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I'm the founder & CEO of Big Spaceship. We create connected experiences, products, and platforms.
Michael Lebowitz is the Founder and CEO of Big Spaceship, globally-recognized marketing and innovation agency that creates connected experiences, products and services. Since launching Big Spaceship in 2000, he has defined the strategy and vision for Big Spaceship, while working closely with the agency's clients, including BMW, Dannon, Google Play, Google Maps, MetLife, Nestle-Purina, Organic Valley, Samsung, Under Armour, West Elm, and YouTube.
At Big Spaceship Michael has assembled "a crack team of digital inventors," according to Fast Company's "Most Innovative Companies" list, and has led the company to be named among the Advertising Age and Crain's New York Business Best Places to Work for the past four years. Big Spaceship's multidisciplinary team structure and progressive culture have been profiled by Harvard Business School, with the case study now taught at business schools in 40 countries.
Speaking on creativity, innovation and the evolution of business, Michael speaks across the globe and has engaged audiences at Cannes Festival of Creativity, AdAge and Adweek events, SXSW, Click:NY and Click:London, ad:tech and OMMA, as well as at business schools including NYU Stern, Long Island University and SLU's Institute for Private Business.
He frequently chairs and sits on juries for creative awards, and he has led the agency to win countless awards, including an Emmy Award nomination for the agency's work with HBO Voyeur, Cannes Lions, Clios, Webbys, Andys, and One Show Interactive Pencils. Michael was also named among the 2010 Creativity 50 and the 2008 OMMA Online All-Stars.
Prior to starting Big Spaceship, Michael spent three years at Thoughtbubble in New York. He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife Stacie and two sons, Isaac and Oliver.
Ad Age 2015 Agency to Watch.
MediaPost's 2014 Social Media Agency of the Year.
Every interaction matters.
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I love everything about this. Classic form with modern engineering seems to be proliferating as a theme in many areas.
"went to short dogs house,
they was watching Yo MTV
Yo MTV RAPS first aired:
Aug 6th 1988
Ice Cubes single "today was a good day" released on:
Feb 23 1993
"The Lakers beat the Super
Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release of the single FEBRUARY 23 1993 where the Lakers beat the Super Sonics:
Nov 11 1988 114-103
Nov 30 1988 110-106
Apr 4 1989 115-97
Apr 23 1989 121-117
Jan 17 1990 100-90
Feb 28 1990 112-107
Mar 25 1990 116-94
Apr 17 1990 102-101
Jan 18 1991 105-96
Mar 24 1991 113-96
Apr 21 1991 103-100
Jan 20 1992 116-110
Dates of those Laker wins over SuperSonics where it was a clear day with no Smog:
Nov 30 1988
Apr 4 1989
Jan 18 1991
Jan 20 1992
"Got a beep from Kim, and
she can fuck all night"
beepers weren't adopted by mobile phone companies until the 1990s. Dates left where mobile beepers were availible to public:
Jan 18 1991
Jan 20 1992
Ice Cube starred in the film "Boyz in the hood" that released late Summer of 1991, but was being filmed mid-late 1990 early 1991 and Ice Cube was busy on set filming the movie Jan 18 1991 too busy to be lounging around the streets with no plans. Ladies and Gentlemen..
The ONLY day where:
Yo MTV Raps was on air
It was a clear and smogless day
Beepers were commercially sold
Lakers beat the SuperSonics
and Ice Cube had no events to attend was…
National Good Day Day
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Believe it or not, these fascinating, really kind of artistic photographs are actually mugshots (back when they took a picture of more than your mug) from the 1920s. Even criminals were dapper back then.
The photos come from the Sydney Justice and Police Museum, and some include descriptions of the crooks' crimes, such as "hotel barber, meaning one who books into a hotel, boarding house or residential and robs (or 'snips') fellow patrons, usually in the dead of night."
For more pics of criminals and a description of their crimes, check out Twisted Sifter
Found via A Headlong Dive via Leo M.
Researchers including Professor Tim Duty from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, used a strange phenomenon called the dynamical Casimir effect to force a mirror to make its own light rather than simply reflecting the light around it.
I FIRST heard of Amazon's new "promotion" from my bookseller daughter, Emily, in an e-mail with the subject line "Can You Hear Me Screaming in Brooklyn?" According to a link Emily supplied, Amazon was encouraging customers to go into brick-and-mortar bookstores on Saturday, and use its price-check app (which allows shoppers in physical stores to see, by scanning a bar code, if they can get a better price online) to earn a 5 percent credit on Amazon purchases (up to $5 per item, and up to three items).
Books, interestingly enough, were excluded, but you could use your Amazon credit online to buy other things that bookstores sell these days, like music and DVDs. And, if you were scanning, say, the new Steve Jobs biography, you'd no doubt be informed that you were about to pay way too much. I wondered what my writer friends made of all this, so I dashed off an e-mail to Scott Turow, the president of the Authors Guild, and cc'ed Stephen King, Dennis Lehane, Andre Dubus III, Anita Shreve, Tom Perrotta and Ann Patchett.
These writers all derive considerable income from Amazon's book sales. But when the responses to my query started coming in it was clear Amazon's program would find no defenders in our ranks.
"Scorched-earth capitalism" is how Dennis described it. "They don't win unless they destroy their competition and then rub their noses in it." Andre was outraged by Amazon's attempt to turn its customers into "Droid-packing" spies. Like Dennis, he saw the move as an unsubtle attempt to monopolize the market, the effect of which would ultimately be to "further devalue, as a cultural and human necessity, the book" itself.
Stephen wrote "I love my Kindle" and noted that Amazon had done well by him in terms of book sales. But he too saw the new strategy as both "invasive and unfair." He thought that many would see the new promotion as nothing more than comparison shopping on steroids but that, in fact, it was "a bridge too far."
Scott supplied lawyerly perspective: "The law has long been clear that stores do not invite the public in for all purposes. A retailer is not expected to serve as a warming station for the homeless or a site for band practice. So it's worth wondering whether it's lawful for Amazon to encourage people to enter a store for the purpose of gathering pricing information for Amazon and buying from the Internet giant, rather than the retailer. Lawful or not, it's an example of Amazon's bare-knuckles approach."
Statements like this will no doubt make us all seem, to Amazon devotees, like a bunch of privileged, holier-than-thou ingrates. Privileged I'll grant them. But as we swapped e-mails it quickly became clear that the real source of our collective dismay was actually gratitude, not ingratitude. On my first book tour I was invited to Barbara's Bookstore in Chicago. The employees optimistically set up seven folding chairs, then occupied those chairs themselves when nobody showed up for the reading.
Armed with such experiences, my writer pals and I took personally Amazon's assault on the kinds of stores that hand-sold our books before anybody knew who we were, back before Amazon or the Internet itself existed. As Anita put it, losing independent bookstores would be "akin to editing … a critical part of our culture out of American life."
As the owner of a new independent bookstore in Nashville, Ann may have more to lose than the rest of us, so I found her calm, resigned response particularly interesting. "There is no point in fighting them or explaining to them that we should be able to coexist civilly in the marketplace," she wrote me. "I don't think they care. I do think it's worthwhile explaining to customers that the lowest price point does not always represent the best deal. If you like going to a bookstore then it's up to you to support it. If you like seeing the people in your community employed, if you think your city needs a tax base, if you want to buy books from a person who reads, don't use Amazon."
Tom agreed: "People have to understand that their short-term decision to save a couple bucks undermines their long-term interest in their community and vital, real-life literary culture."
Though it's under siege, such real-life literary culture exists in unexpected places. A few miles down the road from where I live on the coast of Maine, a talented young bookseller named Lacy Simons recently opened a small bookshop called Hello Hello, and in her blog she wrote eloquently about her relationship to "everyone who comes in my store. If you let me, I'll get to know you through your reading life and strive to find books that resonate with you. Amazon asks you to take advantage of my knowledge & my education (which I'm still paying for) and treat the space I rent, the heat & light I pay for, the insurance policies I need to be here, the sales tax I gather for the state, the gathering place I offer, the books and book culture I believe in so much that I've wagered everything on it" as if it were "a showroom for goods you can just get more cheaply through them."
Scott reminds me what happened the last time someone stood up to Amazon. Nearly two years ago, the Macmillan publishing group adopted a new sales model that would cost Macmillan in the short run, but allow other companies to enter or remain in the e-book market without having to take a loss on every sale. Amazon's response to more competition? They refused to sell not merely Macmillan's e-books, but nearly every physical book Macmillan published. Amazon eventually backed down, but its initial response helped shape a widespread sense that it envisions a world in which there will be no other booksellers or publishers, a world where, history suggests, Amazon may not use its power benignly or for the benefit of literary culture.
