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Learn by Doodling
If you are a follower of this blog, then you're aware that I am employing both of my children to curate their own teacher resource blogs (Infographic-A-Day & Vid-A-Day), and that I syndicate them into 2¢ Worth.
One, posted by Martin the other day, really caught my attention (Circuit Scribe, the new way to teach and use circuits). It's an ink, developed at the university of Illinois, through which electrical current can be carried. Their (electroninks) intent is an innovative way to help youngsters come to understand circuits. They doodle their circuit ideas with Circuit Scribe pens, lay components on their drawings, and throw the switch.
Part of what intrigued me about the project was our education community's growing interest in helping students learn by making things – with tools, wires and code. This product is such a threshold-free approach to learning circuit design.
The other thing that provoked me to comment here is my son – and I hope that Martin doesn't mind my bringing his personal experience into this. You see, Martin is incredibly talented at becoming an expert in areas that interest him. Many of you know that he is a celebrated master musician. But he constantly surprises us when he suddenly can talk with us about that never seemed of interest to him before, such as some old movie we've just seen. He's telling us about the director, actors, academy award nominations, related works and stories about its production. He's especially fond of the Coen brothers and Wes Anderson.
He can also tell you almost anything about the NBA and is currently learning a lot about the NFL, via his fantasy football league. He is definitely not the athletic jock type (band geeks were big on campus in his high school) and has never expressed any interest in sports until recently.
To the point of this writing, I find it interesting that my son zoomed in on this video about Circuit Scribe. You see Martin dropped out of the computer science program of one of our state universities, because he hated programming – and I think I know why. They were not teaching him to doodle. I don't mean literally draw his programs with conductive ink. They weren't helping him learn to code the way I learned to code. He was being made to learn programming in the same way that I was taught grammar. It was about memorizing proper syntax, instead of learning to make computers do interesting and useful things.
My children will both find their intersections of play, purpose and passion, and it will (hopefully) be something they can make a living at.
..and they'll do it in spite of the "test-prep" curriculum that dominated their childhoods.
Cultivating Your Personal Learning Network 2.0
It is with great pleasure and no small amount of relief, that I announce the second edition of Cultivating Your Personal Learning Network: A Gardener's Approach to Learning – formerly known as A Gardener's approach to Learning: Cultivating at our Personal Learning Network. Switching the title and subtitle was the idea of my wife and business manager, Brenda. She'd long felt that "A Gardener's Approach.." did not clearly describe the content and function of the book.
This second edition started innocently enough when, with an afternoon to kill, I downloaded Apples iBooks Author (iBA) software, a free download that helps us create interactive iBooks for publishing through the iBooks book store and iTunes. Since it was my latest book, I dumped the text of Gardener's Approach.. into iBA and started playing. My initial reaction was not that different from what I initially though if iBooks. They glow and flow, but provide little opportunity for the reader to talk back, which I believe should be a core goal for the next generation of learning content. The iBooks I'd seen were still primarily intended for top-down reader-passive content consumption.
However, when I started factoring in the great fun I've had with Apple Keynote's dazzling animation capabilities and the ability to insert keynotes into the iBook, I continued to play, adding animated tutorials for some parts of the book.
I initially struggled with the HTML feature of iBooks, which I couldn't figure out for the life of me. I've been coding in HTML for nearly 20 years. They I learned…
It seems that what iBook Author means by HTML is actually Dashboard Widgets, which are small programs that can be downloaded and installed on your Macintosh computer and run in the background – and now in the widgets space on later versions of Mac's OS. They have come in nearly every category of software, but are usually utilities such as calculators, calendars and clocks. I saw no use for any of these utilities in my book, so I set out researching and teaching myself how to write my own dashboard widgets.
As I played (which is what learning often feels like to me), ideas started forming for interfacing my iBook with the web and specifically with web pages that would give readers the ability to add and comment on their own stories of networked learning. It was at that point that I was hooked.
Of course, reading through the book, I learned how dreadfully out-of-date it was, so I started editing and rewriting major portions of CYPLN and adding at least one chapter. After all, the first edition was written before the Apple iPad launched. So, after many edits and re-edits, with the tireless assistance of Brenda, and the launch of Bookry, which provides a tool for creating much slicker widgets than I was writing, I've published Cultivating Your Personal Learning Network 2nd Ed, in print, ebook (for Kindle), and iBook (with color, motion, and conversation).
The most interesting part of this endeavor was the act of using many of the skills and techniques described in the book in order to learn how to publish it in these new formats and with these new features. My own PLN grew.
I hurriedly produced the video below as an introduction to some of the features of the iBooks version.
The print and ebook versions, like the first edition of CYPLN, feature QR-Codes, which give the reader access to many of the features of the iBook – without the flair.
One concept that jelled for me during the proces was that of scale. Because the ebook and iBook versions of CYPLN was digital, weightless and so easily distributed, I've decided to price for scale. So the iBook and ebook (Kindle) versions are only $2.99 (USD). Since the print version (259 pages) must be produced and shipped, I have to charge a little more, $8.99, which gives me a profit similar to that of the digital books.
This will take you to a page with links to the various purchasing venues: http://goo.gl/EUu7B
Why 3D Printing & Fabrication are Important to Education
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I mentioned in my ISTE Reflection article that I thought 2012 would be the year that 3D printing and fab labs emerged as a major interest to the education world. But it's more than just a cool technology that we'd like to see in schools. Personal fabrication may be hugely important to us.
A couple of weeks ago, I was having coffee with my friend, neighbor and fellow blogger, Paul Gilster (Centauri Dreams). A self-made authority on interstellar space exploration and associate with the Tau Zero Foundation, Gilster has inspired me for years, as expressed in the acknowledgments of all my books.
On that day, he told me about work toward sending small spacecraft to specific positions in space in relation to the sun. The craft would look back at our star and utilize the bending of light caused by the sun's gravitational force to magnify what's on the other side. The concept is called Gravitational Lensing, and was initially mentioned by physicist Orest Chwolson in 1924 and first quantified by Albert Einstein in 1936. In effect, we would be turning the sun into a gigantic lens, through which we would be able to see, according to Gilster, planets orbiting distant stars, continents on those worlds, and even cities, if they exist.
