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by Bill Meyer August 5, 1993 August 20, 2021
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For years, in a self-promoting form of cultural exchange, the New Zealand government has paid the way for the nation's athletes to show their stuff on the world's playing fields. This year the country is getting in on the groundswell of interest in kiwi music as well, by partially funding the Noisyland vs. North America tour, which features three of New Zealand's better known guitar bands. Headliners Straitjacket Fits are genuine stars in their homeland; little girls swooned when lead singer-guitarist Shayne Carter took his shirt off in the band's "Done" video. But his sights are set higher than stoking teen libidos; gripping covers of songs by Leonard Cohen ("So Long Marianne") and the Sex Pistols ("Satellite") give a clearer picture of the band's chosen turf. Until now, Straitjacket Fits has been primarily a live act; the quartet's mixture of indelible melodies, lush vocal harmonies, and harsh guitar aggression has always gotten bogged down on record by misguided production. But they remedied that problem on Blow, their latest and best CD, by recording it live in the studio. Blow's songs are Straitjacket Fits' leanest and toughest since the band's NZ-only debut EP Life in One Chord, so the band should have ample fodder to work its incendiary live magic. Also appearing are the Bats, whose lyrically melancholy songs acquire a sharp bite in concert, and the Jean Paul Sartre Experience, a spacy pop band making its Chicago debut. Friday, 10 PM, Lounge Ax, 2438 N. Lincoln; 525-6620.
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): photo/Lisa Johnson.
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Lamar Robertson and Ann Eisen have a different version in their book An American Methodology. This version I learned from Sue Leithold-Bowcock.
Action: as the song is sung, the students pass a sea shell around the circle. Whoever has the seashell on the final "do" of the song ("sing about the sea") holds onto the sea shell. All players ask that player "What do you see?" The student sings the answer "I see a whale," but they improvise something they would see at the sea or ocean for the word whale.
Four little seashells, pretty as can be.
Swish went the ways and then there were three.
Three little seashells, all pearly and new.
Swish went the waves and then there were two.
Two little seashells, lying in the sun.
Swish went the waves and then there was one.
One little seashell, lying all alone.
I whispered "shh!" and I took it home.
Some extensions include using scarves to act as the ocean waves on "swish!" and/or an ocean drum or rain stick to sound like the ocean waves.


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Home Disease Bacteria And Man (How It Is Affecting Crop And Plants)
Bacteria And Man (How It Is Affecting Crop And Plants)
Bacteria are very small organisms consisting of single cells, rarely more than 0-01 mm in length and visible only under the higher powers of the microscope. Unlike plant cells they do not have cellulose walls or chloroplasts. Their cell walls are of proteinaceous and fatty substances, and the single chromosome is not enclosed in a nuclear membrane. Granules of glycogen, fat and other food reserves may be present. Bacteria reproduce rapidly by cell division, as often as once in 20 minutes, and may form chains of individuals, clumps or films over the surface of static water. The individuals may be spherical, rod-shaped, or spira! and some have filaments protruding from them called flagella, the lashing action of which moves the bacterium about. Some bacteria need Oxygen to respire while others can respire anaerobically, that is, obtain their energy by breaking down compounds without using oxygen.
Spores. Some bacteria can form spores, a resting stage in which the protoplasm is concentrated in one part of the cell, and surrounded by a thick wall. Bacterial spores are very widespread, being easily distributed by air currents, and occur on the surface of most objects, in soil, in dust and in the air.
These spores are very resistant to extremes of temperature, and some can withstand the temperature of boiling water for long periods. Most normal bacteria can, however, be killed by temperatures above 50° C although they can live at very low temperatures. In favourable conditions, the spores break open and the bacteria reproduce and grow in the normal way.
Fungi, Rhizopus, Parasitic fungi, Antibiotics,Yeast,Yeast as food
Viruses are disease-producing agents far smaller than bacteria; they seem to consist of nuclear chemicals enclosed in a protein coat. They can pass through filters which trap bacteria and they can be crystallized. They can live and reproduce only in living animals or plants and cannot be cultured except in living far smaller living tissues. In the right environment they can multiply rapidly, and in man cause diseases such as poliomyelitis, influenza and the common cold. They can be transmitted in ways similar to those described for bacteria.
Poliomyelitis is an intestinal disease and can be transmitted in food and water like cholera. Influenza and the common cold are transmitted by droplet infection; smallpox is spread by contagion; yellow fever is carried by mosquitoes.
The part played in nature by bacteria
Most bacteria live freely in the soil, in water and in decaying organic matter where they obtain their food saprophytically, bringing about the decay of dead material. Enzymes made in the bacterial cells are secreted into the food, dissolving it to form soluble organic compounds such as amino acids which can be absorbed through the cell wall. Some bacteria obtain their energy by converting these organic compounds to inorganic substances, such as ammonia, which can then be absorbed by different bacteria and oxidized further to nitrates, releasing energy for their metabolism.
Thus the dead remains of plants and animals are converted once more to simpler substances which can be taken in by plants and used to synthesize food. In this way the resources of the Earth are re-cycled and made available for re-use by living organisms.
The activities of decay bacteria are harnessed in the sewage Works. Anaerobic bacteria (see below) act on the organic solids in the settling tanks and release soluble organic compounds from them. By spraying this liquid from the tanks over filter beds or by agitating it with paddles, it is oxygenated sufficiently for aerobic bacteria to flourish and convert the soluble organic compounds to inorganic salts such as nitrates and phosphates which are released with the effluent into rivers. Any industrial wastes which harm the bacteria in the sewage plant severely interfere with the effective treatment of sewage. Similarly, substances which cannot be used as a source of food by the bacteria will pass unchanged through the sewage works and contaminate the effluent. Hence the urgent need to use, for example, bio-degradable detergents which can be metabolized by the bacteria.
Some types of bacteria live in the alimentary canals of animals. A few of these cause diseases such as cholera and typhoid but the majority are harmless or even beneficial. For example, in the intestine of man there are bacteria which appear to play a part in the synthesis of vitamin K and the vitamins of the B, complex. In the alimentary canals of many herbivorous animals there is a dense population of bacteria which play a part in digestion. Few animals can produce an enzyme which digests cellulose, yet many herbivores feed exclusively on vegetation, the most nourishing part of which is enclosed in cellulose cell walls. These walls are broken open partly by efficient chewing and partly by the enzymes of the bacteria and single-celled animals in the gut; in the caecum and appendix of the rabbit, for example, and the rumen (or paunch) of cows and sheep.
PREVENTION OF CROP PESTS & CONTROL MEASURES
Certain bacteria are able to produce food by photosynthesis and some of these can use H,S (hydrogen sulphide) instead of H,O as a source of hydrogen atoms.
Anaerobic bacteria can live in situations where no free oxygen is present. They obtain their energy either by processes similar to fermentation or by using inorganic chemicals. The denitrifying bacteria in the soil can use the oxygen from the nitrate (-NO,) present in the soil to oxidize carbohydrates.
Aerobic bacteria are those which normally use free oxygen for their respiration.
Parasitic bacteria live in or on living animals or plants and are often harmful to the organism.
Harmful bacteria. Some bacteria which live parasitically in plants and animals do a great deal of harm on account of the damage to tissues and highly poisonous proteins, toxins, that they produce, e.g. diphtheria and tetanus. For example, five millionths of a gram of dried tetanus toxin will kill a mouse and 0-00023g is fatal for a man. Certain bacteria are the causes o major diseases such as typhoid, Cholera, plague and tuber culosis. 1he diseases are caught as a result or the bacteria being passed directly or indirectly from one person to another.
Bacteria can reproduce so rapidly, a Single bacterium may oi nise to a million oflspring in a few hours.
For a person to catch a bacterial disease, bacteria must e the body either through the natural openings such as t mouth, nose or vagina, or through the skin via a wound caused by accident or by a blood-sucking insect. The body has natural defences to bacteria but if a sufficient number oof bacteria penetrate these defences and multiply in the body, they may become numerous enough to cause the symptoms of a disease.
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By Jennifer Paterson	 31st August 2010 10:33 am 3rd November 2015 6:07 pm
Directors of Aim-listed organisations received pay rises averaging 6.1% in the last financial year, and have reached an average of £168,8601.
The Executive Compensation Review 354 by Incomes Data Services (IDS), shows the average basic salary of Aim chief executive officers (CEO) has broken through the £200,000 per annum ceiling for the first time to reach £203,191, which with the addition of bonuses and other incentives was boosted to total earnings of £288,917.