This puts me in mind of stories about the days in Old Hollywood when the studios controlled everything. A director friend told me about a particularly ruthless studio head who, as my friend put it, would sell his mother for a bent farthing, and was, as a result, universally feared and loathed. But here's the thing: the exec shared a common language and a common passion with those he steamrolled. Why? They inhabited the same world. Those days, my friend concluded wistfully, are gone. Movie studios have been subsumed by media empires. And when you try to have a conversation with the new Hollywood, it quickly becomes clear that you're talking about movies and they're talking about refrigerators.
As I see it, the problem with Amazon stems from the fact that though it started out as a bookseller, it isn't anymore, not really. It sells everything now, and it sells it all aggressively. Maybe Amazon doesn't care about the larger bookselling universe because it's simply too big to care. In a way it's become, like the John Candy character (minus the eager, slobbering benevolence) in Mel Brooks's movie "Spaceballs" — half man, half dog and thus its own best friend.
Like just about everybody I've talked to about it, I first attributed Amazon's price-comparison app to arrogance and malevolence, but there's also something bizarrely clumsy and wrong-footed about it. Critics may appear weak today, but they may not be tomorrow, and if the wind shifts, Amazon's ham-fisted strategy has the potential to morph into a genuine Occupy Amazon movement. And even if the company is lucky and that doesn't happen, what has it really gained? The fickle gratitude of people who will have about as much loyalty to Amazon tomorrow as they do today to Barnes & Noble, last year's bully? This is good business? Is it just me, or does it feel as if the Amazon brass decided to spend the holidays in the Caribbean and left in charge of the company a computer that's fallen head over heels in love with its own algorithms?
In other words, hang in there, Lacy.
Richard Russo, a novelist and screenwriter, is at work on a memoir.
If a million users each waste a minute a day dealing with complexity that an engineer could have eliminated in a week by making the software a little more complex, you are penalizing the user to make the engineer's job easier.
Whose time is more important to the success of your business? For mass market software, unless you have a sustainable monopoly position, the customer's time has to be more important to you than your own.
Starbucks is going to create a mechanism that will allow us citizens to do what the government and the banks won't: lend money to small businesses. This mechanism is scheduled to be rolled out on Nov. 1.
Think of it this way. With the coming of the Industrial Revolution—roughly from the 1760s, when Watt's steam engine appeared, through around 1850 and beyond—the economy developed a muscular system in the form of machine power. Now it is developing a neural system.
try a simple test: put on your user hat and spend five minutes using Google, Facebook, Netflix, or any other website you love. Now go to your own company's website. If you can't see equal value in it, there's a competitor waiting to steal your users. Now imagine the business you can win if every prospect loves interacting with you online as much as they love buying from Amazon.
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Charges filed against Osage County sheriff
Dixon: Harassment, stalking allegations are "baseless"
LINN, Mo. - Osage County Sheriff Michael Dixon is denying accusations of harassment and stalking, calling them "baseless."
In a statement from his attorney, Dixon said that he has added "reliable" new deputies and set professional standards, and that has left some accustomed to the old ways "pretty disgruntled."
ABC 17 News broke the story that several charges were filed Wednesday afternoon against Dixon.
Dixon faces one felony and four misdemeanors. The special prosecutor appointed by the state attorney general alleges Dixon sexually harassed and stalked a female Belle police officer this summer
The victim, "C.M.," says Dixon ran a flashlight over her genitals and buttocks while on the scene of a fight at Lange Tire in Belle on June 24.
Court documents claim Dixon, another deputy and the victim all arrived as backup from a party at Dixon's home because there was concern Belle police officers at the scene could not be reached by radio. The alleged assault occurred as the victim bent down to talk to the wife of Belle's police chief, who was sitting in a car.
On June 26, the victim claims Dixon showed up to her fiance's home after midnight, demanding to talk to her. Nathan Abel told Dixon C.M. was at work, but prosecutors allege Dixon tried to search the property, calling the victim repeatedly.
At one point, court documents describe Dixon calling the Osage County Emergency Operations Center to have the victim call him back.
Dixon is also accused of taking Abel's four-wheeler to find the victim, a felony charge for tampering with a motor vehicle.
The victim told prosecutors she was so scared to go back home that night, she drove outside Belle and did not return until morning. Even then, she said, she searched her home with her gun drawn.
According to court documents, Dixon made several calls and comments that were sexual in nature and not related to their work over the course of many months.
Sheriff Dixon was the police chief in Belle, until he was elected Sheriff in 2012.

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Rain and freeze sensors
The WR2 Wireless Rain and Rain/Freeze Sensors automatically sense and measure both rain and cold temperatures to prevent unnecessary irrigation, saving water as well as wear on irrigation system components. The system interrupts an irrigation controller's prescheduled cycle if one of six programmable rainfall set points, or one of three temperature set points, is satisfied. Rain Bird Corp. www.rainbird.com.
Midsize tractors for entry-level users
Two tractors for farming and landscaping now have increased power and versatility. Both DS4110 and DS4510 (pictured) models have a rear 540-rpm power take-off, with the DS4110 at 33.4 hp and the DS4510 at 37.6 hp. The two models also have four-wheel drive, power steering, wet disc brakes, and a choice among agricultural, turf, or industrial tires. KIOTI. www.kioti.com.
Groom lawns and sports fields
Groom 'N' Sweep broom attachments mount on utility vehicles, tractors, and other service vehicles to remove debris and groom lawns and sportsfield surfaces. They feature eight brush rows for aggressive cleaning and grooming and polypropylene brush sections for durability and flexibility. Two models are available: GB60 with a 60-in.-long mainframe and GB72 with a 72-in.-long mainframe. TurfEx, a division of TrynEx International. www.trynexfactory.com.
Rear-tine tiller
The FRC800 rear-tine tiller features easy operation through simple controls with one-step tine and drive engagement. A front bumper guard, heavy-duty transmission, and debris shield enhance durability. Powered by a GX series four-stroke engine that's quiet, easy to start, and more fuel-efficient than comparably sized two-stroke designs, it offers virtually smoke-free operation and ultra-low emissions. Honda Power Equipment. www.hondapowerequipment.com.
Protect against seed and soil loss
Safe Slope is a natural fiber hydromulch made from a blend of cotton plant byproducts, other crop residue, and polymers to protect against seed and soil loss from the elements. It uses both chemical and mechanical techniques to create a flexible, porous seal, absorbing and holding enough moisture to facilitate seed growth and reduce erosion. The product will be available mid-2010. Leggett & Platt. www.landmarkearthsolutions.com.
Erosion control
Mirafi MiraGreen D recycled nonwoven drainage textiles are used for subsurface drainage applications along highways, green roofs, and athletic fields. The textiles are composed of 30% recycled content and contribute toward three key categories in LEED: sustainable sites, materials and resources, and innovation and design process. TenCate Geosynthetics. www.tencate.com.yfvdfdzdrbywwacuw
Rotating tree shear
The hydraulically rotating Timberline Tree Shear, designed for excavators, allows users to reach in and cut up to a 14-in.-diameter tree in one cut. A T 1 steel blade uses more than 700,000 lbs. of force. The ability to rotate after the cut allows the attachment to also serve as a grapple to lift, wrangle, and carry the fallen tree. Sidney Manufacturing Co. LLC. www.sidneyattachments.com.
Compact chipper
The 660 6-in. disk-style wood chipper is ultra-compact, so it can be towed by compact trucks and sport utility vehicles. Equipped with a powerful feed system and a 27-hp engine, it is designed for trimming, pruning, and cleanup jobs. JP Carlton. www.stumpcutters.com.
Reduce edging time by 75%
Eliminate time-consuming hand edging and the need for two-cycle edgers with Edge-EZE. The edger delivers a clean edge up to 2½ in. deep at up to 600 ft./ minute along sidewalks, driveways, and roadways. Both electric and manual versions provide vertical adjustment up to 12 in. and allow edging from the sidewalk, turf, or curb. Grasshopper. www.grasshoppermower.com.
Durable, efficient rotor system
Improved production levels highlight the Bull Hog HDT rotor system, which includes maintaining the same horsepower and maximum durability. The rotor system can be equipped with three different carbide options and a knife tool that allows operators to quickly configure their mulcher to diverse conditions. Fecon Inc. www.fecon.com.