This is where my legs started to get wobbly.
Getting to specifics, Paul explained that to get a spacecraft to that position, about 750 astronomical units (AU) from the sun (Pluto orbits at an average of 40au), the craft would have to be very small and utilize nano scale mechanisms and even some degree of artificial intelligence.
At that point, a recurring question came to mind, which I asked,
"Assume that we're approaching the limits of what we would practically want to do with our cell phones and personal computers, and that they're about as small as we wish them to be, what's going to drive further research and development in miniaturization – making things smaller? Surely not NASA."
I didn't actually speak the last sentence. But Gilster said that aside from the military, it would be personal fabrication, that we would all have our own in-house fabricators, where we would design and "print" our own cellphones, etc.
As my son explained it to me, the lid that holds the batteries in our TV remote is broken and has been discarded. As a result, we have to handle the remote with care to prevent the batteries from falling out. Tape has not been a satisfactory solution. With a 3D printer, we would simply go to the Samsung web site, look up the part and print it. Ten minutes later (or an hour later, it doesn't matter) the part would be sitting in our printer, where we could clip it into our remote. One of the 3D printers that I saw at ISTE cost only $1,600. The original Macintosh computers were nearly twice that expensive with only 128K of memory and no hard drive. 3D printers may become very important to us.
The true potential is when we can design our own remotes, with our our own sense of flair, using design software, and then print in our own homes. Cottage industries might emerge, contests, DIY markets – and all fueled by creativity and inventiveness.
Check out the proliferation of Maker Faires and Cory Doctorow's 2009 novel, Makers.
Now this idea of in-house fabrication and its cultural impact may seem a bit far-fetched to you. However, if you're old enough, you may remember a time when carrying your personal phone in your pocket might have seemed just as unlikely – a phone with which you could get weather and news reports on demand, have access to an interconnected global library, pinpoint your exact location on a map and participate in any of a million global conversations.
My question is this. What should our children be learning today and how should they be learning it, to be ready to leverage this kind of creative opportunity?
What do you think?
Another Change My Classroom Video
"There are a ton of these out there." That was my first response when watching this North Texas, student-produced video. But there's nothing wrong with that. In fact I would suggest that more classes create, craft, and produce message commercials — but not so much for the world as for their local community. I wish someone would do it here so that our school board might get their heads in the right place and out of their …
Did I say that out loud?
What made me decide to post this was the initial teacher blog post. It is followed (reading up) by reflective articles from students. Here's the text of the initial post and a link to the video (YouTube) and the blog.
As a teacher, I've always believed my job is to pose questions, not answer them. Fittingly, this whole project began because of a question. The class was reading Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game" and the students were wrestling with a seemingly simple question: Could children, using the internet, have a dramatic impact on the world around them? Could they influence public opinion, and make a mark on their world?
Perhaps I should've seen what was coming, but it still caught me off-guard. Their question to me was simple enough, though: "Can we try it?"
It did seem the simplest way to settle the question, and so began the greatest experimental education project I've ever had the privilege of leading. The scope of our project was mind-boggling. First, figure out the most pervasive internet message-spreading tools. Then, determine the best way to harness them to our advantage. Next, craft our message such that it will spread as best as it possibly can, and finally, prepare all the supporting tools, media, and gear required for such a huge endeavor. I never imagined the variety of tasks that would be required:
- Negotiating with principals for space/allowances
- Negotiating with the district for extra desks and props
- Contacting websites, publishers, recording industries
- Researching all kinds of legalities about Fair Use
You name it, we probably did it. Here's the best part, though: We had to get the entire thing done and released in four months, using no more than two hours a day, five days a week.
What follows is the account of that adventure – the highs and lows, good moments and bad, through the eyes of the incredible students who made this project happen. If I am to be credited for this, let it only be as the organizer or the conductor of the symphony. The students were the talented musicians who crafted this masterpiece.
I got a 35, I reckon!
It shouldn't end with a question mark. It should end with an exclamation point.
I'll give myself a 35 for the infographic (815KB) that I posted the other day (My First Stab at Infographics..) for your consideration. I get that many points for the effort, probably about ten hours of work. The effort was good. Each time I scrapped the whole thing and started again, it was because I learned something. It was because I realized that I was going down a wrong path — a path I will not take again. Each path, never to be taken again, is worth at least 5 points.
Some of the 65 points that I didn't get was explained to me by Steve Ruddy, who commented..
An infographic usually uses the info to convey a point, I cannot figure out what you want me to deduce by all of this information. Most importantly I don't see what the top half has to do with the bottom half at all. Hope this feedback helps you make better infographs.
He's absolutely right. All that I did was to convey individual chunks of data as blocks of images and then stack those blocks in a way that made sense to me. There was a story there. There was a purpose to the sequence of blocks. But I didn't tell tell story. There was no mortar to give the blocks substance and meaning. To Ruddy and others who viewed the graphic, it was just a stack of blocks with no exclamation point.
|Thursday's IGAD usually points to a data source that teachers or learners might use to craft their own infographic or data visualization. Today, however, I add an extra post about "breaking news" infographics, which are explicitly designed to tell a story. The examples are graphics, telling the story of the raid on Abbottabad.
As a result? Well, I'm scrapping my current infographic and starting over again. But it's not so much to reshape the blocks, but to mix the mortar.
My point in sharing this is to say that I'm still proud of that 35. I didn't fail, because I learned from that experience and will do a little better next time. But, as a learner, it makes me wonder…
Is it wrong to expect a 100? Does that emphasize the wrong thing?
Shouldn't we wait until the end of the course for something near 100? ..or the end of the term? ..or graduation? ..or a long time after that?
My First Stab at Infographics & an Announcement
I've been fascinated by infographics and data visualization for a few years now and have started doing some presenting on the topic at conferences. But one of the questions that keeps arising and perhaps the greatest barrier to making stories with numbers and images is, "How do you do the design?" The tech is easy. It's crafting the story or message that's hard.
So I decided to try making one myself, hoping that some reasonable process might come out of it. I'm somewhat pleased with the graphic, as a first time effort, but can't say that I have any handle on a design process. All I can say is that it involves a lot of trashing the whole thing and starting all over again. I guess its about a willingness to play and permission to make mistakes and do it again differently.
