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New Orleans -- From Mid-City to the Warehouse District and Uptown, people all over New Orleans gathered to watch this final game of the season, with fellow Who Dats.
Record crowds packed the Nola Brewing Company on Tchoupitoulas Saturday, which was transformed into a massive Saints viewing party with locally made beer and a screen big enough for everyone to see. Owner Kirk Coco says, "Going to the playoffs is huge for all of the businesses in New Orleans but even more so for the attitude of the city."
Parties stretched across the city. Lucy's and some of the other bars in the Warehouse District, were so crowded, no one else could get in or come out. Baton Rouge resident Crystal James says, "New Orleans knows how to party like nobody else."
North shore resident Deborah Burst says, "We've been in the city since 10:00 this morning walking through the quarter and Saints fans are everywhere, the love is here."
There were certainly plenty of highs and lows for fans watching the match-up with Seattle. At the onset, most were feeling pretty confident about the Saints chances and said they were proud that the team made it this far. "Considering our playoff record on the road, it's been a good run," said Meghan Smith.
Beth Manley adds, "I think it's a great team and win or lose they always try as hard as they can and they did and it's a great group and we'll be proud of them no matter what."
It all came down to the final quarter and that crushing loss. But Who Dats say given what they've seen this season, they have high hopes for next year. "Jimmy Graham is probably the best thing this team has going for it. And Drew's coming back, I know there was some conjecture at the beginning of the season he wasn't what he used to be but right now I think we're in a really good spot to be working on the offense, tie the whole team together as a unit," said John Hall.
The other thing that ties the Saints together...their fans. These people say they'll be there just as loud and proud next year. "We'll still be eating our Popeyes chicken, we'll still be Who Dats, and we'll still be supporting the Saints all the way, we love them," said Deborah Burst.
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For more than three years the North Dakota State Penitentiary has been under construction.
In less than a month inmates will be moved into the new part, which will help relieve some pressure at the Prison.
Jon Berg takes you on a tour of the expansion at the State Pen.
<<"This is the waiting area for our clinic," Warden Robyn Schmalenberger said.
For three years staff and inmates have been waiting for construction at the North Dakota State Penitentiary to finish up.
"Staff members professionalism and correctional knowledge has been vital over the last three years of construction," Schmalenberger said.
Currently the State Pen is full, this expansion will add 250 beds.
"This project not only provides the space necessary to accommodate a larger inmate population it also provides technological upgrades that make the Penitentiary safer for inmates and staff," Schmalenberger said.
There will also be many medical improvements to the Prison.
A Dental room and a Physical Therapy Room are just a few of the improvements.
"Construction includes a larger orientation unit, a larger segregation unit, a new general housing unit, to replace existing units and a new clinic and infermary to provide medical care to the inmates," Schmalenberger said.
A Full-Time Dentist and Physician will be on hand inside the Prison, as well as 24-7 nursing coverage.
Lieutenant Governor Drew Wrigley toured the facility today, and says the Prison expansion fits the needs of our growing state.
"We know we're in a time period unlike any other in our state's history and that's real and with that comes the need for infrastructure investments of every type, this is no different from that this is necessary for the state, necessary for the employees out here who do such critically important work," Lt. Governor Drew Wrigley said.
Inmates will move into the new expansion in the next two to three weeks.>>
The old East Unit which was built in 1910 will be demolished once inmates are moved into the new part of the Prison.
There are also hundreds of new cameras.
The current facility has 36 cameras, the expansion will add more than 400 to the Prison.
Secretary of State's Office is currently reviewing a petition for North Dakota schools to begin after Labor Day.
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The Young Marines is a youth education and service program for boys and girls, ages 8 through completion of high school. The Young Marines promotes the mental, moral, and physical development of its members. The program focuses on character building, leadership, and promotes a healthy, drug-free lifestyle.
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Honor, Courage and Commitment. Adult volunteers are individually screened by the National Headquarters based on background information and recommendations provided with each person's registration.
Upon joining a local Young Marine unit, youth undergo a 26-hour orientation program, generally spread out over several weekly meetings. This orientation program is affectionately called "Boot Camp." The youth learn general subjects such as history, customs and courtesies, close order drill, physical fitness, and military rank structure. After graduating from Young Marine "Boot Camp," the youth have the opportunity to learn more new skills, earn rank, wear the Young Marine uniform and work toward ribbon awards. Young Marines earn ribbons for achievement in areas such as leadership, community service, swimming, academic excellence, first aid and drug resistance education.


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nails ready for my birthday trip to Disneyland this weekend!
I wanted to try some PB & J Otter nails last night! Who remembers the noodle dance?! Lol.
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Pet diabetes is manageable
By now you know about pet diabetes and that it is manageable. If you need a recap, watch this video or click here to learn more.
The goal of diabetes management is to regulate glucose levels and minimize diabetic complications.
Your vet will customize a diabetes management plan for your pet to fit your needs.
Learn about diabetes management cornerstones by clicking on each of the tabs above.
Once you learn about diabetes management, you can download a Diabetes Management brochure for a quick summary.
Most pet owners have a lot of questions for their vet and vet technician when their dog or cat is diagnosed with diabetes. Initial appointments are necessary to complete the needed tests, establish a customized treatment plan, and for a pet owner to get trained on what needs to be done at home to care for a diabetic pet.
Below is a list of questions to ask and topics to discuss with your veterinarian when your pet is diagnosed with diabetes.
To design the best diabetes management plan for your pet, it is important to let your veterinarian know if you:
- Travel for business
- Leave your pet alone for extended periods of time
- Have an unusual schedule
- Have an exercise or activity schedule for your pet that varies significantly from day to day
- Have multiple pets at home
- Have other special needs or circumstances
This will allow your veterinarian to customize your pet's diabetes treatment plan to fit your schedule.
- Does my pet need insulin injections? If so, what kind of insulin?
- How many times a day do I need to administer insulin?
- What should I know about insulin?
- What if I miss an injection?
- What type of syringe should I use?
- What are acceptable locations on the pet for injections?
- What complications should I be aware of?
- What constitutes a diabetic emergency?
- What is hypoglycemia, and what should I do if I suspect my pet is hypoglycemic?
- What is diabetic ketoacidosis or DKA?
- When do I call your office vs. emergency clinic?
- Do I need to adjust my pet's diet?
- What should I know/change about treats for my pet?
- What do I do if my pet does not eat or vomits?
- What do I do if I my pet eats extra food by mistake?
- Should I adjust my pet's exercise/activity level?
- How often do you want to see my pet for check-ups?
- Who at the clinic can teach me how to administer insulin and take a blood glucose sample from my pet?
- Communicate to your vet if you have any changes in your life or schedule. The changes may include, but are not limited to, new job and work hours, new travel schedule, moving, new baby or kids at the house, new exercise routine for your pet, new activity with your pet, etc.
- How frequently does my pet require diabetic check-ups?
- What tests do diabetic dogs/cats get at regular check-ups?
- What information should I keep track of regarding my pet's diabetes?
- How frequently should my diabetic pet have dental and other maintenance procedures?
- What other preventive care procedures does my diabetic pet need?
Diabetes management is a long-term commitment. As your pet ages and other changes occur in your and your pet's lives, your pet's diabetes can also change. Three keys to successful long-term diabetes management are commitment, compliance, and consistency. With these, and proper management, your diabetic pet can live an active life.
Remember, once your pet's diabetes is controlled, you still need to continue
following your veterinarian's treatment plan and keep your follow-up appointments. If you don't, diabetes complications could occur.Click here to learn about diabetes complications. Watch this video to see a pet owner sharing a testimonial about her pet getting diagnosed with diabetes, having diabetes complications, and getting its diabetes controlled.


