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Vol. LXIII, No. 27
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
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SERIOUS CHALLENGE: New Princeton University mens lacrosse head coach Chris Bates poses at the Class of 1952 Stadium last week after taking the Tiger job. Bates, who posted a 70-71 record as the head coach at Drexel the last decade, faces a serious challenge as he takes over for Bill Tierney. Hall of Fame coach Tierney, who recently took over the University of Denver program, guided the Tigers to 18 NCAA tournament appearances and six national titles in 22 years.
Phil Bengston, Gene Bartow, Bill Guthridge, and Ray Perkins are not exactly household names on the sporting landscape.
They are four coaches who had the unenviable task of succeeding legends and none of them lasted longer than four seasons in their bids to follow in the footsteps of giants.
Bengston followed Vince Lombardi on the Green Bay Packers, Bartow succeeded John Wooden with UCLA mens basketball, Bill Guthridge replaced Dean Smith at North Carolina, and Ray Perkins took over Alabama football after Bear Bryants retirement.
Now Chris Bates is going to get a sense of the challenges that quartet faced as he takes the reins of the Princeton University men lacrosse program after the departure of Hall of Fame coach Bill Tierney to the University of Denver.
DeQuan Holman was a bit under the weather as he hit the field last Thursday evening for the West squad in the 13th annual Sunshine Classic all-star football game.
I am a little sick so I had to get myself into the game a little more, said Holman, a former Princeton High star receiver who was suffering from flu-like symptoms.
The West team looked ill collectively in the early going as the powerful East team rolled to a 13-0 lead eight minutes into the contest at Lions Stadium on the campus of The College of New Jersey.
Jessica Campisi felt some nerves as she toed the rubber for the Cranbury-Plainsboro/Princeton 12-year-old softball all stars last week in the District 12 tournament.
It was hard at first, said Campisi, a rising eighth grader at John Witherspoon Middle School. It took my head out of the game.
The right-handed pitcher regrouped and kept her head as C-P/Princeton faced Florence last week in its opening game of the District 12 competition.
Producing a superb effort, Campisi gave up just one run through the first four innings of the game.
Sean Clancy was never worried about the fight in his Princeton 12-year-old Little League all stars.
Despite dropping three consecutive contests in the District 12 Little League baseball tournament, Princeton manager Clancy remained upbeat about his teams effort and performance.
Baseballs always a funny game sometimes you go out there and play a good, close game, and other times, the ball just doesnt seem to bounce your way, said Clancy, whose team played in Pool C of the competition.
It has been a roller-coaster ride for Wanny Carter this season in his role as the man in the middle for Team Turnpike of the Princeton Recreation Department Summer Mens Basketball League.
Before the season even started, Carter suffered an injury to his right calf which continues to hamper him into July.
In addition, the team, which started the season named Amandas All-Stars, lost it original sponsor and was able to stay afloat with the intervention of Team Turnpike.
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Good morning! I hope that everyone had a nice Easter weekend!
The Lawn Fawn Inspiration Week continues today with a look at the Embroidered Hello and Embroidered Thanks dies!
I'm horrible at stitching because I can't keep my stitches even, but these dies make it so easy! The embroidered sentiments add such a unique texture to your cards, too!
For this card, I used some ombre embroidering thread along with the Elphie Selfie set, Simple Grassy Hillsides die, and Watercolor Wishes patterned paper.
For my next card, I used the thanks die along with the Fab Flowers stamp set and various Lawn Fawn inks.
I used a blue ombre embroidering thread that matched the blue paper from the Watercolor Wishes paper. This card is simple, cute, and really makes the sentiment stand out. This would be so cute to make as a card set to give to a friend!
Check out the Lawn Fawn blog for more inspiration from the design team, and don't forget to enter the giveaway!
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Introducing the Cisco Linksys E1200 DD-WRT Router
(This model is discontinued. For other DD-WRT models, please check out our DD-WRT Routers Page)
Have you decided its time to upgrade your wireless router? Want something simple, sleek, affordable and powerful? Well, you've stumbled on an elegant solution, the economy priced Linksys Cisco E1200 DD-WRT FlashRouter unleashed with a pre-installed DD-WRT firmware upgrade to exploit the router's full potential.
The Cisco Linksys E1200 is a one of the latest and best-reviewed (an Editor's Choice from PCMag) entry-level wireless routers, offering high end Wireless-N speeds of up to 300 mbps at more than affordable price. The E1200 is stylish, 30% thinner and lighter than its older brother the E1000 and ready to be the bedrock of your wireless network for years to come.
The E1200 is an excellent choice for those needing a Wi-Fi upgrade to accommodate all your new Wireless-N capable devices like iPads, iPhones, Roku, AppleTV, Samsung Galaxy III and want the simplest/quickest router upgrade possible. If you are looking for advanced wireless speed and functionality, check out our Best Routers Blog Post.
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Are you tired of all your devices moving slowly, having continuing buffering issues while watching Netflix or playing Call of Duty on XboxLive or PS3? Do you want to be fully prepared with a high performance wireless and wired speeds when Halo 4 is released without blowing your budget? Maybe you just need to extend your current wireless signal to a different part of your home or office and want an affordable yet powerful option?