You can click the smaller image to the right to get the full 1024 x 6000 pixel infographic. The graphic is based on a March 2011 study conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Corporate Communications and Stanford University. They surveyed just over 1,100 18 to 24 year olds about their education experience.
This also seems like a good time to finally mention a new blog I've been working on where I plan to post infographics that have interested me. My plan is to post a link to one a day on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, something that I suspect might be used within some instructional discipline — and then a data source for creating infographics on Thursday, and something for the fun of it on Friday. This who excercize has informed me of the vast quantity of infographics that are being produced today — not all of it good.
So give a gander at an Infographic-a-Day at http://graphicaday.idave.us/.
Hope to have another one coming out in the next little bit to feature a video a day, which will be curated by my son.
A Haunting Experience
Have you ever attended a conference or had another learning experience that haunted you. By that, I mean it lingers, following you, in the shadows, rising in your thoughts at unexpected times, and surprising you with a, "Boo!" What haunts you is that you don't know why. There's a room with a closed door, and the answer's in there. You approach the door, and you can hear people in the audience screaming, "Don't open the door, stupid!"
This was the scene outside my hotel. There was a real Emerald City quality to the place.
At this point, I've not opened the door, though it occurs to me that I often find my conclusion when I sit down and write. It may have been a simple combination of the exotic. A mixture of tropical flora, chilly temperatures, steep and forbidding mountains next to the dozens of enormous freighters I watched moving intoVictoria Harbor during my walks between the conference site and my hotel — which was exotic by its own right.
It could have been the attendees, mostly educators from International schools from throughout Asia and even Indonesia. Teacher-adventurers is the best phrase I can come up with to describe these educators who have decided to live and work at the edges of their worlds.
Or was it the other speakers, such as Chris Smith, whom I've known for more than 10 years and whose career has paralleled mine in several ways. Yet he, an Englishman, has settled in northern Thailand. Or Stephen Heppell, who is strange in so many ways that simply draw you in. You want to ask, "Did his eyes just twinkle?" And you feel like he has just opened at your feet a sack of toys, playthings you've never seen before, ideas and suggestions that are so compelling that you feel as though you are a beginner teacher again.
Stephen Heppell
Yes! Writing this is helping me to uncover the spook — that and the fact that conference organizer, Paul White forwarded a link to the student performance we all watched with wonder on the last day.
What haunts me is what learners can accomplish in an environment that is unfamiliar, through the tension that is caused when gravity is slightly off center, in a place that seems just a little dangerous in it unfamiliarity and exoticness.
Watch the video, recorded by Chris Smith, and ask yourself, "What if I, comfortable at home and in routine, had to up and follow this." My spook was that I had to get up and follow these talented youngsters!


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Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!
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... we're all mad here.
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That's the topic of this interesting article.
I actually think there's a lot to be said for both the Boy and Girl Scouts, especially if the GS's keep selling those addictive thin mints.
But like many, I remain troubled by the Boy Scouts stance on what folks call the three G's -- God, girls and gays.
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Hung out with Jonnie Walker tonight at the Christmas party. Open bar meant I got to try Blue Label. I feel so fancy haha. Hope this rain subsides for power test tomorrow.
Hung out with Jonnie Walker tonight at the Christmas party. Open bar meant I got to try Blue Label. I feel so fancy haha. Hope this rain subsides for power test tomorrow.
email quarq.
one of my quarqs tells me low battery every ride. no matter what. is a firmware problem. they will probably recommend a hard reset (tap battery in certain way) or a firmware update of some sort.
About 2 hours with a friend with every zone represented from 1 to 5. Fartlek. Nice change of pace. Not as good as 1.5 hours of SST, but not too far removed from that for where I am in base training (just starting the last and biggest block before a steady diet of 1 hour plus SST with once a week 2x20's or ZCI's over threshold for a few weeks before starting the sprinting drills).
Tomorrow is team ride. The rumor mill has it that it will be posted as four hours of endurance (and by endurance I mean Cat 1 endurance or Cat 2 wanna-be Cat 1 endurance. For me it is wheel suck endurance with occasional suffering even when sucking wheel so hard I can taste where the wheel just in front of me has ridden recently), but such posts are like pre-race strategy: When it comes off as planned it is a thing of beauty, but that doesn't happen often enough. It is still fun. Only rarely does the team ride get so out of whack that it runs completely counter to my particular training needs. And if that happens I just turn left when they turn right at some point and ride solo.
I'm the world's forgotten boy. The one who's searchin', searchin' to destroy.
50 min warm up, 20 min test, 50 min cool down. 319 watts for estimated 300 watts ftp. Felt really good despite the cold.
One of those days where everything seemed to go wrong at once. It was pretty nasty this morning when I got out to ride. The weather coupled with not being able to shift to the bottom of my cassette due to a frayed shifter cable, and my powermeter which decided to stop functioning made for a less than ideal ride. Still glad I got out, though: http://www.strava.com/activities/99064191
Over here im starting to recover from some minor issues in my left knee. I've been mostly out of the game for a month or so. This happens to me 2-3x a year (in either knee); I know the drill. It just sucks cause I wanna be ridin' big like a lot of my friends and competitors, but c'est la vie.
yesterday was an hour of ~z3, no issues. I plan on doing 2hrs of z2/3 tmrrw and don't anticipate any issues either; i've been patient for the past ~4weeks or so.
ill be riding as much as I want to by Jan regardless
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so high, my heart cannot bear the strain." -A.C. Jobim, Triste
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Three hours of zone 3 on the e-motions and then an hour of plyo.
Base, base, base. 3hrs, no computer, no big ring.
Cyclists of the world, unite! You have nothing to lube but your chains!
An easy ride 2 1/2 hours in the cold. Not enough sleep last night; no energy. It was between 38-43 degrees and when the rain started to annoy me it stopped. Unfortunately, 'stopping' meant it was replaced with hail, which kinda hurt. Got to some points where there was a stream of water running across the road and had to decide 'if I felt lucky' and go through them.
