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Electric vehicles through open source methods can revolutionize the world
3D printing an open source electric car
What excites me about ZWheelz is the potential to improve our education system, environment, energy independence, and economy—all with what I like to call, one "EZ" project.
It all began when I built a plane from a kit, then saw the documentary, Who Killed The Electric Car?, and decided to build an electric car. Turns out, it functioned really well, and I began wondering: "Why aren't there more electric vehicles on the road?"
As I continued to refine the idea for an electric-kit-car, it was helpful that many of today's CNC (Computer Numerically Controlled) machines and 3D printers are based on open source designs, making it possible to email files and make products locally. And with desktop versions, it's possible to do inexpensive rapid prototyping using scale models using the same CAD (Computer Aided Design) model. So, for the car frame, I plan to cut fiberglass/honeycomb sheets with a CNC and stack them together forming interlocking 3D shapes. This will be strong, light, easy to manufacture and assemble, and non-conductive and non-corrosive. I have all the CAD files, parts, materials, tools, and machines available online and will continue to publish everything about it. (Read more about my process at the ZWheelz Indiegogo campaign page.)
As a parallel process, my next goal is to create very accurate, functional, one-fourth scale model kits to be made available as part of a STEM program in education; spanning middle school to high school to college and on to the private sector. Even kids can learn CAD using inexpensive desktop CNC machines and 3D printers. Plus, kids have vast imaginations; let's tap into that with this rapid prototyping process. Then, their ideas could be passed up to high school students for scrutiny and improvement, building full-size street-legal versions in shop class. Next, the vehicles could move on to college students who refine the designs further. Finally, local, small businesses, or others in private industry, could build, sell, and maintain the electric vehicle.
There should be options:
- kits and parts can be purchased to build vehicles at home (i.e. parent-child project)
- individuals, families, or groups can schedule time to build a vehicle in a workshop (i.e. hands-on adult education class)
- complete "turn key" vehicles can be purchased
- private industry could sponsor programs similar to the BEST/FIRST robotics programs and their components could be used in the full-size vehicles
These education + small business models could be used around the world to improve education, the environment, and economies. Foreign oil costs the U.S. on the order of $1.5T/year in direct and military costs. A large portion of our military costs (which are about one-fifth of our total spending) are to maintain stability in the middle east and north Africa, and to protect oil routes like the Straight of Hormuz. That is a strategic "choke point" where we have stationed an aircraft carrier for the past 30 years at a cost of $7T. (For a great reference on the impact of oil on our economy, read more in Reinventing Fire.) Point is, electric vehicles stop the flow of money out of our local and national economies, and to sometimes unfriendly countries. Plus, there are indirect costs to us, like health, the environment, and other factors that effect our quality of life.
Because electric vehicle motors, controllers, chargers, and batteries are off-the-shelf and modular, an open source vehicle design would turn the automotive world upside down; producing cars that are cheaper to buy and operate, easier to maintain and upgrade, that could be customized to an unlimited extent, and that would last much longer. The motors are typically cylindrical with a rotating shaft—much simpler to swap out different sizes and manufacturers than internal combution engines. The connections are very simple—a positive and negative for DC motors or three phase connections for AC motors. Batteries are also modular and swappable in that regardless of the battery chemistry and format, every battery has a single positive and negative connection. Not to mention, electric vehicles get better with age each time the batteries are replaced, because with each generation of battery technology they get cheaper and lighter and have higher energy densitites. No more throw away cars and no more proprietary interfaces and designs.
Additionally, one common misconception is the idea that electric vehicles "push pollution to power plants", but the truth is that it takes more electricity to refine gasoline than it does to charge an electric car. Also, there is a surplus of electricity on our grid that we 'throw out' every night when we could be charging electric cars. Electric vehicles can also act as portable power stations to provide eletricity to homes for days or weeks. There is a $20M program underway that plans to use electric vehicles to power the an entire army base.
After researching, designing, and building electric cars for several years, I'm convinced of the many benefits the wider use of electric vehicles would have on society and future generations. And they are fun, have lots of torque, and are smooth, quiet, clean and simple!
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Very informative article, I enjoyed reading it. I'm more of a FOSS 'guy' but with a background in electronic engineering this is very interesting.
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I have one question. Where is the electrical power coming from? The electrical power generation would have to drastically increased at tremendous cost. Get real
Charging an electric car requires less electricity than it does to refine an equal amount of gasoline, so by not using gas we save more electricity than we would use.
???? That electricity has been produced in a power plant using fuel ioe one of the products of refination. In opther words your assetion is in direct contradiction both with the principle of conservation of energy and with Carnot's laws of thermodynamics since it requires that the power plant gives yield above 100%.
Except for the power plants that don't use fossil fuels to create electricity. One major source, for example, is Hoover Dam.
Just pointing out that there are other ways to generate electricity.
There's no fundamental physics contradicted here. The energy is already in fossil fuels. Getting it out of the ground and into a useful form requires energy, but it's not related to the energy content of the fuel by anything other than economics.
Here is the distribution of U.S. electricity generation by energy source:
(from the US Energy Information Administration):
Energy sources and percent share of total for electricity generation in 2011:
Coal 42%
Natural Gas 25%
Nuclear 19%
Hydropower 8%
Other Renewable 5%
Biomass 1.38%
Geothermal 0.41%
Solar 0.04%
Wind 2.92%
Petroleum 1%
Other Gases < 1%
The distribution changes according to the State.
For example, New York State, has the following distribution
Natural Gas-Fired 44%
Nuclear 27%
Hydroelectric 20%
Coal-Fired 4.57%
Other Renewables 4.09%
Petroleum-Fired 0.37%
Thanks, this is very solid information. I am encouraged by the fact that percentage wise, there is so much potential for solar PV in that mix. The upsides are giant - plus the benefits of hybrid solar + storage systems are also clearly there for the communities and grids they attach to. so fantastic - PV and EVs are going to have a massive positive impact, and already have a lot of momentum now - this is really great.
they fabricate (gasoline-based) cars will solar power now...what else?
yes, really cool!! We think there are a lot of possibilities - plus the Tesla factory in CA (Motor trend Car of the Year 2013) must be thinking this already. Lots of evidence that this kind of convergence is well on its way - some links I've collected anyway:
and have you seen this project for Demand Response - some serious potential...
Interesting. The same thing was said when we switched from horse/buggy power to horseless carriage (i.e., gas powered).
The question is not "Where is the electrical power coming from?", but rather "When is the electrical power coming?".
BTW - gas is not a renewable energy source, but electrical power is - and plenty of clean alternatives are available now, and I expect newer clean alternatives will be thought up as well.
There is one word to define electric cars: stupidity beyond measure and a probably unfixable one.