Bark blowers
Ideal for small to midsize mulching projects such as mulch beds, playgrounds, sports field overseeding, and erosion control, the BB302 and BB705 trailer-mounted bark blowers can apply an even, uniform layer of coverage (i.e., mulch, soil, compost, light aggregate, playground chips) in hard-to-reach areas. They feature specially engineered rotary airlock and blower systems, providing enough power to apply material up to 200 feet away. Finn Corp. www.finncorp.com.
Versatile pull-behind aerator
The 12-in. self-storing wings on the Versa- Tow turf aerator allows operation at 36, 48, or 60 in. The wings float independently for use on uneven terrain. The 13x6-in. tires lower with a hand-operated actuator for transport. SourceOne Power Equipment. www.souceonex.com.
Redesigned Zero-turning Radius Mowers
The Z Master G3 commercial mowers were revamped using feedback from hundreds of landscapers. The modifications include increased traction, enhanced hillside stability, and improved operator comfort. The new height-of-cut system gives operators 1- to 5½-in. cuts in ¼-in. increments. The Toro Co. www.toro.com.
Specialty herbicide
Using the breakthrough molecule aminopyralid, Milestone VM specialty herbicide provides long-lasting control of problem weeds and brush, including noxious and invasive species in rights of way, natural areas, and grazed areas. The herbicide is equally effective at multiple stages of growth. Some labeled species include musk thistle, Canada thistle, locust, yellow star thistle, various knapweeds, redbud, and tropical soda apple. Dow AgroSciences. www.vegetationmgmt.com.
Chipper engine options
Two engine options on the BC1000XL brush chipper offer fuel-efficient diesel-engine technology and less emission production. Both engines — a clean-burning 49- hp Cat C2.2L Tier 4 or 85-hp Cummins B3.3 Tier 3 turbo diesel — are powerful enough to process material up to 1 ft. in diameter and have 25-gal. fuel tanks that lessen the time spent refueling. Vermeer Corp. www.vermeer.com.
Micro dumper truck
Debris, fallen timber, leaves, stones, and rubble can be easily moved with the Muck-truck. The small dumper truck has a 6-cu.-ft. hopper that can hold a ¼-ton payload (with optional extension sides that increase carrying capacity by 30%), a Honda GXV160 5.5-hp engine, and three forward and reverse speeds with four-wheel drive. Muck-truck. www.muchtruckamerica.com.
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In Kendall County, Ill., the race is on. As developers scramble to buy farmland, builders scurry to create homes, and people flock to purchase lots, officials entrusted with providing public works must struggle to keep pace with the growing need for services.
What began in the late 1980s as a trickle of development spilling over from growth in nearby Kane and Will Counties has turned into a torrent of residential and commercial expansion. Based on numbers from the U.S. Census, Kendall County experienced 38% population growth from 1990 to 2000. In a comparison of counties across the nation, Kendall County emerged as the second fastest-growing county by percentage change of population for the year 2003 to 2004 with a growth rate of 8.3%.
This rapid rise in population has brought congestion, increased demand for drinking water supplies, additional loads on wastewater collection and treatment systems, and increased solid waste. In order to meet the challenges of rapid growth and support capital improvements, politicians and employees at all levels of government have worked to create plans, revise ordinances, and secure necessary funding.
The region began this response in the early 1990s, soon after the first stirrings of development hit, with a transportation study. The county worked to gain attention to its growing needs and the state responded by beginning a feasibility study of the area's transportation needs.
Creating the Prairie Parkway
Kendall County lies southwest of Chicago and covers about 322 square miles with an estimated 2004 population of 72,548, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. No interstate highways cross through the county; the roadway system consists of 25% arterial roads (15% of these are rural), 17% minor arterial roads (10% rural), 54% rural collectors, and 4% urban collectors. While the primary travel is in a north-south direction, few high-capacity routes exist to serve this need—most run east-west.
The feasibility study, initiated by the Illinois DOT (IDOT), determined that a north-south high-capacity highway would be needed to serve the region. Because of the rate of development, IDOT also realized that failure to protect the future location of this highway could jeopardize the state's ability to adequately site it. To secure future right of way, a Corridor Protection Study was started in 1999 and completed in mid-2002. Based on this study, IDOT invoked the state's Corridor Protection Act, protecting a 36-mile-long corridor approximately 400 feet wide located in a general north-south direction. The corridor begins at Interstate 88 in Kane County and runs south through the western portion of Kendall County and into Grundy County, terminating at Interstate 80.
With at least one route protected from development and secured for future highway use, IDOT could step back and begin a more detailed route location analysis. In December 2002, IDOT began the Prairie Parkway Preliminary Engineering Study to identify existing and future transportation system performance. In spring 2004, IDOT completed the first of three parts of the study and released a Transportation System Performance Report.
"The Prairie Parkway Study is an $18 million effort consisting of three parts," said Rick Powell, project engineer for District 3, IDOT. Powell, who has the primary responsibility for overseeing the study, explained each phase. "Part A was completed last April and identified transportation performance, deficiencies, and needs of the region."
This first part took longer than anticipated due to a lack of regional demographics for some study areas. "A regional planning study had to be done to determine needs," said Powell. "We had to patch disjointed information together to get a handle on the transportation demands and impacts. This work took about a year to compile."
IDOT is currently in Part B of the process, which involves identifying and evaluating possible alternative routes. The final part will involve more detailed environmental and technical studies of the routes and result in a route recommendation.


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This dispenser crusher housing may also be known as a refrigerator ice crusher housing, and is compatible with your refrigerator. The function of the dispenser crusher housing is to shield the ice crushing blades within the ice container. To make this repair you will need a Phillips screwdriver, a flat blade screwdriver, a quarter-inch nut driver, and a pair of channel lock pliers. For this installation, work gloves are recommended. Note that this piece may look different or be a different color than the original, but this part will fit and function in the same way as the original part.
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I removed the old gate by using a flat head screw driver to pry open mouth. I then removed 2 bolts that held on the cage that hols the ice crushing blades. Then I inserted the new gate and used a screw driver to pry the mouth open again (it was more difficult to insert than remove). I then popped in the new gate and re-assembled the cage. It worked on the first shot with no problems! This is the 3rd time I have attemped and successfully repaired major home appliances myself after the warrenty ran out. I'm sure I could buy a new appliance for the money I saved.
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Are the reproduction strategies currently used on your dairy optimal?
by Patti Hurtgen, Hoard's Dairyman Online Media Manager
Hoard's Dairyman completed its 20th webinar yesterday. Paul Fricke of the University of Wisconsin-Madison shared "Five keys to reproductive success" with attendees from 25 states, seven Canadian provinces and 11 other foreign countries. Viewers received 50 minutes of presentation and an additional 15 minutes of answers to questions they provided.
While Monday at noon (Central time) may not fit everyone's schedule, the webinars are archived and then available on our website at www.hoards.com/webinars. All 20 presentations are available. There is no charge to attend the webinar or to view archives thanks to sponsors. Archive use is approaching the 12,000 view threshold.
Fricke's five key points were:
1. Inseminate cows quickly after the end of the voluntary waiting period
2. Inseminate cows at the correct time in relation to estrus or ovulation
3. Improve A.I. efficiency
4. Identify nonpregnant cows early after an insemination (but not too early)
5. Aggressively reinseminate nonpregnant cows
Throughout his presentation, Fricke used clearly defined charts and graphs. He addressed heat detection methods of visual observances, pedometers and accelerometer systems.
Fricke polled the audience as to their current method of pregnancy diagnosis. Among those on the webinar, over half use ultrasound for diagnosis, 40 percent use palpation, and a small, yet growing 9 percent use blood-based pregnancy tests. Discussion included accuracy and challenges with each method.
Conception rate is determined by timing of A.I. x A.I. efficiency x male fertility x female fertility. Using this model, he addressed the four components of the formula.
Topics Fricke mentioned that would cause producers to reflect upon their own operations included:
Should you breed off natural heats or from timed A.I.?
Are you breeding too late in relation to heat or ovulation?
Who is doing the insemination, and are they the best option for greatest results?
Is semen getting to the cow within 15 minutes of thawing?
Are you checking for pregnancy too early in gestation?
See their U.S. dairy farmers care video.
