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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.Publication Year: 1968, Page(s): 4| PDF (1001 KB)
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Progress In HF Superconducting FiltersPublication Year: 1968, Page(s): 5First Page of the ArticleView full abstract»
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The energy picture in the United States, through the year 1985, is outlined in this article. The forecasts made are based on a number of factors, including economics, present and future estimates of fuel availability, relative plant size, transportation, and air pollution considerations. On a national basis, it is predicted that the consumption of all forms of raw energy for electric generation wi... View full abstract»
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Loran-C navigational transmissions, at a frequency of 100 kHz, can be used to provide clock synchronization over long distances to accuracies within ±1 ¿s. Results to date represent improvements as great as three magnitudes over other operational long-range radio systems. This article discusses the timing capabilities of Loran-C and illustrates the techniques that are used for the derivation of ... View full abstract»
Railroad electrification: past, present, and future Competition of the diesel; modern signaling, communications, and safety devices; prospects for the futurePublication Year: 1968, Page(s):56 - 66
Today, the primary motive power unit employed by U.S. railroads is the diesel engine. The steam locomotive has been phased out, and the use of electric traction has declined markedly. Until recently, the trend was against the further extension of electrified operation because of high initial costs. Further, the diesel locomotive can be operated throughout a railway system??in both electrified and ... View full abstract»
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After all these years, some jazz historians continue to lament the end of the big-band era; they continue to remind listeners how much of a thrill it can be to hear 20 or 25 seasoned jazz musicians playing together. But there is also a lot to be said for intimacy in jazz -- the sort of intimacy that serves bassist Ray Brown and Brazilian guitarist Laurindo Almeida delightfully well on Moonlight Serenade. Recorded in Germany in 1981, this session finds Brown and Almeida forming an acoustic duo -- and the two of them enjoy a consistently strong rapport on lyrical, introspective performances of material that ranges from Tin Pan Alley standards ("Blue Skies," "Beautiful Love") to Brazilian songs (Ary Barroso's "Inquieta‡ao") to European classical music (Johann Sebastian Bach's Air). One of the most ambitious tracks on the album is a medley that combines Thelonious Monk's "'Round Midnight" with Ludwig van Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (as opposed to "Moonlight Serenade" -- although this 70-minute CD is titled Moonlight Serenade, the gem that became Glenn Miller's theme song is not part of the program). "'Round Midnight," of course, is one of those standards that has been recorded thousands of times over the years; it has been recorded so often that veteran producer Orrin Keepnews once described it as "the national anthem of jazz." But it isn't every day that one hears "'Round Midnight" successfully blended with Beethoven -- something that Brown and Almeida are able to accomplish because they obviously know one another so well musically. Moonlight Serenade, it should be stressed, wasn't the first time the two of them joined forces: Brown and Almeida had played together in the L.A. 4 in the '70s -- so they were a perfect combination when, in 1981, they recorded the cohesive guitar/bass duets on this excellent CD. ~ Alex Henderson
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As we started the movie, the following convo ensued:
Ryan, to Her Majesty: You wanna watch?
Majesty: NO.
Hobbit: You know what that makes her?
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Ryan, Hobbit, and Sally: Waldorf and Statler laugh.
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–Oh good, we get to see Batman's origin story for the eleventy-billionth time.
–Is this a flashback within a flashback? Has the universe imploded upon itself?
–(As the credits continue) Laurence Fishburne, Jeremy Irons, and Holly Hunter? Don't they all have Oscars? Don't they know better than this? [Fishburne hasn't WON an Oscar yet, but still]
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–Is that a random riderless horse? Is this the battle of Waterloo or something?
–Aw, snap. Batffleck giving us his best Blue Steel. I bet he wishes he'd been in Zoolander 2 instead.
–And now we're in the Indian Ocean. I'm getting whiplash from all of this hopping from time to time and place to place.
–He's…got a pocket full of kryptonite. [Great. Now I can add getting the Spin Doctors stuck in my head to my list of crimes Zach Snyder has perpetrated against me]
–Egypt? WTF?
–Amy Adams? First, you are still not my idea of Lois Lane. Second, are you really going to be dragged in here with a bag over your head and lead with "Are you a terrorist?"
–That's not Jimmy Olsen. Oh. That was Jimmy Olsen. Nevermind.
–Superman coming on in here dropping down in that Iron Man crouch. Who wore it better? Ahem. Iron Man.
–And now we're in a Senate hearing? Superman killed people. Ma'am. I did not see that.
–"He doesn't answer to anyone. Not even God." This is supposed to be some of your bang-us-over-the-head symbolism, isn't it, Snyder?
–And now Amy Adams is naked in the tub. Why? As the Hobbit says, because Zach Snyder is a perv.
–What the what? Why is he putting his hand on the back of her neck? Did Cavill just sneak a peak at Adams's boobies? I believe he did!
–Getting into the tub with your clothes on? Wait. Whoa. you're going to. . . too late. You done sloshed water all over the place. You will NOT be getting your deposit back when you move.
–And now we've gone from a touching couple in a tub scene to random cops. And a batarang.
–Who is this cop? How many extras are in this film anyway?
–WTF?! Since when did Batman start branding people? That is some whacked out mess.
–Oh. Jeremy Irons. I hope he sings "Be Prepared" to Bruce because I keep thinking Scar from The Lion King.