Take an average european ie small, with very little space for luggage named Renault Clio. It has a 90hp engine. That is 65,000 wats. Suppose it is travelling at 100 km/h (ie 60mph) for one hour. Let's assume, since this is not its top speed it uses only half power, ie 30,000 watts. Gasoline-powered cars need to refuel about every 4 or 5 hundred kiometers and do it in thre minutes top but we will relax it into one five minutes stop every sixty miles ie every hour at our speed. Assuming perfect (ie 100% efficient) batteries and engine you have to deliver 30,000*12 = 360,000 watts while the car is refueling. At 220 volts (larger voltages will be unsafe) that means 360,000 / 220 = 1650 amperes. Now unless there are drastic advances with supraconductors you will have to do with copper. Take a look at the size and weight of cable rated for 40 amperes and multiply its weight by 41 and its section by sqrt(41) ie 6.4. Well you have to use this cable to connect your car to the fueling station. Every hour. Or you can take real world (ie roughly ten hours) reloading times and you will only need 15 amperes but. But in the UK a green activist tried to travel some three or four hundred miles with an electric scam, err, car and it took longer than with a car powered with one of those manure and methane producing engines called horses.
Hmm. Maybe you're thinking about it the wrong way. For most homes, they just swap out the batteries when they go flat. I've read that there's some interesting in doing the same thing with electric car batteries. Would make a recharge about a 5 minute swap - with the added benefit of newer technology allowing the swapout to come with better batteries as time goes by.
Better Place which is doing that kind of battery exchange has an interesting business model, but certainly has it's challenges:
Either your batteries are light enough to be swapped by mere (wo) man strength or you need to develop a kind of special crane for batteries: a battery extractor. If you need a trained operator it will be provabkly a no-no once people behin stoppongevery hour and staying in the line during a half one waiting for their battery change (don't forget you have to stio a lot moree often than a gasoline ca=r. Ideally it should be like car washing: you go into the tunnel and you leave it with anew battery. Not easy but doable, doable in inder five minutes can be a challenge. For now you would be better with a horse-car.
One thing that's rarely mentioned in the "moving the pollution to the power plant" argument: at the power plant you could, if you wanted and it were economically feasible, scrub the air pollution to below any measurable amount. To do that at the vehicle would vastly increase the payload, hence the energy consumption. Also, with an IC engine you're driving the pollution around with you wherever you go, much more difficult to control.
"It all began when I built a plane from a kit, then saw the documentary, Who Killed The Electric Car?, and decided to build an electric car. Turns out, it functioned really well, and I began wondering: 'Why aren't there more electric vehicles on the road?'"
A better question is "Who killed the hydrogen car?"
GM had one that was more viable than the VOLT, but it has disappeared....
Safe hydrogen storage is an issue. The first Hindenberg disaster will definitely kill the hydrogen car.
Clean burning, no question about that. The car itself has no "carbon footprint", only what you use to get the hydrogen.
Cool, incorporate flexible solar panels into the roof for constant recharging.
the TeslaMotors Car using a supercharger (fast charging)- appears to be solid fact and takes about 15 minutes to charge one of their cars. I couldn't afford to buy one of their cars yet but with adoption the tech should drop in price and improve. I believe on 15 min the cars can do a few hundred k's. Most motorists stop for at least that long when travelling that far.
see http://www.teslamotors.com/
I think this Road and Track article is pretty fair:
it's not glowing about the Model S because they got everything right about the car - clearly they have NOT - but there's enough right to make the car worth a second look. I heard that the fast chargers on the west coast are also going to be free for Tesla S owners?
so again, still some stuff to criticize, and not a perfect setup, but heading in the right direction I'd say.


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|Surprising Quasiparticle Interactions in Graphene
Until now, the world's electronics have been dominated by silicon, whose properties, while excellent, significantly limit the size and power consumption of today's computer chips. In order to develop ever smaller and more efficient devices, scientists have turned their attention to carbon, which can be formed into nanostructures like nanotubes, whose properties can be tuned from metallic to semiconducting. However, using carbon nanotubes for complex circuits is nearly impossible because their location and functionality in devices cannot be controlled at will, making them a poor substitute for silicon. Graphene, however, does not have these limitations. This single sheet of carbon atoms that is the building block of carbon nanotubes, C60 molecules, and graphite turns out to have similar functionality but with the added benefit that it can be grown with conventional methods and patterned into devices. Now, a group of scientists from Germany and the ALS, using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) at ALS Beamine 7.0.1, have succeeded in making the first measurement of the carrier lifetime in graphene over a wide energy scale and have found surprising new interactions that suggest new kinds of devices.
Graphene is an ideal playground for exploring quantum electrodynamic (QED) interactions in a solid system. While other materials have shown signatures of electrons interacting with phonons (vibrational excitations) or magnons (magnetic excitations), the carriers in graphene show clear signatures of scattering from phonons, plasmons (collective oscillations of electron gas), and electron–hole pairs over a much wider energy scale (2500 millivolts) than is usually treated.
The atomic arrangement and band structure of graphene has a most unusual topology consisting of two surfaces that touch each other at the so-called Dirac energy ED. Normally, ED coincides with the Fermi level EF, but if these energies are separated, then huge changes to the number of charge carriers can be achieved. This separation is readily accomplished by dosing graphene with atoms or molecules, or by imposing an electric field in a gated device. Since the many-body effects are sensitive to the charge density, graphene is a material in which the many-body interactions are readily tunable.
In the absence of many-body interactions, the bands appear conical. In reality, the charge carriers can decay by emitting plasmon or phonon excitations. Phonons are vibrational excitations whose effects are well known on the band structure: electron–phonon coupling causes a kink in the bands near EF. Plasmons are density oscillations in the electron sea that carry their own momentum, and decay by plasmon emission is normally forbidden in two-dimensional metals. However, the special energy–momentum relationships of electrons and plasmons allow such decay events in graphene. This results in a kink feature at ED as well as EF.
In the experimental Fermi surface and band structures of the graphene film, one can see not only the predicted kinks at ED and EF, but also the associated changes in the band's sharpness, which confirm the presence of decay events. Further information about the scattering came from varying the doping of the graphene film, which led to a tuning of the coupling strengths.
Understanding these decays is not just an academic subject; it is important because various forms of carbon have been shown to be superconducting, although the mechanisms are not completely clear. Furthermore, since plasmons can also couple to light, the demonstration of strong electron–plasmon coupling shows that novel carbon-based devices with both electronic and photonic functions might be possible.
Research conducted by A. Bostwick, T. Ohta, J. McChesney, and E. Rotenberg (ALS); T. Seyller and K. Emtsev (University of Erlangen, Germany); and K. Horn (Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin).
Research Funding: U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES), and the Max Planck Society, Germany. Operation of the ALS is supported by BES.
Publication about this research: A. Bostwick, T. Ohta, Th. Seyller, K. Horn, and E. Rotenberg, "Quasiparticle dynamics in graphene," Nature Physics 3, 36 (2007).


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They say certain things can provoke a memory – a song, a familiar place, perhaps even a smell. As I decided once again to attempt the overwhelming job of cleaning out our old, unused toys, I realize why this is such a difficult task for me.
I see the faces of once-loved dolls that now lay in a pile at the bottom of our toy box. I can still see my now-teenage daughters delicately placing them in their strollers and taking them to a tea party, complete with plastic tea cups, saucers and pretend treats.
The ragged stuffed animals that once lined their beds now collect dust on the shelves, each holding a special memory and a worn-out look from the years of intense love. The large box of Barbies, all naked, have their hair in disarray and are missing limbs from years of creative, imaginative play aboard Barbie ships and "dream houses."
