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Drunk Scientists Pour Wine on Superconductors and Make an Incredible Discovery
|6:46:46 PM, Sunday, January 16, 2011
"Wine makes superconductors better at their jobs. And apparently, it makes some scientists better at their jobs too.
Superconductors behave like most metals; they conduct electricity. They do so, however, with a twist. All metal has some resistance to the flow of electricity. But when the temperature drops, superconductors get less and less resistant (and therefore more conductive). When they reach very low temperatures, their resistance drops to zero.
Yoshihiko Takano and other researchers at the National Institute for Materials Science in Japan were in the process of creating a certain kind of superconductor by putting a compound in hot water and soaking it for hours. They also soaked the compound in a mixture of water and ethanol. It appears the process was going well, because the scientists decided to have a little party. The party included sake, whisky, various wines, shochu, and beer. At a certain point, the researchers decided to try soaking the compound in the many, many liquors they had on hand and seeing how they compared to the more conventional soaking liquids.
When they tested the resulting materials for superconductivity, they found that the ones soaked in commercial booze came out ahead. About 15 percent of the material became a superconductor for the water mixed with ethanol, and less for the pure water. By comparison, Shochu jacked up conductivity by 23 percent and red wine managed to supercharge over 62 percent of the material. The scientists were pleased, if bemused with their results…"
Eisenhower's Warning Still Challenges A Nation
|6:38:45 PM, Sunday, January 16, 2011
"Before President Reagan urged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall," and even before President Kennedy told Americans to ask "what you can do for your country," President Dwight D. Eisenhower coined his own phrase about "the military-industrial complex."
That statement, spoken just days before Eisenhower left office in 1961, was his warning to the nation.
At the time, the United States was sitting atop a huge military establishment built from its participation in three major wars. This buildup led Eisenhower to caution against the misplacement of power and influence of the military.
Fifty years later, the United States is engaged in two wars abroad, and some say Eisenhower's warning still holds true…"
Straight Into The Charts . . . A Hit From 1568
|10:47:17 AM, Saturday, January 15, 2011
"Thomas Tallis's 'Spem in Alium' has an appeal that defies time.
Take a look at Classic FM's Hall of Fame, and there among the poll of listeners' favourite classical pieces you'll find a surprise. Coming in at number 89, just ahead of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker and only just behind Albinoni's Adagio, is Thomas Tallis's sacred vocal work Spem in Alium Nunquam Habui – "I have no other hope (than God)".
Why should an immensely complex piece in a dead language have struck such a chord? Part of the reason is the current vogue for spiritual music, which has sent CDs of chants by Spanish monks and The Priests soaring up the album charts. But there is something extraordinary about this particular piece. It's like an ocean of sound, where individual voices are glimpsed for a few seconds before they vanish back into the mass.
Beyond that, the piece is a masterful combination of rhetorical persuasiveness and architectural cogency. By the time he wrote it, possibly around 1568, Thomas Tallis had a huge reputation as a composer of artfully complex music, full of arcane technical devices and hidden symbols. Born around 1505, Tallis had worked his way up from being the musical director of a modest little priory in Dover to being a key member of the Chapel Royal in London. He was right at the centre of power, which in one way was advantageous as it gave him the best singers and players to work with.
But in another way it was risky. England in the mid 16th century was convulsed by religious upheaval. The initial traumatic break with the Roman Church brought on by Henry VIII led to the forcible closing and desecration of ancient monasteries (including Waltham Abbey, where Tallis was one of many who lost their living)…"
-- If Tallis had written nothing else but this, he would still be one of the the greatest composers ever.
Burmese Prison Inmates 'Used as Human Mine Sweepers'
|10:32:11 AM, Saturday, January 15, 2011
"Some of the 600 prisoners shipped off to the front near the border with Thailand suffered serious injuries as they were forced to walk ahead of troops across mine fields in what one rights group said amounted to a "crime against humanity".
Inmates who did not have the funds to bribe their jailers to avoid the forced military service were sent to the fighting acting as porters carrying ammunition, according to three prisoners who escaped and made it to the Thai border town of Mae Sot.
The on-going fighting between the Burmese army and a splinter group of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army, rebels who signed a truce and sided with the junta, broke out on November 7, the day of the much-derided general election.
The most senior of the escaped prisoners, Thaung Htay Oo, 28 told of the abuse meted out to the inmates by the military.
"We had to carry ammunition, equipment and food for the soldiers," he said. "They worst thing is that they used prisoners to clear minefields ahead of their advance. There were many prisoners who were injured by the landmines after they were forced to walk ahead of the soldiers. We ran away because we didn't want the same thing to happen to us…""
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New Type of Glass Stronger and Tougher Than Steel
|10:13:11 AM, Saturday, January 15, 2011
"Glass stronger and tougher than steel? A new type of damage-tolerant metallic glass, demonstrating a strength and toughness beyond that of any known material, has been developed and tested by a collaboration of researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)and the California Institute of Technology. What's more, even better versions of this new glass may be on the way.
"These results mark the first use of a new strategy for metallic glass fabrication and we believe we can use it to make glass that will be even stronger and more tough," says Robert Ritchie, a materials scientist who led the Berkeley contribution to the research.
The new metallic glass is a microalloy featuring palladium, a metal with a high "bulk-to-shear" stiffness ratio that counteracts the intrinsic brittleness of glassy materials.
"Because of the high bulk-to-shear modulus ratio of palladium-containing material, the energy needed to form shear bands is much lower than the energy required to turn these shear bands into cracks," Ritchie says. "The result is that glass undergoes extensive plasticity in response to stress, allowing it to bend rather than crack…""
|9:27:56 AM, Saturday, January 15, 2011
Bad Blood by Steven Perry
|10:55:23 PM, Thursday, January 13, 2011
Inside London's Sewer System
|10:11:10 PM, Thursday, January 13, 2011
-- Rob Smith, head flusher at Thames Water, leads a guided tour of London's sewer system and explains how 'fat bergs' – amalgamations of illegally dumped cooking oil, wet wipes, condoms, dead rodents, you name it – can lead to blockages and flooding... Lovely! Follow the links to watch The Guardian video reportage.
Pentagon's Mach 6 Warplane May Return From Limbo
|4:28:52 PM, Thursday, January 13, 2011
"Forget robotic spy planes, drone fighter-bombers and self-landing orbital laboratories. In the world of secretive Pentagon aerospace projects, none are more sensational than the high-flying, Mach 6 Blackswift.
