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Provided that the Senate passes a budget, House Republicans said they would vote to lift the debt ceiling limit for three months without offsetting spending cuts. NBC's Brian Williams reports.
Updated 2:26 p.m. - Republicans will act to push the deadline at which the U.S. government would default on the national debt to mid-April, demanding that Democrats pass a budget in exchange for a long-term extension in borrowing authority.
House Republicans said they will take up legislation next week to temporarily extend the debt limit for three months, past the mid-February deadline when the government, according to the Treasury, would reach its legal limit on borrowing to finance the government's obligations.
"Next week, we will authorize a three month temporary debt limit increase to give the Senate and House time to pass a budget," House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., said. "Furthermore, if the Senate or House fails to pass a budget in that time, members of Congress will not be paid by the American people for failing to do their job. No budget, no pay."
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"We are encouraged that there are signs that congressional Republicans may back off their insistence on holding our economy hostage to extract drastic cuts in Medicare, education and programs middle class families depend on," White House press secretary Jay Carney said in response. "Congress must pay its bills and pass a clean debt limit increase without further delay."
Such a move would push the deadline for default to mid-April, around the time at which the House and Senate are typically expected to produce and pass budgets. To secure a longer-term extension in the debt ceiling, Republicans said Friday, the Senate must finally pass a budget.
"Before there is any long-term debt limit increase, a budget should be passed that cuts spending," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, told GOP lawmakers at the conclusion of their retreat, according to remarks released by his office.
Republicans have vocally criticized the Democratic-controlled Senate for failing to produce a budget in recent years, a mark of the upper chamber's unseriousness in the eyes of many conservatives. Democrats have used the two budgets authorized by House Republicans as a political cudgel against the GOP; the Senate's failure to pass a budget has been partially meant to escape similar political culpability.
"We are going to pursue strategies that will obligate the Senate to finally join the House in confronting the government's spending problem," Boehner said. "The principle is simple: no budget, no pay."
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Republicans' new strategy cuts against a strain of thought within the GOP that suggests that default would not be as catastrophic for the economy as many experts have warned. These Republicans have argued for using the debt ceiling deadline -- and the specter of default -- as leverage to extract spending cuts or entitlement reforms from President Barack Obama.
"It is reassuring to see Republicans beginning to back off their threat to hold our economy hostage," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said in response. "If the House can pass a clean debt ceiling increase to avoid default and allow the United States to meet its existing obligations, we will be happy to consider it."
But Republicans are facing increasing political pressure to act, and prevent default. The party's favorable/unfavorable rating was near its worst ever in Thursday's NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll following a drawn-out battle over the fiscal cliff, a political fiasco many Republicans aren't eager to repeat. And Obama gave a press conference earlier this week explicitly refuse bargaining over the debt limit.
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Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, right, and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., left, walk to a second Republican conference meeting to discuss the fiscal cliff bill passed by the Senate Monday night and now awaits a vote in the GOP-controlled House, at the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013.
In recent days, high-profile Republicans had steadily backed away from the prospect of defaulting on the national debt, sending signals that they'll extend the nation's borrowing authority for at least a little while longer.
"We will raise the debt ceiling. We're not going to default on our debt," Texas Sen. John Cornyn, Republicans' No. 2 in the upper chamber, told the editorial board of the Houston Chronicle. "I will tell you unequivocally, we're not going to default."
And Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the House Budget Committee chairman and former vice presidential nominee, told reporters at House Republicans' retreat on Thursday that lawmakers were "discussing the virtue of a short term debt limit extension."
They join Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, in acknowledging the need for a debt ceiling increase; more and more members of the conservative media have also questioned the political wisdom behind using the debt limit as leverage in the spending debate.
What's more, traditionally GOP-friendly business groups have privately urged lawmakers against wrangling over the debt limit, which has become a factor weighing upon Republicans' strategy.
"There was serious displeasure and concern within the financial services community over the way Republicans handled the debt ceiling issue in 2011," said one business advocate tied into Republican politics. "It was the financial community that helped deliver the resources for a Republican takeover in 2010 and now House Republicans are at risk of jeopardizing their credibility with their free market allies. Cutting spending and helping the economy are not mutually exclusive, but republicans have found a way to make it seem that way in the eyes of voters."

