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(CNN) — Though no longer a hurricane, "post-tropical" superstorm Sandy packed a hurricane-sized punch as it slammed into the Jersey Shore on Monday, killing at least 10 people from West Virginia to North Carolina and Connecticut.
Sandy whipped torrents of water over the streets of Atlantic City, stretching for blocks inland and ripping up part of the vacation spot's fabled boardwalk. The storm surge set records in Lower Manhattan, where flooded substations caused a widespread power outage. It swamped beachfronts on both sides of Long Island Sound and delivered hurricane-force winds from Virginia to Cape Cod as it came ashore.
The storm hit near Atlantic City about 8 p.m. ET, the National Hurricane Center reported. It packed 80-mph winds at landfall, down from the 90 mph clocked earlier Monday.
"I've been down here for about 16 years, and it's shocking what I'm looking at now. It's unbelievable," said Montgomery Dahm, owner of the Tun Tavern in Atlantic City, which stayed open as Sandy neared the Jersey Shore. "I mean, there's cars that are just completely underwater in some of the places I would never believe that there would be water."
Dahm's family cleared out of Atlantic City before the storm hit, but he says he stayed put to serve emergency personnel. At nightfall Monday, he said the water was lapping at the steps of his restaurant, where a generator was keeping the lights on.
The storm had already knocked down power lines and tree limbs while still 50 miles offshore and washed out a section of the boardwalk on the north end of town, Atlantic City Mayor Lorenzo Langford told CNN. He said there were still "too many people" who didn't heed instructions to evacuate, and he urged anyone still in town to "hunker down and try to wait this thing out."
"When Mother Nature sends her wrath your way, we're at her mercy, and so all we can do is stay prayerful and do the best that we can," Langford said.
And in Seaside Heights, about 30 miles north of Atlantic City, Police Chief Thomas Boyd told CNN, "The whole north side of my town is totally under water."
In New York, lower Manhattan's Battery Park recorded nearly 14-foot tide, smashing a record set by 1960's Hurricane Donna by more than 3 feet. The city had already halted service on its bus and train lines, closing schools and ordering about 400,000 people out of their homes in low-lying areas of Manhattan and elsewhere.
Flooding forced the closure of all three of the major airports in the area, LaGuardia, John F. Kennedy and Newark Liberty. Water seeped into subway stations in Lower Manhattan and into the tunnel connecting Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, while high winds damaged a crane perched atop a Midtown skyscraper under construction, forcing authorities to evacuate the surrounding area.
The storm was blamed for lamed for more than 2.8 million outages across the Northeast. About 350,000 of them were in the New York city area, where local utility Con Edison reported it had also cut power to customers in parts of Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan to protect underground equipment as the storm waters rose.
But as water crept into its substations, Con Ed said it had lost service to about 250,000 customers in lower Manhattan — most of the island south of 39th Street.
At least five people had been killed in storm-related incidents in New York state, including three killed by trees falling on homes in Queens and in the town of New Salem, near Albany, city and state officials said. Falling trees were also blamed for the two deaths reported in New Jersey and one in Connecticut, authorities there told CNN.
And in West Virginia, a woman was killed in a car accident after the storm dumped 5 inches of snow on the town of Davis, said Amy Shuler Goodwin, a spokeswoman for Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin's office.
Sandy had already claimed at least 67 lives in the Caribbean, including 51 in Haiti. And before hitting land, it overwhelmed the sailing ship HMS Bounty, a replica of the historic British vessel, off North Carolina. Fourteen of the ship's crew of 16 were rescued, but the body of one deckhand was found Monday evening and the ship's captain was still missing Monday night, the Coast Guard said.
Sandy's expected storm surge could raise water levels to 11 feet above normal high tide, already the highest of the month because of a full moon. And forecasters said Sandy was likely to collide with a cold front and spawn a superstorm that could generate flash floods and snowstorms.
"It could be bad," said U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Steven Rattior, "or it could be devastation."
Mass transit shut down across the densely populated Northeast, landmarks stood empty and schools and government offices were closed. The National Grid, which provides power to millions of customers, said 60 million people could be affected before it's over.
On Fire Island, off Long Island, the water rose above promenades and docks on Monday afternoon, homeowner Karen Boss said. Boss stayed on the island with her husband despite a mandatory evacuation order. She said they own several properties and a business there and had weathered previous storms.
"I'm concerned that it might come into the first floor," she said. "If that's the case, I'll just move into another house that's higher up."
Based on pressure readings, it's likely to be the strongest storm to make landfall north of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, CNN senior meteorologist Dave Hennen said. The benchmark storm, the 1938 "Long Island Express" Hurricane, contained a low pressure reading of 946 millibars; Sandy had a minimum pressure of 943 millibars. Generally speaking, the lower the pressure, the stronger the storm.
In Sea Bright, New Jersey, Yvette Cafaro scrawled a plea on the plywood that covered her burger restaurant: "Be kind to us Sandy." The seaside area largely dodged last year's Hurricane Irene, but Cafaro was not optimistic that Sea Bright would be spared Sandy.
"Everything that we've been watching on the news looks like this one will really get us," she said. "We're definitely worried about it."
Its arrival, eight days before the U.S. presidential election, forced President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, to alter or cancel several campaign stops. Obama flew back to Washington from Florida, telling reporters at the White House that assets were in place for an effective response to the storm.
"The most important message I have for the public right now is please listen to what your state and local officials are saying," Obama said. "When they tell you to evacuate, you need to evacuate."
And in Ohio, Romney asked supporters to drop off items and cash at his "victory centers" to be donated to victims of the storm.
"There are families in harm's way that will be hurt — either in their possessions or perhaps in something more severe," Romney said.
By Monday afternoon, 23 states were under a warning or advisory for wind related to Sandy. Thousands of flights had been canceled, and hundreds of roads and highways were expected to flood. And according to a government model, Sandy's wind damage alone could cause more than $7 billion in economic loss.
Sandy was expected to weaken once it moves inland, but the center was expected to move slowly northward, meaning gusty winds and heavy rain would continue through Wednesday.
On the western side of the storm, the mountains of West Virginia expected up to 3 feet of snow and the mountains of southwestern Virginia to the Kentucky state line could see up to 2 feet. Twelve to 18 inches of snow were expected in the mountains near the North Carolina-Tennessee border.
"This is not a typical storm," said Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett. "Essentially, this is a hurricane wrapped in a 'nor'easter.'"


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Does the bus go through Belgium on the way back to UK from Amsterdam?
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The bus just drives through Belgium and makes 1 pit stop there on hte way back to London. At least it did on my tour (European Panorama)
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Hey RJ1817 was the stop in Brussels do you know?
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I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and have a truly prosperous and delightful 2011 (no matter what the government is doing :-) Just enjoy everything you can enjoy and be kind to everyone (it's good for them and it's good for you too).
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Thank you Jonas !! Merry Christmas to you also and Happy New Year, thanks for all you do also and be safe.
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Have a very Merry Christmas!
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and yours.
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Top of the morning to you.I did it.A 2010,used Pontiac G 6.Wanted one of them for two years.Got a great deal on it.If you ever get out to God's coubtry I'll ride you around the area.Have a super season,my friend.
