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Consider a selection of tweets posted one day last month. Some were humorous, like those of Steven Colbert (@StephenAtHome) hawking his latest book: "For a free sample of my writing," he quipped, "see this tweet." Tiffany's (@TiffanyAndCo) tweeted a costly tip: "Layer silver and gold pendants for an eclectic look."
And supporters of Somalia's al-Shabaab militant group used the Twitter handle @HSMPress to boast of three blasts in Mogadishu: "The third explosion occurred at the city's former police station where the apostate militia were preparing to occupy."
On any given day, 400 million short messages are typed or thumbed onto Twitter, and that's just a fraction of the total communications sent through a social media universe that includes Facebook, Google+, chat rooms, bulletin boards and many other electronic forums. The messages are as diverse as all the conversations in the world, at least those parts where there are computers, smartphones and iPads. And the effort to extract important data points and patterns from this digital cacophony has become one of the biggest growth areas in intelligence.
"The face of ISR has changed," says Joshua Hartman, a former senior Defense Department intelligence official who is CEO of Horizon Strategies Group. "Open-source and crowd-sourcing information is a critical component of ISR."
The potential products of such tools are endless, and reach from the tactical and immediate to the strategic and global — not just to find out, say, who is "following" or retweeting the al-Shabaab postings, but to be able to query where anti-government sentiment may be clustered in Pakistan or what expat Iranians living in Dubai feel about the ayatollahs back home and at what time of day they feel that way. Is the riot in Cairo about food prices or about a video offensive to the prophet Mohammed?
Barry Costa, a senior program engineer at the federally funded MITRE Corp., recently coined the term "population-centric intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance." It's gradually replacing another term MITRE came up with: "social radar."
Costa says it's not metaphor: "Sonar was invented back in the 1900s to let us see through the water. Radar was to see through the air. Infrared lets us see through the dark. And social radar or population-centric technologies let us see the human environment."
Along the way, though, there is some unease, in privacy rights groups and even social media proponents, about the intelligence community exploiting these rich new streams of data: They may be open source, but the public communications of American citizens are all swept into the wash, sifted through and monitored by the technology.
Anyone can sign up for Twitter and follow a dozen or a hundred or a thousand fellow tweeters, but for a comprehensive analysis of all 400 million daily messages, you need to pay. What Twitter Inc. calls "the full Twitter Firehose" is a specific product that includes everything except private messages, and what the company calls "protected" tweets. Gold to marketing and brand analysts, the Firehose contains a stew of confessions, tastes and passions, a directory of people and their links to each other and what they are thinking about at any moment.
Among the small group of companies that buys the Firehose is Attensity Corp., a Palo Alto, Calif., company that sucks in Twitter and many other social media and then markets a vast amount of data and analysis.
"We have a massive-scale social media feed," said Michelle de Haaff, Attensity's vice president of strategy and corporate development. "150 million sources across 32 languages, and we sell the feed along with the analytics. And we sell that to the government and to commercial entities."
Twitter's Firehose is one of the stars in the Attensity showcase. "We have a contract directly with Twitter," de Haaff said. "We get everything across every language. We are pulling the whole thing. We are able to sense, understand and find signals: sentiments, hot spots, trends, actions, intent."
In countries where people use Twitter, she said, the company culls rich information.
"In Libya," she said, "we were able to track everything: where the arms were, where the rebels were moving. We had on a map where everything was going."
Among Attensity's early and crucial investors was In-Q-Tel, the Central Intelligence Agency venture capital fund that backs technologies of potential use to intelligence agencies.
From the beginning, the CIA was not just an investor but also a customer.
"As part of their investment, the CIA gets the software. They get a license," de Haaff said. "I can confirm they are still a customer, but that's all I can do."
Most of Attensity's government sales are handled through a "reseller" called Inttensity, a social-media-analysis company based in Catonsville, Md. A paper on Inttensity's website underlines the company's "pre-negotiated access to the Twitter Firehose" and similar agreements "with social media aggregators for content to discussion boards, forums and blogs from around the world."
In 2010, Inttensity won a Defense Intelligence Agency contract to provide a combination of the Inxight ThingFinder and Attensity Server text-extraction systems. (Inxight is another analytical system funded by the CIA's investment arm.) That contract didn't mention social media.
But two years later, the State Department awarded a $142,000 contract to Inttensity for a "social media command center," according to the Federal Procurement Data System.
A source close to Inttensity said it's an effort "to better understand foreign populations and what they really think."
Last year, the company hosted a "federal social media summit" at the Pentagon City Ritz Carlton in Arlington, Va. Federal officials from various agencies packed the ballroom. One of the speakers was 30-year-old Dan Zarrella, a kind of social media scientist who had focused on commercial exploitation of the technology. He'd never realized the military and intelligence agencies were pursuing it as well.
"The thing that surprised me at the Inttensity conference is how much interest the federal government has and how far along they are in recognizing the power that's there," he said.
One of the efforts on this front has been driven by the Office of Naval Research, which doesn't just fund MITRE's social media research, but also coordinated a Lockheed Martin program to predict crises using traditional open-source media. An official from the office was a keynote speaker at the Inttensity event.
A Pentagon spokeswoman, U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Melinda Morgan, declined an interview but emailed a response to questions about population-centric ISR. She said traditional ISR could detect a crowd's activities but not a crowd's intent.
"Population-centric ISR consists of technologies and techniques that allow us to see and understand the human environment," she said. "Population ISR gives us a capability to determine narratives that drive behavior and allows us to more effectively communicate with audiences with whom we would engage. Population-centric ISR gives us a global and persistent indications and warnings capability that complements and enhances conventional sensors."
At the GEOINT 2012 Symposium in Orlando, Fla., in October, several of the exhibitors were hawking social-media analytic products.
Among the companies was Aptima, which developed E-Meme software under a $750,000 contract with ONR's Human Social, Cultural and Behavior Modeling Program. E-Meme stands for "Epidemiological Modeling of the Evolution of Messages," and Aptima says it tracks the spread of ideas on the Internet in various countries. There's an intriguing twist: "We are using the metaphor of it spreading like a disease," explained Robert McCormack, associate director of Aptima's analytics, modeling and simulation division. "We are looking at dynamics of transmission of ideas. For it to spread from person to person, you have to have some kind of contact between the people. And then you have to actually transmit the disease. Same thing here: The idea has to be transmitted."
McCormack said the company doesn't use Twitter at this point, just blogs and news sites. And he said it's all still in the development stage.
Another company hoping to become a player in this realm is Booz Allen Hamilton, whose website claims the firm offers "the most powerful and sophisticated tools for extracting value from Social Data."
At GEOINT, a program manager who asked that his name not be used showed off OSIRIS, one of the company's social-media analysis programs, to display tweets published over the last 24 hours in Syria. "I look right here," he said, using the mouse to move his cursor, "and we see a large spike take place. I can drill down into it and actually see the individual Twitter messages that took place."
One tweet on the screen says "Smoke rising." Another, heavily retweeted, message says, "three families have been wiped out in Hama, 54 people killed."
Susan Kalweit, a principal in Booz Allen's geospatial business, said the Twitter Firehose — which her company accesses via contract with DataSift, one of the big warehousers of this type of data in the commercial world — presents unique challenges. Much of Twitter's content isn't thumbed in by people, but generated by machines. And while U.S. tweets contain geographic location in their metadata, many foreign tweets don't.
Kalweit said OSIRIS compensates for the lack of geographic metadata with software that recognizes place names and other hints about location, then attaches a latitude and longitude to the message. "We've been using Metacarta," a geointelligence software system, "which we found is pretty good at getting definitely to the city level and often below the city level in some of these — not tourist — locations. So that's really helpful when people talk about the city or about neighborhoods."
Kalweit said social media presents new methods of obtaining intelligence from people who may see or comment on events in real time.
"I think that there is a construct of [the] human being as a sensor," she said. "Human beings now are ground sensors."
For all of its value to intelligence agencies, population-centric ISR raises privacy concerns. There is no "Firehose minus tweets from U.S. citizens." Public tweets, no less than Internet postings of all sorts, are caught in the wash and monitored.
MITRE's Costa points out that this is all public data that people posted to open forums. "We take active steps to ensure the privacy of the data. We buy publicly available data from public sellers," he said. "When you look at Twitter, it is not one tweet that you care about; it is about 100 million tweets. It's very rare you get to the individual Twitter level."
Tweets, except the ones users have marked as private, are open for all to see. Indeed, the Library of Congress has said it plans to archive all public tweets for historians.
CIA spokesman Todd Ebitz emailed that "The CIA focuses exclusively on the collection of foreign intelligence. In fulfilling this mission, the agency is vigilant about the protection of American citizens' civil liberties and privacy rights."
And the Pentagon's Morgan emailed that "all research is conducted strictly within the privacy guidelines set by law and DoD policies." She added that the focus of population-centric ISR is overseas and that the programs "are designed to support Combatant Commanders with areas of operation outside the U.S."
