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The scandal of scientific fraud at East Anglia University is a symptom of a wider crisis in science, politics and media identified e.g. by Andrew Orlowski in The scandal we see and the scandal we don't see by Frank J. Tipler in Climategate: The Skeptical Scientists View on The Resilient Earth and in my post on The Age of Unreason and Reason and The End of Anonymous Peer-Review in Science. Or some of the other 18 miljon Climategate hits on Google.
The main question is how it is possible that the distorted view of a small group of scientists can come to dominate both science, media and politics? We know by experience from the 20th century in particular, that if in a society everybody is led to run in the same direction by a certain propaganda pretending to be scientific and rational, things can go seriously wrong.
Wall Street Journal identifies the problem to be Climategate: Science Is Dying:
- The East Anglians' mistreatment of scientists who challenged global warming's claims—plotting to shut them up and shut down their ability to publish—evokes the attempt to silence Galileo. The exchanges between Penn State's Michael Mann and East Anglia CRU director Phil Jones sound like Father Firenzuola, the Commissary-General of the Inquisition.
- Everyone working in science, no matter their politics, has an stake in cleaning up the mess revealed by the East Anglia emails. Science is on the credibility bubble. If it pops, centuries of what we understand to be the role of science go with it.
A main responsibility of media, in particular public service, is to report objectively without preset one-sided agenda. When Swedish Television adopts a preset policy of climate alarmism along with the main Swedish newspapers DN and SvD, this responsibility is given up. The conclusion is that a form of Berlusconi media politics has taken over both public service and the free independent press in our democratic society.
The crisis seems to be pretty serious...according to blogosphere but not classical media...as yet another indication of the crisis of science and media.
But there is hope: Jon Stewart: Science debunked. As long as you can laugh there is hope. Has Jon not heard about KVA? And there is CBSNews:
- It looks like climate change skeptics have finally found their voice. And scientists and politicians endorsing dramatic limits on economic growth to limit carbon dioxide have been reminded where the burden of proof properly lies.
But the score for US television is as poor as Swedish: 12 Days, 3 Networks and No Mention of Climategate Scandal. And so comes the crushing Editorial in Nature:
- Nothing in the e-mails undermines the scientific case that global warming is real — or that human activities are almost certainly the cause.
- Denialists often maintain that these changes are just a symptom of natural climate variability. But when climate modellers test this assertion by running their simulations with greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide held fixed, the results bear little resemblance to the observed warming.
- The strong implication is that increased greenhouse-gas emissions have played an important part in recent warming, meaning that curbing the world's voracious appetite for carbon is essential
- The harassment that denialists inflict on some climate-change researchers, often in the form of endless, time-consuming demands for information under the US and UK Freedom of Information Acts. Governments and institutions need to provide tangible assistance for researchers facing such a burden.
- The e-mail theft also highlights how difficult it can be for climate researchers to follow the canons of scientific openness, which require them to make public the data on which they base their conclusions.
- The pressures the UEA e-mailers experienced may be nothing compared with what will emerge as the United States debates a climate bill next year, and denialists use every means at their disposal to undermine trust in scientists and science.
These statements expressing evidently deeply felt convictions of an Editor of a main scientific journal, show that scientific values and principles are in a state of free fall "undermining the trust in scientists and science". This is serious, because the World needs trustworthy scientists and science. The alternative is state-controlled lysenkoism or tabloid truth.


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If you listen really closely, you can hear my dear Bernina sighing in exhaustion and ecstasy!!
She has really been working hard lately! And what a trooper!!
I logged over 30 hours thread painting my Secret Garden quilt!!
I am so happy with how it turned out!
I love the richness of the batik colors,
the variety of the flower blooms,
and the many shapes of the leaves.
The quilt pattern I used for it is "Location, Location, Location" by Edyta Sitar. But I did slightly change the arrangement in some places, as well as, adding more flowers, a tree branch at the top and lots of bugs and birds and fairies.
It was scary as I quilted it, because it was so very densely quilted on the flowers that it poofed out on the background and I thought that it would never quilt out, but it did!
Then, when all of it was quilted except the border, it again, was so densely quilted, that the border looked like a ruffle!! YIKES! Scared me to death!!
But, I made sure to densely quilt the border, too and amazingly, it did quilt out!! It is so stiff with thread that it almost stands up by itself!!
So, my new guest room is finally complete with My Secret Garden Quilt on the wall!! Woo hoo!!
After only raising sons with very masculine rooms, my husband says this guest room is too girly!! LOL!!
And my garden outside will never look so good, as I have brown thumb!
It's getting close to the end of May…next weekend is already Memorial Day!! And my May Schnibble quilt is not done!! YIKES!! I gotta get cracking on it!! Where did May go????? And, what have you been working on this month?

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Summer travel and our veterans
Summer is almost here! Many of us will be traveling to many interesting and exciting places, taking in the sites and visiting friends and family! In your travels, please remember that the SCSD will be having a personal hygiene products drive for veterans when school resumes in the fall. We will be collecting trial size soap, shampoo, conditioner, toothpaste and similar types of items for the VA Medical Center in Iowa City. Last year our school collected over 1,000 items and we are hoping to collect even more for them this coming school year. Thanks in advance for remembering our veterans!
Food Service
In an effort to end our fiscal year with all meal accounts current, the Food Service Department is asking that parents and students be aware of the balance of their meal accounts. Please remit payment to Solon Schools Food Service.
