooks, motors, pulleys,or such, built into it, or attached to it in any way. When my audience is convinced that this is just a normal old fashioned, mortise key, I take it back, press it against a refrigerator, or file cabinet, and then release it. As it falls to the floor, I point out that "it is not magnetic". Then I place the key in my palm, let is set there a moment, and then I gesture with my other hand...as if turning the key in a lock...though my turning hand is a foot away from the hand holding the key, and all can see that it never touches the key. As the key rolls over, gasps abound. Religious types-convinced I am possessed by demons-ask me to leave their homes. Others take the key, and try to repeat the effect themselves...but fail. The effect depends partly upon the un-notice! ably gimmicked key, partly upon your subtle manipulations, and! partly on your showmanship skills / patter. This does not require great 'sleight of hand' skills, and I quickly mastered this though I will never be dexterous enough to perform most coin / card magic. This trick is well worth the price, and the time devoted to mastering it. - Erin
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12-year-old accused of bullying arrested
Police in Connecticut town: 'This behavior will not be tolerated'
A 12-year-old girl was arrested Tuesday after police said she was bullying another student at a private middle school in Stamford.
The victim, age 13, told her parents that she was being bullied, taunted and harassed by the other girl.
Her parents made a complaint to police, however the bullying continued, police said.
As the bullying increased, the unidentified victim "made comments about committing suicide," police said.
Administrators at the school were notified and they along with police investigated the claims.
To "quell" the bullying, police said it was best to arrest the 12-year-old girl, who was charged with disorderly conduct.
"This behavior will not be tolerated," Stamford Police Capt. Richard Conklin said.
"If it is brought to our attention we will vigorously investigate the allegations and make arrests when appropriate. We investigate all claims of bullying, and this type of behavior will not be condoned in a learning environment," he said in a statement Tuesday.
After she was arrested, the 12-year-old girl was later released to her parents, police said.


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The seepage solution for a sustainable rain water treatment
Natural seepage of rainwater is hardly possible any more due to ever increasing sealing of residential and industrial areas. Seepage systems from HAURATON offer an intelligent solution to this. Rainwater is collected where it falls and gradually fed back into the natural cycle. The seepage tanks are suitable for use under-neath traffic areas in industrial and construction sites, but also in residential estates underneath areas used by private cars.


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Striped Baby Blanket
This was a very east to make baby blanket. I used Naturally Caron Merino Wool Blend yarn and it is super soft. It was a fun project and I loved the way each stripe connected with zigzag.
I gave it away to a friend for a new baby boy now I want to make a larger one for myself!


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"Social psychologists tell us that we cannot truly be persons unless we interact with other persons. All life is interrelated, and all men are interdependent. And yet we continue to travel a road paved with the slippery cement of inordinate selfishness." Martin Luther King, Jr.
We honor Martin Luther King, Jr. on his birthday, January 15."
As various human resource management journals and news alerts cross my desk, I look for information that may be helpful to leaders and administrators seeking to stay tuned to the workforce trends and patterns. This article is designed to share a variety of clips and quotes I have encountered in recent readings that may be of interest to readers of The Source.
The New Skills: Hope, Confidence, Loyalty
WorldatWork, Erin Ryan, December 2007, Excerpt of Thoughts
"Martin Luther King, Jr., had a dream, not a 'five-year plan.'" In the article, Erin Ryan quotes from the work of writer Jonas Ridderstrale, Ph.D. as follows:
- It's not enough to have knowledge, according to Ridderstrale, author of Karaoke Capitalism: Management for Mankind and Funky Business: Talent Makes Capital Dance.
- Competition will be intellectual for sure, but also psychological and emotional.
- Peak performance is about skill and will working together.
- It's much easier to change the skill level of people than to change attitudes.
- Sociology classes usually teach and research negative deviance, but should also include instruction on positive deviance, or when a society (or organization) does something amazing. In business, this can be as simple as asking employees to write down a 'motivation description' rather than a 'job description.'
