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Quantum Gravity - revealed by gamma ray bursts?

Gamma ray bursts - those terrific and mysterious flashes of high-energy light now considered to be probes to the farthest reaches of the Universe and earliest moments of time - may have yet another secret to reveal: quantum gravity.

Not yet observed in nature, quantum gravity is the long-sought missing link between Einstein's General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, the two incongruous pillars of modern physics. NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi) launched in 2008 with one of its goals to detect, for the first time, the effects of quantum gravity in the speed of gamma-ray burst photons.

The gist of this is that the gamma-ray bursts that Fermi detects will be powerful enough and distant enough to see the highest of the high-energy photons traveling slightly more slowly than lower-energy photons, weighed down by the effect of quantum gravity.

A gamma-ray burst represents the greatest outpouring of energy the Universe has ever seen aside from the Big Bang. Each burst is as powerful as a billion trillion suns, and satellites detect a burst or two a day. As common as the bursts are, though, no one is certain about what causes them. They are seen only in the gamma-ray waveband, although their afterglows fade away slowly in the X-ray and optical realms.

Gamma-ray bursts were discovered in the late 1960s, decades after the concepts of General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics first spiced the physics lexicon.

General Relativity accounts for gravity, the force that acts across large scales. Quantum Mechanics, part of the Standard Model, describes the behavior of the other three fundamental forces: electromagnetism, weak forces (seen in radioactive decay), and strong forces (holding subatomic particles together). These three forces act over small scales, and each has a corresponding particle that transmits that force: namely, photons (for electromagnetism), gluons (for strong forces) and Z and W particles (for strong forces).

The hypothesized particle that would account for the force of gravity is the graviton. Now, a graviton is not something you can look for in a giant particle accelerator, unlike a Higgs Boson or other exotic particles. Scientists instead look for the effects of the graviton, such as in gravitational waves rocking objects in space or, in the case of the gamma-ray burst, gravitons slowing a passing photon.

In quantum mechanics, the vacuum of space is not a vacuum; rather, it is a field with virtual particles, such as the graviton. Light passing through this field of virtual particles is refracted, just as it is when passing through water or any medium.

The graviton, being the essence of gravitational force, would interact with (or slow down) those particles with greater gravitational potential. With mass directly proportional to energy, as expressed in e=mc2, photons of higher energy have greater gravitational potential than lower-energy photons - as if they "weigh" more.

The highest-energy photons would therefore travel through space more slowly than lower-energy photons. (This does not violate the constancy of the speed of light, for light travels at the same speed only in an absolute vacuum.) To detect the very slight difference in photon speed, one needs an extremely distant source emitting extremely high-energy photons: that is, the gamma-ray burst.

One of the gamma-ray bursts that Fermi has now seen, known as GRB 090510, fulfilled scientists' needs by having a redshift of z=0.9. The scientists did not detect high-energy photons moving at different speeds from low-energy photos.

Studies with Fermi are ongoing, and more observations can help to confirm or disprove the idea of the graviton.

Several groups of scientists are working on the topic of quantum gravity and how to detect it. A team led by Dr. John Ellis of CERN is looking at low-energy gamma-ray bursts; Dr. Karl Mannheim of Universitäts Sternwarte and his group are looking at previously detected high-energy burst photons; and a group under the guidance of Dr. T.C. Weekes of the Whipple Observatory in Arizona is pouring through the data of the highest-detected gamma-ray photons, from relatively nearby active galaxies with black holes.

Clear-cut evidence for quantum gravity would ultimately open new pathways for physicists' prime goal of uniting all four fundamental forces under a Grand Unified Theory - a theory that explains the behavior of all matter and energy in all situations.

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I was reading through some posts at my local Atheist web site, from which I am banned, and came across this interesting article.

Push to call blasphemy a crime

Oxford dictionary: Blasphemy

To look at this personally, I have no views on blasphemy, if somebody doesn't want me to blaspheme, or draw Mohamed, because they would feel offended by it,  I would then not blaspheme, nor would I draw Mohamed. (please feel free to tell me not drawing Mohamed is offensive to you if you like:)

I then looked at the UN's view on the death penalty. (I thought about a compromise, get rid of the death penalty first, and then I'd agree to the blasphemy law, but that would be a stupid idea, the death penalty should be abolished regardless)

And Islam's view of the death penalty in relation to blasphemy.

And Christianity

I have no problem with not committing blasphemy, I think it's a good personal choice to never commit blasphemy, but to make an international law out of it is a little scary. The main reason why it is scary is because; what is offensive to one person may not be offensive to another. What one person considers blasphemous may not be considered blasphemous by another. This law can only ever be judged by using personal opinion, it can never be judged objectively in any way.

Any opinions out there? Or problems with my views on the subject?

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Leveni, the "N" word is just another word, like it or not.  Its problem is that it has been given significance out of proportion with what it represents.  It is a racial slur, like "Spick" or "Wop" or "Kike," but made far more notorious by its association with slavery in the United States.

As with any such word, the problem is less the word itself, but people's REACTION to that word.  That reaction, like the reaction to blasphemy, is LEARNED ... and if it can be learned, it can be unlearned, even as we have unlearned any kind of consideration or respect for deities or the beliefs associated with them.  In this day and age, we in the US have yielded such power to one lousy word that it holds us in thrall, but with very interesting conditions.  I can't help but note that black people in places employ this word all the time in general conversation, and comedians like Chris Rock use it for shock value in front of black and white audiences.

