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Members of the Oshkosh school board are getting Apple iPads as part of a district push to cut down on paper costs.

An Oshkosh Northwestern report said the tablets will be paid for by the district. Board members will have to return them when their terms are over.

Deputy Superintendent Dave Gundlach says each iPad2 will cost about $380, or $2,660 for all seven board members.

He said the devices will save money because district staff won't have to make copies and assemble bulky packets for board meetings. He said the iPads will also make it easier for members to access information.

Gundlach said the iPads are a sound investment, even though a forecast says the district will need to cut $2.6 million in spending to balance its budget.


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Jon Shreve, age 61, of Salem, passed away Monday, December 31, 2012 in Rochester, MN in the company of his family. Jon was born to the late John and Norma (Olson) Shreve on May 17, 1951 in Libertyville, IL. He graduated from Zion-Benton High School in 1969. He worked at North Shore Gas in Waukegan, IL until his retirement in 2006 and was passionate about hunting and fishing.

Jon is survived by four children, Jacob Shreve of Salem; Sara Shreve of Chicago; Heather (Steve) Rondon of Kenosha and Shannon Shreve of Kenosha; two grandchildren; a brother, Dwayne (Carol Sickles) Shreve; three sisters, Sharon Shreve; Dianne (Ray) Rutledge and Julia Shreve as well as nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

Funeral services will be held at 11:00 A.M. Saturday, January 5, 2013 at the Otter Creek Lutheran Church. Rev. Julia Shreve and Pastor Romona Orton will co-officate. Burial will be in the Otter Creek Cemetery with full military honors. Friends may call from 4:00 P.M. until 7:00 P.M. Friday at the Lulloff-Peterson-Houck Funeral Home, Dodgeville and at the church on Saturday after 10:00 A.M.

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Born with Larsen syndrome, a rare joint condition that confines him to a wheelchair, Canadian singer-songwriter Justin Hines never expected to live into adulthood.

“Every day was precious and I wanted to take advantage of it,” he says. “Combined with my sense of faith, it really compelled me to get into music.”

Hines first discovered his musical calling at age 14—oddly enough at a Toronto Raptors basketball game, where he sang the Canadian and American national anthems. He later taught himself to play the piano and incorporated it into his performances.

Hines, 30, performs around the globe in concerts and corporate appearances. And though he is known more across the border than in the U.S., his resumé speaks volumes: Since his professional debut in 2007, he has already sung at the Beijing Olympics, Vancouver Olympics and Pan Am Games; performed with the likes of The Canadian Tenors, Natalie MacMaster and Ron Sexsmith; and recorded four CDs.

But the rising musician has also kept things in perspective. He continues to be part of Toronto’s Abilities Ministries and holds at least 10 concerts per year at churches. For Hines, touring and performing in public are simply opportunites to display the real source of his inner strength: “Adversity brings about strength and faith. I have always believed that we are in our situations for a reason—mine has given me a lot of faith. God is a source of strength to me, and so is my supportive family.”

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In the spring of 1918, the Spanish flu epidemic spreads, killing millions of soldiers and civilians across the globe. Overwhelmed by the constant flow of wounded soldiers coming from the French front, battlefield nurse Bess Crawford must now contend with hundreds of influenza patients as well.

However, war and disease are not the only killers to strike. Bess discovers, concealed among the dead waiting for burial, the body of an officer who has been murdered. Though she is devoted to all her patients, this soldier’s death touches her deeply. Not only did the man serve in her father’s former regiment, he was also a family friend.

Before she can report the terrible news, Bess falls ill, the latest victim of the flu. By the time she recovers, the murdered officer has been buried, and the only other person who saw the body has hanged himself. Or did he?

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We take a moment during each of the Final 49 weeks until Kickoff 2013 to look at various aspects of the Charlotte 49ers football program.

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Aug. 22, 2013

By Tom Whitestone

Less than two weeks from the opening kick.

And its getting busier and busier for the team, the coaches, the staff and the fans.

School started Monday as did the period in which students could start requesting tickets.

In less than six hours, about 6000 tickets had been requested.

People sometime ask what the student reaction has been to football.  Over 5,000 came out for the spring game.  About 6000 requested tickets to the inaugural game the very first chance they got.  That number has since risen, of course.

Those numbers speak for themselves -- and indicate that this campus is hungry for football.

The campus is alive and excited and game day will be like no other day this campus has seen.

At the same time, FSL Account holders began to receive their season ticket packages.

Following twitter to see the reaction of Niner Nation was priceless:

"tix just arrived. it's real now" tweeted one fan.

"Put your tailgating pants on" another tweeted after opening her mail.

"Best day ever."  "Can't wait for kickoff!"  "Sweet!"  "@ Charlotte 49ers football is getting closer".

Most tweets included pictures of the ticket package -- as proud alum, proud fan, proud ticket holder showed off their ticket treasures.

