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WRX: Doran dropped by JRM
JRM have dropped a bombshell this morning, confirming that they have terminated their 2016 agreement with British driver Liam Doran.
JRM have dropped a bombshell this morning, confirming that they have terminated their 2016 agreement with British driver Liam Doran.
John Button, the 1976 British Rallycross Championship runner-up and father of Formula One star Jenson Button, has passed away on Sunday.
With a 2014 WorldRX/EuroRX round at Franciacorta near Brescia RallycrossRX promoter IMG has announced to bring our motorsport back to Italy, where the town of Gropello-Cairoli hosted a total of four ERC rounds between 1977 and 1980.
After the inaugural race in 1916 the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (PPIHC) was for many a year an all-American affair, till in 1984 saw its first European competitors in "Mister Rallycross" Martin Schanche and "French Volcano" Michèle Mouton.
For more than 30 years some people keep on claiming that the motorsport of Rallycross owes its existence to either a 1963 Rallysprint-type event held at the car parks of Brands Hatch Circuit, or to the outbreak of the foot-and-mouth disease in the UK – or even to both. All nonsense, Rallycross was born at Lydden Hill, already nine months before the 1967 RAC Rally was cancelled due to FMD.
JRM Racing have dropped out of the upcoming World Rallycross of Canada, as they continue their search for a suitable replacement for dropped British driver Liam Doran.
RallySport magazine are reporting that Raleigh International Raceway, near Coffs Harbour in New South Wales, Australia is gearing up for a FIA World Rallycross Championship event.
Three in a row, and a win at home: Sweden's Kevin Hansen continues his domination in the Euro RX – taking victory in Höljes, Sweden. Hansen wins from Fredrik Salsten and Tommy Rustad.
Andreas Bakkerud has won the sixth round of the WRX – the World of Rallycross of Sweden, his second consecutive win and both of this season's Scandinavian events. The Hoonigan Racing driver takes the round from teammates Loeb and Hansen.
The two young Swedish drivers continue to lead in Höljes, holding on to their TQ classifictions despite challenges from their WRX and ERX counterparts.
Sweden's Johan Kristoffersson is top qualifier for the WRX, with Kevin Hansen fastest in the ERX on day one in Höljes.
World Rallycross of Sweden is underway in Höljes. The sixth round of the WRX is also accompanied by Euro RX, TouringCar, S1600 and RX Lites.
Höljes in Sweden gets set to hold round six of what has become the most prestigious Rallycross event in the entire championship.
Two days, two rounds: The fourth and fifth rounds of the 2016 Global Rallycross Championship have been won by Steve Arpin and Tanner Foust.


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Released: Aug 21st, 2007
Running Time: 120
Director: Tanya Hyde
Companies: Harmony Films, Evil Angel
Cast: Sahara Knite, Suzie Best, Renee Richards, Taylor Morgan, Lolly Badcock, Natalie Heck, James (I), Pete Le Meat, Michelle B, Elizabeth Lawrence, Ben Kelly, Danny Boy
Critical Rating: AAA 1/2
Genre: Specialty
Despite its fascistic fashions and blistering mix of industrial noise and techno beats, this release just isn't very kinky. Subservient "pony boys" only conjure up images of the Village People; while the video's use of bondage is strictly by the numbers.
Things do get interesting when a group of women urinate while suspended in individual cages. Unfortunately, there aren't many moments like this.
However, the title's attractive cast should keep fetish enthusiasts interested.
Retailing: For the fetish novice.

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What is the Fall Product Sales Program?
The Fall Product Sale Program is a way for your troop to help support your council and to earn start-up funds by offering quality products to your customers. It's easy, it's fun!
Click here for a fun video about this year's Fall Product Sales Program.
Ways to participate:
Part 1: Collect orders and money for:
- Hundreds of magazines, both print and digital
- Candy and nuts in pop top cans, collectible tins and bags
- Catalogues and order forms are provided in girl order materials
- Troop earns 10% of gross sales
Part 2: Send emails and generate online orders:
- Send 12 or more emails to friends and family, giving them a chance to order magazines, nuts and candy
- Payment is made by the customer when the order is placed online--no money to collect!
- Customers have access to order additional candy/nut items not listed on the girl's order card
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©2012-2016 kirstenmarquisart
its not finished but i dont think ill ever have enough motivation to finish it so i decided to post anyways. hopes you like it ^_^
wicked neku pic^^
Wow, this is amazing! I'm glad I inspired you
OMG Nekuuu!!! Great job!! I really love it *-*!!!
really? even though its not totally completed? thank you so much
You did an awesome job with them
Neku <3
Neku <3
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NIce XDDDDD
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Those headphones are the shiz. Love it!
wow! I got the Sudo Neku as my special dream eater I was sooooooo happy! amazing drawing BTW love it! *instafaves*
He rocks.
just wow that's amazing, really amazing *-*
ooohh, I like this.
beautiful as always i love his expression and the softness that these colors have
whoo! gotta love colored pencils they always look better on the computer than in real life
That's amazing 8D
Oh... That boy is so cuuuute
As always, awesome work!