With limited forages this year, a special webinar has been added to address the options for producers to examine additional forage possibilities. "Sorting through your forage supply options" will be presented by Mike Hutjens, University of Illinois. Hutjens expressed great interest in making this a very interactive webinar, wanting input from the attendees as to their current situation, so everyone can learn from others and gain some insight so they are better prepared to tackle their forage needs. Join us Monday, August 27 at 12 noon (Central time) for this webinar. Biotal Forage Inoculants (www.qualitysilage.com) stepped forward to sponsor this webinar.
If you already have registered for any of the free webinars, you will automatically receive a link to watch this webinar. If you want to participate, visit www.hoards.com/webinars or go directly to the enrollment page.
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Election Day: Heading to the Polls
Voters heading to the polls in Madison County, Arkansas today will decide whether to allow alcohol sales in their county for the first time in 66 years.
"I don't think it makes any sense for the county to stay dry," Bob Barton, President of Keep the Money in Madison County, argues.
"Everything will change drastically if this county goes wet," Dianna Edmonson, spokesperson for Citizens to Keep Madison County Safe, counters.
"Citizens to Keep Madison County Safe" published an ad in the Madison County Record newspaper with a depiction of the devil saying "Those who drink belong to me."
"They're only tactic so far has been to try and scare people into not participating in the petition campaign or to scare them into voting the way that they want to," Barton says.
Edmonson said it's a healthy fear.
"People need to see this in their face of what happens and they need to see the fatality and they need to understand the destruction that come with alcohol," she says.
A wrecked car has been towed around the county with the slogan "Your future with alcohol."
Barton says the types of accidents in the picture, will happen more if the county stays dry.
"It's just requiring people to drive more miles to get their alcohol and if they're going to drive more, there's going to be more wrecks," he predicts.
Safety is an issue on the opposing side as well.
"Murder and rape and robbery and vandalism, all of that goes up in a wet county," Edmonson claims.
Edmonson says serious crimes are 106-percent more likely to occur in a wet county.
"It's still a source of revenue and we can hardly afford to ignore it," Barton says.
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^Quoting myself from the last chapter thread:
Personally, I'm betting that Chopper's bounty will go up by an extra (meager) 50 berry.
Nope, don't think that's the case, either. The gas dude was even flat-out talking smack about Vegapunk last chapter. I wouldn't doubt that he's connected to him in some way, but the impression I have is that gas guy is a new character altogether.....
|2012-03-08, 17:15
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Its also important to note that i don't think any shichibukai or pirate has ever looked at the shichibukai position as being that of a lapdog; the rules regarding shichibukai are very loose. Really Kuma is the only one that seemed to act as a lapdog, but that's because he's been coerced somehow. In fact most shichibukai seem to use the position to advance their own personal agendas... it never seems to get in the way of their plans. Buggy would be no different.
Also i do not think the WG would knowingly risk making a weakling a shichibukai. After all everytime a shichibukai is beaten it tarnishes their reputation. If Buggy were to get beaten by some low tier pirate it would really do a number on the government's reputation. Especially when you consider they had lost 3 shichibukai almost back to back (4 if you count crocodile from not too long ago prior)
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normally it took decades for chemical compounds to just break into half (decay time) and it's impossible to completely disappear (100 -> 50 -> 25 ... 1.56 -> 0.78 -> ...)
but it will never go to zero, except someone that can withstand all of that, decided to eat the leakage for lunch
besides the "M" that we see in last chapter might be different to the gas/solid/liquid person that we saw in the previous chapter
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The only part is the WG or Law would most likely keep the heart not destroy it. Luffy is a contender to the One piece. The Marines know Luffy's potential and so does law. Keeping or trading his heart to the WG would be beneficial. I could see Law removing Luffy's heart during surgery. Know one would notice it was gone unless Luffy was stabbed in the area were the heart would be. Also if you look at Law's power the body part still functions as long has Law does it with the Devil fruit. Two the Samurai head was breathing hard because his torso was fighting Brooks. That shows that even when the body part split up they feel each other. I could see Law operating on Luffy to save his life. He cuts him open takes the heart out with his powers. Then he sows Luffy back up fixes his problems and sends him on his marry way. So if the WG or Law had the heart they could kill Luffy when it best suits them, like after Luffy defeats all the pirates or reaches one piece. Why do all the work when you can just have someone else do it?
It is kind of a good theory. Couple people on this forum has mentioned it. It is something to think about. The Facts are, Luffy life was saved by Law, Law did operation on Luffy, Law's powers allow the body part to maintain its function, Law did trade 100 pirates hearts to the WG for Shichibukai status, and Law is a skilled doctor. Oda could have easily changed the story around. Like instead of Luffy going with Law, Shanks takes luffy and has Crocus do the life saving surgery. Oda could have also used vegapunk or even made up a doctor. Instead Oda chooses Law of all doctors with the power to split body parts. The facts that mentioned above and in other posting are some what a little to convenient to be just coincidental. We don't know the detail of the trade between Law and WG. They could have been living hearts and one of them could have been Luffy's.
Now what could you do with 100 beating hearts? The WG could manipulate the pirates into doing things like spying, information, killing them, and even make them work for the WG. It would be like Pirates of the Carribbean. I doubt Luffy would accept being manipulated like that. So the best option for WG or Law is to kill Luffy after he has finished destroying the competition or found one piece. You and everyone else who thought about the idea could be on to something.
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I can easily see Buggy lucking his way through his postion as Shichbukai.
His DF can be very useful, if only he learns to utilise it better and at least attempt to get a little stronger....
But his reputation alone will keep most people away - since they're not exactly gonna want the WG on their trail or Shanks for that matter.
|2012-03-10, 11:25
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Anyways, kinda surprised that nobody else seemed to bring it up yet, but I think that it's pretty much guaranteed that Law has some degree of mastery over haki at this point. Though if I had to guess, he'd be more proficient at using CoO than CoA. After all, as a pirate who doubles as a doctor/surgeon, I'd think that sharpening his observation skills would be of the utmost importance in order to separate those limbs/organs with such pinpoint precision.....
|2012-03-10, 23:21
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Remember Mihawk's speech to Zoro when they first met? 'Those who are truly strong can gauge the true strength of their opponents'.
It would be pretty ridiculous for the WG to offer Buggy a spot on the Shichibukai.
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Is it really, now? Putting his physical strength aside, Buggy still had enough charm and charisma to gain all those followers from Impel Down. And I think I mentioned this before, but his reputation and influence could more than make up for his lack of physical power if he ends up recruiting more powerful pirates by his side. And frankly, if Marineford was any indication, any new followers he gained over the skip would be too blinded by their admiration for him to realize how strong he really is.
Another thing to realize is that recruiting Buggy would actually make for good publicity for the WG: "Hey guys, remember that pirate king we decapitated a couple decades ago? Of course you do! We even killed his son in that big war a couple years back! Well, guess what? We even got one of his top men to join our side! And he's a dude who can't die if you cut him apart! Oh, AND he's got a big group of well-known pirates as part of his crew too, BTW. WG, WUT WUT!"
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Our family lives in southwest Missouri. We've had chickens, sheep and cows for over a decade. We've been thinking of getting bees for quite some time and had been doing research. Two weeks ago, there was a swarm right outside the delivery door of the machine shop my husband supervises. With no experience, we decided to attempt to catch the swarm. Got some advice from a friend who had already done this and my husband successfully brought home a swarm of bees. He and our two sons then got our Top Bar hive made and in the bees went. We got them a feeder from the local hardware store and put half honey/half water in it. The bees have stuck around. They come and go from the hive. After waiting several days, we decided to check inside. There was no sign of comb being built yet on any of the bars. We thought that was rather odd, but perhaps the bees had used their stores up and were needing to be fed for a bit first. We looked in the hive again yesterday. Still no sign of comb. We thought that is really odd and called a friend who has bees and top bar hives. He thought it sounded odd too. I told him all the bees are in somewhat of a pile around the feeder. He said if they were in a pile that they were building comb. If they are building comb, they are building on the bottom of the hive. He suggested we join this forum and ask what we can do about this. He also said if they had not started building comb in the right location by the weekend, he would bring us a bar with a comb on it to church on Sunday.
Any ideas on how we newbies should deal with this problem?
Also, how long do we need to feed them? I'm thinking till we see signs of comb with honey in it based on the reading we have been doing. The feeder was close to empty yesterday, so if we need to keep feeding them, we'll need to refill it today. Also, should I leave it inside the hive. The little bit of info I could find the day we built the hive and put the bees in it, there were lots of opinions. We chose the easy option of placing it in the bottom of our very simple top bar hive built according to the directions at http://www.bushfarms.com/beestopbarhives.htm


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When Ahmad says that he's retired, then I'll believe that he's done in the NFL. One of the toughest players that I've ever seen play, and definitely my favorite Giant over the past few years.


