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Disaster Management for Electric
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Time: 8:00AM - 5:00PM both days
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Learn to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, or mitigate against threatened or actual natural disasters, acts of terrorism, or other man-made disasters affecting electric power facilities and systems.
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"Fallen Star," the public art installation by Do Ho Suh at UC San Diego, is the Grand Orchid winner. The contest jury called it "nothing short of brilliant" because it turned a "mundane" engineering building into a place where you stop and wonder what that house is doing up there.
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Progress with the MPIK/UW-PTMS in Heidelberg
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The precise determination of the 3He/3H mass ratio, and hence the tritium β-decay endpoint energy E 0, is of relevance for the measurement of the electron anti-neutrino mass performed by the Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino experiment (KATRIN). By determining this ratio to an uncertainty of 1 part in 1011, systematic errors of E 0 can be checked in the data analysis of KATRIN. To reach this precision, a Penning Trap Mass Spectrometer was constructed at the University of Washington and has been transferred to the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg at the end of 2008. Since then it is called MPIK/UW-PTMS. Special design features are the utilization of an external ion source and a double trap configuration. The external Penning ion source efficiently ionizes the helium and tritium gas and can give superior elimination of unwanted ion species compared to the previously utilized in-trap-ionization by electrons from a field-emission point. The design as a double Penning trap allows a faster measurement procedure. This should help to avoid problems resulting from long-term drifts in the experimental conditions. Additionally, the laboratory in Heidelberg was carefully prepared to have very stable environmental conditions. Experimental challenges and the first Heidelberg results with the new spectrometer are presented.
KeywordsPenning trap mass spectrometry 3H/3He Q-value determination Environment stabilization Non-destructive detection technique
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- Progress with the MPIK/UW-PTMS in Heidelberg
- Journal
Hyperfine Interactions
Volume 199, Issue 1-3 , pp 291-300
- Cover Date
- 2011-07
- 10.1007/s10751-011-0324-6
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Really, I don't. I have empathy. I give 'em money—and I give it to them, not to some patronizing charity that tries to make me feel guilty about a homeless person deciding to blow my change on booze and not sock it away in his IRA or whatever. But whenever I post something about the homeless on Slog I get called out for my lack of compassion. So I'm just wondering…
I've been sitting in a cafe downtown working for a couple of hours and just now a few homeless guys came in, bought some drip, and gathered around the table right next to mine. And, hey, they have as much right to be in here as I do—they had the cash, they bought some coffee, and they need to get out of the cold. It's all good.
But I have a question for the armies of compassion that lurk in Slog comments: How long do empathy and compassion require me to sit here and breathe their booze-cigs-piss vapors? Is it bigoted of me even to notice? Is the woman that just got up and moved to a table on the other side of the cafe a bourgeois bitch? And am I going to hell for packing up my shit and moving to another cafe?


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Shania Hallmark wasn't excited about her first session of Girls on the Run. She was shy and didn't consider herself a runner. The thought of meeting other girls made her feel anxious. She didn't know many of them. She certainly didn't think she would become friends with them. But then the program actually started and it wasn't like anything she had expected.
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The Men O'War Foundation is a new, up and coming non-profit charity that plans to take non-repurposable, off-the-track thoroughbreds and house them on a working farm run by combat veterans.
The charity is the brainchild of Robin and Adam Thorogood. Adam is a veteran of the War on Terror and Robin is his wife. The CEO of the foundation is Joe Matias, a War on Terror veteran as well.
The smell of jet fuel filled the air. The sound of engines screamed as the small airplanes took off down the runway. People watched in awe as RC jets took to the sky in formations that could rival their larger counterparts.
Headed by Lewis Patton, Jets Over Kentucky saw its best weekend yet at the Lebanon-Springfield Airport on Saturday.
"It was an overwhelming success," Patton said. "This was probably our best event in 12 years."
If you have driven toward Bradfordsville on Rush Branch Road you probably noticed some heavy equipment and roadwork.
Marion County Judge/Executive David Daugherty said he's received a few phone calls expressing concern and questioning what's happening on the rural road.
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Amy Willis started as the Early Childhood Education Director for the Marion County Public School System just over a week ago and she's beyond excited to start the school year.
Limestone Branch Distillery has been open since 2011, making bourbon and other liquors. Now they have some new and exciting things on the horizon.
The distillery is owned by brothers Steve and Paul Beam who come from a long line of distillers, five generations to be exact, before the prohibition interrupted, now it's seven generations.
Some people want to preserve the Ray House. Others want to burn it to the ground.
Eric Whisman gave a presentation to the school board on behalf of the Kentucky Trust for Historic Preservation during the July 14 school board meeting. He spoke about the Ray House located on Main Street next to Lebanon Elementary School. The building is owned by the school system, but is not up to code for use by the schools.
"I think you have a great asset there that really needs to be fleshed out a little bit more," Whisman said.
The man arrested in connection with the disappearance and murders of a Florence, Kentucky, couple has been indicted by a Washington County grand jury.
Craig Pennington, 52, of 1217 Texas Road in Springfield, has been indicted on 11 counts in relation to the deaths of Robert "Bobby" Jones, 38, and Crystal Warner, 35, who were last seen on July 3 at Pennington's residence.