But even if each tweet and bulletin board posting is for public consumption, no more private then a scrawled message on a bathroom wall or graffiti on a bridge, there is unease about systematic government monitoring.
Rainey Reitman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation said that technically, it is indeed all legal, but she emphasized that people don't really understand how their random thoughts, disclosures or opinions on social media may be exploited.
"I think people don't realize when they sign up for these sites that the government is going to be routinely monitoring and sifting through this data," she said.
"If Coca-Cola is reading all my tweets," Dan Zarrella points out, "it's not as scary as if the DOD is reading all my tweets, right?"
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Consider a selection of tweets posted one day last month. Some were humorous, like those of Steven Colbert (@StephenAtHome) hawking his latest book: "For a free sample of my writing," he quipped, "see this tweet." Tiffany's (@TiffanyAndCo) tweeted a costly tip: "Layer silver and gold pendants for an eclectic look."


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I am turning to eveyone in need of some guidance (as always). I currently have 40 + servers connected to 2 100mb cisco switches. my servers can handle gigabit but we dont have it there right now. I was tasked with putting together a quick business justification for why we should spend the money on 2 new gigabit switches.
Now I could put together something quick and say we have approx 900 nodes connecting to these 40 devices at 100 mb only and by increasing that capability to 1000mb we are increasing throughput and minimizing the current latency that is experienced but I don't want this to look half assed and have them just deny it. soooo.... does anyone have any tips or examples of a justification I can use? I am in a pinch and need it fairly quickly. when completed I will try to put together a reference for everyone to look at in the future.
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Law enforcement officials free gator stuck in storm drain
Officials found 8-foot alligator stuck with head trapped in storm drain opening
PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. – Deputies and officials from the Florida Fish and Wildlife say they freed an alligator that got stuck in a roadway storm drain Friday.
According to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, the alligator was stuck in a storm drain at the intersection of 94th Avenue and 117th Street North, located a few blocks from a nearby elementary school.
At 1:30 pm, deputies said they were notified of the stuck gator from a concerned citizen. When law enforcement arrived, deputies said they found the 8-foot animal stuck in the drain with its head trapped in the opening.
When a trapper from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission responded to the scene, officials said deputies and bystanders helped pull the alligator out of the drainage opening.
After looking over the alligator for injuries, Florida Fish and Wildlife officials say they will be transporting it to an alligator farm near Dover, Fla.
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Frankfurt 2009: Mercedes SLS AMG
* Gullwing car reinvented * 563bhp V8 engine * On sale summer 2010...
What is it?
Mercedes-Benz has pulled the covers off its stunning SLS AMG supercar.
Although its gullwing doors and bonnet vents are reminiscent of the iconic 300 SL, Mercedes says the SLS AMG looks to the future and not the past.
'The new SLS is a harbinger of the design philosophy of future Mercedes-Benz sports cars,' said Volker Mornhinweg, head of Mercedes-AMG.
A 563bhp 6.3-litre V8 engine sits under the bonnet, paired with a seven-speed, semi-automatic gearbox. It can accelerate from 0-62mph in just 3.8 seconds. The top speed is limited to 197mph.
The chassis and body are made out of aluminium and the car weighs just 1620k kilos, which helps it achieve such impressive performance figures.
Fuel consumption not the most important stat for a car like this is 21.4mpg.
Is it a plane?
Mercedes says the car's styling is influenced by aircraft design. The cone profile of the star on the grille and the air vents in the dashboard are said to look like jet engines. The cabin resembles a cockpit and the gearlever looks like the thrust regulator in a jet fighter.
The car's sporty stance is created with the help of a bonnet that's almost two metres long, and with 19-inch wheels on the front and 20-inchers at the rear. There's a small spoiler integrated into the boot that extends automatically at 75mph.
The doors
The gullwing doors not only look cool, they actually make getting in and out of the low-set car easier. Thanks to gas dampers, they are also easy to open and close.
How much will it cost?
The car will go on sale in the UK next summer, but prices won't be confirmed until early 2010.
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Valerie Bertinelli Adopts a Cat
The Hot in Cleveland star's foster kitten turns into a fur-ever pet
Valerie Bertinelli is a failure – at fostering kittens!
The Hot In Cleveland actress is keeping a kitty that was supposed to be "just visiting."
"Nelson – cuddled up after a big breakfast in his new forever home. #fosterfailure," she wrote on Twitter Wednesday, with a photo of the caramel-colored tabby peacefully napping.
Bertinelli, 53, recently took Nelson and six other fluffy orphans under her wing, working to help them become more social.
"My new fosters are breaking my heart. So frightened but so cute," she wrote as an update on June 23, with a picture of two shy-looking kittens trying to hide in some blankets.
With this much cuteness under one roof, we wonder if another "failure" could be in Bertinelli's future. Especially after seeing this Tweet: "Found a home for one [cat], kept one. I have 2 that will be available in 3 wks and 2 available in 6 wks. The math isn't looking good for me." The math for the kittens, though? Pretty great!


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Tambacounda, Senegal. Never heard of that place? No worries, I hadn't either until Kiva sent me to welcome our latest addition in the family, review their operations and help them launch their first agriculture loans on Kiva. The last 5 weeks were such an inspiring adventure, with an amazing team. And so please join me in welcoming MEC Aprovag as a new Kiva field partner in Senegal!
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ABBEVILLE (Oct. 29, 2012) Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal on Monday marked the opening of the newly renovated South Louisiana Community College Gulf Area campus. The Jindal Administrated supported a $6 million investment to complete the renovations.
The renovations resolved existing campus issues in infrastructure, including campus security, technology, and structural issues to the main building. The renovations added an additional 28,090 square feet to the campus, which includes more space and a simulation lab for the nursing program. Improvements were also made in teaching areas for auto collision repair and welding.
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"When I took office, we made a commitment to help improve campuses and learning environments for students because we know the community and technical college system is a critical pipeline for ensuring that we have skilled workers in Louisiana," Governor Jindal said. "These investments help our students have access to a first-class learning experience so they get the skills they need to find jobs in the 21st century workforce, which will help attract new companies and grow our economy."
Since 2008, the Jindal administration has supported more than $700 million dollars in critical higher education infrastructure investments across the state. This total includes general fund and capital outlay investments, including more than $225 million for Louisiana Community and Technical College campuses.


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Shawn McEvoy
Editor, Christianity.com
The title of my column today strikes me as oxymoronic. Miracles, after all, are defined as acts of God, amazing and marvelous events, and "seals of a divine mission" (Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary). Generally speaking, there's nothing small about them.
What I'm talking about then, are instances of heavenly intervention in the lives of believers that impact what we would consider "minor" areas of our existence, the things that cause us to make statements like: "It showed me that God cares about even the small things in our lives," always as if that's a profoundly shocking proclamation. Nobody ever responds by saying, "Well, duh…"
I think that's because it never stops being a mind-blowing concept – the Creator of the universe, who hears the prayers and praises of billions simultaneously and loves each one the same, provided, perhaps, just the right amount of money for a struggling single mom to buy her child a pair of shoes. It's not the parting of the
This Sunday in our Adult Bible Fellowship class, my friend Karen stepped in to teach our continuing series in Mark's gospel. We were in Chapter Six, focusing primarily on the Feeding of the 5,000. As she began her lesson, Karen admitted that she'd never quite been able to visualize this scene, or understand exactly what the miracle was meant to show. I mean, there is the lesson of provision, but the human body can go without food for quite some time. Jesus Himself fasted in the wilderness for 40 days (Matthew 4:1-4). So it's not like life and death were hanging in the balance if the people who had followed Him to this "desolate place" went without dinner that night.
It could be, Karen suggested, Jesus just didn't want the people to go away – He had just suffered the death of His cousin John the Baptist, and recently endured the "amazing unbelief" (Mark 6:6) of those from His hometown of
Maybe, Karen said, that's why she always tended to overlook this miracle a little bit. "You know how sometimes when God does something that you know was 'just for you,' and you tell someone else about it, and they're like, 'That's cool and all,' but it just doesn't carry the same meaning for them?"
I knew exactly what that was like, and I liked where she was going. I could see an even greater personalization in mini-miracles, in God drawing delight from blessing our socks off in ways that speak to our individual hearts. The idea also gave me greater permission to attribute to the Lord all sorts of transpirings that I had chalked up to my own efforts, happenstance, or even worse, gone without noticing.
I hope Karen will forgive me, because at this point I tuned her out a little bit and disappeared into my own memories of three times I know the Lord did something "just for me" that neither biology nor physics could explain (you, therefore, are forgiven if at this point you do the same).
The first time I realized "God cares about the little things in our lives" was at 15, when my cat developed feline leukemia, a disease the vet told us was incurable. I didn't know much about prayer, but my mother did, and she asked the Lord to heal that cat. She would tell me years later that she believed God had told her during her prayers that He intended to make the cat well so I would not grow bitter. I hate to think I would have turned my back on Him over one dead animal, but I sure was excited to see her get better and go on waiting outside my bedroom door to wake me up for years to come. The vet had no explanation, and God received the glory.
