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An Event in the StairwellBy Clancy Martin
The Milan Review—or, to give it its proper title, The Milan Review of the Universe—is an egregiously handsome literary magazine published in English, in Milan, under the editorship of the improbably named Tim Small. The second issue includes work by some of our own favorites, among them Amie Barrodale, Chiara Barzini, Francesco Pacifico, Lynne Tillman, and, not least, Clancy Martin, whose story the Milanese have kindly let us reprint below, in a spirit of international fraternità, and in light of the patchy trans-Atlantic distribution that our two journals have in common. Auguri! —Lorin Stein
Randy knocked on my door and when I opened it I expected he would attack me with the tennis racket in his hand. I had only bought pot from him before. He had no reason to hate me. But in his mind I am a rich white person.
"Emily's not home," I said. Emily is my girlfriend and I suspect, though do not know, that she has had sex with Randy at least once, or perhaps lots of times. He is younger and lither than I am. Probably better hung.
"She's not home?"
"Right." I kept my eyes on the racket. Also on his eyes, because you can anticipate a blow that way. Everyone narrows his eyes and looks where he's going to hit you before he strikes. This is the first lesson of boxing.
"She promised she'd buy this racket from me. I got this racket special. From my daughter."
Randy, Emily had told me, had a high school–age daughter who was expected by many people to be the next Serena Williams. She lived with her mother in the Bronx and was sponsored by Puma. I noticed the tennis racket had a broken string. Emily was hiding in the bedroom all this time and had instructed me to tell Randy that she was out. I could not decide whether that was reassuring or suspicious.
Emily had had her infidelities.
"How much does she owe you for the racket?"
I took the racket from his hand which he gave me without hesitation, although he looked down and away from me when he said, "Thirty dollars," which meant he was lying. Probably he had told her he would give her the racket for free. But who knew what more tangible price she had promised to pay. Perhaps eagerly.
I briefly considered beating Randy on the face, head and shoulders with the very light and surely durable racket. We have tile in our stairwell and blood would mop up easily without staining. Randy was not the type to come back with a gun. That would be the last we'd ever see of him. I should have done it. Read More


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BATON ROUGE — When the Legislature undertook redistricting last year and redrew the 3rd Congressional District, it was widely viewed as an unfavorable move for U.S. Rep. Jeff Landry, the district's incumbent who was first elected in 2010.
BATON ROUGE — When the Legislature undertook redistricting last year and redrew the 3rd Congressional District, it was widely viewed as an unfavorable move for U.S. Rep. Jeff Landry, the district's incumbent who was first elected in 2010.
All of the Houma-Thibodaux area precincts were removed from the reconfigured district, and Landry was forced to stand for re-election against Rep. Charles Boustany, also a Republican incumbent. The redrawn 3rd District contained more of Boustany's old stumping grounds — formerly the 7th Congressional District in southwest Louisiana — than it did Landry's.
Boustany carried 60 percent of the vote in the new district's runoff this month, essentially sending Landry back home to New Iberia for 2013 rather than to Washington, D.C., for another term. Moreover, Boustany carried every parish from his old district, as did Landry; the numbers just happened to favor Boustany.
"The results were geographical," Landry told The Courier in an interview last week. "But that election is over. (Boustany) basically represents me now, and I get to be a constituent again. That's not bad. That means he basically works for me and the rest of the district. I wish him and his family a merry Christmas and a happy new year, and I look forward to him delivering on the obligations and promises he made to the district."
Even if Landry would have claimed victory earlier this month and his service wasn't ending Jan. 3, this still would have been his last few days representing Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes. That's because the northern halves of the parishes were lumped in with the new 6th Congressional District, anchored by Baton Rouge, and the southern portions with the new 1st Congressional District, which is heavily influenced by voters in the Metairie region and St. Tammany Parish.
The move diluted the voting strength long enjoyed by Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes, Landry said, and may even serve to one day divide their interests in certain respects.
"After two years in office, my only regret is that during this whole redistricting issue Terrebonne and Lafourche were not left whole," Landry said, noting it was ultimately the decision of the Legislature. "That is by far my biggest regret. Over 180 years of precedent was broken, and that was a major disappointment."
Landry, who turned 42 two days before Christmas, said he instantly connected with the Terrebonne-Lafourche region during his first stint in elected office. He first became intimately familiar with the region six years ago as a campaign adviser to former state Sen. Craig Romero, who made unsuccessful runs for the same congressional seat Landry holds.
"Growing up in St. Martin Parish isn't much different from growing up in Terrebonne or Lafourche," Landry said. "There's sugar cane, oilfield workers, and we have the crawfish and they have the shrimp. The only thing that separates us is the Atchafalaya Basin."
The Terrebonne-Lafourche region has also been ripe for fundraising for Landry. During his time in office, Edison Chouest Offshore has given him $37,900, C&G Boats $28,000 and Bollinger Shipyards $27,100 — they also rank second, fourth and fifth, respectively, in terms of Landry's top donors since 2010.
An attorney and small businessman, Landry said he enjoyed the policy work he did for coastal restoration and hurricane protection. He said his "most rewarding" achievements include helping increase the offshore drilling revenue provided to Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi and Alabama from $500 million per year to $750 million per year.
But looking back, Landry said it was the people who always stood out more than the politics.
"I remember a World War I veteran, a prisoner of war who had unsuccessfully tried for seven years to get his veteran benefits, and we helped him within 30 days to get what he needed," Landry said. "There was another lady in Houma, she owned an oilfield services company and she was having trouble with the Gulf Coast Claims Facility during the drilling moratorium. We ended up helping her get some relief."
Through his two years on Capitol Hill, Landry championed fiscal conservative causes like those connected to the tea party movement that first helped him get elected. For example, Landry said he was able to cut his office's expenses by 11 percent on top of previous reductions approved by the House.
"That's money we returned to the taxpayers," he said.
Landry said he was "fire-tested" during his time in the House, maybe more so than most congressmen. His term started in the middle of President Barack Obama's own rocky term, which was followed by historic spring floods, the BP oil spill, redistricting and more.
"I felt like I was halfway under water. We never had an opportunity to breathe," he said. "Right now it's actually a little relaxing."
During a speech on job creation by the president in 2011, Landry managed to share a few headlines with Obama by holding a sign that read "Drilling = Jobs" as the president spoke. It was one of the many ways he was able to gain coverage from publications ranging from the New York Times to the Wall Street Journal.
As for the future, Landry said he'll return to work and likely continue to be a voice and personality on conservative radio and talk shows. And then there's his political future — recent rumors have included a possible run for district attorney back home or a challenge to U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, a New Orleans Democrat, in 2014 — which Landry is steering clear of talking about in any great detail.
Instead, he'd rather talk about more immediate plans. Landry said his son JT was 6 years old when he entered Congress and is now 8. He said he's also looking forward to spending time with his wife.
"I'll be taking my little boy to school and my wife to get coffee. I'll also be hunting as much as I can in January," Landry said. "But I intend to stay involved, and I intend to stay vocal. We'll just have to wait and see what the future holds."
Jeremy Alford can be reached at email@example.com.


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RED SPRINGS � White Oak racked up nearly 500 yards on the ground and took an 18-7 lead into the halftime break, but the Vikings needed a couple of late touchdowns to take down Red Springs 45-33 on Friday evening in both team�s opener.
