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The City Council on Monday expressed support for a feasibility study to explore the possibility of a partnership with the Spring Valley Athletic Association to expand the existing offerings at Huffhines Recreation Center to include multi-use courts. The SVAA board approved nearly $26,000 to cover half of the cost of the feasibility study, and as a potential partner in the venture, the City has been asked to fund the other half.
SVAA is a non-profit, volunteer organization that sponsors youth baseball, softball, T-ball, basketball, football and volleyball leagues. They use City of Richardson, Richardson ISD, Dallas ISD and private facilities for games and practices but are limited by schedules already in place at those facilities. The organization is seeking a partner to help develop a multi-use facility that would be primarily dedicated to its youth sports and schedule them as a top priority, although the facility could be used for other events, such as Corporate Challenge.
The City of Richardson's Parks, Recreation and Open Space Master Plan calls for an expansion of Huffhines Recreation Center to include additional gymnasium space and if feasible the development of a separate venue to include 12 to 16 courts for volleyball and basketball. A partnership between the City and SVAA could speed up the recreation center expansion or development of another venue.
The feasibility study will be conducted by Ballard King and Associates and is expected to take six to eight months to complete.
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The church:
All Saints
, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Episcopal Church in the USA.
The building:
The building appears to date from the mid to late 1980s, the memorable post-modern period in American architecture. It sits on its lot at an angle, as if it were hiding from the main street. Parish offices, meeting rooms, and a day school (pre-school and kindergarten) share the site along with a modest parking lot.
The church:
I give points to All Saints for operating a pre-school. More parishes should take advantage of this ploy to bring in young families as members. The many activities that they sponsor all seem to include a place for young people.
The neighborhood:
This is a basic low-density suburban-scale neighborhood. Much of Las Vegas' sprawl looks like this.
The cast:
The Rev. Eldwin M. Lovelady, rector, presided, assisted by the Rev. Deacon Karl Gustafson and the Rev. Bede Parry.
The date & time:
Pentecost Sunday, June 4, 2006, 10.30am.
What was the name of the service?
Baptism and Holy Communion.
How full was the building?
Mostly full, maybe 200 all told.
Did anyone welcome you personally?
Yes, an usher handed me a service sheet, said good morning, and encouraged me to take a seat in a side section. Rev. Parry, who is the church's music director, was playing a familiar Messiaen organ prelude.
Was your pew comfortable?
The church has padded wooden church chairs with attached kneelers, and they were just fine.
How would you describe the pre-service atmosphere?
It was fairly chatty and boisterous. More visiting than praying, in spite of Messiaen's
Apparition de l'église éternelle
What were the exact opening words of the service?
"Alleluia, Christ is risen."
What books did the congregation use during the service?
Book of Common Prayer
, the
1982 Hymnal
and a very complete service sheet.
What musical instruments were played?
An attractive two-manual mechanical action organ, which is well suited to the space. A flautist joined the choir to lead the music, and the congregation sang pretty well.
Did anything distract you?
It was a hot day (107° Fahrenheit or 41° Celsius), and even with the air conditioning people seemed a little restive. Due to the baptisms (one infant and two adults), there were more visitors in the congregation than at other times, and some of them may have been unfamiliar with the service.
Was the worship stiff-upper-lip, happy clappy, or what?
Worship was fairly broad-church, but the liturgy was well celebrated. I was glad to see traditional Anglican hymns being used rather than contemporary music, but that's just me. It was a good service and I felt welcome.
Exactly how long was the sermon?
12 minutes.
On a scale of 1-10, how good was the preacher?
7 I would give the rector pretty good marks for getting the job done and being quite listenable. His sermon was entertaining, while at the same time it brought the scripture readings to the forefront of people's thoughts.
In a nutshell, what was the sermon about?
The rector compared the readings for Pentecost, and for the weeks leading up to this day, to his memories of Superman features at the movie theatres of his youth. The apostles were given super-powers to establish the church, and each reading relates an amazing tale with the promise of a cliff-hanger to keep us reading on. Tales of super-Christ began at Easter with the story of the resurrection and culminate in today's lesson on how the apostles received tongues of flame.
Which part of the service was like being in heaven?
Down Ampney
at communion (one of my favorite hymns).
And which part was like being in... er... the other place?
I am tired of complaining about fidgety children (there was one next to me), or about uninspiring architecture, or about a dearth of ecclesiastical art.
What happened when you hung around after the service looking lost?
The announcements mentioned coffee hour, and so, to the strains of a nice Bach postlude, I moved in the direction everyone was headed. A gentleman asked me if I had recently moved to the area. (Turns out he was a real estate agent – he gave me his card – but that doesn't mean he wasn't naturally outgoing and welcoming.)
How would you describe the after-service coffee?
Okay coffee and some store-bought baked goodies. A Palestinian artisan group was selling pottery and religious wood carvings, which were very nice.
How would you feel about making this church your regular (where 10 = ecstatic, 0 = terminal)?
8 I am thinking about the possibility.
Did the service make you feel glad to be a Christian?
Of course. I even enjoyed the baptism.
What one thing will you remember about all this in seven days' time?
Singing "Come down, O Love Divine" at communion.
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I always look forward to going to Palmer. I'm sure that you can see why from our posts over the season. I always look forward to being home again too, but in the seasons like this one where I am leaving before the season is winding down for the rest of the group, it is a lot tougher. I suppose you could say it is a bit more bitter than sweet.
Other obligations call me north, though. Fortunately I leave knowing very well that Maggie, Kate, and Julie have our project very well in hand and know that it will continue to be successful.
It is only about once a month (or even less often) that the ship sails north for Chile, taking people away from Palmer. That makes it an even bigger event for both those leaving and staying. Sailing time is usually in the morning; today it was 11:00 which meant that we had to be aboard by 10:30. The ritual is that 15-30 minutes before boarding time, most of the people both leaving and staying gather in the galley for goodbyes. Lots of handshakes and hugs. Lots of words of encouragement and well wishes for the rest of the season at Palmer or the crossing to South America. One final moment for UAB in A to be a 4 person team.
The half an hour difference between boarding time and leaving is the time it takes to unbolt the ship's gangway and lift it up to one of the upper decks and then to undo the mooring lines holding the ship up against the pier. About 15 or 20 minutes before sailing, a team of about ten folks from station come out to help with the unmooring. The team is called the "line handlers" and the station manager traditionally goes onto the station public address system and announces "line handlers to the pier, line handlers to the pier, line handlers to the pier."
The mooring lines have loops on their ends that go around huge metal pins called bollards which are firmly anchored into the granite bedrock of Anvers Island. When the ship ties up, the line handlers have to pull the huge mooring ropes over and loop them around the bollards. When the ship leaves, upon radioed instructions from the Captain the line handlers "only" have to use a smaller rope to pull the loop up off each bollard and then make sure that the lines do not get caught in the rocks as they snake down to the shore. But even that takes a lot of muscle and requires multiple people per line. The ship's crew then has the task of hauling the lines back over to the ship.
Soon after the line handlers are called to the pier, most everyone else comes down to the pier area to wave and bid a last farewell to those on the ship. Sometimes there are snowballs thrown back and forth. There was plenty of snow available, but no one was in the mood for that today.
Until the ship is completely untied, almost everyone has to stay off the pier proper. So folks congregate next to the boathouse. Maggie in her black fleece jacket - blended into the shadows of the boathouse deck waved and took photographs while I waved back. Kate and Julie joked around with friends off the boathouse work platform (I couldn't hear them of course, but could tell they were having fun). With the last of the lines finally off, the ship pulled quickly away while the assembled Palmer folk came out to the pier proper for the final farewell waves.
As I usually do, I stayed out on the deck of the ship until the station was no longer in sight. We passed by islands I know so well from a Zodiac boat during our dive ops, but from the height of the ship they always look different. When the Terralab, the building highest up the hill on station, was no longer visible, I headed in to my cabin to settle in.
In our posts this season both I and others have used terms like wondrous and magnificent to describe what it is like living and working at Palmer Station. And I've told you how privileged I feel to be able to do so. Part of that privilege is being able to describe some of the magnificence with you through these posts. Maggie, Kate, Julie, Kevin, Jim, and I all hope that you have enjoyed them, learned a little from them, and in so doing shared in the wonder.
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Oh yes, Finally dive ops. In today's version drysuited Kate and Chuck with tender Rhiannon Henning (IT Specialist from Kansas, Colorado, Oregon) and I set out on a cloudy but celebration-worthy calm morning. As we approached the selected dive site, off Laggard Island, we could see the bottom, at least 20 feet down. The dark skies would mean using dive lights to enhance the algal and critter colors at depth on this beautiful wall. Today would be Chuck's last dive of the season as he heads north shortly so we were all pleased it would be a pretty one for him. In his start on packing up the other day he discovered that he had totally forgotten about a little dive antic he wanted to do. See image of him "putting on that old gray bonnet with a blue devil on it…". Chuck's Duke fanatic/alum background had to be explained to Rhiannon.