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Marion County 11-12U All-Stars' season ended Monday, July 11, in the championship game against Glasgow 13-0. Glasgow pitcher Taye Poynter held Marion County hitless and Glasgow's bats remained hot, as they will advance to the state tournament in Richmond.
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Marion County 11-12U boys fell against Boyle County 4-0 on July 2.
This time of summer, it's usually hot, muggy and very "bug intense."
So what does one do when you really enjoy fishing and don't enjoy being miserable? How about fishing at night?
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Using your iPhone or iPad is a great way to help you see those objects in the sky you always wished you could. Whether you are using a high-powered telescope or just scanning the sky with your eyes, these apps will help you search for anything from the Moon to Jupiter and from the Andromeda galaxy to the Eagle nebulae. This handy guide will help you determine which apps will be most helpful to you.
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Summer is a perfect time to get outdoors for some quality stargazing, and using your iPhone or iPad is a great way to help you see those objects you always wished you could. Whether you live in the dark countryside or a bright city, the apps here will show you everything about what is beyond out skies with amazing detail. With this update, we have added Luminos, which will give you an informative and beautiful 3D tour of space objects like you have never seen before.
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Due to a request from one of our readers, two new apps by the names of Planets and SkyView have been added to this wonderful AppGuide. With all of the technology in the current iDevices such as an accelerometer, camera and gyroscope; stargazing can be an immersive, magical experience that one would never think of getting from a hand-held device.
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The HRT Music Streamer II is an asynchronous-mode USB audio converter, capable of high-end audio reproduction for less than £140.
For most listeners, good digital sound from a computer is a fait accompli, a done deal. The built-in soundcard on a PC or laptop promises '20Hz to 20kHz' reproduction, so providing you play uncompressed WAV or lossless digital formats like FLAC or Apple Lossless (ALAC), you're getting sound as good as a CD player, right?
Well, not necessarily. Or less courteous to the efforts of PC makers, almost certainly not. For one thing, audio circuits hate computers.
Audio amplifiers and analogue circuits are easily upset by the interference from radio-frequency noise – such as the multi-megahertz clocks cycling all through a personal computer. So the first stride forward in sound quality is usually found by simply locating the digital-to-analogue converter (DAC) away from a noisy motherboard and its switch-mode power supply.
A quick-and-easy solution for this can be found in the shape of the USB audio adaptor. Working out of the box without additonal drivers or software on modern Macs and Windows PCs, these devices take raw digital data audio from the computer, with the minimum of fuss.
But audio data still needs some care in its transport, lest its precise timing is subtly smeared, leading to a form of audible distortion often dubbed jitter.
This can make for a harder, grittier sound with a looser sense of musical timing. In short, the sound may be rough-edged and glassy or vague and tuneless. Or all these things.
HRT Music Streamer II: Adaptive versus asynchronous
Until recently, sending sound over USB relied on a default transmission protocol called adaptive-mode USB audio. In short, the essential clock timing signals needed in D-A conversion are derived here from the computer's clocks.
Like the long-standing S/PDIF interface used to connect CD players to outboard converters, a bi-phase clock recovery system is essential to recreate the timing pulses required to reassemble the binary stream correctly.
It kind-of works, but perhaps not as well as a more up-to-date system, known as asynchronous mode USB audio.
Asynchronous mode USB audio now has the host (the computer) and the outboard converter's clocks free-running relative to each other.
Crucially, the converter device itself dictates when data packets are sent from the host, ensuring a timely flow of data with no chance of overflow or underflow in the data buffer.
Put another way, rather than passively receive whatever the computer dishes out, asynchronous mode devices such as the HRT Music Streamer II take a much more pro-active role, telling the computer when to send data packets. And the final D-A conversion is referenced to a precision local clock, right inside the unit.
In the case of the HRT Music Streamer II, the digital input receiver module is actually a transceiver – able to transmit instructions back to the host as well as receive music data packets. HRT employs a Texas Instruments TAS1020B chip, under the guidance of the company's own custom firmware to do this critical work. Set up this way, interface jitter is said to be eliminated.
After this, a Burr Brown PCM1793 chip (specified for 24-bit/192kHz operation) carries out the actual D-A conversion in the HRT Music Streamer II, from digital bitstream into analogue music.
Care has also been taken to ensure good isolation between the computer and audio system, lest unwanted noise intrude into those precious audio circuits. HRT quotes a greater-than 20 megaohm isolation figure.
The HRT Music Streamer II features a Texas Instruments TAS1020B input transceiver running custom firmware (left), feeding a Burr Brown PCM1793 DAC (top right)
In practice, the HRT Music Streamer II appears as 24/96 device to the computer; a true audiophile standard. Which is not so surprising when you discover the pedigree of the HRT Music Streamer II.
HRT stands for High Resolution Technologies, an offshoot between Kevin Halverson, chief designer at US high-end audio brand Muse Electronics, and Mike Hobson of audiophile record label Classic Records. Both Halverson and Hobson have been championing the benefits of 24/96 audio since at least the early days of DVD in the late 1990s.
Kevin Halverson told us, 'Our goal has been to bring to the average person a bit of what makes a high end product worth the price of admission.'