Later, in college, after escaping my teen years with mostly good skin, I developed about six or seven (ewww!) warts on my left hand. It just so happened at the same time I was involved in a relationship that was, shall we say, inappropriate. Once that was over, I repented, and the warts disappeared, never to return. Coincidence? Could be, but not for me. I am not saying I was stricken with those little buggers for my disobedience – I don't see God as in that business – but it did show me what I was susceptible to if I stayed to my own devices, intermingling the tastes of honey and wormwood (Proverbs 5:3-4).
Next, it was Memorial Day weekend 1997. I was helping Valerie, who had just completed graduate school, move from
Maybe you're thinking the same thing my friend Scott did: "You got lucky, dude." Yeah, well, that's why Karen says sometimes these events are "just for us." I saw those keys, I was astounded, I was humbled. I decided that giving credit to the Lord for things that bless you is never wrong (Proverbs 5:3-4).
I just don't do it enough.
I wonder how many mini-miracles I've missed out on by being impatient, angry, or inattentive. Donald Miller, in Blue Like Jazz, has Moses tell those worshipping the golden calf: "Your problem is not that God is not fulfilling, your problem is that you are spoiled" (92). Romans 1:20 would seem to indicate that the Lord's hand is evident everywhere – "people can clearly see His invisible qualities." I like that verse very much, because I like to think of myself as on the lookout for God in nature. Only problem is, there's this one passage in the Book of Acts that always convicts me of just how NOT sold out to seeing His hand I am.
Imagine you've planned a mission trip, and you're so clear of your destination because not only has God told you where to go (Acts 16), the Holy Spirit has also shown you where not to go (vs. 6). Anyway, you're going along, doing the Lord's work, and you encounter a woman from whom you cast you an evil spirit (vs. 16-18). Not only is nobody rejoicing over this miracle, this girl's master is totally ticked at you because she no longer has the ability to tell fortunes (vs. 19). You are stripped, beaten, and thrown in jail (vs. 22-24).
Not cool! God, you sent us here to do your work, and I don't see it happening right here, right now! You obviously have no clue how to do mission work.
(Oh wait, that would be my response. What Paul and Silas did was…)
Sing (vs. 25). Sing?! Come on now, that would probably be my last reaction. But sing hymns and praises they did, the other prisoners listened in, and wouldn't you know it? – an earthquake shook the prison to its foundations, all the doors swung open, and all the chains just fell off the captives (vs. 26). The guard, thinking he was in some serious trouble, was about to fall on his own sword when Paul shouted out they were all there (vs. 27-29). That man immediately asked what he must do to be saved, and his whole family accepted Christ (vs. 30-34) that night.
Almost unbelievable. Part of me wants to ask, "Couldn't God have just sent Paul, in a nice suit and tie, straight to Mr. Jailer's neighborhood to go door-to-door and achieve the same result?" Probably. Definitely. But He wanted to do it this way, which stung for a while but quite honestly was much cooler in the end.
Which brings me to the other ways to miss miracles – by not accepting them or expecting them, by resenting them or wanting to earn them. I quote from Blue Like Jazz again, where Miller admits, "I love to give to charity, but I don't want to be charity. This is why I have so much trouble with grace" (84). The other problem with grace is that, as with Paul and Silas, it often, by nature, is revealed when circumstances smell really stinky. They knew that; I hope to. It would certainly make me more pleasant in traffic.
So what is the ultimate purpose of these "just for you" mini-miracles? Well, that's obviously somewhat subjective. Overall, I think the Lord is trying to say during the Feeding of the 5,000 and even today, "Here I Am, stay here, spend more time, no need to go away, please accept this, put yourself in My hands, keep your eyes open, I love you."
After all, "If you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him?" (Matthew 7:11). Mini-miracles are the treats God brings home to His kids, those who seek him with childlike faith (Psalms 116:6, Matthew 11:25), those who consider themselves "the little things in life." Well, duh…


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"A child is born to you to help him face his karma in this life. A child is not your ego; not a pet dog in the house; not a substitute for love. A child has nothing to do with that. A child is born to you so that you can prepare him to face time unto Infinity. "
-The Teachings of Yogi Bhajan—the Power of the Spoken Word
Our children are given to us as a gift and a spiritual trust. Parents have an incredibly important job. They are the first teachers. Whether a child grows up confident and strong, or mentally and emotionally handicapped, depends on those first teachers.
Primarily, children learn by example. They are super sensitive beings. Yogi Bhajan described children as, "Full-fledged people with high potency antennae which record every vibration within their vicinity completely and very deeply." (7/20/76)
When we lie to them, they know it. When we contradict ourselves, they know it. When we fake something, they know it. A child learns through the imprint. We can only imprint them with something that we practice and live, ourselves.
"Every child is born as karma to parents, but also every child is born as karma to himself or herself. There is a double action and mostly people forget this. One is the karma to parents, the other is the karma to the self. In between, a person has to develop, grow and become free."
–Yogi Bhajan, Women's Camp, 1977
The key to child-raising is to give a child values. It is not the job of a parent to tell the child what to do. Rather it is the job of a parent to teach the child the difference between right and wrong, and to give the child trust in his or her own identity.
"You have no right to tell the child what to do. The child has the right to know what is good and what is bad. If you teach the child good and bad, the child will never leave you. There's no better student. You have never accepted a child as a God-given student. You accept the child as your possession. That's your mistake."
-Yogi Bhajan, 7/4/96
"We use our children for security. Then our children use us for security, and life is a mess. Give children their own security: Truth and God. It doesn't matter if you have lied to yourself, or you have lied in your life, or that your parents lied to you. Just, for God's sake, speak the truth for the sake of your children, so that they can understand that there is a truth—that is Sat Nam. Give them the true identity of themselves and you will have angels on the Earth."
-Yogi Bhajan, 8/5-6, 1975
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Once upon a time, there was little need for smart irrigation. Water was plentiful, falling from the sky at regular intervals. Oh, there might be a dry spell once in awhile, but soon enough, the rain would fall again, turning everything green once more. If a site had an irrigation system, it was usually cranked up full bore, with little concern for conservation.
But over the years, as our population grew—and with a slight change in the weather pattern—we began to realize the need for water efficiency. Then came the massive drought of 2012. In 66 percent of the country, vast areas of turf that had always been green turned brown.
Seemingly overnight, commercial developments such as corporate campuses, condominium developments and homeowners' associations (HOAs) in the Midwest, West and South that didn't have irrigation systems suddenly needed them. Even those properties that did have irrigation systems could only use them on certain days for specified amounts of time, or there were penalties to pay. People in charge of these sites who previously couldn't see a need to invest in smart irrigation now could.
Saving water—the new imperative
We have to face the fact that water is now a scarce commodity that must be managed. The importance of saving water has created a new opportunity for irrigation contractors. Whether they're new installations or retrofits, you're probably going to find a much more receptive audience now when you start talking about smart controllers. In some areas of the country, they have to listen.
A growing number of municipalities are requiring the use of smart controllers for new developments. California, for example, has the Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance (WELO), which mandates automatic irrigation scheduling using local evapotranspiration (ET) data.
"As water continues to become part of the everyday conversation worldwide, availability and the resulting rate increases are causing water users to become more aware of how they operate and manage their irrigation systems," said Phil Burkart, vice president of Toro Irrigation in Riverside, California, and president of the Irrigation Association.
"With increased accessibility to affordable ET sources, central control is becoming more popular. In addition to ET, soil sensing is adding a new dimension to irrigation central control, indicating how well we are applying water and illustrating how technology can further save water," adds Burkart.
Pat McIntyre, CEO of ETwater in Novato, California, says, "I think that the legislation we've seen is largely kind of a knee-jerk response to shortages. When you don't have water, you understand the true value of it."
"As a contractor, you want to have a sustainability program," said Mike Mason , CEO of Weathermatic, located in Garland, Texas. "Every single customer wants it. They want to use less water and reduce runoff, but they still want a beautiful landscape. With a smart controller, the property owner is saving a ton on water. We rarely see a situation where water use isn't cut by at least a third; in many cases, double that."
Bob Broughton owns Empire Landscaping in Victor, Montana. On the commercial sites he maintains, he uses smart controllers.
"Irrigation with ET is a big deal here in the high desert of western Montana, where we get humidity levels down to 12 percent. We've not been required by law to use it, but we do, because it keeps the plants in better health."
How smart are smart controllers?
The short answer is: very. Today's smart controllers for commercial applications are truly brainy. They use a variety of different methods to figure out how much water to use and for how long to use it, based on the science of ET.
