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After five years and nearly $3 billion, the first phase of the new Silver Line Metrorail extension is almost complete. Testing is underway on the tracks and workers are putting the finishing touches on the five stations.
"We're about 97 percent complete on all the stations," said Marcia McAllister, a spokesperson with the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project.
The project is over budget and behind schedule. The 2008 contract called for the 11.7 mile project to cost $2.6 billion, but that was later raised to $2.95 billion. It is now expected to be complete in the next two months.
McAllister and a team with the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority and Dulles Transit Partners, which is building the rail line, showed us the progress at the McLean station at Tysons Corner.
Wires protrude from the ground where the fare gates will be placed. There is lighting still to be installed and signs put in place, but the bulk of the work is done.
"We're still on track for November," McAllister said. "But we don't have a specific date yet."
Amid the sounds of equipment beeping and power saws cutting, the station's design stands out. The steel construction and skylights give the Silver Line Metro stations a modern look.
"It's a very different architecture," said Stephen Barnam, the senior product manager for construction. "They were going for an open look, try to have as much light as possible…and feel like a comfortable place."
The walkway over the road is enclosed -- not with glass -- but a steel mesh to keep air flowing. The floor is pressed concrete instead of the tiles used in Metro's other stations.
The first phase adds five new stations between Tysons Corner and Reston. The rail line, which towers above the road, is hard to miss. It is five stories high at its peak.
"It's amazing to us we built six miles of aerial guideway, through Tysons Corner and a tunnel, two tunnels," McAllister marveled.
The tunnels run beneath Chain Bridge Road and International Drive.
It took 186,927 cubic yards of concrete and 1,638 tons of steel to build the project. That is enough concrete to build three football stadiums and enough steel for 1,365 cars.
The construction caused countless road closures and detours over the course of the project, in an area already known for traffic congestion.
There were setbacks too. Changes had to be made to comply with National Transportation Safety Board recommendations following the deadly 2009 Red Line train crash and workers ran into problems moving the utilities.
"It was about a year and a half of preparatory work before the rail line started just moving utilities," said Barna.
Testing is underway, and rail cars are running on the new sections of track, but it will not be ready to open until next year.
"The test trains that are running are full of test equipment and that's what they do. They're not the kind of train cars that you'll be riding," said McAllister.
Once construction is complete in November and it is operationally ready, the new rail line will be turned over to Metro for acceptance. The transit agency will then need up to another 90 days to do additional testing and train workers.
The stations will be equipped with all the latest technology for signs and kiosks, but it is the basics that some people might find helpful. Commuters on the go, who need to go, will be happy to know these stations, unlike many others in the Metro system, do have public restrooms.
As for the escalators and elevators, which are notorious for breaking down in the Metro system, Barnam gave his pledge, "I can promise you they will work."
One downside: only two of the stations will have parking. Wiehle Ave-Reston East at the end of the line will have a public parking garage with more than 3,000 spaces built by Fairfax County. A private company is expected to provide a temporarily lot with about 700 spaces at the McLean station.
The Silver Line is ready and on track to open in the coming months. Work on Phase 2 of the Silver Line, which runs to Dulles International Airport, is underway but will not be complete for another five years.
Link to video of the Wiehle-Reston East pedestrian walkway being installed: http://www.bechtel.com/4634.html
Link to Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project website: http://www.dullesmetro.com/index.html
Basic construction facts (Source: Dulles Transit Partners/Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project)
Design-Build Contractor: Dulles Transit Partners, LLC
(Bechtel and URS)
Stations: 5
Total Length of Alignment: 11.7 miles
Total Track: 24,350 linear feet
Total Project Concrete: 186,927 cubic yards
Total Systems Conduit: 360,904 linear feet
Total Steel Used in Stations: 1,638 tons
DTP Employment
(peak staffing per category): Professional staff: 500 (April 2011)
Direct Hire Craft Workers: 1000 (April 2011)
Subcontractor Employees: 630 (June 2013)
Total Length: 6 miles (3 miles inbound/3 miles outbound)
Total Support Piers: 214
Average Height of Guideway: 35.7 feet
Tallest point of the Guideway: 55 feet
(Located above the southbound entrance from Route 123 to I-495)
Total Segments Placed: 2,769
Segment Material: Pre-cast concrete
(Manufactured at a temporary plant at Dulles Airport, custom engineered to
fit a specific location along the alignment and "match-casted" to fit its
neighboring segments.
Segment Weight: From 25 to 40 tons each
Average Segments Per Span: 12
Total Aerial Spans: 258
Average Span Length: 120 feet
How they are connected: Post-tensioned cables
(Each cable is approximately six inches thick and made up of up to 19
strands of high strength twisted steel threaded through the segments in each
span anchored into steel blocks at the end of each span. Pulled tight (post
tensioned with approximately 4.5 million pounds of force (for an average
120 foot span)).