And now to the real beginning of the virtual end. Yes Chuck is preparing to head home to Alabama leaving Kate, Julie and me to carry on our science projects. Avid readers will recall that Kevin Scriber bid Palmer Station adieu several weeks ago and in his last posts shared thoughts of leaving. Well Julie wrote that many hands make lighter work implying that fewer hands make heavier work. As such now short two team members to do the lab work and the field work it was long ago decided that we would wrap up the virtual UAB in Antarctica on or about the day Chuck sails. His companion piece will be posted in a few days.
It seems like just yesterday all five of us enjoyed our several day (each sunny and calm!) dive trip to the scenic Lemaire Channel in search of a special long-stemmed version of Ascoseira. What a successfully grand way to launch a season of Antarctic diving! Boy were we duped by the weather though! Back on station, Julie with her medieval torture chamber investigated various aspects of this alga of unusual size. Meanwhile, Kate and PAM gently investigated light requirements of the long-stemmed alga. Kate and PAM would 'enlighten' numerous other species of algae throughout the season.
Anchored in Alabama, Jim weighed in about the pros and cons of Antarctic tourism. He also wrote of other 'tourists' that are not returning to their original departure 'city', settling further south and altering the delicate balance of life down here. Relocation of these feathered and flippered critters is likely being driven by climate change along the peninsula. Not only does climate change bring the very real and documented problem of warmer temperatures to the Peninsula (it should NOT RAIN in April in Antarctica!) the commensurate increased atmospheric carbon dioxide brings on the companion problem of ocean acidification . The naturally thin shells of Antarctic molluscs (snails, clams, etc.) and the armor of spiny sea urchins and sea stars among others are now at risk of literally dissolving in the increasingly acidic seas. An underlying theme to some of our group's writings has been alliterating to movies so please on the issue of climate, click your ruby heels Dorothy and say repeatedly "I believe, I believe..." Let's hope Antarctica will continue to hold unexpected surprises.
On the alliteration theme, Kate brought in galactic movies references to force her readers to see the true ways of Antarctic communities. She also harkened on the great Bob Dylan to stress the weather that has impaired our field operations many a day is indicative of changin' climes and changin' times. The Holy Divers bear the truth but Kate will continue her sleuthing ways in her upcoming, but not to be released episodes of CSI Antarctica.
Julie too got into alliteration with amphipod games?!? She is kind of our James Herriot all things great and small. Unintended dive collection critters found their way to Julie's heart as by-catch. "You are cute and special whatever you are!" She equally warmly welcomed visitors arriving under sail while quietly building a universe in the aquarium building. Totally cosmic!
Finally, I led you on a diving cowboy odyssey of sorts and an African amphipod safari. Closer to 'home' I introduced you to the current Palmer Station while Chuck described our only sunny Sunday morning off-the clock time at Old Palmer. No fish bones about though it time to wrap this up, send the LMG and Chuck north and carry on at Palmer Station with UAB in A's work on ocean acidification.
Do stay tuned for Chuck's part 2 of The Real Beginning of the Virtual End. Meanwhile and thereafter, send comments, questions, hellos to Kate, Julie and me at email@example.com
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Now it's not the same of course, there's no crime scene and people are not the subject of our investigations. But we do use a variety of clues to answer our questions and we do this using sophisticated SCIENTIFIC TECHNIQUES, just like CSI. If only we could afford the equipment and technicians that those shows boast, jeepers we'd have some fast and plentiful data on our hands.
In Antarctic we mostly do reconnaissance and then we bring our suspects into the lab to freeze or preserve, and then follow through with our fancy techniques at UAB or in cooperating labs at other institutions.
Here's some of the sleuthing work that we do:
CASE #1: The case of the cryptic red algae
For a few years a friend and colleague of Chuck's has been asking about a specific red algae that didn't seem to belong in the genus Acanthococcus and is being reassigned to Cystoclonium (I'm interrogating an entirely different red algal supsect in image above). Phycologists always switch names around once they weed through the genetic evidence for a species, which were probably defined by their morphology and reproductive structures originally. SO we've been looking for this specific species in all of its various reproductive forms (red algae are trisexual so three forms- non-fertile, carposporophyte, and tetrasporophyte) for quite some time.
We searched deep and shallow, across many different dive sites and finally this year we found it in all its various reproductive states. Chuck and Maggie have preserved each form in silica gel and formalin and we're sending the preserved evidence back to the states to be identified in the colleague's lab. You can run but you can't hide – for long......
CASE #2: The case of the identical coralline algae
Coralline algae are key players in a few of my experiments down here; the ocean acidification microcosms and the invertebrate settlement experiment. One issue has come up in these experiments though, and that is coralline algae are very hard to distinguish from each other. They are pink, hard and crustose and grow (very slowly) on rocks and bedrock in the subtidal. They basically look like hard bubble gum bits glued to where it lives (see my underwater pic left).
In previous years I classified five different morphologies from the area around Palmer Station but there are at least seven known different species in Antarctica. All coralline algae are identified through their reproductive structures which can only be seen in a clean cross-section using a scanning electron microscope. This is not a microscope that we have on station, and corallines have calcified cell walls so a "clean" cross-section really has to be done with something sharper than a razor blade. That science tool is also not on station. So, to identify these morphotypes I have taken genetic samples from suspects who will then go under the "special knife" of a colleague in Spain who is very good at identifying coralline algae. This will hopefully give us an accurate genetic and morphological ID for each suspect, and then each species down here. These guys won't be able to hide from us much longer either.
CASE #3: The case of differential gene expression
For the past two years Julie and I have been running microcosm experiments in the station Aquarium Building. Our main goal is to look at the physiological response of our various organisms to the predicted environmental conditions for 50-100 in the future. Physiological parameters like growth, photosynthesis, and behavior are measured in the lab using weights or surface area, my friend PAM, or by video-taping behavioral response.
A colleague of Jim McClintock's is also interested in the physiological response of these organisms, but on a finer scale: gene regulation across environmental conditions determined through differential production of RNA – a molecule encoding the amino acid sequences of proteins. Variation in production of specific proteins may capture a metabolic response of the organisms that we would not see in our other measurements. So we sample our suspects (like those from last year above: snails, limpets and corralines) and place them in a special scientific solution, then store in the -20C freezer until shipped home to UAB for further 'interrogation'.
We're certainly not the only people on station doing this kind of investigative who/what is responsible work. Another science group researches ice fish looking at protein synthesis in these fish. As explained in an earlier post, ice fish don't have the oxygen carrier hemoglobin so don not have red blood. They have clear blood because they have a different kind of oxygen carrier, which is less efficient, and as such requires production of different proteins. SO these researchers are taking their suspects, drawing the fishy blood and looking at the various proteins present to see if there is a metabolic benefit to being an icefish vs. a rockfish (the other very common Antarctic fish) given the difference in the molecular oxygen carrier.
Pretty cool stuff and the benefit is that the organisms we work with can't interfere with our investigation; they can't destroy any evidence before we get to the scene!


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Helga enjoyed knitting hats and booties for Children's Hospital and taking care of her flower garden. She was of the catholic faith.
She was preceded in death by her parents and a sister, Berta Frank Hartl.
Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Joey and Tammy Meimerstorf of Dardanelle; a daughter, Patti Alexander of Dover; two brothers and sisters-in-law, Karl and Birgit Bornkessel and Ernest and Michaela Bornkessel, all of Germany; a sister, Kathy Lebold of Germany; and two grandchildren, Michael Garrison of Dover and Alexa Meimerstorf of Dardanelle.
Cremation arrangements are private and under the direction of Shinn Funeral Service.
Memorials may be made to American Cancer Society, 126 Lakeview Circle Russellville, AR 72802; or Arkansas Department of Health Hospice, 1509 East Main, Suite 6, Russellville, AR 72801.
The online obituary and guestbook are available at www.shinnfuneral.com.