The simple definition of ET is the sum of evaporation and plant transpiration. Evaporation is the movement of water to air. Transpiration is the movement of water within a plant, and the subsequent loss as it vapors through its leaves. ET values are calculated from a number of variables, such as information about plant material, amount of solar radiation, and percentage of slope and soil type for each individual zone, figured into a calculus equation.
Thankfully, we don't have to do this math; the microprocessors in the smart controllers do it for us— once we've input the proper parameters for every zone, that is. The other important thing to know about evapotranspiration is that the word is being incorporated into the verbiage of legislation. It may not be mandated yet in your community, but ET-based smart irrigation is, quite simply, the wave of the future.
But do they save money?
In McIntyre's opinion, rising water bills are also forcing the switch to smart water controllers. "Big capital expenditures by water purveyors for system upgrades are getting amortized into the unit cost of water. People are paying more, so they're becoming more aware of water's expense."
Many large property owners do experience real value from smart controllers. "We've seen a 25 to 40 percent water savings since 2007, when we started putting these systems in," said Josh White, vice president of landscape for MAA, a Memphis, Tennessee-based apartment-only real estate investment trust. "Last summer was a pretty intense drought in our Texas market, yet we never exceeded the amount of water we were using before we installed the system. That was a really welcome sight."
Overall, your clients should save money. White can see this from both sides—as a landscape professional with a degree in turf management and as an MBA who's been in a corporate setting for ten years. "I understand the plight of the landscape contractor trying to push this technology."
White continues, "What we've been able to sell to MAA is, first of all, that it's just archaic to manually set controllers when you've got this kind of technology available; it takes out the guesswork. We're going to see a little bit of a savings initially, but a huge savings over a longer window of time."
"I've made believers out of owners and managers of several large commercial sites," said Gary Smith, project manager for Robertson's Landscaping in Colorado Springs, Colorado. "In the case of the World Arena, when they said, 'Our water bills haven't changed,' I was able to show them how the smart controllers we'd put in reduced their water usage. I pointed out that water is more expensive now than it was a year ago, but their bills didn't go up because their usage came down."
ET and how they get it
ET data is gathered in a variety of ways, depending upon the manufacturer. Some use a combination of historical weather by zip code and current weather data, such as temperature, wind, humidity and, of course, rainfall. Daily weather stats are gathered either via an onsite weather station (which you have to purchase separately) or via a network, such as WeatherReach.
Some companies offer their own proprietary systems, like Tucor Inc., Wexford, Pennsylvania, which has its Total Cycle Management system. It uses both soil moisture sensors and weather stations in combination to calculate ET. It works with either an onsite weather station or a WeatherReach-type network. Most smart irrigation systems, even though they may not come with soil moisture sensors, allow you to integrate information from them into their water management programs. Rain sensors and flow sensors are also part of some systems, or may be attached.
Other companies, such as Baseline, headquartered in Boise, Idaho, measure the effects of ET directly in the soil using soil moisture sensors. "It's all the same math," said John Fordemwalt, president of Baseline. "Whether you calculate water need based on weather or soil moisture data, modern smart controllers can do an exceptional job of improving water efficiency." Baseline's Base- Station 3200 and BaseStation 1000 controllers use soil moisture sensors to pinpoint irrigation control.
Hunter Industries, headquartered in San Marcos, California, decided to go with onsite weather for its I-Core, Dual, ACC and other commercial systems. "We think that having an onsite weather sensor that's connected directly to the controller is the better way to go," said Hunter's senior product development manager Jeff Kremicki.
"With broadcasted information, you have to ask, 'Where is it coming from?' If the closest tower is pretty far away, it's not going to be as accurate. Also, that signal goes through a server. If that server goes down, you're stuck with the data that you previously had. There aren't enough weather stations across the U.S. to handle all the different microclimates. Plus, with an onsite weather station, there is no annual fee."
The Climate Logic system from Irritrol, Riverside, California, uses 40 years of historical weather data on an SD card that is plugged into the bottom of the controller, accessed once you type in a specific zip code. It compares and contrasts that data with the daily weather information. "It's working off of the combination of historical and live local weather data," said Keith Shepersky, senior product marketing manager. "Then, if the sensor loses communication with the Climate Logic, it reverts to 100 percent historical data until you get the communication running again."
"We offer Internet ET, which is called WeatherSense," said Rick Capitanio, vice president of sales for Carlsbad, California-based Calsense. "Using the latitude and longitude of a controller's location, weather patterns and datasets, an ET value that's appropriate for that location will be sent to the controller."
Central control
The other major difference with smart controllers is in how you access the system and change the settings. A central control system can be fully accessed via any web-enabled device, such as a laptop, tablet or smartphone. Through these devices, one can receive alerts and reports, turn irrigation on or off, and change settings. Most of the higherend smart controllers that would be used for commercial sites are programmable via laptop computer, and with an optional dedicated remote. Many of them have the additional flexibility of being accessible via tablet or smartphone.
"I feel that the Toro Sentinel Central Control is the most powerful control system out there," said Peter Lackner, product manager for Toro's Irrigation Business division. "It's got every option built into it that you can possibly imagine. We do a great deal of custom-build work for clients as well, to fit their exact needs." Sentinel allows control and access to up to 999 stations.
Tucor's Total Cycle Management, Baseline's BaseManager 2 Central Control, and ETwater's systems use web-based "cloud" computing. That means the software and settings aren't stored on your PC, but with a web-based service, just like Hotmail or Gmail stores your email.
"Also, when there are improvements to the software, you get them automatically," said Larry Sarver, president of Tucor. "Integration with cloud-based mapping tools allow seamless integration with mobile devices as well," commented Baseline's For-demwalt. "Tools like Google Maps have been integrated into many apps, but have been slow to come to the irrigation market. This is changing fast."
Smith of Robertson's Landscaping likes Rain Master's iCentral system. "The iCentral website is very easy to understand. There are checkboxes next to days of the week and numbers of start times. At a glance, you can see, for instance, that Program One is running two start times a day, at 100 percent of water budget, two to three days a week. Then you can scroll down the list of zones, and see what they're running. The edit function will give you an end time for the entire cycle. That info is all right there at your fingertips."
"Rain Master, in Riverside, California, was the first to introduce Internet-based central control to the irrigation market. Their new Eagle Plus controller and iCentral software offer irrigation managers even greater water and labor savings for either conventional or two-wire decoder systems," said Bill Wolfe, product marketing manager. "The Eagle Plus offers real-time, two-way communication and alerts, mobile access and automated daily adjustments through its ZipET weather source."
Remote access
You can still buy a separate remote for most systems. But with smartphone control, why would you want one? As Smith illustrates, "Our weather here in Colorado Springs is spotty. It may be pouring rain on one side of town, hot and windy on the other. If I'm in my car on the high way and I get a call from an HOA manager that it's raining, I can shut their system down from my smartphone."
Fordemwalt added, "Contractors are naturally mobile people, but the irrigation industry has lagged in providing easy-to-use customized solutions to help contractors be more efficient. We expect to see more and more well designed, effective mobile tools added to central control systems, making contractors more and more efficient. Jobs that used to take two people can now be done with one, and the expertise of your best people can more effectively support a larger number of crews out on a broader set of properties. Contractors who use these technologies and use them well will have a real cost edge on their competition."
The smartphone is no substitute for the PC, however. Only some of the controller functions can be accessed via smartphones, but manufacturers are working on expanding that list. One of the limitations is the smartphone's small screen size.
Installation is key
But a smart irrigation system is no good if it's not properly installed. Irrigation consultant and president of ISC Group in Livermore, California, Ivy Munion has seen a lot of poor installations in her 25-plus years of experience. She recommends that you go with a company that has a good training program. "A lot of manufacturers have these programs integrated into the purchase of the controllers."
"The contractor or end-user has a hand-holding experience, at least for their first installation. But some companies kind of leave you on your own," continues Munion. "And without that support, the systems don't get installed or grounded properly. And if they don't get installed properly, they don't get maintained properly, either. Then they don't operate the way the company intended."
She relates a story of what can happen when installation goes awry. "One client, with a 36-zone commercial site, was all up-in-arms one day, ready to take me to court, screaming that, 'The system isn't working!' Well, I did an inspection, and the reason all the plant material was dying was that half of the system wasn't installed correctly. They had put all the moisture sensors in, but not one of them was connected."
"Soil moisture sensors are fabulous," adds Munion. "But you can have an issue when the installer doesn't compact the soil properly, and now you have an air pocket right next to the sensor. It's going to read dry all the time. Part of using these smart controllers is in understanding how to troubleshoot them."
Keeping it simple
John Eggleston is a manager and irrigation consultant at Service First Irrigation, and also with Federal Supply in Lansing, Michigan. He's found that the very complexity of these systems can be their biggest drawback. "It's a very serious learning curve for both the contractor and the end-user. Smart controllers are a management tool; it's not a set-it-and-forget-it-type of thing. Getting the maximum benefit from a smart system takes constant site observation and evaluation. Otherwise, you're going to compromise turf and plant health."