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Emirates, one of the world's fastest growing airlines, has launched 'ice TV Live' as part of its on-going efforts to provide the latest in on-board entertainment. Emirates will now offer up to four channels of as-it-happens television viewing.
ice TV Live offers passengers four TV channels to select from: BBC World News in English, BBC Arabic, Euronews and, for sports fans, Sport24 – a channel dedicated to major sports events around the world.
A major sponsor of renowned global sporting events, Emirates recognizes the power of sport and its ability to connect people from around the world. A dedicated channel which provides coverage of major sporting events is a key part of the TV channel line-up. February's Sport24 highlights include English Premier League and Bundesliga football matches. Coverage of more events will be announced soon, but 2013 will feature coverage of the Australian Open, Wimbledon, US Open Tennis, ATP Tour Masters 1000 Series, ATP World Tour Finals, US Open Golf, and the British and Irish Lions Tour. In line with this week's announcement of a five year agreement appointing Emirates as a Global Partner of Formula 1® starting with the imminent 2013 season, ice TV Live will also include coverage of Formula 1; ensuring sports fans on Emirates miss none of the action.
"Installing the type of satellite communication that allows live TV on an aircraft is no easy feat," explained Adel Al Redha, Emirates Executive Vice-President of Engineering and Operations. "Emirates continue to enhance the features of its inflight entertainment system with its partner Panasonic."
The ice TV Live channels will also complement the full range of Emirates entertainment and communications options. Emirates were the first airline to introduce usage of GSM telephone on its aircraft and expanded this to the use of Wi-Fi and now live TV channels. With this latest addition, Emirates now offers Wi-Fi on 32 aircraft including all A380s, plus mobile phone use on 98 Boeing 777, Airbus A330-200, A340-300/500 and A380 aircraft.
Emirates are committed to providing the most connectivity, maximum comfort and most engaging in-flight entertainment in the skies. The ice TV Live news channels enhance Emirates existing live BBC text news headlines introduced in 2003 – which made Emirates the first airline in the world to offer such live news updates.
The new ice TV Live follows an incredible year of Emirates 'firsts' for in-flight entertainment and communications. In 2012 alone, Emirates introduced touch TV screens similar to that found on tablets, bigger personal TV screens (27-inch in First Class, 20-inch in Business Class and 12.1 inch in Economy Class – with high definition (HD) resolution), and the introduction of mobile phone use for the first time on A380 aircraft.
2013 will build upon Emirates' reputation for equipment and content innovation. In addition to ice TV Live, mobile phone use and Wi-Fi to Boeing 777s, the entire ice-equipped fleet will see improvements in the first few months of the year that include more music and more types of music than ever before, more Arabic TV and films on-board, the introduction of African movies, and a dedicated CBeebies channel for younger flyers.
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I'll just say it right up front: I loved Nightingale. RITA award-winning author Susan May Warren's writing improves with every book she publishes--and Nightingale gripped me from the opening scene to the last page.
As a writer, I've attended three of Susie's writing retreats where she challenges attendees to write breathtaking stories. With Nightingale, and the previously published Sons of Thunder, Susie puts into practice what she teaches.
The main characters in Nightingale, Esther, a nurse, and Peter, a German POW, are complex and compelling. The challenges they face are daunting--and the choices they make sometimes aren't between right and wrong but rather two things of equal value.
Sounds like real life, doesn't it?
At one point while I was reading Nightingale, I talked with Susie and said something like, "There better be a happy ending!" Susie smiled and said, "Well, I like happy endings too."
But sometimes the happiness we're looking for--the love we long for--is a long-time coming. And Susie doesn't write fluff. She writes about characters facing disappointments and heartaches--and having to make the choice to live a life of faith or one of doubt.
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An artist's impression of Rosetta waking from deep-space hibernation to rendezvous with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014. © ESA, image by AOES Meidalab.
In May, the Rosetta spacecraft will make its final approach toward the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, after patiently stalking the space rock for ten years. As the comet approaches its perihelion, it will slow to dig its foot into a gravitational eddy and steer itself around the sun. As it emerges, Rosetta will strike, launching a sensor-packed lander like a javelin into the side of the comet. Harpooned in place, the lander will allow us to reach out across the cosmos and caress a billion-year-old piece of the solar system.
The experiments are scheduled to last two months, after which Churyumov–Gerasimenko will have arced around the sun and begun accelerating back out into deep space. When it does, it will take with it a small piece of humanity anchored to its side. Forever after, this relic of early 21st century technology will remain looping above us, a time capsule buried ten years deep in space.