According to IDS' data, the increase in base pay for Aim directors has more than made up for a 7% decline in bonus payments that AIM directors suffered over the last year.
Average bonus payments for Aim directors fell from £53,341 in 2009 to £49,590, although the decrease in bonus payments may be due to those Aim companies' failure to hit the necessary performance targets such as earnings per share or overall profits.
Steve Tatton, the editor of the report, said: "It seems tough economic conditions, lower profits and low wage inflation among the broader workforce has not stopped Aim CEOs' pay reaching this milestone.
"Given the recessionary times, lower bonuses may seem to be an endorsement of the pay-for-performance culture that has dominated boardroom compensation strategy for more than two decades, but given the depth of the downturn it is not evident if the equation holds that any payments at all should be awarded under current circumstances.
"Shareholders could feel directors will not be properly incentivised to perform if what they lose at the swings is made up for them at the roundabout by the remuneration committee.
"With shareholders looking over their shoulders, smaller company remuneration committees need to ensure they draw the right balance between all the various components that go to make up boardroom remuneration."
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More Qualcomm silicon is headed our way and it's said to kick off with the Snapdragon 835 early next year. We hear it's going to take the MSM8998 part name and it will utilize Samsung's 10nm FinFET process. What we don't know is anything else.
But we have a neat chart out of Weibo that supposedly shows us what the Snapdragon 835 has and where it goes. There's also a Snapdragon 660 at the head as well.
Apparently, the Snapdragon 835 will be specced out as an octa-core chip in an improved Kryo 200 architecture — the original Kryo architecture debuted with the Snapdragon 820. The Adreno 540 GPU and an X16 LTE modem is packed in along with support for up to four LPDDR4X RAM disks and UFS 2.1 storage. The Samsung Galaxy S8 will be the prime device for this chip, set to launch in the first quarter.
The mid-range Snapdragon 660 seems to be a fresh start for the line as it will get hold of eight chips in the original Kryo foundation — four running at 2.2GHz tops, the others at 1.9GHz — tagged with an Adreno 512 GPU and an X10 LTE modem. Samsung will provide a 14nm LPP process for the chip. The 660 can support two LPDDR4X disks and UFS 2.1 storage. OPPO and vivo will supposedly debut the chip in one of their devices starting in the second quarter.
In a separate post, the same source that was able to obtain the blueprints is also talking about a Snapdragon 830 — a name we'd thought Qualcomm wanted to skip over. Rather than that, the chipset could be offered starting next third or fourth quarter to force mid-range devices closer to the top tier in performance.
The same Samsung 10nm FinFET found on the 835 will be on the 830 along with either an eight- or six-core Kyro 200 processing unit, an Adreno 519 GPU and an X12 LTE modem. Nothing is locked down here, though, as we are at least seven months or so from launch of this chipset.
It is now said that production of many of this year's major chipsets, including the Snapdragon 821, 820, 625, has slowed or stopped altogether to prepare for reconfiguration with the newer product roadmap closing in on us. TSMC and Samsung will need all the time they can get as both continue to work on their respective 10nm designs.


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Hometown: Stockholm/Uppsala, Sweden	Current Label: Century Media	Websites: Official Website
Band Members: Erik Danielsson - Vocals
Pelle Forsberg - Guitar
Håkan Jonsson - Drums
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Watain was formed in 1998 and have since then released three fullength albums; "Rabid Death's Curse" in 2000, "Casus Luciferi" in 2003 and in february 2007; the highly acclaimed "Sworn to the Dark".
The band has embarked on several tours across the world, together with bands such as Dissection, Angelcorpse and Celtic Frost. This together with their extensive list of exclusive gigs and festival-appearances has resulted in Watain becoming globally infamous and highly acclaimed for their blood-drenched, fiery performances, being ceremonies of radiant madness and the blackest metal fanaticism.
After the release of "Sworn to the Dark" in early 2007, Watain went out on their giant Fuck the World Tour reaching through Europe, North America, South America and Mexico. The last 111th date was held as a commemoration of the bands 10 year anniversary, in Uppsala, Sweden.
The world now holds its breath as it has been announced that Watain shall release their long-awaited fourth fullength album "LAWLESS DARKNESS" on June 7th 2010.
Watain performs Black Metal in it's original form; dangerous, passionate, sinister and magical. Drenched in blood, swept in mystery, shunning no sacrifice. You have been warned.
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Q: When to focus first element in ItemsControl after data-binding in WPF I have an ItemsControl control which is data-bound to a list. In the ItemsControl is a DataTemplate which displays all data-bound items as buttons.
Now I want the first button to receive focus.
When do set the focus? Doing this in the ContentRendered and DataContextChanged events don't work the controls don't seem to be rendered at that point.
Bonus question: what's the best way to look up such a button on my window?

A: I'm guessing the DataContextChanged event doesn't work because the DataContext actually changes before the ObservableCollection you are binding to has any content.
I haven't had a chance to test it, but just a thought, perhaps you could try setting the focus in the TargetUpdated event handler on your binding to your ItemsSource.
The only issue with this is that if the collection continues to update then the focus will continually return to the first button, but this is something you can handle with a simple flag.


Armando is very professional. He thoroughly described what he was going to do to fix our leather sofa and chair. One day he disassembled the furniture to get the specific leather pieces that needed to be fixed in his shop. He returned 2 days later and put everything back together and made sure we were happy with his work. It's beautiful!
What's the "Secret Weapon" Savvy Homeowners and Leading Furniture Retailers like Roche Bobois and Scott Cooner use to have their Leather Furniture Fully Upholstered, Repaired, and Restored to Brand New?
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You see, Armando Jaime has a unique background in leather repair. In 1979, more than 30 years ago, he started learning how to upholster furniture.
What does this mean for you? While Armando is highly skilled in leather repair, he also knows how to correct structural problems. So if you have a leather sofa or chair with years of sun damage, scratches from pets, and even if the frame has been busted from your children's roughhousing, he can take it and make it just like new again.
If you search around for other leather repair companies/professionals, you'll find they don't do everything. If the comfort of the couch is ruined and the leather is damaged, they'll only repair the leather, and you'll have to find someone else to repair the comfort of the couch.
Oh, and then there's the issue of quality workmanship… you have to be careful of that too. Make sure you ask each professional for before and after photos of their work. And if you check out Armando's photos, you'll notice couches and chairs with decades of damage.
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Business isn't only about what you can do, it's also about how you treat your customers. Well, Armando has been in the leather furniture repair and restoration business in the Dallas-Fort Worth area for more than three decades. You have to be treating customers well to stay in business in one local area for that much time.
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Welcome to my translation website. My name is Linda and I am a British national who has been living in Germany since 2002. I studied German and Italian at University, spending time in both countries as part of the course. My family has Italian roots, hence the Italian surname, and since being in Germany, I have maintained my knowledge of Italian with regular studies and am certified at level C1 according to the Common European Framework for both German and Italian.
I have more than 13 years' experience in the language services industry and specialise in legal translation, in particular, contract law, family law, real estate and procurement law. I know how difficult it can be to conduct personal and business matters in another country and another language and I can provide you with valuable assistance in translating documents such as contracts, correspondence and invoices into English, whether it be for dealing with local authorities, renting/purchasing property or for documents relating to marriage and divorce. I also specialise in HR matters for your recruitment or development needs and procurement law for bids and tenders in general.
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If you are planning on visiting our four most popular US National Parks, make sure you get the information you need before you go so that you don't run into problems.
All 58 of our national parks of have been chosen either for their beauty, unusual geology and ecosystems or the opportunities they offer for recreation. Unless you have a great deal of time and money, it will be impossible to visit all of them on one trip because they are spread all over the United States.
Since most people will want to visit at least one of the four most popular parks, you want to make sure there will be campsites available for you when you go, that you understand seasonal pricing and know the rules of each park.
This article will provide you with the basics and also give you links that will lead you to more detailed information.
This article is written specifically for RV travelers who are looking for basic travel information about the four most popular US National Parks.
Although these parks all belong to the same system, they differ significantly in type, amenities and pricing. Also, availability and fees can change in certain parks from one season and year to the next, so any information you read here may or may not be accurate in the future. What you read here is only meant to be a basic informational guide.
In this article, I will be sharing the 2014 high season prices, which will increase as time goes on. Fortunately, they do not rise a great deal from one year to the next, and some years may not rise at all. The prices I will be quoting are for one RV and one vehicle.
I will provide links in each section so that readers who want further information can access it directly from this post. I also will be listing the parks from the most visited to the least visited as per 2013 figures, which were the latest ones I was able to find for my purposes here.