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Road-striping work begins on San Antonio Road
Original post made on Oct 11, 2012
Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, October 10, 2012, 1:42 PM
a resident of Gunn High School
on Oct 11, 2012 at 10:23 am
The road was really rough while they were repaving it. I wonder how many cars it damaged. New intersection looks good though. Looking forward to the landscaping and to someone demolishing those warehouses and building something beautiful and distinctive.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 11, 2012 at 10:44 am
Oh dear. I hope those temporary lane markings were not placed in the final locations. On northbound San Antonio at Charleston, the right lane strangely morphed into the left lane; cars in the left lane suddenly found themselves in the left-hand turn lane ... and north of the intersection there's an abnormally wide left lane, a center lane, and a weird, narrow right lane that disappears into the verge. Really bizarre.
a resident of Greenmeadow
on Oct 11, 2012 at 10:45 am
Heading east (toward the bay) on San Antonio, they;ve added a second left turn lane from San Antonio to Charleston. Is that second left turn lane necessary?
a resident of Greenmeadow
on Oct 11, 2012 at 10:50 am
Just saw Caroline's comment. She is absolutely right. That lane jog is confusing. The whole new configuration is confusing. After Mr Roadshow called Palo Alto re: the strange realignment of the lanes, the contractor put in the temporary markings. But they told Mr Roadshow that the previous configuration wold be restored. Not quite true. While there are two lanes heading toward 101, the second left lane has been added. I never see more than 6 cars making left turns there, but I'm not there 24/7. WOuld be gerat to ear from the city as to why it felt this second left lane had to be added.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 11, 2012 at 11:19 am
The city has referred to San Antonio as running east-west. If you look at a map, you will see that it is just a few degrees off a north-south line. By no stretch of the imagination can it be called east-west! But I suppose the erroneous direction and bizarre lane markings are all part of the same package.
a resident of Barron Park
on Oct 11, 2012 at 11:34 am
"But I suppose the erroneous direction and bizarre lane markings are all part of the same package."
It's more likely a by-product of designating 101 as north-south, thus forcing the roads that cross 101 being designated east-west. My favorite is a stretch near Oakland that is both 80West and 580East, but really runs mostly north-south.
a resident of Palo Verde
on Oct 11, 2012 at 12:41 pm
Re: "Heading east (toward the bay) on San Antonio, they've added a second left turn lane from San Antonio to Charleston"
There have been 2 left-hand turn lanes onto Charleston (towards Fabian / Middlefield) for many years. The signage and signal lights makes this clear.
But their temporary lane markers were completely incorrect and confusing for the first week or two. I believe they improved it about a week ago.
a resident of Greenmeadow
on Oct 11, 2012 at 5:28 pm
The sign for the second left turn lane are new, as is the new second left turn lane. The two lanes heading to 101 used to jog slightly left. They now jog slightly right. The new yellow marker directing the lanes going to 101 is also new.
a resident of Palo Verde
on Oct 12, 2012 at 1:18 pm
To totally beat a dead horse, Google Maps w/streetview can show you a somewhat historical picture of the two left-hand turn lanes towards Fabian/Middlefield:
Web Link
Were you referring to turning some other direction, perhaps towards BestBuy / Costco?
In any case, I'm glad the temporary striping snafu has been improved.
a resident of Menlo Park
on Oct 15, 2012 at 8:37 am
Let me add to the 'what are they thinking' comments on the new striping. I drove down (up, over, whatever :-) ) San Antonio this weekend and saw that they have added "sharrows" in the right traffic lane but not marked the wide, former bike lane as such. Are they kidding? I am a cyclist who does not hesitate to exert my right to be in a lane when needed but there is no way I'm going to be in the 'car' lane on San Antonio when there is a nice, smooth thing that looks like a bike lane next to it.


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MetroWest's offense was MIA most of Saturday night at Kelleher Field in Marlborough as the Colonials fell 40-18 to Lowell in a New England Football League football game.
While local high school and college football teams are just about to kick off off their seasons, the MetroWest Colonials semi-pro football team already had its midterm exam on Saturday night.
A game against the Lowell Nor'Easter's at Kelleher Field on Saturday night marked the halfway point on the Colonials schedule. The team entered the game on a three-game losing streak after winning on opening night back on July 20.
With just five games remaining in the season and MetroWest was sitting in third place behind the Boston Bandits and North Shore Generals in the New England Football League's AAA Eastern Division. A loss to Lowell would severely damage the team's chances of climbing back up the standings.
Unfortunately for the Colonials, their offense was MIA most of Saturday night and they fell 40-18, dropping to 1-4 overall.
"No one did their jobs tonight, plain and simple," said head coach Gene Robinson. "We ran the ball well tonight, but there was just too many missed assignments. We've got to clean that kind of stuff up if we're going to beat good teams like Lowell."
It took the Nor'Easter's just one play, an 89-yard touch down reception from Joe Harris on a crisp throw from quarterback Clarzell Pearl down the left sideline to quickly put MetroWest behind 7-0 early in the first quarter.
Hudson's Nick Ferrera, the starting quarterback for the Colonials, used his legs and arm to move MetroWest right back into Lowell territory on the next drive. But he was stripped of the ball while dropping back to pass on a third-and-6 and Lowell recovered, killing some early Colonial momentum.
The Colonials defense responded by stopping a fourth down play near midfield, giving Ferrera the ball back at the Nor'easter 45.
The Colonials then got some nice runs from Christopher Nieves at tailback, but again the offense stalled inside the Lowell 25, forcing the defense back on the field. Despite running 18 offensive plays in the first 15 minutes, MetroWest trailed 7-0 after the first quarter.
The Nor'Easter's proceeded to use the first 6:20 of the second quarter to drive to midfield, converting a fourth-and-2 and two third downs. The Colonials defense responded by stopping Lowell at their own 25.
It was more of the same for MetroWest, as another eight-play drive ended in disappointment, this time with Ferrera throwing an interception deep in Lowell territory with 3:18 to play in the first half.
The Colonial defense quickly forced a huge three-and-out prior to the two-minute warning, giving the offense the ball back inside the Lowell 40.
It took nearly the entire first half, but the sixth drive (mostly no-huddle) finally produced a late score. Ferrera found Framingham's Miguel Ortiz on a slant over the middle for a 13-yard touchdown with just 1:01 left in the half, but the extra point was blocked and the Colonials still trailed 7-6 at halftime.
Lowell took just over two minutes into the second half to up its lead as Harris broke six tackles en route to a 63-yard touchdown run and the ensuing extra point pushed the lead to 14-6.
Just minutes later, after a quick three-and-out for the Colonials offense, Pearl engineered another drive as Harris punched in his third TD from 5 yards out. Lowell missed the extra point but the Nor'Easter's still upped their lead to 20-6 with 8:36 to play in the third quarter.
Ferrera led the Colonials downfield on a 14-play drive that ate up the remainder of the third quarter and first minute of the fourth, but after having four cracks to score from inside the 10, Lowell's defense again turned them away.
Another three-and-out gave the Colonials the ball back just inside the Lowell 40, and this time, it took Ferrara just one play to find Ortiz streaking up the middle of the field on a seam route for another touchdown. The two-point conversion and MetroWest trailed just 20-12 with 12:28 to play.
A huge runback on the ensuing kickoff set Lowell up inside the Colonials 15 and Pearl took advantage two plays later with a TD pass over the middle to Harris. After a missed extra point Lowell led 26-12.
"Missed tackles all over the place tonight," said Robinson.
A Ferrera interception on the next offensive play and another Pearl touchdown pass three plays later with an extra point quickly put the game out of reach at 33-12.
Ferrera did find Felix Borukhov for an 11-yard touchdown pass with 6:45 to play, cutting the lead to 33-18 but it was too little too late as Pearl threw another touchdown pass with 3:57 to play, making it 40-18.


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At the end of June, I had the honor of serving as "celebrity guest" at the program conclusion of one week's Summer Textile Exploration Program (STEP). Talk about the highlight of my summer! Plus, I got to help judge a student-run fashion show. (More about that later.)
The STEP program is held in the College of Textiles' world renowned facilities, located on North Carolina State University's Centennial Campus. Rising high school juniors and seniors from all over the country apply for this week-long emersion program that gives students a "real" taste of college life during the summer. They get a chance "to see, feel, and experience NC State's College of Textiles where new technologies are being developed to benefit the industry." Students choose an area of exploration that interests them from a variety of concentrations such as fabric design, apparel design, chemistry and business. Lucky me witnessed the Friday wrap-up presentation for all four groups over a catered lunch in a room filled with parents, students, faculty, mentors and College of Textiles Dean Bland Godfrey.
Debra McClendon is a lecturer in the Department of Textile & Apparel, Technology & Management. This was Debra's third year with the STEP program as group leader for the Apparel Design group. This talented teacher and leader spoke with me about this summer's STEP program.
Debra, the program seems so rewarding for both the rising high school seniors and for the faculty who facilitate it. Can you expand on that and tell us how?
As this program is one of our top recruiting tools, it's so rewarding when I teach a college class that has students in it who were also in STEP. We have several PhD's who started their careers as STEP students! It's also rewarding to see NCSU students who were previously in STEP volunteer for the program.
Take us through a day of your program.
The project for the week is introduced on Monday. Students only have 16 hours to complete their projects. For the first half of each morning, students participate in workshops where they do screen printing, take tours of the various labs at the College of Textiles (spinning, weaving, knitting, non-wovens), and listen to presentations by faculty about the different academic programs at NC State University and possible career paths. They then meet each day after lunch with their group leader to do project work. Each evening is devoted to fun activities, such as shopping at nearby malls and centers, movies, fun parks, and campus tours.
