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Churchill's C.J. Cromie (middle) gets squeezed by Franklin's Josh Dudek (left) and Johnny Parkinson (right) in Wednesday's KLAA South clash. / DOUGLAS BARGERSTOCK
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Livonia Churchills hockey team can sometimes be its own worst enemy, but the Chargers somehow avoided their own nagging pitfalls Wednesday night at Edgar Arena.
Despite being outshot 33-24 and taking nine penalties to Livonia Franklins three, Churchill was able to squeeze out a key 4-3 KLAA South Division win.
With the victory, the Chargers improve to 6-11-2 overall, but more importantly moves them temporarily into first place in the KLAA South at 5-4-1 overall.
Andrew Sparks power play goal with only 3:24 left in the final period broke a 3-3 deadlock and gave Churchill the victory.
Dylan Smith and Dan Hudy assisted on the game-winner, which came after Franklins Nick Salisbury tied it just 57 seconds earlier with a short-handed goal from Trevor Lassaline.
Were probably not as happy about that performance as we should be, Churchill coach Jason Reynolds said. Again, crosstown rivalry matchups ... emotions run high. Its one of those things where you have to stay composed otherwise these games are closer than they should be. But give Franklin credit. They came to battle. They know they have us in the (state) playoffs and I think they were ready to send a message tonight.
Churchill, however, sent an early message itself jumping out to a 2-0 lead on Smiths power play goal from Sparks at 12:13 followed by Drew Puishes unassisted rebound goal at 4:15 of the first period.
Franklin cut the lead to 2-1 later in the first on Justin Makowskis power play goal, a shot from the left point, from Kolby Dewhirst.
The Patriots then tied it, 2-2, just 15 seconds into the second period on Josh Dudeks goal from Dewhirst.
Puishes, a senior defenseman, then notched his second of the game on a rebound with Nick Misiak assisting to put the Chargers ahead, 3-2, at 8:32.
The Patriots were then poised to tie it again when Matt VanHulle was tripped up on a breakaway to the net. The senior, however, was hurt on the play and Dudek was designated to take the penalty shot at 11:06 of the second, only to be denied when his backhand flip sailed wide of Churchill goaltender David Turel.
Churchill, which took five costly penalties in the final period, successfully killed off a five-on-three early in third, but gave up a short-handed goal later on.
Sparks then saved the day with a blast from the short side.
Weve been really proud of Andrew this season, Reynolds said. Hes really come out of his shell a bit. He was limited in terms of his production last year, so this year hes really been a treat to watch. Hes currently our leading scorer. Hopefully he keeps it up and well need him in the stretch run.
Franklin, pulling goalie Matt Monendo with 1:17 left to make it a two-man advantage, nearly scored the equalizer with just under 10 seconds left.
But Turel denied a high drive from Dudek to seal the win.
I thought it was going in, Dudek said. (Greg) Bo took that face-off and put it right where we practice every single day. I took it, but what can I do? I hit his (Turels) knob of his stick, looked at the ceiling and wish it would have gone in.
The loss dropped Franklin to 3-13 overall and 1-9 in the South. Franklin lost earlier meeting (Dec. 20) against the Chargers, 5-4.
What just couldnt get that daggone puck to go in, Franklin coach Dennis Gagnon said. We did score one power play goal early, which was good to see. But Churchill battled hard. They have a good penalty kill and it was a great game. Im proud of my guys. Again, it didnt show on the scoreboard, but the coaching staff is very pleased with our efforts.
I hate keep going back to puck luck, but dang, the hockey gods have not been kind to us. But we still have a third of the season to go and weve got some playoffs. Were going to keep working hard and hard work will lead to some luck for us.
Despite the loss, Franklins captain remained upbeat.
The puck, of course, doesnt bounce in our favor, Dudek said. But the team played real good, Im proud of the boys. I couldnt ask for a better team my senior year. Bad bounces, what can you do? Im real proud of them. Youve got to take one game at a time, one practice a day ... hopefully this tourney (at Grand Blanc) this weekend well get a W and take home a trophy.
Churchill, meanwhile, travels Saturday to the Kensington Valley Ice House to take on KLAA Central Division leader and defending Division 1 state champion Brighton. (Game time is 4 p.m.)
We have a lot of goals that we still want to accomplish this year, Reynolds said. There are a lot of games we want to win. We played a lot tough games this year, but regardless of that, this Saturday we have a chance to play for our (KLAA South) division title. So thats a big goal weve set. Its a lofty goal against Brighton. Its going to take discipline on our part. Its going to take consistency in our systems and we need to keep building a track record of good play starting on Saturday.