–Well, that's a melodramatic convo between Alfred and Bruce. Okay. Whatever.
–Gratuitous shot of a shirtless Cavill. Probably because he had to SO work out for this film.
–Whiplash! Now we're back to Lex Luthor.
–Whoa. Whoa. Why y'all be cutting up Zod?
–Pretty sure I like Smallville Lex better. Also Eisenberg should never, ever, ever try a southern accent. Not even in jest.
–So, let me get this straight. They built that big ol' Superman monument complete with a wall full of names of the lost in 18 months but they haven't moved Zod's ship. Mmmkay.
–Wait. Are we going to have a slo mo of Lex walking to the Zod ship? With freaky music? You got issues, Snyder.
–Is Lex about to do lewd things to Zod? Tell me he's not about to do lewd things to Zod?
–Okay. Juxtaposing a red Jolly Rancher with an autopsy scene is not okay. NOT OKAY, Snyder.
–And Fight Club? I think this movie is giving me vertigo.
–Bruce speaks Russian? Of course he does.
–Back to the Daily Planet–why did Fishburne take this role? He's better than this.
–Okay. Perry and Lois's back and forth over Coach–Ecomony Plus–Coach is my favorite part of this movie so far.
–Holly Hunter has to be questioning her life choices. Of course, I can't think of anyone who could sell the line about piss bucket's and Granny's peach tea better than her, though. Wait. Is Holly Hunter 58? Dude.
–Lawd have mercy. Is that more slo mo? Someone tell that boy to cut it out with the slo mo.
–Me: Is that a random naked woman beside Bruce? Hobbit: Yes, because Zach Snyder is a perv.
–Points to Lois Lane for chilling in the men's room, but what the what with "with balls like yours you belong in [the men's room]"
–Did Bruce Wayne just ask Alfred for permission to use the batsuit?
–Why is Wonder Woman in a cocktail dress? Why is she wearing a dress cut down the middle?
–Man. This chatter between Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne is like bad porn dialogue. Eh, I'd ship 'em.
–What? Did Wonder Woman just outsmart Bruce Wayne? Yeah, she did.
–More slow mo. Gosh. Did he just fly from Metropolis to Juarez. Are they laying hands on him? Yes, they are laying hands on Superman.
–Why is Superman pulling a ship across the ice?
–Why is Neil DeGrasse Tyson slumming it in this film?
–Oh, heck no. I know Superman is not suspended in the air above the roof in one of those holy sunbeams. No, no, no. Snyder, you are not okay.
–Is Lex Luthor giving that dude a Professor X Mobile?
–Is that Gal Gadot in ANOTHER dress with a boob window?
–Well, this convo between Wonder Woman and Bruce Wayne is good…
–The hell? Am I supposed to believe that Bruce Wayne has gone from searching through encrypted data to some kind of apocalypse dream sequence? Are those people wearing Superman insignias? Is Superman killing people?
–Who is this dude popping out to tell Bruce that Lois is the key?
–Whoa, whoa. Bruce and Clark are investigating each other? Couldn't we have established that earlier?
–Why hasn't Clark Kent been fired yet? He is totally incompetent as a reporter.
–What the what with Batman shooting things and running over people and….slo mo again. *sigh*
–"Consider this mercy" from Superman and "Do you bleed?" from Batman. Is this for real?
–Oh, so now Lex has a Pocket Full of Kryptonite.
–Wait. Whoa. So now Martha is telling him he doesn't owe the world jack?
–Soledad O'Brien, why? You are better than this.
–Am I supposed to believe the junior senator from Kentucky is a democrat? Yeah, right.
–"I grew up on a farm. I know how to wrestle pig." I do like the farm girl vibe Holly Hunter has going on.
–Really? A jar of piss that is labeled Grandma's Peach Tea? That's disgusting. Not cool.
–Again I say, whoa. Stop. I have seen no evidence up until this point that Superman was considered a hero.
–And now there's an explosion at Lex Corp.
–[at this point the Hobbit is humming Danny Elfman's original Batman theme. This movie could've used Elfman music]
–Now Lois is telling Clark that he gives people hope and the Hobbit says, "Know what gives me hope? Marvel."
–Oh, I know Lex isn't wearing Zod's fingerprints.
–Batffleck has issues; beating a tire, science, working out, science, working out, science…
–"You flew too close to the sun" Um, Lex. That's Zod. Not Icarus.
–Superman in effigy? Really?
–And Kevin Costner. Now Superman is hallucinating. Because that's something we want our superheroes to do.
–Oh, good. Now Bruce is wandering around the abandoned Wayne Manor.
–Nancy Grace? Wait. I'm not that surprised to see her here.
–Is Batman wearing platform boots?
–And bat signal. Just because Superman told him not to. I think Bruce Wayne has Oppositional Defiance Disorder.
–Did Lex just call Lois feisty? Really?
–Oh, hey! Superman catching Lois is the most Superman thing he's done in this film.
–Blah Blah Blah. Lex is carrying on about good and powerful, and I'm thinking Zach Snyder is trying to trying to beat us over the head with something.
–"Every boy's special lady is his mother." Well, I hope so.
–And Wonder Woman with cleavage again.
–Did we really interrupt this tense moment to have Wonder Woman look at all of the other metahumans? What a way to kill the pacing.
–Oh, Batman. You are so wily.
–*sigh* This fight is no Captain America vs Iron Man, I'll tell you that.
