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Elevator Integrated Controller for Parallels
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Elevator Integrated Controller for parallel
New Features:
1、The dual microcontrollers based on ARM7 structure have been replaced by the new cores which based on ARM Cortex structure. This improvement doubles the calculation speed and the real-time-signal processing speed.
2、The brand new cores have larger flash memories, more peripheral equipment interfaces and an additional SPI bus between them. The key signals are transmitted by both the I/O ports and the SPI communications. This makes the system highly anti-interferential, meanwhile, more reliable and safe.
3、The given speed instructions have been upgraded from 10-bits precision to 12-bits. The riding experience of the elevator passengers will be well enhanced by the smoothness of the velocity curve.
4、The IPM module has been upgraded from the 3rd generation to the 4th generation which has lower power consumption, smaller noise and higher reliability.
5、The harmonic filter algorithm has been added on BL6 system in order to achieve better closed-loop control performance and restrain electric interference with higher efficiency.
6、Under the same power level, BL6 integrated controller has a much smaller shape and size comparing to BL3. BL6 is more suitable for the none-machine-room elevator which uses ultrathin control cabinet.
7、BL6 is totally compatible with the BL3 system not only on the terminal definitions and the parameter settings but also the tuning procedures and the debugging tools. It is cost free for upgrading BL3 to BL6.
New Functions:
1、Brake power self-testing function, daily triggered in idle time, stop the motor brakes from lack of brake-force.
2、Elevator balance coefficient self-testing function, save your time and strength for carrying counterweight, BL6 can calculate the balance coefficient automatically after a non-load movement and a fixed-load movement, which is more convenient and effective.
3、Elevator traction rope slippage self-testing function, with which BL6 can detect the rope slippage during normal running and report it in millimeters. It can help the maintenance man onsite to discover the rope slipping in time and guarantee the landing accuracy of the lift car.
4、Bluetooth debugging function, you can do tuning work on your Android or IOS mobile phone through the Bluetooth wireless module, the English version apps are much more user-friendly and efficient.
5、System error self-analysis and signal self-examination function, BL6 can give advice automatically on examination and repair,it is more efficient and convenient.
6、Guide rail friction self-detection function, BL6 can transfer the friction force into torque to indicate the mechanical efficiency of the guide rail system, it is more accurate to scale the quality of the mechanical condition, it is helpful for enhancing both the riding performance and the system safety.
7、Ambient temperature and input voltage auto-adaption, this function will ignore the over-heat fault and the under-voltage fault temporarily and stop at landing zone, it will avoid trapping passengers inside the car while OH or UV fault occurs.
*:Attentions: some of the above functions need Bluetooth module.
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August 25, 2000
Mr. Jonathan G. Katz
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20549-0609
Re: S7-13-00
Dear Mr. Katz:
We are writing to you about an unwarranted and intrusive proposed regulation being initiated by the SEC. This regulation would adversely affect our accounting firm by ultimately prohibiting services to any audit clients with non-audit services.
The SEC has based its decision to move forward with this rule prohibiting non-audit services without facts or evidence. Even the SEC admits that there is no empirical evidence that non-audit services have compromised audit quality or auditor independence, nor ever caused an audit failure. None of the studies or reports cited by the SEC concluded that the scope of services impaired audit effectiveness, or that an exclusionary ban was necessary or appropriate. The SEC's proposed rule is a solution in search of a problem.
The SEC ignored the conclusion of the current Panel on Audit Effectiveness of the Public Oversight Board, a panel that was formed at the request of the SEC. The panel concluded that, "both the profession and the quality of audits are fundamentally sound." The panel said it could find no evidence that the provision of non-audit services has hurt audit quality. On the contrary, it concluded that in numerous instances non-audit services contributed to a more effective audit.
Most dangerous for the accounting profession is the likely prospect that the proposed rule would set a precedent for other regulators. Even accounting firms that do not audit SEC registrants could be impacted by these new rules. The proposed SEC rule would be viewed as the new model by state boards of accountancy, as well as federal (e.g., banking and ERISA) and other regulators. These new proposed SEC rules could influence the regulatory approach to auditor independence outside the United States as well.
The SEC proposal is bad news for CPAs working in industry, since it would restrict public companies' freedom of choice when seeking outside professional services. The SEC would force public companies to constantly choose whether to hire a firm solely as its auditor or solely as a provider of other services. In fact, under the proposed new rules, a public company might be compelled to dismiss an audit firm that has done consistently outstanding work in order to obtain services from the auditor's non-audit colleagues.
The SEC claims its proposed rule "would not affect tax-related services" to audit clients. However, it would ban acting as an advocate for an audit client, or providing expert services in administrative proceedings, thus (except in preparing returns) potentially prohibiting CPAs from representing audit clients before the IRS.
The proposed rule would impute to an accounting firm the activities of virtually any entity with which the accounting firm has a commercially valuable business relationship by viewing such an entity as an "affiliate of the accounting firm."
Accounting firms effectively would be precluded from entering into almost any joint venture or partnership, since the accounting firm's independence could be impaired as a result of the activities of other parties in which it may have only an immaterial investment, or with which it may be associated in only limited respects, but does not control.
Regional alliances or cooperative agreements between accounting firms could result in each firm being required to be independent of each other firm's attest clients. Moreover, the restrictions would extend to any alliance or cooperative agreement with overseas accounting and other firms (such as legal service providers).
In a rush to regulate, the SEC has:
The SEC has needlessly tied its popular and long-overdue modernization of family disqualification rules-depression-era rules that discriminate against working women and two-career families-to its far more controversial scope of services initiative. Modernization of the financial-interest standards can and should occur on an expedited basis, independent of the scope of services initiative. The scope of services initiative requires more time for fact finding and analysis than provided by the SEC's time frame.
If the rule is adopted, there will be a negative effect on recruiting and retention of the best talent. The best audit professionals will not want to be at a firm where 25% - 40% of the market is "off-limits," and the same is true for the best non-audit professionals. Similarly, the best and brightest students will not be drawn to firms with a limit on upward opportunities. The "audit-only" firms endorsed by the proposal will have difficulty attracting the necessary talent both from accounting programs and from information technology programs, because the best talent will be drawn toward industries with broader career opportunities.
The SEC lacks authority for its sweeping scope of services rule. The statutory provisions cited by the SEC in the proposed rule pertain to public companies' filing of financial statements that have been audited by independent accountants and do not expressly authorize the SEC to make rules governing or regulating directly the accounting profession itself. The proposed rule is based primarily, if not entirely, on alleged concerns relating to the "appearance of independence" - but not independence in fact. The SEC does not have statutory authority to impose restrictions because of possible perceptions about independence.
Broad restrictions on non-audit services will likely have the perverse effect of undermining auditor independence by making audit firms overly or exclusively dependent on auditing fees, which would certainly be contrary to the public interest. Such restrictions will also harm the recruitment and retention of the most qualified personnel, causing a possible degradation in audit quality.
In conclusion, the SEC's proposal to restrict the services offered by accounting firms represents a fundamental restructuring of a profession that has successfully given investors the reliable, independent data they need for the past century. A decision by a government agency to tell some business organizations what services they may offer and to tell other businesses from whom they can buy services is an extraordinary economic intervention without any empirical or other basis. We think most Americans would find this a curious public policy position for their government to take.
This scope of services rule must not be allowed to go forward. As such, we respectfully request your assistance in stopping this scope of services rule proposed by the SEC.
Thanking you in advance for your efforts in representing our request.
Steven Y.C. Kang, CPA


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Yesterday hubby went to visit his grandfather's sister's husband Mac. Both his grandfather and grandfather's sister are deceased but Mac is in his 90s and living in the same town where my husband's family settled in the 1840s.
|Sam's Mustache Cup
Mac showed hubby several items that belonged to his wife's parents and grandparents - photos, family bibles and other treasures. To my hubby's surprise, Mac gave him everything he could find including a mustache cup that belonged to hubby's great-great grandfather Sam Sandercock. Co-incidentally we have a small collection of mustache cups in our home.
Sam was Mac's wife's grandfather and it seems she inherited some family treasures when Sam died in 1949. Because she and Mac had no children, Mac has no one to give these items to. So hubby came home with a very pretty mustache cup which has extra meaning because his great-great grandpa used to drink from it.
