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Yea, though he has walked through the Valley of Silicon, he fears no evil. Burr Snider reports on Jaron Lanier's rebound.
Sitting in his little backyard cottage high on a Sausalito, California hillside with its great, unfettered view of San Francisco Bay and its gorgeous clutter of expensive and arcane musical instruments, Jaron Lanier is explaining the universe, or at least how it interfaces with him. If this seems an unequal match itUs only because the universe has declined to send an advocate to present its case, probably a judicious decision.
Jaron-watchers, of which there are a multitude since Lanier became the first technology figure to cross over to pop-culture stardom, will be pleased to note that the controversial and charismatic virtual-reality pioneer is alive and swell these days in spite of persistent reports to the contrary. Ever since Silicon Valley was seismically rocked this past December by the news that Lanier had been unceremoniously bounced from his own company and stripped of his basic VR patents in a rather hostile takeover by Thomson-CSF, the French electronics conglomerate that called in its overdue loans, speculation to the effect of Whither Jaron has run rife in the incestuous wire-head community.
Well, Jaron says he's just fine, thanks, all things considered, so everybody can relax. Sure, he concedes, he went through something of a depression for a while there, what you might call a period of agonizing self-appraisal after his brainchild, the ground-breaking VPL Research, was wrested from his grasp. But now that he's had time to get a broad perspective on the whole fiasco, hey, no big deal, time to move on.
"I mean what a tiny, tiny event, for God's sake," Jaron says with a shrug, brushing a vagrant coil of his unruly dreadlocks from his eyes. "In the Silicon Valley world view, an event like that is supposed to be the main course of the opera for that month or something. From my point of view, I mean I'm only 32, I'm not too worried about it. I didn't understand some basic things about business and now I understand a lot more. I will probably end up getting wealthy from virtual reality in one way or another, but if I don't I'm prepared for that too. I basically think of myself as a musician, and I'll always have my music."
Jaron giggles. "I did start an industry, though. Not too many people can say that.'
Now there's some resilience for you. The guy helps spearhead one of the most sensational new media technologies extant – one with profound social and philosophical implications for the 21st century. He launches a company that enters the marketplace powered by such a hot media buzz that panting investors are lined up to hand him huge wads of cash. He becomes a cult-figure-media-star by enthralling audiences with his articulate, if overheated visions of the vast applications of his magical new toy. And, then, when his cherished base of operations is ripped from his grasp by the cold-eyed French bean-counters (reportedly because of his own mismanagement and overweening hubris), his response, at least ostensibly, is ehhhh.
Is this guy for real? The answer is probably yes. Even if you're totally cyber-illiterate, unplugged, and offline; even if you only recognize the names of the top luminaries in the Silicon Valley pantheon – Gates, Jobs, Sculley – it was always Lanier, the visionary high priest of VR, who seemed to possess the most compelling and mysterious personality; the one who engendered the most heated reactions, pro and con. But you have to wonder: Why all the controversy? Why the dedicated Jaron-watching? Why the inordinate fascination with the personal details of his life?
"Because," explains Brenda Laurel, a key VR cognoscenti at Atari Research during the Pleistocene Era of the early U80s, "virtual reality is a major indicator of the coming paradigm shift, and Jaron Lanier is identified with it like no one else. He's set the standard for the industry and the culture by making VR systems that work, and by providing accessible software. And in the public mind he's been the guy who's hyped it into the ground. Jaron is profoundly different than the average person. He's sweet and childlike, but he can also go ballistic. He's obsessed with getting the credit for every major invention in the field, and he's obsessed with rewriting history around himself, which naturally has alienated a lot of his colleagues."
Well, on this day, two months after his ousting from VPL, Lanier is more bemused than ballistic. The only heat coming off him is that of his intellect. He is relaxed but alert, guarded but optimistic. Somehow he manages to be cool and cranked-up at the same time. HeUs still baffled by the recent turbulence, but at the same time heUs philosophical: Shit happens, you know? But, being Jaron Lanier, he is happy to analyze his difficulties for you on multiple levels, conducting a symphonic rap that is at once passionate, abstruse, and self-defensive.
"I think what basically happened at VPL was a culture clash," he says. "Not the traditional sort where it's the creative programmers versus the suits, because in this case the suits and the programmers stood together. It was much more, I think, American versus French, and I'm almost tempted to say capitalism versus socialism. The first thing you have to understand is that Thomson is a government-owned company and the top officials are appointed civil servants, so it's really closer to a government bureaucracy than what we think of as a large company. The French attitude towards how you run a large organization is very different from what we think of in Silicon Valley."
Yes, but reaction among a lot of Silicon Valley observers was that Jaron – brilliant in the lab but a baby in the boardroom – got badly taken. With a relatively small investment, Thomson secured not only VPL's patents, which Lanier pledged as collateral against the loans, but also the company itself. Does he feel like he was screwed? Did they steal his brain?
"The French? Not exactly. It's a very, very complicated story. I don't even have the full story myself – I don't fully understand what happened. All I can say is I feel okay about the outcome. I feel that I still have enormous opportunities and so do the key VPL people, so I don't really perceive a diminution of future options for any of us at all."
And what if Thomson runs off and makes trillions with his patents?
Jaron smiles. "Well, you have to understand that I licensed those patents pretty thoroughly, so I don't think they'll make trillions of dollars from them. Hundreds of millions, maybe."
The key point, Jaron insists, the ground-zero consideration that nobody quite gets, is that money is not his motivation. This is what has always made him such an odd duck in the Silicon Valley milieu, an environment driven by the get-rich-quick ethos of the big gamble. And it's why the whole Thomson thing is no big deal. Jaron still basically sees himself as a boho artist, so easy come, easy go.
"Being another Bill Gates, well, that sounds like a miserable existence to me," he says. "I don't think he's what you'd call a real sensitive artist type. I mean I think he's a pretty good guy, and because I've been subjected to it, I think I'm pretty good at separating out what the media has projected onto him, but he's a businessman. I think he's far-seeing, but I don't think he's very deep-feeling, and those are two very different things. There's a tradition in the United States of artists who are also business people; artists who are also scientists. it's not unusual. The composer Charles Ives was one of the founders of the American insurance industry – probably one of the industries I have the least admiration for. Right now, though, in the current atmosphere, it's more unusual than it used to be. I think I am quite a rarity."
What you have to keep in mind is that Jaron's involvement in the whole VR thing was nothing more than a happy accident, the result of some bizarre turns on life's twisted little path. He came to California, after all, to play music; and VR – well, VR just happened to him.
Of course, Jaron has always been a strange one; that he happily admits. Growing up in a small, rural New Mexico town, raised by his father after his mother died when he was quite young, Jaron was pretty much a one-of-a-kind kid – an eccentric loner and social misfit who wrapped himself in his fantasies, his music, and an endless series of ambitious science projects.
"It was not an easy role to play in that part of the country, I can tell you that," Jaron says. "It was a very interesting place for social dynamics, but it wasn't easy for a kid like me. We were really quite isolated, just me and my dad."
As a precocious high school dropout he muscled his way into New Mexico State's math department at age fifteen and got a grant from the National Science Foundation to do a study on the question of whether or not mathematical notation is really necessary. He had long wondered, he says, if on some deep level, notation really is the math or whether it's just a bunch of handy, if clunky, symbols used to portray it.
