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The NHL and the players' association reached a tentative agreement early Sunday to end a nearly four-month-old lockout that threatened to wipe out what was left of an already abbreviated season.
A marathon negotiating session that lasted more than 16 hours, stretching from Saturday afternoon until just before dawn Sunday, produced a 10-year deal.
"We've got to dot a lot of Is and cross a lot of Ts," Commissioner Gary Bettman said. "There's still a lot of work to be done."
All schedule issues, including the length of the season and the look of the schedule, still need to be worked out. The NHL has models for 50- and 48-game seasons.
The original estimate was regular-season games could begin about eight days after a deal was reached. It is believed that all games will be played within the two respective conferences, but that also hasn't been decided.
The collective bargaining agreement still must be ratified by a majority of the league's 30 owners and the union's membership of approximately 740 players.
"Hopefully within a very few days the fans can get back to watching people who are skating, not the two of us," players' association executive director Donald Fehr said of himself and Bettman.
The players have been locked out since Sept. 16, the day after the previous agreement expired.
"Any process like this is difficult. It can be long," Fehr said.
Under the negotiated CBA, free-agent contracts will have a maximum length of seven years, but clubs can go to eight years to re-sign their own players. Each side can opt out of the deal after eight years.
The pension plan was "the centerpiece of the deal for the players," said Winnipeg Jets defenseman Ron Hainsey, who took part in negotiations throughout the process.
The actual language of the pension plan still has to be written, but Hainsey said there is nothing substantial that needs to be fixed.
"I want to thank Don Fehr," Bettman said. "We went through a tough period, but it's good to be at this point."
The players' share of hockey-related income, that reached a record $3.3 billion last season, will drop from 57 percent to a 50-50 split. The salary cap for the upcoming season will be $70.2 million and will then drop to $64.3 million in the 2013-14 season. All clubs will have to have a minimum payroll of $44 million.
The league had wanted next season's cap to drop to $60 million, but agreed to the same amount of last season's upper limit.
Inside individual player contracts, the salary can't vary more than 35 percent year to year, and the final year can't be more than 50 percent of the highest year.
A decision on whether NHL players will participate in the 2014 Olympics will be made outside the confines of the collective bargaining agreement. While it's expected that players will take part, the IOC and the International Ice Hockey Federation will have discussions with the league and the union before the matter is settled.
After the sides stayed mostly apart for two days, following late-night talks that turned sour, federal mediator Scot Beckenbaugh worked virtually around the clock to get everyone back to the bargaining table.
This time it worked — early on the 113th day of the work stoppage.
George Cohen, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service director, called the deal "the successful culmination of a long and difficult road."
"Of course, the agreement will pave the way for the professional players to return to the ice and for the owners to resume their business operations," he said in a statement. "But the good news extends beyond the parties directly involved; fans throughout North America will have the opportunity to return to a favorite pastime and thousands of working men and women and small businesses will no longer be deprived of their livelihoods."
Time was clearly a factor, with the sides facing a deadline of Thursday or Friday to reach a deal that would allow for a 48-game season to start a week later. Bettman had said the league could not allow a season of fewer than 48 games per team.
All games through Jan. 14, along with the All-Star game and the New Year's Day Winter Classic had already been canceled, claiming more than 50 percent of the original schedule.
Without an agreement, the NHL faced the embarrassment of losing two seasons due to a labor dispute, something that has never happened in another North American sports league. The 2004-05 season was wiped out while the sides negotiated hockey's first salary cap.
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A look at some of the key details from the tentative collective bargaining agreement announced by the NHL and the players' association on Sunday morning:
- 10-year deal, and each side is able to opt out after eight.
- Free-agent contracts are limited to a maximum length of seven years, but clubs can go to eight years to re-sign their own players.
- Players' share of hockey-related income drops from 57 percent to a 50-50 split.
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- The salary in individual player contracts can't vary more than 35 percent year to year, and the final year can't be more than 50 percent of the highest year.
Source: The Associated Press
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Cal South to Present "Coaches for Kylie" College ID Clinic, June 2-3
On February 3, 2012, University of Texas midfielder and Cal South ODP alumnus Kylie Doniak was struck by a drunk driver in downtown Austin as she was walking through a crosswalk. The accident left Kylie with a massive head injury, a broken neck, a broken collarbone, a punctured lung, two broken bones in her leg, several broken ribs, facial lacerations and severe road rash. She was taken to intensive care, where the swelling of her brain caused doctors to place her in a medically induced coma. After several operations and a move to a hospital in California, Kylie began to slowly recover and undergo rehab for her brain injury. In mid-April, she finally returned home after over two months in medical care. She is now walking and talking up a storm once more, but still has a long way to go to full recovery.
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Almost every Cowboys fan knew when it happened that it would become the hot topic of the week. As soon as the ball thumped the very bottom of the video board I told my friend, "oh no, here we go! The media is going to go crazy over this." That's fine. It's better than previous topics, I suppose.
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McBriar, a 2006 Pro Bowler, said he could boot punts into the video boards "probably 50 percent of the time" if that was what he was trying to do.
I don't know guys, I think if anyone would know it would be Mat.
Some reporters and analysts are blaming Jerry Jones' pride on not raising the boards (that includes my boss who called me Monday morning about the issue). I didn't think that was the case until I read on the team's official site that they plan to disconnect and raise the board temporarily for the U2 concert in September.
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Does it even matter, since the league's regulation is 85 feet and the board actually hangs 90 feet above the field?
Of course opposing teams are going to complain and disagree. So you make it a rule to redo the kick in the rare occasions that the punt hits the board. It may put a damper on the situation if there's a nice punt return but a rule is a rule.
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Bought some yesterday at local feed store (Geauga county) for $9/50lbs
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We have been buying both corn and feed. The corn had been around $10 for 50#. Not much cheaper than feed. The problem is with all the crops still standing all we are feeding is coons. Last year at the feed mill we were getting 100# for $15.