RED SPRINGS � White Oak racked up nearly 500 yards on the ground and took an 18-7 lead into the halftime break, but the Vikings needed a couple of late touchdowns to take down Red Springs 45-33 on Friday evening in both team�s opener.
White Oak quarterback Elijah Harris rushed for 290 yards and five touchdowns on 31 carries, while Camara Rawls added 149 yards and a pair of scores on 24 carries.
The win marked the first victory on the field for White Oak under coach Chad Ashley. The Vikings went 1-10 last year, the win coming on a forfeit.
�It feels great. It beats the other side,� Ashley said. �I�m more happy for the kids. I�m excited for them because they worked so hard to put themselves in this position tonight.
Blake Greene of Red Springs (0-1) threw for 274 yards and two touchdowns on 20-of-43 passing for the Red Devils.
Red Springs was held to just 23 yards on the ground and played the last three quarters without the services of starting tailback Jedarian Lesane who limped gingerly to the sideline with an injury.
�We�re young. We only had three starters coming back so we knew there were going to be some issues,� Red Springs head coach George Coltharp said. �They are a tough team. We let them get ahead too early.�
White Oak took the lead for good on Harris� 54-yard run up the middle with 8:20 left in the first quarter and took an 18-7 advantage into the locker room. Red Springs got as close as three points at 24-21 on Greene�s 1-yard plunge with five minutes left in the third quarter and trailed by just four after Jamison Baker�s 45-yard touchdown catch with 5:24 left to play.
Harris would answer Baker�s late score with one of his own to put the game away, scampering 38 yards down the far sideline 16 seconds later to put the game out of reach.
�What else can you can about Elijah?� Ashley said. �It was an awesome performance.�
White Oak 12 6 6 21 � 45
Red Springs 7 0 14 12 � 33
First Quarter
W � Harris 54 run (kick blocked)
W � Harris 3 run (kick blocked)
R � McGeachey 17 pass from Green (Bannick kick)
Second Quarter
W � Harris 18 run (run failed)
Third Quarter
R � McGeachey 87 kickoff return (Bannick kick)
W � Harris 2 run (run failed)
R � Green 1 run (Bannick kick)
Fourth Quarter
W � Rawls 14 run (Graham kick)
R � Green 1 run (kick failed)
W � Rawls 3 run (Graham kick)
R � Baker 45 pass from Greene (pass failed)
W � Harris 38 run (Graham kick)
First downs 26 16
Rushes-yards 70-525 15-47
Passing 23 274
Comp-Att-Int 1-1-0 20-43-0
Fumbles-Lost 7-2 1-0
Penalties-Yards 14-114 11-76
Punts 0 3-34.7
RUSHING�W: Harris 31-290, Rawls 24-149, Smith 4-41, Shomari 3-26, Aviles 2-17, Piotrovsky 2-6, White 1-3. R: Greene 9-46, Graham 2-6, Lesane 2-3, Blue 1-0.
PASSING�W: Harris 1-1-0-23. R: Greene 20-43-0-274.
RECEIVING�W: Harris 1-12. R: McGeachey 12-158, Baker 4-105, Graham 2-2, Fairly 1-8, McLaurin 1-1.
Dixon 27, Spring Creek 22: Brandon Iseman is 1-0 as Dixon�s head coach.
Malik Simmons rushed for 126 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Bulldogs to a win at Spring Creek in both teams� season opener.
The win gave Iseman a win in his first game as the Bulldogs� interim coach. Head coach Ray Swaney is in Afghanistan with the Army Reserves.
�This is a great win and I�m happy for the kids,� Iseman said. �Like many first games we have a lot of things to work on. We will just work on all the facets of the game. We are going to get better in all facets from the first week to the second week.�
Simmons scored on a 1-yard touchdown run to tie the game in the second quarter. He had a 33-yard scoring run in the third quarter to give Dixon a 24-6 lead.
Tyler Ross opened the second half with a 70-yard kickoff return for a touchdown for the Bulldogs.
�He really grinded it out. There�s no other way to say it,� Iseman said of Simmons. �It didn�t come easy for him, but he kept grinding and it finally broke for him. He was very patient tonight.�
Spring Creek, though, rallied.
Dixon led just 27-22 when SCHS scored with 2:34 left and then attempted an onside kick. The Bulldogs recovered and sealed the win by getting a first down.
�We went on a little run in the second half and then we had a lightning delay for about an hour and a half,� Iseman said. �We were clicking.�
Dixon 0 12 12 3 � 27
Spring Creek 0 6 0 16 � 22
Second Quarter
S � Russo 4 run (kick blocked)
D � Simmons 1 run (run failed)
D � Williams 2 run (run failed)
Third Quarter
D � Ross 70 KO return (pass failed)
D � Simmons 33 run (run failed)
Fourth Quarter
D � Ross 23 FG
S � Hammonds 2 run (Russo run)
S � Hammonds 29 pass from Russo (Russo run)
RUSHING�D: Simmons 16-126, Wyble 16-51, Fullerton 3-13, Edgemon 1-6, Williams 5-29, Ross 1-(-5), TEAM 4-(-38). S: NA.
PASSING�D: Wyble 3-8-1-43. S: NA.
RECEIVING�D: Fullerton 2-22, Ross 1-21. S: NA.
Northside-West Carteret suspended: Northside�s season opener at West Carteret was suspended in the second quarter because of lightning and will resume Monday at 7 p.m. in Morehead City. The game was tied 0-0 at the time of the suspension.


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Citing data from the US Energy Information Administration's (EIA), AWEA says wind turbines generated at least 10% of electricity in nine US states in 2012, up from five states the year before.
In the top two states, wind energy was responsible for more than one fifth of total electricity production, hitting 24.5% in Iowa and 23.9% in South Dakota. Nationwide, wind produced 3.5% of US electricity in 2012 compared to roughly 2.9% in 2011.
"With wind power serving as the number one source of new generating capacity in 2012, it's no surprise that wind energy is increasing its role in the overall US power mix," said Elizabeth Salerno, AWEA's director of industry data & analysis. Wind energy provided more than 5% of generation in 14 states last year.


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SUNDAY, May 22, 2011 (HealthDay News) -- Young athletes who return to play before a concussion fully heals and sustain another head injury can suffer serious and potentially deadly brain complications, an expert warns.
Athletes under age 25 are especially vulnerable to "second-impact syndrome," according to Dr. James Kinderknecht, a sports medicine and shoulder service physician at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City.
But there are ways to prevent a subsequent injury, including knowing the signs of concussion. These include headache, dizziness, irritability, mood changes, vomiting, changes in vision and hearing and difficulty following instructions.
If young athletes have any of these symptoms in the hours or days immediately after a head injury, their physical activity should be restricted until they're evaluated by a doctor.
Symptoms of a concussion can disappear before the brain is fully healed, said Kinderknecht in a hospital news release. A doctor may test a young athlete's readiness to return to play by engaging the youngster in non-contact physical activity and watching for any symptoms that may not have been present when the child was at rest, Kinderknecht explained.
Parents and coaches also need to remember that young athletes may be reluctant to report symptoms of concussion, especially if it occurs during a highly competitive game.