Total Length of Post Tensioned Cables: 39 miles
Total Length of High Strength
Steel Strands in Cables: 528 miles
Total Aerial Acoustical Barriers: 45,800 linear feet
Total Horizontal Trusses Used on Project: Three
Weight of Truss: 365 tons
Length of Truss: 360 feet
Tunnels: Two (one Inbound and one Outbound)
Location: Intersection of Chain Bridge Road and International Dr.
(Highest natural elevation in Fairfax County)
Length: 2,400 linear feet (approximately)
Tunneling Methods: 700 lf of Cut and Cover
1,700 lf of NATM (New Austrian Tunneling Method)
(Tunnels excavated and constructed in short sequential
Tunnel Depth: Between to 30 feet
Excavation: 100,000 cubic yards of earth
Equipment: Drill Jumbo with Pipe Arch Canopy System Tooling
Tunnel Excavators
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Shotcrete robots for application
Total Shotcrete sprayed for initial liner: 25,000 cy
Total Concrete placed for final liner: 18,000 cy
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Sioux Falls, S.D. (KELO AM) - The Denny Sanford PREMIER Center soon will have six large trusses that span the entire width of the facility. From the comfort of your computer desk, you can watch their installation live from two different webcam angles.
Each truss weighs more than 100 tons and is 270 feet long and 30 feet tall. They are set in place using three cranes, and it takes a complete day to erect each truss. Then several days following each truss erection, the cranes continue to connect the truss to the structure by attaching additional beams. All six trusses are scheduled to be in place by the first week of September, and the remaining roof steel will be complete by mid-October.
"When trusses are placed on a building, it's a significant construction milestone," says Mark Cotter, Director of Public Works for the City of Sioux Falls. "It's the final thing that helps people understand the size and shape of the building. Once those trusses all are set, additional work really can take off."
The trusses are the last major piece of the building's steel infrastructure. Next, the roof will be installed. Once the roof is complete, the inside of the building will be protected from the outside elements, which opens up the next phase of work, including interior finishes like carpet, cabinets, tile, and counters.
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Biking far from the tourist routes you will experience Africa at face level �" you'll view wildlife from the saddle of your bike, meet Maasai tribesmen and camp in the wilderness under a cloudless African sky.
We ride between 20-105km per day; a total distance of 560km spread over 12 days of biking. The terrain is flat and gently undulating; and the riding surface is made up of 80% dirt roads, 15% paved roads, and about 5% non-technical single track so a mountain bike with front suspension is the ideal bicycle. The trip is suited to riders with a good level of cycling fitness and some off-road biking experience will add to the enjoyment of your trip.
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Your trip will start/finish in Nairobi in Kenya/Dar es Salaam in Tanzania (or vise versa). Your group will be made up of 4-12 bikers from around the world and our Escape Team of three trip leaders. Our trusty support vehicle carries all your luggage, has lunch, snacks and water at hand, and is always there if you feel like a break from the saddle. Accommodation includes four nights in local guesthouses on a twin-share basis and 11 nights camping in spacious dome tents. (Upgrades to rooms are available at some campsites at your own expense). We take care of your meals and snacks throughout your journey with us; this excludes one lunch and two evening meals which give you the opportunity to explore and experience local cuisine of your own choosing. Also included in your trip are three game parks Amboseli National Park, the Ngorongoro Crater and Saadani National Park, and a visit to a rural primary school.
Prices include: transport, meals, accommodation and activities for the duration of the trip as per detailed itinerary.
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A Bunch of Mates on Tour. We strive to create a relaxed, fun and intimate group dynamic that feels like a group of friends on holiday. Our trips are led by our own wonderful Escape leaders who each bring their own unique characteristics but share our philosophies and understand your needs. You will get a strong feeling of organization, trust and professionalism. Our personalized groups are small enough to integrate into local communities without taking over and mean that we can offer the best of ourselves and pay attention to the little things that make a difference.
Unforgettable Journeys, Remarkable Places. What we do, where we go and how we get there are fundamental. We love the challenge of finding the most interesting cycling routes and destinations. We know the places we go intimately, have found the quirks and have nurtured relationships along the way so that you can truly immerse yourself in the remarkable places we visit.
Real Adventures, Real People in Real Places. Real adventure contains an element of the unknown. Because we travel to less travelled places, visit and stay with local families and include trips into wilderness environments the unexpected will happen! It is our aim to provide you with as many unique opportunities as possible and let you have your own unique personal encounter.
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Why? Because you can! And pickle, and jam, or otherwise celebrate the resurgence of the domestic arts our forebears held so dear. Put on your best apron and step into our kitchen, won't you?
