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Lab 6: Electron Spin Resonance
Lab partner: Kyle Martin
Using ESR (Electron Spin Resonance), we will experimentally determine the factor of the electron by looking at the spin-flip transition of a free electron in a magnetic field.
See lab manual for more information.
- Helmholtz coils (radius 6.75 cm, 320 turns) model 55506 mfd. Leybold Didactic GMBH
- Digital Storage Oscilloscope (DSO) - TDS 1012 mfd. by Tektronix
- Power supplies for ESR Adapter: Model 721A mfd. by Hewlett Packard
- ESR Adapter: Model 51416 mfd. by Leybold
- Phase shifter: made by Physics Dept.
- ESR Probe Unit: Model 51455 mfd. Leybold
- Soar DC Power Supply model PS-3630
- Fluke 111 Mutlimeter
- Variac: W5MT3 mfd. by General Radio Company
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- Banana connectors
- 5001 Universal Counter Timer mfd. Global Specialties Corporation
- Transformer: 6.3V 1Amp Model T-631 mfd. by Caltronics
- 1000 μF capacitor, model 593A, 16V, -40-85°C
As described by the lab manual.
- The sample of DPPH is placed in a coil inserted into the ESR probe unit and placed in a uniform magnetic field (produced by the Helmholtz coils). The ESR probe unit is our RF oscillator, with frequency set by a knob on its top.
- The uniform magnetic field produced by the Helmholtz coils should oscillated around some fixed value in order to remove the need for knowing this RF frequency with considerable accuracy. To do this, the Helmholtz coils are connected to a DC power supply in series with a smaller AC current.
- In order to reduce distortion of the sinusoidal wave voltage, in between the DC and AC sources is a capacitor.
- Because of the inductance of the Helmholtz coils, the current in the coils is out of phase of the power supplies (and with the voltage seen on the oscilloscope.) To correct for this, a phase shifter device has been made. It consists of a variable resistor in parallel with a capacitor.
The magnetic field ("B field") caused by the Helmholtz coils is given by the equation
- is the magnetic constant
- N = 320 is the number of turns in each coil
- I is the current through each coil
The electron has a magnetic dipole moment μs related to its intrinsic angular momentum (spin):
- a constant characteristic of the electron, its intrinsic g-factor
- eV/G is the Bohr magneton
- the spin of the electron
- eV-sec or eV-nm
This magnetic dipole moment interacts with the magnetic field, .
The electron is either spin up or spin down, with energy
- is the energy of the electron before the magnetic field was applied
- This means that the energy difference between a spin-up electron and a spin-down electron is gsμBB.
The condition for resonance is
- is the frequency of oscillating RF field
As described in the lab manual.
- Set the amplitude knob of the ESR probe unit to about 75% and turn the frequency knob of the ESR probe unit fully counterclockwise
- Ensure that the sample is placed in the ESR probe unit's coil and that this coil is seated correctly
- Set the variac voltage to between 15 and 20 volts
- Make sure the Helmholtz coils are parallel and that the ESR probe unit, placed between them, is touching both coils. This should make the distance between the coils about the same as their radius (6.75 cm)
- Turn the voltage on the DC power supply connected to the Helmholtz coils up so that it is current limited instead of voltage limited. The Helmholtz coils should have less than 2 amps going through each of them (or 4 amps total, as they presumably have the same resistance and are wired in parallel, making the voltage to each the same). The DC power supply we used doesn't supply more than 3 amps, which means that we don't have to worry about turning the current up too high.
- Turn everything on (cross your fingers and hope that stuff doesn't blow up)
- The frequency counter should be displaying a value at this point, and the multimeter should be reading some DC current. These readings aren't important yet.
- The oscilloscope should be displaying two traces at this point, something similar to Figure 1 on the right.
- Make sure that channel one is triggering the oscilloscope. Set the oscilloscope to trigger as the signal rises, and set the trigger point to be zero. This makes the channel one trace cross zero (which is really the DC component of the current through the Helmholtz coils) in the middle of the screen (when time is "zero").
- Channel two of the oscilloscope should have a trace that produces a steady value with several drops, as in Figure 1. If it doesn't turn the current knob on the Helmholtz coils' DC power supply until it does.
- The trace of channel two should have a drop when channel one is zero - which should be at the y-axis, if you've set the trigger correctly. To easily see if it does, you can position the channel two trace just above the x-axis on the screen of the oscilloscope, and if necessary "zoom in". By decreasing the time per horizontal division, you effectively "zoom in" on the traces about the time equals zero axis (y-axis). If the trace of channel two doesn't drop as channel one reaches zero, you can turn the knob on the phase shifter until it does. This changes the resistance of the RC circuit and effectively shifts the phase of channel one in relation to channel two.
- It may be necessary to "zoom out" at this point, by increasing the time per horizontal division on the oscilloscope. 1 period should be visible on the screen (channel one trace should cross zero three times).
- Change the current to the Helmholtz coils by turning the current knob on the DC power supply until the channel two trace drops each time the channel one trace crosses zero, as shown in Figure 2.
- It's all resonating now, record your current and frequency and then repeat for a different frequency. Blah blah blah.
Recorded below are the current readings (in amps) through the two Helmholtz Coils and the frequency displayed on the frequency counter. The numbers recorded are the result of watching the displays over several seconds to see their range.
Low Range Coil (13-30 MHz)
Current (Amps) | Frequency (MHz) |
0.248 | 13.05 |
0.293 | 15.6 |
0.365 | 18.55 |
0.376 | 21.25 |
0.483 | 24.2 |
0.519 | 27.55 |
0.573 | 30 |
Medium Range Coil (30-75 MHz)
Current (Amps) | Frequency (MHz) |
0.608 | 32.95 |
0.663 | 36.05 |
0.744 | 40.75 |
0.898 | 47.35 |
0.952 | 52.95 |
1.05 | 57.55 |
1.196 | 64.95 |
1.252 | 68.25 |
1.324 | 73.65 |
High Range Coil (75-130 MHz)
Current (Amps) | Frequency (MHz) |
1.363 | 75.25 |
1.457 | 81.75 |
1.556 | 87 |
1.64 | 91.95 |
1.776 | 98.05 |
1.863 | 103.55 |
1.951 | 108.95 |
2.054 | 114.25 |
2.0905 | 116.95 |
2.217 | 123 |
2.29 | 126.95 |
Please see my Excel spreadsheet for a more in-depth look at my calculations.