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Earlier today I pointed readers to a Jeffrey Rosen piece that raised questions about whether readers should cheer Barack Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.
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Carved wooden head of William III probably by Nicholas Alcock. English, 1702 (XVII.45)
Carved wooden head of William III probably by Nicholas Alcock. English, 1702 (XVII.45)
Dummy pistols and pistol holsters for the figure of William III in the Line of Kings. (XVI.1 - 4)
Figure of King James II in the Horse Armoury, The Penny Magazine, 1840.
'Interior of the Horse Armoury', anon engraving, The Penny Magazine, 1836 © Royal Armouries 2013
James II from Charles Knight, London, 1842.
From as early as 1652, during the Commonwealth, visitors could see the armours of selected former Kings of England on display, mounted on life-sized wooden horses. During William III's reign an improved and expanded version of the Line of Kings was opened to visitors. The initial work on this re-development started when James II was still on the throne, but only one of these two monarchs was chosen to join the line-up in 1702.
In the eighteenth century it was felt that figures of recently deceased monarchs should be added to the Line. A figure of William III, or William of Orange as he was also known, was exhibited from 1702 until 1827. From an account of the 1760s it seems that rather than displaying armour actually used by William, who had usurped the catholic King James II to rule with James' daughter Mary, an armour attributed to Edward, the Black Prince was chosen. In particular the guidebook noted the armour had been worn at the Battle of Cressy (or Crécy) in 1346. During the Hundred Years War this was a notable victory for England against France, and it is significant that the armour and consequently the victory and the legend of the Black Prince are associated with William of Orange, called in a later guidebook the 'warlike king'. William III spent much of his reign at war with France.
Dr Meyrick's re-display of 1827 brought many changes to the Line of Kings, and one of these was the removal of William III and the supposed Black Prince's armour. However to balance out the Protestant victory represented by William III, a theatrically posed figure of James II was used. He seemed to have been made an example of as an abdicated King, set aside from the others and apparently 'stealing cautiously along, close to the wall', with his horse facing the door. However, Meyrick responded to this suggestion by stating that James II was merely positioned '… to give spectators the room to pass behind the rest; …'.
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Flower Girls, Las Senoritas bring Fiesta to local seniors
Old Spanish Days ambassadors visited 24 retirement homes, senior centers
MONTECITO, Calif. - The Fiesta Flower Girls and Las Senoritas, the Old Spanish Days ambassadors, visited 24 retirement homes and senior facilities Tuesday.
The Friendship Center in Montecito took a break from its music for a festive surprise.
"I didn't know they were coming in," said Angelo, one of the Friendship Center seniors.
This is the week the girls have been waiting for all year long, including Kenzie Treloar, who is in her fourth year of bringing the Fiesta spirit to others.
"I love seeing the smiles on everybody's faces. I love bringing joy to people who can't come to the parades," she said.
"They brought Fiesta to me, since I can't go down there. It's so nice. I love this place," said Loretta, a Friendship Center senior.
Julianna Forrey, 9, is in her fifth year as a Flower Girl and likes to see the seniors' faces light up.
"I like making people smile, making them happy and giving out flowers to them," she said.
And the seniors appreciate it.
"I think it's a beautiful thing because flowers are beautiful and they're giving them to you, and it gives you that feeling of beauty," said Wilma, another Friendship Center senior.
As the girls finished their stop at the senior center, they left the Fiesta spirit behind.
"Viva la Fiesta!" exclaimed the group.
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A man alleged to be a prime mover at the failed Five Star Group - who admitted misleading investors more than two years ago but then tried to reverse his plea - is back in court today for a disputed facts hearing.
Following this hearing, which is set down for 8 days in the Auckland District Court, he is due to be sentenced.
Neill Williams pleaded guilty in 2010 to charges concerning misstatements in company offer documents but later argued he only did so because he was too ill to endure a trial.
The discharged bankrupt made two unsuccessful attempts to vacate his plea, one in 2011 and another in March last year.
Williams was not a listed director of Five Star but an employee of the group. The Financial Markets Authority, which is bringing the case, alleges he was a prime mover at the company if not, at times, a controller of events.
Williams, who is in his late 70s, applied in 2012 to adjourn this hearing until the conclusion of a separate trial happening this year where Williams is facing charges laid by the Serious Fraud Office.
This was unsuccessful and the hearing was eventually rescheduled for this month.
In denying Williams' second attempt to reverse his plea last year, Judge David Harvey said it appeared the defendant had been "delaying full engagement" with the case.
"It seems to me, if I may use a classical allusion, that Mr Williams' approach to this case has been to follow the tactics of Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus Cunctator," Judge Harvey wrote in his March 2012 judgment.
Fabius Maximus was a Roman general whose tactics of attrition and avoidance led to the term "Fabian strategy".
The judge noted that Fabius' strategy had succeeded in the long run.
During one court session last year Judge Anne Kiernan said one application advanced by Williams' lawyer appeared like an attempt to delay proceedings.
"I must say it looks to the court like a device to put this off when someone pleaded guilty on October 2, 2010," she said last year.
Five Star directors Marcus Macdonald, Nicholas Kirk and Anthony Bowden pleaded guilty to misleading investors in a case brought by the Securities Commission (which became the FMA).
Macdonald and Kirk - who also pleaded guilty to separate criminal charges brought by the SFO - were sentenced to more than two years in jail in late 2010.
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Discussion in 'Sports Zone' started by jimmy40, Oct 22, 2012.
Well that was hard to say but kick their *** OU.
Not hard to say because I will not say it. Go Notre Dame. What can I say I'm catholic. Horns are my favorite college team and after them I pull for the Golden Domers.
Gooooo SOONERS !!
Boomer Sooner
Hate ND!
Stoops is good for a loss usually in at least one big game a year.
Though usually its the biggest game of the year.
This could be interesting.
Unlike you gap toothed OKIES I prefer to have some class
he already had it this year. Notre Dame is going down hard.
Depends on OU ability to stop the run of ND. At time OU has not looked good vs strong running teams. Should be a fun game to watch
i hate OU as much as the next longhorn fan, but i do love the big 12, and want us to succeed as a conference just to stick it to A&M and the other quitters. i hope OU wipes the floor with ND, it can only help K State's case for a title shot.
WHY, in gawds name, would I want ANY school in my conference, ESPECIALLY a school like an OU, to do well, when it can, and DOES have a direct impact and influence on recruiting of the school I'm an alumnus and fan of?
Hoping a team in your division does well, based upon the fact it somehow benifits the division, has ALWAYS been the most ludicrous, counter-intuitive stance I've ever heard.
well, im not saying i wont enjoy OU losing, but in the long run, the better our conference does, the better our wins look in future years when we are competing for a spot in the 4 team playoffs
Honestly, if every other team in my conference goes 6-6, and Texas goes 12-0, then somehow gets left out of a playoff, I'd live w/ it.
I was fine w/ the BCS system as it was/is. I'm not saying I won't enjoy the playoff concept, but I do think it will take away some of the essence I enjoy most about college football. That is, that EVERY game on a team's schedule is a "must win" game. Now and especially when/if they get to a 6 or 8 team playoff system, a big part of that will quickly fall by the wayside.
I'm rooting for Notre Dame this year. I've always seen them as a program that tries to do things the right way (hence their decline into obscurity).
I think Brian Kelly will have them back on top though. And that would be great for college football.
They have to get better on offense though.
Morning Glories...
Glad you are all here hating on my Oklahoma Sooners.
Embrace the hate. :laugh2:
I see Poke is here in all his Orange Glory. Morning to ya, friend.
And jimmy....for the record, I appreciate the support. I know exactly why you sent it and I would to for the Horns if they were playing this game.
I don't like Texas........but I don't hate them either.
Domers must be destroyed and Oklahoma will be doing its best to accomplish just that.
outside of Texans no one cares enough about Oklahoma to hate them
Yup...and don't I look dashing!?
The Weight Watchers thing is going GREAT, wouldn't you agree!? :
if the Devil was playing Notre Dame I'd go for the Devil, well hell that's basically what this is. Go Sooners.
Notre Dame has played a pretty easy schedule so far. Michigan and Michigan State really aren't that good this year and they barely survived a decent Stanford. And they've only played 1 game on the road this year so far...the rest have been at home or on neutral fields.
