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Green Lantern Corps #49
- Story by
- Tony Bedard
- Art by
- Ardian Syaf and Vicente Cifuentes
- Colors by
- Gabe Eltaeb and Randy Mayor
- Letters by
- Steve Wands
- Cover by
- Ardian Syaf
- Publisher
- DC Comics
The Alpha-Lanterns have been around for a couple of years now, but they haven't done much other than be aloof and intimidating in the background, and get used as tools of evil powers in "Final Crisis." But the idea of the Alpha-Lanterns has been a good one, even if they haven't been used all that much. As the elite guards of the Green Lantern Corps, the Alpha-Lantern willingly sacrifice much of their humanity to help keep the Corps strong. To keep watch over the watchmen. There's story potential there.
And Tony Bedard taps into it here. The notion of the loss of self and the shift from organic life to mechanical justice — that's explored in "Green Lantern Corps" #49, and it seems like that theme will be central to the story that's bound to come. This is just the beginning, really, with a "Revolt of the Alpha-Lanterns" logo on the cover of this issue and a new villain — or a new-old one — in Cyborg Superman, ready to corrupt the Corps. And who could be a better symbol for the loss of self and the shift from the organic to the mechanical than Hank Henshaw? (The answer is: "probably no one, except Darth Vader, and DC can't use him.")
So, in issue #49, we get Hank Henshaw as a cosmic Machiavelli and the exploration of the sacrifice of the Alpha-Lanterns, mostly by focusing on Boodikka and learning about why we should care about her. Or why John Stewart used to care about her. Bedard paces this issue nicely, and though there's some lingering threads from "Brightest Day" woven into the story, this is mostly a comic about the people in the Green Lantern Corps. It's full of plot, but it doesn't skimp on the characterizations. And even though I've enjoyed what's been done on "Green Lantern Corps" and "Green Lantern" in recent years, both comics have been more effective at plot than character. Bedard balances both, nicely.
Ardian Syaf does fine work here as well. It's sturdy superhero work that doesn't impair the story and doesn't call much attention to itself. It's suitably nondescript for a comic about a superhero army. It has a kind of generic quality to it that fits the theme of identity loss.
It's a bit surprising that this series isn't building toward something more dramatic and farther-reaching as it approaches issue #50, but since the Corps hasn't had much rest since the escalation to the Sinestro Corps War and everything that followed — including Blackest Night, which was kind of a big deal for this crew of heroes — it makes sense to tighten things up and give them a smaller scale conflict. And when a "smaller scale" conflict includes a galactic threat who's been known to destroy cities, that means that this is a series that thrives on big ideas and immense tragedy.
"Green Lantern Corps" #49 is a solid installment in such a series. It hasn't skipped a beat with the departure of Peter Tomasi. The Corps marches on.


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The geological wonders of Moab have mountain bikers spinning their wheels. The fiery red canyon lands of southwest Utah is one of the most sought-after destinations for recreational biking.
Where are the world's best rides? Mountain bikers claim it's Utah's unique red-rock canyon lands. Giant sandstone formations, canyon mazes, and thousands of natural arches draw recreational cyclists to Arches and Canyonlands National parks.
What else attracts mountain bikers to Moab? Easy logistics. Great Lakes Airlines flies into Moab from Los Angles and Las Vegas. You can check into a hotel in town or into the Red Cliffs Lodge on the river and ride different trails every day.
Moab is the epicenter of the activity, surrounded by wide-reaching public lands and dazzling single-track trails with sheer drop-offs.
You can rent bikes or sign up for guided bike trips at Moab Adventure Center, a reliable source for expert advice on the entire trail system.
The trails that snake into sheer-walled canyons can be intimating for beginners. If you are on a family vacation, start out with an easy ride. The Intrepid Trail Loop in Dead Horse Point State Park has dirt single-track trails for families with younger children.
Riders with some experience at shifting on dirt trails can hop on the Great Pyramid Loop. The Big Chief Loop has a few white-knuckle challenges but most of the trail can be ridden with a single-gear bike.
The 7.9-mile Bar M/Courthouse Loop is a fairly easy ride with an elevation change of about 300 feet. Many families ride this trail, including baby trailers and trail-a-bikes.
The 13.5-mile Gemini Bridges Downhill is a popular warm-up ride for locals due to its dramatic scenery and long descents along a decent dirt and gravel road.
On non-biking days, discover Native American rock art sites on a hike. At Canyonlands' Horseshoe Canyon, hike to the Great Gallery. Humanoid forms—heroes, hunters or shamen—stand 10 feet tall with animals, cloaked in robes with mysterious symbols. The Anasazi and Navajo created these petroglyphs hundreds of years ago.
Because southeastern Utah is an arid desert, spring and fall draw the crowds. Summer brings scorching heat but you can always bike in the early morning and late evening. That leaves you the option during the warmest part of the day to cool off on a rafting trip or go on a Hummer safari.
—Donna Peck

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Traffic. Long lines. Slow internet connections.
It's easy to get annoyed at these things. The stress you feel on your daily commute isn't imaginary.
The walls are down. There's a reason people say "work-life balance" and not "life-work balance". We do part of and sometimes our entire jobs from home, with work and life intertwined. Your breakfast and your commute are the same thing.
Exercise is classified as a "leisure activity", in the same category as watching TV. What are leisure activities for? For undoing the stress, fatigue, and damage done by the workday. We have to exercise to slow the damage done by sitting – in traffic, in the drive thru, in the office, back in the car, in front of the TV reversing the mental and emotional damage.
Which would you rather have? A job that's physically demanding (but keeps you active) or a job that's sedentary but pays a little bit more (but requires 5-10 hours a week at the gym to reverse the effects)?
If you've read any of this blog, you know that I feel strongly about the connection between time and money – the exchange that we make for one or the other. Convenience is presented as spending more money to make your life easier, to have things done quicker, to not be as busy. We pay a premium, a markup just to "save time".
Except what are we saving? Did you realize that REAL free time is on sale, except it's not being advertised? (Convenience = FAKE free time. It seems real but actually costs you MORE time!)
That's because money is easy to measure – it takes 10 seconds to look at your bank account. But we're terrible at measuring time. We wonder how the years went by so quickly but consider old age to be a distant worry.
Our lives seem busier – we're always connected, to work and to people, we're always aware of what's going on on social media, the internet churns out content so fast we'll never read even a fraction of a percent of it all.* We NEED more convenience – saving time is smart and savvy. Increasing our leisure time is beneficial.
If you want to make someone have an epiphany, explain to them the relationship between time and money. Tell them that when they buy something, they're actually buying it with time. The only reason money is involved is so that we don't have to haggle and bid and trade.
Time decisions are money decisions. Unfortunately, saving time usually doesn't translate into saving money in an obvious way. The morning coffee from the drive thru might only take a few minutes, but it's more expensive than making coffee at home, so that's more time you have to work to afford that "convenience". Go ahead and add in the cost of the extra gas burned idling in your car too. Maybe it's only a few cents or a dollar. Then let me ask you two things:
- What is the most inconvenient part of your life? If it's work or work-related, why would you knowingly add in more inconvenience?