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"THEY'RE HERE!!" one fan tweeted along with a picture of himself holding the tickets and his young child.

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The inaugural season is upon us, with the opening kick less than two weeks away -- and that package that arrived on the doorstep today is a treasure -- but it will pale in comparison to the one that awaits a week from Saturday.

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Chef's Luv Shack could best be described as an entertainment vampire. It exists only to suck money from your wallet and to drain you of any pleasure. Trying to capitalize on the success of You Don't Know Jack, which incidentally is a great game, CLS merely tries to dazzle you with that irreverent humor found in Comedy Central's hit cartoon. Unfortunately, this game is about as entertaining as the cartoon is drawn well. Even die hard South Park fans are balking at this one.

Matt Stone and Trey Parker are spreading themselves pretty thin these days. Maybe that explains why there are a fraction of the voices that you would expect in a game that relies on the spoken word. Hearing the characters (Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman) say the same things over and over again is like living with a parakeet that has been watching too much South Park. The soundbytes themselves seem distorted and not clean at all. And not only do they sound poor but they somehow contain about 1% humor, which is odd, because I personally think Trey and Matt are seriously funny. I saw the South Park movie three times this summer and laughed my ass off each time, so my sense of humor is still in check.

Basically the gist is this: Up to 4 players can play as Kenny, Cartman, Stan or Kyle (more characters might be selectable). The length of the game can consist of 2-8 rounds. An 8 round game for 4 players takes about an hour or so, thanks to the load times. The gameplay is simple: Chef asks a question and you answer it. Neat huh? If you get it right, you win cash. Once per round you'll be asked to double down. This is where you can bet some or all of your earnings. At the end of each round will be a mini-game. Most of these mini-games are based on either ancient videogames like Sprint, Donkey Kong or Asteroids or are a "keep your eye on this object' while someone moves it around quickly. Chock these ho-hum games up to a very poor mans Mario Party.

The questions aren't that difficult for an adult, yet some will stump kids who can't remember what 1993 was like. Example: What band wrote "Yellow Submarine"? One decent aspect of CLS, is that if you guess incorrectly, you aren't told the proper answer, so that you may get it again in another game. This at least adds to the small replay value of the title, because you sure won't be hampering to play those mini-games more than once. After playing a few games, I conclude that the majority of the questions are lame-o, and will neither educate you or interest you. What color is Mr. Mackey's shirt? Who gives a %$#@?! Trivia does not have to be trivial, and that is one of the biggest problems with this game. At the end of the game there is the lightening round in which I had to answer 7 out of 10 questions correctly or some aliens were going to anal probe Cartman. Unfortunately I succeeded and therefore spared Cartman the humiliation he so rightly deserves. $#%@!

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In the end the whole game seems to be mixed bag. It tries to be cool and hip but it's missing the soul of South Park. South Park is much more than potty talk and crappy drawings. I would have expected more from Matt and Trey but I don't think they had much to do with this title. If you are a huge SP fan, than by all means check this game out with some friends. It may be good for a night or two rental, but you wouldn't want to commit serious coinage to a purchase. This game should have and could have been much better.

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I am working as a prep cook/line cook and I just bought a Moritaka Supreme Series 240mm Gyuto to use as my knife for the vast majority of my work. I was wondering if I might re-purpose my Wusthof pro 10" to use on some of our veggies that are harder to get through(Sweet Potato, Yucca, etc.). I have never used a knife that is nearly as hard or will take as fine of an edge as the Moritaka, so I guess I have two questions.

1. Will my Moritaka just laugh at the sweet potatoes et al and rip right through them and still hold an awesome edge?
2. If not, can/should I repurpose my Wusthof to work on those veggies, and if I should, what angle should I put on the Wusthof to get the best results?

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SMIDEY <> 1) That hard Mori AS will have no problems with roots such as sweet potatoes like Garnets, Jewels, Jerseys, others like Taro, etc.; start getting into denser stuff like Boniato & you're still fine with added focus paid to controlled decisiveness in your cuts; be clear at what angle entering & more importantly where you're exiting. Impact burring is common... especially on poly. Yucca has that same density, or close thereto, but that hard thick skin is your issue. Will your Mori have a problem, you ask. It's much more dependent on the bevel than the steel. One of the advantages of AS @Hrc65 is you can sharpen acutely... 22-24 included is feasible in a professional setting though at the cusp IMO. Now, if you have an 11 degree edge which will be like a scalpel in a kitchen, you're going to likely experience chipping in abusive scenarios like we're discussing. Can you bring your Mori to 20 on each side and blast through whatever you want? Yes, but then why do you own AS, you know?