- Management, as we've defined it for 100 years, has been about stamping out deviance…But now, business is focused on the creation of the unknown. It's about innovation.
- When it comes to mistakes in the pursuit for top talent, a lot of organizations are afraid to be distinct…it's much more important to re-dream and reenergize as opposed to restructuring.
Lack of leadership talent emerges as a key issue
Employee Benefit News, Lydell C. Bridgeford, September 9, 2008
- New data shows that 56% of employers are facing a leadership shortage that is affecting their business's performance and that 31% expect to have a leadership shortage in the next one to four years, reports Aon Consulting.
- With a lack of leadership talent, an organization will face severe challenges in: attracting new talent, easily developing and retaining current talent and fostering the requisite thought leadership and innovation to grow the business.
Top 10 Threats to Computer Systems Include Professors and Students
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Jeffrey R. Young, December 19, 2008
"Increasingly, the weakest part of a network is the users, who carelessly give out their passwords or leave important information for the taking.
- Threat #5: Students – Every year students seem to become more careless about computer security, according to some college officials. Students will happily give their passwords to friends to check their e-mail for them. Or they'll create simple passwords that are easy for attackers to guess.
- Threat #4: Professors – When a phishing scheme hit Stanford University this year, for instance, the vast majority of those who fell for the con were faculty members.
It's clear that tech security is as much a people problem as it is a technological one."
At PSU, our OIT Acceptable Use Policy includes the following as one of the several requirements of staff:
Users do not own accounts on University computers, but are granted the privilege of exclusive use. Users may not share their accounts with others, and must keep account passwords confidential.
The article confirms that not sharing passwords is one of the more important ways that we can maintain security on our PSU computer and systems.


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In Windows 7 you can connect to a remote computer and take full advantage of your local system's multiple monitors. Greg Shultz explains how.
If you're using multiple monitors on your system setup and you regularly connect to other systems via Remote Desktop, you know how frustrating it is to go from a multiple-monitor display to a single-monitor display for your remote connection. If so, you'll definitely want to learn how you can take advantage of multiple monitors in Microsoft Windows 7's Remote Desktop Connection.
However, before I go any further it is important to understand right off the bat that multiple-monitors support in Windows 7's Remote Desktop is available only on Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows 7 Enterprise. (It is also available in Windows Server 2008 R2.) Furthermore, both the local and remote systems must be running one of the supported versions. For example, Windows 7 Ultimate is running on the local and Windows 7 Enterprise is running on the remote.
As long as you have the proper configuration, Windows 7 provides you with real multiple-monitor support as opposed to the monitor-spanning feature that was introduced in the previous version of Remote Desktop Connection. This means that in Windows 7 you can use this feature to connect to a remote computer and take full advantage of your local system's multiple monitors on your remote system.
In this edition of the Windows Desktop Report, I'll describe Windows 7's Remote Desktop support for multiple monitors and show you how to configure it for connecting to other Windows 7 systems. I'll also show you how to use Remote Desktop's monitor-spanning feature when connecting to, and from, Windows versions that do not support the multiple-monitors feature.
What's the difference?Before we get started, let's take a moment to discuss the different types of Remote Desktop monitor configurations you can have when using a system with multiple monitors. In the standard type of connection, Remote Desktop displays the remote system in a window on one monitor. In a connection configured with the monitor-spanning feature, Remote Desktop displays the remote system in a window on one monitor but allows you to drag or span that window across multiple monitors. In a connection configured with the multiple-monitors feature, Remote Desktop makes the remote system behave as if it were physically connected to multiple monitors. Each of these configurations is illustrated in Figure A.
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There are three types of configurations you can use when using Remote Desktop on a system with multiple monitors.
Configuring a multiple-monitors connectionIf you have the proper setup, configuring Windows 7's Remote Desktop multiple-monitor feature is easy. To begin, Launch Remote Desktop Connection and select the system you want to connect to with multiple-monitor support from the Computer drop-down list. Then, click the Options button to expand the Remote Desktop Connection window so that you can see all the tabs. Next, choose the Display tab and select the Use All My Monitors for the Remote Session check box, as shown in Figure B. To complete the procedure, return to the General tab and click the Save button.
