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Corn futures are trading 1 to 2 1/4 cents higher in most contracts on Friday. USDA did not update their monthly reports today due to the partial government shutdown. Turkey is seeking 342,000 MT of optional origin corn, with the tender due on January 18. The Chinese Ag Ministry updated their 18/19 corn crop estimate at 257.33 MMT, which is compared to 259.07 MMT last year. The Buenos Aires Grain Exchange estimates that 86.1% of the Argentine corn crop is planted, slightly below a year ago. Of the crop that is emerged, 51.1% is in gd/ex condition, compared to 29.3% last year. An updated estimate from Safras & Mercado shows Brazil's 18/19 corn crop at 93.366 MMT, down 1.53 from their prior estimate.
Mar 19 Corn is at $3.78, up 1 3/4 cents,
May 19 Corn is at $3.86 1/2, up 2 cents,
Jul 19 Corn is at $3.94 1/2, up 2 1/4 cents
Sep 19 Corn is at $3.97 1/4, up 2 1/4 cents
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Soybean futures are up 4 to 5 1/4 as yesterday's sellers take some profits off the table ahead of the weekend. Soymeal futures are down $1.70/ton to weigh on the product values, with soy oil up 16 points. Argentina's soybean crop was reported at 96.1% planted according to BAGE, vs 94.3% in 2018. There is also 29.1% of the crop blooming compared to 33.3% last year, with condition ratings 8.6% above a year ago at 48.8% gd/ex. Safras & Mercado slashed their 18/19 Brazilian soybean crop projection by 6.5 MMT to 115.72 MMT. That comes after CONAB trimmed their estimate to 118.8 MMT on Thursday. The Chinese Ag ministry left their soybean import projection at 83.65 MMT, down 10.48 MMT from last year on assumed lower use due to ration changes away from soy meal and herd losses due to ASF.
Jan 19 Soybeans are at $9.00 3/4, up 5 1/4 cents,
Mar 19 Soybeans are at $9.11, up 4 1/4 cents,
May 19 Soybeans are at $9.24 3/4, up 4 1/2 cents,
Jul 19 Soybeans are at $9.37, up 4 3/4 cents,
Jan 19 Soybean Meal is at $310.90, down $1.70
Jan 19 Soybean Oil is at $28.10, up $0.16
--provided by Brugler Marketing & Management
Wheat futures are posting strong 7 to 8 1/4 cent gains in the winter wheat contracts on Friday, with MPLS up 4 to 5 cents. US wheat at the moment is close to $1.50 under Black Sea wheat prices at the ports. Tunisia, Morocco and Jordan are all active in the market after Egypt made their big purchase earlier in the week. DTN reported their HRW cash index at $4.73 on Thursday evening, 93 cents above the same time at year ago. The Argentine wheat crop is 95.6% harvested as reported by BAGE, 0.4% below this time in 2018. Total harvested production has totaled 17.948 MMT. Paris wheat milling futures were up 0.61% on the day.
Mar 19 CBOT Wheat is at $5.22, up 8 1/4 cents,
Mar 19 KCBT Wheat is at $5.06 3/4, up 8 cents,
Mar 19 MGEX Wheat is at $5.68 3/4, up 4 3/4 cents
--provided by Brugler Marketing & Management
Live cattle futures are trading 35 to 65 cents higher in the front months at midday. Feeder cattle futures are mixed, with most contracts higher and nearby Jan down 20 cents. The CME feeder cattle index was down 15 cents on January 9 at $145.55. Wholesale boxed beef prices were lower on Friday morning. Choice boxes were down $1.14 at $212.82, with Select 63 cents lower at $207.14. USDA estimated WTD FI cattle slaughter at 477,000 head through Thursday. That was 5,000 head above the same week last year. Cash bids on Friday are mostly $122, with asks still around $125-126.
Feb 19 Cattle are at $125.525, up $0.650,
Apr 19 Cattle are at $126.450, up $0.525,
Jun 19 Cattle are at $117.725, up $0.350,
Jan 19 Feeder Cattle are at $146.550, down $0.200
Mar 19 Feeder Cattle are at $145.300, up $0.225
Apr 19 Feeder Cattle are at $146.150, up $0.475
--provided by Brugler Marketing & Management
Lean Hog futures are down 77.5 cents to $1.40 at midday on Friday. The CME Lean Hog Index was up 89 cents from the previous day @ $55.99 on January 9. The USDA pork carcass cutout value was up $2.59 on Friday morning at an average weighted price of $73.05. The belly was up $10.90, with the picnic $6.62 higher. The national base cash hog carcass value was 40 cents lower in the AM report, with a weighted average of $50.68. This week's FI hog slaughter through Thursday was estimated at 1.9 million head, which was 91,000 head larger than the same week last year.
Feb 19 Hogs are at $63.025, down $1.050,
Apr 19 Hogs are at $67.075, down $0.775
May 19 Hogs are at $72.575, down $1.325
--provided by Brugler Marketing & Management
Cotton futures are showing 15 to 20 point losses in the nearby contracts to end the week. The dollar is steady, with crude lower at midday. The Cotlook A index was up 155 points from the previous day on January 10 at 82.60 cents/lb. There will be no CFTC commitment of Traders report this afternoon, and the Cotton Ginnings update from USDA is also delayed thanks to the shutdown.
Mar 19 Cotton is at 72.7, down 15 points,
May 19 Cotton is at 74.17, down 19 points
Jul 19 Cotton is at 75.47, down 20 points
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Nearly two years before 9/11, America's largest intelligence agency was tracking three of the Al Qaeda hijackers. But that information, obtained by the National Security agency, wasn't analyzed in a way that could uncover the plot.
Inside the super-secret NSA, several analysts and managers believed that the agency had a powerful tool that might've had a chance to head off 9/11, but it wasn't used.
As Scott Pelley first reported in May, one of those agency insiders was Thomas Drake, who thought that taxpayer money was being wasted on useless intelligence gathering projects while promising technology was ignored.
Drake tried to get the word out but, as a result, he was charged under the Espionage Act and accused of betraying his country. Drake says that the only thing he betrayed was NSA mismanagement that undermined national security.
After a long career in U.S. intelligence, Drake never imagined he'd be labeled an enemy of the United States. As a young airman, he flew spy missions in the Cold War; in the Navy, he analyzed intelligence for the joint chiefs at the Pentagon.
Later, he worked for defense contractors in the highly technical world of electronic eavesdropping. He became an expert in sophisticated, top secret computer software programs and ultimately rose, in 2001, to a senior executive job at the NSA.
Drake told correspondent Scott Pelley his first day on the job was Sept. 11, 2001.
"NSA went into immediate crisis management mode. We had failed to protect the United States of America," he told Pelley.