"I always tell my patients, if it's a sore knee, it might be all right to try to play," Kinderknecht said. "But you can't take chances with what may be a brain injury. If there are any symptoms, even mild ones, it is not appropriate to participate."
"With educated parents and coaches supporting a stringent policy about keeping injured players off the field, we can all worry less about second-impact syndrome," he added.
Kinderknecht gave a presentation on concussions at a recent hospital symposium on sports medicine for young athletes.
More information
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more about concussion in sports.


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LOS ANGELES — People expecting to travel to Los Angeles International Airport the last weekend of July may want to plan ahead, with local transportation officials warning today that a bridge-demolition project will close a portion of Century Boulevard for 57 hours.
A Metro contractor will begin demolishing a defunct railroad bridge at Century and Aviation boulevards at 9 p.m. July 25, clearing the site for a Crenshaw/LAX light rail line station. Century Boulevard will remain blocked until 6 a.m. July 28.
Metro officials said an estimated 92,800 motorists travel through the Century/Aviation intersection on a daily basis. They have dubbed the demolition project "Century Crush," urging motorists to plan ahead and avoid the area if at all possible.
The Crenshaw/LAX line will connect the Metro Green and Expo lines, with an anticipated opening in 2019.
"Angelenos, we've been through this before, and we're asking for your patience as we tear down an old bridge to make way for a state-of-the-art light rail system," said County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, a member of the Metro Board of Directors. "So we're asking you to re-route your drive for two days at the end of July. In return, we're going to build you a system that will ultimately connect our urban center to LAX and the South Bay."
With Century Boulevard blocked, motorists heading toward LAX that weekend will be diverted north on La Cienega Boulevard, west on Manchester Avenue, then south on Airport Boulevard, back to Century. Motorists leaving LAX will take the same detour in reverse.
Lanes will also be reduced on Aviation Boulevard during the demolition.
Metro officials also noted that once the bridge is demolished, Century Boulevard will remain reduced by one lane in each direction for the next 16 months, leaving three lanes each way.
The 8.5-mile, $2.058 billion Crenshaw/LAX line will run from the Metro Expo line at Exposition and Crenshaw boulevards and connect with the Green line near the airport.


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Some follow-up on the Osmocom Berlin meetings
We've now had the first two incarnations of the Osmocom Berlin User Group Meeting. The start was great, and we had probably something around 10 attendees. Some were the usual suspects like the various Osmocom developers living in Berlin. But we also had a number of new people attending each of both of the meetings, which is good.
To my big surprise people are even flying in from other parts of Europe in order to be able to attend. Last time from Sweden, and for the next meeting some folks from the Netherlands have announced themselves.
To an even bigger surprise, the attendee from Sweden announced that he is working for an Ericsson research lab, and apparently they are using OsmocomBB quite a bit inside that lab. They think it's a great tool, and apparently nothing else with the same flexibility (i.e. full source code) is at their hands that can compete.
On the one hand it is surprising to see such a large traditional Telco supplier to start to use such amateur tools like OsmocomBB, which definitely have not had even a fraction of the testing (particularly with various operators in various countries) like the commercial protocol stacks.
On the other hand, if you think more about it, Ericsson is entirely a network equipment supplier today. They have spun off their baseband processor business to become part of ST-Ericsson, they have pulled out of Sony-Ericsson, sold their TEMS product line to Ascom and other bits and pieces to Tieto. So right now, if they need a MS-side protocol stack or engineering phones, they probably have to obtain what is available on the market. And that's unfortunately not all that great, as the products are either
- Measurement devices aimed at mostly L1 testing / QA (Racal, Agilent, Rohde-Schwarz)
- Trace mobiles primarily aimed at field testing (TEMS, Sagem OT) and while they provide traces they don't permit you to send arbitrary data or behave spec-incompliant
- Mobile Phone development platforms (Qualcomm, MTK, Infinenon, ...) which don't necessarily give you the full source code to the stack, and are only available if you actually intend to build a handset
So all in all, the more I think about it, it is actually not too surprising that they ended up with OsmocomBB. It's free (as in free beer) and they get the full source code with it. You need a lot of skills and time to get it running and find your way around how to use it, but I guess if you're working in cellular protocols and embedded systems, it's not that hard.


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How can 2012 be nearing an end already?
How can 2012 be nearing an end already? If you're like me, it seems like just yesterday that we opened up our blank, new calendars and started to fill the days with meetings, events and special occasions that have all passed by much too quickly. The new year brings new opportunities to us all. However, and we are all looking forward to an exciting and prosperous 2013 for our families, our communities and our Bayou Industrial Group.
BIG will start its program year with our next regular monthly luncheon on Jan. 14. We welcome all BIG members and guests to join us at noon at the Bayou Country Club in Thibodaux. Email me your luncheon reservation at firstname.lastname@example.com. Not a BIG member yet? We'd love to have your join our group! Bayou Industrial Group, formed in 1973, is the Bayou Region's oldest business and industry organization. Our mission is to inform, support and strengthen business and community in our region, and our membership area includes Lafourche, Terrebonne, St. Mary, and Assumption parishes. For more information, visit our website, www.BayouIndustrialGroup.com, or call me at 580-3901.
Our annual membership and installation banquet is scheduled for March 7 beginning at 6 p.m. at the Cypress Columns. U.S. Rep. Bill Cassidy, who represents a portion of the Bayou Region in the 6th Congressional District, is our confirmed speaker, and we have invited Sen. David Vitter to join us as well if his calendar allows. It will be a terrific evening! In addition to our honored speakers, the BIG banquet will also feature a presentation of our annual BIG Achiever Awards to an individual and a business and installation of our 2013 BIG officers and Board of Directors
Congratulations to 2013 President Jimmy Ledet of T. Baker Smith, Executive Vice-President Ricky Melancon of Houma-Thibodaux Spine and Rehabilitation Clinic, Vice-President Howell Chiasson of Nicholls State University, Treasurer Steve Gaubert of Thibodaux Regional Medical Center, past President Francis Richard of John Deere and Directors Raylan Alleman of Raylan Alleman CPA, Denny Borne of Bollinger Shipyards, Dwayne Bourgeois of the North Lafourche Levee District, Hugh Caffery of Valentine Chemicals, Monique Crochet of the City of Thibodaux, Shane Guin of Duplantis Design Group and Raymond Richard of MidSouth Bank.
Banquet sponsorships at many levels and BIG Achiever Award nominations are being accepted. Visit www.BayouIndustrialGroup.com for details.
Finally, BIG is excited to announce its inaugural 5K Race and Crawfish Boil-Off scheduled for April 27 at Peltier Park in Thibodaux.
Thank you to Courier and Comet readers who have sent in creative names for this new community event designed to raise money for BIG's scholarship and education efforts in our region. If you have an idea to name this race and boil-off, e-mail them to firstname.lastname@example.com. The race will be coordinated for us by Split Second, LLC. Race and boil-off competition entry forms will be available in early 2013.
Until then, we wish you all a blessed and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! See you in 2013!
Jennifer Armand is executive director of Bayou Industrial Group.