The board games with countless "jewels" and "crowns" hold a special place in my heart as I see my husband, never too manly or macho to sit with a plastic crown on his head and a beaded necklace and earrings, waiting patiently for his next turn.
Oh, and I can't forget the bin of dress up clothes! Rarely a day went by when Cinderella, Mulan or Snow White was not at our dinner table! The latest Halloween and dance costumes were tossed into the bin and an array of characters always emerged. Even while running errands, my girls were usually in costume. Yes, I would get strange looks as people seemed to wonder, "What kind of mother dresses her kids like that?" I would just smile, nod and think, "Hey, they have an imagination!"
As I now watch small children stare mesmerized at their parents' iPhones, iPads or video games, I can only hope that their imaginations and personalities are not lost within technology.
As I dug deeper into the toy box, I discovered my own tattered, well-loved doll that I played with as a little girl. I now understand why my mom couldn't just discard her. The memories of days gone by are too precious to throw away. While I am sometimes saddened that those days are gone, I smile with wonderful thoughts and realize how truly lucky and blessed I am.
I plan on keeping many of these toys, maybe for my grandchildren to play with someday. I can then share stories of how their moms enjoyed those same toys, and we can begin to create new memories together.
As I left the toy room, deciding to dust rather than discard, my hope is that my daughters have learned many lessons from those old, well-loved toys. Important life lessons, such as don't be afraid to love deeply, even though it may leave you feeling torn and tattered at times.
Share everything and always take turns.
Lose with dignity and never be afraid to express your creative self.
Always use your imagination, the possibilities are endless!
And most important of all, I hope they have learned the value of a man who loves his daughters so much he isn't afraid to wear a plastic crown.


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MARTINSBURG - While a winter storm warning had forecast the possibility of 10 to 15 inches of snow for the Eastern Panhandle area, actual snowfall amounts Wednesday didn't to come close to breaking any records.
Morgan County saw the most consistent snowfall, with Dave Michael, director of the Morgan County Office of Emergency Services, reporting a range of eight to 12 inches of snow in the area Wednesday.
Both Berkeley and Jefferson counties dodged significant snow accumulation, with unofficial estimates ranging between about four and six inches for most areas and lower elevations - much of which began to melt as precipitation turned to light rain by afternoon.
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From left: Abby Rice, 13; Chris Salgado, 13, and Noah Carte, 12, toss snowballs at each other in War Memorial Park in Martinsburg, Wednesday afternoon.
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A town of Bath snow plow operator works to clear snow off Fairfax Street in downtown Berkeley Springs.
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The inclement weather and high winds in some areas did knock out power to a few thousand in the Eastern Panhandle, but officials said they were hopeful power would be restored by the end of the day.
Michael said officials measured eight inches of snow at Morgan County's 911 center. He said a Morgan County dispatcher that lives in the southeastern part of the county reported over 12 inches of snow.
"We probably got over 20 inches that actually fell, but a lot of it melted, so it didn't fluff up like normal," Michael said.
He said roads in Morgan County had improved significantly by Wednesday afternoon, as temperatures rose just above freezing. Michael said the county's 911 center experienced brief power outages, followed by a longer power outage Wednesday morning that lasted for more than 30 minutes and forced the use of backup generator power.
Michael said that as of 1 p.m. Wednesday, Potomac Edison, a FirstEnergy company, reported 1,303 power outages. He said the area experienced high winds all day, which caused numerous outages.
"They estimated that all of those would be restored by sometime tonight," Michael said.
As of 6:15 p.m. Wednesday, Potomac Edison was reporting that 280 customers were still without power in Morgan County.
Despite the power outages and snowfall, Michael said it had been "surprisingly quiet" Wednesday with no major weather-related emergencies or accidents being reported. He said he doesn't expect any threats of flooding because of the snowfall.
"It will increase the flow in the streams, but I don't think that we've gotten enough snow. It would equate to only about an inch or inch and a half of rain. If we got three inches of rain and it rapidly melted this, then it could cause some flooding, but I don't think they are calling for any rain for a few days," Michael said.
In Berkeley County, Steve Allen, director of the Berkeley County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, said the winter storm didn't cause as much snowfall as initially forecast.
"It started out with gangbusters, but it seems like after about four to six inches it kind of just dropped off," he said.
With elevated temperatures, he said the snow eventually turned to rain.
"Maybe up in the higher elevations up on the top of the mountain there may be eight inches or maybe upwards of 10 inches if that, but I'm not seeing anything and I haven't heard any reports of anything. Our biggest issue is where we've had trees blown down on some power lines and stuff like that," Allen said.
He said at one point Wednesday, Berkeley County had around 3,000 people without power, but the number dropped to only a few hundred by later afternoon. As of 6:15 p.m., Potomac Edison was reporting that only a handful of customers were still experiencing power outages.
Allen said higher temperatures aloft caused less snowfall and more rain.
"In place of 12 inches of snow, we got rain instead. The temperature wasn't low enough for it to keep on stacking up," Allen said.
The National Weather Service canceled the winter storm warning for the area at 2:29 p.m.
Barbara Miller, director of the Jefferson County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, also didn't report any major weather-related emergencies. Areas of the county did experience power outages. At one point, Potomac Edison reported more than 1,000 customers being affected, but by later Wednesday afternoon the number dropped to about 53 and by Wednesday evening the power company was reporting only a few outages were still ongoing.
The county's Emergency Operations Center was deactivated at about 2:40 p.m. Wednesday.
"We were prepared, but, once again, we got very lucky," Miller said.
National Weather Service Meteorologist Jim Lee, who is stationed at the Baltimore/Washington weather forecast office in Sterling, Va., said it appeared the lower than expected snowfall may have been caused by a shadow effect in the extreme Northern Shenandoah Valley.
"I think it has something do with the wind flow going over the Catoctin Ridge. If you go down Interstate 81 about 30 or 40 miles, you've got a foot to 18 inches of snow, and if you go even further down another 60 miles you've got two feet of snow in Augusta (Va.)," Lee said.
Snowfall observations varied in the area. Lee said there were reports of as much as 8.5 inches in Bunker Hill, 7.5 inches in Martinsburg and six inches in Ranson as of early Wednesday morning. The observations were unofficial estimates. At least one estimate recorded by the National Weather Service Wednesday morning indicated as much as 16 inches of snow fell in Glengary in Berkeley County, but Lee said "that kind of looks a little bit off."
"There were some pretty disparate observations in Berkeley County," Lee said.
Local weather watcher Ed Dashiell reported about four inches of snow at his home in Falling Waters and said unconfirmed estimates were around five inches in Martinsburg.
"To me it looked like, with what they had forecast before, the highest amounts shifted further to our southeast," Dashiell said.
Dashiell said the record for the most snowfall in a single day in March in Martinsburg came in 1993 when 13.8 inches fell, although his records only date back to 1949. The record for most snow in a month in March came in 1984, when 19 inches fell in Martinsburg.
"We didn't come close to any records," Dashiell said.
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I had pumpkin pie last night. Its like masterbation for the taste buds.
