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Spaceflight Enthusiast
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Location: Colorado
I know this is a delayed reply, but I also read this forum. It really covers a lot of ground, including some areas of space infrastructure that no one else is working on or even talking about yet.
And I'm right down the road - in Colorado Springs - from Micro-Space, so it makes it even more interesting, knowing these efforts are going on nearby.
wow, i now have more than one post!
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Changes: moving, consolidating and proposals.
Things are more settled at the moment.
It is interesting to note that one of the more interesting income opportunities the X PRIZE Foundation identified in their Google Lunar X Prize "Market Study" was linked to "Sample Return". Our current technology work seems clustered around the navigation and maneuvering necessary to capture a minimum mass ascent vehicle, and get its surface sample on the way back to Earth.
Since "Conventional Wisdom" is that there is nothing easy about this, it is very, very important for us to demonstrate our technologies in orbit (CubeSat style). The fact that we have accomplished many "Not Easy" things over the years cuts no ice with the "Space Pros". "Space is Different!" And actually, it is different! Experimental work there has been so outrageously expensive that "RISK" was intolerable. The next decade will see that change.
On another front, people like Newt Gingrich are openly talking about a privately funded Lunar Base. As I have pointed out before, Mars is easier to reach than the Moon, and the logistics are similar. But if human minds aren't yet ready to believe in an affordable Mars Mission, they may be ready to believe that "Going Back to the Moon" can be done at less than NASA's price.
Can man survive on the Moon protected by only a spacesuit! The only six votes that count are all YES! (Been there, done that.) How lightweight and low cost can a human Lunar Landing be? I am going to talk about that. How long can a tiny crew live in an inflated habitat without resupply? At least 1000 days. I have been discussing that (and its easier on the Moon than in space). Yes, if things don't work out as planned, you CAN get home in five days. Five liters of LOX and five of water will keep you alive to get home.
I believe Newt Gingrich still has influence and connections, but I don't know what it is going to take to convince him that a Lunar Expedition can look more like a K2 Climb and less like "Building the Panama Canal" (a massive industrial effort). If anyone out there can find me a communications channel to him, that might help.
More soon.
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Good News
Good News flows from several quarters relative to "Affordable Spaceflight". The latest success of a SpaceX launch (the second Falcon-1 success to orbit) is at the top of the list. Many of us are counting on SpaceX to offer "rational" costs to orbit. All my estimates for Lunar and Mars expeditions are based on SpaceX pricing. Substituting the $137 Million cost for a "Space Launch Alliance" flight for a comparable $37 Million Falcon-9 would be very painful.
News from "UP Aerospace" is mixed. The best news is that they are active and in business! See
<http://www.upaerospace.us.com/home.html> Curiously, this Active web site is not found by a Google search, but only the dead link (without the .us. section of the URL) <http://www.upaerospace.com/>.
Their May 2, 2009 SpaceLoft® XL flight was a "partial success". After a perfect motor run (for 10 to 12 seconds), a "backup" ejection controller triggered premature payload separation. This occurred at 3614 mph vertical velocity (Radar Tracking Data = 5300 fps > Mach 5) and an estimated 30,000 feet altitude. The released payload normally will tumble, and may have deployed (and shredded) parachutes so it will not coast much higher.
The intact airframe and excellent motor run (with higher velocity than the 2007 successful spaceflight), argues for future success. Bugs take longer to "wring out" with a very low launch rate.
Jerry Larson Heading UP Aerospace) reported in December 2008 that he could launch a SpaceLoft® XL rocket for $200,000. He is getting traction with potential customers. An additional SpaceLoft® XL flight is planned for later this year, and lower altitude test flights for Lockheed Martin continue.
New Mexico once again has a unique "Spaceflight" program, offered nowhere else in the country. The New Mexico Spaceflight Consortium is not only offering funding for student projects, it is flying them into space on the SpaceLoft® XL. The recent flight – now described as an annual event – carried a number of student projects. This batch did not make it into space, but were well tested with 16 to 20 g launch acceleration and even higher deceleration. These projects were recovered after parachuting to the ground. I am astonished, both by how well New Mexico works to get K-12 through Graduate School students personally involved with real spaceflight work (including at the X PRIZE Cup events), and the fact that no other state provides comparable opportunities!
For those who thought events 40 years ago (Apollo 11 Moon Landing) would make it possible for you to personally fly into space – Rest Assured: Celestis will get part of you there! Some of your ashes can follow Star Treck's "Scotty"into space on a future SpaceLoft® XL flight.
A step higher, in orbit, the news is also mixed. The success of CubeSats in demonstrating that very small satellites (and commercial grade electronics) can do good work in space has pushed many "Heavyweights" into related work. NanoSat work is planned or underway with NSF, DARPA, Army and Air Force Funding, as well as other national groups. Dr. Robert Twiggs (Stanford University) reports that competition from these "deep pocket" organizations has roughly doubled the launch cost for CubeSats. Cost is probably $80,000 instead of $40,000 for the 10 cm cube. But a side effect is that the added revenue from adding a handful of well proven "P-POD" units to a launch vehicle is now $1 Million. Several times that amount could be captured by a company flying to LEO with 100 kg of extra payload capability – a nice bonus with very little effort.
"Bob" Twiggs is fighting back like a true "Technocrat": he is prototyping the "PocketQub". This is literally 1/8 of the original 10 cm CubeSat! Roughly 2 inches on a side, and < 120 grams. Given electronic progress in the ten years since CubeSat efforts began, this is not an unreasonable step (keep my ½ gram HDTV Camera in mind). The PocketQub has more volume and mass than modern cell phones, and even standard surface mount technology will pack a lot of hardware into its frame. Even the reduced power is not a problem with today's extremely low power electronics.
It is unlikely that the cost to launch an experimental satellite will drop to $10,000, but $20,000 should be practical.
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More Good News 7/24/2009
Dr. Twiggs (Stanford University) also mentioned in his recent letter that "There is talk of subsidizing the university launch costs (for CubeSats), but then the subsidizers will get involved in who they subsidize." It is certainly true that the paperwork – and uncertainties - could be more trouble than they are worth -- a typical "Government Assistance" phenomenon. However, even a poorly designed subsidy program is worth something. It will get more small satellites into space, and it will show both the launch providers and satellite developers that there is real interest in this market. It will "Prove in Space" innovative technical approaches and economical hardware. It will qualify more engineers and scientists as having personally succeeded with the design, construction and flight of a space system. (At some point Personal involvement over the systems spectrum will win greater respect than Team participation, focused on a small part of one subsystem. The "Teamwork" pendulum has swung too far, since a great team actually needs a great leader.) Small businesses can make do selling subsystems to university teams while they perfect the capabilities needed for serious entrepreneurial space efforts.
It would be nice if the US Government were doing something to "preserve" the "unique technological superiority" so aggressively guarded by ITAR regulations. At present these laws complicate a team's efforts to get an experimental satellite launched in India, even if all its components were produced in Pacific Rim countries! Meanwhile, the excellent universities in India have a "fast track" to a cooperative launch center. Another decade of neglect could permanently relegate Space Technology to the long list of technologies the US now imports. (Currently including, of course, Atlas motors, Zenit launch vehicles, Progress orbital cargo and Soyuz astronaut transportation services, as well as VCRs, DVD systems, HDTV and LCDs, TVs, Cell Phones, Cameras, Camcorders and Computers.)
While I dream of finding the money to showcase "Ultralight Spaceflight" in reality, I have arranged to share my thoughts about what it should look and feel like in a series of short fiction pieces. See: http://www.associatedcontent.com/user/549387/richard_speck.html (RPS AC Content).
Very soon, my "Back to the Moon" story (with its twists) will be added to the list.
My nonfiction efforts will continue next week with preliminary concepts for "Moon Base One" and how it will begin with $100 Million funding. That will of course build only "Base Camp", although it will be dug in with the Lunar equivalent of "Snow Caves" and could be continually occupied for more than two years. The transition to a Lunar colony will happen much sooner than expected, and occur with remarkably little fanfare!
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Moon Base One – Base Camp
Note that my short story "Lasso the Moon" is now accessible online, also at:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/user/5 ... speck.html
My plan for a real Moon Base, affordable very soon, focuses on the Falcon V launch vehicle. With 10,000 kg to LEO, this vehicle will be able to orbit a system capable of soft landing 1000 kg on the Moon. I will detail in steps how this is adequate to establish a lightweight "Camp", for initial residence on the Moon. One $ 37 Million launch vehicle to establish a long term camp with two inhabitants.
Start with power – Solar of course. One square meter of solar panel will receive 1360 watts of solar radiation at normal incidence. Solar cell efficiencies – with the best multijunction cells – now run over 40% and the developers expect to achieve >50%. I will assume only the 20% conversion achieved by by good, singe crystal Silicon cells in what follows (272 watts/m^2 output), but better results are already available. Standard Silicon cells are 200 microns thick and weigh about 500 grams per square meter. Silicon thinned to 50 microns can produce equal efficiency cells and it looks and feels like Stainless Steel "shim stock". It is flexible, tough and hard to break except intentionally. It is strong enough to serve as a "tension web" in a mechanical structure which also includes lightweight ribs and spars. This thickness only weights 125 grams per square meter!