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Escape the Winter Chill with Free Rooms and Added Amenities at Peninsula Hotels
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Density- and trait-mediated top–down effects modify bottom–up control of a highly endemic tropical aquatic food web
Version of Record online: 2 OCT 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20696.x
© 2012 The Authors
Volume 122, Issue 5, pages 790–800, May 2013
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How to Cite
Dalton, C. M., Mokiao-Lee, A., Sakihara, T. S., Weber, M. G., Roco, C. A., Han, Z., Dudley, B., MacKenzie, R. A. and Hairston, N. G. (2013), Density- and trait-mediated top–down effects modify bottom–up control of a highly endemic tropical aquatic food web. Oikos, 122: 790–800. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20696.x
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- Version of Record online: 2 OCT 2012
- Paper manuscript accepted 28 June 2012
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Benthic invertebrates mediate bottom–up and top–down influences in aquatic food webs, and changes in the abundance or traits of invertebrates can alter the strength of top–down effects. Studies assessing the role of invertebrate abundance and behavior as controls on food web structure are rare at the whole ecosystem scale. Here we use a comparative approach to investigate bottom–up and top–down influences on whole anchialine pond ecosystems in coastal Hawai'i. In these ponds, a single species of endemic atyid shrimp (Halocaridina rubra) is believed to structure epilithon communities. Many Hawaiian anchialine ponds and their endemic fauna, however, have been greatly altered by bottom–up (increased nutrient enrichment) and top–down (introduced fish predators) disturbances from human development. We present the results of a survey of dissolved nutrient concentrations, epilithon biomass and composition, and H. rubra abundance and behavior in anchialine ponds with and without invasive predatory fish along a nutrient concentration gradient on the North Kona coast of Hawai'i. We use linear models to assess 1) the effects of nutrient loading and fish introductions on pond food web structure and 2) the role of shrimp density and behavior in effecting that change. We find evidence for bottom–up food web control, in that nutrients were associated with increased epilithon biomass, autotrophy and nutrient content as well as increased abundance and size of H. rubra. We also find evidence for top–down control, as ponds with invasive predatory fish had higher epilithon biomass, productivity, and nutrient content. Top–down effects were transmitted by both altered H. rubra abundance, which changed the biomass of epilithon, and H. rubra behavior, which changed the composition of the epilithon. Our study extends experimental findings on bottom–up and top–down control to the whole ecosystem scale and finds evidence for qualitatively different effects of trait- and density-mediated change in top–down influences.


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What is docker?
Docker remains a special tool designed to make it simpler to deploy, create, and run applications by making use containers.
With containers, it can be easy for a developer to package up applications having all parts required, such as dependencies, libraries, and ship. With the help of the container, it is important to know that the application will operate on any other Linux machines irrespective of any personalized settings. Docker can as well be similar to a virtual machine. Docker allows applications to make use of the same Linux Kernel as the system unlike a virtual machine, instead of creating a whole operating unit.
It requires applications to be shipped with items not already operating on the host PC. It reduces the size of the application and gives a significant performance boost. One important thing to understand is that docker remains an open source. It implies that anyone available can contribute to docker. You can extend it to suit your needs and if extra features are required that aren't available out of the box, then make a contribution. Docker remains a tool designed to benefit both system administrators and developers. On this note, it makes docker an aspect of many DevOps toolchains.
In the case of a developer, it simply means that you can concentrate on writing code without bothering of the system. It will help make developers to get a head start quickly. This will be done by making use of several programs already created to operate in a docker container as an aspect of the application. Docker gives flexibility for operations staff and typically minimizes the number of systems required because of its lower overhead and small footprint. On docker hosting platforms, you have the opportunity of performing certain important functions. Docker hosting services can professionally create of build effective systems.
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I understand that MySQL Corp is distancing itself from providing easy access to its source code, preferring to position it as value-added material for paying customers. At the same time the opensource Community Server project at MySQL has been languishing. All this at a time when MySQL is preparing for an IPO. See:
One of the precursor requirements for WordPress is MySQL. Doing a search on Postgres, for example, yield only two posts in the forum, neither of which actually has anything to do with Postgres. That's not to say that someone isn't using Postgres with WordPress, but only that there isn't any documentation to prove an assertion, or to assist using Postgres (or some other open source data base).
