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A meeting for women and non-male people to talk with each other about computer stuff.

At Noisebridge, we've been meeting in the library on Wednesdays from 6pm till whenever (usually at least 8 or 9). If you're in another city and want to be on the mailing list, you are welcome too!

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Chris Paget hosted a workshop on RFID hacking on 2009-04-11.
It was a success and now there are numerous RFID projects in the works.

Perhaps others could link to their project wikiwiki pages here?

What happened?

You were taught everything you need to know in order to design and build a 125KHz RFID cloner, starting from V=IR and basic algebra. We covered theory of operation, basic RF filter design, and enough programming for the PIC microcontroller to glue it all together. Among other things the speaker presented the basics... then assisted others with their RFID projects.

What equipment was there?

Chris Paget will be bringing:
DSO-2250 USB oscilloscope
USB reader for HID cards
1 working HID cloner
Parallax 125KHz RFID reader module
13.56MHz PayPass reader
XR400 reader+antenna for 900MHz EPC tags
USRP + 2 x RFX900
Working code for EPC Gen2 on USRP
USB PIC programmer
Various other RFID widgets

Other people should bring:
Oscilloscopes (preferably storage scopes)
Signal generators
PIC programmers
Components (we'll mainly be using discretes)
Soldering tools
Microcontrollers and programmers if you're averse to the PIC16F family
USRPs and daughterboards
RF gear (antennas, pre- and power-amps)
Ham radio licenses
Anything RFID-related that you want to hack on

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Ilya was a co-founder and developer at Diaspora.
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How do Referees Self Assign to referee games?Printable

The purpose of SelfAssign is to enable a referee to assign themselves to a specific game's open CR or AR positions, provided that the open CR or AR position they are seeking falls within certain prescribed requirements (called Rules). If successful, SelfAssign eliminates the time spent attempting to coordinate contact between the referee and referee assignors.

How Self Assign Works...

Self Assign works by requesting the referee specify a match number (i.e. game) and a position (i.e. CR or AR) and then applying several conditions to the referee and the requested position to determine if referee can referee that particular game. To eliminate the need for a referee to know the desired match number, the Referee, Match Inquiry page applies some basic checks against unfilled positions and places a Green Plus symbol selfassign next to position(s) that may be available to the referee.More

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Each of the following rules are applied to determine if the requested position filled by the referee.

Ranking: Does the referee have sufficient experience to referee the game?
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Match Reports: Has the referee filed all the Match Reports that are due?
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DailyCR: The referee is requesting too many Center Referee positions on the requested date?
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NYSA limits the number of center referee positions that referees can self assign to during a single week. This is to try to insure that referees do a proper job of pacing themselves over the course of the season. Also ensures that referees have opportunities to referee in the winter/spring season when there are not as many games as in the fall season.
TeamMaximum: Referee is trying to self assign to a game that includes a team that the referee has refereed too many times
In an effort to try to spread all referees around to different teams, the self assign process will not permit a referee to self assign to a game's position involving a team that the referee refereed within X number of days. For example, X is generally 21 days in the winter/spring season and 7 days during the fall season. This rule is overridden if the game date is within 6 days or less. The reason being that a referee that has recently done the same team is better than no Referee.
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Will House Dems Sponsor Obama’s Blank Check Proposal? | December 12th, 2012

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WASHINGTON –President Obama has led the country into a cycle of out of control spending and imploding debt – and now he wants a blank check to keep raising the nation’s debt limit whenever he wants. So will John Barrow sponsor Obama’s big spending plan and bring it up for a vote?

“Enabling President Obama’s stimulus plan to spend more of our money would be to condemn us to persistently weak growth and prolonged uncertainty,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay. “Will John Barrow hand Obama another blank check funded by the American people?”