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DEKALB — Washington High School fell to Sacred Heart-Griffin in the Class 5A semifinals just over a week ago. It was six days after the Tazewell County community was devastated by a tornado.
But the Cyclones were carrying, throwing and catching a little piece of Washington football on Saturday during their 38-28 victory over Lombard Montini in the 5A state championship game.
In fact, it was a football.
SHG coach Ken Leonard said that quarterback Gabe Green liked the feel of the Baden football used by the Panthers during the semifinal game. So Leonard contacted Washington coach Darrell Crouch last week.
"We actually used a Washington ball today," Leonard said after Saturday's title game. "They'd left one behind, and Gabe said he really liked it. So I called coach Crouch, and they gave us five or six more to use."
Green said it was more about using a football, in the biggest game of the season, that felt good in his hand. But he said there was additional significance.
"It was a great ball; the best Baden ball I've ever felt," Green said. "But it added to it because it was from Washington, Illinois.
"To know we were kind of playing for them and doing it for them, it made it more fun."
Team first
SHG receiver Malik Turner was held to four catches for 67 yards and no touchdowns in the Cyclones' Class 5A title game victory.
But for the University of Illinois commit, Turner's only care after the game was being a state champion.
His sophomore season was cut short by an ankle injury and his junior campaign was delayed several weeks with a second ankle injury. The second required surgery.
In his senior year, Turner led the Central State Eight Conference in receiving yards with 1,378 on 69 catches through 14 games. Of those 69 receptions, 22 went for scores. His health this season was a big reason why SHG (14-0) set a state record for scoring with 744 points.
"It feels great to be part of the guys. We've worked for this for four years. To go out with them and win the state championship, it means a lot," Turner said. "I was just blessed to have the opportunity to play again and I had to take advantage of it."
Leonard Bowl
With Ken and Derek Leonard's title sweep this weekend, they pass Bob and Jim Unruh for the most state titles by a father and son in Illinois football with eight to the seven for the Unruhs.
Bob Unruh won the 1974 Class 3A title at West Chicago. His son, Jim, won six titles with Carthage —in 1995, '98-2000, '08 and '10.
Each Leonard has four titles. Derek Leonard's Rochester Rockets became the first public school program in Illinois to win four straight titles.
After SHG titles in 2005, '06 and '08, the elder Leonard won his fourth Saturday.
Words of praise
SHG quarterback Gabe Green's legs were a much more used commodity in 2012 as a sophomore.
But with the plethora of passing targets, Green hadn't been asked to carry the ball as much this season.
On Saturday, Green had 145 yards and three touchdowns on 26 carries.
And it was only fitting coming on the same home turf of potential Heisman Trophy candidate Jordan Lynch of Northern Illinois University.
"We probably ran the ball on Montini as well as anybody," Leonard said. "When you've got a kid like No. 6 (Green's number) . . . I'll tell you what, he's a lot like the No. 6 here (Lynch)."


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WINDSOR, Ont. -- Windsor Public Library Board chairman Al Maghnieh has repaid $3,000 he racked up in expenses on a library credit card that he says has since been cancelled.
The admission came at Thursday's meeting of the library board.
"I took the initiative to make sure this was out there," said Maghnieh, a city councillor who has chaired the board for about a year.
"It's not like somebody came in and busted me. I took the initiative to release my expenses."
Maghnieh said the process in place was for the holder of the credit card to review expenses every month and decide which were strictly for library business and which were not. The cardholder would then write a cheque for the difference.
Maghnieh said he charged food and catering from meetings regarding library business to the card, as well as paper pads and pens for the Canspell spelling bee, of which the library is a sponsor.
"Those differences totalled a little over $3,000 but those aren't all personal expenses," said Maghnieh.
"I think where the problem lies is where I think if you say personal items you say personal items for yourself, and that was a small number."
Windsor Public Library Board vice-chair Hilary Payne said Maghnieh is being honest and handled the issue as best he could.
"He's new to the business," said Payne.
"I think that's part of what's happened here."
Payne, a city councillor and former City of Windsor CAO, said he is personally opposed to anyone having a municipal credit card.
"When I was with the city I never had a credit card myself and I never allowed my staff to have one," Payne said.
"The reason I have a strong feeling about it is because these kind of things can happen. It's kind of there but for the grace of God go I. If you have a company credit card sooner or later you're going to use it, you're going to be short of money or something and use it for a personal purpose. The best thing to do is to never have one."
Maghnieh said he may have charged the occasional sandwich for himself to the card, but nothing major. He said he came to the conclusion that the process as it was had the potential for bad optics and conferred with the board's auditors, KPMG and they agreed.
"It's not a matter of misusing, it's a matter of compliance with the process; our process doesn't permit that," said Maghnieh.
"It just promotes headaches in terms of what qualifies and what doesn't qualify. I gave it back on my own. This was before the auditors even came in. We want an audit every year. They gave it an unconditional clean bill of health."
Maghnieh said the auditors recommended a change in practices, and new practices will be brought to the next board meeting.
"At no point in time was the library out a single cent," said Maghnieh.
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Advantages of HD Radio
HD radio technology is a method of transmitting audio and data. It transmits digital information instead of analog. HD radio technology represents the evolution of traditional radio broadcasting into the digital age. HD radio technology allows WMHT-FM and WEXT-FM to transmit a high-quality digital signal. For you the listener, the benefits of this are:
- FM radio with CD-quality sound
- Digital AM radio that sounds as good as analog FM radio (i.e., less AM radio 'noise')
- No more static, pops, crackles or fades due to less reception problems; instead, you'll hear clear, clean, rich sound
- Transmission of additional information, such as song titles, artist information and radio station call letters
- Less signal loss (should an obstruction cause you to lose the digital signal, HD radio technology defaults back to analog mode)
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HD radio technology works similarly to the traditional analog radio transmissions that you are probably accustomed to:
1. Our radio station sends out analog and digital radio signals, along with a third signal for text data.
2. The digital signal is compressed before being transmitted.
3. The three-layered signal is transmitted from the radio station's upgraded digital transmitter.
4. Multipath interference, caused by the signal reflecting off of buildings, is ignored by the digital radio, which is able to discern the true signal and ignore interference.
5. Your radio receives the signal. Depending on whether or not you have an HD radio, you either hear the digital or analog feed of our station.
In other words, if you want to experience the advantages of HD radio, you will need to purchase an HD radio receiver.
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Khloe Kardashian has revealed the truth about her famous family's annual Christmas card – the group photo on the front is not what it seems.
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She told Ellen DeGeneres, "I have to be Photoshopped in … We pretend that we're always together. The powers of cameras and Photoshop.
"Last year we were all in, but (husband) Lamar Odom was photoshopped… because he had a game. It's hard with his NBA (basketball) schedule.
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(Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday threw out Bank of America Corp's (BAC.N) lawsuit against the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp over $1.7 billion of investor losses stemming from the collapses in 2009 of a large regional bank and a large mortgage lender.
The lawsuit concerned the FDIC's role as receiver for an banking unit of Alabama's Colonial BancGroup Inc and the implosion of Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp, home to what federal prosecutors called a $2.9 billion mortgage fraud.