Figure B
Selecting the Use All My Monitors for the Remote Session check box is all that is needed to enable the multiple-monitor feature.
When you connect to the remote system, the remote system's monitor will instantly fill your multiple monitors, just as if it were physically connected to the monitors.
Configuring a monitor-spanning connection
As I mentioned, in a connection configured with the monitor-spanning feature, Remote Desktop allows you to drag or span the window across multiple monitors. However, there are a couple of caveats. First your multiple monitors must have the same screen resolution. Second, the monitors must be aligned, or positioned, side-by-side. Third, the combined screen resolution of your multiple monitors must be under 4096 x 2048.
To launch Remote Desktop Connection with monitor-spanning support, just click the Start button and type the following command in the Start Search box. (Alternatively, you can open a Command Prompt window and type the same command.)
Mstsc /span
When you do, you'll see the standard Remote Desktop Connection dialog box, and you can launch the connection as you normally would. As soon as you make a connection, you'll immediately see the desktop of the remote system spread across your multiple monitors. If you need to have access to both the local and remote desktops, you can reduce the size of the remote system's desktop to only one monitor by clicking the Restore Down button on the Remote Desktop window. As a shortcut, you can also use the keystroke: [Ctrl][Alt][Break].Once the window is on one monitor, you use click and drag to resize the window to completely cover a single monitor. Keep in mind that when you reduce the size of a spanned remote widow, it will display both horizontal and vertical scroll bars, as shown in Figure C, that you'll have to use to see the entire screen. However, you can instantly span the window by clicking the Maximize button.
Figure C
When you resize the remote desktop's spanned window, you'll have to use scroll bars to view the entire screen.
Creating a shortcut
Of course, using a command line to launch your Remote Desktop connection isn't the most convenient way to use the monitor-spanning feature. Chances are that you already have a Remote Desktop Connection RDP file saved on your desktop. If so, you can create a standard Windows shortcut that will incorporate both the special command line and your RDP file.To begin, right-click anywhere on the desktop and then select New | Shortcut from the context menu. When you see the Create Shortcut wizard, just type mstsc /span and the path to the RDP file in the text box, as shown in Figure D. Be sure that you enclose the path to the RDP file in double quotes if the path has spaces in it. To continue, click Next and give the shortcut an appropriate name, such as Saturn - Remote Spanning, and then click Finish.
Figure D
You can create a standard Windows shortcut that will incorporate both the special command line and your RDP file.
You can now use this shortcut to launch your remote desktop connection and span the Remote Desktop window across all the available space on your multiple monitors. Of course, the spanned desktop won't exactly behave like a multiple-monitor setup when you open multiple windows. As such you'll have to use a little creative click-and-drag resizing to reposition the windows on the spanned desktop.
What's your take?
Do you have a multiple monitor setup? Do you regularly use Remote Desktop? Will you take advantage of Windows 7's Remote Desktop support for multiple monitors? As always, if you have comments or information to share about this topic, please take a moment to drop by the TechRepublic Community Forums and let us hear from you.


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Reports link Rays, Bedard in Minor League deal
Veteran lefty would provide depth; made 26 starts with Astros last season
Quinn Roberts is a reporter for MLB.com.
The Rays are close to signing veteran left-hander Erik Bedard to a Minor League contract, according to multiple media reports.
Bedard, 34, spent last season with the Astros, going 4-12 with a 4.59 ERA. He made 26 appearances as a starter, which marked his highest season total since making 28 starts in 2007 with the Orioles.
Though his velocity has dipped over the past few seasons, with his fastball averaging 89 mph, Bedard would add some needed depth to the Rays' rotation. The team will begin the season without young right-hander Jeremy Hellickson, who had offseason elbow surgery.
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Pavlova is Australian for "big meringue topped with stuff" (typically berries and whipped cream).