–Superman: Martha!
Batman: What did you say?
Lois: His mother's name is Martha
Batman quits beating up Superman and Ryan says: Well that's a horse of a different color?
–Wait. Whoa. Stop. These two have just beat each other with a bathroom sink, et al, and now they're going to be besties just because they each have mothers of the same name? This movie hinges on how Batman and Superman have mothers of the same name? I have wasted over an hour of my life.
–Lex has a plan B? Why isn't this movie over? We've had Batman vs Superman. Why are we still going?
–And we're going to nuke Superman. Of course we are. Love how we went straight to nuking things.
–Of course Lois threw away the spear we need right now.
–Sweet! Wonder Woman is the best, and she has the best entrance music.
–Wait. Did we just kill Superman when Wonder Woman could've handled that spear and taken care of business? Really?
–This is supposed to be a touching moment as Batman passes Superman to Wonder Woman, but all I can think is, "Look at those guns. She's almost got Michelle Obama arms."
–Oh. So that's how Lex Luthor got bald.
–Aw, Laurence Fishburne is the only one to make me think about crying over Superman.
–What the what? It ain't the 1940s, Martha, I don't think we keep bodies in the living room again. Also, why aren't you people putting solar boy in the sun? Man runs on sunlight and you're going to put him in a coffin?
–He mailed Lois a ring? What? Why? Did he know he was going to die? I'm so confused.
–And of course the funerals are slo mo. Snyder, you have a slo mo problem.
–Le sigh. "I failed him in life. I won't fail him in death." Have mercy at the melodrama.
–Is Lex allergic to jail? Why is he snotting?
–Ding, ding. ding. Is he going for Joker? I think Eisenberg is confused. He signed up for Lex Luthor.
–And tiny bits of soil rising. Of course. I'm still depressed, Snyder.
Lord have mercy. This movie had more endings than The Return of the King. I really do think I got whiplash from all of the shifting, and why, oh why, wasn't there more Wonder Woman.
Maybe there was a coherent story in there somewhere–the part where Lex Luthor set up the animosity between Batman and Superman makes sense–but, on the whole, it's a garbled mess. Watch it at your own risk, I say.
Or fast forward to all of the parts with Wonder Woman.
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Need a new Kilpatrick story? Maybe you like my stories but wish I'd cut down on the cussing and such? You won't have to wait as long as you may have thought. I am so honored to be a part of a new box set called Love & Grace, and today is the grand cover reveal! Each story is sweet and/or inspirational and contains at least a mention to dyslexia because, you guessed it, full proceeds go to help fund Gracepoint — A School for Dyslexia. You'll be able to purchase one of these babies, which is chock full of stories from other great authors, on August 30, 2016!
My story is set in the town of Kingdom Come, Texas. (I totally made the town up, but it just sounds like a place you'd find in Texas. Somewhere close to Dimebox maybe?) You may have guessed that I'm thinking about setting some more stories in this new fictional town. After all, there are some questions from "Standing on the Promises" that I would dearly love to answer for you. Never fear, my story, like those of the other eleven authors, is a complete story–no cliffhangers here!
Wanna find out more about Love & Grace? Read Ciara Knight's great blog post on the subject here. Did I mention that Sherrilyn Kenyon wrote a foreword?
So, without further ado, we come to the cover reveal:
As for my contribution, "Standing on the Promises:" Katrina Rawls did a very mean thing back in fifth grade. Now, she has to work with Seth Bridges for the good of the community, but can he forgive her?
P.S. Let me know if you like "Standing on the Promises" because I've wanted to write a series of novellas based on songs from the Cokesbury Hymnal for a long time. In fact, The Happy Hour Choir was part of that inclination. The hymn that inspired Beulah's story? "Dwelling in Beulah Land," of course.
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I hadn't intentionally avoided gay romance, but I think it's good to look at the societal biases that affect all of those things that you do. . . .unintentionally. Scanning different genres made it clear that, whether intentional or not, I had avoided the gay romance subgenre.
I looked at several different books–some of which I've also added to my TBR pile of destiny–but, in the end, I settled on Damon Suede's Hothead because I had heard so much about it. The last time I'd heard that much buzz about a book, it was Tiffany Reisz's The Siren, another challenging book that was well worth the read. So, without further ado, my thoughts on Hothead:
This read was a difficult one for me, but not for the reasons you're probably thinking. Oh mah gosh was this story angsty. Y'all. I wanted to take Griff, that giant of a firefighter, and pull into a hug–I'd have to stand on a chair–and tell him that it would all be okay if he would just tell Dante how he felt. The guy spent at least seventy-five percent of the book beating himself up and pining for a forbidden love, and it was positively heartbreaking. I say I wanted to tell him that it would all be okay, but his inner turmoil is 100% believable, and the fact of the matter is. . . . I don't know what it would be like to be a man who's in love with another man in a world that can be hostile at best or downright dangerous at worst. I don't know what it's like to have a second family so dear to me and to fear their rejection. I don't know what it's like to fear being beaten up or even killed just for being me. This is the reason why we read "different" things: to exercise our empathy muscles.
Now, lest you think Hothead is some kind of treatise on accepting gay marriage, no. It's a romance. It's a sexy, emotionally rough and tumble romance and an entertaining story to boot. I kinda feel like Paul Reiser talking about why heterosexual men like to watch lesbian scenes: "Because it's naked and fun and I agree with both of them." Seriously, the love story between Griff and Dante? It doesn't get much better than that.
