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By by James W. Ramsey | April 22, 2014 Send Feedback
Although in the U.S. NextGen is still six years away and European mandates are speculated to be less-than-firm, long-range jet providers like Gulfstream, Dassault and Cessna are equipping their new production aircraft with the capabilities to handle the new requirements. Operators are reaping the benefits of GPS-guided Wide Area Augmentation System/Localizer Performance with Vertical Guidance (WAAS-LPV) approaches and landings at many airports without traditional Instrument Landing System (ILS). In the retrofit market, activity is slower, with operators putting off their equipage, even though avionics upgrades are available for older models.
Dassault Falcon Jet is delivering new aircraft with the EASy II flight deck (based on the Honeywell Primus Epic system) with the capabilities to meet all NextGen requirements, according to Falcon Jet's Director of Avionics Programs and Pilot Training Woody Saland. "EASy II provides for WAAS/LPV minimum approaches, ADS-B Out (in the FAA's new DO-260B configuration) and FANS [Future Air Navigation Systems], as well as the Aeronautical Telecommunications Network [ATN] version [and] Controller Pilot Datalink Communications [CPDLC]. Those are the three lynchpins for pilots that we're talking about with NextGen," says Saland.
As for retrofits, "we would like our entire fleet of EASy-equipped airplanes to upgrade to EASy II, and that is happening as we speak." Saland points to a 15 aircraft per-month conversion rate at authorized service centers. "Our customers are doing it as fast as parts are available from Honeywell," he says. For older aircraft (before EASy) Saland cites Rockwell Collins and Honeywell programs, designed to achieve compliance with retrofits.
Use of Future Air Navigation Systems, or FANS, has been growing in the oceanic regions and is required in several mandates. "As we go out to 2020, I think you are going to see a requirement to use FANS-1/A [a range of FANS products] over the Atlantic," Saland says.
FANS provides direct datalink communications between the pilot and controller, including control clearances, pilot requests and position reporting. Because of the European mandate, which has now slipped, Dassault "rushed to have whatever Honeywell had available for the FANS-1/A or for the ATN CPDLC. It wasn't our long-range plan to do that. In fact, for our next generation of EASy, we're going to FANS II (as Honeywell calls it) and we are doing a much more graphical interface," Saland says.
"We've had FANS (with datalink capability) available now for a few years on our long-range business jets," says Jim Ward, advanced flight deck program manager for Gulfstream Aerospace. "Some 300 G450s and G550s are equipped with FANS-1/A and some 200 with ADS-B packages for automatic position reporting... currently flying the North Atlantic." All G650s have both FANS and ADS-B, according to Saland and, in addition, about 150 of the classic Gulfstream IVs and Vs have been equipped with ADS-B.
As for the newer Link 2000+ CPDLC, technically called ATN-B1 (baseline 1), certification is under completion for the G450s, G550s and G650s. "Eurocontrol has revised the enforcement of that mandate at this point, because their ground network is not up to speed. So we will have that package available for our customers within a month or two — it's just a software update.... There is not a FANS datalink available yet for the legacy GIVs and Vs, but that is in the works," he says. As for ADS-B, the first version is standard on production aircraft now, Ward says, and Version II will be standard on production models when the European mandate takes effect. "
Most of the customers who opted for FANS bought an "enhanced navigation package" that includes Required Navigation Performance (RNP) and WAAS/LPV. The package is optional on the G450/G550s and standard on the G650. Some 40 G450 andG550 operators are currently approved to fly the RNP-AR (authorization required) approaches, Ward says. Cessna reports that ADS-B Out and WAAS/LPV are included as standard equipment on the three newest Citations: Citation X, Sovereign and Citation M2. Link 2000+ (CPDLC) will be included as standard in the X aviation suite and offered as an optional datalink package for the Sovereign and M2, according to Jesus Salinas, Cessna's director of aircraft systems engineering.
The company is "on target to certify the new Citation X in early 2014 with Garmin' G5000 advanced glass cockpit, and after it has entered service, we plan to certify it for RNP-AR and make this a standard capability. FANS-1/A+ will be certified shortly after and will be offered as an optional datalink capability," Ward says. Cessna certified the recently announced M2 last December, and today it includes ADS-B Out and WAAS/LPV as standard navigational capability that is part of the G3000 avionics suite. M2 customers can opt for the Link 2000+ (CPDLC) datalink and upgrade their navigation capability to RNP -0.3 if desired, Salinas says. As for the CJ3, Cessna plans to start working on the certification of Rockwell Collins' ProLine 21 upgrade after completion of certification on the Technical Standard Order (TSO) for their transponder.
Garmin's G3000 cockpit "is kind of a scaled down version for smaller business jets, but has many of the same features as the G5000," according to Bill Stone, Garmin's senior business development manager. Garmin products have also been successful in the after market, Stone points out, offering G1000 retrofits for the entire fleet of KingAirs.
Universal Avionics Systems Corp. has been supplying WAAS/LPV capabilities through its FMS product line, including the UNS-1Fw and 1Ew with more than 3,000 aircraft equipped with this system. "Our WAAS FMS has the accuracy needed for the new ADS-B requirement," says Carey Miller, UASC's manager of business development.
As for FANS, "you have to have a datalink system to 'talk' to Air Traffic Control [ATC] — that's started over the Atlantic. Then Europe is following with its Link 2000+ mandate," he says. Universal is providing its UniLink UL-80X Communications Management Unit (CMU), which is FANS-1/A+ compliant. "We got our first Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) on a Falcon 50 with one of our dealers and we have quite a few STCs in the works right now for various platforms." He envisions the largest market to be for the Gulfstream IVs and Vs.
UASC has been successful with retrofit packages "because we're able to offer all of these new technologies that are coming out as mandates, and we're able to offer them today," Miller says. He highlights the EFI-890R upgrade package for the Falcon 900B that is being installed by Duncan Aviation in Lincoln, Neb. The package adds WAAS/LPV, FANS-1/A and ADS-B capability; the upgrade costs about $1.35 million, including changing the radio-tuning units, says Gary Harpster, avionics sales manager for Duncan Aviation, an authorized Dassault Falcon Jet service center. Another option for the cockpit is the GH-3100 standby attitude indicator, made by L-3, which replaces three mechanical gages with one electronic instrument at an additional cost.
"If the airplane is 25-30 years old, they may not have received any information from the manufacturer or the avionics supplier as to what methodology is going to upgrade that aircraft to meet the [upcoming] requirements," Harpster says. "Right now there are more Falcon 900Bs (one third of the fleet) on the used market than ever before, and a lot of these people are selling the airplanes because they don't know if they can meet the mandates for flying the Atlantic."
Harpster feels more customers will opt in the future for the Universal/Duncan upgrade solution. Other operators are waiting for Rockwell Collins ProLine 21 solution to upgrade to ADS-B "which will probably be in the July/August timeframe," he adds. "They're waiting for that to do a total solution — changing the transponders and adding annunciators in the cockpit on the pilot and copilot side. And the GPS receivers will have to be upgraded."
Elliott Aviation, an authorized service center for Beechcraft, Embraer and Hawker, based in Moline, Ill., (with facilities in Minneapolis and Des Moines), has completed more than 100 Garmin G1000 avionics installations on the KingAir and will also be offering Garmin's G5000 integrated avionics suite, with graphic weather, SV and traffic and terrain avoidance systems.