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Hey buddy! Merry Christmas to you and yours as well! I'm still working on breaking into law enforcement...not about to give up on my dreams. Stay safe out there in Cali!
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Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! How dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no child-like faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
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Well good morning my friend.I'm telling you Bro,you must be a psysic about my car cause that's just what the wife and I are going to do this morning.Just like most Americans however we're caught between a rock and a hard place.Can't afford to keep this klunker and can't afford a new one so we're opting for a new one.
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Good evening my friend.All well here but the car.Took it to the vehicle hospital today cause in the past month it has gone from about nineteen miles per gal. to ten per gal.Their diagnostic machine says nothing is wrong with my wheels.I'm thinking their diagnostic machine is as sick as my car.Good to hear from you Jonas and hope you and yours have a blessed season as well.
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And while colds and flu are simply a nuisance for most of us, they can be deadly for those with severe asthma or other respiratory problems, or those who are immune compromised. While our bodies are fighting off these viral infections they become more susceptible to secondary, more serious bacterial super infections. In fact, the death rate attributed to the flu is primarily due to the secondary bacterial pneumonias that develop. Click here to read more about super infections.
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The common cold is somewhat of a misnomer. It isn't caused by a single virus. There are over 200 different viruses that cause the "common" cold. Over half of them are a type of virus called the rhinovirus and there are 99 different types of rhinoviruses! That is why we can send a man to the moon but we can't cure the common cold. All these heterogeneous distinct viruses make it difficult to develop a vaccine to prevent the cold or even an antiviral drug to combat it.


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Egg hunting at Papa & Grandma's (my Dad & Bobbie)
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Trip to the zoo, playing in the butterfly garden
According to the zoo worker, this butterfly wasn't flying well because it was old... After a certain two-year-old pounced on it with a pink ring, it was having even more trouble flying :(
Naomi feeding her Minnie Mouse...
Playing in the sandbox that we found on craigslist (over a year ago!) and finally set up in the yard
The cutest little beach bum ever!
Oh.My.Word. Those eyes melt me to a puddle.
And this little beauty is growing up way too fast! Slow down, kids, slow down!
Heidi is such a smiley little baby!
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HUDSON � Since connecting Kane Well to the Chestnut Street filtration plant last month, iron and manganese levels have been significantly lower than the state Department of Environmental Protection�s required levels.
Shut down 17 months ago due to high manganese levels, the Kane Well was reactivated last month after the town constructed a pipe system from the well to the Chestnut Street filtration plant, which has a greensand filtration system. Greensand is a hard sand particle that absorbs iron and manganese during the filtration process.
During the past month, water from Kane Well and the three Chestnut wells that has been treated at the Chestnut Street filtration plant has lower levels of iron and manganese than required by the state DEP, said Public Works Director Anthony Marques.
Water from the three Chestnut wells has been treated at the Chestnut Street filtration plant for several years and has not had high levels of iron and manganese.
Public Works officials test the water treated at the Chestnut Street filtration plant daily and found the iron level was typically between .01 and .02 milligrams per liter. The highest level was .06 milligrams per liter, said Marques.
The state DEP requires the iron level to be .3 milligrams per liter or less, said Marques.
Marques said the manganese level of the water tested from the filtration plant was also typically between .01 and .02 milligrams per liter each day, with a high of .03 milligrams per liter. The DEP requires .05 milligrams of manganese per liter or lower.
"It seems to be working as it should," said Marques.
While the Kane Well is back in service, the Cranberry Well, which was also shut down due to high iron and manganese levels, remains offline while the town constructs a pipe system from the well to the Chestnut Street filtration plant.
Work to connect the Cranberry Well to the filtration plant is set to begin in mid-to-late April and is anticipated to be completed by the end of the year.
Jeff Malachowski can be reached at 508-490-7466 or email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @JmalachowskiMW.
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I can buy the Jays s-jays for 35€ the meelec m9 for 25€ or the m6 for 39€. I'm wondering wther I should go for the jays since I like the quality of their package and comfort is for me maybe a bit more important than SQ, isolationa and build quality should also be decent. I'm considering going for a higher tier and get something like the soundmagic pl50's, but then I've got to look outside the eu probably. How do the jays compare? (or does anybody have experience with a nice international shipping webstore, with paypal payments.)
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Past IEM's: ep-630, ep-830, zune stock
Music styles: Pop/Rock, from Kate Bush to Interpol, no hardrock, metal. Quite some modern classical music (Max Richter, Ludovico Einaudi) Some electronic music (Knife Faithless) Some classical (Schumann, Mozart, Beethoven)
Places I listen: Train, bike, car, university
PS I did quite some research, but its hard to compare with the jays, since normally they are considered quite a bit more expensive
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21 Nov Look Ma, No Driver!
After several days of road weary "adventure" the final leg of our week long trip to collect an Airstream motorhome in Oklahoma City and Bambi trailer in Denver was looking to be uneventful. No stormy weather, clogged fuel filters, throwing fan belts or… whoops, the demon cruise control stuck on us, again!
I had my doubts as I swiped my credit card for the $1000 repair bill in Albuquerque, when our mechanic, Jim Statkus said, "…and I fixed that sticking cruise control, too."
So there we were, about an hour outside Albuquerque, the rig is rolling along nicely. I (Wally) am behind the wheel. I had experimented with the cruise control ON/OFF switch a few times, even touched the brakes to be sure that switched it off, too.
Then, the engine starts that possessed wha-a-A-A-A-A… and Matthew and I glance at each other with that "oh shit" look in our eyes. Yep, the RPMs are accelerating without my foot touching the pedal.
"I KNOW WHAT TO DO!" yells Matthew, as he runs into the back of the motorhome. And I'm thinking, What's the hell? Is he really jumping out at 70 miles per hour?
"Just keep tapping the brakes and watch out for traffic!" So, what else was I going to do? I wonder.
Within seconds we're doing 75 and Matthew reappears with a pliers. "I'm going to disconnect the cruise control linkage on the carburetor," he screams over the rush of wind, as a sudden gust pushes him and the engine cover backwards.
"I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT WHAT DO IF IT HAPPENED AGAIN!" yells my inflight mechanic as he deftly removes the air cleaner and exposes a wide open carburetor vortex.
Today we're going to rebuild a carb WHILE doing 75? I ask to myself.
Time stands still, again, but the entire episode takes less than a minute. Suddenly, the engine backs off and the gas pedal again presses against my foot. Phew… we're not dying today.
Next stop: Flagstaff, AZ… it's 11 pm by the time we check into a friendly a Courtyard Marriott for a good night's sleep. But not before we relax with a couple of extra spicy Dagwoods from the local Pita Pit. (Note to self: "Everything on it…" includes a handful of jalapenos – can you say, SPICEY!)
Silver Bullet Starfleet log, Wednesday morning 0800. We're rolling westward on 40 again, now headed for Las Vegas to meet with Airstream redesign clients, and things are going our way.
Fantastic snowy mesa views behind us and historic Route 66 sites that sell tasty beef jerky, the Grand Canyon and Hoover Dam in front.
