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AVG Free provides the bare necessities when it comes to security, but that should be enough for savvy Windows users. You'll get a combined antivirus and antimalware engine, LinkScanner, and e-mail scanning. AVG Free 9 introduces a few new features, with improvements focused on performance, including claims of faster scan and boot times. One new feature is the Identity Theft Recovery Unit. Only for users in the United States, ITRU is a business partnership with Identity Guard which provides "consumer identity theft solutions," accessible only from the AVG toolbar in Firefox and Internet Explorer.
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Yep, but that also shows you why you can't wait until "the right time" to make that next step. You may not be around long enough to take that step.
But I gotta wait. I make my living off of four car washes that I own in central Ky. Until I sell them, the time nor money will be there.
Id buy it! Why to wait, even though you werent planning it, once you have it, youll make a plan of a holiday.I think its really important you know the owner, much less stress with all the buying procedure. Buy it and enjoy before all the cars become driverless .Seriously, somehow more and more bump into articles about these self-driving cars, sounds quite crazy for me. What about human drivers and the pleasure of being able to control the vehicle? Moreover, they write that people will prefer living in these driverless motor homes by 2040 https://tranio.com/world/spotlight/self-driving-mobile-homes-how-driverless-cars-will-change-the-property-market_5354/Well, I don't know where we are going to, it's kind of cheap and convenient, but cant really imagine our life like that.
I bumped into the son (the one that showed the MH) about an hour ago. He told me they sold it for 20K. Guess I should have bought it. Oh well, whad'ya gonna do?
The stars didn't line up, or it wasn't meant to be, ever how you look at it. There will be another, there always is.
The 50K range puts you into some of the better used gas coaches PPL has a 2010 Winnebago Vista w/2 Slides for $47,995. and here is a great coach for the money. 38' 2005 Fleetwood Bounder 300hp Cummins w/3 Slides $47,995. I have a 2003 38N and have had no problems. This is a lot of coach for that price. Keep in mind that most lending institutions don't like to lend money for coaches over 10 years old.Bill
Are you sure you want a motorhome? Maybe you would like a trailer, bumper hitch or fifth wheel, towed by a big shiny Ford...
I already drive an F-250 and we gave that some thought, but The Bear has Crohn's disease and having a bathroom readily available was more important. Gotta play the hand that is dealt ya.
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How exciting! Congratulations! Where will you take your first trip?
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For each $1 donation to Toys for Tots campaign, guests will receive a patriotic-themed donut as a "thank you"
Dunkin' Donuts, America's all-day, every-day stop for coffee and baked goods, will show its support for one of America's most iconic holiday toy collection drives this November through a first-time partnership in Western New York with the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves' Toys for Tots program.
Through Nov. 25, participating Dunkin' Donuts restaurants throughout the greater Buffalo area will offer guests a special patriotic-themed donut as a "thank you" when they make a $1 donation to the Western New York Toys for Tots program.
All funds generated through the program will go toward the purchase of toys for children and families in need residing in Erie, Niagara, Genesee, Wyoming and West Cattaraugus counties during the holiday season. The toys will be distributed by the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve through the annual holiday collection drive.
"Dunkin' Donuts is honored to partner with our local Marines from Western New York to support the Toys for Tots program this holiday season. We are deeply grateful for the work of the dedicated Marine Corps Reserve volunteers who bring so much joy to children throughout our region," said Dunkin' Donuts Field Marketing Manager Alisa LaPlante. "I encourage residents throughout the greater Buffalo area to enjoy a special treat while supporting Toys for Tots, and I am confident our loyal guests will show great enthusiasm in joining with Dunkin' Donuts to raise funds for a program that is so important to our community."
The specialty patriotic-themed donut will be available at participating Dunkin' Donuts restaurants in Erie, Niagara and Chautauqua counties through Nov. 25. Additionally, participating Dunkin' Donuts restaurants throughout the greater Buffalo area will serve as drop-off locations for guests wishing to donate new, unwrapped toys for the holiday collection drive.
Dunkin' Donuts support in Western New York is an extension of the restaurant's partnership with the Toys for Tots program in the Greater Albany Capital Region, where Dunkin' Donuts has been the premiere supporter of the program led by the Marine Corps Reserve for the past four years. Since 2009, the annual Dunkin' Donuts Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Train - the only train of its kind in the country - has delivered thousands of toys to underserved children in upstate New York over a two-day period in early December.
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Ahoy! Bonefish coming ashore
In case five seafood places aren't enough for lovers of the fruits of the briny deep, The Bonefish Grill, one of OutBack Steakhouse Inc.'s seafaring offspring, will be coming ashore at the Hollymead Town Center January 9, according to proprietor Scott Hutson.
The Florida-based seafood chain is known for its daily specials and for cooking its salmon, swordfish, trout, halibut, sea bass, and lobster tails over an oak-burning grill. It's yet another link in Outback Inc.'s super-chain, which boasts 1200 locations worldwide in addition to concept restaurants like Bonefish, Cheeseburger in Paradise, and Carrabba's Italian Grill.
Like the Outback, Bonefish will be high-volume and casual, with a promise of fast and friendly service. A slight twist will be what Hutson and the company literature refer to as "polished casual," meaning the servers wear chef aprons and show you the wine label before they pour. But you can still bring your children.
"There'll be nothing like it in the north end of town," says Hutson. "It will be great for people out there who don't want to go all the way downtown to get good seafood. And we make great martinis."
Right now, Hutson and his crew are working out of a training trailer at the Hollymead location and trying to put a staff together.
"It's not so easy finding staff at this time of year, " admits Hutson, but with Outback Inc. watching Bonefish's back, we're sure the surf will hit the turf on time.
Sheba sashays away
Storyteller and restaurateur James "Abba" Watts reports that New Year's Eve will be the last night of business for his African/Caribbean restaurant, Garden of Sheba.
Abba blames the condoization of his location– the Michie Building, owned by Gabe Silverman's Town Square Associates – for the closure, but he also admits that the off-the-Mall site has made getting business harder than it should have been for a place offering vegetarian/fish dishes with the many flavors of the African diaspora.