If a WHITE person uses it, though, the reaction and impact is an entirely different matter.  Such a person is immediately looked at askance, and will almost certainly be considered a racist.  It is the poison-pill word to end all poison pills.  Interestingly, Dan Jenkins attempted to counter this trend in his comedic novel, Semi-Tough, where his main character, a white running back for the New York Giants named Billy Clyde Puckett, delivers his own take on the "N" word and observes its use by him and his teammates of both colors.  I should note, though, that Semi-Tough was originally published in 1972, long before the advent of the concept of "political correctness."

It's still down to "sticks and stones," guy ... combined with our own stupidity about language and overreaction to certain combinations of vowels and consonants which haven't the power to so much as muss a hair on our heads, let alone do hard, physical injury.  This is true whether we're talking about racial or religious slurs.  Stipulated, black people exist where god does not, but people, black or white, CHOOSE how to react to words they hear, and that choice is LEARNED.  And to close, I have to say this, because ultimately, it is a truism we all have to face:

No one has the right not to be offended.

Hi Loren.

No one has the right not to be offended.

I can only agree with the statement because being offended is subjective.

I want to change the direction of this discussion a bit.

1.Being offended by the 'N' word, when used by white Americans, is a deep seeded part of African American culture (it is learned, passed down from parent to child).

2.Being offended by blasphemy, is a deep seeded part of religion, and is also learned.

So why do humans learn to be offended? Is it some kind of defence mechanism?

I'm no psychologist, so I don't have a precise or expert answer for you as to why people choose to be offended about WORDS.  Words can be true or false or have any number of gray-area values.  They can be associated with personal feelings of shame or inadequacy, and therewith may come the reactions that some people have to words.  For someone who sufficiently knows and owns himself, however, any attempt at insult or offense is likely going to fall on its face.

Say someone wants to accuse my mother of being a whore.  I KNOW who and what my mother is as well as what she is NOT, and my response to such a person is simple: I blow them off.  Maybe they want to call me a cocksucker.  Whether I am or not, again, all we're dealing with are WORDS here, and spurious words such as those are not worthy of my attention.  People who use these words and others are looking to exert power over another, and/or elicit a reaction.  Understanding this allows me to easily frustrate their efforts by simply not giving them what they want.  My sense is that it's lack of knowledge and/or fear of the truth of an assertion, or an over-inflation of the importance or supposed truth of someone else's words are what give rise to the reactions we see in some people.

All of this comes back to the whole issue of self-ownership and self-knowledge, two very key qualities to my own philosophy of life (if I can be said to have such a thing!).  A person who knows and understands his or her own inner workings and motivations is far less likely to be rattled by expletives or epithets.  That person may note a threat couched in such words and prepare to react based on that input, but the words themselves continue to have only the impact the listener chooses to give them.

Now ... on the OTHER hand, what about a believer who has his beliefs disparaged by one such as us?  How sure is that person in his beliefs?  How learned is he in their background?  Are we dealing with a William Lane Craig here or just some church-goer who swallows whole what he is taught, without a more wide-ranging understanding of those teachings?

A key word here is "insecurity."  By definition, a theist's beliefs are not easily verified or objectively supported, if they are supported at all (and we know they aren't!).  It's possible that this person has grown up in an environment which was insulated from outside opinions and discouraged critical thought.  When confronted by arguments which challenge what he's been taught, there may be a number of possible responses.  A well-schooled theist may attempt to defend his beliefs, using his holy book or the teachings of a more knowledgeable follower, such as WLC or one of his ilk.  OR ... feeling that such teachings should be beyond question or analysis, they may insist that those teachings have government protection from such challenges ... which leaves us where we are.

As one respondent to the Center for Inquiry's Blasphemy Contest suggested:

The reason religious beliefs need protection from ridicule is that they are ridiculous.

Maybe we need a new term, like attacking race is racism, attacking faith could be called faithism.

Unlike race, which cannot be changed and is real, faith can be changed and faith can be delusional and fraudulent (as most religions are).

Thus, I believe people can be condemned for being racist.

Though, people can be commended and given credit for being faithist, where the faith has been shown as detrimental to society and human progress.

So Faithism against Christianity and Islam should be commended, as they are both detrimental to society.

Aye M8z!   :-D

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SINCE THE start of the Gazette Relays last week, controversy has been bubbling within state high school sports circles.

It centered on a Capital High track athlete and a starter pistol.

See, the former can't hear the latter. And there was a question whether Naquay Little, who has been deaf since birth, would be able to use a strobe starter in the upcoming regional and state track events.

There was real concern the Secondary School Activities Commission might ban a device that not only signals a start for hearing runners, but flashes light for Little.

What seems like an easy call was amazingly complicated.

On Tuesday, however, outrage was averted. Lawsuits were avoided.

SSAC executive director Gary Ray did so with this simple statement: "We're going to use an electronic device for the boys Region 3 and Class AAA state 100- and 200-meter events.

A no-brainer decision, right? The kid can't hear. There's a device that takes care of starting him and the other runners. Done and done, correct?

Not really.

See, behind the scenes for the last few days there has been consternation. There have been meetings, phone calls and much discussion on the topic. A caller to my desk claimed there could be discrimination involved. Even Capital High track coach Willie Ruffin was concerned and brought up the Americans with Disabilities Act to me.

"Lawyers will be lining up [if accommodations aren't made], Ruffin said.

