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Robots designed in a Tennessee Tech University laboratory and developed by a company started by TTU graduates may someday help bring about a resurgence in American manufacturing.
Research to develop a remotely operative robot to crawl up, down and over metal structures welding, cleaning, cutting and binding has moved from TTU mechanical engineering professor Steven Canfield's laboratory to a company begun by one of his former students.
"As a faculty member, I don't want to spend my time hiring employees to write safety manuals; the company comes in and does that," Canfield said, noting that most of the time universities are prohibited from starting private companies.
The company, Robotic Technologies of Tennessee, recently received a license from TTU's Research Office to use Canfield's patents and commercialize the robots. The university patent will be added to RTT's intellectual property portfolio.
"Building a company in Cookeville is important to me and without a strong engineering department at TTU, I don' think I could have made it a reality," said Jamie Beard, president and co-founder of the company. Beard grew up in Middle Tennessee and completed his undergraduate, graduate and doctoral studies at TTU.
Creating commercial products from university research is not very common. Many patented products and methods languish in universities without a company or investor who is willing to take the research to the next level.
"We're going to take the early-stage research from the university into the real world," said Steve Glovsky, RTT executive vice president in charge of business development, who is not a Tennessee Tech graduate. "RTT will get feedback from the field and continue to change and adjust the robot and develop a market for it."
This is the first time a TTU professor and his graduate students have developed technology that has spawned a company begun by university graduates, according to Francis Otuonye, TTU's associate vice president for research and graduate studies.
"The hardest part of technology transfer is identifying an individual or company that is receptive to taking the invention to the marketplace," Otuonye said. "Dr. Canfield has set the stage at TTU for the commercialization of intellectual property."
Though robots frequently build things like cars and refrigerators in plants, RTT's robots will be able to work outside of controlled environments on structures like buildings, bridges and ships. They are being tested in U.S. Navy shipyards. The Navy has contributed nearly a quarter of the $2 million in government funding Canfield and his team has used to develop the robots.
Nearly another $1 million has come from the National Science Foundation's Small Business Technology Transfer program, which helps to link companies looking for new investments with research projects in universities.
The robots may, some day, help bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.
"Once you're away from a factory floor, the largest costs in manufacturing are labor. If labor is dramatically less expensive in other parts of the world, those parts of the world have a competitive advantage unless labor can be made more productive," Glovsky said. "We make labor more productive."
Using robots in unstructured manufacturing environments is not new; researchers have been working on them for decades. The ones RTT and Canfield are working on weigh less, distribute weight more evenly, move over a wider variety of surfaces and carry a heavier load than previous models.
"In earlier research, we had robots weighing 500 pounds that could carry loads of 50 pounds," Canfield said. "Now we have robots that weigh 50 pounds that can carry 50 to 100 pounds."
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"If you see a group of people working on a bridge, you'll see them with shovels and hammers and tools like that," Canfield said. "We have an infrastructure problem in this country and we trying to give labor the tools to reduce costs and become more effective."
The robots are already creating jobs for mechanical engineers, including TTU graduates who want to stay in the area. All of RTT's employees who design, build and test the robots are TTU graduates.
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Gozar wrote:The seawall could definately use some clarifying. Where some beaches can only go one way, I don't see any one ways from the flats. Can they all attack down? or none?
Neat idea!
Gozar wrote:So can the beaches only attack up at the one ways?
If so, you will probably need distinct bonuses for the different divisions. Not just +5 for any flat. West panzer seems like 5 is a lot.
qwert wrote:Its a same project like hulmey, you can help hulmey with hes project,
Also i want to create same map,but i drop these project(i have working in map and collect all parameters for these(Beaches,Units,Defence lines,all)But these will be waste of time.
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Narrator: January is National Glaucoma Awareness Month. This is Science Today. Glaucoma is a sight-threatening condition in which the optic nerve is damaged and affects about 3 million Americans. Dr. Robert Weinreb of the University of California, San Diego says pressure builds in the eye because fluid cannot drain properly.