In your case, prep/line, two chef's isn't that hard to manage. If I were you, I'd bring my Mori to as close as freehand allows to 13-14 each side, I'd bring my Wusthof to 20 on each side, and I'd bring both to work & use accordingly.
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this is a quite delicious soup. I used to only value the feet for the flavor they give to the broth and their use in desert making (jellies, with unflavored cow foot water, flavored with lemon rind and a hint of rum, sweetened with condensed milk and enriched with a little cream if desired now i like the "meat itself" which is just skin and gelatin. its soft and creamy with just enough firmness like oysters i have experimented with different soups from belize, trinidad and jamaica right now i make one that has corn(canned or frozen whole kernel), lima beans and potatos, with a mirepoix of carrots, onions and celery strained out. some of hte mirepoix nad some of the potatos are used to puree and give the broth a little more body seasonings are thyme, parsley and bayleaf cillantro would be good too recently i added a touch of cloves the soup can be made peppery with lots of black pepper if desired it also callso for a hot pepper, one or two whole habaneros left whole and removed when having stewed at least and hour or two (careful that they dont burst) a teaspoon of authentic caribbean hot pepper suace could be used instead i dont want it hot but i like a warmth to it, especially when sick i finish the soup with a teaspoon or two of honey (got this idea from a mexican chef who says a little honey helps balance out the heat in pipai or mole suaces) as well as a bout a tablespoon of lemon or lime juice u ca also put in some tomato paste or some paprika what do u think of these flavor variations? what works and what doesnt? what are other ideas?
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i guess this means i am gonna start liking pigs feet too

the creamy soft texture can actually be applealing

chicken feet is next

i want to know how the chinese make it!

anyone have any guesses? i had them in the san francisco china town, delicious!!! i want to say they were red cooked, i dont know.

also there is a french preperation of pigs feet that looks awesome, after being braised, they are broiled with breadcrumbs and served with beans!
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There are two basic classes of dim sum style chicken feet that I know of.

You're describing the first. The feet are trimmed, marinated, rolled in malt sugar, fried, and finally steamed. The second, "natural" colored has the feet steamed, pickled and served cold. The first is pure comfort food. If you can get past the idea you're going to love it. However, not many westerners like the second type.

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I've had a kind of braised duck foot with sea cucumber. Really odd combination but pleasant.
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define cow foot. are you talking about the hoof ?
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do u know where i can get good recipes to either one?
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it is just the hoof and the part of the foot that is just skin and cartilage

now in the islands there is a cut of meat called "cow heel" which includes some of the meet.

to simulate this i would get beef shank.

but when I was cooking i was just using what can be purchased in america as "beef feet"

and this is just jelly bone cartilage and fat, no meat.

i know that hoof is eaten in some old european countries, im guessing beef hoof or boar hoof are eaten by a bunch of druids and legionairs in gual or britony somewhere :)
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i believe they use beef feet or pigs tails in a more solid from in the manufacturing of Austrian "head cheese"

or possibly they use the head of a pig like its ears and snout?

time to go to Wikipedia.
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May 21

My Extra Credit Assignment: Turn a General Chemistry Topic into a Science Museum Exhibit

When traveling, I always make a point to explore local science museums. I look for engaging exhibits that explain scientific concepts in informative and fun ways. One such exhibit at the Science Museum of Minnesota asks participants to create carbon nanotubes using foam connectors. A few friends and I used our advanced degrees to produce the example shown below (sorry for the potato quality).

The exhibit engaged people of all ages in different ways. Just behind the exhibit you can see the little guy who, moments after the picture was taken, learned all about tearing carbon nanotubes apart while deploying a rather impressive Godzilla impression.

Since becoming a teacher I have a new appreciation for science museum exhibits. They are a literal manifestation of Einstein’s philosophy: “If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.” The best exhibits make the explanation entertaining too.

So, towards the end of this spring semester when my general chemistry students requested an extra credit assignment, I knew exactly what to assign. I asked them to take one of the concepts they learned in general chemistry and create a science museum exhibit to explain it.

The assignment allowed unlimited space and budget. I was less concerned about reality and much more interested in seeing their knowledge and creativity. In the end I was blown away by their creations and would like to share a few.

Dipole-dipole Board-

The above exhibit, created by Taylor Trammell, showcases intermolecular dipole-dipole interactions. Her display contains many magnets–representing molecules–with two opposing sides, one positively charged (north pole) and one negatively charged (south pole). All of the magnets/molecules are free to rotate, except for one. Museum visitors can press a button and control the orientation of that one ‘molecule’. As it’s orientation changes, the other ‘molecules’ will reorientation to maximize dipole-dipole interactions and minimize the energy within the solvent.

A visitor could also walk up to the board with a strong bar magnet and introduce only it’s north or south pole to the magnet-filled board. That would represent the solvation of cations or anions through ion-dipole interactions. Taylor may not know it, but she found a fun way to introduce the solvent reorganization associated with Marcus Electron Transfer Theory.