"I decided that the way we present mathematics to each other is so obscure and bizarre that it makes something that's intrinsically beautiful and simple and appealing into something that's accessible only to people who have distorted personalities – like myself," Jaron says. "I was interested in using interactive animated computer graphics to represent mathematics in notation – partially to teach it better, but also to see if you could represent math without all these symbols and instead use these sort of graphical models as the fundamental representation."
To do the study he had to learn computer programming, and although he says programming per se bores him stiff, he quickly recognized its similarity to mathematical notation in that both depend upon a language of symbols that may not be necessary.
"The truth is," he says, "programming language sucks. In mathematics, even on the deepest levels, it's not clear that you can get rid of notation, whereas with programming it's really clear that the language is junk and all you're doing is telling the computer to do something and there might be a hundred other ways to tell it."
So he set out to design a post-symbolic "visual" programming language, and was lucky enough to be taken under the wing of some of the seminal masters of computer science – men like Marvin Minsky, Jay Chesler, and Cordell Green. But he began to feel the pull of music once again, so he moved to Santa Cruz, California with the idea of making a career of performing computerized music.
But things didn't quite work out – for one thing it was hard to find a place to live – so he moved across the mountains to Palo Alto and got work with Atari, creating sound and music for video games. It was a fun time, he remembers. He wasn't all that crazy about video games, calling them "unthought-out junk for the most part," but he was making good money and rubbing shoulders with a wonderfully motley collection of other young geniuses at a time when the Silicon Valley pot was coming to a rolling boil.
He free-lanced a high-quality game called Moondust for Atari and used the money to set up a garage workshop, where he plugged away at his radical, new "post-symbolic" programming language. Word began to spread that he was onto something big, and at age 24, he found himself the subject of a Scientific American cover story on software. Another Silicon Valley legend was in the making.
"As the Scientific American story was going to print, the editor called me up and said, 'Um, There's a problem here. We don't have your affiliation,'"s Jaron recalls. "And I said, 'Well, I'm proud not to have one at the present time – I funded this study through a video game.' And he said, 'I'm sorry, but our editorial policy clearly states that we must have an affiliation following your name.' Then it was sort of slyly suggested that I make one up, so I said, 'Oh, VPL, standing for Visual Programming Languages, or maybe Virtual Programming Languages,' but mainly it was just this spontaneous thing to get this guy off the phone. And then I told him to put a comma and 'Inc.' after it and never gave it a second thought. And then when the issue came out months later, all these people called up wanting to invest!"
It all gave Jaron a laugh.
The basic problem that he kept running into while developing his new programming language was that a computer screen simply wasn't big enough to encompass the visualizations he wanted to employ. So, together with some friends like Tom Zimmerman, Chuck Blanchard, Young Harvill, and Steve Bryson – the initial research cadre of VPL – Jaron built a primitive little virtual reality system with a head-mount display containing the TV screen eyepieces and a wired glove for manipulating the "virtuals object" in electronic cyberspace.
"So all of a sudden we had a company," Jaron laughs. "It was just something I fell into, it was crazy. And potential investors would come around and I would show them this thing, and I'd say 'Now look at this neat language,' and they'd say: 'Language! You're using a glove! My God!' So suddenly the whole focus shifted."
At first, Jaron says, he was reluctant to assign much importance to his new gimmick. "I remember thinking that, well, I guess we should start selling these – the world needs some kind of general-purpose simulator thing – so we'll just do this business and then I'll get back to the programming someday!"
But after Jaron came up with the term "virtual reality" (initially as a marketing device), "we did the whole thing." The DataGlove and the EyePhone became the linchpins of the foundling industry; VPL landed a lucrative contract with NASA, and VR became the hot new media darling, with Jaron as its messianistic drumbeater.
"Inside Jaron Lanier is a precocious eight-year-old who got together with some friends and built a spaceship," wrote Howard Rheingold in his 1991 book, Virtual Reality, the definitive history of VR to date. "Now he wants us all to take a ride in it."
It was some ride while it lasted. VPL became the first vendor of complete VR systems and dominated what was called the "gloves and goggles" business, catering to well-endowed research organizations. Mattel knocked off a cheap version of the DataGlove, called the Power Glove, for use in Nintendo video games, and Lanier moved VR toward the entertainment mediums. (His friend, John Perry Barlow, a Grateful Dead songwriter, introduced him to the band, and a DataGlove was used to drive the animation in one of the Dead's videos.)
Pushed by Jaron's zeal and energy, VPL generated not only huge revenues but saturation press coverage. And along with it all came the concomitant result: mountains of unrealistic expectations. When the business climate cooled, so did the fire around VPL. The company became drastically overextended and Lanier had to borrow millions from Thomson, using the only negotiable assets he had – his patents – as collateral. It was a typically reckless Jaron-like gamble, but this time he lost.
"Was it a big psychic blow? Well, yeah, it was a pretty big deal, but it's not as bad as it could have been because I'm just centering my life a little more around my music right now. You know, you experience life transitions on many levels. There are, say, entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley who have a fairly simple set of motivations in the sense that they want to be successful, and of course the simpler your motivations are the easier it is to achieve them. But my motivations are much more difficult for even me to understand. I feel like I'm seeking a better future; I'm trying to find a sense of a culturally and spiritually valuable mode of living and creating things for other people. Obviously I'm not allergic to success or unhappy with it, and I do expect to make some money at some point, but at this point it's kind of hard to decide what was a success and what was failure. I think what we've done has permanently changed the dialog and the rhetoric around the future of media technology, and that's not bad.
"In an earlier life, sort of my Emma Goldman period, I was pretty active politically in New Mexico, working with some other idealistic Americans to protest an unfair tax hike levied to build a nuclear power plant. I found that in the current environment, that kind of activity didn't really communicate to people – it wasn't real anymore. So I got involved with television, forcing stations to provide time and production assistance to alternative points of view, and we produced a series of ads in favor of recycling and co-generation of power as an investment policy. But instead of doing it in the usual way, we did it through community consensus, which was one of the most wonderful events of my life. We made these spontaneous TV commercials involving a lot of people – made them a part of peoples' lives – and they made a big impact, really changed things.
"So I realized that it's not merely about making media, you have to change the structure of media as it exists today to communicate with people. I studied McLuhan and the other critics of the media and came to the idea that to have a better world in the future you would have to invent a new media with an eye toward aesthetics and beauty and community. . . And so when the VR thing started to happen, I realized: This is it! This thing can do it! it's more wonderful than TV. it's more striking, and the whole magic is the aliveness of it. It structurally discourages produced material and encourages live interaction with others. It creates a sort of commons where we all can meet."
You can smell the smoke coming off Jaron's brain now, his oil is hot and he's rolling. But whoa, There's a fundamental question here: Why does all this have to take place in an artificial space? What's special about an electronic commons? And more specifically, what's the matter with real reality?
"Well," Jaron says, "There's only one answer to that: We as a culture are deeply, hopelessly, insanely in love with gadgetry. And you can't fight love and win. I think of it in this way: The 20th century has been a unique time, a critical, transitional century and also a weird one in that for the first time, most interaction between people has ceased to take place in one-on-one conversations and has started to take place through media technology. However, very early, premature forms of media technology, such as TV, didn't allow for two-way communication and encouraged central bottlenecks of information flow. I'm hoping that in our work, not just at VPL, but in the Silicon Valley world of media technology, weUll build a stage in the next century that has the same niche between people that the physical world does, but that also has an enormously quick flexibility.
