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"Analysis" would be my guess.
"Analysis" would be my guess.
It would have been hilarious if the slashdot allowed two more characters in the title.
It's a common first name in the Netherlands. I assume she's a spokesperson or something.
The aircraft did not crash; it was hijacked by the US Government, and flown to Diego Garcia under remote control after all the passengers were killed by asphyxiation at 45,000 feet. After landing the plane was refuelled, its logos painted over/covered up, and its valuable cargo (next generation radios with SDR technology) removed. It then took off again and flew on to its final destination--probably Kandahar, Afghanistan--where it will be outfitted with a large bomb (read: nuke). It will then be flown into an American city to cause a 'false flag' attack which will be blamed on Iran, North Korea, etc, as a casus belli for World War 3.
I would tell you more but som....hang on, there's a knock at the door.
Yeah, that knock on your door is your mother.
Time for your meds.
Also, don't forget to tell her "Happy Mother's Day!"
The author of the article claiming that experts cannot replicate the data appears to be the editor of a social science / STS journal, not by training an engineer. Although I don't myself know enough about the subject to be able to refute either the Inmarsat claims or this article's refutation, I think it's notable that the people supporting the claim are engineers who specialize in satellite stuff, while the person refuting the claim is what appears to be a philosopher; I'd also add that the author portrays himself as an "investigator working on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370", but this appears to be a self-assigned title rather than his position as part of any formal or professional investigation. Looking at the scholarship of the journal he edits, it appears to have some level of rigour--IE it does not appear to be a vanity publication, so I'm not trying to cast out the guy as a crank, just to caution that I think the strength and balance of the headline and the post here place an awful lot of confidence in the article's credibility.
TF Author is basically collating some information available on the web (we do that these days, you know). The original data that is attempting to refute INMARSAT's analysis is from two people (with blogs) which do have some expertise in the field:
So it should be straightforward to make sure that the math is right. That's just what a group of analysts outside the investigation has been attempting to verify. The major players have been Michael Exner, founder of the American Mobile Satellite Corporation; Duncan Steel, a physicist and visiting scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center; and satellite technology consultant Tim Farrar. They've used flight and navigation software like STK, which allows you to chart and make precise calculations about flight scenarios like this one. On their blogs and in an ongoing email chain, they've been trying to piece together the clues about Flight 370 and make sense of Inmarsat's analysis. What follows is an attempt to explain and assess their conclusions.
Yes, this is an appeal to authority, but this is also a popular, non scientific, non peer reviewed bit of journalism. I'm not expecting much more.
Not so. These critics may or may not be correct when they raise several issues, including the plane seeming to be moving at a good clip before it was taking off. But on the most critical of factors, they're totally wrong:
"Recall that the Marco-Polo math alone doesn't allow you to tell which direction pings are coming from. So how could Inmarsat claim to distinguish between a northern and southern path at all? The reason is that the satellite itself wasn't stationary."
No, the slow drift of the satellite wasn't a factor. I've yet to hear Immarsat formal statement of their rationale, but their graph shows quite clearly what it was. Their reasoning hinges on the fact that the plane began its deviant flight above the latitude of the satellite. That is quite important.
If the plane flies northward along a relatively fixed course, the doppler shift will aways show it moving away (down doppler). However, it the plane flies southward on a steady course, there'll be a short time (one ping it turns out) when it is approaching the latitude of the satellite and thus giving a more up (or less down) doppler. That's what you see in the Immarsat chart. Once the aircraft has crossed the satellite's latitude, then its southward path will have it traveling away from the satellite just like the northern route. It's that notch DOWN at between 18:30 and 19:30 followed by a rise upward that says southbound.
That said the critics do raise some relevant issues and they do point out the Immarsat needs to release a detailed report with all their reasoning, so it can be more intelligently critiqued.
The problem with this analysis is that the Doppler "spike" would not have come from a due South trajectory. It is most likely to have come from a change of trajectory almost directly towards teh satellite. The implication is that this was a "ping" that just happened to have occurred during a turning manouevre; given that the SATCOM terminal on the aircraft uses a high-gain steerable antenna, it is not surprising that an "unscheduled" ping took place during a turn, as the beam-steering unit reacquired the satellite.
The other massive confounder with this analysis is that the SATCOM terminal necessarily pre-compensates its transmissions for Doppler shift. The channel bandwidth in the Inmarsat Classic Aero system is sufficiently narrow that when received at the Satellite, the center frequency must be +/-250 Hz of nominal. As Doppler shift due to the expect motion of an aircraft is in the region of +/- 800 Hz, this can only be done by active pre-compensation.
You'll notice from the Inmarsat Data that the uncorrected Doppler shift is within 250 Hz of expected, indicating that some pre-compensation is present.
Without details of how the compensation works, analysis is very difficult, if not impossible. A scan of the patent literature suggests that both measured-Doppler compensation (i.e. the aircraft terminal measures Doppler shift on a satellite broadcast channel, and applies an equivalent compensation on its transmissions) and estimated Doppler compensation (i.e. the satellite terminal communicates with the aircraft's navigation reference unit to obtain heading, and velocity information, and then computes an expected Doppler shift which is applied to transmissions) may be in use.
Couple of possibilities:
1) They did and they are not saying. Seems unlikely as the fact that Jindalee can, for example, track commercial airliners all the way from Singapore, is pretty much common knowledge.
2) They didn't track it because they couldn't. Sadly, despite the money spent on it, Jindalee is great when it works, but unfortunately it doesn't work all the time. This partly explains why Australia has had to buy expensive AWACS aircraft as well as spending big money on Jindalee.
I've yet to see a reasonable explanation for the loss of telemetry and apparent maneuvers to avoid radar.
So far the implicit assumption is that whoever was at the controls failed in their plan and the plane crashed.
Considering the Indonesian 'navy' is a bunch of pirates, I would start by looking there.
We still don't know what was in the cargo hold or if there was a billionaire on board. Did that plane have a richer suite?
All manner of assumptions tied into interpreting the pings. Airspeed/altitude and straight line course are all assumed to get 'the place'. Flying low and slow and landing somewhere in Java also fits the data. As I said up-thread a large number of piracy incidents every year involve the Indonesian navy. Air piracy is not out of their reach, and they own hangers big enough to hide a 777. But they wouldn't do it just for the plane. There had to be something or someone special on board.
Initially I assumed th
I've yet to see a reasonable explanation for the loss of telemetry and apparent maneuvers to avoid radar.
There are reasonable explanations, just not innocent ones.
We still don't know what was in the cargo hold or if there was a billionaire on board. Did that plane have a richer suite?
We do know that Freescale Semiconductor, a US technology company having ties to both the Bush family and the Bin Laden family, had 20 senior staff on board Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. They had just launched a new electronic warfare device for military radar systems in the days before the Boeing 777 went missing, which caused it's stock prices to nearly double in the month prior to the crash; stock prices which have been steadily declining towards their previous levels since the bluefin failed to find wreckage.
Does that count?
> blah blah stupid blah blah nearly double tinfoil aliens
Going from $20 to $23 is not "double". Google "Freescale Semiconductor chart" to see the stick price. Everything else you said is equally as accurate.