I'm not saying that the Linux community has been lead down the garden path by MySQL, but is it not time to put a *fully* open source database like Postgres on an equal footing, for WordPress, as MySQL? Before it is too late?
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In his review of David Burkus' new book, Under New Management, Philip Foster discovers a way to "redesign the factory."
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Cap Watkins, VP of Design at Buzzfeed, asks an important question: Why don't we treat our organizations like we treat our products?
Richard Wyles explains how open source companies can make money, thrive, and truly compete with their proprietary counterparts.
Engineers know that there's much more to a successful software project than meets the eye. Refactoring and testing are as important as functionality when it comes to managing the complexity of programs that inevitably evolve over time. But when deadlines get tight, the management tends to focus on... Read more
Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst distinguishes holocracy and meritocracy—and says middle management still have a critical role to play in open organizations.
Red Hat intern and MBA student Nate Woodward traces a history of organizational forms and argues that open organizations might finally help us shed our Fordist habits.
Nicole Engard reports on an OSCON talk by Amye Scavarda and Leslie Hawthorn, who offer advice on the proper way to fail at work.
Brian Fielkow had the opportunity to speak with Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat CEO and author of The Open Organization, about his book.
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New $30M ARPA-E program to produce renewable liquid fuels from renewable energy, air and water
April 26, 2016
The US Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced up to $30 million in funding for a new program for technologies that use renewable energy to convert air and water into cost-competitive liquid fuels. (DE-FOA-0001562)
ARPA-E's Renewable Energy to Fuels through Utilization of Energy-dense Liquids (REFUEL) program seeks to develop technologies that use renewable energy to convert air and water into Carbon Neutral Liquid Fuels (CNLF). The program is focused in two areas: (1) the synthesis of CNLFs using intermittent renewable energy sources and water and air (N2 and CO2) as the only chemical input streams; and (2) the conversion of CNLFs delivered to the end point to another form of energy (e.g. hydrogen or electricity).
ARPA-E issues $30M NEXTCAR program funding opportunity; 20% reduction in energy consumption beyond current regulatory requirements
April 12, 2016
The Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) has issued a $30-million funding opportunity (DE-FOA-0001564) for the Next-Generation Energy Technologies for Connected and Automated On-Road Vehicles (NEXTCAR) program. (Earlier post.)
NEXTCAR seeks to fund the development of new and emerging vehicle dynamic and powertrain (VD&PT) control technologies that can reduce the energy consumption of future vehicles—light-, medium- and heavy-duty—through the use of connectivity and vehicle automation. The new program is seeking transformative technological solutions that will enable at least an additional 20% reduction in the energy consumption of future connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), compared to vehicles without these VD&PT control technologies. I.e., the NEXTCAR improvements are in addition to and beyond any currently expected future vehicle fleet fuel efficiency improvements that will be required or driven by Federal or State regulations.
UTRC and ANGP unveil first low-pressure conformable natural gas tank design
March 02, 2016
Adsorbed Natural Gas Products, Inc. (ANGP), a pioneer in the commercialization of adsorbed natural gas (ANG) vehicle technology, and United Technologies Research Center (UTRC), the innovation engine of United Technologies Corp., unveiled a full-scale mockup of UTRC's conformable fuel tank for ANG vehicles. (Earlier post.)
UTRC and ANGP held the unveiling at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) Energy Innovation Summit.
ARPA-E to award $30M to increase performance of solid ion conductors for batteries, fuel cells
February 27, 2016
The US Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) will award up to $30 million in funding for a new program focused on creating innovative components for the next generation of batteries, fuel cells, and other electrochemical devices.
ARPA-E's Integration and Optimization of Novel Ion Conducting Solids (IONICS) program (DE-FOA-0001478) seeks to create transformational electrochemical cells by creating components built with solid ion conductors that have a wide range of desirable properties including low ionic area-specific resistance (ASR); high chemical and electrochemical stability; high selectivity; good mechanical properties; etc. through innovative approaches to overcome tradeoffs among coupled properties.
ARPA-E issues RFI on energy efficiency optimization for connected and automated vehicles; vehicle dynamic and powertrain control
January 05, 2016
The Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) has issued a request for information (DE-FOA-0001473) seeking input from researchers and developers in a broad range of disciplines including automotive vehicle control, powertrain control and transportation analytics regarding the development of advanced energy efficiency optimization technologies for future connected and automated vehicles (CAVs).
ARPA-E is interested in new and emerging full vehicle and powertrain control technologies that can reduce the energy use associated with automotive transportation, beyond those technologies currently expected to be deployed in future vehicles. The focus of the RFI is on the potential improvement in the energy efficiency of each individual vehicle in the automotive fleet through the improvement of powertrain control and vehicle dynamic control, by utilizing emerging technologies and strategies in sensing, communications, information, control and automation.
