Spectroscopy is a science concerned with the analysis of the composition of matter based on the kind of radiation emitted by that matter. For example, suppose that a piece of iron is heated until it begins to glow. The light given off by the iron is a characteristic property of iron. That is, the light is different from light produced by any other metal such as copper, tin, lead, uranium, or aluminum.
In heated samples of iron, copper, tin, and other metals, the light produced does not look very different from one metal to the next. The differences that do exist in these cases can be detected only by using a special instrument known as a spectroscope. The structure of one type of spectroscope is shown in Figure 1.
a set of diverging rays. Those rays are caused to fall on a lens (L 1 in the figure), which makes them parallel to each other. The parallel rays then fall on a grating, a piece of glass or plastic into which hundreds or thousands of very narrow parallel grooves are etched.
The grating acts like a glass prism, causing the light to break apart into a whole range of colors. If the light coming from the source were pure white light, the grating would break it up into a continuous spectrum, a rainbowlike array containing every color from violet to red.
Finally, the spectrum—the spread of colored light—can be viewed through a small telescope (L 2 and L 3 in the figure). Or it can be recorded on a piece of photographic film on a device known as a spectrograph for later study. In many cases, the actual wavelengths present in a spectrum—and the intensity of each one—can be recorded by means of an instrument known as a spectrometer.
Diffraction grating: A device consisting of a surface into which are etched very fine, closely spaced grooves that cause different wavelengths of light to reflect or refract (bend) by different amounts.
Emission spectrum: The colors of light emitted by a heated gas.
Spectrograph: An instrument for recording spectra.
Spectrometer: An instrument that records the wavelengths (or frequencies) and intensities of radiation emitted or absorbed by a sample.
A continuous spectrum is produced only when a great many different elements and compounds are heated together all at the same time. When a single element or a single compound is heated all by itself, a different kind of spectrum—a line spectrum—is produced. A line spectrum consists of a number of lines located at various specific angles in the range from blue to red. For example, hydrogen produces two lines in the blue region of the spectrum, another line in the green region, and a fourth line in the red region of the spectrum. In contrast, sodium produces only two lines, both in the yellow region of the spectrum.
These lines are called emission spectra because they are produced when an element gives off light. Every element has a distinctive emission spectrum, like those described for hydrogen and sodium. If a scientist views the emission spectrum produced by some unknown material, he or she can refer to a chart of emission spectra of the elements. The spectrum from the unknown material can be compared to those in the chart, allowing the scientist to identify the unknown.
One can also study absorption spectra. Imagine an experiment in which a white light is shined through a gas. The light passing through the gas is then studied by means of a spectrometer. In this case, the light that is recorded consists of all of the white light that came from the original source less any light absorbed by the gas through which it passed.
Again, the spectrum observed in this experiment is a line spectrum. In this case, however, the lines observed are those that are not absorbed by the gas between the light source and the observer.
As described above, all elements have distinctive line spectra. It happens that all compounds have distinctive spectra as well. If one were to heat a sample of iron oxide instead of pure iron metal, the same experiment as the one described above could be conducted. In this case, the line spectrum produced would be that of the compound iron metal rather than the element iron.
Light spectroscopy, the technique described so far, has its limitations. When some elements and compounds are heated, they produce spectra that lie outside the visible spectrum. In some cases, lines are produced in the infrared, ultraviolet, or even X-ray region of the electromagnetic spectrum. Special techniques and instruments have been developed to analyze spectra produced in all of these ranges.
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Illegal gun factory discovered after Littlehampton man charged
Diplock Road was closed by officers
Ginny Sanderson
Published: 13:35 Wednesday 22 August 2018
A Littlehampton man has been charged with firearms offences following the discovery of a 'sophisticated' illegal guns factory by the National Crime Agency.
The NCA said investigators have discovered what they believe to be a sophisticated gun factory on an industrial estate in Hailsham, East Sussex.
Police are continuing to investigate On Saturday evening officers from the NCA's Armed Operations Unit were deployed to Hailsham as part of a live investigation.
Officers heard loud bangs consistent with gunshots emanating from inside an industrial unit on Diplocks Way.
The unit was an engineering workshop, with signage outside showing it to be a gearbox repair business.
As NCA officers moved in, three men exited the building and they were immediately arrested.
One NCA officer had to discharge a taser to affect the arrest of one of the men.
Two handguns and a quantity of ammunition were recovered.
All three men were later charged with offences relating to the possession of firearms and have now been remanded in custody after appearing before a magistrate.
They were: Kyle Wood, 30, of Gratwicke Drive, Littlehampton; Greg Akehurst, 29, of no fixed address; and 63-year-old Mark Kinman, of Bramwell Mews, Hailsham.
The area around the industrial unit was then cordoned off, and NCA and Sussex Police officers began a thorough forensic search of the site.
That search has taken several days, but officers have found what they suspect to be machinery and components used in the criminal manufacture of firearms and ammunition, including a number of handguns in various stages of production, as well as what appears to be templates and metal for use in their fabrication.
The NCA's Rob Hickinbottom said: "Our investigation is continuing, and much of what we have discovered at this location will now be the subject of careful forensic analysis. "We suspect that this operation has disrupted a group that would appear to be involved in the criminal production of firearms.
Disruption to trains between Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
"As a result we have prevented a potentially large quantity of weapons from getting onto the black market and into the hands of criminals. "I would also like to recognise the superb support and assistance we have had from Sussex Police throughout this operation – their contribution to this investigation has been and will continue to be crucial to its success."
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Honors Welcome is a series of events for new Honors College students that takes place before the first day of classes. These events are part of LSU's Bengal Bound schedule but are specific to Honors College students and their families. All incoming students are required to register for Honors Welcome and Community Bound using the link below.
Wednesday, August 20 from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Honors College Welcome Leaders and Residential Life staff will be available to assist you in moving into East and West Laville Halls. For more information about move-in procedures, please visit the Department of Residential Life's Move-In Day page.
Bring your family and join the Honors College staff and students for lunch at our annual Family Picnic, hosted by the Honors College parents' organization, Les Amis des Etudiants. All Honors College students and their families are invited.