Since the Helmholtz coils are wired in parallel, and they presumably have equal resistances, the current through each of them should be the same (which means the total amperage, which is recorded above, should be twice the current through a single coil).
To calculate the g-factor of each of our measurements, I first calculated the magnetic field (in Gauss) of each trial by using the Biot-Savart law (this result is recorded in the third column of the following tables.) Then I used the relationship , where h is Planck's constant , is the frequency of our RF oscillator (column 2 of my data), is the Bohr Magneton (that's Joules per Gauss) and B is the magnetic field I've just calculated (in Gauss). I solved for gs for each measurement and that result is recorded in the fourth column of the following tables.
Low Range Coil
Current (Amps) | Frequency (MHz) | Magnetic Field (Gauss) | measured g-factor |
0.248 | 13.05 | 5.286089186 | 1.763844785 |
0.293 | 15.6 | 6.245258595 | 1.784672422 |
0.365 | 18.55 | 7.779929649 | 1.703540975 |
0.376 | 21.25 | 8.014393282 | 1.894404096 |
0.483 | 24.2 | 10.29508499 | 1.679460407 |
0.519 | 27.55 | 11.06242051 | 1.779327045 |
0.573 | 30 | 12.21342381 | 1.754963819 |
Mean g-factor: 1.7657
Standard Error: 0.026063
Accepted Value: 2.0023
% Difference: 11.81%
Medium Range Coil
Current (Amps) | Frequency (MHz) | Magnetic Field (Gauss) | measured g-factor |
0.608 | 32.95 | 12.95944446 | 1.816575172 |
0.663 | 36.05 | 14.13176262 | 1.822608013 |
0.744 | 40.75 | 15.85826756 | 1.835930396 |
0.898 | 47.35 | 19.14075842 | 1.767442042 |
0.952 | 52.95 | 20.29176171 | 1.864363323 |
1.05 | 57.55 | 22.38061954 | 1.837204766 |
1.196 | 64.95 | 25.4925914 | 1.820327417 |
1.252 | 68.25 | 26.68622444 | 1.827257956 |
1.324 | 73.65 | 28.22089549 | 1.864602665 |
Mean g-factor: 1.8285
Standard Error: 0.010
Accepted Value: 2.0023
% difference: 8.68%
High Range Coil
Current (Amps) | Frequency (MHz) | Magnetic Field (Gauss) | measured g-factor |
1.363 | 75.25 | 29.05217565 | 1.850598403 |
1.457 | 81.75 | 31.05577397 | 1.880744256 |
1.556 | 87 | 33.16594667 | 1.874179549 |
1.64 | 91.95 | 34.95639623 | 1.879357581 |
1.776 | 98.05 | 37.85521933 | 1.850572786 |
1.863 | 103.55 | 39.70961352 | 1.863111227 |
1.951 | 108.95 | 41.58532259 | 1.871851965 |
2.054 | 114.25 | 43.78075479 | 1.864478175 |
2.0905 | 116.95 | 44.55874776 | 1.875217248 |
2.217 | 123 | 47.25507954 | 1.859691701 |
2.29 | 126.95 | 48.81106547 | 1.858226963 |
Mean g-factor: 1.8662
Standard Error: 0.003
Accepted Value: 2.0023
% difference: 6.80%
Mean of All Measurements
I also found the mean of all measurements of the g-factor. This value was 1.8276, with a standard error of 0.01. This makes the best estimate of the g-factor , which is 8.73% different than the accepted value of 2.0023 and has a relative uncertainty of 0.58%.
Linear Regression Method
I also found the g-factor using the slope of a linear regression of all of our measured currents and frequencies. (See my Excel sheet). I used Excel to do this, and I forced the y-intercept to be 0. This makes sense because when there is no magnetic field there should be no resonant frequency.
Plotting the frequency vs. magnetic field conditions for resonance, there is a linear relationship between the variables ν and B. See Figure 3. The linear equation I found the slope of was . I considered B to be the independent variable and ν to be the dependent variable, with the slope equal to . The slope of this regression was 2600000 with a standard error of 7300
Solving for gs, I found the g-factor to be 1.86. Multiplying the standard error of the slope by h and dividing by μB, I found the standard error of gs to be 0.005. This makes my best estimate of the g-factor based on my data. This is 7.27% different than the accepted value of 2.0023, and has a relative uncertainty of 0.28%.
I was excited about this lab, since being able to detect quantum phenomenon is fun. I was a little bit disappointed that my result for the g-factor was almost 10% different than the accepted value. The method used to measure the resonant frequency and current going through the Helmholtz coils was kludgy, however. Eyeballing an oscilloscope and tweaking knobs until two traces appear to cross zero at the same time is, it seems to me, inherently imprecise. I'm not very familiar with other electronic instrumentation, so I'm not sure if there is a better way to have done this - but it sure seems like there should be. I also wondered if the Earth's magnetic field would affect this experiment, but it seems that the strength of that field is around 0.3 Gauss (though this varies widely, and might be significantly different in the lab) which is much smaller than the magnetic field we put our sample in. Also, I didn't pay attention to which way we had aligned our Helmholtz coils in relation to the magnetic poles of Earth, as I figured it didn't matter.
I also noticed during the experiment that in using the phase shifter, turning the knob (which is connected to the variable resistor) had the effect of not only changing the phase of the ESR probe signal in relation to the voltage to the Helmholtz coils (displayed on the oscilloscope) but also of changing the amplitude of the voltage to the Helmholtz coils. Thinking back, the effect wasn't large but it was noticeable. I didn't check the multimeter to see if the current going through it changed as the amplitude of the voltage readings on the oscilloscope changed - but thinking about it, I certainly should have. I sure hope they changed together, as I can't think of any reason why they shouldn't have, although I haven't taken junior E&M yet as that comes next semester. I'm sure we will deal with things like our phase shifter (or RC circuits being used in alternating currents).