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The Elderpin's Adventure (or How the Dog Ruined Date Night)
Even though it was a Monday, Zach and I hit the town last night to try a new restaurant.
Dinner at Chuy's, a diner that serves authentic Tex Mex cuisine, was awesome.
There was even one margarita involved.
But round about the time our delicious Tres Leches dessert showed up, a photo message flashed onto my phone and my heart sank.
Along with the photo came these terrifying words:
"I have your doggie! Found him in the road."
The message, thank goodness, came from a neighbor who knew Scooby when she saw him.
Apparently, on her way home last night, she encountered my elderpin-in-a-sweater hobbling across the often busy street just to the south of our house.
Luckily, at that time, there was no traffic. And my neighbor says she parked her car in such a way that would have blocked any other vehicles while she was catching him.
From her description, it sounds like Scooby was moving in the direction we had driven. But I don't think he knew that. I think he was just walking toward the brightest light, a streetlight on the corner. Since his vision is failing, that's what he tends to do now in all situations.
My neighbor found our back gate open and Luke still safe and warm in the house. Because the house was locked, she took Scooby home with her until we could come get him. Thank the universe she was there!
How did this happen?
The explanation of how my ancient miniature pinscher escaped the house on an extremely cold night is a combination of having an electronic doggy door and a faulty gate latch.
Sometime shortly after we left, Scooby must have used the doggy door to go outside and pawed the back gate.
For the past few days, that gate has been acting weird. However, the problem had been quite the opposite – it was jamming closed.
When we left for Chuy's, I remember pulling it shut gently in the hopes of not getting locked out. I thought it had latched, but clearly it hadn't. The gate is being fixed today.
Scooby will also be getting a new ID tag today. After years of not wearing a collar, he only recently started again, and he doesn't have a current tag. Again – I am so fortunate his finder last night already knew him.
Yes, I feel like a terrible dog mom right now.
But I am so relieved the outcome of the elderpin's escape wasn't worse.
In fact, for the rest of last night, he seemed to be in quite high spirits – as if he were proud of himself for going on a 1-block adventure all by himself. I told him next time, he should at least put on his warm Santa suit.
Has your dog ever escaped? Share your story in the comments!
If you are in the Kansas City area, please also enter this giveaway for a chance to eat dinner where Zach and I did last night. I'll tell you more about that experience tomorrow.
Chuy's originally started in 1982 in Austin, Texas. Through their eclectic restaurants and delicious Tex-Mex food their popularity has grown and Chuy's recently opened their doors to a new Kansas City location on the Plaza. Good food is their #1 priority, and you can taste it with their hand rolled tortillas and freshly made salsa. Chuy's offers several signature dishes such as the "Chuychanga", their Chile Rellenos as well as signature sauces ranging in spiciness from mild to hot! (yes they added an exclamation point!). You can follow along with all the Chuy's Kansas City fun on their Facebook page.
Chuy's is wanting to help spread the word of their new Kansas City location by offering 5 readers the chance to win a "Dinner for Two" gift card valued at $30 which includes an appetizer, two entrees, a dessert and non-alcoholic drinks for two! Several local bloggers have teamed up to bring you this fantastic giveaway.
This giveaway will run from December 10 through December 16. Please enter if you live around the Kansas City area and are able to visit, or if you have family or friends you could gift the prize to. Good luck!
Participating bloggers are not responsible for prize fulfillment. Winner(s) will be verified, emailed and have 48 hours to reply or a new winner will be chosen.
Posted on December 10, 2013, in Dogs, Dogtography, Food, Neighbors, Scooby and tagged #ChuysKansasCity, #kcbloggers, Chuy's, Kansas City, miniature pinscher, my dog escaped. Bookmark the permalink. 4 Comments.
So glad he was found safe! I know all to well the wonders of a faulty gate (and a pest control person that hadn't shut it all the way). We now keep a lock on our gate and I am uber paranoid about making sure it is shut and locked.
So glad your neighbor found him and that he's safe and sound after his 1-block adventure.
The food sounds amazing but I would have been so freaked out by my dog getting loose that I wouldn't have been able to enjoy it. I'm so glad that Scooby is safe!
MMM I wish I lived in KC to enjoy!
We had almost the exact same situation when I first moved into my house. Tess doesn't like being crated in new surroundings (e.g. new house). So I didn't force her into her crate and accepted the fact that there would be pee in the house when I got home. I got a call about an hour later from our vet saying that someone had her and gave us his number. I'm guessing he called the vet instead of me because she had her old ID tag on without an address because I had previously lived in temporary housing and it had my cell which is an out-of-area code. I ran right back and picked her up.
As tends to happen in a new house, I was still figuring out the "tricks." My backdoor doesn't always latch completely unless you pull it shut hard. So even though I had closed and locked it, it must have popped back open. My storm door also had a latch problem and it wouldn't completely latch (not usually a major issue on its own). And my gate ALSO had a latch problem and didn't completely shut. So apparently, she just walked right out of the house in an effort to come find me. We also live on the corner of two fairly busy streets, so it was incredibly dangerous. Thank goodness our neighbor that lives 2 houses down found her and wasn't afraid to take in a little pitbull!
Gosh, just re-telling the story freaks me out!! Both dogs are crated always at home now (although our little houdini-girl has recently had to be zip-tied in!) and we've fixed ALL the latches!!
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Things I Wish I'd Known before Starting My Own Business
Starting your own business is tough. From finding the capital to carving out a name for yourself, there are many hurdles on the path to entrepreneurial success. Luckily, big benefits can make it well worth the risk.
Always Keep an Eye on the Next Big Thing
Much the same as the old adage, dress for the job you want, not the job you have, those in a business start-up should always have their eye on the bigger picture. Whether it's a new client or a profitable merger, you always need to be planning for the work that's just around the corner. If you only pay attention to the job you're already doing, you're likely to find yourself wasting time when you complete one job and try to drum up another.
Be Strong Willed But Not Stubborn
To be a successful entrepreneur, you need to be able to stick by your decisions but be careful that you don't become stubborn. There will be occasions when you will need to be flexible or try a different tack, so be prepared to let go of the reins every now and then.
Invest in Professional Help
Sometimes, experience is invaluable. While there are many decisions you'll have to make on your own, it can pay to invest in the opinion of someone who has years of business experience. Seek out opportunities for mentoring, share information with other entrepreneurs and don't be afraid to pay for skilled professionals when needed.
Scott Assemakis, the founder of thriving wine investment company EFWines, is always keen to share experiences and advice when it comes to business. Connect with him on LinkedIn.


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Not much time for blogging, but I do want to keep this site somewhat updated. Each day (when I can), I'll write a few points about what I've learned through the intensive reading I'll be doing as a part of an online writing course I'm taking. I won't share Anastasia's curriculum, or discussions taking place in the class, but will share some of my personal discoveries or experiences.
What I learned today: I need to stop self-policing myself, to some degree. I've been letting my inner parent (who must be a politician), tell me to avoid certain subjects. For instance, the person I'm currently writing about is devoutly religious. This fact is not so much important to the story overall, but is important in painting a clear picture of the character I'm writing about. So far, I've been trying to write around the fact that the subject is religious, thinking that I must avoid religion in a children's book. In this case, it would be like writing a story about Martin Luther King, but not mentioning that he was a Baptist preacher. One of the books I've read as part of my homework is MOSES: WHEN HARRIET TUBMAN LED HER PEOPLE TO FREEDOM (Jump At The Sun ), by Carole Boston Weatherford. In this book, Harriet, a slave, keeps in a constant dialog with God through prayer. With spot-varnished, capitalized text, God's voice leads Harriet to freedom. How much more religious can you get?