A 20 square meter panel of the thinned Silicon Cells (the size of a "carport" roof) could produce 5400 watts peak electrical power and have a total mass of 3 kilograms! This flimsy structure would be more than adequate in the benign environment of the Moon, and provide desirable shade in addition. This is a far cry from the 100 Watts/kg suggested in textbooks, but this is not for a "mechanism". It must be hand assembled by astronauts standing on the Moon, although this needn't take over an hour.
The reality of >40% solar cell conversion efficiency (and > 1 kW/kg mass performance) completely rules out machinery to apply concentrated sunlight for heating! The mass and losses associated with tracking the sun, collecting the sunlight and feeding materials to be heated into the focus, greatly exceed the roughly 50% loss from conversion to electricity. Double the size of the solar panels – with modest added weight – and use precisely controlled electrical heating wherever you need it!
This is an encouraging data point (5400 Watts peak power from a 3 kg solar system), but is far from the complete story. Even averaging the power for the day / night cycle (1600 Watts average) still leaves a big problem. Storing power for the 14 period of darkness is a Very Big Problem! (Roughly 28 times the storage requirement of Solar Power on the Earth.) More soon.
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Moon Base One: Overview (1)
Let me back up and provide an overview of our Moon Base plan. We will organize the material in a more coherent manner for the book. Now the technology is coming in rather "stream of conscious" bits and pieces. The pieces are related and interconnected, but don't come in a logical order.
One Falcon-9, with 10,000 kg payload to LEO, could include systems to land 1000 kg on the Moon. The 1000 kg (2200 pound) load landed on the Moon would be 6 of the Micro-Space HTS (Human Transport System) units. At least one would carry an astronaut, and for each astronaut there would be a second carrying ascent fuel for return to lunar orbit. With about 36 pound structural mass, 330 pounds (150 kg) of each would be payload. All residual fuel would be stored as it is quite valuable. Full weight astronauts (170 pounds + light spacesuit) would each carry over 100 pounds of supplies and life support equipment. (Lightweights -midgets and petite women - could each add over 70 days of food supply.) The additional HTS units could carry a years food supply for each astronaut, or a good quantity of "Camp" supplies.
I expect that two of the Falcon-9 systems will be flown in the first year, costing $37 Million each, plus the payload systems, including lunar landers, LTO (escape) fuel and Earth return systems. This should cost $100 Million (75% of which is the Falcon -9 launch vehicles).
Dropping to ½ that scope, with a single Falcon-9 carrying a single astronaut to the Moon is a viable option. If he/she can get the recycling systems working properly, he/she can then live on the Moon for over three years without resupply. I won't focus on that option unless it becomes necessary. That would be the case if $50 Million looked like a ceiling for funding, but that sum was virtually guaranteed.
I am ambivalent about sending two astronauts on the first trip, or only one. Constructing the camp (primarily by lining dug trenches) will be more difficult for one individual, but the quantity of supplies sent with two individuals would be quite limited. Much of the work – and long term supplies – would in that case have to wait for the next shipment. That shipment could actually include a third astronaut and well as supplies. Historically, human explorers have survived in unexpected conditions that never could have been handled by robots (including Apollo 13). The reverse logic – letting billion dollar robotic missions fail rather than risk the life of a willing human explorer – will not be a component of my discussions. No human "Soul" is ever lost in risky exploration – such a loss involves choices in another arena altogether. The finite number of days any of us have in this World may of course be reduced. An adequate number of qualified individuals are more than willing to face the risks of serious exploration and will welcome the opportunity to "Go where no one has gone before"!
Considering the "long, cold nights on the Moon", note than 80 cm below the lunar surface, thermometers showed NO day /night temperature variation. This depth can be reduced when the overlayer is sifted regolith – with lower density and heat conductivity - and total elimination of the temperature cycle is not necessary. Storing energy for the long nights is of course imperative. My proposal involves LNG production and storage plus SOFC fuel cells integrated into the chemical reprocessing of Life Support Oxygen and CO2. I will detail this soon.
Initial operations on the Moon would use supplied food, LOX and CO2 absorbers, with a 5 pound per day requirement. The captured CO2 would be a valuable resource. Water would, of course, be recycled just as it is on planet Earth. The transition to Oxygen reprocessing (and in situ production) would begin in the first few days after landing.
Keep in mind that the equipment involved will be Tiny! Some of the chemistry resembles that used in "Fuel Reforming" for Automotive Fuel Cells. But the underpowered original 985 cc Volkswagen produced less than 20 kilowatts of mechanical power, and was driven "pedal to the metal" on highways. A similar, underpowered electric vehicle will also need 20 kW of electric power production. One Hundredth this capacity (of fuel processing chemical hardware) will handle the reprocessing required by one astronaut! If five hundred pounds of chemical equipment is necessary to feed Hydrogen to the fuel cells in a small car, five pounds of similar machinery will feed Oxygen to an astronaut! More soon.
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You certainly won't get many "little people" to volunteer if you call them "midgets" which is considered offensive
Point well taken! Thank you.
I do hope to get across to this group the powerful advantage they have as "compact astronauts".
I strongly believe that the next humans on the moon will be members of some "special identity group". Many such groups could mobilize the funding I am talking about - comparable to an "Americas Cup" sailboat racing team.
Lightweight, low cost Moon landings were of course extensively researched by NASA.
NASA Langley 1961 Solo Lunar Lander http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4205/ch3-5.html
This is among the "Roads Not Taken", but researched by NASA, and validates low cost concepts for those without NASA sized funding.
The 1961 NASA Langley image lists 500 pounds mass empty, plus a 220 pound suited astronaut.
This mass could of course be reduced with modern controls, and lighter structure. This 720 pound empty mass would weigh only 120 pounds on the Moon – far less than the weight carried with a "Jet Pack" system, and supported by the users legs! Landing on the Moon is much easier (effectively in slow motion) compared to landing with a Jet Pack on the Earth. Slashing the "Controls and Structure" group to 30 pounds (with a landing on the astronauts boots), with ½ the engine, tankage and fuel mass, would bring the dry mass to 360 pounds, weighting 60 pounds on the Moon. Splitting the fuel mass ratio (equal Delta V for ascent and descent) gives 401 pounds of ascent fuel remaining after touch down. The 761 pound total (dry mass plus fuel) would weigh just 127 pounds on the Moon: much less than handled by "Jet Pack" users at an air show!
Scale this mass down for a "compact astronaut" and you begin to see why my cost estimates make sense.
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Even More Good News
The Abu Dhabi investment in Virgin Galactic – and promised $100 Million investment in a compatible small satellite orbital launch system - is very good news! It shows that the "Ultralight Satellite Revolution" is on track and accelerating! This phenomena will soon blow away all the old "Space Pro Mantras" about how "Space is Different" and nobody else understands what it takes to do things there. By the second year of the next decade (2012 – decades end with xxx0 years, they start with xxx1) the old thinking will be a joke! Over hype, of course, will create opportunities for the unwise to lose a lot of invested money, but successes will pile up.
Many exciting small satellite opportunities require CUSTOM ORBITS, not Piggyback - ride along on someone else's bird.
Quote from: nacnud on 07/30/2009 05:10 PM
"I have friends that work at Surrey Satellites: 200kg is large for them. Most are below 160kg. I think they would love to have a launcher that is more tuned to their needs than piggybacking on someone else launch."
Some people have noticed that high performance electronics, including microwave RF systems, are getting smaller and cheaper every year.
Some people have also noticed that consumer laptop computers, cameras, audio systems, and ham radio gear work quite well in the ISS, with minimal shielding. (Fifteen Inches of Aluminum = the mass/area of 1/10 the atmosphere. A 0.15 inch skin = 1/1000 of atmosphere (equaling about 50 km altitude) and is insignificant shielding for primary cosmic rays including high Z particles.)
Pegasus XL, offering 200 to 400 kg to LEO, has been flying once a year recently (2005, 06, 07, 08). This does not seem an exciting business to compete for, but the $11 to $15 million price is a factor. Maintenance of the L-1011 dedicated launch plane and all other overhead must be carried by that one launch.
It is much easier to price a new technology aggressively while investors are still optimistic. If the time is right, volume builds and makes the low price profitable. After years of infrequent flights and accumulating losses, it is hard to rekindle the optimism to try aggressive pricing again.
Virgin Galactic will be adding the satellite launches to human suborbital flights, and thus has a larger base to cover the costs. Their marginal cost (incremental unit cost) for adding a flight should be below $1 Million. Their hybrid SpaceShipTwo engine is not bad at all as a first stage to orbit. Its rocket motor can of course be shut down if the initial flight performance is flawed. With the air launch advantage, and reasonable composite structures, the 17,000 kg capacity of the WK2 can put 170 to 340 kg into LEO. (More than 100 CubeSats!) A decent upper stage or two is assumed, of course.
The orbital payload, about 375 to 750 pounds, of course covers my "Ultralight Solo" flight system concept with room to spare. Would Burt Rutan or Richard Branson consider flying a solo system into space? Of Course! They already did that three times. Orbital flight is a logical next step.
The rational concept of "Human Supervised" tests to prove experimental systems in space could double Virgin Galactic's business. (The ticket price equals six weeks costs for a small development team. The option of preparation and integration for a sounding rocket test would add many months to the schedule, cost more and be unlikely to return undamaged hardware for further evaluation.) The next step would to fly the successful systems along with NSF, DARPA, Army, Air Force, NASA and University CubeSats, and achieve TRL 9!