Also, part of the ESR adapter divided the frequency from megahertz to kilohertz (which are more easily counted by the cheap electronic equipment that is ubiquitous in undergraduate laboratories). I don't know exactly how this frequency divider was designed, but if it were poorly designed it certainly could have been a source of error. I would hope that this was a precise process, but it may not have been.
Another source of error may have been the alignment of the Helmholtz coils. The calculations I did for the magnetic field produced by a current through these coils doesn't take into account their alignment; if they weren't parallel or were too close together or too far apart, the magnetic field would probably be slightly different.


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Justin Bieber is a spoiled immature little boy. He's only doing all of this because he's loaded (god knows why he can't sing). I'm 19, I have 19 year old male friends and I know no one who has done any of this. The boy pisses me off to the extreme, god knows what his 13 year old female fans see in him.
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The brothel thing is clearly him, as for the issue in Brazil they released documentation proving it was him an even sent police to the fancy mansion hotel place that he was staying not realizing that Justin and his team already checked out. If people don't start telling him no his ego and ignorance will only get worse until he lands in some serious trouble. Most teens and young adults are punished or at least taught that their actions have consequences, being famous should not excuse you from this.
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The contract contains two possibilities, based on whether Quintana is arbitration eligible after the 2014 season. If he is, the contract is worth $26.5 million. If not, it is worth $21 million.
Quintana went 9-7 with a 3.51 ERA, 164 strikeouts and a major-league leading 17 no-decisions over 33 starts in 2013, his second season with the White Sox.
The left-hander originally signed with the White Sox on Nov. 21, 2011. He went 6-6 with a 3.76 ERA in 25 games (22 starts) in 2012.
"Jose quickly has established himself as a quality major-league starting pitcher, and along with Chris Sale, we expect him to be an important piece of our rotation for the foreseeable future," said Rick Hahn, White Sox senior vice president/general manager. "Jose brings a tremendous work ethic and professionalism to his approach, and he is well respected by his teammates, so we are excited to be able to reward him for what he has accomplished thus far in his career and possibly keep him in a White Sox uniform for the next seven seasons."
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If you truly want you marriage recognized by the church, follow CMG and Marie's advice.
You can have a dispensation given to you by a bishop to have your marriage performed somewhere other than a Church. This can be hard to obtain. But if your FI's Jewish family would be uncomfortable in a Catholic Church, you can try to get one. But even if you are granted the dispensation, you would still need to be married indoors. And the ceremony would be performed by both the rabbi and Catholic priest.
One PP mentioned trying to get a retired Catholic priest to perform your wedding. If any Catholic priest, marries you outdoors, it will not be recognized by the Church. Many priests that have either left the ministry or were kicked out will perform these ceremonies, allowing you to think you are having a Catholic ceremony. You are not.
Your priest is wrong, and this is a dead thread.murphye7 said:There is A LOT of incorrect information and opinions out there. My wedding is a few months away. I am catholic and he is jewish. My priest said we are the only type of combination (rite of marriage of catholic person to an unbaptized person) that is permitted to get married outside of the church WITH a priest or a priest and a rabbi and IT IS STILL CONSIDERED A SACRAMENT- from my priest's mouth. We are having a ceremony in my Roman Catholic Church with a co-officiating rabbi. The rabbi was somewhat difficult to find, but they're out there for a price (about $1050 for mine). He isn't a "rent-a-rabbi" either. He is a reform rabbi that is in charge of a congregation not to far from us in NJ.There is nothing in Catholic Law that prevents a Priest from performing this type of ceremony in or out of the church. It comes down to how open the priest's personal beliefs are and whether they'd agree to it. And the rabbi's beliefs for that matter!I asked my priest all sorts of questions b/c I was concerned about the "things you hear." He said it DOES count as a sacrament for me, whether in the church or outside. He said I will be married in the eyes of the church/God whether it's in the church or not. The only stipulations were if outside the church, you aren't allowed to have full mass (communion). Also, he also has to do the marriage rites portion at the end, not the rabbi, in order for it to be official.Speaking with my priest answered a lot of questions and confusion I had. It may be past your wedding but hopefully this post can help others going through what I did.


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EUGENE, Ore. — I saw Ed Reinhardt Sr. and his son Ed Jr. at DIA Friday morning. He told me they're not just going up for Saturday's Colorado-Oregon game. Ed Jr. will actually be introduced 20 minutes before kickoff.
Everyone in Colorado knows the story. In 1984, while driving for a potential winning touchdown at Oregon, Reinhardt got hit and suffered a blood clot to the brain. He was in a coma for two months and nearly died. He has made a remarkable recovery, leading a healthy life although his speech is impaired and the right side of his body has some partial paralysis.
But not everyone in Oregon remembers. It should be a heartfelt welcome from a crowd who did everything to keep Reinhardt alive and his family comfortable during their many visits to Eugene.
Ed Sr. told me the school is also having a function for them after the game.
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City's Charter Network Hires San Francisco Firm To Design The K-8 Public School Of The Future
by Melissa Bailey | Jan 23, 2014 8:31 am
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The company that invented Apple's computer mouse is coming to New Haven to help the Achievement First charter network invent a new model of K-8 schools.
Achievement First (AF), a nationally recognized charter-school management organization headquartered in New Haven, has hired the company, IDEO, a high-powered San Francisco-based design firm, to radically reimagine the traditional school model.
AF plans to spend the next six months brainstorming new ideas with IDEO, then roll out the resulting model at two new schools that would open in the fall of 2015 in Bridgeport or New Haven, according to Dacia Toll, Achievement First's CEO. The effort will reexamine how schools structure the school day, use technology, involve families in their children's education.
Toll dropped that bombshell announcement Wednesday night at a joint meeting for the boards that govern its Connecticut schools in New Haven, Bridgeport and Hartford. In making the announcement, Toll acknowledged that the charter schools have focused too much on teaching to low-rigor standardized tests and are ready for a "disruptive" change in model.
