BHO's first Court Nominee

As expected, the first court nominee has drawn a hale of criticism. It is clear that the party system in this country is broken...people just oppose actions for partisan-sake.

I think I will begin to spend my time on Sunday mornings on better things. After CBS Sunday Morning goes off and before Face the Nation starts, I will begin a new process. Until a ballgame comes on, the jazz will be played with flavor and fever.

The new, emerging constitution for the summer 2009 is beginning to take form and shape.

Five Dimensional Optical Material

Data rainbow: These six patterns were written within the same area of a new data-storage medium using three different colors and two different polarizations of laser light. Credit: Nature Publishing Group

A new light-responsive material could lead to discs the size of today's DVDs that store four orders of magnitude more data. Traditional DVDs and CDs store data on their surface in two dimensions, and holographic discs can store it in three. Now researchers have for the first time demonstrated what they call a five-dimensional optical material. It can record data in three spatial dimensions and in response to different wavelengths and polarizations of laser light.

The material is being developed by researchers led by Min Gu, director of the Centre for Micro-Photonics at the Swinburne University of Technology in Victoria, Australia. The material is made up of layers of gold nanorods suspended in clear plastic spun flat on a glass substrate. Multiple data patterns can be written and read within the same area in the material without interfering with each other. Using three wavelengths and two polarizations of light, the Australian researchers have written six different patterns within the same area. They've further increased the storage density to 1.1 terabytes per cubic centimeter by writing data to stacks of as many as 10 nanorod layers. In a paper published online today in the journal Nature, Gu's group reports recording speeds of about a gigabit per second.

"You can record each bit by one laser pulse," says Gu. The writing laser melts and reshapes the gold particles, which are less than 100 nanometers long. The changes affect how the nanorods interact with light from a laser-imaging system, allowing the data to be read.

Big Papi Homers

Finally...clutch too as we chasing down the Blue Jays for first place and the Yankees are on an eight game winning streak.

Storm Season

on the eve of memorial day weekend, and two weeks before the official start of hurricane season, there is a low pressure system over florida.

it will entering the gulf by week's end and into the warm waters of the gulf.

gulp....

Superbowl Returns to NOLA

well...despite the skepticism of the city of Miami's rep, we are back on the block.

this will be our 10th game and 7th in the superdome...amazing.

School's Is Out

Finals week at the Univ. of New Orleans has come quickly and is almost over. Welcome news came as local sports and civic interests have expressed concern about the deficit in the athletic department funding for next year.

Too bad they did not express the same concern when academic programs face the budget axe now and in the past.

Play Ball !!

Now This is a Real Pisser, Mate

The Saints waived receiver Biren Ealy and tight end Kolo Kapanui on Tuesday, two days after they were arrested for lewd conduct, obscenity and disturbing the peace.

The team also officially announced the signings of three more undrafted rookie free agents -- Western Illinois running back Herb Donaldson, Kent State offensive tackle Augustus Parrish and Louisville receiver Chris Vaughn.

Ealy, 24, and Kapanui, 25, were arrested early Sunday morning and booked on charges of obscenity, disturbing the peace by being drunk in public and lewd conduct by urinating in public and exposing themselves.

Both players were long shots to make the Saints' roster even before the incident occurred. Ealy signed with the Saints in Janaury after spending the past two years with the Tennessee Titans, mostly on the practice squad. Kapanui joined the Saints' practice squad late last season, his first in the NFL.