After eating breakfast with your new Honors classmates, you will receive your LSU Honors College Student Handbook, learn more about the requirements and opportunities the Honors College offers, and have a chance to ask questions of current Honors students. All first-year Honors students must register for Honors Welcome.
As service is the theme for your first year in the Honors College, all incoming Honors students will participate in a day of service fixing up local public schools and other community sites. You will be re-directed to the Community Bound registration page after signing up for Honors Welcome below. Registration for Community Bound is required.
To launch the academic year, David Finkel, author of Thank You for Your Service, will address the Honors College Class of 2018. You are expected to purchase and read Thank You for Your Service before you arrive in August. The book chronicles the lives of soldiers as they return from Iraq. The book is intended to spark the type of vibrant conversations that are fundamental to the Honors experience at LSU.
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Privacy Rights and Wrongs: Balancing Moral Priorities for the 21st Century (2009)
April 21 2009 | Lincoln Center Campus
With presentations from well-known academics and experts, this multidisciplinary conference explored a number of issues related to the topic of privacy and privacy rights, especially in light of recent technological developments and current concerns about terrorism. In addition, this conference addressed the problem of defining and defending "privacy rights" within the context of varying legal, moral, and political discourses, as well as the importance of understanding the value of privacy against the backdrop of other values and concerns, such as the doing of justice, the preserving of the common good, and the maintenance and fostering of personal accountability.
Anita L. Allen
Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy
Anita L. Allen is a leading expert on privacy law and contemporary ethics. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School and earned a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Michigan. Allen is the author of Unpopular Privacy (Oxford, 2010); Privacy Law and Society (West, 2007); Why Privacy Isn't Everything: Feminist Reflections on Personal Accountability (2003); Uneasy Access: Privacy for Women in a Free Society (1988); and The New Ethics: A Guided Tour of the 21st Century Moral Landscape (2004). Allen has been a visiting Professor at Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Waseda University in Tokyo. Allen serves as a consultant to law firms, businesses, and government. She has lectured at major colleges and universities across the United States and abroad. Allen has appeared on numerous nationally broadcast television and radio programs. Allen frequently contributes to popular magazines, newspapers, and websites, and sits on the boards of organizations that include the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the Hastings Center and the Association of Practical and Professional Philosophy
Barbara Hilkert Andolsen
James and Nancy Buckman Chair in Applied Christian Ethics
Professor, Theology Department
Dr. Andolsen is the James and Nancy Buckman Chair in Applied Christian Ethics in the Theology Department at Fordham University. Prior to coming to Fordham, she was the Helen Bennett McMurray Chair in Social Ethics at Monmouth University. Dr. Andolsen is the author of three books, editor of one volume, and author of numerous journal articles and book chapters. She has served on the board of the Society of Christian Ethics and received the Ann O'Hara Graff Memorial Award for contributions to feminist theology at the Catholic Theological Society of America conference in 2008.
Amitai Etzioni, Keynote Speaker
University Professor of International Affairs and Director, Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies
After receiving his PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1958, Dr. Amitai Etzioni served as a Professor of Sociology at Columbia University for 20 years; part of that time as the Chairman of the department. He was a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution in 1978 before serving as a Senior Advisor to the White House from 1979-1980. In 1980, Dr. Etzioni was named the first University Professor at The George Washington University, where he is the Director of the Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies. From 1987-1989, he served as the Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Professor at the Harvard Business School.
Dr. Etzioni served as the president of the American Sociological Association in 1994-95, and in 1989-90 was the founding president of the international Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. In 1990, he founded the Communitarian Network, a not-for-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to shoring up the moral, social and political foundations of society. He was the editor of The Responsive Community: Rights and Responsibilities, the organization's quarterly journal, from 1991-2004. In 1991, the press began referring to Dr. Etzioni as the 'guru' of the communitarian movement.Dr. Etzioni is the author of numerous books, including The Monochrome Society (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), The Limits of Privacy(New York: Basic Books, 1999), The New Golden Rule (New York: Basic Books, 1996), which received the Simon Wiesenthal Center's 1997 Tolerance Book Award, The Spirit of Community (New York: Crown Books, 1993), The Moral Dimension: Toward a New Economics, (New York: Free Press, 1988), My Brother's Keeper: A Memoir and a Message (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), and From Empire to Community: A New Approach to International Relations (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). His latest book Security First: For a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy was published by Yale University Press in the Spring of 2007.
Outside of academia, Dr. Etzioni's voice is frequently heard in the media. In 2001, he was named among the top 100 intellectuals as measured by academic citations in Richard Posner's book, Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline.Also in 2001, Dr. Etzioni was awarded the John P. McGovern Award in Behavioral Sciences as well as the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. He was also the recipient of the Seventh James Wilbur Award for Extraordinary Contributions to the Appreciation and Advancement of Human Values by the Conference on Value Inquiry, as well as the Sociological Practice Association's Outstanding Contribution Award.
Jennifer Stisa Granick
Civil Liberties Director
Jennifer Granick is the Civil Liberties Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Before EFF, Granick was a Lecturer in Law and Executive Director of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School where she taught Cyberlaw and Computer Crime Law. She practices in the full spectrum of Internet law issues including computer crime and security, national security, constitutional rights, and electronic surveillance, areas in which her expertise is recognized nationally. Before teaching at Stanford, Jennifer spent almost a decade practicing criminal defense law in California. She was selected by Information Security magazine in 2003 as one of 20 "Women of Vision" in the computer security field. She earned her law degree from University of California, Hastings College of the Law and her undergraduate degree from the New College of the University of South Florida.
