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ST. LOUIS, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- A prototype of an advanced F-18 Super Hornet has undergone extensive flight testing by Boeing and its partner, Northrop Grumman, to demonstrate its capabilities.
The testing, which involved 21 flights by the prototype, were funded by the companies and took place earlier this month at St. Louis and at Patuxent River, Md.
The aircraft features conformal tanks, a centerline pod containing weapons, and some signature improvements, which can also be retrofitted on existing Block II Super Hornets, Boeing said.
"We continually insert new capabilities into today's highly capable, already stealthy Super Hornet, and the Advanced Super Hornet is the next phase of this technology evolution," said Debbie Rub, Boeing Global Strike vice president and general manager. "Boeing and our industry partners are investing in next-generation capabilities so warfighters have what they need when they need it, and so the customer can acquire it in a cost-effective manner."
Boeing said improvements to the aircraft's radar signature, including the enclosed pod, resulted in a 50 percent reduction compared with the U.S. Navy's stealth requirement for the current Super Hornet variant.
The tests also showed the conformal fuel tanks increased the fighter's combat radius by up to 130 nautical miles. With the conformal fuel tanks, the Advanced Super Hornet has a combat radius of more than 700 nautical miles.
"We invested in conformal fuel tank research and development so we could offer our domestic and international customers the most capable and sophisticated F/A-18 possible," said John Murnane, F/A-18 program manager at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, which produced the tanks. "Given the challenge of developing the CFT in a short period of time, the success of the first prototype flight is an incredible achievement for our team."
The tanks, which are added to the upper fuselage of the aircraft, hold as much as 3,500 pounds of additional fuel. Northrop said they feature a stealthy, low-drag design.
Northrop Grumman produces about 40 percent of the work content for F/A-18 and about 50 percent for the electronic warfare variant, the EA-18G. It manufactures the center and aft fuselage and vertical tails for both aircraft and the airborne electronic attack subsystem for the EA-18G.
The enclosed weapons pod on the prototype was designed and built by Boeing.
"The improvements will ensure that the Advanced Super Hornet outpaces enemy aircraft and defenses through 2030 and beyond, especially when that enemy tries to deny access to a specific area, such as skies over international waters near its assets," Boeing said.
In addition to Boeing and partner Northrop Grumman, GE Aviation and Raytheon are involved in the Advanced Super Hornet program. Boeing said both those companies are investing in more advanced technologies for the Advanced Super Hornet. Those technologies include internal Infrared Search and Track, an enhanced engine and a next-generation cockpit.


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App Review: Puzzlings by Sonic BOOM, Inc.
by Dorothy on
August 17, 2009
Filed under Daily App Reviews, Entertainment, Games, Kids
Puzzlings is an intriguing game that combines fashion and creativity with puzzles. The app takes you to a world called Wardrobia. In Wardrobia, everything is the same. The world is covered in clouds and everything is gray. The Puzzlings who live in Wardrobia don't see much point in getting dressed or leaving the house, so they sit around all day on their computers. (A little jab at our society?) Then one night, one of the Puzzlings had a strange dream in which he saw 8 enchanted talismans hidden across a strange land full of color and sunlight. For the first time ever, your Puzzling desires to get dressed and go exploring. He wants to be unique and different. Your job, after you name this brave Puzzling, is to take him or her on a journey to find the talismans that he saw in his dream. On the way, you can collect new clothes, accessories, or even skins for your Puzzling to wear.
You start in the Puzzling's home. There are several objects that you can tap on to bring up information or things to do. Tapping on the help button in the lower left will give you more information about each option. The wardrobe allows you to access all of the clothes and accessories that you have picked up. Here you can change your Puzzling's appearance. You can sift through items and even change their color. The computer allows you to browse your game play stats. The camera lets you take pictures of your Puzzling all dressed up. Tap on your Puzzling to make him assume different poses for the picture. You can also flip through multiple different backgrounds until you find one that you like. Pictures that you take are saved to your camera roll. They can be emailed or uploaded to Facebook or Flickr. The door leads to Wardrobia. Exit the door to explore the world and search for talismans.
When you enter Wardrobia, you will find most of it shrouded in clouds. Tap on a star to go to a level or tap on the Puzzling's house to go back home. The rules and goals of each level are simple. Match 3 or more blocks of the same color to remove them from the board, as you do in games such as Bejeweled. The difference is that you have more ways to move pieces in this app. You can move blocks more than one space at a time, and you can move them even if the move does not result in an immediate match. To flip blocks, drag your finger along the line that you wish to switch the blocks in. Rotate blocks by selecting a square of four blocks. The blocks will then begin to rotate around the center. Tap on the set when they are where you want them to be. If you change your mind and want to cancel your selection, tap the screen with two fingers.
Removing blocks fills up the constantly falling combometer at the top of the screen. If the combometer ever gets to zero, you lose. If you fill it fast enough, you get a speed bonus at the end of the level. When the combometer is full, pieces of a special item block will appear. During the time that these special item pieces are on the board, the combometer will fall faster. You want to get them matched up and removed as quickly as possible. Each special item block you remove gives you an item for your Puzzlings wardrobe. Remove 2 of these special item blocks to complete the level. As you progress through the levels, more levels are uncovered and more block colors are added.