The Great Smokey Mountains National Park, which is located both in Tennessee and North Carolina, had more than nine million visitors in 2013. It offers abundant wildlife and forested campsites and does not charge an entrance fee.
Its 10 campgrounds charge visitors between $14 and $23 per night. Each has restrooms with cold running water and toilets, but there are no showers or electric hookups. There are five dump stations in the park.
Size limits run from 12' to 40', and only two campgrounds are open all year. Some require advance reservations, but others are come first serve. Here is the park's website. The information there will provide you with camping availability dates.
This clearly is a park that encourages dry camping, so make sure before you go that your black and gray water tanks are empty and your fresh water tank is full.
The Grand Canyon National Park which is located in Arizona hosted more than four and a half million visitors in 2013. You must purchase a 7 day Entrance Pass for $25, but it is good for both the North and South Rims. There are several holidays during the year during which the park allows free entry.
The North Rim Campground has no hookups, but does have a dump station. You can camp there in an RV. The cost runs from $18 to $25 per night, but since tents can camp there also, the higher price is likely for RVs. There is no winter car or vehicle camping at this campground.
The South Rim Campground has no hookups and costs $18 per night. It has a 30 foot length maximum for RVs and camping trailers and is open all year. It offers a free shuttle bus to the Visitor Center, restaurants and other venues.
Trailer Village, which is within the park and is operated by a concessionaire, has full hookups but its length limit is 30 feet. The phone number is available on the link I am providing, but no prices were advertised. This is undoubtedly because camping there is expensive. Phone numbers and further information is available to you by clicking here.
My best advice for visiting this park is to camp at the Canyon Gateway RV Park in Williams, AZ and drive in to visit the Grand Canyon National Park from there. This will assure your comfort because of the full hookups and nice little town there, and will save on gas because you will be driving your car, and not your RV when you go. Also, if you belong to Passport America, you can stay there for $20!
The Grand Canyon is beautiful, but unless you want to spend several days there, you are better off to view it during a day trip from Williams. Pack a lunch and some snacks so that you can eat when you like and avoid the high restaurant costs.
Yosemite National Park, which is located in Central California, hosted more than three and a half million visitors in 2013.
It is beautiful , but it is so small and so crowded that finding a spot where you can pull your RV over to have lunch is almost impossible.
The entrance fee for the required 7 day pass is $20. They are waived on six different holidays. Campsites cost between $10 to $20, and the ones that allow RVs have length limits that go from 24' to 35'.
None of the sites have hookups, but a few of the campgrounds have dump stations. Some are open all year, but most have seasonal camping dates. Although not all of them require reservations, if you really want to stay in this park you should reserve, and do so as soon as you have your plans in place. This can be done via Recreation.Gov.
A better plan is to camp in one of the towns close to the park and then drive your car there for day visits. You will see more and have an easier time of parking.
Pack a lunch and some snacks to make your day less hectic. For more specific camping information see this page.
Yellowstone National Park which is located in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho hosted more than three million visitors in 2013. A 7 day Entrance Pass costs $25 but can be used for both Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks.
The park houses 5 concessionaire run campgrounds that require reservations and 7 National Park Service parks that are first come first serve. Campsites cost between $15 and $47.75 and the only one with full hookups is located at Fishing Bridge. This campground does not allow soft sided camping vehicles due to issues that have occurred with bear attacks in the past.
Five have dump stations, but the others have no hookups whatsoever. Only one is open all year, and all have length limits.
You can access all of the detailed information about Yellowstone at YellowstoneNationalPark.com.
Please note that to camp on a first come first serve basis you must arrive at the gates as early in the day as possible because spots fill up quickly. Also, know that even in the summer months it can get very cold in Yellowstone, so pack appropriate clothing.
There is some private, full hookup campsite camping outside of the park, but it is smart to reserve ahead for those as well.
Fishing licenses are not included in the fees, and since the park crosses three states, you may need three, and each is expensive.
Because these four parks are located in different areas of the country, it is likely that most RV travelers will not get to see all of them during one trip unless they are willing to drive great distances to do so.
Each is beautiful and unique in its own way, and all are well worth visiting. The ones I show here are not the only National Park Service Parks, but they are the most popular.
Camping in them can be costly and inconvenient due to the low level of facilities many offer, but if you want to see them, that is the price you have to pay.
Senior citizens and the disabled with special passes get a better deal because they pay no entry fee and only pay half price for camping, but they still have to tolerate the inconvenience that camping without electricity can create.
You now know the most important RV travel information about visiting the four most popular US National Parks. Hopefully this will help you to enjoy these wonderful treasures.
Which of the Four National Parks Discussed Here Have You Visited?
We are new 5th wheel owners. Do you have any hints of things to buy or any general tips?
Make sure your tow vehicle is weight rated properly for hauling your RV. Pay close attention to height when driving through forested areas so that you don't damage your roof. Make sure you park on the level so that your slide rooms work. Don't over load and make sure your loads are balanced properly. I have an entire slew of articles that you can read that are loaded with other info. Take the time to read some of them at https://hubpages.com/@timetraveler2.
explorerpaulm: Thank you so much. Glad you liked it.
Gods Provision What a great thing you have done for your children and your family! Glad to hear about it!
We just came back from taking our 7 children on a 2 week tent camping/road trip to the Grand Canyon and Mesa Verde. They loved it, and so did we. I love to travel, and see our nation in its natural form.
DDE Thanks. Check out the video if you have time. It is absolutely wonderful!
Nell Rose: What is even more interesting is that those parks are supported by tax dollars. Also, every year RV travelers work there as volunteers for no pay. You would think they would not need the income, but apparently they do. Nice to see you , Nell.
Great places and the photos are so beautiful.
Hi Billy: I've had one for years but it is a disabled pass. I paid nothing for it and it has saved us a fortune when visiting those parks. I hope you get to enjoy yours whenever you start RVing! So nice to see you again.
I've got a senior pass card good for life for all national parks...one of the best purchases I ever made. :) Happy Trails to you!


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The morphological evolution of galaxies over cosmic time
This project addresses the fundamental question of how galaxies formed in the early Universe, and took on their present-day structures. We are obtaining unprecedented high-angular-resolution images of galaxies in clusters over the crucial redshift interval, 1<z<2, when the morphological structures of galaxies were being defined. We are useing the revolutionary new wide-field adaptive-optics system on the 8m-diameter Gemini South telescope in Guaranteed Time awarded to our Australian team for building the GSAOI camera. These will be the highest resolution near-infrared images of galaxy clusters. They are essential to trace the bulk of the stellar mass at the same angular resolution as the Hubble Space Telescope traces recent star formation.
Foster, C, Hopkins, A M, Gunawardhana, M, et al., 2012, 'Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the mass-metallicity relationship' Astronomy & Astrophysics, 547, A79
Li, I H, Yee, H K C, Blake, C, et al., 2012, 'The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: Galaxy Evolution at 0.25 , The Astrophysical Journal, 747, 91L
Mao, M Y, Sharp, R, Norris, R P, et al., 2012, 'The Australia Telescope Large Area Survey: spectroscopic catalogue and radio luminosity functions', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Sociaty, 426, 3334-3348
van Kampen, E., Smith, D J B, Maddox, S, et al., 2012, 'Herschel-ATLAS/GAMA: spatial clustering of low-redshift submm galaxies', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 426, 3455-3463
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The Giant Magellan Telescope Integral Field Spectrograph - Our group is designing instrumentation to be deployed at first-light on the next generation of Extremenly Large Telescopes (ELTs). Schedualed to begin opperations towards the end of the decade, the GMT will be one of the worlds largets telescopes.


The contest is open to students under the age of 19 as of Oct. 1, 2018. Contest registration is slated for 5 p.m., Monday, March 18, at the Georgetown library, with competition and award presentation to follow.
Interested youth will prepare a 4- to 5-minute speech on the assigned topic. Student speeches will be judged on content and presentation, using guidelines found on the application, to determine the top winners.
For more information, application and guidelines, students may visit their school guidance counselors or go to www.optimist.org.
The registration deadline for all applications is Thursday, Feb. 28. Applications may be given to the school representatives or emailed to Sussexoptimist@gmail.com.
The club will also sponsor a public speaking workshop presented by Richard Kaplan at 10 a.m., Saturday, March 2, at the Georgetown library. Kaplan is a former chemist who opened his business Kap Communications to share skills in public speaking. To register for this workshop, students should email Sussexoptimist@gmail.com.