Toll co-founded Achievement First's flagship school, Amistad Academy, 15 years ago, then oversaw the replication of that school model into a fast-expanding network of 25 schools in Connecticut, New York City and Providence. She said Achievement First staff have been focusing hard on reading and writing, but the achievement gaps with the state remain too large, and the pace of progress too slow.
Now AF aims "to go after a new school design entirely," Toll told board members gathered in a community room inside Amistad Academy Elementary School at 130 Edgewood Ave.
IDEO is a global consulting and design firm whose clients have included Samsung, Toyota, Proctor & Gamble and G.E. Achievement First has hired the firm to conduct a six-month research and development project, from February to July of 2014, to come up with a new design for a school. Parts of that design may be piloted in existing AF schools this fall. AF aims to open two entirely new schools in the fall of 2015 using that model, Toll said. One school would be an elementary school with grades K to 1; the other would be a middle school starting with grade 5, she said.
Because the schools are charter schools—publicly funded schools that accept public school kids by lottery and are run by private organizations under their own charters—AF would need state permission for the experimental schools. Because of "political challenges" in New York City, where a charter skeptic just replaced a pro-charter mayor, AF would seek to open the schools in Connecticut, in "Bridgeport or New Haven," she said.
AF spokesman Mel Ochoa said he did not know the cost of the contract with IDEO. He said it is being paid for by private donations.
In its project with IDEO, AF aims to create "disruptive innovation"—just as a car company invents a hybrid car, or a scientist comes up with a "breakthrough cure," Toll said.
"I love Achievement First. I'm proud of Achievement First. However, we also feel like there are a couple of key areas where we want to think in a more unconstrained way," Toll said. She dubbed the effort "Greenfield": "Imagine a green field," with no structures on it and limitless possibilities.
Toll said she wants AF to rethink the basic components of schooling, such as the school day, class schedules, and the use of technology. She said the schools need to come up with new ways to teach kids noncognitive skills, such as teamwork and persistence, that will help them succeed in life. And AF aims to introduce "family engagement in a way that we've never done it before." The effort will likely include a large investment in technology, she said.
She characterized the experiment as the next big step for an organization that seeks to constantly evolve.
In a frank concession, she said the organization previously focused too much on preparing kids for the Connecticut Mastery Test (CMT), the basic test of reading, math, writing and science by which the state and federal governments measured a school's success.
"The biggest mistake we made as an organization was pitching to low-level tests," she said.
Now, she said, Achievement First is teaching kids more higher-order thinking skills aligned with the new Common Core national standards and assessments, which are replacing Connecticut's legacy tests. On Wednesday, she called for more dramatic change.
"I'm not sure we're actually that innovative," she said. "We're trying to get someone to push us in new ways."
Toll described IDEO as "the top design firm in the world."
"They invented [Apple's] computer mouse. They get far more people who approach them for work than they" can say yes to, Toll said.
Toll said IDEO would assemble a team including "some of the best experts in the field," including one of the architects of the Common Core, to advise AF's effort to reinvent itself.
Toll said she doesn't have a clear picture of what the new model will be: "we're just at the beginning of figuring out what this is."
"We're trying to go into this more with problems we're trying to solve than solutions we're trying to implement," Toll said.
The problems include how to close literacy gaps between Achievement First students, who are mostly poor minorities, and their statewide peers; and how to help kids build "habits of success," also known as "character development" or "non-cognitive" skills.
Achievement First has not ignored character development, Toll said. But "it's not enough at the center of what we do. It's always been the second-class citizen to the academic objectives."
"We want to do much more systematic R&D [research and development]" in the area, she said. "There's a lot of cognitive brain research out there"—including on human motivation—"that we haven't paid enough attention to. We're trying to say, we're going to come up with a new school model."
The idea met a lot of excitement, and some concern, from board members.
"This is absolutely fascinating," said Melinda Hamilton, chair of the Amistad Academy board.
Angela Scott, an incoming member of the board that oversees Hartford's AF schools, was skeptical.
"You're looking at IDEO as a design expert, but it's not their sweet spot as education curriculum," she said. "Why them?"
"That's a great question, and one I'm worried about, too," Toll replied.
Toll noted that IDEO "did a whole school network in Peru," transforming a system of rote learning into one focused on "group work and technology."
"There's no doubt that they're not educational experts," Toll said. She said she was skeptical at the outset, too. But she sat through a couple of design workshops with the group and was blown away. She said IDEO pushed her to new heights of innovative thinking.
Lankford Wade, another incoming member of AF's Hartford school board, asked if the experiment would create an uncomfortable split, where some schools are working in an old model and others are innovating. He later elaborated that he is concerned that AF might sacrifice its current model in an effort to rush to a new one.
Toll replied that current AF staff won't be left out. "The ideas for the new schools are going to come from all sorts of people," including current school leaders. Plus, she said, AF aims to pilot some of the ideas in existing schools this fall.
Another board member asked Toll if the new model would require a "major investment in technology."
"I think so," she replied.
"Blended Learning"
Toll mentioned the idea of "blended learning"—using technology to support and in some cases reorganize classroom instruction. That includes the idea of the flipped classroom, where kids watch videos at home to learn new concepts, then spend their time in the classroom working on problem sets or other projects typically assigned as homework. The method allows for more individualized help and small-group work, and less classroom time spent on lectures.
"I'm not going into it saying we're sure it's going to be a blended-learning school," Toll said. But the use of more technology fits with the ideas of adding more individualized learning, and moving away from seat-time instruction to "competency-based" instruction, where kids move forward at their own pace as soon as they master certain skills, she said.
So technology will likely have "a more dominant role" in the new model, Toll said.
In a classroom-style arrangement, Toll asked board members to break into four groups to discuss the day's news.
Recalling a simile Toll had raised earlier, Dick Ferguson (pictured), chairman of the Elm City College Prep board, raised a key difference between designing schools and designing cars. With cars, he said, there's a chance to test-drive them and use crash-test dummies before putting them on the road.