Stone Academy open soon
Stone Academy, the country school on Hwy. 1 just north of Solon, will soon be open for visitors. The country school was built in 1842 and served Solon students for 111 years before closing in 1953. It is on the National Register of Historic Places and remains the property of the Solon Community School District. Volunteers have recently made several improvements including fence repair, flower bed repair, new signage, outhouse clean up and brush/tree clean up. The dates and times are as follows:
May 29: 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
May 30: 1-3 p.m.
June 4: 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
June 18: 1-3 p.m.
July 4: 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Come visit an important part of our local and state history! Mark your calendars now! See you there!
Thank You
To all who donated at the "Bleed For Brett" blood drive May 17. We reached our goal of 106 units which will equal a $1,000 scholarship from the American Red Cross to Brett Smith (this included the 40 units from the February blood drive). Thank you to the 65 students, seven school teacher/staff members, and 14 community members who came to the high school to participate in the blood drive.
Because of all of you, you made the goal happen!!
– HS SADD and Octagon
To the Lady Spartan Track Team and their third place finish at the State Meet. The girls placed in 12 events, the most in school history. In doing so, they broke five school records. Record breakers included Lauren Benzing in the 3000 and 800 meter run, Rylee Smith in the 100 hurdles, the shuttle hurdle team of Smith, Caitlin Knoedel, Jennifer Shelman and Courtney Holub, and the distance medley team of Holub, Taylor Van Scoyoc, Karly Kramer and Benzing. Other place winners included: Kelsey Cave in the high jump, Emily Bransky in the long jump, 100, and 200, Lauren Benzing in the 1500, the 4x100 team of Smith, Van Scoyoc, Jessica Brimeyer and Holub, and the 4x200 team of Bransky, Kramer, Van Scoyoc and Holub.


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Submit your application as soon as it's ready! The IRB meets to review applications only once each month during the academic year. These deadlines are the latest dates you can submit an application for each month's meeting. But many proposals don't need review by the full committee—they're processed and approved throughout the month on a rolling basis. In most cases, review takes about two weeks.
The IRB does not meet during the summer.


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Facebook Springs a Leak? Newspaper Reveals How Social Site Monitors Content
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This week's happenings includes the news that Immersion Corp., a leading developer and licensor of touch feedback technology, just signed a license agreement with Shenzhen-based Realtime Technology Co., Ltd.


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Maddah, M., Farahati, M. (2014). The Asymmetric Effects of Tax Revenues on Government Expenditures in Iran.
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Majid Maddah; Mahboobeh Farahati. "The Asymmetric Effects of Tax Revenues on Government Expenditures in Iran".
Iranian Journal of Economic Studies
, 3, 2, 2014, 43-62. doi: 10.22099/ijes.2014.3669
Maddah, M., Farahati, M. (2014). 'The Asymmetric Effects of Tax Revenues on Government Expenditures in Iran',
Iranian Journal of Economic Studies
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Maddah, M., Farahati, M. The Asymmetric Effects of Tax Revenues on Government Expenditures in Iran.
Iranian Journal of Economic Studies
, 2014; 3(2): 43-62. doi: 10.22099/ijes.2014.3669
The Asymmetric Effects of Tax Revenues on Government Expenditures in Iran
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Document Type: Research Paper
Majid Maddah
Mahboobeh Farahati
Department of Economics, SemnanUniversity,Semnan-Iran
Receive Date
08 August 2014
Revise Date
29 April 2015
Accept Date
12 July 2015
The tax-expenditure hypothesis posed by Milton Friedman emphasizes a positive causal relationship between government tax revenues and government expenditures. If citizens do not have a correct perception of the real tax burden and under-estimate the price of public goods and services, there is a negative causal relationship between tax revenues and government expenditures, which indicates existence of fiscal illusion. Using quarterly data. for the period 2001-2012, this paper investigates fiscal illusion in Iran. In order to achieve this goal, two symmetric and asymmetric error correction models, are estimated. According to results from Wald test in symmetric model, there is a negative causal relationship between real tax revenues, and real government expenditures. This result hence, confirms the presence of fiscal illusion in Iranian economy. Moreover, the results obtained from the asymmetric model show that there is merely fiscal illusion in the case of tax revenues reduction and there is no Granger causal relationship for the positive changes of tax revenues. Therefore, by a decline in tax revenues, government expenditures increase after a year due to fiscal illusion. Thus, it seems that in the state of government's budget deficit, raising the taxes is an efficient instrument.
Government Expenditures
Fiscal Illusion
Tax Revenues
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Seasonal Error Correction Model (SECM)
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Friday, 14 March 2014
Review: The Vintage Cosmetics Gracie Lashes
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American Girl is one of my all time favorite brands, with darling dolls and accessories and even outfits for little girls to match their dolls! My daughter had so much fun checking out some of American Girls' latest little girl fashions that allow her to match her doll! This gorgeous Merry Magenta dress comes in a range of sizes for little girls and coordinates perfectly with the matching dress for my daughter's American Girl doll Maryellen. I'm excited to share all the gorgeous details about this American Girl outfit for girls!
I loved American Girl growing up and I was delighted to receive my first doll when I was about 12. I loved picking out clothes and outfits for my doll from the timeless American Girl catalogs and even tried my hand at sewing a few custom American Girl doll outfits. Now as a mom, I feel that American Girl dolls are one of the most classic toys that my girls could own, available in so many styles and representing different eras of time. I love how American Girl dolls give girls a tangible connection to history which inspires their love for learning more. American Girl has changed and grown a lot over the years but the dolls remain the same high quality and gorgeous toys, perfect for collecting or just enjoying little girl imaginative play. My daughters are 2 and 4 years old and I'm so excited that they will enjoy years and years of playing together with their American Girl dolls. Sometimes I feel like I'm living vicariously through my girls because I don't have a sister. I love watching their sweet friendship grow and encouraging them to practice kindness and generosity towards each other.