Describe the "project theme" that students worked on for their week at STEP.
This year we went with a "Project Runway" type experience whereby students will purchase used clothing and transform it into an up-cycled ensemble. The first day is devoted to trend research, where students login to WGSN (Worth Global Style Network), the world's leading fashion forecaster that demonstrates how key themes apply to design and product collections. Then the students are given a crash course in Adobe Illustrator. This powerful CAD software tool is used by industry fashion designers to create fashion sketches. Next, students create an original design using Illustrator and we have a group critique where students present their ideas to the rest of the group. Day two begins with a shopping trip to the fabulous Goodwill Community Foundation (GCF) in downtown Raleigh. Each student is allotted $15 to spend on used clothing and accessory items which they will transform into totally new garments (think skirts from shirts, shirts from dresses, etc.). Each week, the group was under budget! We are also giving back to the community by supporting the GCF with our purchases.
Who guides the students through the creative process?
Upon the return from GCF, students are paired with a mentor. We try to have a 1:2 or maximum 1:3 ratio of mentors to STEP students, as the process of transforming the garments is a challenging proposition. First off, students need to establish their "plan of attack", which typically involves a lot of seam ripping and cutting! Sometimes some pattern making is involved. The students use the numerous industrial machinery and equipment in the Fashion Studio (including dress forms) to create their new garments. Day three is spent doing project work. By now it's Thursday and the students present their projects on Friday, so it's not unusual for the students and group leader to stay until 9:00 pm to complete the projects. Luckily, a delicious catered BBQ dinner is offered at 6:00 pm on this day that provides a much needed break. In addition to the projects, students are required to plan a fashion show (including show order and music) along with a PowerPoint presentation.
Lead us through the culmination of their STEP week.
Friday has finally come and the students are excited about seeing their families. They have really enjoyed bonding with other students from all over the country and having a taste of college life. A catered lunch is provided each Friday by the University Food services, followed by the student presentations. The winning student designer each week is presented with the "Silver Scissors Award", a pair of coveted professional Gingher dressmaker shears. It should be noted that this program would not be possible without the generous support of the NC Textile Foundation, the second largest foundation at NC State University.
What were some of the STEP highlights for you this summer?
The girls really loved it during week #3 when they had a guy in their group!
Be on the lookout for these emerging fashion designers in the future!
Thank you Debra McClendon for all your fashion insight and for the invitation!


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LA Galaxy goalkeeper Jaime Penedo finished second in MLSsoccer.com's Save of the Year voting as Real Salt Lake goalkeeper Nick Rimando took home the honors.
Penedo's remarkable stop of a close range Vancouver Whitecaps FC defender Jordan Harvey effort back in August earned 24.47 percent of the vote in what was an extremely close tally finishing less than six percentage points behind Rimando's save during RSL's August draw with the Colorado Rapids which garnered 29.94 percent. To show just how close the voting was, FC Dallas' Raul Fernandez finished in third with 22.3 percent for his save on Galaxy forward Gyasi Zardes in July while Portland Timbers' Donovan Ricketts save on Vancouver back in October earned 23.28 percent of the voting.
Meanwhile, Vancouver Whitecaps FC forward Camilo earned the Goal of the Year honors. Both the Goal of the Year and the Save of the Year were selected by fan voting on MLSsoccer.com
Even though it may not have won...let's relive that Penedo save through the magic of GIFs...


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While the discussion about energy policy (and the lack thereof) is interesting, it really has little to do with this specific discussion. What you have are private sector groups on the opposite sides of the argument lobbying government to get their way. The EPA is somewhat stuck in the middle.
E15 is NOT an EPA mandate. Never has been. It started in 2009 when an ethanol promoting industry group petitioned the EPA to allow a waiver to the current rules so they could sell E15. The EPA granted a partial waiver. Should they have? They were screwed regardless. If they didn't they would have been accused of blocking the free market. Instead they are being accused of forcing the use of ethanol.
If you want to bitch about the push for ethanol you need to direct your attention to this group: http://growthenergy.org/
That is the ethanol industry group that is promoting the use of ethanol and the ones who asked the EPA for waivers.
See http://www.epa.gov/otaq/regs/fuels/additive/e15/ for details on this subject.


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By Josh Troy
Mark your calendar for Wednesday, Oct. 14. That is the day when there will be a special election to determine whether or not to revoke the planned unit development (PUD) ordinance passed April 21 by the Russellville City Council.
The council unanimously suspended the rules and read the ordinance by title only to approve the special election at Thursday's monthly meeting. The emergency clause was also unanimously approved, which means the ordinance goes into effect immediately.
The ordinance would rezone a part of Section 35, Township 8 North, which is off of Marina Road in west Russellville on Lake Dardenelle's shoreline, from residential (R-1) to PUD.
While there was no discussion on the matter Thursday, questions were raised during the July 21 council meeting about the legality of holding a special election.
In July, Russellville resident Gerhard Langguth said the proposed ordinance was pursuant to Arkansas Code Annotated (A.C.A.) 7-9-111(h), which reads, "Municipal referendum petition measures shall be submitted to the electors at a regular general election unless the petition expressly calls for a special election."
The petition did not call for a special election.
City Attorney Trey Smith informed the council in July they had up to 120 days to call for an election after the signatures were certified to call for a special election.
Otherwise, the matter would have been voted on during the general election Nov. 7, 2006. The 120 days to call a special election would have been up after Oct. 12.
According to the ordinance, the referendum to have an election on the PUD was filed May 19 and City Clerk approved the necessary 1,007 signatures June 15. By law, 15 percent of the voters in the previous mayoral race must sign the petition for an election to occur.
The ordinance attempted to explain why a special election was legal.
It says, "Pursuant to Amendment 7 (of the Arkansas Constitution), as interpreted by the Arkansas Supreme Court in Wright v. Ward, 170 Ark. 464 (1926) it is the sole duty and responsibility of the City Council to order a special election and name the date for such election."
In addition, the ordinance reads the special election would be pursuant to A.C.A. 7-9-111(h).
Another issue, which has been raised was who would foot the bill for the election.
If the election were approved during July's meeting, the city and county would have split the cost. The general assembly passed a law, which went into effect last Friday requiring the entity holding the special election to fund it. As a result, the city of Russellville will bare the entire cost.
During the council's Aug. 9 agenda preparatory meeting, City Treasurer Jennifer Humphrey estimated the election would cost $7,500.
A copy of the ordinance will be provided to the Pope County Clerk and Pope County Election Commission to carry out matters.


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Discussion in 'College Tennis Talk' started by TopDawg, Jan 12, 2013.
3-2 Giron serving up the mini break
4-2 Giron...
5-2 Giron....Gomez to serve
6-2 Giron - Gomez stilll serving
Giron takes it 7-3 -- Bruins win 4-3
Sarmiento (USC) def. Novikov (UCLA) 6-4 6-3
Giron (UCLA) def. Gomez (USC) 4-6 7-5 7-6 (3)
Puget (UCLA) def. Quiroz (USC) 6-3 6-2
Hanfmann (USC) def. Thompson (UCLA) 3-6 6-2 6-0
Mkrtchian (UCLA) def. De Vroome (USC) 4-6 7-6 (3) 6-3
Johnson (USC) def. Sell (UCLA) 6-1 4-6 6-4
Gomez was broken serving for the match up 5-3.
Looks like Oregon-Washington will be determined by who wins two matches out of three at the 3-4-5 positions.
Washington going to pull it out 4-3 or 5-2 but Oregon didn't roll over. Very admirable showing by the Ducks.
Puget must of been quite upset about his match-clinching loss at NTI's. He threw Quiroz a beating today!
Video of #3 doubles from today's UCLA/USC match.
Picks up with Gomez serving down 1-4.
Crazy to think that the LA teams could face each other 3 more times. That's too many times.
I thought Oregon would give Washington a good match and they did. Too bad Cambier could not hold onto the match after winning the first set 6-0.
so far this year we're at the final match,final set tie-breaker ,to decides which team wins... not too too exciting ? ... I wish I can be there for all of them..
So, basically USC and UCLA are completely even. Seriously, looking at the box scores of the two matches, there's absolutely nothing between them. Any match is a 4-3 tossup.
Good for both teams though cause competing with all that intensity makes them both better. Most other regular season matches aren't competitive for either of these teams. Good for us fans cause it's exciting tennis. Bring 'em on.
all the doubles are 1 & 1
Yannick Hanfmann
Eric Johnson
Denis Novikov
Raymond Sarmiento
Emilio Gomez
Marcos Giron
Roberto Quiroz
Adrien Puget
Dennis Mkrtchian
Clay Thompson
Max De Vroome
Karue Sell
Baylor took the doubles point over Florida.