USPTO awards patent to UMD team for process to make gasoline through fermentation; electrofuels
December 22, 2015
The US Patent and Trademark Office issued patent Nº 9,217,161 for a process using naturally occurring microorganisms to ferment biomass or gases directly to hydrocarbons such as hexane and octane. The fuels separate and rise to the surface of the fermentation broth, and are exactly the same as current components of gasoline.
The inventors are Professor Richard Kohn and Faculty Research Associate Dr. Seon-Woo Kim from the University of Maryland (UMD). The team was awarded a separate patent earlier this year (9,193,979) for ethanol-tolerant microorganisms that convert cellulosic biomass to ethanol. (Earlier post.) Both processes were developed based on their theory, described in in a paper published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology, that fermentation systems drive toward thermodynamic equilibrium.
Achates OPGCI project targeting 50% fuel efficiency gains over downsized GDI engine at reduced cost
December 17, 2015
Achates Power will work with Delphi Automotive and Argonne National Laboratory on its ARPA-E-funded project to develop an innovative opposed-piston, gasoline compression ignition (OPGCI) engine. (Earlier post.) The engine should yield fuel efficiency gains of more than 50% compared to a downsized, turbo-charged gasoline direct injection engine, while reducing the overall cost of the powertrain system, said Fabien Redon, Vice President, Technology Development at Achates Power.
ARPA-E will provide initial funding of $9 million to this project over three years; Achates Power, Argonne and Delphi expect to spend a total of $13 million on the program, including cost share. The $9-million award is "one of the largest single ARPA-E awards ever made," noted Chris Atkinson, the ARPA-E program manager for the Achates project.
Iowa State/Ames Lab researcher receives $3M from ARPA-E for solid-state sodium battery
December 10, 2015
The Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) has awarded $3 million from its 2015 OPEN funding to a project to develop an all-solid-state sodium battery. Led by Steve W. Martin, an Anson Marston Distinguished Professor in materials science and engineering and an associate of the US Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, and his research team at Iowa State University, the project's collaborators include colleagues at the University of Houston; the University of Colorado, Washington State University; and Solid Power Inc.
The proposed Na battery operates at room temperature, uses a benign and scalable solid-stack design for a long cycle life and expects to achieve a 20% improvement in energy density over state-of-the-art lithium-ion cells.
ARPA-E awards $6.6M to two projects for electrolytes for solid-state batteries for EVs
December 01, 2015
As part of the $125 million awarded to 41 projects under its 2015 OPEN funding (earlier post), ARPA-E has selected two projects developing manufacturing techniques for ceramic electrolytes for solid-state EV batteries for awards of a combined $6.6 million. Of that, $3.5 million will go to a consortium led by the University of Michigan, and $3.1 million will go to Corning Incorporated.
Solid-state Li batteries could double the energy density of today's Li-ion cells and also eliminate the use of conventional flammable electrolytes, increasing abuse tolerance and reducing the need for battery thermal management systems. ARPA-E has already funded a number of solid-state battery projects (e.g., earlier post). Solid-state batteries face conductivity challenges, however.
ARPA-E awards U-M $1.9M to develop advanced low-cost high-efficiency engine; boosting, highly dilute combustion and 48V system
The US Department of Energy's (DOE's) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award approximately $1.9 million to a project to develop a high-efficiency engine system that integrates a compact micro-hybrid configuration of a supercharger with an electric waste heat recovery system and employs high rates of recirculated exhaust gases.
When combined with a sophisticated control strategy, this approach provides a solution for suboptimal engine breathing that is typical of transient engine operation. The performance is projected to match that of a naturally aspirated engine and have a 20% increase in fuel efficiency compared to a turbocharged downsized engine, at a cost that is half that of a mild-hybrid system.
ARPA-E awards $2.1M to Marine BioEnergy for open ocean farming of kelp for hydrocarbon biofuels
November 25, 2015
Marine BioEnergy, Inc. was awarded $2.1 million in funding from the US Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) under the agency's OPEN 2015 solicitation (earlier post). The funding will be used to research and develop open ocean farming of kelp as a biomass feedstock. The kelp will be processed into biocrude and further to hydrocarbons ready for commercial refineries.
Our collaborators in this effort include a team led by Professor James J. Leichter at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, and a team led by Douglas C. Elliott at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington.
Achates Power wins $9M from ARPA-E to develop gasoline compression ignition medium-duty multi-cylinder opposed-piston engine
November 24, 2015
Achates Power, the developer of a family of two-stroke compression-ignition opposed-piston engines (earlier post), has been selected by APRA-E under its OPEN 2015 solicitation (earlier post) for an award of more than $9 million to develop a multi-cylinder opposed piston engine operating with compression ignition that uses gasoline as the fuel.