Asked if he felt that was a failure of the NSA, Drake told Pelley, "The entire national security establishment - it was a failure, a fundamental systemic breakdown."
Part of the failure at the NSA, the largest U.S. intelligence agency, was in its old technology. The agency eavesdrops on the communications of the world. But in the 1990s it was becoming ineffective, overwhelmed by the explosion of digital data.
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"Vast volumes of data streaming across all kinds of different networks, wired, wireless, phones, computers, you name it," Drake explained.
"And what does that look like to NSA? Coming into building in Maryland?" Pelley asked.
"Choking on it," Drake said. "Just incredible amounts. Even just storing it was becoming a challenge."
Most of what the agency collected went unanalyzed, including clues pointing to 9/11. Kirk Wiebe and Bill Binney were career NSA intelligence analysts who were working on the problem.
"We were greatly saddened and shocked by 9/11, but it didn't come as a total surprise. We knew there was a vulnerability, a lack of understanding of the data that put NSA in a weak position," Wiebe said.
Recognizing that vulnerability in the late 1990s, Binney, a legendary NSA mathematician, led development of a revolutionary computer system to collect, isolate and connect important information like phone calls and financial transactions. Its code name was "Thin Thread."
"Thin Thread was fundamentally dedicated to collecting and processing and ultimately analyzing the vast reams of digital data. It was a breakthrough solution," Drake explained.
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Former Slave and Award Winning Humanitarian to Speak at SUNY Canton, November 14Monday, November 3rd, 2008
CANTON – An upcoming SUNY Canton guest speaker helps children escape the horrors he once faced as a childhood slave in Africa.
Anywar Ricky Richard, who is the 2008 Harriett Tubman Committee Freedom Award Winner, will be presenting his tale of overcoming social injustice by escaping from childhood slavery at 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 14, in the Richard W. Miller Campus Center Kingston Theater. This event is sponsored by the SUNY Canton Character Development Committee and the SUNY Canton Spiritual Life Committee. This event is free and open to the public.
Richard and his brother were just 2 of 25,000 Ugandan children abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army and forced into slavery as child soldiers. The 22 year old war is all that most of those children have ever known. All of the children see and do what no child should ever experience.
"Sometimes I fear people forget that slavery is still a problem in modern society," said William J. Fassinger, Associate Professor of Criminal Investigation and Character Development Committee member. "Anywar Ricky Richard knows first-hand about the political turmoil that is going on right now in the world. He beat the system and overcame the odds."
Richard has since returned to the war zone and turned his freedom into a lifeline for other child slaves. In 1999, Ricky and his friends started Friends of Orphans, an organization dedicated to empower and reintegrate former child soldiers into the very society torn apart by atrocities the children were forced to commit. They carry out their peace building projects through organizing music, cultural, and sports programs, among other life reclaiming activities.
Fassinger explained that Daniel G. Fay, Professor of Accounting, recommended Richard for this presentation. Fay's son John, who is works for a foundation investing in emerging markets, had heard Richard speak in Washington D.C.
"He is one of the most riveting speakers he had ever heard," Fay said. "Mr. Richard's story epitomizes the worst and best of humankind. Anyone who listens will be deeply moved."
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Talking with TriCoast Worldwide at the AFM, I learned of an exciting new invention.
If you haven't heard or seen eBooks, you're living in the Dark Ages. Those of us who know about eBooks have seen vast growth in the market especially with the advent of the Kindle. Since it's the motto of Hollywood to take something and make it better, that is exactly what Marcy Levitas Hamilton, CEO of Tri Coast Worldwide, has done. Ms. Hamilton and her daughter, Daisy, have come up with the idea of adding visuals to eBooks. The 25 year old TriCostal Worldwide, which is known for its wide selection of movie genres, has hit on a winner.
This new invention is sue to sweep the literary industry. Not only does it have the story and script, but it features behind the scene interviews with the artists, directors, writers, etc. It's almost like the special additions that we get at the end of DVDs.
Taking advantage of the new eVBook is a snap. Just like the Kindle, it's available to be read everywhere. Despite the visuals, there is no need of streaming or wi fi. It is truly an anywhere event. The visuals, all embedded into the books, are amazing. These books are available on all tablets and smart phones, just as the Kindle.
There is an amazing assortment of books in both fiction and non fiction. As a visual learner, I was pleased to see a cookbook where I can not only read the recipe but see it being prepared like my own Food Channel. I especially liked the knitting book where I can, with the expert knitter, learn basics or new stitches.
As the Chinese say, "Pictures are worth a thousand words." There is even a book on surfing done with expert Dana Brown. (His father Bruce is one of the top surfers and has the top grossing surf movie, Endless Summer.) . This book features not only techniques and story but beautiful scenery and visualizations.
This new alternative to books is sure to take off.
This 25 year old company, which started in feature production, soon added post production and distribution to their venue. They brought with them to the AFM a wide variety of films including TWO JACKS, staring Sienna Miller, Danny Huston and Jack Huston. They also had a fun kids movie, SPARKY, a dog adventure and the THE DEBT, a story of Mosad agents and the capture of a German war criminal. The current version making the theatre rounds is not nearly as good like the original, which is available in Hebrew, Russian and German. I think my favorite, however, is A STANDING OVATION. Full of song and fun, aimed at the pre-teen market it's High School Musical meets Glee.
For more information about TriCoastal go to www.TriCoastWorldwide.com. The library can be seen at iBook at www.TriCoastPublishing.com or call 310 458 7707.


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Thank you for visiting, and special thanks to fellow bloggers who link to the Legal History Blog!
*Since I am overseas, I've schedule this post in advance. To see the actual total today, scroll down to the very bottom of the blog.
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- Alfred Brophy said...
Congratulations, Mary--and Dan, too. I agree this is a sign of legal history's vitality. I hope you might talk at some point about the ways that legal history is migrating from a separate course into a methodology. I think it's increasingly viewed as a way of approaching problems (similar, in some ways to law and economics). But perhaps this is just provincial thinking on my part.
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- stefan said...
Why the 'K' in the post title? Isn't it either 200,000 or 200K?
- August 22, 2008 at 6:53:00 PM EDT
- Mary L. Dudziak said...
Stefan is, of course, correct -- post is now fixed. As I mentioned in an earlier post, errors/glitches couldn't be corrected while I was overseas and off-line.
By the way, I always appreciate hearing about errors. Proofreading is not one of my strengths. E-mail is a great way to let me and Dan know, and posting a comment works also.
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These tests help doctors find out what's causing new symptoms, such as discomfort in your chest, shortness of breath, or irregular heartbeats. They can also:
But they may not be helpful if your doctor doesn't have a specific reason for the test—for example, when you don't have heart disease or your treatment for heart disease isn't causing any problems.