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- Makes 6
- Active Time
- 1 hour 20 minutes
- Total Time
- 5 hours
- Meringues:
- 2 large egg whites, room temperature
- 8 tablespoons sugar, divided
- 3/4 teaspoon cornstarch
- 1/4 teaspoon white balsamic vinegar
- 1/8 teaspoon orange-flower water
- Strawberry coulis:
- 1 12-ounce basket strawberries, hulled, quartered (about 2 cups)
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1/8 teaspoon orange-flower water
- Strawberries and whipped cream:
- 1 12-ounce basket fresh strawberries, hulled, sliced (about 2 cups)
- 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1/8 teaspoon orange-flower water
- 3/4 cup chilled heavy whipping cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Ingredient info: Orange-flower water is a flavoring extract. It can be found in the liquor aisle or baking section of some supermarkets and at liquor stores and Middle Eastern markets.
- For meringues:
- Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 275°F. Line large baking sheet with parchment paper. Using cookie cutter or glass as aid, trace six 2 1/2-inch circles on parchment, spacing 2 to 3 inches apart; turn parchment over.
- Using electric mixer, beat egg whites in large bowl until soft peaks begin to form. With mixer running, gradually add 6 tablespoons sugar. Whisk 2 tablespoons sugar and cornstarch in small bowl. With mixer running, gradually beat sugar-cornstarch mixture into meringue. Continue beating meringue until stiff glossy peaks form. Beat in vinegar and orange-flower water. Divide meringue among parchment paper circles, spreading to fill completely (meringues will be about 1 1/2 inches high). Using back of spoon, form slight depression in center of each meringue.
- Bake meringues until beige and dry to touch, about 20 minutes. Turn off oven and prop door open slightly with wooden spoon. Let meringues cool in oven until completely dry, about 1 hour. Transfer to rack to cool completely. DO AHEAD: Can be made 1 day ahead. Store airtight at room temperature.
- For strawberry coulis:
- Puree all ingredients in blender until smooth. Transfer to bowl. DO AHEAD: Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and chill.
- For strawberries and whipped cream:
- Mix strawberries, 1 tablespoon sugar, and orange-flower water in medium bowl. Let stand at room temperature until sugar dissolves and juices form, stirring occasionally, about 20 minutes.
- Using electric mixer, beat chilled cream, vanilla, and remaining 1 teaspoon sugar in another medium bowl until soft peaks form. DO AHEAD: Strawberries and whipped cream can be made 2 hours ahead. Cover separately and chill. Stir strawberry mixture and rewhisk cream just before using.
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A grey graduated filter is used to balance the
difference in brightness of the horizon.
The hard GND filter is generally used for taking shots
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The Rollei Profi Hard GND Filter Mark II is a rectangular-shaped grey graduated filter with a hard gradient. A GND filter is an ND Filter that rapidly becomes transparent from the centre outwards with a short transition to the lower end. The upper half of the image is darkened.
High colour fidelity for your photos
Rollei Pro Square Filter Mark II have no colour distortion that is perceptible to the naked eye, and no colour casts. This has been confirmed in independent testing by Chip magazine and experienced by professional photographers who usually work with filter systems from different manufacturers.
Rollei Pro Square Filter Mark II have a (graduated) coating that uniformly lets in light (from ultraviolet almost up to infrared) through the filter. Unlike plastic resin filters and laminated filters, whose colour fades over time and whose bonding can easily come apart, the glass in Rollei Filters is extremely durable and does not fade.
If the light obscuration does not cover the whole spectrum of visible light, colour faults appear. With cameras, the visible light lies between 420 nm ~ 680 nm. The flat spectrum curve means that the light attenuation rate is relatively high and thus less visible light penetrates the filter. If light can penetrate the filter uniformly there are no colour casts. Rollei Filters meet this important requirement.
Hard GDN Filter Mark II – Versions and Sizes
Rollei Hard GND Filters Mark II are available for filter holders with widths of 100 mm, 150 mm and 180 mm in versions GND4, GND8, GND16 and GND32. The number here illustrates the degree of darkening and the number of stop reductions.