Every so often, you will run into a level that is a little different from the others. These levels are called puzzle house levels. The goal on these levels is to remove all the blocks in as few moves as possible. The number of total moves allowed is represented on the combometer at the top. Each time you make a move, the combometer drops. If you run out of moves, you must try the level again. If you complete the level without running out of moves, you will be given a bronze, silver, or gold medal depending on how many moves you did use. Gold and silver awards earn you items and bonus points. Bronze medals earn only points.
Puzzlings is a fun combination of game play and creative fashion. It is sure to provide hours of fun as you earn items and customize your Puzzling. It was a little too easy for me, but would be great for the younger crowd.
Developer's Website: http://www.sonicboomgames.com/index.php/games/puzzlings

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Comic book movie fans will be quick to tell you: one of the best parts of Sam Raimi's original Spider-Man movie trilogy - and a case of pitch-perfect casting - was character actor J.K. Simmons playing J. Jonah Jameson, Editor-in-chief of the Daily Bugle, the fictional New York newspaper where Peter Parker works as a photographer. With his blustery delivery keeping in perfect step with the comic book version of J.J. Jameson, Simmons was a scene-stealer in every Spidey movie; which is why the character (and the actor) was notably absent in Sony's reboot film, The Amazing Spider-Man.
However, it now seems there's opportunity to right that slight wrong, as Simmons himself let it be known he's open to returning to the new Spider-Man franchise. The question is: should he be brought back?
Simmons was out doing the press tour for his upcoming show on ABC, Family Tools, when he spoke to Crave Online about the subject of the Amazing Spider-Man franchise - specifically whether or not he'd be open to jumping into it, should the opportunity present itself with the already-in-development sequel, The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Always one to keep his work options open, Simmons let be known that if the studio were to call, he wouldn't be opposed to playing in the Spider-Man movie universe again:
"Oh, I'm open to anything... Obviously that was enormous fun playing that character. A big part of the fun was doing it with Sam and with Tobey. Like I said I literally have not seen the movie. I don't even know tonally how different it may or may not be. I'm a fan of the actors, the director and everything else. Yeah, I'm always open."
While that might seem like the standard answer from a working actor who likes to, you know, keep working, it should be noted that not every actor is open to revisiting ground they feel they've already covered - or continuing with a franchise after the creative team they worked under has moved on (see: Christian Bale and the Dark Knight franchise). Of course, his words do come without him having seen the actual film, so they could be taken as a bit premature:
"Well, the Spider-Man thing, for those of us who were doing the first franchise, that rug got pulled out from under us like two-and-a-half years ago, you know. So, that water is well under the bridge. I love making those movies with Sam and with everybody, and we had a great time. Now, the studio is doing a different version of it. But that seems like ancient history. And, because I don't get out much, I haven't seen the movie or the Broadway play or the cartoon, which I do a voice on."
Simmons is a pretty tireless actor, so his statement above isn't surprising, and clearly his ties to the Spider-Man property run deep. But again, the question is: should he be brought back?
- On the one hand: of course. As stated, the man is awesome at bringing J. Jonah Jameson to life onscreen. Some things just don't need changing.
- On the other hand: no. Amazing Spider-Man is a new version, with a new approach, tone, and interpretation of the characters. J. Jonah deserves the same chance at (semi-)reinvention, with a new actor putting his own stamp on it.
Let us know your take on the situation by voting in the poll below - and be sure to head over to Crave Online to hear some more great stuff from Simmons about the Spider-Man experience.
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A while ago, I was trying to work around the emacs maintainers' curious decision to always load a .elc file in preference to a .el file, even if the .el file is newer.
I didn't want to settle for that. My solution was to recompile my emacs lisp files prior to running emacs.
I see now that there is a better alternative: replace the built-in
require with my own version. And it is not just because it is open source that I can do this. I can fix it as a user too.
(require feature &optional filename noerror)
require performs the following steps:
- do nothing if the feature has already been loaded (this protects against recursive loads)
- finds the appropriate file in load-path
- loads either the .el or .elc file
- throws an error if the required feature is not provided
- provides a mechanism for supressing errors
- provides a mechanism to load a feature from a specific file
If I wanted a drop-in replacement, I should do all of those things, and replicate the function signature. However, I don't need the error suppression or loading from a specific file. I also like to be able to force a load even if a library has been loaded previously. If this doesn't match your requirements, it should be easy to adapt the code below.
(defun require* (feature &optional force) (when (or force (not (featurep feature))) (setq feature (symbol-name feature)) (let ((path load-path) (found-filename nil) head el-attribs elc-attribs) (while (and (not found-filename) path) (setq head (pop path)) (let ((el-filename (format "%s/%s.el" head feature)) (elc-filename (format "%s/%s.elc" head feature))) ;; if .el and .elc both exist, pick the newest ;; otherwise pick the one that exists if any (cond ((and (file-exists-p el-filename) (file-exists-p elc-filename)) (if (file-newer-than-file-p el-filename elc-filename) (setq found-filename el-filename) (setq found-filename elc-filename))) ((file-exists-p el-filename) (setq found-filename el-filename)) ((file-exists-p elc-filename) (setq found-filename elc-filename))) ;; load file if found (when found-filename (message (format "Found: [%s]" found-filename)) (let ((load-suffixes ())) (load found-filename))))) (unless found-filename (error "Unable to find %s" feature)))))
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METRO VANCOUVER - Transport Canada and Richmond RCMP continue to investigate a video posted on YouTube that shows a drone flying too close to a commercial aircraft landing at Vancouver International Airport.
