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ARSC HPC Users' Newsletter 408, November 13, 2009
- ARSC at SC09
- Return of Letters from Santa
- Fine-Tuning Memory for IDV
- Valgrind's Massif Heap Profiler
- Quick Tip
ARSC at SC09
ARSC will be exhibiting in two booths at Supercomputing 2009 in Portland, Oregon:
- Booth 1709 - University of Alaska Fairbanks
- Booth 1321 - DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program
Additionally, we will have a table at the SC09 Student Job Fair.
Fifteen ARSC representatives will be attending this year. Please stop by to say hello, ask any HPC questions you may have, or inquire about the weather back in Alaska. Mention this newsletter at Booth 1709 for a free "Alaska Supercomputer Repair Kit."
Return of Letters from Santa
As I type this, it's 21 degrees Fahrenheit and snowing at the North Pole - North Pole, Alaska that is. Which reminds us of an HPC Newsletter holiday tradition. If you know someone who would be thrilled by a letter postmarked "North Pole", your editors can help make that happen.
Put that stamped, addressed letter in another envelope and mail it to us. We will mail the enclosed letter from North Pole, Alaska, which uses a special North Pole Christmas postmark during the Christmas season. We plan to send these letters around December 11, so mail them to us by the end of the first week of December and they should have plenty of time to get here and then over the next sleigh out of town.
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Fine-Tuning Memory for IDV[ By Patrick Webb ]
The Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) is a useful and powerful visualization tool that is installed on all ARSC workstations. The default installation works well for many applications, but there are some tricks to achieving greater performance for large, complex data sets. The biggest limiting factor when using the IDV is the size of the Java heap space, which is restricted to the amount of memory that is allocated to it when IDV launches. The default is 512 MB of memory, which I will show you how to increase, as well as a couple of other neat tricks.
The most basic way of using the IDV is to load the module of the current version, currently 2.5, and then typing 'runIDV' to start:
% module load idv-2.5 % runIDV
What's going on behind the scenes here is that "runIDV" is not in fact the IDV executable, but a script that sets up a Java command for running the IDV. By making your own run script, you will have a good deal more control over the IDV and your work.
The first step is to create your own version of the runIDV script. It does not need to be called "runIDV", it can be called anything you like. I will call my own version "myRunIDV". You can either copy the run script from the IDV directory (currently /usr/local/pkg/idv/idv-2.5). Or, since it is rather short, you can copy it from this article. This is the default IDV run script:
dirname=`dirname $0` command="java -Xmx512m -Didv.enableStereo=false -jar ${dirname}/idv.jar $*" if test -f jre/bin/java; then # We are in the installer directory ./jre/bin/${command} else # Try using the dirname of this script if test -f ${dirname}/jre/bin/java; then ${dirname}/jre/bin/${command} else if test ${JAVA_HOME}; then # Try using JAVA_HOME ${JAVA_HOME}/bin/${command} else # Try just using java ${command} fi fi fi
Only the first two lines of this script are relevant to our purposes. In the first line, the "dirname" variable is set to the directory where the IDV .jar file resides. By default, the script uses its own directory path. The second line is the Java command that will start the IDV. Included in this command is the option that controls the amount of memory allocated to the IDV, and by default an option that turns off stereo rendering. This script allocates 512 MB, which is enough for some tasks, but we want more memory.
The first thing to do is to point the run script to the idv.jar directory. If you have your own personal installation of the IDV, you can change the dirname variable assignment from dirname=`dirname $0` to dirname="/path/to/your/IDV". To point to the ARSC installation, for example, use:
(NOTE: The same run script may work with other IDV versions, so it is possible to change IDV versions by merely changing the path.)
With the dirname variable now explicitly pointing an IDV installation directory, we are free to store the script anywhere.
The second line is where we can customize our IDV session. The option "-Xmx512m" defines the amount of memory allocated. The "m" in "512m" stands for megabytes, so this option is allocating 512 megabytes. Change the "-Xmx512m" to something larger, like "-Xmx1024m", or maybe even higher if you have more memory available. (NOTE: It is a bad idea to allocate more memory than is available on your system.) Most ARSC workstations have 8 GB of memory available. It is generally reasonable to allocate 75-80% of a workstation's total physical memory if you are the only user. But for this example, we will use 1024MB.
command="java -Xmx1024m -Didv.enableStereo=false -jar ${dirname}/idv.jar $*"
Voila! Now the IDV will start with 1 GB of memory available to it. This can be very handy when working with large or numerous files.
Valgrind's Massif Heap Profiler[ By Craig Stephenson ]
The previous two articles in this series showed how to use Valgrind's Memcheck and Cachegrind tools. They can be seen here:
- Memcheck - /arsc/support/news/hpcnews/hpcnews398/index.xml#article3
- Cachegrind - /arsc/support/news/hpcnews/hpcnews401/index.xml#article3
Properly interpreting the output of each of these two commands required a lot of explanation. On the other hand, Massif, Valgrind's heap profiler, is fairly straightforward.
Massif records and plots usage of heap memory during runtime. Examples of what its graphs look like can be seen in the Massif manual, at the following address:
Although the examples given in the Massif manual are written in C, it works just as well for profiling Fortran codes. Let's take a look at the following very simple Fortran 90 code, named "allocate.f90":
PROGRAM allocate IMPLICIT NONE INTEGER, ALLOCATABLE :: A(:) ALLOCATE(A(1000000)) DEALLOCATE(A) END PROGRAM allocate
As with other Valgrind tools, codes profiled with Massif need to be compiled with the -g option to include debugging information:
% pgf90 -g -o allocate allocate.f90
Now let's run this code through Massif. Because this code is very simple, I followed the manual's suggestion of using the --time-unit=B (bytes allocated/deallocated) option, "which is useful for very short-run programs, and for testing purposes, because it is the most reproducible across different machines." The full command looks like this:
% $PET_HOME/bin/valgrind --tool=massif --time-unit=B ./allocate
When I ran this command, it produced a file named massif.out.19254. Massif output files take the form of massif.out.#####, where ##### is the process ID for the particular run. This file can be viewed with the accompanying ms_print command:
% $PET_HOME/bin/ms_print massif.out.19254
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Command: ./allocate Massif arguments: --time-unit=B ms_print arguments: massif.out.19254 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MB 4.825^ # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # : # : # : # : # 0 +----------------------------------------------------------------------->MB 0 4.825 Number of snapshots: 7 Detailed snapshots: [5 (peak)] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- n time(B) total(B) useful-heap(B) extra-heap(B) stacks(B) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10,248 10,248 10,240 8 0 2 1,058,832 1,058,832 1,058,816 16 0 3 5,058,872 5,058,872 5,058,848 24 0 4 5,059,272 5,059,272 5,059,240 32 0 5 5,059,272 5,059,272 5,059,240 32 0 100.00% (5,059,240B) (heap allocation functions) malloc/new/new[], --alloc-fns, etc. ->79.27% (4,010,664B) 0x404DAD: __hpf_malloc_without_abort (in /lustre/wrkdir/user/allocate) ->79.06% (4,000,032B) 0x40260A: __hpf_alloc (in /lustre/wrkdir/user/allocate) ->79.06% (4,000,032B) 0x402B06: pgf90_alloc (in /lustre/wrkdir/user/allocate) ->79.06% (4,000,032B) 0x401E12: MAIN_ (allocate.f90:5) ->79.06% (4,000,032B) 0x401D4E: main (in /lustre/wrkdir/user/allocate) ->00.21% (10,632B) in 1+ places, all below ms_print's threshold (01.00%) ->20.73% (1,048,576B) 0x402198: allhdr (in /lustre/wrkdir/user/allocate) ->20.73% (1,048,576B) 0x402C64: pgf90_alloc (in /lustre/wrkdir/user/allocate) ->20.73% (1,048,576B) 0x401E12: MAIN_ (allocate.f90:5) ->20.73% (1,048,576B) 0x401D4E: main (in /lustre/wrkdir/user/allocate) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- n time(B) total(B) useful-heap(B) extra-heap(B) stacks(B) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 5,059,672 5,058,872 5,058,848 24 0
Of the two bars in the graph above, the first bar corresponds to snapshot 2, when 1,058,832 bytes of memory are allocated onto the heap. Another 4,000,440 bytes are allocated, corresponding to one million 4-byte integers (plus some overhead), bringing the total up to 5,059,272 bytes. This is represented by the second bar in the graph, which is drawn with '#' characters, indicating that it is the peak memory usage of the program. As indicated on the "detailed snapshots" line, snapshot 5 shows details of the program's peak memory usage, including a complete breakdown of memory allocation via a function callgraph.