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My with a little (or a lot) more rain, next year will be better
corn fields are starting to get picked here in central Ohio......Clark and Madison county anyway, heard some south (Ross County) have already been picked?
most of the farmers dont care if you ask them to drive through a picked field (as long as dry)and toss the corn on the cob that is laying on the ground into a truck or trailer pulled by a 4wheeler......they have some high tech equipment anymore but they still leave a bunch on the ground......just get it quick before it does rain and get to rotting it on the ground
I've been getting hammered with corn prices as well! I've been trying to find some amish to buy from but not much luck. I'm paying like 8.60 for 40#
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Among some Palestinians, Hamas' stock is soaring after it dragged Israel into a month-long war that saw 3,500 missiles rain down on the Jewish state's most populated civilian areas.
It was after years of successful, gory suicide bomb attacks that Hamas garnered enough popularity to win a parliamentary majority in the 2006 Palestinian legislative elections.
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas' ruling Fatah faction isn't about to let that happen again, and is trying to remind everyone that it has killed far more Israeli Jews than Hamas.
In a post to its official Facebook page, Fatah boasted (fictitiously) that it "has killed 11,000 Israelis," while "sacrificing 170,000 shahids (martyrs)" to do so.
Fatah also noted that it was the first to launch an intifada (terrorist uprising) against Israel all the way back in 1988, and that it was the first to fire a shot in the Second Intifada that began in 2000.
These are the people whom the Western world (and some Israeli politicians) call "moderates" and genuine peace partners. These are the people with whom Israel is told to negotiate its future.
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The success of the Boll Weevil Eradication Program has been a driving force in bringing cotton back to the Carolinas in a big way. With virtually no boll weevils (none in South Carolina) in the past five years, the program has proven effective and is getting more cost efficient for North Carolina growers in 2006.
North Carolina's boll weevil assessment for 2006 will be set at $3.25, a decrease over last year's fee. In South Carolina, the fee was dropped to $3 — a dollar less than in 2005. These fees support intensive trapping and monitoring programs in the Carolinas to detect any re-introductions of the boll weevil.
One weevil was trapped last year in North Carolina and determined to be a male, and most likely was brought into the state on a truck traveling on Interstate 95. No weevils were caught in 2004 in North Carolina. No weevils have been caught in South Carolina since September 2000.
North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture, Steve Troxler points out that North Carolina is now the sixth largest cotton producing state in the country. "We have seen a dramatic rise in cotton production in the state since the boll weevil was eradicated," Troxler adds.
"Cotton is a significant crop for farmers, and we have to continue to protect this commodity. One way we do this is to respond quickly in the event weevils are detected in the state, and the trapping and monitoring program offers the best insurance against the spread of this damaging pest," the Commissioner stresses.
The Plant Industry Division, in cooperation with the Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation of North Carolina, implements the program in the state. Private contractors install and maintain the traps, with trapping beginning in late summer and ending after harvest and frost.
A total of 130,945 traps were placed and maintained on 67,315 cotton fields in 53 counties last year. To allow for trapping and monitoring, cotton growers are required to certify cotton acreage information with their local Farm Service Agency office by July 1.
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Dirty Little Secret
There are a lot of dirty little secrets in the wine business. Stuff nobody likes to talk about. Some of it is even true. Though it's hard to tell which. Like how common it is in California to pick grapes very ripe and then add water in the winery--it's the Tang Method of winemaking. Hey, if it's good enough for the astronauts, it's good enough for you. But wineries hate to talk about it, are loathe to admit it. And then there is all the hush-hush about how much importers might mark up their wines from Europe. Most folks think they all work on the same margin, but that ain't the case. Someone's got to pay for producing the importer's latest vanity music CD. And then there's the biggest little secret of all, the truth no one likes to read about or talk about or do anything about, the shameful fact of sexual discrimination in the wine business, the unspeakable, relentless, and ongoing persecution of men in the wine business. I, myself, have been a victim.
I don't recall exactly when I noticed it. At first I was treated like everyone else in the wine business who is new--that is, disdainfully. I suffered through the usual hazing. Learning how to remove Champagne corks in the "traditional method" by squatting naked over them. Being forced to prove my loyalty by killing rival wine shop owners with an unregistered price gun. Proving my wine virility by sleeping with six Budweiser girls, three of them Clydesdales. I fell for all of that, and just thinking of it now makes me feel all dirty and ashamed and strangely happy to watch the Rose Parade. But I didn't realize it was just the beginning of my humiliation.
When I was first hired as a sommelier I was told I had to wear a "special" uniform. I didn't think anything of it, really. I had noticed how at the time there weren't any female sommeliers, but I just assumed that was because there wasn't any money or prestige in the job so it was left to men to do it. But the "special" uniform which I was forced to wear began my humiliation as a man in the wine business. Imagine being forced to wear nicely tailored pants, a form-hugging clean white shirt that "accidentally" revealed my hairy chest, and a bright, shiny medallion called, ironically, a "tastevin!" I had to parade around the restaurant every night in front of several hundred people dressed as some kind of Sammy Davis, Jr. impersonator. Women took the liberty of staring directly at the bulge in my pants (I was still packing the price gun for protection) as I walked by, summoning me with their wine lists and asking me, "Could you recommend something big for me?" Night after night I was subjected to this kind of sexual humiliation, forced to bend over a woman's shoulder as I helped her select a wine, her lips next to my neck, her eyes locked on my white shirt, her sizing me up as if I were one of the meat selections on the menu, the one that came with a bone. And I was expected to take this and like it. It's why I only lasted nineteen years.
I came to find out that my experience wasn't at all unique, it was happening to all the men in the wine business. Constantly being treated like we have no brains to offer, just our penises. Assaulted daily by female wine reps who shamelessly use us, treat us as fools and lechers only to further their own wine sales, not caring about us at all, but instead playing us until we drop a three-case load. Enduring the endless sarcastic and sexist remarks aimed at guys who sell wine. "I'm sure you like this wine, that's great, but is there a woman around here who can help me?" "Can you just point me to where the woman who owns the store works?" "Women have a more developed sense of taste, though I love the way those jeans fit you--they're tighter than a newly bottled Syrah." Endless shit like that, remarks that make you feel like you're nothing more than a plaything, a sex toy, a ribbed and lifelike Gary Vaynerchuk.