Contest winners at the club level will receive medallions and monetary awards, and the winning speech will be sent to the Zone level from which winners can possibly advance to the District and Regional levels for the opportunity to win college scholarships.
The Optimist Club of Sussex County members are very excited to participate in the Optimist Oratorical Contest for the first time in 2019. The club has been active in the community since 2017.
For more information, go to www.optimist.org.


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/ Portrait - NPG D45539; Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balf...
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour ('Men of the Day. No. 1214. "Dialectics."')
by 'XIT'
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 27 January 1910
14 1/8 in. x 9 1/2 in. (359 mm x 242 mm) paper size
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour (1848-1930), Prime Minister and philosopher. Sitter in 139 portraits.
'XIT' (active 1910), Artist and cartoonist in Vanity Fair. Artist of 4 portraits.
Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (51 Tavistock Street, London)
Vanity Fair cartoons: chromolithographs by various artists 1869-1914
Eyeglasses and spectacles
Vanity Fair - Ireland
Vanity Fair - Tariff reform (versus free trade)
Vanity Fair 1910-1914
George V succeeds Edward VII to the throne.
The Liberals win narrow victories after calling two General Elections following escalating tension between the Liberal administration and the Lords reached crisis point with the Lords' unprecedented rejection of Lloyd George's 1909 budget. The budget included tax reform intended to fund social reform and a rearmament programme, but was seen by the Conservative Lords as an assault on property.
The critic and Bloomsbury group member Roger Fry curates a ground-breaking and, at the time, shocking exhibition in London's Grafton Galleries, Manet and the Post-Impressionists. The exhibition introduces the work of contemporary European artists to the London art establishment, including Manet, Cezanne, Gaugin and Van Gogh, and Fry became a champion of modern art, coining the term 'Post-Impressionism'.
Japan annexes Korea as a colony, an indication of Japan's ambitious imperialist aims and attempts to control trade and influence in East Asia. Japanese occupation of Korea lasted until 1945, after Japan surrendered to the Allied forces at the end of the Second World War and Korea was divided in two by the United States and the Soviet Union.
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I plead for your forgiveness.
Don't blame it on him, but on me.
I shouldn't have poked my nose into this.
I apologize for that, sir.
Oh, I'm very/so sorry, sir.
Now, I offer an apology to you for my absence.
I'm here to apologize to you for everything I've accidentally done to you.
I hope you all accept my apology and give me a chance.
I'm sorry to have caused you so much inconvenience.


Happy Friday! Today we are helping Danny's girlfriend move into Cornell University, so it will be a long and busy day – but fun to get to help and watch someone starting a new chapter in her life. It also means I won't be reading any blogs, commenting or anything else … another weekend getting behind on my reading – it does get stressful (#fomo)!
Emergency room doctors confirmed Brenda's suspicion. In a statement to reporters, a hospital spokeswoman said that doctors had concluded Mr. Meyers' injuries were due to "sudden catastrophic foot failure." In layman's terms: Mr. Meyers' right foot simply could not operate in a sock designed for a left foot, and vice versa. Faced with such a physiological disconnect, the statement said, the feet essentially "short circuit" and then shut down.
Why Haven't You Had Kids Yet?
Remember how I talked about 'stuff people with kids need to stop saying …'? Well, as usual, The Oatmeal has summed it all up perfectly!
Yet another great business-related article from LinkedIn this week talks about "What Arnold Schwarzenegger's 6 Rules of Life Mean For Your Job".
It is really a very good article, and a reminder of how much Arnold has accomplished – far from a dumb bodybuilder, he was a multimillionaire in his early 20s with a lousy grasp of English, yet came to America and was a huge success – and that was more than 40 years ago!
the way down, past your knees until you're almost walking on them.
boys will like you, and happiness will follow.
5. 5k or 10k? Help Me Decide!
So tomorrow everyone has to work, and Lisa and I had originally planned to do the 'Time to Sperr' event. It is a charity event to benefit the park and foundation, and Lisa was going to walk while I ran.
I am still thinking of doing it – but can't decide – 5k or 10k?
I was initially going for the 10k because it is all the same money, but then I was astounded by how stupid that logic was, and I also want to do a 5k to push myself … I have no idea.
Why is this the 'bonus' and also the title of the post? Shaddup, it is my list!
Anyway, in my '22 Years' anniversary post I talked about watching Twin Peaks by phone with Lisa, and Judith commented about loving it as well. The boys and I enjoyed watching 'Eraserhead' recently, and we have Blue Velvet on DVD, and have starting working through Twin Peaks again. It is stunning how well it hold up as groundbreaking TV even today.
You should really check it out if you haven't watched before … here is a link to Amazon.
'Rough' Work Day, Running Lately and 5 Ways to Make Your iPad Your Main PC!
I have mentioned before that I work in the 'corporate engineering' organization, but most people I talk to don't know what that really means (nor did I really 'get it' until I started working at Corning. In my last job there were two divisions – one for microelectronics and the other for printed circuit boards, each with their own research, development, engineering and manufacturing people. Within a division we would work on a variety of technologies and products, and often remain linked to them … well, forever. You would report to your boss but the project lead would have your time. By the time I left I had estimated that 40% of my time was allocated to 'baggage' responsibilities from the previous 15 years.
For Corning, without being too specific, each business has employees to do development and engineering and manufacturing, and there is a corporate engineering division that supplies 'center of excellence' support to every other division. This allows divisions to streamline operations and the corporate engineering groups to focus on their core skills. Operationally, it means that you almost never see your boss or the people in your department. So I have an office in downtown Corning, but have been there less than a half-dozen times this year.
With all of that as introduction, you might understand why it matters for our department to have periodic 'team events'. We have a monthly staff meeting and quarterly division meetings, but again those are functional and don't help us connect as people, which greatly enhances our ability to work together effectively. So before I even joined Corning, the group started a routine of having a couple of smaller events and one larger all-day event each year.
For example, last year we had a cooking class day at the New York Wine and Culinary Center, have done wine tours, bowling, boat trips, and more.
This year for our 'rough day', we spent the day on a two-masted schooner and then eating at a nice lake-side restaurant.
We did a Seneca lake cruise on the 'True Love', which was the boat used in the film High Society when Bing Crosby serenades Grace Kelly on the boat. Because of the weather change from warm & humid to cool & dry, the lake was quite windy … making for excellent sailing! Because the boat is relatively small (capacity of 20 people, we had 14), when we were sailing with the wind the boat tipped so the rail was less than a foot off of the water! The weather was great, and the wind and waves made for a fun and active ride – it was possible to walk around and talk, but choppy enough that you wanted to sit when possible and there were a few drinks spilled. All in all a great adventure, and highly recommended if you are in the area!
We had a late lunch at the Seneca Harbor Station restaurant, which is a place we've been to a couple of times before. Our experience was mixed but generally, and that pretty well reflects the experience this time. Coming in on a Thursday afternoon after 2PM the place wasn't too busy, so we were able to not be cramped at all.
There were a variety of appetizers, then main dishes. They also provided 'fresh' bread that was drenched a sort of butter-oil-garlic … I tried it, but not a fan. I got a Southwest Chicken Salad that had fresh salsa (black bean, red onion, tomato, corn and cilantro salsa with tortilla chips and roasted jalapenos) as well as spinach and other greens and grilled chicken. The problem I had (aside from no tortilla chops and the jalapenos not being roasted, neither of which I minded since the jalapenos were fresh and not from a jar) was that the chicken wasn't 'fresh'. It reminded me of getting a big bag of pre-grilled chicken breast from Sam's Club, reheating and cutting it up. In other words, it was fresh cut, but NOT fresh cooked.
As I talked to others at the table that 'semi-homemade' feeling was everywhere. My review of Seneca Harbor Station would be 'Good' – food was pretty decent, prices for an 'on the lake' place were also reasonable. Service was excellent, one benefit of the place having emptied out after lunch.
But the best thing about all of it was how both events allowed everyone to chat and move around easily – I heard about projects, locations, kids and spouses and parents and so on, planned out a possible course to teach next year, and so on. Excellent day in every possible way!
– All runs were 'free-form', base building … next week gets back to 'purpose'.
I was concerned returning from vacation and hopping into running, so I ran with the Kinvara 5s for a few days them rotated back into the Virratas … and I have felt great.
I talk regularly about using my iPad as my '90% Computer'. I also get asked a lot about how to make the iPad useful beyond just 'a toy', so I thought I would quickly note a few ways to turn that tablet into your main computing device!
Realize what you CAN Do!