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Created by the fanfiction writer Cassandra Claire, "Pumpkin Pie" is the title of the relationship, or "ship" in fanfiction terminology, between Hermione Granger and Harry Potter. It is believed that this name arised from a story of Ms. Claire's, in which after kissing Harry Potter, Hermione thought that he tasted like pumpkin pie.
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Guys, remember, the Wings' management/ownership voted in favor of the lockout. I'm pretty sure I read that Holland was the one who actually cast the Wings' vote. Hockey fans are PISSED about the lockout, and this was a way to express that anger. I wouldn't read any more into it (other than that Ford Field was full of Chicago fans on Sunday!)
I doubt that the owners actually voted unanimously to lock us all out. Bettman could have had a vote to declare that they were unanimous about it and it would have taken just 7 votes for it to go through


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Ironically, there is a chance that Daisuke Takahashi may not even make the Japanese world team this year. If that happens, I think many people would be very upset.
Ironically, there is a chance that Daisuke Takahashi may not even make the Japanese world team this year. If that happens, I think many people would be very upset.
1. Jeremy ABBOTT (USA) - 81.18 Short Program
2. Takahito MURA (JPN) - 76.65
3. Brian JOUBERT (FRA) - 75.46 Short Program
4. Jorik HENDRICKX (BEL) - 68.90
5. Jinlin GUAN (CHN) - 65.77
6. Nan SONG (CHN) - 65.75
7. Florent AMODIO (FRA) - 60.13 Short Program
8. Chafik BESSEGHIER (FRA) - 58.28
9. Tomas VERNER (CZE) - 57.40 Short Program
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The huge problem for Jeremy is that he doesn't get reputation points because he has to consistently prove he can stand up technically under pressure, and he needs his quad to be consistent. As a result, Jeremy is not seen as being as strong a jumper as Fernandez, Chan, Hanyu and even Dai (I don't think Kozuka is as strong jump-wise as the other four guys but he's relatively consistent and he does have great ability, plus improved programs this season). I don't think that Kozuka is artistically as strong as Jeremy though, and neither is Fernandez. Chan is improving his already good artistry this season. Hanyu is precocious technically and artistically, but lacks maturity and endurance. Dai doesn't have great programs this season and he's shown vulnerability technically. Jeremy isn't probably seen to be as strong a jumper as these guys technically. However, he actually is a strong jumper! He just needs to prove that consistently under pressure, and master the quad. None of the top guys are consistently solid as a rock, but they have more consistent quads and more rep with the judges than Jeremy.
He's not below the median on PCS at all. In fact, he's ranked fourth among ALL the skaters (behind Yuzuru, Daisuke and Patrick). So the judges agree with you that Jeremy has better artistry than Fernandez or Kozuka. But the fact is that Jeremy's low TES keeps his OVERALL score below the median.So yes, Jeremy, even with strong PCS, is actually below the median as far as top scores among all the men competing so far on the GP.
Nobody is disputing his abilities on the PCS side, but for now, he's not doing enough on the TES side to contend with the top men at the moment.
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I hear what you are saying and do find my self both excited by the men's quad in the short program and worried! I would really, really hate to imagine worlds this year without Dai.
Congrats to Jeremy and thanks to Mao for posting the video of his performance! Looking foward to watching the videos.
But the competition itself was a bit disappointing to me, except perfect Takahito and clean Jeremy...
What I wanted to write was 'Idk why I bothered myself to stay up that late to watch this comp???'. Since it's getting so late in my time and my English was just that bad...Okay, it's 4am already. Will go to my bed. Good night, everyone!
MEN'S SHORT PROGRAM - VIDEOS & RESULT (Updated)
1. Jeremy ABBOTT (USA) - 81.18 Short Program
2. Takahito MURA (JPN) - 76.65 Short program, 2nd Copy
3. Brian JOUBERT (FRA) - 75.46 Short Program, 2nd Copy
4. Jorik HENDRICKX (BEL) - 68.90 Short Program, 2nd Copy
5. Jinlin GUAN (CHN) - 65.77 Short Program
6. Nan SONG (CHN) - 65.75 Short Program, 2nd Copy
7. Florent AMODIO (FRA) - 60.13 Short Program
8. Chafik BESSEGHIER (FRA) - 58.28 Short Program, 2nd Copy
9. Tomas VERNER (CZE) - 57.40 Short Program
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OTOH, I luuurved Jeremy's program. I don't mind if he went quadless, his transitions and musicality make up for that. Terrific performance, in my opinion. Hope he can make it in the long as well.
But yeah im worry too. But the federation will make sure he is in the team even if he finished out of podium because he qualify for final and based on last season result. They know having Dai is a big fat rating for the TV.
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This is one of those tech gadgets that we don't know why no one's thought of until now. If cellphones can have MP3 ringtones for calls, alarms and text message alerts, couldn't other items that use sound as an alarm do the same? Meet the Swann MP3 DJ Doorbell. After this little device, long gone may be the days of traditional doorbells' monotone dings and chimes.
You can customize this wireless doorbell to play any song you want, and you can select the portion of the song you want to hear when guests arrive to your front step. After configuring the songs on your computer via a USB connection, place the receiver part of the doorbell set anywhere in the house. Then, install the buzzer button at your door at no more than 165 feet from the receiver for the devices to sync up. That means the device will still work for approximately up to 15 stories high if you do not live on the ground floor of a home. Both the buzzer and the doorbell speaker require AA battery power, so make sure they are properly juiced up or you may never hear the pizza delivery man arrive to the sound of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's Gimme Pizza.
Living on the third floor of a brick home in the ever-noisy New York City, this doorbell is potentially very helpful for metropolitan residents like myself. My current doorbell can barely be heard, and when you do hear it, it sounds like a thirsty, dying dolphin. Sad. This wireless, foolproof setup is both convenient and hassle-free as long as no one tries to steal the buzzer away.
The Swann MP3 DJ Doorbell also has a microSD slot to store up to 32 GB of music, so you can double the doorbell as an MP3 player when you're not anticipating guests. The memory size can hold up to 10,000 songs, all of which you can cut down to several seconds per ringtone. With those possibilities, let's hope the person does not ring your doorbell while you're listening to the same buzzer song on your computer. If you don't want your favorite tunes as your buzzer, the doorbell also gives you options for traditional chime sounds in a louder, higher quality MP3 format.
You can soon purchase the Swann MP3 DJ Doorbell online at Radioshack, B&H and Amazon for the $50 a piece.
With fun technology like this, we wonder what songs you'd program in the DJ Doorbell for what occasion. We've certainly heard people use Darth Vader's theme song for their ringtones before. At the moment, we can only think of Bob Dylan's "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" (or the Guns N' Roses version for a more hardcore arrival) or The White Stripes' "My Doorbell." Could you name other hilarious tunes that would fit perfectly for a doorbell?


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Soboleski resigns as McDowell football coach (updated, 12:27 p.m.)
McDowell football coach Mark Soboleski has resigned as head football coach. Soboleski confirmed that he sent in his letter of resignation Thursday night.
Soboleski talked about his decision with the Times-News early today, saying, "Increasing challenges within the program have made it so that I'm unable to continue to coach the way I feel is most conducive to my coaching style and to the success of the program."