The controversy, however, went back to what is called "The Golden Rule for Track Officials, as published by the USA Track and Field National Officials Committee. Says it: "No athlete should be allowed to gain an unfair advantage, and no athlete should have to suffer an unfair advantage.

There was some belief that by switching out the traditional starter pistol, complete with black powder shells, for the different-sounding strobe-lighting starter would give Little an advantage. Hey, they said, kids from all over will be hitting Charleston and having to adjust their sprint start for the first time in the state meet? They'll have to do so in races that come down to fractions of a second?

"It's a different sound, Ruffin said, "but if any of those kids go on to college it's what they'll hear.

By all accounts, the sound is like that used in Olympic swim events. It's like that automated beep sound that sends swimmers into water.

Is that different than the cannon our Dave Hickman uses as a high school track starter? Yes. Is it different enough that it will throw off hearing runners? Not according to Ray and others.

"The request was made, Ray said, "and we feel it was an appropriate request.

The system, you should know, has been used in all of Capital High's track meets this season. It was purchased via a grant from the Kanawha County Board of Education, according to Ruffin. So those in the Kanawha Valley are used to it.

"I haven't heard any complaints from any of the kids, said George Washington High track coach Sean Wheeler. "I did, though, hear complaints from some of the coaches. They said they had trouble hearing the sound and couldn't see the smoke from the gun to start their stopwatches.

To that I say oh, well. Figure it out, guys. Wheeler said he personally likes the Capital High starter and believes it will soon replace the pistols.

The other complaint was the SSAC didn't even know about the Capital device until recently. The school, it was claimed, simply started using it without checking with the SSAC.

"They knew about it, Ruffin countered. "We talked about it at a clinic before the first meet.

Wheeler backed that up by recalling the topic in an SSAC "Games Committee meeting.

Whatever the case, Ray made the right call. There was talk the track official could fire off both the regular pistol and the strobe at the same time. That, however, brings into question how much slack is in each trigger and if there's even the slightest delay in one.

This indeed is the way to go. Simply pull the sprinters involved in Little's races to the side and allow them to hear the sound a few times. Then go.

"It works, Ruffin said. "Heck, back in 1914 when they had [the state meet] they used to start with a whistle.

Ray, by the way, said he couldn't find another state that is using the strobe device.

"I made some calls, he said. "After the third one, I just decided to say the heck with it' and do what's right for West Virginia.

As for the claims runners might be thrown off-balance by the new sound?

"Kids adjust, Ray said. "And what I've found is they adjust much better than adults.

Well said.

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West Virginia athletic director Oliver Luck has many projects on his desk.

And he's ready to start clearing many of them.

On Thursday, Luck told me his department is set to take out a multi-million-dollar bond to work on facilities such as Milan Puskar Stadium, the Coliseum and other venues.

"We've sat down with the folks downtown [in WVU's finance department]," Luck said. "We've looked ahead 12 years, which is the length of the Big 12 grant-of-rights [media contract].

"The Big 12 has laid out for us what we can expect [in regard to income]. Same with IMG [and its third-tier deal with WVU]. The TV and IMG numbers are guaranteed. So the financial folks have said we can have X amount of excess. They've said we can bond the amount and get one big chunk now.

"I'm not sure exactly how much we'll be able to access, but it will be north of $50 million."

It's a substantial step for WVU's athletic department. It's a step Luck obviously feels is necessary in order to keep pace with the rest of the Big 12 and other members of power conferences.

He sees Baylor building a new $260 million football stadium. He sees Duke spending $250 million for upgrades to Wallace Wade Stadium and Cameron Indoor Stadium. He sees Nebraska spending over $63 million to expand its football stadium. California spent $321 million for a stadium overhaul.

The arms race will only escalate with the latest television deals. Lately, upscale housing for athletes has become the latest weapon. In the Big 12, Kansas is building a $17.5 million privately funded apartment complex. In July, Oklahoma opened Headington Hall, a $75 million structure that sits next to the Sooners' stadium. A 75-seat theater is included.

"Right now we're in the process of figuring out all of our needs," Luck said. "A good bit will go to football and basketball. It will go toward the stadium and Coliseum.

"But then we have the Olympic sports. There's the Shell Building. We have to decide what to do with Hawley Field with the new stadium being built. The Natatorium hasn't been upgraded since it was built. We need new locker rooms. We have more projects than money."

Luck was meeting with architects on Thursday in regard to the new baseball stadium. Ground has been broken for the University Town Centre project, which will cost an estimated $16-18 million. That cost is not included in the bond of which Luck speaks. That money was secured via a Tax Increment Financing bill approved by the state legislature. The plan there is to have the stadium ready by 2015.

Luck said the bond was proposed after projecting what it will cost to run WVU's athletic department for 12 years.

"We looked at our budgets, expected salaries and contingencies for unexpected events and subtracted that," said the athletic director. "We have four revenue streams: ticket sales, [Mountaineer Athletic Club] donations, TV and IMG. The first two are not guaranteed.

"The money from TV and IMG, though, is guaranteed by contract. The bulk of the money is from Big 12 TV. We sat down with the financial people downtown and they said, 'We think this makes sense.' "

Luck said the athletic department has secured bonds in the past, but "not to this magnitude."

Neither football nor men's basketball has exactly been flying high at WVU lately. What has, however, caught Luck's attention is the success of the Mountaineer women's basketball team. It is ranked No. 18 in the Associated Press poll.