Pretty much crisis mode here in SoCal:
Coldest ever ride today. I usually don't ride when the thermometer dips below 40 but this is my first official year of cycling and I am trying to be a bit tougher when it comes to the cold (give me 100+ degrees any day). I layered up and it wasn't actually too bad, except for my fingers. I did get really cold when we hung out a bit at the start of the group ride but warmed up again. Ended up being a really nice ride but the group was very small. Got in about 85 miles but my Garmin died before half way. I was wearing a Garmin running watch so I recorded the rest of the ride on that. I think there is a way to merge the files but I'm too lazy.
I plan on racing a lot next year.
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naw i wouldn't compromise my knee healing (and total training load, subsequently) like that - I already feel like I could be riding more but don't want to rush or risk anything.
totally by design.
"Your beauty is an aeroplane;
so high, my heart cannot bear the strain." -A.C. Jobim, Triste
Anyway, trainer session instead. much pain, much sore legs. Will try again to make it outside tomorrow
Rode, for about 4 hours.
4 hours in the cold, for this part of the pond, at least.
BTW: chemical hand warmer between my two layers of gloves definitely helped.
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3hrs of endurance...Froze my ass off...Might just do it again tomorrow with some tempo thrown in to keep me warm
"On the other hand riding down a hill at 55 MPH wearing (essentially) women's underwear and a Styrofoam cup on your head is the epitome of rational life-extending decisions." - RacerEx
a couple things come to mind:
- are you using good batteries? you can purchase 20 or 50 cr2032s on ebay for a song, but IME most of them start out reading just barely passable voltage. name-brand batteries where you can actually see (verify) the expiration data can make a difference.
- is the quarq sending false low-battery signals to your head unit? my suggestion is to ignore the warnings and see how many extra hours you get. is it one ride? 25 more hours? 200 more hours? just toss a fresh cr2032 in your pocket so you are prepared if the battery dies mid-ride. might be worth checking and could also give you a clue as to how much longer you can go.
- this one is actually pretty big and not all that well known: do you install your batteries with your bare hands? a bit of oil from your fingers can easily be transferred to the battery, and if this happens it can prevent the unit from powering down as it should, seriously shortening life. next time you install one (not just in a quarq but in any other device), use gloves, a napkin, or just be super careful (wash your hands and handle the battery only by the edges).
i hope it is something simple like stale batteries or improper handling rather than an issue with the unit. good luck!
as a datapoint I get well over 200 hours on my quarq/battery and use the $10 for 10 battery 2320 packs off amazon which are surely not top quality.
I would email quarq. I would also try a hard reset on the unit. And be sure your battery is clean, as TR mentions.
2 hours on the rollers to round out a rest week. if everything goes according to plan the next 4 weeks should be super hard, in all the right ways. classes are over, i only have two exams (and i'm an employed senior so...Cs for degrees) so my only obligation is my 25hr/week job. in other words - i should have a ton of time to ride. and i want to dig myself a big hole before i spend january traveling. should be fun!
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3.5 hours with a 2x20 up the mtn on legs that were anything but fresh. Still hit my numbers.
Ice hitting the windows. Did the Sufferfest Blender / Traineroad video on the rollers... too much intensity for early December really, but way more "fun" than a 2 hour tempo ride on the rollers.
"Today me will live in the moment, unless it's unpleasant, then me will eat cookie." -Cookie Monster
Holy crap it was cold out there. How is it in the 40's with the sun out? First, that shouldn't happen anywhere. Second, it most certainly shouldn't happen in the desert.
90 minutes of hills / descents. Did a quasi ftp test at the beginning and its up another 15


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Golden State Vs. Dallas
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Golden State Warriors (8th seed) Vs. Dallas Mavericks (1st seed)
The Golden State Warriors (42- 40) have won one NBA Championship. That was in 1975. Last season, they did not qualify for the post-season. Although the Dallas Mavericks (67- 15) have never won the title, they came close last season when they met the Miami Heat in the finals. The Mavs had the best record in the league this season and were 14 games better than the team that finished first in the east—the Pistons.
The Golden State Warriors are able to score, averaging second-most points per game (106.8) in the NBA. They tend to spread the scoring amongst all starters. Point guard Baron Davis (20.1 PPG, 8.1 APG, 2.1 SPG) leads the team in points per game, while shooting guard Monta Ellis (16.5 PPG, 4.1 APG, 1.71 SPG) provides good scoring potential. However, although the Warriors can score, they are not very accurate from downtown (36%). Upfront, no player is dominant. Center Al Harrington (16.5 PPG, 6.4 RPG, 0.3 BPG) leads inside players in scoring and rebounding.
The Mavericks are 80% foul shooters! They hit threes at a rate of 38%. This makes them extremely dangerous, especially down the stretch. Although they average six less points per game than Golden State, disciplined play and defense will aid them greatly.
Inside, the Mavs are tough, featuring power forward Dirk Nowitzki (24.6 PPG, 8.9 RPG, 0.8 BPG), center Erick Dampier (7.1 PPG, 7.4 RPG, 1.1 BPG) and guard/forward Josh Howard (18.9 PPG, 6.8 RPG, 1.8 APG). Nowitzki is a disciplined shooter, hitting 90% of his foul shots, 42% of his threes and 50% from the floor. Outside, guard Jason Terry (16.7 PPG, 5.2 APG, .438 3-P%) is a fine floor commander. Terry averages 1 steal per game and is accurate from the foul line 80% of the time,
Dallas must not be complacent against any team. They know that it's a long road to the finals, yet the team also understands that it is the best in the league. But this is not a coronation and every game must be played and the requisite number won. Look for Dallas to bring their best game to the court every night. This is a team on a mission.
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"He was destined to be here," adds his mom Janet, who often proudly dons her son's No. 27 at most games. "My sister says he was born with a purpose, and for a purpose, and that's to do what he's doing now — play ball. God has given him a gift.''
But it's one Ray Rice prides himself on sharing with others. All his generosity is known to extend far beyond the confines of the brick-level home and the high-end vehicles he's purchased for family.
Every spring, he hosts a football clinic for kids in New Rochelle where he personally drops by with gifts for all and to donate much-needed equipment to his old high school team. "Ray's very big in this town,'' said Lou DiRienzo, his former high school coach. "Ray has tremendous personality and a smile that fills up a room. People are endeared to him. From when he was little, he's a fun guy people like being around. … What he means is a role model.''