The unthrottled nature of the compression ignition process provides high engine efficiency while achieving compliant exhaust emissions with conventional, low-cost aftertreatment. This—in addition to the opposed engine architecture—could increase fuel efficiency by 40-50% over the comparable spark-ignited gasoline engine, Achates said.
EERC working with Fuel Cell Energy on $3.5M ARPA-E project for electrochemical cell to convert natural gas to methanol
August 29, 2015
The University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) is working with FuelCell Energy, Inc., an integrated stationary fuel cell manufacturer, to develop a durable, low-cost, and high-performance electrochemical cell to convert natural gas and other methane-rich gas into methanol, a major chemical commodity with worldwide applications in the production of liquid fuels, solvents, resins, and polymers.
The US Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) awarded $3,500,000 to the project, led by Fuel Cell Energy, as part of its REBELS (Reliable Electricity Based on ELectrochemical Systems) program. (Earlier post.) The project is directed at developing an intermediate-temperature fuel cell that would directly convert methane to methanol and other liquid fuels using advanced metal catalysts.
ARPA-E to award $14.5M to 5 projects to reduce energy use for transportation
July 31, 2015
The Energy Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced $14.5 million in funding for five projects in ARPA-E's newest program, the Traveler Response Architecture using Novel Signaling for Network Efficiency in Transportation (TRANSNET).
Many travelers' and commuters' transportation choices waste significant amounts of energy due to traffic complications, convenience and variability in transportation styles and preferences. Even when presented with travel options that consume less energy, travelers and commuters may be less likely to use these energy-efficient options if they affect the duration, cost or convenience of a trip. TRANSNET systems will identify less energy-intense travel options for users using software accessible on smartphones or other communications devices and provide the most efficient transportation choices for travelers and commuters.
ARPA-E awards $55M to 18 projects in two new programs: TERRA for transportation energy and GENSETS for distributed generation
June 19, 2015
The Energy Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced $55 million in funding for 18 innovative projects as part of ARPA-E's two newest programs: Transportation Energy Resources from Renewable Agriculture (TERRA) and GENerators for Small Electrical and Thermal Systems (GENSETS).
The six TERRA projects will receive a total of $30 million to accelerate energy crop development for the production of renewable transportation fuels from biomass and the 12 GENSETS projects are aimed at developing generator technologies that will improve efficiencies in residential Combined Heat and Power (CHP) generation.
ARPA-E awarding $60M to 23 projects; dry cooling and fusion power
May 15, 2015
The Energy Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) will award $60 million in funding to 23 new projects aimed at creating highly efficient and scalable dry-cooling technologies for thermoelectric power plants and developing prototype technologies to explore new pathways for fusion power.
The projects are funded through ARPA-E's two newest programs, Advanced Research In Dry cooling (ARID) and Accelerating Low-cost Plasma Heating and Assembly (ALPHA), which both seek to develop low-cost technology solutions. These projects have been selected for negotiation of awards; final award amounts may vary.
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HRL Labs video demonstrates principle of thermal battery based on advanced metal hydrides for EV heating and cooling
April 30, 2015
In 2011, the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) awarded $2.7 million to a team comprising researchers from the University of Utah, HRL Laboratories and GM Global R&D for a project to develop a new generation of high-density thermal battery based on advanced metal hydrides. (Earlier post.) The goal of the project, part of ARPA-E's HEATS (High Energy Advanced Thermal Storage) portfolio, was to develop a compact thermal battery for climate control in electric vehicles. Such a thermal battery would provide heating and cooling without draining the electric battery, in effect, extending the driving range of EVs per electric charge.
As described in a paper in press in the Journal of Alloys and Compounds, the developed system uses a pair of thermodynamically matched metal hydrides as energy storage media: (1) catalyzed MgH2 as the high temperature hydride material, due to its high energy density and enhanced kinetics; and (2) TiV0.62Mn1.5 alloy as the matching low temperature hydride. HRL has now released a video demonstrating the principle behind the work on thermal battery technology.


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VOORHEES, N.J. -- The Philadelphia Flyers will be fine if they keep winning at home.
After losing two straight in Toronto, the Flyers are back in their building Sunday for Game 5 of their best-of-seven, second-round playoff series. Though the Maple Leafs have momentum, the Flyers still have home-ice advantage.
"It's our job to really take the momentum and turn it around
the other way," Flyers coach Ken Hitchcock said. "This is a
best-of-three series now and we've got two games at home. If we
take care of business at home then we're going to win the series."
The Leafs realize they won't advance unless they find a way to
win in Philadelphia.