By the way, this book doesn't publish till fall; I got my advanced, unbound copy at the TLA conference. Illustrated by Kadir Nelson, it's a sure winner. Beautifully written, too!
I just finished a sketch for Harcourt, so, now it's back to my reading. And my manuscript.


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Peacemaker challenges you to succeed as a leader in bringing an end to the seemingly interminable bloodshed.
Peacemaker, a DVD-ROM in English, Hebrew and Arabic by Impact Games (www.peacemakergame.com and e-mail to email@example.com), for PC (Windows 2000 or higher) or Mac (OSx 10.4 or higher), $19.95, for ages 13 through adult). Rating: **** 1/2
To a cold-eyed observer from a distance, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict may seem like an open-ended strategy game of terror, counterterror, attack and counterattack. Thus it is not surprising that a company co-founded by an Israeli living in the US has produced this game, which challenges you to untie the Gordian knot and forge the peace that has escaped Palestinian and Israeli leaders for decades. Asi Burak, the game's executive producer and chief creative officer, who has a BA in design from the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem, learned about advanced systems for communication and analysis as a captain in the IDF Intelligence Corps and then left to work as an art director in a major European advertising company and study "entertainment technology" in the US. Peacemaker, which he developed with Eric Brown, challenges you to succeed as a leader in bringing an end to the seemingly interminable bloodshed. Aside from taking on technical advisers, the company hired Prof. Laurie Eisenberg, historian of the modern Middle East at Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon University, who wrote a textbook on the Arab-Israeli peace process and has researched the Six Day War and the legacy of Jordan's late King Hussein. You begin by choosing any of the three languages to play the game, and then you decide if you will lead as Israel's prime minister or the president of the Palestinian Authority (but you can switch to the other side whenever you wish). This strategy game is thus unusual, as it focuses on political leaders rather than military commanders. If you succeed at being a peacemaker by building trust between the two sides, you will finish the game by winning the Nobel Peace Prize. The play is preceded by a video from genuine news footage showing suicide bomber attacks, IDF missions to halt the terror, the security barrier, closures to thwart Palestinian movement into Israel, the Rabin-Arafat handshake on the White House lawn and a few poignant moments of coexistence. An interactive map of only part of Israel (including Sderot, but nothing north of Haifa or south of Beersheba), Gaza and the West Bank is shown. Click on the various cities, towns and settlements to get your bearings; a history time line is provided as well. Your given aim, to establish a Palestinian state alongside Israel that is willing to live with the Jewish state in peace, will not satisfy extremists on either side. There are three levels of difficulty - violent, tense and calm, even though the third is not often prevalent in this region - but there is no visible "agenda" that favors one side over the other. There is a dual "satisfaction meter" on the left-hand side of the bottom of the screen that gauges the degree of approval or disapproval felt by the Israeli and Palestinian population, from -100 to +100. If your decisions and actions make this rating drop too far, you will be kicked out of the action and have to start again. Thus players who take the side of extreme Palestinians who want only bloodshed or of right-wing Israelis who want to take over all of Judea and Samaria will not get very far. MK Danny Yatom, the former head of the Mossad and a former general and negotiator, played the game. "It is clear that I need to send troops to destroy the infrastructure of the militants," he said, but then he was disappointed that this "hard-line policy" led to the on-screen message: "You Lost - Third Intifada. Game Over!" There is pull-down menu of military, economic, diplomatic and other activities and subactivities you can choose from one turn at a time as leader of your people. But when you decide, as Israeli prime minister for example, to bulldoze illegally built Palestinian homes, set curfews or, alternatively, to take a conciliatory approach such as dismantling settlements, no action is seen. There are no visible attack helicopters, jet fighters or Kassam rockets, which is rather disappointing. Instead, when you click on your decision, the map momentarily turns dark, and you see the result as changes in the approval meter. The Israeli PM (whose body, like that of the PA president, is shown but without an identifiable head) obviously has more leeway and more power at his disposal than his Palestinian counterpart. Diplomacy in foreign capitals, including Cairo and Amman, and at EU and the UN; foreign terrorists; and the media have a definite impact on your decisions. The game is not very expansive, but it can be immersive. Students at Carnegie-Mellon recently won the University of Southern California's "Public Diplomacy Contest" for Peacemaker, and exploring all the options and learning the background of this endless dispute could be very educational. Perhaps Ehud Olmert, Mahmoud Abbas and Ismail Haniyeh would like to play it together.
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Derek Jeter has won his fourth Gold Glove at shortstop, joining New York Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira among the American League players honored for fielding excellence.
Jeter and Teixeira helped lead the Yankees past Philadelphia last week for the team's 27th World Series championship.
Nice to see Jeter rewarded for what was probably his best defensive season of his career. Let's hear what the nay-sayers have to nay-say about that!! Tex, to me, is a slam dunk. Seeing him play everyday this year raised my already high level of admiration for his defensive abilities.


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The 2011 Tour de France gets back at it bright and early on Tuesday morning as the fourth stage of the race gets underway. Versus will begin their telecast at 8 a.m. EDT.
This stage provides a big finish on the summit of the Mûr-de-Bretagne, which comes at the end of a beautiful but very tough two-kilometer climb. Before that, there is a series of hills in central Brittany where the twisting roads can make for trouble. Don't expect any sprinters to make any moves in these hilly conditions, which favor riders like Philippe Gilbert and Thomas Voeckler.
A replay of the stage will be shown on Versus at 12 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 8 p.m. and 12 a.m. Versus will also be broadcasting Tour de France related shows throughout the day, including a pre-race show at 7 a.m.
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With the announcement today that Bud Norris will miss Sunday's start in Arlington, the Astros are in need of another starter to fill his spot against the Rangers.(Just re-read the Astros' website: Norris is NOT officially out tomorrow, but he is unlikely to start.) The least complicated course of action would be to bring someone up who is on the 40-man roster. Paul Clemens last pitched for Oklahoma City on Tuesday, so his turn to pitch is Sunday; however, Clemens has been less than effective for the RedHawks with an ERA over 6. Aneury Rodriguez has struggled at AAA as well. He pitched out of the bullpen in his last outing on Wednesday.
The Astros' 40-man roster currently stands at 40, so adding a starting pitcher to the 40-man roster would require that a transaction be made to clear space. Moving Sergio Escalona to the 60-day disabled list would be one way to clear that space.
Here's a look at four non-roster pitchers who could be considered(in alphabetical order):
Jose Cisnero, RHP. In his last four starts for the Hooks, Cisnero has posted a 2.16 ERA over 25 IP. He has surrendered 21 hits and struck out 28 batters. His most recent start was on Monday giving him five days' rest before Sunday. NOTE: The Rangers' Saturday starter is scheduled to be a non 40-man roster promotee from AA, Justin Grimm. Update: Cisnero is posted as the Saturday starter on the Hooks' website.
Armando Galarraga, RHP. Galarraga made his most recent start on Monday, so he would be going on five days' rest. In his second start in the Astros' system and first at the AAA level, Galarraga pitched 4 2/3 scoreless innings at New Orleans. Update: Galarraga is posted as the Saturday starter on the RedHawks' website.
Dallas Keuchel, LHP. Keuchel missed his scheduled start on Thursday at Round Rock being replaced by spot starter Sergio Perez. Keuchel has a 4.26 ERA at AAA this season. He hasn't pitched since June 9.