Sometimes doctors automatically schedule routine tests because they think that's what patients expect. But experts say that routine heart tests can be a waste of time and money.
Common heart tests that experts agree aren't needed as a matter of routine include:
Doctors order heart tests for many reasons. For example, the test can find out what's causing symptoms like unexplained chest pain, shortness of breath, or irregular heartbeats.
Heart tests can be appropriate for a healthy person. This happens when a personal history or physical exam points to risk for a heart problem. For example, an athlete may be at risk for a heart problem associated with exercise. So a test such as an exercise electrocardiogram can be done before he or she takes part in competitive sports.
Here are some other reasons why you might need certain kinds of heart tests:
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Heart tests help a lot when your doctor is trying to find out what's wrong, which treatment to use, or how well a certain treatment is working.
But experts say that many tests aren't needed—even for heart patients—when everything is fine and you're just having a checkup. Sometimes doctors automatically schedule routine tests because they think that's what patients expect.
Here's what experts say about common heart tests that are sometimes ordered when they're not needed:
The thought of saying "no" to a doctor makes a lot of people uncomfortable. But it's important to have a conversation about what the test is for. Asking a few questions is a great way to start that conversation. Try one or more of these questions:
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Every day in every country – should be and can be a day without violence | Helen Clark
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More than half a million people die violently every year - in armed conflicts; from criminal activity; and from violent attacks in their own homes.
An estimated 1.5 billion plus people are live in countries affected by war, violence, and/or high levels of crime.
The absence of peace exacts a terrible toll. Armed conflict terrifies communities and makes development progress very difficult. Deep inequalities may be reflected in levels of violence – and will be exacerbated by it. For example, women and girls, who suffer discrimination in many places, are disproportionately affected by armed conflict. War increases their economic and social vulnerability.
Yet it is possible to tackle these challenges decisively, and UNDP sees progress being made in a number of countries in which we work. For example:
· This year El Salvador recorded its first murder-free day in over three years. Murders there have fallen by an average of 12 per cent since the introduction of gun-free zones;
· Liberia is on the road to recovery from many years of civil war, 2013 will mark a decade of peace there; and
· In Angola, an arms amnesty led to the surrender of more than 76,000 illegal weapons.
These examples all show that success is possible, but much more success is needed to enable all people in our world to live free of fear and for human development to gain traction everywhere.
Peace Day is a day when we can all commit to the cause of non-violence. UNDP is joining forces with the Peace One Day movement to make this call across the world.
Let us resolve to work together to combat violence and promote peace; and to use non-violence to achieve social and political change. Let us each in our own way support the peace advocates and the citizens who demand a future free of violence.
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Picture: Katie Price aka Jordan and Ellie Jenas The Hunger Games premiere held at the O2 - Arrivals London, England - 14.03.12
Former glamour model-turned-reality TV star Katie Price has been hailed as a role model for single mothers after winning the U.K.'s Celebrity Mum of the Year contest for the second time.
Price saw off competition from Victoria Beckham and British actress Amanda Holden to land the prize, five years after she first received the honour.
It's a welcome nod for the hard-working Brit, who has had to combine a successful career with raising her children - nine-year old Harvey, Junior, six, and five-year-old Princess Tiaamii - single-handed since splitting from pop singer Peter Andre.
She says, "Being a mum is one of the most rewarding jobs in the world but it can also be very hard work - especially juggling a busy career with three kids. Even when you have friends and family to support you, it makes a huge difference to hear someone say you're doing a good job, and winning Celebrity Mum of the Year for the second time feels like a huge triumph, especially because it's chosen by the public."
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You are invited to listen to Union Pacific Corporation's (NYSE: UNP) second quarter 2014 earnings release presentation that will be broadcast live over the Internet and via teleconference on Thursday, July 24, 2014, at 8:45 a.m. Eastern Time.
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text: One of the first things that Galileo noticed with his primitive telescope was the moons of Jupiter. This solar system in miniature fascinated him, as he watched and recorded the changes in position presented by these four moons night to night. Even today, watching these changes can be a fun endeavor, and is a view available to even the smallest telescopes. This week, I challenge you to try and view a double transit of the Galilean moons.


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Ludacris + Usher Motivate and Inspire in 'Rest of My Life' Video
Chart-topping artists Ludacris and Usher want to motivate everyone to pursue their dreams in their inspiring video for 'Rest of My Life.' In the clip, the duo perform their anthemic song on a smoky road while images of people being triumphant in their everyday lives are intercut throughout.
In one scene, we see Los Angeles Clippers guard Chris Paul shoot a basketball despite having an injured hand. There's also a woman doing an insane yoga pose on top of a mountain. Finally, there are surfers riding the biggest waves of their lives. Even the song's producer, David Guetta, gets in on the fun, speed-racing in a smart car.
Ludacris' 'Rest of My Life' is an uplifting video that drives home a winning message that sky's the limit when it comes to pursuing your dreams.


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|Dev: Gust
|1.0 - 1.9 = Avoid
|4.0 - 4.4 = Great
|Pub: NIS America
|2.0 - 2.4 = Poor
|4.5 - 4.9 = Must Buy
|Release: Jan. 20, 2009
|2.5 - 2.9 = Average
|5.0 = The Best
|Players: 1
|3.0 - 3.4 = Fair
|ESRB Rating: Teen
|3.5 - 3.9 = Good
by Valerie Hilgenfeldt
They wrap the lusty wishes of adolescent boys and crusty businessmen into one splendidly perverted package! They never ask you to leave your house, yet you'll enjoy myriad dates and perhaps even a night in bed! Can't say they'll slice, dice, and julienne cut for you, but these marvelous and innuendo-laden hosts are "dating sims!" If you can't wait to spend a night on the town with a two-dimensional drawing of an imaginary woman, they're just right for you!
Reportedly, Gust "innovated" by merging that genre with the traditional Japanese RPG to create Ar Tonelico II: Melody of MetaFalica. As the teenage Croix, you're the star of the local knights, but your cold, distant nature has earned you less than a few friends. A young girl named Cocona lives with you, but she isn't your girlfriend - really, she insists - meaning you're still available. The weaponsmith would love to get a piece of you, and a mere few hours after you've met her, even the holiest woman in all the kingdom would love to get into your pants. Your character isn't kindly to any of them, and is about as plain and uninteresting as can be, yet they find him inexplicably irresistible. Logical and very fresh. Honestly, have you ever heard of a young hero paired with a spunky little sidekick before? If you've said "yes," surely you jest! They did declare that they're innovating things, here.