"You know, I was talking to [coach] Mike Carey about it," said the athletic director. "He told me that in one of his current recruiting classes WVU is among the top three [school choices] of six or eight of the nation's top recruits. He said it's all because of the move to the Big 12.

"That's what all of our teams need to do. Mike said in the past WVU might be in the top three of maybe one top recruit. He said we've never been able to recruit like this. He said they might have to change how they recruit."

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Wade Andrews had pulled into a Downtown Auburn parking lot when he heard a scream that made him bolt from his car. “I heard someone a few cars over screaming at the top of their lungs pretty much for their life,” Andrews said Friday. Andrews, 20, of Auburn, was one of eight witnesses Friday to testify in an appeal regarding four pitbulls that attacked a teen in a parking lot located on 894 Lincoln Way in Auburn. The hearing centered on the Sept. 16 attack that left now 18-year-old Weimar resident Joseph “JoJo” Kerschner with more than 20 puncture wounds and 30 stitches in his body. Kerschner recounted how the four dogs approached him in the evening hours of Sept. 16. Unprovoked, one dog lunged at him and the others followed. The teen was trying to fight off the dogs himself before a nearby stranger, Andrews, was able to come to his rescue. Andrews said he jumped out of his car when he heard Kerschner’s screams and saw him being attacked by the dogs through his rear view mirror. With no weapon in hand, Andrews stood over Kerschner and used his arms to motion the dogs away and started yelling at them. Someone threw a large wrench toward the commotion and Andrews said he used it to hit the sides of the dogs to get them off Kerschner. Andrews and his 20-year-old girlfriend, April O’Dell, of Foresthill, were able to pull Kerschner into the backseat of his car. Andrews and Kerschner both testified that two of the pitbulls stayed and jumped and clawed at the car. Andrews said he popped into the driver’s seat to make sure Kerschner was OK. “He was in shock,” Andrews recalled. “I saw his shirt torn to pieces, one of his shoes was missing and there was a big gash under his arm.” Kerschner, who has scars today from the attack, testified Friday that he was told that the deep gash under his right arm was half a centimeter away from a major artery. “If they had hit that artery, I’d probably not be here right now,” Kerschner said. In a prior Journal report, Kerschner credited Andrews and O’Dell with saving his life. “When I saw Wade coming over with a wrench I equated that to a knight in shining armor,” Kerschner said. Kerschner’s parents, Gabe and Barbi, said Andrews is “a hero in our eyes.” “Our emotions are pretty strong for someone willing to step up and help a family member like that,” Gabe Kerschner said. “It was pretty cool.” Jenifer Gee can be reached at


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4aMU8. Within-category discrimination of musical chords: Perceptual magnet or anchor?

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Recent speech research has demonstrated that the presence of prototypes may be reflected in the internal structure of speech categories. Some speech results have found lower discrimination in a vowel P context compared to a NP context, suggesting that a prototype may function as a perceptual magnet, effectively decreasing perceptual distance, and thus, discriminability, between stimuli. The current study examines the function of prototypes in a musical category; another natural, but nonspeech, category. Prototype (P) and nonprototype (NP) sets of major triad stimuli were constructed, with stimuli in the P set being more representative of the category than the NP stimuli. Musically experienced subjects rated the stimuli in each set for goodness as a major triad, with the highest rated stimulus serving as a prototype standard for a subsequent discrimination task. Results from the discrimination task demonstrated better performance in the prototype context. The current nonspeech results appear to follow predictions based on classification and perceptual models (to be discussed), and provide a natural, nonspeech contrast to speech findings. The results will also be addressed in terms of music perception, including aspects such as different temperment systems and the differential importance of chord components.


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Speaking of Counterinsurgency and Birding: Say Hello to the Nano Hummer

There may come a day when some will go "droning," rising at dawn to perhaps catch a glimpse of a rare, bird-like aircraft flying through a city’s streets. You may have to travel the world to see them, chasing these inconspicuous mechanical rarities in rugged, potentially dangerous countries, like you would an authentic bird. Perhaps it’s not so hard to believe—people already go to great lengths to see and photograph trains and other technologies. And now, a company named AeroVironment has announced it’s manufactured a “Nano Hummingbird” for the Pentagon.

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With two flapping wings, this aircraft actually looks and behaves (sort of) like a hummingbird. It can fly at up to 11 miles per hour in any direction, and then hover. It carries its own energy source (presumably a battery, but maybe they’ll spray on solar cells soon?) and a video camera payload. It has a wingspan of just 6.5 inches, and weighs less than an ounce—heavier than many hummingbirds, but smaller and lighter than the largest out there (though, 11 mph is far slower than a hummer at full speed). The “bird” is designed to dart in and out of doorways and windows in search of a particular nectar—intelligence—and to perch among green leaves, or on a rooftop antennae, for a surreptitious view. Who knows, maybe these hummers (these would be the world’s smallest, subtlest Humvees) will be equipped with speakers that emit territorial squeaks like the genuine thing. Currently, the Nano Hummingbird can stay aloft for just eight minutes before exhausted, but that might be more than enough time for a “pilot,” operating remotely via video stream, to complete a crucial mission.

“From the battle-proven Raven, Wasp and Puma small UAS to the tiny Nano Hummingbird to Global Observer, the largest, highest and longest flying UAS, AeroVironment continues to define the future of unmanned aircraft systems,” said Tom Herring, AV senior vice president, in their press release. The Raven looks like a conventional glider, not a bird, but, obviously, it’s increasingly jungly out there – maybe the Raven will look like one soon? In some places, an emerald gem-of-a-bird may be too much of a stray, in fact, so as the protype of this drone and its “removable body fairing” continues to develop, it may come to look more like a nano sparrow, an LBB that breezes by in a nondescript blur.