Professor, Media, Culture & Communication
Helen Nissenbaum is Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, and Computer Science, at New York University, where she is also Senior Faculty Fellow of the Information Law Institute. Her areas of expertise span social, ethical, and political implications of information technology and digital media. Nissenbaum's research publications have appeared in journals of philosophy, politics, law, media studies, information studies, and computer science. She has written and edited three books and a fourth, Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life, is due out in 2009, with Stanford University Press. The National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Ford Foundation, and U.S. Department of Homeland Security have supported her work on privacy, trust online, and security, as well as several studies of values embodied in computer system design, including, search engines, digital games, and facial recognition technology. Nissenbaum holds a PhD in philosophy from Stanford University and a BA (Hons) from the University of the Witwatersrand. Before joining the faculty at NYU, she served as Associate Director of the Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
Joel R. Reidenberg
Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Associate Chief Academic Officer
Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Center on Law & Information Policy
Joel R. Reidenberg is the Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs/Associate Chief Academic Officer of Fordham University and holds the rank of Professor of Law. He is also the Founding Director of the Fordham Center on Law and Information Policy. Dr. Reidenberg's published books and articles explore both information privacy and information technology law and policy. He has served as an expert adviser to the U.S. Congress, the Federal Trade Commission and the European Commission on data privacy matters and has chaired the Section on Defamation and Privacy of the Association of American Law Schools (the academic society for American law professors) and is a former chair of the association's Section on Law and Computers. Dr. Reidenberg received an AB degree from Dartmouth College, a JD from Columbia University, and both a DEA droit international économique and a PhD in law from the Université de Paris-Sorbonne. He is admitted to the Bars of New York and the District of Columbia.
Noah Shachtman
Wired Magazine
Noah Shachtman is a contributing editor at Wired magazine, and the editor of its national security blog, "Danger Room," which won the Online Journalism Award for best beat reporting. He's written about technology, national security, politics, and geek culture for The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Village Voice, Slate, Salon, Esquire, Popular Science, The New York Post, Popular Mechanics, The American Prospect Online, The Forward, The New York Times Magazine, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and others. He's been interviewed by the Associated Press, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, CBS radio, NPR, BBC radio—as well as by newspapers, radio programs, and television stations across the country. Before turning to journalism, Shachtman worked as a professional bass player, book editor, and campaign staffer on Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign. He lives in New York City with his wife, Elizabeth.
Daniel Solove
Daniel J. Solove is a professor of law at the George Washington University Law School. An internationally-known expert in privacy law, Solove is the author of several books, including Understanding Privacy (Harvard 2008), The Future of Reputation: Gossip and Rumor in the Information Age (Yale 2007) (winner of the 2007 McGannon Award), and The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age (NYU 2004). Professor Solove is also the author of a textbook, Information Privacy Law with Aspen Publishing Co. now in its third edition, with co-author Paul Schwartz. Solove has published more than 30 articles and essays, which have appeared in leading law reviews such as the Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, California Law Review, Michigan Law Review, NYU Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and Duke Law Journal. Professor Solove has testified before Congress and has been interviewed and featured in several hundred media broadcasts and articles, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, Associated Press, Time, Newsweek, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and NPR. A graduate of Yale Law School, he clerked for Judge Stanley Sporkin, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and Judge Pamela Ann Rymer, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. He also worked at the law firm Arnold & Porter in Washington, DC. Professor Solove teaches information privacy law, criminal procedure, criminal law, and law and literature. He blogs at www.concurringopinions.com, which in 2007 and 2008 was selected by the ABA Journal as among the 100 best law blogs.
Valerie Steeves
Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology
Valerie Steeves (JD, PhD) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa. Her main area of research is human rights and technology issues. Professor Steeves has written and spoken extensively on privacy from a human rights perspective, and is currently a researcher with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada-funded New Transparency project at Queen's University, which is examining surveillance as a technology of governance in late modern societies. Professor Steeves is also an active participant in the privacy policy making process and a frequent intervener before parliamentary committees on technology and human rights issues. She is a member of the Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Technical Committee on Privacy of the Canadian Standards Association, and Chair of the National Privacy Coalition. In 2004, Professor Steeves she was awarded the Labelle Lectureship at McMaster University, a juried prize that recognizes scholars engaged in cutting-edge multi-disciplinary research who are challenging existing methods or accepted ideas.
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The Designer's Drugs: Resident Evil: Revelations
Medium: Game ‒ Nintendo 3DS
Stimulus: Resident Evil: Revelations
Resident Evil 4 was the last time I remember feeling unadulterated joy toward a video game. The action was fantastic, the enemies were intelligent, and the role playing and treasure hunting elements made for a lot of replay value. I positively beamed the first night I played it. For me it was easily the best game of the past decade. As such, it serves as the measuring stick by which I've judged the Resident Evil games that followed, and like its fellow 3DS game The Mercenaries 3D, Revelations doesn't measure up. It's an okay game on its own merits, but I expected a portable version of Resident Evil 4, and this isn't it.
The biggest issue I have with Revelations is that there are two, count em, two zombie-type creatures in the entire game ‒ and they're easily the best adversaries. For a series that has built its entire reputation on zombie hunting ‒ to say nothing about the awesomeness found as the series progressed and the infected became intelligent ‒ this is unacceptable. Instead, the player fights clawed, shambling, dumb sea humanoids that seem like they'd belong more in Dead Space than here. There's even a big hulking hellbeast with a functioning chainsaw arm with functioning chainsaw sounds, which made me wonder how it keeps its gas tank filled. More annoying, these twitchy inhumans shudder around like mental patients and always seem to twist out of the way of the player's shots at just the right moment. There's a rifle in this game for long distance shots, but considering these jerky movements and the fact that the monsters rarely show up until they're right in your face, using it is pretty pointless.
The point is that I really, really missed smart zombies.
There are two game modes: a story mode and a stripped down, more minigame version of the story mode called Raid Mode. The weird thing is that Raid mode feels more fleshed out than the main campaign, which switches perspectives far too much, forcing the player to operate as different characters instead of advancing the abilities of a single one. Campaign Mode also forces the player to run around with a scanner separate from one's weapons, scanning all surroundings with it to find extra items and secrets, Metroid Prime-style, while one hopes not to run into any monsters while so unarmed. This is really clunky and annoying. In contrast, Raid Mode features actual character levels and offers far more weapon customization. The scanner doesn't even make an appearance. Campaign Mode feels like something to be endured; Raid Mode feels like something to be enjoyed.
The 3DS Resident Evil games have been the only 3DS games I've played so far which made me question the technical limits of the system. In The Mercenaries, the glitches were limited to shaky movements of far-off enemies; in Revelations, the limitations seem to result in a very stripped-down world where you're herded from Point A to Point B, which is just as well because it's not that much fun to explore anyway.
Oh, and I forgot to mention that there are swimming stages in Revelations, the bane of all video gamers' existences! Joy.