"For instance, sitting here I can create a sentence and say that both of us have just turned into wild dragons and we're dancing on top of a huge pearl sliding down a giant fern bush. Well, it's conceivable that could be realized in the physical world – maybe in 500 years or so, using exotic nanotechnology or plastic surgery or something, we could turn ourselves into dragons, and then maybe we could breed giant clams to make the pearls, and so on, but it's a big expenditure – thousands of scientists working for centuries to realize this simple thing I can express in a sentence. But with VR, when the tools for creating the content of the virtual world become good enough, all of a sudden you have a new, shared objective world where people can co-create the interior with a facility similar to language. And this is what I call post-symbolic communication, because it means that instead of using symbols to refer to things, you are simply creating reality in a collaborative conversation, a waking-state, intentionally shared dream. You're going directly to the source, avoiding the middleman of the symbol and directly apprehending the craftsmanship of that other person combined with your own, without the need for labels."
These are certainly not the ruminations of someone who is planning to call it quits. In fact, after his enforced sabbatical, Jaron seems fired-up and ready to blaze some new trails. He is currently working on some free-lance projects in the field of medical modeling (where he feels some of the more promising potential applications for VR reside), and of course there is always the possibility that he will come up with something absolutely new and startling. Along with some other ex-VPL employees, Jaron is starting Domain Simulations, a new company that will focus on entertainment and medicine applications. It will probably be based in San Francisco, so Jaron can take the ferry across the Bay to work each day.
"I really do feel good about the agenda of trying to encourage a better future for media technology," he says. "I think that is a good place to focus because it is fun and it's beautiful and I'm completely committed to it. And then of course there is my music. These are two things I know for certain will be in my life. I recently did a performance in front of an audience of 5,000 at the SIGGRAPH convention in Chicago, playing spontaneous music on cyber-instruments in virtual reality, and I think it was pretty well received, so that was encouraging.
"And since I left VPL I have gotten a lot of offers, a lot of proposals.
"I am just sorting through the stock right now and talking to a lot of people. Who knows? I might try something ambitious on the business side again. I'm just not committed either way."
Jaron pauses for breath, emitting a profound sigh. Yea, though he has walked through the valley of silicon, he fears no evil. His music and his software comfort him, and having survived reasonably intact, he can only revel in the exquisite wonder of it all. he's back to zero – that eight-year-old boy again – living in the virtual reality of his limitless fantasies. Truly, what's a little blip on your screen like the VPL debacle when you have all these vast possibilities to contemplate? "Virtual reality is going to be such a wonderful dance, a wonderful new kind of communication," he says fervently. "See, when I talk about these possibilities, I'm just trying to create new adventures that will last a long time."


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Arrecife, the capital of Lanzarote, is a quiet, beautiful port city situated on the eastern coast of the island. Sharing prominence in its urban layout are the streets of the historic centre, filled with shops, and popular neighbourhoods such as San Ginés. Not forgetting the many museums and historic buildings which permit Arrecife to enjoy an active cultural life. And in the seafront area, it provides attractive beaches and excellent nautical facilities along with the opportunity to play golf while taking in the striking views of the Atlantic.
The development of Arrecife as a city is closely linked to its port and commercial strength, which allowed it to attract political and economic power until, in 1847, it became the capital of the island to the detriment of Teguise. The city grew around San Ginés, a historic fishing centre established on the shore. Amid its streets steeped in the local seafaring atmosphere is the church of San Ginés. Standing on the site of the first hermitage to be constructed in the capital, it was rebuilt in the 17th century, while its slender belltower dates from the 19th century. Arrecife has outstanding examples of defensive architecture. On a small island in front of the historic quarter stands the castle of San Gabriel, which was built in the 16th century as a defence against continuous pirate attacks. Declared to be a National Monument along with the Bolas bridge, it currently houses an astronomic observatory. Not far away is the castle of San José, built in the middle of Naos bay by King Carlos III. Its facilities play host to the International Museum of Contemporaty Art (MIAC), which contains a valuable collection of work from the 20th century by artists of the stature of Picasso, Miró, Chillida or Tàpies. It is worth a look through the streets of Arrecife to find its significant buildings, such as the "Agustín de la Hoz" Municipal Arts Centre a nobleman's mansion from the mid-19th century and Casa de Los Arroyo, an old house converted into a Science and Arts Centre. The coast A long promenade runs along the coast of Arrecife. The island's volcanic origins provide a considerable diversity of nature, especially among its reefs, as well as a great many colonies of seabirds which nest in the area. One of the most emblematic images of the city is provided by Reducto Beach, sheltered by the Punta del Camello headland and the small island of Fermina. Visitors who prefer water sports can make use of any of the city's excellent nautical facilities, where there is a variety of options available, such as windsurfing or sailing. Golf lovers, meanwhile, have access to an 18-hole course immersed in an exotic volcanic setting situated on the outskirts of the city. Here players of all levels can enjoy the sport while taking in the exceptional views of the Atlantic. Gastronomy and surroundings Arrecife is a genuine showcase of the gastronomy of Lanzarote. Outstanding are the fish specialities, particularly "vieja", which is either stewed or opened and roasted on the grill. Not forgetting "sancocho" stew, the fresh seafood and the most well-known dish from the Canaries, "papas arrugadas" (boiled potatoes), which are usually served along with "mojos" (traditional sauces). Cheese, fresh or cured, forms part of the local tradition. The best accompaniment for these delights will always be one of the wines with the Designation of Origin Lanzarote guarantee, among which the aromatic Malvasías are outstanding. The strategic position of the capital means it is quick and easy to reach from any point on Lanzarote. At the northern end of the island is Haría, a small urban centre set among the hills of a fertile valley. In its coastal area we can find Cueva de los Verdes, as well as Jameos del Agua and the Mirador del Río viewpoint, these latter ones the work of Lanzarote-born architect César Manrique. Very close by is Teguise. The former capital of the island of Lanzarote possesses a significant heritage of buildings in its historic quarter, which gathers together beautiful examples of popular and noble architecture. The mark of Manrique is present in Teguise through the Cactus Garden and the foundation which bears his name, which was also the artist's former residence. To the south are towns such as San Bartolomé, with the outstanding Casa del Mayor Guerra and Casa Ajei; Tinajo, in whose sanctuary of Mancha Blanca the island's patron, the Virgen de los Dolores, is venerated; or Yaiza, a town located in a volcanic surroundings which form landscapes of matchless beauty, such as El Golfo or Los Hervideros. All this is complemented by Lanzarote's coastline, sprinkled with beautiful beaches and major tourist centres, such as Costa Teguise, Playa Blanca or Puerto del Carmen. But the greatest centre of tourist attention is, without a doubt, the Timanfaya National Park, a true showcse of the island's volcanic ecosystem. The visit includes a bus trip which covers the Route of the Volcanoes and whose starting point is the visitors' centre. The park is in turn surrounded by the Volcanoes Nature Reserve, where fields of ash and lava run down to the sea.
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Diary of a Lokean mystic.