The White House is confident that Democrats will support their plan to continue spending money we don’t have with no accountability:

“…the White House was ‘very confident’ that Democrats support the principles outlined in Obama’s plan, which has met with derision among Republicans.” (Jim O’Sullivan, “White House Swats Away McConnell’s Suggestion,” National Journal, 12/6/12)

Washington Democrats have shown that they are not willing to sacrifice their reckless spending addiction:

“Democrats did not do much on Wednesday, adopting a deliberate strategy to slow-walk Republicans to the edge of the fiscal cliff…” (Chris Frates, “Democrats Stroll Toward Edge of Fiscal Cliff,” National Journal, 12/5/2012)


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Thursday, February 23, 2006
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(SACRAMENTO) – Attorney General Bill Lockyer today announced California will not join a multi-state lawsuit challenging the new federal prescription drug plan, unless state officials determine the Bush Administration, after recently revising a reimbursement formula, falsely promised state taxpayers would save money under a key provision, and not suffer a $131 million net loss.

“The Bush prescription drug plan has left pharmaceutical firms and HMOs rolling in profits, but left seniors out in the cold without medicine they need,” said Lockyer. “The provision we planned to challenge threatened to heap another indignity on California taxpayers by forcing them to pay the federal government more than the state supposedly would save under this flawed program. Faced with our legal challenge, the Bush Administration revised its formula, and the Governor determined the change seemed to ensure California will save more than it provides the federal government. As long as we’re satisfied the savings are real and significant, we will refrain from going to court on this issue.”

The Governor and Legislature already have taken action to provide more than $150 million in emergency funding from the state’s coffers to buy prescription drugs for eligible seniors who could not obtain their medicine under Part D of the federal Medicare Modernization Act (MMA). The program took effect January 1, 2006. The inability of many seniors to obtain prescriptions continues, Lockyer noted, and has been caused by the Bush Administration’s poor implementation and other problems with the program.

“The Bush Administration must fully reimburse California taxpayers for the expenditures they have been forced to make because of the federal government’s failures,” said Lockyer. “I will fully support efforts to make sure that happens, as well as reforms to provide seniors an effective prescription drug plan.”

The planned multi-state legal challenge involves a separate issue and targets the MMA’s so-called “clawback” provision. Under Part D, the federal government provides prescription drugs – through private-sector health plans – to approximately 1.1 million California seniors eligible to receive benefits under both Medicare (100 percent federally funded) and Medi-Cal (shared state-federal funding).

Theoretically, the federal plan is supposed to save California hundreds of millions of dollars it now spends under the Medi-Cal program to provide prescription drugs to poor and disabled seniors. But the clawback provision threatened not only to eliminate much of those savings, but actually put California in the red, at least in the program’s first few years.

The clawback provision requires states to pay back to the federal government most of their estimated savings. Further, the formula first used by the federal government to determine each state’s reimbursement requirement overstated how much California would save under Part D. As a result, the clawback provision would have imposed net costs on the state. The state Department of Health Services (DHS) estimated the state would incur net costs of $72 million in the 2005-06 fiscal year and $59 million in the 2006-07 fiscal year.

Faced with those numbers, and with support from the Schwarzenegger Administration, Lockyer on February 1, 2006 announced he planned to join other states in suing to challenge the clawback provision. Within days, the Bush Administration announced it had revised its clawback formula. The DHS’ initial estimates indicate the recalculation will produce a net savings for California of $357 million in the 2006 calendar year and $206 million in 2007.

After consulting with Governor Schwarzenegger and Attorneys General in other states, Lockyer decided to forego litigation for now. Lockyer stressed if state officials become convinced California will incur net costs under the revised formula, he either will join the multi-state action or file a separate lawsuit on behalf of California.

Litigation remains an entirely plausible scenario, Lockyer noted, given the Bush Administration’s history. “Time and again, this Administration has manipulated numbers, doctored data and suppressed science,” said Lockyer. “If it turns out they’ve done it again this time, we owe it to our seniors and taxpayers to not let them get away with it.”