It's the dirty little secret that won't die. Men in the wine biz being constantly and relentlessly sexually harassed. Look at the endless worship that Jancis Robinson receives compared to the vitriol aimed at Robert Parker. And, why? It's that teeny thing hidden in his pants that Jancis doesn't have. And I don't mean Mark Squires. Women have it easy in the wine business. They have better senses, they aren't subjected to the constant humiliation the men in power endure. They have the gift of invisibility. How I envy them.
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- Arthur said...
Ethcuse me ath my tongth relaxes from being jammedth into my cheekth while I wasth readingth thith.....
As a matter of neuroscience, it's not that women have better senses but rather (and as a generality) greater accessibility to language which allows them to articulate what they smell and taste. This is first and foremost. There are other differences between the brains of both sexes that underlie these discrpeancies which are attributed to variances of "acuity"
Yes, senisitvities may vary in the span of an arbitrary 28 days, but it's the greater degree of interconnectedness between the different parts of their brains that allows women to describe what they sense.
- September 9, 2009 at 6:33 PM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Quite the tractor you're pulling there big boy. Howz about you saunter to the back....walk slow, and grab a bottle of your biggest Pinot. If you smile I might even give you a big...tip.
- September 9, 2009 at 7:03 PM
- Charlie Olken said...
Arthur, I swear, if you ever do that again, I am going to give up reading blogs. Psychobabble followed by sciencebabble. Heimoff goes off on Vaynerchuk and you just go off. What is this world coming to?
- September 9, 2009 at 10:04 PM
A clever and sly way to poke fun at your main blog squeeze(bleeze?)without mentioning her directly. Harkens back to the days of a kinder, gentler hosemaster.
- September 10, 2009 at 6:37 AM
- Arthur said...
That is not "babble", it's science. It's what I do to pay my bills. Call me and I'll explain.
The notion that women have greater sensory "acuity" is babble and is unfounded in what we know about sensation, perception and neuroscience.
- September 10, 2009 at 7:57 AM
- Samantha Dugan said...
I know right?!That Millie Ennial over at Wine Wiped can be a bit of a whinny bitch huh? Wonder if she'll get it?
- September 10, 2009 at 8:14 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Hey Arthur,
No room here for science, my friend. And very clever the way you proved your point about female brain acuity with your very sentences!
Puff Daddy,
You made me nervous talking about Heimoff going off on Vaynerchuk until I realized they've never met so you meant something else. Whew. And you give up reading blogs? More likely we all give up writing them. Don't give me any ideas.
Kinder, gentler HoseMaster? Why I am nothing but filled with the milk of human kindness, and gentle as a bladder press. Whatever do you mean?
My Gorgeous Samantha,
Millie is a lot better now that she's gettin' it regular from Wark.
As to your first post, "Yes, Mistress, my Pinot is your Pinot."
I adore you!
- September 10, 2009 at 8:46 AM
- tom wark said...
"Millie is a lot better now that she's gettin' it regular from Wark".
- September 10, 2009 at 9:34 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Oops. I meant that in a virtual way.
That Millie is a real gossip for an imaginary blogger.
Remember, I'm the kinder, gentler HoseMaster.
- September 10, 2009 at 9:46 AM
- tom wark said...
You're going to get me in trouble, Hosemaster!
- September 10, 2009 at 10:49 AM
- Charlie Olken said...
Nothing that gets said on Washam's blog is to be taken seriously. That was just me poking fun at you for being serious in the " Washam House of Mirth".
- September 10, 2009 at 4:10 PM
- Arthur said...
Fair enough.
- September 10, 2009 at 5:04 PM
- Marcia said...
Good Lawd! It sounds like the Algonquin Round Table in here. That would make HMW Dorothy Parker, right? (Or would you prefer a visiting Tallulah Bankhead?) And I guess then George Kaufman is …Charlie …or Tom? (I dare not guess what part Arthur plays…!)
Maybe you prefer the Rat Pack instead, given your nod to Sammy. If so, I'm sure Samantha wants Shirley MacLaine's part. ;-)
- September 11, 2009 at 2:45 PM
- Samantha Dugan said...
I think Shirley might be too fancy, and spiritual...Angie Dickinson seems a better fit.
- September 12, 2009 at 9:27 PM
- Marcia said...
Yes, Samantha, I think you're quite right! I thought about that one, too, but had rejected the option since Angie didn't hang around with the pack (or get it) as much as wild Shirley. But then again there is that Policewoman thing from years later...
Still love HMW's piece as counterpoint to yours!
- September 14, 2009 at 10:06 AM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Me too. I read it and was like, "Oh crap he's breaking my bawls now..." have a feeling no one's bits are safe around The HoseMaster
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Three Israeli friends vacationing in Hawaii were hailed as heroes at the weekend after risking their own lives to save eight drowning children on a remote beach.
The friends - Yair Naftali, Gabi Liptz and Tsvika Elias - were surfing at a beach about one hour from Honolulu when the waves became dangerously high. As the trio began to move towards shore, Elias and Naftali spotted a group of children struggling against the waves.
"On the shoreline we saw the mothers watching powerless as their children as their children were drowning in front of them," Elias told Israel's Channel 2 News.
The Israelis battled the intense waves for 40 minutes and eventually managed to get all eight of the children safely to shore, where rescue crews were by that time waiting treat any wounded.
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Michael Oliver: Poetry From Trinidad to D.C. [1]
Poet, playwright, theater artist, and educator Michael Oliver blogs about his P&W-supported writing workshops at CentroNia [3] and Pigment Art Studio [4] in Washington, D.C.
My poetry writing workshops at CentroNia and Pigment Art Studio have been among the most eclectic workshops I have ever engaged in, as a participant or as a leader. The mostly older adult group has ranged from the experienced poet with several books published to the poetry enthusiast who joined the workshop as a way to nurture his or her appreciation for the art. Many have joined for the long haul, coming back with new work each time; some have visited with a friend, shared work, and moved on. Most come from neighborhoods close to CentroNia, some from the suburbs of D.C.; some from rural areas, attending because they were in town for the weekend and decided to check it out.