The sex scenes? Honestly, the sex sometimes veered a little too erotic for my tastes, but that's cool and to be expected with a book that includes a porn site. I've read Reisz. I will read scenes that go farther than my tastes if I like the characters and the story, and I definitely liked the characters and the story of Hothead enough to push my own boundaries. I mean, I had no idea there were that many euphemisms for guy masturbation, but there you go. You learn something new every day.
So, there you go. Hothead is sweet. . . . and very, very spicy. Think Zach and Miri Make a Porno with two dudes kinda, sorta, not really. I already have Tere Michael's Groomzilla in my stack. Anyone have a good F/F that I need to try? I hear tell Fiona Zedde has some tales to tell. Any other gaps in my reading habits? I can't promise I'll read them in a hurry because I tend to read what strikes my fancy when my fancy is struck, but I'm a liberal arts major and firmly believe in a broad base of study, so lay it on me.
*I'm also reading Jeannie Lin's The Dragon and the Pearl because I haven't read that many books set in China. I had read–and was pretty traumatized by–Lisa See's Shanghai Girls, though, so I decided to read Hothead for this post. I'm totally digging The Dragon and the Pearl. Lin has a lovely prose and is taking me to a different world, and I'm so glad I finally picked up her book, too.
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First, I'll offer a bounty for any references that I may have missed because writing is a messy process somewhat akin to making sausage. As a writer you put things in only to take them out. You swirl them around. You play with those words a dozen times before your publisher puts the pretty casing of a cover on the book. Serendipity–or maybe it's the magic of the subconscious and all of those brain cells we're not accessing–also plays a huge role in how your story goes. Finally, Shakespeare is such a part of our everyday language that I would be willing to bet there are phrases throughout that go to the Bard that I used without even thinking about it.
Without further ado, I give you the references that I found upon further reflection on Bittersweet Creek:
I played a little fast and loose with who matches up with whom because I switched genders of the main characters. I also based the couples on the Hatfields and the McCoys, hence Satterfields and McElroys. To add to the feud between them and show how nonsensical some of the things that divide us are, I also made them opposites in a bunch of crazy ways. The Satterfields are Methodists who drive Fords and like cats. The McElroys are Baptists who drive Chevy's and prefer dogs, etc.
Lost references, or Why I Should Make Notes While I Write:
The first person to find each of these references will get an ARC of whichever book I have coming out next.
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First up, I have Pam Mantovani's debut, Cowboy on Her Doorstep. This is a secret baby book, so the water's nice if that's one of your favorite tropes. The hero, Logan, is a cowboy AND an Army Ranger. Not only that, but he also teaches barrel racing to kids. We like him. The heroine, Kendall, is a deputy sheriff who was kinda hoping (not really) that Logan wouldn't come back to town because (Surprise!) their one night of passion led to an adorable little girl. We like her, too. Plenty of small town charm in this one, although there is an interesting undercurrent of danger as well. I'm still hoping for a sequel with Audra.
Second up, I have Amber Belldene's Not a Mistake. I used to half-joke that I was going to someday write inspiration erotica. Well, Belldene has beat me to the punch. Okay, so I would say the book is steamy rather than erotica, but her priests are human, complete with human needs and wants. Come to think of it, this one is kinda a secret baby book, too. Jordan is a brand new Episcopalian priest who slept with Dominic, her ethics professor. Yes, you read that right. Ethics. Don't worry, he beats himself up plenty. Despite the trappings of contemporary genre fiction, there's a lot of theology to unpack here also, and I like that.
So, there you go. Two contemporary books for your consideration. For next month, I have to pick a book outside my comfort zone.
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Now, I do have one quibble with Shakespeare. Or maybe I have a quibble with how we interpret his works. Why do some folks keep insisting that
Romeo and Juliet is a romance? Y'all, it's a tragedy. So when I, in great literary tradition, went to the Shakespearean well as inspiration for Bittersweet Creek, I decided to give Romeo and Juliet a different ending. I do hope the Bard didn't mind too much. Maybe he'll forgive me since I played with southern vernacular and added a few references to his other works as well.
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As always, she was right. Second Time Around was the perfect book for me. It's a book about English majors, for heaven's sake! Also, it's about a group of women–true women's fiction, y'all! Secrets, camaraderie, witty repartee, writers, readers, literary references–it's all Sally stuff. Okay, so it takes place in the Adirondacks instead of a small town in the South, but it does have its own "stealth magnolia," our English major from Alabama. All in all, this would be an excellent beach read for the literary minded.
So you have Arden, who sets the whole story in motion. Then, Anna who is a pastry whiz but is also struggling with infertility. Jamie is brash but hiding a huge secret and tons of guilt. Cait has gone the literary distance to be an English professor, but she really wants to be a writer. Finally, you have Brooke, the aforementioned "stealth magnolia" who learns how to rewire a house and replace a toilet with a cast iron flange. These are no shrinking violets.
And, of course, almost all of them have men in their lives, particularly Anna whose marriage is on the rocks and Cait, who will reconnect with a former professor crush. Even so, it's never trite, and Kendrick gives a satisfying, optimistic ending while resisting the urge to completely tie everything up in a nice, neat bow. All in all, I heartily recommend it. I also kinda want to be Brooke when I grow up.