The payload capacity to LEO is also more than adequate for a lightweight Google Moon Lander effort! Better yet, to make his "Galactic" title more than hype, Branson might pick up the Lunar Competition when Google ends its funding, and could discount lander flights to LEO to showcase his ambitions!
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Moon Base One – Base Camp – Sundown 8/20/2009
As already noted, storing power for the 14 days of darkness each lunar month is a serious problem. It will NOT be dark, for the initial "nearside" camps, because Earthshine is quite bright! The "half Earth" conditions near sunset and sunrise will be about 10 times as bright as a "Full Moon", with no clouds to reduce the light. "Full Earth" at the middle of the lunar night will be at least 30 times as bright as a conventional "Full Moon" in Earth's clear sky. You won't need lights outside, but you will certainly need them in the habitat!
Since the brightness mentioned is more than 1000 times dimmer than direct sunlight, solar power production is effectively zero. Power will have to be stored. Since all such processes have inefficiencies, it will be good to double my initial Solar Power plan, using 6 kg of thin cells, rather than only 3kg. More than 10KW peak power will be produced, with an ample 3kw Day/Night average. This also provides insurance against solar cell damage and degradation. Battery power storage of course springs to mind, but it is virtually useless, except for short time emergency use! The sun will be down 336 hours each cycle. Very good Lithium Ion cells can hold about 170 Watt Hours per kg mass. But this barely provides ½ watt average power output, per Kilogram, for the 14 days of darkness. A modest 500 Watt average power would require One Ton of lithium cells, even if the full capacity could be tapped each cycle for one hundred cycles (8 year desired life). A much better power storage system is needed.
An interesting possibility would be to store heat in a buried volume of lunar rock. The lunar "crust" has modest thermal conductivity (as shown by the lack of thermal cycling 80 cm below the surface). Heat transfer is even lower under loose regolith fill. The heat could be recaptured when the sun is down with a variety of heat engines. But that will wait for later.
A good short term solution is to adapt the needed "Life Support" processes for power handling as well.
The "Sabatier Reaction" (so loved by Robert Zubrin) -- CO2 + 4H2 => CH4 + 2H2O -- converts CO2 to Methane by forcing Hydrogen gas to combine with it under high pressure. As usual, this reaction is also promoted by quickly capturing the water (H2O) produced. The water from the listed reaction is electrolytically dissociated to produce more hydrogen, as is water from metabolic food oxidation in the astronauts. This is one of the few reactions that can completely recover the used respiratory Oxygen. When a surplus of Methane has been accumulated, it can be dissociated at high temperature and low pressure to produce useful "Pyrolytic Graphite" and release the Hydrogen for reuse. (Graphite electrodes are usually used for electrolytic production of Aluminum.)
But the Methane can be "burned" with Oxygen in a very practical fuel cell. This of course regenerates the Carbon Dioxide and adds more water for recycling. But 15,470 Wh of energy is released for each kilogram of methane used. This is almost 100 times the energy/mass ratio of Lithium Ion cells and has an essentially unlimited cycle life! The materials listed here are unavoidable in the life support system of a manned outpost and most of the chemical reactions are already necessary in that system. Twenty Kilograms of Methane can produce my target 500 watts of electrical power, at practical efficiency, for each 14 day dark cycle on the Moon!
The best fuel cell for this purpose is the Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) running continuously at 600 to 900 degrees C. These cells are in active use at remote industrial and residential sites. Their efficiency converting the chemical energy to electric power is also unusually high, at 60%, and the high temperature waste heat can also be used. They have set records for longevity, with 8 years of continuous operation, and 50,000 hours as a typical expectation. Similar tests on PEM, room temperature fuel cells, averaged 3000 hours. The use of any hydrocarbon is challenging with both Alkaline and PEM fuel cells, as one will not tolerate CO2, and the catalysts of the other are poisoned by CO. The SOFC, on the other hand, has unlimited tolerance for both gases, and will run very well with Methane (not just Hydrogen) as feedstock.
Note that the SOFC process works equally well in reverse, to split water and release Hydrogen and Oxygen. This can be accomplished with simple equipment on the Moon, but the SOFC based electrolysis system is very attractive for Zero G, Mars Expedition use!
The fuel cells and other systems, of course, also add mass. Current materials seem to offer an SOFC stack to produce my 500 Watts sustained power with 1 kg mass. Methane is significantly easier to liquefy than Oxygen, with the 10 kg mass then occupying about 20 liters (less than 1 cubic foot) in an insulated tank. The minimum temperature at the Apollo 15 landing site (92 K) is well below the normal boiling point of Methane, and below the boiling point of Oxygen at 150 kPa = 22 psia. Liquid storage of both gases is feasible and can use similar equipment. Only 7 liters of LOX is needed for breathing by each astronaut over the 14 day period, so that the reserve for a three person crew requires a similar storage tank.
With total system losses, 1000 to 2000 watts of electrical power (up to 1/3 my enhanced 10 KW peak supply) will to drive this process and guarantee 500 average Watts through the dark half cycle. A small group of Lithium ion cells can handle short term peaks. High energy processes – CO2 conversion, water electrolysis, desiccant regeneration, LOX and LNG generation and regolith processing - will occur during the 14 day, sun up half cycle, with many kilowatts of available power.
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0.5 litres of LOX for 14 days doesn't leave much room for exercise though (e.g. digging trenches to live in). I have a V(O2) max of about 4 litres, 0.5 l of LOX expands to 430 l of GOX at 20C, so that I could burn my entire allotment of O2 in 108 minutes. Something like a 25 km run, at my current fitness level and here on Earth. What is the O2 consumption for a resting human?
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One liter of Lox, about 1200 grams, combines with carbohydrates to produce 4000 Calories of metabolic energy. On a 2000 Calorie per day diet, just 0.5 liter of Lox would be used per day with a primarily carbohydrate diet (modestly more with a higher fat percentage). Since it is easy to relax in low gravity, deliberate exercise will often be required to get UP to the 2000 Calorie Earth average.
You could be burning 4000 Calories per day, but that is rare. Unsupported teams skiing across Antarctica have averaged 6000 Calories per day of food intake with an even higher metabolic level (producing weight loss). Use a whole liter of Lox per day if you need it: Oxygen is fairly easy to recycle and that metabolic level only needs about 200 watts of effective, average Solar Power to regenerate the Oxygen.
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I have been busy with SBIR proposals, but will soon get back to the Moon Base One plan and other topics.
One note: for near term history, the next human who achieves an altitude significantly above the 559 km of the Hubble Space Telescope (well above the 350 km altitude of the ISS) will earn bragging rights in this century. An altitude of 1000 km will certainly qualify as "Above LEO". For example "The First Woman to fly Above LEO". That appears to require less than 300 meters per second as one burn from LEO. This could be accomplished with a 10% fuel mass burn – using storable fuels – and accomplished as part of the first human test of a lightweight reentry system. That burn could either lower the subsequent perigee altitude (producing reentry ½ orbit after apogee), or could produce a sustained elliptical orbit with several high altitude passes before a reentry burn.
The Van Allen radiation during these short transits would be in the modest dose range seen by Apollo Astronauts – about equal to a chest x-ray. (Note that OSHA/NASA standards don't allow that kind of occupational exposure very often. Radiation for Cancer treatment exceeds even the radiation exposure for a slow Mars trip!)
Only 200 kg for the basic reentry system, with 20 to 30 kg added to become the first human this century to fly above LEO – or the first woman ever to do so!
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In 2008 I earned the title of "Jesus Freak" of the Google Lunar X PRIZE competition. Not without cause, since I "Squandered" much of my two-minute allocation for a team introduction by crediting the Lord Jesus Christ with having made possible progress with spaceflight technologies which exceeded my early expectations!
There are drawbacks to being a Jesus Freak, particularly with being a Jesus Freak in Science and Technology. I won't say much about the obvious ones – related to credibility with potential investors or customers – since everyone in "New Space" has a major credibility problem anyway! But, anyone who receives a God Given Dream, and has the courage to act on it, has an additional problem.
It is said that a God Given Dream will seem "Too Good to be True and Too Big to be You!", and I agree with this statement! A God Given Dream is certain to fail without His active participation. He is less concerned about the result (while that may bring great blessings to many) then He is about the process and the appearances. He doesn't want to make you look good! He chose you for your weaknesses as well as your strengths, and will make sure that You and Everyone Else is reminded of Your Weaknesses!
God's Big Plans are not really about revealing a hidden champion to the world, or showing you that you possess greater abilities than you thought you had, although those revelations may play a role. He really wants to reveal Himself! This is not the "I think I can. … I think I can. … I knew I could!" story at all! Therefore you can look forward to the "Yo-yo Component".
For a while, God will open doors, multiply the effectiveness of your efforts and accelerate progress. But when that becomes comfortable, and something you expect, He will actually close doors and block progress. The Yo-yo Component! If you have the Faith to stick with Him, other cycles lie in the future, moving up to higher levels, but often taking unexpected twists as well. Progress is made toward the Dream, but the picture becomes much more complex than you initially imagined and you are continually aware that You, Your Abilities and Your Resources don't have much to do with that progress!