Seasons and the Muse
I have been quiet here lately because I've had local work going on, and I've been doing self-work as well. Shadow work is interesting, and mine has dug up something that I kind of knew, but I didn't realize just how much one particular word has run my life: lazy. There's a lot of emphasis in spiritwork on, well, work. I'm not here to criticise anyone else's Work, mind you, this is me considering myself and my inner workings. But lazy can and has run my life. I have three advanced degrees. I got them while parenting a child who needed considerable medical therapy. I founded my own indie publishing house before I was 30 years old. I edited for a prestigious science journal by the age of 36. I pursued marathoning. Despite being a Gen Xer, I realize that I can't really use the word slacker in a self-description.
These are all fine and good achievements, and I am glad of the knowledge and skills that I gained in pursuit of them, but I also stayed at them, the jobs particularly, because I feared being lazy. Especially my own company. I grew to hate publishing because I never got to write. When the company went under, I blamed myself for not getting more involved in the financial end, even though I HATED it, and the initial business agreement was that I would not work in that side because I was already writing, editing, doing layout and author recruitment, with promo as necessary. I can't imagine how much more I would have hated my job if I'd added on financial work as well. I would have burnt myself out even more, for fear of being lazy.
"Giving my talents and energy to something that does not serve me well at best robs me of time, and at worst can put my soul in peril. I can lose myself, and what good am I if I am not myself?" -- Star Foster, Happiness and the Muse
After it went under, I stopped writing for a while. I contracted the lung disease that I still deal with today. The Muse was around, and He kept nudging at me until Commander Evil Bitch succeeded in getting me interested in a project again. It's taken me a long time to even consider writing a book again in a serious way. I'd start things and then stop writing because I didn't want to deal with publishing. It is not lost on me that previous behavior that allowed me to avoid my fear of laziness has now made me lazy in pursuing the thing that I actually love to do, and do well.
And so I think perhaps I have finally hit that point where lazy doesn't have to run my life quite so much, and I don't have to be in the thick of everything. I am busier now with classes, teaching, seidhr, parenting, and I have to pick and choose where I use my time and energy more carefully. I can't be everything to everyone, but I can be helpful to the friends and family that I love. I can put aside my fear of lazy, and set aside more time for my Beloved without feeling guilty or unworthy. And maybe I can finally write some of the books He's been wanting and I've been sticking on my mental backburner. "And take a vacation," He said. "Leave the computer at home."
So I'm gonna take the Sithling to the beach and bring a notebook to noodle in, and some cheesecake reading. What? He's a hot Muse.
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Fox's "straight news" anchor wrongly corrects guest on Bush tax cuts
On today's broadcast of America's Newsroom -- one of Fox News' purportedly objective news programs -- anchor Martha MacCallum purported to debunk a statement made by Democratic strategist Maria Cardona about the impact on small businesses of letting the Bush tax cuts expire:
RON BONJEAN (REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST): Providing economic certainty to small businesses is key to getting people to hire them again and you know, the middle class is suffering but so are small businesses, who are -- do fall in the upper-tier brackets and raising taxes on small businesses in a bad economy is a really bad idea.
MacCALLUM: Why -- Maria, why does that idea fall on deaf ears with the administration and with most Democrats?
MARIA CARDONA (DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST): Well I think a couple reasons. First of all because I know that Republicans like to argue that the tax cuts for the top income earners are going to affect small businesses, but in fact, that's not true. Ninety-nine percent of small businesses do not fall into the top one percent of income earners in this country -
MacCALLUM: No, That is not true, actually. In fact, half of the people that make -
CARDONA: No. It is true -
MacCALLUM: Wait, Maria. Hold on, I'm going to call you on that because half of the people who make over $250,000 a year in this country are running a small business. Half of them. So, you know, this notion that it's not going to make a difference - and if you talk to small business owners across the country, which, you know, I do whenever I get the chance to, they'll tell you I'm not hiring, I'm worried about health care, I'm worried about this. So why not pull the brakes off of them and help them out?
So who's right, Cardona or MacCallum?
Cardona said 99 percent of small businesses "do not fall into the top one percent of income earners in this country." This appears to be largely true. Here's what we know: According to the Tax Policy Center only 1.7 percent of taxpayers who report business income on individual returns will be in the top income tax bracket in 2011, meaning they earn more than $373,000. The National Taxpayers Union says the top 1 percent of income earners in 2008 included those with an adjusted gross income of $380,000. So Cardona can't be very far off.
So why did MacCallum "correct" her so vehemently? Who knows. MacCallum seemed to think she had disproved Cardona's statement by saying, "half of the people who make over $250,000 a year in this country are running a small business." Even if that were true, it doesn't contradict what Cardona said. (Wealthy taxpayers with business income can comprise both a small portion of all "small businesses" and a large portion of those in the top two tax brackets.) However, while it's true that most taxpayers in the top two income tax brackets report business income, that doesn't mean they run what we consider to be "small businesses."
As Politifact.com noted, "It's impossible to know how many of these high earners are what most people think of as small business owners."
The U.S. Treasury Department found in 2007 that many of the wealthiest tax filers report some type of non-wage income, such as income from a sole proprietorship, a partnership or an S corporation. (An S corporation is simply a corporation that chooses to pass corporate income, losses, deductions and credit through to their shareholders for federal tax purposes.) The Treasury Department estimated that 75 percent of tax payers in the top bracket reported this type of income.
Does this mean that all those wealthy taxpayers were small business owners? Probably not. This kind of income could be reported from anyone who earned money from a source other than a regular job, such as consulting or public speaking. It could also be reported by those who make most of their income from partnerships, such as law firms and medical practices. And it could include investors who have little involvement in the day-to-day operations of a company.
It's impossible to know how many of these high earners are what most people think of as small business owners. One indication, however, might be if these wealthy taxpayers reported that most of their income was from this business-type income.
And according to William Gale of the Tax Policy Center, "most people in the top income brackets don't rely mainly on small-business income" :
And just as most small businesses aren't owned by people in the top income brackets, most people in the top income brackets don't rely mainly on small-business income: According to the Tax Policy Center, such proceeds make up a majority of income for about 40 percent of households in the top income bracket and a third of households in the second-highest bracket. If the objective is to help small businesses, continuing the Bush tax cuts on high-income taxpayers isn't the way to go -- it would miss more than 98 percent of small-business owners and would primarily help people who don't make most of their money off those businesses.
From the November 12 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom:


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February 6, 2011 at 6pm to December 6, 2011 at 9pm – Atelier degli Artisti Comunicato stampa mostra Atelier degli Artisti Via dell'Arco di San Callisto, 40 (Trastevere) Roma presenta la mostra: Espressioni Diseguali dal 14 al 24 Ottobre 2010 Inaugurazione giovedì 14 otto… Organized by Atelier degli Artisti, Espressioni D'Arte e Associazione A.C.C.A | Type: paint, exhibition
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October 4, 2011 at 12pm to October 29, 2011 at 6pm – Soho20 Chelsea Gallery October 4 - October 29, 2011Anne McKeown "Eleven Thousand Nights"Mariangeles Soto-Diaz "Gifting Abstraction"Julie Karabenick "Color—Form—Structure" Opening Reception: Thursday October 6th, 6-8pm Organized by SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery | Type: exhibition
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October 6, 2011 at 10pm to November 19, 2011 at 2pm – Madrid- Spain Museo Tiflológico de la ONCE Desde 6/10/2011 Hasta 19/11/2011 C/ La Coruña, 18 28020 Madrid Entrada gratuitaJosé Manuel Solares, nace en Madrid en 1965. Artista autodidacta, con experiencia durante v… Organized by José Manuel Solares | Type: exposición
October 7, 2011 at 1:30pm to November 25, 2011 at 6:30pm – 110 CHURCH | gallery Consider the connection/disconnection between memory and discarded artifacts of communication. If old letters, photographs, or videos are connected to past events in our lives — what happens when the… Organized by heavy bubble | Type: exhibition
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First on the high seas and later high in the air, Gerrett Walter Gregory became skilled at almost anything he attempted. He served his country, saved lives and contributed to the local aviation community along the way.