A couple of quotes to hopefully inspire you to give this great book a try:
"I'm going to do what any self-respecting English major would do: pull something out of my ass."
"To the English majors. We may not always be practical, but we have infinite potential."
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The e-versions of BOTH Bittersweet Creek and The Happy Hour Choir are on sale now through April 3rd. Here are some handy dandy buylinks:
Bittersweet Creek–$4.99
The Happy Hour Choir–$2.99
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Matthew Daniel Eddy's fascinating paper "The Interactive Notebook: How Students Learned to Keep Notes During the Scottish Enlightenment" is bound to elicit a certain amount of nostalgia in some readers. (The author is a professor of philosophy at Durham University; the paper, forthcoming in the journal Book History, is available for download from his Academia page.)
Interest in the everyday, taken-for-granted aspects of scholarship (the nuts and bolts of the life of the mind) has grown among cultural historians over the past couple of decades. At the same time, and perhaps not so coincidentally, many of those routines have been in flux, with card catalogs and bound serials disappearing from university libraries and scholarship itself seeming to drift ever closer to a condition of paperlessness. The past few years have seen a good deal of work on the history of the notebook, in all its many forms. I think Eddy's contribution to this subspecialty may prove a breakthrough work, as Anthony Grafton's The Footnote: A Curious History (1997) and H. J. Jackson's Marginialia: Readers Writing in Books (2001) were in the early days of metaerudition.
"Lecture notes," Eddy writes, "as well as other forms of writing such as letters, commonplace books and diaries, were part of a larger early modern manuscript world which treated inscription as an active force that shaped the mind." It's the focus on note taking itself -- understood as an activity bound up with various cultural imperatives -- that distinguishes notebook studies (pardon the expression) from the research of biographers and intellectual historians who use notebooks as documents.
Edinburgh in the late 18th century was buzzing with considerable philosophical and scientific activity, but the sound in the lecture notes Eddy describes came mainly from student noses being held to the grindstone. For notebook keeping was central to the pedagogical experience -- a labor-intensive and somewhat costly activity, deeply embedded in the whole social system of academe. Presumably the less impressive specimens became kindling, but the lecture notebooks Eddy describes were the concrete embodiment of intellectual discipline and craftsmanship -- multivolume works worthy of shelf space in the university library or handed down to heirs. Or, often enough, sold, whether to less diligent students or to the very professors who had given the lectures.
The process of notebook keeping, as Eddy reconstructs it, ran something like this: before a course began, the student would purchase a syllabus and a supply of writing materials -- including "quares" of loose papers or "paper books" (which look pocket-size in a photo) and a somewhat pricier "note book" proper, bound in leather.
The syllabus included a listing of topics covered in each lecture. Eddy writes that "most professors worked very hard to provide lecture headings that were designed to help students take notes in an organized fashion" as they tried to keep up with "the rush of the learning process as it occurred in the classroom." Pen or pencil in hand, the student filled up his quares or paper book with as much of the lecture material as he could grasp and condense, however roughly. The pace made it difficult to do more than sketch the occasional diagram, and Eddy notes that "many students struggled to even write basic epitomisations of what they had heard."
The shared challenge fostered the student practice of literally comparing notes -- and in any case, even the most nimble student was far from through when the lecture was done. Then it was necessary to "fill out" the rough notes, drawing on memory of what the professor said, the headings in the syllabus and the course readings -- a time-consuming effort that could run late into the night. "Extending my notes taken at the Chemical and Anatomical lectures," one student wrote in his diary, "employs my whole time and prevents my doing any thing else. Tired, uneasy & low-spirited."
As his freshman year ended, another wrote, "My late hours revising my notes taken at the lectures wore on my constitution, and I longed for the approach of May and the end of the lectures."
Nor was revision and elaboration the end of it. From the drafts, written on cheap paper, students copied a more legible and carefully edited text into their leather notebooks, title pages in imitation of those found in printed books. The truly devoted student would prepare an index. "While many of them complained about the time this activity required," Eddy writes, "I have found no one who questioned the cognitive efficacy that their teachers attached to the act of copying."
Making a lecture notebook was the opposite of multitasking. It meant doing the same task repeatedly, with deeper attention and commitment at each stage. Eddy surmises that medical students who prepared especially well-crafted lecture notebooks probably attended the same course a number of times, adding to and improving the record, over a course of years.
At the same time, this single-minded effort exercised a number of capacities. Students developed "various reading, writing and drawing skills that were woven together into note-taking routines … that were in turn infused with a sense of purpose, a sense that the acts of note taking and notebook making were just as important as the material notebook that they produced."
You can fill an immaterial notebook with a greater variety of content (yay, Evernote!), but I'm not sure that counts as either an advantage or an improvement.
USA Swimming recently banned a former Stanford University swimmer convicted of sexual assault. A petition signed by 130,000 people urges the National Collegiate Athletic Association to adopt a similar stance.
Behind the steel spire atop St. Anne's Cathedral in Belfast rises a modern structure of gleaming glass and steel. Ulster University is building a new campus right in the heart of Northern Ireland's capital city. The university, once known only as an access-focused regional institution with a predominant emphasis on preprofessional degree programs, now boasts an excellent business school, a top-tier school of pharmacy and an eye-catching urban campus devoted to the arts.