At present I, and my phantom company Micro-Space, are definitely not on an accelerated portion of a cycle. The Lord continues to give me understanding of innovative space technologies which will play a role in "entrepreneurial" space activities – by my company or others – and confidence in the "Entrepreneurial Space Age" which is now beginning. I will continue to blog about the technologies I am led to understand.
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Micro-Space SBIR proposal, "Automatic Solar and Celestial Navigation on the Moon and Mars", has been selected by NASA for Phase I funding. This proposal taps Micro-Space's long history of high resolution image processing and capture, used for example in our DOD automated inspection systems for aircraft HUD and HMD displays and in machine vision systems. The very low mass system proposed can also be adapted for use as a "Star Camera" in CubeSats and NanoSpacecraft including to guide planetary approach for aerobraking and atmospheric entry.
This is of course a very important part of the manned and unmanned Mars Missions I have proposed. Lunar missions have a similar need for Lunar Orbit Insertion if orbit is desired to setup for landing, or to retain hardware in orbit to sustain communication with a rover. Thus it is relevant for both GLXP and manned lunar missions. Our GLXP prototypes use similar technology for initial altitude determination (before our LIDAR system locks onto the optical surface return) and verification of zero lateral velocity as touchdown approaches. The reduction of mass and cost of critical systems continues.
An STTR proposal, teaming with Bob Twiggs – of CubeSat fame – and his university is still pending. This proposal uses Micro-Space, electromagnetic 6DOF position sensing and force generation systems to assemble and stabilize untethered small satellite formations. Professor Twiggs has previously led teams which successfully flew tethered PicoSats in orbit. The proposed orbital demonstration would clear the way for much more complex formations to be flown, with no necessary maneuvering fuel.
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In Sandy's wake, East Lyme cottage down but not out
East Lyme - Robin Soule doesn't want her children to have a reef instead of the summer home her family has owned for more than 100 years.
As Superstorm Sandy battered the coastline Oct. 29, the waves pushed her garage into a nearby pond, ripped the deadbolt off the front door, soaked the couch and rugs and inundated the basement with sand.
Soule is determined to repair the cottage and have it endure for future generations, even in the face of future storms.
The Soule house stands on Atlantic Street in Crescent Beach, right next to McCook Point Park. The first floor of the cottage with brown siding, white railings and green shutters was raised several feet above ground at the time of its construction in the late 1800s. A seawall separates the back walkway from the sandy beach on Niantic Bay.
The Soule family bought the house in 1909 for $3,000 and has passed it on ever since, Robin Soule said.
Soule, raised in Niantic, is a third-grade teacher at Flanders Elementary School. Her parents met in Lake Placid, N.Y., and eventually moved to Niantic in the late 1950s to a year-round home Soule and her husband later bought. It is where they raised their three daughters: Kate, 22, Kelly, 19, and Lauryn, 14.
Soule and her cousins share the summer house, named "Suliote," a derivative of her surname. Her great-grandfather, a shipbuilder in Freeport, Maine, had a ship with the same name.
The relatives divide up the summer weeks so they each get a chance to stay at the home. Soule's cousin, Bill Widnall, is a world-champion sailor, and her late father, Colin Soule, was one of the founders of the Niantic Bay Yacht Club. The family has enjoyed summer boat races on the waters in front of their house.
The three-story cottage is where Soule took her first steps. It's where she got ready for her wedding and then celebrated with friends afterward. It's the place where her older daughters and their friends gather in the summertime.
The house has beaten storms before, even surviving the Hurricane of 1938. Soule said she believes its structural alignment and placement of the chimney helped keep it standing during that and other hurricanes.
Before Sandy reached Connecticut that day in late October, Soule visited the cottage. She had a "strong bad feeling" about this storm. She gathered family items - photos, books about the Hurricane of 1938 and family albums from the early 1900s.
She and her daughters "hugged" the house the night before the storm and called on their ancestors to help protect it. "You're doing it all, but you don't want to be saying goodbye to it," she said wistfully about the experience. "I would fight to the grave before I let it go easily."
Rebuilding for the future
In the end the cottage largely withstood Sandy's fury, though the lower side walls of the house buckled in. The storm surge pushed several feet of rocks and sand into the basement; now one has to crouch down to walk inside it. The force of the storm also pushed the garage off her property. Its roof was soon floating in a nearby pond.
In all, damage reached into the tens of thousands of dollars.
Soule must now decide how to remove the sand from her basement and whether to tackle that task in the winter or the spring. And as she rebuilds, she must also consider the future.
"I've seen so much change in the tide levels," Soule said one recent morning as she looked out at the beach. While the waves crashed gently, she said she remembers when the beach stretched farther out from the house. The high tides now reach close to the cottage.
She said she thinks storms like Sandy will continue to occur.
After Tropical Storm Irene hit Connecticut in 2011, the Soule family and their neighbor decided to rebuild and strengthen sections of a seawall to protect the homes from surging tides. Soule's husband, John Eberle, a civil engineer, helped coordinate the efforts completed this year, which included pilings buried 15 feet into the ground. They both think the structure helped save the house from destruction.
"We're very grateful," said Soule.
Among the debris washed up in the storm, Soule has found a horseshoe that she now keeps on her back porch.
The storm also damaged the Soules' small Sunfish sailboat. When Sandy had departed, Soule decided to leave it out in case anyone wanted it to take it and make repairs. Her neighbor, Dorothy Breen, saw it lying outside. When Soule told her she wanted to give it away, Breen said she knew the right person for it: her friend Lynn Butler's son.
Roy Hubbard, Butler's 23-year-old son, who studies at the University of Maine, taught himself to sail as a teenager in front of the yacht club. Sailing is his "passion in life," said Butler. "We're going to continue this legacy that started a long time ago," she added.
As Soule said: "The yacht club started out in front here."
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On a chilly day in early December, Soule, dressed in jeans with her brown hair pulled back into a ponytail and baseball cap, climbed into the loader machine that her contractor, Chris Leitkowski, had used earlier to pick up and haul debris from the garage to a Dumpster.
Leitkowski, of Uncasville-based Leitkowski Construction, and worker Devan Dupuis had been working to remove the roof that was sitting beside the small pond near Atlantic Street. With their help, Soule and her husband had been able to recover the windsurfer and sailboat masts, booms and sails pinned under the blown-away roof of her garage. They also retrieved gardening tools and a shovel.
Soule had always wanted to drive a loader machine, and now, thanks to Sandy, she said, she had the chance.
Then, at the controls of the loader, she moved over to the debris of her garage and began to try to pick up the pieces.
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Rosie O'Donnell and Wife Adopt Baby Girl
Rosie O'Donnell and her wife Michelle Rounds announced on Wednesday that they adopted a baby girl named Dakota, the New York Daily News reports.
The comedian and talk show host posted a picture of herself and Rounds, O'Donnell's second wife, with their new addition on her Twitter account.
"we r thrilled to announce the arrival of r daughter Dakota #withloveandthanks - AMEN," O'Donnell, 50, tweeted.
According to O'Donnell's publicist the couple adopted Dakota and said the "moms and baby are happy and healthy."
Including the newborn, who was born on Jan. 5 and weighed 5 pounds, 5 ounces, the actress has five children, USA Today notes. She has four kids with her ex-wife, Kelli Carpenter.
This is Rounds' first baby and USA Today reports that O'Donnell told Dr. Oz on his daytime talk show that Rounds was "trying to get pregnant." Later on, however, Rounds was diagnosed with desmoids tumors, which is a rare condition that requires Rounds to undergo a number of operations.
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Y-12 National Security Complex police officers detained a bicycling trespasser Saturday afternoon and turned him over to the Oak Ridge Police Department.
Y-12 National Security Complex police officers detained a bicycling trespasser Saturday afternoon and turned him over to the Oak Ridge Police Department.
Oak Ridge Police Lt. Robin Smith said officers charged 39-year-old Brent Lee, of 110 Normandy Road, Oak Ridge, with criminal trespassing, a class E misdemeanor.
Lee reportedly was not taken to the Anderson County jail but released on a misdemeanor citation.
According to a National Nuclear Security Administration release, Lee was detained shortly after 2:07 p.m. when officers saw him riding a bike on Y-12's North Patrol Road.
Those officers were members of a Y-12 canine team performing a routine random patrol of the area, the NNSA said, and Lee was turned over to the Oak Ridge Police Department.
"The individual did not enter the high security area of the plant," the NNSA release stated. However, as a precaution, "the plant entered a heightened state of security to ensure the security of the Oak Ridge facility."
Subsequently, extensive canine patrol sweeps were initiated but no other trespassers were found, the NNSA said. After the canine patrol sweeps, the plant was returned to normal operations.
The North Patrol Road is located on Y-12 property directly adjacent to a fence that represents the official boundary — frequently called the "229 Boundary"— for the 810-acre federal property, and is clearly marked for no trespassing.
"The fence is not considered a security fence and is intended to serve as visible demarcation for the federal property line," the NNSA explained.
The North Patrol Road, which is located away from the main production areas of Y-12, is frequently patrolled by the Y-12 police officers and canine patrols. Canine patrols are extensively used at Y-12 as a part of the overall security strategy for the plant.