Rockwell Collins expects to have ADS-B Out for its newest avionics suite, ProLine Fusion, certified by the end of this year for the Bombardier Global 5000 and 6000. WAAS/LPV and FANS capabilities are currently available on those aircraft, according to Chuck Wade, Bombardier's principal marketing manager for avionics. Wade explains that the Globals are not yet certified to the DO-260B version required in U.S. and European mandates. Collins Fusion system is also onboard Gulfstream's G280, which entered service in 2012. Between the Globals and the G280s, Collins has delivered Fusion systems for more than 120 aircraft; by the end of the calendar year, ADS-B Out will be certified for those platforms. Its next entry into service is expected on the Embraer Legacy 500 later this year.
The FAA reports that, as of February, 2014 there were 3,375 WAAS LPV approach procedures serving 1,665 airports, and there are currently also 533 Localizer Performance (LP) approach procedures in the U.S. "The LPV part of it has been well-received domestically," says Wade. "The FAA has been very aggressive in publishing LPV approaches."
To update ProLine 21, Collins is working out the best way to do certification and bring the updates to market, such as in the case of WAAS GPS."It is very critical to the FMS [Flight Management System], to the RNP [Required Navigation Performance], to the WAAS/LPV, to the ADS-B — it is all centered around that WAAS/GPS receiver.
In retrofitting Honeywell's systems, the company feels that it has an advantage. "We own the whole cockpit. It is easy for us to put the right information at the right displays and make it more graphical," says John Beckwith, director of marketing and product management for Honeywell Aerospace. "Our pilots are coming to us with higher expectations for this graphical user experience because of what they get on their iPads, home computers and phones."
Honeywell's SmartView Synthetic Vision System (SVS) was originally designed to enhance situational awareness, but following up with the Falcon EASy II cockpit, it has focused on safety, according to Thea Feyereisen, Honeywell engineering fellow, advanced technology. In the roadmap for NextGen and SESAR, she says, Honeywell is looking to give operational credit for SV — now called SVGS (Synthetic Vision Guidance System) — toward lower landing minimums at airports that might not have equipment to support Cat II or Cat III ILS. Honeywell also provides integrated FANS-1/A+ through its FMS for Primus Epic equipped aircraft, and it has implemented what it calls FANS-2 functionality to supply seamless handovers between the FANS and CPDLC regions. In addition, the company will support FANS-1/A+ for legacy jets using the Mark II CMU [Communications Management Unit] and the FMS 6.1.
"Things we are seeing a demand for are definitely cockpit display of traffic information and ADSB-In functions — applications that create operational and safety benefits," he points out. Surface traffic and incursions on the runway are one of the safety concerns since pilots have stated the taxiing process as a 'very high workload' part of their flight, so providing a usable display showing the traffic situation is an area we are seeing some interest in," says Beckwith.
James W. Ramsey wrote for major newspapers and a wire service. He served as a jet interceptor pilot in the USAF, and has written for Avionics Magazine since 1998.


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The history of Thailand as a nation dates back almost 800 years, from the foundation of the Sukhothai kingdom in the 13th century (1238 AD). It was then that the Thais were first united as a nation and which marked the Thai as a distinct people.
But in fact, the history of the land currently defined by the borders of Thailand, stretches back much further to the pre-historic era. Many discoveries unearthed and excavated in several parts of Thailand give strong evidence that a highly civilized people once inhabited the region.
Several Stone Age settlements have been excavated, notable among them are Ban Kao in Kanchanaburi province and Non Nok in Khon Kaen province. The most important archeological site of early Thai civilization is at Ban Chiang village, in Udon Thani province in the northeastern part of Thailand. Excavations have uncovered painted pottery, jewelry and bronze and iron tools dating from about 3600 BC. The settlement seems to have lasted until around 250 BC, after which the people mysteriously faded from history. The people at Ban Chiang comprised only one of the cradles of Asian civilization and an area that was inhabited for thousands of years before the emergence of the first Thai state.
After the disappearance of the Ban Chiang civilization, the area was influenced by various cultures from India in the 3rd century, the Mons between the 6th and 10th centuries, and the Khmers who built the wondrous Angkor Wat and left their legacy in the form of numerous stone sanctuaries scattered across the Thai kingdom. But it was not until the Sukhothai kingdom was established that the Thai people were unified.
Sukhothai Kingdom
Sukhothai, (13th - 15th centuries), literally the 'dawn of happiness', is considered by most Thai historians to be the first true Thai kingdom, the golden era of Thai history governed by just paternal kings who ruled over peaceful contented citizens. During this period, the greatest monarch, King Ramkamhaeng, devised the first Thai written alphabet, which became the basis for the modern Thai language and literature.
The kingdom also marked a period of great Thai cultural development. During that time, the Thai kingdom absorbed elements of various civilizations, which came into its influence. The Indian civilization in particular, had the greatest impact in providing the basic mould for the region's culture, its artistic development and its social and religious patterns. Visitors can still admire evidence of this great civilization at the Sukhothai Historical Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and also at Sri Satchanalai historical park in Khamphaeng Phet province.
Established over several centuries, the Sukhothai kingdom eventually collapsed, giving way to the rising star of Ayutthaya. The decline of Sukhothai lasted from the mid-14th century until the 15th century. In 1378, the Ayutthaya king, Boromracha I subdued Sukhothai's frontier city of Chakangrao (present-day Kamphaeng Phet), making Sukhothai a satellite state of Ayutthaya. Sukhothai later attempted to break loose from Ayutthaya but with no real success, until in the 15th century, it was finally incorporated into the Ayutthaya kingdom as a province.
Ayutthaya Kingdom
The focus of Thai history and politics now moved to the central plains of present-day Thailand, where Ayutthaya established itself as a centralized state.
The glorious Ayutthaya era lasted for 417 years (1350 to 1767 AD). Founded by King U-Tong or Ramathibodi I, the empire of Ayutthaya quickly established its sovereignty over neighboring states such as Suphannaphum and Lawo, and came to take over the role of religious, cultural and commercial capital of the Thais. Part of Ayutthaya's glory was due to its geographic and strategic location. The city of Ayutthaya was nestled at the confluence of the Pa Sak, Lopburi and Chao Phraya rivers, so it became the ideal center for administration and communication.
Unlike Sukhothai, where the king had fostered a paternal relationship with his people, the Ayutthaya kings became autocrats. King Ramathibodi I consolidated his kingdom through the adoption of an expansionist policy and the appointment of four powerful officers in charge of the royal household, local government, finance and agriculture.
During the 14th and 15th centuries the Thai kings of Ayutthaya became very powerful and began to expand their kingdom eastward until they took Angkor from the Khmers in 1431. By the mid-16th century Ayutthaya and the independent kingdom of Chiang Mai had come under the control of the Burmese, but the Thais had regained control of both areas by the end of the century.
However, Ayutthaya's relations with its neighbors were not always cordial. Wars were fought against Cambodia, Lanna, Lanchang, Pattani and Burma, Ayutthaya's powerful neighbor to the west. Burmese power waxed and waned in cycles according to successive ruler's administrative efficiency in the control of manpower.
Ayutthaya became embroiled in an ongoing conflict with Burma that led to three successive wars in 1538, 1548 and finally in 1569, with the result of Ayutthaya's first defeat at the hands of the Burmese. Fifteen years after the first defeat, Prince Naresuan proclaimed independence from the Burmese once again. Prince Naresuan later became one of the greatest kings of the Ayutthaya era.