- What would your response be to someone telling you that by DIYing any number of things you could expand your free time (not inconvenienced by work) by 10%? 15%? 20%? How did you feel the last time you bought something on sale for 20% off?
*To read every page on the internet it would take you something like almost 60,000 years, excluding things like tweets and facebook statuses. :/


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Before we start Year One of the Silver Age, here is everything in Earth-1 Bruce Wayne's life (starting with his birth) that leads up to the moment he decides to don the cape and cowl of the Bat.[1]
February 1946
Bruce Wayne is born to Dr. Thomas Wayne and Martha Wayne in Gotham City, USA.
Midsummer (Late August) 1949[2]
Flashback from World's Finest Comics #146. A three-year-old Bruce summer vacations with his parents a few hours outside of Gotham, next door to their friend, scientist Dr. Thomas Ellison. Using a special telescope, Dr. Ellison had, years prior, discovered the planet Krypton. Using this same telescope, Dr. Ellison had been able to view Krypton at street level for years. This allowed him to learn the Kryptonian language and read lips to see what Kryptonians were talking about. The neglectful Wayne parents allow little to Bruce wander over to the doctor's house where, over the course of several weeks, Dr. Ellison shows Bruce live feeds of Krypton, creepily dresses him in Kryptonian-styled clothes, and takes pictures of him flying on wires and bending plastic bars. (How Dr. Ellison would have known that a yellow sun would give Kryptonians super-powers is beyond me, but that's probably my smallest gripe with this bonkers story.) Upon learning of Krypton's imminent destruction, Dr. Ellison builds a neutralizing ray, which ultimately fails to prevent planetary collapse. Krypton explodes into oblivion and little baby Kal-El is secretly sent rocketing to Earth.
Reference in The Brave and The Bold #83. Little Bruce meets his dad's best friend, Professor Bruner, for the first time. Bruner, as Thomas' best mate, will be around quite often. Bruce will have the utmost respect and admiration for the professor.
Flashback from The Untold Legend of the Batman #1—and also referenced in The Untold Legend of the Batman #1. A roughly four-year-old Bruce Wayne is present at a masquerade party held by his parents at their Wayne Manor home. Thomas Wayne wears a bat costume. During the ball, Thomas is kidnapped by injured gangster Lew Moxon, who wants the gifted doctor to perform surgery on him. Rather than operate, Thomas beats up Moxon and delivers him to James Gordon, a new lieutenant with the Gotham City Police Department. Gordon is in his early twenties at this juncture.
Reference in World's Finest Comics #196. Bruce takes a liking to film, especially Westerns.
Flashback from Detective Comics #370. Ten-year-old Bruce gets mercilessly beaten-up by an older school bully named Bart Lambert over the course of months. Skinny Bruce is unable to put up a fight or defend himself, so he decides to dedicate his life to exercise, fitness, and bulking up with weight training. Bruce continues taking a wallop from Lambert, but he begins working out. Eventually, Lambert moves to the other side of the country before Bruce is ever strong enough to confront him or get revenge. Bruce will have nightmares about Lambert for years to come.
Reference in The Brave and The Bold #83. Thomas Wayne's best friend Professor Bruner (along with an unknown partner) fathers a baby boy named Lance Bruner. Bruce meets the newborn.
Flashback from The Untold Legend of the Batman #1, Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder Sunday News Strip 7/30/1967, Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder Sunday News Strip 8/6/1967, Batman #200, and Batman #208—and also referenced in The Untold Legend of the Batman #1. Now onto the Wayne tragedy. While walking home from a movie, the Waynes are mugged. Thomas is shot dead and Martha suffers a fatal heart attack during the assault. (In Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder Sunday News Strip 7/30/1967, Robin says that the Waynes were killed when Bruce was twelve-years-old. This is iffy. However, the much more canon-reference-worthy Untold Legend of Batman #1 tells us that Bruce is in pre-adolescence "one year" after the death of his parents. This means that Bruce is likely ten-years-old when they are killed, placing the double-murder on November 25, 1956.)[3] The murders are committed by Joe Chill as a secret paid revenge hit ordered by Lew Moxon, who has latterly been granted an early release from prison. After a sad funeral, Bruce's parents' wills are read—as referenced in Detective Comics #367-368 in The Brave and The Bold #89. Bruce is given the entire Wayne family fortune (including a ton of real estate) and made heir to its business enterprises. Bruce is also left his father's prize possessions, the priceless Rajah Ruby and some original Modigliani paintings. (The Modiglianis immediately get hung up in Wayne Manor. The Rajah Ruby goes into a Wayne Manor safe, where it will stay until Bruce's adulthood.) Bruce collapses to his knees before the graves of his parents and vows to avenge them. Dr. Leslie Thompkins initially cares for the orphaned Bruce before he goes into legal custody of his dad's brother, Uncle Philip Wayne. Ironically, Joe Chill's mother, Alice Chilton, becomes Bruce's full-time nanny. Bruce will call her "Mom Chilton." She will teach him honesty and integrity, becoming a something of a surrogate mother to him. From this point on, young Bruce will start training non-stop.[4] One more interesting thing to note before continuing. When it comes to Bruce's non-stop training that begins now, the dedicated soldier won't just focus on detective studies, noetic matters, and the gym. In fact, the Silver/Bronze Age Bruce Wayne might be the nonpareil iteration of the character because he will be the only version to master multiple visual arts media as well. As gleaned from a reference in Detective Comics #332 and a reference in Detective Comics #344, Bruce will become a professional-grade sketch artist and master wood carver.
Reference in The Untold Legend of the Batman #1. Bruce, as the only witness to his parents' deaths, testifies before a court that they were attacked by a crazed mugger. Unable to provide more information, the killer (Joe Chill) is never caught and remains free. Likewise, no investigation into Lew Moxon ever takes place, which allows him to remain untouched by the law, despite the fact that he secretly put the hit on the Waynes.
Flashback from The Untold Legend of the Batman #1. One year after his parents' murder, Bruce wears a proto-Robin costume and spends a summer training with super-detective Harvey Harris.
Reference in The Brave and The Bold #77. Bruce shows a strong aptitude and affinity for chemistry in high school.
Flashback from World's Finest Comics #84. A roughly fifteen-year-old Bruce vacations near Smallville with his parents—meaning guardians Uncle Philip and Mom Chilton (as retconned and re-shown via flashback from World's Finest Comics #271). There, young Bruce trails both crook Thad Linnis and the Kryptonian Boy of Steel known as Superboy (Clark Kent/Kal-El). Bruce discovers that Clark is Superboy, while keeping it secret from Linnis.
Flashback from Batman #224. Bruce gets into jazz music and begins collecting old records. One of his favorite musicians is Blind Buddy (Charles Holden). Bruce will listen-to and enjoy jazz for the rest of his life.
Flashback from Detective Comics #370. Teenage Bruce, who has constantly worked out for years, hits a growth spurt and takes notice of how strong he has become. He is reminded of the trauma Bert Lambert caused him and how it convinced him to begin exercising in the first place. Bruce would love to stick it to Lambert, but the old bully is long out of his life, so Bruce does his best to block the memory of the jerk from his mind.