Oklahoma already lost at home, there's no way they come out flat again. This could be UGLY
I'm the other way around. ND fan first, then Texas.
Go Irish!
My anti-Notre Dame soul agrees completely. I want Notre Dame out of the BCS Championship sights ASAP.


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The Hobbit has picked up a visual effects Oscar at a pre-awards ceremony hosted by Star Trek stars Chris Pine and Zoe Saldana.
Simon Clutterbuck, James Jacobs and Dr. Richard Dorling picked up a technical Oscar at the Scientific and Technical Achievement Awards in California overnight.
They were honoured for inventing a technique that helped bring Gollum to life in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit.
The technique has been credited with huge advances in animating computer-generated characters, the BBC reported.
Saldana - who worked extensively with Weta while she was making Avatar with James Cameron - pumped her fist and shouted 'Weta' as the first of two teams from the Wellington production studio took the stage, 3News reported.
The Scientific and Technical Achievement Awards are dedicated to honouring the behind-the-scenes computer wizards who make invaluable contributions to blockbuster films.
The technical teams who worked on Shrek and other Dreamworks productions were also honoured at the event.
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Re: st: RE: Mean test in a Likert Scale
Yuval Arbel <email@example.com>
Re: st: RE: Mean test in a Likert Scale
Sat, 1 Sep 2012 12:48:20 -0700
David, if we return to your original question, I believe that the use
of original numerical values of ordinal variables is a very serious
error, but it has nothing to do with transformation of variables.
To examplify why this is a serious mistake, consider the following
example taken from Kmenta (1997):
Suppose our dependent variable is the level of wage and our
independent variable is the level of education with 3 categories: D= 0
for elementary-school education, D=1 for high school education and D=2
for academic education.
If you run regression between the wage level and D, your implicit
assumption is that wage difference between D=0 and D=1 is equal to the
wage difference between D=1 and D=2. This is a wrong and very limited
Moreover, if for some reason you have decided that the scale of D will
be D= 0 for elementary-school education, D=10 for high school
education and D=20 for academic education, then the implicit
assumption becomes that the wage of D=20 is ten time bigger than the
wage of D=10. In other words, the ordinal numerical value, which does
not have any quantitative interpretation, have an impact on the
regression outcomes. This is the reason we need to use binary
variables under such circumstances.
To see the correct analysis of questionnaires with ordinal questions,
you can take a look at my paper published in urban studies:
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Nick Cox <email@example.com> wrote:
> My examples -- miles per gallon, price, weight -- all qualify as ratio scales.
> If I understand you correctly, your view is that transformations are
> illegitimate in statistics.
> Is that right?
> How about link functions as in -glm-? Transformed scales on graphs?
> Nick
> On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Ulrich Kohler <email@example.com> wrote:
>> Am Samstag, den 01.09.2012, 02:16 +0100 schrieb Nick Cox:
>>> But this objection is so strong that it rules out taking out means in
>>> most circumstances, not just for ordinal scales.
>>> It's clearly true that mean of transform is not transform of mean
>>> unless that transform is a linear function. The same argument would
>>> imply that means are invalid for measured variables (e.g. means of
>>> miles per gallon, weight, price in the auto data) because they are not
>>> equivariant under transformation. Both theory and practice tell us
>>> that means, geometric means, harmonic means, etc. can all make some
>>> sense for many measured variables. Poisson regression and generalised
>>> linear models all hinge on this.
>> Sorry but I disaggree here. For an intervall scale a transformation such
>> as the one that I used in my example are not allowed because it would
>> obvioulsy distroy the equal distance characteristic of subsequent
>> values. For an intervall scale only linear transformations are allowed
>> and therfore substantive conclusions taken from the mean are robust for
>> arbitrary _allowed_ transformation of the intervall scale.
>>> There's also a big difference of viewpoint here. Measurement theory
>>> loves these arguments about arbitrary order-preserving
>>> transformations, but I don't think they make much sense to scientists
>>> who actually do measurements.
>> But I don't think we -- that is me and you -- disaggree here. In way
>> that's what I wanted to say when I said that an ordinal scale could be
>> taken as kind of an "conventional" absolute scale in some instances.
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The Web would make a dandy blackboard if only we could scribble an equation
Brian Hayes
The world wide web was invented at a physics laboratory, and the first users were scientists and engineers. You might think, therefore, that this new channel of communication would be especially well adapted to scientific discourse—that it would facilitate the expression of ideas like
If only it were so! The truth is, the basic protocols of the Web offer almost no support for rendering mathematics or other specialized notations such as chemical formulas. Presenting such material on a Web page often requires software add-ons or plug-ins to be installed by the author or the reader or both. Fine-tuning the display of mathematics can be a fussy and finicky process, not much easier than formatting equations with a typewriter. The results sometimes render differently—or not at all—in various Web browsers. This is a sad situation: As the Web has evolved into a thriving marketplace and playground, the scholarly and scientific community that created the technology has not been well served.
The confused state of online mathematical typography is worrisome as well as sad. In years to come the Web will surely be the most important conduit for scientific information. Already it is a major channel for distributing publications and preprints in many disciplines, and it is becoming a venue for less-formal jottings and conversations—everything from homework assignments to blogs. Ideally, the Web would serve as an extension of the blackboard where people gather to talk about science and math during coffee breaks. We need chalk for that blackboard.
The problem is not one of simple neglect. Over the years there have been many earnest efforts to build a reliable facility for writing and reading mathematics online. The trouble is, no one solution has yet gained the kind of widespread adoption that would make it a standard, supported in mainstream Web servers and browsers. Still, there's room for hope. We have technologies that work, if we can agree on how to use them. And a minor change to the infrastructure of the Web might smooth the way for more online math.
Even in the world of ink-on-paper publishing, mathematical notation can be a challenge. In the days when printing was done with metal type, equations had to be assembled by hand, piecing together symbols on individual slivers of metal and shimming them into position. A manuscript with a lot of mathematics was known as "penalty copy" because printers would charge extra to compose it.
By the 1970s, metal type was giving way to optical and electronic typesetting devices, which projected letterforms onto photographic film. In principle the new machinery might have aided mathematical typesetting because characters could be placed with equal facility at any position and scaled to any size. But the software for running the phototypesetting machines offered no easy way to exploit this flexibility. The printed product was often inferior to expertly set metal type.
Enter Donald E. Knuth of Stanford University, who was so discontented with the deteriorating quality of mathematical typography that he set aside other work and undertook to build his own typesetting system. The eventual result was TeX, a formatting language not just for equations but for entire documents. Leslie Lamport, now of Microsoft Research, soon introduced LaTeX, a higher-level language built atop Knuth's TeX. (The names are pronounced tek and lah-tek.)
The first equation in the first paragraph on this page is encoded in LaTeX as follows:
\nabla \times \mathbf{E}= -\frac{\partial \mathbf{B}} {\partial{t}}
Each of the terms beginning with a backslash is a LaTeX command. For example, \frac{}{} constructs a fraction, with whatever appears inside the two pairs of brackets forming the numerator and the denominator. Some commands simply insert a single character, as with \times (×), \partial (∂) and \nabla (∇). The
\mathbf{} command applies a boldface font to the bracketed text.
Let me call attention to what is not present in the TeX encoding. There are no explicit instructions for arranging the symbols on the page; all of the geometric details, such as centering the numerator over the denominator and drawing a horizontal bar between them, are handled automatically.
Also missing is any hint of what the equation means; TeX is a language for describing mathematical notation, not for doing mathematics. For example, "∇×E" is merely a sequence of three symbols, with no reference to the operation those symbols denote—namely the "curl" of a vector field, a measure of the field's rotation or angular momentum. (The first equation is one of James Clerk Maxwell's four famous equations describing the electromagnetic field. The second example gives two definitions of the Riemann zeta function, revealing a remarkable identity between an infinite sum and an infinite product.)
TeX has transformed the process of putting mathematical ideas on paper. What once required the services of a skilled typesetter can now be done by a mere mathematician. A manuscript can go from the author to a printed journal without human intervention.
But what about the Web, which did not yet exist when Knuth developed TeX? Modern TeX systems produce output in the form of Postscript or PDF files. Although documents in these formats can be distributed over the Web—the arXiv preprint server dispatches thousands of them every day—they are not quite first-class citizens of the Web world. Browsers cannot display Postscript or PDF files without the aid of extra software, and many readers choose to download such files and view them offline or print them. This works well enough for static documents such as journal articles, but it's not ideal for the more volatile and interactive areas of the Web, such as blogs or the always-under-revision pages of Wikipedia. For mathematics to be fully at home online, it needs to be translated into one of the Web's native languages.