Over the course of the five-year project, the Pentagon has given about $4 million to AeroVironment to come up with the hummingbird — it’s an expensive species. But with luck, perhaps some version, or its progeny, will prove useful to other disciplines, like ecology. In addition to spy work, perhaps it could fly nearer to wildlife, say, capturing never before seen angles, behavior, and footage. In any case, birding and counterinsurgency are indeed closer than they seem.


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It was quite a year for three Aurora teams

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Facing a formidable foe in Toledo Central Catholic, the Greenmen gridders were up to the challenge in the Division II state semifinal game.
As in any close athletic competition, a break here and a break there could have launched the locals into the state finals Nov. 30 at Massillon’s Paul Brown Tiger Stadium, a venue they’ve never played at.
Unfortunately, the key break or breaks needed to bring a victory didn’t happen, and the gridders’ season ended with a 20-13 loss.
Last year in the Division II state semifinals against Avon, the Greenmen faced tremendous adversity after the Thanksgiving Day traffic death of teammate Paulie McGhee.
It was an emotional strain to play a game with such sadness encompassing the community, but the team fought on. Things just didn’t go their way, though.
This year, with the memory of McGhee still strong in their minds, the squad looked forward to gaining a berth in the state finals for their deceased friend, themselves and their faithful fans.
All season long, players wore McGhee’s number 57 on the back of their helmets as a tribute to him and the enthusiasm he brought to life and the game of football.
The players have nothing to be ashamed of. It was a great season, which saw the squad capture its third regional championship in five seasons (also 2008 and 2011).
The Greenmen fought to 12 victories — the only losses were to Chagrin Falls and Toledo CC — and tied with the Tigers for the Chagrin Valley Conference Chagrin Division title.
AHS, which won the Division III state title in 2008, will return to the finals some day and will win another crown. Having built such a tradition in football, it’s bound to happen.
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The football team’s season was not the high school’s only athletic highlight this fall.
Football is the fall sport which attracts the most attention for most high schools. It draws the most fans and provides the most revenue.
But there were two other outstanding achievements turned in by Greenmen teams which are quite worthy of mention.
In the excitement of the football season — and although the Advocate has reported on the other successes — many local residents may not have noticed that the boys soccer team reached the state semifinals for the first time and the boys golf team competed in the state tournament.
The boys soccer squad finished a stellar 16-4-2 season, and lost a heartbreaking 1-0 double-overtime match to Sylvania Southview in the state semifinals.
The boys golfers placed eighth in the Division I state tourney, and senior Andrew Hinton carded the seventh best score among the 72 competitors and was named to the second team All-Ohio. The squad also won the CVC tournament.
Not be outdone, the girls tennis team captured its fourth straight CVC title. Unfortunately, after two straight state tourney appearances, Maddie Gilley failed to make it to Columbus this year.
As for other fall sports at AHS, the girls soccer team had one of its best seasons, the volleyball team managed a .500-plus season and the girls golfers placed third in the CVC.
The high school JV football team posted an undefeated season, as did Harmon School’s seventh- and eighth-grade football teams.
So now it’s on to colder weather and the winter sports season, where hopefully more outstanding Greenmen achievements will transpire.
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Although it’s a bummer that the Greenmen won’t play in Massillon this weekend, I am thrilled to see the St. Clairsville Red Devils will be in the Division IV finals at Canton’s Fawcett Stadium.
St. C. was where I lived during my first post-college newspaper job, and I’ve returned to the Belmont County seat several times in the last six years.
The Red Devils are unbeaten in 14 games and are making their first state finals appearance. I didn’t think they’d beat previously undefeated Norwayne, but they did, 40-27, last weekend. They will play Clinton-Massie, also undefeated.
My only regret is that since the game will be played late Friday morning, I won’t be able to attend.
Here’s an interesting tidbit about the Red Devils.
Earlier this year when they had a big lead against one team, a running back was heading toward the endzone on a long run with no defenders near him.
At the one-yard line, he stepped out of bounds and everyone in the stadium was stunned. The nearby referee signaled a touchdown, but a St. C. -player ran up and said “No, he stepped out of bounds!”
Turns out it was a planned play. A reserve player’s dad had died days before the game, so the coach instructed players before the game to do exactly what that running back did.
On the next play, the player whose dad had died was handed the ball and scored the TD. The incident made national sports publications and broadcast networks.
Although Dover is a bitter rival of my alma mater — the New Philadelphia Quakers, which Aurora beat in the first round of the playoffs this year — I had hoped the Tornadoes would make it to the Division III state finals, but they lost badly to Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary.
I also would have loved to see Mentor make it to the finals, but Toledo Whitmer was just too tough for the Cardinals.
By the way, the 2014 and 2015 OHSAA football finals will not be played in Canton and Massillon, but at the Horseshoe in Columbus for the first time in many years.
It will be a huge thrill for players in those games to have the chance to play on the turf in the huge stadium, but at the same time it will be awkward to have a crowd of 6,000 to 10,000 people in the 102,000-capacity Shoe.
The site is more centrally located than Canton and Massillon, but I’d rather see the action at Fawcett or Paul Brown. It will take away a big boost to the economy of those two cities, too.
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Military shoppers can dive into savings on name-brand outdoor gear, appliances, sportswear and more with Summer 2014, the latest catalog from the Army & Air Force Exchange Service. Every item in the catalog is available on the Exchange’s online shopping site,

The 36-page catalog has everything needed to make summer sizzle, including patio furniture, Weber and Char-Broil grills as well as outdoor storage. Military shoppers can add a sunny touch inside their homes, too, with a wide selection of area rugs, lamps, linens and other decor.  For those who enjoy working out in the great outdoors, the catalog offers name-brand sportswear, including Nike, Under Armour and Adidas.