"Business has been pretty good considering we haven't been very visible," he says. "We've survived by word of mouth, which has been terrific, a testament to our appeal."
Tucked just off a shady patio outside the former Live Arts Space on Market Street, the Garden of Sheba not only offered tasty lunch and dinner fare, but also hosted the Whole World Theatre improv troupe on Thursday nights, as well as a variety of musical acts.
Abba says the crew will still offer catering, and that while they're not actively searching for a new locale, they're open to tips about where to relocate.
Patrons who will miss the flavorful eclectic cuisine– we've heard raves about the tofu barbeque– might consider sending Abba some suggestions for a new venue. And they'll probably be happy to know he's available for hire as a personal chef– just in time for holiday parties.
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Today's Alternative Energy; and November Issue Topics, Including Computer-Brain Interfaces and DNA Computing
Scientific American magazine editor in chief, John Rennie, talks about the November issue's contents, including computer-brain interfaces, DNA computing, the ongoing attempts to find an HIV vaccine and getting closer to the Star Trek tricorder with portable NMR. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites mentioned on this episode include snipurl.com/4LJ71; SciAm.com/sciammag
> Related In-Depth Report: Today's Alternative Energy
> Related Issue: November 2008 Scientific American
Podcast Transcription
Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American for the seven days starting October 22nd, 2008, I'm Steve Mirsky. This week on the podcast, we'll talk about the alternative energy that currently exists, with ScientificAmerican.com associate editor, David Biello, our energy and environment guy. We'll test your knowledge about some current science in the news and first up Scientific American magazine editor in chief, John Rennie, talks about some of the topics we cover in the November issue. We spoke in his office.
Steve: Hey John, the November issue of Scientific American is out. There's an interesting kind of overarching futuristic theme here.
Rennie: Yeah, I think a lot of articles in this issue, somewhat by coincidence more than design, really have to do with a lot of the future developments for technology; new kinds of technologies, all new sorts of technological solutions that we could apply to various problems; and as a result there are a lot of very science fiction–like elements that pop up in these stories.
Steve: The cover piece is "Plugging Into the Brain"; let's talk about that just a little bit. The whole Matrix, you know, you're going to get a plug stuck into the back of your neck and you will be able to upload and download massive amounts of information.
Rennie: Yes, this story really does have to do a lot with it, something like The Matrix. In this article, Gary Stix examines that issue. Science fiction writers for very long time have been batting around this idea that eventually we will be able to connect machines directly up to the brain and we would be able to control various devices with our thoughts or be able to download information from the machines into our brains; and of course, you even got the sorts of people Ray Kurzweil who dream of a day when we might be able to upload our consciousness and our memories into some other sort of machine.
Steve: We covered that in a previous episode with Glenn Zorpette and John Horgan, which was subtitled, you know, "Ray Kurzweil is Going to Die".
Rennie: (laughs) Right. Well, in this case Gary Stix manages to take a look at that and a number of other related technologies and tries to get a realistic sense of where we are with those, and the bottom line is that some of those technologies are certainly very real and will most likely continue to develop. For example, we do clearly have some sorts of early stage systems for being able to control devices more or less purely by the power of thought, and those should become a huge help to especially, say people in the disabled community or people in lots of other lines of work. But if you're talking about trying to move the information the other way, they're trying to take a really particularly, say, complicated information, equivalent to say downloading a book into your head—we are a long way from that. So, it's interesting to see, but we'll keep watching what happens; but for right now, don't count on just being able to cram for exams by flipping a switch.
Steve: Right, if you want to learn how to fly a helicopter, you're going to have to do it the old fashioned way and spend literally weeks of training—I hope more than that actually. There's another article in here about efforts to mitigate global warming by actually possibly putting little parasols into orbit.
Rennie: Right. This falls under the heading of geoengineering. Geoengineering—the idea of, well, we've already been inadvertently monkeying around with the earth's climate. What if we set about trying to do it deliberately?
Steve: Inadvertently.
Rennie: (laughs) Yeah. To solve the problems of global warming and so, realistically, could we hope to try to do that? Robert Kunzig takes a look at a number of proposals, and this is an idea that scientists are starting to take quite seriously a little bit out of desperation. If you asked a few years ago, most scientists would say that fundamentally the idea of geoengineering was just intrinsically so far-fetched or such a bad idea on the face of it because we don't know enough about climate to be able to control it very well. They would have said we shouldn't even waste time thinking about it. More recently, some climatologists have started to get so concerned that we've been failing to slow down the rate at which we're pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and maybe we need to have some sort of emergency procedure in our hip pocket to, at least, you know, something we might be able to do to address it in the future. And there are several ways you could do it. You mentioned one, which was the idea of trying to construct sort of a giant parasol in space. It really wouldn't consist of one giant parasol, it would actually consist of millions and millions of tiny, little very lightweight flyers that would be positioned in space, and they would, I think, you know, in effect create a sort of structure that was tens of thousands of miles long in space and they would all be very carefully controlled and they would act still like one big sunscreen to help keep the sun's rays from hitting the earth; very, very expensive, like 5 trillion dollars, and we don't even really, [we're] barely
be able to think of trying to do something like that. There are less expensive ways of trying to do it. Ways that are in fact so potentially inexpensive that individual countries could do it. So for example, [the] United States might just decide to do this on its own. It could pump more sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, which would put little sulfate particles into the atmosphere or you can pump lots of sea mist, it seems, up into the atmosphere and create the high level of water droplets; [with] both of those plans, you'd be in effect creating, sort of, clouds that would be helping to bounce the sunlight back up, but there are lot of climate hitches involved with all of that.
Steve: Side effects may include...