Yeah, I'm bitter that Revelations isn't as good as Resident Evil 4, but you know what? That game is, what, eight years old now? Why shouldn't this game have been able to blow that one out of the water instead of being a half-hearted clone?
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Alaska Airlines Completes First Commercial Wood Biofuel Flight
2016-11-17 , By Karolina Prokopovič
Photo: blog.alaskaair.com
Alaska Airlines Flight 4 made history when its Boeing 737-800, with 163 passengers on board, flew from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. – the first ever commercial flight to use an alternative renewable jet fuel made from forest residuals.
The biofuel was produced by the Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance (NARA) which is led by Washington State University, NARA being a five-year project which commenced in 2011 and which combines the resources of 32 member organizations from industry, academia and government laboratories.
Sourced from tribal lands and private forestry operations in the Pacific Northwest, Geco, Inc, an NARA partner, succeeded in adapting its patent technologies to produce isobutanol from cellulosic sugars obtained from wood waste. Thereafter, the isobutanol was further converted into Gevo's Alcohol-to-Jet (ATJ) fuel. This is believed to be the world's first alternative jet fuel derived from wood, while the fuel meets international ASTM standards.
The fuel blend was 20% sustainable aviation biofuel which is chemically indistinguishable from regular jet A fuel and is derived from the branches and limbs that remain after the harvesting of managed forests that are usually burned after the timber harvest.
1,080 gallons of biofuel were used on the flight, and though having a minimal impact on the carrier's greenhouse gas emissions, it has been estimated that were Alaska Airlines to replace 20% of its entire Sea-Tac Airport fuel supply with Gevo's ATJ, it would potentially reduce greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 142,000 metric tons of CO2 – the equivalent of removing 30,000 passenger vehicles off the road for a year.
In a statement from Alaska Airlines, their senior vice president of communications and external relations, Joe Sprague, said that "This latest milestone in Alaska's efforts to promote sustainable biofuels is especially exciting since it is uniquely sourced from the forest residuals in the Pacific Northwest. NARA's accomplishments and the investment of the U.S. Department of Agriculture provide another key in helping Alaska Airlines and the aviation industry reduce its carbon footprint and dependency on fossil fuels."
In June of this year Alaska Airlines flew two other flights which used a blend of biofuel produced from non-edible, sustainable corn.
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Cyprus police find third suitcase with body inside in lake
A police spokesman on the east Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus says a suitcase containing decomposing human remains has been dragged out of a toxic lake.
Andreas Angelides said Tuesday's discovery is a "major development" in the unfolding investigation of a Cypriot army captain who has confessed to the killing of seven foreign women and girls.
Angelides said coroners examined the body at the scene while more specialized tests will be carried out to determine the person's identity.
This is the third suitcase containing a body that has been retrieved from the lake following a six-week search.
The 35 year-old suspect had told investigators that he disposed of the bodies of a Filipino woman and a Romanian mother and daughter in the lake after placing their bodies in suitcases.
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Summer can be blamed. As an habitual workaholic, I find it enormously worrying when the heat of the day provokes in me a lack of desire to do anything but lie down and go to sleep.
Perhaps all that is required is for me to acclimatise to the summer temperatures and resist with determination the soporific effect of the fans in my office.
This is my first blog post done using my iPhone only and therefore it is short. I merely want to see whether I could use photographs taken with my iPhone and insert them here. I also dictated the entire post and only stopped to make sure that the words were correctly transcribed and to insert punctuation where necessary.


Firstly, my PC came with an in-build 17-in-one card reader, but unfortunately it was woefully slow right from the start, even with the 2GB and 4GB CF cards I used then. I acquired an 8GB CF card not long after, but transfer files using the inbuilt card reader proved quite unbearable. A small USB card reader from Sandisk came to the rescue and proved to be around 3 or 4 times faster than the inbuilt offering. The original card reader gave up the ghost a while ago, but just recently I've added USB 3 via a PCI express card which drives a new internal card reader which is even faster still tan the Sandisk.
My desktop came with two 250 GB, 7200 rpm, SATA-II, Seagate Barracuda hard drives, configured in a RAID array as one 500 GB drive, plus and second 500GB drive for storage. Whilst these are still pretty fast drives, 1TB is pretty paltry in terms of disk space for a photographer now. Then I was shooting with the Canon 5D (mark-I) generating RAW files of around 12MB, but took over 14,000 frames that year alone. I upgraded to the 5D mark-II towards the end 2008 which saw the average RAW file increase to around 32MB, so storage space, never mind back-up, became an almost immediate problem. I knew this of course, and rather have the supplier fit additional drives at great expense, I chose to fit them myself. I soon added another 500GB drive, then a 1TB drive, followed by a 1.5 TB drive, as I also planned to eventually rip all my DVD's and CD's to disk too. Pretty soon my two 320GB, and 1TB My Book (a huge brick of a housing) external backup drives looked woefully inadequate too. On top of that, one of the 250GB Barracuda system drives failed quite early on, and not long after the graphics card died too. The supplier was pretty good in replacing these it has to be said, but those problems were followed by my LaCie 320GB external drive giving up the ghost, as well as one of the drives within the ITB My Book. I stripped out the remaining good 500GB drive from the My Book to reuse, but gradually, over the intervening years, a succession of drives have been added and upgraded as each in turn began to fill up. My current internal HD configuration includes 2 x 2TB, 1 x 1.5 TB and 1 x 1TB, all in additional to the original 500GB RAID system drive.
I already owned a pretty decent 22-inch Samsung monitor prior to my desktop purchase, and planned to run twin monitors in my new setup. I was informed by the vendor the Nvidia Geforce 8800 GT graphics card in my system would support this, having twin DVI outputs, so I choose another identical Samsung display as my monitor of choice. I use the term Identical very lightly here. Of course being a photographer who prints at home, I'd regularly calibrated my monitor using a colour profiler, but soon found my Spyder-II software didn't support twin monitors, so upgraded to an X-rite ColorMunki. No matter how hard I tried though, I could not calibrate both monitors to look the same. I even tried a professional but he drew a blank too. Thankfully, one the clever folk at X-rite casually pointed out that the a graphics card needs to support dual LUT's (Look-up Tables) to be able to store 2 sets of calibration figures. My Nvidia graphics card of course, only supports one LUT, thus allowing only one monitor to be calibrated correctly. If monitors were identical it wouldn't be a problem, but I found out my Samsung's come from different batches and are not even close. I could perhaps buy a new dual monitor graphics card, but almost none of the manufacturers seem to list whether they have dual LUT's in their specification. The other alternative would be to add a second graphics card, but this is one option so far I have refrained from taking, and have had to make do calibrating just one, then adjusting the other match as best as I can. Not ideal.