The hypersonic, unmanned Blackswift could become almost anything: a satellite launcher, an SR-71-style spy plane or even a super-evasive — nay, untouchable — bomber. That is, if it could just keep its funding. After many years rumored work, Blackswift stepped into the light in 2007 when the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency launched a formal development program, aiming to build two prototypes for a total cost of around $1 billion. Two years later, Blackswift was dead, a victim of budget cuts and skeptical lawmakers.
Now Blackswift is (sorta) back, according to some stellar reporting at the Ares blog. "The U.S. Air Force is drawing up a new hypersonic development road map which, to the delight of many and the fear of some, revives the concept of a reusable flight research vehicle similar to the abandoned Blackswift," Guy Norris revealed. He called the re-born hypersonic plane, "son of Blackswift."
The revival raises some big questions: is Blackswift 2.0 at all related the Pentagon's new bomber initiative, or the military's secret battle plan for countering China? Can the new Blackswift overcome vexing technical challenges? And even if it can, do we have the billions of dollars it might take to build the Mach-6 plane in meaningful numbers?"
Black Box: Inside an Older Flight Data Recorder
|2:50:38 PM, Thursday, January 13, 2011
-- Engineer Guy!
You Are All Stardust
|10:41:22 AM, Thursday, January 13, 2011
Macklemore – The Town
|10:24:38 PM, Wednesday, January 12, 2011
-- Seattle-based hip-hop artist's clip about his hometown Seattle. I have not even been there, but this song just seems to really capture the essence of the city. Make sure to watch it in HD, so good!
Improv Everywhere, No Pants Subway Ride 2011
|10:10:55 PM, Wednesday, January 12, 2011
-- Dubiously SFW.
Colbert on Lithuania
|6:58:16 PM, Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Society by Anton Semenov
|11:07:44 PM, Tuesday, January 11, 2011
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September 14, 2011
Big, Fat, Juicy, (Incomplete) Update
Long time, no post. The past few months have had me mired (albeit willingly) in an ark sized boatload of new projects—the deadlines of which have conveniently stacked up upon one another in a seemingly unending row. I've been a longtime adherent to the belief that opportunity never presents itself at a moment of convenience and the past few months proved themselves hell-bent on reinforcing that. So, in order to avoid running the risk of this blog being mistaken for a recently abandoned tenement, here's a spattering of what's been happening:
First things first. It only took three years of procrastination followed by a two month crash course in Indexhibit, but I finally have a new site. The URL is the same, but the work contained therein is actually, truly, (well, mostly) current. This task had been on my design bucket list for way too long, so the fact that the majority of the heavy lifting is done is a huge personal coup. As a self proclaimed style sheet/CSS Luddite, Indexhibit is not the simplest program to wrangle my head around, however its genius lies in its protean flexibility which practically forces you to learn some basic web building principles, so (hopefully), fine tuning it going forward won't be quite as laborious as it was for my previous one. Check it.
2. Joe Klein & TIME
Earlier this year I was fortunate to begin working with art director Andreé Kahlmorgan at TIME Magazine illustrating bi-monthly columns for Joe Klein, a journalist who's tenacity and quality of output has proven multiple times over that he's not so much of a slouch. Mr. Klein's political column for TIME, more often than not, examines current events from the perspective of a single active participant or group in the event he's covering. To illustrate that effectively (as well as with a modicum of consistency), the illustration is approached as a conceptual portrait each week, pulling current head shots with Andreé of the players in question and providing narrative context. The turnaround time is roughly equivalent to that of an op/ed. The Obama image above was done for a springtime Klein piece about the increasingly negative and hostile portrayals of Obama that his growing detractors are using in media campaigns. More Klein pieces follow below:
Klein writing as Benjamin Netanyahu and his fly-on-the-wall perspective of the Arab Spring.
Klein on Obama's and Paul Ryan's fractured healthcare negotiations.
On the government's financial mismanagement of great-in-theory programs like Head Start.
On government's current capability for compromise in the wake of the debt ceiling debacle.
On Mitt Romney's current second place position in GOP presidential race behind Rick Perry.
3. Frank Bruni for the NYT Sunday Review
Upon the simultaneous retiring of the NY Times' Week In Review and the birth of their Sunday Review, I've also begun trading off with Chris Brand illustrating Frank Bruni's regular Sunday column since the section got up and running in July. Bruni, like Joe Klein, tackles current politics as well, but he applies a measured, rational wit to his outrage which allows him to deconstruct his themes in a humorous way which, in turn, gives Aviva and I some room to aim for some humor in the illustrations. The piece above accompanied one of his earliest pieces for the Sunday Review in which he opined to have children and spouses of candidates removed from the campaign platform and candidates' list of talking points. Other recent illos for Bruni's column follow below and Aviva Michaelov art directed all of them:
This portrait of Casey Anthony, aided with the significant help of a xerox machine, was paired with his post mortem analysis of her trial.
This one went along with an article which used the instance of an Arizona state senator sneaking a small gun into a courthouse as a springboard to address the curious state of current U.S. gun legislation.
This one explored all the ways in which Michele Bachmann is virtual catnip for media pundits. Also, her migraines. Before sending this one in, I showed it around to a handful of designers and three recoiled from it, complaining that the illustration was giving them a headache. Mission accomplished.
This was a tough one. This piece went along with Bruni's exploration of a political candidate's false humility—often echoing a declaration of "answering a call" to public service as opposed to simply coming clean and candidly owning their interest in money and power and control. Aviva and Joon Mo Kang helped this one along.
For an article about how 'smart' a politician is counts for only so much for his/her effectiveness as a politician.
4. Overshadowed for the Washington Post
Again, for the national press. This one was an illustration for the Washington Post's Outlook section for their cover piece concerning how the 9/11 attacks on New York perpetually overshadow the 9/11 attacks of Washington. Prior to running this, there was much discussion at the paper as to whether the 'a-ha' moment that the viewer gets when looking at the image arrives too late, however Kristin Lenz was an outrageously supportive advocate for this treatment and it made it through the editorial review roundly unscathed. Looking at a mini on-screen version doesn't help to sell the point too much, so here's a close up to bludgeon the point home:
If I'm being truthful (and I am), these two covers above and below were completed well before this summer, but since all the titles I've worked on since April aren't camera ready just yet, here are the two that just recently came out.