He did not elaborate on the challenges within the program.
"I feel that I impacted the players and I hope they got as much from me as I got from them," he said. "I will miss the players and wish them well."
In nine seasons between Central Tech and McDowell, Soboleski is 52-47. He went 7-21 in three seasons with the Falcons and 45-26 in six years at McDowell.
The Trojans went 7-6 this past fall and made their second-straight appearance in the PIAA Class AAAA quarterfinals. McDowell will begin an immediate search for a new head coach.
In an statement e-mailed to the Times-News this morning, Principal Tim Rankin said, "The Millcreek Township School District and the McDowell community wish to express their deep appreciation for Mark's service, support, and the inspiration he has provided to many student athletes."
The statement also said that school district officials will meet to discuss the details of the coaching search. No target date was announced for hiring a coach.
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One of the most popular majors at The Citadel has a new leader.
The college has named a new Head of the Department of Political Science, Dr. DuBose Kapeluck. Kapeluck, a scholar, author, researcher and educator, has been a professor at The Citadel since 2002. The department is comprised of 12 full time faculty members as well as the Governor John C. West Chair, Mallory Factor, and The Citadel Fellow, Don Fowler, former National Chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
A Fulbright scholar, a respected author, and popular teacher, DuBose Kapeluck brings a full-range of strengths to the position of Head of the Department of Political Science, said Bo Moore, Dean of Humanities & Sciences. Under his leadership, a strong department promises to become stronger still.
Kapeluck will lead cadets, students and graduate students in the discipline of political science in a quest to develop principled leaders who will be in demand after earning their degrees. More than 500 cadets have graduated with degrees in political science over the last decade.
Our graduates build careers in law and government. Whether they work as a diplomat with the Foreign Service, are recruited to join an intelligence agency or transition as officers into military service, a foundation in the discipline of political science from The Citadel enables them to be critical thinkers who are highly desired as members of government, civic agencies and organizations, Kapeluck said.
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Formerly known as a retard, mongloid, or mouth breather. One that is retarded or mentally slow.
Look at that little yellow schoolbus full of trainables.
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Alleged politically correct term for a retard. Inevitably gave the politically incorrect a new word for retard.
Can be used in an excellent "you're in denial" style gambit.
Can be used in an excellent "you're in denial" style gambit.
"Dan, you're such a trainable"
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"I'm not trainable!"
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Not completely hopeless in bed.
Eh, he's trainable.
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3rd International Forum on Sport for Peace and Development
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The third edition of the International Forum on Sport for Peace and Development will take place from 5 to 6 June 2013 at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York, USA. The biennial event aims to assess the successes and challenges of using sport as a tool for human development and peace promotion and looks at how to pave the way for future concerted action in these fields.
Under the theme of "Creating a Common Vision", high-level stakeholders from governments, the sporting community, the UN system, the academic and business worlds, civil society groups and the media will debate the impact of sport on achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as well as how to move forward with the mainstreaming of sport in development policies and strategies. The participants will also look at other issues which increasingly affect sport and its organisation, such as the protection of youth, gender equality and the integrity of sport.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013
The annual Folly Beach Polar Bear Plunge will take place on New Year Day 2014 at 1 p.m. on the beach in front of The Tides. As usual, thousands will show up to start the New Year with a dip into the icy Atlantic, but this year The Folly Beach Association of Business (FAB) has added a little twist to the plunge. In homage to Bill Murray, event-goers (both plungers and non-plungers) are encouraged to come dressed as their favorite Bill Murray character and get ready to Come Freeze Your Bills Off. FAB members will be on site with Bill Murray inspired apparel and accessories and will provide prizes for Best Guy, Best Girl, Best Team and Best Overall Bill Murray.
Local Folly restaurants and bars will be open early and have $4 Bloody Marys to help plungers gather the courage to plunge into the icy Atlantic Ocean. Participating locations include: Woodys, Ritas Seaside Grille, Shrimp Company, The Grill & Island Bar, Folly Beach Crab Shack, Loggerheads, Drop In Deli, Planet Follywood, Blu, Locklears and Snapper Jacks. During the event long-sleeved commemorative T-shirts will be available for sale with proceeds from the event going to Surfers Healing. The event is brought to you by FAB, Absolut Vodka and Fat & Juicy Bloody Mary Mix.
For more information, please go to VisitFolly.com or find Folly Beach on Facebook at Visit Folly or Download the groups Smart Phone App.
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I got absolutely nothing done yesterday. I don't think I was really sick but I was just feeling really TIRED. So I sat around all day getting nothing done except for taking a nap and watching The Family Stone and Maid in Manhattan. Which means that today I have a ton to do. And again I am so not in the mood. Yuck!
The best part of yesterday is that I received my giveaway goodies! I won Oh, My Darling's giveaway awhile back, which was $25 to Mandipidy. I chose the following:
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Looking for an adrenaline rush in Henry County? Experience the thrill of the Hill! Filled with 200 acres of unrestricted trails, undiscovered timber, rugged hills, steep valleys and lakes. Gob Hill is a motorsport enthusiast's dream. More conservative riders can enjoy over four miles of perimeter road riding, with beautiful Midwestern vistas. Gob Hill is also home to a children's dirt track perfect for knee-high dirt trackers. There is also a motocross track.
The Bureau County Metro Center is a 50,000 square-foot recreation center with full size gymnasium; 25-yard indoor swimming pool with wading pool and observation balcony; racquetball courts; weight room; cardio-vascular room, elevated running/walking track above the gym; and locker rooms. A 40' x 80' multi-purpose room with adjacent kitchen provides the perfect setting for conventions, expositions, meetings, or wedding receptions.
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Hillcrest Resort and Event Center features a clubhouse with fireplace and large screen TV's. You will also enjoy the restaurant, sports club, swimming pool, 9-hole golf course and weekly entertainment. This camping and RV resort offers fishing for bass, blue gill, and catfish, hiking trails, children's swings, horseshoe pits, sand volleyball, bags, a beverage store, and wireless Internet at the clubhouse. Secluded from the highway, but only ten miles to Quad Cities Airport in Moline and six miles to Interstate 80 in a beautiful country setting. The Event Center offers seven events per season: Hillcrest Music Fest, Illinois BBQ Fest, American Country Music Fest, and Quad Cities Haunted Woods. The center is also the home of reality TV show, American Resort. Camping and RV reservations can be made online or by phone. For information on upcoming festivals at the event center visit www.hillcresteventcenter.com.
After 85 years, the golf course is still going strong. This 18-hole championship course features beautiful mature trees, fast greens and great fairways. Enjoy a delicious meal in the clubhouse, Greenside Grill or Roy's Place. 18 holes with a cart: Weekday $32 Weekends $37
Maple Bluff Golf Club is Geneseo's only 18 hole golf course and the best kept secret in the Quad Cities area. This par 72 championship layout is open to the public and can be enjoyed by golfers of all levels, from any of the four sets of tees.
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Thursday, September 5, 2013
Two years ago Jenny Bekker was working on her pharmacy residency 500 miles away in Lexington, Ky.