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The doll's Merry Magenta outfit comes with a sparkly black purse that hangs from a chain and is detailed with more sparkly jewels. A matching magenta headband features more jewels; the perfect touch to bring the outfit together. American Girl also offers a coordinating headband in a size perfect for girls.
The gorgeous Merry Magenta dress for both dolls and little girls feature beautiful details and sparkly accents. The fabric is gorgeous; it is magenta — true to the name — and has a lacy overlay on top of a silky lining. The satin ribbon belt is detailed with sparkly jewels as a perfect decorative accent. The girl's skirt is full and perfect for twirling and the back of the dress closes with a zipper. Both dresses for doll and girl have sweet capped sleeves and are a generous length. My daughter can wear this dress all year long; layered with tights and a sweater in the colder months and as a darling sun dress in warmer weather. It's also a size 6 so it will fit my daughter for several years and it can be passed on to her younger sister. This dress is also perfect to wear with my daughter's See Kai Run black patent shoes accented with silver leaves. See Kai Run offers a huge variety of stylish kids' shoes that easily withstand rigorous play thanks to their high quality details. The detailing and construction of this American Girl dress is also immaculate and feels like the fabric will last a long time. I recommend washing the girl's dress inside a delicates bag and allowing it to air dry, which I usually do for all of our high quality clothing items, to keep them nice for a long time.
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|The Wealth and
Status Connection
The headgear shown below are worn by very important people in their respective societies. These items are of great significance to their owners, and put their wearers into a class of their own. Here we have objects from the people of the New Guinea Highlands, the Yoruba of Nigeria and people of the Northwest Coast. Through looking at the context of display for the headgear in all three cultures, I hope to give the viewer a better understanding of their meaning. Each of these objects has a specific function in its own group.
New Guinea. Wahgi Highlands. Man wearing plumed wig for the Sekata Pig Festival.
20th century. Photograph by Michael OHanlon 1979.
(Picture Source: OHanlon 1993, plate 7 )
The Waghi live in the Eastern highlands of New Guinea. Wahgi men and woman wear elaborately decorated wigs for the pig festival. Before the Waghi display their wigs in public, they first make sacrificial services to bless the wigs and the wig wearer. This hat is made from plumes, which are usually imported and very expensive. You can find many different plumes from exotic birds on this wig. Because of the cost of the wig, we can see that the Wahgi economy was booming during the 1970s thanks to the increasing revenue from coffee
|North America. Northwest Coast. Tlingit. Chief's hat. Wood, copper, brass. H. 44cm. 19-20th century.
(Picture Source, Furst & Furst, cover)
NWC chiefs are very wealthy and wear such hats as representative of their wealth and high status. A Tlinglit crest animal, the frog, surmounts this chief's hat to protect its wearer. The frog is a very powerful image for the Tlinglit people. This particular hat is surmounted by seven basketry rings said to indicate the number of times it had been publicly validated.
|Nigeria, Yoruba,
Ila-Orangun. Beaded Crown. 19th-20th century.
(Picture Source: Drewal, Pemberton, and Abiodun, plate 37)
The Yoruba beaded crown is the most important symbol of Yoruba kingship. The crown is a carefully constructed cone of beads with a fringe that covers the wearer's face. The purpose of the crown is to eliminate the individuals personality and to supplant it with the divine power of the dynasty. The crown itself is the symbol of the king's magic power and his immunity to attack. Its conical shape represents the great amount of power that is given to the right wearer. If a usurper wears the crown, the power of the crown would destroy them. The feathers projecting from the top are from the royal bird known also as the okin bird. The interlace pattern represents leadership. The face on the front is said to be the face of Oduduwa.
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SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — The sales results from the major collector-car auctions that wrapped up here last week included a long list of record prices and strong indications that the recovery of a market battered by the recession was nearly complete.
No one should have been surprised that a 1958 Ferrari 250 GT California Spider sold at RM Auctions for $8.8 million. Or even that the heady prices paid for American collectibles — $3.9 million for a 1967 Chevrolet Corvette coupe with the L88 engine option at Barrett-Jackson — was not stop-the-presses news. (An update with prices for the cars included in "Measures of the Collectible-Car Market" on Jan. 12 can be found at nytimes.com/autos.)
But there were also some head-scratchers, particularly the seven-figure prices realized by a few undeniably shabby cars. A fire-damaged 1967 Ferrari 330 GTS roadster sold for $2.1 million at the Gooding & Company sale, where a tattered 1956 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing brought $1.9 million. Even a rusty, abandoned 1965 Porsche 911, dismissed by onlookers as little more than a parts car, sold for $116,600 at the Bonhams auction.
To purists, it was almost as if the cash-for-clunkers program had come to town, or that mutts had invaded the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show and taken home Best in Show. (In fact, the agility trials added to the Westminster show this year will allow mixed-breed entries.)
"The two cars you mention were two excellent, very special cars, with fascinating histories," David Gooding, whose auction house sold them, said in an telephone interview. The Ferrari and Mercedes, he said, were "ideal candidates for a complete concours-quality restoration."
Such castoffs have become increasingly desirable in recent years; auction catalogs describe them with euphemisms like "barn find" and "unrestored original." The problem is, restoration to a concours level typically costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the finished car might well be worth less than the total outlay.
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What is the appeal, then?