Instant Replay, above was done for Mr. John Gall under the Anchor Sports imprint. Being personally indifferent about football as I am, this project began with a lot of inwardly directed chortling and later gave way to a personal revelation (albeit a minor one). That revelation being that while I find watching football to be something of a chore, reading about it is awesome. Or alternately, this book is just incredibly honest, thoughtful and good. For the fellow uninitiated, right guard Jerry Kramer essentially accounts in his diary what turns out to be the Green Bay Packers' historic 1967 season culminating with the legendary "Ice Bowl". The book is blissfully out of touch with the modern NFL insomuch as the events portrayed are relatively scandal free and that discussion of paychecks, (small ones, incidentally) are secondary to the collective desire to perform well and win. In football circles (read: everyone except me and 27 other U.S. born citizens), the book is regarded as a bit of a playbook classic. Reading it, it's easy to understand why that is.
Lastly, this one by Douglas Rushkoff concerns the positive and negative ways in which the internet affects both human behavior and human happiness. If one were planning to double-fist books like this, this one would make for an excellent dance partner. Done for the fine people at Soft Skull Press.
And that's it for now. Much more on the way. Everything above represents a sliver of my summer, so I need to get outside for a minute before the weather turns cold.

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so as you may recall we had to scratch our first derby (drew #17 dog) because of an incident with a barb wire fence (the fence won!). stitches were removed today and the vet gave us the all clear
i signed up for a test last week thinking that was the response we would get
couple weeks ago i posed a question to my training group. if i was the first dog to the line and i told you i had never run a trial and neither had my dog. would you allow me to drop back a few dogs to get the hang of it
responses varied (including from one who will be a judge at the very derby we will be at) most said probably not
well of course i jinxed myself. got drawn as first dog
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By Ginna Parsons/NEMS Daily Journal
Tony Mason can thank his dear mother for his domestic skills. The 81-year-old takes care of all the food preparation and housekeeping at his west Tupelo home, and still makes time to hunt, fish and make jigs.
"We had a pretty large family," said Mason. "There were five boys and three girls and I was the youngest. I had to learn to cook and clean and can food. I told Mama she almost made a girl out of me."
Mason's wife, Allene, who died in 2012 after the couple had been married 53 years, benefited greatly from his skills.
"When we were married, I helped in the kitchen a lot," said Mason, who is retired from JCPenney. "I used to kid her and say I was going to put a sign in the yard that said, 'A spoiled rotten woman lives here.'"
Mason recalled that about 20 years ago, he found a recipe in the original Bell's Best cookbook for a pound cake, and he decided he'd give it a try. It turned out perfectly.
"My wife came home from work that day and said, 'Where'd that cake come from?' And I told her I'd made it, but she didn't believe me," he said. "So I started telling her what all I'd put in it and she said, 'I do believe you made that cake after all.'"
Mason still makes that cake to share with friends, and he's also known for his pralines and peanut brittle.
"We were in Natchez – our kids gave us the trip – and we toured some antebellum homes," he said. "I had a praline there and I decided to try them myself. I make them all the time now. When people tell me my pralines are good, I say, 'Oh, they're not that good. You're just wanting me to make some more of them.'"
Mason is meticulous about his cooking. He likes to use a food scale and a timer. He makes the dough up for his chicken and dumplings the night before and refrigerates it. And he always makes his peanut brittle on the stove.
"Some people make theirs in the microwave, but I've got a system that works for me, so why mess with it? If it ain't broke, don't fix it," he said.
Mason said his wife, who taught in the Tupelo Public School District for 28 years, was the type of person who helped anybody she could, whether she knew them or not. When she'd read in the newspaper that a soldier had been killed, she'd clip the article, have it laminated and then have to hunt the family down to give it to them.
"If people realized how much joy they could get from helping people, there'd be so much more done," Mason said. "There really would."
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Atypical pneumonia refers to pneumonia caused by certain bacteria, including Legionella pneumophila, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, and Chlamydophila pneumoniae. It is called "atypical" because the symptoms differ from those of pneumonia due to other common bacteria.
Pneumonia is an infection of the lung.
Walking pneumonia; Chlamydophila pneumoniae; Community-acquired pneumonia - atypical
Mycoplasma pneumonia is a type of atypical pneumonia. It is caused by the bacteria M. pneumoniae. It typically affects people younger than age 40. For more information on this type of pneumonia, see: Mycoplasma pneumonia
Pneumonia due to chlamydia-related bacteria occurs year round and accounts for 5 - 15% of all pneumonias. It is usually mild.
Pneumonia due to Legionella is seen more often in middle-aged and older adults, smokers, and those with chronic illnesses or a weak immune system. It can be more severe.
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Many people are concerned about the United States depending on "foreign oil" or about burning fossil fuels in general. The concerns about burning fossil fuels stem from the fact that the carbon contained in these fuels has been isolated from the atmosphere for millions of years. When we burn fossil fuel the carbon combines with oxygen (02) and carbon dioxide (C02) is released and enters the Carbon Cycle. The increased C02 in the cycle changes the overall balance of the system with wide ranging effects for all organisms. But what if we could bypass this fossil part? What if we could go straight to the source and pull carbon from the atmosphere, turn it into fuel, and then release it back into the atmosphere? In theory we would be using carbon already in the system and not adding additional carbon. Scientists at NASA thought about this problem and came up with an elegant solution.
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GRANADA CENTER. NEW, COMFORTABLE and WIFI.
Size115 m²
Floor No.1(with elevator)
- Family/child friendly
- Internet/WiFi
- Kitchen
- Air conditioning
- Washer/dryer
- Parking available
- Elevator in building
Accommodation summary
|Afan de Ribera, 18005 Granada, Spain
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|Calendar updated
The apartment has 4 bedrooms, 3 of which are bedrooms with two double beds available (1.60x2.00mts), 2 single beds (0.90x2.00mts) and a sofa bed in the living room, making it suitable for up to 8 guests. Also 2 bathrooms, with clean towels, hair dryer, shampoo and soap. There's a kitchen equipped with everything you need. To make your stay more enjoyable, the apartment also provides heating, air conditioning, iron, towels and linen included, free WIFI 24h..
The area is surrounded by big business and the best streets for shopping. Strategic location to be close to theaters, cinemas and the best restaurants and pubs at night Granada. Ideal for your holidays in Granada.
There is a saying that says, "no pain greater than being blind in Granada". The fact is that anyone who thinks that there is nothing beyond the Alhambra is wrong, a lot. But in this city there is not only what to see, but there are also what to feel. It is a joy for the senses and emotions. Granada is about living and discover the charms of other Grenadians who are more than proud: its culture of rods and caps
House rulesSecurity deposit: 100€ which is returned at the check-out.