During NFL season, on any given Monday DiRienzo might wander into his office and find Rice already there— not to mention the likes of Ravens' star quarterback and Rice teammate Joe Flacco.
"It gives kids a sense of hope, that with hard work you can make it," 31-year-old Jermaine Hollis, who has known Rice since they were young, told the Post. "He's always motivated kids to do well. He always comes back and shows love."
Showing love and displaying commitment, it's part of the reason why even now, caught up in the wave of emotion that is Hall of Fame bound teammates Ray Lewis' "last ride," many observers look for Rice to spell the difference come Sunday.
"Ray Rice is the heart and soul of the Ravens' offense, said former Pro Bowl back and current Yahoo! sports radio analyst announcer Eddie George. "He doesn't get enough credit for what he means to that team."
Nor the strife he's had to endure and overcome just to still be in the game.
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Android KitKat problems and how to fix them
Android KitKat is the most popular Android version around right now, running on roughly 40 percent of devices. But it has its problems. We've had more experience with many of these Android KitKat issues than anyone really deserves, but we learned some valuable lessons in the process. So we've compiled this list of the most common KitKat problems and how to fix them. Join us, friends, for a walk down Android KitKat troubleshooting lane.
- Battery drain
- Wi-Fi problems
- Gallery crashes
- Random reboot
- SD card access
- Wake-from-sleep lag
- Ghost downloads
- Mobile data/LTE problems
- Broken GPS
- System-wide issues
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1. Android KitKat battery drain
Battery issues following a firmware update are pretty much par for the course, so don't despair. KitKat battery drain was the first KitKat problem we encountered too. It tends to settle down after a short while, but you can help this particular issue disappear more quickly. Give our tried and true solutions (in order of severity) a go:
- Pull the battery for 30 seconds and reboot.
- Assess the apps that are causing the problems by checking your battery usage stats in settings (either reinstall them on the new firmware or remove them).
- Recalibrate your battery with an app called Battery Calibration (you'll need root access for this).
- Clear your system cache. This is done through Recovery Mode, specific to your device. Search AndroidPIT for individual tutorials.
- Finally, the only remaining option, but the one that always works best, is a factory reset. Do not reset your phone until you have backed up all your important data though.
2. Android KitKat Wi-Fi connection problems
Android KitKat Wi-Fi connectivity problems were also high on our list. We even encountered problems with call connections and 3G/4G data. The quickest and easiest way to fix this problem is to try toggling your data and Wi-Fi connections on and off or switch Airplane Mode on and off again.
Alternatively, you can go into your KitKat Wi-Fi settings and tap the connection, then tap Forget and then add it fresh. You can also try switching frequency bands. If all of this doesn't work, you might have to resort to flashing the latest radio file for your device. You can also try our guide to boost your phone's Wi-Fi to solve your KitKat Wi-Fi connection problem.
3. Android KitKat ''Unfortunately Gallery has stopped''
While this KitKat issue made headlines on the Galaxy S3, it caused problems for plenty of other people too and we frequently got asked how to fix it. On the Galaxy S3, the fix was simply to disable the Paper Artist app. To do this, just go to Settings > App Manager and locate Paper Artist. Tap it and then tap Disable. It will now appear in a Disabled tab in your App Manager (and can be enabled again at any point).
On other devices, KitKat troubleshooting is equally simple. Just clear the cache for the Gallery app. Go to Settings > Apps > Gallery and clear the cache. If the problem persists you can also clear the data for the app, but make sure you have all your photos safely backed up before you do so. You can also try uninstalling the app and re-installing it – or another one – if things are still crashing.
4. Android KitKat random reboots
A random reboot is when your phone just crashes and restarts without you doing anything and it was the most annoying of all Android KitKat problems. Sometimes it happens regularly, sometimes it happens because of a particular action or app, but it's never cool. There's a million reasons why random reboots might occur, but the easiest way to clear them up is to just wipe your device.
Copy your important files over to your computer with a USB cable and use a backup app or cloud service to keep everything safe. You can also use a computer-based solution like Helium that doesn't even require root for a full system backup.
Once you have your backup, just go to the Backup and Reset section of your device's settings and follow the steps. It's much simpler to just restore your data on a fresh device than to spend weeks tinkering to find out how to fix the Android KitKat reboot problem. If you need help saving your stuff, follow our guide on how to backup up everything on Android.
5. Android KitKat SD card access broken
A broken SD card on Android KitKat is sadly there by design (thanks Google), but there are ways around the problem. You can read our tutorial on how to save to the SD card on KitKat, or you can grab one of a number of ''save to SD card'' apps in the Play Store. The only issue is that you will need to have root access to make this happen. You can also check out how to fix KitKat SD card write problems. Fortunately, Lollipop fixed the SD card problem on KitKat.
6. Android KitKat wake-from-sleep lag
There's a few issues here. The first fix could be a simple as going to your settings and lock screen widgets and switching from personal message to clock (or clock to personal message and back again). Alternatively, you can turn off your lock screen effect.
Various manufacturers issued patches for just the Android KitKat wake-from-sleep bug, so go to your Settings > About Phone > Software Update screen and make sure you have the most current version of KitKat for your device. If that still hasn't fixed the problem, you should ask your carrier how to fix it on their support site.
7. Android KitKat ghost download notifications
This was originally a Jelly Bean problem, but it found its way into KitKat for some users as well. Fortunately it's a super easy fix: just open your app drawer, find the Downloads app and delete all downloads present.
Of course, you'll want to back these up first if you want to keep them. You can also go into Settings > Apps > Downloads and clear data. That should get rid of ghost notifications on Android KitKat once and for all.
8. Android KitKat mobile data and LTE issues
If mobile data fails, or it doesn't automatically connect when turning off Wi-Fi or leaving a Wi-Fi area, there's a couple of things you can do to troubleshoot the problem. The first is to simply toggle Airplane Mode on to disrupt all connections – and failed attempts – and then turn it off again. This will frequently result in the connection being made. The next thing to try is to restart your phone. If that doesn't work either you might want to call your provider and ask for network assistance.
