http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/29/ronald-poppo-identified-man-eats-face-miami-rudy-eugene_n_1554063.html
The brutal attack in Miami where Rudy Eugene ate a homeless person face on May 27th has now had more facts revealed. The homeless person has been found out to be Ronald Poppo who is still alive in Jackson Memorial Hospital. It is suspected that this attack was caused by the use of bath salts that are amphetamines.
I decided to look this up to get more of the facts because I had heard plenty about this attack at school, but hadn't heard anything new in the last few days. This new article did a good job of filling in this information giving further facts. I am also glad to hear Poppo did survive and hope these new illegal bath salts don't cause anymore freak attacks like this. Overall I did enjoy the article.
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Comparing lights
http://cleantechnica.com/2012/06/05/comparing-energy-efficient-lighting-technologies-infographic/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IM-cleantechnica+%28CleanTechnica%29
This compares high density discharge, fluorescent, induction, and LED lights to each other. HID lights are described as highly inefficient, but useful for diverse climates and lots of light. Fluorescent are the most flexible and cheapest, used the most currently. Induction lights last a really long time so they are useful for high ceilings where changing lights is expensive. Finally LED lights are the most expensive, but most energy efficient and diverse, so they are foreseen as the lights of the future.
This article caught my attention because I didn't know that much about lighting and it interested me. Once again with my interests in alternative energies. I loved how this article is presented. The tables, graphs, and diagrams give a lot information in very little space. After reading this article I feel they covered everything because I don't have any questions left.
This compares high density discharge, fluorescent, induction, and LED lights to each other. HID lights are described as highly inefficient, but useful for diverse climates and lots of light. Fluorescent are the most flexible and cheapest, used the most currently. Induction lights last a really long time so they are useful for high ceilings where changing lights is expensive. Finally LED lights are the most expensive, but most energy efficient and diverse, so they are foreseen as the lights of the future.
This article caught my attention because I didn't know that much about lighting and it interested me. Once again with my interests in alternative energies. I loved how this article is presented. The tables, graphs, and diagrams give a lot information in very little space. After reading this article I feel they covered everything because I don't have any questions left.
More efficient geothermal
http://www.altenergystocks.com/archives/2012/06/geothermal_heat_pumps_the_next_generation_1.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AlternativeEnergyStocks+%28AltEnergyStocks.com%29
LSB Industries have created the Climate master. This is a geothermal heat pump that's much more efficient than any other out there. EER (energy efficiency ratio) is used to measure how good a system is. The Climate master gets a rating of 40, while the top systems before had a rating of 30. At the moment this isn't a big deal because the high initial cost doesn't make the long term benefits economically worth it. Despite most likely not being a major economic success, this does mark a major step forward for energy efficiency in the field of heating.
I chose this article because I want to work on alternative energies as a career. The problem of trying to make things more energy efficient has interested me since I was 8 so I enjoy these sort of break advancements. This article isn't that well written. My main issue with it is that it doesn't seem to have a target audience since it explains what EER is, yet seems to assume the reader understands specifics of heat pumps such as "variable speed compressor pumps." I would have enjoyed the article much more if it had a better explanation about how the new pump worked.
LSB Industries have created the Climate master. This is a geothermal heat pump that's much more efficient than any other out there. EER (energy efficiency ratio) is used to measure how good a system is. The Climate master gets a rating of 40, while the top systems before had a rating of 30. At the moment this isn't a big deal because the high initial cost doesn't make the long term benefits economically worth it. Despite most likely not being a major economic success, this does mark a major step forward for energy efficiency in the field of heating.
I chose this article because I want to work on alternative energies as a career. The problem of trying to make things more energy efficient has interested me since I was 8 so I enjoy these sort of break advancements. This article isn't that well written. My main issue with it is that it doesn't seem to have a target audience since it explains what EER is, yet seems to assume the reader understands specifics of heat pumps such as "variable speed compressor pumps." I would have enjoyed the article much more if it had a better explanation about how the new pump worked.
Juggling a triathlon
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/10/joe-salter-triathalon-while-juggling_n_1503612.html
A man recently completed an entire triathlon while juggling. This person is Joe Salter who completed a sprint triathlon in Pensacola, Florida on April 21st. This took him a total of 1 hour 57 minutes to swim .25 miles, bike 16.2 miles, and to run 4 miles. Incredibly he only dropped three times during this entire time, all of them being during the swimming.
This is a very entertaining story, that I had a bunch of people telling me about because I love juggling. This article is pretty well written talking a little bit about the joggling community, but obviously written for non jugglers. For this reason most of it was common sense to me, but I did enjoy getting details about what Joe Salter had to go through to do this.
A man recently completed an entire triathlon while juggling. This person is Joe Salter who completed a sprint triathlon in Pensacola, Florida on April 21st. This took him a total of 1 hour 57 minutes to swim .25 miles, bike 16.2 miles, and to run 4 miles. Incredibly he only dropped three times during this entire time, all of them being during the swimming.
This is a very entertaining story, that I had a bunch of people telling me about because I love juggling. This article is pretty well written talking a little bit about the joggling community, but obviously written for non jugglers. For this reason most of it was common sense to me, but I did enjoy getting details about what Joe Salter had to go through to do this.
Monday, June 4, 2012
Summer plans
With college starting early August I have a short summer, but am hoping to make the most of it. This is planned to be my last summer without work (I want to get a job over summer during college). First thing after graduation I'm going to college orientation so I'll get to see what it will be like. Once I get back I'm working for the junior grand, a theater camp, at the school. For this I'll be a counselor and leading a juggling workshop. Then I'm going to the International Jugglers Association festival in North Carolina. That will be a week of intense juggling and I'll get to meet some of the best jugglers in the world which is really exciting. My only other major plan is to hopefully arrange a trip to and from Pennsylvania to see a lot of my friends who live in Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Juggling
So I have been juggling for 4.5 years now and its a huge part of my life. As it stands I'm trying to figure out what role it will play in my life for the future. I did consider going into performing and trying to become a professional juggler. It is a tempting idea, but I decided against it because it's a very unstable job and considering how good I am at math engineering is a much better paying and stable job. With that I still don't know how much I'll juggle in college, what I decided on was to just see how it plays out and if I end up spending three hours a day in the gym juggling that's just fine with me, as long as I keep my grades up. There's also a strong chance between school and my social life I'll quit juggling as much, instead only do a couple hours a week. The only thing I'm certain about it I am going to continue juggling for the rest of my life and will most likely continue performing as a side job throughout my life.
College plans
For college I am excited to be going to Iowa State university. I have applied for chemical engineering, but will probably switch to some sort of physics based engineering after my freshmen year. My hopes for a career is to work on alternative energy research. It's something I've been thinking about and fascinated by since I was 8. The alternative energy problem is an intriguing very complex logic problem that solutions to it greatly contribute to the world as a whole. Getting away from home and into college will probably lots of fun and a nice change to my life. I also love that I will be only needing to learn what is important or interesting to me.
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