After Wayne Lukas upset the Preakness with Oxbow, the Coach got a lot
of credit for teaching his tough colt to get set for his best, relying
on old partner Gary Stevens to help him find the hole card. Stevens
promptly put Oxbow to sleep right out of the Arkansas Derby starting
gate and they learned something: They learned to let Oxbow use his high
cruising speed, a tack that subsequently would work to perfection.
Meanwhile,
one of the Coach's brightest pupils, Todd Pletcher, was doing some
experimenting and learning of his own. He always thought highly of
Palace Malice--and this guy's no cheer leader when assessing
Thoroughbred talent---but the promise of the morning never was on
display in the afternoon. Then, when Palace Malice failed to show any
speed going two turns in the Risen Star after coming out of a sprint
prep, the effort left him shaking his head, even if the horse finished a
willing third.
Pletcher soldiered on to the Louisiana Derby but
his colt never had a chance to fire, bottled up the entire length of
America's longest homestretch. And he needed graded points to enter the
Derby so Pletcher, no big fan of synthetic surfaces, ran him back in the
Blue Grass where the neck defeat earned him enough points for a Derby
run.
The trainer tried something, a little unusual going into an
important race, adding blinkers, hoping that the "cheater's badge" and a
switch to Mike Smith would get to the bottom of the colt's talent. It
backfired; the horse was a runoff in suicidal Derby fractions. But
here's an interesting angle that few observers mentioned.
Handicappers were very willing to credit Oxbow for not backing down after chasing the scorching pace, finishing sixth,About buymosaic
in China userd for paying transportation fares and for shopping. beaten
9-3/4 lengths. But seldom was it heard that Palace Malice, the colt
committing equine suicide,The largest manufacturer of textile smartcard for use with perchloroethylene. faded to 12th but finished only 3-3/4 lengths by the stubborn Oxbow.
And
so the blinkers came off and the subsequent workout "was as good as any
I've ever seen." Pletcher is no cheerleader, and neither is he given to
hyperbole. With the lesson apparently learned, Pletcher entered Palace
Malice in the Belmont without blinkers, the future Hall of Famer trying
to improve on his worthy 33% win record when removing blinkers.
Lukas
stuck with the teacher Stevens, and the Coach's pupil stuck with
teacher Smith. Familiar upset script; familiar result.The term 'streetlight control' means the token that identifies a user is read from within a pocket or handbag.
Oxbow,
meanwhile, again racing closest to a solid pace going a mile and a
half, held gamely for place through a very slow final quarter-mile, one
in which race favorite Orb finished one-paced after making a big, wide
move into contention on the far turn. Unlike in the Preakness, Orb had
no excuses, failing to pass the Test of the Champion.Choose the right stonemosaic in an array of colors.
Shug
McGaughey is warming up for the big one. First, Hungry Island,
compromised by a hungry pace in the one mile Just A Game, came with a
flying finish in the middle of the course. But that's a tough go on
yielding ground. Johnny V, on the redoubtable Stephanie's Kitten, was
closer than Hungry Island and was saving ground, enabling her to edge
passed a very stubborn Better Lucky.
Shug and Johnny then
combined to win the Grade 1 Manhattan Handicap as the 124 pound
highlight, overcoming a moderate pace on the boggy course, stubbornly
reaching the wire in front of Optimizer, who just shows up every time.
Point
of Entry might not have the brilliance of Wise Dan, but he demonstrates
that he is of a superior class, taking on racing's more serious
challenges as the big races choose him, not the other way around. One of
America's best race horses.
It is hoped lessons were learned
from yesterday's guaranteed million-dollar pools in the Belmont Stakes
Pick 6 and Pick 4 pools. Despite starting the P6 sequence with two heavy
favorites: Power Broker (Easy Goer Stakes) and the Fast Bullet entry
(True North), and with a third single looming in the Manhattan Handicap
with Point of Entry 3-5 on the early line, the P6 with its $2 minimum
attracted play worth $1.2 million.