9. Android KitKat GPS problems
GPS issues are another regular update bug. To fix this particular KitKat issue, go into Settings > Location and ensure that Location Access is turned on and switched to High Accuracy. Toggling through different settings can occasionally fix the problem, but if it doesn't you might want to download an app from the Play Store to diagnose your Android KitKat GPS problem. Give GPS Status & Toolbox a shot. Definitely worth a try if you feel like your GPS isn't up to par. We've got more tips to improve GPS signal.GPS Status & Toolbox
10. Android KitKat problems system-wide
Sometimes the problems are so widespread that trying to fix each one individually is impossible. In these cases – when everything is about to meltdown along with your patience – the best trick is to just do a factory reset. It may sound scary but it's no big deal. Just make sure you back up your important data first.
Once you're all safely backed up, go to Settings > Backup and Resat and follow the steps. Once your phone restarts you can restore your apps and data and carry on, bug-free. Personally I always backup before an update, factory reset, update and then restore just to avoid the usual plethora of problems.
General advice
Before flashing any new firmware, official or otherwise, you should always do a backup, of your photos, music and documents as well as apps and data. This means that your important stuff is already safe before anything bad can happen. It's always a good idea to regularly back up your data.
It's also wise to avoid installing a new update straight away. Just let the notification sit there for a few days and come visit AndroidPIT or do some Googling to see if it is causing widespread problems before you commit to it. Being aware of the problems and fixes before they affect you will save a lot of headaches.
Finally, you can follow my method: backup your data, factory reset your device, install the update on a fresh system and then restore all of your apps and data. I do this automatically these days and it only takes half an hour. I figure that's a wise investment of my time and I very rarely suffer from bugs after an Android update (except those nasty ones baked into the update itself).
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I have a problem with my kitkat 4.4.2 where i cant update my applications and when its downloading it will stucked or stopped to 98% 50% or just installing. Especially the google playstore. Ive done everything from clearing datas or caches up to wiping caches using system recovery but none of them fixed the problem. I am using ASus Zenfone 5, T00j-D. I actually did a factory reset amd backup and recovery, it fixed the problem temporrily, but when i updated all my apps after a while it started the same problem again. I hope you can help me with this. Thank you in advance.
I have an android kitkat tablet. it was dropped..crack in right hand corner..works with some things but not much..is there any thing i can do to fix it..this is just the tablet...thank you
If a part of your screen does not respond than you have to replace the digitizer which is not expensive though. Good luck


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The cost of liability insurance premiums almost brought the parade of floats and bands to a standstill. WCTV was told by the president of Springtime Tallahassee that the insurance costs have gone from around three grand to as high as $50,000.
Board members for the big event had a busy day. It was a close call, but the 36th Annual Springtime Tallahassee is officially on.
For the last nine months, the Springtime Tallahassee board was trying to secure liability insurance at the very last minute. They got it.
"We're going to have a wonderful parade. We have so much planned for Tallahassee," says Joe Parramore, president of Springtime Tallahassee, Inc.
"Springtime Tallahassee is a great amenity to the community economically, culturally and otherwise. I'm sure the whole community will want it to remain," Mayor John Marks says.
Parramore says over the last year, liability insurance for parades and outdoor events have skyrocketed.
"The quotes we've received are about $26,000 to $50,000 and that's just for the weekend festivities. In the past it's been about $3,000," he says.
People around town say they don't want to see the more than 30-year tradition go away.
"We're ecstatic! I've said I don't want to be the last president of Springtime Tallahassee," Parramore says.
President Parramore says they had a meeting with the board and the mayor Friday morning. After that they hit the pavement to find donors to make the 36th Springtime Tallahassee happen.
In the final hours, the board along with city staffers was able to get $13,000 in donations needed for the coverage. That insurance is just in case someone is hurt or an accident occurs.
Some of the donors included public accounting firms and consulting groups, along with Tallahassee Community College and the final donor to guarantee the coverage was WCTV.
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In honor of its 50th anniversary, a new two-disc special edition of Disneys beloved LADY AND THE TRAMP comes to DVD Feb. 28, 2006 (Walt Disney Home Ent., $29.99). Like BAMBI and CINDERELLA, a 4K scan of the Technicolor negative was made, finally offering the entire CinemaScope image with brilliant resolution and clarity. Assisting the Technology Film Restoration team headed by Theo Gluck was John Lowrys group at DTS Digital Images. They scanned 4.2 miles of film and removed 30 million pieces of dust and dirt.
LADY AND THE TRAMP, originally released in June 1955, was the first Disney animated feature to be filmed in CinemaScope. Directed by Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi and Wilfred Jackson, the film follows the adventures of a young cocker spaniel from a respectable house, and her romantic escapades with Tramp, a devil-may-care mutt from the wrong side of the railroad tracks. The film features several enchanting songs by Peggy Lee (who voices the conniving Siamese cats, Si and Am, as well as the characters Darling and Peg) and Sonny Burke including "Bella Notte," "He's a Tramp" and "The Siamese Cat Song."
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Stick with a 'pick for rigging soft plastics for bass
Guide uses toothpicks to anchor weights, soft plastics on jigs, Texas rigs
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Thread a toothpick through a soft-plastic jig trailer, break the ends off, then thread the jig hook through the trailer below the toothpick and you won't have the trailer pulled down as much as often happens.
One of the best tools a bass fisherman can have, especially during the summer when fish live largely in deep, cool, oxygenated water, are toothpicks – and not to clean peanut butter from an angler's teeth.
What's the deal with toothpicks? For years, fishermen would "peg" Texas-rig bullet weights with a toothpick, jamming the sharp end of a pick into the hole where the line threads through the weight. After breaking off the rest of the pick, fishermen had a bullet weight that wouldn't slide up the line – a big aid in being able to cast longer and more accurately.
The next problem solved by toothpicks is the time spent readjusting or putting new soft-plastic lures on hooks after a bite. Often, a fish that hit a soft-plastic bait might not be impaled on the point of the hook, but it would pull the worm or lizard back off the hook.
"Got a solution for that one," said guide Maynard Edwards of Lexington. "I like to use this with a jig-and-pig, but you also can use it with creature baits."