"An unrestored car carries the patina and textures of age, as well as its original colors and materials, not to mention its undisturbed soul," Mr. Gooding said.
To collectors, originality is becoming an ever more prized attribute. "You look at the cracked leather of an old seat and ask, 'Who sat in that seat?' or look at the steering wheel, and think, 'Whose hand was on that very wheel?'" said Peter Mullin, whose collections occupy two museums.
Mr. Mullin owns many unrestored vehicles, including a 1925 Bugatti Brescia that he displays in the horrific condition it was in after spending seven decades submerged in a Swiss lake. His 1948 Delahaye 135 MS was found in a barn; it is displayed in his museum the way it was found.
"Why should I touch this car?" he said. "It's only going to be original once."
The idea of finding value in original vehicles, no matter how dilapidated, is not new, Mr. Mullin said. "It's been a very popular type of vehicle in Europe for a number of years, especially with old racecars, and it seems to be a value component that is gaining in popularity and spreading to America."
Indeed, the annual Pebble Beach Concours d'Élégance on the Monterey Peninsula of California hosts increasingly well-subscribed preservation classes. But would Pebble Beach welcome the type of cars that were auctioned in Arizona?
Kandace Hawkinson, a spokeswoman for the concours, said in an email that collectors were "learning to differentiate items that have been lovingly cared for and those that suffer from neglect."
"I think it's rather interesting that you reference Westminster and dog pedigrees because to a great extent a well-preserved car is a car with its pedigree fully intact," she continued. "The same isn't necessarily true of restored cars, nor is it really true of cars that have been simply neglected and ravaged by time."
McKeel Hagerty, whose company insures classic cars, said in an interview that it would be a judgment call whether a car might be worth more in original condition than it would be fully restored. "But I would have no trouble writing policies on either the Ferrari or the Mercedes for values tied to the prices the new owners paid for them," he said.


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It's been a busy few days on the Energous front, and will likely stay that way with CES coming up, along with watching how their share price will fluctuate and if any more insiders have cashed in. We'll almost certainly see plenty of new information and revelations, which will come in a little at a time, and it's hard to judge if they should just be included as addenda or merit a post in themselves. My last post had a few additions to it since I first published it, and it got to the point where I'm going to regurgitate some of it in a new post. If you read that post really recently, there won't be too much new here for you.
Before I begin though, I just want to remind everyone that this is a system that needs a safety cutoff and an exclusion-zone larger than the operating-zone to charge your phone in about a week, at closer than 1 meter (if at all), if you hold it perfectly in alignment. Sounds amazing, doesn't it?
Energous have, until now, relied on ambiguity and vague promises which could not be argued with due to lack of information, but data is now public due to the FCC filing. This data now gives us the first concrete (though incomplete) numbers to show what those with an understanding of physics and RF have always suspected - there's nothing new or amazing here. Energous are not finding that "one weird trick" that bypasses the laws of physics, or have a Nobel-prize level discovery. The emperor really does have no clothes, but instead has an awesome marketing and PR department.
A summary of what's here:
1) Energous could increase the power delivered, but would then have to increase the size of the keep-out-zone, likely to room-scale for most reasonable charge rates. This is also dependent upon perfect receiver alignment.
2) Charge rates shown in the FCC report look to be for phone-sized objects. Move to wearables and the power delivered will drop, likely significantly.
3) The system has very poor beamforming capabilities and the point of highest power is not often at the target location. It is not a precision system, comforting when it can hurt you...
4) Some people are mistakenly reporting that the system transfers power at ~2.4GHz with a max 400 microWatts. This is the communications part of the system, not for power transfer.
5) The system shown in the FCC filings is vastly inferior in every regard to the promises from January 2015.
More Power!
Energous appear limited in how much power they transmit primarily due to the SAR restrictions, which they are currently at. The FCC data shows they are at 0.966W/kg at 50cm, while the limit is 1.6 W/kg. If we assume a measurement and manufacturing tolerance of 2 dB total (63%) then that takes the 0.966 to 1.58 W/kg - basically they are working at the limit, there's no more headroom here to expand.
What can get them more power at any given location is to extend the "keep-out-zone" further, essentially the distance from the transmitter at which the SAR value is around 0.97 W/kg. Now we are dealing with near-field effects so it's hard to say exactly, but let's for now say that the SAR power value increases linearly with the receiver power value. Let's increase the power at 90 cm from 30 mW to 45 mW - in this case the keep-out-zone moves to 75 cm and your phone still isn't charging. Now double to 60 mW and the zone is at 1 meter - you're standing inside the unsafe perimeter and the system will of course shut off, your charge rate is zero. And your phone wouldn't charge anyway. Now let's raise the power to 500 mW, the bare minimum to charge a phone, and the keep-out zone is now 8.3 meters - larger than the room you're in and probably the room next to it, and the one after that as well.
Depending on beamforming the exclusion zone may increase slower than that, but even under best case assumptions it's still expanding to room-sized danger zones for pretty pathetic charge rates.
No! You're not holding your phone correctly!
Also remember that these numbers in the FCC report are for a receiver in perfect alignment for the transmitter - rotate 90 degrees in two out of three axes and you get nothing. Even rotating in the other axis reduces power by around 20% at 50 cm.
Consider how you stand and hold your phone while using it - likely at around 45 degrees to the floor. You'll probably lose a good 30% of power at least, not including what your hand might absorb instead. Now consider how you place your phone on a table when you're not using it - flat. With that orientation, you're getting close to the "nothing" for power delivery. Actually use your phone, and charge rate will vary considerably but the key thing is this - the numbers you see reported by Energous are as good as it will get, under perfect circumstances.