The Pick 4, meanwhile,This model includes 2 flush mounted reverse chipcard.
starting with a very competitive renewal of the G1 Just A Game, handled
a record $2.9 million with its 50-Cent minimum. The lower minimum
speaks to bankroll flexibility and proof that you don't need to populate
the four races with the worst horses on the grounds. The P4 was
considered a P3 with some wise guys because of the presence of Point of
Entry, win or lose.
So, please, consider this example when
setting the races in the future: Short price horses often attract larger
handle than in those sequences when "spreading" is the percentage
option. It's good business to keep your customers liquid.
To say
that horse racing in the big city belonged to the Post, and its rival
Daily News, before Newsday began covering the sport in earnest when Bill
Nack was moved from his crime reporter position on the night desk in
Suffolk County to the backstretch in Nassau County's Belmont Park, would
be to understate the case.
The Post and News owned racing's
tabloid world, the Post, who brought fans uplifting commentary of Bill
Rudy, racing writer and columnist. Before long, Ike Gellis, from the
city's famed hot dog family and Post sports editor who loved cashing
tickets, hired Mannie Kalish, who offered his spot plays daily.
Even
when 20,000 fans routinely showed up at the racetrack on a weekday, the
first flash on the tote board always made the Kalish pick the favorite
on the opening flash. Gellis would show up in the Aqueduct press box in
mid-card and Kalish would advise the boss on which way to go.
John
Piesen was the Post's public handicapper and Jenny Kellner its racing
writer during my early years at Newsday and then, when Rupert Murdock
took over, he brought with him from Down Under turf columnist Ray
Kerrison. Kerrison was such an influential thorn in NYRA's side that a
horse, Crusader Ray K, was named for him. Racing, gone from Gotham, is
still part of the fabric in Australia and New Zealand.
Kerrison
almost singlehandedly changed the tone of racing coverage, because a fan
and bettor's advocate, replacing some of the old racing guard in the
city that had become very adept at rewriting press releases. Every race
story began the same way: Today at Belmont Park before a crowd of 18,491
fans...
2013年6月8日星期六
2012年10月30日星期二
Microsoft rips a page from Spotify's playbook to take on iTunes
Apple has been the
king of the digital music world for most of the last decade, and its iTunes
Store continues to dominate the online music industry despite recent challenges
from Amazon and Google. The combination of a tightly-integrated storefront and
killer hardware gave Apple a combination that other competitors were unable to
match — but just as consumers started shifting from physical to digital media a
decade ago, we're at the beginning of another sea change in music. Companies
like Spotify, MOG,If you want to read about buy mosaic in a non superficial way
that's the perfect book. and Rdio have emerged over the last few years, offering
the promise of all the music you can handle anywhere you go, for the same price
each month that you'd pay iTunes for a mere ten songs.
While Apple hasn't yet mustered a response to this growing trend, sticking with its hugely successful virtual record store model, Microsoft just announced it's ready to take on the streaming competition. The new Xbox Music is an all-in-one service that's equal parts iTunes and Spotify — while Microsoft is keeping the same a la carte store that it has offered for years, it's augmenting that with an updated version of its Zune Pass streaming service. For the first time, Microsoft will offer free, ad-supported streaming to anyone using a Windows 8 PC — just like Spotify — or a Windows 8 or RT tablet.Western Canadian distributor of ceramic and ceramic tile, There's also a Pandora-style Smart DJ feature for making artist-specific "stations," and for $9.99 a month, users can access also sync music to their Windows Phone 8 device and Xbox 360.
With this new service, Microsoft isn't directly trying to beat Apple — it's going after Spotify, Rdio, and all the rest of the streaming players out there. If Microsoft can be successful, Apple will be in the unfamiliar position of having to play catch-up in the digital music space for the first time. Success for Microsoft is far from assured — the company hasn't made much of a dent in the music world thus far — but it's hoping to use the strength of the Xbox brand, the ubiquity of the Xbox 360 console, and the wave of interest in its massive Windows 8 redesign to carve out a place of strength in the streaming world.