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The HRT Music Streamer II is an asynchronous-mode USB audio converter, capable of high-end audio reproduction for less than £140.
The block
Externally, the Music Streamer II is a rather innocuous lump of extruded aluminium just over 10cm long, in unassuming red paint. On one end is a Type B USB port (as used on printers). At the other is a pair of gold-plated RCA phono sockets.
A more expensive version, the HRT Music Streamer II+ is also available at £339. The manufacturer's specifications show a measured performance of 0.008% distortion, in place of the standard HRT Music Streamer II unit's 0.01% figure for THD+N (total harmonic distortion-plus-noise); but other than being finished in black and a little longer in case length, neither designer nor distributor would be drawn on what material differences lie within.
To set up the HRT Music Streamer II, just plug into a spare computer USB port, and connect to a music system's line-level inputs. Power comes from the 5V USB bus, so no extra plug-in supplies are required.
Setup in Mac OS X, for instance, just requires selecting the device within the Output tab of Sound, from System Preferences.
In Windows, you'd go to Control Panels, Sound, and then select the device in the Playback tab.
HRT Music Streamer II: Listening in
The HRT Music Streamer II possesses great subtlety in laying out the sound of recorded and streamed digital music.
The Music Streamer II impressed most with its freedom from glassiness, along with its even, 'unshouty' midband. This DAC is a real smoothie, yet one that doesn't over-compensate for digital edginess by smothering the sound in cotton wool. Music is heard relaxed and flowing, with precious little grain to intrude.
A classic opening from the Dave Brubeck Quartet – 'Blue Rondo A la Turk' – illustrates the ease with which this device can open up a seemingly simple arrangement.
The thrum of a single repeated note plucked from double bass had believable presence, showing more fundamental below and with more overtones ringing on above. The layers that each member of the quartet contributed in the song made more musical sense here; particularly the left-hand chord shapes under the right-hand melodies of the central piano.
By point of reference, a Cambridge Audio DacMagic rendered the song with a more muted thud to its bass line, while the now-splashy cymbal was, relatively speaking, more like you'd expect of a lossily compressed MP3 file. And all the while, the upsampling DacMagic remains one of the best sounding outboard converters under £250.
Stereo imaging from the HRT Music Streamer II unit was most noteworthy. With no steeliness to overly accentuate instruments and voices, as you might find from traditional USB digital converters, instruments sat quite naturally in left-to-right panned perspective.
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By MARYBETH WHALEN
David C. CookCopyright © 2011 Marybeth Whalen
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I pulled the photo proofs out of the envelope, fanning them out on the granite countertop in my client's McMansion with a flourish. I loved how the word client sounded, and I threw it around whenever I could.
"I have a meeting with a client."
"My clients are so demanding. They all want their proofs back yesterday."
"This client had some very particular ideas about what she wants."
After years of snapping candids of my own children, I took my photography professional after someone with connections noticed that I was good at catching the little moments of life that most of us walk right by—the furrow of a tiny brow, the contentment of one lone spit bubble on a sleeping baby's pursed bow of a mouth, even the personality of a flailing, screaming two-year-old. "Someday," went my pitch, "you'll appreciate the reality of the photos. Not just the posed smiles but the whole package. The mess and the mess-ups. You'll look back and see pictures that reflect your life as it really was." If they wanted Sears Portrait Studio, they were welcome to go to Sears Portrait Studio. But if they wanted art, that's what I created. Few things pleased me more than seeing a portrait I shot gracing one of my clients' walls, surrounded by a heavy, impressive mat and frame. I aimed to create pictures that caused others to stop and stare, frozen in the awe of how something so simple could be so beautiful. Sometimes I found myself staring too.
I leaned over the proofs on the black and gray flecked counter, watching Candace Nelson's face as she looked at the photos we'd taken just a week before. I suppressed the urge to talk to her about them, to point out my favorites or ask her what she thought. I had learned the value in waiting quietly. It was as true in art as it was in marriage: The compliments meant more when they were unsolicited.
She looked up at me, her eyes misty with tears. "You totally got it," she said, pulling me into a hug. Candace Nelson and I had never met before I came to her house to photograph her children, one of whom was born prematurely and had defied the odds, home just a few days from the hospital. Candace had cried happy tears the whole time I snapped, the rhythmic clicking of my camera at times the only sound in the room. Her older two children, I noticed, had a kind of reverence for the baby. It was in the way they had held him and talked to him and even looked at him. Their reverence had hung in the air around them, an invisible force that transferred through the lens onto paper.
"These are just lovely," Candace went on. "They're ... priceless."
I nodded my assent, honored to have been a part of remembering the early days of her new son's life. I had been inspired to start my business when I found old 8x10s of my sister shoved into a faded envelope with the words "Your Priceless Memories" stamped in tacky green and gold on the outside. My mother had apparently stuck the envelope in a trunk and forgotten all about it. I unearthed the photos like a time capsule, Ginny in her patchwork dress and me in a pea green turtleneck that clashed with her dress. My hair needed brushing, and neither of us was smiling. So much for priceless. So much for memories. I longed to give my kids—and other families—so much more.