Brett Oberholtzer, LHP. Oberholtzer has a 2.27 ERA over his last five starts for the Hooks. He has allowed 33 hits over 31 2/3 IP in those starts. His most recent start was Tuesday in Corpus, so Sunday would be his normal turn to pitch.
UPDATE: One more non 40-man roster starting pitcher to keep in mind in case Luhnow and Company go outside the box is Wes Musick. Musick started the season at Lancaster. However, he has pitched his way up to AAA with the help of some injuries. In five AAA starts, he has posted a 3.14 ERA. In his most recent start, the left-hander pitched five scoreless innings for Oklahoma City. However, that start was on Wednesday, so pitching again on Sunday in Arlington would give him only three days' rest.
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American Institute of Physics
peer-review system is supposed to guarantee that published research
is carried out in accordance with established scientific standards.
Yet recently, an internal report from Lucent Technologies
Bell Laboratories concluded that data in 16 published papers authored
by researcher Hendrik Schön were fraudulent. The papers were
reviewed and accepted by several prestigious scientific journals,
including Nature, Science, Physical Review,
and Applied Physics Letters.
Yet, in many of the papers, the fraud was obvious, even to an untrained
eye, with data repeated point-for-point and impossibly smooth or
noise-free. All the papers passed through internal review at Bell
Labs, one of the worlds foremost industrial research institutions,
and the journal peer review system without raising alarms. The fraud
was discovered only after journal readers started pointing it out.
What went wrong? Does the Schön affair indicate major flaws
in the peer-review system? In its aftermath, many people are asking
these questions, and some are suggesting reforms. The implications
may extend beyond the relatively limited problem of preventing scientific
fraud to the broader question of ensuring the fairness and efficacy
of peer review itself.
On September 24, 2002, a Bell Labs committee of inquiry chaired
by Malcolm R. Beasley, professor of applied physics and of electrical
engineering at Stanford University, concluded that Schön had
committed scientific misconduct by manipulating and misrepresenting
data, substituting mathematical functions for data, and creating
false data. Bell Labs immediately dismissed Schön, which ended
a career of apparently extraordinary productivity. From 1998 to
2002, Schön authored or co-authored no fewer than 100 papers,
an average of one every other week. These were no ordinary papers
but claimed significant advances in a variety of fieldsorganic
semiconductors, organic superconductors, inorganic superconductors,
and fullerenes. Schöns productivity peaked in mid-2001,
when he submitted several papers only a few days apart. In a period
of 10 weeks, from late September to early December, Schön published
12 papers. Many of them, although not all, were co-authored by Bertram
Batlogg, a senior Bell Labs researcher with a long record of accomplishment.
Yet in case after case, efforts to duplicate the results failed.
By late 2001, researchers were pointing to obvious discrepancies
in Schöns data. In response, Bell Labs convened its inquiry
committee in May 2002, which concluded that in paper after paper,
data had been duplicated, with the same data ascribed to different
experiments. In the most glaring cases, in a paper published in
Science (2000, 289, 599) and another in Nature (2001,
410, 189), Schön presented the same data in the same paper
as coming from different experiments. In addition, other data were
in reality mathematical functions or were impossibly perfect, varying
from theoretical predictions by less than a tenth of a standard
deviation. When confronted with these accusations, Schön admitted
some substitutions but insisted he had done the experiments. However,
he kept no systematic logbooks, and he claimed that the raw data
had all been erased because of a lack of computer storage space.
Bell Labs failure
Clearly, the first defense of the integrity of scientific results
(other than researchers own morality) lies in the collaboration
of co-authors and colleagues and in the review of the procedures
of a research laboratory. At Bell Labs, these defenses failed for
several reasons. First, although Schön had co-authors on all
of his papers, in actuality all device fabrication, physical
measurement, and data processing
were carried out by Hendrik
Schön alone
. None of the most significant physical results
was witnessed by any co-author or colleague, the Bell Labs
report concluded.
In our view, this was an isolated, anomalous incident,
says Saswato Das, a spokesman for Bell Labs. Many of the experiments
in question were done when Schön was in Germany working at
the University of Konstanz, waiting for his visa, so it was not
possible for colleagues to participate in those experiments.
However, many of the fraudulent papers, including one of the more
egregious cases of copying data within a paper, were submitted for
publication in 2000. At that time, Schön was working continuously
at Bell Labs main facility in Murray Hill, New Jersey, in
a laboratory only steps away from Batloggs office. According
to Das, Schön met frequently with collaborators Christian Kloc
and Batlogg. Yet at no point did either man look at the raw data
or ask to participate in one of Schöns claimed experiments.
This is certainly not the way things used to be at Bell Labs,
says John M. Rowell, a former director of chemical physics at Bell
Labs who worked there from 1961 to 1983. In the good old days,
experiments would be immediately witnessed by one or sometimes even
two levels of management, and by collaborators.
Nor did the collaborators or anyone else question Schöns
spectacular productivity until late 2001, when he was asked to slow
down and focus on the details. Actually, Schön was only
among the top four in productivity at Bell Labs that year, so it
was not considered that strange, says Das. Everyone
knew he practically lived at Bell Labs and was there at all hours.
But others find this attitude incredible. It is clearly impossible
to make an experimental deviceespecially for the first timetake
measurements, and write a paper every four or five days, comments
Rowell. If three others at Lucent were submitting more than
one paper each week as well, a committee probably should look at
their papers, too. The collaborators and management had a responsibility
to demand more proof of such unbelievable productivity.
Lucent Technologies, the parent of Bell Labs, has laid off 88,000
workers in the past two years, and as a result, Bell Labs has suffered
significant cutbacks. Did this contraction of personnel make it
more likely that scientists would work alone on experiments, instead
of in pairs or teams, and that collaborators, pressed for time,
would give only cursory review to even spectacular results? Would
the need to maintain output with fewer researchers give management
an incentive to praise extraordinary output rather than see it as
a warning flag? Das does not think so. People at Bell Labs
have always worked in about the same manner. As we are smaller today
than in the past, we have reduced the number of areas of focus,
he asserts. Thus, research groups are not necessarily smaller than
before the cutbacks.
But again, Rowell and others disagree, noting recent changes at
Bell Labs, whatever the cause. Years ago, not only were research
teams larger than one person, and first-line supervisors expected
to be handson researchers, there was a rigorous publication release
process that involved circulation of papers to management and other
researchers, says Rowell. Evidently, thats not
functioning anymore.
Peer-review breakdown
Once the papers were submitted for publication, how did they get
past so many sets of reviewers? Clearly, it was not the fault of
one or two reviewers because of the many articles involved. Nor
did editors ignore warnings from the reviewers. After the
story broke, we looked back over the reviewer reports, says
Monica Bradford, managing editor of Science, but we
did not find any clues that something was wrong. Although
it is common for journal reviewers to critically comment on a papers
data and raise questions about noise levels and statistics, not
one reviewer at any journal caught the fact that the data was impossibly
good or copied from chart to chart.
Some in the scientific community think that the reviewers should
not be blamed for missing the flaws in Schöns papers.
Referees cannot determine if data is falsified, nor are they
expected to, argues Marc H. Brodsky, executive director of
the American Institute of Physics,
which publishes Applied Physics
Letters. That job belongs to the authors institution,
and the readers if they deem the results are important enough. A
referees job is to see if the work is described well enough
to be understood, that enough data is presented to document the
authors points, that the results are physically plausible,
and that enough information is given to try to reproduce the results
if there is interest.
But editors at leading journals take a broader view, and they
admit that the reviewers were among those at fault. Clearly,
reviewers were less critical of the papers than they should have
been, in part because the papers came from Batlogg, who had an excellent
track record, and from Bell Labs, which has always done good work,
admits Karl Ziemelis, physical sciences editor at Nature.