This is all well and good, but I felt that this example was too basic to get a good feel for Massif. I wrote the next example, "multiple.f90", to see the results of a long series of memory allocations/deallocations:
PROGRAM multiple IMPLICIT NONE INTEGER :: i INTEGER, ALLOCATABLE :: A(:) DO i = 1, 10000 ALLOCATE(A(i*100)) DEALLOCATE(A) END DO END PROGRAM multiple
We will follow the same steps as the previous example, except there is no longer a need for the --time-unit=B option. This code performs far more memory operations than the previous example, and in this sense may not qualify as a "very short-run program":
% pgf90 -g -o multiple multiple.f90 % $PET_HOME/bin/valgrind --tool=massif ./multiple % $PET_HOME/bin/ms_print massif.out.32322
This code allocates/deallocates 100 integers, then 200 integers, then 300 integers, and so on. Hence, we should expect a graph of memory allocations to look very linear. This seems to be the case indeed, although there are various gaps in the graph corresponding to deallocate statements rather than allocate statements. Whether a particular bar represents an allocation or a deallocation seems to be entirely dependent on timing:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Command: ./multiple Massif arguments: (none) ms_print arguments: massif.out.606 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MB 4.803^ # # @ # @ # , @ @ # , ,@ @ @ @ # ,,@ @ @@ @ @ @ # ,@@@@@ @ @@ @ @ @ # ,,@ @@@@@@@ @ @@ @ @ @ # , @ @@@ @@@@@@@ @ @@ @ @ @ # , @ @ @ @@@ @@@@@@@ @ @@ @ @ @ # .: @@ @ @ @ @@@ @@@@@@@ @ @@ @ @ @ # . :@:: @@ @ @ @ @@@ @@@@@@@ @ @@ @ @ @ # .:: : :@:: @@ @ @ @ @@@ @@@@@@@ @ @@ @ @ @ # :@ ::: : :@:: @@ @ @ @ @@@ @@@@@@@ @ @@ @ @ @ # , :@ ::: : :@:: @@ @ @ @ @@@ @@@@@@@ @ @@ @ @ @ # @ :: :::@ ::: : :@:: @@ @ @ @ @@@ @@@@@@@ @ @@ @ @ :::::: :@: : :# @ :: :::@ ::: : :@:: @@ @ @ @ @@@ @@@@@@@ @ @@ @ @ :::::: :@: : :# @ :: :::@ ::: : :@:: @@ @ @ @ @@@ @@@@@@@ @ @@ @ @ :::::: :@: : :# @ :: :::@ ::: : :@:: @@ @ @ @ @@@ @@@@@@@ @ @@ @ @ :::::: :@: : :# 0 +----------------------------------------------------------------------->Mi 0 4.858 Number of snapshots: 50 Detailed snapshots: [2, 8, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 45, 49 (peak)] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- n time(i) total(B) useful-heap(B) extra-heap(B) stacks(B) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ... 49 5,093,990 5,036,712 5,036,688 24 0 100.00% (5,036,688B) (heap allocation functions) malloc/new/new[], --alloc-fns, etc. ->79.18% (3,988,112B) 0x404DAD: __hpf_malloc_without_abort (in /lustre/wrkdir/user/multiple) ->78.98% (3,977,872B) 0x40260A: __hpf_alloc (in /lustre/wrkdir/user/multiple) ->78.98% (3,977,872B) 0x402B06: pgf90_alloc (in /lustre/wrkdir/user/multiple) ->78.98% (3,977,872B) 0x401E22: MAIN_ (multiple.f90:7) ->78.98% (3,977,872B) 0x401D4E: main (in /lustre/wrkdir/user/multiple) ->00.20% (10,240B) in 1+ places, all below ms_print's threshold (01.00%) ->20.82% (1,048,576B) 0x402198: allhdr (in /lustre/wrkdir/user/multiple) ->20.82% (1,048,576B) 0x402C64: pgf90_alloc (in /lustre/wrkdir/user/multiple) ->20.82% (1,048,576B) 0x401E22: MAIN_ (multiple.f90:7) ->20.82% (1,048,576B) 0x401D4E: main (in /lustre/wrkdir/user/multiple)
As in the previous example, the bar drawn with '#' characters indicates peak memory usage. Bars drawn with '@' characters are "detailed snapshots," meaning the ms_print output shows a function callgraph for these particular snapshots similar to the function callgraph for the peak snapshot (49) above.
Massif takes an interesting approach, developing a visual profiler tool without going the extra step of making it X based. But it does seem to strike a good balance between ease of use and highlighting the information in which a user is probably most interested. Plus, there are a handful of options that make Massif fairly flexible, including options to increase the number of snapshots, the frequency of detailed snapshots, the size of the graph, etc. There is also an option to enable profiling of the stack.
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Discussion in 'The Trash Can' started by RunnersHigh, Dec 20, 2010.
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in other words.. she's serious about coming back and competing again..
Great! The ladies field will be much better served with her as a part of it.
Sooooooooo beautiful!!! Breathtaking!
I agree with this. It's difficult, I would imagine, to tell an Olympic champion, who is already receiving monster marks, to improve her "body line" or "stretch."
Yu-Na won the Korean Nationals today and is now cleared to go to the ISU Worlds 2013.
It was a performance for the ages in front of the home fans.