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What I've Never Forgotten:"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?" ― Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters
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text: [ I originally only posted this to the sca-dance mailing list, but then I realized that some of you folks might be interested in volunteering, so here you go: ] Last Pennsic I threatened to organize a transcription of the newly discovered 1614 Santucci manuscript. It's in Italian and contains dances similar to the dances from Caroso and Negri's manuals that we frequently do. It's hand-written, so this is a lot more work than the other transcriptions we've already done. When we're done, we'll be able to search through the transcriptions to see how particular words are used, and it'll also be helpful for people translating it into English. I have now set this up on the "Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders" website. This website has some funky software that makes it easier to proofread books. Who can help out? Well, basically, anyone can volunteer, but it really helps if you either have already looked at enough Italian dance lingo to know some vocabulary, or are enthusiastic about doing the same. I'd be happy to answer questions about anything you're unsure about. The webpage: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/santucci/facsimile/instructions.html has some example transcribed sections, instructions for getting started on the PGDP website, and pointers to some existing transcribed sources that you can look over to begin to understand the vocabulary. Any questions? Please ask me in private email. And thanks for considering working on this project! -- Gregory


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When Death Smiles Upon You the Infantryman smiles back
WVdolphan "Ireland gets it.
And those who also get it, know that Ireland gets it. Those who are clueless are still concerned about cornfed and the running game"
WVDOLPHAN "The last thing this team should be worried about is the OC(offensive corn). When you add it all up, its really a pretty solid OC"
Its either a lack of foresight or a lack of recognizing the talent we have in the guys on the roster or both.
I mean some could say we should have locked in Bush longterm but based on his history it was still best to wait. I dont think ireland is worth the hair off my balls but u couldnt expect him or anybody to anticipate hartline having the year he did
There is certainly a tipping point which is why I didn't include guys like Fasano or Starks as I doubt they play ball but I would bet a big chunk of change that Hartline and Smith would have happily signed an extension.
The same rule applies to the other young guys that look like keepers, extend them as early as possible. For example Ireland should be talking to Reshad Jones' agent NOW.
I'd rather tag smith than tag long all day. And lol at people syuggesting we waste our picks on 2 CBs in the draft where we have a ton of holes to fix let alone you'd be suggesting we start next year with 2 rookies as our CBs, if you think our secondary is bad now oh my goodness, you'd basically be asking to give tom brady career numbers next year.
You guys are hilarious.
You bash these beat writers for being ****ing stupid, then when they say something like this you believe every word of it.
Ben Volin has no more info about this situation than any of us. Rotoworld got it from him, stop believing every thing that comes out from beat writers.
It comes down to simple game theory. We now know what the ideal play was, whichever gm comes closest to making the ideal play wins. You don't think there are any gms out there that wouldn't have had the foresight to extend these guys at the right time?
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Women's Golf Takes 2nd in Head-to-Head Affair
– The North Georgia women's golf team put a lid on
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The Montevallo topped the Lady Saints for the second straight, firing a 74-over-par 362 for a 40 shot victory over North Georgia who notched a 114-over-par 402, improving 12 shots from a day ago to once again post the best round in school history as a team.
Emma Breen had the low round of the day for the second time in as many days, recording a three-over-par 75 to claim the victory, while North Georgia's Charley Whitmire was second at six-over-par, her lowest collegiate round at 78.
Brittany Kemp was second on the club with a 10-over-par 82, while Leania Bulloch was third at 47-over-par with a 119. Courtney Hall was fourth on the team at 51-over-par, and Ariana Stamatiou rounded out the team and field at 59-over-par with a 131.
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As the nationwide Republican leadership pushed to return to a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, the party had its eyes, and its money, focused on some key congressional races where GOP incumbents are struggling to stay in office in the west Chicago suburbs.
The redesigned districts represented now by Randy Hultgren, R-Winfield Township, and Peter Roskam, R-Wheaton, were not two of those, and both won re-election handily on Tuesday night.
The Democratic Party-controlled 2010 redistricting process created new Illinois congressional districts whose more "blue" populations threatened the re-election of Joe Walsh, Robert Dold and Judy Biggert. But in the new 14th District, first-term incumbent Hultgren apparently defeated challenger Dennis Anderson, a Gurnee Democrat. And in the redesigned 6th District, two-term incumbent Roskam beat off the challenge of Leslie Coolidge, a Barrington Hills Democrat.
The Associated Press projected at 8:08 p.m. that both Hultgren and Roskam would be re-elected.
Three hours later, with 91 percent of the 14th District's precincts counted, Hultgren was leading with 166,134 votes (59 percent) to 114,277 votes (41 percent).
In the 6th District, with all but one precinct counted, Roskam was ahead 189,096 (60 percent) to 128,385 (40 percent).
Hultgren, speaking by phone at about 10:30 p.m. from the Election Night party of fellow GOP congresswoman Judy Biggert in Naperville, said it was a bittersweet victory because of the defeat of Biggert, Walsh and Dold. He blamed their defeat on how the Chicago-area districts were redrawn by the Democratic-controlled legislature.