I'm so glad that these items have been treasured and now passed on to my husband who in turn will treasure them and treat them with great care.


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USA - FINAL POST ... and then some ...
OK, so the old blog hasn't gotten much of a workout in the last month, so time for a whirlwind update ...
USA Trip - The LAst Leg
OK, so after Atlanta, I headed over to LA for a few days of hanging out with Em, Scott and Saxon from AIR and the various Intelligentsians ...
Deaton gives us a tour of the Intelly roastworks.
Kyle and Tim showed us the training room, where the staff for Venice beach were hard at work in their intensive training program. Terry Z's GS2 looked pretty schmick.
Intelly Silverlake. This store was like a magnet; I was in LA for two days and I think that we made about four trips to Silverlake!
Gorgeous layout in the front patio; I really should have also taken some shots of the inside of the store. The store is set out to give the staff heaps of room to work, but nonetheless looks beautiful. Great coffee offered in a number of brewing methods.
Kenya Thunguri brewed as a clover. An absolute stunner, in the league of the Mamuto. Personally, though, I find a whole mug of brewed coffee to be a bit of a hard slog. Not only is it a helluva lot of coffee, but it also takes forever to reach a nice drinking temperature. I much prefer BBB's way of brewing it into a pot and serving it with a small cup, which allows you to pour a small amount into the cup at a time in order to have it at the perfect drinking temperature.
We also took a trip to Venice Beach to see how the new store is progressing. It is going to be pretty phenomenal. I'm tipping this to become an iconic photo for the area once the sign is lit up.
Home Again
Of course, there have been a lot of interesting things on at home, too. Looking back, I have actually done a heap of cuppings over the past few months. And good ones, too - good coffee, good roast levels, multiples of each sample.
(Conclusion: you can't cup with paper cups. I'd better add cupping bowls to the shopping list.)
I also feel that we're on the up-side of the Melbourne coffee cycle. Not only are we getting in a lot of new green coffee at the moment, but the cold weather allows for much better storage and ageing. I think that it will get better over the next few months as the stuff that is now new becomes an old acquaintance to the people roasting it, following which, as it starts to heat up several months down the track, things will start to decline. That said, there's every reason to be optimistic that the down side of the cycle won't be as bad as it has been in years past. For one thing, the past year seems to have seen a lot more competition come to the green coffee market, with a few Aussies starting up agencies for overseas importers. For another, I think that the better roasters are now starting to think about green storage and will be better able to manage their inventories towards the end of the year. The question is how much these best practices will actually spread; getting people to spend more time, money and effort on coffee is always an uphill battle. George Howell puts it very succinctly; to paraphrase him, good green storage only costs a few percent of the overall price - everyone in business believes in insurance, so why not pay the tiny amount for good green storage so that you don't end up having to try to sell green that has gone bad?
Finally, I suppose that I should briefly mention Seven Seeds. I suspect that the guys probably want to keep it under wraps a bit so that they can have a slow start, but that's simply not going to happen. Needless to say, it is extremely well fitted out and there are a few really clever ideas that I'm sure will be copied, such as the nursery. Taking a walk around the green room is really quite confronting; there's a lot of very expensive and very good coffee in there. Frankly, this place has nearly everything to be one of the best coffee roasteries in the world. And I don't say that lightly.


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There are truly, very few movies for car people/petrol heads, that really communicate the passion and emotion that our obsession means to us. In the US what we get for "automotive lifestyle" programing are really bad reality shows that aren't much more than sixty minutes, well forty to forty two minutes of advertorial programing, the rest commercials, many of those for the products you just saw used in the show.
True gear heads in Hollywood are few and far between, and the ones that are mostly keep quiet because most of their colleagues are screaming about being green, and in a town that makes the high school cheerleading squad seem non cliquey, if you want to pay for your hobby and keep working, best to keep it on the down low.
There are of course a few exceptions, Jay Leno, Patrick Dempsey, Tim Allen, a few others, but you didn't hear much about it till they were very successful, and their names were enough to sell tickets, get ratings etc to make sure everyone else was making money to keep them happy.
Eric Bana is an actor from Australia that you may have seen in Ang Lee's "The Hulk" the 2009 re-boot of Star Trek, Troy, and a few others. Since his early days, he has been a gear head, and from the age of 15 he has had an obsession, it is his 1974 Ford Falcon XB Coupe.
Through good times and bad Eric has kept this car, first as his daily driver, then as a race car. He mad a documentary about his obsession with the car called "Love The Beast" and for me, it is the best car movie I have seen in a very long time and the best movie I saw in 2009.
Looking at some of the reviews you see comments from people who aren't gear heads talking about how they weren't into this movie that much but it did explain the obsession well. That to me is the key point here. Even non car people can begin to understand what drive us, to a point at least. Here are two clips from the movie I've spliced together of Jeremy Clarkson, explaining this better than I've ever seen done before.
The turning point for Bana's Beast was running the car in the 1996 Targa Tasmania, a road rally in the spirit of the old Targa Florio. It runs for five days on the Island of Tasmania, and in Australian motorsports importance is rivaled only by the Bathurst 1000 in importance, and the Bathurst race is said by Aussies to be their version of LeMans.
The movie is how Eric completely rebuilt his Falcon to run once again in the race, as a full on race car and his experiences of elation and of depression after he has an accident on the fourth of the five days of the rally.
Through his own voice overs, and interviews with Jay Leno, Jeremy Clarkson and Dr. Phil (who for the first time ever comes off as intelligent and likable rather than a full on douchebag) they talk about what the car means to him and if he will rebuild it after this incident. Will the car be written off, or once again become the campfire by which he and his mates gather around once again to rebuild once again.
The movie has a very limited release after being shown at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year, and while the DVD is on sale in Australia and the EU, it is NOT available here in the US. Now, depending on how you feel about the subject you can download the movie here.
There is also work that this will be shown on the SPEED channel on December the 18th, check your local listings, but having this go to commercial every 5-7 minutes I think will really kill the flow of this movie. It's only 90 minutes in length, but communicates a lifetime of love and obsession.
Here is the official movie trailer


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Troparion — Tone 4
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[Interlude: Diddy]
You know what it is, aww man
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[Verse 1: 50 Cent]
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Been around the block pal imagine what I got now
The Bentley the Ferrari, maybe the Bugatti
Range and Maserati, I got 'em all, goddamn
My money, my-my-my money, long
I blackout and break a bat on your ass like Barry Bonds
I get it, I'm down for the jooks now what's up
I'm with it, I told you I was gon' cake up
I did it, niggas tryna show me how to ball
Man, they tryna buy some Gucci, I'm tryna buy the mall
I ain't came to get a little bit I'm tryna get it all
My new bitch a cool bitch I'm fitting to make her spoiled
If my watch is right, my stocks is right
But don't be shocked tonight, if you get shot tonight
Still gutter like a mothafucka, chipped up
Don't be surprised when I grip up, you slip up you could get it
I get money, money I got (I get it)
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[Interlude: Diddy]
A lotta money on this record man, I like being around money man
It's three the hard way baby, you know my mothafuckin' name
[Verse 2: Diddy]
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But my lawyer's so good that Diddy got aquitted
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While you was riding around in Miami on mopeds
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I am chilling, in Sean John denim
Nigga I don't walk nowhere I'm four wheeling
Champagne spilling, chilling, no ceiling
Stealing a quarter million, feeling, ice grilling
Hit the avenue, earthquake up the morgue
Give Jacob a call then make a withdrawal
Face on the Forbes in '94 I did it
Don't like it I'm a Bad Boy now let's get it come on!
I get money, money I got (I get it)
Money-money I got, money-money I got (I run New York)
[Bridge: 50 Cent]
I get the pounds, the pesos, the yen
I celebrate and I'm fresh out the pen
I'm a hustler, I'm back at it again
I'm bad and I don't play pretend, fuck with 'em, Jay
[Verse 3: Jay-Z]
I'm a hustler baby, can't escape my past
When I flipped Rocawear, I told 'em: 'Give me mine in cash'
Yeah, checks might bounce
Alphabet boys might check my accounts
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I'm already the GOAT, next stop is the billi
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I'm revving I'm trying not to spill my merlot
When my girl go on world tour
Ladies I'm back on the street like I'm out on a furlough
I'm back clubbing, Ace of Spades bubblin'
Drink it from the bottle, who the fuck need a bucket?