And Reynolds knows his team had a little puck luck in its favor to beat rival Franklin for the Senior Night victory.
We were lucky to get the two points, he said, but we aspire to be better than we were tonight.
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"They've been basically writing Hasim off since the start of the promotion," said Greg Cohen of Greg Cohen Promotions, Rahman's promoter. "Hasim isn't even on the posters for this event. They've been making jokes and having fun. But while they were doing that, Hasim has been getting himself into fantastic shape."
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So i just bought my nexus 5 and its pretty awesome but i was wondering if i could change a couple of questions...
Do you know the menu which appears when you press the lock button(i think its called power menu), is there a way of changing what icons appear there?
Can the tiles also in quick settings panel be changed?
Finally, if you press the middle button you see the google logo to laung google search, can that be changed to show other apps?
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Regarding question 3 - check google now swipe app.
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Inflammation of the outer skin and middle (muscle, connective tissue, and glands) portions of the eyelids is medically referred to as blepharitis. This condition is also usually seen with the secondary inflammation of the inner surface of the eyelid (palpebral conjunctiva).
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When seen edge-on, Saturn's rings all but vanish, as this beautiful image, captured NASA's Cassini spacecraft and compiled by amateur astronomer Fernando Garcia Navarro, clearly illustrates.
Like Earth, Saturn features active and radiant auroras at its poles. To date, our impressions of these fantastic features have been fleeting and sporadic at best. But now, using several pairs of telescopic eyes, NASA has caught its best glimpse yet of these massive, swirling auroras.
NASA's Cassini probe has been exploring the Saturn system for almost a decade. In that time, it has fundamentally changed the way we look at the Ringed Planet and its many moons – not to mention the rest of our solar system. But which of its observations rank among Cassini's greatest contributions to science?
Assuming you read the headline, I'm probably not going to be able to convince you that this image is an extreme, shadowy close-up of a Christmas bauble. But it can still be hard to believe that these boldly colored, oddly perfect circles and hexagons can really be found in Saturn's northern hemisphere.
When, exactly, Saturn acquired its iconic ring-system is a longstanding point of debate among planetary scientists. Some maintain the structures formed relatively recently, while others argue they formed long ago. Now, newly collected data suggest the rings likely formed 4.4-billion years ago, lending strong support to …
NASA has compiled the most detailed map ever made of Titan's methane-drenched surface, including this unprecedented 3D fly-over video. One of these lakes, Ligeia Mare, contains about 40 times the amount of oil and gas reserves on Earth, prompting some to wonder if we should bring it back to Earth.
You're looking at a newly released 8-frame movie of Saturn's enigmatic "hexagon." It is the highest-resolution footage ever acquired of the massive six-sided maelstrom atop the ringed planet's north pole, and boy howdy is it gorgeous.
We now have a better picture than ever of what the incredible landscapes of Saturn's moon Titan look like. On the wet north pole of the moon, there are many enormous lakes — and newly-analyzed images from Cassini spacecraft reveal that they're surrounded by dramatic salt flats.
Not since the release of this beautifully backlit view of Saturn have we found ourselves so arrested by an image of the ringed planet. Which, for a celestial body as consistently photogenic as Saturn, is truly saying something.
Late last month, the Cassini spacecraft captured a remarkable photograph of the Earth and Moon as seen from Saturn. The event coincided with a project called "The Day The Earth Smiled" in which participants from 40 countries took photos of themselves waving at the ringed planet. The results have now been assembled into…
Assembled from more than 200,000 photographs captured by the Cassini Spacecraft between 2004 and 2012, this remarkable video serves up one of the most awe-inspiring views of Saturn and its moons we've seen in ages.
Last Friday, people the world over had their first chance ever to smile for a picture of Earth taken from outer space, when NASA's Cassini orbiter photographed our moon and planet from almost one-billion miles away.
Earth has been photographed from space before, but its inhabitants have never been given advance notice as to when those photographs would be taken. Consider this your send-ahead: On July 19th, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will photograph Earth from a billion miles away. Say cheese.
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NASA's Cassini mission has posted a new photo of Saturn's moon Enceladus emitting a stunning plume of water vapor longer than the moon is wide.
As a gas planet, it's not exactly surprising that Jupiter is famous for its storms and clouds—indeed, Jupiter's most famous feature, the Great Red Spot, is a storm that's lasted perhaps 400 years and is at least twice the size of Earth. By those standards, the rare breaks in Jupiter's swirling cover are tiny, but they …
Just released: two spellbinding images of Venus as photographed from NASA's Cassini spacecraft (which, you'll recall, is all the way out in the Saturnian system). You'll want to check these out in hi-res, because good grief are they gorgeous.