"Basically, they just had really bad new districts," Hultgren said. "The map won. The map was drawn for Democratic candidates and they won. It's frustrating when a few leaders in Springfield decide who our representatives will be rather than having the voters decide."
Hultgren and Roskam may have been helped Tuesday by the same redistricting process that helped defeat their three comrades. The redesigned 14th District looks little like it did when J. Dennis Hastert called it home and it covered most of the Fox Valley. It now includes all or part of seven counties — Kane, Kendall, DeKalb, DuPage, Will, McHenry and Lake. It stretches from Illinois' northern border, south to Kendall County and Naperville.
Towns inside it include most or all of Hampshire, Huntley, Burlington, Marengo, Pingree Grove, Sycamore, Crystal Lake, Woodstock, McHenry, Harvard, Antioch, Yorkville, Sandwich, Oswego and large pieces of the Tri-Cities and Naperville.
What the 14th no longer does include is the more Democrat-oriented larger cities of Aurora and Elgin, which were turned over to other districts to threaten the re-election prospects of people like Walsh and Biggert. Democrats decided to sacrifice the 14th by leaving it mostly full of Republicans. Only half of the redesigned 14th had been in the old district.
In a second thrust, the Democratic map-drawers also put the homes of both Hultgren and Walsh within the new 14th, apparently hoping they would eat each other up in the March primary. But instead, Walsh decided to run again in the adjoining 8th District.
Hultgren praised Walsh for the self-sacrifice of running in the more Democratic 8th rather than going against Hultgren in the primary.
Hultgren has been involved in local politics since he was elected to the DuPage County Board in 1994. He served more than a decade in the Illinois General Assembly before beating Democrat Bill Foster in 2010. It was the same Bill Foster who Tuesday night got back into Congress by defeating Biggert.
The 46-year-old Hultgren will return to Congress as part of an outspoken congressional contingent that has stymied the president's agenda. He has vowed to fight against the Affordable Health Care Act, though he supports allowing young people to stay on their parents' insurance and favors protection for pre-existing conditions. Hultgren says government spending must be cut, but says the military budget is off limits. He also supports increased spending on science.
When asked before the election about how he has changed since 2010, Hultgren said he was sobered by the problems facing the country.
"I think I'm also a little wiser in knowing more how politics pervades everything," he said. "That frustrates me and I want to see what I can do to start changing that."
Anderson, of Gurnee, had never run for any political office. The retired medical researcher walked a lot of miles, talking to voters in "retail campaigning."
Whipping up support
In the four short years since he was sent to Washington, Roskam, from Wheaton, has advanced into the Republican leadership until he is now the House's chief deputy majority whip.
Surrounded on the north, west and south by the 14th, the redrawn 6th District itself looks like a pair of jaws, biting down on the Democratic areas that make up the western half of the new 8th. It includes parts of five counties — Kane, DuPage, Cook, Lake and McHenry. The towns inside it include all or parts of South Elgin, West Dundee, Sleepy Hollow, Gilberts, Algonquin, Lake in the Hills, Barrington, Cary, Fox River Grove, Bartlett, Wayne, the far west parts of Elgin and Carpentersville, and much of solidly Republican, heavily populated DuPage County, including half of Naperville, Wheaton, Glen Ellyn, Lombard, Elmhurst, Downers Grove, Winfield and West Chicago.
Coolidge, a certified public accountant from Barrington Hills, faced two challengers in the March Democratic primary but drew as many votes as both of them put together.
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Mike Rosmann: Tips for addressing drought-related stressHarvest is already taking place in many locations, or is not happening because drought left little to harvest.
Harvest is already taking place in many locations, or is not happening because drought left little to harvest.
The U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Disaster Technical Assistance Center (DTAC) August 2012 Bulletin listed four articles about coping with drought-related stress. Interested persons can subscribe to the SAMHSA DTAC Bulletin at their website, www.samhsa.gov/dtac/resources.asp.
I commend the SAMHSA DTAC for their timely listing of resources for dealing with drought-related stress, as I drew upon these publications for this article.
Two of the four resources were authored by Dr. Bob Fetsch of the Colorado State University Extension Service. Bob and I have known each other for many years and have worked together on several projects.
Besides having similar professional interests, Bob and I both have Germanic and farming backgrounds – his at Muenster, Texas, and mine near the western Iowa community of Westphalia. Our two communities share some of the same family names, extended kin and traditions.
The founders of Westphalia, Iowa, Emil and Carl Flusche, also founded Muenster and the towns of Westphalia, Kansas, Michigan and Missouri, plus four more towns in North Texas.