FS – broadcast version with (too many) commentaries
Great fancam
It was touching that she seemed at ease and ready to share the moment with the fans. It was different from the last time she competed before the home fans at 2008 GPF, when she was suffocated by the huge expectations from the enthusiastic fans.
After the event she said, "I'm happy that I was able to give a good performance to the fans, at what could be my last competition at home." When asked about her expectation for the Worlds, she said, "If I could stay healthy and prepared, I think I can do well. But the actual performance can be determined by many factors -- physical, mental, or others. I'm just one of the athletes who can be affected by those factors. All I can do is to be prepared and do my best."
Photo: Ladies' podium - Korean Nationals 2013
Happy to see again in competitions. She grow up and now its woman on ice. Wish all the best to her
Good single-cam recording by SBS News of the FS at Nationals (with no commentary):
Kween & Queen performing "Hero" at the 2013 PyeongChang Special Olympics closing ceremony.
And Flash mop with skaters - Kween's Gangnam style looked nice! Yu-Na! Shy!
ETA: it's just for the record. Details are here at GSD.
The Sochi Winter Games: One Year To Go
It's too early to know for sure which athletes will compete in Sochi, but some key names to watch are Lindsey Vonn (United States, Alpine skiing), Shaun White (United States, snowboarding), Yuna Kim (South Korea, figure skating) and Yevgeny Plushenko (Russia, figure skating).
Six questions leading up to Sochi 2014
What about Yuna Kim?
The South Korean star is also looking to repeat, and looked great in Germany back in December, winning gold at her first event in more than eighteen months. She should lock up a spot in Sochi at worlds in March, and definitely looks to shine on the ice again, but Americans Ashley Wagner and Gracie Gold, who were both impressive at U.S. nationals last month, might have something to say about that.
sochi 2014 one year out video
36~39 yuna kim (bgm. One of the greatest Olympic performances I have ever seen!!!)
Yuna Kim Press Interview After 2013 World Figure Skating Championships
congrats again yuna!!!!
Let me start by saying that I am a big Yuna fan and still have her Olympic short and long programs on my DVR which I watch at least several times per year. I was really glad to see that she fixed that foot on her layback. Her performance was techically brilliant, but I sensed that she was emotionally disconnected during her programs this go-around. I hope that she finds some renewed passion in time for the Olympics in Sochi
Let me start by saying that, as a Yu-Na uber, I'm glad to hear that you're a Yu-Na fan. Please bring up something new. This is so stale.
I recommend you open up your eyes in appreciating artistic/athletic performances. In my view, Yu-Na emotes very aptly, just in a right amount, depending on the spirit of each program. Renewed passion? How could one ask for more, after that magnificent performance just a week ago?
M. Jordan came back to the same excellence after a brief stint with baseball, and nobody complained about his lack of "passion" even though he wasn't jumping up and down the court with joy, and kissing on the floor after his buzzer-beater.
Others may have different views - no big deal. Kim is a most deserving World champion this year based on her technical excellence alone.
Wall Street Journal's Korea Real Time blog: http://blogs.wsj.com/korearealtime/2013/03/18/queen-yuna-reclaims-reign-on-the-ice/
When is the next "All That Skate" show scheduled for in Korea, anyone know?
The exact dates have not yet been announced. I don't remember how much earlier the dates were announced for the previous shows, but I have a feeling that they should have been announced by now if they were planning 'All That Skate Spring' in the beginning of May as it was before. On the other hand, it could just be that Yuna herself has not had time to think about the show what with the Worlds and all the other responsibilities that she has.
but does anyone know why she ditched her Biellmann?
I think she has lost it. The catchfoot position was also barely held. I think because she hasn't regularly stretched or practised the position in so long that she lost some flexibility and could no longer get into it [without hurting].
I mean if she could still do it [with hurting] there's no reason to ditch it - her layback is currently level 3 only.
Either that, or because she felt totally confident that she would blow the field away as long as she nailed everything else that she didn't want to work hard to reclaim that position. And man was she spot on with the strategy.
lowtherlore. shut up.
one of her interviews after Worlds she mentioned that she has a back problem and it is still painful...
i read somewhere that All That Skate will be held in June.
And congrats to Yuna for collecting 2 full sets of World medals.
June, 2013 according to Kurt Brwoning.
I wish I will be there to see my girl
Let me start by saying that, as a Yu-Na uber, I'm glad to hear that you're a Yu-Na uber. Please bring up something new. This thing of yours, being overly passive-aggressive with anything critical about Yuna, is gettin' old.
Not everything is black and white.
Since when is Yuna your girl?
Kurt in Yuna's shows!
Thank you for the information. I wonder if there will be two 'All That Skate' shows (of course, technically it's not two, but I you know what I mean) this year also, or if it will be just this one, as Yuna will now undoubtedly have a much more intense training regime before the next season.
I agree with l'etoile - it's great that they invited Kurt Browning again. They absolutely had to do it before he retires from skating in shows. Now I will have to try to guess what will be the other skaters. Pairs and ice dancers are the most difficult. Not in the sense that they are difficult to guess (more like the opposite), but that there are not many to choose from. Volosozhar/Trankov undoubtedly now that they're World champions, but what about the second pair if there will be one? Their main rivals Savchenko/Szolkowy again? It would make the cast too similar to what 'Art on Ice' always has. It seems that Sale/Pelletier won't be skating that soon if they will return to skating at all. As for ice dancers, I really hope that they can invite Virtue/Moir - otherwise, it's very likely that there will be no ice dancers at all (again). As for other male single skaters, Stephane Lambiel, and most likely also Patrick Chan, are a lock. And they could invite Kulik again - and Gordeeva also. They seem to be in good shape. Or Javier Fernandez as the new European champion - as per tradition. Shizuka Arakawa could be one of the female skaters - the last time when she was invited to Yuna's show it was called 'Festa on Ice' (too long ago if you ask me). And Ashley Wagner as the new USA champion - again, as per tradition. I guess Max Aaron is not that suitable for the role of a show star yet .
^IIRC, Yuna said that for the better preparation for the Olympic season, All That Skate is held just once in June this year.
I'm putting my money on V/M, Lambiel, and Chan already being cast, and if both S/S and V/T could make it, it'd be just like last year's Yuna shows!
Wouldn't SOI schedule prevent Ashley from going to Korea in June, though? I'd love her to go there. Ashley herself recently confessed that skating in Yuna's shows in LA was a huge confidence boost that it helped her skating. Maybe Carolina could get an invitation if no other NA ladies have been cast. Kulik/Gordeeva sound beyond awesome. They did skate in Yuna's shows a couple of times so why not this year? Yagudin also had a total blast last summer and it would be amazing to see him there again. I think Irina should skate there again, too. Yuna's shows have always starred at least one or two unexpected skating stars. I wonder how it'll be like this year's shows.
Thanks - I suspected that. A bit of a pity, but perfectly understandable.
To tell the truth, I didn't think about that - probably you are right.
I hope Emmanuel Sandhu will be invited... You know, there are a lot of Sandhu fans in Korea.. lol
You are kidding, right??