When the iPad first arrived, people dismissed it as an over-sized iPod Touch, and then as a simple 'consumption' machine. In other words, some of the obvious capabilities: email, web browsing, listening to music and watching videos. Guess what – the iPad is EXCELLENT at those things.
But very quickly the iPad killed the booming Netbook category and shook up the PC market completely … so it had to be more than just a basic consumption device.
– Multi-tab web browsing with most modern features available.
That is quite a bit – and the hardware is powerful and incredible capable.
One of the great things for me is the ability to quickly shift between iPhone, iPad and Mac in terms of images, music and data files.
For example, I can take a picture on my iPhone, then upload it to a post in WordPress on the iPad without ever downloading it to my device by using the Photo Stream. Using Google+ allows you to add all of the pictures you take to your Google image storage for use with a Chromebook or Android device, and Microsoft's OneDrive has similar capabilities.
As another simple example, after our New York trip we wanted to look at pictures. We imported ones from our cameras to iPhoto, but the ones from our phones all auto-uploaded so we could just grab the iPad and browse through them all.
My uses for the iPad?
Doing many of these things requires apps. I love jamming with Magellan Synth, recording up to 48 tracks in Auria, checking RSS feeds in Mr. Brower (uses Feedly), blogging with the WordPress app, and so on.
Whereas most of the best phone games are 'time wasters', on the iPad you can play a full game like Baldur's Gate 2, or X-Com and so on. The screen size gives you the visual space as well as touch-screen space to have a great experience.
The same is true for music – you can use multi-touch to play 'piano', manipulate 'knobs' and 'dials' in real-time, and because of the processing power, an app like AudioBus allows you to string together multiple apps to turn your iPad into a real recording studio!
If you look at the image above, you see I have my iPad in a keyboard case. Specifically I have the Belkin Qode Ultimate, which protects my iPad Air, doesn't add much bulk, and provides a great Bluetooth keyboard with excellent battery life.
I also regularly use products from IK Multimedia such as the iRig Pro to hook in my guitar, and the iRig Keys Pro as a great portable keyboard.
Remember … this is NOT a laptop. I think this has fueled some disillusionment and a tapering of sales from all vendors. You WILL need a computer for some things, and to act as a 'hub', but you will also find you can use it much less.
That is how my iPad became my 90% computer. When I first got it, I had my work computer for work, but also a smartphone (Droid), netbook and LiveScribe 'smartpen'. With the iPad the netbook and LiveScribe quickly went away – and so did my use of the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP! And many things I was doing on the Droid I could do more efficiently on the iPad.
When I was in Kentucky last year, I knew I needed my work computer (duh), but I needed some way to do my personal stuff and blogging … and didn't want to lug two laptops. So I had to do a 'trust fall' and hope the iPad would work – and it DID. I was recording and editing and posting video reviews, writing, playing games, making music, emailing, Facetime-ing and so on! So for me, it has earned its place.
Have you sailed on a lake? What is your go-to computer / blogging device?
Friday Five – How Does a Distance Runner Do a 5k, Garmin, Magellan and More!
Happy Friday! As I noted, this has been a busy week and frankly between all the crazy stuff going on I am very much ready for the weekend! Everyone seems to be on the mend, AP tests are done, and the can begin the home stretch to the end of the school year (and hopefully get summer jobs soon!).
Cat Calls Need to Stop – On the picture above – I posted this to Instagram & Facebook yesterday, noting that in the warm weather I wore my compression shorts and got a comment from a couple of slightly younger women (~40) who were walking a dog 'nice shorts'. Given my history I took it as a fun playful compliment, but had my boys said that to a woman runner I would have been REALLY annoyed.
And on Facebook in a local running group, a woman went on a rant about getting comments the other night when it was 80+ for wearing short-shorts and a running bra. There was a healthy discussion, then she revealed the worst comments came from … women. Regardless of source, this judgment and objectification needs to STOP. Now.
– No wireless accessories (no foot pod or heart-rate monitor.
The FR-15 addresses all of this – and more! They sent me the package that includes the ANT+ (no Bluetooth) heart rate monitor, and also comes with the USB charge & sync cable. In my test run, the heart rate monitor paired instantly and tracked wonderfully.
So what is lacking so far? Wireless sync. I understand that because this is their entry level device there are compromises, and for the price the FR-15 delivers tremendous value … but I would rather never have to use a computer for syncing my GPS again.
You can pre-order the FR-15 through Amazon with an expected ship-date of May 30th. I will have a full review in the coming weeks.
If you recall, I gushed about the Magellan Echo in my review, and it has been my primary running watch all winter. Then a couple of weeks ago there was a major update that changed the watch display and added a stopwatch for non-GPS activity tracking among other updates.
Upon installing the updates my display began acting weird, switching off, rebooting, and so on. Eventually it just stopped displaying or responding.
I set it aside and just used my Garmin FR-10 … but it bothered me because (a) I really liked it (b) it forced me to carry my phone on my runs and (c) I had recommended it so heartily.
So this week I started trying to dig deeper, including how to do a hard reset … and the procedure was to just remove the battery, give it a couple of minutes and then replace it.
Hmmm … replace the battery.
So yeah, I figured why not just CHANGE the battery?!? Of course first I did just take and put back the same battery and confirmed that nothing happened. New battery? BAM – everything was back.
So the 'at least one year' battery lasted less than 5 months – but the good news is that everything is back and functioning fine!
One thing I got Lisa for Mother's Day was a Garmin Vivofit, which you can get from Amazon for $129.99. The Vivofit is similar to the Polar Loop (Megan had a review of the Loop), Jawbone Up, and so on – they are meant to be worn all the time to track your daily activity. Given how much I have loved my Garmin, I decided to give the Vivofit a chance.
– Tracks activities such as steps, etc.
– Customize goals, challenges, etc.
After a couple of days of continuous wear Lisa had a small reaction on her wrist (to the surprise of no one who knows her – she reacts to the 'Livestrong' style bands as well), so she only tracks alternate nights sleeping.
Using a half-marathon time to predict a 5K time becomes problematic because the race-specific training for these distances is so different. For instance, when you prepare for a half marathon, your training should include long runs and threshold runs, which are key workouts to improve fitness, but they're not the 6 x 1,000m with 400m recovery workouts you should complete to get ready for a 5K. This type of workout does two things. First, it gets you grooving at race pace, and, for many runners, 5K race pace feels frenetic because it's faster than their easy, long run and threshold pace.
5. How Do I Run a 5k?
I have been dancing around it a little bit, but in the spirit of honesty and directness I talked about earlier this week I have to say – I am more scared about running a 5K than I am about running a marathon!
Ugh – I know that sounds ridiculous and stupid, especially since I haven't run fewer than 4 miles on a normal run since April 2012, but let me explain.
So here is the thing – I have no desire to hit the track, do sprints and other things like that. Maybe I will, but my core desire is still to just go out every morning for my run, and to work on the 5K strategy 'on the side'. I know things like tapering, fueling and so on don't play into it … but I really don't know how to approach pre-race fueling either.
I have an 8k and 5k coming up – and while I am honestly not worried about getting a PR in either, I have no idea on what I should set for a target time, how I should approach them (just go out fast and try to hand on, start slowly and build, even-pace?) … just no clues.
Any thoughts for me as I start to get ready for these races?
What are your weekend plans? What race distance scares you?
Quickie Five for Friday – More Random Stuff!
I am still finishing up my summary from last weekend – not so much because it is so long (it is), but rather that I am trying to be careful about many of the things I say. In many ways – not to be too melodramatic, preachy, not too many personal details about others and so on. But neither do I want to be generic and vague … and I chose to do 15 points for the 150th anniversary – and rework every one! So it is taking longer than planned – and I am still working on my 'Liebster Award' post (and I got another nom from Abby this week, yay!). Maybe one of them will finish today, maybe not – so in the mean time I figured I would put out a quickie 'Five Things Friday' … here we go!
This was something that was very clear to me this past weekend but I hadn't really thought about before. In years past, when I traveled I would just get there, and try to go running around the hotel while there. But since I got 'serious' about running in 2012 everything has changed – even in August 2012 when I went to Park City, Utah I researched running around the resort before I left. I had my routes all planned when I headed to Coronado, CA a year ago, and when work travel took me to Kentucky weekly last year I chose the hotel with the best running routes rather than the best internet or rooms!
So naturally heading to Troy, NY last weekend … I checked out routes and planned a couple of run paths for myself. And the great thing it – it makes even the old seem new seeing it on a run.