"Gerrett was a self-made man, very self-reliant," said Ann Collica, a family friend, who participated with Mr. Gregory in the Coast Guard Auxiliary. "The Auxiliary involves safety and assisting people in trouble.
"Most of us worked in boats, but Gerrett was strictly in the air. He loved planes."
During retirement, Mr. Gregory was active in a number of aviation-related organizations, including the auxiliary, Experimental Aircraft Association and the Flying Samaritans. In the 1980s and 90s, he inspected and signed off on certified aircraft for the Federal Aviation Agency's annual inspections at Brown Field Municipal Airport in San Diego.
Gerrett Gregory died of congestive heart failure on April 12 at his home in Sacramento. He was 94.
Mr. Gregory was born on Nov. 29, 1918, in Henderson, N.Y. He grew up on the family farm and entered the U.S. Coast Guard in 1938, becoming a Surfman, or coxswain. That year, during the Great New England Hurricane, he and his crew made a harrowing rescue at the eastern end of Lake Ontario.
Just before World War II began, Mr. Gregory became an assault-boat instructor for Navy troops and Marines. After three years, he returned to the Lake Ontario station and later served in Alaska. He retired as a chief petty officer in 1958.
Having been in San Diego earlier as a coast guard instructor, Mr. Gregory moved with his family to Chula Vista in 1958, where he lived until 2011. He worked as an industrial engineer for Rohr Aircraft for 15 years.
Mr. Gregory was not formally educated, but completed the GED for his high school diploma in 1950. He obtained state certification as a Professional Industrial Engineer by passing a test, rather than having the usual educational requirements.
"While at Rohr, my dad was a troubleshooter," said his son Larry Gregory. "He was genius. He told me that at Rohr, he was given a room and a draftsman's board and told to 'think of something'."
An example of "something" was his contribution to the creation of ground-effect machines or air-cushion vehicles.
In retirement, he enjoyed fixing planes and flying with his wife throughout Southern California and to Mexico. He wrote poetry and nonfiction, particularly about his exploits as a Surfman. He loved dogs and was a "killer bridge player," his son said.
Mr. Gregory is survived by Helen Louise Gregory, his wife of 70 years; daughters Jill Joseph of Sacramento, and Barbara Gregory of Vienna, Va.; sons Larry Gregory of Atascadero, and Garry Gregory of Bonney Lake, Wash.; five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Services have been held. The family suggests donations to the Coast Guard Mutual Assistance, the coast guard's official military relief society.


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The Vision Iowa Board approved the grant Wednesday at a meeting in Des Moines.
The money will go toward a $7.6 million project that includes four Little League fields, a Babe Ruth field and five multi-purpose fields on 105 acres. A concession stand, batting cages, playground and picnic area also are planned.
The state grant is contingent on organizers completing fundraising within 30 days.


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It's June Dairy Month! We have a number of collections here in the Special Collections Department which relate to dairy, and to name a few those include the Iowa State Dairy Association Records (where you can see the activities and promotional events of past June Dairy Months here in Iowa), various Iowa State University Dairy Science Department Records (under RS 9/11), and the patent for the process of making blue cheese developed here at Iowa State – and adopted by Maytag Blue Cheese (under RS 23/01/03).
Iowa State College's (now University) Iowa Blue Cheese. Photograph taken in 1934.
However, this post will highlight a new collection we recently brought into the department, the Arthur Rudnick Papers. Rudnick was a long time educator and leader in Iowa's dairy industry. He worked at Iowa State as a professor of dairying from 1913 through 1970. During much of his career he served as Iowa State's extension specialist in dairy manufacturing and developed one of the first dairy manufacturing Extension programs in the country. He retired from the Department of Dairy and Food Industry after more than fifty years of service to the University. In addition to his role as an educator, Rudnick also worked to improve the dairy industry by involving himself in other professional opportunities. He served as a delegate to the 1937 World Dairy Congress held in Berlin, Germany. The World Dairy Congress was held August 22-28th and included over 3,700 delegates from 52 countries. In 1951 Rudnick returned to Europe as a member of a team of farm specialists sent to seek out qualified farm families for immigration to the United States under the Displaced Persons Act.
Arthur Rudnick in 1953 (from the University Photograph Collection, 16-3-A, box 1357)
The collection includes a travel diary documenting Rudnick's 1937 trip to Europe as a delegate to the World Dairy Congress. Rudnick carefully details his trip, even recording the topics of speakers he listened to at the World Dairy Congress. Pasted into the diary are numerous publications he collected on the trip, mostly written in German, about the dairy industry in England, Germany, and other parts of Europe. Also included in the collection is an article (published in 1919 in the Journal of Dairy Science) in which he describes the process of making buttermilk cheese. At that time, Rudnick states, buttermilk was one of the largest creamery by-products and was often an unprofitable product.
Photograph from the 1937 World Dairy Congress in Berlin, Germany. (RS 16/3/67, box 1, folder 3)
Rudnick's diary from 1937 forms the heart of this small collection, and can be a fascinating read about the dairy industry in Europe (mainly Germany and England) in 1937. On page 211 of the diary, in which he describes plants he visited in London on September 14, Rudnick quickly skips from discussing infested milk bottles to pasteurization: "One of the peculiar things is that the housewife does not pretend to send the dairy a clean bottle. We were told that it is not at all uncommon for a plant to receive bottles that had maggots. London has about 90% of its milk pasteurized, the rest is for the most part certified…" In this same entry, Rudnick discusses pasteurizers, aluminum bottle caps, the plant's production line, and London's Milk Board.
To read more about Rudnick's 1937 trip, please visit the Special Collections Department. The finding aid for the Arthur W. Rudnick Papers can be found here.


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Bank Ordered Sale!
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Thursday, October 12th @ 1:00PM-Onsite
108 Third St., Norway (Orangeburg County) SC 29113
Property Description: 1,288+/- SF House with 3 Bedrooms and 1 Bath.
- Tax Map# 0054-06-08-007.000
- 2016 Taxes were $484 (Seller will pay all back taxes, if any, and 2017 taxes will be prorated up until the date of closing)
- Seller guarantees marketable title free of any liens to be conveyed through a Limited Warranty Deed.
Broker Participation Invited: A Two Percent (2%) Commission will be paid on the final contract price to any properly registered broker whose prospect purchases real estate at the auction and closes in full. Please see Auction Terms for full details.
Property Inspection: Call for an appointment
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Closing Attorney: Closing attorney fees paid by buyer.
Contact Rickey Heaton at 864-350-0323 with any questions regarding this property or the auction process.
AUCTION REGISTRATION: Auction registration will begin one half hour before each auction. In order to register, you must present a valid drivers license or other form of identification, and evidence of a checkbook or other means of paying the required earnest money deposit. ALL AUCTIONS ARE ONSITE UNLESS NOTED.