In addition, although the results were spectacular, they were
in keeping with the expectations of the community. If they had not
been, or had they come from a completely unknown research group,
they might have gotten closer scrutiny. Thus, reviewers and
editors as a group had a bias toward expected results from established
researchers that blinded them to the problems in the data.
The Schön case points to problems in the peer-review system
on which considerable discussion has focused recently, and which
affect aspects of science far more significant than the infrequent
case of fraud. There is absolutely no doubt that papers and
grant proposals from established groups and high-prestige institutions
get less severe review than they should, comments Howard K.
Birnbaum, former director of the Frederick Seitz Materials Research
Laboratory of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He
recently criticized peer-review practices in grant awards in
an article in Physics Today. It is not just a problem
of fraud, he says. I and colleagues have seen sheer nonsense published
in journals such as Physical Review
Letters, papers with gaping methodological flaws from prestige
Because journals have a limited number of pages and government
agencies have limited funds for research, too lenient reviews of
the established and the orthodox can mean too severe reviews of
relatively unknown scientists or novel ideas. The unorthodox can
be frozen out, not only from the most visible publications but also
from research funding. Not only does less-than-sound work get circulated,
but also important, if maverick, work does not get done at all.
The peer-review system's biases, highlighted in the Schon case,
tend to enforce a herd instinct among scientists and impede the
self-correcting nature of science. This is scarcely a new problem.
As Samuel Pierpont Langley, president of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, wrote in 1889, the scientific community
sometimes acts as a pack of hounds...where the louder-voiced bring
many to follow them nearly as often in a wrong path as in a right
one, where the entire pack even has been known to move off bodily
on a false scent.
Fixing the system
A number of reforms being discussed could reduce the publication
of fraudulent or unsound work and make room for better research.
Science is already considering implementing one of the less drastic
steps. requiring that raw data accompany experimental or observational
articles and that the data be posted as supplementary material on
Science's Web site. Such a step would make simple fraud more
detectable and would enable others to use the same data for alternative
Another idea is to have every experimental paper reviewed by a
statistician, says Ann Weller, an expert on peer review and associate
professor of library sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Such a statistical review would presumably have flagged several
of Schon's papers, and would cut back on dubious statistical analysis,
a common flaw of many papers.
Bell Labs has introduced one change in procedure. It now requires
the posting of all papers for seven days on a prepublication archive
before submission to a journal, which allows colleagues to participate
in a review process. However, given the ease with which digital
data can be fabricated. in ways that are harder to catch than Schon's
were.there seems to be no substitute for collaborations in which
more than one researcher participates in experiments or at least
looks at the raw data. Such collaborations can also lead to higher-quality
research and problem solving.
One way to encourage real collaborations rather than passive co-authoring
is to have the responsibility of co-authors listed in the published
paper -- for example, device fabrication by John Doe, experimental
procedure by Jane Smith, data analysis by Tom Harold. Senior researchers
would then have to take co-responsibility for specific aspects of
an experiment, or remove their names from papers to which they contributed
None of these changes, however, directly addresses the bias of
reviewers toward prestigious groups and accepted ideas. More drastic
reforms aim at fundamental changes in the system of anonymous review.
Blind review, for example, involves removing the authors' names
from articles sent to reviewers, while open review requires reviewers
to sign their names to reviews seen by authors.
"Blind review can potentially eliminate biases about authors,
but only if the reviewer cannot guess who the author is from the
references", explains Weller. "Studies have shown that
in about 40% of papers, the reviewer can guess the authors."
On the other hand, blind review does not address biases against
novel ideas.
Open review reduces the possibility of bias, argue supporters such
as Fiona Godlee, editorial director for medicine at Biomed Central,
an online publishing company in London. If authors know reviewers'
names, reviewers must take personal responsibility for their reviews,
and authors can see if editors have chosen reviewers in a balanced
manner. If reviewers are also publicly known and their reviews available,
editors or funding agencies presumably would not assign papers or
proposals from high-prestige groups to reviewers likely to withhold
criticism. Authors could also object if only supporters of the mainstream
approach review a minority viewpoint.
It is difficult to say in advance whether open review would incline
reviewers to be more conscientious about catching fraudulent or
sloppy work. So far, no major physical- sciences journal or funding
agency has adopted such a radical reform. However, the idea has
received sufficient support for The British Medical Journal
to allow open review of some papers.
Online discussion
Some researchers wonder whether peer-reviewed journals are essential
and whether some of their functions could be replaced by online
discussion. "If online prepublication archives, such as arXiv,
allowed chatroom-style comments on each paper and author's replies,
the community at large would make its own decisions as to the validity
of the results", suggests Rowell. "My bet is that such
a chat room for the Schon papers would have been overwhelmed by
critical comments because I heard plenty of them informally, but
they were not published."
Whatever reforms eventually emerge, the Schon case has highlighted
the need for peer-review improvements, and a vigorous discussion
of how to change is timely. After my article in Physics Today,
I got a hundred e-mails of support, but almost all of them told
me not to mention their names, comments Birnbaum. Now, such underground
criticism of peer review may come out into the open.
Further reading
Beasley report
Godlee, F. Making Reviewers Visible
J. Am. Med. Assoc. 2002, 287, 2762.


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Caleb Cole
The images from Caleb's "Odd One Out" series began as found photograph, purchased in antique stores and estate sales. The images are of groups of people during special events, reunions, and family gatherings. The photographs are the spoils of a hunt, the proceeds of afternoons spent looking into the eyes of people he did not know and who may no longer be living. He selects images of people who, unlike the rest of the smiling faces in the frame, bear looks of loneliness and longing.
Removed from their original context and meanings, Caleb then digitally alters these photographs to segregate the one from the many, isolating the person from their surroundings by a field of white. The shape of the crowd is maintained, hinting at details of the group of which the person is a part, but with which they do not feel at home. The negation of the group serves to emphasize the presence of the one, to make visible the person who feels invisible. In constructing these images, Caleb tells the story of the outsider, the odd one, those who are alone in a crowd.
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Elizabeth Slayton
Paintings using acrylics and moliding paste
Moving from large scale, non-traditional still life in oil on canvas, Elizabeth has moved closer to the subject, in particular to the onion, discovering another world of image and composition and design. A crack in the skin, or the lines of veins, or a sudden emerging of color below the skin begins to suggest different layers of meaning. To the viewer it becomes less clear what it is that one is seeing and invites a different kind of observing. It takes one beyond the familiar, beyond the limits of our ordinary way of knowing things and into more imagination.
In these paintings, Elizabeth works on canvas creating a raised, rough white surface which surrounds an embedded iridescent shape. One might interpret these shapes as rivers, or pathways, stems, or bones, all of which are vessels of movement. Moving closer and closer to the object has taken the work beneath the surface and into an interiority of aliveness. No longer viewing the object from the outside, this new work explores the inner movement of the life force itself, the vital energy that underlies manifestation. The outside appearance is no longer the referent for the work, but rather, the referent has become an intuitive awareness of inner aliveness.
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By Kevin Henkin
Wow. Let me write that again, just for the sheer pleasure of it, and because of what it represents. Wow. In short, it was a historic (and frankly embarrassing from an LA perspective) comeback by the Boston Celtics, one that puts them in prime position to win their first NBA title in 22 years. Sweet. Where to begin? The score, I suppose. Boston 97, Lakers 91. Oh, and a 3-1 series lead for the Celtics.