Ulster University is emblematic of a resurgence of Northern Ireland: once mired in sectarian conflict, Belfast and its environs are now destinations for both tourists and foreign investors. Much of the rise of this country of 1.8 million is due to extraordinary investment from the European Union -- investment that could soon end. Northern Ireland, like England, Scotland and Wales, is a constituent country of the United Kingdom and will take part in a referendum on continued membership in the E.U. this Thursday, June 23.
Polls on the potential British exit, or Brexit, have shown both sides running neck and neck, and the stakes could not be higher for Ulster and other universities in the United Kingdom. In fact, the results could also have a significant impact on American colleges and universities, as well.
British membership in the European Union has been exceptionally lucrative for Ulster University. The university received around 9.4 million pounds ($13.4 million) last year in E.U. funding. More than 1,700 students and around 400 scholars from other E.U. member states attend, teach and research at the university in some capacity. Its location around 45 minutes from the Irish border and only two hours from Dublin makes it a common collaborator with major universities to the south. The university's Nanotechnology and Integrated Bioengineering Center, which was funded by a £1.6 million grant from the E.U., has generated 25 patents and three spin-off companies that are now valued at over $100 million.
Ulster, however, isn't the only university in the United Kingdom receiving benefits from Britain's E.U. membership. Higher education institutions received 16 percent of total E.U. research funding totaling £687 million ($1 billion) in 2013-14. People from other E.U. nations make up 15 percent of the academic workforce and 5 percent of the student bodies at British universities. Given the sheer impact of European support for universities in the U.K., it should come as no surprise that Ulster Vice Chancellor Paddy Nixon joined 102 university leaders, including vice chancellors from Oxford and Cambridge and the president of the London School of Economics, in an open letter in the Sunday Times expressing support for the European Union.
This expression of political support is emblematic of a change in university behavior. While university leaders chose to stay relatively silent on the two other recent major electoral events -- the 2014 Scottish independence referendum and the 2015 general election -- they emphatically support the campaign to remain in the E.U.
Yet despite university support for the European Union, a large minority of government officials and policy leaders want to leave. The leave campaign is led by Nigel Farage, the charismatic leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party whom many in the United Kingdom have compared to presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump for his bombastic style and anti-immigration stance.
Other major players include former London Mayor Boris Johnson, former Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove and other right-wing members of the Conservative party. The majority of Parliament, including Prime Minister David Cameron, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn and leaders of most of the minor parties, all support continued membership in the European Union. Cameron and Osborne represent the moderate wing of the Conservative party -- constantly at odds with Gove, Johnson and the party's right wing.
Brexit was a major political issue in the last general election, and leave campaigners argue that far-right Conservative gains in Parliament were a popular mandate for Brexit. Moderate Conservatives worked hard to renegotiate Britain's responsibilities within the E.U. and believe that remaining in the European Union will be good for the United Kingdom. It should come as no surprise that both sides disagree on the impact Brexit would have on British universities.
The leave campaign argues that the European Union funds only 3 percent of all U.K. R&D spending and that money saved from not having to pay fees associated with E.U. membership could allow the U.K. government to expand domestic financial support for research. Furthermore, universities in nations outside of the E.U. are still able to apply for research funding; leave campaigners suggest that wouldn't change.
Leave supporters also believe that, when it comes to U.K. universities' ability to attract talented European faculty, a U.K. immigration policy absent of E.U. agreements on free movement of people could be devised in such a way that it would privilege scholars from other European countries traveling to Britain. Outside of the E.U., universities could raise fees on E.U. students, an action currently prohibited by E.U. laws that state universities in a given country must treat students from that country and other students from E.U. member states equally. There are also not enough spaces at universities to meet current demand. Leave campaigners argue that filling admissions spaces with domestic students could offset any drop in the E.U. student population.
University leaders and the remain campaign don't agree. They note that a rise in E.U. student fees coupled with presumably more stringent immigration controls would result in an extremely decreased E.U. student population, as polls of E.U. students show that 80 percent would be less likely to pursue education in the U.K. E.U. students are some of the highest achieving in the U.K. system and are more likely than their British counterparts to pursue graduate degrees in the U.K. Brexit would raise fees on these students, limiting access to U.K. universities and potentially reducing overall institutional quality. It would also limit domestic student interaction with students from other countries. U.K. universities would become increasingly insular and homogenous in their student bodies as American competitors seek greater and greater diversity in their student populations.
Leaving the E.U., remain supporters argue, would also mean closing access to the Erasmus exchange program that allows students from E.U. member states to study in another member country as part of their academic program, further closing U.K. student engagement with their European counterparts. Students may also face adverse outcomes upon graduation should Brexit hurt Britain's economy and job market. Leaders also fear that highly talented European academics seeking faculty or postdoc positions in the U.K. may seek positions elsewhere as uncertainty regarding their immigration and employment status over the next few years would grow exponentially in the days after a vote to leave. While long-term immigration reform might have some benefits, Brexit would decimate universities' ability to recruit new faculty in the short term. Lastly, the remain campaign is quick to point out that, while U.K. contributions make up 11 percent of the total E.U. research budget, U.K. institutions receive more than 16 percent of total research grant funding.
What's often overlooked in the debate between the leave and remain campaigns, however, is that if Britons vote to leave, there will be implications for American universities and students, as well. American universities might be the beneficiaries of Brexit when it comes to faculty recruitment. While emigrating to the United States might be difficult for European scholars when compared to an E.U.-member United Kingdom, stricter immigration controls in the U.K. may make the United States a more desirable location.