Well, let me fix what I said. "There are a lot of Sandhu fans among Korean figure skating fans".


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New Hampshire Club News
October 09. 2013 9:49PM
Wolfeboro Town Manager Dave Owen, far right, speaks during the Winnipesaukee Chapter of DAR's rededication of a bronze plaque that had been stolen from the site of the First Meeting Town House in Wolfeboro. Looking on are James Rogers, Wolfeboro Historical Society president, and Nancy Ramos, the chapter's regent. (COURTESY)
GREENFIELD — The third annual Greenfield Historical Society Train Show is set for 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, at the Greenfield Historical Society Museum, 828 Forest Road.
Admission is by donation. For more information, call Dale Russell at 547-2179 or Frank Shea at 547-2181.
WOLFEBORO — The Winnipesaukee Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution recently hosted a ceremony to rededicate a bronze plaque that the chapter had first placed on a granite stone in 1940 at the site of the First Meeting Town House in Wolfeboro, said Regent Nancy Ramos.
During the ceremony, historian Dave Bowers and James Rogers, president of the Wolfeboro Historical Society, talked about the First Meeting Town House. Town Manager David Owen discussed how the plaque was found.
The chapter's next meeting will begin at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the home of Bette Frazier. The topic will be antique jewelry.
The chapter meets the second Saturday of the month. For more information, call 569-9362 or email nancy@@myfairpoint.net.
GOFFSTOWN — Pastry chef Dana Luppi will demonstrate how to make truffles and caramels during the Goffstown Mother's Club meeting, which will begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Goffstown High School Room 109.
All women in the community who are interested are welcome. Those who attend will go home with a treat.
AMHERST — The next meeting of the Holistic Moms Network Hillsborough County Chapter on Thursday, Oct. 17, will offer a program on "Midwifery Through your Lifespan" with Sharon Redfearn, a certified nurse midwife and advanced practice registered nurse at Full Circle Midwifery at St. Joseph Hospital in Milford and Nashua.
The Holistic Moms Network is a nonprofit support and educational resource network for parents with an interest in natural health, holistic living and mindful parenting. The chapter meets the third Thursday of the month on a variety of natural health and parenting topics. It also offers playgroups, a national and local online community, money-saving co-ops and an e-newsletter.
Somersworth group plans annual Harvest Craft Fair
SOMERSWORTH — The Somersworth Festival Association will sponsor its 20th annual Harvest Craft Fair from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, at Somersworth High School.
For more information about the fair, go to nhfestivals.org or call Sue at 692-5869.
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I just wanted to say hello and let everyone know that I'm just now getting started on my Boba Fett. I've been reading posts on here for several weeks now and I must say that there are some incredible artists on this board. Everyone should be very proud of what they've accomplished. The community seems very welcoming and friendly, which is quite a comfort, and I applaud all of you for your willingness to help each other and provide constructive criticism.
To get to the topic at hand...I ended up finding a FG armor kit for sale on eBay from Beetlefix. While I was originally kicking around the idea of following y'alls lead and giving the whole painting thing a shot, I ultimately decided that I didn't have that much time to devote to the project. Bettlefix had supplied the side by side images shown below in his auction and that's what sold me on picking up a painted set from him. Let me just say that his work is really incredible. He was an absolute pleasure to work with and he got the job done really quickly. So far I've purchased the chest plates, collar, cod piece, back plate, and shoulder bells from him, but I will definitely be going back for my bucket, knees, and probably the gauntlets and pack if he's able to do it all. I'm not certain if any of you have ever purchased from him or not, but I'm telling you, he does an excellent job, and after seeing the product in person...it's just awesome. It really lit a fire under me to start putting the rest of my costume together...now if I could just win the lottery.
Anyway, it'll be slow going for me due to a tight budget, but as soon as my costume is a little further along I'll definitely post some pics.


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USPS Courses--Issues
Have been reading these posts with some interest. Many years ago, more than I care to state, I took a USPS intro course. It was ok. The material and curriculum was fine, however, I found the instructors to be condescending and at times pedantic. Now that said, I''m sure that was an anomaly.
Currently, and with no relevance to my experience with the USPS, I am in the Coast Guard Auxiliary. The courses there are excellent but the same bureaucratic resistance to change exists. Nonetheless, the courses the CGAUX has relies heavily on dead reckoning and keeping updated plots, in fact their recommendation is to record DR plots every 30 minutes.
Guess I don''t have anything really important to impart just passing on my thoughts.
USPS Courses--Issues
USPS offers pretty much the basic material that a sailor needs in order to get from point A to point B. This should be the starting point however and form the basis for a truly rewarding sailing experience. I have taken some of their courses as refreshers and founf that the quality of instructors, dedication and wealth of experience is difficult to find any where else. Their "Make Shore, Make Sure" is a wonderful introductory program to boating--particularly for parents and children. Their navigation texts on piloting, dead recokning and celestial navigation are well written and easy to understand. As one responder stated GPS is mostly intuitive and with any computer experience one can get very familiar with any of the modern units very quickly. I have all the modern electronic devices aboard my vessel but when offshore (and some times just as an abundance of caution ie. anticipated fog}I will run a DR track, a Loran Position track and a GPS track. Its fun to see how close you can come and how accurate the electronics are when compared to each other'' For extra measure I sometimes throw in a noon position, just so the skills don''t get too rusty. PS--I am not a member of the Power Squardon.
USPS Courses--Issues
One appology per day is ENUF!
When we visit you in person this month you can see for yourself how our boat has been
kept up with the times.If you would rather not wait.Look up the yesterday pic'' under Dancy8888 on th CWBB.
USPS Courses--Issues
Ahoy me matey''s , me thinking ye lost track of the original pont. The teaching must keep up with the times. Being the most available to the widest range of people the obvious lack of technology does not bode well for long term growth. D/R is in-valuable, GPS and modern computer related subjects must be addressed. Sextant ,celestrial if not already is fast becomming an academic oddity. Wooden boats.... don''t get me started Big Red 56 the Pirate
USPS Courses--Issues
I agree with you guys. The texts are basically pretty good, if dated, and that you learn a good deal from instructors...and HHJ, we do have a heavy % of sailors in our Squadron. My comments were made in the spirit of making a good thing better but also a nudge that the organization is terribly slow to change.
USPS Courses--Issues
I''ve been taking the USAPS courses for a number of years now - I''ve earned a JN for celestial navigation. In my years of taking the courses, I have not found an emphasis on wooden boats or western rivers or anything else along those lines. While national does write the tests and textbooks (which were updated within the last 2 years) much of the flavor of the courses rest with the individual squadron.
I found that my instructors gave a nod toward GPS (and Loran) where appropriate, but always with a caution and also with the advice that you can learn it easily from the instruction manual; they were not going waste classroom time on something you could do just as easily yourself.
The first squadrom I joined consisted mostly of power-boaters, so I looked around and found another local squadron that was 80% sailors, and it did make a difference. Depending on where you live, you may not have a choice, but check around.