Rennie: Acid rain, uncontrolled changes in rainfall or climate and you know, a host of other problems, not least among them, the fact that you know, remember in all of these situations, you're masking what would tend to be the earth's natural tendency to warm up with all that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. So, if you ever stop doing this, if you ever take your hands off the wheel, you're going to suddenly see the earth's climate warm up very, very fast. So, I think it's an interesting article because it does talk about what we might have to grapple with someday, but it shows that geoengineering is not a neat, clean fix the way I think some people have dreamt that it would be.
Steve: These kinds of ideas always bring to mind to me the scenario where there's a meteor hurdling toward the earth and we send a, you know, a mission out to deflect the meteor, so it doesn't hit the earth and it turns out, oops! We deflected it just enough so that it actually does hit the earth because it was going to miss closely and we actually messed up and wound up bringing
it by and [about] our [own] destruction.
Rennie: That's the "Curse you, Bruce Willis!" scenario; [a] different "Curse you, Bruce Willis!" scenario that's nothing to do with the quality of movies, but yes, that's right. That's right, yeah, this is one of those things where our big technological fix could become as big a problem as the original natural problem itself was.
Steve: There
is [was], I remember, the editorial meeting, where we were discussing this article, and I think at the time, I brought up what I consider to be a solution that is such a third rail that it just never gets discussed. Because you know, we have the five trillion dollar parasol effort, the sea mist effort—you know, pumping sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere sounds nuts, because of the acid rain problems—and what I said is, you know, "If things really get bad enough, what we'll finally get put on the table for better or for worse, and it's probably for worse, but what needs to be discussed is the forced limitations on the number of children people could have."
Rennie: Well, you know, this does come down a lot of sustainability issues. There are certainly this train of thoughts that says that, "Ultimately aren't these all population-related issues? And really isn't the fundamental problem, one that we have too many people?" And that's an understandable analysis. The problem I have with looking at it that way obviously is that, I think, if you're going to say that, you need to couple it to some really good solution for how you intend to start pulling down the population fast enough, and I mean, you mentioned one way obviously, you can start to limit the number of children that people are having, but I mean, I think honestly if you were doing it in the name of say, trying to deal with global warming as a problem, I don't think that would be a drastic enough solution. I think that even if, basically, people decided they were going to stop having kids or huge numbers of people over the earth were going to stop having kids voluntarily or otherwise, I'm not sure that you'd actually be decreasing the level of say greenhouse gas emissions based on congenial consumption levels fast enough. I've no ground numbers or anything like that, so I don't know if that's the case, but I think that's the big problem. You can boil this down to a population problem, but bear in mind what you're
there for [therefore] dictating, because it pretty much does lead to just some of the most horrific situations possible.
Steve: And you know, I don't mean to endorse that idea, I'm just saying—and use the word dictating and that's what it would require, we['d] require totalitarian dictatorship and I'm certainly not behind that idea—I'm just saying that if things got bad enough, you'd see some real draconian solutions being put on the table. Let's talk about the ongoing search for an HIV vaccine and possibly even a cure based on flushing all the viral particles out of the body.
Rennie: Right. You know, unlike some of the other ideas which, as you said, are sort of science-fiction-speculative kinds of notions, this special report that we did on the state of fighting HIV, 25 years after the discovery of the virus, is far a less speculative than we can all wish it could be, and certainly a problem which would let further alarm on this. Back in 1984, there were some sorts of predictions
that [about] why we should have a vaccine for this within a year; it didn't happen and the answer is, of course, is that we've only discovered is that HIV is a much craftier, more insidious virus than anybody had dreamt of at the time. Back, I think, about a year ago, David Baltimore a Nobel laureate, had given a speech in which he actually was quite gloomy on this subject. He said he felt that really the search for an HIV vaccine had pretty much run into a wall, and that we're going to have to go back to just a basic research to start to figure out new vaccine targets. One of the articles that we have in this report takes a somewhat more optimistic view, in that it says there are actually already some targets we have not adequately explored and that we're going to have to start to investigate those because indeed it does seem like all of the past approaches to developing an HIV vaccine have gone to ground. But there are still some more ideas that are on the table, and we have to keep working on it. [A] vaccine is almost certainly going to have to be an important part of any long-term means of fighting HIV on a global scale. The search for some kind of cure is an even trickier problem because one questions is you have to define what do we mean by a cure for HIV and, as you said, you know, it really, in effect, it would mean that you'd have to eliminate all the active virus in the body and you'd have to eliminate all the cells in the body that are actively pumping out virus. Already that's tough, but one of the things that makes HIV that much tougher is that we've discovered that the virus actually will lie dormant inside some cells of the body; for example some parts of the nervous system and in the intestinal tract—these would not be tissues you'd wanna just would want to or even easily could just excise. So any attempt to devise a cure, is going to be tricky; not impossible as the authors of this piece point out, but it shows the magnitude of the problem is still very, very great. This is a tough, tough virus to beat.
Steve: One of the things that the article does bring up is—I'm not saying that the article itself mentions this, I'm saying it brings up this thought—if you hear people and [a] lot of conspiracists [sic] think that HIV was concocted in a laboratory, and we don't have anywhere near the technological capabilities to do that.
Rennie: No, we're not smart enough to be this evil.
Steve: Well put. We revisit in this issue, the DNA computer idea that's been around for a quite while. First it was theorized and then we actually made some DNA— [we] can't really even call them computers, because it was a test tube situation where DNA molecules were used to solve various kinds of mathematical problems because DNA is an information-storage medium.
Rennie: Right and I think a purist would argue that, in fact, they really were computers by virtue of the fact that they are tiny, little information-processing machines at that level. But right, there's been a lot of interest about this idea of DNA computing because, you know, theoretically you might be able to do something like this to develop some new ways of potentially being able to harness things that the cells might be able to do. You might be able to figure out a way where you could insert the right kind of DNA structure into a cell and maybe there would be some way of being able to try to control the cell with something like this. There would be a lot of applications that would also be good even just sitting in a test tube in some place. But a lot of this has tended to be kind of theoretical, as you said; but this month we have a report from some scientists who show how you can use DNA as they have to tackle one of the simplest programming problems that almost [anyone] who's ever learned anything about computer programming has had to do, which is get the computer to play tic-tac-toe. It's a really elementary problem for programming and they show, here's how you translate that problem into terms of making it something that DNA molecules can solve.
