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Anthony Wallick of Marietta won the 10K race (43:10). |
Michael Tedesco of Mount Wolf was second in the 5K with a time of 20:47. |
On the women's side, York's Brady Crone, 40, pulled off a nice double dip. Krone won the 10K in 50:49, and placed second in the 5K in 23:25. |
Carlisle's Alyson Henry, 13, won the 5K in 23:10, and York's Renee Green was third in 23:44. |
York's Tiffany Hodum (52:48) and Heather Roe (53:37) completed the top three in the 10K. |
Meanwhile, the three-race Shoe House 5-Miler Series continues July 11. The season finale is Aug. 8. All three Shoe House races are centered at the Art Institute of York, 1409 Williams Road. The course is the same each time, and the centerpiece of the run is the unique Shoe House. Anyone is welcome to attend, even if yo... |
The Pirate 5K is on July 18 at City Island in Harrisburg and the Movie Madness 5K on July 25 is in Mount Wolf. |
For more details on any of the US Road Running events, check out the official Website at usroadrunning.com. You can also contact Toni Arbogast at 266-2227 or toni@usroadrunning.com. |
SPRRC Summer Series >> The South Penn Road Runners Club will also be back in action this evening with the fifth event in its eight-race series. This one will be a 3-mile race on the South Western High School cross country course. |
Check the Summer Series schedule at sprrhanover.org. You can also contact Jim Roller at 632-1433 between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m., or send an email to southpennrrc@gmail.com. |
WellSpan Summer Series >> This seven-race series started two weeks ago with the Double Creek Tour event in Dover, and continued last weekend with the Habitat for Humanity 5K in Dover. |
Next up in the series is the East Berlin Summerfest 5K on July 18. The rest of the series schedule is as follows: the Rail Trail 10-Miler (Aug. 29); the Quarterback Club 5K & 10K (Sept. 7); the White Rose 5-Miler (Sept. 19); and the David Tome Memorial 5K (Oct. 10). |
The official website is wellspan.org, or contact Dave Dill at ddill@wellspan.org. |
YWCA'S WOMEN'S WEEKEND >> Women athletes from around the region gathered at York College's Grumbacher Sports Center for the newly named Y-TriDu5K on Sunday. The Ladies White Rose 5K returned for its 25th edition, and it was part of the YWCA's Y-Tri and Duathlon for the first time. |
Apology >> I failed to mention the Tie Dye 5K this year. Race director Missy Mulcahy puts on this event in memory of her husband, Mark Mulcahy, and all proceeds go directly to the American Heart Association. There was a nice story in the YDR already, but it is something I wanted to acknowledge as well, especially since... |
Run for the Park >> This event supports the community park in West Manheim Township. It's held Aug. 1 in Hanover. Contact race director Jeff Klenk at 633-5361 or jdklenk@embarqmail.com or visit the official site at sprrhanover.org. |
Trails 4 Tails >> The South Penn Road Runners Club will host its eighth annual Trails 4 Tails ultra event (Sept. 26). At this event, athletes can run the distance they want up to 40 miles, on their own or as part of a relay team. Check out the official website at trails4tails.com. |
M.C. Besecker covers local running and biking. Email him at mcbesecker@verizon.net. |
Sometimes, bad news becomes good news if you are patient. |
Investment banker KeyBanc published a report on Wednesday advising that DRAM memory prices in October declined "4.7% month-over-month and [was] up 11% year-over-year." NAND prices are "down 10.4% month-over-month and down 52% year-over-year, with pricing now below mid-2016 levels," said the analyst in a note covered by... |
Computer memory pricing is going one way this year -- but could go the other way next year. Image source: Getty Images. |
But doesn't Western Digital make DRAM and NAND memory, you ask? And doesn't a decline in pricing of those products mean Western Digital stands to see lower revenue and weaker profits? |
Well yes, it does, and yes, it does. But here's the thing: In its report, KeyBanc emphasized that the declines in "contract pricing" it's seeing are only "as expected." And while it's true that KeyBanc forecasts these "declines to accelerate in Q4 and Q1," it does not believe we will see "extreme price declines." |
Moreover, if you can be patient, it's likely that prices will "stabilize" toward the back end of 2019. At that point, "strong demand tailwinds" should kick in for both DRAM and NAND, leading to at least a few more years of stronger pricing that will give Western Digital "plenty of opportunity to profit." |
Investors today are proving the old adage true that "the market is forward-looking," looking past near-term weakness and buying Western Digital stock in hopes of longer-term growth. |
1877: Emile Berliner invents a new kind of microphone. It assures the future of the telephone, but not fame for Berliner. |
Alexander Graham Bell had already invented his telephone, but without Berliner's carbon-disk or carbon-button microphone, telephones would have sounded terrible for decades. And they may not have been capable of surmounting such great distances, hindering one of humanity's most important advances. |