"We've just got to go in and take it like it doesn't matter
where we're playing the game," Leafs forward Darcy Tucker said.
"It's just a sheet of ice with boards and glass."
Toronto outscored Philadelphia 7-2 in its two victories, and
killed five of six power plays. While the Leafs are getting goals
from Mats Sundin and Alexander Mogilny, the Flyers' top players
have been shut out.
Jeremy Roenick hasn't scored in the series and John LeClair and Michal Handzus don't have any goals in the playoffs.
"Your best players have to be your best players," Hitchcock
The rejuvenated Leafs could get even more help if center Joe Nieuwendyk returns Sunday. Nieuwendyk, who has missed three
straight games with what is believed to be a back problem,
participated in an optional skate Saturday morning.
"I feel pretty good," said Nieuwendyk, who has five playoff
goals. "It'll be a game-time decision."
Sundin has turned the series around since returning from a leg
injury for Game 2. He scored twice and was the most dominant player
on the ice in Friday night's 3-1 victory. In Philadelphia,
Hitchcock gets the last line change so he'll be able to match Keith Primeau, one of best defensive centers in the NHL, against Sundin.
"It's a real challenge," Primeau said of going against Sundin.
"He's most dangerous when you give him open space. He's a big man,
but he skates well. You have to contain him. I'll play him
physical. I won't change my approach. I'm not going to start
chasing him."
The Flyers not only have home-ice advantage, they have odds in their favor. Philadelphia is 16-0 when winning the first two games
in a best-of-seven series.
"We have to play our most complete game," Hitchcock said. "We are not going to get away playing 30 or 40 minutes of really good hockey. We have to play 60."
The Leafs started having success when they began looking to make more plays on offense rather than relying on strong defense. The
pivotal goal in the series came when Sundin intercepted a pass in
his own zone and sent a crisp pass to a streaking Mogilny for a
breakaway goal in Game 3.
"You can't win solely playing defense," Leafs coach Pat Quinn
said. "When you do get the puck, you have to try to do something.
That's the difference I think in the past couple of nights here,
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One of some shots I took from either side of the wall that now runs across the Ptolemaion, a monument built in memory of Ptolemy I in the 3rd century BC. The metops are in the Antalya Museum, see my gallery.
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Loans for land???
My wife & I have a 2006 mobile home. Have considered selling. We r set up in a nice park out in the country but We're unsure if we can sell to come out even. So, we r debating on purchasing Land. It would be on my credit. I've had past problems but my scores are back up to 640s+... no lates for over a year & that is from a creditor from 2007. Everything is paid off. 2 inst loans and cc in great standing. My question is.... Is there a program for land loans? Also, if I need to run electric, water to site? Just trying to weigh my options bc I'm concerned about not Selling home for what I owe, so considering moving to my own land & build a home in future Ty
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Well, the CD has arrived (the CD of the 1841 census for Ottery St Mary). I can hardly wait to begin to transcribe it for FreeCEN. Wait - I can wait. Or at least, I know I should wait. Because once I dive into it, I will need hours and hours because I will become so fascinated with the process (and the census itself), and the evenings after a hard day's work just won't suffice.
So I will grit my teeth and think hard about something else, and leave the 1841 census until the weekend.
I listened to a Legacy webinar tonight. Next week is the second part of a series of 'Blogging for Beginners' by DEARMyrtle (or is she DearMYRTLE?). Legacy have kindly put the first part (which I missed) back into their viewable webinar archives, which has prompted me to come here.
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Published: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 at 11:09 a.m.
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HOUMA -- A drainage project is finally under way in east Houma, and it will cause some road closures.
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Current and upcoming road closures in east Houma:
105 Merrill St. to 122 Merrill St., Aug. 7 to Sept. 26.
South Van Avenue, from Splash Car Wash to 159 South Van Ave., Sept. 23-24.
147 Agnes St. to 163 Agnes St., Sept. 27 to Oct. 11.
124 Cleveland St. to 159 Cleveland St., Oct. 16 to Nov. 6.
Cleveland Street residents said they hope drivers are patient with the temporary road conditions.
Dennis Olivier, a lifelong Cleveland Street resident, said he and other residents have been waiting 30 years for better drainage.
"Its been a long, long battle," Olivier said. "Unfortunately, its going to tie up traffic. I hate to see that. But, as you know, the wheels of the government are slow."
In all, four roads will be closed, at staggered times, so workers can place underground drainage pipes in Oliviers neighborhood. The streets are nestled in the western corner of Grand Caillou Road and South Van Avenue.
The Cleveland-Agnes Street drainage project closed Merrill Street near East Tunnel Boulevard Aug. 7. That portion will be closed until Sept. 26.