In early 2007, NASA's Cassini spacecraft observed something extraordinary around Saturn. An unusually strong blast of solar wind sent subatomic particles crashing into the ringed planet's magnetic field, giving rise to perhaps the most tremendous shock wave ever observed emanating from the planet. But newly announced…
2012 was a remarkable year for jaw-dropping space imagery. Here, in no particular order, are our 22 favorite photos, videos, composites, timelapses and animations of the cosmos for the year.
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Anderson, whose offense will be run by former Southeastern Oklahoma State offensive coordinator Scott Courter, said he's not concerned about how much the team will run or pass the ball, but insists on being "big and strong" up front.
Jones said that won't be a problem as far as he is concerned.
"I'm coming from the best offensive line in the state at Cabell Midland," Jones said. "We all pretty much came out of the woodwork and are big, physical, nasty guys. Last year, I got thrown out of a game, which I regret, but it shows we're nasty.
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Last year - Courter's sixth with Southeastern Oklahoma State - the Savage Storm averaged 223 yards rushing and 184 yards passing per game.
Jones didn't give a stock answer about whether he would prefer to run block or pass block, or play at guard or tackle, since he has played every position on the offensive line.
He "loves" to pull, so guard would be the ideal position.
However, what he's really looking forward to is being part of the beginning of a new era at State.
"It's very cool," he said. "Things are starting to look up. I might be part of the first class to come in there and look back when I'm 30 and say that I helped start the program again ... that I was in Coach Anderson's first recruiting class. It's very special."
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When Awarepoint was established in 2002, our founders recognized that active RFID technologies had applicability for addressing a wide range of potential needs and buyers in numerous industries – from manufacturing, to healthcare, military applications, building management, security, and much more.
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Awarepoint started in healthcare and as a Wi-Fi company. Our first user was Naval Medical Center San Diego, who was looking for a solution to help them respond to mass casualty and disaster scenarios. This deployment was an amazing proving ground for us, and quickly helped us realize the challenges and limitations of Wi-Fi use for real-time locating. By 2005, the company altered technology direction to ZigBee mesh networking. Conceived around 1998, ZigBee networks were acknowledged by engineers who realized that both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth were unsuitable for many applications. In particular, many engineers saw a need for self-organizing ad-hoc digital radio networks that would not interfere with existing WLAN infrastructure, but could play nice with them, were easy to install, and virtually set up and maintained themselves through self-forming, self-calibrating, self-healing properties.
Recognizing that business success demands focus, Awarepoint quickly leveraged its experience with Naval Medical Center San Diego, and the background of one of our founding members, the notable Admiral Harold Koenig, M.D., to focus on developing RTLS to address the asset management challenges faced by hospitals.
Dr. Koenig retired in 1998 as Surgeon General of the Navy and Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery with the permanent rank of Vice Admiral after a 32-year Navy career. He attended the U.S. Naval Academy, Brigham Young University and Baylor University College of Medicine. Today, he continues to serve Awarepoint in the capacity of Chief Medical Officer.
By 2007, Awarepoint had completed significant pilot installs in hospitals in Southern California, and confirmed ZigBee mesh networking technology as a viable commercial application for Real-time Location Solutions in hospitals. Awarepoint's Board of Directors quickly recognized the market potential, and the need to establish a management team to commercialize this success. By 2009, with its patented technologies, Awarepoint was providing enterprise Real-Time Awareness Solutions to hospitals that include prestigious teaching institutions, premiere independents, military facilities and members of major integrated delivery networks.
We share the vision of today's most forward looking healthcare professionals who recognize that "connected health" strategies have the potential to revolutionize the quality and economics of healthcare. In fact, we attracted the attention of the remarkable Dr. Dennis O'Leary, who today serves as our Chief Strategy Officer. Dr. O'Leary served a 21-year tenure as President at The Joint Commission. During that time, O'Leary led the successful transformation of its accreditation process to focus on actual organization performance in the provision of patient care. In 2000, he was identified by Modern Healthcare as "one of the 25 most influential leaders in health care". O'Leary earned his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College and his bachelor's degree from Harvard College.
In 2009, given its traction as a provider of asset management solutions, and the strength and applicability of its technologies, Awarepoint recognized the time was right to expand the definition of our target market from asset management for healthcare to technology partners who recognize the value and role of active RFID and RTLS, and the role these will play in both asset management, patient flow and the new generation of connected health solutions.