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AUCTION INFORMATION OFFICES: The auction information office is located at 26 Seashell Ct., Simpsonville, SC 29681, phone 1-800-766-7110. Fax: (864) 228-3582. Brochures, Auction Real Estate Sales Contracts, and other information may be obtained by calling the office, or by visiting our website at www.palmettoauction.com.
TERMS OF SALE FOR REAL ESTATE: Successful bidders will pay an initial earnest money deposit of ten (10%) of the purchase price (bid amount plus buyer's premium), or as otherwise noted in the listing. Upon conclusion of the bidding, bidder will sign an Auction Real Estate Sales Contract, and may write a locally drawn personal or business check for the required earnest money deposit. The earnest money deposit is non-refundable for all sales.
Closing must occur within 30 days following the auction unless extended in writing by mutual consent of the parties. It is purchaser's responsibility to schedule closings. Buyer not closing within the contractual time period to close may forfeit his/her earnest money deposit. Failure to schedule the closing does not relieve purchaser of obligation to close or forfeit earnest money. The successful bidder for the property shall execute an Auction Real Estate Sales Contract for the property immediately after being declared the successful bidder by auctioneer. A form Auction Real Estate Sales Contract is available from the auctioneers. The Auction Real Estate Sales Contract which successful bidders must sign at the auction contains an acknowledgment that the purchaser has inspected the property prior to the auction, is relying solely on his/her inspection, and is purchasing the property As Is with all faults and without reliance on any warranty of any kind whatsoever. NO CHANGES WILL BE MADE TO SAID AUCTION REAL ESTATE SALES CONTRACT OR ANY EXHIBITS ATTACHED THERETO, AND THE HIGH BIDDER WILL BE OBLIGATED TO EXECUTE AND DELIVER SAID AUCTION REAL ESTATE SALES CONTRACT ON AUCTION DAY. Provided, however, Seller reserves the right to modify or amend said Auction Real Estate Sales Contract, to complete blank sections, to attach appropriate exhibits, and to comply with state and local laws as may be enacted or amended from time to time.
BUYER'S PREMIUM: Unless noted otherwise, property sold at this auction will be sold with a ten (10%) percent buyer's premium. The bid amount plus buyer's premium equals the final purchase price. For example: A $1,000 bid, plus the $100 buyer's premium, equals the $1,100 final purchase price.
FINANCING: Please note that financing is NOT a contingency of any of the auctions. Because financing is NOT a contingency, the Auctioneer and Seller strongly recommend that all potential bidders make certain in advance that they are capable of obtaining the necessary financing to close the transaction.
PLATS/SKETCHES/DRAWINGS AND PHOTOS: Are not to be relied on. Existing legal descriptions are not guaranteed for complete accuracy. All acreage and dimensions are approximate and could be subject to change upon an actual field survey. It is purchaser's responsibility to verify all information provided herein. All stakes, signs or flags indicating boundaries or location are for general location purposes only and are not to be construed as precise property corners.
KEYS: Neither Auctioneer nor Sellers warrant key availability on any property. If available, keys will be provided at closing. However, bidders are strongly advised to re-key any properties immediately after closing.
AUCTION POWER OF ATTORNEY: For interested bidders who cannot attend the auction but would like to have a representative bid at the auction on their behalf, an Auction Power of Attorney can be obtained by contacting the Auction Information Office at 1-800-766-7110.
EASEMENTS: All property sold is subject to recorded easements which include existing roads and planned roads, power line and other utility easements, ingress and egress easements, and other easements of record.
BUYER'S NOTE: Auctioneer reserves the right to add or delete property from this auction or to alter the order of sale from that published herein. Personal on-site inspection of the property is strongly recommended. Failure to inspect property prior to auction does not relieve purchaser of contractual obligations of purchase. Property sells As Is – Where Is with no warranties expressed or implied. Real property to be conveyed by special warranty deed. Only the following sale closing costs will be paid by seller: (1) Commissions or brokerage fees to auctioneer and/or cooperating Brokers as set forth in separate agreement with auctioneer, and as established in these Terms and Conditions; (2) Reasonable title corrective expenses, in Seller's sole determination; and (3) Prorated property taxes and back taxes due, if any. All other closing costs, including but not limited to surveys, title examination, loan closing costs, and closing attorney fees are at the expense of the Buyer.
Loan closing costs are at the buyer's expense, if buyer chooses to finance the property. Information was gathered from reliable sources and is believed to be correct as of the date this brochure is published, however, this information has not been independently verified by sellers or auctioneers. Its accuracy is not warranted in any way including, but not limited to, information set forth herein concerning property taxes, easements, utilities, covenants and restrictions, zoning, acreage of parcel, and nature of improvements. There is no obligation on the part of Sellers or Auctioneer to update this information. ALL ANNOUNCEMENTS MADE AT THE AUCTION TAKE PRECEDENCE OVER ALL ADVERTISING. The sellers do not have any liabilities whatsoever for any oral or written representations, warranties or agreements relating to the property (including information appearing in this brochure or announcements made at the time of the auction) except as expressly set forth in the Auction Real Estate Sales Contract. Buyers accept all conditions, restrictions, and easements of record. There is no minimum starting bid required on any unit. Bid increments are at the sole discretion of auctioneer. Properties which are not indicated in the listings as selling regardless of price are sold with reserve. Bidder acknowledges that seller and auctioneer and their employees, agents, affiliates, and associates reserve the right to place bids on properties sold with reserve up to the seller's reserve price, at their sole discretion. Neither seller, auctioneer, nor their representatives may bid above the reserve price. There is no obligation on the part of the sellers to accept any backup bids in the event the high bid falls through.
BROKER PARTICIPATION INVITED: Unless noted otherwise in property listing or herein, a broker commission of twenty (20%) of Auctioneer commission will be paid on real estate. For most transactions, this will equate to a commission of two (2%) of the bid amount of that transaction. In keeping with the Sherman Anti-trust Laws, commissions between a Seller and the Auctioneer are confidential and not discussed. A commission will be paid to the properly licensed broker whose prospect purchases and closes on the real estate. To qualify for a commission, the Broker must register by email or fax on the attached Buyer's Broker Participation Form which must be signed by the prospect and the Broker, and must be received at the office of Palmetto Auction & Realty, LLC no later than 5:00 PM two (2) days prior to each auction via fax or mail. Broker must also attend the auction and sign the Auction Real Estate Sales Contract if their client is the winning bidder. Commissions to be paid only upon closing. A Broker cannot act as a principal and a broker on the same transaction.
LEAD BASED PAINT: It is possible that homes sold in this auction, built prior to 1978, may have lead based paint. Pursuant to HUD and EPA regulations, prospective bidders at this auction are advised to satisfy themselves prior to the auction as to the existence or non-existence of lead based paint in any home they intend to purchase. Successful bidders are advised to satisfy themselves of same at least ten (10) days prior to auction. The "Auction Real Estate Sales Contract" will include a Federal form about lead based paint; seller and successful bidder will acknowledge same at the signing of the aforesaid Contract. Bidders are encouraged to contact the auctioneer for a copy of the EPA pamphlet regarding lead based paints. Auction bidders expressly waive the right to cancel the sale following the auction if lead based paint is found afterward. Buyer hereby holds harmless the sellers, auctioneer, attorneys, their assignees, agents, employees, etc. from any and all responsibility of any kind associated with lead based paint in any of the properties purchased.