Low Power for Phones - Ideal for Wearables!
As the initial excitement of the Part 18 approval fades, it's becoming clear to even the most ardent Energous supporter that the power levels here are so low as to be useless for phone charging, even if they increase by near an order of magnitude. What I'm seeing though from the Energous faithful is grasping at "charging wearables" as the killer app for Energous. Unfortunately, that's just not going to happen either.
The receive antenna Energous use is likely a half-wave dipole antenna (think the bars in a TV antenna), and given wavelength at 913 MHz is 33cm, a half wavelength in free space is 16.5 cm (half wave dipole antennas are actually slightly shorter than the free space half wavelength). Given a phone is usually 10 to 14 cm long, the antenna will be close to that, not perfect but some dielectrics around it and it's close enough. Some info on effective antenna area is here.
Now look at your watch - how large is that? What's the size of an antenna you can put in there? It's much smaller, with a reduced size comes reduced power delivery, and at around 1 to 2 cm probably quite a reduction. Maybe they can use a patch antenna and get the size needed down with a high value dielectric? We'll conveniently forget that patch antenna are highly directional, even more than what is seen in the FCC test. In that case the patch impedance gets high, and the power gathered will drop (power is voltage squared divided by impedance). Here's an online tool for calculating patch antenna sizes and impedances - in this case it fits in a wearable, at around 16 by 24 by 2.0 mm, but at 4.5 kOhms will produce about 1.5% of the power of a standard 70 ohm half wave dipole antenna. Oh dear.
Then we have the orientation issue - this thing is on your wrist or body, right? How do you ensure perfect orientation to get the power needed? Good luck there.
AirPods have a 1.5 Wh battery - standard perfectly at the 50 cm danger-zone limit and if you get the maximum 100 mW they'll charge in 15 hours. Except they won't, you'll get a fraction of that, and if you move the system shuts off.
So no, wearables aren't going to cut it for the huge market either.
Where's the Power Going?
When using a phased array to send power with precision, you ideally want a large grid of transmitters spaced half a wavelength apart, many many wavelengths total on each side, and a target far enough to be in the farfield (many wavelengths away). At 913 MHz, Energous have a line of only 12 antenna, spaced 0.2 of a wavelength apart, about 2.5 by 0.2 wavelengths on each side, and a target barely 2 wavelengths away. It's an awful design if you want to try to control where the beam goes, and you can see that in their own beamplots. The star in the image below is where the power is supposed to be beamed - does this image fill you with confidence as to what's getting powered?
This arrangement might have been enough if they could operate at 5.8 GHz and wavelengths were over 6 times smaller - but the FCC killed that, as no doubt the system wrecked any wWiFi in the vicinity.
Bottom line - this thing sends power everywhere and there is no precision about it. IMO it's a brute force attempt to simply get FCC approval under Part 18 and damn the practicality.
The 2.4GHz Band is for Communications, Not Power
I'm seeing quite a few people refer to the 2.4GHz band Part 15 approval that was granted (in addition to the Part 18 approval for 913 MHz) where maximum power of 0.4 mW (400 millionths of a Watt) is stated. This is not for power transfer, this is Energous getting the communications component of the system approved.
They state they use the 2.4GHz band, Bluetooth LE, for the receiver to communicate to the transmitter that at least 30 mW is being received to continue power. It is not the maximum power transferred - as much as Energous send out tiny amounts of power, this isn't the number to be looking at.
Diminished Expectations
Energous launched with the promise of charging multiple devices, at up to 15 feet, at multiple Watts. Here's part of their January 2015 media blitz:
A new wireless power "router" being shown at CES can charge multiple devices in a 15-foot radius.
The two-tone rectangular box you see mounted on the wall up above is a WattUp transmitter from the wireless power people at Energous. WattUp is capable of delivering .25W to 12 devices or 4W to up to four devices (up to five feet away, dropping to 1W at 15 feet) at the same time, and it's smart about how it does it.
Inside the "router" there's a Bluetooth module. It sniffs out compatible devices and helps establish connections to them. Once they're connected, power is beamed out over frequencies in the 5.7-5.8GHz range, but it doesn't just constantly blast devices with RF power packets.
Here is a brief summary of the results of the amount of actual power delivered to a device at varying distances with a single WattUp transmitter. Power received at zero to five feet measured 5.55 watts compared to our targeted performance of 4 watts. Power received at five to 10 feet measured 3.74 watts compared to our targeted performance of 2 watts and power received at 10 to 15 feet measured 1.06 watts compared to our targeted performance of 1 watt.
5.5 Watts compared to around 100 mW (at best)? Only a factor of 55 to 165 off after a further 2 years of work. Talk about diminished expectations. How can the bulls continue to support Energous after such a letdown? I guess it's better to continue to support than admit you were bamboozled by them.
Did they actually get that amount of power transferred? It's possible, you just have to be damn sure the transmitter is in a Faraday cage or you're a looooong way from it when it's switch on. Put those power numbers into the SAR danger-zone distance and you're looking at 10's of meters, and most likely polluting the surrounding spectrum outside the 902 to 928 MHz range in violation of FCC Part 18.305. I hope their staff weren't exposed to that!
Until the next post, take care, and Happy New Year to all.


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It's not a very well hidden fact that I'm a big fan of Stephen King books. On a recent trip business trip, I found myself without something to read. I was also in need of some shaving cream and ended up at a CVS (or something). After finding what I needed, I was browsing the book aisle. In a section that I didn't expect to find an SK book, I found a book that clearly said "Stephen King" on the cover. But it looked like a romance novel cover. Being intrigued, I picked The Colorado Kid up to determine if it was the Stephen King.