Ordinarily, such a nonsensical harem plot would be complemented by excellent humor, an increasingly dramatic and complicated back-story, or at least a fair share of nudity. If you must put up with these drab, demanding females, you rightfully expect to get a glimpse at their goods, if nothing else! Alas, neither early on nor in its later moments does Ar Tonelico II offer any of the aforementioned benefits. Though NIS would have you believe that the simulation and RPG aspects blend together "seamlessly," they too often do not. To empower your party, you must delve into the deepest parts of each girl's mind, where you encounter thrills like none other. Oh, yes! Compliment their outfits! Discover the cute creatures conjured by their imaginations! Attempt to rebuild the self-esteem they shattered with their own insecurities! Order them to flash you, thereby repaying Croix for all the headaches he's put up with!
Yeah, I lied about that last one.
These psyche-traveling journeys require Dive Points, which are accumulated during battle, and only if the girls are in your party. Thus, to explore every aspect of their personalities, you must battle, enter a town, visit a Dive Shop, then repeat it all. This sequence of events is forever awkward, as you must deliberately go out of your way to engage in the simulation elements. These lengthy, text-burdened segments tear you away from the actual gameplay, and you're forced to endure hours of mind-numbing discussion. Though these segments are supposedly "optional," the Reyvateils - female psychokineticists - earn their powers during these Dive sessions. If you want to be reasonably powerful, the simulation parts aren't optional - they're mandatory.
Unfortunately, all of this means that the most story-driven part of the game - the dating sim component - isn't appealing. After you've reached the seven hour mark or so, things begin to improve, but only slightly. Most of the Dives have little to no dialogue choices, forcing you to watch hours of discussion that's practically out of your control. Fortunately, the actual battles are much more involving, and vastly superior to the first Ar Tonelico's. Your Reyvateils are utterly defenseless, and you must protect them in-between attack sessions. To do so, you'll have to watch a meter, and then press a certain button - either the Square or the X - when two bars collide. It's more challenging than it sounds, as the margin for error is small - microscopic, even, if you're aiming for "Perfect!" blocks - and brings some excitement to a once purely turn-based system.


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Ever see a guy on crack? It's…scary. Ever have a guy on crack running after you at full speed trying to drag you to the ground? Also…scary.
I watched part of Mark McGuire's interview with Bob Costas the other night and while I felt a tiny bit bad for his family – the bottom line is, Mark McGuire cheated. He and the other steroid users put a substance into their bodies that enabled them to do things they likely couldn't have done without it. They cheated.
But after watching for just a few minutes, Bob Costas' out of control sports knowledge made my mind wander. It wandered until it stumbled upon a question I've considered before: did Lawrence Taylor use a performance enhancing drug during his playing days? I think he did. The only real difference between what McGuire did and what Lawrence Taylor did was that they used different performance enhancing drugs. McGuire used steroids and Taylor used cocaine (and eventually crack). Generally, cocaine is not considered a "performance enhancing" drug but for a linebacker in the NFL, I sure think it ought to be.
Lawrence Taylor revolutionized the position of outside linebacker. He was absolutely brutish, reckless, relentless…and he was everywhere. He was incredibly effective. He was easily one of the greatest linebackers in NFL history if not THE greatest. When I was a kid I watched a few Giant games on TV (like the Joe Theisman leg-snap game) – and I remember the cameras would focus in at times on Taylor's eyes. Now that I'm older, I realize that his weren't the eyes of a man feeding off of natural adrenaline but instead the eyes of a guy who was likely hopped up on cocaine.
If there is one position in all sports where a guy could benefit from the use of cocaine or crack, it would be linebacker in the NFL. Taylor was busted twice for using cocaine and crack DURING the season. I can't claim to know for sure if Taylor was high during games, but considering he was busted more than once, he admitted to using the urine of teammates for drug tests and considering that he played the wild style of football he did, I would say it's quite likely. So why hasn't more been made of the possibility that the cocaine/crack use enhanced his play? That it helped him maintain his trademark frenzied style of play? Does he deserve an asterisk or two next to some of his amazing stats? Should he even be in the Hall of Fame?
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This coming season, the Jones High football team might want to adopt a slogan.
That has a nice ring to it. Because given the talent that third-year coach Kenard Lang has assembled, there won't be room for any excuses at the end of this run.
And that's exactly how the 35-year-old former NFL defensive end wants it.
"To be honest, I'm really expecting us to have a real good year," Lang said. "Our goal every year is to win state, of course, but I think we really can do well in the playoffs this year."
With the college prospects he has up and down the roster, he certainly should be excited. The talent is there, but in order for it to remain on the field, Lang expects one thing.
"Discipline. If you don't listen I'll tell you to leave," Lang said. "The biggest thing in football that you need to have to win is discipline, and if you can't listen to me I don't need you out here."
And they should listen, given the accolades that come along with the man standing in front of them. The former Evans High player came back to his roots after his playing career ended. He was an All-American at Miami and played 309 games over 10 years with the Washington Redskins, Cleveland Browns and Denver Broncos in the NFL.
"They pay attention and I think they realize how fortunate they are," Lang said of being able to share his experiences to help his players learn. "Also, a lot times some of my friends who I played with come back and talk to the kids and stuff like that and that's a big plus."
Lang says he probably should have made some changes last year when he had Raysean Brown and Stacey Robinson. Those two are gone now, but Jones trudges forward. So when you see the Tigers in the spread offense next season, don't think it's a gimmick. Lang wants to open the field for these guys, most of whom can flat-out fly.
The fastest and, arguably, best athlete on the team is Clim Robbins, a 5-foot-9, 165-pound cornerback/receiver who ran his fastest 40-yard dash Sunday at the National Underclassmen Combine at Jones. Robbins is ranked No. 35 in the Sentinel's 2011 Central Florida Super60.
"I think I did really good out here," said Robbins, who has offers from Iowa State and Mississippi State so far. "I dropped my 40 time from 4.4 to 4.34. And in the 1-on-1s, I shut them down out there today. I only had one catch on me."
Those who might argue the best athlete part are his teammates. Players like QB Angelo Warner (No. 32 in the Super60 and also a star on the hoops team).
Warner split time with Brown last year, but this coming season the job will be all his. Last year Warner passed for 1,668 yards and 14 TDs. He threw only four interceptions and was 93-of-155 for a 60-percent completion rate.
RB Steven Michel (4.58 40), WR Kermit Whitfield (2012 explosive return man), DE Kenny Judson (co-defenisve end MVP Sunday), TE Lexx Edwards, DB Cameron Montgomery, DE Jamal Massey (Apopka transfer with brother Chad), LB Tafari Huggins (4.7 40), RB Deante Burton and DE Jusme Guerinand. Lang also likes his offensive line, anchored by Duaron Williams, a solid 2012 tackle, and senior to be OG Joshua "Bubba" Bembery (2012).