"When you start to build a new school model," however, "the only way you know if it's going to work is to put real live kids in it," Ferguson said.
He later said he supports the plan because he trusts AF to be thoughtful about its approach. He said he was just "wondering aloud" about what it means to "take this innovative model and try it out on real kids."
Andy Boas, chairman of AF's Bridgeport board, was more optimistic.
"Continuous improvement is the mark of a great organization," he said.
Tags: dacia toll, achievement first, IDEO, charter schools
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posted by: robn on January 23, 2014 9:49am
AF and IDEO should be aware that some elective "disruption" has produced negative results in the past. Case in point; Branford's Walsh Intermediate School was designed in the 1970s as an open classroom school. The desire for an open atmosphere ignored very basic issues of privacy and acoustics that have made for a very difficult learning/teaching environment.
Long and short: experiment but don't do something that's difficult to undo.
posted by: Threefifths on January 23, 2014 11:18am
What happen with the Investigation of the high rate of suspensions among Achievement First charter schools.
posted by: Walt on January 23, 2014 5:05pm
Hopefully the newer curricula will consider some training on the negative effects of garish hairdos and excessive piercings on the chances of the student being hired after they graduate from the School
Even if they are sharp, neat, well - trained kids, appearance can easily kill job opportunities
posted by: CreatingUrgency on January 23, 2014 6:05pm
"In making the announcement, Toll acknowledged that the charter schools have focused too much on teaching to low-rigor standardized tests and are ready for a "disruptive" change in model."
So, charter schools were supposed to be the innovators…laboratories of innovation…which showed public schools how to "do it right". And now, NOW, you are saying "WE DID IT WRONG!"
You have got to be kidding!
Achievement First can con anyone out of money.
posted by: Eric B. Smith on January 23, 2014 6:38pm
@Walt. I am the father of the teenager I believe you were referring to when you mentioned "garish hairdos and excessive piercings." The curricula does not need any of the type of training you mentioned. That's a parent's job, which I will never abdicate to a school. Yes, she is sharp, neat, well trained (if I do say so myself) and her appearance is perfectly fine (as others have said so themselves, including the photographer apparently). Rather than fit the cookie cutter image of America implied by your comment, people should be free to choose how they want to dress and style themselves. She has made informed choices and her choice to not serve at places that won't let her live authentically has not hindered her from getting good internships, volunteer opportunities, and acceptance into four colleges she has heard from so far with no rejections. Your comment makes it clear that we have a long way to go before we can accept people (I intentionally did not use the word "judge," since it's not our job to judge anyone) based on the content of their character and not by the color of their hair or the number of their piercings.
posted by: Walt on January 24, 2014 2:33am
Eric Smith
Tried to be non-offensive, by not referring to the picture, but obviously did not succeed.
It is the job of personnel folks to judge many factors in hiring, including appropriate appearance .
Your daughter, from what little can be determine from the published picture appears neat, good-looking and intelligent, and the fact that she was apparently chosen to represent others on this important new group certainly indicates she is thought of as way above average.
Do not wish to insult her or you, but my point is still valid. She will do much better on the job market if she grows out of this fad.
Up to her, and I guess you, to some extent, but I believe the schools as well as the parents should offer guidance
posted by: ElmCityVoice on January 24, 2014 8:26am
Seriously, these AF people have NO SHAME. After years of scamming and bullying public schools for not properly teaching to the test, they decide the test no longer works. Perhaps it's because their kids are doing no better with this miserable "teach to the test" strategy they call education than the public school. This reminds me of the children's story,"Sneetches on the Beaches" by Dr. Seuss.
AF people don't want to have "Teach to the Test" stars on their bellies if the rest of do. Now they're willing to spend hedge fund money, go through the magic machine, and come out with IDEO stars on their bellies. Dick Ferguson, an AF board member wondered aloud, what it means to "take this innovative model and try it out on real kids." Hey, those "real" kids are our kids! Why not try it out on your own kids first.
posted by: Eric B. Smith on January 24, 2014 9:14am
You're right only in the sense that appearance matters when seeking a job. Where you're wrong is in the assumption that there's only one standard for what's appropriate. Without knowing what a person is looking to do career-wise, one can't begin to assess what's appropriate. It's also broad, paternalistic, and condescending judgments that tend to insult and offend, despite a person's best intentions.
I also can't help but disagree with you regarding the role of schools in offering this kind of guidance. I look to the school to provide subject matter education. Its best to leave education on these types of issues up to parents for a number of reasons.
posted by: Threefifths on January 24, 2014 9:15am
posted by: Walt on January 24, 2014 2:33am
Do not wish to insult her or you, but my point is still valid. She will do much better on the job market if she grows out of this fad.
There are jobs the fad industry that she could apply for.She could get a job as a Model.She can get a job as a actor.Who says she has to apply for a job in the main stream. As far as hair when it comes to Black folks we are always under attack.
posted by: robn on January 24, 2014 9:43am
This is Sir Richard Branson, Knight of the Realm, accomplished sailor, philanthropist, F1 team owner, billionaire.
posted by: mohovs on January 24, 2014 12:31pm
So the previous mayor rebuilt all the schools in New Haven over the last decade and now they are obsolete buildings???? Give me a break. If you head out of New Haven you will find that many communities have no problem with their kids learning using schools from the 70's that are obsolete by todays standards. Please do not waste any more money building new buildings when they are not the problem.
posted by: Walt on January 26, 2014 6:36am
Hardly a fair comparison, Robn
Sir Dickie was third generation royalty
( if Sir meets that definition) from a very wealthy family , a dialectic who could not handle school and dropped out of high school for good.
Got involved in music and drugs and eventually became an entrepreneur, He was great at that, as you have indicated,
Apparently was never hired by anyone at any time ,He was instead,the boss and the hirer, and could make his own decisions, not to be OKed by others.
As you probably know, Bronson usually looked pretty sharp, not as in your photo, appropriate for his position in music,
He was also a gambler, and when he lost a big bet, posed for your un-typical picture in order to pay off his debt, it is said.