Using Rollei Hard GND Photo Filters Mark II
With a Hard GND Filter Mark II from Rollei you have a grey gradient with a hard transition that is to say on a narrow strip in the middle of the filter. This is ideal when the areas are uniformly divided. This prevents over-exposing the sky when photographing a sea horizon. However, it can be used in various ways, so that with the GND filter you can also focus properly on a snow scene without making the evening sky too dark. To do this, you simply invert the filter, for example.
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The already legendary Gorilla®* Glass from the traditional American manufacturer, Corning Inc., which is deemed to be extremely scratch-proof, is used for lenses and displays, which must withstand above average loads, and is therefore ideally suitable for the newest generation of Rollei's professional rectangular filters. The coating is produced by means of an exchange of ions on the molecular level, which is set in motion by an extensive bath in an extremely hot alkaline solution. The increase of the surface tension resulting from that provides for particularly strong weather resistance and protection from contamination, scratches and ruptures even with the very thin glass of the Rollei filters. And if a pointed or a sharp object leaves damage worth mentioning behind, the special coating will prevent the glass material from splintering at the edges.
The self-developed "toughening" of the more than 160-year-old enterprise from Corning, New York also has an extremely positive effect on the already excellent light transmission and colour neutrality of the glass blanks and indeed protects the valuable characteristics of this glass against contamination and damage and provides for a "built-in" investment protection. In addition the Gorilla®* Glass contains a further coating developed by Rollei before you can enjoy the impressive performance of our professional rectangular filters.
The double coating of the filter glass permits us to offer just 2-mm thin rectangular filters, which nevertheless resist comparatively rough treatment. You are pleased about every gram of weight that is saved, if you have to carry your filter equipment for an extended period of time.
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Do you like working with reflections? Then you probably use these effects quite consciously – and avoid possible unintended light reflections as far as possible in your photographs, which can completely ruin shoots or unique lighting situations in the field of bulb photography. The newly developed special treatment of the current generation of Rollei professional rectangular filters reduces unwanted reflections and permits you to select the location of your camera independently of any unfavorable sources of light.
The special coating is applied exactly in accordance with the strict Rollei specifications. Regular checks during the entire coating process guarantee a consistently high quality and no impairment of the light transmission and colour fidelity of the respective glass. Together with the particularly high-quality and durable Gorilla®* Glass of the Rollei professional filters you can use characteristics, which are actually mutually exclusive: Extreme resistance to weathering, contamination and inappropriate treatment due to sharp, hard or pointed objects.
The coating must adhere to relentless approximate values for this. The colour curves of the glass must allow for no lapses with respect to colour neutrality within the visible range from 400 to 800nm. Otherwise they cannot be designated as Rollei professional filters. With these extremely high-quality, translucent, colour neutral rectangular filters you can implement your creative photography ideas and create balanced image files without reflections and distortions, which you can actively change just as the fancy takes you when you edit them later.
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Rollei rectangular filters of the professional class offer you (actually mutually exclusive) options, which can be achieved and maintained only by an extremely high quality standard. Therefore the "engineered and quality controlled in Germany" procedure includes tests according to the AQL principle. "Acceptance quality limit" corresponds to that somewhat cumbersome German term "Annehmbare Qualitätsgrenzlage" and in concrete terms means that if a previously defined number of random samples of a production batch does not comply with the quality criteria before delivery to Rollei, the batch in its entirety will not be accepted.
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How does one get to work as a theoretical physicist and - probably more importantly - what do theoretical physicist actually do all day long?
How are theoretical physicists distinguishable from mathematicians? Does a physicists day look very different from that of a mathematician?
I have a great interest in physics, but I'm not really much interested in doing experiments: Would it be advisable to do my bachelor in mathematics and try to get into theoretical physics later on?
Is there a real chance of getting into research afterwards? (not that any kind of answer to this question would ever stop me from trying...)