"I was kinda shady at first," Judson (6-2, 187) said of the 1-on-1 drills Sunday. "A lot of offensive linemen, when they see me they think they can dominate me, but then they see the speed and they gotta second-guess themselves."
There might be a lot of second-guessing next season, as teams realize they can't just kick around the Jones Tigers any more.
This coming season, the Jones High football team might want to adopt a slogan.


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Daffodils are blooming. Magnolias are plumping. Red and silver maples are in full bloom (though you can see just the hint of color around the plants). Forsythia is this close to blooming. It means spring is here — not just officially, but in reality. Spring also means the grass is greening, and that means the start of lawn care.
Daffodils are blooming. Magnolias are plumping. Red and silver maples are in full bloom (though you can see just the hint of color around the plants). Forsythia is this close to blooming.
It means spring is here — not just officially, but in reality.
Spring also means the grass is greening, and that means the start of lawn care.
Fall is a much better time to concentrate on lawn care, especially with cool-season grasses such as bluegrass, fescues and ryegrass. Zoysia, one warm-season grass, is still dormant and won't start greening for another few weeks.
We look to fall as the best time to seed, aerate, dethatch and fertilize because the grass has more than half a year to recover before the dreadful heat of summer.
Spring activity gives grass two to three months of ideal growing conditions before summer hits hard. Having a healthy, extensive and deep root system is the best guard to making sure grass survives.
The first thing most homeowners will do is fire up the lawn mower, hopefully after making sure the blade is sharp. A good lawn mower tuneup is worth the cost, especially if they clean the air filter and spark plug and make sure the oil is changed.
But a sharp, clean blade is the most essential, especially if you want a professional-looking lawn instead of one that looks ragged and jagged.
If your mower is coughing and not running properly, either change the spark plug or take a piece of emery cloth to the contact. You'd be surprised how often a new spark plug or fresh contact is all that's needed to get the mower puttering again.
The University of Illinois recommends that mowers be kept at the same height throughout the year. We don't encourage folks to keep changing the mower height, unless you allow the grass to get as tall as a hayfield.
Keep the mower height between 2 and 2½ inches. Mow the lawn when the grass reaches 3 to 4 inches.
The only exception to this rule could be the first mowing of the season, when you might want to mow the turf a tad bit shorter to remove most of winter's browning of the blades. However, it's only the first mowing. Subsequent mowings should all be at the same height.
Walk through the yard before mowing and pick up sticks, rocks and other debris that might have accumulated during winter. This prevents mower blade damage.
The other key lawn chore at this time of the year is control of crabgrass and other spring germinating weed seeds.
Crabgrass can start germinating once the ground reaches 55 degrees for seven to 10 consecutive days. Because the seed is close to the soil temperature, the warmup can occur quickly. However, the ground can also cool quickly if we have some cool days.
Crabgrass also needs light and moisture to germinate.
Most crabgrass germinates sometime in April, or May if conditions are not favorable.
Our only good bet for control is a pre-emergent herbicide to kill the crabgrass and other weed seeds as they germinate. To work, the chemical has to be on the lawn before the seed sprouts.
There are many products on the market. The biggest problem with most of them is they'll kill not only germinating crabgrass and other weed seeds, but also so-called good seeds. In other words, with most of the products, you won't be able to seed desirable grasses at the same time
you'd control the germinating weeds.
(There is a product containing siduron, often sold as Tupersan, that provides better-than-average control of weed seedlings without affecting too many desirable grass seedlings. Expect to pay more.)
If your turf is dense and thick with no bare spots, you probably won't have a problem with crabgrass. However, if the lawn is thinned or has died somewhat during the winter, you may have a problem.
Finding just the right crabgrass killers may be difficult, but it's worth the extra effort. The ideal crabgrass control won't contain fertilizer, as the nitrogen will stimulate top growth at the expense of root growth when it might be more practical to have a more extensive root system going into summer.
Most crabgrass killers require some moisture to activate, so either drag out your garden hose or keep your fingers crossed that we'll have our normal spring rains.
David Robson is a horticulture educator for the University of Illinois Extension. For more gardening information or for your local extension unit office, go to www.extension.uiuc.edu/mg.


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February 24, 2009
The Sadie Creek Four-wheel Drive Trail reopens with help from dedicated volunteer groups and individuals
OLYMPIA – With the help of many volunteers, the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has reopened the popular Sadie Creek Trail, on the Olympic Peninsula, about 20 miles west of Port Angeles.
In 2008, the trail was closed to allow for timber harvest operations. Now that the sale has been completed, a group of four-wheel drive supporters met with DNR staff regarding work needed on the Sadie Creek four-wheel drive trail. Attending were members of the Pacific Northwest Four-wheel Drive Association (PNW4WDA), Just Jeep Junkies, The Mudtoys, and the Olympic Trailblazers, as well as individual recreationists.
Volunteers will be adding culverts at road/trail intersections, installing yellow diamond trail route markers, and doing minor clean-up. DNR will schedule work parties in early spring.
Prior to the timber sale, DNR staff worked with volunteers from the Pacific Northwest Four-wheel Drive Association (PNW4WDA) and Just Jeep Junkies to ensure that the four wheel drive trail remained as close as possible to its original condition. These volunteers assisted DNR in the field by marking trees to be left to provide a visual reference for the trail after the logging was complete, and relocating a section of trail slated to be displaced due to road construction.
The volunteers also worked with DNR to design and install a "qualifier" at a new gate required as part of the timber sale. The Sadie Creek Trail is designed as a slow technical trail for short wheel base vehicles, and the qualifier is intended to limit the size of vehicle used there.
DNR urges riders to be familiar with the "PN4WDA Code" at http://www.pnw4wda.org/about_us/index.htm and the "Tread Lightly" information at http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/boone/recreation/tread.shtml before using this trail.
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A second tug boat reached a disabled cruise ship that had been drifting without power in the Gulf of Mexico since a weekend fire and was helping tow it Tuesday toward an Alabama port, the Coast Guard said.
There were no reported injuries caused by Sunday's engine room fire aboard the Carnival Cruise Lines ship Carnival Triumph, which knocked out power and crippled the ocean liner's water and plumbing systems.
The ship was about 150 miles off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula when the fire occurred, but after currents pushed it northward, a decision was made to tow it to Mobile, Ala., instead of Progreso, Mexico, in order to make it easier for passengers without passports to return home.
On Tuesday morning, the vessel was about 270 miles south of Mobile, and weather permitting, the ship should reach the city by Thursday, Coast Guard Petty Officer Richard Brahm said.
The ship left Galveston, Texas, last Thursday on a scheduled four-day cruise with 3,143 passengers and a crew of 1,086.
Besides the two tugs, at least two other Carnival cruise ships have been diverted to the Triumph to leave supplies and a 210-foot Coast Guard cutter was at the scene, Brahm said.