The security deposit of the stay must deliver on arrival in cash (no checks).
The time of entry and exit can be flexible, if permitted by the availability calendar.
Smoking indoors is prohibited, you can only smoke on the internal terrace.
Please do not hesitate to contact us to clarify any doubts you may have about the flat or Granada.
We are sure that you will be comfortable and enjoy your stay.
|Weekly rate for up to 2 guests
|Monthly rate for up to 2 guests
|Price for > 2 guests
|$ 17 US per guest/night extra
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Reviews of this property
The apartment of Pedro and Isabel is perfect. The location is very good, very close to the main attractions of Granada. The apartment itself is very comfortable and Pedro has been a very kind host who has explained us all the great attractions in Granada. We would definitely recommend this apartment and in case we come back to Granada, there is no doubt that we will make a reservation with Pedro and Isabel again!
sehr schöne große Wohnung mitten im Zentrum Granads. Sehr netter Vermieter, der uns viele hilfreiche Tipps gegeben hat.
La estancia en el apartamento ha sido inmejorable, todo en perfecto estado. La zona muy tranquila y con parking cercano. Resaltar el buen trato y la amabilidad de Pedro, nuestro anfitrion. No dudaria en regresar.
Oisterwijk 17 juni 2014.
Mooi appartement in het centrum van Granada,
Het appartement was goed schoon op de patio na.
De bedden waren uitstekend,
Ontvangst door de gastheer Pedro uitstekend.
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Recapping No. 21 MSU's 7-6 win over Ole Miss at Swayze Field on Sunday.
• The buzz: Mississippi State (37-15, 14-13 SEC) pulled off its biggest comeback of the year, rallying from 6-0 down to avoid the sweep and remain tied in the SEC standings with Ole Miss (35-17, 14-13). MSU got to ace Bobby Wahl in the sixth and then exploded against the bullpen for two innings.
• Big inning: MSU scored five times in the sixth, loading the bases before Wahl got pulled. Nick Ammirati and Demarcus Henderson had back-to-back RBI singles, then Adam Frazier smashed a two-run double to right field. An Alex Detz sac fly made it 6-5. MSU took the lead in the seventh on Frazier's two-out, two-run single to right.
• Key stats: Ole Miss pitchers issued seven walks, MSU pitchers three. … MSU committed two errors, leading to three unearned runs in the third inning. … Ole Miss made one error.
• MSU at the plate: The Bulldogs banged out 11 hits. … Frazier was 3 of 4 with four RBIs. … C.T. Bradford was 3 of 4 and scored twice. … Wes Rea had two hits, including a double.
• Ole Miss at the plate: The Rebels had five hits, all singles. … Preston Overbey had two RBIs.
• MSU on the mound: Starter Jacob Lindgren lasted only an inning, giving up three runs (all earned) on two hits with a strikeout and two walks. … Closer Jonathan Holder got an early call in the second and tossed two innings. He gave up three unearned runs on one hit, with two Ks and a walk. … After Chad Girodo threw one shutout frame, Ben Bracewell (1-1) hurled five shutout innings. He allowed one hit and retired 15 of the 16 batters he faced, including the last 10. Bracewell fanned three and walked none.
• Ole Miss on the mound: Wahl didn't have his best stuff but kept MSU off the board through five innings. He wound up tossing 5 1/3 innings and was charged with three runs (all earned) on four hits with six Ks and five walks. It was the most earned runs he's allowed in SEC play this year. … Jeremy Massie gave up two runs on three hits and recorded no outs. … Scott Weathersby (0-2) allowed two runs on two hits in two-third of an inning. … Two other relievers saw work.
• Quotable: "I'm not a historian, I don't know about the entire history of this series, but that's got to be one of the all-time great gut-check comebacks." – MSU coach John Cohen
• Bottom line: This win kept MSU tied with Ole Miss in the standings – third in the Western Division, fifth overall. And it kept hope alive for hosting an NCAA regional.


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This is more of an open - discussion question as opposed to a straight question-and-answer, if this is inappropriate for this forum please tell me.
In the numerous presentations and interviews regarding the genesis of the Playstation 4 Mark Cerny said he faced some resistance regarding making the PS4`s architecture based on the x86. He had to convince a number of people,including third parties, that it was "suitable for games".
PC game developers have had no choice but use x86 architecture for their games for several generations with spectacular results (despite not having the same kind of low level access to a GPU like you do on consoles) so why would people:
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Tyler, I own over 20 games for my 360 and I've practically played nothing else since it came out. THAT good.
JCane, have you gotten Mehrunes razor yet? It's a dagger that has like a 75% chance to kill with one blow. Aside from my Nightingale bow, it's all I use. To get it you have to find the parts for it. A courier brings you a message about a new museum opening in Dawnstar and the curator gives you the task to find it.


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xxlgeeklord wrote:(non-blocking) okay, I see your point there. I still think it should be a modifier though, but maybe a -1 one. Using another weapon does negate the penalty, but in any other case you have -2 Parry. That's pretty bad.
Yeah, -2 Parry is bad. But the idea is that players design their own weapons, and this is a penalty you can easily work around. If you desperately want weapons that don't count as melee weapons then I'd suggest discussing it with the GM and agreeing on an appropriate benefit to balance it, rather than assigning "Unarmed Defender" an actual ability value. In effect, handle it the same way you would power trappings.
For example you might design the brass knuckles like this:
* Crude (+2): Costs $10.
* Concealable (+1): +2 to draw, opponents suffer -2 Notice to spot.
* Light (+1): No longer counts as a significant item for encumbrance.
* Low Damage (-2): Inflicts d4 damage.
Then in addition you say they don't count as a weapon for the sake of Unarmed Defender - but to compensate, they're so easy to conceal that the Concealable ability also applies when you're wearing them, so you can walk around with them readied.
If you do decide to wear brass knuckles on one hand and hold a knife in the other, you lose the benefit as well as the drawback.
xxlgeeklord wrote:(returning stuff) yes, you could call it a melee weapon with reach, but once you're throwing axes with chains, using bladed boomerangs, or using magically returning kunai, it seems to me you shouldn't be rolling Fighting, shouldn't get wild attacks, shouldn't be limited to throwing it 2" at max, etc.