The next road to close is South Van Avenue, from Splash Car Wash near Grand Caillou Road to 159 South Van Ave. That will be closed for two days, starting Sunday.
Then, on Sept. 27, Agnes Street will close for three weeks, from 147 to 163 Agnes Street. Finally, Cleveland Street will close for three weeks, starting Oct. 16, from 124 to 159 Cleveland Street.
All the road closures will have detour signs to help drivers maneuver around the construction, said Al Levron, parish director of public works. And the construction areas are small enough to easily bypass.
The work is basically lining Bayou Grand Caillou with concrete pipes. The bayou runs through the neighborhood and has caused serious flooding for the past 30 or so years, residents said.
Unlike the scenic, meandering bayous in lower parts of the parish, Bayou Grand Caillou is actually a ditch in the neighborhood and is part of a larger system with a pump station in Ashland.
"It doesnt have the features of a natural bayou," Levron said. "For one, we pump it."
Before the project started, Bayou Grand Caillou was an open ditch at some parts and a covered pipe system at others. Now, the bayou will flow through large underground pipes beneath the neighborhood. No more ditches.
The project moved forward in December thanks to nearly $900,000 in state money. While the state pays 90 percent of the construction costs through a flood-control grant program, taxpayers in Terrebonne are paying for the other 10 percent, roughly $100,000.
In May, the parish hired Phylway Construction to do the work. After the pipes are laid, the company will also resurface the portions of the roads it digs up.
No homes are impacted by the proj-ects design, Levron said.
The drainage problems started back in the 1960s and 1970s, said Olivier and his brother Gillis Olivier, who also grew up and still lives on Cleveland Street. Thats when the bayou became part of a system that uses pumps for drainage.
Since then, any time theres a significant amount of rain, the neighborhood sees it in its yards and streets, the brothers said.
"And it doesnt have to be a torrential rain for that boy to get water in his house," Dennis said about Gillis home.
In 2004, after Tropical Storm Isidore brought 14 inches into Gillis house, he wrote a letter. He then handed it to the Parish Council to read aloud at a meeting. The rest is history -- the council began its efforts to secure money, surveys and designs for the project.
Gillis said he hasnt fully repaired his floors because the house continues to flood. So hes ready for the project and happy to see it under way, he said.
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In the Spaminator config page click the "Get Regexs" button, and you'll get the latest info from my site, that you can then copy & paste into the Spaminator's regex boxes.
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Within the next-to-leading order perturbative QCD description of hard scatterings and using a 2+1 dimension ideal hydrodynamic model, we have studied the effect of initial state fluctuations on jet energy loss in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We find that a jet loses slightly more energy in the expanding quark-gluon plasma if the latter is described by the hydrodynamic evolution with fluctuating initial conditions compared to the case with smooth initial conditions. A detailed analysis indicates that this is mainly due to the positive correlation between the fluctuation in the production probability of parton jets from initial nucleon-nucleon hard collisions and the fluctuation in the medium density along the path traversed by the jet. This effect is larger in non-central than in central relativistic heavy ion collisions and also for a linear than a quadratic dependence of jet energy loss on its path length in the medium.
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Toy Story: Mysterious Stranger #1
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Uncanny X-Men #511
Matt Fraction's X-Men is about humanity moreso than mutancy. And the characters shine through.
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The subfeat – er, uh, the "Second Features" start here, with the Jaime Reyes Blue Beetle sharing staples with the man who helped him get started, Booster Gold. Booster, however, is a little busy confronting the cowl.
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Anna Mercury 2 #1
Anna Mercury is back and ready to head off to a new constellation world that's contacted ours. Are they friendly or do they need to be dealt with? Well, read on and find out!
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JSA vs. Kobra #1
In this first of six issues, Kobra returns with an attack on the JSA – on their front porch! The JSA, of course don't take kindly to that.
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St. Aubin continues to do fine work as a replacement for Andy Clarke, and if you want space opera superheroes, this comic may be for you.
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Flash: Rebirth #3
Geoff Johns's Flash sci-fi epic feels a bit out of step, but the ambition is impressive
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Batman #687
An epilogue to "Battle for the Cowl" might not have been so bad, had "Batman & Robin" #1 not already been released. Instead, it just feels like a step backwards.
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Red Robin #1
"Red Robin" is off to an uneven start right out of the gate, but there's certainly potential in its destination.
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Wolverine #74
Not-quite-but-almost-final issue that concludes the two stories began in #73. Some good work here from current Wolverine writers Daniel Way and Jason Aaron with fantastic art by Tommy Lee Edwards and former "Wolverine" artist Adam Kubert.
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The beginning of this mini-series with a zero issue that's half the price and sets up the concept well.