Ohio St rolling over Notre Dame as expected.
4-3 Baylor over Florida, as Zsiga and Lenz pull out third sets at #4 and #2 in the last two matches on the court.
Good that Baylor got that win because they would have dropped very low in computers. They had no quality win before that.
The Lenz/Diep match was 3 hours and 13 minutes long and the Zsiga/Alford match went for 2 hours and 47 minutes. Couple of long ones.
Purdue let this one slip away.
Here is a clip from the Purdue write up: The Razorbacks clinched the win with an exciting and controversial match at No. 5. Dujovne took the first set, 6-3, over Victor Hoang. In the second, the two were tied at six and went to a tiebreaker. Dujovne controlled the tiebreak and had a match point at 6-4 when the controversy came. Dujovne called a ball out that was challenged by Hoang. The line judge overruled Dujovne, something that had happened several times earlier in the match for both players. The overrule therefore was charged as a game penalty to Dujovne, so despite the fact that he was up 6-4, he lost the tiebreak and the set. Hoang then edged the Purdue junior in the third set, 7-5, to clinch the win for the Razorbacks.
The final match on the court was one of the closest matches that will ever be played. Krocsko hung on to the first set with a 7-6 (13). In the second set, Fess did a role reversal. He took the set from Krocsko, 7-6 (6). In the third set, after more than three and a half hours in the singles match, Krocsko hung on to win, 7-6 (11), to make the final score 4-3.
Arkansas 4, Purdue 3
1: Acosta/Dujovne (PUR) unfinished Nott/Jeske (ARK) 7-7
2: Lehmann/Ward (ARK) def. Krocsko/Tatarczyk (PUR) 8-7 (2)
3: Fess/Munoz (ARK) def. Poziomski/Kovacs 8-6
Order of Finish: 3,2*
1: Szymon Tatarczyk (PUR) def. Gregoire Lehmann (ARK) 6-4, 6-2
2: Manfred Jeske (ARK) def. Mark Kovacs (PUR) 6-4, 0-6, 6-3
3: Evan Hawkins (PUR) def. Mike Ward (ARK) 6-3, 6-3
4: Mike Nott (ARK) def. Diego Acosta (PUR) 6-4, 6-2
5: Victor Hoang (ARK) def. Aaron Dujovne (PUR) 3-6, 7-6, 7-5
6: Krisztian Krocsko (PUR) def. Hall Fess (ARK) 7-6, 6-7, 7-6
Order of Finish: 3,1,4,2,5*,6
why is nobody updating the ITA results page this weekend? Not many results have appeared.
that Arkansas Purdue match must have been insane. Overrule on match point. Go from that to losing the set.
Alford has the kind of game that can drag out tight matches
Sunday Matches
Oklahoma/Texas A&M is the top match of the day though the Indiana/Vandy, Va Tech/Louisville, and South Carolina/VCU should all be close too. Cal/Stanford could be a good one too - all depends on which Stanford team shows up.
#24 LSU at #4 Ohio State – Noon est. – LiveStats & LiveVideo
Furman at #8 Georgia - 1pm est - LiveBlog & LiveStats & LiveVideo
#7 Pepperdine at #29 Florida State (IMG-Bradenton, FL) – 1pm est. – LiveStats & LiveVideo
#47 Middle Tennessee State at #11 Mississippi State - LiveStats
#30 Indiana at #33 Vanderbilt – 1pm est/Noon cst. – LiveStats
#38 Louisville at #49 Virginia Tech – 1pm est. – LiveStats
#48 South Carolina at #34 VCU – 1pm est. – No Live Stats
UT Chattanooga at #22 North Carolina - 1pm est - LiveStats
#66 Georgia Tech at #21 Auburn – 2pm est./1pm cst. – LiveStats
#8 Oklahoma at #14 Texas A&M – 2pm est./1pm cst. – LiveStats/Video
St. Mary's at #3 UCLA - 3pm est/Noon pst - LiveStats
#28 Stanford at #12 Cal – 4pm est./1pm pst. – LiveVideo
FSU vs Pepperdine has 2 announcers on court 1.
MTSU and Miss St doubles point comes down to #3 doubles.
LSU dropped Borsos down to #3 and he just dropped the 1st set to McCarthy. Looks like a 7-0 Ohio State rout.
Simpson giving Kobelt a match though. 2nd straight "lesser" opponent that Kobelt has struggled with.
Cotrone with the white guy dreads. Awesome. I like this guy.
Is that Bollettieri himself announcing on court 1?
Virginia Tech took the doubles point over Louisville
I think it is. Looks like the usual result from Pepperdine at 5 and 6. Moush down to 6 and still getting worked.
Indiana and Vandy in a tight one. Tied at 1 with several 3rd sets coming up. Austin just took the 2nd set breaker over Monette 7-3. Monette with a lot of loose errors at the net
Are you there dawg? My livescore browser is very slow.
Yes, Vandy up on most courts. Vander Merwe up 2-0 in 3rd at 4
indiana has lost at 6 singles to everyone so that seems a lock for Vandy, a few others need to step up.
2. Monette just broken and down 1-3, Austin serving
3. MacTaggert serving 1-2 in the 3rd
4. Tasic serving 1-2 in 3rd
5. Yee up 5-0 in 3rd
6. Kovrigin serving up 3-2
Monette broke back but Tasic double faulted and is now down a break
Whats the story on 5, meltdown?
MacT broke and is serving up 3-2, Tasic serving at 1-4
Not relevant yet almost is, Indiana women just fell apart on the deciding 7th against a much higher ranked Notre Dame.
Monette broke Austin again and is now serving up 4-3. Your guy at 5 is receiving at 3-5 was down 0-5
Could come down to 6 possibly, not a great prospect though its close if my feed is up to date
Monette serving at 4-5 to stay in it
Tough loss for IU
It is but thats how it goes, the same guys cant win consistently which is why we have no one ranked at all in singles. Monette has a ton of potential, just needs to get a bit fitter and already he looks more in shape than in January.
Thanks for the updates dawg.
Oklahoma dominating Texas A&M. St. Mary's putting up some fight at two or three spots against UCLA.
Jesse Kiuru of St. Mary's beats Dennis Novikov 6-3, 6-3. Kiuru is part of the Maryland Diaspora, along with Vlad Stefan at Michigan and John Collins at Tennessee.
Auburn 6-1 over Georgia Tech. UCLA 5-1 over St. Mary's, with 6-1 looming as Ryoto Tachi leads 7-5, 4-3 on #6.
So, Cal has video but no LiveStats for the Stanford match? No way to tell the overall score easily?
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Cue the Muppets
OT: Muppets - Which came first?
As my 'joined' date suggests I've been a pretty regular user (and infrequent poster) for almost a year now, and a regular reader / follower for even longer. I've been attending Michigan football games for over five years since my days of visiting U of M football games in the students' section of the Big House (I'm a Grand Valley graduate, but having spent my freshman year at U of M - Flint, had their equivalent of an M-Card which granted me access to the student section. I digress). I made it to the SDSU game this past weekend and, for the first time ever, stayed to watch the band play as people were filing out of the stadium. To my surprise, closing off their post-game show, the band played "Temptation", followed by the announcer saying "...and you can't have one without the other", proceeded by the Hawaiian chant we are so wont to see posted here on MGoBlog after glorious Michigan victories.
This particular bit of diction from the announcer was of course more than familiar to me as a regular MGoFanatic, and caused me to wonder, "Did that announcer just totally rip-off Brian?" If so, that's hilarious and awesome, but I couldn't be sure if he's always done it, and Brian's useage of it is an homage to the announcer. So, which is it? I'm genuinely curious.
My apologies if this is common knowledge or has been previously discussed. As mentioned above, this was my first time staying to listen to the band after the game - I usually just leave.
Cue the New Shirt Design in the MGoStore
Hey, it's been a good couple of months here at MGoBlog. First we hire this guy Hoke, then he hires this guy Mattison, then they reel in a pretty sweet class. Next thing we know, Belein gets the team into the Tournament. Red gets his boys one period away from a national title. And then the spring game is, well, the spring game. The Girls Softball Team destroys all competition on its way to the conference title. Brandon recently announces that Lacrosse is going D-1 Team Sport. Top that off with a ridonkulous string of success in the recruiting department, not to mention the delicious schadenfreude of the media bombing of Columbus and life is just plain old good here at MGoBlog.
And so, we must celebrate. With a shirt.*
Now available in all sizes here. Get yours now because we're sure to see puppet goodness this fall.


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East Side Access is a massive $8.1 billion undertaking, by some accounts the first major expansion of LIRR access in more than 100 years. Brooklyn's Atlantic Avenue Station redesign, at a relatively modest $108 million, nonetheless is significant as a gesture to supplying more and better rail service to downtown Brooklyn, the city's most populous borough.