After submitting one of the most hideous first quarters ever witnessed in the NBA Finals, the Celtics stormed back over the last three quarters until the Lakers finally relented. Seriously, there is no way to overstate how badly the Celtics played in the first quarter. Even Lamar Odom looked spectacular, to the point where he was preening and sticking out his tongue out in reaction to his own good fortune, as short-lived as it would prove to be. Specifically, Odom finished the first half with a surreal 15 points (13 in the first quarter alone) on 7-7 shooting. He was a big factor in building the early Lakers lead, appearing in the lane seemingly out of nowhere to make thunderous dunks and even draining a few 18 foot jumpers. Then, however, his fairy tale carriage morphed right back into a pumpkin again. His second half: 4 points on 1-4 shooting, which provided strong evidence that order had indeed been restored in the universe.
Los Angeles had led by as many as 24 points earlier in the game and by 20 as late as halfway through the third quarter before Boston stormed back furiously. In the final 18 minutes, the Celtics outscored the Lakers to the tune of 47-21. It was the suffocating Boston defense that fed the offense and it was the small ball squad for Boston who led the way in the scoring comeback.
Just to put things in perspective of how bad things went earlier in the game, a couple of first half stats to digest:
Lakers shooting percentage 50%, Celtics 35%
Lakers rebounds 26, Celtics 16
It seems silly to say it now but at the time the Celtics seemed fortunate to only be down by 18 at the half (it would have been 15 if not for that golden horseshoe running desperation three made by Jordan Farmar, which seemed just so indicative of how the evening had been going up until that point).
It must be noted that while the chips were down, it was James Posey and Ray Allen that represented the poise needed to sustain the comeback effort. For the game, Posey contributed an enormous 18 points on 5-of-10 shooting (including 4-8 from beyond the arc) and 4-4 from the line. His biggest shot, of course, was a heart-piercing three with 1:13 left in the fourth that brought Boston's lead to 5 on the heels of an aggressive layup by Kobe Bryant. Beyond his offense, however, James Posey provided so much of the requisite backbone. He seemed utterly fearless out there and that kind of mental toughness is contagious among veteran players. When Posey was on the floor, you could see teammates gain strength from his presence. It's not hyperbole. His impact was that visible. He's like the second coming of Eric Williams, only with a much better stroke.
And Ray Allen? Let's just say that Cleveland series is all but forgotten. Allen scored 19 in addition to 9 rebounds and 3 steals. He also did another commendable defensive job on Kobe Bryant, playing a big part in holding Mr. Universe to 3 points in the first half before giving way to Paul Pierce on the defensive assignment. But the biggest contribution by Allen was his drive past Sasha Vujacic, who had poked and scratched at Allen on prior possessions like an alley cat in heat, only to collapse at the most crucial moment in the game. After his teammates cleared the entire lane with an area wide enough to land a 747, Allen gave a few obligatory jukes and fakes to Vujacic at the top of the key and then froze his hair-netted opponent with a crossover from heaven and converted a layup with such ease that the officials almost felt obliged to call an offensive foul on him. The play put Boston up by 5 with 16.4 seconds remaining. Doom. Worthy of note: Ray Allen played all 48 minutes.
In another storyline, Rondo played much of the first half (17 minutes total) but eventually gave way to Eddie House, who scored 11 points and provided some high energy. As mentioned by Jeff Van Gundy roughly 8,000 times during the broadcast, House's threatening J spaced the floor on offense and allowed teammates to roam more freely than when constricted by the Lakers' 5-on-4 defense with Kobe as the freelancer. Give credit to Doc Rivers for going with and sticking with both House and small-ball throughout the second half. It was gutsy and it worked.
Alas, this is a game to savor. The headline on Yahoo at 12:53 a.m. is: "Historic Collapse by Lakers". Sublime. The fact that it happened in LA makes it all the sweeter. The additional fact that the game was decided on a play at Game 3 chest-thumper Sasha Vujacic's expense seems almost to good to be true.
Can you smell it? The cigar smoke from above? Must bother the shit out of Phil Jackson, which makes me smile even wider. Get those Duck Boats fired up, boys. One victory to go.


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1977 in Sheffield, England
Original Name(s):
Atomic Mass, Deaf Leopard
Origin of the Name:
The band felt Def Leppard made them seem less like a punk rock band than Deaf Leopard.
Influenced By:
T Rex, Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy, AC/DC
Influence On:
Bon Jovi, Poison, Slaughter, Bryan Adams
Original Members:
- Joe Elliott - vocals
- Pete Willis - guitar
- Tony Kenning - drums
- Rick Savage - bass
Other Members:
- Phil Collen - guitar
- Vivian Campbell - guitar
- Steve Clark - guitar
- Rick Allen - drums
- Frank Noon - drums
Current Members:
Joe Elliott, Phil Collen, Vivian Campbell, Rick Savage, Rick Allen
First Album:
On Through the Night (Compare Prices) - 1980
Most Recent Album:
Songs From The Sparkle Lounge (Compare Prices) - 2008
Signature Songs:
- "Rock of Ages"
- "Photograph"
- "Pour Some Sugar On Me"
- "Armageddon It"
- "Love Bites"
Essential CD:
Pyromania was their third album, and the one that brought their first success in the US. Their fourth album, Hysteria was their biggest seller, and generated seven hit singles.
Young Leppard:
Rick Savage, Tony Kenning and Pete Willis started the band in 1977. They soon added Joe Elliott and Steve Clark, and replaced Kenning with Frank Noon. All were still in their teens in 1978 when they recorded a three-song EP (Extended Play single) from which the single "Gethca Rocks Off" became popular in the UK thanks to extensive exposure on BBC Radio.
Their first album, 1980's On Through the Night made it into the Top 15 in th UK, but didn't crack the Top 50 in the US.
Def Leppard Invades America:
1983's Pyromania broke through in the US and put the band in the forefront of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. Their music was distinctive in its use of heavy audio processing to achieve a high-tech, futuristic effect and its rich vocal harmony.
It would be four years before the next album was released, during which time drummer Rick Allen lost his left arm in a car accident and taught himself to use his legs to replace it.
Def Leppard's Ups and Downs:
Pyromania had established the band in the US. Hysteria solidified their success, selling 18-million and staying on the charts for three years. It became just the third rock album to produce seven or more singles that charted in the US.
Tragedy struck again in 1991 when guitarist Steve Clark died from an accidental overdose of alcohol and prescription drugs.
Def Leppard's Staying Power:
Def Leppard established itself as a tireless touring band, even making it into the Guinness Book of World Records by playing three concerts on three continents (Africa, Europe and North America)in a single day. They continue to tour today.
By the band's own reckoning, they have performed in front of more than 50-million people and sold more than 65-million albums worldwide.


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Avrupa Minerals Ltd. (TSXV:AVU) has commenced a 3,500 meter, Phase 4 drilling at the Alvalade Project in southern Portugal.
As quoted in the press release:
During Phase 4a, one hole will be drilled at the Monte da Bela Vista West target (MBVW), located approximately 400 meters to the west of the Monte da Bela Vista mineralization drilled during 2012-2013. A further six holes will be drilled in Phase 4a around two new target areas that have never been drilled before. These six holes will be collared in young cover sediments, which completely obscure visual sighting of the target rocks and may be as thick as 200 meters. The holes will be drilled through the sediments and then 30-40 meters into the target basement rocks. The information collected from the short forays into the basement rocks will then be used to help target vectoring towards true deep massive sulfide targets. Phase 4b will include three follow-up deep tests from locations indicated by the blind vectoring drilling.
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Project X
Project X TV Spot
This new TV spot of Project X wants to lure the youtube generation:
You know that video of the crazy thing you did that no one was supposed to see?
It's going to it theaters!