I'm killing the block, multiple whips
So I'm killing the roof, like Michael Vick
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In case y'all forget New York is still mine, I get it
I get money, money I got (I get it)
Money-money I got, money-money I got (I run New York)
[Outro: Jay-Z]
You talking my language now baby
I wouldn't wanna be outside the borough on this one
The Forbes remix, explained by Forbes' own Zack O'Malley Greenburg
I just wanted to show that we're not enemies … 50 called me to ask for the remix, and I told him he couldn't put the remix out until the first week came. I didn't want it to affect any type of numbers [laughs]. So as you see, it came out the 17th, when the SoundScan cycle is finished. So just to show, I'm still competing! We're not enemies, we're just competing.


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A dying star, IC 4406, dubbed the
"Retina Nebula" is revealed in this month's
Hubble Heritage image. Like many other so-called
planetary nebulae, IC 4406 exhibits a high degree
of symmetry; the left and right halves of the Hubble
image are nearly mirror images of the other. If
we could fly around IC4406 in a starship, we would
see that the gas and dust form a vast donut of material
streaming outward from the dying star. From Earth,
we are viewing the donut from the side. This side
view allows us to see the intricate tendrils of
dust that have been compared to the eye's retina.
In other planetary nebulae, like the Ring Nebula
(NGC 6720), we view the donut from the top.
The donut of material confines the
intense radiation coming from the remnant of the
dying star. Gas on the inside of the donut is ionized
by light from the central star and glows. Light
from oxygen atoms is rendered blue in this image;
hydrogen is shown as green, and nitrogen as red.
The range of color in the final image shows the
differences in concentration of these three gases
in the nebula.
Unseen in the Hubble image is a larger
zone of neutral gas that is not emitting visible
light, but which can be seen by radio telescopes.
One of the most interesting features
of IC 4406 is the irregular lattice of dark lanes
that criss-cross the center of the nebula. These
lanes are about 160 astronomical units wide (1 astronomical
unit is the distance between the Earth and Sun).
They are located right at the boundary between the
hot glowing gas that produces the visual light imaged
here and the neutral gas seen with radio telescopes.
We see the lanes in silhouette because they have
a density of dust and gas that is a thousand times
higher than the rest of the
nebula. The dust lanes are like a rather open mesh
veil that has been wrapped around the bright donut.
The fate of these dense knots of material
is unknown. Will they survive the nebula's expansion
and become dark denizens of the space between the
stars or simply dissipate?
This image is a composite of data
taken by Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2
in June 2001 by Bob O'Dell (Vanderbilt University)
and collaborators and in January 2002 by The Hubble
Heritage Team (STScI). Filters used to create this
color image show oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen
gas glowing
in this object.
Credit: NASA and the Hubble
Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Acknowledgment: C.R. O'Dell (Vanderbilt University)


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PAWNOGRAFFITI wrote:xbay wrote:Since when does FA cure a teams' problems? It doesn't matter who you sign and how many you bring in, it's about whether they perform or not. So seriously, neither teams' free agents have proven anything. Breaking it down though:
You call acquiring Kwame Harris something that was well addressed? The guy has proven nothing but being able to draw a penalty on a big play made.
Javon Walker? If you get the Green Bay Packers Javon Walker, sure. But if you get the Denver Broncos one, have fun.
You're d-line is anchored by Derrick Burgess and Tommy Kelly... not that intimidating.
You're overrating your defensive backs. DeAngelo Hall is the most overrated corner back in the NFL. Some claim he's a top 5, he's not even a top 10. And I doubt he's even in the top 15. And you better hope Gabril Wilson doesn't turn into one of those ex-Superbowl champs that don't do anything their following year on a new team like Rhodes.
Also, say what you want about you're McFadden, Fargas, Bush combo. Fargas is good, but the other two haven't proved anything. So hype them up all you want, because that's all you can do at the moment.
And don't get me started with Russell. He played a couple games and played part time last year. So what if Jerry Rice crowned him as a good future QB? He, just like this whole new Raiders team, has yet to prove anything 'til the season starts.
I'm not saying my Niners are better. But I think it's common sense to say Mike Martz is an upgrade over Mike Nolan's playcalling and Jim Hostler's listening.
Now don't be biased and be real. Both teams have yet to prove anything yet. So stop predicting and take it one game at a time.
There's a lot of Raider hatred... in your post. But i gotten use to that from stupid Queen Nation, i mean your dynasty built by Bill Walsh was built on a lot of the fundamentals he learnt when he was a Coach in Oakland.
Your gonna be doing a lot of crying and sulking this season when Alex Smith dont deliver and Nolan is headed to the unemployment line.
Me, GSW United, Joel and Oakland Fanatic and the rest of the nation, will be spraying the breasts of supermodels with our Don Periogn and Moet cause thats what us champions do!!!
Raider hatred? Hey, you're just lucky my cousin rsxracer isn't here. If you thought that was hate, wait 'til he expresses his opinion.
And as far as Walsh "learning the fundamentals" as coach in Oakland, that's just ignorant. Why would you base one of the greatest minds ever on how he learned from his Raider days? He wasn't always a Raider. He had plenty of other coaching jobs before them. And even if he did took some ideas from the Raiders, he sure did a helluva better job at making it better than what the Raiders could've ever done.
And I won't cry when I see Alex bust. I already see the potential in that, so why worry about what has a good chance at happening?
Raiders? Champions? I'll let rsx do the talking about that statement. I'll just take it one game at a time while you keep dreaming big for your Raiders and only getting those goals crushed because you can't face the reality of your poor Raiders squad. My Niners suck just as bad as your Raiders, so no need to crown them.


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One quick note before today's update. Next week, On Violence will celebrate its simultaneous third anniversary and 500th post, so yay us! On to the update:
Update to Drone Strikes
While the US continues to conduct drone in Pakistan--which we believe exacerbates the problem of extremism--the Wall Street Journal reports that new rules from the Obama administration restrict the CIA's unilateral ability to launch strikes. Another AP story claims that the Taliban routinely exaggerates civilian casualties. This CNN article backs up that claim, while also arguing that the CIA might just be running out of targets. While I hope that is the case, when it comes to investigating or researching a topic shrouded in "Top Secrecy", I have my doubts we will ever know the truth.
And as we were editing this post today, President Obama's top counter-terrorism advisor, John Brennan, talked at length about drone strikes, officially acknowledging their existence. We have a lot more to say on his speech, Attorney General Holder's speech and drone strikes in general in the coming year.
On the academic side of things, this article on Kings of War makes an excellent case that "signature strikes"--drone strikes conducted because a target acts like an militant--flies in the face of Just War theory. A great read, along with excellent insight into under-reported "signature targeting". The key question we must ask is, if we conduct drone strikes of targets whose names we don't even know, how can we really be sure they are terrorists? How is that "just war theory"?
Another article on the Small Wars Journal, "Why COIN Principles Don't Fly With Drones", explains the drawbacks of drone strikes in Pakistan. It got flack for using the acronym "COIN" in the title, but I enjoyed it.
As an added benefit, a commenter on "Why COIN Principles Don't Fly With Drones" perfectly exemplified the old "war is war"-ior shoulder shrug when it comes to civilian casualties, writing:
"Civilian casualties will always be a part of war. A terrible part? Yes. A completely preventable part? No. Especially when we run into a conflict with a non-conventional enemy that uses civilians as camouflage."
Updates on Iran
Overall the odds for war have dropped...slightly. According to the betting market Intrade, the odds of war with Iran have lowered to 5.5%, a drop of 2.5% since we started writing on Iran. On the Atlantic's more academic (and renamed) Iran War Dial, the odds of war with Iran have dropped to 42%, primarily because of renewed diplomatic talks and the promise to hold more talks. Also, former Senator and current Nebraskan Democratic candidate for Senate Bob Kerrey (Medal of Honor winner as well) has come out vigorously against war with Iran, the most prominent candidate for elected office to oppose war with Iran (I believe).