Police say they received a report from traffic control on Monday afternoon about a square unmanned aircraft flying over a runway on the north side of the airport. Investigators have been searching to find the person responsible but have not yet located anyone.
Richmond RCMP Sgt. Cam Kowalski said Wednesday that investigators are looking for the person who took a GoPro video of the aircraft, and have a "serious chat" with that individual. He said drones can have dire consequences if they come into contact with a plane.
"It's like birds — they can get in the engines, but these things are bigger and heavier and metal," he said. "This is very dangerous. Unless somebody reports them there is no navigation and pilots don't know they are there."
Kowalski said this latest case is not the first, and Richmond RCMP are investigating several complaints of these model aircraft flying near YVR.
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John Kremer, a Navy explosives expert, lost both his legs below the knee after stepping on a mine in Afghanistan in 2010. In his San Diego hospital bed, he assumed he would be chained to a wheelchair for a year or more. Walking seemed a distant goal. Running? He could barely comprehend the concept anymore.
But with the encouragement of therapists at the Naval Medical Center, Mr. Kremer was walking in two months, running in five and skydiving after nine. He did his first 10-kilometer race, about six miles, one year after stepping on the mine. Today he runs, swims or bikes almost daily and competes for the Navy's wounded warrior team in swimming, shooting, seated volleyball and wheelchair basketball.
"For me, being able to compete was a big morale boost," said Mr. Kremer, 29, a former explosive ordnance disposal technician first class, who was medically retired from the Navy last year.
Like Mr. Kremer, more than 1,600 American service members lost limbs in Iraq or Afghanistan, mainly to homemade bombs not unlike the ones that maimed scores of people in Boston on Monday. Now, the vast body of knowledge gained from treating those troops is likely to help speed and improve the recovery of people whose limbs were amputated after Monday's attack, experts say.
Over the past decade, prosthetic technology has advanced significantly, with computerized knees and ankles that adjust to terrain and activity. Lighter and more malleable materials have allowed amputees to wear synthetic legs longer — and even run marathons. And devices have been customized for a dizzying array of activities, from golfing and skiing to scuba diving, backpacking and even rock climbing.
Perhaps most significantly, doctors know more about treating and salvaging limbs, making recovery faster than a decade ago. Thousands of therapists have also been trained to care for wounds like those sustained in Boston. And groups that organize athletic events for disabled athletes have popped up across the country, serving both civilians and military veterans.
"What's so great now is that there are literally thousands of trained instructors all over the country who know how to teach the disabled," said Kirk Bauer, the executive director of Disabled Sport USA and a disabled Vietnam veteran.
"And there is state-of-the-art equipment that levels the playing field," he said. "That's been a revolution."
Part of that revolution has been the view, now widely accepted, that athletic endeavor — whether competitive or recreational — helps amputees recover emotionally, psychologically and physically, even if they were not athletic before their injuries.
"It provides a sense of accomplishment and bonding," said Richard Stieglitz, a physical therapist who is executive vice president at the Wounded Warrior Project, a nonprofit group created in 2003 to assist wounded veterans. "Very often doing something you never did before the injury is huge. It teaches people that life goes on."
Seth D. Messinger, an anthropologist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, who has studied rehabilitation programs for the military, said training for athletics gives amputees a clear way of measuring the incremental progress of recovery.
"Rehab for traumatic limb loss is not a short thing, and patients want to know what they have to do next," he said. "A sports model offers people a set of stages. You'll walk between parallel bars, then walk with canes, then learn to run."
But he and Mr. Stieglitz warned that athletics alone are not sufficient to address the less obvious problems that may accompany limb loss, like traumatic stress disorder or anxieties about employment.
"Dealing with those things could be more difficult than the amputations themselves," Mr. Stieglitz said. "And just as they are for warriors, they may be hard to spot."
For people not in the military, paying for care and prosthetic limbs may also be a major issue. The military provides almost unlimited therapy and multiple prostheses. Some wounded troops have three or four: one for walking, one for running, another for biking and other sports.
But private insurance, for those who have it, may limit visits to therapists and cover only a single, basic prosthetic leg. Buying an advanced device can cost more than $30,000; customizing them for various sports costs thousands more.
Still, Mr. Bauer, who lost his left leg above the knee to a grenade in Vietnam, says the world is far different from when he was injured in 1969.
Then, his first prosthetic leg was made of balsa wood with plastic laminate; today they contain carbon fiber, titanium and microprocessors. Then, orthopedic surgeons scoffed at the idea of skiing on an artificial leg. Today, his organization organizes expeditions to climb mountains and other strenuous athletic endeavors.
He has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and attempted Mount McKinley in Alaska. He recently finished a grueling 26-mile hike through the desert of New Mexico and has completed marathons, including Boston's.
"It was the greatest high in the world," he said of finishing that race, in 2000. "This is what sports does for us, it gives us that confidence. You feel you can tackle the world."


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Cicor on its venture into printed electronics
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General Motors, LG Chem partner in Ohio General Motors and LG Chem have announced plans to form a joint, equally-owned company to mass-produce electric vehicle battery cells.