“From Oakley eyewear and Coach handbags to the latest electronics from Samsung and Bose, the Summer 2014 catalog makes a splash with style and value,” said Exchange Chief of Staff Col. Tom Ockenfels. “The Exchange makes it easy for Soldiers, Airmen and their families to find everything needed to make memories this summer.”

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Over the past weeks we've been treated to a series of videos showcasing the character-classes in Blizzard's ridiculously anticipated Diablo III and today -- with only two weeks left until launch -- we have the last trailer in the series.

This latest clip takes a closer look at the Wizard, Diablo III's more traditional caster class:
The wizards. Brilliant practitioners of the arcane arts who deftly wield the energies of fire, ice, lightning, and even time itself in the pursuit of their enigmatic goals. Bedecked in archaic charms, clad in runes, and wrapped in free-flowing robes to allow for the somatic components of their spells, wizards are a veritable thunderstorm of lethal powers who can strike from close or long range. There is no safe way to approach an angry wizard.
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Wow! Before this trailer I thought mages looked and felt boring compared to the other classes, but this looks badass. Also.. I'm pretty sure the female wizard is voiced by the same person as Athula :O
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Will be going male wizard, but yeah looks awes
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Also.. I'm pretty sure the female wizard is voiced by the same person as Athula :O

Do you mean Azula? If so, yep, Grey DeLisle is in frikkin everything.

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Not gonna be a wizard but I am excite!!!
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Haha Azula, thanks Nerfy. :) No idea where I got Athula from.
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“Ambitious Japan.” That’s what it says on the side of new bullet trains that speed from Tokyo to Osaka. It is an optimistic and somewhat defiant statement that could easily be borrowed by Aichi-based Denso Corp. “Ambitious Denso” is a company that already holds worldwide number one product share in 18 different automotive components, but plans to increase that to 25 by 2005. It plans to maintain its leading position in HVAC unit production despite stiff competition, while making big pushes into hybrid vehicle power systems and Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) areas like navigation and telematics. To achieve its ambitions the company is spending generously on R&D: $1.5 billion, or a hefty 8% of total net sales in 2003 alone.

Big Changes in Air Con. The refrigerant R134a is expected to be phased out of use within five or six years, which if you are Denso, the world’s largest maker of automotive air conditioning units, is a very big deal. According to to Hikaru Sugi, director of the thermal products division, Denso has been spending a significant amount of R&D effort on perfecting units that can run on refrigerants other than R134a. Right now, he says, the leading candidates are CO2 and R152a, but CO2 seems to be getting the bulk of the attention since its potential greenhouse gas emissions are far lower than other alternatives. But while going with CO2 systems may be better for the environment, it creates a lot of challenges for cost-efficient mass production. At the simplest level, a CO2 unit requires an additional heat exchanger which helps to bump up the cost to about 15% higher than a conventional unit and adds 10% more weight. Also, since CO2 systems must operate at much higher pressures than current units, the tiny passages through which the gas moves must be formed with a precision far higher than that used today, which means huge investments in new equipment. Sugi knows that despite these challenges OEMs will not stand for any price or weight increases for CO2 air con, so Denso has set a goal to meet the same per unit production cost as R134a (about $28), while simultaneously reducing system weight by 15% within four years.

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To increase the accuracy and reduce the cost of identifying individual vehicles for the purpose of initiatives like congestion pricing, Denso has developed a tiny RF transmitter (upper left hand corner of the license plate) that broadcasts vehicles' license numbers to roadside receivers.

Apparently, this ambitious company is confident that it will achieve its goals because they plan to have it in production by 2007-08, with an initial annual production of 100,000 units, going to as many as 400,000 units in the second year. And OEMs must be confident that Denso will achieve its targets, as Sugi says there are “five or six” customers for the CO2 system.

SiC Chips. “SiC is a key technology for reducing cost in vehicles,” says Dr. Yoshiki Ueno, head of Denso’s research labs, of silicon carbon-based semiconductors. They’ve been working on them for over 10 years and expect that the chips won’t be market-ready for a few more years. But the work continues because SiC is very well suited to the harsh environment of the automobile. It can take higher sustained temperatures than silicon-only chips, while relying on a much simpler chip cooling system. It has much lower switching losses and on-state resistance which means its size can be trimmed down by two orders of magnitude over traditional chips. (One example of this dramatic size reduction is a SiC MOSFET that Denso is currently developing for release in 2008 which can replace 13 13-mm chips with just one 10-mm unit.) Denso is targeting next generation power inverters for hybrid vehicles as a key application for SiC technology, and has a goal of reducing inverter size to 1/6 that of the current model (i.e.: from 20 liters to 3.25 liters). The company expects to have the new inverter ready for production around 2010—assuming it overcomes cost hurdles. In order to get the purity it needs for its chips, Denso currently makes its own SiC wafers at the unsustainable cost of $2,000 for a 2-in. disc.