Here are tips from Managing Stress during Tough Times by Fetsch, which is available at http://tinyurl.com/bvse4r6.
- Resilient people re-frame and adjust their thinking and reactions away from a sense of lack and toward a sense of options.
- There is always more than one option to solve any problem.
- Stress and depression cause farmers and rural residents to have an increased risk for substance abuse problems, farm accidents, injuries and suicide.
- Depression and stress during tough times, like drought, often result in conflicts with spouses and poor parenting practices that may cause problems for youth in school achievement, peer relations, antisocial behavior, self-confidence, depression and substance misuse.
- As more people reach out for support, usually more self-help groups, support groups and crisis services such as hot lines are created.
- Depression, substance misuse, lack of social support, and access to a fire-arm are among the top predictors of suicide.
Fetsch offers additional tips in Making Decisions and Coping Well with Drought, which is available at http://tinyurl.com/8t39en3.
- There are at least three ways families can make decisions in their family meetings – autocratically, democratically and by consensus.
- Reaching consensus is useful with major family decisions. However, it may be too time-consuming to use with smaller decisions where an autocratic or democratic decision-making strategy can suffice.
- When one person has all the power in decision-making, others may feel discounted or disenfranchised.
- Intergenerational families that use a consensus decision-making strategy show improved family functioning, family satisfaction, self-esteem and family coping
Farmers and ranchers are in an unpredictable era. We are uncertain when to sell livestock and crops. We don't usually know yet what insurance will pay for and what forms of assistance will become available.
It is important to stay up-to-date with federal and state pronouncements concerning the drought. Disaster declarations and provisions sometimes change on a daily basis. Usually these announcements are available in letters and publications from the federal Farm Service Agency office for the county where the farm/ranch resides. Farm news broadcasts are a good source of information.
In some particularly hard-hit locales, community education and support programs may be initiated through the Extension Service, churches, and sometimes through the Federal Emergency Management Agency when a disaster rises to the level that individual assistance, including crisis counseling.
Disasters that rise to the level that FEMA assistance becomes available usually entail fires or other causes that seriously damage people's lives and property. FEMA assistance does not accompany public assistance declarations, such as might be needed to repair public roads, power lines and infrastructure.
Crisis counseling only accompanies declarations that provide individual assistance. Radio, television, newspapers reports and local Extension offices are a good source of current information about drought counseling and other forms of individual assistance.
It's easy to be self-critical, especially over decisions made earlier to sell crops ahead, when now the price has increased or the producer doesn't have the grain to fulfill a contract. Talking now about the situation with family and those involved in the contract is a better coping strategy than putting it off.
Rosmann is a psychologist and farmer. He can be contacted through the website, www.agbehavioralhealth.com.
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Yes, that's what this is actually about: not copyright, but contracts. The station has a deal with the NCAA, and if they break the deal, they lose their passes.
I LOVE this idea.
But yes, daily is too often. How about weekly? On the weekend, when nothing's going on.
Maybe. But, as a previous commenter mentioned, CA had a couple of high-profile incidents where schools closed overnight and run off with the tuition. A big part of BPPE is guaranteeing tuition re-reimbursement. Cost * customers is typically a LOT higher when it comes to schools than with your run-of-the-mill deceptive advertising claim.
A Professional Engineering license is, indeed, an issue of liability and minimum standards.
Although PE's for software engineering weren't a thing until just last year, and I don't think anyone (states, employers) are requiring them yet.
1. There sort of are (the miners that verify the blockchain.)
2. True. (But as always, they can arrest you and demand the keys.)
3. True-for-now. But when miners stop being paid in new coins (see 1) the only reward will be transaction fees.
4. I would call the complete inability of the bitcoin money supply to react to demand a downside, not an upside. (But I'm aware that opinions differ.)
5. I would call every bank's unwillingness to denominate loans in bitcoin a sign of the lack of trust in it, not an upside. This is, at best, neutral.
6. Mmm hmm. http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115807/bitcoin-thief-steals-100-million-sheepshead-marketplace
7. Modern goldbuggery. (The same "differing opinion" as in 4.)
8. ...yet. And if you use that freedom to violate enough other laws, they'll still find you.
9. I think when the age of mining for more coins ends and the supply is fixed (and probably earlier, when it slows down) that the lack of being able to respond to changes in any way will prove to be a downside.
10. Again, probably only true because the miners find the payments in new coins sufficient... for now. (See 1.)
tl;dr: If you think gold is as good as money, then you'll think bitcoin is as good as gold.