Bank of America, as trustee for notes issued by Taylor Bean's Ocala Funding LLC unit, had contended that the FDIC wrongly denied claims by Ocala noteholders to recover from Colonial Bank. Among the buyers of Ocala's notes were Deutsche Bank AG (DBKGn.DE) and France's BNP Paribas SA (BNPP.PA).
Last December, U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein in Washington, D.C. dismissed some of Bank of America's claims but let the Charlotte, North Carolina-based lender pursue claims on behalf of itself, Deutsche Bank and BNP Paribas.
But on Monday, she dismissed those claims as well, saying the FDIC determination that there were not enough assets in Colonial's estate to pay general unsecured creditors deprived her of jurisdiction.
"The No-Value Determination is a final agency action that is binding on this court and is preclusive as to whether there are now or ever will be assets sufficient to satisfy general unsecured claims against the Colonial receivership," she wrote.
Rothstein said the only way for Bank of America to challenge this determination is under the Administrative Procedures Act, not through individual lawsuits against the FDIC. She dismissed the lawsuit with prejudice, meaning it cannot be brought again.
Bank of America spokesman Bill Halldin declined immediate comment.
The case arose from a scheme in which Taylor Bean sold fake loans to Colonial Bank and diverted money from Ocala, and gave Bank of America false collateral lists that misrepresented the status of loans in which Ocala supposedly had an interest.
Former Taylor Bean Chairman Lee Farkas is serving a 30-year prison term following his April 2011 conviction on 14 counts of bank fraud, securities fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy.
Prosecutors accused him of masterminding the $2.9 billion fraud, which they said occurred from 2002 to 2009.
Taylor Bean was based in Ocala, Florida, and Colonial in Montgomery, Alabama. Colonial had $25 billion of assets when it collapsed in August 2009 and was the largest U.S. lender to fail that year.
The case is Bank of America NA v. FDIC, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia, No. 10-01681.
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Molester dies: Child kidnapper slain in prison
A convicted child rapist whose pending release inspired a Virginia law to keep dangerous sex offenders behind bars was found slain in his state prison cell, officials said last week.
Richard A. Ausley, who kidnapped a teenage boy, buried him in a box, and sexually molested him for a week in 1973, was discovered by a prison worker late January 13 in the cell he shared with another inmate, Department of Corrections spokesman Larry Traylor said.
An autopsy conducted the following day showed that Ausley was strangled and suffered blunt trauma to the torso, according to Evelyn Henson, a district administrator for the Virginia medical examiner's office in Richmond.
The man Ausley repeatedly raped three decades ago said the state attorney general's office informed him that Ausley was found strangled in his cell.
"I'm shocked,'' said Paul Martin Andrews, a computer technician who now lives in Miami. "This is not what I wanted for him. I don't hate Richard Ausley.''
The Department of Corrections is investigating the death.
"Richard Ausley's crimes were properly handled by the Commonwealth, and he deserved to be kept away from society for the rest of his life,'' Attorney General Jerry Kilgore said in a statement. "However, we have a legal system for a reason, and we cannot condone the circumstances of his death."
Traylor said Ausley died at around 10:30 or 11pm January 13 at Sussex I State Prison in Waverly, where Ausley had been since November. Ausley and his cellmate were in the cell during that period, he said.
Ausley, 64, previously was serving his sentence at Brunswick Correctional Center. He could have been released from prison as early as March 2007.
Ausley had suffered from serious health problems, according to the Portsmouth commonwealth's attorney's office. Traylor said he was unable to comment on Ausley's health issues because of privacy law.
Ausley was sentenced to more than 47 years in prison in 1973 for abducting Andrews in Portsmouth and burying him in a wooden box in Suffolk. Ausley had been scheduled for release from prison last November, but five years were added to his sentence in August after he pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting another teenager, Gary Founds of Portsmouth, in 1972.
Founds, now in his 40s, said he stepped forward with his story after hearing about Ausley's scheduled release.
Ausley's impending release prompted legislators to approve funding last year for the state's civil commitment program for sexual predators. Andrews lobbied state legislators to pass the law, which allows authorities to hold offenders indefinitely in a secure treatment center after their prison terms end.
Kilgore's office filed court papers to have Ausley committed after his release.
Ausley also had been convicted in 1961 of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 10-year-old Suffolk boy and leaving him hogtied in the woods. He was sentenced to 26 years but was released on parole in November 1971.
An official with Human Rights Watch, which researches and documents prison conditions in the United States, said there is a "risk factor'' in allowing offenders who prey on children within the general population.
"They are considered the lowest, the most despised people in the prison population,'' said Joanne Mariner. "Other prisoners feel they gain respect by harming those prisoners.''
Portsmouth Commonwealth's Attorney Earle C. Mobley said his office was trying to contact Founds to let him know what had happened. Mobley called Ausley's death a "sad ending to a very sad story.''
"I'm just glad that it has finally come to an end, and we're assured now that he'll never harm anyone again,'' he said.
Associated Press writers Adrienne Schwisow and Larry O'Dell contributed to this report.
In an interview with the Hook last week, Andrews expressed his shock over the killing and says he will soon move to Virginia to continue his efforts to keep molesters away from children.–editor
Ausley's victim, Martin Andrews, told the story of his week-long ordeal in the January 30, 2003 issue of The Hook.
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Best of 2010
Here it is – our top twenty (one) favorite and most listened to songs of 2010. Well 20 of our favorite songs and what WILL BE our favorite song of 2011. It's been an amazing, amazing year – our first full year as a blog and producing showcases of amazing up-and-coming talent in New York. Thanks to everyone who has been a part of it and for all of the support. Happy New Year!! xx KC + SL
Kanye West – Blame Game
Dominant Legs – About My Girls
Arcade Fire – Suburban War
Gold Panda – You
Sleigh Bells – Rill Rill
Beach House – Norway
The Radio Dept – Heavens on Fire
Cults – Go Outside
The ABC Club – Thieving Magpie (YouTube)
Cloud Nothings – Can't Stay Awake
Local Natives – Airplanes
Voxhaul Broadcast – Lost Along The Way
PS I Love You – 2012
Minks – Funeral Song (Vimeo)
Magic Man – Nest
Efterklang – Modern Drift
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Josh Grabijas, freshman from Howell, Mich. (Howell HS)
Phil Heyboer, senior from Zeeland, Mich. (Holland Christian HS)
Brandon King, senior from Willowbrook, Ill. (Hinsdale Central HS)
Ryan Nelis, senior from Holland, Mich. (West Ottawa HS)
Mitch Ruch, senior from Zeeland, Mich. (Zeeland East HS)
Aaron Welsch, senior from St. Peters, Mo. (Ft. Zumwalt South HS)
Libby Westrate, freshman from Grandville, Mich. (Grandville HS)
* Phil Heyboer, 6th place in 400 IM (3:58.76)
* 400 Medley Relay, 10th place (Mitch Ruch, Brandon King, Ryan Nelis, and Aaron Welsch), 3:23.29
* Phil Heyboer, 13th place in 200 Backstroke, 1:50.48
* Phil Heyboer, 15th place in 200 IM, 1:53.18
* 200 Medley Relay, 15th place (Mitch Ruch, Brandon King, Ryan Nelis and Aaron Welsch), 1:33.73
* Phil Heyboer, 400 Individual Medley, 3:57.71
* Phil Heyboer, 200 Individual Medley, 1:52.79
* Mitch Ruch, 100 Backstroke, :51.24
* Phil Heyboer, 200 Backstroke, 1:50.48 (ties record set by Mitch Ruch in 2009)
Saturday, March 20, 2010
The NCAA Division III swimming and diving championships have concluded. The Flying Dutchmen finished 26 in a field of 61 teams with 34 points. The Flying Dutch failed to score in the women's meet for the first time since 2003.