Swissbit opens electronics production facility in Berlin Swissbit has been manufacturing in Germany since 2002 and has now official opened its new electronics production facility in Berlin.
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Dairy Centers Debut in Afghan Province
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Jan. 26, 2010 - The Czech Republic-led provincial reconstruction team here and the provincial agriculture department completed two dairy centers in the Malak Abdullah Jan and Shikak villages in Pol-e Alam city today. Since milk is a source of income for many in these villages, the completion of these dairy centers will benefit about 7,000 people in the area, according to a provincial reconstruction team assessment.
"We had serious problems as we were moving from place to place without a stable facility," said Khwaja Mirulah, a dairy farmer.
The completion of the dairy centers, funded by the provincial reconstruction team, represents a significant improvement compared to last year, when diary farmers in the villages did not have even milk cans to collect their products. The team donated about 1,500 milk cans.
"It was quite usual that people would bring their products in a fuel canister," said Pavel Burian of the provincial reconstruction team. "In the future, we have a plan to build more collection centers."
The team, consisting of 10 civilians and 275 soldiers, has been helping the people in Logar province since March 2008. Their focus is to promote education, health systems, infrastructure building, security, agriculture, irrigation and independent journalism.
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A great deal of care and attention has been lovingly spent on the Ibn Battuta building, which is reminiscent of a museum in places. The Ibn Battuta shops offer predominantly mainstream Western high street and designer labels, although there are a few intriguing boutiques selling items from far-flung countries. Good photo opportunities abound at Ibn Battuta, and you can even go on a guided tour, which is a great way to explore the themed areas.
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A satisfying "Sherlock" launches season 3
No spoilers for the upcoming "Sherlock" season 3 opener on PBS, airing Jan. 19 on RMPBS. Just an assurance that Benedict Cumberbatch is alive and well and in fine form. Eventually he lets viewers in on the mystery of his apparent death at the end of last season.
We've known all along that he didn't actually die; at the end of season 2 we saw loyal Watson (Martin Freeman) mourning at the gravesite marked "Sherlock Holmes," with the brilliant detective looking on from a distance. Now, the clever trick he used to fake his death is revealed in "The Empty Hearse."
Again the contemporary spin on the classic Arthur Conan Doyle stories includes funky graphics: computer readouts, mapping and data flows appear onscreen to illustrate the complicated deductions going on in Sherlock's mind. Purists may find the fancy graphics distracting but creators Steven Moffat ("Doctor Who") and Mark Gatiss use the high-tech touches sparingly.
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Augusta, Ga. – Georgia Southwestern traveled to Augusta to take on fellow Peach Belt opponent Georgia Regents University on Saturday afternoon. Junior Shanedra Locket led the game with 24 points, assisting the Hurricanes in a 77-69 victory over the Jaguars.
The Lady 'Canes were off to an early head start. Starting with Kiana Griffin at 14:20, GSW received seven fast points finished with Tiara Thompson getting fouled on a made basket. GSW was at a ten point lead at 3:16, 17-7, which is the largest lead the Lady 'Canes had for the day. GSW held the lead until the Jaguars came back with under three minutes to go in the half. Augusta went on a 12-3 run to finish the half. GSW trailed by five going into the half, 33-38.
The Lady 'Canes led in turnovers during the first half with 15, compared to the Jaguars ten. Thompson had the most points for GSW with 10 points at half. The Lady 'Canes shot well in the first half with (13-for-27) 48.1% of field goals attempted.
Coming out of the half, Augusta's Kelsey Fynaardt made a layup, putting the Jaguars seven points ahead. This was the largest lead they held during the game. At the 12:32 mark, GSW went on a 16-6 run putting GSW back in the lead, 49-46. During this run, three pointers were taken by Thompson and Danyelle Jones to begin and end the run.
Augusta was only able to tie the game on more time at 53-53. The Lady 'Canes took this as a wakeup call and went on another 12-6 run on the Jaguars. Augusta attempted the fouling game near the end to get back in the game, but was unsuccessful in the attempt. The Lady 'Cane prevailed a 77-69 victory.
GSW didn't take much assistance from the bench with scoring as only seven points were contributed. Over the course of the game GRU Augusta committed two more turnovers.
Lockett added six rebounds to her high scoring, with three assists and two steals. McSwain snatched 6 rebounds, one steal, two blocks and one assist to accompany her double digit scoring. Thompson had four rebounds, three assists, and one steal to complement her double digit scoring.
GRU Augusta saw a double-double by Becky Newhouse with 20 points (7-for-13) and 11 points. Double-digit scores were also seen by Tavia Sykes, Whitney Rohrbach, and Dericka Griffis.
The Lady 'Canes improve to a 9-14, 5-12 PBC record. Georgia Regents University continues onto a 9-12, 5-9 PBC.
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Once the Kardashian clan reached the childbearing stage of life we all knew it would just be a matter of time until the style setters started making kids clothes. Sure enough, in March 2014, Kourtney, Kim and Khloe launched Kardashian Kids, a clothing line for for infants and toddlers.
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Admittedly, I was a little hesitant when first learning about the line. I'm not a fan of kids' clothes that make your toddler look like she's ready to go club-hopping and get her twerk on, but fortunately the Kardashian collection is a refreshing take on current trends with an age-appropriate spin for little ones.