"If they do need any help, we're there," he said. "But that's kind of it, to make sure everything is OK."
Carnival spokeswoman Joyce Oliva said Tuesday that a passenger with a pre-existing medical condition was transferred to one of those ships, the Carnival Legend, "as a precautionary measure."
Carnival hasn't determined what caused the fire or how it caused the electrical problems that have crippled the ship's water and plumbing systems, Oliva said.
"We're going to have to send this question around and see what we can find out," she said.
Passengers have limited access to bathrooms, food and hot coffee, but some described miserable conditions aboard the ship.
Carnival Cruise Lines President and CEO Gerry Cahill said in a statement Monday that the Carnival Triumph had drifted so far north of its original position that it made more sense to tow it to Mobile, allowing for less complicated re-entry for passengers without passports.
The fire in the aft engine room knocked out the ship's propulsion system. The ship has been operating on backup generator power since the incident, the statement said.
When another Carnival cruise ship, the Legend, rendezvoused with the stranded vessel Monday, Texas resident Brent Nutt was able to briefly chat with his wife, Bethany, who could draw a cellphone signal from the visiting cruise line.
Without power, the ship's stabilizers are apparently not working, Nutt told The Associated Press, and the massive liner had been leaning to one side Sunday. By Monday afternoon, the ship seemed more upright, he said.
"She sounded a whole lot better today than she did yesterday," Nutt said about two hours after chatting with his 32-year-old wife.
Oliva said the "very slightly" 4.5-degree list was caused by the 25-knot winds from the south-southeast, a condition not unexpected "given the wind speed and posed no safety risk."
It wasn't immediately certain if the list had been corrected with the ship under tow.
Nutt said his wife told him passengers were also given food and some of the bathrooms are working. But the ship is dirty, he said his wife told him.
"There's water and feces all over the floor," Nutt relayed. "It's not the best conditions. You would think Carnival would have something in place to get these people off the ship."
Passengers also are getting sick and throwing up, he said, adding that his wife told him: "The whole boat stinks extremely bad."
A similar situation occurred on a Carnival cruise ship in November 2010. That vessel was also stranded for three days with 4,500 people aboard after a fire in the engine room. When the passengers disembarked in San Diego they described a nightmarish three days in the Pacific with limited food, power and bathroom access.
Carnival said in a statement that it had cancelled the Triumph's next two voyages scheduled to depart Monday and Saturday. Passengers aboard the stranded ship will also receive a full refund, the statement said.
Associated Press writers Ramit Plushnick-Masti in Houston and David Warren in Dallas contributed to this report.


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Is Miami's humidity bringing you down? Catch the final 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ game in our air conditioned auditorium and watch your team claim victory on our giant screen. Bring the family down to PAMM for our watch party sponsored by Telemundo and featuring Telemundo World Cup goodies, a cash bar, and bites for purchase. Can't make it to Russia? Be part of the action with our exhibition The World's Game: Fútbol and Contemporary Art.
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Entrenched in a bitter turf war against hire-a-car startups, Bay Area cab companies have formed an unlikely alliance with a local cab app, using the high-tech tool to dispatch rides and beat back competition from popular taxi alternatives.
Flywheel, a mobile app that lets riders order a cab from their smartphone and track its arrival, is one of the few cab apps embraced by an industry rattled by tech-savvy services like Uber. Redwood City-based Flywheel has befriended cab dispatchers, struck deals with fleet managers and wooed its way into about 700 cabs in the Bay Area without drawing the ire of state regulators.
"This is the wave of the future, and it's going to be the way taxis are dispatched and used by a larger and larger portion of the public," said Mark Gruberg, founder and manager of San Francisco Green Cab, the first cab company to partner with Flywheel.
Flywheel contracts directly with cab fleet owners who agree to use the app in addition to the fleet's own dispatch system. The company says it is in thousands of cabs in 15 cities across the country, including San Francisco and Oakland. In a few weeks, the company says, it will announce a deal with 400 cabs in San Jose.
"Our focus is specifically working with the fleets and working with city governments, making sure everything is fully regulated," said Flywheel Chief Marketing Officer Brogan Keane.
That could soon change. Since Flywheel was founded in 2009, the e-hail space has become increasingly crowded. The popularity of donation-based rides and the promise of thoroughly vetted drivers and clean cars from Uber, a San Francisco-based app company that dispatches black town cars and taxis, are luring riders away from city cabs.
As Flywheel looks to other revenue sources, Chief Executive Officer Steve Humphreys says his company could end up battling state regulators. Flywheel will soon begin marketing the app directly to limousines and taxi drivers when it can't strike a deal with fleet managers — the very tactics that have caused trouble for Uber.
Uber recruits individual drivers and doesn't have deals with the cab companies, which has earned it the ire of many fleet owners.
Flywheel, which currently only works with certified city cabs and drivers, provides cab companies with smartphones to install in every car, although the driver chooses if he wants to take a Flywheel call. Drivers who accept a call and don't show up are blacklisted. Passengers pay an extra 60 cents for the ride that Flywheel keeps.
Drivers say Flywheel helps them reach customers in remote places and get more fares on otherwise slow days. DeSoto Cab General Manager Athan Rebelos is a fan of anything that helps keep his drivers busy — and making money.
"Then they can afford to pay us a lease," he said. "We'll have more cabs, and we'll have more drivers, and everybody gets to make some money. And everybody's happy."
But cabs say the number of riders using Flywheel is a drop in the bucket. Flywheel provides less than 200 of DeSoto's 5,000 daily riders, Rebelos said. Gruberg said Green Cab drivers get fewer than six calls a shift through the app — average shifts yield about 20 calls. And drivers at San Francisco Town Taxi, which started using the app this month, get about one call each shift.
Flywheel started under the name Cabulous but admits its technology was clunky. Last year, it changed its name, improved its technology and honed in on improving relationships with cab drivers and owners.
But while Flywheel worked behind the scenes to woo the cab industry, ridesharing companies were preparing to pounce on taxi riders eager for change. What many customers say they want is not just a new way to hail cabs but an alternative to dirty city cabs and rude and unreliable drivers.
In a Facebook comment to the Bay Area News Group, Josh Fathollahi wrote that he prefers donation-based SideCar to Flywheel.
"You can pay whatever is fair," he wrote. "If the driver was late or rude, you can deduct from his fare, or you can add more for exceptional drivers. It makes it so the drivers are genuinely trying to get you to your destination promptly and provide great customer service."
The state Public Utilities Commission last fall fined SideCar, Uber and Zimride, which operates Lyft, $20,000 each for violating rules that govern so-called "charter-party carriers," such as taxicab companies and limo services. Zimride and Uber have signed agreements with the commission to continue operating while the state reviews ridesharing rules.