Steve: The DNA molecules do this by joining together at the lowest energy levels, and basically when they finish joining together, based on the types of strands of DNA that you put in there, you have the solution.
Rennie: Right, right. I mean, you'd have to go through the article to obviously get some kind of level of accurate portrayal of what this looks like. This might not be a tic-tac-toe game most people would like to play, but still it shows you can use DNA computing technology to solve actual problems and give you useful results.
Steve: Yeah, it's really cool stuff. We also have an article on hand-held NMR devices.
Rennie: Yeah, that's right; shades of the tricorder in some way. It's a little bigger than a hand-held at this point. It's still sort of a good-sized box, but the point is that if you look at the kind of technology called NMR, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, most people's familiarity with that is with [the] MRI scanner, so we think of it as a big medical scanner. MRI is a sort of subset of NMR technology. Imagine if you could perform that same sort of scan, but instead of having to go to a big piece of equipment that was in a hospital or someplace else, if you could actually make that small enough to make it mobile, so you could analyze things out in the world—that's what these researchers are working on. They've already built a small, sort of prototype of sorts and yes, not really quite hand-held at this point; but something small enough that you can say, take it to a museum, and you can use it to analyze the fine structure of pigments inside a painting to help determine more about when it was created, for example.
Steve: I just wanted to bring up the beginning of the "Plugging Into the Brain" article, which was the first thing we discussed, has this wonderful quote from 1990s movie Johnny Mnemonic, where the guy, you know, it's a sort of precursor. Keanu Reeves plays that guy, too, and it's a precursor to his Matrix character, but just to show you how science fiction can get some parts of the features right, while completely missing others, Johnny Mnemonic says, "I had hundreds of megabytes stashed in my head."
Rennie: (laughs) It is Keanu Reeves after all.
Steve: The SciAm Web site currently features a special in-depth report called "Today's Alternative Energy'". www.ScientificAmerican.com's, David Biello gives us an overview of the report. I called him at his home in New York City. So Dave, we have a lot of things in this alternative energy package, "Today's Alternative Energy". So we're going to talk a little bit about tomorrow's as well, but this package really looks at what is currently available out there.
Biello: That's right. These are projects that are either underway or shortly to be underway, even despite this fiscal crisis, that are meant to solve many parts of our energy crisis. So we have things such as offshore winds which will remove those unsightly wind turbines from your Cape Cod beach road property as well solar power in Spain and wave power in Portugal.
Steve: Let's talk about what is [there] when you go to the home page for this feature. I mean, it clearly stands out as the most fascinating item, and that is of course the solar-powered refrigerator.
Biello: Yes, and you're not alone in that interest. What's surprising, I guess, about the solar powered refrigerator is that really all you need to make a refrigerator work is some heat. And, of course, the sun is a very powerful heat source, as you can tell sitting out in any summer day; and with a right combination of liquids and gases that simple sun's heat can provide enough refrigeration to keep vaccines on ice in the developing [world] or keep food fresh or whatever else you might need a refrigerator to do.
Steve: So when using the sun, we're not converting it with panels to electricity to operate a refrigerator, we're actually using the heat.
Biello: That's correct. It's a direct conversion, and that actually saved some of the energy. So, going through the messy process of converting photons—you know, light—into electricity is a fairly inefficient process and then shipping that electricity from where the sunlight is collected to your refrigerator is also an inefficient process; but kind of collecting the heat from the sun that pours down on your house or ship or wherever else you might have your solar refrigerator installed, is a very direct way of providing cooling.
Steve: And we needn't go into the full details—you can read the article, it's online and it's free—but for those of you who remember your thermodynamics courses with your Carnot's cycles, which I still ride around on every once in a while and you're compressing and expanding gases, why it's child's play.
Biello: That's right.
Steve: So, what's going on in Spain with solar power?
Biello: Well, Spain has quickly kind of catapulted to the lead in solar power development, whether you are talking about photovoltaic fields or solar-thermal power plants—those are, again, power plants that harvest the heat of the sun—really any other solar technology in between. And that's because the Spanish government has been said to generously subsidize the production of solar power, given that Spain is so well known for its sunshine, to help make that power source more competitive with other more polluting power sources, such as coal or natural gas or other fossil fuels.
Steve: But our headline is "Is the Sun Setting on Solar Power in Spain?"
Biello: That's right, because we've actually come to the end ofthat cycle. Spain is not the world's largest country nor is [it] the world's richest country, and that means that both the support for these generous subsidies is starting to wane a little bit and the solar market, as it were, is getting kind of maxed out. So, the solar companies that have been developed in Spain over this time are now looking abroad. One of those companies is actually building the largest solar power plant in the U.S. now, and they're also looking into North Africa and other places with a lot of sunshine to kind of put the solar expertise they've garnered in Spain with the generous subsidies to work in places with [more] generous subsidies.
Steve: It's interesting. The silver lining in the high gas prices that we saw was that it was sending a price signal to really start developing alternative fuel technologies. But gas prices have plummeted over the last month and a half or so and so that signal may dissipate and we may wind up being back at square one. I know that the price support, the congressional price supports and subsidies for alternative fuel technology were defeated until the bailout bill, and they were snuck in there as riders in the bailout bill.
Biello: That's right.
Steve: So, you know, that's another silver lining in the bailout bill.
Biello: That's right. Although this time around—and that's pretty much what happened in the 1970s; we had some pretty strong alternative energy programs in the wake of the first oil shock, as it were, and those kind of withered on the vine as cheap oil came back in 1980s and 1990s—but there are some different drivers this time around, one of which is a global environmental problem that you might have heard of called climate change that seems to be driving investments in the direction of cleaner energy sources rather than fossil fuels; particularly if some kind of a national program, whether cap and trade or carbon tax or whatever else begins to regulate the amount of carbon dioxide emissions and other greenhouse gases that we can put into the atmosphere. And [under] that kind of a regime, alternative energy sources, whether solar power or geothermal or whatever else you might want, would actually have a cost-benefit compared to fossil fuels.