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+1 to what everyone has said. however, i must diagree with LD on the use of swaged lead bullets. Lead is the least expensive of all bullets, especially if you cast your own, which i highly recommend because it can be just as enjoyable as handloading, and as a matter of fact, i consider it to be a very necessary step in handloading my own cartridges. you will only run into the problems LD has mentioned if you try to exceed the limitations of the lead you are using. bullet temper, alloy composition, lubrication, velocity, and pressure all effect how well, or poorly a lead bullet will perform. there are other factors, but these are the main ones. the most common problem people have with lead bullets is that they run thier velocities too fast and lead the bore up, which, as LD mentioned can be a real pain in the a$$ to remove. but if you use them within thier limitations, they can spare more expense than any jacketed bullets ever would...
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Police: Colorado gunman entered school through unlocked door
Elderly man gets high school diploma decades late
JACKSON, Mo. (AP) - Sixty-years after Dean Percival's high school classmates graduated, he now his diploma, too.
The Southeast Missourian reports that Percival was presented his diploma from Axtell High School in Kansas during a ceremony Friday in southeast Missouri, where he now lives.
Axtell principal Bob Bartkoski made the 600-mile trip to give Percival, of Cape Girardeau, the diploma. He told about 50 friends and relatives it is based on Percival's life experiences and accomplishments.
Percival dropped out of school in the 10th grade to help support his family, which included five siblings.
Percival's career was mostly with sign companies in several places, including Cape Girardeau.
Now 78, he wore a paper mortar and tassel as he received the framed diploma.
Home-school football squad debuts in St. Louis County
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The upcoming fall high school football season will include a St. Louis County home-school squad.
The 14-member Central Panthers practice at Rockport Baptist Church in Arnold and compete on the junior varsity level in their first season. They're led by a pastor-coach who was a 51-year-old backup middle linebacker at Westminster College in Fulton while earning his master's degree in theology.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the new Mid-East Missouri Homeschool Football Association hopes to add to at least two more teams with players from O'Fallon, Wentzville and St. Charles to the north, and Jackson and Cape Girardeau (juh-RAHR'-doh) in the south, as well as a Central varsity team next year.
The Missouri State High School Activities Association voted in 2012 to allow its members to play home-school teams.
Student arrested after bringing gun onto high school campus
Ferguson Police have arrested a 17-year-old high school student for bringing a gun to school.
Police say the boy was found with the loaded gun in his backpack at McCluer South High School. Another student alerted school officials to the weapon. School officials also say the student was suspended and could face expulsion.
It appears the gun was stolen.
Heat causing some high schools to reschedule football games
Sweltering heat is already forcing some high school football teams to change game times this weekend.
Hazelwood School District officials rescheduled games for Hazelwood Centrals and Hazelwood East. Both games have been moved from 1 PM to 10 AM. Temperatures this weekend are expected to be in the upper-90's with heat indexes above 100.
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Missouri could see new high school sports
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) - Some favorite leisure time activities in Missouri could become high school sports.
The Missouri State High School Activities Association announced Thursday that member schools voted to allow schools to sponsor teams in bass fishing, chess, bowling and target shooting, beginning next year.
The association says it could eventually hold state championships in the events. First, at least 50 schools in at least three of the state's eight districts would have to have teams in the sports. Then member schools would decide whether to add the state championships
The Springfield News-Leader reports if the championships are approved, they would be added to the next two-year cycle.
Schools also voted to allow softball championships in the fall or spring. And track and field will add a fifth class next spring.
High School Teacher accused of having sex with student
St. Louis Public School officials have placed a high school teacher on leave after he allegedly had sex with a student.
Court documents say David Marler had sex with a male student at Soldan High School. Marler also allegedly gave the same student an inhalant that made him dizzy and lightheaded. Marler faces eleven charges, including sodomy, sexual contact with a student, and endangering the welfare of a child.
The school placed Marler on leave on Monday.
St. Louis Police are asking any parents who believe their kids may have been victimized by Marler to call the Child Abuse unit at 314.444.5385.
St. Louis high school among 200 best in the nation
A St. Louis high school is on the list of the Top 200 in the country.
The list is created by the US News and World Report and considers over 21,000 public high schools when making the list. Metro Academic and Classical came in at number 135 an earned a gold medal from the publication.
The list uses data like state assessment test results, AP test scores, and enrollment to assign a college readiness score.
The full top 10 for Missouri high schools:
1. Metro Academic and Classical High School, St. Louis (St. Louis Public School District)
2. Clayton High School, Clayton (Clayton District)
3. Kirkwood High School, Kirkwood (Kirkwood R-VII District)
4. Marquette High School, Chesterfield (Rockwood School District)
5. Eureka Sr. High, Eureka (Rockwood School District)
6. Park Hill High School, Kansas City (Park Hill District)
7. Lindbergh High School, St. Louis (Lindbergh School District)
8. Rock Bridge Sr. High, Columbia (Columbia 93 District)
9. South High, Ballwin (Parkway C-2 District)
10. Lee's Summit West High, Lee's Summit (Lee's Summit R-VII District)
UPDATE: O'Fallon, IL high school student arrested after bomb-making materials found
The F.B.I. has taken over the investigation after metro-east authorities allegedly found bomb-making materials at a rural O'Fallon home.