Then returning home, I had a number of comments at work as I was in meetings with people I haven't seen since projects a couple of years ago, and also from other friends. It is very motivating and inspirational to me to have someone say that me getting out there regardless of weather inspires them to try to exercise more.
Again, I think the story of me running >3000 miles last year is boring – I just ran between 50-70 miles every week all year long. Thing is, I had runners telling me that isn't normal – you normally ebb and flow, train for a race then back off … not just keep on going, and not at our age.
I guess it is just another weird thing about me – and I show no signs of stopping, since returning home the weather has been warmer (40F+) and I have really enjoyed my runs! So I'm up over 50 miles despite taking Sunday off. Apparently this isn't a normal thing. Thing is … I really don't care! Normal is over-rated!
I have talked about my love of the Magellan Echo – rather than having its own GPS it uses the iPhone GPS, and is a very flexible display and controller. Well, this week it got a firmware update that changed around some functionality, improved the display and added stop-watch capabilities for non-GPS activities.
But for me it turned it into a self-rebooting wrist-band. At first it would just shut down the display and I could reboot it, but now it just tries to connect to the phone and shuts down again … and again. It is a reminder of the limitations of technology.
At the same time I have been working on re-establishing my old music studio. It has been going pretty well, but most of my stuff is from the 90's and early 2000s … and is more limited and specific in connectivity. Working with this stuff is a trip down memory lane – when there was a definite 'learning curve' before you could get functionality out of your technology.
Yesterday I posted a picture of our cat Dolly, and talked about how much we've worked with her in the 3.5 years we've had her. She is over 9 years old, and had a pretty rough life – but when we took her and realized we weren't just 'watching her for a bit', she became part of our 'pack'. The picture above shows the rest of the crew (except for the fish) – our two Norfolk Terriers that we actually bought from a breeder due to allergies, and our 'cancer kitty' Leo, who is 13 and we decided not to treat with chemo, etc because it would mess up his quality of life … and he is still the terror of the neighborhood. Even our fish have a story – where Lisa was working they got two new fish and one teacher was going to let them die as part of an experiment – but Lisa said 'no way' – and we had two fish! Then I won her one at the NY State Fair, and we have added more and some have died as fish will do.
The point is – when you bring a living creature into your home, it is your responsibility to give it the best possible life. I don't believe in 'pets as gifts' for that very reason – too often kids gets kittens or puppies for Christmas, bunnies for Easter …and the shelter ends up with a mess a few months later.
Five Things Friday – Random Fun Weekend Thoughts!
Happy Friday! Today I am taking a rare vacation day – and even more rare a solo vacation day – and heading away for the weekend for my fraternity 150th anniversary celebration as I mentioned yesterday. In fact, as you read this I am probably close to Troy or already there. As I noted to a friend on Facebook, in contrast with past visits this will be the first time I ever went running in Troy, and there will be much less alcohol consumed than when I was young! But I am anticipating loads of fun!
So I wanted to just blast out a few random things on my mind – and hope everyone has a great weekend!
If you have dogs and own your own home, Invisible Fence is definitely something you should know about – it is a system comprised of a collar with electrodes and a buried wire that runs around the perimeter of our property. When the dog gets close to the boundary a high pitched been starts, and when they cross the line they get a shock. It might sound a bit nasty, but generally the dogs will stop even before hearing the sound after a bit – and the result is they have free reign of the yard!
We've had the system since just after we moved to New York, and the dogs love it because they can run around outdoors, bask in the sun, and generally watch the world go on around them.
Well, we've been on the annual battery plan (new batteries every quarter for each collar), and kept putting off replacing them, first because they were still working, then because of various other things … then we got lazy!
We have seen them start pushing the boundaries and a couple of weeks ago when Lisa and I were going to go for a walk without the dogs Rosie followed right along. But neither ever left the property … so naturally on Thursday Rosie decides she's going on a great explore of the neighborhood. Lisa texts me about the adventure getting her home then I get an alert from the Whistle app that she already met her activity goal (Whistle is like Fitbit for pets).
Fortunately it all turned out fine – we made a priority stop to get new batteries, and the dogs quickly readjusted to their borders. Whew!
Way back in 1985 I took my first electronic music class at RPI, and the software we used was Performer from MOTU (Mark of the Unicorn) running on a 512k Mac. After using it in the lab for all those years, when I bought my own Mac, naturally I grabbed Performer, which was probably version 2 or 3 by then.
I kept upgrading until version 6, when MOTU end-of-lifed it and replaced it with Digital Performer, which brought in video and audio capabilities. I upgraded THAT a couple of times, but then let things lapse for a number of years.
After moving I never made sure I had all of my registration info, so when I recently decided to get my studio back together, I searched everywhere physically and electronically for the information … to no avail.
So I send an email to customer service with my name, the last address I THINK I used to register, a couple of potential emails, and the versions I thought I had. Total crap-shoot … but they came back in minutes with my info, and when I asked about versions for older PPC and 040 Macs (I might be getting an old one back after many years) they said they'd send an installer CD for those as well as the brand new version.
Oh, and they even sent me the digital registration for the newest version – so I was able to quickly get things going again! It was pretty awesome! Great, great customer support!
I think it is a very common thing to twirl and twist your wedding rings – and they tend to spin on their own as it is. The problem – particularly for someone wearing multiple rings (engagement, wedding and anniversary bands) – is that all that spinning translates into wear on the rings. This is exactly what happened to Lisa's rings – the prongs holding the diamond in place were worn, and the channels were wearing down and the channel stones were starting to get compromised.
Last year she had a mall store jeweler look at the prongs and they 'repaired' it – but not all that well. Fortunately we have a good jeweler in the area, and this week they replaced the setting, repaired everything and soldered the rings together. The channels are still very worn down (amazing contrast compared to mine!) but things are safe and secure and it buys us more time.
Speaking of which – since our 25th is coming in a few years, it seems like an opportune time to possibly replace the entire ring set … and we saw a cool set that we will keep in mind. But for now we are just so happy to have Lisa's set safe and looking better than ever.
The big thing for us is the sentimentality – these have been part of our lives for a very long time (just past 23rd engage-aversary), and it isn't about the money or value or size or carat weight or whatever. It is about us, and the meaning of these rings. Hopefully our current set will last for a while longer, but we know it won't be forever. On Instagram Megan mentioned having done hers already after 2 years, and I encourage everyone to consider it.
For some reason this week I wanted to get my Garmin back out and start using it again – actually I know exactly why, Garmin launched a new version of their connect site with a separate app for syncing up your device.
It was fun getting the FR-10 back into service, having to sit it on the windowsill as I put on my running shoes to link to GPS, and so on. The fit and feel are great, but one thing I noticed after having used many other devices over the last several months? The elevation was considerably 'off' from the rest, and there was a patch that was installed that … you guessed it, dealt with making elevation more accurate!
So yeah, three weeks in and I continue to use my Nutri-Bullet every day. Generally it is breakfast and dessert – which makes for such a great way to get an ice cream-like dessert that is much healthier.
People at work have taken an interest – one friend was thinking about it for her and her husband, so we were talking, then another person in that group got hooked in, and another … it is kind of crazy. But it is a really fun way to mix things up!
Oh – and thanks for the recipes and pointers! I have used some of them and variations of others … great and yummy stuff!
The picture at the top is from the end of a walk Lisa and I took with the dogs this week. The weather has just started to warm up to the point where we can go for evening walks – the dogs love it, it is so much better than sitting down after dinner, it feels great, and is a great way for us to get to chat even more!
So … what are your weekend plans? Do you like going for walks with spouse / friends / family / pets / alone / etc?
Hey everyone and Happy Saturday – and Happy Good Easter Weekend for Christians and Super Happy Weekend to those who didn't have to work Good Friday and have a great long weekend! We are all together tomorrow, and looking forward to a fun and relaxing Easter before everyone heads back to 'real life' of school and all of us working and busy.
I have a few posts I am working on that I had grand plans to finish … but y'know, life and stuff. So instead, here are six totally random things … enjoy!
Oh – and someone also recorded part of their performance at the WWII memorial and posted it on Facebook. Enjoy!
Last week I talked about screens, and how the light from LCD screens messes with your sleep. As noted my Kindle had died, leaving me to read on my Kindle Fire HDX – not optimal! Someone suggested contacting Amazon, knowing the worst they could say was 'no' … and long story shirt, they were Amazing as always, and between their service and using some of the credit I had from the ebook settlement, I now have a new Kindle Paperwhite. It really is the most amazing ereader I've ever used.