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I think 1) might for example be answered by giving a link to a blog of a working theoretical physicist, who gives some insight into his or her everyday life, or some kind of an essay on the topic. Of course any other kind of answer is greatly appreciated.
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"Boy, You guys have really been busy!"
Over the past seven days, we've been exhibiting Accordance at the annual meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society and the Society of Biblical Literature. We had about half a dozen people manning our booth at ETS, and no less than fourteen for the larger booth at SBL. Since I started working for Accordance in 1995, I've participated in every SBL meeting except one, and we've always been extremely busy. Still, I've never seen it like this.
Usually I get a little time to stroll around the exhibit hall or otherwise take a break, but this year I was almost continually doing demos, answering questions, or otherwise helping out. In most years, I'll do fewer demos on the last half-day of the show, since people are generally in a hurry to catch their flights home and so may only stop in to make a quick last minute purchase. Not this year. I was demonstrating Accordance until the moment I had to leave to catch my flight!
At one point, during a quick trip to the restroom, I ran into one of the book publishers exhibiting at the show, and after the initial hello-how-are-things-going, he remarked, "Boy, you guys have been really busy over there!" I just laughed and joked that I had barely had time to breathe! Later I learned that other members of the booth staff were hearing the same kinds of remarks from other people. Apparently, we created something of a stir.
A great deal of this activity was driven by new users, many of whom had recently switched to Mac. Some would come hoping this Mac software would prove comparable to the tools they were accustomed to using. They would leave wishing they had switched to Mac (and Accordance) much sooner. Yet it wasn't just Mac switchers who were turning to Accordance. We did brisk sales to PC users wishing to use Accordance on the emulator.
At these shows, Accordance doesn't just draw crowds; it generates excitement. It is quite common to be in the middle of a demo to someone and be interrupted by one of their colleagues or professors who enthusiastically tells them that Accordance is the best. It is also common to have Accordance users sit down at the demo computers and start demoing to their friends and colleagues themselves, without asking for any assistance from one of us.
All in all, these conferences are exhausting but fun. In spite of economic uncertainty and increased competition, this has been our most successful ETS/SBL ever. After I recover from all the activity, I'll blog about the shows in more detail. In the meantime, have a happy Thanksgiving!


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This is a battle of the top dogs, with No. 1 seeded Louisville taking on the No. 2 seeded Duke Blue Devils at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, IN.
The Cardinals have lived up to their No. 1 seed tag so far in this tournament, playing dominantly over their first three games. In defense they have kept it tight and pressured opposition into repeated turnovers . Meanwhile their offense has always looked capable of taking apart anything their come up against so far.
Russ Smith in particular has been fantastic in the past two games for Louisville. He has scored 31 points against No. 12 seeded Oregon Ducks, and 27 more against No. 9 seeded Colorado St. Rams.
Meanwhile, Duke have not smashed opposition quite as convincingly as Louisville has managed to, but they have still managed to win each game comfortably until now. One of the stand out parts of the Blue Devils' game has been their defense, and they have consistently shut down opposition offenses. Against No. 7 seeded Creighton Bluejays they held them to just 30 percent shooting, and against No. 3 seeded Michigan State Spartans they kept them down at 40 percent.
Offensively Seth Curry has been one of the star players for Duke, scoring an average of 24 points per game so far in the NCAA 2013.
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Q: I have a lot of water lilies in my 1/2 acre pond. How do I control them?
Dan – Newnan, GA
A: In ornamental ponds, water lilies planted in pots are prized possessions—but in a shallow farm pond or lake, lilies living wild can be an invasive species that takes over the water surface in no time.
Of course, water lilies aren't all bad. Their leaves and roots provide food for beaver, moose, muskrat, porcupine, and deer. Their seeds are gobbled by waterfowl, and their leaves provide protective coverage for largemouth bass, sunfish, and frogs. Left unmanaged, however, water lilies can restrict lake-front access, eliminate swimming opportunities and quickly take over shallow areas.