Perhaps a +1 weapon ability then, allowing it to return to your hand as a normal action - it's mechanically the same as drawing another weapon, but you don't literally have to carry multiple weapons. If you want it to return instantly I'd suggest handling it through Mystic Edge (it's the equivalent of having Quick Draw).
xxlgeeklord wrote:(fixed damage) okay, thanks, this will work fine. I had assumed it would cost more to do this as a fixed bonus increases the chance of acing, allows weak characters to use powerful weapons, and potentially allows for automatic successes. A str+d12 weapon is ridiculous and almost certainly unusable, but a str+d4+4 weapon is ridiculously powerful, as it aces 25% of the time.
The "automatic successes" thing isn't such an issue for damage, as it's versus Toughness+Armour rather than a flat TN 4. However you're right, the fixed bonus is a little better:
d4+4 = average 7.33
d6+3 = average 7.2
d8+2 = average 7.14
d10+1 = average 7.11
d12 = average 7.09
It's not enough for me to really worry about (Savage Armoury isn't that precise), but if it bothers you just use my other suggestion - ignore Strength requirments on weapons. In the core rules a longsword is simply better than a shortsword, which is better than a dagger, and this is balanced by the Strength requirement - but in Savage Armoury they should all be equally good, so someone with Strength d8 could choose to be a knife fighter and generally speaking they'd be just as effective as a swordsman.
A third option would be to stick with the lower damage die, but go for a high raise die. I think I'd actually prefer this thematically, as it represents weapons that aren't particularly forceful, but can inflict horrific damage with an accurate blow. This is also what I did for the example katana in SA.
xxlgeeklord wrote:(more armor) I can see how you find the abstract way better, but in my opinion it is inferior. I don't like how even leather armor becomes penalized, making it as good as impossible to have an effective "rogue" character with armor. Also, it means that there are 3 kinds of armor in the world, with no unique and awesome armors for the players to explore and no awesome customization.
Well the armour is balanced against no armour, so you can play a rogue with no armour, or one with leather armour, and they should be equally viable.
Even if I were to put together a set of armour abilities, the penalties wouldn't change; if leather armour didn't give a penalty then everyone would wear it. If you want armour without a penalty, that's what the Armour Proficiency edge is for.
If you really want "wearing armour" to be the standard in your setting, then just reduce the armour penalties by 1. It'll probably mean no more barbarians in loincloths, or wizards wearing only robes, though.
xxlgeeklord wrote:(mounted) here I am forced to disagree. "Mounted Only" means that it cannot be used in dungeons, buildings, caves, big cities, boats, places where you want to be stealthy, and any other place you don't ride your steed. Also, even in mounted combat, a Shaken/Wound to either the steed or the rider forces a Riding roll or the rider is thrown off, at which point the weapon becomes useless. You are also in danger when there is difficult terrain, the steed is panicked, or you are attempting a maneauver with your steed. Any point at which you are not ready for battle your weapon is useless as well, as you are not mounted.
Fair point. I was concerned about people creating separate weapons for mounted combat ("this is my really big sword that I can only wield from horseback"), but that's a good point about the potential for knocking people off their mount. Still, I don't think I would make it a very big modifier - perhaps just -1 for a mounted-only weapon.
EDIT: I've added "Returning" and "Mounted" abilities to the PDF.


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Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 4:03 PM GMT on May 26, 2012
The second named storm of this unusually fast-starting 2012 Atlantic hurricane season is here. Subtropical Storm Beryl formed Friday night, a few hundred miles east of the South Carolina coast, from an area of disturbed weather that had moved from the Western Caribbean northeastward. Beryl's formation marks the first time since the hurricane season of 1908 that two Atlantic named storms have formed so early in the year. The only other year with two storms so early in the year was 1887. Records of tropical cyclones in the Atlantic extend back to 1851.
Figure 1. Morning satellite image of Beryl.
The clockwise flow of air around an extremely intense ridge of high pressure that is bringing record heat to the Midwest this weekend is currently driving Beryl to the southwest, and this motion is likely continue until Beryl is very close to the Georgia/Northern Florida coast on Sunday night. As I explain in my Subtropical Storm Tutorial, a subtropical storm typically has a large, cloud free center of circulation, with very heavy thunderstorm activity in a band removed at least 100 miles from the center. The difference between a subtropical storm and a tropical storm is not that important as far as the winds they can generate, but tropical storms generate more rain. A key difference between tropical and subtropical storms is that tropical systems have the potential to quickly grow into hurricanes, while subtropical storms do not. Thus, we need not be concerned about Beryl intensifying to hurricane strength while it is still subtropical. If the storm manages to build a large amount of heavy thunderstorms near its center, these thunderstorms should be able to add enough heat and moisture to the atmosphere to turn Beryl into a tropical storm. This process will be aided as Beryl passes over the warmest waters of the Gulf Stream Saturday night and Sunday morning. But as Beryl makes its likely transition to a tropical storm on Sunday afternoon and evening as it approaches the coast, the storm will move off of the warmest Gulf Stream waters into waters that are cooler (25°, 77°F), and with with lower total heat content. This will limit the storm's potential to strengthen. The 11 am Saturday wind probability advisory from NHC gave Beryl just an 8% chance of becoming a hurricane. There is a lot of dry air surrounding Beryl, thanks to an upper-level low pressure system aloft, and this will keep rainfall amounts much lower that what we would expect if Beryl was a tropical storm. Thus, flooding due to heavy rains is probably not a huge concern with this storm, particularly since the Southeast U.S. coast is under moderate to extreme drought. The 2 - 4 inches of rain expected from Beryl will not be enough to bust the drought, since the Southeast U.S. is generally suffering a rainfall deficit of 8 - 12 inches (since October 1.) Heavy rains from Beryl are not likely to begin affecting coastal South Carolina, Georgia, and Northern Florida until Sunday.
Figure 2. Moderate to exceptional drought is currently gripping the Southeast U.S.; Beryl's rains would be welcome. Image credit: U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Bud hits Mexico and dissipates
Hurricane Bud hit Mexico as a tropical depression early this morning, and has now dissipated, thanks to dry air, wind shear, and interaction with Mexico's mountainous terrain. As Bud approached Mexico on Friday, it brought tropical storm-force winds and heavy rains to the coast. Winds at Manzanillo peaked at 41 mph, with a gust to 55 mph, Friday afternoon. Thursday night at 11 pm EDT, Bud peaked at Category 3 status, with 115 mph winds, becoming the earliest Category 3 hurricane on record so early in the year in the Eastern Pacific. There are no reports of deaths or damage from Bud so far, and with only another inch or so of rain expected from the storm, Mexico appears to have escaped serious damage.