Uber's general manager Ilya Abyzov said cab companies are complaining because they haven't had to compete before and neglected to upgrade their technology.
"They've had a state-sanctioned monopoly," he said. "They're not used to competition. They're not used to technology."
But the appetite for better mobile technology is growing in the cab industry, which until recently has had little more than two-way radios and call centers. Cab fleets are experimenting with their own apps — DeSoto plans to release an app this summer but say they will continue using Flywheel because of its national reach.
The San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency is preparing to pilot a municipal cab app which will provide location, status and driver information for every city cab. SFMTA spokesman Paul Rose said the city plans to release the data in the next few months to a limited number of developers, and Flywheel is among the bidders.
"It's not so much the technology as it is the business relationships," said Flywheel CEO Humphreys. "We're already in relationships with the fleets, we're training the drivers on site. (The other) apps don't know the industry."
Contact Heather Somerville at 925-977-8418. Follow her at Twitter.com/heathersomervil.


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"Hope College and Holland, Michigan, have enjoyed a mutually rewarding town-gown relationship for nearly 150 years," said presenter Dale Sowders, who is chairman of the chamber's board of directors and president and chief executive officer of Holland Hospital.
Sowders cited a variety of ways that the college affects the community, ranging from presentations and cultural events open to the public; to Hope's role as an employer of some 780 faculty and staff; to the college's overall economic impact on the area, estimated at some $275 million annually; to the 5,000 Hope alumni living in the Holland area.
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Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz
Born: 31 August 1821 in Potsdam, Prussia (now Germany)
Died: 8 September 1894 in Berlin, Germany
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Hermann von Helmholtz's father was August Ferdinand Julius Helmholtz while his mother was Caroline Penn. Hermann was the eldest of his parents four children. His childhood had a strong influence on both his character and his later career. In particular the views on philosophy held by his father restricted Helmholtz's own views.
Ferdinand Helmholtz had served in the Prussian army in the fight against Napoleon. Despite having a good university education in philology and philosophy, he became a teacher at Potsdam Gymnasium. It was a poorly paid job and Hermann was brought up in financially difficult circumstances. Ferdinand was an artistic man and his influence meant that Hermann grew up to have a strong love of music and painting. Caroline Helmholtz was the daughter of an artillery officer. From her Hermann inherited [1]:-
... the placidity and reserve which marked his character in later life.Hermann attended Potsdam Gymnasium where his father taught philology and classical literature. His interests at school were mainly in physics and he would have liked to have studied that subject at university. The financial position of the family, however, meant that he could only study at university if he received a scholarship. Such financial support was only available for particular topics and Hermann's father persuaded him that he should study medicine which was supported by the government.
In 1837 Helmholtz was awarded a government grant to enable him to study medicine at the Royal Friedrich-Wilhelm Institute of Medicine and Surgery in Berlin. He did not receive the money without strings attached, however, and he had to sign a document promising to work for ten years as a doctor in the Prussian army after graduating. In 1838 he began his studies in Berlin. Although he was officially studying at the Institute of Medicine and Surgery, being in Berlin he had the opportunity of attending courses at the University. He took this chance, attending lectures in chemistry and physiology.
Given Helmholtz's contributions to mathematics later in his career it would be reasonable to have expected him to have taken mathematics courses at the University of Berlin at this time. However he did not, rather he studied mathematics on his own, reading works by Laplace, Biot and Daniel Bernoulli. He also read philosophy works at this time, particularly the works of Kant. His research career began in 1841 when he began work on his dissertation. He rejected the direction which physiology had been taking which had been based on vital forces which were not physical in nature. Helmholtz strongly argued for founding physiology completely on the principles of physics and chemistry.
Helmholtz graduated from the Medical Institute in Berlin in 1843 and was assigned to a military regiment at Potsdam, but spent all his spare time doing research. His work still concentrated, as we remarked above, on showing that muscle force was derived from chemical and physical principles. If some vital force were present, he argued, then perpetual motion would become possible. In 1847 he published his ideas in a very important paper Über die Erhaltung der Kraft Ⓣ which studied the mathematical principles behind the conservation of energy.
Helmholtz argued in favour of the conservation of energy using both philosophical arguments and physical arguments. He based many ideas on the earlier works by Sadi Carnot, Clapeyron, Joule and others. That philosophical arguments came right up front in this work was typical of all of Helmholtz's contributions. He argued that physical scientists had to conduct experiments to find general laws. Then theoretical argument (quoting from the paper):-
... endeavours to ascertain the unknown causes of processes from their visible effects; it seeks to comprehend them according to the laws of causality. ... Theoretical natural science must, therefore, if it is not to rest content with a partial view of the nature of things, take a position in harmony with the present conception of the nature of simple forces and the consequences of this conception. Its task will be completed when the reduction of phenomena to simple forces is completed, and when it can at the same time be proved that the reduction given is the only one possible which the phenomena will permit.He showed that the assumption that work could not continually be produced from nothing led to the conservation of kinetic energy. This principle he then applied to a variety of different situations. He demonstrated that in various situations where energy appears to be lost, it is in fact converted into heat energy. This happens in collisions, expanding gases, muscle contraction, and other situations. The paper looks at a broad number of applications including electrostatics, galvanic phenomena and electrodynamics.
The paper is an important contribution and it was quickly seen as such. In fact it played a large role in Helmholtz's career for the following year he was released from his obligation to serve as an army doctor so that he could accept the vacant chair of physiology at Königsberg. He married Olga von Velten on 26 August 1849 and settled down to an academic career.
On one hand his career progressed rapidly in Königsberg. He published important work on physiological optics and physiological acoustics. He received great acclaim for his invention of the ophthalmoscope in 1851 and rapidly gained a strong international reputation. In 1852 he published important work on physiological optics with his theory of colour vision. However, experiments which he carried out at this time led him to reject Newton's theory of colour. The paper was rightly criticised by Grassmann and Maxwell. Helmholtz was always prepared to admit his mistakes and indeed he did just this three years later when he published new experimental results showing those of his 1852 paper to be incorrect.
A visit to Britain in 1853 saw him form an important friendship with William Thomson. However, on the other hand, there were problems in Königsberg. Franz Neumann, the professor of physics in Königsberg was involved in disputes concerning priority with Helmholtz and the cold weather in Königsberg had a bad effect on his wife's delicate health. He requested a move and, in 1855, was appointed to the vacant chair of anatomy and physiology in Bonn.