The North Patrol Road can be accessed from the Oak Ridge Turnpike near Southwood subdivision and from South Illinois Avenue near Scarboro Road. The road runs along the ridge behind the Scarboro neighborhood and farther west, the Country Club Estates neighborhood.
Last July, three trespassers were arrested for breaching the security fences at Y-12 and vandalizing a wall at the Highly Enriched Uranium Manufacturing Facility (HEUMF). That trio of so-called "anti-nuclear activists" — 82-year-old Megan Rice, a nun from Las Vegas; 57-year-old Greg Boertje-Obed of Duluth, Minn.; and 63-year-old Michael Walli of Washington, D.C. — now face federal charges and a possible federal prision sentence.
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Huskers in Ninth at Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate
Palm Desert, Calif. - The Nebraska men's golf team is in ninth place with 18 holes to play after shooting 305 in the second round of the Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate on Saturday.
The Huskers opened the tournament with a 296 on Friday at the Classic Club, giving NU a 601 total through 36 holes. TCU leads the team competition by 11 strokes over Texas Tech at 565. TCU's Julien Brun, Texas Tech's Finley Ewing IV and St. Mary's Jonathan De Los Reye are tied for the individual lead at 139 strokes after two rounds.
Freshman Kolton Lapa turned in the best Husker score on Saturday with a 1-over-par 73. Lapa opened his second round with a birdie and added two more on the front nine en route to a 36. On the back nine, he made one bogey and eight pars for a 37. Lapa is tied for 16th at 146 strokes.
Jordan Reinertson is tied for 40th at 150 strokes through two rounds. The senior from Gibbon, Neb., notched a 4-over-par 76 on Saturday. Reinertson suffered two double bogeys on the front nine along with a birdie and a bogey for a 40. On the back nine, he cruised his way to nine pars for a 36.
Kevin Gillick posted a 6-over-par 78 in the second round after a first-round 74. His 152 total after two rounds puts him in a tie for 54th. Gillick made three birdies and nine bogeys on Saturday.
Junior Matt Record also carded a 78 on Saturday and is tied for 59th with 18 holes to play. Record produced a first-round 75 to give him a 36-hole total of 153. He birdied the 16th on Saturday, but added a triple bogey and four additional bogeys.
Sophomore Cameron Palmer is tied for 98th after shooting 80 in the second round. Palmer opened the tournament with an 85 on Friday. Ross Dickson, playing as an individual outside of the NU lineup, is tied for 75th at 156 strokes. Dickson shot a 4-over-par 76 in the second round.
Play resumes on Sunday at 9:20 a.m. (CT). The Huskers tee off on Hole No. 1 along with Kansas, Iowa State and Wichita State. Live scoring can be found at: http://www.golfgamebook.com/club/tournament/elastic/2up-wzfl/primary.
Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate
Feb. 22-24, 2013
The Classic Club, Palm Desert, Calif.
Par 72 - 7,305 yards
Team Top 10 Leaderboard
2. Texas Tech - 576 (284-292)
3. St. Mary's - 578 (284-294)
4. San Francisco - 579 (284-295)
5. Oregon State - 582 (291-291)
6. Wichita State - 595 (299-296)
7. Cal Poly - 597 (296-301)
8. Iowa State - 600 (300-300)
9. Nebraska - 601 (296-305)
T-10. Idaho - 603 (295-308)
T-10. Kansas - 603 (295-304)
Nebraska Scores
T-16. Kolton Lapa - 146 (73-73)
T-40. Jordan Reinertson - 150 (74-76)
T-54. Kevin Gillick - 152 (74-78)
T-59. Matt Record - 153 (75-78)
T-75. Ross Dickson - 156 (80-76)*
T-98. Cameron Palmer - 165 (85-80)
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The end of 2010 and the start of the New Year offer some challenges for those seeking to analyze and predict where prices and demand might be heading for aluminum and steel scrap destined to enter the can production stream.
Aluminum scrap tags were basically flat at the start of the fourth quarter as many buyers held out for a clearer view on demand for the next few months. Since scrap flow traditionally slows at year-end, buyers must decide between speculating or awaiting solid information on upcoming demand.
The same was true on the steel side, where scrap prices rose slightly in November due to a buying spree by Turkey. Because the increase didn't reflect any improvement in domestic mill consumption, analysts are unsure how demand will start in the New Year.
Although secondary aluminum smelters are seeing scrap prices tick higher, those changes are more reflective of London Metal Exchange activity than any real change in demand, the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries said in a fall report. "Consequently, smelters insist that they are not chasing this market but prices are firmer," it said.
Longer term, the demand outlook might be improving, many traders said. Manufacturing in the Midwest grew in the third quarter as claims for unemployment benefits fell and consumer spending showed some sign of recovery. Still, some offered a cautious read.
"The recovery has been uneven across regions. The Midwest might have been better at one point of the year and the Northeast at another point. Some regions were slightly tighter on supply earlier this year and are doing slightly better now," said Leslie Shuman, director of strategy and supply chain at Alcoa North American Rolled Products, part of Pittsburgh-based Alcoa Inc.
Yet there are signs of optimism for growing markets. Crown Holdings Inc., Philadelphia, announced in the fall that it is expanding its beverage can production capacity in Turkey by building a new manufacturing plant in the Osmaniye region in south-central Turkey vs. an existing two-line facility in Izmit, adding about 1 billion two-piece aluminum cans per year to its current annual Turkish output capacity of around 1.5 billion beverage cans.
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Teela got front!
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Woo-hoo! I'm SO glad we're seeing more of MOTU, Despera and SHE-RA! Also, I'm glad to see Teela is a red head again. Too many blondes are running around.
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Aww yeah!
Real Teela!
The death better be a Sticky Fingers-esque character though. I hope they don't follow Classics I like having MAA on the cover & warrior Teela. Screw Clamp Champ's promotion.
The Space Mutants are missing something CRITAcal!
I just can't wait to see what new characters they're going to introduce. As a lot of people would have seen from the bigger DC comics thread the newest cover for issue 6 has Fang-Man on it. Would love to see more Filmation characters appearing.
Honestly... is there a better 2014 Sub-Figure other than Despara?
I hate when they kill characters off for shock and awe...and "buy our issue!!!!" type of advertising. I mean, they killed off a character in the Despera one-shot which really ****** me off! See spoilers below:
They killed off Flutterina. She didn't even get a name attached to her or speaking parts, just a sword through the gut and tossed aside like a sack of waste. In the Filmation cartoon, she got TWO origin episodes! She even has her own mini-comic. She wasn't treated with respect at all. I LOVED everything about the Despera issue except for their treatment of Flutterina. It's not 100% confirmed she is dead (they COULD bring her back), but later in the issue Despera said how many people were killed and how many held captive, so things look very bleak...especially because they're killing someone else off in this new issue!
I would enjoy more story, less gimmicks (like heaving bossoms with plunging cleavage about to fall out and killing off major characters each issue).
I'm still very excited about the series, but they need to either stop killing off characters or build up to it and give the characters SOME story, depth and speaking parts, so their deaths aren't meaningless and throwaway.
I'm also looking forward to MGM's reaction to the disappearance of blonde haired Teela.
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Who should Despara take out next?
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This is fantastic news, something I've been hoping for since the launch of the six part comic series. I wonder what's in store for MOTU next?
Ick, that art. Teela's chest is like one enormous fused uniboob.
Hey Darkspecter, on the spoiler front, since I'm holding off on reading the six issue series & have not read the digitals...do you think the spoiler you listed will be 'fixed'? Will the timeline go back? I hope so.
The Space Mutants are missing something CRITAcal!
The comic books have been really good! I'm hoping we'll enjoy the same quality product when it switches to an ongoing series.
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I don't fully remember the Filmation episode at the moment, but the "Small One" (who was pretty much a slave) went into a cocoon and when she emerged, she was Flutterina. They could do something like this with Flutterina. She was wounded very badly and cocooned herself to heal and emerge more powerful. I think that would be cool. She'd also have a bone to pick with Despera.
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Hordak looks terrible on that cover (not that I think anybody else looks much better, mind you).
Great news, looking forward to it!
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AWESOME. I'm amazed that we are getting new MOTU fiction. That's just amazing. Too bad it's not everyone's cup of tea. I wish everyone could be as happy as I am about this. Ongoing MOTU stories in 2013.... So freakin cool.
Glad to see the return of red haired Teela.
Really good news!
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Awesome news! I've somewhat enjoyed the storyline. My only gripe is it has dragged on a little too long to finally get to He-Man. I've loved the art.
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No, but I'm not too fused. Teela has history as a blonde AND a redhead, so I'm glad that Teela has had some "screentime" with her original hair color.
I do hope they EXPLAIN why she's suddenly got red hair all of a sudden. Maybe she switches up from time to time.
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Despara figure = Yes please! (new scary Horde member...what's not to love)
Hybrid Tella = Yes Please! (she is the best of both worlds...long red hair with a bikini, thought I think this one looks more bad ass)
Chain mail jock He-Man = Yes Please!
Regardless of how we, individualy, feel about the comic, I would think we all can agree it's great to see He-Man & MOTU back in the lime light! This, I would think, is a great, if not the best, way to "reintroduce He-Man & MOTU back into "main stream". All the licensing products have been great but I think the comic will really make an impact for a resurgence of interest in He-Man & MOTU.