The apparatuses of our space explorations invariably become monuments to the missions they served. When they're no longer of use, they are discarded and left to blanch slowly in the airless sunlight. Rosetta is only the latest in a long series of inadvertent time capsules bequeathed to the heavens. At the Sea of Tranquility, Apollo 11's landing stage still stands as a memorial to that incredible journey. At its feet, the rocket-blasted shoes, camera, backpacks and other equipment that Armstrong and Aldrin cast away to lighten the lunar module before launching homeward.
These abandoned machines are some of our most perfect time capsules. They show our society at its most candid, a transparent expression of our technology, our financial might, our social ambitions. Unlike the Pioneer plaque, with its sanitised view of humanity—see the diminutive woman airbrushed of her genitals—or Trevor Paglen's poignant Last Pictures, which orbits on the satellite EchoStar XVI, these machines are devoid of political or social framing and filtering.
Gold aluminium cover designed to protect the Voyager 1 and 2 Sounds of Earth gold-plated records from micrometeorite bombardment, including playback diagram.
They are a piece of our world captured and buried away from us. When they eventually resurface, entire and unadulterated, they can be a mirror in which we see ourselves distantly reflected.
Already, the historical value of technological artefacts is obvious. The Google Lunar X Prize for the first commercial sightseers to reach the moon offers a $1 million bonus for any competitor that visits a historic site on its desolate surface, the first tourists at Tranquility's shores. Meanwhile, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos combed the ocean depths off the coast of Florida for abandoned parts of the Apollo 11 mission, eventually raising a pair of rocket engines from 14,000 feet of water. But what will the value of such artefacts in a thousand years? Five thousand years? Will we hold them in as much awe and wonder as the Pyramids when they are as old as those monuments are now?
Among the artefacts of our civilization, the comet probe is a special case: outside of the corrosive effects of Earth's atmosphere, semi-protected from collision with orbiting space junk, and so-far inaccessible to space tourists. While technologically challenging, there is no outward reason why Apollo's rockets couldn't have been recovered sixty years ago. Quite obviously we have the technological capacity to visit the moon—we've simply lost the will to go there. But Churyumov–Gerasimenko's long orbit will offer us only a tiny window every six and a half years in which we might, if we set off ten years before that, recover the Rosetta lander. As a time capsule, the Apollo rockets were never far from reach, and the Tranquility Base junkyard is where we left it. But the Churyumov–Gerasimenko time capsule can only be opened every 78th month.
By astronomical standards that's positively frequent. If we were to inter a time capsule on one of the comets launched from the Oort Cloud on galactic tides, we could set aside a message for ourselves one thousand years, ten thousand years, a million years in the future.
The tools that now lay discarded and forgotten across a narrow strip of the cosmos will one day tell someone as much about us as they told us about the planet, the moon, the stars. The pinnacles of our technological achievements are destined to become ruin. Instead of a thriving outpost, we left a technological footprint on the moon, a set of vast and trunkless legs in the desert. Our legacy there is not a thriving extension of the United States' empire, but an inert memorial built from mid-20th century technology.
If our exploratory machines are destined to become accidental monuments to their makers, perhaps we ought to be conscious of this in their design. Could the physical construct of the Apollo lunar modules exemplify peace for all mankind? Should a celebration of liberté, égalité, fraternité and the free market be encoded into the fabric of the Channel Tunnel boring machines, still buried in the chalk marl under the seaway? Can Rosetta evoke its namesake?
The Rosetta spacecraft is named for the huge slab of black granite pulled from the Nile mud inscribed with the text of three distant empires, a cipher with which we could decode the lost history of Egypt. When it was first discovered, a postscript was added in white paint to the side: "Captured in Egypt by the British Army in 1801," it reads, "Presented to King George III." When Rosetta's harpoon lands like a stylus on Churyumov–Gerasimenko, we'll add our own chapter to the billion-year-old story encoded in the stone. Look here, we'll tell our descendents, see this strata of carbon fibre and lenses, this was when your forefathers explored the heavens. We'll add our own footnote to the history of the solar system and cast it back into the interplanetary mud for some future human to find.


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USC coach Lane Kiffin is known for being highly organized but he really doesn't want to tell anyone much about the Trojans these days.