The Ayutthaya period also marked the emergence of Thailand's era of international trade. During the 17th century, Ayutthaya came to the height of its power with the greatest economic, social, architectural and cultural achievement. It became one of the biggest and most significant trading ports of the Orient. Traders from Europe, China, Japan, India and the East Indies flocked to Ayutthaya for its bountiful trade prospects. Some western visitors likened Ayutthaya to Italy's Venice, calling it the most beautiful city in the East.
Ayutthaya enjoyed over a century of comparative peace. Then, in the mid-18th century, the kings of the Alaunghpaya dynasty of Burma again adopted an expansionist policy. During the 1760's, the Burmese armies inflicted severe defeats on the Thais. Finally, in 1767, Ayutthaya succumbed to an all-out attack by the Burmese. They invaded and captured Ayutthaya, looted priceless artifacts, killed or enslaved all but 10,000 inhabitants and razed the city, bringing the glorious age of Ayutthaya to an end. During the 417 years of the empire, Ayutthaya had a total of five dynasties with 33 kings.
Thonburi Period
After Ayutthaya's destruction came a period of darkness and despair. The situation seemed hopeless. But out of this national catastrophe emerged another savior of the Thai state: an army general named Phaya Taksin. Within a few years, Phaya Taksin had managed to defeat all the rivals and also the Burmese invaders, and established a new Thai capital at Thonburi in 1769. He proclaimed himself king, thus starting the short-lived Thonburi period.
The Thais quickly regained control of their country and began to further unite the provinces in the north and south of the country. Campaigns for the restoration and preservation of national independence were adopted. The era lasted for just 15 difficult years. No central authority was founded and the kingdom quickly disintegrated as a result.
Chakri Dynasty
In 1782, the Chakri dynasty was founded and the nation also received a new capital. King Rama I crowned himself as the first king and ordered the relocation of the capital across the river from Thonburi to Bangkok. The establishment of the Chakri dynasty marked the beginning of the so-called Rattanakosin period.
It was for strategic reasons that King Rama I decided to move the capital to the east bank of the Chao Phraya River. He believed that the site could be more easily defended than Thonburi should the Burmese ever try to attack again. However, defense was not his only purpose. He also wanted to wipe out the memory of defeat and restore national pride with the construction of a city that would recreate the lost glory of Ayutthaya.
In building Bangkok as the capital city, attempts were made to revive the glory of Ayutthaya as faithfully as possible. The Grand Palace and the Temple of the Emerald Buddha (Wat Phra Kaew) were replicated from Ayutthaya's grand palace and royal temple. Modern Thailand is deeply indebted to King Rama I for his cultural revival programs.
King Rama I died in 1809. His son, King Rama II, took the throne and ruled until 1824. King Rama III (1824-1851) began to develop trade with China and boosted domestic agricultural production. During the two succeeding reigns, Bangkok was further expanded and embellished. It became one of the most magnificent cities in the Orient, achieving the height of glory formerly enjoyed by Ayutthaya. The early Rattanakosin period also marked the beginning of relations between the Thai kingdom and the West during the Age of Imperialism.
When King Mongkut (Rama IV) took the throne in 1851 he quickly established diplomatic relations with European nations, while at the same time astutely avoiding colonization. He also began a period of trade reform and modernization of the Thai education system.
His son, King Chulalongkorn (Rama V), continued this tradition. He ordered extensive reform of the legal and administrative systems and also revolutionized the communication and transportation systems. King Chulalongkorn's efforts and contributions helped the country avoid colonization and made Thailand the only country in the region to maintain independence from the West. But of all his achievements, abolition of slavery was the greatest. This accomplishment earned him the name 'Piya Maharaj', the 'Beloved Great King'. He became one of the most beloved and revered kings of modern Thai history.
Like his father, King Vajiravudh (Rama VI), the successor of King Chulalongkorn, continued to modernize Siam. During his 15-year reign from 1910 to 1925, the king introduced compulsory education and other reforms. He also established the country's first western-style universities: Chulalongkorn University, perhaps most famous of all, was named in honor of his father.
In 1925 the brother of King Vajiravudh, King Prajadhipok (Rama VII 1925-1935) ascended the throne. Seven years later a group of Thai students living in Paris mounted a successful bloodless coup d'etat, which led to the establishment of a constitutional monarchy similar to the system in Britain.
A key military leader in the coup, Phibul Songkhram, took power and maintained control until after the end of WW II. Rama VIII, Ananda Mahidol, became king in 1935 but was assassinated under rather mysterious circumstances in 1946.
His younger brother Bhumibol Adulyadej succeeded him and from then on became the ninth king of the Chakri dynasty. He remains on the throne to this day, respected and revered in both Thailand and throughout the rest of the world.
Grand celebrations to commemorate His Majesty the King's 72nd birthday anniversary were held throughout 1999. He has become the longest-reigning king in Thai history with more than 50 years on the throne. The year-long celebrations highlighted the deep respect and pride of the Thai people for their monarch.
Throughout all these years, Thailand has portrayed itself as a country with amazing history. While the other nine members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations all fell under the yoke of European imperialism, Thailand steadfastly defended its independence, something that the Thai people are very proud of. As an independent nation, the Thai people have continually developed a unique and distinctive society and culture. Undoubtedly, the most outstanding characteristics of 'Thainess' are the dual forces of Buddhism and the monarchy, the main cohesive elements of Thai society since ancient times until today.
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Photoessay: At twilight, with a sudden surge of power, an alternate downtown universe flickers out
Text by Anna Codrea-Rado, photos by Caterina Clerici.
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Less than an hour before the sun set over Manhattan on Friday evening, operations were well underway at ABC No Rio, the radically oriented community center in the Lower East Side perhaps as famous as anything else for its punk matinees, to prepare for a fifth night of darkness.
Officials had said that power could return to parts of lower Manhattan as early as 11 p.m. or midnight, so volunteers outside the art-squat on Rivington Street were surprised when they suddenly flickered on, just as clouds and a setting sun were signaling twilight, and ushering the neighborhood into the new nighttime normal that had developed since Hurricane Sandy ravaged the city.
The days without power had drawn on long enough that, for some, new rituals, not entirely unpleasant, were suddenly about to disappear (until the next time?)
Outside ABC No Rio on Rivington Street, volunteers hand out free food.
"I was a little disappointed. I wanted to have a cook out," said Olivia Cieri, dragging hard on a cigarette with one hand and flipping burgers with the other. The 21-year-old volunteer had come to ABC No Rio to help with the community services the nonprofit organization had set in motion in the days after the storm.
Olivia Cieri and Shawn Brody make burgers outside.
Chomping on a burger, Kenny Fraser, 40, said he was very grateful to the organizers for providing the neighborhood with free food. With no power in his apartment, he'd been riding his motorcycle uptown every night with his girlfriend to eat out.
"Even though the power's back, it's going to take ages to get everything together. I was so hungry, so this is perfect," Fraser said.
Cieri with her cooking tools.
Local residents line up for food.
The lights in Lower Manhattan started to come back around 5 p.m.
In addition to food, the squat had organized outlets for cell-phone charging.
"We had 40 people here, charging their phones," said Brennan Cavanaugh, "and then the power came back on and everyone split."
Cavanaugh, 44, works with Time's Up!, an envionmental group that collaborated with ABC No Rio to set up the food bank. Time's Up also normally runs bike repair workshops, and Cavanaugh lent a hand by providing them with his bicycle-powered generator.
Members of the Time's Up! group help a passerby repair his bicycle.
Brody in front of the squat's entrance.
Cavanaugh's apartment building in the East Village flooded during the hurricane.