Like most of today's microphones, early designs turned compressions in the air, otherwise known as sound, into electrical signals. But the results didn't sound good by any account, and the device lacked practicality for widespread use. Bell's microphone, for instance, involved suspending a diaphragm above a pool of ele... |
Berliner's patent application improved on the existing design by adding a layer of carbon particles in between two contacts, one of which acted as a diaphragm for catching sound waves. Movements of the diaphragm created varying pressure on the carbon particles, allowing more or less electricity to pass between the cont... |
This process converted sound waves into electricity more accurately than any other microphone could at the time. It became commonplace in telephones, and even radio, until the appearance of the condenser microphone in the mid-1920s. |
Although Berliner's microphones still sounded hissy, they proved critical not only for encoding speech into electricity, but for amplifying the signal in the wire every so often to compensate for electrical resistance. Without that amplification, Bell's telephone would have remained a mere curiosity, rather than transf... |
In those pre–vacuum-tube, pre-transistor days, Berliner's carbon-disk microphones were coupled to little speakers to amplify the signal mechanically over long distances. Presumably, you'd be able to eavesdrop on a conversation simply by standing near one of these mechanical repeaters. |
Bell paid $50,000 for Berliner's microphone patent (about $1.1 million in today's money) and began manufacturing telephones using the technology in 1878. But controversy dogged the patent, which was eventually thrown out, much to Berliner's dismay. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1892 that Thomas Edison, and not Berlin... |
In truth, neither can claim total credit. |
As Bell executive W. Van Benthuysen told The New York Times (.pdf) in December 1891, the idea of transmitting speech by varying the current between two contacts as they are affected by sound waves was common knowledge in some circles, having appeared in published works as early as 1854 – well before either Berliner or ... |
"It was known long before the date of Bell's [formerly Berliner's] patent that the resistance of a circuit is varied without being broken by variations in the intimacy of contact or amount of pressure between the electrodes in contact, from one to the other of which a current is passing," said Van Benthuysen, adding th... |
Nonetheless, Berliner reputedly went to his grave in 1929 convinced that Edison had stolen his idea. Before that, he did receive ample credit for another crucial invention: the lateral-cut disc record, whose design is still prized by hipsters and purists alike. Before that, everybody was using Edison's phonograph cylin... |
Berliner's records were used in toys from 1888 until 1894, when his company began selling records using a logo of a dog cocking its ear towards a record player. Modified versions of the "His Master's Voice" logo have been used by record companies around the world, including RCA in the United States. It now forms the re... |
The saga of the carbon-button microphone comes as a reminder that while history feels the need to assign great ideas to individual people, their origins are often murky and collaborative in nature, and owe no small part to people ripping each other off. |
We couldn't find any accounts of Emile Berliner's first words transmitted by microphone, but they were probably not "Ich bin ein Berliner" – as nice as that would have been. |
I don’t believe in man-made Climate Change caused by SUVs and toilet paper, we’re all gonna die unless we give the government fantastic new powers to screw up our lives and lots and lots of money, blah-blah. But I can see another kind of Climate Change, definitely man-made, that’s screwing up the Western world: the cre... |
The Washington Nationals’ shortstop, as a consequence of some “hateful” tweets he made as a teenager, is waiting to meet with Major League Baseball’s “vice president for social responsibility and inclusion” so they can “determine appropriate sensitivity training,” as reported by Bob Knight in The Washington Times this ... |
Yes, you can’t say this and you can’t say that, and there’s no statute of limitations. Self-criticism sessions, anyone? Let’s hear it for the Cultural Revolution II. |
Meanwhile, Facebook, Apple, and Youtube have gotten together—they deny what anyone can plainly see—to ban Alex Jones, an Internet talk show star, for “hate speech.” They have this idea that the only reason anyone is not a rug-chewing leftist is because Alex Jones or Fox News has somehow tricked him into being a conserv... |
Can you feel the love? |
It’s an embarrassment of poverty to live in an age when professional baseball has to have a “vice president for social responsibility and inclusion.” What the deuce does “inclusion” even mean? |
Some years ago I interviewed a twollop with the Ontario Human Rights Commission who said they were concerned that a lot of people aren’t sufficiently “inclusive” in regard to their personal friendships. He thought the government ought to do something about that. What, he didn’t specify. Review everybody’s friendships a... |
Leftists are unable to conceive of any limit to the powers and priorities of government—as long as it’s government owned and operated by themselves. |