Adventure Comics #253, Adventure Comics #275, and a flashback from World's Finest Comics #271. Robin (Dick Grayson), from 1969, goes back in time and meets Superboy.
Adventure Comics #275 and re-shown via flashback from World's Finest Comics #271. A few weeks have passed since the time-traveling Robin met Superboy. Bruce is now sixteen-years-old (and presumably has gotten his driver's license and learned to drive a car). Bruce and his family—Uncle Philip and Mom Chilton—briefly move to Smallville (as told in the apocryphal and error-filled Adventure Comics #275, which was later retconned and re-shown via flashback in World's Finest Comics #271). In Smallville, Bruce meets Lana Lang and becomes the costumed Flying Fox to fight alongside Superboy. After their team-up, Superman uses his wheel-hypnosis technique to erase Bruce's knowledge of his secret ID. Superboy also uses the wheel-hypnosis on himself to erase knowledge that Bruce will grow up to become Batman, a fact that he knew both from viewing a device known as the Time Telescope and from recently meeting a time-traveling Robin.
Reference in Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder News Strip 11/1/1968. Bruce becomes very active in track and field sports, competing and training in all events. Bruce's hope is to compete in the upcoming Olympics, focusing on hammer throw as his main sport. Bruce will focus in hammer throwing for the next two years straight.
Reference in The Brave and The Bold #88. Bruce picks up fencing, in which—you guessed it—he will eventually become an expert.
Superboy Spectacular #1 and later retconned and re-shown via flashback from World's Finest Comics #271. A roughly seventeen-year-old Bruce then meets Pete Ross and helps Superboy solve a case during a baseball tournament in Gotham (as told in the slightly apocryphal Superboy Spectacular #1, which was later retconned and re-shown via flashback in World's Finest Comics #271).
Reference in Detective Comics #367. Bruce learns first aid and CPR from the American Red Cross Handbook.
Reference in Detective Comics #385. Postal carrier Herbert Small begins working the mail route that delivers to Wayne Manor. He'll drop off mail six days a week, but Bruce won't ever pay him any attention.
Reference in The Brave and The Bold #89. Bruce learns about a dark part of Gotham's history involving the religious sect known as the Hellerites. In the early 19th century, the ascetic Hellerites settled in Gotham, but were immediately ostracized for their strange customs. After their settlement was burned to the ground, the Hellerites departed for the West, but not before their leader Josiah Heller put a curse—the Hellerite Prophecy—on the city, vowing to one day return.
Reference in Detective Comics #404. Bruce begins learning to speak Spanish. He will eventually become fluent.
Reference in Detective Comics #359, The Brave and The Bold #79, and Batman #216. Bruce begins collecting rare books, a hobby he will continue long into adulthood. Bruce's omnium-gatherum of literature will constantly grow, although we won't see any of the actual collection process on our timeline moving forward. Not only is Bruce an avid collector, he truly loves reading and will become well-versed in poetry and literature as well. The pride-and-joy of his collection will be rare and original Shakespeare editions, stage-play handbills, and a bust of the Bard himself, which covers a hidden safe.
Reference in Detective Comics #360 and Detective Comics #405. Bruce reads all about Harry Houdini and begins training in escape artistry.
Reference in Detective Comics #392. Bruce begins learning the art of safe-cracking. He also begins practicing sleight-of-hand techniques.
Flashback from Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder Sunday News Strip 8/6/1967 and Batman #200—and also referenced in Batman #133 Part 2, The Brave and The Bold #71, Batman #191 Part 1, Detective Comics #370, Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder News Strip 11/6/1968, The Brave and The Bold #80, Batman #209, Detective Comics #388 Part 1 Epilogue, Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #100, Batman #222, Detective Comics #405, The Brave and The Bold #93, and Batman #227. Bruce begins privately studying multiple sciences, including chemistry, physics, electronics, engineering, entomology, ecology, zoology, geology, geography, astronomy, acoustics, auto mechanics, medicine, demonology, and world mythology. He also begins learning animal, marine, and human anatomy/biology. Additionally, he begins dabbling in aerospace, mechanical, and explosives engineering. (Note that the polymathic Bruce, beyond these items listed above, will study nearly everything imaginable, becoming a master in almost everything he touches.) Bruce also begins training in various physical activities, including horseback riding, boomerang throwing, trapeze, Native American wrestling, judo, karate, acrobatics, gymnastics, savate, boxing, and Sumatran pencak silat (aka silek). (While training in silek, Bruce notes how it seems like the most dangerous of the martial-arts, and he'll move forward hoping never to face anyone who has mastered the technique.) Already active in fencing and Olympic track-and-field training, Bruce continues focusing on hammer throwing, but also begins extra work on perfecting his archery and javelin throwing ability. He also learns all he can about survivalism, hunting, and trapping. (Bruce will continue training in all of these things for the rest of his life.)
Reference in Detective Comics #372, The Brave and The Bold #77, Detective Comics #384, and Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder News Strip 4/23/1971. Already world-cultured and highly knowledgable in current affairs, Bruce begins privately studying military history, American history, world history, world religions, global politics, and journalism in an effort to become an expert in all fields. He will continue to keep abreast of world news, moving forward through his entire career, becoming quite the scholar indeed.
Reference in World's Finest Comics #94, World's Finest Comics #271, and Batman #191 Part 1. Bruce begins privately studying acting, the art of makeup, and disguise techniques. He will eventually become a bonafide master of disguise, able to replicate anyone to perfection.
Reference in Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder News Strip 9/15/1968. Bruce learns Morse code.
Reference in Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder News Strip 12/12/1968. Bruce becomes interested in opera and begins attending operas semi-regularly, becoming a big fan of Gilbert and Sullivan.
Reference in Batman #215. Bruce begins collecting cars. For years to follow, he will fill the Wayne Manor garage with a variety of brand new and antique roadsters. Bruce will also drive most of them.
Reference in Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder News Strip 5/6/1969. Bruce learns how to read lips.
Reference in Detective Comics #397. Bruce begins practicing yoga and yogic meditation, which he will continue to do for the rest of his life. He also begins to study Eastern yoga techniques that involve lowering one's blood pressure, heart rate, body temperature, and bodily responses to go into a death-like trance. He won't master this technique for over a decade, but he will practice it quite often, moving forward.
Reference in Detective Comics #404. Bruce begins taking lying lessons, practicing with an old stunt pilot in antique planes.