USPS Courses--Issues
True - they shouldn''t completely neglect somthing like GPS. But navigation fundamentals are more important, GPS is just a tool. Should be addressed, but NOT at the expense of basic nav skills.
Frankly, I think Celestial is more important to teach in a classroom setting than soemthing like satelite nav, if you''re going to teach only one tool. Most GPS''s today are pretty foolproof - if you understand navigation then figuring out how to use the GPS takes 15 minutes with the instruction book. Older ones are a little trickier, but I can plot a course from my East Greenwich RI to Nantucket on my Garmin GPSMap 76 within in couple of minutes, AND without a chart if I am feeling pretty stupid.
Of course things like learning about the care & feeding of wooden boats doesn''t make sense at all. At least not as part of a USPS "core curriculum". Sure, there are plenty of people that love the smell of varnish more than life itself out there, but the vast majority of us have plastic...
USPS Courses--Issues
Don''t get me wrong, I really find the local USPS instruction outstanding and I agree one must learn DR, piloting basics, and so on. My source of frustration is not with them or the basics...its with the boys at national that organize the course materials, create the tests, and so on. Some of the material should be optional, like wooden boats, Western Rivers and they should be quicker to respond to the changes. If you don''t teach GPS and focus on celestial, you are doing a dis-service. They have an affirmative responsibility to catch up.
USPS Courses--Issues
Several years ago when my wife and I were taking the Chapman School''s "Offshore Sailing" course, the skipper/instructor told us a little story...or set of stories as the case may be.
This guy was popping back and forth from Stuart FL to the Bahamas fairly regularly as part of teaching the course. He mentioned that every few months or so, he''s have a radio coversation that went something like:
<SOME BOAT OVER VHF - call her "GPS Queen"> "Eastbound white sailboat in the Gulf Stream, this is GPS Queen"
SHADY LADY - "This is Shady Lady"
GPS QUEEN - "Where are you headed?"
SHADY LADY - "Port Lucaya, Bahamas"
GPS QUEEN - "Can we follow you in?"
Inevitably, someone would drop the handheld GPS overboard, run out of AA batteries or in some way screw the sattelite nav system. Then, having no clue about Dead Reckoning, and not having maintained a DR course on a paper chart, they''d have no clue where they were.
Moral of the story - every hour during the passage we made a DR note on the chart. We''d check them against the GPS periodically, but if we lost the GPS we still would have made port just fine.
So, even though GPS navigation is getting pretty simple and almost any fool can figure it out in fifteen minutes you can still get into trouble if you don''t learn the "archaic & anachronistic" fundamentals.
I still want to learn how to do Celestial Navigation, just for the perverse fun of it...
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The Canisius baseball team dropped its final game at the Flyer Classic, falling 5-3 to the host Dayton Flyers on Sunday afternoon. The Golden Griffins are now 10-7 on the season.
Senior Ronnie Bernick reached base three times on the day, recording a single, walk and hit by pitch. Seniors Jose Torralba and Jesse Kelso also reached base twice, recording a single and a walk. The Griffs hit into a season-high three double plays on the day.
The Griffs got on the scoreboard in the top of the third inning with Kelso leading off with a single and Bernick reaching on a HBP. Senior Ryan Coppinger reached on an error, scoring Kelso and put runners at the corners with one out. Junior Jesse Puscheck hit into a double play to end the threat.
Dayton (5-12) scored three runs in the bottom of the third on two hits, taking advantage of two HBP to start the inning from Canisius starter Devon Stewart. The Griffs tied the game in the fifth as Bernick and Torralba led off with back-to-back walks. After a wild pitch, Coppinger scored Bernick with an RBI groundout. After a walk to Puscheck, Luppens scored Torralba with an RBI single to tie the score at 3-3. Sophomore Brett Siddall hit into a double play to end the inning.
Dayton went ahead in the eighth inning, scoring the go-ahead run to go along with an insurance run. A two-out, two-RBI double from Mark Podlas proved to be the game-winning hit. The Griffs got a one-out baserunner in the ninth, but Torralba hit into the third double play of the day for Canisius to end the game.
Stewart (2-2) threw his first complete game of the season, allowing five runs in eight innings and striking out seven.
The two mid-week games at VMI have been cancelled due to an impending snowstorm that is going to his the Lexington, Va. area. Canisius opens MAAC play next weekend when the Golden Griffins host Saint Peter's in a three-game series at the Demske Sports Complex. First pitch for Saturday's doubleheader is set for noon.Game Notes: Canisius is on a four-game losing streak for the first time since April 6-10, 2012… Canisius allowed 17 two-out RBI on the weekend while only producing five two-out RBI of its own… Puscheck extended his on-base streak to 21 games… Siddall hit 8-for-17 (.471) with four RBI on the weekend… Canisius has now lost 10 of its 12 games at the Flyer Classic in its last three appearances


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UK Women's Soccer Notebook: Gilliland Honored; UK Ranked
Sept. 17, 2013
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The University of Kentucky women's soccer team ascended to No. 19 in this week's edition of the Soccer America top 25, after completing its third-straight 2-0 weekend, taking a 1-0 win at home against Texas-San Antonio and knocking off No. 10 West Virginia in Morgantown, W. Va., on Sunday afternoon.
The ranking is the first of the year for the Wildcats, who enter the poll for the first time since the week of Sept. 17 in 2012. In 2012, UK checked in at No. 18 in the national poll, which was the first time Kentucky had been ranked under head coach Jon Lipsitz.
Kentucky has also been ranked in other national polls this week, including the Bennett Poll, in which Kentucky moved into the top 20 for the first time all season, checking in at No. 20. In the TopDrawerSoccer.com top 25, UK is now ranked No. 22.
Gilliland Named to National Team of the Week
Junior Arin Gilliland struck for seven points on the weekend and was involved in all five goals the Wildcats scored on the weekend, and for that, was named to the TopDrawerSoccer.com National Team of the Week for the first time in her career.
Gilliland scored twice on Sunday afternoon, notching her second goal of the season just 10 seconds into the match to give UK the early 1-0 lead, and then punched in her second penalty of the season to make it 4-1 in the 66th minute when freshman Zoe Swift was dragged down in the box, giving Gilliland the opportunity to take the PK. The Lexington, Ky., native also assisted on three goals this weekend, and now leads the Southeastern Conference with seven assists on the season, and is ranked second nationally in women's college soccer.
Wildcats Open SEC Play Friday Night at Auburn
After completing the non-conference schedule 6-1-1, Kentucky will open the SEC portion of the schedule on Friday night at 8 p.m. ET against the Auburn Tigers at the AU Soccer Complex in Auburn, Ala. The Wildcats and Tigers are opening the SEC slate against each other for the second time in the last three years.
In 2012, Kentucky used a flurry of second-half goals to come from behind and knock off the Tigers, 2-1, in Lexington to clinch UK's spot in the 2012 SEC Tournament. Auburn and Kentucky have met 19 times overall, with each side winning eight matches and three ties.