From the outset, the primary language of the Web has been HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), in which "tags" identify various parts of a document's structure, such as headings, paragraphs and lists. In its earliest versions, HTML was quite simple; it couldn't even do subscripts and superscripts, so there wasn't much hope of displaying elaborate mathematical notation.
Two main impediments stand in the way of presenting mathematics on the Web. First is the alphabet problem: Mathematicians have created a sprawling zoo of novel symbols and embellished or transformed versions of familiar characters. The nabla (∇) that appears in Maxwell's equations is a notable example, and it is joined by hundreds of other unusual glyphs—∂, ∀, ⊥, ∫—not to mention the entire Greek alphabet and occasional borrowings from Hebrew and other languages. The difficulty of reproducing these characters has been alleviated to some extent by the recent adoption of Unicode fonts, which have room for a larger collection of glyphs than earlier font formats. But it's still not to be taken for granted that every reader will have the necessary fonts installed.
The second problem is one of layout. Mathematical notation is two-dimensional; in order to represent a matrix, say, or a summation with upper and lower bounds, it's necessary to specify the exact x and y coordinates of symbols. Some elements of mathematical notation, such as brackets and the radical that designates a square root, vary in shape and size as well as position. Encoding such geometric information in HTML and CSS is not impossible, but it stretches the technology to its limit.
Early in the history of the Web, a group of mathematicians and other interested parties gathered to address this issue in a systematic way. The result was a new markup language called MathML, which was endorsed in 1998 by the World Wide Web Consortium. I'll return below to the present status and future prospects of MathML, but it will suffice for now to note that most of the mathematical notation to be found on the Web is not encoded in MathML. Instead it relies on a variety of ingenious but ad hoc workarounds. Most often there is a TeX system somewhere in the background.
One common strategy is to convert a mathematical expression to an image, or "bitmap." In some cases each symbol becomes a separate image, and multiple images have to be assembled and carefully positioned to represent an equation. In other cases an entire equation is encapsulated in a single image. The practice takes us back to the pre-alphabetic tradition of pictographic writing.
Pictograms have one big advantage: Any symbol, no matter how arcane, can be displayed in any browser. But there are also drawbacks. Symbols in the images may not blend well with typefaces on the page, and it's hard to control size, spacing and alignment. A math-intensive document could have hundreds of small images, which are slow to load and display. Images cannot be copied and pasted in the same way that text can, and the equations cannot easily be edited or revised.
But relying on fonts to supply mathematical symbols also has hazards. The author of a Web page cannot know what fonts are available on the reader's computer, or which of the available fonts will be selected for any given symbol. Thus a page that looks fine to the author may display very differently for some readers, or could be completely indecipherable.
For mathematical prose written in TeX, one Web-publishing strategy is to translate the entire document in advance, creating an HTML version that can then be displayed in a browser without further special handling. Two programs for this purpose are LaTeX2HTML (written in 1995 by Nikos Drakos, now of Gartner Research) and TeX4HT (by Eitan M. Gurari of Ohio State University). In essence, the translation programs replace the "back end" of a TeX system with software that generates HTML and bitmap images rather than output intended for printing.
A translator of this kind runs on the author's own computer; the HTML files and accompanying images are then uploaded to a Web server for distribution. This work flow is suited to long-lived and seldom-modified documents written in TeX. The arrangement is less convenient with frequently updated content or Web sites maintained by multiple authors in collaboration. It's also not ideal for documents that are written mostly in HTML rather than TeX, with just occasional snippets of mathematics.
A second strategy is to perform the translation not on the author's computer but on the Web server. Two programs created by John Forkosh adopt this modus operandi. MathTeX relies on a separate TeX system to do the actual rendering of mathematical notation; MimeTeX is self-contained, with its own TeX interpreter. Both programs generate bitmap images of entire equations. This scheme is not meant for processing complete TeX documents; it works with HTML documents that have interspersed TeX expressions. Processing mathematics on the server works particularly well for collaborative Web sites, since the translation software has to be installed on only one machine. Wikipedia and many similar sites rely on this approach. (The math processor for Wikipedia is a program called texvc, which generates images for complex expressions but outputs HTML for simple ones.)
The drawbacks of server-side software are those that afflict all image-based solutions—clumsy typography and a profusion of tiny image files. But if the result falls short of elegance, at least it works reliably for most readers, no matter what browser they choose.
As we have just seen, translation software can run on the author's computer or on a server. There is one more possibility: performing the translation on the reader's computer, or what is known as "the client side." Under this plan, TeX or some other encoding of mathematical content is written into the Web document and passed along unchanged by the server, to be interpreted by the browser.
Of course the problem with sending TeX to the browser is that the browser has no idea what to do with it. That issue can be addressed by means of a plug-in—a software component installed within the browser.
The best known mathematical plug-in is techexplorer, a program initially developed by Robert S. Sutor at IBM and now maintained and distributed by Integre Technical Publishing. Techexplorer can display complete LaTeX documents or it can render just the mathematical expressions within an HTML document. In either case the display of equations is based on fonts rather than images.
The big advantage of a software plug-in is that the rendering of mathematics is liberated from all the constraints of HTML. The plug-in can supply its own fonts and can place characters with as much precision as the hardware will allow. The big disadvantage is that none of this magic works until the end user downloads and installs the plug-in. This barrier to entry tends to discourage casual visitors to a Web site. It also creates a threshold effect: Authors hesitate to rely on the technology until enough readers adopt it, and vice versa.
JsMath is the creation of Davide P. Cervone of Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. Cervone undertook the project mainly to meet his own needs: He wanted to distribute class notes and homework assignments via the Web, and none of the available solutions were entirely satisfactory. So he wrote what amounts to a TeX interpreter in a JavaScript program.
JsMath offers three styles of equation rendering. The most graceful display requires a set of six fonts based on the Computer Modern faces introduced by Knuth; those fonts are freely available, but jsMath can access them only if the reader downloads and installs them. A fallback strategy is to assemble equations from individual character images. The full set of images—some 78 megabytes worth—is stored on the server; only the subset needed is downloaded with any particular document. The third option is to build equations from Unicode fonts. The reader selects one of the three rendering methods through a pop-up control panel.
Squeezing a TeX interpreter into a Web page is an impressive feat, but it adds considerable bulk and complexity. Documents with many equations take a while to finish rendering. Cervone is now launching a follow-on project called MathJAX, supported by several publishers of mathematical software. The aim is to make the system more flexible and responsive.
Typesetting mathematics with HTML and bitmap images is rather like turning a bicycle into a sailboat. You can't help admiring the audacity of the attempt, but the result still doesn't seem like the best vehicle for the purpose. Why not choose MathML, which was designed explicitly for this task?
MathML is a variety of XML (the eXtensible Markup Language). Compared with TeX, it is a more formal language, and it is also far more verbose. Consider the simple expression x+1, which might be encoded in TeX as $x+1$. (The dollar signs mark the content as mathematics rather than ordinary text.) In MathML the same expression takes this form:
<mrow> <mi>x</mi> <mo>+</mo> <mn>1</mn></mrow>.
Each symbol is tagged to indicate its role—<mi> for an identifier, <mo> for an operator, <mn> for a number—and the expression as a whole is wrapped in an <mrow> tag to show that it belongs on a single line. Capturing this information is potentially useful, since identifiers, operators and numbers are accorded different typographic treatment. (TeX has to infer the role of each symbol, and occasionally gets it wrong.)
There's more. The style of markup shown above is only half of MathML. It's called the presentation language; there is also a content language, which attempts to express meaning rather than layout. The expression x+1 would have this content markup:
<apply> <plus/> <ci>x</ci> <cn>1</cn></apply>.
Here <plus/> does not refer to the symbol + but to the mathematical operation of addition. In this structure we get a glimpse of a grand vision—Web pages with active mathematical content, where the menu of things you might do with an expression includes not just copying, pasting and printing but also solving an equation, graphing a function and factoring a polynomial.
MathML has an enthusiastic community of developers and users. There is commercial software for writing and editing MathML documents (notably from Design Science and Integre Technical Publishing) as well as a noncommercial translation program called ASCIIMathML, created by Peter Jipsen of Chapman University in Orange, Calif. Several large scholarly publishers, including the American Institute of Physics, have based their operations on XML and MathML; so has the U.S. Patent Office.