Candace held up the price sheet I had handed her with the proofs. "Can I keep this?" she asked. "Talk over the order with my husband?" She giggled like a teenager ogling her prom pictures. "I know he's going to want them all." She paused, a somber expression washing over her face. "There was a time when we didn't think we'd even get to take him home, much less take snapshots." She pressed her palms onto the counter on either side of the spread of photos. "I can't thank you enough."
I thought, but did not say, A big fat order would be plenty thanks.
My cell phone buzzed in my pocket. I looked down at it briefly but didn't reach for it. "Oh, you can get it," Candace said, dismissing me with a wave as she buried her nose back in the photos.
"Yes?" I asked hesitantly into the phone, not sure if I wanted to know. I had left David and the boys supposedly packing up our house for our impending move to the home of our dreams. Three more days and we'd be movin' on up. It didn't take much for me to break into the theme song from The Jeffersons in those days before the move, the boys clapping their hands over their ears whenever I did.
"Uh, honey?" David asked. "A guy just called and said he's got the moving van you rented ready and they're about to close? He said one of us needs to come pick it up ASAP."
My heart began to pound in that way it does when I've screwed up. I vaguely remembered the conversation from a few days earlier. The man had said if we wanted to go ahead and start packing the van, we'd better get it sooner rather than later. I told him we'd be there by Saturday at noon. I looked at my watch. It was Saturday at 11:45. I backed away a few steps from Candace and smiled as she looked up at me. "Okay," I said sweetly. "I'll be there right away. I'm just finishing up here."
David started to argue about how there was no way we'd make it, but I hung up before he could say more. Another lecture from David about organization was the last thing I needed. Candace looked at me again. "Everything okay?" she asked.
"Oh sure," I said, gathering up my things. "We're moving and there's just some stuff I need to go take care of. You know how it is."
She nodded as the corners of her mouth turned down. "We moved here five years ago," she said, gesturing to the palatial digs she called home sweet home. "And I never intend to leave. I told people, 'Write this address down in ink, because we are staying put.'" The corners of her mouth turned up again.
I offered a polite laugh and began backing toward the door, wondering how I could possibly get to the van on time. I slung my backpack over my shoulder and nodded without really listening as she threw different dates out that we could get together to place the order. "How about I just call you?" I asked. I gave her another hug and backed out the door and across her front porch. I almost backed right down the imposing set of front steps, but Candace reached out and grabbed me.
"We don't want you hurting yourself," she said, pretending not to be dismayed at my less-than-graceful exit.
"Just what I need, a broken leg," I said with a rueful chuckle. I looked away, toward my car parked in her driveway, a minivan with more mileage than I thought possible. "It still runs," David always said when I complained.
"Where did you say you're moving to?" Candace asked.
My eyes shone a bit brighter as I answered. Thanks to my photography business picking up and my husband's new job, we were moving to an address I could finally be proud of. "Essex Falls," I told her. It wasn't as upscale as her neighborhood, but it was nice.
"Oh, I love Essex Falls!" she exclaimed. "I've got tons of friends there. I'll tell them all to call you for appointments." Clearly resigned to my hurry, she waved the folder with the proofs in it for emphasis. If I'd had more time, I would've dug into my backpack and given her a stack of business cards. All the business books I read said not to let a chance to market yourself pass by. But the business-book authors didn't have miffed husbands at home waiting for them to not come through. Once again I wished that David had just let us hire movers instead of doing it all ourselves.
"That would be fabulous!" I replied. Fabulous was not a word I usually threw around. "Tell your friends I'm already booking for fall. The outdoor leaf shots are to die for." Another phrase I didn't typically use.
I held on to the wrought-iron railing, descended the steps, said good-bye, and boarded my van. David was waiting for me, and while I might be good at taking pictures, I wasn't so hot at keeping up with the needs of my home and family. I drove away thinking that after the move, I would buy a new calendar or read a book on time management or ... something. I would figure out a way to get on top of things. Especially if Candace Nelson was going to be telling all her friends about me. It sounded like I was going to be busier than ever.
* * *
I pulled into the driveway of our home to find the moving van parked there and a little pickup truck idling by the curb. A skinny little man sat in the truck with his hand out the window, smoke curling from a cigarette clamped between his fingers. I wrinkled my nose at the smell. The boys were outside playing in the backyard. "Hey, Mom," I heard. I blew quick kisses to my sons before ducking into the kitchen. I heard voices coming from the den and followed the sound, stopping just short of the doorway so I could listen without being detected, curious as to what might be said.
"Thanks a lot for this. You really saved the day," I heard David say.
A gruff voice answered. "Eh, no problem." The accent was distinctly Northeastern, which stuck out in our North Carolina suburb. I remembered it from the other day on the phone. The man laughed. "I got a wife, kids. I know how crazy it can get."
"Yeah," David said with a chuckle, using his polite voice, the one he reserved for strangers. "And my wife is ... exceptional." He exhaled loudly. He was being sarcastic.
The other man laughed, and I could hear him patting David on the back. "We all think that. That's why we marry 'em."
"Exactly," David said in a near groan. "She's this really talented photographer. And now she's building an incredible business. Which is great, right?" He paused. "I mean ... she sees things no one else would notice but walks right by things no one else would miss. Like this. She knows we're moving in three days, knows she reserved the truck, but ... forgets."