Oh yeah, and more fun with fan belts. About two miles out of Flagstaff the alternator belt flies off again so we head back to make friends at the local NAPA and Little America Truck Stop.
Hey, life IS how you view it.
Look, Ma… no driver! Oh, com'on, man! Hasn't everyone switched drivers while driving a motorhome? Yep, we did it… and frankly it sounds a lot dumber than it looks. (Or does it look a lot dumber than it sounds? You be the judge.) While most of the advice and information you see on this blog is to encourage your very own Airstream adventure, please do not attempt this maneuver at home.


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MSSQL Server Reporting Services: Master Chart Reports: Track Exchange Rates in a Line Chart - Page 4September 29, 2004 12. Select Add Table from the context menu. The Add Table dialog appears. 13. Using the SHIFT key for multiple, non-contiguous selections, after the standard Windows manner, highlight the following tables:
The tables appear selected in the Add Table dialog as shown in Illustration 16.
Click for larger image 14. Click Add to add the tables to the Diagram pane. The Add Tables dialog remains open, while the tables we have selected appear on the Diagram pane, allowing us to make further choices. We will close it for now. 15. Click Close to dismiss the Add Tables dialog. The Add Table dialog disappears, leaving the view of the Diagram pane with the two added tables. One of the automatic joins (there are two in place) needs to be deleted, before selecting fields for the dataset. 16. Click the join between the Currency.CurrencyCode and CurrencyRate.FromCurrencyCode fields, to select it. 17. Press the [Delete] button to remove the join. 18. Select the columns listed in Table 1, by clicking the checkboxes in the associated tables on the Diagram pane, in the order presented.
Table 1: Column Selections by Table Our selections appear in the Diagram pane as depicted in Illustration 17.
We see the column names appear in the Grid pane. We will next modify a couple of the field names we have selected to make them a bit more useful. 19. Click the Alias box to the right of FromCurrencyCode (from the CurrencyRate table) in the Grid Pane, to place the cursor there, as depicted in Illustration 18.
20. Into the Alias box, type the following: Home Currency 21. Type the following into the Alias box for CurrencyRate. ToCurrencyCode column: Foreign Currency 22. Click the Criteria box on the ToCurrencyCode row in the Grid Pane, just as we did earlier for the Alias box, to place the cursor there. 23. Into the Criteria box, type the following: GBP 24. Type the following into the Or... box, to the immediate right of, and on the same row as, the Criteria box within which we placed the GBP filter in the immediately preceding step, again on the ToCurrencyCode row: EUR NOTE: Ignore the notation changes that the grid makes for the present. The relevant portion of the Grid pane, with our Alias and Criteria additions, appears as shown in Illustration 19.
25. Execute the query to test its operation, by clicking the Run ("!") button. The data populates the Results pane, appearing similar to that depicted in Illustration 20. We will discuss the rate dates, circled in red, momentarily.
We can see the SQL we have just created, in the SQL pane, beneath the Grid pane. We often simply input SQL in my articles, as this allows us to reach the intended main subjects more rapidly, but, as we can see, the Query Builder makes it easier for those of us who are not familiar with SQL to create queries without having to learn the language first. The Query Builder is more than adequate to support the creation of many business reports, so if you come across any assertions that "Reporting Services requires report authors to know SQL," you can discount the statement out of hand. The more SQL we have under our belts, the more likely we will be more efficient authors, particularly in advanced query generation (some queries cannot be created through the Query Builder, due to complexity or other complications. However, being fluent in SQL is certainly not a prerequisite to creating robust and useful reports, as many of my articles will demonstrate. We now have a final refinement to make to the query. The information consumers specified that they need exchange rates as of the last day of each month. The dates that we see in the results dataset, circled in red in Illustration 20 above, reflect numerous dates within the months whose data resides in the database. We need to generate the exchange rates for the last day of the months in the results set only. We will manage this with an addition to the WHERE clause in the SQL, initially created when we specified the GBP and EUR currencies above. To do this, we will use the AND Keyword, as we shall see in the next step. 26. In the SQL pane, append the following expression to the existing SQL: AND (CurrencyRate.CurrencyRateDate = CONVERT(CHAR, DATEADD(ss, - 1, DATEADD(mm, DATEDIFF(mm, 0, CurrencyRate.CurrencyRateDate) + 1, 0)), 101)) The complete query, with our adjustments, should appear as follows: SELECT CurrencyRate.CurrencyRateDate, CurrencyRate.FromCurrencyCode AS [Home Currency], CurrencyRate.ToCurrencyCode AS [Foreign Currency], CurrencyRate.EndOfDayRate, Currency.Name FROM Currency INNER JOIN CurrencyRate ON Currency.CurrencyCode = CurrencyRate.ToCurrencyCode WHERE (CurrencyRate.ToCurrencyCode = 'GBP') OR(CurrencyRate.ToCurrencyCode = 'EUR') AND (CurrencyRate.CurrencyRateDate = CONVERT(CHAR, DATEADD(ss, - 1, DATEADD(mm, DATEDIFF(mm, 0, CurrencyRate.CurrencyRateDate) + 1, 0)), 101)) The purpose of the addition is to filter the results, once more, for the data that is associated with the dates that reflect end-of-month dates. The DATEADD function is useful for many such scenarios when working with relational data in T-SQL, as are other components of the expression we have added. Its purpose here is to generate the last day of the month for any month that has dates appearing in the data (contained in the CurrencyRateDate field). The function generates the last day of the month for a given CurrencyRateDate by 1) using DATEDIFF to compare the CurrencyRateDate with 01/01/1900, and then 2) returning the number of intervals that result, 3) adding one month. It thus 4) delivers the first day of the month following the CurrencyRateDate, whereupon it 5) subtracts one second to "roll back the date to the day immediately preceding. The final result is the last day of the month. This approach works regardless of the number of days that are contained in the month of the CurrencyRateDate under consideration. 27. Execute the query to see the modified results, by clicking the Run ("!") button once again. The dataset we have generated now contains the ingredients for a report that meets the expressed need of the information consumers. We see the currency rates for the currencies for which the consumers have manifested interest, for the end-of month dates for any month with rate data in the data source. We are ready to begin constructing the report that will present this data in a comparative line chart. TIP: When designing a report in Reporting Services, or any other enterprise reporting application, always focus on the complete dataset first. Making sure you have all the data that the report will require - before beginning the physical construction of the report, and especially before investing time in formatting and the like - can save the hours of rework that is due upon those who have the "I'll come back to that later" mentality. |


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If you are a teacher or student who needs a new way to teach or learn multiplication, LOOK NO FURTHER! This Instructable will teach you 2 basic ways ...
This method is by far, the coolest multiplication method I have ever seen, and it keeps the numbers nice and separate, so you don't get mixed up on ...
Construct the shape shown above:
Write the numbers that you want to multiply on the top edge, and the edge on the right (In my case, 11 * 34).
Multiply the 1 and the 3, the one and the 4, etc. When you are done, it should look like the photos above.