Well, the Maoist wannabes who run the Western world, having rejected Christian morality and tradition, are stuck with the job of defining and enforcing their own preposterous version of morality. They welcome the challenge! |
I think it’s time to present them with a bigger challenge—and utterly defeat them. |
I have discussed this and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Why not stop in and visit? A single click will get you there. |
• TripAdvisor has released its 2017 Travelers' Choice Awards, naming the world's best beaches based on millions of user reviews. |
• Baia do Sancho, a beach in Fernando de Noronha, Brazil, takes the top spot, followed by beaches everywhere from Cuba to India. |
• TripAdvisor also calculated the cheapest month of the year to travel to each beach destination along with the average rate for a hotel room. |
Looking to mix up this summer's beach vacation? To help you choose a new destination, TripAdvisor has just released its 2017 Travelers' Choice Awards, revealing the world's best beaches. |
The ranking is based on millions of reviews from the website's users collected between 2015 and 2016. It spotlights coastal stretches all over the world, including a white sand beach in the Caribbean and a beach in a scenic national park in Costa Rica. |
TripAdvisor also worked out the cheapest month of the year to travel to each destination, and the average rate for a hotel room there during that month, to help you plan a trip. |
Check out the winning beaches below, and start dreaming. |
Data is unavailable for this beach, but you can read more about Whitsunday Island here. |
West Lafayette, Indiana - California’s new internet privacy law, deemed one of the strictest so far in the United States, could result in a business strategy which offers discounts in exchange for user data. |
The law, which takes effect in 2020, gives residents the right to know what data is collected by companies like Google and Facebook and to request their information not be sold to third parties. |
The legislation likely will set a precedent for data collection and information security across the U.S., as well as the world, said Kannan, who studies how companies can leverage big data while balancing privacy concerns. |
One thing I’ve learned recently is that if you are a mother you can never guarantee pristine shoulders. |
I thought for awhile that this was a side-effect of having babies and I’m happy to say that, in the case of the babies, I always planned accordingly. |
I remember the first thing I did after learning our daughter Hannah had been born and we were going to travel to pick her up at the hospital the next day was to dig through my clothing for the ugliest, oldest, most ratty t-shirts I owned, in which I lived for several years after her arrival. |
Having already served as mother to Hayden for almost four years when we adopted Hannah I was well aware that being a parent means you frequently have any number of substances (some mentionable in polite company, most not) all over your shoulders. |
The thing that has me unprepared of late is that I thought I was done with all of that. It’s true we have occasional bouts with the flu here, but we’ve been pretty successful in teaching the life-skill of dealing with the resulting effects in the appropriate manner. Preferably independently. The end result is that ther... |
In fact, until yesterday I had been giving serious thought to going through drawers and tossing old, ratty t-shirts (please know Winnie is long gone already). It’s a new day . . . a new day accessorized by pressed linen shirts, professional blouses and occasionally a really great suit coat. In other words, non-spit-up ... |
Once a mom always a mom, I guess I learned yesterday when I was rushing out the door to a very long work day. I was dressed in appropriate preacher attire because I was speaking at a conference in the morning, had appointment after appointment back to back all day long, culminating with an evening Bible study that woul... |
As I walked out the door I repeated instructions for getting to the bus stop. I believe I threw in a few threats about homework after school and also reiterated the myth that is currently fact in our house: that parents have a special, secret way of ascertaining if the television has been in use in their absence. |
As I dragged my bag, the dry cleaning, a pile of books and whatever else I was carrying toward the door my little guy Sammy said, “Hey Mom, what time will you be home again tonight?” I told him I had Bible study and I’d be home after he was in bed, but that I would be sure to come in and give him a kiss when I got home... |
As I continued my exit I heard Sam say goodbye but noticed out of the corner of my eye a very little 7-year-old chin quavering bravely. |
You know what happened then . . . the built in neon sign that says GUILT started blinking rapidly in my head, sirens went off and I felt, as I do from time to time, that I can’t possibly successfully juggle all of the responsibilities of my life. |
That’s what I began to think. |
My thoughts quickly deteriorated from that point until, within just a few seconds, I was fairly sure my gross inability to parent has already damaged my children irrevocably and, best case scenario, has insured a steady income for some future therapist. |