Senior Phil Heyboer added to his awards on Saturday by achieving honorable mention All-America honors with a 13th place finish in the 200-yard backstroke (1:50.48). He earlier received All-American recognition with a sixth place finish in the 400-yard individual medley.
Competing Saturday, but unable to advance past the prelims were: Aaron Welsch, 17th in the 100-yard freestyle (:45.85); Ryan Nelis, 49th in the 100-yard freestyle (:47.57); Libby Westrate, 19th in 100-yard freestyle (:52.06); Mitch Ruch, 24th in 200-yard backstroke (1:52.44); Josh Grabijas, 18th in the 1,650-yard freestyle (16:13.87); and 400-yard freestyle relay (Ryan Nelis, Aaron Welsch, Phil Heyboer and Brandon King), 17th place (3:09.68).
Friday, March 19, 2010
The NCAA Division III swimming championships conclude on Saturday at the University of Minnesota. The Flying Dutchmen are 22nd in the field of men's teams with 33 points while the Flying Dutch are still looking for their first points in the women's meet.
On Friday Hope's competitors did not advance to the evening's finals. Competing in the prelims were: Mitch Ruch, 23rd in the 100-yard backstroke (:51.65); Brandon King, 30th in the 100-yard breaststroke (:58.88) and 17th in the 800-yard freestyle relay with a team of Josh Grabijas, Ryan Nelis, Aaron Welsch and Phil Heyboer (6:57.56).
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Senior Phil Heyboer achieved NCAA All-America honors Thursday finishing sixth in the 400-yard individual medley at the Division III championships in Minnesota.
Heyboer becomes the third Hope swimmer, the first in 15 years, to achieve All-America honors in the multi-stroke, marathon event. In Thursday's prelims he set a school record in the event with a time of 3:57.71. He held the old mark of 4:00.48. His time in the finals was 3:58.76.
Hope also had an honorable mention All-America performance with a 10th place finish in the 400-yard medley relay. The all-senior quartet of Mitch Ruch, Brandon King, Ryan Nelis, and Aaron Welsch was timed in season-best 3:23.29. In the preliminary heat earlier Thursday Ruch set a school record in the 100-yard backstroke with a leadoff time of :51.25. It bettered the previous mark of :51.29 set by Chris Dattels in 2000. He did himself even better in the finals with a school record time of :51.24.
Also competing Thursday but not advancing beyond the prelims were: Ryan Nelis, 19th in 100-yard butterfly (:50.50); Josh Grabijas, 48th in 200-yard freestyle (1:43.53); and Libby Westrate, 34th in 200-yad freestyle (1:54.28).
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Hope swimmers recorded two honorable mention All-America performances on the first day of the NCAA Division championships being held through Saturday at the University of Minnesota.
Phil Heyboer finished 15th in the 200-yard individual medley in 1:53.18. He earlier in the prelims had a season-best time of 1:52.79.
Hope's 200-yard medley relay team also finished 15th. The all-senior quartet of Mitch Ruch, Brandon King, Ryan Nelis and Aaron Welsch was timed in 1:33.73.
Competing in the prelims, but not advancing to the finals on Wednesday were: Josh Grabijas, 33rd in 500-yard freestyle (4:41.98); Aaron Welsch, 24th in 50-yard freestyle (:21.10); Ryan Nelis, 44th in 50-yard freestyle (:21.66); and Libby Westrate, 18th in 50-yard freestyle (:23.97).


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Literally, the theft of the century has been committed during Easter Holidays in Britain, particularly in the Hatton Garden safe deposit in London is now missing jewels and diamonds with the total cost of 100 million euros. As stated by British news portal Daily Star, this theft may appear at the top of the list of Britain's most important thefts.
The thieves got into the safe deposit through the tunnel that they had dug, which resembles famous "Ocean's 11" stealing strategy. After that they switched off the alarm system, and withdrew the jewelery from approximately 300 vaults. The workers of the company discovered what happened only on Tuesday morning.
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Procrastination is a disease that inflicts many of us (certainly not excluding this author) and The US.
It seems that there is nary a chore, nary a challenge whose solution can't be put off to tomorrow or, preferably, the day after.
The time has passed. It is time to change our habits. We must start doing our chores.
We must stop making a mess. We must fight to clean up our collective messes.
We, together, can solve tomorrow's problems. Today.
Al Gore gave a speech Thursday (video) in Washington, DC, one that set a major objective before us, a path toward clean up our biggest mess, the dumping of carbon and other pollutants into our atmosphere and waters. He set a path for us to begin to Solve Tomorrow's Problems, Today. And, he gave another speech earlier today in Austin, Texas, at Netroots Nation that raised, not just Global Warming, other serious problems in our society and democracy. He laid out problems, but, at the core, stated: Carpe Diem. Seize the Day. Work together, fight to Solve Tomorrow's Problems. Today!


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I have been reading a good paper of ecosystem growth and development and thinking to the interrelations with digital ecosystems.
I predict that digital ecosystem thermodynamics would be a way to predict and measure the quality of systems in operation.
Digital ecosystem is an open, self-organizing agent environment containing human individuals, information services as well as network interaction and knowledge sharing tools along with resources that help maintain synergy among human beings or organizations, where each agent of each species is proactive and responsive regarding its own benefit/profit but is also responsible to its system (Boley & Chang, 2007).
This paper gives useful guidelines to explain the development and changes in digital ecosystems.
Ecosystem growth and development
Brian D. Fath, Sven E. Jørgensen, Bernard C. Patten, Milan Straškraba
BioSystems 77 (2004) 213–228
The development pattern of ecosystem structure and function has two aspects. First, at the broadest scale of time, in millennia, ecosystems have changed in form and distribution over the earth's surface.
Second, within shorter time periods, ecosystems undergo ecological succession Golley (1994).
Figures of community succession:
Thermodynamics is one of the main laws of ecology.
Ecosystems are complex adaptive systems (Levin, 1998), and as such one would expect the thermodynamic properties of the ecosystem to change during development.
Biological systems are special – they possess relatively little entropy (measure of the disorder) compared with the space around them. In other words, biological systems are able to build complex structures (order) within their boundaries by diverting low-entropy input and exporting high-entropy output (Lawson, 1999).
Entropy is essentially a measure of how organized or disorganized a system is, of the number of ways in which a system may be arranged, often taken to be a measure of "disorder" (the higher the entropy, the higher the disorder).
The digital ecosystems (if we consider for example one certain social software system) as part of the whole web seem to be possessing similar low entropy, they are more ordered areas in comparison of the surrounding web.
Schrödinger (1944) wrote, "thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of orderliness (= fairly low level of entropy) really consists of continually sucking orderliness from its environment".
Any general law of biology should take into account these entropy-diminishing properties of open system processes.