Add the numbers that are within the same "strip" within the lines (The four, The 3 and the four, the 3, etc.) Your answer will be read from ...
This method is pretty cool, but not as easy as the other one, but the end result looks like a bow-tie.
Write out a multiplication problem just like you would write it out the traditional way.
Multiply the 4 and the 1. Write it down in the spot you would put it if you were adding the 2 digits.
Multiply the two numbers, like you did last time. But be careful--The 1 up there is in the tens place value, so that 1 is actually a 10. ...
Multiply the 30 and the 1. Write it down as if adding.
Multiply the 30 and the 10. Write it down as if adding. Your paper should now look like this if you were following along correctly. If it doesn't, ...
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Now that you know two great ways to multiply, you can learn Vedic Maths, which provide neat tricks to multiply, add, subtrct, divide, etc.
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A38 Big Cat (2001)
On Wednesday, 22 August, 2001 the BBC News website published the following article entitled 'Lioness' spotted by motorists'
Motorists at a Somerset petrol station raised the alarm when they spotted a "big cat" in an adjoining field. Read More »
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The following article entitled 'Hunt is on for the Beast of Badcox' appeared in the Frome & Somerset Standard on 7th September 2006 and concerns a big cat that was sighted in Victoria Park, Frome.
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In September 2007 an unidentified animale tagged the Beast Banwell was seen by Helen Stokes whilst she walked her dog. The following article entitled 'Back - the Beast of Banwell' from the Eastern Daily Press website is dated 14 September 2007. Read More »
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The Black Downs have a long tradition as a haunt of the fairies, and stories tell of many sightings as recently as a few hundred years ago, when many country folk believed we shared this land with supernatural denizens. Read More »
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A dragon called Blue Ben resided here and was supposedly the steed of the devil. He fell from a causeway of rocks and drowned in the mud. His skull (actually a fossil Ichthyosaur) was uncovered and is on display in the local museum.
The above was taken from an article by Richard Freeman.
Brent Knoll
The hill, which was once and Iron Age hillfort, is associated with an Arthurian Legend, and was the abode of three fearsome giants. Read More »
Caractacus Stone
This standing stone has a number of traditions associated with it, it looks very much like a Neolithic standing stone, although sources suggest that it actually dates to the fifth century, during the end of the Roman occupation. The name of the stone is certainly of Roman origin although it may have been old during the Roman period. Read More »
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Combe Sydenham is associated with a legendary story concerning Sir Francis Drake, and another historical figure, George Sydenham, who has also become the subject of folklore. Read More »
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The Creech Hill Bullbegger is said to haunt the area, as a tall apparition who laughs manically from the hillside. A Bullbeggar is the local name for a boggart or mischievous spirit. Read More »
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Croydon Hill is the scene of a peculiar English Folktale, that may or may not have its root in real events. Whatever the truth of the tale the hill has a reputation of being haunted by unearthly howls, especially on dark and stormy nights, and here is the story to account for this unearthly manifestation: Read More »
Curry Mallet
The Manor House (Mallet Court) was in the hands of the Mallet family for over 900 years until it was sold in the 1980's. Amongst its many visitors, the manor house can boast William the Conqueror, King John and Henry the II. The site was originally the site of a Saxon stronghold, and before that there may have been a Roman settlement there. Read More »
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The dragon of Aller was a terrifying beast. It spat both fire and venom and flew on vast leathery wings. It lived in a hillside cave just outside of Aller and, as western dragons are want to do, laid waste to the land. Read More »
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A skilled giant blacksmith lived upon Burn Hill according to local legend and he would appear whenever his name was called in order to perform acts of blacksmithing which was considered beyond the capability of mortal man.
Glastonbury has been identified with the mysterious Isle of Avalon from the twelfth century, its past has become steeped in myth and legend, and it is probably most famous for its Arthurian and early Christian traditions. Read More »
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This is a reproduction of the cross said to have been found in Arthur's grave at Glastonbury Abbey. The actual grave seems to have been a very early burial but the Arthur link is tenuous. The actual cross disappeared many years ago and the only depiction is from a drawing by William Camden in 1607, from which this picture has been redrawn. Read More »
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Beside the main roads leading into the dreamy Somerset town of Glastonbury, are a series of signboards welcoming all to 'The Ancient Avalon', and causing a nationwide controversy. Glastonbury claims to be Avalon, to be the final resting place of King Arthur, and the site to which the Holy Grail was borne to by Joseph of Arimethea. Read More »
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I have visited Glastonbury many times over the last few decades, but only got around to visiting the Holy Thron on Wearyall Hill for the first time in September 2011. Unfortunately it was in a poor state after being vandalised the previous December and then apparently further damaged by souvenir hunters. Read More »
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The Black Downs are also the home of the Holman Clavel Inn, which resides near Blagdon. The Inn was said to house a spirit known as 'Chimbley Charlie', a kind of protective hearth spirit once thought to reside in many homes. Read More »
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A savage fire-breathing dragon terrorized this area until a champion came forth to tackle it. The hero rolled a boulder up a hill opposite to the dragon's lair and shouted out to the monster. As the dragon emerged, jaws agape, the champion rolled the boulder down into its open maw, choking it before it could roast him with a jet of flame. Read More »
Langford Budville Abduction (1973)
On 16th October 1973 a 43-year-old woman, whose name has been withheld, was driving to Langford Budville, when the engine and lights cut out from her car. She got out of the car to check what was wrong and felt something touch her arm. She turned to be confronted by a 6-foot tall robot like entity. Read More »
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I installed my SawQuiet5000 yesterday and have the same issues you did SafeAirOne. On the slow speeds it needs help to start some times. I could live with that but when I sew at the low speed, it will click along for 20 stitches and then jump about 5 stitches. Also, if I am sewing at a low speed, when I let up on the treadle, it will surge 5 or 6 stitches. So far this is not good at all. Have you heard anymore about your unit? This is a national holiday in Canada and they are closed. I will have to call them tomorrow.
John L |
This question is for both of you. Just how slow are you trying to run the motor? I understand running the machine at slow speeds to help learn how to sew, but turning the motor down so it barely moves completely defeats the foot treadle, which will not help you in the slightest to learn how to sew.
When you started driving, did you drive at 1/2 mile per hour because you were new to driving?
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I hear you loud and clear Dan but this thing just isn't right. If I set the speed on 10 you can't make it stitch slow enough to make a stitch or two when you are in a tight place. If I turn it down to a 2 or 3 then it will run a 2 or 3 stitches a second for 15 to 20 stitches and then will surge way up to 20 stitches a second and drop back to 2 or 3. You can't sew anything if you can't predict what the machine is going to do. I would be better to put the clutch back on it. As a matter of fact this machine had a very smooth clutch on it.
If I understood your earlier posts you can make an individual stitch with your machine. Not so with this one. I was playing around with some scrap trying to top stitch and it fluctuates so badly I have no control. I totally understand that I am an amateur but that is the whole reason for buying a servo. I need to be able to control the machine at a slow enough speed to compensate for my lack of experience. I really do appreciate you taking interest in our situation. I will post what I find out tomorrow after I speak to the company. John |
How about posting a picture of the linkage from the motor to the treadle?