The best article I have seen since our Iran articles is the Foreign Affairs article "Botching the Bomb" that says that Iran probably won't ever be able to make a bomb or a whole set of bombs because... it's Iran. To prove the article's point, autocratic North Korea failed to launch another rocket. In short, democratic-capitalist states with well-developed political systems have a built in advantage when it comes to innovation. This clashes a bit with my perspective of the IRGC as an innovative force which embraces asymmetric and unconventional warfare, but it explains another reason why we don't need a war with Iran.
Thomas J. Bounomo's Small Wars Journal article "Changing Iran's Cost-Benefit Analysis of its Nuclear Program" provides a unique solution to the crisis. He says the U.S. should offer Iran reduced-cost green technology. This would provide Iran with an alternative energy source instead of nuclear power and a sign of goodwill.
An Update to On V's Lexicography
A long time back, I wrote a post encouraging myself and others to use the phrase "foreign policy" as opposed to "national security". While debates over nomenclature can get tedious--especially when it comes to defining war--the terms do matter. International relations refers to states. Foreign policy differs from foreign affairs because one refers to policies/laws/regulations/decisions and the other to everything. Most importantly, not everything that occurs overseas falls in the category of "security", especially when it comes to government agencies. The overuse of "security" has led to a Department of Defense budget of around 750 billion dollars, and a State Department budget of 50 billion. That's unbalanced.
We haven't been doing this, as we re-discovered recently. We'll rededicate ourselves to using foreign policy and foreign affairs as much as possible, and avoiding national security when possible.
An Attack on Cultural Sensitivity
If our posts on Gratitude Theory and Cultural Sensitivity haven't made the point clear enough, we believe too many of our soldiers still don't get the need for cultural empathy and respect. To prove our point, two soldiers, both enraged by the Afghan response to the burning of Korans by American soldiers, spoke out on two blogs we regularly read. In the first, "Medium Rare: Some Thoughts From an Afghan War Vet on the Koran Burning Riots" the author argues for shooting into crowds of unarmed civilians. I cannot think of a better way to gain support. (Sarcasm.)
In the second, "The Downside of Cultural Sensitivity", Tony Barrett claims that cultural sensitivity training denigrated the U.S. culture. I totally disagree, and this article testifies to a way of thinking most soldiers hold, "our way or the highway."
From Russia with Love: Counter-Terrorism Blinds the U.S. in Intelligence
We've written before about the intelligence/espionage threat we face from China, but we neglected another global competitor. This conversation on The Economist's website shows that we should worry about Russia just as much. Like China, Russia didn't completely over-react to 9/11. And it could have. (Remember, Chechnya.) Instead, as it has since the 1950s, it continues to train spies and deploy them to the U.S. to steal state secrets. Man, counter-terrorism is such a waste of money.
President Obama Won't Start an ICC for Terrorists
Plenty of ink was spilled over Attorney General Eric Holder's (non) statement about the U.S. government targeting American civilians abroad. Our takeaway? Obama doesn't plan to start a new ICC anytime soon.
Updates to the Hideous Monster I Call the Pentagon Budget
Around the business world last year, you couldn't swing a dead wampa rat without hitting someone reading, reviewing or commenting on Steve Jobs' biography by Walter Isaacs. Having left the military, I, Michael C, don't know if the biography made the same impact on the Pentagon. I mean, if the Pentagon ran Apple, the iPad 1's release date would be next year, would run around 2,000 dollars a unit, and probably would have every input cable imaginable--something Jobs specifically abhorred.
Yet the pearl of government efficiency, the largest section of the discretionary budget, is again begging for more money and more expensive weapons to win wars that aren't/weren't named Afghanistan or Iraq.
Here's a rundown on the good articles:
"The Supper House" from "Battleland" describes the Senate's enabling of the Pentagon.
"The F-35 Budget Disaster" updates us on the ongoing woes of the Air Forces' premiere fighter.
The circle graph we showed on "What Do I Think of Iran's Military?" was part of this graph released by the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
"Will the 55 Billion Bomber Program Fly?" we mentioned a few weeks back describes the impending train wreck which will become the Air Force's next long range bomber.
Finally, this F-22 update shows how we have to throw more money at this program. By our records, the Air Force has failed on three consecutive manned aircraft. 0 for 3 baby.


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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is one of the few celebrities in the world who I think is so beautiful that I rarely notice her bag first when I look at her. Those lips! Those cheekbones! When you combine that with the fact that her boyfriend (and my imaginary boyfriend) Jason Statham is often in photos with her, it's enough to distract even someone like me from handbags. But, you know, only for a split second.
I was able to focus long enough to bring you the this compilation of the Burberry model's accessory collection, though, from Celine to Chanel to...well, to Burberry, which Rosie carries quite frequently. For a spokesmodel, though, her collection is quite diverse, and it includes some of my personal favorites. Follow along as we break down Rosie's taste after the jump.
First, let's start with what seems to be Rosie's favorite bag - her Celine Phantom Luggage Tote in dark green suede. Rosie carries this beauty everywhere and has been photographed with it seemingly dozens of times - that's a pretty strong endorsement.
Rosie's second most common choice is Anything Burberry, like this bright orange Burberry Tassel Bowler from Fall 2011. Shop Burberry via Net-a-Porter.
And even more Burberry! This time, it's a gorgeous Burberry Python Tote. Why doesn't the brand make more bags like this? Shop Burberry via Net-a-Porter.
Next up in Rosie's Burberry parade is the Burberry Textured Leather Tote. Shop Burberry via Bloomingdale's.
Last on our Burberry list (and those are just the ones we chose to highlight - it looks like Rosie's received lots of pieces during her tenure with the brand!) is Rosie's Burberry Suede Bowler.
These days, it seems almost impossible to find a young, stylish model without a Proenza Schouler PS1 in her closet. Rosie's is beautiful in butter yellow suede. Pick one up yourself for $1695 via Proenza Schouler.
As it turns out, Rosie's big Celine isn't her only one - she also carries her little Celine Luggage Nano Tote regularly.
Like any handbag lover with a big budget for fashion, Rosie also has a couple of Chanel bags in her collection, including this Chanel Studded Flap Shoulder Bag.
There's also this big navy Chanel Quilted Tote from Spring 2012. (I purposefully didn't crop Jason out of this image. YOU'RE WELCOME.)
Here's Rosie with yet another It Girl favorite: the Loewe Amazona Tote, also in suede, which seems to be her preference if it's available in a particular bag. Buy through Matches Fashion for $1673.
You know how I know that Rosie is magic? Because her bright white Jason Wu Jourdan Tote is still clean as a whistle. Buy your own for $1999 via Nordstrom.
When Rosie travels, she travels like a star: with the Louis Vuitton Mon Monogram Pegase suitcase, customized with her initials. Pick up your own for $3400 via Louis Vuitton.
Speaking of stars, Rosie's big blue jean Hermes Birkin is a true standout.
Most of Rosie's bags are satchels or totes, but the Gucci Leather Hobo from Spring 2012 is proof that she likes a good shoulder bag, too. Shop Gucci via Net-a-Porter.
Lastly, Rosie seems to be a big fan of the Alexander Wang Rocco Duffel. Here she is with an oldie but goodie - when did Wang's football collection come out? Spring 2010, I believe? Shop Alexander Wang via ShopBop.
And here's Rosie more recently - this time, her Alexander Wang Rocco Duffel has rose gold hardware. Shop Alexander Wang via ShopBop.
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…But far too much to drink! Delightful as it is to open up the fridge and see a fully stocked shelf of nothing but vegan nog, it's simply too much for one person to polish off alone, obsessed with the seasonal beverage or not. After a couple of egg-nog-creams (Inspired by the traditional egg cream: Equal parts nog and seltzer water, plus a splash of vanilla) and then numerous ginger-nog milkshakes (Plop 2 scoops of vanilla ice cream into a blender, pour in nog to cover, add ground ginger to taste and blend. Add an extra flourish of whipped coconut creme and finely chopped crystallized ginger on top if desired), I've hardly begun to make a dent in that stockpile. Time to get serious and turn on the oven.
Lightly sweetened breakfast biscuits with an extra measure of holiday cheer, scones are not only an excellent way of using up some extra nog, but are also ideal for harried bakers who must soon accommodate hungry family members for Christmas breakfasts and brunches. A fine sprinkling of turbinado sugar seals the deal, providing that lightly crunchy but readily yielding crunch, adding addictive textural contrast to the whole affair. Feel free to swap out the walnuts for any other nut or even chocolate chips if that strikes your fancy, but whatever you, don't even dream of skipping that sweet final touch.