It's great to see, also, how they are "reintroducing" She-Ra. As a BAD ASS KILLER! I think this will give She-Ra more mainstream appeal; tragic but true. I think the "death" of one of the most frilly, girlie characters of She-Ra POP, makes sense. Hear me out...I just see alot of hesitation, in regards to male fans, with She-Ra because of the ultra femminie marketing i.e. colors, characters, toys, etc. Looking at her right now...she's a scary looking Horde killer! She gets cool points...she gets the male vote because you see her hard scary side FIRST. Not as Force Captian Adora. When you compare Force Captian Adora to other Horde members, she is not menacing enough to be "taken seriously".
I am sure at some point we'll see the She-Ra we "know" all-be-it a bit more hard-core; no doubt! As a She-Ra POP fan it does my childish heart good to see She-Ra & He-Man wrapped into one story again! They didn't have to include her....but they did!!
Also, if the story line goes well we may see a mini-series from She-Ra POP, and if THAT goes well maybe her own monthly too.
Regardless if we end up with 2 or 1 title(s) it's AWESOME to see He-Man along with She-Ra getting some much needed "mainstream" love!
That art is AWESOME! Good times!!!!
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Not crazy about there not being any mention of Dave Wilkins, though, but THRILLED they're picking up with the Despera story.
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Also, I haven't loved the 6 issue series, but it's still damn fun to get new MOTU entertainment every month for just a few bucks. However I HAVE loved the digital comics, which is why I'm so excited that that's the story they're going with.
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For Stanczyk, Ancestry.com keeps getting better and better. Ancestry discovered that President Obama is related to John Punch. John Punch was one of President Obama's 11th great-grandfathers.
According to the Ancestry press release, this discovery happened as Ancestry researched his maternal lineage. As you may recall, President Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, is Caucasian (i.e. white) with a lineage that was recently traced back through Ireland (by Megan Smolenyak).
Lesser known is the President's German 6th great-grandfather, Johann Conrad Wolflin (aka Wolfley) who immigrated to Pennsylvania. This research was also done by Ancestry.com.
Now this John Punch is a topic I'd like to see done on Dr. Henry Louis Gates' PBS show!


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Spent most of the day trying to get some organisation back into my research. I know that other genealogists constantly struggle with this problem. My head has been in the sand for a while and things are now in a mess.
I have scribbled notes from when I have found something of interest or importance; a stack of email replies to deal with after contacting various churches and cemeteries about burial records; loads of photographs that need organising and descriptions adding; and a pile of miscellaneous papers and computer prints to work through.
Part of the problem is that I get easily distracted and move on to something else before finishing what I started.
On top of all this I haven't touched my one-name study for about three weeks.
So I couldn't sleep this morning and was up about 5.40am. I was straight on to the computer to deal with the photographs. I spent about an hour adding descriptions to the various images from church and cemetery visits over the last three months.
Next I reviewed my great grandparent database where I record all birth, marriage, death and burial details and whether or not I have the relevant GRO certificate. At the same time I tidied up my ring binder of certificates and changed how these are filed to match the database.
That's when I first got distracted and started to search for missing database information. Managed to give myself a "stiff talking to" and got back to the business of the day after about an hour.
Next I created a database to record all of Jayne's great grandparents and their details – Ok not on my original list but it needed doing.
After that I tried to find some Irish ancestor information for my son-in-law's tree I have recently started. Failed miserably and became disheartened.
Shuffled the filing around a bit – at least it now looks tidy.
Then I had a break and watched Leeds United vs Queens Park Rangers on the telly at 12.45pm and had some lunch.
This afternoon I decided to search for some of Jayne's ancestors on the National Burial Index and found three or four – made more notes about them.
Not a totally successful day but not a waste of time either.
Tomorrow perhaps I will look at the pile of notes and filing. I would like to have everything cleared within the next two weeks.


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America votes: A divided nation heads to the polls (part 2)
We're now at the end of one of the most polarising and expensive presidential campaigns ever seen in American history. And according to polls, both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney reached election day, stuck in a dead heat. Annette Young and her panel discuss what will happen if either man gets the job.
- Tim KANE,Chief Economist at Hudson Institute and Founder of the social networking firm, StoryPoint
- Bob VALLIER, Member of Democrats Abroad
- Ellen WASYLINA, Member of Republicans Abroad
- Leah PISAR, Former Advisor to Bill Clinton
- And our correspondents:
- Laura BAINES - from Washington, DC
- Philip CROWTHER -from Boston, MA
- Nathan KING - from Chicago, IL
Watch the first part


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Fraudulent Locksmiths are active throughout North Carolina.
Statewide media outlets have shed light onto unlicensed locksmith work recently. Follow any of these links to see stories and videos of investigative reporting about this illegal activity.
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Though signed into law more than two years ago, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act continues to spur questions, an official from the Kansas Health Institute said Thursday.
Though signed into law more than two years ago, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act continues to spur questions, an official from the Kansas Health Institute said Thursday. Suzanne Schrandt is a senior analyst at the Kansas Health Institute. She spoke Thursday at Leavenworth's Heritage Center, part of an ongoing series of presentations from the League of Women Voters of Leavenworth County on the federal health care law known to some as the Affordable Care Act and to others as Obamacare. Thursday's presentation specifically concerned the effects that the law will have on Medicare, the health care coverage program offered to those 65 years of age and older and those younger than 65 with permanent disabilities. Whether or not one agrees with the changes to the program coming as a result of the ACA, Schrandt said one thing is clear. "Medicare is not in great shape," currently, she said. Medicare Part A is expected to be insolvent by 2024, according to Schrandt, if allowed to continue on its current track. Spending for Medicare as a whole is expected to increase from $519 billion in 2010 to as high as $1.1 trillion by 2022, she said. Schrandt addressed several of the most frequent questions she gets regarding the ACA, including the so-called "individual mandate" to buy insurance — she said those under a certain income will not face the penalty, nor will business owners with fewer than 50 employees be required to offer coverage. That includes most of the businesses in Kansas. In terms of Medicare, the program under which about 420,000 Kansans receive health care, Schrandt explained the Independent Payment Advisory Board, the group of 15 Congressionally-recommended members that would brainstorm changes in an effort to rein in cost increases. But those changes, she said, would not effect patient-level care. "They're prevented from rationing care," or changing eligibility requirements, Schrandt said. The reduction of costs to Medicare is something of a recurring theme in the law, she said, with free coverage for preventative care, incentives for better care coordination and hikes on premiums to high-income Medicare recipients. And the oft-cited $715 million in cost reductions is actually three different measures, she said, but did not amount to a direct cut to Medicare spending. New bodies, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, will continually develop new strategies to keep costs down. But overall, a report from the KHI predicts that the full implementation of the law will mean more little changes for those in Kansas who receive Medicare benefits. "These are not new ideas — we've done them in Medicare, we've done them in all kinds of private insurance," she said. "It can lead to so much cost savings down the road, once you make that institutional."


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Bronson's Sikorski throws no-no
Centreville's baseball team dropped an 8-1 decision to the Kalamazoo Cougars Monday.
But it was not all bad news as Bulldog coach Mike Webster proposed prior to the game to his girlfriend, who accepted at home plate.
Centreville led 1-0 after one in the fourth but the Cougars plated seven in the fifth and one in the ninth. The teams agreed to play a 9-inning game prior to the first pitch.
Jordan Guest took the loss, allowing three earned in four innings.
At the plate Centreville got base hits from Chase Alexander, Michael Kool, Guest, Calvin Ludwig and Gabe Schrock, who drove in the lone run for the Bulldogs.
Colon drops two
Colon's baseball team fell to Union City in two games Monday.
The opener saw Union City win 8-0, scoring seven runs in the second.
David Parrish took the loss for Colon.
At the plate Ryan Johnson, Kyler Thibideau and Spencer Smolarz all had base hits.
The second game saw Union City win 6-1.
Ryan Napier had a solo home run for the Magi.
On the mound Ronny Moyer took the loss with three strikeouts in four innings.
Westview 13, Lakeland 0
Lakeland's baseball team dropped a 13-0 decision to Westview Monday.
Grabbing hits for Lakeland were Morgan Moore and Dustin Cunningham.
Lakeland's softball team won the NECC Tournament Monday, beating Fairfield 2-0.
It's Lakeland's first NECC title since the 1994 season. Lakeland coach Sherry Severson said the game lasted just one hour and 10 minutes.
Blasting a home run was Ashlynn Grubb for the only two runs of the night.
On the hill she struck out seven in seven innings, allowing one hit and just two base runners. The shutout was the 25th in her Lakeland career.
Jill Mingus and Morgan Meyers each had two hits while Madison Campbell and Paige Gust both had base hits as well.
Bronson sweeps
Bronson swept Battle Creek Pennfield in softball action Monday.
The second game of the day saw Lindsey Sikorski toss a no-hitter with six strikeouts in an 11-0 win.
Grace Pyles clubbed a single, double and a home run with two RBI while Kelsey Scheenks added a triple and a home run as well. Also blasting a home run was Skyler Sobeski.
Liz Baker added two singles and an RBI, Kassidy Bystry had a double and Hannah Hoover added an RBI single.
"We came out and hit the ball well tonight," coach Becky Gray said. "Both pitchers did well and Lindsey threw a no-hitter, which is great. I hope we can continue this into tomorrow."