Also cool? For my birthday my friends from Gear Diary (thanks!) got me the new Amazon Fire TV. Our Roku was dying, and was really slow and unresponsive after having it for several years (it was the first HD version). The Fire TV has Amazon Prime video, Hulu, Netflix and more. I know it is supposedly lacking some things compared to Roku, but considering 95% of our time is between Amazon Video and Hulu … it is great.
Also, they have gotten me the gaming controller (still waiting for it to arrive), so it will be fun to see how that works. I haven't played with the 'second screen' feature using the Kindle Fire HDX yet, should be another cool addition.
It seems just yesterday that everyone was laughing about the idea of a video phone, and yet last year when I was traveling back and forth to Kentucky the twice-daily FaceTime calls home were a major part of keeping me sane.
The New York Post has a quick article about the technologies that were predicted in 1964 that have come to pass and those that haven't. The 'picture phone' is one that has happened – though likely in a different way than anyone would have envisioned!
They also talk about the first real use of touch-tone phone technology … and for me that is interesting since most people I knew had rotary phones into the 80s. The dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) technology was actually introduced by Bell in 1963. But perhaps the bigger thing than the adoption of touch tone was the ability to use your own phone on a line (before that the phones were leased from Bell). I also remember that as the regional lines got updated phones had a 'Tone/Pulse' switch (anyone else remember that?) and you would press buttons and hear the rotary sounds.
Of course, since I have fond memories sitting on the beach of Cape Cod with a single-speaker transistor radio discovering we could get AM radio from Long Island … yeah, I remember being amazed at the Walkman! So small, sleek, portable and easy to use!
Of course, this week I also came across some sheet music from a jazz harmony class I took as an undergrad – which was blue from the mimeo machine. And we were laughing at words like 'rewind' that are meaningless, disc icons for saving, and so on. And just think about the wide swath of movies that would be totally changed if someone had a cell phone!
This article was shared by Laura on Facebook, and I just love it. I had really planned a more elaborate post because there were other similar topics lately, as it seems that rather than improve things for women, we're making them worse for men!
Because, while Ms. Kalafatas accurately points out that "96 percent of sexually objectified images are women", we are also hearing that "18 percent of boys are very concerned about their weight and physique".
I really recommend reading the whole article – and ask yourself some honest questions about how you feel about yourself and others. I think that while there is a natural human instinct to do some assessment of others (i.e. profiling), but what she discusses goes beyond that.
As someone who was very obese for a while, thin for many years with occasional bits of 'overweight' and then became obese again only to be very thin and athletic now … I have seen dramatic changes in how people look at and deal with me – and sadly I have seen changes in how I deal with others and myself. These are not proud moments … but they exist.
Do I hate my body? No, at this point I am fairly OK with it (that is supposed to sound wishy-washy). I know I am in great shape, that I am thin but healthy … but I also know that the ravages of obesity will never leave, and coming to this fitness level in my late 40s means not reaping the benefits of youth. The worst is that there will always be 'more skin than there is Mike to fill it' … which puts me into constant self-evaluation mode.
I've talked about the fact that I have issues with blogs and blogging in general (yeah, talking about it here – ironic!), and while I have a draft to detail some of that stuff, one of my big complaints is that we seem to be devolving in terms of discussion. Again you have to join me in the way-back machine, back to a time when you could actually type faster than your modem could transmit!
0. Modems – I just did Speedtest on my phone, and it is running at ~22Mbps – that is 22 MILLION bits per second, or a 3 minute song per second. Imagine back in the mid-80s, paying more than $200 for a box that worked at 300bps – which comes down to ~25 characters per second. I am a hack typist and I do better than that! At 300 baud your screen would take about a minute to load, and you could literally watch your characters appear after you typed them!
1. ListServ – chronologically these came after USENET, but they are smaller in scope. What you would do is sign up by email to be part of an 'email discussion group'. You send messages to a server, and then your message is sent to everyone on the list, either immediately or part of a 'daily digest'. These were great ways to centralize discussions, but also turned into email nightmares (I remember having more than 12,000 unread emails coming back from one vacation!).
2. USENET – my personal fave and I resisted leaving until the late 90s … These were 'discussion groups' – with a hierarchy of things like 'alt' for alternative, 'rec' for recreation, 'comp' for computer and so on. Under each heading there would be subheadings, and so on. So it could be Comp.lang.c++ or Rec.music.jazz.guitar and so on. Technically, basically you have a distributed file server backbone replicating discussions globally. Each server would contain some subset of groups, and your message would be quickly replicated globally. Someone with a newsreader anywhere would see your new post in rec. running and reply to your question about shoes or whatever. Then everyone who subscribed to that group would see the discussion. You could have thousands of comments in a given thread … and it could be insanely helpful. Because it was all in one place, it was also insanely efficient.
3. BBS / AOL / Compuserve – these bridged the 80s and 90s, and provided services you would dial into and had a bunch of possible things going on. BBS sites would generally have discussion areas, possibly files if they were related to programming, games, or whatever. Sites like Compuserve and AOL were the first place many people 'got online', and tried to provide a one-stop-shop of services … but were ultimately outgrown.
4. Web Forums – as more and more websites started up, people wanted to gain and keep visitors, and the best way to do that was to allow for users to have some discussions – like they did on USENET and BBS sites. Forums became commonplace, and would typically cater to the audience of the site itself – so a tech site would discuss the latest gadgets, gaming sites would have areas to talk about different genres, and so on. Most would have 'off topic' areas as well. The problem? If you liked more than one site, suddenly you are tracking topics in several forums on several sites … and it can get exhausting!
In my opinion we never have done better than USENET. Think about it – one place for all kinds of people from around the world to hook in and discuss things. For example, it is rumored Nike is killing off their wearable hardware division. On USENET there would already be a thread with a thousand comments. I'm sure there are multiple threads on various running forums about it this morning. Yet I haven't seen it on a running blog yet, and when we do it will be a quick comment (like mine) and will have a small discussion – and then a different discussion on a number of other blogs. This decentralized discussion naturally limits the breadth of sharing and learning … and while I love blogs for many reasons, they are also very limited in terms of actually adding value through shared learning.
OK, at this point I am definitely on the 'Thinking Out Loud' train … so I'll link up with Amanda!
We are coming up on the Boston Marathon, and with the weather improving, I see more and more people out running, or talking about running outside on their blogs and so on.
For me, I am excited for the Boston Marathon, and just pray that everything goes well for everyone who is there.
I also think about how it seems with each weekend of full and half marathons we also learn about someone who died in or after the race. There were a couple of runner deaths last weekend again in Raleigh, as noted here. It is a reminder that we need to keep a close eye on our health … and even still there are no guarantees in life.
Personally I have had ups and downs this week – we started in shorts and t-shirt weather, made it through single-digit wind chills, and by Friday is was above 30 again but windy enough I wore my heavy hat and gloves. The next week or so looks to have similar conditions – riding the tights/shorts, heavy/light glove boundary. And honestly … I am fine with that! Because none of it involves 4-layers and my brain in 'self preservation mode'.
Have a great weekend, and for Christians, a Happy Easter!


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The objective of this lab activity is to build the various CMOS logic functions possible with the CD4007 transistor array. The CD4007 contains three complementary pairs of NMOS and PMOS transistors.
Making Inverters with the CD4007 Transistor Array
Figure 1 shows the schematic and pinout for the CD4007.
Figure 1. The CD4007 CMOS transistor array pinout.
As many as three individual inverters can be built from one CD4007 package. The first, and simplest to configure, as shown in Figure 2, is built by connecting pins 8 and 13 together as the inverter output. Pin 6 will be the input. Be sure to connect Pin 14 (VDD) to the power supply and Pin 7 (VSS) to the ground.
Figure 2. Three inverters.
The second inverter is made by connecting Pin 2 to VDD and Pin 4 to VSS. Pins 1 and 5 are connected together as the output and with Pin 3 as the input. The third inverter is made by connecting Pin 11 to VDD and Pin 9 to VSS. Pin 12 is the output and Pin 10 is the input.
Characterizing the CMOS Inverter
There are a number of both static (DC) and dynamic (AC) performance characteristics of the CMOS inverter that are often specified and should be measured. In this section, we will measure a number of them for the inverter, but these same measurements can be made on other types of gates we will see in later sections of this activity. We will start with the static characteristics: threshold voltage, transition region width, output source, and sink current.
Threshold Voltage
Generally, the CMOS fabrication process is designed such that the threshold voltage, VTH, of the NMOS and PMOS devices are roughly equal; that is, complementary. The designer of the inverter then adjusts the width to length ratio, W/L, of the NMOS and PMOS devices such that their respective transconductance is also equal.