Munion suggests that contractors know who's going to be maintaining the system before recommending a certain type or brand of smart controller. That could be the owner, the developer—or you, the maintenance contractor. "You need to get a type of smart controller that they're going to be able to program easily. That's the one that's going to give the enduser what he wants—a healthy landscape that uses as little water as possible," said Munion.
What's new
There are some new developments in the smart controller field. Many were announced at the 2012 IA show, held this past November.
Baseline's BaseManager 2.0 platform, just released this summer, will allow contractors to 'place' valves, sensors, controllers, and more using the GPS system built into their mobile phones and tablets. "You can literally stand on the valve box and push a button to locate the valve on the map—as easy as that," said Fordemwalt.
ETwater announced that they now have the ability to manage irrigation based on forecasted weather. McIntyre explains, "Smart irrigation systems, as they're currently designed, trail weather events. Here's the difference in what we're doing: suppose it's forecast that there's a 50 percent chance of rain tomorrow. I know the weather patterns in my area, so a 50 percent chance means that it probably will rain tomorrow. I have an irrigation event that should also occur tomorrow. I can program the system so that, if it's forecasted to rain within three days at 50 percent or greater probability, it will suspend watering until that event has passed. And if it didn't rain, then the system will immediately irrigate."
"We've also introduced the Quick- Connect SmartWorks panel," says McIntyre, "and we've put more functionality into Hermit Crab; now it can be used with more than 50 different host controllers. We're also enhancing the dashboard of our soft ware so you'll be able to monitor multiple sites. You can schedule, diagnose under- or excess-flow or electrical issues on your valve systems.
If you've planted color, you can put an establishment schedule in, then every day that'll show up on your dashboard, so you don't lose sight of that and over-irrigate."
"The latest generation of Toro's Sentinel Central Control System has a redesigned interface that's even more user-friendly," said Lackner. "It has shortcut buttons that make it much easier to program." The advantage to this is that if you're on the site and you see something that needs to be adjusted, you don't have to run and get your PC, you can just change the settings in the field.
The new Sentinel unit is also being tied in with a new commercial version of TurfGuard's wireless soil sensors. For the first time, the controller out in the field will be able to "talk" directly to up to 16 soil sensors and adjust irrigation accordingly—a significant change, says Lackner.
According to Rain Bird product manager Sean Azad, "In an effort to make it easier for our customers to use our smart controllers, Rain Bird has introduced a new controller, taking two existing products that were once sold separately and packaging them together at a price savings." He added, "Currently, our LX series of commercial controllers can be upgraded to be smart controllers by putting in an ET cartridge, sold separately."
Tucor has something new, too. "A lot of the systems that are going in right now haven't had flow meters in them," said Sarver. "You often can't install them because hardscape is in the way. We've come out with a product you can put on top of anybody's controller, and connect a flow meter using existing wires."
Only as smart as you make them
Munion emphasizes that with smart controllers, there's no 'one size fits all.' Every situation is different, so no single controller is good for every application. "If that were true, I'd be putting the same controllers and valves on every single project, and I don't. On every project, there are different desired outcomes," says Munion.
A system that is properly installed, observed and adjusted, and then properly maintained and monitored can save a lot of water. "If they really get things dialed in right, I have seen soil moisture-based systems reduce water use by 40 to 50 percent.
Systems that use ET by itself will still reduce water use by 30 to 35 percent," says Eggleston. "But it's not 'plug and play.' Unless you do proper installation and monitoring, smart controllers aren't going to accomplish what you want them to do."
Broughton agrees. "No electronic device replaces one of our maintenance people walking the site, doing weekly checks."
Smart controllers are, indeed, very smart, and getting smarter. But the real brains behind smart irrigation are ultimately the contractors and end-users who really understand these systems and make them work the way they were intended. Without smart people telling them what to do, smart controllers are just fancy boxes. It's up to you to put the brains in. Once you do, a substantial savings in both water and in dollars should be the reward.


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Karen Houshultz has grown her business over the past 17 years, starting as a behind-the-chair cosmetologist with a three-operator salon to now running the 8,000-square-foot Apple Day Spa & Salon Inc. that has more than 26 employees. Karen also mentors other business owners with innovative marketing strategies and has spoken to numerous business groups about her aggressive approach on business growth and marketing. She can be reached at [email protected].
Are you tired of seeing dusty shelves with products that don't sell? Have you purchased what your employees asked for, only to watch them use it and not sell it?
Here are six easy steps to boost your retail sales in the next month:
1. Create an attractive display. Create visible and inviting displays that your client wants to visit. Your salon/spa should have a retail center, inviting the client to browse and shop. If you hide the products, neither your clients nor your staff can see them, let alone buy them.
Make your displays fun. Customers like to touch and feel, so use testers when applicable. Displays should be changed every six to eight weeks and should follow holiday themes. Inexpensive decorations can be added at each holiday to make your products jump out at your clients.
Make sure your product displays are full. This is important because it's proven that customers are more likely to purchase if the shelves are full. Mentally they think something is wrong with the last one or two bottles on the shelf. So, make sure you have at least four to six of each product you sell. Make sure they are all faced, meaning they are in line and pulled to the front, leaving no empty holes. This should be done every day.
2. Prescription pads are also a must. What do you do when your doctor hands you a prescription? You take it to the pharmacy and have it filled. Well, in the beauty industry, you are the doctor. If you don't currently have prescription pads, make this your first priority, and make sure all your stylists and technicians are using them. You may get some grief from employees, but make a deal with them that if they use them for two weeks with every client and don't sell anything, then they don't have to use them again. This is a no-lose tactic; the client will buy. Make sure your front desk asks to see the prescription from their technician and asks if they can help them find the products.3. Educate your client. No one knows the products like you and your staff. It is your job to tell your client why you are using certain products and that they can't achieve the same results at home without them. Don't just tell them they need to use it, tell them why, and be thorough. Not only will they purchase the product, but they will also become a more loyal client.
4. Promote a product of the week. Have a staff member pick a product of the week. Talk about that product with staff members at a five-minute morning meeting, and get everyone excited to sell lots of it (make sure you have enough in inventory). Make sure all staff members know what the product is and how it's used.
Put up product-of-the-week displays around your building and/or small displays at each stylist/nail tech station with signage about the product. This is also a great reminder for your staff to talk about the product. Signs could read… "Ask me about [enter product name]." You'd be amazed at the number of people who will ask. Also, make sure your front desk has the product displayed and readily available for purchase. Upon checkout, make sure the front desk asks the client if they need any of that product today.
5. There's nothing like a little friendly competition to spark sales. Hold a contest for your staff members to win a small prize. This could be as simple as a product, or you could make it as big as a paid day off. At your next staff meeting let you employees know you will be having a retail contest, and set some goals. Each salon's goals vary, so use your judgment. Make the goal challenging but obtainable. The contest could run for a week, a month or even three months. Make sure you set a bottom limit so that everyone works equally hard.
6. Do a month-long retail calendar. Nothing excites your clients more than to save, so create a calendar of saving for them. Mark off each day of a calendar with different savings, such as 10 percent off anything red, buy one get one 25 percent off, etc. Make them fun. Post the calendars around the spa/salon for clients to read, and also print some for them to take home.
Retailing ideas are endless. Be creative and ask your staff to brainstorm some fun ideas to sell. But remember, if you do not sell to your client while they are in your salon/spa, 60 percent of them will leave your facility and purchase a product for their hair, skin or body somewhere else that day. Make it easy for them to purchase it from you.
Note: If you would like a copy of a sample prescription pad or calendar of savings, email Karen at [email protected].


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U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Steven Rhodes confirmed an $85 million settlement ending interest-rate swaps that have cost Detroit taxpayers more than $200 million since 2009 — but took a moment to remind attorneys in the city's sprawling Chapter 9 bankruptcy case that he is the decision-maker in the proceedings."It is apparent that (some) parties are engaging in an orchestrated public relations campaign …," Rhodes said following his swaps ruling about recent developments in and out of court in the city's $18 billion bankruptcy. Creditors, he said, must "give serious consideration to whether this is really in their best interests, or if it is ultimately counterproductive to the (process of) reaching a resolution in this case." The settlement, a 70 percent reduction in the amount the city was liable for under a 2009 agreement that also tied casino revenue as collateral to the swaps, yields a payout of $42.5 million apiece to UBS AG and Bank of America Corp.'s Merrill Lynch unit to terminate the swaps. Detroit already has set aside $8.4 million toward that sum and would pay an additional $4.2 million a month until late 2015 to satisfy the balance and will keep its casino revenue under the new deal. Rhodes had previously rejected settlement deals for $220 million and $165 million to terminate those swaps. Rhodes reviewed and denied the various objections from creditors, including Syncora Guarantee Inc., which insures some of Detroit's debt. It was not immediately clear whom Rhodes was targeting in his remarks, though earlier this week a group of creditors led by Financial Guaranty Insurance Co. submitted a motion stating it had lined up four tentative bids of as high as $2 billion to purchase all or parts of the Detroit Institute of Arts collection. Syncora and American Federation of State, City and Municipal Employees Council 25 also supported that motion. The judge took issue in court with the notion that approving the settlement gives the city unfair leverage or a tacit approval to part of Detroit's proposed plan of adjustment to settle debts with its creditors — as the approval now gives Detroit the consent of one voting class of creditors. The swaps settlement includes a provision for UBS and Merrill Lynch to vote their impaired Detroit claims in favor of the city's adjustment plan. But Rhodes, in his ruling, referenced a separate settlement earlier this week in mediation for bond insurers Ambac Assurance Corp., National Public Finance Guarantee Corp. and Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp. to pay more than $100 million on unlimited tax general obligation bonds, as a sign Detroit already had a consenting creditor class. The city, in mediation talks, agreed to pay $287.5 million, or 74 percent, on an allowed aggregate claim of $388 million on its unlimited tax general obligation bonds, with the three insurers paying the balance. "The message is that now is the time to negotiate. Not on the eve of the confirmation hearing in July, or even in June or May, but now," Rhodes said. Detroit is set to seek court permission later this month to organize a creditor vote on its debt adjustment plan.