I've waited till last to deal with operating system, as in my case it was the dreaded Windows Vista. As we all know now this was a complete disaster, not only for Microsoft, but for all existing Windows users. Vista was possibly the most successful advertising Apple have ever received and was probably the final nail in the coffin for Microsoft's Operating System supremacy. Vista drove me up the wall too, with constant crashes, the dreaded BSoD (blue-screen-of-death), and failure to support existing peripherals. Hardly a week would go by without something going wrong. Like many, I think I'd hate to know just how much time I wasted trying to locate online fixes, upgrading, or re-installing software and updates. I never ever did manage to get my Printer working on the firewire cable again, which had worked perfectly under XP. At work we even downgraded (or should that be upgraded?) several Vista laptops to XP, and for quite a while I considered doing that to my desktop. I purchased an OEM version of XP Professional, 64-bit, just in case, but thankfully Windows 7 came to the rescue just in time, albeit at a rather steep price.
With any Windows system however, the longer you seem to use it, the more software you add, upgrade, remove or reinstall, the more garbage is left in the registry and on your hard drive, and no matter how much maintenance you do, the slower your PC gradually gets. Mine's well overdue for a fresh Windows re-install. I've already done this 2 or 3 times over the past 5 years, but I know once I start it's a good 2-3 days to get my PC back to the way I want it with all my software installed. I know I really should do it now, but I just can't face that daunting prospect at the moment.
So How Long Should My PC really Last?
I guess 5 years is reasonable in PC longevity, but if I count up the price of the additions, repairs and replacements I've made over that period then I'd be well over the price of a new PC and then some and I haven't even delved into the cost of my back-up kit. My PC is definitely plodding, but it is still working.
I was at friend and fellow photographers house a couple of days ago, and couldn't help be slightly jealous of his shiny, 27-inch, new iMac, not just because of just how good it looks, but just how much more responsive it seemed compared to mine as he scrolled through his photographs in Adobe Lightroom. Mind you, Lightroom to me, has always appeared to be more attuned to running under MAC OS than Windows. I've tried the Apple way though, and have owned a 15-inch MacBook Pro for over 18 months or so, but to be really honest I much prefer the Windows environment and find it much more productive and less restrictive. The iMac does looks fabulous though, but you are stuck with that box too, and really can't upgrade anything inside. I just wonder how long those will last too.
If I wasn't dealing with a vast number of RAW files, and the power needed to process those, then I guess I'd be happy to keep chugging along my old PC for a few more years. But the pace of cameras development seems to show no sign of abatement. RAW file size and the space to store those are on a seemingly never-ending upwards spiral, needing faster, more able processors to run increasingly demanding image manipulation software. Software developers keep issuing new, faster, more versatile and more functional versions, and pretty soon your version becomes obsolete and no longer supported. It's catch 22; you're stuck in a never-ending upgrade sequence. I guess I've done well to get 5 years, but it's been at some considerable some cost.
Time for a New PC perhaps?
The more I write the more it really seems that I should just bite the bullet and get a new PC. Mine is surely on it's last legs photographically, although I know I need to try at least one more fresh Windows install to try and breath a little bit more life into the old box. It's just summing up courage to set aside a few days and get on with it that's putting me off. I've already priced up a few potential replacements on several occasions too. Usually that's after something has gone wrong again, more often than not at some critical moment, resulting in lost work and wasting some considerable time. It's moments like those when I almost have a Basil Faulty moment, with a desire to thrash the PC with a branch!
Apple have perfect version control over their hardware selection, so you can guarantee it all works synergistically together – none of this graphics card chopping and changing. The dual screen support is legendary, and has been there for years. Even a modest spec Apple can churn through raws off the newest cameras.
I work with a Macbook Air 11″ (max spec) as my main computer. It handles 100Mpix images in Aperture in near realtime and I just plug it into monitors and use it in clamshell mode as a desktop with bluetooth peripherals.
Great blog as always, John. Well written and interesting. I well remember the wasted years I battled with PC's telling myself they were the business and how much cheaper than Macs they were.
What I didn't factor in was how much of my life (at x pounds per hour) I spent fixing the things, upgrading them, running scans, defragging and generally nursing them along because of all the hard and software design flaws and conflicts that abound.
It all changed for me when I opened my iPad box. Within a few minutes I was in love with the design, the simplicity and flawless way it worked. It did what I wanted the way I wanted. I decided then to get the 27 inch iMac and abandon PC's for good. I have never looked back.
They are not upgradable (apart from RAM and maybe a hard drive upgrade) because they don't need to be. They are fast, smooth and efficient. They don't need constant "windows updates" (read "disaster recovery fixes") and all the software communicates with each other and other Apple devices seamlessly. The Timemachine backup is so simple and flawless. And you actually get to get some work done. They pay you back the premium price many times over.
Oh, and they look gorgeous.
C'mon John. You know you want to. Have a crummy old laptop for work stuff and enjoy your photography world on a Mac. I promise you will never regret it.


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Sadly downloaded .mp4 doesn't work on my widows 10 computer and "gspot" program https://www.videohelp.com/software/GSpot can't identify codec needed.
What players are those others using that get it to work?
It worked for me flawlessly in the browser (Google Chrome) on a Windows 10 machine.
Lots of people can see the animation within the forum, some have to download first and some have failed altogether.
On my Linux computer Chrome works fine but Firefox does not recognise the movie. I have uploaded a smaller animation that works fine here with both browsers.
Can people that had difficulties give it a try and report?
your short .mp4 test animation worked fine with both Firefox, Chrome and Microsoft edge under Windows 10.
I also tested the original post in Chrome. It worked fine, but it didn't play in either Firefox or Edge.
The problem clearly lies with Firefox / Edge.
original big .mp4 file didn't play in the same players because its codec wan't recognized.