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Besides an additional layer of Internet security and encryption, a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection can mask your location for additional security and access restricted content such as Netflix from outside the US. Supported VPN Providers include NordVPN, IPVanish, and many more. Learn more about what VPN can do in our VPN FAQ.
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Larkin Poe is an American Roots rock band from Atlanta, GA fronted by sisters Rebecca Lovell (born January 30, 1991) and Megan Lovell (born May 12, 1989). Featuring strong southern harmonies, heavy electric guitar riffs, and slide guitar, they are often touted as "the little sisters of the Allman Brothers". The band performed at the 2014 Glastonbury Festival, and were voted "Best Discovery of Glastonbury 2014" by England's The Observer.
Both sisters have also toured as backing musicians for a variety of other bands, most notably Elvis Costello, Conor Oberst, and Kristian Bush of Sugarland.
In March 2014, Producer T Bone Burnett tapped the sisters to record harmonies and instrumentation on The New Basement Tapes' album Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes alongside Marcus Mumford of Mumford & Sons, Elvis Costello, Jim James of My Morning Jacket, Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes (band), and Rhiannon Giddens. Rebecca and Megan also appear in the 2014 Showtime documentary Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued.
Band history
Rebecca & Megan Lovell began their musical careers in 2005 as teenagers with the formation of a Bluegrass / Americana group, the Lovell Sisters, with their eldest sister, Jessica Lovell. After self-releasing 2 independent albums and touring successfully for 4 years - appearing on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion, the Grand Ole Opry, and performing at Bonnaroo Music Festival - the Lovell Sisters announced the group's disbandment in December 2009. In January 2010, Rebecca and Megan regrouped as Larkin Poe. "Larkin Poe" was the name of the sisters' great-great-great-grandfather, who was a distant cousin of Edgar Allan Poe.
Over the course of 3 years (2010-2013), Larkin Poe self-released 5 independent EPs, 2 collaboration albums, and a live performance DVD. 'Spring EP' (2010), 'Summer EP' (2010), 'Fall EP' (2010), 'Winter EP' (2010), 'Thick As Thieves EP' (2011), 'The Sound of the Ocean Sound' a collaboration with Thom Hell (2013), 'Killing Time EP' a collaboration with Blair Dunlop (2013).
In late 2013, Larkin Poe signed a record deal with RH Music, the music division of San Francisco-based company Restoration Hardware. Following this signing, the band began work on their first full-length album, 'KIN', to be released in Summer 2014.
Notable touring: performing at Glastonbury Festival 2014 (June 2014), performing with Elvis Costello at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN (June 2014) and Kew Gardens in London, England (July 2014), performing with Kristian Bush at The O2 Arena in London, England (March 2013),
Band members
Rebecca Lovell: lead vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, mandolin, piano
Megan Lovell: harmony vocals, lapsteel, dobro
Robby Handley: electric bass, upright bass
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While the PlayStation Vita will support PSP games, it does not have a UMD drive. For this reason Sony came up with their UMD Passport program. Through this, you'll be able to register UMD games to get a discounted digital copy for your Vita on the PlayStation Network.
The list of UMD Passport games has gone live on the PlayStation Japan webpage. There's 262 games on the list as of now, which means a good bit of the PSP library is missing. While this list is in no way final, it's scary to see many publishers missing from the offerings. Note that none of Capcom, Konami, or Square Enix's titles are listed at all.
Before setting Sony HQ on fire remember that this list probably isn't final, and that it will likely grow. Also remember that the UMD Passport has not been announced for territories outside Japan.
I have a f*ckton of PSP UMDs. While I think that paying for a game twice is silly, at least there's some kind of program for me to get some use out of all of these games on the Vita. Let's hope that the full UMD library will be made available for the program, and that it comes to our shores.
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Roman VIP's face reconstructed
The face of a Roman VIP who has been buried since the fourth century has been strikingly recreated by archaeologists.
The clay portrait is based on the skeleton of a young woman discovered last year in a Roman cemetery during the redevelopment of Spitalfields market near the City of London.
Her stone sarcophagus, with a highly-decorative, sealed lead coffin inside, has attracted enormous interest.
The BBC series Meet the Ancestors followed the story of her excavation and commissioned a facial reconstruction from the Unit of Art in Medicine at the University of Manchester.
'Striking looking'
Liz Barham, Museum of London conservator admitted: "It was strange seeing her face for the first time, somehow it made her even more of a person.
"I expected her to be striking looking and she is. She has very strong features.
"She was in her early twenties and obviously came from a very wealthy family. She probably died from some sort of infectious disease.
"There were some expensive glass vessels and jet pots and ornaments buried with her. The vessels would probably have contained perfumed oil.
"There was also some silk with gold thread in the coffin and she was lying on bay leaves."
Permanent display
Analysis of the Roman woman's teeth suggests her family came from Spain, southern France or Italy, and that she was not born in Britain.
The sarcophagus, coffin, skeleton and facial portrait are all on permanent display to the public at the Museum of London's Roman gallery.