Not really an apt comparison,
Kind of sorry now that I opened the subject, but nevertheless the topic has truth, and I believe the system should offer some enlightenment to the kids before they face the hiring interviews
posted by: Eric B. Smith on January 26, 2014 11:16am
Walt, no need to feel sorry for starting the conversation. It's worth having and it's similar to the conversation my daughter and I had when she expressed interest in coloring her hair and getting piercings. The issue isn't that you raised the issue. The issue is how you raised it, e. g. the adjectives you used.
And Robn's comparison my not be fair, but it sure is funny!
posted by: nhstudent4ever on January 26, 2014 7:14pm
I think moving away from teaching to the test is a positive direction, but I don't think technology is the answer. Kids today often have access to technology, and that seems to cross economic lines. I think they should focus on the "habits of success" rather than the technological issues.
Schools should foster creativity and individualism. It sounds like Jasmine will be very successful regardless of her choices of appearance. Schools should teach the importance of being neat and clean, and how a certain professional appearance may be expected in some settings. However, they should also be championing the notion that your intellect is far more powerful than your appearance!


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Developer Ditches, Auctions Off Trolley Square
by Paul Bass | May 20, 2014 3:10 pm
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Posted to: Business/ Economic Development, Fair Haven, Upper State Street
The future of one of New Haven's budding creative-economy hubs will be decided soon—upstate in Rocky Hill.
An auction is scheduled to take place there on June 19 for a 320,771 square-foot former swimwear factory and (before that) trolley storage facility hard by I-91 at 1175 State St.
A listing for the auction presents the complex as tired, empty and neglected—only 15 percent occupied with no local management, a "non-core asset" belonging to an "out-of-town" "absentee landlord."
Walk inside, and that 15 percent materializes as one of the livelier and funkier, if hidden, future-oriented business communities in town, called Trolley Square. Businesses from a fast-growing e-marketing firm called Digital Surgeons to the Channel 1 skateboard/graffiti-art shop and a vintage clothing shop, from Lumber Liquidators to a new outfit called Octopusake share space with art, photography, aikido, and capoeira studios as well as a busy fitness center. One-shot happenings, such as a pop-up "Fem/me" exhibit and a "Beer, Bourbon, BBQ & Bacon" fest, have brought up to 4,000 people inside the remodeled space where workers once turned out Robby Len one-piece bathing suits.
Tenants and city officials expressed hope that a new owner who sees that potential and has more of a commitment to invest in the Trolley Square property emerges on June 19.
The bidding starts at $1.8 million. That's how much the current owner, a partnership run by controversial New York City real-estate mogul Joshua Guttman, paid to buy the brick circa-1925 building in 2003.
Since then, the owner promised major improvements. He ran into trouble with city inspectors as well as the federal Environmental Protection Agency, which fined him $48,100 in 2007 for asbestos removal-related health and labor violations. He hired a property manager from Bridgeport who oversees buildings in numerous cities at once.
He also ran into the ultimate roadblock: the never-ending state government effort to rebuild the State Street Bridge, closed off a block away. That project, across the street from 1175 State, has dragged years behind schedule and choked travel and commerce along the area's one main artery. At one point, Jack Guttman, part of the Guttman family business, looked at another former trolley storage building across the street with thoughts of expanding. (He's pictured on that tour.) The Guttmans apparently decided instead to focus their energies outside of New Haven.
Despite the obstacles and neglect, the Trolley Square building started humming with activity. It has become, in the words of one major tenant as well as city economic development chief Matthew Nemerson, an emerging New Haven slice of Brooklyn. (In fact, if that bridge ever gets fixed, people will be able to walk from 1175 State to here for a $3.50 cup of Ethiopian Yirgacheffe pour-over joe.)
"A part of New Haven that's beginning to play the part of Brooklyn with a New England" twist, is how Nemerson put it. He said Joshua Guttman was among a crew of out-of-town "bottom-feeders" who bought big old "complicated" abandoned industrial buildings two decades ago, cheap.
"I think there will be a lot of people bidding on this project. He'll probably make a lot of money," Nemerson predicted.
Lou Cox hopes Nemerson's right about the interest. Cox, who moved his Channel 1 shop from downtown to Trolley Square, is on a month-to-month lease, paying $1,000 a month for 1,000 square feet. He worries about what will happen to tenants like him; he also worries about the building suffering from further neglect in the wrong hands.
The building manager (who also could not be reached for comment) told Cox that Trolley Square was not a high priority for the New York-based owner, Cox said. The owner is auctioning three properties at once on June 16. The other two are a former factory building in Chicopee, Mass., and a former Ames Department Store headquarters in Rocky Hill.
Tenants' hopes recently rose when the Guttmans finally paved the driveway off State Street, Cox said. "I thought the building was going in a positive direction."
The Guttmans failed to respond to phone and email requests for comment for this story.
Down the hall from Channel 1, David Salinas of Digital Surgeons said he's not concerned about the sale.
For starters, he has another three years left on his lease. His new-media company, representing the new economy, is the kind that landlords work hard to attract and keep.
"I'm one of those people that don't get worried before it's time to get worried," He said. "For all you know, Donald Trump might buy the building and put $5 million into it.
"It's a great building. With some TLC, it can be fantastic."
It's been good for Digital Surgeons, the online marketing company Salinas, a University of Bridgeport grad originally from Queens, founded. As the business has grown over eight years—with clients ranging from the city of New Haven to Ovation guitars to Lady Gaga—Salinas has been able to keep expanding, and designing, the space. The company now has 32 employees. The main workspace looks out (over the highway) onto a majestic view of East Rock. The above photo shows another room where three of Salinas' employees were working Monday.
Salinas said he spent a lot of time in Brooklyn in his youth, before tech and urban amenities drew investors and young new entrepreneurs and artistic types who transformed the landscape. He said he senses the same transition happening in New Haven, a college town where rents are low compared to New York. (It's no coincidence that his firm designed the city's latest web-based homeowner-marketing campaign.) He sees that transition happening in spots like Trolley Square He argues that the bridge closure doesn't matter that much, because the promise lies not in retail business, but creative and tech space.