For some, like Janet Martin from Trinidad, poetry has long been a lifeline. Poetry sustains her through tragedy and anchors her as she embraces those struggling around her. In her poem, "Ju Ju Girl, Island Gal," she speaks of solace wrought from her island self:
ju ju gal dancin' on I soul
spirit steppin' a jewel to behold
transformin' I back to me tru self
For D.C.-native Diane Gardner as well, poetry brings comfort through the bittersweet joy of memory. Her poem "Mother Lee" pays loving tribute to her late mother, Alice Lee:
I long for the old time step and glad return;
I lived your last breath like a fish out of water
You slipped away on my birthday like a petal on a cool breeze.
I long for the old time step and glad return.
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Whatever the background or level of craft of participants, the workshops have been encouraging and instructive, as my approach to writing with others in a poetic learning environment has always been to harnass the power of collective wisdom. I like having each participant share his or her perceptions of a poem, avoiding judgment as much as possible. I try, to the best of my ability, to bring collective wisdom to some kind of resolution or summary, steering the writer to another poet or to an overall perception, without forcing an issue.
These workshops continue to provide a safe and nurturing space for the evolution of new poetic voices and the honoring of life stories, extraordinary in their depth and resilience. The art of the poem unites us, keeps folks coming back, month after month. We look forward to our gatherings.
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I've just been to see Tom Ford's directorial debut, A Single Man. And what a beautiful film it was. The sets were lush, the cinematography carefully composed and every scene a delight to the eye.
What I loved most was the use of light and saturation in the film. It reminded me of Sofia Coppola's films, especially The Virgin Suicides which was all sunbleached and hazy. I'd quite like to watch this again
Orla Kiely's SS10 campaign is out and photographed by Catherine Servel who is known for her use of light and tone. I especially like the golden hues and the play with light and shadow in her photos.
I am feeling like the time is right for getting lost in films and books. I went to watch She, A Chinese this week and was introduced to Xiaolu Guo. I have since picked up one of her books and found that seeing as winter is feeling so permanent, I am going to lose myself in her words and world.
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Purebred rescue groups spread a safety net across the country. Some have stronger, wider nets. When a relatively rare purebred appears in a local town shelter, those concerned may be contacting breed experts for the first time. Recently the national Giant Schnauzer rescue effort embraced several needy LI dogs wholeheartedly. Their support for these Giants is overwhelming.
Earlier this year an unkempt 3-year-old Giant Schnauzer- Reynolds the Deliverance Dog- named for his uncanny, tousled resemblance to a young Burt Reynolds, came into Babylon Shelter as a stray. I'm fortunate to have one degree of separation to the breed. A handler friend who rescued my Afghan also shows Giants.
She introduced me to the wonderful HTZ Giant Schnauzer Rescue, and also made arrangements to board our guy with show colleagues while HT-Z located a foster home. Then she put me in touch with the LI reps- Rita Mischke and Barbara Crisafulli. Rita came to Babylon to evaluate and sign Reynolds out. Her sister Deb adopted "Tiara" a Turkish Angora mix that Rita discovered on this shelter visit.
HT-Z Giant Schnauzer Rescue is the official rescue of the Giant Schnauzer Club of America. The group was made possible by an endowment of Fred and Hertha Thomas-Zagari, devoted Giant owners, with the help and organization of Carolyn Janak in Lakewood, Colorado. As soon as I returned from my vet with Reynolds, Carolyn- who coincidentally grew up on LI- called to make arrangements to pay the hospital directly. I kept telling her that no one ever did that for me. She insisted. I felt I too had been "adopted."
During his boarding time, Reynolds was transformed- groomed, neutered, cysts removed, blood tests, dentistry, micro chipped- the works, courtesy of his fairy godmother Carolyn who kept checking on his progress. He endeared himself to everyone at the kennel and hospital. A foster home turned up in NJ right before everyone (including his kennel hosts) left town for Westminster. We drove Reynolds from the hospital to Aunt Barbara's in Brooklyn for a PJ party with her Giants. The next day she transported the temporary "Jersey Boy" to his foster home where he still waits for a forever placement.
The timing for Reynolds couldn't have been worse. I called in the midst of a terrible HT-Z ordeal. Last fall Barbara took Hope, another darling Giant, from Hempstead Shelter. She had been surrendered with a suspected razor slash that needed stitches. After several months in Barbara's foster care, Hope found a perfect home with Jean Engle. Her Giant, a dog she had adopted from a niece who was dying from breast cancer, had recently succumbed to cancer too.
On the way home to Virginia, Jean, an 80-year-old widow, had a car accident during an ice storm. Hope escaped out the back door in panic- a black phantom vanishing into the night on an interstate. Jean's belongings including her pocketbook were stolen from the wrecked car. Barbara put out an all points bulletin. She posted a canine Amber Alert with a lost dog website. She called Virginia DOT and learned that they didn't scan roadside dead dogs for microchips. Had Hope survived? Jean was out searching in her rental car every day. Two days later a trucker at a rest stop told Jean he saw a lady trucker near an exit ramp coaxing a large black "bearish" dog into her cab. He noted the company's name on her truck.
Barbara mobilized the recovery effort, notifying police, shelters, rescues, trainers, and vets with a blitz of flyers, emails, TV news, radio, and posts on trucker message boards. Hope's plight received extensive coverage. The trucking company became cooperative only after law enforcement got involved. Hope's microchip deemed her stolen. The driver was fired. No one was sure if it was because of Hope. There were reports that she was on her way back home to Florida by way of Texas. The search and media frenzy moved further south and west.
About 2 weeks later a Rottie rescue lady in Florida overheard a convenience store clerk say that a lady trucker had just come in to show off her "new" big black dog. The description matched the flyer so the Rottie lady contacted Florida sheriffs who were able to recover Hope. Her collar with license and rabies tag was missing, but Hope's microchip verified her identity.
Hope spent a night in a Florida shelter. HT-Z set up a caravan. A Giant fancier on her way to Westminster picked Hope up and brought her to North Carolina. Another volunteer drove from her home in Virginia to North Carolina and then back with Hope for a grand reunion with Jean. Hope had traveled 2,700 miles. The press and dedicated Virginia policemen were on hand to share in the joy.