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War of Kings: Savage World of Skaar #1
The "War of Kings" continues to rage across the Marvel Universe, touching down upon Sakaar and crossing paths with Skaar.
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Buck Rogers #1
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Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers #2
"Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers" is thoroughly silly, but in a nice and cute way.
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Beta Ray Bill: Godhunter #1
Beta Ray Bill sets out to find – and slay – Galactus.
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Sherlock Holmes #2
Is Holmes guilty of murder? It sure looks like it. But, it will be a few more issues until we find out the truth and the plot crawls towards that resolution rather than running.
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Right before No Doubt graced the stage in L.A. the band sat down to talk about the downside of sharing a dressing room. Especially when one of the members isn't feeling so fresh.
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During an exclusive interview following their triumphant performance at this year's KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas show, the members of breakout indie pop band fun. reflected on their enormously successful year, and the resulting fallout from […]
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Brandon Flowers of the Killers reflects on the enduring effect of hometown Las Vegas, Nevada, on the band's music, rapping a line from hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur in the process.
"Some people think it's the Neon Trees commercial, like we just have our own commercial these days that just airs during football games."
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Project Payphone
The Idea
There has been much talk of hooking up a payphone to a cheap VoIP account and allowing free use of it as a Noisebridge public service. A popular idea is to put said payphone outside of 83C for public use. Some of us have expressed grave concerns that this will be too much of a liability and quickly result in us no longer having said payphone. Expect bickering over the issue.
The Phone
An awesome old red payphone was serendipitously discovered abandoned on Grand Avenue in Oakland. Our local hero picked it up and brought it to the space.
We got it open to discover the following:
- The date of manufacture seems to be a very scribbly Aug. 1988.
- It is completely missing the coin counting and collecting mechanism.
- The keypad and hang-up switch look intact. The metal buttons on the outside actually just press against a standard little plastic keypad on the inside.
- The headset is not connected to anything, but terminates in four red, black, green and yellow wires that can be hooked up to a standard RJ11 (normal phone jack) connector.
- Out of the keypad/hang-up switch part there is a DB15 connector, equally hooked up to nothing. The assumption is that both this and the headset were connected to the coin counting mechanism which was the brains of the operation.
- We'll likely need to gut another phone for some missing parts, but how much surgery is needed will depend on what that DB15 connector can do for us. For that, we need someone to find a schematic for the pins, or someone who is a master reverse-engineer. If that's you, get to work!
Well, Seth is a master reverse-engineer, and Steen is an old school phreaker, so one long night spent on this later:
- We decoded the standard schema for DTMF that seems to apply at least to both the gutted landline phone and the payphone internals, and determined the pinouts for both the relevant bits. It turns out, a button on the keypad doesn't simply close a circuit to make a pin hot, it activates two pins, which then correspond to inputs on the DTMF encoder chip. In other words, Dual-Tone doesn't just mean the tones that are output, it also applies to the signals inside the phone circutry. Neat! So now we can connect the output pins from the payphone keypad to the DTMF inputs on the landline guts. Seth is (I think) planning on bringing in a db15 breakout box in order to manifest this. Please no one break it further before we get a chance to do so.
- We figured out the order of wires for the headset to operate, corresponding to the (somewhat arbitrary) aligator clip => rj11 cable we made for the purpose. We got this to connect to the guts of a functioning landline phone, and got a dialtone from the VoIP box, as well as a functioning mic. This mapping is complicated to format on the wiki, it's written on the inside of the old headset in sharpie. That counts as documentation.
I actually took more pictures but I strangely had a "Memory Card Error" (GRR!) and these were the two I recovered.
Post more if you got 'em.
Miloh's further adventures of Payphone hacking
I got another payphone working that was parted out. Its still missing some parts, but I got a dial tone. I have it hooked up to the Linksys internet phone adapter, and even though there's no registered voip account, I can make toll free calls.. I can tell the board is programmed because it has odd pricings for different local calls I attempt to make, most calls are at least .75 a minute :) The DTMF sounds drop in pitch a little bit if you hold the keys for awhile, sounds really nifty. Is it dragging the PSU down with too much draw??
A guy on Instructables says there are three types of control boards. I think I'm going to have to take it out of the sheet metal chassis to identify which board I have.
I got a nice Keypad/Hookswitch Assy. to Red/Black/White/White payphone handset wiring diagram at [www.porticus.org/bell/images/payphonehandsetwiring.jpg porticus.org]
An Elcotel board type user manual: Series5Manual.pdf
Page 15 of this pdf has a great exploded view for payphones Page 16 has parts listing, and old school pricing...
Aside from making the first stage of this phone work for my friend's art installation, I haven't decided on the final goal for this project... hmmm a portable payphone/ frame pack running off a burner sim might be interesting...


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