Steve: Right.
Biello: Very, very [much] cheaper.
Steve: And you know you mentioned the title "Possibilities with Portugal" and I remember for decades now we've been hearing about the possibilities of the Bay of Fundy; and so is the attempt to harness all the energy and tides really going to go anyplace?
Biello: Well, that's probably the most forward-looking of all the articles. Wave power is definitely in its infancy. There's a lot of wave power out there. The problem is getting the technology together that can both harness the power in the waves and the power in the tides and also withstand the power in the tides and the power in the waves. It's pretty rough stuff out there and machinery doesn't fare too well, not to mention the salt water, which is extremely corrosive to any metal you want to put in it. But we do seem to be getting a lot closer there now. Actual wave power plants [are] in production off the coast of Portugal and actually in the Bay of Fundy; slowly but surely, we seem to be approaching that goal.
Steve: The tide is turning.
Biello: That's right.
Steve: I'm sorry about that. The kind of theme you see here is that—you know, wind power, solar power, tidal power, geothermal, we have an article [on] Icelandic geothermal power—is rather than dig into the earth for the energy that's been stored there for millions of years, is grab the steady-state energy that's out there right now.
Biello: That's right—the ambient energy. And by combining all of those, you can actually provide all the power needs. One of the knocks on
renewal [renewable] power is that it's intermittent; you know the wind isn't always blowing, the sun obviously isn't always shining. But by combining that with something like geothermal, which is a 24/7, as it were, a power source, you can actually even out and basically entirely replace the fossil fuel infrastructure with a renewable infrastructure.
Steve: The In-Depth Report: "Today's Alternative Energy," is available at the Web site http://www.SciAm.com or go to http://www.snipurl.com/4lj71. And listen to David Biello on the 60-Second Earth podcast every week.
Now its time to play TOTALL....... Y BOGUS. Here are four science stories; only three are true. See if you know which story is TOTALL....... Y BOGUS.
Story number 1: Under ultraviolet light, ripe bananas are bright blue.
Story number 2: Researchers have found an entire ecosystem made up of just one species.
Story number 3: You know, the famous five stages of grief, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance? Well a new study finds that there's actually often a sixth stage—anticipation.
And story number 4: India has launched a rocket to the moon.
Time is up.
Story [number] 1 is true. Ripe bananas are bright blue under UV light. That's according to research published in the German chemistry journal Angewandte chemie; the blue glow is related to the breakdown products of chlorophyll, which concentrate in the peel. Some animals that eat bananas can see in the UV range, so the blue color might be a clue to them that the fruit is ready.
Story [number] 2 is true. There's apparently a deep underground natural ecosystem that consists of only a single species of bacterium. The research was reported in the journal Science. The species lives in fluid-filled cracks some three kilometers below the surface in a South African gold mine and appears to be utterly independent of any other living thing.
And story [number] 4 is true. India launched a two-year moon mission on October 22nd. The major goal was to establish a detailed three-dimensional map of the surface.
All of which means that story [number] 3 about a sixth stage of grief is TOTALL....... Y BOGUS. In fact, there's actually no evidence that most people will go through most of the accepted five stages and in any particular order at that. For more check out Michael Shermer's column in the November Scientific American magazine and at the Web site called "The Five Fallacies of Grief". You'll find it at http://www.SciAm.com/Sciammag
Well, that's it for this edition of Scientific American's Science Talk. Visit http://www.SciAm.com for all the latest science news, blogs and videos. For Science Talk, I'm Steve Mirsky. Thanks for clicking on us.
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vitamins are definitely something that can help prevent sickness and disease, and if you're body is in harmony with itself, I'm certain it could help prevent addiction as well!
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"What set us apart is that we work together and build bridges to find the common grounds to work collectively," Benicia Community Congregational Church Rev. Renie Stamm-Kirk. "Individually we can only do so much; collectively we can do so much more."
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The young artisans and artists of the Known World had the opportunity to display their work Tuesday morning at the premier Youth A&S Exhibition held at Youth Point.
Inspiration for the event came from Lord Valdis of the Kingdom of the East. His two children have been making projects for many years and had exhibited alongside their father at adult A&S exhibitions. However, their work tended to get lost among so many other contributions, and Lord Valdis suggested they have "something they could call their own."
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Like adult artisans, the exhibitors filled out display forms. However, Mistress Safia, who is an art teacher in modern life, designed a set of forms graded by age level and the youth completed them in their own words and without help. In both their arts and their descriptions, they were able to express themselves in their own terms.
The event is not a competition but a display. The presenters did receive informal feedback as well as many tokens of appreciation from older artisans and Laurels, and a Certificate of Participation.
Mistress Safia al-Khansaa' organized the exhibition with the aid of Mistress Ardania, director of Youth Point. A major concern was getting the word out before Pennsic. Although online pre-registration was available, this year most of the exhibitors were from the East.
Queen Madeleina of the Midrealm visited the exhibition early in the day. She expressed her delight at the work she saw. "I am always encouraging more participation by children in the SCA," she said. Children are dear to her Majesty, as she has three of her own.
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Ana Ximenez de Hume, 7, created a woven pouch in pink and purple cotton yarn. She wove the fabric on a rigid heddle loom and also sewed, braided cord and made fringe to complete the pouch. She spoke of her work with great confidence, saying the most difficult part of the project had been choosing just one button to close the pouch out of the many possibilities she had available..
Some know Rusty, 7, of the East Kingdom as "the little red dragon." She has autism and has gained comfort in social situations from attending SCA events. She was wearing a pink gown she cut and sewed, then decorated with painting of the front and back. Her colorful designs of fairies and roses displayed her skill as they set off her beauty.