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This extension introduces two new concepts to build upon the synchronization infrastructure provided by ARB_sync: 1) A means to import an X Synchronization Fence object into the GL and use it as a sync object. 2) The concept of a reusable sync object. The latter is necessary because the import operation is expensive and performing it every time a synchronization point was reached would make the synchronization prohibitively slow. This extension stops short of allowing the GL to change the state of imported/reusable sync objects, but does not add any language that would prohibit such functionality from being added in a subsequent extension. New Procedures and Functions sync ImportSyncEXT(enum external_sync_type, intptr external_sync, bitfield flags); New Types None New Tokens Accepted by the parameter of ImportSyncEXT: SYNC_X11_FENCE_EXT 0x90E1 Additions to Chapter 2 of the OpenGL 3.2 Specification (OpenGL Operation) None Additions to Chapter 3 of the OpenGL 3.2 Specification (Rasterization) None Additions to Chapter 4 of the OpenGL 3.2 Specification (Per-Fragment Operations and the Framebuffer) None Additions to Chapter 5 of the OpenGL 3.2 Specification (Special Functions) Modify Section 5.2 "Sync Objects and Fences" (p. 241) (Add after the seventh paragraph, p. 242) "Additional types of sync objects can be imported from external APIs. The command sync ImportSyncEXT(enum external_sync_type, intptr external_sync, bitfield flags); creates a GL sync object of the type based on the object referred to by . " must be SYNC_X11_FENCE_EXT, and must be the XID of a valid X11 Synchronization Fence object. The status of the sync object returned will be SIGNALED when the X object is in the triggered state, or UNSIGNALED otherwise. " must be 0." (Replace the last sentence of paragraph 8, p. 242) "The initial property values for a sync object created by FenceSync or ImportSyncEXT are shown in tables 5.1 or 5.2 respectively. A sync object created using ImportSyncEXT should hold a reference to any external resources needed to maintain the GL state associated with the GL object should the external object be destroyed." (Replace paragraph 9 with the following, p. 242) "If FenceSync or ImportSyncEXT fail to create a sync object, zero will be returned and a GL error will be generated as described. An INVALID_ENUM error is generated if is not SYNC_GPU_COMMANDS_COMPLETE or is not SYNC_X11_FENCE_EXT. If is not zero, or if does not refer to a valid X Synchronization Fence object, an INVALID_VALUE error is generated. "However, implementations are not required to validate , and passing an invalid external sync object handle may result in undefined behavior up to and including program termination." (Add table 5.2 immediately following table 5.1, p. 243) Property Name Property Value ------------------------ ------------------------------------- OBJECT_TYPE SYNC_CONDITION NONE SYNC_STATUS dependent on state of SYNC_FLAGS Table 5.2: Initial properties of a sync object created with ImportSyncEXT. (Replace paragraph 12 with the following, p. 243) "If is in the signaled state, or if no ClientWaitSync or WaitSync commands are blocking on , the object is deleted immediately. Otherwise, is flagged for deletion and will be deleted when it reaches the signaled state and is no longer blocking any ClientWaitSync or WaitSync command. In either case, after returning from DeleteSync the name is invalid and can no longer be used to refer to the sync object. 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Additions to Chapter 6 of the OpenGL 3.2 Specification (State and State Requests) Modify section 6.1.7 "Sync Object State" (p. 256) (Replace the last sentence of paragraph 4 with the following, p. 256) "The only types supported are SYNC_FENCE and SYNC_X11_FENCE_EXT." Additions to Appendix D of the OpenGL 3.2 Specification (Shared Objects and Multiple Contexts) Modify section D.1.2 "Deleted Object and Object Name Lifetimes" (p. 324) Replace sentence 3 in the first paragraph with the following, (p. 324) "A sync object is in use while it is not in the signaled state, or while there are any GL clients and/or servers blocked on the sync object as a result of ClientWaitSync or WaitSync commands." GLX Protocol TBD Dependencies on ARB_sync ARB_sync or GL version 3.2 or above are required to implement this extension. Dependencies on ARB_cl_event If ARB_cl_event is present, the language of the two specs must be merged. There should be no technical conflicts, but the actual text modifications overlap. Errors The error INVALID_ENUM is generated if ImportSyncEXT is called where is not SYNC_X11_FENCE_EXT. The error INVALID_VALUE is generated if ImportSyncEXT is called where does not refer to a valid X11 Synchronization Fence object. The error INVALID_VALUE is generated if ImportSyncEXT is called where is not 0. New State None Issues 1) Should the import command be a generic entry point, or specialized for X11 sync fence objects? RESOLVED: A generic command is used. This command can be reused by future extensions to import other sync types. It takes a pointer-sized parameter that can be used to import any type of synchronization object. Objects that require more than one value to uniquely identify them, e.g. OpenCL events, can define an intermediate structure that contains all required values and then pass in a pointer to the structure. 2) What happens if the X11 sync object is destroyed while the GL sync object referencing it is still in use? RESOLVED: The GL object should hold a reference on any resources needed to continue using the sync object until the GL object is deleted. Revision History Date: 26-Jan-2011 Revision: 2 (James Jones) - Renamed from EXT_x_sync_object to EXT_x11_sync_object. - Added issues 1 and 2 and related spec language. - Added language describing when external syncs are signaled. - Added language describing when external syncs are deleted. Date: 20-Jan-2011 Revision: 1 (James Jones) - Initial Revision.