Chorley and Kennedy (1971) described four types of change for open systems:
a) first, change due to changing input–output relationships of both mass and energy;
b) second, changes in the energy content and distribution within the system;
c) third, change associated with shifts in the internal organization of the system
itself; and
d) finally, change associated with the development of energy and mass stores which introduce time lags in the operation of system processes.
New social software systems are open similarly to the input of system components (or ideas) from the surrounding systems in web (basically functional ideas that seem to work are sucked in to the systems.
Moreover, some of it is and open source software that generally allows anyone to create modifications of the software, port it to new operating systems and processor architectures, share it with others or market it. This increases openness to the out-of system elements, that result in bigger orderliness of systems.
One of the most important features of biosystems is how they are able to maintain local order (low entropy) within their system boundaries.
This organization can be observed in the thermodynamic parameters that describe it.
These thermodynamic parameters can be used to track ecosystem growth and development during succession.
Ecosystems grow and develop in four progressive growth forms reflected in boundary, structure, network, and information relationships.
1. Boundary growth brings the input of low-entropy material into the system.
We can see it at software development level, but also looking at individuals who do not have allocation to any communities yet, or artifacts that have not been systematized under any categories yet?
2. Structural growth occurs when the physical quantity of biomass in the system increases, often as a result of the increase in the amount, number, and size of components in the ecosystem.
The components of the ecosystem are individuals, system components and artifacts. In digital ecosystems we may see kind of species: community is a species because it has certain identity, certain group of tools may be seen as a species as well, because they share functional similarity (???), even artifacts may be viewed as species depending of what type of information or what information content they carry. However, if in nature the individual can belong only to one species, in digital ecosystems any of the described agents may be classified belonging to several "species".
A community as we understand biological communities consists of several species, thus in our case the community of communities is inhabiting a certain ecosystem.
3. Network growth is growth in connectivity of the system through additional energy–matter transactions, which results in pathway proliferation and more cycling of matter and energy. Network growth deals specifically with the internal organization of the system.
In each social software system we can see the increase on connections appearing between individuals, individals and system components, and artifacts, also the synthesis of certain system services and the composition and combination of artifacts appears. The communities of individuals is also a way how system obtains higher connectivity.
4. Information growth is qualitative growth in system behavior from exploitative patterns to more conservative patterns, which are more energetically efficient.
Information growth deals with the development of ecosystem compartments themselves, as they tend to increase their own performance within the system.
At this level we can see the behavior changes how the individuals/communities operate with energy. For example there appear new community browsing strategies by tags or aggregating and mashing information and similar ecologically more effective ways of sharing information, finding people and using tools.
This four-stage model provides a general conceptual model for ecosystem growth and development.
The typical sequence that occurs during primary and secondary succession corresponds roughly to these four forms, however expression of the four forms is not strictly sequential because they can operate in parallel (e.g., boundary input initiates growth, but continues on as long as the system organization remains; network and informational growth both can occur simultaneously, etc.).
Some important terms to understand theromodynamics in ecosystem:
Exergy is the maximum amount of work the system can perform relative to an environmental reference state; therefore, a system with greater exergy is moved further from its reference state and further from thermodynamic equilibrium. An eco-exergy is how far an ecosystem has moved away from thermodynamic equilibrium.
In ecosystems an increase in exergy corresponds to an increase in the overall biomass and an increase in the species' internal organization.
Exergy dissipation refers to the energy given off by breaking down the high quality, low-entropy energy (orderliness) for both growth and maintenance of the system.
This point is interesting – it refers that organised ecosystem elements (communities, agglomerated-annotated arifacts, superorganised software components) are used (and reused by breaking them down) to get exergy that is needed to get to the next ecosystem equilibrium level. Basically any community of communities gives exergy to get to the next level of ecosystem, but this means breaking down the very same communities (or at least it should happen all the time).
As an ecosystem develops, it will import and capture more exergy.
Exergy storage increases during ecosystem development (Jørgensen et al., 2000;
Jørgensen, 2002; Fath et al., 2001).
Exergy dissipation is dependent on the exergy capture or the ability of the ecosystem to divert a greater amount of low-entropy energy across its border.
Minimizing specific entropy means minimizing the entropy production (reflecting maintenance cost) for a given biomass (structure). In other words, an ecosystem tends to become more energetically efficient.
It seems then that for keeping the exergy from dissipation it is necessary to let always some communities, ideas, artifacts, software ideas out of the ecosystem.
Lotka–Odum's hypothesis states that an ecosystem develops towards maximizing
power (Lotka, 1922; Odum and Pinkerton, 1955), interpreted as the highest possible throughflow of energy.
Both the exergy storage and the energy throughflow of an ecosystem increase over time.
Thermodynamically, ecosystem growth is the increase of energy throughflow and stored biomass.
Ecosystem development is the internal reorganization of these energy mass stores, which affect transfers, transformations, and time lags within the system.
Growth is the quantitative increase of some measure such as biomass or throughflow.
For example individuals, communities, artifacts
Development is the qualitative change that occurs such as the organization
or information of existing quantities.
For example new web 2.0 information management and navigation behaviors.
Odum (1969) proposed several energy-related trends to be expected in the growth and development of ecosystems from early to mature stages.
(1) ecosystem biomass increases (physical structure);
(2) feedback increases (including recycling of energy and matter);
(5) larger animals and plants become more dominant;
(7) total entropy production is relatively high in an ecosystem at an early stage, but relatively low at mature stages;
(8) information increases
All these we can observe at any social software system, if we think of Twitter or Delicious for example. The communities with strong identity developed and dominate, the ways how the communities use software and artifacts to create knowledge have changed and it allows the community members also better feedback between the community niches and themselves.
Five thermodynamic hypotheses for ecosystem growth and development:
1) At a steady state, specific entropy production is minimized.
2) Ecosystem development tends to maximize energy throughflow through the system, the ecosystem develops biosystem components and configurations that
increase the amount of internal energy flow.
3) Exergy that enters the system is either stored as biomass or used to maintain the biological components far from thermodynamic equilibrium after which time it is dissipated in degraded form back to the environment (throughflow)
4) Exergy input directly stored as biomass (the limiting form of cycling) as well as the increase of biological information due to a shift to a more complex species composition.
5) Biological components develop mechanisms to increase time lags in order to maintain the energy stores longer.
The stages of ecosystem development are the following:
The initial requirement of any system's growth and development is the input of low-entropy energy or matter across its system boundary.
During the first growth and development form exergy captured increases rapidly, thus increasing the structure of the system.
During the next growth and development form, system connectivity and cycling increase through additional network transactions. This retains the energy–matter within the system boundaries for a longer time and further increases the throughflow and structure (exergy storage) in the system. As a result, specific
entropy production decreases.
In the final growth and development form, throughflow, exergy storage, and retention time (based on mechanisms of biological components to increase time lags in order to maintain the energy stores longer) continue to increase and specific entropy production continues to decrease as the system efficiency and information content increase.
Why i put so much effort in looking the thermodynamic laws in digital ecosystems is mainly to understand how far our existing digital ecosystems have developed. I think it may be possible to predict using these laws the ecosystem development.