After Sunday night's practice at the Coliseum, Kiffin knew more about what he didn't know than he knew when asked questions by reporters.
Asked why quarterback Cody Kessler got most of the snaps with the first team, Kiffin said, "I don't know. We were scrambling around."
Asked about who might start at cornerback, Kiffin said the Trojans "keep working at it."
Asked if he was disappointed in USC's low Academic Progress Report score, Kiffin said, "no."
One thing Kiffin did want to talk about was freshman tailback Justin Davis, who returned from injury and looked lively during the scrimmage portion of practice with some nice cuts through the defense.
"Every time he's out there, it seems something special happens," Kiffin said.
Moving time
USC players get to move out of the dorms this morning after more than two weeks, which is fine with the players.
"Finally," Kessler said. "I miss my own bed."
Quality work
Freshman middle linebacker Michael Hutchings is getting a chance to work with the first team defense with starter Hayes Pullard sidelined with an unspecified injury. Middle linebacker is usually the toughest defensive position to learn so freshmen do not always get this type of an opportunity.
"They like to throw freshmen in early, that's the mindset," Hutchings said. "It is tough trying to learn all the calls and keep up with the speed of play."
No worries
Kiffin said he was not disappointed with USC's APR score, which ranked just ninth among Pacific-12 Conference schools.
USC's multi-year APR score was 945, which is four points below the national average. The score, which includes the years 2008-12, was also two points below USC's score last year.
"The APR's really complicated and a lot of things go into it," Kiffin said. "There are things internally we know. I'm not going to go into it."
APR scores are based on eligibility, retention and graduation. A 900 score, or 930 in the past two years, is required for programs to be eligible for postseason play. The standard increases to a 930 over a four-year level by 2014.
Kiffin saying he was not disappointed is surprising with USC's commitment to academics under athletic director Pat Haden.
Lee increases workload
Wide receiver Marqise Lee wore a yellow non-contact jersey but basically practiced at full speed throughout the workout.
"Marqise is Marqise," Kessler said. "He could out of football for three years and come back and just have it.
"He can do anything and everything."
Update on Bailey
Safety Dion Bailey (hip) wore pads and participated in rehabilitation drills with a group of injured players, including tailbacks Silas Redd and Tre Madden, defensive end Morgan Breslin, defensive tackles Cody Temple and Antwaun Woods and tight end Xavier Grimble.
Wide receiver Victor Blackwell, who apparently injured his knee in Friday's scrimmage, remained on crutches.


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Catherine Leclerc didn't speak much English growing up in the Plateau and going to school in St. Michel.
"To me, speaking English was something adults knew, like getting a driver's licence."
Leclerc never did get that driver's licence. But as a young woman, she had a boyfriend who was studying set design at the National Theatre School. The program operated in English and French, and everyone switched back and forth between languages.
"I found it fascinating and thrilling. I decided that was how I wanted to live."
Today, Leclerc teaches French literature at McGill University, where she specializes in studying writers who dip and swing between languages in their novels, essays, poetry and songs. She speaks an accented but flawless English. She shares her life with Stephen Kawai, a bilingual anglo Montrealer of Japanese descent. Their son Tomeo, is 3. Though he is only learning to speak, Leclerc said Tomeo is already soaking up words and sorting them into the proper linguistic haystacks.
Leclerc and Kawai, an artist and chemist, are typical of a new Montreal reality – bright, bilingual thirtysomethings who grew up without the political baggage of their predecessors, moving easily from one language to the other – and sometimes both. "I live it every day."
Ironically, Leclerc decided that if she was really serious about improving her English, she would need to leave town.
"Growing up in Montreal, you aren't really unilingual. You kind of start as an upper intermediate. … Once you have the will to do it, you can do it. But it was hard to go beyond a certain level.
"Montreal's bilingualism meant you could only improve so much before someone would politely switch to the other language."
So she packed her knapsack and went to England for four months' travel and immersion.
"Because I was from Quebec, my English was stronger and my French accent was weaker, so it was easier for people to understand me. So c'est encourageant."
Though she didn't know him yet, Kawai was growing up on a different section of the same street as Leclerc. He went to English schools and wasn't really that fluent in French. "Then he went to France to study for three years, learned French and picked up a Parisian accent." Leclerc, who drifts effortless from English to French in conversation, is fascinated by the differences in the way she and her partner use franglais. "He tends to sprinkle French words in his English. I'm more likely to use half sentences or phrases. Yet there are certain words we only use in French or in English. For instance, it's always the sac à couche, never the diaper bag."