$15,000 worth of harm.
Yes, placement rate. Bootcamps already advertise their placement rates, EXTENSIVELY. Their whole existence is based around "We will get you a job, or the skills to get a job," and they're often primarily funded by businesses hoping to hire people straight out of the programs. Maybe you think most people-who-code aren't doing in professionally (I'd disagree on that being currently true, but that's beside the point) but these organizations are certainly advertising that you will be doing so after you complete their program.
Your piano teacher? Your free adult literacy meetings at the public library? Completely different. Not covered by the statute. A completely irrelevant comparison.
The regulations, apparently, come down to "pay $3,500 +0.75% of revenue (max $25,000) in fees per year, provide proof that your finances are in order, provide proof that you accurately report your placement rate, don't pay your recruiters per-recruit, have a refund policy, get students to sign a thing saying this is all clear to them."
http://www.bppe.ca.gov/enforcement/institution_mi nreq.shtml
That does seem to slightly favor larger institutions, but it also doesn't seem unreasonable. If I were considering going to one of these academies, I would like to be confident that those requirements were in place, and think those costs are quite fair to pay for enforcement.
NSA can't break something NRL didn't back-door for them.
TOR developers kinda use the internet.
Ohhhh, you're just replying in giant blob-o-paragraph form interspersed with DEROGATORY ALL CAPS to *every* thread in the comments.
Man, the NSA is really scrapping the bottom of the barrel for astroturf.
Good point! No one would ever hide a keylogger in a keyboard!
And clearly this isn't real: http://www.eweek.com/security/nsa-can-hack-you-even-if-you-arent-connected-to-the-internet.html
"The target machines first are compromised by way of a USB stick or tiny circuit board that broadcasts the information. ... The geniuses at the NSA with the remote radio access technology have extended the range to a staggering 8 miles."
So I'm sure it's perfectly safe.
"...and sales of James Bond books hit new heights after 1964, which was a decade after the original release of the first Bond book."
Oh, a whole DECADE. Yeah. Wow. Well, since that's such an exceptional case, we'll take that as a base and, oh, let's multiply it by FIVE or SIX--no, how about 5.6. Yeah, that should more than enough for any artists (or their corporate owner) to recoup the overwhelming majority of the spoils. Sounds fair.
Well that's why I provided a link, because it gives more context...
Anyway, by "it", I meant "all of it". The increase of human population. The growth of human economies. No form of energy generation will be enough to last us forever.
At the current rate of growth, even if we cover the entire surface of the earth with 100% efficient (ha!) solar panels, we won't make it 400 years.
Really, it's a fascinating link.
I think they got it from the title of the article.
(Not that that makes it right. Titles aren't written by the same people that write the article, and are often wildly inaccurate.)
Zero people died from radiation released from Three Mile Island. The effected population has been monitored extremely closely, and their has been no statistically-significant increase in cancer or other diseases.
Zero people died from radiation released from Fukishima. The effected population is being monitored extremely closely.
The gulf oil spill killed 12. That's an important difference. And Katrina killed 1,800. That's not even the same ballpark.
Wind is nice, but not plentiful enough. Hydro is already on most of the places it can be used. Tidal is niche, at best.
Solar is the best of the bunch, but not going to be enough on its own. We've got to pursue them all, INCLUDING nuclear.
And it DEFINITELY won't last forever. A couple hundred years, at the rate we're going.
It's hard, and the effects aren't nearly as catastrophic as a severe underdose (aka scurvy).
The important thing to understand, is that XBox penetration is SO LOW in China that no one in charge over there even recognizes the Chief.


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Jeremiah Owyang wants to declare the end of the golden age of tech blogging, or, even more portentously, he says
The tech blogosphere, as we know it, is over.
This could be interpreted in a number of ways, but at face value — and leaving aside for the moment the specifics of his argument — I agree. The 'blogosphere' — that mid '00s concept of a community of bloggers writing for each others and cross-linking through trackbacks and threaded comments — that communitarian vision has been superseded by other ideas of what is, or should be, happening, online.
However, I don't want to adopt the metaphor that is used by people that fear the future, and long for a halcyon past. I won't go along with the 'golden age' rhetoric, which is generally employed by those arguing a fall from a better past into a less virtuous present. (The concept comes from ancient Greek mythology, with its Golden, Silver, Bronze, Iron ages, and then the present, debased age.)
I prefer Winston Churchill's trope:
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
Churchill was, of course, referring to a turning point in the struggle with Germany during World War II, while we are discussing the transition from a more primitive and less social phase in the web revolution, into something more complex and, ultimately, more rewarding.