Thanks to all that have tried and responded.
The positive feedbacks gives me confidence that I have nailed a big source of the incompatibility. In short: do not create mp4 files with an odd number of rows.
The original video worked finely without any problems on my laptop basing on a Windows 8 system. I am on www. using Google Chrome.
Thanks Wipneus. That is the most amazing animation I've seen for quite a while.
For linux any distro should support. It does not drag in "everything but the kitchen sink" like VLC. (which would make it smaller than VLC in Windows also.) It has just worked for me for years.
Thanks Wipneus - works great even in Firefox and its a great video - brings home the message.
and thanks longwalks1 for the "mpv" videoplayer tip. The downloaded mp4s (either original or the latest one) all play fine with it.
'Sic transit gloria mundi' - in one 2-minute video.
A truly stunning story. Many thanks Wipneus.
I intend to use this for educational purposes. How would you like to be credited, please?
I've been using your PIOMAS daily arctic ice volume webpage as a dashboard and communication tool whenever the issue comes up in a conversation for the last 6 years. Thanks so much for that !
I'm not sure if it's due to the government shutdown or just missing space for 2019, but your latest charts are missing this year's data.
I noticed the polar science center seems to have the latest data, but since your charts are much easier to read, I thought I'd point that out.
Looks like the graphs have been updated, but the data not yet.
Edit: Data updated too now.
Have we noticed PIOMAS being 7th lowest before?
PIOMAS February 2019 is up on the ASIB.
PIOMAS has released the official volume data up to the end of January. Unfortunately not the daily gridded data that I use for the animation and some other graphs.
Here is the volume data presented in the same format as I use for the JAXA ice extent tables and graphs. Daily volume increases mostly above average in January, hence 6th lowest became 7th lowest.
And a couple of more graphs - data from Wipneus and Polar Science Center.
Following that polynomial, when is it at zero gerontocrat?
I have not looked - projecting any time into the future, especially that far, using these chart tools is where madness lies. I just added the x2 polynomial to see if it suggested currently volume loss is on an accelerating trend.
Wipneus, using the colours in going around a 'colour wheel' provides a partial solution, at least for graphs with up to 12 colours.
Interpolating to intermediate colours in an attempt to increase the number of colours doesn't work as the shades become too difficult to distinguish.
However, you can reasonably double the number of colours by also including a corresponding wheel of darker colours, where the colour values have been reduced in approximate proportion from those in the original colour wheel.
Attached is my suggestion for RGB colour values when doing graphs with up to 24 colours.
... or how about dashed line(s) e.g 10 yr / 5y could be dashed ? I wouldn't do last 5 dashed as they may be close. Or earlier ones (pre 2000 / 2010 even) as faded colours / very fine lines.
PIOMAS has updated the official volume data. Unfortunately the ftp server with the detailed thickness data has not been serving me for some time now. I will look into that.
Here are the volume and volume-anomaly graphs.
Unfortunately the ftp server with the detailed thickness data has not been serving me for some time now. I will look into that..
Do you have any idea what the problem might be as yet?
ftp is of course designed for automated computer data transfer, while https was designed for interactive browsing (with some incidentally downloading).
Looking at the required (wget) trickery to have the same level of automatisation as before.
Here is the volume data presented in the same format as I use for the JAXA ice extent tables and graphs. Still 7th lowest in the satellite record.
Since there was none last month, hre is the animation of Jan-Feb 2019.
Thickness maps, compared with previous years and differences with those.
The Fram export graph shows near normal export figures in Jan and Feb.
PIOMAS has updated gridded thickness data. Volume calculated from this was 21.95 [1000km3] on the 15th of March. That would be the 7th lowest for the day.
Here is the animation of March until sofar.
PIOMAS Volume as at 15th March 21,954 KM3.
Thanks tons, as always, for these amazing graphs and maps.
To me, the decadal average graph tells the clearest big-picture story of the of where we've been and where we are going.
Is it possible for you to verify whether Fram export is thinner than previous years according to piomas?
I have given this some thought and I'm wondering what it is you really want.
2. Ice thickness unchanged but concentration less.
Would calculating ice area export ( km2/month) answer your question?
Obviously I will have to be careful interpreting the data.
PIOMAS has updated, both the volume as the gridded thickness data.
Volume on 2019-03-31 was 22.218 [1000km3], fourth lowest for the day.
Here is the animation for March 2019.
According to the PIOMAS model Arctic sea ice volume has been flatlining for the last couple of weeks, and may even have peaked already!
Thanks, Wip. As for the volume graph, I find it hard to discern the 2019 trend line, because of the 2016 trend line (colours are too similar). But could be my eyes or monitor.
Ack. That needs a fix.
Here is the thickness of 31st March, with comparisons with previous years and their differences.
Fram volume(!) export was about normal for the month of March. The normals are indicated by the grey line in the background and are harder to see when exports are higher.


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The University of Maryland Terps will face the East Carolina University Pirates in the 2010 Military Bowl presented by Northrop Grumman December 29 in one of the 31 sponsored college bowl games that will dominate sports television for the next few weeks. And while fans of both teams will tune in or venture to RFK Memorial Stadium in Washington, DC, for the game, organizers are hoping the economic return will be worth the investment.
BLACK ENTERPRISE caught up with Gregory A. O'Dell, president and CEO of the Washington Convention and Sports Authority to get his take on the financial impact the NCAA bowl games have on the city.
How do you market the game in order to ensure a good turnout?
What makes it tough for a bowl game is we don't know until three weeks out who is going to be playing in the game. So it makes it very tough for us to make sure that we select teams that we know are going to drive visitors to our city. The other strategy is to try to make the bowl bigger than just the matchups, so we've moved from having a regional sponsor with Eagle Bank Bowl– who was a great sponsor for us, but didn't have the national exposure that we needed. Northrop Grumman gives us that national exposure and we also have a charitable sponsor with great exposure, the USO.
It's all about attendance to make it successful from an economic standpoint, no?