The actual conspiracy theory is that it's five people at Freescale who are authors on a particular patent, and it's not true anyway, but it's funny to see how this one has mutated.
http://www.snopes.com/politics... [snopes.com]
40K people die every day of hunger and the while the USD 60M or more that were spent so far on this stupid search couldn't have prevented that, it would have helped a lot of people have another chance.
Either you say you care about the lives of people and then you just shake your head about this pointless waste of money or you don't care and then you wouldn't care about ML370 either. But you unless you're related or friends of anyone onboard that flight, you're just a for caring about the lives lost there and not about the people that die every day of hunger, war, and such...
It's really not about the people on the plane. It never has been past the first few hours.
It's about a world wide industry that doesn't like expensive bits of it fall out of the sky for no reason. It's also not about the money. Hell, we could shut down an aircraft carrier battle group and feed the entire planet for a decade - don't look to humans to be rationale about that issue and don't try to conflate them.
Yes, you're partially right on that but in my opinion there are enough other incidents that can yield data - missing one is really not that major.
Also, if you listen to the news casters and articles written, they all at least pretend its about the human factor, not about analyzing the wreckage to see what caused the issue so we can prevent it in the future...
Yes, you're partially right on that but in my opinion there are enough other incidents that can yield data - missing one is really not that major.
Not regarding the Boeing 777 there haven't. There's only been seven accidents, and only one prior to MH370 that involved any fatalities. And if the cause was a fault with the plane rather than human error/intervention, it's important to know because there's a whole bunch of other, more-or-less identical aircraft in use and it's entirely possible that one or more of them has the same problem.
To the original poster's point though even if we lose a 777 every 20 years due to a design flaw, the money is better spent feeding the 20,000 people who die every day of starvation.
But to be the rebuttal to that:
If it costs $350m to find the fault with this plane then it'll still be a net win for the starving people. If the plane also costs $350m and this saves 2 planes over the next 30 years of service then you've netted an extra $350m in savings that could be put towards saving starving people. And i
40K people died of laws and organizations preventing them from getting food. There is enough food for everyone, there is enough will for people to provide for themselves and those that can't. This isn't 400BC anymore, people die of starvation because of bad policy, not because natural limitations. I'm not saying we shouldn't voluntarily feed them, but feeding them fixes nothing and by itself can actually make the problem worse. It's like giving someone painkillers instead of medicine.
40K people die every day of hunger and the while the USD 60M or more that were spent so far on this stupid search couldn't have prevented that, it would have helped a lot of people have another chance.
For every $6 cup of coffee you buy, you're KILLING a person. For every $300 TV you buy, you're killing dozens. Every month you pay for cable TV, you're killing a handful. Is that about right? Because lack of monetary handouts are the ONLY cause of all those deaths? Political instability doesn't have anything to do with it, and/or could be fixed with a small influx of cash?
If this was a different airline let's say Aeromexico or Turkish Airways and the plane left NYC mostly full of Americans I bet you'd care a lot more.
In addition to the lost lives and the price of the airplane there are considerable political ramifications as well.
I think it's pretty interesting that a number of devices detected pings, but there is apparently (as per the article) nothing was found in the area where they heard the pings.
So what did they hear? How can you get a false positive on a listening device looking for a specific frequency?
I wonder if instead of just sending out pings, a black box when hitting water should send out a burst of broad spectrum very high powered radio waves that satellites around the globe could detect...
The devices were not looking for "a specific frequency", and, in fact, the detections were not at the frequency the FDR/CDR were supposed to send. They were "close", and part of the reason they had confidence in the finding is that after AF447 was found, they tried out the transmitter and noted that the frequency was off by a little.
I think you're conflating the satellite pings sent by the plane's maintenance system to satellites and the ultrasonic "pings" that the submerged flight data recorder is supposed to generate. Right now there's nothing particularly mysterious about the fact that we can't locate the wreckage of the plane in the middle of millions of square miles of featureless ocean.
In any case, the simplest answer is to have planes transmit a GPS fix a couple times per hour to a satellite communication network. The cost would
I think you're conflating the satellite pings [...] and the ultrasonic "pings" that the submerged flight data recorder
Chinese and Australian searchers picked up possible sonar pings from the FDR beacon. But were unable to confirm the findings enough before the beacon died.
In any case, the simplest answer is to have planes transmit a GPS fix a couple times per hour to a satellite communication network. The cost would be negligible compared to the overall operation cost of the airplane.
Yeah. It stuns me that they don't have position pings once every fifteen minutes (plus twice more on heading, speed and altitude changes.) It would revolutionise aircraft S&R.
Hell, why don't large aircraft transmit position, heading, airspeed, altitude, etc continuously to their home organisations? The bandwidth required is trivial, a few kb/s would b
On a re-reading I can see how you might think I was confused, but Fat Monkey there mentioned the pings I was thinking of, which were sonar pings detected (and from which they have found nothing from a 150 mile search area the pings were supposed to come from).
In a world where spy satellites have 1m resolution, the fact that no country says they found anything within a few days, speaks loudest.
Why would any country dedicate valuable spy satellite time and resources to searching for an airliner?
Why would any country dedicate valuable spy satellite time and resources to searching for an airliner?
Why wouldn't they? I can think of nothing that says "We can see everything you do" better than finding aircraft debris in a case like this.
The why not is an easy one - spy satellites are put into orbits which cover the likely hotspots for their use, and changing those orbits lessens the useful life of the satellite fairly significantly.
Oh, and no one really wants to give away the true capabilities of their spy satellites...
The why not is an easy one - spy satellites are put into orbits which cover the likely hotspots for their use, and changing those orbits lessens the useful life of the satellite fairly significantly.
Oh, and no one really wants to give away the true capabilities of their spy satellites...
Not true at all. Reconnaissance satellites are usually on very low near-polar orbits, completing an orbit in 60-90 minutes. As the Earth spins below, they cover the whole thing. However, the sensors onboard collect more data than the available bandwidth, so they do not transmit the data about uninteresting areas, such as over the open ocean where nothing of interest is expected to be.
You could make a point for storing a 48 hour buffer of all untransmitted data for later transmission if it is deemed necessar
Like the signal reflecting off the ocean below instead of coming directly from the aircraft.
The only sure way to is to duplicate the flight path with a similar size aircraft using the same Engines and monitoring stations, using similar SAT positions. Only this time use a plane with extended range 777-200LR(verses missing 777-200ER) with minimal payload&maximum fuel and/or safely replicate the flight path in sections.
Use the resulting SAT/GPS data to help calibrate mh377 final resting spot.
They are already writing their books, guaranteed
The article is irrelevant since the ocean floor around the pings is still being searched.
Since the article can't even get a basic fact correct, I don't even trust their analysis.
But now the search of 154 square miles of ocean floor around the signals has concluded with no trace of wreckage found. Pessimism is growing as to whether those signals actually had anything to do with Flight 370. If they didn't, the search area would return to a size of tens of thousands of square miles.