(Left out of any capital investment, for now, is yet a fourth terminus, Hunterspoint Avenue Station, just across the East River from Manhattan in the borough of Queens. Offering the most traditional "commuter" service of the four endpoints—inbound to Manhattan by morning, outbound to Long Island points in the evening—the station may yet see busier times, since its location in Long Island City is set to experience real estate redevelopment.)
East Side Access: Slow but steady progress
The vast majority of LIRR trains currently serve Penn Station, on Manhattan's West Side. But as with many things on a Gotham scale, it's no longer sufficient—some would argue it has never been—to deliver Long Island riders to and from Midtown Manhattan's Central Business District, the largest concentrated job base in the U.S. East Side Access, long delayed, anticipates 32,000 linear feet of new tunnels beginning in Sunnyside Yards, Queens, going west under the East River and Manhattan's West Side, to allow some LIRR trains to go straight to the East Side, bypassing Penn Station and the West Side entirely.
The tunnel project is, in fact, two projects—one in Manhattan, one in Queens—both linking to an existing 63rd Street Tunnel under the East River begun during the 1970s. The upper-level tunnel, activated in 1989, hosts the F line subway service; the lower level, designed for LIRR service, has of course remained vacant.
All the necessary new tunnelling connections are targeted for completion by 2012, and construction on the new LIRR terminal at Grand Central, which will be directly below the exiting Metro-North terminal, began last March. MTA LIRR officials in August gave Railway Age a tour of the work under Grand Central (and the adjacent Park Avenue Tunnels), including access points drilled 90 feet down to where the subterranean LIRR platforms will be located; they eventually will house 22 elevators and 47 escalators. (See diagram below.) A close-up look at the tunnel approaches in Queens, amidst a rearranged Sunnyside Yard complex serving LIRR, Amtrak, and New Jersey Transit, also showed diverse construction activity.
Revenue service using ESA could begin by 2016, though almost predictable concerns about delays have been mounting in recent months. Whenever it is completed, East Side Access will shorten the trips for an estimated 180,000 people by 30 to 40 minutes, according to official estimates.
Positive redundancy promised
Spillover benefits include less surface congestion on Manhattan streets from other needing to "double back" from Penn Station to East Side points, as well as some freeing of subway capacity (at least on Manhattan's West Side).
ESA proponents also suggest East Side subway routes and Grand Central Station (the stop for five subway lines) will be less crowded, but some say ongoing construction of the No. 7 Subway line extension to Manhattan's Far West Side makes that assertion somewhat doubtful; some observers, though supportive of ESA, insist LIRR access to Grand Central Terminal makes for a more convenient and/or comfortable option than comparable service to Penn Station, with a long walk, offers.
ESA track tunneling in Manhattan is largely complete, with the first tunnel boring machine (TBM) launched west and southbound from the 63rd Street tunnel in September 2007; it reached Grand Central in July 2008. The second machine began boring a parallel tunnel in December 2007 and had completed its tunnel at 37th Street on Sept. 30, 2008. Each tunnel is 22 feet in diameter and carry trains 140 feet beneath street level.
Grand Central's access points (escalator and elevator banks) to the new LIRR platforms have been more labor intensive, requiring careful drill and blast procedures (and, at surface level, strict and careful drill-only procedures), according to Paul Dalida, vice president, infrastructure, for Arcadis, who serves as Manhattan area construction manager. As well, numerous pedestrian access points north of Grand Central Terminal up to Park Avenue locations at street level must be added or augmented to handle the expected additional customer load.
Dalida says the existing Grand Central Terminal infrastructure at and below current Metro-North track levels, where the LIRR passenger mezzanine will be placed, is in "excellent shape, almost as good as when it was built," with only minor concrete repair necessary in a few places. It's representative of Grand Central's overall value that, in Dalida's view, is itself some justification for LIRR to make ESA work. "There's no place quite like it," he says with understated reverence.
Big question: Queens access
East Side Access' eastern access point within Sunnyside Yards, Queens, gets much less attention, but in some ways is more challenging. Years of rearranging the railroad "furniture" has presaged the beginning of "soft-bore" tunneling to connect the yards with the tunnel proper; the soft-bore or "Slurry" TBM equipment is designed to handle the more problematic subsoil conditions not faced by TBMs in Manhattan, which cut through the famous Manhattan schist, a hard but stable and predictable subsurface rock that lies under much of Midtown Manhattan.
In September 2009, MTA awarded a joint venture of Granite Construction Northeast, Traylor Brothers, Inc., and Frontier-Kemper a contract to supply four tunnels (10,500 feet total length), reception pits for three tunnels, and three shafts for emergency access and ventilation on the Queens end. Contractors and MTA Capital Construction staff emphasize that while the distance is relatively short, and initial access is relatively roomy, the tunneling here is daunting, as it must travel beneath North America's busiest interlocking, which carries more than 800 trains per day, including Amtrak Acela service to Boston, as well as a major midday storage yard for Amtrak and NJ Transit trains.
Last August, MTA awarded Perini Corp. a contract to clear more of LIRR's Harold Interlocking and Amtrak's F Interlocking, including construction of new retaining walls to create more usable space for the railroads, to add to LIRR's operating flexibility. That news was overshadowed by a fire Aug. 23 at Hall Signal Tower in Jamaica, Queens, severely hampering LIRR operations.
All work is proceeding with only minimal disruption to or interference with active daily rail operations by LIRR, NJ Transit, and Amtrak; contractors in one instance pointed out to Railway Age active machinery positioned mere feet from right-of-way as passenger consists headed west to Penn Station to begin revenue service. The clearance was "very close and always constant"—and constantly monitored, one host said.
Asked if subterranean infrastructure "surprises" have slowed work, Construction Manager Philip Stummvolli says that so far unexpected obstacles had been few and far between.
New life for Atlantic Avenue Terminal
MTA's other new digs, Atlantic Avenue Terminal in Brooklyn, by contrast has a long history of service, functioning both as a terminal for Brooklyn-bound riders and as a transfer point (and backup route) for those headed to Manhattan by subway. But MTA in early January opened a new entrance pavilion to serve the roughly 25,500 LIRR riders and 31,650 subway riders using the station each day to tap numerous subway routes (and three distinct subway stations).
More riders on both systems are expected as major redevelopment projects take hold on the site, including a new mall directly above the station and the controversial $1 billion Barclay's Center arena, planned home for the National Basketball Association Nets, set to rise close by. Parsons Brinckerhoff, in a joint venture with the architectural firm di Domenico & Partners, oversaw project engineering.
More than rail right-of-way placement, pedestrian access and flow between subway and LIRR elements were deemed of high importance, given the expected increase in use. Security and safety concerns called for concentration on pedestrian sight lines, while access also was improved to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Like other MTA projects, Atlantic Avenue Terminal was not immune to delays, with construction beginning in 2002 and finishing 30 months behind projected deadline, and more than $26 million over budget. One portion of the project, involving improvements to the three station platforms, six tracks, and related facilities, was completed on time in 2005.
The semicircular outside walls and ceiling of the new three-story pavilion are paneled with glass, with the intent of allowing light to flood through the half-moon shaped atrium—which includes an artistic interpretation of a natural stone bluff or cliff—and down a granite staircase to the remodeled limestone-clad platform level below. Customer response to the architecture has been mixed; customer response to the improved access generally has been a collective sigh of relief.
LIRR has served Brooklyn (via Jamaica, Queens) since the 1830s, opening a terminal at the current site in 1877. Known for most of its lifespan as the Flatbush Avenue Terminal, the terminal by many accounts suffered for decades from the same disdain Brooklynites charge Manhattan with levying on the borough as a whole. The site was proposed for repositioning Major League Baseball's Brooklyn (Trolley) Dodgers in the mid-1950s, an idea rejected by master builder Robert Moses.
Mirroring the generally declining fortunes of the borough through the 1960s and 1970s, the terminal building at the time suffered disuse, vacancy, and resultant vandalism, with resultant water damage forcing MTA to close the upper level waiting room. That structure was razed in 1988, with customers using a temporary replacement structure for nearly 22 years.
"This new terminal means improved interconnectivity between the Long Island Rail Road and New York City Transit's subways and buses—with better information and a more spacious, comfortable and accessible facility," said MTA Chairman and CEO Jay H. Walder at the dedication ceremony early this year. "The glory of the original 1907 Flatbush Avenue Terminal has been restored in modern form."


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Now I know
From the bootnote:
Joules are very small people
It's just about certain, now: Almost everybody in the world has no idea of the most basic facts regarding energy use. Most people don't even know that the words "energy" and "power" have different meanings1, and just about everyone is so massively ignorant on the subject that they actually consider that the use of special floor …
From the bootnote:
Joules are very small people
I can't tell from some of the pictures of him, but it might explain the huge beard as some sort of compensation for diminuitive stature.