That's correct. We have to drive pure attendance–be it local attendance or visitors from outside the city–to make the economics of the game work. The two components of that are the ticket sales and the sponsorship. Having a national sponsor onboard and making this a bigger, broader experience will help us drive ticket sales and help us get sponsors. We're equally invested in making sure that we drive business to the city to drive the economic impact. So there is a scenario where the game may break even, but [it's] still a win for the city because we put people in hotel rooms, restaurants and ultimately that came back as tax dollars to the city.
What is the city's investment in the game?
What may surprise you is that from the city's perspective, that number is probably lower because our investment is limited. We're not funding the entire operation of the bowl. The city is making a limited investment of around $250,000 to help the bowl committee put together the game. Last year, for example, we made a similar investment and we know we had 2,400 room nights and it drove restaurant visitation as well, so it did what we wanted it to do in terms of driving economic impact.
The event doesn't seem like a fit for Northrop Grumman since they're a defense contractor and don't sell products directly to consumers.
We spoke to them about wanting to make sure there was a benefit for the men and women of the services with USO as the charitable sponsor. [Northrop Grumman] just relocated to the Metro Washington area in Falls Church, Virginia so this was as much about them wanting to have a presence in this community as giving back to the men and women of the armed services.
At the end of the day, what's your report card to determine whether this was a success?
We think given the level of investment, if we drive business to the city as evidenced by the economic impact statistics by visitation and restaurants, we can see what the impact was as a result of this event. And since we have some equity in the event itself, we want to see the bowl at least break even or get to a profitable state. That will come in time, once the bowl matures, and we think we're positioned well now that we have a national sponsor. For us, making that investment in types of events is exactly what we need to do. It doesn't have to necessarily come back to us in direct revenue, but we want to make sure we're driving that economic impact.
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Natalie Huber
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Shelley Reddekopp
vice-president of finance
Shelley is joining Ranch Ehrlo on June 7th. She comes to the agency with significant corporate, leadership, and finance experience. During her 20-year career with the Government of Saskatchewan, Shelley has held several positions including Assistant Deputy Minister. In her most recent role, Shelley has led the budget development, planning, performance management, process improvement, and policy functions for a division.
Carole Bryant
director of governance and corporate services
Carole Bryant joined the Ranch in 2000. In 2003, she became the vice-president of Ehrlo Community Services and in 2005, she became the vice-president of administration and quality improvement. In 2016, she assumed a new role as director of governance and corporate services.
Dr. Louise Greenberg
Dr. Louise Greenberg is currently an Executive in Residence at the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy (JSGS) at the University of Regina. Before joining JSGS, Louise worked for 32 years in the Government of Saskatchewan with the last five years as Deputy Minister of Advanced Education. Louise currently serves on several boards in Saskatchewan.
David Hedlund
Vice‐Chair/Secretary
David Hedlund joined the board in 2018. He has held senior leadership positions in the areas of social services, health, and addictions counselling, including regional director, Regina region of Ministry of Social Services and executive director of Mental Health and Addictions Services, with the former Regina Qu'Appelle health region. He is active in a number of community organizations including Phoenix Residential Society and the Regina Symphony Orchestra. David holds a master's degree in psychology. He now works as a consultant in the health care field.
Greg Fieger
Past-Chair
Greg Fieger joined the board in September 2013. A life-long learner Greg has been a professional management consultant since 1985 working with small, medium, and large organizations across public, private, and not-for-profit sectors. Since November 2008 Greg has -led the Optimum Talent Inc. Saskatchewan practice, an executive search and leadership talent management consulting firm. Greg's connection with the human service sector goes back to the early 1980's when he completed his undergraduate education and had work experience with the John Howard Society, Regina Work Preparation Centre, Crisis Management Project and Mobile Crisis Services. Today Greg works with boards and executives to strengthen the leadership capability of their organization to achieve their goals. Over the years, Greg has been an active volunteer with Kidsport, Saskatchewan Roughriders and CFL Alumni associations, among other great community causes.
Senate representative
Peter Hoffmann is the senate appointee to the board. Peter served on the board of the former Ehrlo Community Services from 2003-2007 where he chaired the audit and finance committee. He also served as president of RES &E Holding corporation. He has had an extensive 34-year career in senior government including ADM of Municipal Affairs and Housing and CEO to the Saskatchewan Housing Corporation. Having both a CPA and a pension plan administration certificate, Peter currently chairs the SaskTel Pension Plan board. He is past chair of Campion College Board of Regents. He is also a previous board member of the Technical Safety Authority of Saskatchewan (TSASK), having served as the chair of its audit and finance committee.
Marlys Tafelmeyer
Marlys Tafelmeyer joined the board in September 2015. She has over 25 years' experience in human resources and organizational development, including the areas of financial services sector, corporate, entrepreneurship, public sector, and community service. She is the former assistant chair of the Public Service Commission (PSC) in Saskatchewan. Marlys was a sessional lecturer for over 10 years with the Paul J. Hill School of Business at the University of Regina. Marlys is a member of the Saskatchewan Association of Human Resource Practitioners, the International Personnel Management Association and the Institute of Public Administration of Canada. She is currently working as an independent human resource consultant.
Carmen Lien
Carmen Lien joined the Ranch Ehrlo board of directors following the amalgamation of the Ranch Ehrlo Society, RES&E Holding Corporation, and the Ehrlo Child and Family Foundation (ECFF) on June 1, 2017. Carmen was appointed to the ECFF board in November 2014. He is the owner of Link Developments, a real estate consultancy company. His previous work experience has been at Harvard Developments, the City of Regina, and Brandt Developments. He has a Bachelor of Applied Science, Industrial Systems Engineering, a Diploma in Business Administration, and a Master's Certificate in International Business, from the University of Regina.
Hiedi Pearson
Hiedi Pearson joined the board in 2017. She is the Vice President, Employee Services, Human Resources t at Harvard Developments Inc. She has a BA and CA from the University of Regina and is a member of the Chartered Professionals in Human Resources (CPHR) Saskatchewan. Her previous board experience includes Access Communications Co-operative, Regina Palliative Care and Greystone Bereavement Centre, and the U of R Alumni Association.