Figure 3. True-color satellite image of Hurricane Bud taken by NASA's Terra satellite at 1:15 pm EDT May 25, 2012. At the time, Bud was a Category 1 hurricane with 85 mph winds. Image credit: NASA.
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Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather


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Evans targets first team place
Midfielder Lee Evans admits it would "mean everything" to make his league debut for Wolves at Preston as he prepares to try and cement his place in training this week.
Evans, who turned 19 last week, has enjoyed an impressive pre-season and once again turned in a confident performance as Wolves were beaten 3-2 by Real Betis on Saturday.
He is now hoping to continue to impress this week in a bid to start Kenny Jackett's first competitive fixture as Wolves Head Coach as the Sky Bet League One campaign kicks off at Deepdale on Saturday (3pm).
"I feel ready, I feel confident and I can't wait for the season to start now," says Evans.
"It will mean everything to me to play at Preston – that's what I've been aiming to do with everything I've done in pre-season, that's why I'm here, that's why I train every day, to play in the big games and I want to play as many league games as possible.
"The new gaffer came in at the start of the season and everyone has been looking to impress him.
"I worked hard over the summer, kept myself fit and wanted to catch his eye as much as possible from the start of pre-season.
"The gaffer and Joe (Gallen) have been really good to me – all they have said to me is 'go out and play your natural game'.
"That's what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to get on the ball as much as possible, trying to dictate play.
"It was hard against Real Betis because you don't get much of the ball and when you get it, you have to try to keep it, to give ourselves a rest.
"But they have just said to me to play my game and I'm trying to impress them."
Evans joined Wolves from Newport in January and was a regular for the Under-21s as they did battle with some of the country's top players in the Elite Stage of the League over the second half of the season.
Now he is one of many younger talents being handed an opportunity by Jackett, and he believes the club now boast a promising mix of youth and experience.
"It feels like I'm getting old now I'm 19!" says Evans.
"It's good having the youngsters around – you need the older heads as well which we've got in Richard Stearman and the two keepers and Leigh Griffiths, who has just had a great season.
"It's good learning from everyone but we're still gelling as a group and hopefully we'll gel even more by the time we go to Deepdale on Saturday.
"I think we're in a good place at the moment.
"We've had a very good pre-season with Saturday being our only defeat, but we'll take that, especially as it was against a La Liga team.
"It was hard work but it was a good test before Preston on Saturday.
"For me, having come from senior football in the Conference and going into the Under-21s set-up was a bit different last season.
"I enjoyed it playing against the big clubs but I want to play first-team football – that's the plan now."
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Today we set off to gain some insight into the towns which the Kautsky family once inhabited. We were able to explore the towns a bit. I am definitely not cut out for detective work, so I did not gain a great deal of information. My point was just to see the area, we were successful in that.
We started out with some information which was provided to me from my mom and the Kautsky family. We knew we were looking for two small towns, Lounin and Tetin. These are situated near the town of Beroun, about 30 km southwest of Prague. We decided to make Beroun our base camp and have been staying here. It is not the most traveler appealing town, but it does have inexpensive, nice lodging. So that has worked out
We tried to map out where to find these towns on the internet before we left because we had trouble locating them on any of the maps we had. We knew the basic direction we were heading and wandered until we found them. Our first stop ended up being Lounin.
Lounin is one of those places that if you blink you will miss. We were in search of house number 24, where several generations of the Koucky (Kautsky) family were born. We did find the house, it seemed very nice, most likely remodeled a time or two over the years. It was fenced off, so we were not able to see a great deal of it. We were not able to talk to anyone in the home.
As we roamed around many dogs were not pleased with us. Their barks scared me some, but we managed to find a marker of some sort which showed Josef Koucky. From my understanding he was born in house #24 on October 8, 1803. Following Josef's birth was his son Frantisex on December 1, 1830, and his son with the same name on August 9, 1863. So I guess this house has a lot of Kautsky family history. It was neat to see the place they once called home.
We then ventured to Tetin, the previous home and the resting place of some of the Kautsky family. This was a lovely historical town near the Elk River. We were looking for house #1 and #3, where the oldest Kautsky members that we have record of were known to have lived. We roamed throughout the entire town, but could not find these homes. We were able to locate a very old church with a grave yard which dated back to the tenth century. We were not able to locate any specific Kautsky family members, but the majority of the grave stones were no longer marked. We did find one family name which we had been told had relation to the Kautsky family, the name was Kravohlova. The cemetery was situated on the edge of a hill in a beautiful location. It was wonderful to walk along and think that some of my past family may have walked in these same places, or attended these same churches.
From this point we found another church nearby called Kostel Svate Ludmily. This church was built in honor of an early Czech martyr named Saint Ludmily. Ludmilla was also the name of the earliest Kautsky lady that we know of. I had information stating that the early Kautskys were buried here. There were no markers anywhere, but it was evident that this had been a resting place. We were not able to find any other grave yards in the town, although we did look
Unfortunately, I gained no insight that the Kautsky family did not already know. Instead, I gained perspective which I had not had before. I now can visualize the area where these ancestors once lived. I can see the fields and gentle hills which they may have once farmed or looked over. I stood inside the churches that they may have once attended, or may be buried. I admired the lovely river which bordered the town and wondered what experiences they may have had in it.
I am thankful to the family for taking the risk and heading to America. I am not sure of their reasoning or their motivation. I appreciate the Bohemian area that they came from, and found many similarities to the Indiana farmland I call home.
I am glad we made the journey to Bohemia, or what we today call the Czech Republic. I now understand a bit of where I come from. I had hoped to find some grave stones with their names, or dreamed of finding some welcoming extended family member to share stories of the past. In reality I doubted that would happen. The people I did talk to were nice and made me even more grateful I made the journey.
I appreciate the get togethers the Kautsky family still have each summer, and realize that what is most important is the relationships built today. Many years from now it is quite possible that our descendents will not know everything about us, but hopefully our legacy will live on. I am hoping that although I do not know a great deal about my family history now, I just might later in heaven. I am hoping they came to know the Lord and that we will have an amazing reunion together in the presence of Christ. I look forward to that day.


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UPS farce
This is not the kind of place I live, though I don't mind a visit. I'm not bothered by a more rural life, I thrive on peace and quiet, and am not bothered by needing to haul my water, split firewood, or spend an hour just mowing my driveway.
I bought a GPS the other day, and it doesn't know where my driveway is..
or where the road leading to my driveway is..
or even about the highway leading to that road!