The link the article uses to "prove" that says something different:
The hunt for a missing Malaysian passenger jet entered a new phase as an international team abandoned its aerial search and said efforts to find wreckage on the ocean floor may take as long as eight months.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/... [bloomberg.com]
It looks like slashdot just linked to another conspiracy theory. Please quit doing that.
Until officials provide more information, the claim that Flight 370 went south rests not on the weight of mathematics but on faith in authority
Wasn't the main evidence against a northern path the fact that the plane would have to have flown over some (unlike Malaysia) heavily monitored airspace?
The company claimed that they have confirmed their methodology using data from other airplanes flying in similar area.
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By TODD RICHMONDMADISON, Wis. (AP) â¿¿ Republicans' divisive plan to help a mining company open a huge open-pit iron mine in northern Wisconsin would cost the state more than $170 million meant for recycling and environmental protection programs every year, according to new projections. The legislation is designed to clear the regulatory path for Gogebic Taconite's plans for a mine just south of Lake Superior. Republicans insist the measure will help create hundreds of jobs in the economically depressed area and thousands more for heavy equipment manufacturers across the state. Democrats and conservationists insist it would open the door to devastating pollution and ruin one of Wisconsin's last pristine regions. Part of the proposal would drastically reduce state fees that mining companies pay for producing waste rock. Mining companies currently pay $7.03 per ton of waste rock. Most of that money goes to help fund local governments' recycling efforts, pollution abatement, brownfield cleanup and bonds for cleaning up contaminated land. According to estimates the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau released Wednesday, the bill would slash that to a little less than 3 cents, resulting in a loss of up to $171 million annually. "It's a free ride for a mining company," Rep. Fred Clark, D-Baraboo, said Thursday. "It's part of why so many people object to the bill just on economic grounds." Under the legislation, mining companies' only obligation to the state for waste materials would be a 1-cent per ton environmental repair fee, a 1-cent per ton groundwater fee and a 0.7-cent per ton fee for the Waste Facility Siting Board, an arm of the governor's office that facilitates talks between landfill license applicants and municipalities. Mining companies wouldn't have to pay a recycling fee, which is currently $7 per ton. The bureau's report, released Wednesday, notes that Gogebic Taconite expects to extract about 8 million long tons of iron annually over the mine's 35-year first phase; a long ton is 2,240 pounds. The bureau said that would lead to about 29 million tons of waste per year, including 18 million tons of tailings, the crushed ore waste left over from processing iron pellets, and 11 million tons of overlying rock.
Based on those numbers and the legislation's 2.7 cents per ton fee, the state could generate between $665,000 and $785,000 a year that would be divided between the environmental management account and the waste board.If Gogebic Taconite had to pay the $7 recycling fee, the state would generate more than $172 million for environmental cleanup and pollution abatement, the bureau said. The bill's author, Sen. Tom Tiffany, said Thursday that it doesn't make sense to retain the $7 recycling fee since Gogebic Taconite plans to use the waste to fill the pit when the mine closes. "This is not a recyclable material," said Tiffany, R-Hazelhurst. "The waste rock ... will be used in the reclamation. That's the rationale." Gogebic Taconite President Bill Williams said the recycling fee was intended to cover trash deposited in a landfill and shouldn't apply to rock. "I think that would be a deal breaker for anybody," Williams said. "You put it in and no industry will come." Larry MacDonald, mayor of Bayfield, a city of roughly 500 people on Lake Superior about 50 miles north of the mine site, said the bill could lead to pollution that could harm the city's lake-dependent tourism industry. He said exempting Gogebic Taconite from the recycling fee is ridiculous. "The fact we'd lose $171 million is an atrocious thing," he said. "That's throwing the baby out with the bath water." Clark, the Baraboo lawmaker, is co-sponsoring an alternative mining bill that also would eliminate the $7 recycling fee on waste. But the Democrat said that bill is better because it imposes a so-called tonnage tax, which would require mining companies to pay according to how much iron they extract. Seventy percent of the revenue would go to local governments near the mine; 30 percent would go to the state.
Tiffany's bill would impose a tax on mining companies' revenue, giving 60 percent of the money to local governments and 40 percent to the state after the locals are compensated for mining impacts.Democrats contend the tax might not generate anything if Gogebic Taconite has a down year. The tax doesn't kick in until a company makes at least $536,600, and companies are allowed to deduct operational costs. Democrats say the tonnage tax is guaranteed money if the company extracts anything. The fiscal bureau prepared the estimates for the Legislature's budget committee, which is scheduled to vote Monday on the bill. Approval would clear the way for a full vote in the Senate and Assembly. Passage is all but certain. Republicans control both legislative houses and Republican Gov. Scott Walker has touted the mining bill as the GOP's signature job creation plan.


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The post will now meet at the Upshur County Senior Citizens Organization building at the intersection of Silver Alley and Harrison St.
Meeting time has been changed to 6:30 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month, starting Feb. 21.
Parking will be at the rear (south side) of the building, and can be accessed from Silver Alley.
"In discussions between the Post 320 and UCSCO members, it was discovered that there would be several advantages for both parties to have the American Legion Post as a resident" in the 99-year-old building, Holsworth said in a press release.
The local legion chapter had been sharing a meeting place with the Disabled American Veterans chapter on U.S. 271 North, across from Walmart.
Holsworth also announced that his chapter is now at 126 percent of its membership goal with 45 members, and almost six months left in its fiscal year.
Telephone contacts for the legion post, comprised of military veterans, remain the same: Holsworth at 903-843-4324 and Vance Lowry at 903-843-2257.
Legion members serve fellow veterans and the community, Holsworth said.


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Dr. Terriel R. Byrd, professor of Urban Christian Ministry, will be the featured speaker at Palm Beach Atlantic University's Fall Commencement at 2 p.m. Saturday, December 15 at the Palm Beach County Convention Center.
The event is open to graduates and guests who hold tickets. More than 225 candidates for associate, bachelor's and master's degrees from the West Palm Beach, Orlando and Wellington campuses will participate in the ceremony.
Dr. Byrd, who serves as the director of the Evening Ministries Program at Palm Beach Atlantic, joined the University in 1999. He has served as workshop facilitator for the Cultural Sensitivity Seminar in Jacksonville, Fla., and was a member of the strategic planning committee meeting for the African-American church division of the Florida Baptist Convention. He is the 2012-2013 president of the African American Caucus of the Academy of Homiletics of North America. His authorship and presentations include the "History of the First Black Church," "The Non-African Perception of the African American Religious Experience" and "Inter-ethnic Cultural Communication," presented for the American Association of Behavioral Sciences and National Association of African-American Studies.
He has published extensively with the Baptist Press and published the History of the Union Baptist Church, now archived at the Cincinnati Historical Society Library. He is among the contributors to the Preaching God's Transforming Justice: A Lectionary Commentary series in 2011-2013.
Dr. Byrd is noted scholar on the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He presented "Martin Luther King Jr.'s Evangelical Liberalism: An Approach to Social Justice" at the National Association of Christian Social Workers, and "King the Churchman: An Examination of the Ecclesiology of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.," for the North American Academy of Homiletics. His first full length book, I Shall Not Be Moved, was an international bestseller. His second book, By This Shall We Be Known: Interpreting the Voice and Message of Dr. King, was released in October, 2011.