But before we get into how to control these beautiful but troublesome aquatic plants, let's learn a bit about them.
Habitat, Growth
The water lily is a floating-leaved aquatic perennial herb that grows rooted in mucky or silty sediments in water 4 to 5 feet deep. It prefers quiet waters like ponds, lake margins and slow streams. When unmanaged, the plant tends to form dense areas covering hundreds of acres.
Each spring, new shoots appear from the rhizomes and grow up through the water until they reach the surface. The flowers appear from June to September. Each blossom opens in the morning and closes in the early afternoon for two to five consecutive days. After the flowers have closed for the final time, the flower stalk corkscrews and draws the developing fruit below the water.
The plant over winters underground as the rhizome. These rhizomes, along with the plant's seeds, are how it reproduces. A planted rhizome can grow to cover a 15-foot-diameter circle in just five years!
Limiting Those Lilies
You can control water lilies with several different methods.
- Mechanical Control: First, you can cut/harvest the water lilies or dig up the rhizomes to create open areas of water. If you cut the lilies, you must do so several times a year as these plants thrive in shallow water and grow rapidly. If you dig up the rhizomes, it can be an intrusive and costly though permanent process; they can be difficult to dislodge, but it can be done via rotovation (underwater rototilling) or excavation. Either way, mechanical control is a difficult method because the plant will likely regrow from seeds or remaining rhizomes.
- Chemical Control: Another more effective method is to use reactive chemical treatment, like Shoreline Defense®, to manage lilies that are actively growing and have reached the surface. When applied directly to the foliage—along with some Treatment Booster™ PLUS to break down the plant's protective surface—the herbicide's active ingredient penetrates the lily and makes its way to the rhizome. Once it has turned brown, use a Weed Cutter to remove as much of the decomposing plant as possible to prevent an accumulation of dead material and muck. If you use this method, treat your pond in sections, dosing only half of the lilies at a time; if the weather is hot, decrease that to a third or quarter, waiting 10 to 14 days between treatments.
- Preventive Control: In addition to mechanical and chemical control, you can also prevent—or at least slow down—the growth of water lilies by treating the pond's water with Pond Dye. By blocking the sun's rays early in the season, the lilies will not get the light they need to develop.
Controlling water lilies can be a challenge. But these methods, you can manage them and keep them contained in a particular area, making them a beautiful addition to your landscape.
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In the Tudor Court of 1518, your friends and enemies can be one and the same...
During the annual celebration of the Order of the Garter, Sir Michael Devereaux arrives in King Henry VIII's court on a mission for his benefactor. The celebration's endless feats and sumptuous women delight the charismatic newcomer, who becomes captivated by the enigmatic Princess Renée of France. But evil, it seems, has followed Michael to the court. Shortly after his arrival, an unknown killer claims several victims, including the Queen's lady-in-waiting, and the powerful Cardinal Wolsey asks Michael to help with the investigation. As he searches for the killer, Michael is haunted by disturbing images of the victims—flashes of violence that lead him to doubt his own sanity. Michael soon realizes that the key to solving the crime is connected to both the Pope's Imperial vault in Rome and a mystery from Michael's own past—revealing a secret that is so damning, it could forever alter the future of mankind.
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John's Phone in Museum of Ideas and Inventions in Barcelona. miBa, the Museum of ideas and inventions of Barcelona miBa, which opened last week, was a great success. miBa is a place that fuels creativity, ignites minds, and provides great ideas. This innovative scenario was born by the hand of the media inventor Pep Torres. Pep is like the Lady Gaga of the idea world: a constant wave of ideas and energy who is nearly impossible to ignore. Pep immediately felt in love with the invention of John's Phone. At the opening Pep and Hein Mevissen, the inventor of John's Phone, were interviewed together for several TV broadcasters and radio. John's phone is part of the permanent collections of the museum and is also for sale in the shop at miBa. MiBa is located at the centric street of Barcelona, Ciutat nº7, near the famous Plaça Sant Jaume.
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