Flipping through some of the pages and the reviews section at the beginning, it seemed clear that this book was indeed the Stephen King. It had all the familiar traits I've grown to love: set in New England (Maine, to be specific) and an afterward: signed & dated. Taking it back to my hotel room, I started to read. It, like a lot of King's books, started off slow for me. The book started to get interesting around the time I was heading home. I got distracted from The Colorado Kid in the airport because I found The Cell (a more "classic" Stephen King). But, two days ago I found myself with nothing to read again. I picked up The Colorado Kid and started from the beginning. Almost immediately after I passed where I had stopped before, I was hooked...
We open with two small town newspapermen (Vince & Dave) and their intern (Stephanie McCann) are interviewed by a big time reporter for some Unexplained New England Mysteries for his paper. Vince and Dave give him stories that have been heard over and over again and he ultimately sees that he isn't going to get anything new and leaves Maine. Following the interview, Vince and Dave school their intern.
The two men describe one local unsolved mystery that they didn't see fit for the big city paper: The Colorado Kid:
Two kids find a man sitting by a trash can on the beach... dead. He's got no identification and there are many confusing pieces of evidence clouding the circumstances of his demise. And the more information found about "The Colorado Kid", the more muddled the story gets. It's even learned where he's from, his name and they find his family. But, the timing for him to end up in Maine in time to end up dead would have to be perfect...
It's obvious that the whole story is a lesson for the intern, Steffi, and a test to see if she's worth keeping on after the internship. They're pointing out the difference between sensational journalism and real reporting while trying to see if she "get's it".
As always with Stephen King's books, the characters are very real. You can identify with them immediately. The dialog between the three main characters is genuine and the story they're telling grabs you. You appreciate the way Vince and Dave were able to piece together the evidence to track down "The Colorado Kid's" family and come up with theories on why he was in Maine and how he died.
The story is good, but if you're looking for a conclusion, you've come to the wrong place. As an unsolved mystery, the story of "The Colorado Kid" is just that. Unsolved. While I'm OK with a story that doesn't get wrapped up in a nice little bow, King even references in the afterward that he believes many will not be happy.
For its 178 pages at $5.99, The Colorado Kid is worth the time and an enjoyable story.
But, now that my The Complete Frank Miller Batman has arrived, I'm onto a new book. :)
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Poor Ganta Igarashi. One day he's having ordinary conversations with his friends and a girl he likes in his middle school class when a strange figure Ganta comes to call the Red Man appears outside his classroom window and brutally slaughters everyone except him. Instead, the Red Man plants a red crystal in Ganta's chest and then departs. When he wakes up, Ganta finds himself the prime suspect in his classmates' murders. Despite his protestations of innocence, he is quickly convicted and sentenced to Death Row in Deadman Wonderland, a special for-profit prison/amusement park where convicts must put their lives on the line for the entertainment of audiences. There he meets Shiro, a sexy albino girl who wears a body suit and mittens and behaves in a childlike fashion but nonetheless seems to already know him and merrily clings to him whenever possible. As Ganta adjusts to the curious rules of the Wonderland, he learns four important things: he has an ability called Branch of Sin, which allows him to manipulate his own blood as a weapon; he is not the only one in the prison who has this ability; he and his fellow Deadmen (i.e. those possessing the Branch of Sin) must fight each other in secretive death matches called Carnival of Corpse for a wealthy audience; and the Red Man responsible for all his suffering is somewhere within the more secretive parts of the Wonderland.
Deadman Wonderland is nothing if not a spectacle. It is gory, explicitly violent, frequently over-the-top, and viscerally cruel, to the point that it almost seems to inflict both physical and psychological suffering on its characters with a sadistic glee; one scene where a character has an eyeball systematically plucked out may make even those hardened to intensely graphic content squeamish. Combining those traits with amusement park trappings and a mammoth dose of injustice gives the series a twisted flair which almost elevates it to the level of absurdity. In fact, it is the spiritual successor of titles like Ninja Scroll and Elfen Lied in all ways but one: it does not also glory in nudity, with the fan service primarily limited to Shiro prancing around in her tight-fitting body suit and one female character introduced in episode six showing off some skin. If your tastes run towards the hyperviolent, though, then you will be hard-pressed to find a better-made recent example.
The strength of the series is certainly not in its story or writing, which is, so far, mostly just an excuse to construct a ridiculously improbable prison system (with an equally ridiculous set of rules), fashion flashy, super-powered battles involving weapons made of one's own blood, and be heartlessly mean to Ganta. The anime utterly fails to clarify (as the source material apparently does) that this is all set in a period of reconstruction a decade after a Great Tokyo Earthquake, which is the only way that the existence of an establishment like Wonderland makes any kind of sense, and the first few episodes also fail to reveal one crucial bit of information about Ganta's background which would help viewers make sense of some seeming incongruities that pop up, though perhaps that will be dealt with in later episodes. Certain other logical inconsistencies also pop up, such as how the Chief Guard wouldn't more quickly take note of a pretty albino girl hanging around who is dressed so differently from other prisoners that she would stick out in a crowd of thousands, and the plotting requires certain developments (including Ganta's legal railroading in the first episode and certain developments with Hummingbird in the sixth) to move along with undue alacrity. The general progression of events is mostly predictable, and spoiler-laden opener animation doesn't help.