"We watched the water creep up the street like a tidal river," he said.
Despite not being in a mandatory evacuation zone, Cavanaugh and his wife decided to leave their apartment and seek shelter with relatives. "It was kind of fun. It gave us a new experience," he said.
The organizer of the squat's help effort, Jack Bratich, 43, was sorry that he hadn't come up with the idea sooner. Bratich said his main problem after the storm was communication. He would walk around the neighborhood looking for cell signal.
"I was data foraging," he said.
Bratich's friend lent him a bike; as he rode around the neighborhood, he realized there were plenty of people on his doorstep who needed help. So he started talking to friends and acquaintances to see what he could pull together. Contrary to much of New York City's experience with the storm, downtown, for many, the felicity of face-to-face meetings determined much of what one knew and did in the aftermath of the storm.
"This wasn't about the virtual networks, it was about really speaking with people," Bratich said.
With generators from Time's Up! and food donations coming in to ABVC No Rio, the place quickly became a hotspot.
Decked out in a studded leather jacket with a fox-tail hanging off the shoulder, Shawn Brody, 24, was helping Cieri with the burgers.
Bratich said Brody had been instrumental in coordinating the food donations. Brody was philosophical about the blackout; he said he wasn't really doing anything very differently compared to when he had power. The biggest difference he noticed was the number of "small town nods" he was getting on the street.
"You know, when you pass someone and you both look at each other with that 'we're both fucked' look," he said.
ABC No Rio was offering food and phone-charging.
One of the few bars open during the blackout.
A lit-up store on Rivington Street, shortly after the power came back.
A passerby walking along Prince Street toward Broadway, the separating line between the lit neighborhoods and those still without electricity.
Broadway: while the east side regains power, the west is still in darkness.
A cyclist rides down Prince Street in the dark.
The Chrysler Building was the only light that could be seen from Prince Street.
News reporters broadcast in the dark.
A security guard peeking through the window of building 575 on the dark side of Broadway.
Peering out of the darkness of the door to 575 Broadway, Randy Michael beamed at lights from the Armani Exchange store across the street.
As night fell, for a time Broadway marked the division between the lit neighborhoods and those still engulfed in darkness. To the west, darkness; to the east, points of light, increasing as time moved on.
Michael wasn't resentful for being on the wrong side of the street, he was just relieved to have some light to look at after four days in darkness. A security guard, Michael has been responsible for looking after the building.
"Other than the electricity, we've not had any problems," he said.
Bleecker Street.
Tom Ryan selling fruit at the corner of Bleecker and Mercer streets, lit up by a passing police car.
Also lurking in the shadows was Tom Ryan, the 45-year-old fruit stand worker at the corner of Bleecker and Mercer streets. In the pitch black, Ryan manned the produce stand for its owner, who was taking a break from the day shift. The stand wasn't open for the first two days after the storm, but once deliveries were coming in again from Hunts' Point Terminal Market, they were able to reopen.
"I'm normally here til 11 p.m., but I've been closing early—at about 9 p.m.," Ryan said. Ryan's biggest concern was not being able to store the fruit in the truck over night.
"I've just been covering it with tarp and hoping that no one slashes it open," he said.
Nothing happened to it the first night he left it like that, so Ryan was hoping for the best. Despite the two days without goods and the shorter operating hours, Ryan doesn't think that business suffered.
"We sold 8 cases of bananas today and five yesterday," he said. As one of the few food vendors open in the neighborhood, the stand has been a lot busier than normal during the daytime.
The generator-powered truck outside Wicked Willy's on Bleecker Street.
Half a block away, one of the only other open places in the village was Wicked Willy's bar. Running on a generator, the bar stayed open throughout the storm.
Like Ryan, they found a booming business this week. Even allowing for the extra costs of running off a generator, staff estimated revenue to be higher than on a normal week. A barmaid, who declined to give her name, said that on Wednesday the police shut them down.
"We were really busy and the police said it was dangerous for people to walk home in the dark intoxicated," she said. The staff acknowledged what they were doing was a gamble, especially because it was so costly to run, but they felt a sense of obligation to their locals and their neighbors without power.
Customers inside Wicked Willy's bar.
"'Improvising'" was a very important word for us," Andy Ramgoolie, the owner of Wicked Willy's, said. The bar become a go-to point for the neighborhood; they came for the free phone charging and stayed for the friendly service and relaxed atmosphere. Ramgoolie said he saw local residents doing something they haven't done for years: catch up with one another.
Lois Rakoff charging her phone at Wicked Willy's.
"It's been wonderful," said Lois Rakoff, a regular patron. "You don't have to pay for a drink to use their electricity. I've been here every night. Everyone's friendly and it's safe," she said.
Rakoff, who walked to Willy's in her glowstick-studded jacket, wasn't too concerned about the lack of power in her nearby apartment. "I go to Burning Man, I'm used to it," she said. She was more worried that Halloween had been a bust and that the village, usually the party destination, was rendered powerless on a Friday night.
People line up at the Taco cart at the corner of Bleecker and Thompson streets, one of the few food vendors in the area.
A taxi driving toward Bleecker Street.
The corner between Minetta Street, Bleecker Street and 6th Avenue.
The police directing the traffic on 6th Ave.
A flare.
A cyclist selling assorted fluorescent goods.
A group of cyclists from the Time's Up! collective biking around with sound system attached to one of the bikes.
Bleecker Street.
Cyclists trying to cross 6th Ave with no traffic lights.
Thunder Jacksons on Bleecker and Sullivan streets.
Taco truck on Bleecker and Thompson streets.
The kitchen of Lombardi's Pizzeria on Spring Street.
Sitting at the red-checked tables of Lombardi's, under the glare of the overhead lights, amid a heaving clientele tucking into steaming 18 inch pizzas, Sandy seemed like a distant memory. In a corner at the back of the packed iconic pizzeria, Nicolas Jaar - the electronic musician - was sharing a pizza with a young blonde girl. To mistake this for a normal Friday night would be forgivable, given how quickly Lombardi's returned to normalcy. In the kitchen, however, the chefs were mixing the dough and crushing the tomatoes for the sauce, by hand.
The coal oven wasn't affected by the power outage.
By virtue of being New York's oldest pizzeria, losing power had no impact on their coal oven. Gilbert Soto, Lombardi's general manager, said that on the first day after the storm he was only open for take out. "I got a car in front of the store and used the battery to power a few light bulbs," he said. Produce came from a supplier around the corner; it was limited but sufficient to run a menu.
Within a few hours of the power being restored, Lombardi's was as packed as it normally is on a Friday night.
Even with all the challenges, Soto acknowledged that he was luckier than the many New Yorkers who are suffering tremendous losses in the wake of the hurricane.
"We didn't lose our food and we were able to pay our staff," he said. "We didn't make money in those first few days, but everyone came together."


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Birds are winged, bipedal, warm-blooded egg-laying and very common specie among the wildlife. Bird photography is a popular subject for wildlife photography that captures this kind of vertebrate animals in various moments and positions. Here are 30 beautiful examples of Bird Photography containing some stunning photos of owls, hawks, falcons, eagles, ducks and some other beautiful birds.
If you are more interested in wildlife photography, you may wish to take a look at the Best Shot Wildlife photography collection and another Great collection of Animal Photography we posted earlier at Glazemoo.By sirVictor59
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- DADFAP said...
Love the owl in flight by hvhv1!!
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- Matthew Wridgway said...
I love the squirrel being harrassed for his nut by starlings!
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- Sheva said...