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In a seemingly endless pattern of violence, Israeli and Palestinian lives were once again endangered as a military battle broke out along the Israel-Gaza border for the second time in four years in mid-November. The tally of dead and wounded on both sides rose, leaving families shattered and children traumatized. Israelis and Palestinians competed with each other to garner sympathy for their cause in the media and cyberspace.

In the end, Hamas and Israel were eager to claim both the title of victim and tactical victor after the Egyptian-brokered cease-fire, which brought an end to the violence just before Israel launched a ground assault. By all accounts, the cease-fire is more akin to the little Dutch boy stopping up the floodwaters with his finger in the dyke than a real cure to the endless conflict. Now all that is needed is for a passer-by to notice and bring help before the waters burst.

History of animosity

On the surface, the reason for the continuing animosity between Israel and the Palestinians is quite simple: Palestinians want their own independent country on territory that is now under Israeli sovereignty — with some factions, like Islamic Jihad and Hamas, which controls Gaza, denying that Israel has that very same right. On the other hand, Israel demands safe borders and security from terror attacks, holding that both Hamas and Islamic Jihad are terrorist groups and so can’t be negotiated with. Some Israeli politicians champion a “greater Israel,” including the expansions of settlements in the West Bank.

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In the eight days of fighting along the Gaza border between Hamas and Israel, 140 Palestinians were killed, including 90 civilians, and another 1,200 people were wounded. Six Israelis were killed, including four civilians, and another 129 people were wounded. The tiny Christian community of Gaza suffered damage to some of their institutions as well, and one man died of a heart attack during a bombing attack. Members of the small Hebrew-speaking Catholic parish in the Israeli town of Beersheba sought solace together during Mass as rockets were launched at the city from Gaza. Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fouad Twal called for a cessation of hostilities and for the authorities to think of the innocent victims.
“War is never holy,” he said in a statement, noting that life in Gaza is “like an open air prison.

Discussion of the history of the dispute can in itself be a source of conflict, but it can be summarized by saying that Zionism, which symbolizes the Jewish desire to return and reclaim the Land of Israel, was part of the national movements rampant in Europe of the late 1800s. Some European Jews began to immigrate to what was then called Palestine under the rule of the declining Ottoman Empire. Also already living there was a larger population of Arabs. After defeat by the allies in World War I, the Ottoman Empire was parceled off to the European victors, and Palestine came under British mandate rule.

After their assistance in defeating the Nazi Axis in World War II, both the Arabs and Jews believed the British had promised them an independent national homeland. After a failed attempt to partition the territory, war broke out as Israel declared independence in May 1948.

Ironically, the United Nations’ Nov. 29 vote to recognize Palestine’s statehood came on the 65th anniversary of the 1947 U.N. General Assembly Resolution 181 backing a partition plan for Palestine. The United States and Israel voted against the Nov. 29 resolution.

Years of ensuing bloody conflict saw territory change hands. The 1993 Oslo Accords were to be the start of a period of negotiations with an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, allowing for an establishment of a Palestinian Authority for self-government during an interim period until a permanent agreement was reached. Instead, Palestinians say the stymied accords have created an impotent Palestinian authority leading to political infighting that now threatens to keep them apart, with no feasible state in sight.

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Ironically, by accepting the recent Egyptian cease-fire with Hamas, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu effectively sidelined the elected Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of the Fatah party, Hamas’ political and military rival. Hamas took control over Gaza after winning the Palestinian legislative elections in 2006. After the takeover, Israel imposed a U.S.-backed blockade of Gaza, and Egypt practically closed off its own crossing with Gaza, leaving the Gaza Strip virtually cut off from the world except for a network of underground tunnels through which anything and everything has been smuggled.