"We really wanted to build something from the ground up that solved a consumer problem," says Jerry Johnson, GM of Xbox Music. "It was clear to us that rebranding Zune doesn't solve the problem.Our technology gives rtls systems developers the ability." Chief among the issues Johnson's team identified was the fragmented music experience many consumers have to deal with. Many music listeners have legacy collections of MP3s and also now use streaming services, sometimes more than one — Microsoft hopes to offer them a single experience that encompasses all listening options. Easier discovery and sharing of new music is another area that the company hopes to improve upon. "We wanted to do this with an all-in-one solution — music shouldn't be work, it should just work," Johnson says.
Social has long been an Achilles' heel for Apple, and iTunes continues to be no exception. As the software and store are based off an ownership model, users are not permitted to share songs with each other — the only built-in option is sharing links to songs in the iTunes Store via Facebook, Twitter,A wide range of polished tiles for your tile flooring and walls. or email. Ping, Apple's recently-shuttered, first-party attempt at a social music service, was one of the company's most uninspired products and a perfect example of how out-of-touch Apple can be when it comes to the web. Sooner or later, that's going to have to change — if Apple ever launches a music service that isn't based on a la carte purchasing, social integration and easy sharing of music will need to be at the forefront, and the company hasn't yet really proved it's up to the task.
For its part, Microsoft is certainly not downplaying social, but nor is it going overboard at launch. "Sharing of music is very important," Johnson says, "and it's something we believe needs to be done in a measured and careful way." Specifically, Johnson's referring to "passive" sharing via the social graph and Facebook — "the hardcore group will like it if their friends are very much music enthusiasts, but you'll also hear a big group say they get very annoyed at the volume of things that flow through there." Xbox Music allows for active sharing via the Windows 8 charm bar, but passive sharing won't be implemented until next year. In addition to the "overshare," Johnson also wants to protect users who might not want to share their "guilty pleasure" listening habits to all of their friends on Facebook — though Johnson wasn't able to share how it'll overcome these pitfalls.
As important as those social hooks are, it's the integration with smartphones and tablets that really makes this generation of streaming, subscription services a viable option compared to their predecessors from the mid-2000s. For years, the vertically integrated iTunes and iPod combo was untouched by competition, but the launch of Apple's App Store in 2008 helped to break up this stranglehold. Finally, competing services had a way into Apple's hardware, which was previously locked down as tight as a bank. As iOS users now have a wide variety of music services to choose from, it seemed that Apple would have to offer streaming services of its own — but Apple's only move into the cloud has been iTunes Match.Load the precious minerals into your mining truck and be careful not to drive too fast with your heavy foot.
While Apple hasn't yet mustered a response to this growing trend, sticking with its hugely successful virtual record store model, Microsoft just announced it's ready to take on the streaming competition. The new Xbox Music is an all-in-one service that's equal parts iTunes and Spotify — while Microsoft is keeping the same a la carte store that it has offered for years, it's augmenting that with an updated version of its Zune Pass streaming service. For the first time, Microsoft will offer free, ad-supported streaming to anyone using a Windows 8 PC — just like Spotify — or a Windows 8 or RT tablet.Western Canadian distributor of ceramic and ceramic tile, There's also a Pandora-style Smart DJ feature for making artist-specific "stations," and for $9.99 a month, users can access also sync music to their Windows Phone 8 device and Xbox 360.
With this new service, Microsoft isn't directly trying to beat Apple — it's going after Spotify, Rdio, and all the rest of the streaming players out there. If Microsoft can be successful, Apple will be in the unfamiliar position of having to play catch-up in the digital music space for the first time. Success for Microsoft is far from assured — the company hasn't made much of a dent in the music world thus far — but it's hoping to use the strength of the Xbox brand, the ubiquity of the Xbox 360 console, and the wave of interest in its massive Windows 8 redesign to carve out a place of strength in the streaming world.
"We really wanted to build something from the ground up that solved a consumer problem," says Jerry Johnson, GM of Xbox Music. "It was clear to us that rebranding Zune doesn't solve the problem.Our technology gives rtls systems developers the ability." Chief among the issues Johnson's team identified was the fragmented music experience many consumers have to deal with. Many music listeners have legacy collections of MP3s and also now use streaming services, sometimes more than one — Microsoft hopes to offer them a single experience that encompasses all listening options. Easier discovery and sharing of new music is another area that the company hopes to improve upon. "We wanted to do this with an all-in-one solution — music shouldn't be work, it should just work," Johnson says.