Exactly how I read it!
Joules are larger than jewels who are very small female people, but Joules are smaller than Jules who is a prop for the French six nations rugby team. In fact Jules weighs the same as 1000 joules, and is a vicious forward, or a killerjoule.
clear now?
and full marks for the use of twaddle.
As any fule know, joules wrote "20,000 leagues beneath the sea" which I think was a biography of Robert Maxwell.
"No man is an island" - clearly written before Robert Maxwell went over the railings :)
His parents were prophetic in calling him Bob
... they are always feeling their image needs some rehabilitation.
("Daddy, what did you do during the war...?")
Or more recently, daddy who did you bribe?
Maybe Siemens believe the adage that big things are made up of very small things, and so even small contributions are meaningful.
At least, they definitely believe that in their pricing models, where they charge extra for even the tiniest effing thing that you would expect to be included in the original quote (the weaselly bastards - "oh you wanted faceplates on your network ports rather than bare wires? That's extra then.").
Pfff... bribery is a totally normal business practice down south or in sandy lands and is attacked only if people of the progressive persuasion are feeling the strong Sunday-morning urge to fix reality by inventing scandals and the laws that go with them, preferably applied world-wide.
As for Siemens, I thought they sold everything off except the fridge-making business?
(warning, from memory and in head, so could be very wrong!)
Ok, so 4e7 visitors generate (say) 4e5 Wh, that's 1e-2 Wh per visit = 36J
Assuming average visitor mass 50kg (in Stratford?), dropping from a height of 0.1m, PE = mgh = 50J. Assume no losses to air friction (no wing suits, only shell suits), KE on impact = 50J. Assume no way to capture take-off energy, 50J per footstep.
Tiles are 60cm wide, assume walkway about 6m wide, you could have a double row and capture 2 footsteps per entrance and exit, 4 footsteps in all = 200J.
So conversion efficiency required = 36/200 = 18%. I guess that's not outlandish, even it was a simple alternator driven from a rack-and-pinion gear. No idea of the efficiency of piezo electric...
Which is not to detract from the fact that 4e5 Wh is a pathetic amount of energy in the first place...
Looked at another way, 4e5 Wh (*) over 1e4 hrs/yr is about 40 W average power. Allowing a duty cycle of 25% (say 6 hours use in darkness per day), and some storage (one 100 Ah leisure battery would do it), that gives you 160W of lighting. Say 20 small CF or LED fittings. Actually to light that particular piece of walkway, I guess that's doable.
The other issue is where this energy comes from. The pedestrians were relying on the hardness of the floor to reflect energy for the next step. Take that away and like walking on sand it requires more energy. Given the nature of the place let's assume it comes from increased consumption of sugary drinks. That comes from sugar beet in the UK, in a process that involves input of lots of embedded energy in fertilisers, plus direct input to dissolve and recrystallise in the factory, not to mention transport and packaging. So even leaving aside the capital energy cost of building the tiles, it could even be negative on a revenue basis...
Oh yes, *: I'm assuming 'several hundred' is 400 because less it would be 'a few' and 500 or more it would be 'NEARLY HALF A MEGAWATT-HOUR!!!'
Oh, on the 7W thing... A rival firm Powerleap claims 5Ws (5J) per step. So I'm guessing the journo or subbie changed 7Ws to 7 Watts.
It also adds up with the claim that 5% of energy is enough to light the luminaire in the tile itself. Assuming it lights for 1 sec test gives you 0.5W of LEDs - about the same as a medium-sized torch, so fair enough.
Enough now. Mines the one with the wind-up torch in the pocket.
Actually, Sandtreader, on a revenue basis it sounds very good - for the Mall: Visitor walks in, feels tired, buys sugary drink. Visitors, however, should pinch the free granulated sugar packets from the coffee shops, as recompense for being unpaid treadmill-slaves.
Reduced carbon footprint at this Mall can only mean they are providing visitors with small charcoal sandals.
I am really wondering if the energy gentrated by these tiles can even cover the emissions gentrated by their manufacture, shipping-to-site and installation. I suspect if someone gets the data and does the maths, they would turn out to be a net contributor to emissions.
Not to mention the fact that the ultimate source of energy (the food which us mooing mall proles eat) is most likely produced, harvested, processed, refrigerated, stored, packaged, shipped and dispensed in a manner which uses in total, five hundred to a thousand times more energy than is contained in the food item itself [[citation needed: See Rob Newman for details]]. There are a number of rather glaring inefficiencies which need to be addressed in the energy production method suggested.
But then if said proles were going to be walking there anyway, why not parasitise their footfall?
I retract all the preceding, if you like.
In fairness, the people likely would have eaten anyway, which bring along with it all that refridgeration and transporation cost.
Also, making each step harder means that each person burns more KCals. Everyone is treating that as a bad thing, but I'm not so sure. Clearly the Greenie "reasons" are utter tosh, they should be marketing this for the health benefits.
What twaddle. Life was so simple until you scientists came along and made it complicated.
I know, if only they hadn't invented that computer you're using.
I think (s)he may have been being facetious.
It's just taught badly.
Everyone has an intrinsic feel for water, so do it this way. Energy is the total amount of water that goes down a pipe. Power is the rate at which it does so.
A toilet is high power, but flushes don't last long. A dripping tap is low power, but over a day will expend more water than flushing a toilet.
Electrical power relates to the flow of electricity rather than water.
If the height that the water descends is fixed, then there is an exact analogy (stored water has potential energy). Electrical voltage is analagous to pressure (which is determined by height).
Water also has the advantage that kids can muck around with it in a "lab" with no risk of anything other than getting wet.
Energy / Power = Time
To be sung to the tune of 'Ilkley Moor':
Power is the rate of doing work(doing work)
And energy, the ability to do work
Work is the distance, times the load
Work is the distance, times the load
And power is measured in watts
And Energy's measured in joules
And watts are joules per second
Once learned, never forgotten.
There should be a journalistic lincense and one would lose it after falling for stupidity like the one highlighted in this article.
It's depressing how ill prepared the general media is and yet so much of the population relies on it to form an opinion.
Michael Crichton summed up our schizophrenic attitude towards journalists:
"Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know."
It's rather ironic that Mr Crichton was quoting, or coining, or whatever, this effect, since many of his books suffered from this (eg Congo, and that time-travelling chivalry-and-swords one).
It's hardly "ironic" considering that Michael Crichton wrote fiction.
That said, I'd sooner put a bet on "scientists recreate dinosaurs from amber" than "homeopathy works", despite the fact that homeopaths have been given space in newspapers.
I enjoyed the chivalry-and-swords one so much that I bought the DVD.
Beer because it's a sunny Sunday afternoon ... guess where I'm going next!
Does it involve night arrows?
First, the strawman - I too don't believe homeopathy works.
Now to the substance. Crichton wrote science fiction, often in a way suggesting it was reportage or documentary. Decent sci-fi generally allows a universe (or multiverse) wherein a maximum of one thing is changed from the current laws of physics (see the fiction of Ian Stewart, Charles Stross or Peter Watts, for examples) - FTL travel, a time machine, or the uploading of consciousness.
So, if you write about apes with language, you'd better not also invent a handy computer program which can magically decode that language (with 1980s technology)
Or if you write about time-travel back to the mediaeval period, you should get your history right (and again, not invent in-ear translation devices based 20th Century technology).
Anyway, it's still a sunny Sunday afternoon, so I'll end with a reference to Tom Clancy's comment that fiction is much harder to write than real life, because readers demand internal consistency from fiction.
It's pretty obvious why: they studied jernolizm cos they can't do science.
FTL Travel and Time travel are effectively the same thing (if General Relativity is right). Both are impossible, at least for anything larger than a subatomic particle, if current physics is correct.
Uploading consciousness is not believed to be impossible. We simply don't know. Perhaps there is a fundamental problem (consciousness *may* be a quantum phenomenon). Perhaps not. It may be a mere technological problem, that will be solved within decades or centuries.
The "hardest" SF doesn't wilfully break the generally believed laws that govern our universe. It runs with them.
It's easy to dismiss Crichton because "he was a just a fiction writer". In fact he was a good bit more ... he got an MD from Harvard Medical School, and taught courses in anthropology at Cambridge University. If you get the chance take a look a look at a talk he delivered at Caltech in 2003 "Aliens Cause Global Warming" which bemoans the lack of scientific understanding in our public debate.
"There should be a journalistic lincense and one would lose it after falling for stupidity like the one highlighted in this article."
Obligatory xkcd reference: http://xkcd.com/410/
This sort of thing has been going on for years, at regular intervals. I am fed up with architects, 'designers' and various know-buggerall idiots proposing this sort of thing. If they did it alone, among their friends, then it wouldn't matter. As it is, they can influence politicians and real town planners (with budgets to spend) and cause money to be spent (wasted) on 'feasilbilty studies' and 'technology demonstrator projects'.