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Here you go Dan. This thing seems to smooth out around speed 5 or so. I am thinking, if reliable can't do anything with this, I will put the smallest pulley on the motor I can. I would be willing to sacrifice top speed for more low end control.
John L |
Moving the connecting rod back to the rear hole on the motor's lever will give you more control of the motor. I have mine attached to the middle hole. Having it attached out at the end of the lever makes the foot pedal more sensitive.
How big is the pulley that's on there now? They used to give you a 90MM and a 110MM diameter pulley. 90MM is about 3 1/2" and 110MM is about 4 1/4". If you put a 1 3/4" diameter pulley on the motor it will cut the top speed of the machine by 50%. BUT, .....sewing is all about the foot pedal. When you reduce the speed of the motor, you take away some of the ability to control the machine via the foot pedal, and you lose a lot of control of the sewing machine. I always encourage people to learn how to control the machine the way it was intended to be used. In the end, you will be a lot better sewer if you do. I can make a clutch motor stitch slowly one stitch at a time because that's what I learned on. That takes a lot of practice. The servo makes your learning curve a lot smaller. Will you make mistakes running the machine at higher speeds? Yes. You'll also make mistakes running at slower speeds. I've been sewing for almost 40 years and I still make mistakes. How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice.
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It does have a 4 inch pulley on it. Only came with one size.
I know all to well what you are saying is true about practice. I have done 4 interiors in the years I had the Thompson Mini Walker. It ran wide open at 900 spm. The reason I bought it to start with was I had a dear friend who was a trimmer and I knew how difficult it was for me control the clutch. It really was easy to control while doing tight work. Unfortunately, as I got more experienced, I found that it just did not have the presser foot height to handle pleats with sew foam panels. Also, since it was not a needle feed, as the material got thicker the stitches got shorter. Do take a look at the picture again though. If I move the rod toward the pivot point of the motor it is going to get more sensitive. I could move the rod toward the pivot point of the treadle and desensitize it but I really don't think that is the issue. This motor just does not have much variation in its speed between stop and what ever setting you put it on........Wish we were neighbors. John L. |
"Do take a look at the picture again though. If I move the rod toward the pivot point of the motor it is going to get more sensitive."
If you want to break a tight nut off of a bolt, do you put a short pipe over the handle of your ratchet or a long pipe? Having the rod out at the end of the lever increases the leverage on the lever making the foot pedal easier to push down. Try the other two holes, what do you have to lose?
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You are 100% correct in that. My point was that by putting it at the end of the lever it required more travel distance. When you move that wrench you referred to the long handle moves farther for the same movement at the nut. My thoughts were I needed control of the movement, not leverage. That said, I haven't forgotten, you are the one who owns 3 servo motors and sews for a living.
John L |
John, your motor is not working the way it should! What does Reliable say about it?
I use a different kind of servo motor on my machine - it has a needle positioner. The positioner allows the motor to know where the needle is in its stroke. I almost never touch the hand wheel on my motor. The treadle has another position called "heel down". Toe-Down sews as usual. Heel-Down raises the needle to the top of its stroke so you can remove your work piece. The other thing this type of system does whenever you stop sewing the needle is in the full down position. Always. The motor has full torque at all speeds. I think the motor was worth the additional expense. |
That sounds really good. I spoke to Reliable's customer support about an hour ago. Nathen advised they had run into this issue before. He stated that the sales person should have known to advise me I would want the 2 inch pulley. Will double torque delivered to the machine and cut the speed in half. There is no doubt it will help. I just took the belt off and ran the motor at all speeds including the very slowest. With no load it runs perfectly smooth at a consistent speed. My Adler 267 has a 3 1/2 inch pulley. The servo pulley is 3 1/2 inch also which means the machine head is geared with a 1 to1 ratio. Hopefully under driving it with a ratio of 2 to 1 will solve the problem. It will effect top speed of course but that is of no concern to me. being a "hobbiest" I need control not speed.
Hey, I am almost 67. How much time do I have to practice? I NEED CONTROL NOW!!! John L |
Hey slodat. Just saw you were in Vancouver. I lived on NE 146 th street. Was in the North County Cruisers in those days. 1998-2001. Had a blue and beige 57 Olds hardtop back then. Small world
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2nd October 2015
Two of Asia's three rhino species are 'critically endangered', writes David Tosh, yet the lion's share of rhino conservation resources is lavished on Africa. The reason is simple: Africa's rhinos generate more cash from tourism. But should this really be the point? more...Asia powers into the forefront of solar revolution
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China has now overtaken the European Union as the largest new market for solar power, writes Paul Brown - as solar PV becomes one of the world's fastest growing industries - and one that's sure to keep on getting cheaper! more...Red alert! Hornbills at risk from wildlife trade
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We all know about the risk to elephants and rhinos from the illegal wildlife trade, but now the helmeted hornbills of Borneo and Sumatra are at risk as online traders find ready buyers for their carved beaks in China. more...Large dams are uneconomic
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22nd April 2014
A study of 245 large dams carried out at Oxford University shows that big hydropower is uneconomic. Actual costs are typically double pre-construction estimates - and have not improved over 70 years. ASEAN energy ministers take note! more...TAKE ACTION to stop Asia Pulp and Paper's logging in Indonesia's tiger rainforests
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Greenpeace's undercover investigation accused Asia Pulp and Paper's of flouting the logging ban on ramin trees in Indonesia, threatening the remaining population of Sumatran tigers. Greenpeace calls on you to urge companies to boycott APP products more...Climate hotspot: sea level rise threatens millions in Mekong Delta rice belt
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Some 60 million people depend on the Mekong River for their livelihoods but sea level rise and severe weather puts the area at risk, as Gratianne Quade's unique film shows more...China exports its environmental problems as consumer culture booms
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China is attempting to pursue the same impossible path as the rest of the world: generating consumer demand and wealth without destroying its natural resources and the planet more...Greenpeace hits back at 'notorious forest destroyer' Asia Pulp and Paper
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Campaigners urge retailers to follow example of Tesco and Adidas in cutting links with the controversial paper and packaging supplier after latest allegations of greenwashing more...Consumptionomics
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Asia is growing at an unprecedented rate and consumption is following a similar trajectory. This, argues businessman Chandran Nair in his new book, could have dramatic consequences for the environment more...Logging company accused of 'misleading public' with carbon conservation project
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Controversial Indonesian company Asia Pulp & Paper has come under fire from environmentalists because of 'false claims' over Sumatran rainforest carbon reserve more...Seoul: on course to be one of the world's greenest cities?
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The twin affects of climate change and rapid industrialisation has left developing countries in Asia facing an "unprecedented" water crisis. more...Breathe Easy?
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With news that storms caused by smog from Asian cities over the Pacific Ocean will melt Artic ice, Christine Loh, the CEO of Civic Exchange, looks at Hong Kong, where worsening air pollution causes on average four deaths a day. more...ECOLOGIST COOKIES
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We often don't think about the things in our world that are common placed. Everyday, we hear, see, touch, and smell things that we give little or no thought to. For instance, can you imagine a world without color? I certainly would not want to live in a place like that...Would you?The books listed below are a celebration of colors around you.