Presently HT-Z has 2 local Giant boys for adoption- Reynolds, my Deliverance Dog, shown here, and "Sabby", an 11 month old male. (Giants reach their full potential when owners invest lots of time in training and grooming.) Call 718-596- 5525. For extensive breed info. plus more photos including groomed shots of Reynolds, Google "HT-Z Giant Schnauzer Rescue".
Many of these HT-Z heroes got together at Westminster. Rita Mischke suffers from Lyme disease. Her Giant "Slate" started out as her service dog but blossomed into such an Adonis that he also became a top show dog- the '05 national specialty winner and western regional champion. He was one of only a few entrants that Westminster singled out this year for special accomplishments outside of the ring. Competition is secondary to camaraderie in HT-Z, the Giant Schnauzer extended family. Their teamwork and commitment win the blue ribbon every time.
At Oyster Bay Town Shelter (677-5784) Miller Pl. Syosset, "Lilly" #187- a loving declawed tabby is schmoozing up with the Easter Bunny. She'd love to be snuggled in a basket at your house. Other cats include "Buttons" #189- a declawed calico and the Morris the cat twins #173/174- abandoned at an apartment.
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What can I use to substitute coconut milk in recipes???
What can I use to substitute coconut milk in recipes???
coconut juice or water is a good substitute. it provides the same flavor as coconut milk.
I've used a thicker cream like sour cream or yogurt, slightly sweetened, not add sweetness as to limit tartness. Let me know if you try this...
you can use 2% milk. i won't use skim milk because you still want some fat content to the recipe. this works for me if I am making curry. this is a good tutorial on coconut milk and other forms of coconut liquids: http://asiansupper.com/theslurp/what%E2%80%99s-difference-coconut-milk-vs-coconut-cream-vs-coconut-waterhope this helps!


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When we decided to hold a series of Port-A-Thons to help our developer community port their apps over to BlackBerry 10 we had no idea how wildly successful they would be. This past weekend's Port-A-Thons brought in more than 15,000 apps! It has been truly inspiring to see so much excitement and support for BlackBerry 10. So we're going to do it one more time. All new BlackBerry 10 apps built using any type of development approach or the BlackBerry App Generator are eligible!
One more chance to get rewarded
The Last Chance Port-A-Thon will start at noon ET on January 18, 2013 and run for 36 hours straight. As with past Port-A-Thons, this will be a virtual event, which means you can log in from wherever you want to and our experts will be available to help you port your apps. The more apps you port, the greater your rewards*:
- Port one or more approved apps and you'll receive $100 per eligible app, to a maximum of 20 paid applications per Vendor
- Additionally, submit five (5) or more apps and be entered into a random draw for one (1) of two hundred and fifty (250) BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha devices. You'll receive one (1) entry for the first five (5) approved apps and an additional entry for each approved app after that.
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Getting a few things prepared ahead of time means that you can get porting as soon as the event starts.
- Register as a Vendor at BlackBerry World if you haven't already.
- Request signature keys. Make sure that you select for BlackBerry® PlayBook™ OS and BlackBerry 10 and higher. Downloading in advance is strongly recommended as the time involved to do so could prevent you from earning rewards.
- Load up your laptop BlackBerry tools and plug-ins. Make sure you have your full source code file readily available too.
- Make sure you have your images and icons ready to go.
- Last but not least, don't forget to register for the event.
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I just watched it. Ian Kennedy should miss 2 starts. If your going to hit a batter, hitting 2 in the head is totally uncalled for.
As for during the brawl Mark McGuire should be suspended 2 games and fined $80,000. He's supposed to be a coach breaking up a fight,
not an out of control steroid monster picking fights.
Don Mattingly should be suspended 2 games and $50,000 for once again not being under control and going after people instead of breaking up the fights. I know he's seen 2 of his starters get hit in the head but leave the out of control anger to the players.
Maybe we can have him teach Flowers this trick so we can unload the guy, or at least get a little entertainment out of him. Clearly the steroids he took aren't having the same effect.
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Fire up the terminal and paste this in it:
sudo nautilus
Wow, I was doing a post on the same as well. Glad that you did :)ReplyDelete
dowsnt work for me :(
I cant copy the flashplugin file...
@ Anonymous
Open the terminal and type in:
sudo nautilus
then enter your password and then try, this time you can paste it.
wow thnks man
im rather new to linux and i'm still at the newbie stage
but im getting better thx to people like yourself
thx again
Hey thanks man, simple and works, I'm a newbie in linux, your post helped me.ReplyDelete
The above didn't work for my in Ubuntu Ibex. However, coping
to the Flock directory as stated worked after restarting Flock.
"and copy the only file present there"
"and copy the only file present there"
sorry if I'm wrong, what would be the correct sentence?
@ Dragon: Many thanks to you. You made my day. I was nearly giving up. But now I found the solution for my Flock Flash problem. Thanks...ReplyDelete
Hi everyone! I copied all firefox plugins from /usr/lib/firefox/plugins to /usr/share/flock/plugins , but it still doesn't work! Anyone has an idea? I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex 64 bit version. Thanx!ReplyDelete
I forgot to say that i've installed the deb package from www.getdeb.com and that it's flock 2.0.3 .ReplyDelete
Thanks. Now my Flock installation plays Flash just like Firefox did.ReplyDelete
i use ubuntu 9.05 and flock 2.5.
i have had the same sound problem with flash 9.
i solved the problem by installing flash 10 from the adobe website using the ubuntu .deb.
after this i linked the libflashplayer.so with:
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so /home/user/.flock/plugins
and sudo chown -R user:group /home/user/.flock/plugins/*
recognize that the flashplayer from the original ubuntu package is in another path.
i have also linked the plugins from the firefox and mozilla files.
that's works form me. hope you will find this usefull :)
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me, too ^_^
@thilohartmann your version worked, here, also on Jaunty. you saved my day <3
PS: just one thing to add: I had to create the folder, first (flock version 2.5.6) ->
mkdir /home/user/.flock/plugins/
Thanks... Linux bless you!!!!ReplyDelete
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THanks alot...... lol work perpfct-. But. in my case i have my FLOCK directory on my user folder... home/username
and just search ..flock/plugins/ and paste it. :) work amazing flock <3


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What will it take to protect U.S. servicewomen from sexual assaults and their subsequent cover-ups? Congress, the parents of raped-and-murdered soldiers and embattled military women themselves are desperate to know.