Ganta is also a difficult character to appreciate at first. Granted, he is totally overwhelmed by what is happening to him – as anyone would reasonably expect would be the case with someone his age stuck in this situation – but his whining and fatalism will remind some unpleasantly of Shinji Ikari and the wait for him to show any backbone is agonizing; no, acting in desperation to throw out his powers to defend himself doesn't count. Not until the end of this run does he finally show some of his own pluck, but it happens in such a satisfyingly dramatic fashion that it may have viewers cheering. Shiro, contrarily, will either quickly win fans over with her seemingly innocent, simple-minded charm or irritate them with their antics, but either way she is an intriguing character because she is loaded with secrets that the series has liberally sprinkled hints about so far but has yet to substantially define. Amongst other important recurring characters, the seemingly psychopathic Assistant Warden Tamaki, who bamboozled Ganta into the Wonderland and runs its day-to-day operations on both levels, is a guy viewers will love to hate, while the big-breasted Chief Guard Makina initially comes off as cold but becomes more sympathetic to viewers as the series shows that she's really just trying to do her job and suffer through having Tamaki (who often leaves her in the dark) as a boss. The scheming kleptomaniac Yo, who sometimes helps Ganta but also has his own agenda, and a sadistic doctor round out the regulars, though episodes 4-6, which introduce other Deadmen and a creepy set of twins, also contribute new characters who look like they might be around for a while.
And notice how often extremely negative words showed up in the previous paragraph? The series accepts a pretty rotten view of humanity, with Ganta as the innocent hero who must try to muddle through it without getting his soul poisoned by it. It's a classic and time-worn set-up, but the execution and thrill level is high enough that it mostly works.
A lot of the credit for that goes to the stunning visual effort that rookie director Koichi Hatsumi and his crew from Manglobe put into the visuals; this one will be hard to beat as the best-looking title of 2011. The appeal of the character designs starts with Shiro, a flawless balance of sexy and cute whose albinism even extends to her eyelashes (a rare detail to see) and who can captivate with her expressions and occasional bursts of comic behavior, but all of the character designs feature wonderful detail and looks varied enough that any of these characters would stand out amongst their peers. Detailed, layered backgrounds and effective variances in color schemes for certain environments support the beautifully-rendered characters, giving the whole a nicely round and textured feel which offers the illusion of depth without depending heavily on obvious CG effects. The gory parts get loving detail, though the most extreme elements are subject to shadowed censoring on Crunchyroll's streaming broadcasts. The animation is also top-rate; there may be series out there with more spectacular action scenes, but the smooth, impressive movements and flashy blood effects in these do well enough and, unlike many of its peers, this one does not skimp on animation in more ordinary scenes.
The musical score also provides a strong, effective complement. Impressive opener "One Reason" by Japanese alternative/emo rock band fade (not to be confused with the Australian band Fade), sets the tone with a heavy rock number sung completely in English and featuring visuals that make a perfect advertisement for the series; the scene where chained-up prisoners trudge along wearing animal mascot heads is inspired. Each episode closes with the less flashy but still good J-pop song "Shiny Shiny." In between the soundtrack liberally but not exclusively uses hard rock and even metal themes to juice up the action but never fails to hit the right sound for the right scene. The series is almost as commendable in this aspect as in the visuals, and that's saying a lot. Japanese voice work, by comparison, is solid but unexceptional.
The biggest concerns at the end of this block are how much the series is going to slide into a "battle of the week" format and whether or not it can put any kind of closure on its story in a mere twelve episodes, as there seems to be plenty more material available to work with than that. All that really matters, though, is that this sharp-looking and sharp-sounding production seems to be chugging along in a highly entertaining fashion and should have no problem keeping those who have been fans so far involved. It is almost inconceivable that it won't get an American DVD release at some point down the road.
Deadman Wonderland is currently available in legal streaming form at Crunchyroll.
Overall (sub) : B
Story : C+
Animation : A
Art : A
Music : A-
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NRV- French Radio for Macs, anyone?
So I've been working on improving my French lately, and I've been trying to find good online radio streaming from somewhere in France-- I'm looking for all news/information/commercials; pretty much anything but music. :P French Info seems to be the best broadcast that I should be looking for, but I can't find a website that will stream it via iTunes; they all want Windows Media, which I can download, but I really don't want that crap on my computer. :P So, does anyone have a good internation music streaming source for French Public Radio of some sort?
I hear you! Windows Media Player is cr@ppy!
Have you checked out the radio stations already linked to iTunes or done a search in the iTunes store (there are a bunch of free podcasts). I couldn't find any internet radio stations that you could just stream using iTunes, but here's a couple links to pages I found with French podcasts (I haven't personally tried them out):
http://www.oculture.com/weblog/2006/10/itunes_learn_fo.html (scroll down to French, most of the links are for grammar, but there is also a nightly news podcast for non-native speakers)
I'm totally going to check these out for myself. My French is pretty good, but my Spanish could use some serious help!
I live in Spain and had no trouble buying the ABGroupe satellite card for my box, from France. It's very inexpensive and you get a lot of channels. You might Google the name AB Groupe and see if they are on the Net, I think a lot of the channels in the "bouquet" actually are.
I tried listening to a few of the iTunes music channels too, and yah... do they actually play French songs?! 'Cause I sure didn't hear any! ::)
Yahoo music plays French stuff, but maybe that's just here in Europe, try yahoo.co.uk and see.
Yabbitgirl - Thanks or the link... unfortunately it won't play using OS X and it requires Netscape and Real Media Player which I don't have. ::) That's ok, I get plenty of exposure to new music through a couple awesome LJ music rotations. Yay international music!!