Furthermore, around 50,000 Americans study in the United Kingdom each year. A common language and history make the U.K. a top destination for American students, and neither will change with Brexit. The same could be said, however, for Ireland, an E.U. member with no plans on leaving any time soon. Google and other major American tech companies have built their European headquarters in Dublin, and if Brexit happens, many believe American companies with a major presence in London could move their operations across the Irish Sea to Dublin and into other major continental financial centers like Frankfurt and Luxembourg. Students who would have gone to the U.K. to study and intern in finance for a semester or two might soon find themselves more attracted to Ireland.
While American universities may be able to get their pick of scholars in the exodus of European faculty from British institutions that would follow Brexit, and American students may not recognize a tremendous difference between studying abroad in Dublin as compared to Edinburgh or London, the greatest influence Brexit could have on American universities is indirect, but hugely impactful. Most economist agree that a vote to leave would cause a British recession, at least in the short term, with some even saying the vote could trigger a global recession. David Cameron even warned that voting for Brexit would be like putting a bomb under the U.K. economy. For those American universities that are not in a position to compete for top European faculty or send students abroad, global volatility in the markets could cause significant damage to meager endowments and hurt fund-raising.
The cost of Brexit, therefore, is too high. Elite American universities would receive meager benefits, but the rest of the American higher education landscape could feel the effects of a recession too soon after emerging from the financial crisis of 2008. British universities will lose a major source of research funding, faculty and high-quality students. British students will feel the pinch of higher tuition and fees during a period of economic downturn. Brexit has the potential to significantly slow the growth of higher education at home and abroad and offers few benefits to postsecondary institutions on both sides of the Atlantic.
Along the banks of the River Foyle at the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic lies Derry. The walled city is home to a branch campus of Ulster University, and on June 9, the campus hosted two former prime ministers to talk about the potential ramifications of Brexit. Tony Blair and John Major both warned against leaving the European Union, saying it would effectively close off access to the border with the Republic. What neither gentleman noted, however, is that voting to leave the European Union would also effectively cut off access to research funding, high-quality international students and stellar faculty. University students, faculty and staff overwhelmingly support the remain campaign. One can only hope that they turn out to vote in two days' time. Their universities are counting on them.
Christopher R. Marsicano is a Ph.D. candidate in leadership and policy studies with a focus in higher education policy at Vanderbilt University.
A district attorney in Louisiana has decided to drop all charges against two University of Alabama football players who were arrested in May after police found them with a bag of marijuana and two handguns, one of which was allegedly stolen. The district attorney, Jerry Jones, cited insufficient evidence as his reasoning, but told a local TV station, KNOE, that the players' hard work as athletes was a primary consideration in dropping the charges.
"I want to emphasize once again that the main reason I'm doing this," Jones said, "is that I refuse to ruin the lives of two young men who have spent their adolescence and teenage years, working and sweating, while we were all in the air-conditioning."
An analysis of key actions 10 institutional accrediting agencies took over five years found a "highly uneven and inconsistent system of sanctions." The report from the Center for American Progress, which has previously chided accreditors for their oversight of poor-performing colleges, found that national accreditors are more likely to sanction their member colleges, but that regional agencies keep institutions on sanction for longer periods of time. The group recommended "clearer, common rules of the road about sanction terminology, definitions and use."
A jury in Tennessee on Friday convicted Brandon Vandenburg, a former football player at Vanderbilt University, of inviting three teammates to his room to sexually assault an unconscious woman, The New York Times reported. One of the teammates has also been convicted and two others are awaiting trial. Earlier convictions were thrown out after it was revealed that a juror failed to disclose that she had been a victim of statutory rape. Vandenburg was not accused of physically attacking the woman but of inviting others to do so and making a video of the attacks that he sent to others. His defense was that he was too intoxicated to be held responsible.
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Eileen Ely resigned Thursday, effective immediately, as president of Green River College, The Seattle Times reported. Ely did not state why she is leaving, but she has clashed repeatedly with faculty members, who have repeatedly voted no confidence in her leadership, citing what they say is a lack of commitment to shared governance and program cuts they consider ill advised.
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UniBoss Vs XSense Pricing 13 commentsMay 6, 2013 5:10 AM | about stocks: ATML
There has been a lot of talk about UniBoss pricing advantage against XSense so I decided to do the math.
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UniBoss $20 square feet
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$20 / 144 = $0.1388888.. a square inch
XSense = $10 for 10 inches diagonal
To make the math equal and figure out how much XSense cost per square foot I had to figure out the dimension of a 10" display per Pythagoras and I came up with 6" x 8" would do.
But to make a 10 inch display you also need more film to do the die cutting so I added 1 inch in each side as a margin for die cutting and 3 inches at the buttom for the connector and I came up with a raw film of 8" x 12" needed to make a 6" x 8" sensor.
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Per this math XSense is cheaper than UniBoss.
You can redo the math with smaller margins to get the numbers in favor of UniBoss but there really isn't a price advantage.
UniBoss will have to compete with XSense in quality first.
Also Atmel is exploring to license XSense to module manufacturers to expand production.
Because these manufacturers already have the photo lithography equipment required XSense can really expand production exponentially.