He was recognized in Marquis 2011 Who's Who in America, and the 2004-2005 "Who's Who Among America's Teachers," honoring the nation's most respected teachers. In 2007, he received the Charles and Hazel Corts Award for Outstanding Teaching. Dr. Byrd currently serves on the board of Urban Youth Impact.
Dr. Byrd holds degrees from Cincinnati Bible College and Seminary (A.S.); Miami University (B.A., M.A.); United Theological Seminary (M.Div.) and The Union Institute (Ph.D.). He has more than 18 years' experience as a senior pastor and previously served as campus minister at two universities in Ohio.


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LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - A not guilty plea was entered Tuesday afternoon for a woman Lexington police arrested for stalking a child.
The case against 42-year old Juliann Reynolds went in front of a Fayette District judge Tuesday afternoon. She is charged with 2nd degree stalking. Reynolds did not appear in court, her attorney entered a not guilty plea.
Lexington Police say the Fayette County School system has an extensive documentation of incidents involving Reynolds. The most recent incident was last Wednesday, when police responded to a harassment call. A juvenile girl told investigators that as she was crossing the road on her way to school, Reynolds exited the wrong way out of a parking lot and accelerated toward the child. The child says she was forced to jump out of the way.
According to court documents obtained by WKYT, Reynolds admitted that she accelerated her car, but only because she was headed to a nearby home to pick something up. Investigators followed up with that homeowner, who denied Reynolds' claim, and even told police Reynolds had asked her to lie on her behalf.
Also in the arrest warrant report, according to the victim and her mother, the victims classroom has been locked down as a result of actions taken by Reynolds.
The detective notes that those incidents have been documented by the school system and Lexington Police.
However a representative for the school system, Lisa Deffendall, tells us there is no record of a class room lock down, and clarified that all classrooms are locked between passing periods as a safety precaution.
Deffendall went on to say that, "They have handled conflicts between these individuals in the past, and taken steps to insure the safety of everyone involved," the conflicts mentioned being between Reynolds and the victim's mother.
"Stalking a child and trying to run them over?" a shocked Alyse Dickersonexclaimed after our crews explained why they were getting video of the middle school. "It just seems ridiculous," she said.
Dickerson has lived next door to the school for months and while she says she doesn't know the people involved, she does say she's never seen anything similar to what Reynolds is accuseed of.
The judge set a preliminary hearing for Reynolds on April 15.


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I Second this???
just wondering if anyone has an idea how bad the winter kill is going to be in the western part of the state?? around G and H?? thanks for the info
I Second this???
So far the snow is deep and weather has been cold but luckily the winter kills has been very minimal so far. The spring storms in late March and April are the real killers for our deer and antelope, so we're not out of the woods yet. I have seen some footage of some really good bucks on the range this year. Quite a few over 190 typ and 220 n/t, so if we can make it out of the spring unscathed this should be a decent year for regions G and H. I do know one thing, the country is going to be very green this spring and summer. If all else fails the fishing should be really good. Good luck in the draws guys.
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thanks for the info Guy. i should draw a tag..iv got 4 points..hope this spring snow dont show up!!!
Guy is right. I'm on the other side of the mountain and I'm here to tell ya that there is a lot of snow up there. Green spring bring good nutrition to promote good antler growth. I saw a lot of big critters last year and I bet this coming year will be more of the same. Provided those nasty spring storms dont unleash their fury???
I've lost count how many times its warmed up to the 40s for a couple three days or so, only to be hit with cold temps and snow again. The fawns in my neck of the woods are looking pretty rough; some nasty spring storms could possibly do them in.
I live in G and I would concur that the kill has been minimal. Lot's of dead young deer on the roads (as usual) this year, but I've seen plenty of healthy bucks.
this is good news to here from the ppl that really live where the deer are!!! hope i can find a big one up there this year!! thanks for the update guys.
Can anyone give me an update on winter conditions and expected effects on Wy area 119 for mule deer?
Just wondering if there is an update on Region G from the locals. We put in for a mulie tag with high hopes after a few years of points. My buddy talked to a local biologist who said the fawn mortality was at ~80% after a rough spring and slow thaw with high old buck mortality as well. He encouraged us to still come hunt as the impact may be greater in the next couple of years.
Now just waiting to see if we draw with 2 points.
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Fishing Boat Death
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – Alaska State Troopers say a Wisconsin man died in an accident aboard a boat in Cook Inlet. Troopers say 55-year-old Lewis Byerly of Frederic on Thursday morning pulled up an anchor with a motorized winch on the fishing boat Anna Lane and his arm became tangled in the chain. He could not get free and the winch pulled him into the machinery, killing him. Trooper spokeswoman Beth Ipsen tells KTUU-TV (http://bit.ly/126J0ug) that Byerly was one of two people on the boat about a mile and a half off shore near Ninilchik (nih-NIL'-chek) on the Kenai Peninsula. The state medical examiner will perform an autopsy. Troopers say they reported the incident to the Coast Guard and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
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Replace Netwalker Lcd Or Battery (pc-z1), English Instructions
Replace Netwalker Lcd Or Battery (pc-z1), English Instructions
Jul 10 2010, 02:44 PM
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I figured I would post these disassembly steps for anyone else who needs to replace a cracked screen
Read entire post before attempting on a real unit *** NOT COMPLETE YET ***
The only other info I found was in Japanese.
Remove the small plugs that cover the screws.
There are two sizes, the ones over Big(2) have a "3" in them, see a picture in my other post.
The two big ones are feet, not screw covers.
If you are only replacing the battery or LCD you only need to remove the Big (2) and Long (2) screws.
The screw heads are very small, Phillips size 00 (PH00)
Remove the Battery Cover, lift from the top.
This will expose the battery, which can come out of the channel, but is attached with a group of wires.
Since my battery is fine, I did not look for a connector or open the covering.
(Call me chicken, but I have enough problems right now)
To open the upper case there are two screws at the bottom next to the hinge/battery cover.
To be able to reach them with a screwdriver, close the lid most of the way, with the battery hanging down.
Here you can see the Strange screw head, along with the wires to the battery.
At this point I am stuck, until I find the proper screwdriver for this.
Ok Wikipeadia says it is a Tri-Wing or Triangular Slotted blade.. But as with the PH00 is it SMALL
I found a small screwdriver set on ebay where they call it a Y Screwdriver. They mention other electronics,
like GBA etc.
We'll see if it fits when I get them...
I will update this when I learn more...
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That is very interesting!
The instructions only talks about replacing the lcd. Then how about the battery? Is it truly replaceable, like changing the cells inside the battery? If so then there is a possibility to throw in a biggest possible cell and make the Z1 king of the hill!
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Another day, another dollar for the Dolphins.
Here are some highlights of what is happening:
ILB Karlos Dansby (toe) missed practice today. Coach Tony Sparano said he simply wanted to rest the player.
Quarterback Chad Henne, he of the 14 TDs and 16 INTs, apparently has a pretty good grasp on his 2010 production so far.