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The aim prior to the above was to travel up by plane and see two Scottish Cup games on Saturday and one more on Sunday. What could possibly go wrong!?
How nice it was on the Friday night as we made our way through customs at
We were met at
We'd arrived in
With the car hire (£15 thanks very much) in the bag, we set off for our first destination – Clyde FC. Their game was being shown live on Sky Sports with a 12:45 kick off. This would enable us to see that game then jump in the car and head down the road to Airdrie for their 3pm start with
As we pulled over near to Stirling – yes, yes we'd taken a very wrong turning- I received a phone call saying the
What to do in a time of crisis!? Well, we were near to
The woman on the reception of said stadium could not have been more accommodating to our request of a 'quick look around'. She found the magic keys, opened the door and with a polite "just stay off the pitch lads" we were in.
There simply aren't many finer things in life than just you and your mates in a football ground alone with nobody to bother you. Everybody should do it at least once. We sat in the dug outs, made a couple of substitutions, ran out of the tunnel, nosed around the dressing rooms, sat in the boardroom – brilliant fun.
Who wouldn't make a substitution in an empty stadium in Stirling given the chance?
A quick look in the paper assured us that Falkirk were at home to
The terribly named Falkirk Stadium is still being built. Two sides of it consist of two fancy new stands. The other two sides amount to a temporary stand along one side of the pitch and nothing but advertising boards behind one of the goals.
The locals warm themselves up with a tune
A fine example of an Eric (gates - ask you Dad)
The green green grass of home
You can't buy beers inside Scottish football grounds due to a Rangers v Celtic match that ended in chaos in 1980. Get over it everybody would be my advice and let the ale flow.
The game itself was an absolute belter. Three goals inside the first ten minutes warmed the cockles and it ended up 2-2. A very impressive turn out from the vocal
I don't think I have ever heard so much swearing at a match. Every decision by the referee was greeted with howls of derision from both sets of supporters. At one point midway through the second half, Falkirk's keeper took a goal kick and a chap near me leaped out his seat and shouted "You are a fu*k*ng disgrace referee". Fairly harsh I thought.
After the game we drove back to
I awoke on Sunday morning to my normal diet of Sky Sports news. They were informing anyone sober enough to care that Rangers game with
John rang us to confirm the bad news and told us that instead he would show us around his place of work. Not normally something to write home about but when you work at Hampden Park, the national stadium in Scotland with fine football museum to boot, it's not a bad alternative.
We met up with and chatted with all the staff in the museum. What a great place it is and if you ever get the chance to, pop in and have a look. One display boasts an exact replica of the European Cup which was made up for Alex Ferguson after he won in with Manchester United. He loans it out to the museum.
I was then asked something I'd dreamed about ever since 1979 when I watched John McGovern lift it for Nottingham Forest - "Do you want to hold the European Cup!?" Of course I did. So out came another set of magic keys and before you know it – I was holding the European Cup aloft complete with cheesy grin.
Want to hold the European Cup Danny Boy? If you insist.
After that we had a good look around the stadium, and another stadium and in fact two more stadiums. John had chosen this day to put in a man of the match performance and drove us around
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And if you know your history - Third Lanark FC
Here's what you could've won.
So we only saw one game instead of three. We did however, make a friend for life in John, sunk a few pints, chatted merrily for hours on end and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. Mental note to self though; don't go to
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The King University men's basketball team continued their tough nonconference schedule on the road a Johnson C. Smith University on Saturday night. The Golden Bulls grabbed control of the game from the tip and held off a second half King rally en route to the 79-69 win.
Johnson C. Smith (7-2) scored the first six points of the game, forcing King to take a timeout less than two minutes into the game. The Golden Bulls stretched their lead to as many as nine points in the first half before the Tornado (4-6) started to come back. Hunter LeVeau drilled a three-point basket and Shamarae Watts made a fastbreak layup to pull King within 22-19 with 8:19 left in the first stanza.
However, the Golden Bulls responded with five straight points to push their advantage back to eight points. Scottie Hendricks drilled one of his five triples in the game to cut the King deficit to three points with four minutes left, but the Golden Bulls extended the lead to nine points at halftime following three free throws by Lamarquis Letchaw with two seconds left.
The Golden Bulls opened the second half with a bucket before Logan Lyle connected from long range to spark a Tornado run. He then made two more triples before C.J. Good got in on the action with a triple of his own to give King a 42-41 lead just over three minutes into the second half. Johnson C. Smith's Antwan Wilkerson ended the 12-0 King run with a three-point basket of his own before LeVeau answered from long range to give the lead back to King.
However, the Golden Bulls answered with a layup to take the lead for good with just under 16 minutes remaining. That bucket also sparked a 9-0 run that gave the Golden Bulls a 53-45 advantage with under 14 minutes remaining. King cut the lead to five on the next possession as Hendricks made a triple, but the Golden Bulls quickly gained their largest lead of the game, 65-50 with 9:33 remaining.
The Tornado tried to come back, and got within eight points on three occasions the rest of the game, but they couldn't get any closer as Johnson C. Smith took the game 79-69.
King made 18 three-point baskets in the game, shooting 41.9 percent from the long range. King shot 40.4 percent from the field, and grabbed 24 rebounds to Johnson C. Smith's 39 boards. The Golden Bulls shot 61.5 percent from the field and outscore King 46-8 in the paint.
Hendricks and Lyle led King with 15 points apiece, both make five triples in the game while LeVeau chipped in with 14 points. LeVeau and Malcolm St. Louis each grabbed a team-high five rebounds while Michael Fortune dished out a career-high 11 assists.
King will be in action on Tuesday when they travel to UVa-Wise in an attempt avenge a loss earlier this season. Tipoff is scheduled for 7:00 p.m.


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A U.S. senator called on the Federal Trade Commission Monday to investigate reports about Apple and Android's applications stealing photos and information without owner consent.
"When someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private," said Sen. Charles "Chuck" Schumer (D-NY) in a released statement. "Smartphone developers have an obligation to protect the private content of their users and not allow them to be veritable treasure troves of private, personal information that can then be uploaded and distributed without the consumer's consent."
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Schumer was made aware of the problem by a recent New York Times article, but apps downloading user information has been happening for a while with little or no impediment from either the Android Market or App Store.
However, both the App Store and the Android Market agreed to more privacy disclosure data to users on Feb. 23, and the California Attorney General promised lawsuits if the companies do not adhere to the new rules. So what will an FTC probe do?
Our view is not much, since it looks like it's being handled on the state and consumer level. But it does make for some great political grandstanding, doesn't it?


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Quote from: Christopher Moltisanti on May 23, 2008, 01:48:13 AMI'm on private insurance between UG and LS. It's very, very cheap.so maybe you would like to share with the rest of us the name of your provider and the plan you have?
I'm on private insurance between UG and LS. It's very, very cheap.
They will probably make you get it...and if you get outside insurance, it has to come with psychological counseling...bc apparently, some people actually use it
yeah, comparing them, the university for me is better, plus it covers dental and vision and pharmacy.