Collision Theory Booth-

According to the Collision Theory of Reactivity, for a chemical reaction to occur the molecules must: 1) collide, 2) have enough energy to make and break bonds, and 3) have the correct orientation when they collide. Emily Nabong demonstrates these rules of engagement through a museum exhibit that repurposes an amusement park throwing booth. Instead of milk jugs or balloons, the target is a Velcro-covered molecule. And instead of baseballs or darts, visitors throw ‘molecules’ with different geometries and Velcro coverage at the target.

If the molecule is thrown with too little momentum or too little accuracy it will not hit the board (collide). Also, if the molecule hits the board with the wrong Velcro alignment it won’t ‘stick’ (correct orientation). The ‘reaction’ will only occur if the molecule is thrown hard enough and with the right orientation.

Amorphous vs Crystalline Solids

Miranda Ave introduced an interactive “build your own solid” exhibit that demonstrates the difference between amorphous and crystalline solids. It’s comprised of two building stations. The first station offers Magnetix (below left), which have curved connectors representing bonds and metal spheres representing atoms. The second station offers Tinker Toys (below right) with only one rod length (bonds) and wood circles that connect at 90° positions (atoms).

Any structure built with the Magnetix will lack long-range order like in an amorphous solid. In contrast, a structure built with the restricted connectivity of the Tinker Toys will have a continuous, repeating pattern like those observed in crystalline solids.

Tearing apart these structures will also help demonstrate differences between amorphous and crystalline solids. Tinker Toys break apart in a ridged manner along cleavage lines while Magnetix structures break in random places.

The building stations will also be accompanied by a display with both crystalline and amorphous solids as well as an atomic picture of their structures.

Viscosity Race

Both Gabby Vega (below left) and Erum Kidwai (below right) proposed races between liquids to demonstrate differences in viscosity. They envisioned racetracks with several lanes, each labeled with a molecular structure. Museum goers would pick their ‘horse’ or lane and then watch as liquids ‘race’ down the track. Afterwards, each solution would be unveiled and the intermolecular forces dictating the viscosity and flow rates of the liquids would be explained.

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Jessica Metzger’s museum exhibit set out to teach people about the relationship between temperature, volume, number of moles of a gas, and pressure. She proposed three different interactive stations. The first (left) contains a cylinder connected to a pressure gauge with a plunger that can be pushed or pulled. When the plunger is pushed (or pulled) and the pressure increases (or decreases), the reading on the pressure gauge will increase (or decrease) just as predicted by Boyle’s law.

The second cylinder (middle) is completely enclosed and placed on top of a heating element. When the visitors press the button a red light will turn on indicating that the chamber is being heated. As the temperature increases, the pressure will increase in accordance with Lussac’s law.

The third cylinder (right) will be taller than the other two with a lid that can move up or down without allowing gas molecules to escape. The station will be equipped with a button that, when pushed, releases compressed air into the cylinder. So, when the button is pressed, the metal lid will move up and increase the cylinder’s volume to accommodate the newly introduced gas molecules (Avogadro’s Law).

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Carolin Hoeflich proposed an exhibit to introduce the concept of electronegativity and polarity. The exhibit includes a table with a soft foam cover and blocks representing the elements. The blocks are weighted so that electronegative elements are heavier. Museum-goers can arrange the blocks into molecular structures before dumping marbles–representing electrons–onto the table’s surface. The heavier elements will sink deeper into the foam and therefore ‘attract’ a larger number of marbles. When stepping back and looking at the structure as a whole, museum-goers will see that more marbles = more electronegativity. It’s also a fun way to visualize the dipole moment of a structure.

Osmosis touch screen-

Hunter Hamilton introduced a touch screen exhibit to demonstrate the principles of osmosis and osmotic pressure. Visitors will use the screen to create an environment with more or less ions (red spheres) and one of three possible ‘membrane’ options: 1) no membrane, 2) permeable to water but not ions, and 3) permeable to water and ions. Once all selections are made, the visitors presses GO and observes which direction water and ions move in their environment.

Le Châtelier’s Principle-

Another touch screen exhibit, by Kelly Wyland, covers Le Châtelier’s Principle. Her screen displays an equilibrium with colors assigned to the reactants and products. It then asks users to predict the color change upon perturbation. After a prediction is made, the screen will show an animation that adds or removes reagents from the reaction mixture’s beaker. The color change of the solution will coincide with the concentration shifts to reach equilibrium.

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I’ve saved the largest and most interactive exhibit for last. Nathan Horvat designed an exhibit with two slides that represent an exothermic and endothermic reaction coordinate diagrams. Children (maybe adults?) would start on the platform in the middle (as reactants) and climb one of two ladders representing the activation energy to the transition state before sliding down to the landing pads (products).

The ladder/slide to the left (or right) is for an endothermic (or exothermic) reaction because the end point is higher (or lower) in energy than the starting point. One thing that I found fun about this exhibit is that, while viewing it in action, you’d likely notice more children choosing the exothermic slide because the endothermic one requires more work for less return. In a statistical fashion, the children would find the product that’s more thermodynamically favorable.

rxn coordIn closing, I want thank my students for a great semester and to share my appreciation for the students who designed these exhibits. It was a pleasure to teach them and to see them come up with such creative ideas. I hope one day, during a random science museum visit, I find one of these exhibits in action.