And here's a better look at the little guy in the oven:
The film will be released in theaters on March 2, 2012.
Project X Movie
You may enjoy below a brand new trailer of Project X, the upcoming epic comedy movie from Producer Todd Phillips the director of The Hangover:
Project X
Experience the event that will turn losers into legends!
"Project X is an out-of-control comedy that follows a group of buds who set out to throw the most epic 17th birthday party ever. The film documents a high school party that gets completely out of control, shot from the perspective of the digital cameras that the kids have with them"
The release date of Project X is set for March 2, 2012. Are ready you for a hell of a giant party?
Here's the latest movie poster of Project X:
The party you've only dreamed about.
By the way are you wondering about the song in this trailer of Project X? Well, it's a remix by Steve Aoki of "The pursuit of happiness" by Kid Cudi.
Project X
Project X
Genre: Comedy
Directed by: Nima Nourizadeh
Starring: Kirby Bliss Blanton, Jonathan Daniel Brown, Oliver Cooper, Alexis Knapp, Thomas Mann, Miles Teller
Release Date: March 02, 2012
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Roger Simon: Our fools on the Hill
We used to have a ship of state, and now we have a ship of fools.
To call what happened on Capitol Hill over the past few days Kabuki is to insult Kabuki. What actually happened was more like ancient farce when actors used to come out and hit each other over the head with socks full of cowpies.
Contrary to what you have heard, we did not face up to a financial or economic or budgetary crisis. All Congress and the White House did was slog through another political crisis.
And the way they did it was comical: a 2 a.m. vote in the Senate followed by an 11 p.m. vote in the House. This is drive-by government.
That the White House was going to win was never in doubt. Barack Obama won reelection in November by nearly 5 million votes. According to CBS News, his approval rating is at 57 percent.
The members of Congress, on the other hand, are close to being put in stocks and pelted with vegetables. According to CBS, congressional job approval is at 11 percent. Any lower than that and Congress might as well move to Canada and try there.
One of the reasons our politicians are held in such low regard is that what they do is so divorced from reality.
What was the No. 1 issue of the last election? What did both sides promise the American people? As I recall, it was jobs, jobs and more jobs. But what did the recent fiscal cliff law do about creating more jobs? Nothing.
Some politicians like nothing. Nothing is why they went to Washington. They want to shrink government, in the famous words of Grover Norquist, "down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."
Why? Because as Mitt Romney said in the campaign, 47 percent of voters "believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it."
(If you haven't heard much from Romney since the election, it's probably because he has been down in the Cayman Islands visiting his money.)
In this view, the government spends far too much on "entitlements" like Medicare. Medicare costs are strangling America, we hear, and according to the Congressional Budget Office, spending for Medicare in 2012 was a very hefty $555 billion.
But Medicare recipients are not exactly rolling in dough. In 2006, the last study my ace research team (Wikipedia) could find, the "average household income of Medicare enrollees was $22,600 compared with a U.S. median income of $48,201."
Yet these people are viewed as greed-heads sucking up precious dollars that could be better spent on . defense contractors!
The defense budget for 2012 was more than $600 billion, which is nearly twice as much as the rest of the planet combined. We outspend China, the next biggest military power in the world, by about 6-to-1.
Maybe this wild spending would not be so bad if it bought us quick and easy victories over ill-armed opponents. But it doesn't. We have poured more than a trillion dollars into the war in Afghanistan over the past 11 years - to say nothing of more than 2,000 precious U.S. lives lost - and we are still fighting there.
Some say this is good for the U.S. economy because it means we have to buy more and more bullets and bombs and drones, but personally I'd rather buy more liver transplants for the 47 percent.
Yet nobody in Washington is talking about serious cuts to the defense budget. On the contrary, they are talking about ways to avoid making serious cuts to the defense budget.
In the meantime, the government borrows more and more money, which means it keeps bumping up against the debt ceiling. The debt ceiling was invented as a way to keep Congress from spending too much, but it doesn't work.
So we keep raising the debt ceiling. We raised it 18 times under Ronald Reagan, four times under Bill Clinton, seven times under George W. Bush and three times, as of August 2011, under Barack Obama.
As Obama points out, the debt ceiling does not allow Congress to spend more money. It merely allows the government to pay the bills Congress has already racked up.
In just a few weeks, we will face another crisis over the debt ceiling. It shouldn't be a crisis, but politics will make it a crisis.
It's a broken system. It's why Americans hate politics.
Late on Jan. 1, President Obama briefly addressed the nation from a nearly empty White House briefing room. "I think, hopefully, in the new year we'll focus on is seeing if we can put a package like this together with a little bit less drama, a little less brinksmanship, not scare the heck out of folks quite as much," he said.
A little bit less drama? Drama is what government is about these days. Drama is the only thing our elected leaders seem good at.
So you bring the socks. I'll bring the cowpies.
Roger Simon is chief political columnist for Politico.
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Monday, February 3, 2014
Editor's note: The following is a summary of the issues discussed by groups attending the recent Dover Listens Education conversation. Included below are the discussion topics for a Tuesday night event. The information is provided by Michelle Holt-Shannon, Dover Listens co-chair.
Group A
■Increase understanding in the community of what has been lost, what is provided, and what could be
Budget: Impacts on who hires/teacher retention; high caseloads for special education staff, students getting needed services, size of class
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Back side of FPVpilot's Tracking Ground Station
The FPV ground station is an important part of the pilots gear.
It can be as simple as a monitor connected to the wireless RX or can be more complicated with things like Diversity RX, multiple monitors/goggles, video splitters, camcorders, antenna tracking, etc...
Most FPV pilots have a case to house all the gear that they can set-up within a few minutes. It's important to keep your Ground Station ready to go and needs the same attention that is given to the FPV aircraft. Nothing worse then getting to the field to fly only to spend your time plugging things in, swapping cords, etc..so it's important to have as many devices tested, hooked up and ready to go before you leave to fly. I personally have all my gear attached to a tripod ahead of time and with a control panel that powers everything with the flip of a switch. Keeping a ground stations set-up simple no matter how much gear is involved. This will make your FPV piloting experience more enjoyable. A basic Ground Station is nothing more then the wireless video receiver with antenna connected to a TV Monitor allowing you to view your aircraft from the pilot seat. For a basic set up I use a matching wireless video receiver, 7" LCD monitor, Pyle Video Splitter, Camcorder and a 3S 3cell 4000mAH lipo battery for the power. It's easy to out grow the basic Ground Station after getting into FPV piloting and many pilots expand to more complicated set ups that include Diversity systems, Antenna Tracking, Live Telemetry recording, Live Google Earth via laptop with wireless internet, etc....
A basic set up of a cable-less /wireless Antenna Tracking Station.
In this picture the two 5.8ghz receivers go through the video diversity where it picks the best incoming
signal out of the two 5.8GHz receivers. They can have the same or different antennas.
Then the best signal is sent to the 1.2 ghz 100mw video transmitter that then sends the signal off to the pilots goggle/monitor.
FPV video sent from aircraft on 5.8ghz and tracking station receives aircraft video on 5.8GHz vRX. Repeats video using 1.2ghz 10mw TX from tracking stations 5.8 vRX A/V output and sends signal to 1.2gGHz video receiver that is connected to monitor/goggles video inputs
This is how to eliminate cables exiting from the tracking station giving the ATpro-1000 and ATS-2200C full rotation with no need for gears or slip-rings that may cause poor performance and no RF issues or worries of servo wires/AV cables getting wound up. And by placing your antenna tracker further away you will not risk the RC radio saturating your incoming FPV video signal
allowing for better video reception and longer range
Common items found with a ground station are:
LCD monitors
and /or video goggles used for viewing in FPV. It's a good idea to use a resolution of 640x480 or higher
Make sure they do not automatically go to Blue/Black screen when there's static.