For example, we can take the study of Vuorikari & Koper – Ecology of social search for learning resources about MELT portal as an ecosystem. They have measured the usage of old and new search behaviors in the system, finding that community browsing etc. appears merely at 21 %.
Now, what this would indicate about the state of the system, i would say that the connectivity level is yet quite low.
Can we predict that it will increase and at which conditions?


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Vinyl isn't cheap, nor is is tawdry, so the collecting of it has become much more a matter of discernment than it used to be.
The following is a list, alphabetical, perchance by merit, of the vinyl (new titles and re-issues) that made the cut in 2014. It doesn't presume to be a "Best Of," as I am very aware of the peculiarities of my particular set of listening apparatuses. It is a list of the vinyl that my scattershot attention locked on to, brought home and allowed to bed down in the limited space that I allot for records in my home.
AMEN DUNES Love (Sacred Bones)
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ABC News is falsely suggesting there is a contradiction between the Obama administration removing references to terrorist groups in Libya from talking points about the September 11 attacks on diplomatic facilities in that country and pointing to President Obama's statements that those attacks were an "act of terror."
The original September 14 version of a set of talking points compiled by the CIA's Office of Terrorism Analysis stated that "Islamic extremists with ties to al Qa'ida participated in the attack," and specifically suggested the involvement of the group Ansar al Sharia. Those specifics were subsequently removed, with the final version of the talking points stating only that "extremists participated" in the attacks.
In closed congressional testimony following his resignation as CIA director, Gen. David Petraeus reportedly said that these specifics had been "removed from the public explanation of the attack immediately after the assault to avoiding alerting the militants that American intelligence and law enforcement agencies were tracking them." Administration officials have also said that there were other intelligence and legal concerns with naming the suspected perpetrators:
"The points were not, as has been insinuated by some, edited to minimize the role of extremists, diminish terrorist affiliations, or play down that this was an attack," said a senior official familiar with the drafting of the talking points. "There were legitimate intelligence and legal issues to consider, as is almost always the case when explaining classified assessments publicly."
Some intelligence analysts worried, for instance, that identifying the groups could reveal that American spy services were eavesdropping on the militants -- a fact most insurgents are already aware of. Justice Department lawyers expressed concern about jeopardizing the F.B.I.'s criminal inquiry in the attacks. Other officials voiced concern that making the names public, at least right away, would create a circular reporting loop and hamper efforts to trail the militants.
Indeed, ABC News has reported that in an email in response to the initial talking points, State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland "objected to naming the terrorist groups because 'we don't want to prejudice the investigation.'"
By contrast, in his September 12 and September 13 remarks, President Obama described the attacks as an "act of terror," but did not specify who the perpetrators of that act might be. Presumably such comments would not alert the perpetrators that they were being tracked or jeopardize the criminal probe in the same way that the naming of the specific group might.
Despite that clear distinction, ABC Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz and White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl both suggested that the White House is trying to "have it both ways."
After Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) explained that right-wing claims that the Obama administration was trying to hide terrorist involvement in the attack through the talking points was debunked by Obama himself calling the attacks and "act of terror," Raddatz claimed that this indicated the White House was trying to have it "both ways."
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RADDATZ: But let me go back to that "act of terror" that you say President Obama talked about the next day in the Rose Garden and that Senator McCain disputed. If the president said it was an act of terror, then why didn't that appear on the talking points? Can the White House really have it both ways if they say, "oh wait a minute, he said 'act of terror,'" but a few days later they take out those references? So they felt pretty confident about it if they sent the president out to say that.
Later in the same program, Karl likewise claimed that "the White House has tried to have it both ways, both saying that they immediately called it an 'act of terror' and saying they couldn't do that in these talking points because they couldn't prejudice the investigation."
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Kanye West Cleared in Paparazzo Attack
Kanye West should be happy about this: the Los Angeles D.A.'s office announced that they won't charge him with felony attempted robbery after assaulting a cameraman at LAX last Friday (July 19).
According to TMZ, prosecutors found no proof that he tried to steal the paparazzo's camera during their scuffle at the airport.
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West can easily get out of it by ponying up some cash to have the case dismissed. If the photographer and Yeezy come to a civil compromise, then this entire incident could be erased from his record.
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I found this article online and it explains a LOT! I have been having problems with numbers after eating those Cutie "baby" oranges. Dex says I was okay, but the finger stick said I was high. I should have trusted Dexter....... Sorry man!
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Listen up, diabetics: invisible bits of fruit on your hands can mess up your finger-prick blood tests, making your blood sugar level look higher than it really is.
That's because sugars from fruit will stay on your fingers until you wash them with tap water, a new study shows.
Even alcohol swabs don't solve the problem.
The researchers say that peeling fruit right before you use a blood sugar meter, or eating some juicy fruit with your hands, could lead to an inaccurate reading even if you rub your finger with alcohol first.
Blood sugar meters work by taking a drop of blood from the tip of the finger and testing the sample for how much sugar is in the blood. Many people with diabetes have to use these meters a few times a day to monitor their blood sugar levels and determine how much insulin to take.
Close to 20 million people in the U.S. have diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
For the new study, published in the journal Diabetes Care, Dr. Takahisa Hirose of the Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine in Tokyo, Japan, and colleagues found ten healthy volunteers. None of the volunteers had diabetes; they all had normal blood sugar levels.
The researchers measured the blood sugar levels of all volunteers under a variety of conditions. First, participants swabbed a finger with alcohol and did the test before handling any fruit, to find their true blood sugar levels.
Next, the volunteers peeled oranges, grapes, or kiwis and checked their blood sugar without cleaning up, after cleaning up with alcohol, and after washing with tap water.
When fruit peeling was followed by hand washing, blood sugar readings were the same as before volunteers had peeled any fruit -- generally around 90 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL), considered in the normal range.
But when volunteers peeled fruit and took a blood sugar reading right away, the levels shown by the blood sugar meter shot up -- to about 170 mg/dL on average after peeling an orange, 180 mg/dL after peeling a kiwi, and 360 mg/dL after peeling a grape.
And if the peelers swabbed their finger with alcohol in between peeling and finger pricking, the readings were still higher than normal. Even swabbing five times didn't produce correct results.
In the directions that come with blood sugar meters, the manufacturers generally tell users to wipe their finger with an alcohol swab before taking a reading. But that might not always do the job, the researchers say.
"People are used to pricking the finger, drawing a blood sample, (and) assuming that the measurement they make reflects the sugar content in the blood," said Dr. Robert Cohen, who studies diabetes at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center and was not involved in the current research.
But, he told Reuters Health, patients "really have to have a checklist" that helps them decide, Was the test done right? Are the circumstances right for this?
Cohen said the example in this study may seem obvious: having sugar on your fingers from fruit can interfere with that meter's readings. But it's still an important finding, he said.
When you use the meters, Cohen said, the assumption is that you're measuring your blood sugar, not the sugar on your fingers.
Getting an inaccurate reading from sugar on the outside of the finger "could lead somebody to take insulin when they don't need it," Cohen said. "They could run the risk of running a low sugar from having misleading data."
The message, the authors say, is to wash your hands before using a blood sugar meter and not rely on alcohol swabs, especially if you've been handling any fruit.
SOURCE: http://bit.ly/hOOp3B Diabetes Care, online January 31, 2011.
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