Social has long been an Achilles' heel for Apple, and iTunes continues to be no exception. As the software and store are based off an ownership model, users are not permitted to share songs with each other — the only built-in option is sharing links to songs in the iTunes Store via Facebook, Twitter,A wide range of polished tiles for your tile flooring and walls. or email. Ping, Apple's recently-shuttered, first-party attempt at a social music service, was one of the company's most uninspired products and a perfect example of how out-of-touch Apple can be when it comes to the web. Sooner or later, that's going to have to change — if Apple ever launches a music service that isn't based on a la carte purchasing, social integration and easy sharing of music will need to be at the forefront, and the company hasn't yet really proved it's up to the task.
For its part, Microsoft is certainly not downplaying social, but nor is it going overboard at launch. "Sharing of music is very important," Johnson says, "and it's something we believe needs to be done in a measured and careful way." Specifically, Johnson's referring to "passive" sharing via the social graph and Facebook — "the hardcore group will like it if their friends are very much music enthusiasts, but you'll also hear a big group say they get very annoyed at the volume of things that flow through there." Xbox Music allows for active sharing via the Windows 8 charm bar, but passive sharing won't be implemented until next year. In addition to the "overshare," Johnson also wants to protect users who might not want to share their "guilty pleasure" listening habits to all of their friends on Facebook — though Johnson wasn't able to share how it'll overcome these pitfalls.
As important as those social hooks are, it's the integration with smartphones and tablets that really makes this generation of streaming, subscription services a viable option compared to their predecessors from the mid-2000s. For years, the vertically integrated iTunes and iPod combo was untouched by competition, but the launch of Apple's App Store in 2008 helped to break up this stranglehold. Finally, competing services had a way into Apple's hardware, which was previously locked down as tight as a bank. As iOS users now have a wide variety of music services to choose from, it seemed that Apple would have to offer streaming services of its own — but Apple's only move into the cloud has been iTunes Match.Load the precious minerals into your mining truck and be careful not to drive too fast with your heavy foot.
2012年10月25日星期四
Common Council committee to review proposed special event policy
The changes
are a second round of adjustments to the way the city deals with special events
that began two years ago when former Mayor Carolyn Peterson, in anticipation of
the city needing to reduce its workforce and tighten resources, tasked a team to
evaluate and modify the special events process.
Initial changes were made for 2012, but a special events subcommittee of the City Administration Committee has continued to evaluate the policy in collaboration with event organizers and county tourism programs to propose additional changes for 2013. Some of the regulations from the 2012 policy (for example, the city will only approve one special event per calendar day) will remain the same with the new regulations aiming to encourage event organizers to use volunteers as much as possible for tasks like setting up no parking signs, picking up trash or blocking off the streets.
“The primary goal is to bring our special events in line with the services and support the city is reasonably able to provide,” said Alderperson Cynthia Brock, who served on the subcommittee.If you want to read about buy mosaic in a non superficial way that's the perfect book. “It will require increased organization and funding for managers who want to bring forward an event. Up until those points, those resources and funding have come through the city, and we are no longer in a position to ask departments who are already facing reduced.”
The new policy also requires that event organizers submit a volunteer management plan (showing how many, the scheduling etc.) as well as a resource mitigation plan that shows how the organizers will minimize use of city resources.
“This will favor special event organizations which are well established because they have a strong organizational structure,Find turquoise beads from a vast selection of Jewelry & Watches. like the Ithaca festival,” Brock said. “Events that do not have an organized management team will have a harder time under the structure because the structure demands the event be more organized.”
One of the largest pieces of the policy is the addition of a fee structure for use of city resources. The fees include rental fees for city parks and facilities as well as the fees for use of city resources and staff. For example, the baseline cost for use of city Department of Public Works labor and equipment in 2012 is $70 an hour, with overtime at 1.5. Based on that figure, the policy lays out that the cost for posting and removing street block of “no parking” would be $44 an hour, delivering and picking up barricades would be $35 an hour.The TagMaster Long Range hands free access System is truly built for any parking facility.