The opener saw Bronson win 15-0 in three innings.
Scheenks had a home run, two singles and four RBI while Pyles hit a 3-run home run. Bystry had three singles, Sikorski had two singles, Sobeski and Baker both singled while Kelsey Robinson drove in two with a single.
Bronson is now 8-0 and plays Mendon today.
Coloma sweeps TR
Three Rivers' softball team dropped a pair of games to Coloma on Monday.
In the opener Coloma won 4-0.
Madi Cornish took the loss.
Taylor Schultz had the lone hit for the Lady Cats.
The second game saw Coloma win 9-4.
Brit Klinger took the loss allowing 10 hits and striking out three.
Katy and Molly Hawkins each had two hits and two RBI while Emma Conroy had two hits.
Teagan Reeves and Kayla Turner each had singles.
Sturgis goes 1-2
The Sturgis softball team went 1-2 Saturday. They fell to Edwardsburg 4-2 and Paw Paw 7-1.
Sturgis beat Loy Norrix 9-2.
Dominique Beach struck out 10 to beat Loy Norrix. Larissa Ludwick clubbed a home run and drove in two while Megan Courtney, Paige Robinson and Meg Warner each had two hits. Collecting one hit each were Courtney Lovelace and Beach.
Ludwick added two hits against Edwardsburg while Lovelace, Beach, Robinson, Melissa Maestas and Warner all had base hits.
Against Paw Paw Beach, Ludwick and Courtney all had hits, with Courtney's being a triple.


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Fellow programmer's, I would appreciate your opinions based on your many years
of experience about client technologies and technical strategy.
My customer wants a cross platform, offline capable, data entry application.
Before I knew of the cross platform and offline requirements, I was pushing
Windows Forms or Web Forms. Due to the new requirements, the following matrix
was proposed:
WinForms | WebForms | Flash | Java | Java Applet
Cross Platform X X X X
Offline X X X
Robust Data Entry X ? X X X
Consistency N/A ? X X X
Deployment .Net Client N/A Plugin JRE Plugin
Experience High Highest Low Lowest Lowest
Learning Curve Moderate High High
Basically, he is leaning towards Flash first and Java Second. The predetermined
delivery date is March 2003 (They wanted January). 2 - 3 months have been
slated for development. This would compete against an existing product that
is a pre-.NET Win32 desktop application from a competitor. They want to beat
out the competition by getting in Mac users. Offline is debateable and was
to be put off until the next phase but they didn't want two or more UIs.
My recommendation is ASP.NET if rich data entry and offline are acceptable
tradeoffs. Flash would come next. However, I am getting the sense that Java
or Flash would be the best tool for the job.
Several questions:
1. Am I missing anything related to the breakdown of the technologies?
2. Is there a way to maintain the .NET technologies and achieve the customer's
desires? I am thinking, no, but I have to double check just in case. The
decision will be based off of all relevant parameters.
3. Would anyone do anything differently?
I will post this in a few areas to get different perspectives. Thank you
in advance.


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Events Calendar
Home Run: Laker Baseball Goes to Cuba
�In the Moment�, Gordon Alderink, Photograph, 2012
Date and TimeFriday, September 13, 2013
- Red Wall Gallery, Lake Ontario Hall
In January, 2012 Grand Valley's baseball team spent one week in Havana, Cuba, seeking challenging international competition, a "study-abroad" and service-learning experience. Photography selection for this exhibit is by Gordon Alderink, Associate Professor of Health Professions.
Mr. Tim Selgo, Director of Athletics at Grand Valley, established a policy that encouraged and provided resources for select GVSU inter-collegiate sport teams to travel abroad to compete and have a cultural experience. When the international travel opportunity was presented to Coach Lyon by Mr Selgo, Cuba was the choice. GVSU would be the second college baseball team in U.S. History to play baseball in Cuba. In addition to the baseball competition, the GVSU players were able to participate in the life of Havana as tourists and also assist in the work of FHA (First Hand Aid).
This exhibit will be on display August 23 to October 31. Free and open to the public. For more information call the GVSU Art Gallery at (616) 331-2563 or visit: www.gvsu.edu/artgallery/.
For more information on study abroad contact the Barbara H. Padnos International Center at 616-331-3898 or visit www.gvsu.edu/pic/
GVSU Art Gallery, 616-331-2563
This event also occurred on 8/23/2013, 8/26/2013, 8/27/2013, 8/28/2013, 8/29/2013, 8/30/2013, 9/3/2013, 9/4/2013, 9/5/2013, 9/6/2013 and 38 others


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1861 … Susannah Lockington was born at Tetney in Lincolnshire to parents John Lockington and Susannah Sowden. She is my wife's great grandmother.
1887 … Watson E Dawson was born in Cowling, West Yorkshire to parents Thomas Dawson and Jane Emmott. He is my 2nd cousin 3x removed.
1943 … Dorothy May Bollard and Harley Thomas Proctor were married. Harley is my 1st cousin 1x removed.


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Beyond the CoverQ&A with Chuck Watkins, Veterans Green Jobs
The latest cover (right) of Home Energy features a photo of a man named Scott Willingham. Scott is pictured while working as part of the Veterans Green Jobs program, which trains veterans to work in the Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP), as well as other green jobs.
That cover photo leads readers to a story about how weatherizing homes makes them healthier to live in. What that story does not tell you is how Veterans Green Jobs helps to engage, transition, and connect military veterans with meaningful employment opportunities that serve our communities and environment. Needless to say, we here at Home Energy were eager to learn more. Below is a conversation we had with Chuck Watkins, director of Denver operations for Veterans Green Jobs.
Q&A with Chuck Watkins, Veterans Green Jobs
Home Energy: What does Veterans Green Jobs do and why?
Chuck Watkins: Founded in 2008, Veterans Green Jobs is a nonprofit organization that aims to place 300 veterans into green jobs by mid-2013. It will achieve this through one-on-one career counseling that leads to full-time employment with companies in the green economic sector, and through seasonal employment opportunities in outdoor conservation and wildland firefighting. Veterans Green Jobs' major areas of focus include energy efficiency/conservation; renewable/clean energy; green construction/building; natural resources/outdoor conservation; environmental remediation/response; and sustainable agriculture.
Veterans Green Jobs believes that by equipping our nation's military veterans with transferable skills, tools and resources, and helping them reintegrate into society with meaningful jobs, we will enable them to maintain their sense of service, give back to their community, and contribute to a healthy, sustainable and secure future for themselves and their families.
The national unemployment rate for the more than two million post-9/11 veterans is far above the national average. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics in June 2012, of those veterans who have served since 2001, 12.7% were unemployed in May, and the youngest (18-24 years of age) are unemployed at a rate of 23.5%. More than one million veterans are projected to leave the military between 2011 and 2016, placing increased demands on the workforce.
In Colorado alone in 2011, 49,000 veterans (out of 475,000 total veterans in the state) sought employment assistance with the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, but this represents only a portion of the veterans needing employment. Additionally, there are some 21,000 recent veterans attending institutions of higher education in Colorado. These numbers only represent one state; the problem persists throughout the nation and must be addressed.
HE: How many people have already been given work through VGJ?
CW: Veterans Green Jobs has served more than 500 veterans since its 2008 founding. That number continues to grow as the organization solidifies partnerships and expands its programs.
HE: I read that your organization weatherizes an average of 1,200 homes per year—what is the training like for your weatherization crews?
CW: Veterans Green Jobs implements an on-the-job training model where less experienced staff are mentored by seasoned professionals with full licensing and certifications. The nonprofit has partnered with BPI to provide certifications to Veterans Green Jobs staff. This training has online, classroom, and field components. Local partners such as Red Rocks Community College enhance Veterans Green Jobs' training model.
Weatherization is one part of Veterans Green Jobs' "green and healthy homes program," which provides a whole host of energy efficiency, health and safety services to income-qualified homes in Denver and Jefferson County in Colorado. Since 2009, Veterans Green Jobs has provided weatherization services, under a contract with the Colorado Energy Office, to an average of 1,200 homes per year in these areas in addition to Colorado's San Luis Valley. In 2011, the nonprofit joined a national coalition, the Green and Healthy Homes Initiative, to expand its services and serve even more homes. Veterans Green Jobs' green and healthy homes program offers a range of home performance services that address all major household energy concerns and health risks such issues as asbestos, indoor air quality, lead, mold, radon, and safety.
In addition to providing free energy efficiency services by leveraging federal funding provided by DOE under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Veterans Green Jobs is diversifying its delivery model to include services for a fee. With a strategy to produce sustainable sources of income for the nonprofit in the post-ARRA era, Veterans Green Jobs now offers heating, ventilation and air conditioning services, and residential solar installation services, to homeowners in the Denver market.
HE: What other "green" jobs do you provide?
CW: The organization is currently exploring expanding services and training in residential solar installation. It also has a program in eight western U.S. states that provides wildland fire mitigation and outdoor conservation work in our country's national forests—while providing skills and certification to create a career pathway in natural resources for veterans. Finally, the organization launched a signature program in early 2012 that has the potential to help thousands of veterans find meaningful work in the green jobs sector. This employment program matches veterans' military experience to the skills needed by green sector employers, links them to training programs to provide them with skills in key subject areas, and connects them with available jobs.