1964-1966 (College Years)
Flashback from Batman #208 and Batman #188 Part 1—and also referenced in Batman #165 Part 1, Batman #178 Part 1, Batman #208, Batman #165 Part 2, Batman #188 Part 1, Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder News Strip 11/1/1968, and Justice League of America #66. At age eighteen, Bruce enters Gotham College as a criminology major. He rooms with Andrew Warner, becoming friends with Warner and sharing a physics class with him (as referenced in Batman #165 Part 1). Bruce also befriends aerospace engineering major Hank Nelson (as referenced in Batman #178 Part 1). In his freshman year, Bruce qualifies for the 1964 Summer Olympics and competes at the October-held games in Tokyo where he wins a gold medal in hammer throw (as referenced in Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder News Strip 11/1/1968)! Also in his freshman year, Bruce begins wearing an aftershave that he will become fond enough of to wear for the rest of his life. This may seem trivial, but it will come into play later one. Early in his collegiate career, Bruce also has classes with failing student and general weirdo Lenny Fiasco. At a Winter Carnival, Bruce is crowned "Ice King" and rides in a sleigh with "Ice Queen" Celia Smith, whom Fiasco is madly in unrequited love with. (Both the cologne and Fiasco stuff are flashed-back-to from and referenced in Batman #188 Part 1.) Bruce later begins dating theater major Julie Madison (as seen via flashback/reference in Batman #208). He also joins a fraternity (as referenced in Batman #165 Part 2). During his college days, Bruce also befriends high-society gal Linda Page (as mentioned in Batman #208). Note that Bruce, as a criminology major, will study forensic science, handwriting analysis, law, jurisprudence, methods of policing, and hoplology (as referenced in Batman #201 and Justice League of America #66). Being a genius and a hard-worker, and presumably scheduling more-than-full-time classes round-the-clock, Bruce graduates with honors at age twenty, celebrating his graduation with his proud Uncle Philip and Mom Chilton. For more information about Bruce's age and college era, see a footnote in Year One of the Silver Age section of this website.
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- [1]COLLIN COLSHER: Some important rules before we actually get going. I've included flashbacks in a specific way. If a flashback is first revealed—let's say in Year 15, hypothetically—the flashback may or may not be mentioned in Year 15, but the actual events that occur in said flashback will be placed one the timeline exactly when they originally occurred attached to bullets enumerated as "flashback." Similarly, story references will be listed as bullet "references." And likewise, important narrative events that don't include Batman will be listed as "notes." Therefore, any "references," "flashbacks," or "notes" occur chronologically at the spot where they are situated on the timeline. Any character names (or group names) highlighted in red denote the first appearance of a reoccurring character (or group). Some of these red items may appear only once in the Bat-verse, but appear elsewhere throughout the DCU, and thus have been given the crimson treatment as well.
One more thing. As stated elsewhere on the website, just about everyone eats, shits, sleeps, brushes their teeth, watches TV, and goes to the office. Believe it or not, Batman does all these things too. He's human just like you and me! However, this kind of mundane everyday stuff won't be on our timeline. Usually, anyway.↩
- [2]COLLIN COLSHER: Many different countries around the world have different definitions for what "midsummer" means. I'm using it to literally mean somewhere in the middle of summer i.e. Late August.↩
- [3]COLLIN COLSHER: How do we know the November 25th date of the Wayne murders? As cribbed from comic book scholar Chris J Miller:
"[June 26 is mentioned in Batman Special #1 (1984). The 1976 DC Calendar says June 8. Superboy #182 (1972) and Detective Comics #500 (1981) both say Autumn, specifically November 25.]"
I take this information to mean the following: In the Silver Age we have one mention of June 26, one mention of June 8, and two mentions of November 25. Tally it all up and you basically have two June mentions and two Novembers, but only the Novembers are on the same date (the 25th). This leads me to believe that November 25 is the official Silver Age date of the Wayne deaths. Further backing for this is the Golden Age death of the Waynes, which was also November 25, as mentioned in Detective Comics #265 (1959). It's up to you to decide your own headcanon, but I'm going with November 25.↩
- [4]COLLIN COLSHER: Note that Superboy #182 showed a Superboy/Bruce Wayne team-up, but it was rendered 100% non-canon by World's Finest Comics #271. In this non-canon story, Bruce became the masked "Executioner" and teamed-up with Superboy two months after his parents' deaths. Superboy #182 also told us that the Waynes were killed on November 25, but we must take that date with a grain of salt due to the non-canon status of the issue.↩


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GREENVILLE, KY., — Betty Nell Duenow, 74, of Greenville passed away Saturday, February 10, 2018 at Owensboro Health Muhlenberg Community Hospital. She was born in Muhlenberg County on September 17, 1943 where she lived as a homemaker.
She is preceded in death by her husband Donald Ray Duenow.
Survivors include her son Carl Duenow, daughter Mary Katherine Duenow, 3 grandchildren, brothers Jerry Wayne Piper, Garland Lee Piper, sisters Mildred Scott, Ann Bowen.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday, February 13, 2018 at 2pm at Tucker Funeral Home in Central City with Bro. Mike Dearmond officiating. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery in Central City.
Visitation will be held Tuesday, February 13, 2018 starting at 11am at the funeral home.
Online condolences can be made at www.tuckerfuneralhomes.com


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Originally developed for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the city's iconic Water Cube facility was recently retrofitted to house the world's largest indoor water park, "Happy Magic Water Cube." Recipient of multiple awards including the 2010 Industry Innovation Award
Upon entering the amazing structure, guests are immersed in a glowing, surreal environment, surrounded by giant funnels, interactive jelly fish and China's first ever AquaLoop. The park's imaginative details were designed to complement and enhance one another, theatrical lighting, iconic architecture and intricate mosaics working together to transport guests to a new world.
The project is now the 2nd most popular tourist destination in Beijing after the Great Wall and was awarded a 2005 IESNA Award of Merit in Lighting Design.
Owner: Happy Magic Watercube Co. Ltd
Client: Forrec Ltd
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Christina Aguilera is the latest sensation to exhibit the make up looks of all time 1950s pin up era! Have you ever tried this makeup? How to achieve this look easily? With her dark eyes and bright red lips she exudes glamour and style. Here are a few make up tips which will help you achieving this look!
Purchase some good quality make up brushes. Never underestimate the effectiveness of good quality brushes in enhancing your make up and its application. Your eyebrows must be well-groomed too to obtain this look. Ensure that the inner parts of your brow are the thickest, and it must get thinner running toward the edges. If you have blonde hair, it is worth penciling your eye brows in with a pencil to acquire a dramatic look that will complement the rest of your make up.
Get a foundation, suiting your skin tone. Getting a lighter one is perfect if you cannot get the perfect match. If you have blemishes and spots on your face, getting a perfect foundation is imperative. Ensure you apply all the foundation in as you don't want a line across your neck!
Use a big make up brush and add highlighting powder to all over your face where light will naturally fall on to. This will include the forehead, nose, cheekbones and your chest area as well if you want to look really glamorous.
The eyes are the most prominent part of this look and your face.
Eye shadow bases are generally good to begin with, prior to adding the dark kohl. It is recommended to use a thin make up brush and kohl adding a small amount of water to it. Draw a thick line and select to lash line prior to curving it slightly at the corners. How thick you should draw this line and how much should you curve it will be based on how dramatic you want it to look. Now apply thick, black mascara and for an evening look probably incorporate some false eyelashes. Christina Aguilera uses an angled eyeliner brush to highlight her eyes.
Be bold with your eye shadow, select a dark shade and work your way up the whole eyelid and mix it well. Gold glittery make up can look great with his look.
Apply a rosy powder to the apples of your cheeks which runs up to your cheekbones. Liquid tints can be one of the good options for this look and will ensure you glow all day. Don't forget to mix all your makeup gently and that fingertips are quite good for doing this.