Bethlehem University sociology professor emeritus Bernard Sabella perhaps stated the obvious when he said that the absence of a viable political process leaves a political void that only encourages Hamas to challenge Israel by firing rockets into southern Israel.

“The reality on the ground is that there is a stalemate,” Sabella told Our Sunday Visitor. “That political stalemate is working more in favor of Hamas than in favor of Abbas, who is more practical and pragmatic. The symbolism of going to the United Nations would’ve been much stronger if the Gaza fighting had not taken place. Now everyone is talking about ‘heroic’ Hamas.”

With Hamas, which is backed by Iran, garnering support for future elections and the Israeli government likely to shift further to the right after next month’s election, there does not seem anyone able to steer a safe course toward even a lessening of tensions, he said.

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Right now, he said, Hamas is simply “fighting to control the street,” rather than fighting to “liberate Palestine.” As the entity that stood up to Israel, Hamas comes out the winner, Sabella said.

“The whole game is tied to alliances in the region, including Iran and Egypt, also to the fact that Hamas wants to prove to the Palestinians that they are the real address, not Abbas,” he added. “You weaken even further Abbas and (Prime Minister Salam Fayyad) and eventually you have no one to go back to but Hamas. A Hamas leadership will be difficult because of their policy of confrontation with Israel … and military incursions.”

The problem, said Wadie Abunassar, director of the Haifa-based think tank International Center for Consultations, is that both the Israelis and the Palestinians have lost their way.

“I am not sure that they know what they want,” he said. “On the one hand, the Palestinians are under occupation, but I can’t say they are developing a good liberation strategy … and I don’t see the Israelis having a clear survival strategy. Israel is facing a growing strategic threat, not only from Iran.”

A major challenge facing the Israeli and Palestinians is a serious lack of leadership on either side, said Abunassar. Adding to the tumult is lack of a mediator and lack of mutual understanding.

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Constipation itself is a symptom, not a disease. It’s a sign that something’s amiss in your dog’s system. The cause can be something as minor as her diet or as serious as a neuromuscular or metabolic disorder.

Causes of Constipation in Dogs

Often, what your dog ingests is the cause of her constipation. This can be what you feed her or what she feeds herself — including dog food that is low in fiber, hair ingested from self-grooming or licking the floors, or bones, pieces of toys, dirt, gravel or anything else that can be difficult to eliminate.

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    Can you be more specific with what you want to know? I presume you mean how to determine the flow rate of air in cubic feet per minute through a pipe when knowing only the pipe diameter and back pressure?

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    The pressure is the static pressure in the pipe? That isn't enough to determine the airflow. You need a differential pressure across an orifice, pressure drop in a venturi or velocity pressure from a pitot tube.

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    That's static pressure. It doesn't have anything directly to do with velocity (consider an air tank pressurized to 100psi: no airflow at all). What is this pipe supplying? Or is it open ended?
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Novel sensor for technetium applicable to Hanford and other DOE sites

Figure 1. Operation of the TcO4-sensor. The symbols are L, donor atom on chelating ligand; TcL, reduced-Tc species after complexation; FL, fluorescence emission. The monooxo-ligand complex of Tc is one of the possible complexes that may result from chelation. Full Image

Figure 2. Low-temperature (8 K) luminescence spectra of microcrystalline [ReO2(pic)4](BPh4) (blue) and [TcO2(pic)4](BPh4) (red). Spectra are not normalized for excitation intensity differences. Full Image

Scientists at the University of Cincinnati and PNNL are developing an innovative, fluorescence-based sensor for technetium (Tc) for monitoring the vadose zone and groundwater at the Hanford Site and elsewhere. Funded by DOE's Environmental Management Science Program (EMSP), this research project has an overall goal to design and implement new sensor technology offering unprecedented levels of specificity needed to analyze the complex contaminant mixtures found at DOE sites. A prototype was tested successfully on Hanford tank waste containing ferrocyanide (

Subsurface contamination by Tc is of particular concern because of the extremely long life of its most common isotope 99Tc (half-life = 2 x 105 years) and the fast migration in soils exhibited by its most common chemical form, pertechnetate (TcO4-). The sensor has the capability for onsite monitoring, either by immersion in subsurface water for continuous monitoring or for immediate analysis of collected samples. The device combines electrochemistry, spectroscopy, and selective partitioning, which substantially improves selectivity. The key to adapting this sensor to detect TcO4- lies in the development of unique chemistry within the chemically selective (Figure 1).