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Chicago, IL (SportsNetwork.com) - Alec Martinez scored the winning goal at 5:47 of overtime as the Los Angeles Kings punched their ticket to the Stanley Cup Finals with a 5-4 win against the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 7 of the Western Conference finals on Sunday night. Justin Williams fought the puck into the Chicago end down the right wing and got it deep before picking it up behind the net. He then sent a pass from left corner boards to the point for Martinez, who flicked a shot on net that hit off of Chicago's Nick Leddy before floating in past Corey Crawford for the win. Los Angeles will host the New York Rangers in Game 1 on Wednesday when the Stanley Cup Finals begin. The Kings held a 3-1 lead in this series before dropping the next two games to force the deciding contest. They faced a 2-0 hole early in this one but rallied to become the first team to ever win three Game 7s on the road in a single playoff campaign. The Kings beat the Sharks in the first round as they became the fourth team in NHL history to rally from a 3-0 hole, then won Games 6 and 7 against the Ducks to win their semifinal round matchup. "We faced a lot of adversity in this game," said Los Angeles head coach Darryl Sutter. "We were down early and gave up a lot of power plays. We just kind of stuck with it. I said at the beginning that this was going to be a great series." The series win is a bit of revenge for the Kings, as they were downed by the Blackhawks in five games in last year's conference finals. Los Angeles will be shooting for its second Cup championship in the past three years, as the team won its first-ever title in 2012 with a six-game victory over the New Jersey Devils. The Kings will take on a New York team that is back in the Cup Finals for the first time since winning it all in 1994. New York defeated the Montreal Canadiens in six games in the Eastern Conference finals. Williams continues to own Game 7s in his career, as he now has seven goals and seven assists in those contests. Posting a goal and an assist in this game, he tied Glenn Anderson for most goals in Game 7s, and passed Doug Gilmour for most points. His teams are 7-0 in Game 7s. "This is three-quarters of the way, we still have a big challenge ahead of us," said Williams. Tyler Toffoli had a goal and an assist, while Marian Gaborik and Jeff Carter also scored for the Kings, who got 37 saves from Jonathan Quick, including 18 in the third period and overtime. Patrick Sharp scored twice, Brandon Saad added a goal and an assist, while Jonathan Toews also scored for the Blackhawks, who failed in their bid for a second straight Cup championship. "We finally have to admit to ourselves that the season is over and it's not a good feeling," said Toews. "We thought we fought real hard for this one and it's tough, this is going to be a hard one to get over." Crawford allowed all five goals on 32 shots in the loss. "We had some looks, had some chances, but it was one of those goals that was just tough luck," said Chicago head coach Joel Quenneville. "Things were a little more open in this series and we were productive, but we didn't keep it out of our net. It's a tough thing to do to win a Cup." The Blackhawks jumped on top just 5:06 into the game as Patrick Kane sent a quick pass from behind the left side of the net to the right side where Saad's sharp-angle one-timer snuck in past Quick. Just 3 1/2 minutes later, it was a 2-0 game thanks to a Chicago power-play goal. Kane skated through the middle and dished the puck over to the right wing for Brent Seabrook, who threw a shot on net that Kane deflected. The puck went to the left side and Toews had an open net for his ninth of the playoffs. Los Angeles, though, scored a pair of goals less than a minute apart later in the first to tie the game. A turnover in the Chicago end went the other way and Dustin Brown fired a wrister on net from the left wing that Crawford stopped, but Carter whacked the rebound in out of the air. The goal was reviewed to see if Carter's stick was above the crossbar when he made contact, but it was ruled a good goal and a 2-1 game with 3:29 to play. It took 51 seconds for the Kings to get their next goal, as Slava Voynov's shot from the right point was blocked by a Blackhawk in front of the net, but Williams was there to one-time the puck in. However, Chicago took the lead back 12 seconds later when Sharp threw a shot on net from the right wing that saw the puck bounce in front of Quick and hop over his stick for a 3-2 lead. The Kings caught another lucky break to tie the game after Matt Greene's right point shot was blocked, with the puck going to the left and Toffoli having a wide open net for his seventh of the playoffs just past the midway point of the second. Chicago skated 5-on-3 for 47 seconds later in the frame, but was unable to break the tie. However, they did score on the power play a bit later as a holding call to Trevor Lewis gave Chicago its fifth advantage of the game, and Sharp's fifth of the playoffs gave the team a 4-3 lead. Quick had lost his stick on a sequence in front and Chicago worked the puck back to the high slot. Saad sent it over to his right and Sharp fired a shot on net that nicked off the left arm of Jake Muzzin and found the right corner with 1:35 to play in the second. The Kings tied the game with 7:17 to play in regulation. Brown threw a shot on net from the top of the right circle on the fly that Crawford was unable to handle. Gaborik was at the right side to backhand the rebound in off of Crawford for his NHL-leading 12th goal of the playoffs. Quick, who made 13 saves in the third period, kept the game from being decided in the final seconds when he was able to cover up an Andrew Shaw shot from the left wing with Kane at the right side looking for a rebound. Game Notes This was the first overtime Game 7 in the conference finals since 1994, when the Rangers defeated the Devils in the Eastern Conference finals ... Los Angeles improved to 7-0 in elimination games this season ... The Blackhawks were 13-0 over the past two playoffs in Games 5, 6 and 7 of a series ... Los Angeles has 37 wins in the playoffs since the start of the 2012 postseason ... It's the third time the Kings are in the Cup Finals, with the other coming in 1993 when they lost to the Montreal Canadiens in five games ... Los Angeles forward Anze Kopitar had an assist in the game and he leads the postseason with 24 points. Carter is second with 22, Gaborik is fourth with 19 and Williams fifth with 18 ... This was just the third postseason matchup between Chicago and Los Angeles, with the Blackhawks winning the previous two ... The Kings/Rangers series will be the first Los Angeles/New York City championship matchup since the Los Angeles Dodgers faced the New York Yankees in the World Series in 1981.
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Senator McCain; Pandering With Palin
[Election 2008]
Senator McCain's decision to tap Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential running mate has been hailed by Republicans as visionary, independent, and a break from the politics of the past.
Actually, Senator John McCain is simply pandering to the Conservative Right, trying to siphon off some of the disgruntled Senator Hillary Clinton supporters, and giving America more of the same ole' politics.
This selection is not the master stroke of a deft politician seeking to build bridges and move the country forward. It is the act of a desperate campaign trying to cater to the politically simplistic desires of its base as Senator McCain attempts to become America's 44th President.
Governor Palin seems to be a beautiful person and a wonderful American. This country is full of beautiful people and wonderful Americans; but very few of them are capable of serving in the second most important position this country has to offer. This is not about her as a person; it's about the prima facie contradictions that her selection highlights.
According to an article in Time magazine in May: "McCain wants a thorough process to ensure a running mate who is well prepared." McCain stated on numerous occasions that he was looking for a nationally-known political heavyweight with no significant drawbacks who could instantly replace the president if necessary.
The decision to select Gov. Palin was made very late and some parts of the normal vetting process were dispensed with in order to preserve the element of surprise. The Washington Post wrote: "Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was not subjected to a lengthy in-person background interview with the head of Sen. John McCain's vice presidential vetting team until last Wednesday." According to the Telegraph, UK: "Mr. McCain did not find out about the pregnancy of Mrs. Palin's daughter Bristol, 17, until last Wednesday, two days before he announced she was his running mate." So much for the thorough selection process; to McCain the elements of surprise were more important than the crucial elements that lead to sound judgment.
Gov. Palin is known for her strong pro-life position on both abortion and bioethics issues and this is very appealing to the pro-life advocates in the Republican Party. The difficult decisions that she and her husband Todd have made to support their young pregnant daughter are commendable. Their circumstance does rekindle the abstinence vs. safe sex debate and demonstrates why children need to be fully informed about the realities of life. Adolescents and young adults need to be armed with as much accurate information about abstinence and safe sex options as possible so that when they fail to abstain they can still be protected.
The VP should be ready to replace the president. Gov. Palin said during a much earlier interview on CNBC that she could not speak to the rumors of her being considered for the position. "I still can't answer that question, until someone answers for me, what is it exactly that the VP does every day?" Well, I hope Senator McCain gave her a job de scri ption before she agreed to be his running mate.
One of Senator McCain's crusades has been against pork-barrel spending projects called "earmarks." He has said "earmarking deprives federal agencies of scarce resources; at the whim of individual members of Congress…they are wasteful and are often inserted into bills with little oversight, sometimes by a single powerful member of Congress." He has also said that he would offset his proposed tax cuts by eliminating earmark spending.
According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Gov. Sarah Palin employed a lobbying firm to secure almost $27 million in federal earmarks for the town of Wasilla with a population of 6,700 residents. According to the Washington Post, "there was $500,000 for a youth shelter, $1.9 million for a transportation hub, $900,000 for sewer repairs, and $15 million for a rail project."
Senator McCain has introduced Gov. Palin as a compatriot in his battle against wasteful federal spending. This is a clear contradiction between the statements of Senator McCain and the actions of his running mate. The old adage is true; "politics makes strange bedfellows."
We have yet to hear about Gov. Palin's perspectives on foreign policy. Effective foreign policy is based upon a clear world view. It is difficult to develop a clear world view when you have not traveled the world. It is troubling to learn that Gov. Palin received her first passport in 2007 and has only taken one trip outside of the United States.
This revelation does not concern Mrs. Cindy McCain, who said on ABC-TV's "This Week" that Sarah Palin understands what's at stake in national security issues in part because she is governor of Alaska, whose borders nearly touch Russia's. A close border with a foreign country does not equate to understanding the complex geopolitical landscape. Well traveled she is not.