DISCLOSURE: In all transactions, the auctioneers are acting as agents for the Seller, not as buyer's agents.
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His comments came at the technology panel, which was discussing how Europe could deliver 33% of its power needs from wind by 2030. Developers weary from crossing grounded Europe by bus, train or car might have allowed themselves a wry smile when Kuhn cast doubt on manufacturers' performance claims. "Calculated turbine reliability figures do not automatically represent actual operational reliability," he said, adding that this chronic lack of understanding is the weakest link of the wind power industry.
Danish rotor blade supplier LM Wind Power has invested in a wind tunnel and computational fluid dynamics to help mimic field performance and help the firm design its blades. It aims to achieve within the next five years a 10% increase in turbine output while maintaining the same loads envelope with a simultaneous 20% reduction in costs. Yet Frank Nielsen, chief technology officer at LM, admitted that his modelling often coughed up rather different results to those experienced in the field.
Former chief executive of Hansen Transmissions Ivan Brems stressed the importance of being able to more accurately simulate computer-based wind turbine dynamics behaviour, including impact loads, parallel to actually determining these loads based upon actual measurement results. With this and continued turbine upscaling in mind, Hansen has further invested heavily in a 13MW gearbox test stand.
For his part, Kuhn said turbines are getting increasingly complex. Yet he added that built-in sensors that continuously monitor several functions have proven to be unreliable. Simultaneously, supervisory control and data acquisition (Scada) systems produce only synthesised, rather than real, analysis of the data that is made available.
The panel discussion soon moved to an ongoing conundrum surrounding materials. Should the industry make the most of tried and tested products or adopt innovative materials in the hope that it can improve performance? Nielsen sees a lot of potential in improving current composite materials rather than embracing the new. "We are in a constant battle in the choice for optimal resins and fibre combinations," he said. "This includes the question of whether to use polyester or epoxy-based composites. Another key question is how to remain cost-effective. And why should one consider using carbon fibres? These have the same strength properties as glass fibres, but greater stiffness and higher prices."
He has mixed feelings about the concept of producing future wind turbine components, such as rotor hubs and towers, from composite materials.
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On a question of whether the industry should develop lightweight nervous fast-reacting offshore wind turbines, Henning Kruse, senior export manager at Siemens Wind Power, said that the sector above all requires reliable wind turbines. "Turbine mass will no doubt go down," he said. "But this should never be at the expense of quality."
Warming to Kruse's theme, ABB manager Claus Madsen said that nobody wants to gamble on offshore - and that proven track record is the key. He drew a parallel with the world of so-called small wind or micro-turbines, where new concepts are being constantly developed and launched with wildly varying degrees of success. "There failures have a relatively minor effect," he said. "But with mainstream wind technology, taking large risks can have big effects."
In spite of the sparring over testing systems and materials, the technology panel was not immune to that favourite debate of the wind sector: geared-drive versus direct-drive. Kuhn said that a general wind industry mood appears to favour direct-driven permanent magnet generator (PMG) solutions. For his part, Madsen argued that multiple drive concepts are being studied at the moment but added that PMG might indeed become the leading next-generation generator technology.
Geared-drive specialist Brems argued instead that for many years direct-drive systems have commanded a global market share of only 10-14%. He said that this fairly meek hold on the market indicates that prophecies of direct-drive turbines taking over in the near future are overblown. Brems also quoted study results that showed that direct-drive turbines become heavier compared to geared systems once they exceed a 2MW nameplate rating. But Brems' view is not supported by recent direct-drive product developments. For example, the new 3MW direct-drive Siemens SWT-3.0-101 nacelle weighs 73 tonnes, versus 82 tonnes for the older design 2.3MW SWT-2.3-93 geared wind turbine.
Supersize search
Over the years, turbines have become larger and larger. Will this trend ever stop? Onshore, Kruse said thinks it will. Onshore installations will not get much bigger, he said. But offshore is a different story. In the past, attempts have been made to predict maximum turbine size. Many studies indicate upscaling will not end at 10MW, but 10-15MW might be likely. Brems added that he foresaw no constraints on building gearboxes for these future behemoths.
But Kuhn urged caution over the race to grow. "An issue for me is how to reduce both risks and costs," he said. "It requires, instead, much better overall technical and overall insight. The new generation of large wind turbines will perhaps also require completely new suppliers prepared to develop something totally different."
Madsen, too, struck a more bearish tone on supersize machines. "A (better) question for me is how small can one get," he said. "Smaller size turbines are suitable for many different applications."
Kruse argued that, in order to achieve a 20% renewables goal for Europe by 2020, mature technologies are required. "Such a strategy requires reliable industrial components and systems - not fancy new technologies," he said. "In this respect we have learned a lot from automotive experiences with mass production. For the offshore market, we should take a wider view at the total process and not only focus on the actual wind turbines."
Finally, an interesting topic was raised. Is the industry right in its thrust for fully equipped offshore wind turbines - or would it be better to install simple offshore turbines with all power electronics placed onshore? Madsen argued that the sector should continue on its current path. "We are still amid a process that is focused on achieving higher reliability with today's technology," he said. "Who will be prepared to take the huge risk and provide the necessary finance to engage in an alternative that has never been tested before?"
That question could apply to many innovative ideas in the wind sector. Indeed, most of those who overcame the hellish ash from Iceland's volcano to make it to EWEC advised the industry to stick with the devil it knew.
Until not long ago the number of suppliers that offered onshore turbines rated at 3MW-plus was limited to only a couple. Vestas had its V90-3.0MW while Winwind offered its WWD-3. Now an increasing number of leading wind turbine suppliers have entered the market - indicating a major new onshore wind industry trend.
Late in 2009, Siemens erected a prototype of its lightweight SWT-3.0-101 direct-drive prototype, while Vestas released a prototype of a new geared V112-3.0MW turbine.
At the April Hannover international industry fair, Enercon of Germany introduced its new generation of 3MW direct-drive wind turbines with liquid-cooled generators. And at EWEC, Repower presented new 3.2MW and 3.4MW sister products.
A parallel trend is that rotor diameters are increasing faster than turbines' rated power, an industry-wide strategy clearly aimed as a yield-boosting measure. For example, in 2002 a 90-metre rotor was considered state of the art in the 3MW class, but today's rotor diameter range covers 100-116m. Note that a 112-metre rotor has a 55% greater swept area than a 90-metre blade, so the upgrade is more significant than the numbers initially suggest. Vestas quotes that for a common location with an annual average wind speed at hub height of 6.7m/s, a V112-3.0MW, which has 112-metre blade, has a 38% greater energy production than a V90-3.0MW, which has a 90-metre blade.
Many years after MBB of Germany and Riva Galzoni of Italy ceased making single-blade wind turbines, Spanish Zaragoza-based Ades Wind Turbine is trying its fortunes again. The ambitious company has developed a highly innovative pitch-controlled downwind turbine loaded with many unusual technology features and showed a much-visited scale model in Warsaw to a critical audience. Ades project engineer Fabian Moyano said that four 250kW, 30m rotor diameter prototypes will be erected this month in Spain, following a 15-year product development period. One inherent problem with single-blade turbines has always been a high rotor blade tip speed (m/s) that often has resulted in an excessive aerodynamic noise level.