Liz Barham said: "It has been a wonderful project to be involved in because it seems to have captured the imagination of our visitors and they have been able to share in the excitement of the excavation."
A Meet the Ancestors programme, Princess of the City, will track the reconstruction. It will be broadcast on BBC Two on Thursday, 13 January, at 2000GMT.
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Gov. J.B. Pritzker's administration considering selling state buildings and land to pay for pensionsGov. J.B. Pritzker's administration issued a plan Thursday to deal with Illinois' chronically underfunded public pensions that called for injecting more cash from a proposed graduated income tax.
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This is the Wrong Answer to this problem. The reason why the pension fund is having problems is because pass Governors and Congresses have not paid the Company part of the pension. To reform it is wrong and to sales building and property is wrong pass a Constitutional Amendment or pass a law that forces the Government to pay their part! Yes I get it that it is the people's money but, the Constitution of Illinois states that the Government must pay. Fix the problem don't create more!
Let's face it people I bet Lincoln is probably turning in his grave right now. I posted this on a previous posting a couple days ago but we need to understand death Illinois is he dead state and it grieves me to have to say that. I love that living in Chicago and I was there the better for the better part of 40 years.I have come to the realization that no matter how hard the fat cat rows this ship of state will sink.
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Chemist Percy Julian pushed past racial barriers — amid attacks on his Oak Park homeAfter a second attack on his house, in 1951, chemist Percy Julian, only the third African-American in the U.S. to hold a doctorate in chemistry, explained why he wanted to live in Oak Park: He'd hoped to prevent his two children from experiencing the fear that he'd known in the Jim Crow South.
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Last night I left work and headed to a place called Rififi on 11th Street. My friends Eugene and Bobby run a show there on Wednesdays called "Invite Them Up." It's mostly stand-up comedy. Sometimes people do sketches. The last act is always music. I told some jokes. Mostly new stuff. The crowd was great. I took a picture of them from the stage. This picture (above) was my view from behind the microphone.
Here is my set list from the show. That's what it looked like after I got off stage, which was at 10:15. When I do new stuff I circle the jokes that work. I put "1/2" next to a joke if it wasn't great but I think I can fix it. Several new bits worked. Cool. I like writing jokes for the same reason I like making anagrams or writing palindromes. It entertains me and it's a challenge. That's what my first one-man show, "If I" was about. Here is one of the palindromes I wrote for "If I." It's a poem that reads the same forward and backwards. Palindromes are fun because the challenge is to make them long and still mean something, even if it's a stretch. (i.e., the attached poem is about an alcoholic mailman, kind of.)
My friend Marcellus was at the show last night. He told me he liked when I said: "There is a store in my neighborhood called Futon World. To me, that sounds like a magical place that becomes less comfortable over time." A bunch of my other friends were there, too. After the show, we posed for a picture on the sidewalk. Then five of us went out to eat.
My friend Langhorne ordered a bowl of borscht. It matched his shirt, so I took a picture of it. Then we headed to a bar. I got there and decided to go home because it was 12:30 and I needed to work on my new one-man show. I got home and did not work on my new one-man show. Instead, I read a bunch of this biography about Richard Feynman by James Gleick. It's good. He wrote a book called Chaos. Also good. I figured I'd wake up early and work on the show before heading to my job.
This morning I was once again reminded that the guy who lives next to me likes to listen to hip-hop. That's cool. He plays his stereo very loudly. That's not cool. The bass resonates through my walls. I'd like him to stop, but I don't like confrontation, so I haven't said anything to him about it. Yet. My initial plan was to get to know the guy first. I figure once we're homeboys, then I could just casually mention it sometime. " … Yeah, I can definitely relate to your point about bitches and fancy cars. Been there. By the way, dog, could you turn your music like way down when you play it? Maybe even don't play it all? That would be dope. Also, when you do play it, could you rap along to it just a little less forcefully? And by that I mean maybe don't scream the words at the top of your lungs so much. And I was just wondering—are you rapping directly into the wall when you do it or …? Oh. So, you have a megaphone pointed at the wall? That makes sense." He'll get the hint, we'll both chuckle, and then engage in some kind of elaborate handshake. Sometime later he'll have me over for a 40 or something. We'll talk about all kinds of things: like how we're both skinny white guys who probably have never been in a gang or even near a gang, but how one of us is working on it, starting with his carefully selected wardrobe. I'll lend him a bandana, he'll give me one of his extra fake AK-47s. Problem solved. It'll be great.
That was my initial strategy. Because, I figured you can't have your first interaction with your neighbor be about asking him to turn down his music. That would set a bad precedent. It would sew seeds of resentment. And that equals louder bass, more passionate rap-a-longs, and no chance for elaborate handshakes. The thing is, in the four months I've lived in my apartment, MC Neighbor and I have not really run into each other at all even though I'm in apartment 21 and he's in 22 (the more palindromic one). We've passed each other on the stairs a total of four times. That hardly gives us an opportunity to be down with each other. Because I've seen him so infrequently, when I have run into him (say, the last two times) I think I've overdone it with the friendliness. (MC Neighbor, going up the stairs: "Hey." Me, going down the stairs: "Hey! What's going on? How are things? I like the gold tooth. Is that new?") I don't mean to be disingenuous. I think it's more that I've built up the plan in my head and tried to force it too much. So, instead of coming off like a tightass or a tough guy, I'm sending more of an "I'm going give you a pamphlet about something cosmic next time we meet" vibe.