Leclerc is also a big fan of phrasal verbs – expressions like "stand up" or "check it out" – that don't exist in French.
"Once you know them, you can't live without them," she said. "Acadians used to conjugate them into their sentences. Il va checker ça out. I can understand why. You are able to use simple words to convey something that would take much longer to say."
From the start, Leclerc and Kawai wanted Tomeo to learn both languages.
"When my son was little, he would pick up words indifferently. Sometime around time he turned 2, he began to understand which word to use with which person.
"Then he started translating – we would talk about his belly button and then he would call it his bidon button." For Leclerc, there's also a vicarious pleasure in discovering the joys of an English childhood. "I love Dr. Seuss!"


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Course Title: Prepare products for storage or despatch
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term2 2014
Course Code: MKTG5944C
Course Title: Prepare products for storage or despatch
School: 350T Fashion & Textiles
Campus: Brunswick Campus
Program: C3286 - Certificate III in Laundry Operations
Course Contact : Peter Bonnell
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Nominal Hours: 60
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In this course you will acquire the skills and knowledge required to compile, pack and consign orders according to transportation or storage requirements.
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LMTLA2010A Prepare products for storage or despatch
1 Prepare product for dispatch
Performance Criteria:
1.1 Records are checked, where relevant, to ensure requirements are met
2 Product is packed for delivery or collection
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2.1 Transport or storage equipment is inspected prior to packing to ensure cleanliness specifications are met
3 Process orders and dockets
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3.1 Despatch, storage and other related documentation is checked
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4.1 Products are stored in an appropriate location in accordance with workplace procedures and AS 4146
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By the end of the course you will be able prepare products for dispatch, you will be able to pack product for delivery or collection, process orders and dockets plus store the products.
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In general your training is contextualised according to the company's production processes undertaken as a part of the trainees normal work duties.
Your tasks are selected for training and explanation of the task to be undertaken is given by the trainer and the correct procedure discussed. The task is demonstrated by the trainer and underpinning skills and knowledge are developed.
When the trainer is confident you are capable of undertaking the task safely you will then do the task. During this time your work would be monitored by the trainer and questioning and further instruction given.
You will also be given workplace based tasks and activities to complete and practice between visits. Any activities and work performed between visits are reviewed and further training is undertaken accordingly.
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1. Introduction and overview of course. Basics of skills required and course content 2 hours
2. Use of learning resources and basic skills development 2 hours
3. Complete manuals 4 hours
4. Supervised skill development to competency 50 hours
5. Consolidation of skills and assessment 2 hours
You will practice skills and understanding as a part of your workplace duties between sessions. Activities and work performed between visits are reviewed in the following session and further training is undertaken accordingly.
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Assessment will be in the form of observation and your ability to prepare products for dispatch, you will be able to pack product for delivery or collection, process orders and dockets plus store the products. Also by questioning for underpinning knowledge.
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You will be assessed by observation as you demonstrate your ability to prepare products for dispatch, you will be able to pack product for delivery or collection, process orders and dockets plus store the products (you can check the performance criteria above for more details of these skills). You will be questioned for underpinning knowledge for all these operations.
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Water & Stormwater
It's raining, it's pouring…..We all know how the rest of this song goes, it's something as kids and maybe as adults we chant on rainy days to wish the rain away. But runoff from stormwater can do more damage than just dampen our plans for the day (pun intended). Stormwater is and remains an issue on the USM campus as well as anywhere that there is a significant amount of non-permeable surface present, such as parking lots. Runoff is problematic because it has the ability to pick up any and everything that is discarded or discharged on the ground and carry it into our surrounding water sources that we use for recreation, swimming and drinking. Our biggest culprit polluting storm water drains is cigarette butts, but debris such as pesticides, fertilizers, trash, pet waste and more flow straight into places like Tannery Brook which lies along the perimeter of USM's Gorham campus and eventually drains into the Presumpscot River and then Casco Bay.
USM is taking several measures to combat this environmental problem. We recently drafted a new 5 year USM storm water management plan for the Gorham campus that complies with the Department of Environmental Protection's requirements and includes ideas such as planting to reduce runoff, creative storm water drain stencils, implementation of a storm water incident page and a plan to integrate storm water issues into the USM course curriculum.