The only thing that really bothers me about living here off the map is that I'm in the middle of a food desert too. The nearest semi-decent grocery store and produce market are 40 minutes away. There's one restaurant worth eating at, and while a very congenial place to eat rustic food while watching the river flow by, it serves almost no vegetables. Adding to the problem, my fridge is a rather expensive propane model, which is about half a normal size, and has no freezer. Managing a healthy meal plan is a constant struggle, though I do have time to cook, at least, thanks to not having the kind of commute that is typical around here.
Well, the food desert was my only real problem. Now I can add to that the UPS emergency. A week ago, a package left Shenzen China for here. It quickly passed through Anchorage Alaska, and with a few days had arrived an hour and a half from here. Getting it here has taken the whole rest of the week.
I only knew UPS attempted delivery because a neighbor told me. Seems they took one look at my driveway and turned around. They never tried again, and they didn't bother to leave a note on the mailbox, or anything. Now, the US postal service is happy to drive up this driveway; they drive a sensible 4x4 around here. I think DHL and Fedex have been here too. (Contrary to John Goerzen's experiences) My compact car is not bothered by my driveway either...
But UPS's brand involves large brown trucks, even where inappropriate, and damage to them from such things as low-hanging branches apparently comes out of the driver's paycheck. And while normally UPS leaves small things in my mailbox, or with a neighbor, this was an important package from China, and it needed a signature. But really, a post card? "emergency"?!
So, I bought the GPS to find UPS, because my package was in an industrial park in some town I've never been to. And on Tuesday I was within an hour of there and swung by. And it was closed. UPS's website had not mentioned this; other businesses are open the day after Memorial day. That turned out to be a really annoying day all around. When I got home, after a night away, I found my fridge's fire had blown out, and nearly all my food was only fit for the dog.
Today I went out to try again (and buy groceries). When I reached the UPS depot.. it was closed! Until 3 pm. At this point I felt this story was reaching full-on farce.
After cooling my heels in a library for three hours, I was finally able to open the most over-packed package I've probably ever seen.
My kickstarter reward sample looks good.. I'll be ordering a lot more, but not to this address.
As a coda to the UPS farce, arriving home today I checked my mailbox, and found the UPS postcard had finally arrived. It included mention of the 3 pm opening time, and noted that I had until tomorrow before they'd return my package to China.
The coda to the coda is that on my way home from this second annoying day delivered courtesy of UPS, I stumbled on a restaurant overlooking a waterfall, just outside the town where I get my groceries. It serves food that satisfies both my Cajun and healthy cravings. Now I just need a larger fridge..


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Chemical engineering Wilhelm lecture, April 11
Posted April 6, 2001; 07:27 p.m.
Charles Zukoski, the William H. and Janet L. Lycan Professor and chemical engineering chair at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will continue the Richard H. Wilhelm Lectureship in Chemical Engineering in Bowen Hall Auditorium of the Princeton Materials Institute at 4 p.m. on April 11.
Zukoski will address "Protein Crystallization: Depletion Interactions and Nucleation Kinetics." On Monday, April 9, he discussed "Protein Crystallization as Nanoparticle Self-Assembly."
Zukoski's research focuses on understanding the relationship between surface physical chemistry and the material properties of colloidal suspensions. Such systems have widespread applications, including protein crystallization, paints, cements, ceramics, and drilling muds.
The lecture is co-sponsored by The Graduate School in celebration of its centennial .
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(WENY)--- The meningitis outbreak is growing. Health officials are saying, as many as 13,000 people received steroid shots suspected in the meningitis outbreak.
Health officials are saying, as many as 13,000 people received steroid shots suspected in the meningitis outbreak
The CDC count of cases reached 105 on Monday, including nine deaths.
The drug was made and distributed by New England Compound Center of Massachusetts.
As we reported, The pharmacy at the center of the meningitis outbreak announced Sunday a voluntary recall of every product it makes.
Health officials say the steroid is contaminated with a fungus that goes from the spinal fluid up to the brain, causing a rare form of meningitis.
Doctor William Shaffner, from Villanova University says, "if there is a silver lining, it's that apparently many people were inoculated but the attack rate is very small... it's really about 1 percent or less. we hope that that continues.. "
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Delegation to discuss trip to NATO summit in Prague, Nov. 26
Posted November 25, 2002; 06:13 p.m.
A delegation from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs returned this week from the recent NATO summit in Prague, and will present a report on both the NATO and student summits on Tuesday, Nov. 26.
The presentation will run from noon to 1 p.m. in 1 Robertson Hall.
The delegation was led by Assistant Dean Robert Hutchings, lecturer of public and international affairs and a former director at the U.S. National Security Council. Hutchings and two Woodrow Wilson School graduate students -- Cara Abercrombie, MPA '03, on the U.S. delegation and Mariyan Zumbulev, MPA '04, on the Bulgarian delegation -- met with or heard from many of the heads of state and government in attendance, and participated in an international student summit paralleling and simulating the actual NATO summit.
President Bush delivered his major foreign policy address to a group of 170 students from 40 countries, and the Princeton delegation met with Czech President Vaclav Havel and five other presidents over the course of the summit, as well as with the NATO secretary-general, prime ministers, foreign ministers and various government officials.
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The $5-billion complex, National Chevron Phillips (NCP), will comprise a 1.2-million-tonne-per-annum (tpa) olefins cracker, a 1.1 million-tpa polyethylene unit; a 400,000-tpa polypropylene unit, and a 200,000-tpa metathesis facility, a 100,000-tpa 1-hexene facility, and two 550,000-tpa 1-hexene facilities. It will produce the following products: ethylene, propylene, polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, and 1-hexene. The large majority of products from NCP will be purchased by a distribution company owned by Chevron Phillips and Petrochem.
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Heat lamps warm up some Downtown Pittsburgh bus sheltersFebruary 4, 2014 4:17 PM
This morning, Sylvester Lighty held his hand near the heat lamp recently installed on the ceiling of the Liberty Avenue and Ninth Street bus shelter Downtown.
It was 20 degrees outside, but Mr. Lighty said he wasn't warming his hand. He was just curious about how much heat the lamp radiated.
"It's good on a cold day," said Mr. Lighty, who lives a couple blocks away. "It's good all the way around."
When the heat lamp turned off, he pushed a button on the wall to get it going again.
The heat lamp, wedged into a corner of the bus shelter's ceiling like a metal wasp's nest, is among four that have been installed by Pittsburgh insurer Highmark Inc. since early January.