At the same time, I've taken to less-than-cool tactics from my side of the wall. Whenever I start to feel the bass from MC's side of the wall (which is often as early as 8:32 a.m.) I wake up and counter with something from my CD collection. I throw in an album and play it loud enough to drown out his stuff. The problem is, even when I crank up Elliott Smith it doesn't overpower "The Insane-o-hawliks" or whoever he's rapping along with over there. The result: me listening to Elliott Smith with loud bass accompaniment. If I turn it up louder, the speakers on my boom box vibrate the CD player and the CD skips. Damn. Now we're both listening to hip hop. In the last four months I have listened to some of my favorite groups way louder than I ever wanted to. When you listen to Simon and Garfunkel so loudly that their beats hurt your ears, you start to realize you might have a problem with passive aggression. The truth is I have been passive aggressive. Yes, he started it, but I've retaliated with the Stones, Modest Mouse, Zeppelin, Beck, and probably worst of all … myself. Sometimes I record music in my room.
Here are some of the instruments I use. I try to be considerate, but as the space between our "friendly" stairway encounters has grown so has the volume of my playing. And what makes it extra shitty of me is that I am not good at playing the instruments. So, while he's rhyming about jewelry and automatic weapons, I'm banging a glockenspiel with Christmas bells. I guess I can't be too righteous about it all.
I just thought of a palindrome that describes the moment when the guy who lives in a palindrome (22) will get along with the guy who writes palindromes. It will be when: "No music is, um, on." But first, "The Sound of Silence" … really loud.


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Happy Birthday Kakakku sayang
Assalammualaikum wbt & Salam Sejahtera,
All I can say... I LOVE U!
Happy Birthday to Kak Lya.
Continue be good Kakak to us, good wife to your husband, good sister to your sibling, good worker to your employer, good obedience to Allah and Rasulullah s.a.w.
May our friendship last till Jannah, Amin.
Photo taken a day after Elly's solemnization. This time you wasn't sure whether you getting married or not? You were confuse and redha. Alhamdulillah today, you a wife to your beloved one. InsyaAllah you will loved him till Jannah. Amin. We always pray for your happiness kak.
We may far by location but we always closed to our heart.
BFF till Jannah! Jom g shopping sama2 lagi?!1 Kita tengok sapa yang akan mengila? hahahaha...


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If you heard today that Northwestern football players had cleared their first hurdle in forming a players' union and you shook your head and grumbled that everything in college sports was now going to hell just like the pros, maybe you should consider this:
The very idea of college sports is not normal. No one else in the world has a system like we do. It's looked at as wildly strange and nonsensical.
People in other countries survey our college sports landscape and say, "Huh? ... Why?" Why would high schools and especially universities take part in promoting and running athletic teams on the side as if they were businesses? How does that fit into any academic mission?
And if these college sports enterprises most certainly are businesses, then don't the players necessarily have to be employees?
That's what the regional office of the National Labor Relations Board in Chicago concluded in its ruling released Wednesday afternoon. And it's merely what the rest of us knew all along even if we don't want to admit it:
The only people clinging to the euphemism of "student athletes" as somehow amateur principals in a wildly lucrative professional system are the people trying to protect their businesses – the NCAA and their member universities and the television networks who supply the juice. If they don't maintain this lie, they can't continue banking all of the revenue produced.
No, college athletic departments are most definitely businesses. Like any other realm of the business world, some operations are failing, some are frantically treading water and some are churning out obscene amounts of cash routinely numbering eight figures annually.
And the athletes are paid zero in salary in each case. Their reward is an education which may or may not be worthy of the school's name depending on how draconian is the coach lording over the athlete. If the athlete is given time to craft a genuine curriculum, he may exit the school with a degree usable in the real world. If he's coerced into a pretend major full of middle-school-level courses designed simply to keep him eligible to participate in the business, then no, he won't be employable except in possibly his chosen sport.
And that is the problem with American college sports in the first place: They should not exist on the Division I level at all. A college sport should be a club or extracurricular experience, not a business designed to rake in tens of millions of dollars in annual revenue.
No, the American college sports paradigm is the weird one. We just can't think of it that way because it is so engrained into the fabric of our society. But college football and men's college basketball – their massive stadia, arenas, television contracts and million-dollar coaches – are outliers.
The rest of the world works around a system much more like American baseball. If a middle school kid is good at a sport, he plays for what we would call a "travel team" with an athletic club. If he continues to progress, he might sign a pro contract even before he graduates high school. Rather than play in college, he might opt to play for money in the minor leagues as a teenager. Such a player, will progress all the way from his preteen years to adulthood without ever participating for a team based around a school.
That's the way it works in all sports around the rest of the globe. And therein lies the problem with college "revenue sports" in this country and the shameless suits who run them: They want to earn Monopoly money like corporate executives. But they want their employees to call themselves amateurs. It's outrageous.