text: Akiva "I Am Legend" Goldsman Takes On U.S. Version Of PrimevalAlyssa Johnson5/15/09 4:00pmFiled to: primevalWarner BrothersBbcTelevisionMoviesakiva goldsmanBatman and RobinI, Roboti am legendfringe47EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink More details about the planned movie version of Britain's Primeval have come out, and it's being described as Jurassic Park meets Lost. As imagined by Akiva Goldsman (I, Robot, Fringe, Batman And Robin). Yay? According to Variety, Warner Bros. has officially purchased the Primeval screen rights in a "high-six-figure deal," and Akiva Goldsman and Kerry Foster are set up to produce, along with Emily Cummins. Goldsman is planning to hire a writer to draft the script, which will transplant the action of the film from the U.K. to the U.S. Advertisement Advertisement And the U.S. version will ramp up the action, probably thanks to an amped-up effects budget. Says Foster:There is a solid mythology to the series, but the movie has the dinosaur element of 'Jurassic Park' and the time travel element of 'Lost,' and it just feels like the kind of big movie that Warner Bros. does well.While the big-screen production is clearly a ways away still, the new season of Primeval begins airing on BBC America tomorrow, May 16 at 9 ET (8 Central). Warners follows 'Primeval' urge [Variety.com]Reply47 repliesLeave a reply


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I know it's a really soon but what I hope is that they fix all they had with the other games and release this one and then just focus on DLC
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Yeah, I see your point... Too much too soon? Maybe. But really, I know I'm going to buy it. And I can almost guarantee that millions of other GH fans will buy it too. That's just how GH seems to work XD
But yeah in the meanwhile, som DLC for my World Tour save file would be nice...Posted: July 16, 2009 12:29 PM -
Personally I like guitar hero better overall, its more challenging, in a good way, the songs are better, the characters are better, and the career mode is better. But its too much too soon they need to stop or slow it down at least and yes they really should just do DLCs at least for a while. Rockband has better character customization and I love that they're doing the whole DLC thing but I HATE the career mode, you end up playing the same songs a million times. I know hate songs that I use to love because of Rockband. Also the first Rockband had a good song selection but was too much focused on multiplayer play. The Rockband 2 song selction was HORRIBLE, it was mostly crappy 90's and '00 songs. There was a few good songs but 90% of them sucked and too few of the most difficult songs were not very challenging.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had endured racism for many years. Most of the book consists of his speeches and writings that were given from the viewpoint of a person that had been looked at as a second class citizen with less rights than others in the same society. Dr. King was also a preacher, and while he urged people to fight for their civil liberties he also urged them to realize that God has called all of his people. The life and background of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is easily seen in his writings, although he doesn't spend much time explaining what his life was like. He also studied the teachings of Gandhi in depth and the reader sees that the reoccurring theme in Dr. King's writing is nonviolent protesting and needing to keep good relationships with those that opposed them.
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We're no longer just strangers in a crowd.
We're no longer just strangers in a crowd.
Imagine any street corner in any town where, let's say, four people — Alexandria, Larry, Cory and Cameron — are lost in private thought.
Without a single conversation, without even knowing their names, we could learn that Alexandria's angry ex-boyfriend posted her photo on a "revenge porn" website. That Larry is mourning the death of his daughter. That Cory is trying to scrub her image from friends' social networks. That Cameron picked the wrong place to hide from police.
In each case, a simple photograph of the four strangers, combined with the power of data, opens the door to deeply personal details. That's one of the many ways digital technologies are turning our once-personal lives into a global show-and-tell and redefining our expectations of privacy.
Almost every day brings new revelations about how Big Brother snoops on us and Big Data mines our online activities for profit. Even so, we are only beginning to understand the power of these incursions. In a few years, our faces alone, snapped on a street, in a crowd, or posted by a friend on the Internet, will be the key for a search engine to reveal the stories of our lives.
There may be nothing that technology is changing more dramatically than privacy. What is happening with our images online is just one example of our digital reality: We're living life out loud — secrets and all.
To be sure, gossip is as old as our species. It spread through villages in whispers or over our grandparents' "party line" phones. And the impulse to share photos of ourselves started the moment Louis Daguerre first fixed images onto sheets of silver-plated copper.
But information moved at a human pace — eventually forgiven, forgotten.
Now this information travels across continents with just a click. And it can remain virtually forever in the data stream. There is no "erase" key.
People like Alexandria discover that in new and shocking ways every day.
"I am flabbergasted. It is crazy," she said after a reporter discovered a topless photo of her on a pornographic website that her ex-fiance had posted more than two years after their breakup.
He has remarried and has a child; she is engaged. Yet the photo persists — and the Netherlands-based website demands $500 to remove it.
We're not publishing her name to avoid a further invasion of her privacy. She had no idea her bare-chested image was out there — with her name, hometown and age attached — until the reporter called. "It was a personal thing between me and him,'' she said. "It happened one time, and I didn't think he'd hold on to them.''
(A similar California case led to criminal charges recently when the attorney general announced the arrest of a San Diego man accused of asking women for up to $350 each to remove illicit photos from another revenge site.)
Here is the simple math behind our brave new digital world, with its blurry boundaries between private and public: Photos (plus) name (equals) information.
Photos — a snapshot at a party or a "selfie" shot in the bedroom — can reveal names, using tools like Google Plus' "Find My Face" and Facebook's facial recognition software. And geo-tagged posts on social networks can reveal the precise location of your whereabouts.
Now, millions every day rush to reveal pictures and more rush to view them and pass them along, sometimes with tragic results.
"You can do the stupidest thing, and pretty soon the whole world knows," said privacy expert Frank Ahern.
When Saratoga, Calif., teenagers shared their cellphone photograph of student Audrie Pott after an alleged assault, the humiliation led to the 15-year-old's suicide, her parents say.
"These cellphones or other electronic devices that can take photos or send emails are, in essence, loaded guns," said her father, Larry Pott.
"They are unchecked and completely open for any sort of unchecked transmission," he said. "There is no accountability. They are completely anonymous."
It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to keep them private, notes Internet scholar and New York University professor Clay Shirky. Now it's expensive and time-consuming to make things private. But it's cheap — and easy — to be public. About 2.5 billion people worldwide have a digital camera in their pockets, often attached to a smartphone, according to Hong Kong-based mobile technology consultant Tomi Ahonen. If each person snaps 150 photos a year, that adds up to a staggering 375 billion images annually.
San Francisco Bay Area resident Cory Colligan knows the challenge of protecting her privacy. When a friend tags her in a Facebook photo, she "untags" it, or politely emails a request to delete it. If feelings are hurt, she explains her concern to friends over lunch.
"I love social media, but I don't post photos. I don't want to be out there that way. Period. I'm a private person," Colligan said. So she decorates her Facebook page with inspirational messages and landscapes; only her professional LinkedIn profile has a photo.
But sharing photos through social media will escalate, experts say, because it fills a human need for connection and intimacy. They help us stitch together our communities, keeping us in closer touch with the people we love.