Edwards' solution to prevent bass from ripping or tearing off jig trailers is to insert a piece of toothpick sideways through the head of the soft-plastic bait, then break it off even with each side of the lure. When he slides the trailer on the jig's hook, he makes sure the point goes in below the toothpick in the lure's body. That way, the toothpick will be in place and help keep the trailer from tearing off.
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"It keeps the hook from pulling free (from the lure), and you can cast (jigs) farther," he said. "You also don't fling (soft plastics) off the hooks so much."
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Field Logic Black Hole Archery Target- The Black hole has been totally redesigned to have premium performance without a paying a premium. It offers both broadhead and field point shooting.
Field Logic Black Hole Archery Target- The layered system in the Black Hole Archery Targets utilizes friction to stop arrows. The four sided shooting offers a more durable design. The front and back of the target can be shot with both broadhead and field point. The sides have a super durable woven polypropylene wrap that can be shot with field points only.
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This target is garbage. Arrows pass straight through. Thanks to this target I have two brand new broadheads that have bent tips. Now I need to buy a new target and new broadheads. Don't waste your money.Keith of Buhl, ID - May, 27 2012:
I purchased this target because it is very light and portable. After shooting at the target for less than a week with field points I have arrow passing almost completely through the target... I would not buy this target unless you are shooting a low power bow. I shoot bowtech invasion 70# and Gold Tip Pro arrows.. (that now have to re fletched because they are sinking all the way into the target and have to be pulled out the backside....) Target is light.. easy to carry.. I would not dare shot a broadhead at it.Dan of Ogden, UT - July, 25 2012:
This target works great for throwing in the car and going shooting at a buddies place. It isn't the most durable target, but it is mobile. Awesome value!James of Cleveland, TN - July, 23 2013:
I have to agree with both of the previous reviews... It is a very decent little target, i've been shooting at mine weekly for atleast 2 months or so now and it's still fine and since the first time I shot at it my arrows were going threw the back by almost a full inch at 20 yards and im only shooting a 55# PSE. However as a begginer i do recomend it, it's very light weight and portable. But when i move up in weight i will be changing blocks for the fact i dont think it will hold up very well to a stronger bow as well. Overall its perfect for a begginer wouldnt reccommend for over 60# though.Lance of Lewiston, ID - August, 25 2013:
Target is pretty good for the money. I have two. My wife's will last for ever with her 30# Diamond Infinity. Mine will probably be lucky to take 1000 shots from my 65# Diamond Core and I am good about rotating which dots I shoot. Target is super light and portable and does surprisingly well with the occasional broadhead. I will probably buy again if they go on sale for $30 again.rudolphus of Maple Valley, WA - August, 30 2014:
I bought this target sort of questioning the decision because its only half of the depth of most targets. Got it home and on the second shot with broadheads I had a complete pass through in the center of the target. I highly do not recommend this terrible target.
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Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Tom Fiegen used a second televised forum Thursday night to attack opponent Roxanne Conlin, this time about her connection with a Monsanto lobbyist and her job as a trial lawyer.
About halfway through the forum (sponsored by IowaPolitics.com, Mediacom, the Cedar Rapids Gazette, and the League of Women Voters of Johnson County), Fiegen was asked about flood relief -- an issue key to residents of flood-ravaged Cedar Rapids -- but instead decided to use the moment to launch the attack.
"I want to address the special interests," said Fiegen, a former state senator. "One of the things that Roxanne has run on is she's not taken any money from lobbyists. But one of her BFFs, that's best friends forever, [is] a gentleman by the name of Jerry Crawford. ... Since then, Jerry Crawford has received $150,000 as a registered federal lobbyist from Monsanto."
Conlin maintained that she is not taking any money from lobbyists. "I am suing Monsanto and that's not just any lawsuit," she said. "It is a nationwide, class-action against Monsanto for anti-trust violations. And most people think that that's the lawsuit that caused the federal government to look into Monsanto's potential violations of the anti-trust laws. I'm an anti-trust lawyer, and I'm not going to even respond to your cheap shot."
This was not the first time that Conlin has been attacked over the issue. Last December, the third Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, Bob Krause -- who had a delayed flight from Arkansas and was not able to make it to Thursday night's forum -- raised the issue of Conlin's tie to the Monsanto lobbyist. Conlin acknowledged earlier this year in an interview with Blog for Iowa that she and Crawford are close friends, and that she has known him more than 50 years. But she said she found the criticism "hysterical" and "silly" because she's suing Monsanto.
Thursday night's forum also marked the second time that Fiegen attacked Conlin over special interests. At a debate Monday, he questioned the $20 million in tax credits that she and her husband received since last year to build low- and moderate-income houses.
Conlin came to Thursday's forum armed with new numbers to defend the tax credits that she and her husband received. She said the low-income-tax-credit program that Conlin Properties participates in created nearly 1,600 units and 2,400 jobs. "The money doesn't come to us," she said. "It's an equity-financing device."
The two candidates also discussed abortion, immigration, and President Barack Obama's reaction to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
"I feel impatient," Conlin said. "I watch the TV and see that oil gushing out of there, and I think, 'Good grief, there must be something more that can be done.' But this was really a failure that happened in so many different ways. I would like to see the president move his office to New Orleans and be there on the ground helping however he can with that problem. We need to see him; we need to know he's there; we need to know he's engaged."
But Fiegen said he thinks criticism of Obama over the oil spill is unfair. "Certainly, Democrats are in charge, but I don't believe the president is a geologist, and I'm not sure that his presence in New Orleans would help."
Grassley Holds Big Fundraising Edge in Senate Race
In the race for the U.S. Senate, incumbent Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) outraised Des Moines Democrat Conlin more than two-to-one in the pre-primary fundraising period and has more than six times as much cash on hand.
Grassley reported $423,936 in donations taken in from April 1 to May 19, while Conlin brought in $181,553. Grassley also has nearly $5.6 million waiting for whoever emerges from the three-way Democratic primary in which Conlin, who has $870,643 on hand, is the perceived front-runner.
Conlin's campaign manager stressed that her contributions were from 1,168 individuals, and that 80 percent of the contributions were $100 or less. Her campaign has emphasized that it does not accept money from political action committees or Washington, D.C., lobbyists.