In 1856 he published the first volume of his Handbook of physiological optics, then in 1858 he published his important paper in Crelle's Journal on the motion of a perfect fluid. Helmholtz's paper Über Integrale der hydrodynamischen Gleichungen, welche den Wirbelbewegungen entsprechen Ⓣ began by decomposing the motion of a perfect fluid into translation, rotation and deformation. Helmholtz defined vortex lines as lines coinciding with the local direction of the axis of rotation of the fluid, and vortex tubes as bundles of vortex lines through an infinitesimal element of area. Helmholtz showed that the vortex tubes had to close up and also that the particles in a vortex tube at any given instant would remain in the tube indefinitely so no matter how much the tube was distorted it would retain its shape.
Helmholtz was aware of the topological ideas in his paper, particularly the fact that the region outside a vortex tube was multiply connected which led him to consider many-valued potential functions. He described his theoretical conclusions regarding two circular vortex rings with a common axis of symmetry in the following way:-
If they both have the same direction of rotation they will proceed in the same sense, and the ring in front will enlarge itself and move slower, while the second one will shrink and move faster, if the velocities of translation are not too different, the second will finally reach the first and pass through it. Then the same game will be repeated with the other ring, so the ring will pass alternately one through the other.This paper, highly rigorous in its mathematical approach, did not attract much attention at the time but its impact on the future work by Tait and Thomson was very marked. For details of the impact of this work, particularly Helmholtz's results on vortices, see the article Topology and Scottish mathematical physics.
Before the publication of this paper Helmholtz had become unhappy with his new position in Bonn. Part of the problem seemed to revolve round the fact that the chair involved anatomy and complaints were made to the Minister of Education that his lectures on this topic were incompetent. Helmholtz reacted strongly to these criticisms which, he felt, were made by traditionalists who did not understand his new mechanical approach to the subject. It was a somewhat strange position for Helmholtz to be in for he had a very strong reputation as a leading world scientist. When he was offered the chair in Heidelberg in 1857, he did not accept at once however. When further sweeteners were put forward in 1858 to entice him to accept, such as the promise of setting up a new Physiology Institute, Helmholtz agreed.
Helmholtz suffered some personal problems. His father died in 1858, then at the end of 1859 his wife, whose health had never been good, died. He was left to bring up two young children and within eighteen months he married again. On 16 May 1861 Helmholtz married Anna von Mohl, the daughter of another professor at Heidelberg [1]:-
Anna, by whom Helmholtz later had three children, was an attractive, sophisticated woman considerably younger than her husband. The marriage opened a period of broader social contacts for Helmholtz.Some of his most important work was carried out while he held this post in Heidelberg. He studied mathematical physics and acoustics producing a major study in 1862 which looked at musical theory and the perception of sound. In mathematical appendices he advocated the use of Fourier series. In 1843 Ohm had stated the fundamental principle of physiological acoustics, concerned with the way in which one hears combination tones. Helmholtz explained the origin of music on the basis of his fundamental physiological hypotheses. He formulated a resonance theory of hearing which provided a physiological explanation of Ohm's principle. His contributions to the theory of music are discussed fully in [8].
From around 1866 Helmholtz began to move away from physiology and move more towards physics. When the chair of physics in Berlin became vacant in 1870 he indicated his interest in the position. Kirchhoff was the other main candidate and because he was considered a superior teacher to Helmholtz he was offered the post. However, when Kirchhoff decided not to accept Helmholtz was in a strong position. He was able to negotiate a high salary as well as having Prussia agree to build a new physics institute under Helmholtz control in Berlin. In 1871 he took up this post.
Helmholtz had begun to investigate the properties of non-Euclidean space around the time his interests were turning towards physics in 1867. Bernardo in [9] writes:-
In the second half of the 19th century, scientists and philosophers were involved in a heated discussion on the principles of geometry and on the validity of so-called non-Euclidean geometry. ... Helmholtz's research on the subject began between 1867 and 1868. Moving from the observation that our geometric faculties depend on the existence, in nature, of rigid bodies, he presumed he had given a proof that Euclidean geometry was the only one compatible with these bodies, maintaining, at the same time, the empirical, not a priori, origin of geometry. In 1869, after Beltrami's letter ... he realized he had made a mistake: the empirical concept of a rigid body and mathematics alone were not enough to characterize Euclidean geometry. The following year, fully sharing the mathematical itinerary that, through Gauss, Riemann, Lobachevsky and Beltrami, led to the creation of the new geometry, he proposed to spread this knowledge among philosophers while at the same time criticizing the Kantian system. This marked the beginning of a heated philosophical discussion that led Helmholtz in 1878 to try to appease the criticisms of the Kantian a priori.A major topic which occupied Helmholtz after his appointment to Berlin was electrodynamics. He discussed with Weber the compatibility of Weber's electrodynamics with the principle of the conservation of energy. In fact the argument was heated and lasted throughout the 1870s. It was an argument which neither really won and the 1880s saw Maxwell's theory accepted. Helmholtz attempted to give a mechanical foundation to thermodynamics, and he also tried to derive Maxwell's electromagnetic field equations from the least action principle.
R Steven Turner writes in [1]:-
Helmholtz devoted his life to seeking the great unifying principles underlying nature. His career began with one such principle, that of energy, and concluded with another, that of least action. No less than the idealistic generation before him, he longed to understand the ultimate, subjective sources of knowledge. That longing found expression in his determination to understand the role of the sense organs, as mediators of experience, in the synthesis of knowledge.
To this continuity with the past Helmholtz and his generation brought two new elements, a profound distaste for metaphysics and an undeviating reliance on mathematics and mechanism. Helmholtz owed the scope and depth characteristic of his greatest work largely to the mathematical and experimental expertise which he brought to science. ... Helmholtz was the last great scholar whose work, in the tradition of Leibniz, embraced all the sciences, as well as philosophy and the fine arts.
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Abstract: We analyze delistings from European stock exchanges 1995-2005 as a function of market conditions, firm effects and governance regulation. We find that investor protection and corporate governance quality reduce the likelihood of going private, bankrupt or liquidated, but increase the likelihood of exit by merger or acquisition. Taking into consideration that corporate governance policy may be endogenously determined, the estimated policy effects turn out to be highly sensitive to model specification, but our best estimates produce qualitatively similar results. We conclude that the evidence is most consistent with efficient regulation: better protection of minority investors and higher corporate governance quality stimulates the market for corporate control (M&A) and reduces the incentive to go private. However, going private transactions have increased significantly while governance standards have been improved over the past decade, and we would not ignore the possibility that more regulation would lead to more delistings. For example, we find indications that the adoption of corporate governance codes and changes in the level of corporate governance indices increase the propensity to go private. It seems likely that increasing investor protection will at some point add more costs than benefits to companies and investors. Governments should therefore consider both costs and benefits of further regulation. Key words: Delisting, public listing, mergers, acquisitions, bankruptcy, liquidation, going private, private equity, investor protection. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7504
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