By Helen Benedict
Army Private LaVena Johnson, just 19 years old, was found dead on her military base in Balad, Iraq, in July 2005.
At first the Army initiated a homicide investigation, then suddenly, without explanation, closed it and ruled her death a suicide by an M-16 rifle. Yet her parents said she had been calling home every day, always sounding happy and healthy.
When her father, John Johnson, a veteran of the Army himself, viewed his daughter's body at the funeral home, he noticed several suspicious factors. Her face was bruised, the gunshot wound did not match the description in the autopsy and white uniform gloves had been glued onto her hands. He later gained access to photographs that showed abrasions to her face, a broken nose, burns on her hands, signs of sexual abuse and more burns to her back and genital area. He also learned that she had been re-clothed after her death, dragged across the ground and set on fire inside a tent. Johnson and his wife believe that their daughter was raped, murdered and burned to cover the evidence.
The Johnsons have been pressing the Army to reopen the investigation ever since, but so far have been stonewalled at every turn.
Of the sexual assaults reported and recorded by the Department of Defense in fiscal year 2007, half were met with no official action, a third were dismissed as unworthy of investigation and only 8 percent of those investigated were referred to Court Martial. Of those few military men found guilty of rape or sexual assault, the majority received punishments so mild they amounted to slaps on the wrist, conveying the message that men can do what they want to women in the military with little consequence.
In 2007, the Department of Veteran's Affairs reported that 20 percent of female veterans seen at its facilities nationwide said they had been raped or sexually assaulted while serving. Other veteran studies put the incidence of rape at 30 percent: nearly one-third of all women in the military force. Furthermore, the DoD admits on its website that 80 percent of rapes in the military are not reported because women (and the men who are raped, too) fear ostracism, punishment and loss of careers. The rate of sexual assault and rape in the military is at least twice as high as it is among civilians.
As Congresswoman Jane Harman (D-Calif.) put it in testimony last July, "Women serving in the U.S. military are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire in Iraq."
In fact, the atmosphere in the military makes it a fertile ground for sexual assault and rape. Women are routinely degraded from boot camp on with obscene insults, relentless staring, sexist rhymes, pornography and sexual harassment. Servicewomen face the most retrograde attitudes imaginable, while at the same time finding themselves trapped in a rigid hierarchy that paralyzes their ability to seek justice and punishes them if they try. "Rape is the only crime where the victim must prove [her] innocence," as Ingrid S. Torres, a Red Cross nurse who was raped by an Air Force doctor while she was on duty in Korea, testified at the July hearing.
This is not to say that no progress at all has been made. Since Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) and others demanded reforms in the military in 2005, rape evidence kits, anonymous reporting, victim advocates and training aimed at preventing assault have been brought into the military. But these measures are so irregularly implemented that they have failed to change the dismal picture for women in any significant way.
"I'm going to keep fighting," says John Johnson of his daughter LaVena's case. "I figure the person who did this to my daughter has rank and prestige and the Army wants to cover this up to spare themselves the embarrassment. And now so many people have compromised their careers by participating in this cover-up."
Rep. Harman and Rep. Michael Turner (R-OH) have introduced legislation urging the Secretary of Defense to encourage and increase investigations and prosecutions of sex crimes in the military. Rep. Slaughter also reintroduced her previously defeated bill, The Military Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Act, which would create counseling and treatment programs throughout the Veterans' Administration, among other things.
But all the well-meaning reforms, meetings and rules issued in Washington D.C will never have much effect as long as military culture remains unchanged. So far, the behavior of the Department of Defense and the Pentagon has only demonstrated, as many a soldier has said to me, that the military is more concerned with protecting their men from scandal than their women from rape.
The full text of this article appears in the Fall issue of Ms., available on newsstands or by joining the Ms. community.


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Nick Clegg has warned against any move to reduce the pressure on TV licence- dodgers after Tory ministers signalled interest in decriminalising non-payment.
Culture Secretary Maria Miller said a proposal backed by more than 100 MPs to make it a civil offence was an "interesting" idea which could form part of negotiations over the renewal of the BBC charter.
The switch, which would remove the threat of a criminal record and the potential of a jail term for not paying the £1,000 fine, is also being examined closely by Justice Secretary Chris Grayling.
He said officials were engaged in "serious work" on the reform amid concerns over the burden on the criminal justice system - with magistrates hearing more than 180,000 cases last year.
Tory MP Andrew Bridgen, who has tabled a Commons amendment to make the change which has significant cross-party support, believes the present law is criminalising people "for being poor".
The Deputy Prime Minister sounded a far more cautious note than his Coalition colleagues however, pointing to BBC warnings that services would suffer if people felt less pressure to pay.
"We will look at it but I think you need to be aware that if you have a 1% drop in the payment of the licence fee, that would lose you money which at the moment would cover the money for 10 local radio stations," he said as he attended the Liberal Democrat spring conference in York.
"It's important that people do pay their licence fee and I don't want to see any relaxation of that because I'm a great fan of the BBC.
"I think a lot of people rely on the BBC locally and nationally for their news and for a lot else besides.
"So we will look at it but I think it's important that we don't in any way lessen the signal that people should pay their licence fee."
Cases of people accused of evading the £145.50 fee accounted for in excess of one in 10 of all criminal prosecutions last year - with 155,000 convicted and fined.
Mr Bridgen is seeking to amend the Government's Deregulation Bill in order to remove the criminal offence and make it a civil matter, with the fine set by government.
"It is outrageous that so many people are brought in to the criminal justice system through this means," he told the Daily Telegraph.
"I believe that non-payment should be treated in the way that parking tickets are. It is absurd that the courts are being clogged up by such a minor offence."
Mrs Miller said: "This is an interesting idea but timing is crucial and decriminalisation of the licence fee should be on the table during charter review, not separate to the process."