I heard the man offer something between a grunt and an affirmation. Why was my husband practically pouring out his heart to the moving-van guy? The answer came to me in an instant: because he couldn't say it to me.
David went on. "The thing is, I took this new job and she's going to be doing a lot of stuff on her own. Because I'm going to be traveling. I just worry about her." Another pause. I could almost hear the moving-van guy shifting uncomfortably. "I mean, what if I wasn't here to bail her out? I'm not always going to be there like she's used to."
I didn't stay to hear the man's answer. Instead I slipped away, heart pounding, back toward the kitchen where I came from. I collected myself and then made a show of opening the door loudly, calling out, "I'm home," so that he would never know I heard him trash me to a stranger with a Brooklyn accent. The moving-van guy came into the kitchen first and avoided looking me in the eyes as he shook hands with David and slipped out the door.
"I see you got the moving van," I said after the door closed.
Did David look guilty? "Yeah, he offered to bring it over. Said he was closed Monday and knew we'd be behind the eight ball if we didn't get it today."
"Well, I'm glad he saved the day." I wanted to tell him about the big order I felt certain Candace Nelson was going to place, to somehow justify my gaffe, but I was too thrown off by his secret confessions. Instead I said no more. A few seconds of silence passed between us before David began packing up a kitchen box.
I turned to look out the large picture window just above the kitchen sink, watching the boys chase each other around, intent on injuring each other in some new way. We had brought each one of them home from the hospital to this house, my arms filled with their little bundled-up selves. A wave of nostalgia rolled over me. I looked over to David, who was concentrating a little too hard on wrapping glasses in hand towels. Now wasn't the time to share my reflections with him. I looked out the window again and smiled at the boys. It was at this sink that I had once scrubbed my hands with antibacterial soap, scared to death of passing on harmful germs. I remembered feeding the boys strained squash in this small kitchen and making bottles at this kitchen counter. I was not sad to be moving, but I also had to admit what we were leaving behind.
The unlikely spring heat radiated off the glass as I pressed my fingers to it. Knowing my housekeeping ability, the fingerprint whorls would still be on the window when we left, a piece of me lingering even as the new owners—a sweet young couple who would someday bring their children home here—unpacked their wedding gifts from the boxes they came wrapped in just as David and I had done years ago.
I turned away from the window and poured water for the boys so they didn't get dehydrated. It was just my luck we were moving as record temperatures were making headlines. I didn't relish the thought of doing the work ourselves, but I wasn't going to win that tired argument. My husband valued saving a buck more than making me happy sometimes. David turned and left the room without another word. I heard him open the attic, the creaking hinges loudly pronouncing that our move was under way.
Once we were settled into the new home, I planned to create a different kind of life for us, one where I kept up with things better, made better decisions, and disappointed David less. I couldn't afford to disappoint him. Only negative things could come of that. I sighed deeply and went to see what David thought I should do first.
* * *
"Boys. Look over here," I repeated on our last day in the house. "Please. Just one more time." My oldest son, Donovan, rolled his eyes. He looked exactly like David when he did that. He looked exactly like David, period: the same thick ebony hair, same green eyes, same self-possessed demeanor. He came out of the womb looking at me with an expression that was so David I laughed out loud. From that moment to this, I marveled at how little of me was in the child. I was just the incubator.
Donovan and Dylan, my second son, looked over at me, while Duncan continued playing with the bubble wrap, trying hard to pop the bubbles like his brothers had taught him. He grew frustrated and started to cry. Donovan and Dylan looked back at Duncan, their faces concerned over their baby brother's tears. I started snapping more shots as they bent their heads toward him, a study in genetics—black, red, and blonde hair all touching. Duncan forgot his tears as Donovan and Dylan began jumping on the bubble wrap, the bubbles popping in rapid-fire stereo. I was grateful we had crated our dog, Lucky, outside or he would've joined in by barking. As it was, the noise was so deafening David came running into the room. His shirt was soaked with sweat from moving heavy furniture. He glanced over at me with my camera and shook his head.
"I see you're getting a lot of packing done here." He and some friends were taking down the beds and loading them in our rented van piece by piece. His lips were pressed into a thin, patient smile.
I held up the camera. "Just taking some shots of the boys playing in the box. It was too cute," I said. "I thought I'd send it out with our moving announcement. You know, write something like 'We're all packed up and ready to go.'"
He crossed his arms across his chest. "You know I love your photos, but I really need your help."
I smiled at him. "Let me just finish first."
He laughed in spite of himself, never one to curtail my photography hobby. "Boys," he said, turning his attention to them. None of them looked at him. "No more jumping on that bubble wrap. You just about gave me a heart attack."
Duncan, age four, looked at him wide-eyed. "What's a heart attack?"
"Ask your mother," he said as he began to walk away. "Apparently she's got all the time in the world."
I was about to make a crack about how we should've hired a mover when I heard the front door open and went to see who it was instead. Arguing any further about the moving situation wasn't going to get us anywhere except into a fight. I rounded the corner to see Kristy, my across-the-street neighbor, standing there with a mopey look on her face. I smiled at her and held out my arms. "It's not that far," I said.