Wow these are really great stills. I'll keep them in my archive.
- October 04, 2010
really amazing pics. keep it up
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Hopping all over the World
Welcome to Volume One of my blog paying homage to the football clubs I've visited all over the world and the wonderful people responsible for keeping them going and their maintenance.
Since I was a little lad I've been fascinated in football and more so where games are played. With my love of travel and curiosity of the game I wanted to visit as many grounds and see games wherever possible.
I was fortunate that my Dad also loved the game and spent so much of his spare time taking me to matches. As I got older the boundaries widened owing to my location and increased wages to Europe and indeed the world. The sight of a stand or a floodlight pylon in the distance immediately heightens my senses and eagerness for a closer look.
I hope this site gives you the chance to share in my pleasure and experiences and maybe one day set you on the road to adventure. If you get half as much out of the hobby as I've done, I can guarantee some great memories, good friends and stories to pass on to future generations.
Give your local club a try today. They'll be delighted to see you!
Everlasting thanks primarily to my late and very much missed and dearly loved parents; my Dad, Bob Bernard and my Mum; Ann, who put up with endless years of football chat and my brothers Nick and Paul who gave me the chance and encouragement to do what I have. Thanks to all my friends who offer encouragement and Sally and Stan who inspire and give me great pride. Stan is showing a keen interest in my hobby as he grows into a young man!
Please feel free to post any comments (please use sensible language - I want everyone to be able to enjoy reading) or ask any questions relating to visiting grounds or events. If you want to see any ground reviewed please let me know. It will take quite some time for everywhere to appear, but make sure you keep having a look as the site is continually updated.
If you click on a lot of the pictures you will get a larger version on your screen.
I have also added links to video clips on YouTube where appropriate for those of you who are bored of reading or are filling in time at work. I haven't always gone for the most obvious choices, but items that will be in some cases unusual but always historically interesting.
Click to see Volume Two of HAOTW.
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Sitting on the edge of a Canadian junkyard if this old Hudson isn't enough to scare away potential trespassers, we aren't sure what is. We're going to guess where you see this old Commodore is likely where it will remain until it eventually meets the crusher. For now, the weathered old car sits above the junkyard probably undisturbed for most part, occasionally bothered by a parts seeking Hudson owner.
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The scope of this documentation is to address the three roles (functional disciplines) who interact daily in the usage of GNU remotecontrol; Information Technology, Energy Management, and End User. A fourth role, Financial Management, is a role which operates in the Cost Benefit Analysis and in reviews to evaluate facility improvement opportunities. The documentation contains information pertinent to each role. The intended end result is to help equip each role with the necessary definitions and reference information to further high-level communication among the roles.
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SYDNEY - South Africa bowling coach Allan Donald Tuesday called his country's current pace attack the best he has seen, as they fine-tune ahead of a three Test series against Australia.
Donald in his prime was one of the best fast bowlers ever seen in Test cricket, ripping through opposition batsmen with partner Shaun Pollock, but even he admitted the current crop was a league above. "I would have to say that, yes," Donald told reporters.
"I'm not just saying that, because I was part of an attack with Shaun Pollock and myself and a few others, and I say that humbly and respectfully, I think this is as good as it gets." South Africa jetted into Australia Sunday aiming to consolidate their position as the number one Test team, which they earned in August with a series triumph in England.
Much pre-series media attention has centred on the quality of the South African pace attack, led by Dale Steyn, Vernon Philander and Morne Morkel, and how Australia's top order will deal with them. Donald, who terrorised opposition batsmen in the 1990s, said the South African bowlers' greatest asset was their ability to work as a group.
"They've been bowling together for quite some time," he said. "Momentum's been built over the past couple of years, consistency in selection and it's nice to have a group of guys that know what they're about." Australian coach Mickey Arthur, himself a South African, acknowledged earlier this month that his top order batsmen face a "baptism of fire".
"It's going to be about the batters," Arthur said of the series. "It is going to be about which top six can adapt better, which top six is going to be more consistent over the three Test series. I think both top sixes are in for a real baptism of fire."
Australia head to the first Test in Brisbane next week with Ed Cowan opening the innings alongside big-hitting David Warner. They will be followed to the crease by Shane Watson and then 165-Test veteran Ricky Ponting, who is in fine touch, scoring 350 runs at an average of 125.00 in his last three first-class games.
Skipper Michael Clarke is expected to bat five and Mike Hussey six. After a three-day warm-up against Australia A in Sydney from November 2, the Brisbane Test begins on November 9, the second at the Adelaide Oval on November 22 and the last on November 30 at the Waca in Perth.


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Greetings, Kotaku, and welcome to your mid-week open thread. I find myself thinking about Last of the Mohicans for some reason... I can't imagine why...
Here, as always, are some selections of randomness from around the internet.
- Drusilla is (maybe) getting a Buffy spin-off comic - Nice. Wait, I always thought she was super annoying. But still, maybe it'll be good?
- "Against Big Bird, The Gods Themselves Contend in Vain" - Man, Sesame Street got up to some weird shit.
- Here, watch these polar bears play - They're so cute, it's easy to forget that they're actually gigantic killing machines.
- Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Years - This is awesome.
- That show-stopping ambush scene from Last of the Mohicans - This one's in honor of Assassin's Creed III.
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I've written a script in R to collate Moberg data from original sources (plus 3 collations of tree ring site chronologies which I'd done previously and 1 digitized version sent to me). This is a working document and subject to change as more information becomes available, but is posted here in case other people are interested in Moberg data (and to save them time). I don't know why multiproxy authors don't do these things. I comment here on data access issues that I've noticed so far.
Unusually for a multiproxy study, there are data citations for the 9 of the 11 low-frequency series. By data citation, I mean an actual archived digital reference, rather than a print publication reference (which may or may not correspond to the digital citation). For some data citations, there are more than one series in the digital link and it would be helpful in SIs if people would specify how many lines down to look if there are similar sorts of data. Series 7 and 8 do not have digital references. Series 11 is a "combination" of two records, but the form of combination is not stated. I averaged the two series during the period of overlap for now, but perhaps some other method is used.
The tree ring data is described in the SI as "temperature reconstructions" – the original data is actually ring width "chronologies". The "temperature reconstructions" appear to be linear transformations of these chronologies with parameters determined by regression against temperature. Since everything gets standardized at a later stage, I'm not sure exactly what is accomplished by these linear transformations and it would be nice to have the parameters in the SI.
As for the the three non-bristlecone tree ring series, the versions used by Moberg et al. [2005] sure appear to me to be similar to the RCS versions archived at Briffa's website. See Tree Ring Versions. In the case of Yamal, the Moberg version has a distinctly different look than the apparently corresponding figure in Hantemirov et al [2003], which was cited and has a distinctly similar look to a plot of the Briffa version. The absence of a digital citation always makes these matters frustrating.
I have been unable so far to locate a digital version of the Indigirka, Yakutia series. I've temporarily used the shorter version of this series archived at Briffa (starting in 1400).
In my opinion, no policy agency should use any study which does not have a complete archival record. Right now, there are several holes in the Moberg archival record. If an author wants to use unpublished data, then he should get permission from the originating author to archive the data or not use it. A few missing series can easily frustrate replication efforts, and, in the paleoclimate world, archiving sometimes proceeds at a geological pace (e.g. Thompson's continued failure to archive Dunde and other ice core series.)


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Congratulations for this wonderful photo!
It's exactly what I'm looking for at the moment and I would love to use it for an article on my blog.