Cehero Oakensword, 17, displayed four longbows and a quiver of arrows of his making. His accomplishment was all the more remarkable because he is a self-taught bowyer who has completed this work with the aid of books. He hand turned the ash arrows and fletched them with goose feathers hand tied with linen. Cehero was not present to be interviewed because he was at the archery range.
In the corner of the tent, a serious-faced young man was getting advice from a silver-haired gentleman. "Keep your first piece," the older lord said. "When you get to be my age, you'll be glad you did." Perhaps only in the SCA can the age-old mode of the senior advising the junior, and each listening respectfully to the pother, still be found.
The advisor was Lord Aquel; the artisan was Zohar Hruschka, 14, who is learning blacksmithing. The showpiece of his work was a Viking bearded hand axe decorated with acid etching on the blade.
Zohar hot-forged the axe in a coal fire for which he mined the coal himself in a an open mine near his home. He also showed two portable holes he had made from mild steel, one with a leaf embellishment at the top.
Zohar came alive explaining his techniques and his study of smithing. He became an informal apprentice of Little John the Blacksmith by haunting at his shop at War Practice. "I stayed at the booth long enough that his apprentices told me to come back the next day and meet him." Zohar is working for Little John here at War.
"I want to be a much better smith, I don't want to stay an apprentice," Zohar said. Although he doesn't intend to make his living at smithing, he does expect it to continue to be part of his life. "I want to do pieces for other people. I want to make what people want."
Lord Aquel said, "I think that this young man has a great future. Not only does he have skill, he has heart."
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Tri-County Animal Rescue has Goldie as our featured pet this week. Goldie is one of three mixed breed pups born to a stray mama dog. Goldie and her siblings are 4 months old and need a good home. The first 13 weeks of existence was very hard on them since they had no owner. The lived on scraps of food and anything neighbors tossed their way.
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This Patriots' Day, the 236th Anniversary of the Opening Salvo for American Liberty, The Spirit of Their Sacred Honor Endures
"Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations." –George Washington
A young reader in the Czech Republic contacted me recently with a question. (Yes, The Patriot Post's message of Liberty is global.)
She wrote, "We as a Czech family subscribe to The Patriot Post and read it with great interest. My homeland has been subject to the tyranny of Nationalist and Marxist Socialism. Could you please help me understand the difference between 'patriotism' and 'nationalism'? In Europe, anyone who puts his country first is called a nationalist and this pejorative term is equated with patriotism."
I responded, "Nationalism refers to a blind allegiance to the state, no matter what the nature of the state may be. American Patriotism refers to the steadfast devotion to the fundamental principles of our nation's Founding, individual Liberty as 'endowed by our Creator,' and the extension of that legacy to our posterity. American Patriotic devotion to Liberty will always be in contest with allegiance to the state or its sovereigns, especially when it manifests in some form of Socialism."
It is easy to understand how a Czech student might find it challenging to distinguish between patriotism and nationalism. Sadly most American students, heirs to the great legacy of Liberty bestowed upon them by generations of Patriots gone before, also can't articulate the difference.
In the early morning hours of the first Patriots' Day, April 19th, 1775, farmers and laborers, landowners and statesmen alike, pledged through action what Thomas Jefferson would later frame in words as "our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor." Thus began the great campaign to reject the predictable albeit tyrannical order of the state and to embrace the difficult toils of securing individual Liberty. It was this as-yet unwritten pledge by militiamen in the Battles of Lexington and Concord, which would delineate the distinction between Liberty and tyranny in Colonial America.
Why would the first generation of American Patriots forgo, in the inimitable words of Samuel Adams, "the tranquility of servitude" for "the animating contest of freedom"?
The answer to that question defined the spirit of American Patriotism at the dawn of the American Revolution, and to this day and for eternity, that spirit will serve as the first line of defense between Liberty and tyranny.
In the first months of the American Revolution, English author and lexicographer Samuel Johnson, a Tory loyalist, wrote that American Patriots' quest for liberty was nothing more than "the delirious dream of republican fanaticism" which would "put the axe to the roots of all government." Johnson concluded famously, "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
Unlike King George's partisans, however, American Patriots were unwaveringly loyal to something much larger than a mere man or geo-political institution. They pledged their sacred honor in support of Essential Liberty as "endowed by our Creator" and enshrined in our Declaration of Independence and its subordinate guidance, our Constitution.
It is this resolute devotion to the natural rights of man, the higher order of Liberty as endowed by God not government, which defines the spirit of American Patriots, and has obliged the animated contest of freedom from Lexington Green to this day.
In all the generations since the Revolution, and loudly again in the present era, the essence of Johnson's denigration of patriotism has been repeated by all statists, who augment their disdain for Patriots with words like "fascist, nationalist and jingoist."
These statists, Democratic Socialists in the current vernacular, would have you believe that they are the "true patriots," and only they deserve to be the arbiters of Liberty. But caveat emptor: As George Washington implored in his Farewell Address, "Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."
Liberty, as affirmed through natural law, is an abject affront to Socialists, who can claim dominion over others only if they supplant Rule of Law with their own rule. For such statists, the notion of serving a higher purpose than oneself is enigmatic; consequently, there is a raging ideological battle between Democratic Socialists and Patriots across our nation today.
Our steadfast support for Liberty and limited government is diametrically opposed to the Socialist manifesto of the Democrat Party, as reframed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1933, and renewed by every Democrat president since.
Regardless of how statists choose to promote Democratic Socialism, like Nationalist Socialism, it is nothing more than Marxist Socialism repackaged. Ultimately, it likewise seeks a centrally planned economy directed by a single-party state that controls economic production through regulation and income redistribution.
Mustering in response to the current threat of tyranny, the Tea Party movement is the latest incarnation in the lineage of American Patriots serving a cause much greater than our own self-interest. It is a direct ideological descendant of the Sons of Liberty who, in 1773, boarded three East India Company ships and threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor, the first Tea Party.
According to the Democratic Socialists of Barack Obama's ilk, the Tea Party rank and file are an "angry mob" who are "waving their little tea bags" while they "bitterly cling to guns and religion." Indeed, the spirit of American Patriots is anathema to these statists.