Teary goodbyes are not typical for my stunningly bright, fiercely independent, happy little son. I put my stuff down and went over to hug my little guy who, I am finding, is not so little anymore. He clambered up on my lap and laid his head on my shoulder. I think it was just tiredness and missing Mommy, but, well, you... |
I rubbed his back and told him we’d take a nature walk at the creek on Saturday (I wanted him to feel better . . . but anything to ease the guilt, you know). As I held him I thought, once again, about whether this job I do is worth what it costs. I quickly put THAT thought out of my mind—too painful, you know. |
I then moved on to more critical issues. |
I thought next about the fact that I would soon be speaking in front of a large group with a blouse once ironed but now completely wrinkled. And just in the middle of that thought I looked down at my Sam and as I stroked his hair and I saw it . . . one very fat tear perched on the edge of one of those big eyes. |
It fell. Right onto my shoulder, where it settled in on my blouse and spread a wet spot where it landed. |
The longer I live the more I know in the marrow of my bones that a healthy balance of mothering and pastoring will elude me as long as I try to do both; there just are no easy answers. With each new lesson, though, I’m acquiring critical insider information. |
Today it’s the reminder that there’s something graceful and beautiful about having wet shoulders. It means there are people in my life who feel like they can lay their heads on my shoulder and cry the tears that every human life sheds. |
There’s no easy answer to the question of how you shoulder it all, but no matter how you end up doing it, I guess I hope to always have shoulders well in use by people I love. Makes the drycleaning bill worth it, don’t you think? |
I know I don’t know you or Calvary.. I just wanted to let you know that from the perspective of someone on a changing staff, that God uses every situation to fullfill the uniqueness of His design. I lift you, John, and Calvary up, as you all undergo new changes, and journey to discover your unique place in this magnifi... |
This is so beautifully honest. Thank you. |
Thanks for this story. It touches a chord. |
Gary Sanchez has injected excitability into the New York Yankees, turning a dismal season into one that will end with optimism and anticipation. |
Here’s a sampling of what the 23-year-old catcher has accomplished in his first major-league month. He tied the since-retired Alex Rodriguez’s season home run total with nine. (And Sanchez needed 151 fewer at-bats.) He hit the most home runs ever by any catcher in their first 21 games. He whacked the second-hardest bal... |
Not a bad start to a major league career. |
Sanchez is rapidly blossoming into a cornerstone player for a franchise that had been frantically searching for one. His rare explosion of youth and talent is drawing comparisons to Ivan “Pudge” Rodriguez. If this is a flash in a pan, it’s an unprecedented one; if this is something more, expect the oft-empty blue seats... |
Regression to the mean is expected; no one expects the Dominican to continue raking a slash line of .389/.450/.846, or sustain his 39.1 percent home run-to-flyball rate, which is 24.2 percentage points higher than anyone on the roster with at least 80 plate appearances. However, the impression he’s made on the league h... |
While Sanchez’s accomplishments are indeed remarkable, he won’t be able to catch Detroit Tigers starter Michael Fulmer, the runaway favorite to take home the honor. |
The 23-year-old right-hander leads American League rookies in wins (10), innings pitched (125.2), ERA (2.58, which ranks fourth among all starting pitchers, regardless of experience or league), WHIP (1.06) and wins above replacement (2.4), and ranks second in batting average against (.216) and fourth in walk rate (6.6 ... |
As recently as last week, Fulmer was in the running for the ERA title, Rookie of the Year and Cy Young awards. While he might not satisfy the requisite 162-inning threshold for the ERA title, barring a season-ending injury, Fulmer should take home AL Rookie of the Year, marking the first American League pitcher to earn... |
Since 2000, six American League pitchers have won Rookie of the Year — four were relievers, so Fulmer’s candidacy as a starter is somewhat rare. Over that 16-year stretch, among rookie starting pitchers who tossed at least 120 innings, Fulmer ranks third in ERA and in the top 30 in fewest walks allowed per nine innings... |
The Oklahoma native brings a herky-jerky aesthetic to the mound, bounding off the rubber and sling-shotting the ball toward the plate. He has a fastball that tops out at 97 mph and limits walks with pinpoint command. While he isn’t a strikeout maestro, he does have eight starts (30 percent of his total) with at least s... |
Both Sanchez and Fulmer have been overwhelmingly successful this season, but Detroit’s starting pitcher has enough starts under his belt to push him over the top to win Rookie of the Year. |
When y’all are talking about albums, I said, do you mean those black things that go around on a turntable and you drop a needle onto it? |
I was excited to hear someone that young sound so excited about music, especially about albums, and I was fixing to conclude that if kids not even old enough to drive had discovered the magic of music on records, then all hope is not yet lost for civilization. |
Alas, such was not the case. |
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