"It's been up and down," Henne said. "Tough road. But at times I felt I've improved on a lot of things from last year -- some decison-making. But there is some good improvement I feel I've made and some strides. But there's stuff I have to work on and I'll evaluated in the offseason."
Henne offered somewhat of a better explanation why he didn't agree with Brandon Marshall when the receiver apologized to his defensive teammates after Sunday's 17-14 loss to Buffalo.
"I just keep relating back that you win or lose as a team," he said. "Obviously, offensively we could have done things better and scored more points and executed better. We're disappointed we didn't score more points and didn't execute, but apologies to our teammates ... I guess I don't know if I'd let a defensive player come in here and say something. I wouldn't accept that. I just think we win or lose as a team."
I believe Henne means he would not require or want an apology from a defensive player if, at some point, the defense played poorly and the offense carried the team.
In case you're wondering, Henne is expected to be the starter for Miami the last two games of the season, barring an unforeseen situation. Sparano is apparently thinking he wants to give Henne more chances to improve.
"I think you to continue and develop Chad," Sparano said. "We'll see where we are in these football games. If there's a point maybe you might be able to do something like that, you think about it. But right now we want to continue to develop Chad."
Speaking of the running game ...
Sparano was asked today what he believes is the biggest problem with the disappointing Miami running game.
Second-level blocking," he said. "I think we've been able to block them good through the first level. I don't think we've done a good enough job blocking linebackers ... I think the second-level blocking is where to me is where we've had the biggest struggles."
Sparano says the Dolphins haven't suffered minus runs to any worrisome degree. He cited some statistic that claims the Dolphins have had the third-fewest negative plays in the NFL. I have not seen any such stats. But it's getting past the defensive linemen that Sparano says Miami has problems.
"It's the difference between a 3 yard run and a 7 yard run," he said.
Of course, that says nothing for the third-level blocking that turns 7 yard runs into 57 yard runs. Haven't seen enough of those this year, either.
The longest run by Ronnie Brown this year is 51 yards. His next longest run is 17 yards. The longest run by Ricky Williams is 45 yards. His next longest run is 23 yards.


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Mobile Broadcasting previously said its plan is to use MPEG-4, and it is using MPEG-4 in the test broadcasting currently underway.
According to Mobile Broadcasting, it started studies to consider the change to H.264 about half a year ago, because H.264 has higher coding efficiency and can produce more benefits. H.264 may enable an increase of the number of video channels as well as improved image quality.
Mobile Broadcasting said that for now it is still in the phase of studying possibilities, and has made no final decisions. The biggest challenge is making functional changes to the user terminals after they go on sale. The terminals that can play back MPEG-4 content must be changed to support H.264 as well.
Mobile Broadcasting is considering solving this problem by updating the decoding software. Once it is sure that it can solve these issues, it says would like to make the final decision to change to H.264.
In Korea, a satellite digital television broadcasting service for mobile devices is scheduled to start commercial service using the same satellite that Mobile Broadcasting is using.
A Korean service provider plans to use H.264 for its broadcasting service from the beginning.
In the Wireless Japan 2004 exhibition, held from July 21-23, 2004, Renesas Technology Corp and Texas Instruments Ltd exhibited application processors to be used in mobile phones for H.264 decoding. The processors are targeted for the Korean market, where content distribution service using H.264 has already begun, as well as the Japanese market, in which terrestrial digital television broadcasting for mobile phones is scheduled to start sometime during fiscal 2005.
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Tom Sestito recorded his first career two- goal game and Ilya Bryzgalov made 21 saves, as Philadelphia nipped Tampa Bay, 2-1, on Tuesday.
"I've got only one move, and I was hoping nobody else noticed that. I have to hand it to my teammates, who gave me great passes. It was like I had two breakaways," Sestito deadpanned after the game.
Jakub Voracek, Brayden Schenn, Max Talbot and Ruslan Fedotenko added an assist each for the Flyers, who posted back-to-back wins for the second time in the 2013 campaign.
Benoit Pouliot registered the lone score for the Lightning, who have lost two in a row since winning five straight.
Anders Lindback stopped 22 shots in the setback.
Bryzgalov came up big early in the third period, making a sweeping stop of a Ryan Malone bullet to keep his club on top by a goal, then knocked away a Cory Conacher offering by deflecting it away with the glove.
Things got a little tense when Conacher barreled into the Flyers' netminder with 8:11 played in the period, and Bryzgalov was briefly prone inside his own net before recovering during a stoppage.
"Well I guess you always want the call, you don't always get it," said Flyers head coach Peter Laviolette. "I don't know if there was concern, but I guess disappointment maybe. With calls some you get, some you don't."
Pouliot then roofed a shot from in close with 9 1/2 minutes left in regulation, left alone atop the crease to convert a Teddy Purcell dish.
But Sestito used the backhand once more to beat Lindback and put the hosts ahead, 2-1, only 1:41 later. This time, a Fedotenko pass sent the gritty winger in on goal.
Tampa failed to convert on a power-play chance with 4:50 remaining and Lindback was pulled for an extra skater inside the final 90 seconds. A Philadelphia holding penalty made it a 6-on-4 edge for the Bolts with 13.5 seconds to play, but time ran out on the visitors.
"I felt they had a lot of offensive zone time the first half of that game. So, we didn't have enough fresh legs to go on the offense. That's pretty much what happened," said Bolts forward Martin St. Louis. "But we fought back and Bryzgalov made some keys saves at key times. We just didn't get it done."
Following an atypical scoreless period between these clubs, Sestito's backhander from a Voracek pass slid between Lindback's arm and body and gave the Flyers a 1-0 edge at 4:25 of the second.
Seconds prior to the score, Bolts sniper Steven Stamkos was alone in the slot and rang his shot off the crossbar.
Game Notes
Sestito's last goal occurred Dec. 23, 2010, with Columbus against Vancouver. The 25-year-old upstate New York native also doubled his total career goal output ... Stamkos saw his eight-game point streak from the start of the season (7G, 9A) ended, a run which included a goal and assist in a 5-1 win vs. Philly in Tampa on Jan. 27 ... Lightning forward B.J. Crombeen left the game in the first period and did not return after being on the receiving end of several punches by Flyers forward Zac Rinaldo.


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Three games in total on the budget of a startup... That's pretty good.
This would have to be one of the army's most cost-effective projects ever then, wouldn't it?
That depends less on the cost and more on the effect. If the Army was trying to make a popular online FPS, then yeah I guess. One wonders if this is a valid goal for the Army. The game is supposed to be a recruitment tool, right? Is there data on how effective it has been in that role?
From a conversation I had at GDC a couple years ago with an army guy involved in the project, the main goal was not recruitment, quite the opposite.
He claimed that the army looses a lot of money and resources in training new people, who just give up somewhere along the training or right after it. So the game was originally developed to try to show that "real combat" is not what happens in FPSs and thus weed out some of the applicants.
Of course, the PR impact was welcome.
Yeah except Modern Warfare 2 didnt crash the first time I ran it.
Someone obviously hasn't looked at the games side by side.
Most of the manpower cost of a video game is artist time. DoD games and military sim stuff looks like crap comparatively because they don't put millions of dollars into artists. When I played America's Army the visual quality was about the same as most fan mods to commercial games.