"The SEC is a different level," UK head coach Jon Lipsitz said on his call-in show last night. "We as a staff keep telling our young players that they have never experienced soccer at this level. They all thought the Louisville game was tough, but SEC soccer is another animal. I trust my captains and upperclassmen to guide them along the way, and we are looking for a great challenge from a very well-coached and extremely organized Auburn team."
The SEC will be playing an 11-team schedule rotation in 2013, as each team will play 11 matches against SEC opponents, while not playing two SEC teams. There will be no divisions in the SEC. The Wildcats do not play Ole Miss or Texas A&M in 2013. Of the 14 SEC teams, 10 will qualify for the 2013 SEC Tournament in Orange Beach, Ala., with the top six seeds earning a first-round bye into the quarterfinals.
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Fox Business Network's Attempt To Imitate Fox News Reaches Its Inevitable Conclusion
Things are not going so well for the Fox Business Network. The network, which mostly seemed to function during primetime as the Fox News Channel's cover band [1], announced the cancelation of its entire primetime lineup yesterday: Power and Money with David Asman, Freedom Watch with Andrew Napolitano, and Follow The Money with Eric Bolling. For anyone that has been paying attention to the network's recent struggles, the news is not surprising.
Last October, Reuters reported [2] on a memo sent by Fox Business Network executive vice president Kevin Magee to Fox Business staff imploring everyone at the network to stop trying to emulate Fox News Channel. In the memo, which Magee sent after meeting with Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, Magee told his staff that he had "been asked to remind you all again that they are separate channels and the more we make FBN look like FNC the more of a disservice we do to ourselves."
Indeed, at that point it was difficult to differentiate [1] between FBN and FNC. The channels featured the same rotating cast of contributors and hosts, and FBN, though it did report on business news, seemed far more interested in the Fox News routine of tearing down Obama and Democrats. It was not uncommon to turn on the channel and see David Asman or Eric Bolling covering stories not even tangentially connected to business, like conspiracies about President Obama's birth certificate.
In the intervening months since Magee sent his memo, the frequent primetime focus on partisan politics at the expense of actual business reporting has continued. Andrew Napolitano used his show to promote [3] Ron Paul's presidential bid, and Eric Bolling devoted time to explaining [4] why The Muppets are anti-capitalism.
In a statement released yesterday, Magee announced that starting later this month, rather than airing Asman's, Napolitano's, and Bolling's shows, the network will instead re-air their 5-8 p.m. programming (Neil Cavuto, Gerri Willis, and Lou Dobbs) from 8-11p.m.
As The New York Times' Brian Stelter explained [5] in his write-up of the move, FBN's primetime ratings have been anemic, with the channel averaging only 54,000 total viewers each night, which places it in "the bottom tier of all cable channels rated by Nielsen."
Aside from clearly needing to shake things up to fix their terrible ratings, Fox Business Network may have another motivation to soften the tone of their evening programming. The Wall Street Journal's current arrangement with CNBC -- wherein CNBC reportedly receives advanced access to certain original financial reporting from WSJ and all Dow Jones business outlets as well as other perks -- expires [6] in 2012, and there has been talk that the paper might form a similar relationship with Fox Business.
One potential sticking point, however, is the hyperpartisanship of Fox Business' programming. The president of the Independent Association of Publishers' Employees, which represents several employees at the Journal told Media Matters last year that, "by and large, reporters at the Journal do not like being associated in the minds of news sources or news subjects with Fox News."
Brian Stelter wrote in his piece that Willis, Cavuto and Dobbs host "three programs [that] have a high concentration of Republican politicians and conservative commentators as guests, [but] they are not as overtly political as the shows they are replacing." The fact that Lou Dobbs (whose birtherism hastened his exit from CNN) is considered less polarizing than Fox Business Network's current slate of primetime hosts is as sure a sign as any that the network had gone completely off the rails.
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Feb. 26, 2011
TOWSON, Md. - Matt Langan curled around the crease and scored his second goal of the game with 3:41 left in regulation, as Loyola University Maryland defeated host Towson University, 3-2, in non-conference action at Johnny Unitas Stadium.
Goalkeeper Jake Hagelin and the 15th-ranked Greyhounds' defense held Towson to just 21 shots and eight on goal. Hagelin made six saves and tied for team-high honors with five ground balls.
Towson (0-2 overall) took a 2-1 lead with 10:06 left in the third quarter when Alec Jernstedt, a long-stick midfielder, scored in transition off a Peter Mezzanotte pass.
The Tigers continued to hold Loyola (2-0) without a goal for the next 19:23 until Davis Butts rushed toward the face of the goal and shot a pass to Mike Sawyer who was stationed 12 yards outside at the top of the left alley.
Sawyer ripped a shot past Towson goalkeeper Travis Love to tie the score at 2-2 with 5:43 remaining in regulation.
Loyola won the ensuing faceoff, as Scott Ratliff reached to pick up a ground ball that faceoff specialist John Schiavone pushed toward the Greyhounds' defensive end.
Towson, however, regained possession when Stephen Murray's shot went just outside the near pipe, and Love picked up the ground ball.
The Greyhounds forced a turnover on the Tigers' clearing attempt. Mike Sawyer came from behind to strip Mezzanotte of possession, and the ball rolled out of bounds in Loyola's favor.
After a media timeout, Love made a save on a Sawyer shot with 3:51 to go, but 10 seconds later, Langan wrapped around the backside of the crease and delivered a low shot from right to left into the bottom corner of the goal.
"We were in an inverted offensive set there, and Chris Basler had a short-stick defender on him," Langan said. "He kind of got away from him, and I was able to sneak in past them. I dropped my hands and got my stick around the near side."
Schiavone scored another win on the ensuing faceoff, pushing the ball to Josh Hawkins, and Loyola ran nearly 90 seconds off the clock before calling a timeout with 2:14 to play. Head Coach Charley Toomey called another timeout for the Greyhounds with 1:31 to go, but Towson, using a seven-man ride, forced a turnover with 1:11 left on the clock.
"I looked at (Hagelin) and the defense (during the second timeout), and I said, `one more stop, and we go home (with a win),'" Toomey said. "It is good to know that we can score in 6-on-6 (offense), and that if it is a slow game, we can gut it out with our athleticism."
Loyola forced the Tigers to use almost 30 seconds of clock to clear the ball to their offensive zone, and Ratliff then caused a Carl Iacona turnover.
The Greyhounds, however, were unable to clear the ball, and Towson had possession after a timeout with 10 ticks remaining. Matt Hughes attempted a shot from the top with four seconds left, but it was blocked away by a Loyola defender, and the Greyhounds came away with the victory.
Loyola won the battle of the ground balls, picking up 27 to the Tigers' 17, and Schiavone won 6-of-9 restarts. Hagelin and Hawkins led Loyola with four ground balls each, while Ratliff had four and Sawyer picked up three.
The teams played to a scoreless draw after the first quarter despite 14 combined shots. It remained that way in the second period, although Loyola appeared to have broken through. Pat Byrnes bounced a shot past Love, but he was called for being in the crease with 9:50 to go before halftime. Towson, however, had committed a pushing penalty, and the Greyhounds went on extra-man for the second time in the half.