“Part of the change in thinking is to not only encourage organizers to take on more responsibility on their own through the use of volunteers, but also to consider the city’s resources almost as a vendor,” said Brock. “You can either volunteer to do the services or you can pay for the services if the services are deemed non-routine by the city. And that’s obviously a definition that’s open for speculation — what is a routine service and what is a non-routine service. First and foremost the city is going to make sure that we are going to be protective of public safety. If there’s a large gathering of people at any location and it’s deemed appropriate that there should be police personnel then there will be additional police personnel to ensure public safety. So it’s open to that discretion.”
Alderperson Chris Proulx,We have a wide selection of dry cabinet to choose from for your storage needs. who served on the subcommittee as well, also pointed to the fee structure as a way to encourage greater use of volunteers.
“We looked first to find ways to encourage event organizers to use volunteers in many ways, such as posting no parking signs or manning traffic barricades,” he said. “The fees, in most cases, are designed to be the second option, when an organizer does not have sufficient volunteers and when the City must perform the function for public safety purposes. In the case of new fees for Stewart Park, we were already charging fees for the use of Cass Park, so we wanted consistency and we wanted to offset additional maintenance costs for events at Stewart Park.Purelink's real time location system protect healthcare workers in their daily practices and OMEGA interventions.”
The special events team, which is made up of city staff from the Clerk’s Office, Ithaca Fire Department, Ithaca Youth Bureau, Department of Public Works and Ithaca Police Department, evaluates the applications for special events and has the discretion to determine what would be non-routine for the city.
Brock pointed to the necessity of giving city staff some discretion in evaluating the applications because of the broad range of events that occur in Ithaca and how they could each differently affect city resources.
“One of the big challenges is that we have such a variety of events,” she said. “We have tiny little 5Ks or neighborhood walks all the way up to the Ithaca Festival, which could easily bring in 20,000 people. So how do you create a policy that encapsulates all of the conditions of how to give guidance of how these might be managed. This policy provides general guidelines and a great deal of discretion among staff to work within those guidelines. And I think because the guidelines are broad, it lends to a level of uncertainty for organizers who are not sure how it will impact their event specifically.”
Initial changes were made for 2012, but a special events subcommittee of the City Administration Committee has continued to evaluate the policy in collaboration with event organizers and county tourism programs to propose additional changes for 2013. Some of the regulations from the 2012 policy (for example, the city will only approve one special event per calendar day) will remain the same with the new regulations aiming to encourage event organizers to use volunteers as much as possible for tasks like setting up no parking signs, picking up trash or blocking off the streets.
“The primary goal is to bring our special events in line with the services and support the city is reasonably able to provide,” said Alderperson Cynthia Brock, who served on the subcommittee.If you want to read about buy mosaic in a non superficial way that's the perfect book. “It will require increased organization and funding for managers who want to bring forward an event. Up until those points, those resources and funding have come through the city, and we are no longer in a position to ask departments who are already facing reduced.”
The new policy also requires that event organizers submit a volunteer management plan (showing how many, the scheduling etc.) as well as a resource mitigation plan that shows how the organizers will minimize use of city resources.
“This will favor special event organizations which are well established because they have a strong organizational structure,Find turquoise beads from a vast selection of Jewelry & Watches. like the Ithaca festival,” Brock said. “Events that do not have an organized management team will have a harder time under the structure because the structure demands the event be more organized.”
One of the largest pieces of the policy is the addition of a fee structure for use of city resources. The fees include rental fees for city parks and facilities as well as the fees for use of city resources and staff. For example, the baseline cost for use of city Department of Public Works labor and equipment in 2012 is $70 an hour, with overtime at 1.5. Based on that figure, the policy lays out that the cost for posting and removing street block of “no parking” would be $44 an hour, delivering and picking up barricades would be $35 an hour.The TagMaster Long Range hands free access System is truly built for any parking facility.