This research has led to the discovery of the first luminescence from trans-dioxo-technetium(V) complexes. The room- and low-temperature luminescence studies of trans-[TcO2(L)4]+ (L = pyridine or picoline) and trans-[TcO2(CN)4]3- opens a new chapter in Tc chemistry, both in a fundamental and practical sense. The low temperature luminescence spectrum (Figure 2) for [TcO2(pic)4](BPh4), with [ReO2(pic)4](BPh4) shown as an overlay spectrum, and clearly shows a lower energy (~180-200 cm-1) vibronic progression for analogous Re and Tc complexes. This important development allows us to develop a theoretical model that can be used to predict the optical behavior of Tc complexes in general.

This discovery also provides the first opportunity to directly compare fundamental luminescence properties of second- and third-row d2 metal-oxo congeners. The analytical applications of the TcO2 chromophore offer promise for design of dual-mode complexes that can correlate luminescence and radioimaging properties into a single agent. For the EMSP project's purposes, luminescent Tc(V) complexes are a significant advance in the team's design of a spectroelectrochemical sensor for detection of pertechnetate in the environment. An article featuring the sensor work was released on the October 8 web page of the Journal of the American Chemical Society and can be accessed at The research team members are William R. Heineman and Carl J. Seliskar, University of Cincinnati; and Samuel A. Bryan and Timothy L. Hubler, PNNL.

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Del Negro AS, Z Wang, CJ Seliskar, WR Heineman, BP Sullivan, SE Hightower, TL Hubler, and SA Bryan. 2005 "Luminescence from the Trans-Dioxotechnetium(V) Chromophore." Journal of the American Chemical Society 127(43):14978-14979. DOI:10.1021/ja054906m.

Monk DJ, ML Stegemiller, S Conklin, JR Paddock, WR Heineman, CJ Seliskar, TH Ridgway, SA Bryan, and TL Hubler. 2005. "Spectroelectrochemical Sensor for Technetium: Preconcentration, and Quantification of Technetium in Polymer Modified Electrodes." Chapter 13 in: ACS Symposium Series Number 904, Subsurface Contamination Remediation, E Berkey and T Zachry, Editors, Oxford University Press, Cary, North Carolina.

Zudans I, JR Paddock, H Kuramitz, AT Maghasi, CM Wansapura, SD Conklin, N Kaval, T Shtoyko, DJ Monk, SA Bryan, TL Hubler, JN Richardson, CJ Seliskar, and WR Heineman. 2004. "Electrochemical and Optical Evaluation of Noble Metal-and Carbon-ITO Hybrid Optically Transparent Electrodes." Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 565(2):311-320. DOI:10.1016/J.jelechem.2003.10.025.

Seliskar CJ, WR Heineman, SA Bryan, TL Hubler, and N Kaval. 2004. "Spectroelectrochemical Sensors Based on Multimode Selectivity Simultaneously Achievable in a Single Device." Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, Symposium on Analytical Chemistry in Nuclear Technology Developments in Sensor Technology, ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, California 227: Art. No. U78.

Kaval N, CJ Seliskar, and WR Heineman. 2003. "Spectroelectrochemical Sensing Based on Multimode Selectivity Simultaneously Achievable in a Single Device. 16. Sensing by Fluorescence." Analytical Chemistry 75(22):6334-6340. DOI:10.1021/ac0347664.

Stegemiller ML, WR Heineman, CJ Seliskar, TH Ridgway, SA Bryan, TL Hubler, and RL Sell. 2003. "Spectroelectrochemical Sensing Based on Multimode Selectivity Simultaneously Achievable in a Single Device. 11. Design and Evaluation of a Small Portable Sensor for the Determination of Ferrocyanide in Hanford Waste Samples." Environmental Science & Technology 37(1):123-130. DOI:10.1021/es020601l.

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We can now add two more names—Kepler-9b and Kepler-9c—to the list of extrasolar planets discovered by NASA's Kepler Spacecraft.