HE: As far as energy efficiency goes, what do you think is the most important thing to focus on for the future of our homes?
CW: Consumer behavior is without a doubt the single biggest factor in energy consumption, so Veterans Green Jobs wraps educational outreach around all of its program offerings. In terms of return on investment, insulation and tightening a home gives the biggest return. In high energy cost areas like California, Hawaii and the North East, renewable energy is becoming more and more important and a standard way to combat volatile energy prices.
Learn more about Veterans Green Jobs on their website.
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New York State Senator Mike Nozzolio recently secured one of the highest scores in the State Senate in this year's National Federation of Independent Business's annual voting record.
New York State Senator Mike Nozzolio recently secured one of the highest scores in the State Senate in this year's National Federation of Independent Business's annual voting record.
The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), a small business advocacy association, releases an annual voting record to help New York voters gauge state lawmaker's support for legislation that is pro-small business.
"Independent businesses are the catalyst for new job growth in our State, particularly in the Greater Finger Lakes region," said Nozzolio. "They are integral to rebuilding our economy and creating a better future for our State and Nation."
In recognition of his continued efforts to enhance the growth of small businesses and support job creation, Nozzolio was also honored in 2013 by NFIB with its "Guardian of Small Business" award — the highest recognition provided by the small business and job growth advocacy group.
"It was an honor to receive the Guardian of Small Business award last year, and to once again rank high this year on NFIB's voting record," said Nozzolio. "I look forward to continuing our work with the members of the National Federation of Independent Business to build more job opportunities and a better future for our citizens, so families will not have to move to other states to find employment."
Founded in 1943, NFIB gives small and independent business owners a voice in shaping the public policy issues that affect their members. NFIB's mission is to promote and protect the right of business owners to own, operate and grow their businesses.


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PLAINVIEW, N.Y. and PRINCETON, N.J. — April 26, 2013 – The Ivy League, one of the nation's most diverse and successful intercollegiate athletics conferences, has partnered with NeuLion, Inc. (TSX: NLN), the leading enabler and provider of live and on-demand content to Internet-connected devices, to create the conference's first-ever digital sports network.
Available to subscribers in August, The Ivy League Digital Network will be accessible on multiple devices, including PCs, smartphones and tablets, allowing for an all-new nine (9)-channel network of Ivy League action anytime, anywhere. Each of the conference's eight (8) schools will have their own individual channel and the Ivy League will have its own League-wide channel featuring all available digital content across the conference.
The new network, powered by the NeuLion College Platform, will provide live and on-demand video and audio content from each school with interactive touch points that will consistently offer a personalized experience for Ivy League fans everywhere.
"This partnership represents a monumental step forward in enhancing our connection to our fans and continuing to showcase our brand of intercollegiate athletics worldwide," said Robin Harris, Ivy League Executive Director. "Coupled with NeuLion's demonstrated experience in delivering digital content to any device, this new network will maximize our alumni's affinities for their schools by providing a single digital destination to access every school's sports content with multiple subscription options by school, sport or season."
With a comprehensive view of sports for each school and across the conference including League-wide sports calendars and access to live and on-demand content from multiple devices, the new Ivy League Digital Network is expected to increase engagement with Ivy League fans and drive broader viewing of school and League content.
"It's not just about streaming video," said Chris Wagner, EVP and Co-Founder of NeuLion. "It's about the fan experience, the high quality video on any device, and the interaction with the game or match which includes stats, social media and more. The NeuLion College Platform is designed for all of that, each and every time, no matter where Ivy League fans are."
About the Ivy League
Founded in 1954, the Ivy League is the most diverse intercollegiate conference in the country with over 8,000 athletes competing each year. Sponsoring conference championships in 33 men's and women's sports, and averaging more than 35 varsity teams at each school, the Ivy League provides more intercollegiate athletic opportunities per school than any other conference in the country. All eight Ivy schools are among the top 20 of NCAA Division I schools in number of sports offered for both men and women. The Ivy League annually finishes among the top conferences in the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics competitive rankings and enjoys regular competitive success at the highest championship levels of NCAA Division I athletics, including team and individual national championships in field hockey, fencing, men's ice hockey, women's rowing, men's and women's track & field and wrestling. Ivy League student-athletes annually compile the country's best records in the NCAA Academic Performance Ratings under the Ivy League model of athletics as a key part of the student's regular undergraduate experience. For more information, visit www.ivyleaguesports.com.
About NeuLion
NeuLion, Inc. (TSX: NLN) offers the true end-to-end solution for delivering live and on-demand content to any Internet-enabled device. NeuLion enables content owners and distributors, cable operators and telecommunications companies to capitalize on the massive consumer demand for viewing video content on PCs, smartphones, iPads and other similar devices. NeuLion's customers include major entertainment, sports, global content and news companies. NeuLion is based in Plainview, N.Y. For more information about NeuLion, visit www.neulion.com.


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MURPHYS - Former Murphys resident Karl Karlsen has been arrested in New York state on charges of murdering his adult son in order to collect life insurance, and that case is prompting a new investigation into how Karlsen's former wife, Christina, died in a house fire in Murphys on New Year's Day 1991.
MURPHYS - Former Murphys resident Karl Karlsen has been arrested in New York state on charges of murdering his adult son in order to collect life insurance, and that case is prompting a new investigation into how Karlsen's former wife, Christina, died in a house fire in Murphys on New Year's Day 1991.
The Seneca County Sheriff's Department in New York reported it arrested Karlsen on Nov. 23 in the death of his son, Levi Karlsen, 23, who was crushed to death four years earlier, on Nov. 20, 2008, when a vehicle he was working on fell off a tire jack in a barn near his home in Romulus, N.Y.
Initially, the death was ruled an accident. But in March of this year, Seneca sheriff's investigators learned that Levi Karlsen's death might not have been accidental.
Seneca Sheriff Jack Stenberg said investigators determined that a substantial life insurance policy was taken out on Levi days before his death, naming Karl Karlsen as the sole beneficiary. Stenberg said other circumstances surrounding the accident suggested that Karl Karlsen had caused the vehicle to fall.
"To think that a father could cause a vehicle to fall off a jack crushing his son and then leave for four hours knowing all the time that his son was pinned under the truck apparently dead is unconscionable. Then, to put on an act for arriving first responders was part of a well-planned event staged by Karl Karlsen," Stenberg said.
Levi Karlsen was the same son who, at age 5, Karl Karlsen had rescued from a burning house by breaking through a bedroom window.
Calaveras County fire officials said at the time that it was the screams of Karl Karlsen's wife, Christina, that alerted Karl Karlsen, who said he was working in the garage. Those screams, in turn, reportedly prompted him to take action to rescue his son and daughters.
Christina Karlsen died in the fire, trapped in the bathroom between the hallway where the fire started and a boarded-up window. At the time, investigators ruled it an accidental death. She was 30.
Now, the Calaveras County Sheriff's Department plans to launch an investigation into the matter, department spokesman Sgt. Chris Hewitt said.
"We did speak with the New York investigators," Hewitt said Monday. "We are hoping that the investigators in New York will be able to provide us with additional information to aid us in our case."
Christina Karlsen's father, Art Alexander of Douglas Flat, said he's waited a long time for a criminal investigation into his daughter's death.
Several things aroused his suspicion of Karl Karlsen after the fire, Alexander said.
"He had an insurance policy that he hadn't paid the first payment on yet," Alexander said. "He left the state so quickly."
Alexander, 72, declined to say too much about his former son-in-law until he's able to share what he knows with investigators. "I don't want to jeopardize any possibility of the case."
Seneca County sheriff's investigators collaborated with state authorities, including New York's Insurance Frauds Bureau, on the Karlsen investigation. Karlsen, 52, has been arraigned on a charge of second-degree murder and is being held in the Seneca County Jail without bail.
Contact reporter Dana M. Nichols at (209) 607-1361 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/calaverasblog.


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Five earn medals as SAU sweeps Beloit Relays
There was a distinct Wethersfield flavor to St. Ambrose University's title sweep at the Beloit Relays April 26-27.
Five WHS graduates earned medals as both the SAU men and women won team titles at Beloit.
Tanner Ewing won the 400-meter hurdles and broke the track record in the event, while Nicole Wager did the same in the 1500-meter run.
Wager's race was the "featured event" and for her win she received a commemorative gold watch.
The remaining medals came in field events as Ian VanAntwerp took home a silver in the triple jump and a bronze in the long jump, Andrew Esser took silver in high jump and bronze in triple jump, and Nick Wager secured a silver in the pole vault with his lifetime best leap of 13-6.
The Bee men scored 227 points, outdistancing the field by more than 70 points in the 10-team race, while the women were 14 points better than Augustana to claim the team title.
Wager wins MCC honor
The Beloit win for Nicole Wager was the continuation of an outstanding freshman season. She's twice been selected the Midwest Collegiate Conference player of the week.
Wager was honored for the second time after posting two strong showings at the Augustana Invitational. She broke the school's 1500-meter run record (4:53.90) in her debut in the event.
It was her third school record in just her freshman season — the other two were event debuts as well. She was eighth in the race and was 13th in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:26.71.
She also broke the school record in the 2000-meter steeplechase with a time of 7:45.1 in her debut in the steeple event.