Managing so much of this limited edition treat at once, it was inevitable that I would start serving up nog for breakfast. Happily, these scones are considerably more elegant and dignified than the alternative- A generous splash of nog over cold cereal!
Holiday Nog Scones
- 1 1/2 Cups All-Purpose Flour
- 1 Cup Whole Wheat Pastry Flour
- 1/2 Cup Granulated Sugar
- 2 Teaspoons Baking Powder
- 3/4 Teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1/2 Teaspoon Salt
- 1/4 Teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
- 1/4 Teaspoon Ground Nutmeg
- 5 Tablespoons Vegan Butter, Chilled
- 3/4 Cup Toasted and Chopped Walnuts
- 2/3 Cup + 2 – 3 Tablespoons Vegan Nog
- 1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 4 Teaspoons Turbinado Sugar
- Preheat your oven to 375 degrees and line a baking sheet with either parchment paper or a silpat.
- Mix both flours, sugar, baking powder and soda, salt, and spices together in a large bowl until thoroughly blended. Cut the butter into tablespoon-sized pieces before dropping them into the dry goods. Using a pastry cutter or two forks, cut in the butter until you have coarse crumbs with chunks of butter no larger than the size of a lentil.
- Toss in the walnuts, and pour in 2/3 cup plus 2 tablespoons of the nog along with the vanilla. Switch over to a spatula to mix the dough, drizzling in additional nog as needed if the batter is on the dry side. You should end up a slightly sticky dough but cooperative dough.
- Measure out around 1/3 – 1/2 cup of batter for each scone, and use lightly moistened hands to shape them into even rounds. You should end up with 8 equal scones. Sprinkle each with 1/2 teaspoon of turbinado sugar.
- Bake for 14 – 16 minutes, until golden brown all over. Serve warm or cool on a wire rack for later.
Place in an air-tight container or wrap tightly in plastic and store in the fridge for up to 3 days.
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Serving Size:1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 455 Total Fat: 17g Saturated Fat: 7g Trans Fat: 0g Unsaturated Fat: 10g Cholesterol: 24mg Sodium: 467mg Carbohydrates: 67g Fiber: 5g Sugar: 17g Protein: 10g


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In English, many things are named after a particular country – but have you ever wondered what those things are called in those countries?
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Georgia College women's cross country team is set to race in the NCAA Southeast Regional Championships Saturday, Nov. 20 at 11:15 a.m. held in Charlotte, N.C. The Bobcats will enter six runners into the race and the top five finishes will count towards the team score.
"I am very hopeful that this is going to be our best race all season," said coach Joe Samprone. "We are approaching full strength and everyone seems to be getting healthier as the week goes on. It is going to be a fast course and everyone is looking forward to the race this weekend."
The women will race seniors Dani Destiche (Snellville, Ga.), Alex Taylor (Marietta, Ga.) and junior Karissa Ekstrom (Alpharetta, Ga.). Freshmen competing in their first NCAA Southeast Regional will be Andrea Byrnes (Snellville, Ga.), Allison Lones (Kathleen, Ga.) and Ashton Passino (Alpharetta, Ga.).
Last year at the regional championships, Georgia College posted the best finish in school history, the Bobcat women's cross country team took fourth. Senior Heather Raines made the most of her final collegiate race, pacing the Bobcats in 28th overall at 25:19. Raines led Georgia College in five of the seven races last season. Ekstrom was one slot behind in 29th, covering the 6K course in 25:21. Senior Virginia Balkcom was 31st, just four seconds later.
Lones has been a key addition for the Bobcats this season, becoming one of the top runners on the squad in her rookie campaign. She has participated in all seven races, pacing the Bobcats in their last five. Lones crossed the finish line at 25:30 on a tough 6K course at the Peach Belt Conference Championships (PBC), good for an All-PBC Second Team selection. Lones also set the school record for a 5K at the ASU Tri-Meet with a time of 19:13 finishing fifth overall.
Destiche has only participated in four of the seven races this season because of an injured foot but she is back and ready to race. She ran to All-PBC status her freshman year with a 21:15 5K at the PBC Championships. Destiche has paced the Bobcats twice this season, finishing seventh at the Bobcat Invitational and ninth at the Run Fit Invitational. Her best time was 20:20 at the Run Fit Invitational.
Ekstrom has had a solid season running in all seven meets. Her highest finish was fourth at the Young Harris College (YHC) Invitational. She also finished ninth at the ASU Tri-Meet with a time of 19:40, which was her fastest finish of the season.
At the PBC Championships two weeks ago, Ekstrom finished in 16th place with a time of 25:44. Destiche was 27th with a time of 26:38, while Byrnes placed 33rd with a time of 27:21.
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The 70,000-square-foot Water + Life Museums complex is highly energy and water efficient despite its harsh desert environment of Hemet, California, USA, where triple-digit summer heat is normal, but where water can freeze in winter. The roof is topped with a huge photovoltaic installation - a 540 watt, 3000 panel solar array that produces 68 percent of the complex's electricity needs while shading the interior from the scorching desert sun. Additional heat mitigation is provided by translucent PV panels that shade more than 8,000 square feet of the structure's heat blocking glass. The interior makes use of abundant daylighting and features radiant flooring backed by a sophisticated HVAC system. The terraced gardens are watered through a drip irrigation system that uses reclaimed water. The museum complex owes its existence to the Diamond Valley Lake Reservoir; completed in 1999 by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, it became the largest earthworks project on US soil. During the massive dig to create the reservoir, some significant fossils were unearthed and put on display at the Diamond Valley Lake Visitor Center or in storage. Seeing the educational opportunities of displaying the finds, two non-profit organizations came together to design two new facilities with a large, outdoor connecting terrace. The resulting Water + Life museum complex became the first LEED Platinum green museum buildings in the US. (Scroll to bottom for additional resources)
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A Desert Oasis: Two nonprofits join to create public exhibitions and offices demonstrating their commitment to sustainability.
By Jessica Boehland, July 2007, Green Source magazine
The roofs of the Water and Life museums are nearly all covered with solar panels. Although hidden from view for visitors standing near the buildings, the panels are visible from a distance.
Angler Mike Long caught a 16.4-lb. largemouth bass on Diamond Valley Lake, California, in March 2007, setting a new lake record. Amazing, considering that just two decades ago, this 4,500-acre lake was farmland in the saddle between two mountain ranges. Three dams, 260 billion gallons of water, and $2 billion later, however, the reservoir could meet Southern California's water needs for six months in the event of an emergency.
Located about 300 feet below the eastern dam, two new museums are part of a multimillion-dollar thank-you gift from the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) of Southern California to the community of Hemet for allowing the reservoir—the largest earthworks project in U.S. history—to be built in its backyard. "Water politics is big and complex," says Michael Lehrer, FAIA, principal of Lehrer + Gangi Design + Build, with just a hint of understatement. The Western Center for Archaeology and Paleontology displays fossils and Native American artifacts unearthed during excavation for the dams, while the Center for Water Education teaches visitors the importance of water in Southern California and its impact on the rest of the world.
Lehrer and Mark Gangi, AIA, who together led the design process, intended the project to honor the architectural tradition of large infrastructure projects, perhaps recalling the power and precision of the turbines in the dam. The architects wanted something "Stonehenge-ian," according to Lehrer, with abstract, geometric volumes jutting out from the landscape. The resulting buildings intersperse large window walls with steel-clad towers, creating a modern, industrial aesthetic.
The 62,000-square-foot project houses facilities for both centers, including exhibit and interactive space, laboratories, classrooms, offices, a gift shop, and a café in its multiple buildings. While each of the two main buildings has its own air handler and radiant floor manifolds, they share a boiler, a chiller, and a building management system that controls and monitors the mechanical systems.
The buildings' eastern orientation, along a road that leads to a marina, posed a challenge for passive solar design. In response, the design team extended the project's prominent towers 16 feet beyond the glazing, shading the glass from direct sun at all times except early morning. Energy simulations revealed that even morning sun would cause unacceptable heat gain, however, as the mullions continued to radiate. Seeking shade but worried about the potential for dust and sand to compromise a mechanized system, the team made the potentially controversial choice to install large disposable scrims, sort of like exterior curtains. "We kept the banners eight feet from the ground, so from inside there's still a clear view out to the valley," says Gangi. The PVC-coated polyester banners, which hang across 10,000 square feet of glass, will last only three to five years, but Gangi says they're easy to replace.