In its quest to form a union, Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter and his group have not cited payment as a goal, although that certainly seems to be down the tracks. What they say they want is post-career medical care for any malady brought on by the violent game they play, independent monitors who can serve to judge whether, say, a concussion has been suffered without the fear of conflict of interest inherent in a school-employed trainer or physician.
They want assurance that they're being looked out for, just like any employee would. I don't think that's an outrageous request. Wouldn't you want the same for your son?
But the assumption of some – that this is not just a landmark decision but that we are inexorably destined for play-for-pay and unionization of all athletes – I think is way premature. This was only a first step and the process will be delayed and can be derailed at any of, at minimum, three or four important subsequent steps.
This was a regional NLRB director's decision. Surely, a request for review by the national NLRB office in Washington will be filed. The board will compose a panel. Briefs will be invited. The board could then invite the Northwestern football players in to cast their ballots on forming a union.
Remember, NU is a private institution and this decision only will have direct ramifications immediately for such private schools as NU, Notre Dame, Wake Forest and Stanford, not big public schools such as Penn State.
If the NLRB approves, if the yeas win a vote for a union, then one could be certified. Let's say that union comes to Northwestern officials and says, OK, we're ready to bargain. The university will almost certainly refuse. Then we can then expect challenges in federal appeals court and ultimately the Supreme Court if the case makes it that far. It just might. Such a process could take a year or two.
But it might not get that far. And even if it does, who knows how much staying power this group of Northwestern athletes retains? That's always been intrinsic in why college athletes have never organized before – they are always transient. Individually, each never sticks around longer than five years. As a group holding potential clout, even for shorter periods.
What if a few NU football players become weary of the process when they no longer have a dog in the fight? For sure, their opponents do – the well-compensated athletics directors and coaches and administrators who've made a living off the athletes' sweat all these decades. They are sticking around. They will be entrenched.
Other athletes at other private schools may take up the fight. They will be encouraged to do so. If enough of them unionize, then maybe a threshold is reached where such schools' revenue sports gain clout. If you can get health coverage for lasting conditions caused by your sport at a unionized private school, if you can get representation for grievances against an abusive coach, why would you risk playing at a public school without such protection?
But all that is way down the line. One side has a very tangible and lucrative system of revenue to protect. The other has only taken a first step toward challenging their power and still must prove their cohesion.
Under such conditions, the status quo can be quite powerful.
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Know How... 168
Geared Turbofan, WinDroid, & Google History
Pratt & Whitney's new Super Engine, DuOS is full-Android in either a VM or a Container, Interdrone LightWare,
Pratt & Whitney's new Super Engine
* Modern aircraft are all about the turbofan engine
* The Turbofan combines massive amounts of power, with decent efficiency and impressive reliability.
* Even the non-exotics are amazing works of engineering
Here's how a traditional turbofan works:
* A Jet engine compresses air, adds fuel, burns it, then is thrusted forward by the expansion of exaust gasses
* A "Fan" moves huge amounts of air, thrusting itself forward (Think of the props on a Quadcopter)
* A Turbofan combines the two: a HUGE fan in front of, and drive by a jet engine
In a modern high-bypass turbofan you have:
1. The Fan
2. The low-pressure compressor
3. The High pressure compressor
4. The Combustion chamber
5. High pressure turbine
6. Low pressure turbine
** Here's the key **
* The low pressure turbine is connected by a shaft to the low pressure compressor and fan
* The high pressure turbine is connected to the high-pressure compressor
** So, as the gasses and burned and expanded, they provide the power to the fan and compressors that allow for the gasses to be burned and expanded.
This is a good system... but the folks at Pratt and Whitney just made it obsolete!
The Pratt & Whitney "PurePower" Geared Turbofan
* They burn 16% less fuel for the same thrust
* They put out less NOX for the same thrust
* The create 75% less noise while on the ground
* It cost 30 years and $10 billion to make them work
Why is it so much better?
* Let's talk about propellors.
-- Small props that spin quickly, vs large props that spin slowly
-- Large is more efficient, and less noisy
** But we wouldn't use larger fans on Turbofans because the speeds as which you needed to spin the shaft for the compressors was spinning too fast for the ideal-sized fan.
** So... P&W added a gear box (It's 20 inches in diameter and weighs 250lbs)
They used a orbital gear design to step down the speed of the low-pressure turbine/compressor shaft.
* This allows the fan to spin much more slowly, but with far more torque
* Slower speeds with more torque means they can use a more aggressive fan that moves more air at lower speeds.
** While a traditional turbofan might have a 5:1 bypass... PurePower does 12:1
So... more efficient, more thorough burn (less pollutants), and MUCH quieter on the ground.
* Created by AMI - "American Megatrends - The company that so many of us know from their BIOS days"
* They were founded in 1985 by Pat Sarma and S. Shankar (who will be on Triangulation in the future)
* Their first customer was "PC's Limited" which became "Dell Computers"
But this is DuOS...
* Unlike "Bluestacks" which is an Android App Emulator, DuOS is full-Android in either a VM or a Container
* It gives FULL access to all the major peripherals (this was a major problem with emulators)
-- Keyboard, Mouse, touchscreen, microphone, ambient light sensor, accelerometers, compass, orientation, etc.
