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TOSCANO, SHOWPLACE RECEIVE AWARDS FROM RUTGERS
By Ken Weingartner, Harness Racing Communications

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – December 12, 2012 -- When Linda Toscano was a kid, she fell in love with horses. Her mother, she jokes, might have been hoping for a different outcome.

“Mom suggested horseback riding lessons,” Toscano said Tuesday night as she received the Rutgers Equine Science Center’s Spirit of the Horse Award, adding with a laugh, “I really think her ulterior motive was to find me a rich boyfriend, but I fell in love with the horse.

“I breathed and slept horses. That’s the only thing I wanted to think about, that’s the only thing I wanted to do. A friend of mine suggested that I get a summer job working at the stables at Roosevelt Raceway. As soon as I did, I was home.

Source: Standardbred Breeders and Owners Association of New Jersey

by Pete Brown

During the .NET Microframework and .NET Gadgeteer code camp talk that Andrew Duthie and I gave several weeks back, we tossed around the idea of using the Gadgeteer and a moisture sensor to alert parents of, ahhhh, soggy diaper issues.

Shortly before the holidays, in the mail, I got a package of goodies from Microsoft Research. That package included one of these moisture sensors from Seeed Studio. These are meant for checking to see how wet soil is, but I figure one man's diaper is another man's soil, so, I can't resist. Must…prototype…solution.

First Iteration

I didn't have any of that handy inoffensive blue liquid available (the stuff they use to represent *any* bodily fluid on commercials; pretty sure that's how Smurfs are grown), so lacking any actual babies (my kids are all potty trained now. Yay!) I'm using plain old water. The real thing is a bit more conductive , so you may need to vary some values I use. Also, I'm dealing with liquids only in this post. You're on your own with anything more…substantial, but I might recommend some sort of scale, or for the newborns, perhaps a blast detector held on with this ....

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