The game was the lowest scoring contest for the Greyhounds since they defeated Ohio State by the same score on March 23, 1962.
Loyola is back in action at Ridley Athletic Complex next Saturday when it hosts Bellarmine University at 1 o'clock in ECAC Lacrosse League action.


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Hey guys,
So this is my first year waterfowling and while our season in Michigan is coming to a close this weekend (went by so quick!!!) i've been thinking about next season already.
This year, I learned that hunting public land can be a crapshoot sometimes. Skybusters, people shooting at ducks working your spread, pressure and all the other joys of hunting public land can make duck hunting a chore.
I'll still hunt all that stuff but i've been thinkin about learning about field hunting. I have a friend that lives in "farm country" about 40 minutes south of Detroit. In his area, there are corn and bean fields everywhere. One of my friends really good friends has a ton of property full of corn and beans and they know other people in the area with land as well. All this is about 5 miles inland from Lake Erie.
How would you guys go about scouting this area and how would you know any of this is worthwhile. Is it as simple as driving around and trying to find birds? When is the best time to scout? When do fields usually heat up? or are they always good? Wouldn't they get better as lakes start to freeze? If thats the case it probably wouldn't be all that great this year cause we just now got a freeze this week.
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Arsenal Football Club is delighted to announce that young striker Zak Ansah has signed his first professional contract with the Club.
The England Youth International, who turned 17 earlier this month, rose through the academy ranks at Hale End to make his debut for the Under-18s at just 14. After three seasons with Steve Bould's side, Ansah has racked up an impressive tally of 12 goals from his 20 appearances.
Zak, who joined Arsenal when he was ten years old, got his first taste of Reserve football in 2010/11, coming on as a substitute against Newcastle United at St. James' Park, and was part of the Under-19s squad to travel to Texas, USA for the Dallas Cup in April, which he marked with a superb goal against Chorrillo FC.
Everyone at the Club is looking forward to Zak's continued contribution and development with Arsenal in the forthcoming years.Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Ice Shelf Instability
Guest contribution from Mauri S. Pelto
Ice shelves are floating platforms of ice fed by mountain glaciers and ice sheets flowing from the land onto the ocean. The ice flows from the grounding line where it becomes floating to the seaward front, where icebergs calve. For a typical glacier when the climate warms the glacier merely retreats, reducing its low elevation, high melting area by increasing its mean elevation. An ice shelf is nearly flat and cannot retreat in this fashion. Ice shelves cannot persist unless the entire ice shelf is an accumulation zone, where snowpack does not completely melt even in the summer.
Ice shelves have long been recognized as keys in buttressing Antarctic Ice Sheets. In turn ice shelves rely on pinning points for buttressing. The pinning point are where the floating ice shelf meets solid ground, either at lateral margins or a subglacial rise meets the bottom of the ice shelf causing an ice rise on the shelf surface.
The recent collapse of Wordie Ice Shelf, Mueller Ice Shelf, Jones Ice Shelf, Larsen-A and Larsen-B Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula has made us aware of how dynamic ice shelve systems are. After their loss the reduced buttressing of feeder glaciers has allowed the expected speed-up of inland ice masses after shelf ice break-up. (Rignot and others, 2004).
Several recent papers examine the causes of breakup of both Larsen B and Wilkins Ice Shelf, which prompts a closer look at the role of surface melting, structural weakness development and ice shelf thinning in this process.
In 1995 a substantial section of the northern Larsen Ice Shelf broke up in a few days. This was the first glimpse at a rapid ice shelf collapse. The breakup followed a period of warming and ice shelf front retreat, prompting (Rott and others, 1996) to observe that "after an ice shelf retreats beyond a critical limit, it may collapse rapidly as a result of perturbated mass balance".
During the austral summer of 2001/02, melting at the surface of Larsen Ice Shelf in the Antarctic Peninsula was three times in excess of the mean. This exceptional melt event was followed by the collapse of Larsen B Ice Shelf, during which 3,200 km2 of ice shelf surface was lost. That meltwater was playing a key role in collapse was underscored by the unusual number of melt ponds that existed that summer and that the new ice front after collapse close to the limit of surface meltponds seen in images leading up to the March event (Scambos and others, 2003).
The ice shelves actually collapse via rapid calving, and the physics connecting meltwater to calving is its ability to enhance crevasse propagation. When filled 90% or more with meltwater a sufficiently deep crevasse can overcome the overburden pressure that tends to close the crevasse at depth (Scambos and others, 2000). Days before the final Larsen break-up, it is evident that the crevasses cut through the entire ice shelf. It also appeared that large meltponds contracted indicating that they were beginning to drain though the crevasses to the sea (Scambos and others, 2003).
As scientists it would have been easy to close the book on the issue after identifying the meltwater process. However, detailed examinations have continued identifying other key elements in the tale of collapse. The decade prior to collapse the Larsen-B Ice Shelf had thinned primarily by melting of the ice shelf bottom by 18 m (Shepard and others, 2003). This preconditions the ice shelf to failure by weakening its connection to pinning points as the shelf becomes more buoyant. This goes back to the critical limit mentioned by Rott (1996).
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By Rob Kelly
Arsène Wenger believes it is essential for centre backs to be technically proficient due to the changing structure of modern teams.
The Arsenal manager used to favour a 4-4-2 formation in his early days at the Club, but in recent years this has evolved into a fluid 4-3-3 system.
Many other clubs have followed the same trend, and Wenger believes this has had a major effect on centre backs in particular.
"[The role] is changing to increase the shape of the teams," he said. "The traditional shape of football was 4-4-2 and the new shape is to have one isolated striker.
"In a 4-4-2 system, the two full backs get the ball first because the two strikers are in the middle and the two centre backs are marked so the keeper's first solution is to the full backs.
"In the modern game, the two full backs are marked by two wingers or wide midfielders and the first available player are the centre backs as they are playing two against one.
"That means the importance of that technical quality is much more important. Even if they are less good defensively, they have less to deal with than two against two - they are always in a two against one situation.
"The start of the game is with the centre backs nowadays, and that's why that technical ability has suddenly become important."
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Hello all,
Was wonderng if this Aero Precision COP upper -
can be built with a CAR-15 pencil barrel and low-profile gas block?
This system uses any standard AR-15 barrel, not a proprietary barrel system. BARREL NUT and WRENCH are included with the kit. The receiver design also has a fully enclosed dust cover pin which can be removed with the barrel in place. Forward assist and dust cover already installed.
you can build it any way you want, seems high to me (no bcg) +150
I'm pretty sure this is the least expensive "monolithic" upper out there, which is why the price over any conventional upper.
you should be able to use any ar-15 barrel even 7.62x39 and other conversion barrels.
seems expensive but if you just got to have a mono rail then it is decent priced.
i rarely build any of those. i pretty much stick to KISS. an entire conventional upper can be built for the pirce of that mono-rail set up. but to each his own--LOL
You got a point on the price, but an AR with a monolithic upper isn't cheap - this is the cheapest I've seen.