The points that Jeremiah makes to support his argument are very tactical, not looking at the strategic changes going on technologically or societally. His 'trends' aren't really trends, but narrow extrapolations from recent events masquerading as business advice. They are these, in brief:
Trend 1: Corporate acquisitions stymie innovation
Trend 2: Tech blogs are experiencing major talent turnover
Trend 3: The audience needs have changed, they want: faster, smaller, and social
Trend 4: As space matures, business models solidify – giving room for new disruptors
These observations are interesting as far as they go, but aside from the 'faster, small, and social' I don't think these are major, in any sense.
I'd like to offer a few trends that may be implied by Jeremiah's lists or by the comments of various bloggers that he cites, but aren't really characterized very well in his post.
It's obvious that Jeremiah is caught up in the issues confronting three groups of web denizens posting their contributions posting on technology platforms based on a now well-established model of web publishing, which we call blogging. This is unexamined in his piece, but the model of a website made up of chronologically ordered posts with comments in a thread on each piece, and a variety of navigation or advertising widgets in the margin may be getting tired, and may not gibe with other modern advances in online media dynamics. At any rate, Owyang's concerns seem to be directed toward three constituencies:
He doesn't seem particularly concerned about the problems of major media companies, which continue to be deadly serious, nor does he refer to the notable advances that media companies like The Atlantic have accomplished. Nor does he spend much time talking about the technology companies — like Tumblr, Twitter, and Flipboard — that are involved in the tectonic changes going on today; changes that make the ebb and flow of small-potato business models surrounding tech blogging look like the scrambling of ants underneath the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Yes, we are veering into a new era of web media; and it's about goddamned time.
Here's a few of the most powerful trends, in summary:
Obviously, Owyang and those leaving comments on his post weren't necessarily treating these trends. The post was ostensibly about the changes in the world of tech blogging, after all. But I don't see how you can meaningfully explore that niche without the larger context.
Brian Solis sees the larger context as necessary as well:
I recently wrote about my thoughts on the state and future of blogs, which is of course far grander than the world of tech blogging. And as you can see, blogging is alive and clicking.
Yes, micromedia, video, and social transactions/actions are breaking through our digital levees and causing our social streams to flood. And, yes, Flipboard, Zite, and the like (get it?), are forcing our consumption patterns into rapid-fire actions and reactions. You have a choice. You are either a content creator, curator or consumer. You can be all of course. But, think about this beyond the mental equivalent of 140 characters. What do you stand for and what do you want to become known for? The answer is different for each of us. But, content, context, and continuity are all I need to learn, make decisions and in turn inspire others.
I don't buy the consumer angle — after all, every person is curating for at least one person, themselves — so I consider it a cardinality distinction: curating for one is not appreciably different than curating for two or ten. All curators — of whatever degree of discernment — started by curating for themselves. But Solis clearly gets the big picture, and I agree totally that what is bubbling up today will make the web a place where we continue to come to learn, make decisions, and connect with — and perhaps inspire? — others to do the same.


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AP: Indonesia Budget Airlines Questioned
The rapid expansion of Indonesia's budget airlines has raised concerns that growth has outpaced the supply of trained aviation professionals, regulatory oversight, parts and ground infrastructure.
The Center for Transportation and Logistics Studies, a private policy group, said Indonesia's discount airlines have increased the amount of time planes spend in the air, from 70 percent to up to 95 percent to boost profit margins, putting a crunch on servicing.
But there is not enough data available to say if that was jeopardizing safety, said Danang Parikesit, a leading researcher, though cost-cutting was "probably reducing the safety standard."
Bansar, one of the former pilots, said there was no doubt in his mind that was the case.
When mandatory aircraft part replacements were due, including essential navigational instruments, Adam Air officials "swapped with another aircraft, so as not to replace it ... then if they didn't find the part for another 30 days, they would swap it again," he claimed.
Banser said he flew on a plane with a cracked door handle "for several months" because there was no spare in stock. He asked an engineer if it was legal to fly with the defect and "he just smiled."
"Every time you flew, you had to fight with the ground staff and the management about all the regulations you had to violate," said Banser, who says he was grounded for a week in 2005 after refusing to fly because he would exceed the maximum of five daily takeoffs.
He said he gave in to demands that he fly the plane - which also had a damaged window - after managers agreed to pay each crew member an additional $110 - an offer Bansar accepted.
But eventually the pilot said he lost faith and quit.