"Tools like Flickr reverse the old order of group activity — transforming 'gather, then share' into 'share, then gather,' " Shirky writes in "Here Comes Everybody," his book about the Internet and group dynamics.
To some, losing privacy is a small price for exchanged memories of high school pranks or photos of cherished newborns.
Los Angeles actor and director Justin Baldoni proposed to his girlfriend Emily Foxler in an online video montage of proposal parodies, an 'N Sync lip sync, a flash mob and a visit to her father's grave to ask permission to marry her.
By November, more than 7 million people had clicked on his YouTube public proposal.
Until recently, if we wanted to stay anonymous, photos were no real threat. But improving computer programs and a proliferation of surveillance cameras is changing that. Facial identification becomes easier as improved cameras create higher quality images. And cameras are getting cheaper — and smaller.
Facial recognition is already in some TVs. Passwords and PINs are giving way to faceprints in our mobile devices.
When you knock on a door, shop or drive down the street, chances are good that you're on camera.
The Boston Marathon bombers would famously discover that. And so did Cameron Conley of Oakland, Calif. He vanished, Palo Alto police said, after leading them on a wild chase through downtown, hitting six cars and allegedly attempting to carjack a truck. But a homeowner's surveillance camera revealed his location.
"It showed that the guy had entered our property, and never left "¦ He was huddled underneath the house, in a crawlspace," said homeowner Roberta Chew. "Without the camera, he would have totally gotten away with it."
Cameras increasingly serve as protective eyes and ears when we're not present. A camera in an Oklahoma City nursing home recorded an aide stuffing gloves into a 96-year-old dementia patient's mouth. Police who use cameras have fewer complaints against them and fewer false allegations of brutality.
But technology has moved up a notch to search out faces. No longer is it necessary to watch hours of surveillance video for a suspect or car. A computer program developed by the San Francisco company 3VR can quickly search huge quantities of video to find a specific face — matching gender, age and facial characteristics. It also can detect suspicious behavior — such as lingering — that the human eye might not notice.
But our images can turn up in ways never intended. Google Maps' satellite camera captured the body of Kevin Barrera, a 14-year-old Richmond homicide victim, haunting his family. The face of suicide victim Rehtaeh Parsons, 17, was featured in an ad on Facebook for a dating site, Ionechat.com, advertising "Find Love In Canada!"
Alexandria and other women suffer when X-rated photos, emails or texts are posted on niche websites — sometimes with the victim's personal information. Alexandria had puzzled over why she was receiving suggestive Facebook messages from strange men — and now she knows why.
Our faces can lead strangers to our names.
The U.S. State Department uses facial recognition software to link passport photos and names, stopping fraud and fleeing criminals. The FBI runs the world's largest biometric database, housing not just fingerprints but also mug shots, tattoos and other identifying information for tens of millions of criminals, and more than 34 million civil fingerprints.
But police cameras can't compete with the vast social net that we unwittingly are weaving with our mug shots and names posted on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and ordinary corporate and organizational rosters.
Facebook alone holds an estimated 90 billion digital photos. Profile pictures and names have no privacy settings. Neither do LinkedIn's profiles; its photos are associated with real first and last names available to casual visitors without logging on.
Facial recognition software finds us on Facebook every time it suggests "tags" for your face found in others' photos. Google offers Picasa users facial recognition tools to organize photos; Apple offers a similar tool to iPhoto users.
One researcher used photos to identify anonymous students — some down to the last four digits of their Social Security numbers. Alessandro Acquisti, an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University, used just a consumer-grade digital camera, off-the-shelf facial recognition software and social network information to sift through Facebook profiles and other websites. He was able to identify many of them instantly and also obtain their personal data.
Learning our names opens the gate to a vast store of publicly available information — such as home addresses, voting records, campaign contributions, mortgages, liens and birth, marriage, divorce and death records. Some businesses, such as Intelius and Spokeo, sell this information. Linked with consumer information — such as air miles, loyalty cards, magazine subscriptions and other purchases — our names gain added value. Companies like Datalogix, Epsilon and Acxiom auction off to advertisers access to us.
The day may be coming, experts say, when your phone's facial recognition software recognizes and identifies a long-forgotten friend, and also reveals your location to a stalker. A hotel will greet you by name, but a car salesperson may infer your credit score and download your psychological profile. A database will find missing children — but also identify the people attending a peaceful protest.
A fledgling but impassioned movement has risen to strengthen online privacy protections, using browsers like Mozilla Firefox, social network platforms like Ravetree, the search engine DuckDuckGo and photo-sharing services like Snapchat, which allows photos to quickly vanish.
Without changes, Acquisti foresees a "post-private" world where we'll no longer take risks and learn from mistakes. It will be a less creative and more cautious society, he predicts, "a very sad and creepy place."
But others argue that we are entering a new Age of Transparency, where increasing openness is healthy.
"Privacy is dead," said Nova Spivack, a technology futurist. "In fact, it has been dying a rather operatic death for over a decade."
We're building a more moral and perhaps even more forgiving world, he believes. "When you know that you can't hide, you become more responsible."
It is possible to find a middle ground between either extreme of disclosure, balancing the risks and benefits, said San Francisco social media expert Trish Chan.
"We assume privacy is the most important need. But there are other needs to be satisfied, not just privacy — such as connecting with friends," she said.
"When I think about privacy, I don't know quite what it means exactly these days. Everybody is so out there."


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The Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO) fired its main engine at 09:01 UTC, September 23rd 1999, to begin orbital insertion into Mars orbit. Telemetry with the craft was lost five minutes later as it was occulted by Mars (went behind Mars as viewed from Earth), but communication was expected to be recovered twenty minutes later when it was supposed to reappear from behind Mars. No signal from Mars Climate Orbiter would ever be heard on Earth after 09:04:52 UTC, Thursday, September 23, 1999.
Technically, the MCO was fairly successful. The only unexpected problem arose because of the craft's asymmetrical solar array configuration, unlike that of Mars Global Surveyor. This meant that solar wind exerted forces off the center of mass of the spacecraft, which caused the craft to gain angular momentum. This momentum was imparted to the craft's reaction control wheels, which became saturated with momentum more often than had been predicted from data obtained by the earlier voyage of Mars Global Surveyor. Angular momentum desaturation (AMD) events had to take place, which caused small errors in the craft's trajectory. The actual trajectory of the craft and the trajectory the operations team thought it was on began to diverge by a factor of 4.45, the conversion factor from pounds to Newtons.
Anomalies in navigation and Doppler signatures of angular momentum desaturation (AMD) events were observed, but they were only informally reported. As such, nobody realized the serious threat these anomalies were suggesting. Doppler solutions that consistently indicated a shallow flight path as MCO approached the planet and data collected after trajectory correction maneuver four (TCM-4) which showed a lower than expected periapse weren't addressed. Tracking data collected during the twenty four hours preceding orbital insertion also showed a declining periapse, which was by this time beginning to approach 80 km, the lowest considered survivable by MCO. A contingency trajectory correction maneuver, TMC-5, had been roughed out, but never fully planned. The use of TCM-5 was discussed but never executed because of concerns about its planning. Nevertheless, TCM-5 may have given MCO the periapse boost it needed to stay alive.