May 19

A tale of a tired lecture course. Flip it.

It dawned on me that no one cared. The proteins that I found so fascinating just didn’t seem to intrigue them as much as they did me. I thought the video of water molecules flipping as they passed through the channel of aquaporin was marvellous. But it hardly gleaned a reaction from the sea of faces staring blankly out at me.

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I left the lecture theatre and trudged back to my office. Wondering what was to be done with the course I’d tinkered with for years and never been happy with. Maybe it was time to just stop tinkering, throw it all away and start afresh?

The thought drifted away as I flicked through the, not insignificant, pile of emails that had dropped into my mail box during my brief absence from my desk. Top of the list was request to review a grant proposal.

And then inspiration struck, I could get my students to write grant proposals! That way they could explore the ideas and material that they are interested in without having my predilection for Major Intrinsic Proteins foisted on them.

So I set about a total revamping of the course.

  • The lectures slides went in the bin.

Well actually they got turned into screencasts. But they might as well have gone in the bin, because the students don’t watch them.

  • I gave the students examples of grant proposals that I’d written (ones that had got good reviews, even if they hadn’t been funded :-( ).
  • I supplied them with a load of references to papers that contained neat ideas.
  • And I gave a lecture with avenues of research that I thought were intriguing.
  • Then I provided them with a slightly altered version of a research council’s form and told them to complete it i.e they had to write a case for support, lay summary, justification for resources etc.
  • They worked in groups of 6-7 and set about their tasks.
  • The rest of the lectures I turned up to check on how things were going, guide the projects, tell them what I thought might work or not etc.
  • And come the end of the course I marked the proposals based on genuine research council criteria AND each group peer reviewed 3 other proposals using the same criteria. Group members also gave an effort mark to each other (so free loaders didn’t get an easy ride). And the final mark was made up from an amalgamation of my mark, the peer review and the inter-group mark.

The results were great. Some really fabulous ideas sprung up. I’ve had students ask me if they can actually work on their research projects during their final year dissertations, and I bet some of proposals would have made the quality cut off in real funding rounds.

Right, enough from me, I’ve just come across a great idea for a project I need to get into the next funding round. ;-)

May 08

Campaign for Clear Code starts here!

I’m concerned about the software that’s installed on my electronic devices.

You should be worried as well.

Have you really considered what you are opening yourself up to every time you download a new app or install an upgrade?

Have you thought about what all those faceless software giants are doing with the code that they are busy sneaking onto your phone?

Do you have any idea what they are slipping directly into your pocket? It certainly isn’t good for you. After all its not you they care about. All that really concerns them is profit, pure and simple. They want you coming back for more, why else would they make those damn games so additive?

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And has that code even been tested properly? They claim it has, but why then does big software continually release patches and updates?

Just stop for a minute and ask yourself this. Do you really know what you are putting on your computer when you downloaded Candy Crush? Have you ever seen the code?

Take a look at this.

if(tic[f][z]==’ ‘)
goto x;

Understand it?

No, me neither.

Want to know where that snippet of code came from? Its just a small part of a computer program for tic-tac-toe. And if a game as simple as that has stuff like that in it then imagine what’s in Candy Crush, Angry Birds or even Powerpoint?

And it gets worse. Because some computer programer, in the pay of cooperate giants, writes this sort of thing before processing it into something that might not even contain recognisable words! The software companies call this ‘compiling’ and afterwards its bears no resemblance what-so-ever to the natural code.

I, for one, won’t stand for this sort of thing being foisted on me by big-software any longer.

Now is the time to take a stand.

I call for a campaign for clear code.

Basically, if a 10 year old child can’t code it then it has no place on my devices.

From this point onwards I’m reverting back to simple code that anyone can understand. I’m using nothing more than Scratch running on a nice wholesome Pi. I urge you to do the same.

And don’t even get me started on anti-virus software. Much better to share infected USB sticks around.

May 05

What has Chemistry got to say?

The XKCD comics have been keeping me entertained and informed for years.

But sadly, in the latest comic, Chemistry seems rather quiet.

So how about some suggestions for the next panel, where Chemistry finds a voice?

Apr 30

Reagent pencils, turning chemistry into child’s play

If you’ve ever sat opposite a doctor and wondered what she was scribbling on her notepad, the answer may soon not only be medical notes on your condition, but real-time chemical preparations for an instant diagnostic test.

Thanks to the work of a team of researchers from California Polytechnic State University, recently published in the journal Lab on a Chip, chemicals formed into pencils can be made to react with one another by simply drawing with them on paper. The team may have taken inspiration from colouring books for their take on a chemical toolkit, but their approach could make carrying out simple but common diagnostic tests based on chemical reactions – for example diabetes, HIV, or tests for environmental pollutants – much easier.