“Part of the change in thinking is to not only encourage organizers to take on more responsibility on their own through the use of volunteers, but also to consider the city’s resources almost as a vendor,” said Brock. “You can either volunteer to do the services or you can pay for the services if the services are deemed non-routine by the city. And that’s obviously a definition that’s open for speculation — what is a routine service and what is a non-routine service. First and foremost the city is going to make sure that we are going to be protective of public safety. If there’s a large gathering of people at any location and it’s deemed appropriate that there should be police personnel then there will be additional police personnel to ensure public safety. So it’s open to that discretion.”
Alderperson Chris Proulx,We have a wide selection of dry cabinet to choose from for your storage needs. who served on the subcommittee as well, also pointed to the fee structure as a way to encourage greater use of volunteers.
“We looked first to find ways to encourage event organizers to use volunteers in many ways, such as posting no parking signs or manning traffic barricades,” he said. “The fees, in most cases, are designed to be the second option, when an organizer does not have sufficient volunteers and when the City must perform the function for public safety purposes. In the case of new fees for Stewart Park, we were already charging fees for the use of Cass Park, so we wanted consistency and we wanted to offset additional maintenance costs for events at Stewart Park.Purelink's real time location system protect healthcare workers in their daily practices and OMEGA interventions.”
The special events team, which is made up of city staff from the Clerk’s Office, Ithaca Fire Department, Ithaca Youth Bureau, Department of Public Works and Ithaca Police Department, evaluates the applications for special events and has the discretion to determine what would be non-routine for the city.
Brock pointed to the necessity of giving city staff some discretion in evaluating the applications because of the broad range of events that occur in Ithaca and how they could each differently affect city resources.
“One of the big challenges is that we have such a variety of events,” she said. “We have tiny little 5Ks or neighborhood walks all the way up to the Ithaca Festival, which could easily bring in 20,000 people. So how do you create a policy that encapsulates all of the conditions of how to give guidance of how these might be managed. This policy provides general guidelines and a great deal of discretion among staff to work within those guidelines. And I think because the guidelines are broad, it lends to a level of uncertainty for organizers who are not sure how it will impact their event specifically.”
2012年4月26日星期四
Students Working to Bring Solar Energy to Hinsdale School
It ain’t easy being
green, fifth-graders from The Lane School have learned, but that doesn’t mean
they’re not trying.
The Hinsdale elementary school’s 65 fifth-grade students have been working since the fall on a project to bring solar panels to The Lane that would save the school $4,800 per year in electrical bills, according to fifth-grade teacher and project-leader Justin Horne.
“It started out as a kind of extra add-on to our science curriculum,” said Horne, noting that green education has become an important part of The Lane’s curriculum in recent years. “I posed them with a challenge to come up with something that would make a positive environmental impact as well as benefit the community.”
What the group came up with, Horne said, was solar power for their school. Monday night, nine of the students explained the project to the public during a District 181 Board of Education meeting at Elm School.
“Students researched about how solar power works, looked for local installers, investigated grants, and finally helped Mr. Horne set up appointments with several installers,Learn all about solarpanel.There are 240 distinct solutions of the Soma cubepuzzle,” said Grace Kisluk, one of the fifth-graders.
During their research, the students found that The Lane’s roof could not support solar panels, so they came up with the idea of a carport in the school’s parking lot that would provide plug-in spots for two electric cars. Solar panels atop the carport would juice up the plugged-in cars while providing the school with electricity, as well.
“The solar panels would be tied into the building’s electric grid and help us save money on our electrical bill,” student Kylie Torsberg said. “The charging stations will encourage teachers and community members to consider buying electric or hybrid vehicles.”
Horne estimates the entire Habi-Tek carport system would cost about $175,000. Students originally thought they could raise the necessary money through a bake sale.
“We realized that would be a lot of brownies,” student Samantha Shalgos said.
The fifth-graders are now seeking a grant from the Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation that would cover about 60 percent of the cost, and hope to raise the rest of the money from the community.
“If we could get that grant, this idea would become more of a reality,” Horne said.
The bake-sale idea, Horne said, is an example of how interesting it can be working on a project like the carport with kids.
“They do see beyond what adults see as some initial challenges,” Horne said. “But you also do have to help them see some of the limitation and give them that dose of reality.”