Nobody, not anybody, should be allowed to spend public (taxpayer) money on any project with any technology content unless they have at least an 'O' level (the old style one) in physics.
There, that's my first draconian law as World Dictator. I have many more but I won't bother you with them on a Sunday morning.
I've got one of these. Grade B I think. But bugger me it was SO long ago now I can just about remember V equals I x R and that's about it!
It was V= R x I
I always wanted to be an injuneer, now I are one.
...a good moan to start off the day.
I do take issue when people fail to fully quantify a unit measurement and as such leave it literally meaningless. Any attempt to extract meaning are liable to make an incorrect assumption. And as my dad always told me, "assumption is the mother of all cock ups."
I most commonly experience such bursts of pedantry when dealing with the measure of torque output from servos as used in radio control models. Usually this specification is measured in kilogram/centimetres. Surely kilogram/meters would be a more common measure of torque in engineering? Therefore, when people refer to "5Kg torque" I feel utterly compelled to correct their lazy, incompetent, fuzzy-minded thinking.
And as my dad always told me, "assumption is the mother of all cock ups."
Your dad was way more philosophical than mine. His advice was limited to "try everything once except incest and Morris Dancing" and "If brute force isn't working, you ain't using enough, boy".
"There is no problem that cannot be solved by a suitable application of high explosives" - US Army Demolitions School
Uh, torque is force x distance, i.e. newtons x metres.
I guess you meant to write kilograms x centimetres rather than kilograms / centimetres, but that's still wrong, the kilogram is a unit of mass, not force.
Sounds like someone has been doing stupid translation from non SI units, pound feet, forgetting that the pound is a unit of force and not mass.
I forgive you, since you may well not be ancient enough to have been taught Imperial units - but the pound is a mass unit, although (just as with kg) it is often used loosely to describe a force. There's even an imperial unit of force, the poundal: that force sufficient to accelerate a mass of one pound at a rate of one foot per second per second (it's roughly half an ounce weight at standard g).
Here endeth the history lesson.
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"Usually [torque] is measured in kilogram/centimetres. Surely kilogram/meters would be a more common measure of torque in engineering?"
Indeed. Centimeters are a dressmakers' unit. In my engineering industry we use microns, millimeters, meters, and kilometers. I understand that the SI recommend factors of 1000 between preferred units in this way.
However, in volume, the centimeter does appear because we go : cubic mm, cc (cubic centimeter), litre (cubic decimeter) and cubic meter, because these volumes are also factors of 1000 apart.
OTOH there is not enough attention being given in this discussion to the BVS (British Vernacular System) which for length goes : thickness of a human hair, the lengths of a matchbox, a London bus, and a football pitch, the circumference of the Earth, and from here to the Moon and back. These lengths deliberately have no rational relationship to each other and are not to be confused with the units of >height< which involve Nelson's Column etc.
Wrote :- [My Dad said] "If brute force isn't working, you ain't using enough, boy".
No, bad advice. Never use brute force; you should find a bigger hammer instead.
Maxim #6: If violence isn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.
Your points are all correct. My meaning was "kilograms x centimetres" rather than the way I expressed it. The written form "Kg/cm" is normal throughout the radio control industry and in error, I blindly copied it. My fail!
I've noticed cl centilitres in use on drinks cans and bottles, so it's not just cm :)
Good old cm are on a far more human scale than using hundreds and thousands of mm IMHO - don't knock the dressmakers who have probably got more common sense than many engineers, LOL
And although the Bel isn't metric as such, you'll find that deci comes into play with the dB being the usual way to express units of sound levels.
Sticking to factors of 1000 is a bit dull really :)
My Dad had a similar quote... "If it sticks, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyways."


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And it's not even Christian hate mail. Hell, that stuff's almost always penny ante.
No, this is someone who claims to be a fan, but who has his head…well, let's just say that the attitudes expressed here reflect a level of clueless douchebaggery and stupidity that I've rarely seen. I suppose this way of thinking might fly in the Christian Quiverfull community, or among 13-year-old boys who've learned everything they think they know about females from torrenting Girls Gone Wild videos. But to hear it coming from an (choke) admirer of ours is creepy to say the very least. One gets the impression he's the sort of fellow who wonders why women only want to go out with "jerks" and not "nice guys" like him.
Why post it here? Simply because I think this is the sort of thing that deserves public shaming. Rock-stupid condescension and male-entitlement attitudes like this continue to thrive when those who express them are brushed off with a "boys will be boys" dismissal, rather than being subjected to the castigation they deserve. So, castigate away.
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I think you're great, and your current look is excellent suits you very well.
I am only saying the following advice because you're good and thus deserving of my advise
You look hot here
this seems to be your current look
Long hair is very important.
It's a minority that look reasonably good with short hair, and even those that do, would almost always look better with long hair.
You look bad with short hair.. As in
It might be better if I don't elaborate on that or get too blunt, because women can burst into tears over that kind of thing.. and you're nice I don't want you to burst into tears or even to get upset. And there's no reason to, this is a very positive message that you look hot -now-. and that it's so easy for you just don't cut your hair short. And since you're so logical, I know you will take this message as a positive thing since it should be, and it's not spun either.
A secondary issue, is your clothing in that older video is frumpy rather than modern-sexy.. women usually look sexier in a t-shirt than in frumpy clothing, and you are no exception. I know you're not trying to look sexy even when you do.. but no point dressing in a frumpy way. Really since i'm a guy I don't care about type of clothes.. but as a woman you're familiar with clothes and you'd understand if I said your clothing there was frumpy.. and it was. The recent video where you wore the t-shirt is better than the frumpy clothes.. though you'd look hot either way.. since as I said clothing was secondary. From a guy's perspective, something less frumpy might not hide you as much. I hope you get a nice partner, like Russel , a particular hero of mine, and have lots of intelligent logical discussion and kids like you two! or like almost any on AE, at least 5 or 6 of you are incredible and really leading atheist thinkers.
In 15 years you'll look quite bad.. and after that you'll look as disgusting to a man(A man with standards) as any other very middle aged woman is just expired and at different stages part their expiration date. So look good and sexy and enjoy the experience while you can. And be glad that you can..
I am very happy that you are hot, because you deserve to be!


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It has been widely reported that Premier Cruise Operations Ltd. ( d/b/a Premier Cruises and Premier Cruise Lines), a passenger vessel operator offering cruises from the U.S., has suspended operations indefinitely. Reports are that all Premier Cruise Line ships will be sailing to Nassau or Halifax to disembark passengers, who then will be transported to their port of embarkation.
The Commission administers sections 2 and 3 of Public Law 89-777, 46 U.S.C. 817d and 817e, which are implemented by the Commission's regulations in 46 CFR part 540, Security for the Protection of the Public. Pub. L. 89-777 requires evidence of financial responsibility to indemnify passengers and other persons for death, injury or nonperformance of transportation for certain passenger-carrying vessels embarking passengers at U.S. ports.
Premier Cruises has a surety bond in place in the amount of $15 million to reimburse to the extent possible passengers who have already purchased fares for voyages which are being cancelled. The surety is underwritten by the Greenwich Insurance Company and the NAC Reinsurance Corporation. While the Commission stands ready to assist all claimants, please be advised that the Commission does not process claims or disburse funds - refunds must be obtained from Premier's surety. The surety company indicates that it is developing a claims process that will be used for passenger refunds. It is anticipated that the information for processing claims will be available sometime during the week of September 18. The Commission will issue a further press release containing this information. In addition, as we receive pertinent information, we will update our web site, www.fmc.gov.
In the meantime, for passengers who purchased their cruise by credit card, we suggest contacting the credit card company and providing them with this information. If passengers purchased private cruise insurance, they may want to contact their insurance company.
Premier Cruises reports that it also will be providing procedures for refunds covered by the surety bond in the near future. This information apparently can be obtained by calling the existing Premier telephone numbers.
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I'll do this for you. It sounds really interesting. I remember 9/11 quote vividly (I think everyone in the US does). However, for the other one, I have to let you know that I might not be much help as I don't remember it, at all. I was eleven and globally unaware.
I'll PM you my e-mail address and you can send it over.
As for everyone else, I am available if you don't mind a longer wait.


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Crediting strength in its transit and transportation markets, Wilmerding, Pa.-based Wabtec Corp. Feb. 25 said it posted fourth-quarter net income of $31.1 million, or 64 cents per share, on sales of $405.2 million. That compares with net income of $28.7 million, or 58 cents per share, on sales of $365.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2007, or a 9% jump in fourth-quarter profit. Per-share results were short of analyst expectations of 65 cents per share on revenue of $391 million.
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