Finish the complete look with a bold and bright red lipstick, the bolder the better! If you are not sure on whether red will suit your skin tone, don't forget there are innumerable different shades of red; an orangey shade can often be more flattering to some tones.
Now enjoy your glamorous pin up look! Remember to use tactfully your make up brushes in order to get the best result. Especially your kohl brush, that needs to be in good condition to acquire those clean and sharp lines. The ideal way to keep your make up brushes in great shape and condition is to clean them regularly in warm water applying a small amount of shampoo to keep them soft. Do not allow them to dry in too hot an ambience otherwise they will get too bristly and lose their softness.
There are a few tips that would be healthy and imperative to follow if you really wish to look great and maintain a good skin and health without which the makeup will lose its elegance.


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GB writes: "Microsoft's Xbox 360 completes 5 years this November. Time flies, doesn't it? Sooner or later Microsoft will reveal the Xbox 3 or the Xbox 720. But we just don't know when. It was confirmed back in 2007 by the then head of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business division; Peter Moore that new console can come out, depending on what kind of CPUs will be available on the market in 2011-2012."
Nice, I can do with all of these
But with Kinect, it won't be anytime soon :\
Personally I liked the first one. Seems very realistic along with the box pack. However I dont think it will be hand held thing.
so we have no next gen RROD fiasco....call it a clean slate for microsoft to learn from mistakes
the almost all look more like a xbox portable then an xbox 3
msoft didnt want to call it xbox 2, because it would be competing with the ps3, and number-wise wouldve looked inferior.
"Also Xbox 720 is a retarded name. It should just be Xbox 3, like the 360 should've been Xbox 2."
It will probably be an Xbox (somename) rather than a number. That would go over a lot better imo.
Look at number 4 and think...
No, I thought of Halo...which is almost certainly where that design came from
I think #10 is the more realistic one.
Although Microsoft has planned to extend the life of the X360 with Kinect.
I don't expect anything new yet for at least 3 years.
Firstly, dont call it X720. 360 was a stupid name used only so it didnt look weak next to PS3 and 720 is just a stupid name taken to extremes.
Secondly, they all look terrible. Yeah, they're great if you're making an art piece for a Star Trek set but only #10 looks even remotely practical. You're all aware this thing needs to be stuffed with circuitboards and processors right?
A couple of the handhelds do look reasonable. One looks like and Xbox made love to a DS, and the same with a PSP.
Am I the only one who thought they all looked FUGLY?
The only one that looks even marginally real is the last pic.
i choose the 1 that works...
number 2 and 7 my favourites
Notice how none of these are boxes except the last. It'd be dumb for them to call their platform an XBOX without having a BOX
Every keeps thinking it will be named xbox 720. I think it will be named Xbox 361 :/
I'd like to see you fit a motherboard and dvd drive into these "designs."
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All I said in that comment was that most were handhelds, not home consoles. I listed what I thought looked best of the 4 actual home console designs. I also mentioned that I thought Xbox 720 was a stupid name and it should just be Xbox 3.
Who's that lame to find a statement like that offensive?
*Pointing out that a list of proposed next Xbox designs contained 60% handhelds? Was that offensive?
*Putting the remaining 4 designs into a list of which I thought looked best to worst? That was offensive?
*Stating that I thought Xbox 720 is a stupid name, and suggesting an alternate, simpler name (Xbox 3)? That offended people?
Wow some of you people are dumb.
Nah, it won't be handheld, and I'm not expecting an announcement for the next couple of years :)
I think if you read the article , Peter Dille once said it will all depend what new GPU can hit the market. So I dont think it will be too long before Xbox 3 is announced.
Yup and ATI are releasing the 6000x series very soon i have heard.
But i think MS should work with Nvidia or ATI too make a more custom GPU that is better then anything on the market, sooo then for the first time a console will be ahead of a PC. Just like Sony did with Blu-ray player but this time a GPU haha
Kinect was meant to extend the life of the 360 and get more casuals on the system and MS has said the 360 will have a 10 year life. At the very least 2012-2013 for the 720 IMO.
I would think that the second one would be a fan created version of the ps4...not the xbox720...
Just judging by the way Sony likes to be futuristic.....If something is going to look like a spaceship...why not the ps4? ;)
That one looked hideous. Who would buy that thing?
lol, none of them look even remotely PRACTICAL except image # 10
And the currest S model looks better than all of these.
Keep it practical, roughly rectangular, and with as small a form factor as reliable hardware allows. The Wii is still the most attractive console this gen thanks to its simple, sleek approach.
No way, im a 360 fanboy but i think the ps3 has the better look this gen..not the slim though,
the fat one.
They all look pretty hideous. The only one that I can see becoming anything near a real home console is the last one. No matter how cool some of them might appear at first, can you really see them in your tv stand?
I don't know what the hell those were, but they were horrible. If that's our future count me out.
The Design of the Xbox 360 is fine now, why would I want something that looks like a giant X?
First, no MS handheld please. And second, most of the console pics where around for the 360 before we knew what it looked like.
Anyway, as long as the games are kick ass the thing could look plain like the Apple Cube or coul look like a spiral of poo.
Which one would you want to be real?
is if it goes handheld i wont be buying one
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Where are the buttons? Assuming that the buttons are in a capacitive touch screen on the two side handle display areas, you would have to have pretty enormous thumbs to be able to reach any buttons anywhere other than the edge closest to the rubberized grip. Also, capacitive touch screens have a slight lag in response time and would be nearly impossible to play FPS or any other reaction-time games on.
And how the hell would you type on that keyboard? I'm assuming you'd have to type with your thumbs, so how the fuck would you hold the thing up? The majority of the weight would be above your thumbs, so every time you moved your thumb to type you'd be wrestling with keeping the console from falling. That design is an epic fail as a gaming console, but MIGHT be a decent media player/casual gaming device if it was given touch screen capability everywhere you see visuals.
#10 is the best one in my eyes. It has the best ventillation which would hlep any RROD or system burnouts.
I wouldn't want any of them to be real. But if I had to choose, I'd say number ten.
Some look like spaceships lol.
I would like a normal console box, bit like the 360 just with a big X shape in the middle.
the last one and maybe the 2nd look not only most viable, but most aesthetic too =)
i don't why so many are "handhelds" =| a handheld version will always be inferior no?
if you can make a handheld look "this" good, you'd obv make a bigger, more powerful machine look "that" much better
still, some great designs all around, others look old and dated though =/ like they were made during Xbox era.
i wish we didn't have these elaborate console designs. something black and stackable that can sit in my entertainment center
They're all pretty horrible.
This is the only comment that matters in this thread. Pretty much sums it up.
these are all really old, some of them are from before the original xbox was even unveiled, i remember seeing them
... Honestly couldn't care any less about what it looks like..
Just make sure it's more faster, stronger & alot more reliable than the Xbox 360.
i Don't like any of them, most are just ugly and not practical, how about a good design for once.
Most of those designs are just too unrealistic to actually become reality.