Prettyin_Punk - Other than listening to music and listening to (or watching!) the news, I'd recommend watching movies (with subtitles in French) and reading books. The reading is really challenging at first, but it helps a lot with learning new vocab. The best thing to do if possible is to join some sort of French group where you can actually practice with native speakers, but I don't know what kind of French community you have in your area. The French Alliance organises classes and cultural events all over so you could check out their website and see if there's anything near you: http://www.afusa.org/chap/pennsylvania.html
You can download Real Media Player for free on several websites, and it works pretty well.
I feel sorry for y'all who live in the States and don't have the alternate languages on DVDs. Maybe if you got some French films? Like say Amelie, The Camel Who Cried, The Choristers (not sure of the Eng title there, Les Choristes)
and my latest purchase, called in English A Common Thread. Visually beautiful and there's a lot more there than appears at first viewing.
You can download Real Media Player for free on several websites, and it works pretty well.
I feel sorry for y'all who live in the States and don't have the alternate languages on DVDs. Maybe if you got some French films? Like say Amelie, The Camel Who Cried, The Choristers (not sure of the Eng title there, Les Choristes)
and my latest purchase, called in English A Common Thread. Visually beautiful and there's a lot more there than appears at first viewing.
I second the movie Amelie (even if you're not watching it to learn French!). Yabbit, the other three movies you mention--you've just given me stuff to add the my Flixtster queue. ;) For those into classics, Rififi (possibly the first movie about a heist) and The Samurai (thriller/film noir) are cool.
I took four years of French in high school, and I barely remember how to say "hello." I should brush up, too.
Edit: Flixtster?!? I meant Netflix. This is the kind of weird-ass typo that happens when you've had serious insomnia on and off for three weeks!
I actually watch more French TV than any other kind, I have a lot of films recorded from TV.
Another film I can't recommend enough but I don't know if it made it over there is "Un Monde Presque Paisible" (Eng title Almost Peaceful). And "Lulu, Roi de France". Never, ever try to explain a good French comedy--like a novel by Isabel Allende, they make sense at the time, but lose a lot in explanation!
ShaolinBunny - Isn't The Camel Who Cried in Mongolian? I haven't seen it yet, but it's going on my (ever growing!) list.
Some of my fav French movies :
- Banlieue 13 (the plot isn't that original, but it's worth watching for the parkour)
- Joyeux Noel
- Amélie
- L'Auberge Espanol
- Les Poupées Russes (sequel to l'Auberge Espangol)
- Huit Femmes
- Bon Cop Bad Cop (this is a Canadian comedy/action movie that came out last year, half in English, half in French)
- Les Aimants
- Le Secret de ma Mère
- Les Choristes
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ShaolinBunny - Isn't The Camel Who Cried in Mongolian? I haven't seen it yet, but it's going on my (ever growing!) list.
I'll hand that question over to Yabbit (I haven't actually seen it--though I plan to!).
After reading this thread, my movie list is growing rapidly, too!
I've seen it on DVD only--offers Spanish (natch since I'm here), French and Mongolian. So the original may be Mongolian dubbed into French. Hadn't thought of that.
The French title of "A Common Thread" is Les Brodeuses.
A friend of mine from Grenoble highly recommends Etre et Avoir, which I haven't seen yet either.
Oops. Sorry, I asked the wrong bunny! Maybe I should give up on the foreign languages and focus on the reading thing! I just checked on imdb and it looks like "The Camel Who Cried" was originally in Mongolian. I only ask 'cause dubbing drives me nuts!
I thought of another good (as long as you don't mind nudity!) French movie: "Gazon Maudit"
I thought of another good (as long as you don't mind nudity!) French movie: "Gazon Maudit"
Giggling--those who mind nudity do not watch French cinema! And French people who mind it do not become actors--Juliette Binoche's first screen test consisted of walking around a set, nude, combing her hair and reciting poetry! I guess one could say that they have a very healthy attitude to the body, summed up, as Mlle Binoche says she was told, by "We're all naked under our clothes!" It appears in the most unlikely scripts and noone thinks anything about it.
I only ask 'cause dubbing drives me nuts!
I'm totally with you, volacious, on the dubbing. Dubbing is pretty annoying (and funny sometimes, in a bad way). I'd much rather watch a foreign movie and listen to the natural intonations of the actors' voices (I find it insightful), even if I can't translate what they are saying (subtitles work for me). I won't watch a movie if it is dubbed. The worst are decent movies that are aired on TV where the bad words are dubbed with what are considered more innocuous ones. So pointless and annoying. But that's just me. I don't think of words as being bad or good. The FCC can go...*BLEEP!*...themselves! ;D
Nudity doesn't bother me if it makes sense in the story. It can actually be very beautiful. I must admit, though, I do get tired of gratuitous scenes in American cinema.
I won't watch dubbed movies either. The only exception is the most recent version of the Phantom of the Opera which I saw in French because (silly me) I'd forgotten to check beforehand if it was dubbed or subtitled. I just assumed that a musical movie wouldn't be dubbed! Doh! Anywho... I've seen the movie in English since then, and the French singers were (in my ever-so-humble-opinion) better than the English ones so I'd totally watch it in French if I had the choice!
What I like about the nudity in French films is that it's more natural instead of always sexual. I mean hell I walk around my house naked sometimes and it's not about sex, why shouldn't people in a movie be able to do the same?! It bothers me that we seem so shy or ashamed of our bodies, after all half the population has the same bits as I do and I'm sure that the other half has seen them before!


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Mood: Chiiiillll
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