The St. Clair County Sheriff's Department searched the home of an O'Fallon Township High School student using bomb sniffing dogs Wednesday afternoon. There's no word what led to the search at the home in the 900 block of Scott Troy Road.
O'Fallon Township High School was locked down for about an hour and a half while the school was searched. Police say the action was precautionary because there had been no threat against the school.
O'Fallon Police questioned a student who lives in the home where the bomb-making materials were allegedly found, along with several of his friends. The student who lives in the home was arrested. There's no word yet on charges.
Bourbon High School evacuated after messages found in bathroom
The high school students were moved to the nearby middle school while Crawford County deputies investigate the threat. District officials contacted parents about the incident and no students at the middle school were being released.
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Advance expands from weekly to daily
March 27, 2011, 12:58AM
The Richmond County Advance's original delivery truck sits in front of the Broadway office in 1913. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The Richmond County Advance marked the end of its inaugural quarter-century in business in 1910 with the first major change in its operation; it went from a weekly newspaper to being published twice a week. There would be changes... Full story »
Samuel I. Newhouse: Publishing giant, Staten Island legacy
March 27, 2011, 12:56AM
Staten Island AdvanceSamuel I. Newhouse in 1974. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Samuel I. Newhouse was a legend in his own time. The oldest son of a poor immigrant family, he led his brothers and sisters in the fashioning of one of the largest publishing dynasties in the nation. Starting with the purchase of the Staten Island Advance in 1922,... Full story »
Beach resorts, new housing spur growth on Staten Island
March 27, 2011, 12:53AM
Bathers at Midland Beach, photographed by Alice Austen. In the early 20th century, Staten Island was a popular resort. "Day trippers" arrived in droves during peak weeks in July and August. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- While the Advance's first 25 years of publication could be characterized as a period of formation for Staten Island — a new style of government... Full story »
East Shore is the place for summer fun
March 27, 2011, 12:50AM
Advance Archive PhotosFrom the late 1880s to the 1920s, Midland Beach, ticket above, and South Beach, with its dock and water slide, were the hottest places to be in the summertime. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- In the good old summertime at the turn of the century, trains, trolleys and boats carried crowds to Staten Islands booming beach resorts.... Full story »
Staten Island's theaters had pizazz
March 27, 2011, 12:45AM
Advance Archive PhotosStars like Gary Cooper and Mary Pickford, above, Jack Dempsey and Kate Smith "played" the St. George Theater. (Borough Hall is the building in the middle.) STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Theaters in the 1920s and 30s had personality. The Paramount, St. George, Victory, Palace and Richmond theaters were architecturally reminiscent of Gothic cathedrals, majestic in their tall... Full story »
Rich history of oystering comes to an end
March 27, 2011, 12:42AM
Staten Island Historical Society"Oystering in Prince's Bay," painted in oil by Alex Matthew some 25 years after slavery was outlawed, depicts African-Americans digging for oysters off the coast of Prince's Bay. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. --Oyster beds were perhaps the first of Staten Islands varied natural resources to attract attention, mainly because Indians were often seen coming from the mainland... Full story »
Roaring '20s see start of sports boom on Island
March 27, 2011, 12:37AM
The Stapleton Stapes professional football team in a group portrait from 1928. Future NFL Hall-of-Famer Ken Strong, a New York University star, signed with the Stapes the next year for $5,000 and a rent-free apartment â which topped the offer of the New York Giants. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Though the decade of 1926-1935 spanned two American eras —... Full story »
Building an empire, one brick at a time
March 27, 2011, 12:35AM
Advance ArchiveThe village of Kreischerville, now known as Charleston, grew up around the brick-making factory owned  by Balthasar Kreischer. The factorys stacks can be seen in the background of this photo, taken in 1907. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- In 1886, the year Balthasar Kreischer died, the fire-brick manufacturing operation he founded — in what is today the community... Full story »
674,500 vehicles in 1928, 28 million today
March 27, 2011, 12:32AM
Advance Archive PhotosThe Goethals Bridge, above in 1927, and its twin, the Outerbridge Crossing â high-level cantilever bridges with arched concrete piers supporting the steel trusses of the main river bridge â were constructed simultaneously and opened in a dual dedication June 20, 1928. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Of Staten Islands four bridges, three link us to New Jersey... Full story »
Wagner College began as a Lutheran seminary
March 27, 2011, 12:30AM