Some of them looks awesome, but are either impractical (the next xbox console a hand held? seriously?) or simply would not look right in under your TV.
When the eventual successor to the 360 is announced, I very much look forward to see what it looks like.
Personally I'd have it look like crap as a trade-off for some serious development of first party studios making first party developed exclusives for the core gamer. Same goes for any console.
2 or 10
10 looks more reasonable though
the rest are like... handhelds... lol i dont think so.
I think the 2nd looks sick. It has so much unnecessary things on it that I just have to like it, but the 10th one looks more down to earth.
While I'm not a fan of Microsoft anymore, seems to me that the last one is the most realistic.
They would never choose any of those designs, most of them are just...bad...You know, in terms of shape, for storage and what not, I dont want a giant sphere or a massive 'X' crapping up my storage areas.
Most of them were handhelds, I don't know what is the deal with them choosing alot of handheld looking ones.
4 and 7 are awesome but 7 is what the very first xbox protype was going to look like.
..it...it's amazing! Seems right out of the future.....or past.
For console, I like 4 and 7.
For handheld, either 1 or 6.
But, most of em look kinda cool, I'd be happy buying most.
Except, I think number 10 looks a little plain, though.
Most importantly, I just want the hardware to be top notch.
9th one was nice if it's a portable handheld.
Number 10 seems realistic. But they need a huge cooling fan where that grey X is located. As is, that case lacks adequate cooling and that contributes to RROD.
Number 9 seems like a decent handheld look.


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text: Naturalism was a relatively short-lived philosophical approach to crafting novels. Few writers of the period experienced real success in the style, but those that did became titans of the art form. One wonders at the profound literature that might have been produced had Stephen Crane not died before his thirtieth birthday. Frank Norris likewise died before his time, an irony that should not escape modern readers. It is difficult to gauge the total effects of Naturalism on the path of American literature. The fact that Social Darwinism eventually came to be seen for the disguised racism that it is probably marred the reputation of Naturalist writing. However, the sheer art and craft of the literature that the greatest novelists of the period generated overcomes such handicaps.


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Access technical proceedings from past user conferences to learn about the many real-world applications of FLOW-3D products and the recent and upcoming developments for the FLOW-3D product suite.
New Conference Proceedings
The conference proceedings from the 2017 FLOW-3D Americas Users Conference are now available!
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Multiphysics CFD: Challenges and Applications
Edward Furlani, University at Buffalo, SUNY
The interest in fluids and related transport phenomena has grown dramatically in recent years as applications have broadly proliferated. At the same time, advances in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) combined with ever increasing computational power at reduced cost have enabled unprecedented understanding of fluidic behavior and the rational design of novel commercial technologies. In this presentation, challenges and applications of multiphysics CFD are discussed. The applications range in scope from nanoscale photothermal bubble nucleation for cancer therapy, to magnetically-based microfluidic biosorting, to inkjet technology and liquid metal 3D printing, among others. The discussion will be reinforced with results from case studies.
FLOW-3D Solver Developments
Michael Barkhudarov, Flow Science
Flow Science is working on two major releases: FLOW-3D Cast v5.0 and FLOW-3D v11.3. The FLOW-3D Cast release sees an expansion of modeling tools to aid users in the design and evaluation of a casting process. Additions include the output of gas pressure and venting efficiency during filling, and thermal modulus and last places to freeze during solidification. A heat transfer coefficient calculator for conical sprays, based on the spray flow rate, has been added to the spray cooling model. The intensification pressure has been coupled to the air entrainment, void particles and porosity models. Users will now be able to use degrees Centigrade or Fahrenheit with negative values, overcoming a long-standing limitation in FLOW-3D. There will no longer be a requirement to define temperature in absolute units for models that use an equation-of-state, such as air entrainment and radiation heat transfer. A cluster version of the solver will also become available for FLOW-3D Cast this year. The two-fluid flow model in FLOW-3D v11.3 will see the introduction of a full two-temperature solver, enhancing accuracy and flexibility of the treatment of heat and mass exchange at the interface between the fluids. Users will also be able to apply transformations to whole geometry components, simplifying geometry setup for components made of multiple subcomponents. The shallow water model now allows the use of Manning's coefficient to describe terrain roughness. The user will be able to choose whether to define pressure in gauge or absolute units in FLOW-3D v11.3, even when a model that requires the absolute scale, e.g., adiabatic bubble or compressible fluid, is used.
INVITED SPEAKER: Numerical Simulation of Air Entrainment and Transport in Low-Froude-Number Hydraulic Jumps
Fabián A. Bombardelli, UC Davis, Milagros N. Loguercio, National University of La Plata and Kaveh Zamani, Water Research Laboratory
We assess the prediction capability of FLOW-3D to reproduce the flow and air transport in hydraulic jumps for different low Froude numbers. We compare results including different levels of complexity in the theoretical model to predict the mean flow, turbulence statistics as well as, more importantly, void fractions. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time a validation with an extensive level of rigor has been conducted. Due to the lack of experimental works including data for the mean flow, turbulence statistics and air concentration altogether, one flow was selected to first check the accurate representation of the mean flow in a low-Froude-number hydraulic jump, and then other laboratory tests were chosen to analyze the void fractions. Rigorous mesh convergence tests were done to validate the numerical models. Results revealed that the numerical model can reproduce the flow field and turbulence statistics in very good agreement with data, whereas the void fractions are not as accurate as the above but that they are still acceptable and of the same level of agreement with published works. The presentation addresses the behavior of the different complexity levels against data.
DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER: Going Against the Grain
Dr. Tony Hirt, Flow Science Founder and Developer Emeritus
Granular materials are ubiquitous. They are important in agriculture (seeds, grains, fertilizers), construction (sand, gravel, cement), pharmaceuticals (pills, powders) and, of course, the environment (debris flow, river and shore deposits, sand dunes, etc.). Most attempts to develop computational models for predicting the behavior of granular material have focused on discrete particle models. The drawback of these approaches is that in practical applications the number of particles is generally in the tens of millions to billions, limiting discrete particle simulations by computer memory and/or computational time. In this presentation, a more efficient continuum model is described that has been implemented in FLOW-3D. Computational results are used to illustrate the complex, and sometimes non-intuitive, behavior of granular materials that exhibit features of both fluids and solids. How does an hour glass work? Why can it be difficult to mix granular materials? Why does a shear flow reduce the settling of granular particles? These questions will be answered using simulations of simple flow situations. Combining simple physical models with guidance from basic experimental studies has resulted in a computational model that is able go up against the errant behavior of dense clouds of interacting grains.
User Interface Engineering
John Ditter, Flow Science
Our programmers and engineers continue to improve our user interfaces by working closely with our users to understand how they set up and analyze their simulations. The result is a more intuitive user experience and an improved workflow with fewer errors in simulation setup and faster post-processing. Today I'll show how our latest interfaces improve user productivity. In FLOW-3D Cast v5.0, Process Workspaces have been expanded to include more casting processes. The process workspace approach is designed to simplify and improve users' workflow. Another major feature – Customizable runtime plots – will allow users to continuously monitor the results of their simulations while they are running. Users can quickly decide whether to continue the simulation or if design changes are necessary. Other significant enhancements will also be introduced, including new databases and the ability to generate view files for batch postprocessing. FLOW-3D Cast v5.0 will also ship with an upgraded FlowSightTM with a new graphics engine and scenario viewer. Several new features and improvements to FlowSight, will also be described. Early next year, FLOW-3D v11.3 will incorporate many of the same enhancements included with FLOW-3D Cast v5.0, but will also include "smarter" shallow water mesh blocks, and an interface for the chemistry model.