Neither museum's board of directors was originally interested in green design. After nine months of explaining and modeling its benefits, however—especially its potential to reduce operational costs, an endless headache for nonprofit organizations—the design team convinced both boards to embrace green design. The change of heart led to significant design modifications. "We went from air-handling units to radiant heating and cooling, which meant redesigning the entire slab," says Lehrer. Since the system adjusts the temperature at the floor, where occupants and exhibits are, instead of at the ceiling, it saves considerable energy. The buildings' high ceilings—32 feet in the front space—made this decision especially beneficial.
It took another nine months for the design team to convince the Water Education Center of the benefits of photovoltaics. Gangi says he originally thought it was a stretch to expect a water museum to invest in solar power, "but then we learned that MWD is Southern California Edison's [the energy supplier] largest customer." The decision to install a solar array came down to a fateful meeting between the design team and Phillip Pace, then the director of MWD and chair of the water center. "I insisted that if they didn't do this, they'd come back in two years and say, 'What the hell were you thinking by allowing us to proceed without this?'" recalls Lehrer.
The ensuing photovoltaic array, which covers 50,000 square feet atop almost all of both buildings, currently generates nearly 70 percent of the project's electricity needs, according to Peter Gevorkian, of Vector Delta Design Group, Glendale, California, who designed the system. The 540-kilowatt installation, using 185-watt modules from Sharp, was built by electrical subcontractor Morrow-Meadows, Industry, California. Although the system cost $4 million, rebates from the California Energy Commission and Southern California Edison's Savings by Design program cut the price in half, yielding an anticipated seven-year payback.
The original LEED goal was a certified rating. Once the photovoltaic system had been approved, however, the team set its sights on Silver and then Gold. John Zinner, the project's sustainable development consultant, says that as he reviewed the LEED submittal just months ago, "it dawned on me that it might be Platinum." The team expects the project to earn all of the available LEED credits for energy efficiency and renewable energy in addition to the credit for purchasing green electricity and two energy-related innovation credits. The submittal for 52 points—the minimum for Platinum—also includes innovation credits for recycling more than 95 percent of all construction waste, by weight, and for using the building as a teaching tool.
Using the project for education extends to landscape architect Mia Lehrer's design. The site tells the history of agriculture in the region and includes plant species whose fossils were dug up nearby. Lehrer also included rocks and boulders leftover from excavation. "They were piled up hundreds of feet high around the site, looking forlorn," she says. "They were magnificent." The most distinctive landscape element is a braided stream, lined by red rock. "It looks like someone took red paint and made a ribbon throughout the campus," says Darcy Burke, executive director of the water center. A recent rainstorm inundated much of the surrounding area, "but none of the campus was flooded," says Burke. "All of the water went into the stream."
Burke says visitors love the solar panels that form portions of the roof. An exhibit inside shows how the project uses and generates energy "in real time and in 'peoplespeak,'" says Burke, "so you don't have to be an engineer to understand it." Dual-flush toilets, waterless urinals, and a drip-irrigation system that uses utility-supplied gray water in place of potable water teaches about water efficiency. The team selected interior furnishings for recycled content, low chemical emissions, and regional availability. Much of the wood used meets Forest Stewardship Council standards for responsible harvesting.
The Western Center has been open since October 2006, and general admission has been running 20 percent to 30 percent above projections, according to executive director Bill Marshall. The Center for Water Education, on the other hand, has been struggling. Although it has hosted more than 2,500 visitors, the MWD took over the financially ailing nonprofit group operating the center and closed its doors. Most involved with the project believe that it will eventually reopen.
While the project's upfront cost of $37 million hasn't helped the water center's current financial situation, nobody seems to blame the green design. To the contrary, Michael Lehrer believes that "the fact that this is an environmental showcase will probably be its saving grace. It will end up garnering interest and support that it otherwise wouldn't have." Pace, who has taken heat for the financial shortfall, says he's received only positive feedback about the project's environmental responsibility. "Everyone understands we need to protect what we have," he says, "or we won't have it very long."
The following article is from ArchNewsNow, April 2007
Water = Life: Diamond Valley Water + Life Museums Campus by Lehrer + Gangi Design + Build
Two museums in the desert offer engaging environmental lessons, both inside and out.
The Diamond Valley Water + Life Museums Campus in Hemet, California, celebrates the link between Southern California's water infrastructure and the evolution of life. Los Angeles-based Lehrer + Gangi Design + Build created a crisp, modern design concept that envelops the 23-acre campus and includes two sister museums – The Center for Water Education and Western Center for Archaeology and Paleontology – along with laboratories, classrooms, administrative offices, support facilities, gift shop, café, and interpretive/educational landscape. Phase 2 includes and outdoor amphitheatre, front and courtyard water features, two auditoriums, and a canal.
The 62,215-square-foot, $36.8 million campus is a striking mélange of metal and glass at the eastern entrance to the 4,500-acre Diamond Valley Lake. The architectural idea for the museums is derived from the history of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California's monumental architecture, such as Gordon B. Kaufman's Parker Dam pump buildings at Lake Havasu.
Translucent banners hang across 10,000 square feet of east-facing glass. Printed with pixilated images, the banners not only identify the museums (tusks for Archeology; lake for Water), but also mitigate the strong desert sun.
A broad plaza between the buildings frames the desert landscape. Latticed loggias on either side of the buildings create a dramatic processional through filtered light. The layering of perforated steel slats and custom-made solar tiles adds depth and movement to the loggias.
The 23,000-square-foot water museum incorporates such educational components as a simulated dam, two aquarium spaces, and interactive exhibits to tell the story of water. Through education and delight, the museum's mission is to develop the public as stewards of water and water conservation.
The 33,000-square-foot archeological center across the plaza houses an interactive theater in the round, research lab, archaeology and paleontology labs, and 9,000 square feet of specimen storage. While the earthen dams were cut 100 feet into bedrock to create Diamond Valley Lake, remains from the Pleistocene era were found and are now on display at the archeology museum.
The building program is a "living" example of sustainability and conservation, which further connects the notions of water and life. Green design elements cast the complex's energy standards above the required minimum of California Title 24 Energy Conformance. The museum campus was built to achieve LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council; efficient design features range from dual-flush toilets to broad expanses of solar panels.
The buildings' rooftop photovoltaic installation has a 540-kilowatt solar-power system of 3,000 solar panels, and generates energy for 47 percent of the museum campus (68 percent of the museum buildings themselves). It requires minimal maintenance, and lowers the toxic outpour of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The solar-power system, whose roof-mounted panels provide shading that will extend the roof-covering life by about 25 percent, boasts a projected net savings of about $13 million during its lifespan. A specially designed solar power display in the museum provides an interactive display so visitors can learn and request information on the solar power co-generation system.
The interior lighting design includes a network of electronic sensing devices and timers that optimize daylight harvesting and program zone lighting controls in all buildings. Office lighting is monitored by occupancy sensors or photoelectric controls, while outdoor banner projectors use minimal electrical power via light-emitting-diode (LED) lamps.
Heating and cooling are conducted through a sophisticated mechanical system of radiant flooring and forced air units. Translucent banners hanging in front of high-performance curtain walls at the east elevation mitigate heat radiation.
Designed as an environmental learning experience, the architecture and the landscape for arid campus were conceived from the beginning as one. The arrival procession introduces the principal qualities of water through the meandering braided stream toward the parking lot and the (Phase 2) water features at the front of the building, illustrating the importance irrigation and agriculture have played in the history of water infrastructure and use in California. Additional components of the outdoor learning exhibits include: archaeological digs, Paleolithic habitats, industrial and cultural water uses, water conservation, water uses in the future, and local Native American settlements.
The approach to planting within the campus has been sensitively and thoroughly researched to maintain the delicate ecological balance of the region and the environmental conditions of the site. Biologists collaborated with the design team to establish a plant list that responds to and is aligned with the Metropolitan Water District's mission statement on sustainability, its drought-tolerant approach to the landscape, and its commitment to educating the public about water conservation. Disease- and infestation-resistant plants that thrive in hot, dry climates were selected. Shade trees and other landscape elements create a comfortable environment to explore the interpretive exhibits.