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With energy prices soaring and corporate cost-cutting at full tilt, it's almost impossible to avoid the topic of energy efficiency. Just about every product is trying to convince us how green it is. That's excellent, but how many of us have actually sat down and done the math to see what our IT operations consume and what they cost us?
In my experience, very few. But try running the numbers, and you'll quickly discover that going green actually does pay.
Let's focus on that nasty little energy hog, the desktop PC. The potential energy cost savings of desktop virtualisation are quite high, yet few organisations have moved to VDI, Citrix/Terminal Services, and other forms of SBC (server-based computing) on a large scale. It's still about 100 times more likely to see a desktop on an employee's desk than it is to see a thin client.
So how much could you save? Imagine a typical enterprise with 1,000 employees running conventional desktops during business hours (10 hours a day, five days a week). Employees have their own standard desktop that they sporadically use for half the day. The other half of the workday, the box sits idle, and at night it goes into suspend mode.
Excluding the monitor and other peripherals, our example enterprise will spend roughly $41.25 per year to power and cool each desktop. Doesn't seem like a big deal, right?
Not so fast - that $41.25 suddenly looks a lot bigger when you consider the whole fleet of 1,000 desktops over the expected three-year lifetime of those desktops, adding up to more than $123,000. That could be as much as 15 percent of what it cost to actually buy the desktops in the first place. If our enterprise were a 24/7 shop that leaves its desktops on and in use constantly, that figure would balloon to nearly $400,000 over three years - approximately 45 percent of the acquisition cost of the desktops.
Now we're talking real money. Even if you don't believe in conservation or saving the planet, think of what else you could do with that money. Maybe hire another employee? Or how about some more SAN capacity?
Speaking of storage, it's worth mentioning that those 1,000 desktops - even if you get them with the smallest hard drive available (160GB) - will provide our imaginary enterprise with more than 145TB of almost completely useless and difficult-to-manage storage. In fact, if you forget the rest of the desktop and just look at the hard drive, our enterprise is spending nearly $10,000 just to power and cool hard drives. That's almost half of what it would cost to power a fleet of 1,000 thin clients.
Of course, you can't just shut off all your desktops, as tempting as that may be - you need to replace them with something. Let's say our enterprise shifts from thick desktops to thin clients. That step alone will shrink the three-year desktop power/cooling budget from about $123,000 to around $20,000. If we're connecting to a blade-based Citrix or VDI infrastructure, the server resources required to provide the compute environment those thin clients will connect to will cost around $15,000 to power and cool over three years.
In total, we will have saved a net of $88,000 - just in power costs. That's not taking into account the longer useful lifetime of the thin clients, substantially decreased management costs, or any of the other benefits of SBC.
Even if SBC isn't viable in your environment, you can at least enable the advanced power management features on the desktops you do have. Many IT departments will disable these settings to avoid complaints from users or to make it easier to use remote desktop management tools. However, these settings can have a huge impact on the power consumption of standard desktops -- often more than halving it. It's not as good as a thin client, but it's better than nothing.
If that's all so awesome, why don't more enterprise IT departments think this way? The biggest and saddest reason is that savings from desktop power consumption are very, very rarely considered a benefit to IT.
You'll often see lots of IT effort expended to make the data centre efficient, but that's because the infrastructure to support those areas (UPS, air conditioning, and so on) often comes out of IT's bottom line. Power for the wall jack next to the receptionist's desk doesn't.
As you start to put together your next budget, do the math for your organization and give this some hard thought. It's not a given that SBC will be appropriate for your users or that management will recognise and credit IT with the power savings you can provide. If you can overcome those challenges, you'll be able to spend that money on things that you actually need rather than watching it go down the drain and hurt the environment at the same time.


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Organized by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum) in Philadelphia and drawn from its collections, this exhibition presents more than 120 pieces of goldwork created by artists and artisans from an ancient American society in central Panama. The exhibition includes large embossed plaques, cast pendants and nose ornaments, gold-sheathed ear rods, and bead necklaces, as well as polychrome ceramics. These and other objects were recovered from excavations carried out 1940 by the Penn Museum at Sitio Conte, an archeological site in present day Coclé province on the western side of the Gulf of Panama.
The exhibition, which has toured nationally, helps to demonstrate the history of archaeology and its relationship to art-making, as well as the use of precious metals by ancient cultures. A special section of the exhibition prepared by research scientists at Penn provides the opportunity to study the materiality of objects and artworks through an investigation of the metallurgical techniques of the ancient goldsmiths at Sitio Conte. The exhibition also supports classes offered in the fall semester of the 2013–14 academic year.
Image: Embossed gold plaque. Sitio Conte, ca. 700–900 ce. 8.7 x 7.8 in. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA (40-13-11). Photo: Penn Museum.


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I'm sure most of you have seen the commercial, I believe by Mattress Firm, where two men are replacing a woman's mattress. They tell her that she should replace her mattress every 8 years because after that long, it doubles in weight from all of the dead skin, sweat, and dust mites. She them repeats, in a disgusted and frightened tone, DUST MITES?? That commercial drives me crazy because like any normal Entomologist I think, dead skin and sweat, eww gross!! I'm certainly not grossed out by the thought of dust mites. They are, after all, decomposers that feed on things like dead skin cells. That might make you cringe, but they are basically little cleaning machines, like all decomposers. So I was wondering what would make people more upset about dust mites than they are about dead skin and sweat. SoI found out!
First a little bit about dust mites. The house dust mite is an arachnid, like all mites, that belongs to the order Acari. Acari also includes ticks. Mites are a very successful and diverse group of animals with about 42,000 species found all over the world. They can be parasites, predators, herbivores, detritivores, or decomposers. Unfortunately for them, many are considered to be pests on plants, animals, humans, and especially in the home, such as dust mites. House Dust mites (Dermatophagoides spp.) are very tiny, but visble without a microscope. The adults are typically about .4 millimeters in length. They are common in most households and feed off of organic debris, human skin cells and animal dander, which is what dust is mostly made up of, hence the name. For this reason, they are mostly found in places like beds, carpet, and other soft pieces of furniture. They cause no harm to us and would go largely unnoticed if it weren't for one thing. They are animals and when animals feed, they have to defecate.
The fecal matter of dust mites is highly allergenic due to some of the enzymes within it. Therein lies the problem. Many people have allergies ranging from annoying to severe and sometimes these allergies can induce asthma. Some of these chemicals are also present on partially digested pieces of dust. Most of these allergies can be treated with over-the-counter anti-histamines, but in more severe cases, a game plan may be needed. The idea, as with any pest, is to reduce harborage, or make it a less pleasant place to be. Wood or other hard floors are always a better choice than carpet because they are easier to clean thoroughly and dust mites cannot thrive in/on them. All soft furniture and bedding should be washed regularly. Ten minutes in a hot dryer is enough to kill all stages of dust mites because they are very sensitive to dessication, so the hot dry conditions in the dryer are lethal. Just like with any other pest, removal of clutter, dirt, and food sources usually does the trick. At least once a week, you should dust, vaccuum, wash all of the bedding and anything else washable. This will lead to a relatively mite-free home. If you do have asthma, there are certain mattresses and types of bedding that are actually mite proof! If you don't have allergies to dust mites, you can relax a little. Dust mites have been around for millions of years and are probably on most soft surfaces you come into contact with! I've said before that people should just get used to the idea of tiny organisms crawling around and on us! Most people have microscopic mites living in their hair follicles that feed on dead cells and sebacious, or oil gland secretions. These are known as Demodex folliculorum or face mites. There are thousand of other organisms, but they keep us clean and healthy. Plus, they're not nearly as gross as dead skin and sweat, eeew!