The others are Downtown at Fifth Avenue and Ross Street, and at the Boulevard of the Allies and Stanwix Street; and on the North Side at Reedsdale and Boyce streets.
They are part of an advertising campaign for Highmark's Community Blue healthcare plan. The exteriors of the stops invite bus riders to "step in, warm up."
"This was done as a small gesture," Highmark spokesman Doug Braunsdorf said. "As a company, we care about the community, and this is a way to say it."
The heat lamps will remain up until early March, Mr. Braunsdorf said.
The bus stops are owned by Lamar Advertising through a contract with the city, said Jim Ritchie, communications officer at the Port Authority.
The idea for the heat lamps has been in the works since fall, Mr. Braunsdorf said. The advertisements went up shortly before Pittsburgh's first run-in with the polar vortex and the sub-zero temperatures that came with it.
"Are we going to come back and do it next year? It's too early to say," he said.
Encouraged by a favorable reaction to the heat lamps, Highmark is considering similar outreach efforts, Mr. Braunsdorf said. One idea floating around the company is to install devices to take the edge off this summer's heat, such as mist sprayers.
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The results are in for the "What do you do at Summer camp" Poll.
And it looks like 68% of you participate in Adult Programs. 26% of you just hang out with a good book and pretty much the rest of you get in the Scouts way (6%).
OK.. this is for the 6 percenters out there… STOP IT!!! Summer camp is not for you to get in their way! Get on board with the 68% that are doing it right!
There are many options for you at summer camp.. none of which call for you to get in the way.
Have a great summer camp.. but let the Scouts do the same.
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Healthier changes on the way for school snacks
LA CROSSE, Wis. - Buying an ice cream bar or bag of pretzels at lunch time could become a thing of the past for students across the country.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has proposed a comprehensive new set of rules that would require schools to replace some high-calorie favorites with more wholesome options.
These proposed changes come in the wake of this school year's new nationwide measures to make lunches healthier, in a continued effort to fight childhood obesity.
In addition to those healthy lunches, students can still buy not-so-healthy snacks a la carte in the cafeteria or from a vending machine.
Now those items could be under stricter scrutiny.
When Longwood Middle School sixth-grader Elizabeth Meyers is at home, she said she eats a lot of veggies. But, once a week at school, she buys herself a treat.18442228
"I like to get Gatorade, chips, gushers," said Meyers. "I like the ice cream bars."
But some of those less-healthy snacks might soon become a thing of the past.
New proposed rules from the Department of Agriculture would require schools to cut out high-fat, high-calorie and high-sodium snacks.
Most snacks sold a la carte and in vending machines would have to contain fewer than 200 calories.
It's a transition the La Crosse School District has already been working on.
"We've made a lot of changes over the last few years to go from regular potato chips to baked potato chips to reduce the total calorie amount of the items. We used to have 6-ounce muffins that we served. Now we're down to 4-ounce muffins," said La Crosse School District Nutrition Supervisor Joni Ralph.
Some of the a la carte items currently sold in La Crosse schools would be able to stay. But items like two-packs of Pop-Tarts, for example, would have to go. They're whole grain, but they also clock in at 360 calories.
But Linda Lee, co-chair of the Childhood Obesity Coalition, said replacing fatty favorites could actually hurt the school's ability to provide healthy lunches.
"The reimbursement rates don't keep pace with what it costs to produce a lunch. And so schools use a la carte as a way to supplement, financially, their regular school lunch program," said Lee.
Since the highest-selling a la carte snacks tend to be the unhealthy ones, the changes could mean lunch programs would take a financial hit.
The school districts would get no extra funding from the federal government to put the new changes in place.
The proposed regulations would not cover concessions sold at events after-school or any food students bring from home.
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AEP rekindles debate over grid pricing, but should the outcome hinge on majority rule?
Bruce W. Radford is publisher of Public Utilities Fortnightly .
AEP rekindles debate over grid pricing, but should the outcome hinge on majority rule?
You might have thought the Feds closed the book on any broad, region-wide sharing of sunk transmission costs—especially after FERC ruled last spring in Opinion No. 494 that PJM could stick with license-plate pricing (LPP) for transmission lines already planned and built.
If you thought that, you weren't alone. Of 25 transmission owners (TOs) in the Midwest ISO (MISO), 24 voted recently to do the same for their market as well.
Starting in late 2006, the Midwest TOs had explored quite a few different pricing alternatives, including postage-stamp pricing to spread grid costs over a wide area, depending upon line voltage or other factors. But once the PJM ruling came down, the Midwest grid owners saw it as a "signal." They said FERC "likely would look favorably" on license-plate pricing for MISO for the long term.
The LPP model, of course, would see PJM, MISO and their participating TOs billing the costs of prior grid investments only to those customers (ultimately, the retail ratepayers) residing in the zones where the lines were built. For example, New Jersey ratepayers would pay nothing for using an Ohio transmission line to import cheap coal-fired power from Illinois. Factors such as line length, voltage, power flows or manner of use would make no difference, at least for these so-called "existing" facilities.
Consider, however, the resulting dismay of American Electric Power (AEP), the nation's leading booster and utility investor in extra-high-voltage (EHV) transmission lines (capacities ranging from 345 kV to 765 kV). AEP for years has led a crusade to convince FERC and the industry to rethink its pricing model for grid facilities built long ago—that voltage should matter more than vintage. In AEP's world, consumers across a broad swath of the Eastern Interconnection would pay at least something for the EHV lines lying within AEP's service territory—regardless of when they were built. In AEP's view, those EHV lines enable East Coast consumers to save big on long-haul power imports from the Midwest.
Nevertheless, on at least two prior occasions involving PJM pricing rules (the latest being FERC's Opinion 494) AEP had proposed its ideas to FERC through various and uncounted motions, affidavits and briefs, only to lose on the merits.
However, while AEP has failed to persuade FERC to adopt a full-scale voltage-based, "highway-byway" pricing regime for existing EHV lines, with region-wide cost-averaging based on load-ratios (known as "postage-stamp" pricing), FERC has agreed to go halfway, by dabbling with postage-stamp pricing for certain newly planned and constructed lines.
In Opinion 494, setting grid pricing policy for PJM, it OK'd 100 percent postage-stamp pricing for new lines 500-kV and up. Lesser new lines in PJM would qualify for a "beneficiary-pays" pricing regime, which assigns costs and rates selectively to various facility users, based on their measured usage and perceived benefits (see Opinion No. 494, Docket No. EL05-121, Apr. 19, 2007, 119 FERC ¶61,063) .
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