A lesson from my English butcher in making sausages.
These are marmalades I made based on a 17th century English recipe for a cooking/book arts project I did last year. They are delicious and very easy!
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Nancy Grace was having an MVP week
Some people were just made for the moment.
On a day fresh with enough cable-TV news — Herman Cain's got another accuser! Michael Jackson's doctor might go to jail! — to give Geraldo Rivera a heart attack, Nancy Grace rose above her competitors yesterday and delivered an MVP day.
First, Grace went on "Dancing with the Stars," and … well, just watch this clip:
Let's count down the checklist. We've got Grace down for one pissing-match with her partner, one awkwardly sexy tango and one climactic staredown with the judges, before the whole thing culminates in a weird moment of catharsis during the judging, as Bruno suggestively pumps his crotch towards her. Only in DWTS!
Not content with her day's work, Grace then took to her bully pulpit to address all the breaking news she missed while taping DWTS. Mostly to talk about how she obviously knew Conrad Murray was guilty.
From The Hollywood Reporter:
"I've been talking about Michael Jackson since he was charged with child molesting," Grace tells THR. "I made it very clear what I thought after I read the autopsy report and the state's and the defense's evidence. Yes, of course I would have liked to weigh in on the verdict, but I've weighted in what I thought the verdict would be, including what it would be and when it would come in. Luckily, I was two for two."
[...] "I think the whole charging decision was wrong," she says. "He should have been charged with Murder One… He should be doing life behind bars."
We're glad that we have Nancy Grace here to remind us how smart Nancy Grace is.
However, not one to let the day go by without unleashing a classic quip, Grace also offered the following bon mot to THR:
"When [Murray] gets out, I've got news for him: God's gonna get him," she says, candidly. "He's gonna be miserable. He can run, but he can't hide. Hey, he and Casey Anthony can have a tea party in four years."
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In 1826, Hugh Barton, already proprietor of Chateau Langoa, purchased part of the big Leoville estate. His part then became known as Leoville Barton. Six generations of Bartons have since followed, and continued to preserve the quality of the wine, classified as a Second Growth in 1855.
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MACON -- The annual GISA All-Star game is set for Saturday at noon at Mount de Sales, and a host of local talent will be making the trip to shine one last time this season.
Class AAA runner-up Deerfield-Windsor had the most players selected as Tony Zenon, Quinton Adkins, Reggie Brown and Justin Webb will all make the trip. DWS' one-time crosstown rival, Sherwood Christian, was next, placing three on the All-Star team, although a total of five were invited. Pete McSwain, Stephen Cannady and Jawroski Howard will represent the Eagles, who also received invitations for star RB Dontavious Brown and Dereinque Daniel, but both were unavailable to play because they will be taking their SAT test this weekend.
From SGA, which will provide the coaching staff for one of the All-Star teams, the Warriors who made the cut were Nile Knapp, Parker Rentz and Austin Boyd. Also, for Class A state champ Terrell Academy, Cole Byrd and Garrett Freeman will be there, as well Randolph Southern's Loy Devane and Michael Ledford. Southland's Bo Minor also made the team, as did Westwood's Mitch Bernier and Andrew Adams.
Griffin Christian coaches will lead the other team. Game time is set for noon.
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- Local GISA baseball stars make All-State teams ( May 25, 2010 )
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Another piece of gift fabrics from my aunt. I made this NewLook 6802 dress in View D last summer and it's one of the go to pieces in my closet, easy, comfortable & pretty. It's a jersey knit, but doesn't have too much stretch. It's a pattern that I will use again.
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Mar 23, 2014, 07.39 PMby b. boop
i love the fabric and drape is just perfect!
Mar 19, 2014, 12.46 AMby neveenkarnes
what a pretty dress… yes it does look comfy and I love that !!! well done you!!
Mar 1, 2014, 04.23 PMby stellula
What a lovely dress!
Feb 27, 2014, 04.47 PMby yenny lee
Love it
Thank you Yenny :)
Feb 23, 2014, 02.50 AMby kisses
Beautiful dress and fabric
Thank you xx
Feb 22, 2014, 10.45 PMby Luz Kettle
So beautiful, great fabric and lovely finish. Seems so difficult.
Thank you Luz :) It wasn't too difficult, maybe because the instructions were pretty good.
Feb 22, 2014, 04.21 PMby Inga 888
love this dress, everything works, the pattern, the fabric.
Feb 22, 2014, 10.08 PMby Mokara
Thank you so much :)
Feb 22, 2014, 11.53 AMby martinK
Danke :)
Feb 22, 2014, 10.55 AMby liliv-1
Oh, this is terrific! I love both the design os the dress and the pattern of the fabric!
Thank you :)
Feb 22, 2014, 10.16 AMby carolientje
I love this dress!!! well done ;)
Thank you so much :)
Feb 22, 2014, 09.31 AMby sarahsdaughter
I just love this style.Lovely dress and fabric.
Feb 22, 2014, 10.14 PMby Mokara
Thank you :)
Feb 22, 2014, 08.50 AMby Ellen Hatteland
Fabulous dress! Love it ;-)
Feb 22, 2014, 10.14 PMby Mokara
Thanks Ellen, you are so kind :)
Feb 22, 2014, 08.31 AMby Mary Athey
Gorgeous dress and i bet the twist in the front is super flattering on. Fab fabric as well x
Feb 22, 2014, 10.16 PMby Mokara
Thank you Mary, yes, I think it is. I should find someone to take my pictures wearing these garments to give a better idea :)
Feb 22, 2014, 08.24 AMby ttnora
Wow, it's really nice. Cool colours. I made a similar one last summer but that was a Burda pattern. :-)
Feb 22, 2014, 10.17 PMby Mokara
Oh great, I'll check your projects to see if you have picture there :)
Feb 22, 2014, 08.17 AMby Deanna31
This twist looks like a really well made pattern. Did you make adjustments? I especially like the round neckline with this style. Your aunty has good taste in fabrics! :)
Feb 22, 2014, 10.10 PMby Mokara
Thank you Deanna :) Fortunately I didn't have to make any adjustments, seems like size 8 was just perfect for me.
Feb 22, 2014, 03.57 AMby rita61
Nice dress
Feb 22, 2014, 06.57 AMby Mokara
Thank you :)
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I am pursuing a man in a tricorner hat through the streets of colonial New York. In the top-left of the screen, Assassin's Creed III instructs me to chase him. In smaller text just below it, there is a secondary objective: 'do not shove or tackle anyone'. I turn sharply into an alleyway and barge past a woman, earning myself a red X on the mission log and losing my 'full synchronisation' bonus. I'm not sure why I want to be fully synchronised, but the completionist in me insists that I try again.
A few attempts later, I've figured out a system. Stop sprinting when the alleyways give out onto open streets, edge carefully around pedestrians, and continue. It's ludicrous - why on Earth would I not shove someone, if the fate of a nation was at stake - but I've not incurred the red X, I've not lost my bonus. I chase the man and, as is tradition, wait for the cutscene where I catch him. It doesn't come. We pass through the same fishmarket for the second time and I realise that we've done a lap of central New York. The game is waiting for me. Oh! I think. This is an assassination. I do those.
I can't get close enough to use my hidden blades so I wait until we're running down a clear alleyway, pull my flintlock, and fire. Desynchronised! Target was killed. Try again.
It takes another couple of tries before I figure out that the game wants me to catch him - tackle him, if you will. My objective is to give chase. My sub-objective is to not tackle anyone. The solution is to tackle someone. You may Google your own facepalm jpeg.
Assassin's Creed III features the silliest and most self-defeating mission design in the the series' history, and it's a huge shame. When it isn't directly hamstrung by constrained mission areas, flakey AI, and imprecise movement, it manages to steer you into the path of these flaws anyway with optional objectives that encourage you to game the system - and Assassin's Creed III's systems do not hold up well to gaming. When full sync bonuses were introduced in Brotherhood, they were designed to encourage creative use of the tools at your disposal. Here they more often tamp down your options, exposing the emptiness of the game underneath. You can ignore them, sure, but you can't ignore the signal sent by that big red X.
There's a lot more to an Assassin's Creed game than its missions, but the fifth in the series drops the ball with such regularity that it resonates through the entire experience. A pervasive sense of frustration is the snare drum that accompanies Assassin's Creed III on its march through the American revolution.
You undertake that march - for the most part - as Connor, a young assassin with a British father and a Native American mother. Connor's quest to negotiate a future for his people against the backdrop of revolutionary war is well written and often well acted. The game's treatment of issues of race, class, democracy and empire even manages to be insightful, and Ubisoft have no qualms about turning America's founding mythology on its head. Characterisation is strong. Connor will get some flak simply for not being Ezio, but he comes into his own in the second half of the game. Assassin's Creed III has a cracking villain, too, in a senior British Templar that the writers seem to like more than they do their ostensible lead.
The game suffers for a lack of female characters - the only real exception being Connor's mother, who after a brief period of activity retreats from the stage to usher in the series' next male protagonist. It's a shame that the game does not do more, given how laudably it addresses themes of repression in other contexts.
There is also, of course, Desmond. Creed's sci-fi metanarrative splutters to a stop, pulling together its various precursor races, ancient artifacts and cosmic threats for a conclusion with the dramatic impact of a wheezing cat finally sicking up all over the carpet. It's not all bad: a handful of present-day missions let you see what Desmond's time in the Animus has taught him, and Danny Wallace's character has somehow metastasized from the human equivalent of Clippy from Microsoft Word into a likeable person with something to say about history.
There's a lot going on, then, and a lot to do. The new Animus bombards you with side-missions, collectibles and challenges, often without heed to what you're doing or whether the tone will be ruined by the sudden notification that you're in the top 50% in the world for whistling. Its three main explorable areas - Boston, New York, and the compressed frontier that links them - are liberally sprinkled with men to stab, lists to fill out, and every other form of open-world busywork you can think of.


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But American Express may depress markets Friday after announcing 5,400 job cuts. The Dow finishes up 81, and the market gains so far could mean a decent year for stocks -- if the debt ceiling crisis doesn't derail things.
The market has had a strong-enough start to 2013 that those who watch things like the "January effect" believe stocks have a decent shot at moving higher for the year.
The question for Friday is how the market reacts to American Express' (AXP) announcement late Thursday that it will cut 5,400 jobs -- about 8.5% of its workforce -- and take hundreds of millions of dollars in charges for the fourth quarter. Wells Fargo (WFC) also reports results before the open.
The S&P 500 finished the day up 11 points to 1,472, its best finish since Dec. 28, 2007. It is within 94 points of its all-time closing high of 1,565, set on Oct. 9, 2007. The Dow Jones industrials ($INDU) were up 81 points to 13,471, while the Nasdaq Composite Index ($COMPX) added 16 points to 3,122.
The major averages were up for the second day in a row and fifth in the last eight sessions.
According to the Stock Traders Almanac, an up year for the S&P 500 has been accompanied by a rise in the index in the first five trading days of the year about 85% of the time.
The fifth day was Tuesday, and the three major averages were higher. They've risen four of the first seven trading days of the year and are now up 3% for the month.
Admittedly, this may be no more than simple coincidence. Moreover, it's also true that the market faces considerable head winds, most notably the debt ceiling crisis that requires Congress to pass legislation raising the nation's debt ceiling or run the risk of shutting the government down.
American Express put a damper on the enthusiasm with its surprise earnings report. It wasn't scheduled to report results until Jan. 17. Shares were off 64 cents to $60.15 after hours. The stock had closed up 53 cents to $67.09 in regular trading.
Because of the job cuts, American Express expects to end 2013 with 4% to 6% fewer employees. It has 63,500 employees now.
The company took a $400 million charge to fourth-quarter earnings. That cut profits to $637 million, or 56 cents per share. Excluding the charges, the company would have earned $1.2 billion, or $1.09 per share, beating the Street estimate of $1.06 a share.
The market moved higher on Thursday thanks in large part to reports of growing exports from China. Financial, energy and telecom stocks were the market leaders.
Bank of America (BAC), up 35 cents to $11.78, was the top percentage gainer among the 30 Dow stocks.
Exxon Mobil (XOM) and Chevron (CVX) contributed 14.5 points to the Dow gain as energy prices moved higher.
Crude oil (-CL) moved up 72 cents to $93.82 a barrel in New York and is up 2.2% month. Gold (-GC) jumped $22.50 to $1678 an ounce.
I will be first to admit, didn't read Charley's whole spiel,; Didn't have to, because it's usually okay by me..
I had a busy day afternoon, with dentist and wife's stuff, then had to take a breather at a casino.
Drives me wild all this D&G shidt, it was a fantastic day...Goldminers, huge jump over 4%.
And Ford how sweet was that..?
And many went up 1.5 - 2.5%, absolutely nothing wrong with that...
Either some/many of the commentors are not investing or just want to bring wearisome crap to the board...This is where some of the big boys play.....And come to learn or pick up a few wise tidbits.
The f*kin gloom shidt and politics is just a distraction to someone with half a brain..
It's over with, move on, move forward and/or get the fk out of the way.
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U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-356
Jane F. Denny1
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This CD-ROM (Compact Disc-Read Only Memory) has been produced in accordance with the ISO 9660 CD-ROM Standard and is therefore capable of being read on any computing platform that has appropriate CD-ROM driver software installed.
Access to the data and information contained on this CD-ROM was developed using the HyperText Markup Language (HTML) utilized by the World Wide Web (WWW) project. Development of the CD-ROM documentation and user interface in HTML allows a user to access the information by using a variety of WWW information browsers (i.e. Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape) to facilitate browsing and locating information and data. To access the information contained on this disk with a WWW client browser, open the file 'index.htm' at the top level directory of this CD-ROM with your selected browser. The HTML documentation is written utilizing some HTML 3.0 enhancements. The disk should be viewable by all WWW browsers but may not properly format on some older WWW browsers.
Also, some links to USGS collaborators and other agencies are available on this CD-ROM. These links are only accessible if access to the Internet is available during browsing of the CD-ROM.
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This CD-ROM contains copies of the navigation and field sidescan-sonar data collected aboard the R/V Seaward Explorer. USGS Cruise SEAX95007 was conducted from May 8 to May 24, 1995, and is part of an on-going collaborative field program involving the USGS Woods Hole Field Center and the U.S Army Corps of Engineers, New York District.
In 1995, the USGS, in cooperation with the U.S Army Corps of Engineers (USACOE), New York District, began a program to generate reconnaissance maps of the sea floor offshore of the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area, one of the most populated coastal regions of the United States. The goal of this mapping program is to provide a regional synthesis of the sea-floor environment, including a description of sedimentary environments, sediment texture, sea-floor morphology, and geologic history to aid in understanding the impacts of anthropogenic activities, such as ocean dumping. This mapping effort differs from previous studies of this area by obtaining digital sidescan-sonar images that cover 100 percent of the sea floor.
This investigation was motivated by the need to develop an environmentally acceptable solution for the disposal of dredged material from the New York - New Jersey Port, identify potential sources of sand for renourishment of the southern shore of Long Island, and by the opportunity to develop a better understanding of the transport and long-term fate of contaminants by investigations of the present distribution of materials discharged into the New York Bight over the last 100+ years. The sidescan-sonar data were digitally mosaicked to provide a base suitable for use in Geographic Information Systems of the New York Bight Apex region (Schwab, et. al., 1997).
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The DATA Directory ontains the raw sidescan-sonar data. These data were collected using a Datasonics100-kHz sidescan-sonar system and were logged on a Triton Technologies, Inc., ISIS system. The sidescan-sonar data were collected at a range of 187.5 meters per side; 375 meter swath. The sidescan-sonar data are 16-bit binary; the format is summarized in a text file located in the DOC directory. The data description is also available in HTML format. The archived sidescan-sonar data are stored on 63 separate CD-ROMs. Go to the Field Data from the main page to access these data.
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The DOC Directory contains ASCII documentation on the sidescan-sonar data file formats collected using the ISIS system. This directory also contains ASCII copies of the cruise report and a description of the navigation data files contained in the NAV directory.
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The NAV Directory contains the navigation data that were collected during the sidescan-sonar component of the field program using a USGS differential GPS system manufactured by Ashtech. Differential corrections were obtained from shore-based U.S. Coast Guard beacons. WARNING: These data have not been checked for errors. Use with caution.
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The files in this directory have been reformatted from the original raw navigation data file using the UNIX awk utility to allow for easier viewing. The awk file is located in the SCRIPTS sub-directory (see README).
Every navigation fix from the original raw data has been preserved.
The navigation is stored in ASCII files with seven fields separated by tabs. Each file represents a separate cruise day (i.e. jd128web.txt represents Julian Day 128). Navigaton fixes are at 10 second intervals.
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The raw USGS differential GPS data is located in this directory. These files (i.e. jd128) represent the data as originally recorded on floppy disk aboard ship. The data are in NMEA format and contain the $GPGGA string.
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The SCRIPTS sub-directory contains an awk script file used to reformat the raw navigation into a format more suitable for on-screen viewing and printing. See the readme.txt file in this sub-directory for details.
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Danforth, W.W., 1997, Xsonar/ShowImage: A Complete System for Rapid Sidescan-Sonar Processing and Display, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-686, pp 1 - 79.
Schwab, W.C., Corso, W., Allison, M.A., Butman, B., Denny, J.F., Lotto, L., Danforth, W.W., Foster, D.S., O'Brien, T.F., Nichols, D.A., Irwin, B.J., and Parolski, K.F., 1997, Mapping the Sea Floor Geology Offshore of the New York-New Jersey Metropolitan Area Using Sidescan-Sonar: Preliminary Report, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-61, 3 Sheets.
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Sean Carroll Fails to Scale The Edge of Evolution: A Rebuttal to Sean Carroll's Anti-ID Book Review in Science
Casey Luskin
[Editor's Note: This article originally appeared as a four-part series on Evolution News and Views, as Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.]
A few months ago I posted a review of Sean B. Carroll's book The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution , the book in which biologist Sean B. Carroll intimates that the salvation of our species hangs upon accepting Darwin. Carroll has now invoked his own religious metaphors in his review of Michael Behe's book The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism in Science. Carroll postures himself as Thomas Henry Huxley debating Bishop Samuel Wilberforce in a famous 19th century debate over evolution. Carroll even opens the review by invoking Huxley, saying, "The Lord hath delivered him into mine hands." Science is a leading scientific journal published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an organization with a long history of knee-jerk political opposition to intelligent design (ID), so it isn't surprising that they invited such a negative review with such theatrics against Behe's book. But in his eagerness to attack Behe with the approval of "[t]he Lord," Carroll completely fails to engage Behe's actual arguments.
Michael Behe himself has responded to Carroll here, but there are many other errors in Carroll's review of Behe's The Edge of Evolution. Carroll's mistakes include: misrepresenting Behe's arguments, failing to engage Behe's arguments by citing small-scale examples of evolution that Behe readily acknowledges can occur, citing papers that fail to support Caroll's contentions, and in some cases, citing papers that actually support Behe's view rather than opposing it. These mistakes will be discussed further below.
Part 1: Carroll's Fundamental Misrepresentations of Behe's Arguments Carroll ignores that Behe quite contently acknowledges that at times multiple amino acids can change in a protein when there is a selective advantage for each mutation. Specifically, Carroll's mistake begins when he claims Behe says that "multiple-amino acid replacements therefore can't happen":
(Sean B. Carroll, "God as Genetic Engineer," Science, Vol. 316:1427 - 1428 (June 8, 2007).)
(Michael Behe, The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism, pg. 112, (Free Press, 2007).)
(Behe, 2007, pg. 7.)
(Behe, 2007, pg. 76.)
But what happens when there is not an advantage gained at each step? This will be discussed further below.
Part 2: Carroll's Citations Actually Confirm Michael Behe's Arguments
One of the papers Carroll cites in an attempt to refute Behe actually explicitly confirms Behes position that there are limits to the creative power of Darwinian processes. Carroll argues that Behe claims that "multiple-amino acid replacements ... can't happen." As noted above, in contrast to Carroll's misrepresentation, Behe's actual position contends evolution can proceed forward where there is a stepwise advantage gained with each mutation. But Behe also contends that evolution gets stuck when intermediate states becomes harmful or do not increase fitness: "If two mutations have to occur before there is a net beneficial effect--if an intermediate state is harmful, or less fit than the starting state--then there is already a big evolutionary problem." (Behe, The Edge of Evolution, pg. 106) To oppose Behe's arguments, Carroll claims to provide examples of "cumulative selection changing multiple sites in evolving proteins." But Carroll's citation of the paper Weinreich et al. (2007) actually confirms Behes precise position.
Weinreich et al. (2007) demonstrates that 5 amino acid sites can change during the evolution of bacterial resistance to the antibiotic drug penicillin. Yet this paper actually confirms Behes view, as it reports that 102 of the 120 possible mutational combinations don't occur naturally for precisely the reason Behe says they wont work: they dont give stepwise mutational advantages. Consider how similar this finding is to Behe's argument above:
(Daniel M. Weinreich, Nigel F. Delaney, Mark A. DePristo, Daniel L. Hartl, "Darwinian Evolution Can Follow Only Very Few Mutational Paths to Fitter Proteins," Science, Vol. 312:111-114 (April 7, 2006), emphasis added.)
Part 3: Carroll's Examples are Well-Within the Edge of Evolution's Capabilities
Many of Carroll's cited papers report types of evolution that Behe readily concedes can occur, and are unimpressive examples within the "edge" of evolution. As noted above, Carroll cites the evolution of antibiotic resistance in an attempt to refute Behe. Yet Behe finds that bacterial mechanisms of antibiotic resistance present a challenge to natural selection that pales in comparison to the challenge posed by true complexity of the cell:
(Michael Behe, The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism, pg. 111-112, (Free Press, 2007).)
In another misplaced attempt to refute Behe, Carroll also cites the evolution of toxins. But Behe provides a ready discussion regarding the evolvability of destructive proteins because they entail merely evolving the ability to break things in the cella relatively simple task. Behe writes:
(Michael J. Behe, The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism, pg. 149 (Free Press, 2007).)
In another incredibly misplaced citation, Carroll cites the evolution of malarial resistance to drugs as a rebuttal to Behe. Yet Behe spends multiple chapters discussing the evolution of resistance to malaria and how it generally entails unimpressive genetic changes that, in actually, demonstrate that there is a limit to evolutionary change. Carroll simply isn't engaging Behe's arguments. He cites papers that discuss the evolution of biological functions that Behe already acknowledges are within the "edge" of what Darwinian evolution can produce.
Part 4: Carroll's Mistakes Protein Sequence Similarity as Evidence for Random Mutation and Natural Selection
Carroll has thus far failed to engage Behes actual arguments. But Carroll does make a coupler attempts to tackle the origin of a complex biological features. Yet these attempts fail because they confuse the evidence for common descent from sequence similarity with evidence for random mutation and natural selection. Again, Behe anticipates this mistake and provides ample rebuttals to Carrolls citations. As discussed below, Carroll badly mis-cites one paper as showing that "new protein interactions ... can evolve fairly rapidly."