Sheri Woods
Sheri Woods received both her Bachelor of Arts degree and Law degree from the University of Saskatchewan. She maintains a general family law practice with a special emphasis on child protection matters, the representation of First Nation Family Services Agencies, and assisting families with the legal aspects of reproductive science. Sheri has been a guest presenter at the national Pro Bono Law Conference, has published a commentary in Saskatchewan's CBA quarterly publication, and has delivered training sessions to lawyers, social workers, and First Nations agencies across Saskatchewan. She serves as a member of the board of directors for both the Saskatoon YWCA and the Saskatoon Community Service Village.
Diana Leray
Diana Leray, CPA joined the board in 2018. She is a partner in KPMG's audit and business advisory services practice with 15 years' experience in the field. She provides audit and assurance services in several sectors, including telecommunications, financial institutions, Crown corporations, and not-for-profits. Diana is a strong supporter of the local community and has served on various boards, including chair of the YWCA and has volunteered for major local events.
Frank Regel
Frank has a Master of Social Work degree and worked in the human services field for over 30 years including residential services for youth, child protection, youth justice, and mental health. When he retired, he had been the executive director of the Prince Albert Mental Health district for several years. Frank was also a sessional lecturer with the School of Social Work, U of R, teaching in the area of mental health, alcohol, and addictions. Following his retirement, he remained active on contract with the health region providing leadership to the regional ethics committee. Frank has served on various boards and committees over the years and continues to be active with Family Futures Inc., Friends of Little Red, and the Ranch's Buckland/Prince Albert advisory committee. Frank is excited to become involved in a more "provincial" role with Ranch Ehrlo.
Amy Groothuis
Amy is a registrar with the Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan. She has had over 13 years of experience practicing in a diverse environment, including as former general counsel to a bi-territorial Crown corporation and in private practice. Her areas of practice include labour and employment law, administrative law, and civil litigation. She is an active member of the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) and currently serves as chair of the CBA Administrative and Labour Law (South) Section. Amy resides in Regina with her husband and three children
Deb Pacholka
Deb has her BA and LLB from the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. Following her articles with MacPherson, Leslie, Tyerman she stayed at home to raise a family for a few years. Returning to the workforce, she worked as assistant general counsel at Co-operators Life Insurance, a Canadian life and disability insurer. She then accepted a similar position at Information Services Corporation, a TSX-listed company focused on the delivery of registry and information services. During her legal career, she served as director of the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association and various legal profession committees. Deb retired from ISC after 10 years of service in June 2018. Deb is an active member of Poltava Ukrainian Ensemble where she has played the mandolin in its orchestra for over 24 years. She is also a former director of Basketball Saskatchewan.
Hirsch Greenberg
Prior to his 19 and a half year tenure as practicum coordinator and a three-year term as department head with the Department of Justice Studies, Hirsch held various positions in justice, social services, education, unions, and health organizations as a front-line staff, an executive director, a volunteer board member, and a consultant. Hirsch's involvement with Ranch Ehrlo dates back to the early 1970s when he worked on the front line at the agency; at Mobile Crisis Services he worked with Ranch staff in placing youth on an emergency basis or intervening in situations where youth were AWOL from the Ranch. More recently in his position at the Department of Justice Studies, he has worked with a number of our staff placing students in practicums with the Ranch. He has also worked on a contract basis on reserve setting up one of the FN Child and Family Services agencies. Hirsch has an array of board experience and currently sits on the board of the Alternative Measures Program.
Darren McKee
Darren is currently the CEO/Executive Director of the Saskatchewan School Board Associations (SSBA), a position he has held for the past 10 years. The association represents all publicly funded school boards in Saskatchewan. Prior to joining the SSBA, Darren was the Assistant Deputy Minister with the Ministry of Education, being the first Indigenous ADM at the provincial level. While at the ministry he led the policy framework development for Indigenous Education in the province. Darren is currently chair of the United Way of Regina.
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Q: TypeError: existsSync is not a function for React js application I noticed one weird behavior when I was using React js.
I used create-react-app to create a React js app. Then I installed one NPM package called youtube-dl for my React js application. And I put
const youtubedl = require("youtube-dl");

Then I got TypeError: existsSync is not a function.
I really searched a lot for this and I couldn't find a solution for React js application. Does anyone know how to fix this issue? Thanks in advance.

A: existsSync is a node function, so it looks like you've added a module intended for server-side/backend use, rather than for use inside your React app.

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Q: Discrete Scatter Plot Visualization This is a very special plotting request, but I have data I want to view in a very particular way. Here's the situation:
1) The data I have is binned into 25 bins, each bin contains a different number of data points. The larger the bin value, the smaller then number of data points it has within it, roughly speaking (This is just a result of the data processing which was done).
[9568, 10079, 10137, 10090, 10154, 10091, 10046, 10116, 9959, 9401, 7703, 5216, 3089, 1632, 854, 466, 221, 106, 63, 27, 12, 5, 1, 0]

2) I have access to the bin values.
[ 0.02648645  0.09996368  0.1734409   0.24691813  0.32039536  0.39387258
  0.46734981  0.54082703  0.61430426  0.68778148  0.76125871  0.83473593
  0.90821316  0.98169038  1.05516761  1.12864483  1.20212206  1.27559928
  1.34907651  1.42255373  1.49603096  1.56950818  1.64298541  1.71646264]

I can easily produce an 'errorbar' type plot in matplotlib (the y-axis is scaled from radius to degrees below):

But, this is not particularly insightful for what I'd like to study. I'd really like to know if there are 'islands' of angle values within each bin, and to do this, I would need something like a scatterplot or an imshow/hexbin type plot, where the density of points can be represented by color (in the case of imshow/hexbin at least). The following is an example of what happens when represented by a regular scatterplot with the smallest marker size:

Would anybody know of a good way to generate this type of visualization?
EDIT: This may help clarify a couple of things. The following plot is a sample of what a histogram would look like for the first couple of bins. Data contained within bins seem to follow some sort of distribution (I mentioned 'islands' before, because I am not ruling out the possibility of multiple peaks in the distribution). I would like this distribution to be visualized for all bins simultaneously. In other words, is there a way to do a vertical temperature map for each bin and have them all shown on the same plot?

A: The violin plot mentioned in the comments was a nice solution to my problem. Here's where I found a python implementation of it - it would certainly be nice if this were included into matplotlib eventually. Overplotted is a box plot centered on the median value, and includes the 2nd and 3rd quartiles.