The project started with an established technique called paper-based microfluidics. This uses the capillary effect of paper to carefully mix together what are called reagents – those chemicals mixed to form a reaction, or to measure the presence or absence of a substance. The capillary effect in action is easily seen by dropping two inks of different colours onto a piece of tissue paper. As the liquid is absorbed by the paper the colour drops spread out until they merge with one another and form a colour blend. In the same way two or more reagents can be mixed with water on a strip of paper.

Colouring-in chemistry.
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In this case, the difference is that the reagents aren’t added to the paper via droplets. Instead they’re applied via pencils, meaning that without specialist equipment anyone can set about creating chemical reactions by simply using them on the paper.

The team made the reagent pencils by pulverising a mixture of graphite (just as you’d find in normal pencils), test reagents and polyethylene glycol, which helps to keep the reagent dispersed throughout the mixture, as is used for the same reason in toothpaste. They compressed the mixture into pellets and mounted them into mechanical pencil holders bought from the high street stores.

The reaction paper pad was created by using a waxy ink to print small connected enclosures onto filter paper. The reagent pencils could be used to colour in these areas within the enclosures – when water was added to the paper, the reagents dissolved and, confined by the waxy ink, were forced to diffuse towards one another and react.

Real world uses for real world problems

The team demonstrated a potential use of the reagent pencil technique by using it in place of a common test used by diabetics to check their blood glucose levels, which involves reacting a pinprick blood sample with a chemical solution and examining the result.

One pencil was constructed with a mixture of enzymes, one called horseradish peroxidase (HRP) and the other glucose oxidase (GOx). A second pencil contained a reagent called ABTS. When combined in the presence of glucose these react together to give a blue-coloured product. Comparing the results from their pencils on the pad with the more traditional dropper method used by diabetics the team found the results were identical.

An example of how chemical reactions using pencils can provide instant results.
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The image shows, on the left, the reagents applied via droplets of solution. On the right, the reagent pencils were used. The top row shows the paper at the beginning of the test, the bottom row the result. Applied to the left enclosure, the sample solution carries the two reagents together which react. The coloured product produced is, as shown on the graph, identical between the two methods.

This is of course extremely easy to set up. Traditional diagnostic tests require training, while this pad and pencil system requires no more than skill than required to colour within the lines. The reagents are extremely stable once made into pencils – usually they would degrade in a matter of days as liquids, limiting how and where the tests can be made. However the reagent pencils showed no sign of degrading after two months.

So this pencil tool kit has obvious advantages: a kit of reagent pencils, much like a box of colouring pencils, is easily transported, without the chemicals degrading. Kits could be designed with particular tests in mind – and the reaction mix can be adjusted by applying more or less, without the need or equipment to make-up complex solutions. There’s scope to monitor environmental pollutants, carry out diagnostic tests in remote locations – not to mention teach chemistry in primary schools.

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Apr 29

The Food Babe quiz. Can you tell Vani Hari quotes from other irrational nonsense?

By now I’m sure you’ve all seen the ravings of Vani Hari a.k.a. Food Babe. Her one women campaign to spread fear through nonsense has netted her (in)fame, fortune and influence. Not to mention a pretty strong back lash from the rational side of the internet.

So to test if you’ve been paying attention I thought I’d set a little quiz.

All you have to do is identify, in the list below, genuine Food Babe musings mixed with other random nonsense.

Answers at the bottom of the page.

So here goes, with a nice game of …

Food Babe or Not Food Babe.

1) There is just no acceptable level of any chemical to ingest, ever.

2) Chlorophyll is the first product of light and, therefore, contains more light energy than any other element.

3) Please consider removing this additive from your diet because artificial dyes…Are man-made in a lab with chemicals derived from petroleum (a crude oil product, which also happens to be used in gasoline, diesel fuel, asphalt, and tar).

4) Your brain uses more oxygen than any another organ. If you need to concentrate it is important to keep you oxygen levels high .… Green leaves produce oxygen so if you need to study eat plenty of leafy vegetables to keep that brain well oxygenated.

5) When you look at the ingredients, if you can’t spell it or pronounce it, you probably shouldn’t eat it.

6) With a name like 8-methyl-N-vannillyl-6-nonenamide it’s bound to be a baddie. If you want more evidence of its unpleasantness then you may like to know that it is used by the police to control rioters.

7) Mass produced bread contains Potassium Bromate. Its used to help make the bread light and fluffy. Bromates have been banned as fire retardants in furniture, so how come its still used in the food we eat!?

8) Wheatgrass … is more than 70% chlorophyll which is essential for improving blood sugar problems.

9) For the experiment pictured above, microwaved water produced a similar physical structure to when the words “satan” and “hitler” were repeatedly exposed to the water.

10) You all know that we breath out carbon dioxide. But did you know that it’s an acid? … Whenever I’ve been in a crowded place I cleanse myself of the effects of all that acid breath with a good dose of Spirulina.