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Boosting Girls' Interest in STEM: Louisiana STEM Girls Collaborative Project Kick-Off Conference with PBS' Design Squad Nation (October 27, 9:00AM-4:00PM)
The newly formed Louisiana Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Girls Collaborative Project (LaSTEM GCP) offers the chance for all those committed to informing, motivating and inspiring girls in the state of Louisiana to pursue careers in STEM to come together to share exemplary practices, develop new collaborations, and share resources. The economic future of Louisiana is tied to increased participation of all students in careers that rely on STEM skills and competencies. All informal educators, afterschool providers, school administrators, engineers, technical professionals, business partners, members of professional organizations, K-12 educators, and university staff are encouraged to join us! In addition, the LaSTEM GCP and the Emmy award-winning PBS' Design Squad Nation will host a hands-on breakout session to discuss how together we can boost girls' interest in engineering using multimedia resources and activities from PBS' Design Squad Nation. When participants leave the training, they will have a clear sense of purpose and several collaborative opportunities penciled into their calendar – and the resources to inspire girls' interest! Travel scholarships are available to a limited number of participants. Contact Lou Papai at firstname.lastname@example.com more information. To register and for more information: http://www.ngcproject.org/boosting-girls-interest-stem-louisiana-stem
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The Center for Natural Resource Economics and Policy (CNREP) is announcing a second call for abstracts for: CNREP 2013: Challenges of Natural Resource Economics & Policy, the 4th National Forum on Socioeconomic Research in Coastal Systems. The conference will be held March 24-26, 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana. This triennial forum focuses on the opportunities and challenges of socioeconomic research in the development and evaluation of coastal resource restoration and management. Potential session topics include, but are not limited to, market and nonmarket valuation of ecosystem services and coastal resources, environmental benefit-cost analyses, economic linkage/impact assessment, input-output modeling, and comparative assessments of resource management and restoration policy. Basic and applied research, extension-oriented, and policy discussion submissions are all welcome. The deadline for abstract submission is November 12, 2012.
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Solve for Tomorrow Technology Grant Application (Deadline: October 31)
Your school can win a piece of $1,000,000* in technology. Samsung is giving all public schools nationwide, grades 6-12, the opportunity to share the wonder of technology. Samsung and its partners are asking teachers to participate in its contest which will address a key academic challenge in our country: to increase the pursuit of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education. Selected entries, will receive a Samsung camcorder, laptop, and Adobe video editing software to capture the classroom vision and compete for one of the top prizes! To apply or learn more about the 2013 Solve for Tomorrow Contest, visit: Samsung.com/solvefortomorrow. Application deadline is October 31, 2012.
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The 2013 Water Challenge is looking to discover and develop entrepreneurial ideas that help us live with water. The 2013 Water Challenge is accepting well-developed or early-stage ideas/solutions. Eligible applicants will take part in 6 free, two-hour mentoring sessions (once a week between late October and early December) to help develop their business or idea. Then, finalists will be chosen from this cohort for further mentoring in preparation for the $50,000 Water Challenge day on Monday, March 18 during New Orleans Entrepreneur Week. Nonprofits with ideas that have the potential to generate revenue are eligible to apply. The 2013 Water Challenge application season ends October 15th 11:59pm CST. For more information and to apply, visit: http://waterchallenge2013.org.
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Parents, science fair coordinators and aspiring young scientists will find all the must-have resources and time-saving tips for planning this year's winning science fair display. Build student engagement and fun into the science fair process by encouraging your students to try the new Science Fair Project Idea Board. Then take advantage of free tips and tools for a stress-free science fair season.
SciGirls Season 2 Full-STEM ahead!
Starting in October, ten new episodes will showcase bright, curious, real girls using science, technology, engineering, and math in their everyday lives. They design an underwater robot, engineer a "chill" ice-cream-making bike, apply real forensic methods to solving a mysterious crime, and more! In Season Two, there's even more of the unique combination of TV and web that won the series a Daytime Emmy for "New Approaches" in its premiere season. Every episode of the TV show features onscreen clues that lead girls to a "mash-up" game on the website, where they can create their own, unique SciGirls stories. Plus, in other new interactive games, kids can search for underwater treasure, care for a colony of honey bees, and design wildlife dioramas. Youth can join the SciGirls safe social network to create personal profiles, upload projects, and connect with other sci-minded girls nationwide. It's all about tweens and screens, and SciGirls' sophomore season will empower girls - and their parents and educators - to tap into the collaboration, exploration, and authentic discovery. Every girl can be a SciGirl! http://pbskids.org/scigirls
Volunteers Needed to Assist with a Coastal Forest Restoration Project near Chalmette (October 16)
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The Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana (CRCL) and the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation is looking for volunteers to participate in a coastal forest tree restoration project near the Caernarvon Diversion Outfall Canal in Plaquemines Parish, LA (near Chalmette, LA) on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 from 9:00AM-4:00PM. This project will promote healthy coastal forest on land that has been accumulating from sediment outflow from the Caernarvon Diversion. The trees will provide critical habit for wildlife, restore areas that were damaged during Hurricane Isaac, and provide storm protection to the adjacent marsh and inland communities. All planting equipment (gloves, shovels, etc.), lunch, and refreshments will be provided. Volunteers will be planting 300 cypress trees and wrapping the trees with protectors to shield them from predators. Volunteers will be transported to the planting site by boat. This will be a muddy day with strenuous and dirty activity, so physical fitness is required. Please register online at www.crcl.orgor call the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana at 1-(888)-LACOAST for more information.