Carla O'Brien, co-owner of the CrossFit gym at Trolley Square, also has a long-term lease. "We're here to stay" no matter who buys the building, she said. "The building is definitely lacking in maintenance and upkeep."
Erik Johnson, director of city government's Livable City Initiative (LCI), said he had hoped Guttman would invest more in the building and market it better. "That's been a little disappointment," he said. "There's clearly a market for affordable non-downtown office" space. Johnson said to succeed, Trolley Square needs "five Digital Surgeons," new-media tech-oriented companies, rather than more workout and dance spaces, to anchor it. For now, there's plenty of room for all.
Tags: Trolley Square, Joshua Guttman, Channel One, Digital Surgeons, David Salinas
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posted by: anonymous on May 20, 2014 3:18pm
Imagine the tax revenue that could be generated if the building across the street - the CT Transit one along Humphrey - were converted into a new train station serving workers and residents who walk from the growing East Rock, Fair Haven, and Mill River areas.
Trains will soon be running every half hour to Hartford, and service to Fairfield and New York City will improve dramatically, too.
With a new train station, the entire area between Goatville, Farnam Courts, Grand Avenue, and Erector Square would become the hottest waterfront property in the state, overnight. Later on, I-91 could be buried for a few blocks, freeing up additional hundreds of acres of waterfront property.
posted by: Threefifths on May 20, 2014 3:33pm
Lou Cox hopes Nemerson's right about the interest. Cox, who moved his Channel 1 shop from downtown to Trolley Square, is on a month-to-month lease, paying $1,000 a month for 1,000 square feet. He worries about what will happen to tenants like him; he also worries about the building suffering from further neglect in the wrong hands.
This is a done deal.The rents are going to go up.All fo them will be gone.Like I said Gentrification Vampires are coming.
posted by: hrsn on May 20, 2014 7:55pm
Connecticut is too small to talk about "upstate." Rocky Hill is 40 minutes away from NH on I91. It's local, like pretty much everything in CT.
posted by: Stylo on May 20, 2014 11:08pm
@anonymous: I like that idea! It's probably the only chance that old Transit property has a future. Have you wrote to anyone in the city?
posted by: Bradley on May 21, 2014 5:42am
3/5ths is it your view that the building should remain in its current condition with an 85% vacancy rate?
Anonymous, the commuter rail service is supposed to go in service more than three years from now, according to DOT. Moreover, no mechanism has been established to fund its operating costs and the Special Transportation Fund, which pays for both transit and highway programs, is going broke. I know that cars are heavily subsidized and you and I agree that the gas tax should be hiked. But I doubt that a new station will be built anytime in the foreseeable future.
posted by: Threefifths on May 21, 2014 7:50am
posted by: Bradley on May 21, 2014 6:42am
3/5ths is it your view that the building should remain in its current condition with an 85% vacancy rate?
There are people there.In fact I know what of the tenants and he told me the building was going to be fix up.
Carla O'Brien, co-owner of the CrossFit gym at Trolley Square, also has a long-term lease. "We're here to stay" no matter who buys the building, she said. "The building is definitely lacking in maintenance and upkeep."
Like I said when the rent is jacked up,There will be gone.
posted by: shadesofzero on May 21, 2014 9:22am
Three-fifths' hatred of gentrification is so fantastic that he would rather we all live in squalor next to vacant row houses, because hey, at least the rent's cheap!
posted by: Threefifths on May 21, 2014 9:36am
posted by: shadesofzero on May 21, 2014 10:22am
Three-fifths' hatred of gentrification is so fantastic that he would rather we all live in squalor next to vacant row houses, because hey, at least the rent's cheap!
what I hate about gentrification is long-time residents who are displaced due to their inability to afford increased property taxes, rising housing prices, and far higher rents brought on by gentrification.
posted by: markcbm on May 21, 2014 10:52am
Shades of 0,
While 3/5s likes to bang his anti-gentrification drum, I don't think his point is that he prefers New Haveners live in Squalor. Rather, his point is rather a disappointment about a phenomenon where, as a neighborhood grows nicer and more liveable, it simultaneously becomes less possible for the folks who live there to be able to enjoy the fruits.
Yes, it's easy to take shots at comments here. But 3/5s isn't 100% off the mark. There are several areas of New Haven that have changed for the better over time and, as a result, many of the former residents have been displaced to less-desirable areas of town (ever wonder why crime has grown so much around exit 8? Some of the folks who couldn't get into the mixed-income housing were displaced to the outskirts).
So you're ignoring that fact that as a place gets nicer, some of those people who helped make it nice must resign themselves to the fact that they must move to another area of 'squalor'.
And by the way, in the article on the redesign of the Broadway area, just because someone - i.e. me - doesn't think a small roundabout on Broadway can reasonably accommodate the traffic that passes through doesn't mean they are small-minded or haven't traveled outside of the U.S.
Food for thought: comments that disparage others for their perceived ignorance often boomerang back and make the commenter appear to be ignorant or small-minded.
posted by: shadesofzero on May 21, 2014 2:29pm
Yes, it is an unfortunate side effect of gentrification that people will be priced out of the market. The alternative is stagnation. How we can look at these neighborhoods and think that the status quo is sufficient is beyond me.
I apologize if I offended anyone, but I just find that NHI comments are often reactionary and quickly reduce themselves to a choir of boos towards general government competence. My comments were not meant towards anybody in particular.
posted by: markcbm on May 21, 2014 3:26pm
"I just find that NHI comments are often reactionary and quickly reduce themselves to a choir of boos towards general government competence."
I totally agree.
posted by: cedarhillresident! on May 21, 2014 3:29pm
I actually agree with 3/5th about the gentrification.
Living in Cedar Hill this property can make my community a better community. But that dam bridge being closed isolated us even more than we are already and made it hard for this cool space to grow.