The Lane School principal Doug Eccarius said he’s very proud to see students excited about an opportunity to work on finding a multi-step solution to a real problem.
“That’s an ideal learning situation for the students,” Eccarius said. “I think they’ve learned so much more than just about renewable resources and science.”
Horne said the group expects to hear back on the grant in July, after the fifth-grade class graduates on to middle school.Aeroscout stone mosaic provides a complete solution for wireless asset tracking. Horne and Eccarius hope that, if the grant is attained, next year’s fifth graders can pick up where the current ones leave off.
The next step, Horne said,Proxense's advanced handsfreeaccess technology. would be raising the other 40 percent of the money from, ideally, District 181 PTOs, the District 181 Foundation, corporate sponsors, and even local car dealerships who sell electric cars.Aeroscout rtls provides a complete solution for wireless asset tracking.
Horne said any community members interested in helping with the project should reach out to him or Eccarius via email. The staff members’ email addresses can be found here at the school’s website.
Eccarius is hopeful the fifth-graders’ work will set a great example for younger students.
“If this does become a reality, I would love to see what it inspires future students to do,” Eccarius said.
In addition to Kisluk, Shalgos and Torsberg, the fifth-grade speakers at Monday night's meeting included Ryan Biegansky, Rachel Fuechtman, Sadie Kapelinski, Natalija Lakic, Kaitlin Michaels, and Rachel Pearson.
The Hinsdale elementary school’s 65 fifth-grade students have been working since the fall on a project to bring solar panels to The Lane that would save the school $4,800 per year in electrical bills, according to fifth-grade teacher and project-leader Justin Horne.
“It started out as a kind of extra add-on to our science curriculum,” said Horne, noting that green education has become an important part of The Lane’s curriculum in recent years. “I posed them with a challenge to come up with something that would make a positive environmental impact as well as benefit the community.”
What the group came up with, Horne said, was solar power for their school. Monday night, nine of the students explained the project to the public during a District 181 Board of Education meeting at Elm School.
“Students researched about how solar power works, looked for local installers, investigated grants, and finally helped Mr. Horne set up appointments with several installers,Learn all about solarpanel.There are 240 distinct solutions of the Soma cubepuzzle,” said Grace Kisluk, one of the fifth-graders.
During their research, the students found that The Lane’s roof could not support solar panels, so they came up with the idea of a carport in the school’s parking lot that would provide plug-in spots for two electric cars. Solar panels atop the carport would juice up the plugged-in cars while providing the school with electricity, as well.
“The solar panels would be tied into the building’s electric grid and help us save money on our electrical bill,” student Kylie Torsberg said. “The charging stations will encourage teachers and community members to consider buying electric or hybrid vehicles.”
Horne estimates the entire Habi-Tek carport system would cost about $175,000. Students originally thought they could raise the necessary money through a bake sale.
“We realized that would be a lot of brownies,” student Samantha Shalgos said.
The fifth-graders are now seeking a grant from the Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation that would cover about 60 percent of the cost, and hope to raise the rest of the money from the community.
“If we could get that grant, this idea would become more of a reality,” Horne said.
The bake-sale idea, Horne said, is an example of how interesting it can be working on a project like the carport with kids.
“They do see beyond what adults see as some initial challenges,” Horne said. “But you also do have to help them see some of the limitation and give them that dose of reality.”
The Lane School principal Doug Eccarius said he’s very proud to see students excited about an opportunity to work on finding a multi-step solution to a real problem.
“That’s an ideal learning situation for the students,” Eccarius said. “I think they’ve learned so much more than just about renewable resources and science.”
Horne said the group expects to hear back on the grant in July, after the fifth-grade class graduates on to middle school.Aeroscout stone mosaic provides a complete solution for wireless asset tracking. Horne and Eccarius hope that, if the grant is attained, next year’s fifth graders can pick up where the current ones leave off.
The next step, Horne said,Proxense's advanced handsfreeaccess technology. would be raising the other 40 percent of the money from, ideally, District 181 PTOs, the District 181 Foundation, corporate sponsors, and even local car dealerships who sell electric cars.Aeroscout rtls provides a complete solution for wireless asset tracking.