-- It also supposed variable screen sizes.
1. There are two versions: AMIDuOS 1.1 (Running Android Jellybean) and AMIDuOS 2.0 (Running Android Lollipop)
2. Jellybean will cost you $10 // Lollipop will cost $15
3. Once you install, you WILL need to install Google Apps and Services
-- T Raburn
"I'm finally rebuilding my quad and I'm using "RTF 2208-2300kv" motors with "Rotorgeeks RG20" 20Amp ESCs. I'm planning to get a 2200mah 4S battery to keep from overloading the ESCs. What C rating 4S battery should I get. If my calculations are correct, anything over 10C would overload the ESCs anyway. That doesn't seem right. Am I using the wrong equations?"
Let's talk about Power!
* Motors are typically rated for Watts, with a maximum voltage.
* ESCs are rated for Amps, with a maximum current (amperage)
In this case, the RTFQ 2208-2300KV motors are rated for 295 watts MAXIMUM
* It also tells us that it can handle a 4s battery, (14.8 volts)
* Watts = Volts * Amps
* SOOOO.... at 295 watts, 14.8 volts, it's going to pull 19.934 Amps of current
Now the ESCs
* We know that our motor will pull a maximum of 19.934 amps of current at 14.8 volts, so we need to ask ourselves:
1. How much current can the ESC handle
2. How much voltage can the ESC handle?
* It will do 20 amp and AT LEAST 14.8v (4s) so we're good.
But now the battery:
* You're going to have 4 x 2208 motors puling a max of 295 watts each
-- That's 1180 watts of continuous power (at maximum)
* So... how do you determine the C-Rating that you need?
Again: Watts = Volts * Amps
* The "C" rating multiplied by the Amperage rating of the battery = discharge current: how many amps can you pull from the pack
If I have a 3s, 2200mAh 20C battery
* (2.2amps * 20C = 44amps discharge current) // 44amps * 11.1volts = 488.4 watts
If I want to be able to support all my motors at max power, I need a battery that can pull 1180 watts
* If I know I want to use a 4s (14.8 volt) battery, then the equation is simple:
- Watts = Volts * Amps * C-Rating
- 1180 = 14.8 * Amps * C-Rating
** To get the required power, I can either up the rated Amperage of a battery, or up its discharge rating
For Example:
* 4s 1000mAh 25C battery
-- 14.8 * 1amp * 25
-- 370 watts
* 4s 5000mAh 25C battery
-- 14.8 * 5amp * 25
-- 1850 watts
* 4s 2200mAh 60C battery
-- 14.8 * 5amp * 60
-- 1953.6 watts
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Despite increased law enforcement presence on Biscayne Bay, this year's Columbus Day Weekend event has already been marred by two accidents, both occurring at approximately 9:00pm on Saturday, October 7, 2006. According to preliminary reports, a collision occurred when a disabled boat that was being towed was struck by a third vessel. One 20-year old female died in the accident. Four others were critically injured and three were transported to area hospitals in serious condition late Saturday night.
A less serious accident involved a single vessel that reportedly struck an obstacle in the water north of the Biscayne National Park boundary. Two of the four boaters on the vessel were treated and released while two others were uninjured.
Although both accidents occurred outside of Biscayne National Park boundaries, reports confirm that those involved were returning from the Columbus Day Weekend event. Traditionally drawing hundreds of boaters to Biscayne National Park, this three-day event has been free of fatalities since 2002 when three deaths occurred.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is continuing to investigate these accidents.


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Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Ground floor foam walls
Here's the back wall in place --about 47" long and 11 inches high:
Now for the tricky one: the gable end of the kitchen. Because the kitchen is just a one storey extension to the main building, the kitchen end of the house needs to be angled to take the roof (which will be non opening). I decided to add part of the chimney, too. Because the front edge of the foam is set back 3/4 of an inch from the front edge of the model, so that a wooden facing strip can be put on it, I have to take that into account when designing my roof.
Right angles are good for the up and down bits ...
45 degree angles for the roof line:
Here's the gable end all drawn out:
And here it is propped in place! You can see that when the 3/4 inch facing strip is put along the front edge of the foam, everything should line up neatly (I fervently hope).
You can also see that I should have changed my blade near the end :)
But it's actually starting to look like a house! Woo hoo!
And I've used less than $8.00 worth of foam :)
I've ordered some yummy things for the house -- flooring for the front hall, lots of wallpaper and a few light fixtures, but there're many things I can work on to get the model to the next step while I'm waiting for my purchases to arrive.
First I have to mark where the interior walls hit that back wall, so I can start marking in the rear window openings and the back door ... Then I can make the staircase unit for the hall, the back door for the kitchen and the kitchen fireplace.
7 comments:
Gosh next fantastic fast working Lady on the blogland!:D Love the kitchen wall! The house is starting to look like the house should!ReplyDelete
Your working with the speed of light!ReplyDelete
Gosh Nina... It really is lookng great and going so fast! I can't wait to se the wall paper you chose.ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for the comment you left me today on my blog. I am not going to rush it I have decided. You really made me feel better.