Emergent computing and seamless roaming. Denso executives see big growth ahead for camera-based safety systems used for tasks like pedestrian recognition and lane detection. To get a piece of this market, Denso is developing an advanced software program that uses parallel-processing techniques modeled on the workings of the human brain to analyze video images. Called “emergent soft computing,” the software can extract meaning from images even when faced with complex backgrounds and variations in brightness. It is currently effective at a distance of 50 m, though engineers plan to increase the range to 100 m soon.

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Denso has combined its expertise in navigation and electronic toll collection to create an all-in-one unit that can both map your route and pay the tolls along the way.

Another software initiative meant less to enhance safety than to ease frustration is a seamless roaming system that automatically switches between low-speed wireless phone connections and high-speed wireless local area network (W-LAN) hot spots. Denso engineers saw that as W-LAN hot spots continue to proliferate the desire for vehicles to take advantage of their broadband capabilities without having to disconnect and reconnect to lower-speed but more readily available standards like CDMA2000. So they designed software that eliminates the current practice of breaking and manually re-establishing wireless connections (which can take up to one minute) with an automated switching system that can move smoothly from source to source in the space of a second.

Navi, ETC. “Denso wants to be the worldwide leader in navigation systems,” says Mitsuharu Kato, managing director, ITS Product division. And it already has a good start as a leader in the Japanese market, which buys about 2.5 million navigation units per year in a new car market of around 6 million. Denso projects that navi installation rates will rise conservatively over the next few years in Japan, but more than double in Europe to over 3 million units a year and triple in the U.S. to 1.5 million annually by 2008. It is banking on its deep experience in making navi systems (it has had units in Japan since the 1980s and provided the first OEM navi unit in the U.S. for Lexus in 1997) to get to Kato’s goal. Denso develops and manufactures its own navi ECU (which currently packs the graphics power of a Sony Playstation) and has an ambitious program of creating and enhancing detailed maps of key countries. (For example, Denso began mapping China last year in preparation for strong growth in navi installation there.)

Another competitive advantage for Denso when it comes to navi is a proprietary location system called “Mapcode” that breaks down areas into increasingly smaller numbered grids, each of which are assigned numeric values. Any location in Japan can be found to within a few feet simply by inputting its 8 to 10-digit code. Travel books in Japan are already starting to use Mapcode as a shorthand to help tourists quickly find points of interest, and Denso has licensed the technology to other makers, essentially creating an open standard.

Combining its experience with navi systems and its leading position in producing Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) units, Denso has developed a single unit that can map all of the toll booths on a given route, direct the driver to the proper lane designated for ETC and then pay the toll. It also has developed a small RF transmitter that can be mounted on a license plate and read by roadside sensors for use in cities that have congestion pricing. The module transmits at 5.8 GHz and uses a low-consumption battery designed to last several years. Denso thinks that as more cities are forced to charge to reduce congestion, this approach will offer a lower cost alternative to the current system of photographing every license plate that goes in and out of the congestion pricing area.


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If I got one main impression from tonight’s episode of Idol, it’s that Vote For the Worst will be pretty irrelevant this season (unless Scotty McCreary makes it to the Top 24). Sure, the extra round of auditions may have just been a cruel ploy to extend the season and serve as an advertisement for (or against) the Cirque du Soleil Beatles show, but after all is said and done, I don’t think there are many, if any, singers squeaking through who aren’t very talented. Of course, sometimes the show is a little more fun when the singers are crappy, but fun aside, I don’t think Steven Tyler or Jennifer Lopez would deign to sit for hours listening to bad singers, so I think this year all that hype about “most talented season ever” might actually mean something. We’ll see if that translates to real entertainment. I am cautiously optimistic.

As we were promised last week, the top 61 singers grouped up and were shipped to Vegas to learn a Beatles song in 24 hours (which, sadly, was harder for some than it should have been) and perform it on a rather annoyingly whimsical set. Before singing, the contestants needed to run their performances by Jimmy Iovine in an unsexy hotel conference room: I’m not sure if he provided much concrete feedback, but if anything, he served to terrify the contestants and let them know that there will be no bullshitting this season.

I know we only saw abbreviated versions of the songs, and of course, very few Beatles covers will come close to matching the originals, and did I mention the annoying set? The spinning wheels and telephone booths and big bumbershoots? But with that said, the performances overall were, dare I say it, not bad? I wasn’t so sure about James Durbin and Stefano Langone’s “Get Back” (I can just admit now that I’m giving into a bias against James Durbin), but there wasn’t anything wrong with it, per se. By the time Pia Toscano and MySpace native Karen Rodriguez did their cute version of “Can’t Buy Me Love,” I started to unclench and get used to the fact that these were going to be Vegas-y performances and just to judge them for what they were.

“The Long and Winding Road” is one of my least favorite Beatles songs, but I liked Jacob Lusk, Haley Reinhart, and Naima Adedapo's harmonies on it, although if I were Jacob, I would take Jimmy Iovine’s advice on not going over the top all the time, as opposed to Randy’s advice, which was basically, “Go over the top, all the time.”

I’m coming around on Julie Zorrilla. Maybe her beauty is just blinding me, but her performance with Tim Halperin on “Something” was downright sexy. I’ve always felt this way about Idol, but I would really love it if duets and group numbers could be worked more into the show, by which I do not mean the hideous, choreographed lip-synched group numbers we typically see on results nights (I have a feeling that these will be 86’ed this season, or at least altered so as not to be so cringe-worthy).