Marsh Burning Certification Class (Tuesday, October 23)
USGS National Wetland Research Center, 700 Cajundome Boulevard, Lafayette, LA 70506
This class will address all the essential elements of conducting controlled burns in coastal marsh habitats. Successfully completing the class along with burning experience is required for Burn Certification by the La. Department of Agriculture and Forestry. Coastal marsh landowners and land managers, duck hunters who assist with controlled burns, and anyone interested in using fire as a marsh management technique should attend. There is no cost to attend the class but pre-registration is requested. Please call the LSU AgCenter, Vermilion Extension Office at 337-898-4335 or by email to Mark Shirley at email@example.com
NGCP Webinar: Online Resources and Tools: Using the New NGCP Website to Build Program Capacity
November 28, 2012; 11:00 AM-12:00 PM Pacific
The National Girls Collaborative Project (NGCP) recently launched an enhanced website with easier navigation and more tools and resources. Join in for this informative website tour that will focus on helping programs find relevant links, resources, statistics, and other information to build organizational capacity to offer high quality STEM opportunities to increase girls' interest in STEM.
Register: http://www.ngcproject.org/online-resources-and-tools-using-new-ngcp-website-build-program-capacity
Find out about wetland outreach activities including symposiums, conferences, meetings, educational opportunities, volunteer opportunities, and related support material at the Louisiana Unified Coastal Community Calendar at http://lacoast.gov/calendar/
Louisiana Environmental Education Commission (LEEC) – www.wlf.la.gov/eec
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Great work Alex. Thanks so much for your efforts.
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Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) set the price of its Galaxy Gear at $299 as the biggest maker of smartphones beats Apple Inc. (AAPL) in unveiling a wristwatch device that can make phone calls, surf the Web and take photos.
Featuring a 1.63-inch (4.1-centimeter) screen and 1.9-megapixel camera, the Gear will go on sale Sept. 25, Shin Jong Kyun, head of Samsung's mobile business, said at the company's headquarters in Suwon, South Korea. The device syncs with tablets and smartphones using Google Inc.'s Android software to make phone calls.
Samsung showed the Galaxy Gear yesterday at IFA, Europe's largest consumer-electronics show, as it races Apple and Sony Corp. (6758) to carve a share of the market for wearable technology amid slowing growth in smartphones. The first companies to sell devices that multitask could lock customers into their platform and boost device sales, with researcher Strategy Analytics expecting 500,000 Galaxy Gears to be shipped this year.
"Device makers like smartwatches because they are personal devices that are highly visible to consumers," Neil Mawston, an executive director at Strategy Analytics, said in an e-mail. "If you see your friend wearing a cool smartwatch on their wrist, you will probably want one, too."
The Gear weighs 74 grams (2.6 ounces), is available in six colors — including orange, gold and lime green — and has an ultra-thin screen using organic light-emitting diode, or OLED, technology. Sales will begin in 140 countries, with the U.S. and Japanese debut in October.
Apple IWatch
The device has a fitness tracker and works with about 70 applications, according to Samsung. It has a 4-gigabyte internal memory and 512 megabytes of RAM. It links wirelessly to a user's smartphone. Samsung unveiled the Gear at a tented event in central Berlin, away from IFA's giant halls, to thousands of attendees.
A built-in speaker enables hands-free calls from the Gear while voice recognition features allow users to draft messages, set alarms and check the weather.
Samsung rose 1.9 percent to 1,365,000 won as of 11:32 a.m. in Seoul. The stock has dropped 10 percent this year compared with a 2.4 percent decline for the benchmark Kospi index.
Apple, based in Cupertino, California, has a team of designers working on a watch-like device, two people familiar with the matter said in February. The company sought trademark protection for the "iWatch" name in Japan, according to a June 3 filing. Sony already has its Smartwatch that syncs with Android handsets. The Smartwatch 2 will reach stores this month, and can be used as a second screen for the Xperia Z1 smartphone, Sony said yesterday at IFA.
Rival Smartwatches
"We expect Samsung Galaxy Gear to sell reasonably well, but it is most likely to be Apple that catalyzes the smartwatch industry," Mawston said. "Apple should be able to blend the iWatch into its iOS ecosystem in a much tighter way than the fragmented Android community."
Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM), the biggest maker of chips for mobile phones, will begin selling a connected wristwatch called Toq, the company said yesterday.
Sales of wearable gadgets, including the Galaxy Gear and Google Inc.'s SmartGlass eyewear, will grow to 70 million units in 2017 from 15 million this year, according to Jupiter Research. The watch industry will generate more than $60 billion in sales this year.
Samsung also unveiled its Galaxy Note 3, a combination smartphone and tablet computer with a 5.7-inch screen, improved software and more accessories than its predecessor introduced at IFA a year ago.
Note 3
Running on third-generation networks as well as the faster long-term evolution, the new Note has a 13-megapixel camera and allows users to simultaneously juggle two apps on the same screen with a digital pen, Samsung said.
"We've moved from delivering devices that offer productivity and creativity to everyday wonders," Lee Young Hee, executive vice president for the mobile unit, said in an interview. "Together with the main device it will set a different level of 'smart' experiences."