In fact, today's Patriots are much like those of previous generations.
We are mothers, fathers and other family members nurturing the next generation of young Patriots. We are farmers, craftsmen, tradesmen and industrial producers. We are small business owners, service providers and professionals in medicine and law. We are employees and employers. We are in ministry at home and missionaries abroad. We are students and professors at colleges and universities, often standing alone for what is good and right.
We are Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, Coast Guardsmen and public servants standing in harm's way at home and around the world, who are loyal, first and foremost, to our revered oath to "support and defend" our Constitution.
We are consumers and taxpayers. We are voters.
We are not defined by race, creed, ethnicity, religion, wealth, education or political affiliation, but by our devotion to our Creator, and the Liberty He entrusted to us, one and all.
We are Patriot sons and daughters from all walks of life, heirs to the blessings of Liberty bequeathed to us at great personal cost by our Patriot forebears, confirmed in the opinion that it is our duty to God and Country to extend that blessing to our posterity, and avowed upon our sacred honor to that end. We are vigilant, strong, prepared and faithful.
In stark contrast to Samuel Johnson in 1775 and Obama today, John Adams wrote, "If men through fear, fraud or mistake, should in terms renounce and give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the great end of society, would absolutely vacate such renunciation; the right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of Man to alienate this gift, and voluntarily become a slave."
To that end, Jefferson wrote, "The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them. … Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever."
In 1964, Ronald Reagan issued a clarion call for Liberty in his most famous speech, "A Time for Choosing." He echoed the commands of Captain John Parker at Lexington Green in 1775: "There is a point beyond which they must not advance." Reagan concluded, "You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We'll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness."
Now, on the eve of Patriots' Day 2011, and nearly five decades later, and much closer to the decline that Reagan predicted, we must choose between prosperity and poverty, between Liberty and tyranny.
Which will it be?
While contemplating that question, we should, in the words of Samuel Adams, "Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, 'What should be the reward of such sacrifices?' … If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands, which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!"
If you have not already done so, please help us, in the words of Sam Adams, "set brushfires of freedom in the minds of men," by supporting our 2011 Patriot's Day Campaign!
(Please pray for our Armed Forces standing in harm's way around the world, and for their families — especially families of those fallen Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen, who granted their lives in defense of American liberty.)
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Any of you who follow what I post on this blog should know by now of my deep and abiding love for rants. Let's capitalize that term, because it deserves it: Rants. In my book, Rants comprise a sorely neglected literary genre in and of themselves. I like to collect them, and when I find a Rant (almost always via the Internet) that is intelligently argued and extremely well-written, I literally bounce up and down on my chair with glee.
I wish my "Rant of the Week" column truly could be a weekly thing, but alas, I rarely find Rants that are good enough to link to. My #1 requirement? That the Rant be skillfully executed and generally well-written. It should feel like a real essay, not like a nasty blog comment dashed off in the heat of the moment. #2 requirement? Laugh-out-loud funny. #3? That it powerfully express the writer's righteous anger, even if I don't fully agree with the writer's take on that particular subject.
In my view, Tony Fitzpatrick's latest column on Artnet meets all three of my "Good Rant" requirements. Mind you, there's a fair amount in there that I don't personally agree with — but that's not the point here. This is a Rant — it's supposed to be extreme, rhetorically-speaking, and in this case it's written in response to a vicious, violent attack that was more extreme in its effects than words could ever be. There are certain aspects of Mr. Fitzpatrick's prose that make me shudder and shake my head, but there are other parts that are undeniably rousing. It's like, Yeah baby!! Someone actually said the things that everyone else is afraid to say, and they said it loud and proud! It's that aspect of the Rant, that break-the beer-bottle-against-the-table-and-go-for-broke-type of rhetoric, that draws me to them again and again.
The irony is not lost on me that the Right has its infamous Ranters too, and that it is their brand of heated rhetoric that some claim is at the root of the Arizona shooter's attack. But I am still unwilling to forgo the Rant altogether in favor of more even-handed, muted, controlled and "correct" types of argument. I think Rants have a place in political discourse, hell–in any form of discourse. And I don't want to give up on them.
Obviously, not every political statement should take the form of a Rant. But Tony Fitzpatrick is an artist who is well-known for speaking his mind, and he is in classic form here. Take a look at the brief excerpt below, then click on over to Artnet, read Fitzpatrick's piece in full, and decide for yourself. Or just enjoy it for the great example of good old-fashioned Rant literature that it is.
"There was a time when I regarded the Tea Party as noisy, but mostly harmless geeks — with their Triangle Hats and Jefferson quotes, they reminded me of the same dopes who were in the Civil Defense League when I was a kid. A crowd of Dolts and Dumb-bells who were mostly in it for the hats, the walkie-talkies, and the opportunity to hold forth like the assholes they watch on TV. Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and other lesser McCarthyites who'd like to tell the rest of us how to be Americans and have cast themselves as victims since Barack Obama was elected. You know the types — they forswear big Gub'mint, until their particular industry goes tits-up and they need a bail-out — they hold the Constitution sacrosanct, but gave not a fuck when the Bush administration shreds Habeas Corpus and the Bill of Rights in the name of Homeland Security. Where were all the Triangular Hats back then?
When John McCain picked Sarah Palin for his running mate, a little over two years ago, I thought it was his way of giving up. If you look at the tape of the end sputter of the McCain campaign — one could tell this was a guy who really didn't want the job — He was always a temperamental fuck — a guy who honestly resented being asked questions — any question — he was clearly a man far more used to giving orders than having to explain himself or his position. You see, John McCain, for all of his years as a political animal, thought he was running for CEO of the United States. He cultivated the skills of an executive and not those of a President. You can't fire Congress. At the end of his campaign, one could tell he was relieved to have lost.