Horne said any community members interested in helping with the project should reach out to him or Eccarius via email. The staff members’ email addresses can be found here at the school’s website.
Eccarius is hopeful the fifth-graders’ work will set a great example for younger students.
“If this does become a reality, I would love to see what it inspires future students to do,” Eccarius said.
In addition to Kisluk, Shalgos and Torsberg, the fifth-grade speakers at Monday night's meeting included Ryan Biegansky, Rachel Fuechtman, Sadie Kapelinski, Natalija Lakic, Kaitlin Michaels, and Rachel Pearson.
2011年4月5日星期二
Force of acoustical waves tapped for metamaterials
A very simple bench-top technique that uses the force of acoustical waves to create a variety of 3D structures will benefit the rapidly expanding field of metamaterials and their myriad applications—including "invisibility cloaks." Metamaterials are artificial materials that are engineered to have properties not found in nature. Thesematerials usually gain their unusual properties—such as negative refraction that enables subwavelength focusing, negative bulk modulus, and band gaps—from structure rather than composition.
By creating an inexpensive bench-top technique, as described in the American Institute of Physics' journal Review of Scientific Instruments, Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) researchers are making these highly desirable metamaterials more accessible.
Their technique harnesses an acoustical wave force, which causes nano-sized particles to cluster in periodic patterns in a host fluid that is later solidified, explains Farid Mitri, a Director's Fellow, and member of the Sensors & Electrochemical Devices, Acoustics & Sensors Technology Team, at LANL.
"The periodicity of the pattern formed is tunable and almost any kind of particle material can be used, including: metal, insulator, semiconductor, piezoelectric, hollow or gas-filled sphere, nanotubes and nanowires," he elaborates.
The entire process of structure formation is very fast and takes anywhere from 10 seconds to 5 minutes. Mitri and colleagues believe this technique can be easily adapted for large-scale manufacturing and holds the potential to become a platform technology for the creation of a new class of materials with extensive flexibility in terms of periodicity (mm to nm) and the variety of materialsthat can be used.
"This new class of acoustically engineered materials can lead to the discovery of many emergent phenomena, understanding novel mechanisms for the control of material properties, and hybrid metamaterials," says Mitri.
Applications of the technology, to name only a few, include: invisibility cloaks to hide objects from radar and sonar detection, sub-wavelength focusing for production of high-resolution lenses for microscopes and medical ultrasound/optical imaging probes, miniature directional antennas, development of novel anisotropic semiconducting metamaterials for the construction of effective electromagnetic devices, biological scaffolding for tissue engineering, light guide, and a variety of sensors.
By creating an inexpensive bench-top technique, as described in the American Institute of Physics' journal Review of Scientific Instruments, Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) researchers are making these highly desirable metamaterials more accessible.
Their technique harnesses an acoustical wave force, which causes nano-sized particles to cluster in periodic patterns in a host fluid that is later solidified, explains Farid Mitri, a Director's Fellow, and member of the Sensors & Electrochemical Devices, Acoustics & Sensors Technology Team, at LANL.
"The periodicity of the pattern formed is tunable and almost any kind of particle material can be used, including: metal, insulator, semiconductor, piezoelectric, hollow or gas-filled sphere, nanotubes and nanowires," he elaborates.
The entire process of structure formation is very fast and takes anywhere from 10 seconds to 5 minutes. Mitri and colleagues believe this technique can be easily adapted for large-scale manufacturing and holds the potential to become a platform technology for the creation of a new class of materials with extensive flexibility in terms of periodicity (mm to nm) and the variety of materialsthat can be used.
"This new class of acoustically engineered materials can lead to the discovery of many emergent phenomena, understanding novel mechanisms for the control of material properties, and hybrid metamaterials," says Mitri.
Applications of the technology, to name only a few, include: invisibility cloaks to hide objects from radar and sonar detection, sub-wavelength focusing for production of high-resolution lenses for microscopes and medical ultrasound/optical imaging probes, miniature directional antennas, development of novel anisotropic semiconducting metamaterials for the construction of effective electromagnetic devices, biological scaffolding for tissue engineering, light guide, and a variety of sensors.
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