Wagner College ArchivesThe Rev. Dr. Frederick Sutter and then-Wagner College president Adolf H. Holthusen lay the cornerstone of Parker Hall on Oct. 28, 1922. Staten Island, N.Y. -- Wagner College moved to Staten Island from Rochester, N.Y., in very humble fashion. When it arrived here in 1918, the college was in the form of a German gymnasium and featured... Full story »
Great Kills home for $8,500
March 27, 2011, 12:24AM
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The moods of the decade from 1926 to 1935 are clearly reflected in the advertising in the Advance of those days. In 1926, for example, Krauss and Rodgers Mortgage Specialists told readers, somewhat brusquely, We control the money. Of course, there were other bargains that year. You could get your radio batteries recharged for 75... Full story »
At Seamen's Retreat, care and comfort for ill sailors
March 27, 2011, 12:20AM
Andrew PasserPatients select something to read during library service at the U.S. Marine Hospital in Clifton, formerly the Seamens Retreat, in 1917. The site was sold to the government in 1903. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Cornelius Vanderhooven of New Jersey suffered from consumption. Edward Dugan, a New Yorker, was afflicted with palsy. And Andrew Anderson of Sweden had... Full story »
P&G makes soap float at Port Ivory
March 27, 2011, 12:10AM
Advance Archive PhotosChristmas Basket Day at the Port Ivory P&G plant in 1929. Employees were also given profit-sharing benefits, making them â technically â part owners in the business. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Started in 1907 on 77 acres, Port Ivory was the second Procter & Gamble expansion outside of Cincinnati, where the company was founded in 1837. William... Full story »
Borough's first PR campaign uses a covered wagon
March 27, 2011, 12:07AM
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A committee that called itself Put Staten Island on the Map devised an advertising scheme in 1915 that puts todays slick commercials to shame. The idea, which was the brainchild of Staten Island Advance publisher William C. Willcox, was to outfit a covered wagon and send it all the way across the country on a... Full story »
Fox Hills boasts world's largest Army hospital
March 27, 2011, 12:05AM
Advance Archive PhotosMembers of the nursing staff at Fox Hills Army Hospital in 1921. The complex of 87 buildings held 62 wards with 50 beds each. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Although he named his estate Fox Hills Manor after the pleasures of the hunt, Lewis Henry Meyer couldnt have known that the name Fox Hills would eventually describe... Full story »
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average (the DOW) did quite a dance today, with its peak to trough extending nearly 300 points before closing, pretty much at random, more or less where it started. I bring this up not to turn this column into an economic report about Wall Street (definitely out of bounds here, except perhaps in the discussion of Atom-based XML feeds retrieving DJ stats) but to discuss a bit about systems theory and to review a book that I think should be pretty much de required reading for XML architects.
I suspect that I've always been something of a systems theorist, and I've noticed that systems theory tends to attract architects like moths to a bright light (no comment about getting burned). You can tell the systems theorists out there - they are the ones that clandestinely like to play Sim City at work, who can readily tell you what the Austrian school of economics is despite not being an economist, who were getting nervous about calving ice shelves and CO2 concentrations long before Al Gore started doing his stage show. Some of us are scientists, some are programmers, some are environmentalists or economists, but the common thread that binds us together is that we're the ones who never stopped asking "WHY?" as kids.
Russia announced today that it had reached an agreement with Syria to base ships and submarines there, after having planted a very symbolic Russian flag several thousand feet below the surface of the Arctic Sea. The Japanese Carry trade is beginning to wilt at its edges as serious price deflation seems to be taking hold of the Japanese economy. One of the presidents of Bear Stearnes announced his resignation after it was revealed that two of their largest funds were essentially now worthless due to the sub-prime mortgage meltdown, causing the DOW to drop more than a thousand points in the last two weeks. The Iraqi parliament went into recess after pointedly refusing to sign an oil sovereignty agreement that was very favorable to the United States. The IPCC announces a policy-maker's draft of its research into global warming, with the consensus view being not only that global warming can be linked directly to man-made causes, but that it is increasing at a rate that is faster than even the most pessimistic models assumed.
These appear to be unconnected factoids. By the arguments of Thomas Homer-Dixon, the author of the recently released The Upside of Down, they are in fact quite related in that they are all symptomatic of systems that are being stressed beyond their ability to adapt. I've taken to reading quite a number of books about how civilizations evolve, grow, adapt, and collapse, and while many of them also tend to point out that we are nearing the collapsing point, in general the arguments that they raise tend to be more polemic than solid analysis. While there is a fair amount of polemic in The Upside of Down, Homer-Dixon (who also authored The Ingenuity Gap) manages to strike a chord in my inner system analyst.