She was working 80-hour weeks at the University of Kentucky Medical Center, leaving her no time to see her husband Yuriy or 5-year-old cat Gustav. Her hectic schedule did not even allot her enough time to play her beloved instrument, the flute.
Born in Chesapeake, Va. Bekker (maiden name Glace) was raised in a musical family. Her father Dean plays trumpet in the Summerville Community Orchestra and her mother Mary is a lifelong piano player.
Bekker began playing piano when she was 5-years-old, learning to play strictly by ear. It was not until she was 11 that her mother gave her an old flute that she played when she was younger.
After moving to Summerville when she was 14, she played four years in the Summerville High School marching band, playing the flute her freshman year and the xylophone her sophomore, junior and senior years. In addition to marching band, she played concert flute throughout high school.
While at Summerville she was awarded the SHS Band Award for music and leadership and the James A. "Gus" Moody Award for Most Outstanding Musician. It was after attending the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts summer program at Furman University that she decided to double major in music in college.
She began touring colleges and after meeting University of North Carolina flute teacher Brooks deWetter-Smith, she made her decision.
"After meeting (deWetter-Smith), I decided not to visit any other colleges," she said. "I knew that was where I wanted to go."
During her time at UNC she was a four-year member of the wind ensemble and studied abroad in Prague, Czech Republic in 2003.
"There were 24 UNC students and 24 Czech students (in the ensemble)," she said. "There were some differences obviously, but we all loved music and became good friends."
Before graduating from Chapel Hill in 2004 with degrees in psychology and music, Bekker won: a National Merit Scholarship, Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship, Palmetto Fellow Scholarship, AFCEA Scholarship, Richard and Christopher Edward Adler Scholarship and a Charleston Symphony Orchestra League Scholarship.
After graduation Bekker moved back home to Summerville and worked as a systems analyst at Scientific Research Corporation in North Charleston.
From Sept. 2004 until Feb. 2005 she played with the Low Country Winds. Then in March she joined the Summerville Community Orchestra, joining her father.
"It's a lot of fun," said Bekker about performing with her father. "He can take critique from me well and it's cool to get to see him once a week at rehearsals."
Summerville conductor Alex Agrest convinced Bekker through flattery.
"He was throwing compliments at me and promised me a solo in Peter and the Wolf," Bekker laughed recanting their conversation. "I said okay and I've really loved working with Alex. You never have a dull moment at rehearsal when he's around."
Bekker then attended the Medical University of South Carolina and earned her pharmacy degree in May 2010, one week after getting married.
After completing her residency in Kentucky last August she began working as a clinical pharmacist at Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center in Charleston. As she embarked on her pharmacy career, she found it difficult to return to her career with the orchestra.
"After two years of not playing, it was hard," said Bekker. "But once you get back into it and practice a lot, it comes back to you."
Almost two decades after being handed a flute by her mother, Bekker has nothing but love for the instrument that has defined her musical career.
"You have moments to shine as a woodwind," she said. "You have beautiful, lyrical pieces like birds and nature, and that appeals to my personality."
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Exception Handling Techniques in ASP.NET
An error is an event; an exception is the object that the event creates. When the program flow is blocked by an error, then there should be a solution to overcome that which we could call as exception. These exceptions are classified as structured and unstructured exceptions. Error handling code block plays the vital role to eliminate those errors. All applications should have error handling. Errors will occur in our applications. We should try to trap errors. Errors are a development fact, but we should handle them gracefully.
With this in mind, we should know:
1. When an error occurs
2. Where it occurred
3. What the error is
IIS provides great error-handling capabilities.Sometimes we know an error will occur, and we can't always trap it in a nice way without overriding the site's default error redirection page. For example, upon access to a resource that requires authentication, we may need to redirect to an application's login page. Also, a very common problem exists with Web hosts. If you have a hosted Web site, you usually have no control over its IIS configuration. Thus, setting up custom error pages can be next to impossible in traditional ASP. This is elimiated with ASP.NET.
ASP.NET Exception Handling
ASP.NET allows us to build Web applications with any language following the Common Language Specification (CLS). Languages following the CLS, a specification submitted to ECMA for standardization, are capable of running on the Common Language Runtime (CLR). The CLR provides features such as garbage collection, secure code execution, and structured exception handling, and more.
We can take advantage of this language-independent, structured exception handling within our ASP.NET applications. Structured exception handling is done through try/catch/finally blocks, and forces us to deal with exceptions when they occur. If an exception is raised and we don't explicitly handle the exception, a general ASP.NET exception will occur, forcing the application to terminate without allowing the code to continue executing, resulting in an error page. This makes finding errors much easier.
The concept of checking for errors still exists in ASP.NET, but we must deal with the error when it occurs:
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Unhandled Exceptions
As we know ASP.NET forces us to deal with an exception when an error occurs. We obviously don't write Try/Catch/Finally blocks around all of our code, and in that cases where we don't, ASP.NET still provides us with some facilities for handling the exception through two events:
Page and Application Error Event Handlers
The case exists where an exception is unexpected and does not occur within the bounds of a Try/Catch/Finally block. These exceptions are usually an indicator that something is substantially wrong with the application. Which means some abnormal error has occurred and there is no graceful way to get out of the error. In these situations, where we don't wrap the faulty code with a Try/Catch/Finally block, we still have the option to deal with the error at either the Page or Application level.
These events are raised whenever we have an unhandled exception occur within our application. If a Page_Error event is present within an ASP.NET page, and an unhandled error occurs, the event is raised. Application_Error is slightly different. It is raised for all unhandled exceptions in our ASP.NET application and is implemented in global.asax or within an HTTP Module.
Both of these events are extremely useful since they allow us a final opportunity to execute code before sending the caller an HTTP redirect to the named ASP.NET error page.
Using the Page_Error or OnError sub
The first line of defense in error handling happens at the page level. You can override the MyBase.Error sub as such: (Visual Studio will complete the code if you click either the Overrides or BaseClass events in the editor). The two functions you can use (one or the other, both will not work as only one will get called)
Private Sub Page_Error(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
Protected Overrides Sub OnError(ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
This method of handling errors is good for several reasons.
1. If you need to override the Application_Error or the customErrors setup in the web.config file
2. If each page must implement it's own error handling If you need to log specific information and then carry on, just code for your logging or whatever here, and that is all. If you need to cancel the error processing here (so it doesn't go to the Application_Error or customErrors) simply call Server.ClearError in this sub.
Using the global.asax File
The global.asax file contains the next line of defense against errors. When an error occurs, the Application_Error sub is called. . The only two locations that actually give you access to Server.GetLastError are in the Page_Error and Application_Error subs.
After the Page_Error is called, the Application_Error sub is called. Here you can also log the error and redirect to another page.
Working with Custom Errors and Using the web.config File
The default settings we find when we view machine.config are:
<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly"/>
The mode attribute has three possible settings:
RemoteOnly: When an unhandled exception occurs, local users will see the ASP.NET rich error page, which includes compilation details and accessibility to the full source. However, remote users are shown a different ASP.NET error page that simply lets them know an error occurred. No details are provided. If a custom error page is available, this is shown to remote users.
On: The detailed ASP.NET error page is never shown, even to local users. If a custom error page is available, it is always used.