Wireless video receiver(s) used for receiving the wireless video signal from the aircraft/auto/boat.
Video Splitters
are used to send the video signal to more then one device from the supplying source like the wireless video RX. These are needed to keep the quality of the video signal. Using "Y" connectors instead of a Video Splitter will degrade the quality of the signal causing a darker and poorer picture ("Y" connectors are ok for splitting the audio).
Japan FPV, BEVRC and ReadyMadeRC sell the PV700 high quality digital video recorder DVR designed with FPV piloting in mind with 2.5 LCD s
en and
really good recorded video quality. Passes video signal through so no loss of video quality when recording rate is set to low quality. No Blue screen or blanking out if there's video static.
This photo shows how clean the FPV tray can be all wired up and ready to use with a
Turnigy 9X, 2- 900mhz Video RX'ers and EagleEyes Diversity.
Portable/mobile Ground Stations are nice for getting around
when Hiking, Biking, ATV, etc...is involved.
Here in the above picture is the radio tray and has everything attached
for mobile FPV pilot ground station and can hold even more gear if needed like a SD DVR, etc...
, laptop, SD recorder, CCTV DVR or other recording devices are a big part of the ground station and recording a flight is helpful if you should have a mishap like a crash. You can review the recording allowing you to see what went wrong and/or where your aircraft went down. If you have a OSD/GPS on board then you can see the last location recorded and go right to the downed aircraft. Just for this reason it's a good idea to record all your flights even if you don't intend to watch them or make a video movie.
As of now the DV Camcorder with audio/video inputs is the favorite among FPV pilots due to the high quality of Digital Video and never freezes up lik
DVR's. The newer type recording devices like SD card recorders, Archos, laptop USB capture, etc now have closer quality of DV camcorders but need a fast SD card like a Class 10 othe
rwise they can freeze or lock up the recording device
You can also use a CCTV 4
channel DVR like what FPV pilot "Crash9" uses for recording flights.
Most use 12 volts for powering and no Blue/Blank screen
when there's vi
deo static when passing the video through the CCTV DVR onto a monitor. Can be set up to record up to 4 video signals at once and viewed in realtime which is nice if you want to see how your diversity video is working and what antenna/RX combo works best as you fly. Also a
fter a flight you can watch
the performance o
f 1 to 4 video receivers. When using the CCTV DVR with Wi
Fi feature you could send the flight video over the internet to others in realtime.
Zmodo CCTV DVR with 500GB HD
Oracle Video Diversity system
Diversity Receivers
are common and help keep a good wireless link to your aircraft avoiding unwanted video static. They switch between incoming signals from 2 or more wireless receivers tuned to the same band. This allows 2 or more antennas of the same or different type to be used. The diversity device will automatically chose the best signal and send it out to the monitor/goggles. If the other video receiver starts to get a better signal it will automatically switch to it. It is also possible to Daisy Chain diversity receivers by adding more then one. By adding another video RX/antenna each time you add another diversity unit. By doing this you can use multiple types of antennas pointed and different directions. There are two types of diversity systems. Most Diversity systems used for FPV are sensing the voltage drop (RSSI) of the video to know when to swap to a video signal that has higher voltage. The better and more expensive diversity systems will analyze the video quality and then choose the better picture.
Maestro Servo Interface for when using a Laptop with ArduPilot Mission Planner Antenna Tracker.
Antenna Tracking
is new to FPV pilots and uses an interface like EzAntenna Tracker, Maestro or EagleEyes that receives the GPS location of the aircraft and points the video RX antenna towards the aircraft using servos for Panning and Tilting the antenna. Mainly designed for directional antennas and longer range flights and not so much for short range since an Omni antenna will do as good or better flying close by. The Antenna Tracker interface does not include servo controlled pan and tilt mounts or antennas. AT's are best used with directional antennas like Patch or Yagi. How they operate is by sending a telemetry stream down one of the audio or video channels of the wireless A/V link via the On Screen Display modules (OSD) or they may use a radio modem like the Ardupilot system. This telemetry stream contains information about the plane's GPS location and other information that's available to the pilot through the OSD.
This info is shared with the interface (EagleEyes, APM, etc,) which in turn uses this info for pointing the tracking station at the aircraft. Another nice feature is the Telemetry Data can either be used for live tracking on Google Earth, or be recorded and decoded later with Google Earth.
Most antenna trackers only work with the same manufactures OSD for example the EzAntenna tracker operates with the EzOSD, Eagle Tree's OSD Pro works with EagleEyes, Ardu
works with Mission Planner
Maestro servo interface, etc... S
ome FPV pilot's ground stations have become Antenna Tracking/Ground Stations since most of the ground station gear is attached to the tracker base. Things to keep in mind are that antenna trackers do not act fast when flying close by like within a hundred feet so doing circles around the ground station area is not recommended unless using it with an Omni antenna (whip) and diversity. Most trackers only need 360 or more rotation but keep in mind that when most antenna trackers reach the servos end point they'll have to suddenly pan in a complete 360 (rewind) to regain your aircraft's video link if you fly behind yourself doing circles. This could cause a momentary drop out in the video. This is where having a Omni (whip) connected with a diversity will come in handy. Trackers are better used for long range flights out in front of you and to the sides for best results which also will help keep the audio/video cables from getting tangled as there are video and audio cables connected that need to be routed to the pilots monitor. Some pilots use a low powered (10mw) wireless A/V system to avoid any wires from the tracker. At this time antenna tracker interfaces do not support continuous rotating servos but word has it they might soon. For best results use them with 90, 180, 360 degree or winching type servos that have end points. Antenna trackers are not that difficult to set up and only add a couple of minutes of more time to calibrate the direction your facing when it's time to fly.
for powering the ground station. Make sure it has enough mAH to keep the ground station powered for more then a couple of hours. The more devices you have the higher mAH you will need. The last thing you want is to be flying and have your ground station suddenly shut down...now you can't see your aircraft nor are you recording it with it's location...so test your system and know how long you can keep your ground station gear powered.
A Diversity system like the Oracle will switch between 2 video RX picking the one with the better signal. This allows one video RX to have a whip antenna (Omni) which is better at closer range and the other RX to have a Patch (Directional) for better long range performance
Laim's Ground Station
Ground Station fo
r use with a co-pilot or observer
Ground station has a Quad DVR Multiplexer that allows the pilot to see not only the piloting view but also
has a second station that monitors the video RX'ers, antenna tracker RX and the piloting view all on one monitor
This allows real time monitoring and recording of all the antennas/video RX,ers at a glance. So the FPV pilot can see
what each antennas results are in realtime or after by viewing the recording. Great for testing new antennas or comparing
them without worry of losing picture.
This the main piloting station.
Notice the lower 7" monitor has the Quad view showing all the video receivers and how well the are
receiving video in real time. The diversity system puts the best video on the larger monitor (top).
This is the second station that houses the Quad DVR Multiplexer along with a lap top. The lap top has the Eagle Tree
data on the left and the 4 videos from each of 3 wireless receivers on right which are also being recorded. There's 4 video views starting with top left, Omni antenna, Patch antenna, Yagi antenna and the 4th video lower right is what is being chosen
as the best receiving video and what the FPV pilot is flying by. The great thing is all 4 video views are recorded so if there's an issue with an antenna you can simply play back recording of all video receivers to trouble shoot.
Quad Multiplexers are cheap on ebay ($50) and used in the CCTV world as this is what they are mainly designed for.


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