By his analysis, systems are, for the most part, the expressions of networks of semi-autonomous actors, each of which both consumes and produces energy, which he extends to include information, as the encoding, transmission, decoding and processing of such information all require energy. He looks at the decline of Rome from the standpoint of energy usage and the degree to which energy return on investment (EROI) plays on the life-cycles of e culture; in general, when EROI is high, the cost of producing energy is small compared to the return of that energy, and cultures or related systems that utilize that energy tend to start growing and developing interconnections. For instance, consider Rome of about 150 BC, when it was a somewhat largish town on the banks of the Tiber river, selling salt and related resources to its neighbors.
However, as a system grows, its boundaries also grow, and the stresses that act upon those boundaries increase as well. In order to manage those stresses, the interconnectivity within the system increases, and the components within the sytem become more efficient and specialized. Rome grows wealthy on the salt mining, but in order to feed the slaves in the salt mines it needed to expand to take in the Latiums and Etruscans, who had generally better farmland (vast solar collectors of energy), while at the same time building better roads and infrastructure to support this expansion.
Yet this costs additional energy to maintain these specialized components and connections against entropy, which in turn means that the system has to grow larger, developing into a positive feedback cycle. The bureaucracy in Rome began to grow in response to the need to manage the burgeoning army, and wealth flowing back to Rome enriched that bureaucracy disproportionately, meaning that even though the empire of Rome was growing, the costs in supporting that empire were diminishing the EROI.
Eventually, as the Roman empire extended through much of the Mediterranean, the addition of each conquered territory eventually reached a point where the EROI was essentially negative; at this point, the "tectonic" stressors acting on Rome - population stress due to differing growth rates between rich and poor, environmental stress due to poor agricultural methods and overbuilding, energy stress due to the inability to transport the energy through the empire efficiently, climatic stress due to a general drying of the Mediterranean basin during that period and economic stress due to increasingly corrupt government, currency debasement, and a widening gulf between rich and poor - all conspired against it, seemingly at once. From a systems standpoint, the cost of specialization and tightly coupled integration made the system brittle, and tended to cause shocks due to individual localized events to reverberate through the entire empire.
This didn't happen immediately, of course, but it did cause the city of Rome to fall from more than one million people (the first megacity) in 100 CE to 100,000 people five hundred years later, and down to a low of 15,000 people by 1000 CE, due to a continuous barrage of systemic shocks. The boundaries of the empire shrunk as a consequence as well, such that by 400 CE the empire had basically collapsed back to the Italian peninsula. From a systems standpoint, this collapse is again part of an adaptive system - a rapid decline of the system to a simpler state, releasing energy (in this case, expressed as tillable land), breaking down the interconnectivity, and seeing bureaucrats (the control mechanism of the system) increasingly become autonomous feudal lords.
The parallels in The Upside of Down to contemporary economic and social systems are fairly obvious, and I won't belabor them here. However, I think there's some interesting additional points that Homer-Dixon raises that I would like to expand upon. One of the first comes from the fact that modern capitalism has as a fundamental driver the absolute necessity of a growth based economy. Capitalism works by providing financial incentives to make the process of the creation of goods and services increasingly efficient and interconnected, in the process selling goods to satisfy demand.
The problem is that such efficiencies by their very nature tend to reduce the demand for people to build those products or fulfill those services, so the only way to keep the population employed (and as a consequence having the money to purchase the goods in the first place) is for the economy to grow, in essence having people enter into the workforce in newly created positions (or replacing those who migrate to those positions). Unfortunately, the downside to this is that each new job also creates greater demands for energy and complexity in the system.
The kicker to all of this is that the availability of cheap energy (in this case oil derived) is now dropping due to a conflation of factors - increasing demand from China and India as well as worldwide, the increasing cost of oil extraction amidst aging wells globally, increasingly hostile environments for oil exploration both in the Gulf of Mexico and the Arctic and fewer remaining unmapped oil repositories (in general, the world is very well mapped in terms of oil deposits). This means that the EROI for oil (and by similar arguments natural gas) is climbing, and most other alternatives have considerably smaller EROI.
These factors, coupled with the likelihood of increasingly problematic global climatic conditions, are creating similar type of stressors to the ones that the Romans faced fairly late in their growth cycle, specifically increasing complexity and brittleness of the system at just precisely those times when everything seems to be going wrong at once. He does not argue that we're looking at a global collapse, though that is certainly one scenario, but he does argue that there is a need to make the nodes within the various systems more localized and autonomous (more resilient), or the danger exists that when a breakdown of the system does occur, it will cause a cascade that could wreak far more damage than would happen otherwise.