A spokesman said it would help "focus the BBC's minds" on Mrs Miller's demands that the broadcaster "get its house in order, particularly when it comes to governance and transparency".
Mr Grayling said: "The Culture Secretary and I both agree that this is a really interesting idea - particularly given the pressure on our courts system.
"Our departments will be doing some serious work on the proposal."
A BBC Trust spokeswoman said: "While legislation is a matter for the Government, in the Trust's view this is clearly an issue that should be discussed in the round, including the potential impact on licence fee income and BBC output, as part of Charter review, and not before or separate to that process."


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To gain an appreciation for our public parks and to explore subjects such as landscape design, urbanization, and conservationism, Teaching with Historic Places has posted on the web lesson plans that consider important aspects of landscape architecture. These lessons, based on sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places, are free and ready for immediate classroom use by students in history and social studies classes.
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Discover how the first arboretum in the United States became part of the burgeoning urban park movement in the second half of the 19th century. (National Historic Landmark)
• Chicago's Columbus Park: The Prairie Idealized (81)
Learn about a famous landscape artist and his efforts to promote conservation and an appreciation for the native plant life of the United States.
• The Emerald Necklace: Boston's Green Connection (86)Learn about Frederick Law Olmsted and his philosophy about parks and cities as well as city life during the Industrial Revolution. (Includes Arnold Arboretum, a National Historic Landmark)
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Back in January, the busy month that was, I went with team VVC to scout Chicago as a potential location for Spring 2013's conference.
Did we want the conference to take a leap east to a bigger city? Or did we want one more year of celebrating the vegan grandeur of our own home turf? We've now been discussing the pros and cons of both locations for 2 months, and as of last week, came to a decision. I won't spill the beans here – you can check out the Vida blog for the official news.
As for the windy city, I had never been before, and had 3 items on my to do list:
1) Location scouting
Verdict: Check! Plenty of possibilities in multiple neighborhoods, and really great, really reliable public transit options – one stop even told us the weather, which bring me to…
Verdict: We arrived the morning after the first real storm of the season – check! I used to joke that I suffered from reverse seasonal depression since moving from New York and Boston to Portland, where it rarely snows for more than a few minutes within the city and 40F is a low. I miss the chills. To be fair, I do loathe humidity, as well.
3)Vegan deep dish pizza
Verdict: According to our friend Snarky Vegan, there was a pizzeria in Chicago that was serving vegan deep dish until it closed a couple of years ago. These days, you can request a deep dish pie without cheese, making sure to ask about butter in the crust, or you can go to other pizza parlours for Daiya or Teese (hometown pride, y'all) topped pies. Michele and Janessa did have a chance to hit up one local shop for a cheese-less slice after I headed back to Portland for work (d'oh!), but overall, I did enjoy our pie at The Boiler Room. More on that follow below.
Three Days, Five Things, Chicago
With three full days, I had a taste for Chicago, and longing for more Upton's under my belt. It's a huge city with spread out vegan options, including the classic Chicago Diner (which we dined at twice, rest assure).
Since I've been a major procrastinator (see: December travels) and Janessa and Michele are covering the same trip, in addition to our joint contributions, for the VVC blog, I wanted to break down my brief stay in Chicagoland with my five favorite food experiences. Plus, it's an internet blogging list rule, or something.
Regrettably, in my five days, there was more I tried that I wasn't a fan of (I'm still trying to get the thought of a hybrid cheese sauce off my tongue) vs. what I could rave about, so the list was easier to put together than I planned on.
The tops include my inaugural torta experience at Quesadilla, a stand-in for deep dish pizza at The Boiler Room, classic milkshakes, caffeination, a surprise turn with cake balls, and more swooning over Upton's products.
First up, Quesadilla:
Quesadilla La Reyna del Sur
2235 N Western Ave
Chicago, IL 60647
Ordering a Soy Curl-stuffed torta from Los Gorditos – either the truck or the restaurant – has been on my to-do list for years now. I've simply been so easily distracted by burritos and mulitas and the quick journey home to my apartment. Now that I've experienced the tremendous satisfaction that was my meal at Quesadilla's, as pictured below, it could actually happen?!
Next stop, The Boiler Room:
The Boiler Room
2210 N California Ave
Chicago, IL 60647
We held a small VVC reunion at The Boiler Room once we learned that deep dish pizza with vegan cheese, our original intent, was currently nowhere to be found in the city. The crust was surprisingly thin with an element of flop, something that saddens my inner New Yorker. I will, however, give kudos to the high quality ingredients and availability of Upton's seitan products. It takes something special overshadow the d-cheese, in my humble option.
Intelligentsia Coffee
Millennium Park Coffee Bar
53 East Randolph Street
Chicago, IL 60601
Let's just say that while it was not my first visit to an Intelligentsia location, coffee on a warm day in Silver Lake does not compare to a soy latte on a brisk day in Chicago. I quickly went through the smokey Diablo Dark Roast I brought back home with me.
Cake Balls at Bleeding Heart Bakery
Bleeding Heart Bakery
1916 W. Chicago Ave.
Chicago, IL 60622
So, I've yet to take an official stance on cake balls. Part of me thinks they're dumb, part of me really enjoyed the moist cake balls at the evidently-starred-on-a-Food-Network-special Bleeding Heart Bakery, part of me wants to throw every round piece of sprinkle-coated cake I see out of a window, and my heart says I should really give Dovetail's a chance in Portland before I roll my eyes some more.
Vegan Milkshakes! I experienced the joy of two creamy vegan milkshakes in the windy city. I want more.
Chicago Diner
3411 N Halsted
Chicago, IL
Whole Foods Lincoln Park's Diner
1550 N. Kingsbury Street
Chicago, IL 60642
Chicago Diner: Like we went to Chicago without dining here twice! I often suffer from bad-ordering luck, and it happened here with a few plates, despite small plate sharing optimism with Janessa. Over all, I think brunch had the most potential, regret not ordering the Titanic BLT or more with Upton's seitan (a reoccurring theme of the trip) and have to give my props to their milkshake…and they were out of whipped cream at the time. It was an awesome welcome.