After analyzing seven months' worth of observational data, researchers from the Kepler science team have confirmed that two Saturn-size planets, and a possible third, Earth-size planet orbit a sun-like star situated roughly 2200 light years away. The research is described in the journal Science. According to the report, authored by 41 astronomers, Kepler-9b orbits the parent star, named Kepler-9, every 19.2 days, and Kepler-9c makes the trip in 38.9 days. The orbital period of 9b is decreasing by 4 minutes per orbit, and 9c's is increasing by 39 minutes, due to the gravitational interaction between the two planets.

The result marks the first time astronomers have used data from Kepler to confirm the existence of a system in which more than one planet is transiting a star, says Matthew Holman, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and lead author of the new report.

The spacecraft monitors over 150,000 stars simultaneously, detecting tiny decreases in brightness that occur when orbiting planets cross in front of their parent stars—events known as transits.

Astronomers have used parameters besides transits, such as ground-based radial velocity measurements, to detect multi-planet systems before. But Kepler allowed Holman's group to glean more data points. Besides calculating the size of each planet's orbit and radius, the researchers gathered a more precise measurement of each planet's mass by combining ground-based measurements with information deduced from the variations in transit times caused by gravitational interaction between the two planets. They then estimated the planets' respective densities from the mass and radius values. "We understand, at least at a very simple level, what these planets are made of," Holman says. "We believe that Kepler-9b and 9c are probably hydrogen- and helium-rich planets very much like our own gas giants," a category that includes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

The discovery brings Kepler's confirmed planets to just seven. Kepler has identified over 700 candidate worlds, but these cannot be confirmed as actual planets until astronomers observe four transits, and perform follow-up observations to rule out false positives. This means planets with Earth-like orbits won't be discovered until at least 2012, since Kepler was launched in March 2009.

All seven confirmed planets are large and hot, with relatively short orbital periods—shorter than that of Mercury, the planet closet to the sun. "But Kepler-9b and Kepler-9c have fairly long orbital periods compared to other known transiting extrasolar planets," Holman says.

The longer the orbital period, the more difficult the transit is to detect from ground-based observatories. While planets with shorter periods cross their parent star quite often, planets with Earth-like orbits, for example, only pass in front of their parent stars once a year—for as little as two hours.

Not only are the transits of Earth-like planets fleeting, they are also very faint—altering the star's brightness by only about 1/10,000. That's why it is important, Holman says, that the data indicates a third, Earth-size planet candidate is also orbiting Kepler-9. "It looks entirely consistent with a planet," Holman says. "That remains to be entirely proven, but it does show that Kepler has the capacity to find Earth-size planets," which is fundamental to its mission. The small candidate planet appears to have an orbital period of 1.6 days.

Besides indicating that the spacecraft is fit for its intended purpose, Holman says the new results set the stage for a more broad use of the transit timing variation technique, whereby the researchers measured the two planet's gravitational interaction and used it to calculate their masses. "It's really the Kepler data that allows us to demonstrate that [the technique] works," Holman says, "and I think it bodes well for the Kepler mission, and what it will find in the future."

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Frequent Life Insurance Selling contributor Maria Ferrante-Schepis (formerly Umbach) has been warning readers for years now about the possibility of an upcoming “Napster moment” in the life insurance industry — even as recently as the July issue of Life Health Pro.

A Napster moment, Ferrante-Schepis says, occurs when someone who has no business being in your business swoops in and reinvents your business — putting you out of business. We’ve seen it happen before. Just look at what Napster and, later, iTunes did with the music industry. And the life insurance industry certainly possesses a lot of the hallmarks of a business ripe for reinvention — commoditization, a flight to the high end of the market, a growing underserved market, an imbalance in the supply chain.

Yet, no matter how much Napster moment predictions make sense, it’s easy to write them off. We often pay them as much heed as that downtown loony wearing a “The End is Near” sandwich board. It won’t happen to our industry, we tell ourselves. Or, it’ll happen, but not until I’m long retired. And then we get back to business as usual.

That likely won’t be the case much longer, though. This week’s Time has an article about a new player in the health insurance market — a little company named Costco. The big-box membership club formed a partnership with Aetna in April and is now offering individual health insurance policies to customers in nine states. It plans to roll out the program in additional states later this year.