Off: The detailed ASP.NET error page is always displayed, even if a custom error page exists.
In addition to the mode settings, there are several other configuration options for the custom Errors section of the configuration.
defaultRedirect: A custom error page that the client is redirected to when an error occurs.
The customErrors element of the web.config file is the last line of defense against an unhandled error. If you have other error handlers in place, like the Application_Error of Page_Error subs, these will get called first. Provided they don't do a Response.Redirect or a Server.ClearError, you should be brought to the pages defined in the web.config. In the web.config file, you can handle specific error codes (500, 404, etc), or you can use one page to handle all errors.
This is a major difference between this method and the others (although you can emulate this by doing various Response.Redirects using the other methods).
customError.aspx, we can add the following configuration entry in web.config for an ASP.NET application:
<customErrors mode="On" defaultRedirect="customError.aspx"/>
Whenever an unhandled exception occurs within our application, the user is redirected to customError.aspx, which provides a user-friendly error message.
Special Case: This option provides a special case for the custom error page depending upon the HTTP status code. If we may want a custom error page if the request attempts to access a page that doesn't exist (HTTP 404). Here we can make use of another configuration element that can be nested in <customErrors>, <error> :
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Published March 21, 2013
British music critic Hans-Theodor Wohlfahrt has written of composer David Felder that "he combines his deep knowledge of the past and the present with a constant searching on a philosophical, human and musical level—a Gustav Mahler for the 21st century."
Felder, SUNY Distinguished Professor and Birge-Cary Chair in Composition in the UB Department of Music, is an internationally acclaimed composer of contemporary music, with his works known for their highly energetic profile, lyrical qualities and use of technological extension for the elaboration of musical materials. His work masterfully combines widely ranging materials in surprising way, achieving a new synthesis.
On April 23, the Office of the President and the Robert and Carol Morris Center for 21 Century Music at UB will present the world premiere of Felder's "Les Quatre Temps Cardinaux," a complex song cycle for two solo voices, a 35-piece orchestra and 12 channels of electronics. It represents the pairing of the composer with two celebrated performers: dynamic soprano and UB alumna Laura Aikin, and bass Ethan Herschenfeld. Felder wrote the piece specifically for their voices.
The premiere will be the focal point of a two-day program that marks the start of a new university tradition, which President Satish K. Tripathi is introducing as a way to celebrate the university community's rich and thriving legacy of innovation and distinction in the arts and letters. Other programming being held as part of this celebration includes a rehearsal open to the campus and local community; a brown bag lunch discussion with the composer, conductor, and musicians; a panel discussion with faculty and students focusing on the interpretation of texts as works of art; and an alumni-sponsored reception and Q&A with the composer and performers.
"UB has a long and storied tradition of creative
excellence and innovation at the vanguard of the arts," says
Tripathi. "This event is a wonderful opportunity to shine a
spotlight on some of the outstanding individuals who embody this
tradition, from David Felder's visionary achievements in
contemporary composition, to the expression of that vision by
world-renowned alumni like Laura Aikin and the distinguished
faculty performing in the Slee Sinfonietta, to poets like the late
Robert Creeley, whose voices are woven into the performance in
surprising and remarkable ways. I am very much looking forward to
what will surely be an evening to remember."
The concert will begin at 7 p.m. in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, North Campus.
Advance tickets are available at the Center for the Arts box office. Prices are $12 for the general public; $9 for UB alumni, faculty, staff and seniors; and $5 for students. Tickets also may be purchased at the Slee Hall box office on the night of the performance; prices are $20, $15 and $8 (students).
The program will open with "Tweener," a 2010 Felder composition for solo percussion, electronics and large chamber ensemble. The soloist will be Thomas Kolor, assistant professor of music at UB and one of the country's top young specialists in late 20th-century American percussion music.
The orchestra for both compositions will comprise ensembles dedicated to the presentation of contemporary chamber orchestral music: the acclaimed Ensemble Signal, conducted by world-renowned Brad Lubman, and the Slee Sinfonietta, the flagship professional chamber orchestra of the Morris Center.
Both works employ electronics, with "Tweener" utilizing the KAT mallet controller as an addition to the wide variety of traditional percussion instruments that make up the battery of resources used in the solo part.
One of the most important elements of "Les Quatre…" is the poetry that Felder has incorporated into the piece. It includes the eponymous "Les Quatre Temps Cardinaux," a poem composed by French poet René Daumal near the end of his life.
Daumal's early career emphasized the conversion of poetry into a form of theater in which speech, gestures, breath, voice stops and other elements of performance form a totality.
"Later," says Felder, "after his contact with ancient Hindu texts that detail the aesthetic purposes of poetry and theater, Daumal reconsidered his purpose and his late poetry is simple, profound and luminescent. 'Les Quatre Temps Cardinaux' is one of his last two poems and alludes to times of the day, the four elements, the four seasons and the four corresponding ages of life, emphasizing the trans-personal.
"The work also employs the texts and even the voices of other poets reading their work that, while more personal to them and located in a specific time and place, nevertheless reflects Daumal's allusions," he says.
Audio recordings of authors reading their poems—"Spring Light" and "Buffalo Evening" (Robert Creeley), and "Insomnia" (Daniel Gioia)—are incorporated into the piece, with the poets' voices used as source material and electronically transformed. The commission for this composition is Felder's second from the Koussevitsky Foundation, which permits only two such commissions in an artist's lifetime.
Felder serves as the artistic director of June in Buffalo, UB's pioneering annual festival of new music. He is founder and director of the Morris Center and artistic director and founder of the Slee Sinfonietta.
His music has brought him dozens of important commissions and honors too numerous to cite, including the 2010 Music Award—a career recognition award—from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.


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Sean McKenna and Windows Phone "Mango" Database Support
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Windows Phone "Mango" includes a lot of cool, exciting new features that users will be showing to all of their friends. Of course, there are some features so behind the scenes that users will never really be aware of them—but developers will. One such new feature is the addition of "SQL Compact" to the Windows Phone Platform.
In this episode of The Knowledge Chamber, my guest is Sean McKenna from the Windows Phone Platform team. Sean shows us SQL Compact in action on the phone and discusses how it provides a better way for data driven applications to access their information stores.
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VideoGamer.com Plays September 2, 2012
This week the team has been playing Sleeping Dogs, Dota 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and Skydrift.
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The Week in Review is a weekend feature which casts a gaze over the week which has just been, hoping to point your eyes in the direction of news, features, videos and reviews which I deem to be worthy of your precious time.
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This week's Kings of the Jungle are Neon Kelly, Martin Gaston and Matt Nellis.
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This week the team has been playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Dota 2, Sleeping Dogs and Ghost Recon Online.
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Valve has released an update for the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive beta that adds numerous new wotsits, as well as fixing the occasional bug.
Cross platform play removed from Counter-Strike GO
The ongoing beta has proven invaluable in helping the studio make the decision to drop cross-platform gaming for the competitive shooter.
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Valve has launched a Counter-Strike survey on Steam, with those who complete the form promised the possibility of receiving a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive beta key.