Although what amazes me is that the army spends millions building their own game and engine, then still turns around and spends $10k/seat on meta-VR for all of their sim training. I mean, I get it for large scale sims - as someone who worked in this area, there is a big difference between building a military sim engine that can span hundreds or thousands of miles and a video game engine that will span two - but for a lot of the small-scale infantry work like the fort benning training, I really don't see the point.
Supposedly they were looking at finally correcting that issue - I was at one point going to be the guy doing some of the work to make the game read mil-sim protocols, actually, before that part of the contract fell through. I wonder if they've made any progress since then.
I wonder if the phrase 'disclosure of this information is likely to cause substantial harm to the Department of the Army's competitive position in the gaming industry.' indicates any competitive advantages they might have...
OTOH, I think I just really like that phrase and intend to reuse it whereever possible given it's one I never thought I'd see anyone utter in complete seriousness.
It wasn't exactly efficiency that got them the low cost game. Basically they got a team of developers and had them worked to the bone to produce a game that initially would hardly run.
So they relied on proven industry standards then?
Quality? I've been playing AA since before the "Honor" system was added and I assure you that word does not belong in any sentence referring to the game.
Why do you continue playing?
I'd guess because he gets his money's worth.
Shit, their US TV advertising budget is more than 3.3M a year.... This is chump change. And the unquantifiable savings in reduction in recruitment office costs, and weeding out of undesireables who have non-realistic views of army life easily saves more than that...
This was a good program. I suggest increasing the funding to $6M anually and see what they can do with it...
How much does it cost to recruit new soldiers via other methods? How about weighted by efficiency?
Just because it costs $33 million, doesn't mean it isn't a good deal.
Maybe not. But it's pretty damn awesome.
I'd wager they're doing more with the game than just recruitment. I'm sure there are a lot of interesting studies you could run on a game like that. This doesn't mean it's tin foil nefarious stuff - a lot of academics would probably like to get their hands on that data set.
Behavioral factors, navigation patterns, learning and adapting.. I'm not even a scientist and I can think of all kinds of interesting offshoots from the game - I'd be pretty surprised if there were no scientists with government grants p
Also the game was a massive success in the beginning regarding recruiting, don't know these days since I've stopped playing, but when I played there was a lot of people talking about signing up because of the game.
Figure ten to twenty million plus per team fielded.
At least AA doesn't present war as a clean and easy and dismissible.
$10 an hour for a recruiter? Most recruiters are in the E6-E8 range, which is a salary roughly around the $50,000 a year mark. That's a lot more than $10 an hour!
'In denying other aspects of the FOIA request, the Army stated 'disclosure of this information is likely to cause substantial harm to the Department of the Army's competitive position in the gaming industry.'
I'll be the first to admit that I'm a fan of America's Army and like the games. But that the Federal Government, much less the Army, should be concerned with its ability to compete against private industry? Isn't that contrary to our beliefs regarding the purposes of Government and of our economic system (at least in the U.S.)? And to top it off, it's denying a FOIA request on the basis, not of national security, an on-going criminal investigation or violation of someone's privacy, but on the basis of what could be called a trade secret? And it's so bogus to boot, they can invest as much as they want into the program to out-compete their private industry competitors without fear as they don't have to recoup their expenses... the Army won't go out of business if they spend foolishly. Private companies on the other hand do go out of business when they fail to have excess revenues to costs... unless you're a car company or a well connected bank of course. I know it's not the first time this has happened (Amtrak, USPS), but still... aren't the existing game companies good enough?
(Stepping off of soap box and taking big breath to facilitate big sigh)
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The issue isn't whether it's cost effective (it probably is) or whether game publishers don't like it (they probably don't care).
The issue is one of principle, and violating that principle has costs that are significant although hard to measure in dollars: you can't control what you can't observe.
I think they should be concerned with the competition. That $33mil was spent to put material in front of eyeballs to aide in recruiting and very basic military concepts (ranks, etc). If you don't keep up, nobody sees it and your investment is over.
32 million seems to much for just 3 video games. Why is it so high?
30 people at 75,000 a year for ten years would be around 25 mil with benefits.
Of course then there are server costs, publicity costs, office costs, hardware blah blah blah.
Seems reasonable cost to me for the end product.
I don't really agree with creating the product, because that should have been a private company creating the product at the army's direction if at all. Government really shouldn't be in the business of private industry whether it's the army, or whatever.
That's not high at all. Many individual games run that kind of budget and I recently read that Gran Turismo 5 has cost $60 million to date. Take a look at the credits for many of these games, these developers have a massive staff. Those salaries alone eat up a fairly significant portion of the budget. Then factor in all the other expenses and it's easy to see why the budgets are so large. That said, it does seem ridiculous that a game costs so much to develop, but that's just the nature of the kinds of game
People seem to assume that is development costs; but AA's budget, in true Army style, could include a lot more - from printing copies, facility costs, operational costs such as vehicle gas, travel and TDY expenses, etc.
That said, 33 mill is pretty impressive, especially if it is all in costs of the organization.
BUT, I would like to think that they have the BEST quality fliers at the stick as well as at the button. Basically, a good America's Air force, ideally tied into America's Army would open up doors.
Besides the fact that most air combat is done "Beyond Visual Range" these days with complicated radar systems (which, if judging by some of the modern combat sims like Falcon 4, are pretty hard to come up with a good control scheme for), PC or Console SIMS will not always give you good pilots. While not as much of an issue for the UAVs, I know a number of flight sim lovers who would never pass medical to fly a fighter jet .
Also, depending on how good your sim is, you can usually do a number of things in
Also, of course, they operate the Stargate.
I think OpenFalcon or FreeFalcon would be a better starting point. Both are fairly realistic in their modeling of the F-16. I think OF is out of development now; it's been shut down a while. But FreeFalcon just had a major release and it's a *very* nice sim.
Get FF here: http://www.freefalcon.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14498 [freefalcon.com]
Here's the 5.3 patch: http://www.freefalcon.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16562 [freefalcon.com]
Oh, and the current version is super buggy. Probably because they fired the entire development team after the last release.
Yep, there's military intelligence for you. I tried the game twice several years ago and it was horribly buggy then. I see some things don't change.
Until we pay back foreign lenders....which are probably never. Of course we probably could of just printed the money...oh..did that too.
Ahh, the good old days. I left my computer on overnight so I could download the game on my "640Kbps" (really only about 480Kbps sustained) DSL line. Remember back when hosts didn't have lines for servers, and everyone was downloading at-once at 5KB/s? That was exatly my experience downloading America's Army.
Then after all the wait, I installed the game and - hey, why can't I connect to multiplayer servers? It turned out, you had to go through "basic training" before you could play online on the official
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So why is our world growing dimmer? Why such continuous struggle? Why is He not able to have more impact on the very people He created?
One of the reasons may be churches have robbed the communities of the freeing power of the Bible. For years the Catholics have been criticized by the denominations for taking the Bibles from the hands of their members and placing the priests as the (go-between) God-representative to all.