On the Web, however, MathML has not exactly swept away the competition. One reason is lack of support in browsers. In the early years, the only way to read MathML Web documents was with plug-in software. More recently a few browsers—notably those of the Mozilla family, such as Firefox—have gained native support for MathML. But there is still confusion over how MathML content should be embedded in an HTML document. Moreover, MathML has not solved the fonts problem; readers are still responsible for installing appropriate fonts.
Another factor inhibiting the spread of MathML is simply that TeX is deeply entrenched, particularly in physics, mathematics and computer science. If you live in a TeX-centric universe—I have a friend who even writes love letters in TeX—it's hard to see any benefit of a new and very different language.
How will it all turn out? Will Web sites of the future be chock full of MathML, or will TeX and HTML continue to prevail? Or will something else altogether come along?
I have no answers for these questions, but I want to suggest an adjustment in the way the Web works—a small change that could improve any strategy for displaying mathematical notation. It has to do with where fonts come from.
Under the present rules, a Web author can request a particular font, and the reader's browser will honor the request if the font is available on the client machine. If not, some default font is substituted. Wouldn't it be more helpful if the author could supply the missing font, either by embedding it directly in the page or by referring the browser to a site where the font is available? Given such a mechanism, any font-based system for presenting mathematics could ensure that all the needed symbols are ready at hand.
This is not a new idea. A proposal for "Webfonts" was included in a draft CSS standard in 1998, and the idea was even implemented in a few browsers, including Microsoft's Internet Explorer. But the proposal never caught on, and it was removed from later versions of the standard. Recently, Håkon Wium Lie of Opera Software has called for renewed consideration of the idea.
Much of the discussion centers on legal questions of interest to the owners of typeface copyrights. This doesn't seem like an insuperable problem. It was solved in the case of PDF files, which do embed fonts. Even if proprietary typefaces were off limits, there are enough freely available fonts—including all those commonly used with TeX—to make the prospect attractive.
For a change of this kind to have any impact, all the browser makers would have to adopt it. Those are the same people who have so far resisted implementing MathML. Why would they treat the font proposal any differently? I think there is reason for optimism on this score, not because the mathematical community has much clout but because embedded fonts would be of value to other constituencies. Advertisers, in particular, would be pleased to gain greater control over Web typography.
Meanwhile, as I finish preparing this column for the press, I also face the task of helping to get my own penalty copy ready for publication on the American Scientist Web site. Those irksome equations and curious characters I've been writing about will somehow have to be made Web-friendly. I don't know exactly how we're going to do that, but I suspect some bicycles are going to be outfitted with spinnakers and jibs.
©Brian Hayes
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I lost a hive last week. Here one day gone the next. After tearing it apart it was Grand Central NYC for V Mites. I had Apigard on it for a week but it must have gotten way ahead of me. Apigard on the other 7 hives and they "appear" to be strong. They have large quantities of very active bees, clean hives, and relatively clean bottom boards. I have 2 nucs that were cut down from weaker hives and I plan to winter them in the shop this year to see if I can keep them going til spring. Changed them to winter boxes and found 6-8 dead mites on the bottom. Nucs are 25 yds from other hives. Weather is now 15-25 in the AM and 50-60 in the afternoon. Questions: 1. Is there a low level of V Mites that hives can live with? 2. Nucs live with? 3. With weather cooling, queens laying less, and Apigard should I see what happens this winter? Have not had to deal with V Mites before and believe these hitched a ride with the nucs I bought this spring. All advice is appreciated. TIA


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A homosexual sex position in which, one erect male place his penis inside another man's flacid penis. The erect man stands vertically and holds the flacid man in the air and rotates him on his erected penis.
Chuck Norris gave Charlie Sheen a 360 Ranchkill in jail.
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When collecting a swarm and there is always some bees left behind, what happens to them, Do they return to the original hive?
One of my hives swarmed and went next door. I collected it and walked the swarm home in a box. There were quite a few left so I thought I would let them settle and pick them up in about an hour. When I returned they had all gone.
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Oil Giant BP's AGM
Listen to Antonia Juhasz's interview with BBC Radio's Wake up to Money HERE.
Today sees BP's AGM - not only is the Gulf of Mexico oil spill likely to prompt irate exchanges, but shareholders are also exasperated at its latest foray into Russia. Antonia Juhasz, Director of the Energy Program at Global Exchange, an oil industry expert and author of "Black Tide - the Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill" joins us. The commodity trader Glencore will make the largest offering London has ever seen when it unveils plans to float on the stock market in May. We find out more from Paul Renken, mining analyst from VSA Capital. And consumer confidence was up in March following February's record low, but only just, according to the Nationwide Consumer Confidence Index. We speak to Neil Saunders, consulting director of Verdict Research.


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The Last Windrow: A lesson learned
I wrote my first column about 54 years ago. I would have been 12 years old. I guess you couldn't really call it a column. Better to call it a "letter to the editor."
But, it was an exercise in writing and a lesson learned that I still remember.
I sent that note to the Wallaces Farmer magazine. Wallaces Farmer was about the only magazine we received out in corn country. I just checked and it is still in business, no doubt changed a bit from the time before the Internet and instant news. I forget how often we received the magazine, but I think it was once a month.
My elementary school teacher had urged her students to write such a letter to any publication we chose. Most of my classmates wrote their letters to the local newspaper. I wanted to go bigger than that, so I picked the Wallaces Farmer.
By that time in my life, I thought I knew about everything there was to know about farming, so it was only appropriate that I write something on that subject.
Time has erased the subject of my letter. I think I was asking something about why the price of pigs was so low or why the commission firm was allowed to take a cut out of our shipped livestock check or why corporate farming was doing away with the small, family farm. My question was cutting edge, no doubt.
My dad urged me to write, but cautioned me that the magazine might not choose to publish it. He was setting me up to handle failure, I guess. On the farm, one got used to some amount of failure no matter how hard we tried to avoid it.
But, I wrote my letter in my best penmanship, signed it and stuffed it into an envelope and put the red flag up on mailbox.
To all our surprise, about three weeks after I'd put the letter in our RFD mailbox, a letter arrived addressed to me with the return address of Wallaces Farmer Head Office. I picked up the mail that day and it didn't take me long to run to the farmhouse to see what was inside.
To the surprise of both my parents, the letter inside stated that my letter had been chosen to be placed in the next edition of the magazine. It was the beginning of my writing career, as it is.
My teacher was thrilled when I showed her the letter! She brought me up in front of the class and used me as an example of how one could become famous by writing. It was probably the high point of my whole school career.
My classmates even gave me a lukewarm round of applause. I had discovered fame. My male friends seemed awestruck. And, I did garner more attention from the girls as well after they found out that I was a published author.
Sure enough, the next month's edition of Wallaces Farmer came and there in the middle of the "Letters To The Editor" was my one paragraph entry and it was signed by me, John Wetrosky, Hinton, Iowa. What a trip that was! Dad patted me on the back like he had never done before.
Every peak has a valley, though. As I was reveling in the glory of my achievement, I sauntered into the gas station just up the road from our farm. The usual group of farmers was loitering around the pop cooler, smoking cigarettes and talking about the weather and the price of fertilizer.
When I came in the door, one of more crusty looking farmers spoke up, "John, I see you wrote an article in the Wallaces Farmer. I don't agree with what you wrote." He spun around on his farm boots and walked out of the station. What? I had a detractor? Who did he think he was?
My newfound high status was tempered by knowing someone might disagree with me. But, it was a lesson.
When I told my dad about that, he said, "You know, whenever you write something and sign your name to it, you will have to take responsibility for it and you might have to defend what you wrote."
I never forgot that lesson. It keeps the bit in my mouth yet today.
In today's world of the press when people are allowed to comment on articles and not sign their names, I think we've lost some of that sense of responsibility. I don't send those comments unsigned. I and many others of my ilk were brought up to take responsibility for our actions and sending that letter to Wallaces Farmer without my name attached just wouldn't have seemed right.
Even if that crusted old farmer, who didn't like what I'd written, hadn't thrown cold water on my masterpiece.
See you next time. Okay?


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A skateboarding equipment manufacturer. Manufactures, among other things, decks, wheels and bearings. The company's mascots are Flameboy and Wet Willy, both of which are prominently featured in the artwork of World Industries products.
Their decks just look really cool. And what is a cooler name for a company than "World Industries", anyway?
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