11) North Americans deserve to truly eat fresh – not yoga mats.

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How did you think you did? Here’s the answers.

1) Genuine Food Babe. An easy one to start with. You can find this little gem in her book. Don’t go out and buy it now.

2) Food babe again. Apparently wheatgrass is a miracle.

3) Food babe. Those nasty men in labs.

4) Not Food babe. Just me trying to channel Gillian McKeith.

5) Food babe. But how are my fellow dyslexics and I going to eat?

6) Not Food babe. That one was me, with tongue firmly in cheek.

7) Not Food babe. Just random nonsense I made up, but sounds good doesn’t it?

8) Not Food babe. This gem came from the menu of the health food cafe I dinned in recently.

9) Food babe! Honesty, has she no shame? We’ll actually she might, since she’s removed offending post from her blog. But luckily the internet forgets nothing.

10) Not Food babe, I just made it up. But Vani does have some odd ideas about Spiriulina.

11) Food babe. What about fresh yoga mats?

How did you do? Tell use you scores in the comments. And play along on twitter with #FoodbabeOrNot

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J.J. Thomson's Cathode Ray Tube

J.J. Thomson used results from cathode ray tube (commonly abbreviated CRT) experiments to discover the electron.

The image below is of J.J. Thomson and a cathode ray tube from around 1897, the year he announced the discovery of the electron. Only the end of the CRT can be seen to the right-hand side of the picture.

The image below of a CRT used by Thomson in his experiments. It is about one meter in length and was made entirely by hand.

Th diagram below appeared in an article by J.J. Thomson in 1897 announcing the discovery of the electron. You may wish to compare it to the photo. The long glass finger (in the photo) projecting downward from the right-hand globe is where the entire tube was evacuated down to as good as a vacuum as could be produced, then sealed.

The two plates about midway in the CRT were connected to a powerful electric battery thereby creating a strong electrical field through which the cathode rays passed. Thomson also could use magnets, which were placed on either side of the straight portion of the tube just to the right of the electrical plates. This allowed him to use either electrical or magnetic or a combination of both to cause the cathode ray to bend.

The amount the cathode ray bent from the straight line using either the electric field or the magnetic field allowed Thomson to calculate the e/m ratio.

Incidently, Thomson was a very unhandy person. He was very fumble fingered and had a tendancy to break things. About 1894 he acquired an excellent glassblower named E. Everett who helped to greatly increase Thomson's experimental range.


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Tevin McDonald, a two-year starter at safety at UCLA, has transferred to Eastern Washington University to play football for the Eagles, EWU confirmed April 9.

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Both contact and noncontact sports can put a high demand on the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and lead to increased risk for injury. Injuries to the ACL can happen when the knee joint is bent backward, twisted, or bent side to side. Generally, high-demand sports are those sports that require stop-and-go movements, jumping, or weaving through other players or obstacles. Low-demand sports are those sports that require no contact and no twisting movements that would put stress on the ACL.

High-demand sports include:

  • Basketball.
  • Figure skating.
  • Football.
  • Gymnastics.
  • Handball.
  • Field hockey.
  • Lacrosse.
  • Rugby.
  • Skiing.
  • Soccer.
  • Tennis (especially singles).
  • Volleyball.
  • Wrestling.

Moderate-demand sports include:

  • Baseball.
  • Tennis (doubles).
  • Track (hurdles and nonjumping field events).

Low-demand sports include:

  • Crew.
  • Cycling.
  • Jogging.
  • Swimming.
  • Track (running events).
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by Jane Lenel

On weekdays at 8 a.m. Elmer S. Miller, age 6, set out with his older sister and cousin on his walk to Fairview School – one mile on dirt roads through the fields and farms of Elizabethtown, PA. Arriving at the one-room schoolhouse, he took his place in the front row with the other two first graders while the older students, grades two through eight, lined up in rows behind him ready to be educated by Miss Garber.

Dr. Miller, author of numerous books, chapters and articles on the subject of anthropology, is seen with his wife, Lois, at their residence in Cathedral Village.

On a platform in front of the room each class recited while others, 35 to 38 in all, prepared their assignments. Since Elmer found his own assignments too easy, he cured his boredom by listening and learning from the upper grades. The process later resulted in his being first in mathematics in the annual county test for high school eligibility.

Looking back on these early school days, Miller, now an 81-year-old resident of Cathedral Village in upper Roxborough, remembers less about classroom academics than the lesson he got from his father in response to his pranks in school, i.e., “Some paddlings really hurt.”

However, this was evidently ineffective long-run because Elmer’s inclination for mischief continued through high school. Case in point: the snake he pointed at a girl sitting next to him, scaring her into a scream and earning for himself two weeks’ dismissal from freshman biology class.