The Note 3 will be released Sept. 25, the same day the Galaxy Gear goes on sale, the company said.
Samsung, also the biggest maker of televisions and chips, is trying to cut its reliance on its mobile business, which accounts for 70 percent of operating earnings. The market for high-end handsets is nearing saturation and prices are falling as consumers in emerging markets gravitate to cheaper models.
"We expect the Note 3 to be an evolution from the previous models," said Carolina Milanesi, an analyst at Gartner Inc. "I do not expect the Note 3 to change Samsung's future as far as margins and profits."
Samsung said in March it will release three top-end smartphones this year. They include the flagship Galaxy S4 that went on sale in April, the Note 3 and a device using the Intel Corp.-backed Tizen operating system that has yet to be revealed.
Apple yesterday sent out invitations to a Sept. 10 event. Apple will announce new iPhones at the event, a person familiar with the plans has said.
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Quarterly Conversation #30 [The Translator Interviews]
Following on the earlier post about Quarterly Conversation, here are excerpts from two interviews with translators that appear in the new issue, starting with Heather Cleary, the translator of two Open Letter books—The Planets and The Dark by Sergio Chejfec. This interview was conducted by Stephen Sparks, one of the members of this year's BTBA Fiction Panel.
SS: You've written elsewhere that Chejfec's prose "both deflects and draws the reader in," which I've found to be a very apt characterization of his work. That indeterminacy or wavering—as if Chejfec is inviting the reader in while keeping his foot against the door—is one of the more compelling (if occasionally frustrating) aspects of his writing. How, then, do you as a translator find your way into the text?
HC: Yes, and I think this is particularly true of The Planets. Sergio wrote a beautiful essay a few years ago called "Simple Language, Name," in which he talks about his development as a writer and the way his father's difficulty learning Spanish late in life affected his own use of the language, driving him toward a certain stylistic opacity that he was only able to move away from over time. Then there's the fact that so much of what's going on in The Planets has to do with navigating the space between oneself and another, particularly when that other person exists in an entirely internalized form, that is, only as a memory. This is explored in the prose itself, which often gives the language an air of being borrowed, somehow unnatural. That said, The Planets is a beautiful book, as thorny as it can occasionally be, and an important one in that it approaches the themes of friendship, loss, and memory in an innovative, even startling way.
So, it was never really a question of whether I would try to make my way in . . . the how of it, I suppose, was through certain passages I found particularly moving, and which offered insight into the more abstract sections. For example, during one of the disjointed conversations M and the narrator have as boys, the narrator repeats something M has said as though it were his own thought, though he doesn't even fully believe it. It's such a simple moment, but that detail seemed so true and really crystallized the dynamic between the two boys for me; it also anticipates what comes later, as the narrator struggles to preserve M's memory by keeping his voice alive, in some very surprising ways. There are many moments like this—the image of the narrator running around an entire city block so that he can have a second chance to acknowledge M's mother when their paths unexpectedly cross; the guilt he feels at not having fully invoked M's memory in conversation with a mutual friend. Those anchored the story for me, and lent depth and immediacy to the more abstract passages. [. . .]
SS: What is your translation process like? Do you have a particular passage that proved tricky, etc. that you'd like to discuss? I'm interested in some of the nitty-gritty of the act of translation here. How many dictionaries do you consult? How many drafts do you go through?
HC: It's a little different with each project. I usually start with a period of pre-reading—going through the text to be translated once or twice, as well as other works by the writer, interviews when possible, sometimes criticism. Whatever might help me find my way into the narrative voice. Then there's the actual translation part. I use the RAE (dictionary of the Real Academia Española) and the OED, and often ask search engines or kindly friends about how a word is used colloquially. This has been key with Sergio's work, since he tends to slip in phrases that are just a shade off from typical constructions. I end up with a chaotic draft full of notes, and then revise. And revise, and revise. There's generally a lot of snacking involved at this stage.
I can't recall any one passage that proved particularly tricky (they all were, each in its own way), but I had to pay very close attention throughout to the tension between the narrator's philosophical reflections and his reminiscences about his lost friend. It felt to me that there was something underneath that first kind of rumination; while obviously thematically relevant, they also felt like a means of withdrawing from the experience of remembering M and feeling that memory fade. The challenge was to get this across, balancing the concrete and the abstract within a single narrative voice in a way that suggested a deeper connection between the two, without letting them bleed together or pull the narrative apart at the seams (any more or less than they do in the Spanish, that is). It was a similar process with the other voices at work in the novel—in addition to the first-person narrative, M and his father intervene to tell a series of elliptical, grotesque stories about nomads and eyeballs and a wedding gone awry, and then there's the meta-commentary that appears in italics, contesting the first-person narrative at times, corroborating it at others—though these were more clearly delineated.
Finally, there's also an interview with Georges Szirtes conducted by Bethany Pope:
Bethany W. Pope: Which is more important to you, the literal word-for-word translation of the text or reconstructing the atmosphere of the piece?
George Szirtes: There is no such thing as a literal word-for-word translation, at least not one that will sound anything like literature. There is however a difference between that impossibility and the other, the full rendering of meaning in terms of atmosphere or anything else. In translating you are entering a world with rules and manners that have meanings (plural) for the native reader. You are trying to understand some aspect of those meanings and to transplant it into the receiving language using any means possible, which will include a degree of lexicographical fidelity as long as it works.