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It is the Q4 2012 call, not Q1. Also, he makes a very very vague statement, and precedes it with the following:
"But I don't want to give out the specific pricing because of competitive reasons again, because the alternative for all of these customers is ITO and obviously, what our guys attempt to do is to sell not directly saying, hey, I can undercut you."
Chris, in vastly different words, I think we are largely saying the same thing. XSense cost is better than ITO, but price cannot be much better without small margins. UniBoss has a much bigger cost advantage and can gain great price advantage while still maintaining large margins.
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Alice Wu says to improve relations, both Beijing and Hong Kong must deal with their inner demons that prevent compromise
When emotions run high, no one expects rational discussion. When emotions are over-the-top high, we should expect the unexpected. So those who were hoping for some relief after the July 1 march - thought to be an opportunity for people to "let off steam" - have underestimated the force of the emotions.
Events since that day show that they've yet to run their course. From a sermon that elicited vitriol to another man of the cloth calling a critic "a dog", they tell us that the storm rages on, and we're in the path of more damage. There is hatred so vile that we're looking for blood.
There is no better time to ask ourselves, honestly, whether we need to cool down. The answer should be clear: cooler heads must prevail if we're going to survive this, wherever one stands on the political divide.
Is the chief executive the root of this city's problems? If so, is it the office, or the person with the title? If the problem was Leung Chun-ying, then the solution would be simple. But it's not just Leung; it's the office. It has suffered a crisis of legitimacy from the start. The problem is the system - it has produced three chief executives so far who cannot do any right.
The need to change the system is clear, but as we have seen from how little ground we've covered in constitutional reform, it isn't as simple as it sounds.
Rational discussion and compromise - the very essentials that make politics work - are needed now more than ever, to replace all the deafening histrionics and hysteria.
But that's not the only reason we've been blown off course. A lot of other things have been pulled into that emotional vortex, including the State Council's white paper on "one country, two systems".
And then there are things that aren't so obvious to the naked eye - the "inner demons" Jasper Tsang Yok-sing warned about last October.
Tsang was referring to the doubts and distrust of those north of the Shenzhen River. But it's hard not to see that those of us south of the river have been living with our own demons, too.
When both sides are similarly afflicted, fanning the flames is easy.
The source of the fire is complex and messy. It stems from the insecurities that plague both Hongkongers and Beijing. Hongkongers' insecurities aren't hard to see or understand. Beijing has - intentionally or not - fed them over the years. As for Beijing's insecurities, the white paper says it all. But we have done our part in affirming those insecurities.
It's no wonder, then, Tsang recently lamented that, "The most worrying development in the past few weeks is both Beijing and Hongkongers falling into a vicious cycle that is not conducive to narrowing differences on electoral reform".
In other words, we are stuck in a black hole caused by two worlds of insecurities, feeding off each other.
Is there a way out? Possibly, but it will be painful, and it must begin with having the courage to address those underlying insecurities. Instead of casting out people, Beijing and Hongkongers need to cast out the fears - those demons - that cripple our way forward.
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Well, with the recent EU vote and the opening of LHR to any US airlines if they can get the slots. What does this mean for the anti-trust issues? Will we soon see the ability to code-share and earn miles while flying either BA or AA?
I called American and they have no clue to the logistics of everything and in fact at first thought that since BA is in OneWorld, it shouldn't be a problem….rendering them clueless to reality.
The reason I ask is that I am planning a trip from SEA to FRA in a few weeks (prior to any long term changes to the policy) and have all my miles on AA, so would prefer to stay with OneWorld, but would prefer to not fly AA because of the inferior business class product. Thus, to get my miles, I'd have to fly something like SEA-YVR-LHR-FRA in order to bypass the anti-trust issues on BA.
But, is there a thought as to whether I could fly SEA-LHR-FRA and store those miles on BA, and then when the anti-trust issues evaporate, transfer them over to AA? Or is the thought that miles earned prior to the change, if there is one, would not be grandfathered in and I'd be better off trying to fly through Canada?
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CMS has put out the latest data on meaningful use participation and payments. They broke the Medicare dollars out by meaningful use stage 1 and stage 2. Meaningful use stage 1 cost nearly $20 billion. Meaningful use stage 2 cost $3.4 billion. The amounts were less for stage 2, but that's still a massive drop off.
Less than half of eligible providers participated in stage 2 that participated in stage 1 (308k compared to 145k). Participating hospitals dropped from 4600 hospitals to 3096. This illustrates well what we've been saying for a while as far as hospitals still largely participating in meaningful use and most doctors choosing not to participate.
Also interesting to note is that at its peak, meaningful use was paying about $10 billion per year. In 2015, they spent $2.8 billion.
What I didn't see in this report was any numbers on the cost savings that the meaningful use program provided. All the OIG estimates for meaningful use talked about how much money would be spent, but they also calculated how much money would be saved as well. As I recall they estimated about $36 billion in spending, but about $16 billion in savings. That would put the cost of the meaningful use program at $20 billion instead of the full $36 billion which it looks like we've now pretty much spent.
I like that HHS puts out this accountability as far as where the meaningful use money was spent. Shouldn't we have some accountability as far as the savings as well? Do they not have a way to calculate it? Are they afraid that there weren't cost savings? Or that meaningful use actually added costs? Maybe it's in another report and I just missed it. If you know of that other report, I'd love to see it.
What do you think of these numbers? What's been the benefit of the $34.7 billion that's been spent? I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments.