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Submitted by acohill on Mon, 11/10/2008 - 09:10
This article warns that usable bandwidth in the UK will actually decline in the next several years without a major push to get homes and businesses connected with fiber. As more and more business and residential activities rely on broadband delivery (e.g. telepresence, gaming, movie and TV downloads), current copper-based and wireless systems will not be able to meet demand.
Submitted by acohill on Mon, 11/10/2008 - 08:53
Up in New Hampshire, a new electric vehicle is undergoing road tests. New Hampshire is not normally counted as one of the big auto-producing states, but the move to electric vehicles is likely to bring some new players into the field. As a side issue, the government might have more impact by giving a few million dollars to every firm in the U.S. working on electric vehicle technology rather than trying to bail out the high cost Detroit manufacturers.
Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway two wheel electric vehicle, is now road-testing a small electric car powered by batteries, with a Stirling engine that recharges the batteries as needed and can also run the heater and defroster. The Stirling engine runs on almost any kind of combustible fuel, including gas, diesel fuel, and biofuels. Kamen has stayed away from the more complicated hybrid designs that use both a gas engine and an electric motor to propel the car. In Kamen's design, the electric motor does all the propulsion, just like Chevrolet's Volt design.
Submitted by acohill on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 14:29
The Blandin Foundation is hosting their annual Broadband Conference - Connected Communities: Making the Net Work for Minnesota on December 3 - 4, 2008 in Eden Prairie.
This year the Blandin Foundation will also be hosting a Minnesota Intelligent Communities Award. The Blandin Foundation along with DEED will be partnering with the national Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) to recognize the top Intelligent Communities in Minnesota. Conference Highlights include:
Note that I will be doing an extensive "Planning for Broadband" workshop just before the conference. If you want a thorough introduction to the challenges and opportunities of creating a community broadband project, my workshop will cover financing, technology, infrastructure, operations, and management.
Submitted by acohill on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 09:32
Here is a brief video report on the broadband fiber network already in use in Danville, Virginia. The system has been operational for 10 months, and all services on the network are offered by private sector service providers (Disclaimer: Design Nine has helped Danville design and deploy the network).
Submitted by acohill on Fri, 10/17/2008 - 16:27
A firm in Japan is rolling out gigabit broadband services to residential customers for $60/month. Back in April, FCC Commissioner Deborah Tate gave a talk and noted that the 100 megabit fiber connections in Japan were already showing signs of "congestion." The GigE service ought to improve throughput.
Meanwhile, we still have lots of people in the U.S. talking about DSL (at around 1 megabit) as "broadband."
Submitted by acohill on Thu, 10/09/2008 - 16:18
The City of St. Paul is taking a serious look at fiber to the home as part of a community broadband effort for the city. A local group has started a Web site that has a lot of good information on it.
Submitted by acohill on Thu, 10/09/2008 - 13:15
A lawsuit filed by the incumbent telephone company in Monticello, Minnesota sought to stop the city from building its own fiber to the home (FTTH) network. The project was designed as a public/private partnership, with Hiawatha Broadband Communications, another Minnesota telecom firm, signed up to operate the system and provide services.
Yesterday, the 10th District Court in Minnesota dismissed the case, finding that the city had the right to issue bonds for a telecom utility and that the city had the right to operate a telecom utility.
The Court went into some detail about the meaning of a "public convenience," as there is a Minnesota law on the books that gives municipalities the right to own and operate a "public convenience." Part of the lawsuit alleged that a fiber network was not a public convenience, but the court has said that it is.
This ruling applies only in Minnesota, but it still may have some influence in other states. Monticello was particularly lucky, as the case was resolved in less than a year. Courts have generally found in favor of municipalities, but the cases often drag on for years.
Submitted by acohill on Wed, 10/08/2008 - 09:04
New Mexico continues to roar far ahead of the rest of the country with a wide ranging mix of game-changing economic development strategies. The state seems to be successfully attracting the brightest and best entrepreneurs and businesspeople in the country, and economic developers in the state are greasing the skids with investments in space, energy, and entertainment.
The latest news out of New Mexico is a firm called Hyperion Power Generation that has licensed nuclear power technology from Los Alamos National Labs. The company has designed a 30 megawatt nuclear power plant that can be delivered by tractor trailer--one tractor trailer--for the basic reactor component.
The system uses a form of nuclear fuel that self-limits the amount of heat generated, and the basic design is so safe that the technology has been licensed by the Federal government for unattended operation. The firm plans to manufacture 4,000 of the version 1 design, and expects to be able to deliver them in less than twelve months from receipt of an order.
Submitted by acohill on Wed, 09/24/2008 - 10:28
Nigeria is using a high performance network for the national post office (1,500 locations) to jumpstart community broadband connectivity. A new national backbone will be built, using the post office needs as an anchor tenant. But the high performance network will be designed to support other community broadband and service needs.
This could work well in the U.S. at the regional and state level, and in fact, states like New Mexico are already studying just that--using state library, telemedicine, and research network needs to serve as the backbone for an open network available to businesses, residents, and service providers (Disclaimer: Design Nine was hired by the State of New Mexico to do that study).
Private, single use networks are expensive and often limit economic development potential, because a dedicated K12, health, or state agency network usually can't be shared with the private sector. By building a single high performance network like the one planned for Nigeria, several anchor tenants can help offset the cost and not only lower the cost of telecom for their own organization but for the whole community as well. Some places in the U.S. are planning these networks, including the Eastern Shore of Virginia Broadband Authority.
Submitted by acohill on Tue, 09/16/2008 - 15:28
Zap electric cars will be built in Kentucky. They have been built in China, but the cost of hauling them from China has become too expensive. So manufacturing is moving closer to customers, and the Energy Economy is going to unfold much like this--getting energy and energy saving devices as close to customers as possible.
Submitted by acohill on Tue, 07/29/2008 - 15:26
Aptera Motors just raised $24 million in funding. The company plans to build a super-efficient car. That makes Aptera at least the second new car company in California, following in the footsteps of Tesla Motors, which makes the super-fast Tesla electric sports car. The increase in gas prices is going to create tremendous new business and economic development opportunities for communities that are out talking to their businesses and studying how to leverage energy assets and broadband.
Submitted by acohill on Sat, 07/12/2008 - 08:54
Tennessee legislators have done a very simple and very smart thing. They have passed legislation that allows small electric cars with limited speed (e.g. up to 35 mph) travel on roads where the posted speed limit is 40 mph.
This may not sound like a big deal, but it is, as it opens the possibility for a lot more people to purchase small electric cars (think "golf carts with doors") and use them for around town commuting and errands. These small cars are inexpensive, economical to operate, and don't use a drop of gas. With the right attitude at state and Federal levels, they could contribute to a significant reduction in the use of imported oil over time. Every state should adopt a version of this law--according to the article, only three states (Tennessee, Montana, Washington) allow this use right now. At the Federal level, relaxed licensing and safety standards would also accelerate the use of alternative energy vehicles. A car that can only go 35 mph does not need to meet interstate highway safety standards.
Submitted by acohill on Mon, 06/30/2008 - 08:34
We are beginning to see the broadband coop as one very viable form of governance for community broadband efforts. Coops are a great ownership and governance model because they firmly vest the enterprise in the community--every subscriber is also a shareholder in the enterprise, and shareholder/members are able to vote and select board members. The Ripton Broadband Coop serves rural customers in rural Vermont via wireless, using an open access, open service model. Two service providers are selling services on the network.
Submitted by acohill on Fri, 06/13/2008 - 06:41
Once again, fairly small countries are far ahead of the U.S. in thinking about broadband. Malaysia has announced an ambitious but entirely doable plan to take fiber to major areas of the country, with the Federal government paying about 30% of the cost in a deal with the biggest telecom company in Malaysia. In the U.S., it would be the equivalent of the states making deals to write checks directly to the incumbent providers (which some states already do). The fiber system will have 100 megabit capacity, with a starter package of Internet access at 10 megabits.
The good news is that U.S. communities and regions still have the opportunity to surpass Malaysia. Malaysia's deal with the incumbent telecom will not increase competition and will not be likely to encourage the rollout of innovative new services. Open service networks like those in Europe are beginning to gather momentum here in the U.S., and open networks tend to lower prices and bring lots of new services to businesses and residents. Five or six years from now, Malaysian cities will be behind many broadband community efforts in the United States.
Submitted by acohill on Wed, 04/30/2008 - 09:55
Graham Richards, the former Mayor of Ft. Wayne, Indiana, spoke at the Broadband Properties Summit about why Ft. Wayne pushed fiber to the home. Some of the services and benefits included:
A green affordable housing initiative cut monthly energy costs for lower income families, and the broadband network was used to monitor energy use.
The network enabled live video monitoring of latchkey children whose parents had to work. Parents could have high quality video chats with their children as soon as they arrived home in the afternoon.
Local schools were able to offer enhanced distance learning opportunities to their students, including afternoon and weekend mentoring with tutors (enabled by the fiber network).
Their vision was fiber everywhere: a community broadband network dedicated to equality of opportunity and universal access.
They began a pilot initiative to have the city use hybrid plug in vehicles to reduce fuel and transportation costs for city workers.
They set a goal of saving 5% of the city budget through IT/broadband and green strategies--helping to conserve taxpayers dollars.
While Richards was mayor, he was able to turn the economic growth of the city from a deep loss of jobs to a dramatic turnaround in jobs creation and new businesses, and he attributed it to setting a vision, sticking to it, and broadband.
Submitted by acohill on Fri, 04/25/2008 - 13:32
Tempe, Arizona's foray into community and municipal wireless has not worked out as expected. Like many other communities that have tried the same thing and have also failed, Tempe tried to avoid spending any money. They simply granted an untested wireless firm access to city lightpoles and structures for wireless equipment. The private firm had to bear the entire cost of build out. The wireless system was also not seen as reliable as a wired system, and the wireless firm has not been able to attract many subscribers.
The lesson learned is that there is no free lunch for community broadband. Communities that spend very little are getting very little in return, and if all of the risk is left in the private sector, the private sector won't come or won't stay long. Another lesson is that building out without a solid business plan to attract customers is also a non-starter. The right approach is to target underserved areas and/or to be able to offer innovative services that are not already available from other providers.
Submitted by acohill on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 08:10
"Free wireless" is beginning to look a lot like "free lunch" -- it may not be possible. The City of Hartford, Connecticut embarked two years ago on an ambitious plan to provide free wireless service to large portions of the city. After two years and $800,000, there is little to show.
The Hartford project appears to be having difficulties similar to other early community wireless efforts: unjustified optimism about the ability of wireless signals to penetrate apartment and office buildings filled with steel reinforcement, and the lack of a business plan that provides for long term sustainability of the system.
In some quarters, there have been pronouncements that private sector wireless is not working (i.e. public/private partnerships), and that the only way to go is an all muni free or very low fee system. But it is not the nature of the partnership that is the core issue--it is the nature of the business model, which can be public, private, or a public/private partnership. Any of those can work and work well with the right business model.
Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. Community broadband and community wireless projects are going to be very important to the economic future of many U.S. towns and cities, but it is not who owns it that determines success, it is whether or not the owners have a sustainable business plan.
Submitted by acohill on Mon, 04/14/2008 - 07:49
The undersea fiber cables that were cut a couple of months ago were the subject of numerous conspiracy theories, but satellite photos have revealed the culprits--cargo ships that were anchored in the wrong place. Sometimes Occam's Razor (the simplest explanation is the likeliest one) is exactly right.
The object lesson for communities is to plan for cable outages by making sure local networks have redundant cable paths. Sometimes this is quite expensive to do when just getting started with community telecom investments, so an alternative to a second fiber cable is a high capacity wireless link that can handle local traffic (perhaps with somewhat less throughput) while repairs are made.
Submitted by acohill on Wed, 04/02/2008 - 08:18
In a just released Forbes survey, Blacksburg, Virginia is ranked tenth in the nation as one of the best small places to live and to work. If you live in a small community, it is worth spending some time reviewing the Forbes study. Of the nine factors they use to rank communities, four of the nine are related directly to quality of life. These factors are Culture and Leisure, Crime Rate, Educational Attainment, and Cost of Living.
Among the other factors, Cost of Doing Business is one that any community can work on quickly. Our work at Design Nine takes us to small communities throughout the United States, and one of the most glaring problems I see over and over again is the lack of good "Class A" office space in smaller towns and regions. Too many communities are still trying to bring retail back to Main Street, when they should be rehabbing storefronts and second floor space for small businesses and entrepreneurs.
When Norton, Virginia rehabbed an old downtown hotel for high tech start ups, including affordable fiber to the building, Main Street blossomed as the office workers in the building shopped and ate downtown. The spacious lobby of the building regularly hosts community dinners, weddings, and special events, so the investment does double duty--how many weddings have been held in the typical industrial park incubator building?
The biggest mistake a small community can make these days is to put too much emphasis on business and industrial parks far from traditional downtowns--by making modest investments in high quality office space in traditional downtowns, you get a much bigger community and economic development impact. And as always, fiber has to be part of the mix.
Submitted by acohill on Mon, 03/24/2008 - 08:47
An Australian wireless ISP who has operated a WiMax network for more than a year unleashed a blistering attack on the protocol, calling it a "disaster" and that it "failed miserably." Unfortunately, the article provides little detail on exactly what frequencies were used (WiMax is a catch all term for the protocol, which can use several different chunks of frequency spectrum). The interesting thing about the comments is that the firm is planning to deploy more traditional WiFi as part of their wireless network. This article illustrates that wireless systems are not a panacea, and that they have to designed and engineered carefully to get good performance.
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ISS: Expedition 24
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|Given names:
|Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Jr.
|Mikhail Borisovich
|Tracy Ellen
|Fyodor Nikolayevich
|Douglas Harry
|Flight Engineer
|Flight Engineer
|Flight Engineer
|Flight Engineer
|Flight Engineer
|Spacecraft (Launch):
|Soyuz TMA-18
|Soyuz TMA-18
|Soyuz TMA-18
|Soyuz TMA-19
|Soyuz TMA-19
|Soyuz TMA-19
|Launch date:
|Spacecraft (Landing):
|Soyuz TMA-18
|Soyuz TMA-18
|Soyuz TMA-18
|Soyuz TMA-19
|Soyuz TMA-19
|Soyuz TMA-19
|Mission duration:
|176d 01h 19m
|176d 01h 19m
|176d 01h 19m
|163d 07h 11m
|163d 07h 11m
|163d 07h 11m
|Given names:
|Andrei Ivanovich
|Aleksandr Mikhailovich
|Scott Joseph
|Dmitri Yuriyevich
|Paolo Angelo
|Catherine Grace "Cady"
|Flight Engineer
|Flight Engineer
|Flight Engineer
|Flight Engineer
|Flight Engineer
Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome (Fyodor Yurchikhin, Shannon Walker and Douglas Wheelock with Soyuz TMA-19). Aleksandr Skvortsov, Mikhail Korniyenko and Tracy Caldwell-Dyson were onboard since April 04, 2010 (arrival with Soyuz TMA-18).
On June 28, 2010 Fyodor Yurchikhin, Shannon Walker and Douglas Wheelock boarded the Soyuz TMA-19 vehicle that docked to Zvezda on June 18, 2010. They flew the Soyuz vehicle a short distance to Rassvet. The change of location made the Zvezda port free for the docking of a new Progress resupply vehicle on July 02, 2010. That port is the preferred location for the Progress, so it can help reboost the station and adjust its altitude.
The Progress M-06M was launched successfully on June 30, 2010 at 15:35 UTC. The cargo ship was loaded with 870 kilograms (1,920 lb) of propellant, 50 kilograms (110 lb) of oxygen and air, 100 kilograms (220 lb) of water and 1,210 kilograms (2,670 lb) of equipment, spare parts and experiment hardware.
While approaching the ISS on July 02, 2010, the spacecraft aborted the docking procedure after a critical communications error. The spacecraft bypassed the station at a safe distance. According to the official statement of the Moscow mission control, the approach to the ISS went normally until the distance of around 2 kilometers (1.2 mi) when the ship's KURS automated rendezvous system issued a command prohibiting further "dynamic operations". The telemetry between the spacecraft and the ISS was lost about 25 minutes before planned docking. According to NASA, the most likely cause of the aborted docking was traced to the activation of the TORU "Klest" TV transmitter, which created interference with TORU manual rendezvous system, causing a loss of the TORU command link between spacecraft and the ISS that triggered the abort of the Progress docking. The Russian flight control team later confirmed that the KURS system operated normally during the aborted docking attempt and did not fail, as was initially believed.
Shortly after the abort, the situation was evaluated and a second attempt at docking on July 04, 2010 was planned and subsequently succeeded. Flying on autopilot using the KURS automated system, the spacecraft docked to the aft docking port of Zvezda. The Expedition 24 crew members monitored the arrival of the spacecraft and as a precautionary measure TORU was not activated for the second attempt. The docking occurred over four-corner border of Russia, Kazakhstan, China and Mongolia. Hooks and latches were engaged a few minutes later and the crew members entered the Progress around 19:30 UTC.
An ISS reboost assisted by the attitude thrusters of Progress M-06M was initiated on July 16, 2010 to improve conditions for the landing of Soyuz TMA-18 and the docking of Progress M-07M. Following the commands from the space station Russian Segment Central Computer, the engines of the Progress M-06M spacecraft were started at 06:42:30 UTC. The operation lasted 1065 seconds raised the orbit of the space station by 3.7 km to 355.2 km.
The Progress M-06M spacecraft loaded with trash and other items for disposal, undocked from the International Space Station at 11:25 UTC on August 31, 2010. Following undocking, Progress M-06M remained in orbit to conduct an experiment designation Radar-Progress. It was deorbited over the Pacific Ocean on September 06, 2010, with debris falling into an area known as the spacecraft cemetery. The retroburn was initiated at 16:13:50 Moscow time and the remaining parts of the Progress, which had not burnt during the reentry, fell down in the area of 42°07'S 138°25'W at about 16:53 Moscow time.
The first EVA was performed by Fyodor Yurchikhin and Mikhail Korniyenko on July 27, 2010 (6h 42m) to prepare the recently delivered Russian Rassvet Module for future automated dockings by Russian spacecraft. The spacewalk also included routing and mating Command and Data Handling cables on the Zvezda and Zarya modules. A video camera was removed and replaced from the aft end of Zvezda which will be used to provide television views of the final approach and docking of future European Automated Transfer Vehicles carrying cargo to the complex. This was the 25th Russian spacewalk and the 147th spacewalk overall in support of station assembly and maintenance.
During the spacewalk, two objects were detected floating away from the station. One was tentatively identified as a cable clamp, left outside the station from a previous Russian spacewalk. That object and another, not conclusively identified, both departed well below the vicinity of the complex and pose no threat to the orbiting laboratory.
On July 31, 2010 the ammonia pump module that is part of coolant loop A, mounted on the right side of the station's main power truss, failed. A problem somewhere in the system caused a circuit breaker to trip, setting off multiple alarms and waking the crew. With half the station's cooling gone, flight controllers were forced to shut down two of the station's four U.S. control moment gyroscopes, used to help maintain the lab's orientation in space, one communications channel, several solar power current converters and a variety of computer control boxes known as multiplexer-demultiplexers.
Tracy Caldwell-Dyson and Douglas Wheelock assisted with the powerdowns and hooked up jumper cables between the Russian Zarya module and the U.S. segment of the station to prevent additional cooling problems.
The space station remained in a safe configuration throughout, officials said, with critical life support systems, computers and communications gear operating with coolant loop B. The six-member crew, they said, was never in any danger.
Several hours later flight controllers attempted to restart the stalled pump, resetting the circuit breaker that opened late Saturday. Once again, the crew was awakened by alarms.
Later in the morning, engineers restarted one of the two powered-down control moment gyroscopes and while the main bus switching units that direct power to various subsystems ran hotter than normal, engineers said the lab was stable.
The space station features two independent coolant loops that use ammonia circulating through huge radiators to dissipate the heat generated by the station's electronic systems. Each loop is fed by a large tank of ammonia that includes an internal bellows pressurized by nitrogen. That pressurization system allows the loops to handle the periodic expansion and contraction of the ammonia coolant due to temperature changes in orbit.
Spare coolant system components, including two pump modules, are mounted on external stowage platforms, one on the left side of the station and the other on the right, just ahead of the Quest airlock module. Meanwhile the managers decided to fix the problem in two difficult spacewalk repair jobs.
A first EVA for repair work by Douglas Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell-Dyson occurred on August 07, 2010 (8h 03m). They removed hose clamps and then started disconnecting umbilicals from the broken space station coolant pump. However, difficulty unplugging one of the ammonia lines consumed a couple of hours and a leak seen from that connector once it finally cooperated prevented the astronauts from progressing any further in their work.
Original plans had called for the pump's removal and installation of the new pump today, with a second spacewalk on August 11, 2010 to finish hooking up the replacement and stowing the old one.
The second EVA was again performed by Douglas Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell-Dyson on August 11, 2010 (7h 26m) to repair the failed pump. They removed the old pump and stowed it on a payload attachment bracket on the Mobile Base System on the station's truss while preparing the replacement pump for its removal from a stowage platform adjacent to the Quest airlock and its installation on the truss during a third spacewalk.
Douglas Wheelock successfully closed the quick disconnect valve for the fourth and final fluid connector for the failed pump, and detached the final fluid line from the failed pump. Tracy Caldwell-Dyson demated five electrical and data cables while Douglas Wheelock broke torque and removed four bolts from the old pump. The pump was extracted from the truss through the use of a grapple bar and installed on a payload bracket on the Mobile Base System on the station's truss. Tracy Caldwell-Dyson then prepared the spare pump for future installation, disconnecting three of five electrical cables and reconfiguring insulation.
The third and final EVA for repair work by Douglas Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell-Dyson occurred on August 16, 2010 (7h 20m) to repair the failed pump. The astronauts performed the installation of a spare ammonia pump module on the S1 Truss. The pump module was successfully installed on the S1 Truss after Douglas Wheelock attached four bolts and Tracy Caldwell-Dyson mated five electrical connectors.
Progress M-07M was launched at 10:22:28 UTC on September 10, 2010. The launch had previously been scheduled to occur at 11:11 UTC on September 08, 2010, however it was delayed due to unfavorable weather conditions. Docking with the aft port of the Zvezda module of the ISS had been scheduled for around 12:37 UTC on September 10, 2010, however due to the launch delay, it occurred on September 12, 2010 at 11:58 UTC. The approval to begin the 11-minute final approach was issued by the Russian flight controllers after assessing the systems during a brief stationkeeping hold with about 167.6 meters (550 ft) between the space station and the Progress spacecraft. The docking was executed flawlessly by the Kurs automated rendezvous system.
Progress M-07M carried 2,515 kilograms (5,545 lb) of cargo to the International Space Station. This consisted of 1,120 kilograms (2,470 lb) of fuel, 49 kilograms (108 lb) of oxygen, and 210 kilograms (460 lb) of water. The remaining 1,136 kilograms (2,504 lb) was dry cargo, including components for the station's life support system, equipment for conducting maintenance and repairs, supplies for sanitation and hygiene, food, medical equipment, clothes and parcels for the cosmonauts aboard the station, cameras, and supplies for outfitting the Zarya, Poisk and Rassvet modules.
Progress M-07M was used for three maneuvers to raise the orbit of the International Space Station. The first, which used eight of the Progress spacecraft's attitude control thrusters, was carried out on September 15, 2010. The engines ignited 09:04 UTC, and burned for 526 seconds, raising the orbit of the space station by 2 kilometers (1.2 mi) to 356 kilometers (221 mi), in preparation for the undocking and landing of Soyuz TMA-18 on September 25, 2010, and for the docking of Soyuz TMA-01M on October 10, 2010. A second orbit raising maneuver was conducted at 19:41 UTC on October 20, 2010, in preparation for the docking of Progress M-08M. The maneuver lasted 228.7 seconds, and left the space station in an orbit with a perigee of 350.7 kilometers (217.9 mi) and an apogee of 375.7 kilometers (233.4 mi). Progress M-08M was launched on October 27, 2010, and successfully docked two days later. The third maneuver was conducted on December 22, 2010, when eight thrusters were again used to raise the space station's orbit. This maneuver raised the orbit of the space station by 4.2 kilometers (2.6 mi) to 352.9 kilometers (219.3 mi) in preparation for the arrival of the Progress M-09M spacecraft, which is scheduled to launch on January 28, 2011, and for the docking of Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-133 mission.
It remained docked to the space station until February 20, 2011 when it undocked to make way for the Johannes Kepler Automated Transfer Vehicle. After undocking it was deorbited to a destructive reentry over the spacecraft cemetery in the Pacific Ocean. Filled with trash and spent equipment on board the ISS, Progress M-07M drowned in the Pacific Ocean at 07:58 pm Moscow time.
A failure in the docking ring on the Mini-Research Module 2 (MRM-2) Poisk, caused a delay in the planned landing of the Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft. Soyuz TMA-18 was originally planned to undock and land on September 24, 2010, but instead undocked less than 24 hours later on September 25, 2010. The failure is believed to be due to a faulty indication from a micro-switch on the hatch between the Soyuz and MRM-2. A drive gear, which is related to the docking mechanism was also found to have two broken teeth, and is believed to be related to the problem as well.
During the stay on board of the ISS the crews of Expeditions 23 / 24 carried out the following scientific experiments:
3D-Space (Mental Representation of Spatial Cues During Space Flight),
ALTEA-Dosi (Anomalous Long Term Effects in Astronauts' - Dosimetry),
ALTEA-Shield (Anomalous Long Term Effects in Astronauts' Central Nervous System - Shield),
APEX-CSA2 (Advanced Plant Experiment - Canadian Space Agency 2),
ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station),
Aryl (Influencing Factors of Space Flight on Expression of Strains of Interleukin),
Astrovakcina (Cultivation in Weightless of E.coli- Producer of the Caf1 Protein),
Bacteriophage (Investigation of the Effects of Space Flight Factors on Bacteriophages),
Bar (Choice and Development of Methods and Instruments to Detect the Location of a Loss of Pressurization of a Module on ISS),
Bif (Investigation of the Effects of Space Flight Factors on the Technological and Biomedical Characteristics of Bifidobacterium),
Biodegradation (Initial stage of Biodegradation and Biodeterioration in Space),
Bioemulsia (Research and Development of a Self-Contained Reactor of the Shielded Type For Production of Biomass of Microorganisms and Biologically Active Substances),
Biological Rhythms (The Effect of Long-term Microgravity Exposure on Cardiac Autonomic Function by Analyzing 24-hours Electrocardiogram),
Biorisk (Influence of Factors of the Space Environment on the Condition of the System of Microorganisms-Hosts Relating to the Problem of Environmental Safety of Flight Techniques and Planetary Quarantine),
BISE (Bodies In the Space Environment: Relative Contributions of Internal and External Cues to Self - Orientation, During and After Zero Gravity Exposure),
Bisphosphonates (Bisphosphonates as a Countermeasure to Space Flight Induced Bone Loss),
BRIC-16-Cytoskeleton (Biological Research In Canisters - 16: Investigations of the plant cytoskeleton in microgravity with gene profiling and cytochemistry),
BRIC-16-DNA (Biological Research In Canisters - 16: The Impact of Spaceflight on Arabidopsis: Deep Sequencing and DNA Arrays as Collaborative Readouts of the Transcriptome of Arabidopsis Seedlings and Undifferentiated Cells in Space),
BRIC-16-Regulation (Biological Research In Canisters -16: Actin Regulation of Arabidopsis Root Growth and Orientation During Space Flight),
BTN-M1 (Examination of the Flow of High Speed and Thermal Neutrons),
CEO (Crew Earth Observations),
CSLM-2 (Coarsening in Solid Liquid Mixtures-2),
CVB (Constrained Vapor Bubble),
DECLIC-ALI (DEvice for the study of Critical LIquids and Crystallization - Alice Like Insert),
DECLIC-DSI (DEvice for the study of Critical LIquids and Crystallization - Directional Solidification Insert),
DECLIC-HTI (DEvice for the study of Critical LIquids and Crystallization - High Temperature Insert),
DOSIS-DOBIES (Dose Distribution Inside ISS - Dosimetry for Biological Experiments in Space),
DTN (Disruption Tolerant Networking for Space Operations),
Dykhanie (Regulation and Biomechanics of Respiration in Space Flight),
EarthKAM (Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle School Students),
EKE (Assessment of Endurance Capacity by Gas Exchange and Heart Rate Kinetics During Physical Training),
Ekon (Experimental Survey on Evaluating the Possibility of Using th Russian Segment of ISS for Environmental Inspection of Work Areas of Various Facilities (Features)),
EPO-Cloud Observation-Demos (Education Payload Operations-Cloud Observation-Demonstrations),
EPO-Demos (Education Payload Operation - Demonstrations),
ERB-2 (Erasmus Recording Binocular - 2),
ExPRESS Payload Simulator (ExPRESS Payload Simulator),
Facet (Investigation of Mechanism of Faceted Cellular Array Growth),
Ferulate (Regulation by Gravity of Ferulate Formation in Cell Walls of Rice Seedlings),
Fish Scales (Investigation of the Osteoclastic and Osteoblastic Responses to Microgravity Using Goldfish Scales),
FLEX (Flame Extinguishment Experiment),
FLEX-2 (Flame Extinguishment Experiment - 2),
Functional Task Test (Physiological Factors Contributing to Changes in Postflight Functional Performance),
Genara-A (Gravity Related Genes in Arabidopsis - A),
HREP-HICO (HICO and RAIDS Experiment Payload - Hyperspectral Imager for the Coastal Ocean),
HREP-RAIDS (HICO and RAIDS Experiment Payload - Remote Atmospheric and Ionospheric Detection System (RAIDS)),
HydroTropi (Hydrotropism and Auxin-Inducible Gene expression in Roots Grown Under Microgravity Conditions),
Hypersole (Cutaneous Hypersensitivity and Balance Control in Humans),
Impuls (Impulse),
Integrated Cardiovascular (Cardiac Atrophy and Diastolic Dysfunction During and After Long Duration Spaceflight: Functional Consequences for Orthostatic Intolerance, Exercise Capability and Risk for Cardiac Arrhythmias),
Integrated Immune (Validation of Procedures for Monitoring Crewmember Immune Function),
IVGEN (IntraVenous Fluid GENeration for Exploration Missions),
Izgib (Effect of Performance of Flight and Science Activities on the Function of On-Orbit Systems on ISS (Mathematical Model)),
JAXA-AstroReport (Japan Aerospace and Exploration Agency - Astronaut Report),
JAXA EPO 1 (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Education Payload Observation 1),
JAXA EPO 2 (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Education Payload Observation 2),
JAXA EPO 3 (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Education Payload Observation 3),
JAXA EPO 5 (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Education Payload Observation 5),
JAXA PCG (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Protein Crystal Growth),
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Kontur (Development of a System of Supervisory Control Over the Internet of the Robotic Manipulator in the Russian Segment of ISS),
Lactolen (Influence of Factors of Space Flight on Lactolen Producer Strains),
MAI-75 (Space Devices and Modern Technology for Personal Communication),
MAXI (Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image),
Micro-2 (Gravitational Effects on Biofilm Formation During Space Flight),
MISSE-7 (Materials International Space Station Experiment - 7),
Mouse Immunology (Mouse Antigen-Specific CD4+ T Cell Priming and Memory Response during Spaceflight),
MSL-CETSOL and MICAST (Materials Science Laboratory - Columnar-to-Equiaxed Transition in Solidification Processing and Microstructure Formation in Casting of Technical Alloys under Diffusive and Magnetically Controlled Convective Conditions),
MyoLab (Molecular Mechanism of Microgravity-Induced Skeletal Muscle Atrophy - Physiological Relevance of Cbl-b Ubiquitin Ligase),
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NeuroRad (Biological Effects of Space Radiation and Microgravity on Mammalian Cells),
NLP-Cells-3 (National Laboratory Pathfinder - Cells - 3: Jatropha Biofuels),
NLP-Cells-4 (National Laboratory Pathfinder - Cells - 4: Jatropha-2),
NLP-Vaccine-MRSA (National Laboratory Pathfinder - Vaccine - Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus),
NLP-Vaccine-Salmonella (National Laboratory Pathfinder - Vaccine - Salmonella),
Nutrition (Nutritional Status Assessment),
OChB (Influence of Factors of Space Flight on Superoxide Strain Producer),
Otolith (Otolith Assessment During Postflight Re-adaptation),
Passages (Scaling Body-Related Actions in the Absence of Gravity),
Pilot (Individual Characteristics of Psychophysiological Regulatory Status and Reliaility of Professional Activities of Cosmonauts in Long Duration Space Flight),
Plasma Crystal (Dusty and Liquid Plasma Crystals in Conditions of Microgravity),
Pneumocard (Examination of the Influencing Factors of Space Flight on Autonomic Regulation of Blood Circulation, Respiration and Cardiac Contractile Function in Long Duration Space Flight),
Poligen (Revealing Genotypical Characteristics, Defining Individual Differences in Resistance of Biological Oranisms to Factors of Long Duration Space Flight),
Pro K (Dietary Intake Can Predict and Protect Against Changes in Bone Metabolism during Spaceflight and Recovery),
Reaction Self Test (Psychomotor Vigilance Self Test on the International Space Station),
Relaksatia (Processes of Relaxation in the Ultraviolet Band Spectrum by High Velocity Interaction of Exhaust Products on ISS),
Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration Biological Specimen Repository),
Rusalka (Development of Methods to Determine the Carbon Dioxide and Methane (Greehouse Gases) Content in the Earths Atmosphere from On-Board ISS),
SAME (Smoke and Aerosol Measurement Experiment),
SEDA-AP (Space Environment Data Acquisition Equipment - Attached Payload),
SIMPLEX (Shuttle Ionospheric Modification with Pulsed Localized Exhaust Experiments),
Sleep-Long (Sleep-Wake Actigraphy and Light Exposure During Spaceflight-Long),
Sleep-Short (Sleep-Wake Actigraphy and Light Exposure During Spaceflight-Short),
SMILES (Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb-Emission Sounder),
SNFM (Serial Network Flow Monitor),
SODI-Colloid (Selectable Optical Diagnostics Instrument - Aggregation of Colloidal Solutions),
SOLO (SOdium LOading in Microgravity),
Sonokard (Physiological Functions (cardio-respiratory) of Humans Using Contactless Methods During Sleep in Long Duration Space Flight),
SpaceDRUMS (Space Dynamically Responding Ultrasonic Matrix System),
SPHERES (Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites),
SPHERES-Zero-Robotics (Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites-Zero-Robotics),
Spinal Elongation (Spinal Elongation and its Effects on Seated Height in a Microgravity Environment),
Sreda (Examination of the Features of IS as an Environment for Conducting Research),
STL-Microbial Immunity (Space Tissue Loss - Microbial Immunity),
STL-Regeneration (Space Tissue Loss - Stem Cell Regeneration),
TAGES (Transgenic Arabidopsis Gene Expression System),
Taste In Space (Taste In Space),
Thermolab (Thermoregulation in Humans During Long-Term Spaceflight),
Tipologia (Study of the Typological Characteristis of ISS Crew Operators Activity at the Stages of Long Term Space Flight),
Tropi (Analysis of a Novel Sensory Mechanism in Root Phototropism),
Try Zero-G (Try Zero-Gravity),
Uragan (Hurricane: Experimental Development of Groundbased System of Monitoring and Predicting the Progression of a Naturally Occurring Technogenic Catastrophe),
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Yummy! Make them every Christmas for a cookie exchange party.
Tropical White Chocolate Cookies
To make the ultimate ice-cream sandwich, stuff about 1/4 to 1/2 cup vanilla ice cream between two cookies. Seal in plastic wrap, and freeze until ready to serve. For an island twist, stuff with lime sherbet.
Yield: Makes about 4 dozen
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- 3/4 cup butter, softened
- 3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 1 1/2 cups sweetened flaked coconut
- 3 teaspoons grated lime rind
- 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 (12-oz.) package white chocolate morsels
- 1/2 cup chopped macadamia nuts
- 1. Beat first 4 ingredients at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Add eggs, beating until blended. Add coconut, lime rind, and lime juice, beating until blended.
- 2. Combine flour, baking soda, and salt in a small bowl; gradually add to butter mixture, beating well. Stir in white chocolate morsels and macadamia nuts. Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls onto ungreased baking sheets.
- 3. Bake at 375° for 10 to 12 minutes or until lightly brown. Cool on wire racks.
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Kevin Haley's Los Angeles Hill Top Home
Elle Decoration UK July 2008
One thing that really caught our attention was the use of a mirror in the sitting room. He used a tall floor mirror that matches the height of the door. It's framed out in the same color as the trim of the door as well. The result gives the illusion of a pass through, which is a great visual trick for a small space.
He also uses mirrors to reflect his jungle-like garden, as he says "...I like to feel cocooned inside the house... but the outside is vital too- the way the light, scents and sounds of nature come into the house is as important as the way it's furnished. There's nothing more tranquil than staring out at moving leaves..."
[ images by Robert Powers for Elle Decoration UK ]
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I love these colors!
because we don't get to say it very often, i must--this is particularly, completely ravishing (with a sunken aspect and garden off the living room, heaven)!
Serene, moody, unique...there are too many adjectives to name to describe the divinity of this abode.
Kevin Haley's house was featured about a year or two ago in House & Garden (I think?)...and the backyard is truly sumptuous and inspiring. If you love the photos you see here, try to seek it out because those photos were truly stunning (as well)! His website has some photos too..
Love it! Love love love.
Wonderful, sumptuous textiles. It makes such a difference to have fabulous silk velvets, etc. At least, that's what I tell myself, since I'm a notorious hoarder of fabric.
yes, it was shown many years back, not sure if it was H&G or actually elle decor, but i loved the place so much, i had saved the article!
Looks like a great place for a party. I'd like to see more of the garden.
Dying to know- where is the light fixture above his dining table from?


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A reformed gangster, accustomed to a life of danger, finds himself dealing with a new and different threat in this adventure thriller. Johnny Allegro (George Raft) is a former mobster who has gone over to the other side and now works for the U.S. Treasury Department as an undercover agent. Allegro is asked to help get the goods on Morgan Vallin (George MacReady), a polished counterfeiter who is involved in a right-wing plot to bring down the American government by flooding the U.S. economy with bogus currency. Allegro makes his way to the island that's Vallin's base of operations, with Glenda Chapman (Nina Foch) in tow, and he convinces Vallin that he's a fugitive from American justice. Vallin takes Allegro and Glenda in, but he soon discovers Johnny's true identity, and Allegro learns that Vallin has a bizarre hobby -- he likes to hunt, but he feels that humans are a more interesting quarry than animals. Vallin gives his guests a head start, then sets out to capture them, hoping to fell Johnny and Glenda with silver-tipped arrows, while the two agents hope that their associate Schultzy (Will Geer) will arrive in time to save them.
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ith warmer temps and longer days, the timing is just right to host outdoor gatherings. Frontgate offers these five tips to make your summer entertaining just right.
1. Set a comfortable scene. Mix plush, deep-seating outdoor furniture with couture high dining sets. This allows guests to mingle between intimate conversations and cozy eating arrangements.
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Typically, you should budget for three drinks per guest. If you're planning on serving a meal, set out four-six different hors d'oeuvres; serve12 if it's not a dinner party. Finish off a meal with a 9-inch pie or tart per eight to 10 people.
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Use a larger candle holder to display fresh flowers, or place salsa and tortilla chips in margarita glasses for an appealing appetizer. Use traditional water glasses to hold thin breadsticks for an Italian accent. For informal gatherings, roll utensils in a linen napkin or placemat and arrange in a basket. For parties with children, hand out mason jars and set the kids loose on a firefly chase. Or purchase coloring books and puzzles to keep youngsters occupied.
5. Work the crowd. Get people talking by mixing different groups of acquaintances. Expand your guest list to include friends of all ages, professions, areas of town, and interests. As host, you can enjoy introducing one faction of friends to another, and your guests will enjoy meeting new acquaintances.
To prevent everyone from congregating near the food, create different "hot spots" throughout the party area. Set up your bar opposite side of your buffet, or set up different bar areas around the party-assign one bar for martinis, one for wine, and one for other cocktails. If hosting party games, set these up in a different area than your main gathering space to encourage movement and conversation.
Another trend gaining popularity is to ask guests to help. Your friends will feel honored to be tapped as part of the "Hospitality Group," and more bashful guests can use their duties as a great ice breaker. Plus, you'll spend less time pouring drinks or directing traffic. And don't forget: You're a party guest too. Do not be too busy making sure everyone else has a good time to
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Mariangela Solorzano lives in Dumont, NJ. Her father, Nicolas, lives in Caracas, Venezuela, nearly 2,300 miles away.
He started running 40 years ago, when he began doing 5Ks as a stress reliever. She started running three years ago after she saw people "much older" running faster than she could in Central Park, and when she was looking for a way to connect with America.
"It's my favorite place to run," the younger Solorzano said of the park in a telephone interview yesterday. "I love seeing all the different people. You're running hard and you see an 80-year-old pass you and it makes you want to keep going."
Both graduated from Simon Bolivar University in Caracas and both are engineers. The younger Solorzano came to the United States to work and learn English, settling in California at the start of the new millennium. Alone, with no family in the United States, she became entrenched in her career and spent too many hours driving to and from work, losing time she could have spent making friends and staying healthy. Feeling lonely and disconnected, she moved across country in 2009, and the next year a friend encouraged her to become a member of New York Road Runners.
"I always try to show the people that I was happy, but in reality I was sometimes sad and unhealthy," she wrote in an email.
Running changed her outlook. Mariangela has since finished her first marathon in Philadelphia and has volunteered and run at many NYRR events. She and her father entered the ING New York City Marathon lottery in 2010 and 2011, but their names weren't drawn. Instead, when Nicolas came to visit his daughter in New York two years ago, he finished his first-ever 13.1 mile race, the NYRR Staten Island Half-Marathon, in 2:01.
Last year, he came from Venezuela to see his daughter run the marathon, which was cancelled after Superstorm Sandy. This year, they will run together on Sunday in his first-ever 26.2-mile adventure. The two kicked off the week by running in Sunday's Poland Spring Marathon Kickoff, a 5-mile race in Central Park.
"We ran 16 miles together last weekend. It was his first long run and he's much faster than me," Mariangela said as she talked about decorating the shirts they will run in on Sunday and the pancakes and pasta they'll eat the day before.
She says that her mom, friends, and boyfriend plan to watch for the pair at mile 17 and again at the edge of the park in which Mariangela started the sport and began to find her place in America. "We're ready. We're excited. I just want to finish with my Dad."


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My name is Natasha Pownall, I am 20 years old and adore taking photos. I am an amateur photographer, I have always enjoyed taking photographs but didn't really think too much into the technical aspects of photography until recently. I am now looking into studying photography to learn more and hopefully make a career out of my photography.
Most my photos are taken on my Samsung Galaxy s3, my trust worthy camera. I am currently traveling New Zealand and have seen some amazing things that will be with me forever. I have tried to capture as many memories as I can here is one of them. This is bridal falls. Truly Beautiful. The only bad part was the stairs up and down there must of been 200 or so, I was very tired, but utterly worth it.
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VH1's addictive "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta" is already over Monday after 10 episodes. I'm sure VH1 will be feeding us plenty more next year.
Other season finales: ABC Family's "Bunheads" Monday, which has been given a back-end order, ABC's "NY Med" Wednesday, FX's "Anger Management" Thursday (which will likely get that 90 episode pickup) and HBO's "True Blood" and "The Newsroom" Sunday.
And on Thursday, local Jeff Foxworthy is back on TV with GSN's "The American Bible Challenge."
"Alphas" 8 p.m. Syfy (new time slot) — Rachel gets kidnapped.
"Love & Hip Hop Atlanta" 8 p.m. VH1 (season one finale) — Mimi, Joseline and Stevie J meet up again at the therapist's office.
"Bunheads" 9 p.m. ABC Family (first season finale) —Fanny and Michelle bond as they collaborate on the recital.
"Major Crimes" 9 p.m. TNT — Raydor tries to supervise Rusty and Provenza struggles with the changes in the department.
"Stars Earn Stripes" 9 p.m. NBC — Unfortunately, Atlanta's Dolvett Quince was the first eliminated last week.
"Beyond Scared Straight" 10 p.m. A&E (third season debut) — Four rebellious teen girls spend a day in a Boston prison.
"R&B Divas" 10 p.m. TV One — Five R&B singers include Faith Evans bond in Atlanta.
"Perception" 10 p.m. TNT — Pierce is enlisted to help the FBI investigate the slaying of a therapist.
"Face Off" 9 p.m. Syfy (third seaon debut) — Roy Wooley of Tucker is among 11 prosthetic makeup artists vying for $100,000.
"Mysteries at the Museum" 9 p.m. Travel — A look at bizarre and otherwordly stories.
"2012 Do Something Awards" 9 p.m. VH1— A gala honoring social activism and community service. Presenters include Ben Affleck, Will Ferrell and Ne-Yo.
"White Collar" 9 p.m. USA — Mozzie, Neal and Peter hunt for treasure.
"NY Med"10 p.m. ABC — A trauma surgeon counsels a family of a man run over by a vehicle.
"What Not to Wear" 10 p.m. TLC (ninth season finale) — A woman's over-the-top style threatens her career.
"Covert Affairs" 10:01 p.m. USA — Annie tries to turn the chief of staff for the prime minister of Yemen into a CIA asset.
"Royal Pains" 9 p.m. USA — Hank treats a polo-team owner who refuses to stop playing despite his ailment.
"Dirty Jobs" 10 p.m. Discovery (ninth season debut) — Mike Rowe tries unpleasant jobs in Australia.
"Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" 10 p.m. TLC — Anna is rushed to the hospital with contractions and will Glitzy the pig stay?
"NY Med"10 p.m. ABC (first season finale) — A banker undergoes a risky cancer operation known as ex vivo.
"The Soul Man" 10 p.m. TV Land — Barton is tempted by sin in Vegas.
"Necessary Roughness" 10:01 p.m. USA — T.K., already having been shot, is now a victim of a theft while Dani helps troubled tennis players.
"The American Bible Challenge" 8 p.m. GSN (new series) — Alpharetta's Jeff Foxworthy returns to game-show hosting but in this case, people compete for money going to charity.
"Burn Notice" 9 p.m. USA (sixth season summer finale) —The gang travels to Panama to take down an assassin.
"Project Runway" 9 p.m. Lifetime — The clothiers create looks to accompany new hairstyles for plus-sized women in need of makeovers.
"Saving Hope"9 p.m. NBC — Fear and doubt strike Joel in the OR, so Kinney takes him on a therapeutic trip to her hometown..
"Anger Management" 9:30 p.m. FX (first season finale) — A seemingly innocent gesture leads Charlie and Kate to examine their relationship.
"Suits" 10:01 p.m. USA — Personal issues cause Mike to drop off the grid.
"America's Next Top Model" 8 p.m. the CW (19th season debut) — The twist: all the would-be models are attending college.
"Bering Sea Gold" 9 p.m. Discovery (second season debut) — Fortune seekers search for gold beneath the frozen surface of the Bering Sea.
"Boss" 9 p.m. Starz — Kane sees a personal tragedy as an opportunity to further his political ambiitons.
"Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta" 9 p.m. TLC (fourth season debut) — Country singer Angaleena Presley gets help finding a dress from her Pistol Annies mates, including Miranda Lambert.
"I Found the Gown" 9 p.m. TLC (new series)— Vows bridal outlet in Boston is all about discounted gowns.
"Lost Girl" 10 p.m. Syfy — Bo faces a very powerful Fae.
"Yukon Men" 10 p.m. Discovery (new series) — A profile of townsfolk enduring winter in Tanana, Alaska.
Weekend television
"Fatal Honeymoon" 8 p.m. Saturday Lifetime — Alabama newlyweds Gabe and Tina Watson went on their dream Australian honeymoon, no one would have ever expected that Tina would drown in what appeared to be a freak diving accident. But it wasn't such a freak diving accident after all.
"Oprah's Next Chapter" 8:30 p.m. Sunday OWN — Oprah interviews Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas.
"Drop Dead Diva" 9 p.m. Sunday Lifetime — Jane achieves Web stardom after giving Nancy Grace a black eye.
"Hell on Wheels"9 p.m. Sunday AMC — Lily and Elam clean up a mess of their own doing.
"Leverage" 9 p.m. Sunday TNT — Nate tries to solve the air-piracy mysteries of the infamous 1970s hijacker D.B. Cooper.
"True Blood" 9 p.m. Sunday HBO (fifth season finale) — Eric makes one last attempt to thwart the Authority.
"Army Wives" 10 p.m. Sunday Lifetime — Roxy and Trevor plan for the future.
"Breaking Bad" 10 p.m. Sunday AMC —Mike deals with the repercussions of his actions.
"The Newsroom" 10 p.m. Sunday HBO (first season finale) — Mac is shaken by a potentially devastating revelation from a gossip columnist.
"Episodes" 10:30 p.m. Sunday Showtime (second season finale) — Merc threatens to leave Jamie for Carol.
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FYI: This is the 5th season finale of True Blood not the 4th like its says under weekend television.
August 20th, 2012
11:22 am
I like how the plot for Fatal Honeymoon is the same as Burn Notice
August 20th, 2012
1:55 pm
I tried to get into Anger Management but Charlie looks old and his acting is terrible. He is better on Two & and Half Men; the writers are funny and the cast works well together.
August 20th, 2012
2:38 pm
True Blood, Eric not Erica
August 20th, 2012
2:59 pm
I like Anger Mgt. After watching Charlie going "nuts" and then seeing him act, it is clear that despite the drugs and behavior-he is a great actor-I have to give the shows writers props for acknowledging his past screw ups and using the show to apologize.
August 20th, 2012
5:08 pm
(Aside from the Olympics) Bunheads, The Newsroom and Political Animals made this summer on TV bearable. Three hours of smart writing.
August 20th, 2012
9:03 pm
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August 20th, 2012
9:22 pm
Who the f*ck is Erica??? bwahahahha Can't wait for the True Blood Finale
August 21st, 2012
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I'm utterly embarassed to call Atlanta my home.. So many errors. "True Blood" needs to be rivised. It's Eric, not "Erica". And the show "Episodes" is not on the channel HBO.


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Hoy no me pongo uniforme (delicada tarea) porque no me apetece. Hala.
(la pinta Mike Deodato Jr.)
Ponerse cada día el uniforme, delicada tarea.
(la pinta Shane Glines)
Apparently tired of the publishers of Archie saying he was ripping off their comics, Larry Welz did an issue featuring "Vampironica" — apparently that story was never reprinted.
(via Larry Welz - Vampironica, in Jon C's Dan Decarlo and Related Comic Art Gallery Room)
Julie Strain as Vampirella.
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And finally… Vampirella the comic book!!!!!
Bruce Timm.
Joe Madureira cover for Vampirella #1
Get him, Vampi. If it has tentacles, it is up to no good.


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Paul George is the exact kind of player that hurts the Nets constantly: athletic, tall, knockdown three-point shooting, great at driving the paint. Yes, I'm worried about tonight's game When: 7:00 PM: Monday, February 11th, 2013 Where: Bankers Life Fieldhouse; Indianapolis, IN TV: YES Network UPDATE: Deron Williams will miss tonight's game, and Wednesday's against the Nuggets as well, with ankle inflammation. The type of condition D-Will is suffering from is known as synovitis, which is serious enough to warrant the extra rest for the Nets' star point guard but not bad enough to cost him playing time after this weekend's All-Star break. The Nets are in a pretty bad place right now, and with just two more games until the All-Star break (including tonight's), they need a win or two to get the team feeling some confidence so this two-game skid doesn't turn into something more. And they attempt to get one of those win...
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Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God
The Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God are a Roman Catholic order founded in 1572. They are also known commonly as the Fatebenefratelli, meaning "Do-Good Brothers" in Italian.
Saint John of God[edit]
St. John of God, the founder of this religious institution, was born 8 March 1495 at Montemor-o-Novo in Portugal. In 1535, he founded his first hospital at Granada in Spain, where he served the sick and afflicted. After ten years spent in the exercise of charity, he died 8 March 1550. He was canonized by Pope Alexander VIII in 1690 and was declared patron saint of the dying and of all hospitals by Pope Leo XIII in 1898.[1]
Order of the Brothers Hospitallers[edit]
John of God's first companion Anton Martin was chosen to succeed him as superior of the order. Thanks to the generosity of King Philip II of Spain, a hospital was founded at Madrid, another at Córdoba, Spain and several others in various Spanish towns. St. Pius V approved the Order of the Brothers Hospitallers in 1572 under the rule of St. Augustine. The order spread rapidly into the other countries of Europe, and even into the distant colonies. In 1584, Pope Gregory XIII called some of the Brothers to Rome and gave them the Hospital of St. John Calybita, which then became the mother-house of the whole order. Brother Sebastiano Arias founded the hospital of Our Lady at Naples and the famous hospital of Milan. Another Brother Hospitaller at this time was John Grande, who was beatified by Pius IX in 1852.[1]
The first hospital of the order in France was founded in Paris, in 1601, by Queen Marie de Medici. In the stormy days of the French Revolution the Brothers were expelled from the forty hospitals where they were caring for 4,125 patients. But since then some large new hospitals have been established. The order is governed by a prior general who resides in Rome.[1]
In addition to these, a hospice of the order has been established at Nazareth. In 1882, a home for demented[clarification needed] men was founded at Stillorgan near Dublin, Ireland. The house at Scorton, North Yorkshire, was founded in 1880 for the reception of male patients suffering from chronic infirmities, paralysis, or old age, supported by charitable contributions and payments for inmates. The Irish postal authority recognised and honoured the contribution to society by the order by issuing a special commemorative postage stamp in 1979 for the order's centenary in Ireland.
The Brothers undergo a special course of training in order to fit them for carrying out their various works of charity to which they devote their life. In some provinces some of them are even graduates in medicine, surgery and chemistry. The members are not in holy orders, but priests wishing to devote their sacred ministry to the Brothers and patients are received. To the three solemn vows of religion they add a fourth, of serving the sick for life in their hospitals.
They assist daily at Mass, meditation, the recital in choir of the office of Our Lady and spiritual reading. The order accepts applications from men between the ages of fifteen and thirty-five. The religious habit is usually given to postulants after three months. The time of novitiate is two years, after which the novice pronounces the vows which, although simple, are perpetual. Three years later, he can be admitted to solemn profession.
The Order has bases in over 40 countries, including a base in Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland, helping people with disabilities in the area. The Order also has many health projects in African countries, such as Malawi, Ghana, Kenya and Sierra Leone.
Sex abuse in New Zealand[edit]
The St. John of God order ran the Maryland's School, which taught pupils with learning difficulties, in Christchurch, New Zealand. Occurrences at the school during the 1970s lead to a high-profile scandal with sexual charges being laid against three members of the order.
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With a growing government and industry need to protect network assets, this Certificate provides the needed background for professionals with programming background to advance their technical skills and be competitive in today's Cybersecurity industry.
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Wednesday, Oct. 21, 1970: Riddles for TailgatersPosted on October 19th, 2005 – 1:13 AM
By Ben Welter
In the fall of 1970, Minneapolis Star columnist Jim Klobuchar and Taste editor Beverly Kees teamed up for a cockamamy feature, "Riddles for Tailgaters." I'm guessing Bev provided the recipe and Jim the riddle – and the colorful prose leading up to it. Readers had to solve a football-related riddle to complete each recipe.
The week after this riddle was published, the Vikings, led by a quarterback who likely made somewhat less than 100 G's a season, beat the Rams 13-3 in Minnesota's first appearance on "Monday Night Football." The only touchdown on the rain-soaked field that night: A 17-yard pass from Gary Cuozzo to Bill Brown.
I'll send a copy of any front page in the Star Tribune archives to the first reader who posts a correct answer to the riddle below. And a hearty pat on the back will go out to the first reader who can identify the imprecision in the riddle.
Recipe Riddle: How many feet in rice casserole?
By JIM KLOBUCHAR and
Minneapolis Star Staff Writers
There are magical properties in the autumn night air next week, tailgaters – the moon, a slot-left formation and the aroma of native wild rice casserole floating above the Cleveland lot at Met Stadium.
|Beverly Kees
They are playing football under the floodlights at the Met Monday night, the Vikings and the Rams, not only as a salute to Minnesota's nocturnal splendor but as a gesture to the American Broadcasting Company, which needs the television revenue.
"For this reason, plus the fact that this is a titanic battle between the cultures of the west coast and the land of Hiawatha," declared Miss Kees, "we have decided to give it our best gastronomic shot in Recipe Riddle."
Said shot is a fiercely traditional Minnesota wild rice casserole filched by Miss Kees from a cookbook called "Favorite Recipes of the Leech Lake Area." It is published by Immanuel Lutheran Altar Guild of Walker, Minn., with various annotated endorsements by gourmets from the local paddies.
It is highly recommended for moonlight tailgating, a practice claimed to have originated at Bemidji, not far from the very heart of the wild rice country.
Thus, the tie-in, according to Miss Kees.
All that remains for you is to complete line four in the recipe, the number of cans of onion soup that will make it come out right. You can do it by correctly answering the riddle:
"How many feet from the goal line is the ball placed after pass interference has been called in the end zone?"
|Jim Klobuchar
You should score on the very next play.
The missing ingredient in Lena's Rolls last week was sugar, the word formed by the first name of the oldtime Bear quarterback, Sid Luckman, the place where Bobby Bell prepped for the pros ("U"); what Joe Kapp makes about 100 of (gs); rhymes with the Dallas speedster (a for Bob Hayes) and rhymes with the Detroit speedster (r for Farr).
1 lb. wild rice
1 small can mushrooms, drained
Salt and pepper to taste
_ (10½-oz.) cans onion soup
1 soup can water
1 cup grated mozzarella or other cheese
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This is a very unique and earthy pesto. You would think it would have a strong flavor but it is in fact very mild. Try it on artisan bread with tomato and cheese, toasted or cold! Yummmm
Recipe - Approx: 3 Cups
- 2 Cups Fresh Sage
- 1 1/2 Cup Toasted Walnuts
- 1 Cup Asiago Cheese
- 1/2 Cup Toasted Walnut Oil or to taste
- 1 – 2 Cloves Garlic
- 2 Tablespoons Fresh Lemon Juice
- 1/2 Teaspoons Sea Salt or to taste
Toasted the walnuts while the walnuts are toasting shred the cheese and pick off the sage leaves then measure and add all ingredients in to a food processor or blender and puree until desired texture
Health Benefits:
Sage helps to enhances concentration, attention span and quickens the senses. Its effects help deal with grief and depression. It is useful for all types of bacterial infections. Helps detoxify and cleanse the blood. The herb reportedly restores color to gray or white hair. It is also high in antioxidants. Sage is exceptionally rich source of several B-complex, it contains a very good amounts of vitamin A, beta-carotene, and C It is a rich sources of minerals like potassium, zinc, calcium, iron, manganese, copper, and magnesium
*Those with epilepsy, high blood pressure, or kidney disease may be adversely affected by the thujone content and should avoid large doses of sage
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Photo of Apremont-sur-Allier at 22 km from Tendron
Tendron is situated in the Cher (Loire Valley region) in the center of France at 33 km from Bourges, the department capital. (General information: Tendron is 211 km from Paris).
Popular places to visit nearby include Nevers at 26 km and La Charite-sur-Loire at 27 km. For more places to visit and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Tendron. Note that all distances shown are 'direct' and real driving distances will be greater.
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Loire Valley (surrounding region)
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Below we show places with official tourist classifications and other places of interest to visit nearby that should provide inspiration if you are visiting Tendron and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the map below.
Heritage sites Abbatiale Notre-Dame de La Charité-sur-Loire (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (27km)
Most beautiful villages in France (see also beautiful French villages) Apremont-sur-Allier (22km)
National Monuments Bourges Cathedral (33km); Palace Jacques Coeur (33km)
Recommended detour towns (fr: plus beau détour) Sancerre (39km); Mehun-sur-Yevre (48km)
Churches or other religious monuments Eglise de Saint Germain (Blet) (11km); Eglise de Saint André (Jussy-Champagne) (13km); Collegiale Saint Etienne (Dun-sur-Auron) (21km); Eglise de Saint Martin (Plaimpied-Givaudins) (27km); Abbaye de La Celle (La Celle) (36km); Abbaye Notre Dame de Noirlac et Saint Etienne Prieuré (Bruere-Allichamps) (38km); Eglise de Saint Martin (Ygrande) (44km); Eglise de Saint Martin (Ineuil) (46km); Eglise de Notre-Dame-du-Pré (Donzy) (48km); Eglise de Saint Georges (Bourbon-l'Archambault) (48km); Eglise de Saint-Georges (Saint-Jeanvrin) (61km)
Remarkable gardens Parc floral d'Apremont (20km); Forgeneuve (29km); Les Prés Fichaux (33km); Arboretum de Balaine (46km); Les jardins artistiques de Drulon (49km)
Protected historical centre (fr: secteur sauvegardé) (see also historical French towns) Bourges (33km)
Sites of natural beauty Foret de Troncais (39km)
Towns of Art and history Nevers (26km)
Listed as villages d'etape - (recommended place to break a long journey) Pougues-les-Eaux (24km)
Villages in bloom 4* (fr: ville fleurie) Saint-Amand-Montrond (37km)
Commune: Tendron
Canton: Nérondes
Arrondissement: Saint-Amand-Montrond
Department: Cher
Region: Loire Valley
Postcode: 18350
from Bourges (prefecture): 33 km
from Paris: 211 km
from Calais: 446 km
from Nice: 504 km
from Bordeaux: 354 km
from Strasbourg: 409 km
Tendron is in the center of France. Most visitors fly into Paris and rent a car or drive from one of the channel ports such as Caen or Le Havre, a drive af about 2-3 hours. For driving distances to Tendron from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
We have 6 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Tendron): Bengy-sur-Craon, Croisy, Flavigny, Ignol, Laverdines and Nerondes.
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Synopsis: As recently as this past spring, Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso (and before him P.M. Koizumi) unleashed an international furor by paying respects at the notorious Yasukuni Shrine. Established in 1869, Yasukuni houses 2.5 million Japanese war dead including WWII "Class A" war criminals, among them General Tojo and others sentenced to death at the Tokyo Trial (Japan's Nuremberg). Visitors to Yasukuni include still-militant Japanese nationalists as well as outraged protesters from China, Taiwan, Korea, and Okinawa. Chinese filmmaker Li Ying doesn't pull his punches. He includes archival images of a "100-man beheading contest" between Japanese officers as well as a fascinating contemporary interview with Kariya Naoji, at 90 years old, the last surviving craftsman of Yasukuni swords, used in these and other atrocities. [Synopsis courtesy of Film Forum]
Round-up: "For a viewer not steeped in Asian history and Japanese politics, Mr. Li's oblique, cinéma vérité approach may be a little confusing at first," writes A.O. Scott in the New York Times. "But the absence of narration... or an expressed directorial point of view is central to the film's achievement, which is to address a passionately contested snarl of issues with a calm, nuanced ethical curiosity. Both the defenders of Japanese imperial glory and the victims of Japanese expansionist barbarism are heard. And while Japanese conservatives were outraged by the film when it was released last year, Mr. Li's patience with their side's view might also cause queasiness among those who wish for more overt expressions of candor, contrition and indignation about Japan's conduct during World War II." "Until its final reel—an angry war montage set to Górecki that tips the movie's hand unnecessarily—this is basically a blackly amusing two hours about the persistence of pathology," observes Vadim Rizov in the Village Voice. "The documentary's cultural impact is lost in translation—Yasukuni initially had trouble getting shown at all in Japan—but the skill of the enterprise isn't." "By courting danger and sparking dialogue Yasukuni might be labeled de facto essential viewing—the kind of film to be commended for its taboo-busting courage—even though the content itself is a mixed bag," writes Reverse Shot's Michael Joshua Rowin. "This is because 'Yasakuni' lives and dies by Ying's penchant for vérité-style in-the-moment drama, which yields material both scintillating and dull." "In the last 20 minutes, at the climax of the film, Li reveals another symbolic meaning of the sword, the shrine, and the emperor, with photos of Japanese soldiers beheading Chinese and Koreans," observes Rica for the Auteurs Notebook. "Li Ying states, 'Christians believe in confessions and re-birth while in Asia pride counts most. In Japan it is the emperor and only it matters.' Living away from Japan myself, whenever I think of Yasukuni I cannot help comparing this phenomenon with Remembrance Day in the U.K. People wear red poppy flowers on their chests to remember soldiers and civilians who died at WWI and II. Each year, the nation takes a bit of a patriotic look that day, but there is no controversy and no one against the reflection. Is it because the U.K. had won the war so they may escape accusations? I don't think so."


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Tomorrow is storm day as the anticipated snow will finally arrive. Expecting light snow as early as tonight but the heaviest snow will be Tuesday, with snow showers lingering through Tuesday night. The forecast still looks good for 6-12 inches for the base, and 12-18 inches on the mountain.
The unsettled pattern is going to continue for the next week but this first storm looks like it will be the strongest. A very weak system will drop down from the North on Thursday and we may only see a few flakes with this one or a dusting. The ridge will be moving closer to the coast keeping the strongest part of the storms into the Pacific NW.
The next system drops down from the North Saturday. This one has some more moisture but the exact track is uncertain as it drops down to our East over Nevada. If the track is far enough West we could pick up several inches of snow. Each of these systems dropping down from the North will reinforce the cold air.
There will be another system dropping down from the North next Tuesday. Right now it looks like another cold and weak system, but the ridge may retrograde enough for it to pick up a bit more moisture. After that the GFS forecast model has another potential system dropping in Thursday and then builds in the ridge off the coast keeping the storms to our North. The Europrean model brings the ridge in by the middle of next week cutting off the storms. We may have another break in the action for week 2 but overall still expecting March to be a much stormier month than January and February. BA


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brettreeme_09 said...
I know you said in the paragraph before the gear that "I didn't list the gear in any particular order, so don't expect the top choice to be the best. Indeed, the best piece will depend on how much mastery you have and thus how close you are to block cap" BUT I was wondering about our Tier set. I have been looking around and some people are saying legs while others are screaming back shoulders. I can see that the expertise on the shoulders is what is turning them off but im not so sure about the legs. Is there actually a clear winner or is it truly a case of the CTC cap?
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Since expertise is a threat stat, and threat is a non-issue anymore, the only reason to use expertise, and hence the tier shoulders, would be for dealing damage. Definitely use the legs, the expertise is almost totally useless, but another ~300 in avoidance stat? Yes please.


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The Interdisciplinary Honors major is available to the exceptional student in good standing who a) has an ACT of 27 or above and a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.5 after 26 Milligan hours (may begin application process after 13 hours), or b) achieves a minimum GPA of 3.8 after 45 Milligan hours (may begin application process after 35 hours). It is intended for the student who desires to pursue a degree especially crafted to address the student's talents and interests, and which is not already an established major within Milligan College. Such a major allows a student to pursue an interest that is most meaningful to the student or to prepare for a specific career requiring a broad range of knowledge.
In addition to meeting the preliminary eligibility requirements as listed above, a student must complete a multi-step process in order to be admitted into the Interdisciplinary Honors major; this process includes the completion of an eligibility check, formation of a faculty oversight committee, development of an Interdisciplinary Honors major proposal, securing of proposal approval by the Academic Committee, and registration for the Interdisciplinary Honors major through the Registrar's Office. A student desiring to pursue the major must meet with the Academic Dean to complete the initial eligibility check and to receive further instructions regarding the application process.
Requirements for the Interdisciplinary Honors major are at least 30 semester hours of course work as identified by the student and the faculty oversight committee.
To earn a bachelor's degree, a student must complete 128 semester hours in courses with course numbers at the 100 level or above. In addition to courses in the major (and minor, if applicable), students must complete the requirements for a bachelor of arts or bachelor of science degree as described on Pages 41-43 of the 2013-14 catalog. The B.A. degree requires foreign language through the intermediate level.
Senior Major Exam
The senior major exam, which is required of all baccalaureate degree-seeking students and evaluates the students in their major fields of study, is administered during the semester in which the student plans to graduate. Students pursuing double majors must complete a major exam in each major. The senior major exam for the Interdisciplinary Honors major is created by the faculty.