This resiliency, at the level of programming, would be to look at building a sustainable-oriented socio-economic system, rather than a growth-oriented one. One expression of this, as he mentions in the book, is open source … programming that basically works using a community-based approach. Open source oriented societies and sustainance rather than growth oriented societies do exist at the community and even business level (the example I gave in my last blog of FreeGeek, a PC recycling cooperative, is one very good example) but such approaches are frequently disparaged by those promoting purely capitalist solutions precisely because they tear at the fundamental concept of liberal capitalism - growth must be the primary imperative in the economy.
I've long advocated the notion that local resiliency or flexibility must be a key aspect of any development effort, because such resiliency, while costing more in the short run, makes systems considerably more resistant to shock in the long run. I see this as one of the cornerstones of REST-based programming, and I see the same application relevant at higher levels as well. Thomas Homer-Dixon lays out an elegant case for the application of such a philosophy at the social and economic level as well - if not exclusively replacing, then at a minimum creating a cross-grain layer to the highly efficient but rigid structures that we're building to eke out that last dime of profit. As an architect, a systems theorist, and someone who is very much concerned about what we're doing to the world, I would heartily recommend The Upside of Down.


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A few weeks ago I wrote about our problem with the 2006 Cadillac DTS battery dieing twice in the 10 months we have owned it. I also wrote to the "In Your Corner" column of our local newspaper. The article about the Cadillac was printed yesterday, and this morning I received a call from a couple who live 14 miles from us, who bought their car at the same dealership, and have had the same problem twice since they bought their car in June.
We are wondering how often this problem has occurred. It seems odd that it only happened to two cars, bought from the same dealership. I am sure there are many others who have had battery problems with 2006 DTS's
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Posted by Frenchie on 2006-10-08:
This is a dumb post as far as I am concerned. If you have the money to buy a cadillac then have the problem analyzed and fixed. Did you go back to the dealer? You don't even say what you have done to solve. I don't believe the dealer had anything what so ever relating to your battery.
There can be a myriad of problems relating to batteries and one could only speculate on here. As I said I think your post has no merit. If I bought a new cadillac (and I have owned them) I surely wouldn't be writing on here nor to my local paper, unless the dealer refuses to do anything; and I doubt if he would not help. Did you call Cadillac's hot line to find out if they were having problems with the electrical system on your car and/or if the particular battery was defective? I still say posts such as this are dumb from my perspective.
Posted by flipper on 2006-10-08:
Yes, I took the car back to the dealer. After keeping for a day to check it out they said we don't drive it enough. They told the other couple it was the computer. I think there is something radically wrong with the car. Since I'm sure we are not the only two this has happened to, I'd like to find others in the same boat. I am NOT saying it is the dealer's fault. I do say they can't find the problem and so are giving each of us a different excuse. If I can find others with the same problem, we may have enough for a class action suit. And by the way, we are not rich. Just like comfort.
Posted by LANDON on 2006-10-08:
ok, maybe this post isn't newsworthy to u frenchie, but i do believe flipper has a valid complaint. How much money flipper has or doesn't have is irrelevant. if i had bought a cadillac and the battery had messed up on it twice in 10 months someone would be hearing my complaint! and flipper has every right to complain. even if i could afford to do a diagnotic test on it and figure out whats wrong i'd have issues with this. who expects to buy a car and have to repair it within a year!
Posted by flipper on 2006-10-08:
Thank you, Landon.
Posted by Nohandle on 2006-10-08:
I wish you, Flipper, had added this post as an addition to your original post on the Cadillac complaint and it might have made more sense to those who just read your latest. After all you've gone through with a new car, to have finally received a response from a stranger due to a letter in your local newspaper at least lets you know you are not the only one who is having a problem with this particular model.
I hope you get something resolved soon. Problems from the beginning certainly take the enjoyment out of a new purchase, car or anything else.
Posted by Frenchie on 2006-10-09:
I admit I don't have much patience for the majority of the posters on here because this will NOT solve a problem. I will ask you to try one thing: With the motor NOT running turn ON the headlights. See how bright they are. Then crank the motor over with the key on, just as if you are trying to start it. What happens to the headlights? Do they go dim or out? Yes you do have to drive these cars somewhat because of all the electrical power "gadgetry".
Posted by Frenchie on 2006-10-11:
Did you try my suggestion? What was the result?
Posted by Frenchie on 2006-10-14:
I don't suppose you were really looking for help. I am not sure if your complaint was/is valid or not.
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