Whole Foods: Team VVC had a momentous shopping excursion at Whole Foods in Lincoln Park, where we sipped sparkling wine as we strolled the aisles picking up goodies and stopping at the Diner. I'm not one of veggie dogs, but my cohorts dug in, while I opted for a different classic:
I'll spare the details, but I would not order these appetizers again:
Honorable mentions:
Coming across two Native Foods in Chicago = delightful. I picked up a Twister wrap with blackened chickin' for dinner on my Denver layover on my way out-of-town.


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Last week, the laying of the cornerstone of the new "Palestinian Museum" made headlines worldwide. The museum is a private initiative that aims to tell a 200-year-old Palestinian history.
Established adjacent to Birzeit University near Ramallah, the museum will be build in two stages and eventually encompass an area of almost 100,000 square feet.
Palestinian sources said a museum is one of the things every proper state needs. "I hope that the museum gives the Palestinians the opportunity to present their story to the world," said museum director Jack Persekian. While the exhibits will purportedly treat Muslims, Christians and Jews equally, the focus will be on the Palestinian Arab version of events since the end of the Ottoman period in 1917.
Presenting a history going back any more than 200 years will be difficult, as the Palestinians themselves are divided over their own past.
PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat emphasized frequently that the Palestinians are the successors of the Philistines; former Palestinian politician Abu Siad Siad told Israel Today that they are the descendants of the Canaanites; several years ago, the spiritual leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Khamal Khatib, told Israeli radio that the Palestinians are from the line of the Jebusites.
Perhaps most honestly, former Arab member of Israel's Knesset, Azmi Bishara said on Israeli television years back that there never was a Palestinian people, but only a wider Arab nation. Bishara has since had to flee Israel after collaborating with Hezbollah, but his remarks on the origin of the "Palestinians" can be seen in the video below.
Palestinians on the streets have told us repeatedly in private conversations that they are followers of various Arab tribes from Saudi Arabia or other Arab countries in North Africa.
Nevertheless, Israeli President Shimon Peres said years ago that "even if there is no historic Palestinian people, there exists a de facto Palestinian people today with whom Israel must negotiate."
Even so, a museum is not going to be able to change the past and rewrite (or, rather, invent) the history of a people.
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Jump-started by contest, power-beaming laser leaps to new applications
Innovation is by its very nature a strange process in which the only certainty is an unpredictable outcome. Take, for instance, the strange case linking the early Russian rocket pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, with the first outdoor tests this year of a laser-powered aircraft in California.
In 1895, inspired by the sight of the recently erected Eiffel Tower in Paris, Tsiolkovsky conceived the idea of a free-standing tower reaching from the Earth's surface to geostationary orbit. During the 20th century, the idea became better known as the space elevator and by the mid-2000s had sparked sufficient interest for NASA to sponsor a series of Space Elevator Games. Launched as part of the NASA Centennial Challenges program, the games were designed to foster technologies that could one day be used in a space elevator, but which were also applicable to nearer-term NASA programs.
One of the key technologies was the power-beaming system, which transmitted laser energy to the "elevator." The contest, with a prize of almost $1 million, was won in 2009 by LaserMotive, headquartered in Kent, Wash. The company had been founded just three years earlier by laser propulsion expert Jordin Kare and Tom Nugent, former director of research for LiftPort Group.
LaserMotive clinched the prize by using a complete power-beaming system to propel a robotic climber to a height of 3,280 ft. (1 km) up a tether suspended below a helicopter. Not only was this the longest distance ever achieved for laser power beaming, but it came at the fastest speed of 3.97 meters (13 ft.) per second and with the most power transferred to a receiver: over 1 kw.
Winning the event, held at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards AFB, Calif., was LaserMotive's big break, says Nugent. "We were the only team to make it across the finish line—but beyond the prize money, the publicity was huge." Nugent had been working on the space elevator concept for several years and "reached out" to Kare to help perfect the idea in the run-up to the contest. "It was a convenient focal point, and provided a trigger for what happened after," says Kare.
Despite his longtime enthusiasm for the novel transport concept, Nugent says he reluctantly "came to the conclusion that a space elevator is not going to be built on Earth in my lifetime. However, there are other applications for this wireless power via laser technology." One of these is beaming power directly to UAVs, a role that is currently being tested with the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works somewhere in the desert Southwest U.S.
Under the tests, LaserMotive fed laser power to a small Stalker UAV fitted with a lightweight photovoltaic receiver and onboard power management system. The evaluation demonstrated net positive power in flight at ranges up to 600 meters. The addition of the laser receiver did not impact its normal flight operations or aerodynamics during the tests, which were conducted over different conditions at day and night. LaserMotive says the beam director tracked the receiver for long periods, with centimeter accuracy at 500 meters, despite turbulence and aircraft maneuvers.
More than 90% of the company's annual revenues go toward R&D, while the split between basic and product-related research spending is more equally divided. "For us, in a sense, we are creating a new market and by doing that we're trying to decide who will be the first customer. But on the flip side, for defining something for a specific customer, there is more basic R&D going on," says Nugent. As a smaller company, LaserMotive must also leverage "a whole bunch of other [academic and industry] fundamental R&D, particularly in laser technology," adds Kare.
The rate of innovation "could go even faster" if there were broader awareness of the technology around the industry as a whole. "The problem is getting the market to understand what this new capability can do for them," says Nugent.
Still, Nugent sees a slow revival in the creativity climate. For the last 30 years, innovation has been stifled in the space and advanced military technology arenas by a fixation on large, long-term projects, he says. "This forced the industry into a mode of operating that was not as innovative, or not so attractive to work in." However, over the past decade, the climate has started to change with the emergence of near-space and other markets. "There's a whole new generation of startups that really are bringing technology in from other areas and reapplying that in an innovative way to the aerospace world."
One of LaserMotive's biggest challenges is to "say this technology—wireless power—is real, and it's here today. That's why we've been lucky to work with Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works with this demonstration on Stalker," says Nugent. "People at trade shows say they've been watching us. So people in large and small companies at least have a notion that this technology is important. But we have very few that are willing to take the next step."