She walked into my embrace. "I've always hated good-byes," she said. We hugged for a minute, and I tried hard to feel the same amount of sadness she did. I think the person getting left behind always feels worse than the person doing the leaving.
"Just remember," I said into her hair. "I'll be twenty minutes away. And always just a phone call."
She pulled her head back to look me in the eyes. "But who will I go to when I can't get Kailey to stop crying? Who will I come ask for random stuff I need to borrow? Who will I complain to when Josh is being a jerk?" I shook my head. I didn't have an easy answer for her. "I'm not leaving town, just the neighborhood."
Excerpted from SHE MAKES IT LOOK EASY by MARYBETH WHALEN. Copyright © 2011 Marybeth Whalen. Excerpted by permission of David C. Cook.
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At the annual American Geophysical Union meeting this week in San Francisco atmospheric scientists reported that the ozone hole in the Earth's atmosphere above Antarctica isn't clearly shrinking every year. Instead scientists said fluctuations in the ozone hole on a year-to-year timescale are likely caused by natural variations in wind patterns that bring ozone depleting chemicals from the tropics down to the South Pole.
Scientists did say that the hole was stabilizing, but that it may take until 2070 to fully recover. The Montreal Protocol, whose purpose is to save the ozone layer and prevent dangerous ultraviolet radiation from reaching people, was first signed in 1987. However the ozone hole has reached near record size several times in recent years. According to the LA Times, in 2006 the ozone hole reached its largest size ever, and then in 2012 it shrunk to its second-smallest. Two NASA studies found that these fluctuations were primarily due to natural meteorological conditions.
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Skip to comments.Heat Index in Paducah: 153!
Posted on 07/11/2011 2:44:14 PM PDT by Renfield
At 5:20 PM EST(4:20 local time), 7-11-2011, the Weather Underground website showed the heat index in Paducah, KY, to be 153 degrees (99 degrees with a 92 degree dew point). I've never seen it like this. (I'm in another part of the state, where the heat index is a paltry 111...I feel like a piker).
Post your astounding summer weather reports here...how hot is it where you are?
p.s. For any foreigners reading this, 153 degrees equates to 67 degrees Centigrade; it's literally hot enough to cook food outdoors in Paducah today.
Indianapolis International Airport is at 113 degrees (heat index), which is ridiculous, because I don't know anyone who lives at the airport!
After a lovely weekend in the mid 70's, it finally cooled off a bit. Today we'll be in the upper 60's...
It's 71 here...
Say what you will about Santa Monica (and I'd probably agree) but the weather doesn't suck.
It's hovering around 105-110 here in Oklahoma, that's the actual temp, not a heat index....
In Breckenridge, Texas it is a cool 100 with a windchill of 99 degrees.
This is an OBVIOUS error. Sorry...but there is no way the dew point is that high. Looking around the area...looks like the dewpoint is likely in the upper 70's. So...assuming it's 78...that puts the heat index at 116F.
It's 67 here in the inland part of the Bay Area. No AC necessary—just open the windows. There may be many reasons why California is a carpy place to live, but when it's 110 in most of the US, I'm very grateful to be here.
I remember as a kid going out and literally frying eggs on the sidewalk. Blacktop is faster :)
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/html/heatindex.shtml Compute your heat index.
Only temperature does the actual cooking. The humidity just makes sure that it is nicely steamed rather than broiled.
I moved to Dallas one summer, unloaded the houseplants into the patio, went back to help the movers with the truck. And hour or so later I went back to check on the plants...
Texas heat. Just damn.
Air temp: 100
Heat index: 123
About 50 miles northeast of Nashville, TN.
Down here in mid-Tn just now came in from rolling hay
The Rhode Island Reds had their mouths open and breating hard
Saw a doe with two fawms...they were walking slow
Its friggin hot
It almost got up to 75 today in Seattle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Uh, I trust ya'll do not know that Jeff Masters is a rabid, off the scale, barking moonbat Leftist.
It's normally 101 and 24%.
Sucks for the tomato and peach farmers, but it's great for the rest of us.
95F here in Indiana isn't all that unusual but it's rarely coupled with 60 to 70% humidity during the daytime hours.
Our friends in the gulf states must have installed a new and improved humidity pump.
Okay... that still don't make any difference that the parking lot literally stuck to my feet this afternoon at work and I left a nice set of foot prints on an asphalt tarmac...
Hotter than hell in Indy coupled with high humidity.
Really quite awful.
Holy Hannah—that's hot!
It's only 89 here in Northern PA.
Dayton Oh at 2:00pm, 95 degrees, dewpoint 81, for a heat index of 113.
I don't recall ever seeing a dewpoint that high before. I know it is impossible to breathe.
You S.U.C.K.
89 and breezy here in Palmdale CA...cooler than the weekend.
89 and breezy here in Palmdale CA...cooler than the weekend.
just heard this on local radio today here in MN:
" today's heat index feels 156 degrees warmer than the coldest windchill factor (-44) this past winter"
no wonder I hate it here.
Crazy heat1 100F at 7:45 pm in Newport News, VA.
Crazy heat! 100F at 7:45 pm in Newport News, VA.