Sudibyo, the aviation expert advising Yudhoyono, recalled a still-unexplained incident last year when one of its Boeing 737s went missing for hours following a navigation and communications breakdown, eventually making an emergency landing in Tambolaka, hundreds of miles from its final destination.
The airline broke several civil aviation regulations that day, including flying the plane away from the scene before an inspection by aviation authorities, he said. The pilot was fired, but government regulators would not say if the airline was fined, citing confidentiality regulations.
"The safety report on that company is a big question mark," Sudibyo said.
Iksan Tatang, Indonesia's top civil aviation official, said he had heard about the accusations, but could not respond in detail until reviewing formal complaints from the pilots.
"I invite the pilots to give me the information. Why did they give it to everybody, but not the regulators?" he asked. "As far as I know, we have to follow the international regulations."
Pilots said they regularly reported maintenance problems to technical staff, but were grounded or docked pay when they confronted managers. Filings on aviation incidents are confidential and several officials said they were unaware of any company ever having been held criminally liable in a fatal Indonesia transportation accident.
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Yahweh must be worshipped in spirit and in truth (John 4:24). We must have his spirit, and we must worship according to what he has written in the word. He has not left it up to us to try and figure out how to worship him. Lucifer was once the minister of music in heaven and lost his position because he dared to ascribe glory, honor and praise unto himself (Ezek. 28, Isa.14).
We must enter his gates with thanksgiving, and come into his courts with praise (Psalms 100:1-4). We're not singing, shouting and dancing before him to make him feel better. We're humbling our souls, getting rid of all moral filth and positioning ourselves to receive with meekness the word that is planted in us, which is able to save our souls (James 1:21).
At salvation, our spirits were born again, but our souls were not. Be careful — it's the spirit of Lucifer, or Satan, that does not want to praise Yahweh. In order to be productive, the word must be received into good ground, and singing praises to Yahweh helps prepare the soil of our hearts for the "seed of the word."
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Yes, singing opens our souls to receive his word. Singing plays a vital role in worship in virtually every religion. Scripture tells us that the children of Israel sang praises after being delivered from bondage (Exodus 15:1). Christ and his disciples sang a hymn at the last supper (Matthew 26:30). In latter-day revelation the Lord tells us, "For my soul delighteth in the song of the heart; yea, the song of the righteous is a prayer unto me …" (Doctrine and Covenants 25:12).
By comparing singing with praying, the Lord shows how important congregational hymns can be. The hymns we sing can remind us how greatly we are blessed and how indebted we are to the Savior. Sacred hymns can fill our souls with his spirit. By singing sincerely, even the smallest congregation can invite in the blessings and spirit of the Lord.
As a church chorister, I ask congregates to sing with joy and humility — not to worry about how their voices sound but just participate in praising God. We believe that righteous singers "shall be answered with a blessing upon their heads." (Doctrine and Covenants 25:12).
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Gov. Nixon signs bill to allow teaching of NRA gun safety cours
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has signed legislation allowing a gun safety course sponsored by the National Rifle Association to be taught to first-graders.
The bill signed Friday allows schools to teach the Eddie Eagle Gunsafe Program and to seek financial grants to do so. But it stops short of mandating the course.
The NRA says its course has been taught to more than 26 million children nationwide since it began in 1988. Virginia enacted a law in 2010 allowing gun-safety courses based on the NRA program.
The Missouri legislation requires schools to conduct an active-shooter drill led by law enforcement officers.
It also assigns the duty of issuing identification cards for concealed gun permits to sheriffs, instead of driver's license clerks.
NRA asks court to let Illinoisans carry guns now
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A gun owner whose lawsuit spurred the Illinois concealed carry law that took effect this week is asking a federal court to allow the public possession of firearms immediately.
Mary Shepard and the National Rifle Association filed a motion for an injunction Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for southern Illinois. Shepard's motion says gun owners should not have to wait to carry because of Illinois lawmakers' "procrastination."
A federal appeals court ruled in December that it's unconstitutional for Illinois to continue prohibiting concealed carry. But lawmakers finally adopted a plan Tuesday - the court's deadline. Now the Illinois State Police have six months to set up a system and three months to approve or deny applications after that.
The motion notes the ban remains in effect until then.
NRA lobbyist "confident" lawmakers will override Gov. Quinn's changes to conceal carry
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The National Rifle Association's Illinois lobbyist is predicting an easy legislative override of Gov. Pat Quinn's gun-carry veto.
Todd Vandermyde says the Democratic governor's suggested changes to concealed carry legislation are too late. He says lawmakers settled the issues Quinn raised and adopted the plan with overwhelming majorities.