Carroll Spins the Flagellum
When discussing the flagellum, Carroll cites Pallen and Matzkes review paper on the evolution of the flagellum. Yet this paper itself admits that "the flagellar research community has scarcely begun to consider how these systems have evolved." Those that read the Pallen/Matzke paper will find vague generalities and nothing remotely approaching a specific step-by-step model for the evolution of the flagellum. In fact, readers of the Pallen/Matzke paper will find generally find misplaced attempts to give evidence of protein homology as evidence for random mutation and natural selection. But Behe readily anticipates this fallacious strategy. In his book, Behe' cites to Pallens own work and notes that "modern Darwinists point to evidence of common descent and erroneously assume it to be evidence of the power of random mutation." (Behe, Edge of Evolution, pg. 95) None of the work cited by Carroll remotely attempts to explain the evolution of the complexity of flagellar assembly discussed in Appendix 3 of The Edge of Evolution.
Another Questionable Citations
Behe's recognition that evidence for common descent is not evidence for natural selection also provides a poignant rebuttal to one of Carroll's prized citations. Carroll relies on his claim that "new protein interactions ... can evolve fairly rapidly," giving as one citation Budovskaya et al., "An evolutionary proteomics approach identifies substrates of the cAMP-dependent protein kinase," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 102:1393313938 (Sept. 27, 2005). But this paper epitomizes Behe's recognition that "modern Darwinists point to evidence of common descent and erroneously assume it to be evidence of the power of random mutation." (Behe, Edge of Evolution, pg. 95)
The study's methods were essentially as follows: (1) take a protein that is acted upon by a particular enzyme (called a cAMP-dependent kinase), (2) search protein databases to find proteins with similar sequences, and then (3) study those proteins with similar sequences to determine if they are acted upon by the same enzyme, the cAMP-dependent kinase. In fact, the paper didnt even look for a function as such of these proteins; it merely demonstrated that the proteins identified by sequence analysis are likely targets of the same kinase. Budovskaya et al. (2005) even admits that it merely "uses sequence information to identify the biologically relevant occurrences of a protein motif of interest." In other words, the raw data entails the mere comparison of proteins through sequence similarity, and there's no direct testing of random mutation and natural selection whatsoever.
Indeed, the paper recognizes that its results support a strong correlation of "structure-function," due to the fact that one can completely remove common descent and Darwinian evolution from this picture and get the same results: All the study truly found was the mundane result that proteins with similar sequences tend to be acted upon by similar enzymes. Big deal. The paper then adds a lot of evolutionary gloss, but that's all it is: inference based upon assumptions, not hard evidence. It in no way demonstrates the power of random mutation and natural selection, and at best provides an example of how "Darwinists point to evidence of common descent and erroneously assume it to be evidence of the power of random mutation" (Behe, Edge of Evolution, pg. 95) (and even then, this assumes that sequence similarity is necessarily evidence for common ancestry).
Even if this paper had demonstrated natural selection, it still would fall well below Behes edge of evolution. By citing this paper, Carroll is referring to the interaction between enzymes that modify or cleave other proteins, and the protein binding sites recognized by those enzymes may be quite short. Carroll equivocates over the term "interaction motifs": Behe is talking about the kinds of protein interactions that build enzyme complexes or structures like the ribosome or the cilium or the replication machinery of the cell. These kinds of temporal interactions are stabilized by many amino acids, not the short motifs studied in this paper. These kinds of short motifs may be necessary for building molecular machines, but they are far from sufficient to build molecular machines where two or more proteins must dock together and stably interact.
Finally, even if Budovskaya et al. (2005) had demonstrated random mutation and natural selection (which it doesn't), Carroll cites this paper to claim that protein-protein interactions "can evolve fairly rapidly," yet the paper studied proteins in "a group of budding yeast species that are separated by up to 800 million years of evolutionary distance." 800 million years is not "fairly rapidly"in fact, it represents nearly 1/4 of the entire history of life on earth. There appears to be no legitimate grounds whatsoever for Carroll citing Budovskaya et al. (2005) to claim that "new protein interactions ... can evolve fairly rapidly."
Sean B. Carroll's review in Science against Michael Behe's book The Edge of Evolution talks big, but carries a small stick. In the end, what is starkly missing from Carroll's review is anything that actually demonstrates the evolution of something that Behe argues is beyond the edge of evolution. It seems that Carroll is afraid of heights and his errors include the following:
There crucial piece missing from Carroll's attack on Behe's book is anything remotely close to meeting Behes challenge to explain the step-by-step Darwinian origin of a highly complex biological feature.


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- Saturated fat: 2.8g
- Monounsaturated fat: 2.1g
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