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Over the last few years we have all experienced the constant barrage of Phishing attacks. These are not only a pain for all of us as end users, as we carefully pick through our email trying to figure out what's real and what isn't, but also an unending headache for those trying to run the commercial web sites we link to. So let's take a step back for a moment to look at how these attacks are possible, after all we're smart people we shouldn't be fooled that easily ….
There are three distinct steps to any Phishing attack for the sake of making this simple let's just call them Casting the Bait, Reeling in the Catch and Stealing the Prize.
Casting the Bait – since the initial goal of the phisher is to get you to go to their web site the first thing to do is to deliver you a URL in an email message. This email has to convince you that not only is it from a real company but that you should take the additional action of clicking on the link it contains. We've all seen the "there has been a change in your account details and we need you to verify them" email, complete with nice graphics and company logo's from a familiar company. The first few times we see these we naively click on the link and off we go to who knows where to try and verify our account details. Of course given the amount of spam we all receive it's not surprising that at times it's hard for us to tell the good mail from the bad. In recent years many efforts have been made to reduce the amount of spam and as the junk mail filters have become more sophisticated we are weeding out a lot more than we used to, but there is still more work to be done.
Reeling in the Catch – have you ever thought about how easy it is to fake a web site, think about that for a moment if I go up to any webtsite today I bet I can copy half their logo's and art work straight off of their home page. In no time at all a half decent web designer could mock up a site that is close enough to the real thing to fool 90% of the people who saw it. In fact that's what Researchers at Harvard University and UC Berkeley did in order to do some research on Phishing. Now compare that with how hard it is to fake a real brick and mortar business, say a bank or a book store. One of the reasons so many people get phished is because it is very hard for most users to tell the difference between a fake site and the real site. In fact many users today have no idea what any of the so called security measure's we have in place today even mean. Ask some of your non-technical friends to explain what an SSL certificate is and how they can tell when a site has one. Now ask them how they know that's a real cert and not one that was issued to a spurious company in Nigeria. On the whole we as an industry have come up pretty short in terms of protecting our users from going to sites that they can't identify.
Stealing the Prize – in many cases the prize is your username and password. Firstly this is because the Phisher can now get access to the site that they faked, secondly the chances are you also use that username and password other places, and they are going to go after those too. But wait I hear you cry, I have several password that I use on different sites depending on the value associated with an account. So imagine this, you get tricked into going to a fake site, it asks you for your username and password, you type them in and "User Authentication Failed, please try again". So you think to yourself maybe I used one of my other username and password pairs, so you try again, failed. Eventually you think maybe I just typed the password wrong the first time! So you re-enter it and the site lets you in (and redirects you to the real site), now the Phishing site not only has the username and password for the site they faked, but chances are they also stole the other 4 combinations you use. And yes this happened to someone I know, oops. So username and passwords aren't solving the problem today of how we get users to authenticate to our sites. And we need to keep it simple enough that all users from the technically savvy to novice users can just as easily and securely authenticate, without the need for username and password.


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Sometimes a proper ending takes a little longer to write.
So it is with Paul Coffey, perhaps the game's most superb skater and an integral part of the Edmonton Oilers team that ranks among the greatest dynasties of all time.
A defenseman built for an era of fire-wagon hockey, Coffey eventually became trapped in an era of offensive stagnation. After winning three Stanley Cups with the Edmonton Oilers (1984, '85, '87) and one more with the Pittsburgh Penguins ('91), he bounced around the NHL for 10 seasons accumulating, at the time, the most goals (396), assists (1,135) and points (1,531) among defensemen in NHL history.
But instead of a ceremonial sendoff to mark the end of a historic career, Coffey merely faded from the game after the Boston Bruins waived him in December 2000.
Four years later, the proper ending has been written as Coffey now enters the Hockey Hall of Fame.
"After 21 years, hockey and I had kind of sapped everything we could out of each other," Coffey told ESPN.com last year. "Not everyone can leave like Wayne. Sure you'd like to be recognized for your career, but to just kind of ride off into the sunset, sneak out when nobody was looking, well, I'm a shy enough person to think that was a nice way to leave."
There will be no sneaking out this time, not with luminaries like longtime teammate and friend Wayne Gretzky on hand. This time Coffey will leave through the big doors.
"Not many people know this but we actually played together when we were 14. We actually became friends at that time," Gretzky said recently. "Paul wasn't any different at 14 than he was in his first year in the NHL. He was probably the best skater, by far, on the ice. He knew at 14 he was going to play in the NHL. It was just a matter of when and where."
Before teaming up briefly with Gretzky on a Toronto bantam team, Coffey played with fellow inductee Larry Murphy in another minor hockey system in the city. The two would join up again in Pittsburgh for a Stanley Cup run in 1991, the two forming a potent power-play tandem along the Penguins blue line.
Although The Hockey News ranked Coffey 20th among prospects in the 1980 draft, Edmonton made the defenseman the sixth pick overall.
For Oilers head honcho Glen Sather, there were two methods of dealing with a young player of Coffey's caliber -- try to jam a square peg of an offensive force into a round hole of a stay-at-home defenseman, or let him be.