I am so excited for you about the plates you ordered. I can't wait to see what ones you got. I ADORE their work!!! The favorite that arrived yesterday was totally unexpected. That covered veg dish is to die for. I really didn't expect it to be my favorite piece.
Arh, its polystyrene! I wondered what type of foam you were using! I have a question...the roof, how are you going to make it or what out of?ReplyDelete
This foam is far thicker than foam board. Great idea Nina.
Michelle xx
Assist with great emotion at the birth of this house! Forgive me if I missed a few comments: I am having many problems with the translator and are very slow!ReplyDelete
But I followed all developments, as usual.
The floor is fabulous :-)
Mini Kisses, flora
La casa va creciendo a pasos de gigante, pronto la tendras terminada ,va ha quedar genial ,besosReplyDelete
Brilliant! we wish wed bought this now for emilys merlin roombox as we got 5mm foam board and will need to double it up. This looks way easier than all the glueing we will need to do. Inspiring indeed Nina! Kate xxx,ReplyDelete


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Hello my raviolis. It has been a very long time since I have posted but Grandma-ma is back and has posted a few pictures. Can you guess what each picture shows?
Here is a hint...this will make a pretty Cinderella gown.
Here is another hint...this will make a "Brave" gown.
Brilliant colors are perfect for a Dragon car.
Cape and Celtic symbol fabric for Mereda.
Grandma-ma will be very busy this week as she puts together Halloween costumes. There are sequins all over the house and even Kota has been wearing them as they stick to his fur. He looks very funny in blue and gold sequins. I love you my raviolis. Grandma-ma


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I purchased the new Weight Watchers PointsPlus pedometer for two reasons:
1. I love that it automatically calculates how many Activity Points you earned. No more over- or underestimating!
2. I love gadgets.
But I've worn it for several days and the numbers it's producing are fantastic. "Fantastic" as in Wow, look how many APs I earned! And, unfortunately, "fantastic" as in Can I really believe the numbers?
For example, last Friday I put on my pedometer upon getting out of bed at 5:30 am. I went to the gym for my workout, ran for 30 minutes and then went about my normal, everyday activity. When I took it off at 5:30 pm, the pedometer informed me I had walked 18,000+ steps for the day, logged more than 8 miles and earned 11 APs (see the picture above).
Now, I'm an active person, but I can't believe I am that active, as nice as it read. (I did pause the pedometer any time I was in the car in case the vibrations were calculated as steps.)
Thinking about it over the weekend, I thought that perhaps the average stride I used (set by the pedometer according to my height) was too long. I lost the manual, so I went online to try to find a manual to figure out how to customize and reset my length. My Googling found no manual, but evidence that others were questioning the pedometer's accuracy as well.
I remembered I owned another pedometer, an Omron HJ-112, so I decided to conduct an experiment.
Today, I wore both pedometers on my right hip from rising (7:30 am) for 12 hours. Each was updated with my height, weight and my custom stride length (21 inches). The Omron doesn't feature a Pause button like the Weight Watchers pedometer, so I didn't use the Pause button today. Anytime I was in the car, before I drove I wrote down the current step numbers on each and then the step numbers when I arrived at my destination, ensuring I could subtract any "false steps" generated by the car vibrations at the end of the day.
I was in the car three separate times over the day and each time the Omron pedometer did not register time in the car as steps. Each time I got to my destination, the number of steps taken on the Omron unit was unchanged from the time I started the trip.
Without employing the Pause button, the WW Points+ Pedometer racked up hundreds of false steps - 459 to be exact. But, I would argue that's why they built in a Pause button. And, I remember it is clearly stated in the manual to hit Pause if you're riding in or driving a car.
So, what were the numbers at the end of the day?
Steps taken: Weight Watchers PointsPlus pedometer: 18,585 (subtract 459 as false steps). Adjusted minus false steps: 18,126.
Steps taken: Omron HJ-112: 10,992.
Miles walked per Weight Watchers PointsPlus Pedometer: 6.15
Miles walked per Omron pedometer: 3.46
No doubt, the Weight Watchers pedometer's senor is super sensitive. And, you could argue, inaccurate in its assessment of steps and miles walked and APs earned.
This post isn't meant to bash Weight Watchers or its products, but serve as a PSA that the numbers on your hip may not be as great as they read. I'm concerned that members using the pedometer would trust the number of APs earned and eat all or some of them, which would perhaps affect their weight loss.
Given I'd rather be conservative in my estimates of APs earned, I'm putting my PointsPlus pedometer in my drawer. I hope Weight Watchers will sometime offer a more accurate pedometer that calculates APs. I will miss that feature.
Monday, March 7, 2011
In which I question the accuracy of the Weight Watchers PointsPlus pedometer
Posted by Melissa at 9:29 PM
Labels: Gear
2 comments:
I'm glad to see your thoughts on the pedometer as I had the same experience. I bought one when the new program came out and also questioned the accuracy of the step count. It measures about 35-40% higher than my old step counter. I guess the whole "if it seems too good to be true..." theory is definitely in action here.ReplyDelete
it takes everything into acct, including tapping feet. so if you are fidgety, I suggest making sure it is paused evertime you sit, or go to the bathroom and so on.ReplyDelete
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The teacher assigns homework. The child has the options of:
1) Doing said homework well and earning both a good grade and possible praise from teacher and parent.