With that said I think that if the new owner can continue with the direction this property owner has with how he has rented it. I think it can have a positive effect on my community without pushing us out…..but that DAM BRIDGE.
posted by: Threefifths on May 21, 2014 7:30pm
posted by: markcbm on May 21, 2014 11:52am
Shades of 0,
While 3/5s likes to bang his anti-gentrification drum, I don't think his point is that he prefers New Haveners live in Squalor.
Correct.whatI hate about gentrification is long-time residents who are displaced due to their inability to afford increased property taxes, rising housing prices, and far higher rents brought on by gentrification.I have friends who live downtown and near exit 8.they tell me there rents have gone up.Some have told me the landlord have told them if the move they would help them.This is going on across this country.what you see in New Haven is the first steps.for those who want proof,here is a good book on the real deal of
Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It Paperback
by Mindy Fullilove (Author)
Like i said keep sleeping New Haven.
My bad.Did not the BOA sell yale a street.
posted by: Threefifths on May 22, 2014 6:37am
Hot off the press.
New Haven planners approve 763-space garage along Route 34 despite protest.
Commissioner Adam Marchand, the alder from the 25th Ward, said he would even prefer to have a larger garage to allow for more development where there is now surface parking for the retail component, as that portion of the plan is too suburban for a city intent on dense development.
Economic Development Administrator Matthew Nemerson said the proposal is the best compromise all the parties could reach.
He said you can't let perfection be the enemy of the good.
Notice the above Players.
But the opponents weren't swayed.
Elaine Quinn, a longtime resident of Dwight Street, called the garage "a monstrosity" and said the overall plan does not connect the neighborhoods split more than 50 years ago in the heyday of redevelopment when Legion Aveue was cleared of houses.
She accused the commission "of selling us down the river" and concentrating too many garages in one area.
Like I said Keep sleeping New Haven.Gentrification Vampires are coming.
My Bad you can read the whole story.
Keep voting them in.
posted by: William Kurtz on May 22, 2014 9:59am
Actual question, not provocative challenge: how hard would it be to enact a sliding-scale property tax system of some kind, that rewarded people for long-term ownership and occupancy by reducing (or at least keeping consistent) residential property taxes after a period of time?
For example, let's say a couple buys a house in an inexpensive neighborhood while in their 20s or 30s, raises their family there, contributes to the stability of the neighborhood, then elects to stay there once their children have grown. They could pay the standard taxes, with the attendant fluctuations for 30 years and then as they approached retirement, pay some fixed or reduced amount for the rest of their time occupying the property. Maybe fixed amount, based on the average of the previous ten years?
posted by: markcbm on May 22, 2014 12:56pm
I like your tax idea, or at least the spirit in which it was proposed. I'm no urban development expert, but I do know that these things are thorny.
While a fixed/grandfathered-in tax rate could in fact help those who would otherwise not be able to afford to stay in a gentrifying area because of tax increases (and other cost increases too), it could also have the downside of depriving the city of those needed extra taxes.
Also, it puts the city in the game of choosing who qualifies for this kind of tax relief (would longtime property owners on St. Ronan also be able to participate in this plan?).
I'm not clear on the details, but I believe California law sets property taxes at the value of the house when it was purchased. This is great for all the folks who purchased their homes decades ago, but it leaves municipalities collecting a small fraction of taxes on estates that today are valued at exorbitantly higher prices.
I suppose some kind of strategically deployed "empowerment zone" status could be designated for certain blighted areas. At the end of the day, though, it's a free market and, lets face it, gentrification happens.
It's worth remembering that the process can also be beneficial to residents who are able to stay or to sell their property for much higher prices as a result.
To me, "white flight" and gentrification are two sides of a coin. And so it goes.
posted by: Bradley on May 22, 2014 3:17pm
William, while I appreciate your motives, your proposal would lend itself to all sorts of gamesmanship. I've worked with elected officials for nearly 30 years, and like and respect most of them. But the temptation to carve out provisions to address the needs of individual constituents could end up with a policy nearly as complicated as the Internal Revenue Code. Also, as Markcbm notes, California's Proposition 13 has had lots of unforeseen, negative consequences to housing markets there.
posted by: Threefifths on May 22, 2014 6:08pm
posted by: New Haven Taxpayer on May 22, 2014 10:14am
Is rent control the answer?
This was one of the question,I ask when I came to this state.I think Rent control and Rent Stabilization would help.May be some one can tell me why this state does not have Rent control and Rent Stabilization.
posted by: vintanthromodernvintage on May 29, 2014 6:24am
Vintanthromodern Vintage, along with Haven Events (a collective of small creative business entrepreneurs) have been trying to promote this amazing space since November through a series of pop-up multifaceted social, networking and shopping events (Holiday Haven, Love Haven, Spring Haven). Through our grassroots efforts we've attracted hundreds of people into this dynamic, potential filled space. We hope that whomever buys the space values both small businesses, several of which already exist in Trolley Square AND larger ones like CrossFit and Digital Surgeons. A bustling, vibrant atmosphere can be be achieved via a mixture of both types of tenants.


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- 3 large chunks Pineapple
- 3 oz Honey
- 1 oz Fresh lemon juice
- 3 Cloves
- 1 pinch Ground nutmeg
- 1 tsp Ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon Brown sugar
Garnish: Orange slices and cloves
Glass: Punch
How to make the Hendrick's Hot Gin Punch Cocktail
Add all the ingredients to a large saucepan and simmer over low heat for about 20 minutes. To serve, pour the hot mixture into a punch bowl or teapot and garnish with orange slices studded with cloves. Pair with gingerbread.


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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Tips and Tricks: How to resize the widget
July 27, 2011
by Lim Pei Hao
by Lim Pei Hao
27 July 2011 The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 has Android version 3.1 preinstalled which supports Widget resizing. However, not every Widget available could be resized.
To resize a Widget:
1. Tap and hold on the Widget till you see the orange outline
2. Drag the little round orange knob to resize
A Widget can be also shrinked into a square, like the Gallery Widget (only applicable on selected Widgets only).
3. Tap anywhere on the screen to deselect
Check out more Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Tips and Tricks


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