CW39 did a story on dust mites last night, and they interviewed me! Watch the video below.
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A two-course sequence, Core explores a range of issues related to the mission statement of the school, including its commitment to such values as peace, human rights, and the creative coexistence of nature and humanity. Core also provides an introduction to the various ways of knowing that characterize the major divisions of the undergraduate curriculum, thereby laying the foundation for the interdisciplinary and cross-cultural study that underlies a Soka education. In this exploration, Core courses stress an understanding of the social and historical contexts necessary to make meaningful comparisons among civilizations both of the East and the West.
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Three people were hurt Wednesday when a U.S. Marine helicopter made a hard landing during a military exercise in northern Thailand, U.S. Embassy officials said.
An embassy spokesman, speaking in Bangkok, said no one was killed in the incident involving a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter carrying U.S. personnel participating in the Cobra Gold joint military drills, The Bangkok Post reported.
A source told the Post two helicopter passengers may require surgery. Another passenger sustained minor injuries and three were not hurt.
The reason for the hard landing wasn't reported.
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mound…went 3-3 in stolen base attempts.
In 2010 (Sophomore): Chad appeared in 55 games last season, serving as the team's primary starting shortstop. In 222 at-bats, he logged 70 hits - 13 for extra bases, including four homers - and 39 RBI. He maintained a .315 overall batting average, setting the tone early on in the season with a 7-12 performance over a three-game series against Georgia Southern to kick off the season. Hayes rounded the bases 39 times and also chipped in with six walks and four stolen bases on the season.
In 2009 (Freshman): Chad played 35 games in the infield for Tech as a true freshman, including 30 starts, becoming the starting second baseman about a month into the season…hit .220 on the season with four doubles and 11 RBIs…had seven multi-hit games including a three-hit performance against UT Martin when he had two doubles and two RBIs…Chad also pitched in 10 games for the Golden Eagles, and made two starts on the mound…pitched a complete-game two hit shutout against Covenant in his only win of the season…finished with a 1-1 record and a 7.27 ERA…struck out 15 batters and walked 10 in 26 innings of work.
Lanphier High School: Chad finished his senior season hitting a school record .519, making him league batting champion...hit five home runs, four triples and 19 doubles...had 40 RBIs...earned all-conference recognition three times in his career...Chad also played in a traveling summer baseball league with the Springfield Statesmen...finished his junior season hitting .486 with five home runs, five triples, 15 doubles and 36 RBIs...hit .382 his sophomore season with four home runs, four triples 10 doubles and 28 RBIs.
Personal: Full name is Chad Russell Hayes...son of Russ and the late Vicki Hayes...born June 16, 1990...majoring in business.


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Lomprayah ferry Boat from Koh Phangan to Koh Samui as passengers jump to the floating dock. Very dangerous when the weather is bad. 380 people fit onto this boat with an outside sun deck.
Wikipedia:Ko Samui island of Surat Thani Province (or Koh Samui, Thai: เกาะสมุย, Thai pronunciation: [kɔ̀ʔ samǔj]), or often, simply Samui as it is referred to by locals, is an island off the east coast of the Kra Isthmus in Thailand, close to the mainland Surat Thani town. It is Thailand's third largest island, with an area of 228.7 km2 and a population of over 50,000 (2008). It is rich with natural resources, white sandy beaches, coral reefs and coconut trees.


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Wow! It's hard to believe it's 2012! I always feel the need for a new beginning, clear out the old and freshen up at this time of year. Of course, I watched a marathon of the show "Hoarders" over the holidays which always makes me want to throw out stuff even more. I feel the need to focus on going through each room in my house and organizing this January and February. I will blog about products I find, ideas I have, how-tos and inspiration!
This looks like something I would do!!
Let's start the new year by getting rid of old linens- sheets, towels, stained napkins.
It feels great to sleep in fresh linens so it's great motivation to keep going! I always gravitate toward white or cream linens just because face creams can bleach out colored linens. I like Egyptian cotton sheets but bamboo has intrigue me. I have bamboo towels and would love to try the sheets. Something to consider is the higher the thread count the softer the sheets as well as the type of cotton. The softer the sheets the more wrinkled they are. So it's a preference on what type you prefer.
There are many types of linens, just to name a few...
Linen- is a textile made from the fibers of the flax plant. Linen is labor-intensive to manufacture, but when it is made into garments, it is valued for its exceptional coolness and freshness in hot weather. It Wrinkles.
Cotton- The higher the thread count the more expensive and softer the sheets.
Bamboo- Types
- Bamboo / Cotton Blend: Usually somewhere around 60% bamboo and 40% cotton, these sheets attempt to provide the comfort of bamboo with the familiarity of cotton. The cotton helps these sheets retain their color while the bamboo provides the softness, comfort, and anti-microbial properties you're looking for.
- Rayon Derived From Bamboo: There are so many chemicals in these that they aren't considered organic.
- 100% Bamboo: Usually available in more limited colors, 100% bamboo sheets can be hard to come by.
Organic Cotton -Organic cotton is generally understood as cotton and is grown in subtropical countries such as America and India, from non genetically modified plants, that is to be grown without the use of any synthetic agricultural chemicals such as fertilizers or pesticides.
Egyptian Cotton- is usually applied to the extra long staple cotton produced in Egypt and used by luxury and upmarket brands worldwide.
Flannel-Flannel is a soft woven fabric, of various fineness. Flannel was originally made from cardedwool or worsted yarn, but is now often made from either wool, cotton, or synthetic fibre. Flannel may be brushed to create extra softness or remain unbrushed.
Some good brands are Anichini, SDH, Sferra, Ann Gish, John Robshaw and Peacock Alley.
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There are three pipes connecting a large water tank to a pool. Each of the pipes fills the pool at a uniform rate but the rates of different pipes are different. To fill the empty pool, one can open the first pipe for 2 hours and then the second pipe for 1 hour. Also using the second pipe for 2 hours and the third pipe for 1 hour fills the empty pool. If the pool is empty and the first pipe was open for 80 minutes, then the second pipe was open for 80 minutes, for how long does the third pipe need to be open after that to fill the pool?
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A new season is under way in Northwest Florida as more and more snowbirds flock south for the winter.
A new season is under way in Northwest Florida as more and more snowbirds flock south for the winter.
With the holidays behind them, the majority of snowbirds are expected to arrive within the week, according to Timi Millar, the president of the Destin Snowbird Club.
�This is really the beginning of the largest part of our season now,� Millar said. �We�re renewing our friendships (and) we�re going to make new friends.�
Each year, northerners head to warmer southern locations such as Northwest Florida to escape winter temperatures and snow shovels, said Jerry Donaghey, president of the Fort Walton Beach Snowbirds Club.
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A few people begin to arrive in November and December, but the majority arrives between January and March, he said.
For example, in the last two months of 2012, the Destin club saw 372 people register, but come January they expect about 1,000 more members, Millar said.
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Over in Walton County, similar anticipation was bubbling, according to Bonnie Schwichtenberg, the previous president of the Walton County Snowbirds. Her husband, Tom, is the current president.
She said they are expecting about 10 to 15 more people to register this season compared with last season and they have added an earlier registration day to try to ensure a smooth registration process.