A rotor blade tip section is the fastest moving outer blade part. The maximum tip speed of the Ades 250kW is 116 m/s, whereas about 82-85 m/s is a common value for most three-blade turbines. Possible benefits of single-blade turbines are reduced nacelle and rotor mass, and potential cost savings on one or two additional blades that are otherwise required. That said, a counter-weight has to be fitted at the missing rotor blade position. A key single-blade turbine disadvantage is its aerodynamically and dynamically unbalanced rotor. With three blades or more the rotor is aerodynamically and dynamically balanced, whereas with two-blade machines the rotor is dynamically unbalanced.


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Interested in help from Dr. Oz? Go here and enter your information. Dr. Oz is doing a show on Celiac Disease on December 10, 2009.
I just have to say that since Jon & I were diagnosed in 2006, the gluten-free diet & diagnosing Celiac Disease has come such a long way. This makes me all warm & fuzzy inside for more that just 1 reason. Most importantly, I hate for people to suffer if they don't have to. If gluten is making you sick in one way, shape or form, a gluten-free diet can only help. Secondly, the availability of gluten-free food in grocery stores and restaurants has just exploded. I can only imagine what it was like 10 years ago, let alone 20.
So, kudos to all who work hard to get the word out there. There are so many people & companies that are making the gluten-free diet easier to follow & going to great lengths to get the word out about Celiac Disease. I even saw a letter in my January Runner's World this morning from a reader! She wrote in to thank RW for including quinoa pasta in the list of pastas to eat in the last issue. Baby steps really do add up. 🙂
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Upon your arrival, get ready to experience southern charm and hospitality, as Columbus, Mississippi is known as "The Friendly City". Columbus Air Force Base is located in Northeast Mississippi nearby the Tombigbee River. From the bright and sunny summers to moderate winters, everyone can enjoy a wide range of activities year-round. This website is newly designed to help you make the most out of your time here. At the top of the page you'll see drop down menus that can give you all of the information you may need on upcoming events, organizations, as well as the local & surrounding area.
Want to let us know how we're doing? Please use the Interactive Customer Evaluation (ICE) program to leave us feedback. Customer service is our number one priority, and we want to ensure we are doing the very best that we can to serve you!
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State and federal agriculture officials on Wednesday warned that destructive Asian beetles have been found near a Sacramento warehouse and dispatched federal firefighters to climb nearby trees to search for traces of the insects.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. State and federal agriculture officials on Wednesday warned that destructive Asian beetles have been found near a Sacramento warehouse and dispatched federal firefighters to climb nearby trees to search for traces of the insects.
Officials believe at least three Asian longhorned beetles arrived last month as stowaways in wooden crates along with a shipment of tiles from China. Two of the beetles were found outside a privately operated warehouse at the former McClellan Air Force Base.
The beetle -- an inch-long, bullet-shaped insect with white freckles and long antennae -- is known for its voracious appetite for hardwood trees such as maple, birch, elm, poplar and sycamore. Oak trees, one of California's best-known hardwoods, are at low risk for infestation, said Steve Lyle, a spokesman for the California Department of Food and Agriculture.
This is the first time the beetles have been found outdoors in the state, said Matt Mathes, a spokesman for the U.S. Forest Service.
"Since they can fly, we were concerned more might have escaped, and we don't want an epidemic starting. That's why we undertook such an aggressive approach," he said.
A search of nearly 200 trees in the area around the warehouse has not turned up any signs of additional insects.
Outbreaks of the beetles have plagued forests and parks in New York, New Jersey and Illinois since the beetle was discovered in the U.S. in 1996. State and federal agencies have spent $168 million on eradication efforts, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates.
The beetles kill trees because they tunnel into them and lay eggs in their bark. The larvae then consume the trees from the inside before emerging as adults. Insecticide is useless once the eggs hatch.
The state will continue to monitor the region around the warehouse over the next year, said Pat Minyard, director of the state Department of Food and Agriculture. Nearly 200 beetle traps have been set in the area.
Since Monday, a team of four U.S. Forest Service smokejumpers, firefighters trained in parachuting into forest fires, have been searching for traces of the beetles. Smokejumpers are trained to climb trees because their gear is dropped by parachute and often gets tangled in branches.
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Jenny and Ashley Share Family Photos in Scrapbook-Style 'You Made My Yesterday' Clip – Video Premiere
Country duo Jenny & Ashley have a new single out, and of course the YouTube sensations have a new music video to go along with it. The sisters have released 'You Made My Yesterday' in this lyric video, premiering exclusively on Taste of Country.
The four minute-long clip applies some creative digital scrapbooking. Sixteen-year-old Jenny and 15-year-old Ashley share family photos while telling the moving story of small acts that make a big difference in one's life. The first verse sounds autobiographical, as the girls sing about moving to Tennessee and leaving old friends behind.
The second verse is the story of a man and wife saying goodbye as he heads off to war. The third verse is the story of a little boy who's fighting for his life, but lights up at the chance to meet his hero.
"I'll say it right now / Just so you know / I'm never gonna let this memory go / And you, you've changed my world / In every way / I have to say it today / I'm not afraid / No I'm not afraid / If tomorrow never comes because you made my yesterday," the girls sing.
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Houston's bid for Super Bowl LI received a major boost Friday when Florida lawmakers ended a 60-day legislative session without approving a plan that would have provided a $350 million upgrade for Sun Life Stadium in Miami.
Houston is bidding for the 2017 Super Bowl against South Florida or San Francisco — the city that doesn't win the NFL owners' vote for Super Bowl L.
The owners will vote on Super Bowls L and LI on May 21-23 at the league meetings in Boston.
Members of Houston's bid committee were careful to not sound too confident after learning South Florida would not get the $350 million in taxpayer funding to improve the Dolphins' stadium.
"This definitely improves our chance to get the Super Bowl," said Ric Campo, chairman of the bid committee. "Miami's stadium is woefully in need of repairs and upgrades to (Super Bowl) standards. Even after repairs, it wouldn't come close to what we have at Reliant Stadium.
"If Miami isn't willing to invest capital to make their facility world class, that puts them at a disadvantage. It improves our competitive advantage."
The 49ers are moving into a new stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., next to the team's practice facility.
Dolphins owner Stephen Ross had lobbied Florida politicians to approve a plan for providing tax dollars for the renovations that would have gone before voters May 14. Without the approved plan, there will be no referendum.
Houston's Super Bowl committee continues to polish its bid before making the presentation to the owners in Boston.
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Panasonic Establishes "A Better Life, A Better World" as its New Brand Slogan
Osaka, Japan – Panasonic Corporation today announced that it has established "A Better Life, A Better World" as its new brand slogan to show the vision the Panasonic Group is aiming for towards the 100th anniversary of its founding in 2018.
The new brand slogan is based on the unchanging Basic Management Objective the company has adhered to since its founding, and expresses the vision and direction the company is striving to achieve.
"A Better Life, A Better World" encapsulates Panasonic's vision of expanding and pursuing a better life for each individual customer with its various partners in various spaces and fields, such as the home, the community, in business, in travel and in the car, and realizing a better world globally through its contribution to the environment and other activities, in both its B2C and B2B businesses.
The new brand slogan will be used globally from September, 2013, primarily to express Panasonic's corporate vision and attitude. The company has also developed an original font as a symbol of its innovation.
Panasonic is globally proclaiming that it will transform into a company that shares excitement and empathy with its customers and the company is determined to make a robust recovery as a unique company, a company unlike any other in the world.


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