"He's obviously one of the purest skaters the game's ever seen. He just had such tremendous acceleration," Sather said. "He fit in with the style we wanted to play. I couldn't see molding him into a defensive defenseman."
Coffey's skating allowed him to get into a strong position for an offensive play or recover quickly for a defensive one, added another Hall of Fame coach and manager, Scotty Bowman, who had Coffey in Pittsburgh and again in Detroit in the late '90s. It was under Bowman that Coffey had his last Coffey-esque season, racking up 74 points in in 76 games during the 1995-96 season.
"He wasn't defensive-minded. (Players like Coffey), you're probably better to put them in an offensive situation. He was an offensive machine," Bowman said.
With the Oilers' dynastic team of the 1980s, Coffey was a perfect fit. Opposing teams would set up schemes to defend forwards like Gretzky, Jari Kurri, Mark Messier and Glen Anderson, so there was little they could do when Coffey stepped into the play.
"He was often referred to as like a rover. There doesn't seem to be many defensemen who play like that now. I don't know who'd you'd put in that category now," Bowman said.
His statistics reinforce that notion.
Coffey holds the NHL career playoff records for goals (59) and points (196) by a defenseman, as well as the record for single-season goals by a defenseman (48). He won the James Norris Trophy as the league's top defenseman three times, played in 14 All-Star Games and was named to either the first or second All-Star team eight times. He was the most prolific offensive defenseman until fellow Hall of Fame inductee Ray Bourque passed him during the 1999-2000 and 2000-01 seasons.
In many ways Coffey was a victim of his own superlatives. Because he was so gifted offensively, he was considered a defensive liability. It was an unfair knock on him, teammates say.
"I really think he was underrated as a player," Gretzky said. "Paul could single-handedly change a game. He could be one of the first guys in the offensive zone and yet he could also be the first guy back.
"Paul was a little bit like I was. I couldn't play the way Messier played. Paul wasn't Ray Bourque or Denis Potvin. But he was never out of position. He hit guys but he didn't hammer them," he said.
Gretzky points to the Oilers' run to their second Cup in 1985 as a defining period in Coffey's career. In 18 postseason games, Coffey recorded 37 points, an NHL record for defensemen. He also tied Gretzky for the team lead with 11 points -- an NHL record in a five-game final -- against Philadelphia, a team Coffey would later join and help to the 1997 Stanley Cup finals.
"He was dominant," Gretzky recalled. "Offensively nobody could stop him. They couldn't get the puck away from him.
"His passes from the back end. He was almost like a Dan Marino. He could hit a guy on the fly at center on the tape," he said
Illustrations of Coffey's offensive prowess are countless, but he was by no means a one-trick pony.
Coffey had been the last cut by Bowman in the 1981 Canada Cup tournament, a competition in which the Russians had destroyed Canada 8-1 in the championship game. Three years later, during Canada's sudden-death semifinal game against Russia, Coffey found himself the lone man back on a two-on-one break midway through the first overtime period. With a nation's hockey pride on the line, Coffey deftly knocked down a centering pass by Vladimir Kovin and accelerated in the other direction, eventually firing a shot on net that was deflected by Mike Bossy for the winner.
"It changed everything in Canada. Paul did those things," said John Muckler, a member of the team's coaching staff. "I think people are too willing to pick on his defensive game and not look at his overall abilities."
Those abilities weren't simply god-given. Gretzky recalled how Coffey was one of the first players on the stationary bike every day.
"His work ethic was always at a different level," said Gretzky, who also recalled Coffey taking home his famous skates (always a size or two too small so his feet got the feel of the boot) or sticks so they'd be just as he wanted for a game.
Still, if Coffey's game was sometimes misunderstood, so too was his demeanor. Shy and quiet, Coffey developed a reputation as being aloof, especially juxtaposed against the carousing, fun-loving Oilers veterans.
"He was a little more reserved early on," said Kevin Lowe. "He came on the heels of a group of pretty outgoing players that maybe made him seem a little different.
"His position was, he didn't want to be anything that he didn't think he should be. He loved to go home and listen to music and watch movies," he said.
As his career wound down, it appeared Coffey was hanging on too long. From 1998 until the Bruins released him, he scored just 13 goals and appeared in just five playoff games while bouncing from Chicago to Carolina to Boston.
Had he not been so spectacular, had he not re-defined the notion of the defenseman as offensive juggernaut, those final years might not be seen in such stark contrast.
Those who know him say Coffey's final seasons reflected his passion for the game not a desire to recapture old glory.
"A man like Coffey, with his passion, his love of the game, having to give it away is difficult," Muckler said. "That's a very difficult thing for them to do."
"It's hard for all of us when we have to retire," Gretzky added. "All of a sudden people are saying you don't belong.
"Paul was a winner. As much as he scored goals and got assists, he was a winner," he said.
Coffey has returned to the Toronto area, where he operates a Toyota dealership north of the city. On the dealership's Web site, there is Coffey's distinctive autograph with an equally distinctive "#77" tucked among the letters.
"It's funny to see him now," said Lowe, whose mother still keeps in regular contact with Coffey's mother. "He is quite an extrovert now. He loves to talk."
Scott Burnside is a freelance writer based in Atlanta and is a frequent contributor to ESPN.com.


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