Miller’s delightful memoir, “Growing up Mennonite in Rural Pennsylvania” (McGraw Hill, 2012), is full of paddle- and paddle-free learning occasions and boy-to-man conversations with his father, as well as the understanding of cows’ characters and milk- producing foibles complete with recognition of their varied dung aromas and other examples of life on a farm.

Elmer was certainly not idle growing up. In his fifth year in school his family moved to a farm where he had seven cows to milk by hand morning and night along with other chores. When he was 16 (the required age for kids to remain in school) he was hired out full-time (with no school attendance) to work on a 35-acre potato farm, where the cow number grew to 36, as back-bending (and aching) potato “picking” filled the hours through post-dusk — 10 hours a day in summertime. However, he did get paid $100 ($40 to him and $60 to his parents), which sum was quickly increased.

After four years of farming, Elmer took the GED test and college entrance exams for Eastern Mennonite College in Harrisonburg, VA, where he was accepted and majored in religion and philosophy. Following graduation he attended Seminary on the same college campus, where the focus was on biblical studies, Greek and Hebrew languages and philosophy.

This study generated a significant challenge to many of his early Mennonite beliefs since “Greek and Hebrew language classes, plus the developing new theology by Tillich, Bultmann and others questioning the basic tenets of traditional Christian theology, generated agnostic tendencies in my thinking.”

Upon graduation from Seminary in 1956, Miller traded campus life to a mission in northern Argentina where he and his wife Lois lived among Toba Indians, visiting families, speaking in their Pentecostal church services and helping construct an alphabet for their language.

In preparation for their new life, Elmer and Lois took classes in linguistics and anthropology at the Hartford (Conn.) School of Missions, linguistics at the University of Oklahoma and a year in Costa Rica to learn Spanish.

“My time in Argentina was the first serious awareness that my identity as a Mennonite and an American had become dislodged,” Miller said last week. “It opened the door to anthropology and eventually a total deconstruction of my cultural identity. It was all VERY liberating.”

In addition, the Ford Foundation sent the Millers to Brazil in 1975 to help them construct a Ph.D program? Elmer also taught a class in anthropology at the University of Brasilia. He explained, “Life in Costa Rica, Argentina and later Brazil and Italy transformed my thinking not only with regard to my rural Mennonite heritage but also my perspective on our nation. I continued to respect its strength but also became more aware of its foibles.”

After five years in Argentina, Miller returned to his degree-oriented education in the U.S. and returned to the School of Missions, completing his master’s degree in linguistics and anthropology. He then won a scholarship to the University of Pittsburgh, where he earned a Ph.D in anthropology.

Miller then gained a professorship and eventually chairmanship for 11 years of the anthropology department at Temple University, where Miller remained for 32 years (1966-1998) supervising 33 doctoral students who all received Ph.D’s. He also directed Temple Abroad in Rome from 1982 to 1985 and served as Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences from 1986 to 1989.

Having climbed the academic ladder from bottom to top, Elmer is now retired and lives with Lois at Cathedral Village. They have two daughters: Rosina, who is director of the Philadelphia Center’s internship program, and Lisa, a professor of political science at Rutgers University.

In addition to his latest tome about growing up as a Mennonite, Dr. Miller has written seven other books about anthropology and his experiences living with Indians in Argentina. He has also contributed chapters to seven additional books and articles in a dozen or so journals.

“But the most important acts in my life,” Miller insisted, “were returning to my roots to marry my childhood sweetheart, and after 12 years of no success at having children, our two daughters finally appeared. Each of them has a young boy and girl who give us much delight.”

On the issue of our country’s relationship to other nations, with which Miller has years of first-hand observations,he declared, “At the moment our country is at an imbalance with too many nations. Fortunately, our arrogance as a country has diminished in proportion to our loss of international prestige. I am optimistic

about the future, however, as there appears to be greater awareness of these issues among us than there was previously.”

Dr. Miller can be reached at

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    I’ve known Elmer since 1971 when another Menonite friend to me and my wife (Myrta) introduced us to the Millers upon our arrival in Philadelphia. Since those days we’ve been sharing many relevant moments of our lives through a motivating friendship. I was surprised, but also glad, to read additional details of his life in Elizabethtown by reading the Chestnut Hill Local I paper I used to read when I resided in Germantown. I do belive that Elmer`s life ought to be known as a motivating example to all of us.


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Gilda is a psychic investigator who hunts ghosts. Ghost hunting became her way of coping when her dad died.

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The Sigg reusable water bottle took a beating (mild, of course) from our kid tester and came through unscathed.

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These water bottles are great, durable eco-friendly alternative to plastic bottles. Our kid tester dropped our bottle several times and it showed no wear. The top fits tightly and we didn't have to deal with drips or leaks no matter what we did. The non-porous interior lining helps prevent lingering tastes or odors so you can switch between water, juice and milk without problem. The size is right for small hands, although your little one may need some help twisting the top to take a drink. Cute, colorful designs and even personalized decals round out this well-made beverage bottle.

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