On your solderless breadboard, build the first inverter shown in Figure 2 to test the input to output switching characteristics of the CMOS inverter. The blue boxes in Figure 3 indicate the required connections to the connector on the ADALM2000. Connect VP (5 V) power to VDD (Pin 14) through a 100 Ω resistor to measure the supply current and ground to VSS (Pin 7). Connect the output of the waveform generator to the inverter input (Pin 6) along with Scope Input 1+ and connect the inverter output (pins 8 and 13) to Scope Input 2+. It is also generally good to ground the unused negative scope inputs (1–, 2–).
Figure 3. A setup to measure input threshold and transition region.
Configure the waveform generator for a 100 Hz triangle wave with 5 V amplitude peak-to-peak and 2.5 V offset. Both scope channels should be set to 1 V/ div. Configure the scope in XY mode with Channel 1 on the horizontal axis and Channel 2 on the vertical axis.
Figure 4. Breadboard connections setup to measure input threshold and transition region.
First, using the Scope Channel 2 to measure the inverter output voltage vs. the input as the input is swept from 0 V to 5 V, obtain a plot like the top curve in Figure 5.
Next, move the Channel 2 Scope Inputs 2+ and 2– to measure the voltage across the 100 Ω resistor, R1, in Figure 3. You may need to adjust the vertical scale of Channel 2 for an optimal view of the current waveform. Now obtain a plot of ID vs. the input as the input is swept from 0 V to 5 V. This should give you a plot much like the bottom curve in Figure 5.
Figure 5. Inverter output voltage and supply current curves vs. input voltage.
Figure 6. Scopy screenshots: Inverter output voltage and supply current curves vs. input voltage.
The input to output transfer characteristic plots the output voltage VOUT vs. the input voltage VIN. Notice that when the input voltage increases from 0 V to 5 V, the output voltage decreases from 5 V to 0 V. The supply current characteristic plots the current flowing through the transistors between VDD and the ground also vs. the input voltage VIN. The fact that there are two parts of the characteristic curves when the input voltage is near the ground and VDD, and that no current flows between VDD and the ground is attractive because there is no power dissipation at this stage. This very fact is the reason that nearly all digital circuitry today is now built using CMOS technology.
The width of the transition region as a fraction of the power supply leads to a performance measure that is often referred to as the noise margin, the part of the input range where the output remains at a constant high or low level. Given that there is likely to be noise superimposed on the input signal, it is desirable to have the output not respond to small changes in the input. A narrow transition region also potentially reduces the amount of time the output spends transitioning between states and, thus, reduces the shoot-through current when both the NMOS and PMOS transistors are partially turned on.
In this section, we will investigate the dynamic properties of the CMOS inverter; that is, its behavior when switching the input signal from low to high or high to low voltages, and the associated power dissipation.
We now consider a CMOS inverter driven by a voltage pulse. Typical input/output waveforms are shown in Figure 5. Delay characterization of the dynamic behavior of an inverter is given by two propagation delay times, THL and TLH, as illustrated in Figure 7. Note that these propagation times are specified with respect to the mid supply voltage VDD/2.
Figure 7. A CMOS inverter propagation delay.
Figure 8. A CMOS inverter rise/fall time.
Now configure the waveform generator for a 500 kHz square wave with a 5 V amplitude peak-to-peak and 2.5 V offset. Be sure to reconnect the Scope Channel 2 to measure the output voltage waveform. Both scope channels should be set to 1 V/div. Adjust the horizontal scale so that you can view both the rising and falling edges of the input and output waveforms similar to what is shown in figures 7 and 8.
Figure 9. CMOS inverter breadboard connections.
Configure the oscilloscope Channel 1 and Channel 2 to capture several periods of the input and the output signals. A Scopy plot example is presented in Figure 10.
Figure 10. Scopy screenshot: A CMOS inverter propagation delay.
Propagation delay, THL and TLH = time, between input transition (when VIN = VDD/2) and output transition (when VOUT = VDD/2). Rise time, TR = time for a waveform to rise from 10% to 90% of its steady state value. Fall time, TF = time for a waveform to fall from 90% to 10% of its steady state value.
Making a CMOS Schmitt Trigger with the CD4007 Transistor Array
The input of the Schmitt trigger, as shown in Figure 11, is tied to the gates of four stacked devices. The upper two are PMOS and the lower two are NMOS. Transistors M5 and M6 operate as source followers and introduce hysteresis by feeding back the output voltage, VOUT, to the two points in the stack midway between the two NMOS and two PMOS devices.
Figure 11. A CMOS Schmitt trigger circuit.
When VIN is at 0 V, transistors M1 and M3 are on, and M2, M4, and M5 are off. Since VOUT is high, M6 is on and acts as a source follower, and the drain of M2, which is also the source of M4, is at VDD to VTH. If the input voltage is ramped up to one threshold above the ground transistor, M2 begins to turn on, and M2 and M6, both being on, form a voltage divider network biasing the source of M4 at roughly half the supply. When the input is a threshold above 1/2 VDD, M4 begins to turn on and regenerative switching is about to take over. Any more voltage on the input causes VOUT to drop. When VOUT drops, the source of M6 follows its gate, which is VOUT. The influence of M6 in the voltage divider with M2 rapidly diminishes, bringing VOUT down further yet. Meanwhile M5 has started to turn on, its gate being brought low by the rapidly dropping VOUT. M5 turning on brings the source of M3 low and turns M3 off. With M3 off, VOUT will collapse all the way down to ground. The snapping action is due to greater than unity loop gain through the stack caused by a positive feedback through the source follower transistors. When the input is brought low again, a similar process occurs in the upper portion of the stack, and the snapping action takes place when the lower threshold its reached.
On your solderless breadboard, build the Schmitt trigger circuit shown in Figure 11 to test the input to output switching characteristics as you did with the plain inverter.
Configure the waveform generator for a 1 kHz triangle wave with a 5 V amplitude peak-to-peak and 2.5 V offset. Both scope channels should be set to 1 V/div. Configure the scope in XY mode with Channel 1 on the horizontal axis and Channel 2 on the vertical axis.
Figure 12. CMOS Schmitt trigger circuit breadboard connections.
Use Scope Channel 2 to measure the output voltage vs. the input, as the input is swept from 0 V to 5 V. Obtain a plot like you did for the simple inverter.
Figure 13. A CMOS Schmitt trigger Scopy plot.
Making a NAND/AND Gate with the CD4007 Transistor Array
As shown in Figure 14, one 2-input NAND gate and one inverter can be built from one CD4007 package. Configure the NAND gate as shown in Figure 14 by connecting pins 12 and 13 together as the NAND output. Pin 14 and Pin 11 are connected to VDD for power and Pin 7 (VSS) to the ground. Pin 9 should be tied to Pin 8 to complete the N side of the NAND gate. Pin 6 will be the A input and Pin 10 will be the B input.
Figure 14. A 2-input NAND and inverter.
Figure 15. 2-input NAND breadboard connections.
Figure 16. 2-input AND breadboard connections.
The inverter is made by connecting Pin 2 to VDD and Pin 4 to VSS. Pins 1 and 5 are connected together as the output and with Pin 3 as the input. An AND gate is made by connecting the output of the NAND at pins 12 and 13 to the inverter input at Pin 3.
A single 3-input NAND gate can be made by using all six devices as shown in Figure 17.
Build both the 2-input and 3-input NAND gates and confirm their logic function by filling out a truth table for each. You can also measure the input threshold voltage for each input as you did for the simple inverter by connecting the unused input(s) to VDD.
Figure 17. A 3-input NAND gate.
Can you name and describe other types of logic functions that can be built with the CD4007 array?
You can find the answer at the StudentZone blog.
Doug Mercer
Doug Mercer received his B.S.E.E. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 1977. Since joining Analog Devices in 1977, he has contributed directly or indirectly to more than 30 data converter products and holds 13 patents. He was appointed to the position of ADI Fellow in 1995. In 2009, he transitioned from full-time work and has continued consulting at ADI as a fellow emeritus contributing to the Active Learning Program. In 2016, he was named engineer in residence within the ECSE department at RPI.
Antoniu Miclaus
Antoniu Miclaus is a system applications engineer at Analog Devices, where he works on ADI academic programs, as well as embedded software for Circuits from the Lab®, QA automation, and process management. He started working at ADI in February 2017 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He is currently an M.Sc. student in the software engineering master's program at Babes-Bolyai University and he has a B.Eng. in electronics and telecommunications from Technical University of Cluj-Napoca.
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