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The Stetson women's soccer team (3-10-1, 1-4-1) stays on the road for a single game this weekend, playing at Florida Gulf Coast (9-3-3, 4-1-1) on Saturday. The Hatters and the Eagles are scheduled to kick off at 7:00 p.m. in Fort Myers.
Florida Gulf Coast welcomes Stetson to town with an overall record of 9-3-3, and an Atlantic Sun Conference-leading 13 points. The Eagles were riding a four-game winning streak before this past weekend, in which they fell to North Florida and tied Jacksonville. FGCU is 5-1-1 at home in 2012 with its only loss coming to then No. 12 UCF back in August. Shannen Wacker leads the Eagles with 10 goals and one assist for 21 points, while two-time A-Sun Defensive Player of the Week Brittany Brown has tallied four shutouts in goal.
FGCU holds a 4-1-0 advantage over Stetson in the all-time series, which dates back to 2007 when the Hatters won 3-2 in the first ever meeting. Last year the Eagles won by a score of 1-0 in DeLand.
Stetson is enjoying playing on Saturdays thus far in 2012. The Hatters are 2-0-0 with two of their three victories coming on Saturday. The squad defeated Embry-Riddle by a score of 2-1 in overtime on Saturday, August 25, and then topped Florida Atlantic 5-2 on Saturday, September 8.
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Western New York appears to have dodged the threat of any widespread freezing rain overnight, but next up in this wacky winter will be some heavy winds for the next 24 hours or so.
The National Weather Service late this morning issued a wind advisory for the whole region, with most areas under the advisory from 1 p.m. today to 5 a.m. Tuesday.
Forecasters are calling for southwest winds of 25 to 35 mph, with gusts up to 50 mph in some areas. Those winds are expected to bring down some trees and create isolated power outages.
The weather service also issued a gale warning for the upper Niagara River, the Buffalo harbor and Lake Erie, from Ripley to Dunkirk to Buffalo, with waves expected to reach 10 to 13 feet. That gale warning is through 4 a.m. Tuesday, while a similar warning for Lake Ontario expires at 10 a.m.


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They said Bye, Bye, Bye to their boy band days years ago, but on Sunday night, 'NSYNC took center stage – albeit briefly – at the MTV Video Music Awards and it was just like old times.
Justin Timberlake accepted his Michael Jackson Video Vanguard award (prior to taking home the night's top prize for video of the year), telling the packed crowd, "I don't deserve this award, but I'm not going to give it back," after he performed a bunch of singles, including "SexyBack," "Suit & Tie," "Mirrors" and "Cry Me a River." After presenter Jimmy Fallon called him the President of Pop and gave other effusive praise, Timberlake said, "I'm taking Jimmy on the road with me, that was incredible."
Mid-performance, the room went silent for a couple of seconds and suddenly attendees, including Lady Gaga, jumped out of their chair in excitement to see Timberlake and his four fellow former band mates – Lance Bass, J.C. Chasez, Joey Fatone and Chris Kirkpatrick – bust out some of their classic dance moves, while belting out "Girlfriend" and "Bye, Bye, Bye," which is the song PEOPLE readers voted they were most hoping to hear.
Up until this point, no one had officially confirmed the much-hyped reunion, which took place at Brooklyn's Barclays Center, was really happening.
The performance was a highlight for many of the show's celebrity guests.
"Their voices were so vulnerable and open," Jordin Sparks, whose favorite 'NSYNC song is "Gone," told PEOPLE prior to the performance. "I also love 'Bye Bye, Bye' and 'It's Gonna Be Me.' I'm going to be up in my chair dancing or on the ground because I've fainted. It's going to be either one."
Modern Family's Sarah Hyland also professed her love for the five guys. "Freaking out" about their upcoming performance, she said, "I was a huge fan growing up. I was that girl listening to the CD and looking at the pamphlet memorizing all the words. When I was little, my favorite was JC. I thought he was so cute! Everyone was obsessed with Justin, but not me. JC was always hot to me."
Jennifer Hudson was happy because the group reminds her of her childhood, and even Ed Sheeran showed some love for the boys, calling himself a "fan."
"I love 'Dirty Pop,' " he said. "That's my favorite. It makes me want to start dancing and circulate my head every time I hear it."
And from the way it sounds, Timberlake, himself, was pleased to be back in action with his pals.
After thanking every video director, his manager and his folks (but not wife Jessica Biel!), he said, "But most of all, half of the moonmen I ever won, I won with those four guys right there. So above all else, we can keep it at my house, but I'm going to share this award with them."
To top it off, the group of guys haven't just reunited on stage. They're all together in cyberspace, having joined Twitter on Saturday.
The very first Tweet that came from their verified account said, "Mic check, mic check one.. two... is this thing on?!"


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In a highly advanced, yet-remarkably simple audio system design that points to the future of professional-grade integration, On Stage Audio (OSA) this month deployed the worlds first real-world test of the IEEE 802.1 AVB Bridging protocol. OSAs team, led by Jim Risgin, Vice President, configured and controlled a Crown Audio, dbx, and BSS Audio A/V system using Harman HiQnet for the Compuware national sales meeting in Detroit, Michigan and ran audio using Ethernet AVB standards. The event, which took place at the Masonic Theater in downtown Detroit, allowed a crowd of 1,500 attendees to enjoy pristine digital audio and let the audio systems crew experience the future of A/V systems configuration, one in which everything works, all the time, and in which simplicity, not complexity, is the norm.
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quote: This is not going to alleviate the concerns of users who can't get over the start menu being replaced with a start screen.
quote: Quite frankly, the only people I hear complaining about the start menu loss and the UI in general are peeps here on DT and maybe a few blogs. No one else. I really don't understand the incessant whining about this.
quote: Yet people have no issue changing to a different mobile phone or learning a new tablet?
quote: Why can't MS make a proper start menu an option.
quote: What is wrong with having options?
quote: You should not have to buy 3rd party apps to replace functionality that Microsoft removed. Sorry but Microsoft effed up pretty hard here.


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BROCTON – A 56-year-old Brocton man is being held on charges of aggravated unlicensed driving and unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle stemming from his arrest on East Main Street here about 10:45 p.m. today. John E. Sogger was arrested by Chautauqua County sheriff's deputies after he was stopped for a routine traffic check and his history of prior alcohol-related driving convictions was determined. He was remanded to the county jail after his arraignment in Brocton Village Court today.


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April 24, 2013
Zachary Tackett, a senior English major from Lower Burrell, has won the Thelma Hall Prize in Creative Writing at the Alpha Chi National College Honor Scholarship conference for his poetry manuscript titled, Attempt at Definition: A Documentary. Tackett is one of only 26 members of Alpha Chi, the national college honor society, who received prizes at the society's national convention in Nashville, April 4-6. The cash prizes were funded through discipline-specific endowments established by supporters of the society. More than 260 students presented work at the conference. Tackett wrote Attempt at Definition as his senior project in English in the fall semester of 2012. A long poem in the documentary mode, it chronicles his service experience in Guatemala and draws from research on documentary poetics as well as the anthropology of violence. "I hope to create a living document of Guatemala's past and present and to establish my presence within that context. I hope to transport my readers, even for a second, to the moments that I have documented," he commented.
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