B.W.P: In your translation of Gyula Krúdy's The Adventures of Sindbad I noticed that the atmosphere of the piece—that slightly humorous melancholy—had a lot in common with the tone and atmosphere of your own work, most recently found in your tweets about the ageless crustacean doctor and his lobsteresque paramour. How much influence does translation have on your own work?
G.S: Sindbad was a pleasure to translate because I felt I understood Krudy's world as soon as I entered it. There may be a difference between the person who is primarily a translator and the one who is primarily a writer who translates. The two may overlap, and there are translators who become writers in the act of translating. For me it was a writerly recognition. Krudy's Hungary was not my Hungary, not by a long chalk, but it was a real world, particularly in the minds of close friends. The humorous melancholy in Krudy is, as I discovered, an aspect of my own imagination, one that working on Sindbad brought to light. It is possible to hope that any engagement in translation will bring out some latent possibility in the writer-translator.
The Adventures of Sindbad was the second work of fiction I translated (the first was Anna Édes by Kosztolanyi) but by that time I had translated a good many poems and the verse-tragedy. Sindbad came along at the right time. I think my imagination was ready for it, ready, that is, to render it into English but also to feel it as a voice that might be adapted to my own. Most of my translations have been a kind of enrichment of voice. I have learned a great deal from them.
I should add that the longer poems I wrote as a result of my first 1984 visit, that constituted the backbone of the resulting book, The Photographer in Winter (1986) are not at all Sindbad like. They are darker, heavier, more cavernous things.
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The Marauder That Might Have Been
Ford had a great idea with its '03-'04 Mercury Marauder: a big rear-wheel drive sedan with a powerful V-8 dressed in sinister black duds. It worked for Chevy in 1994 with the Impala SS, but even though the Marauder had more horsepower and a tauter suspension, it never struck a chord with buyers and the model disappeared after a short two-year production run. Its undoing was most likely weak performance, for despite the 302hp 4.6L DOHC V-8 underhood, it accelerated like a slug by virtue of its portly 4,200-pound curb weight. What the Marauder needed from the start was a blower. The ideal engine-the '03-'04 Mustang Cobra's 390hp supercharged DOHC 4.6-was in the Ford arsenal while the Marauder was still in production, but we can only imagine the battles that might have been waged in an effort to get the Special Vehicle Team guys to pony up their brand-new Cobra motor for a cop car. But now we don't have to imagine what a Marauder could have been like with that engine, because a group of gearheads at Ford has built it.
The project came about through the efforts of engineers assigned to the Panther rear-wheel-drive platform, which has underpinned the Ford Crown Victoria and Mercury Grand Marquis since the late '70s, along with the Marauder and Police Interceptor versions. The Panther platform enjoys cult status as the last body-on-frame passenger car in production, not just at Ford but anywhere.
Ned Nuss is the Panther vehicle dynamics supervisor and project manager of the semi-official factory team that built this Crown Victoria Police Interceptor for the Cannonball One Lap of America endurance race. Sponsored by Car & Driver magazine, One Lap's grueling 3,600-mile '05 schedule challenges drivers to pilot their cars at and between various racing venues ranging from road courses to dragstrips and wet and dry skidpad tests without the aid of trailers or support vehicles, with overnight drives of as much as 800 miles or more. We stole the idea and modified it to create Drag Week.
"A Crown Vic is a comfortable car to ride in from point-to-point and we knew it could pull a trailer, which saves about two hours each day spent loading and unloading the car," says Nuss about the decision to enter the event.
The team, which drew support from many fans inside and outside Ford (including several aftermarket companies like BBS, Baer, and Kenne Bell), started with a Police Interceptor that was headed for the crusher and gathered parts from a variety of sources. Modifications were relatively mild, including beefing up cooling systems, installing a trunk-mounted transmission cooler and a custom front radiator intake, and upgrading the stock brakes with 14-inch rotors and Baer calipers on the front.
The Panther platform benefited from a suspension upgrade for model year 2003 that added rack-and-pinion steering and a beefy aluminum front suspension cradle and control arms, and during an impromptu cruise through some of the seedier neighborhoods of Detroit, we noted a firm, comfortable ride from the stock '06 police-package suspension setup, which includes 475 lb/in front coils and 180 lb/in rear springs, up from 325/160 for the '05 police package and 220/130 on the base passenger car. Skidpad testing during One Lap generated 0.93 g in the dry and 0.85 in the wet on Michelin Pilot Sport tires. The engine mods prove that you really can't have too much horsepower in a car this big. Tipping the scales at over 4,300 pounds even with a gutted interior, the One Lap Crown Vic feels just quick enough even with 538 rear-wheel horsepower on tap. It ran mid-13s at the dragstrip during One Lap, but it feels like it could run much faster with stickier tires.
Ford engineers Dan Haakenson, Bill Woebkenberg and Dev Saberwal piloted the Crown Vic on the 3,600-mile '05 One Lap of America, but a fuel-pump gremlin kept the team sidelined for part of the event, dropping them down in the final standings. The performance of the car was promising enough to warrant a repeat effort next year, however. For more info on the One Lap Crown Vic, visit www.crownvic .net, where the buildup and One Lap effort are extensively documented. -Matt King