But we've missed our own tactical scheme to remove the Word from our own members. We allow them to hold their own Bibles and encourage them to read them. Yet, in many areas of the church life is snuffed from the Power Source because we have programmed our members to view the Word with biased slant while reading with jaundiced eyes.
We, of all people, love to have our ears tickled. I don't know about other brands of churches but II Tim. 4:1-4 is a favorite of the Churches of Christ. Furthermore this passage is quite accurate in its claim. Yet, we have applied it to others and not ourselves. We have mocked other churches for putting on their blinders to the read the Word of God; getting out of it what they want. Yet we put on our C of C glasses in just as many areas to bend the Bible to fit our preferences.
Getting back to the Bible is not only a respectable call, it is essential. Of all places, all churches would do well to heed this concern. Our world is in desperate need of help. We've hidden the Bible out in the open by burying it with our religious whims and peeves to the point no one can find God anymore. This is most tragic and we are to blame.
No longer can we roll our eyes and wonder why society has turned its back on God. It hasn't. It has gone deaf to a whining and irritating sound rising from churches which covers the reverent message of God with trinkets and bobbles of distracting tradition. We are to blame; not them.
May we make concerted effort to be faithful to the Bible more than faithful to the herd who interprets and misinterprets His writings.
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- Robert Yerton said...
Thank you for your partnership with Lindbergh Elementary. You might be interested in reading what the superintendent of Tulsa Public Schools had to say about the school/church connection in his bulletin this morning.
I believe you have made it plain that the Holy Spirit is basic to church revival. So is meditating on the word to develop one's personal relationship with Jesus. In the new covenant it is not wired through anyone else, elders, preachers etc. "I will write my word in their hearts."
Amen to you.
Larry in Denver
- Matthew said...
I just finished doing some work on this mindset. Those who claim a simple reading often do not realize how much they have been previously influenced.
- Terry said...
This is an encouraging post. Just yesterday, a co-worker told me that she had been attending her Catholic church all of her life but did not feel like she knew the Bible at all. She has expressed a desire to know God better, but she is a little afraid of the process.
When I told my wife, she went to a local Christian bookstore and bought my co-worker a copy of the Life Application Study Bible (NIV). I will be taking it to work with me in a few minutes to give to my searching friend so that she can begin to understand the Bible and God a little better.
You are right. People are wanting to know God and the Bible. We need to be sensitive to them.
By the way, thank you for your work in running the Tulsa Workshop. We enjoyed it, and were encouraged by it.


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University of Hawai'i's Hokoana named State of Hawai'i Manager of the YearUniversity of Hawaiʻi
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Lui K. Hokoana, University of Hawai'i associate vice president for student affairs, has been named State of Hawaiʻi Manager of the Year.
The award, announced today at the governor's awards ceremony at the State Capitol Auditorium, honors the state's executive branch manager who exemplifies the highest caliber of public service and dedication to serving the people of Hawai'i.
As the former vice chancellor for student affairs at Windward Community College, Lui demonstrated his outstanding ability as a leader and manager while working on student recruitment and community outreach, accessing grants to enable training and development for faculty and staff, developing a mentoring program and promoting academic support strategies to improve student development.
Hokoana was appointed associate vice president for student affairs for the UH System in May. He leads the Office of Student Affairs, where he continues to strengthen educational opportunities for the university's students and the community, and develop and coordinate UH System student affairs policies and procedures.
He works exceptionally well with others and is able to manage multiple projects simultaneously and guide them to completion. He has been described as a charming man who exudes goodwill and a sincere interest in the well-being of students, along with a commitment to support faculty and staff.
"Lui is an experienced and seasoned student affairs leader who is attuned to community needs, especially as they relate to Hawaiian affairs," noted Rockne Freitas, UH System vice president for student affairs and university and community relations.
Hokoana began his career at the University of Hawai'i in 1991 as a counselor at Maui Community College (now known as UH Maui College). He served as director of the Liko A'e Native Hawaiian Scholarship Program, which he developed and implemented to provide scholarships to students throughout the United States. Among his many community activities, Hokoana is one of the founders and a past president of the Native Hawaiian Education Association. In 1999, he received the Ke Kukui Mãlamalama Excellence in Hawaiian Education award from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.


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DOLPHINS STADIUM -- Just finished filing my story on Miami's defense and wanted to share some post game thoughts with you.
> For all the attention Miami's freshmen on offense have gotten this season (and they deserve it), Marcus Robinson showed us Thursday night why the Canes got more than just playmakers at receiver in this 2008 Signing Class. He had three sacks, four tackles for loss and a team-high seven tackles in his second career start. Without question, he earned tonight's game-ball with his play.
But he also sent a message: the Canes have some pretty good young playmakers on defense, too. Defensive tackle Marcus Forston, who also had a sack, Sean Spence, who is on his way to a freshman All-American season, and Brandon Harris are the stars of the class. But if Robinson can turn up the intensity at end, Miami's defense can be a whole lot better the rest of the way this year. God knows they've needed a pass rush. Robinson, by the way, said he got news of the start Wednesday night on the bus ride to the team hotel. He started in front of Adewale Ojomo.
> If I had to give out a game ball on offense, Reggie Youngbloodwould get it. He stepped up big for Jason Fox at left tackle and provided some solid pass blocking despite obviously being less than 100 percent. He said afterward he got a few breaks to rest on the bench, but played more than he had all season. Chris Rutledge, who started opposite him at right tackle, went down in the first quarter and battled back and stayed in the rotation with Matt Pipho. Virginia Tech finished with four sacks. But on a night when UM played without its best lineman, the line held its own. The Canes finished with 123 yards rushing.
> With the win, Miami improved to 13-1 all-time on Thursday night ESPN games. I'm willing to bet they scored a bunch of points with recruits, too. It's been awhile since UM played in a prime time game and won.
> UM coach Randy Shannon said part of the offensive game plan was to get Virginia Tech's defense tired. Shannon said he knew the Hokies only rotated about 13 players and felt like if Miami could hold onto the football in the second half it could prevail. Miami owned time of possession in the second half 18:23 to Virginia Tech's 11:37.
> By the way, here's a link to The Herald's audio slideshow from the game, which I helped narrate.
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the fett nod.
I think us "Earthlings" can easily relate to Han Solo's humor and sarcasm
One of my top favorite scenes is when Luke is looking out over the sands of Tatooine watching the suns set. The music and the mood are so in sync and emotional and the coloring is beautiful.
I also really enjoy the whole Jango Fett/ Obi-Wan battle on Kamino in AOTC.
Han Solo is always good for a line. One of my faves of his is "Laugh it up, fuzzball" LOL but the "Fly Casual" line usually always cracks me up.
Fave in EU--The Fett story parts of Bloodlines--there's no picking parts out of that for me.
As far as the Sarlacc scene for Boba's "demise"...GL said in an interview (actually I think it was commentary on one of the dvd's) that if he knew how popular BF would be, he'd have made his "death" more dramatic.
I agree with all of that.
Thanks Humorbot
There's another line I can't believe I didn't mention: "I'd rather kiss a Wookiee!" How could I forget that one? LOL
In the movies it is definately Han Solo's conversation in the death star in episode IV.