Computational Analysis of Pinch-off Dynamics and Printability of Simple and Complex Fluids
Vivek Sharma and Jelena Dinic, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
Drop formation and liquid transfer in jetting, printing, coating, and spraying as well as microfluidic drop/particle formation applications are accompanied by the formation of unstable columnar liquid necks that undergo surface tension driven thinning and pinch-off. Advances in high-speed imaging and visualization methods, coupled with advances in theory and simulation methods for free surface flows, have resulted in a fairly comprehensive characterization and understanding of capillary-thinning dynamics for simple, Newtonian fluids. For Newtonian fluids, the complex interplay of inertial, viscous and capillary stresses before and after breakup leads to neck thinning dynamics that can often be described by universal scaling laws, and selfsimilar neck evolution manifested in experiments. In rheologically-complex fluids, extra elastic stresses as well as non-Newtonian shear and extensional viscosity dramatically alter the nonlinear dynamics. Stream-wise velocity-gradients associated with extensional flows arise in thinning liquid necks spontaneously formed during printing, spraying and atomization, and fiber spinning. Complex fluids exhibit a much larger resistance to elongational flow than simple fluids with the same zero shear viscosity, leading to delayed pinch-off and dramatically changing the shape of the neck as well as rate of neck thinning, satellite drop formation and printability. Using the Volume-of-Fluid approach implemented in FLOW-3D, we simulate the free surface flows within columnar necks or stretched liquid bridges formed by dripping, by applying step strain to fluid between two parallel plates, and by dripping-onto substrate. Using these three prototypical cases, we simulate free-surface flows realized in printing as well as in extensional rheometry devices used for studying pinch-off dynamics and the influence of microstructure and viscoelasticity. In contrast with often-used 1D or 2D models, FLOW-3D allows a robust evaluation of the magnitude of the underlying stresses and extensional flow field (both uniformity and magnitude). We contrast our results with 1D and 2D models, and show that shape evolution dynamics, finite-time singularities, and satellite formation can be probed remarkably well with the CFD simulations in FLOW-3D. We find that the simulated radius evolution profiles match the scaling laws and pinch-off dynamics that are experimentally-observed and theoretically-predicted for Newtonian fluids. Finally, we describe our experiments and FLOW-3D simulations to elucidate how viscoelasticity modeled using the Oldroyd-B constitutive model influences interfacial and nonlinear flows underlying pinch-off dynamics, extensional rheometry and printability of polymeric complex fluids.
Two Fluid Modelling of a Spillway Flow
Stéphanie Thériault and Laurent Bilodeau, Hydro Quebec
We have been exploring the use of two-fluid modelling – air and water – for examining the flow downstream of a spillway gate. Our presentation will show how we went from one fluid to two fluids by means of a restart, plus a number of parameter and meshing adjustments. We will go over what worked well for us and how several pitfalls were circumvented.
Levelling System New Shipping Lock IJmuiden, the Netherlands
Randy Lagumbay, Arcadis-US, Jeroen Adema, Arcadis Netherlands, John Richardson, Arcadis USA
Arcadis is one of the consultants within the consortium OpenIJ that is building the new shipping lock in IJmuiden for the Dutch Ministry of Public Works. This lock, the biggest in the world, will improve the connection between the port of Amsterdam and the North Sea. The most crucial topic in terms of design was to show that the levelling system could meet the requirements on levelling times and forces on a moored ship. Three validation cases were carried out to show the reliability of FLOW-3D before we could start to model the levelling system. Grid sizes as small as 1 cm were required to model the geometry of the levelling system in enough detail to obtain reliable values for the discharge coefficient. Flow patterns were evaluated on the spreading of the high velocity zones downstream, which led to a design optimization of the breaking bar geometry. Energy losses and discharge coefficients were input to determine lift gate operations with the 1D model Lockfill. Physical scale model tests in the lab were used for the final check of the levelling times and forces on the ship. Discharge coefficients from FLOW-3D compared well with those of the scale model.
Making a Wave in Idaho
Bruce Savage and Greg Roberts, Idaho State University
Flooding events pose a risk to nuclear reactor facilities, as evidenced by the recent Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant failure and other flood events. To improve probabilistic risk modeling of these circumstances, water rise, spray, and wave impact testing capabilities are being developed for the Component Flooding Evaluation Laboratory (CFEL) at Idaho State University. The goal of the wave impact testing is to develop a device that can test prototype scale components for extreme wave impacts. The assumption is that a tsunami wave represents a worst-case scenario. The goal was to develop a device that can simulate the impact of tsunami wave heights up to 20 feet. FLOW-3D was used to evaluate and explore different conceptional designs including horizontal pistons, a vertical piston, or an air pressure system as methods of fluid displacement are explored. The results indicated that an air pressure system using baffles produced a near-vertical wave section.
Boundary Dam – Total Dissolved Gas Analysis
Nikou Jalayeri, Hatch
The Boundary Dam is located on the Pend Oreille River in northeastern Washington. The project consists of a 340 ft. high concrete arch dam, seven low level sluiceway outlets, two high level overflow spillways, and a 1003 MW powerhouse. The Boundary Hydroelectric Development have been shown to produce high total dissolved gas (TDG) concentrations in the river reach downstream. Studies were commissioned to determine modifications to the project's spillway structures to help mitigate this gas production. Resolution of many of the hydraulic design issues for the study relied heavily on the results of numerical hydraulic models. These modifications were constructed and tested in the field. The CFD model that was developed in support of these studies was used to simulate flows through a number of the project's seven sluice gates and two overflow spillways. The model was set up to track the pressure- and time-histories of representative air bubbles within the plunge pool and tailrace. These data were then used as input to a TDG predictive tool to help predict total dissolved gas production in the tailrace. The overall predictive performance was successfully calibrated and validated to actual prototype (field) TDG data.
Stratified Environmental Flows Interacting with Obstacles
Jian Zhou and Subhas K. Venayagamoorthy, Colorado State University
In this presentation, two published studies of stratified environmental flows interacting with solid obstacles using FLOW-3D will be discussed. These studies are respectively: (1) numerical simulations of intrusive gravity currents interacting with a bottom-mounted obstacle in a continuously stratified ambient; and (2) numerical simulations of the propagation dynamics of bottom-boundary gravity currents over and through a submerged array of cylindrical obstacles. In both of these studies, the numerical results from FLOW-3D were observed to be in excellent agreement with experimental data. With the aid of the robust numerical solver and the unique FAVORTM technique, the suitability and capacity of FLOW-3D to accurately model and provide fundamental insights into this important class of flows are demonstrated.