2) Doing said homework indifferently and possibly eeking out a good grade or more likely garnering a lesser mark and some grumbling from the parents.
3) Blowing off the homework and getting growls from mom, notes from the teacher and additional work, a bad grade and a slip designating that the assignment is late.
And there are all the variations inbetween...
The child knows all three basic consequences. The child knows good from bad, right from wrong.
But there's this pesky thing, free will.
It allows us to knowingly, freely choose the worst of all possible outcomes because we don't want to go about the hard business of studying and gaining knowledge and learning what has been presented. Choosing the best option requires of us that we use our gifts.
Sin works the same way. We can know God's will. We can even know the consequences of failing to abide in His love. Yet we chose freely and knowingly that which short circuits our best chances to grow and delve deeper into how it is God calls us to love. It's easier to take the pill, to blow off the sacraments, to rage at the world or others for their misguided views than to educate or even better, pray for those with whom we have definitive and difficult relationships. It's our free choice to do so, it's just we make lots and lots and lots....of stupid free choices.
But God loves us enough to respect our freedom, the gift He has given us to not be robots. Robot children would do their homework perfectly every time. Real children sometimes decide to watch Batman, sneak downstairs to raid the second refrigerator of the leftover birthday cake and then announce at 10:30, they don't understand this assignment or hide that they didn't do it or that they did do it but lost it, or that they forgot to turn it in, or that they forgot about the assignment entirely or blew it off.
God would not rail at this johny-come-lately for showing up last minute with a bit of homework to do, but God does not tire of our whiny free willing sinful selves. He loves us for what we are and what we could be if we loved Him more. But he does have expectations, that we will use our gifts wisely, that we will do what we ought, that doing what we ought reveals our love, while doing what we want because we want it means we wind up with a lot of extra stress, mess and poor marks.
The sins we freely chose to commit, keep us from God, just as the child who has multiple missing assignment slips might keep themselves from going to their parents or to the teacher, out of fear and shame and a desire not to face the consequences of freely chosen actions. But ultimately, the hiding doesn't work, nothing is hidden, and only we are deceived in this process, deceived by the belief we could hide anything at all. The only way the grades and homework situation turn around, is the child admits there is a problem and begins the hard process of doing things differently. The only way we access grace is to begin to submit ourselves to scrutiny and recognize our own innately sinful nature, and seek forgiveness. Start over. Freely choose differently than we have, and do it again and again and again and again, to slowly grow ourselves in the habit of conforming to God's will out of free will.
With that being said, I had to ask of myself, "Did you do your homework?" And the only honest answer is I really need to go in and ask for some extra credit assignments to boost my grade.
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Understanding Free Will
Posted by Sherry Antonetti at 10:17 PM
Labels: free will, God's grace, grades
2 comments:
- May 8, 2012 at 10:25 PM
- Krispie said...
No I didn't always do my homework. No I didn't always listen to the little voice inside. As you get older it is easier to either abide by that voice or ignore it. That does not mean it is not still there.
- May 11, 2012 at 1:04 AM
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I love Thanksgiving. It falls in my favourite season (pun not intended, but I'll let it stand.)
I love the sentiment, the whole idea of Thanksgiving. Taking a moment in a day to think about all the ways that you're blessed, and be thankful for them. To keep in your mind your family, your health, your friends. To be mindful and appreciative.
And the best part of Thanksgiving - all the pumpkins! Being in an apartment, I don't really have a place to display a Jack o'Lantern, but I always make a trip out into the county to pick up a little collection of gourds, in all their funny shapes and sizes.
This year, my brother and I stopped in at a place I've been driving past for years. I never think to stop in, and that's been a big mistake. These people probably love pumpkins as much as I do, and they're definitely huge fans of Hallowe'en. They have a maze/haunted house, a graveyard, and a barn rigged up with "interactive zombies" that, when tugged, open up different coffins and crypts.
Happy Thanksgiving!


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Hello Penguins!
There is a New "Better Igloos" Catalog! The new Catalog has many great things to get your Igloo set up for the Home Decor Contest! There is also some new Hidden Items in it too! Here are the Hidden Items!
To find the Moose Head:
- First, go to page 4.
- Click on the "$" sign that is on the Cash Register.
- Now you have the New, Moose Head!
To find the Mullet:
- Go to the "Fall Plant Upgrades" Column. (Page 6)
- Now, click on the Ficus Plant's Steam.
You now have the New, Mullet.To find the Pipe Organ:
- Go to page 7 in the Catalog.
- Now, click on the Upright Piano.
- Go to the "Electronics" Page. (Page 10)
- Click on the Home Stereo.
Now you have found the Concert lights!To find the Candelabra:
- First, go to the "Clearance!!" Column. (Page 12)
- Now, Click on the Fire Pit.
- You know have the Candelabra!
Also, make sure to check out the New "Igloo Upgrades" Catalog!
-Cena12121, T.C.P.C. President