I like Paul McDonald’s (Beardy Gram Parsons Charlie Day) voice a lot, although I questioned his pronunciation of some of the lyrics on “Blackbird”: “Take these suckered eyes and learn to see”?

I was also impressed by the groups that took on “Help!” and “Ticket to Ride,” which are definitely not easy songs to perform.

Youngsters Melinda Ademi and Thia Megia took on “Here Comes the Sun” after being terrorized the day before by their vocal coach, who said things like “Guess what? You’re gonna die onstage in front of all those people!” and “I’m going to be laying on my bed watching you all croak.” Somehow, this didn’t inspire the girls, and their performance of “Here Comes the Sun” was cute but weak, and the evil coach seemed happy about it.

Ashley Sullivan decided to marry her boyfriend while in Vegas so we had a little interlude for that (the bride wore a garter on top of her pleather pants and the cameraman served as the witness), but her newfound matrimonial bliss didn’t translate to a great version of “We Can Work It Out,” although I thought Ashley and Sophia Shorai’s harmonies were nice.

Lauren Alaina, Denise Jackson and Scotty McCreary couldn’t hack it when they were assigned “If I Fell” (one of my favorite Beatles tunes), so they took on “Hello, Goodbye,” which is not really a great song for performing, especially when you try to punch it up with some comic running around the phone booth prop from which you entered the stage. I really couldn’t stand Scotty’s stage presence (once again, the “pooping on the stage” pose). This was the only Beatles performance I really couldn’t stand, although I also wasn’t terribly fond of Casey Abrams’ jumping on the set bed during his performance of “Hello Goodbye.” If Knocked Up has taught me anything, it’s that I probably would hate the LOVE show unless I was on mushrooms.

The first cuts were then made, and we bid adieu to White House intern Molly DeWold, kooky dude Carson Higgins, and good ol’ Ashley Sullivan. I was worried that Ashley would melt down and maybe throw her wedding ring into the Bellaggio fountain (she did get married in the same chapel as Britney Spears did that time she was married to that dude for a day), but I was happy to see that she had a healthy attitude: Idol was fun, but, more importantly, she’s married to her honey. And guess what: Anything can seem important and uplifting if set to “Hey Jude,” including American Idol cuts.

For some reason, we got a whole new show intro for the second part of the episode, which took place in an airplane hangar. The producers really went berserk on the set designs for this episode: The singers played their last gasp performances in front of some old-timey planes. I was grateful that we didn’t need to sit through the full round of final performances, but instead just got glimpses at them as the contestants were brought up.

Naima Adedapo (whom, I would like to point out, I selected as a potential winner in her first audition) was the first to make it through, although I have no idea what she was doing with her crazy, baby-blue ensemble. The judges this time went all-out with their fakeouts. “I’m sorry to say that you’re going to have a long, long haul in this business,” Steven said, which could be interpreted to mean, “You’re going to have a rough time” but he really meant, I think, “Your journey will be long.” By the way, what was up with Steven’s shoes? They sort of looked like little buckle shoes like you’d see on Martin Prince or the animated Pinocchio.

The next contestant to take the long walk up the airplane hangar path was Hollie Cavanagh, the girl who melted down during her first audition but who was given a second chance. Could anybody pinpoint her accent? She sounded like a Bostonian leprechaun. The judges gave her a very encouraging reject, telling her to come back in a year or two when she has matured. The rejects this season felt more like those on So You Think You Can Dance, where the judges are sympathetic, due to the amount of time they’ve spent with the contestants, seeing how much work they put in.

Clint Jun Gamboa made it through to the Top 24 though, as did Paul McDonald, Ashthon Jones and Hailey Reinhart. Her dumb fakeout: “I’m afraid to say that…you’re a yes.” That’s one stupid part of the show that still hasn’t gone away.

There was one big reveal left before the show paused to give us the rest tomorrow, and that’s Chris Medina. His last-chance rendition of “Fix You” was pretty strong (although it’s not my favorite song, by far), but I didn’t want him to make it to the Top 24. I didn’t want to think about his fiancee every episode and see her in the audience (or not) and hear the judges talk about how he was singing for her and how it would probably be unfair to the other contestants who didn’t have as deep a backstory. And then when he did get cut, I felt like an asshole. So did Jennifer Lopez, who cried about breaking the news to him. Chris was immensely classy about his cut, although I’m not sure about Jennifer’s reaction. I don’t doubt that she is invested in the contestants. At times, she seems downright maternal, but she made the moment all about her as she cried over whether she broke the news to Chris the right way. Ironically, if anything, it made me think about how kind and comforting Steven Tyler is, as he reassured Jennifer that she did a good job cutting Chris.

Tomorrow night, Ryan Seacrest asked us, will Jennifer find the strength to continue? I hope so: I am really worried about her.

Stray observations:

  • Rachel Zevita wore a dead bird on her head for “Eleanlor Rigby," and Robbie Rosen wore a short-sleeved leather jacket for “Got To Get You Into My Life.” What’s with these kids?
  • There was something sort of interesting about watching Jennifer Lopez listen to the singers perform Beatles songs, like, yes, you may be rich and famous and beautiful but, financially and artistically, you are a pauper compared to Paul McCartney.
  • Was Steven trying to make a point with his “one hand clapping” routine, or was that just Steven being Steven?
  • We saw a shot of the stage rising in front of the judging table about ten times: Did that actually happen or was that just camera trickery?
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