Read USM's Stormwater Management Plan for the Gorham Campus here!
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- http://water.epa.gov/actin/weatherchannel/stormwater.cfm
- www.cascobay.usm.maine/edu
- www.thinkbluemaine.org
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Click here for our Notice of Intent to Comply with General Permit for the Discharge of Stormwater from Small Municipal Storm Sewer Systems.


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Last year, Shane' pro model wakeboard binding was undoubtedly the most talked about design in the industry. The closed toe design was the main reason for the talk. After seeing him ride them all season, it was obvious why he chose this design. The closed toe design helped efficiently increase leverage, and gave him much more control than
he'd had in past wakeboard bindings. This boot has been modified for '07 to fit the foot better, giving even more control than last season. Always wanting his boots to be a little softer than others, we designed Shane's overlay with a bit more flex than last season's model. In '07, Shane's boot also comes in an open toed version. Although Shane still prefers the locked down feel of his closed toe boot, he wanted to give those slow to pick up on the closed toe revolution, an open toed version so they could experience the soft and flexible performance of his boot. Now there is a Shane boot for everyone.


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Moog's Naval Systems Business Unit has developed a peak sine drive controller that can handle 15 times as much power as its predecessor and is about 500 cubic inches smaller. The new design dramatically increases the amount of available power without increasing controller volume by refining topologies and using new fluid technology.
Jason Weiss, engineering manager for the business unit, told us Moog has previously designed 10kW peak sine drive controllers with low structure-borne vibration noise levels. Building on top of that experience, the unit set out to develop a 150kW peak controller and examined the challenges of increasing the power of the drive topology.
Weiss said four areas predominantly impact power density: losses, thermal conductivity, operating temperature, and package volume. To reduce the losses within the controller, a trade study on using silicone carbide (SiC) switching devices in a multilevel configuration was performed. SiC MOSFETs have proven to have lower conduction and switching losses and operate at higher temperatures than silicon MOSFETs and insulated gate bipolar transistors.
Increasing the output voltage to approximately double that of the baseline design helped decrease the output current and reduced filter losses. As a result, the design used a multilevel configuration versus a standard inverter, which would provide for a reduction in voltage stress on the desired switching devices. The overall controller was designed for a system efficiency of 95 percent.
Although we were able to increase our efficiency, we still had to manage 7.5kW of heat. Various cooling and heat management methods were investigated, including natural convection, forced air, liquid cooling, and heat pipes. We considered factors such as weight, heat transfer, conductivity, complexity, cost, and feasibility. The areas providing the most benefit for our application were the water cooling for managing external heat and dielectric fluid to handle the internal heat.
To obtain a better understanding of the dielectric fluid immersion along with the SiC devices, Moog developed a test unit that could house high-power resistors, inductors, the SiC devices, and the drive circuitry. Weiss said that the engineered dielectric fluid has slightly higher conductivity than air, but the main heat transfer method of the fluid is phase changing, or boiling from a liquid into a vapor.
When a liquid boils, it takes energy (called heat of vaporization) to change from a liquid to a gas. During this phase change, the temperature of the liquid remains constant. The second part of the two-phase cycle is condensing. All the heat absorbed by the vapor rises with the vapor and must be transferred to the condenser for the phase change from vapor to liquid again. The liquid cold plate removes the heat from the enclosure to an external heat exchanger. A test unit was developed to understand the effects of the dielectric fluid Novec.


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"New York Voices lives up to its reputation as the most exciting vocal ensemble in current jazz· to collect such quality voices in one group is rare enough, yet the real trick of New York Voices is how well they mesh·" - Boston Herald
"· full of life, teeming with energy and bursting with melody·a thoroughly entertaining experience·"_
- All Music Guide
I know that there are about two months before Christmas as I post this review, but one would hardly know it from the way the retail stores are decorated. Everywhere I go, it feels like the holidays are imminent.
One of the nicest aspects of this time of year are the new Christmas albums that appear.
A few have grabbed my fancy and I thought I would bring them to your attention in a series of holiday blog features.
Let's start with the latest from Kim Nazarian, Lauren Kinhan, Darmon Meader and Peter Eldridge, collectively known as The New York Voices.