1Funded by the Office of Naval Research and the National Science Foundation
Advanced Research: Additive Manufacturing
John Wendelbo, Flow Science
Superior productivity and speed, coupled with low heat input are resulting in laser welding processes replacing more conventional welding methods. With better control and smaller heat affected zones, laser processing technology has enabled explosive growth in metal additive manufacturing processes such as powder bed fusion and direct metal deposition. This presentation shall provide a comprehensive overview of FLOW-3D's modeling capabilities to simulate laser welding and additive manufacturing processes. Using case studies from industry and academia we will look at how process parameter optimization and relevant physical models play a key role in predicting porosity, surface finish and the subsequent microstructure evolution in welding and additive manufacturing processes.
Optofluidics: Modeling L2 lens
Adwaith Gupta and Ioannis Karampelas, Flow Science and Justin Kitting, University of New Mexico
This presentation describes the modeling of dynamically reconfigurable liquid-core liquid-cladding (L2) lens in a microfluidic channel using FLOW-3D, followed by quantitative validation against the experimental results. The lens is formed in a microchannel by three laminar streams of fluids with different refractive indices. The core stream, which is sandwiched between the cladding streams, has a higher refractive index, causing the light to bend while passing through the layers of microfluidic streams. Based on the relative flow magnitudes of the core flow rates and the cladding flow rates, different lens shapes (defined by the curvatures) are formed. Each curvature leads to a different focal length, thus governing the path of light rays passing through the microchannel. The case study is divided into two parts – constant cladding flow rates and constant core flow rates. Also, a technique is devised in FlowSight to find the curvatures of each lens. Finally, the results are validated against the experimental results.
State-of-the-Art Cloud Computing
Gandharv Kashinath, Flow Science and Will Cottay, Penguin Computing
Large models and detailed high-fidelity analyses are pushing the limits of in-house hardware resources. At the same time, engineering firms are running simulations as part of their design cycle more than ever and this is a growing trend. With advantages in hardware accessibility, cost, and ease of use, cloud-based solutions are gaining traction in the field of computer-aided engineering (CAE) and more specifically in computational fluid dynamics (CFD). FLOW-3D, in collaboration with Penguin Computing, is now offered in the cloud where thousands of CPU cores can be used to run either a few large simulations or many smaller ones simultaneously. This talk will focus on FLOW-3D 's cloud computing platform, its pricing, performance and ease-of-use.


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80 cases in Nkayi diarrhoea outbreak
NKAYI has been hit by a diarrhoea outbreak with more than 80 cases having been recorded since last week.
The first cases were recorded following a football tournament that was held in Sebhumane area last week on Sunday.
Matabeleland North Provincial Medical Director Dr Nyasha Masuka said health teams have been sent to the affected areas.
"I can confirm that there are diarrhoea cases that have been recorded at two health centres in the past week. Last Wednesday six football players went to one of our clinics, three days after a football tournament, suffering from diarrhoea and fever.
"The first six cases were recorded at Sebhumane Rural Centre on Wednesday and they were managed. On Thursday and Friday, Sikhobokhobo Rural Centre received about 53 cases whilst Sebhumane received another 27 cases of diarrhoea," he said.
Dr Masuka said contaminated water was suspected to be the major cause of the outbreak, but tests were being conducted.
"Initially we suspected food poisoning because the first six people to present themselves were players at the tournament but we then ruled it out when we began to receive more cases from people who had not attended the football tournament. The incubation period of whatever it is that was affecting them also increased our doubts on food poisoning. They had the tournament on Sunday and only started presenting themselves at the health centre on Wednesday."
He said they suspect that people drank contaminated water.
Dr Masuka said some of the people drank water from Shangani River.
"We sent out an investigating team to get water samples at five strategic points in the water bodies within that locality. Stool tests were also taken.
"Apparently, due to more cases coming from downstream, on the other side of Shangani River, it means there is still need for active case finding as the contamination could be on a larger area than we had suspected. Today we are sending out another team to collect more samples. World Vision, District Administrators and the President's Office are assisting us in the exercise," he said.—@winnie_masara


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The day is cool one cuz of the rain that fell last night. I slept like a baby last night. I read open heaven and prayed. Ibe and wife didn't sleep in the house, don't know where they slept and I don't intend to ask. The rain not satisfied with last night's shower decided to drizzle a bit. I love cool days. It's so good for my system. I showered and left for work. I'm dressed very corporate though not with a jacket. I haven't dressed like this in a long time. I'm gonna start dressing like this from now on. One problem though, I don't have money yet to sustain it.
Work wasn't stressful today. Just a few simple tasks to do here and there, nothing out of the ordinary. My boss had a meeting in the office in the morning with some bankers. Every time I take a major decision, an equally or stronger temptation will manifest. For instance last week Friday I decided I will go for a church vigil, the first in my entire life. That Friday Ifeanyi invited me to a party the opposite of bachelor's eve. I haven't been such unwinding sorta thing in ages. All work and no play they say makes a dull boy. My spirit ministered to me that today that you're fasting somebody will buy you food. I said okay, then all I have to do is keep it till I break my fast.
The first thing my boss did after settling in the office was asking me to buy breakfast for him. And he also gave me money to buy for myself. What do you know? I went to D'Place to get the food. There was this group of chics buying food as well. Two were busy checking me out, I pretended not to notice them. Yeah I look real good to myself. I'm even checking myself out too so chic I understand your plight. But these girls look like whores, that was why I acted like they don't exist.
Ifeanyi came in later. He was surprised by my cool look. He was like, ''has the money come in?'' I laughed. Chris who disappeared for a while to village came to the office too towards the evening. He was like ''mehn Nwabs you look good'' At this point I just let it graciously go to my for a minute, feel my head swell like the zeppelin ship. It's not my fault you know lol.
Ifeanyi's visa is still not ready, but not to worry it will definitely be ready before the 18th of this month.


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So this is what I have been missing all these years!
Beginning last Friday I did something I have only dreamed about doing since I was 15 years old. I quit my job without a single prospect of another (at least for a little while). I have officially been unemployed for two days and man I LOVE it! Of course it is not as if I am doing absolutelyy nothing, because I am in the midst of moving to South Carolina as well as helping Stacy move to Florida. But it has also freed up time for some awesome things that I never would have had time for while I was part of the workforce. Let me review so you can all be jealous…
Woke up around 8:30 (That never happens!)
Went for a run with Stacy (We hit up a lot of our favorite running spots…Byrd park, The Nickle Bridge, Pony Pasture, Grove Ave, and Carytown)
Took a nap
Went to Amy's Body Pump class (And Amy's classes are always amazing!)
Ate a peach while taking a walk with absolutely gorgeous weather
Made a delicious dinner and watched The Fighter.
Woke up a bit earlier and went running through University of Richmond.
Spent some time in meditation by the pond
Went to lunch with this lovely woman
Did a little bit of work, but not too much!
Went and got a manicure and pedicure followed by a delicious dinner with this lovely woman (My mother in law)
And now here I sit, typing this and enjoying the rest of the evening with Stacy. And tomorrow I get to shadow Amy! What a life!
June 8, 2011
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