Sustainable elements of the landscape program include braided streams containing pervious surfaces to provide storm water management by conveying rainwater to the water table. Irrigation systems are state-of-the-art drip systems that use reclaimed water. Surfaces are made of naturally colored red and green decomposed granite.
Thousands of large, sculptural stones were part of the detritus resulting from drilling 100 feet into bedrock during the building process. The rocks were seen as waste until the design team incorporated them as major landscape features.
Water & Life Museums LEED Case Study (342 kb)
Water & Life Museums Video Link
Lehrer Architects (Los Angeles, California, USA)


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Montag, 24. Februar 2014, 20:59
Just like that, the minimum configuration is pretty high huh
Montag, 24. Februar 2014, 22:25
Donnerstag, 27. Februar 2014, 15:50
Do you think it would run on an fx-6300 + radeon 6870?Just like that, the minimum configuration is pretty high huh
Yes of course but did you see the vegetation? And there are lots of other nice effects that take some CPU+GPU power. I've tested on an old AMD X2-3800+ with ATI 1950 pro at 10-15 FPS (AGP slot lol). That's not really nice
But I found a way to save some power by disabling shadows, effects and much more so it will be possible to play with older machines at low details and without some effects.
Donnerstag, 27. Februar 2014, 16:53
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Mittwoch, 19. März 2014, 17:41
Have you ever thought of putting this on steam greenlight?
Freitag, 21. März 2014, 01:44
Montag, 24. März 2014, 19:50
You really do have a point. I do agree that steam can be a little unnecessary at times, but this makes me wonder. Is there going to be an implemented friends system?Have you ever thought of putting this on steam greenlight?
Nope. It's because I don't like to add any spy stuff, ads, online account managers, shops or something like that to the game. I want it to be a pure game like the games in the early days of PC: just buy it, play and have fun.
It's making me angry if I bought a game for 50-100$ and cannot play without an online account and some peeping Toms always can watch me when, how often, what and how I play. Of course this all has to do with the NSA affair and things like that.
Please let me short explain: I was born in 1964 in Germany, 19 years after WW2. When I was a child I played with friends in the woods and suddenly a US platoon crossed the way. The GI's had been so friendly and they gave us some chocolate.
You can imagine how impressive this face-to-face encounter was for us kids. First we thought they kill us but then they gave us chocolate!
Till 2013 when the NSA affair came up the americans had been my best friends. But this spy-the-friends affair really is disgusting and not what friends should do!
I don't know if the US government really understood what they have damaged - worldwide!
Of course this doesn't change my mind about the people there, I still like them and think they are friends and of course there are good and bad everywhere in the world, but this is the reason why I don't want things like Steam.
I'll not support this big-brother-is-watching-everything-bullsh.
Sounds paranoid? Yes it is!
I'm no terrorist and 99,9% of the muslims, kommunists and all people are not. I don't want to be watched and I'll never support this.
I know that it will be no problem to watch the EoD online games 24/7 but maybe I can create such a chaotic netcode that no one in the world ever will be able to decode it
This was a long explanation but it had to be done cause many people asked me about Steam.
Now I can link them here.
Montag, 24. März 2014, 19:54
Dienstag, 25. März 2014, 10:28
Dienstag, 25. März 2014, 14:07
That sounds good! You don't ever want to make something over coded *ahem* Arma 2. With the chat, is there going to be voip?Well, please don't misunderstand. I don't want to start a political discussion about NSA or say that Steam is work of the devil. I really appreciate what Gabe Newell and Valve did, and we had lots of fun with Half Life and Counterstrike.
It was just to explain why I don't want things like Steam, Uplay and many others.
Of course I know that EoD3 can be monitored too cause it's sending data via Cloud!
But you won't need an 'account' or 'login to somewhere' and it will not update automatically without permission of the user. At least it's not easy for someone who 'watches' the game to assign the data to a specific person.
Cause just coordinates and the chat can be assigned to an IP and I'm not interested in watching my customers.
It's just kept simple and not overcoded that's all
A friends - list...nope, not in the first release.
I am alone and have no manpower to code that and it would just be a nice-to-have.
Perhaps in a later release?
Dienstag, 25. März 2014, 21:45
Mittwoch, 26. März 2014, 18:17
But you didn't answer my question
Donnerstag, 27. März 2014, 01:00
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Hank Williams, Jr. Sings for McCain
I'm trying to keep away from campaign-related postings here, because if I started, there'd simply be no end. But I think sharing this video of Hank Williams, Jr. singing at a McCain rally this week in Virginia is important. I've given ol' Bocephus a pass before, but not after mangling his one good song into a propagandist scheme for McCain's venomous course of campaigning. Watch as he sings about Obama's "radical friends"—in addition to making the preposterous claim that Democrats ruined the economy and that Bill Clinton himself forced lenders into bad loans. Meanwhile, he calls Sarah Palin a "good-lookin' dish."
A fat, ignorant washed-up son of a genius who can't sing anymore endorses McCain and Palin. In related news, just about every good musician in the known universe is for Obama.
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ALA Celebrity READ Posters
Posted by: Emily Sabo
If you've ever ventured into a public library, you've probably noticed celebrity READ posters. I'm always intrigued by the stars chosen, and their favorite books. Some seem obvious, such as Orlando Bloom with The Lord of the Rings. Some seem more surprising, like Shaquille O'Neal with Undying Glory.
How do you think the poster subjects are chosen? Do you have a favorite literate celeb you'd love to seem emblazoned on your library's wall?
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Henry Blanco hit a leadoff homer in the 11th inning, New York's second game-ending drive by a catcher in less than a day, and the Mets beat the San Francisco Giants 5-4 today for their ninth straight home win.
Blanco drove a 1-0 pitch from former Mets reliever Guillermo Mota (0-1) just over the wall in left for his first homer of the season. Rod Barajas connected in the ninth inning Friday night to give New York a 6-4 victory.
Jason Bay and Angel Pagan had two RBIs apiece for the Mets, who haven't lost at Citi Field since a 9-3 setback against the Chicago Cubs on April 21. Hisanori Takahashi (3-1) pitched a perfect 11th for the victory.
New York (17-13) has won three of four overall and leads the majors with 13 home wins.
Aubrey Huff drove in two runs for San Francisco, which lost catcher and cleanup hitter Bengie Molina to a tight left hamstring in the third. Slumping slugger Pablo Sandoval singled in the fourth to end an 0-for-15 slide and hit a sacrifice fly in the eighth.
Mets ace Johan Santana bounced back from the worst start of his career, pitching into the eighth inning. He lasted just 3 2-3 innings in an embarrassing loss at Philadelphia last Sunday.
Santana was replaced after Sandoval's fly ball to left cut New York's lead to 4-3, but the bullpen couldn't preserve the victory for the left-hander.
With two out and Aaron Rowand on first, Fernando Nieve surrendered a single to Eli Whiteside. Mets manager Jerry Manuel then brought in lefty specialist Pedro Feliciano to face Huff, who lined a tying single into left-center.
The crowd of 36,764 booed as Manuel came out to get Feliciano, and Jenrry Mejia struck out Juan Uribe to end the inning.
Santana allowed four runs and eight hits, struck out six and walked none.
Giants starter Todd Wellemeyer struggled with his control and the Mets took advantage, building a 3-0 lead while collecting just one hit in the first two innings.
Pagan was the catalyst in the fast start. He walked and scored on Bay's sacrifice fly in the first, and with two out and two on in the second, the speedy center fielder sliced a two-run triple into the right-field corner.
The Mets almost had a third run in the second but Uribe made a diving catch at shortstop on Luis Castillo's liner to end the inning, leaving Pagan at third.
Wellemeyer allowed four runs and three hits over 4 1-3 innings in his first start since April 27. He tossed three scoreless innings in a relief appearance against Colorado last Sunday.
Molina was replaced by Whiteside before the Mets batted in the bottom of the third. He led off the second with a single off the left-field wall, raising his batting average to .333, but it was unclear when his hamstring began to bother him.