The health plans aren’t a particularly good deal. They’re about 5 percent cheaper than the individual policies Aetna sells, but a Costco membership is required to purchase them. According to the article, the deductibles for in-network care on a family plan range from $6,000 to $15,000. And customers are on the hook for $350 if they visit an emergency room and aren’t admitted.

So why would anyone buy one of these plans? Sheer convenience. There’s no need to call an agent, to set up an appointment, to drive over to an office, sit through a sales spiel and wonder whether this stranger has your best interest — or just his commission — at heart. Instead, people shopping for insurance can now head down the block, to a business they already trust, and quickly pick up a health plan with straightforward pricing — and maybe a 10-gallon tub of Spaghetti-Os while they’re at it.

It’s not much of a stretch to imagine Costco adding to its insurance lines if this venture goes well. After all, it’s not a store that’s built its reputation on offering a narrow, carefully curated product selection. It’s a one-stop shop that’s likely not going to see much point in offering health insurance to its customers while sending them elsewhere for life and disability — or even auto and home — policies.

A big-box takeover of the insurance industry doesn’t bode well for agents — or for consumer pocketbooks, either, if those health plan costs are any indicator. I don’t think life insurance agents can afford to wait for a clearer sign that they need to get with the times. We’re past the sandwich-board loony phase now; at this point, the meteor headed for Earth is showing up clearly on our radar.

You still have the ability to save your job and save your customer’s money, but you need to listen to the message here: customers want convenience, likely even at the expense of saving money. Agents have to adapt and make it as easy as possible for prospects and clients to do business with them — and that includes embracing new, more convenient methods for selling and communicating, like building your own website and maintaining a social media presence. If you insist on sticking with the old ways…well, you’re eventually going to look crazier than that sandwich-board guy.

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It would seem that we are stating the obvious, but today we can’t take anything for granted. We can look at various sectors of our government, as well as industrial, social and religious organizations, and find that many of these are not aware or are not acknowledging that they are in a war for their very existence.

In "Marketing Warfare," marketing experts Al Ries and Jack Trout argue that marketing is war, and that the marketing concept’s customer-oriented philosophy is inadequate. Rather, firms would do better by becoming competitor-oriented. If the key to success was simply to introduce products closest to those desired by customers, then the market leader would always be the firm that performed the best market research. Clearly, much more is required.

There is much marketers can learn from military strategy. Ries and Trout tell the story of several famous battles in history that illustrate lessons of warfare. These battles range from Marathon in 490 B.C., when the Greeks used the phalanx to defeat the more numerous Persian invaders, to the Normandy invasion of WWII.

The lessons from these famous battles illustrate strategies for planning, maneuvering and overpowering the opposing side. These principles are relevant not only to warfare, but also to marketing.

Considering this concept; there are valuable lessons, tactics and decisions that can help business owners weather the economic battlefield they are now facing.

What do many great leaders do when they realize they are going to war, or are already in one? First, they must decide between fight or flight. If they fight, they have to make some hard decisions. Here are just a few strategic considerations and determinations:
  • Who will be the leader or leaders?
  • Who is the enemy or target? Have you correctly identified who, what and where they are?
  • Before you make the commitment, be sure you have counted the cost.
  • Will you go it alone or build a team or army?
  • Distinguish whether the objective is a game or a war. One is for sport; the other is for keeps.
  • Consider if you will seek guidance and/or help.
  • Establish written strategic plans (including the SWOT exam.) The emphasis here is “strategic [offense-defense],” with the goal to win.
  • Responsibilities-Accountabilities-Actions-Contingencies.
Ries and Trout believe in having relatively few people involved in the strategic process. They believe the organization needs a strong marketing "general” to formulate the strategy from the tactical realities. An effective marketing general should have the following characteristics:
  • To adjust the strategy to the situation
  • To make a decision and stand by it
  • Boldness to act without hesitation when the time is right
  • Know the facts, in order to formulate strategy from the ground up
  • Know the rules, internalizing them so they can’t be forgotten
Is it better to know you are in a war, and plan to win, or to take an “a-kicking” and never realize you were ever in one?


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