It looks like the bottem half of the forearm is bolted on and will allow you to access any standard type gas block you should want to use. If you look at the enlarged pictures you'll get a better idea of how it is put together.


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University of St. Thomas students will present oral and poster presentations of their faculty-led research projects at the 2011 Research Symposium on April 8 and 9. The University community is encouraged to attend these presentations and support their colleagues and fellow students in the presentation of their research projects.
"The Research Symposium is a tribute to our dedicated faculty who inspire our students to conduct exciting research, to collaborate their efforts and to share the knowledge they have learned," said UST President Dr. Robert Ivany. "Springing into Knowledge" is the theme for this year's Research Symposium. This theme not only captures the joyful nature of the act of learning, but also emphasizes the University´s liberal arts tradition, which serves as the source for bringing forth new knowledge. The Research Symposium will be a joyful celebration of the "springing" of new knowledge that occurs when students, faculty and the University community collaborate toward achieving a common goal: providing the intellectual seeds that will inspire students to research established models, engage in higher-level thinking, and generate new and creative ideas.
"Undergraduate research continues to flourish at the University of St. Thomas," said Dr. Dominic Aquila, vice president for Academic Affairs. "It is a natural outgrowth of a distinctive feature and principle of a UST education: close faculty-student relationships. Such close relations, taken together, form a culture of mentorship at UST, which is essential for successful and meaningful research.
"In national conversations on education, undergraduate research has been called a 'high-impact' student experience," Aquila said. "The UST experience underscores this point. For UST students, undergraduate research is a means to apply the resources of their liberal arts education, as it also prepares them for the more demanding research and problems they will face in graduate school or in their professional lives."
Last year, more than 220 students participated in the Symposium including 75 oral presentations, 55 poster presentations and 15 graduate students, representing 21 different academic departments.
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Friday, April 8
Scanlan Room., Jerabeck
Light Breakfast: 8:30-9 a.m.
Oral Presentations: 9 a.m. to noon.; 1-4 p.m.
Lunch: noon -1 p.m.
Honors Presentations: 4- 5 p.m.
Knights of Columbus Fish Fry: 5-6:30 p.m.
Posters Session A: 6-8 p.m.
Saturday, April 9
Scanlan Rm., Jerabeck, Malloy Hall
Light Breakfast: 8:30-9 a.m.
Poster Session B: 9-11 a.m.
Oral Presentations: 9 a.m.-noon
Lunch: noon-1 p.m.
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Click on names to read research abstracts from the students featured in the photo above: Front row from left to right: Lisa Foxworth, Alexandra Castro, Adeel Faruki, Denise Chau, Denise Wilborn. Back row: Sunita George, Laura Villarreal Barrera, Austin Stanfill.
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We just built our nest boxes, they're 15x15x12" deep. We were told that was plenty large enough for the heavy breeds we have. I hope they're right!
This is noting to do with coops but we are looking at getting chickens and I found this "poster." Thought it was pretty cool. http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/chooks/chooks.html
the best chicken "yard" I would have to say, for someone considering a small number of chickens in an urban or semi-urban area is a chicken wire enclosure (cube including bottom) that you can move around to different parts of your own yard. they love to peck at anything and this will reduce the need for feed.If you only have, say 2 3 or 4 chickens, the coop can be attached to this (ie plywood box with roof that lifts off. this way two people can move them around periodically for access to new forage
A movable chicken pen is called a chicken tractor. You can make one out of PVC pipe and poultry netting and a couple of old lawnmower wheels.


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by Box
Oct 03, 2012
The days when a Windows application and a server cluster in the data center could handle your collaboration needs are over. An increasingly mobile and remote workforce with experiences forged by Angry Birds and Google Maps has killed it. Mobile employees' expectation of a great user experience on any device can only be met with collaboration solutions architected with native apps and cloud delivery, an architecture Forrester calls the mobile app Internet. And that means content and collaboration professionals need a new approach and often a new set of suppliers that can deliver real-time and team- based collaboration apps on any mobile device.
Note: Box listed as doc-based collaboration app next to Dropbox


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For those without any photo program, here are the transparencies...
So, this took about 30 minutes and 8 bucks. And no complex wiring - cool!
Here's a video. The bicycle light has 6 different settings, this video only shows 1 of them:
http://www.TK409.com/images/fett/armor/lights1.avi (1.4mb)
Here's what you'll need:
1) printed transparencies from the link below. Do this on any laser printer.
2) Bell Bicycle safety light from WalMart $8 or
3) white paper & scissors
Remove the cover of the Bell safety light. This reduces it to 1/2" thick. Easy for fitting under your vest or armor.
I added a piece of white paper behind the transparencies to help diffuse or evenly disperse the light from the LEDs
Place the transparencies behind the slots in your chest armor
Then attach the Bell light behind your vest (you'll need to cut a hole in your vest) for best result.
Low-budget and easy peasy!
(But obviously Shackman's lights would be the coolest)
What do you think? Any suggestions?
- Chris
PS. Thanks to feedback from Brak's, I revised the transparencies file so the numbers are spread out a little more to be more accurate. Also, I included a Photoshop file for those without Adobe Illustrator
With all my respect for Shackman and his fantastic chest lights (I wish I had a set of my very own!), this is only a humble attempt at a lowend, do-it-yourself version.
I'm kind of an "accurate from 10 feet away is good enough" kind of guy and I wonder if there's an easier, less expensive way to do chest lights. What if you got several blinking red LEDs (8 or 9) and then printed out one of the displays below on transparency paper? The black would mask the lights and they would just show through the numbers. You may need 2 or 3 layers of transparencies. The LEDs would blink, but because of the black masking, only the letters would appear to blink.
Then you would just make a line of 5 blinking LEDs above for the blinking dashes. The lights could blink at random.
I have a set of LEDs and battery packs that I'm going to try this out with. I have a diagram for wiring he LEDs, but geez I don't know much about that stuff. Here's hoping I don't solder my fingers together!
Here are the display stages. You would pick one for your particular project. Print it on transparency and cut it out.
I'll see if I can round up that wiring diagram.
Do not print this from your browser! Download it to your machine and open it in a photo program (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc) The browser will print it way too big. The photo programs will print them actual size. (300 dpi)
- Chris


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P!nk says she was offered spot on 'X Factor'
P!nk is the latest star to get drawn into the never-ending rumors about "The X Factor" judges' panel next season.
The "Blow Me One Last Kiss" singer has reportedly been approached about a spot on the Fox show. In an interview with Australian paper The Herald Sun, P!nk said she turned down an offer from Simon Cowell, and other shows like the "The Voice" and "American Idol," because reality show judging just isn't her cup of tea.
She said that with a brutally honest attitude like hers, the audience would end up hating her "more than they already do." She added that Simon "is the only person who gets away with it because he's got an accent. And he's a man."
Rihanna, Chris Brown and Lady Gaga are among the other names that have been thrown around since Britney Spears announced her departure from "The X Factor" last month.