�We�ve worked on our process quite a bit,� Schwichtenberg said. �We want the registration to go as smoothly as possible.�
She said local businesses should anticipate a �huge influx� beginning Jan. 1 that will hopefully continue throughout the season.
Walton County Snowbirds are trying to encourage its members to visit more local businesses through upgrades on its website.
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For the first time, a business that sponsors the Walton County Snowbirds will not only be recognized on the club�s website but also can include a link to their own site with special offers or information for snowbirds, Schwichtenberg said.
�We want to encourage the members to use the local businesses,� she said. �A healthy economy is good for everybody.�
Donaghey said the Fort Walton Beach Snowbirds, which is a smaller club than the other two, is expecting a good season, too.
�I assume it will be slightly better than last year, because the economy has improved,� Donaghey said.
While they�re here, the snowbirds will indulge in recreational activities from golf to card games, but they will also find time to give back to the community.
A group of women with the Fort Walton Beach club, for example, will knit or crochet items to help various organizations in the area from Healthy Start to the Children�s Advocacy Center, Donaghey said.
The other two organizations had similar programs in place and said they are looking forward to another great season.
�We�re happy to be here,� Millar said. �And so grateful to the community.�
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MADRID, March 4 (UPI) -- Spain, with an unemployment rate hovering above 26 percent, had another increase in its number of jobless people in February, the Labor Department said.
Officials reported more than 5 million people out of work, an increase of 59,144, or 1.2 percent, from the previous month, Britain's Guardian reported.
The official number of unemployed does not count 1 million people who who have stopped looking for work, the report said.
Eurostat, the European Union's statistical office, said Friday Spain's unemployment rate for December was 26.2 percent, the second highest, behind Greece, in the 17-member eurozone.
Greece's jobless rate was posted as 27 percent although its figures were from November, not December.
The lowest unemployment rate tracked by Eurostat was 4.9 percent in Austria, which was followed by Germany and Luxembourg, both at 5.3 percent, Eurostat said.


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Convert wind angles to direction cosine matrix
Utilities/Axes Transformations
The Wind Angles to Direction Cosine Matrix block converts three wind rotation angles into a 3-by-3 direction cosine matrix (DCM). The DCM matrix performs the coordinate transformation of a vector in earth axes (ox0, oy0, oz0) into a vector in wind axes (ox3, oy3, oz3). The order of the axis rotations required to bring this about is:
A rotation about oz0 through the heading angle (χ) to axes (ox1, oy1, oz1)
A rotation about oy1 through the flight path angle (γ) to axes (ox2, oy2, oz2)
A rotation about ox2 through the bank angle (μ) to axes (ox3, oy3, oz3)
Combining the three axis transformation matrices defines the following DCM.
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|Transforms earth vectors to wind vectors.
This implementation generates a flight path angle that lies between ±90 degrees, and bank and heading angles that lie between ±180 degrees.
Direction Cosine Matrix Body to Wind
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Since 1992 Pro-Repo repossession software has been Managing and Keeping Information Secure for Repossession Professionals, keeping track of judgments against assets, and keeping track of account numbers and our reports and invoices will help you look more professional to all your clients to keep them coming back.
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For Repossession Companies, Pro-Repo provides information management tools tailored to your needs including Vehicle identification, Vehicle Condition Reports, and Skip-Trace contact information. Pro-Repo handles all Skip Trace-specific information in a customizable, easy-to-use interface.
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Built in Vehicle Data Base system.
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keeps track of Agent records and the work they do so you can get paid. Accounting package built in, keeps track of commissions and hours worked including taxes. Easy payroll report makes it easy to print with just a click of the mouse on this windows based system.
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Keeps Track of the repossessed Vehicle records in an easy to use simple to understand interface.
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Keeps track of Pictures (including report).
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Management and administrative duties are minimized using Pro-Repo repossession software.
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(last four digit lookup) when entering a Vin Number this system instantly brings up the year, make & model of the Vehicle your repossessing and the Trace you are looking for with one click of the mouse.
Outside communications system. Repossession Communication system that lets you send information to your employee's cell phone in the field.
Inter office communication system. Repossession Communication system that let you chat securely to other members of your office or members at another location.
Summarize and send. this feature enables you to write your summery report to your clients and send the Repossession summery directly to your client VIA email.
Export your information into Microsoft® products including Excel and Word.
Create reports in PDF and Email your clients or any one else and then send the report directly to your client VIA email (works great with sending out invoices).
Condition reports - Invoices - Photo report - skip trace report - Contents Inventory and more. No need for a FAX machine.
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Files can be accidentally overwritten, deleted or become corrupt. Laptops can be stolen. System hard drives can fail. But with Off-Site Automatic Backup, you don't have to worry about it! Off-Site Automatic Backup provides a 'set-it and forget-it' file backup solution, as well as file encryption and compression. Supports complete system or incremental backups and can quickly restore an entire system, files from a specific point in time, or specific files from multiple backups.
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For Repossession Companies, Pro-Repo provides information management tools tailored to your needs including Vehicle identification, Vehicle Condition Reports, and Skip-Trace contact information. Pro-Repo handles all Skip Trace-specific information in a customizable, easy-to-use interface.
The Pro-Repo Data Base Pro-Repo lets you easily enter, store, and access a variety of information. All of your data is secure, centrally located, and easily formatted to run custom reports so that you can put the valuable information you collect to good use. From Vehicle and Skip Trace tracking to reports and Employee records, the Pro-Repo program gives you what you need from single Repossession Companies through multi-Company environments.
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Our Repossession Software Will help you grow. Repossession management software will improve many of your business work flows. A good software package will track a sale all the way from generating the initial estimate to final invoice. Do not waste time passing around and filing carbon copy forms; track everything electronically. Functions Comprehensive Repossession management software packages will have a variety of functions. Many can be used as stand alone accounting packages with features that will reconcile your bank statements and generate payroll. It is a much better option to purchase a product with a comprehensive set of administrative functions rather than one that integrates with an external accounting product.
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Most Repossession agency methods were paper dependent, time consuming and in serious need of updating. Most files were still made of paper and for the agencies that had decided to make the switch to electronic, their choice of programs were unavailable. Most available programs were older DOS-Based, and a modern solution was desperately needed to bring repossession agencies into the electronic age. Pro-Repo can help!
The process of repossession is complex with an assortment of groups that need to be in constant communications with one another. This process starts when the lending institution determines that someone is delinquent on their account or loan and is refusing to pay them back. The lender is forced to turn to a repossession agency for help to collect the collateral for the debt owed. The lender contracts the repossession agency to go and recover the collateral for the debt that is owed. The repossession agency must know who the debtor is, what the debtor owes, and the last known address for the debtor, from there the agency assigns a field agent to track down the debtor and locate what is owed. The repossession agency will serve as the representative of the lending institution in court while the debt is being collected. Once the legal process is complete, the repossession agency will then turn the collateral over to the lending institution and the debt will be cleared.
Communication is very important to the repossession process. Field agents, their repossession agencies, and lending institutions constantly need to be in contact with each other this communication can span entire continents as local repossession agencies are hired by national lending institutions to recover secured collateral in cases in which people have defaulted. Information needs to be available instantaneously to travel across town or across country if need be. In each case a field agent works to collect materials owed to the lender by the debtor, Agencies must be able to locate the whereabouts of a debtors collateral, track and manage the collateral once in the agency's possession, and then act as the Bailey, the person to whom the property being repossessed is pledged to on behalf of the lender once the legal process has begun. At all points in the process the status of the account needs to be available to any member of the repossession team.