In celebration of their 25th anniversary together, The New York Voices released Let It Snow on October 29, 2013 [Five Cent Records FCR-0001].
The selections on offer are listed on the following image of the CD tray plate.
Let It Snow finds New York Voices - Kim Nazarian, Lauren Kinhan, Darmon Meader and Peter Eldridge - celebrating a host of traditional and sacred holiday classics as well as secular favorites. With the assistance of Grammy Award winning producer and engineer, Elliot Scheiner (Steely Dan, Eagles, Manhattan Transfer, Fleetwood Mac), the quartet has fashioned an album that honors beloved songs, while incorporating sophisticated jazz and swing elements. Settings vary; a cappella performances mingle with robust arrangements featuring big band and studio orchestra accompaniment.
The result is a diverse program of holiday standards, performed with surprisingly fresh treatments. The close harmony style that New York Voices embraces is a perfect sound for the holiday season. While the bulk of the arrangements are by founding member and tenor vocalist Damon Meader, additional orchestrators include Don Sebesky, Jorge Calendrelli, Pat Hollenbeck, and Michele Weir.
Let It Snow is a long time in coming. As Meader notes: "We started adding Christmas tunes to our December concerts many years ago. At first it was just a handful, but over the years, our holiday repertoire expanded. In 2005, we were invited to tour with the Boston Pops for a full Christmas season. This is when our book really took off, and we've been planning to record this CD ever since. It took awhile, but we finally found the time and opportunity to make it happen!"
The CD starts off with the high impact big band arrangement of "Let It Snow," followed by a pairing of lush ballads, "Christmas Song - Christmas Time is Here." "O, Little Town of Bethlehem" is then given an old school big band treatment, reminiscent of the Count Basie Orchestra sound. A number of a cappella performances are also featured, including "O Come, O Come Emmanuel" and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." The intimate voices-only settings bring the artful NYV sound into full focus, contrasting effectively with the large ensemble pieces.
Other highlights include a rollicking rendition of "We Three Kings," and a more traditional treatment of J.S. Bach's "Sleepers, Wake!," which serves as a warm diversion from the jazz-based harmonies of the majority of songs. A moody "ECM-esque" rendition of "O Come, All Ye Faithful" features Peter Eldridge as lead vocalist, surrounded by full orchestra and lush complementary group vocals. Lauren Kinhan, Darmon Meader and Kim Nazarian, are all featured as lead vocalists on "The Merry Medley," a collection of three holiday favorites: "The Man with the Bag," "I'd Like You for Christmas," and "Santa Claus is Coming to Town."
"I Wonder As I Wander" was first recorded by NYV in 1991 as part of a "cast of thousands" GRP Christmas Collection. "We've continued to perform this one through the years, and we've always wanted to re-record this arrangement," says Darmon. "I added a big band accompaniment, in a somewhat Gil Evans-esque style, which adds to the introspective mood of the tune."
Let It Snow wraps up with a high-energy rendition of "We Wish You a Merry Christmas," followed by a serene a cappella rendition of "Silent Night."
The internationally acclaimed vocal group has become renowned for their excellence in jazz and the art of group singing. Like the great jazz vocal groups that have come before, such as Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, Singers Unlimited and Manhattan Transfer, the foursome of Kim Nazarian, Lauren Kinhan, Darmon Meader and Peter Eldridge have learned from the best and taken the art form to new levels. Time Out Chicago has said of New York Voices: "We dare say there may be no better way to understand the wit and wink of jazz harmony than via these Voices."
The group has released nine CDs on various labels including GRP, RCA, MCG Jazz, Concord, and Palmetto. The group has also starred on two Grammy award winning albums: Count Basie Orchestra with New York Voices, Live at MCG and Brazilian Dreams (Paquito D'Rivera featuring New York Voices & Claudio Roditi). They've earned wide acclaim for their performances throughout the world at venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and the Blue Note (New York and Japan) as well as the opera houses of Vienna and Zurich, as well as the North Sea Jazz Festival, the Montreal Jazz Festival and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
In addition to their various college and high school workshops, the New York Voices hold an annual vocal jazz camp at Bowling Green State University every August. All four members are also active as solo vocalists, and have each released numerous recordings.
You can find out more about The New York Voices as well as order information at their website www.newyorkvoices.com and order information is also available there and through most online retailers.
Here's a sampling of the music on the CD.