A federal appeals court ruling requires a law by July 9 allowing Illinois residents to publicly possess concealed guns. The Legislature sent Quinn a plan last month.
Quinn used amendatory veto authority Tuesday to ban guns from any establishment serving alcohol and to limit gun owners to carrying one weapon at a time.
But Vandermyde says negotiators on all sides in the General Assembly discussed the changes and "the governor's people were never really part of it."
Adolphus Busch IV quits NRA, calls it a lobby for gun makers, not gun owners
A prominent, long-time St. Louis area gun rights advocate is giving up his lifetime membership in the NRA.
Adolphus Busch IV sent a letter to the National Rifle Association Thursday, asking them to immediately take his name off their roles.
In the letter, Busch wrote that he was resigning his membership because of the NRA's stand on background checks, which he says is supported by a majority of NRA members. Busch cites NRA Vice President Wayne LaPierre's support of background checks as "reasonable" in 1999 and questions the shift in position.
Busch also questions the organization's position on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition clips. Busch charges that the NRA has become a lobby organization for gun and ammo manufactures instead of gun owners.
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Adolphus A. Busch, IV
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Mr. David A. Keene
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Fairfax, VA 22030
Mr. Keene,
This letter shall serve as formal resignation of my life membership in the NRA. I ask that you immediately remove my name from your membership roles and provide me an acknowledgement of this action.
As most in your organization would admit, I have historically been a staunch defender of the NRA purpose and tradition in representing the interests of gun owners. I have personally devoted countless financial resources and time to nurture an intelligent environmental policy that provided for the proud tradition of personal hunting for generations to come.
It disturbs me greatly to see this rigid new direction of the NRA. As a starting point, one only has to ask why the NRA reversed its original position on background checks. Was it not the NRA position to support background checks when Mr. LaPierre himself stated in 1999 that NRA saw checks as "reasonable"? Furthermore, I fail to see how the NRA can disregard the overwhelming will of its members who see background checks as reasonable. In fact, according to a Johns Hopkins University study, 74% say they support background checks.
I am simply unable to comprehend how assault weapons and large capacity magazines have a role in your vision. The NRA I see today has undermined the values upon which it was established. Your current strategic focus places a priority on the needs of gun and ammunition manufacturers while disregarding the opinions of your 4 million individual members.
One only has to look at the makeup of the 75-member board of directors, dominated by manufacturing interests, to confirm my point. The NRA appears to have evolved into the lobby for gun and ammunition manufacturers rather than gun owners.
In closing I find it important to extend my personal thanks to Chris Cox and David Lehman for their support of so many important environmental issues. I will miss that level of friendship and support, but must take this action based upon my personal feelings toward the distorted values I see emerging within the NRA.
Adolphus A. Busch, IV
Giffords 'furious' about Senate gun control votes
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords says she's "furious" after senators on Wednesday blocked legislation that would expand background checks for gun buyers.
Giffords is accusing senators who opposed new gun regulations of "cowardice," saying their decisions are "based on political fear and on cold calculations about the money of special interests like the National Rifle Association."
The former Arizona congresswoman's remarks were published on The New York Times' op-ed page Wednesday. She has become a vocal gun control supporter since she was shot in the head at a rally near Tucson two years ago.
The proposal to expand background checks fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance in the Senate. An attempt to ban assault-style rifles failed as well, along with a ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines.
MO Senate endorses bill to allow gun safe course
The measure endorsed Tuesday would give school districts the option to teach a National Rifle Association-sponsored gun safety program to students in first grade. SB75 would also allow schools to implement a training program for teachers and other personnel on responding to intruders.
The bill, sponsored by Republican Sen. Dan Brown, of Rolla, originally would have required schools to adopt both programs. But opposition from Democratic senators caused Brown to make the training and gun safety course optional.
The measure needs one more affirmative vote before moving to the House.
Gun Control: Senators seek deal on gun-sale background checks
The private talks involve liberal Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, who is the No. 3 Senate Democratic leader, and West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a National Rifle Association member and one of the Senate's more moderate Democrats.
On the Republican side, participants are Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, another NRA member and one of the more conservative lawmakers in Congress, and moderate Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois.
The NRA says expanding background checks would do little good because criminals largely get their guns illegally.
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Name: Midwest Museum of Natural History
Location: 425 W. State Street (Route 64) in downtown Sycamore, about 25 minutes west of St. Charles.
Hours: Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. Closed on Mondays, although it will be open during spring break on March 26, 2012.
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