Palin, if you believe all of the subsequent reportage, was a disastrous candidate, unable to stay on message, full of platitudes and an appalling lack of depth when it came to issues of a global nature. Her home-spun, golly-gee, small-town Dip-Shit act played with the Republican base — the culturally conservative South loved Caribou Barbie. Never mind the howls of protest from her own state colleagues, claiming she wanted to remove books from public libraries she found objectionable. Sarah Palin was able to take a threadbare ideology and stretch out its shelf-life. She parlayed her Gidget goes to Alaska shtick into a now-canceled TV show, in which she takes almost surreal delight in blowing the brains out of Alaska's native wildlife. It is odd to see a public official that turned-on by firearms." Read more.
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The proportion of doctorates awarded to Blacks by tertiary education institutions in the United States rose from 4.2 percent in 1991 to 6.1 percent in 2011. In the fields of science and engineering, that represents 9,202 doctorate recipients from 2002 to 2011.
Howard University in Washington, D.C., was the leading undergraduate feeder institution for Blacks who earned doctorate in these fields, according to an analysis of the data by the {Journal of Blacks in Higher Education.} Howard graduated 220 students who went on to earn scientific doctorates in the 2002-11 period.
Coming in second was Atlanta's Spelman College, where 175 graduates went on to earn doctorates in science or engineering fields in the 2002-11 period.
Rounding out the top five feeder institutions was Florida A&M University, Hampton University in Virginia, and Xavier University of Louisiana.
The top 10 also included Morgan State University, North Carolina A&T State University, Southern University and Tuskegee University.
Howard University was also the top feeder institution in the field of physical sciences, such as physics. Xavier University led all other undergraduate institutions in producing the most graduates who went on to earn Ph.D.s in the life sciences, such as biology. And North Carolina A&T State University had the most graduates who earned doctorates in engineering during the period.
Among non-HBCUs, the University of Maryland Baltimore County, led by the renowned Freeman Hrabowski, was the leader in the institutions from which Black graduates earned Ph.D.s in science and engineering in the 2002-11 period. Other traditionally White institutions that produced the most Black graduates that earned science and engineering doctoral degrees included the University of Michigan, the University of Virginia, and Harvard University


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I took a road trip last week, south into Big Smoky Valley (MSRMaps), in order to grab a few photos from areas I visited in 1976 while on my thesis hunt.
I started fairly early in the morning while the weather was surprisingly cool — though the day warmed towards summer as the road dropped elevation to the south. I stopped for lunch at Carver's Station (sometimes called Carver's, or even Carvers), after making a brief run up Kingston Canyon to look at a cabin I used to stay in way back when. (It's still there, a different color, but still there.)
The trek from the Peavine Campground turnoff to the Pole Line Road, and then back again, on varying types of dirt roads — all the while making assorted turnarounds to check things out and to, well, turn around — took about two hours. (See my Pole Line to Belmont post for the route.)
I had started out the day feeling anxious, agitated, or rushed — though sometimes merely intent and interested — and I went in and out of these various phases as I zoomed down Big Smoky Valley, actually achieving nearly laid-back feelings during lunch repasting. I kept thinking that the agitation and anxiety might be echoing the way I felt back then, back in '76, when I took off down roads I'd never seen before and went to places I'd only heard of.
I'm not sure why I was feeling that way last week while driving roads I'd been on and going to places I'd been to (although some places I hadn't seen in a couple or three decades). It felt a little like overdrive, like I had decided to try to get it all done in one day, therefore I had a deadline and had to rush to meet it. It also felt like agoraphobia: the wide, open, bright blue sky getting larger and brighter the farther south I went and the longer I stayed on the road. I'm sure that banging up and down and across bright beige, washboardy to nearly washed out roads didn't really help matters. I barely stopped anywhere for photos; took most of them on the run.
I realized later that I'm better off going somewhere — some place, a pre-identified, pre-chosen place — arriving there in the mid to late afternoon or early evening, getting a room (yes, that's right, a motel room, not a camp spot for my truck). Settling in calms me down from any overdrive or hyper-roadness I've accumulated while being wired for driving; I can walk around, get some dinner, have a beer (or not, as the case may be), sit in an air-conditioned room (rather than running through the summery desert and steppe in a hot, non-AC truck), and chill. That way, the next morning I can calmly — after breakfast, and after getting some lunch fixings — get in my truck and drive to a few specified (or even impromptu) areas or roads or towns or whathaveyou.
Anyway, the glaring, not-yet summer-hot sun can be a detractor while trying to remain calm in desert conditions, and wide-open spaces can be counteracted by spending a couple days indoors doing paperwork or staring at a wall. They can also be relieved by days spent in amongst trees, even those as small as found in a typical piñon-juniper forest. Tall trees are even better. Tall trees and cool water.
Hmm... what am I doing here? Well, it would be a 16-hour round trip and about $120 in gas just to escape to the lake for the weekend. Or, it could be a similarly long round trip and about $??? in an airplane to get away to that cool north country known as Alaska.
(Oh. And on the way back, before even making it to Carver's Station, the battery gauge started reading lower, and lower, and lower, and... )


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Finally the Cubs have a reason to feel good about themselves as they are coming off a three game sweep over the Padres. Hopefully they use that sweep to carry some momentum across the Country and into San Francisco as the Cubs take on the Giants in a four game set. In order for the Cubs to be successful they need more of the patience they exhibited in the series finale against the Padres. The deeper hitters get into counts against this very good pitching staff the better off they will be. The Giants come into this series with the 4th best ERA in the National League at 3.38. On the plus side the Giants have some trouble scoring runs as they are tied for 10th in NL with 204 runs.
The Cubs will miss Tim Lincecum, but that might be a bad thing as he has been probably the worst Giants starter this year. Madison Bumgarner and Matt Cain head up the 2012 rotation and the quicker the Cubs get those two out of the game the better. As I mentioned, the Giants are struggling to score runs, a big reason is the absence of Pablo Sandoval at third, they are a much different offense without him. The Cubs pitchers need to pound the zone and use the ballpark to their advantage, the quicker the outs the better, if they can do that I don't think a split is out of the question. Full preview/breakdown after the jump.