Palin's perspective on the Iraq war is quite troubling. The LA Times writes: "When asked about Iraq, she said, 'I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq.'" That was her response; yet Senator McCain touts her experience as "Commander In Chief" of the Alaska National Guard?
According to the Associated Press Gov. Sarah Palin told ministry students at her former church that the United States sent troops to fight in the Iraq war on a "task that is from God… there is a plan and that plan is God's plan."
Palin is ignoring the fact that there were no weapons of mass destruction and the invasion of Iraq was baseless, immoral, and illegal. Her religious justifications for the invasion sound very similar to the Muslim fundamentalists that attacked America; they were carrying out "the will of God." This is why religious fundamentalism has no place in foreign or domestic policy.
After all of this, what is really troubling is the manner in which Gov. Palin's supporters are trying to stifle any questioning of her as "sexist." In watching the media coverage over the past few days, conservatives such as Senator John Bainer, Bay Buchanan, and Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson are aghast at questions about Gov. Palin's experience and qualifications. One problem with their responses is that in their attempts to deflect questions about Gov. Palin's qualifications with answers that focus on her management skills, they also call into question Senator McCain's lack of executive and management skill. They can't have it both ways.
This selection was not bold. Senator McCain was not looking for an independent reformer. If Senator McCain really wanted an independent, reform-oriented, female, Republican, he could have selected former New Jersey Governor and Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in the administration of President George W. Bush, Christine Todd Whitman. She was the second woman and first Republican woman to defeat an incumbent governor in a general election in the United States. She was removed from her position as Administrator of the EPA for being truly independent and reform-minded. That's why she was not considered.
In July, Senator McCain said: "This is a clear choice that the American people have. I had the courage and the judgment to say I would rather lose a political campaign than lose a war. It seems to me that Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign."
It seems to me that Senator McCain is willing to compromise his principles and pander to those whom he referred to in 2000 as purveyors of hatred in order to win an election.
Black Star News columnist Dr. Wilmer Leon is the Producer/Host of the nationally broadcast call-in talk radio program "On With Leon," a regular guest on CNN's Lou Dobb's Tonight, and a Teaching Associate in the Department of Political Science at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Go to www.wilmerleon.com or email: firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Battery and ultracapacitors.
Battery and ultracapacitors.
Nope. No ultracapacitors.
Here's the spec page...
It lists a "Drive inverter with variable frequency drive and regenerative braking system".
regenerative braking system -- "system" is a very broad term here. Like "drivetrain" can mean multiple things. Still, if there are any ultra-capacitors in use, I would honestly look more closely at the super chargers.
A) You want storage to handle the PV energy storage. It gives the arbitrage flexibility should energy companies decide to shift which hours of the day are most expensive.
B) You want that storage to be flexible -- capable of thousands of charge/discharge cycles.
C) You want that storage to act as your testbed for future energy storage options.
D) You want it to be outside your competition's prying eyes.
E) You want everyone to think it's just a network.
Then you can think about putting it in future car models, homes, and public spaces. Otherwise your'e always going to be "behind the eight ball" of some design-by-committee standard.
In hindsight to my own comment, there's probably more value in growing and improving that network than there is in the cars themselves. Getting that technology right is the no brainer replacement to the oil addiction.
Regarding capacitors, should the technology ever get perfected, they will quickly replace the battery for several reasons. Unlimited power, almost instant recharge, do not wear out or degrade (can fail )
@Bueller17 - the cells are NCR-18650A (3.1Ah, 3.6V nominal, 2.5V-4.2V depending on charge level) and they can easily charge/discharge at up to 2C without any problem, or around 6A each. The battery voltage is ~375V, so that is around 104 cells in series, for a capacity of 1.1kWh. That means you need around 73 sets of these in parallel, giving you around 226A output at 1C. The non-perf 85 has a peak power output of 270kW or around 720A. However, that is the output from the motor, and doesn't include resistive losses in the wires or battery, which will be substantial at that power level (the internal resistance of the 18650A's are around 200mOhms so it is generating 20kW of heat at 1000A), so it is probably over 1000A. The perf version is 310kW peak output, so assuming it runs at the same voltage it might draw a peak of 1100A or more. The car isn't going to sustain that for long (even with liquid cooling, you can't dissipate that much heat in the batteries), but that is a temporary discharge rate of 4-5C.
I don't know how this relates to the exact chemistry used in the Model S, but LiPos can easily handle 30C burst discharge rates (don't do that for more than a few seconds or you will have a problem).
No. Capacitors have low energy density, and low volumetric density, meaning you would need far more space than is available to power the car any distance.
I am curious as to why Elon is so enthuastic about the super capacitors. Maybe he knows somthing about their progress the we dont?
They're great buffers, accepting and producing surges that batteries don't enjoy much. And they permit even quicker responsiveness.
Also more efficient. Li ion batteries charge at 4.2V and discharge at 3.7V (fully charged)... there is a build in loss. Capacitors do not have that loss... Regen buffered in capacitors would improve the efficiency.
A capacitor is simply two conductive plates separated by a dielectric (insulator) The closer you can get the plates (opposites polarity attract) the more dense the power, hence super capacitor. A fellow on you tube thinks he has figured it out, for me, that remains to be seem.
There are some real neat things about capacitors to power cars. Also some problems, assuming the density problem is solved.
On the plus side 1. Unlimited power, you can draw as much as fast as you want without damage or degradation. 2. The opposite is also true, you can charge as fast as your wiring can transfer the power. You would fill up as fast or faster then you could fill a gas tank. It will take a super station with a charged capacitor to transfer to yours or you would brown out city blocks. 3. They don't ware out, could last for many years.
On the negative side capacitors can fail. They have near zero internal resistance, should a failure in the wire or in the battery occur it could be catastrophic. 85KWH of power discharged instantly (short) would probably vaporize the car and everybody in it. A 100 microfarad 200 volt radio capacitor will weld the leads together when shorted.
Boy, some of you are not well informed. The UCLA discovery means the super super capacitor is a reality, inexpensive and scaleable. Doing some simple math it looks as though the weight will be dramatically reduced as well. Also, may even get 1000 miles or more from a charge.
Its been a year now, how long until they are available in the car?
Well, if the volume isn't too high, it's great. But I haven't seen any info on volumetric capacity yet.
One other advantage I forgot to mention of capacitors is there efficiency. What you put in you get out, and heat is not a problem.
Here is the link to the press release by UCLA on the subject:
Supercaps are in use now in some transit applications. One would think that a small number to buffer the main battery against high discharge rates would be an advantage(?)
Batteries store energy in electro-chemical form, Capacitors in static electric form. Each compliments the other. Batteries have limited charge/discharge rates but high energy density; capacitors are complimentary with high charge/discharge but low energy density.
The advantage of extending battery life by using (a small amount of) ultra capacitors has been proven to DOUBLE the life of truck lead acid (starting) batteries.
Here is a press article about the Excide/Maxwell Technologies collaboration. http://globenewswire.com/news-release/2012/11/13/504664/10012297/en/Exid...


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Congrats to this wonderful caching family!
Congrats to this wonderful caching family!
Woot - way to go and on to more and more memories for you all!
That's awesome! I didn't realize it was coming up so quickly. What did Cole have to say about it?
Congratulations! That first milestone is really a great feeling, isn't it? OK....so you've got 100. Which one of them was your favorite?
Everyone has the right to be an idiot at times. Just don't abuse the privilege.
Nice, really nice. At this point, I'll bet each and every one of them is special....
Oh the memories of those days........enjoy every step of the way. Congrats!
I'm just nuts about geocaching!!
Thanks everyone! As far as Cole goes...he is still too young for the numbers to mean much. His first thought with any cache is "Are there any toys in it?". As far as faves, places jump out at me more than any particular caches. Fort Williams definitely have some great ones. Also, Smalls Falls was a great area. We loved wading in after a good day of caching. Discovering the Portland trails is always a blast. Its amazing how many secluded spots you can find within walking distance from the Deering area.
The other thing that is a highlight to me (more so than to Melissa and Cole because they don't interact on here) is how wonderful the caching community is. I think everyone I have interacted with in the caching community contribute tend to really stand out as very good people.
Now onto 200.......
"Keep on reaching for the stars. You may find that someday you can pull yourself out of the gutter."
Sorry for my grammatical errors and typos in the above paragraph. Just one of those nights. LOL I am sure you all understood what I was trying to say.
"Keep on reaching for the stars. You may find that someday you can pull yourself out of the gutter."
I have no enemies, but I'm intensely disliked by my friends.
It has been fun to watch the Team work its way through some of their first time exposures to hiding techniques which are now second nature to them. Many of these growing pains caches were mine.
They kept going back until they figured them out, I wanted to simply tell what to look for, but they did it on their own.
I was very pleased that they elected to make my 100 Hides cache their 100th find!!
Cache On my friends!