"Ummm we just had a slight weapons malfunction. Everythings fine, we're all fine. How are you?"
LOL!!! That one's priceless...
Here's another funny one to consider:
Leia in regard to Chewie: "Somebody get this walking carpet out of my way!"
(poor Chewie)
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Eight quality sculptures made it difficult for the Community Art Legacy judges to pick a winner of the ninth annual contest.
In the end the judges selected SoyPod by Pamela Lee, Grayslake, Sunday afternoon as the winning entry.
"I am very thrilled and surprised — really surprised," said Lee. "This is work I love to do."
The sculpture is a soy pod with a goat, pig, cow, and chicken emerging.
Lee's maquette will be enlarged from the current one-third scale before it is cast in bronze by Jeff Adams' foundry inBronze, Mt. Morris.
When completed the sculpture will join eight others that are being installed throughout the Oregon area.
"It is difficult for our judges," said Adams, who is a sponsor of the contest. "I do not judge the contest but I will answer questions from the judges. We have eight nice entries this year."
The entries are judged on the agriculture theme as well as a variety of categories to select the winner.
"The judges can talk with the sculptors and ask questions about the sculpture," said Adams. "The also make sure the sculpture is feasible to be cast in bronze."
The finished sculpture can take 18-24 months to be installed in a public location.
"We work as fast as we can to complete the sculpture, but it depends on the scheduling and complexity of the project," said Adams. "We try to have the sculpture placed within one year."
A write-up about SoyPod was provided by the sculptor.
"As I walked through woods and hunted in fields with my father, I came to learn the rhythms of the seasons and the interdependence of people with their environment. Surrounded by farms, I found an early fascination with the impact of environment on people and people on their environment.
"In SoyPod I express the multi-dimensional function of a simple soybean in a complex food chain, integrating it with the undulating, constantly changing, landscape that nurtures crops, animals and ourselves."
Other CAL sculptures are "From the Waters Comes My Bounty" by Ray Kobald at Oregon's Kiwanis Park, "Agriculture, Mother of Civilization" by David Seagraves at the Ogle County Judicial Center, "Cornball" by Howard Russo at the Oregon Coliseum, "The Bountiful Bench" by Christina Murphy at the Oregon Public Library, "Solar Reef" by Andrew Langoussis at Oregon Park West, and "Making Hay" by Daniel Ingebrightson, Stillman Bank, Oregon, "Harvest Hunter" by Matthew Donavan, which will be installed at Nash Recreation Center, Oregon, and "Working the Land" by Robert Pulley, which is still being cast.
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Harper hoping to build football family at Foard
After being officially approved by the Catawba County Schools Board of Education as the next football coach at Fred T. Foard on Monday night, Tom Harper had one goal in mind.
"Everybody kept telling me that you can't win at Foard," he said. "It made it more attractive for me to go there and make something out of what people thought was nothing."
Now, the new Tigers gridiron leader is hoping to instill a new philosophy and breathe life into the Foard football program.
There is one key message Harper wants to stress not only to his players at Foard, but also those involved in the school.
"My plan is to build a family that cares about each other and wants to go out and battle in the name of Fred T. Foard every Thursday and Friday night," he said. "I don't want them to get caught up in wins and losses right now. I want them to get caught up in battling every time they go out and competing every chance they get. If we can do that, get stronger in the weight room, start doing some things that will help us physically and come together as one unit and group, I think we'll be fine. All I'm asking from them is great effort and great attitude. We'll get everything else as we go along."
Harper is hoping to lead Foard to similar success that he experienced at his two previous coaching tenures with Alexander Central and Hickory.
During his combined six seasons with the Cougars (2007-11) and Red Tornadoes (2012), Harper's teams made the playoffs each season. His 2010 Alexander Central squad also won a conference championship.
Harper said his decision to leave Hickory after one season for the Foard coaching job wasn't personal.
"It's not anything that Hickory hasn't done. It's just not the right fit for me right now," he said. "It's better to get out now than to hold on and know it isn't the right fit. That is why I'm going to Foard. I am very excited about my new opportunity, but very thankful for my last opportunity."
As far as personnel is concerned, Harper hasn't decided the fate of five assistant coaches under former Tiger leader Jason Phelps, which includes Mike Auton, Mike Banther, Marcus Greer, Clifton Price and Samy Sheritah.
"My plan is to speak to every coach that coached on that staff last year and kind of get an idea of what they may be thinking and get a direction of what they thought the problems were, if any," Harper said. "We want to start moving in a positive direction to try to make it as good as we can make it."
Harper also said that nothing is set is stone as far as offensive and defensive strategies are concerned, as well.
"I'm not going to talk offense or defense right now because I don't know," he said. "In order to be able to know that, I have to be able to see personnel. I know what I like to do. That is what we'll try to do. If not, we'll adapt around the personnel."
Harper said his final day with the Hickory Public System is either Tuesday or Wednesday of this week.
The new Foard coach now begins a new coaching journey, setting his sights on preparing his new team and the first game of his Tiger tenure, which will be against Maiden on Aug. 23.
"Everywhere I've ever been a head football coach, I've always been excited about the first game," he said. "Thankfully, every place I've ever worked there have been quality people that I've had the opportunity to work with and quality players I've been able to work with. I have no doubt that Fred T. Foard will be just as good, if not better."


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McLaren P1 dashboard revealed!
OK, so it's not the whole interior, but you're going to click on this anyway…
Get a big red pen out, and mark your computer screen: at 10.15am GMT on Tuesday 5 March, McLaren will finally, finally unveil its P1 hypercar to the world at the Geneva Motor Show.
This is exciting. Because it's the first McLaren hypercar since the F1. It's doubly exciting because McLaren promises lots of horsepower and lots of technology, and we are anticipating this by making lots of 'vroom vroom' noises in the office, complemented by wild oversteer gestures.
Until then, we'll be drip-fed information, and today's instalment is... the dash. Well, a readout of the dash, specifically a readout of the dash in 'Race' mode. See, the P1 will take inspiration from the company's Formula One endeavours (and not, as you would have immediately concluded, an MkII Vauxhall Astra GTE) by housing a digital dash.
As you can see in pictures 1-3 above (the new pics), the 'Race' mode includes a bank of lights across the top which illuminate first green, then red, and finally blue, acting as shift indicators.
And when 'Race' mode is selected, that rather lovely rear wing extends out and pitches into "an optimal aerodynamic position" which, thankfully, makes it look nice. Earlier updates from McLaren on the P1 have confirmed that yes, it looks great in that race-circuit-camouflage body colour (as driven by Jenson Button to last week's F1 car reveal), Akebono are working on a "highly efficient" braking system, Mobil 1 is sorting out the fluids (oil and cooling and hydraulics and so forth), while Pirelli will handle the tyres. We're not expecting a call from them for any help, mind...
Other tidbits? We know the McLaren P1 will feature a power-to-weight ratio of 600bhp per tonne, it will sit on the same carbon tub as the MP4-12C, and will feature KERS too. Oh, and it will generate over 600kg of downforce.
There's a new vid over on McLaren's YouTube page too, which you can watch here. Otherwise, stay tuned.