Mars Climate Orbiter was occulted by Mars at 09:04:59 UTC, forty nine seconds earlier than predicted. By that time, it was too late to save the craft from burning up in the atmosphere or skipping off into space.
The root cause was found to be the use of English units for thruster performance data generated by a ground based computer program. This data was used in the construction of trajectory models for the spacecraft, and the modellers assumed the data was in metric units as per the specifications.
The following is from the MCO Phase 1 Mishap Report, available at ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/reports/1999/MCO_report.pdf:
Root cause: Failure to use metric units in the coding of a ground software file, "Small Forces," used in trajectory models Contributing Causes: Undetected mismodeling of spacecraft velocity changes Navigation Team unfamiliar with spacecraft Trajectory correction maneuver number 5 not performed Systems engineering process did not adequately address transition from development to operations Inadequate communications between project elements Inadequate operations Navigation Team staffing Inadequate training Verification and validation process did not adequately address ground software MPL Recommendations: Verify the consistent use of units throughout the MPL spacecraft design and operations Conduct software audit for specification compliance on all data transferred between JPL and Lockheed Martin Astronautics Compare prime MPL navigation projections with projections by alternate navigation methods Train Navigation Team in spacecraft design and operations Prepare for possibility of executing trajectory correction maneuver number 5 Establish MPL systems organization to concentrate on trajectory correction maneuver number 5 and entry, descent and landing operations Take steps to improve communications Augment Operations Team staff with experienced people to support entry, descent and landing Train entire MPL Team and encourage use of Incident, Surprise, Anomaly process Develop and execute systems verification matrix for all requirements Conduct independent review on all mission critical events Construct a fault tree analysis for remainder of MPL mission Assign overall Mission Manager Perform thermal analysis of thrusters feedline heaters and consider use of pre-conditioning pulses Reexamine propulsion subsystem operations during entry, descent, and landing
It was not an unforeseen technical or mechanical failure on the orbiter that lead to its loss. Instead, it was a disorganized and informal ground crew that led to the demise of the Mars Climate Orbiter. The lessons learned from this mishap could not save the Mars Polar Lander mission, partly because the investigation of the MCO disaster left the operations team starved for expertise, and partly because of the proximity of the two missions in time.
Much of this information was found on the National Space Science Data Catalog (NSSDC) site, http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/, and in the Mars Climate Orbiter Mishap Investigation Report, Phase 1, ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/reports/1999/MCO_report.pdf.
The Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO) spacecraft began as one half of a two part mission, the Mars Surveyor '98 program. It was originally called Mars Surveyor 98 Orbiter, or alternatively, Mars '98 Orbiter. The other half of the Mars Surveyor '98 program was the equally ill-fated Mars Polar Lander.
MCO was lifted from Earth on December 11th 1998 at 18:45:51 UTC aboard a Delta II Lite launch vehicle equipped with four strap-on solid rocket boosters and a Star 48 (PAM-D) third stage. During the cruise, four trajectory correction maneuvers and a number of angular momentum desaturation events took place.
At 09:01 UTC, on September 23rd 1999, MCO began it's orbital insertion burn. This burn was to last 16 minutes and 23 seconds, during which time the craft would pass behind Mars. Telemetry was lost with MCO at 09:04:52 UTC as Mars occulted the craft, and MCO was never heard from again.
If the mission had gone as planned, then MCO would have found itself in a 14 hour elliptical capture orbit of approximately 150 by 21,000 km. Aerobraking by using the solar panel to provide drag would then have begun, and would have continued until the orbit had changed to about 90 by 405 km. This orbit would have ideally been obtained on the 22nd of November, 1999. On the 1st of December, thrusters would have been used to move the craft into a nearly circular orbit of 421 km.
The Mars Polar Lander (MPL) was expected to land on Mars on December 3rd 1999, and the first phase of the MCO was to serve as a communications relay between the lander and Earth until the end of the lander mission on the 29th of February 2000. MCO was to fly over the MPL landing site ten times a day for 5 or 6 minutes each time. Information between MPL and MCO would have been transmitted over a 2 way UHF link of 128 kbit/s.
Science and mapping operations were to begin on March 3rd 2000, and were scheduled to last a full Martian year, which is 687 days. After that, MCO was to be placed in a stable orbit and was destined to serve as a UHF relay station for the Mars 2001 mission.
The first objective of the Mars Climate Orbiter mission was to act as a relay station for the Mars Polar Lander mission, which was expected to arrive on the heels of MCO. After completing it's science objectives, MCO was to again serve as a relay station, this time for the Mars 2001 mission.
The science objectives of the MCO were, as the name implies, to study the Martian climate. Specifically, MCO was to examine daily weather and atmospheric conditions, find the dust and water content of the atmosphere, determine temperature profiles, and look for evidence of past climate change.
The Mars Climate Orbiter craft was basically a box, 2.1m high, 1.6m wide, and 2m deep. The interior consisted of stacked propulsion and equipment modules. It carried a 1.3 meter high gain dish antenna atop a mast above the propulsion module. This antenna was mounted on a 2 axis gimbal and was used to communicate with Earth on the X-band via the Cassini Deep Space Transponders.
Power was provided by a 5.5m long solar array which was attached to the side of the craft with a 2 axis gimbal. The solar array had a total surface area of 11 square meters, and consisted of three panels of GaAs/Ge solar cells, which could provide 1000 W at 1 AU. Power was stored in nickel hydride (NiH2) common pressure vessel batteries.
The propulsion system consisted of a bipropellent 640 N main engine, which used hydrazine and nitrogen trioxide as fuel. A total of eight smaller thrusters using a single propellant, hydrazine, were used for attitude control and maneuvering. Four of these thrusters were 7 N pitch/yaw thrusters, and the other four were 0.3 N roll thrusters.
Attitude was controlled by a combination of the mentioned thrusters and reaction control wheels. The spacecraft used an inertial measurement unit, and star tracker, and analog Sun sensors to find it's orientation in space.
Instruments on board the craft were the Mars Color Imager (MARCI), and the Pressure Modulator Infared Radiometer (PMIRR). MARCI was used to acquire approach images of Mars, and was supposed to be used to take pictures of the Martian atmosphere and surface. MARCI combined nadir pointed pushframe wide angle and medium angle cameras. The wide angle camera had a field of view of 140 degrees on seven spectral bands, two ultraviolet and seven visible. The medium angle camera had a 6 degrees field of view on ten spectral channels. PMIRR was a multispectral limb and nadir scanning atmospheric sounder. It had nine channels, and was supposed to provide vertical profiles of atmospheric temperature, dust, water vapor, and condensate clouds.
The instruments, UHF antenna, and battery enclosure were located at the bottom of the craft.
MCO had a launch mass of 625 kg, 291 kg of which was propellant.
Mars Climate Orbiter was part of NASA's Mars Surveyor Program. Development of the spacecraft cost about 192.1 million dollars, launch costs and mission operation costs were about 91.7 million and 42.8 million dollars respectively.
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