Grassley took $150,450 from PACs during the period, and has accepted more than $2.75 million from the groups this election cycle.
Numbers for Democratic U.S. Senate candidates Krause and Fiegen were not immediately available.
Gingrich Maintains That His Focus Is on 2010 but Will Compete in Iowa if He Runs in 2012
It was the elephant in the room: Is former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich going to run for president in 2012? He maintained Wednesday during a visit to Davenport that his focus is on the 2010 midterm elections.
"We have to keep Senator Grassley in the Senate," Gingrich insisted. "We have to pick up a couple of House seats. We have to win the state legislature. I mean '10 is a big deal, and people don't have to worry about '12 'til we finish our job in '10."
But Gingrich said if he does choose to run in 2012, "of course" he'd run in Iowa. "My wife is a graduate of Luther College, so how could I skip Iowa?" he said. "Some of her closest friends are here."
The former speaker of the House was one of the only perceived 2012 Republican presidential candidates who had not previously visited Iowa in this election cycle. He made up for lost time Wednesday, doing a whirlwind three-stop tour that began in Cedar Rapids and ended in Des Moines, with a Davenport speech and book-signing in between.
After the speech, Gingrich was peppered with questions from the media:
Gingrich also said Wednesday during his visit to Iowa that he likes the Tea Party. "I think it brings new people into politics," he said. "It gives them a place to work, to study and learn, and I find most of them to be very sincere citizens who are very worried about the country's future."
The former Georgia congressman spoke in Davenport as part of the American Future Fund's conservative lecture series.
Culver and Branstad Spar Over Department on Aging
Former Republican Governor and current gubernatorial candidate Terry Branstad today called for Democratic Governor Chet Culver to remove John McCalley as director of the Department on Aging [IDA] and replace him with someone who will advocate for seniors and work with the commission and the area agencies on aging.
But Culver's re-election campaign called it hypocritical for Branstad to call for McCalley's firing when Branstad himself dealt with a similar situation in 1995 and chose not to fire his department director.
The call comes as the Iowa Department on Aging has been accused of interfering with the work of Iowa's long-term-care ombudsman. Branstad said it's wrong that it takes an order from the federal government for McCalley and the Culver administration to enforce rules that allow the ombudsman to do her job and advocate for seniors.
"This new controversy surrounding the Department on Aging once again shows the current administration is bent on keeping Iowans in the dark when it comes to the work of state government," Branstad said. "This is additional evidence that Governor Culver has populated key state agencies with leaders less interested in serving Iowans and more interested in keeping Iowans in the dark about the activities of his administration."
Culver's office has defended McCalley as having an accomplished track record, and for being a strong change agent and a true advocate for constituents. Jim Flansburg, communications director for Culver's office, also acknowledged that one of the duties of an agency "is to ensure it works within the changing rules of the federal government.
"To that end, the governor has directed John McCalley to ensure that all departmental practices and policies are in full compliance with applicable federal law," Flansburg said.
But Culver's campaign took on Branstad directly on the issue.
"Branstad's statement on the IDA ombudsman is inaccurate, and his suggestion that the governor's office fire the IDA director is hypocritical," said Culver Campaign Manager Donn Stanley. "Branstad hopes people have forgotten his record and that reporters won't bother to fact-check his statements. Be assured our campaign will continue to help keep him honest."
Stanley said that in 1995, then-long-term-care ombudsman Carl McPherson said he was "muzzled" after he wrote reports critical of the Branstad administration's oversight of nursing homes. McPherson was reassigned in a way that no longer allowed him to speak publicly to the issues and ensured that no additional such reports would be published.
Transportation Company Picks Iowa for Midwest HQ
A company specializing in arranging transportation for Medicaid enrollees will locate its Midwestern headquarters in Des Moines this fall, creating up to 100 jobs and saving the state about $1 million annually, Culver said.
TMS Management Group, a transportation broker based in Clearwater, Florida, has won a three-year contract to arrange nonemergency transportation for Iowa Medicaid members. The company, which provides a similar service in several Midwestern states, subsequently decided to create a customer call center in Des Moines to administer all of its Midwest operations.
"We're saving Iowa tax money while improving nonemergency transportation for eligible Medicaid recipients," Culver said. "In addition, we're providing an enormous work-saver for state employees, and we get additional jobs for Iowa."
Federal law requires states to provide health-related transportation for Medicaid enrollees. In Iowa and many other states, Medicaid reimburses enrollees for the cost of providing their own rides to doctors or pharmacies.
Beginning in October, TMS will assume responsibility for administering this program. TMS will provide the service for about $10 million a year -- which is similar to the current system -- but Iowa taxpayers will save about $1 million a year because the federal share of the cost is greater under the new system.
This weekly summary comes from IowaPolitics.com, an online government and politics news service. Reporter Andrew Duffelmeyer and other correspondents contributed to this report.
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However, the results on your portfolio and electric bill may be.
What happens when you mix a Boston Clean Air Task Force, EPA, Department of Energy, Sierra Club, Mississippi Public Service Commission, White House limits on greenhouse-gas emissions and a new carbon capturing electric power plant by Southern Co
Lawsuit after lawsuit, a billion dollars in cost overruns, taxpayer subsidies and the most expensive coal plant to operate causing electric rates to skyrocket, if this becomes the norm. The new project is called Plant Ratcliffe by Southern Co.
Plant Ratcliffe is quite the boondoggle, but proponents say it always costs more to build the first one and costs will come down as the technology improves. More plants are in the planning stages and may bring a needed shot in the arm to mining stocks.
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Or, rather, didn't happen.
The above coal stocks didn't sell off tremendously and are largely moving along with the rest of the market today. This is noteworthy because stocks don't bottom on good news, they reach a bottom on awful news.
Let me explain: When a stock chart continues trending lower, what you're witnessing is investors throwing in the towel and moving on.
Leaving aside bankruptcies for a moment, almost all stocks have a core group of investors that are commonly known as the "strong hands." A stock is at the bottom when the weak hands are gone. At some point, distressing news (like an unfavorable EPA announcement regarding coal) hits the wire and the related stock or stocks react with little or no movement. This is what we are witnessing right now in coal-related companies.


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