Castillo also departed with a bruised left foot and is day to day. The second baseman went out to his position before the Giants batted in the eighth, but was replaced by Alex Cora after Manuel and a trainer came out to check on him before the inning started.
NOTES: Trash blew across the field at several points during the windy day. … Barajas' left hand was swollen and sore hours after he was struck by Whiteside, who swung at a pitchout that wasn't outside enough. Barajas said he told Manuel he was OK, but the manager decided to give him the day off. … Giants RHP Sergio Romo, who gave up Barajas' homer Friday night, is 0-2 with a 12.46 ERA and a blown save in his last five appearances, including three in four days before Saturday's game. "We may have to back him off a little bit," manager Bruce Bochy said.


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Making the Most of Your Rental: Reimagining the Nonworking Fireplace
I lived with a unusable, nonworking fireplace for seven long years. The placement and mantel definitely added architectural interest to my apartment, but it was a bit of a slap in the face to have to gaze into the empty hearth on a daily basis. I just wanted to be able to use it so bad! If you're one of those poor souls that finds themselves in my situation, instead of focusing on that blank hole in the wall and all it can't do — here are 10 ideas to transform your fireplace back into the focal point of the room.
1. Have fun and treat it like a blank canvas to display something unique, personable, or something that just needs to take center stage, like these wine bottles. I mean, why not? Victoria makes these bottles look even sexier with their matte black backdrop.
2. Got plants? If you have enough natural light coming in, why not use the fireplace as a grow room of sorts. Fill it with low-light plants, such as ferns and mosses, and create a backdrop of greenery. I particularly love the addition of the wood stump (you could also use a stool), which was added as a plant pedestal to help create levels. Inexpensive, inverted terra-cotta pots can be used in the same way.
3. One large mirror is inset into this fireplace (any glass shop should be able to cut you one for a custom fit), reflecting the bold color scheme. Mirrors do double-duty for making the space appear larger.
4. If you have kids, why not make it a play nook for your little one? We all know how children long for a little spot of their own. Painting the fireplace a bold and bright accent color no longer makes it seem drab and dingy and gives the room a pop of color.
5. If you're a collector, creating a fireplace vignette could be a way to show off your collection, with the fireplace serving as your backdrop and continuing the look to the mantel. The trunk in front hides part of the fireplace but also elevates the collection off the floor, which makes it more visually pleasing.
6. If space is at a premium, you could add shelves and turn the fireplace into bookcase of sorts. For this "bookcase", a plywood frame was built to be inset in the fireplace and then shelves were cut to fit and mounted from the frame. The back was wallpapered for added drama. If you want to store items that aren't display-friendly, you could choose to cover the opening with a hinged door or screen.
7. While you may only know the meaning inside the hearth if you're told, this remodel shows how symbolism can be used to create a focal point out of a faux fireplace. The interior displays architectural plans while the "screen" to the fireplace was made using metal wire and upholstery tacks.
8. Another spin on the reflective hearth. This look is designed for the fireplace to be the focal point of the room. The mirrored vases placed in front repeat the glam look for even more dramatic flair.
9. This fireplace surround was given a rustic look by trimming it out with salvaged wood from an abandoned school. The schoolhouse vibe is completed with stacked books, a globe and a weathered chair.
10. Logs or stacked logs is probably the most common idea for the unused fireplace. Here is a fresh DIY on stacked wood that uses rolled corrugated cardboard coated with plaster to produce a birch log look. For complete instructions, head over to Design Sponge.
(Images: 1, SF Girl By Bay; 2, Real Simple; 3, Domino via Urban Curator; 4, Hannotte Interiors; 5, All About Vignettes; 6, Better Homes and Gardens; 7, Kara Paslay Designs; 8, Domino via Brides; 9, Design Sponge; 10, Design Sponge.)
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Soggy tater tots. Mystery meat. Fast-food pizza and refined sugar.
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University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture researchers hope to determine the feasibility of using poultry litter as a fertilizer for rice.
Poultry litter contains concentrations of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, the three major nutrients for which Division of Agriculture scientists make recommendations, said Nathan Slaton, assistant professor of crop, soil and environmental sciences and director of soil testing for the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station.
"There are two components to our study," he said. "One specifically addresses nitrogen. The other looks at phosphorus and potassium."
In both studies, the performance of poultry litter is compared to standard inorganic fertilizers. Urea is used for nitrogen, triple super phosphate for phosphorus and muriate of potash for potassium. The litter is used in two forms: fresh litter right out of the chicken house, and pelletized litter.
"We don't know the actual fertilizer value of the nutrients in the litter," Slaton said. "So the total nitrogen rates we used for litter in 2003 were much higher than the rates for urea."
The litter was applied by incorporating it into the soil before planting. This is the same practice used for triple super phosphate and muriate of potash, but urea is typically applied after the rice has emerged, just before flooding the fields.
Slaton said all soils are nitrogen deficient, so adding nitrogen fertilizer produces a visually obvious response. "We found that as we applied higher rates of litter, the rice seedlings grew faster and were darker green before flooding at the five-leaf stage," he said. Urea was applied preflood in the comparison plots, according to standard practice. "A week after flooding, the urea plots were green and growing like mad."
From that point on, the rice fertilized preplant with the highest rates of litter did not keep up with the rice fertilized even with the lowest rates of preflood urea.
Bobby Golden, a UA graduate student working with Slaton, measured nitrogen uptake at mid-season by the rice in these test plots. The urea plots showed a "fertilizer use efficiency" — how much of the applied nitrogen is taken up by the plants — of 50 percent to 80 percent. That's well within the range UA soil scientists Rick Norman and Chuck Wilson documented in earlier soil fertility research.
In the poultry litter plots, the uptake averaged only 5 percent to 10 percent at mid-season. However, by heading, the nitrogen use efficiency of litter nitrogen had increased to 15 percent to 30 percent, Golden said.
"This indicates that although an appreciable amount of the litter nitrogen is lost when the field is flooded, some of the nitrogen is slowly released during the entire growing season," Slaton said. "Preplant applications of litter must be supplemented with inorganic nitrogen fertilizer before flooding, but the need for midseason nitrogen may be reduced or even eliminated.
"Even though we applied much more nitrogen in the poultry litter plots, we got far less nitrogen in the plants when flooding at the five-leaf stage, which is the standard management practice," Slaton said.
"Under our current rice management system, litter is just not an efficient source of nitrogen," he said. "I think we can improve that, possibly by changes in management practices or by amending the litter with some process that keeps the nitrogen in a useable form that the rice can take up for a longer period."
The story is very different for poultry litter used as a source of phosphorus and potassium. "Preliminary data suggests litter is equal in efficiency to the common inorganic sources of these two nutrients," Slaton said.
He said research is needed to see if moving poultry litter to Delta farms is cost efficient. On the basis of fertilizer use, however, Slaton said it appears best to base the use of litter as a rice fertilizer on its value as a source of phosphorus and potassium rather than its value for nitrogen.
Kristofor Brye, assistant professor of applied soil physics, said the long-term use of poultry litter might have benefits for the health of soils in the Delta.
"I believe that after three to five years of using poultry litter, we'll be able to measure changes in organic matter, soil carbon, water-holding capacity and other characteristics," Brye said. "I think we'll see similar changes whether we're using fresh or palletized litter."
Brye is studying the soil physics associated with Slaton's research of adding poultry litter to Delta soils. "Within five years I expect to see improvements in the condition of Delta soils, where litter is used annually, that will lead to improved yields," he said.
Fred Miller is science editor for the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station. e-mail: email@example.com.


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2012-03-10365 creationsSkapad av Johanna sön, mars 11, 2012 20:41:07
Lost in a cold and a heavy mind.
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After letting my studio rest in dust for about three years, I have now decided to take the challenge of making anything that could be called "an action of art" every day for a year. Could be a drawing, painting, installation, stop-motion, doll or whatever is flaming my desire that particular day. Or not - in that case I just have to do it anyway. The goal is to wake my brain and inspire my soul to get rid of all that dust and let the light shine, let that inner 5-year old child in me have fun! Join me!
To see some of the stuff Ive done earlier (before the dust), check my homesite (its in Swedish, I will translate it) (any day now..): Design For Arts Sake
The inspiration to actually get going with this project came from: Make something 365 and get unstuck (Thank you Noah!)